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Saturday, February 12, 2011

12 February - RSS SnapShot! Pt 2

Official photograph of Egyptian President Hosn...Image via Wikipedia

Energy Collective

EU Times

  • North Carolina man admits plotting terror atta ...
    A devout Muslim, whose arrest on terrorism-related charges stunned his neighbours in rural North Carolina, faces the prospect of a life sentence after pleading guilty to conspiring to assist violent jihadists and to participate in attacks in foreign countries. Daniel Patrick Boyd, 40, and six ot ...
  • Crowds rejoice after Mubarak resigns
    Fireworks burst over Tahrir Square and Egypt exploded with joy and tears of relief after pro-democracy protesters brought down President Hosni Mubarak with a momentous march on his palaces and state TV. Mubarak, who until the end seemed unable to grasp the depth of resentment over his three deca ...
  • CIA Spy Captured Giving Nuclear Bomb To Terror ...
    While all eyes in the West are currently trained on the ongoing revolution taking place in Egypt, Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) is warning that the situation on the sub-continent has turned “grave” as it appears open warfare is about to break out between Pakistan and the United Sta ...
  • World panics over Iran’s new ‘super’ missiles
    Iran has made yet another announcement about the development of a new type of weapon. The Iranian administration claimed that it was going to launch the mass production of new ballistic missiles. According to Chief Commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, Brigadier General Mohammad Ali Jafari, ...
  • Mubarak ‘leaves Cairo’ as protesters descend o ...
    Reports have claimed that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarakand his family have left the capital Cairo. TV news station Al Arabiya reported that Mr Mubarak had left for an ‘undisclosed location’, but was not thought to have fled the country. It is claimed he flew from a military base on the outski ...

Stonecipher News

  • Reasons to Donate Blood
    Have you ever donated blood? If you have why did you do it? It may have been for a loved one or a friend. It could have been for the free coupons and gift certificates blood centers provide for donations. Maybe you’re required to donate blood being that you’re in the medical field. In actua ...
  • Special Education High School Transition Servi ...
    From my Factoidz page: 1414(d) and in Findings about “effective transition services to promote successful post-Students typically start transition services at the age 14 if educational services are still required as determined by the school district and the IEP team. However, Washington State’s ...
  • Don't Quit Your Day Job
    This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Ashworth College. All opinions are 100% mine. With approximately 4,000,000 students today, more than 20 percent of all students enrolled in higher education are taking at least one course online. Self paced online courses ...
  • Breast Cancer Gene May Raise Men’s Risk, Too
    Source: HealthDay News: "A faulty gene that greatly increases a woman’s risk of breast cancer also boosts a man’s risk for the disease, a new study finds. While most people think of breast cancer as a woman’s illness, in rare cases men can develop breast tumors as well. The new study found tha ...
  • Diabetics Urged to Confer With Their Doctor Ab ...
    According to Amanda Gardner HealthDay Reporter, "THURSDAY, July 15 (HealthDay News) -- One day after a U.S. advisory panel recommended that the controversial diabetes drug Avandia stay on the market -- albeit with added restrictions -- several medical organizations are urging patients not to cha ...

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • OpenLeaks-WikiLeaks Smackdown Reveals Theft an ...
    One of the founders of OpenLeaks, himself a former WikiLeaks member, is facing accusations that he sabotaged Julian Assange's whistle-blower site and "stole" thousands of documents. The chap in question is Daniel Domscheit-Berg, who just happens to have a WikiLeaks-related book launching this w ...
  • Nokia Developers Walk Out By the Hundreds in P ...
    No sooner than the news came down this morning that Nokia would partner with Microsoft to adopt Windows Phone 7 as the operating system of choice for the future of Nokia smartphones, the backlash from Nokia employees - most of them developers working on Symbian, Nokia's old and floundering smar ...
  • Using Phone Make Google Account Super Secure O ...
    You can now make your Google account more secure as the search engine giant is going to launch a two step account access. The system will work in conjunction with the user’s phone. The two step account access will allow you to generate a verification code through Google Authenticator App (insta ...
  • House Considering $75 Million Cut to Legal Ser ...
    A proposed $75 million cut to civil legal services funding threatens to devastate legal aid programs for low-income individuals across the country, "at a time when it is most needed by the tens of millions suffering economic hardship," according to the Legal Services Corporation
  • Why a tiny iPhone could be a big deal
    Has Apple built a smaller, cheaper smartphone that is carrier independent? Artists rendition courtesy of www.informationarchitects

Groklaw

  • 'Dating' site imports 250,000 Facebook profile ...
    The duo behind the site say it's art, not commerce. In what seems to be liberal-arts-grad-schoolese, Paolo Cirio, a media artist, and Alessandro Ludovic, media critic and editor-in-chief of Neural magazine, explain why they made the site. "Facebook, an endlessly cool place for so many people, ...
  • The White House Wants Advice On What's Blockin ...
    The White House website kicked off a new feature this week, called Advise the Advisor, in which a senior staff member at the White House will post a YouTube video on a particular subject, asking the public to weigh in on that topic via a form. The very first such topic is one near and dear to ou ...
  • White House will propose new digital copyright ...
    The Obama administration has drafted new proposals to curb Internet piracy and other forms of intellectual property infringement that it says it will send to the U.S. Congress "in the very near future."... The 92-page report (PDF) reads a lot like a report that could have been prepared by lobbyi ...
  • PubPat's Amicus Brief in i4i v. Microsoft Appe ...
    Patent quality is the single most important issue in our patent system, because without it, our patent system risks losing all credibility and the support of the American people.... The Court of Appeals below, while being the exclusive Court of Appeals for patent cases and, thus, quite fami ...
  • 2010 Young Innovators Under 35
    Since 1999, the editors of Technology Review have honored the young innovators whose inventions and research we find most exciting; today that collection is the TR35, a list of technologists and scientists, all under the age of 35. Their work--spanning medicine, computing, communications, electr ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Egypt
    It was a non-violent revolution and I trust it will put to an end all that silly talk about how Arabs aren’t ready for democracy. It also may be an end to the US being a major player in the Middle East. Yes, events were tumultuous and fast moving, but the White House waffled all [...]
  • Students make ethanol fuel from soda pop
    This could have actual commercial application as soda bottlers pay to have their waste soda trucked away. Instead, why not convert it into ethanol?
  • Open race for Jane Harman’s House seat in Cali ...
    In a surprise move, Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA) resigned from the House earlier this week to become president and CEO of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. This leaves the heavily Democratic, mostly beach city communities of the 36th District wide open for election, which will pro ...
  • “When our warriors return home: Post-Traumatic ...
    The Vietnam Veterans of America co-sponsored a forum in Pasadena CA yesterday with the Criminal Courts Bar Association on the plight of war vets returning home with PTSD. Too often, what is a medical condition gets treated as a criminal matter. It doesn’t need to be this way. My friend Bill Papa ...
  • This is what democracy looks like. Liberation ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • Sweet victory! Many more steps needed!
    Nothing more to say right now. Am tweeting. And trying to work.... (On reflection, the title of yesterday's post should maybe have been "Death dance of the Co-dependents." But too morbid.)
  • U.S.-Egypt: Dance of the co-dependents
    The ruling circles in Washington and Cairo are now each in their own way (but also, jointly) engaged in a dance of resistance to the wave of massive political change unleashed by the democratic revolution in Egypt. This evening I watched Pres. Mubarak's latest, very disappointing and retrograde ...
  • I've been tweeting
    ... more than blogging these past few days. You can follow me here.
  • MB gets voice into NYT and WaPo
    (I just moved the earlier text of this post over to this one, with a better headline. ~HC)
  • MBs show their impressive communications skill ...
    Well, it's two for two for the Muslim brotherhood in the NYT and WaPo today. On the op-ed page of the WaPo, we have Abdel Moneim Abou el-Fotouh, arguing why Democracy supporters should not fear the Muslim Brotherhood, and on the op-ed page of the NYT we have Essam al-Errian explaining What the M ...

First Truths

  • All Aboard the Money Train
    Writing on the President's new infrastructure plan for C4SS I write: Commenting on the fact that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce ("fighting for your business") is "a big fan of Obama's push for infrastructure investment," Tanya Snyder of Streets Blog had it right when she called such investment a " ...
  • Is Life without the State Always Chaos?
    In an article for the Ludwig von Mises Institute, "the research and educational center of classical liberalism, libertarian political theory, and the Austrian School of economics," I answer, "No":If by "anarchy" we mean simply consensual agreements designed to benefit those they bind, then uncon ...
  • Guest Appearances...
    Catch me on Thinking Liberty tomorrow (2/8/2011) at 8:00 PM Eastern, and Wednesday (2/9/2011) on The Peter Mac Show at 8:00 PM Eastern.
  • The Very Literal "Conquest of Bread"
    In the last decade of the nineteenth century, the anarchist Peter Kropotkin published the book The Conquest of Bread, arguing, in part, that capitalism is a system geared to creating scarcities that allow a ruling elite to use the constant menace of poverty and starvation to exploit workers. In ...
  • Anarchists Are No Bomb-Throwers
    In a statement responding to mail bomb explosions at two embassies in Rome, Italian Interior Minister Roberto Maroni has placed blame on an “international anarchist movement.” And in light of the general assumptions regarding anarchists — those unhinged madmen in black masks — we shouldn’t be ...

Media Co-Op

David Seaton's News Links

  • Ending the First Decade of the 21rst Century
    David Seaton's News LinksSometimes after writing a long, rather ponderous piece like my last one, I like to follow it with a shorter and lighter version of more or less the same thing. This is some sort of a parallel text that grows out of its predecessor. We are at the end of the first decad ...
  • New Year's 2011... singing in Grover Norquist' ...
    Singing in the bathtub Happy once again Watching all my troubles Go swinging down the drain Singing through the soap suds Life is full of hope You can sing with feeling While feeling for the soap. "Singing in the Bathtub" David Seaton's News Links It's New Year's; this is when we are supposed t ...
  • Cairo: the revolution will be televised
    "Liberty Leading the People" Delacroix, Eugene Musée du Louvre, Paris
  • We are all Egyptians now
    The Tahrir Square uprising �has nothing to do with left or right,� said Dina Shehata, a researcher at Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies. �It is about young people rebelling against a regime that has stifled all channels for their upward mobility. They want to shape their own de ...
  • America's future role in the Middle East
    "There are forces at work in any society, and particularly one that is facing these kinds of challenges, that will try to derail or overtake the process to pursue their own specific agenda.... [That is] why I think it is important to support the transition process announced by the Egyptian gove ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

  • Cities Confirm EWG Tap Water Tests
    Contact: EWG Public Affairs 202-667-6982; leeann@ewg.org Washington, DC – Testing by four municipal drinking water suppliers has confirmed the results of a study by the Environmental Working Group that detected widespread contamination by... [[ This is a content summar ...
  • EPA Regulates Fuel Explosive in Tap Water
    Contact: EWG Public Affairs, 202-667-6982; leeann@ewg.org Washington, DC – Perchlorate, a common ingredient in rocket fuel and a potent thyroid toxin, will finally be regulated in drinking water, Environmental Protection Agency... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit ...
  • Congress Confirms Drillers Fracked with Diesel
    Contact: EWG Public Affairs, 202-667-6982; leeann@ewg.org Washington, DC -- The Environmental Working Group (EWG) commends the important investigation of hydraulic fracturing released today (Jan. 31) by U.S. Reps. Henry A. Waxman... [[ This is a content summary only. Vi ...
  • NIH panel links Vitamin A in sunscreen to skin ...
    Contact: EWG Public Affairs: 202.667.6982 leeann@ewg.org A key independent science advisory panel has voted to confirm federal researchers' conclusion that retinyl palmitate, a form of vitamin A found in two-fifths of U.S. sunscreens,... [[ This is a content summary on ...
  • Obama Speech Misfired on Ethanol, Ag Policy
    Contact: EWG Public Affairs, (202) 667-6982 Washington, D.C. – President Barak Obama’s call to “stop subsidizing yesterday’s energy” in his State of the Union speech last night was welcome, but the President missed an opportunity to focus... [[ This is a content summary ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • The Common Drug that Destroys Your Memory
    In this interview, Dr. Duane Graveline, a family doctor with 23 years experience and a former astronaut, discusses the health implications of cholesterol, statin drugs, and coenzyme Q10. � �
  • This is What Really Hides in Taco Bell's 'Beef ...
    If you want to know what Taco Bell actually uses in its "beef" products, here's an ingredients list of their "Taco Meat Filling," courtesy of Gizmodo: "Water, isolated oat product, salt, chili pepper, onion powder, tomato powder, oats (wheat), soy lecithin, sugar, spices, maltodextrin (a poly ...
  • ALERT: Seizures Now Reported in Kids Receivin ...
    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is looking into an uptick in young children having febrile seizures following a flu shot. There have now been 36 confirmed reports of such seizures during the current flu season. All of the seizures took place less than a day after the children were g ...
  • New Warning About the "Healthy" Habit That Can ...
    People are increasingly starting to realize this truth due to successful grassroots campaigns. In yet another victory against this pervasive toxin, on February 8, 2011, the Calgary (Alberta, Canada) city council voted to stop 20 years of water fluoridation by a 10-3 vote.� According to Calgarian ...
  • Why the Media is Usually Wrong about Health In ...
    What if wrong answers in medical research aren't an exception, but actually the rule? Many scholars who scrutinize health research are saying that it isn't just an occasional individual study that has flaws, but the entire framework of medical research itself. Over and over, major pillars of co ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Six indigenous children die of malnutrition in ...
    Wichí girls, Pilcamayo River, Argentina. © Survival International An eighteen-month-old Wichí boy was one of six indigenous children in the past week to die of malnutrition in Argentina’s northern province of Salta. Julián Darío Pérez was re-admitted to hospital having been discharged the ...
  • Indians call on Brazil’s President to halt Bel ...
    Amazon Indians protesting in Brasília against the Belo Monte dam © Amazon Watch Hundreds of people, including over 80 Amazonian Indians, gathered yesterday outside the Brazilian Congress and Presidential Palace to protest at the proposed Belo Monte dam in the Amazon rainforest. A delegat ...
  • Hundreds protest against Ecuador leader’s arre ...
    Pepe Luis Acacho, Shuar leader, Ecuador © Survival Pepe Luis Acacho, an indigenous Shuar leader, has been arrested just two days after he was chosen as leading candidate for the presidency of CONAIE, Ecuador’s main indigenous organization. Acacho was arrested along with two other Shuar men ...
  • India’s policy of ‘integrating’ tribal people ...
    The MP of India's Andaman Islands has called for Jarawa children to be 'weaned' away from the tribe in order to 'drastically mainstream' them. © Salomé/Survival India’s Minister of Tribal Affairs, Kantilal Bhuria, has announced that he supports the ‘integration’ of India’s tribal communitie ...
  • Gillian Anderson narrates unique film of uncon ...
    A still from new aerial footage of an uncontacted Amazon tribe in Brazil © BBC/FUNAI/Survival Movie star Gillian Anderson has launched Survival’s new campaign to protect some of the world’s last uncontacted tribes with an extraordinary new film. The film shows uncontacted Indians on the Br ...

Montreal Gazette

  • The legend and truth of Valentine's Day
    Monday marks our annual celebration of love, but who was St. Valentine?
  • Feeble excuses for lack of French
    Still smarting from criticism over the lack of French at last year's Olympic opening ceremonies, John Furlong, the CEO for the Vancouver games, just can't let go. He has set out his defence in a new book, and a more self-pitying, self-indulgent exercise in trying to justify the indefensi ...
  • Has intolerance become a Quebec value?
    There they sat in the National Assembly, beneath the crucifix above the speaker's chair, 113 members present, and one by one they rose, every last one of them, to register a vote in favour of religious intolerance. It may be that a majority of their constituents approves, and in democrac ...
  • Don't rush into repeal of early-release provis ...
    It was galling to see mega-fraudster Vincent Lacroix walk out of prison after serving just over 15 months of the 13-year sentence he was slapped with after pleading guilty to 200 charges of bilking investors of more than $100 million.
  • Press freedom wins a measured victory
    Globe and Mail reporter Daniel Leblanc had appealed to the Supreme Court a lower-court ruling ordering him to divulge the identity of a source who had provided him with confidential information about an aspect of the federal sponsorship scandal.

Food World Order

  • as oil and food prices rise, arab states buy u ...
    from green prophet: In response to the recent food riots in Algeria and Tunisia, and to rising oil prices (the price/barrel of crude is, once again, nearing $100) some Arab states (including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates) have been buying-up farm land in parts of Africa. In late 201 ...
  • 1/6 binge & purge: food banks, no-bids & drink ...
    millions in US heading to foodbanks for first time* usda certified organic's dirty little secret: neotame, from the makers of aspartame* food supply company, employing fmr head of defense contracting agency, wins $4b no-bid contract* pepsi puts an end to chewing by 'drinkifying' food* ...
  • 2/10 binge & purge: seeders, makers, actions
    secret seeders plant edible veggies for inner-city poor* raw milk cheesemakers fret over possible new rules* military steps in to buy up gulf seafood* high sugar prices stimulate neotame/nutrasweet take up* action: ask hhs to end US water fluoridation program* natural news launche ...
  • 1/27 binge & purge: fake food future
    yo quiero weird ingredients: lawsuit vs taco bell's fake beef* fox covers fake blueberries story uncovered by natural news* the naked truth about kids' food advertising* 'bug mac' & lovely 'grub': food of the future* US makes record soybean sale to china* pick your poison: the ...
  • leaked document: epa knowingly approved bee-ki ...
    from natural news: A Colorado beekeeper recently obtained a leaked document revealing that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) knows a popular crop pesticide is killing off honey bees, but has allowed its continued approval anyway. Despite opposition from its own scientists, EPA offic ...

CrusadeWatch

  • Suggested gift ideas for a missionary departin ...
    source:  Helium.com,  by Katerina Nikolas When Gladys Aylward set off on her train journey from England with the hope of becoming a missionary in China, she would probably have appreciated some nice gifts to send her on her way. A book about the Chinese prison system would have been ...
  • Anti-Missionary Groups Gather in Jerusalem
    source:  Worthy news, September 14, 2010 By George Whitten, Worthy News Jerusalem Bureau Chief JERUSALEM, Israel (Worthy News)-- Anti-Missionaries from across Israel will be meeting today in Jerusalem at the nations largest conference center to discuss the growing problem of  "missi ...
  • Swami to stop Dalit religious conversion
    source:  Times of India, Aug 27, 2010 MYSORE: Seeking to curb religious conversion and encourage Dalit communities to join the mainstream, Pejawar mutt seer Vishwesha Teertha Swami on Friday visited a Dalit colony and promised to champion their cause.  
  • Indian Dalits find no refuge from caste in Chr ...
    source:  BBC News, 13 Sept 2010 By Swaminathan Natarajan, BBC Tamil Till death do us part: Dalits are buried on the other side of the wall in this cemetery Many in India have embraced Christianity to escape the age-old caste oppression of the Hindu social ord ...
  • The Greatest Christian Warmonger of All Time
    source:  Lew Rockwell.com,  February 3, 2011 by Laurence M. Vance I had never heard of Ellis Washington until I saw his recent WorldNetDaily article titled "Nation-building? No, Christian-building" and did some digging. Besides being a weekend commentator for WorldNetDaily, Washingto ...

Whole Truth Coalition

  • COTO Report This Ain’t Oz an Interview w ...
    COTO Report and Megan Kargher are pleased to bring you a special two day interview with Freeman of freemantv, the freeman perspective and the free zone http://www.youtube.com/user/Freemantv… http://thefreemanperspective.blogspot… http://freemantv.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6JLgar45sU
  • An Invitation to Meet Hollie and Anne Greig
    ‘Hollie and Anne would like to thank their many supporters for their continuing hard work and support. Towards that end, they have decided to host an informal function near Berwick-upon-Tweed at the Marshall Meadows Hotel on Sunday the 21st of March from 2 until 5pm. The Marshall Meadows Hotel ...
  • Robert Green Speaking at Truthjuice Llangollen ...
    Wednesday 24th March 2010 at 7pm Reporter Robert Green was arrested in Aberdeen for the crime of seeking justice and an investigation into the case of Down’s Syndrome girl, Hollie Greig, who says she was serially-raped over a decade by an establishment paedophile ring operating in Scotland. Rob ...
  • Mary Rodwell The New Human Vers. 02
  • Robert Green, Hollie and Ann Greig at The &#82 ...
    Robert Green, Hollie and Anne Greig have confirmed they will be appearing at the Child Snatching By The State conference being held on April 10th in Stafford, UK. In recent years, there has been a steady increase in media reports concerning Mothers and Fathers, Grandparents and Families reporti ...

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 ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Council of Europe throws it's toys out of the ...
    There's a delicious report in the Daily Mail, covering the repercussions of the historic vote in the House of Commons of Thursday in which forty years of non-stop treason was put on pause and Members of Parliament finally told European dictators to get stuffed. But guess what? In the words o ...
  • Quote of the Day: The 'stating the bleeding ob ...
    "...is the BBC biased? In my view, ‘bias’ is too blunt a word to describe the subtleties of the ­pervading culture. The better word is a ‘mindset’. At the core of the BBC, in its very DNA, is a way of thinking that is firmly of the Left." - Former BBC News frontman Peter Sissons gets the bad ...
  • British newspapers - and the people - celebrat ...
    The newspapers have managed to come up with a whole heap of jubilation over yesterday's vote in the House of Commons in which our normally spineless and treacherous Members of Parliament, after four decades of betrayal of the nation state, finally said 'enough is enough - get stuffed'. The Da ...
  • Debate on Parliamentary Sovereignty vs. Prison ...
    Just going through the pre-official Hansard record on the debate. Will return to the topic tomorrow when the approved final Hansard comes out, but thought we'd pick out some key debates and points from the record. This is a heavily condensed highlights summary. Do read as much as you are a ...
  • British 'Democracy' in Action: Ken Clarke says ...
    You've got to laugh, really. EU-loving Ken 'Bilderberg' Clarke has pre-empted the vote in the House of Commons tomorrow which will decide what is to be done - if anything - to allow prison inmates to vote at elections. The Daily Telegraph quotes him as telling BBC Radio Four's Today progra ...

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 ...

CenterLine

  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Report: Plea Deal for Gitmo Detainee May Be in the Works The Miami Herald reports that a pre-trial hearing for a Sudanese detainee held at Guantanamo that was scheduled for next week was abruptly canceled late Thursday, with the Pentagon … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Gitmo Detainee al-Qosi Has Sentence Reduced to Two Years The Pentagon announced Wednesday that the sentence of Guantanamo detainee Ibrahim al-Qosi, who pleaded guilty in July to war crimes including providing material support for al Qaeda, had been reduced to … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    House Fails to Pass Patriot Act Extension The U.S. House of Representatives failed to pass a short-term extension of certain provisions of the Patriot Act Tuesday, according to reports. Republicans fell seven votes short of a fast-track extension of three … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Chechen Militant Claims Responsibility for Moscow Airport Attack In a video released late Monday to a site frequented by Chechen Islamists, Chechen rebel leader Doku Umarov claimed responsibility for directing the suicide bombing at Moscowâs Domodedovo Airport that killed 36 … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Lawyer for Deceased Gitmo Detainee Disputes Military’s Portrayal The lawyer for Guantanamo detainee Awal Gul, who died of an apparent heart attack at the prison last week, has lashed out at the militaryâs portrayal of his client, saying Gul had … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • Eben Moglen's Eye Opening Lecture on Freedom i ...
    Eben Moglen is a professor of law and legal history at Columbia University, and is the founder, Director-Counsel and Chairman of Software Freedom Law Center, whose client list includes numerous pro bono clients, such as the Free Software Foundation. His following speech on Internet privacy was a ...
  • Top 12 Useful Opera Extensions You Might Want ...
    The latest Opera 11 release introduced a slew of new features which included the support for third party extensions. There is nothing new about it though, since Firefox had addons support like for ever. �And Opera gradually became the most awesome browser that nobody uses. Let's just hope that t ...
  • XPlanetFX - Incredible Tool for Rendering Real ...
    XPlanetFX is an incredible tool for rendering�high quality�real time earth wallpaper in Ubuntu. XplanetFX comes with a handy GTK interface which makes things a whole lot simpler. I never knew such a tool even existed until one of our readers mentioned us about it. Real Time Earth Wallpaper ...
  • 6 Awesome Conky Configs That Just Works
    Beautiful Conky configurations have always been an integral part of all kinds of�Linux desktop eyecandy. With that in mind, we had featured here before an awesome collection of 13 Conky configs from around the web. Now, its time for a few more. Here are 6 more eyecandy conky configs for your Lin ...
  • Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal - First Impressions
    At the time of writing this article, Ubuntu 11.04 codenamed "Natty Narwhal" is still very much in its nascent stages of development. I really wanted to take it for a spin and write about my first hand impressions on latest build Ubuntu Natty. I installed Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal Alpha 1 in my ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • EGYPT TODAY. EUROPE TOMORROW?
    The achievement of the people of Egypt today has inspired the world. The regime that they overthrew in just eighteen days was corrupt, cruel and determined. Only yesterday evening President Hosni Mubarak appeared on television and defied the millions of people who had gathered in the squares and ...
  • HOSNI MUBARAK RESIGNS AS PRESIDENT
    Egyptian president stands down and hands over power to the Supreme Council for the Armed Forces. Last Modified: 11 Feb 2011 17:05 GMT Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president, has resigned from his post, handing over power to the armed forces. Omar Suleiman, the vice-president, announced in a telev ...
  • GERMANY’S NAVY COMMANDER IMPLICATED IN C ...
    -  CADET WHO DIED ON THE GORCH FOCK TRAINING SHIP HAD TO CLIMB UP RIGGING SEVEN TIMES IN A ROW -  CADETS REPORT THEY WERE EXHAUSTED AND THEIR ARMS WERE SHAKING WHEN THE CADET FELL 27 METRES TO HER DEATH -  THE CADET WAS SUPER FIT AND WEIGHED ONLY 60 KILOS SAYS HER MOTHER -  [...]
  • ALL WAGES, PENSIONS, WELFARE AND TAXES IN EURO ...
    *Germany and France to control all wages, taxes, pensions and welfare benefits across the eurozone under new plan unveiled in Brussels *Economic coordination will result in  a planned economy and ineficiency, economic experts say *People of Europe will have no say in the transfer of control over ...
  • Dr Andrew Wakefield says BMJ has been hijacked ...
     [Personel note: soon after I found out that Baxter had contaminated 72 kilos of vaccine material with the deadly bird flu virus in their biosecurity lab in Austria in 2009, I contacted the BMJ and offered to write a report since I had written for them regularly before.  Knowing how the media op ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Globoctopus Tightens its Grip
    By Les Visible The Egyptians are doing what is necessary to force change. The workers are striking. This is the key action necessary to bring down a government when you lack the guns and the media. No government can endure a protracted shutdown of the economy. It was through the economy and the ...
  • Falling Dominoes – V for Vendetta
  • Live coverage: Mubarak resigns, hands power to ...
    The obstinate Egyptian domino has now fallen… Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has resigned. Vice President Omar Suleiman said in a brief televised statement. His statement in full: “Hosni Mubarak has waived the office of presidency and told the army to run the affairs of the country. “ via LIve ...
  • Eco-bulbs ‘a health hazard for babies an ...
    By David Derbyshire Energy-saving light bulbs were at the centre of a fresh health scare last night after researchers claimed they can release potentially harmful amounts of mercury if broken. Levels of toxic vapour around smashed eco-bulbs were up to 20 times higher than the safe guideline limi ...
  • Mubarak go to Tel Aviv! They like you over the ...
      Mubarak go to Tel Aviv! They like you over there!   via Go to Tel Aviv, They like you over there إرح٠إÙ٠ت٠أبÙب | Flickr – Photo Sharing!.

Veterans Today

  • Dr. Ashraf Ezzat reporting from Egypt; One For ...
    Millions of people can’t be wrong. Millions of people can’t do wrong Millions of people can’t go wrong … when they are joined as one in front of forces of corruption and hypocrisy.
  • Stepped Down: ‘If Omar Suleiman makes gr ...
    Today the power is with the people Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak finally stepped down and handed power to the military, according to the country’s Vice-President Omar Suleiman. It comes after more than two weeks of mass uprisings and protests in the country, which has been accompanied by a wa ...
  • Nations Should Consider Responding Non-Violent ...
    People the world over must find non-violent ways to oppose American military force lest they suffer the fate of the Vietnamese and the Iraqis. In response to the menace of the U.S. military-industrial complex, non-violent soul force needs to be considered in international conflicts just as it wa ...
  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News
    Veterans! Here’s your Top 10 News stories of the day compiled from the latest sources. We encourage you to browse our list so that you can take what you want and keep what you need…..
  • VA Awards $7.5 Million to U.S. Olympic Committ ...
    The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is awarding two grants totaling $7.5 million to the U.S. Olympic Committee to enhance recreation and sporting activities for disabled Veterans and disabled members of the Armed Forces.

electric politics

  • Our Unsecure Border
    There's big trouble brewing along our southern border. It's not just the millions of illegal aliens pouring into the U.S., and it's not just the tens of millions of their Mexican brothers and sisters who'd like to join them, but a question of how to cope with a neighboring, semi-failed narco-st ...
  • A Postcard From Paris
    In the U.S., the financiers want to bleed the country dry. In France, it's the President. (Well, the financiers there, too.) But the big difference is, in France people register their objections with significant political action while in the U.S. people go to Jon Stewart's post-modern mutual ad ...
  • The Anger Index
    You don't have to be a genius, or even highly educated, to realize that Washington is not working. As in, not working, period. We seem to be on a roller coaster to hell, or at least to the third world. And there's no exit. Public exasperation is at record levels — it should be no surprise that ...
  • In Search Of Egypt
    I worry about the fate of violent insurrections (don't kid yourselves, Egyptian mobs are not non-violent). I worry about young, educated demonstrators with an overwrought passion for U.S. government support (it seems inauthentic). I worry that without an Arab political theorist (alive or dead), ...
  • The Story of Our Lives
    We need to pay more attention to the world around us. It's not easy. We're constantly bombarded by interruptions, in large part due to the way we've organized ourselves around technology. But if we can't stay focused we lose the ability to create and follow narrative threads, especially those r ...

PR News

The Story Behind the Story

  • HERE WE GO — IMF to Drop the Dollar as R ...
    Bernanke is smooth.  Smooth as silk.  He says “inflation is low.” What he is NOT saying is the POTENTIAL for HYPERINFLATION is at an all-time high.  Replacing the “dollar” (actually the U.S. “Federal Reserve Note”) with “Special Drawing Rights” (SDR) will, in my opinion, ignite a hyper-inflat ...
  • Nepolitano Doing Her Job?????
    http://edition.cnn.com/2011/US/02/09/terror.threat/ Washington (CNN) — The terrorist threat to the U.S. homeland has continued to “evolve” and may now “be at its most heightened state” since the September 11, 2001, terror attacks, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told members of Cong ...
  • IMPORTANT CORRECTIONS ON PREVIOUS POST!!
    Earlier, I posted a communication I received concerning the January 28 event over Jerusalem.  The post was incorrect, and had been changed from its original form.  Today, I was notified of the alterations in the text, and I have indeed verified these subtle changes.  I do not know exactly HOW th ...
  • Jane Stillwater Tells it Like it Is on $17.5 T ...
    America’s 17.5-trillion-dollar loss: Time to move Tahrir Square to Wall Street? By Jane Stillwater  http://jpstillwater.blogspot.com/2011/02/americas-17.html I’m really really glad to be leaving for Antarctica in a few days — because America’s undemocratic financial system is really really star ...
  • Rothschilds Now Own Control of Weather Central ...
    Please note my underlined text and personal  given in parenthesis in this “Business Wire” article —- Ott NEW YORK – (Business Wire) E.L. Rothschild LLC, a private investment company led by Chairman Sir Evelyn de Rothschild and CEO Lynn Forester de Rothschild, today announced the signing of a de ...

k2p blog

  • Oil price drops as Mubarak steps down – ...
    Oil price dropped to its lowest level in 10 weeks as Mubarak stepped down. The key question for oil price is when it will be the turn of Saudi Arabia.
  • Essence of a Manager
    Essence of a Manager: What makes a “good” manager? This is a book by a manager about managers but it is not just for managers.
  • Rolls Royce profits down 76% as Trent 900 cost ...
    Rolls-Royce has said the mid-air failure of one of its Trent 900 engines on a Qantas superjumbo had led to costs of £56 million ($83 million). So far. My estimate of total cost for the Trent 900 fix remains at about $300 million.
  • Solar Cycle 24 forecast reduced yet again
    Current prediction for the next sunspot cycle maximum gives a smoothed sunspot number maximum of about 58 in July of 2013. We are currently two years into Cycle 24 and the predicted size continues to fall.
  • Very fishy: Dismissed from Cambridge, PhD from ...
    The latest revelations about the chequered career of Jatinder Ahluwalia show that he was dismissed from Cambridge for falsifying data but was later awarded a PhD by Imperial College before his misconduct was discovered at University College London.

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Teen Arrested For Sending Out School Threat Vi ...
    Authorities arrested a Maryland teenager who is charged with making threats of a mass shooting at a high school. He's accused of impersonating another student while sending a threatening message to more than 100 people via Xbox Live. A Union County, New Jersey website says the teen is accused ...
  • Consumerist Friday Flickr Finds
    Here are nine of the best photos that readers added to The Consumerist Flickr Pool this week, picked for neatness and usability in a Consumerist post. (bclinesmith) (ash™) C Merry (8one6) (Wade Morgen) (Great Beyond) (Yo Spiff) (kenfagerdotcom) Our Flickr Pool is the place where Consum ...
  • Frugal 91-Year-Old Woman Was A Secret Milliona ...
    A 91-year-old woman who passed away in Washington state shocked her community by leaving behind millions. She was known for wearing tattered clothing and hanging onto broken furniture, but was sitting on $3 million. Seattle's KOMO News reports the woman left all the money to charity, including ...
  • 10 Thrifty Ways To Deliver Big On Valentine's ...
    Just because the economy is in the dumps doesn't mean your spirits have to be on V-Day. There's lots of great ways to celebrate your relationship without buying into all the myths of conspicuous consumption. At the same time, classic romantic gestures can be nice and sweet, as long as there's m ...
  • Top Posts Of The Week And Open Thread
    Dead Woman's Parents Told To Repay Her Wells Fargo Student Loan Woman Bites Into Razor In Walmart Brand Ice Cream Man Behind $4,800 Snow Removal Defends His Pricing Surveillance Tape Shows Man Who "Forgot" Case Of Soda Is A Thief And A Liar! Top 10 Cities With Highest Fast Food Saturation

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Development Agencies Fail to Take On Corruptio ...
    Canadian Press: Darling of Development World, Stung by Corruption Problems, Says Others in Worse Shape The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria – a $21.7 billion health fund backed by prominent celebrities – is responding to allegations that the fund has lost up to $34 millio ...
  • Feds Subpoena Lawyer in CIA Leak Case: Whistle ...
    St. Louis Beacon: Feds Take Unusual Step of Subpoenaing Sterling's Lawyer The lawyer representing Jeffrey Sterling – the former CIA officer charged with leaking national security secrets to the press – was subpoenaed to appear before a grand jury in order to discuss Sterling’s case. Fed ...
  • Teresa Chambers Case Highlights Limitations of ...
    Last week, the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) ordered the National Park Service to reinstate whistleblower Teresa Chambers as Chief of the U.S. Park Police, as well as to reimburse her for back pay and legal costs. Her case garnered national attention when she was removed by the Bush ...
  • Orange County Register: Which Mystery Senator ...
    By Wikimedia user Markus Schweiss Orange County Register: Which Mystery Senator Killed Whistleblower Bill? This article details how the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA) – a bill that would have strengthened protections for federal employees – was killed by one senator’s d ...
  • Justice Department Leakers of Classified Info. ...
    Three months ago, journalist Michael Isikoff noted the disturbing "Double Standard" in White House Leak Inquiries.  But now it's not just the Executive Branch.  Josh Gerstein of Politico just published an article on how a judge ruled that the Justice Department can keep secret names of its own ...

UK Progressive

  • Welcome Egyptian Brothers and Sisters to Freed ...
    Says it all. After 18-days of sitting here at this desk, watching the courageous men and women of Egypt fight a corrupt and vicious regime, it my humble and profound privilege to report that at 16:04 GMT 18:04 Cairo time, nominal VP Suleiman made the 20 second announcement the world waited to he ...
  • Friday WTF Failing Up Column – Pittsburgh’s Pi ...
    Major League Baseball’s Pittsburgh Pirates set a record for futility last season winning 52 and losing 105 games. Pitcher Ross Ohlendorf won just 1 game and lost 11 while allowing a very high 4.07 runs per game in 21 starts (he also had 2-trips to the disabled list for injury). Ohlendhorf earned ...
  • Vodou’s Acceptance of Gays
    In celebrating Black History Month is year I want our West African ancestral religious contributions to also be lifted up. One of them for me, as a lesbian, is the contribution of Vodun. Why? Because of its spiritual tenets of acceptance of all people of all sexual orientations and gender expres ...
  • Are We Fracking Around With Our Drinking Water ...
    Actor Mark Ruffalo, inadvertently, increased the public’s awareness of hydraulic fracturing when Pennsylvania’s Office of Homeland Security placed him on a terror watch list while he was promoting âGaslandâ a documentary by Josh Fox, on the purported dangers of hydraulic fracturing or âfrackingâ ...
  • Fired-Up Anderson Cooper Calls Out Egypt’s VP ...
    Forget nuance, loose the weasel words. Anderson Cooper had been beaten up by Suleiman’s Secret Police thugs, saw fellow journalists treated like prisoners of war and had had enough. He came out swinging the other night and set a real and direct tone calling the new Administration of Vice Preside ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Garnaut: spend billions! Why? So they don’t sa ...
    Gillard condemns us to the carbon tax plan (commencing 1 July 2012), and the future emissions trading plans (2015), setting Australia up to be the last dumb-patsy-standing as the rest of the world heads the other way and bails out of the carbon facade. Australia must immediately pour billions in ...
  • “Climate committee” is a government advertisin ...
    The Government says it wants a “climate expert” to sell the message to the public, and who do they pick? A small mammal expert whose predictions on the climate are so wrong any normal person would slink off in shame. But not Flannery, the Teflon prophet, reality doesn’t stick to him.  How can i ...
  • The Urban Heat Island effect: Could Africa be ...
    The mystery: We know when we drive through a city that temperatures warm from the fringe to the middle. We know UHI is real, but how much does it affect the official records? Is a 2010 city 0.3 K hotter than a 1960 city? How would we know? Frank Lansner has come up with a [...]
  • Questions real journalists ought to be asking ...
    When “experts” say that cyclones and extreme storms will be more common in a warmer world, and are “linked”, “connected”, “expected”, or “definitely” due to man-made CO2 emissions, journalists could try asking some real questions. … 1. If storms are getting worse thanks to man-made CO2 emissions ...
  • The SOI still rules
    Who would have thought that if you knew the air pressure in Darwin and Tahiti in June, you could figure out that the start of 2011 might be a Stalingrad Winter up North and a cooler wetter summer down south (Not that people in Sydney feel all that cool right now). But the air pressure [...]

ReNew America

  • Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak steps down
    (Fox News) - Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has stepped down and handed control of the country to the military, Vice President Omar Suleiman said Friday in an address on state television...
  • Judge Vinson's bittersweet ObamaCare ruling
    (Monte Kuligowski) - Ruling that the ObamaCare insurance mandate is unconstitutional is like saying that water is wet. Of course it's an unconstitutional abuse of federal power. If the feds can force people to buy health insurance, there is virtually no limit to the reach of federal meddling int ...
  • Cantor: GOP will defund health care law
    (Politico) - House Majority Leader Eric Cantor says the bill to fund the government for the rest of the year will have language to withhold funding from the health care law by the time it passes the House next week...
  • Same-sex marriage issue resurfaces in flurry o ...
    (Associated Press) - Lawmakers in Rhode Island and Maryland are taking up bills to legalize gay marriage, advocates in New York are making a renewed push, and opponents are fighting for constitutional bans in Indiana and Wyoming and to re-impose bans in Iowa and Hampshire...
  • Scientists publish letter blasting global warm ...
    (Newsmax) - Taking a group of fellow scientists to task for alarmism and flawed analysis, a leading group of scientists published an open letter to Congress this week refuting much of the data indicating that the earth is warming...

Truth Offering

  • Truth Offering Podcast with Matt Gordon - Feb. ...
    Good friend of TruthOffering.com and �ber (yeah, I said "�ber!) talented musician, Chris Phenom, is back to chat with Matt Gordon. �This week's topics range from WikiLeaks, peak oil, and Agenda 21, to genetically modified foods, geoengineering (chemtrails), Libertarianism, and the question of th ...
  • Truth Offering Podcast with Matt Gordon - Feb. ...
    Good friend of TruthOffering.com and �ber (yeah, I said "�ber!) talented musician, Chris Phenom, is back to chat with Matt Gordon. �This week's topics range from WikiLeaks, peak oil, and Agenda 21, to genetically modified foods, geoengineering (chemtrails), Libertarianism, and the question of th ...
  • Is There a Gold Bubble? Or Is It Really a Fiat ...
    This question has been plaguing most people for a while; at least, those of us who see the folly of fiat currency. Let's face it, by definition, a fiat currency is only valid as long as people continue to have faith in its value. And as Ben Bernanke, the Fed and our government continue to create ...
  • Poll - Week Ending February 6, 2011
    So what's going on in Egypt? Is it the CIA doing their dirty work? Is it a legitimate uprising? Is it a sign of things to come in the US? What exactly is happening? Further still, should we be getting involved? Well, we don't know what's going on there just yet, but here's what you guys think:
  • Interpreting Ted Rall's "The Anti-American Man ...
    Let me start by saying that I really hate using political terms like "left-wing" and "right-wing." It's lazy, small mindedness to do so, in my opinion. It allows us to summarize a person's entire belief system with a tiny little definition, and I don't like that. No one -- well, not most people ...

2012 Blog

  • Sun-Moon-Earth Magnetic Relationship
    For most people, the moon is a lump of barren rock that provides us with moonlight, and is the cause of tides. Along with that, we know that gravity is less on the moon, allowing astronauts to take floating steps. Few people know that our moon has a magnetic field, just like the Sun and [...] ...
  • Another Icelandic Volcano Threatens
    This time the volcano is called Bárdarbunga, and a scientist has warned that the odds of it erupting are high. If it does, it could be substantially worse for Europe than Eyjafjallajökul which erupted in 2010, creating air traffic chaos: … there was “every reason to worry” as the sustained ear ...
  • Chinese Air Raid Shelters / LHC in 2012 / Mzor ...
    This CNN video lets us know that there are lots of Chinese folk living in old, underground shelters. The question – is this a sign that the Chinese Govt. deems shelters unnecessary, or is it true that they plan on evicting the residents? http://edition.cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2011/02/07/yoon ...
  • Power Grid Disinformation??
    If you have been following 2012 in the broadest sense, you’ll know that: 1) A Coronal Mass Ejection (from the Sun) could wipe out the electrical grid in the USA and potentialy elsewhere. 2) The next solar maximum (and therefore heightened odds of a CME) is in  2012/2013. 3) The recent solar min ...
  • Amazing Scottish Bunker For Sale
    Not too far from where the majority of Scots live, a bunker is now for sale at a very reasonable price of £400,000: The complex at Cultybraggan Camp near Comrie, Perthshire, was completed in 1990 and is believed to be one of the most advanced structures of its kind. It was built to house 150 [. ...

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 ...

One News Page

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • Reagan’s Secret Legacy
    Peter Chamberlin (USA) On this, the one-hundredth birthday of Ronald Reagan, the Reagan worshippers are coming out of the woodwork. It seems that the self-appointed leaders of the “Tempest in the Teapot” party (or whatever they call themselves), even Obama himself, are trying to ride Reagan’s fa ...
  • The United States Must Take Russia’s Interests ...
    Andrei Pravov (Russia) A recent interview with the American political scientist Ariel Cohen produced a feeling more of déjà vu than anything else. We have seen these arguments before. In the early 1990s, Russian newspapers loved to publish the opinions of numerous Western politicians and politic ...
  • Egypt Leaving an Epoch Behind
    Dmitry Sedov (Russia) The Anglo-Saxon globalization ran into a major roadblock: at the moment the Egyptian regime which the West has propped up for decades is on the verge of collapse. Even if Mubarak’s nominee Omar Suleiman manages to cling on, the global centers of power will have to face a di ...
  • Tragedy at Domodedovo Airport and Bias of the ...
    Stanislav Ivanov (Russia) The new terrorist attack in Russia on January 24, 2011 justifiably angered Russians and the entire world community. About 200 people suffered (35 of whom were killed) an attack by a suicide bomber in the passenger arrival lounge at Domodedovo airport. Hardly anyone coul ...
  • Egypt in Fire: Statehood Wisdom Put to Test
    Yuri Tyssovski (Russia) The tide of popular protests in Egypt shows no signs of subsiding. Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in Cairo, Alexandria, Asyut, Port Said, and Suez to demand the immediate resignation of the current Egyptian leader H. Mubarak dubbed Egypt’s last Pharaoh by ...

BlogHer

  • A Month of Movies: Poor Marky Mark, No Best Ac ...
    Every day during February 2011, we'll be talking movie reviews, celebrities, Oscar nominations, awards shows, DVDs you need to rent + more. Sign up to get A Month of Movies in your inbox each week in February -- and see all the movies in the series. **************************** The Fighter ...
  • BlogHer Network Member News, Feb 11: Jennifer ...
    Jennifer Byde Myers of Thinking Person's Guide to Autism, Can I Sit With You? and Into the Woods, Living Deliberately, had a post, Will My Autistic Son and I Look Like That? featured on the home page of Salon.com. Sarina from Trinigourmet was mentioned in an article in last Sunday's New York ...
  • What's In Your Chicken? Canadian Investigation ...
    released a report that indicates that the chickens that Canadians are buying at their local supermarkets are very probably chock-full of not-so-delicious superbugs. Is it too alarmist of me to say that this freaking horrifies me? We actually don't really eat that much chicken in our household, ...
  • Dear Body: Just When I Was Beginning To Like Y ...
    Life is a funny thing. Life is a funny thing, Mama. Look at any random magazine cover, and the headlines all scream �Like yourself better!� and �Be awesome in 10 days or less!� Self help and self improvement books threaten to burst the shelves at any book store from the weight of all the titles. ...
  • When You're a Planner and Your Friend Isn't
    You can follow Rachel's awkward and hilarious escapades in her search for a new best friend, and�be a part of the�conversation about friendship, on her blog, MWF Seeking BFF.

Health Freedom Alliance

  • To End World Hunger, End Factory Farms: Worldw ...
    The struggle to feed the world has created frustration with its failure, especially for the ones who are hungry and especially because we live in a time where food production is at its highest. Government ...
  • Soy Based Infant Formula May Cause Infertility
    Soy has penetrated the food supply in a bad way. It can be found in nearly three quarters of processed foods used as a filler for meats, in vegetable oil, mac and cheese, salad dressings ...
  • Bioengineered Salmon: California Bill Seeks Cl ...
    The FDA announced it was beginning the approval process for bio-engineered salmon in August last year. The agency determined the fish are safe for consumption based on research done by the very company selling it, ...
  • Sick Gulf Residents Beg Officials For Relief
    Gulf residents are fighting for their lives. There are no jobs, nothing to fish and no support for those exposed to receive the medical care that is so desperately needed. All the while, tarballs continue to ...
  • USDA Fully Deregulates GMO Alfalfa:Open Pollin ...
    Organic farmers have suffered a loss as the USDA has announced that they are allowing Monsanto’s Roundup Ready GM alfalfa to be planted without restrictions.  The news comes as a blow to the organic industry ...

Live News Wire

  • Editorial: As The Country Mourned, Tucson Need ...
    Those who criticized the reaction of the crowd at Wednesday night's memorial have it ingrained that a perfect memorial is one with candles, flowers and tears. The citizens of Tucson and the American people have mourned for five days. Wednesday's event was not a time to mourn some more. It was a ...
  • Police Made Visits To Loughner Home Before Sho ...
    The Tucson, Arizona family home of 22-year-old Jared Loughner had been visited by authorities before the shooting of a congresswoman and 18 others last Saturday, new information by the New York Times revealed Wednesday. It's unclear what the visits were about or what prompted the call to author ...
  • Criminal Charges Filed Against Congresswoman’s ...
    Newly-released court documents offer a glimpse into the motive behind Jared Loughner's attempted assassination of Tucson Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords on Saturday. Recovered from Loughner's home was a letter addressed to Jared Loughner from Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Giffords mailed a ...
  • “Unbelievable Tragedy:” Congresswoman Shot By ...
    At least fifteen gunshots rang out shortly after 10:10am Arizona Time Saturday, bullets fatally striking a Federal Judge and injuring a prominent Congresswoman. Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) of Arizona's Eighth District was wounded at a public meet-and-greet event outside a grocery s ...
  • Queensland Facing Flood Of “Biblical” Proporti ...
    The worst floods in 50 years to hit Queensland, Australia are being described as nothing short of Biblical. More than 1,000 people have been evacuated, though officials say as the floodwaters get worse, as many as 4,000 residents could be asked to vacate their homes and businesses later this we ...

Coal Tattoo

  • OSMRE Director Joe Pizarchik speaks
    While folks in Kentucky launched a sit-in at their governor’s office to protest mountaintop removal (see here for updates), the nation’s top strip-mine regulator — OSMRE Director Joe Pizarchik — finally ended his silence today, holding a telephone news conference about his agency’s work on a new ...
  • Powder River Basin not a ‘coal producing ...
    Now, I’m certainly no expert on western coal or on the process the government uses to lease all of that publicly owned coal in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin to the handful of companies that operate huge surface mines there. But this announcement by the group WildEarth Guardians sure caught my ey ...
  • Why won’t OSMRE Director Joe Pizarchik t ...
    When we last left our friends at the U.S. Office of Surface Mining, they were struggling to avoid talking about the leaked version of the Environmental Impact Statement on their changes to the stream “buffer zone” rule. OSMRE Director Joe Pizarchik did issue a strange “Dear editors and publisher ...
  • Rep. McKinley gets it wrong on the Spruce Mine
    I’m still watching the House Commerce and Energy Committee hearing on efforts to block action on global warming, and finally they got around to giving Rep. David McKinley, R-W.Va., a chance to ask questions. We’ve seen before that Rep. McKinley doesn’t have a very firm grasp on the state of the ...
  • Rep. Rahall joins in GOP attacks on EPA
    There I was this morning, watching the Republican leadership on the House Energy and Commerce Committee go after EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson for trying to enforce the Clean Air Act … Now, West Virginia Rep. Nick Rahall is a Democrat, and he’s not even on the Energy and Commerce Committee. ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Andrei Arlovski “This is Sparta” Kick
    via youtube.com Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsEuler’s DiskThe GiftJan-Ove Waldner ServesThe Merits of ReadingAzureus Rising
  • SourceKit – Text Editor Inside Chrome | Chrome ...
    via chrome.google.com Super sexy…but I hate the idea of not being able to use a chosen editor all the time, i.e. when not connected. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsYouTube Downloader | Chrome Web StoreGoogleâs Awesomely Useful And Obvious âHighlight To Searchâ ...
  • Google Eager to Find Vulnerabilities in Chrome ...
    Last year, after two full days of hacking, only one web browser emerged from Pwn2Own unscathed: Google Chrome. IE8, Safari 4, Firefox 3, and even Safari on iOS actually all fell after just one day, but no one could seem to penetrate Chrome. In fact, despite a $10,000 bounty to crack their “sandb ...
  • Facebook HTTP Headers: No P3P Aqui
    I’ve been doing a lot of server optimization lately, and thus have been checking out what HTTP stacks the major sites are running. I found Facebook’s HTTP headers to be interesting for a different reason (see screenshot above). So they actually take the time and resources to send out a no-p3p he ...
  • Married Republican Gets Sacked for Flirting Wi ...
    Rep. Chris Lee of New York abruptly resigned Wednesday evening, hours after a gossip Web site reported that the married Republican had allegedly sent flirtatious e-mail messages and a shirtless photo of himself to a woman he met online. via washingtonpost.com The surprising part here isn’t that ...

Fitwatch

  • Legal Advice Drop-In for Student/Anti-Cuts Arr ...
    From LDMG: Legal Defence & Monitoring Group (LDMG) and Offmarket Infoshop in Hackney, London will now be offering a regular legal drop-in session for all those arrested on the Student Demonstrations or Anti-Cuts Actions. We will be able to offer: * Entirely free, confidential legal advice coming ...
  • Manchester demo – police use s50 powers ...
    We have received this account from an eye-witness in Manchester. Police have abused ASBO legislation to obtain the personal details of anti-cuts demonstrators. Manchester police ended a day of orderly rallies and breakout groups of protesters by abusing legislation on anti-social behaviour in or ...
  • Protesters sprayed as Hugh Orde advocates extr ...
    Three days after head of ACPO, Hugh Orde, promised the use of more extreme tactics on protesters, ten people have been cs/pepper sprayed at a London UKUncut protest outside Boots, with three needing hospital treatment. During the protest on Oxford Street, an activist tried to post a leaflet thro ...
  • Statement by activist security collective on L ...
    The following is a statement from the ActivistSecurity.org collective following discussions with individuals involved in the expose of 'Lynn Watson' as an undercover police infiltrator. The original of this, including photographs, can be found at their website http://www.activistsecurity.org/lyn ...
  • Schnews reposted
    In the interests of completeness, we reprint (with permission!) the Schnews article that broke the news about cop/govt trolling on activist websites.... INTER-NETCU AS GOVERNMENT AGENCY CAUGHT INFILTRATING ACTIVIST MEDIA OUTLET “No - stuff that - SHUT the place: Let’s not all stand around like l ...

Worldwide 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 ...

reference frame

  • Google celebrates the light bulb
    The main Google web page shows the following animated GIF image: Thomas Alva Edison was born 164 years ago. Congratulations to his fans! He had his main lab in Menlo Park, New Jersey - a place that all people who have commuted from Rutgers to New York (e.g. your humble correspond ...
  • In denial: climate on the couch
    Last night at 9 p.m., the BBC Radio 4 broadcast another 30-minute program about the psychology of deniers: In denial: climate on the couch (audio, HTML)I happen to be able to listen to it from the Czech Republic so it should work for you, too. They reveal that the climate activists are am ...
  • The Benefactor Factor
    The Big Bang Theory is always a lot of intelligent fun but the newest episode 04x15, The Benefactor Factor, was also addressing a serious topic, namely the funding of science. The president of the university met the boys in the cafeteria and he told them about a fundraising party. Shel ...
  • Cella Energy hydrogen beads: gasoline for $1.5 ...
    Cella Energy claims to be close to the construction of a new fuel that would be compatible with your car: it could literally replace ordinary gasoline, they claim. Giz Mag, Google NewsHowever, this new fuel would be made out of micron-sized nanotechnological beads - hydrides stored in sma ...
  • Mystery of Mona Lisa's intelligent smile unmas ...
    AFP and many others have just announced the newly discovered answer to the old and well-known question: Where does the mysterious intelligence residing in Mona Lisa's smile come from?Thousands of women have been painted but none of them comes so many standard deviation from the average. W ...

No Frakking Consensus

  • Bill McKibben’s Bad Example
    Those seemingly nice people brimming with such concern for the planet are actually profoundly intolerant.
  • Michael Crichton’s Legacy
    The late Michael Crichton drew our attention to the startling lack of rigour in climate science when compared to drug testing.
  • John Holdren’s IPCC Myths
    President Obama's science advisor says the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change bases its conclusions on source material that has been vetted in excruciating detail. According to IPCC insiders, this is bunk.
  • Is Everything Really Getting Worse?
    David Suzuki says the planet is in "far worse shape" today than 50 years ago. But a growing library of exhaustively researched books claim the opposite.
  • Climategate 2.0
    I regard a recently-released 700-page document containing candid IPCC insider comments as Climategate 2.0. This gold mine confirms some of our worst fears.

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • Kraft Foods to Raise 2011 Prices
    On the heels of Kraft Foods having raised prices around the world during the 4th quarter (Wall Street Journal: Kraft Product Squeezed…), the Financial Times quotes chief executive Irene Rosenfeld, and what she called âsignificant input cost inflation and persistent consumer weakness in many mark ...
  • U.S. Ambassador Recall, Prelude to IMF Announc ...
    A report from CNNMoney.com states, “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 financial system.” There has been wide speculation ...
  • Use a Covered Tray to Germinate Seed
    It’s that time of year to start the process of seed germination for zones that will allow planting in late March or early April. Time to plan your strategy for what you will plant and where you will plant them, and then to start the process to germinate the seeds indoors. How to germinate seeds ...
  • Oil Tanker Pirated while heading to U.S.
    For the second time in two days, an oil tanker, this time a super tanker, has been pirated, this time in the vast ocean waters of the Arabian Sea (Indian Ocean), about 200 miles off the coast of Oman. The one-thousand foot long ‘Irene SL’ loaded with 2 million barrels of oil, was headed to [...]
  • Marine Landing Force, Ismailia Egypt
    Based on the fact that the USS Kearsarge Expeditionary Strike Group has sped it’s way into the Suez canal, and is now waiting in Suez Canal’s ‘Great Bitter Lake’ nearby Ismailia Egypt, is telling in that it’s specific function is to carry Marine’s and equipment designed for beach landing and lan ...

Fast Company

  • Pandora, Innovative Internet Radio Station, Fi ...
    Internet radio company Pandora today filed a registration statement for its initial public offering and hope to earn a reported $100 million.Rumors have been bubbling for months over an IPO for the 80-million strong streaming music service. Asked recently, founder and Chief Strategy Officer Tim ...
  • Times Square: Jack Dorsey's Mobile Payment Co. ...
    Hot mobile payment startup Square is shooting for the moon after recently closing a $27 million funding round. As the service enters its second year, co-founder Jack Dorsey tweeted out the above photo of four gargantuan posters dominating the Times Square skyline at 49th and Broadway. Such ...
  • OpenLeaks-WikiLeaks Smackdown Reveals Theft an ...
    One of the founders of OpenLeaks, himself a former WikiLeaks member, is facing accusations that he sabotaged Julian Assange's whistle-blower site and "stole" thousands of documents.The chap in question is Daniel Domscheit-Berg, who just happens to have a WikiLeaks-related book launching this wee ...
  • A Loaf, a Jug, a Solar Panel: Green Energy Now ...
    No need to head for the hardware store to pick up a DIY solar panel kit. Instead, just take a trip to the local supermarket--if you live in the U.K., that is, where Sainsbury's has teamed up with British Gas to offer solar panels and other energy-related items on store shelves starting this we ...
  • Baked In: Fashion Site Polyvore Taps an Army o ...
    Mark Zuckerberg says social dynamics of the kind Facebook pioneered will one day be a core part of every industry. In the first installment of our new series, we take a look at some companies that are "baking in" social right from the start.About the "Baked In" series: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerbe ...

Jadaliyya

  • Egypt's Revolution 2.0: The Facebook Factor
    The call for a Day of Rage on January 25, 2011 that ignited the Egyptian revolution originated from a Facebook page. Many have since asked: Is this a �Facebook Revolution?� �It is high time to put this question to rest and insist that political and social movements belong to people and n ...
  • Another Take on Suleiman's Mubarak's Resignati ...
    On February 11th, Vice President Omar Suleiman gave Mubarak's resignation speech, a speech that we had to see over and over, and over, again. Here it is, with a more accurate translation. (This video is dedicated to all the brave protesters who faced Suleiman and Mubarak's thugs with th ...
  • Celebrations Shake Saudi Capital
    Tonight, We Are All Egyptian  For the first time in decades, Arabs the world over will unite in celebration, not in protest against this imperial war or the next. We will dwell in victory, not in the shadows of yesteryearâs defeats. We will pontificate the future and its many possibilit ...
  • The Egyptian Revolution: First Impressions fro ...
    Al-Qahira, The City Victorious, February 11, 2011 Never has a revolution that seemed so lacking in prospects gathered momentum so quickly and so unexpectedly. The Egyptian Revolution, starting on January 25, lacked leadership and possessed little organization; its defining events, on Fr ...
  • Imperial Feminism, Islamophobia, and the Egypt ...
    ". . . Iâm making this video to give you one simply message: We want to go down to Tahrir Square on January 25. If we still have honor and want to live with dignity on this land, we have to go down on January 25. Weâll go down and demand our rights, our fundamental human rights...The ent ...

mediagazer

  • Yesha Callahan Outed Chris Lee, the Craigslist ...
    Joe Coscarelli / Runnin' Scared: Yesha Callahan Outed Chris Lee, the Craigslist Congressman: No Gawker Source Is Safe  —  ​When Gawker took down New York GOP representative Christopher Lee of the 26th district, they did so based on the emails of an anonymous woman who made a Craigslist posting ...
  • Effort to Provide TV Ratings by Brand Moves Ah ...
    Stuart Elliott / Media Decoder: Effort to Provide TV Ratings by Brand Moves Ahead  —  For decades, advertisers and agencies involved in advertising on television — meaning, practically all of Madison Avenue — have been seeking something their counterparts overseas have long had: brand-specific ...
  • Television Business Scribe Lacey Rose Joins Th ...
    Hollywood Reporter: Television Business Scribe Lacey Rose Joins The Hollywood Reporter … The Hollywood Reporter is pleased to announce that Lacey Rose is joining the staff as a senior writer for the expanding television department.  —  Rose was a staff writer at Forbes magazine, where she most ...
  • Why small devices are big news for journalists ...
    Marc Settle / BBC College of Journalism Blog: Why small devices are big news for journalists  —  The great and the good in the world of mobile devices are heading to Barcelona for their annual shindig, the Mobile World Congress.  Many are likely to be in good cheer following the news this week ...
  • Sports Illustrated to Stop Selling Print-Only ...
    Nat Ives / AdAge: Sports Illustrated to Stop Selling Print-Only Subscriptions  —  $48 Package Bundling in Android Apps Means End of $39 Print-Only Offer  —  NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — When Sports Illustrated unveiled its new $48 “All Access” subscription package bundling print, web and app edition ...

Chemtrail News

  • EPA Officials MEET with Chemtrail Activ ...
    Discussion about EPA Officials MEET with Chemtrail Activists! PIN THIS! at the GodlikeProductions Conspiracy Forum. Our topics include Conspiracy Theory, ...www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1358107/pg1
  • Re Chemtrails: Reader Ted responds...
    been watching chemtrails in colorado for about 13 yrs, on sunday jan 30th right befor a big weather fron heading east, wife and i were driving from ...www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=195875
  • Clear with a chance of... "chem"trai ...
    That they are in fact, "chemtrails". Chemical or biological agents that are being deliberately sprayed in the skies above and upon an unsuspecting ...
  • Chemtrails Make Mainstream Media : Poli ...
    News about the request for chemtrail pictures spread like wildfire around the internet after it was initially reported by The Intel Hub Radio and then ...www.disclose.tv/.../chemtrails-make-mainstream-media-t4293...
  • ABC, CBS, CNN, FOX, NBC All Want Your Chemt ...
    Instructions for everyone on this planet, who is aware of chemtrails, to flood the U.S. media regarding the heinous crime being committed against humanity.Conscious Life News - http://consciouslifenews.com/

World News - Top Stories

  • 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 ...

no frakking consensus

  • Bill McKibben’s Bad Example
    Those seemingly nice people brimming with such concern for the planet are actually profoundly intolerant.
  • Michael Crichton’s Legacy
    The late Michael Crichton drew our attention to the startling lack of rigour in climate science when compared to drug testing.
  • John Holdren’s IPCC Myths
    President Obama's science advisor says the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change bases its conclusions on source material that has been vetted in excruciating detail. According to IPCC insiders, this is bunk.
  • Is Everything Really Getting Worse?
    David Suzuki says the planet is in "far worse shape" today than 50 years ago. But a growing library of exhaustively researched books claim the opposite.
  • Climategate 2.0
    I regard a recently-released 700-page document containing candid IPCC insider comments as Climategate 2.0. This gold mine confirms some of our worst fears.

Pointman's

  • Moderating, trolls, soup ladles and Ethics.
    If youâre running a blog, one of the chores that has to be done on an ongoing basis is moderating comments. I operate the common system where a contributorâs first comment is held for moderation. If I approve it, then they can comment freely thereafter. If I donât, then theyâre effectively shut ...
  • Immoderate moderation at the DT
    My friend Locusts has just put up a piece at his place about the decline of debate at the Daily Telegraph to “just above the level of public toilet graffiti.” I left it shortly after Disqus was rushed into service and a bizarre censorship regime imposed, leaving the comment below. Sadly, occasio ...
  • Why Climategate was not a computer hack.
    Why Climategate was not a computer hack. In the year since the Climategate material became public, I’ve read many articles on the effect the publication has had on the AGW debate. When it is referred to as a hack in them, I usually don’t bother reading any further. If the writer of the article i ...
  • The MSM and Climate Alarmism
    The supine coverage by the MSM (Main Stream Media) of all things anti-alarmist is completely in tune with their complete failure to cover the Climategate scandal. Itâs in line with what the late journalist Walter Cronkite observed (I believe it was him). Of all the kinds of censorship, the mos ...
  • Why Multiculturalism failed.
    Multiculturalism has not only failed âutterlyâ, it has created a climate in which Racism can flourish, which is the complete reverse of what it was supposed to engender. The central and fatal flaw at the heart of it was a misapprehension of what a culture actually is. It is not a certain style o ...

Journalists' Toolkit

  • New tutorial: Windows Live Movie Maker
    As an aid to a journalism training session I agreed to give, I created a short PowerPoint that is aimed at journalism students. Windows Live Movie Maker Tutorial Windows Live Movie Maker is quite different from its predecessor — Windows Movie Maker (not “live”). It is less versatile in several w ...
  • Convert WMA files with Switch
    Switch Sound File Converter is a free program from NCH Software. You can download it here (Mac or Windows). I have been using this program and recommending it widely for about two years. It’s easy to use, and it’s especially useful for converting WMA format files to WAV so that we can edit them ...
  • Use Kuler, Photoshop to make a quick palette
    What’s the quickest way to whip up a beautiful color palette for a new website? 1. Start with Kuler, a free online tool from Adobe. 2. Register and sign in so you can download a color swatch for your chosen palette(s). Not signed in? Then you can’t download. (Pay attention to WHERE you save the ...
  • New resource: Page Design Basics
    This resource — Page Design Basics — provides a very simple overview of how to lay out a Web page. Students new to using CSS often make a mess of it because they do not grasp the utility of DIVs. By introducing these four regions of a Web page, an instructor can help students understand [...]
  • iMovie 09 tutorials for journalism students
    For journalism students just starting to learn video, I created two compact, illustrated handouts in fall 2010: Basic iMovie 09 Tutorial — PDF, 9 pages, 1 MB More iMovie 09 Tips (Part 2) — PDF, 6 pages, 552 KB The reason I made two handouts instead of one: In the first video editing class, I [.. ...

    IPS - Inter Press Services

    • BURMA: China Stands Behind New President
      China is throwing its weight behind Burma's predicted political transformation from military rule to a supposed civilian government, deepening its strong economic ties with the resource-rich Southeast Asian nation some have described as Beijing's "client state".
    • EGYPT: Joy Erupts, Now for Change
      The reaction across Egypt was explosive. The anger that had been simmering for decades and boiled over during 18 consecutive days of protests, was transformed by a single uttered sentence into pure jubilation.
    • EGYPT-U.S.: The Brotherhood Bogeyman
      While the many and far-reaching implications of Friday's transfer of power to what is apparently a military junta in Egypt have yet to be absorbed here, the role of the Muslim Brotherhood in any transition to a more democratic regime is certain to figure high on the political agenda.
    • Gap Widens Between U.S. and Arab World
      Arab public opinion will become increasingly difficult for the United States to favourably influence in light of recent regional unrest, according to experts speaking at a conference organised by the Brookings Institute on Wednesday.
    • ARGENTINA: Progress in the Fight for Gender Id ...
      "In my family, they always saw me as a girl, but at school they called me by my boy's name, which is why I dropped out," Paula Sosa, a transvestite who recently managed to change her name on her identity document, told IPS.

    Scoop - NZ

    • 1773 French wine fetches record price
      An amateur wine group paid a record 57,000 euros ($77,000) Saturday for a 237-year-old bottle of wine from France's eastern Jura region at a local wine festival auction.
    • Afghanistan: echoes of Vietnam | openDemocracy
      The operational resemblance of aspects of the Afghan insurgency to the guerrilla campaigns against French and American forces in Vietnam is ominous for Washington.
    • Fisk: Hypocrisy exposed by wind of change
      There is nothing like an Arab revolution to show up the hypocrisy of your friends. Especially if that revolution is one of civility and humanism and powered by an overwhelming demand for the kind of democracy that we enjoy in Europe and America. The pussyfooting nonsense uttered by Obama and La ...
    • 'Win a wife' competition appals - national | ...
      A radio competition offering listeners the chance to "win a wife" has appalled a former MP who is calling for it to be pulled.
    • OpEd: The Crisis In Egypt Is Not Over ..
      Leave Or Stay, The Egyptian Crisis Will Only Get Deeper With No Quick Fix Likely A Focus On The Political Battle Conceals An Economic Disaster

    Independent - London

    Rogue Government.com

    Innovation Canada

    • What’s love got to do with it?
      Toni Tennille promised “Love Will Keep Us Together,” and while it may be true that she and Daryl “the Captain” Dragon have stayed together for 40 years, it’s unlikely love was the only glue. Lasting relationships require commitment, satisfaction and trust, says Lorne Campbell, a social psycholog ...
    • Tackling the cancer conundrum
      Carol Cass has seen cancer from all sides. The internationally renowned cancer researcher has spent four decades pioneering the study of special proteins called nucleoside transporters that help cancer-fighting drugs work their way inside cancer cells. She has also been an administrator at resea ...
    • Picturing Alzheimer’s
      The numbers tell a startling story.   According to a 2009 study by the Alzheimer Society of Canada, 500,000 Canadians are living with Alzheimer’s disease or a related dementia. Of those, more than 71,000 are under 65, and approximately 50,000 are under 60. And 72 percent are women. An estimated ...
    • Quitting time
      Despite the best intentions of a 34-year-old National Non-Smoking Week, which starts on Jan. 16, one of the most disheartening things for anyone trying to quit smoking is the extremely high likelihood that his or her efforts will end in failure. “Even with proper treatment, around 70 to 80 perce ...
    • Discoveries of the deep
      Oceans cover more than 70 percent of the planet. Hidden beneath them is an entire world we know very little about, a world of undersea mountain ranges and ocean basins that play host to hundreds of thousands of underwater species. In the late 1990s, marine scientists expressed their concern with ...

    Signs of the times

    • Mideast nations brace for Egypt spillover
      After Mubarak's departure, anti-government rallies in the works in nearby countries From the oil-rich Gulf states in the east to Morocco in the west, regimes throughout the Middle East could not help but worry they could see upheavals similar to Egypt's. If it could happen in 18 days in Egypt, ...
    • Celebrations erupt around Mideast over Egypt
      Mideast reactions to President Mubarak's resignation are pouring in Dubai - Palestinians in Gaza let off fireworks, Tunisians drove through streets blaring car horns, and Lebanese fired guns in the air as people across the Mideast celebrated the resignation of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak ...
    • LED Lights Billed as Eco-Friendly Contain Toxi ...
      UC researchers tested holiday bulbs, traffic lights and car beams Those light-emitting diodes marketed as safe, environmentally preferable alternatives to traditional lightbulbs actually contain lead, arsenic and a dozen other potentially hazardous substances, according to newly published resea ...
    • Porno Filmed on Public Miami Beach Island in B ...
      The Henry Flagler Memorial on Monument Island recently made what is likely its first ever cameo in an adult movie, and city officials are not amused. When Miami-Dade voters agreed to spend $1 million to restore the Flagler Memorial on Monument Island, many hoped beautifying of the county's mos ...
    • Man Dies in Hospital Parking Lot - Waiting F ...
      An injured man who had just crashed his car in a hospital parking lot was forced to wait for an ambulance because of hospital procedure, Portland police said. Investigators said 61-year-old Birgilio Marin-Fuentes died afterwards from cardiac complications. An officer who had been investigatin ...

    The Galloping Beaver

    • "Bless Me, Father" - There's an App for That . ...
      But Bennie and his Jerks don't like it. Via the New York Daily News: Officials in Rome have declared that an app available on Apple's iPhones, iPads and the iPod touch cannot serve as a confessional. "One cannot speak in any way of confessing via iPhone," Federico Lombardi, the Vatican's spok ...
    • Gender gyre . . .
      THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT has a fine book review by Carol Tavris, "The new neurosexism", a review of "DELUSIONS OF GENDER", by Cordelia Fine. Apparently, a lot of recent literature on the mental differences between men and women is rather suspect. Tavris points out the book's importance:Tod ...
    • Kiribati and Alberta: dancing with the devil
      I happened across this item this afternoon on the UofA website. Kiribati is a small Pacific island state existentially threatened by rising sea levels due to climate change. Alberta is the tar sands, and thus a brutal climate change contributor. An island nation threatened by rising sea levels ...
    • Then there's hockey . . .
      ACCORDING TO BILL MAHER, football is socialist, baseball is not:Because football is built on an economic model of fairness and opportunity, and baseball is built on a model where the rich almost always win and the poor usually have no chance. The World Series is like Real Housewives of Beverly H ...
    • We have ways of making you talk
      The Toronto Star reports that the officer involved here has pleaded guilty to uttering threats. How about armed assault? Abuse of authority? People swept up by the Toronto Police at the G8/G20 were charged with more serious crimes for a whole lot less. If soap bubbles can be considered assaul ...

    Media Matters for America

    • Right-Wing Media Distort CBO To Claim Health C ...
      Misrepresenting testimony from the CBO director, conservative media claim the health care reform law will eliminate 800,000 jobs. In fact, CBO said the law will "reduc[e] the amount of labor that workers choose to supply, and as health expert Paul Van De Water stated, "If people voluntarily cho ...
    • Beck Hosts William Boykin, Who Likened War On ...
      On his Fox News show, Glenn Beck gave a platform to retired Lt. Gen. William G. "Jerry" Boykin to claim that an Islamic republic would emerge in Egypt. Boykin has been censured by the Pentagon for comparing U.S. counterterrorism efforts to a holy war, and he has a history of fearmongering about ...
    • Breitbart's Pigford Report: ...
      In December, Andrew Breitbart published a report, "The Pigford Shakedown," that purported to reveal the "massive fraud" and "widespread corruption" supposedly tainting a settlement intended to compensate to black farmers who had faced discrimination from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Brei ...
    • Right-Wing Media Begin Closing Ranks Against G ...
      Following GOProud's invitation to participate in the annual conservative conference CPAC, many social conservatives objected, with several groups--including the Heritage Foundation and the Media Research Center--vowing to boycott the event, in part because of gay conservative group's inclusion. ...
    • Fox's Bush Rehab Tour: Rumsfeld Edition
      Fox News has trumpeted former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's assertion that "our intelligence community and the entire community concluded that [Saddam Hussein] had" weapons of mass destruction prior to the Iraq war. In fact, numerous reports indicate that contradictory intelligence wa ...

    Global Research.ca

    TPM Cafe

    • Obama, The Plan, And The Politics
      A final (preemptive) word about my forthcoming article in Sunday's New York Times Magazine, appealing to President Obama to present an American plan based on the Olmert-Abbas talks. Obama knows very well that when Abbas finally met Netanyahu last year, the Palestinian president proposed that ...
    • Revolutionary Moment
      Amidst all the attention on Egypt's inspiring assertion of the democratic yearning, a little noticed article in the Guardian outlined the stark forces that may bring revolutionary change to autocratic regimes around the world. The US fears that Saudi Arabia, the world's largest crude oil expor ...
    • Beyond the Huffington Post Windfall: A New Way ...
      AOL's buyout of the Huffington Post has prompted fierce debate among progressives. I don't have much to add to this debate. It's great that the outstanding reporters who are on the paid staff may reach an even larger audience as a result of this merger. It would also be good if some of this wind ...
    • Why the Republican Attack on "Job-Killing Regu ...
      Republicans aim to end all "job-killing regulations" -- especially those that, according to House Speaker John Boehner, are "strangling" business with detailed requirements over health, safety, the environment, corporate governance and finance. Here's another instance of where the White House ...
    • Needed in Egypt: A Potluck, Not a Hosted Dinn ...
      Egyptians are still in the streets. There is violence in some parts of the country. The demands for Mubarak to go are still echoing through Tahrir Square. And Vice President Soleiman seems to be scrambling to find the point of equilibrium between the ego of his former (and current) master, ...

    TruthOut

    • President Obama's Remarks on the Egyptian Revo ...
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    • WikiLeaks Springs a Leak
      Articles about WikiLeaks are thick on the ground, but we’ve heard little from inside the citadel. Now for the first time we’re getting an insider’s story. “Inside WikiLeaks” is a fun book, full of anecdotes about the website’s wacky set of fellow travelers, and it suggests that the hacking under ...
    • History Suggests No Doomsday Will Occur if Ira ...
      Few issues in international affairs are so unquestioningly accepted as the notion that a nuclear-armed Iran would wreak havoc on the world. But history does not support the inevitability of such a doomsday scenario. Some countries have actually been persuaded to give up their nuclear weapons. ...
    • An Egyptian Voice of Democracy Says, Tell Old ...
      "The culture of democracy is still far away." That's what Egypt's Vice President Omar Suleiman told a group of the country's newspaper editors on Tuesday. It was just two days before President Hosni Mubarak reconfirmed that he had no intention of resigning until September. But on Friday, Mubara ...
    • Mubarak Resigns, Setting Off Wild Celebrations ...
      Cairo - Bowing to 18 days of a popular revolt that showed no sign of slowing down, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak resigned Friday and handed over power to the military, an ignominious end to his 30 years of U.S.-backed authoritarian rule. The streets of Cairo erupted with celebratory gunfire, ...

    Planetsave

    • Energy Myths, Misconceptions, and Lies [INFOGR ...
      Here’s another interesting infographic. Enjoy. Credit: WellHome Related Infographics: The Internet and the Environment Little Things Can Add Up: Energy Savings of âLow-Hanging Fruitâ Understanding Cap & Trade
    • Melting Permafrost in Siberia, from an Interna ...
      Here’s a great video from Greenpeace on this important topic. As it notes: “the melting permafrost not only affects the way of life of the indigenous nomadic Nenets people, but also adds burden on climate change due to massive release of methane and carbon dioxide due to decomposion in the defro ...
    • Exposed: Why the GOP Wants to Eliminate Clean ...
      Whether we can believe this see-through-elephant-trunk footage or not, the possibility that elephants have a triple fitration system within their trunks has to have some credence. Otherwise, why on earth would leading Republicans try to make it easier for big polluters to further pollute the air ...
    • Prosperity Without Growth: A New Path for a Su ...
      As the world’s economies continue to dig themselves out of the “Great Recession of ’08“, some are now looking to a rising stock market, a sputtering of new jobs, and an uptick in corporate profits (much of it from the same corporations that triggered the collapse in the first place) as signs of ...
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      Some of the top green living, activism, and clean energy stories from the past day or so: Activism Greenpeace Gives Facebook “Unfriend Coal” Deadline Greenpeace has been pushing Facebook to “unfriend coal” and go the route of clean energy for awhile. Facebook, for the most part, hasn’t listened. ...

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    Axis of Logic

    • Revolution Without Facebook: 3000 Strikes by E ...
      Last night (Thursday 2/10/11) I attended a large gathering of activists who came together in Arlington Center, Massachusetts, to listen to MIT Professor Emeritus Noam Chomsky and Institute for Policy Studies fellow Phyllis Bennis discuss how to reinvigorate and expand the Peace Movement. Both sp ...
    • A La Nina Like No Other Or Just A Big One - Wo ...
      1. What is La Nina and why does it matter?   La Nina, "little girl" in Spanish, is the cool part of a naturally-occurring climate cycle called the El Nino/Southern Oscillation. El Nino is the warm part at the other end of that cycle. These shifts are governed, like much...
    • Environmentalists holding 'slumber party' outs ...
      FRANKFORT — Bags of groceries packed with bread, sandwich meat and granola bars lined the interior of Gov. Steve Beshear's outer office on Friday night as a group of high-profile environmentalists hunkered down for a weekend sit-in at the Capitol. The group, which includes noted Kentucky au ...
    • Swiss freeze assets as Mubarak steps down - Wo ...
      The Swiss cabinet has decided to block any funds that may be held in Switzerland by former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak who stepped down on Friday. It has published an ordinance asking Swiss banks to search for any assets belonging to Mubarak and his family and to freeze them, a...
    • Bread and Butter Revolution: Egypt’s Workers M ...
      11:13am EST: Updated to reflect the emerging news of Mubarak's resignation. The revolution is by no means over. More to come—stay tuned! They weren't the first to make headlines in Tahrir Square, but Egypt's labor movement made an impressive debut this week in cities around the country. Worke ...

    They Gave Us a Republic

    • Nightowl Newswrap
      A happy democratic ending is unlikely, but we'll think about that tomorrow. Today, we bask in People Power. Hosni Mubarak has stepped down as president of Egypt, after weeks of protest in Cairo and other cities The news was greeted with a huge outburst of joy and celebration by thousands in Cair ...
    • Another "Where Did They Find This Sonofabitch? ...
      I've never been to Wisconsin. �Don't know much about the place really, except that it's pretty and green, cheese heads seem to be really cool people and they apparently have a great socialist (publicly owned) football team. That's why it comes as a complete surprise to find out that the rank and ...
    • Racing to an Austerity Catastrophe
      I've had Al Jazeera English livestreaming in the background for days now, but never have I experienced such a disconnect as I did upon hearing the announcement that Mubarak has indeed left Cairo and the jubiliant cheers of more than a million Egyptians at the same time I was reading that Preside ...
    • Day One of the New Egypt; Al Jazeera Has It Li ...
      It's 1 a.m. in Cairo, five seven hours since Mubarak resigned, and the party is still going strong. 12:35am Palestinians in Gaza are waving Egyptian flags and chant 'Long live Egypt' in a rally of thousands to celebrate Mubarak's resignation. 12:00am Mubarak is gone - missed it? Go back to our ...
    • "Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody w ...
      The good folks at Pew were once again good enough to provide the scientific proof to back up empirically that which I had asserted anecdotally: Everyone wants to cut spending, but no one realizes that they, too, are someone else's "undeserving other" -- until the budget axe falls on that which ...

    Care 2

    • PLEASE TAKE ACTION!! Save NPR and PBS (Again) ...
      The Republicans just released their budget proposal, and it zeroes out funding for both NPR and PBS--the worst proposal in more than a decade.We need to tell Republicans that cutting off funding was unacceptable last time they were in charge, and it's unaSubmitted by Cal Mendelsohn to US Politic ...
    • Conway man arrested after collars cut into dog ...
      Earlier this week, officers found the yellow lab with several collars embedded in its neck at Crenshaw's home on Evelyn Drive outside Conway. The dog's injuries were potentially deadly because of where they were on its body. Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Co ...
    • Luxury Vacation for Pigs in the Caribbean
      These amazing pigs swim every day in the crystal clear waters of the Bahamas - on their own tiny island where they live in luxury. They show off their piggy-paddle to visitors who flock to their beach to see the extraordinary site of wild pigs making a spSubmitted by black ice to Animals �|� �N ...
    • Top 10 Adrenaline Destinations
      Forget Disneyland! We look at 10 places that will get your heart racing. Make this summer one you�ll never forget by overcoming your fears, throwing your nerves aside, and swallowing that lump in your throat � these are the top 10 adrenaline destinations.Submitted by Bojan R. to Green Lifestyle ...
    • EGYPT: Arab Women Lead the Charge
      Women have visibly been in the forefront in demonstrations at Tahrir Square and other places � in a society where women traditionally have taken a back seat. Many volunteered to do body searches of other women taking part in the protestsSubmitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Society & Culture �|� �Note ...

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    No Quarter

    • What The Week Has Brought **OPEN THREAD**
      It has been quite a week, has it not? Egypt and the non-stop media frenzy over what is going on there (and just what stories have we been missing as a result?). There have been debates over the Budget in the US between the new Tea Party members in the House and the old-school leadership. [...]
    • Gone in 30 Instructed Seconds
        V.P. Omar Suleiman Speaks.   “In the name of Mohammed, the most gracious, the most merciful, my fellow citizens…at these hard circumstances… our country is experiencing…President Hosni Mohammed Mubarak has decided to waive the office of the presidency of the Republic, and instructed the Suprem ...
    • Obama to Egyptians: “Listen to the people, jus ...
      (Reverend Amy put me up to that snarky title. She’s a bad influence. And, no, Obama did not say that. Are you kidding?) Okay. So I just checked WhiteHouse.gov which only has yesterday’s Obama speech up. Obama’s latest speech, delivered @ 45-60 minutes ago, is not up. [RRRA here â WHY was Obamaâs ...
    • BREAKING NEWS: Mubarak Hands Over Egypt To The ...
      Mubarak has resigned, handing power over to the military: 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 ...
    • Is Our Director Of Intelligence Really This Cl ...
      As you may have heard by now, the Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, announced at a House Intelligence Committee hearing Thursday that the Muslim Brotherhood wasn’t all that, they were basically a secular group who hadn’t a violent bone in their body. Okay, maybe not THAT bad, but ...

    Environmental Graffiti

    • Cyclone Yasi Seen from Space
      Cyclone Yasi, a cyclone bigger than the UK, recently struck the coast of Queensland, Australia. These satellite images show the terrifying beauty of the destruction read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the artic ...
    • 10 Most Endangered Forests on Earth
      In 2011's International year of the forest, less than 11% of forest remains in some hotspots. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
    • When Naked Bodies Become Natural Landscapes
      Allan Teger photographs what seem like natural landscapes, until you look closer and see what they really are... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
    • How Big Is Your Clothing Footprint?
      Do you know what a clothing footprint is and why it is very important for a green environment? read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
    • How the Human Body Clock Dates Back Millions o ...
      A breakthrough in science: a 24-hour clock has been found in human cells, giving important insights into various bodily functions. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

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    • #Egypt! And now... Algeria? Battle of Algiers ...
      Stunning turns in Egypt - you have to hand it to the Egyptians, they filtered & neutralized all those underhanded thug provocateur tricks in a snap. Then unloaded their dictator - Old School Civilization like a boss ;-D Update - they just posted an arrest warrant in Pakistan for ex-Prime Minist ...
    • House Tea Party momentarily blocks "PATRIOT" A ...
      It's not all bad news out there. The slip-by-night extension of expiring Patriot Act measures got knocked down mainly by liberal Dems and some Tea Party Republicans (Bachmann of course sided with the corporatist centrist squad behind all of this)... Bi-Partisan Alliance Beats Back PATRIOT Act Sn ...
    • From the Internet Archives: My 2003 Interview ...
      Here's a nice find. In October 2003 I interviewed Rashid Khalidi for the Mac Weekly. It wound up on the website and eventually got deleted around 2006, but it was still in the Internet Archives Wayback Machine at http://web.archive.org/web/20060612202355/http://www.macalester.edu/week... Overall ...
    • 9/11 FBI warning from key informant of "Kamika ...
      Caught an interesting item on Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs Post about a team of FBI agents who had key clues into the 9/11 conspiracy, serious and specific prior warnings from an Iranian informant and ex-SAVAK officer who was himself a major handler with a deep network of informants around the P ...
    • Rock the Casbah
      Been watching somewhat in awe, a bit suspicious of the usual suspects & color revolution schemes, but with warmest regards to Egyptians fighting for their rights & giving their lives on the streets. One song says it all: Rock the Casbah This vid is probably the winner though the music is schma ...

    Daily Censored

    • Governor Walker in Milwaukee: Bring out the Na ...
      picture of Italian fascist Benito Mussolini, darling of the ruling classes of the western world Gov. Scott Walker of Milwaukee, Wisconsin says he is confident state workers will continue to show up for work and do their jobs, despite their potential disappointment in his emergency budget proposa ...
    • Free and fair elections for Detroit Federation ...
      Picture of current ‘president’ of DFT, Keith Johnson The Detroit Federation of Teachers membership meeting voted 84 – 49 to hold a new DFT Officers election, at its meeting last night.  This is huge victory for the defense of public education in Detroit!  Please attend our meeting... [ ...
    • Forces Behind the Egyptian Revolution
      By Michael Collins (Washington, DC)  Two critical forces behind the Egyptian Revolution are missing from the front pages, or any pages, of the corporate media.. They are the critical role of Egypt’s union movement and the universal desire of all people to live in peace, freedom and dignity. .. ...
    • The gap between the top 1% and everyone else h ...
      A More “Equal” Inequality:  The falling tide. By KOBI ABAYOMI Kobi Abayomi is an Asst. Professor in ISYE-Statistics at Georgia Tech To see more graphs depicting the race to the bottom go to:... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...
    • Universal Rights – A Response to Soraya Ulrich
      Michael Collins I wrote Revolutions Know No Color to make a few basic points. The first was that when people are pushed against the wall and their government aligns with big business and foreign governments leaving them with nothing, the people are more than capable of recognizing this and prote ...

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    Equality Trust

    • The Wrong Cure - alternatives to the cuts
      The False Economy website is an excellent and still-developing resource exploring the alternatives to cuts. False Economy includes: a discussion of why the cuts are not progressive details of campaign actions a comprehensive further reading list ... and this short film [youtube:ynUCYo ...
    • Why we need a Fairness Test of the cuts
      A group of charities, including the Equality Trust, Child Poverty Action Group, Barnardo's and the TUC are asking the coalition government to commit to a Fairness Test on any tax rises or spending cuts they introduce. Full details...
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    • VAT rise would hit the poorest
      Bill Wilson's VAT motion to the Scottish Parliament reads as follows: That the Parliament notes the warning issued by Save the Children in Scotland that raising VAT to 20% could mean a £31 a week bill for the poorest families in Scotland and that the poorest 10% of the population currently s ...

    PDA AMERICA

    • Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Mon ...
      Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Money Out of Politics By Carmen Yarrusso There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.â–Henry David Thoreau Clearly, our government ...
    • IOT: Healthcare for All Jan Call
      Call – Healthcare for All IOT Date – Jan 18, 2011 Agenda: 1. IntroductionsâDr. Bill Honigman, PDA Healthcare for All IOT coordinator and California State Coordinator 2. National Single Payer MovementâKatie Robbins, Healthcare-NOW! 3. States Single Payer Movement–Chuck Pennacchio, Healthcare ...
    • PDA Weekly Field Report 1/7/2011 – 1/18/ ...
      Little Victories! Field Site: onenationpda.org California ADEM elections: Congratulations to all our PDA California friends and allies who completed a sweep up and down at the state at the recent CA Democratic Party Delegate elections. This will put the ...
    • War is a Crime: Join In For Justice
      WarIsACrime.org JOIN IN FOR JUSTICE! 1/17/11 Washington, D.C., and Quantico, Va. Protest of FBI Raids and Bradley Manning Imprisonment http://www.defendingdissent.org/action/Events.htm 1/18/11 Washington, D.C. Panel with Rep. Rush Holt, Emily Berman from the Brennan Center for Justice, Sha ...
    • An American Suicide Terrorist
      William John Cox The shooter of Congresswoman Gifford acted as a domestic suicide terrorist on the political “battleground” of American politics. His YouTube postings and “goodby” phone messages are ominously reminiscent of the traditional farewell videos ...

    Marler Blog

    • PCA Salmonella victims urge criminal action ag ...
      Family members of six PCA victims spoke today at a press conference in Washington D.C. on a day that most things will be pushed aside because of the dramatic change ongoing in Egypt. Even if the news might relegate the PCA victims to the back pages of the news, or late night T.V., or some obscu ...
    • What do Lady Gaga, food poisoning and the Whit ...
      Not much really - except that as I was working on my speech (while staring out my window from my hotel across Lafayette Square from the White House) for the GAP Conference in the morning – “Friday Conference Analyzes Revolutionary Food Whistleblower Protections, I saw in the news that Lady Gaga ...
    • Salmonella Victims to Call for Criminal Charge ...
      On February 11th, at the American University Washington College of Law, Salmonella victims and their families will be sharing their stories and calling for criminal charges to be brought against former Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) CEO Stewart Parnell.  The press conference will be held c ...
    • Mexico warns about U.S. grown Salmonella-taint ...
      Yes, the headline is against the conventional wisdom that imports are poisoning us – especially those from south of the border. However, in two decades of foodborne illness litigation, the vast majority of outbreaks in the U.S. were caused by U.S. grown, raised or manufactured products. It is ...
    • FDA 483 Inspection - Tiny Greens and Jimmy Joh ...
      During the FDA investigation at Tiny Greens, the FDA made the following findings (tinygreens483.pdf): • growing sprouts in "soil from the organic material decomposed outside" without using any monitored "kill step" on the material (kind of eliminates the ruckus raised by Tiny Greens' owner Bill ...

    AutoblogGreen

    • Report: $33M in EV tax credits went to buy unq ...
      Filed under: Car Buying, Government/Legal Is a bicycle an electric vehicle? How about a Hummer H3? These are some of the things that Americans claimed were hybrids, alternative-powered or plug-in electric vehicles on their tax forms, reports USA Today. What's more, the false claimants managed ...
    • AutoblogGreen for 02.04.11
      Top Gear host wants electric vehicles powered by bumper car technology Watch out! Italian designers envision amazing Solar Wind bridge It looks like the future, that's for sure. Agility Saietta electric m ...
    • First full month sales show Chevy Volt leads w ...
      Filed under: Hybrid, Sedan, Hatchback, Chevrolet, GM, Nissan, Electric So, how are the first two mainstream plug-in vehicles in the U.S. selling? Both the Chevrolet Volt and the Nissan Leaf had their first deliveries in December, which means January of 2011 was the first full month of sales f ...
    • AutoblogGreen for 02.03.11
      Meet (again) the first three-plug-in vehicle household Felix Kramer, of all people, certainly deserves this. All-electric Myers Motors Duo on target for April 2011 deliveries Can a small electric trike find a home in the Volt/Leaf era ...
    • AutoblogGreen for 02.02.11
      One million plug-in vehicles by 2015 How reasonable is Obama's goal? Newt Gingrich shows strong support for ethanol subsidies And the knives come out at the Wall Street Journal. Analyst: It's time for a T ...

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    Camera Obscura

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    • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Hayne ...
      http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
    • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
      http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
    • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
      http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
    • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
      http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...

    Democracy Now!

    • The Egyptian Revolution: A Democracy Now! Spec ...
      As news of Hosni Mubarak’s 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 victory," reports Kouddous. "This will be a day that no one will ...
    • AUDIO: Thousands March from Tahrir Square to P ...
      Democracy Now! correspondent Anjali Kamat reports about 5,000 people filled with "a mixture of rage and sadness" marched from Tahrir Square to the Egyptian state television building after Pres. Hosni Mubarak’s address. "The state television building is emblematic of the power of the state aga ...
    • AUDIO: "Until Mubarak Leaves They Are Determin ...
      Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak refused to step down tonight, despite early reports that he would announce his resignation. Democracy Now! senior producer Sharif Abdel Kouddous reports from Tahrir Square. "The demand that Mubarak step down is the glue," he says.
    • Coming Up on Friday: Two-Hour Democracy Now! S ...
      Tune in on Friday for a special two-hour broadcast on the uprising in Egypt. We will be streaming the program live from 8 to 10 a.m. EST. Please encourage your local radio and tv station to air both hours of the special. Watch/listen/read all of Democracy Now’s coverage from Egypt here
    • REPORT FROM TAHRIR: Sharif Abdel Kouddous, "Ev ...
      Democracy Now! senior producer Sharif Abdel Kouddous is in Tahrir Square amid thousands of people expecting an address from President Hosni Mubarak in less than half an hour, at 9:00 p.m. local time. Renée Feltz and Amy Goodman reached him on his cell phone for an update. "If he steps down, ...

    Digg Green

    • 11 Thomas Edison Predictions That Came Tr ...
      Celebrated Friday with a Google doodle, Thomas Edison was the "nation's inventor philosopher." See how his predictions hold up in 2011.
    • Does the Government Believe in UFOs? A Re ...
      The UFO Reporting Center is known worldwide among UFO enthusiasts, as it is among law-enforcement agencies and 911 emergency dispatch centers. A one-man operation, Davenport, 63, who never married nor had children, works almost every day, "from wake-up to lights-out," and fully funds the ho ...
    • Fossil Suggests Lucy Had The First Modern ...
      A new fossil find from Ethiopia suggests that the first full-time walkers with the first modern foot weren't human at all, they were Australopithecus — aka Lucy. But scientists caution that just because Lucy and her kind could walk doesn't prove they gave up life in the trees permanently. ...
    • The 8 Most Romantic Creatures In The Anim ...
      While humans are not biologically programmed to be monogamous (only 3% of all mammals are), our social structure is largely based around romantic partnerships. To celebrate our own romantic attachments, lets reflect on some of nature’s most loving couples.
    • Invisible Beam to Break Up Prison Fights ...
      The device delivers burn-like sensations but does not damage nerves or skin.

    Invisible Opportunity

    • Globoctopus Tightens its Grip
      By Les Visible The Egyptians are doing what is necessary to force change. The workers are striking. This is the key action necessary to bring down a government when you lack the guns and the media. No government can endure a protracted shutdown of the economy. It was through the economy and the ...
    • Falling Dominoes – V for Vendetta
    • Live coverage: Mubarak resigns, hands power to ...
      The obstinate Egyptian domino has now fallen… Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has resigned. Vice President Omar Suleiman said in a brief televised statement. His statement in full: “Hosni Mubarak has waived the office of presidency and told the army to run the affairs of the country. “ via LIve ...
    • Eco-bulbs ‘a health hazard for babies an ...
      By David Derbyshire Energy-saving light bulbs were at the centre of a fresh health scare last night after researchers claimed they can release potentially harmful amounts of mercury if broken. Levels of toxic vapour around smashed eco-bulbs were up to 20 times higher than the safe guideline limi ...
    • Mubarak go to Tel Aviv! They like you over the ...
        Mubarak go to Tel Aviv! They like you over there!   via Go to Tel Aviv, They like you over there إرح٠إÙ٠ت٠أبÙب | Flickr – Photo Sharing!.

    Global Insights

    • Less Than a Week Away
      We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware.George Green will be a featured speaker.September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CAClick here for Tickets & Reservations 
    • The Georgia Guidestones
      On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
    • The Creation
      THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to pu ...
    • The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...
      In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
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      Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to fo ...

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    Twilight Earth

    • Exposed: Why the GOP wants to eliminate Clean ...
      Whether we can believe this see-through-elephant-trunk footage or not, the possibility that elephants have a triple fitration system within their trunks has to have some credence. Otherwise, why on earth would leading Republicans try to make it easier for big polluters to further pollute the air ...
    • Apples may lose trees [cartoon]
      The rest of Joe Mohr’s cartoons, and cartoon updates and other green news on Twitter @GreenCartoons. Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets BeatâMay Lose Beets (cartoon) Eco-Snobbery Sucks: The Cartoon Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets BeatâMay Lose Beets (cartoon) Ec ...
    • Mixed message from USDA chief Vilsack [cartoon ...
      US Ag Secretary, Tom Vilsack tells us to eat more natural foods a few days after fully deregulating GMO alfalfa…I’m confused. Confused as well? Read the links below and try to figure out this mess. From The New York Times: Governmentâs Dietary Advice: Eat Less From Elephant Journal: The USDA cav ...
    • BREAKING: Deleted Monsanto cartoon panel, leak ...
      Unlike the former Monsanto cartoon on this subject, this version shows a bit more clearly who surrendered the future of organic agriculture to Monsanto. There’s been a lot of talk from both sides (organic and biotech) about compromise. That is misleading and almost laughable (read: cryable). Dea ...
    • Official Release of “Zeitgeist: Moving Forward ...
      An important part of thinking about building a sustainable future for ourselves is considering that some of the premises and paradigms which brought us to this point need to be discarded. Maybe even most of them. But because we don’t talk about that, we can’t get out of the trap we find ourselve ...

    Inhabitat

    • Aria Headphones Make Sweet Music With the Help ...
      Have your earbuds fallen to disrepair from rocking out too much? If you’re looking for a new set of headphones, then check out these sweet melody makers from Ashcraft Design. Dubbed ‘Aria’, these headphones are wrapped in wood recycled from acoustic guitars, and feature satin-spun finished ear c ...
    • All Thrifty States: A Website That Explores Wh ...
      I’m a (laid off) journalist and lover of the planet Earth with a new project called All Thrifty States. The goal is to go to all 50 states and document what America throws away in hopes of bringing more attention to our consumerism and the need to live a more second-hand lifestyle. It’s been und ...
    • Clever Bottle Packaging Lets You “Milk an Udde ...
      We’re huge fans of using soy milk as an alternative to dairy products, often procured from industrial farms boasting the unethical treatment of animals. So when we saw this clever packaging design from Soy Mamelle we couldn’t help but chuckle. Designed by Russian creative agency Kian, each ...
    • WikiLeaks Reveal That Saudi Arabia Is Overstat ...
      Our dependency on oil may just have been given another blow. According to recently released cables from WikiLeaks, the U.S. believes that Saudi Arabia is overstating its oil reserves by more than 300 billion barrels, or nearly 40 percent. A staggering number that is sure to bring into focus our ...
    • New Video of National Geographic Touring the S ...
      The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is like a modern day Noah’s Ark – storing seeds rather than animals, but incredibly important in case of global catastrophe. Designed to withstand a nuclear explosion or even rising sea levels, the underground vault protects over 1.5 million distinct seed samples o ...

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    • 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 ...
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    PakAlert

    • American Warships Heading to Egypt
      Connecticut National Guard Detachment 2, Company I, 185th Aviation Regiment of Groton has mobilized and will deploy to the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt. The unit will provide an on-demand aviation asset to the Multinational Force and Observers commander to support its mission of supervising the securi ...
    • Egypt – Creative Destruction For A ‘Greater Mi ...
      Fast on the heels of the regime change in Tunisia came a popular-based protest movement launched on January 25 against the entrenched order of Egypt's Hosni Mubarak. Contrary to the carefully-cultivated impression that the Obama Administration is trying to retain the present regime of Mubarak, W ...
    • Muslim Brotherhood- Illuminati Tools
      In his book "Hostage to Khomeini," Robert Dreyfuss gave a pretty accurate rendering of the MB in 1980, which as I have witnessed, is common knowledge in high government, diplomatic and Intelligence circles: "The real Muslim Brotherhood is not the fanatical sheikh with his equally fanatical fo ...
    • VIDEO: THE EURO & U.S. DOLLAR COLLAPSE & DEVAL ...
      Trunews discuss the coming devaluation of the U.S. Dollar and the collapse of the Euro currency marked for an April 2011 time frame.This was confirmed by Pastor Lindsey Williams , the dollar is going to crash one hundred per cent it cannot sustain itself and it is going to collapse , the Euro wi ...
    • NATO Surrenders Europe To U.S. Global Missile ...
      On January 27 the North Atlantic Treaty Organization took the most decisive step yet toward the implementation of the decades-old project first proposed by the Ronald Reagan administration for a Strategic Defense Initiative, popularly known as Star Wars.

    Andy Worthington

    • As Mubarak Resigns, Ex-Guantánamo Prisoner Mam ...
      Less than 24 hours since he delivered a pompous, reality-defying speech, insisting that he would stay in power until elections in September, Hosni Mubarak, Egypt’s dictator for 30 years, has stepped down, providing the first major victory for the people’s revolution in Egypt, now in its 18th day ...
    • Amnesty Calls Treatment of Shaker Aamer, the L ...
      Amnesty International UK has just issued a press release deploring the “mockery of justice” in the case of Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in Guantánamo, who has been held for nine years without charge or trial. The press release has been issued to mark the ninth aniversary of Shaker Aa ...
    • Protestors in Egypt Remain Angry and Determine ...
      Contrary to all expectations, Hosni Mubarak, the 82-year old Egyptian dictator, failed to stand down on Thursday evening, when he finally addressed the Egyptian people on State TV. In a speech that began with fulsome praise for the youthful protestors and a claim that he understood their concern ...
    • In Egypt, Protests Undimmed, as Mubarak Prepar ...
      For the last week, while I was in Poland, on a tour of the film “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (which I co-directed with Polly Nash), I was, sadly, unable to keep up with the news from Egypt, although I was deeply reassured to learn, through the occasional Internet search, that the ...
    • A Cry for Help from Guantánamo: Adnan Latif As ...
      In the litany of injustices that still permeate the “War on Terror” prison at Guantánamo — including President Obama’s decision to hold 47 men indefinitely without charge or trial, the resistance by lawmakers to proposals to free prisoners cleared for release by the President’s Guantánamo Revi ...

    Environment _ National Geographic

    drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

    • HT Gives "Thumbs Up" to NM School Budget
      Here are a few snippets from the 2/4/11 editorial in The Housatonic Times. "...all those who assemble the proposed education budget went into the current process with new resolve to craft a package that met all the needs and would also be politically palatable. Better communication was establi ...
    • G! E! T! S! (bud) GETS! (bud) GETS! (bud) GE ...
      (Oh, was that too soon, Jets fans? Suck it up. Love, The Patriots Nation.) Forget football, it’s budget season again! And even though we paid all those pesky teachers last year, they want money again this year. So, of course, it will be controversial. There are several things in play this y ...
    • A Real Public Option In Connecticut?
      And so it would seem.The other day for an open thread at ePluribus Media I commented on "the intended public option that should be Sustinet in Connecticut," and it would seem that is to be the case if the Sustinet Health Partnership Board of Directors get their way according to the report they h ...
    • Dan Malloy scores first in Danbury
      Dan Malloy jumping off of the bench of the Danbury Whalers shortly after scoring the first goal in Whalers' history. [update] I have an interview from after the game at TK's. Let me say, in advance, that he was a bit reluctunt to give it since I am a political blogger... But as a hockey fan I ...
    • Still All That I Want
      Something that gets lost in the news about the unemployed is the fact that much of what used to be the backbone of this nation's economic prowess, the middle class, is now the working poor: Imagine That: Working Poor On The Rise After the Republicans crashed to economy in 2008 one thing became ...

    SPL Center

    • Dearborn, Mich., Police Arrest Man in Apparent ...
      A 63-year-old Southern California man who reportedly has “a long history of antigovernment activities” was arrested in a car laden with explosives outside one of the nation’s largest mosques, the authorities said Sunday. More than 500 members of the Dearborn, Mich., mosque were attending a funer ...
    • Buyer Beware: Veterans Today and its Anti-Isra ...
      Veterans Today (VT) is a website that bills itself as a “military veterans and foreign affairs journal.” And, indeed, many of its contributors are military veterans or veterans’ advocates from across the political spectrum. VT also offers some information about veterans’ benefits (lifted from th ...
    • Bias-Crimes Cop Accuses Suffolk County Executi ...
      Over the last several years, Suffolk County, N.Y., has been a hotbed of anti-Latino hate, a place that became infamous for the brutal murder of an Ecuadorian immigrant by a gang of white teens who were out for a night of âbeaner hopping.â County Executive Steve Levy (right) has taken his share o ...
    • Investigators: White Power Guerrilla Manual Be ...
      Two men charged with attempting to kill police officers in Hemet, Calif., used what prosecutors are calling a white power “guerrilla warfare manual” to guide a nine-month campaign of terror and violence against the police department, its buildings and vehicles. The anonymously written “White Res ...
    • Conspiracy Trial Opens for Pennsylvania Cops i ...
      WILKES-BARRE, Pa. â The federal trial of three police officers accused of trying to cover up the murder of an undocumented Mexican immigrant â a hate crime that drew the nationâs attention to violence against Hispanics two years ago â opened this week with a focus on the small Northeast Pennsylv ...

    change: org.

    • Hey Seattle Pacific University: You Can't Hide ...
      Administrators at Seattle Pacific University apparently have a message for LGBT students and straight allies on campus: we're going to define you out of existence. At least that's how some students on campus see it, in the wake of a decision by administrators refusing to recognize a group on cam ...
    • Celebrities Take a Stand Against Fur During Fa ...
      PETA used to crash parties at Fashion Week, showing up to sling buckets of red paint at fur wearers or to sabotage runway shows. But during this year's New York Fashion Week, PETA hosted a party of their own. The Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week kicked off two days ago, and compassionate fashion was ...
    • California's Foul Response to Its Arsenic-Lace ...
      For more than five years, prisoners at Kern Valley State Prison have been forced to drink water that the state of California knows is laced with arsenic, a known carcinogen. And for more than five years, officials have chosen not to do anything about it. They have, however, talked about how the ...
    • Victory! Wicked Campers Removes Cruel Bumper S ...
      Last week, animal activists around the world learned about the "Kangaroos, run the buggers down!" bumper stickers, complete with blood-spatter design, on the Wicked Campers fleet of rental campervans. Compassionate Australians and tourists alike were horrified by the cruel message. The company c ...
    • Utah State Sen. Pat Jones Doesn't Want Gay Cou ...
      When we hear stories about politicians casting decidedly anti-gay votes, and going on record saying that same-sex couples ought not to have full and equal rights when it comes to raising and/or adopting children, it's easy to conjure up images of Rick Santorum, Michele Bachmann, Mike Huckabee, o ...

    Common Dreams -News

    • 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 ...

    Lifehacker

    • Basics of Photoshop: Designing a Website [Vide ...
      For our last lesson, we're going to take a look at how to use Photoshop to layout and mock up a web design from scratch. More��
    • Sparrow Is the Desktop Gmail Client You've Alw ...
      Mac OS X: Gmail has a lot of great productivity features, but sadly, most desktop clients don't play nicely with it. Minimalist email client Sparrow changes all that, including some of Gmail's best features for a native, desktop Gmail exp ...
    • Remains of the Day: What's Complicated About a ...
      Policy-makers discuss 'Do Not Track' proposals for the web, Bing aims to make your searches more personal, and MapQuest adds walking and public transit directions. More��
    • Groovylists Imports Your iTunes Playlists Into ...
      Streaming music web sites like Grooveshark are great when you're away from home, but they don't have any of your playlists. Free service Groovylists imports your iTunes, Spotify, and Last.fm playlists so you can listen to them on other com ...
    • Best VPN Service? [Hive Five Call For Contende ...
      With the recent mess over in Egypt, the need for a secure, reliable and safe internet connection is more important than ever. Many VPN providers have existed over the years, but which have performed reliably over time? Submit your favorite ...

    Water Privatization

    • 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.
    • Bulgaria Mulls Mega-Stricture for Water Suppli ...
      Bulgaria should establish a national state-owned company, which will group all big water management firms and supply tap water to each and every settlement at equal prices, officials from the country's regional development ministry have suggested. "We suggest that one major state-owned company, ...
    • 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.
    • Water’s Monopoly Game — Public? Private?
      Food and Water Watch, a group linked to Ralph Nader, opposes privatization of water. "You want to privatize my water? This isn’t Bolivia, Pal. We’re not going to let you thieve from us so you can get a seat on the board of directors of the winning firm. Take a leap Sanders.”
    • Privatization: How much is too much?
      Even those who champion contracting-out city services acknowledge that if not handled properly, the savings won’t be there

    Guardian

    • Algeria cracks down on protesters
      Thousands of riot police deployed in Algiers to prevent repeat of mass demonstrations that forced out Egyptian presidentThousands of riot police have been deployed in the capital of Algeria to stop an anti-government demonstration from gathering the momentum of the protests that forced out the E ...
    • The lost art of book editing
      The long, boozy lunches and smoke-filled parties are now part of publishing's past, but has rigorous line-by-line editing of books been lost too, a casualty of the demands of sales and publicity?Reach for the current issue of Private Eye and you will find "Bookworm", the anonymous author of the ...
    • Paper investigates Vince Cable leak
      Paper's owner understood to have called in investigative firm Kroll to discover who leaked Cable's comments about Murdoch to the BBCThe owner of the Daily Telegraph is understood to have called in private investigative firm Kroll to discover who at the newspaper leaked Vince Cable's comments abo ...
    • We don't need therapy … do we?
      Tim Dowling doesn't think his marriage is in trouble. But regular readers of his Weekend column think otherwise. So we sent him and his wife to a relationship counsellor for an expert opinion. After all, what harm could it do...?My wife and I are on a tube train, trying in a�hurry�to come up wi ...
    • Can this man topple Google?
      Stephen Wolfram had a dream: to invent a search engine that could work stuff out for us. Alex Bellos meets the scientist who might just change the way we use the internetThe British scientist Stephen Wolfram has a clear vision for the future � a vision that dates back to his childhood in the 196 ...

    McClatchey

    BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

    • Palm oil deal points to corporate greening
      This week's announcement of a new partnership aimed at curbing deforestation in Indonesia should give succour to anyone who thinks consumers and companies, rather than governments, hold the key to curbing environmental decline. � Essentially, the world's second biggest (and Indonesia's biggest ...
    • Climate change: Contrary motion?
      � One issue, two reports, two different conclusions. In short, a recipe for confusion - at least, on the surface. Last week the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), the London-based think-tank, published a report suggesting that fears of mass migration caused by clim ...
    • Oysters clear seas for local remedies
      This week saw formal scientific publication of a report that produces one of the starkest conclusions I've seen about humanity's relationship with the oceans. Globally, 85% of oyster beds have basically disappeared. The paper, in the journal BioScience (though not apparently on its website yet) ...
    • UN sticks with climate agenda - but what prosp ...
      Reports suggesting that UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is retiring from the climate change agenda have had commentators wondering a) what it means for prospects of a new global climate agreement and b) whether the UN remains committed to the issue. � What appears to be happening is that two ...
    • Arctic canary looking sicker than ever
      If the Arctic really is the "canary in the coal mine" for climate change impacts, as it's often been labelled, then it's a canary about which we know a little more following a spate of scientific papers coming out over the last week or so. And looking at what they say, as well as readings from ...

    The Wonk Room

    thwap's schoolyard

    • We Are At War
      Read this and try to convince yourselves otherwise.
    • Ever notice how elites are always asking us to ...
      As their policies fail, elites tell us "un-serious" plebs to be patient. Zero inflation was going to make everything better (because restaurants would save money not having to update their menu prices all the time or something stupid like that), "free-trade" deals were going to make us all happy ...
    • Nice Little Look at the Impact of a Minimum Wa ...
      Here. "terrorists and bankers kill jobs minimum wages do not."Bye.
    • "I support the Mubarak dictatorship."
      There. Now, if only all those sober, serious, geo-political analysts like Sean Hannity, David Warren (I simply can't resist saying what an arrogant display of ignorance his editorial is!), Vice President Joe Biden, and all the others hedging their bets on the mass protests against a 30-year dic ...
    • Stealing the Commons
      Maybe I'll be too sick and tired to post today. So I'll share this animated communist vision with you for now: Ta-ta!

    Whistleblowers Protection Blog

    • NWC Board Member Returns to Court Tomorrow
      Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, a member of the National Whistleblowers Center’s Board of Directors and founder and leader of the No FEAR Coalition, will be appearing before the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) tomorrow, February 9, 2011, objecting to her removal from the Environmental Protecti ...
    • CNBC Airs Whistleblower Series "Bounty Hunters ...
      CNBC is airing a special series by Eamon Javers entitled "Bounty Hunters" this week. You can watch Mr. Javers' report on Tuesday, February 8 and Wednesday, February 9, on "Squawk Box", "Squawk On The Street", and "Power Lunch." On Thursday, February 10 and Friday, February 11, he will rep ...
    • Former Special Counsel Sentencing Postponed Ag ...
      Today, Magistrate Judge Deborah Robinson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia postponed Scott Bloch’s sentencing once again until Thursday, March 10, 2011. Prosecutors urged the judge to reconsider her ruling last week that the charge of lying to Congress carries a one-month m ...
    • Immigrant whistleblowers don't have to answer ...
      One of the most pernicious forms of exploitation today is the abuse of undocumented immigrant workers. It has been a long time since our immigration laws matched the aspiration of the Statue of Liberty, and millions of immigrant workers are forced into an undocumented status that leaves them vul ...
    • More interns working on whistleblower cases
      We are pleased to have even more interns joining us this semester. You can see our first group of interns (who are still with us) here. �Standing are Christopher, Jesse, David, David, Zach, Shane, Milan and Naoki. Seated are Sabeen, Karen, Ryan, Sabrina and Whitney. Thank you all for your de ...

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