12 February - RSS SnapShot! Pt 3

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Science Express

• Fermi maps an active galaxy's 'smokestack plum ...
  If our eyes could see radio waves, the nearby galaxy Centaurus A (Cen A) would be one of the biggest and brightest objects in the sky, nearly 20 times the apparent size of a full moon. What we can't see when looking at the galaxy in visible light is that it lies nestled between a pair of giant r ...
• Pollution from Asia circles globe at stratosph ...
  The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additional evidence of the ...
• After growth spurt, supermassive black holes s ...
  Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
• Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' v ...
  A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20 ...
• New approach precisely tracks evolution's foot ...
  (PhysOrg.com) -- Fossils may provide tantalizing clues to human history but they also lack some vital information, such as revealing which pieces of human DNA have been favored by evolution because they confer beneficial traits - resistance to infection or the ability to digest milk, for exampl ...

TechDirt

• A Look At Internet Censorship Around The World
  Shocklee points us to some fantastic infographics about global internet censorship, including this first one highlighting levels of internet censorship around the globe. Frankly, it looks like in some of the areas where there's "no censorship," it might just be that there's not much internet us ...
• UK Gov't Admits That Protecting Big Record Lab ...
  Via Glyn Moody, we learn that the UK government has responded to a question about how the Digital Economy Act might increase the price of internet access. The government's response? Yes, the Digital Economy Act might price poor people out of the internet, and that's "regrettable," but somehow ...
• Play By Play Of How HBGary Federal Tried To Ex ...
  Nate Anderson has put together an excellent play-by-play of the whole HBGary Federal fiasco, mainly by going through the emails that Anonymous leaked. It's well worth reading the whole thing, so I won't repeat the key points here, but what's really fascinating is the back-and-forth between HBGa ...
• DailyDirt: Cold Fusion Sounds Like A Free Lunc ...
  Clean, cheap and reliable (pick 2!) energy sources would significantly change how the world works. But so far, the technology has eluded us. Various forms of nuclear fusion always seem just a few years in the future -- and meanwhile the sun taunts us with its enormous proof-of-concept activity ...
• Public Citizen & EFF File For Sanctions Agains ...
  Remember Evan Stone? The anti-P2P lawyer (not the porn actor), who has been filing a ton of mass infringement lawsuits on behalf of porn companies. Like all of these lawsuits, the real intent is to frighten people into paying up prior to any trial. It's using the judicial system as a business ...

VacTruth

• Jared Lee Loughner: Psychotic or Vaccine Induc ...
  Dismissing Jared Loughner's bloody murders in Arizona as the work of a madman is easy; people like him clearly seem deranged. Yet, shouldn't we demand better answers? Vactruth.com
• Multiple Vaccines May Have Triggered Disease a ...
  March 2, 2003 Army Specialist Rachel Lacy was given five vaccinations at once: anthrax, hepatitis B, measles-mumps-rubella, smallpox, and typhoid. She also was given a tuberculin skin test on the day that. She died on April 4, 2003.Vactruth.com
• Vaccinated Sibling Transmits Rotavirus to Unva ...
  In January of 2010, vaccine-derived rotavirus was transmitted from the vaccinated infant to his older, unvaccinated sibling that lead to 'symptomatic rotavirus gastroenteritis'.Vactruth.com
• Fearful UK Healthcare Workers Refuse Flu Vacci ...
  The side effects of the flu vaccine have been causing many UK healthcare workers to question its safety. In the US, a nurse was fired for refusing hers.Vactruth.com
• US Airman Developed Inflamed Heart After Small ...
  In 2003, an airman proceeded to go to the emergency room eight days following the administration of a smallpox vaccine. It was determined the airman developed myocarditis, or inflammation of the heart, as a consequence of the smallpox vaccination.Vactruth.com

BroadSnark

• On Facts and Truth
  Our book group just finished reading The Whites of Their Eyes by Jill Lepore. Lepore is a historian and spends a lot of time focusing on historical facts that contradict the tea party narrative. So the group spent some time discussing whether or not there is such a thing as verifiable fact, whet ...
• Things You Might Have Missed
  Guess what guys?  If some prison guard fucks you up the ass, the FBI says it ain’t rape. DC as a tax free zone? These Russian artists are ballsalicious and I am seriously afraid for them. These pics of makeshift helmets in Egypt are pure awesome.  This letter is pretty funny too.  And as long ...
• On Snow and Relationships
  We have had a couple good snows this winter.  That means that I’ve had to navigate snow and ice covered sidewalks without breaking my neck.  Bad enough for me, who is generally steady on her feet when sober, but others really just have to forget about going anywhere until the snow melts. It is ...
• Things You Might Have Missed
  According to the Bureau of Justice, 7,225,800 people were under some sort of “correctional supervision” at the end of 2009.  That means they were either incarcerated or on parole.  How depressing is that? The beginning of these videos on anarchist economics was interesting.  I’ll be looking ...
• Things You Might Have Missed
  First Tunisia and now Egypt.  Let’s hope this game of dominoes goes on for a while.  By the looks of it, the young people are feeling it. The Haiti news has been fascinating this last week.  Baby Doc has the nerve to return to Haiti.  Michele Montas (maybe you saw her in the Agronomist) is [ ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

• LaRouche Webcast: The State of the Union: A.D. ...
  By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, January 28, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 4
• South Korea Accepts North's High-Level Offer o ...
  EIR News Service press release.
• Australian Catholic Biships Attack Revival of ...
  EIR News Service press release.
• Futures Markets Gambling To Give U.S.A. New Ro ...
  EIR News Service press release.
• China Condemns U.S. Policy of Drowning World i ...
  EIR News Service press release.

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

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

food and water watch

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

treehugger

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

Biosingularity

• A Sharper Future for Retinal Implants
  Retinal implants can already restore sight to people who have lost it owing to degenerative eye diseases like macular degeneration or retinitis pigmentosa. Now new research suggests a way to make higher-quality, more biocompatible retinal implants by integrating living neural cells with a soft o ...
• Diets Low In Omega-3 Linked to Depressive Beha ...
  Although most people in developed countries get plenty of calories each day, their diets are often lacking in key nutrients that their bodies have evolved to expect. Omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids, such as those found in fish and walnuts, are one category of crucial ingredients that the bod ...
• Melanoma Drug Prolonged Patients’ Lives in Cli ...
  Advanced melanoma patients taking an experimental drug aimed at a particular mutation in their tumors lived longer than patients who did not receive the drug in a decisive clinical trial, the drugâs manufacturer, Roche, said Wednesday. via Melanoma Drug Prolonged Patientsâ Lives in Clinical Tria ...
• Anders Ynnerman: Visualizing the medical data ...
  � Anders Ynnerman: Visualizing the medical data explosion | Video on TED.com.
• Strawberries, Blueberries May Ward Off High Bl ...
  Eating just 1 cup of strawberries or blueberries each week can reduce your risk of developing high blood pressure, a major risk factor for heart disease and stroke. The new findings appear in the February issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. The new study included 87,242 women wh ...

CFACT

• Did the US ethanol mandate contribute to the E ...
  An analysis of recent commentary on ethanol production mandates in the United States and the riots in Egypt.
• Washington Post compares Climate Depot to Drud ...
  Marc Morano is CFACT's editor in chief of Climate Depot, and he has been garnering extensive coverage lately. Last week he was cited in the Washington Times. This week it's the Washington Post's Capital Weather Gang and Fox Nation.
• U.S. court deals smack-down to greens
  Two powerful, well-funded environmental groups suffered a smack-down at the hands of a rural Utah county when a U.S. court ruled the environmentalists couldn̢۪t challenge the county̢۪s ownership claims to dozens of roads on federal lands.
• CFACT's Morano exposes anti-American climate e ...
  The editor of CFACT's Climate Depot, Marc Morano, was recently cited in a Washington Times editorial.
• Greens lie, Africans die
  Falsehoods about insecticides and bednets continue to leave a path of destruction and death.

Ria Novosti Online News

• Urals depot fire death toll rises to 12Image via Wikipedia
  The death toll from a warehouse fire in the Urals has risen to 12, investigators said on Saturday.
• Russian senator says new Egyptian leaders will ...
  A senior Russian senator believes the Egyptian military will start a dialogue with protesters following the departure of President Hosni Mubarak.
• Sudan violence kills 100
  More than 100 people have been killed in fighting in South Sudan this week after rebels attacked the army, the BBC reported.
• Kazakh leader 'registered' for presidential po ...
  Kazakh election authorities on Saturday registered long-standing leader Nursultan Nazarbayev's candidacy for an early presidential election in April.
• Referendum on extending Kazakhstan President N ...

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• 520-day simulation of Mars mission
• Mars-500 crew to simulate landing on Red Plane ...
• Russia's Mission Control raises space station ...
  Russia's Mission Control has adjusted the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) by raising it 900 meters (2,950 ft).
• Russian space programs
• Medvedev calls for Russian space exploration p ...
  Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday Russia should develop its own space exploration program.

Pruning Shears

• Patriot Act roll call review: can you do more ...
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post So a few provisions of the Patriot Act failed to get renewed because some Republicans voted against it. It looks like just a speed bump on the way to passage; the original vote was done on a fast track “no debate” schedule (wond ...
• This Week In Tyranny
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.There was some propaganda this week trumpeting the fabulous news that “drone strikes do appear to becoming less lethal for civilians as tim ...
• The unstoppable dumbassery of James Taranto
  Once more, with feeling: Eliminationist rhetoric among prominent commentators and high ranking elected officials is almost exclusively the province of the right. See here if you haven’t already. And here. And here. And here. Now that we’re up to speed, it seems that James Taranto has managed ...
• Blogroll Amnesty Day
  Today is Blogroll Amnesty Day, the day where bloggers promote their lesser trafficked bretheren (and sisteren(?)). Here are my 2011 selections:Corrente. Will always be Boldly Shrill to me.Lotus - Surviving a Dark Time Mikeb302000 - guns, politics, capital punishment, movies and musicHannah’s B ...
• The economic aspect of Egypt's protests
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post There appears to be a yawning chasm between what is happening in Egypt and elite opinions in DC. Consider this exchange between Chris Matthews and NBC News chief foreign affairs correspondent Richard Engel: ENGEL: The Muslim Br ...

Organic Consumers.org

• Still Drinking Diet Soda? Don't be a Fashion V ...
  At the just-launched Fashion Week in Manhattan, supermodels won't just be sashaying down runways in mind-boggling frocks. They'll also be accessorized with a new invention from Pepsi Co. -- the "skinny can," pictured at right, which (according to a press release) will "make its debut" in the coo ...
• Experts: Contamination from GM Alfalfa Certain
  DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Contamination of organic and traditional crops by recently deregulated, genetically modified alfalfa is inevitable, agriculture experts said, despite Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack's recent assurances the federal government would take steps to prevent such a problem.Cl ...
• Get Up, Stand Up: Uniting Populists, Energizin ...
  A year ago, psychologist Bruce Levine posed the question, "Are Americans a Broken People?" in an AlterNet article that went viral on the Internet, striking a chord and a nerve with people on the political left and right. Why, he asked, have Americans stopped fighting back against government-corp ...
• The Organic Consumers Association Was Not Invi ...
  "They had closed door meetings in Washington, D.C., where we were not invited. We were told, 'You are not a stakeholder.' We're the largest organic consumer organization in the U.S," says Ronnie Cummins, director of the OCA. "If we're not a stakeholder, who is?"Click here to read this article
• The NonGMO Project: Empowering Consumers, Prot ...
  The Non-GMO Project wholeheartedly shares the Saskatchewan Organic Directorate's concerns about GMO contamination. Although the Project is obviously committed to providing consumers with informed choices, another primary objective (as evidenced by our mission statement, below), is to control con ...

fotoFrontera

• Las mejores imágenes de Amor XIV (14 de Febrer ...
  Ya estamos a 11 de febrero y justo a tiempo tenemos la recopilación de las mejores imágenes de amor para este día del Amor y la Amistad. Como es bien sabido, son millones de personas en el mundo que celebran este Día de San Valentín dándose besos, abrazos, flores, postales, tarjetas, corazones, ...
• Corazones de varios estilos para el Día de San ...Image via Wikipedia
  Decir Te Amo en español, I love you en Inglés y Je t'aime en Francés, es una de las frases más utilizadas por los enamorados no sólo este 14 de febrero, sino en cualquier momento. Pensando en estos seres románticos, el Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas presenta su colección de Corazones en varios esti ...
• Fotografías de caballos V (Equinos de Pura San ...
  Ya está aquí para todos ustedes la quinta parte de nuestra serie titulada 'Fotografías de Caballos (Equinos de Pura Sangre)'. En esta ocasión, se trata de 5 bellísimas fotos que nos acercan a estos preciosos animales. Disfrute las imágenes y no olvide usted compartirlas. Para ver las entregas an ...
• Playas paradisiacas XVI (10 postales del mar a ...
  Para quienes adoran los hermosos paisajes junto al mar, la serie 'Playas Paradisiacas' presenta ya su parte número 15 con 10 bellísimas postales de aguas claras. No olvide usted revisar nuestras entregas anteriores navegando entre los siguientes números. Explore despacio nuestras colecciones. [1 ...
• Los colores de nuestro planeta III (Paisajes N ...
  Si desea ver más imágenes de la serie 'Los colores de nuestro planeta (Paisajes Naturales)', navegue por los siguientes números. (1)(2)(3) ATENCIÓN: Para ver todas las fotos de esta serie, navegue usted hacia abajo y haga click sobre las imágenes que más le gusten para ampliar su tamaño y guarda ...

Center for a Livable Future

• Bills banning arsenic take shape in MD General ...
  Dr. Keeve Nachman, Director of the Farming for the Future Program at CLF, spoke at a press conference yesterday in the Maryland House of Delegates. The press conference was organized by Montgomery County Delegate Tom Hucker and Prince George’s County Senator Paul Pinsky.  Senator Pinsky and Del ...
• A Former Teacher’s Take on The New Dietary Gui ...
  Every five years, the United States Departments of Human Health Services and Agriculture jointly release the Dietary Guidelines for America in the hopes of encouraging every American to eat a healthy diet, however, chances are the average person will never set eyes on the report. As a former tea ...
• Oprah Enthusiastically Throws Her Support Behi ...
    Talk show host Oprah Winfrey may have just encouraged a large segment of her 30 million viewers to join the Meatless Monday movement following her latest show which gave us a rare glimpse into where some of our meat comes from. The Meatless Monday campaign’s national awareness has more t ...
• Understanding foodborne microbial hazards for ...
  One in six Americans contracts a foodborne illness each year (CDC). Such illness can mean an unpleasant day of vomiting, diarrhea, fever, and/or worseâ hospitalization or death in rare cases. âThere’s something that can be said about the problem of foodborne illness, that can’t be said of many o ...
• Again Ethanol and Food are in Conflict
  Corn prices have risen dramatically in the last 6 months and now food prices are following. This may be driving revolutions world-wide. And it will affect your grocery shopping soon.

Norwegianity

• Unpacking CPAC
  Michele Bachmann did her usual baby-jesus-wants-us-to-smite-the-taxman hysteria mongering [more] [more] at CPAC, but Pawlenty’s turn comes today and the Strib says he’ll say this: It wasnât easy. I set a record for vetoes in my state. Vetoed billions of dollars of tax and spending increases. Had ...
• C-Crack, exits galore and lies everywhere
  It’s nice to see the WaPost still has a sense of humor, and loves to fuck with their readers’ heads. That or it was reverse-popularity-order day in the graphics dept. (Santorum is explaining how big his wife’s vagina was after birthing their eighth baby â and I’m being nicer than Sarah Palin was ...
• The death of goatse, Rex impersonators and hyd ...
  “It’s very difficult to prove a negative,” said Michael Kirsch, a principal engineer with NASA’s Engineering and Safety Center. But the electronic system for throttle controls in Toyotas would require two separate sensors to fail simultaneously in such a way that neither created an “error code” ...
• I need more synonyms for “fail” an ...
  Pawlentyism: if Willie Horton had been a sex offender, cont. In my heart I’m still an Iowan, but after over twenty years in Minnesota, I feel an obligation to warn the rest of the nation about this [redacted] whackjob piece of fucking shit religionist hack. Sorry, I don’t know how else to refer ...
• More links
  I omitted one small detail from my earlier mention of my trip to Iowa Sunday. Mom has seen Michele Bachmann in action and is very impressed. More insights into what drives this blog, but it’s not just Mom. It’s also people like John Lott who clog our airwaves and tell lies 24/7 to people like [. ...

Public News Service

• Free Tax Filing Assistance for Many Arizonans
  Free Tax Filing Assistance for Many Arizonans Phoenix, AZ – Tax season has begun – and filing tax returns can be can be a confusing and expensive proposition. But there is free help for Arizonans through the AARP Foundation. There are several sites now set up around the state staffed with volunt ...
• National Park Service Rethinks Grand Canyon Fl ...
  National Park Service Rethinks Grand Canyon Flyovers Phoenix, AZ – Peace and quiet can be tough to find nowadays, even at a place as big and wild as the Grand Canyon. The National Park Service is proposing "substantial restoration" of the natural quiet in Grand Canyon National Park, with a new ...
• Wolf Numbers Growing on Arizona-New Mexico Bor ...
  Wolf Numbers Growing on Arizona-New Mexico Border Phoenix, AZ – The number of endangered Mexican gray wolves along Arizona’s eastern border is up nearly 20-percent in the latest count by federal wildlife officials. The annual survey last month found 50 wolves, up from 42 a year ago. Comments fro ...
• Western States Elk Hunters See Advantages to B ...
  Western States Elk Hunters See Advantages to BLM "Wild Lands" Policy Phoenix, AZ – The U.S. Department of Interior's revised policy on wild lands is drawing mixed reactions - but at least one group of hunters sees it as a positive move. Comments from Jim Gonzales, spokesperson for the Rocky Moun ...
• Groundbreaking Progress in Helping MS Patients
  Groundbreaking Progress in Helping MS Patients Phoenix, AZ – It's being called 'promising research in neurological diseases' that may offer hope for multiple sclerosis patients in Arizona and across the nation. In research funded by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, scientists may have un ...

Center for Food Safety

• World’s First Genetically Engineered Biofuels ...
  Impacts on Human Health, Environment, and Farmers Not Fully Assessed DESPITE RISING GLOBAL FOOD PRICES, OBAMA ADMINISTRATION CONTINUES MISGUIDED BIOFUELS AGENDA The Center for Food Safety criticized an announcement today by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) that it will approve the world ...
• Farmers And Conservationists Challenge Latest ...
  In defiance of earlier court ruling, USDA allows continued growing of controversial, illegally planted crop Today the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) issued a new decision to allow the U.S. sugar beet industry to continue growing Monsanto’s “Roundup Ready,” genetically ...
• Donate to CFS’s Legal Fund
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• Organic Industry Supports CFS in GE Sugar Beet ...
  Leading organic businesses and trade groups have filed a joint brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in support of the Center for Food Safety and opposed to Monsanto in the ongoing case regarding planting of Roundup Ready, genetically engineered sugar beets. Support from the o ...
• Fighting a Common Enemy on the GMO Battlefield
  Yesterday’s announcement by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) that it will once again allow unlimited, nation-wide commercial planting of Monsanto’s genetically-engineered (GE) Roundup Ready alfalfa, despite the many risks to organic and conventional farmers, is deeply disturbing, but no ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

• In Response to Michael Lucas’"Democracy in Egy ...
  gay.com Daily Hot Topics: In Response to Michael Lucas’"Democracy in Egypt a Myth?": "As a naturalized gay adult who immigrated from Egypt, I can tell you from first-hand experience that Egyptians, whether gay or not, were not any safer under Mubarak’s regime. In 2001, after many years in Egypt ...
• Egyptian Activists Inspired by Forgotten Marti ...
  Egyptian Activists Inspired by Forgotten Martin Luther King Comic - ComicsAlliance | Comics culture, news, humor, commentary, and reviews: "While the world's political pundits debate the role the United States has played in the historical events presently occurring in Egypt, one activist is cred ...
• Is it OK for protesters to damage property? -- ...
  Is it OK for protesters to damage property? -- New Internationalist: "Photos of masked ‘black bloc’ protesters smashing windows seem to accompany most international summits these days. But the debate over whether property destruction is a valid tactic for bringing about social and political chan ...
• Mubarak steps down, hands power to army: VP
  Mubarak steps down, hands power to army: VP: [Cairo (Al Arabiya, Agencies)] "Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has stepped down and the vice president has named a military council to run the country's affairs, state television said on Friday after 18 days of mass protests against his rule. H ...
• From Fanon to Africa, with Love
  by Mumia Abu-Jamal San Francisco Bayview December 25, 2008 As the economies of the West and East tumble, tremors may also be felt in African economies, as heightened food prices push populations to the breaking point of near starvation. In country after country the struggle for l ...

Pensieve

• Update: Mubarak Not Stepping Down Tonight
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• US involved in an Egyptian “military coup”?
  Photo by adaptorplug A CNN news story says that Hofni Mubarak will likely relinquish power to the Egyptian military tonight. This is what their source, âa senior Egyptian officalâ is quoted by CNN as saying: He said the process — which included dialogue between the government and opposition repr ...
• President Llorens
  I’ve reconsidered my position about posting Wikileaks articles. This article not only discusses classified material disclosed by Wikileaks, but actually quotes it. I know some of my readers work for the US government, thus the warning. I am not an enemy of the United States of America. I simply ...
• Magnificent
  This movie brought me to tears. It is the story of a man whose lack of limbs from birth relegated him to life as a circus side-show freak. It tells of how he was recognized by the owner of a rival circus as “magnificent”. After overcoming his bitterness, the man transformed from freak to hero. [ ...
• Departure
  Photo by PeWu Iâm at the train station; no one knows Iâm there. Iâm standing in line, debating with myself. Should I buy a ticket or just walk away? Am I a coward for leaving? Is it brave to lie? I recognize the hurt that others are going through their lives crumbling to dust. Am [...] Related ...

Green Times

• Shading Trees
  Today, the world consumes about 300 million tons of paper each year. According to paper manufacturer Boise Cascade, to produce 90,000 sheets of paper the manufacturer needs 128 cubic feet of wood! Recycling paper will help save water energy; it will reduce air pollution as well as saving tr ...
• Korean style organic food (Bibimbab)
  Bibimbab is a popular Korean traditional dish. Bibimbab literally means "mix and stir".   It is served as a bowl of warm rice topped with seasoned vegetables, gochujang (Korean hot pepper) and a fried egg. You can put any groceries on top of rice but vegetables are commonly used in Bibimbab f ...
• Korean wet land
  Looking for a place to find peace and relaxation? This wetland found in Suncheon Bay in South Korea is the country’s biggest wetland. This is a wonderful place to get your stress out and relax, maybe do some meditation (lifestyle/meditation.html). Wetlands are considered the most biologica ...
• Environmental News 10/02/2011
  Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
• Less is More: Luxury and the Environment
  Less is more: luxury can go hand in hand with sustainable development and responsible consumption. We explore how…

The Briefing Room | Investigate

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

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

• 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 ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

• China Denies It Faces Half A Trillion In Fanni ...
  zerohedge.com We were wondering how long it would take for China’s State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) to come out with a report refuting yesterday’s statement by Lu Zhengwei that China should immediately proceed to start selling its GSE concurrent with today’s announcement by the ad ...
• Longtime spy chief now atop Egyptian Pyramid
  (CNN) — Long a pillar of Hosni Mubarak’s three-decade rule over Egypt, Omar Suleiman now sits at the top of the pyramid as its de facto president. Under pressure from street demonstrations calling for his ouster, Mubarak named his veteran spymaster to the long-vacant vice presidency in late Janu ...
• IMF calls for dollar alternative
  By Ben Rooney, February 10, 2011 NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — 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. SDRs represent ...
• Ron Paul: US to blame for Egypt chaos
  RT’s Dina Gusovsky talks to Congressman Ron Paul about the situation in Egypt, the future of the Conservative Movement, and whether or not he will run for President in 2012. Dr. Paul says that US foreign policy contributed to the situation in Egypt, and, so far, he is undecided about whether or ...
• Audience Member AT CPAC Yells To Cheney &#8216 ...

The Air Vent

• Matters of Fact
  Ryan ODonnell Subsequent to my post on Feb 7, 2010 here, Steig informed me by email that he had not seen our Response to his Third Review, as I had previously assumed. I apologize for my misunderstanding on this point, which was, however, incidental to the major concerns expressed in my post. A ...
• Wrong is Wrong – A reply to the Real Noi ...
  UPDATE:  This was left in the comment thread at WUWT � GeorgeGr says: February 7, 2011 at 2:48 pm The html tags did not work. Here is the post from Realclimate that I was trying to cite: RE: Vernon at 42 says: ��Why are responses from one of the co-authors not being posted? That seems [...]
• Still Not Qualified for Real Climate
  No I’m not back blogging, still way too busy but I am going to let you guys know that although I am a coauthor of the critiqued paper at a recent RC post here, my comments are unworthy of the great and all seeing climatologists there. I’ve had a nice conversation with Dr. Steig off-line [...]
• Closed
  On the SOP thread we got into too heated a discussion.  I’ve had more than my fair share of the public lately and don’t know when tAV will be back. Of all the elements of the periodic table stupididium is the most abundant.  The idiots pushed me over  the edge tonight.   I’ve had well [...]
• What Evidence for “Unprecedented Warming ...
  This is a new paper which takes a look at the statistical uncertainty of the long term warming trends by Pat Frank.  He looks at the uncertainty of the data including that created by non-stationary errors and comes to the reasonable conclusion that global trends for the length of the temp record ...

Focal Point

• World's Only Superpower Has 32 Legislators Liv ...
  Well, not everyone can live at C Street... Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) is demanding an investigation into reports that at least 32 members of Congress are living out of their D.C. offices, Jay Newton Small explains: Sure, most congressmen earn more than $10 ...
• A Former TSA Agent Speaks Out On Collective Ba ...
  Last week TSA Administrator John Pistole bestowed very limited collective bargaining rights on the nation's 40,000 Transportation Security Officers. Even if the TSOs vote to unionize, they will be barred from negotiating on basic issues like disciplinary standards, ostensibly in the interest of ...
• Heavier Kids: Blame Working Moms...or Lazy Dad ...
  A new study of 900 kids reports a correlation between the number of hours a woman works outside the home and the BMI* of her children. "For a third grader of average height, the increase in BMI was equivalent to an extra one and a half to two pounds over what that child would normally gain i ...
• Surprise! Lila Rose's Planned Parenthood "Stin ...
  Media Matters reveals that Lila Rose's undercover "sting" videos of Planned Parenthood have been doctored: -Why is Live Action Doctoring Its Planned Parenthood Audio? -Latest Lila Rose Video Ends Her Credibility Once and For All For more on anti-abortion extremist Lila Rose and her misbego ...
• Bloomberg Badmouths Groundhog Who Bit Him 2 Ye ...
  Mayor Mike Bloomberg isn't the type to forgive and forget. Two years ago, New York's official Groundhog Day groundhog, Staten Island Chuck, bit the mayor during the annual weather forecasting ceremony. This year, the Staten Island zoo equipped the groundhog hutch with a special plunger to ...R ...

Inside Facebook

• Facebook Roundup: Messages, User Data, Politic ...
  Facebook Begins Messages Rollout - Facebook posted a blog that the company has begun the rollout of Messages to Facebook users over the next few weeks, for more information see our previous coverage. Facebook Reveals New User Data – Facebook has around 149 million U.S. users, 70% of whom log on ...
• Details on Facebook’s Plans to Allow Iframe Pa ...
  Yesterday, the Facebook Developers Blog announced that Page tab applications can now be built and implemented using iframes, and FBML and FBJS will be deprecated starting March 11,2011. Iframes will allow developers to build both canvas and tab applications on the same programming model, and int ...
• Turkey, Games and The Oregon Trail on This Wee ...
  A pair of Turkish apps, as well as one in Bulgarian and Thai, were on our list of Top 20 Emerging Applications this week. A slew of games, including the recently released Oregon Trail from Blue Fang Games, Large Animal Games’ Spartacus: Gods of the Arena game, a few apps that created content for ...
• Facebook Bug Causes Unmerging of a Merged Plac ...
  Facebook is currently experiencing a bug such that when some admins of a merged Places/Pages attempt to unmerge the two presences, the Place is deleted. This can result in severed Like connections, loss of user content, and resetting of the check-in count. The bug has affected Places/Pages that ...
• Longtime Facebook Designer Aaron Sittig Return ...
  At a time when many of Facebook’s earliest and vested employees are leaving, designer Aaron Sittig returned to the company last month to serve as product architect. He left last year for six months and came back last month. It’s a strong vote of confidence in the company as it begins a new phase ...

Truthout - Tweets

• truthout: President Obama's Remarks on the Egy ...
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• truthout: WikiLeaks Springs a Leak http://bit. ...
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• truthout: History Suggests No Doomsday Will Oc ...
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• truthout: An Egyptian Voice of Democracy Says, ...
  truthout: An Egyptian Voice of Democracy Says, Tell Old Pharaoh, Go http://bit.ly/eKjJQy #p2 #p2b #p21
• truthout: We're back for now. Thank you for yo ...
  truthout: We're back for now. Thank you for your patience.

ReDress News

• Freedom dawns in Egypt: long live the revoluti ...
  Christopher King salutes the people of Egypt on this historic day which has seen them depose the despot Hosni Mubarak, and yearns for the peoples of Europe and the USA to learn something from the Egyptians.
• Justice in the Holy Land first, Mr Hague, then ...
  Stuart Littlewood views the weasel words of William Hague, British Foreign Secretary and life-long member of the ruling Conservative Party's Israel lobby, who has voiced fears over the non-existent Israeli-Palestinian "peace process" while studiously avoiding any mention of the need for justice ...
• The big bluff: false claims to the Holy Land
  Paul J. Balles explains why the 60 million right-wing Christians in the USA who expect a "second coming" of Jesus Christ into the Holy Land are in for a shock.
• Israel's whitewash report into the Mavi Marmar ...
  Richard Lightbown examines the flawed evidence considered by the Turkel Commission, the phoney inquiry set up by the Israeli government to investigate the Gaza flotilla raid and the blockade of Gaza, which exonerated the Israeli military of the murder of nine humanitarian aid workers aboard the ...
• Israeli economy for beginners
  Gilad Atzmon looks at some of the hidden reasons for Israel's economic success, from money laundering by criminal Russian oligarchs to arms trading, human organ trafficking and harvesting, and other types of international organized crime.

Amazon Rainforest

• First film footage of uncontacted Amazon Tribe
  The footage was filmed by the BBC’s Human Planet series shows a Tribe known as the Panoan, who live in virtual isolation from the outside world. The team needed too get footage of the Tribe as proof of their existence so as the government could protect them from illegal logging and mining operat ...
• Second rancher sentenced for contract kill of ...
  A second rancher has been sentenced for his role in the murder of Dorothy Stang, an American nun who was gunned down in 2005 for her efforts on behalf of poor farmers in the Amazon Rainforest. Regivaldo Galvao was sentenced to 30 years in prison by a jury in the city of Pará. Last month [...]
• Yasuni National Park- SAVED!
  President Raphael Correa now has approved an agreement to leave Ecuador’s largest oil reserves, amounting to some 900 million barrels, underground in Yasuni National Park in exchange for more than $3 billion. Under the unprecedented agreement, known as the Yasuni-ITT Initiative, the government o ...
• Amazon watchgroups SILENT over new Chevron oil ...
  In the space of a week, a Chevron technical team has discovered two fresh oil spills in Ecuador’s oil-producing Amazon region. One covers three hectares (7.4 acres) near state-owned oil company Petroecuador’s Guanta production station in the heart of Cofan indigenous country. The other impacts h ...
• Amazon River dolphin new stunning photos!
  The Amazon River dolphin (Bufeo, Bufeo Colorado, Boto, Boto Cor de Rosa, Boutu, Nay, Tonina) or Pink River Dolphin (Inia geoffrensis), is a freshwater River dolphin endemic to the Orinoco, Amazon and Araguaia/Tocantins River systems of Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela. Thes ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

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

Afro Spear

• “Trust for us” by Dr. B.B. Robinso ...
  Op-ed submission by Project 21 There is a lot of discussion of the black community’s problems: poverty, crime, high incarceration rates and high unemployment. But there isn’t much discussion of “trust.” An absence of focus on the trust deficit in the black community obscures an unfortunate cause ...
• “Do you know Africa’s hidden presi ...
  What transpired in Tunisia recently, sadly though, unearthed a great rot in upper echelons of power in Africa. The strength in this, albeit, is the fact that this domino effect did affect Egypt and Yemen where every eye is on to see what will happen. And thereof, maybe, many casualties will foll ...
• The Herd Mentality…To What Extent Are We ...
  I have recently become fascinated by the idea of the “Herd Mentality” which is the phenomenon of people in crowds or groups who blindly sometimes mindlessly follow the “lead” of certain persons within the same group who appear to be better informed than the rest of the group. In a related manner ...
• “The Vick Comeback: More Than Just On Th ...
  Op-ed submission by Project 21  Stories of redemption are common. Drug addicts kick their habits to rejoin civil society; corrupt investors become charitable. But rarely is there a story of someone overcoming their demons in which people not only want to watch, but want to cheer. Michael Vick’s ...
• An Education: One Moore Book
  This article in the Huffington Post was forwarded to the AfroSpear by Wayétu Moore, one of the creators and publisher of onemoorebook: When Liberia was my home, they called it sweet. Sweet was the word I remembered the most during the war. I was five and my father, two sisters and I fled Monrovi ...

Expose the BNP

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

Sen4Earth

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

If Americans Knew

• Gabrielle Giffords, Tom Hurndall and Palestini ...
  Alison Weir, CounterPunch - There is something particularly horrifying when someone is shot in the head. Perhaps it's the gruesome image, the destruction of the brain, the clear intent to kill. The recent shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is made even more nightmarish by the l ...
• As Israel kills and maims, Outrage is directed ...
  Whenever Israel commits yet another atrocity, its defenders are quick to redirect public attention away from the grisly crime scene. Currently, there are headlines about allegedly anti-Semitic comments made by senior White House correspondent Helen Thomas. Pundits across the land evince outrage ...
• An Open Letter to the Southern Poverty Law Cli ...
  I am disturbed by an article that the Center published in the fall 2007 issue of "Intelligence Report"--the Center's magazine. The item "Navy Extremist Disciplined--But Not for Extremism" is on page 11. The article focuses on Navy officer John Sharpe Jr.
• NPR Watch: Linda Gradstein Has Done It Again o ...
  NPR's reporter Linda Gradstein has done it again. She has managed to take a "must report" story on Israeli-Palestinian relations -- the new report by B'Tselem on the non-combatants, including children, killed by the Israeli military during the Israeli attack on Gaza -- and report it in a manner ...
• The invisible government: Propaganda Disguised ...
  John Pilger: In a speech in Chicago, John Pilger describes how propaganda has become such a potent force in our lives and, in the words of one of its founders, represents 'an invisible government'.

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

• People of Color Must Innovate or Die in Digita ...
  In December in this space I asked about the lack of minorities at new media conferences -- both as participants and as speakers. The blog post generated a lot of comments; a Twitter discussion, and the start of a list of wonderful experts -- all persons of color -- who can help make your next ne ...
• 'Data and Cities' Conference Pushes Open Data, ...
  When I entered Stamen's offices in the Mission district of San Francisco, I saw four people gathered around a computer screen. What were they doing? Nothing less than "mapping the world" -- not as it appears in flat dimension, but how it reveals itself. And they weren't joking. Stamen, a data vi ...
• Knight, Mozilla Partner to Boost Tech-Journali ...
  I'm excited to announce the Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership, a Mozilla Drumbeat project supported by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation's Journalism Program. For the next three years, we will have the opportunity to engage a huge community, bring people together for trainin ...
• Lawyers Voice Concerns About Live-Streaming Co ...
  One of the first things First Justice Mark Coven told us when we went down to the Quincy District Court to start talking about our project, Order in the Court 2.0, was that we had to hold an all-court meeting to introduce the project to everyone to get their input. This seemed like an excellent ...
• Why Huffington Post's 'Predict the News' Game ...
  Fellow Knight News Challenge winner Chris O'Brien recently posted on this site about "gamifying" the news. The idea behind the� movement O'Brien is speaking of, which Brad Flora touched on in another recent Idea Lab post, involves adding incentives -- pop-up achievements for tasks completed, pro ...

Cutting Edge News

• Campus Disruption - California Muslim Students ...
  On February 4, the Orange County district attorney's office in Los Angeles charged 11 persons�that they conspired to disrupt a speech given by the Israeli ambassador to the United States at the campus of the University of California-Irvine. According to a statement, District Attorney Tony Rackau ...
• Authors on the Road - Edwin Black Brings Messa ...
  Award-winning investigative author and journalist Edwin Black visits the San Francisco Bay area February 7-11, continuing his national book tour�on his most recent bestseller, The Farhud: Roots of the Arab-Nazi Alliance in the Holocaust. This book, lauded by�critics such as Middle East expert Wa ...
• Egypt in Revolt - Egypt Seeks a Third Way betw ...
  Egyptians have taken to the streets in full force�to demand the departure of President Hosni Mubarak in�days of mass mobilization for regime change. At the same time, the American policy establishment is hyperventilating about the possibility of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood (MB) coming to power wh ...
• Economic Recovery on Edge - Democrats Complain ...
  Before he took office, President Obama repeatedly promised voters and Democrats in Congress that he’d fight for changes to bankruptcy laws to help homeowners—a tough approach that would force banks to modify mortgages. “I will change our bankruptcy laws to make it easier for families to stay in ...
• Egypt in Revolt - Congress Increasingly Worrie ...
  In a week of Capitol Hill vocally supporting Egyptian pro-democracy demonstrators, lawmakers are growing increasingly concerned about the prospects of revolutionary fervor spreading to other critical countries in the Middle East.Legislators have been clear about their desire for President Hosni ...

High Country News

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

CounterCurrents

• Gandhi On The Nile
  By Niranjan RamakrishnanThe Egyptian people have enacted a revolution that would have made Gandhi proud. But their victory is all their own. Many challenges lie ahead of them. But today the sun is shining. Gloriously
• Dignity, Bread And Liberty; The Start Of Peak ...
  By Mike Small The western media may be obsessing with social media but believe me this isnt the thing you are focusing on if you dont have enough to eat. Egypt, as the worlds largest wheat importer, is reliant on countries like Russia and Pakistan for its food supply
• Food Bubble Collapse Threatens Survival Of Hum ...
  By Mike AdamsFrankly, we dont deserve this planet, and Mother Nature is about to take it away from us. Its time for us to either grow up, or perish
• Can The Earth Survive Overshoot-And-Collapse?
  By Wendy MoyerLike those reindeer of St. Matthew Island, the worldwide growth of population is over consuming the Earths natural resources
• Power And Powerlessness In Global Cities
  By Sophie Body-Gendrot How does todays globalization transform our perceptions of urban inequality and how do we respond to it? Inequality is a powerful social divider but also, in some circumstances, a unifier

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

• CPAC 2011- Day Two: Meet The Bloggers (Meet Mr ...
  Day Two ..the blogger's lounge was really busy.� The internet problems we faced yesterday were fixed, politicians and/or their press people were all over the place.� I got to spend some time on the G.Gordon Liddy Show, meeting Mr. Liddy in the flesh for the first time, I will publish the audio w ...
• CPAC 2011: Ron Paul, the King of NUT JOBS- Is ...
  As I write this, Ron Paul is on the CPAC main stage spewing his over-the-top rhetoric about how the US causes every international problem in the world.� There are two kinds� people here at CPAC, college students who show up at the conference on Paul's dime (and to make sure he wins the Straw Pol ...
• The Real Clapper Story--
  In a radio interview with ABC, Rumsfeld was particularly critical of DNI Clapper�s description of the Muslim Brotherhood as a �largely secular� group in House testimony yesterday that his office later had to clarify.� Jamie Smith, director of public affairs for the Office of National Intellige ...
• Mubarak's Not The One Who Should Resign: The I ...
  by Barry Rubin This is not a game. This is the fate of the globe. This involves the lives of tens of millions of people. Partisanship and scoring political points is irrelevant. Forget the spin; forget the ignorance about Egypt and the Middle East by instant experts (and sometimes ...
• Newsbusted: Skills Obama Has That No Republica ...
  http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2011/02/newsbusted-skills-obama-has-that-no.htmlTo be fair president Obama is not a total failure, there are certain areas where he has the skills and sophistication that NO Republican can duplicate; do you know what the former Ambassador of Luxembourg did to win a ...

The Real Agenda

• The Weather Isn’t Getting Weirder
  The latest research belies the idea that storms are getting more extreme. WSJ By Anne Jolis Last week a severe storm froze Dallas under a sheet of ice, just in time to disrupt the plans of the tens of thousands of (American) football fans descending on the city for the Super Bowl. On the other [ ...
• IMF calls for Alternative Reserve Currency, Ag ...
  CNNMoney February 11, 2011 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. SDRs represent potential claims on the cur ...
• Scientists abandon drilling at Antarctic Lake ...
  Lake had been isolated by ice for 14 million years.  May have been polluted it as they left Popular Science Winter has stymied a Russian-led effort to drill into an Antarctic lake that has been buried for 14 million years, scientists said this week. Just 96 feet short of their goal, scientists h ...
• Egyptian torturers trained by FBI
  The US provided officers from the Egyptian secret police with training at the FBI, despite allegations that they routinely tortured detainees and suppressed political opposition. Telegraph According to leaked diplomatic cables, the head of the Egyptian state security and investigative service (S ...
• Obamacare Would Reduce Employment by 800,000 W ...
  The Weekly Standard Testifying today before the House Budget Committee, Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Director Doug Elmendorf confirmed that Obamacare is expected to reduce the number of jobs in the labor market by an estimated 800,000. Here are excerpts from the exchange: Chairman [Paul] R ...

Wind Watch

• Cape Cod Commission tackles regulating wind tu ...
  Draft regulations Setbacks: 3,000 feet for one-megawatt (or greater) turbines Regional review: Triggered if turbine is more than 65 feet tall Noise study: Required Shadow flicker study: Required Mitigation plans Noise, shadow flicker and decommission rules Building a wind turbine, even a small o ...
• Turbine neighbours gagged in buy-up
  Victorians who have endured health problems from a nearby wind farm have been gagged from talking in return for the sale of their land. Spanish multinational energy company Acciona has been quietly buying farms adjacent to its site at Waubra, near Ballarat, as an increasing number of residents i ...
• Wind farm fight heads to Supreme Court as comm ...
  The Supreme Court of South Australia will soon hear its first appeal against a proposed wind farm development. The appeal follows a landmark judgment by the Environment, Resources and Development Court late last year in favour of AGL’s Hallett 3 project at Mt Bryan – a decision hailed by develop ...
• We’ll fight the wind farms off the D-Day ...
  The view from the Normandy landing beaches is to be transformed â critics say “desecrated” â by an immense offshore wind farm. French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced this week that one of the most poignant sea and beachscapes in the world â the Calvados coast, between Juno and Omaha beach
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• Wind turbine flicker upsets neighbours
  People living in the shadow of a group of wind turbines in Summerside, P.E.I., are complaining about the flickering light caused by the energy producers. Emmett Curley has enjoyed living in the area for 15 years, but says things have become unbearable since the wind turbines arrived a year ago. ...

Not My Tribe

• Colo. Springs Friday rush hour banners
  Every Friday at 4:30pm, at one of four key intersections downtown. The weekly sequence: 1) Cascade & Uintah, 2) Uintah & Nevada, 3) Nevada and I-25, and next week, 4) Bijou & Cascade. (Repeat)
• Miz Lisa Czeladtko, drop the hell out of the r ...
  You know, there’s not many options. Threatening police actions and lawsuits for people mocking your positions on civic issues, especially when you’re hoping to be in government power, to be honest, would put you right up there with Rivera and his adopted/anointed replacement Bach-door. And the r ...
• Okay I’ll bite, why did Colorado Springs ...
  Actually conservative candidate Lisa Czeladtko called former Colorado Springs resident Dan Robertson a Sick F#^& in an email saying she was filing a police report against him. Robertson has been helping his friend Ed Billings lampoon the aspiring bureaucrat on their respective Youtube channels. ...
• Super Duper Half Time Navy Flyover, half a mil ...
  Yahoo! sports declared it “a good thing” for promoting “our nations military”. And wonders why nobody complains about GM paying for a super bowl ad… Very close to the truth… you can almost see it.. just pull your head out and open your eyes… Sure GM got corporate welfare, a lot of corporate welf ...
• Egypt revolution is victory 4 Democracy but cr ...
  For a few interminable minutes there, okay– days –and bloody, millions of Egyptians had taken to the streets rejecting the legitimacy of Egypt’s authoritarian regime. The despotic Mubarak refused to budge and experts deemed the outcome a “stalemate.” Really? A preponderance of citizens greater t ...

Debunking the Debunkers

• Confirmed: FBI Got Warning Day Before OKC Bomb ...
  New documents released under the Freedom of Information Act confirm that the FBI received a phone call the day before the Oklahoma City bombing warning that the attack was imminent, and that the feds tried to reach a deal with bomber Terry Nichols to take the death penalty off the table if he ad ...
• Mike Adams & Andrew Wakefield on Scientific Re ...
  An excellent discussion on the history of science and how revolutionary figures are often savagely attacked, despite being correct. The stuff about cold fusion was interesting. Steven Jones was also a leading name in cold fusion, but his work was separate from Fleischmann and Pons. In 2009, U ...
• Debunking the Debunkers on Pumpitout Radio
  Jeff Hill's Pumpitout radio show featuring Adam Taylor and myself. We discuss the undeniable evidence which proves that the public has not been told the truth concerning the atrocities that took place on September 11, 2001. We also discuss the numerous errors made by so-called 9/11 "debunkers." ...
• Jesse Ventura: American Conspiracies Audio Boo ...
  The full audio book of Jesse Ventura's American Conspiracies. Here is the chapter on 9/11: Download audio book link Related links: Rep. Cohen: Ventura’s Show Promotes Terrorism TruTV's 'Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura' - 9/11 Jesse Ventura's Pentagon Episode & a response to Neighb ...
• Debunking the Debunkers
  Permanent Top Post--Scroll Down for Newer Posts Comments are only open to blog contributors, but feel free to contact us here if you have a point of contention or some kind words you would like to share. Ad hominems will be ignored, but well-formed rebuttals may be addressed (and that is a sub ...

Fooducate

• Let’s Talk Girl Scout Cookies
  This is a guest blog post by Christina Le Beau. It originally appeared on Spoonfed. I was talking to a friend about Brownies. The Girl Scout kind. Her daughter had just joined a troop, and, remembering how much I’d loved camping and earning badges as a Girl Scout myself, I asked for details, thi ...
• Will the Skinny Pepsi make YOU Skinny?
  Pepsi, and especially diet Pepsi, want to associate themselves with beautiful, glamorous and  skinny people. In a clever product makeover, they are doing to their cans what photoshop does to models to make them look taller and skinnier. The new Diet Pepsi Skinny Can, available to consumers natio ...
• Four Thoughts on Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move” ...
  Today Michelle Obama celebrates the first anniversary of her worthy cause Let’s Move, the campaign to end childhood obesity within one generation. Launched early last year, the program aims to achieve its noble goal  by improving the nutritional quality of school lunches adding more physical ac ...
• Great News from Hershey: Chocolate more Nutrit ...
  The Hershey Center for Health and Nutrition (Yes, candy makers have nutrition centers!) yesterday published a not-so-surprising study touting the health benefits of chocolate. But for the first time, they put the nutritional benefits into a context. It appears that Chocolate contains more antiox ...
• Did You See that Superbowl Commercial for Kale ...
  No. Of course not. Of the twelve food commercials during yesterday’s superbowl, all were for junk food and liquid candy: Coke Pepsi Lipton Brisk Doritos Snickers What you need to know: Let’s just say outright that we enjoyed the commercials very much. Lots of creativity. Overall, the quality was ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

• 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 ...

Greg Palast

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

• How can I freshen up a tired winter coat?
  A couple of weeks ago, I spotted an article someone was promoting on Twitter about “sprucing up your tired winter coat“. Ooh! I thought, I like sprucing! It’s a great way to upcycle & reduce after all — but when I clicked over to the article, I found the sprucing involved the addition of various ...
• How can I reuse or recycle hairdressers scisso ...
  We’ve had an email from Tasha: We are a hairdressing scissors company trying to find a charity we can send old hairdressing scissors too? If you know of any could you please let me know. I don’t know of any – does anyone else? What about charities that collect scrap metal in general? From what [ ...
• How can I reuse or recycle (quilts and) pillow ...
  We’ve already covered old duvets before really but we’ve had an email from Gill: I have 6-8 used but still serviceable quilts and pillows and no-one seems to want them. The local homeless shelter says they donât take donations and Iâve contacted several charities who I thought might use them (ra ...
• How can I reuse or recycle an MDF radiator cov ...
  We’ve had an email from Andi: The last people who lived in our house installed MDF (i think) radiator covers everywhere which we don’t want any more. Do you have any idea what we can do with them? They’ve been painted and have cute cut out panels but block all the heat! There still seem [...]
• How can I reduce electricity wastage in the ki ...
  Our “how can I reduce this?” questions are often about how to reduce physical waste but it’s important to stop wasting power too – and I’ll like to hear your tips & helpful hints on this: how can I reduce electricity wastage in the kitchen? Everyone knows not to boil too much water in the [...]

Age of Autism

• David Kirby On The Autism Vaccine Debate: Why ...
  David Kirby has a thought proviking post at HuffPO, Part 1 is up today, read and comment at HuffPo on The Autism-Vaccine Debate: Why It Won't Go Away. ...The temporal association might be coincidental, but for many autism parents, now...
• Attacks on Teachers Who Express Concern for St ...
  This was sent from one of our readers. We welcome your discussion in the comments, and please share on FB and elsewhere. Thanks. Dear AoA, I write to you anonymously. I am a teacher and like other teachers, I am...
• New Medical Journal Review: Vaccine Injury is ...
  There is a new review paper in the peer reviewed and fully indexed Journal of Immunotoxicology, 2011; 8(1): 68–79, that looks at much of the evidence for various environmental causes of autism, including vaccines and vaccine ingredients. It is pretty...
• Merck's Medical Media Empire
  Managing Editor's Note: Martin has reported extensively on the GMC proceedings against Dr. Wakefield. He has written numerous reports and books that you can purchase at Slingshot Publications. By Martin Walker Today the world is so big and the miasma...
• Swine Flu Vaccine, Genetics and Narcolepsy in ...
  From The Boston Herald via AP. Narcolepsy is a serious, life changing condition see HERE. GENEVA — Genetic factors may have contributed to a spike in narcolepsy cases observed among children in Finland who received the swine flu vaccine Pandemrix,...

Global BDS Movement

• JNF eBook 3 now available
  The third volume of the JNF eBook Series (http://jnfebook read more
• Palestinian Civil Society Statement on the dr ...
  Professor John Ruggie, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General (SRSG) on transnational corporations and other Business enterprises is currently preparing his final report to the UN Human Rights Council, due in June 2011. The report will include Guiding Principles for the implement ...
• On the Second Anniversary of Israel’s Bloodbat ...
  Occupied Palestine, 27 December 2010 – On the morning of 27 December 2008 Israeli forces initiated a 23-day military offensive against the occupied and besieged Gaza Strip killing more than 1400 and injuring over 5000 Palestinians, predominantly civilians and refugees since 1948. read more
• Palestinian Civil Society reiterates call for ...
  Occupied Palestine, 22 December 2010 - We, the undersigned Palestinian civil society organizations, including farmers’ unions, agricultural organizations and popular committees, reiterate the call of the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) for a full boycott of Carmel-Agrexco due to its com ...
• Derail Israel's Unlawful A1 Train Project– End ...
  Occupied Palestinian Territory, 16 December 2010 - Israel’s A1 high-speed train project designed to connect Jerusalem and Tel Aviv violates international humanitarian law and human rights law. The A1 rail project forms a component of Israel’s ongoing plans to cement its regime of occupation, col ...

Farm Wars

• Food Bank Locator
  Enter your zip code to find the nearest emergency food bank.
• Global Governance of Nano-scale Technologies
  Nanotechnology has been rolled out with virtually no government oversight or public debate.
• Truth Squad Radio – Nell Walton of AllHorses P ...
  Nell Walton joins us this Wednesday evening to discuss her novel titled "The Bone Trail."
• Epic Fail: Global Warming Solutions
  Governors have the power to reject the globalists outright, but Agenda 21 and its lies are so monumental that it is difficult to some to grasp. Further, mainstream media is totally closed to the idea of public discourse on this matter. But cracks are beginning to appear in the Agenda 21 monoli ...
• The Seedier Side of Alfalfa Contamination
  Geertson also explained that alfalfa is particularly prone to contamination because it is a perennial plant (a plant that lives for more than 2 years) that can be cross pollinated by insects that travel long distances and alfalfa seeds can lie dormant in the ground for 10 to 20 years. Unlike cor ...

Open Your Eyes News

• Cuba releases political prisoner Eduardo Diaz
  BBC – The Cuban government has freed a political prisoner, Eduardo Diaz, who had refused to go into exile in Spain. The Roman Catholic Church said another dissident, Hector Maseda, was also to be released. The two prisoners were among 52 dissidents the Communist authorities agreed to free in Jul ...
• Australia: Labor to impose carbon tax next yea ...
  The Australian – JULIA Gillard plans to introduce a carbon price from July 1 next year and defy the Greens by insisting on compensation for the coal and electricity industries, in a move that will infuriate its minority
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   government partner. The Weekend Australian understands the government will p ...
• Egypt Erupts in Jubilation as Mubarak Steps Do ...
  New York Times – An 18-day-old revolt led by the young people of Egypt ousted President Hosni Mubarak on Friday, shattering three decades of political stasis here and overturning the established order of the Arab world. Shouts of âGod is greatâ erupted from Tahrir Square at twilight as Mr. Mubar ...
• British MPs decide to keep blanket ban on pris ...
  Guardian - MPs have voted overwhelmingly in favour of maintaining a blanket ban preventing prisoners from voting, strengthening the government’s hand as it seeks to water down a ruling from the European court of human rights. Ministers will start drawing up a compromise proposal after MPs vote ...
• Alcohol kills more than AIDS, TB or violence: ...
  Reuters – Alcohol causes nearly 4 percent of deaths worldwide, more than AIDS, tuberculosis or violence, the World Health Organization warned on Friday. Rising incomes have triggered more drinking in heavily populated countries in Africa and Asia, including India and South Africa, and binge drin ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

• Ex-astronaut out as New Mexico Energy czar
  Former astronaut and state legislator Harrison Schmitt has withdrawn his nomination to become New Mexico's head of the department of Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department, the latest setback as the state's new Republican governor tries to reverse her Democratic...
• EPA diving into the Sacramento-San Joaquin Del ...
  Urban water agencies and Central Valley irrigation districts hit by pumping cutbacks in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta have long groused that federal regulators are obsessed with the effects of the big pumps that send water south and haven't paid enough...
• Clorox comes clean: Company discloses all ingr ...
  The maker of bleach, Pine-Sol and other popular cleaning products announced Tuesday that it will disclose the specific preservatives, dyes and fragrances it uses in its cleaning, disinfecting and laundry products sold in the U.S. and Canada. The Clorox Co....
• Endangered arroyo toad gets habitat protection ...
  The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has finalized designation of 98,366 acres of critical habitat needed by the endangered arroyo toad to fulfill all of its complex life-cycle stages: flowing water, sandy banks and chaparral. The USFWS also designated 2,347...
• The dark side of LEDs: Some colored lights con ...
  As the light from incandescent bulbs dims in the face of their impending phase-out, new concerns are being raised about the hazardous materials contained in some of their more energy-efficient replacements, such as light-emitting diodes or LEDs. While LEDs consume...

water.org

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

Before It's News

• Seven ways to be good: 6) Form if-then plans
• Plum Blossoms at Sydneys Capitol Theatre
• Rental Parity: Coming soon to a neighborhood n ...
• House GOP unveils $61B spending cut plan ...
• Turns out CIA was right about Mubarak exit ...

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

• Hertz Continues Ambitious Sustainability Plans
  The Hertz Corporation (NYSE: HTZ), one of the world’s largest rental car companies in the world, announced that it will undertake its first phase of installing solar electric systems at its rental locations, starting with sixteen lo ...
• U.S. Aims for $1 per Watt Solar Power to Compe ...
  Solar innovation at the heart of SunShot program. U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu Friday announced that $27 million will be awarded to nine new projects ...
• E•BOOM CAPITAL: Power-One Guidance for 2011 Sc ...
  Power inverters are necessary to convert DC electricity from solar and wind installation into usable AC electricity. Shares of solar and wind power inverter company Po ...
• Princeton's Impressive New Solar Plans: A Mode ...
  Princeton University not only plans to be home to one of the largest solar installations on any U.S. college campus by 2012, but it also aims to create a successful renewable energy business model for other schools to follow. read ...
• E•BOOM CAPITAL: MEMC Shares Up 10% on 2010 Res ...
  MEMC’s SunEdison subsidiary “simplifies solar” by developing, financing, operating and monitoring solar power plants for commercial, industrial and utility customers. ...

News Blaze

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

Historical Notes

• Fidel Castro
• Fidel Castro History Archive
  Tab seemed to migrate to others !
• Castro Speech database

libcom

• Sabotage in Fiat Tychy
  FIAT-Tychy.jpg 300 cars were damaged last night by ticked off workers in Poland's Fiat plant. Workers in the FIAT factory in Tychy, Poland sabotaged 300 cars last night. The sa ...
• Working, thinking, fighting, bleeding in Tahri ...
  Nigel Gibson reflects on the Egyptian Revolution. What makes the lid blow off? Fanon asks in The Wretched of the Earth reflecting on the revolution against French colonialism in Algeria fifty years ago as he thought about the futur ...
• Egypt: Labor and professional syndicates join ...
  pic.jpg Egypt is currently witnessing unprecedented labor and professional unrest in parallel to the popular uprising which has swept through the country since 25 January. Thes ...
• Crisis in Care: Interview with an anarchist su ...
  care.jpg An interview with a support worker in Sheffield about the problems in social care as a result of the recession and the proposed austerity measures. read more
• The Cairo Commune
  Reflections On the Cairo Commune by the Fanon scholar Nigel Gibson. by Nigel Gibson Quite remarkable (but not surprising) that after less than two weeks Tahrir square has developed a system of participatory. While constantly worryi ...

Free Range International

• Ride For The Brand
  When I first started this blog I used to hammer away on a couple of themes which really bothered me.  The first was Provincial Reconstruction Teams which I maintain are, by design, unable to accomplish their assigned mission. The second theme had to do with the reason we remain in Afghanistan. O ...
• Shifting Sands
  With most of the world’s attention focused unfolding events in the Mideast now is a good time to shed some light on the current ground-truth in Afghanistan.  Sami the Finn is always a good place to start and he provides interesting perspective on the suicide bombing at Kabul’s at  the Finest s ...
• What Is the Problem Here?
  One of the Chim Chims’ has asked to put up a guest post on a topic near and dear to both our hearts for different reasons:  the continuing efforts of the New York Times to kill a program I doubt was that big of a deal to begin with.  Chim Chim is a member of [...]
• The Start of a Long Year
  A few weeks back home we’re a blessing and also a time to partake in my favorite thing to do which is doing nothing.  I’m an expert.  While I was away a few articles caught my attention and they serve as a useful point of departure to evaluate where we are at the start of [...]
• You Can’t Handle the Truth
  The efforts of the international community to bring aid to Afghanistan, help develop the infrastructure with the goal of allowing Afghanistan a chance at self sufficiency are failing dismally.  That should not be a surprise to anyone with more than a passing knowledge of the international aid ra ...

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 ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

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

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

• Elvis Costello, singer/songwriter (Nov 27, 201 ...
  His music captures the times we live in and its been doing so for forty years. He's never been shy about issues, and Elvis Costello isn't today. He's here to talk music, politics and activism.
• Malalai Joya, Afghan activist (October 30, 201 ...
  She is a hard core activist in Afghanistan and has paid the price for it. Her life constantly threatened, banished from her seat in the Afghan parliament, Malalai Joya never stops. She wants foreign troops, including Canada's, out of her country and warlords out of government. This week she's ...
• Naheed Nenshi, Calgary Mayor (October 23, 2010 ...
  He's made the news in countries around the world - the main reason? He's Canada's first major city Muslim mayor. Does that matter? We'll ask Calgary's new mayor himself.
• Michael Ignatieff, Leader of the Opposition (S ...
  Sounds like fun - all summer touring the country going from one barbecue to another. But for Michael Ignatieff it had to be more than fun - it had to be redefining moment. This week we find out if it was.
• Colm Feore (encore)
  His acting career is prolific, his roles varied, his talent immeasurable. Whether on the Shakespearean stage or the big or small screen, he's one of the most recognizable Canadian faces in the business. In this encore broadcast from 2001, Colm Feore discusses "acting is acting is acting".

Scotts Contracting

• Delta Wind Turbine Questions and Answers from ...
  Hello Scotty, thank you so much for your questions.  Please see attached spec sheets for our 400W HAWT and 1000W HAWT.  Iâve also included additional information about Delta for your convenience. Your answers are listed below. Please let me know … Continue reading →
• Solar Power Push is on
  federal grant that covers 30 percent of the installation cost and a 100 percent depreciation tax credit federal grant program could save $645,000 on a $1 million job New Jersey companies employ upward of 3,500 people 80 percent of the … Continue reading →
• Missouri Energy News-Dirty Coal Electricity Pr ...
  The combination of new rules to promote efficiency and the implementation of the renewable energy standard approved by voters in 2008 can help defer or offset the need for new power plants in Missouri and create new jobs, he said. … Continue reading →
• Results from Energy & Environment Consumer Sur ...
  75% of Consumers Have a Favorable View of Solar and Wind Energy, According to New Survey from Pike Research Monday, February 07, 2011 5:01 AM (Source: Business Wire) The future of the U.S. energy supply is a topic of fierce … Continue reading →
• Obama State of the Union Clean Energy Overview
  State of the Union 2011 Fact Sheets: overview, clean energy, R+D, manufacturing, patents Author(s): Miriam Berg In his State of the Union delivered Jan. 25, 2011, President Barack Obama highlighted energy-saving measures to stimulate the economy. Want to learn the … Continue reading →

The View From Abroad

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

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

• The Egyptian Army: Make Money, Not War
  Constrained from war by the Camp David accord, the Egyptian army lords it over the economy instead.
• Why Egypt Will Not Turn Into Another Iran
  The protests in Egypt will produce a democracy, not a theocracy.
• Using Islamophobia as a Pretext for Withdrawin ...
  If the two cultures genuinely dislike each other, cooperation between the United States and the Middle East in stamping out terrorism is doomed.
• The S Word
  Will South Sudan, now on the verge of becoming a new country, make secession acceptable?
• Puntland Splits
  The autonomous section of northeast Somalia wants a better deal: for itself and for the whole country.

Law.com

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

Iranian.com

• 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, ...
• Baha'is lobby U.S. commission to help them sur ...
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• IRAN: Officials praise Egyptian uprising, stif ...
  Iran's president declared Friday that Egypt's uprising shows a new Middle East is emerging that will doom Israel and break free of American "interference," even as Tehran clamped down on its own opposition movement. Iran has sought to portray the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt as a replay of its ...
• Mubarak out as Iran's Ahmadinejad claims owner ...
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• Fuel Troubles in Iran
  TEHRAN, Iran, February 11, 2011 (ENS) - Iran's ambitious plan to flood the market with synthetic petrol has been marred by ecological concerns. Tehran says it is becoming self-sufficient in petrol, in the hope of warding off the pain of further economic sanctions. But the effort has many detract ...

Most Revolutionary Act

• American Ambivalence Towards Empire
  It took moving overseas for it to sink in that Americans owe their high standard of living to US military domination of third world resources. I have always understood the theory of “economic imperialism” – that the US maintains a monopoly on cheap third world labor and resources via military su ...
• My New Expatriate Identity
  For people over fifty, starting over in a new country is like dropping a lab rat in a complex maze. Like the rat, you suddenly find yourself in a totally unknown environment that constantly confronts you were new decisions and dilemmas. For example, learning to use a new phone system. It took me ...
• 10/14/02: The Day I Became an Expatriate
  As I blogged previously, the brutal extrajudicial murder of a patient in 1989 demonstrated in the most horrific way possible that ultimate power lay outside America’s democratic institutions. It forced me to accept that political control lay in the hands of a wealthy elite who employed an invisi ...
• The Murder of Oscar Manassa
  I neglected to mention in my last blog that Oscar Manassa, the African American postal worker who was murdered, experienced the same vicious harassment I did for four years before he was killed. In fact this is why his legal team brought him to see me. He, too, complained of relentless prank cal ...
• Of Blogs, Bloggers and Blogging
  The end of January marked my one year anniversary blogging. I never imagined, in my wildest dreams, that blogging would be the main event of my sixties. When my publisher first suggested it, I thought blogging was something only young people did. That a blog was a public diary that announced to ...

Doug's Darkworld

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

FourWinds10

• THE GULF OF MEXICO IS DYING: A SPECIAL REPORT ...
• 2. US Department of Defense is the Worst Pollu ...
  The US military is responsible for the most egregious and widespread pollution of the planet, yet this information and accompanying documentation goes almost entirely unreported. In spite of the evidence, the environmental impact of the US military goes largely unaddressed by environmental organ ...
• The Search for BP's Oil
  "Dolphins off the bow!" � I race to the front of the WeatherBird II, a research vessel owned by the University of South Florida. There they are, doing their sleek silvery thing, weaving between translucent waves, disappearing under the boat, reappearing in perfect formation on the other side. ft ...
• The Oil Slick BP Tried To Hide Has Been Discov ...
  In Thick Layers On the Sea Floor Over An Area of Several Thousand Square Miles � BP and the government famously declared that most of the oil had disappeared. But as I've noted, as much as 98% of the oil is still in the ocean. I have repeatedly pointed out that BP and the government applied mass ...
• SeaFood....Anyone? Who Do You Believe Now?
  80-square mile kill zone Gulf of Mexico - "It looks like everything's dead" http://hoodooed.blogspot.com/. � Take the time to watch Diane Sawyers, CBS News! It's in the news. The watch the video that follows.

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

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

Discovery Educator Network

• Educational Video Resources
  Tags: Video, resources, Education, youtube, schooltubeby: Andy Losik
• Free Math Worksheets, Math Tutoring, Lesson Pl ...
  Tags: math, Video, tutors, lessonby: Andy Losik
• Teacher Zone - Free Library of Math Video Less ...
  Comments:Math lesson tutorial videos - Dean MantzTags: math, Video, tutorsby: Andy Losik
• DROPitTOme - Securely receive files from anyon ...
  Comments:Lets users receive files from others in their Dropbox account via a secure login. - Randy RodgersTags: dropbox, storage, tools, dropittome, web2.0, webapps, filesharing, receiveby: Randy Rodgers
• Interactive Learning Modules | The Center On C ...
  Comments:Interactive learning modules covering U.S. Congress - Dean MantzTags: interactive, modules, congress, learning, government, US, democracy, education, socialstudiesby: Dean Mantz

Rodale News

• How to Be an Organic Romantic
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Short on ideas for Valentine's Day? You're not alone. In fact, many companies actually prey on love-struck procrastinators by marketing last-minute Valentine's Day gift sales. All of this rushing around box stores, and trying to find a flower shop open past 9 pm on the e ...
• 5 Questions to Ask Your Dentist about Radiatio ...
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Our exposure to radiation is now seven times higher than it was in the 1980s. While most of that comes from CT scans, body X-rays, mammograms, and other forms of medical imaging, there's another common source of radiation you could be getting every six months when you go ...
• Diaper Options for Raising Plastic-free Babies
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Bringing a child into the world is always a happy occasion, but in our modern Western society, it also brings the environmental burden of diapering the adorable little bottom some 7,000 times over the course of the first three years of his or her life. For the average U. ...
• Is Your Refrigerator Running (Away with Your M ...
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Refrigerators are notorious energy hogs: Some can add up to $250 to $300 a year to your household electricity bill. But it doesn’t have to be that way. read more
• Fruits and Veggies Lower Your Blood Pressure, ...
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Here's a great reason fill your plate with deeply colored veggies and fruits (and to help yourself to some tea and dark chocolate). A team of UK and U.S. researchers investigating the connection between blood pressure and diet have found a link between flavonoid intake a ...

big think

• Dark Continent: Africa as Seen in American Art ...
  Two years before opening his Barnes Foundation in 1925, Dr. Albert C. Barnes vowed that in his new institution, “negro art will have a place among the great art manifestations of all times.” Such lofty goals and noble aspirations mark much of the history of American art museums in their quest to ...
• Boob Jobs Indicate a Perkier Economy
  In December I raised the question: Can watching the market for sex toys predict a recession? In that post I suggested the increased demand for lubricants in 2009 might reflect the need for a cheap means to feel good in hard economic times and that, if this is the case, then perhaps lubricant s ...
• World's Only Superpower Has 32 Legislators Liv ...
  Well, not everyone can live at C Street... Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) is demanding an investigation into reports that at least 32 members of Congress are living out of their D.C. offices, Jay Newton Small explains: Sure, most congressmen earn more than $10 ...
• Friday Flotsam: Webcams, busy Central America, ...
  Where did the week go? Some news! Webcams: Eruptions readers have been keeping an eye on a lot of volcanoes lately - and it sounds like it has paid off. A few of the webcams where activity was spotted were Kirishima (see below) and Sakurajima�along with lava lake in the Halema`uma`u Crater . ...
• A Former TSA Agent Speaks Out On Collective Ba ...
  Last week TSA Administrator John Pistole bestowed very limited collective bargaining rights on the nation's 40,000 Transportation Security Officers. Even if the TSOs vote to unionize, they will be barred from negotiating on basic issues like disciplinary standards, ostensibly in the interest of ...

Information Liberation

• Paul Supporters Hijack Cheney-Rumsfeld Reunion ...
  [...] One shout of "where's Bin Laden?" rang out as Cheney spoke of Rumsfeld. That led to the pro-Cheney contingent (which it should be said greatly outnumbers the opposition) to shout the hecklers down with the familiar "USA, USA" chant. It...
• How Could A Voluntary Society Function?
  Full text here: http://www.vforvoluntary.com/wiki/PrivateArbitration...
• EGYPT: Voluntarism, Anarcho Capitalism, & Spon ...
  We were surprised a main stream news source would recognize the peaceful effectiveness of stateless voluntarism in Egypt, rather than the myth of Anarchy as chaos. Will the Egyptian people embrace the freedom they are living RIGHT NOW, or install a...
• Heroic: Giant New Anti-Government Protest in C ...
  Reports the BBC: Hundreds of thousands of Egyptians have poured into Cairo*s Tahrir Square for the latest protest calling for Hosni Mubarak*s government to step down. The BBC*s Jim Muir, in the Egyptian capital, says it is the biggest demonstration ...
• Stefan Molyneux Debates The Venus Project/Zeit ...
  Gets down to business at ~42:10 when Molyneux asks how they're going to allocate resources without a free market price system. Hilarity ensues!...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

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

RFF Library

• Not Only Climate Change: Mobility, Vulnerabili ...
  International Institute for Environment and Development / by Cecilia Tacoli http://pubs.iied.org/pdfs/10590IIED.pdf [From ClimateWire article by Lisa Friedman, sub. req'd]…Using case studies from Bolivia, Senegal and Tanzania — all prone to “slow onset climate change” — Tacoli found that tempora ...
• Grand Challenges for Life-Cycle Assessment of ...
  Environmental Science and Technology (Web publication date : January 25, 20110/ by T. E. McKone, W. W. Nazaroff, P. Berck, M. Auffhammer, T. Lipman, M. S. Torn, E. Masanet, A. Lobscheid, N. Santero, U. Mishra http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es103579c [From a Greenwire article by Jenny Mandel ...
• Energy Cost Impacts on American Families, 2001 ...
  American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity / by Eugene M. Trisko, Esq. http://www.americaspower.org/sites/default/files/Energy_Cost_Burdens_on_American_Families_2011.pdf [From Website] One-half of American households will spend 20 percent of their after-tax income on energy costs this year, a ...
• Sustainability: The ‘Embracers’ Se ...
  MIT Sloan Management Review and The Boston Consulting Group http://tinyurl.com/4vlwmhp [From Preface and Executive Summary] While global economic and political factors might have predicted otherwise, corporate commitments to sustainability-driven management are strengthening. But even as enterpr ...
• NOAA and Commerce Department Draft Aquaculture ...
  NOAA / US Department of Commerce NOAA draft: http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/aquaculture/policy2/comments.htm Commerce draft: http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/aquaculture/doc_policy/index.htm [From NOAA Fisheries Service page] The Department of Commerce and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( ...

Scientific American - News

• Wireless Heart Monitor Fine-Tunes Cardiac-Fail ...
  A new pressure-sensing technology is helping doctors to read some of the innermost secrets of the heart. This cardiac monitor uses electromechanical dynamics to detect crucial pressure levels in a patient's pulmonary artery and relay those readings to physicians wirelessly, obviating the need fo ...
• Down in the Data Dumps: Researchers Inventory ...
  Data is the common currency that unites all fields of science. As science progresses data proliferates, providing points of reference, revealing trends, and offering evidence to substantiate hypotheses. Decades into the digitization of science, however, data is proliferating exponentially, at ti ...
• Scaled-Down Success: Programmable Logic Tiles ...
  In the race to build ever-smaller microchips, researchers have tinkered for more than a dozen years with an end-run technique that would shrink things to previously unrealizable scales. Rather than etching away semiconductors with photolithography to create circuits and processors--a top-down pr ...
• Mathematics' Nearly Century-Old Partitions Eni ...
  For someone who died at the age of 32 the largely self-taught Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan left behind an impressive legacy of insights into the theory of numbers--including many claims that he did not support with proof. One of his more enigmatic statements, made nearly a century ...
• Opposite Spins: The LHC Accelerates Higgs Sear ...
  There can be only one top-dog collider in physics, one ring-shaped machine to rule them all. Since late 2009 , when the Large Hadron Collider, or LHC, started up outside Geneva and quickly became the most powerful collider in history , particle physicists' eyes have been wandering steadily t ...

RAWA News

• Hungry Afghanistan faces prospect of drought i ...
  Reuters: Afghanistan could face a serious drought in 2011 that would make millions of poor go hungry and fuel instability as foreign troops seek to reverse surging violence in the battle against the Taliban. Low rainfall early in the wet season will likely threaten Afghanistan’s irrigated harves ...
• Stigma hampers Afghan fight against AIDS
  Reuters: Through a blue gate, they come for treatment in the early morning, faces wrapped in scarves against the cold. For now it’s a trickle, but their numbers are rising. “I try to keep it secret, especially from my mother,” said a 26-year-old HIV patient at a foreign-run clinic in the Afghan ...
• Human rights group criticizes Afghanistan&#821 ...
  Deutsche Presse Agentur: A human rights group in Afghanistan highlighted the emergence of pro-government armed groups and their misdeeds in a report published Tuesday. “These groups have been deplored as criminal and predatory by many Afghans and been accused of severe human rights violations su ...
• Letter from Kabul: The Great Afghan Bank Heist
  The New Yorker: In the spring of 2009, as the reëlection campaign of President Hamid Karzai was gathering momentum, a group of prominent Afghan businessmen met for breakfast at the presidential palace to see the candidate. Among them was Khalil Ferozi, the chief executive officer of Kabul Bank, ...
• Afghan police “have drug culture”
  The Press Association: A culture of drug-taking and “indiscipline” exists among Afghan nationals working with British troops in Afghanistan, a preliminary inquest hearing into the deaths of five British soldiers has been told. The UK troops were murdered by an Afghan policeman on November 3 2009 ...

frogblog

• Hot Ukrainian Husbands from Chernobyl?
  Last week the media reported a “Radio Rock” promotion which involved winning “hot chicks” as wives. As Sue Bradford commented in the media, this is not an isolated incident. As a compassionate and forgiving feminist I thought I would run a parallel competition for all those women out there seeki ...
• President Hosni Mubarak’s dilemma
  Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak is obviously troubled by a decision he has to make: I would suggest “Go” is the only viable option. He can take the billions of dollars he has stolen from the Egyptian people to Italy, or to Israel (even they would probably welcome him as an exile), and let Egyp ...
• Bank bailouts explained
  'When you constantly get the bailouts you don't care about the shame. When you constantly get the bailouts you don't care about your customers.'
• ACC digs a deeper hole
  Financial Review of ACC today, so I subbed in for Gareth on the Transport and Industrial Relations Select Committee. Usual thing – we and Labour make the running and when things get too hot the Government members take a turn with patsy questions. ACC fronted with Chair, John Jud ...
• Serious questions asked of the Transport Minis ...
  I’ve just come back from the Debating Chamber feeling a little annoyed with the Transport Minister because he has declined Auckland Council’s call to review the cost-effectiveness of the new Puhoi to Warkworth motorway north of Auckland. Why set up a new Super Council to speak w ...

Patronus Analytical

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

J Kozy

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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

• Friday Cat Blogging - 11 February 2011
  For some reason, Inkblot has spent the past week burrowing under the quilt on our bed for his afternoon snooze. During cold weather this is pretty normal, but it's been anything but cold around here lately. It's 70 degrees right now, and has been all week. So what's up? Domino, as you can see, ...
• Chart of the Day: Living With the Folks
  Today's chart comes via Allison Schrager, and plots the riskiness of an economy (judged by the price of CDS coverage for its bonds) vs. the number of men aged 25-34 who are still living with their parents. The correlation is pretty striking: It's possible, of course, that this is actually dem ...
• What Does the Muslim Brotherhood Want?
  American conservatives have gone so far off the rails about the apocalyptic danger of the Muslim Brotherhood taking over in Egypt that it's tempting for liberals to go too far in the other direction. So when I read Robert Dreyfuss's piece about the Brotherhood today, I was all ready to critici ...
• Good Spy, Bad Spy
  Longtime CIA officer Frank Anderson writes today that we should continue to deny clemency to Jonathan Pollard, who was convicted of spying for Israel and sentenced to life in prison two decades ago: The Pollard clemency pleas are partly based on the close relationship between Israel and the U ...
• Mubarak Finally Leaves
  Wait. Now Mubarak is gone? Didn't he say he was staying last night? I'm so confused. Anyway, the military brass and the former head of intelligence are now in charge, so I'm sure everything will be OK. Democracy is just around the corner. Comments | Post Comment����

Insanity Report

• Are Parents Really This Clueless?
  From the UKDailyMail: A desperate mother has condemned Microsoft after her 11-year-old son racked up a £1,000 debt on her debit card – through his Xbox. Brendan Jordan racked up a bill of £1,082.52 on his Xbox without realising all the purchases were being charged to his mum Dawn Matthews’ car ...
• Dumbass of the Year Contender
  There’s several different levels of stupid. There’s the first level which is just random forgetfulness and absent mindedness.  You know, you accidentally put your hand on a hot stove or salt in your tea.  Or maybe you have a brain fart and you forget the name of a friend.  This is the everyday l ...
• IC 227: FedEx’in Puppies
  Topics for the show: Fuck Valentines Day Woman decides to it would be wise to mail her son a puppy Violent video games make your kids rape? wait what? Kid runs up mom’s credit card on Xbox Live and she blames………..Microsoft Michelle Obama wears a $35 dress…why is this news? Christopher Lee is the ...
• FacePalm of the Week: Another Cheating Politi ...
  I mean…seriously folks. First let me give my standard response to this type of thing: I don’t care that this man was trying to cheat on his wife. I don’t. To me committing adultery (or attempting to) doesn’t mean you can’t do your job. If it did, then hell, this entire country would come to [... ...
• The Lying Groupie Rape Defense
  So I’m looking around on the Internet for what’s happening in the news and I come across this story about Darrell Williams, starting forward for Oklahoma State who has been charged with four felonies:  One count sexual battery and three counts of rape. *sigh* Can I just say that I’m tired of hea ...

Simple Climate

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

e!Science News

• Study finds that electronic fetal heart rate m ...
  In a study to be presented today at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's (SMFM) annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting ™, in San Francisco, researchers will present findings that prove that the use of fetal heart rate monitors lowers the rate of infant mortality. read more
• Pheromone increases foraging honey bees, leads ...
  The application of a naturally occurring pheromone to honey bee test colonies increases colony growth resulting in stronger hives overall, according to a new study conducted by scientists at Oregon State University and Texas A&M University. read more
• Giant rats lead scientists to ancient face car ...
  Ancient stone faces carved into the walls of a well-known limestone cave in East Timor have been discovered by a team searching for fossils of extinct giant rats. read more
• Scripps Research compound blocks brain cell de ...
  Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have produced the first known compound to show significant effectiveness in protecting brain cells directly affected by Parkinson's disease, a progressive and fatal neurodegenerative disorder. read more
• Firefly glow: Berkeley Lab scientists develop ...
  A unique new probe based on luciferase, the enzyme that gives fireflies their glow, enables researchers to monitor hydrogen peroxide levels in mice and thereby track the progression of infectious diseases or cancerous tumors without harming the animals or even having to shave their fur. Develop ...

unEarthed

• Doctors' Orders—America Needs Clean Air
  1,882 health pros demand clean air from Obama, House, Senate This week, nearly 2,000 health and medical professionals from all 50 states and the District of Co ...
• Friday Finds: Big Ag’s Sugar Daddy
  Radiated bird brains, Clorox cleaning, peak oil Wikileaks A recent USDA decision allows farmers to plant genetically modified sugar beets. Photo courtesy of Uwe Hermann. ...
• Will Sunflower Be Cleanest Coal-Fired Power Pl ...
  New study challenges marketing campaign Rod Bremby A study released today by MSB Energy Associates calls into question claims that the new Sunflower coal-fi ...
• One County’s Dirty Energy Legacy
  Examining the environmental impacts of Central Californiaâs oil industry Nodding donkeys near Maricopa in Kern County, California. (Photo: Antandrus) It was ...
• #Right2Breathe Recap: What Saved 160,000 Lives ...
  The Clean Air Act, that's what (Clean air is a life saver, which is why Earthjustice is working to ensure that polluters don’t stand in the way of safeguards a ...

Brave New Climate

• Climate Change – it’s complicated, but i ...
  I was recently invited to provide a response to an opinion article on climate change that was offered to “The Punch” website. The lead article can be read here: Itâs just too hard to understand climate change. My response, reproduced below (original here), should be read with this context in mi ...
• ABC Counterpoint radio on nuclear costs, and n ...
  Many have seen/listened to this already, but for completeness, here are the details of my recent interview with the ABC Radio program Counterpoint on the cost of nuclear energy. It is based on a discussion of the recent Energy peer-reviewed paper authored by Nicholson, Biegler & Brook. Should Au ...
• Keeping solid information on nuclear energy on ...
  Guest Post by Luke Weston. Luke is a Melbourne-based physicist and occasional freelance electronic engineer, with a strong interest in educating the community about nuclear energy and related issues. Just this week, Martin Ferguson has been actively stepping up his efforts to keep nuclear energ ...
• An environmentally sound, energy-rich future ( ...
  Here is a blog-post version of the poster to accompany the AMS paper discussed in the previous post. You can download a printable, high rez (11 MB) version of the poster here, or a low rez (1 MB) version here. ————————— ————————— In the part III, I’ll publish the conference paper that provides t ...
• IFR: An optimized approach to meeting global e ...
  A few days ago, an important poster and written paper were presented at the 91st American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting, 23-27 Jan 2011, Seattle, WA; Second Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy. The Integral Fast Reactor (IFR): An Optimized Source for Global E ...

Indigenist Opinion

• In Response to Michael Lucas’"Democracy in Egy ...
  gay.com Daily Hot Topics: In Response to Michael Lucas’"Democracy in Egypt a Myth?": "As a naturalized gay adult who immigrated from Egypt, I can tell you from first-hand experience that Egyptians, whether gay or not, were not any safer under Mubarak’s regime. In 2001, after many years in Egypt ...
• Egyptian Activists Inspired by Forgotten Marti ...
  Egyptian Activists Inspired by Forgotten Martin Luther King Comic - ComicsAlliance | Comics culture, news, humor, commentary, and reviews: "While the world's political pundits debate the role the United States has played in the historical events presently occurring in Egypt, one activist is cred ...
• Is it OK for protesters to damage property? -- ...
  Is it OK for protesters to damage property? -- New Internationalist: "Photos of masked ‘black bloc’ protesters smashing windows seem to accompany most international summits these days. But the debate over whether property destruction is a valid tactic for bringing about social and political chan ...
• Mubarak steps down, hands power to army: VP
  Mubarak steps down, hands power to army: VP: [Cairo (Al Arabiya, Agencies)] "Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has stepped down and the vice president has named a military council to run the country's affairs, state television said on Friday after 18 days of mass protests against his rule. H ...
• From Fanon to Africa, with Love
  by Mumia Abu-Jamal San Francisco Bayview December 25, 2008 As the economies of the West and East tumble, tremors may also be felt in African economies, as heightened food prices push populations to the breaking point of near starvation. In country after country the struggle for l ...

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

+972

• In love with the Egyptian people
  This moment is so strange. I’m sitting here staring teary-eyed at news I haven’t even thoroughly read yet. There’s no way to treat it rationally, at least not right now. Later will come the time for that. For now, let’s rejoice. Let’s be amazed at the fact that people can topple the dictatorial ...
• “Settlers Marathon” to pass throug ...
  Many people say they oppose the Israeli settlements in the West bank. Even pro-Netanyahu hawks sometimes argue that the settlements are “a mistake”, and that the settlers put Israel’s future at risk. You could often hear a pro-Israeli speaker abroad say that Israel’s problem is those “fanatic se ...
• Egyptians Polled During Uprising: many still s ...
  No one knows what this evening will bring for Egypt. But a new Pechter Poll, funded by the Washington Institute for Near East policy, offers a remarkable insight from the days of revolution. Beware: It’s a small sample of just 343 respondents, reached by land line and cellphone, from 5-8 Februar ...
• Exclusive Video: Israeli army arrests 11-year- ...
  Yesterday, I posted two videos of January 2011 night raids in Nabi Saleh. The videos were taken during a ‘mapping operation’ conducted by the Israeli army. The operation was to photograph and catalogue all the male children in the village. There is no violence, just violation. The above is anot ...
• Foreign press intimidated by Israeli and Egypt ...
  Israeli airport security and Egyptian border control prevent Roee Ruttenberg and his cameraman from filming a simple assignment for an international media outlet in Sharm el Sheikh. By Roee Ruttenberg It should have been a regular day and an easy assignment. I was asked by an international new ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

• Winners of the Australia's World Heritage Pla ...
  Tony Burke, Minister for the Environment, today announced Larrakeyah Primary from Darwin and William Ross High School in Aitkenvale, Queensland as the winners of Australia's World Heritage Places competition.
• A new celebration of our national heritage
  Federal Heritage Minister, Tony Burke, is urging all Australians to get involved in celebrating our nation's unique heritage by taking part in Australian Heritage Week, which will be held for the first time in 2011.
• Round Two for On-farm Irrigation Efficiency
  Irrigators in the southern Murray-Darling Basin will benefit from Government investment under the On-Farm Irrigation Efficiency program.
• Esperance gets state-of-the-art weather obser ...
  A new purpose-built Bureau of Meteorology weather observation office has been opened today in Esperance, Western Australia, by Senator Don Farrell, Parliamentary Secretary for Sustainability and Urban Water.
• Resignation of Mr Mike Taylor
  The chairman of the Murray Darling Basin Authority, Mr Mike Taylor has handed in his resignation.

Matt Weidner Blog

• WOW! ORAL ARGUMENTS IN THE FLORIDA SUPREME COU ...
  Because we’re fighting everyday on this issue of verification of foreclosure complaints, I’ve gone back and actually listened to the arguments before the Florida Supreme Court and reviewed all of the documents The entire treasure trove and the history of all documents and arguments can be found ...
• Palm Beach Post- Fannie Mae fires second South ...
  (I wonder what happens to all those files that got transferred? So much for that swarthy swagger I saw in court yesterday, the mill attorney proudly asserting the right for any old party to foreclose, picking up files and arguing for one firm after another, just having a field day in the courtro ...
• Dangerous Expansion of The Senior Judge Progra ...
  Many believe the use of senior judges to clear the foreclosure docket is a dangerous infringement on Constitutional Rights.  One of the few arguments that prevent it from being directly challengable is the proposition that the use is only a temporary situation.  The moment this starts extending ...
• Improperly Verified Complaint = Reversible Err ...
  I find it so unfair that my clients have to spend good hard earned money to fight for a right given to them by the Florida Supreme Court…THE RIGHT TO HAVE RESIDENTIAL FORECLOSURE COMPLAINTS PROPERLY VERIFIED. This is a RIGHT.  Not a privileged. Even this late in the game, I find myself daily go ...
• Fannie Mae Terminates Relationships With More ...
  I had my first experience in a Lee County courtroom today where one attorney’s job appeared to be to make excuses for all sorts of problems…after all, her firm was withdrawing from 150,000 foreclosure cases all across the state…..sorry bout all the problems, the court orders violated, the chaos ...

abelard - news

• the breakaway - cycling tactics | France zone ...
  Why a rider breaks away from the main pack in a cycle road race.
• super smart sumptuous limousines | fun news at ...
  The wit, wealth and charm of real collectors of cars.
• alleged link between swine flu vaccine, a gene ...
  Interesting, a link between a human gene and an environmental trigger, leading to a neurological problem.
• binary for computers, it's all ones and nought ...
  Why bits and bytes are used if 'talking' to computers, and how the relate to counting in the binary number system.
• munich 2? hillary wants talks with muslim brot ...
  The errors that are made when history is not remembered.

The Parallel Parliament

• Knick Knacks
  You bring your life with you – at least parts of it. MPs and Senators almost universally experience loneliness and a sense of detachment from those parts of their lives they possessed before coming to Ottawa. We compensate by filling our offices with memories and mementos from home or travel. Fo ...
• Tribalism, Canadian Style
  “Things seem a bit better, eh?” The observation from a Conservative colleague as we fought our way through the cold winter blast along Wellington Street this week stuck in my craw. He believed MPs were treating one another better during Question Period. “But we’re still not getting anything seri ...
• The School of Hard Knocks
  “My faith is gone.” Four words that represent the disillusionment of the age. A brief phrase uttered through tears over the phone by a retired teacher from London, Ontario that spells trouble for the Canadian International Development Agency in ways it likely never imagined. When CIDA recently a ...
• The Fog of Ideology
  After reading Known and Unknown - Donald Rumsfeld’s tome (815 pages) – I put the book back in the shelf, flummoxed that smart people can be so dumb. He would have been better to have just called it “Known” because he never admits to self-doubt through the entire book. It was a frustrating read. ...
• A World With No Crystal Ball
  What to say about the happenings in Egypt? It is one of the most remarkable developments of the last two decades. Yet the very surprise of it – the sheer speed of its unfolding – providing just as many opportunities for rapid opinion as it did for democratic developments. Now is hardly a time fo ...

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

• Nanotechnology – Unplugged
  Next Tuesday, we’ll be launching a new series of occasional discussions on contemporary public health risk issues at the University of Michigan Risk Science Center.  And the first topic is – no surprises – nanotechnology. Under the tagline “No PowerPoint, no script; just stimulating conversatio ...
• Davos 2011 – Committed to changing the state o ...
  Cross-posted from the Risk Science Blog. As it did last year, the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos has left me with a daunting task – how do I summarize the highlights of the meeting in a single, short post? The answer of course is that I canât – Davos is so complex, diverse [...] ...
• Davos 2011 – Partnering with teens to build a ...
  This is not a science and technology post – which is a bit odd for a science and technology blog.  But I wanted to introduce five people who together shake up the whole idea of the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos as being an elitist and increasingly irrelevant gathering of middle aged bal ...
• Davos 2011: Global Risks permeate conversation ...
  Cross-posted from the Risk Science Blog. Take a metaphorical slice through this year’s annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, and Global Risk would be writ large through every part of it.  Hot on the heels of the sixth Global Risk report, this year’s meeting saw the launch of the Risk Re ...
• Davos 2011 – physics superstar meets music sup ...
  I don’t usually write about personal interactions here, but this is one I couldn’t resist – physics superstar Lawrence Krauss talking cosmology with music superstar Peter Gabriel. I was with Lawrence at a World Economic Forum dinner when he bumped into Peter – as one does!  He immediately launc ...

Reader Supported News

• Sweden: Julian Assange 'Public Enemy Number On ...
  The Independent UK reports: "'Inflammatory' criticism of Julian Assange by the Swedish prime minister has turned the WikiLeaks founder into public enemy number one, a court heard today. Swedish authorities want to extradite the whistleblower for alleged sex offences but his lawyer argued the com ...
• Egyptians Hold 'Farewell Friday'
  Al Jazeera reports: "Massive crowds have gathered across Egypt, including hundreds of thousands of protesters in and around Cairo's Tahrir [Liberation] Square, calling for Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president, to stand down. Pro-democracy activists in the Egyptian capital marched on the preside ...
• CIA Torturers Get Promotions
  Exerpt: "AP investigation of the CIA's actions revealed a disciplinary system that takes years to make decisions, hands down reprimands inconsistently and is viewed inside the agency as prone to favoritism. When people are disciplined, the punishment seems to roll downhill, sparing senior manage ...
• 28 Hours in the Dark Heart of Egypt's Torture ...
  Robert Tait reports: "A hail of vicious punches and kicks rained down on the prone bodies next to me, creating loud thumps. The torturers screamed abuse all around me. Only later were their chilling words translated to me by an Arabic-speaking colleague: 'In this hotel, there are only two items ...
• California Plans $2-Billion Program to Help Di ...
  Alejandro Lazo reports: "The Keep Your Home California program, which uses federal funds reserved for the 2008 rescue of the financial system, has the potential to make a sizable dent in California's foreclosure crisis and help the general housing market. State officials hope to fend off foreclo ...

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

• Bills banning arsenic take shape in MD General ...
  Dr. Keeve Nachman, Director of the Farming for the Future Program at CLF, spoke at a press conference yesterday in the Maryland House of Delegates. The press conference was organized by Montgomery County Delegate Tom Hucker and Prince George’s County Senator Paul Pinsky.  Senator Pinsky and Del ...
• A Former Teacher’s Take on The New Dietary Gui ...
  Every five years, the United States Departments of Human Health Services and Agriculture jointly release the Dietary Guidelines for America in the hopes of encouraging every American to eat a healthy diet, however, chances are the average person will never set eyes on the report. As a former tea ...
• Oprah Enthusiastically Throws Her Support Behi ...
    Talk show host Oprah Winfrey may have just encouraged a large segment of her 30 million viewers to join the Meatless Monday movement following her latest show which gave us a rare glimpse into where some of our meat comes from. The Meatless Monday campaign’s national awareness has more t ...
• Understanding foodborne microbial hazards for ...
  One in six Americans contracts a foodborne illness each year (CDC). Such illness can mean an unpleasant day of vomiting, diarrhea, fever, and/or worseâ hospitalization or death in rare cases. âThere’s something that can be said about the problem of foodborne illness, that can’t be said of many o ...
• Again Ethanol and Food are in Conflict
  Corn prices have risen dramatically in the last 6 months and now food prices are following. This may be driving revolutions world-wide. And it will affect your grocery shopping soon.

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

• Oilsands Visionaries Speakers Series
  February 17 • March 3 • March 17 University of Alberta Oilsands Visionaries, is an unprecedented, three part speakers series that invites the world's leading experts on the Alberta Oilsands to share their perspectives on the future of the resource. Presenting before a multi-stakeholder pan ...
• ELC Comments on environmental assessment of sk ...
  Environmental Law Centre The Environmental Law Centre has posted its comments on the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency's "Proposed amendments to the�Comprehensive Study List Regulations�under the�Canadian Environmental Assessment ...
• Conservatives Re-Re-Re-announcement on renewab ...
  Without strong regulations on the Tar Sands and other large industrial polluters, no plan to fight climate change will be effective Sierra Club Canada ...
• Minister’s decision to withdraw Bill 29: an en ...
  CPAWS â Northern Alberta CPAWS â Southern Alberta 7 Feb 2011 (Calgary, AB) The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) is applaudin ...
• Bill 29 ‘Suspended.’ Is Alberta Parks Ministry ...
  Alberta Wilderness Association 7 Feb 2011 Alberta Wilderness Association (AWA) congratulates Cindy Ady, Minister of Tourism, Parks and Recreation on her apparent decision to withdr ...

Stop NATO

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

Before It's News

• Seven ways to be good: 6) Form if-then plans
• Plum Blossoms at Sydneys Capitol Theatre
• Rental Parity: Coming soon to a neighborhood n ...
• House GOP unveils $61B spending cut plan ...
• Turns out CIA was right about Mubarak exit ...

Intel Hub

• Freedom Action Network: The Future of the Ligh ...
  February 12th, 2011- Incandescent light bulb sales have skyrocketed as the ban draws closer. A Freedom Action Video on the future of incandescent light bulb sales. Related Posts: Eco-Fascists Call For Prison Cities LED Products Billed As Eco-Friendly Contain Toxic Metals, Study Finds Homeowner O ...
• Morph City: Playing the Global Warming Card &# ...
  Morph City- By Cassandra Anderson February 12th, 2011 Man-made global warming (also known as climate change) claims have been thoroughly discredited by the “scientists” who perpetrated them through leaked e-mails in the ‘Climategate’ scandal. It seems like it should be a dead issue, but the trut ...
• LED Products Billed As Eco-Friendly Contain To ...
  UC Irvine Press Release February 12th, 2011 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 research. “LEDs are touted a ...
• Homeowner Ordered to Stop Parking In Her Own D ...
  CHLOE REDIO/TORONTO STAR February 12th, 2011 An East York woman woke up to a yellow notice on her windshield warning that her car could be fined or towed for being illegally parked in her own driveway. The city notice states, “Park in front of garage door only.” Have you received a notice about ...
• Dead Birds Continue To Blanket America
  The Intel Hub By Shepard Ambellas and Alex Thomas Feb. 12, 2011 Dead birds have continued to turn up throughout the country. The cause? No one knows and the corporate media has done its best to pretend that these occurrences are normal and actually happen all the time. Yet most controlled media ...

FRS

• Algeria opposition to hold protest, which offi ...
  [Some have raised a question:  if the people's victory in Egypt is not secure, then it is both real and illusory, and cannot be contained or consolidated in one country, but must be seen as an episode in the unraveling of an imperial matrix with many dangerous opportunities across the Arab world ...
• Philippines: ‘Dissent’ among separ ...
  10 Feb 2011 The Phillipines government has resumed peace talks with Muslim separatists in the country’s south. A spokesman for the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) said he is optimistic about negotiating an end to a decades-long conflict. But as Al Jazeera’s Marga Ortigas reports from the so ...
• The U.S. priority: “Egypt must honor Isr ...
  [As President Obama spun his populist oratory in praise of Egypt's democratic revolution, the White House at the same time did not miss a beat, asserting that the government in Cairo MUST continue to  support and defend Israel, and NOT to give support to the legitimate struggles of the Palestini ...
• Separatist strike shuts much of Indian-run Kas ...
  By Aijaz Hussain Associated Press / February 11, 2011 SRINAGAR, India—Shops and businesses shut and road traffic was thin Friday across the Indian portion of Kashmir in response to a strike call by separatist groups to honor a pro-independence leader executed by India more than 25 years ago. Pol ...
• Hosni Mubarak resigns as president, hands over ...
  11 Feb 2011Pro-democracy protesters in Tahrir Square have vowed to take the protests to a ‘last and final stage’ [AFP] 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 televised address th ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

• What's next for Egypt?
  Beats me, but here are some people who are willing to hazard a guess: Salon: The promise of real democracy in Egypt. Al Jazeera: Egypt's arduous road to freedom. Chicago Sun-Times: No Guarantee of democracy in Egypt. Huffington Post: Egyptians unseat the Pharoah. Washington Post: Mubarak resign ...
• Of course you're watching Egypt right now...
  Incredible, yes? There's more here. Go watch the party. Reuters photo
• Sarkozy says multiculturalism in France has "f ...
  French Pres. Nicolas Sarkozy joined a host of European leaders recently when he said that multiculturalism efforts have failed in his country. More specifically, he said: "Of course we must all respect differences, but we do not want... a society where communities coexist side by side. "If you ...
• No. No-no-no-no-no-no-no.
  A Westbrook-based company, Old Glory,�sells a t-shirt that says "Battered Women Taste Better." You can get it here, for $14.95. There's classless and there's tasteless and then there's downright offensive. As domestic violence isn't a punch line,�you can contact the company and share�the headli ...
• Arizona death panel
  A new bill before Arizona legislators would require a patient, upon presenting him/herself for non-emergency treatment, to also present proof of citizenship, because I guess in Arizona that whole Hippocratic oath thing is kind of a theory. The bill comes from an original sponsor of the embattle ...

Associated Content

• Is Your Diet Soft Drink Making You Sick?
  New research is surfacing about the health effects of diet soft drinks, including a new study presented Wednesday at the International Stroke Conference 2011. Here are the three most important studies that every diet soda drinker should know.Contributor: Zara Fagen, PhD Published: Feb 10, 2011
• Vintage Newt Gingrich at 2011 CPAC Meeting
  Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, touted by many as a likely presidential candidate in 2012, addressed the annual meeting of CPAC in a speech that was vintage Gingrich with its imaginative proposals and rhetorical shots.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Feb 11, 2011
• HP Reveals Three New Products
  HP revealed three new products to the public that will be available in a few months. The products include two smart phones and a tablet device. The gadgets are expected to compete with the iPad and the iPhone.Contributor: T.A.W. Published: Feb 10, 2011
• Mubarak Resigns, Leaves Cairo as Egyptian Mili ...
  The announcement was greeted by a roar of celebration, honking car horns, and shots fired into the air as hundreds of thousands of demonstrators expressed their jubilation after 18 days of continuous protests and demands for the president...Contributor: Saul Relative Published: Feb 11, 2011
• Apple Introduces the Confession App
  Apple introduces a Confession App with the approval of the Vatican and initial sales success. This article shows an overview of the app.Contributor: Sandra Hoolihan Published: Feb 11, 2011

Popsci - Science

• This Week in the Future, February 7-11, 2011
  Ah, another week of great science and tech posts. This week, we've got a particularly robot-heavy TWitF t-shirt prize for one lucky reader. All you've got to do is tell us which of the stories featured in this week's t-shirt design is your favorite and why, via either Facebook or Twitter. The r ...
• Archive Gallery: PopSci Fights the Battle of t ...
  PopSci attempts to determine, once and for all, which is the superior gender Over the years, Popular Science has strived to answer your questions about the world we live in. What's on the moon? Why don't we have flying cars? How do magnets work? As compelling and relevant as these questions are ...
• Archive Gallery: The Battle of the Sexes
• DARPA's Brain-Controlled Robotic Arm Fast-Trac ...
  Usually when we report on DARPA’s robotic, brain-controlled prosthetic arm, we’re reporting on news from the lab. Soon we’ll be reporting from clinical trials. On Tuesday the Food and Drug Administration said it would fast-track the DARPA device, pushing it through the approval process with pri ...
• Sheep Help Scientists Clean Up Explosives Resi ...
  A team of scientists is feeding TNT to a flock of sheep. A. Morrie Craig, a veterinary scientist at Oregon State University, has found that the cud-chewing mammals can efficiently clean up explosives-contaminated soil, of which there are 1.3 million tons throughout the U.S. TNT and other explos ...

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.

War is Business

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• Claim: ‘Stupid’ US Policy Allowed ...
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Hudson's Weather & Climate

• Lowest January Arctic ice on satellite record
  One of the questions that I'm often asked is how can global temperatures have reached near-record levels, when here in the UK we have had record breaking cold? It's an issue that many people have great difficulty in accepting. Of course the answer is that the UK represents a tiny fraction of t ...
• A wild start to February - back to square one ...
  Severe gales and heavy rain have battered Yorkshire in the last few days. The highest wind speed was recorded at Fylingdales on the North York Moors with 70mph on Friday. Pennine areas have had a month's worth of rain since Thursday. 79.2mm of rain was measured at Bingley in West Yorkshire sinc ...
• Global temperatures continue to fall.
  The January Global temperature, according to UAH satellite data, was 0.009C below the 1981-2010 average. The previous month, December 2010, was 0.181C above average A year ago, in January 2010, the global temperature was 0.542C above the 1981-2010 average. If the more standard 196 ...
• February: Westerlies come roaring back
  January 2011 turned out to be drier and colder than average. The provisional Central England Temperature (CET) mean for the month was 3.7C, compared with the average of 4.2C. It was a month again dominated by high pressure, with north and east winds more frequent than normal. Rainfall was ther ...
• Global temperature forecast for 2011
  Last year, according to the Met Office Hadley Centre, was the second warmest on record with a temperature anomaly of 0.50C above the 1961-1990 average. This was very close, but slightly below their forecast which was issued at the Copenhagen climate summit in December 2009. It stated global te ...

Internat'l Political Economy

• 'Apps for Development,' a World Bank Competiti ...
  In case you missed it, submissions have now closed and voting has just begun--hopefully including yours--for the World Bank-sponsored 'Apps for Development' competition. I am sure that electronics-literate readers should be familiar with apps--an abbreviation for applications common to devices s ...
• Shipbreaking, A Dirty But Necessary Industry
  A Bangladeshi colleague pointed out to me that a report he prepared for the World Bank has now come out in print form. There are probably few tasks in this world that are as "3D" (dirty, difficult, and dangerous) as shipbreaking. It involves dismantling disused vessels for scrap--usually in Bang ...
• Why China Isn't Going to Bail Out Europe's PIG ...
  And now for a feature with a little help from one of my cyber-friends. Iana Dreyer should be familiar to longtime IPE Zone reader via her previous blog Global Conditions. Having now joined the European Centre for IPE (ECIPE) headed by none other than the LSE's Razeen Sally, she is now a regular ...
• Everything's Big in Texas, Including Austerity
  Texans famously have a strong independent streak, hence the bumper sticker "Don't Mess With Texas." A few months ago, Texas Governor Rick Perry famously suggested that, given Washington's continuing profligacy, the state may consider seceding from the union to avoid saddling its future generatio ...
• Are Ugly People Crime Prone? Loughner Edition
  To begin with, let me say that I obviously don't have conclusive survey evidence that now-famous Arizona gunman Jared Loughner--on whom I'll have more about shortly--is widely regarded as "ugly." It must be said, though, that there has been a general public outcry over his prison mugshot. The va ...

Economic Collapse Blog

• 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 ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

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

E U Times

• 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 ...

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

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

U N News

• Haiti: UN joins national police in anti-crime ...
  The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti is conducting a two-pronged campaign to combat crime and violence, tracking down gangs while providing job training for youths in the impoverished country's two largest cities.
• UN chief to visit Ecuador and Peru next week
  Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will at the weekend travel to Ecuador and Peru for official visits during which he will confer with the leaders of the two countries, the United Nations announced today.
• UN regional commissions key to steering sustai ...
  Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro today stressed that sustainable development is key to United Nations efforts to reduce poverty and raise people's living standards, and underlined the importance of the Organization's regional commissions in formulating coherent development policies.
• Ban welcomes release of final results of first ...
  Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today welcomed the announcement by Haiti's Provisional Electoral Council of the final results of the first round of presidential and legislative polls, and encouraged all concerned to take advantage of the opportunity to proceed with the electoral process.
• Haiti: UN human rights chief offers help to a ...
  The United Nations human rights chief has offered Haitian authorities technical assistance for prosecuting crimes committed during the 15-year rule of former president Jean-Claude Duvalier, who returned to the country last month from exile.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

• Philippines Family Planning
  Is it possible to curb poverty without a strong family planning program?
• Reddy, Steady: New India Oil Minister
  Can Jaipal Reddy make an impact on the country's constricted energy problems?
• Mahathir: The Police Did It
  If he didn't order the Operation Lalang arrests, who signed the deportation orders?
• Burma Experiments with Special Economic Zones
  Stymied at luring foreign investment, the junta tries something new
• Burma's NLD in Disarray
  Indecision apparent on whether to continue sanctions

We Know the Lies

• HR 514... Patriot Act 'Short-Term' Extension F ...
  A plan that would have seen the House of Representatives extend controversial provisions of the Patriot Act with little debate failed Tuesday night, as a group of Republicans joined a majority of Democrats in voting no. ~ (See how they voted) read more
• 11 States Will Demand to See Presidential Cand ...
  Connecticut, SB291 require "that candidates for president and vice-president provide their original birth certificates in order to be placed on the ballot." That is needed to make sure the candidate "is a natural born United States citizen, prior to certifying that the candidate is qualified to ...
• Pennsylvania... Farmlands Being Destroyed for ...
  There is an unprecedented poisoning of American farmland underway in Pennsylvania and 33 other states in America where underground horizontal gas fracture extraction (called hydraulic fracturing) is taking place. ~ Ken Adachi (I don't think anyone in the world has enough money or smarts to undo ...
• A Child's Self Control During Early Years a Go ...
  A study that followed children into adulthood found that kids with self-control issues tended to grow up to become adults with a far more troubling set of issues to deal with. ~ Audio read more
• Genetically Modified Food Will Kill You!
  Genetically modified food has entered the food supply through secrecy and deception. Some claimed that genetically modifying the food supply could even put an end to world hunger. At first glance, genetic modification really does look like a great idea. It allows for larger crops, enhanced ...

Tatumba 2.0

• Black Americans Still Face Higher Unemployment ...
  Black Americans Still Face Higher Unemployment, Incarceration Rates, and Lower Wages. The statistics do not lie. To me this is institutionalized societal racism. The Real News On ace with Jared Ball talks with Empower DC about the fight for affordable housing Video Rating: 5 / 5 This post is cou ...
• Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide – Sign the petition no ...
  Dihydrogen Monoxide (DHMO) is a colorless and odorless chemical compound, also referred to by some as Dihydrogen Oxide, Hydrogen Hydroxide, Hydronium Hydroxide, or simply Hydric acid. Its basis is the highly reactive hydroxyl radical, a species shown to mutate DNA, denature proteins, disrupt cel ...
• Keiser Report: Fiat Food (E119)
  This time Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, talk about fake rice and real inequality and about a ‘new model’ that looks a whole lot like an old model called capitalism. In the second half of the show, Max talks to Pierre Jovanovic, author “Blythe Masters,” about credit default swaps, the Qu ...
• Gerald Celente on the Dr. Bill Deagle show 1st ...
  Gerald Celente on Dr. Bill Deagle show 1st Feb 2011 Trends Journal: www.trendsresearch.com Twitter: twitter.com This post is courtesy of Robbie the Robot Please recycle. Don't throw away your peels Related posts:Gerald Celente on Jeff Rense show 10 Sept 2010 Gerald Celente on Jeff Rense show 10 ...
• Brink of War, Mission Accomplished
  Trade the Wave at http:///www.GreeneWave.com/ BUY SILVER AT WHOLESALE This post is courtesy of Robbie the Robot Please recycle. Don't throw away your peels Related posts:HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED? Join the WAVE at www.GreeneWave.com Video Rating: 0 / 5... US COLLAPSE INEVITABLE Join ‘The WAVE’ toda ...

Truth About Our World

• Egypt army to shoot commanders?
  An Egyptian activist says several Egyptian army officers and soldiers have warned the military that they will no longer shoot protesters, instead they will shoot the commanders. “I think some of them (the army personnel) might join protesters. We have heard some of the officers and soldiers sayi ...
• The Intent of the U.S. Ruling Class Is Total T ...
  by Gary D. Barnett � As I�m writing this, Egypt is enmeshed in turmoil. The people have literally taken to the streets in opposition to oppressive government. It is about time, and it seems they have had enough. I pray that they are successful in overthrowing the entire Mubarak regime. But why d ...
• “The People Are Not Ready for Democracy! ...
  Benjamin R. Barber Author of ‘Strong Democracy’ and ‘Jihad vs. McWorld   Egyptian protesters are being asked to choose between revolution and democracy, and if this is the only choice they are allowed to have, then I say go for revolution. Here’s the dilemma they face: a hectoring set of self-in ...
• The Division of Egypt: Threats of US, Israeli, ...
  by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya The protests in Tunisia have had a domino effect in the Arab World. Egypt, the largest Arab country, is now electrified with popular uproar to remove the Mubarak regime in Cairo. It must be asked what effects would this event have? Will the U.S., Israel, and NATO simpl ...
• GM cotton has not improved yields, but it has ...
  Wednesday, February 09, 2011 by: Jonathan Benson � Remember the promises made by Monsanto that genetically-modified (GM) crops would bring higher yields and a better quality of life to the world? A recent study put forth by anthropologists from Washington University (WU) in St. Louis has reveale ...

Bloomberg

• Energy to Stoke Your Portfolio
  Rising oil prices have been powering share-price increases and profits. These nine stocks are likely to keep the gains coming
• The Driving Force of Dividends
  Jeffrey Kleintop of PNC Advisors sees dividend growth as a positive force for the current market -- and even some tech stocks
• HP's New and Steady Hand
  The computer maker's latest results underscore CEO Mark Hurd's emphasis on execution -- and an apparent return to basics
• Google Buys Android for Its Mobile Arsenal
  The search giant quietly acquires the startup, netting possibly a key player in its push into wireless, "the next frontier in search"
• S&P Keeps Hold on Google
  Analyst Scott Kessler says he is surprised by Google's filing to sell more shares. Plus: Hot Topic, Six Flags, and more

Enviroblog

• Stewart to Pickens: "Is it horribly unsafe, is ...
  By Emily Ion, Dusty Horwitt, and Elaine ShannonOn a recent episode of Jon Stewart's "The Daily Show,"  Texas oil and gas executive T. Boone Pickens, proudly declared, "I have fracked 3,000 wells in my life.  I have never seen... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website ...
• Plastic Pollution Is Everywhere. Including Yo ...
  By Lisa Frack, EWG Social Media Manager Unless you've been living under a rock, you're aware that plastic creates pollution. And if you've been paying any attention at all to the state of our planet, you've heard of the Great... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full l ...
• Hexavalent Chromium: 11 Answers for Water Drin ...
  By Rebecca Sutton, PhD, EWG Senior Scientist When you see news reports about a cancer-causing chemical in drinking water everywhere you turn, you probably have a few questions. Of course you can read EWG's full report, but on the off... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website fo ...
• French law informs, protects cell phone users
  By Olga Naidenko, PhD, EWG Senior Scientist France will soon become the first nation anywhere to require merchants to inform consumers of the radiation levels of cell phones at the point of sale. The new French cell phone statute, part... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website ...
• EWG's Worst Environmental Stories of 2010
  By Nils J. Bruzelius, EWG Executive Editor We polled our staff to see what stories they thought had the biggest impact, for better or worse. Here are the results: We'll start with the worst today, so we can end on... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

• This week on Capital: Arianna Huffington, the ...
  Well, a dictator fell this week! And we do not mean Representative Chris Lee. More
• Irish eyes are smiling, but Mr. Met's are frow ...
  Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
• A Capital anticipation list: Bubby's, Winter's ...
  Each week, Capital's editors will offer a list of the events, activities, releases and personal obsessions that we are looking forward to during the next week. Here is a list of our anticipations. More
• Chris Chalk kills it in death-row drama, 'When ...
  His masterful portrayal of Damon as a complex, short-fused but occasionally sensitive man—one who never denies his guilt or asks for compassion—makes the show consistently compelling. His expressions, his gestures, his reactions to everyone around him make ...
• F.A.Q.: Who wants to be in Chris Lee's shoes n ...
  Jimmy: New York doesn't even know how it's going to do redistricting, and no matter how it's done, this district is in danger because of the relative population-loss in Western New York. There's lots of talk about a "non-partisan, independent" system to rep ...

Views & News from Norway

• Man charged in ski museum theft
  Police in Oslo have arrested and charged a man in connection with the unusual theft earlier this week of an historic ski jacket worn by King Haakon VII. The jacket had been on exhibit at the Ski Museum at Holmenkollen for several years. Karin Berg, director of the museum located under the Holmen ...
• Biggest bank logs biggest profits
  Norway’s largest bank, DnB NOR, reported more strong profits this week, ending the year with a result so strong that all shareholders will be paid dividends of NOK 4 per share. DnB NOR logged operating profits of NOK 21.1 billion (USD 3.5 billion), up from NOK 18.7 billion in 2009. That was more ...
• More trouble for Statoil, in Canada
  A bad week for Statoil has become even worse, as Canadian authorities confirmed they would be taking action against Norwayâs partly state-owned oil and gas enterprise for alleged environmental crimes in connection with Statoil’s controversial oil sands projects in Alberta. Newspaper Dagbladet re ...
• Jumpers fly off world’s biggest
  Norway can now boast the world’s biggest ski jump, and it’s NOT Holmenkollen, which is getting the most attention these days. The newly expanded jump at Vikersund, an hour’s drive west of Oslo, opened this week and already has registered its first feat of 220 meters. Andreas Vilberg’s 220.5 mete ...
• Swedish wolves get the blame
  The increasingly controversial area of predator policy has been cast in a new light after fresh research suggested that Norwegian wolves have barely killed a single sheep in the last 14 years. The research places the blame for sheep losses firmly on their Swedish cousins. The study by Hedmark Un ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

• Final Frontier?
  Courtesy: Marc Roberts Digg this! Share this on Reddit Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUpon Share this on del.icio.us Share this on Facebook Post this to MySpace Add this to Google Bookmarks Post this on Di ...
• Advanced Solar, and Independence, at PRI’s Zay ...
  Zaytuna Farm, home of the Permaculture Research Institute of Australia, sets up an advanced solar electric system to demonstrate the best example of stand-alone solar electric power we can find. Here at Zaytuna Farm we have endeavored to demonstrate the efficiency and advantage of a stand alon ...
• How We Designed Our Solar Greenhouse
  by Rob Avis We live and garden on an urban lot in Calgary, Canada, located on the 51st parallel north and approximately 80 km east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies. This northern climate presents many design challenges, including less than one hundred frost-free days, an annual mean t ...
• First Steps to a Food Forest in the Southern T ...
  by Dominick ter Huurne & Inke Falkner Having found the bush block we had long been searching for, a protracted settlement period gave us plenty of time to decide exactly what we wanted to do with it. At 40 hectares the property was much larger than we had ever envisaged buying, but [...]
• Well Remembered
  Courtesy: Marc Roberts Digg this! Share this on Reddit Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUpon Share this on del.icio.us Share this on Facebook Post this to MySpace Add this to Google Bookmarks Post this on Di ...

Telecrap Urinal

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

Anna's News

• Natural gas explosion in Pa. kills 5 people
  A thunderous gas explosion devastated a rowhouse neighborhood, killing five people, and suspicion fell on an 83-year-old cast-iron gas main. The fiery blast was the latest natural-gas disaster to raise questions about the safety of the nation's agingSubmitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �Note-it ...
• Endangered decision delayed on walrus
  Pacific walrus need additional protection from the threat of climate warming but cannot be added to the threatened or endangered list because other species are a higher priority, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Tuesday. Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Commen ...
• 50 Awesomely Educational Podcasts for Nurses
  There all kinds of continuing education resources and opportunities for nurses.These podcasts offer interviews, recaps, commentary and basic reference information on everything from travel nursing to oncology to pediatric care to public health. Submitted by Anna Smith to Society & Culture �|� ...
• Americans gear up for Super Bowl XLV Media Day
  The Super Bowl Day is considered as the nation holiday of the US after Thanksgiving Day and the day is called "Super Bowl Sunday". It is the championship game of the National Football League (NFL) that is most popular and the watched American sporting....Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �No ...
• Scientists suggest protocol for messaging to a ...
  In 1974, humans broadcast the first message targeted at extraterrestrial life using the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico. The message, which was aimed at the globular star cluster M13 located 25,000 light years away, consisted of binary digits that Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & Tech ...

Medical Marijuana

• 1/06/11 - Are the new health care reform laws ...
  healthcareform.procon.org - UPDATED: Are the new health care reform laws constitutional? - A Virginia federal court ruled on Dec. 13, 2010 that the mandatory insurance provision was unconstitutional. At least 24 other legal challenges to the laws have emerged. Read pro and con statements about ...
• 1/07/11 - Percentage of Men (by Country) Who P ...
  prostitution.procon.org - NEW: Percentage of Men (by Country) Who Paid for Sex at Least Once: The Johns Chart - Studies have found that 80% of men in Cambodia, 45% in Italy, and 15-20% in the United States have paid for sex at least once in their lifetimes. Results from 15 countries are availabl ...
• 1/11/11 - 23 Constitutional Challenges to the ...
  healthcarereform.procon.org - NEW: 23 Constitutional Challenges to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) - The individual insurance mandate of the PPACA has been judged constitutional twice and unconstitutional once. Read the date filed, case name, PDF of the case itself, distri ...
• 1/13/11 - NEW ProCon.org Website! - Should tea ...
  teachertenure.procon.org - NEW ProCon.org Website! - Should teachers get tenure? - Teacher tenure is the increasingly controversial form of job protection that public school teachers in all states receive after 1-7 years on the job. Proponents of tenure argue that it protects teachers from being ...
• 1/21/11 - Are the March 2010 federal health ca ...
  healthcarereform.procon.org - UPDATED: Are the March 2010 federal health care reform laws good for America? - Read pro and con comments from the House Speaker John Boehner, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, physicians, economists, scholars, government and non-government organizations, and man ...

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