14 February - RSS SnapShot! Pt 2

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Examine Religion - Tweets

• ExamineReligion: Thank God for the First Amend ...
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• ExamineReligion: Redeemed & Forgiven: What is ...
  ExamineReligion: Redeemed & Forgiven: What is Church, pt. 8? http://exm.nr/huAvgz
• ExamineReligion: More Than Just a Kiss - A Dev ...
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• ExamineReligion: Love... http://exm.nr/eUEeHi
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• ExamineReligion: Joel Osteen says that Homose ...
  ExamineReligion: Joel Osteen says that Homosexuality is a sin http://exm.nr/f1HtvV

Energy Collective

• Advanced Batteries and Jobs
  Earlier this week, I attended a meeting on Capitol Hill sponsored by the Illinois Science & Technology Coalition.� The purpose of the meeting was to meet with Hill staffers and discuss the importance of research and development funding for advanced battery technology.� Speakers from Argonne Nati ...
• Climate Change – It’s Complicated, But It’s Re ...
  I was recently invited to provide a response to an opinion article on climate change that was offered to �The Punch� website.�
• Renewable Heating: Good for the Purse and the ...
  Heating oil in Germany is currently more expensive than ever before at the beginning of a year. In this harsh winter, households that have already switched to renewable heating are in a financial advantage. In addition, heating systems based on renewable energy sources reduce the greenhouse gas ...
• Food vs. Fuel, Redux: The Biofuel Dilemma
  Today's Washington Post includes a noteworthy opinion piece from Tim Searchinger of Princeton University concerning the impact of expanding biofuel production on global food prices and availability. Food vs. fuel competition made headlines in 2007 and 2008 but then subsided during the recession ...
• Nuclear Energy's Outstanding Performance for 2 ...
  I love living in an era where we have access to timely videos covering subjects that have traditionally been ignored by the advertiser-supported media. The Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) employs forward thinking individuals who recognize the value of communicating without commercial filters. The ...

Green House - USA Today

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

Prior Art

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

Peoples Voice

• Rights groups weigh in on Mubarak resignation
  Mary Shaw On February 11, Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak stepped down, leaving the Egyptian military in charge until a new government can be established. Mubarak's resignation came after more than two weeks of protests in which the people of Egypt called for an end to Mubarak's repressive regi ...
• Tourism Boycott for Egyptian Reforms
  Joel S. Hirschhorn How wonderful that the Egyptian dictator Mubarak has finally stepped down. But there are considerable uncertainties about when and how a fully functioning democracy that benefits ordinary Egyptians, especially the poorest, will be formed. Restoring the Egyptian economy a ...
• Will democracy in Egypt benefit the Palestinia ...
  By Alan Hart For decades, and despite much rhetoric to the contrary, American-led Western policy has been to prefer Arab dictatorship (authoritarianism in various forms) to Arab democracy. This preference was determined by two main assessments. One was that corrupt and repressive Arab regimes ...
• Canadian Sovereignty, Our Sovereignty, Is Not ...
  By: Mike Stafford- NAURESISTANCE.ORG My Canadian friends.. I beg of you.. please DO NOT let them turn the common security perimeter, new border vision deal into that! Both The Liberals & Conservatives Have Been Working On The Consolidation Of North America Back To Back. Former Liberal Prime Mi ...
• Hold the Celebration: Egypt's Struggle Just Be ...
  by Stephen Lendman Hopefully beneath celebratory euphoria, Egyptians know ousting Mubarak was simple, especially since Washington long wanted him out. Covertly with Egypt's military, it facilitated long-planned regime purging for with new faces under old policies. In other words, have everythin ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

• Introducing Hennessy's Index: A number is neve ...
  It's a pleasure to introduce Hennessy's Index: A number is never just a number, a monthly listing of numbers written by the CCPA's Trish Hennessy. These thought-provoking listings are part of our effort to highlight statistics found in the news and in CCPA research about Canada and its place ...
• Economist writer on the three top reasons why ...
  MIT Economist Daron Acemoglu writes in The Economist that there are three main reasons to care about worsening income inequality: Harmful effects on personal well-being, limited equality of opportunity, and more concentrated political power. On the third point, he writes: "Economic power tends t ...
• A challenge to BC’s leadership candidates: dar ...
  On our Policy Note blog, Seth Klein suggests a new approach for BC leadership hopefuls: "As a number of fundamental crises become more apparent (ecological and economic, not to mention the democratic deficit), the public is looking for bold ideas and bold leadership. Sadly, too many political ...
• CEO pay under review
  A week after we released our review of CEO pay in Canada, the Ontario Securities Commission says it's time to review how executives get paid. Read the story here.
• Federal budget takes center stage
  It appears as though this year's federal budget will be particularly important in the parliamentary calendar as it may be what brings down the government. �Ignatieff appears to be planning to vote against Flaherty's budget unless there are some radical changes. �This will also increase the relev ...

World Wide Hippies

• Obama’s Budget Hard On The Poor
  Obama’s $3.7 Trillion Budget Sets Fight in Congress | Bloomberg President Barack Obama will send Congress a $3.7 trillion budget that would reduce deficits by $1.1 trillion over a decade, setting up a battle with Republicans who have already deemed the plan insufficient to reduce federal debt. A ...
• If You Want To Know If He Loves You So It&#821 ...
  Thai couples break World Record for longest kiss | Telegraph Couples attempting to break the Guinness World Record for the longest continuous kiss are still standing after 33 hours. Fourteen couples have taken part in a kissing competition for Valentine’s Day at Pattaya City, Thailand. Seven hav ...
• Happy VD!
  Saint Valentine’s Day, commonly shortened to Valentine’s Day, is an annual commemoration held on February 14 celebrating love and affection between intimate companions. The day is named after one or more early Christian martyrs, Saint Valentine, and was established by Pope Gelasius I in 496 AD. ...
• Well, I gotta hand it to the Egyptian IT Guys& ...
  Egyptian Presidency (www.presidency.gov.eg/) – UNDER CONSTRUCTION! Check it out yourself….
• Robin Hood Is Dead
  by: William Rivers Pitt, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed - The streets of Cairo were alive with jubilation on Friday after the announcement that Hosni Mubarak had finally surrendered to the inevitable and lit out of town. After more than two weeks of protest, tension and sheer grit, the deal [...]

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

• Clothing prices to rise 10 percent this spring
  The era of falling clothing prices is ending.
• Palestinian Authority Cabinet resigns
  The Palestinian prime minister dissolved his Cabinet in an emergency meeting on Monday in what appeared to be a gesture inspired by unrest rocking the Arab world.
• Who's really guilty of a power grab?
  If you’ve been paying any attention at all to American politics over the past couple of years, it will come as no surprise to hear that the right is denouncing the EPA’s plan to regulate greenhouse gas emissions as a White House "power grab." According to the right’s narrative, it’s part of B ...
• Obama's choice: Fight fire with gasoline
  This originally appeared at Robert Reich's blog
• Obama unveils $3.73 trillion budget for 2012
  President Barack Obama is sending Congress a $3.73 trillion spending blueprint that pledges $1.1 trillion in deficit savings over the next decade through spending cuts and tax increases.

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

• McGuinty must fixsignature program
  Full-day kindergarten is only half the plan the premier promised for young children and their families,
• Toward a stronger GTA
  In almost every municipal sector, from housing to economic development, Toronto and surrounding cities would do better to think as one.
• Etobicoke Murals: It’s art, not graffiti
  Three murals in Etobicoke many be removed if the local community council decides they break a bylaw and are mere graffiti.
• Disability tax credit: Probe highlights need f ...
  The revenue agency should look out for companies that may be pushing exaggerated disability claims.
• Our duty toward child soldiers
  Canada is no longer in the forefront of the effort to protect children who have been forced to take up arms.

Energy Collective

• Advanced Batteries and Jobs
  Earlier this week, I attended a meeting on Capitol Hill sponsored by the Illinois Science & Technology Coalition.� The purpose of the meeting was to meet with Hill staffers and discuss the importance of research and development funding for advanced battery technology.� Speakers from Argonne Nati ...
• Climate Change – It’s Complicated, But It’s Re ...
  I was recently invited to provide a response to an opinion article on climate change that was offered to �The Punch� website.�
• Renewable Heating: Good for the Purse and the ...
  Heating oil in Germany is currently more expensive than ever before at the beginning of a year. In this harsh winter, households that have already switched to renewable heating are in a financial advantage. In addition, heating systems based on renewable energy sources reduce the greenhouse gas ...
• Food vs. Fuel, Redux: The Biofuel Dilemma
  Today's Washington Post includes a noteworthy opinion piece from Tim Searchinger of Princeton University concerning the impact of expanding biofuel production on global food prices and availability. Food vs. fuel competition made headlines in 2007 and 2008 but then subsided during the recession ...
• Nuclear Energy's Outstanding Performance for 2 ...
  I love living in an era where we have access to timely videos covering subjects that have traditionally been ignored by the advertiser-supported media. The Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) employs forward thinking individuals who recognize the value of communicating without commercial filters. The ...

EU Times

• Cameron to declare the Big Society does exist
  David Cameron will relaunch his big idea, the Big Society, in a keynote speech on Monday amid growing fears in the Conservative Party that it has started to backfire on the Government. As local authorities and voluntary groups feel the impact of the spending cuts, some ministers are worried that ...
• Assange declared an ‘enemy of the people in Sw ...
  Julian Assange’s chances of being given a fair trail if he is extradited to Sweden on sexual allegations has been further damaged by a “toxic” attack on him by the Swedish Prime Minister, a court heard yesterday. The WikiLeaks founder’s defence team have claimed that comments made by Fredrik Rei ...
• Britain should withdraw from the European Conv ...
  What specific benefits accrue to the United Kingdom as a result of our adhesion to the European Convention on Human Rights? It ought to be the most basic question of all, yet it is almost never asked. Most politicians, together with virtually the entire legal establishment, take our continued me ...
• Man accused of killing three in gun and knife ...
  Illegal immigrant accused of killing three in gun and knife rampage was deported 10 years ago but never left the country. A Salvadoran man who was ordered deported nearly a decade ago but never left has been charged with three counts of first-degree murder in a series of shootings and a knife at ...
• Bionic arm controlled by the mind
  Most modern prosthetic limbs can be considered high tech. But Jesse Sullivan has a particularly clever prosthetic arm – it doesn’t work using a motor, but is controlled by his mind. Scientists have found a way to make the thought controlled limb by connecting the nerves from Mr Sullivan’s stump ...

Stonecipher News

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

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

• Xperia PLAY (PlayStation Phone) to be launched ...
  Sony Ericsson has officially announced that the Xperia PLAY - the PlayStation Phone’s official name - will be launched during March, together with 50 titles developed by 20 publishers from day one. Here are some of the features on this phone: - Most recent Android Version (Android 2
• Live: LG at Mobile World Congress – Optimus 3D ...
  Hi friends, we’re coming to you live from Barcelona for LG’s press conference from Mobile World Congress. We already know that it will be showing off the Optimus 3D and the Optimus Pad but we’re sure hoping for a few surprises. Nonetheless, these devices should represent a new wave in mobile co ...
• 2011 Grammy Awards Fashion: A New Extreme for ...
  Dear Lady GaGa: We get it. You're eccentric. The singer arrived at the 2011 Grammy Awards tonight in an egg. Yes, an egg. We swear, the multi-nominated artist is in there somewhere... At some point, GaGa may need to do the most shocking thing of all: arrive at an awards ceremony in a simple dre ...
• Steve Jobs On The Apple Campus Is Like A Doubl ...
  On Friday the  WSJ published an article entitled “Apple’s Jobs Calls Shots From Home” which depicted the Apple CEO as still having a generous hand in the day to day going ons of the company despite being on medical leave. Jobs involvement comes as no surprise, as Jobs himself said in the statem ...
• The 53rd Annual Grammy Awards Red Carpet Arriv ...
  Miss Rihanna looked glamorous tonight as she stepped out on the 53rd Annual Grammy Award Red Carpet in a dress by Jean-Paul Gaultier . That dress is playing Peek -a-boo! We are loving the hair! Monica is a big fan of padded shouldered dresses.   She was spotted on the red carpet in an elegant b ...

Groklaw

• NOKIA: Here's Why We Jumped Off The "Burning P ...
  Nokia's history of innovation in the hardware space, global hardware scale, strong history of intellectual property creation and navigation assets are second to none.... There are other mobile ecosystems. We will disrupt them. [PJ: Hmm. I wonder if there's a connection between those two sente ...
• U.S. Chamber joins BofA in denying ties to dis ...
  The U.S. Chamber of Commerce -- like the Bank of America -- is scrambling to distance itself from a cache of stolen e-mails that continue to disgorge stunning details of how high-stakes, corporate-backed disinformation campaigns get birthed.... "It's important to note that the smears and disi ...
• A.I. expert Ray Kurzweil picks computer in 'Je ...
  Q: How significant is this match in the quest for artificial intelligence? A: It'll be seen as a major threshold. The key to human intelligence is really mastering the subtleties of human language, things like puns and jokes and metaphors. And if you look at the queries in Jeopardy you see they ...
• It's all free as in *free*
  Dear internets. I have to get work done. Please stop scaremongering. #Qt, !kde, and !meego will go regardless. It's all free as in *free*. - Steven Ragnarök, KDE, identi.ca
• FSF: Tell the USTR to reject ACTA
  ACTA aims to be an international agreement to establish even more imposing copyright and trademark laws throughout the world, with a minimum of scrutiny. Countries that sign the agreement commit to enacting DMCA-like anti-circumvention legislation, establishing criminal penalties for specific ki ...

WideShut

• Prince Charles Attacks Climate Deniers Again
  Prince Charles haranges climate skeptics, but what does the evidence say about global warming and the world's population "crisis"?
• UK Government Biased Against Organic Food
  A new study says the UK Government is just lazy about not promoting organic food, but we discover they may be on the payroll of big-agra.
• February 08, 2010, WideShut Webcast On Resista ...
  On this week's show Keelan touches on the music industry, internet censorship, GMO food, and upcoming WideShut films.
• UK Banks Taxed £2.5 Billion, But It’s To ...
  Osbourne announces £2.5 Billion bank tax, but with a national debt of £4.8 trillion, one has to wonder if it really matters.
• Euro-American Establishment Bringing GM Crops ...
  EU to allow GM contaminated animal feed in to the UK unregulated.

Politics in the Zeros

• Ireland defaults on bond payments. Good
  In the wake of the collapse of the Irish government, finance minister Brian Lenihan suspended capital injections for Allied Irish Bank, the Bank of Ireland, and EBS Building society until elections are held on February 25. Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny said Anglo Irish Bank will not get another ce ...
• Cellulosic ethanol. A new approach
  Ineos Bio plans to open a factory in Florida that will convert plant waste and garbage into electricity and ethanol. First they will gasify the waste then use a recently discovered bacterium that lives in chicken waste to convert the resulting carbon monoxide and hydrogen into ethanol. Remaining ...
• Arizona could become a leader in algae biofuel
  While San Diego is the world leader in algae biofuel development, with numerous companies working on it and the Imperial Valley nearby as a location for the algae farms, Arizona is a perfect location too as it has ample flat land and sun. But here’s what caught my eye. The stateâs coal-fired pow ...
• Minority of the Opulent
  When one is attempting to explain our very anti-democratic electoral college to someone from outside the US, there is usually a strong desire to explain it away, to claim it is a safeguard on Democracy. We are told it is to protect minorities. As DJ said in an earlier comment thread: “The very p ...
• Novel argument against gay marriage
  Because if we allow it then one day we might be marrying robots.

TVNZ - Top Stories

• Pickering's killer told of his murder plans - ...
  The man who murdered a young mother had spoken earlier in jail of his determination to kill, a former prison guard says.
• Maori board off to court after Auckland Counci ...
  Auckland's Independent Maori Statutory Board is going to court over its funding.
• Daughter's killer 'pure evil', says mother
  The mother of murdered Christchurch woman Vanessa Pickering has decribed her killer as "pure evil".
• Cyclists' carnage will haunt son for life
  The teenaged son of a woman who died after an out-of-control driver smashed into a group of cyclists has spoken of his horror.
• Great Barrier Island kidnap accused further re ...
  The man charged with abducting a woman on Great Barrier Island in the Hauraki Gulf last month will stay in custody until his next court appearance in five months time

Just World News

• Quick notes for a quickly changing world
  1. Just 30 days ago, on January 14, I was making the 3.5-hour drive down from Charlottesville, VA to Greensboro, NC, for the Quaker conference held to mark the 50th anniversary of Pres. Eisenhower's prescient 1961 warning about the dangers of a 'Military-Industrial Complex' arising in the U.S. ...
• Appeal on behalf of 'Bedouins' in Israel
  Amos Gvirtz, who was my generous host in his home at Kibbutz Shefayim two years ago, sends out a short weekly report on some current rights outrage committed by the government of Israel, under the title "Don't say you didn't know". His latest email is longer than usual and comes with a short but ...
• D. Levy: Also too little, too late?
  Daniel Levy is an engaging and energetic young Brit-Israeli who first made a name for himself helping to organize those-- as it turned out ill-fated, and perhaps all along misguided?-- "Geneva Accords" and who in recent years has been making quite a splash at Washington DC's New America Foundati ...
• Sweet victory! Many more steps needed!
  Nothing more to say right now. Am tweeting. And trying to work.... (On reflection, the title of yesterday's post should maybe have been "Death dance of the Co-dependents." But too morbid.)
• U.S.-Egypt: Dance of the co-dependents
  The ruling circles in Washington and Cairo are now each in their own way (but also, jointly) engaged in a dance of resistance to the wave of massive political change unleashed by the democratic revolution in Egypt. This evening I watched Pres. Mubarak's latest, very disappointing and retrograde ...

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

• Documentary: "Survival, Strength, Sisterhood: ...
  "Survival, Strength, Sisterhood: Power of Women in the Downtown Eastside" is a short film that documents the 20 year history of the annual women's memorial march for missing and murdered women in Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories ...
• Dispatches from Dakar III
  Ahmad Jaradat of Alternative Information Center on Palestine solidarity at WSF in Dakar Audio reports from the World Social Forum produced for broadcast on campus/community radio globally. In this segment of Dispatches from Dakar we will h ...
• Dispatches from Dakar II
  Desmond D'Sa on community mobilizations in Durban against 2011 UN climate conference Audio reports from the World Social Forum produced for broadcast on campus/community radio globally. In this segment of Dispatches from Dakar we will hear ...
• Dispatches from Dakar I
  Patrick Bond on mobilizations against UN climate summit Durban 2011 Audio reports from the World Social Forum 2011 in Dakar, Senegal produced for broadcast on campus/community radio globally. In this segment of Dispatches from Dakar we he ...
• Housing marchers crash olympic party
  âPeople without homes; homes without peopleâ “People without homes; homes without people” February 12, 2011; Vancouver, Coast Salish Territory:  A feisty housing rally and snake march through Vancouver’s downtown eastside attracted more th ...

David Seaton's News Links

• Without a "Golden Voice" or a "Golden Kidney". ...
  David Seaton's News LinksThe story of a homeless beggar with a "golden voice" has caught the world's imagination. The man in question, Ted Williams, is charming and witty, with suffering written all over him, and it is impossible not to wish him well.� From one moment to the next, this poor m ...
• Poor United States, so far from God and so clo ...
  The lesson of the past few years: Watch out for things that can go massively wrong. What could go massively wrong in 2011? Let's start next door, with Mexico.� Mexico drug war a nightmare scenario - CNNDavid Seaton's News LinksI put the quote above, one that I have taken at random from CNN, to a ...
• A Valentine story
  David Seaton's News LinksI thought something romantic and sad was required for Valentine's day and thinking about it, up popped the saddest love story I remember. A story that if it wasn't true would be pure schmaltz. This all happened when I was a little kid.� My stepfather was a doctor of musi ...
• Ending the First Decade of the 21rst Century
  David Seaton's News LinksSometimes after writing a long, rather ponderous piece like my last one, I like to follow it with a shorter and lighter version of more or less the same thing. This is some sort of a parallel text that grows out of its predecessor. We are at the end of the first decad ...
• New Year's 2011... singing in Grover Norquist' ...
  Singing in the bathtub Happy once again Watching all my troubles Go swinging down the drain Singing through the soap suds Life is full of hope You can sing with feeling While feeling for the soap. "Singing in the Bathtub" David Seaton's News Links It's New Year's; this is when we are supposed t ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

• At Last You Can Opt Out of Receiving Yellow Pa ...
  The Yellow Pages Association has at long last opened a new site called the "National Yellow Pages Consumer Choice & Opt-Out Site." It contains sections such as "Download Our Sustainability Report" and "The Yellow Pages Directory Facts," but the important section is the opt-out one. All you need ...
• Breast Cancer Breakthrough - Cut Your Risk of ...
  By Dr. Mercola According to the National Breast Cancer Foundation, 200,000 new cases of breast cancer will be diagnosed each year in the US, making it three times more common than other gynecological cancers. Breast cancer will claim the lives of 40,000 people this year. What is really dis ...
• Is Your Home Supplied with Water Contaminated ...
  There are important lessons to be learned from the recent release of a CDC report on the 2004 crisis of lead in the water in the Washington DC area. After years of denial and stonewalling, the CDC acted only under sustained pressure from safe-water advocates, the media and Congress. In addition ...
• The Common Drug that Destroys Your Memory
  In this interview, Dr. Duane Graveline, a family doctor with 23 years experience and a former astronaut, discusses the health implications of cholesterol, statin drugs, and coenzyme Q10. � �
• This is What Really Hides in Taco Bell's 'Beef ...
  If you want to know what Taco Bell actually uses in its "beef" products, here's an ingredients list of their "Taco Meat Filling," courtesy of Gizmodo: "Water, isolated oat product, salt, chili pepper, onion powder, tomato powder, oats (wheat), soy lecithin, sugar, spices, maltodextrin (a poly ...

JAMA

• KRAS Genotypes and Outcome in Patients With Ch ...
• KRAS Genotypes and Outcome in Patients With Ch ...
• KRAS Genotypes and Outcome in Patients With Ch ...
• Electric Pulses Help With Chemotherapy, May Op ...
• Lifestyle Changes Key to Cut Stroke Risk: Guid ...

Survival - tribal peoples

• Uncontacted Amazon Indians face annihilation
  An Awá man stands amidst the burnt remains of his tribe's forest © Fiona Watson/Survival A shocking report obtained by Survival International reveals that the home of the nomadic Awá tribe suffered more deforestation than any other indigenous territory in the Amazon in 2009. Around 60 t ...
• 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

• Editorial: There's no excuse for secrecy on to ...
  Twenty years is a very long time for the Quebec government to deny the residents near the Mercier lagoons information about what exactly lurks in those dumpsites, known to be one of the most toxic in Canada.
• FINA secrecy a perfect example of stonewalling
  A persistent obstacle to the release of information that is in the public interest, as noted by The Gazette in its series on overbearing secrecy on the part of public institutions in this province, is the invocation of technicalities such as lawyer-client privilege, doctor-patient confid ...
• The legend and truth of Valentine's Day
  Monday marks our annual celebration of love, but who was St. Valentine?
• Feeble excuses for lack of French
  Still smarting from criticism over the lack of French at last year's Olympic opening ceremonies, John Furlong, the CEO for the Vancouver games, just can't let go. He has set out his defence in a new book, and a more self-pitying, self-indulgent exercise in trying to justify the indefensi ...
• Has intolerance become a Quebec value?
  There they sat in the National Assembly, beneath the crucifix above the speaker's chair, 113 members present, and one by one they rose, every last one of them, to register a vote in favour of religious intolerance. It may be that a majority of their constituents approves, and in democrac ...

Food World Order

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

CrusadeWatch

• India's religious tolerance a model for world, ...
  source:  Tibet Custom, Feb 4, 2011 BANGALORE: His Holiness the Dalai Lama called India an example for the rest of the world as all major religious traditions have been kept alive here for thousands of years. His Holiness also urged the country to more actively promote its two treasur ...
• Time to realise a universal religion
  source:  DNA India, Feb 14, 2011 KG Suresh The year 2011 has started on an ominous note for world peace and harmony between civilisations. A bomb blast in front of a Coptic Christian church on New Years Day killed at least 21 people and wounded nearly 80 in an attack that raised susp ...
• Narmada Kumbh and the manufactured evangelical ...
  source:  Organizer, February 20, 20111 The Narmada Samajik Kumbh, a purely cultural event is being politicised and demonised so much that it makes one feel as though the Hindus cannot even gather for a legitimate cause. The unwarranted protest of some Christian leaders over the Kumbh and ...
• Suggested gift ideas for a missionary departin ...
  source:  Helium.com,  by Katerina Nikolas When Gladys Aylward set off on her train journey from England with the hope of becoming a missionary in China, she would probably have appreciated some nice gifts to send her on her way. A book about the Chinese prison system would have been ...
• Anti-Missionary Groups Gather in Jerusalem
  source:  Worthy news, September 14, 2010 By George Whitten, Worthy News Jerusalem Bureau Chief JERUSALEM, Israel (Worthy News)-- Anti-Missionaries from across Israel will be meeting today in Jerusalem at the nations largest conference center to discuss the growing problem of  "missi ...

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

• Shocking New IMF Report: The U.S. Dollar Needs ...
  The IMF is trying to move the world away from the U.S. dollar and towards a global currency once again.  In a new report entitled "Enhancing International Monetary Stability—A Role for the SDR", the IMF details the "problems" with having the U.S. dollar as the reserve currency o ...
• 59.9 Percent? Americans Are Racking Up Huge Cr ...
  Well, it was nice while it lasted.  One of the really good things that came out of the recent economic downturn was that millions of American families decided to get out of debt.  In particular, we had seen a sustained trend of reduced credit card usage in the United States.  It ...
• Economy News Nightmare: 20 Things That You Sho ...
  Today America is very, very frustrated.  In fact, we probably have not seen this level of anger in the country since World War 2 ended.  So why are so many Americans so frustrated and so angry right now?  Well, for most Americans it comes down to the economy.  Very few things ar ...
• Huge Numbers Of Dead Animals, Dead Birds And D ...
  Just what in the world is going on out there? Large groups of animals are keeling over dead, thousands of birds are falling out of the sky dead and millions of dead fish are washing ashore all over the globe.  Something is happening.  Do any of you know what is causing all this ...
• Which Of The Currencies Of The World Is Going ...
  Last year was an absolutely fascinating time for world currency markets.  The yen, the dollar and the euro all took their turns in the spotlight.  Each experienced wild swings at various times, but the overall theme that we saw was that faith in paper currencies is dying.  The b ...

CASSE

• How to Fix a Household Crisis
  Why are the fields of economics and ecology in crisis, and how can we work toward a solution?
• Enough Childish Name Calling
  Sharon Ede sets the record straight on exactly who's acting like a misanthrope, and she pokes a little fun along the way!
• Obama Steps onto Slippery Slope
  Brian Czech offers a vision of Obamanomics that values people and planet over profit and production.
• Remembering History
  Lisi Krall warns that even in a steady state, we could become half crazy for want of a diverse and magical natural world.
• Sustaining Our Commonwealth of Nature and Know ...
  How can we get a sustainable, fair, and efficient economy? Herman Daly breaks it down.

The Talking Clock

• Biased BBC: How the opinions of the 'Question ...
  Sometimes, the things that you really should know are hidden in plain view - carefully left planted for the observant to notice and signpost. And so it is with this gem regarding the Biased BBC and it's flagship political programme Question Time. Over on Conservative Home, Alex Deane is le ...
• ...but the people everywhere they've kept fait ...
  Apologies for light blogging this week. Normal service will now resume. One thing about blogging is that you need to feel inspired enough by a story in order to want to comment. One subject - one person is guaranteed to get us back to the computer... ----------------------------------- ...
• As the mainstream media insist on talking abou ...
  The mainstream media is - again - dominated by talk of phone hacking. So, here's the thoughts that are drifting through my mind on the subject. You and I might not have the technical knowledge or know-how to have a clue about phone hacking or how it might be achieved. However, if at the ...
• Quote of the Day: 13th February 2011
  "Oliver Letwin has been tasked with stopping Whitehall from being a breeding ground for new regulations. Cameron jokingly refers to Letwin as a ‘contraceptive’, because it’s his job to stop these regulations being conceived – usually after a little European foreplay. It’s a huge task. The proble ...
• Sunday Paper Review: 13th February 2011
  Last year, cider drinkers of Britain joined forces to save the British drink from a 'Wurzel Tax'. Let's see how we respond to this one, drawing in all the right strands to cause a right regular patriotic fuss. Take an old, quintessentially British drink - in this case, nettle beer. Then ...

Facing South

• The truth about the Gulf's beaches (video)
  Incensed over BP ads claiming that the spilled oil is gone and the Gulf's beaches are clean, Hurricane Creekkeeper John Wathen of Alabama set out to document the truth. He's released a six-minute video of footage shot along the Fort Morgan Peninsula on Feb. 9, 2011: a familiar brown s ...
• INSTITUTE INDEX: Coal power's mercury menace
  Rank of coal-fired power plants among America's biggest sources of air pollution: 1 Of the five leading causes of death in the United States, number to which coal plant pollution contributes: 4 Number of U.S. water bodies impaired by mercury, a particularly toxic component of coal plant p ...
• Glossing over the misdeeds of big business
  By Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest I was just beginning to recover from President Obama's dismaying speech at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce when I found myself in the middle of another effort to gloss over the misdeeds of big business. This occurred at the annual conference of the BlueGreen ...
• The great Gulf offshore drilling jobs hoax con ...
  Politicians in the Gulf Coast are still attacking President Obama's slow-down on offshore drilling, even as more evidence comes in that the post-BP spill measure has had modest effect on the coast's oil economy. A month after BP's oil disaster, Obama's Interior Department announced a six-mont ...
• Federal government failing victims of BP disas ...
  There's growing evidence that serious health problems threaten the Gulf Coast's residents, cleanup workers and seafood consumers in the wake of the BP oil disaster. But so far the federal agencies in charge of responding to the disaster have failed to take adequate steps to help the injured and ...

CenterLine

• Today’s Terrorism News
  Al-Awlaki Recording Criticizes U.S., Expresses Support for Jailed Yemeni Journalist A recording believed to be of Anwar al-Awlaki was posted to jihadist forums Sunday, according to reports. In it, al-Awlaki criticizes the Yemeni government for cooperating with the United States … Continue readin ...
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Report: Plea Deal for Gitmo Detainee May Be in the Works The Miami Herald reports that a pre-trial hearing for a Sudanese detainee held at Guantanamo that was scheduled for next week was abruptly canceled late Thursday, with the Pentagon … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Gitmo Detainee al-Qosi Has Sentence Reduced to Two Years The Pentagon announced Wednesday that the sentence of Guantanamo detainee Ibrahim al-Qosi, who pleaded guilty in July to war crimes including providing material support for al Qaeda, had been reduced to … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  House Fails to Pass Patriot Act Extension The U.S. House of Representatives failed to pass a short-term extension of certain provisions of the Patriot Act Tuesday, according to reports. Republicans fell seven votes short of a fast-track extension of three … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Chechen Militant Claims Responsibility for Moscow Airport Attack In a video released late Monday to a site frequented by Chechen Islamists, Chechen rebel leader Doku Umarov claimed responsibility for directing the suicide bombing at Moscowâs Domodedovo Airport that killed 36 … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

• Glass melts near absolute zero
  Thanks to the weirdness of quantum mechanics, chilling glass to extremely low temperatures may cause it to melt
• 'GPS' protein guides neurons to brain's langua ...
  Glial cells often help guide new neurons to their destinations in the brain, but neurons seem to find their way to the neocortex without their help
• Today on New Scientist: 9 February 2011
  All today's stories on NewScientist.com, including: seeding the galaxy with earthly life, baby gorillas, and a mysterious brainwave of death
• Endangered gorillas get rare twin birth
  The twins, born at the Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda, are the fifth set ever recorded in mountain gorillas
• X-rays uncover hidden leg in ancient snake
  Snakes may have evolved from land-based lizards, suggest new X-ray images

Tech Drive In

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

Case About Bird Flu

• Why I will try to reopen the Baxter case and t ...
    When I filed criminal charges against Baxter in Vienna, Austria, in April 2009, I was the only one to initiate an investigation into an incident that could have triggered a global bird flu pandemic with devastating consequences for people around the globe – and I did it in an act of desperatio ...
• Follow the Algerian revolution on Aljazeera
  Anyone who saw the way information spread on the internet about the swine flu vaccines or who saw the Stuttgart 21 and Castor protests in Germany, for example, knows that the Globalist oligarchy has long ago lost control of  authentic, grass roots movements. No doubt they will try to subvert the ...
• The Founding Fathers Would Be Proud of the Peo ...
  From: http://www.prisonplanet.com/the-founding-fathers-would-be-proud-of-the-people-of-egypt-and-disgusted-with-the-people-of-america.html Washington’s Blog Feb 12, 2011 America’s founding fathers stood up for their freedom, winning it from the British (with the help of the French). The Egyptian ...
• EGYPT TODAY. EUROPE TOMORROW?
  The achievement of the people of Egypt today has inspired the world. The regime that they overthrew in just eighteen days was corrupt, cruel and determined. Only yesterday evening President Hosni Mubarak appeared on television and defied the millions of people who had gathered in the squares and ...
• HOSNI MUBARAK RESIGNS AS PRESIDENT
  Egyptian president stands down and hands over power to the Supreme Council for the Armed Forces. Last Modified: 11 Feb 2011 17:05 GMT Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president, has resigned from his post, handing over power to the armed forces. Omar Suleiman, the vice-president, announced in a telev ...

Invisible Opportunity

• Something is Hidden in the Remote Places of th ...
  By Les Visible We know that there hasn’t been a Bin Laden around in a long time. We know that there’s no such thing as Al Qaeda, outside of CIA constructs. We know that terrorism is largely a weapon of established governments, whose main industry is domestic repression and year round Halloween m ...
• Globoctopus Tightens its Grip
  By Les Visible The Egyptians are doing what is necessary to force change. The workers are striking. This is the key action necessary to bring down a government when you lack the guns and the media. No government can endure a protracted shutdown of the economy. It was through the economy and the ...
• Falling Dominoes – V for Vendetta
• Live coverage: Mubarak resigns, hands power to ...
  The obstinate Egyptian domino has now fallen… Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has resigned. Vice President Omar Suleiman said in a brief televised statement. His statement in full: “Hosni Mubarak has waived the office of presidency and told the army to run the affairs of the country. “ via LIve ...
• Eco-bulbs ‘a health hazard for babies an ...
  By David Derbyshire Energy-saving light bulbs were at the centre of a fresh health scare last night after researchers claimed they can release potentially harmful amounts of mercury if broken. Levels of toxic vapour around smashed eco-bulbs were up to 20 times higher than the safe guideline limi ...

Veterans Today

• JIM DEAN : Our Civil War 150th Anniversary &#8 ...
  Over the next four years Americans will be able to remember and teach our children the tragic events of the War Between the States, the War of Southern Independence, or Civil War as it is called. Southerners don’t like the term civil war as they were not attempting to take over the country. They ...
• UK GULF WAR ILLNESS: DU Situation Report
  So much is going on behind the scenes and time to update all American Citizens and especially the Gulf War/Desert Storm Veterans. It has been 20 years and there are battle lines on the isue of Gulf War illness not just in the US but with each coalition force that were part of the Coalition that ...
• THE SAGA OF GULF WAR: Desert Storm Records Ent ...
  What is needed now is an urgency in medical care and clear cut solutions to the VA claims for the total group of gulf war veterans. Not endless investigations that go now where to addressing the critical need for action to get their claims through and at the same time a true need for the best m ...
• DR. ASHRAF EZZAT: Mubarak Regime Orchestrated ...
  New insights into the latest bombing attacks on the Alexandria church which took place on the New Year Eve and killed 23 and wounded more than 90 innocent people are suggesting that the police apparatus of Mubarak has been covertly involved in the orchestrating of this hideous terrorist attack w ...
• Execute me in absentia…Brendan Behan
  That sort of simplicity and conspiracy-theory nonsense may reflect strong ties to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion combined with Palinesque desire to blame the mainstream media and the Liberals and the Federal Reserve and the fucking Bildenbergers and George Soros and the Koch brothers and ev ...

electric politics

• Korea, Korea
  Remembering, forgetting, never knowing. Dr. Bruce Cumings, in his recently published book, The Korean War: A History, examines how willingly America intruded into Korea after the Second World War and how difficult it's been for us ever afterward to deny ourselves any real understanding of Korea ...
• The Art of the Unexpected
  Useful intelligence is surprisingly difficult to produce, mostly, I think, because it doesn't lend itself to commoditization or assembly line methods. And, as Dr. David B. Kanin suggests, to be useful it must be directed by some rational, higher-level, national security purpose. David recently ...
• Discovering Consciousness
  Carl Jung was a modern Gnostic, a visionary, but also an exceedingly imperfect, selfish individual. And some of his writing is downright strange. All this makes it difficult to assess his legacy but there's no doubt he was one of the great explorers of as yet barely charted terrain — the nature ...
• If Past Is Prologue
  The rules of the game determine the nature of the outcome. That's as true in governance as it is everywhere else. When the rules of governance — the Constitution — decree, in the abstract, that a wealthy minority shall control national policy, then that's what happens. Never mind that the rules ...
• The Criminal Indictment of George W. Bush
  It should go without saying that the President of the United States of America cannot lawfully authorize the torture of anybody. Given George W. Bush's statements in his recently published memoir that he had, indeed, authorized waterboarding, I turned to Manfred Nowak for an explanation of what ...

PR News

• HP invests in social, PR for "Everybody On" br ...
  PALO ALTO, CA: HP is launching its largest global integrated marketing campaign for technologies within its Personal Systems Group (PSG), including its Beats Audio music technology and a TouchPad tablet.
• Becker-CMCA sets up shop in Shanghai
  CLEVELAND: Midwest-based George A. Becker & Co. and Communica have partnered to support marketing communications efforts for Chinese companies looking to promote their products in the US.
• NASCAR names Jewkes CCO
  DAYTONA BEACH, FL: Brett Jewkes, former managing partner at Taylor, has been appointed to VP and CCO of NASCAR's integrated marketing communications department.
• PR Newswire updates mobile capability
  NEW YORK: PR Newswire unveiled a new mobile version of its website, and upgrades to their iPhone, iPod, and iPad apps.
• Ron Sachs Communications opens digital divisio ...
  TALLAHASSEE, FL: Public affairs shop Ron Sachs Communications opened a division solely for digital strategy.

The Story Behind the Story

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

k2p blog

• Heaviest snowfall in a century in South Korea
  The heaviest snowfall in a century hit Gangneung and other cities in the eastern part of S. Korea between Friday and Saturday.
• China retracts a national scientific award for ...
  The recent revocation of a national scientific award by the National Office for Science and Technology Awards due to academic fraud was the first of its kind in China.
• An active Sunday for the Sun
  An unusually active Sunday for the Sun yesterday mainly from the very large sunspot 1158 with magnetic flux values not seen since 2006.
• JAXA to go fishing for space debris
  A new scheme has been proposed by JAXA and the Nitto Seimo Company which makes fishing nets to use a net to scoop up space debris.
• Dark chocolate is a “super-food”
  Cacao seeds are a super-fruit and dark chocolate is a super-food with health giving properties superior to many fruit juices.

Left Foot Forward

• The ‘inexplicable’ rise in Disability Living A ...
  Left Foot Forward's Declan Gaffney explains why there has been a rise in the number of people claiming Disability Living Allowance.
• Ministers are breaking their promise on subsid ...
  Left Foot Forward understands that via complicated, structural measures, the government is planning on green-lighting a multi-billion pound taxpayer giveaway to the nuclear industry.
• Government’s answers on special needs delayed. ...
  As Michael Gove’s education reforms gather momentum, an important group of vulnerable children are at risk of being left behind. Back in December, Left Foot Forward raised serious questions over the future of funding models for specialist services currently provided by local authorities...
• After months of denial, an admission flood def ...
  After months of denial over the spending cuts on flood defences, the government has now revealed what most have known for a long time. Instead of the capital investment for flood defence spending for 2011/12 being, as David Cameron claimed, “roughly the same as what was spent over the past four ...
• The ‘Big Society’ must not be impo ...
  The Prime Minister’s restatement of the Big Society is a recognition that the idea has so far failed to resonate in many communities, because the reality of the cuts has hit hard, focusing attention on the loss of much-needed support for grassroots volunteers. We are still waiting to count the n ...

Consumerist

• Borders Prepares To File For Chapter 11
  After failing to keep pace with the boom of e-readers and develop a strong digital presence elsewhere on the interwebs Borders Group Inc. could file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy-protection as early as Monday or Tuesday. The Wall Street Journal cites people familiar with the matter, who say Border ...
• LCD Soundsystem Fights Back Against Scalpers B ...
  You're not the only one who hates scalpers who drive up the price of tickets from say, $50 to $500 -- even the bands with the show in question get ticked off, as is the case with James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem. Here's the deal: LCD Soundsystem is ending its long, adored-by-fans run of nine ye ...
• Groupon Withdraws Those Ads Everyone's Been Co ...
  Well we never saw this coming -- okay just kidding, really we saw this coming as soon as these ads aired: Groupon has decided to stop airing the controversial commercials they debuted during the Super Bowl, which played on organizations in need asking for help to promote their coupons for vario ...
• Teen Arrested For Sending Out School Threat Vi ...
  Authorities arrested a Maryland teenager who is charged with making threats of a mass shooting at a high school. He's accused of impersonating another student while sending a threatening message to more than 100 people via Xbox Live. A Union County, New Jersey website says the teen is accused ...
• Consumerist Friday Flickr Finds
  Here are nine of the best photos that readers added to The Consumerist Flickr Pool this week, picked for neatness and usability in a Consumerist post. (bclinesmith) (ash™) C Merry (8one6) (Wade Morgen) (Great Beyond) (Yo Spiff) (kenfagerdotcom) Our Flickr Pool is the place where Consum ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

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

UK Progressive

• The Monday Line – CPAC Right Wing Freak Show. ...
  While most of the sane world celebrated the past astonishing 18-days leading to 80-million Egyptian people crying for and winning their freedom peacefully, the wing nuttier side of the world just doubled down on the crazy at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washingto ...
• Incredible PSA From NASA – The Open Road Still ...
  As only those who have explored other worlds and life outside the confines of earth can do, comes this stunning PSA for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Damewse transforms Michael Marantz’s original video EARTH: The Pale Blue Dot, with its beautiful Carl Sagan reading ...
• US Forces GM Seeds Into The Hands Of European ...
  On February 10, 2011, Miriam E. Sapiro, Deputy US Trade Representative, urged the European Commission to break its longstanding impass blocking genetically modified (GM) foods. For the US, genetically modified (GM) seeds offer huge financial benefits over traditional seeds because GM seeds are p ...
• Egypt’s Supreme Military Council Dissolves Par ...
  Moments ago in Cairo, the Supreme Military Council announced it would dissolve the Egyptian Parliament, suspend the Constitution and placed current Prime Minister Ahmed Shafik in a caretaker government role until elections for a new Parliament and president can be held. PM Shafik announced the c ...
• Welcome Egyptian Brothers and Sisters to Freed ...
  Says it all. After 18-days of sitting here at this desk, watching the courageous men and women of Egypt fight a corrupt and vicious regime, it my humble and profound privilege to report that at 16:04 GMT 18:04 Cairo time, nominal VP Suleiman made the 20 second announcement the world waited to he ...

NewsAlert

• Flashback: Powerful White Democrat Party Boss ...
  He's the white guy handing out the money in Cook County. The man running things from slating all the judges in Cook County to controlling Chicago's tax code. Why didn't Chicago Alderman Ed Burke sue the publisher of this book for quoting Alderman Burke in a most unfavorable light? Or the top FBI ...
• Sen. Schumer creates waves over DB-NYSE merger ...
  Reuters reports:A top lawmaker on Sunday created waves over two key aspects of the proposed merger between Deutsche Boerse and NYSE Euronext -- which management team will run the merged entity and what will be its name.
• CalPERS' Average Career Retiree Collects a Sta ...
  The San Jose Mercury News reports on the special class. Just a reminder, to take out $67,000 a year, from a 401k or an IRA, one would have to have saved around $2 Million with today's low interest rates. They sure aren't middle class!
• Postal Employees Charge 'Adult Entertainment,' ...
  TPM
• High-speed rail is a fast track to government ...
  The Washington Post explains why high-speed rail is one big scam.

JoNova

• Time for a new rigorous Association of Scienti ...
  Below is the O so apt resignation of  Steven J. Welcenbach from the American Chemical Society (ACS). In it he describes how the largest scientific society in the world has become a non-scientific activist group bowing to political pressure and ignoring it’s members objections. Such is his ire a ...
• There are signs the wheel is turning.
  In the US there are significant moves at the highest levels to limit the carbon related power-grab.  (Thanks to SPPI for the heads-up.) Perhaps this is the point where the 2010 election results start to spoil the grandiose plans that once looked inevitable? Maybe democracy can save the day? Hous ...
• Garnaut: spend billions! Why? So they don’t sa ...
  Gillard condemns us to the carbon tax plan (commencing 1 July 2012), and the future emissions trading plans (2015), setting Australia up to be the last dumb-patsy-standing as the rest of the world heads the other way and bails out of the carbon facade. Australia must immediately pour billions in ...
• “Climate committee” is a government advertisin ...
  The Government says it wants a “climate expert” to sell the message to the public, and who do they pick? A small mammal expert whose predictions on the climate are so wrong any normal person would slink off in shame. But not Flannery, the Teflon prophet, reality doesn’t stick to him.  How can i ...
• The Urban Heat Island effect: Could Africa be ...
  The mystery: We know when we drive through a city that temperatures warm from the fringe to the middle. We know UHI is real, but how much does it affect the official records? Is a 2010 city 0.3 K hotter than a 1960 city? How would we know? Frank Lansner has come up with a [...]

ReNew America

• Troubling indications emerging out of Egypt
  (Marie Jon, RA analyst) - From the outset of the escalating crisis in Egypt, we've seen indications President Barack Obama and his cohorts have been working behind the scenes to destabilize the country, in the hope of transforming the 30-year ally of the U.S. into a radical Islamist regime and w ...
• Future bumper-sticker: Who lost the Middle Eas ...
  (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - The overwhelming majority of Muslims in Egypt favor the death penalty for those who leave the Muslim religion. This, you see, is in line with Muslim custom -- or Sharia law -- that also says it's okay for husbands or fathers to impose an "honor killing" (or stoning) on ...
• FCC commissioner: Feds should leave Web alone
  (WorldNetDaily) - Robert McDowell, one of the five Federal Communications commissioners, told the Conservative Political Action Conference that the Internet has worked, and is working, because the federal government largely has so far left it alone...
• 'Obamacare can be killed without single Democr ...
  (WorldNetDaily) - While House Republicans are working hard on legislation to deprive Barack Obama of the money he needs to implement his massive health-care program, there is a way they can accomplish the same ends without a single Democrat vote and no approval by the Senate or White House, says ...
• The catastrophe of 'compromise'
  (Rachel Marsden) - A recent Wall Street Journal poll found that 35% of Americans feel President Obama has learned from the midterm election disappointments and is making adjustments. Meanwhile, an across-the-board majority of all voters except those in the Republican Party want to see both parti ...

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

• The Royal Society Laughs at 2012
  A few days ago, the highly-regarded Professor Jocelyn Bell Burnell gave a Royal Society lecture about the sham that is 2012. You can watch it online: http://royalsociety.org/The-end-of-the-world-in-2012/ Now for some criticisms! You have to wonder about a scientist who doesn’t understand how se ...
• Sun-Moon-Earth Magnetic Relationship
  For most people, the moon is a lump of barren rock that provides us with moonlight, and is the cause of tides. Along with that, we know that gravity is less on the moon, allowing astronauts to take floating steps. Few people know that our moon has a magnetic field, just like the Sun and [...] ...
• Another Icelandic Volcano Threatens
  This time the volcano is called Bárdarbunga, and a scientist has warned that the odds of it erupting are high. If it does, it could be substantially worse for Europe than Eyjafjallajökul which erupted in 2010, creating air traffic chaos: … there was “every reason to worry” as the sustained ear ...
• Chinese Air Raid Shelters / LHC in 2012 / Mzor ...
  This CNN video lets us know that there are lots of Chinese folk living in old, underground shelters. The question – is this a sign that the Chinese Govt. deems shelters unnecessary, or is it true that they plan on evicting the residents? http://edition.cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2011/02/07/yoon ...
• Power Grid Disinformation??
  If you have been following 2012 in the broadest sense, you’ll know that: 1) A Coronal Mass Ejection (from the Sun) could wipe out the electrical grid in the USA and potentialy elsewhere. 2) The next solar maximum (and therefore heightened odds of a CME) is in  2012/2013. 3) The recent solar min ...

Facing South

• The truth about the Gulf's beaches (video)
  Incensed over BP ads claiming that the spilled oil is gone and the Gulf's beaches are clean, Hurricane Creekkeeper John Wathen of Alabama set out to document the truth. He's released a six-minute video of footage shot along the Fort Morgan Peninsula on Feb. 9, 2011: a familiar brown s ...
• INSTITUTE INDEX: Coal power's mercury menace
  Rank of coal-fired power plants among America's biggest sources of air pollution: 1 Of the five leading causes of death in the United States, number to which coal plant pollution contributes: 4 Number of U.S. water bodies impaired by mercury, a particularly toxic component of coal plant p ...
• Glossing over the misdeeds of big business
  By Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest I was just beginning to recover from President Obama's dismaying speech at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce when I found myself in the middle of another effort to gloss over the misdeeds of big business. This occurred at the annual conference of the BlueGreen ...
• The great Gulf offshore drilling jobs hoax con ...
  Politicians in the Gulf Coast are still attacking President Obama's slow-down on offshore drilling, even as more evidence comes in that the post-BP spill measure has had modest effect on the coast's oil economy. A month after BP's oil disaster, Obama's Interior Department announced a six-mont ...
• Federal government failing victims of BP disas ...
  There's growing evidence that serious health problems threaten the Gulf Coast's residents, cleanup workers and seafood consumers in the wake of the BP oil disaster. But so far the federal agencies in charge of responding to the disaster have failed to take adequate steps to help the injured and ...

One News Page

• Lady Antebellum 'floating' over Grammys
  Lady Antebellum say that they wanted to make the country community proud at the Grammys.
• UPDATE 1-Golf-Woods fined for spitting in Duba ...
  LONDON, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Former world number one Tiger Woods is to be fined for spitting during the Dubai Desert Classic at the weekend.
• Charlize Theron to star in 'Prometheus'?
• Royal wedding: Prince Harry to be best man
  by Stephanie Boyd - LONDON, United Kingdom -- Prince William has asked his younger brother Prince Harry to be his best man when he marries Kate Middleton, the princes' office confirmed on Monday. Kate Middleton's sister Philippa will be her maid of honour when the couple marry at Westminster ...
• Johnny Depp: 'I have Bieber fever'
  Johnny Depp reveals that he has become a fan of teen pop sensation Justin Bieber.

Global Research TV

• Chercher le courant: énergies renouvelables (B ...
• Chercher le courant - bande-annonce du film
• Patriot Act: "Give Me Liberty Or Give Me A Wir ...
• Obama Criticized for Meeting with Corporate Ba ...
• Scores Wounded in Bangladesh Clashes

Daily Tech

• Researchers Study Sex in Space, Say it Will be ...
  Space sex has a long way to go before it gets off the ground
• USAF Certifies First Aircrat for Biofuel Use
  Aircraft can operate on up to 50% biofuel mixed with JP-8
• Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental Makes Official D ...
  Aircraft is the longest commercial airliner in the world
• Amazon to Cease Operations in Texas over Tax C ...
  Texas Comptroller charged Amazon $269 million in sales taxes that were not collected on online sales in the state, provoking Amazon to close its distribution center and cancel plans to expand its operations in Texas
• Qualcomm Unleashes Dual and Quad-core 2.5GHz M ...
  Coming soon to a smart phone near you -- four cores

Oriental Review

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

BlogHer

• A Month of Movies --The Kids Are All Right: No ...
  Every day during February 2011, we'll be talking movie reviews, celebrities, Oscar nominations, awards shows, DVDs you need to rent + more. Sign up to get A Month of Movies in your inbox each week in February -- and see all the movies in the series. **************************** I've been spendi ...
• 14 Days of Chocolate, Day 13: Lovin' From the ...
  For Day 13 of 14 Days of Chocolate: Kim of Lovin' From the Oven shares her favorite chocolate recipe: a deliciously oozy chocolate pudding cake. Every day from February 1-14, food bloggers in the BlogHer Publishing Network are sharing their very favorite chocolate recipes -- from chocolate gravy ...
• Does Friendship Really Have Expiration Dates?
  My best quality, in my opinion, is what a good friend I am. I am the friend you can call in the middle of the night, who will drop everything and be there for you. I remember birthdays and anniversaries and send cards. I babysit, listen, and care. I hang on to friendships forever, as they are pr ...
• Teaching My Son to Dance
  He swooped in with one arm around my waist and grabbed my other hand in his. As we glided around the kitchen floor, I asked him, “Who taught you to dance?” “My mom, of course,” he replied and nuzzled his face into my neck. His mom. Of course. She taught him to dance. to open doors for ladies. t ...
• Valentine's Day and the Single Woman: Gifting ...
  Travel back with me, if you will, to the worst Valentine's Day of my life. (No, really, please, come with me. I hate to go there alone.) I came home from work to the apartment I shared with my then-boyfriend, a person I could not have handpicked more ill-advisedly if I tried. He was fine (well, ...

Health Freedom Alliance

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

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

• Mountaintop removal protest continues in Kentu ...
  Governor Steve Beshear, center listens to a statement by Kentucky author Wendell Berry, right, Friday, Feb. 11, 2011 in the Governor’s office at the Capitol building in Frankfort, Ky. Gov. Steve Beshear has met with members of the environmental group Kentuckians for the Commonwealth who are wag ...
• OSMRE Director Joe Pizarchik speaks
  While folks in Kentucky launched a sit-in at their governor’s office to protest mountaintop removal (see here for updates), the nation’s top strip-mine regulator — OSMRE Director Joe Pizarchik — finally ended his silence today, holding a telephone news conference about his agency’s work on a new ...
• Powder River Basin not a ‘coal producing ...
  Now, I’m certainly no expert on western coal or on the process the government uses to lease all of that publicly owned coal in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin to the handful of companies that operate huge surface mines there. But this announcement by the group WildEarth Guardians sure caught my ey ...
• Why won’t OSMRE Director Joe Pizarchik t ...
  When we last left our friends at the U.S. Office of Surface Mining, they were struggling to avoid talking about the leaked version of the Environmental Impact Statement on their changes to the stream “buffer zone” rule. OSMRE Director Joe Pizarchik did issue a strange “Dear editors and publisher ...
• Rep. McKinley gets it wrong on the Spruce Mine
  I’m still watching the House Commerce and Energy Committee hearing on efforts to block action on global warming, and finally they got around to giving Rep. David McKinley, R-W.Va., a chance to ask questions. We’ve seen before that Rep. McKinley doesn’t have a very firm grasp on the state of the ...

Daniel Miessler

• The Noisebridge Hackerspace in SF
  via youtube.com I just attended this month’s Bay Area OWASP meeting here. Utterly and completely brilliant. This is a major part of why I moved home to the Bay Area. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsOWASP AppSensorJan-Ove Waldner ServesAnd Now I Give You Technovi ...
• The Khanacademy.org Overview
  via singularityhub.com Wow, these new features are simply stunning. This man is at the very top of my respect list. Just brilliant. Think of what this single person is doing for the benefit of the world. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsForget IQ, Collective Inte ...
• The Khan Academy IS the Future of Education | ...
  Salman Khan has taken a simple idea, YouTube videos that explain math, and transformed it into the future of education. I’m just going to come out and say it: the Khan Academy is the best thing that has happened to education since Socrates. The brainchild of Salman Khan, the Khan Academy became ...
• The Coffee Trinity is Complete
  via amazon.com Above is an image of our new coffee/water-heating solution: the Zojirushi CV-DSC40 VE Hybrid Water Boiler and Warmer. It’s an alternative to a coffee maker that obviously does this step for you, and also to a traditional teapot. A few friends have one, and I spent some time resear ...
• Things
  You already possess everything nice there is to have in the world; other people are simply storing these things for you–at no cost. If you want a Porsche, you can simply have one brought to you at any time, and it’s the same with any other material possession. When you purchase something, you’re ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

• Well, I gotta hand it to the Egyptian IT Guys& ...
  Egyptian Presidency (www.presidency.gov.eg/) – UNDER CONSTRUCTION! Check it out yourself….
• Robin Hood Is Dead
  by: William Rivers Pitt, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed - The streets of Cairo were alive with jubilation on Friday after the announcement that Hosni Mubarak had finally surrendered to the inevitable and lit out of town. After more than two weeks of protest, tension and sheer grit, the deal [...]
• Stealing body fluids from NATO’s top off ...
  WWH- Never shake hands with Hillary Clinton! WikiLeaks – “Secret spy mission: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ordered diplomats to spy on UN leaders and NATO ” PressTV – Former FBI Agent, Coleen Rowley, says recently leaked diplomatic cables revealing the U.S. has been spying on NATO’s ...
• Finally, A Generation That Makes Hippies Look ...
  Day of the lout | LA Times Unsophisticated, lazy, misogynist males may be the primary model for today’s young American men. Ugh. If you’ve seen a beer commercial in the last two years â and how can you avoid them? â you know the type. He’s a twenty- or thirtysomething, sort of a slacker, with a ...
• Ron Paul. Here He Is. Again.
  Ron Paul wins CPAC straw poll again | Washington Post Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.) won the always-anticipated, rarely predictive presidential straw poll Saturday at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, but he did so with less than a third of the vote – a result that sugge ...

reference frame

• Fritz Zwicky: a birthday
  Fritz Zwicky, a top 20th century astronomer, was born on February 14th, 1898 - on Valentine's Day 113 years ago. He was actually born in Varna, Bulgaria - a city where I spent two weeks when I was approximately 6 years old. I lived in a concrete block that was identical to another conc ...
• NYT: Skeptical playwright much better than the ...
  On Friday, Jeremy Lovell of ClimateWire wrote the following article for the New York Times: Climate Change Skeptics Out-Dramatize Believers in London During the last month, two plays hit the stages of London theaters: "Greenland" was created by a committee of four worriers (using the wo ...
• ATLAS: gluino mass not below 700 GeV if equal ...
  In December 2010, the CMS collaboration at the LHC released its bounds on supersymmetry: SUSY: CMS exclusion limits way beyond Tevatron but lower than expected The ATLAS collaboration is larger than the CMS so we shouldn't be surprised that it may take a longer time for them to collect ...
• Google celebrates the light bulb
  The main Google web page shows the following animated GIF image: Thomas Alva Edison was born 164 years ago. Congratulations to his fans! He had his main lab in Menlo Park, New Jersey - a place that all people who have commuted from Rutgers to New York (e.g. your humble correspond ...
• In denial: climate on the couch
  Last night at 9 p.m., the BBC Radio 4 broadcast another 30-minute program about the psychology of deniers: In denial: climate on the couch (audio, HTML)I happen to be able to listen to it from the Czech Republic so it should work for you, too. They reveal that the climate activists are am ...

No Frakking Consensus

• How Do You Say ‘Independent’ in Au ...
  Any government body headed by eco-campaigner Tim Flannery cannot possibly be considered "independent".
• Bill McKibben’s Bad Example
  Those seemingly nice people brimming with such concern for the planet are actually profoundly intolerant.
• Michael Crichton’s Legacy
  The late Michael Crichton drew our attention to the startling lack of rigour in climate science when compared to drug testing.
• John Holdren’s IPCC Myths
  President Obama's science advisor says the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change bases its conclusions on source material that has been vetted in excruciating detail. According to IPCC insiders, this is bunk.
• Is Everything Really Getting Worse?
  David Suzuki says the planet is in "far worse shape" today than 50 years ago. But a growing library of exhaustively researched books claim the opposite.

Tarpley

• Massive CIA Campaign Drives Mubarak from Power ...
  Webster G. Tarpley on The Alex Jones Show Infowars February 11, 2011 download file
• Mubarak Defies CIA Coup; Won’t Quit; No ...
  Webster G. Tarpley on The Alex Jones Show Infowars February 10, 2011 download file
• Panetta Proclaims CIA-backed Military Coup in ...
  Webster G. Tarpley on The Alex Jones Show Infowars February 10, 2011 download file
• Speeches and Lectures
  From Guy Fawkes to 9/11 – 400 Years of State Sponsored Terrorism London — November 5, 2007 Note: this video just became available, so we are temporarily displaying it at the top of the page. —webmaster download file | link here Webster Tarpley Speaks at 10/23 DC Obama Eligibility Rally ...
• MK-Ultra Minion Assange of Wikileaks Targets ...
  Webster G. Tarpley on The Alex Jones Show Infowars December 5, 2010 download file

Modern Survivalism

• Staring Down the Barrel at Sunspot 1158
  Do you like staring down the barrel of a gun? This is a fairly good analogy for what the Earth is facing at this moment, as sunspot region 1158 points directly at the planet. Dr. Tony Philips of spaceweather.com calls the region, “Behemoth”. “The active region is now more than 100,000 km wide wi ...
• Inflation, What, Why, and What about me?
  A definition of Inflation The overall general upward price movement of goods and services in an economy. As the cost of goods and services increase, the value of a dollar is going to fall because a person won’t be able to purchase as much with that dollar as he/she previously could. When inflati ...
• Kraft Foods to Raise 2011 Prices
  On the heels of Kraft Foods having raised prices around the world during the 4th quarter (Wall Street Journal: Kraft Product Squeezed…), the Financial Times quotes chief executive Irene Rosenfeld, and what she called âsignificant input cost inflation and persistent consumer weakness in many mark ...
• U.S. Ambassador Recall, Prelude to IMF Announc ...
  A report from CNNMoney.com states, “The International Monetary Fund issued a report Thursday on a possible replacement for the dollar as the world’s reserve currency. The IMF said Special Drawing Rights, or SDRs, could help stabilize the global financial system.” There has been wide speculation ...
• Use a Covered Tray to Germinate Seed
  It’s that time of year to start the process of seed germination for zones that will allow planting in late March or early April. Time to plan your strategy for what you will plant and where you will plant them, and then to start the process to germinate the seeds indoors. How to germinate seeds ...

Fast Company

• Sumatra Showdown: Why a Former Greenpeace Acti ...
  Asia Pulp and Paper, a subsidiary of Sinar Mas, has a Greenpeace-fueled reputation of destroying Sumatran rainforest areas. APP's reputation is so tarnished that heavyweights like Staples and Office Depot have stopped stocking paper from the company. But Patrick Moore, a formerly prominent Gre ...
• How Kinoma Play's Smartphone Interface Makes M ...
  Zoom, rotate, flip, browse, listen, watch, work, play--the new smartphone and tablet interface by Marvell lets you do all that. And more.Marvell, (not to be confused with Marvel), today introduced Kinoma, a software platform for mobile devices and more--everything from "smart appliances" to "sma ...
• Comparing the iPhone's Three Hottest Rivals: S ...
  Three new smartphones have recently been revealed, each trying to capture a different consumer, each from a different maker. They all have one aim--to dethrone the iPhone as king of the market.Samsung's Galaxy S2Samsung's next revision of the Galaxy S phone has been leaked for a while, but now ...
• Apple's iPad Officially Passes the Higher Educ ...
  Reed College finds that the iPad excels under the same conditions in which the Amazon Kindle failed a year earlier.Apple’s iPad received glowing marks for its performance in college classrooms from the eagerly anticipated Reed College evaluation, according to a new report shared with Fast Compan ...
• The Startup Genome Project: Decoding Silicon V ...
  What's the difference between a multi-billion-dollar startup and a flop? The Startup Genome Project, an initiative started by the Silicon Valley-based blackbox seed accelerator, is taking on the task of decoding what makes a startup succeed by breaking down the individual attributes of success ...

Jadaliyya

• [Eighteen Days of the People's Revolution to T ...
  � �١٨ ��ما م� ا�ث�رة ا�شعب�ة ع�دما ا�ت�ضت ا�جما��ر ا�مصر�ة �إس�اط�ا�د��تات�ر � س�ط ا�د��تات�ر مبار� ب�ا رجعة� �س�طت مع� عصابت� ا�حا�مة �مشر�ع� ��ت�ر�ث� س�طت ث�اث�� عاما م� س�اسات ا���ب �ا��ساد �ا�استغ�ا� �ا�إ��ار �ا�إر�اب �ا�تعذ�ب �ا��ت� �ا�اضط�اد �ا�طائ��ة. ا�شعب أراد إس�اط ا��ظام ...
• The Long Shadow of the 1952 Revolution
  Almost exactly fifty-nine years ago, on January 26, 1952, downtown Cairo was in flames. Cinemas, department stores, and hotels were set alight by rioters in the streets. The identity of these rioters would become the focus of enormous speculation: Were they revolutionaries who sought the ...
• العراق وساحة تحريره [Iraq and Its Tahrir Squa ...
  �ا� �ا�تا� غ�اب ا�عرا� ع� خر�طة "ا���م مصر� غدا� ا�عا�م"(١) (�شرت بعد اسب�ع م� مس�رة ٢٥ �ا��� ا�ثا�� (��ا�ر)) �ا�ت� ضمت م�اع�د ا�مظا�رات �� عدد م� ا�ب�دا� ا�عرب�ة. ��ذا ا�غ�اب �م ��تصر ع�� ا�تأر�خ �إ�ما ع�� ذ�ر ا�ب�د �ذ��. ��أ� غ�اب ا�أحتجاجات ��ا�ة ع� غ�اب ا�ب�د برمت�� ��أ� ا�عرا� غ�ر م ...
• العراق وساحة تحريره [Iraq and Its Tahrir Squ ...
  �ا� �ا�تا� غ�اب ا�عرا� ع� خر�طة "ا���م مصر� غدا� ا�عا�م"(١) (�شرت بعد اسب�ع م� مس�رة ٢٥ �ا��� ا�ثا�� (��ا�ر)) �ا�ت� ضمت م�اع�د ا�مظا�رات �� عدد م� ا�ب�دا� ا�عرب�ة. ��ذا ا�غ�اب �م ��تصر ع�� ا�تأر�خ �إ�ما ع�� ذ�ر ا�ب�د �ذ��. ��أ� غ�اب ا�أحتجاجات ��ا�ة ع� غ�اب ا�ب�د برمت�� ��أ� ا�عرا� غ�ر م ...
• The Workers, Middle Class, Military Junta, and ...
  Since yesterday, and actually earlier, middle class activists have been urging Egyptians to suspend the protests and return to work, in the name of patriotism, singing some of the most ridiculous lullabies about "let's build new Egypt," "Le'ts work harder than even before," ect . . . In ...

mediagazer

• Silicon Prairie News gives its start-up commun ...
  Courtney Boyd Myers / The Next Web: Silicon Prairie News gives its start-up community a voice  —  You've heard of Silicon Valley, and likely Silicon Alley, but have you heard of Silicon Prairie?  —  Silicon Prairie is geographically hard to define but it's there- somewhere between Chicago and ...
• Myanmar Arrests a Newspaper Editor (New York T ...
  New York Times: Myanmar Arrests a Newspaper Editor  —  BANGKOK — The Australian editor of an English-language newspaper that publishes in Myanmar has been arrested and jailed in what an associate said Saturday was part of a business dispute.  —  The editor, Ross Dunkley, founded the newspaper … ...
• Hey Grammys, you can't tape-delay social media ...
  Cory Bergman / Lost Remote: Hey Grammys, you can't tape-delay social media  —  While viewers in most of the U.S. were wrapping up the live broadcast of The Grammy Awards, viewers on the West Coast were just getting started with the tape-delayed version, airing at 8 p.m. PT. As is customary for ...
• Twitter Feed Evolves Into a News Wire About Eg ...
  Brian Stelter / Media Decoder: Twitter Feed Evolves Into a News Wire About Egypt  —  While people debated whether Web sites like Twitter were important in organizing protests in Tunisia and Egypt, Andy Carvin was organizing information about the protests in an innovative way.  —  Mr. Carvin's ...
• Huffpo Editor: Facebook Doesn't Pay You, So Wh ...
  Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media: Huffpo Editor: Facebook Doesn't Pay You, So Why Should We?  —  Nico Pitney.  Image by Center for American Progress Action Fund via Flickr  —  Media companies provide their audiences with information; social networks give their users ways to disseminate their own i ...

Chemtrail News

• YouTube - EPA meets with Chemtrail Acti ...
  Bob Tuskin, http://www.TheyLIE.com meets with his local EPA officials to discuss the dangers of "Geo-Enginerring" or Chem Trails.www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRuc4c5RVWk
• Sen. Isakson: Government Is Not Spraying Chemi ...
  The e-mails followed a story CBS Atlanta aired on the chemtrail ... Chemtrails is a word theorists use to describe some white lines left by jets in the sky. ...
• Persistent Plane Contrails Cover Atlanta Skies ...
  Last year, Michael Murphy produced a documentary called, "What In The World Are They Spraying," which examines the contrail/chemtrail phenomenon. ...
• It's A Bird...It's A Plane, No It' ...
  It's A Bird...It's A Plane, No It's A Chemtrail. Feb 12, 2011 Deborah Foreman. Intentionally Poisoning Our Children - TrafficAlertUSA. What are they putting in the sky? As a child I can remember playing outside with my sisters, ...Suite101: American Affairs Articles - http://www.suite101.com/ame ...
• Six ways for the government to get out of debt ...
  Divert a chunk of the chemtrail and military funding to becoming the world's provider of sustainable, renewable energy, and then sell this clean energy to ...

World News - Top Stories

• Arik Air Lowers Fares for Valentine Celeb ...
  Arik Air has reduced fares across its network to celebrate...
• Icahn makes last push for Dynegy shares ...
  Quick ReadIcahn Partners extends Dynegy offer to Friday, says it won't raise bid for power producer (AP) âEuro" Billionaire investor Carl Icahn is extending an offer for power producer Dynegy Inc. for a final time. Icahn Partners LP said Monday its offer for the Houston company will expire ...
• Trump Entertainment Resorts to Sell Atlan ...
  Trump Entertainment Resorts agreed to sell the Trump Marina Hotel Casino in Atlantic City for $38...
• Obama unveils $3.73 trillion budget for 2 ...
  WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama is sending Congress a $3.73 trillion spending blueprint that pledges $1.1 trillion in deficit savings over the next decade through spending cuts and tax increases. Obama's new budget projects that the deficit for the current year will surge to an all-time ...
• Jessica Simpson's fashion line gets bette ...
  Jessica Simpson may not be doing too well in her music and acting careers, but her fashion line has never been better. According to an...

no frakking consensus

• How Do You Say ‘Independent’ in Au ...
  Any government body headed by eco-campaigner Tim Flannery cannot possibly be considered "independent".
• Bill McKibben’s Bad Example
  Those seemingly nice people brimming with such concern for the planet are actually profoundly intolerant.
• Michael Crichton’s Legacy
  The late Michael Crichton drew our attention to the startling lack of rigour in climate science when compared to drug testing.
• John Holdren’s IPCC Myths
  President Obama's science advisor says the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change bases its conclusions on source material that has been vetted in excruciating detail. According to IPCC insiders, this is bunk.
• Is Everything Really Getting Worse?
  David Suzuki says the planet is in "far worse shape" today than 50 years ago. But a growing library of exhaustively researched books claim the opposite.

Pointman's

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

Journalists' Toolkit

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

  IPS - Inter Press Services

• Deferring to Petraeus, NIE Failed to Register ...
  Despite evidence that the Taliban insurgency had grown significantly in 2010, the U.S. intelligence community failed to revise its estimate for Taliban forces as part of a National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Afghanistan in December.
• PHILIPPINES: Island Kids Get Connected
  In a remote island community where fishing is the main source of living, one would expect children to be surfing the waves and not surfing the net.
• Q&A: Tunis and Cairo Reveal a New Popular Mili ...
  More than 200 years ago, one of the United States' founding presidents, Thomas Jefferson, famously remarked: "Every generation needs a new revolution." Today, his words are more relevant than ever, as young people across the world mark 2011 as a year of change.
• INDIA: Stemming Experiments in Stem Cells
  Hundreds of patients are now streaming into stem cell therapy clinics all over India, despite the controversy surrounding stem cell research and even though, doctors say, no one has yet been cured by this technology.
• ITALY: It's a Lot Worse Than Sex Parties
  The demonstration by an estimated million women across Italy Sunday points to a continuing denial of fair opportunities for women at work.

Scoop - NZ

• Egyptian army calls the shots as nation embark ...
  Veteran commander Tantawi in charge of steering Egypt through political reforms now Mubarak has gone – but uncertainty remains
• Egyptian military makes its move, inches Mubar ...
  Thursday's moves by the military resembled the Free Officers Movement of 1952-54, when a group of officers, led by the future President Gamal Abdel Nasser, toppled the monarchy, according to analysts for the global intelligence company Stratfor of Austin, Texas.
• Analysis: Military coup was behind Mubarak's e ...
  It was the people who forced President Hosni Mubarak from power, but it is the generals who are in charge now. Egypt's 18-day uprising produced a military coup that crept into being over many days - its seeds planted early in the crisis by Mubarak himself. The telltale signs of a coup in the ...
• Justice for Janitors: open-sourcing labour con ...
  The Justice for Janitors campaign was .. born as a strategic response to a profoundly changing economy, to a new labour force and rapidly declining union power. This challenge called for a different type of unionization, for daring experimentation and for a union willing to take a political stan ...
• EGYPTIAN PSY OP
  Not everyone is being taken in by the giant Psy Op being organised in the Greater Middle East by the CIA, Mossad and NATO. Israel is rejoicing, secretly, that Egypt is now much more weak and much more poor.

Independent - London

• Obama budget draws up battle lines
  President Barack Obama unveiled his 3.73 trillion dollar budget today, the opening shot in a political battle with Republicans who believe it is too timid about reducing soaring US debt.
• Strikes replace protests in Egypt
  Egypt was hit by a wave of pay strikes by public sector workers today, even as the interim government managed to virtually clear out demonstrators from Tahrir Square.
• Iran stamps out street protests
  Iran flooded Tehran with police and militia today to crush any pro-Egypt marches it feared could turn into anti-government demonstrations.
• Egypt's military rulers call to end unrest
  Egypt's ruling military council has issued a new communique calling on labour leaders to stop strikes and protests to allow a sense of normalcy to return to the country.
• Germany hit by mild earthquake
  The German Research Centre for Geosciences says western Germany has been hit with a mild earthquake.

Rogue Government.com

• Ron Paul wins CPAC presidential straw poll
  For the second year running, Texas congressman Ron Paul came out on top among conservative Republicans in a "straw poll" contest to gauge popularity ahead of the 2012 presidential race.
• Lady Gaga Arrives At Grammys In Ark of the Cov ...
• Algeria shuts down internet and Facebook as pr ...
  Internet providers were shut down and Facebook accounts deleted across Algeria on Saturday as thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators were arrested in violent street demonstrations.
• Fannie, Freddie bailout: $153 billion … and co ...
  When the dust settles, the federal bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will be the most expensive government rescue of the financial crisis — it already stands at $153 billion and counting.
• Federal Reserve To Buy More Air From The Treas ...
  The Federal Reserve Bank of New York said Thursday it plans to purchase about $97 billion in Treasury debt in the next month.

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

• Eat Real Food
  In the first article of this series we talked about the negative impact of 4 common food toxins: wheat, industrial seed oil, fructose and processed soy. In the second article we discussed which fats, carbohydrates and proteins are the best source of fuel for your body. In this article we're goin ...
• SOTT FOCUS: Global Warming And The Corruption ...
  According to its official website, the Bilderberg group is composed of "leading citizens on both sides of the Atlantic" from the spheres of government and politics, finance, industry, labor, education and communications. Closely working together since 1954 to solve problems of critical importanc ...
• South Korea in chaos after heaviest ever snowf ...
  The heaviest snowfall in more than a century on South Korea's east coast is causing widespread chaos. Hundreds of houses have collapsed under the weight of the snow. One newspaper described it as a snow bomb. The South Korean government has deployed 12,000 soldiers to rescue stranded res ...
• Pakistan appears to be building a fourth milit ...
  Think-tank says new building early in its construction Pakistan "determined" to make more weapons-grade plutonium Vienna - Pakistan appears to be building a fourth military nuclear reactor, signalling its determination to produce more plutonium for atomic weapons, a U.S.-based think-tank said. ...
• Obama tells Pakistan to release Agent Davis or ...
  Islamabad - The US has threatened Pakistan that its envoy will be "kicked out" if it fails to release the American official arrested for gunning down two men in Lahore by Friday, according to a media report. National security advisor Tom Donilon told Pakistani envoy Hussain Haqqani that the Oba ...

The Galloping Beaver

• Finger-lickin' good . . .
  MRE'S ARE GHASTLY, war is hell. Still life with serpent is a delight to visit, to get down to the yummy details. Be sure to check out the python; her name is Louise.
• Uniforms and politicians: A study in prioritie ...
  There's your Conservative. And then there's your Dipper.� Which experience do you think might lead to an improvement in your life?
• The man who would be President
  Stephen Harper wants his own permanent prime ministerial widebody transport aircraft. This ain't no Challenger VIP but a dual use CC150 (Airbus), which can serve as a troop transport and as VIP aircraft.� "A member of the PCO staff has again asked if CC150001 can be designated a VIP-only AC ( ...
• Ranking ranks . . .
  OR IS THAT REEKS? David Segal has a fascinating article in the NYT, "The Dirty Little Secrets of Search", about the industry that has sprung up to try to game the Google search engine's rankarama, aka "Search Engine Optimization", or SEO. Outfits like BMW and J.C Penney have been caught trying t ...
• Hidden charms . . .
  HAVE YOU EVER READ "The Works of the Earls of Rochester and Roscommon"? Me neither. It's an obscure volume of poetry from the 18th century — that was in-print continuously for a century. The secret of its, um, staying power, came to light with the discovery by Oxford University researcher, Dr Cl ...

Media Matters for America

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

Global Research.ca

• CIA Promotes Agents Accused of Torture and Mur ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Egypt's Military, an Economic Giant, Now in Ch ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• London 7/7 Bombing: Islamist Who Trained Was U ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Saakashvili Turned Georgia Into Police State - ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Marty: Everybody knew what Thaci did
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.

TPM Cafe

• The Obama Budget: And Why the Coming Debate Ov ...
  President Obama has chosen to fight fire with gasoline. Republicans want America to believe the economy is still lousy because government is too big, and the way to revive the economy is to cut federal spending. Today (Sunday) Republican Speaker John Boehner even refused to rule out a governm ...
• Obama, The Plan, And The Politics: A Coda
  Abbas's Palestinian Authority has just announced elections for the fall. If Obama has any hope that the leadership circle around Abbas, including Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, will make a strong showing in this vote, he had better come forth with a plan very soon. And the administration should qu ...
• Obama, The Plan, And The Politics
  A final (preemptive) word about my forthcoming article in Sunday's New York Times Magazine, appealing to President Obama to present an American plan based on the Olmert-Abbas talks. Obama knows very well that when Abbas finally met Netanyahu last year, the Palestinian president proposed that ...
• Revolutionary Moment
  Amidst all the attention on Egypt's inspiring assertion of the democratic yearning, a little noticed article in the Guardian outlined the stark forces that may bring revolutionary change to autocratic regimes around the world. The US fears that Saudi Arabia, the world's largest crude oil expor ...
• Beyond the Huffington Post Windfall: A New Way ...
  AOL's buyout of the Huffington Post has prompted fierce debate among progressives. I don't have much to add to this debate. It's great that the outstanding reporters who are on the paid staff may reach an even larger audience as a result of this merger. It would also be good if some of this wind ...

TruthOut

• James Kwak | Bad Data
  To make a vast generalization, we live in a society where quantitative data are becoming more and more important. Some of this is because of the vast increase in the availability of data, which is itself largely due to computers. Some is because of the vast increase in the capacity to process da ...
• Death Row Inmates Sue the FDA Over Execution D ...
  “In keeping with established practice, FDA does not review or approve products for the purpose of lethal injection. FDA has not reviewed the products in this shipment to determine their identity, safety, effectiveness, purity, or any other characteristics.”read more
• Russ Baker | Giving Chase: Egypt, OK - But Wha ...
  With all the attention on crowds of ordinary people rising up and asserting themselves against corruption and self-dealing by an oligarchy, we’re missing what the oligarchs are doing right at home. Take, for example, the activities of one of our biggest banks, JPMorgan Chase.read more
• US Misinformation: International Law is Clear ...
  Lahore, Pakistan--You cannot open the TV, or read a paper here without more and more news about Raymond Davis and his murderous act. His killing on Jan. 27 of two young Pakistanis has created international waves, too, plunging the Pakistan-America relationship into stormy waters.read more
• Egyptian Irony
  On February 8, our Vice President Joe Biden called Egypt's new Vice President Omar Suleiman, saying Egypt should cancel the emergency law their government has used to suppress, imprison, torture and kill those who oppose the government's tyranny. Another provision of the emergency law gives the ...

Planetsave

• Thank HP for Its Climate Action (Green Watchin ...
  Here’s a call to action you don’t often see. It’s not about a non-green company and asking the company to clean up its act, but it’s about thanking an electronics giant, Hewlett-Packard (HP), for being a green leader. ClimateCounts.org Green Watching campaign is teaming up with DoSomething.or ...
• This Valentine’s Day, Green is the New Red
  (Crossposted from our sister site, Red Green and Blue) Show her your love is sustainable… because on Valentine’s Day you care enough to say âI love youâ in a way that also says you love our planet (and you want to make it a better place for our children). This is the biggest shopping day... Read ...
• Chevron Insults and Attacks Indigenous People ...
  Chevron must have been jealous of BP in 2010, because it is taking corporate irresponsibility to another level in Ecuador. Chevron-Ecuador Back History Chevron has dumped tons and tons.. and tons.. of water containing numerous carcinogens in the rivers and streams of several Ecuadorian tribes. I ...
• HOT Author Mark Hertsgaard & Others Interrogat ...
  Mark Hertsgaard, author of one of the books we’ll soon be giving away, Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth, talks about climate change, climate cranks, the threats facing “generation hot,” and what we need to do today in the video above. Worth the quick watch. I also got word recen ...
• 100 Sled Dogs Killed Because of Slump In Touri ...
  This is news from a couple weeks ago. Nonetheless, worth writing about and bringing to more people. Also, there is a petition going around on this and if you haven’t signed it yet, I imagine you would like to. And one more important way to help ensure this kind of thing doesn’t happen (or happen ...

Water Quality - WordPress

• Arsenic Pollution of Groundwater in Vietnam Ex ...
  PNAS / Lenny H.E. Winkel et al http://tinyurl.com/495x3qh [Abstract] Arsenic contamination of shallo
• Salazar proposes new Everglades National Wildl ...
  Salazar proposes new Everglades National Wildlife Refuge (Care2.com)
• Pit toilet sanitation design and improving sal ...
  The Kasimu Education Fund, a US based 501c3 non-profit organization has been operating in Malawi for
• Finally another step in the right direction! ...
  Hopefully one can infer, that by taking such an action against perhaps the largest proposed mountain
• Cougar Energy
  While a decision to lift a ban on Cougar Energy’s coal gasification plant could have been made

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• Are You Proud of Your Country? I'm Not by Timo ...
  By Timothy V. Gatto Featured Writer Dandelion Salad liberalpro.blogspot.com January 19, 2011 This ar
• Countering Pentagon Propaganda About Prisoners ...
  by Andy Worthington Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.andyworthington.co.uk 18 January, 2011 Image
• Exclusive: Jerry Falwell at the gates of Hell ...
  photo by Dandelion Salad by Rocket Kirchner Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Rocket Kirchner (blog) R
• Cindy Sheehan: George Carlin, Roe versus Wade ...
  by Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbo
• Socialism Can Save Our Cities & Small Busi ...
  by Philip A. Farruggio Featured Writer Dandelion Salad January 16, 2011 We live in a country that is

Axis of Logic

• A Call for Change - Protest in Algeria and Yem ...
  A call for change. Recent events in Egypt have spawned more revolts. In both Algeria and Yemen, we see the protestors calling for similar change in goverment. CULTURESHOCKTHERAPY  via Youtube ( Footage courtesy of ITN )...
• The Revolt continues in Yemen - World News
  Another day of protest, in Yemen, as protesters seek "justice" like that of the revolt in Egypt. As the third day of marches reign on in the capital Sanaa, Police oppose thousands rallying for political reformation and an end to president Ali Abdullah Saleh's 23 year rule. ...
• Yemen protesters: "First Mubarak, now Ali" - W ...
  Sanaa, Yemen (CNN) -- Hundreds of anti-government protesters marched toward a presidential palace in Yemen on Sunday, calling for regime change in the Middle Eastern country. Some of them chanted, "First Mubarak, now Ali," referring to Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh and Hosni Mubarak ...
• Haiti's shaky democracy. [Return of Aristide a ...
  Haiti's shaky democracy How could Haiti's former leaders affect the country's troubled democratic process? What impact could the return of Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haiti's former president, have on Haiti's political process? Haiti has been politically paralysed since the November president ...
• Algeria prepares for day of protests - Africa
  Pro-democracy alliance expected to defy ban on demonstrations as euphoria from Egypt and Tunisia spills over to Algeria Algeria, the oil-rich, military-dominated north African state, braced itself for a day of pro-democracy protests on Saturday, despite a ...

They Gave Us a Republic

• GOP "leaders" refuse to stand up to party's "b ...
  William Saletan in today's Slate puts more meat on the bones of a contention that many of us have been making for some time, namely that the Republican Party as a national political party no longer exists, having been consumed and absorbed by the right wing political movement that's challenged t ...
• Happy Valentine's Day
  I've never been all that big on traditions, but one of them I have is posting this video on Valentine's Day.
• The Nightowl Newswrap
  This sounds bad, but a deadline is a step forward. "Egypt's new military authorities say they are dissolving parliament and suspending the constitution. In a statement on state TV, the higher military council said it would stay in power six months, or until elections. Egypt's current parliament ...
• Day 3 of the New Egypt, brought to you live by ...
  The live blog is here. The military promises elections - in six months. �Not everyone is satisfied, and small groups of protesters continue to occupy Tahrir Square. Local police have now joined the numerous labor unions seeking raises and better working conditions. In other words, the birth pang ...
• Women and Social Security: a few facts
  This is the first post in a series I am writing as a blogging fellow for the Strengthen Social Security Campaign, a coalition of more than 270 national and state organizations dedicated to preserving and strengthening Social Security. Do you have a mother? Is she over 65? How is she set financi ...

Care 2

• Tips for Donating a Car to Cancer Charity
  Tell me how does this sound: Making a car donation to charity, saving yourself from the hassles involved in selling the same and scoring a deduction in your taxes as well. Sounds Simple, isn�t it? If all things fall correctly in place, everybody ends a wiSubmitted by Pedja S. to Health & Wellnes ...
• Group plans to beam free Internet across the g ...
  The group, which was founded by 25-year-old Kosta Grammatis, is currently raising money to buy the TerreStar-1, the largest commercial communications satellite ever built. TerreStar, the company that owns the satelliteSubmitted by EarthSpirit Angel to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a ...
• Dog's drool helps Bismarck man finish book
  When Art Rude of Bismarck wanted to minimize his daily carb intake and feed high-calorie,fast-food biscuit to his dog,he never thought the health-conscious act would earn him $2,000.Hardee's breakfast biscuit made Rude's bulldog,Sadie,drool uncontrollablySubmitted by Yrna M. to Offbeat �|� �Not ...
• Click to Donate| Make a Donation| Donate Onlin ...
  We are committed to helping those in need. You can join us in our endeavor and make a small, yet a significant difference in someone�s life. All you have to do is click to donate.Submitted by Tj H. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Ask the University of Washington to End the Us ...
  Please take a minute to ask University of Washington School of Medicine dean Paul G. Ramsey, M.D., to replace the use of ferrets in the school�s pediatrics residency program with validated human-based training methods.Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

• Egypt, USA
• Washington On The Nile
• 'They're animals'
• Robin Hood Is Dead
• Deferring to Petraeus, NIE Failed to Register ...

Paul Krugman

• The New Obama Budget
  Meh. And I mean that.
• A Mysterious Absence
  Democratic politics stops at the water's edge?
• Who's Unemployed?
  Basically, everyone.
• Europe Turns on Its Axel
  Inflation hawks gone.
• Failure to Launch
  A terrible time to graduate.

No Quarter

• Congressional Humors Spawn Comic Cottage Indus ...
  My eyes honed in like laser beams at the Breaking News.  President Obamaâs advisor, and MIT economist, Jonathan Gruber was (via AP): “…turning to comic books to help make the pitch for the administration’s embattled health care law.” [snip]…”[with] a defensible text that is fact-based.” Wow ...
• Barack Obama’s Adventures in Egypt’s Wonderlan ...
  Who knew? Lewis Carroll is still alive but is now writing his marvelous works of fantasy for Barack Obama rather than waste any more literary effort on young Alice Liddell. Who better than Carroll, who pioneered the art of literary nonsense in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, to launch a new ge ...
• Bad Luck Cadet #18 – The Most Popular Cadet
  The Most Popular Cadet is the eighteenth in a series of posts on my misadventures in becoming a police officer. The first in this series is Accidents Happen. I became a police officer while suffering a midlife crisis in my forties. I became a detective a few years later. Crime in my small town s ...
• Sex, Lies, and An American Conundrum
  Behold the classic narcissistic bathroom mirror photo, smart phone in one hand and not sure what the other hand is doing. Why is this relevant to you? This is a guy who served–until this last week–on the House Ways and Means Committee. That boring title belies its incredible clout. In short, Rep ...
• Fire in the Maghreb
  Editor’s Note: Catch Larry Johnson on John Batchelor’s syndicated radio show TONIGHT at around 10:05 to 10:35 p.m. ET. You’ll find programming details and “how to listen” instructions at the end of this post. Additional Editor’s Note: I urge everyone to read John’s post. Why? For example, check ...

Environmental Graffiti

• 16 Beautiful Swallowtail Butterflies
  The 16 most beautiful swallowtail butterflies to be found in the natural world. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• The Curse of the 5,000-Year-Old Frozen Iceman
  When Ötzi's remains were discovered accidentally 20 years ago, no one imagined that it would link us to our 5,300 old past. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• 7 Green Foods with Extraordinary Healing P ...
  Learn about various green super foods that have extraordinary healing powers. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• WWF Leads Fight Against Illegal Timber
  Over in the UK, it’s been estimated that around 1.5 million cubic metres of illegal timber and wood products are imported each year. Illegal logging is contributing to th read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the ...
• Slow Loris: The World's Only Poisonous Primate
  How in spite of being most poisonous primate on the Earth,Slow Loris is now threatened by illegal trade and deforestation? Read more... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

• What Does It Feel Like to Break Bread With a M ...
  Were Secretary of State Clinton and President Obama on the same page vis a vis Egypt?
• It's Not Our Values They Hate, It's Our . . .
  The United States often acts like it has the patent on democracy.
• Ordinary Egyptians Have Little to Show for U.S ...
  They have seen little practical benefit from their country's alleged friendship with the United States.
• Emphasis on Social Networks Does a Disservice ...
  Egypt has a rich tradition of humanitarianism.
• Tahir Square a Product, in Part, of the Perver ...
  Microcredit begets loan sharking which begat Tahir Square.

Global Elite

• Fear, Intimidation & Media Disinformation: U.K ...
  Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, August 20, 2009 An official UK government report –quoted extensively in Britain’s tabloid media– is warning the British public that there will ...
• President European Commission Advocated World ...
  Jurriaan Maessen. Infowars. July 24th, 2009 On September 7, 1992, two term President of the European Commission Jacques Delors gave a speech to the Royal Institute of International ...
• Billions of People Expected to Die Under Curre ...
  Barbara Minton, Natural News, July 21st, 2009 Your right to eat healthy food and use supplements of your choice is rapidly vanishing, but every effort has been made to keep you in t ...
• Bioweapons, Dangerous Vaccines, and Threats of ...
  Stephen Lendman, Global Research, July 7th, 2009 Although international law prohibits the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons, America has had an active biological warfare p ...
• Today we’re all prisoners in the USA
  Papers, Please! June 2, 2009 As of today, June 1, 2009, even U.S. citizens are officially prisoners in the USA, or exiles barred from entering our own country without the government ...

Al Jazeera

• Army aims to restore Egypt normalcy
  Supreme Military Council reportedly planning to ban strikes in bid to get Egyptians back to work after weeks of turmoil.
• Palestinian cabinet resigns
  President Mahmoud Abbas re-assigns Salam Fayyad, who also resigned, to form new government.
• Clashes mark Bahrain 'Day of Rage'
  Minor clashes reported from parts of kingdom as security forces remain on alert over planned day of protests.
• Deadly blast at Kabul hotel
  At least two killed as suicide bomber targets hotel and shopping complex in Afghan capital.
• Iran clamps down ahead of protest
  Forces deployed on streets of Tehran as opposition vows to go ahead with protests supporting Arab uprisings.

Green Inc. - NYT

• For India's Farmers, a Bare-Bones Drip System
  Holes are punched into simple pipes connected to a barrel of water atop a stool.
• Southwestern Water: Going, Going, Gone?
  Two new studies on the region's water supplies present a grim snapshot of scarcity in coming decades.
• On Our Radar: Namibia Designates Entire Coast ...
  Officials have recently expanded wildlife conservation efforts in a successful effort to boost tourism.
• Spill Commissioners Call for Review of Energy ...
  While tighter regulation of oil drilling is needed, the nation should also be contemplating how it exploits its natural resources and consumes energy, two experts tell a Congressional panel.
• Seizure Highlights Widespread Illegal Wildlife ...
  A seizure in Bangkok highlights the growing problem of illegal wildlife trading.

Dot Earth News

• On Peer Review and (Climate) Progress
  A journal editor defends peer review.
• On Edge-Pushing Statistics and Climate Basics
  An vitriolic tussle over Antarctic temperature findings is important but largely irrelevant to choices on energy and climate.
• A Role for Gaming in Learning
  A host of experiments are under way using games to advance learning and global progress.
• Walrus on Endangered Species Waiting List
  Government biologists conclude that the Pacific walrus deserves protection under the Endangered Species Act, but has to wait awhile for that protection.
• Egypt, Inkblots, Agendas and Feeding 9 Billion
  Getting beyond issue-centric approaches to feeding humanity.

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

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

Daily Censored

• Right-Wing Denounces Democracy
  Over the last two and a half weeks, the world witnessed Egypt’s stunning move toward democracy. We watched as the brutal dictator Hosni Mubarak unleashed camel and horseback riding thugs to bash in the heads and disrupt peaceful protesters. We heard and saw through the lies about foreign... ...
• To all defenders of public education: BAMN
  U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is hosting an International Summit on the Teaching Profession in New York City on March 16-17. It is by “invitation only” and timed to take place right before the “Celebration of Teaching and Learning” at the NYC Hilton. Duncan will be... [[ This is a ...
• The New York Stock Exchange up for sale in ‘st ...
  Almost stealth like, but slowly and surely, foreign conglomerates are buying the assets of the United States.  It was not until the Soviet Union finally fell that the assets of that country were finally stripped and sold to oligarchs and privatized.  In America, the asset stripping is being done ...
• Lessons, What Can We Learn From Egypt?
  The BBC is trying to get comments from their people in Egypt this a.m.  Their communication is repeatedly being cut off.  Mubarak is gone, but look who is in place—the military.  The military was a close ally of Mubarak for thirty years.  I understand what the demands of the people over there ar ...
• Governor Walker in Milwaukee: Bring out the Na ...
  picture of Italian fascist Benito Mussolini, darling of the ruling classes of the western world Gov. Scott Walker of Milwaukee, Wisconsin says he is confident state workers will continue to show up for work and do their jobs, despite their potential disappointment in his emergency budget proposa ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

• Azerbaijan preparing for Karabakh war: ministe ...
• Mitt Romney and the Tea Party: It's Complicate ...
• Amy Chua's Tiger Mom, Meet Yvonne Thornton's L ...
• Julian Assange Attorneys Complain Of Swedish ' ...
• Bachmann gives out ‘Bachman ...

Institute for Policy Studies

• Investing in Our Future Act of 2011
  Climate change and the lack of health care services in developing countries are urgent and under-funded crises threatening the livelihoods and security of billions of people.
• Civil War and the Safety Net
  A young nation, ravaged by war, invented new ways of creating economic opportunities and protections--at least for one segment of its citizens.
• Liberation of a Nation: a Timeline
  A series of links and images to symbolize marking the key moments that led to victory for the people of Egypt, and to honor their inspiring call for democracy. From desperation to celebration!
• Interview with the Islamic Human Rights Commis ...
  In our special focus on Islamophobia, FPIF talks to Massoud Shadjareh and Arzu Merali of the IHRC about anti-Islamic sentiment in the United Kingdom.
• Mubarak's Defiance
  The question now is what happens next.

Equality Trust

• The Wrong Cure - alternatives to the cuts
  The False Economy website is an excellent and still-developing resource exploring the alternatives to cuts. False Economy includes: a discussion of why the cuts are not progressive details of campaign actions a comprehensive further reading list ... and this short film [youtube:ynUCYo ...
• Why we need a Fairness Test of the cuts
  A group of charities, including the Equality Trust, Child Poverty Action Group, Barnardo's and the TUC are asking the coalition government to commit to a Fairness Test on any tax rises or spending cuts they introduce. Full details...
• Sign up to our email newsletter
  Don't forget to sign up to our email newsletter to receive quarterly updates about our work and next week's response from Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett to questions about the Spirit Level analysis.
• LATEST* The Equality Trust in the News
  Please visit our new Media section for the latest details.
• VAT rise would hit the poorest
  Bill Wilson's VAT motion to the Scottish Parliament reads as follows: That the Parliament notes the warning issued by Save the Children in Scotland that raising VAT to 20% could mean a £31 a week bill for the poorest families in Scotland and that the poorest 10% of the population currently s ...

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

• Update on the Marler Chickens
  For those avid readers of my blog (thanks mom), I have received a few inquires as to the status of the Marler chicken experiment.� Here is the update on the six new members of the family.� Lupita Margarita, Tonto, Buddha, Buttercup, Shirley and Paula are now producing about five eggs a day.� Syd ...
• Prosecuting Those Who Poison
  After once again spending time with victims of yet another outbreak of foodborne disease who are advocating for justice for themselves and family members, I thought again why prosecutors seem so reluctant to charge those who poison us with food. As I have said far too often, in nearly two deca ...
• The New Look Food Poison Journal to go live ne ...
  While I am blogging here at Marler Blog, Dave Babcock, Colin Caywood and Drew Falkenstein are doing the same over at Food Poison Journal. We think the new platform will add to the great writing being done by some of the other lawyers at Marler Clark.
• Seattle University Professional Achievement Aw ...
  After a week on the road – first a mediation in San Francisco on the E. coli O157:H7 case of Linda Rivera (who has been hospitalized since May of 2009), then a flight to Washington D.C. for a meeting with the Justice Department about the status of prosecuting PCA President Stewart Parnell, then ...
• PCA Salmonella victims urge criminal action ag ...
  Family members of six PCA victims spoke today at a press conference in Washington D.C. on a day that most things will be pushed aside because of the dramatic change ongoing in Egypt. Even if the news might relegate the PCA victims to the back pages of the news, or late night T.V., or some obscu ...

AutoblogGreen

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

Rafe's Radar

• Path changes course with comments, e-mail acce ...
  The weird little photo-sharing site, now flush with VC cash, begins to layer necessary features into its service. Is it enough?
• Backupify is more than a backup service
  Cloud backup service is much more than that. It can also be a smart, searchable tool for social-media discovery.
• The Daily: A good morning paper
  The new iPad-only newspaper, The Daily, is a strong online news journal, well worth the reasonable subscription fee.
• eBay building niche, mobile apps to grow user ...
  Mobile apps that do more than drive buyers to buy auction items are key to eBay's growth.
• CloudCrowd: An assembly line for content
  New "wide-sourcing" apps lower cost, improve timeliness of rote text jobs like translation and proofreading.

Camera Obscura

• No title
• Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Hayne ...
  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
• The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
• Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
• Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...

Democracy Now!

• "Egypt, A People Victorious"by Anjali Kamat
  CAIRO, Egypt: Feb 12, 2011 The sounds of freedom continue to ring through Cairo, twenty-four hours after Hosni Mubarak was forced to resign by the awe-inspiring resilience and courage of millions of Egyptians who poured onto the streets in unprecedented numbers for 18 continuous days. After th ...
• The Egyptian Revolution: A Democracy Now! Spec ...
  As news of Hosni Mubarak’s resignation breaks, Democracy Now! broadcasts live reaction from Tahrir Square and beyond with Senior Producer Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Correspondent Anjali Kamat. "People are holding their hands up in victory," reports Kouddous. "This will be a day that no one will ...
• AUDIO: Thousands March from Tahrir Square to P ...
  Democracy Now! correspondent Anjali Kamat reports about 5,000 people filled with "a mixture of rage and sadness" marched from Tahrir Square to the Egyptian state television building after Pres. Hosni Mubarak’s address. "The state television building is emblematic of the power of the state aga ...
• AUDIO: "Until Mubarak Leaves They Are Determin ...
  Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak refused to step down tonight, despite early reports that he would announce his resignation. Democracy Now! senior producer Sharif Abdel Kouddous reports from Tahrir Square. "The demand that Mubarak step down is the glue," he says.
• Coming Up on Friday: Two-Hour Democracy Now! S ...
  Tune in on Friday for a special two-hour broadcast on the uprising in Egypt. We will be streaming the program live from 8 to 10 a.m. EST. Please encourage your local radio and tv station to air both hours of the special. Watch/listen/read all of Democracy Now’s coverage from Egypt here

Digg Green

• How to spot a spinning black hole
  Twists in space-time caused by rotating black holes should be visible from Earth.
• Study finds massive flux of gas, in addit ...
  A new University of Georgia study that is the first to examine comprehensively the magnitude of hydrocarbon gases released during the Deepwater Horizon Gulf of Mexico oil discharge has found that up to 500,000 tons of gaseous hydrocarbons were emitted into the deep ocean.
• Study: 'Eco Friendly' LED products Contai ...
  Those light-emitting diodes marketed as safe, environmentally preferable alternatives to traditional light bulbs actually contain lead, arsenic and a dozen other potentially hazardous substances, according to new research.
• Chase Britton, Boy Without a Cerebellum, ...
  Chase Britton, a 3-year-old New York boy, was born without a cerebellum, the part of the brain the controls motor skills, balance and even emotions.
• A night in the life of the twin 8-m "Very ...
  FROM THE FILM: SIDEREAL MOTION 1,159 thirty-sec exposures spanning more than 10.5 hours. The irregular galaxies Small and Large Magellanic Clouds (SMC and LMC, respectively) are visible towards the middle of the time-lapse sequence. Very Large Telescope, Paranal Observatory, Atacama Desert ...

Invisible Opportunity

• Something is Hidden in the Remote Places of th ...
  By Les Visible We know that there hasn’t been a Bin Laden around in a long time. We know that there’s no such thing as Al Qaeda, outside of CIA constructs. We know that terrorism is largely a weapon of established governments, whose main industry is domestic repression and year round Halloween m ...
• Globoctopus Tightens its Grip
  By Les Visible The Egyptians are doing what is necessary to force change. The workers are striking. This is the key action necessary to bring down a government when you lack the guns and the media. No government can endure a protracted shutdown of the economy. It was through the economy and the ...
• Falling Dominoes – V for Vendetta
• Live coverage: Mubarak resigns, hands power to ...
  The obstinate Egyptian domino has now fallen… Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has resigned. Vice President Omar Suleiman said in a brief televised statement. His statement in full: “Hosni Mubarak has waived the office of presidency and told the army to run the affairs of the country. “ via LIve ...
• Eco-bulbs ‘a health hazard for babies an ...
  By David Derbyshire Energy-saving light bulbs were at the centre of a fresh health scare last night after researchers claimed they can release potentially harmful amounts of mercury if broken. Levels of toxic vapour around smashed eco-bulbs were up to 20 times higher than the safe guideline limi ...

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

• The Disastrous War on Drugs Turns 40: 5 Ways t ...
  Four decadesafter President Nixon declared his war on drugs, let's take a look at the devastation and figure out how to end this thing.
• Drug Reform Backlash: Montana House Votes to R ...
  See-saw battle over medical pot emerges.
• Drug Rehab Treatment: America's Broken System
  Any doctor will tell you, there are no guarantees with addiction. All we can do is give people the best shot at treatment, and sadly, right now, our system is failing at that.
• The Disastrous War on Drugs Turns 40: How Do W ...
  Four decadesafter President Nixon declared his war on drugs, let's take a look at the devastation and figure out how to end this thing.
• Pot May Be Instrumental in Combatting Cancer, ...
  A review of the NIH website shows that U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse's kibosh on medical marijuana trials continues unabated.

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

• 8 Green Design Valentines for the Hottest Desi ...
  Bieber who? For us green design fanboys and girls, it’s not the ScarJos and the Clooneys that get our heartstrings fluttering — (though we will make an exception for Brad since he’s been on our site a few times), it’s the Bjarkes and the Behars. We’re nursing some serious design crushes on some ...
• Japanese Inventor Akinori Ito Creates Machine ...
  But Japanese inventor Akinori Ito created a machine that converts ubiquitous plastic bags into fuel. The carbon negative system is now being sold by Ito's Blest Corporation.
• Wave-Shaped Aragon Convention Center is Floode ...
  Read the rest of Wave-Shaped Aragon Convention Center is Flooded With Daylighthttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: brise soleil, convention cen ...
• BIG Unveils Eye-Popping West 57 Residential To ...
  Read the rest of BIG Unveils Eye-Popping West 57 Residential Tower Pyramid in NYC Todayhttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable archit ...
• Design for World’s Largest Man-Made Mountain T ...
  German architect Jakob Tigges has unveiled a plan for a 1,000m tall faux mountain at the site of the former Tempelhof airport in Berlin, and his supporters are taking it rather seriously. Dubbed “The Berg,” the snow-capped colossus would be the world’s largest man-made mountain and would serve a ...

Pogue's Posts

• The Ethics of Free Cellphone Calls
  There are a growing number of ways to avoid paying for calls -- some offered by carriers, others amounting to a hack.
• Page Numbers for Kindle Books an Imperfect Sol ...
  With electronic books, neither page numbers nor "location numbers" are the perfect solution.
• A Loophole in a Verizon iPhone Rule
  Because of a technical limitation, the Verizon iPhone will not let you talk and use the Internet at the same time -- unless you're on Wi-Fi.
• The Commuter Bike Redesigned and Electrified
  It's no Segway, but the new YikeBike has been designed for safety, ease of riding and it's foldable. The biggest problem: The price.
• On Google's Bing Sting
  Google says it caught Microsoft copying its search results and incorporating them into its own Bing service, in a move reminiscent of some earlier Microsoft tactics.

WIRED Magazine | Science

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

PakAlert

• 10 Tips to Simplify or Survive During Hard Tim ...
  Many of us are caught in the precarious position of being intellectually aware that we are heading into a worsening economy with signs of a looming global food crisis, and feel as though we must simplify or streamline our lifestyle to prepare for possible disruptions in our standard of living. ...
• Could An Eruption Of The Yellowstone Supervolc ...
  When most Americans think of Yellowstone, they tend to conjure up images of Yogi Bear and "Old Faithful". But the truth about Yellowstone is much more frightening than that. Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming is actually sitting right on top of a massive supervolcano. This supervolcano has ...
• Food Crisis 2011? 14 Disturbing Facts That Mak ...
  Will 2011 be the year that we point to as the beginning of the great global food crisis? Food prices are soaring, supplies are very tight and already we have seen some very intense food protests flare up around the globe this year. When people don't have enough to eat, they tend to become very ...
• Something is Hidden in the Remote Places of th ...
  Don’t ask me why or how, because I don’t know, but I think Pakistan is the powder keg or the goal. Something there is about Pakistan. It’s certainly not about terrorists. It certainly isn’t about intimidation and the killing of innocents, who don’t have two sticks to rub together much of the tim ...
• The Beast of Revelation Revealed At Last!
  A ‘beast’ with seven heads and ten horns; another beast that looks innocent as a lamb but ‘speaks as a dragon;’ a mysterious mark, and that renowned number, 666-- what’s it all about? Probably no book has been as misused as the Bible, and no part of the Bible as mystifying and misunderstood as t ...

Andy Worthington

• Compelling New Evidence About Aafia Siddiqui&# ...
  Regular readers will know that I have long been concerned by the case of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, the Pakistani neuroscientist whose story is one of the murkiest in the whole of the “War on Terror.” Dr. Siddiqui disappeared with her three children in Karachi in March 2003, and for five years neither ...
• Andy Worthington Discusses His Polish Tour of ...
  Last week, I had the pleasure of talking to Scott Horton of Antiwar Radio about my recent week-long visit to Poland, with former Guantánamo prisoner Moazzam Begg, to tour a sub-titled version of the documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo,” which I co-directed with filmmake ...
• Responding to Egypt’s Revolution, Presid ...
  Hopes by those seeking sweeping changes in the Middle East that, after decades of oppressive rule, the power of the people’s revolution in Egypt, which toppled Hosni Mubarak after 30 years of dictatorship on Friday, would spread next to Algeria received a setback at the first hurdle in Algiers o ...
• In Post-Mubarak Egypt, Protestors Demand A Dat ...
  With Hosni Mubarak gone, the celebrations in Egypt on Friday night, and into Satuday morning, were a wonder to behold. Over 18 days, the protestors in Tahrir Square, the epicentre of the 18-day people’s revolution that ousted the hated dictator after 30 years, demonstrated to the world that, if ...
• Battle for Britain: Fighting the Coalition Gov ...
  Compared to the Egyptian revolution’s extraordinary toppling of the dictator Mubarak, the people’s occupation of the country’s public spaces, the workers’ strikes and the array of emotions pouring forth (everything from anger to exhilaration), Britain appears to be in a state of denial, despite ...

Environment _ National Geographic

• Best News Pictures of 2010: World Press Winner ...
  NoneWhooper swans, a victim of the Taliban, and Bolivian wrestlers are among the winners of the 2010 World Press Photo Contest.
• Wolverine to Vanish From U.S. Due to Warming?
  Built for the cold, the fierce wolverine may retreat from the mainland U.S. due to global warming, a new study says.
• Pictures: Kickoff Time for Green Stadiums
  NoneAs Green Bay and Pittsburgh face off Sunday in Super Bowl XLV in the NFL's newest and largest stadium, a drive for greener design and cleaner energy is under way at arenas worldwide.
• "Extinct" Salmon Discovered in Japanese Lake
  A Japanese TV host helped identify a fish from a Mount Fuji lake as the kunimasu salmon, thought to have gone extinct 70 years ago.
• "Killer" Winter Storm Seen From Space; U.S. Bl ...
  A new NASA picture shows just how big the current U.S. winter storm is. Hitting at least 30 states, it's among the worst in 50 years.

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

• Expert: Political Rhetoric Likely a Factor in ...
  Editor’s Note: In a Jan. 19 letter published in The New York Times, Arizona political scientist James W. Clarke argued that it would be wrong to dismiss the idea that the toxic political environment was a factor in Jared L. Loughner’s attempted assassination of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, an a ...
• Hi, I’m a Sovereign Citizen! – Group to Write ...
  They already have alternate identification cards and travel warrants. Now, all Tim Turner thinks he needs is an introduction to police and some good old-fashioned face time for his “Republic for the United States of America” to become a reality. That, at least, seems to be the prime motivation b ...
• ‘Burn a Koran Day’ Pastor Plans New Desecratio ...
  Terry Jones, the virulently Islamophobic pastor behind last fallâs barely averted âInternational Burn a Koran Day,â may have lost a battle or two, but his personal crusade is clearly still on. Having reluctantly canceled plans to burn Islamâs holy book last Sept. 11 â an idea that won him worldw ...
• Racist Author Supports School Board Member Who ...
  Greeley, Colo., school board member Brett Reese doesnât understand why anyone would think him a racist just because he repeatedly broadcast a mean-spirited and one-sided text trashing the character of civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. â a presentation adored by white supremacists eve ...
• The Tanton Files: More on FAIR Founder’s White ...
  I’ve spent the past week going through piles of correspondence written over the years by John Tanton, the racist founder of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), which the Southern Poverty Law Center added to its list of hate groups in 2007. While digging, I came across a memo t ...

change: org.

• Will the University of Alaska Finally Stand Up ...
  Students, activists and faculty members have put pressure on the University of Alaska system for years to expand their anti-discrimination policies to include protections on the basis of sexual orientation. And for years, the University of Alaska Board of Regents has rejected these calls, and ig ...
• Victory: Florida's State Parks Will Stay Open
  The Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) recently proposed to close 53 Florida state parks to help cut the state budget, which is about $5 billion in the negative. This was bad news to residents of the Sunshine state. On Change.org, two petitions were created to try to stop this ...
• D.C. Activists Tell Crime Museum: Domestic Vio ...
  The National Crime and Punishment Museum in Washington, D.C. -- like many businesses today --  is running a Valentine's Day special. But their special exhibit, advertised as "Crimes of Passion" features photographs of O.J. Simpson and Nicole Brown and is marketed to couples as romantic and sexy. ...
• Patrica Wright Deserves Freedom
  In 1997, Patricia Wright was sentenced to life without parole for a crime she didn’t commit. Now, she’s facing another sentence, one no judge or jury can overturn: Patricia has stage IV breast cancer, and all she wants is to spend the remainder of her days at home, with her family by her side. P ...
• Victory! Utah Committee Shoots Down Proposal t ...
  At the start of this legislative session, Utah State Rep. Curt Oda (R-Clearfield) sponsored a bill to amend the state's cruelty laws to allow people to "humanely kill" an animal if the person had "reasonable belief" that the animal was feral. The sanctioned methods of killing included shooting, ...

Common Dreams -News

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

Lifehacker

• The Valentine's Day Survival Guide
  Valentine's Day can be a wonderful time to celebrate love; it can also be a hellish disaster waiting to happen. Here's how to hack Valentine's Day to make it a night you'll actually want to remember—whether you've got someone to spend it ...
• Decipher Bad Handwriting with Google Auto-Sugg ...
  Google's auto-suggest feature is great for a lot of things: finding software alternatives, fixing your spelling, and even checking the weather. Reader Casse writes in with another clever use: decoding difficult-to read handwriting. Mor ...
• See Only Resize-Friendly Scalable Vector Graph ...
  Google added indexing of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) files nearly six months ago, and now you can actually filter to exclusively see them. More��
• Why Everyone Should Have At Least One Linux Li ...
  PCWorld provides a nice reminder of four good reasons everyone should have at least one live-booting, Linux-powered CD around: saving a system, security-conscious banking, repurposing old hardware with minimal OSes, and, well, simply testing out Linux. [PCWorld] More�� ...
• A Five-Step Process for Delegating Decisions ( ...
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Water Privatization

• SWCC on the way to privatization
  Al-Hussayen, who made the remarks in a press conference at a symposium in Jeddah Saturday, said SWCC SWCC had begun restructuring six sectors, a process dependent upon the privatization decision which has been awaited for one-and-a-half years.
• Group: Next mayor should consider privatizing ...
  Chicago’s new mayor should consider privatizing everything from the city’s water system, garbage collection and curbside recycling to building management and the 311 non-emergency center to resolve a structural deficit that literally has the city on the brink of bankruptcy, according to the Civi ...
• Federation’s solution: Privatize everything
  Chicago’s new mayor should consider privatizing everything from the city’s water system, garbage collection and curbside recycling to building management and the 311 non-emergency center to resolve a structural deficit that literally has the city on the brink of bankruptcy, according to the Civi ...
• Group: Next mayor should consider privatizing ...
  Chicago’s new mayor should consider privatizing everything from the city’s water system, garbage collection and curbside recycling to building management and the 311 non-emergency center to resolve a structural deficit that literally has the city on the brink of bankruptcy, according to the Civi ...
• Students battle bottled water
  Green ideas: New Westminster Secondary School students and Marie-Claire Massicotte, left, and Hannah Crisp want bottled water sales banned at their school.

Guardian

• PM: cuts will make me unpopular
  Prime minister speaks of 'duty' to stabilise public finances after inheriting record fiscal deficitDavid Cameron has admitted that the government's spending cuts will make him personally unpopular and have an adverse impact on "important" parts of society.But speaking at the relaunch of his "big ...
• US budget has $8bn for clean energy
  The White House is asking Congress to repeal oil, natural gas and coal subsidies to pay for clean energy initiativesPresident Barack Obama proposed on Monday to boost funds for clean energy research and deployment in his 2012 budget by slashing subsidies for fossil fuels such as oil, gas and co ...
• Suicide blast hits Kabul hotel
  At least four killed in second deadly attack on Safi Landmark hotel in less than a yearA suicide bomber has killed at least three people and wounded several others in an attack on a Kabul hotel hit by a similar assault nearly a year ago.Afghan and western officials said the man detonated his exp ...
• Coalition split on post-Trident plans
  Lib Dem armed forces minister criticises defence secretary Liam Fox's assumption of like-for-like replacementDeep fissures are opening up among the coalition's senior defence policymakers over the future of Britain's nuclear deterrent, the Guardian can disclose.The splits are being exposed as it ...
• Coogan had 'treasure' in voicemail
  Court told actor's mobile held business details when News of the World was allegedly instructing investigator to hack into itA "treasure trove" of information was left on actor Steve Coogan's mobile phone at a time when the News of the World was allegedly instructing a private investigator to ha ...

McClatchey

• COmentary: In Egypt, it's too soon to celebrat ...
  It was a momentous day in the modern history of the Middle East -- pro-democracy protesters peacefully forced out the man who had ruled them with an iron fist for 30 years. A day after clinging to power in a speech that enraged many Egyptians and threatened to set the stage for bloody confrontat ...
• Commentary: Alaska needs a safe, reliable pipe ...
  Alaskans of a certain age can remember a summer day in 1977 when the first oil flowed down the trans-Alaska pipeline to Valdez. That was also the year of the first deposit to the Permanent Fund, approved by voters just the year before. That first deposit was about $700,000.
• Commentary: Stuttering: It's on everyone's lip ...
  Colin Firth's performance as the stuttering King George VI in "The King's Speech" was difficult for me to watch. Don't get me wrong - the acting is superb, and the true story the film portrays is certainly British filmmaking at its best. It was discomforting for me because it was a reminder of m ...
• Kentucky environmentalists gather at governor' ...
  Cheers erupted from a crowd gathered on the steps of the Capitol on Sunday as environmentalists who have been camped out in Gov. Steve Beshear's office since Friday held signs and gave thumbs up from the windows.
• Commentary: Republicans are closing their eyes ...
  In 1957, the Soviet Union launched the first Earth-orbiting satellite, and the United States was shocked to discover that it had fallen behind in the space race. In response to the "Sputnik crisis," Republicans and Democrats in Congress worked together to create NASA and dramatically increased f ...

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

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

The Wonk Room

• Proposed GOP Spending Plan Terminates Importan ...
  The Obama administration officially releases its fiscal year 2012 budget today, but the fate of government funding for the remainder of the 2011 fiscal year (which ends in October) is still up in the air. The House Appropriations committee last week released its initial plan to finish the fiscal ...
• Obama Budget To Give Physicians Two Year Respi ...
  Reading through the news stories about President Obama’s $3.7 trillion budget blueprint, one thing becomes clear: the administration didn’t want to use the document to reignite the health care debate or make waves by overtly asking for new implementation dollars for the Affordable Care Act. And ...
• The WonkLine: February 14, 2011
  Welcome to The WonkLine, a daily 9:30 a.m. roundup of the latest public policy news. This is what we’re reading. Tell us what you found in the comments section below. You can also follow The Wonk Room on Twitter.   Economy The Obama administration will release its 2012 budget today, which propos ...
• Despite GOP Border Security First Stance, Paul ...
• GOP Congressman: Gay-Friendly Passport Change ...

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