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  • Egypt's joy as Mubarak quits
    Summary: The show of popular strength was enough to get rid of the current dictator. He'd only go if the US decided to take him away. After much wobbling, they did. They had no other serious option left. The victory, however, belongs to the Egyptian people whose unending courage and sacrific ...
  • Why 5+1 Passed Over Cooperation Agenda?
    Summary: Various members of 5+1 do not follow the same strategic approach to Iran’s nuclear program. The United States sees the program as a strategic threat and Israelis consider it a threat to their very survival. The European troika considers the nuclear program from the viewpoint of nonp ...
  • Washington Faces Arab Revolts Sacraficing Dict ...
    Summary: To understand the Obama regime’s policy toward Egypt, the Mubarak dictatorship and the popular uprising it is essential to locate it in an historical context. The essential point is that Washington, after several decades of being deeply embedded in the state structures of the Arab ...
  • The Arab Revolution Is Beyond America's Contro ...
    Summary: America cannot go on riding the tiger forever in the Middle East. We cannot expect to have "pro-American" forces in power in the Middle East when the publics don't like our policies. We cannot continue our endless interventions -- out of fear that some states might emerge as anti-A ...
  • The Fake Moderation of America's Moderate Mide ...
    Summary: The following weeks will provide a profound opportunity to reset the U.S. and European approach. Perhaps the high rhetoric of Barack Obama’s Cairo speech may yet be redeemed. If not, events in Cairo and beyond will represent the death knell of the president’s promise of a better pos ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Dark Holes Observed on the Sun's Surface
    Hinode looks into a hole on the Sun On Feb. 1, 2011, the Hinode satellite captured this breathtaking image of a coronal hole, seen in the top center of the image. A polar coronal hole can also be seen at...
  • Image of the Day: Orion's Red Arc -Remnant of ...
    New images from ESA's Planck space observatory reveal the forces driving star formation and give astronomers a way to understand the complex physics that shape the dust and gas in our Galaxy. Where earth-bound optical telescopes see only black space,...
  • Zen & the Science of Awe!
    The awe-inspiring distance normally perceived between humans and their gods through ritual, according to Joseph Campbell, is "the one great story of myth: that in the beginning we were united with the source, but that we were separated from it...
  • 'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' on Dolphin ...
    On the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck...
  • 'The Daily Galaxy' February Contest -Win a Fre ...
    Use it towards a purchase of an iPhone, iPad, Apple TV or Hundreds of Other Apple Products and Accessories. Users of Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Reddit, and StumbleUpon are invited to discover, review and share Daily Galaxy posts you love on...

Natural News

  • You can't overdose on homeopathic remedies; Wh ...
    (NaturalNews) It's really quite hilarious to see this unfold: Homeopathy skeptics and vicious Big Pharma attack dogs are running around the globe in ludicrous demonstrations where they consume huge doses of homeopathic remedies in public and then claim that because they don't die of an "overdose ...
  • Organic giants Whole Foods, Organic Valley, an ...
    (NaturalNews) Some of the nation's largest and most widely known producers and retailers of natural and organic products have decided to push for a compromise with the Monsanto-influenced U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on the issue of genetically-modified organisms (GMO). In the wake of t ...
  • Mexico rejects Monsanto's GMO corn
    (NaturalNews) Mexican officials seem to have more common sense than American officials, with their continued denouncement of Monsanto's genetically-modified (GM) corn. Mexico has kept in effect a moratorium on Monsanto's GM corn since 2005, citing a lack of safety studies and evidence showing th ...
  • New raw products at the NaturalNews store: Roy ...
    (NaturalNews) We've just begun carrying two new exciting raw food products at the NaturalNews Store: A certified organic raw royal jelly powder, and a line of delicious raw hot sauces that have become an instant favorite.The certified organic raw royal jelly powder is from Immortality Alchemy an ...
  • Pesticides inhibit proper childhood developmen ...
    (NaturalNews) Mothers exposed to high levels of pesticides bear children with lower intelligence levels than children born to mothers not exposed, says a new study published online in the journal Pediatrics. Piperonyl butoxide (PBO), a common chemical used in thousands of household insecticides ...

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  • Report: Stuxnet Hit 5 Gateway Targets on Its W ...
    Attackers behind the Stuxnet computer worm focused on targeting five organizations in Iran that they believed would get them to their final target in that country, according to a new report from security researchers. The five organizations, believed to be the first that were infected with the wo ...
  • Ruling in Assange Extradition Case Expected Fe ...
    Final arguments in the extradition hearing of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange were presented in a London court on Friday. The judge is expected to rule on February 24, but the case is likely to continue long afterward if either side files an appeal. Assange is being sought for questioning in S ...
  • Researcher Makes Free Phone and Text Encryptio ...
    Free phone and text-messaging encryption software that has until now been available mostly to U.S. users can now be used in Egypt, according to the security researcher who developed it. The researcher, who goes by the name Moxie Marlinspike, released the software last year for use in the U.S. t ...
  • Sony to Inspect PlayStation Hacker’s Hard Driv ...
    SAN FRANCISCO — PlayStation 3 jailbreaker George Hotz must allow console-maker Sony to comb through his computer’s hard drive and retrieve information “that relates to the hacking of the PlayStation,” a federal judge ruled Thursday. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston’s ruled from the bench in Son ...
  • Report: Egypt Turned Off the Net With a Big Sw ...
    The Egyptian government shut down most of its country’s internet not by phoning ISPs one at a time, but by simply throwing a switch in a crucial data center in Cairo. That according to a February presentation to the Department of Homeland Security’s Infosec Technology Transition Council, obtaine ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Kyl, Flake Highlight GOP's Broken Term Limits ...
    This week, Arizona Senator and Republican Minority Whip Jon Kyl declared he would not seek a fourth term in 2012. Of course, in 1994 Kyl, one of the signers of the GOP Contract with America, promised he would only serve two. And the ironies don't end there. Within hours of Kyl's announcement, ...
  • The Return of the Republican Malpractice Fraud ...
    Back in September 2009, Republicans made the unfortunate selection Louisiana Congressman and physician Charles Boustany to deliver the GOP response to President Obama's address on health care. Unfortunate, it turned out, because tort reform champion Boustany himself has been repeatedly - and su ...
  • The Great Tax Cutter? Obama, Not Reagan
    This weekend's Reagan centennial predictably produced paeans to the great tax cutter who never was. After all, in the wake of the his budget-busting 1981 tax cuts which ultimately tripled the national debt, Reagan raised taxes six of his eight years in office and 11 times overall. As it turns ...
  • Republicans Threaten Judges. Again.
    On Tuesday, the Washington Post reported that federal judicial vacancies are reaching a "crisis point." As it turns out, when Republicans aren't turning to record-setting obstructionism to block President Obama's nominees to the federal bench, they are threatening the "umpires" of the law outri ...
  • Beck Echoes Romney on Threat of Islamic Caliph ...
    For pure political shadenfreude, few developments have been as entertaining as the right-wing family feud over the chaos in Egypt. Among just the neoconservatives, democracy promotion idealists are clashing with advocates of authoritarian stability. On air and online, the Republican partisan p ...

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

Consortium News

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

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Public Citizen in Texas

  • WCS press conferance 095 [Flickr]
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  • ERCOT Board to review February 2nd “Event”
    ERCOT has moved their regularly scheduled board meeting up from Tuesday to Monday, February 14th to allow for a special 2 hour time to take up a review of February 2, 2011 Energy Emergency Alert (EEA) Event Special Board of Directors Meeting Room 206; 7620 Metro Center Drive, Austin, Texas Febru ...
  • House Committee Assignments for 82nd Legislatu ...
    Well, we’ve waited for these, and here they are, the Committee Chairs for your 82nd Texas Legislature:   Agriculture & Livestock: Representative Rick Hardcastle (R-Vernon) Appropriations: Representative Jim Pitts (R-Waxahachie) Border & Intergovernmental Affairs: Representative Veronica Gonzales ...
  • Texas AG to testify in DC about Texas’ lawsuit ...
    Texas’ Attorney General, Greg Abbott is taking his fight with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to Washington DC today. Abbot will testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on how he believes the EPA’s policies are affecting Texas. Abbott, TCEQ and the governor have been on ...
  • WCS press conferance 094 [Flickr]
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  • A Look at Obama's Role
    Let us ruminate on the following excerpts from Obama's Cairo Speech of June 4, 2009. Palestinians must abandon violence. Resistance through violence and killing is wrong and does not succeed. For centuries, black people in America suffered the lash of the whip as slaves and the humiliation o ...
  • Mubarak Resigns
    Egypt's new Vice President Omar Suleiman just appeared on Egyptian television and announced that Hosni Mubarak has resigned and placed control of the country in the hands of the "higher council of the armed forces." There was instant bedlam and rampant celebration on the streets of Cairo, and n ...
  • Krauthammer's Second Cold War
    Rarely do we see such an explicit articulation of the view that we can keep the national security state rolling by simply substituting "Islamism" or "terrorism" for "communism." Charles Krauthammer calls for a second Cold War: We are, unwillingly again, parties to a long twilight struggle, t ...
  • Where in the World is Hosni?
    No one seems to know. Al-Arabiya is reporting Mubarak and his family have been re-located to the the resort city of Sharm el-Sheihk, and others are reporting he has left Cairo for the ever popular "undisclosed location." Meanwhile up to a million demonstrators are out in force in the Cairo str ...
  • Obama Stands With the Reformers
    I want to praise the president of the United States tonight for having moral and political courage. Here is his statement on today's events in Egypt. THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary _____________________________________________________________________________________________ ...

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Futurismic

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

Therapy News

  • For Women, Leisure Activities Offset the Risk ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline As any experienced addictions counselor can attest, there’s no single reason behind why come people become addicted to drugs and alcohol. Everyone’s story is different, which is why individual psychotherapy is so important to the recovery process. However, overall ...
  • Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up
    A GoodTherapy.org Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up In this week’s news, there are major changes happening in the psychology and mental health field. From new mental health policies and reports of mental health spending, to the potential elimination of electroshock therapy, this week was revolu ...
  • Getting in the Mood to Create
    By Lisa A. Riley, LMFT Creative Blocks Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Lisa and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Part of managing the ebb and flow of your creativity is recognizing what helps you get into the mood as well as what dulls your incentive to create. Although we may b ...
  • Flight Patterns: The Story of Les and Mimi. Ch ...
    By Gretta Keene LCSW and Bill Murray PhD, Family Problems Topic Expert Contributors Click here to contact Gretta and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Click here to contact Bill and/or see his GoodTherapy.org Profile Use Who You Are to Change How You Are A Keene Murray Therapy Approach to Famil ...
  • A Physical Exercise Study That Doesn’t Measure ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Researchers at the Peninsula College of Medicine & Dentistry have just published the results of a study focusing on physical exercise both indoors and outdoors. But they weren’t measuring how physical exercise affected the physical body; they were measuring its im ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Mountaintop Removal Protestors Occupy Kentucky ...
    Environment News Service Mountaintop Removal Protestors Occupy Kentucky Governor's Office Environment News Service "We call upon Governor Beshear to lead by ending mountaintop removal, by beginning a sincere public dialogue about creating sustainable jobs for our ... Mountaintop Removal Protest ...
  • Group stages sit-in at Governor's office - WKY ...
    Group stages sit-in at Governor's office WKYT ... but devoted group of people who say they will stay until the Governor changes his stance on coal mining and follows their views on mountaintop removal. ... and more��
  • Finally, Washington frowns on mountaintop remo ...
    Finally, Washington frowns on mountaintop removal mining Santa Rosa Press Gazette After making a full scientific assessment of environmental impacts, the EPA has revoked the permit for the largest mountaintop removal project ever to ... "Rally for Coal": which way for West Virginia?People's Wor ...
  • Mountaintop Removal Protesters Sit In At Gover ...
    Lexington Herald Leader Mountaintop Removal Protesters Sit In At Governor's Office WFPL The group is demanding a meeting with the governor to discuss ending the practice of mountaintop removal mining and creating a new economic model for ... Submit this storyHuffington Post Wendell Berry among ...
  • Judge Allows Mountaintop-Removal Lawsuit to Pr ...
    Judge Allows Mountaintop-Removal Lawsuit to Proceed New York Times Mining companies can proceed with their challenge to US EPA's new policies on mountaintop-removal coal mining, ... Breaking news: Court ruling in coal industry case over EPA crackdown on ...Charleston Gazette (blog) 55 Cents: Th ...

Memeorandum

  • Tea Party wins: House GOP spending bill cuts a ...
    Erik Wasson / The Hill: Tea Party wins: House GOP spending bill cuts at least $100 billion  —  House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers (R-Ky.) on Friday evening introduced a revised 2011 government spending bill that the GOP said will cut at least $100 billion in spending this fiscal ...
  • In Obama's Words - Washington, D.C. ... Obama ...
    Washington Post: In Obama's Words  —  Washington, D.C. … Obama delivers remarks on Egypt  —  SPEECH TRANSCRIPT  —  Good afternoon, everybody.  —  There are very few moments in our lives where we have the privilege to witness history taking place.  This is one of those moments.  This is one of t ...
  • Pawlenty: Obama appeasing Muslim Brotherhood ( ...
    Kevinliptak / CNN: Pawlenty: Obama appeasing Muslim Brotherhood  —  Washington (CNN) - Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, an all-but-declared candidate for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, accused the Obama administration Friday of “appeasing” the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt as the ...
  • After Thursday Speech, White House Pushed Muba ...
    Jake Tapper / Political Punch: After Thursday Speech, White House Pushed Mubarak: You Must Satisfy the Demonstrators In the Street  —  Sources tell ABC News that after Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak spoke last night, handing over powers to his vice president but not stepping down, the White H ...
  • Thune 'coming to final stages' of 2012 decisio ...
    Kevinliptak / CNN: Thune ‘coming to final stages’ of 2012 decision  —  Washington (CNN) - South Dakota Sen. John Thune told reporters Friday that Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl's decision to retire - a move that will shake up the ranks of Republican leadership in the Senate - has “not really” changed his ...

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China Dialogue

  • Unscrambling the price spike
    The brutal drought in China’s grain-producing heartlands is compounding global fears over rising food prices. Now facing the spectre of hoarding and export bans, governments must find a way to work together, writes Alex Evans.What a rollercoaster ride the story of global food prices has been thi ...
  • Costly goodnight for toxic US town
    The pollute first, pay later model is catching up with America, now forced to finance ever-mounting clean-up jobs – like this one in the ghostly mining town of Picher. Kristi Eaton reports.It has been called the most toxic town in America, and now, less than 100 years after it received its chart ...
  • The shadow over rural China
    Horrified by reports of Chinese “cancer villages”, Liu Lican travelled deep into the countryside to find out more. Here, he tells Zhang Yingying what he saw, and why it should prompt others to act.In 2008, Liu Lican visited 20 “cancer villages” in 20 provinces at his own expense, seeing at first ...
  • Razing the last refuge
    To accommodate a new dam on the Upper Yangtze, China is downscaling a crucial reserve for rare fish, to the horror of environmental campaigners. Han Ziyu reports.Just before the Chinese New Year, Beijing-based non-profit group Friends of Nature wrote an open letter to members of China’s top gove ...
  • Cascade effect
    By building dams on the upper Mekong, China has triggered a revival in hydropower ambitions downstream, writes Philip Hirsch.Much has been written on the downstream impact of China’s dams on the Mekong River, which flows through or along the borders of Burma, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand ...

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Threat Level

  • Report: Stuxnet Hit 5 Gateway Targets on Its W ...
    Attackers behind the Stuxnet computer worm focused on targeting five organizations in Iran that they believed would get them to their final target in that country, according to a new report from security researchers. The five organizations, believed to be the first that were infected with the wo ...
  • Ruling in Assange Extradition Case Expected Fe ...
    Final arguments in the extradition hearing of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange were presented in a London court on Friday. The judge is expected to rule on February 24, but the case is likely to continue long afterward if either side files an appeal. Assange is being sought for questioning in S ...
  • Researcher Makes Free Phone and Text Encryptio ...
    Free phone and text-messaging encryption software that has until now been available mostly to U.S. users can now be used in Egypt, according to the security researcher who developed it. The researcher, who goes by the name Moxie Marlinspike, released the software last year for use in the U.S. t ...
  • Sony to Inspect PlayStation Hacker’s Hard Driv ...
    SAN FRANCISCO — PlayStation 3 jailbreaker George Hotz must allow console-maker Sony to comb through his computer’s hard drive and retrieve information “that relates to the hacking of the PlayStation,” a federal judge ruled Thursday. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston’s ruled from the bench in Son ...
  • Report: Egypt Turned Off the Net With a Big Sw ...
    The Egyptian government shut down most of its country’s internet not by phoning ISPs one at a time, but by simply throwing a switch in a crucial data center in Cairo. That according to a February presentation to the Department of Homeland Security’s Infosec Technology Transition Council, obtaine ...

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IntelNews

  • General arrested in Taiwan’s biggest spy scand ...
    A "tall, beautiful and chic" Chinese female operative, who held an Australian passport, appears to be behind Taiwanâs most serious espionage scandal in almost half a century, according to news reports. Continue reading →
  • News you may have missed #476
    Canada not in need of CIA-type agency says official. Australia and US sign secret satellite spy deal. US judge bars passport from ex-CIA agentâs trial. Continue reading →
  • News you may have missed #475 (Arab revolution ...
    Obama 'disappointed' with US intelligence on Tunisia. An Intelligence Failure in Egypt? Did US intelligence fail in North Africa? Continue reading →
  • Embassy cables show US spied on UK Foreign Off ...
    The latest release of US embassy cables from whistleblower website WikiLeaks shows that the US Department of State ordered its diplomats to actively report on the personal lives of British Foreign Office officials. On several instances, American diplomats in London appear to have reported on the ...
  • Egypt intelligence highlights Congress-CIA ten ...
    A US Congressional hearing over a career CIA officialâs promotion turned into a heated exchange on Thursday, as Congress members accused Americaâs intelligence community of failing to provide forewarning of the political instability in Egypt. Continue reading →

War is a Crime.org

  • Mubarak's Failed Bait and Switch
    Mubarak's Failed Bait and Switch - by Stephen Lendman On February 10, indications were he'd step down. He didn't, but now it's official, vice president Suleiman saying he resigned, handing power to Egypt's military. A New York Times alert said "a historic popular uprising transformed politics in ...
  • Join Us in DC, NY, SF, LA, CHI, BOSTON on Mond ...
    WHAT: Delivery of petition and Valentine's Day flowers to Spanish Embassy WHEN: 11:30 a.m. WHERE: 2375 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC CONTACT: Gael Murphy, gael at codepinkalert.org OR 11:00 am, 150 East 58th Street, New York, Bernadette Evangelist, sleet15 at nyc.rr.com 11:30 am, 1405 Sut ...
  • Join Us in DC, NY, SF, LA, CHI on Monday to Th ...
    WHAT: Delivery of petition and Valentine's Day flowers to Spanish Embassy WHEN: 11:30 a.m. WHERE: 2375 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC CONTACT: Gael Murphy, gael at codepinkalert.org OR 11:00 am, 150 East 58th Street, New York, Bernadette Evangelist, sleet15 at nyc.rr.com 11:30 am, 1405 Sut ...
  • Tyrants Beware: The People of Egypt Have done ...
    By Dave Lindorff Breaking News! Egypt's dictator for 30 years, Hosni Mubarak, has been driven from power by the uprising of the Egyptian people, who refused to accept his attempt last night to hang on to power. See it all on Al Jazeera TV! There is still much to know, but the 20-second announcem ...
  • If I Had a Trillion Dollars
    From AFSC � Have you ever wondered how young people would spend the trillion dollars spent on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? What their priorities are? In the shadow of the nonviolent youth driven revolution in Egypt, you will not be surprised by their answers. Hint, It�s about commu ...

Grist - News

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

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Farming Pathogens

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

Suzie-Q

  • Obama: ‘The People Of Egypt Have Spoken& ...
    Obama welcomes Egypt transition By BEN FELLER AP White House Correspondent Feb 11, 3:35 PM EST WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Friday welcomed the peaceful transition of power in Egypt with the resignation of longtime President Hosni Mubarak. “The people of Egypt have spoken. Their v ...
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  • Mubarak Has Stepped Down- Power Given To Milit ...
    Mubarak Steps Down, Ceding Power to Military New York Times- By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, ANTHONY SHADID and ALAN COWELL Published: February 11, 2011 CAIRO — President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt turned over all power to the military, and left the Egyptian capital for his resort home in Sharm el-Sheik, V ...
  • R. James Woolsey spells out Doom & Gloom for E ...
    We will probably see a follow up soon…by Paul Wolfowitz. I believe that John Bolton, Cheney, and probably Rummy have already put their 2 cents in…G%
  • Mubarak Stays- Transfers Power To VP
    Egypt unrest: Mubarak’s speech leaves nation, world wondering who’s in charge CNN-  February 10th, 2011   06:08 PM ET The latest developments, as confirmed by CNN, on the uprising in Egypt. Throngs of demonstrators have taken to the streets of Egypt’s major cities to demand an end to Presiden ...

Solari

  • Egypt And The Pyramid of Power
    By Jon Rappoport January 30, 2011. It’s a grim party. People in the streets, riots, police, soldiers, and nobody seems exactly sure what it’s for. Take your choice: kick out the dictators; new democracy; Islamic theocracy; lower food prices; CIA op. Those are just a few of the possibilities. Sp ...
  • American Workers Not Needed
    By Robert Kuttner Once again, the job numbers are dismal. In January, the U.S. economy created just 36,000 domestic jobs, far below the roughly 145,000 that economists had forecast. The unemployment rate fell, to 9 percent, but only because more and more discouraged workers are giving up and le ...
  • P&I 1000 Statistics at a Glance
    Assets are in billions as of Sept. 30. [click on the image for a larger version] Continue reading the article . . .
  • Food Is the New Fashion
    By Martha Stewart As a professional cook, cookbook author and teacher, I have a noticed a shift in the role that food plays in our lives and in our culture. Food has become more than one of life’s great pleasures. It has become a signifier of style, too. The notion that “you are what you [...]
  • “A Servant When He Reigneth”
    Three things make earth unquiet And four she cannot brook The godly Agur counted them And put them in a book – Those Four Tremendous Curses With which mankind is cursed; But a Servant when He Reigneth Old Agur entered first. An Handmaid that is Mistress We need not call upon. A Fool when he is ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • A powerful story about America’s dealing ...
    Summary:  We remain ignorant about the world because we reply on the news media for information.  Recent events provide a powerful case study illustrating not only how the US news media misinforms us but why the American government has a dark reputation in much of the world. The sanitized ve ...
  • Update about the potential for another year of ...
    Summary:  We have a fevered desire to know the future, especially about the dynamics that shape our lives.  Giving us confident answers pays well, tempting even the best of professionals.  Here we examine a case study:  the La Nina related weather and bad harvests.  Another in a series about foo ...
  • Update about the weather – on the Sun. P ...
    Summary:  The current fad for “black swans” just reflects our disinterest in non-consensus thinking.  We prefer the clear stories the news media tells us about poorly understood things (both natural and social phenomena).  We would be less often surprised if we would only open our vision to s ...
  • A bad, likely, and seldom mentioned scenario f ...
    Summary:  Summary: Rising inflation would be bad. But there is something that might make inflation far worse, is more likely, and almost never mentioned: prices rising faster than wages.. About the past The cost of living rose during the great inflation of the 1970′s.  But people got by becau ...
  • Inflation is coming! Inflation is coming!
    Summary:  Not a day goes by that investment or political (conservative) writers don’t assure us that inflation is coming — or even here.  Except when they’re warning of hyperinflation (for the right-wing its always Weimer-inflation, except when it’s NAZI-Munich).  This post shows the evidenc ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Alcohol kills more than AIDS, TB or violence: ...
    Reuters – Alcohol causes nearly 4 percent of deaths worldwide, more than AIDS, tuberculosis or violence, the World Health Organization warned on Friday. Rising incomes have triggered more drinking in heavily populated countries in Africa and Asia, including India and South Africa, and binge drin ...
  • Global Stock Exchanges Are Headed for Major Co ...
    CNBC – Germany’s Deutsche Boerse is in advanced talks to buy NYSE Euronext, and the London Stock Exchange has agreed to buy Canadian stock market operator TMX, as exchanges globally look for ways to boost their markets and cut costs. Together, Deutsche Boerse and NYSE Euronext [NYX 37.80 -0.30 ( ...
  • Climate Fact Of The Day – If the theory of AGW ...
    GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, VOL. 32, L18502, 5 PP., 2005 Decadal to century scale trends in North American snow extent in coupled atmosphere-ocean general circulation models Allan Frei Department of Geography, Hunter College, Program in Earth and Environmental Sciences, City University of New ...
  • Australia: Dengue fever spreads in north Queen ...
    ABC – The number of cases of dengue fever in cyclone-hit north Queensland has more than doubled this week. Authorities say they have identified 15 cases of the mosquito-borne illness in East Innisfail. Two different strains are present in the town. Read article
  • China Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi in Zimbabwe ...
    BBC – Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi has arrived in Zimbabwe at the start of a five-nation tour of Africa. He described the country as a “good brother” to China, ahead of an expected meeting with President Robert Mugabe. There have been reports China has agreed a $10bn (£6bn) trade deal ...

The Progressive Realist

  • A Few Thoughts on Egypt
    Many are now observing the events that have unfolded in Egypt, culminating with the resignation of the nations President, Hosni Mubarak. It is too early to celebrate events as a conclusion just as another phase begins, but I can't help but make a few quick observations. Credit Connectivity. We a ...
  • Bin Laden's Nightmare in Egypt - Shibley Telha ...
    Bin Laden's nightmare in Egypt - Shibley Telhami - POLITICO.com: A typically sharp, insightful and well-informed commentary on the implications of the Egyptian revolution. My colleague Shibley Telhami is Anwar Sadat professor for peace and development at the University of Maryland and a nonresid ...
  • The Far Enemy: Egypt, Iraq and Counterterroris ...
    Amazingly, I used to write primarily about foreign policy! So I thought I’d see if I mentioned Egypt at all in my book and said anything regrettable. This is what I came up with, talking about the idea of fighting terrorism by invading Iraq to promote democracy: Point being that invading Iraq a ...
  • What Does the Egyptian Revolution Mean for Pal ...
    This is a guest post by Amjad Atallah, the Executive Consulting Editor for the Palestine Note, where the post originally appeared. He is also Director of the Middle East Task Force at the New America Foundation and an editor for the Middle East Channel at ForeignPolicy.com. If you live in Wash ...
  • Political Models vs. Current Events
    Noah Schachtmann at Wired: In the last three years, America’s military and intelligence agencies have spent more than $125 million on computer models that are supposed to forecast political unrest. It’s the latest episode in Washington’s four-decade dalliance with future-spotting programs. But ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Lightning Round: One of These Parties is not L ...
    The fact that the Koch brothers are planning to pony up $88 million for next year's elections tells me just one thing: the conservative movement's paranoia about the consequences of the Obama presidency are incredibly out of whack with the actual accomplishments of the Obama administration. Thi ...
  • Friday Nerdblogging: Americans and Their Super ...
    Adam Serwer is out reporting today, so here's another nerdblogging post to make up for his absence.Earlier this week, Marist released a poll showing the results of the question, "Which one of the following super powers do you wish you had?" The choices were invisibility, flying, teleportation, ...
  • Egypt: Now What?
    Egypt's military dictatorship, which began after a 1952 coup, retains official control of the country as its third dictator makes for the door. Hosni Mubarak's resignation is a huge success for the Egyptian people, but their demands for political reforms remain unheeded. Tonight, the Egyptian pe ...
  • Friday Nerdblogging: Do Androids Dream of Huma ...
    Usually, the slippery slope argument against gay marriage involves polygamy or bestiality, i.e., if we remove this restriction on marriage then we have to remove all restrictions on marriage. Of course, polygamy and bestiality are special cases; polygamy is associated with detrimental and extr ...
  • How to Win a Presidential Primary.
    I've spent the last hour trying to write about Matt Bai's most recent piece for the New York Times, but there are simply too many nuggets of wrongness to fit into a single blog post. In the piece, Bai tries to analogize the current Republican presidential contest with Democratic nomination bat ...

Buzzflash

  • Now George W. Bush Wants to "Miseducate" Publi ...
    MARK KARLIN, BUZZFLASH EDITOR FOR TRUTHOUT The Bush/Obama plan of blaming teachers and principals for economic injustice will not improve education. As BuzzFlash has noted before, certainly there are public schoolteachers and principals who probably are not up to snuff. But we've also criti ...
  • Did Bush Cancel Trip to Switzerland to Avoid P ...
    NEWS ALERT FROM THE CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS (CCR) 5 February 2011, Geneva - Just days before George W. Bush's scheduled arrival to Geneva, the former United States President decided to cancel his trip. The New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) sent the following stateme ...
  • Give Credit Where Credit is Due: To the Egypti ...
    NICHOLAS WILBUR FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Corruption is out. Liberty is in, and with the recent uprisings in Egypt and throughout the Arab world, the media is hoisting up former President George W. Bush as the retrospective hero of democracy for what is turning out to be an effective "freedo ...
  • Mubarak Hides Out 250 Miles Away At Popular R ...
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT To that reality, My singular retort? I hope this last resort Will be his last resort.   How filthy rich is Hosni? What makes him seem so callous? He has no home in Sharm el-Sheikh But does have a palace.read more
  • Congresswoman Baldwin to GOP: “Focus on Jobs, ...
    CONGRESSWOMAN TAMMY BALDWIN ON BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT The following is a February 10th media release from the office of Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisconsin): Saying she wanted to force her Republican colleagues to "focus on jobs and not on restricting women's rights," Congresswoman Tammy Bal ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Count envy, satisfaction and achievement
    A friend of mine, András Paszternák, runs a thriving online nanotech community called Nanopaprika (he’s in Hungary, hence the name). He started the community (for which I am a Scientific & Advisory Board member) when he was doing his PhD and it has grown rapidly into one of the most targeted n ...
  • An octet of science news
    Perfect Perfume – a video for Valentine’s Day – A bit of fun for Valentine's Day as the team combinesto make our very own "perfect perfume"! The lingering risk of thirdhand smoke – As Dubowski suggests, the notion of thirdhand smoke putatively being hazardous to health is controversial. Research ...
  • Breaking down technology transfer barriers
    Breaking down the technical and legal barriers are essential if technology transfer from academia to industry is to be done efficiently and effectively, according to researchers in Spain. Antonio Hidalgo, Professor of Technology Strategy at the Technical University of Madrid and José Albors, Pro ...
  • The trouble with encryption
    Lots of us encrypt files using the likes of AxCrypt and TrueCrypt. If there’s a risk of losing a device carrying sensitive information such as contacts, email, bank statements, invoices etc, then it is worth using such a tool. The ease with which a file, folder or even complete hard drive or USB ...
  • SpectroscopyNOW – February 1 issue
    Valentine’s Day science – Spring may not quite be in the air, but Valentine's Day is on the way and love is certainly on the minds of researchers in the US. A small functional magnetic resonance imaging has been used to investigate love. The study revealed brain activity in 10 women and 7 men wh ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

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

Common Dreams-Views

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

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • So why are there so many troops in Afghanistan ...
    By Steve Hynd Press secretary Robert Gibbs has no idea. Q Secretary Napolitano testified this morning in front of the House committee and said in no uncertain terms that al-Awlaki in Yemen is the clearest threat -- terrorist threat to the United States and a bigger threat than Osama bin Laden or ...
  • We'll Know We're Winning By The Sound Of Guns
    By Steve Hynd Saint General David Petraeus is keeping up the happy talk while warning of more Afghan violence to come. "There's been considerable progress in taking away from the Taliban safe havens," Gen. David Petraeus said in an interview with NATO TV aired on Wednesday. "They have to fight b ...
  • US seeks Permanent Bases, Karzai Confirms
    By Steve Hynd If you ever wondered whether the talk of a complete withdrawal by 2015 was honest... Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Tuesday that he was in talks with the United States about the possible establishment of permanent US military bases in his war-ravaged country. "From the statemen ...
  • U.S. "Choosing to get" Afghanistan "fundamenta ...
    By Steve Hynd Derrick and Robert have already written about the new report today from resident Afghanistan analysts Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Keuhn (PDF here) which says that the Taliban insurgency there didn't have to happen but that US dismissiveness in 2002 prevented reconciliation ...
  • Damning New Report Shows U.S. Strategy Blockin ...
    By Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe The new report from NYU’s Center for International Cooperation is a damning description of the U.S. policies in Afghanistan since 2001, and a warning that the escalated military strategy blocks the road to peace while making the Taliban more dangero ...

Water Wars

  • Deal: solving water wars an important farm iss ...
    Associated Press - February 8, 2011 2:04 PM ET ATLANTA (AP) - Gov. Nathan Deal has told Georgia's largest farm lobbying group that not everyone will be happy with the steps necessary to resolve...
  • Deal: solving water wars an important farm iss ...
    Associated Press - February 8, 2011 2:04 PM ET ATLANTA (AP) - Gov. Nathan Deal has told Georgia's largest farm lobbying group that not everyone will be happy with the steps necessary to resolve...
  • Summit Series Films Continue
    KENT—Two more films remain in the 2011 Kent Environmental Summit film series. Feb. 15 brings “Blue Gold: World Water Wars,” which describes the privatization of water in an era when water is becoming more and more scarce.
  • Salton Sea flashpoint in state's water wars
    The evaporating Salton Sea is the flashpoint for the latest dispute in California’s water wars, testing an uneasy alliance of farmers and city dwellers that has sought to wean the Golden State from overreliance on Colorado River water.
  • Deal: solving water wars an important farm iss ...
    ATLANTA - Gov. Nathan Deal has told Georgia's largest farm lobbying group that not everyone will be happy with the steps necessary to resolve a tri-state water dispute.

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  • U.S. Gov. to Wind Down Fannie Mae & Freddi ...
    The Obama administration is laying out three broad options for overhauling the mortgage lending syst
  • ‘As One’: New book explores models ...
    Co-author mehrdad baghai economics federation about the new research-based contour to creating freel

Electronic Intifada

Afghanistan Sun

  • Blasts strike near police HQ in south Afghanis ...
    KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -; Taliban insurgents attacked the provincial police headquarters in the southern city of Kandahar on Saturday, firing rocket-propelled grenades and touching off an ongoing ...
  • Three dead in Taliban attack on Afghan police ...
    KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AFP) - Three people including two policemen were killed and 26 wounded Saturday in an attack claimed by the Taliban on police headquarters in the volatile Afghan city of ...
  • Photographer injured in Afghan blast
    A British photographer injured in a roadside blast in Afghanistan is in a stable condition in hospital, a spokeswoman said. Giles Duley underwent multiple amputations after the blast in ...
  • Arabic dress and Iranian accents – Holly ...
    Images of Afghan women have become part and parcel of the ideological battles of our century. Compare the big-toothed confidence of Hillary Clinton with ...
  • 2-Image of disfigured Afghan woman wins photo ...
    AMSTERDAM: A South African photographer?s portrait of an Afghan woman whose husband sliced off her nose and ears in a case of Taliban-administered justice won the World Press Photo award for 2010 ...

Futurismic

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

geopolitics | geoeconomics

on Government Oversight

  • Should Debarred Contractors Be Allowed to Buil ...
    By Neil Gordon Today, POGO submitted a public comment about a new rule limiting the ability of suspended or debarred contractors to do business with the federal government. The rule prohibits prime contractors from subcontracting with any entity that has...
  • Morning Smoke: Obama Administration Kills Cont ...
    Where there's smoke, there's fire. POGO's Morning Smoke is a collection of the previous day's investigations, scoops, and opinions related to the world of government oversight. Have a story you'd like to see included? Contact POGO's blog editor. Publishing contracts...
  • McCaskill Breathes New Life into Bill to Enhan ...
    By Bryan Rahija Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) has re-introduced the Non-Federal Employee Whistleblower Protection Act of 2011 (S. 241), a bill to enhance whistleblower protections for federal contractor employees. Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) is a co-sponsor of the bill. Under...
  • 13 House Republican Freshmen Soliciting Defens ...
    By Nick Schwellenbach In a killer story locked behind the Bloomberg Government paywall, Roxana Tiron highlights another classic intersection of the defense industry and political fundraising: The new Republicans on the House Armed Services Committee are seeking help with their...
  • President Obama Opposes Own Contract Transpare ...
    By Scott Amey Today, the Obama Administration vacated a proposal to enhance contract transparency. The proposal would have amended Federal Acquisition Regulation to enable the online posting of contracts and task and delivery orders. POGO supported that proposal, which fell...

Digital Journal

  • City councillors, activists discuss Toronto Ci ...
    City councillors, protesters and protest organizers spoke to the media regarding what transpired, why they protested and what they feel is Mayor Rob Ford's real agenda during his tenure as leader of the city of Toronto.
  • Toronto budget meeting to resume after protest
    After budget talks were disrupted earlier today at Toronto City Hall they will resume after lunch according to Mayor Rob Ford's Ford spokesperson Adrienne Batra.
  • Anti-poverty groups storm Toronto city hall, c ...
    What started off as a debate over the city of Toronto's planned budget cuts at City Hall turned out to be a massive protest held by anti-poverty groups demonstrating against the cuts. Arrests were made, people were injured and insults were hurled.
  • Forget the bars, work is where it's at to find ...
    According to CareerBuilder's annual office romance survey, one in ten Canadian workers have dated co-workers at least twice during their careers. Those dates have fairly decent odds of becoming something more.
  • Calgary City Council vote in favour of removin ...
    There is much debate over the use of fluoride and other chemicals in the water supply. But a strong majority in Calgary's City Council voted in favour of removing fluoride in the water, while rejecting a referendum.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Respected Canadian negotiator removed from dis ...
    Respected Canadian disarmament negotiator Earl Turcotte has been removed from his post following American complaints that his stance on the international Convention on Cluster Munitions was too aggressive. Turcotte has since informed his colleagues that he will be resigning from the Department o ...
  • Steven Staples discusses F-35s on CTV Power Pl ...
    Watch Steven Staples discuss Canada’s controversial purchase of F-35s with Lt.-Gen. George Macdonald on CTV Power Play.
  • The human cost of war
    The human cost of war sometimes seems like just one more statistic. But what’s at stake is lost lives and broken families. Ernie Regehr discussed the grim task of calculating war deaths on his Disarming Conflict blog earlier this week (“Counting the War Dead,” Disarming Conflict, 7 February 2011 ...
  • Canada: Time to play a leadership role in nucl ...
    Last month Canada assumed the presidency of the main UN disarmament body, the Conference on Disarmament (CD). Paul Meyer, who served as Canadian Ambassador for Disarmament in Geneva from 2003 to 2007, argues that Canada needs to look outside the CD if it is to help advance the non-proliferation ...
  • Canadian Auto Workers staff continue to suppor ...
    The Canadian Auto Workers’ staff made another $15,000 donation to the Rideau Institute’s Ceasefire program. Annie Labaj, Director of the CAW’s International Department, called attention to the important work that the Rideau Institute and the CAW have conducted together, including assisting in c ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Freeze Dry Guy
    Click the picture or link below to hear Kevin’s interview with the Freeze Dry Guy and click here to start preparing for the challenging times ahead!   Freeze Dry Guy on The Kevin Trudeau Show 2/11/11
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 2-11-11
    Today, Kevin hands out a huge dose of tough love. Find out what the difference is between a winner and a loser and what you can do to become a winner! Plus, the Freeze Dry Guy stops by to help prepare you for any disaster!     Prepare! Survival Food    Filter For Emergencies    Self Help: Cure Y ...
  • Tea Tree Oil Offers Hope of New Effective Trea ...
    February 11th, 2011 Daily Mail Tea tree oil may provide a fast, cheap and effective treatments for some skin cancers, according to researchers. The natural remedy commonly used on spots and insect bites was found to shrink non-melanoma skin cancers in mice in just one day and wiped them out with ...
  • The ‘Low-Allergy’ Peanut Which Cou ...
    February 11th, 2011 Daily Mail A low-allergy peanut which could transform the eating habits of those who have to avoid them is being developed. U.S. researchers are creating naturally grown peanuts with two major proteins that cause allergy bred out of them. If experiments succeed, the nuts coul ...
  • Depression Linked to Alzheimer’s
    February 11th, 2011 BBC News People who have had depression may be more prone to Alzheimer’s disease, two studies suggest. Dutch researchers found Alzheimer’s was 2.5 times more likely in people with a history of depression. Similarly, US researchers, examining Catholic clergy, found those with ...

Pambazuka News

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

War in Context

  • In Egypt the seeds of a new world order and th ...
    Some think the Middle East isn’t ready for democracy — in truth it’s the West that isn’t ready. Nicholas Kristof duly notes: Egyptians triumphed over their police state without Western help or even moral support. During rigged parliamentary elections, the West barely raised an eyebrow. And whe ...
  • A revolution the world can celebrate! #Egypt # ...
  • GAME OVER! — REVOLUTION VICTORY! — live update ...
    WATCH AL JAZEERA LIVE Live updates: FINALLY MUBARAK RESIGNS! Suleiman announces the armed forces are now in control of Egypt. Wall Street Journal — How young activists outwitted Egypt’s feared security forces to spur an uprising many here had long thought impossible. 7.20 — @avinunu: BBC Ara ...
  • The Sound of Freedom — Moustafa Fahmy, Mohamed ...
    Lyrics: “I went down and I said I am not coming back, and I wrote on every street wall that I am not coming back. “All barriers have been broken down, our weapon was our dream, and the future is crystal clear to us, we have been waiting for a long time, we are still searching [...]
  • Why the Mubarak regime is hated, feared and lo ...
    Robert Tait describes 28 hours in the dark heart of Egypt’s torture machine: The sickening, rapid click-click-clicking of the electric shock device sounded like an angry rattlesnake as it passed within inches of my face. Then came a scream of agony, followed by a pitiful whimpering from the han ...

Watts Up With That?

  • BREAKING: House bill unveiled late Friday cuts ...
    The Hill E2 wire reports: House GOP spending bill prohibits funding for EPA climate regs By Andrew Restuccia - 02/11/11 07:33 PM ET A government spending bill unveiled Friday night by House Republicans would prohibit funding for Environmental Protection Agency … Continue reading →
  • New paper: “unlikely that man-made globa ...
    From the UK another paper with some pragmatic analysis, coupled with some rhetoric on sea ice: Arctic climate variation under ancient greenhouse conditions Tiny organisms preserved in marine sediments hold clues about Arctic climate variation during an ancient episode of … Continue reading →
  • O’Donnell Responds to Steig
    From Climate Audit, more on the ongoing Antarctic kerfluffle. By Ryan O’Donnell Subsequent to my post on Feb 7, 2010 here, Eric Steig informed me by email that he had not seen our Response to his Third Review, as I … Continue reading →
  • New independent surface temperature record in ...
    Good news travels fast. I’m a bit surprised to see this get some early coverage, as the project isn’t ready yet. However since it has been announced by press, I can tell you that this project is partly a reaction … Continue reading →
  • The benefits of Carbon Dioxide
    The Science and Public Policy Institute has released a ground-breaking book chronicling the many benefits of atmospheric CO2 concentrations.  The 55 benefits discussed are drawn exclusively on the peer-reviewed literature. Many books and reports rail against mankind’s usage of fossil … Continue ...

Dandelion Salad

  • The Egyptian Revolution: A Democracy Now! Spec ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Democracy Now! Feb. 11, 2011 As news of Hosni Mubarakâs resignation breaks, Democracy Now! broadcasts live reaction from Tahrir Square and beyond with Senior Producer Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Correspondent Anjali Kamat. “People are holding their hands up in ...
  • Is this a ‘Young Turks’ moment all ...
    By William Bowles Featured Writer Dandelion Salad williambowles.info 11 February, 2011 Mubarak steps down, surely the result of direct US pressure. But what difference will it make, the country has been run by a military clique for three decades, all that’s changed is that now they do it openly. ...
  • Something Rotten in the State of Sweden: 8 Big ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Naomi Wolf News From Underground Feb. 11, 2011 Exclusive to News from Underground Now that Andrew Kreig, of the Justice Integrity Project, has confirmed Karl Rove’s role as an advisor to the Swedish government in its prosecution of Julian Assange on sexual ...
  • Change Has Finally Come to Egypt + Revolution ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ ProletarianRenegade | February 11, 2011 After 30 long years, Hosni Mubarak’s reign of terror is over, but the revolution is just beginning. A military-dominated provisional government now rules in Mubarak’s place. What happens next and what form of government ...
  • Noam Chomsky: How Climate Change Became a &#82 ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ videonation | January 24, 2011 In this sixth video in the series “Peak Oil and a Changing Climate” from The Nation and On The Earth Productions, linguist, philosopher and political activist Noam Chomsky talks about the Chamber of Commerce, the American Petrol ...

Your New Reality

  • No title
    Mute the sound on this video, taken during the Southeast Queensland floods last week, before you watch it. The music destroys the atmosphere, there should be silence, the only sound that of water lapping.
  • No title
    Now, Who In The Media & Western Governments Said Egyptians Aren't Ready For Non-Mubarak Rule? In less than 30 days of mostly non-violent protests and direct action, the people of Egypt has brought the 11,000 day emergency rule of the US & Israel lackey Hosni Mubarak regime to an end. For a rev ...
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    Hey Gun Massacre Guy! We're Gonna Make You Famous! Just Like You Wanted! By Darryl Mason It was once forbidden in newspaper journalism to write that someone had committed suicide, even if they were famous, a prime minister, a movie star. The fear, based in what has long seemed to be pretty sol ...
  • No title
    There's so much to say about this wonderful, brilliant lecture by Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy author Douglas Adams, but I'm not going to spoil any of it. Just get through the first 10 minutes or so and you'll find it almost impossible to stop listening. I had to tear myself away from it at ...
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    Extraordinary.

Wired - Science

  • NASA Considers Space Station Family Portrait
    NASA is considering a plan to snap a photo of the International Space Station at its most crowded. The agency hasn’t made a decision yet — but maybe enough public support can convince them to take the most mind-blowing space photo of the Space Shuttle era. During the final flight of the Space S ...
  • Winter Halts Drilling Into 14-Million-Year-Old ...
    By Liat Clark, Wired UK A Russian team searching for signs of life beneath a 14 million-year-old frozen Antarctic lake has had to halt drilling just a few meters from water, potentially damaging twenty years of work in the process. The team — headed up by the Russian Arctic and Antarctic Resea ...
  • World’s Total CPU Power: One Human Brain
    By John Timmer, Ars Technica How much information can the world transmit, process, and store? Estimating this sort of thing can be a nightmare, but the task can provide valuable information on trends that are changing our computing and broadcast infrastructure. So a pair of researchers hav ...
  • Q&A: Company Buys Robot a Rocket Ride to the M ...
    It’s impossible to know which team is leading the Google Lunar X Prize competition to land a robot on the moon. But one thing is certain: Only team Astrobotic has announced that their rocket ride is booked. Spawned in September 2007, the GLXP is a $30 million lunar exploration competition cr ...
  • Gallery: The Last Uncontacted People
    See Also: Uncontacted Tribe Photographed in Brazilian Jungle Video: Uncontacted Tribe in Brazilian Jungle Lost Tribes Used Clever Tricks to Turn Amazon Wasteland to Farms … Yucatan Jungles Are Feral Maya Gardens

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Abe Hayeem: Help the campaign to save Lifta
    Lifta has become known within Israel and internationally as a quintessential Palestinian village, one of the few of the 500 villages that had not been completely destroyed by Israeli forces in the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
  • Bashir Abu-Manneh: Revolt in Egypt
    IOA Advisory Board member Bashir Abu-Manneh speaks about current events in Egypt. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...
  • Gideon Levy: The Middle East does not need sta ...
    The stability in the region, something which Westerners and Israelis have come to yearn, merely means perpetuating the status quo. That situation might be good for Israel and the West, but it is very... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Lisa Hajjar: Suleiman – the CIA’s man in Cairo
    On January 29, Omar Suleiman, Egypt’s top spy chief, was anointed vice president by tottering dictator, Hosni Mubarak. By appointing Suleiman, part of a shake-up of the cabinet in an attempt to... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Richard Falk: Egypt’s Berlin Wall moment
    It remains unknown what is meant by - and what will happen during - an 'orderly transition' under the auspices of temporary leaders closely tied to the old regime, who likely enjoy enthusiastic... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Two-Timing Spacecraft Has Date with Another Co ...
    NASA's Stardust spacecraft, equipped with the University of Chicago's Dust Flux Monitor Instrument (DFMI), is hurtling at more than 24,000 miles an hour toward a Valentine's Day encounter with comet Tempel 1.
  • Web Experts Ask Scientists To Use the Web To I ...
    Peter Fox and James Hendler of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are calling for scientists to take a few tips from the users of the World Wide Web when presenting their data to the public and other scientists in the Feb. 11 issue of Science magazine. Fox and Hendler, both professors within the T ...
  • Fatigues to Fabulous to Aid Women Veterans
    SWHR is excited to announce that Tuesday, February 15th during Mercedes Benz Fashion Week, SWHR and our partner Grace After Fire, a support network for women veterans, will be launching the Fatigues to Fabulous (F2F) campaign - a national program created to honor the service of women veterans an ...
  • P Summit Calls for a 'New Alchemy' Around Phos ...
    ASU's Sustainable Phosphorus Summit was the first international gathering on U.S. soil and an important milestone in the emerging global dialogue around phosphorus scarcity and sustainability. A consensus statement, released Feb. 10, reflects the optimism coming out of the summit around solution ...
  • Stroke Takes 'Enormous Toll' on Hollywood Star ...
    A study by researchers at the UCLA Stroke Center found that stroke and cardiovascular disease have exacted an enormous toll on Hollywood stars.

Natural Health News

  • Kitty Eating With Hands
    Well, how else would he eat?
  • Baby Elephant Taking its First Steps
    The baby takes a walk while all the relatives protectively watch.
  • New Diet Sodas Can Cause Strokes
    A new study concludes that there could negative consequences associated with artificial sugar substitutes -- including a much higher risk of strokes. The study is somewhat controversial; some critics have argued that since the participants voluntarily reported how much diet soda they consumed, ...
  • Common Spice Protects and Rebuild Brain Cells ...
    Scientists have created a new molecule from curcumin, the key chemical component of the spice turmeric. �In laboratory experiments, the molecule was shown to affect the mechanisms that protect and regenerate brain cells after a stroke. The new curcumin compound, called CNB-001, actually repairs ...
  • More Doctors Questioning 'Shaken-Baby Syndrome ...
    In cases involving shaken-baby syndrome, the last person to care for the child was labeled an abuser. But some doctors are now saying that the syndrome could have alternate explanations. Emily Bazelon, a senior editor at Slate, said the following in an NPR interview: �It used to be that the as ...

Antemedius

  • Egypt: A Revolution Co-opted By The Regime It ...
    "The news is more evidence of the close ties between Israel, the United States and Mr Suleiman, who is tipped to replace Hosni Mubarak as Egypt’s president", writes Christopher Hope in a February 09 article in the UK Telegraph, who explains his sourcing as "The close relationship has emerged fro ...
  • Mubarak Resigns and Flees Cairo?
    After a day of up and down rumors Thursday beginning with widespread anticipation in Egypt and around the world that Mubarak would step down, followed by a defiant speech Thursday evening in which he flatly refused the demands of protesters and said he would stay on as president of Egypt until ...
  • Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death
    Originally published at Asia Times I have announced I will stay with this post and that I will continue to shoulder my responsibilities. - President Hosni Mubarak We'll go to the palace and tear him out. - Chant in Tahrir Square What's a revolution to do when it expected a decrepit dictato ...
  • "Egypt Will Explode" Says ElBaradei As Defiant ...
    After a tumultuous day filled with rumors since early this morning that President Hosni Mubarak would resign his presidency under pressure from the majority of Egyptians, he remains intransigent and now says he will not leave, but intends remain in office until his term ends in September. Al Ja ...
  • UN: Sources - Mubarak Could Step Down Tonight
    UN Wire reports this morning: Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak will announce today that he is leaving office, sources told NBC News. Vice President Omar Suleiman reportedly is to take his place. The army leadership is sending signals to demonstrators in Cairo's Tahrir Square that it was plannin ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • A Response to Robert Ahdieh by Eric A. Posner
    by Harvard International Law Journal by Harvard International Law Journal [Eric A. Posner, co-author of Universal Exceptionalism in International Law with Anu Bradford, responds to Robert Ahdieh] I am grateful for Professor Ahdieh’s illuminating comments on my paper with Anu Bradford. Ahdieh ...
  • A Response to Anu Bradford and Eric A. Posner ...
    by Harvard International Law Journal by Harvard International Law Journal [Robert Ahdieh, the Associate Dean of the Faculty, Professor of Law, and Director of the Center on Federalism and Intersystemic Governance at Emory University School of Law, responds to Anu Bradford & Eric A. Posner, Un ...
  • Universal Exceptionalism in International Law ...
    by Harvard International Law Journal by Harvard International Law Journal [The following summary is the abstract from Universal Exceptionalism in International Law by Anu Bradford (an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School) & Eric A. Posner (the Kirkland & Ellis Pr ...
  • Bobby Chesney on Targeting Al-Awlaki
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Bobby Chesney has posted to SSRN an important draft paper on the law surrounding the targeting of Anwar Al-Awlaki, the Yemini-American radical Islamist cleric in hiding presumably in Yemen.  It is still in draft form (to appear in final form in the Year ...
  • A Response to John Armour, Jack B. Jacobs and ...
    by Harvard International Law Journal by Harvard International Law Journal [Zenichi Shishido, a Professor at the Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy, Hitotsubashi University, responds to John Armour, Jack B. Jacobs and Curtis J. Milhaupt, The Evolution of Hostile Takeover Regi ...

Investigate - Breaking News

  • New-look Investigate magazine HIS and HERS goe ...
    As of Sunday...with more exclusive revelations about the Pike River disaster and police bungles in the rescue operation...and HERS features new poll results showing support for National is wide but shallow, and that a large number of voters want Winston...
  • Investigate Political Poll 2011 - No1
    Investigate magazine's first big omnibus and political poll in more than five years is underway. If you want to fill in the survey form (takes less than two minutes on average) online, you'll find it here.
  • BREAKING NEWS: Arizona shooter of Gabrielle Gi ...
    The young gunman who shot and killed six people, and left Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in critical condition, appears to have borne a grudge against Giffords after meeting her in 2007 at the age of 19. According to reports, former...
  • New study says CO2 rise a result of warmer tem ...
    A new peer reviewed study supports another contention I raised in Air Con: that CO2 increase follows temperature increase, and that there appears to be no correlation between fossil fuel emissions and temperature. The paper is available in full in...
  • RIP Chris Carter, Investigate columnist
    It's an odd thing, finding out on the radio news that your magazine's longest serving opinion columnist has passed away. What turns out to be his last column only hit the newsstands yesterday in the latest Investigate magazine: Chris Carter...

My Care2 Picks

  • If Only We Could Trade Obama for Chavez...
    in just 12 years, Chavez has created a thriving national public health care system with 533 diagnostic centers and medical facilities spread throughout the capital. Health care is free and there have been over over 55 million medical consultations Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture ...
  • California Prisoners Sentenced to Death by Wat ...
    The water at Kern Valley State Prison contains twice the federally accepted level of arsenic, a known carcinogen. But the 4,800 men imprisoned at the "state-of-the-art" Central California facility have no choice: they have to drink it.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add ...
  • Tropical Cyclones Attacking Australia
    Tropical Cyclone Yasi, recently upgraded to a category 5, the highest level of threat, is bearing down on Queensland Australia and the Great Barrier Reef with wind speeds likely exceeding 175 mph. Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Alarming NOAA data, Rapid Pole Shift
    Since 1860, the magnetic pole shift has more than doubled every 50 years.During the past 10 years, the magnetic north pole has shifted nearly half of the total distance of the past 50 years! IOW, the pole shift has apparently sped up substantiallySubmitted by John Farnham to Offbeat �|� �Note-i ...
  • An Experiment in Futility
    Discount the futile partisan punditry: the iron fist of consistent foreign domination still shows through the clouds of obfuscationSubmitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

  • Manila to send special envoy to settle deporta ...
    Manila to send special envoy to settle deportation row - The China Post: "The Philippines government will send a special envoy to Taiwan to seek a concrete solution to the diplomatic row with Taiwan... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • US sees relations with Brazil in 'sweet spot' ...
    US sees relations with Brazil in 'sweet spot' before Obama visit - The China Post: "The U.S. government is hoping for closer ties with Brazil, Latin America's predominant power, now that Rousseff has... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • CIA's Mideast Surprise Recalls History Of Inte ...
    CIA's Mideast Surprise Recalls History Of Intelligence Failures: [huffingtonpost.com] "The failure of the Central Intelligence Agency to predict the unrest in Tunisia and Egypt dominated last week's... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Glenn Beck To Egypt Critics: 'Go To Hell' (VID ...
    Glenn Beck To Egypt Critics: 'Go To Hell' (VIDEO): [huffingtonpost.com] "Glenn Beck delivered a message to his critics on his Thursday television show: 'go to hell.'Beck's comments came in the middle... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Bishop Calls For Renewed Missionary Zeal In La ...
    Bishop Calls For Renewed Missionary Zeal In Latin America | Brazil News.Net:"SAN JOS, COSTA RICA, February 10 (CNA) - The president of the Latin American Bishops' Council, Cardinal Raymundo Damasceno... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • Food Bank Locator
    Enter your zip code to find the nearest emergency food bank.
  • Global Governance of Nano-scale Technologies
    Nanotechnology has been rolled out with virtually no government oversight or public debate.
  • 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 ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Egypt opposition calls for civilian rule
    ShareThisEgypt opposition calls for civilian rule 11 Feb 2011 The main opposition party in Egypt has called on the military to hand over power to a civilian-led government, following the transfer of power from Hosni Mubarak to a high military council. The Muslim Brotherhood also called for the e ...
  • Japanese police keep watch on Muslims
    ShareThisJapanese police keep watch on Muslims 10 Feb 2011 Reports reveal that Japanese police have been conducting a close surveillance of the Muslim community living in the East Asian country. Internal police documents leaked onto the Internet indicate that Japanese law enforcement has been co ...
  • Amnesty condemns Guantanamo UK case
    ShareThisAmnesty condemns Guantanamo UK case 11 Feb 2011 The continued holding of the last British resident at Guantanamo Bay is making a "mockery of justice", human rights campaigners have said. Shaker Aamer, 43, will have been kept without charge at the US detention camp for nine years on Sund ...
  • Mubarak assets frozen by Swiss government
    ShareThisMubarak assets frozen by Swiss government 11 Feb 2011 Switzerland's government moved Friday to freeze any assets in the country's banks that might belong to former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak or his family, the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs said Friday. Mubarak ended ...
  • Nurse Protest Prompts Blue Shield to Delay Rat ...
    ShareThisNurse Protest Prompts Blue Shield to Delay Rate Hike By Rose Ann DeMoro 03 Feb 2011 People power works, and not just in Egypt. Blue Shield of California today announced a 60-day reprieve for the unconscionable rate hike of up to 59 percent it intends to foist on individuals and families ...

Daily Loaf

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • VRM: Dr. Wakefield’s Imminent Vindicatio ...
    Dr. Andrew Wakefield’s 1998 Study demonstrated “anti-myelin antibodies and digestive tract pathologies in children with autism after being given the Urabi strain triple live virus MMR vaccine. All 12 children in the Study had intestinal abnormalities (known as Inflammatory Bowel Disease), with c ...
  • VRM: A Concise Compendium The Problem With Vac ...
    The advent of cloned DNA vaccines & Synthetic Genomics, backed by proponents of the Trans-humanist & Bioethics movements (this is a post-Darwinian view, in which the species has the power to direct its own evolution), has opened a Pandora’s Box spelling the inevitable death of natural immunity. ...
  • VRM: Medical Industry Data Proves Influenza Va ...
    The Influenza virus itself is constantly mutating from year to year. While mainstream doctors are traditionally divided, several prominent Studies have come forward in recent years challenging the Status Quo on the efficacy of the sacrosanct Flu shot & awakened an increasingly distrustf ...
  • VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 3 – ...
    For centuries humankind has depended on an inherent natural immunity to survive; adapting to environmental changes while overcoming mutable diseases, viruses, bacterial or biological threats & inter-species cross contamination. With the 21st Century advancement of high-tech laboratory ...
  • VRM: GlaxosmithKline Implicated In Systemic Cl ...
    ‘A psychiatrist on the payroll of GlaxoSmithKline has been sentenced to 13 months in prison after pleading guilty to committing research fraud in clinical trials for antidepressant Paxil. Palazzo enrolled children who did not actually suffer from major depressive or obsessive compulsive diso ...

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

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

The Killing Train

  • Wikileaks and the Future of Information
    Wikileaks and the future of information from Justin Podur on Vimeo. read more
  • Settle in and wait for the coup in Egypt
    Most people are interested in something that no one knows or can know: what is going to happen in Egypt? It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future (that's from Keynes). There are lessons from past revolutions that might help us understand what is happening, but from where ...
  • More such philanthrocapitalism we shall be utt ...
    Philanthrocapitalism, a book by Bishop and Edwards, argues that philanthropy will help the public accept a new age of plutocracy (the rule by wealth). The rich are giving their money away so effectively, they say, that the public won't mind increasing inequality. read more
  • I am not a gadget
    Jaron Lanier, author of "You are not a gadget", is very well-informed about what he is writing about, which is some of the social consequences of the internet, and some of the implicit ideologies that are built into the internet as we are living with it today. Lanier was one of the early minds b ...
  • Raj Patel's "Value of Nothing"
    For various reasons I found myself with several hours on public transit and with Raj Patel's fine book "The Value of Nothing" in hand. I really liked a few things about it. First, it's a very readable summary of a lot of economic theories (and ideologies) that guide policies today. For a more ma ...

treehugger

  • GOP Moves to Slash EPA's Budget
    Image: USDA Forest Service - Region 8 - Southern Archive, CC Okay, okay, we get it. House Republicans don't like the idea of trying to reign in pollution. I mean really don't like it. Many of them already claimed that climate change wasn't real on the campaign trail, and said they'd fight c ...
  • Archeologists Study the World's Oldest Tree Ca ...
    Photo: National Parks Conservation Association There's something romantic about the image of two young valentines, in an idyllic pastoral scene, etching their initials in the side of a tree to commemorate their affection, but tree carving isn't just for lovers. In a burgeoning field of arche ...
  • Sea Urchins and Abalone Won't Grow in Warmer W ...
    Photo: avlxyz, Flickr, CC Ocean acidification has been covered extensively in these pages, but remains largely unknown to the public at large. But a revelation from a new study recently completed by Australian researchers gives us yet another reminder of how severe this problem is: if ocean ...
  • Smuggler Caught With More Than 230 Animals in ...
    A critically endangered ploughshare tortoise was among those seized. Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi International Airport is in the news once again after a man was caught trying to board a plane with more than 230 animals packed in his luggage. Divided between three ...
  • Royal Rumble: Climate Science Vs. Climate Econ ...
    If you read just one article about climate change this week, make it Dave Roberts' piece on the climate science vs. climate economics. Climate scientists are becoming increasingly worried as the evidence mounts that our current emissions path is leading us to some of the worst-case scenarios ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Turkish report finds Israel violated internati ...
    [JURIST] A Turkish government inquiry into the Israeli raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla [JURIST news archive] faulted Israeli soldiers Friday for violating international law. The panel's final report indicates at least two activists were killed before commandos boarded [AFP report] the Mavi Marmara ...
  • China activist abused by authorities: rights g ...
    [JURIST] Prominent Chinese rights activist Chen Guangcheng [HRW backgrounder, JURIST news archive] and his wife have been "beaten senseless" by authorities, according to Friday reports from China Aid and Hong Kong-based Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) [advocacy websites]. Chen, who is blin ...
  • Egypt military pledges to lift emergency laws ...
    [JURIST] The Egyptian Supreme Council of the Armed Forces pledged [statement] Friday to lift the country's emergency laws [text, in Arabic; JURIST news archive], which have been in place for nearly 30 years, as soon as circumstances improve. The announcement came shortly before President Hosni M ...
  • Trial of former Liberia president halted pendi ...
    [JURIST] Judges for the Special Court of Sierra Leone (SCSL) [official website] on Friday indefinitely postponed closing arguments in the trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor [case materials; JURIST news archive] in order to allow the defense to appeal a prior decision. The SCSL wil ...
  • Malaysia court charges suspected Somali pirate ...
    [JURIST] Seven suspected Somali pirates appeared Friday in Malaysian court charged with firearms offenses and, if convicted, they could face the death penalty. Malaysia is the first Asian country to take formal legal action [AFP report] against suspect pirates. Under the Malaysian Firearms (Incr ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Replicant Media, Undeclared Candidates and the ...
    If there has been a single event that has laid bare the bizarre quality of contemporary journalism more than the Conservative Political Action Conference, I've yet to attend it. More even than the Republican National Committee's Winter Meeting, where Chairman Michael Steele lost his reelection b ...
  • What Mubarak's Resignation Means for Obama
    Since it's too early to tell what Egypt will become, it's too early for President Obama's supporters to gloat or for his detractors to assign credit for the Egyptian revolution to former President George W. Bush. The hard truth Obama must now grapple with, and must then communicate to the Ameri ...
  • American Jewish Groups Welcome Mubarak's Resig ...
    Given that Egypt/Israeli peace has helped stabilize the Middle East, President Hosni Mubarak's resignation is of particular interest to Israel and its advocates in the U.S. So far, three American Jewish/Israel groups have spoken out, welcoming the development with varying measures of trepidation ...
  • Obama: Egyptians 'Changed the World'
    President Obama addressed Americans and Egyptian alike Friday afternoon, praising the dedicated protesters of Tahrir Square whose 18-day uprising ousted President Hosni Mubarak and pledging that America would continue to be a friend to Egypt as it transitions to a new form of government. "The ...
  • Huckabee Leads Latest GOP Presidential Poll
    Mike Huckabee ranks atop the GOP presidential field, according to the latest 2012 poll, released Friday afternoon by Fox News. Fox didn't ask Republicans whom they'd vote for; rather, it asked whether respondents thought the potential candidate in question would make a good president. Mitt Rom ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Turkey Flotilla Inquiry: Activists Killed ‘Exe ...
    Turkey’s investigation of the Mavi Marmara massacre contains troubling findings that two victims were killed before any IDF soldiers boarded the ship, in fire from helicopters, that the youngest victim, a Turkish-American, was killed execution style after being wounded in the leg, and that a pho ...
  • Eretz Nehederet: Im Tirzu Teaches Kindergarten ...
    Thanks to Israeli reader Nuriel for sending along a link for this segment from Eretz Nehederet, Israel’s highest rated political satire TV series.  It depicts an education curriculum devised by Im Tirtzu with the Ministry of Education that helps prepare kindergarten children for the “complicate ...
  • Blogging the Revolution: Mubarak Out, ‘Egypt i ...
    History is made.  You are witnessing an event you may rarely see in your lifetime.  A nation erupting in freedom. News from Egypt that Omar Suleiman has made a 20-second broadcast to the nation announcing that Hosni Mubarak has resigned as president and passed his powers to the army.  No word ...
  • Links for 2010-08-17 [Digg]
    Israel Wakes Up and Discovers Its Soldiers Abuse Palestinian Yesterday, a major scandal erupted in Israel over an IDF soldier, Eden Aberjil, who posted pictures on her Facebook account of her abusing bound Palestinian...
  • Links for 2010-04-03 [Digg]
    Anat Kam-Uri Blau Top Secret Israeli Leak Case The foreign media continue to open up the gagged Anat Kam-Uri Blau case with new stories in The Guardian, The Times, and The National.

Ode Magazine

  • Mizukaburi Matsuri: Keeping at bay
    By: Anne Thomas Japan has wonderful festivals throughout the year. Some are huge and world renown. Others are so small only locals attend. But no matter the size, all of them are filled with great enthusiasm and merrymaking as people give their all to ...
  • The muse in the moment
    We all know meditation helps you relax. But can it also ease the symptoms of depression and anxiety disorders and improve quality of life for people with chronic diseases? Recent research suggests it can. For those of us who haven’t practiced it, meditation can seem like a ...
  • The secret life of metaphor
    By: James Geary Metaphor is most familiar as the literary device through which we describe one thing in terms of another, as in Shakespeare’s famous line from Romeo and Juliet, “Juliet is the sun.” But metaphor is much more than a mere literary device ...
  • A new food manifesto
    Itâs time to take back control of what and how we eat. Hereâs why. Food isn’t just something we need to shovel down our gullets each day to survive. It’s far more potent: the means, more than any other, by which we humans shape our planet and ourselves.Photo by Marko Matas ...
  • Harness a vocabulary of intention
    By: Nazia Mallick Are you using diminishing language in your speech and writing? The law of diminishing returns is defined as: "A point beyond which the application of additional sources yield less than proportional increases in output." In the same wa ...

OpEd News

  • Eliminating AmeriCorps Would Produce More Cost ...
    As part of a program to reduce $35 billion in federal government spending, Republicans are planning to eliminate the Corporation for National and Community Service, which provides the funding for AmeriCorps programs. The costs to the country of eliminating this program far outweigh the $1 billi ...
  • Adding Insult to Injury, in My Senator's Offic ...
    Dealing with the constituent services section of this United States Senator's office is like swimming through molasses, as fully detailed in this human-interest article. All Americans should expect a far higher standard from their Federal legislators.
  • Hard Lessons from the HuffPost Sale
    A lesson for progressives from AOL's purchase of Huffington Post may be that they should be a bit more leery of converts from the Right, especially those who don't explain adequately what led to their ideological switch.
  • Jews and Spiritual Progressives Welcome Mubar ...
    Jews and Spiritual Progressives of every religious community are rejoicing at the triumph of the democratic uprising in the streets of Cairo and other Egyptian cities and at the resignation of President Mubarak. But we have no illusions that the struggle for democracy has been won.
  • Our Man in Cairo
    With Mubarak's departure, the focus now falls on his chosen successor, Omar Suleiman. According to a classified American diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks, Suleiman was Israel's pick to succeed Mubarak. But there's little doubt that he was also the choice of the United States, or at least o ...

Switchboard

  • Latin America Climate, Energy and Environment ...
    Mexico The Mexican tourist industry that stretches along the Riviera Maya and Cancun pollutes the largest system of underwater caves in the world and impacts on the nearby coral reef, according to a new study reported. Pharmaceuticals, cocaine residue, shampoo, toothpaste, pestici ...
  • Financing a Delta Plan
    With the upcoming release of the initial draft of the Delta Stewardship Council’s Delta Plan, it’s time for a discussion about how this ambitious plan should be financed.  (If you’d like a little more background, I’ve written about this issue here, here and here.)   There’s a grea ...
  • EPA sets the record straight! The Clean Air Ac ...
    On February 1st, in response to several measures (click here, here, here, and here) being introduced in the U.S. House and Senate by opponents of one of America’s best environmental and public health safeguards, the Clean Air Act (CAA), Congressmen Henry Waxman (D-California) and B ...
  • A Stupid Move: Ending "New Starts" Would Deepe ...
    As you may have read about, a band of Republican House Members have proposed a slew of cuts to programs. One of the proposed cuts is to the public transportation "New Starts" program which invests in rail transit lines in metropolitan areas such as Charlotte, Dallas and Salt Lake C ...
  • New Clean Energy Rules Put New Mexicans Back t ...
    Things were pretty rough for Marcos Cde Baca before he got work in the energy-efficiency field. He was out of a job, behind on his child support. As an independent carpenter and handyman, he wasn’t even eligible for unemployment. “If Los Amigos didn’t hire me” — that’s Los Amigos ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Today in the War on (Some Classes of People Wh ...
    Depressing, but not surprising: There have been about 350,000 arrests for marijuana possession since Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg took office in 2002, the policy alliance said. Seventy percent of those arrested are younger than 30, and 86 percent are black or Latino, even though, according to the ...
  • Upward Redistribution
    The anti-ACA lawsuit in Florida really does seem part of a larger desire to return to McKinleynomics. The Tea Party: make sure it doesn’t happen to your state. Related posts:Chilling Effect Upward Mobility Fundamental Contradictions Related posts:Chilling Effect Upward Mobility Fundame ...
  • Must . . . not . . . make . . . Althouse . . . ...
    Wisconsin’s new GOP governor is threatening to call in the National Guard to enforce his unilateral revocation of state employee contract rights. Related posts:Roberts and Voting Rights “This is not a joke.” Perhaps not, but you are. People Who Take Ann Althouse Seriously: Not to be Taken Ser ...
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
    From Jay McInerney’s review of Kenneth Slawenski’s new Salinger biography: For this reader, the great achievement of Slawenskiâs biography is its evocation of the horror of Salingerâs wartime experience. Despite Salingerâs reticence, Sla­wenski admirably retraces his movements and recreates th ...
  • Gone
    And so, huh.  Wow. …suggestion seems to be that the military will take power. Interesting. In the long run, I think it matters A LOT that this went down with relatively low levels of violence. So far, that is. …so next question is what this does for popular resistance in Jordan, Syria, Alger ...

Desert Research Institute

  • 2010 DRI Annual Report
    The 2010 annual report is now available for download. This issue includes an interview with Executive Vice President for Research Dr. Terry Surles, our involvement with a large NSF grant to study climate change, an overview of the work in our divisions and centers, select researcher profiles, an ...
  • Tracking the Air Quality at Lake Tahoe
    In order to better understand the pollutant sources that are affecting Lake’s Tahoe’s water quality, Research Professor Hampden Kuhns, began studying Lake Tahoe in 2003 when he assembled the areas first emissions inventory. The inventory included local measurements using his TRAKER road ...
  • Building Concepts for Clarity
    Todd Mihevc has a knack for finding the right tools for the job, but he’s no handyman for hire. For 25 years, Mihevc, an Assistant Research Hydrogeologist at DRI, has been instrumental in developing equipment that surveys, studies, and samples water systems in Nevada. His latest research concern ...
  • Top Cited Article in the Journal of Human Evol ...
    Dr. Glenn Berger is lead author in top-cited article in Journal of Human Evolution. The article "Luminescence chronology of cave sediments at the Atapuerca paleoanthropological site, Spain" was the top-cited article published in the Journal of Human Evolution for the period of 2008 to 2010.
  • DRI Researcher Published in Nature Geoscience
    The atmosphere over the Dead Sea, researchers have found, is laden with oxidized mercury. Some of the highest levels of oxidized mercury ever observed outside the polar regions exist there.

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • Arbitration challenges on the rise
    Arbitration allows parties to arrive at a resolution more quickly and cheaply than is possible through litigation, but a surge in challenges to arbitrators' decisions threatens to undermine the whole point of the process.
  • Plaintiffs' lawyers shift gears against Toyota
    In an attempt to swerve around a government report that largely substantiated Toyota's position that its electronic throttle system wasn't to blame for sudden unintended acceleration, plaintiffs' lawyers have turned to emphasizing Toyota's failure to install a brake override system that might ha ...
  • Legal Services Corp. braces for budget cuts
    The Legal Services Corp. has survived any number of near-death experiences in its 34-year history. But the agency that funds civil legal services for the poor may be facing its biggest challenge yet at the hands of congressional budget cutters.
  • ADA doesn't cover woman's immune deficiency co ...
    A federal judge in New York granted summary judgment for a defunct hedge fund in one of the few decisions addressing whether a type of immune deficiency qualifies as a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
  • Judge allows MDL alleging price-fixing of plas ...
    A federal judge in Chicago this week rejected a motion by CSL Ltd., Baxter International Inc. and an industry trade group to dismiss allegations that the companies conspired to fix prices and reduce the supply of life-saving blood plasma therapies.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • FrackTracker
    Here’s an exceprt from the blog at Fracktracker, a useful site for info and maps and visuals. The Environmental Protection Agency has submitted a draft of its Hydraulic Fracturing Study Plan, which is to be reviewed by the Science Advisory Board (SAB), a group of independent scientists that w ...
  • A Comprehensive Website for News Headlines
    The below site, while not covering everything, does offers a lot of info in one place. Newspaper Headlines: http://www.marcellus-shale.us/Gas-Drilling_NEWS.htm
  • Groups File Federal Gas Drilling Lawsuit again ...
    Delaware River Basin Commission Served Notice Trenton, New Jersey —The Delaware Riverkeeper Network and Damascus Citizens for Sustainability have joined forces in filing a federal lawsuit against the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) in federal district court in Trenton, NJ. Complaints were ...
  • Oil and Gas Companies Illegally Using Diesel i ...
    By Adam Federman, Earth Island Journal Posted on February 1, 2011 The 2005 Bush-Cheney Energy Policy Act famously exempted hydraulic fracturing from the Safe Drinking Water Act. But it made one small exception: diesel fuel. The Policy Act states that the term “underground injection,” as it relat ...
  • PA DEP Fines Pennsylvania General Energy Co. L ...
    COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA Dept. of Environmental Protection Commonwealth News Bureau Room 308, Main Capitol Building Harrisburg PA., 17120 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 02/2/2011 CONTACT: Daniel T. Spadoni, Department of Environmental Protection North-central Regional Office 570-327-3659 DEP Fines Pe ...

News Blaze

  • WHO Urges Action to Curb Harmful Use of Alcoho ...
    According to the report, nearly 4 per cent of all deaths globally are related to alcohol, and most alcohol-related deaths result from injuries, cancer, cardiovascular diseases and liver cirrhosis. Globally, 6.2 per cent of all male deaths are relate
  • U.S. Initiates Crusade to Combat Human Traffic ...
    Today's discussion will focus on U.S. efforts to combat trafficking in persons. Our blog DipNote has received many questions and comments on today's topic from all around the globe. We have selected some of the questions for discussion during this
  • Ban Reiterates Call for Calm and Orderly Trans ...
    In addition, Mr. Ban called again for any transition to fully respect human rights, and to ensure genuine and inclusive dialogue with all stakeholders. He also expressed the UN's readiness to assist in the process.
  • Alameda Newspaper Caves to Political Pressure
    AUSD is now citing the threat of school closures under 'Plan B' as a reason for Alameda residents to vote for Measure A, a school parcel tax that would tax businesses and homeowners at the rate of $0.32/sq ft of building improvements on their prop
  • Tenure Commission Orders Reinstatement of Teac ...
    One psychiatrist deemed her 'paranoid enough to be considered a liability and a danger at work,' according to court records. District officials have not followed the Tenure Commission order, out of fear for the safety of students and other emplo

environment 360

  • Serengeti Highway Plan Poses Threat to Entire ...
    A proposed two-lane road across the northern edge of Serengeti National Park in Tanzania would block the migration of 1.5 million wildebeest and threaten endangered species, according to a leaked government report. The study, obtained by the conservation group Serengeti Watch,  predicts that hea ...
  • Rare Whooping Cranes Will Be Reintroduced in L ...
    U.S. wildlife biologists are reintroducing 10 whooping cranes — the most endangered species of crane in the world — to Louisiana. Whooping cranes, found only in North America, once numbered more than 15,000 individuals, but hunting and development drove the WikimediaWhooping cranes population ...
  • Republican-Controlled House Assails EPA Head o ...
    At a congressional hearing, the new Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives challenged the Environmental Protection Agency’s effort to limit greenhouse gas emissions, questioning the legal, scientific, and economic basis of such regulation. Republican members of the House Energy ...
  • Growth of Wood Biomass Power Stokes Concern on ...
    Across the U.S., companies are planning scores of projects to burn trees and wood waste to produce electricity, claiming such biomass plants can be carbon-neutral. But critics contend that combusting wood is not really a form of green energy and are urging a go-slow approach until clear guidelin ...
  • Arctic Sea Ice Extent in January is Lowest in ...
    While extreme weather conditions and unusually cold temperatures have gripped much of North America and Europe this winter, unusually warm temperatures farther north produced the lowest Arctic sea ice extent ever recorded for the month of January, according to NASA. Areas such as Hudson Bay, Hud ...

Red Ice Creations

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

Russia Today

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

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

Tippers News

  • Domestic violence
    The statistics are startling: It's estimated that every 18 minutes a woman in the United States is beaten. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Yes, trafficking happens right here
    A common misconception about human trafficking and modern slavery is that it does not happen here. But it does. It's a documented fact. Take the case of two girls, ages 15 and 16, who ran away from a juvenile home in Fremont in 2007.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a ...
  • Human smuggling
    THERE is no doubt that rampant poverty, unemployment and a bleak future stare young Pakistanis in the face. The situation invariably provides a breeding ground Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Public opinion stopped GM, says campaigner + T ...
    Interesting article in The Independent in which Lord Melchett, the former director of Greenpeace, speaks out. Also, have you signed this Avaaz petition yet? http://www.avaaz.org/en/eu_gmo/?cl=743766348&v=7138 (You'll have to copy + paste the link!)Submitted by Graeme that's Graeme to Enviro ...
  • Two week-old kitten left for dead in locked cl ...
    Thanks to a passerby and local animal shelter, a two week-old kitten left for dead in a bolted-shut clothes recycling bin was rescued and has made a full recovery. The kitten was rescued about a month ago when a passing person heard the cry Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� ...

The Freeman

  • Conflict Breaks Out over House GOP Spending Pl ...
    “An already wobbly week for House Republicans turned chaotic Thursday as their unruly new majority flatly rejected a spending plan crafted by House leaders, saying its cuts fell far short of fulfilling a campaign pledge to slice $100 billion from federal programs.” (Washington Post) Perverse inc ...
  • Mortgage Rules to Get Government Rewrite
    “The Obama administration is pushing ahead with a vast rewrite of the rules of the nation’s mortgage market separately from the delicate task of devising options to abolish mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.” (Washington Post) Why should central planning work any better here? FE ...
  • What Egyptians Are Teaching the World
    In Egypt the powers that be continue to defy the peaceful throngs in the streets. Yet their rulers’ clumsy efforts to mollify the courageous people remind us of something usually overlooked about the nature of political power, namely, that ideas, not force, ultimately rule, for as Jeffrey Rogers ...
  • Obama’s Budget Faces Cut Threat in House
    “House Republicans sketched their vision for a smaller federal government Wednesday, proposing sharp spending cuts that would wipe out family planning programs, take 4,500 cops off the street and slice 10 percent from a food program that aids pregnant women and their babies. Top White House prio ...
  • Police Surveillance Cameras Aren’t Just for Bi ...
    “Surveillance video cameras are sprouting in midsized communities across the USA as police borrow the crime-fighting tool from big metro areas.” (USA Today) But donât get caught videoing the police. FEE Timely Classic “Are Cameras the New Guns?” by Wendy McElroy

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Coal power's mercury menace
    Rank of coal-fired power plants among America's biggest sources of air pollution: 1 Of the five leading causes of death in the United States, number to which coal plant pollution contributes: 4 Number of U.S. water bodies impaired by mercury, a particularly toxic component of coal plant p ...
  • Glossing over the misdeeds of big business
    By Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest I was just beginning to recover from President Obama's dismaying speech at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce when I found myself in the middle of another effort to gloss over the misdeeds of big business. This occurred at the annual conference of the BlueGreen ...
  • The great Gulf offshore drilling jobs hoax con ...
    Politicians in the Gulf Coast are still attacking President Obama's slow-down on offshore drilling, even as more evidence comes in that the post-BP spill measure has had modest effect on the coast's oil economy. A month after BP's oil disaster, Obama's Interior Department announced a six-mont ...
  • Federal government failing victims of BP disas ...
    There's growing evidence that serious health problems threaten the Gulf Coast's residents, cleanup workers and seafood consumers in the wake of the BP oil disaster. But so far the federal agencies in charge of responding to the disaster have failed to take adequate steps to help the injured and ...
  • How Texas conservatives are manipulating a bud ...
    By Forrest Wilder, Texas Observer "While some are worried, conservatives should be excited. This challenge should be viewed as an opportunity." - Andrew Kerr, executive director of Empower Texans, a conservative group.What's Kerr so excited about? Oh, just Texas' little old $27-billion budget h ...

Worldpress - Africa

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Mubarak gone, military takes charge
    Good news, probably. We’ll see if they rein in the secret police and the various corrupt police stations which run semi-autonomously and engage in much of the rape and torture. Notice that this happened when the people marched on the presidential palace, and not before. Endgame here is probably ...
  • Puntland’s proto-state formation
    Piracy is a sympton of land-based disorder.  Pirates only can make money if they have the port-based infrastructure to repair their ships, re-provision for the next patrol, hold their captives and prizes and take delivery of ransom.  States that possess an effective monopoly on the use of forc ...
  • Puntland’s proto-state formation
    Piracy is a sympton of land-based disorder.  Pirates only can make money if they have the port-based infrastructure to repair their ships, re-provision for the next patrol, hold their captives and prizes and take delivery of ransom.  States that possess an effective monopoly on the use of forc ...
  • AOL Buys Huffpo
    Arianna Huffington cashes out.  This is the American dream baby, make something, then sell it to a soulless corporation which stands against everything you claim to stand for.  What do you care?  You’ve cashed out. Cashing out is one of the biggest problems with American style business, actua ...
  • Master and Slave Morality
    Just read a large piece on strategic defaults in the Huffington Post.  That is to say, walking away from bad mortgages you can’t pay off, especially when the value of the loan is more than the value of the house.  Most of them felt horrible for walking away. The bottom line is this: there is [ ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

  • Revised list of cuts would bite deeper into US ...
    The US House Appropriations Committee ramped up its attack on government spending this evening, releasing the text of a bill that it says represents the biggest round of spending cuts in US history. This time it's the turn of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science F ...
  • ElBaradei: 'greatest day of my life'
    Mohamed ElBaradei, former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency and a leading Egyptian opposition figure, has applauded the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak after 18 days of protests (read some of Nature's coverage here). "This is the greatest day of my life. The country has be ...
  • Malaspina expedition: Shipping out
    Freelance journalist Lucas Laursen is joining the Malaspina expedition, a Spanish oceanographic survey circling the globe in the wake of Alessandro Malaspina’s 1789-1794 exploratory voyage (http://www.expedicionmalaspina.es). He will report from aboard the Hespérides for the month-long leg be ...
  • House hearing tackles spending reductions at N ...
    By Adam Mann At a hearing in Washington DC on 10 February, members of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science asked the inspectors general of NASA and the National Science Foundation (NSF) how they could reduce federal spending at those agencies. The hearing is part of t ...
  • US senators object to NIH reorganization
    In his quest to fast-track a new translational medicine center at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), agency director Francis Collins has encountered a rising tide of opposition. Now two US senators have joined the ranks of the disgruntled, concerned that their constituents will be hurt ...

new geography

  • Why Duany is Wrong About the Importance of Pub ...
    One of the news stories circling lately is an interview with Andres Duany where he asserts that public participation requirements are too onerous to enable great work to be done.� �Early in my career I worked as a public historian and historic preservation specialist, so rather than launch i ...
  • America's Biggest Brain Magnets
    For a decade now U.S. city planners have obsessively pursued college graduates, adopting policies to make their cities more like dense hot spots such as New York, to which the "brains" allegedly flock. But in the past 10 years "hip and cool" places like New York have suffered high levels of dom ...
  • China's Empty Trains... & Other Unintended Con ...
    In a technical sense, the economy has been in recovery since June of 2009. A year and a half into the rebound though, a general cloud of economic malaise continues to cover the nation. Fears of a diminished America are perpetuated from our political and punditry classes. We are told that our col ...
  • Australia's Housing Affordability "Outrage"
    There is mounting concern in Australia about the nature and extent of country’s housing affordability crisis. Expressions of distress are not limited to the middle income households who are locked out of the Great Australian Dream of home ownership. There is heightened interest from advocate ...
  • A New Tribe for New Geographies: Reasonable Pe ...
    I am Singaporean, with a half-Indian, half-Eurasian father; a half-Pakistani, half-Malay mother. Dad converted to Islam from Roman Catholicism; each year my brothers and I celebrate Eid ful Fitr, Eid ul Adha and Christmas with different parts of our family. Cousins, aunts and uncles have mar ...

GM Watch

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Cryptogon

  • America’s Legacy of Mutagenic War
    Via: Berkeley Daily Planet: A series of disturbing reports from Iraq and Vietnam (backed up by a horrific collection of videos) have exposed a hidden legacy of war — weapons that continue to create victims years after the conflict has ended. Thanks to the US military’s embrace of Mutagenic Weapo ...
  • COUP: MUBARAK RESIGNS AS EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT; M ...
    Al Jazeera English: Live Stream Via: Bloomberg: Hosni Mubarak stepped down as president of Egypt and handed power to the military, bowing to the demands of protesters who have occupied central Cairo for the past three weeks demanding an end to his 30-year rule. “Mubarak has decided to relinquish ...
  • IMF Calls for Dollar Alternative
    Mix the big confetti currencies together and what do you get? Confetti. Via: CNN: The International Monetary Fund issued a report Thursday on a possible replacement for the dollar as the world’s reserve currency. The IMF said Special Drawing Rights, or SDRs, could help stabilize the global finan ...
  • Solo 457 Garden Sprayer – Made in German ...
    Just a quick FYI: If you happen to be fed up with Made in China junk garden sprayers, check out Solo sprayers. They’re made in Germany and built to last. I bought the Solo 457 and I’ve been using it this year in the garden to apply neem oil solution. It works great. The pressure [...]
  • Google Offers Two-Factor Authentication
    I see this development as a sort of confidence trick, where Google is trying to get people to put more of their eggs into fewer baskets (that Google controls, of course). Two-factor authentication schemes offer strong security against unauthorized account access by miscreants, no doubt about it, ...

The Economic Collapse

  • 21 Signs That The Once Great U.S. Economy Is B ...
    Once upon a time, the United States was the greatest industrial powerhouse that the world has ever seen.  Our immense economic machinery was the envy of the rest of the globe and it provided the foundation for the largest and most vibrant middle class in the history of the world ...
  • 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 ...

Desertification

  • Environmental causes to the present and antici ...
    Read at : http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/notes/dimidia-llc/global-stress-china-desertification-population-displacement/10150104557751842 Global Stress / China: Desertification & Population Displacement by Dimidia, LLC There is a growing movement taking place â predominantly in the developin ...
  • MEA Bulletin – Issue No. 109
    Read at : IISD RS is pleased to announce that the newest issue of MEA Bulletin is now available. To access the 109th issue directly, visit: http://www.iisd.ca/mea-l/meabulletin109.pdf . To read past issues and to sign up to receive the PDF … Continue reading →
  • Inter-Disciplinary Scientific Advice to the UN ...
    Read at : Land Degradation Announcement List Request for Circulation of Side Event Announcement CST S-2 Bonn Side_Event_flyer_20110208 Providing Inter-Disciplinary Scientific Advice to the UNCCD: A View from the Scientific Community Speakers: Dr. Richard Thomas UNU-INWEH D ...
  • The 2Seeds Network
    Read at : http://www.2seeds.org/about.html The 2Seeds Network is an incorporated non-profit which serves as an umbrella organization incubating small, efficient, and effective agricultural development projects in Africa. 2Seeds focuses on selecting, training, and mentoring bright and passionate ...
  • More frequent drought likely in eastern Africa ...
    Read at : http://www.waterworld.com/index/display/article-display/1640264788/articles/waterworld/world-regions/africa/2011/01/More-frequent-drought-likely-in-eastern-Africa.html?cmpid=EnlWaterWorldInternationalFebruary102011 USGS: More frequent drought likely in eastern Africa Jan. 28, 2011 — Th ...

The Paper Trail

  • Data Confirms That Securitized Mortgages Less ...
    Government data analyzed by Federal Reserve economists shows what many home owners have already learned the hard way: Consumers have a much better chance of renegotiating a distressed mortgage if the original bank lender still holds it.
  • Grassley Targets Federal Charge Card Abuses
    Many federal employees have government-issued charge cards for work-related expenses, and a handful of workers are using taxpayer dollars to pay for entertainment, prostitutes, and gambling.
  • ABA Says Debit Card Cap for Big Banks Would Al ...
    U.S. bankers are asking Congress to halt a proposed Dodd-Frank regulation that would cut debit card revenues by claiming it would also discourage smaller banks from making “job-producing loans.”
  • Issa Releases Letters From Industry on Regulat ...
    Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, has released a massive collection of letters received from nonprofits, businesses, and trade associations regarding the impact of government regulations on job creation nationwide.
  • FDIC Wants Bank Execs to Wait 3 Years for Enti ...
    If the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp’s new executive pay proposal is adopted, top U.S. bankers will have to wait at least three years to collect half of their bonuses.

backofthebook.ca

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

Worldnews

  • Egyptian activist creates image issues fo ...
    SAN FRANCISCO - A Google Inc executive who has become a hero of the Egyptian revolution is public relations gold for the Internet power, but analysts say the company must be careful not to overplay its hand. Google marketing executive Wael Ghonim became the public face of the uprising that ...
  • Severely obese women may need to gain les ...
    --> Extremely obese women may not need to gain as much weight during pregnancy as current guidelines suggest, according to a new study presented today at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine annual meeting. Severely obese women who gained less than the recommended amount of weight during ...
  • beer & pizza
    Photos by MATT GENTRY The Roanoke Times A custom-built six-pack and pizza at The Cellar specialty shop and carry out in the 300 block of North Main Street in Blacksburg. The shop carries about 280 types of beer and a collection of wines along with locally made baked goods. Chelsea Graves, l ...
  • Study explains obesity through the brain' ...
    Fructose and glucose are two similar sugars that have the same formula but different structure. New study suggests that they can cause opposite reactions in some regions of the brain. Until recent times no research was focused on the brain and its link with sugars, as explanation of the pat ...
  • Post-Mubarak era dawns on Egypt
    Egyptians have woken to a new dawn�after 30 years of rule under Hosni Mubarak. As the�Muslim call to prayer reverberated across Cairo on Saturday, the sound of horns honking in jubilation grew louder after a night when millions celebrated the fall of the former president, who has handed ove ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • [Letter] Assessing Performance Through Underst ...
    Author: Pedro Cintas
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    An RNA virus of a parasite binds to human Toll-like receptor 3 and modulates host immune responses to the parasite. Authors: Annette Ives, Catherine Ronet, Florence Prevel, Giulia Ruzzante, Silvia Fuertes-Marraco, Frederic Schutz, Haroun Zangger, Melanie Revaz-Breton, Lon-Fye Lye, Suzanne M. ...
  • [Report] Proteome Half-Life Dynamics in Living ...
    In times of stress, long-lived proteins increase their durability. Authors: Eran Eden, Naama Geva-Zatorsky, Irina Issaeva, Ariel Cohen, Erez Dekel, Tamar Danon, Lydia Cohen, Avi Mayo, Uri Alon
  • Physics: Filling in Gaps
    Since the discovery of iron-pnictide superconductors 3 years ago, considerable progress has been made in understanding their properties, but the basic mechanism of pairing responsible for superconductivity has yet to … ...
  • Study: Prenatal surgery helps spina bifida
    The surgery increased the number of children who were able to walk unassisted by the age of 30 months and decreased the number who had to have shunts implanted to remove water from the brain. Prenatal surgery for the most severe form of the birth defect spina bifida doubled the number of chi ...

Common Dreams

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

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • Renewable Heating: Good for the Purse and the ...
    Heating oil in Germany is currently more expensive than ever before at the beginning of a year. In this harsh winter, households that have already switched to renewable heating are in a financial advantage. In addition, heating systems based on renewable energy sources reduce the greenhouse gas ...
  • Food vs. Fuel, Redux: The Biofuel Dilemma
    Today's Washington Post includes a noteworthy opinion piece from Tim Searchinger of Princeton University concerning the impact of expanding biofuel production on global food prices and availability. Food vs. fuel competition made headlines in 2007 and 2008 but then subsided during the recession ...
  • Nuclear Energy's Outstanding Performance for 2 ...
    I love living in an era where we have access to timely videos covering subjects that have traditionally been ignored by the advertiser-supported media. The Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) employs forward thinking individuals who recognize the value of communicating without commercial filters. The ...
  • A Brief History of Fossil Fuel Consumption: St ...
    For those having a hard time with the obvious, here is a quick and excellent summary.
  • Breaking: Climate Science “Denier” Harrison S ...
    Harrison Schmitt, a former NASA astronaut who was chosen by Gov. Susana Martinez to head up the state’s Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department, has withdrawn his nomination after a squabble with the Senate Rules Committee over background checks.

Green House - USA Today

  • Study: Tiny LED holiday bulbs contain lead, a ...
    Small holiday LED lights, marketed as eco-friendly alternatives to traditional lightbulbs, contain lead, arsenic and a dozen other potentially hazardous substances, reports a study released hursday.
  • Obama's EPA is bulls eye of House GOP budget c ...
    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which saw its budget rise under President Obama, is now the target of deep spending cuts by House Republicans, some of whom want to stop its regulation of greenhouse gas emissions.
  • Ron Paul, activists push to repeal ban on inca ...
    A limited-government group says it's ratcheting up its efforts this week to repeal the phaseout of incandescent light bulbs slated to begin next year.
  • Are you hoarding incandescents? CFL, LED optio ...
    As the lights dim on Thomas Edison's 131-year-old incandescent light bulb, some Americans are not adapting to more efficient options. Rather, they're stockpiling the old bulbs, as my USA TODAY colleague Jayne O'Donnell and I report in today's paper.
  • Obama fast-tracks Mid-Atlantic offshore wind e ...
    The Obama administration announced plans Monday to spend $50 million to speed the development of offshore wind farms, aiming to issue leases off four Atlantic Coast states by the end of this year.

Prior Art

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

Peoples Voice

  • Mubarak's Failed Bait and Switch
    by Stephen Lendman On February 10, indications were he'd step down. He didn't, but now it's official, vice president Suleiman saying he resigned, handing power to Egypt's military. A New York Times alert said "a historic popular uprising transformed politics in Egypt and around the Arab worl ...
  • A Snake in the Grassroots of the Tea Party
    By Silver Shield I have warned those in the Freedom Movement about Patriot Pied Pipers trying to infiltrate, subvert and destroy the National Tea Party. On a national level, I warned about Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, and even Wikileaks. Well now I see they have even burrowed into the local grassro ...
  • Justice first Mr. Hague, then peace
    Stuart Littlewood The word ‘justice’ is conspicuously absent from the mouthings of Western politicians on the Middle East. It has vanished from their vocabulary and from their purpose. Instead ‘peace process’ is endlessly trumpeted, and the lopsided dead-end ‘negotiations’ that go with it. "It ...
  • Road to Absorption
    By Frank Koeksal Recently, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper met with President Obama in Washington DC to discuss ways an agreement could be forged between the two countries to expedite trade and tourism across one of the largest boarders in the word. On the surface, this ides appears reas ...
  • Canada defeats GMO hazard legislation
    By Rady Ananda By a vote of 178 to 98, on February 9th, Canada's House of Commons defeated Bill C-474, an Act that would have required an analysis of potential harm to export markets before permitting the commercialization of any new genetically engineered seed. Organic farmers now fear the col ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

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

World Wide Hippies

  • LCD Soundsystem Final Show Tickets Scalped &#8 ...
    LCD Soundsystem Add More Farewell Shows | Pitchfork Tickets for LCD Soundsystem’s last show at Madison Square Garden on April 2 went fast– really fast, and in some cases, apparently, into the hands of scalpers (James Murphy lashed out at scalpers on the band’s Twitter feed). Now, LCD have announ ...
  • The Environment as Our Common Heritage
    James K. Boyce- What does it mean to say that the environment is our “common heritage”? On one level this is a simple statement of fact: when we are born, we come into a world that is not of our own making. The air we breathe, the water we drink, the natural resources on which [...]
  • Seattle Refuses Permits for Hempfest
    Hempfest sues Seattle, saying city refuses permits | Komo News Hempfest, the multi-day, pro-marijuana festival that annually brings tens of thousands of people to a waterfront Seattle park, has sued the city in an effort to obtain permits for the 2011 gathering. In a lawsuit filed Thursday in fe ...
  • Weekly Hippie Trivia
    A new Trivia Question will be posted every Friday at 8:00 pm (EST). You can post your answer in the comments section below the question and be entered into a chance to win a WWH Bumpersticker! She has appeared in more than fifty films, starred on television in the 1970s – she was a real “Peppe ...
  • Clinton: “Too Much Money In Drugs”
    Why can’t the US legalize drugs? There’s ‘too much money in it,’ Clinton says | Raw Story In what will likely be seen as something of a Freudian slip by the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton said recently in a Mexican news interview that the United States cannot legalize drugs as a means of ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

  • USAFCENT LogoImage via WikipediaToday in pictures of countries being reborn: E ...
    Egypt emerged from 18 days of turmoil today with a new(ish) leader in power and a hopeful eye towards the future. Led by the youth and watched by the world, the Egyptian protests became the second revolution to shake the Middle East so far this year. Here are some snapshots of the reaction af ...
  • What I learned from hanging out with deficit h ...
    This originally appeared at New Deal 2.0
  • Ralph Reed changes tone on Egypt protests
    Even as Hosni Mubarak's resignation shook the world today, the issue of Egypt has been barely visible at CPAC. One exception was Ron Paul's speech this afternoon, in which he used Egypt as an example of the folly of foreign aid.
  • The music of CPAC
    I've been watching CPAC since 10 a.m. and I have heard "Dreams" by Hagar-era Van Halen no less than a half-dozen times. Why? The only possible explanation is Reagan-era nostalgia. Not even Reagan can justify some of the other songs played to introduce or between speakers over the last two day ...
  • Michael Steele not pumped for CPAC
    I ran into Michael Steele, the recently deposed chairman of the Republican National Committee, last night at the Big Party, an event sponsored by Andrew Breitbart and the gay group GOProud. (The party drew some attention for its musical act, the "omnisexual" singer Sophie B. Hawkins.)

SMB News

  • Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits ...
    For SMB News Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits camps PURWOBINANGUN: Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano spewed more deadly heat clouds Wednesday as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono visited some of the 50,000 evacuees in shelters. Searing gas billowed from the crater of the 2,914-metr ...
  • Kasaba throws spit on the camera
    \Kasaba throws spit on cameraMUMBAI: Ajmal Kasaba webcam spit on Tuesday during a hearing in the Bombay High Court for confirmation of the death penalty, which led the court strictly tell him to behave properly. Judjes a warning when they Kasaba altercation with the police and spit at the camera ...
  • K’taka Speaker disqualifies 16 MLAs
    For SMB News KBANGALORE: Hours ahead of the trust vote for beleaguered Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa in the Assembly, Speaker K G Bopaiah disqualified sixteen rebel MLAs, including eleven from ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), legislative sources said on Monday. Bopaiah signed the ...
  • Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8
    For SMB News Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8 KARACHI: Eight people including two children were killed and over 65 others suffered injuries when two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside Abdullah Shah Ghazi’s shrine in Clifton, official sources said here Thursday. Two heads, beli ...
  • Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mist ...
    For SMB News Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistakes’ LONDON: Former president Gen. (Retd.) Pervez Musharraf Friday admitted that political mistakes were committed in the twilight years of his regime and sought apology from Pakistani nation for the same. “These mistakes caused damage ...

Toronto Star - Editorials


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renewable recycling conservation
Ontario halts offshore wind-energy projects
Ottawa Citizen
By Lee Greenberg, Ottawa Citizen February 12, 2011 6:04 AM Once a shining example of its renewable energy plan, the Liberal government Friday turned its ...
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Shawn Mitchell, who sponsored a failed proposal to ratchet back a requirement that utilities get 30 percent of electricity fromrenewable sources such as ...
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There has been uncertainty about how GreenPower fits in with the government'srenewable energy target and proposed emissions trading scheme, not to mention ...
Renewable energy technology points the way to cleaner, greener future
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Merlin Hyman Regen SW chief executive In the past few years renewable energy has started to come of age. Technologies like wind farms, biomass boilers and ...
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Former Sentinel building in downtown Santa Cruz filling up after remodel
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By Jondi Gumz -- Santa Cruz Sentinel The newly renovated offices of Ecology Action in Santa Cruz were open for tour on Friday afternoon. ...
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Gregoire names new director for Puget Sound cleanup
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Gerry O'Keefe, who helped pull together a pair of landmark water agreements on the Columbia River while working for the state Department of Ecology, ...
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Students of Gujarat Tech Varsity to research on state's ecology
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By Prashant Thakor | Place: Ahmedabad | Agency: DNA To assess the damage that is being caused and take a stock of the ground situation of Gujarat's ecology ...
Fast growth rate not good for ecology, feels Jairam Ramesh
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Ramesh, who is himself an IITian, said from 2015 onwards, the impact of ecology would be part of the calculations to judge the economic growth and the real ...
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Judge appoints special master in DetroitWater department lawsuits
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A Detroit lawyer who specializes in medical malpractice defense has been chosen for a key position in the lawsuits regarding the Detroit Water and Sewerage ...
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Report: Israel is in worst shape for waterresources
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COM STAFF Indian thinktank report claims Mideast countries can make "blue peace" with water management, solve deadlocks between Israel, PA, Syria. ...
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Water monitoring/protection program to be held in Canton
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BY ERIC HRIN (STAFF WRITER) A "WaterMonitoring and Protection near Gas Well Drilling" program is a go in Canton. This week, the Canton Area School Board ...
North Texas eyes Oklahoma water
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Six months after a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit to force the state to sell some of itswater, officials with the Tarrant RegionalWater District said ...
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