4 January - RSS SnapShot! Pt 3

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Your New Reality

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  There's so much to say about this wonderful, brilliant lecture by Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy author Douglas Adams, but I'm not going to spoil any of it. Just get through the first 10 minutes or so and you'll find it almost impossible to stop listening. I had to tear myself away from it at 3am, ...
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  Ron Paul : In a society where truth becomes treason...we are in big trouble. The truth is that our foreign spying, meddling and outright military intervention in the post-World War 2 era has made us less secure, not more, and we have lost countless lives and spent trillions of dollars for our t ...
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  Image via WikipediaA Christian South Korean Christmas Greeting To Atheist North Korea If war between South Korea & North Korea breaks out soon, you will seen footage from this Live War Rehearsal passed off in the mainstream media as footage from the actual conflict.
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  Fuck The War Fuck The War : The Movie is coming to DVD and torrents in November, 2010. In 2003, during anti-War On Iraq protests, the Australian prime minister was kidnapped by an activist and interrogated for 24 hours. The disappearance of the prime minister was officially covered up as an " ...

Wired - Science

• Amazing World of Insect-Wing Color Discovered
  A closer look at seemingly drab, transparent insect wings has revealed realms of previously unappreciated color, visible to the naked eye yet overlooked for centuries. Until now, the wing colors of many flies and wasps were dismissed as random iridescence. But they may be as distinctive and marvelo ...
• Elusive Meteor Shower and Solar Eclipse to Ring in ...
  The new year opens up with the annual Quadrantid Meteor Shower, one of the most impressive — but least observed — meteor showers of the year. The shower is expected to peak sometime between 3 p.m. EST on Jan. 3 and 1 a.m. EST on Jan. 4. Observers in North America should look for shooting stars [... ...
• Parasites Make Caterpillars Glow to Repel Predator ...
  Parasitic worms may be saving their own little hides when they induce the caterpillars they infest to glow a little and blush a furious red. As the parasitic nematode Heterorhabditis bacteriophora infects caterpillars of the greater wax moth, the normally pale caterpillars temporarily bioluminesce ...
• How to Capture the Sun in a Beer Can
  This sun-streaked image comes from the easiest, yet most time-intensive DIY astrophotography project ever: solargraphy. Solargraphs trace the seasons by exposing a sheet of photosensitive paper to sunlight for up to a year. The bright arches in this image mark the sun’s path across the sky in Middl ...
• Climate Models Miss Effects of Wind-Shattered Dust
  Clumps of dust in the desert shatter like glass on a kitchen floor. This similarity may mean the atmosphere carries more large dust particles than climate models assume. Dust and other airborne particles’ effect in the atmosphere is “one of the most important problems we need to solve in order to p ...

Israeli Occupation ArchiveImage via Wikipedia

• Noam Chomsky: Breaking the Israel-Palestine Deadlo ...
  While intensively engaged in illegal settlement expansion, the government of Israel is also seeking to deal with two problems: a global campaign of what it perceives as “delegitimation” – that is,... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
• We’re not looking for revenge, says family of Pale ...
  "We have no problem will the people of Israel. We have a problem with the army and the occupation... We know that our land will be returned to us even if someone is killed every day. We say this to... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
• Gazan youth issue manifesto to vent their anger wi ...
  An anonymous group of students has created a document to express their frustration born of Hamas's violent crackdowns on 'western decadence', the destruction wreaked by Israel's attacks and the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...
• Israeli forces kill female protester in Bil’in
  Jawaher Abu Rahmah, 36, was evacuated to the Ramallah hospital yesterday after inhaling massive amounts of tear-gas during the weekly protest in Bil'in, and died of poisoning this morning. Abu... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
• Bil’in protester dies after exposure to tear gas s ...
  A resident of the West Bank village of Bil'in died on Saturday morning in a Ramallah hospital after she was exposed to tear gas that was shot by IDF soldiers to disperse the crowd of demonstrators... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...

Ria Novosti - Military

• Russian Air Force to receive Ka-52 helicopters
  The Russia's Defense Ministry plans to start procuring Ka-52 Alligator helicopters for the national Air Force in 2011, ministry's official spokesman Col. Vladimir Drik said on Sunday.
• Russian Air Force to receive up to 100 Sukhoi figh ...
  The Russian Air Force will receive up to 100 Sukhoi fighter jets by 2015.
• Russia to pay over 700 million euros for first Mis ...
  Russia will pay France approximately 720 million euros for its first Mistral-class helicopter carrier for its Navy, a source close to the negotiations process told RIA Novosti on Thursday.
• Putin hails Medvedev over New START treaty
  Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin called on Wednesday a new strategic arms reduction treaty with the United States a foreign policy victory for President Dmitry Medvedev.
• Russian missile maker to build two plants, expand ...
  Russia's Almaz-Antei conglomerate will receive a government loan to build two new production facilities to expand the export of missile defense systems, Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said on Wednesday.

NewsWise

• Estrogen May Help Precancerous Cells Spread in Ora ...
  1) Head and neck cancer accounts for 650,000 new cancer cases each year; 2) Data provide insight into novel mechanisms underlying head and neck cancer; 3) Potential new targets for chemoprevention identified.
• Uptick in Hospital-Based C difficile Infections in ...
  Hospitalized children in the United States are becoming infected with the bacteria Clostridium difficile (C difficile) more frequently and children who acquire the infection are more likely to die or require surgery.
• Authorities Often Aware of Previous Incidents of V ...
  Almost half of U.S. youth who experience violence, abuse or crime have had at least one of their victimizations known to school, police or medical authorities, according to new research from the University of New Hampshire Crimes against Children Research Center.
• Adopting Healthy Habits in Youth Associated with M ...
  Lifestyle changes between childhood and adulthood appear associated with whether an individual will maintain, improve or develop high-risk cholesterol levels, according to a report in the January issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
• US Soldiers with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Mo ...
  Combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms appear to be associated with longer-term physical (headache, tinnitus), emotional (irritability) and cognitive (diminished concentration or memory) symptoms, according to a report in the January issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, on ...

Natural Health News

• Happiest Penguin Ever
  One of these penguins really enjoys the snow!
• The Hard Core Science of How Cell Phones and Other ...
  Dr. Martin Blank explains how the electromagnetic fields that emanate from your cell phone and other wireless devices affect your body.
• Awesome Bike Stunt Video
  This incredible riding clip from Danny MacAskill follows him on a journey from Edinburgh back to his hometown Dunvegan, in the Isle of Skye.
• Consistent Exercise Leads to Lower Risk of Colon C ...
  A new study shows that consistent exercise is associated with a lower risk of dying from colon cancer. The study is one of the first to show that physical activity can make this disease less deadly. Researchers examined more than 150,000 men and women. They compared their levels of physical act ...
• Infants are not Exempt from the Obesity Epidemic
  A new study reveals that the obesity epidemic may be affecting babies as young as nine months old. The percentage of overweight children has steadily increased over the past decade, and the trend begins earlier than anyone had thought.� Researchers found that almost a third of babies were either a ...

Antemedius

• World Has Had Enough Of U.S. Imperialism
  Michael Hudson is President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends (ISLET), a Wall Street Financial Analyst, Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City and is the author of "Super-Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire ...
• What Are Your Goals For 2011? Time To Evaluate And ...
  It is a blizzard day on the East Coast and the end of another year. This is traditionally a time to be thinking about New Years Resolutions. Resolutions are often belittled, and with good reason. People use this time to say they are going to quit smoking (keep trying! It took my father seven years o ...
• Meet the New Imperial Court, Same As the Old Imper ...
  One of the mistakes that foreigners make about the United States, millions of Americans make themselves with much less justification: they overestimate the difference between members of the Democratic and Republican Parties in Washington, D.C. The two parties scream at each other on television quite ...
• Beyond WikiLeaks: The Privatization of War
  From Jose L. Gomez del Prado, UN Working Group on Mercenaries: The United Nation Human Rights Council, under the Universal Periodic Review, started in Geneva on November 5, 2010 to review the human rights record of the United States. The following is an edited version of the presentation given by Jo ...
• Ex-CIA Spook Calls For "Covert Action" vs. Assange
  Two writers with close ties to U.S. intelligence agencies published a shocking article Dec. 22nd in The Miami Herald asserting that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is “a narcissistic nut” with “blood on his hands” and President Obama should do “whatever it takes to shut down WikiLeaks.” Without giv ...

Climategate

• Dean of science…suggesting rising seas t…
  Dean of science…suggesting rising seas this next century of up to 100 metres, or Al Gore six metres. When I see things like that I know these are false. You mentioned the IPCC report; that suggests, at worst on best scenarios, 59 centimetres. http://www.google.com
• ABC science presenter Robyn Williams seeks more tr ...
  ABC science presenter Robyn Williams who in 2007 believed seas could rise 100 meters, seeks more truth from scientists after Climategate.
• How to avoid your own Climategate scandal
  What are the lessons of Climategate? More honesty and transparency in science? Not according to attorney Alan Nelson in the Guardian UK today.  To him, the lesson is how not to get caught next time. So how do universities and academics ensure that their correspondence does not become the “smoking g ...
• What is the “likelihood” that the 2007 IPCC Report ...
  A very interesting analysis of the IPPC Assessment and has some important questions that invite others to help him answer. Please read his article and let him know what conclusions you draw.
• Schools call for a “balanced teaching of global wa ...
  USA Today reports that US schools are finally calling for both sides of global warming to be taught, because it is after all, a theory -- not a fact:

Opinio Juris

• WikiLeaks Hypocrisy Watch — The Guardian Edition
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller The Guardian published an editorial by a Republican political operative today blaming WikiLeaks for releasing a State Department cable concerning a meeting between Tsvangirai and Susan Rice in which Tsvangirai discussed the possibility of peacefully removin ...
• States To Take a Stab at Birthright Citizenship
  by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro Julia Preston’s lead story in yesterday’s NYT Times highlighted the shift to state governments as immigration battlegrounds.  Several are looking to be SB 1070 copycats.  I don’t think those will go anywhere in the face of quiet but intense opposition from the busi ...
• States To Take a Stab at Birthright Citizenship
  by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro Julia Preston’s lead story in yesterday’s NYT Times highlighted the shift to state governments as immigration battlegrounds.  Several are looking to be SB 1070 copycats.  I don’t think those will go anywhere in the face of quiet but intense opposition from the busi ...
• Indian + Diplomatic Passport = TSA Profile Match
  by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro Another Indian diplomat gets the treatment, this time in Austin.  Colum Lynch has this useful wrap in WaPo on the issue of diplomats and security screening, see also my post about another recent incident in Mississippi. I don’t get it:  Why don’t diplomats get a pa ...
• Kenya Moves Closer to Withdrawing from the ICC
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller This according to the BBC: Kenyan MPs have voted overwhelmingly for the country to pull out of the treaty which created the International Criminal Court in The Hague. The move comes a week after the ICC prosecutor named six Kenyans he accuses of being be ...

Investigate - Breaking News

• New study says CO2 rise a result of warmer tempera ...
  A new peer reviewed study supports another contention I raised in Air Con: that CO2 increase follows temperature increase, and that there appears to be no correlation between fossil fuel emissions and temperature. The paper is available in full in...
• RIP Chris Carter, Investigate columnist
  It's an odd thing, finding out on the radio news that your magazine's longest serving opinion columnist has passed away. What turns out to be his last column only hit the newsstands yesterday in the latest Investigate magazine: Chris Carter...
• Climate scientists go feral, begin wearing cammo g ...
  Utah survivalists infiltrate climate science community. Whodathunkit?: It might surprise, and hopefully disturb you, to hear that in my short time at AGU, I discovered four scientists who are already creating some form of survival retreat for their family, and...
• Admission: climate science IS stalking horse for g ...
  Slate magazine calls it: For 20 years, evidence about global warming has been directly and explicitly linked to a set of policy responses demanding international governance regimes, large-scale social engineering, and the redistribution of wealth. These are the sort of...
• BREAKING: Hottest year ever claims based on fake d ...
  You hear it trotted out so often it's tiresome, but for those who still believe the climate scientists who claim 2010 is "the hottest year ever", here's a wake-up call: the data is fake. (another perspective here) It's a similar...

My Care2 Picks

• Secondary Plant Metabolites: Vital Nutrients for a ...
  A discussion about the secondary chemicals naturally present in fruits and vegetablesFruits and vegetables grown in your own garden or bought from a local farmer's roadside stand or supermarket should be a substantial part of everyone's healthy eating dieSubmitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellnes ...
• Levees From Around The World
  Tom Usher's old note Did you see where they want to cut down every tree within 15 feet of any levee in the whole country? I bet the root systems of some of those trees are the only things holding things together.Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Pfizer tested drugs on children in Nigeria
  The US government was fully aware of the cases against Pfizer in Nigeria and helped Pfizer develop a new framework to conduct future testing in Nigeria.Submitted by Bohm Judith to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Why The U.S. Desperately Needs A Vast High Speed R ...
  High-speed rail is one of the greenest ways to travel. It uses 1/3 the energy flying uses (per passenger) and 1/5 the energy driving uses (per passenger). (...)Submitted by Joshua G. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• 10 Modern Methods of Mind Control
  There is a coordinated script that has been in place for a very long time with the goal to turn the human race into non-thinking automatons. Mind control has taken on a physical, scientific dimension that threatens to become a permanent stateSubmitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Ad ...

Angry Indian News

• The BRAD BLOG : Fake 'New Black Panther Party' 'Sc ...
  The BRAD BLOG : Fake 'New Black Panther Party' 'Scandal' Soon to Hit Big Time as GOP Take Over House: "But, with the death-by-fake-scandal of ACORN, the Republicans need something on which to hang... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• What Killed Aiyana Stanley-Jones? | Mother Jones
  What Killed Aiyana Stanley-Jones? | Mother JonesPolice first floated the story that Aiyana's grandmother had grabbed Weekley's gun. Then, realizing that sounded implausible, they said she'd brushed... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Where Profits and Lives Hang in Balance - washingt ...
  Where Profits and Lives Hang in Balance - washingtonpost.com: "Nobody can know for certain if the girl would have lived had she been taken off experimental Trovan; perhaps she was beyond all hope.... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Obama Said to Consider William Daley for Top White ...
  Obama Said to Consider William Daley for Top White House Post - Bloomberg: "President Barack Obama is considering naming William Daley, a JPMorgan Chase & Co. executive and former U.S. Commerce... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• WikiLeaks: US targets EU over GM crops | World new ...
  WikiLeaks: US targets EU over GM crops | World news | guardian.co.uk: "The US embassy in Paris advised Washington to start a military-style trade war against any European Union country which opposed... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

• USDA Certified Organic’s Dirty Little Secret: Neot ...
  Let me make this perfectly clear. Neotame does not have to be included in ANY list of ingredients! So, if you buy processed food, whether USDA Certified Organic or not, that food most likely will contain Neotame - a neurotoxin worse than Aspartame.
• Report from Iron Mountain; Using fear to make peop ...
  "The final candidate for a useful global threat was pollution of the environment. This was viewed as the most likely to succeed because it could be related to observable conditions such as smog and water pollution– in other words, it would be based partly on fact and, therefore, be credible. Predict ...
• USDA GMO Policy
  Monsanto, Vilsack, and the USDA GMO juggernaut.
• The Vote Is In: Congressional Mafia Rams Food Safe ...
  Food Safety legislation passes! Codex, here we come...
• Bribery and Graft abound as Reid attaches S.510 to ...
  S.510 Fake Food Safety bill was passed quickly late Sunday afternoon; a vote taken when the Senate could be assured few were watching or even aware that the vote on the criminalization of independent and family agriculture was taking place.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

• The stupidity of crowds helps kill a planet - Todd ...
  Noted by Jeff McMahon on July 31, 2010 11:07 PM
• Sex, death, and the noble American toad - Scott Bo ...
  Noted by Jeff McMahon on July 31, 2010 11:07 PM
• How to save a fishery: owning, renting, and expand ...
  Noted by Jeff McMahon on July 31, 2010 11:07 PM
• ‘Gossip Girl’ unethical because of threesome? - La ...
  Noted by Jeff McMahon on July 31, 2010 11:07 PM
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Citizens for Legitimate Government

• House GOP to vote on health care law repeal next w ...
  ShareThisBreaking: House GOP to vote on health care law repeal next week 03 Jan 2010 House Republicans will vote next week to repeal the new health care law [insurance cartel giveaway], making good on a top-tier GOP campaign promise and setting up a showdown with President Barack Obama over his sign ...
• Govt to study U.S. drone for surveillance
  ShareThisGovt to study U.S. drone for surveillance 31 Dec 2010 (Japan) The Defense Ministry has decided to begin full-scale research from fiscal 2011 into whether unmanned aerial vehicles should be introduced for surveillance of China and North Korea, government sources said. The ministry will send ...
• Massive anti-US rally held in Karachi
  ShareThisMassive anti-US rally held in Karachi --Protesters burt several effigies of Barack Obama 03 Jan 2011 Pakistani protesters have once again taken to the streets, calling for the release of Aafia Siddiqui -- a female Pakistani scientist sentenced to 86 years in prison in the US. Tens of thousa ...
• Kabul opposes US permanent bases
  ShareThisKabul opposes US permanent bases 03 Jan 2011 Afghan President Hamid Karzai's government has strongly rejected the notion of establishing permanent US military bases in Afghanistan. Chief presidential spokesman Waheed Omar said during a press conference in Kabul on Monday that the issue has ...
• NYT: U.S. Diplomats Work Like "Marketing Agents" F ...
  ShareThisNYT: U.S. Diplomats Work Like "Marketing Agents" For Boeing By Curtis Cartier 03 Jan 2011 The holidays are over. But the November 28 WikiLeaks diplomatic cable dump is the gift that keeps on giving. The latest present was unwrapped by The New York Times in a story published Sunday. It seems ...

The Briefing Room | InvestigateImage via Wikipedia

• New study says CO2 rise a result of warmer tempera ...
  A new peer reviewed study supports another contention I raised in Air Con: that CO2 increase follows temperature increase, and that there appears to be no correlation between fossil fuel emissions and temperature. The paper is available in full in...
• RIP Chris Carter, Investigate columnist
  It's an odd thing, finding out on the radio news that your magazine's longest serving opinion columnist has passed away. What turns out to be his last column only hit the newsstands yesterday in the latest Investigate magazine: Chris Carter...
• Climate scientists go feral, begin wearing cammo g ...
  Utah survivalists infiltrate climate science community. Whodathunkit?: It might surprise, and hopefully disturb you, to hear that in my short time at AGU, I discovered four scientists who are already creating some form of survival retreat for their family, and...
• Admission: climate science IS stalking horse for g ...
  Slate magazine calls it: For 20 years, evidence about global warming has been directly and explicitly linked to a set of policy responses demanding international governance regimes, large-scale social engineering, and the redistribution of wealth. These are the sort of...
• BREAKING: Hottest year ever claims based on fake d ...
  You hear it trotted out so often it's tiresome, but for those who still believe the climate scientists who claim 2010 is "the hottest year ever", here's a wake-up call: the data is fake. (another perspective here) It's a similar...

Mondoweiss

• Israeli spoof of brainwashing — in kindergar ...
  This is adorable. And telling. And hilarious. Not the salmon!
• Habibi Chomsky
  Noam Chomsky on "delegitimation" at truthout: While intensively engaged in illegal settlement expansion, the government of Israel is also seeking to deal with two problems: a global campaign of what it perceives as “delegitimation” – that is, objections to its crimes and withdrawal of particip ...
• Baby steps (State Department is ‘aware&#8217 ...
  From the State Department today: QUESTION: Were you aware of this protest that happened at Ambassador Cunningham’s house? At his residence in Tel Aviv over the weekend, a bunch of protestors tried to, quote-un-quote, “return teargas canisters” that were fired at them that led to the death of a prot ...
• IDF pushes claim that ‘Palestinians lied&#82 ...
  The Jawaher Abu-Rahma case is taking on huge political significance, the international attention given to the 36-year-old woman killed by teargas in occupied Bil'in on Friday, a year and a half after her brother Bassem was struck and killed by a teargas canister fired by the Israeli army in another ...
• Signposting the occupation
  �My senses let me down. On Friday 31 December � the day Jawaher Abu Rahmah was murdered by the Israeli army � I thought I smelt manure in the village of Bil�in, but it was the skunk truck (The Boesh), used by the Israeli military to crush peaceful protest. Back in 1994 I thought I lived [...]

Vaccine Resistance Movement

• VRM: GlaxosmithKline Implicated In Systemic Clinic ...
  ‘A psychiatrist on the payroll of GlaxoSmithKline has been sentenced to 13 months in prison after pleading guilty to committing research fraud in clinical trials for antidepressant Paxil. Palazzo enrolled children who did not actually suffer from major depressive or obsessive compulsive disorder ...
• VRM: California Institutes Mandatory DTaP Vaccinat ...
  âFor the 2011â12 school year only, children entering 7thâ12th grade will need proof of a DTaP (Diphtheria,Tetanus & Pertussis) shot before starting school. For 2012-13 and beyond, only students entering 7th grade will need proof of a Tdap shot.â California Depât of Public Health ‘The law will ap ...
• VRM: Health Matters Part 2
  BISPHENAL A PLASTIC is deadly. It leaks a synthetic hormone which mimics Estrogene & is present in most common store-bought products, also found in the lining of all soup cans. Long term effects include Breast Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Androgeny. It should be noted that in the original tests th ...
• VRM: Health Matters Part 1
  A compromised immune system is more susceptible to infection. Some areas of concern - Anyone with Hyper/Hypothyroidism needs to redouble their efforts to rapidly cleanse the system. The Thyroid Gland is key to overall health. Produces T3 & T4 hormones (Iodine Atoms). Iodine helps regulate metabol ...
• VRM: The Dark Side of The Vitamin K Shot
  Apart from the trauma inflicted on a newborn of getting the shot, the amount of Vitamin K injected into newborns is 20,000 times the needed dose. The injection also contains a preservative, Benzyl alcohol, that can be especially toxic for your babyâs delicate, young immune system. A parent has to k ...

B.C. Preppers Network

• You Know You're Getting Old When...
  A few weeks back we received our new high-efficiency front loading LG washer and dryer set and I have to say, I'm pretty impressed by them. The set was only around $1000 (on sale) but I felt like I'd gone from a Chevette to a Cadillac when compared to our old set.� A cute little luxury featur ...
• Control Your Home Thermostat On the Internet!
  Today a fellow from our natural gas company came by to install a new thermostat as part of the Peaksaver program that we signed up for.�If you haven't heard of Peaksaver, basically what it does is allow the Ontario government electricity provider to turn off your central air conditioner for ...
• Happy Day!: The Water Bill Arrived!
  After being shocked a few months ago with a water bill of over $240 I decided to do a few things to cut down on our water use We converted our main toilet to a dual-flush and installed a water saving device on the second (haven't switched it over to a dual yet). We also installed a new low- ...
• Strawberry Picking
  Our family went strawberry picking this morning, it's a fun thing to do once in a while and I think it's a good way to help our 3-year old daughter realize where food comes from. While my wife picked berries with our oldest I went for a walk around the farm with our youngest in the stroller. T ...
• Pioneer Solar: PV System For Free?
  I received a flyer from Pioneer Solar in the mail the other day which claims to help people get a solar system installed on their house, farm, or business for free. Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, like most things there's good and bad points about it and what might be a good deal for o ...

Michael Yon

• Winter Haven Native's War Dispatches Have Worldwid ...
  Please click here to view entire article in the Lakeland Ledger. {loadposition user8}
• The Jungle Twins
  01 January 2011 In October 2010, a rare set of elephant twins was born in Thailand, leading to vibrant media interest.� The birth was a happy surprise partly because it had been the second set of twins born in Thailand in 2010.� Many Thais consider this auspicious, and two sets of twins in one ye ...
• Hostages Press Release
  www.thethayerhotel.com/ Please Click here to view the entire story. {loadposition user8}
• Shooting Star
  16 December 2010Six years ago this week, I was packing for my first trip to Iraq.� Been a long road. Earlier this week, the annual Geminids meteor shower was a beautiful sight to behold.� Using 4 cameras, I made about 3,600 photos over the Andaman Sea.�� Due to computer issues, I�ve been able to re ...
• Ripley’s Believe it Or Not
  14 December 2010 Ripley�s Believe it or Not has asked to publish one of my photos in their next book.� This photo was made in Sangin, Afghanistan during the last time I was with British forces.� Sangin is the most dangerous place in the country.� The enemy is good and the fighting is serious.� The ...

The Killing Train

• Raj Patel's "Value of Nothing"
  For various reasons I found myself with several hours on public transit and with Raj Patel's fine book "The Value of Nothing" in hand. I really liked a few things about it. First, it's a very readable summary of a lot of economic theories (and ideologies) that guide policies today. For a more mathem ...
• A short video on Toronto Star's recent G20 coverag ...
  Three minutes on technology and protests, focusing on the Toronto Star's recent G20 coverage, especially Rosie DiManno's articles.
• Thoughts on Nicholas Carr's "The Shallows"
  After a couple of recommendations from a couple of different directions, I read Nicholas Carr's "The Shallows: What the internet is doing to our brains". It combines neuroplasticity research (which I read about in Norman Doidge's "The Brain that Changes Itself") with ideas about a literary, print-ba ...
• "Santa" Ford just stole 1000 jobs from the future
  Yesterday's headlines in Toronto newspapers were about how Rob Ford and City Council repealed the $60 vehicle registration tax. The Toronto Sun went as far as painting a beard on a picture of Ford, calling him Santa, and referring to the tax repeal as a christmas gift to Toronto. Another advance aga ...
• Spinning the leaks
  My daily routine these days includes going to the Wikileaks twitter feed (twitter.com/wikileaks), which took me to this story in the UK Guardian about how Saudi Arabia proposed an Arab force to invade Lebanon. The Guardian is definitely the best site on the Wikileaks, and for data in general - they ...

treehugger

• Biologists Find Endangered Seals' Secret Island Ge ...
  Photo: ingridtaylar / CC It's never been easy being an endangered species -- particularly nowadays, what with all the people encroaching upon their native hangouts or clamoring for a peek at an uncommon sight. But despite all that, one group of highly endangered monk seals has managed to find so ...
• European Wildlife Photographer of the Year's Ghost ...
  "Ghostly Cheetah" by Britta Jaschinski While runners-up came eye-to-eye with a baby sea turtle or captured a crystal-clear picture of a bird scooping up a fish for dinner, the winning image in the GDT European Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2010 contest was neither close-up or sharp. Instead ...
• For 2nd Year in a Row, No New Coal Plants Built in ...
  Photo: Zero1o1, Flickr, CC While the more sweeping changes needed to definitively address climate change remained elusive in 2010, looking back on the year yields some subtler good news: For the second straight year, there was no new construction a single coal plant on US soil. The Washington P ...
• New US Energy Chairman: "I Don't Think We Have to ...
  Fred Upton (R-MI) is the incoming chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee in the US House of Representatives. He used to be concerned about the "serious problem" of global climate change, which he said must "necessitate serious solutions." But that was way back in 2009, back before it beca ...
• Italy's Nationwide Plastic Bag Ban Begins (Video)
  Image: Guardian Plastic bag bans have been picking up momentum internationally for some time now, and 2011 kicks off with the instating of another big one: Starting yesterday, single-use non-biodegradable plastic bags will be outlawed in Italy. And while plenty of questions remain about the ban ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

• Two decades behind bars (Pt. 3)
  Thiha Yarzar spent nearly 18 years as a Burmese political prisoner, moved between five different jails where he was tortured and placed on death row
• S Korea to explore for rare earth metals
  Exploitable deposits in Burma could loosen China's grip on the global market whilst becoming another lucrative source of income for the generals
• Suu Kyi meets breakaway opposition leaders
  Aung San Suu Kyi today met with former colleagues who disagreed with her election boycott and formed a new party to fight the controversial poll
• Asian ‘martyrs’ underscore poor year f ...
  Despite outrage from foreign governments, and an increasing awareness among Asia's billions, the region's dictatorships and corrupt regimes show no sign of bending
• Two decades behind bars (Pt. 2)
  Thiha Yarzar spent nearly 18 years as a Burmese political prisoner, moved between five different jails where he was tortured and placed on death row

Telegraph - Climate Change

• What we need in 2011 is an opposition
  On all the most important issues effecting our lives, our politicians are in deluded agreement, says Christopher Booker
• As we count the cost of the freeze, Government pre ...
  The authorities continue to prepare for 'rising temperatures' despite a succession of unprecedentedly cold winters, says Christopher Booker.
• Environment preview of 2011
  The 'greenest government ever' has an opportunity to live up the title while climate change will be back in the spotlight as hope grows once again for a global deal.
• The green hijack of the Met Office is crippling Br ...
  The Met Office's commitment to warmist orthodoxy means it drastically underestimated the chances of a severe winter, says Christopher Booker.
• Environment review of 2010
  The year started badly after the failure of the Copenhagen climate summit and got worse with the 'climategate' scandal and the largest oil spill in US history. But it was a good year for tigers and wildlife.

National Geographic | Environment

• World's Biggest Cave Found in Vietnam
  Stretching more than 2.7 miles long and soaring as high as 460 feet, a cavern in Southeast Asia is the biggest single cave passage yet found, British explorers say.
• “Mining” Groundwater in India Reaches New Lows
  Nearly a third of India is suffering from chronic rainfall shortages, and making up for it with "the world's largest groundwater mining operation," according to experts.
• National Snow and Ice Data Center Gets a Cool Make ...
  Its servers process information that's key to charting climate change, but the center had a climate problem of its own to solve.
• Presented By:
• Can Geothermal Energy Pick Up Real Steam?
  Developers say we have a 'window of opportunity' to mine heat from Earth’s white-hot core, but lagging investment and environmental questions pose significant obstacles.

Jurist - Legal Research

• Uganda high court rules anti-gay newspaper article ...
  [JURIST] The Uganda High Court [official website] on Monday issued a permanent injunction [press release, PDF] and awarded damages to plaintiffs who were alleged to be homosexuals by the Ugandan tabloid newspaper, The Rolling Stone. The complaint was filed by Uganda's Civil Society Coalition on Huma ...
• Iran opposition leader offers to stand trial for 2 ...
  [JURIST] Iranian opposition leader Mahdi Karroubi [BBC profile] on Monday publicly invited the government to put him on trial [Kaleme.com report, in Persian] for the civil unrest and violence that erupted in the wake of the hotly disputed 2009 re-election [JURIST news archive] of President Mahmoud A ...
• Russia former deputy PM sentenced to 15 days in ja ...
  [JURIST] Liberal Russian political activist and former deputy prime minister Boris Nemtsov [advocacy website, in Russian; BBC profile] was sentenced Sunday to 15 days in jail for his part in an unauthorized protest march in Moscow on December 31. Nemtsov, leader of the opposition group Solidarity [a ...
• Obama administration seeks to delay 'Don't Ask Don ...
  [JURIST] The Obama administration has filed a motion [text; PDF] with the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit [official website] to delay the briefing schedule in US v. Log Cabin Republicans, a case regarding the constitutionality of the military's "Don't Ask Don't Tell" (DADT) policy [10 USC ...
• Iran chief prosecutor: charges pending for opposit ...
  [JURIST] Iranian chief prosecutor Abbas Jafari-Dolatabadi delivered a speech at Tehran University on Friday indicating that he would prosecute opposition leaders for political unrest that took place after the country's 2009 presidential election [JURIST news archive]. Dolatabadi threatened to prosec ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

• A Primary Challenge to Obama?
  The apoplexy of loud liberals probably won't be enough to spur a credible primary challenge to President Obama. That's because Obama enjoys extremely high approval ratings among African Americans, who are not likely to desert him for anyone else, because the White House and the Democratic National C ...
• WikiLeaks: One Analyst, So Many Documents
  To date, Bradley Manning stands accused only of providing a classified video of U.S. operations in Iraq to WikiLeaks. But U.S. government officials say they consider Manning the prime suspect behind the flood of documents that have wound up being promulgated by the group determined to bust U.S. secr ...
• After North Korean Attack, Obama Waits for Beijing
  In the wake of North Korea's artillery fusillade, President Obama's foreign-policy team is looking to see whether China, which has the most leverage with the isolated regime, responds in a way that the administration considers productive. MORE FROM NATIONAL JOURNAL: Ostrich Oversight? ...
• I Am a Blogger No Longer
  This is my final blog post for The Atlantic. Five years ago, as a way to boost the competitive metabolism of The Hotline, Chuck Todd hired me away from ABC News to create "Hotline On Call."  I was to be the first political reporter working for a mainstream news organization whose output would be exc ...
• Billy Joel Explains the Election
  What explains the partial collapse of the Democratic Party in the industrial Midwest? Billy Joel, in Allentown, caught the moment decades before it happened...the last time the economy in Pennsylvania transitioned away from coal and steel.  Educated, hard-working people. The generational tension. Th ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

• [COAT] Canada at War in Iraq! New 54-page COAT re ...
• [COAT] Success! AntiCANSEC arms-bazaar campaign - ...
• [COAT] Raging Grans video: CANSEC-NO CANSEX-YES!&q ...
• [COAT] Arms Bazaar in Ottawa Citizen, letters-to-e ...
• [COAT] Oppose the CANSEC War Machine! - coat

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

• US and Vietnam sign nuclear energy agreement | Ass ...
• SKorea on alert after ship hit by mysterious blast ...
• Image via WikipediaObama administration may send U.S.-Russia arms tre ...
• Energy Secretary Steven Chu on the nation's energy ...
• More tritium found at Vt. Yankee, NRC plans closed ...

Tikun Olam

• IDF: Smearing the Dead
  Not content to have killed Jahawer Abu Rachme with a lethal CS teargas barrage at the concluding weekly demonstration against the Separation Wall of 2010, the IDF is now smearing her memory and attempting to deprive her in death of the dedication to the cause for which she gave her life.  Like some ...
• Links for 2010-03-18 [Digg]
  Shin Bet Secretly Detains Reporter Leaking Top-Secret Docume I was the first blogger or journalist to break this story outside Israel. Anat Kam, a young Israeli reporter was secretly arrested and imprisoned for allegedly leaking top secret IDF documents about targeted assassinations.
• Israel and Palestine: Free the Prisoners
  Thanks to Michael Levin for creating this wonderful poster which illustrates the hypocrisy or at at least obliviousness of those campaigning for Gilad Shalit‘s release who neglect the fact that their are 7,000 Palestinian prisoners languishing in Israeli prisons as well. They all await their freedom ...
• IDF Killed Unarmed Palestinian at West Bank Checkp ...
  After reporting initially that a Palestinian shot and killed at the Bekaot West Bank checkpoint had attempted to stab soldiers, it now appears the victim was unarmed and had done nothing threatening at all to deserve his fate.  IDF soldiers initially claimed he was armed with a knife and then that ...
• Wikileaks: U.S. Provided 100 Bunker-Buster Bombs f ...
  Aftenposten is reporting that a Wikileaks cable describes a November, 2009 meeting between a high-level delegation of Israeli and American political, military and intelligence operatives.  On the agenda was the U.S. delivery of 100 bunker-buster bombs to Israel meant to be used to assault Iran’s fo ...

Ode Magazine

• Running across Ethiopia
  By: Gertiser Ten runners, ten marathons, ten days. Can a small group of runners make a difference in a country where only one third of its citizens are able to read? The runners will run village to village across a 250-mile trail route in southern Ethiopia, beginni ...
• Positive activism with a twist
  By: akazdi Many years ago when I lived in Naperville, Illinois and working as a special education teacher in the neighboring town of Bolingbrook, Illinois a proposal to build a large incinerator less than half a mile from where I lived and roughly two miles from th ...
• Child morality
  By: Jeremy Mercer The other day, a rather traumatic scene unfolded at my daughter’s day care. A group of three children, two toddlers and one baby, were playing with a set of wooden play tools. The toddlers were busily hammering fake nails when, suddenly, they turn ...
• Practice bringing peace
  By: PeaceCorso Thich Nhat Hanh (born October 11, 1926) is a Buddhist monk, teacher, author, poet and peace activist now based in France. He is the founder of the Order of Interbeing. During a question-and-answer period from one of his workshops, one man from t ...
• Ode's top 10 positive stories from 2010
  By: EmilyAviles Good news rarely makes the headlines... except in Ode. To celebrate 2010 - and anticipate more good news to come in 2011 - here are Ode's 10 most positive stories from the year that was. 1. Fixing the fr ...

OpEd News

• "Breaking News!": America Blindsided Again!
  Here was another "deal" cooked-up by the politico's in Washington that again voted to keep the rich satisfied at the expense of the Middle Class.
• AIRPORTS: SURRENDER ALL LIBERTY, YE WHO ENTER BY M ...
  The chief flaw in our present technology-based security scheme is that it doesn't do any good. Hundreds of millions of passengers have been searched, and the system has yet to catch even one terrorist.
• Review of 'A Free Man of Color': A Historical Play ...
  A play that talks about post Katrina New Orleans' roots, at the time of the sale of Louisiana to America by France, through the story of a Black slave-owner.
• Challenging Propaganda Stereotypes: War and Peace ...
  One of the widest perceptions in the Western world, especially after the attacks of September 11, is that Islam's holy book, the Quran, promotes conflict, violence and bloodshed. Is this true, and how does violence in the Quran compare with violence in the Bible?
• The Moral Dilemma of Military Service
  On the one hand, the U.S. armed forces are held to the level of individual moral accountability in war set out in Nuremberg Principle IV: you cannot blame your commanders or your government for your immoral acts in wartime. On the other hand, U.S. military personnel are denied the opportunity to mak ...

Switchboard

• Tunes in the Key of Green: music that hit home aft ...
  My music geek friends and I have the tradition of exchanging year-end mixes of our favorite songs---it’s a way to expose/one-up each other to the tunes that really struck a chord over the last twelve months. In doing the prep work for 2010’s mix, I was struck by the connections between ...
• A Water Agenda for Governor Brown - Clean Water fo ...
  This is the final in a series of recommendations for an ambitious water agenda for Governor Brown.   You can find the compiled recommendations here. California is a land of contrasts.  One place where that diversity is obvious is in the quality of the state’s water.  Yes, California h ...
• Regulations that save lives or protect workers are ...
  New chair of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Darrell Issa was on Chris Wallace’s Fox News Sunday show and once again put up the great lie about regulations.  The dirty fuel companies, who have become major funders of the tea partiers, have convinced many Republicans ...
• NRDC delivers recommendations to HUD on FHA's Powe ...
  Several weeks ago HUD announced the PowerSaver program, a pilot program to allow FHA to insure home improvement loans intended to create energy savings for the homeowner. (See HUD's summary here: http://www.hud.gov/offices/hsg/sfh/title/presentation.pdf). The underlying concept makes ...
• Signs of Economic Progress: Making them Sustainab ...
  Business writers are looking with some pleasure at the sales data for the 2010 holiday season, which are up significantly compared to last year. Business sentiment seems to suggest that we are clawing our way out of the recession, albeit slowly. But others suggest that the real economy ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• Hideko Takamine
  RIP. A week late, but she’s apparently not known enough here to make this newsworthy–still nothing from the New York Times. My entry point into classical Japanese cinema (non-Kurusawa) was Ozu. Unfortunately (and taking nothing away from Setsuko Hara), Takamine appeared in Ozu’s more forgettable fil ...
• I will make you love me.
  The first fifteen minutes of Fight Club strongly suggest to its audience that they’re about to watch a much better film than the one they’re actually watchingâthe critique of material culture has yet to embrace to the juvenile punk resistence of the novel and the depiction of insomnia is still point ...
• The Key Point
  Always worth keeping in mind: [A]ctual small government conservatism — as opposed to opposition to unspecified waste or a misunderstanding of the size of the foreign aid budget — is essentially nonexistent at the popular level. Indeed.    For supplementary comedy, Glenn Reynolds not only attemp ...
• Tilting at Windmills
  A superficial analysis of the House Republicans’ pledge to vote to repeal health care reform is that it’s nothing more than a symbolic gesture.  While many might downplay their modest intellectual prowess, they must possess a rudimentary understanding of the basic institutional structure outlined ...
• “There’s That Explanation, and Then Th ...
  Never let it be said that our comments section is not the site of unprecedented events! David Nieporent has actually attempted to cite erroneous claims in Ted Kennedy’s famous Bork speech. His strategy seems to be “willful misreading”: Well, Iâm pretty sure that nobody would have forced any woman ...

Desert Research Institute

• Building Concepts for Clarity
  Todd Mihevc has a knack for finding the right tools for the job, but he’s no handyman for hire. For 25 years, Mihevc, an Assistant Research Hydrogeologist at DRI, has been instrumental in developing equipment that surveys, studies, and samples water systems in Nevada. His latest research concerns th ...
• Top Cited Article in the Journal of Human Evolutio ...
  Dr. Glenn Berger is lead author in top-cited article in Journal of Human Evolution. The article "Luminescence chronology of cave sediments at the Atapuerca paleoanthropological site, Spain" was the top-cited article published in the Journal of Human Evolution for the period of 2008 to 2010.
• DRI Researcher Published in Nature Geoscience
  The atmosphere over the Dead Sea, researchers have found, is laden with oxidized mercury. Some of the highest levels of oxidized mercury ever observed outside the polar regions exist there.
• Taking Your Home’s Energy Temperature
  An article authored by DRI Associate Research Professor Emeritus Charles “Fred “Rogers, Ph.D., outlines the best practices for homeowners who are looking to save money on their home heating and cooling bills.
• DRI Researcher Earns National Science Foundation M ...
  DRI Research Professor Hans Moosmüller, Ph.D. and colleagues received $649,801 from the National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) program to develop a Photo-Acoustic Light Absorption and Albedo Spectrometer (PALAAS) for the characterization of aerosol radiative forcing in the ...

Earth Techling

• Electric Airplane Completes Test Flight
• Honda Begins Quality of Life EV Testing
• Russia Joins High Speed Rail Elite
• Chinese Co. Drops Super EVs in Detroit
• National Grid Is New England Solar King

National Law Journal | U.S.

• Perfect storm hits legal aid
  Law firms may be benefiting from the slow economic recovery, but legal aid groups face the most dire circumstances in decades. The problem is a perfect storm of IOLTA funding declines, cuts in state and local funding, uncertain federal support and a tight private fundraising environment.
• Amity's Over
  Since the landmark $3.4 billion settlement in a fiercely contested American Indian trust class action last year, the plaintiffs' lawyers and government attorneys haven't shown much public acrimony. But cracks in the public facade of harmony are beginning to show, and in the coming months the animosi ...
• McGuireWoods loses bid to dismiss securities fraud ...
  The U.S. District Court in Kansas denied McGuireWoods' motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the bankruptcy trustee for defunct ethanol fuel manufacturer Ethanex Energy Inc.
• 1st Circuit vacates sentence based on enhanced gui ...
  The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit recently vacated a defendant's criminal sentence that was based on guidelines adopted after the time of his offenses, but it avoided ruling on whether the lower court's retroactive use of the guidelines violated the Constitution's ex post facto clause.
• Berkeley law school dean takes heat over demand fo ...
  It's an unpopular time for public employees to push for better retirement benefits, as University of California, Berkeley School of Law Dean Christopher Edley Jr. has learned. Edley is one of 36 highly paid University of California employees who are threatening to sue if the Board of Regents does ...

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

• Waterdog Training January 10th 2011
  Waterdogs Training Monday, January 10th, 2011 7:00-9:00pm Jersey Shore Middle School Library Registration Fee $10 Additional $20 if you would like a TDS Meter Registration is due by January 3rd, 2011 Please make checks payable to: LCCD Lycoming County Conservation District 542 County Farm Road, Suit ...
• Pittsburgh Sets Model to Reject Corporate-Imposed ...
  November 30, 2010 By S.B. Thompson Chambersburg, PA – Edited for length * The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) is actively involved in many issues to help prevent corporations from raping America’s land and resources, including speaking out against uranium mining and mountaintop re ...
• Investigating the US Gas Boom
  I know many of you are becoming very aware of the natural gas boom happening in the Mid Atlantic area. This video covers some old ground but it also discusses some very current issues and is a great intro for anyone who is trying to learn about the problems with the fracking process. http://www.thee ...
• Under the Influence of Fracking?
  In addition to the environmental and health threats posed by gas drilling, driving on PA roadways is also becoming more dangerous.  The Pennsylvania State Police and the Department of Environmental Protection announced that during an October three-day joint safety enforcement operation, three out of ...
• Speaking Out on Water Issues
  Tiadaghton Audubon Society is pleased and privileged to have Sean Saville, National Field Director of the National Audubon Society speak on the Gulf Oil Spill at our annual meeting on Wednesday November 17 at 7:30PM in Mansfield Pa at the Holy Child Church, 242 South Main St. He has extensive and in ...

News Blaze

• Second Earthquake to Hit England in Less Than 2 We ...
  It is very unusual for Britain to experience earthquakes (of any decent size), and extremely rare for two to occur so close together.
• Indo-American Statesman Rajan Zed Sends Lohri Gree ...
  After the sunset on Lohri day, families and friends gather around bonfire eating rewri-gachchak-moongphali, sharing stories, and singing and dancing on dhol/dholki beat.
• Making a Difference
  Nirpal Singh Riat (for services to charity and Punjabi people) and Purnima Tanuku (for services to families) have been named for OBE.
• 61st Golden Mike Awards to Be Presented on January ...
  The awards will be presented on Saturday evening, January 22 2011 at the Universal Hilton Hotel as part of a show honoring the best in radio,television and internet broadcast journalism in Southern California. A silent auction to support the RTNA Sc
• Skype Introduces iPhone Video Calling Over 3G and ...
  With Skype 3.0, you can now make free Skype-to-Skype voice and video calls over 3G and WiFi

environment 360

• Indonesia’s Corruption Legacy Clouds a Forest Prot ...
  Norway and other nations have vowed to invest billions of dollars to help preserve Indonesia’s remaining tropical forests. But can foreign involvement stem the tide of graft and uncontrolled logging that has steadily decimated one of the world’s largest areas of rainforest? BY RHETT BUTLER
• Honeybee-Destroying Mites Are Targeted Using Genet ...
  UK scientists have developed a genetic technique to cause the self-destruction of a deadly mite that has played a role in the decimation of honeybee populations worldwide through so-called colony collapse disorder. In laboratory tests, researchers at the University of Aberdeen and the UK’s National ...
• Interview: As Arctic Ocean Melts, Can Ice Refuge S ...
  With the Arctic Ocean heading toward a largely ice-free state in summer by mid-century, scientists are looking closely at areas that may retain remnant sea ice and help preserve ice-dependent creatures. Researchers have identified a key spot north of Canada and Greenland, which they say could be a k ...
• Booms Used in Gulf Oil Spill to be Recycled in Pro ...
  The plastic booms used to absorb oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico earlier this year will be recycled for use as parts in the plug-in electric Chevrolet Volt. General Motors officials say the recycled oil extracted from the booms will be converted into 100,000 pounds of plastic resin pellets that ...
• Digital Billboards Consume Large Amounts of Energy ...
  The growing number of digital billboards on U.S. roads and highways consume large amounts of energy and are creating a wide variety of electronic waste, according to a new report. The new study says the typical digital billboard consumes about 30 times as much energy as the average American househol ...

Red Ice Creations

• Karpen's Pile: A Battery That Produces Energy Cont ...
  The "Dimitrie Leonida" National Technical Museum from Romania hosts a weird kind of battery. Built by Vasile Karpen, the pile has been working uninterrupted for 60 years. "I admit it's also hard for me to advance the idea of an overunity generator without sounding ridiculous, even if the object exis ...
• 10 Modern Methods of Mind Control
  The more one researches mind control, the more one will come to the conclusion that there is a coordinated script that has been in place for a very long time with the goal to turn the human race into non-thinking automatons. For as long as man has pursued power over the masses, mind control has been ...
• Who Needs the Higgs (A Freak's View of the Uni-ver ...
  It has been well over a decade now since I saw the video. In it a radiantly vibrant silver haired woman marches assertively up to a podium and proceeds to give a slide lecture presentation of her discovery and recording of nothing less than the human energy field - a first in western science. Her vo ...
• Iran invites EU, others to nuke sites
  Iran has invited Russia, China, the European Union and its allies among the Arab and developing world to tour its nuclear sites, in an apparent move to gain support ahead of a new round of talks with six world powers. In a letter made available Monday to The Associated Press, senior Iranian envoy Al ...
• The Shadow War
  The covert operations that target Iran’s nuclear program suddenly came to light with explosive violence and stunning implications for the future of warfare on Nov. 29. On that Monday morning, dawn had just broken over a bustling Tehran so deeply shrouded in smog that many commuters wore face masks t ...

Russia Today

• Russian President: Let all our dreams come true. H ...
  At five minutes before 12 o’clock the Russian President delivers the Annual Presidential New Year address. All TV channels broadcast Dmitry Medvedev’s speech on-air.
• Russia gives warm welcome to New Year amidst winte ...
  Festivities are in full swing across Russia to mark the coming of the 2011 New Year, Russia's most popular holiday. In the capital, people traditionally go out to party on Red Square in the heart of Moscow.
• US refuses to co-operate in probe over alleged CIA ...
  The US is refusing to help Poland investigate claims of a secret CIA prison, which allegedly operated in the country between 2003 and 2005.
• Over hundred police called to disperse 20 Georgian ...
  Georgian police have dispersed a hunger strike by veterans in the capital Tbilisi. Some 20 former soldiers gathered at a war memorial to protest against what they claim is neglect by the government.
• Five arrested in Denmark over suspected “Mohammed ...
  Danish police are investigating what they call the most-serious terror plot ever attempted in the country. Five suspected Islamist militants have been arrested for allegedly planning a gun attack in Copenhagen.

Dad2059′s Webzine of Science Fiction, Science Fact and Esoterica

• Non-Copernican Milky Way?
  In an attempt to quantify the Anthropic Principle (IMHO), one of Canada’s leading astrophysicists, Sidney van den Bergh tries to explain in a short paper that the Milky Way Galaxy is indeed a unique formation in the Universe for the fact that it carries along two companions; the Lesser and Greater ...
• Binnall of America: Christmas Annual With Stanton ...
  Tim Binnall, that most erudite host of Binnall of America “dot com”, broadcasted his Christmas Annual with guest Stanton Friedman on December 23rd and discussed the usual fare; UFOs, MJ-12, nuclear physics, mainstream science his new book and takes email questions from the audience. Tim outdoes hims ...
• The Paracast: “In Search of the Men In Black ...
  This past Sunday (12/26/10) Gene Steinberg and co-hosts Chris O’Brien and Greg Bishop speak with Tim âMr. UFOâ Beckley , Claudia Cunningham, and T. Allen Greenfield about the ubiquitous “Men In Black” (not the movies) and the role they play in the paranormal. As a subject, I know very little abou ...
• Faster Not Better?
  When talking about interstellar probes in the mainstream, the matter of speed always come up. Usually that speed is the speed of light, and how at the present we can’t obtain that with our current state of rocket technology. But at Paul Gilster’s Centauri Dreams blog, ideas flow like clear, clean wa ...
• The Great False Wall of China
  From io9′s Mad Science: Scientists in China were able to make a “false wall” in an incredible demonstration of illusion optics. Find out why you shouldn’t believe your eyes anymore, thanks to physics.China has been in the business of building walls for a long, long time. Recently, they’ve added a ne ...

Tippers News

• DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against human ...
  DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Three men helped starve kids, court tol
  Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
  The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• The real terrorist was me - US Soldier -
  The Truth from a American Soldier who fought in an Unjust WAR in Iraq; thankfully his conscience willed him to admit that it was just a war for the rich elite few to get richer and had nothing to do with Patriosm or Security of Americans.He is a True HeroSubmitted by Mary P. to US Politics & Gov't ...
• BRUTAL TRUTH Of IRAQ WAR
  'War' on any country is a 'Terrorist Act.' How can it be anything else?? People sit in their cosy homes; happy and Falsely believing that the soldiers are in a Patriotic War; Well see for yourself and ask Whats Patriotic about Suffering of Human Beings?Submitted by Mary P. to US Politics & Gov't � ...

The Freeman

• Jury Nullification: Remedy or Danger?
  Jury nullification can occur for reasons good or ill, from ingrained justice or from inbred prejudice.
• Donnybrook Expected over Debt Ceiling
  “A fight over the budget loomed on Sunday as a top aide to President Barack Obama warned of catastrophic consequences if Republicans follow through on threats to reject an increase in the nation’s borrowing limit.” (Reuters) $13.8 trillion just isnât enough. FEE Timely Classic “The Evil of Governmen ...
• Obamacare Headed for House Chopping Block
  “Soon after the 112th Congress convenes Wednesday, Republicans in the House plan to make good on a campaign promise that helped vault many new members to victory: voting to repeal President Obamaâs health care overhaul.” (New York Times) This should be interesting. FEE Timely Classic “A Sales Pitch ...
• Commerce Secretary Pledges to Increase Exports
  “Some business leaders have complained that the administration has demonized them in its rhetoric while hamstringing them with new environmental, health-care and financial industry regulations. [Commerce Secretary Gary] Locke, however, says the tension has not been obvious in his job, which requires ...
• The More Things Change…
  From the Washington Post: The president’s recently departed budget director is joining Citigroup. The New York Federal Reserve Bank’s derivatives expert is joining Goldman Sachs. And numerous investigators from the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission are joining Wall Street ...

Teaching Online Journalism

• Teaching online with WordPress.com
  In the fall semester of 2010, I taught a graduate course called New Media and a Democratic Society using a WordPress.com blog as both syllabus and the means of delivering all assignments. The class did meet face to face once a week for presentations and discussions, but otherwise, everything about t ...
• Skills for journalists: Again, the question
  What skills does today’s journalist need to have? I do not think this question has only one answer. In a comment on a blog post by Robert Hernandez, Michael Grimaldi wrote: The highest skill of journalism is knowing the number of questions to ask, how many people of whom to ask them, and then rep ...
• Data journalism and programmer journalists
  Some good stuff on this topic: Debate over journalism’s required skills gets heated, by Robert Hernandez: I do not believe you need to master programming to succeed in journalism. I do believe you need to respect and understand the power of each and every craft, not just programming, but photog ...
• Nitpicking some myths about digital journalism
  Andy Boyle wrote a response to Mark S. Luckie’s blog post 5 myths about digital journalism, and because I left a comment on Mark’s post, Andy called me out on Twitter. Now, I know Mark a little and Andy not at all (except via his tweets), but I think they are both bright and sincere young journalist ...
• Online video, audiences, sharing: Putting it all t ...
  I thought about titling this post “Another stupid way news sites waste time and effort by failing to understand the Web and how people use it,” but I thought maybe that was far too broad, since it covers so many things. This post is really about how journalism organizations could use video intellig ...

Facing South

• Serious flaws found in EPA's coal ash rule cost-be ...
  When the federal Environmental Protection Agency prepared a cost-benefit analysis for the two coal ash regulatory options it released last year for public comment, it overestimated the benefits of recycling coal ash and underestimated the benefits of safe disposal -- thus hurting the chances for an ...
• The BP oil spill saga: Where things stand now
  By Marian Wang, ProPublica The BP oil spill in the Gulf killed 11 workers in April, released nearly 5 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico and triggered multiple government investigations and an overhaul of the nation's offshore drilling regulatory agency. Federal scientists estima ...
• Eight homeless youth die in New Orleans fire -- wh ...
  By Bill Quigley Eight young people, who the Fire Department said were "trying to stay warm," perished in a raging fire early Tuesday morning in New Orleans. The young people were squatting in an abandoned wood framed tin walled warehouse in a Ninth Ward neighborhood bordering a large train yard. Th ...
• YOU are the answer
  Let's play a little Facing South Jeopardy. Here's the answer: YOU. Now -- can you guess the question? If you said, "How is Facing South going to reach its holiday fundraising goal for the Institute Investigative Fund?" then ding! We have a winner! Actually, we already have lots of winners: Si ...
• New Orleans gets table scrap in GO Zone lending fe ...
  By Ariella Cohen, The Lens As Louisiana wraps its Gulf Opportunity Zone lending program, only 3 percent of the $7.8 billion went to projects in New Orleans, a review of state records show. Though the program was intended to generate recovery and jobs in the areas most affected by ...

Worldpress - Africa

• U.S. Dual-Track Policy in Somalia
  In a country with layers of complexity, clan warfare and a broken state, the Obama administration is taking an appropriately complex approach to stabilizing Somalia, one that may or may not bear fruit.
• Preventing Maternal Deaths in West Africa
  Dr. Fredanna M'Cormack and her Bele Uman Project are working in Sierra Leone to save the lives of pregnant mothers and their babies.
• Interview with Kumi Naidoo
  The Greenpeace executive director talks about connections between the environment, poverty, peace, and how the interconnectedness of these issues can drive civil society.
• Zimbabweans Still Suffering
  On a daily basis, the people of Zimbabwe face starvation, poverty, corruption and oppression, and their government is highly unlikely to bail them out anytime soon.
• Re: Blood Diamonds: Still Bloody
  We are seeing a steadily growing tide of discontent with the Kimberley Process.

Canadian Encyclopedia

• Great Depression
  Few countries were affected as severely as Canada by the worldwide Depression of the 1930s. It is estimated that between 1929 and 1933 Gross National Expenditure declined by 42%, by the latter year 30% of the LABOUR FORCE was
• Riel, Louis
  Louis Riel, M�tis leader, founder of Manitoba, central figure in the NORTH-WEST REBELLION (b at Red River Settlement [Man] 22 Oct 1844; d at Regina 16 Nov 1885). Riel was educated at St Boniface and studied for the
• Macdonald, Sir John Alexander
  Sir John Alexander Macdonald, lawyer, businessman, politician, first prime minister of Canada (b at Brunswick Place, across the Clyde R from Glasgow, Scot 10 Jan 1815; d at Ottawa 6 June 1891). He was the dominant creative mind
• Confederation
  Confederation, the union of the British North American colonies of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Canada (Canada being an earlier 1841 union of Lower Canada and Upper Canada), was achieved 1 July 1867 under the new name,
• Vimy Ridge
  Vimy Ridge, battle fought 9-14 April 1917 during WORLD WAR I . The long, low ridge formed a key position linking the Germans' new HINDENBURG LINE to their main trench lines leading north from HILL 70 near Arras, France.

How Can I Recycle This ?

• How can I reuse or recycle broken ironing boards?
  Philip Mitchell Graham has left us another suggestion/excellent upcycle idea: Ironing boards. One of the great monuments to inbuilt obsolescence is the common ironing board. They are designed to break after a few years, because the folding mechanism is made of cheap mild steel and the legs often buc ...
• What can I reuse or recycle to make Christmas crac ...
  I’ve had “make crackers” on my ideas list for a while and every time I saw it, I thought “mmm crackers” but it turns out I meant Christmas crackers. (Although I do make a good eatin’ cracker as well – I’d highly recommend these honey glazed fennel seed ones, and am perfecting the ingredient levels [ ...
• How can I reuse or recycle “disposable&#8221 ...
  We’ve had an email from Philip, asking about disposable hair nets: I work in food production (ready meal factory) and have to wear a hair net whenever I’m on the floor. Some staff have proper hats but the rest of us have to have single use hair nets. Management say it’s cheaper but I think [...]
• What can I reuse or recycle to make a draft exclud ...
  Ok, put your hand up if you’re cold. I’m guessing everyone in the northern hemisphere is waving at their computers right now. It’s pretty brr. On my frugal/cooking/growing blog The Really Good Life, I’ve written about the five frugal ways I’ll be keeping warm this winter – but one thing I missed off ...
• How can I reuse or recycle old net curtains?
  We’ve had an email from Shannon: We’ve got loads of net curtains from the days before we all realised they were naff! They’re chintzy and are nylon or polyester or something. Do you have any recycling ideas? If they’re still in good condition, you could try passing them on – ask on Freecycle/Freegle ...

Mondoweiss

• Israeli spoof of brainwashing — in kindergar ...
  This is adorable. And telling. And hilarious. Not the salmon!
• Habibi Chomsky
  Noam Chomsky on "delegitimation" at truthout: While intensively engaged in illegal settlement expansion, the government of Israel is also seeking to deal with two problems: a global campaign of what it perceives as “delegitimation” – that is, objections to its crimes and withdrawal of particip ...
• Baby steps (State Department is ‘aware&#8217 ...
  From the State Department today: QUESTION: Were you aware of this protest that happened at Ambassador Cunningham’s house? At his residence in Tel Aviv over the weekend, a bunch of protestors tried to, quote-un-quote, “return teargas canisters” that were fired at them that led to the death of a prot ...
• IDF pushes claim that ‘Palestinians lied&#82 ...
  The Jawaher Abu-Rahma case is taking on huge political significance, the international attention given to the 36-year-old woman killed by teargas in occupied Bil'in on Friday, a year and a half after her brother Bassem was struck and killed by a teargas canister fired by the Israeli army in another ...
• Signposting the occupation
  �My senses let me down. On Friday 31 December � the day Jawaher Abu Rahmah was murdered by the Israeli army � I thought I smelt manure in the village of Bil�in, but it was the skunk truck (The Boesh), used by the Israeli military to crush peaceful protest. Back in 1994 I thought I lived [...]

Media Consortium

• Gallery: 15 iPad news apps
  Thinking about creating an iPad app for your newsroom? Want to see what other news media have come up with? Below are screengrabs of several news apps from newspapers, magazines radio, television, and online-only news websites.
• Five Months on Tumblr as Seen Through Pummelvision ...
• The Media Consortium: Weekly Diaspora: After DREAM ...
• Mobile TV Coming to 20 U.S. Markets by 2011
  The Mobile Content Venture (MCV), a joint effort by U.S. broadcasters, recently announced its roadmap for its mobile TV network. The roll-out plans to have 20 U.S. markets covered by the end of 2011. And we should see mobile TV-compatible devices by the second half of 2011. Could it be true? A real, ...
• Clyde Bentley updates his timeline for newspapers ...
  Three main points from this post that are important. 1) "For newsrooms that are behind on mobile—and the vast majority of them are,” said Bentley, “the mobile web site is most important thing they need to catch up on. When you’re using a mobile device, you should get taken to mobile site. Technicall ...

Reality Asserts Itself

• Drug Wars in Juarez Fuels Boom in El Paso
  My colleague Malak Behrouznami recently returned from Juarez Mexico where she grew up as a child. She as a wonderful heritage - her father is Iranian and her Mother is Mexican. She went Juarez for family and journalistic reasons. One of her objectives was to find out why Juarez has become a terroriz ...
• PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI NEGOTIATIONS TO NOWHERE NOT TH ...
  A few months ago when shooting a documentary in the Middle East, we met Zeina, a 13-year-old Palestinian living in a Beirut refugee camp. She was traumatized as she watched the Israeli Gaza war on television. It changed her life. She now thinks of revenge and cannot understand the Israeli children w ...
• FROM JOE McCARTHY TO GLEN BECK – TIME TO END FEAR ...
  I listened to Glen Becks "Restoring Honor" speech today hoping to find something of substance to write about. I found a stringing together of such empty phrases it does not bear discussion.  The more important issue is why a man whose megalomania seems to have no bounds can become such a phenomena ( ...
• PAKISTAN FLOODS AND A FAILED POLICY - UN Sec. Gen ...
  Ban Ki Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, says of the flooding in Pakistan "The world has never seen such a disaster. It's much beyond anybody's imagination". At least 20 million people have lost their homes, more than 1600 have died, and disease and hunger will claim many, many more l ...
• China and the end of the end of history
  Many economists and political analysts think the current recovery, as it's being called, is a rather temporary phenomenon. Many expect the recession to kick back in, and perhaps within a few years get much more serious. What does that mean in terms of the future of the world economy and world politi ...

Great Beyond ( Nature )

• Honouring UK science
  What a year it's been for Adrian Smith: the current director-general for knowledge and innovation at the UK's Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has just been knighted. Earlier this year it looked like Smith might be about to experience at first hand the government's new plans for enc ...
• US administration explains why polar bears are 'th ...
  The administration of President George W. Bush was correct in 2008 to label the polar bear as ‘threatened’, but not ‘endangered’, under the US Endangered Species Act (ESA) – and it should stay that way, said the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) yesterday. The FWS was responding in a lawsuit ch ...
• Should we proscribe placebo prescribing?
  It sounds more like a question for philosophy than for medicine: if you know a placebo is a placebo, is it still a placebo? Definitions of placebo often involve it being a ‘sham’ or a ‘dummy’ treatment. But a Boston-based team has been trying to see if they can elicit a placebo effect when their ...
• Senate ratifies nuclear arms deal
  The US Senate has ratified the New START treaty, a nuclear arms agreement between Russia and the US that has been a key foreign policy objective for US President Barack Obama. The decision paves the way for a new round of bilateral nuclear inspections, which ended in 2009 when the 1991 START I tr ...
• Wales to lose nearly half its universities
  The number of universities in Wales must be cut from 11 to at least 6 by 2013, the body that funds higher education in the principality said yesterday. Since 2002 the Welsh government has encouraged universities to voluntarily collaborate and merge and has provided funding for them to do so. But ...

new geography

• California’s Third Brown Era
  Jerry Brown�s no-frills inauguration today as California governor will make headlines, but the meager celebration also marks the�restoration of one of the country�s most illustrious political families. Save the Kennedys of Massachusetts no clan has dominated the political life of a major state in mo ...
• Overselling Transit
  A recent op-ed in the Los Angeles Times eloquently illustrated the limits of mass transit in modern societies. This is not to imply that that transit does not have its place, nor that it does not provide a most useful service where it can. The problem has been the overselling of a mode that has very ...
• The NFL: Running the Numbers in the Football Bus ...
  Why does America — and I include myself — invest so much psychic energy, not to mention hard dollars, in professional football, a sport that on many levels combines the worst aspects of roller derby and professional wrestling? Sometimes when I am watching Dan, Boomer, Phil, Chris, Rod, Coach Cowh ...
• The Poverty Of Ambition: Why The West Is Losing To ...
  The last 10 years have been the worst for Western civilization since the 1930s. At the onset of the new millennium North America, Europe and Oceania stood at the cutting edge of the future, with new technologies and a lion�s share of the world�s GDP. �At its end, most of these economies limped, whil ...
• Toronto: Three Cities in More than One Way
  The issue of income disparity in Toronto has once again been brought into the public eye by a December 15th report by University of Toronto Professor David Hulchanski. The report, �The Three Cities Within Toronto,� points to a growing disparity in incomes between Downtown Toronto, the inner suburbs ...

GM Watch

• WikiLeaks: US targets EU over GM crops
• GM R&D too slow for climate change
• Urgent action (UK): Keep our poultry GM-feed-free
• Non-GM drought resistant corn races to the finish ...
• GM and the software analogy

spiked

• RIP Denis Dutton
  A friend and fan of spiked who took ideas and the world wide web seriously.
• A year of intellectual rebels and misanthropic moa ...
  spiked readers and writers name some of the men and women who helped to improve humanity’s lot in 2010 – and some of those who didn’t.
• When economics becomes freaky
  The movie of the best-selling book is a popular taster of a worrying obsession with individual behaviour.
• A queer take on Italian family life
  Loose Cannons is an uplifting film about Italian traditions and sexuality, but it ends up looking like a clichéd pasta ad.
• Our Brave New World of Malthusian madmen
  From Burgess’s Wanting Seed to Huxley’s Brave New World, the wacky Malthusian ideas of dystopian literature are now everyday beliefs.

Cryptogon

• Americans Watched More Television Than Ever in 201 ...
  Via: New York Times: Historians may someday note with wonder that by the end of 2010, at least six cable television shows were about auctioneers and pawnbrokers. And all were considered successes by their respective channels. Countless shows were about cops and robbers, too, and countless hours were ...
• European Nations Begin Seizing Private Pensions
  Via: Christian Science Monitor: Hungary, Poland, and three other nations take over citizens’ pension money to make up government budget shortfalls. Peopleâs retirement savings are a convenient source of revenue for governments that donât want to reduce spending or make privatizations. As most pensio ...
• John P Wheeler III: Former Special Assistant to th ...
  What was he doing at Mitre? A four page bio on John P Wheeler III is currently available at Second Line of Defense: October 2009 BIOGRAPHY OF JOHN WHEELER John Wheeler is a defense consultant. He served as the Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Air Force, Washington, D.C. from 2005-2008, when ...
• Britain: Whitehall Policy Unit Dreaming Up Psychol ...
  Ahh, the diabolical Cass Sunstein is in the news again. You’ll love this. Via: Independent: The public will have “social norms” heavily emphasised to them in an attempt to increase healthy eating, voluntary work and tax gathering. Appeals will be made to “egotism” in a bid to foster individual suppo ...
• Weather Project in Abu Dhabi Resulted in Dozens of ...
  Via: Telegraph: A secret £7 million weather project in Abu Dhabi has resulted in dozens of man-made rainstorms, according to reports. Scientists employed by Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, president of the UAE and leader of Abu Dhabi, successfully created more than 50 rainstorms in the state’s ...

The Economic Collapse

• Economic War
  Most Americans have no idea what an "economic war" is, and even fewer realize that economic warfare is being waged against the United States right now.  For generations, it has been drummed into our heads that "free trade" is always a good thing and that truly free trade will always ...
• Will Ron Paul Be Able To End The Fed?
  Is Ron Paul finally in position to really do something about the Federal Reserve?  U.S. Representative Spencer Bachus, the chairman-elect of the House Financial Services Committee, has announced that Ron Paul will chair the domestic monetary policy subcommittee starting next month.  ...
• George Soros: The United States Must Stop Resistin ...
  In the video you are about to see, George Soros talks about "the creation of a New World Order", he discusses the need for a "managed decline" of the U.S. dollar and he talks at length of the global need for a true world currency. So just who is George Soros? Well, he [...]
• The Shadow Banking System: A Third Of All The Weal ...
  You and I live in a totally different world than the ultra-rich and the international banking elite do.  Many of them live in a world where they simply do not pay income taxes.  Today, it is estimated that a third of all the wealth in the world is held in offshore banks.  So why is ...
• 17 National Debt Statistics Which Prove That We Ha ...
  What we have done to future generations over the past 30 years is absolutely criminal.  30 years ago the U.S. national debt was a bit under one trillion dollars, and at that time it was considered a huge national crisis.  Today, the national debt is 14 times larger and the years ahe ...

Desertification

• A round up of the week’s news on REDD (REDD Monito ...
  Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.redd-monitor.org/2011/01/03/redd-in-the-news-20-26-december-2010/ REDD in the news: 20-26 December 2010 By REDD-Monitor, 3rd January 2011 By Chris Lang A first major shot was fired by the director general of the UN convention to combat desertificat ...
• To address the impact of the changing global clima ...
  Read at : http://carbon-based-ghg.blogspot.com/2011/01/devising-state-level-climate-change.html Devising state-level climate change responses in Nigeria Michael Simire the Independent Online (Nigeria): State governments in Nigeria appear to have taken up a campaign to address the impact of the chang ...
• Um sich greifende Phänomen Landgrabbing in Afrika ...
  Read at : http://adisagroblog.wordpress.com/ Mal(i) développement: Gaddafi ante portas Januar 3, 2011 von adriankrebs Sekou Traoré ist Landwirt am Niger im malischen Soumouni. Nun ist sein karges Dasein aber gefährdet. Wie ihm kürzlich mitgeteilt wurde, war die soeben verstrichene die letzt ...
• Cash-rich countries are securing land in poorer st ...
  Read at : http://www.africanagricultureblog.com/2010/12/outsourced-african-farming-threatens-to.html Outsourced African farming threatens to alienate locals by Gavin du Venage Ghana and Qatar’s announcement that they will jointly farm 50,000 hectares of land is the latest in a sweeping, but controve ...
• Syria: afforestation to confront desertification ( ...
  Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidZAWYA20110102070539/Syria%20gives%20special%20care%20for%20afforestation%20to%20confront%20desertification%20/ Syria gives special care for afforestation to confront desertification By MAZEN EYON Syria has given afforestation ...

The Paper Trail

• The Center’s Impact in 2010
  The true value of an investigative story is not measured in Web hits, media partners or awards – it’s whether our reports help improve the world. By that yardstick, the Center for Public Integrity’s work showed clear impact in 2010:
• Health Care Fraud Cases Drop Despite Bigger Budget
  The official line at the Department of Justice is that investigators are battling Medicare and Medicaid fraud like never before. But the most recent data on the agency’s activities show that its efforts and ballooning budget have actually produced fewer results.
• Public Insight Network Offers New Opportunities fo ...
  In early November, the Center for Public Integrity launched our partnership with American Public Media's Public Insight Network or PIN — a group of over 90,000 people (and counting) that have signed up to be "citizen sources" to help journalists all around the country.
• DuPont Penalized For Hiding Chemical Health Risks ...
  When the Environmental Protection Agency settled on Dec. 6 a major enforcement action against DuPont Co., for failing to report possible health risks involving its chemicals, it wasn’t the first time. In 2005, the company also resolved EPA assertions that it hid the dangers of a toxic chemical, agre ...
• EPA Reminds Republicans Cap-and-Trade Used to be G ...
  The Obama administration is turning the tables on Republican foes of climate regulation, demonstrating not only that cap-and-trade works — it significantly reduced acid rain — but that the program was started by one of their own, George H. W. Bush.

backofthebook.ca

• Justin Bieber does his bit for the Canadian econom ...
  By Frank Moher My New Year's resolution for 2011 is to like Justin Bieber. I'm quite serious. My first reaction to the news that The Bieber caused a near-riot when he appeared at a Kitchener, Ont. mall on Boxing Day, there to buy some shades (because, after all, his future really is so ...
• Battle of the Bigots
  A white supremacist group called The Council of Conservative Citizens is outraged that Marvel has cast Idris Elba as Heimdall in Thor, because he is foxy.  I mean, black.  They probably don’t appreciate that foxy black men exist in the world, but it is definitely the blackness that they are ...
• WikiLeaks’ Canadian secrets not all that sec ...
  By Frank Moher I can tell from our logs that a lot of people are still looking to find out what Wikileaks' purloined cables have revealed about Canada, but the answer remains: Not a whole lot. Little enough, in fact, that it's possible to run the Canadian content all in one ...
• Hang the holidays
  By Bev Schellenberg What has happened to our celebratory schedule? It seems it was only a few weeks ago I bought a witch hat and cape for my daughter, a baron costume for my son, and carved a pumpkin. In fact, it was only a few weeks ago. Now here I ...
• The security perimeter: It’s Aliiiiiive!
  By Alison@Creekside Well, it's back. The "one security perimeter" deep integration SPP/FTAA zombie, now with new and improved emphasis on security. You're shocked, I'm sure. Like it ever really died. The re-animators just learned not to dig it up and parade it around in parliament too often ...

WorldnewsImage via Wikipedia

• Ronaldo facing battle with his baby's Brit mo ...
  London, Jan 4 (ANI): Footballer Cristiano Ronaldo is allegedly facing pressure from the woman who had his baby to give her access to the child.� The 25-year-old former Manchester United player stunned the world last summer when he...
• Natalie Portman: `My parents want me to go to ...
  Natalie Portman has revealed that her parents would like her to give up acting and go to grad school. Actresses arrive for IFP's 20th Anniversary Gotham Independent Film Awards,...
• Hitachi GST Unleashes New CinemaStar Hard Dri ...
  New 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch High Capacity Drives Designed to Harness Low Power, Quiet Acoustics and High Reliability for Storing and Streaming Digital Video Content 24 x 71 LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) today announced that it has added two new dri ...
• HOROSCOPE for Tuesday, 01/04/2011
  0 Horoscope HOROSCOPE for Monday, 01/03/2011 01.03.11 HOROSCOPE for Saturday, 01/01/2011 01.01.11 HOROSCOPE for Friday, 12/31/2010 12.31.10 HOROSCOPE for Thursday, 12/30/2010 12.30.10 More Horoscope �...
• Keira Knightley is a helpful friend: Carey ...
  Hollywood actress Carey Mulligan says she turns to Keira Knightley when she is in crisis. The 'An Education' star teamed up with Knightley on their latest movie 'Never Let Me Go'...

Alex in Wonderland

• Report: Active-Duty Army PSYOPS Soldiers Embedded ...
  To better manufacture consent, U.S. Army soldiers are embedded as intern and fellows at local TV affiliates, along with previously reported newspapers and national outlets.
• Daily Briefing—15th-16th Sept 2010
  News and views from around the web posted to the Wonderland Wire
• Report: U.S. Troops ‘Still Killing Civilians’ in I ...
  A U.S.-Iraqi night raid results in the deaths of eight civilians weeks after U.S. combat operations were announced as over.
• Military Welfare Budget Won’t Thin Any Time ...
  Ivan Eland sat with RT to discuss the astronomical political clout held by the welfare queens of the military-industrial complex that will thwart any translation of the Pentagon's rhetoric into actual policy
• Because the System’s Not Rigged Enough for Cops an ...
  Kevin Carson on the criminal injustice system 'shrills' pushing the narrative that the letter of the law aides criminals against so-called 'crime fighters'.

MY Daily Apple

• Colder temperatures, more heart attacks
  When temperatures dip during cold snaps, your body notices.
• PROGESTERONEinjection [Hikma Farmaceutica]
  Updated Date: Dec 16, 2010 EST
• ABILIFYtablet [REMEDYREPACK INC. ]
  Updated Date: Dec 16, 2010 EST
• Well: Tim Gunn's Advice for Making It Work
  In his role as mentor on the fashion reality show "Project Runway," Tim Gunn listens, consoles, advises and motivates the contestants. Now the fashion guru is offering his sage advice on how the rest of us can "make it work." (Source: NYT Health)
• Observatory: Humans, Like Animals, Behave Fearless ...
  A patient with rare brain damage is unafraid and incautious.

Common Dreams

• Administration Prepares to Defy Efforts to Limit O ...
  by Dafna Linzer, ProPublicaObama administration officials say they plan to reject Congressional efforts to limit the president's options on Guantanamo, setting the stage for a confrontation between the president and the new Congress on an issue that has been politically divisive since Inauguration D ...
• WikiLeaks: US Targets EU Over GM Crops
  by John Vidal, environment editor The US embassy in Paris advised Washington to start a military-style trade war against any European Union country which opposed genetically modified (GM) crops, newly released WikiLeaks cables show.read more
• Senators Supporting Ethanol Subsidies Reap Riches ...
  by Michael BeckelIn habitually partisan Washington, D.C., a bipartisan group of senators late last month helped extend contentious federal tax provisions designed to aid domestic ethanol production. read more
• How Afghanistan Became a War for NATO
  by Gareth PorterWASHINGTON - The official line of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), the NATO command in Afghanistan, is that the war against Afghan insurgents is vital to the security of all the countries providing troops there.In fact, however, NATO was given a central role in Afg ...
• Sen. Lindsey Graham Calls for Permanent US Militar ...
  by David EdwardsThe US military will never leave Afghanistan if Sen. Lindsey Graham has his way. The Republican senator from South Carolina expressed his hope Sunday that the country would invite the US to install permanent military bases.read more

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

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Examine Religion - Tweets

• ExamineReligion: Authoritarian Sociopathy: Part 2: ...
  ExamineReligion: Authoritarian Sociopathy: Part 2: Power and Deception http://exm.nr/fiew0j
• ExamineReligion: Whose right is it? http://exm.nr/ ...
  ExamineReligion: Whose right is it? http://exm.nr/i4slPl
• ExamineReligion: New Moon Solar Eclipse in Caprico ...
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• ExamineReligion: Local musicians team up to suppor ...
  ExamineReligion: Local musicians team up to support artist Bill Merritt http://exm.nr/dJmQDK
• ExamineReligion: Don’t let the fire burn out ...
  ExamineReligion: Don’t let the fire burn out http://exm.nr/f9oSzP

Energy Collective

• Richter: Energy in Three Dimensions
  "Energy Innovation 2010" keynote presentation delivered by Nobel laureate physicist Dr. Burton Richter on December 15, 2010. (Richter's Keynote begins at 5:56 in the video below) �
• 2011: The Year of Regulation?
  Some new years seem newer than others, bringing major changes rather than just the turning of a calendar page. 2011 is shaping up that way, with a return to divided government in the US and the beginning of national greenhouse gas regulation by the EPA based on that agency's interpretation of the Cl ...
• Energy Innovation 2010 - Event Recap and Videos
• Explaining residential electricity consumption: ma ...
  At Grist, Sean Casten muses on the macroeconomic implications of trends in electricity consumption. His musings focus on the established correlation between electricity consumption and economic activity, an association that he fleshed out in an earlier post.
• The Decade of New Information Challenges and Oppor ...
  Did you make a New Year�s resolution to clean up your email, update your Facebook or LinkedIn sites, or organize your desk?� I�m pleased to say that I�ve already crossed one resolution off my list and reduced my email inbox contents by 50%.� The greater challenge will be to maintain this orderly inb ...

Green House - USA Today

• Italy joins growing global push to ban plastic bag ...
  Italy has joined an increasing number of countries and U.S. cities that ban stores from handing out plastic shopping bags.
• My green house will be done in 2011, finally
  Happy New Year! 2011 promises to be the year that my new, energy-efficient home will be complete - finally. Three of my 10 resolutions for 2010 were to finish it last year. Alas, as anyone who's watched custom building knows, the schedule often slips.
• Modern, green Virginia home is built from dirt
  In Washington, D.C. suburbs, most new houses qualify as McMansions, but not the "Erdhaus" -- a small, super tight, Dwell-like home built of compressed earth bricks.
• Are e-readers greener than old-fashioned books?
  Many shoppers may assume e-readers, a popular holiday gift, are more eco-friendly than old-fashioned books. After all, they obviate the need for all that paper. But are they really greener?
• Will Santa's reindeer survive climate change?
  Santa may need to start looking for back-ups, since reindeer herds are dwindling across much of the Arctic. How much is climate change to blame? That remains a source of debate.

Prior Art

• Recent Patent Litigation Weekly Columns
  Much of the patent news that was published on this blog has been moved to the IP Insider section of the Corporate Counsel website. Here's a list of the last several Patent Litigation Weekly columns— Oct. 25, 2010: Big Patent-Licensing...
• Paul Allen v. The Internet
  Former Microsoft executive and billionaire Paul Allen sued several major Internet companies and three large retailers for patent infringement today, asserting that four patents originating at Interval Research, Allen's dot-com era think tank, cover basic web browsing and e-commerce technologies....
• Citing Possible Bias, ACLU Asks Rader to Recuse Hi ...
  With the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit set to consider a landmark case over the validity of human gene patents, attorneys for the plaintiffs in the suit are asking the court's chief judge to recuse himself from the matter—before the panel that will hear it has even been selec ...
• Law360 Calls Lawyer-Owned Shell Company a "Public ...
  seems to have a pretty flexible definition of that term. Last month, it included . Who is so concerned about such fairness? That would be , the Texas law firm that owns Americans for Fair Patent Use, which is a limited liability company set up to prosecute a false marking lawsuit filed in E ...
• Eben Moglen on Bilski, software patents, and big p ...
  Moglen's position on the subject of software patents—that they should be banned—is, to say the least, outside the mainstream in legal circles. It has, however, garnered support among software developers and other techies, especially those who work in the world of open-source and free softw ...

Peoples Voice

• We will not go down, for the Gaza tonight
  Kourosh Ziabari On the eve of New Gregorian Year, the international community commemorates the second anniversary of Israel's deadly offensive in the Gaza Strip in the wake of the continuous blockade of the coastal sliver which has paralyzed the lives of more than 1.5 million impoverished Palestini ...
• Islamophobia in Western Media
  by Stephen Lendman Post-9/11, Western media, especially in America and Britain, describe Muslims as fundamentalists, extremists, terrorists, and fanatics. Throughout the West, Islam is identified with violence, when, in fact it has common roots with Christianity and Judaism. Their tenets are bas ...
• OpEdNews Ranked Among Top 100 Blogs, Why?
  By Mark Powell Just got a mass email from Rob Kall, executive editor, publisher of OpEdNews.com: Nice to start the new year with this news: OpEdNews Ranked Among Top 100 Blogs Overall OpEdNews is Bold and Daring: The Way Progressive News Should Be (LOL) Consider the top 15 articles at the site for ...
• The collapsing hegemony of the West
  By Kourosh Ziabari In its path towards becoming a regional and international superpower, Iran is achieving remarkable breakthroughs in science and technology which have started to flabbergast the rivals around the world, from the United States as a self-proclaimed absolute superpower in economy and ...
• Hail to the Thief: The New York Times Defends Mikh ...
  by Stephen Lendman On October 25, 2003, Khodorkovsky (below called MK) was arrested for tax evasion and corruption, dating from when the Soviet Union dissolved and state privatizations followed. "Behind every great fortune lies a great crime," explained Honore de Balzac. Billionaire Russian olig ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

• CEO pay: Recession-proof
  A new study by CCPA Research Associate Hugh Mackenzie shows Canada's best paid 100 CEOs appear to be recession-proof. The study looks at 2009 compensation levels for Canada’s best paid 100 CEOs and finds they pocketed an average of $6.6 million during the darkest period of the recession – a stark c ...
• Looking into the crystal ball: 2011 predictions
  Happy New Year!�� As we round out another decade, thoughts turn to the future. The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives� Hugh Mackenzie, Shauna Mackinnon, Bruce Campbell, Trish Hennessy, Jim Stanford and Armine Yalnizyan weigh in on the issues facing Canada in the years ahead. They flag the e ...
• CCPA features in The Globe and Mail's discussion o ...
  In the last few weeks The Globe and Mail has been examining the problem of income inequality in Canada. Our own Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan was the special guest in The Globe and Mail's online discussion about income inequality. Read that lively discussion here. The Globe also looks at the li ...
• Income inequality bad for everyone: Richard Wilkin ...
  The CCPA was pleased to co-sponsor a three-city lecture tour featuring Richard Wilkinson, co-author of the best selling book The Spirit Level, which examines income inequality among developed nations. During his sold-out stop in Toronto, he sat down with the CCPA's Trish Hennessy to talk about the b ...
• Mortgage financing reform needed to avoid another ...
  Changes to U.S. and Canadian mortgage finance polices are necessary in order to prevent a future financial crisis, say two prominent economists. In What Can Be Learned from the Financial Crisis in the U.S. and the Much Milder Crisis in Canada? Doug Peters and Arthur Donner make several recommendatio ...

World Wide Hippies

• Not So Semper Fi
  The Few. The Proud. The Broken. | GQ Last year, a record number of active-duty marinesâfifty-twoâkilled themselves. Many were shat tered by the war and what they’d seen, prisoners of a macho culture that too of ten ridicules PTSD. Now, back from battle but still struggling to survive, three former m ...
• Tea Party vs. The Constitution
  Can’t wait for the new Nuremberg Laws…. and the Night of the Long Knives oughta be kicking, not to mention Kristallnacht 2.0! We’re Headed for a Major Battle with the Tea Party Crowd over the Constitution Itself | Alternet Despite a few victories in the lame-duck session of Congress, Democrats and ...
• Fox News Fails
  Top 10 Fox News Fails of 2010 | Ranker The people over at Fox News have caused many laughs, cries and broken television screens in 2010 and usually in that order. The network has created so many blunders and mistakes that its mere existence as a news agency is in of itself amazing and saddening. So, ...
• How Corporate America is Robbing Workers
  Serfing USA | Counterpunch long with the staggering theft in broad daylight of Americans’ assets that has occurred in the course of the ongoing financial crisis, as taxpayers funded multi-trillion bank bailouts and banks stole homes through foreclosures with the help of fraudulent paperwork, America ...
• Worldwide Hippies News and stuff
  WWH- Worldwide Hippies brings you news and commentary, to inform you and move you to action. We believe in âpower to the peopleâ. To point out injustice or right a wrong is all of our responsibility. Join with us and get active. This week: Obama “tired of this shit”, Haitian paradise in 2019?. Hippi ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

• Higher Taxes on Top 1% Equals Higher Productivity
• Why EL PAÍS chose to publish the leaks
  1. The leak and its consequences. When WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange called my cellphone on a Friday afternoon in November, I could barely hear him. The conversation, held amid the usual tumult of Rome's airport on a weekend, was strangely short. Assange talked slowly, making sure to pronounce ea ...
• The Game-Changer List
  The Associated Press, as usual, released last week its editors’ poll of the 10 top stories of the year. No. 1, with 54 first-place votes, was the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The congressional passage of health care reform was second with 30 votes. The list by the men and women who actually e ...
• WikiLeaks may spawn new sedition act
  The infamous Sedition Act, which criminalized speech critical of the federal government and which was passed by the Federalists during another of America’s undeclared wars (that time, against France), lasted only three years, from 1798 to 1801. However, if the congressional critics of WikiLeaks fou ...
• “Dear Afghanistan:” A New Year’s Call for Peace
  While the US may be the world’s single super power in military terms, it faces another super power: the voices of war-weary millions who detest violence and killing. In Afghanistan, in the United States, and among the populations of countries whose governments have joined the NATO coalition, million ...

Salon

• Image via WikipediaMore top Republicans join Sarah-can't-win caucus
  Two more prominent conservatives have gone public with the increasingly familiar view that Sarah Palin simply cannot win the presidency in 2012.�
• Mosque critic apologizes to Justin Bieber
  Here's a quick update on the strange tale of the Justin Bieber boycott by foes of the "ground zero mosque"�that I reported last week.
• Judith Miller attacks WikiLeaks
  Crooks and Liars catches Newsmax contract writer Judith Miller delving into an area she'd be wise to stay away from -- media criticism:
• Senate Dems pledge to nix health care repeal
  Top Senate Democrats are warning House Speaker-elect John Boehner they'll block any Republican effort to repeal President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.
• GOP 2011: Repeal, oppose, subpoena
  Even if the next two years end in congressional gridlock, Republicans hope to build a record that demonstrates to voters in 2012 that they can get it right.

SMB News

• Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits cam ...
  For SMB News Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits camps PURWOBINANGUN: Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano spewed more deadly heat clouds Wednesday as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono visited some of the 50,000 evacuees in shelters. Searing gas billowed from the crater of the 2,914-metre (9 ...
• Kasaba throws spit on the camera
  \Kasaba throws spit on cameraMUMBAI: Ajmal Kasaba webcam spit on Tuesday during a hearing in the Bombay High Court for confirmation of the death penalty, which led the court strictly tell him to behave properly. Judjes a warning when they Kasaba altercation with the police and spit at the camera saw ...
• K’taka Speaker disqualifies 16 MLAs
  For SMB News KBANGALORE: Hours ahead of the trust vote for beleaguered Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa in the Assembly, Speaker K G Bopaiah disqualified sixteen rebel MLAs, including eleven from ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), legislative sources said on Monday. Bopaiah signed the disq ...
• Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8
  For SMB News Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8 KARACHI: Eight people including two children were killed and over 65 others suffered injuries when two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside Abdullah Shah Ghazi’s shrine in Clifton, official sources said here Thursday. Two heads, believed ...
• Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistake
  For SMB News Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistakes’ LONDON: Former president Gen. (Retd.) Pervez Musharraf Friday admitted that political mistakes were committed in the twilight years of his regime and sought apology from Pakistani nation for the same. “These mistakes caused damage to t ...

Toronto Star - Editorials

• Executive pay: What’s a CEO really worth?
  In 2009, a generally lousy year for corporations, the average compensation for the top 100 CEOs in Canada ($ 6.6 million) was 155 times the pay of the average worker ($42, 988).
• Carnage in Egypt: Christians under siege
  They died as they filed out of Mass in a season of peace. The New Year’s suicide blast that killed 21 Coptic Christians and injured 100 left Saints Church in Alexandria spattered with blood. It was a brutal reminder that vulnerable Christians are u ...
• Elected bus driver: TTC policy is unfair
  A TTC bus driver elected to Oshawa council shouldn't be forced to quit political office in order to keep his job.
• Will 2011 be election year?
  The public seems to have more appetite for an election now than in previous years.
• Time to make amends
  How much further will the Conservative government go before owning up to its colossal blunders?

Energy Collective

• Richter: Energy in Three Dimensions
  "Energy Innovation 2010" keynote presentation delivered by Nobel laureate physicist Dr. Burton Richter on December 15, 2010. (Richter's Keynote begins at 5:56 in the video below) �
• 2011: The Year of Regulation?
  Some new years seem newer than others, bringing major changes rather than just the turning of a calendar page. 2011 is shaping up that way, with a return to divided government in the US and the beginning of national greenhouse gas regulation by the EPA based on that agency's interpretation of the Cl ...
• Energy Innovation 2010 - Event Recap and Videos
• Explaining residential electricity consumption: ma ...
  At Grist, Sean Casten muses on the macroeconomic implications of trends in electricity consumption. His musings focus on the established correlation between electricity consumption and economic activity, an association that he fleshed out in an earlier post.
• The Decade of New Information Challenges and Oppor ...
  Did you make a New Year�s resolution to clean up your email, update your Facebook or LinkedIn sites, or organize your desk?� I�m pleased to say that I�ve already crossed one resolution off my list and reduced my email inbox contents by 50%.� The greater challenge will be to maintain this orderly inb ...

EU Times

• US-Japan discussed ‘action’ against anti-whalers
  Japanese and American officials discussed taking action to weaken a prominent anti-whaling group, with Tokyo insisting that Sea Shepherd’s confrontations on the high seas actually hurt efforts to reduce whaling, U.S. diplomatic cables show. The U.S. representative to the International Whaling Commis ...
• GOPer calls Obama one of the most corrupt Presiden ...
  The incoming House Oversight and Government Reform chairman on Sunday tried to clarify his recent remarks to Rush Limbaugh where he called President Obama “one of the most corrupt presidents in modern times.” Rep. Darrell Issa said he meant to say the Obama administration instead of the president. “ ...
• US Home Foreclosures Warned May Top 100,000 In Jan ...
  Over the holidays, many lenders put foreclosures on hold. But that temporary freeze is over now. Industry watchers are expecting thousands of foreclosed properties to hit the market in the weeks and months ahead. Home foreclosure sales slowed down at the end of 2010 for two reasons: the regular holi ...
• Organic foods to be poisoned with Neotame
  Just when we thought that buying “Organic” was safe, we run headlong into the deliberate poisoning of our organic food supply by the FDA in collusion with none other than the folks who brought us Aspartame. NutraSweet, a former Monsanto asset, has developed a new and improved version of this neuroto ...
• Thousands of birds fall from the sky in Arkansas
  Environmental service workers finished picking up the carcasses on Sunday of about 2,000 red-winged blackbirds that fell dead from the sky in a central Arkansas town. Mike Robertson, the mayor in Beebe, told The Associated Press the last dead bird was removed about 11 a.m. Sunday in the town about 4 ...

Stonecipher News

• Special Education High School Transition Services
  From my Factoidz page: 1414(d) and in Findings about “effective transition services to promote successful post-Students typically start transition services at the age 14 if educational services are still required as determined by the school district and the IEP team. However, Washington State’s Offi ...
• Don't Quit Your Day Job
  This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Ashworth College. All opinions are 100% mine. With approximately 4,000,000 students today, more than 20 percent of all students enrolled in higher education are taking at least one course online. Self paced online courses all ...
• Breast Cancer Gene May Raise Men’s Risk, Too
  Source: HealthDay News: "A faulty gene that greatly increases a woman’s risk of breast cancer also boosts a man’s risk for the disease, a new study finds. While most people think of breast cancer as a woman’s illness, in rare cases men can develop breast tumors as well. The new study found that me ...
• Diabetics Urged to Confer With Their Doctor About ...
  According to Amanda Gardner HealthDay Reporter, "THURSDAY, July 15 (HealthDay News) -- One day after a U.S. advisory panel recommended that the controversial diabetes drug Avandia stay on the market -- albeit with added restrictions -- several medical organizations are urging patients not to change ...
• Top Five Cleaning Mistakes
  This is a short video about the common mistakes when cleaning. You may still be sleeping with bugs after cleaning.

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

• U.S. falls to Canada in World Juniors
  The U.S. won’t defend its title in the World Junior Championship as Canada avenged last year’s loss to the Americans with a decisive 4-1 victory on Tuesday in Buffalo. Palmieri (No.23) tries to prevent a goal by Curtis Hamilton. Canada came out with energy and took a 3-0 lead early to put away the ...
• Upcoming Unnamed Tegra 2-powered Android Tablet Fr ...
  Toshiba is reportedly working on their new Tegra 2-powered Android Tablet. This unnamed device is said to feature a 10.1-inch 1280 x 800 capacitive touchscreen display, a dual core NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor, a front-facing 2.0-megapixel camera, a 5.0-megapixel camera on the back, an SD card slot, an ...
• The Anuzis Playbook
  The race for RNC CHair is important and we should be involved and motivate RNC members to choose wisely .  We do not want more of the same from the RNC, and need someone to change the direction and mindset.   And on that count we do not want more years of Steele and his General Council Priebus.  Wh ...
• Jerry Brown Takes Oath 'Without any Mental Reserva ...
  by Mark Memmott Justin Sullivan / Getty Images Jerry Brown (left) is sworn in as the 39th governor of California by California Chief Justice Tani CAntil-Sakauye (right) as Brown's wife, Anne Gust-Brown, looks on. Times are tough in California, but it doesn't hurt to have a chuckle. Here's the just- ...
• Leslie Frazier, Vikings make it official
  The Vikings have made Leslie Frazier the franchise's next head coach, the team announced Monday afternoon. Frazier, the team's interim coach for the last six games, will address the media at 4:15 p.m. CST at the team's Winter Park facility. Frazier replaces Brad Childress, who was fired Nov. 22. Fr ...

Groklaw

• Groklaw: Don't go home, go big
  My most constructive suggestion would be for Groklaw to become a more community-run site. Instead of being a strictly one-person show, perhaps a shift to a more collaboratively run organization is possible. There is precedent: Linus Torvalds is still leading the Linux kernel development, but over th ...
• Musical Chairs: Tom Goldstein Is Leaving Akin Gump ...
  What about SCOTUSblog, the supremely successful Supreme Court blog founded by Goldstein and sponsored by Akin Gump? And what about Goldstein's Supreme Court litigation clinic at Harvard Law School, which has been run through the firm? Goldstein explained: "We're discussing the blog, but my best ...
• Officials should forget about ousting justices
  His reasoning is that the justices did not follow the will of the people in their ruling that allows same-sex marriages. Wait a minute. Justices aren't supposed to follow the will of the people. They're supposed to uphold constitutional principles ...If justices ruled solely according to the will o ...
• Facts and Figures: China's efforts in fighting por ...
  China has made steady progress in containing the spread of illegal publications and cracking down on the dissemination of lewd content through the Internet and mobile phones in 2010, according to the National Office Against Pornographic and Illegal Publications. - Xinhua
• Mr. Zuckerberg Goes to China...Fueling Speculation ...
  Facebook is available in 70 languages, and 70% of its more than 500 million active users are outside the U.S.... After Facebook was blocked-authorities never explained why-its user numbers in China plunged....If the company decided to enter the Chinese market, Facebook would ... be required to ente ...

WideShut

• The Awakening and 2011
  Something big is coming; no matter how deep you go in to researching world issues, we are all in this together and need to offer each other support.
• An Economic Assassin: The Blog You Should Follow
  Economic Assassin Graham Sharkey explains what's really going on, how we got here, and where we are headed.
• Growth Halts, Inflation To Rise, House Prices To D ...
  Third quarter growth down, Bank of England fears inflation, and property value continues to fall.
• Dud Bomb Found Before Italian Student Protests
  Random bomb found on train prior to student protests in Rome. Military head says expert bomb, police say not even a detonator.
• December 21, 2010, WideShut Webcast On Resistance ...
  Keelan discusses the benefits of organic food, whole food supplements, superfoods and raw milk on this week's show.

Waterkeeper Alliance

• Trouble on the Coast? Alabama fighting for its sea ...
  Trouble on the Coast? Alabama fighting for its seafood
• River Network Ranks Yadkin Among Top 10 River Prot ...
  River Network Ranks Yadkin Among Top 10 River Protection Stories of 2010
• Alaska coal creates demand, opposition
  Alaska coal creates demand, opposition
• Farm nutrient plan legal fight continues into 2011
  Farm nutrient plan legal fight continues into 2011
• Grant boosts Riverkeepers' effort
  Grant boosts Riverkeepers' effort

Politics in the Zeros

• The Bermuda Triangle of Productivity
  From Fuschia Macaree I’ve been lost there more than once myself.
• Long-term investing in the casino that is Wall Str ...
  Take any stock in the United States. The average time in which you hold a stock is–it’s gone up from 20 seconds to 22 seconds in the last year. Most trades are computerized. Most trades are short-term. The average foreign currency investment lasts–it’s up now to 30 seconds, up from 28 seconds last m ...
• Naked House. Shipped in flatpack, assemble yoursel ...
  Treehugger The Naked House uses a shipping container as the base. The panels, which are made from cross-laminated timber, can be assembled into a house in two days by four people using a small crane. What’s more, it can be delivered anywhere in the world in six weeks where there is road or sea acces ...
• The debt ceiling, spending cuts, and the liberal r ...
  Liberals and progressives who favor raising the debt ceiling and not having spending and entitlements cuts need to explain where the money will come from. The US is currently spending at an unsustainable level. Blithely saying that a Greek or Irish type of financial debacle couldn’t happen here is w ...
• Influential left-wing ideas
  BobFromBrockley (UK) presents three categories of influential leftie core values in a thoughtful post which bears repeated reading. Good influences Social justice Internationalism The one state solution Open source Strangers into citizens Social justice seems to me to be the predominant leftie value ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

• Water Safety New Zealand laments avoidable deaths ...
  Water Safety New Zealand believes all drownings over this holiday period have been preventable and avoidable.
• NZ aid on way to flood-drenched Qld
  New Zealand will send a Civil Defence emergency response team to Queensland to assist Australia in its response to the devastating floods.
• Surf lifesavers plan to circumnavigate NZ in 40 da ...
  Six surf lifesavers are hoping to travel into the history books by circumnavigating New Zealand in a small inflatable liferaft.
• Police confirm Coromandel body most likely missing ...
  After three days spent holding on to hope, the family of Auckland teenager Cem Erbay have had the news they dreaded.
• Body of missing swimmer found
  Wellington police have found the body of a missing man, last seen swimming at Seatoun Beach.

Just World News

• M. Paraipan: Another informative Hamas-leader inte ...
  Following up on the interview she conducted with Hamas Secretary-General Khaled Meshaal in Damascus in early November, Romanian researcher Manuela Paraipan conducted another one in Beirut recently with Hamas's representative in Lebanon, Osama Hamdan. Her institution in Bucharest, MEPEI, has publishe ...
• Israel's 'New' peace wave protests IOF violence in ...
  Israel's peace and justice movement has been reborn. Ten years after the body blow that (current War Minister) Ehud Barak delivered to it when he said the Palestinians had "turned down a generous offer" (which wasn't generous at all), and that there was "no-one to talk to" among the Palestinians, a ...
• Jawaher Abu Rahmeh dies from tear-gas inhalation
  I am sorry to report that 36-year-old Bil'in resident Jawaher Abu Rahmeh died last night from the after-effects of the poison gas the IOF uses against the nonviolent demonstrations that the village's residents have been organizing against the Apartheid Wall every Friday for more than five years. Mo ...
• Bil'in woman badly injured by tear-gas
  This, from the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee: Jawaher Abu Rahmah, 36, was evacuated to the Ramallah hospital after inhaling massive amounts of tear-gas towards protesters in Bil'in earlier today. She is currently in critical condition and is not responding to treatment. Another protester ...
• Remembering slavery in Virginia
  Our country here is coming up to the 150th anniversary of the act of secession by southern states that launched the extremely bloody civil war of 1861-65. I am very interested in the civil war, for a number of reasons. For American Quakers and members of the other U.S. peace churches, the civil war ...

First Truths

• Renting Our Lives from the State
  Institutions like Bank of America, little more than arms of the state, have consumers of lending services over the barrel. I comment on Bank of America's settlement with Fannie and Freddie for C4SS.
• Bribery, Thy Name Is Government
  For the Center for a Stateless Society I criticized governments for their amenability to bribes even while they prosecute the same.
• To Fight Terror, Fight the State
  The U.S. terror state, the mechanism through which the state-corporate power elite butchers thousands of innocents under the auspices of spreading freedom, is no more morally legitimate than than those who strap bombs to their bodies or use IEDs against buses. My latest commentary attacks the ultima ...
• Speed Bumps on the Information Superhighway
  For the Center for a Stateless Society, I raise objections to IP law and praise networks of free individuals within the context of Facebook.
• Corporate Welfare Disguised As "Free Trade"
  Beware of "free trade agreements," statist pacts that fix the rules for Big Business and cheat consumers. My commentary here.

Media Co-OpImage via Wikipedia

• Media Co-op Investor: Quarterly Report
  Our Theoretical Profit After 3 Months; Company Updates Media Co-op Investor celebrates its 3 month anniversary! The Media Cop-op Investor Series is a project of the Toronto Media Co-op aiming to help the general public understand the stock m ...
• Interview with Kahentinetha Horn
  Editor of Mohawk Nation News (MNN) Word of Mouth Wednesday December 29th 2010 Feature interview with Kahentinetha Horn, editor of the Mohawk Nation News, on topics such as peaceful resistance, wikileaks cable revelations, assault at the border ...
• December in Review: Convention Centre Bust, Educat ...
  The Halifax Media Co-op's review of underreported news from December According to a new number-crunching report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Halifax's forthcoming convention centre would be a $200 million “bottomless money p ...
• North Montreal's New Year's Noise
  Anti-Prison Demo A Success   As twenty-ten comes to an end celebratory cheer is not mutual for those unfortunate enough to be held prisoner of the state.  Refugees, impoverished and marginalized peoples-- all political prisoners entrapped in t ...
• Vancouver New Year's Noise Agitates Guards and Cop ...
  Anti-Prison Rally One Day After Three Prisoners Escape p { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; } On New Year's Eve 2010, protesters brought the noise—along with a banner and fireworks—to a local prison as an act of solidarity with prisoners and against pr ...

David Seaton's News Links

• Myth destroying chart
  David Seaton's News LinksNo comment. DS
• Ending the First Decade of the 21rst Century
  David Seaton's News LinksSometimes after writing a long, rather ponderous piece like my last one, I like to follow it with a shorter and lighter version of more or less the same thing. This is some sort of a parallel text that grows out of its predecessor. We are at the end of the first decade of ...
• New Year's 2011... singing in Grover Norquist's ba ...
  Singing in the bathtub Happy once again Watching all my troubles Go swinging down the drain Singing through the soap suds Life is full of hope You can sing with feeling While feeling for the soap. "Singing in the Bathtub" David Seaton's News Links It's New Year's; this is when we are supposed to lo ...
• North Korea or Murdoch: the art is knowing how to ...
  Korean strongman, Kim Jong-il and his son and successor, Kim Jong-un David Seaton's News LinksThere is a lot of speculation, and practically no hard intelligence, as to why North Korea is behaving so strangely of late. Sinking a South Korean ship and killing 45 sailors, showing off their advanced at ...
• Homage to Ireland in Her Hour of Need
  Now that they've gone stone broke and are dirt poor again. Lets send the Irish a big hug and kiss for all the fun they've always provided. Just as a token, this trailer from my favorite Irish theme film, (apologies to John Ford and "The Quiet Man")... Alan Parker's, "The Commitments". You think th ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

• California Moves to Protect Public from Notorious ...
  Contact: EWG Public Affairs, (202) 667-6982 Oakland, Calif. -- For years, California officials have been working to set the nation's first-ever safety standard for the carcinogenic metal hexavalent chromium (chromium-6), commonly found in... [[ This is a content summary only ...
• EWG Applauds Obama Administration Plan to Address ...
  Contact: EWG Public Affairs 202-667-6982 Washington, D.C. — Just two days after the release of Environmental Working Group's (EWG) analysis of chromium-6 (hexavalent chromium) contamination in the drinking water of 31 U.S. cities, the... [[ This is a content summary only. Vi ...
• Milestone Measure to Advance Food Safety Passes Co ...
  Contact: Contact EWG Public Affairs 202-667-6982 Washington, D.C. – The nation’s food safety system is responsible for 3,000 deaths each year, and 48 million illnesses annually , according to newly released data from the federal Centers... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
• EWG Tests Show Notorious Carcinogen is Widespread ...
  Contact: Home Full Report Executive Summary Study Findings Industry Tactics Government Failings Progress in California Study Methodology ... [[ This is a content summar ...
• EWG response to EPA’s review of chromium-6 health ...
  December 15th, 2010 Read our Press Release Download PDF. November 23, 2010 Office of Environmental Information (OEI) Docket Mail Code: 2822T U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW. Washington, DC 20460 Re:... [[ This is a content summa ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

• People are Awesome
  Take a look at this compilation of amazing people doing incredible things.
• Probable Carcinogen in Tap Water of 31 U.S. Cities
  A new analysis has shown the presence of hexavalent chromium, a probable carcinogen, in the tap water of 31 cities across the U.S.� Bottled water may not be an alternative, because it is often drawn from municipal water systems and can still contain hexavalent chromium or other contaminants. Basic ...
• Caution: Do This and You'll Likely Gain 15 Pounds ...
  One of principal arguments food corporations have used to defend high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is that it is chemically similar to table sugar. Manufacturers have stated repeatedly that HFCS contains at most 55 percent fructose, little different from white sugar's 50 percent fructose makeup. Bu ...
• Could this be Why Many Women are Infertile?
  Bisphenol A (BPA), which is a chemical used to harden plastic and line food containers, may be harming women's eggs. Evidence links exposure to the chemical to a lower quality among eggs retrieved for in vitro fertilization. A study found that as blood levels of BPA in the women studied doubled, th ...
• Fainting Kittens
  Charlie and Spike are kittens with myotonia congenita, also known as 'fainting goat' syndrome. At the slightest sound or movement, the kittens respond by collapsing and falling into a rigid paralysis that lasts about a minute.

JAMA

• A Behavioral and Systems View of Professionalism [ ...
  Professionalism may not be sufficient to drive the profound and far-reaching changes needed in the US health care system, but without it, the health care enterprise is lost. Formal statements defining professionalism have been abstract and principle based, without a clear description of what profes ...
• When Separate Is More Equal [Commentary]
• Could Physicians Take the Lead in Health Reform? [ ...
• Inheritance [Poetry and Medicine]
• A LITERARY CENTENNIAL OF MEDICAL INTEREST [JAMA 10 ...

Survival - tribal peoples

• WikiLeaks: US renewed Indonesia military ties afte ...
  Footage of Indonesian soldiers torturing two Papuans caused widespread outrage and revulsion. © Survival US government cables released by WikiLeaks have revealed that Indonesia threatened to derail President Obama’s visit to Jakarta this year unless America reversed its ban on military assistan ...
• Nukak’s desperate plea to return home
  Many Nukak have been forced to flee their forest homes, and now live in refugee camps outside the forest. © Arnau Blanch/Survival A leader of the Nukak tribe from the Colombian Amazon has made a desperate appeal for his people’s survival before the country’s top human rights committee. ’We wan ...
• Borneo tribes under threat from massive palm oil e ...
  Penan mother and child, Sarawak, Borneo. © Survival International The hunter-gatherer Penan and other tribes are under threat from new plans to expand palm oil plantations massively in the Malaysian state of Sarawak. The Sarawak government has announced plans to double the area used for palm ...
• Tribe reveals new evidence of uncontacted Indians ...
  Kayapó Indians dance at a protest against the Belo Monte dam © T Turner A tribe in the Brazilian Amazon has revealed new evidence showing that there are uncontacted Indians living in the area of the planned Belo Monte mega-dam, and has warned that these Indians are seriously threatened by the p ...
• Success! USA is final country to support tribal ri ...
  All countries that opposed the Declaration, including Australia, now support it. It is a small step in creating real change for tribal people like this Aboriginal boy. © John Miles/Survival The United States has formally endorsed the UN Declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples, meaning t ...

Montreal Gazette

• These good intentions are just too expensive
  If sympathy for the wheelchair-bound were all it took, then all of Montreal's metro stations would be made accessible to them in short order, or at least in keeping with the Societe de transport de Montreal's ambitiously well-intentioned 2008 master plan to add wheelchair access to three new ...
• Quebec a bright light for Canadian women
  Outside Quebec, 2010 was not a great year for Canadian women. The income gap remained stubbornly high, with women earning only 79 cents on the dollar compared with men. Women's political representation in Ottawa is languishing at 22 per cent, even though women make up nearly half of Canada's ...
• Haiti's long agony continues unabated
  On Sunday, 12 of Haiti's presidential candidates gathered on a single stage to denounce the election going on that day as a fraud, and to urge Haitians to stop voting. That sad spectacle was, perversely, the closest thing to a glimmer of hope that Haiti has seen in the agonizing months since the Jan ...
• Editorial: Bixi is a gamble worth taking
  The incredible popularity of Bixi in Montreal and cities around the world seems to have taken its backers by surprise. A year and a half after the bicycle-hire program was launched here, more than 14,000 of the sturdy bikes are in service on three continents.
• Editorial: Don't rule out housing for the Royal Vi ...
  Some new use will have to be found for the building that is for the time being the Royal Victoria Hospital. A decision should be made in the fairly near future since its health-care functions will be transferred to the new McGill University Health Centre now under construction and scheduled ...

Food World Order

• pennsylvania allows gas fracking waste to be dumpe ...
  from activist post: It was revealed today by the AP that the state of Pennsylvania is allowing "wastewater so salty, and so polluted with metals like barium and strontium" to be flushed into local waterways. This wastewater is a result of natural gas extraction method called "fracking" which has ...
• animal farms get bigger & bigger
  from allgov: The last two decades witnessed the continued disappearance of small- and medium-sized farms, thanks to the ever-expanding presence of corporate-owned “factory” farms, according to Food and Water Watch. In a new report, the agricultural watchdog organization found the number of dairy ...
• 12/31 binge & purge: prices, crisis & new year pre ...
  global food prices in 2011 face perilous rise* inflation may become a bigger worry in 2011 for food companies* food stamps to be spread out in 2011: michigan to change its food stamp distribution policy in 2011* food safety news naughty list 2010* with food safety bill, US govt will spend n ...
• 11/11 binge & purge: spam the torpedos!
  33 sick in multistate outbreak of e. coli associated with cheese* wv dept of ag gets grant to study e. coli in beef* salmonella in france: 500 sick from beef patties* carnival splendor passenger describes 2hr foodlines, other problems aboard disabled ship* food wrappers leach harmful che ...
• chemicals in fast food wrappers end up in human bl ...
  from allgov: As if the food in fast food wasn’t questionable enough from a health standpoint, it turns out the wrappers used for hamburgers, chicken sandwiches, microwave popcorn, etc. contain chemicals that are leaching into the human body. Researchers at the University of Toronto found that f ...

CrusadeWatch

• "Crorepathy" Fr. Jegath Gasper Raj main ...
  source:  Asian Tribune The Sri Lankan Catholic Church, the Catholic Radio Veritas based in Phillipines, the Tamil Catholic hierachy and its priests have been the main links of the global network of the Church to protect, promote, provide succor and cover to the internationally banned T ...
• Sex, lies and money in the church
  source: Indian Express, October 24, 2010 Shevlin Sebastian It was midnight. Fr Jose George could not sleep because there was no fan in his room. Jose knocked on Anna Jacobs door. When she opened it, he told her he could not sleep. She invited him inside, because there was a fan. ...
• Denigration of Buddhism & conversion of the vu ...
  source:  Vijayvaani.com,   Oct 25, 2010 Christianisation was the third force of colonialism as best expressed by Jomo Kenyatta, the late Kenyan leader, who said: When the white man came he had the bible we had the land. Then he said let us close our eyes and pray. When we opened our eyes ...
• Christianity's contributions mostly negative, Amer ...
  source:  Christian Century, October 26, 2010 (RNS) When asked about Christianity's recent contributions to society, Americans cited more negatives than benefits, according to a new survey.
• Evangelism as part of foreign political strategy
  source:  The organiser, Oct 3, 2010  By Manju Gupta Evangelical Intrusions, Sandhya Jain, Rupa & Co., Pp 251 (HB), Rs 395.00 THIS book comes at an opportune moment when repeated reports of religio-political violence in the north-eastern states are pouring in, accompanied by the ris ...

Whole Truth Coalition

• .Lies, Damned Lies and Scottish Justice
  Robert Green, the man who was brave enough to speak out about the horrific paedophile rapes of Hollie Greig, the most probable murder of her uncle Robert Greig to “shut him up”, and the sickening wall of silence by the Scottish establishment, has been arrested. We believe the charge is Breach of th ...
• Child Rapists Protected By The State
  In the October 2009 print edition of the UK Column, we reported in our article “BBC Hides Truth of Girl’s Sexual Abuse Ordeal” the shocking ordeal of Downs Syndrome girl, Hollie Greig, who was horribly abused by an Aberdeen paedophile ring, over a period of ten years. After investigating and planni ...
• An Invitation to Meet Hollie and Anne Greig
  ‘Hollie and Anne would like to thank their many supporters for their continuing hard work and support. Towards that end, they have decided to host an informal function near Berwick-upon-Tweed at the Marshall Meadows Hotel on Sunday the 21st of March from 2 until 5pm. The Marshall Meadows Hotel is s ...
• Robert Green Speaking at Truthjuice Llangollen, Ma ...
  Wednesday 24th March 2010 at 7pm Reporter Robert Green was arrested in Aberdeen for the crime of seeking justice and an investigation into the case of Down’s Syndrome girl, Hollie Greig, who says she was serially-raped over a decade by an establishment paedophile ring operating in Scotland. Robert ...
• Mary Rodwell The New Human Vers. 02

The Economic Collapse

• Economic War
  Most Americans have no idea what an "economic war" is, and even fewer realize that economic warfare is being waged against the United States right now.  For generations, it has been drummed into our heads that "free trade" is always a good thing and that truly free trade will always ...
• Will Ron Paul Be Able To End The Fed?
  Is Ron Paul finally in position to really do something about the Federal Reserve?  U.S. Representative Spencer Bachus, the chairman-elect of the House Financial Services Committee, has announced that Ron Paul will chair the domestic monetary policy subcommittee starting next month.  ...
• George Soros: The United States Must Stop Resistin ...
  In the video you are about to see, George Soros talks about "the creation of a New World Order", he discusses the need for a "managed decline" of the U.S. dollar and he talks at length of the global need for a true world currency. So just who is George Soros? Well, he [...]
• The Shadow Banking System: A Third Of All The Weal ...
  You and I live in a totally different world than the ultra-rich and the international banking elite do.  Many of them live in a world where they simply do not pay income taxes.  Today, it is estimated that a third of all the wealth in the world is held in offshore banks.  So why is ...
• 17 National Debt Statistics Which Prove That We Ha ...
  What we have done to future generations over the past 30 years is absolutely criminal.  30 years ago the U.S. national debt was a bit under one trillion dollars, and at that time it was considered a huge national crisis.  Today, the national debt is 14 times larger and the years ahe ...

CASSE

• Homo Economicus Versus Person-in-Community
  Herman Daly takes aim at a major flaw of neoclassical economics, along with the wrong-headed policies of globalization.
• Steady State Economics and the New Congress
  Brent Blackwelder has some interesting ideas for the fight against corruption.
• Top 10 Songs for the Steady State
  Check out this list of top songs with thematic elements of the steady state economy.
• Ecosystem Services: Pricing to Peddle
  Markets are good for several things, but allocating ecosystem services is not one of them.
• Real Economies and the Illusions of Abstraction
  Hazel Henderson, a true champion of the steady state economy, digs deep into the deficiencies of our economic and financial systems.

The Talking Clock

• Quote of the Day: 3rd January 2011
  "But I have winced at times at some of the decisions the [Conservative] Party has made. The tax hikes. Ken Clarke’s justice policies. Our obsession with climate change. And most of all, underlying the whole of politics like the drum-beat in Ravel’s Bolero, the decades-long betrayal on Europe. [On ...
• 'Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength!': The ...
  I think I have just read one of the most sinister and terrifying news reports of my entire life. It appears that the Coalition has a psychology unit sending out messages deliberately designed to achieve social engineering - and yes, they are targeting you. The report in The Independent tells h ...
• Sunday Paper Review: 2nd January 2011
  New Year, new rant... I don't know if you're like me, but I'm seriously beginning to suffer from cabin fever. If this Christmas and New Year epic where all human life drags on in an endless state of near-suspension for a month goes on for much longer, where people who you know who actually *d ...
• Internet censorship: Some tosser of a minister thi ...
  WARNING: This post contains some more adult language than is the norm. Here we go then... the political elites are making their first moves to censor the internet. What they need is some tosser in a Government job to propose that they're only doing it to protect the kids from online porn. Can ...
• (Soon to be) Poor Estonia!
  For some bizarre reason best known to their own politicians, Estonia today joined the eurozone - becoming the seventeenth 'country' to do so. The Daily Express describes the move by noting: "ESTONIA joined the troubled eurozone today – in a move that was compared to boarding the Titanic after it ...

Facing South

• Serious flaws found in EPA's coal ash rule cost-be ...
  When the federal Environmental Protection Agency prepared a cost-benefit analysis for the two coal ash regulatory options it released last year for public comment, it overestimated the benefits of recycling coal ash and underestimated the benefits of safe disposal -- thus hurting the chances for an ...
• The BP oil spill saga: Where things stand now
  By Marian Wang, ProPublica The BP oil spill in the Gulf killed 11 workers in April, released nearly 5 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico and triggered multiple government investigations and an overhaul of the nation's offshore drilling regulatory agency. Federal scientists estima ...
• Eight homeless youth die in New Orleans fire -- wh ...
  By Bill Quigley Eight young people, who the Fire Department said were "trying to stay warm," perished in a raging fire early Tuesday morning in New Orleans. The young people were squatting in an abandoned wood framed tin walled warehouse in a Ninth Ward neighborhood bordering a large train yard. Th ...
• YOU are the answer
  Let's play a little Facing South Jeopardy. Here's the answer: YOU. Now -- can you guess the question? If you said, "How is Facing South going to reach its holiday fundraising goal for the Institute Investigative Fund?" then ding! We have a winner! Actually, we already have lots of winners: Si ...
• New Orleans gets table scrap in GO Zone lending fe ...
  By Ariella Cohen, The Lens As Louisiana wraps its Gulf Opportunity Zone lending program, only 3 percent of the $7.8 billion went to projects in New Orleans, a review of state records show. Though the program was intended to generate recovery and jobs in the areas most affected by ...

CenterLine

• Today’s Terrorism News
  Car Bomb at Egyptian Church Kills Nearly Two Dozen After a car bomb outside a Coptic church in Alexandria, Egypt, killed 21 people and injured nearly 100 at a New Yearâs mass, Egyptian authorities say they have detained seven people … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Trio of False Alarms Put New York on Edge Today’s Terrorism News will be on hiatus until January 3. We’d like to wish all of our readers a happy and healthy holiday season, and we hope to see you in … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Lawyers for Ghailani Urge Judge to Dismiss Single Conviction On Friday, lawyers for Ahmed Ghailani, who was acquitted of more 280 counts of murder and conspiracy in November in connection with the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings in East Africa, urged … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Lawyers for Zubaydah Ask Poland to Open Investigation Lawyers for Abu Zubaydah, a Palestinian detained at Guantanamo, have filed a lawsuit in Poland to request a formal investigation into whether Zubaydah was mistreated at a secret CIA-run prison in the … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Guyanese Man Gets Life Sentence for JFK Bomb Plot Abdul Kadir, a former Guyanese politician who was convicted earlier this year for plotting to detonate the fuel system at JFK International Airport in New York, was sentenced to life in … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

• Are 3D screens bad for your kids?
  Too much 3D can make people seasick, but can it also damage kids' vision?
• 2010 review: A year in brief
  The high points of the year in New Scientist
• Green machine: 'Baked' plastic far easier to recyc ...
  Melting plastics down could allow recycling of vast quantities of waste that currently go to landfills
• Today on New Scientist: 30 December 2010
  Today's stories on newscientist.com, including the year in health and medicine, a trip into a black hole and robot actors take to the stage
• 2010 review: The year in health and medicine
  There were landmarks in medical treatment, thought-provoking investigations and one woman's journey from wedding to childbirth

Tech Drive In

• Featured Comments from "Linux is User Friendly" Ar ...
  If you are a regular visitor here, you most probably would have read the article discussing the user friendliness factor of Linux. The most interesting part of the article was the response we got from our readers in the form of comments(nearly 90 of them and still counting). A lot of them are very w ...
• Linux Mint vs Pinguy OS Review
  Linux Mint is one of the oldest, and arguably one of the best-developed, spin-offs of Ubuntu. Over the last few weeks, I've been seeing more articles talk about another similar spin-off of Ubuntu called Pinguy OS, and I thought, "Another Ubuntu derivative? How many more does the world need?" But the ...
• 13 Breathtaking Conky Configurations You Should Se ...
  Though we used to talk a lot about Ubuntu desktop eyecandy, Conky is something we never really discussed at all.�Conky Ubuntu Lucid theme was the only exception, which is by far the most easy to install Conky theme I have ever used. So as to settle the Conky drought once and for all, here we feature ...
• Big Buck Bunny Trailer Sighting on Google Nexus S ...
  Big Buck Bunny is one among the three Blender Foundation produced open movies, others being Elephant's Dream and Sintel[watch them all]. And the webpage for Google�s very own Android 2.3 powered Nexus S Phone shows the Big Buck Bunny trailer to illustrate the 'Entertainment on the Go' section! ...
• Current State of Ubuntu Unity
  This awesome video screencast of Ubuntu Unity interface in the latest developmental release of Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal was made by Jono Bacon, Ubuntu community manager. New Ubuntu Unity Video Preview Ubuntu 11.04 codenamed "Natty Narwhal" is perhaps the most important Ubuntu re ...

Case About Bird Flu

• Help keep the free alternative media, free!
  If you have benefitted from the information on this blog and wish to see the blog continue in 2011, consider supporting it with a donation. Happy New Year! Bank details: Account name:             Buergermeister, Jane Account number/ IBAN      AT831100015211533300 BIC / SWIFT code         BKAUATWWXXX ...
• Poll shows strong support for reintroducing the D ...
  Every second German wants the D Mark to be reintroduced, according to a poll for Bild newspaper. http://www.bild.de/BILD/politik/wirtschaft/2010/12/26/euro-umfrage-bild-exklusiv/deutsche-wollen-d-mark-wieder-haben.html Two thirds or  67% of the Germans surveyed said they were worried about the stabi ...
• Polish prosecutors to publish own report on Smolen ...
  It was one of the worst political tragedies in post-war Europe. The Polish central bank governor, the President and about 90 other top officials were killed in a plane crash in Smolenk on April 10th. In spite of the evidence indicating that the people were not killed as they travelled to a commemora ...
• Smolensk plane crash: Polish president’s rem ...
  Posted Tue Dec 21, 2010 1:02am AEDT Mr Kaczynski, his wife Maria and 94 other passengers died in the crash. (APTN: ABC News) Jaroslaw Kaczynski, twin brother of Poland’s late president Lech Kaczynski who died in a plane crash in western Russia in April, expressed doubt as to whether his brother’s co ...
• MERRY CHRISTMAS
  It has been a turbulent year and one that also, at times, seemed to never end. For me, personally, it was perhaps the most surreal year of my entire life and I feel extremely lucky to still be in one piece and owe many people a great deal of thanks for all their help and [...]

Invisible Opportunity

• Terrorist Watch List May Exceed US Population by 2 ...
  By Mac Slavo According to the Wall Street Journal, there are roughly 440,000 people on the watch list as of December 2010, though USA Today indicates that over one million names have been added as of 2009. In 2006 the list contained just 71,000 names (which was subsequently corrected to remove error ...
• As we count the cost of the freeze, Government pre ...
  By Christopher Booker As we emerge, temporarily perhaps, from weeks of the coldest weather since records began – with snow disasters right round the northern hemisphere, from the US and Europe to China and Mongolia – more examples come to light of how the cost of extreme cold is far greater than tha ...
• It’s ‘the hottest year on record&#8217 ...
  By Christopher Booker We have lately heard much of the claim that 2010 will turn out to have been “the hottest year on record”. No one has done more to promote this belief than Dr James Hansen, head of Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), responsible for one of the four main official g ...
• Political Science: Freezing Proves Warming
  Those who prefer authoritarian government over liberty have adopted global warming/climate change as the perfect justification: global catastrophe looms if government doesn’t control, tax and ration energy production and energy consumption. When politicians control your access to energy they will co ...
• Only 9,099 Of Last 10,500 Years Warmer Than 2010 & ...
  By Brian Bolduc On Watts Up With That?, Dr. Don J. Easterbrook notes the attention 2010 is getting as a contender for the warmest year of the century. And then he calms everyone down: Another graph of temperatures from the Greenland ice core for the past 10,000 years is shown in Figure 5. It shows [ ...

Veterans Today

• ALLEN L ROLAND: Number One Feel Good Story Of 2010
  Tim ( The freak ) Lincecum screams to the world that the San Francisco Giants are now number one while striking out ten Ranger’s batters ~ as the Giants humbled the Texas Rangers 3-1 in Arlington, Texas and won the 2010 World Series. Photo/ Paul Moseley, Fort worth Star Telegram   The number one fee ...
• Goldman Sachs Values Facebook at $50-billion
  Social-networking giant Facebook could flex its growing might after reportedly raising 500 million dollars from Goldman Sachs and a Russian firm in a deal valuing the website at 50 billion dollars. Via Agence France Press and AlterNet The New York Times, citing sources familiar with the deal, report ...
• U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contra ...
  DoD CONTRACTS: No. 002-10 NAVY Bell-Boeing Joint Project Office, Amarillo, Texas, is being awarded a $24,272,627 cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N00019-07-G-0008). This order will provide engineering and technical support for management of the ...
• Gilad Atzmon: Milton Friedman’s ‘Capitalism and th ...
  “there are few peoples if any in the world who owe so great a debt to free enterprise and competitive capitalism as the Jews.“ “there are few peoples or any in the world who have done so much to undermine the intellectual foundation of capitalism as the Jews.” (Milton Friedman) By Gilad Atzmon STAFF ...
• Canada Passes New Anti-Spam Law
  The Canadian government has passed a new anti-spam law designed to keep destructive and disruptive spam out of the country. The law, called the Fighting Internet and Wireless Spam Act or FISA, is similar to the United States’ CAN-SPAM law and dictates severe penalties for offenders. By Sue Walsh Her ...

electric politics

• Priorities
  To be honest, the shrimp fishermen don't matter. The Gulf coast tourist traps don't matter. The economic effects of the spill. Don't matter. It's not about the money. What matters is that we're destroying the environment, killing countless innocent creatures. I keep hoping things may not be quite a ...
• Regime Change Politics
  We tell ourselves that humans are sentient animals. Yet here in the U.S. our politics seem rather more directed by delusion, or denial, than reason. Collectively, we not only do not know that our political system does not produce democratic results, we pretend the results are democratic no matter h ...
• The Death and Life of Intelligence Analysis
  Magical thinking drives the Neocons' perpetual efforts to start a war with Iran. Politicians, by and large, fail to apprehend the danger. If it weren't for analysts like Dr. Thomas Fingar — and many others — who have held the line on explaining the real costs of war, we would by now be well and tru ...
• (Unlawful) Targeted Killing
  The U.S. government should not murder people abroad. A simple enough rule, yet in a bizarre, barbaric, and cold-blooded fashion Washington now not only claims the right to murder anyone it wants, anywhere it wants, abroad, including American citizens, but actively carries out such intent with drone ...
• The Power of Imagination
  Harkening back to an earlier age, the prolific and brilliant author and anthologist Michael Sims helps us to understand science, natural history, literature, and all manner of other things. A Renaissance man. In Dracula's Guest he explores through Victorian eyes the universal human fear of the dark ...

PR News

• Tropicana Las Vegas issues RFP
  LAS VEGAS: Tropicana Las Vegas issued an RFP in its search for an agency to support the brand amid a $180 million renovation.
• Catalyst hires former Washington Redskins SVP
  NEW YORK: Catalyst hired Shripal Shah as SVP of the firm's digital division.
• WPP acquires Blue State Digital
  NEW YORK: WPP Group said it will acquire Blue State Digital, a digital agency with offices in the US and London.
• MSLGroup makes Farnham Atlanta MD
  NEW YORK: MSLGroup made Kyle Farnham officially the MD of the Atlanta office. Farnham has been acting MD of the office since July.
• The Star Group named AOR for Wish Upon a Hero
  VOORHEES, NJ: The Star Group was named AOR for Wish Upon a Hero, an online social network that connects people in need with people willing to grant their "wishes."

The Story Behind the Story

• Understanding the Nine Veils
  Understanding the Nine Veils By A. True Ott, PhD Nearly a decade ago, a dear friend and colleague of mine named Don Harkins authored a wonderfully thought-provoking piece entitled “Slavery and the eight veils.   Prior to Harkins’ untimely death, we discussed this “Eight-veils theory” for literally h ...
• Is there hidden messaging in The Simpson’s c ...
  Today, a friend named Alex sent me this post: Watch this video to understand how hollywood has given us early indications of foreknowledge of falseflag events including 9/11 and Katrina.  Consider the series “V” coming up on Jan 4 such predictive programming, and liken the “red rain” to chemtrails.  ...
• The Bursting Debt Bubble – Power Point
  To see Dr. Ott’s newest power point – and to follow along with his radio broadcast, click here:   The Bursting Debt Bubble This is clearly THE BIGGEST STORY in American History. Spread the word — and Merry Christmas – (no thanks to the treasonous traitors at Goldman Sachs.)  
• UTAH SOUND MONEY ACT (Brilliant!!!)
  Today I was introduced to Mr. Larry Hilton, JD, MBA – the author of a brilliant piece of much needed legislation that hopefully will pass the Utah legislature, and then each and every other state in this union. Here is his introduction to me for the “Utah Sound Money Act” —- Click here:  Sound Mone ...
• Long Live King and Queen Obama!!!!
  Barack Obama enjoys living like a king, so why shouldn’t Michelle Obama live like a queen? The First Lady was photographed last night in Hawaii wearing $635 per pair designer shoes by Maison Martin Margiela. A woman lucky enough to have a job in this economy and working for the federal minimum wage ...

k2p blogImage via Wikipedia

• Fireworks killed the blackbirds
  US scientists believe fireworks may have caused thousands of birds to fall from the sky over an Arkansas town on New Year's Eve.
• No surprise: “Secret” technical evalua ...
  No surprise. A copy of the confidential technical evaluation report for the Indian MMRCA deal for 126 combat aircraft was found on the street. It is probably part of the government's buying strategy to make sure that all contenders manage to get hold of a copy.
• Sing a song of sixpence…….
  The death of thousands of red-winged blackbirds that fell out of the sky over the small town of Beebe, Arkansas on New Year's Eve night is a mystery yet to be solved.
• No surprise: US diplomats acted as Boeing salesmen
  To a greater degree than previously known, US diplomats are a big part of the sales force, according to hundreds of cables released by WikiLeaks, which describe politicking and cajoling at the highest levels.
• Unusually thick ice traps ships in the Sea of Okho ...
  The ice-breaker Magadan is trying to break through 2m thick ice to free ships trapped in the Sea of Okhotsk. The ice-breaker Admiral Makarov is also on its way.

Left Foot Forward

• As 2011 dawns, remember the 3.9 million children s ...
  In the last of our series of articles looking ahead to 2011, Left Foot Forward's devolution correspondent Ed Jacobs presents a sobering picture of the state of the nation, with many millions still living in poverty and suffering depression.
• Campaigners fear child detention Coalition back tr ...
  Campaigners have raised serious concerns over the Coalition's shifting policy on child detention and whether the practice will continue in all but name.
• We need more substantial and unequivocal Lib Dem p ...
  Leading Liberal Democrat blogger Mark Thompson looks ahead to the prospects for the Lib Dems in the new year.
• Building a grassroots movement is the key test for ...
  Caroline Badley, Labour's campaign manager in Birmingham Edgbaston, looks at the challenges facing the party in 2011.
• My songs of the year
  Since my time as Editor at Left Foot Forward has come to an end, I thought I'd indulge myself by posting the list on LFF. Happy Christmas one and all!

Consumerist

• What's My State's Statute Of Limitations On Debts?
  One of the first thing you'll want to check when you get a debt collection notice is the expiration date. No, it won't be written on the top like a milk carton. But you can check to see when the debt is from. If it's longer than your state's statue of limitations on debt collections, they're unlike ...
• NFL Commissioner's Open Letter To Fans Has Lots Of ...
  Wondering if there will be football next year? As the NFL gets ready for the playoffs, commissioner Roger Goodell took some time to pen an open letter to fans in which he does a spin-move away from the whole potential 2011 work stoppage issue. According to USAToday, the NFL Players Association has ...
• Dead Woman Used To Collect Thousands Of Debts
  Martha Kunkle has been dead since 1995, but that hasn't stopped her from trying to collect on thousands of debts. Despite being six feet under, her signature continued to be signed on thousands of affidavits filed by Portfolio Recovery Associates (PRA) in lawsuits against borrowers, lawsuits that a ...
• Reasons It's Not So Great To Own A Home Free And C ...
  If you've signed your life away on a mortgage, you've probably dreamed of tossing that paperwork into the shredder after you've made the final payment. But outright ownership isn't all positive. A post on Little House in the Valley lists reasons that it isn't so great to pay off your house. You l ...
• PCRM Asks Detroit Mayor To Issue Moratorium On New ...
  The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, the group behind that TV ad equating Big Macs with death, is continuing its war on the fast food industry, asking the mayor of Detroit to stop the proliferation of fast food eateries within city limits. According to the Detroit News, there hasn't ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

• Whistleblower Bill Fails in Senate Due to Secret H ...
  By Victoria Pickering Washington Post: Bill to Empower Whistleblowers Fails to Pass Senate The Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (S. 372), which passed unanimously in the House on December 22, was ultimately killed in the post-election session of Congress due to one anonymous sena ...
• The Reporter Online - WikiLeaks Proves Stronger Wh ...
  By Louis Clark Hysteria and anger over WikiLeaks have led to calls in Congress to widen the scope of espionage law violations. Essentially, this serves as a warning shot to future whistleblowers. But the experiences of other truth-tellers show why this is a mistake. Information is power. Theref ...
• GAP Applauds Merit Systems Protection Board Revers ...
  Today, GAP is praising a Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) ruling last week that reverses a far-reaching November 2009 decision exempting national security positions from protections under the civil service merit system. (Conyers v. Dep’t Defense, 2010 MSPB 2047, December 22, 2010) What a ...
• GAP Statement on WPEA Secret Hold
  The following statement regarding the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act can be attributed to GAP Legal Director Tom Devine: “This holiday season, a Republican senator gave taxpayers a secret Scrooge. After unanimous House approval today, and unanimous Senate approval last month of a stronge ...
• House Passes Food Safety Bill; Whistleblower Prote ...
  The New York Times: House Passes Overhaul of Food Laws After facing numerous setbacks, the Food Safety Modernization Act received final approval from the House of Representatives yesterday with a vote of 215 to 144. President Obama has indicated that he will sign the bill. The legislation ...

UK Progressive

• “The Friendliest Terrorists You’d Ever Want to Kno ...
  by Denis G. Campbell His or her name is “joe” and the signature headline quote above was used in a comment post as we conducted a ‘debate’ about the Siege of Camp Ashraf. “joe” is but one of many whose sole purpose is to blur the line, creating what US jurors call ‘reasonable doubt’ about [...]
• George Will Speaks Out on the Debt Ceiling Vote Th ...
  George is the Right Wing’s most lucid and erudite curmudgeon. He is one of the few Round Table ‘fixtures’ left on the ABC news programme This Week. This statement on the GOP/Tea Party threat to veto the raising of the debt limit ceiling, allowing states to go bankrupt and the investigation crazy Hou ...
• Editorial: ‘Fearless’ Journalism? truthout.org Pul ...
  Last week, truthout.org pulled an article I wrote. It was cited and thoroughly researched over a five-week period on the Siege of Baghdadâs Refugee Camp Ashraf. It was pulled with a terse note from the commissioning editor saying they will commission no more articles. While that is always any public ...
• 2011: Year of Upheaval
  by Brent Budowsky 2011 will be a year of controversy and conflict for President Obama, Congress and national politics that will bring revolts within both major political parties and a rising demand for a third-party candidate in 2012. Here are my major predictions: President Obama will try to surpri ...
• Brian Williams on Morning Joe Says Media Quit Cove ...
  NBC News anchor and Managing Editor Brian Williams and Morning Joe host, former Congressman Joe Scarborough discuss the top stories of the past year, they cite the lack of attention in the media and White House as key. Both said the President underestimated the spill and hoped the oil spill, like th ...

NewsAlert

• Weathermen knew the Big Freeze was coming but hush ...
  The Daily Mail
• Reid unlikely to hold the trump card in push for I ...
  The Washington Times
• Incoming House GOP chairmen have a long list of is ...
  The Washington Post
• American Decline: This Time It's For Real
  Foreign Policy
• Mort Zuckerman: "Home Prices Will Decline For Year ...

JoNova

• The Truth Wears Off: Is there something wrong with ...
  The New Yorker has such an interesting article it’s already generating discussion here, so it deserves a thread of it’s own. It describes a true modern paradox, namely that so many good studies can show interesting “significant” results, yet very few of these turn out to be genuine repeatable findin ...
• Busted predictions from brazen prophets
  What is most astounding about the human race is that people like Erhlich, who predicted vast coastlines would be evacuated due to rotting fish by 1980, or Oppenheimer with a black blizzard of sand covering a continent (by 1995), people who have long proven to be arrant failures at making predictions ...
• What does it take for a worldwide consensus? Just ...
  It’s true, 97%-of-experts agree the world is going to hell in a handcart. It’s part of the frontline toolkit used by the Big Scare Campaign. Do a google search on “97% of climate scientists agree” and 3,920,000 links turn up. Like everything in the Big Scare Campaign, a tiny semi-dried kernel of tru ...
• Busted predictions from brazen prophets
  What is most astounding about the human race is that people like Erhlich, who predicted vast coastlines would be evacuated due to rotting fish by 1980, or Oppenheimer with a black blizzard of sand covering a continent (by 1995), people who have long proven to be arrant failures at making predictions ...
• What does it take for a worldwide consensus? Just ...
  It’s true, 97%-of-experts agree the world is going to hell in a handcart. It’s part of the frontline toolkit used by the Big Scare Campaign. Do a google search on “97% of climate scientists agree” and 3,920,000 links turn up. Like everything in the Big Scare Campaign, a tiny semi-dried kernel of tru ...

ReNew America

• A spiritual shout out to my fellow Americans
  (Marie Jon, RA analyst) - As you well know, I'm not timid when speaking about my concerns. I'm here to remind grassroots Americans of the undeniable "bottom line" truth that too many "conservatives," and nearly all libertarians, seem to forget that America can be saved and preserved only by the grac ...
• House GOP plans two-pronged assault on Obamacare
  (Politico) - The new Republican-controlled House plans to schedule a vote to repeal the sweeping health care overhaul before President Barack Obama delivers his annual State of the Union address late this month, incoming House Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) said Sunday...
• GOP to scrutinize Obama's feats
  (Washington Times) - With Congress split this year between Republicans and Democrats, the GOP may not be able to pass much of its repeal agenda, but it still expects to play a major role in shaping government through hearings and investigations into much of what the Obama administration has done...
• Tyranny by decree
  (Robert Knight) - Over the past year, it has become obvious that what leftists cannot win at the ballot box, they will accomplish via bureaucratic dictate. After the U.S. Senate in 2009 rejected the massive cap-and-tax scheme on carbon credits, the Obama administration rode to the rescue of global-w ...
• Israel preparing for 'large scale war'
  (Agence France-Presse) - Israel's army chief told a US Congress delegation in late 2009 he was preparing for a large war in the Middle East, probably against Hamas or Hezbollah, leaked US diplomatic cables showed on Sunday...

Truth Offering

• Latest Poll - Week Ending 12/5/10
  This time around, we wanted to know what you thought of the Federal Reserve's monetary policy. More specifically, we asked, "Do you think the Federal Reserve's monetary policy will lead to hyperinflation?" Here are the results: So although we didn't all agree it would happen soon, we all say hyperi ...
• S. 510: The Death of Food Freedom Act
  In the world of liberty lovers and food freedom fighters, there's been a ton of attention lately on Senate bill S.510 -- the deceitfully-named, "Food Safety Modernization Act." But in the mainstream media, there's been but a whimper; a pathetic trickle of occasional, fleeting and understated mention ...
• Politicians and the Voting Public: A Toxic Relatio ...
  At TruthOffering.com, we've written much about what's known as the Liberty to Tyranny cycle. The reason we've focused so much attention on this cycle is that we believe in it completely. That is to say, since every civilization has followed this cycle's projection, it's reasonable to suspect the Uni ...
• Education v. Conditioning: Wundt, Rockefeller and ...
  John D. Rockefeller, Sr. / Wilhelm WundtSince reading "the deliberate dumbing down of america" by Charlotte Iserbyt, I've been trying to find other people out there who have also noticed the ruining of education in the United States. To be honest, it's hard to find information on this subject out th ...
• TruthOffering's Matt Gordon on LA Talk Live's "The ...
  Have a listen to Matt Gordon from TruthOffering.com chatting with Hip-hop connoisseur, D-Bracks, on LA Talk Live. Topics range from economics and politics to international banksters and chemtrails. Be sure to drop a comment and let us know what you think of Matt's perspective: �

2012 Blog

• Space News Items in Brief
  Gamma Rays have been detected from a nova (not to be confused with a supernova) for the first time, something that has surprised scientists. I’m guessing that unlike supernovae, we are unable to tell if a nova event is likely to occur any time soon from a nearby star. This is the latest in a [...] ...
• More 2012 Bunkers
  I have three different sources regarding bunkers being built for 2012: Hush-hush, where my contacts give me details, but I am sworn to secrecy Conspiracy forums and blogs – usually unsubstantiated From the builders themselves An example of conspiracy information is the bunker that the Walmart Walton ...
• New Year Earthquake?
  The two earthquakes which had the most fatalities in the last 5 years occurred within 5 days of a solar eclipse: Haiti Earthquake January 12, 2010 230,000 deaths Solar Eclipse January 15, 2010 Kashmir Earthquake October 8, 2005 79,000 deaths Solar Eclipse October 3, 2005 The next (partial) eclipse i ...
• Nanodiamonds / Neanderthals / Seas Still Rising
  Nanodiamonds Discovered in Greenland Ice Sheet – adding weight to the theory of a cometary or asteroid impact event roughly 13,000 years ago. Did volcanoes wipe out the Neanderthals? If so it would be a neat solution, but not one that explains how our forefathers survived (given that we were not as ...
• 5000+1 Bunkers for Moscow
  Russia has some mega-bunkers where presumably indispensable folk can be kept safe, but what about the common people in Moscow? Looks like they will be safe from the [insert SHTF scenario here, but they want us to think nuclear war] as well. Announced a few weeks back on Russia Today are plans to bui ...

Facing South

• Serious flaws found in EPA's coal ash rule cost-be ...
  When the federal Environmental Protection Agency prepared a cost-benefit analysis for the two coal ash regulatory options it released last year for public comment, it overestimated the benefits of recycling coal ash and underestimated the benefits of safe disposal -- thus hurting the chances for an ...
• The BP oil spill saga: Where things stand now
  By Marian Wang, ProPublica The BP oil spill in the Gulf killed 11 workers in April, released nearly 5 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico and triggered multiple government investigations and an overhaul of the nation's offshore drilling regulatory agency. Federal scientists estima ...
• Eight homeless youth die in New Orleans fire -- wh ...
  By Bill Quigley Eight young people, who the Fire Department said were "trying to stay warm," perished in a raging fire early Tuesday morning in New Orleans. The young people were squatting in an abandoned wood framed tin walled warehouse in a Ninth Ward neighborhood bordering a large train yard. Th ...
• YOU are the answer
  Let's play a little Facing South Jeopardy. Here's the answer: YOU. Now -- can you guess the question? If you said, "How is Facing South going to reach its holiday fundraising goal for the Institute Investigative Fund?" then ding! We have a winner! Actually, we already have lots of winners: Si ...
• New Orleans gets table scrap in GO Zone lending fe ...
  By Ariella Cohen, The Lens As Louisiana wraps its Gulf Opportunity Zone lending program, only 3 percent of the $7.8 billion went to projects in New Orleans, a review of state records show. Though the program was intended to generate recovery and jobs in the areas most affected by ...

One News Page

• Stuxnet may have destroyed 1,000 Iranian nuke fuel ...
  Reported by newKerala.com 2 hours ago, received via One News Page (http://www.onenewspage.in)
• Brangelina donate 2million dollars to wildlife san ...
  Reported by newKerala.com 2 hours ago, received via One News Page (http://www.onenewspage.in)
• Solar Eclipse today; most visible in Sweden
  Jerusalem, Jan 4: Its the first solar eclipse of the year 2011 and sky-gazers are in for a treat. The partial solar eclipse began on Tuesday, Jan 4 across the skies in the Mideast and will later move across the most Reported by Oneindia 1 hour ago, received via One News Page (http://www.onenewspage ...
• Fireworks likely cause of Arkansas bird deaths
  London, Jan 4 (ANI): Fireworks may have caused thousands of birds to fall from the sky over an Arkansas town on New Year's Eve, according to US scientists. Reported by Oneindia 1 hour ago, received via One News Page (http://www.onenewspage.in)
• Arkansas: Its raining dead birds in Bebee
  Arkansas, Jan 4: The flood of dead red-winged blackbirds, that fell out of the skies on the New Year Eve over Beebe state had terrified the residents. Beebe is known as a congregating spot for blackbirds. The cause remained undetermined but Reported by Oneindia 1 hour ago, received via One News Pag ...

Global Research TV

• CNN Missing Basic Concepts of Journalism
• Stigmatizing & Drugging Children with Bogus Mental ...
• Investigate Building 7 Collapse, 9/11 Ad Campaign ...
• 9/11: Time to take a Second Look
• Austerity Road to 19th Century

Daily Tech

• Digital Book Sharing Hits Amazon Kindle
  Sharing has some limitations
• Study: Dig Reveals Humans May Have Evolved in Isra ...
  Remains were dated back to 400,000 years ago -- the early human remains found
• Facebook Grabs Most Visits of Any Website for Oct- ...
  Google.com slips to second
• Intel SSD 310 Series Targets Tablets
  SSDs give new options for dual-drive notebooks and embedded applications
• Florida Researchers Begin Development of All-Terra ...
  Could help injured humans travel through rough terrain

Oriental Review

• A Brief Survey of NATO’s Intelligence Services in ...
  By Nikita Mendkovich (Russia) The activities of NATO’s intelligence services in Afghanistan have long been the subject of conjecture and supposition, and that has sometimes made it difficult to analyze events in the country, forcing us to look for traces in various events and practices. My goal in w ...
• What Is Khodorkovsky Doing His Time For? (I)
  By Gregory Tinsky (Russia) Case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky — not long ago, one of the wealthiest men in Russia — broke not just Russians but rather an entire world apart. Khodorkovsky — still being quite a young man — seemingly became the most famous prisoner in the world. Some people believe him to be ...
• Episode 6. Leon Trotsky, Father of German Nazism ( ...
  Nikolay Starikov (Russia) Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 About a year before Hitler organized the Beer Hall Putsch, some curious personalities appeared in his entourage, and historians have still been unable to determine the origin of the sums of money that they brought with them. The cash flowed in from many ...
• US State Department Defends Russian Sodomites
  On November 17, 2010 the US State Department published another annual International Religious Freedom Report. Naturally, one of the chapters is devoted to Russia. While explicitly advocating the interests of Jehovah’s Witnesses, Scientologists, Seventh-day Adventists, non-authorized âIslamicâ preach ...
• The Great Game Today
  Konstantin Penzev (Russia) The Great Game obviously did not end in 1907 with the signing of the Anglo-Russian Convention. Given that, we should adjust the definition of the term, i.e., move away from its narrow meaning of the Anglo-Russian conflict in Central Asia during just the 19th century. In a ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

• Industrial Worker - Issue #1730, November 2010
  Headlines: ...
• Fire to the Prisons #10-Winter 2010-2011//Out Now!
  Fire to the Prisons Issue #10 is available now to order in printed form or be downloaded online. We are continuing.... Time to get it out there!...
• Anarchy Radio Special Episode, November 9
  Anarchy Radio is a live broadcast radio show on Eugene, Oregon's KWVA 88.1 FM, normally hosted by the anarcho-primitivist stalwart John Zerzan o...
• Pacifica death watch (cont.): Gary Null edition
  Perhaps the wider world does not share my interest in the internal goings-on at Pacifica. I do have a personal interest. I grew up listeni...
• Class War in Barcelona: "Anarchism and the Ci ...
  Anarchism is more than just the idea of stateless socialism, and the movement is always shaped by the environment where it grows. In Anarchism a...

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