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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Saturday, January 8, 2011

8 January - RSS SnapShot! Pt 3

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Fabius Maximus

  • More jobs, bought at a dear cost (to be paid for i ...
    Summary:    The US economy continues its slow “recovery.”  It’s not an organic recovery, as it results from three years of massive fiscal and monetary stimulus — powerful medicine, with serious side-effects (to be felt in the future).  Lost in our delusions, we confuse this with actual health. ...
  • We were participants in one of the great battles o ...
    Summary:  Some of the “great battles” were nothing of the kind.  This is easily seen by comparing them with a truly great battle, one that looks to have decisive effects:  9-11. For centuries western historians described the Battle of Tours (aka Poitiers) as one of the world’s decisive battles. ...
  • For the holiday season, here are some comforting t ...
    Summary:  As the sky darkens over America we find comfort in logical but incorrect beliefs, ignoring the horrifying nature of our core problem.  Here are two comforting examples. (1)  Our leaders have bad advisors In both national security and economics we have well-funded think-tanks advocating ...
  • Second thoughts by 2 major boosters of the Af-Pak ...
    Summary:   Guest author Bernard Finel discusses yet another think-tank report giving prescriptions for the Af-Pak War.  But this one is a surprise, a serious walk-back by one of the powerful institutional advocates of our foreign wars.  Perhaps they’re cutting their losses and gearing up for t ...
  • The insight that must precede reform of America: t ...
    Summary:  The last few weeks have produced news confirming that the Constitution is dead, the still heart of the Republic.  Realistic planning for reform must start with that grim fact or remain pie-in-the-sky fantasy. From the mailbag:  “There is only one peaceful solution to our great crisis, f ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • French suspect Chinese link in industrial spying a ...
    Guardian – Company suspends three senior executives in what is potentially one of the biggest commercial espionage cases in recent years. Nicolas Sarkozy ordered the country’s intelligence services to establish whether China is behind alleged industrial spying at the car-making giant Renault. A sour ...
  • High Dietary Fat, Cholesterol Linked to Increased ...
    ScienceDaily — Elevated fat and cholesterol levels found in a typical American-style diet play an important role in the growth and spread of breast cancer, say researchers at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson. Read article
  • US Consumers boost borrowing in November
    Associated Press – Americans increased the amount of money they borrowed in November, mostly to buy cars and attend college. But the second straight month of gains barely raised consumer credit above its lowest point in four years. Consumer debt rose $1.3 billion in November, the Federal Reserve sai ...
  • British MP jailed over expenses scandal
    ABC – A former British Labour MP has been jailed after pleading guilty to making false expense claims. David Chaytor will spend 18 months in prison, becoming the first politician to be convicted and sentenced over the expenses scandal which rocked the country’s parliament. The former Labour MP repre ...
  • US concerned by Tunisia social media crackdown
    Associated Press – The United States is concerned about demonstrations and a crackdown on social media in Tunisia, following weeks of unrest in that country. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley urged restraint on all sides Friday, and said Tunisians should enjoy the right to protest publicly. He ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Defining Success, but Not How to Achieve It
    In the latest joint publication of their respective think tanks, Defining Success in Afghanistan, the American Enterprise Instituteâs Fred Kagan and the Institute for the Study of Warâs Kimberly Kagan (along with coauthors Jeffrey Dressler and Carl Forsberg, whose report on Kandahar last year is rec ...
  • Popgun Budget Cuts at the Pentagon
    Much is being made over the new announcement by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates that the Pentagon is being directed to reduce its budget by $78 billion over the next five years (not counting the costs of its combat operations). We are grateful for small favors, but are not impressed. In 2000, ...
  • Defense Austerity, American-Style
    �The age of austerity for NATO defense budgets is finally hitting the United States. � Here, though, it's a bit different, with "cuts" coming in the Washington sense of "spending more than last year but less than projected." To be sure, this isn't the impression one would get scanning the headlines. ...
  • Israeli Spy Chief: No Iranian Bomb Before 2015, If ...
    The outgoing head of the Israeli Mossad, Meir Dagan, puts some time back on Israel’s Iranian nuclear clock: “Iran will not achieve a nuclear bomb before 2015, if that,” Dagan said, according to a transcript obtained by Reuters. Dagan, who in June 2009 told Israeli lawmakers that Iran could have its ...
  • Defending Against Chinese Anti-Carrier Missiles
    The article is titled Can Aegis Stop China’s Carrier Killer Missiles? Since Defense Tech is asking the question... “We’re constantly looking at the evolution of our Aegis BMD capability to keep pace with threats,” said Lisa Callahan Lockheed’s vice president in charge of the Aegis program during a ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Lightning Round: The Party of Epistemological Rela ...
    Democrats certainly lack the message discipline Republicans have, but it wouldn't hurt to remind everyone that Republicans do not care about the deficit. They rely on gimmicks to falsely claim the ACA explodes the deficit. They are repeatedly on record voting for policy that increases the deficit. ...
  • Friday Nerd Blogging.
    At this year's Consumer Electronics Show, George Lucas announced that the Star Wars movies would finally make their way to Blu Ray. But it's not all good news: The original movies will be the Special Edition versions, with their extra �funny� SFX creature-shots and stupid stepping-on-Jabba�s-tail ...
  • GOP Still All-Or-Nothing on Health Care.
    You may recall that longtime conservative advocate and former Bush II speechwriter David Frum was excommunicated from the conservative movement after he suggested that implacably opposing the Affordable Care Act was strategically misguided (he argued that the GOP would have been better served by neg ...
  • No More Czars.
    A group of House Republicans wants to put an end to the tyrannical czars who rule from the White House with an iron, un-Senate-confirmed fist: Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) and 28 other House Republicans introduced legislation to do away with the informal, paid advisers President Obama has employed o ...
  • Here Comes the Next Financial Crisis.
    According to The Washington Post, the Massachusetts Supreme Court has ruled that two foreclosures should be voided because the banks didn't have the proper paperwork. This is the biggest decision yet in cases where banks had used robo-signing and other shortcut methods in their rush to issue new mor ...

Buzzflash

  • Can Democrats Turn Disaster Into Something Positiv ...
    Body The most bigoted, angriest segments of our population are in full cry. The right wing spreads deceit and misinformation on a daily basis - - advocates proudly proclaiming a victory of conservative values with no sense of how the “loyal opposition” is meant to behave, as recently ...
  • Why is the Tea Party Targeting the Methodist Churc ...
    BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH   Tea Party Nation's Judson Phillips puts United Methodist Church in his crosshairs. In 1983, when folks at the Institute for Religion and Democracy helped convince producers at CBS' "60 Minutes" to run a segment on the National Council of Churches and the United Metho ...
  • Top DeLay Aides Now Working For Boehner
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Republicans promised major changes. Each move would be better, a bold one But instead of turning over a new leaf They would seem to prefer an old one.read more
  • Wikileaks: The EU and Germany Are Failing to Lead ...
    NIKOLAS KOZLOFF FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Perhaps, prior to the Wikileaks scandal, small island nations which stand to be deluged by rising sea levels might have looked to the European Union and, specifically, Germany to provide leadership on climate change.  Recent disclosures, however, have probab ...
  • Bewitched: Feds Probe Christine O'Donnell's Having ...
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH The investigation proves she's not a witch This fact is undeniably clear Because if she were, she'd wrinkle her nose And these charges would all disappear.read more

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Science news with a spectral twist
    Science news with a spectral twist, first 2011 issue of my spectroscopyNOW.com now live Fast-track walking pneumonia test – A new approach to testing for a common form of pneumonia using nanorod arrays to boost SERS signals can cut the time to diagnosis from several days to a mere ten minutes, accor ...
  • Invisible hairs cause baldness
    A topic close to my scalp: male-pattern baldness. Regular readers will be aware of my long, wavy locks from teenage years. But, as I got older, it all waved goodbye (my Dad’s joke! He’s even less than cranially hirsute too). Now, scientists in Pennsylvania reckon they have shown that faulty stem cel ...
  • Science books for the New Year
    These are my recent science book finds for the New Year The science of kissing – When did humans begin to kiss? Why is kissing integral to some cultures and alien to others? Do good kissers make the best lovers? And is that expensive lip-plumping gloss worth it? Sheril Kirshenbaum, a biologist and s ...
  • A lethal Christmas star
    There was an ugly rumour that the giant red star, Betelgeuse, that is the right shoulder (on the left as you look at it) of the constellation Orion is “about to” go supernova. The rumours seemed to have started earlier in the year when observations suggested that Betelgeuse had changed shape, a sure ...
  • Sciencebase person of the year 2010
    Anyone can pick someone famous, a Zuckerberg, a Jobs, a Gaga, and call them their person of the year. But, how about a personal person of the year? Here’s my pick of the people who have had the biggest impact on me this year, whether through their retweet efforts on Twitter, their comments on my [.. ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Rights Groups File Emergency Human Rights Petition ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 6, 2011Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR)Today six civil and human rights groups filed an emergency petition with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), to halt the roundups, detention, and imminent deportations of hundreds of Haitian nationals by th ...
  • House Reads the Constitution, Should Defend Its Va ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 6, 2011People For the American Way (PFAW)Members of the House of Representatives plan to read the amended U.S. Constitution aloud on the House floor today. Michael Keegan, President of People For the American Way, responded:   "Reading the U.S. Constitution aloud on t ...
  • Pay-to-Players Take Over Jersey Environmental Agen ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 6, 2011Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER)Key figures in a corporate pay-for-play scandal also occupy controlling positions on state "stakeholder" committees setting toxic clean-up standards which affect their business dealings, potentially savin ...
  • A Year of Indecision Leaves Haiti’s Recovery at a ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 6, 2011Oxfam InternationalIn a report released today, international agency Oxfam called on the Haitian authorities, with support from the international community, to move forward on plans to start rebuilding the shattered country and enable close to one million peopl ...
  • What Would You Do With a Trillion Dollars?
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 6, 2011National Priorities ProjectThe American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) and National Priorities Project (NPP) are preparing to announce the six lucky winners of If I Had a Trillion Dollars (IHTD), a national video contest which asks young people to convey how ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Our Nation of Weeping Executioners
    by Jim RigbyA recent Los Angeles Times' profile of Rev. Jane Adams Spahr wonderfully captured the loving spirit of one of my few heroes in the Presbyterian Church. This courageous lesbian minister has fought prejudice and fear within our denomination, refusing to surrender to voices of intoleranc ...
  • How the Farm Lobby Distorts U.S. Foreign Policy
    by Marc-William PalenThanks to the hard work of the U.S. Farm Lobby, America’s love of cheap food has stretched more than an engorged waistline. It now stretches the limits of American foreign policy.read more
  • AT&T's Man in the White House
    by Timothy KarrWhen President Obama said he was going to "bring change to Washington," no one expected William Daley to be his choice to get the job done. Obama's incoming chief of staff is about as corporate friendly as any Democratic insider can be, which is saying a lot. read more
  • How Many Dead Arizonians?
    by Donna SmithThe budget crisis in Arizona means the Republican Governor Jan Brewer and her Republican legislature have decided some death is preferable to more debt.  Human life has a very measureable price in Arizona, and those who look the other way as folks who might be saved die in Arizona can ...
  • The Budget and the Republicans
    by Christopher BrauchliA little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse. — Sir Thomas More, Works [c. 1535] Five hundred million dollars seems like a lot until one realizes that it’s only a small part of an approximately $3.6 trillion dollar budget and viewed in that light it’s ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • Joe Klein Has No Clue
    By Steve Hynd This week's TIME has a piece by veteran fan of armed interventions, Joe Klein, risably entitled "What it will take to finish the job in Afghanistan". It's worth a read as an example of how the U.S. hasn't a blessed clue how to accomplish any such thing, being a precis of the convention ...
  • An expensive stasis
    By Dave Anderson: Bernard Finel is depressing me as he explains why he is writing less now about Afghanistan than he has in the past. I am depressed because I fundamentally agree with him: At some point we’ll declare “combat operations” ended in Afghanistan. This will reduce the violence in the coun ...
  • What Do You Do With A Friedman Unit? Surge!
    By Steve Hynd There's news today that Bob Gates will use the authority given to him by President Obama last January and increase the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan by another 1,400 Marines in time for the spring campaigning season there. Commanders in Afghanistan and advocates of the strategy ...
  • CNN Poll: 63% of Americans Want Out Of Afghanistan
    By Steve Hynd You can fool some of the people all of the time...especially if they vote Republican. More than six in ten Americans oppose the U.S. war in Afghanistan, according to a new national poll. And a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Thursday also indicates that 56 percent of t ...
  • Pakistan's PM Has Political Woes
    By Steve Hynd News today that the second largest party in Pakistan's governing coalition, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has withdrawn it's support for the government, ostensibly due to "a hike in gasoline prices and new taxation measures" but more likely because the government won't use it's pa ...

Water Wars

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

Afghanistan Sun

Futurismic

  • Personal Information: episode 24
    Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness! Share and Enjoy:Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness!
  • Arguments against life extension
    Via Michael Anissimov, here’s a spectacularly empty diatribe against “deathhackers” by TechCrunch‘s Paul Carr. Carr objects to the idea of radical life extension as advocated by transhumanists, which is fair enough, but as written here most of his objections seem to boil down to personal distate tow ...
  • Daddy, where does innovation come from?
    Plenty of folk have been linking to this excerpt from Matt Ridley’s new book The Rational Optimist, and with good reason – it’s a provocative piece that plays to advocates (and opponents) of free trade, open exchange, copyright reform and much more. The basic thesis? The one persistent factor that h ...
  • Replacement arms: mechanical or biological?
    Prosthetic limbs are still in their infancy, but there’s a lot of progress being made: Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory is working with Darpa (who else?), and has a research grant for trying out their mind-controlled modular prosthetic arm on five test subjects over the next couple of years ...
  • How to be a futurist
    The irrepressible Scott “Basic Instructions” Meyer has the lowdown if you’re thinking of a career in futurism: Click through for the whole thing. But take it from me, being a futurist is a lot of work for no money. Or maybe that’s just the way I do it… and I’ve never been featured in a [...]Follow F ...

geopolitics | geoeconomics

on Government Oversight

  • How a Red Herring about WikiLeaks Killed Whistlebl ...
    WikiLeaks killed our whistleblower protections bill—sort of. After an unbelievable roller coaster of fear and fallacies, votes on and off, and a flurry of activity, when the lights went out in the Capitol Building on December 22, the Whistleblower Protection...
  • Morning Smoke: New Chief of Staff Has History of F ...
    Where there's smoke, there's fire. POGO's Morning Smoke is a collection of the previous day's investigations, scoops, and opinions related to the world of government oversight. Have a story you'd like to see included? Contact POGO's blog editor. Obama's New...
  • Morning Smoke: Marine Landing-Craft Program Finds ...
    Where there's smoke, there's fire. POGO's Morning Smoke is a collection of the previous day's investigations, scoops, and opinions related to the world of government oversight. Have a story you'd like to see included? Contact POGO's blog editor. Gates wants...
  • Morning Smoke: SIGAR Fires Two Top Deputies
    Where there's smoke, there's fire. POGO's Morning Smoke is a collection of the previous day's investigations, scoops, and opinions related to the world of government oversight. Have a story you'd like to see included? Contact POGO's blog editor. Afghanistan watchdog...
  • On POGO's Radar: The PMSC Observer
    Looking for good coverage of national security issues, government contracting, and international affairs? A great new resource is The PSMC Observer, David Isenberg’s new blog. Back in the day, Isenberg served as a research associate for the Project on Military...

Digital Journal

  • Toronto Bridal Show takes place this weekend
    Planning a wedding is hard work. This weekend at Toronto's Metro Convention Centre the Toronto Bridal Show helps to make some of the key decisions a bit easier.
  • Secret of Canada's Neon Green River revealed
    Residents of Canada's Vancouver Island will be sleeping easier now that they know what led to the completely bizarre neon green discoloration of one of the major rivers flowing through the south part of the island.
  • Ring of Fire mining:environmental and economic iss ...
    In Canada's Far North is an area called the The Ring of Fire where mining companies are eager to develop open-pit mining. That may seem like good economic news there are issues not only for the the environment but for the future of Ontario.
  • The last thing we need is objective political jour ...
    That readers are losing faith in the will or ability of the press to report political news objectively is no secret, but is objectivity even necessary at all? Reporters should bite the bullet and say it how they see it to the benefit of all.
  • Parking enforcement officer assaulted in Toronto
    A Toronto parking enforcement officer was working in the Lakeshore Boulevard West and Islington Avenue area Tuesday during the lunch hour when she was allegedly assaulted by a man.

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Mississippi Launches Plan To End Child Homelessnes ...
    Fulfilling the wishes and happiness of children is at the heart of the holiday season. So, now seems particularly timely for Mississippi to launch a new plan to end child homelessness (pdf) in the state.  What better way to set the season of giving in motion than by committing to finding safe and st ...
  • Thanksgiving 2.0: Food, Poverty and Telling the Tr ...
    This Thanksgiving, most of us around the country shared a bountiful harvest feast with friends and family. We celebrated all that we are thankful for by gorging ourselves right into a food coma. It's the American way. Unfortunately, it's also the American way to be thankful for all that we have whil ...
  • Homeless People Wanted: Must Be Open to Demeaning, ...
    What are they thinking? People obviously don't see the homeless as human or they wouldn't attempt to hire them to do most of the insane, demeaning and illegal jobs out there. Here's a small sampling: Rob dead bodies. The Aokigahara forest at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan is the site of 50 to 100 su ...
  • LA Plans to Make Homelessness Go the Way of the Do ...
    Instead of pretending homelessness doesn't exist, creating new laws to make it illegal to sit or sleep in public, or sending homeless residents on a one-way trip out of town, Los Angeles County may attempt to actually do something about ending homelessness. And the county is setting the bar high; it ...
  • Don't Let Violence Against the Homeless Go Unpunis ...
    Despite its economic troubles, Detroit is not known for being kind to the homeless. That's too bad, since there are nearly 10,000 homeless people living there. In October, police say that Steven James Diponio, 54, became so enraged at Charles Duncan, 42, who was homeless and sleeping behind a school ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • Coach’s Corner faces heat for using platform to pr ...
    Hockey Fans for Peace, a newly created Vancouver-based group, plans on challenging Don Cherry’s provocative pro-war comments on Coach’s Corner, stating that his program is not the place to promote Cherry’s military beliefs (Jack Keating, “Hockey Fan group challenge Cherry’s ‘pro war’ stance,” Postme ...
  • Canada on the international stage: Looking back at ...
    In this CTV News article, Steven Staples and other foreign policy analysts look back on an eventful 2010, identifying two major Canadian foreign policy failures and blaming poor diplomacy and a lack of Canadian leadership on international issues (Josh Visser, “Did Canada punch above its weight on th ...
  • “Wordle” of Ceasefire.ca members’ comments
  • How NATO came to Afghanistan
    Historian and journalist Gareth Porter on the process that led to NATO being in Afghanistan (Gareth Porter, “How Afghanistan became a war for NATO,” Inter Press Service, 3 January 2011): The official line of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), the NATO command in Afghanistan, is that ...
  • Trainers will be mostly away from Kabul?
    CTV News reports that the trainers that the Harper government has promised to keep in Afghanistan following the end of Canada’s combat mission are not likely to be mainly in Kabul, despite the government’s earlier promises (“Canadian trainers likely to be sent across Afghanistan,” CTV News, 31 Decem ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 1-6-11
    Today, Kevin gives you more proof that inflation isn’t coming… it’s already here. Self Help: Drink Non-Toxic Water    Make Your Dreams Come True   Health: Industry Threatens Journal To Keep Autism Truth Hidden    Inspiration: Homeless Man With Amazing Voice Gets Big Break   Wealth: Global Food Price ...
  • Industry Threatens Journal to Keep Autism Truth Hi ...
    January 6th, 2011 The Associated Press The first study to link a childhood vaccine to autism was based on doctored information about the children involved, according to a new report on the widely discredited research. The conclusions of the 1998 paper by Andrew Wakefield and colleagues was renounced ...
  • Homeless Man Turns Life Around With Golden Voice
    January 6th, 2011 NYDailyNews.com By: Kerry Burke and James Fanelli His voice intact and his dignity restored, a Brooklyn-born panhandler returned to his hometown Thursday morning – and used his golden voice to open the “Today” show. “From NBC News, this is ‘Today’ with Matt Lauer and Meredith Viera ...
  • Internet Groups Fear UN Could Threaten Cyberspace
    January 6th, 2011 CTV.ca By: Ian Munroe Officials from 18 countries held an impromptu, late-night meeting earlier this month at the United Nations office in Geneva, and made a decision that rattled Internet technocrats around the world. Autocratic governments like China and Iran attended the meeting ...
  • Homeopathic Remedies Help Morning Sickness
    January 6th, 2011 Natural News By: Sonya McLeod Pharmaceutical medications are toxic and always cause harm; an unborn fetus is especially susceptible to the toxic effects of pharmaceuticals. It is especially important for pregnant women to avoid all pharmaceuticals during pregnancy. Numerous times a ...

Pambazuka News

  • Southern Sudan: Sowing the seeds of agricultural r ...
    After the sound of gunfire fell silent in Southern Sudan, marking the end of one of Africa's longest running civil wars, Pio Kowr Ding decided he would return home to the autonomous region to take up an agricultural research job with the government. ...
  • Ethiopia: Ethiopians to remember martyrs of the 20 ...
    Ethiopians from various cities in the US, Canada, Europe and Australia held a conference on Saturday to discuss and coordinate plans for the upcoming 5th anniversary of the Ethiopian election massacre. The participants discussed and updated each othe...
  • March on Washington scheduled for November
    The Black is Back Coalition has announced a march and rally on the White House to take place November 13, 2010 beginning in Washington, DC’s historic Malcolm X Park. This will mark the second year in a row that this black coalition will be protestin...
  • USA: Black community activist faces possible 10 ye ...
    Diop Olugbala (aka Wali Rahman) will be sentenced on Wednesday, 13 October to a possible 10 years in prison for speaking out on behalf of the rights of the black community. A press conference and demonstration will be held prior to Olugbala’s sentenc...
  • Morocco: Expats returning home in greater numbers
    Faced with the woes of the global economic crisis, an increasing number of Moroccan expatriates are coming back home. Meanwhile, the government is intensifying effort to aid the community abroad as well as help them maintain ties with their home coun...

War in Context

  • A legacy Obama should avoid: Allowing detentions w ...
    Tom Malinowski from Human Rights Watch writes: It is an iron law of American government that institutions created to meet a temporary contingency are almost impossible to dismantle once the contingency has passed. If not for the Soviet threat, for example, the United States hardly would have establ ...
  • Uncomfortable lessons from the reaction to WikiLea ...
    “Amid the sound and fury of the reaction to WikiLeaks, something is missing. Whether hostile or supportive, politicians and commentators on all sides have managed to miss the real point. The contents of the leaked cables should demand a deep reflection on our foreign policy. That this has not happen ...
  • How WikiLeaks could save the internet
    Evgeny Morozov writes: American diplomacy seems to have survived Wikileaks’s “attack on the international community,” as Hillary Clinton so dramatically characterized it, unscathed. Save for a few diplomatic reshuffles, Foggy Bottom doesn’t seem to be deeply affected by what happened. Certainly, th ...
  • The man who spilled the secrets
    Vanity Fair tells the story of the fraught relationship between Julian Assange and The Guardian newspaper. On the afternoon of November 1, 2010, Julian Assange, the Australian-born founder of WikiLeaks.org, marched with his lawyer into the London office of Alan Rusbridger, the editor of The Guardia ...
  • Taliban not quite twelve feet tall
    The theory behind President Obama’s Afghan surge (beyond the moronically simplistic “if it worked in Iraq, it should work in Afghanistan”) was the notion that after “sustained pressure,” “a more robust approach” — or whatever euphemism one chooses for an operation designed to kill more people — the ...

Watts Up With That?

  • New rate of stratospheric photolysis questions ozo ...
    By Joseph DâAleo, CCM, AMS Fellow   Dr. Will Happer of Princeton wrote âThe Montreal Protocol to ban freons was the warm-up exercise for the IPCC.  Many current IPCC players gained fame then by stampeding the US Congress into supporting … Continue reading →
  • Putting the Brakes on Acceleration
    Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Various pundits and scientists keep talking about a threatened acceleration in the sea level rise. Here’s the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report: Anthropogenic forcing is also expected to produce an accelerating rate of sea level rise … Continue reading →
  • Most energetic particles ever from a celestial obj ...
    Our last story was about crabs, so is this one. I’m sure we’ll figure out a way to work in lobsters soon too. From the Stanford Linear ACcellerator Lab (SLAC): Fermi’s Large Area Telescope Sees Surprising Flares in Crab Nebula … Continue reading →
  • Deadliest Catch-22
    You can’t make this stuff up, really. Crab deaths due to cold according to one authority are now being blamed on….drum roll….climate change aka global warming, by another.   “Thousands of dead crabs have washed up along the Kent coast, … Continue reading →
  • The “next big thing”: a carbon swap ba ...
    Via Eurekalert: Carbon swap bank to beat climate change Could swapping carbon emissions rather than trading them reduce climate change? Australian researchers have suggested that nations should abandon the concept of carbon emissions trading in favor of a carbon swap … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • The widespread plans to limit the power of the Lab ...
    Dandelion Salad PressTVGlobalNews | January 07, 2011 In this episode of News Analysis, the widespread plans to limit the power of the Labor Unions in the United States are reviewed. News Analysis-US Union Rights-01-06-2011-(Part1) News Analysis-US Union Rights-01-06-2011-(Part2) News Analysis-US Uni ...
  • Predilections, 1/1/11 By Gary Corseri
    By Gary Corseri Featured Writer Dandelion Salad January 8, 2011 1. Half of what I know, I do not know— And half the time I don’t know Which is which. Truth is a bandit, Truth is a screech-owl And the polar winds are howling. Solar flares and the weather vane cuckoo, We click out a [...]
  • The Metaphysics of Money By Nikki Alexander
    By Nikki Alexander Featured Writer Dandelion Salad http://nikkialexander.wordpress.com January 8, 2011 When people want to communicate ideas they use language. Language is a medium of exchange. Without language people are reduced to physical touching or hand signals and have to be physically present ...
  • The “Exceptionally” Redacted 9/11 Comm ...
    by Sibel Edmonds Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Originally published by Boiling Frogs Post January 7, 2011 Newly Released 9/11 Commission Files at Cryptome.Org Last week John Young’s information site Cryptome.Org began publishing documents related to the interviews conducted by the 9/11 Commission ...
  • As Activists Plan Protest for 9th Anniv. of Guantá ...
    by Andy Worthington Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.andyworthington.co.uk 7 January, 2011 This morning, as part of my current US tour to raise awareness of Guantánamo, in the week that the 173 men still held in the “War on Terror” prison begin their tenth year of detention, I was delighted to be ...

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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    Extraordinary.
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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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    A 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

  • Video: Solar Eclipse Seen From Space
    runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience741816659001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); The Earth-orbiting satellite Hinode caught this stunning video of the annular solar eclipse Jan. 4. An annular eclipse occurs when the moon is slightly farthe ...
  • Dying Trees Make Way for Mice With Deadly Disease
    SALT LAKE CITY — Recent diebacks of aspen trees in the U.S. West may end up increasing the risk posed by a lethal human pathogen, a new study suggests. A tree-killing syndrome called sudden aspen decline that has wiped out swaths of trees across the West in the past decade has also changed the [. ...
  • Drill Close to Reaching 14-Million-Year-Old Antarc ...
    By Duncan Geere, Wired UK Lake Vostok, which has been sealed off from the world for 14 million years, is about to be penetrated by a Russian drill bit. The lake, which lies 2.5 miles below the icy surface of Antarctica, is unique in that it’s been completely isolated from the other 150 subglacial ...
  • Forensic DNA Test Can Decipher Criminals’ Hair Col ...
    A new genetic test can reveal the hair color of unseen criminal suspects or unidentifiable victims. The new analysis used a collection of recently discovered mutations linked to hair color, and it can predict the hue of an unknown person’s hair with about 80 to 90 percent accuracy. “This could ...
  • Shark Conservation Act Becomes Law
    The Shark Conservation Act has finally become law, giving much-needed protection to some of the ocean’s most magnificent creatures. Signed by President Obama Dec. 4, the law closes a major loophole in an existing U.S. ban on shark finning. That gruesome practice involves fishermen cutting off shark ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Amira Hass: Gaza on the edge of no return
    “Although it was not my usual custom, I made a point of kissing my children every night," one young father from Gaza City told me. "I never knew which of us would still be alive the next day, and I... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Gideon Levy: When did it become illegal to be a Le ...
    It's high time a legal ban on the Israeli left be instituted. Why do we continue beating around the bush? Why do we need such a taxing, exhaustive legislative process in enacting law after law?... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...
  • Danny Schechter: Helen Thomas – Thrown to the wolv ...
    Once you are labeled and stereotyped - especially if you are denounced as an anti-Semite - you are relegated to the fringes, pronounced a hater beyond redemption, and even beyond explanation. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in i ...
  • ‘Dangerous’ political websites blocked from viewin ...
    Breaking the Silence director: "This is an extremely absurd and stupid policy, because whoever wants to block Internet access to people at an airport will ultimately have to consider preventing them... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Knesset votes to probe Israeli groups accused of ‘ ...
    Panel of inquiry will primarily look into these groups' funding sources, particularly to examine whether foreign state or terror-linked organizations are involved. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the I ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • American Mathematical Society to Award Prizes
    The American Mathematical Society will award several major prizes on Friday, January 7, 2011, at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in New Orleans.
  • What to Do for the "Stomach Flu"
    A family physician and faculty member at the UMDNJ-School of Osteopathic Medicine offers practical advice for coping with - and avoiding - a virus that is sending a crush of patients to physician offices and hospital ERs.
  • Imaging Study Shows Love Can Last
    A new study compared the neural correlates of long-term married and in love individuals with individuals who had recently fallen in love. Researchers discovered highly similar brain activity.
  • Roberto Marquez Looks at Literature and Identity i ...
    The Caribbean is made up of Spanish-, French-, and English-speaking island states. Literary criticism tends to maintain the separation between these cultures, says Mount Holyoke College professor Roberto Marquez. "In his new book, "A World among These Islands" Marquez looks at the Caribbean as a who ...
  • Tweaking Twain OK as Long as Original Version Stil ...
    Changing words in Mark Twain's classic book "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is fine as long as the original version still is easily available for readers, says Gerald L. Early, PhD. "We change texts all the time," Early says. "For instance, we make children's versions of the Bible, Homer and Shakes ...

Natural Health News

  • Father and Daughter Acoustic Cover
    The song is “Home” by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros.
  • Dutch Winter
    A skater’s-eye view from Kasper Bak.
  • The United States' Organic Deception
    The word �organic� is becoming little more than a money-maker for corporations who want to jump on the bandwagon.� In fact, the FDA and USDA, which are the very agencies that are supposed to be protecting the organic food supply, are intensely active in its adulteration. A �certified organic� produ ...
  • 8 Tricks for Boosting Your Metabolism
    Yahoo Shine suggests eight ways to boost your metabolism and keep unwanted pounds from your waistline: Do Intervals Periodic fast-paced intervals raise your metabolic rate higher than a steady cardio workout can. Add Some Ice There is some evidence that drinking cold water can ca ...
  • The 10 Leading Theories for Dead Birds and Fish
    Puzzled by the mass deaths of birds and fish in Alabama?� It�s also happening elsewhere, across the Eastern and Southern U.S. and around the world -- Gizmodo has a handy map of all the U.S. events. The Activist Post offers some theories.� Before you read them, however, bear in mind what Yahoo N ...

Antemedius

  • Most Minimum Wage Earners Can't Afford Necessities ...
    Jeannette Wicks-Lim completed her Ph.D. in economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2005, and now specializes in labor economics with an emphasis on the low-wage labor market and has an overlapping interest in the political economy of race, and is now Assistant Research Professor at t ...
  • Republican Right Silent on Real Arizona Health Car ...
    Charles Grassley led the propaganda charge when it came to accusing the Obama Administration of intending to create a health care death panel. It is interesting to observe the stony silence of the senator from Iowa as well as that of his colleagues when a very real death panel has reared its ugly ...
  • Insider Threats To Obama
    White House’s ‘insider threat’ program targets federal employees for surveillance from Daniel Tencer at RawStory... In an effort to prevent another Bradley Manning, the Obama administration is urging all federal government agencies to watch its employees for signs they may be leaking classified inf ...
  • Is the U.S. on the Brink of Fascism?
    Editors note: In light of recent political and economic developments and trends, we are bumping Sara Robinson's three part series from August 2009 to our front page again this week. Links to all three are at the bottom of each post. Here is part one... Originally published at OurFuture.org There are ...
  • Krauthammer And Conservative "Constitutionalism"
    Is there anyone more disingenuous than Charles Krauthammer? In his column in the Washington Post today he goes on and on about what he perceives as the new “constitutionalism” that is coming to the Republican controlled House of Representatives. He gleefully compares it to constitutional “originalis ...

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

  • Southern Sudan: Drawing Citizenship Boundaries
    by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro If as expected Southern Sudan votes to secede in this weekend’s referendum, territorial boundaries should be drawn neatly enough.  Boundaries of human community may be more difficult. At issue is the status of southerners resident in the north and vice versa.  The ...
  • Best Post of 2010?
    by Duncan Hollis by Duncan Hollis We’ve been light on blogging with the holidays this week.  So, as 2010 comes to a close, I thought I’d open a comment thread for those readers still trolling the blogosphere this week to note your favorite Opinio Juris post of the year.  For me, it turns out I ...
  • More from Jack Goldsmith on WikiLeaks
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Today at Lawfare: If DOJ tries to prosecute Assange, we will see more and more scrutiny of double standards in the treatment of traditional media leak solicitors (NYT etc.) v. Assange, and of double standards in the treatment of high-level U.S. governmen ...
  • Sovereigntism in a Nutshell
    by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro From a new pamphlet, Why Does Sovereignty Matter to America? Merry Christmas from the folks at the Heritage Foundation: [T]oday, our sovereignty faces new threats. International organizations and courts seek to reshape the international system. Nations are to give up ...
  • Southern Sudan: Drawing Citizenship Boundaries
    by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro If as expected Southern Sudan votes to secede in this weekend’s referendum, territorial boundaries should be drawn neatly enough.  Boundaries of human community may be more difficult. At issue is the status of southerners resident in the north and vice versa.  The ...

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

  • Top 10 Conspiracy Theories: Investigation Discover ...
    Some sound far-fetched and crazy, whereas others might raise an eyebrow on even the most logical thinker. Regardless of the attraction, there is certainly no shortage of conspiratorial claims out there. Submitted by Hans Mueller to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • 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

Angry Indian News

  • Report: US to increase help for Pakistan - Yahoo! ...
    Report: US to increase help for Pakistan - Yahoo! News: "According to the plan, decided on in last month's White House Afghanistan war review, the U.S. will offer more military, intelligence and... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • House GOP kills voting rights for D.C., Puerto Ric ...
    House GOP kills voting rights for D.C., Puerto Rico, other delegates - TheHill.comThe surprise vote — the first of the new Congress — surrounded a provision of the Republicans’ proposed rules package... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • OpEdNews - Article: Port-au-Prince Still Buried Un ...
    OpEdNews - Article: Port-au-Prince Still Buried Under the Rubble of Competing NGOs: "Both OXFAM and the Disaster Accountability Project released reports this week that enhance already serious... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • San Francisco leaders pick Asian-American as mayor ...
    San Francisco leaders pick Asian-American as mayor | The Jakarta Post: "The city's supervisors voted Friday for city administrator Edwin Lee to the post being vacated by Gavin Newsom, the state's... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Indonesia wants to advance peacekeeping role in 20 ...
    Indonesia wants to advance peacekeeping role in 2011 | The Jakarta Post: "Indonesia wants to strengthen its role as a peacemaker by being a peacekeeping hub in Asia and increase its contribution to... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • The USDA’s Organic Deception
    “USDA Certified Organic” is a big business, and the deception is great. With a bit of sleight of hand, by simply moving a word around a bit, you have a complete subterfuge.
  • Truth Squad Radio – On Wednesdays Now!
    We will be discussing the USDA Certified Organic’s Dirty Little Secret: Neotame, as well as getting updates on other important issues.
  • 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.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Man admits he lied to FBI to frame associates as t ...
    ShareThisMan admits he lied to FBI to frame associates as terrorists 06 Jan 2011 A man who lied to the FBI to frame several associates as a terrorists pleaded guilty Thursday to making false statements to officials. Syed Omair Ali, 25, of Queens, admitted that he contacted the FBI last May to alert ...
  • 1.5 million Americans filed for bankruptcy in 2010
    ShareThis1.5 million Americans filed for bankruptcy in 2010 By Jerry White 06 Jan 2011 The number of people in the US filing for bankruptcy rose by 9 percent last year to 1.53 million, as more working families fell victim to job losses, plunging home values and unforgiving creditors. The figure was ...
  • Israeli soldier killed, 4 injured in Gaza
    ShareThisIsraeli soldier killed, 4 injured in Gaza 08 Jan 2011 One Israeli soldier has been killed and four others injured by resistance fighters in the Gaza Strip during clashes that saw Tel Aviv warplanes carrying out airstrikes. The clashes between Israeli troops and Palestinian fighters took pla ...
  • Votes of GOP lawmakers who missed swearing-in rule ...
    ShareThisVotes of GOP lawmakers who missed swearing-in ruled invalid 06 Jan 2011 The votes cast during the first days of the congressional session by two Republican lawmakers who skipped Wednesday's swearing-in ceremony will be invalidated, House Rules Committee Chairman David Dreier (R-Calif.) said ...
  • DOJ sends order to Twitter for Wikileaks-related a ...
    ShareThisDOJ sends order to Twitter for Wikileaks-related account info 08 Jan 2011 The U.S. Justice Department has obtained a court order directing Twitter to turn over information about the accounts of activists with ties to Wikileaks, including an Icelandic politician [Birgitta Jónsdóttir], a lege ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

  • 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

  • The stubborn innocence of the cultural void
    A.'s impeccable cool is winning: a '60s black-and white, female nude mounted on cardboard is tacked onto the wall next to the bathroom, and there is a repeated miniature-shoe motif throughout his compact, roof-top studio apartment in central Tel Aviv. The hipster greets Y. and me in colour-coord ...
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  • In Bil’in, protesters wear yellow stars with ...
    If you are going to be tear gassed, I strongly suggest you rub Vicks Vapor Rub in your nostrils, bring an onion to smell, or alcohol swabs although fragrant baby wipes work fairly well, and don’t forget to bring a scarf and good running shoes. Needless to say, this was not on our delegation itinerar ...
  • Brutalized
    This was just posted on Youtube, I don't know where it's from or when. But it's eloquent in its way. These guys are out of control.
  • Who cares whether Jawaher Abu Rahmah had a previou ...
    When I was young, I went out with a lawyer, and when we had relationship trouble and I offered some whingeing excuse about her oversensitivity or extreme demands, she said, "You must take your victim as you find her. That is a principle of common law. If you hit someone with a thin skull and [...]

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

  • For My Thai Friends
    04 January 2011 Was walking by the water.� There were thousands of birds and so I wanted to send this snapshot back to Thailand.� Thai people are welcome in Florida!� Y'all get over here. Michael {loadposition user8}
  • 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 ...

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

  • CES 2011: Goal0's Off-Grid Solar Power Solutions f ...
    Photos via Jaymi Heimbuch None of this tiny-solar-cell-stuck-to-a-jacket-pocket stuff. Goal0 has an off-grid solar charging station that is intended to keep the outdoorsy charged up while out camping. It is designed to be rugged and efficient, and it looks like a high quality solar product. Che ...
  • CES 2011: Smart Plugs and Energy Monitors from Int ...
    Photos via Jaymi Heimbuch The connected home is a big theme at this year's CES, and part of that is the use of smart plugs and monitors for managing home energy consumption. There are no small number of adapters and equipment for both at the plug and meter levels on display, showing that consum ...
  • CES 2011: What Does the 3D TV Rush Mean For Our En ...
    Samsung displays the "world's largest" 3D LED TV; Photos via Jaymi Heimbuch 3D TVs, projectors, cameras -- it's all the rage this year at CES and the next wave of entertainment. Practically every major company that plays a role in entertainment electronics, from televisions to cameras, has thei ...
  • South Carolina Pilot Project Puts Farmers' Markets ...
    Photo: vigorman University of South Carolina scientists are developing a plan to place farmers' markets at health centers. Dr. James Hébert specializes in cancer prevention research, especially with regards to diet. Support for the project comes from a $1.5 million grant from the Centers for Di ...
  • Livia Firth Upcycles Colin Firth's Moth-Eaten Suit ...
    Junky Styling transforms Colin Firth's moth-eaten suit into gorgeous eco-fashion dress. Photo: Vogue UK Livia Firth stunned on the red carpet last year when she accompanied her husband, actor Colin Firth, to numerous award shows dressed to the nines in gorgeous, green fashion. I am happy to rep ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Federal judge orders Stanford trial delayed
    [JURIST] A federal judge on Friday indefinitely postponed the trial of Allen Stanford [BBC profile; JURIST news archive], citing chemical dependency that has left Stanford incompetent to stand trial at present. Judge David Hittner of the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas [official ...
  • Illinois House votes to abolish death penalty, sti ...
    [JURIST] The Illinois House [official website] passed a bill abolishing the death penalty [JURIST news archive] Thursday, but the bill must still be passed by the Senate with the General Assembly facing a lame-duck session. The amended bill (SB3539) [amendment, text] passed the House 60-54 [Chicago ...
  • US transfers Guantanamo detainee to Algeria a year ...
    [JURIST] The US Department of Defense (DOD) [official website] announced [press release] Thursday that Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainee Farhi Saeed Bin Mohammed was transfered to his native Algeria pursuant to a court order [judgment, PDF] from November 2009. The DOD said it had success ...
  • South Korea police find Google violated privacy la ...
    [JURIST] The South Korea National Police Agency [official website, in Korean] announced Thursday that it has found evidence that Google [corporate website; JURIST news archive] illegally collected private data in the process of producing its popular Street View [website] mapping service. The illegal ...
  • Bangladesh court opens trial of 800 soldiers charg ...
    [JURIST] The civilian trial of 800 soldiers charged with crimes stemming from their roles in a February 2009 mutiny [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive] began Wednesday in the Bangladeshi capital city of Dhaka. The soldiers were charged [AFP report] in July with crimes including murder, conspirac ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Obama Unveils New Economic Team
    Updated at 7:27 a.m. on January 7. President Obama will unveil a slate of new advisers to an audience at a green home improvement company in Landover, Md., later today, bracketing the release of what he hopes will be strong job numbers from December by showing off his retooled economic policy team. ...
  • Daley Is Obama's New Chief
    Updated at 12:15 p.m. on January 6. President Obama has asked William M. Daley, the JPMorgan Chase executive and former U.S. Commerce Secretary, to serve as his chief of staff, and Daley has accepted, senior administration officials said today. Obama will introduce Daley to the country at 2:30 p.m ...
  • Who's Staffing Obama 2.0: An Update
    As many as eight senior staff positions could open up within the next few weeks, as the Washington Post noted today, leaving President Obama with a different -- but strangely familiar -- cast of advisers, some playing new roles.   And Team Obama generally plays well together, but anticipated fric ...
  • Daley Emerges as Possible Obama Chief
    William M. Daley, the former Commerce secretary and early adviser to President Obama's campaign, has emerged as a serious contender to become Obama's next chief of staff, a White House official said Monday. The official said that Obama spoke twice with Daley in December: once on the telephon ...
  • 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 ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • NPR on Asgari: Buying into Mossad Narrative
    After listening to Mike Shuster’s disappointing report on Ali Reza Asgari on NPR yesterday, I’ve come to realize that the very mystery of this case allows everyone connected to it, whether journalist, analyst, politician, intelligence agent, to project their own political agenda onto the blank slate ...
  • Links for 2010-06-05 [Digg]
    MV Rachel Corrie Forcibly Seized by Israeli Navy, Towed to A Malaysian NGO funding Rachel Corrie trip to Gaza reports she was seized a few mintues ago by Israeli navy and is being towed to Ashdod.
  • Latest IDF Lies on Jawaher Abu Rahme Death: Hospit ...
    I wrote recently about a Forward article which portrayed a 2002 study by IDF toxicologists which noted that high concentrations of CS gas could be lethal.  The article attempted to explain how Jawaher Abu Rahme could’ve been killed by the inhalation of CS gas at last week’s Bilin demonstration. Tod ...
  • IAF Crew Member: After Assassinating Saleh Shehade ...
    Amira Hass reports on a talk given by one of the flight crew that assassinated Saleh Shehadeh, and 14 civilians, including eight children and three women in 2002.  This was one of the seminal events of the second Intifada and is high on the list of international human rights activists for war crime ...
  • Palestine: Death of the Innocents Continues
    A few days ago we had the killing of 36 year-old Jawaher Abu Rahme at a Bilin demonstration for the crime of standing outside her home watching the event.  Today, the IDF Central Command has blood on its hands with the execution of a 65 year-old Palestinian man in his bed while they held a [...] ...

Ode Magazine

  • Eat to the heart's content
    By: SCooke Okay, I confess - I’m an addict. I’ve become addicted to the Food Network (and, to a lesser extent, the Cooking Channel). This morning I was watching Paula Deen make biscuits and gravy with a woman I think was her niece (I missed the beginning o ...
  • MIT Global Challenge launches
    By: lhtorres The MIT Global Challenge, a new initiative of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Public Service Center, launches today, as the Institute celebrates 150 years of service to the world. It is anticipated that more than 30 MIT-based teams ...
  • How teeny-tiny actions help us thrive
    By: gatherwell Instinctively, we know we feel better when we connect with an old friend, notice the opening of our sunflower, or offer to help a stranger carry heavy groceries. The Teeny-Tiny Action Campaign is about these taking super small actions tha ...
  • Q&A: Jay Walljasper
    By: Marco Visscher In All That We Share, veteran journalist Jay Walljasper, a former editor at Ode, presents the ultimate guide to save ‘the commons,’ which he defines as “everything we inherit or create together and must pass on.” What is the commons exac ...
  • Celebrating the return of the bald eagle
    By: In the Iowa winter, as the poet Robert Hass wrote, "a farmer’s dreams are narrow." In January, as temperatures drop to -20 Celsius (4 degrees Fahrenheit) and my garden lies buried somewhere under a foot of snow, I sometimes feel like life has been ban ...

OpEd News

  • Classic Liberal Traditional Conservative
    The traditional conservative is anti war and pro-constitution. The classic liberal is for individual rights and against government intrusion. The politicians have hi-jacked these terms and it is time we explored the roots and gave these noble ideologies the definition they deserve
  • Reflections on a Snowy January Day in 2011
    A Robert Frost poem, a mustang float, a bunny "wabbit," a clever canine, and a bit of Ignatian spirituality were the varied and diverse thoughts for me at the beginning of this 2011 new year.
  • Militarization Of Energy Policy: U.S. Africa Comma ...
    Militarization Of Energy Policy: U.S. Africa Command And Gulf Of Guinea
  • Waging War on American Workers
    Middle America is targeted for destruction
  • Obama's "Death Panel" Rescission
    The media reported this as Obama backing away from his signature provision for end of life conversations being covered by Medicare. Whether this is the case, or a simple technical correction, the perception, my perception was that it was a terrible mistake. I also give the personal reasons why ...

Switchboard

  • Down on Upton: Michigan Energy News Undercuts Rep' ...
    I have been struck by the flap over Rep. Fred Upton’s seemingly new take on utilities and climate change. Congressman Upton, a Michigan Republican who is taking over the House energy and commerce committee, is an important figure in the ongoing fight to address climate, so his shift aw ...
  • Climate, Energy and Environment News from Latin Am ...
    Chile: In 2010, thermal energy displaced hydro as the major source of energy generation for the Chilean Central Interconnected System.  Coal, natural gas, and diesel supplied over 50% of energy consumed while hydropower accounted for 48%.  This trend is expected to continue in 2011 if ...
  • In Memory of Kay Kerr
    This week, the Bay Area lost a seminal figure in California's -- and the nation's -- environmental movement.� Catherine Kerr - Kay to everyone who knew her - died last weekend in her East Bay home at the age of 99.� Fifty years ago, Kay was one of the three founders of Save The Bay, al ...
  • Getting Rocket Fuel out of Drinking Water: Another ...
    California has been making some real progress on important drinking water issues in recent weeks. Last week I blogged about the newly proposed Public Health Goal (PHG) for cancer-causing hexavalent chromium in drinking water. Today, the State proposed a welcome new PHG for another impo ...
  • New Study Shows Ways to Reduce Black Carbon from A ...
    From the University of Delaware comes news of a new study that compares various emission control strategies being explored to reduce ship pollution.  As far as I know, it’s the first technology assessment designed to help guide policy and investment decisions that are aiming to reduce ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • NFL Playoff Pix
    New Orleans (-10.5) over Seattle: I know the Saints are very banged up, but…alas, my Norris West-division champion Hawks have only a couple teams from the era in which the NHL allowed 16 put of 21 teams into the playoffs as competition for the worst recent playoff team in major North American spor ...
  • It Begins…
    Don’t Fuck with the Ducks! Related posts:And The Thigh-Rubbing Begins plhfffh The Backlash Begins! Related posts:And The Thigh-Rubbing Begins plhfffh The Backlash Begins!
  • A Profound Reflection Upon Late-Night Immersion in ...
    Is it too late for the Stones to retroactively re-hire Mick Taylor in 1975? Related posts:Late Night Video Remakes and Reissues And When He Sees His Reflection, He’s Fulfilled Related posts:Late Night Video Remakes and Reissues And When He Sees His Reflection, He’s Fulfilled
  • The Indefensible War On (Some) Drug Users
    Pretty much everything Caple says here is right, but this is especially important: I would agree more with your pompous Hall of Fame voting stance if it weren’t so hypocritical, inconsistent and impossible to defend. First, how can you reasonably justify withholding a vote for steroid use but not am ...
  • Edrosothon!
    Not just a great blogger but a great guy; consider giving if you can. Related posts: Conferencin’ Is Over Related posts: Conferencin’ Is Over

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

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: A SPECIAL REPORT: It's hard ...
    Three recent cases denied protection to designs that were the subject of 'incontestable' trademark registrations.
  • Separation Anxiety
    Nearly six decades after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down racially segregated schools, the state of Maryland is moving toward trial in a $2 billion federal lawsuit charging that the state has failed to dismantle its dual system of higher education.
  • Toyota's latest headache: Insurers join the queue
    Lawsuits filed by some of the nation's largest insurance companies have opened a new front in the litigation against Toyota Motor Corp. over claims that defects in its vehicles caused them to suddenly accelerate out of control.
  • How sharp contempt's bite?
    A magistrate judge mulls whether a contempt of Congress deserves prison for Scott Bloch, the former head of the U.S. Office of Special Counsel.
  • IN-HOUSE COUNSEL: Saving in-house counsel from out ...
    These lawyers are valuable and not easily replicated; their data analysis can enable business and enhance profits.

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

  • Freedom House Urges Free and Transparent Vote in S ...
    Beginning on January 9, 2011, an estimated 4 million Southern Sudanese will go to the polls to decide whether to remain part of a unified Sudan or to secede and establish a new independent country.
  • UN Says Balkan Flood Victims Will Continue to Need ...
    The flash floods in early December led to 40,000 people being evacuated from their damaged or destroyed homes, including about 10,000 who were uprooted by violence in the region in the 1990s, according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR
  • NASA Kicks Off 2011 Nationwide First Robotics Comp ...
    FIRST, or For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology, is a long-standing challenge to inspire curiosity and create interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics among high school students. The event gives students the o
  • Trijet Mining Announces Phase II Letourneur Drilli ...
    The Letourneur project consists of 4351 hectares (four times the original package) and is located in the Abitibi region of southwestern Quebec, 41 km north of Rouyn-Noranda, in the regional municipality of Taschereau, and approximately 17 km (10 mil
  • UN Mission in Liberia Continues to Help The Govern ...
    Such diamonds have been a major factor in unrest in Africa, and a tool that former Liberian president Charles Taylor, currently facing trial for war crimes before an international court, is alleged to have used in the decade and a half when civil wa

environment 360

  • Satellites Will be Used To Better Manage Irrigatio ...
    NASA researchers have developed a computer program that will use satellite data, information from wireless sensors in fields, and weather observations to help farmers more efficiently irrigate their fields. Irrigation accounts for nearly 70 percent of water use in the U.S., and NASA scientists say t ...
  • Calculating the True Cost Of Global Climate Change ...
    Researchers disagree about what the economic costs of climate change will be over the coming decades. But the answer to that question is fundamental in deciding how urgent it is to take action to reduce emissions. BY JOHN CAREY
  • Epic Turtle Migration Is Revealed Through Satellit ...
    A five-year tracking study provides new insights into the cross-Atlantic migrations of the giant leatherback turtle. Using sophisticated satellites to track 25 female turtles, researchers at the University of Exeter’s Centre for Ecology and Conservation identified three clear migration routes, inclu ...
  • Bee Populations in U.S. Have Declined Sharply, Stu ...
    Populations of four of the eight common species of bumblebees in the United States are in steep decline, falling by up to 96 percent in recent decades, according to a study by researchers at the University of Illinois. The study, which compared present-day estimates of bee abundance with historical ...
  • Enzyme Mix Could Cut Key Step In Making Hydrogen F ...
    U.S. researchers have used a combination of enzymes that consume cellulose from nonfood products to produce a high-quality hydrogen gas, a potential breakthrough in efforts to use biofuels to power hydrogen fuel cells. Scientists at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Mystery of Mass Animal Death Epidemic Deepens afte ...
    Blue stain believed to be sign of poisoning or hypoxia - lack of oxygen that is precursor to altitude sickness. Cold weather and overbreeding blamed for deaths of two 2million fish in Chesapeake Bay. Disease behind deaths of 100,000 fish in Arkansas River. At least nine incidents of mass animal deat ...
  • The 10 Leading Theories For Dead Birds And Fish
    As the mainstream media attempts to downplay the latest die-off event, which has now gone global, it is worthwhile to keep track of the story lines. Feel free to add your own to the comments section, and we will update accordingly. Mainstream Explanations: Lightning, hail, mid-air collision, power l ...
  • IPCC Professor Calls For "Elite Warrior Leadership ...
    Prominent United Nations scientists says new green religion should replace traditional faiths as part of shift towards authoritarian tyranny. An influential professor who worked as an assessor for the United Nations IPCC has called for democracy to be replaced with an eco-dictatorship where enslaved ...
  • Sun "Fireworks" Responsible for the Mass Killing o ...
    Since the highly published occurrence of 3,000 to 5,000 blackbirds falling to their death on January 1st 2011, more bird and fish mass suicides have occurred. Just yesterday, a new report telling of millions of dead fish surfaced in Maryland's Chesapeake Bay. On Tuesday, similar unexplained mass fis ...
  • The Burrows cave: African gold in Illinois
    Every discovery has its dangers. In version one of our story, Russell Burrows accidentally discovered a cave along a branch of the Little Wabash River near his home town of Olney, Illinois, USA, in 1982. Hunting for discarded archaeological relics, he found a shallow cave leading into a subterranean ...

Russia Today

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

  • Binnall of America: Dr. Beachcoming
    Are you interested in the oddities of history? Do you know about the NASA sandwich and the extinct kings of the Isle of Man? Then you want to listen to this latest edition of Binnall of America.com as Tim interviews the mysterious Dr. Beachcoming (not his real name) and discuss the above items and m ...
  • Tor.com: Halo, Cryptum by Greg Bear
    Greg Bear was one of my favorite authors during the 1990s. His books Queen of Angels, Slant, The Forge of God and Moving Mars are some of my all time favorites. Not to mention Eon and Eternity, the stories about The Way and The Thistledown, brought about many a re-read during particularly boring eve ...
  • Tectonic Movement on Mars?
    Tectonic plate movement, which is the main source of Earth’s geologic energy, earthquakes and volcanoes, has been discovered on Mars. Mars? When one looks at the surface of that planet, evidence of any geologic activity is hard to find. But the largest dead volcano in the Solar System is Olympus Mon ...
  • 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 ...

Tippers News

  • Why Did Aggie Boys Buy Sex at the Chicken Ranch?
    The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, the Texas A&M football team celebrates a win with a visit to their local brothel, the Chicken Ranch. The Aggie Boys are fSubmitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Two survivors of human trafficking share their sto ...
    She fiddles with her cell phone. In mid conversation, she holds it out, showing off who�s on the screen. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Trip to India inspires Everson woman to help victi ...
    EVERSON - Touched by her own memories of being adopted as an orphan, Sue Ann Heutink took her first overseas venture to help victims of human trafficking. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Free Human Trafficking Victim Sara Kruzan From Lif ...
    Sixteen-year-old human trafficking victim Sara Kruzan was sentenced to life in prison without parole when, in a desperate act to escape captivity, she shot her pimp. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Evidence Refutes Bp's and Fed's Deception
    In August, Truthout conducted soil and water sampling in Pass Christian Harbor, Mississippi; on Grand Isle, Louisiana; and around barrier islands off the coast of Louisiana, in order to test for the presence of oil from BP's Macondo Well. [extremely high]Submitted by Ellyn S. to Environment �|� �No ...

The Freeman

  • New Obama Chief of Staff Has Deep Business Roots
    “He is a top executive at JPMorgan Chase, where he is paid as much as $5 million a year and supervises the Washington lobbying efforts of the nationâs second-largest bank. He also serves on the board of directors at Boeing, the giant military contractor, and Abbott Laboratories, the global drug comp ...
  • Hike Debt Limit, Geithner Implores
    “Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner warned lawmakers Thursday that the national debt could hit the legal limit on borrowing as soon as March 31, and he urged quick action to avoid a government default that would spark âcatastrophic economic consequences that would last for decades.â” (Washington ...
  • The Importance of Subjectivism in Economics
    For an exchange to take place, the two parties must assess the items traded differently, with each party valuing what he is to receive more than what he is to give up.
  • Taxpayer “Advocate” Says IRS Inflicts Harm
    “The Internal Revenue Service’s increasing use of âhard-coreâ collection tactics âis inflicting unnecessary harm on financially struggling taxpayers,â an in-house critic at the IRS said Wednesday. The IRS routinely imposes liens on delinquent taxpayers, thereby damaging their credit scores and poten ...
  • House Gets New Rules under GOP
    “After four years out of power, Republicans seized control of the House with gusto on Wednesday, adopting a passel of new rules designed to make it easier to keep their campaign promises to cut taxes, repeal President Obama’s health-care law and slash government spending.” (Washington Post) Watching ...

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

  • Emergency human rights petition seeks to halt depo ...
    Civil and human rights advocates filed an emergency petition [pdf] this week with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in an effort to halt the imminent deportation of hundreds of Haitian nationals by the U.S. government, calling the move a "death sentence." The petition was subm ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The gun lobby's deadly force
    Of the 10 U.S. gun dealers that sold the most firearms traced to crimes over the past four years, number in the South: 5 Of the 10 states with the most crime guns exported per 100,000 inhabitants, number in the South: 7* In the past four years, numbers of weapons from Mexico's drug wars traced ...
  • Is it safe to expand offshore drilling in the Gulf ...
    Just over eight months after BP's massive oil spill, the debate over the future of offshore oil drilling in the Gulf escalated this week with new calls from industry to speed up drilling projects, and new evidence that lack of government oversight helped cause the disaster. � Earlier this week, T ...
  • House leader invites corporate criminals to submit ...
    The new chair of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has been sending letters to various companies and industry groups asking business leaders what regulations they think should be stricken -- and among those whose ideas he solicited are companies with a history of serious wrongdoing ...
  • As coal king retires to $12 million, mine safety s ...
    It's probably safe to say that Don Blankenship had something to celebrate with the new year. Last Friday, the CEO of Massey Energy retired, and according to company disclosures he received $2 million that day. He'll get another $10 million in July, plus consulting fees for two more years, CNN repo ...

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

  • Trudeau, Pierre Elliott
    Pierre Elliott Trudeau, politician, writer, constitutional lawyer, prime minister of Canada 1968-79 and 1980-84 (b at Montr�al 18 Oct 1919; d at Montr�al 28 Sept 2000). Trudeau was born into a wealthy family, the
  • Native People: Eastern Woodlands
    Major Language and Tribal GroupsEastern Woodland Indians spoke languages belonging to 2 unrelated families, Iroquoian and Algonquian. At the onset of the historic period, Iroquoians occupied much of southern Ontario, northern
  • Fur Trade
    Fur trade in Canada began as an adjunct to the fishing industry. Early in the 16th century fishermen from northwest Europe were taking rich catches of COD on the Grand Banks off Newfoundland and in the Gulf of St Lawrence (
  • Canadian Pacific Railway
    Commencement of a transcontinental railway within 2 years and completion within 10 years were conditions of British Columbia's entry into Confederation in 1871 (seeRAILWAY HISTORY). Competition for the lucrative contract for the
  • World War II
    Memories of WWI - the tragic loss of life, the heavy burden of debt and the strain on the country's unity imposed by CONSCRIPTION- made Canadians, including politicians of all parties, loath to contemplate another such

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle a broken plastic sledge ...
    We were walking in the woods down the road the other day when we got a bit overexcited – there was a plastic sledge in the undergrowth under a holly bush! We’re far too grown-up to buy a sledge for us to play with but a found one? weeeeeee! When we pulled it out, we [...]
  • Reducing waste after Christmas – our top tip ...
    So the big day is nearly upon us again. Hopefully you’ve already been busy upcycling random stuff into Christmas presents and recycled Christmas decorations – it’s easy to keep the green theme going after Christmas too. Give away unwanted gifts & replaced items Don’t wait until you spring clean – de ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle old brooms, brushes & r ...
    Following on from last week’s plastic dustbins and Monday’s broken ironing boards, Philip also suggested Brooms and rakes. I don’t know why, but people often throw out orphaned handles and heads of various garden tools. I simply play match maker. You can’t have too many garden tools on a farm. Recon ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle old kitchen fat?
    Since we do what we’re told by our water company, we don’t pour meat fat from cooking down the sink – we scrape/pour it into an old plastic container instead. The gross pot full in the picture is a combination of lots of fat from lots of different meals for the last couple of months, [...]
  • How can I freshen up a tired winter coat?
    A couple of weeks ago, I spotted an article someone was promoting on Twitter about “sprucing up your tired winter coat“. Ooh! I thought, I like sprucing! It’s a great way to upcycle & reduce after all — but when I clicked over to the article, I found the sprucing involved the addition of various [.. ...

Mondoweiss

  • The stubborn innocence of the cultural void
    A.'s impeccable cool is winning: a '60s black-and white, female nude mounted on cardboard is tacked onto the wall next to the bathroom, and there is a repeated miniature-shoe motif throughout his compact, roof-top studio apartment in central Tel Aviv. The hipster greets Y. and me in colour-coord ...
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  • In Bil’in, protesters wear yellow stars with ...
    If you are going to be tear gassed, I strongly suggest you rub Vicks Vapor Rub in your nostrils, bring an onion to smell, or alcohol swabs although fragrant baby wipes work fairly well, and don’t forget to bring a scarf and good running shoes. Needless to say, this was not on our delegation itinerar ...
  • Brutalized
    This was just posted on Youtube, I don't know where it's from or when. But it's eloquent in its way. These guys are out of control.
  • Who cares whether Jawaher Abu Rahmah had a previou ...
    When I was young, I went out with a lawyer, and when we had relationship trouble and I offered some whingeing excuse about her oversensitivity or extreme demands, she said, "You must take your victim as you find her. That is a principle of common law. If you hit someone with a thin skull and [...]

Media Consortium

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 )

  • Former party fuel hits the road
    Proving that second chances do exist, the demonized blend of alcohol and caffeine known as Four Loko has found new life at the fuel pump. Following concerns that alcohol and caffeine combined were more harmful than when taken separately, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) banned drinks that m ...
  • New year, new rare earth fear
    China is again flexing its rare earth muscles, and causing consternation with new ‘environmental standards’ cum restrictions on the essential elements. Rare earths – the actually not-that-rare scandium, yttrium, and the lanthanides – are vital for many modern pieces of electronic equipment and gr ...
  • A heavy holiday at Fermilab?
    Normally I live in London, but the past couple of weeks I've been visiting family in Chicago, which is quite a bit colder (but prettier). While I've been here, the Collision Detector at Fermilab (CDF), a particle physics experiment located at the Tevatron accelerator just outside the city has put ou ...
  • Chávez vetoes law challenging university autonomy
    Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez, has vetoed a new law that would change the way universities in the country are run. Approved by the Venezuelan National Assembly after 3am on 23 December—and supported by his own party—the 'University Law' would have seen university budgets and administration fa ...
  • Gulf methane feast was short-lived
    Posted on behalf of Amanda Mascarelli Gas-munching microbes had no trouble gobbling up the massive amount of methane released into the Gulf of Mexico during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill last year. In addition to the three-quarters of a billion litres of oil that gushed into the Gulf of Mexi ...

new geography

  • The Heartland Rises
    The change in congressional power this week is more than an ideological shift. It ushers in a revival in the political influence of the nation’s heartland, as well as the South. This contrasts dramatically with the last Congress. Virtually its entire leadership — from former House Speaker Nancy Pel ...
  • Coalition of the Unwilling
    This week the UK government announced an ”end to anti-car policies” reversing the guidance to local authorities to dissuade citizens from using their cars in favour of public transport. Charges for parking will be reined in, they promise. It should be good news. The comically-named ”traffic calming ...
  • Yes, We Do Need to Build More Roads
    Road are clearly out of fashion in urban planning circles. Conventional wisdom now decries roads in favor of public transit, walking or biking in developments designed to mimic traditional 19th century urbanism. Common refrains are “we can't build our way out of congestion” or “widening roads to cu ...
  • Faith-Based City Planning: Exorcising the Suburba ...
    We're coming to the end of the season when we focus a great deal of attention on faith. What is faith? The Biblical definition calls it the substance of things hoped for; the evidence of things not seen (Hebrews 11:1, KJV). Humans have the capacity to firmly believe in something that cannot be exp ...
  • 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 ...

GM Watch

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Cryptogon

  • How the U.S. Let al-Qaida Get Its Hands On an Iraq ...
    This piece makes absolutely perfect sense, as long as you know that al-Qaida is run by CIA, and that one of the main objectives in any U.S. led war is to keep it going for as long as possible. My guess is that this operation was a top to bottom CIA production, maybe using some [...]
  • White House Calls for ‘Trusted’ Intern ...
    At this point, with things as far gone as they are, this hardly should come as a surprise to anyone. Compared to what’s already in place, this hardly rates as sinister. They’re saying that it’s not a national ID card and it’s voluntary, etc. So, here are some guesses as to what voluntary will mean: ...
  • Recovery: Food Stamps Used by Record 43.2 Million ...
    Via: Bloomberg: The number of Americans receiving food stamps rose to a record 43.2 million in October as the jobless rate stayed near a 27-year high, the government said. Recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program subsidies for food purchases jumped 15 percent from a year earlier and i ...
  • Request for Comments on ‘Recommended Links&# ...
    WordPress site operators desperately need a social news capability that is tightly integrated with WordPress. Nathaniel, over at Golden Apple Design, created a Reddit clone, in the form of a WordPress plugin called, ‘Recommended Links’ for his own site, enjoylifeunschooling.com (which I recommend in ...
  • Ex-CIA Officer Indicted for Revealing that ‘ ...
    Via: New York Times: The former officer, Jeffrey Alexander Sterling, who worked at the C.I.A. from 1993 until he was fired in 2002, was arrested Thursday in St. Louis. He was indicted Dec. 22 on charges that he disclosed restricted information to a journalist about a clandestine program intended to ...

The Economic Collapse

  • 10 Signs That Confidence In U.S. Treasuries Is Dyi ...
    Selling government debt is a gigantic confidence game.  For decades, investors all over the globe have gobbled up massive amounts of U.S. debt at incredibly low interest rates because they believed that it was a certainly that they would be paid back and be able to make a little bit ...
  • Instead Of Using This Period Of Economic Stability ...
    The fact that the official U.S. government unemployment rate has dipped slightly is good news.  However, it is not the "economic turning point" that Barack Obama and others are proclaiming it to be.  Rather, what we are in right now is "the calm before the storm".  The massive amoun ...
  • Derivatives: The Quadrillion Dollar Financial Casi ...
    If you took an opinion poll and asked Americans what they considered the biggest threat to the world economy to be, how many of them do you think would give "derivatives" as an answer?  But the truth is that derivatives were at the heart of the financial crisis of 2007 and 2008, and ...
  • Start A Business? In The United States? Are You Ki ...
    Many of you have decided that you are going to attempt to start a business in the United States today.  Many of you are still convinced that this is "the land of opportunity" and that starting a business is fairly easy.  Are you sure about that?  Are you certain that you have consid ...
  • In The Future You May Not Be Able To Provide The B ...
    Today, millions of American families are extremely stressed out because they are working as hard as they can and yet they find at the end of the month they still haven't been able to pay all of the bills.  Unfortunately, things are only going to get rougher in the years ahead.  The ...

Desertification

  • Share experiences and learn from one another in ag ...
    Read at : http://www.new-ag.info/focus/on.php?a=1820 Focus on…Agricultural knowledge sharing “Knowledge drives development” was the central theme of keynote speaker, Owen Barder, at the AgKnowledge Africa Share Fair held in Addis Ababa in October 2010. He continued, “Diversity, engagement, feedback ...
  • Improve irrigation management to achieve higher ag ...
    Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=91556 NEPAL: âDismalâ irrigation system worsens crop shortages KATHMANDU, 7 January 2011 (IRIN) – The government of Nepal needs to improve irrigation management to achieve higher agricultural productivity and overcome âdismalâ water and crop sho ...
  • Farming after migrating from metropolitan areas to ...
    Read at : http://www.cityfarmer.info/2011/01/07/japan-offers-1-million-yen-annual-grants-to-people-who-start-farming-after-migrating-from-metropolitan-areas-to-rural-ones/ Japan offers 1 million yen annual grants to people who start farming after migrating from metropolitan areas to rural ones Linke ...
  • Improved production of onion seed in Niger (Agrite ...
    Read at : http://www.agriterra.org/en/stories/57429/dutch-expertise-crucial-for-onion-farmers-in-niger?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+agriterranews-en+%28Agriterra+News%29 Dutch expertise crucial for onion farmers in Niger Thanks to the advice and stem seed from Dutch oni ...
  • Family farmers can feed Senegal (5 videos / Agrite ...
    Read at : http://www.agriterra.org/en/news/57446/watch-the-movie-on-family-farmers-in-senegal?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+agriterranews-en+%28Agriterra+News%29 Watch the movie on family farmers in Senegal Source: Agriterra The farmers’ organisation FONGS produced a mov ...

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

  • The Harper marriage and the Globe
    By Frank Moher While you were enjoying the festive season, a minor contretemps blew up and just as quickly away at The Globe and Mail. Both parties to the matter have been studiously decorous about it, but it deserves further scrutiny before disappearing entirely down the memory hole. On Dec. ...
  • In 2011, less tech is more
    By Mark Evans In 2011, less is going to be more . . . and that’s a good thing. It’s a decision that comes on the heels of a happily hectic 2010 in which my business surged ahead, and a number of other projects (including the mesh conference) consumed time. It was ...
  • 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 ...

Worldnews

  • Nepal Maoists preparing for revolt: PM
    Kathmandu: Nepal’s Prime Minister Madhav today accused the Maoists of "preparing for a revolt" as the UN agency monitoring the peace process since 2007 prepares to pull out from the country, amid the political deadlock over the formation of a new government. Prime Minister Nepal, who is leading ...
  • Arsenal 1 Leeds 1: Captain Fabregas rescues G ...
    Captain Cesc Fabregas came off the bench to net a last-minute penalty which kept Arsenal in the FA Cup and denied npower Championship side Leeds a famous victory at the Emirates Stadium. It had looked as if the Gunners were heading out at the third round stage for the first time since 1996 afte ...
  • British Open champ Oosthuizen shares Africa O ...
    Reigning British Open champion Louis Oosthuizen posted a four-under 69 on Saturday to share the third-round lead of the Africa Open. Second-round co-leader Markus Brier carded a three-under 70 and matched Oosthuizen in first at 13-under 206. The pair enjoys a one-stroke lead at East London Golf ...
  • Snoop Dogg releases video for new single "Wet ...
    Snoop Dogg has released the video for the second single from his upcoming album Doggumentary Music, titled Wet. Wet is a sexually explicit song originally made for Prince William of Wales'...
  • 'Hannah Montana': Miley Cyrus a 'woman of pai ...
    Dr. Drew Pinsky has never been one to stay quiet, especially when discussing some of the most troubled young stars in Hollywood. He has frequently spoken out about the problems of Lindsay Lohan's drug and alocohol addiction, and now he is doing the same with Miley Cyrus and...

Alex in Wonderland

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Common Dreams

  • ‘Don’t Repeal Health Law – Go Beyond it to Single- ...
    Statement by Physicians for National Health Program WASHINGTON - A nationwide organization of doctors who favor a single-payer health care system today rejected calls by Republican leaders to repeal the new health law, noting that the law contains modest benefits for patients that should not be s ...
  • Center Moves to the Center, Courting the Middle
    by Peter Hart Obama's selection of conservative Democrat William Daley as his new chief of staff didn't surprise anyone. So reporters were left to explain the political shift behind the move. Some saw little movement at all, since Daley's political views would seem more or less in line with his ...
  • Unlikely Coalition Pushes Back Against Arizona-Sty ...
    by Corrie MacLagganFive days before the Legislature convenes , representatives of civil rights, business and religious organizations sounded alarms about Arizona-style immigration legislation and other proposals that they say are anti-immigrant and would be harmful to Texas families and businesses.r ...
  • Thousands Head South for Sudan Vote
    Thousands of southerners have returned to south Sudan from the north ahead of the independence referendum that could see the south split from the north to form a separate state. International envoys including Jimmy Carter, the former US president, Thabo Mbeki, the former South African president, ...
  • Germany Shuts Nearly 5000 Farms in Dioxin Scare as ...
    German officials are investigating possible "illegal activity" after a company allegedly supplied 25 animal feed makers with 3,000 tonnes of contaminated fatty acids. Tests from the Harles und Jentzsch plant in Schleswig Holstein found excessive levels of the poisonous chemical dioxin, ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • Grid Operators Should Pay for Energy R&D
    In thinking about a new focus for U.S. energy policy over the next few years, A Business Plan for America’s Energy Future, published last June by the American Energy Innovation Council (AEIC), makes for a good read. The Business Plan proposes a number of interesting ideas with respect to national e ...
  • Energy from Wastewater
    Producing energy from waste is hardly a new idea, as illustrated by efforts such as the landfill methane-to-LNG project I mentioned in November and by numerous demonstration projects to turn various forms of solid waste into liquid fuels. However, I don't normally think of wastewater as having any n ...
  • Ethanol Exports Increase Dependence on Foreign Oil
    Near the end of my recent post documenting some of the antics of various ethanol interests, I wrote the following: “As always, I invite a response from ethanol interests or readers who wish to dispute my points. If someone wishes to engage on these points, the floor is open, and I am open to publish ...
  • White House Commission Places Oil Spill Blame on ' ...
    In its final report, the National Commission on the BP�Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling has found that negligible decisions made by BP (NYSE:�BP) and its partners Halliburton (NYSE:�HAL) and Transocean (NYSE:�RIG) were the primary factors leading to the explosion of the Deepwater ...
  • Would GOP Budget Ax Cut Clean Tech?
    Taking House Republicans at face value on their pledge to cut 20% of all non-defense discretionary spending, we took a quick look at what cuts might mean for America's ability to compete in the $2 trillion clean energy market. So what might a 20% chop look like?

Green House - USA Today

  • 2011's green homes to be cheaper, smarter, tighter
    What will be the top 2011 trends in green building? A non-profit research group expects green homes will become increasingly affordable, smart and energy-efficient -- all trends that Green House agrees are likely.
  • Best and worst bottled waters? Labels reveal littl ...
    What's in your bottled water? Is it really from a pristine mountain stream or did it come from the next town's tap? A new survey of 173 bottled waters finds that only three -- and only one of the top 10 U.S. brands -- tell customers where the water comes from and how its purified.
  • Panel warns Gulf oil spill could happen again
    A presidential panel is warning that disasters such as last year's massive Gulf oil spill could happen again unless significant reform occurs in the offshore oil and gas industry.
  • Top 10 places to save for endangered species: repo ...
    Arctic sea ice, coral reefs, the San Francisco Bay, Yellowstone, the Everglades and the Hawaiian islands are among the top 10 ecosystems needing the most protection in order to save threatened and endangered species from climate change, says a new report by conservationists.
  • Empire State Building goes greener with wind power
    The iconic Empire State Building, undergoing a multi-million dollar green renovation, announced Thursday that it will buy wind power for all its electricity.

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

  • The Seduction of the Knowledge-Based Society
    Jeff Gates The most promising trend in geopolitics is the transition from hydrocarbon-based economies to knowledge-based societies. Leadership for that change is emerging from Arab nations. The appeal of the Knowledge Society is apparent. Who could object to nations preparing their citizens for t ...
  • Fear and Loathing on Wall Street - The Ibanez Case ...
    By Numerian posted by Michael Collins [W]hat is surprising about these cases is … the utter carelessness with which the plaintiff banks documented the titles to their assets.(From the ruling) Carelessness is a polite word. The banks have acted with criminal recklessness. In these and simi ...
  • Capitalists are Wolves in Sheep's Clothing
    by ancient patriot The Capitalists are Not Providing Services You can't get around some simple facts - unless you're a capitalist. The citizens factually need to provide for themselves through taxation. Our state officials are obligated to distribute products and "services" equitably throughout so ...
  • Lanny Davis: Lobbyist for Despots
    by Stephen Lendman On October 2, 2009, Legal Times writer Jeff Jeffrey headlined, "Lanny Davis Leaves Orrick for McDermott Will & Emery," saying: Former Clinton White House special counsel "left Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe to join McDermott Will & Emery's regulatory and government strateg ...
  • Israel's Knesset Targets Leftist Organizations
    by Stephen Lendman Numerous previous articles explained Israel's hardline anti-democratic agenda, several accessed through the following links: http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2010/10/israeli-knessets-anti-democratic-agenda.html http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2010/11/lurching-toward-gomorra ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • A recipe for greater equality
    The always insightful Alex Himelfarb asks in his latest must-read blog: "What would you think if someone could show that they knew just what it would take to improve our physical and mental health, reduce crime and violence, increase civic trust and participation, reduce teenage pregnancy and drug a ...
  • A holiday gift from the CCPA: Enhanced publication ...
    For a limited time the CCPA is opening its entire cache of research free of charge � giving full public access to our publications via a database run by the Canadian Electronic Library. Browse our books, peruse chapters from our education journal Our Schools/Our Selves, and utilize the key-word se ...
  • Canada's richest 1% taking more than ever before
    A major report by CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan shows Canada's richest 1% enjoy more of the gains from economic growth than ever before in recorded history. The report looks at income trends over the past 90 years, revealing the richest 1% took 32% of all growth in incomes between 1997 and ...
  • New York Times article: Income Inequality too big ...
    New York Times writer Robert Frank says it's time to tackle the problems of income inequality in this article.
  • Let's Do Something About Poverty!
    The Saskatchewan office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is a proud partner of Poverty Free Saskatchewan (PFS), a coalition of groups attempting to develop a comprehensive anti-poverty program for the province. Today we released Let's Do Something About Poverty!, in order to encourage ...

World Wide Hippies

  • Happy 2011, Tea Party! Are You Guys Happy Now?
    CBO says health care repeal would deepen deficit | The Washington Post Rescinding the federal law to overhaul the health-care system, the first objective of House Republicans who ascended to power this week, would ratchet up the federal deficit by about $230 billion over the next decade and leave 32 ...
  • Weekly Trivia
    A new Trivia Question will be posted every Friday at 8:00 pm (EST). You can post your answer in the comments section below the question and be entered into a chance to win a WWH Bumpersticker! American television and film actor – Acting was His “Thing” and He couldn’t “Escape” from it. Who is He? ...
  • Can You Imagine? It’s Like Not Showing Up Fo ...
    These guys should be tossed out on their cans. Two House Republicans missed swearing in, Violating Constitution on day one | Huffington Post Two House Republicans have cast votes as members of the 112th Congress, but were not sworn in on Wednesday, a violation of the Constitution on the same day th ...
  • Drug War Now Killing More People Than War in Afgha ...
    Mexico’s death toll is a wake-up call that drug prohibition is as dangerous as the ‘war on terror | Alternet More people were killed in prohibition-related violence in Mexico last year than died in the war in Afghanistan, according to year-end reports from both countries. In Afghanistan, more than 1 ...
  • More Jobs For More People
    US unemployment rate drops in December | BBC The US unemployment rate dropped to 9.4% in December from 9.8% in November, the biggest one-month drop since April 1998, official figures show. Some 103,000 jobs were created last month, the Labor Department said, although this was fewer than the 145,000 ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • Robert Greenwald on the Ed Show -- January 6, 2011 ...
  • The Tyranny of Defense Inc.
    American politics is typically a grimy business of horses traded and pork delivered. Political speech, for its part, tends to be formulaic and eminently forgettable. Yet on occasion, a politician will transcend circumstance and bear witness to some lasting truth: George Washington in his Farewell Ad ...
  • War Is a Drug
    If, as 2011 begins, you want to peer into the future, enter my time machine, strap yourself in, and head for the past, that laboratory for all developments of our moment and beyond.Just as 2010 ended, the American military�s urge to surge resurfaced in a significant way.� It seems that �leaders� in ...
  • The Rise of the New Global Elite
    If you happened to be watching NBC on the first Sunday morning in August last summer, you would have seen something curious. There, on the set of Meet the Press, the host, David Gregory, was interviewing a guest who made a forceful case that the U.S. economy had become “very distorted.” In the wake ...
  • Higher Taxes on Top 1% Equals Higher Productivity

Salon

  • DOJ subpoenas Twitter records of several WikiLeaks ...
    (updated below - Update II)
  • The money paradox
    If there's one thing you can still count on from today's increasingly erratic politics, it is pure unadulterated paradox. In a Washington circus that features as many morons as oxymorons, we have self-described deficit hawks who promote tax cuts, alleged war opponents who back war escalations, an ...
  • Report: Post 9/11 America still not safe
    With the 10-year anniversary of Sept. 11 on the calendar this year, we should expect a number of different reflections in the coming months. Foreign Policy magazine seems to have beat everyone to the punch, and with a particularly appropriate title -- "The FP�Survey: Terrorism" -- the resulting r ...
  • Bob Dole back at Walter Reed
    A spokeswoman for the Dole Institute of Politics in Lawrence says former Kansas Sen. Bob Dole has been readmitted to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C.
  • Unrelated scary China news
    There were four unrelated headlines about the future of China today that had absolutely nothing to do with one another, and yet provoked the same emotion: fear!

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

Energy Collective

  • Grid Operators Should Pay for Energy R&D
    In thinking about a new focus for U.S. energy policy over the next few years, A Business Plan for America’s Energy Future, published last June by the American Energy Innovation Council (AEIC), makes for a good read. The Business Plan proposes a number of interesting ideas with respect to national e ...
  • Energy from Wastewater
    Producing energy from waste is hardly a new idea, as illustrated by efforts such as the landfill methane-to-LNG project I mentioned in November and by numerous demonstration projects to turn various forms of solid waste into liquid fuels. However, I don't normally think of wastewater as having any n ...
  • Ethanol Exports Increase Dependence on Foreign Oil
    Near the end of my recent post documenting some of the antics of various ethanol interests, I wrote the following: “As always, I invite a response from ethanol interests or readers who wish to dispute my points. If someone wishes to engage on these points, the floor is open, and I am open to publish ...
  • White House Commission Places Oil Spill Blame on ' ...
    In its final report, the National Commission on the BP�Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling has found that negligible decisions made by BP (NYSE:�BP) and its partners Halliburton (NYSE:�HAL) and Transocean (NYSE:�RIG) were the primary factors leading to the explosion of the Deepwater ...
  • Would GOP Budget Ax Cut Clean Tech?
    Taking House Republicans at face value on their pledge to cut 20% of all non-defense discretionary spending, we took a quick look at what cuts might mean for America's ability to compete in the $2 trillion clean energy market. So what might a 20% chop look like?

EU Times

  • South Korea Buries 1 Million Pigs Alive as it Grap ...
    South Korea has been heavily criticised for burying up to one million pigs alive as it grapples with a foot and mouth disease outbreak. Since the first case of the disease was confirmed in November the country has embarked on a mass cull. Foot and mouth disease affects all cloven hoofed animals such ...
  • Shift of Earth’s magnetic North Pole shuts down Fl ...
    Scientists say the magnetic north pole is moving toward Russia and the fallout has reached — of all places – Tampa International Airport. The airport has closed its primary runway until Jan. 13 to repaint the numeric designators at each end and change taxiway signage to account for the shift in loca ...
  • White girls seen as ‘easy meat’ by Pakistani rapis ...
    Row erupts after former home secretary says grooming for sexual abuse is a particular problem amongst Pakistani men. A row has broken out after the former home secretary Jack Straw said some British Pakistani men regard white girls as “easy meat” for sexual abuse. The Blackburn MP spoke out after tw ...
  • US begins building $1.5 Billion super spy data cen ...
    Thursday’s groundbreaking for a $1.5 billion National Security Agency data center is being billed as important in the short term for construction jobs and important in the long term for Utah’s reputation as a technology center. “This will bring 5,000 to 10,000 new jobs during its construction and de ...
  • Gulf oil spill called the biggest cover-up in the ...
    Federal and Louisiana officials got into a heated argument Friday over the cleanup of oiled marshes during a tour of an area that remains fouled 8½ months after the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico. State and Plaquemines Parish officials took reporters on a boat tour of Baratari ...

Stonecipher News

  • Reasons to Donate Blood
    Have you ever donated blood? If you have why did you do it? It may have been for a loved one or a friend. It could have been for the free coupons and gift certificates blood centers provide for donations. Maybe you’re required to donate blood being that you’re in the medical field. In actuality ...
  • 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 ...

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • This Is Why Apple Will Let Verizon Announce An iPh ...
    We know the Verizon iPhone is coming , and All Things D and The Wall Street Journal seem to suggest the day will be this Tuesday. This is @Jdalrymple, on why Apple will let Verizon announce an iPhone next Tuesday. The most important reason Apple would let Verizon make this announcement is that Appl ...
  • âNewâ fiscally prudent Obama cuts military personn ...
    The “new”, supposedly triangulating and fiscally prudent Obama has appeared… or has he? With a nation so fed up with the federal spending, increased size of government, and an economy that isn’t as rosy on Main Street as it is in the Obama pressers, the POTUS takes the “cut spending” midterms messa ...
  • Cotton Bowl: LSU 41, Texas A&M 24 -- Michigan Man ...
    More photos » Chris Graythen - Getty Images Browse more photos » It might have been a curtain call, or it might have been simply the preview to an encore. But with the team that groomed him beginning a search for a new coach, and with the SEC badly needing a win in a high-profile bowl, Les Miles pr ...
  • Prof richard falk: israel prepares major offensive ...
    NOVANEWS January 7, 2011     Gilad Atzmon http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=22647 Israel is gearing up for another major offensive into Gaza, yet the world community still remains bafflingly silent
  • CBO: Repeal of health care reform would add billio ...
    The Republican bill to repeal health care reform is doomed, but it will make the Tea Party happy. Image: CC Andrew Aliferis/Flickr A repeal of health care reform would increase the deficit hundreds of billions of dollars, according to a report from the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office Jan. ...

Groklaw

  • Supreme Court to decide drug marketing case
    As states try to limit the marketing of costly new drugs, the Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide whether they can bar companies from buying and selling data on the prescriptions written by doctors. The case presents the justices with a novel and potentially far-reaching question on whether non-p ...
  • SJC rules against banks on mortgage assignments
    The Supreme Judicial Court has upheld a Land Court judge's decision in U.S. Bank v. Ibanez invalidating foreclosure sales conducted by two plaintiff banks to which mortgages had been assigned. "We agree with the judge that the plaintiffs, who were not the original mortgagees, failed to make the re ...
  • DOJ subpoenas Twitter records of several WikiLeaks ...
    What hasn't been reported is that the Subpoena served on Twitter -- which was ordered by a federal court -- seeks the same information for numerous other individuals currently or formerly associated with WikiLeaks, including Jacob Appelbaum, Rop Gongrijp, and Julian Assange. It also seeks the same ...
  • DOJ subpoenas Twitter over Wikileaks activists
    A note from the Wikileaks Twitter account around 8 p.m. PT this evening said, without providing details, that "there are many Wikileaks supporters listed in the U.S. Twitter subpoena." A Justice Department spokesman could not immediately be reached for comment.... If other federal subpoenas are an ...
  • Survey Says! Paralegaling is a Better Job Than Law ...
    According to a new rating of the best and worst jobs by CareerCast, all of the aforementioned occupations, including lawyer, rate far lower than does paralegal. Roustabout - a performer of various functions on an oil rig - rated at the very bottom, followed closely by jobs like lumberjack, meter rea ...

WideShut

Waterkeeper Alliance

Politics in the Zeros

  • Polizeros Radio
    Steve Hynd of Newshoggers, and Josh Mull of Firedoglake & Rethink Afghanistan and myself have done six podcasts on BlogTalkRadio so far, and judging from the listens, we seem to be getting an audience. Polizeros Radio is on Thursday night at 8:30 PM PST, however you can listen anytime and also downl ...
  • California budget to be announced Monday 11 AM
  • Taiwan encouraging potty-trained pigs
    Pigs are apparently easy to potty-train, and doing so saves water, decreases disease and water pollution, and boosts fertility. The Taiwan EPA, encouraged by results from a pig farm that potty-trained 10,000 pigs, wants the practice adopted nationwide among their 6 million pigs.
  • Electric vehicles are not clean
    The dirty little secret of plug-in vehicles is that they’ll all charge their batteries with inherently dirty night-time power and be responsible for more CO2 emissions than a fuel efficient Prius-class HEV that costs a third less and doesn’t have any pesky issues with plugs, charging infrastructure ...
  • On breaking unions, states filing bankruptcy, and ...
    During the Great Depression, Congress passed an act saying states and municipalities could file for bankruptcy. The law was challenged and part of it was overturned by the Supreme Court in 1936 in Ashton v. Cameron County Water Imp. Dist. Congress then rewrote the law so that municipalities could fi ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • Israel security official in 2007, 'Sooner or late ...
    The Norwegian daily Aftenposten has been posting a lot of new Wikileaks material. In there is this cable from 26 July, 2007-- just a few weeks after the elected Hamas leaders of Gaza rebuffed a U.S.-backed coup attempt led by Fateh strongman Mohamed Dahlan. It's a record by a U.S. diplo in Tel Aviv ...
  • IDF (IOF) lies about Bil'in tear-gas killing
    Careful Israeli reporter and eye-witness Noam Sheizaf skilfully deconstructs all the lies the IDF/IOF told about last Saturday's death from poison gas of Jawaher Abu Rahmeh of the West bank town of Bil'in. As with the IOF's killing of eight unarmed Turkish citizens and one unarmed Turkish-American ...
  • 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 ...

First Truths

  • The State's Corporate Wasteland
    Corporations, while they are celebrated as paragons of innovation and efficiency, suffer from the same slow reaction time, waste, and lack of creativity that defines government agencies. Taking into account the fact that the state and the corporation are pieces of the same coercive puzzle, a system ...
  • Statist "Private Property" Is Theft
    In a commentary piece for the Center for a Stateless Society, I contend that the state's bogus property rights fly in the face of the genuine sort based not on violent edict but on legitimate moral claims.
  • The Elephant(s) in the Room for the GOP
    For C4SS, I argue that anyone hoping that the freshman Republicans who entered Congress on the Tea Party wave will bring change to government is going to be disappointed.
  • 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.

Media Co-Op

  • Canada's Debt-ucation Province
    Students in Nova Scotia fear skyrocketing tuition fees HALIFAX—“At times, I wanted to disappear forever and not bother anyone with my stupid money problems,” recalls Jane (not her real name), who, like many other graduates in Nova Scotia, accr ...
  • January's Tide Is In
    The Halifax Media Co-op's January issue of the Tide is now in! Find it in cafes and community spaces around town or click here to download.� AttachmentSize the_tide_v3i1_jan011.pdf1.66 MB
  • 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 ...
  • How Hollywood De-fanged Potter’s Radical Politics
    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 1: more than a movie review The Harry Potter novels include a significant political subtext, which is at least as important as the teen romance or coming-of-age aspects. In Deathly Hallows the novel, the po ...
  • Pitch for Pay: HMC seeks pitches for next paid fea ...
    The Halifax Media Co-op is seeking pitches for our next paid feature. We are actively looking for pitches on underreported topics from a grassroots perspective that are relevant to Halifax and the surrounding community. To pitch an article, s ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Poor United States, so far from God and so close t ...
    The lesson of the past few years: Watch out for things that can go massively wrong. What could go massively wrong in 2011? Let's start next door, with Mexico.� Mexico drug war a nightmare scenario - CNNDavid Seaton's News LinksI put the quote above, one that I have taken at random from CNN, to avoid ...
  • 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 ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

  • U.S. Catches Up with Science On Fluoride in Drinki ...
    Contact: EWG Public Affairs: 202.667.6982. alex@ewg.org Washington, D.C. – Since 2005, Environmental Working Group (EWG) has been pushing the federal government and municipal water utilities to reduce the levels of fluoride in drinking... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
  • EPA Should Require Clear Labels and Warnings for A ...
    January 05th, 2011 The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved a partial waiver last year to allow the sale of gasoline containing 15 percent ethanol (E15) in flexible-fuel or Model Year 2007 and newer vehicles. Most gasoline... [[ This is a content summary only. Vis ...
  • Teflon chemical PFOA – Comments on Draft Screening ...
    January 04th, 2011 Click here to download full comment PDF, including detailed analysis that follows the cover letter below. December 24, 2010 Mr. David Morin, Executive Director Program Development and Engagement Division Science and... [[ This is a content summary on ...
  • What’s In Your Bottled Water – Besides Water?
    Contact: EWG Public Affairs: 202.667.6982 alex@ewg.org or leeann@ewg.org Washington, D.C. – A survey of websites and labels of more than 170 bottled waters sold in the U.S. found only three – and only one of the top 10 domestic brands –... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
  • 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 ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Why 1/3 of the Population Gets Sick by Restricting ...
    In this interview, Chris Masterjohn shares his experience with vegetarianism, and his insightful critique of the pro-vegetarian classic, The China Study.
  • Was There a Conspiracy Involved with BP Oil Spill?
    Jesse Ventura takes a look at the BP oil disaster. Could this disaster have been averted? Could it even have been planned? And now, as a result, is the Gulf of Mexico dying? After watching the video above, read through this eye-opening report and decide for yourself.
  • Warning: Fluoride in Your Water Can Lower Your Chi ...
    A new study shows that exposure to fluoride may lower children's intelligence. Fluoride is added to 70 percent of U.S. public drinking water supplies. More than 500 children aged 8 to 13 from two different towns were studied and tested.� One city had fluoridated water, and the other did not. PR Ne ...
  • Polar Bears and Dogs Playing
    A strange friendship forms between dogs and bears.
  • Breaking News: Popular Cancer Drug Declared More H ...
    The FDA has said that the controversial drug Avastin should be phased out as a treatment for metastatic breast cancer. Recent studies show that its benefits are outweighed by dangerous side effects. The announcement does not affect Avastin's status as a drug that can be prescribed for lung cancer, ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Canadian rowers to cross Atlantic in support of tr ...
    Dylan (right), Nigel (center), and Zach (left) have been training for several months for their world record attempt. © D. White/Survival A team of 16 men and women will depart from Agadir, Morocco, in the next few days in an attempt to break the world record for the fastest East to West cross ...
  • Disease kills 15% of recently contacted tribe in p ...
    Marubo woman & children, Javari Valley, Brazil © Fiona Watson/Survival 15% of the recently contacted Korubo Indians in Brazil have died since the year 2000, as a result of inadequate health care. The alert has been raised by the Brazilian NGO the Center for Indigenous Work (Centro de Trabalho ...
  • 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

  • Amid the misery of Haiti, hope shines through
    A year ago, Haiti lay in ruins. Already the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, it was hit Jan. 12 by a 7.0-force earthquake. A quarter of a million people were killed; more than 1.5 million were made homeless. As buildings, bridges and other infrastructure collapsed, Haiti's roads an ...
  • Concordia board owes an explanation
    If Concordia University's board of governors thought that announcing the departure of Judith Woodsworth the day before the university closed for Christmas holidays would mean the matter of yet another president being summarily dispatched would die a quiet death, it was dreaming.
  • Quebec should look closely at policing needs
    There is more to the looming battle between Quebec's mid-size cities and the Quebec Federation of Municipal Police than the strict interpretation of a 10-year-old law.
  • Concordia board owes an explanation
    As students and professors start a new term at a university in apparent turmoil, they have blasted the board for its refusal to explain why two presidents have left their jobs in less than 31/2 years. Woodsworth, for one, admits she was pushed, saying she was told "some members of the board ...
  • Easing the pressure on the city's ERs
    It was every Montrealer's nightmare: Being in an overcrowded hospital emergency ward, frantic to get a doctor to look at a desperately ill relative.

Food World Order

  • 'botox apples' genetically modified to keep from b ...
    from delish: The expression "one bad apple spoils the bunch" may soon have to be retired. Okanagan Specialty Fruits, a Canadian biotechnology company, has petitioned the USDA for approval of its genetically modified "non-browning apple." The company is marketing the fruit as the "Arctic" while criti ...
  • white house to serve 2,000 lbs of gulf seafood ove ...
    from food safety news: The White House announced Wednesday it has shipped about 2,000 pounds of shrimp and crabs from the Gulf to serve at this year's holiday parties, a big gesture aimed at boosting consumer confidence in regional seafood in the wake of the devastating BP Deepwater Horizon oil sp ...
  • cdc admits dc water may still be contaminated
    head of dc water says cdc report 'not new news' from washington post: The water in almost 15,000 DC homes that were repaired during a massive effort to remove lead pipes may still be contaminated by dangerous levels of the metal, according to a report released [Dec1] by the CDC. If those residenc ...
  • 1/6 binge & purge: food banks, no-bids & drinkify- ...
    millions in US heading to foodbanks for first time* usda certified organic's dirty little secret: neotame, from the makers of aspartame* food supply company, employing fmr head of defense contracting agency, wins $4b no-bid contract* pepsi puts an end to chewing by 'drinkifying' food* an ...
  • despite massive protests, senate passes 'food safe ...
    from natural news: The new Food Tyranny Act - called the "Food Safety Modernization Act" in the U.S. Senate - has been passed by the senate today. It would give the FDA vast new powers to criminalize and imprison farmers and food producers while doing absolutely nothing to address to real root of th ...

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

  • 10 Signs That Confidence In U.S. Treasuries Is Dyi ...
    Selling government debt is a gigantic confidence game.  For decades, investors all over the globe have gobbled up massive amounts of U.S. debt at incredibly low interest rates because they believed that it was a certainly that they would be paid back and be able to make a little bit ...
  • Instead Of Using This Period Of Economic Stability ...
    The fact that the official U.S. government unemployment rate has dipped slightly is good news.  However, it is not the "economic turning point" that Barack Obama and others are proclaiming it to be.  Rather, what we are in right now is "the calm before the storm".  The massive amoun ...
  • Derivatives: The Quadrillion Dollar Financial Casi ...
    If you took an opinion poll and asked Americans what they considered the biggest threat to the world economy to be, how many of them do you think would give "derivatives" as an answer?  But the truth is that derivatives were at the heart of the financial crisis of 2007 and 2008, and ...
  • Start A Business? In The United States? Are You Ki ...
    Many of you have decided that you are going to attempt to start a business in the United States today.  Many of you are still convinced that this is "the land of opportunity" and that starting a business is fairly easy.  Are you sure about that?  Are you certain that you have consid ...
  • In The Future You May Not Be Able To Provide The B ...
    Today, millions of American families are extremely stressed out because they are working as hard as they can and yet they find at the end of the month they still haven't been able to pay all of the bills.  Unfortunately, things are only going to get rougher in the years ahead.  The ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • If you only buy one newspaper ever, buy today's Da ...
    British patriots are strongly urged by this blog to buy today's Daily Express. Already the newspaper of choice for those of us who love our country, who love freedom and who love our constitution, the newspaper today publishes a free 24-page insert explaining: "Why we must rescue our country from ...
  • Merry Christmas to all our friends and readers
    The Talking Clock would like to wish all of our regular readers a very, very Merry Christmas. We send seasonal goodwill to all men (except for Martin Schultz). We hope that you all find not what you want but what you need under your Christmas tree. May Labour politicians find the gift of le ...
  • Nick Clegg, Mr. Seven Percent
    There are two big politics stories today. In one, we find that a politician has been sent to prison for fiddling his expenses. Or, put another way, defrauding the public purse. Or, put another way, stealing money out of the pockets of those unable to feed their families or heat their homes. A ...
  • All of this freezing is making me sweat...
    The Environment Editor of The Sun today tells the newspaper's readership: "BRITS endured one of the coldest years on record in 2010, it was confirmed yesterday - as more snow was forecast today. Temperatures averaged 8°C (46°F) - just half a degree above the all-time low in 1919." Must be all tha ...
  • Shock news! Fired Santa Claus is latest victim of ...
    ...funny how appropriate this Spitting Image festive offering seems today, huh?

Facing South

  • Emergency human rights petition seeks to halt depo ...
    Civil and human rights advocates filed an emergency petition [pdf] this week with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in an effort to halt the imminent deportation of hundreds of Haitian nationals by the U.S. government, calling the move a "death sentence." The petition was subm ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The gun lobby's deadly force
    Of the 10 U.S. gun dealers that sold the most firearms traced to crimes over the past four years, number in the South: 5 Of the 10 states with the most crime guns exported per 100,000 inhabitants, number in the South: 7* In the past four years, numbers of weapons from Mexico's drug wars traced ...
  • Is it safe to expand offshore drilling in the Gulf ...
    Just over eight months after BP's massive oil spill, the debate over the future of offshore oil drilling in the Gulf escalated this week with new calls from industry to speed up drilling projects, and new evidence that lack of government oversight helped cause the disaster. � Earlier this week, T ...
  • House leader invites corporate criminals to submit ...
    The new chair of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has been sending letters to various companies and industry groups asking business leaders what regulations they think should be stricken -- and among those whose ideas he solicited are companies with a history of serious wrongdoing ...
  • As coal king retires to $12 million, mine safety s ...
    It's probably safe to say that Don Blankenship had something to celebrate with the new year. Last Friday, the CEO of Massey Energy retired, and according to company disclosures he received $2 million that day. He'll get another $10 million in July, plus consulting fees for two more years, CNN repo ...

CenterLine

  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Guantanamo Detainee from Algeria Sent Home Despite His Resistance The United States said Thursday that it had returned a Guantanamo detainee to his native Algeria despite the objections of the detainee and his lawyers that he feared Islamic extremist violence, … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Pakistan, Assassination Suspect Celebrated By Many Hardliners A day after Pakistani politician Salman Taseer was laid to rest after being assassinated by a member of his security detail, the murder suspect was being celebrated by many hardliners around the … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Report: Obama Not Likely to Challenge Gitmo Transfer Ban on Legal Grounds Following up earlier reporting by ProPublica that the White House is exploring ways to bypass recent congressional limitations on transferring detainees from Guantanamo, the New York Times reports … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    White House Considers Signing Statement to Counter Gitmo Transfers Ban ProPublica reports that the White House is currently considering whether to attach a signing statement to a massive defense spending bill passed by Congress late last year that includes a … Continue reading →
  • 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 →

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • Latest RapNews Episode Featuring WikiLeaks is Sple ...
    I am not a big fan of rap music, but I had to feature this episode of RapNews video here. It is RapNews episode 6 - "Wikileaks' Cablegate: the truth is out there". It is definitely worth watching(mildly NSFW content warning). Wikileaks' Cablegate: The Truth is Out There Interested ...
  • 18 Applications You Need to Install and Experience ...
    We have already featured a post dedicated to things you should do after installing Ubuntu, now lets take a look at the applications/softwares to install after installing Ubuntu. Please bear in mind that this is a post meant for newbie Ubuntu users primarily. Top 18 applications to install after inst ...
  • Top 6 Eyecandy Compiz Animations and Effects that ...
    Who doesn't like some eyecandy for their desktops, definitely not me. Compiz has enthralled Ubuntu users for years now. When GNOME officially ditched Compiz for Mutter for its next version, Ubuntu decided to stick with Compiz for its Unity Shell. Compiz is actively being developed now and we can exp ...
  • Blender 2.56 Beta Released[Ubuntu PPA]
    Blender is an incredible open source cross platform suite of tools for 3D creation. And if you are unaware of the capabilities of Blender, you should watch these stunning Blender made short films and animations you probably haven't seen ever before. Blender 2.56 beta is the fifth beta release of Ble ...
  • Remove OpenOffice and Install LibreOffice in Ubunt ...
    Though there is no definitive time frame yet, LibreOffice is going to be the default Office suite for Ubuntu in the near future. "Future ubuntu releases will be shipped with LibreOffice", said Mark Shuttleworth himself recently. If you don't want to wait until then, here is how you install latest Li ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • Evidence for use of electromagnetic weapons in sud ...
    A Swedish scientist has determined that the jackdaws which fell from the sky died from an acute blunt and external force that led to internal bleeding, and one of my blog readers from Sweden is arguing that the evidence points to the use of electromagnetic weapons. Professor Marianne Elvander examin ...
  • UK considering using pandemic vaccine stockpile: f ...
    The UK government is considering using its stockpile of pandemic swine flu vaccines from last year to treat the virus this winter, according to Xinhaunet. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/health/2011-01/07/c_13680340.htm  This, even though the Daily Mail reported in December that five of the te ...
  • EUROPE CRACKS DOWN ON BANKS, NEW RULES TO COME INT ...
    Europe unveils sweeping plans to govern reckless banks Brussels has called for sweeping powers for regulators to seize failing EU banks, sack board members, and impose haircuts on senior bank debt, aiming to ensure that taxpayers are never again held hostage by high finance. By Ambrose Evans-Pritcha ...
  • Anglo Irish bondholders include Rothschild Bank, G ...
    Guido Fawkes has posted the list of the Anglo Irish bondholders that stand to proft from the bank scam in Ireland and it includes the Rothschild Bank, Zurich, Scoiete General, Goldman Sachs, Barclays and Deutsche Bank. The full list can be found at: http://order-order.com/2010/10/15/anglo-irish-bond ...
  • Irish Leaders Castigated As Greatest Traitors Of A ...
    Irish Leaders Castigated As Greatest Traitors Of All Time Gabriel Donohoe Fools Crow’s Blog January 6, 2011 The Irish Government has recently passed the harshest budget in the history of the State with further austerity promised for the next three years and perhaps for decades. Prime Minister Brian ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • They Dare Not Speak Its Name … Rothschild Zi ...
    By David Icke – Davidicke.com I have written and spoken extensively about the agenda behind the unfolding global financial crisis and here I will expose the coordinating force, or at least the prime one, behind that agenda and so much else, including 9/11. Most conspiracy researchers either don’t re ...
  • Piers Corbyn Warm Weather Not Causing Cold
    Piers Corbyn of http://www.weatheraction.com most famous for predicting our current weather anomalies by using a Solar Lunar predictive method, explains here how the Climate Warming scare was a contrived hoax.
  • Veteran Journalist Thomas Resumes Column in News-P ...
    Legendary journalist and 50-year veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas has come out of a seven-month retirement to resume her weekly political affairs column today, published in print and online exclusively in the Falls Church News-Press. Thomas’ first column back appears on Page 13 of this ...
  • Unused swine flu vaccine turns into hazardous wast ...
    Stuck with thousands, of unused swine flu shots, local health care providers are faced with the problem to discard flu vaccine for the first time in recent memory. Background: Swine flu vaccine left over from the winter 2009/2010 vacination campaign expires these days and therefore has to be dispose ...
  • USS Liberty Memorial
    On June 8, 1967, US Navy intelligence ship USS Liberty was suddenly and brutally attacked on the high seas in international waters by the air and naval forces of Israel. The Israeli forces attacked with full knowledge that this was an American ship and lied about it. Survivors have been forbidden fo ...

Veterans Today

  • On the verge of Cast Lead II, a look back
    Today our team in Gaza met the Awaja family from Thabat. There were nine members of this family, seven children aged 1 to 12 years old, but one son was murdered during Operation Cast Lead (2008-2009), so seven children is now six. Today we visited a few days in the life of this family, courtesy of ...
  • Some People Are More Equal Than Others
    ‘More Equal Than Others’ ⦠itâs the assumption shared by the oppressing class in societies and communities the world-over, and their useful idiotsâThe bigot and his militant cousin, the Brown Shirt. If youâre in Israel, the less-equal are the Palestinians or Arabs [unless you are a favored Arab dic ...
  • Mikey Weinstein with Keith Olbermann Hits Forced R ...
    U.S. Army to Sgt: ”You lack a sense of meaning and purpose in your life.” MRFF Founder and President Mikey Weinstein discusses the unconstitutional, mandatory U.S. Army âComprehensive Soldier Fitnessâ survey with blatant âspiritual fitnessâ component with Keith Olbermann in video. The U.S. Army g ...
  • White Deer in Northern Wisconsin
    Local stories and native-American legends of a band of white deer in Wisconsin that proved true. Now protected and cherished: From In Wisconsin:
  • U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contra ...
    DoD CONTRACTS: No. 017-11 TRICARE MANAGEMENT ACTIVITY Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., Bridgewater, N.J., is being awarded a fixed-price incentive contract to provide worldwide comprehensive dental care coverage to TRICARE Dental Program (TDP) beneficiaries, to include family members of uniformed se ...

electric politics

  • Trench Warfare
    It's not just morally unconscionable that a tiny minority of Americans have almost all the money, it's a terrible thing in policy terms, especially if what you want is democracy. A plutocracy — let's not kid ourselves about this — is basically a slave system. To talk about how we got into our prese ...
  • 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 ...

PR News

  • MWW buys back independence from IPG
    EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ: A management team at MWW Group, including CEO and founder Michael Kempner, bought back the agency from Interpublic Group, making MWW one of the top five independent firms.
  • Shift Communications wins Hoover's account
    BOSTON: Company and industry insight website Hoover's, Inc. hired Shift Communications as its AOR for social media and traditional PR.
  • Komen names Morris & King its AOR
    DALLAS, TX: Susan G. Komen for the Cure, a nonprofit supporting breast cancer research and funding, hired The Morris & King Company as its first national AOR since 2008, effective this week.
  • Sachs to leave Hill & Knowlton
    NEW YORK: Hill & Knowlton confirmed that MaryLee Sachs is leaving the firm.
  • PR pros pair technology with personal touch at CES
    LAS VEGAS, NV: A grab bag of technology and old-school principles are helping PR pros cut through the noise to make their mark at the Consumer Electronics Show this year.

The Story Behind the Story

  • NATIONAL INFLATION ASSOCIATION PREDICTIONS
    The National Inflation Association is pleased to announce its top 10 predictions for 2011. 1) The Dow/Gold and Gold/Silver ratios will continue to decline. In NIA’s top 10 predictions for 2010, we predicted major declines in the Dow/Gold and Gold/Silver ratios. The Dow/Gold ratio was 9.3 at the time ...
  • 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 ...

k2p blog

  • Chief Risk Officer of Bayerische Landesbank arrest ...
    The former chief risk officer of German state-owned bank Bayerische Landesbank, was arrested today over allegations he accepted bribes of $50 million during his tenure at the lender.
  • Dead turtle doves now in Italy
    Thousands of dead turtle doves were found in Faenza, Italy.
  • Wind turbine manufacturers in trouble
    Wind Turbine manufacturers are facing difficulties after increasing their capacity 2 years ago and as the number of new wind farms being planned in Europe is falling because governments are withdrawing subsidies to cut budget deficits while energy companies' balance sheets are becoming increasingly ...
  • Autism activism vs. Big Pharma: A plague on both y ...
    A physician accused of an "elaborate fraud" in a now-retracted British study that linked autism to childhood vaccines is defending himself saying he has been the target of "a ruthless, pragmatic attempt to crush any attempt to investigate valid vaccine safety concerns."
  • Northern India shivers: Schools closed in Delhi ti ...
    A continuing cold snap has forced authorities in the Indian capital to keep schools closed till Sunday.

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • So that's why Reese's is the official candy of CES
    Forget the 3DTVs, 4G phones and tablet computers. The real action at the Consumer Electronics Show is at the Reese's booth, where the draw is simple, visceral and fattening: free chocolate, courtesy of the Official Candy of CES. You might ask, why does a consumer electronics trade show need an off ...
  • We Promise Robot Teddy Bear Will Not Harm Your Gra ...
    Because there's nothing that old people love more than creepy, robotic Teddy bears, the folks at Fujitsu have created a companion for the elderly in the form of a bear that reacts to the emotions of the person in the room. The bear is on display here at the Consumer Electronics Show, but since I d ...
  • Will Smart Appliances Save Me Money While Saving T ...
    Here at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, companies like GE and LG are showing off appliances that should be able to cut into your electric bill. But before you run out and pick one up, there are some things you'll need to know first. The most important thing you need to look into is tha ...
  • WSJ Says Verizon iPhone Confirmed
    The Wall Street Journal is reporting that according to "a person familiar with the matter," the iPhone will soon be available to Verizon subscribers. The news is expected to be the subject of a mysterious event being held Tuesday at New York's Lincoln Center. The event, described only as a chance ...
  • Citi Testing Card With Button That Lets You Choose ...
    A credit card with a button? Yep. That exists. Citi is testing a card with an actual button on it that, when pressed, switches the card from regular credit to reward points. According to Mint.com, the redemption rate isn't awful: You would spend 10,000 points instead of $100; 2,500 points instead ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • On The Media & GAP Work to Identify Senator Who Pl ...
    Dear GAP Supporters: As you know, the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA) -- a critical reform that would have provided real, solid protections to federal employees who wish to speak out about wrongdoing, corruption, and fraud that they witness -- was killed by an anonymous "secre ...
  • Former CIA Officer Indicted for Leaking Classified ...
    The New York Times: Ex-C.I.A. Officer Named in Disclosure Indictment Former CIA Officer Jeffrey Sterling was arrested yesterday and indicted under the Espionage Act. Sterling is being charged with disclosing classified information to a national newspaper about a secret operation to impede weapo ...
  • Another Espionage Prosecution of a Whistleblower: ...
    Former CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling was charged under the famously ambiguous Espionage Act for "leaking" classified information to a reporter.  This gives Obama, the "transparency" president, the dubious distinction of bringing the most "leak prosecutions" of any administration, ever. Nowhere ...
  • BP and Others Criticized for 'Systemic' Failures: ...
    Washington Post: BP, Transocean, Halliburton Blamed by Presidential Gulf Oil Spill Commission A report released yesterday by the presidential oil spill commission states that all three companies involved in the Gulf oil spill – BP, Halliburton, and Transocean – overlooked or ignored crucial wa ...
  • New Bill in Congress a Threat to Free Speech: Whis ...
    By Brett Tatman The New York Times: A Clear Danger to Free Speech A new bill aimed at curtailing the release of classified information and prompted by the recent WikiLeaks disclosures has been introduced in Congress. The so-called SHIELD Act (Securing Human Intelligence and Enforcing Law ...

UK Progressive

  • Praise the Lord – Congressman Schock ‘Lowering’ Pr ...
    Just how tone deaf is the new Republican led House? ThinkProgress.org cameras caught up with freshman Republican Aaron Schock (R-IL) and asked if he would be taking part in the generous government healthcare programme most in the US wish they could be members of. It was a stunningly ignorant and arr ...
  • Bill O’Reilly Can’t Explain Tides, Insists Atheist ...
    FOX News commentator Bill O’Reilly attempts to defend religion in a debate vs. an atheist he has brought in as that evening’s punching bag. He uses a bizarre tide analogy saying that since one can’t explain them, they are proof of God’s existence. His stunned guest is caught saying, “so you think Th ...
  • Arizona’s Real Death Panels – Governor Jan Brewer ...
    Another patient on the Arizona Medicaid transplant list has died through the heartlessness of the Governor and Legislature. As this report from KGUN shows, the 98 transplant patients  removed from the list now only can reach an answering machine as the state has put them out in the middle of nowhere ...
  • Say What? Lesbian Priests Marrying Each Other!
    Rev. Irene Monroe All couples like to bring the New Year in on a loving note. And what better way for two lesbian priests of the Episcopal Church to demonstrate their commitment to each other than in holy matrimony. Before a jubilant crowd of 400 guests on New Year’s Day, the Rev. Mally Lloyd, forme ...
  • The Shameful Attack on Public Employees
    by Robert Reich In 1968, 1,300 sanitation workers in Memphis went on strike. The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. came to support them. That was where he lost his life. Eventually Memphis heard the grievances of its sanitation workers. And in subsequent years millions of public employees across the nati ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Cold times means more death, war, rebellion, droug ...
    It seems a warmer climate might be bad, but a colder one is deadly. Once upon a time, people thought that overpopulation triggered crashes, but in this study by Lee and Zhang the hard numbers suggest instead that it was climate, and of course, it’s not the warmer kind of climate that causes the prob ...
  • A willing victim of a false faith… Craven’s soluti ...
    You have to feel sorry for him. He’s genuine. He’s stressed to the point of mania. And it’s all for nothing. But as Brice Bosnich says, Hilarious;  bring the back to front canvas jacket, rubber spoon… Greg Craven posted his infamous AGU speech and asked us to share it. Craven is absolutely right in ...
  • Eleven Principles to advance us to a Third World N ...
    Here in Australia we’re copying techniques from tin-pot tyrannies. When the government wants a “consensus” that they know they have no way of achieving, they fake it. People in suits declare (with no hint of irony) that Business Needs Certainty (which means: certain-taxes, guaranteed imposts, global ...
  • 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 ...

ReNew America

  • More big guns say goodbye to CPAC
    (WorldNetDaily) - Two more big guns of the conservative movement confirmed today they are not participating in the Conservative Political Action Conference next month because of the continued participation of the homosexual activist organization GOProud...
  • Liberal distaste for the Constitution
    (Washington Times) - The Constitution was read at the opening of the new session of the House of Representatives yesterday. What was most remarkable about this was the almost hysterical opposition from congressional Democrats and left-wing commentators...
  • Constitutionalism
    (Charles Krauthammer) - For decades, Democrats and Republicans fought over who owns the American flag. Now they're fighting over who owns the Constitution. The flag debates began during the Vietnam era when leftist radicals made the fatal error of burning it. For decades since, non-suicidal liberals ...
  • Ready to start cutting
    (Robert Costa) - Eighty-seven Republican freshmen stormed Capitol Hill on Wednesday, bringing with them an unbridled enthusiasm for conservative reform. Rep. Allen West, a former Army lieutenant colonel from Florida's southeast coast, tells National Review Online that he and others are more than rea ...
  • How to defeat Obama
    (Dick Morris) - The pas de deux between the Republican Congress and the Democratic president and Senate can get old pretty quickly. The Republican House passes repeal of Obamacare. The Senate either kills it or Obama vetoes it. The Republican House passes spending cuts. The Senate ... you get the dr ...

Truth Offering

  • 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: �
  • Don't Let the Oil Spoil!
    The headlines are all the same these past few weeks: oil spill continues...oil spill worst in history...oil spill won't be contained until August, etc. Today's AP article's opening paragraph reads as follows: "As the crude crept closer to Florida, the risky effort to contain the nation's worst oil s ...
  • The Military Dictatorial Complex
    "In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist." - Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961 President Eisenhower was rig ...

2012 Blog

  • Birds, Fish and Crabs Dying in Great Numbers
    There’s a lot of talk about these (perhaps) mysterious deaths, both online in conspiracy forums, and in mainstream media. A good summary of all the events is at News.com.au. At this stage, I think the only way we’ll be able to solve this (if it needs solving) is for it to happen again, in great [... ...
  • Child Says Doomsday Will Be Fun
    This was in The Age a few days ago: Of course, the film 2012 also helped to put this ”end of the world” idea into people’s mind. Jordan Murnane, 10, Jake Drummond, 11, and Benjamin Dear, 10, haven’t seen the film but they have heard the rumours. And they have considered what they would do before [. ...
  • Keeping an Eye on Earthquakes
    I’m not a fan of “Earth Changes”, because in the last decade I have not seen a year in which any forces of nature have occurred outside the range of probability. But because of the recent eclipse/earthquake connection, which I was alerted to by Mitch Battros (and which I refined from 2 weeks either ...
  • 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 ...

Facing South

  • Emergency human rights petition seeks to halt depo ...
    Civil and human rights advocates filed an emergency petition [pdf] this week with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in an effort to halt the imminent deportation of hundreds of Haitian nationals by the U.S. government, calling the move a "death sentence." The petition was subm ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The gun lobby's deadly force
    Of the 10 U.S. gun dealers that sold the most firearms traced to crimes over the past four years, number in the South: 5 Of the 10 states with the most crime guns exported per 100,000 inhabitants, number in the South: 7* In the past four years, numbers of weapons from Mexico's drug wars traced ...
  • Is it safe to expand offshore drilling in the Gulf ...
    Just over eight months after BP's massive oil spill, the debate over the future of offshore oil drilling in the Gulf escalated this week with new calls from industry to speed up drilling projects, and new evidence that lack of government oversight helped cause the disaster. � Earlier this week, T ...
  • House leader invites corporate criminals to submit ...
    The new chair of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has been sending letters to various companies and industry groups asking business leaders what regulations they think should be stricken -- and among those whose ideas he solicited are companies with a history of serious wrongdoing ...
  • As coal king retires to $12 million, mine safety s ...
    It's probably safe to say that Don Blankenship had something to celebrate with the new year. Last Friday, the CEO of Massey Energy retired, and according to company disclosures he received $2 million that day. He'll get another $10 million in July, plus consulting fees for two more years, CNN repo ...

One News Page

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

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

E U Times

  • South Korea Buries 1 Million Pigs Alive as it Grap ...
    South Korea has been heavily criticised for burying up to one million pigs alive as it grapples with a foot and mouth disease outbreak. Since the first case of the disease was confirmed in November the country has embarked on a mass cull. Foot and mouth disease affects all cloven hoofed animals such ...
  • Shift of Earth’s magnetic North Pole shuts down Fl ...
    Scientists say the magnetic north pole is moving toward Russia and the fallout has reached — of all places – Tampa International Airport. The airport has closed its primary runway until Jan. 13 to repaint the numeric designators at each end and change taxiway signage to account for the shift in loca ...
  • White girls seen as ‘easy meat’ by Pakistani rapis ...
    Row erupts after former home secretary says grooming for sexual abuse is a particular problem amongst Pakistani men. A row has broken out after the former home secretary Jack Straw said some British Pakistani men regard white girls as “easy meat” for sexual abuse. The Blackburn MP spoke out after tw ...
  • US begins building $1.5 Billion super spy data cen ...
    Thursday’s groundbreaking for a $1.5 billion National Security Agency data center is being billed as important in the short term for construction jobs and important in the long term for Utah’s reputation as a technology center. “This will bring 5,000 to 10,000 new jobs during its construction and de ...
  • Gulf oil spill called the biggest cover-up in the ...
    Federal and Louisiana officials got into a heated argument Friday over the cleanup of oiled marshes during a tour of an area that remains fouled 8½ months after the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico. State and Plaquemines Parish officials took reporters on a boat tour of Baratari ...

Voiceless Victim

  • “Apostolic Visitation” another Papal P ...
    Will the "apostolic visitation" result in any real, concrete action, or is the Church driven PR resulting from the event an end in itself? Will the Church be held accountable for producing any changes or do they expect the smoke and mirrors of the "apostolic visitation" to obscure the fact that once ...
  • Child Sexual Abuse Victims Abandoned by their Fami ...
    I have discovered a disturbing thing about children abused by Catholic Church sponsored sexual predators. I’ve met a lot of other victims recently and heard their histories, each one shocking in its own way. Each victim has their own twist of the knife that makes their story truly heart wrenching, s ...
  • Catholics Abuse Victims, Protect Criminals and Sti ...
    Which explains why last night when a small group of clergy sexual abuse victims held a peaceful candlelight vigil near the chief Australian monument to Catholic wealth and power, St Mary’s Cathedral, despite otherwise overwhelming public support, some old Catholic women loudly and viciously abused u ...
  • Top 10 Catholic Church’s callous attitudes to cler ...
    Child protection is not a priority. Church protection is a priority. Cardinal and bishop reputation protection is a priority. Protection of cardinal’s and bishop’s mates who are good blokes and could not possibly be abusers is a priority. Even if they accept that a priest is an abuser, his protectio ...
  • How to Read a Catholic Archbishop’s Apology
    Archbishop Denis Hart of the Melbourne Catholic Archdiocese yesterday issued a letter to Catholic parishioners in the 219 parishes of the archdiocese. Trumpeted by the Catholic Church’s PR machine as an apology to child sexual abuse victims, the letter is, like the recent and very similar letter by ...
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