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Thursday, February 10, 2011

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CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Why 5+1 Passed Over Cooperation Agenda?
    Summary: Various members of 5+1 do not follow the same strategic approach to Iran’s nuclear program. The United States sees the program as a strategic threat and Israelis consider it a threat to their very survival. The European troika considers the nuclear program from the viewpoint of nonp ...
  • Washington Faces Arab Revolts Sacraficing Dict ...
    Summary: To understand the Obama regime’s policy toward Egypt, the Mubarak dictatorship and the popular uprising it is essential to locate it in an historical context. The essential point is that Washington, after several decades of being deeply embedded in the state structures of the Arab ...
  • The Arab Revolution Is Beyond America's Contro ...
    Summary: America cannot go on riding the tiger forever in the Middle East. We cannot expect to have "pro-American" forces in power in the Middle East when the publics don't like our policies. We cannot continue our endless interventions -- out of fear that some states might emerge as anti-A ...
  • The Fake Moderation of America's Moderate Mide ...
    Summary: The following weeks will provide a profound opportunity to reset the U.S. and European approach. Perhaps the high rhetoric of Barack Obama’s Cairo speech may yet be redeemed. If not, events in Cairo and beyond will represent the death knell of the president’s promise of a better pos ...
  • Egypt's military-industrial complex
    Summary: With US-made tear gas canisters fired on protesters in Cairo, Washington's role in arming Egypt is under the spotlight. source: Guardianread more

The Daily Galaxy

  • A Spectacular Ring of Black Holes Revealed
    A pair of gravitationally interacting galaxies called Arp 147 contain the remnant of a spiral galaxy (right) that collided with the elliptical galaxy on the left, producing an expanding wave of star formation that shows up as a blue ring...
  • "The Creation Nebula" - Star-Birth Engine of t ...
    NASA is released a new Hubble photo of a small portion of one of the largest known star-birth regions in the galaxy, the Carina Nebula surrounding several open clusters of stars dominated by Eta Carinae and HD 93129A, two of...
  • The "Hubble Effect" -A Radical Transformation ...
    "Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science. At the last dim horizon, we search among ghostly errors of observations for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial. The search will continue. The...
  • Dark Holes Observed on the Sun's Surface
    Hinode looks into a hole on the Sun On Feb. 1, 2011, the Hinode satellite captured this breathtaking image of a coronal hole, seen in the top center of the image. A polar coronal hole can also be seen at...
  • Image of the Day: Orion's Gigantic Red Arc -Re ...
    New images from ESA's Planck space observatory reveal the forces driving star formation and give astronomers a way to understand the complex physics that shape the dust and gas in our Galaxy. Where earth-bound optical telescopes see only black space,...

Natural News

  • LA Times, mainstream media promoting Acai Berr ...
    (NaturalNews) Over the last several months, the LA Times website and other mainstream media outlets have been running ads featuring text with messages like, "1 Trick of a Tiny Belly: Cut down a bit of your belly every day using this 1 weird old tip."A Consumer Wellness Center investigation (www. ...
  • 'One More Girl' unveils truth behind HPV vacci ...
    (NaturalNews) Ryan Richardson and brother, David, announce the debut of a special preview of their new documentary, One More Girl.This provocative film documents the stories of the numerous girls adversely affected by the HPV vaccines - giving these young women and their families a chance to spe ...
  • Crucial vitamin D discovery: deficiency alters ...
    (NaturalNews) Think you've heard everything about vitamin D? As NaturalNews has reported extensively, deficiencies of this amazing health-protective vitamin have been linked to conditions as diverse as breast cancer, hives, weak bones, obesity and more. But now there's yet another discovery show ...
  • NaturalNews Talk Radio Network launches: 24-ho ...
    (NaturalNews) The NaturalNews Talk Radio Network (NTRN) launches today, broadcasting 24-hour internet talk radio on issues like natural health, alternative medicine, health freedom, green living, superfoods and more. The network carries 24 hours of radio programming on "alternative" topics, begi ...
  • Study: 25 percent of antidepressants prescribe ...
    (NaturalNews) Researchers from the University of Manitoba (UM) in Canada recently found that more than a quarter of people who take antidepressant drugs like Prozac and Zoloft do not even have any of the conditions for which the drugs were approved. Data shows that doctors routinely prescribe an ...

Threat Level

  • WikiLeaks Defector Slams Assange In Tell-All B ...
    WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange lost control of his site’s submission system in an internal revolt last fall, and has never regained it, according to a tell-all book penned by the organization’s top defector, who accuses Assange of routinely exaggerating the security of the secret-spilling web ...
  • How One Man Tracked Down Anonymous — And Paid ...
    Aaron Barr believed he had penetrated Anonymous. The loose hacker collective had been responsible for everything from anti-Scientology protests to pro-Wikileaks attacks on MasterCard and Visa, and the FBI was now after them. But matching their online identities to real-world names and locations ...
  • Congress Punting on Patriot Act Reform
    Those wanting Patriot Act reforms should probably stop applauding the House’s inability Tuesday to block three key spy provisions in the law from expiring at month’s end. That’s because the House took procedural steps Wednesday that virtually guarantee those provisions would be extended in an u ...
  • Russian Mastermind in $9M RBS WorldPay Hack Av ...
    mg class=”alignnone size-full wp-image-19075″ title=”rbs” src=”http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2010/09/rbs.jpg” alt=”" width=”640″ height=”480″ /> A Russian hacker convicted of masterminding the $9 million hack of RBS WorldPay has avoided jail and has been given only a suspended se ...
  • Twitter User Tricks Sony Into Posting ‘Secret’ ...
    Sony is having a rough time trying to keep the PlayStation 3 secure, and the company seems intent on policing the entirety of the Internet to stop the spread of the tools and information needed to hack the device. This can be hard to do when your own faux spokesperson decides to retweet one of [ ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • The Great Tax Cutter? Obama, Not Reagan
    This weekend's Reagan centennial predictably produced paeans to the great tax cutter who never was. After all, in the wake of the his budget-busting 1981 tax cuts which ultimately tripled the national debt, Reagan raised taxes six of his eight years in office and 11 times overall. As it turns ...
  • Republicans Threaten Judges. Again.
    On Tuesday, the Washington Post reported that federal judicial vacancies are reaching a "crisis point." As it turns out, when Republicans aren't turning to record-setting obstructionism to block President Obama's nominees to the federal bench, they are threatening the "umpires" of the law outri ...
  • Beck Echoes Romney on Threat of Islamic Caliph ...
    For pure political shadenfreude, few developments have been as entertaining as the right-wing family feud over the chaos in Egypt. Among just the neoconservatives, democracy promotion idealists are clashing with advocates of authoritarian stability. On air and online, the Republican partisan p ...
  • Meet RINO Reagan
    This weekend, Republicans marked the 100th birthday of Ronald Reagan with speeches celebrating his small government philosophy, anti-tax fervor and hard-line foreign policy. But if Reagan was a GOP candidate today, he would doubtless fall victim to violations of his own 11th Commandment, "Thou ...
  • Republicans Continue to Mock the "Health of th ...
    In a 2008 campaign full of low points, John McCain's deepest descent may have come during his final presidential debate with Barack Obama. Dripping with condescension, McCain used air quotes to mock the concern of abortion rights advocates for the "health of mother." Now two years later, the n ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • The Great Tax Cut Debate - Myths and Facts
    In the lame-duck Congress agenda, perhaps the most substantive debate is over whether to continue tax breaks for the rich. President Obama and most Congressional Democrats want to extend the Bush tax cuts for 98 percent of Americans, everyone making under $250,000. Republicans want to extend the ...
  • What Landslide?: A Closer Look at the Midterm ...
    By now, everyone has heard of the conservative "tidal wave" that has overtaken Congress and most gubernatorial seats throughout the U.S. Indeed, anyone who has watched mainstream media coverage probably understands the midterm election results as a "rebuke of Obama's policies," with the "Tea Par ...
  • INS Targets Community Leaders, Not Criminals
    When people the world over think of Arizona nowadays, they generally think of Governor Jan Brewer, Sheriff Joe Arpaio or state representative Russell Pearce – the poster children of the state's move toward legalized discrimination and racial profiling. If they are closely following the politics ...
  • Dancing with Dynamite:How Citizens Can be More ...
    Two years ago, President Obama sailed into the White House on the winds of voters’ desire for widespread social change and their disgust with two wars and a massive recession associated with George W. Bush. Only two years into his presidency and the concurrent Democratic takeover of Congress, ho ...
  • Pope Says Condoms Acceptable 'In Certain Cases ...
    Until now, the Vatican had prohibited the use of any form of contraception -- other than abstinence -- even as a guard against sexually transmitted disease.

Consortium News

  • Mubarak's Dangerous 'Groupthink'
    The chasm between Egyptian President Mubarak and the protesters starts with their different realities, notes Lawrence Davidson. February 7, 2011
  • NYT's Keller Disparages Assange
    New York Times editor Bill Keller mocks WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange but uses the group's documents, writes Coleen Rowley. February 6, 2011
  • Ronald Reagan, Enabler of Atrocities
    Though hailed for making Americans feel good, Ronald Reagan facilitated horrible human rights crimes, recalls Robert Parry. February 6, 2011
  • Egyptian Blogger Describes Clashes
    One of Egypt's top bloggers helped galvanize protests to dictator Hosni Mubarak and describes the cost to Dennis Bernstein. February 6, 2011
  • Egypt Is Test of Obama's Promises
    In 2009, President Obama went to Cairo and promised "a new beginning," words now being put to the test, notes Kevin Zeese. February 5, 2011

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  • A Grand Wizard on My License Plate
    At least they aren't calling it the War of Northern Aggression which is what Frank Luntz and Fox News would call it if it happened today. A fight is brewing in Mississippi over a proposal to issue specialty license plates honoring Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, who was an early lea ...
  • Stupid Congressman Resigns
    Oh boy, what a maroon! Rep. Chris Lee (R-NY) abruptly resigned today after it was revealed that he was responding to personal ads on Craig's List but lying about his age, occupation, and marital status. This is abnormal behavior for a Republican. They usually shrug off revelations of persona ...
  • Greenwald Singled Out
    I'll admit that my instinctual reaction to learning that WikiLeaks had access to a ton of supposedly classified information from the State Department, and that they intended to make that material available on the internet, was revulsion. As curious as I am to learn the secret dealings of our go ...
  • Horrible Arguments
    I've always thought that Egypt was probably the best place in the Arab world for democracy to take root because it is the most homogenous Arab society. There isn't a big Shi'ite minority, and there's no major ethnic sub-group like the Kurds. Egypt has other advantages, as well. It isn't co-ru ...
  • Wikileaks: Not Enough Saudi Oil...
    to keep Gas Prices down and Why the Republicans are OK with that. ____________________________________________________ This is good news for John McCain (and the Republican Party in general): The US fears that Saudi Arabia, the world's largest crude oil exporter, may not have enough reser ...

European Tribune

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 ...
  • 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 th ...
  • 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 ye ...
  • 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 [...]Foll ...

Therapy News

  • Spending Trends: Mental Health vs. Health on t ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline While health care spending has risen dramatically in recent years, spending on mental health care—psychotherapy, family counseling, substance abuse counseling, etc.—hasn’t matched step, according to comparative data just released by the U.S. Substance Abuse and Me ...
  • Diagnosis and Identity – Who Am I Now?
    By Tammy Fletcher MA, IMF, CFT, Body-Mind Psychotherapy Topic Expert Click here to contact Tammy and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile This article builds on the discussion in my last Topic Expert article where we explored the experience of new diagnosis and its effect on emotional wellbeing. A ...
  • Beating The Blizzard Blues
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary This week, a huge blizzard pummeled a good portion of the nation with snow and ice, shutting down major transportation routes and keeping hundreds of thousands of people home from work and school. Such a blizzard can be a welcomed day off for some. But for others, ...
  • Study: Substance Abusers Struggle to Recognize ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Counseling and recovery programs for those who struggle with substance abuse are multifaceted. They address a wide range of behavioral, emotional, and psychological elements, such as how to resist temptation, find healthy coping mechanisms, and foster self-respect ...
  • Does a Mediterranean Diet Protect Against Depr ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline The causes behind depression are complex, numerous, and still somewhat of a mystery. However, it’s not uncommon to find that aspects of physical health influence a person’s mental health, and vice versa. Most recently, peer-reviewed research has connected trans fa ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • EPA Yanks Permit for West Virginia's Largest M ...
    Washington Post EPA Yanks Permit for West Virginia's Largest Mountaintop Removal Mine Environment News Service WASHINGTON, DC, January 13, 2011 (ENS) - The US Environmental Protection Agency today vetoed the largest single mountaintop removal permit in West Virginia ... EPA Stops Largest Mounta ...
  • EPA right to reject mountaintop removal - Char ...
    American Rivers (blog) EPA right to reject mountaintop removal Charlotte Observer The EPA has revoked a permit for mountaintop removal coal mining similar to this operation on Kayford Mountain in West Virginia. ... Mountaintop removal study comes late in the gameCharleston Gazette (blog) EPA Ju ...
  • EPA Stops Largest Mountaintop Removal Mine - A ...
    Washington Post EPA Stops Largest Mountaintop Removal Mine AllGov 1 Mine and puts a stop to the largest single mountaintop removal permit in West Virginia history. EPA officials decided the project would use destructive ... US Environmental Protection Agency Vetoes Proposed West Virginia Mounta ...
  • VOICES: EPA veto of mountaintop removal mine s ...
    Charleston Gazette (blog) VOICES: EPA veto of mountaintop removal mine sparks coal industry backlash Facing South In the wake of EPA's veto last week of the largest mountaintop removal mine permit ever proposed in West Virginia, ... Corporate HyperboleHuffington Post (blog) Rally for Coal pushe ...
  • Fire on the Mountain - Cincinnati CityBeat
    Cincinnati CityBeat Fire on the Mountain Cincinnati CityBeat Years ago, major coal mining operations abandoned shaft mining and embraced strip mining and mountaintop removal (or MTR), where Appalachian hilltops are ...

Memeorandum

  • Santorum's Twe-eating his Palin words (Andy Ba ...
    Andy Barr / The Politico: Santorum's Twe-eating his Palin words  —  Rick Santorum is quickly backpedaling from his critical remarks over Sarah Palin's decision to blow off CPAC, going after POLITICO for spotlighting his attack.  —  “This article is garbage,” Santorum tweeted this morning, linki ...
  • White House, State Department move to end Egyp ...
    Josh Gerstein / The Politico: White House, State Department move to end Egypt confusion  —  The White House is moving to stamp out reports that top officials — including Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton — are sending conflicting signals about how best to resolve ...
  • N.Y. Rep Declines Comment on Claim He Sent Shi ...
    Fox News: N.Y. Rep Declines Comment on Claim He Sent Shirtless Photo to Woman on Craigslist  —  Rep. Christopher Lee is declining to comment on a report claiming the married Republican congressman sent a shirtless photo of himself to a woman on Craigslist.  —  Lee, asked by Fox News …
  • Congressman Chris Lee Resigns After Shirtless ...
    ABCNEWS: Congressman Chris Lee Resigns After Shirtless Photo Posted on Internet  —  New York Republican Reportedly Sent Revealing Photos to a Woman He Met on Craigslist  —  Rep. Chris Lee, R-N.Y., resigned from Congress after a report emerged that he had sent flirtatious e-mails …
  • House Democrats say Justice Thomas should recu ...
    Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post: House Democrats say Justice Thomas should recuse himself in health-care case  —  Seventy-four House Democrats have signed a letter to Clarence Thomas asking the Supreme Court justice to recuse himself from any deliberations on the constitutionality of the natio ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.4, southwestern Siberia, Russia
    Thursday, February 10, 2011 05:35:17 UTCThursday, February 10, 2011 12:35:17 PM at epicenterDepth: 14.50 km (9.01 mi)
  • M 5.3, Nias region, Indonesia
    Monday, February 7, 2011 08:08:37 UTCMonday, February 7, 2011 03:08:37 PM at epicenterDepth: 82.80 km (51.45 mi)
  • M 5.0, Fiji region
    Thursday, February 3, 2011 11:13:48 UTCThursday, February 3, 2011 11:13:48 PM at epicenterDepth: 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
  • M 5.1, Atacama, Chile
    Thursday, February 10, 2011 02:12:26 UTCWednesday, February 9, 2011 11:12:26 PM at epicenterDepth: 64.90 km (40.33 mi)
  • M 5.2, Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia
    Sunday, February 6, 2011 16:47:33 UTCMonday, February 7, 2011 03:47:33 AM at epicenterDepth: 38.90 km (24.17 mi)

China Dialogue

  • The shadow over rural China
    Horrified by reports of Chinese “cancer villages”, Liu Lican travelled deep into the countryside to find out more. Here, he tells Zhang Yingying what he saw, and why it should prompt others to act.In 2008, Liu Lican visited 20 “cancer villages” in 20 provinces at his own expense, seeing at first ...
  • Razing the last refuge
    To accommodate a new dam on the Upper Yangtze, China is downscaling a crucial reserve for rare fish, to the horror of environmental campaigners. Han Ziyu reports.Just before the Chinese New Year, Beijing-based non-profit group Friends of Nature wrote an open letter to members of China’s top gove ...
  • Cascade effect
    By building dams on the upper Mekong, China has triggered a revival in hydropower ambitions downstream, writes Philip Hirsch.Much has been written on the downstream impact of China’s dams on the Mekong River, which flows through or along the borders of Burma, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand ...
  • Brighter outlook ahead?
    New data from an American research group suggests China’s energy demand will peak by 2030. Linden Ellis asked Mark Levine, the man behind the numbers, about their implications. For four years, the China Energy Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California has collected end-us ...
  • Challenging China on rare earths
    Eight years after tacitly ceding the high-tech metals market to Beijing, a US minerals company prepares to reopen a California mine holding vast deposits of the elements. Suzanne Goldenberg reports.It's a deep pit in the Mojave desert. But it could hold the key to America challenging China's tec ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • WikiLeaks Defector Slams Assange In Tell-All B ...
    WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange lost control of his site’s submission system in an internal revolt last fall, and has never regained it, according to a tell-all book penned by the organization’s top defector, who accuses Assange of routinely exaggerating the security of the secret-spilling web ...
  • How One Man Tracked Down Anonymous — And Paid ...
    Aaron Barr believed he had penetrated Anonymous. The loose hacker collective had been responsible for everything from anti-Scientology protests to pro-Wikileaks attacks on MasterCard and Visa, and the FBI was now after them. But matching their online identities to real-world names and locations ...
  • Congress Punting on Patriot Act Reform
    Those wanting Patriot Act reforms should probably stop applauding the House’s inability Tuesday to block three key spy provisions in the law from expiring at month’s end. That’s because the House took procedural steps Wednesday that virtually guarantee those provisions would be extended in an u ...
  • Russian Mastermind in $9M RBS WorldPay Hack Av ...
    mg class=”alignnone size-full wp-image-19075″ title=”rbs” src=”http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2010/09/rbs.jpg” alt=”" width=”640″ height=”480″ /> A Russian hacker convicted of masterminding the $9 million hack of RBS WorldPay has avoided jail and has been given only a suspended se ...
  • Twitter User Tricks Sony Into Posting ‘Secret’ ...
    Sony is having a rough time trying to keep the PlayStation 3 secure, and the company seems intent on policing the entirety of the Internet to stop the spread of the tools and information needed to hack the device. This can be hard to do when your own faux spokesperson decides to retweet one of [ ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • Russia poised to breach mysterious Antarctic l ...
    MOSCOW (Reuters) - For 15 million years, an icebound lake has remained sealed deep beneath Antarctica's frozen crust, possibly hiding prehistoric or unknown life. Now Russian scientists are on the brink of piercing through to its secrets.
  • Jobless claims hit 2-1/2 year low
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New U.S. claims for unemployment benefits dropped to a 2-1/2 year-year low last week, offering assurance that the labor market was strengthening despite January's poor jobs numbers.
  • Verizon iPhone hits store shelves, end AT&T's ...
    NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 10 (Reuters) - Verizon Wireless began selling Apple's iPhone at long last, ending AT&T Inc's more than three-year stranglehold on the device in the United States.
  • HP to pit 'TouchPad' against Apple's iPad, Goo ...
    SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard Co unveiled its entrant in the tablet race, betting its "TouchPad" summer release will keep it in the running in a booming market dominated by Apple Inc's iPad and devices running Google Inc software.
  • Teen suicide bomber kills 20 at Pakistan army ...
    ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A boy in a school uniform blew himself up at a Pakistani army recruitment center on Thursday, killing 20 cadets, officials said, in an attack that challenges government assertions that crackdowns have weakened militants.

IntelNews

  • News you may have missed #476
    Canada not in need of CIA-type agency says official. Australia and US sign secret satellite spy deal. US judge bars passport from ex-CIA agentâs trial. Continue reading →
  • News you may have missed #475 (Arab revolution ...
    Obama 'disappointed' with US intelligence on Tunisia. An Intelligence Failure in Egypt? Did US intelligence fail in North Africa? Continue reading →
  • Embassy cables show US spied on UK Foreign Off ...
    The latest release of US embassy cables from whistleblower website WikiLeaks shows that the US Department of State ordered its diplomats to actively report on the personal lives of British Foreign Office officials. On several instances, American diplomats in London appear to have reported on the ...
  • Egypt intelligence highlights Congress-CIA ten ...
    A US Congressional hearing over a career CIA officialâs promotion turned into a heated exchange on Thursday, as Congress members accused Americaâs intelligence community of failing to provide forewarning of the political instability in Egypt. Continue reading →
  • News you may have missed #474
    Israel jails Arab activist for spying. Assange used disguise to evade surveillance new book reveals. US Congressman wants to know who wants to know. Continue reading →

War is a Crime.org

  • Egypt's Focus Largely Ignores Palestine
    Egypt's Focus Largely Ignores Palestine - by Stephen Lendman In fact, repression throughout the Middle East is largely ignored except some reporting on protests in Tunisia, Yemen, Jordan, and Algeria, but they've faded with focus mainly on Egypt. Though important, most Arabs live in 21 other co ...
  • Why Do These 67 Dems Keep Voting with Mike Pen ...
    With the political winds shifting and 26 Republicans, about half of them newly elected, now forming a 148 vote "pro-Constitution" block along with over 120 Democrats, the hardcore gaggle of Democrats who keep voting with the likes of Michelle Bachmann (R-MN,) Lamar Smith (R-TX) and Mike Pence ( ...
  • The Egyptian Struggle May Be Protracted, But W ...
    By Stephen Zunes With the subsidence of dramatic demonstrations on the streets of Cairo and other Egyptian cities a few days ago, as many protesters return to jobs and catch their breath, some analysts were arguing that the pro-democracy struggle had peaked and Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak ha ...
  • Guantanamo Bay detainees may get invite to Ber ...
    Guantanamo Bay detainees might have a new home in the United States: Berkeley. The City Council is to vote Feb. 15 on a resolution to invite detainees who have been cleared of wrongdoing to resettle within Berkeley's sunny confines. Of the 38 detainees who have been cleared, Berkeley would invit ...
  • US Terror Campaign in Pakistan? What was Raymo ...
    By Dave Lindorff The mystery surrounding Raymond A. Davis, the American former Special Forces operative jailed in Lahore, Pakistan for the murder of two young motorcyclists, and his funky “security” company, Hyperion-Protective Consultants LLC, in the US continues to grow. When Davis was arreste ...

Grist - News

  • Fish consumption at all time high, says U.N. a ...
    by Agence France-Presse. ROME -- Fish consumption reached record levels in 2010 and world stocks need to be urgently rebuilt, experts at the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said in a report Monday. "The contribution of fish to global diets has reached a record of almost 17 kil ...
  • Bordeaux vineyards go organic, slowly but sure ...
    by Agence France-Presse. BORDEAUX, France -- Two historical Bordeaux wine estates have gone green, breaking a long resistance to organic viticulture amongst the region's elite producers. "Still in 2011, there are people who do not trust in the fact that it is possible to grow organic in Bor ...
  • U.N. Chief Ban Ki-moon shifts focus from clima ...
    by Agence France-Presse. LONDON -- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is shifting his focus away from involvement in international climate change talks and toward new areas in the fight against global warming. Ban is to redirect his efforts from trying to push forward the international clim ...
  • New Senate bill aims to avoid next oil spill
    by Agence France-Presse. WASHINGTON -- Senators plan to introduce in the coming weeks new legislation aiming to prevent another disastrous oil spill like last year's massive gusher in the Gulf of Mexico, Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) said Wednesday. A similar bill that would revise offshore ...
  • Big cities are not always the biggest polluter ...
    by Agence France-Presse. WASHINGTON -- Big cities like New York, London, and Shanghai send less pollution into the atmosphere per capita than places like Denver and Rotterdam, said a study released Tuesday. Researchers examined data from 100 cities in 33 nations for clues about which were ...

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Farming Pathogens

  • The Scientific American
    Science is the business right now. If the science works, the business works, and vice versa. –Craig Venter Bird flu marinates a chicken in its own juices, a satay best avoided whatever the menu special. In such short an order better for the bistro than the barn, infected birds rapidly bleed from ...
  • Fearful Symmetry
    A colleague, genuinely perplexed, even outraged, asked me what the fuck was going on with all those dead birds in Arkansas. And, tongue-in-cheek, what would Mulder and Scully say? Scully: Mulder, it’s me. I got your message. Really, Beebe, Arkansas for a flock of dead birds? Does Skinner approve ...
  • The Great Recession Flu
    Swine flu is so 2009. Like La Roux and v-neck t-shirts. And yet the United Kingdom is presently suffering a swine flu attack worse than anything it faced in 2009. The number of flu patients in intensive care has risen by 60 per cent in the past week to 738, four times greater than at [...]
  • Alien vs. Predator
    Dallas: [looks at a pen being dissolved by alien's body fluid] I haven’t seen anything like that except, uh, molecular acid. Brett: It must be using it for blood. Parker: It’s got a wonderful defense mechanism. You don’t dare kill it. –Alien (1979) NASA announced earlier this month one of its re ...
  • That’s the Thicke
    The logistics of a just, equitable and healthy agricultural landscape here in the United States would remain a problem if Michael Pollan himself, Wendell Berry, or better yet Fred Magdoff were appointed Secretary of Agriculture. Decades-long efforts pealing back agribusiness both as paradigm and ...

Suzie-Q

  • Conservatives Are Turning On Glenn Beck?
    Why Are Conservatives ‘Turning’ on Glenn Beck? Gawker- Feb 9, 2011 3:07 PM Jim Newell — Ever since the Egyptian protests began two weeks ago, the conservative movement has been struggling to spread a lockstep message through its top spokespeople. Some top neoconservatives and party elites have e ...
  • Dennis Kucinich appeals to Tea Baggers ~Patrio ...
    US House defeats anti-terrorism powers extension By Olivier Knox AFP – 1 day ago WASHINGTON — The US House of Representatives rejected a nine-month extension of counter-terrorism surveillance powers at the heart of the Patriot Act adopted after the September 11, 2001 attacks. With the three prov ...
  • How Al Gore Offered Keith Olbermann A Job
    How Al Gore Offered Keith Olbermann a Job The Hollywood Reporter  12:25 PM 2/9/2011 by Marisa Guthrie The former vice president reached out to Olbermann less than 24 hours after he stepped down from MSNBC. Less than 24 hours after Keith Olbermann anchored his last edition of Countdown on Jan. 21 ...
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Solari

  • 2010 Year End Wrap-up Available to Subscribers ...
    As Solari Report subscribers know, Catherine’s quarterly and year end wrap-ups are always an interesting and informative treat. A text and graphic version of the 2010 Year End Wrap-up: The Road Turns East is now available to subscribers. From the introduction: This is our year-end review. This i ...
  • Chambersburg Pennsylvania Declaration
    We Declare: That the political, legal, and economic systems of the United States allow, in each generation, an elite few to impose policy and governing decisions that threaten the very survival of human and natural communities; That the goal of those decisions is to concentrate wealth and great ...
  • The More Poverty, the Better for JP Morgan&#82 ...
    By Mary Bottari, Bankster USA Earnings and bonus reports are rolling in and the big, bailed-out banks are back in the black. In 2010, total compensation and benefits at publicly traded Wall Street banks and securities firms hit a record of $135 billion — up almost six percent from 2009 accordin ...
  • Here’s Why The Dallas Fed Chief Is Again ...
    By Joe Weisenthal [click on the image for a larger version] Continue reading the article . . .
  • Why Can’t The US Legalize Drugs? There’s ‘Too ...
    By Daniel Tencer In what will likely be seen as something of a Freudian slip by the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton said recently in a Mexican news interview that the United States cannot legalize drugs as a means of fighting the black market because “there is just too much money in it.” ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

  • Times Scare
    ISLAMABAD–The apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job ...
  • Stepping up - University at Buffalo The Spectr ...
    Stepping up University at Buffalo The Spectrum The president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, recognized the direness of the situation and began to mobilize military forces to combat the Taliban. ... and more��
  • Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of ...
    BBC News Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women Chicago Tribune Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own Taliban insurgency? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line of thinking must ... Vietnam syndrome has begun in AfghanistanSri Lank ...
  • Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United P ...
    Officials: Campus blasts perplexing United Press International ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique Pakistani institution ... and more��
  • Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA ...
    Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing GMA news.tv An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the border between ... and more��

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

  • Could you be a 10:10 community champion?
    The Guardian Newspaper and Franny Armstrong, through the Guardian 10:10 campaign, challenge organisations and individuals to cut their carbon footprint by 10%.
  • Brit mums strict about eco-chores
    Families in the UK are increasingly likely to be nagged about doing eco-chores, a new study conducted on behalf of the Energy Saving Trust has revealed.
  • UK venue offers rainforest weddings
    Getting married in a luscious rainforest has never been easier or more eco-friendly, according to the Eden Project.
  • Battery recycling 'too difficult'
    The European Recycling Platform (ERP) reports that while only a third of households at present recycle batteries, four out of five said they would do so if it was made easier.
  • 10 green resolutions to save you money
    By taking green steps at home, you can save money and make life easier. Being smart about waste, consumption and resources won't only win you the thanks of forthcoming generations: you'll feel the financial benefit immediately. 1. Make money from old electronics As your electronic goods become o ...

Fabius Maximus

  • Update about the potential for another year of ...
    Summary:  We have a fevered desire to know the future, especially about the dynamics that shape our lives.  Giving us confident answers pays well, tempting even the best of professionals.  Here we examine a case study:  the La Nina related weather and bad harvests.  Another in a series about foo ...
  • Update about the weather – on the Sun. P ...
    Summary:  The current fad for “black swans” just reflects our disinterest in non-consensus thinking.  We prefer the clear stories the news media tells us about poorly understood things (both natural and social phenomena).  We would be less often surprised if we would only open our vision to s ...
  • A bad, likely, and seldom mentioned scenario f ...
    Summary:  Summary: Rising inflation would be bad. But there is something that might make inflation far worse, is more likely, and almost never mentioned: prices rising faster than wages.. About the past The cost of living rose during the great inflation of the 1970′s.  But people got by becau ...
  • Inflation is coming! Inflation is coming!
    Summary:  Not a day goes by that investment or political (conservative) writers don’t assure us that inflation is coming — or even here.  Except when they’re warning of hyperinflation (for the right-wing its always Weimer-inflation, except when it’s NAZI-Munich).  This post shows the evidenc ...
  • Sources of information about the situation in ...
    Summary:  Amidst all the blather by non-experts and propagandists (using this to advance their foreign policy preferences), there are some reliable sources of information.  Here are a few recommendations. I remain skeptical that large changes will result from this over a period of months or even ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • ‘Deep fury’ of Egyptian scientists
    Nature – Michael Harms, director of the Cairo office of the German Academic Exchange Service, offers a view from the Egyptian capital by Quirin Schiermeier. As the protests against President Hosni Mubarak gather pace across Egypt, the growing possibility of regime change is inspiring hope among ...
  • Egypt regime threatens military crackdown
    ABC – Anti-government demonstrators in Egypt are planning to take their protest out of Cairo’s Tahrir Square despite warnings from the regime that this may result in a military crackdown or even a coup. Massive rallies against president Hosni Mubarak are spreading and reports have also surfaced ...
  • Donald Rumsfeld reveals pre-war Iraq strike pl ...
    The Telegraph – Former Pentagon chief Donald H. Rumsfeld reveals in his new book that he urged a U.S. military strike on a suspected chemical weapons site in northern Iraq in 2003, and that he wanted the attack timed to coincide with then Secretary of State Colin Powell’s address to the U.N. Sec ...
  • US govt appeals to reopen Blackwater case
    AFP - A US appeals court met behind closed doors Tuesday as the government appealed a judge’s decision to clear five former guards with security company Blackwater of killing 14 Iraqi civilians in 2007. The three appeals court judges agreed to a request from all sides for the hearing into the ...
  • Rich Get Richer When Governments Tout Austerit ...
    Bloomberg – Remember all that stuff about how the credit crunch was going to usher in a new age of austerity? The financial industry would shrink; the gulf between the haves and the have-nots would close; and taxes would rise for the top earners, forcing them to contribute more to society. Well, ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Egyptian Foreign Minister: US Should Not Impo ...
    PBS NewsHour's Margaret Warner has secured very important interviews with Egypt Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit. In the five minute clip here, Foreign Minister Gheit is pushing back, telling the US that its expectations are out of line with political and time realities in Egypt. The Egypti ...
  • White House–State Department Press Call on Egy ...
    Deputy National Security Adviser for Strategic Communications Ben Rhodes and newly minted State Department Policy Planning Chief Jake Sullivan just held an on the record conference call on events in Egypt and America's position. Rhodes outlined the three central pillars of the Obama White House' ...
  • On the Taliban and Al Qaeda: One of These Thin ...
    Two Kandahar-based field researchers, Alex Strick Van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn, have produced a paper on the history of the Taliban’s relationship with al Qaeda and where that relationship stands today. The paper, which was produced for the Center for International Cooperation, argues that the ...
  • Investigators Struggling to Link Manning, Assa ...
    The Wall Street Journal reports further on what we've already heard about the difficulties prosecutors are having in the WikiLeaks case: U.S. investigators have been unable to uncover evidence that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange induced an Army private to leak government documents to his ...
  • Iranian Regime and Greens Compete for Support ...
    Mir Hossein Moussavi and Mehdi Karroubi, leaders of the opposition inside Iran, asked the government to issue official permits for a demonstration on February 15 in support of the Egyptian people. The government is expected to deny their request, as it has done in the past. However, Gholam-Hosse ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Lightning Round: Spinning in Our Graves.
    Here's another depressing entry in America's continuing descent into intellectual stupor, with 15 to 20 percent of hight school biology teachers giving lectures on "creationism" instead of the foundations of modern biology. Look, this isn't hard. Teachers can acknowledge the "controversy" from ...
  • Obama's Egyptian Tightrope.
    The United States needs Egypt. President Barack Obama and his national security team may harbor preferences about who represents the Egyptian people, but whoever emerges on top will be subjected to heavy American wooing. Until that person is anointed, however, the Obama administration is trying ...
  • Why We Need Pro-Choice Republicans.
    Riffing off of Ann Friedman, Matthew Yglesias makes the point that anti-abortion legislation is inevitable when the nominally pro-choice party gives up on pushing its view in the public sphere: When Democrats decided about ten years ago to stop pushing for gun control legislation, that didn’t t ...
  • Blame It on Blue.
    Jamelle Bouie says everything, apparently, is Democrats' fault. There is a certain rhythm to events like the Heritage Foundation's January forum on filibuster reform. The speaker, in this case Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, says something such as, "There is no doubt the Senate has been redu ...
  • Unequal to the Moment.
    Robert Kuttner says that the president doesn't matter as much as you think. But this one could have done so much more. How do we explain President Barack Obama's failure to rise to the challenge that history dealt him, and the inversion of a Franklin D. Roosevelt moment into a new period domina ...

Buzzflash

  • New Study Reveals the Benefits of EPA Regulati ...
    JEREMY BRECHER AND BRENDAN SMITH FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT You can hear the echo chamber reverberate the talking points: The Independent Petroleum Association of America complains that drilling permits and pollution are curbing job growth. The head of the National Association of Manufacturers ...
  • Welcome to the "Christian Nation"
    STEVEN JONAS FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT The "Christian Nation" folks, led by David Barton and Phyllis Schlafley among others, are once again in full stride with the GOP takeover of the House of Representatives plus a number of State Houses and state governorships.  You know the drill.  They clai ...
  • A Truth More Powerful Than an Army
    BOB KOEHLER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT It was just a routine murder. Last June, police accosted a young man at an Internet café in the city of Alexandria. He had just filmed their drug deal, or he simply refused to show them his ID. Whatever the provocation - accounts vary - they slammed his head ...
  • The Corporate Media's False Narrative: Obama " ...
    KEVIN ZEESE FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT The unrelenting narrative from the corporate media - that Obama must mend fences with American business - is disconnected from the reality of Obama's policies and appointments.  It is inconsistent with the rise in the stock market, the record profits and th ...
  • Egypt’s President Insists His Goal Is a Peacef ...
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT He swears he'll leave in the fall; Many won't buy that on a dare. Want to see Mubarak run again? Set him loose in Tahrir Square. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ml_egyptread more

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Breaking down technology transfer barriers
    Breaking down the technical and legal barriers are essential if technology transfer from academia to industry is to be done efficiently and effectively, according to researchers in Spain. Antonio Hidalgo, Professor of Technology Strategy at the Technical University of Madrid and José Albors, Pro ...
  • The trouble with encryption
    Lots of us encrypt files using the likes of AxCrypt and TrueCrypt. If there’s a risk of losing a device carrying sensitive information such as contacts, email, bank statements, invoices etc, then it is worth using such a tool. The ease with which a file, folder or even complete hard drive or USB ...
  • SpectroscopyNOW – February 1 issue
    Valentine’s Day science – Spring may not quite be in the air, but Valentine's Day is on the way and love is certainly on the minds of researchers in the US. A small functional magnetic resonance imaging has been used to investigate love. The study revealed brain activity in 10 women and 7 men wh ...
  • Six science snippets
    Six science snippets from David Bradley What is entropy? – This property of all matter – this collapse into disorder – is given a name: entropy. Things that are disordered have greater entropy than things that are relatively more organized. A glass of water, in which the molecules of water itsel ...
  • Seven slices of science stuff
    Seven slices of science stuff from David Bradley Vuja de – Thinking outside the box with new eyes? Haven't we see this managerial psychobabble before or is it just vuja de? Alchemist Newsletter – An element close to every Alchemist's heart, quicksilver, or more properly mercury, featured in the ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Egypt: Frank Wisner and the Nexus of US Intere ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 8, 2011Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA)Envoy to Egypt Frank Wisner stated this weekend that “President Mubarak’s continued leadership is critical.”read more
  • Free Press Blasts FCC for Asking Questions Alr ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 8, 2011Free PressFederal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski released his proposal to revamp the Universal Service Fund and a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to update its broadband data collection efforts at the agency’s open meeting Tuesday. r ...
  • Amnesty International Says Libyan Writer is Ja ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 8, 2011Amnesty International - USAA Libyan writer and political commentator arrested last week and accused of hitting a man with his car appears to have been targeted, arrested and jailed instead because he called for peaceful protests in the country, Amnesty Inter ...
  • CREW Releases Searchable Version of Issa Docum ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 8, 2011CREWToday, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) praised Congressman Darrell Issa's (R-CA) release of almost 2,000 pages of information related to his letters to corporations, trade groups and research organizations regarding governm ...
  • ACLU Witnesses Brutal Beating Of Los Angeles C ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 8, 2011ACLUThe American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Southern California (ACLU/SC) today condemned a recent brutal beating by two Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies of a detainee at the Twin Towers Correctional Facility, part of the county jail syst ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Obama's Scary Budget: Why the Neediest People ...
    by Earl Ofari HutchinsonPresident Obama will unveil his budget for 2012 on February 14. The administration has so far been guarded about detailing how deeply the budget ax will slice. What is certain, however, is that the cuts will be painful, and that the neediest Americans will feel the worst ...
  • Media Miss the Al Jazeera Story
    by Laura FlandersOne of the biggest stories of the past few weeks has been the story of Americans discovering Al Jazeera English.  It shouldn't have been so hard. As the protest movement in Egypt grew, Americans found that Al Jazeera had what no US network has any more: fully staffed reporting ...
  • Nuclear Radiation Is Forever
    by Helen Caldicott and Dale DewarLike most Ontario towns, Port Hope, on the shores of Lake Ontario, has a water treatment plant supplying its drinking water. Incredibly, adjacent to this plant is a huge factory now owned by Cameco. The factory hovers over this picturesque town, emitting uran ...
  • Time for Democracy in Egypt
    by Ralph Nader Those politically savvy people who thought strongman, Hosni Mubarak would be out before the end of the first week of the Egyptian uprising better rethink the odds. For thirty years Mubarak has developed what can be called a deeply rooted dictatorial regime with regular White House ...
  • Reagan’s Third-World Reign of Terror
    by Dennis HansAs the nation pays tribute to Ronald "Dutch" Reagan on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his birth, media coverage is every bit as laudatory as when he turned 90.  I wrote in 2001 about PBS's fawning tributes on the Charlie Rose show and the Jim Lehrer NewsHour.  Then, a ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • We'll Know We're Winning By The Sound Of Guns
    By Steve Hynd Saint General David Petraeus is keeping up the happy talk while warning of more Afghan violence to come. "There's been considerable progress in taking away from the Taliban safe havens," Gen. David Petraeus said in an interview with NATO TV aired on Wednesday. "They have to fight b ...
  • US seeks Permanent Bases, Karzai Confirms
    By Steve Hynd If you ever wondered whether the talk of a complete withdrawal by 2015 was honest... Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Tuesday that he was in talks with the United States about the possible establishment of permanent US military bases in his war-ravaged country. "From the statemen ...
  • U.S. "Choosing to get" Afghanistan "fundamenta ...
    By Steve Hynd Derrick and Robert have already written about the new report today from resident Afghanistan analysts Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Keuhn (PDF here) which says that the Taliban insurgency there didn't have to happen but that US dismissiveness in 2002 prevented reconciliation ...
  • Damning New Report Shows U.S. Strategy Blockin ...
    By Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe The new report from NYU’s Center for International Cooperation is a damning description of the U.S. policies in Afghanistan since 2001, and a warning that the escalated military strategy blocks the road to peace while making the Taliban more dangero ...
  • Americans: If You're Going to Cut, Cut Militar ...
    By Robert Greenwald Cutting the deficit is all the rage in Washington, D.C., these days, and members of both parties are all too willing to put vital public structures like Social Security and Medicare on the chopping block. The implication is that we can't afford to fund luxurious programs ...

Water Wars

  • Deal: Solving Water Wars an Important Farm Iss ...
    Gov. Nathan Deal has told Georgia's largest farm lobbying group that not everyone will be happy with the steps necessary to resolve a tri-state water dispute.
  • GA Gov. Talks Water Wars with Farmers
    Gov. Nathan Deal has told Georgia's largest farm lobbying group that he's trying to strike an agreement with Alabama and Florida to end a water dispute.
  • Preventing Water Wars
    Team studies effect of urban development and water redistribution on local wetlands.
  • Water wars continue in Bastrop, Lee counties
    One group in Bastrop County is prepared to fight against potential plans to tap their water supply and pipe to the Interstate 35 corridor.
  • Want an apocalyptic tale of world without wate ...
    THE WATER WARS, by Cameron Stracher, 2010, Sourcebooks, $16.99, 256 pages. You would never even consider it. Going to school without a shower or a bath? No way. There's a time and place in school to be sweaty and it's called "practice" -- as in football, basketball, the gym. But ...

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 ...
  • 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 th ...
  • 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 ye ...
  • 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 [...]Foll ...

geopolitics | geoeconomics

on Government Oversight

  • CFTC Flooded with Comments from Industry Group ...
    By Michael Smallberg The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) should stand tall against industry lobbying and establish a robust whistleblower program, POGO argued in a public comment submitted last week. Once described as a "sleepy little agency" by former Chairman...
  • Morning Smoke: Pentagon Official Encourages Me ...
    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. Carter Says...
  • Newly Released IG Report Details Another Botch ...
    The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) just posted an investigative report by the Office of Inspector General (OIG) describing how an SEC regional office failed to uncover a Ponzi Scheme during a 2005 examination of Westridge Capital Management. In February...
  • Morning Smoke: SEC Chair: Agency Mission Threa ...
    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. SEC chair...
  • Congressional Oversight Quotes of the Day
    By Bryan Rahija Mickey Edwards, Vice President and Director of the Aspen Institute; former Member of Congress (R-OK) and Chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee: When it comes to oversight functions—of either oversight committees, or oversight subcommittees, or any...

Digital Journal

  • Person of interest sought in 2010 Ontario murd ...
    Peel Regional Police are asking the public's help in identifying a person of interest in the Darren McLean homicide. There have already been two men arrested in connection to the murder.
  • TTC employee charged with assaulting man on bu ...
    On Saturday a bus ride for a man and his son in Toronto got physical when an employee of the Toronto Transit Commission allegedly pushed the father into a pole on a crowded bus.
  • ISAF troops help civilians in Afghanistan
    The International Security Assistance Force troops are not only on hand in Afghanistan to fight against insurgents. The troops stationed in Afghanistan work hard within communities to help residents improve the quality of their lives.
  • Diamond thief on the loose in Toronto area
    Peel Regional Police are looking for a man who allegedly stole two diamonds valued over $45,000 from a jewelry store in the Erin Mills Town Center in Mississauga.
  • Teen arrested for attacking bus driver in Toro ...
    A seventeen-year-old is under arrest after a violent assault of a York Region Transit bus driver last month. The violent assault included the driver being choked by the suspect according to police reports.

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Mississippi Launches Plan To End Child Homeles ...
    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 a ...
  • Thanksgiving 2.0: Food, Poverty and Telling th ...
    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 ...
  • Homeless People Wanted: Must Be Open to Demean ...
    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 10 ...
  • LA Plans to Make Homelessness Go the Way of th ...
    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 ...
  • Don't Let Violence Against the Homeless Go Unp ...
    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 sc ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • The human cost of war
    The human cost of war sometimes seems like just one more statistic. But what’s at stake is lost lives and broken families. Ernie Regehr discussed the grim task of calculating war deaths on his Disarming Conflict blog earlier this week (“Counting the War Dead,” Disarming Conflict, 7 February 2011 ...
  • Canada: Time to play a leadership role in nucl ...
    Last month Canada assumed the presidency of the main UN disarmament body, the Conference on Disarmament (CD). Paul Meyer, who served as Canadian Ambassador for Disarmament in Geneva from 2003 to 2007, argues that Canada needs to look outside the CD if it is to help advance the non-proliferation ...
  • Canadian Auto Workers staff continue to suppor ...
    The Canadian Auto Workers’ staff made another $15,000 donation to the Rideau Institute’s Ceasefire program. Annie Labaj, Director of the CAW’s International Department, called attention to the important work that the Rideau Institute and the CAW have conducted together, including assisting in c ...
  • U.S. ends, Russia begins colour-coded terroris ...
    Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has announced that the United States will be phasing out the colour-coded terrorism alert program in favour of a system that is supposed to better inform the public about the nature and meaning of terrorism threats.  Homeland Security as ...
  • New START agreement to enter into force Februa ...
    Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton are expected to exchange the formal “instruments of ratification” of the New START agreement, the final step required for the nuclear arms reduction treaty to enter into force, during the Munich Security Conferen ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 2-9-11
    Today, Kevin explains why he is mad as hell and not going to take it anymore! Is a run for Congress in Kevin’s future? Find out on today’s show! Self Help: Metal of Royalty    Weight Loss Cure    Health: USDA Says Yes to Genetically Engineered Sugarbeets Government: CIA Officers Made Grave Mist ...
  • ACLU Slams Chicago’s Surveillance System
    February 9th, 2011 RawStory.com AFP A vast network of high-tech surveillance cameras that allows Chicago police to zoom in on a crime in progress and track suspects across the city is raising privacy concerns. Chicago’s path to becoming the most-watched US city began in 2003 when police began in ...
  • CIA Officers Made Grave Mistakes, Then Got Pro ...
    February 9th, 2011 AOL News By: Adam Goldman and Matt Apuzzo In December 2003, security forces boarded a bus in Macedonia and snatched a German citizen named Khaled el-Masri. For the next five months, el-Masri was a ghost. Only a select group of CIA officers knew he had been whisked to a secret ...
  • USDA Says Yes to Genetically Engineered Sugarb ...
    February 9th, 2011 Alliance For Natural Health The US Department of Agriculture last Friday gave farmers the go-ahead to resume planting Roundup Ready sugarbeets—claiming it’s the only way to avoid a nationwide shortage of sugar! Hot on the heels of the deregulation of genetically engineered (GE ...
  • What’s the Real Unemployment Number?
    February 9th, 2011 Daily Finance By: Charles Hugh Smith Last week’s surprisingly sharp decline in the unemployment rate from 9.4% to 9% and equally surprising anemic job growth — 36,000 new jobs — left a lot of investors scratching their heads. How could the unemployment rate plummet so signific ...

Pambazuka News

  • Africa: Angola hosts 3rd African meeting on Cu ...
    The third African meeting on Solidarity with Cuba was held in Luanda, Angola, 11-12 September, to consolidate the friendship between the African and Cuban people and contribute to strengthening African solidarity towards the Caribbean island nation. ...
  • Global: Afro-Colombian women fight prejudice b ...
    On an improvised stage “Bombón de chocolate” (Chocolate Candy) is being performed. The play, which narrates the story of an African-Colombian girl who feels rejected because of the colour of her skin, is one of the events at a special day on drug add...
  • Global: May for the Cuban 5
    The month of May started with a great number of activities in support of the Cuban 5. On May 1st hundreds of thousands of Cubans marched on International Workers Day in Havana and other cities. They were joined by hundreds of internationalists in de...
  • Haiti: Where solidarity means survival
    Perhaps more than anything today, Haiti needs a new macro-economy, one based above all on meeting the needs of its citizens. Post-earthquake economic restructuring could include equitable distribution of resources, high levels of employment with fair...
  • 45 years after the assassination of Malcolm X
    Malcolm X was assassinated 45 years ago this weekend. Earlier this year, WNYC Radio unearthed a 1960s interview between the civil rights leader and a reporter named Eleanor Fischer. On this somber anniversary, we consider Malcolm X’s legacy through t...

War in Context

  • Egypt’s army ‘involved in detentions and tortu ...
    The Guardian reports: The Egyptian military has secretly detained hundreds and possibly thousands of suspected government opponents since mass protests against President Hosni Mubarak began, and at least some of these detainees have been tortured, according to testimony gathered by the Guardian ...
  • Engaging the Islamists
    Shadi Hamid writes: Whether we like it or not, the Muslim Brotherhood – Egypt’s major Islamist group – is going to play a significant, perhaps crucial role in a post-Mubarak Egypt. Too often, American policy makers fall under the illusion that they can somehow have Arab democracy without having ...
  • Rural Egyptians support the revolution
    Reuters reports: Beyond Tahrir Square, beyond the boundaries of the sprawling capital, beyond even the provincial cities where protesters joined the call to topple President Hosni Mubarak, rural Egypt is restless for change. Scraping a meagre living from the land, farmers and rural workers in ...
  • Marwan Bishara with Rashid Khalidi, Seymour He ...
  • The American-Israeli led anti-democratic allia ...
    “Never insult the Arabs,” advised Amos Gilead, former head of Israel’s Political-Military Bureau, speaking on Monday at the influential Herzliya national security conference. But he wasn’t appealing for an improvement in Israeli-Arab relations since he only had a few Arabs in mind — Hosni Mubar ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Worth watching: Watson
    Last night I watched NOVA on PBS and found myself completely taken in watching the program. That’s something rare for me these days when I watch a science program because almost always somebody figures out a way to work in … Continue reading →
  • NASA revises the sunspot prediction down again
    From the Marshall Space Flight Center: Current prediction for the next sunspot cycle maximum gives a smoothed sunspot number maximum of about 58 in July of 2013. We are currently two years into Cycle 24 and the predicted size continues … Continue reading →
  • NASA climate programs being eyed for the budge ...
    NASA spent over a billion dollars last year on climate change studies…which would you rather have? Pronouncements about death trains, expert testimony for climate vandals, failed predictions, failed models, and a questionable GISTEMP dataset, or a continued manned spaceflight program? … Continue ...
  • Stronger FOIA law now under review in Virginia
    ATI Praises VA House Passage of Strengthened FOIA Law FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, February 9, 2011 The American Tradition Institute today praised yesterdayâs passage of a stronger Freedom of Information Act law in the Commonwealth of Virginiaâs House of Delegates, … Continue reading →
  • Arctic “death spiral” actually mor ...
    From the AGU Journal Highlights, some news that NSIDC’s “death spiral” has zombie like characteristics, and that the ice may quickly return from the dead, even if the Arctic turned ice free during summer. Nature is more resilient it seems, … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • America’s Strategic Repression of the “A ...
    by Andrew Gavin Marshall Featured Writer Dandelion Salad February 10, 2011 North Africa and the Global Political Awakening, Part 2 Overview In Part 1 of this series, I analyzed the changing nature of the Arab world, in experiencing an uprising as a result of the ‘Global Political Awakening.’ Ult ...
  • Cindy Sheehan: How the anti-war movement is as ...
    with Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox February 10, 2011 http://soundcloud.com/media-roots/mediarootsradio This is a special 40 minute Media Roots Radio interview conducted by Abby Martin with Cindy Sheehan, fearless anti-war activ ...
  • Robert Fisk: The Great Tragedy is Obama Chose ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Democracy Now! Feb. 9, 2011 “The Great Tragedy is Obama Chose Not to Hold Out His Hand”: Robert Fisk on the Gap Between U.S. Rhetoric and Action in the Egyptian Uprising The longtime Middle East correspondent of The Independent newspaper in London joins us fr ...
  • Getting started with Marx and Engels by Todd C ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Todd Chretien SocialistWorker.org February 8, 2011 Todd Chretien begins a new series that goes through the works of Marx and Engels. “PHILOSOPHERS HAVE only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it.” So wrote Karl Marx in his These ...
  • The Egyptian revolt is coming home by John Pil ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by John Pilger www.johnpilger.com 9 February, 2011 The uprising in Egypt is our theatre of the possible. It is what people across the world have struggled for and their thought controllers have feared. Western commentators invariably misuse the words “we” and ...

Your New Reality

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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 o ...
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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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    I didn't think I'd watch this all the way through, but if you grow some of your own food in the city, well, this is like a vision of some kind of heaven, and 28 minutes just flies by :
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    A radical experiment in social chaos is about to be unleashed on the UK. Basically, the government has run out of money and they have try something, anything : At the heart of this revolution is the idea that power shifts from the centre to the local level. The chaotic world that Boles envisag ...
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    A screengrab from a photo by Victoria Hazou of the Egyptian Uprising, part of this remarkable Big Picture collection of the January 25 to February 6 protests to force President Hosni Mubarak to quit the presidency and leave the country :

Wired - Science

  • Gibbons Sing With Regional Accents
    By Liat Clark, Wired UK Regional accents have been discovered in the songs of crested gibbons, our closest relatives after great apes. The small apes (genus Nomascus) — found in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and southern China — were already known to communicate in species-specific song when defining ...
  • Animal Kingdom Gains Phylum But Loses Link
                        runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience783039263001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); A new rearrangement of the animal kingdom has expanded a little-known offshoot into a major branch, and opened a gap between relatively simple and highly co ...
  • Jupiter’s Moon Helps Peek Below Planet’s Belt
    Astronomers have a new view of the chaos brewing beneath Jupiter’s cloud belt, thanks to some help from its icy moon Europa. This new image, captured Nov. 30, 2010 with the 10-meter Keck II telescope in Hawaii, shows heat escaping from Jupiter’s interior, giving astronomers a peek into the roil ...
  • Astronomers Suggest Crowdsourcing Letters to A ...
    Before trying to contact aliens, maybe we should test the messages on ourselves. In a new paper in the journal Space Policy, three alien hunters suggest designing a standard protocol for writing intelligible letters to extraterrestrials, and building a website where teams can decode candidate m ...
  • Video: Vacuum Tubes Implode in the Name of Phy ...
    runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience782226326001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); To design stronger vacuum tubes for a proposed high-stakes physics experiment, researchers first need to understand their weaknesses — so they blew up the ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Peter Hallward: Egypt’s popular revolution wil ...
    In discovering their power to determine their future, north Africa's protesters have already opened a new age in world history. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more... ...
  • WikiLeaks: Israel’s secret hotline to the man ...
    The new vice-president of Egypt, Omar Suleiman, is a long-standing favourite of Israel's who spoke daily to the Tel Aviv government via a secret "hotline" to Cairo, leaked documents disclose. IOA... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palesti ...
  • Dany Cohn-Bendit on the situation in Egypt and ...
    Cohn-Bendit's comments at the European Parliament, responding to Lady Ashton's comments on Egypt. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...
  • A statement from the protesters at Cairo’s Tah ...
    We the protesters who are currently on sit-in at Tahrir (liberation) square in Cairo since January 25, 2011 strongly condemn the brutal attack carried out by the governing National Democratic Party's... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Jerusalem set to approve contentious Jewish ho ...
    The Jerusalem Municipal Committee for Planning and Building is expected to approve today the construction of two buildings that will include 13 apartments for Jewish residents in the Sheikh Jarrah... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Science Puzzlemasters to Debate 'What Is Life? ...
    Six of the world's leading scientists whose life work is exploring the puzzles of life will take the stage at Feb. 12 at Arizona State University to confront such big questions as: When, where and how did life originate? How can we find out? Can and should we create life in the laboratory?
  • Viewpoint: Egypt Uprising
    Middle East experts from the University of Vermont and a student who was in Cairo at the start of the uprising comment on the current crisis in Egypt.
  • New Research Suggests Tart Cherries Could Spee ...
    Study finds daily cherry juice reduces muscle damage caused by exercise.
  • Digital Media Zone Offers a Picture-perfect Wa ...
    Ryerson University's Digital Media Zone offers easy tech fixes to score Valentine's points with your mister or missus.
  • GW Researchers Coordinate Study of Fetal Surge ...
    Researchers at The George Washington University Medical Center played a key role in a National Institutes of Health (NIH) study of a surgical procedure to repair a common birth defect of the spine, which if undertaken while a baby is still in the uterus, greatly reduces the need to divert, or sh ...

Natural Health News

  • Stairs vs. Escalator
    The easiest way to change people's behavior for the better is by making it fun to do.
  • Gonzo the Dog Fears Not the Snowpocalypse
    Not rain nor snow not dark of night shall keep Gonzo from his toy duck!
  • Spray Gun Drastically Cuts Healing Time for Bu ...
    Scientists have developed a new technique to treat burns -- they spray a burn patient's own cells onto the burn. This helps regenerate the skin, and drastically reduces recovery time.� The �Skin-cell Gun� works like a sophisticated paint spray gun. Burns have usually been treated with skin ...
  • Lymph Node Study Shakes Pillar of Breast Cance ...
    A new study has shown that many women with early breast cancer do not actually benefit from the removal of armpit lymph nodes, a painful procedure that has been routine practice for 100 years. For about 20 percent of patients, removing the nodes has no advantage -- it neither improves survi ...
  • Pfizer to Pay $142.1 Million Over Neurontin Ma ...
    The world�s largest drugmaker, Pfizer, has been ordered to pay $142.1 million in damages for violating U.S. racketeering laws.� The violations were the result of Pfizer�s marketing of its epilepsy drug Neurontin. Pfizer illegally promoted Neurontin for unapproved uses. �Hospitals and insurance ...

Antemedius

  • Don't Cry For Me, Suleiman
    Originally published at Asia Times Here's a crash course on the Egyptian military dictatorship's sinister worldview compared with the courage displayed by people power. Exhibit A: Vice President Omar "Sheik al-Torture" Suleiman's message to the revolution. Pay special attention to the end of t ...
  • Seriously Republicans, When Are You Going To W ...
    It has been a fun thing to shout “Speaker Boehner where are the jobs?” on the blogs and in real life, but the question is starting to become more than rhetorical. The Republicans spent most of 2010 talking smack and outright lies about jobs. You all know the story, they claimed, loudly and cons ...
  • Egypt's Democratic Uprising Reminiscent of Phi ...
    When the recent Egyptian uprising in the wake of three decades of power of President Hosni Mubarak began there were immediate comparisons made between current demands for democracy and the collapse of the Soviet Union, made abundantly manifest to an international audience with the collapse of th ...
  • Egyptian Regime Is Not A One Man Show
    The Real News Network talks with Khaled Fahmy, professor and chair of American University in Cairo's Department of History, who describes the power structure inside Egypt's Mubarak regime and explains that things in Egypt are not as simple as getting rid of Mubarak personally - that he is not a ...
  • 'Sheik al-Torture' is now a democrat
    Originally published at Asia Times The Egyptian revolution is being dissolved right in front of the world's eyes by an optical illusion. The protesters who have been on the streets for two weeks still want President Hosni Mubarak out. Now. Yet United States President Barack Obama is firmly in ...

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 mor ...
    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 “smoki ...
  • What is the “likelihood” that the 2007 IPCC Re ...
    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 globa ...
    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

  • A Response to Kevin Jon Heller by Gabriella Bl ...
    by Harvard International Law Journal by Harvard International Law Journal [Gabriella Blum, author of On a Differential Law of War, responds to Kevin Jon Heller] First of all, let me express my thanks to Professor Heller for his exceptionally careful and thoughtful reading, as well as for his ...
  • A Response to Gabriella Blum by Kevin Jon Hell ...
    by Harvard International Law Journal
  • On a Differential Law of War by Gabriella Blum
    by Harvard International Law Journal by Harvard International Law Journal [Gabriella Blum, an Associate Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, describes her recently published article On a Differential Law of War] Should the United States, as the strongest military power in the world, be bou ...
  • A Very Short Comment on Kiobel
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku I’m dashing off to China in a few hours, but I couldn’t resist a brief post on the Second Circuit’s denial of rehearing on Kiobel v. Royal Dutch.  Does anyone doubt this case is headed for the Supreme Court?  Which is not to say that I disagree with the panel major ...
  • Kiobel Rehearing Denied
    by Roger Alford by Roger Alford Today the Second Circuit denied panel rehearing and rehearing en banc in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum. My colleague Trey Childress has details here.

Investigate - Breaking News

  • New-look Investigate magazine HIS and HERS goe ...
    As of Sunday...with more exclusive revelations about the Pike River disaster and police bungles in the rescue operation...and HERS features new poll results showing support for National is wide but shallow, and that a large number of voters want Winston...
  • Investigate Political Poll 2011 - No1
    Investigate magazine's first big omnibus and political poll in more than five years is underway. If you want to fill in the survey form (takes less than two minutes on average) online, you'll find it here.
  • BREAKING NEWS: Arizona shooter of Gabrielle Gi ...
    The young gunman who shot and killed six people, and left Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in critical condition, appears to have borne a grudge against Giffords after meeting her in 2007 at the age of 19. According to reports, former...
  • New study says CO2 rise a result of warmer tem ...
    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...

My Care2 Picks

  • Russell Means: Welcome To The Reservation / U ...
    The United States is one big reservation, and we are all in it. So says Russell Means, legendary actor, political activist and leader for the American Indian Movement. Means led the 1972 seizure of the Bureau of Indian Affairs headquarters in Washington, Submitted by Robyn R. to US Politics & Go ...
  • Internet Sources and Tools for Open Source Int ...
    Finding Open Source Resources, Selected Sites for Intelligence, Some Key Intelligence "Starting Points" , Site Investigation Tools , Web Searching Tools ,Resource Guides and Portals , Deep (Invisible, Hidden) Web ,Visualization Tools Submitted by John Farnham to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� � ...
  • Kindra Arneson's Revelations & Message | Commo ...
    Project Gulf Impact : in comments video called the five stages of Catastrophism. It is on Youtube kinda helps you see the different stages of awakening. Submitted by John Farnham to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Facwebook : a U.S. program to bring down Arab ...
    The following article appeared in the English version of Algerian newspaper Ennahar.When the Tunisian revolt broke opinions were divided on the role played by social networking sites including Facebook The same scenario seems to repeat itself in EgyptSubmitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Not ...
  • All under-fives should take vitamin D pills to ...
    All children under five are at risk of developing rickets because of their couch potato lifestyles, the government's Chief Medical Officer said today.Submitted by Nancy Bridget to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

  • WikiLeaks: Suleiman told Israel he would 'clea ...
    WikiLeaks: Suleiman told Israel he would 'cleanse' Sinai of arms runners to Gaza :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dal medio oriente :: information from middle east :: [vs-1]: "The news is more... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • George Wuerthner: Bison Slaughter in Yellowsto ...
    George Wuerthner: Bison Slaughter in Yellowstone Begins AgainBy GEORGE WUERTHNERDeep snow in Yellowstone National Park is once again forcing bison to seek out winter range at lower elevation. In... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Prices soar in Gaza as Rafah, tunnels close :: ...
    Prices soar in Gaza as Rafah, tunnels close :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dal medio oriente :: information from middle east :: [vs-1]: "GAZA, 7 February 2011 (IRIN) - More than a week of... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • U.S. reaffirms commitment to Israel's security
    U.S. reaffirms commitment to Israel's security: "WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 (Xinhua) -- Top U.S. officials on Wednesday stressed the U.S. 'unshakable commitment' to Israel's security amid chaos in... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • China Makes Fake Rice from Plastic? Vietnam Re ...
    China Makes Fake Rice from Plastic? Vietnam Reacts : Very Vietnam: "A number of Chinese companies have been involved over the years in various scandals involving fake or tainted goods. Perhaps the... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • Truth Squad Radio – Nell Walton of AllHorses P ...
    Nell Walton joins us this Wednesday evening to discuss her novel titled "The Bone Trail."
  • Epic Fail: Global Warming Solutions
    Governors have the power to reject the globalists outright, but Agenda 21 and its lies are so monumental that it is difficult to some to grasp. Further, mainstream media is totally closed to the idea of public discourse on this matter. But cracks are beginning to appear in the Agenda 21 monoli ...
  • The Seedier Side of Alfalfa Contamination
    Geertson also explained that alfalfa is particularly prone to contamination because it is a perennial plant (a plant that lives for more than 2 years) that can be cross pollinated by insects that travel long distances and alfalfa seeds can lie dormant in the ground for 10 to 20 years. Unlike cor ...
  • Truth Squad Radio – Guardian Abuse Exposed
    Join us Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2011! Guardian Abuse Join us every Tuesday night to find out more about Guardian Abuse, which is an extremely popular and lucrative business involving the systematic looting and pillaging of our nation’s most vulnerable people.  5:00 pm PST 7:00 pm CST 8:00 pm EST Call- ...
  • Move Over GMO Alfalfa, Here Come the Beets
    In the wake of the recent GMO alfalfa victory for biotech pirates masquerading as USDA gatekeepers, here come the beets. This spring we can count on yet another biotech mutation receiving the USDA seal of approval, damn the law, full steam ahead.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Iran opens 11th school in Iraq
    ShareThisIran opens 11th school in Iraq [Better not tell Blackwater -- they'll blow it to kingdom come and blame�'insurgents.' --LRP] 10 Feb 2011 Iran has opened its 11th school in neighboring Iraq, vowing more projects will become operational in the war-torn country in the next months. Iranian ...
  • Japanese police keep watch on Muslims
    ShareThisJapanese police keep watch on Muslims 10 Feb 2011 Reports reveal that Japanese police have been conducting a close surveillance of the Muslim community living in the East Asian country. Internal police documents leaked onto the Internet indicate that Japanese law enforcement has been co ...
  • Egypt's army 'involved in detentions and tortu ...
    ShareThisEgypt's army 'involved in detentions and torture' --Military accused by human rights campaigners of targeting hundreds of anti-government protesters 09 Feb 2011 The Egyptian military has secretly detained hundreds and possibly thousands of suspected government opponents since mass prote ...
  • Two British soldiers shot dead while on patrol ...
    ShareThisTwo British soldiers shot dead while on patrol in Afghanistan 10 Feb 2011 Two British soldiers have been shot dead while on patrol in Afghanistan. The Ministry of Defence said the men, from the 3rd Battalion The Parachute Regiment and 4th Battalion The Parachute Regiment, were hit by sm ...
  • Army official suggests U.S. troops might be ne ...
    ShareThisArmy official suggests U.S. troops might be needed in Mexico 08 Feb 2011 Fretting over a scenario in which armed U.S. soldiers could be called to the border -- or even over it -- Undersecretary of the Army Joseph Westphal invoked a contentious word to describe Mexico’s problem with drug ...

Daily Loaf

  • Longtime attendee of Tampa City Council meetin ...
    The Tampa Tribune’s Kathy Steele reports on the sad news that Moses Knott Jr., who regularly attended Tampa City Council meetings for over 30 years, died on February 3 at the age of 74. Knott Jr. was a voice for the voiceless and less powerful at City Hall.  I covered City Council meetings vi ...
  • FBI says former Hillsborough County Supervisor ...
    To say that Johnson's tenure at the Supervisor of Elections office was checkered would be an understatement.
  • CD review: Eisley, The Valley
    What is music if not cathartic? As they realize in “Ambulance,” “I’m gonna be ok, but it doesn’t seem that way.” Not all anger becomes twisted into an “Adam’s Song” miasma of depression and giving up. This album presents proof that music can help get anyone through anything.
  • Green Community Calendar weekend events: Picni ...
    Check out this weekend's green-related events!
  • Restaurant Review: Give in to the temptations ...
    There’s a certain freedom -- joy, even -- in the simple pleasure of ignoring dietary concerns and self-imposed culinary constraints to revel in unrepentant gluttony. The Burg Bar is the the right place to go ahead and give in to temptation.

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • VRM: Dr. Wakefield’s Imminent Vindicatio ...
    Dr. Andrew Wakefield’s 1998 Study demonstrated “anti-myelin antibodies and digestive tract pathologies in children with autism after being given the Urabi strain triple live virus MMR vaccine. All 12 children in the Study had intestinal abnormalities (known as Inflammatory Bowel Disease), with c ...
  • VRM: A Concise Compendium The Problem With Vac ...
    The advent of cloned DNA vaccines & Synthetic Genomics, backed by proponents of the Trans-humanist & Bioethics movements (this is a post-Darwinian view, in which the species has the power to direct its own evolution), has opened a Pandora’s Box spelling the inevitable death of natural immunity. ...
  • VRM: Medical Industry Data Proves Influenza Va ...
    The Influenza virus itself is constantly mutating from year to year. While mainstream doctors are traditionally divided, several prominent Studies have come forward in recent years challenging the Status Quo on the efficacy of the sacrosanct Flu shot & awakened an increasingly distrustf ...
  • VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 3 – ...
    For centuries humankind has depended on an inherent natural immunity to survive; adapting to environmental changes while overcoming mutable diseases, viruses, bacterial or biological threats & inter-species cross contamination. With the 21st Century advancement of high-tech laboratory ...
  • VRM: GlaxosmithKline Implicated In Systemic Cl ...
    ‘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 diso ...

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 fe ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 f ...

Michael Yon

  • Great Britain Loses one of its Finest
    03 November 2009 British soldiers at war are an incredible group.� Courageous, competent, and committed in very difficult conditions.� An email came today from London, from a BBC correspondent who has been to Afghanistan saying that Staff Sergeant Olaf Schmid had been killed. To see the ...
  • The River - Part II
    “It had become a place of darkness. But there was in it one river especially, a mighty big river, that you could see on the map, resembling an immense snake uncoiled, with its head in the sea, its body curving at rest afar over a vast country, and its tail lost in the depths of the land. ...
  • Sangin Then, and Now
    2 February 2011 During the summer of 2009, the British were fighting hard for Sangin.� They were always outnumbered by Taliban and terrain.� Casualties were high. Today, US Marines are paying in blood for the very same ground because, in part, they gave up a miniscule speck of Afghanistan, and ...
  • An Artery of Opium a Vein of Taliban
    27 July 2009 Sangin, Afghanistan {loadposition user8}
  • Did Mubarak Flee?
    High USG source just told me Mubarak may have fled.� USG working to confirm.� US evacuation now very high priority. {loadposition user8}

The Killing Train

  • Settle in and wait for the coup in Egypt
    Most people are interested in something that no one knows or can know: what is going to happen in Egypt? It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future (that's from Keynes). There are lessons from past revolutions that might help us understand what is happening, but from where ...
  • More such philanthrocapitalism we shall be utt ...
    Philanthrocapitalism, a book by Bishop and Edwards, argues that philanthropy will help the public accept a new age of plutocracy (the rule by wealth). The rich are giving their money away so effectively, they say, that the public won't mind increasing inequality. read more
  • I am not a gadget
    Jaron Lanier, author of "You are not a gadget", is very well-informed about what he is writing about, which is some of the social consequences of the internet, and some of the implicit ideologies that are built into the internet as we are living with it today. Lanier was one of the early minds b ...
  • 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 ma ...
  • A short video on Toronto Star's recent G20 cov ...
    Three minutes on technology and protests, focusing on the Toronto Star's recent G20 coverage, especially Rosie DiManno's articles.

treehugger

  • The Cork House by Arquitectos Anónimos (Photos ...
    Image Credit: Ivo Canelas Cork has fascinated me for a long time; it's fully renewable and you don't even have to cut the whole tree, it's biodegradable and has curious characteristic such as insulating and shock absorbance. I came across many ugly designs but a few became favourite design ...
  • Why HSBC Spent $100 Million to Teach its Banke ...
    In 2007, the British bank HSBC partnered with the environmental group Earthwatch in order to educate its staff about climate change. The intensive training cost around $100 million, but the bank has already made some of that back -- energy efficiency measures employed shortly after the class ...
  • Rooster Stabs Man to Death at Cockfighting Mat ...
    Photo: Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times As if the cruelty of pitting of two roosters against each other in a heinous battle to the death wasn't enough to dissuade some people from supporting cockfighting, it turns out that during such events it's not just the lives of the birds put at risk. In ...
  • US Gov Announces $50.5 Million Offshore Wind P ...
    Photo: Rule Hibernia And the federal invest-a-thon in clean technologies continues -- first a smidgen for solar, then a huge boost for high speed rail, and now, a decent investment in offshore wind. The Obama administration announced plans to sink $50.5 million into research and development ...
  • Why Energy Companies Invest Next to Nothing in ...
    Photo: EPL Don't pay attention to those oil company ads that claim they're devoting time and resources towards working on clean energy solutions -- just look at the graph below. The chart, which Climate Crocks reminds us of today, shows just how little the energy sector spends on research a ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Virginia AG petitions Supreme Court for expedi ...
    [JURIST] Virginia Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli [official website] on Tuesday filed a petition for a writ of certiorari [text, PDF] with the US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] asking the court to rule on the constitutionality of the health care reform law [HR 3590 tex ...
  • Federal judge finds landmark restoration grant ...
    [JURIST] A judge in the US District Court for the Central District of Illinois [official website] on Tuesday ruled that the state did not unconstitutionally advocate religion by financially contributing to the restoration of the Bald Knob Cross of Peace [official website]. The court rejected [AP ...
  • Egypt VP announces political agreements and co ...
    [JURIST] Egyptian Vice President Omar Suleiman [Al Jazeera profile] stated Tuesday that President Hosni Mubarak [Al Jazeera profile] approved the formation of a committee to oversee changes to Egypt's constitution [text]. Suleiman announced Egypt's timetable for a peaceful transition of power an ...
  • Egypt-inspired protestors face violent crackdo ...
    [JURIST] Human Rights Watch (HRW) [official website] reported [press release] on Tuesday that Arab governments are using violence to crack down on protests inspired by the unrest in Egypt. According to the report, public gatherings in Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, West Bank a ...
  • UK Supreme Court president warns funding metho ...
    [JURIST] UK Supreme Court [official website] President Nicholas Phillips [official profile] warned in a speech [text, PDF; UCL materials] Tuesday that the Supreme Court's reliance on the Ministry of Justice [official website] for funding threatens the court's independence. Phillips explained tha ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Rep. Chris Lee: Craigslist Amateur
    While high-minded sorts are tsk-tsking over what former representative Chris Lee's Craiglist flirtation means for the state of congressional marriages, Hypervocal's Slade Sohmer takes the New York millionaire to task for totally lacking any kind of game in his use of Craigslist personals. Sohmer ...
  • Chris Lee resigns: 'I have to work this out wi ...
    Updated 6:24 p.m. Married Rep. Chris Lee resigned Wednesday afternoon three hours after the publication of allegations in Gawker that he sent flirtatious photos -- including one where he was naked from the waist up -- to a Washington-area woman he contacted through the Craigslist personals se ...
  • Kaine for Senate?
    Now that Virginia Sen. Jim Webb won't run for reelection, the next question for Democrats is who will run to succeed him. The Washington Post's Ezra Klein floated a name earlier today: Tim Kaine, the former Virginia governor who now chairs the Democratic National Committee. Klein wrote: ...som ...
  • Meanwhile, Elsewhere on the Hill, Ron Paul Wan ...
    Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke testified before the House Budget Committee this morning, talking a bit about the Fed's role in job creation. "I think that monetary policy does have some scope to help recovery and help on the employment side," Bernanke told Tim Ryan, an Ohio Democrat. Meanwhile, two ...
  • Webb Won't Seek Reelection
    Sen. Jim Webb, a Democrat whose centrist pedigree helped his party snatch a Virginia Senate seat from Republicans in 2006, has decided not to run for re-election. "After much thought and consideration, I have decided to return to the private sector, where I have spent more of my professional li ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

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Tikun Olam

  • IDF Needs a Few Good Hasbara Hackers
    A common ad slogan a few years back for U.S. Army recruitment was: “the Army needs of few good men.”  The IDF doesn’t care if you’re a man or you’re good, but they do want you if you’re capable of hacking for hasbara.  This is one of those delightful stories that come along, oh, maybe [...] ...
  • Seattle Evening for Egyptian Revolution
    If you live in the Pacific Northwest, I hope you can join us in a program of affirmation for the Egyptian Revolution, which I’ve organized (the program, not the Revolution) with the St. Mark’s Middle East Task Force.  We will report on the events unfolding on the ground as well as what’s at sta ...
  • Middle Eastern Despots Tell Obama, ‘Go Slow’ o ...
    The NY Times notes that some of the most despotic of the U.S.’ Middle Eastern allies have engaged in a full court press on the Obama administration to persuade it that siding with the Egyptian  Revolution would be a bad move for the U.S. and for them.  Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan and the Gulf ...
  • Links for 2010-05-04 [Digg]
    Dershowitz Incites Hate Against Michael Lerner It is absolutely no accident that Alan Dershowitz singled Rabbi Michael Lerner out for special opprobrium in his most recent Jerusalem Post and Huffington Post column...
  • Stand With Us’ Assault on the Jewish Peace Mov ...
    Why is Stand With Us assaulting American Jews?  I use the term “assault” both in its figurative and literal sense.  In tactics that echo those of the Israeli right-wing advocacy group, Im Tirzu, Stand With Us members have engaged in verbal and physical confrontations with activists from Jewish ...

Ode Magazine

  • The secret life of metaphor
    By: James Geary Metaphor is most familiar as the literary device through which we describe one thing in terms of another, as in Shakespeare’s famous line from Romeo and Juliet, “Juliet is the sun.” But metaphor is much more than a mere literary device ...
  • A new food manifesto
    Itâs time to take back control of what and how we eat. Hereâs why. Food isn’t just something we need to shovel down our gullets each day to survive. It’s far more potent: the means, more than any other, by which we humans shape our planet and ourselves.Photo by Marko Matas ...
  • Harness a vocabulary of intention
    By: Nazia Mallick Are you using diminishing language in your speech and writing? The law of diminishing returns is defined as: "A point beyond which the application of additional sources yield less than proportional increases in output." In the same wa ...
  • A sustainable solution to unsafe drinking wate ...
    By: efriend For centuries, the town of Thimi, just outside of Kathmandu, Nepal, has been renowned for its pottery. Here, you will find family after family with the surname "Prajapati," identifying them with the traditional pottery-producing caste that ...
  • Lessons learned from war
    By: Charlie_Badenhop I have many fond memories of sitting in a small room in my wife’s grandmother’s house, sipping tea, and giving oba-chan the space to say whatever was on her mind. When I asked her about World War II, here’s what she had to say: ...

OpEd News

  • Egypt's Focus Largely Ignores Palestine
    Palestinian suffering needs equal focus with Egyptians.
  • The Corporate Power's Big Grab: "Big Governmen ...
    And so, the "small government" folks are now firmly entrenched in the House of Representatives. Through the filibuster rule they will never be too far from the levers of power in the Senate either. But boy, since the last election they have become more vocal than ever. First and foremost they ...
  • How to Spot an Internet Bully
    If you have something to say on the Internet, be prepared to get a response! But be careful of your audience who may try to make you the issue instead of your ideas. Here is how to spot those detractors so that you can walk away and talk to those who really listen!
  • Making Complaint Matter Part Three: Why Class- ...
    This is the last of three articles about the author's personal experience and investigation of the mortgage crisis.
  • Glynn Wilson on the Huffington Post/AOL Merger
    I would view it as another in a long line of corporate takeovers of independent media. It may not big as big as Comcast buying NBC and sacking Keith Olbermann. But it is another indication that Corporate America is fully-funded, thanks to the Bush-Roberts Supreme Court. And they are coming after ...

Switchboard

  • Building a Better Transportation Network Would ...
    Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner posted a good piece on his blog yesterday. It's worth a read. He reiterates the Administration's commitment to transportation and an infrastructure bank to finance new projects based on merit, not porkbarrel politics. And he uses some interesting ex ...
  • California Looks to Allow Rainwater Capture in ...
    After a series of heavy storms in November and December dropped record breaking amounts of snow and rain in California, the state’s weather has taken a turn for the drier.  California’s Sierra snowpack, the source of water supply for nearly one-third of the state's residential, ind ...
  • European Commission Report Finds Fuel Produced ...
    A new report commissioned by the European Commission (EC) was released this week, evaluating the different greenhouse gas emission (GHG) impacts from Canadian tar sands versus conventional sources of oil. The report reinforces years of academic studies and environmental impact stat ...
  • Baseline water testing: what is it and why is ...
    Mora County, New Mexico recently completed a baseline water well sampling and testing protocol on a number of private and community drinking water wells�on land that has either been leased for natural gas drilling or is near leased land. This means that County residents now know ex ...
  • Proposed Budget Cuts Target U.S. Innovation an ...
    Republicans in the House Appropriations Committee today released a list of 70 proposed cuts to the federal budget this year that would have a drastic and harmful impact on future clean energy innovation and investment. While perhaps a wonky and esoteric entity to the person whose ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Battlestar Blegging
    This scene from the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica pilot – the first in which Commander Adama and President Roslin meet – is emblematic of three politically significant conversations underpinning the series. First, what is the appropriate role of the military with respect to the society it pr ...
  • QOTD
    Ta-Nehisi Coates: Every day women choose to do the hard labor of a difficult pregnancy. Its courageous work, which inspires in me a degree of admiration exceeded only by my horror at the notion of the state turning that courage, that hard labor, into a mandate. Women die performing that lab ...
  • Who Says the Maddoff Scandal is Stopping the M ...
    Woo-hoo! I tell ya, if 2002 ever comes back he’ll be an exciting prospect.  Anyone know if Scott Sanders is still available? Related posts:After This, Hopefully the Yankees Will be a Little Less Timid About Spending Money to Attract Free Agents The New Mets! How Much Are the Mets Underachievi ...
  • Wilkinson v. Landsburg
    I’ll have to call this for the former about 30 seconds into the first round. Related posts:Our Long National Nightmare Is Over Win Or Go Home Steeler Nation Related posts:Our Long National Nightmare Is Over Win Or Go Home Steeler Nation
  • Professionalism
    My WPR column this week is really an elaboration of Charli’s post from last week: The integration of Egyptian soldiers into an international community of professional military officers has inevitably helped to spread the norms associated with that community. For military professionals, those nor ...

Desert Research Institute

  • 2010 DRI Annual Report
    The 2010 annual report is now available for download. This issue includes an interview with Executive Vice President for Research Dr. Terry Surles, our involvement with a large NSF grant to study climate change, an overview of the work in our divisions and centers, select researcher profiles, an ...
  • Tracking the Air Quality at Lake Tahoe
    In order to better understand the pollutant sources that are affecting Lake’s Tahoe’s water quality, Research Professor Hampden Kuhns, began studying Lake Tahoe in 2003 when he assembled the areas first emissions inventory. The inventory included local measurements using his TRAKER road ...
  • 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 concern ...
  • Top Cited Article in the Journal of Human Evol ...
    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.

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • A Comprehensive Website for News Headlines
    The below site, while not covering everything, does offers a lot of info in one place. Newspaper Headlines: http://www.marcellus-shale.us/Gas-Drilling_NEWS.htm
  • Groups File Federal Gas Drilling Lawsuit again ...
    Delaware River Basin Commission Served Notice Trenton, New Jersey —The Delaware Riverkeeper Network and Damascus Citizens for Sustainability have joined forces in filing a federal lawsuit against the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) in federal district court in Trenton, NJ. Complaints were ...
  • Oil and Gas Companies Illegally Using Diesel i ...
    By Adam Federman, Earth Island Journal Posted on February 1, 2011 The 2005 Bush-Cheney Energy Policy Act famously exempted hydraulic fracturing from the Safe Drinking Water Act. But it made one small exception: diesel fuel. The Policy Act states that the term “underground injection,” as it relat ...
  • PA DEP Fines Pennsylvania General Energy Co. L ...
    COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA Dept. of Environmental Protection Commonwealth News Bureau Room 308, Main Capitol Building Harrisburg PA., 17120 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 02/2/2011 CONTACT: Daniel T. Spadoni, Department of Environmental Protection North-central Regional Office 570-327-3659 DEP Fines Pe ...
  • Trout Unlimited to hold training session for M ...
    The following Trout Unlimited-sponsored training session is for those interested in learning about the signs and symptoms of trouble in the Marcellus Shale drilling areas, and to learn what’s normal when such activity is on-going. When: February 26, 2011 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM Where: Citizen’s ...

News Blaze

  • USDA Announces No Final 2009-Crop Counter-Cycl ...
    USDA announced it will not issue final 2009-crop counter-cyclical payments for long grain rice and medium grain (including short grain) rice because their average market prices exceeded levels that would trigger these payments.
  • Deadline Approaches For NASA Graduate Fellowsh ...
    The fellowships will sponsor U.S. graduate student researchers who show significant potential to contribute to NASA's strategic space technology objectives through their studies. Sponsored by NASA's Office of the Chief Technologist, the fellowship
  • UN Regional Commissions Key to Steering Sustai ...
    Sustainable development, Ms. Migiro said, is especially relevant for the Latin American and Caribbean region, where an increasing number of natural disasters have exacted a high toll in terms of human life and economic loss.
  • Translation of Important Muslim Brotherhood Bo ...
    Jihad is the way, Mashhur explains the fundamental concepts of the Muslim Brotherhood ideology. Mashhur's teachings encompass subjects such as the Muslim Brotherhood's goal of establishing an Islamic state, world domination under Islam, the public
  • The Official Unemployment Rate is An 'Official ...
    According to Friday's Bureau of Labor Statistics report, a 0.4 percentage point decline in the unemployment rate means 'the number of unemployed persons decreased by about 600,000.' Where did the other 564,000 January jobs come from as they canno

environment 360

  • U.S. Commits $50.5 Million to Promote Offshore ...
    U.S. officials say they will spend as much as $50.5 million to promote the growth of offshore wind energy in a push to achieve 54 gigawatts of electricity from offshore turbines by 2030. Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said the new initiative will seek to reduce th ...
  • UN Data Vastly Underestimates Arctic Fisheries ...
    More than 950,000 tons of fish were harvested from Arctic waters from 1950 to 2006, about 75 times more than the amount reported to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, Canadian researchers say. A study by scientists at the University of British Columbia concluded that ineffect ...
  • Rising Food Costs Exacerbating Public Unrest G ...
    Rising food prices and a shortage of critical crops is fueling political instability in numerous regions worldwide and might have contributed to uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia, according to international food experts. While food costs were not the primary reason for the unrest in those nations, ...
  • Why Does Energy Efficiency’s Promise Remain Un ...
    Among the many measures the world can take to wean itself off fossil fuels, few match the benefits of making homes, business, and cars more energy-efficient. But financial and psychological barriers have kept individuals, businesses, and governments from realizing efficiency’s great potential. ...
  • French Firm Says Vertical Axis Design Reduces ...
    A French company has introduced a new floating wind turbine with a vertical axis, an innovation its designers say makes it far more cost-efficient than conventional turbines in open ocean waters where wind currents can be strongest. Unlike typical floating turbines, which can be prohibitively ex ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Young women are freezing their fat so they can ...
    Young women are being offered the chance to put some of their body fat ’on ice,’ which they can use to smooth out lumps and bumps 30 years in the future. Fat transfer - or ’grafting’ - from one part of the body is now quite a common procedure especially moving fat from the bottom to the breasts. ...
  • Foxes see Earth’s magnetic field and use it to ...
    Foxes are the first animals thought to use Earth’s magnetic field to judge distance, not just direction. Birds do it. Bees do it. Now, foxes are the most recent of Earth’s animals suspected of utilizing Earth’s magnetic field as part of their everyday functioning. Foxes that are hunting small an ...
  • Man to have microchip implanted in brain to st ...
    For years he has been trying to avoid sticking his tongue out, squeaking and wobbling his head while he conducts wedding ceremonies. But for Mike Sullivan, the country’s only registrar with Tourette’s syndrome, help is at hand. He is to have two transmitters implanted in his brain in pioneering ...
  • 1,500-Year-Old Church Found In Israel
    Israeli archaeologists presented a newly uncovered 1,500-year-old church in the Judean hills on Wednesday, including an unusually well-preserved mosaic floor with images of lions, foxes, fish and peacocks. The Byzantine church located southwest of Jerusalem, excavated over the last two months, w ...
  • D-Day: Million-strong crowd braced for ’Day of ...
    It’s been billed as ’Final Friday’. Hundreds of thousands of opposition supporters in Egypt are gathering in Cairo’s central square in the latest attempt to force President Hosni Mubarak out of office. It’s the eleventh day of the unrest and protesters say they’re hoping for a turnout of about a ...

Russia Today

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

  • Even Gary Bekkum is skeptical
    Gary Bekkum’s  STARpod.org’s site is usually replete with government conspiracies, psychic spies, hamsters, Bigelow’s Skinwalker Ranch, Laura Eisenhower’s Mars Colony and other wondrous esoteric oddities that it’s hard to believe that Gary could be skeptical of anything. But he is. He is very s ...
  • More Paracast: George Filer
    Yeah I know I’ve been lazy lately (or so it seems), but trust me on this one. You won’t be disappointed with this interview Gene Steinberg and co-host Chris O’Brien of the Paracast had with Eastern MUFON Director George Filer, who also has the website Filer’s Files (which caters to guess what? Y ...
  • The Paracast: Clifford Clift of MUFON
    This week’s Paracast with Gene Steinberg and Chris O’Brien is a conversation with MUFON International’s Clifford Clift. Subjects range from the nuts and bolts aspects of UFOs to the possible paranormal links with ghosts, angels, demons and Sasquatch. This was a down to earth and civil interview, ...
  • Bizarre Beachcoming: Review of the Codex Serap ...
    Dr. Beachcoming, that eccentric collector of all things of an exotic historical nature, reviews The Codex Seraphinianus,  a book written by Luigi Serafini that is purportedly about an alien world complete with language, customs, architecture, flora and fauna. Luigi Serafini, Codex Seraphinianus ...
  • Quantum DNA
    It’s been written that photosynthesis might be a quantum process. Now a paper appears that claims DNA itself is a quantum process: A Nobel Prize winning biologist has ignited controversy after publishing details of an experiment in which a fragment of DNA appeared to ‘teleport’ or imprint itsel ...

Tippers News

  • DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
    DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Three men helped starve kids, court tol
    Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
    The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • The real terrorist was me - US Soldier -
    The Truth from a American Soldier who fought in an Unjust WAR in Iraq; thankfully his conscience willed him to admit that it was just a war for the rich elite few to get richer and had nothing to do with Patriosm or Security of Americans.He is a True HeroSubmitted by Mary P. to US Politics & Gov ...
  • BRUTAL TRUTH Of IRAQ WAR
    'War' on any country is a 'Terrorist Act.' How can it be anything else?? People sit in their cosy homes; happy and Falsely believing that the soldiers are in a Patriotic War; Well see for yourself and ask Whats Patriotic about Suffering of Human Beings?Submitted by Mary P. to US Politics & Gov' ...

The Freeman

  • Obama’s Budget Faces Cut Threat in House
    “House Republicans sketched their vision for a smaller federal government Wednesday, proposing sharp spending cuts that would wipe out family planning programs, take 4,500 cops off the street and slice 10 percent from a food program that aids pregnant women and their babies. Top White House prio ...
  • Police Surveillance Cameras Aren’t Just for Bi ...
    “Surveillance video cameras are sprouting in midsized communities across the USA as police borrow the crime-fighting tool from big metro areas.” (USA Today) But donât get caught videoing the police. FEE Timely Classic “Are Cameras the New Guns?” by Wendy McElroy
  • Diversity, Ends, and Rules
    The liberal order is the only way to achieve a society in which diverse preferences, values, and ends are truly respected.
  • Reed on Stossel Show Thursday Night
    FEE President Lawrence W. Reed will appear on John Stossel’s Fox Business show Thursday night (Feb. 10) at 9 p.m. eastern. He’ll discuss spontaneous order and the market.
  • House Refuses to Renew Patriot Act Provisions
    “A measure extending portions of the Patriot Act fell seven votes short in the House as 26 Republicans joined Democrats in voting it down.” (UPI) A blow on behalf of civil liberties. FEE Timely Classic “How Washington Protects Your Privacy and Liberty” by James Bovard

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Web literacy: Should be required
    A student calls me on the phone. “Professor McAdams, I wonder if you could help me. I’ve never taken a class with you, but …” “Yes, what can I do for you?” I reply. “I bought my own website, but I’m not sure how to get my Web pages there.” From past experience, I know what I need to ask now. ...
  • Can journalism education rise to the challenge ...
    Most journalism programs face the same challenges: How to find, employ and retain faculty who are comfortable teaching new skills and techniques. How to provide equipment and software to students (especially with shrinking budgets). How to keep up with a rapidly changing field. Perhaps mos ...
  • HTML and CSS Resources for Teaching
    Every year around this time, I update the resources I use in teaching my advanced online design class. I know there are a million lists like these online. I try to keep mine short, simple and current. Also, I’m not teaching programmers or graphic design majors. My students are journalists. C ...
  • Visual narratives: Empirical data
    From a research study by two scholars at Stanford: In this paper, we investigate the design of narrative visualizations and identify techniques for telling stories with data graphics. We take an empirical approach, analyzing visualizations from online journalism, blogs, instructional videos, an ...
  • Teaching HTML and CSS to journalism students
    I’ve been looking at the open-source course materials for Web Design 1, from the WaSP InterACT curriculum project. I think these materials can easily be adapted for use in a journalism curriculum. The idea is to acquaint our students with the building blocks of the Web they use every day. For s ...

Facing South

  • How Texas conservatives are manipulating a bud ...
    By Forrest Wilder, Texas Observer "While some are worried, conservatives should be excited. This challenge should be viewed as an opportunity." - Andrew Kerr, executive director of Empower Texans, a conservative group.What's Kerr so excited about? Oh, just Texas' little old $27-billion budget h ...
  • 2010 Census reveals lingering scars of Katrina
    The release of Louisiana's 2010 Census data last week had little in the way of surprises for those who live there, but it did provide confirmation -- and affirmation -- for what they've been saying the last five years: Despite inspiring progress, Katrina's devastation is still deeply felt throug ...
  • Grand Isle businesses battered by BP oil disas ...
    By Rocky Kistner, Bridge the Gulf For more than 30 years, Sarah and her daughter Annette Rigaud�owned one of the most popular eateries on�Grand Isle, La. Sarah's Restaurant is�a cozy place filled with mementos of sun-splashed beach vacations and fishing trips. It was a prosperous business, pa ...
  • Virginia uranium mining panel meets as concern ...
    A special panel of the National Academy of Sciences is meeting in Richmond, Va. today to gather information for its study on whether uranium can be mined and milled safely in the state. This will be the NAS panel's last town hall-style meeting in Virginia for public comment, and dozen ...
  • Gulf oil spill claims czar under fire for rosy ...
    BP oil spill paymaster Kenneth Feinberg released a draft plan this week for deciding payments on final claims for damages for the disaster, and it's drawing fire for being too optimistic about the pace of recovery. Feinberg released the proposed methodology on Feb. 2 and said he would ...

Worldpress - Africa

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Puntland’s proto-state formation
    Piracy is a sympton of land-based disorder.  Pirates only can make money if they have the port-based infrastructure to repair their ships, re-provision for the next patrol, hold their captives and prizes and take delivery of ransom.  States that possess an effective monopoly on the use of forc ...
  • Puntland’s proto-state formation
    Piracy is a sympton of land-based disorder.  Pirates only can make money if they have the port-based infrastructure to repair their ships, re-provision for the next patrol, hold their captives and prizes and take delivery of ransom.  States that possess an effective monopoly on the use of forc ...
  • AOL Buys Huffpo
    Arianna Huffington cashes out.  This is the American dream baby, make something, then sell it to a soulless corporation which stands against everything you claim to stand for.  What do you care?  You’ve cashed out. Cashing out is one of the biggest problems with American style business, actua ...
  • Master and Slave Morality
    Just read a large piece on strategic defaults in the Huffington Post.  That is to say, walking away from bad mortgages you can’t pay off, especially when the value of the loan is more than the value of the house.  Most of them felt horrible for walking away. The bottom line is this: there is [ ...
  • The Egyptian Bottom Line
    Let’s be real clear, people, what do you think will happen to the protesters if Mubarak’s regime (whether he’s specifically in charge or not) remains in power? Can you say arrests and torture? Sure you can. Those are the stakes.  They can win, or they can get tortured.  When you enter the lion ...

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 terr ...
  • PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI NEGOTIATIONS TO NOWHERE NO ...
    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 childr ...
  • FROM JOE McCARTHY TO GLEN BECK – TIME TO END F ...
    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 phenome ...
  • PAKISTAN FLOODS AND A FAILED POLICY - UN Sec. ...
    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 mo ...
  • 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 po ...

Great Beyond ( Nature )

  • Science agenices under fire in US budget battl ...
    The budget battle of 2011 has barely begun but the opening salvos are echoing loudly across the US capitol – in some cases, signaling the potential for major cuts to labs and regulatory agencies. Following up on a proposed budget target released last week by the US House of Representatives’ B ...
  • One-fifth of most innovative drugs discovered ...
    It's budget-cutting season in the US Congress, and the word is that science will take a hit along with everyone else. So a new study of the benefits of federal spending in biomedical research is particulary timely. The study undercuts the conventional wisdom that academics are bad at drug di ...
  • Updated: No breakthrough to Antarctica's Lake ...
    7 FEBRUARY UPDATE: Valery Lukin, director of the Russian Antarctic programme, says drilling at Lake Vostok stopped on 5 February at a depth of 3720.47 metres - 29.53 metres short. The drilling team left by aircraft on 6 February. Drilling resumes in December 2011. 1 February post: A Russian d ...
  • Arctic fish catches massively under-reported
    Fishing catches in the seasonally ice-free Arctic Sea were a whopping 75 times greater than reported from 1950 to 2006, estimates published last week say (D. Zeller et al. Polar Biol., doi: 10.1007/s00300-010-0952-3; 2011). “Ineffective reporting, due to governance issues and a lack of credi ...
  • Climate skeptic makes free speech appeal
    The debate between climate scientists and skeptics about global warming has long grown ugly, with email leaks, accusations of manipulated science, and ad hominem attacks all thrown into the mix. Now one climate scientist has gone on the offensive, suing a climate skeptic over comments that criti ...

new geography

  • China's Empty Trains... & Other Unintended Con ...
    In a technical sense, the economy has been in recovery since June of 2009. A year and a half into the rebound though, a general cloud of economic malaise continues to cover the nation. Fears of a diminished America are perpetuated from our political and punditry classes. We are told that our col ...
  • Australia's Housing Affordability "Outrage"
    There is mounting concern in Australia about the nature and extent of country’s housing affordability crisis. Expressions of distress are not limited to the middle income households who are locked out of the Great Australian Dream of home ownership. There is heightened interest from advocate ...
  • A New Tribe for New Geographies: Reasonable Pe ...
    I am Singaporean, with a half-Indian, half-Eurasian father; a half-Pakistani, half-Malay mother. Dad converted to Islam from Roman Catholicism; each year my brothers and I celebrate Eid ful Fitr, Eid ul Adha and Christmas with different parts of our family. Cousins, aunts and uncles have mar ...
  • Brown’s California Budget Proposals: a Big Ste ...
    I admit it. I had low expectations for Jerry Brown’s third term as governor. After seeing his budget proposal, I’m ready to reconsider my expectations. I think it is a great effort, and it deserves the support of all of us tired of seeing our state reduced to laughing stock. Being an economi ...
  • Super Bowl XLV: The $10 Billion Bag of Chips
    I am raining on the big parade by equating the Super Bowl with trade deficits, budget shortfalls, state bonds on the edge of default, and unemployment close to ten percent. But if thirty-second ads that cost $2.7 million or The Black Eyed Peas at halftime can’t lift the economy out of its doldru ...

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Cryptogon

  • The Octopus Conspiracy: One Woman’s Sear ...
    Via: Wired: On the morning of July 1, 1981, three bodies were discovered behind a shabby, concrete ranch house on Bob Hope Drive, a main drag in a sand-swept stretch of California’s scorching Coachella Valley. The corpses were sprawled in a semicircle, on chairs and beds that had been dragged in ...
  • The Deepening Mystery of Raymond Davis and Two ...
    Wow. You have to check out hyperion-protective.com. No really. Must see. But be warned: Your sides will hurt from laughing. My personal favorite: The “professional” throwing stars on page 3 of the catalog. Ok, so, Raymond A. Davis, some variety of spook or mercenary, working out of the U.S. Emba ...
  • U.S. Corn Reserves Hit Lowest Level in 15 Year ...
    Via: AP: U.S. reserves of corn have hit their lowest level in over 15 years in part because of higher demand from the ethanol industry, hinting at tighter supplies and higher food prices in 2011. The U.S. Department of Agriculture reported Wednesday that the ethanol industry demand for corn is u ...
  • WikiLeaks Cables: Saudi Arabia Oil Reserves Ov ...
    Via: AFP: THE US fears Saudi Arabia may not have enough oil reserves to prevent prices rising sharply, according to leaked cables. The cables from the US embassy in Riyadh, obtained by WikiLeaks, urge Washington to take heed of a warning from a former Saudi government oil executive that the king ...
  • Jet Loaded with Millions in Gold and Cash Seiz ...
    Via: Dallas News: A Gulfstream jet seized by Congolese authorities suspected of being used to smuggle gold from rebel-controlled strongholds is apparently owned by a North Texas aviation firm owned by Southlake philanthropist David Disiere, records show. Dow Jones reported today that the tail nu ...

The Economic Collapse

  • Is Ben Bernanke A Liar, A Lunatic Or Is He Jus ...
    Did you see Ben Bernanke's testimony before the House Budget Committee on Wednesday? It was quite a show. Bernanke seems to believe that if he just keeps on repeating the same mantras over and over that somehow they will become true. Bernanke insists that the economy is getti ...
  • 10 Reasons Why It Has Become So Soul-Crushingl ...
    Have you been unemployed lately?  If so, then you probably know how frustrating it is to try to find a job in the United States today. It now takes the average unemployed worker about 33 weeks to find a job.  There are millions of Americans that have not been able to find a full ...
  • Find A Job? Good Luck In This Economy – ...
    The U.S. government is telling us that the unemployment rate fell all the way down to 9.0% in January.  Should we all cheer?  Is it now going to be a lot easier to find a job?  Has the economy finally turned around?  Are happy days here again?  Well, it is a good thing to have [ ...
  • Pissed Off!: 67 Percent Of Americans Are Dissa ...
    The American people are becoming increasingly angry about the extraordinary amount of power and influence that corporations have in the United States today.  A new Gallup poll found that 67 percent of Americans are dissatisfied with the size and influence of major corporations i ...
  • Even Donald Trump Is Warning That An Economic ...
    In a shocking new interview, Donald Trump has gone farther than he ever has before in discussing a potential economic collapse in America.  Using phrases such as "you’re going to pay $25 for a loaf of bread pretty soon" and "we could end up being another Egypt", Trump explained ...

Desertification

  • To make the Argentine capital a free-for-all k ...
    Read at : http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41476916/ns/world_news-americas/ Rebel gardeners wage veggie war with ‘seed bombs’ ‘Art farmers’ in Buenos Aires aim to create public awareness, appetite By Eduardo Garcia Reuters BUENOS AIRES â Forget potted plants and privet hedges; a group of Buenos Aire ...
  • Three improved soybean varieties (Ecosensorium ...
    Read at : http://www.ecosensorium.org/ INNOVATION IN ACTION – Better soybean varieties offer African farmers new opportunities Two African nationsâMalawi and Nigeriaâhave released three improved soybean varieties that can enhance the productivity of the crop and offer farmers better opportunitie ...
  • “Helping Farmers Grow More Food” ( ...
    Read at : http://www.lavidalocavore.org/diary/4440/helping-farmers-grow-more-food by: Jill Richardson Food and agriculture came up exactly once in the State of the Union. It’s disappointing but not shocking. Here’s what Obama said: This is just a part of how we are shaping a … Continue reading →
  • Groasis / AquaPro, a deceptively simple invent ...
    Read at : http://www.lavidalocavore.org/diary/4451/making-a-weeks-worth-of-rain-last-the-whole-year Making a Week’s Worth of Rain Last the Whole Year Crossposted from the Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet. We think of deserts as dry wastelands incapable of food production.  Surprisin ...
  • U.S. looks to Monsanto to feed the world (La V ...
    Read at : http://www.lavidalocavore.org/diary/4463/us-looks-to-monsanto-to-feed-the-world by: Marcia Ishii-Eiteman Originally posted on Pesticide Action Network’s blog, Groundtruth. At the annual World Economic Forum this past weekend in Davos, Switzerland, U.S. Agency for International Developm ...

The Paper Trail

  • Grassley Targets Federal Charge Card Abuses
    Many federal employees have government-issued charge cards for work-related expenses, and a handful of workers are using taxpayer dollars to pay for entertainment, prostitutes, and gambling.
  • ABA Says Debit Card Cap for Big Banks Would Al ...
    U.S. bankers are asking Congress to halt a proposed Dodd-Frank regulation that would cut debit card revenues by claiming it would also discourage smaller banks from making “job-producing loans.”
  • Issa Releases Letters From Industry on Regulat ...
    Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, has released a massive collection of letters received from nonprofits, businesses, and trade associations regarding the impact of government regulations on job creation nationwide.
  • FDIC Wants Bank Execs to Wait 3 Years for Enti ...
    If the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp’s new executive pay proposal is adopted, top U.S. bankers will have to wait at least three years to collect half of their bonuses.
  • Multiple Safety Failures Identified in Chemica ...
    A new report on a 2008 explosion at a West Virginia pesticide factory offers a chilling account that raises questions about safeguards at the plant.

backofthebook.ca

  • Sorry, PQ, but my BC is multilingual
    By Bev Schellenberg I see the Parti Quebecois are once again hammering BC for our perceived lack of French inclusiveness at last year's Winter Olympics. Boy, are they going to be mad when they hear about our new language curriculum. If proposed changes go through, French is about to become ...
  • Is Christy Clark the Sarah Palin of BC politic ...
    By Dave Brindle As one crusty but well-connected B.C. political observer DM'd me the other day, Christy Clark is not a deep thinker. Her chief rival to become leader of the B.C. Liberals and Premier, Kevin Falcon, may have had it right when he shot back at Ms. Clark's recent criticism of . ...
  • Clement leads anti-UBB forces down slippery sl ...
    By Frank Moher So, all you digerati who are celebrating this morning because the Conservatives have told the CRTC to rescind its decision on user based internet billing, or else: do you really want the federal government calling the shots on this? The Tories especially? One can't help but ...
  • Final Total for F-35?
    by Eric Pettifor When buying an SLR camera, the price of the unit is not the entire cost. Will you need additional lenses? Tripod? Camera case/bag? Filters? Additional media? Apparently it's the same thing when buying fighter jets. You can't just buy 65 ...
  • Bad Jokes are Good PR
    by Rachel Krueger Amy Chua is terrible at jokes.  She told one in early January about forcing her 7-year-old daughter to practice piano ‘right through dinner into the night’ with no breaks, and no one laughed.  Guys, the punchline is that the daughter got good at piano.  Honestly.   An ex ...

Worldnews

  • School uniform bomber kills Pakistan troo ...
    A young suicide bomber in a school uniform attacked soldiers during morning exercises at a Pakistani army training camp today, killing 27 troops and wounding 40 others, police and the military said. The attack in the north-west town of Mardan showed that despite years of army operations aga ...
  • Garuda Indonesia to move to new home at C ...
    Indonesia’s national airline, Garuda Indonesia, will move from Singapore Changi International Airport Terminal 1 to Terminal 3 on 22 February this year, providing new enhanced check-in, departure and arrival facilities for its passengers. The airline currently operates eight direct...
  • Labor strikes erupt in Egypt; anti-Mubara ...
    Cairo, Egypt (CNN) -- Thousands of Egyptian workers went on strike Thursday to demand better compensation, adding pressure to a government buckling under massive protests calling for the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak. Various agencies launched strikes nationwide, including employees in ...
  • Explosion in Pa. city causes fires, evacu ...
    ALLENTOWN, Pa. - A natural gas explosion Wednesday in the eastern Pennsylvania city of Allentown leveled two houses, spawned fires, and prompted the evacuation of two city blocks. Police Chief Roger MacClean said at least two people were unaccounted for after their two-story row house in a ...
  • BLACK/LIGHT curated by ROBOTS
    BLACK/LIGHT. curated by ROBOTS>>>> 25th Feb - 6th Mar 2011 The Bussey Building, Peckham Rye SE15 4ST A Site specific installation by International Street Art Sculptors ROBOTS>>>> (UK). Extensive new painting and Mural works by two leading international street artists ROA (Belgium) and Phleg ...

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Common Dreams

  • The Insurers’ Real Agenda for Change
    by Wendell Potter The media had lots of health care news to obsess about last week. A federal judge ruled the health care reform law unconstitutional, and Senate Republicans tried in vain to repeal the law. But most of the press paid virtually no attention to a potentially much more impor ...
  • Vermont Governor Lays Out Details for Single P ...
    by Nancy RemsenThe Shumlin administration released the legislative details of how to move the state to a single payer health care system, with the first steps beginning this summer."We are committing to reforms that get us as many of the benefits of a single payer as possible under current feder ...
  • Protests Swell at Tahrir Square
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  • 'Sheik al-Torture': Washington's New Man in Ca ...
    by Pepe EscobarCAIRO - The Egyptian revolution is being dissolved right in front of the world's eyes by an optical illusion. The protesters who have been on the streets for two weeks still want President Hosni Mubarak out. Now. Yet United Stat ...
  • Virginia Debates Opening Largest Uranium Mine ...
    by Scott HarperVIRGINIA - The National Academy of Sciences on Monday took up the controversial issue of possible uranium mining in Virginia, with experts testifying for hours and environmentalists protesting what they say is a dangerous business idea.The all-day hearing came less than a week aft ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • EV Rebates vs. Tax Credits
    Having recently taken a hard look at the cost/benefit of the proposed expansion of federal electric vehicle tax credits up to $19 billion, it naturally caught my attention when I heard that the President was proposing to convert the present system of tax credits into point-of-sale rebates for EV ...
  • The Global Pursuit for Nuclear Fuel
    Brazil plans expansion to uranium enrichment
  • Alaska Congressmen Propose to Axe Multi-Billio ...
    Alaska lawmakers have proposed legislation which would abandon the Alaskan natural gas pipeline project.
  • December 2010 CO2 numbers
    The latest CO2 numbers are out from the NOAA. The yearly increase in ppm (parts per million) for 2009 to 2010 was 2.76, the second largest such increase shown on the global data page linked above, which goes back to 1980. Only 1998 was higher, at 2.90. Peat fires in Russia? CO2 loss from the Ama ...
  • Articgate update
    I posted about the ongoing saga of Harrison Schmitt’s creative interpretation interpretation of Arctic sea ice data, which has become known as “Articgate”, using Schmitt’s now-infamous spelling in one document. (See One small step for man…).

Green House - USA Today

  • Ron Paul, activists push to repeal ban on inca ...
    A limited-government group says it's ratcheting up its efforts this week to repeal the phaseout of incandescent light bulbs slated to begin next year.
  • Are you hoarding incandescents? CFL, LED optio ...
    As the lights dim on Thomas Edison's 131-year-old incandescent light bulb, some Americans are not adapting to more efficient options. Rather, they're stockpiling the old bulbs, as my USA TODAY colleague Jayne O'Donnell and I report in today's paper.
  • Obama fast-tracks Mid-Atlantic offshore wind e ...
    The Obama administration announced plans Monday to spend $50 million to speed the development of offshore wind farms, aiming to issue leases off four Atlantic Coast states by the end of this year.
  • Polls: Americans back EPA and clean energy
    Despite Newt Gingrich's recent call to abolish the Environmental Protection Agency, new polls show Americans want the EPA to do more - not less -- and want Congress to provide incentives for clean energy sources such as solar and wind.
  • Is climate change causing millions to migrate?
    Two new studies paint contrasting views of whether climate changed-induced weather will force millions of people to migrate to safer areas. One says yes, the other no.

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 Recus ...
    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 s ...
  • Law360 Calls Lawyer-Owned Shell Company a "Pub ...
    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 ...
  • Eben Moglen on Bilski, software patents, and b ...
    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 s ...

Peoples Voice

  • Left and Islam
    Gilad Atzmon The following is an updated edition of a paper I published eighteen months ago. The current edition includes new references to the unfolding events in Egypt. In front of our eyes, a gigantic regional Arab uprising is taking place. It is evident that until the last few days Wester ...
  • Egypt's Focus Largely Ignores Palestine
    by Stephen Lendman In fact, repression throughout the Middle East is largely ignored except some reporting on protests in Tunisia, Yemen, Jordan, and Algeria, but they've faded with focus mainly on Egypt. Though important, most Arabs live in 21 other countries and territories from the A ...
  • A Storm is a Comin’
    By Professor X After all of my years of life and my decades long study of economic systems, social systems, financial systems, and political systems, I have concluded the they are all based on one primary false assumption. The false assumption that we can always depend on an infinite supply of ...
  • Grassroots Support for Aristide's Return
    by Stephen Lendman Two recent articles discussed his eagerness to return, accessed through the following links: http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2011/01/let-aristide-return.html http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2011/02/haiti-update-electoral-runoff-and.html He explained he's "ready.... ...
  • OBAMA, THE MODERATE REPUBLICAN
    By Jack A. Smith At 9 p.m. Eastern time Jan. 25 President Barack Obama launched his 2012 campaign for reelection as a Democratic President running with a center-right political program reminiscent of what used to be called "moderate Republicanism." The occasion was Obama's second State of the U ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Get the facts: Child care isn't there to force ...
    In spring 2009 we dedicated an entire issue of�Our Schools / Our Selves�to the topic of child care in Canada, and over a year later�Beyond Child�s Play: Caring for and educating young children in Canada�remains one of the most detailed, up-to-date and thorough publications on the subject. It bri ...
  • Gap between rich and poor: 8th Wonder of the W ...
    That's the tongue-in-cheek conclusion of the satiristic news source, The Onion, which names the growing gap between the rich and poor the 8th natural wonder of the world, calling the divide the "most colossal and enduring of mankind's creations." Said Committee Chariman Henri Jean-Baptiste: Of ...
  • Income inequality: A defining public issue in ...
    Picking through the wreckage of the global recession, former Privy Council Clerk Alex Himelfarb takes stock of what happened and points to two trends he predicts might shape politics and policy in 2011: the "extraordinary resilience of neoliberal ideology" and the "reemergence of inequality as a ...
  • Health Canada putting profit before health in ...
    Health Canada is holding its final consultations on proposals to “modernize” standards on prescription drugs this week. A new CCPA study by Dr. Joel Lexchin examines Health Canada’s harmonizing initiatives to date, part of the modernization initiative, and finds they have been putting private pr ...
  • CEO pay: Recession-proof
    A new study by CCPA Research Associate Hugh Mackenzie shows Canada's best paid 100 CEOs appear to be recession-proof. The study looks at 2009 compensation levels for Canada’s best paid 100 CEOs and finds they pocketed an average of $6.6 million during the darkest period of the recession – a sta ...

World Wide Hippies

  • The Latest Republican Sex Scandal
    Rep. Chris Lee resigns after reports of Craigslist flirtation | Washington Post Rep. Chris Lee of New York abruptly resigned Wednesday evening, hours after a gossip Web site reported that the married Republican had allegedly sent flirtatious e-mail messages and a shirtless photo of himself to a ...
  • The New First Family: Palins In The House!
    Bristol Palin to run for office? | CNN Forget about Sarah. The next Palin to hold elective office just might be Bristol Palin. The famous daughter of the former vice presidential candidate told E! News she “probably” will run for office some day if a pressing problem needs to be addressed. “If I ...
  • Oh Yea it was Toxic: Oh Yea – Feds collu ...
    by Mike Adam
  • Glenn Beck is walking toward a cliff — o ...
    Glenn Beck: Should Fox Toss Him Out of the Coop? | Politics Daily For years, Beck has pitched various conspiracy theories with a rather predictable thrust: The left is out to take over and/or destroy the United States. (The relationship between assuming control of the country and scheming its de ...
  • Collapse of Capitalism, Part III: Sustainabili ...
    WWH – I first heard the word âsustainabilityâ in reference to âecosystems.â A sustainable ecosystem is one where there is no need for any interference from outside that system in order for it to survive. Like the diverse species in a terrarium, they interact productively to satisfy each others n ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • Why I Call Myself a Socialist: Is the World Re ...
    In most reasonably large towns in the United States and Europe, you can find, on some important public square or street, a professional theater. And so, in various quiet neighborhoods in these towns, you can usually also find some rather quiet individuals, the actors who work regularly in tha ...
  • Hillary Clinton on NBC's Meet the Press, Janua ...
    ...SECRETARY CLINTON: I want the Egyptian people to have the chance to chart a new future. It needs to be an orderly, peaceful transition to real democracy, not faux democracy like the elections we saw in Iran two years ago, where you have one election 30 years ago and then the people just keep ...
  • "I Shall Not Hate": Gaza Doctor Izzeldin Abuel ...
    AMY GOODMAN: Yesterday marked the second anniversary of the end of Israel’s assault on Gaza. Dubbed "Operation Cast Lead," up to 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis were killed in the 22-day assault between December 28th, 2008 and January 18th, 2009. More than half the Palestinians killed were c ...
  • Fox News: The No. 1 Name in Murder Fantasies
    Bill O'Reilly's recent "joke" about decapitating Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank was only the latest example of a demented Fox News culture that permits on-air personalities to fantasize about assassination and other forms of violence against those deemed enemies of the station, its perso ...
  • Robert Greenwald on the Ed Show -- January 6, ...

Salon

  • What the right won't admit about Reagan
    Nothing better symbolized Ronald Reagan's 100th birthday celebration than that it should fall on Super Bowl Sunday, with Air Force jets roaring unseen over a hermetically sealed stadium, almost, but not quite, drowning out a tarted-up former Mouseketeer who mangled the lyrics of the Star-Span ...
  • Rumsfeld claims Saddam tried to kill his daugh ...
    Perhaps the single strangest moment in Donald Rumsfeld's new memoir is an episode in October 2003 in which he is informed by CIA Director�George Tenet that Saddam Hussein had, according to the book, put out a $60 million bounty on Rumsfeld's adult daughters. This was in the wake of the killin ...
  • Rick Santorum's retrograde gender politics
    In the course of zinging Sarah Palin yesterday for not attending CPAC, the annual conservative conference, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum made a revealing comment during a radio interview. Here was his take on Palin turning down the keynote speaker slot at CPAC (emphasis ours):
  • How George Allen's comeback can still fall apa ...
    At first glance, the unsurprising news that Jim Webb won't seek reelection to the U.S. Senate next year would seem to increase the likelihood that George Allen -- the Republican unseated by Webb in 2006 -- will succeed in his comeback bid.
  • A nervous 23-year old Steve Jobs preps for fir ...
    Before black turtlenecks and iPods, there was just a young, blubbering Steve Jobs trying to not sweat too much for his first ever TV appearance. �

SMB News

  • Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits ...
    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-metr ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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, beli ...
  • Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mist ...
    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 ...

Toronto Star - Editorials

  • When wars skew aid
    Al Qaeda struck at American power and wealth when it attacked the Pentagon and the World Trade Center on 9/11. But in the decade since, it is some of the poorest people on Earth who have borne the burden of the war on terror. ...
  • Editorial: Beer 1 - Health Care 0
    We’re starting to learn where Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak stands on important issues: He’s for buck a beer.
  • Steeles West subwayA bold plan with vision for ...
    A dramatic design for the Steeles West subway station warrants praise, but the ruins of the Hearn generating station aren’t worth saving.
  • Beer: 1 - Health Care: 0
    We’re starting to learn where Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak stands on important issues: He’s for buck a beer.
  • Privatization makes sense for trash collection
    Contracting out waste removal just might be the way of the future, at least for half of Toronto.

Energy Collective

  • EV Rebates vs. Tax Credits
    Having recently taken a hard look at the cost/benefit of the proposed expansion of federal electric vehicle tax credits up to $19 billion, it naturally caught my attention when I heard that the President was proposing to convert the present system of tax credits into point-of-sale rebates for EV ...
  • The Global Pursuit for Nuclear Fuel
    Brazil plans expansion to uranium enrichment
  • Alaska Congressmen Propose to Axe Multi-Billio ...
    Alaska lawmakers have proposed legislation which would abandon the Alaskan natural gas pipeline project.
  • December 2010 CO2 numbers
    The latest CO2 numbers are out from the NOAA. The yearly increase in ppm (parts per million) for 2009 to 2010 was 2.76, the second largest such increase shown on the global data page linked above, which goes back to 1980. Only 1998 was higher, at 2.90. Peat fires in Russia? CO2 loss from the Ama ...
  • Articgate update
    I posted about the ongoing saga of Harrison Schmitt’s creative interpretation interpretation of Arctic sea ice data, which has become known as “Articgate”, using Schmitt’s now-infamous spelling in one document. (See One small step for man…).

EU Times

  • Israeli Squads to Infiltrate Egyptian Protests
    The office of israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered their counterpart in the Egyptian government, Omar Suleiman, also head of Egyptian intelligence, to send death squad units, the groups of militant zionist murderers who wear Arab civilian clothes also known as “mistaaravim”, to infi ...
  • China becomes world’s largest producer of gold
    In 2010, China mined the record amount of gold in the world. The production volume of nonferrous metals in China amounted to 340.88 tons, which is 8.57% higher than a year earlier, and continues to grow. In recent years, China has consistently increased the amount of its gold reserves. Neverthel ...
  • Ron Paul Has Greater Chance Of Beating Obama T ...
    A Rasmussen poll released Monday indicates that Congressman Ron Paul has a better shot of beating Obama in the 2012 presidential election than Sarah Palin would, should both decide to run on the GOP ticket. As Paul is seemingly on the verge of announcing another presidential bid, The poll shows ...
  • Family Massacre In US Linked To American Milit ...
    A chilling report prepared for President Medvedev by the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences (RAMS) says that a massacre in the United States committed during the past fortnight has as its “most likely cause” what are described as “murder drugs” being given by the millions to American Soldiers b ...
  • Obama Launches Total Takeover of Media System
    Even the Washington Post describes it like something out of Orwell’s 1984. The FCC has approved a presidential alert system. Obama may soon appear on your television or call your cell phone to warn you about the next specious al-Qaeda underwear bombing event. Commissioners voted last week to req ...

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 actua ...
  • Special Education High School Transition Servi ...
    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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 tha ...
  • Diabetics Urged to Confer With Their Doctor Ab ...
    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 cha ...

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • ⦠and then there were none â Guitar Hero disb ...
    It wasn’t all that long ago that rhythm-based games were sweeping all before them and plastic guitar controllers and drum kits were popping up in living rooms and bedrooms around the world at an astonishing rate. It seems many of those controllers are now gathering dust, leading Activision to a ...
  • NAVIGON Celebrates 2 Million Users with 50% Of ...
    NAVIGON have proudly announced that their MobileNavigator app is now on the screens over 2 million iOS and Android devices, and the celebrate are offering all their apps for half-price. Having used the NAVIGON app on my iPhone 3G and iPhone 4, it’s easily one of the best on the market, with lan ...
  • Does Nokia Need Microsoft in These Troubled Ti ...
    Bloomberg has reported that Nokia and Microsoft are in talks for a likely partnership. These rumors emerged last year too and this year they have been going on since last couple of days. Both, Nokia and Microsoft are giants in their own fields but they both have similar wounds that they have re ...
  • HTC Freestyle goes to AT&T on Feb 13
    Section: Communications , Cellphones , Cellular Providers , Smartphones , Mobile If you’re not too keen on getting smartphones that are either powered by iOs or Android, then AT&T is giving you a nice option by way of the new HTC Freestyle. Arriving on AT&T by Feb 13, the HTC Freestyle is a qui ...
  • Dems Jab at Republicans for voting down Patrio ...
    Dems are the biggest bunch of hypocrites ever! They whine and complain about the Patriot act for a decade. Then when the first group of politicians in Washington with the guts to vote it down turns out to be Republicans, they point fingers at the Republican Party and claim it is a failure of le ...

Groklaw

  • PubPat's Amicus Brief in i4i v. Microsoft Appe ...
    Patent quality is the single most important issue in our patent system, because without it, our patent system risks losing all credibility and the support of the American people.... The Court of Appeals below, while being the exclusive Court of Appeals for patent cases and, thus, quite fami ...
  • Oracle and IBM to share open-source Java leade ...
    Oracle has agreed to share governance of the OpenJDK Java community with IBM, in a move that demonstrates considerable good will, according to one analyst. The company has created a series of bylaws outlining the way the governance will be structured, with Oracle appointing itself chairman and ...
  • [Exclusive] Android Ice Cream Details Bits o ...
    We've just gotten word from a trusted source that Google has begun building a new branch of code - being called GRI17 (Gingerbread post-Honeycomb, aka "Ice Cream") - that aims to bring some of the new elements found in Honeycomb over to phones. - phandroid
  • Feds eye open source model for medical data sy ...
    When asked why the government went with an open-source approach, Dr. Douglas Fridsma, head of standards at the federal health information technology office explained that otherwise, "we [wouldn't] see the rapid innovation we want to see using the traditional way." Brian Behlendorf, chief techno ...
  • Facebook Japan Takes Hard Line, Banning Pseudo ...
    On the form, following information are asked to provide: contact mail address; name; date of birth; mail address for log in if you can use it; scanned image of your identification paper - keep full name, date of birth and photo clear, you may hide other information. - Asiaj ...

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Politics in the Zeros

  • Food inflation, the Federal reserve, and specu ...
    Food inflation is caused by quantitative easing by the Fed and unchecked agricultural speculation as well as by crop failures. People do tend to get cranky when food prices soar. Especially when they have little money to begin with. Rising food prices contribute to popular uprisings in Egypt, Tu ...
  • La Cucaracha on Michele Bachman
  • Solar powered bee hives
    Say what? But wait, it makes sense. Solar-powered fans on hives mean that workers bees no longer need to be in the hive fanning their wings to cool things off in the summer. Instead, they can be out collecting pollen. And that means more honey, and healthier hives too.
  • Is Obama using high speed rail funding as barg ...
    Two facts. The Republicans want spending cuts. The White House just announced they wiill seek $53 billion for high speed rail funding. So, they have a big, highly visible fight about it. Let’s say HSR funding gets cut to $10 billion. Republicans declare victory. Yet the money was never allocated ...
  • Mexico drug cartel game coming soon!
    Call Of Juarez: The Cartel will be released by Ubisoft this summer. Thrill to their realistic portrayal of the characters. Will you role-play a police officer splatting the baddies? Oh, wait, many such officers are actually are aligned with cartels, aren’t they? Perhaps this would be a touch too ...

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Just World News

  • Egypt: Regime's slow crumble continues; MB lea ...
    The demonstrations and anti-government protests continued and multiplied throughout many parts of Egypt today. No sign the opposition is backing down. Indeed, it is settling in for the long haul, and reports from around the country indicate that in several places the regime may be starting a slo ...
  • 'Gaza Mom's west coast tour: Starts this week!
    I realize that I haven't done enough to tell JWN readers about the exciting plans for Laila El-Haddad's west coast book tour. The preliminary schedule is here... But more events still need to be added to this, especially in the Bay Area. Tell your friends! Turn up and support Laila if you poss ...
  • Changed travel plans
    By the way, I know I'd blogged earlier that I would be in Cairo and Beirut around now. I've postponed those visits. My (somewhat childish, let's face it) journalistic impulses urge me to go-- at least to Cairo, right now! But I have a business to run here: some great book projects underway. Also ...
  • JWN's 8th blogiversary
    ... is today. Over the Christmas of 2002, my son Tarek said to me a number of times, "Mom, you really should start a blog." I said, "A what?" (not surprisingly)... And then as he told me more about the concept, I became more and more intrigued. Long story short, he helped set me up JWN... firs ...
  • Can Omar Suleiman be Egypt's De Klerk?
    ... As a Quaker, I have to believe in the possibility that any person on God's earth is capable of becoming a better person and acting in a more generous and wise manner than hitherto. In his speech on Tuesday, Hosni Mubarak announced that his role model in life was Ceausescu, not De Klerk. Si ...

First Truths

  • Is Life without the State Always Chaos?
    In an article for the Ludwig von Mises Institute, "the research and educational center of classical liberalism, libertarian political theory, and the Austrian School of economics," I answer, "No":If by "anarchy" we mean simply consensual agreements designed to benefit those they bind, then uncon ...
  • Guest Appearances...
    Catch me on Thinking Liberty tomorrow (2/8/2011) at 8:00 PM Eastern, and Wednesday (2/9/2011) on The Peter Mac Show at 8:00 PM Eastern.
  • The Very Literal "Conquest of Bread"
    In the last decade of the nineteenth century, the anarchist Peter Kropotkin published the book The Conquest of Bread, arguing, in part, that capitalism is a system geared to creating scarcities that allow a ruling elite to use the constant menace of poverty and starvation to exploit workers. In ...
  • Anarchists Are No Bomb-Throwers
    In a statement responding to mail bomb explosions at two embassies in Rome, Italian Interior Minister Roberto Maroni has placed blame on an “international anarchist movement.” And in light of the general assumptions regarding anarchists — those unhinged madmen in black masks — we shouldn’t be ...
  • The "Reform" of Kings and Masters
    Some of my take on happenings in the Arab world, for C4SS: The reformist approach — substituting trifling adjustments to the gears of the political machine for any radical alteration — is the castle in the air delusion that mere periodic upkeep can keep said machine running smoothly. If we acqui ...

Media Co-Op

  • Factsheet on Police Containment of and Violenc ...
    On July 19, 1952, Clarence Clemons, a longshoreman, was beaten and arrested by White police officers in Vancouver, British Columbia. He was later admitted to hospital and went into a coma. Clarence did not make it out of the hospital aliv ...
  • 13th Day of the Egyptian Revolution
    Montreal Solidarity Demonstrations Going Strong Canadian Foreign Policy
  • SACRED FIRE WILL BURN AT QUEEN’S PARK FOR OTTA ...
    Media Release ~~ February 8, 2011 ~~ For Immediate Release SACRED FIRE WILL BURN AT QUEEN’S PARK FOR OTTAWA’S SOUTH MARCH HIGHLANDS (Toronto) Daniel Amikwabe Bernard, Algonquin Firekeeper, will keep a Sacred Fire burning at Queen’s Park from Wednesday 9th to Sunday 13th February to urge the prov ...
  • Not Your Prisoner - the song of Egypt's revolu ...
    http://mideastunes.com/arabianknightz/ Fresh off the release of “Rebel” (the first song to come out of Egypt since the revolution), Egyptian rap group,Arabian Knightz, ar ...
  • Even Banksy couldn't help them
    Russian performance art collective harassed, threatened, jailed When Banksy offered to pay $133,000 US to get artists Oleg Vorotnikov and Leonid Nikolayev out of a Russian jail, the local court said “nyet!”. But Russians charged with murd ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • We are all Egyptians now
    The Tahrir Square uprising �has nothing to do with left or right,� said Dina Shehata, a researcher at Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies. �It is about young people rebelling against a regime that has stifled all channels for their upward mobility. They want to shape their own de ...
  • America's future role in the Middle East
    "There are forces at work in any society, and particularly one that is facing these kinds of challenges, that will try to derail or overtake the process to pursue their own specific agenda.... [That is] why I think it is important to support the transition process announced by the Egyptian gove ...
  • What is next for Julian Assange?
    We could be spectators for the start of the cyber Great War � and they�ve just knocked over Franz Ferdinand.(...) The difference now is that this battle is extra-national; it isn�t one country against another, so much as an establishment of nations fighting a global insurgency � with the sou ...
  • How do you say, "Tienanmen" in Arabic?
    Bring on the goonsOmar Suleiman (Arabic: عمر س��ما��; born July 2, 1936) is an Egyptian politician and military figure who was appointed Vice President of Egypt on January 29, 2011. Previously, he was Minister without Portfolio and Director of the Egyptian General Intelligence Directorate (EGID) ...
  • Egypt.... the coup ... The bill?
    Up until now, President Mubarak has enjoyed the support of the armed forces. He was, after all, a career air force officer suddenly catapulted to the presidency when Anwar Sadat was assassinated in 1981. But if these protests continue and intensify there are bound to be senior voices within the ...

To Do

renewable recycling conservation
GWS Technologies Starts Renewable Energy Project in Colorado
TMCnet
- Feb 10, 2011
- 1 hour ago
According to the wind resource map published by the Department of Energy's Wind Program and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), ...
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Renewable energy rollback runs out of gas
Bizjournals.com
- Feb 10, 2011
- 1 hour ago
Three attempts to roll back Colorado's push for renewable energy failed along party lines in a Senate committee Wednesday, the Denver Business Journal ...
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Government's dithering over feed-in tariffs jeopardises renewables sector
The Guardian
- Feb 10, 2011
- 3 hours ago
This fiasco jeopardises not just the solar PV sector but the wider microgeneration and renewables sector. It shows a characteristically dithering and ...
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Edison charges up on renewable electricity
San Gabriel Valley Tribune
- Feb 09, 2011
- 8 hours ago
By Erick Galindo, Staff Writer ROSEMEAD - Southern California Edison will purchase 250 megawatts of renewable energy from First Solar, the companies ...
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Human Habitat

ecology water energy
Ecology centre: What about wetlands?
TheChronicleHerald.ca
- Feb 10, 2011
- 5 hours ago
By PAT LEE Staff Reporter As the province held an open house Wednesday to celebrate its water conservation policies, the Ecology Action Centre wondered what ...
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US Ecology Agreement To Buy Waste Treatment And Storage Facility Expires
RTT News
- Feb 08, 2011
- Feb 08, 2011
(RTTNews) - US Ecology, Inc. (ECOL: News ) said its definitive agreement with Siemens Water Technologies Corp. to buy the assets of a permitted Treatment, ...
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Ecology seeks comments on Lacey's updated shoreline program
Access Washington
- Feb 09, 2011
- 15 hours ago
OLYMPIA – The Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) is accepting public comment on the city of Lacey's recently updated Shoreline Master Program. ...
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Ecology seeks comments on Everett Shipyard cleanup documents
Access Washington
- Feb 09, 2011
- 15 hours ago
ESY Inc., the port and the Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) entered into a legal agreement called an agreed order to address the pollution. ...
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Water Power

water floods pollution
Fracking: EPA Plans To Examine Every Aspect Of Hydraulic Fracturing
Huffington Post
- Feb 10, 2011
- 1 hour ago
The EPA has proposed examining every aspect of hydraulic fracturing, from water withdrawals to waste disposal, according to a draft plan the agency released ...
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Feds will examine San Joaquin Delta pollution
San Francisco Chronicle
- Feb 10, 2011
- 1 hour ago
The US Environmental Protection Agency is planning a comprehensive review of San Joaquin Delta water pollution. The Sacramento Bee says the review, ...
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Water problems coming?
Milwaukee News Buzz
- Feb 10, 2011
- 1 hour ago
By Matt Hrodey A massive federal study of water use in the Great Lakes Basin points to a looming problem with aquifers that, although far below the surface, ...
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House of Representatives Still Drinking Bottled Water, Costing US Nearly $1 ...
PlanetSave.com
- Feb 10, 2011
- 16 minutes ago
For example, Corporate Accountability International reports that the House of Representatives spent $860000 in one year alone on bottled water (almost $2000 ...
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