10 February - RSS SnapShot! Pt 3

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BroadSnark

• Things You Might Have Missed
  Guess what guys?  If some prison guard fucks you up the ass, the FBI says it ain’t rape. DC as a tax free zone? These Russian artists are ballsalicious and I am seriously afraid for them. These pics of makeshift helmets in Egypt are pure awesome.  This letter is pretty funny too.  And as long ...
• On Snow and Relationships
  We have had a couple good snows this winter.  That means that I’ve had to navigate snow and ice covered sidewalks without breaking my neck.  Bad enough for me, who is generally steady on her feet when sober, but others really just have to forget about going anywhere until the snow melts. It is ...
• Things You Might Have Missed
  According to the Bureau of Justice, 7,225,800 people were under some sort of “correctional supervision” at the end of 2009.  That means they were either incarcerated or on parole.  How depressing is that? The beginning of these videos on anarchist economics was interesting.  I’ll be looking ...
• Things You Might Have Missed
  First Tunisia and now Egypt.  Let’s hope this game of dominoes goes on for a while.  By the looks of it, the young people are feeling it. The Haiti news has been fascinating this last week.  Baby Doc has the nerve to return to Haiti.  Michele Montas (maybe you saw her in the Agronomist) is [ ...
• Borders, Scale and Mental Boxes
  Michael Lind recently put out a piece in Slate called Let’s Stop Pretending the Constitution is Sacred.  He won’t get any lip from me on that.  I don’t think anything is sacred.  But in making his argument, he ends up undermining one of the key understandings central to his argument.  And ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

• Following the Beat of a Different Drummer
  By Peter Martinson Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, February 4, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 5
• Helen Keller: Mind over Instrumentation
  By Meghan Rouillard Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, February 4, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 5
• Synesthesia: Beyond the Five Senses
  By Oyang Teng Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, February 4, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 5
• The Extended Sensorium
  By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, February 4, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 5
• Sinn Féin Campaign Shows There Is a Better Way
  EIR News Service press release.

Armies of Liberation

• The blockade of South Yemen follows tactics of ...
  As Yemen’s blockade on southern Yemen enters its third week, stocks of food, medicine and oil have dwindled to dangerous levels. Prices have skyrocketed and already malnourished children bear the brunt of the military action. The blockade began 17 days ago when the Western Armored Division estab ...
• بقلم الكاتبة الامريكية جين نوفاك : ثلاثة أسابي ...
  مع دخول الحصار اليمني على اليمن الجنوبي أسبوعه الثالث ، إنخفضت المخزونات من المواد الغذائية والدواء و المشتقات النفطية الى مستويات تنذر بالخطر. و ارتفعت الأسعار و أصبح الأطفال يعانون بالفعل من سوء التغذية تحت وطأة العمليات العسكرية. وبدأ الحصار قبل 17 يوما عندما قامت وحدات المنطقة الغربية المدرع ...
• السلام مع الكرامة في اليمن: هل يمكن ايقاف دوام ...
  اÙسÙام مع اÙÙرامة Ù٠اÙÙÙ…Ù: ÙÙ ÙÙ…Ù٠اÙÙا٠دÙام٠اÙØ­Ø±Ø¨Ø Ùتبت: جÙÙ ÙÙÙاÙ*- ÙصحÙÙØ© “إجسامÙÙر” ترجمة/ عبداÙÙ٠عبداÙÙÙاب ÙاجÙ- ترجمة خاصة بÙ: اÙمستشار Ùت Ù٠حرب م٠حرÙب صعدة اÙستة Ù٠اÙÙÙ…Ù ÙÙ Ùسخة Ù…Ùررة Ù… ...
• Peace with Dignity in Yemen, Can the Cycle of ...
  Each of the six Sa’ada wars in Yemen was a photo copy of the one before, except the bombs got bigger, the children more frail and the jails more crowded. The Yemeni government systematically denied food, medicine and international aid to civilians in the northern Sa’ada province as a tactic of w ...
• Would Yemeni law find Anwar Awlaki guilty?
  Yemen’s Foreign Minister Abu Baker al Qirby urged Anwar Awlaki to turn himself to be tried under Yemeni law, vowing that no Yemeni citizen would be extradited to the US or any other country. The US announced last week that it had authorized Awlaki’s kill or capture, having determined he is an ac ...

Dark Politricks

• Establishment Exploits OKC Bombing Victims To ...
• Knee-Jerk No Fly Ban Discredits Global Warming ...
  Fearmongering by Met Office voodoo scientists about planes dropping out of the sky contradicted by numerous successful test flights Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Monday, April 19, 2010 With European governments coming under increasing pressure from airline groups to re-open airspace fo ...
• Air France, Lufthansa Press for Airspace Re-Op ...
  Gregory Viscusi and Brian Parkin Bloomberg April 19, 2010 Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Air France- KLM Group and industry groups pressed European governments to loosen the unprecedented closing of the region’s airspace from last week’s Icelandic volcanic eruption as losses from the grounding of aircra ...
• NPR and CNN worry that Global Warming may have ...
  John Lott’s Website April 19, 2010 This is just too bizarre: Diana Rehm (NPR): We do wonder whether there’s human involvement in all of these eruptions, earthquakes, storms - Elise Labott (senior State Department producer for CNN): – and how much global warming has a role in it. You know we’ve ...
• Poll: Americans’ distrust of federal governmen ...
  Steven Thomma McClatchy Newspapers April 19, 2010 Already wary of the federal government, Americans have grown even more critical, less trusting and even fearful of Uncle Sam since President Barack Obama took office, according to an exhaustive new study being released Monday. The in-depth poll f ...

food and water watch

• By: Rich's coworker
  In an effort to de-spin your story, the real reason there were no muffins or treats of any sort was because the bearer of treats was absent, and had been gone for the past few days. Perhaps if you "wish real hard" again, parabens can turn into magical antioxidants that are part of a complete ...
• By: Top 50 Global Food Security Blogs
  [...] Food and Water Watch: Food & Water Watch works to ensure the food, water and fish we consume is safe, accessible and sustainable. [...]
• By: Online Degree 30 Best Water Conservation B ...
  [...] Food & Water Watch: The Food & Water Watch site advocates strong conservation measures, promoting policies that'll result in quality drinking water for everyone. [...]
• By: Food and Water | Roland's Ramblings
  [...] would also like to suggest you go over to read the blog of Food & Water Watch. You should find that to be very [...]
• By: Ecocentric’s Best of the Ecoblogosph ...
  [...] Food and Water Watch: The latest info about food and agriculture policy from our favorite beltway insiders. [...]

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 ...

Biosingularity

• What Happens When You Breathe In Nanoparticles
  Scientists have tracked the flow of nanoparticles from the lungs to the bloodstream for the first time. The work could lead to the development of new drugs and help researchers understand how pollution can cause respiratory problems Researchers from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the H ...
• FDA Advisory Panel Backs New Lupus Drug Benlys ...
  At the end of a day of often emotional testimony, an FDA advisory panel overwhelmingly voted to recommend the approval of a new drug for the treatment of systemic lupus. If the FDA follows the panel’s advice, the drug, belimumab, will be the first drug approved in more than 50 years for the chro ...
• Timing is everything for cancer protein p53
  Since the early 1980s, cancer researchers have known that a protein called p53 plays a critical role in protecting cells from becoming cancerous. The protein is defective in about half of all human cancers; when it functions correctly, it appears to suppress tumor formation by preventing cells w ...
• Problem-solving bacteria crack sudoku
  The appeal of sudoku has spread to the prokaryotic world. A strain of Escherichia coli bacteria can now solve the logic puzzles â with some help from a group of students at the University of Tokyo, Japan. “Because sudoku has simple rules, we felt that maybe bacteria could solve it for us, as lon ...
• Surgery Dramatically Lowers Blood Pressure
  A California company has shown how to dramatically lower blood pressure in hard-to-treat patients by destroying tiny nerves in the kidney. The nerves are located inside the main arteries leading to the kidney. They affect blood pressure by controlling the release of sodium and an enzyme called r ...

CFACT

• New study affirms natural climate change
  A new paper affirms the earth̢۪s long, moderate, natural climate cycle. Dr. U.R. Rao, former chair of India̢۪s Space Research Organization, says solar variations and cosmic rays account for 40 percent of the world̢۪s recent global warming.
• National Geographic's sea level rise projectio ...
  National Geographic made a serious error when it said that a 1-m sea level rise could occur if the polar ice caps melted.
• Is the world food chain stretched to the limit ...
  The U.S. could ease the current global food price spike with one administrative action--limiting the amount of U.S. corn that gets turned into corn ethanol.
• A step-change in Earth's climate outlook?
  As Britain suffers through its third straight harsh winter, a British watchdog group is calling for an inquiry into the failed recent long-range weather forecasts of the British Meteorological Office.
• Driving US families into fuel poverty
  Will America learn in time from the price being paid by British companies and families?

Ria Novosti Online News

• Russia, NATO discuss anti-missile defense in B ...
• Fundamentals of Russian police activity
  Principal features of Russian police.
• NATO says peacekeeping force possible after Mi ...
  NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said the alliance could send peacekeeping forces to Israelis and Palestinians if both parties agree on a peace deal.
• Uncertain World: Russian-Japanese territorial ...
  Emotions are running high in the dispute over the Kuril Islands. Russia and Japan have been divided over ownership of the islands since the 1950s, but this had long since ceased to be a hot-button issue. How can we explain the unexpected surge in interest in this largely dormant territorial disp ...
• Russia's Bank of Moscow must be privatized via ...
  Bank of Moscow, Russia’s largest bank, must be privatized via an auction, Economic Development Minister Elvira Nabiullina said on Thursday.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• Russia's Mission Control raises space station ...
  Russia's Mission Control has adjusted the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) by raising it 900 meters (2,950 ft).
• Russian space programs
• Medvedev calls for Russian space exploration p ...
  Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday Russia should develop its own space exploration program.
• Russian cosmonauts to conduct spacewalk Feb. 1 ...
• Russia's nanotechnology head to meet Indian in ...
  Head of the Russian Nanotechnology Corporation (Rosnano) Anatoly Chubais arrived in India on Monday on a five-day visit to hold talks with chiefs of industry.

Pruning Shears

• This Week In Tyranny
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.There was some propaganda this week trumpeting the fabulous news that “drone strikes do appear to becoming less lethal for civilians as tim ...
• The unstoppable dumbassery of James Taranto
  Once more, with feeling: Eliminationist rhetoric among prominent commentators and high ranking elected officials is almost exclusively the province of the right. See here if you haven’t already. And here. And here. And here. Now that we’re up to speed, it seems that James Taranto has managed ...
• Blogroll Amnesty Day
  Today is Blogroll Amnesty Day, the day where bloggers promote their lesser trafficked bretheren (and sisteren(?)). Here are my 2011 selections:Corrente. Will always be Boldly Shrill to me.Lotus - Surviving a Dark Time Mikeb302000 - guns, politics, capital punishment, movies and musicHannah’s B ...
• The economic aspect of Egypt's protests
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post There appears to be a yawning chasm between what is happening in Egypt and elite opinions in DC. Consider this exchange between Chris Matthews and NBC News chief foreign affairs correspondent Richard Engel: ENGEL: The Muslim Br ...
• This Week in Tyranny
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Combat operations have concluded for these soldiers. I wonder how many US troops have to die in a single incident for it to receive satura ...

Organic Consumers.org

• Millions Against Monsanto Webinar: Why We Need ...
  Join Mike Adams and Ronnie Cummins for a discussion about the dangers or Genetic Engineering and GMO food.Click here to read this article
• How to Form a Truth-in-Labeling Chapter for Yo ...
  The Organic Consumers Association needs 435 volunteers, who will each create an OCA Truth-in-Labeling Chapter for each U.S. Congressional District and to coordinate a drive to gather 2300 petition signatures on our Truth-in-Labeling petition in order to strengthen our national network and to mob ...
• U.S. Fast Food Caught in Immigration Crosshair ...
  Chipotle Mexican Grill has a lot going for it -- an upscale burrito concept, a hip and eco-friendly image, expansion plans galore and a 500 percent-plus stock price gain in just over two years. Click here to read this article
• Sweatshops at Sea: Most of Our Goods Arrive Vi ...
  Late last year, the Danish shipping giant AP Moller Maersk announced robust third-quarter profits of $2.25 billion. To get the good word out, the company's chief operating officer sent a message to his crews aboard ships around the world, inviting them to join him in celebration by having a piec ...
• Neotame Receives FDA Approval But is Not Widel ...
  Since 2002 an artificial sweetener called neotame has been approved for use in food and drink products around the world, although so far its use appears to be very limited. Neotame is a chemical derivative of aspartame, and judging by the chemicals used in its manufacturing, it appears even mo ...

fotoFrontera

• Los colores de nuestro planeta III (Paisajes N ...
  Si desea ver más imágenes de la serie 'Los colores de nuestro planeta (Paisajes Naturales)', navegue por los siguientes números. (1)(2)(3) ATENCIÓN: Para ver todas las fotos de esta serie, navegue usted hacia abajo y haga click sobre las imágenes que más le gusten para ampliar su tamaño y guarda ...
• 37 imágenes de Amor para escribir tus propios ...
  Como regalo especial en este mes del amor, el Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas presenta esta linda colección de 37 imágenes de corazones en las cuales podrás escribir tus propios mensajes de amor. Si no tienes un programa en tu ordenador para editar las imágenes, te sugiero utilizar PicNik de Google. ...
• Los insectos de mi jardín VI (10 imágenes de u ...
  Para ver más fotos de insectos navegue por los siguientes números y descubra estos pequeños bichos del campo. [1][2][3][4][5][6] ATENCIÓN: Para ver todas las fotos de esta serie, navegue usted hacia abajo y haga click sobre las imágenes que más le gusten para ampliar su tamaño y guardarlas en su ...
• Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes X ...
  Con un saludo muy especial para cada uno de ustedes que gentilmente reciben nuestras actualizaciones en su correo, en Facebook, Twitter, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo Meme y Google Buzz, les comparto ya la parte número 43 de nuestra serie 'Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes'. Espero qu ...
• 33 fotografías de Nepal muy cerca del Himalaya ...
  Nepal, cuyo nombre oficial es República Federal Democrática de Nepal es un País sin salida al mar de Asia meridional. Geográficamente se encuentra ubicado en el Himalaya, rodeado por el norte por la República Popular China y en el sur por la India. Hoy, usted podrá conocer esta hermosa región a ...

Center for a Livable Future

• A Former Teacher’s Take on The New Dietary Gui ...
  Every five years, the United States Departments of Human Health Services and Agriculture jointly release the Dietary Guidelines for America in the hopes of encouraging every American to eat a healthy diet, however, chances are the average person will never set eyes on the report. As a former tea ...
• Oprah Enthusiastically Throws Her Support Behi ...
    Talk show host Oprah Winfrey may have just encouraged a large segment of her 30 million viewers to join the Meatless Monday movement following her latest show which gave us a rare glimpse into where some of our meat comes from. The Meatless Monday campaign’s national awareness has more t ...
• Understanding foodborne microbial hazards for ...
  One in six Americans contracts a foodborne illness each year (CDC). Such illness can mean an unpleasant day of vomiting, diarrhea, fever, and/or worseâ hospitalization or death in rare cases. âThere’s something that can be said about the problem of foodborne illness, that can’t be said of many o ...
• Again Ethanol and Food are in Conflict
  Corn prices have risen dramatically in the last 6 months and now food prices are following. This may be driving revolutions world-wide. And it will affect your grocery shopping soon.
• Shovel ready: Cuban urban agriculture as job c ...
  Iâve just returned from eight days in Cuba studying their sustainable agricultural system — especially their urban agriculture sector — and I have several key take-aways. One of the biggest insights was the untapped potential of urban agriculture as a creator of good jobs. The Cuban system wa ...

Norwegianity

• The death of goatse, Rex impersonators and hyd ...
  “It’s very difficult to prove a negative,” said Michael Kirsch, a principal engineer with NASA’s Engineering and Safety Center. But the electronic system for throttle controls in Toyotas would require two separate sensors to fail simultaneously in such a way that neither created an “error code” ...
• I need more synonyms for “fail” an ...
  Pawlentyism: if Willie Horton had been a sex offender, cont. In my heart I’m still an Iowan, but after over twenty years in Minnesota, I feel an obligation to warn the rest of the nation about this [redacted] whackjob piece of fucking shit religionist hack. Sorry, I don’t know how else to refer ...
• More links
  I omitted one small detail from my earlier mention of my trip to Iowa Sunday. Mom has seen Michele Bachmann in action and is very impressed. More insights into what drives this blog, but it’s not just Mom. It’s also people like John Lott who clog our airwaves and tell lies 24/7 to people like [. ...
• 33 links highlighted by a bacon mug
  Happy Monday and welcome to all the HuffPo refugees streaming in from wherever the hell it is those people go when they’re not guzzling the ego-driven swill over at Arianna’s. AOL buys HuffPost, Al Giordano leaves before the door can hit him on the ass [Driftglass] [Brauer] [WSJ] [TBogg] [Scott ...
• [embargoed until 2/6/11]
  Ken Martin is the new DFL chair. Chairman Ken had this to say about the DFL’s profoundly anti-democratic endorsement process: Martin may also shake up the endorsement process — last year, DFL endorsed candidate for governor Margaret Anderson Kelliher lost to Dayton in a primary. “There has to be ...

Public News Service

• Arizona Parents Compete for Attention of Scree ...
  Arizona Parents Compete for Attention of Screen-Saturated Teens Phoenix, AZ – A recent study of 2,000 U.S. young people shows just what Arizona parents are up against in the screen-saturated world of pre-teens and teenagers. Comments from author of “Let the Baby Drive: Navigating the Road of New ...
• Project Pushes Adult Support ”Web” ...
  Project Pushes Adult Support ”Web” for AZ Students Phoenix, AZ – Communities and adults across Arizona are being asked to take more responsibility for giving students the support they need to succeed. A year-long initiative from the Arizona School Boards Association will reach into every county ...
• Western States Elk Hunters See Advantages to B ...
  Western States Elk Hunters See Advantages to BLM "Wild Lands" Policy Phoenix, AZ – The U.S. Department of Interior's revised policy on wild lands is drawing mixed reactions - but at least one group of hunters sees it as a positive move. Comments from Jim Gonzales, spokesperson for the Rocky Moun ...
• Groundbreaking Progress in Helping MS Patients
  Groundbreaking Progress in Helping MS Patients Phoenix, AZ – It's being called 'promising research in neurological diseases' that may offer hope for multiple sclerosis patients in Arizona and across the nation. In research funded by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, scientists may have un ...
• A Weighty Message for Arizonans: Obesity Linke ...
  A Weighty Message for Arizonans: Obesity Linked to Cancer Phoenix, AZ – Up to one-third of Arizona’s 11,000 annual cancer deaths could potentially linked to obesity, according to the American Cancer Society. During this week's National Healthy Weight Week, the ACS is encouraging people to manage ...

Center for Food Safety

• Farmers And Conservationists Challenge Latest ...
  In defiance of earlier court ruling, USDA allows continued growing of controversial, illegally planted crop Today the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) issued a new decision to allow the U.S. sugar beet industry to continue growing Monsanto’s “Roundup Ready,” genetically ...
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• Organic Industry Supports CFS in GE Sugar Beet ...
  Leading organic businesses and trade groups have filed a joint brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in support of the Center for Food Safety and opposed to Monsanto in the ongoing case regarding planting of Roundup Ready, genetically engineered sugar beets. Support from the o ...
• Fighting a Common Enemy on the GMO Battlefield
  Yesterday’s announcement by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) that it will once again allow unlimited, nation-wide commercial planting of Monsanto’s genetically-engineered (GE) Roundup Ready alfalfa, despite the many risks to organic and conventional farmers, is deeply disturbing, but no ...
• USDA Decision On GE Alfalfa Leaves Door Open F ...
  ROGUE AGENCY CHOOSES “BUSINESS AS USUAL” OVER SOUND SCIENCE CENTER ANNOUNCES IMMEDIATE LEGAL CHALLENGE TO USDA’S FLAWED ASSESSMENT  The Center for Food Safety criticized the announcement today by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) that it will once again allow unlimited, nation-wide comme ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

• John John: The View From Occupied Canada #230
  Africa: Invasion of the Land Grabbers Suppose that, one day, a foreign investor decided to buy a vast tract of fertile land in the United States. Suppose all that is grown or produced on that land, and all profits made, would be shipped directly overseas. Worse, imagine that those Americans who ...
• وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب: Those opportunists ...
  The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب: Those opportunists of Al-Ahram Center: "I can't stand those people at Al-Ahram Center. They were the ones who speak religiously about Mubarak and his 'vision' for years. They were the ones who even were used for sectarian propaganda by the ...
• Adbusters: The left built Huffington, and we c ...
  Adbusters: The left built Huffington, and we can tear it down too | Raw Story: "The purchase of the Huffington Post by AOL left many of the progressive writers and readers that made the site into a powerhouse looking for a new home. Adbusters magazine set out to unite those disaffected former s ...
• Look Forward, and Promote the Torturers | Empt ...
  Look Forward, and Promote the Torturers | Emptywheel: "There’s Matt, who froze Gul Rahman to death in the Salt Pit. Paul, his boss and the CIA Station Chief of Afghanistan, who ignored Matt’s requests for more help at the prison. There’s Albert, who staged a mock execution of Rahim al-Nashiri, a ...
• GRANT SMITH : Pollard Espionage Ring Still Unf ...
  GRANT SMITH : Pollard Espionage Ring Still Unfolding : Veterans Today: "Almost one year ago Victor Gilinsky and Roger J. Mattson penned the stunning article “Revisiting the NUMEC Affair” in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. It describes how in the 1960s Israeli agents and their U.S. collaborato ...

Pensieve

• President Llorens
  I’ve reconsidered my position about posting Wikileaks articles. This article not only discusses classified material disclosed by Wikileaks, but actually quotes it. I know some of my readers work for the US government, thus the warning. I am not an enemy of the United States of America. I simply ...
• Magnificent
  This movie brought me to tears. It is the story of a man whose lack of limbs from birth relegated him to life as a circus side-show freak. It tells of how he was recognized by the owner of a rival circus as “magnificent”. After overcoming his bitterness, the man transformed from freak to hero. [ ...
• Departure
  Photo by PeWu Iâm at the train station; no one knows Iâm there. Iâm standing in line, debating with myself. Should I buy a ticket or just walk away? Am I a coward for leaving? Is it brave to lie? I recognize the hurt that others are going through their lives crumbling to dust. Am [...] Related ...
• Muddy Metaphor
  I went to the La Silla River this morning. A year ago It was once more of a swamp than a river, with brackish water and muddy banks. But, a few months ago, hurricane flooded it; many houses were filled with mud, and cars were swept away. But soon after the storm passed, the river [...] Related ...
• Confused about the Amendments
  The constitutional amendments keep coming. It appears though that these still have to be ratified. The changes are only “initiatives”, and are not yet binding. The article I am using as a basis first said the “reform was approved”, but that it still needs to be “ratified” once the next legislatu ...

Green Times

• Plastic bottles coming to life
  People use plastic bottles all the time: bottled water, soft drinks, and all sorts of containers from the food industry to the health and beauty industry, plastic bottles are all around. It is commonly known that plastic bottles (food-drink/the-story-of-bottled-water.html) will not degrade fo ...
• Organic Breads
  Many organic food markets and bakeries offer a great variety of organic (glossary/food-drink/organic-food.html) baguettes and wholemeal breads. Wholemeal is high in fibre, which reduces your appetite for a longer time and keeps your digestive system healthy. It also keeps your blood sugar level ...
• Art from cans
  Consumers and their huge production of waste influences the art scene. A German Artist  created a whole army of human sized men made of trash to initiate the questioning of our own selfish earth destructing behaviour. The freecycled (glossary/categories/recycling-waste/freecycle.html) art p ...
• Small waterfall drops
  Australian Waterfalls are not what most people associate with the land "down under." But they're plenty around the country and they're amongst the country's scenic features that delight nature lovers. Most of the waterfalls are secluded in tropical forests and represent an important habitat (glo ...
• Rainbow plastic bottles
  Do you use plastic bottles? And do you throw them away after use? One of the best ways to preserve the environment is to avoid using plastic bottles! Use recycled water bottle that you can refill instead. In many cases people buy bottled water for convenience, but is it worth the damage it caus ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

• 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...

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

• Videos of women protestors and other recommend ...
  One of my sources sends the following recommendation for on-the-ground reports from Egypt. Here are three of the many women of the Egyptian Revolution – that will counter some of those images of passive Muslim women. Change in the Middle East is being pushed forward by women like Mona, Asma, Sa ...
• Interview with Hamas spokesman about Egypt rev ...
  By Jesse Bacon Ashley Bates continues her excellent reporting by interviewing Hamas spokesman Ahmed Youssef. The story is an interesting variant of the “Is it good for Israel?” that we have been subjected to such a barrage of. While obviously I don’t support Hamas’s views or their actions, I thi ...
• Meanwhile in Israel..
  By Jesse Bacon While their neighbors in Egypt struggled to defend their amazing movement from attack by pro-government goons, Israel used it’s remaining democracy to..further the investigation of NGO’s. The House Committee approved a motion for the first panel to be chaired by MK Fania Kirshenba ...
• What will you do?
  By Jesse Bacon My friend asked me, only half-jokingly “What if you have to change your name for your blog?” I wish a swift and durable success to the people’s movements in Cairo. I was just coming of age when the Berlin Wall fell (my “camp” was actually a nerdy kids Current Events class in June ...
• No more cancer: Israeli Army admits Jawaher ki ...
  By Jesse Bacon I In a triumph of the obvious truth over incoherent lies, the Israeli Army now admits that Jawaher Abu Rahmah was indeed killed by tear gas at a demo, not as their anonymous speculation would have it by cancer or an honor killing. These tales violated basic plausibility, but they ...

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 ...

Coteret

• Yediot’s Plocker: Thank you Mossad for r ...
  On Sunday (January 9 2011), Yediot’s Itamar Eichner reported [emphasis mine; full translation here]: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is furious with outgoing Mossad Director Meir Dagan because of the briefing Dagan gave journalists last Thursday. In the course of that briefing, Dagan shared wi ...
• “Rejectionist front”: Maariv detai ...
  As Israel’s diplomatic position erodes and the Palestinian Authority’s campaign for the unilateral recognition of a state in the 1967 borders gains ground, the demand for “direct negotiations” has become a central talking point of  Israeli government spokespeople. Here’s the latest example, fro ...
• New Yorker editor David Remnick to Yediot: &#8 ...
  On December 24 2010, Yediot’s Friday Political Supplement ran an interview with New Yorker editor David Remnick by Adi Gold. Most of the interview was dedicated to his new biography of Barack Obama. Gold did ask a political question on Israel and Reminck’s response was very blunt. Note that th ...
• Breaking the Silence’s landmark new book ...
  Breaking the Silence has just published a landmark collection of soldier testimonies from the Occupied Territories spanning the period 2000-2010. The 432 page book can now be browsed, downloaded and embedded here. If you read nothing else, take the time to look over the first to pages of the int ...
• Following local pressure, Adidas reconsiders s ...
  This Maariv article [full translation below] from Friday is particularly badly written and repetitive, so I’ll summarize. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat decides to hold the first Jerusalem International Marathon in March 2011. He gets Adidas to sponsor the event. An Israeli runner registers and the ...

Deadline Live

• Obama seeks longer PATRIOT Act extension than ...
  Faced with a looming vote on a planned one-year extension of special powers authorized in the USA PATRIOT Act, the Obama White House did not object or propose reforms, as the president vowed to do as a candidate. The Obama administration instead asked Congress to grant those powers for an additi ...
• Calgary removing fluoride from water supply
  Calgary city council has voted 10-3 to remove fluoride from the city’s drinking water. Two members of council, Mayor Naheed Nenshi and Brian Pincott, were out of town during Tuesday’s vote. Earlier in the day, city council considered and rejected by a vote of 8-5 putting the fluoride issue to a ...
• Guy That’s Been Dead For 10 Years No Lon ...
• Deadline Live – February 9 2011
  News and commentary on this 9th day of February 2011 from Our Narrator and Radio Gun, Jack Blood.Greg Palast joins Jack in the second hour.
• Ron Paul “I Think We Should Allow Some C ...

The Air Vent

• Wrong is Wrong – A reply to the Real Noi ...
  UPDATE:  This was left in the comment thread at WUWT � GeorgeGr says: February 7, 2011 at 2:48 pm The html tags did not work. Here is the post from Realclimate that I was trying to cite: RE: Vernon at 42 says: ��Why are responses from one of the co-authors not being posted? That seems [...]
• Still Not Qualified for Real Climate
  No I’m not back blogging, still way too busy but I am going to let you guys know that although I am a coauthor of the critiqued paper at a recent RC post here, my comments are unworthy of the great and all seeing climatologists there. I’ve had a nice conversation with Dr. Steig off-line [...]
• Closed
  On the SOP thread we got into too heated a discussion.  I’ve had more than my fair share of the public lately and don’t know when tAV will be back. Of all the elements of the periodic table stupididium is the most abundant.  The idiots pushed me over  the edge tonight.   I’ve had well [...]
• What Evidence for “Unprecedented Warming ...
  This is a new paper which takes a look at the statistical uncertainty of the long term warming trends by Pat Frank.  He looks at the uncertainty of the data including that created by non-stationary errors and comes to the reasonable conclusion that global trends for the length of the temp record ...
• SOP
  Today someone made a comment on the Cuccinelli vs Dr. Man thing which has me stirred up a bit.  I fully understand that some scientists may have the opinion that you don’t want Academics worrying about politics and there is some kind of problem with legal requests for emails.  What unfortunate ...

Focal Point

• Heavier Kids: Blame Working Moms...or Lazy Dad ...
  A new study of 900 kids reports a correlation between the number of hours a woman works outside the home and the BMI* of her children. "For a third grader of average height, the increase in BMI was equivalent to an extra one and a half to two pounds over what that child would normally gain i ...
• Surprise! Lila Rose's Planned Parenthood "Stin ...
  Media Matters reveals that Lila Rose's undercover "sting" videos of Planned Parenthood have been doctored: -Why is Live Action Doctoring Its Planned Parenthood Audio? -Latest Lila Rose Video Ends Her Credibility Once and For All For more on anti-abortion extremist Lila Rose and her misbego ...
• Bloomberg Badmouths Groundhog Who Bit Him 2 Ye ...
  Mayor Mike Bloomberg isn't the type to forgive and forget. Two years ago, New York's official Groundhog Day groundhog, Staten Island Chuck, bit the mayor during the annual weather forecasting ceremony. This year, the Staten Island zoo equipped the groundhog hutch with a special plunger to ...R ...
• Thomas Should Recuse Himself in HCR Case for T ...
  A judge in Florida ruled this week that the entire Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional. According to political scientist and Supreme court-watcher Scott Lemieux, that's probably not the end of the world for health care reform: "Despite this, this ruling is less important than the contro ...
• Of Course Ultimatums Are Okay
  Morning Gloria of Jezebel asks, "Is It Ever Okay To Make a Relationship Ultimatum?" My answer: You'd better believe it. Seriously, though. I have a hard time wrapping my mind around the question. Why wouldn't it be okay, at least sometimes? We issue ultimatums all the time: -Either you g ...

Inside Facebook

• Facebook Pushes HTML5 Among Game Developers — ...
  Facebook’s Cory Ondrejka, who recently joined the company last fall as part of the Walletin acquisition, appears to be stepping up as the platform’s advocate of HTML5 — a central piece of the company’s mobile strategy going forward. Facebook wants developers to choose HTML5 over building native ...
• Highlights This Week From the Inside Network J ...
  The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities in the Facebook Platform and social gaming ecosystem. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at 6waves, Disney, Digital Chocolate, Nextive, Bulbstorm, Natura ...
• Facebook Ads Can Now Specify Any Page Landing ...
  Facebook has added the ability to point ads created through its self-serve tool to a specific landing tab of a Page. Previously, advertisers could only set a Page’s default landing tab as a destination. The change will allow advertisers to run multiple ad campaigns for different tabs simultaneou ...
• Join Us at an Inside Network Happy Hour Near Y ...
  We’re taking Inside Facebook on the road! Inside Network is excited to announce a spring happy hour series to bring together the community of developers, investors, and entrepreneurs who read our news and research. Drinks are on us during this series of relaxed, early-evening happy hour mixers. ...
• Visa Enters Virtual Good Payment Industry with ...
  Global payments technology company Visa has announced an agreement to acquire online game monetization-as-a-service provider Playspan for $190 million cash. The acquisition will allow Visa to start taking a cut of virtual good market, which will grow from $1.6 billion in 2010 to $2.1 billion in ...

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ReDress News

• The big bluff: false claims to the Holy Land
  Paul J. Balles explains why the 60 million right-wing Christians in the USA who expect a "second coming" of Jesus Christ into the Holy Land are in for a shock.
• Israel's whitewash report into the Mavi Marmar ...
  Richard Lightbown examines the flawed evidence considered by the Turkel Commission, the phoney inquiry set up by the Israeli government to investigate the Gaza flotilla raid and the blockade of Gaza, which exonerated the Israeli military of the murder of nine humanitarian aid workers aboard the ...
• Israeli economy for beginners
  Gilad Atzmon looks at some of the hidden reasons for Israel's economic success, from money laundering by criminal Russian oligarchs to arms trading, human organ trafficking and harvesting, and other types of international organized crime.
• Egypt: the groupthink problem
  Lawrence Davidson argues that unless Egyptian ruler Hosni Mubarak and his deputy, Omar Suleiman, are made to bridge the gap between their parallel universe and the reality of life in Egypt, and draw the right conclusion and go, Egypt could embark on a ruinously dangerous path.
• To the Egyptian army
  Christopher King reminds the Egyptian army that the world is watching it, and asks: "Will you choose repression or freedom for your people?"

Amazon Rainforest

• Second rancher sentenced for contract kill of ...
  A second rancher has been sentenced for his role in the murder of Dorothy Stang, an American nun who was gunned down in 2005 for her efforts on behalf of poor farmers in the Amazon Rainforest. Regivaldo Galvao was sentenced to 30 years in prison by a jury in the city of Pará. Last month [...]
• Yasuni National Park- SAVED!
  President Raphael Correa now has approved an agreement to leave Ecuador’s largest oil reserves, amounting to some 900 million barrels, underground in Yasuni National Park in exchange for more than $3 billion. Under the unprecedented agreement, known as the Yasuni-ITT Initiative, the government o ...
• Amazon watchgroups SILENT over new Chevron oil ...
  In the space of a week, a Chevron technical team has discovered two fresh oil spills in Ecuador’s oil-producing Amazon region. One covers three hectares (7.4 acres) near state-owned oil company Petroecuador’s Guanta production station in the heart of Cofan indigenous country. The other impacts h ...
• Amazon River dolphin new stunning photos!
  The Amazon River dolphin (Bufeo, Bufeo Colorado, Boto, Boto Cor de Rosa, Boutu, Nay, Tonina) or Pink River Dolphin (Inia geoffrensis), is a freshwater River dolphin endemic to the Orinoco, Amazon and Araguaia/Tocantins River systems of Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela. Thes ...
• Belo Monte dam auction proceeds despite protes ...
  Bidding for electricity generated by Brazil’s planned Belo Monte Dam in the Amazon rainforest has been marked by protests and legal confusion. A court injunction issued late Monday suspended the dam auction overnight, throwing the bidding process into a state of chaos. Just moments before the a ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• US Politics & the Myth of the Pendulum Swing
  Pacified & Lulled, Still Waiting for the Pendulum to Swing It was a rainy April day in 2004, and I was in the office of one of my professors at the university’s Public Policy Graduate Department. I was having one of those defeated and disillusioned moments that kept recurring during that time pe ...
• Let It Cut Both Ways: US Foreign Aid & State S ...
  Material Support to Dictators Who Inflict Terror In June 2010 our rights and liberties suffered a major setback. The United States Supreme Court upheld the broad application of a federal law making it a crime to provide “material support” to designated “foreign terrorist organizations” (FTOs). ...
• US Media & Egypt Coverage: Dodging the Real Is ...
  $60 Billion US Aid to Egypt=$60 Billion Current Net-worth of Mubarak Family With all eyes and attention on Egypt, the unsavory ‘US Foreign Policy’ has become the topic of choice among the intelligentsia, journalists, and the overly populated US analyst colony. There are scores of analyses out th ...
• The FBI “Kamikaze Pilots” Case
  In a public statement issued on Monday, January 31, members of the 9/11 Family Steering Committee demanded a prompt response from the former Chairman and the Executive Director of the 9/11 Commission regarding Former FBI Language Specialist Behrooz Sarshar’s censored testimony to the Commission. ...
• 9/11 Family Members Demand Answers from the 9/ ...
  The Witnessed & Documented “Kamikaze Pilots” Case In a public statement issued today (see below), members of the 9/11 Family Steering Committee demanded a prompt response from the former Chairman and Executive Director of the 9/11 Commission regarding Former FBI Language Specialist Behrooz Sars ...

Afro Spear

• “Do you know Africa’s hidden presi ...
  What transpired in Tunisia recently, sadly though, unearthed a great rot in upper echelons of power in Africa. The strength in this, albeit, is the fact that this domino effect did affect Egypt and Yemen where every eye is on to see what will happen. And thereof, maybe, many casualties will foll ...
• The Herd Mentality…To What Extent Are We ...
  I have recently become fascinated by the idea of the “Herd Mentality” which is the phenomenon of people in crowds or groups who blindly sometimes mindlessly follow the “lead” of certain persons within the same group who appear to be better informed than the rest of the group. In a related manner ...
• “The Vick Comeback: More Than Just On Th ...
  Op-ed submission by Project 21  Stories of redemption are common. Drug addicts kick their habits to rejoin civil society; corrupt investors become charitable. But rarely is there a story of someone overcoming their demons in which people not only want to watch, but want to cheer. Michael Vick’s ...
• An Education: One Moore Book
  This article in the Huffington Post was forwarded to the AfroSpear by Wayétu Moore, one of the creators and publisher of onemoorebook: When Liberia was my home, they called it sweet. Sweet was the word I remembered the most during the war. I was five and my father, two sisters and I fled Monrovi ...
• “Who is next after Mubarak?” by Nk ...
  Looking at the way a new dawn is unfolding in Maghreb, one can comfortable assert that this is but the beginning of a new dawn for Africa and the Middle East. It kicked off from Tunisia where a 23 years dictator was impelled to flee. This guy, Zine Al-Abidine Ben Ali was a master of [...]

Expose the BNP

• Expose the BNP: activists’ meeting
  Over the summer we have seen the extreme right enter parliament in Sweden and racist deportations of Roma people from France. Here at home the EDL have continued to target cities with Muslim communities, while the police are bringing trumped-up charges against anti-fascists. November 6 sees a na ...
• Rotherham fascist leads secret double life
  A BNP activist is living a secret double life, desperate to prevent his employers from finding out about his extremist views – despite having stood as a candidate in last month’s election. Tom Holmes (25) received 715 votes in the recent elections for Rotherham Council but has managed to keep hi ...
• Nick Griffin humiliated in Barking defeat
  The British National Party have suffered a humiliating defeat in the general election when Nick Griffin failed to gain a Westminster seat for the East London ward of Barking. Labour MP Margaret Hodge secured the seat with a 16,000 majority, with Griffin trailing third after the Conservative cand ...
• Ten questions that expose Nick Griffin
  On the day that the BNP launches its election manifesto, Expose the BNP has researched 10 questions for journalists to put to the BNP leader, the answers to which reveal him to be a deeply racist, anti-Semitic Holocaust denier who boasts about his criminal past. 1. In which year did you stop den ...
• Workshy Griffin left his parents penniless
  On yesterdayâs Today programme, BNP leader Nick Griffin told the Radio Four audience that âLiberal economics … have utterly bankrupted this country.â The truth is that Nick Griffin was himself declared bankrupt in 1991. Over several years thereafter he destroyed his parentsâ finances as well. Gr ...

Sen4Earth

• Memorial Tribute to Hugh MacDougall
  Memorial Tribute to Hugh MacDougall “We are sending the power of love, peace and compassion, which can change the world.” â Hugh MacDougall, Australia, SEN Honorary Advisor Hugh was more to Suzanne and I than SEN’s Honorary Spiritual Advisor. He was the beloved friend we called brother, and he w ...
• No to Monsanto and GMO: Action Central
  "SEN is greatly concerned that Monsanto and GMO give rise to a threat that if unchecked could eventually prove as catastrophic to mankind and the sustainability of all life on earth as global warming. We must scream bloody murder, and do so with facts." -- Gregory Hilbert, Co-Founder Sustainabil ...
• Bill Gates On Climate Change & Energy: We Must ...
  Whether you know a little or a lot about Climate Change (aka Global Warming), SEN urges you to watch this one-hour video, because you will learn a great deal either way. Gates lays out a sweeping set of ideas for reducing CO2 emmissions to zero. Gates is no fool when it comes to matters of [...]
• Week 2 – Worldwide Campaign to Save the ...
  The Grand Canyon is one of the world's most pristine and majestic treasures. Mother Nature needs our help to save it. We all need to act to protect the Grand Canyon. Pledge to do your part. Help us by adding your signature to the petitions and ask everyone you know and who cares for earth to do ...
• Seize BP Demonstrations Nationwide
  SEN believes these demonstrations will help awaken politicians to outrage over inadequate regulation and control of international corporations, even if they do not succeed in gaining temporary seizure of BP on the basis of national emergency and evidence of criminal neglect and fraud by BP.

If Americans Knew

• As Israel kills and maims, Outrage is directed ...
  Whenever Israel commits yet another atrocity, its defenders are quick to redirect public attention away from the grisly crime scene. Currently, there are headlines about allegedly anti-Semitic comments made by senior White House correspondent Helen Thomas. Pundits across the land evince outrage ...
• An Open Letter to the Southern Poverty Law Cli ...
  I am disturbed by an article that the Center published in the fall 2007 issue of "Intelligence Report"--the Center's magazine. The item "Navy Extremist Disciplined--But Not for Extremism" is on page 11. The article focuses on Navy officer John Sharpe Jr.
• NPR Watch: Linda Gradstein Has Done It Again o ...
  NPR's reporter Linda Gradstein has done it again. She has managed to take a "must report" story on Israeli-Palestinian relations -- the new report by B'Tselem on the non-combatants, including children, killed by the Israeli military during the Israeli attack on Gaza -- and report it in a manner ...
• The invisible government: Propaganda Disguised ...
  John Pilger: In a speech in Chicago, John Pilger describes how propaganda has become such a potent force in our lives and, in the words of one of its founders, represents 'an invisible government'.
• A moment of truth: A word of faith, hope and l ...
  We, a group of Christian Palestinians, after prayer, reflection and an exchange of opinion, cry out from within the suffering in our country, under the Israeli occupation, with a cry of hope in the absence of all hope, a cry full of prayer and faith in a God ever vigilant, in God's divine provid ...

David J. Gregory

• SAY NO to Patriot EXTENSIONS!
  Together, these provisions make a mockery of our civil liberties: They let government officials spy on whomever they want, for any reason, without ever letting them know or giving them a chance to challenge the order in court.
• Secretariat the Horse, the Movie
  To be witness to history from afar is one thing, to be up close is another, and to have the wisdom to know the difference is the icing on the cake, of course, I am referring to great moments in history, of excelling in any endeavor, being human, or otherwise, of the bright spots and not of man’s ...
• I understand and now you do, too!
  Why do they hate us? Is it really that hard to understand? 1st collector for I understand and now you do, too!Follow my videos on vodpod
• I understand, now you do too!
  A lot of people ask the question, why do they hate us so? This trailer from a new movie explains it in simple terms, it is a sociologist outlining the thinking that has emerge around the world in their views of the Empire. As with every Empire that has ever existed, conquered people will never [ ...
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Unsuitable Blog

• Friends of the Earth, iPods and The Competitio ...
  It was a windy Thursday evening at the beginning of 2011. An office in north London buzzed with anticipation at the launch of something exciting; something that would appeal to a new breed of eco-conscious consumers who want that extra something to keep them feeling good about their fast-pased, ...
• A Story About Banks [Guest Post]
  A few weeks back I had a revelation. Many years ago I opened an account with the Midland Bank in Ipswich. Lots of the people that worked there used to come into the pub that I worked in at lunch-time and they all seemed very nice. Actually there was also a very affable man, a [...]
• Nature Conservancy Embrace Dow Chemical Busine ...
  Below is a long list of chemical compounds and elements. This is not just an ordinary list, for it is special in all sorts of ways – not least of all to anyone who is a supporter of our old friends The Nature Conservancy. The list contains just those substances that the US Environmental Protecti ...
• Sudden Oak Death – It’s News Becau ...
  It’s commonly called Sudden Oak Death, so why the picture of a stand of larch trees? That’s a question well worth asking, but a far more important question is: why has Phytophthora ramorum, the name of the fungus responsible, become such big news in the UK? Ever since P. ramorum started blowing ...
• Mother Nature Network: A Hypocritical Crock Of ...
  I make no apologies for the title of this post: I have just spent a short while reading the biographies of the Mother Nature Network Team, and have ended up in the kind of moral position that Immanuel Kant might have struggled with if he had had the internet to contend with in his philosophical ...

Subalternate Reality

• Praying On Qasr al-Nil
  One of the more memorable scenes of the Egyptian revolution will surely be that of ordinary Egyptian’s praying on Cairo’s Qasr al-Nil Bridge as members of Egyptian state police direct their water cannons at them. Truly a remarkable sight. via Al Jazeera Filed under: Middle East Tagged: Al-Jazeer ...
• “I Support Democratization, But…&# ...
  The Atlanticâs Jeffrey Goldberg â one of the key proponents of the disastrous invasion of Iraq â has some serious misgivings about the fledgling pro-democracy movement thatâs taken over the streets of Egypt. âI support democratization, but,â he cautions, âthe democratization we saw in Gaza (cour ...
• All That Happens In The Middle East Can’ ...
  Uncertainly rules the day in Tunisia. Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the countryâs strong-armed and authoritarian ruler since 1987, is in Saudi Arabia while the interim government struggles to restore some semblance of order.  âConfusion, fear and horror in Tunisia as old regime’s militia carries on ...
• Newt Comes Out As A Muslim-Baiter
  Early this week, disgraced former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich warned that “a commitment to religious freedom and God-given rights is being replaced by a secular oppression…”  Just hours after those words appeared on Human Events, Gingrich issued a statement forcefully opposing the constr ...
• Wealthy Far More Likely To Default On Mortgage ...
  crossposted at Political Correction For much of the past two years, Congressional Republicans have wasted few opportunities to blame poor and working class Americans for the financial meltdown and the subsequent recession. They’ve argued that through well-intentioned government initiatives, in ...

Idea Lab | Technology

• 'Data and Cities' Conference Pushes Open Data, ...
  When I entered Stamen's offices in the Mission district of San Francisco, I saw four people gathered around a computer screen. What were they doing? Nothing less than "mapping the world" -- not as it appears in flat dimension, but how it reveals itself. And they weren't joking. Stamen, a data vi ...
• Knight, Mozilla Partner to Boost Tech-Journali ...
  I'm excited to announce the Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership, a Mozilla Drumbeat project supported by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation's Journalism Program. For the next three years, we will have the opportunity to engage a huge community, bring people together for trainin ...
• Lawyers Voice Concerns About Live-Streaming Co ...
  One of the first things First Justice Mark Coven told us when we went down to the Quincy District Court to start talking about our project, Order in the Court 2.0, was that we had to hold an all-court meeting to introduce the project to everyone to get their input. This seemed like an excellent ...
• Why Huffington Post's 'Predict the News' Game ...
  Fellow Knight News Challenge winner Chris O'Brien recently posted on this site about "gamifying" the news. The idea behind the� movement O'Brien is speaking of, which Brad Flora touched on in another recent Idea Lab post, involves adding incentives -- pop-up achievements for tasks completed, pro ...
• Turning the iPad into an Open, Offline Mapping ...
  We've talked here before about TileMill, an open source tool for creating your own custom map tiles (the individual pieces that make up a full map of a city, country, and so on). But what sorts of things can you do with these map tiles? One area we wanted to explore was using them on Apple's lat ...

Cutting Edge News

• Economic Recovery on Edge - Lack of Contract O ...
  The cost of federal contracts in 2010 totaled $535 billion.Federal agencies are increasingly reliant on contractors but many struggle to manage them and therefore expose billions in taxpayer dollars to fraud, waste and mismanagement.The Government Accountability Office identified management weak ...
• Egypt in Revolt - In Search of a Leader: Egypt ...
  A political festival of one million people was held in Cairo on Tuesday. Despite the continued shutdown of the Internet, transportation problems and a curfew, Egyptians came in the hundreds of thousands to Tahrir Square to tell President Hosni Mubarak, once again, to go.His effigy was hanging in ...
• Dying in America - CSI America: Bungled Death ...
  In detective novels and television crime dramas like "CSI," the nation's morgues are staffed by highly trained medical professionals equipped with the most sophisticated tools of 21st-century science. Operating at the nexus of medicine and criminal justice, these death detectives thoroughly inve ...
• Egypt in Revolt - What Are the United States’ ...
  Several American lawmakers have called for the United States to cut or suspend its foreign aid to Egypt. That aid, as has been noted, has been a decades-long symbol of the U.S. government’s support for Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, whose years of repression are fueling these ongoing mass pro ...
• Oil Without a Plan - Egypt's Crisis Exacerbate ...
  A�dire US military warning last year about declining oil production has proven well-founded in Egypt, a country that produced 935,000 barrels daily in 1996 but is now on the brink of relying on imports to meet its own demand. The report last April by the US Joint Forces Command said vanishing oi ...

High Country News

• Online dating in a small mountain town
  A not-quite-hopeless romantic in a small mountain town decides to try Internet dating.
• Consider slaughterhouses for unwanted wild hor ...
  With so many unwanted horses abandoned to starve these days, it’s time to reconsider slaughterhouses.
• The latest: Biomass emissions
  The EPA will not regulate greenhouse gas emissions from biomass facilities for the next three years.
• Presidential style
  Obama's nonconfrontational approach to life underlies his slow-but-steady approach to Western environmental issues.
• A closer look at Obama's judges, federal agenc ...
  A closer look at Obama's impact on federal judges, the Fish and Wildlife Service, the Energy Department and the Forest Service, as well as his administration's approach to science and secrecy.

CounterCurrents

• Yes We Can; Yes We Must Abolish Nuclear Weapon ...
  By Eileen Fleming America possesses 11,000 nuclear weapons with many in excess of 20,000,000 tons of TNT [the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were 12,000 tons] yet claims to be based on Judeo-Christian ethics, but How can you kill people, when it is written in Gods commandment: Thou sha ...
• Environmentalism Of The Poor: What Democracy I ...
  By Sunita Narain In India, where I live and work, the environmental issue is at an important juncture, which has important lessons for the world, if we care to listen
• Droughts, Floods And Food
  By Paul Krugman What we are getting now is a first taste of the disruption, economic and political, that we ll face in a warming world. And given our failure to act on greenhouse gases, there will be much more, and much worse, to come
• Egypts Berlin Wall Moment
  By Richard Falk The recent uprisings do not exist merely in a historical vacuum, but must be considered within a geopolitical context
• Saudi Arabia Cannot Pump Enough Oil To Keep A ...
  By John VidalThe US fears that Saudi Arabia, the worlds largest crude oil exporter, may not have enough reserves to prevent oil prices escalating, confidential cables from its embassy in Riyadh show

Contagious Love Experiment

• Practicing Peace in the New Year
  A friend, Frank Swift, that I met on my first journey has passed along some great practical steps towards peace for the new year. Frank has written a children’s book to help young people see an alternative to the competition and forcefulness that can too easily get instilled in our young people. ...
• Sharing the writing of another Stieber
  My younger brother, Zack, has been fascinated by the Chinese practice of Falun Gong and is hoping that this post could be used to spark a further discussion about it. � Thoughts on Falun Gong by Zack Stieber � Most of us are aware that in China things work differently then here. The main thing o ...
• Article in FOR
  The following is the rough draft for an article I wrote, reflecting on the war in Iraq, that was published in the recent edition of the Fellowship of Reconciliation’s magazine. For more info on getting the full magazine, check out: http://forusa.org/fall-2010-renewing-movement   Rhetoric and Re ...
• Slate Interview: My Country Right or Wrong: Co ...
  Interview I did with a fascinating writer for SLATE whose special interest is on transformation and how people come to admit they’re wrong:   Address to article: http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/thewrongstuff/archive/2010/12/16/my-country-right-or-wrong-conscientious-objector-josh-stieber-on-bei ...
• Dangerous Activity Thwarted in Afghanistan!

Yid With Lid

• Before Rep Weiner Lectures Judge Thomas About ...
  Since he was first elected to congress, Anthony Weiner's (D-NY) only major contribution to this country was getting bit on the hand by a goat on the Capitol Building Lawn.� Actually that was the goat's contribution wasn't it? Now that Alan Grayson is gone, Anthony Weiner is the nastiest hypocrit ...
• What If They Gave a Revolution in Egypt and No ...
  "If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you..." �������� --Rudyard Kipling, "If" By Barry Rubin The time has come to advance a new thesis. Since I was just about the first person anywhere to warn publicly that the Egyptian revolution ...
• On the Road To CPAC
  Folks the computer equipment is all packed and my suitcase is loaded. That could only mean one thing, its time once again for CPAC.� I will be spending most of the day in the car driving to Washington DC, to meet with right wing thinkers, Politicians and like-minded bloggers. While Blogging ...
• Egypt: Celebrate Now, Worry Later, Then Suffer ...
  By Barry Rubin Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it. And those who don't know history also smugly say things that have more holes�than substance. Recently, someone responding to an article of mine said it's a pity I couldn't share the world's joy at the uprising in E ...
• Health Care Showdown--Obama To Ignore Judge, H ...
  It looks as if a showdown on Obamcare is coming sooner rather than later. Yesterday, outgoing Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said that the government would be going ahead with implementing Obamacare despite the Florida Judge's expectation that implementation would stop based on his ruling. Today i ...

The Real Agenda

• Artificial Immortal Micro-Organisms
  The Pentagon’s advanced-research arm, to bring synthetic biology to a new level of creepiness By Karla Starr PopSci.com February 10, 2011 Darpa has dedicated $6 million to a new program called BioDesign, which according to the agency’s budget is an attempt to eliminate “the randomness of natural ...
• Derivatives: The Real Reason Bernanke Funnels ...
  by Graham Summers We’ve been over the numerous BS excuses that US Dollar destroyer extraordinaire Ben Bernanke has made for QE enough times that today I’d rather simply focus on the REAL reason he continues to funnel TRILLIONS of Dollars into the Wall Street Banks. I’ve written this analysis bef ...
• Obama Launches Total Media Takeover
  Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com February 8, 2011 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 ev ...
• Scientific Revolutions: Vaccines, viruses and ...
  NaturalNews.com In this interview, Dr Wakefield speaks at length about the interaction between human beings and infectious disease. This is perhaps the most in-depth discussion by Dr Wakefield that has ever been captured on camera about the long-term threat that vaccines pose to the future of hu ...
• Cães detectam com precisão o Câncer de Intesti ...
  Isso abriria a possibilidade de desenvolvimento de testes para detectar a doença antes que se espalhe The Real Agenda 9 Fevereiro, 2011 A julgar pela pesquisa, os autores desse estudo indicaram que existem compostos químicos para tipos específicos de câncer que circulam no corpo humano e um cão ...

Wind Watch

• Barnstable County seeks to curb large wind tur ...
  BARNSTABLE � The Cape Cod Commission has proposed rules that will prohibit construction of any more large wind turbines on most of Cape Cod. The regulations, which are the subject of a public hearing that will continue on Feb. 3, would require a 3,000-foot buffer between a land-based wind turbin ...
• New power line will leave somebody unhappy
  GOLDENDALE — Hitching two bales of hay to his beat-up 1992 Dodge Ram pickup, Brian P. Fletcher drags breakfast to his cows across the windswept ranch that has been in his family since 1946. Dogs Becky and Sheila ride along in the bed as the Little Klickitat River rushes in the distance through p ...
• Somerset commissioners vote down tax boon; Fir ...
  SKOWHEGAN � People who live in the unorganized territories of Somerset County will not see millions of dollars worth of economic development projects in the coming years. Somerset County Commissioners said �no� on Wednesday evening to a wind project developer�s proposal to form a tax-increment f ...
• Angst in Antrim over wind farm
  ANTRIM � Antrim officials have proposed changes to town law in hopes of avoiding a repeat of the contentious debate over a wind farm on Tuttle Hill. The battle has pitted an energy company against neighbors, with the town caught in between. Portsmouth-based Eolian Renewable Energy, through its s ...
• Wind power opponents advance legislation
  AUGUSTA â A group opposing industrial windmills atop Maine’s mountain ranges has convinced several lawmakers to submit legislation that scrutinizes and reduces the speed of the state’s wind power initiative. Wind power proponents counter that the group isn’t looking for transparency or to slow d ...

Not My Tribe

• Grandmas Against The War…
  I LOVE the way these kids operate These are the ones who went to the Recruiting Offices in Manhattan and tried to enlist. In their 70s and 80s. This has an other link off on the sidebar to your right, on The Rag Blog. But I figured the more the merrier. Meanwhile, Napolitano said that [...]
• Royal Wedding rescue mission to provide Bread ...
  As the Empire burns… “Rescue Mission” was the excuse for the ultimately FAILED invasion of Grenada, to draw attention away from the Iran/Contra cartel FAILURE getting skunked in Lebanon. And to divert attention from the British Naval bombardment of Argentina under pretext of defending an Imperia ...
• Remember the Maine? Egyptians will.
  Remember the Maine? In 1898 a popular uprising was threatening Spanish rule in Cuba. The US Navy cruised to the rescue. The rescue of whom, we never got the chance to find out. An explosion aboard the USS Maine gave America the pretext to blame a Spanish torpedo. An America inflamed by a jingois ...
• The US favors me over Democracy. Who am I?
  I imprison without charges, I torture, I assassinate, I overlook police brutality, I kill foreign journalists, I kill innocent civilians, I lie about how many. I spy on my people, I violate civil liberties, I impose emergency law, I persuade with propaganda of a complicit state media, I preside ...
• Latest news from the Animal Rebellion –P ...
  Man in California stabbed to death in cockfight… by the gamecock. Anglo “rooster fanciers” put needle-like spurs onto the rooster’s natural back spur. to enhance the bloodshed. Then complain that Mexicans put actual blades on them. It’s an ancient “sport” and the reason there are any chickens at ...

Debunking the Debunkers

• Mike Adams & Andrew Wakefield on Scientific Re ...
  An excellent discussion on the history of science and how revolutionary figures are often savagely attacked, despite being correct. The stuff about cold fusion was interesting. Steven Jones was also a leading name in cold fusion, but his work was separate from Fleischmann and Pons. In 2009, U ...
• Debunking the Debunkers on Pumpitout Radio
  Jeff Hill's Pumpitout radio show featuring Adam Taylor and myself. We discuss the undeniable evidence which proves that the public has not been told the truth concerning the atrocities that took place on September 11, 2001. We also discuss the numerous errors made by so-called 9/11 "debunkers." ...
• Jesse Ventura: American Conspiracies Audio Boo ...
  The full audio book of Jesse Ventura's American Conspiracies. Here is the chapter on 9/11: Download audio book link Related links: Rep. Cohen: Ventura’s Show Promotes Terrorism TruTV's 'Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura' - 9/11 Jesse Ventura's Pentagon Episode & a response to Neighb ...
• Debunking the Debunkers
  Permanent Top Post--Scroll Down for Newer Posts Comments are only open to blog contributors, but feel free to contact us here if you have a point of contention or some kind words you would like to share. Ad hominems will be ignored, but well-formed rebuttals may be addressed (and that is a sub ...
• Loughner and Zeitgeist in Perspective
  James B. over at Screw Loose Change recently posted part of an article claiming that the film Zeitgeist heavily influenced Jared Loughner. James apparently felt that the article made "enough good points about Jared Loughner and the pan-conspiracy movie Zeitgeist" and "thought it deserved a post. ...

Fooducate

• Four Thoughts on Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move” ...
  Today Michelle Obama celebrates the first anniversary of her worthy cause Let’s Move, the campaign to end childhood obesity within one generation. Launched early last year, the program aims to achieve its noble goal  by improving the nutritional quality of school lunches adding more physical ac ...
• Great News from Hershey: Chocolate more Nutrit ...
  The Hershey Center for Health and Nutrition (Yes, candy makers have nutrition centers!) yesterday published a not-so-surprising study touting the health benefits of chocolate. But for the first time, they put the nutritional benefits into a context. It appears that Chocolate contains more antiox ...
• Did You See that Superbowl Commercial for Kale ...
  No. Of course not. Of the twelve food commercials during yesterday’s superbowl, all were for junk food and liquid candy: Coke Pepsi Lipton Brisk Doritos Snickers What you need to know: Let’s just say outright that we enjoyed the commercials very much. Lots of creativity. Overall, the quality was ...
• Protect Yourself from Fake Guacamole [Superbow ...
  Big game today, and lots of snacking in front of the TV. Guacamole has become part of the tradition, as a healthy dip for your tortilla chips. Superbowl Sunday is the single biggest day for avocados every year, with 50 million pounds eaten! So why settle for a fake guacamole dip with 45 ingredie ...
• Need Inspiration? Watch this Trailer – Fat, Si ...
  The documentary Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead is scheduled to debut on April 1st. No Joke. It chronicles the story two men who struggle to lose weight, overcome the same rare disease and change their lives for good.  The uplifting story follows Joe Cross on a cross country road trip where he vows to d ...

Traffikd

• Culture Vulture: Social Strategies for Differe ...
  Social media campaigns are becoming more integrated into the overall online marketing mix. And as with anything on the Web, you need to think global to succeed in the long term. To succeed with social media marketing for different cultures, you need to familiarise yourself with what’s happening ...
• Internet Marketing and Social Media Degree Pro ...
  Guest post by Brian Jenkins Over a billion and a half people use the Internet, and this has created a plethora of opportunities for talented Internet marketers. Specialized knowledge in Internet marketing and social media is vital for many businesses. Yes, there are successful, self-taught Inte ...
• How to Find Great Communities, Forums, and Blo ...
  To market your company effectively, you need to find out where your target audience is. In this post I’ll show you how you can do this. I like using examples, so in this case, I’ll assume you sell Star Wars merchandise.
• Blogging Event Ideas to Spice Up Your Blog
  If you've ever gone to an industry conference, film festival, grand opening, or author signing, then you can appreciate the energy such events can create. Industry conferences gather together the best and brightest minds in order to share ideas and plan for the future. Film festivals celebrate g ...
• Increasing Your Blog’s Interactivity: 10 Tips ...
  Guest post by Alexis Bonari Success in attracting and retaining readers is often influenced by a blog’s level of interactivity. Many readers are more active than passive and want to feel like they have a role in affecting a blog’s content, design, structure, and overall ongoing conversation. Po ...

Survival International

• Indians call on Brazil’s President to halt Bel ...
  Amazon Indians protesting in Brasília against the Belo Monte dam © Amazon Watch Hundreds of people, including over 80 Amazonian Indians, gathered yesterday outside the Brazilian Congress and Presidential Palace to protest at the proposed Belo Monte dam in the Amazon rainforest. A delegat ...
• Hundreds protest against Ecuador leader’s arre ...
  Pepe Luis Acacho, Shuar leader, Ecuador © Survival Pepe Luis Acacho, an indigenous Shuar leader, has been arrested just two days after he was chosen as leading candidate for the presidency of CONAIE, Ecuador’s main indigenous organization. Acacho was arrested along with two other Shuar men ...
• India’s policy of ‘integrating’ tribal people ...
  The MP of India's Andaman Islands has called for Jarawa children to be 'weaned' away from the tribe in order to 'drastically mainstream' them. © Salomé/Survival India’s Minister of Tribal Affairs, Kantilal Bhuria, has announced that he supports the ‘integration’ of India’s tribal communitie ...
• Gillian Anderson narrates unique film of uncon ...
  A still from new aerial footage of an uncontacted Amazon tribe in Brazil © BBC/FUNAI/Survival Movie star Gillian Anderson has launched Survival’s new campaign to protect some of the world’s last uncontacted tribes with an extraordinary new film. The film shows uncontacted Indians on the Br ...
• Success: Peru acts to save uncontacted tribes
  Global coverage of the newly-released photos has pushed the Peruvian government into action © Gleison Miranda/FUNAI/Survival Peru’s authorities have announced that they will work together with Brazil to stop loggers entering isolated Indians’ territory along the two countries’ joint border. ...

Greg Palast

• Reagan: Killer, Coward, Con-man
  The Observer London by Greg Palast You're not going to like this. You shouldn't speak ill of the dead. But in this case, someone's got to. On the 100th Anniversary of Ronald Reagan's birth, as we suffer a week of Reagan-kitcheria and pukey peons, let us remember: Reagan was a con-man. Rea ...
• Shake your head and throw something at your TV
  from MoviesOnline.ca Bush Family Fortunes is a documentary that will make you shake your head and want to throw something at your TV. If even half of what BBC investigative reporter Greg Palast reveals is true and you happen to be an American you may or may not be calling for a revolution depen ...
• Peak Oil and a Changing Climate
  from The Nation The scientific community has long agreed that our dependence on fossil fuels inflicts massive damage on the environment and our health, while warming the globe in the process. But beyond the damage these fuels cause to us now, what will happen when the world's supply of oil ru ...
• Palast ArrestedBusted by BP in Azerbaijan
  by Greg Palast BP's Azeri police arresting Palast for filming BP oil rig - Baku, Azerbaijan, December 2010"Here in Azerbaijan we believe in human rights. PLEASE GIVE US YOUR FILM." Oh, no, no, not good. The enforcers here come in three colors:  the military police still wearing their old Rus ...
• The Real Wiki Hero
  by Marta Steele from OpEdNews with a Surprise P.S. from Greg Palast Is it not ironic that the same country that contributed Rupert Murdoch to the world has more recently donated Julian Assange, editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks since 2007, when it was founded to "report on and publish important info ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

• Seven fantastic ways to transform rubbish into ...
  I don’t know about you but I’m itching to get a start on spring cleaning this year – or rather spring decluttering – and as well as getting rid of a whole bunch of stuff, I’d like to have better, neater storage for the stuff I have. Here are some of the ways I’ll be [...]
• How can I repair a silicone baking mat?
  We’ve had another email from our good friend Petra: I’ve got a question about a silicone baking mat. I have two of them, but accidentally in both of them there is a cut from a knife or pizza slicer. Does anyone know of a method to repair these cuts? I can’t think of something myself [...]
• How can I reuse or recycle a Cillit Bang spray ...
  Shelagh emailed to ask: How can I reuse a Cillit Bang spray? It seems impossible to remove the nozzle to fill with a product. I’ve never used it so I don’t know what the bottle is like – but I’m going out to the shops in a few minutes so I’ll have a good look [...]
• How can I reuse or recycle whiteboard marker p ...
  We’ve had an email from Julie asking: Can I recycle whiteboard marker pens? What plastic are they? I don’t know what plastic they are. I’ve spent about an hour this morning reading the “about our products” page of all the marker pen manufacturers I can think of but no one mentions that – and no ...
• What one thing would you like to see everyone ...
  Happy New Year everyone! Last year, at the start of 2010, I asked everyone what they were going to reduce, reuse and recycle in 2010. I said I hoped to cut back on buying clothes & do more cooking/baking at home to cut down on pre-packed food packaging (which I’ve done), and set up dedicated [.. ...

Age of Autism

• Merck's Medical Media Empire
  Managing Editor's Note: Martin has reported extensively on the GMC proceedings against Dr. Wakefield. He has written numerous reports and books that you can purchase at Slingshot Publications. By Martin Walker Today the world is so big and the miasma...
• Swine Flu Vaccine, Genetics and Narcolepsy in ...
  From The Boston Herald via AP. Narcolepsy is a serious, life changing condition see HERE. GENEVA — Genetic factors may have contributed to a spike in narcolepsy cases observed among children in Finland who received the swine flu vaccine Pandemrix,...
• Katie Wright on the CDC Autism Prevalence Meet ...
  By Katie Wright The purpose of this meeting was to bring together a diverse group of scientists, stakeholders and autism organizations in order to discuss ASD prevalence trends and opportunities for further research. This is certainly a worthwhile endeavor given...
• Vaccine Epidemic - The Most Important Book in ...
  By Kent Heckenlively, Esq. The masterful new book, Vaccine Epidemic, edited by Louise Kuo Habakus, M.A., director of the Center for Personal Rights, and Mary Holland, J.D., research scholar at the New York University School of Law may be the...
• Dr. Halvorsen on Wakefield, Witch Hunts and Va ...
  By Anne Dachel Several months ago, I interviewed British doctor Richard Halvorsen concerning the heated vaccine-autism controversy. Dr. Halvorsen had gained a fair amount of attention in the British press. I contacted him recently to get his views on the...

Global BDS Movement

• Palestinian Civil Society Statement on the dr ...
  Professor John Ruggie, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General (SRSG) on transnational corporations and other Business enterprises is currently preparing his final report to the UN Human Rights Council, due in June 2011. The report will include Guiding Principles for the implement ...
• On the Second Anniversary of Israel’s Bloodbat ...
  Occupied Palestine, 27 December 2010 – On the morning of 27 December 2008 Israeli forces initiated a 23-day military offensive against the occupied and besieged Gaza Strip killing more than 1400 and injuring over 5000 Palestinians, predominantly civilians and refugees since 1948. read more
• Palestinian Civil Society reiterates call for ...
  Occupied Palestine, 22 December 2010 - We, the undersigned Palestinian civil society organizations, including farmers’ unions, agricultural organizations and popular committees, reiterate the call of the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) for a full boycott of Carmel-Agrexco due to its com ...
• Derail Israel's Unlawful A1 Train Project– End ...
  Occupied Palestinian Territory, 16 December 2010 - Israel’s A1 high-speed train project designed to connect Jerusalem and Tel Aviv violates international humanitarian law and human rights law. The A1 rail project forms a component of Israel’s ongoing plans to cement its regime of occupation, col ...
• Australian BDS Movement Begins to Emerge
  By Phil Monsour read more

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.

Open Your Eyes News

• 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, ...
• Editorial – Calgary Vote Puts Perth’s Wa ...
  Perthâs sister resources city, Calgary in Canada, yesterday voted to end the undemocratic and unethical practice of water fluoridation due to increasing concerns over its health effects. This follows recent announcement by US health authorities reducing US flouridation levels to 30% less than Pe ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

• EPA diving into the Sacramento-San Joaquin Del ...
  Urban water agencies and Central Valley irrigation districts hit by pumping cutbacks in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta have long groused that federal regulators are obsessed with the effects of the big pumps that send water south and haven't paid enough...
• Clorox comes clean: Company discloses all ingr ...
  The maker of bleach, Pine-Sol and other popular cleaning products announced Tuesday that it will disclose the specific preservatives, dyes and fragrances it uses in its cleaning, disinfecting and laundry products sold in the U.S. and Canada. The Clorox Co....
• Endangered arroyo toad gets habitat protection ...
  The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has finalized designation of 98,366 acres of critical habitat needed by the endangered arroyo toad to fulfill all of its complex life-cycle stages: flowing water, sandy banks and chaparral. The USFWS also designated 2,347...
• The dark side of LEDs: Some colored lights con ...
  As the light from incandescent bulbs dims in the face of their impending phase-out, new concerns are being raised about the hazardous materials contained in some of their more energy-efficient replacements, such as light-emitting diodes or LEDs. While LEDs consume...
• Colorado environmentalists challenge planned u ...
  An environmental group has filed a lawsuit challenging Colorado's greenlighting of the first new uranium mill in the United States in 25 years. Last month, Colorado's Department of Public Health and Environment approved a permit for the Pinon Ridge Uranium...

water.org

• Water.org powering microfinance for water (CFI ...
  Whatâs Matt Damon Got to Do With Microfinance? (Center for Financial Inclusion) – Reeta Roy, the president and CEO of The MasterCard Foundation, penned the post for the foundationâs blog many weeks ago. But the storyâs still fresh: an organization called Water.org is powering a âmarket-driven an ...
• Water.org ensuring the right to clean water (A ...
  Ensuring the Right to Clean Water, One Bottle at a Time: Matt Damon and water.org team up to end the global water crisis (ABC News) – Water.Org gives grants in 14 countries (with Haiti most recently added) utilizing the innovation of a micro-finance model called âwater creditâ. Using the power o ...
• Votes are in from Lowe’s Giving Campaign ...
  The Votes Are in: America Shows Its Love for National Parks, but Everyone Wins in Loweâs First Online Giving Campaign (Business Wire) MOORESVILLE, N.C. – Loweâs and the Loweâs Charitable and Educational Foundation are distributing grants totaling $1 million to the four charities that participate ...
• Hult Global Case Challenge video (Hult)
  Official Hult Global Case Challenge video 2011 (Hult) - The Hult Global Case Challenge is an international case competition that is open to all university and college students from around the world. On March 5th 2011 in partnership with Water.org, we will hold Regional events in five major citie ...
• Matt Damon recognized for Water.org (MTV)
  Matt Damon Recognized At Critics’ Choice Awards For Water.org Charity (MTV) – Damon was given the fourth annual Joel Siegel Award for Service to the Community. While Kimmel provided comic relief, joking that the Oscar winner is “the greatest guy in the world,” the actor received serious accolade ...

Before It's News

• Southside Bancshares Inc. (SBSI) Dividend Stoc ...
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• “There’s No Sense of Urgency” in Washington
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Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

• The Deniers on CBC Radio's 'Ideas'
  The science is settled - is now the mantra of climate change activism? Those who disagree are either in denial or in the pay of an oil company. But long time environmentalist and energy activist Lawrence Solomon says no, the science is not settled on global warming. Ideas producer David Cayley b ...

Margaret's News

• The Middle East does not need stability
  That is how we have shaped our disgustingly laundered language to serve our one and only narrative; how we would describe to ourselves the misleading reality in which we live. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Israeli army represses Palestinian dissent by ...
  "They come for our woman and our children," Bassem Tamimi, the leader of the Popular Committee of Nabi Saleh recently told me, "they know that woman are half our population and half our strength and so they target them along with the children.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! � ...
• Nobody mentions the Jewish Brotherhood
  The Jewish Brotherhood, which uses widespread slogans such as "Jehova is the King" and "Return the Crown to its old glory", address a much more mythical world: No "pure" Jewish regime ever existed. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Herzliya Conference: Israeli leaders practice ...
  The opening session on Sunday evening involved a high-ranking military official who warned of looming threats from the global delegitimization campaign waged against Israel, from the instability of the Palestinian Authority and the territory it governs...Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� ...
• What planet are they on? Which century? Israel ...
  "The assimilation struggle reaches headlines through stories of Jewish women marrying Muslims, but it's important to remember that this phenomenon is much broader. Over 92,000 families living in Israel are of mixed race," said Hotovely. s Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� � ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

• U.S. Aims for $1 per Watt Solar Power to Compe ...
  Solar innovation at the heart of SunShot program. U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu Friday announced that $27 million will be awarded to nine new projects ...
• E•BOOM CAPITAL: Power-One Guidance for 2011 Sc ...
  Power inverters are necessary to convert DC electricity from solar and wind installation into usable AC electricity. Shares of solar and wind power inverter company Po ...
• Princeton's Impressive New Solar Plans: A Mode ...
  Princeton University not only plans to be home to one of the largest solar installations on any U.S. college campus by 2012, but it also aims to create a successful renewable energy business model for other schools to follow. read ...
• E•BOOM CAPITAL: MEMC Shares Up 10% on 2010 Res ...
  MEMC’s SunEdison subsidiary “simplifies solar” by developing, financing, operating and monitoring solar power plants for commercial, industrial and utility customers. ...
• E•BOOM CAPITAL: VC Cleantech Investment Up 8% ...
  United States venture capitalists invested $3.98 billion in cleantech companies in 2010, up eight percent from 2009, according to an analysis released today by Ernst & Young LLP based on data from Dow Jones VentureSource. The number ...

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

Historical Notes

• Fidel Castro
• Fidel Castro History Archive
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• Castro Speech database

libcom

• Crisis in Care: Interview with an anarchist su ...
  care.jpg An interview with a support worker in Sheffield about the problems in social care as a result of the recession and the proposed austerity measures. read more
• The Cairo Commune
  Reflections On the Cairo Commune by the Fanon scholar Nigel Gibson. by Nigel Gibson Quite remarkable (but not surprising) that after less than two weeks Tahrir square has developed a system of participatory. While constantly worryi ...
• Roots of the Egyptian revolutionary moment
  Egypt-manifs-NEW-m.jpg Transcript of an interview with an Egyptian student and activist, describing the strikes and social movements that preceded the present rebellion. A vide ...
• Total personnel chaos in DHL (Russia)
  dhl_main_en.jpg This story started at the end of 2008. I was resigning from one company that deals with transportation between Russia and Ossetia. As many others – I was looking for a better job and ...
• Go Slow Strike at FagorMastercook (Mondragon c ...
  Workers fight for wage increase. A work-to-rule strike in underway in Wroclaw's FagorMastercook factory. Despite exceptionally good output, increased exports and a healthy profit, most workers are still taking home a meager 350 euros ...

Free Range International

• Shifting Sands
  With most of the world’s attention focused unfolding events in the Mideast now is a good time to shed some light on the current ground-truth in Afghanistan.  Sami the Finn is always a good place to start and he provides interesting perspective on the suicide bombing at Kabul’s at  the Finest s ...
• What Is the Problem Here?
  One of the Chim Chims’ has asked to put up a guest post on a topic near and dear to both our hearts for different reasons:  the continuing efforts of the New York Times to kill a program I doubt was that big of a deal to begin with.  Chim Chim is a member of [...]
• The Start of a Long Year
  A few weeks back home we’re a blessing and also a time to partake in my favorite thing to do which is doing nothing.  I’m an expert.  While I was away a few articles caught my attention and they serve as a useful point of departure to evaluate where we are at the start of [...]
• You Can’t Handle the Truth
  The efforts of the international community to bring aid to Afghanistan, help develop the infrastructure with the goal of allowing Afghanistan a chance at self sufficiency are failing dismally.  That should not be a surprise to anyone with more than a passing knowledge of the international aid ra ...
• Afghanistan’s Forgotten Province
  There are a couple of recent articles in the flood of coverage about Afghanistan which caught my eye last week.  The first is factually wrong but I understand what the author was saying and he is, in a sense correct.  The second is factually correct, I understand what that reporter was saying to ...

The Story Behind the Story

• IMPORTANT CORRECTIONS ON PREVIOUS POST!!
  Earlier, I posted a communication I received concerning the January 28 event over Jerusalem.  The post was incorrect, and had been changed from its original form.  Today, I was notified of the alterations in the text, and I have indeed verified these subtle changes.  I do not know exactly HOW th ...
• Jane Stillwater Tells it Like it Is on $17.5 T ...
  America’s 17.5-trillion-dollar loss: Time to move Tahrir Square to Wall Street? By Jane Stillwater  http://jpstillwater.blogspot.com/2011/02/americas-17.html I’m really really glad to be leaving for Antarctica in a few days — because America’s undemocratic financial system is really really star ...
• Rothschilds Now Own Control of Weather Central ...
  Please note my underlined text and personal  given in parenthesis in this “Business Wire” article —- Ott NEW YORK – (Business Wire) E.L. Rothschild LLC, a private investment company led by Chairman Sir Evelyn de Rothschild and CEO Lynn Forester de Rothschild, today announced the signing of a de ...
• “Event Contracts”?? Are You Kiddi ...
  Recently, a female caller phoned in to Alex Jones’ radio show as he was interviewing George Noory.  She was obviously excited about sharing a government CFTC website link.  Unfortunately, Jones ignored her story – so she persevered and called into Noory’s Coast to Coast show.  Here is the cal ...
• ET Craft Makes Story of the Decade? You Decid ...
  I have been sitting on this story since January 29.   At first, I wasn’t going to post it, but now I see that it is important in the extreme.  It doesn’t matter what I personally believe or disbelieve.  What matters is that the story gets exposure so that the public can make up their own [.. ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

• Downsizing – downscaling? See these tiny ...
  Here’s a great company doing inspiring work www.tumbleweedhouses.com The company creator, Jay Shafer started off making a super small mobile home for himself measuring  just 89 square feet! Their video is a testament to less being more – they’re now selling ready made mobile cabins and the plan ...
• Air powered environmentally friendly car being ...
  Sounds a little strange right – an air powered car – why isn’t this big news I wonder… There’s a great company in France operated by a former Formula 1 engineer now producing cars running on compressed air. They’re not great to look at, super fast, or I’m guessing really comfortable, but they’re ...
• Deforestation – environmental & human ef ...
  There are many types of forest in the world from Temperate Forest to Tropical forest. The one thing all forests have in common is that the trees in them act as the lungs to our planet converting CO2 to Oxygen.  In addition, forests provide a canopy or shading of the earth which helps maintain te ...
• Could cancer be Fungus? If so, maybe here&#821 ...
  Recently I visited a dear friend who has been dealing with breast cancer for over ten years. After a long attempt to avoid surgery and medication, she was forced to have a double mastectomy. She has chosen to avoid the chemo treatments. This takes a lot of courage given that the standard thing t ...
• Doctors Warn about GM Food Risks
  It’s barely been a week since I wrote about the dangers of genetically modified (GM) foods and now the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) has released a strongly-worded warning about the health dangers associated with Frankenfoods. Calling for a moratorium on GM foods, the AAEM sa ...

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

• Fergie Jenkins, Baseball Hall of Famer (Feb 2, ...
  Canada's only Hall of Famer talks with Peter about pitching fastballs and dealing with life's curveballs.
• Rex Murphy (Dec 18, 2010)
  We call him the wordsmith for his own amazing using of the English language - and part of that he gets from his voracious reading appetite of the works of others. Given the season, time for a visit from the one and only Rex Murphy, and his advice on the best books to give.
• Wayne Gretzky
  He is the Great One by name, by deed and by reputation. And when Canadians were asked who should be the final torchbearer in Vancouver, he was their first choice. And this week, he's ours. Hockey legend, Wayne Gretzky.
• Mark Tremblay, Healthy Living and Obesity Expe ...
  How fit are we? Not very, if you buy into the steady stream of new studies that have been making the news. They paint a very bleak picture of the present, but an even worse future if current trends continue. This week, our guest tells us why.
• Bruce McCulloch, Comedian (Jan 16, 2010)
  He was one of the creative geniuses behind the 1980's TV hit The Kids in the Hall, and now he, and they, are back. But what about those intervening years? What did he learn and how has it changed him? This week, we find out.

Scotts Contracting

• Results from Energy & Environment Consumer Sur ...
  75% of Consumers Have a Favorable View of Solar and Wind Energy, According to New Survey from Pike Research Monday, February 07, 2011 5:01 AM (Source: Business Wire) The future of the U.S. energy supply is a topic of fierce … Continue reading →
• Obama State of the Union Clean Energy Overview
  State of the Union 2011 Fact Sheets: overview, clean energy, R+D, manufacturing, patents Author(s): Miriam Berg In his State of the Union delivered Jan. 25, 2011, President Barack Obama highlighted energy-saving measures to stimulate the economy. Want to learn the … Continue reading →
• White House-Obama-USA Better Building Factshee ...
  Down Load the pdf Here - White House Better Bldgs Factsheet 2-2-11.pdf Scott’s Contracting scottscontracting
• Britians Military- Fossil F to Green Energy So ...
  Green energy plan at military bases (UKPA) â 13 hours ago British military bases on the front line in Afghanistan could be run on solar and wind energy in future under Ministry of Defence plans. The move would cut the … Continue reading →
• NFLs Green Energy Initiative
  NFL- National Football League- Green Energy Initiative. Kudos to the NFL and the On-going Green Initiative! Besides this years Super Bowl Game between the Green Bay Packers and the Pittsburgh Steelers is being advertised as the ‘Greenest Super Bowl of … Continue reading →

The View From Abroad

• Hypocrisy of U.S. Foreign Policy Produces Terr ...
  U.S. support of tyrants betrays our principles and contributes to terrorism.
• Putting Things in Perspective
  The shooting in Tucson should make all Americans rethink our tragic War on Terror policies.
• Last Words Worth Acting Upon
  Richard Holbrooke knew we should end the war in Afghanistan.
• Logic, Not Emotions, Should Rule the Day
  Unemployment benefits meant to help the unemployed actually do more harm than good.
• Logic Not Emotions Should Rule the Day
  Unemployment benefits meant to help the unemployed actually do more harm than good.

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

• Using Islamophobia as a Pretext for Withdrawin ...
  If the two cultures genuinely dislike each other, cooperation between the United States and the Middle East in stamping out terrorism is doomed.
• The S Word
  Will South Sudan, now on the verge of becoming a new country, make secession acceptable?
• Puntland Splits
  The autonomous section of northeast Somalia wants a better deal: for itself and for the whole country.
• U.S. Middle-East Policy: "See No Evil, Hear No ...
  It is not only Mubarak's regime which has been discredited, but 32 years of U.S. support.
• Revisiting the Neutered Medal of Honor Argumen ...
  In recent years, it's awarded for acts of life-saving, not war.

Law.com

• Latest Chevron Outtake: 'They're All Corrupt!'
  Donziger muses 'The judicial system is so utterly weak' in Corporate Counsel's latest release of outtakes from the documentary Crude.
• Minus Kagan, Supreme Court Lets 'Don't Ask' Po ...
  In an order Friday, the Supreme Court denied a motion aimed at allowing a worldwide ban on enforcement of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays in the military to take effect.
• MGA Loses Effort to Stall Trial in Fee Fight W ...
  A Los Angeles judge issued a tentative ruling Friday denying toymaker MGA Entertainment's efforts to stay a lawsuit that was filed by its former lawyers at O'Melveny & Myers.
• Proskauer and English Firm End Their Merger Di ...
  Proskauer Rose and SJ Berwin said Friday they had decided against merging, putting to an end months of speculation about a possible trans-Atlantic tie-up between the two law firms. The firms in a joint statement said "we recognized that the timetable necessary to reach the agreements that would ...
• IRS Throws In Towel on Closely Watched Interna ...

Iranian.com

• محرومیت کلیه خانواده کروبی از دیدار با وی
  سحام نیوز :صبح امروز ماموران امنیتی مانع ورود یکی از فرزندان مهدی کروبی به منزل پدری وی شدند.read more
• Books: Expand Your Horizons
  ... a riveting story of three generations of Iranian women,
• گفتگو بادکتر محمد برقعی درباره انشعاب در اتحاد ...
  گفتگو بادکتر محمد برقعی درباره انشعاب در اتحاد جمهوریخواهان
• Families fear for Bahais jailed in Iran
  Prison conditions are worsening for seven leaders of Iran's Bahai community who are staying in cramped cells with poor sanitation alongside common criminals, US-based relatives said Wednesday. Iran drew international condemnation in 2008 for arresting leaders of the Bahai faith, which has no c ...
• ابوالهول ایرانی
  با توجه به بالاگرفتن بحران در مصر، اردن، تونس، یمن از یک سو و وجود بحران در ایران و افغانستان و چند کشور دیگر، پیشنهاد می شود با توجه به گفته محمد حسین مبارز مصری، مردم مصر عاشق احمدی نژاد هستند، ولی ایشان خودش عاشق خامنه ای است، هر دو را با هم ببرد. لبنانی ها هم که عاشق خامنه read more

Most Revolutionary Act

• My New Expatriate Identity
  For people over fifty, starting over in a new country is like dropping a lab rat in a complex maze. Like the rat, you suddenly find yourself in a totally unknown environment that constantly confronts you were new decisions and dilemmas. For example, learning to use a new phone system. It took me ...
• 10/14/02: The Day I Became an Expatriate
  As I blogged previously, the brutal extrajudicial murder of a patient in 1989 demonstrated in the most horrific way possible that ultimate power lay outside America’s democratic institutions. It forced me to accept that political control lay in the hands of a wealthy elite who employed an invisi ...
• The Murder of Oscar Manassa
  I neglected to mention in my last blog that Oscar Manassa, the African American postal worker who was murdered, experienced the same vicious harassment I did for four years before he was killed. In fact this is why his legal team brought him to see me. He, too, complained of relentless prank cal ...
• Of Blogs, Bloggers and Blogging
  The end of January marked my one year anniversary blogging. I never imagined, in my wildest dreams, that blogging would be the main event of my sixties. When my publisher first suggested it, I thought blogging was something only young people did. That a blog was a public diary that announced to ...
• The IMF: Saved by the Economic Collapse
  IMF meeting Many people forget that the IMF was nearly bankrupt in 2007. Prior to the 2008 banking collapse, they only had outstanding loans to only a handful of countries (see http://www.nzherald.co.nz/guest-columnists/news/article.cfm?a_id=146&objectid=10396025). There was a move in the late n ...

Doug's Darkworld

• Is it War Yet?
  I apologize for not being able to blog recently, there’s lots going on in the world, but alas, my Internet service as failed me miserably. We may very well be seeing the beginning of a world revolution on the streets of Cairo, and the only source of “news” I have most days is my television. [... ...
• We Are All Egyptians Now
  Well, the uprising continues in Egypt. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, it’s very possible we are entering a watershed period in world history where all sorts of things are going to unravel in the next few years. There’s so much going on that it’s hard to even focus on what’s important ...
• Tunisia, Lebanon, and now Egypt?
  As I type Egyptians are taking to the streets to demand reform and the end of the Mubarak regime. And they are continuing to do so in ever greater numbers despite ever more desperate measures to end the unrest, including a curfew, shutting down the Internet, and dismissing the entire upper gover ...
• The McMartin Preschool Trial: Grown Ups Behavi ...
  My post on the Lawndale Thunderbird case has inspired me to write a series a series of blogs on how people deceive themselves and other oddities of the human mind. Or more accurately, the oddities of human perception and how setting and beliefs and preconceptions can colour, and sometimes wildly ...
• What is outside the Universe revisited: &#8220 ...
  One of the side effects of trying to write thought provoking blog posts is that often they provoke a lot of thoughts, expressed in the form of comments. And unfortunately I often do not or cannot take the time to address them all properly. Hell, I could write a book on my responses to the [...]

FourWinds10

• Gulf of Mexico Women Cry Out in Alarm!
  Kendra Andresen and Vickie Perrin were our guests this past Sunday night Jan 30th. It was a very revealing show. They reported about what is and isn't going on in the Gulf. The Gulf is Dead..
• ALERT: Louisiana Senator Concerned that Corex ...
  I emailed the Senator to confirm he wrote the letter and got this response: Yes it is my letter. I am deeply concerned about the health and welfare of our citizens. I have been collecting data and research since the disaster began. Since the commission did not adequately address this “second” ma ...
• Videos of the âtoxicâ black sludge coating ...
  VIEW THESE HERE http://www.floridaoilspilllaw.com/ video-toxic-black-sludge-coating-ocean-floor-video
• âFirstâ Dispersant Study Funded by Feds: T ...
  To combat last year’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill, nearly 800,000 gallons of chemical dispersant were injected directly into the oil and gas flow coming out of the wellhead nearly one mile deep in the Gulf of Mexico.  Now, as scientists begin to assess how well the strategy worked at breaking up ...
• Oil leak shuts down BPâs largest onshore fie ...
  BP suffered an oil leak in the Dorset countryside late last year, causing such concern that its biggest onshore field in Western Europe has been shut down for the past two months. … Wytch Farm has not been producing its 25,000 barrels per day since November and the pipeline where the leak was di ...

Crisis Maven

• Economic Musings VI: Modern Economies – ...
  There is a great debate in the history of economics whether there can be under-consumption in any real historic moment of the state of an economy and if so, whether it has detrimental effects and if so, what is to be done about it. And modern economists seem to have found a magic wand with [...]
• Blogs and Web Sites you may want to follow
  The following is a list of blogs and websites that CrisisMaven has followed and observed over the last few months and that readers may want to check out from time to time. Note: neither the sequence of how the blogs are listed here nor any comments by CrisisMaven are an endorsement nor criticism ...
• Economic Musings VII: Marketing doesn’t ...
  Have you ever wondered if marketing and advertising are the same, if not, what’s the difference and which is the more important of the two? And why should you care? The most successful economic model is without doubt the market economy. It is the consequence of the wealth effects of the division ...
• CrisisMaven’s Blog News 2010-03-07: Over 25,00 ...
  Yesterday around 16:37 GMT we passed the 25,000 threshold … - next report will probably be posted when we’re past the 50,000 mark. Thanks to all avid readers: on 2010-03-18 at around 19:25 GMT we went past our first 20,000 views on our blog in about eight weeks since we began publishing! After t ...
• Economic Musings VIII: Is there a limit to eco ...
  Something which puzzles many thinkers and frightens many young people concerned about waste or the pillaging of our natural resources is the question: can “an economy” (whatever that is – we’ll come to that in a minute) grow indefinitely? How can there be unlimited economic growth if we’ve never ...

Capital Flow Analysis

• Stock buybacks are bad for investors: Further ...
  In the working paper “The Buyback Monitor - July 2009: Corporate Stock Buyback Profits of 273 Firms from 2000 into 2009“, published on the Social Sciences Research Network, M.A. Gumport, CFA, provides further evidence that stock buybacks are not as good for investors as often touted. The follo ...
• Why Obama’s healthcare scheme portends stagfl ...
  The trillion-dollar Obama health care plan increases the odds that US economic recover will be delayed, and that unemployment and inflation will increase. The main thrust of the Obama plan is to increase taxes on individuals earning more than $250,000 a year, while forcing all but the tiniest ...
• How long would it take to work off the US trad ...
  The rest of the world holds $16.8 trillion in US financial assets, according to Federal Reserve release Z.1, as of Q1 2009. [...]
• Why Bernanke’s flawed “exit strategy” policy p ...
  In a lead op-ed editorial in the Wall Street Journal on July 21, 2009, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke revealed the Fed’s exit strategy with regards to the inflationary effects of the Obama “spending is stimulus” packages and other government measure to contain the current crisis. This ar ...
• Stocks surge on spurious earnings reports: Q2 ...
  No one knows for sure the real earnings of American corporations. In Q1 2009, according to the Federal Reserve flow of funds table F.102, after-tax profits of US non-financial, non-farm corporations, on an annual basis, were about $589.9 billion. However, about 50% of these after-tax earnings ...

R-Squared Energy Blog

• Reintroducing Butanol
  Join the forum discussion on this post This story was initially intended to cover a recent interview that I did with Cobalt Technologies CEO Rick Wilson. However, the introduction and background on butanol became long enough that I felt it was a standalone story. The interview with Rick Wilson ...
• The Natural Gas Debate
  Join the forum discussion on this post The Economist just finished hosting an online debate on natural gas. The resolution was an interesting one: This house believes that natural gas will do more than renewables to limit the world’s carbon emissions. At first glance, the statement may seem pre ...
• The World’s Most Fuel Efficient Car
  Join the forum discussion on this post This likely blows previous fuel efficiency records out of the water: VW to roll out 313mpg car in Germany and UK Last week at the Qatar Motor Show saw the world debut of Volkswagen’s XL1, a diesel-electric hybrid two-seater that can do 313mpg (0.9 l/100 ...
• Oil Price Could Doom Obama
  Join the forum discussion on this post The following guest post is from OilPrice.com. Normally I don’t add any of my own commentary to these guest essays, but in this case I would say that the idea that oil prices are manipulated by speculators is by no means limited to “left-wing blogs.” I wou ...
• What the RAND Report on Biofuels Really Said
  Join the forum discussion on this post The just-issued RAND report Alternative Fuels for Military Applications has generated quite a bit of controversy. However, in my opinion many of the news stories covering the report got the gist of the message wrong. In essence, what has been reported is “ ...

Discovery Educator Network

• Lesson Plans : Transformers and Science - More ...
  Comments:Transformers and Science - More than meets the eye The idea that one item can become another is something they find fascinating and you can tap into that curiosity via these lesson plans, “did you know” facts, and take-home project cards available here. All highlight the fact that scie ...
• TCEA 2011 Presentation Notes | The Moss-Free S ...
  Comments:Resources available in collaboration/brainstorming, visual arts, music, engineering /design, invention/innovation are the categories used to organize recommended web resources. - Dean MantzTags: tcea, 2011, presentation, randyrodgers, creativity, innovation, web2.0by: Dean Mantz
• TED Talks Demystified for Teachers | The Histo ...
  Comments:Collection of TED Talks organized by curriculum topics.  - Dean MantzTags: TED, tedtalks, education, history, socialstudies, demystified, presentations, resources, curriculumby: Dean Mantz
• Text Layout
  Tags: text, poetry, writing, generator, tools, design, festisite, wordleby: Dean Mantz
• Knoword | Expand your vocabulary!
  Tags: vocabulary, game, knoword, english, wordsby: Heather Hurley

Rodale News

• Diaper Options for Raising Plastic-free Babies
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Bringing a child into the world is always a happy occasion, but in our modern Western society, it also brings the environmental burden of diapering the adorable little bottom some 7,000 times over the course of the first three years of his or her life. For the average U. ...
• Is Your Refrigerator Running (Away with Your M ...
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Refrigerators are notorious energy hogs: Some can add up to $250 to $300 a year to your household electricity bill. But it doesn’t have to be that way. read more
• Fruits and Veggies Lower Your Blood Pressure, ...
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Here's a great reason fill your plate with deeply colored veggies and fruits (and to help yourself to some tea and dark chocolate). A team of UK and U.S. researchers investigating the connection between blood pressure and diet have found a link between flavonoid intake a ...
• Our Lunch with Michelle Obama
  RODALE NEWS, WASHINGTON, DC—Though first lady Michelle Obama had gathered 10 of us reporters for lunch at the White House yesterday to mark the first anniversary of her “Let’s Move” campaign to end childhood obesity, her biggest surprise was some news about the President’s smoking. She confirme ...
• The Results Are In! We Rate the Best Organic C ...
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—It's hard to go wrong with a gift of chocolate for Valentine's Day. But if you want to go the extra mile and give the gift of organic chocolate, you'll be doing a favor for not only your sweetie, but for the planet, too. While it's still a small sector of the overall cho ...

big think

• There May Never Be a Cure for Autism
  The word "cure" often gets in the way of autism research, says Gerald Fischbach, Scientific Director of the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative. "I don’t know of any neuropsychiatric disorder other than an infection that has been cured," he says. But that news is not as pessimistic as i ...
• Is Social Science Flying Around in Circles, Us ...
  What's the matter with social psychology? Everybody in social science (including social psychology itself) has a diagnosis, because everybody thinks something is amiss ("it's a terrible field," an anthropologist once told me). As John Tierney reported on Monday, Jonathan Haidt of the University ...
• Why Does Scientology Make Us So Upset?
  If you only read one piece about Scientology, make it Lawrence Wright’s in this week’s New Yorker . Wright’s book The Looming Tower told the story of how we arrived at 9/11, and won the Pulitzer Prize. His writing is elegant and fast, and if there is one writer to lead us to the emotional c ...
• The Crazy, Stoic Heart
  After saying something really controversial like Tea Partiers aren't Fascists, I thought it safer to return to a relatively trans-partisan commentary on a good movie.� This is part of my emerging series of movies about Stoic Americans.� It's also part of my series on movies about Stoic Americans ...
• Marriage Reinforces an Economic Class System
  It is fairly well known that at the end of the marriage market couples seem to be tidily sorted over characteristics such as income, education, religion, height, beauty and even weight. And, of course, online dating sites allow singles to limit their search for the perfect mate according to thes ...

Information Liberation

• Egypt: Let the Looting Begin!
  You know the drill: A formerly useful dictator outlives his usefulness to the U.S. government, becoming a public embarrassment, or maybe even a loose cannon who can no longer be relied on to follow orders. So * they suddenly discover he*s a dictator!...
• Egyptian protester shot to death in cold blood
  Graphic footage has surfaced of what appears to be a protester shot in the streets of Alexandria, Egypt by secret police. The birds-eye view video shows seemingly peaceful activity until about 1:30, when what looks to be a tire on fire falls to the...
• This Revolution Will Do Until the Real Thing C ...
  Neoconservatives like Charles Krauthammer warn that the popular uprising against U.S.-financed Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak could easily become a victory for radical Islamists. The neoconservatives scoff at assurances that the Muslim Brotherhoo...
• Everything Needs to Be Abolished
  Today is the release date for my new book, Rollback: Repealing Big Government Before the Coming Fiscal Collapse. It could just as easily have been called Everything Needs to Be Abolished, and Here*s Why. The book does two th...
• The Black Market For Unpasteurized Milk
  A recent article at The Daily shows a video of an Amish farmer trafficking contraband from his farm in Pennsylvania to a busy street in Manhattan. The article goes on the explain that, *he wasn't selling them anything they planned to smoke, snort or...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

• Ozboy’s Bar And Grill Is Closed For Repa ...
  It’s only temporary. A couple of weeks. But the recent shenanigans round here have forced me to do some thinking about how LibertyGibbert can run better in the future. I’ve spoken to a couple of you about this today, to … Continue reading →
• The Dragon’s Dissent Part III: Naked Nat ...
  The emergence of China as the world’s new superpower has raised many questions in the international community and across the blogosphere regarding the longer-range agenda of the Middle Kingdom. In a recent discussion on this forum, the question of Chinese … Continue reading →
• U.S. Elections: Will Liberty Win?
  Well today’s the day. As just about every other blog in the sphere is covering the elections today, I thought I’d throw the forum open, and we can discuss the results as they come in, in real time. If as … Continue reading →
• Libertarianism And Drug Liberalization
  G’day everyone, Just arrived back home safe and sound. Sorry there hasn’t been a new post in several days, but just at the moment my family needs me more than the Bar and Grill does. Dr. Dave has graciously stepped … Continue reading →
• Stealing Democracy?
  G’day everyone, Ozboy here. The United States mid-term elections are just one week away, and the mounting resentment many Americans feel about the way their country is being governed appears certain to be made clear at the polls. One of … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

• 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 ...
• A tetralogy of science news
  Four more picks from the latest science news by David Bradley Tales of the unexpected: a night with Tim Radford – My mentor at The Guardian, Tim Radford, told tales of science writing at a special event last week and warned the audience that the public can be very squeamish about new scientific ...

RFF Library

• Special Issue of British Royal Society Journal ...
  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A : Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, Jan. 13, 2011 (vol. 369 no. 1934) http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/369/1934.toc Seven of the eleven articles (plus the preface and introduction) are free in this theme issue on adapt ...
• Green Noise or Green Value? Measuring the Effe ...
  Real Estate Economics / by Franz Fuerst and Patrick McAllister http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1540-6229.2010.00286.x/pdf [Abstract] This study investigates the price effects of environmental certification on commercial real estate assets. It is argued that there are likely to be th ...
• New Jobs, Cleaner Air: Employment Effects Unde ...
  CERES, University of Massachusetts Political Economy Research Institute / by James Heintz, Heidi Garrett-Peltier, and Ben Zipperer http://tinyurl.com/47plse5 [From U Mass website] In this study commissioned by Ceres, James Heintz, Heidi Garrett-Peltier, and Ben Zipperer examine the economic impa ...
• EPA Hydraulic Fracturing Study Plan
  US EPA Hydraulic Fracturing Study Plan Review Panel http://tinyurl.com/4tfbb4u [EPA Press Release] The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today submitted its draft study plan on hydraulic fracturing for review to the agency’s Science Advisory Board (SAB), a group of independent scientist ...
• Estimating the Social Cost of Non-CO2 GHG Emis ...
  US EPA, National Center for Environmental Economics / by Alex L. Marten and Stephen C. Newbold http://yosemite.epa.gov/EE/epa/eed.nsf/WPNumber/2011-01?OpenDocument [Abstract] Many estimates of the social cost of CO2 emissions (SCCO2) can be found in the climate economics literature. However, to ...

Scientific American - News

• Scaled-Down Success: Programmable Logic Tiles ...
  In the race to build ever-smaller microchips, researchers have tinkered for more than a dozen years with an end-run technique that would shrink things to previously unrealizable scales. Rather than etching away semiconductors with photolithography to create circuits and processors--a top-down pr ...
• Mathematics' Nearly Century-Old Partitions Eni ...
  For someone who died at the age of 32 the largely self-taught Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan left behind an impressive legacy of insights into the theory of numbers--including many claims that he did not support with proof. One of his more enigmatic statements, made nearly a century ...
• Opposite Spins: The LHC Accelerates Higgs Sear ...
  There can be only one top-dog collider in physics, one ring-shaped machine to rule them all. Since late 2009 , when the Large Hadron Collider, or LHC, started up outside Geneva and quickly became the most powerful collider in history , particle physicists' eyes have been wandering steadily t ...
• For Want of a Pollinator, a Flower May Be Lost ...
  Earth's last passenger pigeon--Martha--died in 1914 at the Cincinnati Zoo, the final remnant of flocks that once darkened the sky. What's unknown, even nearly a century after this extinction, is how many of the plants in the eastern woodlands of the U.S. might have suffered as a result--or even ...
• Out with the Old: As Internet Addresses Run Ou ...
  After years of warnings that the Internet's predominant addressing system would run out of these numbers, the bottom of the barrel has finally been scraped. The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) announced Thursday that it has delegated the final 300 million addresses available through ...

RAWA News

• Afghan war killed 2 children daily in 2010: re ...
  Reuters Canada: An average of two children per day were killed in Afghanistan last year, with areas of the once peaceful north now among the most dangerous, an independent Afghan rights watchdog said on Wednesday. The Afghanistan Rights Monitor (ARM) said in a report that, of the 2,421 civilians ...
• Can the U.S. Make Amends After Blowing Up an A ...
  Time: Haji Abdul Hamid pulls out a satellite photograph featuring a cluster of mud-brick compounds engulfed by thick pomegranate orchards. It is labeled “Before.” “These were my houses,” says the 60-year-old Afghan farmer, outlining a row of buildings. From a bundle of papers he then produces a ...
• Afghan government accuses 16 security firms of ...
  The Washington Post: An Afghan government probe of private security companies has accused 16 firms of violations that include employing too many guards, failing to pay taxes for up to two years, and keeping unregistered weapons and armored vehicles. The allegations, contained in a list being cir ...
• Stoning victim was bought bride
  The Scotsman: A YOUNG woman stoned to death in Afghanistan’s north had run away from home because her father had sold her into marriage with a wealthy relative, The Scotsman can reveal. Sediqa, thought to be in her early twenties, fled her village with another man, when she realised the “fiancé ...
• Afghanistan’s Situation Gets Worse Becau ...
  Home Daily News: Human Rights Watch warned about the deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan, despite the presence of 150,000 foreign troops in the country. In its annual report for 2010, human rights groups say security has deteriorated in some areas of Afghanistan, irrespective of addi ...

frogblog

• ACC digs a deeper hole
  Financial Review of ACC today, so I subbed in for Gareth on the Transport and Industrial Relations Select Committee. Usual thing – we and Labour make the running and when things get too hot the Government members take a turn with patsy questions. ACC fronted with Chair, John Jud ...
• Serious questions asked of the Transport Minis ...
  I’ve just come back from the Debating Chamber feeling a little annoyed with the Transport Minister because he has declined Auckland Council’s call to review the cost-effectiveness of the new Puhoi to Warkworth motorway north of Auckland. Why set up a new Super Council to speak w ...
• NZ still taking hands off position on Mubarak
  I asked Foreign Minister Murray McCully during Parliament’s question time : “Why is he not calling for the immediate resignation of Hosni Mubarak as Egypt’s President?” Murray McCully essentially said don’t worry, Mr Mubarak will stand down in September and “a transition in Egyp ...
• General debate, February 10, 2011
• Nats’ work-first welfare all stick and no carr ...
  Last week I got quite a response to my post on crime and access to welfare, so I thought I would write a little more about how many beneficiaries can’t get ahead financially without breaking the law, however hard they may try. I’ve had a look at what happens to a single sickness ...

Patronus Analytical

• Greek aid worker kidnapped in Pakistan
• Aid worker killed in Iraq
• Update on kidnapped Greek aid worker
• NGO worker beaten to death in Dhaka
• Canadian aid worker murdered in Honduras

J Kozy

• Demented Democracy
  An addiction to opinion, each person being entitled to his own, and the unwarranted notion that those who fight for their beliefs are "principled" is the reason that democracies teeter between antagonistic belief systems and are unable to resolve any social problems. Each party strives to re ...
• Pity the Poor Economists
  The first thing a judicious reader notices is how much disagreement exists among economists on almost every, perhaps every, matter. Then it becomes clear that much of this disagreement is acrimonious. Some of these people appear to hate each other. Now ask yourselves, how likely would it hav ...
• Can America Be Changed?
  If the American people ever hope to take back their country, they need to understand America's political economy so the parts of it that are morally offensive and economically ineffective can be repudiated. Only then will Americans be able to make the changes that are needed to make Lincoln' ...
• The Media in America: Selling Views, Calling i ...
  America's journalists are not "newshounds" They are nothing more than salesclerks, hocking the products their employers want to sell. The pretty faces that now function as most television news anchors are no different than the pretty models used to sell other products. The American "free" pr ...
• America's Next Failure: the Police State
  Every police force in the nation has cold (unsolved) cases. The War on Drugs has been ineffective for more than forty years. No one knows where a vast number of illegal immigrants even are. The CIA has been unable to locate Osama bin Laden after more than ten years of searching. Your local polic ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

• The 300% Loan
  The Wall Street Journal reports today that payday lenders are increasingly incorporating not in states with lax lending laws, but with American Indian tribes: Because of the sovereign immunity granted to tribes by the U.S. government, they are shielded from interest-rate caps and other payday ...
• Yes, Aspirin is a Pain Reliever!
  Lately I've noticed an increasing number of TV commercials that seem....off kilter. Not dumb or offensive or annoying. Just ads that seem to have a really weird underlying premise. Here's an example: Guy on airplane:�Do you have something for pain? (Flight attendant hands him a couple of asp ...
• Our Coming Robot Revolution
  Is the Atlantic becoming the National Inquirer? This month, the cover blares, "Why Machines Will Never Beat the Human Mind," which sounded pretty fishy to me. But potentially interesting! So I read the cover story, which turns out to be a fairly modest piece about a guy who took part in this yea ...
• Keep Spouses Out of It
  Here's the latest jockeying for position on the constitutionality of the healthcare reform law: 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 national health care o ...
• Webb Bows Out
  Sen. James Webb (D–Va.) has decided not to run for reelection in 2012. So what does the Democratic grass roots in Virginia think of this? Here's Virginia email pal #1: Crap. I know he wasn't the greatest advocate for progressive causes, but Webb was still a D. Now, he will relinquish his sea ...

Insanity Report

• The Lying Groupie Rape Defense
  So I’m looking around on the Internet for what’s happening in the news and I come across this story about Darrell Williams, starting forward for Oklahoma State who has been charged with four felonies:  One count sexual battery and three counts of rape. *sigh* Can I just say that I’m tired of hea ...
• IC 226: True Grit
  Topics for the show: Ain’t nothing wrong with a few manlaws Dan Snyder is a douchebag Halle Berry claims her ex used racial slurs…but do we believe her? Kim K is upset her titties are showing A woman takes her son out of school…to help rob a bank American Journalist show more care and grit [...] ...
• Mandatory Gun Ownership….wait what?
  After the horrific shooting of Congresswoman Gifford that killed 6 and injured 17, there was a lot of talk about how “Politics would change forever”.  If you believed that then I have a case of glass hammers to sell you.  Sure people temporarily quieted some of their most outlandish rhetoric. ...
• WTF Wednesday: An Image None of Us Want to Se ...
  Fresh off of her hilarious “What the Hell is she looking at?” Tea Party Express response to President Obama’s  State of the Union Address, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann is back in the news giving us all another reason to hate her by implanting an image in our heads that will haunt us for etern ...
• FacePalm of the Week: How to Torpedo Your Cam ...
  Thanks to JDan over at MediaStrut, I think it’s safe to say I already have the FacePalm of the Week for this week…even though it’s Monday: Hold on…the President has something to say: Seriously, what the fuck is this about?  I get it, politics gets testy sometimes.  I’m pretty sure Carol Mosele ...

Simple Climate

• Climate researchers warn of food and forest ti ...
  With food prices reaching record highs, worsening droughts in east Africa will add to agricultural problems, while a parched Amazon could speed rather than fight global warming.
• 2,000 year water temperature high underlines A ...
  Average temperatures of water flowing into the Arctic since 1890 are 2ºC higher than they have been on average in the previous two millennia, Robert Spielhagen and colleagues show.
• Rain-soaked plants trudge downhill
  Surveys separated by 70 years show how climate change in Northern California has increased rainfall, causing plants to move to generally warmer, drier, lower altitude habitats.
• Ice melt poses dual sea rise and water access ...
  One-fifth of the ice held in the world's ice caps and glaciers will melt by 2100, affecting water availability, adding around 12 cm to sea levels and threatening some coastal regions, predicts University of British Columbia's Valentina Radić.
• Greenhouse gases break temperature-rainfall li ...
  While warmer air can take up more water than colder air, the extra heat trapped in the lower atmosphere by gases like CO2 decreases how much of this is released as precipitation, explains Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research's Katja Frieler.

e!Science News

• Think manager, think male? Impact of gender in ...
  The "glass ceiling" for women administrators in college athletics may be cracked, but is not completely broken, according to a new study co-authored by a North Carolina State University researcher. read more
• Salivary glands as organs of immunity: New res ...
  If you don't like shots or needles, you're in luck. New research published online in The FASEB Journal (http://www.fasebj.org) gives the development of new oral vaccinations a shot in the arm thanks to discoveries involving the salivary glands of mice. In addition, this research report also offe ...
• Look at your body to reduce pain
  Simply looking at your body reduces pain, according to new research by scientists from UCL (University College London) and the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy. read more
• NRL scientists elevate warfighter readiness ag ...
  In asymmetric warfare, early detection and identification of trace level chemical and biological agents and explosive compounds is critical to rapid reaction, response, and survivability. While there are many methods currently being used that can detect these threats, none allow for the unique f ...
• Noninvasive test for trisomy 21 closer at hand
  In 1980 in the United States, approximately 4.5% of all pregnant women were of advanced maternal age. By 2007 that figure had increased to 14%. Women over 35 are at increased risk of giving birth to babies with trisomy 21. In a study published online today in the American Journal of Obstetrics & ...

unEarthed

• Clean Air Means Health, Jobs for Americans
  EPA chief in Congress to defend clean air protections EPA chief Lisa Jackson was on Capitol Hill today to testify before a subcommittee of the House Energy and ...
• Congress v. The Environment: EPA's Enemy Withi ...
  Former EPA chief withheld vital conclusions on climate change Enemies of the Environmental Protection Agency are rallying today in Congress,�but they may find ...
• Tr-Ash Talk: Coal Ash Dirtying Maryland's Wate ...
  Federal oversight needed to clean up Chesapeake Bay (This is the latest in a weekly series of 50 Tr-Ash Talk blogs discussing the dangers of coal ash. Earthjus ...
• Health, Economy Benefit From Limits On Power P ...
  Reports strongly support first-ever EPA protections Next month, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will propose the first ever health protections against ...
• Friday Finds: Pesticide Trials and Errors
  Snowstorm pickles, nuclear fallout, Frankenfeed An EPA proposal suggests that humans should no longer be used as guinea pigs in pesticide experiments. Photo courtesy of Jean Scheijen. ...

Brave New Climate

• ABC Counterpoint radio on nuclear costs, and n ...
  Many have seen/listened to this already, but for completeness, here are the details of my recent interview with the ABC Radio program Counterpoint on the cost of nuclear energy. It is based on a discussion of the recent Energy peer-reviewed paper authored by Nicholson, Biegler & Brook. Should Au ...
• Keeping solid information on nuclear energy on ...
  Guest Post by Luke Weston. Luke is a Melbourne-based physicist and occasional freelance electronic engineer, with a strong interest in educating the community about nuclear energy and related issues. Just this week, Martin Ferguson has been actively stepping up his efforts to keep nuclear energ ...
• An environmentally sound, energy-rich future ( ...
  Here is a blog-post version of the poster to accompany the AMS paper discussed in the previous post. You can download a printable, high rez (11 MB) version of the poster here, or a low rez (1 MB) version here. ————————— ————————— In the part III, I’ll publish the conference paper that provides t ...
• IFR: An optimized approach to meeting global e ...
  A few days ago, an important poster and written paper were presented at the 91st American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting, 23-27 Jan 2011, Seattle, WA; Second Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy. The Integral Fast Reactor (IFR): An Optimized Source for Global E ...
• Two countries, two paths, one crucial lesson l ...
  In the 1970s, two countries took two different paths in energy policy. Denmark pursued wind power, but failed to replace its fossil fuel power plants. It has among the highest carbon emissions per capita in Europe. France pursued nuclear power, and now has the lowest carbon emissions of any OECD ...

Indigenist Opinion

• John John: The View From Occupied Canada #230
  Africa: Invasion of the Land Grabbers Suppose that, one day, a foreign investor decided to buy a vast tract of fertile land in the United States. Suppose all that is grown or produced on that land, and all profits made, would be shipped directly overseas. Worse, imagine that those Americans who ...
• وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب: Those opportunists ...
  The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب: Those opportunists of Al-Ahram Center: "I can't stand those people at Al-Ahram Center. They were the ones who speak religiously about Mubarak and his 'vision' for years. They were the ones who even were used for sectarian propaganda by the ...
• Adbusters: The left built Huffington, and we c ...
  Adbusters: The left built Huffington, and we can tear it down too | Raw Story: "The purchase of the Huffington Post by AOL left many of the progressive writers and readers that made the site into a powerhouse looking for a new home. Adbusters magazine set out to unite those disaffected former s ...
• Look Forward, and Promote the Torturers | Empt ...
  Look Forward, and Promote the Torturers | Emptywheel: "There’s Matt, who froze Gul Rahman to death in the Salt Pit. Paul, his boss and the CIA Station Chief of Afghanistan, who ignored Matt’s requests for more help at the prison. There’s Albert, who staged a mock execution of Rahim al-Nashiri, a ...
• GRANT SMITH : Pollard Espionage Ring Still Unf ...
  GRANT SMITH : Pollard Espionage Ring Still Unfolding : Veterans Today: "Almost one year ago Victor Gilinsky and Roger J. Mattson penned the stunning article “Revisiting the NUMEC Affair” in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. It describes how in the 1960s Israeli agents and their U.S. collaborato ...

Republicans are a Disease

• Ronald Reagan’s 100th Birthday! America& ...
  So today is the day that all the inhabitants of right wing fantasy land praise Ronald Reagan, and his trickle down legacy. In my opinion, Ronald Reagan was America’s greatest traitor. Why would I say Ronald Reagan was a traitor? Because he was the most prolific person in America’s history to ope ...
• Tea Party Founder Judson Phillips Lies on MSNB ...
  On “The Last Word” Judson Phillips said Social Security will be broke in 2037. Reality says that even if the trust fund currently 2.6 trillion dollars is exhausted in 2037 Social Security will still be able to pay out 80% of the benefits. Tell me Judson. If you want “respect” for your organizati ...
• Why I Can’t Watch CNN
  Even though I enjoy watching some shows on CNN, I find it ever more difficult to not change the channel. When I turn on CNN I get the opportunity to see right wing conservative guests and commentators spew outright lie after outright lie. It makes me sick to my stomach to watch right wing mouth ...
• Paul Ryan’s America
  In Paul Ryan’s America, your grandmother would already be dead. If she was lucky enough to survive, she would be pushing a shopping cart bagging for handouts, because someone on Wall Street churned her retirement into nothing, and her Social Security payouts would be $20 per month after “manager ...
• Impeach Clarence Thomas Now
  While Clarence Thomas ruled repeatedly for the benefit of the oligarchs, the Heritage Foundation paid his wife hundreds of thousands of dollars. Mr. Thomas neglected to claim this income on his financial disclosure statements, which is a crime if I remember correctly. So here we have billionaire ...

Appalachia Rising

• Day of Action and Conference Vision Statements
  Appalachia Rising: Day of Action September 25 – 27, 2010, Washington DC Appalachia Rising is a mass mobilization in Washington DC on September 27, 2010 calling for the abolition of mountaintop removal and surface mining. It is a culmination of the national movement against surface mining and a f ...
• Press Conference to be Held on June 15
  Thousands to March in DC Calling for the Abolition of Mountaintop Removal Press Conference June 15 in Charleston, WV Announces Mass Mobilization Appalachia Rising WHEN: June 15, 10:00 AM WHERE: WV State Capitol Back Steps Near Fountain, Charleston, WV CONTACTS: West Virginia Bo Webb – 304-237-26 ...
• Press Inquiries
  All media inquiries should be sent to Bo Webb webb.bo@gmail.com Set up interviews via email. Previous Press Releases and Media Public Launch Press Conference Report Back, with video Press Conference Held on June 15 Announces Appalachia Rising Video June 15 Appalachia Public Launch Press Conferen ...
• New Flier for Appalachia Rising
• Appalachia Rising Uniting Celebrities, Appalac ...
  Appalachia Rising Uniting Celebrities, Appalachians, and Scientists for the Abolition of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Ashley Judd, Woody Harrelson, Gloria Reuben, Kyra Sedgewick, Kevin Bacon, Ed Begley Jr., Kathy Mattea, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, James Hansen, and Darryl Hannah rallying behind co ...

Amped Status

• Welcome to the New AmpedStatus.com
  We're back with a redesigned site and three new features! Introducing the AmpedStatus Social Network and two new Amped Coverage wires.
• Time to Fight Back! Join The Movement
  As a broad-based network representing people across the political spectrum, we are working together to reach common ground and fight for pivotal political reforms. As long as the economy and government are rigged in favor of the top economic 0.1%, we will all lose.
• Horrific Arizona Massacre Is A Sign of Tragedi ...
  Let This Tragedy Be A Wake Up Call. Given Socio-Political Conditions, Many More Violent Acts On the Way.
• AmpedStatus.com Hit By Mass DoS Attacks
  As you may have noticed, for most of the day yesterday AmpedStatus.com was down. Shortly after posting our new report we were hit with a heavy barrage of DoS attacks...
• Obama Renews Commitment to Complete Destructio ...
  Obama has just doubled down on the side of the financial terrorists. Meet Bill Daley and Gene Sperling - another JP Morgan-Goldman Sachs attack. Let's dig deep into their past and reveal everything that you need to know.

+972

• Israeli army represses Palestinian dissent by ...
  “They come for our woman and our children,” Bassem Tamimi, the leader of the Popular Committee of Nabi Saleh recently told me, “they [the Israeli army] know that woman are half our population and half our strength and so they target them along with the children.” Tamimi, a gentle man with a warm ...
• Knesset member: Jewish-Arab romance is a femin ...
  Likud MK Tzipi Hotovely and her crazy sidekicks hijack the Women’s Advancement Committee When Meir Martin Kahane was elected to the Knesset some 27 years ago, he had the popularity of a leper. President Chaim Herzog, summoning party leaders for the ritual consultation before appointing a prime m ...
• Louis Theroux’s “Ultra-Zionists”: A chance to ...
  Louis Theroux’s latest documentary is a good opportunity to see what makes those whacky West Bank settlers tick I like Louis Theroux. Really, I do. I love his father, too, the author Paul Theroux. Apparently, brains run in the family (although I kind of lost my respect for the famed travel wri ...
• Wild Card – Part XI: Southern Sudan as a ...
  U.S. President Barack Obama announces intent to formally recognize Southern Sudan in July The White House just released the following statement about recognizing Southern Sudan. The wording of this statement is very similar to what I imagine the future statement about recognizing Palestine this ...
• Haaretz labels Jewish Voice for Peace “a ...
  Haaretz published an article today about a Jewish Voice for Peace member being threatened for her involvement in the organization. A cursory look at the headline and sub-headline reveals the newspaper’s normative stance regarding JVP and its acquiescence to polarizing labels. Headline: Jewish Vo ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

• Decision date on koala threatened species lis ...
  Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke has extended the due date for a decision on whether to add the koala to the list of nationally threatened species.
• Water Market Reports online through the Natio ...
  Water market reporting is now available at www.nationalwatermarket.gov.au, Water Minister, Tony Burke, announced today.
• $492,000 to expand the Tasmanian devil insura ...
  Efforts to establish a healthy Tasmanian devil insurance population have been bolstered with $492,000 from the Tasmanian Devil Conservation Grants scheme.
• Chaffey augmentation brought forward to secur ...
  Joint funding announced today by the Gillard and Keneally Governments will fast-track construction on a $43.33 million augmentation and complete safety upgrade of Chaffey Dam.
• Tony Abbott a risk to Murray Darling Basin re ...
  Water Minister Tony Burke said Mr Abbott's proposal to delay hundreds of millions of dollars in water buybacks would put at risk progress on reform in the Murray Darling Basin.

Matt Weidner Blog

• More Investigating of the Foreclosure Mills&#8 ...
  The Florida attorney general’s office has confirmed the names of three law firms added to its foreclosure investigation, including Kahane & Associates, which handles hundreds of home repossessions in Palm Beach County. The Plantation-based company, as well as the Tampa firms of Daniel C. Consueg ...
• New Order On Verification-COMPLAINTS MUST BE V ...
  When the Supreme Court of Florida passed its Rule that required all residential mortgage complaints to be verified, the highest court in this land announced rights that are owed to litigants in courtrooms all across this state. These foreclosure mills cannot continue to deprive Floridians of rig ...
• Buying a Foreclosed Property? NO WAY! It&#82 ...
  There are people poking around, some brave, some uninformed who are buying foreclosed property. THEY COULD BE BUYING INTO TROUBLE. Think title insurance will protect you?  Think again.  There are so many complex reasons why this simply is not so in the context of foreclosure cases, but the bot ...
• Does Law Enforcement Even Care One Bit About A ...
  I really wonder sometimes and can only believe that the problem is the problem is too big so they cannot figure out how to swallow the camel.  But think about all the agencies that could do something.  FBI, OCC, Dept. of Justice, Dept. of Treasury, State Attorney Generals, Circuit Court Judges, ...
• Economic Collapse, Political Turmoil is… ...
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abelard - news

• super smart sumptuous limousines | fun news at ...
  The wit, wealth and charm of real collectors of cars.
• alleged link between swine flu vaccine, a gene ...
  Interesting, a link between a human gene and an environmental trigger, leading to a neurological problem.
• binary for computers, it's all ones and nought ...
  Why bits and bytes are used if 'talking' to computers, and how the relate to counting in the binary number system.
• munich 2? hillary wants talks with muslim brot ...
  The errors that are made when history is not remembered.
• hanson: obama's 1979 moment | politics usa new ...
  Remember the American Embassy hostages after Jimmy Carter's appeasement in the Middle East. It looks like Obama hasn't learnt.

The Parallel Parliament

• The School of Hard Knocks
  “My faith is gone.” Four words that represent the disillusionment of the age. A brief phrase uttered through tears over the phone by a retired teacher from London, Ontario that spells trouble for the Canadian International Development Agency in ways it likely never imagined. When CIDA recently a ...
• The Fog of Ideology
  After reading Known and Unknown - Donald Rumsfeld’s tome (815 pages) – I put the book back in the shelf, flummoxed that smart people can be so dumb. He would have been better to have just called it “Known” because he never admits to self-doubt through the entire book. It was a frustrating read. ...
• A World With No Crystal Ball
  What to say about the happenings in Egypt? It is one of the most remarkable developments of the last two decades. Yet the very surprise of it – the sheer speed of its unfolding – providing just as many opportunities for rapid opinion as it did for democratic developments. Now is hardly a time fo ...
• Footsteps and Fingerprints
  I heard it everywhere I trekked yesterday: “So, are we going to have an election?” My reply that I didn’t have the foggiest idea was met with considerable disappointment, as everywhere people seemed to have an opinion on the matter. It was our first day back to Parliament following our Christmas ...
• Women Of The Sun
  John Garang, deceased visionary and key political figure in south Sudan’s struggle for independence, once called them “the marginalized of the marginalized.” No more. Something is subtly changing in what will soon be the world’s newest nation and it’s not just statehood. It’s the millions of wom ...

Vaccine Awakening

• New Vaccine Science Can Help Bridge the Divide
  by Barbara Loe Fisher Fear of the unknown is what terrifies us the most, fear of being unable to have control over what the future holds. At the root of that fear is knowing that the choices we make today could have a profound impact on what happens tomorrow. 1 Fear is a strong emotion ...
• Counting Blessings, Remembering the Children
  by Barbara Loe Fisher Every Christmas and New Year, when I give thanks for the people who have blessed my life, I remember the mothers and fathers of severely vaccine injured children, who have taught me the most about love and courage. I know that my son, Chris, who developed brain inflamma ...
• Thousands Of Americans Register for NVIC's New ...
  by Barbara Loe Fisher Thousands of Americans living in all 50 states took action and registered for the new NVIC Advocacy Portal at www.NVICadvocacy.org during Vaccine Awareness Week (Nov. 1-6, 2010) co-sponsored by the National Vaccine Informati ...
• Vaccine Science: A Search for Truth
  by Barbara Loe Fisher February 2009 turned out to be a month when vaccine science was put on trial in the U.S. Court of Claims in Washington, D.C., in mainstream media and on the internet, in the British Medical Journal and in vaccine safety research initiatives by the U.S. Department of Health ...
• Talking Vaccine Science with Government: Why D ...
  by Barbara Loe Fisher After the historic election in November that saw Barack Obama elected President, I wondered what he and his Administration would do about addressing the question that is on the minds of many parents: Why are so many vaccinated children today chronically ill, suffering with ...

2020 Science

• The New Toxicology of Sophisticated Materials: ...
  Cross-posted from The Risk Science Blog Several months ago, I was asked by a colleague if I fancied co-authoring a review on nanotoxicology for a copy of Toxicological Sciences celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Society of Toxicology (coming out later this year). Fool that I am, I agreed.  ...
• Small gods and the art of technology innovatio ...
  There’s something rather liberating about being asked to give a no-holds talk on your perspective on life, the universe and everything.  So when the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center asked if I would speak as part of their “Where do we go from here?” series, I jumped at it. No holds barred is ...
• Reviewing the National Nanotechnology Initiati ...
  Here’s a bit of trivia: with the 4000 character limit on comments on the National Nanotechnology Initiative Draft Strategic Plan, you might as well ditch the official portal, and tweet your comments to the Office of Science and Technology Policy – 28 tweets would do it! As you can probably guess ...
• Lost in the Maize
  Iâm writing this at Detroit airport, en route to Dubai via Heathrow.  By rights, I should be writing the usual stuff about how traveling to exotic places isnât all itâs cracked up to be – the mantra of the seasoned traveler.  But as itâs the day after Thanksgiving, I thought I would suck it up ...
• Risk, uncertainty and sustainable innovation: ...
  Despite the risk of receiving absolutely no comments (please don’t let me down!), I thought I’d try something new and ask for some feedback on the background blurb for a meeting I’ve been working on. The meeting is a symposium on Risk, Uncertainty and Sustainable Innovation being organized by th ...

Reader Supported News

• Is Right-Wing Talk Dying?
  Excerpt: "Here's another sign that the tide might be turning against the Wingnuts - Glenn Beck's TV ratings are down 50 percent and major market radio stations are dropping him." Rush Limbaugh takes a trip to Washington, 03/03/09. (photo: Saul Loeb/Getty/AFP) Sorry, your browser cannot ...
• Obama to Target Fannie, Freddie for Eventual D ...
  Excerpt: "The Obama administration plans to make a number of proposals about what should happen to Fannie and Freddie. An administration white paper expected later this week will reportedly call for the two companies to be gradually euthanized." April Charney, a lawyer at Jacksonville Area Le ...
• Rank-and-File Reject Patriot Act
  Jake Sherman and Marin Cogan report: "House Republicans Tuesday night got a harsh introduction to the majority, as more than two dozen rank-and-file GOP lawmakers voted against reauthorizing the Patriot Act. And just hours before the vote on the Bush-era homeland security measure, GOP leaders ya ...
• Assange's Accusers Sent Texts Discussing Reven ...
  Esther Addley reports: "Julian Assange's Swedish lawyer was shown scores of text messages sent by the two women who accuse him of rape and sexual assault, in which they speak of 'revenge' and extracting money from him, an extradition hearing was told." Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, wh ...
• Rank-and-File Reject Patriot Act
  Jake Sherman and Marin Cogan report: "House Republicans Tuesday night got a harsh introduction to the majority, as more than two dozen rank-and-file GOP lawmakers voted against reauthorizing the Patriot Act. And just hours before the vote on the Bush-era homeland security measure, GOP leaders ya ...

War Resisters League

• The Egyptian Revolution and Police Tools &#821 ...
  As of this writing, the Egyptian revolution has entered its 16th day and is gaining ground and momentum: spreading to new regions, evolving into strikes and civil disobedience and clarifying its demands. What started as an impressive series of demonstrations on January 25th’s ‘Day of Wrath’ has ...
• Anti-war Activists to Grand Jury: “We will not ...
  Tuesday, January 25th was the day that 23 anti-war and Palestine solidarity activists were made to appear before a Federal Grand Jury in Chicago. It was also the day that all of them refused to testify. In solidarity with those targeted by government repression, several rallies were held in citi ...
• The other “Afghanistan Report”
  Whose stories are we telling about the war in Afghanistan? On the day following the White House report on the war in Afghanistan that names the war as a qualified success and calls for the U.S. to “stay the course,” we must lift up the alternative stories and reports of this near-decade of occup ...
• Join the Online Demonstration for Peace in Kor ...
  President Obama is sending the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS George Washington (carrying 75 warplanes and a crew of over 6000) and other warships for additional war-games with the South Korean military beginning Sunday, November 28.� This only escalates the already tense situation on the ...
• IVAW Women’s Retreat this weekend!
  Dear Supporters, My name is Joyce Wagner. I am a Marine Corps veteran who served in Iraq in 2004 and 2005, and I am a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War. This Labor Day, IVAW women will hold our first ever retreat in support of women veterans. Your donation today will help us make [...]

Center for a Livable Future

• A Former Teacher’s Take on The New Dietary Gui ...
  Every five years, the United States Departments of Human Health Services and Agriculture jointly release the Dietary Guidelines for America in the hopes of encouraging every American to eat a healthy diet, however, chances are the average person will never set eyes on the report. As a former tea ...
• Oprah Enthusiastically Throws Her Support Behi ...
    Talk show host Oprah Winfrey may have just encouraged a large segment of her 30 million viewers to join the Meatless Monday movement following her latest show which gave us a rare glimpse into where some of our meat comes from. The Meatless Monday campaign’s national awareness has more t ...
• Understanding foodborne microbial hazards for ...
  One in six Americans contracts a foodborne illness each year (CDC). Such illness can mean an unpleasant day of vomiting, diarrhea, fever, and/or worseâ hospitalization or death in rare cases. âThere’s something that can be said about the problem of foodborne illness, that can’t be said of many o ...
• Again Ethanol and Food are in Conflict
  Corn prices have risen dramatically in the last 6 months and now food prices are following. This may be driving revolutions world-wide. And it will affect your grocery shopping soon.
• Shovel ready: Cuban urban agriculture as job c ...
  Iâve just returned from eight days in Cuba studying their sustainable agricultural system — especially their urban agriculture sector — and I have several key take-aways. One of the biggest insights was the untapped potential of urban agriculture as a creator of good jobs. The Cuban system wa ...

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

• The FP Salon: Peter Bergen's The Longest War
  An FP round-table discussion on counterterrorism expert Peter Bergen's latest book. A decade after 9/11, is the war on terrorism a war we can win?
• Crazy Like a Fox
  In a fit of anger, Hamid Karzai axes his director of intelligence, Amrullah Saleh. But is there method to his madness?
• Addicted to Contractors
  The United States is hooked on privatized warfare in Afghanistan. And it's more costly than you think.
• How to Whip the Afghan Army Into Shape
  Much of President Barack Obama's strategy rests on the creation of a new, more competent Afghan military. Here's what he'll need to know to get the job done.
• Obama's Indecent Interval
  Despite the U.S. president's pleas to the contrary, the war in Afghanistan looks more like Vietnam than ever.

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

• Minister’s decision to withdraw Bill 29: an en ...
  CPAWS â Northern Alberta CPAWS â Southern Alberta 7 Feb 2011 (Calgary, AB) The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) is applaudin ...
• Bill 29 ‘Suspended.’ Is Alberta Parks Ministry ...
  Alberta Wilderness Association 7 Feb 2011 Alberta Wilderness Association (AWA) congratulates Cindy Ady, Minister of Tourism, Parks and Recreation on her apparent decision to withdr ...
• Groups ramp up parks campaign as Minister puts ...
  Sierra Club Prairie 7 Feb 2011 CALGARY — “More parks now, not Bill 29” is the updated rallying cry of lead groups, such as Sierra Club Canada, in the public campaign that last Nove ...
• The Water Log— February 7, 2011
  Water Matters The February 7, 2011 edition of The Water Log�is out. Read it on the Water Matters website, or visit the eNews Archives to view past�issues. Contents Water quality, quantity important for residents of southern�Alber ...
• Edmonton Bicycle Commuters February 2011 Newsl ...
  Edmonton Bicycle Commuters (EBC) EBC have posted their February 2011 Newsletter to their website. In this�issue �Advocacy BikeWorks�News Bike Art Auction & Anniversary�Party! Partnerships with�EBC Education &�Media ...

Stop NATO

• NATO Surrenders Europe To U.S. Global Missile ...
  Stop NATO February 5, 2011 NATO Surrenders Europe To U.S. Global Missile Shield Project Rick Rozoff On January 27 the North Atlantic Treaty Organization took the most decisive step yet toward the implementation of the decades-old project first proposed by the Ronald Reagan administration for a S ...
• Egypt: Will U.S. And NATO Launch Second Suez I ...
  Stop NATO February 2, 2011 Egypt: Will U.S. And NATO Launch Second Suez Intervention? Rick Rozoff On February 1 General James Mattis, commander of United States Central Command whose area of responsibility includes Egypt on its western end, stated that Washington currently has no plans to reinfo ...
• Washington Intensifies Push Into Central Asia
  Stop NATO January 29, 2011 Washington Intensifies Push Into Central Asia Rick Rozoff A recent editorial on the website of Voice of America reflected on last year being one in which the United States solidified relations with the five former Soviet republics in Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzsta ...
• Afghanistan: War Without End In A World Withou ...
  Stop NATO January 27, 2011 Afghanistan: War Without End In A World Without Conscience Rick Rozoff The largest foreign military force ever deployed in Afghanistan is now well into the tenth year of the longest and what has become the deadliest war of the 21st century. Some 154,000 occupation troo ...
• Ivory Coast: Testing Ground For U.S.-Backed Af ...
  Stop NATO January 23, 2011 Ivory Coast: Testing Ground For U.S.-Backed African Standby Force Rick Rozoff The announcements of presidential election results last month in West Africa and Eastern Europe have served as the pretext for the United States and its allies in the North Atlantic Treaty Or ...

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Intel Hub

• How The Oil Spill Has Affected The People Of T ...
  February 9th, 2011 Related Posts: Sick Gulf Residents Beg Officials for Help BP Oil Spill Worker Sues Memorial Company Over Corexit Exposure Child Splashed with Gulf Water Gets Cigar Like Burn On Face Gulf Methane Expert Says Water FLAMMABLE! METHANE LEVELS DEADLY Kindra Arneson, Gregg Hall and ...
• Egypt: What’s Really Happening? Listen to the ...
  By Tony Cartalucci February 9th, 2011 A great debate is going on amongst honest commentators over what is actually happening in Egypt. The debate stems from the horribly inaccurate information being supplied by the globalist owned mainstream media. A superficial look at AlJazeera, BBC, and CNN r ...
• Charlie McGrath: Economic Implosion Again
  Economic Implosion. Visit Wide Awake News February 9th, 2011 Related Posts: New World Order: The Illuminati’s Secret 20 Trillion Dollar Bank Even Donald Trump Is Warning That An Economic Collapse Is Coming Banks Stole Over 1 Million U.S. Homes in 2010 Everything Is Falling Apart: 20 Facts That Y ...
• New World Order: The Illuminati’s Secret ...
  The Intel Hub by Zen Gardner – Contributing Writer February 9th, 2011 Of all the scams, the worldwide banking system is one of the most mind-boggling. Never mind the entire false premise of fiat money and the debt system, that vast amounts of this illusory “currency” get shifted every micro-seco ...
• ABC, CBS, CNN, FOX, NBC All Want Your Chemtrai ...
  CLN Feb. 9, 2011 This alert is meant for the entire world, not just those living in the U.S.  It is of the utmost importance that we flood the U.S. media with an awareness that a heinous crime is being committed against humanity and our precious planet in the skies around the globe. We  believe ...

FRS

• Egypt’s army ‘involved in detentio ...
  // // // Military accused by human rights campaigners of targeting hundreds of anti-government protesters Chris McGreal in Cairo guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 9 February 2011// Army officers escort a prisoner away from Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt. The military – accused of involvement in torture – ...
• Strikes erupt as Egypt protesters defy VP warn ...
  Wednesday, February 9, 2011 By MAGGIE MICHAEL and TAREK EL-TEBLAWY, Associated Press CAIRO (AP) – Egypt’s anti-government activists pushed to expand their protests and sought to drum up labor unrest as thousands launched strikes at state firms and offices around the country, in defiance of the v ...
• WikiLeaks: Israel Long Viewed Egypt VP as Pref ...
  2008 diplomatic cable published by the Daily Telegraph quotes Israeli official as saying that Israel was ‘most comfortable’ with prospect of Omar Suleiman becoming Egypt’s next leader. By The Associated Press February 07, 2011 “Haaretz” — Egypt’s Vice President Omar Suleiman was long seen by Isr ...
• Serbia: Thousands protest in Belgrade
  Serbian rally against economic hardships and corruption was the biggest in years. 06 Feb 2011 The protesters have demanded early elections, higher wages and a crackdown on corruption [AFP] Tens of thousands of disenchanted Serbs have held protests in Belgrade against the government. Saturday’s r ...
• Greece: Landfill site protest turns violent
  Three people have been arrested after protesters opposed to a new landfill clashed with riot police in a town near Athens. Police said two officers were injured in violent clashes which started when members of a crowd threw molotov cocktails and stones at Keratea’s police station to protest agai ...

Ken O'Keefe

• Global Revolution 2011
  I believe the time has come to unite, those of us who are sane, who can see that the masses are comprised of so many cultures and vastly different ways of life, yet we all demand essentially the same things. We demand to be treated with respect. We demand the right to a decent way of life. We ...
• Revolutions & Manipulations
  While millions of Egyptians are in the streets, in one of the most dramatic spontaneous uprisings in recent years, in an attempt to overthrow 30 years of Mubarak rule, a regime propped up by Israel and the United States, an undercurrent of opportunist plots threaten to turn this hopeful situatio ...
• Rise People Rise – The Global Revolution ...
  Let us realize once and for all, that we the people are one, that we are human, that our most precious gift is that of our humanity. Let us never sacrifice it again. Together we are unstoppable. We are the sleeping giant, we are the waking lion, we are fierce and we are fearless.
• The Samouni Family Children – Survivors ...
  January 12, 2011 is a day I will never forget, visiting the Samouni family could not possibly be anything but a life-changing event.  Words simply cannot describe the devastation wrought upon this family by a marauding band of Israeli psychopaths, otherwise known as the Givati Brigade of the Isr ...
• On the verge of Cast Lead II, a look back
  Today our team in Gaza met the Awaja family from Thabat.  There were nine members of this family, seven children aged 1 to 12 years old, but one son was murdered during Operation Cast Lead (2008-2009), so seven children is now six.  Today we visited a few days in the life of this family, courtes ...

StillSmallVoice

• Those natives were asking for it...
  Bryan Fischer, of American Family Association, insists that Native Americans brought the European land grab onto themselves because they didn't worship Jesus. Fischer writes: The native American tribes at the time of the European settlement and founding of the United States were, virtually ...
• Why Americans can't save money
  Recognize yourself in here? The read more about America's Cheapest Family, go here.
• The Church of the Latter-Day Dude
  Well, if you already have this, you might as well have this. I guess the Dude really does abide. And thanks, Sharon, for the link.
• Rep. Peter King, I wish you'd get out more
  And I really wish you'd read a little, maybe talk to people who know more than you. Here are a few. But King, chair of the House Committee on Homeland Security, isn't going to let a little thing like "political correctness" get in the way of his own ignorance -- a stance which, by the way, fe ...
• Can it be true? That Rush and Glenn are strugg ...
  The Becklimbaugh fan base is shrinking -- even while the GOP gained so many seats last November. Will partisan gas-baggery go the way of the phrase, "don't let the terrorists win?" Can we at least keep "dittohead?" Getty

Associated Content

• Patriot Act Extension Fails in House Vote
  The House failed to pass an extension of three Patriot Act provisions under a special rule that fast-tracked the proposal but required a two-thirds majority vote. The House was seven votes short to pass the extension under the rule.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Feb 09, 2011
• Recovering Gabrielle Giffords Speaks for the F ...
  One month after being shot in the head, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords has regained her ability to speak. A spokesperson reports that the Congresswoman asked for toast with her breakfast, and that Giffords is speaking "more and more."Contributor: Lauren Shreve Published: Feb 09, 2011
• Mark Sanchez Suffers Non-Scandal Over Hook-Up ...
  The New York Jets are so scandal-ridden that elements of the media are now trying to tie members of the team to controversy or scandal to near-miss episodes. Such is the case with Mark Sanchez, the 24-year-old quarterback and the 17-year-old...Contributor: Saul Relative Published: Feb 09, 2011
• Patriot Act Renewal Temporarily Defeated in Ho ...
  Opposition to the Patriot Act has endured for years, but gotten nowhere in repealing it. Renewing expiring provisions before the month ends is therefore inevitable, although a surprising defeat in the House still raised eyebrows.Contributor: Robert Dougherty Published: Feb 09, 2011
• Patriot Act Extension Hits a Brick Wall in the ...
  The Patriot Act is a bill that was passed under former President George W. Bush after the events of 9.11.2001. Some of the bill's provisions were up for a vote on Feb. 8, 2011, in the House of Representatives.Contributor: T.A.W. Published: Feb 09, 2011

Popsci - Science

• With 50 Meters Left to Drill, Scientists Leave ...
  Russian team investigating the Antarctic lake isolated for 14 million years may have polluted it as they left Winter has stymied a Russian-led effort to drill into an Antarctic lake that has been buried for 14 million years, scientists said this week. Just 98 feet short of their goal, scientist ...
• Blood Wars: Museum Exhibit Pits Immune Systems ...
  Fancy yourself a hardy little organism? Think your immune system could trounce those of your peers? Stop by Dublin’s Science Gallery and you can put your T-Cells to the test. An exhibit there is taking white blood cells from participants and pitting them against one another in a Petri dish to d ...
• Rogue 'Steppenwolf Planets' That Have Escaped ...
  If you don't need to be in a solar system to have liquid water, then why not take your planet for a spin around the galaxy? Lonely Earth-like planets with tumultuous cores could conceivably support life even if they had no stars, a new study says. Researchers Dorian Abbot and Eric Switzer at th ...
• The World's First Programmable Nanoprocessor T ...
  Nanocomputers have been around for decades as a concept, but in actual practice they’ve been harder to come by. Now, engineers collaborating at Harvard and the MITRE Corporation have taken a huge step forward for the field of nanocomputing by creating the world’s first programmable nanoprocesso ...
• Video: Scientists Smash Giant Granite Balls To ...
  Two stones, each a meter in diameter, suspended from cranes Planetary science isn’t all telescopes and spectral lines. Sometimes you need 40-foot cranes, advice from a dude named A-Ray, and a pair of 2,800-pound granite balls. Literal ones. Dan Durda, a research scientist at Southwest Research I ...

Veterans Today

• US Politics & the Myth of the Pendulum Swing
  Pacified & Lulled, Still Waiting for the Pendulum to Swing It was a rainy April day in 2004, and I was in the office of one of my professors at the university’s Public Policy Graduate Department. I was having one of those defeated and disillusioned moments that kept recurring during that time pe ...
• Murder in Tampa studied by Russian President M ...
  What could be so interesting about a murder in Tampa that Russian President Medvedev would have the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences study it? There have been more horrible cases around the world involving a parent killing children. Julie Schenecker said she killed them because they were talk ...
• Spy Trade: How Israel’s Lobby Undermines ...
  Israel and its American lobby have committed audacious but generally unknown crimes against the United States. The government has long kept files about Israeli espionage, weapons smuggling, and covert operations on American soil classified...until now. Spy Trade begins on the trail of a vast smu ...
• Gilad Atzmon: Left and Islam
  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 Western Left had very ...
• Egyptian Intifada: In Tahrir Square, Muslims, ...
  CAIRO, Feb 9 (IPS) — In recent years, Egypt has witnessed mounting tension between its Muslim majority and its sizeable Coptic Christian minority. But in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, the site of ongoing mass protests against the ruling regime, members of both faiths chant in unison: “Muslim, Christian ...

War is Business

• Terrorist Threat ‘Heightened’: Is That R ...
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• IWW In Egypt
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• Afghan Take On US Aid: ‘We Really Do Not ...
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• Burmese Students Abroad Fear Conscription On R ...
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• Human Rights Watch Calls For Indonesian Aid Re ...
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Hudson's Weather & Climate

• A wild start to February - back to square one ...
  Severe gales and heavy rain have battered Yorkshire in the last few days. The highest wind speed was recorded at Fylingdales on the North York Moors with 70mph on Friday. Pennine areas have had a month's worth of rain since Thursday. 79.2mm of rain was measured at Bingley in West Yorkshire sinc ...
• Global temperatures continue to fall.
  The January Global temperature, according to UAH satellite data, was 0.009C below the 1981-2010 average. The previous month, December 2010, was 0.181C above average A year ago, in January 2010, the global temperature was 0.542C above the 1981-2010 average. If the more standard 196 ...
• February: Westerlies come roaring back
  January 2011 turned out to be drier and colder than average. The provisional Central England Temperature (CET) mean for the month was 3.7C, compared with the average of 4.2C. It was a month again dominated by high pressure, with north and east winds more frequent than normal. Rainfall was ther ...
• Global temperature forecast for 2011
  Last year, according to the Met Office Hadley Centre, was the second warmest on record with a temperature anomaly of 0.50C above the 1961-1990 average. This was very close, but slightly below their forecast which was issued at the Copenhagen climate summit in December 2009. It stated global te ...
• Met Office: 2010 Globally second warmest on re ...
  Last week, researchers at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York, where temperature records extend back to 1880, announced that global surface temperatures in 2010 tied with 2005 as the warmest on record. This was similar to data released by National Oceanic and Atmospher ...

Internat'l Political Economy

• Does China Lend More to LDCs Than World Bank?
  In case you missed it, here's further proof of how far China has come in terms of winning friends and influencing people. Paramount Leader Hu Jintao pretty much came, saw, and conquered (veni, vidi, vici) his obsequious, occasionally backstabbing lodgers renting the PRC's subprime North American ...
• Are Brits Dumb Enough to Hold $511B in Treasur ...
  (OK, so that's an obviously loaded question. But hey, this is a blog for crying out loud.) With apologies to our Chinese colleagues, I generally hold one's Treasury holdings as a yardstick for one's gullibility. If you're dumb enough to own so much stake in a sunset nation like America, then y ...
• Welcome to London, World's Most Open City
  And now for a news flash from the clash of metropolises. Here's a consolation prize of sorts for London after receiving a beating during the "selection" process for the 2018 World Cup: a study commissioned by the British Council and the European Commission finds that, based on a range of criteri ...
• Why Remittances Matter So Much More Than Aid
  This Thursday, Labour MP and Shadow Secretary of State for International Development Harriet Harman is going to give a talk at the LSE on the moral imperative for rich countries like the UK to devote 0.7% of their GDP to development aid. While the history of why we have this 0.7% aid target is a ...
• On Today's Menu: US Federal & State Default
  Simply put, Americans have money management issues. By any conventional accounting standard, the US is bankrupt. Democrats are generally reluctant to reduce benefits that cost a lot but would probably result in Main Street USA looking like downtown Cairo if removed. Meanwhile, Republicans' under ...

Economic Collapse Blog

• 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 ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

• Call Out for Submissions for Fire to the Priso ...
  We are currently beginning to compile issue 11 of Fire to the Prisons magazine. If you are not familiar with this project you can check out pre...
• "No Tears for the Fallen" -- flyer f ...
  This text is transcribed from a leaflet found in Central Indiana, presumably regarding recent events. Last August a drunken policeman, respo...
• California: Announcing a monthly anarchist sou ...
  TCN Radio is a new montly anarchist sound event from the East Bay of California. It features commentary, interviews and performance. The first...
• Philadelphia: Seeking submissions for defenest ...
  It's cold! A good time to stay in and write that piece you keep meaning to for Philly's radical paper of optimism and refusal defenestrator. Our...
• NYC Anarchist Book Fair Table and Presentation ...
  The 5th Annual NYC Anarchist Book Fair will be held Saturday, April 9, 2011, at Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square South, NYC. Present...

E U 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 ...

Voiceless Victim

• The Pope Calling The Berlusconi Black
  I’ve heard some pretty obvious cases of the pot calling the kettle black, but the recent controversy over the Pope ticking off Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi for child sexual exploitation shows how complete is the lack of self-awareness demonstrated by the psychopaths who surround and ...
• Let The Pope Try and Claim This Letter Was Mis ...
  Since the recent emergence of a secret letter from the Papal Nuncio to Ireland written to the Irish Catholic Bishops Conference, which squashes any attempt by Irish Bishops to report child sexual abuse to the local police, the Vatican has predictably whined about the letter being  “misunderstoo ...
• How Much More Evidence Do You Need Before You ...
  Documentary evidence was revealed in Ireland this week proving that Catholic officials do not report sex crimes against children to the police, and that this is official Church policy originating from Rome. Such disclosures should have been answered with judicial inquiries, charges being laid, a ...
• Bill Zeller and others must not die in vain
  The tragedy of Bill Zeller’s lifetime of suffering from the effects of childhood sexual and physical abuse, which finally resulted in his recent suicide has touched people around the world. Bill was obviously a very special person and a great loss to those who knew him, and the rest of the world ...
• Please Explain Why Catholic Bishops Get Away w ...
  I read with horror this week that a youth worker in the Northern Territory of Australia is facing charges under mandatory reporting laws. Her crime? While she did eventually report her concern about the possible sexual abuse of a five-year old child, she has been summonsed to appear before a mag ...

WL Central

• 2011-01-07 EFF: The Best of Cablegate: Instanc ...
  TweetEFF has chosen the cables they feel have "been critical to understanding and evaluating controversial events." Their choices: “Dancing Boy” Scandal Alleges Child Prostitution, Possible Drug Use among U.S. Private Contractors Pfizer Allegedly Sought to Blackmail Nigerian Regulator to Stop L ...
• Twitter Details & Messages of Birgitta Jónsdót ...
  TweetThe US Department of Justice has issued a subpoena on Twitter for material related to Birgitta Jónsdóttir, including her personal details and, it can be assumed, all her private direct messages. Ms Jónsdóttir twittered thus: department of justice are requesting twitter to provide the info ...
• 2011-01-08: Peter King: Zeal of Hypocrites
  TweetA month ago, on the 7th of December, a week after Peter King made his controversial Wikileaks Is Terrorism" comments, I posted this rather lengthy article to my blog, and linked to it from WL Central, documenting both King's hypocrisy and the possible motives he might have for taking such a ...
• 2011-01-08: U.S. DOJ Twitter Subpoena Updates
  TweetShortly after news of the subpoena issued to Twitter by the The U.S. Department of Justice emerged, an electronic copy of the subpoena surfaced and was, of course, circulated via Twitter. (A copy of the subpoena can be found here in pdf format.) Birgitta Jónsdóttir, one of 63 members of Ice ...
• 2011-01-08: Twitter on censorship: No censorsh ...
  TweetIt was December 14 when Twitter first received the sealed order to turn over information on several of its users. Twitter could simply have provided the information requested, instead of acting, on January 5, to have the order unsealed. The unsealing of the subpoena allowed the Twitter user ...

U N News

• UN chief to visit Ecuador and Peru next week
  Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will at the weekend travel to Ecuador and Peru for official visits during which he will confer with the leaders of the two countries, the United Nations announced today.
• UN regional commissions key to steering sustai ...
  Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro today stressed that sustainable development is key to United Nations efforts to reduce poverty and raise people's living standards, and underlined the importance of the Organization's regional commissions in formulating coherent development policies.
• Ban welcomes release of final results of first ...
  Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today welcomed the announcement by Haiti's Provisional Electoral Council of the final results of the first round of presidential and legislative polls, and encouraged all concerned to take advantage of the opportunity to proceed with the electoral process.
• Haiti: UN human rights chief offers help to a ...
  The United Nations human rights chief has offered Haitian authorities technical assistance for prosecuting crimes committed during the 15-year rule of former president Jean-Claude Duvalier, who returned to the country last month from exile.
• UN agency welcomes Mexico's new refugee law
  The United Nations refugee agency today welcomed the entry into force of a new law in Mexico on the protection of refugees and asylum-seekers that now gives the country a legal framework that complies with international standards in this area.

Conspiracy Reality TV

• Mystery Missile Launch, Big Pharma Begins Micr ...
  Once activated by stomach acid, the embedded microchip begins sensing its environment and broadcasting data to a receiver worn by the patient. This receiver is also a transmitter that can send the data over the internet to a doctor.
• 7/7: Seeds of Deconstruction
  The British Government's story of what happened, how, and why is contained in three reports comprising just over 200 pages. There is virtually no forensic physical evidence in the public domain. The first two reports were published simultaneously in 2006, ten months after 7/7. One was a home off ...
• The Absurdity Of Starting A Small Business In ...
  In the 1950s only about 1 in 20 Americans needed the government blessing to do their job. Today, that number is more than 1 in 3. And government puts all kinds of requirements on would be entrepreneurs making it harder for these entrepreneurs to start and grow small businesses.
• CIA Whistleblower: “Heart Attack Gun”
  Senator: Does this pistol fire the dart? CIA Dir: Yes, it does, Mr. Chairman, and a special one was developed which potentially would be able to enter the target without perception.
• Naked Truth Behind Body Scanners
  He's abusing his relationship with the public by pretending to be a public servant and talking about how these back-scatter scanners are going to make us safer? He stands to benefit because he's getting payed by the manufacturing companies to go all over the networks saying that these scanners a ...

Rewilding Institute

• Conservation News Brief
  Captain Paul Watson to arrive in Australia for final preparations for Operation Musashi Friday Harbor, WA – Just days after reaffirming that they will head to the Southern Oceans alone to defend the whales in the Antarctic Whale Sanctuary, even after Greenpeace and the Australian government h ...
• Whaling Opponents Collide at Sea
  On board the Steve Irwin in the Ross Sea –February 6th, 2009, 0800 Hours (Sydney Time)  February 5th, 2009 1300 Hours (PST), 75 Degrees 44 Minutes South and 165 Degrees 39 Minutes West The Sea Shepherd ship Steve Irwin collided with the Yushin Maru No.2 this morning in the Ross Sea as the harpo ...
• Dave Foreman’s Recent Speech At Nebraska Wesle ...
  Here’s a great speech Dave did in Nebraska recently. Fetzer Lecture Rewilding North America THURSDAY, MARCH 26 Click Here To Listen In!
• New Website All About Mexican Gray Wolves!
  There are only 52 Mexican gray wolves in the wilds of Arizona and New Mexico. The Rewilding Institute has joined with local, regional, and national conservation, scientific, and sportsmen’s organizations, and concerned citizens in launching a new website, mexicanwolves.org, to help save this hig ...
• Follow Rewilding On Twitter
  We’ve gotten with the times and signed up for a brand new Twitter account.  Now you can follow TRI on Twitter and get updates when we have new posts on the site. Follow Rewilding on Twitter!

Asia Sentinel

• Burma Experiments with Special Economic Zones
  Stymied at luring foreign investment, the junta tries something new
• Burma's NLD in Disarray
  Indecision apparent on whether to continue sanctions
• Thailand's Da Torpedo Trial Torpedoed
  One of the country's most prominent protesters may face a new trial, however
• Singapore and Foreign Workers
  Chinese migrants, among others, face difficult problems, a new report says
• Two Indonesias
  Will a violent and intolerant minority undo a prosperous economic future in Indonesia?

We Know the Lies

• Did You Post Your Pictures on the Internet? T ...
  � We've all done it at one point or another, posting our pictures of ourselves, family and friends on websites and social network portals such as Facebook. read more
• HHS Secretly Hands Out Hundreds and Hundreds o ...
  If Obamacare is everything the administration claims it to be, then why are government officials secretly handing out exemption waivers to friends and insiders? read more
• Your Cell Phone and Camera Can Track Your Ever ...
  Is the GPS in your cell phone providing TMI when it comes to sharing photos?... Geotagging is a feature built into most smart phones with digital cameras right now. ~ Video read more
• If Only We Could Trade Obama for Chavez...
  On Monday, while Barack Obama was hob-nobbing with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Hugo Chavez was busy handing out laptop computers to second graders at a school in Caracas. After that, the Venezuelan president rushed off to a meeting at a food distribution plant which is providing $110 m ...
• The Super Bowl and the Roman Colliseums
  As millions of Americans tune in and watch the "Superbowl" today, the MSM will chime in on how important this annual event is to the people of the United States. Football, like the gladiatorial games fought in ancient Rome, is played in Colliseums to thousands of urban dwellers. Caesar, in th ...

Tatumba 2.0

• Keiser Report: Fiat Food (E119)
  This time Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, talk about fake rice and real inequality and about a ‘new model’ that looks a whole lot like an old model called capitalism. In the second half of the show, Max talks to Pierre Jovanovic, author “Blythe Masters,” about credit default swaps, the Qu ...
• Gerald Celente on the Dr. Bill Deagle show 1st ...
  Gerald Celente on Dr. Bill Deagle show 1st Feb 2011 Trends Journal: www.trendsresearch.com Twitter: twitter.com This post is courtesy of Robbie the Robot Please recycle. Don't throw away your peels Related posts:Gerald Celente on Jeff Rense show 10 Sept 2010 Gerald Celente on Jeff Rense show 10 ...
• Brink of War, Mission Accomplished
  Trade the Wave at http:///www.GreeneWave.com/ BUY SILVER AT WHOLESALE This post is courtesy of Robbie the Robot Please recycle. Don't throw away your peels Related posts:HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED? Join the WAVE at www.GreeneWave.com Video Rating: 0 / 5... US COLLAPSE INEVITABLE Join ‘The WAVE’ toda ...
• US tries to create an ‘iron curtain’ around Ru ...
  therealnews.com FW Engdahl : US in decline as Russia asserts its rising power This post is courtesy of Robbie the Robot Please recycle. Don't throw away your peels Related posts:China and the Afghan War One War in Pakistan and Afghanistan. To watch a multi-part... The tide turns against biofuels ...
• MAX KEISER: NO EXIT FOR THE BOTTOM 99.9%
  This time Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, look at the scandals of no exits and no jubilees. At least for the bottom 99.9% Alex talks about the recent plunge of the Dow and other financial issues with film-maker, broadcaster and former broker and options trader Max Keiser. Max is the host ...

Truth About Our World

• America’s Strategic Repression of the ‘Arab Aw ...
  by Andrew Gavin Marshall 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.’ Ultimately, I assessed that these could potentially be the birth pangs of a global revolution; however, the s ...
• David Icke: Emergency Broadcast
• Rising Food Prices and the Egyptian Tinderbox: ...
  by Ellen Brown âWhat for a poor man is a crust, for a rich man is a securitized asset class.â –Futures trader Ann Berg, quoted in the UK Guardian Underlying the sudden, volatile uprising in Egypt and Tunisia is a growing global crisis sparked by soaring food prices and unemployment.  The Ass ...
• Biggest Scam in World History Exposed
  The greatest scam in history has been exposed — and has largely been ignored by the media. In fact, itâs still going on. The specifics of a secret taxpayer funded âbackdoor bailoutâ organized by unelected bankers have been revealed. The data release revealed âemergency lending programsâ that dol ...
• Is The New Madrid Fault Earthquake Zone Coming ...
  What in the world is happening in the middle of the United States right now?  Thousands of birds are falling dead from the skies, tens of thousands of fish are washing up on shore dead, earthquakes are popping up in weird and unexpected places and people are starting to get really freaked out ab ...

Bloomberg

• At Motorola, "a Hop in Everybody's Step"
  CEO Ed Zander admits he hasn't checked every box on his to-do list. But he's happy to take credit for kick-starting innovation
• HP: Exiting from Network Gear?
  The computer maker may soon sell its ProCurve unit to one or more private-equity firms as part of an ongoing refocusing effort
• IGN Entertainment: Where the Boys Are
  The Web outfit has drawn a huge, male-dominated following and has an IPO in the works. But will a big Net player come calling?
• Do Online MBAs Make the Grade?
  Their popularity is soaring, but some are diploma mills, making recruiters wary of virtual degrees. Here are tips for picking a good program
• Don't Count the U.S. Consumer Out
  Despite higher energy prices, we expect consumers to continue spending and the U.S. economy to grow

Enviroblog

• Plastic Pollution Is Everywhere. Including Yo ...
  By Lisa Frack, EWG Social Media Manager Unless you've been living under a rock, you're aware that plastic creates pollution. And if you've been paying any attention at all to the state of our planet, you've heard of the Great... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full l ...
• Hexavalent Chromium: 11 Answers for Water Drin ...
  By Rebecca Sutton, PhD, EWG Senior Scientist When you see news reports about a cancer-causing chemical in drinking water everywhere you turn, you probably have a few questions. Of course you can read EWG's full report, but on the off... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website fo ...
• French law informs, protects cell phone users
  By Olga Naidenko, PhD, EWG Senior Scientist France will soon become the first nation anywhere to require merchants to inform consumers of the radiation levels of cell phones at the point of sale. The new French cell phone statute, part... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website ...
• EWG's Worst Environmental Stories of 2010
  By Nils J. Bruzelius, EWG Executive Editor We polled our staff to see what stories they thought had the biggest impact, for better or worse. Here are the results: We'll start with the worst today, so we can end on... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other ...
• EWG's Top 10 Good Environmental News Stories o ...
  By Nils J. Bruzelius, EWG Executive Editor Ok, our list of the "worst" environmental stories of the year was a bit of a downer. So here are EWG's Top 10 good environmental news stories. Yes, good things happened, too. And... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links ...

Quick Hits

• More Teachers Being Replaced By Technology
  The neoliberal wetdream coming to fruition. From Fast Company: Districts all over are experimenting with teacher-less computer labs and green-lighting entire classrooms of adult-supervised children exploring the Internet--an Android powered tablet designed specifically for students. Teachers' u ...
• Food costs at record levels, likely to go high ...
  MANILA/MILAN (Reuters) - World food prices hit a record in January and recent catastrophic weather around the globe could put yet more pressure on the cost of food, an issue that has already helped spark protests across the Middle East. Up for the seventh month in a row, the closely watched Food ...
• Shell makes $2,208,480 (£1.6m) an hour, [Clue ...
  http://www.guardian.co.uk/busi...   The Guardian in Britain says calmly:Shell stoked up the heated debate about the high cost of fuel on the forecourt today after reporting it made profits of nearly £1.6m an hour over the last three months.A leading member of the road lobby said motorists would ...
• Gallup Helps Explain Egyptian/Tunisia Uprising ...
  Wellbeing in Egypt and Tunisia decreased significantly over the past few years, even as GDP increased. In Egypt, where demonstrations have prompted President Hosni Mubarak to give up power after elections this fall, the percentage of people "thriving" fell by 18 percentage points since 2005. In ...
• Wallace Shawn: Are You Smarter Than Thomas Jef ...
  The Grand Nagus speaks! At Tom Dispatch.com.

Capital - NYC

• WASP culture stages a death scene (but wasn't ...
  Playwright A.R. Gurney seems to be siding with the younger generation, but it’s hard to do the same because they come across as shrill and unyielding. They may mock the privileged class, but their sense of entitlement seems to know no bounds. More ...
• Pretty girls doing naughty things: Tabs race t ...
  Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
• The Front's origins at 'The Observer'
  Just a short note to readers of The Front: The column really originated as Tom Scocca's idea, dating from his time as media editor at The New York Observer. Here, a link to some of the old Wood War columns I wrote after taking it over. More ...
• A boring monologue from Lord Alfred Douglas do ...
  It doesn’t bode well that Bosie (played with courtly airs by Des Keogh) announces at the start that he doesn’t intend to discuss Wilde. He also skips anything else the least bit scandalous, making the title seem more than a bit misleading. What’s left is a ...
• 'Spider-Man': Turn on the snark
  Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More

Views & News from Norway

• Poland beat over-hyped Norwegians
  The Norwegian national football team (landslaget) was beaten by Poland in a friendly (non-qualifying) international match played in Portugal on Wednesday night â despite outclassing their opponents and dominating the vast majority of the game. Before the game, the Norwegian team’s excellent rece ...
• Movement starts to hail Odd Nerdrum
  One high-profile Norwegian artist has launched an effort to secure national acclaim for another, Norwegian figurative artist Odd Nerdrum, by urging that Nerdrum be allowed to live in the country’s honorary home for leading artists called Grotten in Oslo. Artist Vebjørn Sand wrote a column in ne ...
• New snowstorm moving in
  State meteorologists were warning of a new snowstorm due to move in over southern Norway Wednesday night. They predicted the storm could dump as much as 20 centimeters of snow, also along the coast. “It won’t be any catastrophe, but when there’s that much snow on the roads it can quickly be prob ...
• Award-winning novel becomes TV series
  The award-winning novel Halvbroren (The Half Brother), by Norwegian author Lars Saabye Christensen, is set to become an eight-part television series on Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK). A star-studded cast of characters, including Danish actress Ghita Nørby, were assembling for the first time this ...
• Norway tries to retain bank guarantees
  Finance Minister Sigbjørn Johnsen was in Brussels and Paris last week to lobby for retention of Norway’s generous bank deposit guarantees. He didn’t win any immediate promises from officials at the EU. Deposits are insured for up to NOK 2 million (around USD 330,000) at Norwegian banks. That’s ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

• Well Remembered
  Courtesy: Marc Roberts Digg this! Share this on Reddit Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUpon Share this on del.icio.us Share this on Facebook Post this to MySpace Add this to Google Bookmarks Post this on Di ...
• What Have We Allowed Our Society to Become?
  This is a translation of a short sample from a comedy show filmed in January 2011 in Munich. The language is unfortunately inaccessible for most readers (more so as this is in a regional dialect, Bavarian), but what this woman, Monika Gruber, has to say in this four-minute piece, matters a lot. ...
• 1-Day Sawmill Course with David Spicer at the ...
  This is a one-day course on sustainable timber harvesting with a portable saw-mill. You will also learn about many aspects of forest management. Date: 18 February 2011 Cost: AU$200 Topics covered are: forestry management pruning thinning maintenance farm forestry sawmill types circular ...
• Maya Mountain Research Farm – 6th Annual Perma ...
  What: 6th Annual Permaculture Design Course Where: Maya Mountain Research Farm, San Pedro Columbia, Belize When: March 5th through 18th, 2011 Instructors: Albert Bates, Andrew Goodheart Brown, Andrew Leslie Phillips, Maria Ros, Christopher Nesbitt & local guest instructors. Cost: US$12 ...
• The Live Launch of the Worldwide Permaculture ...
  Dear People After months and months of work, we’re now launching a new system — the Worldwide Permaculture Network (WPN) — which will enable permaculturists everywhere to: Put themselves on a clickable map, where people (permaculturists and non-permaculturists) can see at a glance the scope ...

Telecrap Urinal

• US Soldier Waterboards His 4-Year Old Daughter
  Can you believe this? A US soldier, upset that his 4-year old daughter could not recite the alphabet, waterboarded her. He knew that she was afraid of water and that is why he chose this form of punishment. Related posts:Cops Bust Up Frail 84-Year Old Woman With Alzheimers Local Blogger Catche ...
• Fish Hat Pope – Wake Up Soon
  Studio version of Fish Hat Pope' song 'Wake Up Soon' (altered lyrics to sunny afternoon by The Kinks!) Fish Hat Pope performed this live at the British Constitution Group meeting in London on Oct 31st 2009. Related posts:A little sniff for the dog mate? – Everything is OK Whistle Blowers W ...
• US Government: Why we let the Underwear Bomber ...
  The US Government now admits that they allowed the Underwear Bomber to board the Christmas Flight from Amsterdam to Detroit. Related posts:BREAKING NEWS: US Government Admits It Helped Underwear Bomber Board Plane Extensive Interview with Kurt Haskell – Witness to Underwear Bomber Flight 253: ...
• United Breaks Guitars – Don’t mess ...
  Well the United Airlines baggage handlers broke the guitar in to two pieces. Then Mr. Carroll complained to United and it fell on deaf ears. Because of that he vowed to write three songs about their callous disregard and uncaring attitude. Related posts:United We Fall – Canada is a figment of ...
• Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth by Ric ...
  9/11 was an inside job. Nano thermite and thermate were used to pulverize these buildings, and in the process murdered thousands of innocent people. Related posts:Nigerian Man is a Al-CIA-Duh Terrorist – USA Caught in False-Flag Terror Plot National Security Alert from the CIT Climategate Scan ...

Anna's News

• Homeopathy's Ineffectiveness Saves Lives
  Hundreds of people owe their lives to the fact that homeopathy is completely ineffective. This past weekend, groups of people around the world participated in an event that, at first glance, may seem sinister or even cult-like. Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Ad ...
• 10 Famous Athletes Who Are Also Incredibly Sma ...
  Despite the prevalence of "dumb jock" jokes, the world of professional sports has fielded some truly gifted minds. From upper-level schools to extraordinary business pursuits, these athletes demonstrated an ability to make themselves fully rounded, Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �Note-it! ...
• Free Internet For All
  Despite the fact that you're reading this now on your computer and/or have an iPhone or a some other smart phone that allows you web access day and night, 7 out 10 people around the world have no access to the Internet. That's about 5 billion people, Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & Tech �| ...
• 50 Best Blogs for Adoption Advice
  Single, partnered or married parents elect to adopt children for a wide variety of reasons. Regardless of their motivation, religion, sexual orientation or relationship status, there likely exists a resource brimming with insider tips and tricks for......Submitted by Anna Smith to Society & Cult ...
• Fetal surgery better for kids with spine defec ...
  Pregnant women were afraid to have it. Doctors were afraid to do it. Hospitals stopped performing the surgery because the government wanted evidence it was safe and worth doing.Now, a landmark study shows that an operation to fix a hole in the spine whileSubmitted by Anna Smith to Health & Welln ...

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