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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Monday, February 14, 2011

14 February - RSS SnapShot! Pt 3

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thwap's schoolyard

  • What About Mexico?
    Just a quick thought about Mexico: Mexico is a relatively poor country that has become (like Canada) an appendage of the ailing US economy. The downturn in the US economy has obviously had a negative impact on the maquiladoras and sweat-shops that were created to serve US transnationals. But don ...
  • "Screw the 'Red-Book'" Part XXVII
    You know, I've really got to say something to you "progressive" Liberal supporters. We might be sliding into an election and you people, even after the pathetic failure of Obama (which is really not a failure but a successful con-job) and the plundering neoliberalism and the hugely hypocriti ...
  • Century of the Self
    Good show ...
  • Corporate Tax Cuts in the Budget = Election
    In the past, the harpercons have stated that every vote will be considered a confidence vote. As "Impolitical" infers, this was needless brinkmanship. She also condemns the NDP for cheering these games. She neglects to mention that the reason the harpercons and the NDP played these games was be ...
  • The Egyptians' Victory
    There's no reason to listen to me about Egypt. I don't have any inside dope and I'm too busy trying to survive to change things. But for what it's worth, here's a couple of thoughts: 1. Getting rid of a dictator who abuses you is one thing. Dealing with anti-democratic politicians, the IMF, the ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • France The Latest Country To Approve Internet ...
    It appears that France is the latest country to approve plans to censor the internet. The excuse is pretty much the same as Russia's: focus on child pornography first, but leave out the fact that the same rules can be used to censor any content the government doesn't like. We've discussed this ...
  • MPEG-LA Follows Through On Its Promise To Go A ...
    Right after Google announced that it was "freeing" up its VP8 video codec under the WebM name, in an effort to get away from the heavily patented H.264 standard, MPEG-LA, the private company that manages the H.264 patent pool and has done some patent trolling at times, announced that it was plan ...
  • Most Insightful, Funniest Comments Of The Week ...
    No domination in the funny/insightful voting this week, though the winner in both categories did score well on both scales, but the most insightful did not top the funniest list, and the funniest did not top the most insightful list. Leading off, the comment voted most insightful (and which got ...
  • Vivaelamor's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The We ...
    This week's "favorites" post goes to regular commenter vivaelamor, who seems to have a way of providing logic to detailed comment threads that otherwise had started to spin out of control. Picking favourite posts is harder than I thought it would be. First I went through all the weeks' posts ...
  • A Look At Internet Censorship Around The World
    Shocklee points us to some fantastic infographics about global internet censorship, including this first one highlighting levels of internet censorship around the globe. Frankly, it looks like in some of the areas where there's "no censorship," it might just be that there's not much internet us ...

VacTruth

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

BroadSnark

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

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

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

food and water watch

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

treehugger

  • Australia's First Green Star Public Housing Pr ...
    Photo Credit: Watpac Green Star is to Australian commercial and government buildings, what LEED (Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design) is to American structures of a similar ilk. The 5 Green Star rated Lilyfield Housing Redevelopment in inner city Sydney was officially opened this mo ...
  • TreeHugger Staff Weighs In: Stuff We Love (Sli ...
    Photo: cocoinzeni/Creative Commons The TreeHugger staff often gets really excited about savvy green things. Sometimes too excited. But what better day to gush our love for green initiatives, products, and lifestyle changes than Valentine's Day? From high speed rail to aerated water, the ...
  • Lie Down With Spoonk, Wake Up Stress Free
    Photo courtesy Spoonk Space. Two years ago, funny-looking mats started appearing in the windows of all the health food stores in Europe. The mats were in mellow new-age colors - sunburst orange, Mediterranean turquoise - and they were covered with tiny plastic spikes. Not imagining any ...
  • Textile Artists Take Over Pop-up Shop
    Photo: B.Alter What a lovely surprise: five women textile designers have taken over a local shop and turned it into a teaching and display area for two weeks. Called Bricolage, the women are all involved with the creation of sustainable textile art. Bricolage's products include delicat ...
  • Hot Springs In Hot Water? Preserving Public Us ...
    photo: Bonnie Hulkower There are over 1,700 hot springs in the western United States. Most of these are located in Nevada and California. In California, many hot springs dot the landscape and there used to be at least four hot springs commonly used in the Kern River Valley. Geologic sources ...

Biosingularity

  • A Sharper Future for Retinal Implants
    Retinal implants can already restore sight to people who have lost it owing to degenerative eye diseases like macular degeneration or retinitis pigmentosa. Now new research suggests a way to make higher-quality, more biocompatible retinal implants by integrating living neural cells with a soft o ...
  • Tiny Water Flea Has More Genes Than You Do
    This tiny, near-microscopic water flea has more genes than you. In fact, this freshwater zooplankton is the first crustacean to have its genome sequenced, and its 31,000 genes crowns it the animal with the most genes so far. For those keeping count at home, the average human has about 20,000 to ...
  • Researchers “Grow” New Blood Vesse ...
    Synthetic blood vessels that can be made in advance and stored until surgery could help patients undergoing heart surgery, hemodialysis—cleansing of the blood in cases of kidney failure—and other procedures. Laura Niklason, an anesthesiologist and biomedical engineer at Yale University, and her ...
  • A clearer picture of vision
    The human retina — the part of the eye that converts incoming light into electrochemical signals — has about 100 million light-sensitive cells. So retinal images contain a huge amount of data. High-level visual-processing tasks — like object recognition, gauging size and distance, or calculating ...
  • Diets Low In Omega-3 Linked to Depressive Beha ...
    Although most people in developed countries get plenty of calories each day, their diets are often lacking in key nutrients that their bodies have evolved to expect. Omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids, such as those found in fish and walnuts, are one category of crucial ingredients that the bod ...

CFACT

  • CBS News covers CFACT's human hamster wheel at ...
    CFACT's Collegians brought a giant human-sized hamster wheel to CPAC to highlight the follies of renewable energy policies.
  • India and the next green revolution
    Until recent decades, India was famous for its famines, not its computer industry. India̢۪s dense population and erratic monsoon rainfall put it constantly at food risk. Tomorrow, India̢۪s farmers will need another Green Revolution to feed India as it becomes the world̢۪s most populous cou ...
  • Make your year-end contribution today!
    CFACT has become the preeminent organization presenting constructive alternatives to green radicalism that hold the left at bay. Your gift will have a direct impact on our educational programs and on our award-winning outreach.
  • 'Cool it' with all the research dollars
    Preparation and adaptation for all climate change is the simple, common-sense, cost-effective and precautionary Plan B that all governments can - and should - support.
  • End the ethanol subsidies
    Congressional inaction would save taxpayers $6 billion; lower beef, pork, poultry and egg prices; and save tens of thousands of gallons of water.

Ria Novosti Online News

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Pruning Shears

  • Weekend wrapup
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post“6:09pm: No point any of our presenters trying to speak over the roar of Egyptians celebrating.”Combat operations have concluded for:Lance Cpl. Aaron M. SwansonSgt. Patrick R. CarrollCpl. Lucas T. PyeattSpec. Ryan A. Gartn ...
  • Cairo puts popular opinion back on the map
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postAlmost a year ago - February 21, 2010 - I wrote “Our image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing Muslims.” Almost every week since, something like those words have been part of my Sunday posts. I eithe ...
  • Patriot Act roll call review: can you do more ...
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post So a few provisions of the Patriot Act failed to get renewed because some Republicans voted against it. It looks like just a speed bump on the way to passage; the original vote was done on a fast track “no debate” schedule (wond ...
  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.There was some propaganda this week trumpeting the fabulous news that “drone strikes do appear to becoming less lethal for civilians as tim ...
  • The unstoppable dumbassery of James Taranto
    Once more, with feeling: Eliminationist rhetoric among prominent commentators and high ranking elected officials is almost exclusively the province of the right. See here if you haven’t already. And here. And here. And here. Now that we’re up to speed, it seems that James Taranto has managed ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Syngenta's GE Corn Modified for Use in Ethanol ...
    A type of corn that is genetically engineered to make it easier to convert into ethanol was approved for commercial growing by the Department of Agriculture. Click here to read this article
  • Still Drinking Diet Soda? Don't be a Fashion V ...
    Taking sucker countsImage via WikipediaAt the just-launched Fashion Week in Manhattan, supermodels won't just be sashaying down runways in mind-boggling frocks. They'll also be accessorized with a new invention from Pepsi Co. -- the "skinny can," pictured at right, which (according to a press release) will "make its debut" in the coo ...
  • Experts: Contamination from GM Alfalfa Certain
    DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Contamination of organic and traditional crops by recently deregulated, genetically modified alfalfa is inevitable, agriculture experts said, despite Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack's recent assurances the federal government would take steps to prevent such a problem.Cl ...
  • Get Up, Stand Up: Uniting Populists, Energizin ...
    A year ago, psychologist Bruce Levine posed the question, "Are Americans a Broken People?" in an AlterNet article that went viral on the Internet, striking a chord and a nerve with people on the political left and right. Why, he asked, have Americans stopped fighting back against government-corp ...
  • The Organic Consumers Association Was Not Invi ...
    "They had closed door meetings in Washington, D.C., where we were not invited. We were told, 'You are not a stakeholder.' We're the largest organic consumer organization in the U.S," says Ronnie Cummins, director of the OCA. "If we're not a stakeholder, who is?"Click here to read this article

fotoFrontera

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

Center for a Livable Future

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

Norwegianity

  • Banksters, Trolls, Cpackers & Breitbart, LLC
    I got into an0ther comment fight at the Strib. This time it was the Brodkorb-Rosemary Woods story, and after a huge pile of anti-Brodkorb comments, the trolls came out. They’ll insult you, demean everything you hold dear, but when push comes to shove, they can’t even tell you the name of the gro ...
  • Links got ate by the dogware
    HUGE FUCKING WORDPRESS FAIL THIS MORNING. WHEN I CLICKED TO POST THIS ONE IT DEMANDED MY LOG IN DATA AND THEN DUMPED HALF THIS POST. HERE’S WHAT’S LEFT OF WHAT WAS AN OUTFUCKINGSTANDING POST. [about ten links gone from this section] Ten years after Chandra Levy’s brutal murder, the real killer i ...
  • Unpacking CPAC
    Michele Bachmann did her usual baby-jesus-wants-us-to-smite-the-taxman hysteria mongering [more] [more] at CPAC, but Pawlenty’s turn comes today and the Strib says he’ll say this: It wasnât easy. I set a record for vetoes in my state. Vetoed billions of dollars of tax and spending increases. Had ...
  • C-Crack, exits galore and lies everywhere
    It’s nice to see the WaPost still has a sense of humor, and loves to fuck with their readers’ heads. That or it was reverse-popularity-order day in the graphics dept. (Santorum is explaining how big his wife’s vagina was after birthing their eighth baby â and I’m being nicer than Sarah Palin was ...
  • The death of goatse, Rex impersonators and hyd ...
    “It’s very difficult to prove a negative,” said Michael Kirsch, a principal engineer with NASA’s Engineering and Safety Center. But the electronic system for throttle controls in Toyotas would require two separate sensors to fail simultaneously in such a way that neither created an “error code” ...

Public News Service

  • All Things Considered: No Love for "Car Talk," ...
    All Things Considered: No Love for "Car Talk," Educational Programs? Phoenix, AZ - Despite public media having the most politically and geographically diverse audience in the country, some members of Congress are looking to pull the plug...again. There are six new bills on Capitol Hill that woul ...
  • Free Tax Filing Assistance for Many Arizonans
    Free Tax Filing Assistance for Many Arizonans Phoenix, AZ – Tax season has begun – and filing tax returns can be can be a confusing and expensive proposition. But there is free help for Arizonans through the AARP Foundation. There are several sites now set up around the state staffed with volunt ...
  • National Park Service Rethinks Grand Canyon Fl ...
    National Park Service Rethinks Grand Canyon Flyovers Phoenix, AZ – Peace and quiet can be tough to find nowadays, even at a place as big and wild as the Grand Canyon. The National Park Service is proposing "substantial restoration" of the natural quiet in Grand Canyon National Park, with a new ...
  • Wolf Numbers Growing on Arizona-New Mexico Bor ...
    Wolf Numbers Growing on Arizona-New Mexico Border Phoenix, AZ – The number of endangered Mexican gray wolves along Arizona’s eastern border is up nearly 20-percent in the latest count by federal wildlife officials. The annual survey last month found 50 wolves, up from 42 a year ago. Comments fro ...
  • Western States Elk Hunters See Advantages to B ...
    Western States Elk Hunters See Advantages to BLM "Wild Lands" Policy Phoenix, AZ – The U.S. Department of Interior's revised policy on wild lands is drawing mixed reactions - but at least one group of hunters sees it as a positive move. Comments from Jim Gonzales, spokesperson for the Rocky Moun ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • John John: The View From Occupied Canada #230
    Africa: Invasion of the Land Grabbers Suppose that, one day, a foreign investor decided to buy a vast tract of fertile land in the United States. Suppose all that is grown or produced on that land, and all profits made, would be shipped directly overseas. Worse, imagine that those Americans who ...
  • Adbusters: The left built Huffington, and we c ...
    Adbusters: The left built Huffington, and we can tear it down too | Raw Story: "The purchase of the Huffington Post by AOL left many of the progressive writers and readers that made the site into a powerhouse looking for a new home. Adbusters magazine set out to unite those disaffected former s ...
  • Look Forward, and Promote the Torturers | Empt ...
    Look Forward, and Promote the Torturers | Emptywheel: "There’s Matt, who froze Gul Rahman to death in the Salt Pit. Paul, his boss and the CIA Station Chief of Afghanistan, who ignored Matt’s requests for more help at the prison. There’s Albert, who staged a mock execution of Rahim al-Nashiri, a ...
  • GRANT SMITH : Pollard Espionage Ring Still Unf ...
    GRANT SMITH : Pollard Espionage Ring Still Unfolding : Veterans Today: "Almost one year ago Victor Gilinsky and Roger J. Mattson penned the stunning article “Revisiting the NUMEC Affair” in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. It describes how in the 1960s Israeli agents and their U.S. collaborato ...
  • Hitler's Shadow Reaches toward Today
    Hitler's Shadow Reaches toward Today: [consortiumnews.com] "The report, entitled “Hitler’s Shadow,” concentrates on the decisions by the U.S. Army’s Counterintelligence Corps to use Barbie and other ex-Nazis for early Cold War operations, but other work by investigative journalists and governmen ...

Pensieve

  • More on Egypt
    Reading that now, a few days after the military pressured Mubarak to step down, the Egyptian parliament has been dissolved, and the Constitution invalidated by the Egyptian military. This fills me with fear. The mainstream media are treating these acts as a good thing, and the Egyptians they int ...
  • Update: Mubarak Not Stepping Down Tonight
    Related posts:Celestial Show Tonight Update on March Update, Perverse Justice
  • US involved in an Egyptian “military coup”?
    Photo by adaptorplug A CNN news story says that Hofni Mubarak will likely relinquish power to the Egyptian military tonight. This is what their source, âa senior Egyptian officalâ is quoted by CNN as saying: He said the process — which included dialogue between the government and opposition repr ...
  • President Llorens
    I’ve reconsidered my position about posting Wikileaks articles. This article not only discusses classified material disclosed by Wikileaks, but actually quotes it. I know some of my readers work for the US government, thus the warning. I am not an enemy of the United States of America. I simply ...
  • Magnificent
    This movie brought me to tears. It is the story of a man whose lack of limbs from birth relegated him to life as a circus side-show freak. It tells of how he was recognized by the owner of a rival circus as “magnificent”. After overcoming his bitterness, the man transformed from freak to hero. [ ...

Green Times

  • Lazy panda
    The giant panda is becoming an endangered species (wildlife/endangered-species.html) because of deforestation (glossary/categories/climate-change/deforestation.html). In fact, Chinese bamboo forests which are the giant panda's habitat (glossary/wildlife/habitat.html) are being destroyed. Furt ...
  • Jellyfish in electric blue sea
    It’s summer! Time to go to the beach! Summer is a nice season to have fun under the sun with your friends and family. On a beach day out, watch out for jellyfish! Most jellyfish are equipped with stingers to get food and protect themselves. While jellyfish do not actively attack humans, the ...
  • Environmental News 14/02/2011
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The Briefing Room | Investigate

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

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • 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.

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • New York Stock Exchange = SOLD to germany!? Fe ...
  • Congressman Ron Paul booted from conservative ...
    The conservative group Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) announced Saturday that Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) would be expelled from the group’s National Advisory Board because of his “delusional and disturbing alliance with the fringe Anti-War movement.” “It is a sad day in American history when a one- ...
  • Why Government Cannot Be Reformed
    It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence and mortal persecution” Mahatma Gandhi BATR.ORG Why Government Cannot Be Reformed As long as you do not live under a rock, you know that the Federal Governmen ...
  • Pentagon Fingered as a Source of Narco-Firepow ...
    he Big Clubs in Mexico’s Drug War Aren’t Slipping Through the Gun-Show Loophole Another series of leaked State Department cables made public this week by WikiLeaks lend credence to investigative reports on gun trafficking and the drug war published by Narco News as far back as 2009. The big batt ...
  • Deadline Live – February 11 2011
    News and commentary on this 11th day of February 2011 from Our Narrator and Radio Gun, Jack Blood.

The Air Vent

  • Liars and Knucklehead Reviewers
    When Steig went off the deep end the other day, I told people I wasn’t going to let it go.  Not after all that time work and abuse we took in getting this paper done.  He’s actually screaming that we are liars, and the reviewers that let our math pass are Knuckleheads.  Let’s see if [...]
  • SI 1 Images
    There is a lot of silliness going on in the believer community about which reconstructions are correct. It should be rather obvious by now and Ryan has some more work on that soon, but this image was one of my favorite from the initial submission. Of course it’s about the only one I contributed ...
  • Matters of Fact
    Ryan ODonnell Subsequent to my post on Feb 7, 2010 here, Steig informed me by email that he had not seen our Response to his Third Review, as I had previously assumed. I apologize for my misunderstanding on this point, which was, however, incidental to the major concerns expressed in my post. A ...
  • Wrong is Wrong – A reply to the Real Noi ...
    UPDATE:  This was left in the comment thread at WUWT � GeorgeGr says: February 7, 2011 at 2:48 pm The html tags did not work. Here is the post from Realclimate that I was trying to cite: RE: Vernon at 42 says: ��Why are responses from one of the co-authors not being posted? That seems [...]
  • Still Not Qualified for Real Climate
    No I’m not back blogging, still way too busy but I am going to let you guys know that although I am a coauthor of the critiqued paper at a recent RC post here, my comments are unworthy of the great and all seeing climatologists there. I’ve had a nice conversation with Dr. Steig off-line [...]

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • This Week’s Headlines From Across Inside Netwo ...
    Here are all the latest headlines from around Inside Network. Inside Mobile Apps Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms, and virtual goods. Monday, February 7th, 2011 ISA 2011: Growth and Monetization on Mobile Social Platforms Originality and Difficulty Clash with Pixel Quar ...
  • Platform Update: Custom Date Format, Prohibiti ...
    This week’s Platform Update on the Developers Blog included the release of a new customizable date format for applications, and the explicit prohibition of apps the violate the Facebook Platform Policies by allowing users to manipulate a friend’s Photostrip. It also included reminders about seve ...
  • Highlights This Week From the Inside Network J ...
    The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities in the Facebook Platform and social gaming ecosystem. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at Ubisoft, NaturalMotion, Bulbstorm, Nextive, Digital Chocolate ...
  • Facebook Roundup: Messages, User Data, Politic ...
    Facebook Begins Messages Rollout - Facebook posted a blog that the company has begun the rollout of Messages to Facebook users over the next few weeks, for more information see our previous coverage. Facebook Reveals New User Data – Facebook has around 149 million U.S. users, 70% of whom log on ...
  • Details on Facebook’s Plans to Allow Iframe Pa ...
    Yesterday, the Facebook Developers Blog announced that Page tab applications can now be built and implemented using iframes, and FBML and FBJS will be deprecated starting March 11,2011. Iframes will allow developers to build both canvas and tab applications on the same programming model, and int ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Will democracy in Egypt benefit the Palestinia ...
    Alan Hart considers how a truly representative, democratically-elected government in Egypt could redefine the political and strategic equation in the Middle East in a manner that would deliver peace with justice.
  • The Egyptian army's weapons problem
    Christopher King argues that there is a high probability that weapons supplied by the USA to Egypt, among others, contain trojans - hidden and malicious circuits in microchips or programs in software - that can be activated by the US or Israel at will to ensure that they will not work if used ag ...
  • On the wrong side of history: Obama’s wavering ...
    Uri Avnery argues that US President Barack Obama should have trusted his instinct and placed the US on the right side of history by supporting the people’s revolution in Egypt, rather than give in to the “small people” – politicians, generals, “security experts”, diplomats, pundits, lobbyists, b ...
  • Anti-Muslim brainwashing
    Paul J. Balles looks at how key opinion formers in the United States, from the media to politicians, are brainwashing the public into anti-Muslim hysteria by labelling as “Muslim or Islamic extremists” anything or anyone who refuses to cow-tow to Israel, America or their stooges.
  • Freedom dawns in Egypt: long live the revoluti ...
    Christopher King salutes the people of Egypt on this historic day which has seen them depose the despot Hosni Mubarak, and yearns for the peoples of Europe and the USA to learn something from the Egyptians.

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

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

Afro Spear

  • Is South Saharan Africa reading Egypt’s ...
    Dramatic-cum-nicely-choreographed fall from grace of former Egyptian strong man, Muhammad Hosni Mubarak, was unprecedented though what happened in Tunisia tells it all. Defiant and arrogant as the tyrant has always been, nobody thought he would easily be toppled. Day-dreaming as it was seen in 1 ...
  • “Trust for us” by Dr. B.B. Robinso ...
    Op-ed submission by Project 21 There is a lot of discussion of the black community’s problems: poverty, crime, high incarceration rates and high unemployment. But there isn’t much discussion of “trust.” An absence of focus on the trust deficit in the black community obscures an unfortunate cause ...
  • “Do you know Africa’s hidden presi ...
    What transpired in Tunisia recently, sadly though, unearthed a great rot in upper echelons of power in Africa. The strength in this, albeit, is the fact that this domino effect did affect Egypt and Yemen where every eye is on to see what will happen. And thereof, maybe, many casualties will foll ...
  • The Herd Mentality…To What Extent Are We ...
    I have recently become fascinated by the idea of the “Herd Mentality” which is the phenomenon of people in crowds or groups who blindly sometimes mindlessly follow the “lead” of certain persons within the same group who appear to be better informed than the rest of the group. In a related manner ...
  • “The Vick Comeback: More Than Just On Th ...
    Op-ed submission by Project 21  Stories of redemption are common. Drug addicts kick their habits to rejoin civil society; corrupt investors become charitable. But rarely is there a story of someone overcoming their demons in which people not only want to watch, but want to cheer. Michael Vick’s ...

Expose the BNP

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

Sen4Earth

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

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

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

Cutting Edge News

  • Campus Disruption - California Muslim Students ...
    On February 4, the Orange County district attorney's office in Los Angeles charged 11 persons�that they conspired to disrupt a speech given by the Israeli ambassador to the United States at the campus of the University of California-Irvine. According to a statement, District Attorney Tony Rackau ...
  • Authors on the Road - Edwin Black Brings Messa ...
    Award-winning investigative author and journalist Edwin Black visits the San Francisco Bay area February 7-11, continuing his national book tour�on his most recent bestseller, The Farhud: Roots of the Arab-Nazi Alliance in the Holocaust. This book, lauded by�critics such as Middle East expert Wa ...
  • The Edge of Terrorism - The Truth Left Behind: ...
    On Monday, January 21, 2002, Daniel Pearl, South Asia bureau chief at The Wall Street Journal, walked out into the afternoon sun, following a visit to a sonogram clinic in Islamabad, Pakistan, with his pregnant wife, Mariane. Beaming, he sent a text message to a friend: “It’s a boy!!!” He even h ...
  • Egypt in Revolt - Egypt Seeks a Third Way betw ...
    Egyptians have taken to the streets in full force�to demand the departure of President Hosni Mubarak in�days of mass mobilization for regime change. At the same time, the American policy establishment is hyperventilating about the possibility of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood (MB) coming to power wh ...
  • Economic Recovery on Edge - Democrats Complain ...
    Before he took office, President Obama repeatedly promised voters and Democrats in Congress that he’d fight for changes to bankruptcy laws to help homeowners—a tough approach that would force banks to modify mortgages. “I will change our bankruptcy laws to make it easier for families to stay in ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • Counterrevolution 101
    By Dave Fryett The wretched of the Earth have seen what is possible. Power has been shown to be powerless in the face of determined mass opposition. And in every corner of our world the immiserated rejoice, because they know the day of liberation draws near
  • No One Curious What CIA Is Working On At The ...
    By Jay Janson What does the CIA have in store for Egypt? What chores will it assign its agents both American and Egyptian? American socialists and progressives are overly cooperative with mainstream media and Congress in hardly ever asking after our secret CIA shadow government
  • Lessons Learned In The Streets Of Cairo
    By William A. CookIf the streets of Cairo have taught us anything, they have demonstrated that vigilance against those who would control out of arrogance, oppress with indifference, deceive with impunity, and humiliate without feeling, have abandoned all natural sympathies and become , in fact ...
  • What Is True Sustainability?
    By Matthew SteinIf we are to develop an effective plan and roadmap for creating a sustainable world, we must first have a clear idea of what it truly means to be sustainable
  • Egypts Army Dissolves Parliament
    By Al Jazeera Military rulers say they will remain in charge for six months until elections are held as some protesters vow to remain

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Why Won't "The Beautiful People" See the Radic ...
    By Barry Rubin I don't understand why Westerners feel the need to become apologists for a revolutionary Islamism that opposes all their rights and values. Many Arabs and Muslims, who have first-hand experience with Islamism, think this is nuts. Thus, Nicholas Kristof, who is saved f ...
  • CPAC Wrap-up What The Media Didn't Tell You
    The car was loaded first thing Wednesday morning ---well almost loaded, the suitcase was filled with clothes, the computer bag filled with everything needed to transfer my base of operations was already in the trunk, and as soon as I donned the traditional fedora, I was fully packed and ready t ...
  • CPAC 2011:Day 3- The Last Picture Show
    As mentioned the first day of CPAC, this year's affair felt different.� In the end I believe that this year's affair did not have the sense of urgency as last year.� The 2010 CPAC pointed toward an election eight months after.� This year the goal is 20 months away.� Yes we need to cut spending, ...
  • Young Americans For Freedom Boots Ron Paul of ...
    Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) was formed by William F Buckley in 1960, it was the first conservative youth organization.� On its website, this is how the YAF describes itself YAF, as an organization, has never compromised on conservative principles or taken political positions that were ...
  • Good News-New Egyptian Government Has No Illus ...
    Pay close attention. This is an important signal of where the Egyptian regime is going. Tarek Heggy, one of Egypt�s most distinguished intellectuals and a man who, more than anyone else I know, predicted the course of events there, has written an� analysis of the Muslim Brotherhood. ...

The Real Agenda

  • El Flúor Reduce el yodo en el Cuerpo
    La deficiencia de yodo causa el hipotiroidismo y debilita el Sistema Inmune NaturalNews.com Adaptación Luis R. Miranda El flúor que es usado en el agua potable se ha ganado una mala fama en estos días, y por buenas razones: se trata de una molécula tóxica que provoca un amplio, a menudo irrevers ...
  • Fluoride depletes iodine in the body
    Iodine depletion causes hypothyroidism and immune deficiency NaturalNews.com February 14,2011 Fluoride is getting a lot of bad press these days, and for good reason: it is a toxic molecule that wreaks extensive, often irreversible, havoc on the body. The thyroid is particularly affected by fluor ...
  • Another Pakistan style Junta in Middle East
    Military takes power, dissolves parliament, suspends Constitution and rejects swift transition CNN February 13, 2011 Egypt’s military dissolved the country’s Parliament and suspended its Constitution Sunday following the ouster of longtime leader Hosni Mubarak, telling Egyptians it would be in c ...
  • El Clima no se ha tornado más Extraño
    La última investigación contradice la idea de que las tormentas son cada vez más extremas. Wall Street Journal Adaptación Luis R. Miranda La semana pasada, una fuerte tormenta congeló Dallas bajo una capa de hielo; perturbando así los planes de decenas de miles de aficionados al fútbol que visit ...
  • O Clima não está ficando mais Estranho
    A última pesquisa desmente a idéia de que as tempestades estão ficando cada vez mais extremas. Por Anne Jolis WSJ Fevereiro 13, 2011 Na semana passada, uma tempestade severa congelou Dallas sob uma camada de gelo, e atrapalhou os planos das dezenas de milhares de fãs de futebol americano que vis ...

Wind Watch

  • Wind turbine impacts revealed at community mee ...
    BOULEVARD â A standing-room-only crowd got an earful on the property and health impacts of industrial wind turbines last Wednesday, when experts flew in from Illinois and Canada to speak at an informational meeting held at the Boulevard Fire Station. Speakers included appraisal consultant Mike M ...
  • Opinions differ on wind power’s pollutio ...
    (Host) Supporters and opponents of commercial-scale wind energy projects on Vermont’s ridgelines use a lot of statistics and facts to argue their very different sides of the debate. So it’s difficult to sort out how much carbon pollution might be cut if there were big wind turbines in the mounta ...
  • Wind turbine fight escalates, BRSA files suit
    A clash over the siting of a 1.5- megawatt 380-foot-high industrial wind turbine will now be in the hands of the state Superior Court in Freehold. The Bayshore Regional Sewerage Authority (BRSA) in Union Beach has filed a complaint against the borough�s Planning Board for unanimously voting down ...
  • Wind burn: Electrical problem expected as caus ...
    MILLSVILLE � Trenton resident Doug Stewart knew something was wrong early this morning when he pointed his binoculars towards his sister�s house in Millsville and saw nothing but black smoke. Stewart, who lives near the Trenton Airport, said he is often bird watching and looking at the windmills ...
  • Mont St Michel could lose world heritage statu ...
    Environmental campaigners fear Mont St Michel could have its status as a Unesco world heritage site revoked if plans to build a group of wind turbines nearby continue. Alternative energy firm Epuron has planning permission to construct three turbines near Argouges (Manche), about 15km up the Cou ...

Not My Tribe

  • If you have to ask for whom the fat lady sings ...
    –And to really mix my malaprops, she sings for them that bought her. If there was one variable which got away from the underdogs of Egypt’s Jan25 Revolution, it was who would referee the endgame. While Hosni Mubarak’s stunning defiance Thursday night looked like a Hail Mary pass hoping to provok ...
  • Poetry of Barack Obama invokes MLK but pays tr ...
    Jesus what a bore! Remember when SNL lampooned Sarah Palin’s first prime time TV interview by reenacting it verbatim? They could do that with Obama’ humorless addresses, I think it would make great theater, but the joke’s already abysmally old. Maybe we need a drinking game where everyone paying ...
  • Colo. Springs Friday rush hour banners
    Every Friday at 4:30pm, at one of four key intersections downtown. The weekly sequence: 1) Cascade & Uintah, 2) Uintah & Nevada, 3) Nevada and I-25, and next week, 4) Bijou & Cascade. (Repeat)
  • Miz Lisa Czeladtko, drop the hell out of the r ...
    You know, there’s not many options. Threatening police actions and lawsuits for people mocking your positions on civic issues, especially when you’re hoping to be in government power, to be honest, would put you right up there with Rivera and his adopted/anointed replacement Bach-door. And the r ...
  • Okay I’ll bite, why did Colorado Springs ...
    Actually conservative candidate Lisa Czeladtko called former Colorado Springs resident Dan Robertson a Sick F#^& in an email saying she was filing a police report against him. Robertson has been helping his friend Ed Billings lampoon the aspiring bureaucrat on their respective Youtube channels. ...

Debunking the Debunkers

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

Fooducate

  • Show Your Valentine Some Love – With Beans…
    Valentine’s Day is all about romance. But it’s also a big industry.  A guy can’t afford NOT to buy flowers, choose expensive designer chocolates, and RSVP a table for two in a classy restaurant (which incidentally jacks up the rates for the special Valentine’s menu). And a gal needs to reciproc ...
  • Betty Crocker’s Mashed Potatoes in a Box [Insi ...
    Who doesn’t love mashed potatoes? The smooth and creamy texture of hot potatoes mixed with salt and some butter. Unfortunately, this sidedish requires some preparation, and many people have resorted to industrial solutions. Here is an example of a relatively new product from Betty Crocker, “Load ...
  • Betty Crocker’s Mashed Potatoes in a Box [Insi ...
    Who doesn’t love mashed potatoes? The smooth and creamy texture of hot potatoes mixed with salt and some butter. Unfortunately, this sidedish requires some preparation, and many people have resorted to industrial solutions. Here is an example of a relatively new product from Betty Crocker, “Load ...
  • Are You Drinking Food Industry Kool-Aid? [Hila ...
    The food industry is “looking out” for our health. Fooducate friend and one of the best nutrition bloggers out there, Andy Bellatti, put together this 5 minute animated skit to demonstrate how: From Big Food cereals and protein-obsessed personal trainers to fat phobia and diet pills, what we hav ...
  • Let’s Talk Girl Scout Cookies
    This is a guest blog post by Christina Le Beau. It originally appeared on Spoonfed. I was talking to a friend about Brownies. The Girl Scout kind. Her daughter had just joined a troop, and, remembering how much I’d loved camping and earning badges as a Girl Scout myself, I asked for details, thi ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • 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 ...

Greg Palast

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle a lot of white yarn ...
    We’ve had another email from friend of Recycle This Petra: From my sister in law I inherited a lot of yarn, mostly small balls of the same. I know you covered the item about the short ends of yarn and what to do with it. My question is a bit related. A lot of the [...]
  • How can I freshen up a tired winter coat?
    A couple of weeks ago, I spotted an article someone was promoting on Twitter about “sprucing up your tired winter coat“. Ooh! I thought, I like sprucing! It’s a great way to upcycle & reduce after all — but when I clicked over to the article, I found the sprucing involved the addition of various ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle hairdressers scisso ...
    We’ve had an email from Tasha: We are a hairdressing scissors company trying to find a charity we can send old hairdressing scissors too? If you know of any could you please let me know. I don’t know of any – does anyone else? What about charities that collect scrap metal in general? From what [ ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle (quilts and) pillow ...
    We’ve already covered old duvets before really but we’ve had an email from Gill: I have 6-8 used but still serviceable quilts and pillows and no-one seems to want them. The local homeless shelter says they donât take donations and Iâve contacted several charities who I thought might use them (ra ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle an MDF radiator cov ...
    We’ve had an email from Andi: The last people who lived in our house installed MDF (i think) radiator covers everywhere which we don’t want any more. Do you have any idea what we can do with them? They’ve been painted and have cute cut out panels but block all the heat! There still seem [...]

Age of Autism

  • The Absent-Vaccinationist
    By Julie Obradovic I read once the opposite of heat is not cold and the opposite of light is not dark, and that in fact, there actually is no such thing as either. Cold is what we call the absence...
  • BMJ: Ad Hominen Attacks on Scientists
    Below is a comment at BMJ's Editorial: Wakefield’s article linking MMR vaccine and autism was fraudulent Fiona Godlee, Jane Smith, Harvey MarcovitchBMJ 342:doi:10.1136/bmj.c7452 (Published 5 January 2011)from University of British Columbia's Neuroscience Professor Christopher Shaw. Link to the B ...
  • Bill Gates: They Kill Children... Take Action!
    Are you a Child Killer? Take Action! Bill Gates Says You Are "...And so the people who go and engage in those anti-vaccine efforts -- you know, they, they kill children". Bill Gates described people who are concerned about vaccine...
  • Fox News On Diet and Autism
    Has diet played a role in your treatment program? Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com The treatment category is sponsored by Lee Silsby, the leader in quality compounded medications for autism.
  • Measles in the United Kingdom - The “Wakefield ...
    Thank you to Vaccination News for allowing us to share this paper with you. Please mark them on your favorites and follow them at Twitter: http://twitter.com/Vaccin8tionNews Measles in the United Kingdom The “Wakefield Factor”By F. Edward Yazbak MD, FAAP Dr....

Global BDS Movement

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

Farm Wars

Open Your Eyes News

  • Corruption scandals hit equity mutual funds
    Reuters – Corruption scandals and an investor pullback from emerging markets left Indian equity funds among the worst performers in January, while euro zone funds proved the biggest gainers, Lipper data showed. Funds investing in the world’s largest democracy represented nine of the bottom 10 wo ...
  • Rallies near UN call for human rights in Egypt
    Associated Press – Egyptian-Americans and human rights activists have rallied in New York to celebrate the ouster of Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak and to call for human rights reforms in that nation. The two separate demonstrations Saturday near the United Nations came one day after Mubarak was ousted f ...
  • Diet soda may be tied to heightened risk of st ...
    Herald Sun – Diet soda drinkers are probably doing their waistlines a favor, but may also be boosting their risk of having a stroke, according to research released by researchers from the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. The study monitored the health of more than 2500 patients ove ...
  • Smallpox virus: crunch time for the fate of a ...
    The Guardian – Smallpox has long been eradicated but the virus still exists at two high-security labs. Should these stocks now be destroyed? Twenty miles south-east of Novosibirsk, in Siberia, several dozen concrete buildings have been erected outside the town of Koltsovo. The settlement is ring ...
  • Eleven die in stampede at Nigeria election ral ...
    BBC - The rally in the southern city of Port Harcourt was part of President Goodluck Jonathan’s election campaign ahead of a poll due in April. At least 29 others are said to have been injured at the rally, which was held in a crowded sports stadium. President Jonathan has ordered an investig ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

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

water.org

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

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • Israel must congratulate Egypt
    He did not miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity: once appealing to Egypt in a firm and commanding, if not threatening, tone, to uphold the peace treaty;once warning that Egypt could become another Iran. That, too, will be remembered in Tahrir SquareSubmitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� ...
  • A new era has dawned in the Middle East
    Prime Minister Netanyahu must demonstrate restraint and self-control. His warnings that Egypt could turn into a new Iran, and the talk about increasing the defense budget, merely create destructive tension and put Israel on the side of the ousted regime.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� ...
  • Sudanese students, youths, beaten, detained in ...
    The peaceful demonstrations were met by riot police brutality, imprisonment of protestors and non protestors from the streets, a wave of imprisonments of political activists from their homes and young members of Sudanese opposition political parties.Submitted by Namaa A. to World �|� �Note-it! ...
  • Thusands of Algerians take to the streets dema ...
    Many of the same ingredients fueling the Tunisian and Egyptian protests are also present in Algeria - high unemployment, a growing gap between rich and poor and a large and restless youth population. Submitted by Rick M. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Women, Children of Bedouin Village El Araqib B ...
    "They were detentions with no legal basis. The people were arbitrarily detained...these are intentional detentions, the goal of which is to break the residents of the village and the activists who come to support them...Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

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

News Blaze

  • Secretary Clinton's Remarks on The Anniversary ...
    For decades, the people of Lebanon have fought for their inherent right to live free from fear of murder for political reasons. We call on the next Lebanese government to provide stability and promote justice for the people of Lebanon by honoring it
  • UN Asks PMW to Publicize That UNFPA Was Not Be ...
    Following PMW's exposure of a video from the campaign, UNFPA issued a press release 'disavowing' its involvement in the campaign. Writing to PMW, the organization said that it 'would appreciate any kind action you (PMW) take as a result of this
  • Oil Firm to Promote Access to Sustainable Ener ...
    The geographical scope of the agreement covers countries of mutual interest in sub-Saharan Africa and Central and South America.
  • UN Partners With West African Nations to Boost ...
    The project is part of a wide-ranging cooperation plan initiated in 2006 by the two bodies, aiming to develop the use of ICTs to support an ongoing reform of higher education in the member countries of the UEMOA - Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire
  • Journalist Detained Overnight Was Released On ...
    Bulhan's arrest comes days after the radio he was working for was banned by the Ahlu Sunna Administration. It is believed that his arrest is associated with the ban.

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  • Egyptian military tortured, “disappeared” thou ...
    Army.jpg Now that the wave of riots, demonstrations and strikes has toppled Mubarak and the military has taken over, this report examines the supposedly "neutral" role of the military so far. ...
  • Sabotage in Fiat Tychy
    FIAT-Tychy.jpg 300 cars were damaged last night by ticked off workers in Poland's Fiat plant. Workers in the FIAT factory in Tychy, Poland sabotaged 300 cars last night. The sa ...
  • Working, thinking, fighting, bleeding in Tahri ...
    Nigel Gibson reflects on the Egyptian Revolution. What makes the lid blow off? Fanon asks in The Wretched of the Earth reflecting on the revolution against French colonialism in Algeria fifty years ago as he thought about the futur ...
  • Egypt: Labor and professional syndicates join ...
    pic.jpg Egypt is currently witnessing unprecedented labor and professional unrest in parallel to the popular uprising which has swept through the country since 25 January. Thes ...
  • Crisis in Care: Interview with an anarchist su ...
    care.jpg An interview with a support worker in Sheffield about the problems in social care as a result of the recession and the proposed austerity measures. read more

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

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

du la bab - Now is the Time

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

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

  • Solar Panel Manufacturing Environmental Costs ...
    On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 9:38 AM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: Article Highlights: An average 5 kW solar electric installation … will produce an equivalent of 10 to 12 barrels of oil each year… save about 10,000 pounds of … Continue reading →
  • Fossil Fuels Out–In with Solar, Wind, an ...
    For wind energy aficionados, one of the most interesting stories to make its way across the internet last week involved an academic study claiming that the installation of 3.8 million 5 MW wind turbines could generate half the worldâs power … Continue reading →
  • Example of Solar Photovoltaic Out Producing Wi ...
    Spokane, WA, USA — Blustery gusts keep a wind turbine spinning at Inland Power and Light’s corporate headquarters on the West Plains, but solar panels are the real powerhouse at the utility’s alternative energy pilot project..solar panels have produced about … Continue reading →
  • Sign the Open Letter Missouri Gov. J Nixon to ...
    [LINK- Click Here to join the list of signers] Dear Governor Nixon:  I am grateful for your strong support of energy efficiency and renewable energy in your tenure as Governor thus far. Today, I ask you to continue your support … Continue reading →
  • State Renewable Programs Under Attack:
    Will the RPSs Fall? A Republican effort to eliminate Coloradoâs RPS has already failed, but the debate rages on in Missouri, Montana and Minnesota. Michael Kanellos: February 11, 2011 Right now, the Republican-fueled attacks against state green energy programs face … Continue reading →

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Bernie Sanders’ Filibuster and the Secr ...
    For those who haven’t seen the YouTube coverage of Senator Bernie Sanders 8½ hour filibuster on December 10, 2010, I highly recommend it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXLJBaoz0Ew The whole speech is available on C-SPAN http://www.c-span.org/ Maria Gilardin, host of TUC Radio, has also record ...
  • Cheap Coffee vs Health Care
    It only became clear once I left the US the immense sacrifices Americans make for their cheap gasoline and consumer goods (see Feb 10 blog). The most obvious is a range of domestic programs that other developed countries take for granted. These include publicly financed universal health care (in ...
  • American Ambivalence Towards Empire
    It took moving overseas for it to sink in that Americans owe their high standard of living to US military domination of third world resources. I have always understood the theory of “economic imperialism” – that the US maintains a monopoly on cheap third world labor and resources via military su ...
  • My New Expatriate Identity
    For people over fifty, starting over in a new country is like dropping a lab rat in a complex maze. Like the rat, you suddenly find yourself in a totally unknown environment that constantly confronts you were new decisions and dilemmas. For example, learning to use a new phone system. It took me ...
  • 10/14/02: The Day I Became an Expatriate
    As I blogged previously, the brutal extrajudicial murder of a patient in 1989 demonstrated in the most horrific way possible that ultimate power lay outside America’s democratic institutions. It forced me to accept that political control lay in the hands of a wealthy elite who employed an invisi ...

Doug's Darkworld

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

FourWinds10

  • A Dot on the Map, Until the Earth Started Shak ...
    GUY, Ark. — Everybody around here is getting used to the earthquakes, and that does not sit well with Dirk DeTurck. He sent out 600 fliers and made, well, had to be around 100 phone calls, trying to attract people to his meeting on earthquake preparedness. And yet on a recent Tuesday night, he s ...
  • Unusual Black Oil Plume
    Indian Creek Eastpoint, Florida � John Hutchison and I have been traveling the beaches of the Gulf of Mexico, using his "special frequencies" to clean the polluted Gulf waters. I have joked with John about the radio frequencies becoming a "beacon" to "other enitites". � On January 28, 2011 "some ...
  • 3,000+ foot long mysterious black blob of kill ...
    Big blob of gunk found in the Gulf, From a distance the toxic goo looks like oil, but up close it smells like rotten eggs and wiggles like jelly. Scientists have no idea what it is or how it wound up in the northern Gulf of Mexico… [j]ust off the Florida Panhandle coastline, within site of Perdi ...
  • Naomi Klein: The Mystery of the Black Goo
    When The Nation's Naomi Klein traveled to the Gulf of Mexico in December to report on the aftermath of BP's Deepwater Horizon spill, she saw disturbing signs of the oil's destruction. But after she left, the research crew aboard the Weatherbird II encountered a slimy substance made up of dead pl ...
  • Mystery as greenish-yellow goo falls from the ...

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Butanol Q&A With Cobalt Technologies CEO Rick ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post In the previous story — Butanol 101 — I provided readers some background on the production of butanol, including my own background on working with butanol. This story is about one company’s efforts to commercialize bio-butanol. The interview originated fr ...
  • Reintroducing Butanol
    Join the forum discussion on this post This story was initially intended to cover a recent interview that I did with Cobalt Technologies CEO Rick Wilson. However, the introduction and background on butanol became long enough that I felt it was a standalone story. The interview with Rick Wilson ...
  • The Natural Gas Debate
    Join the forum discussion on this post The Economist just finished hosting an online debate on natural gas. The resolution was an interesting one: This house believes that natural gas will do more than renewables to limit the world’s carbon emissions. At first glance, the statement may seem pre ...
  • The World’s Most Fuel Efficient Car
    Join the forum discussion on this post This likely blows previous fuel efficiency records out of the water: VW to roll out 313mpg car in Germany and UK Last week at the Qatar Motor Show saw the world debut of Volkswagen’s XL1, a diesel-electric hybrid two-seater that can do 313mpg (0.9 l/100 ...
  • Oil Price Could Doom Obama
    Join the forum discussion on this post The following guest post is from OilPrice.com. Normally I don’t add any of my own commentary to these guest essays, but in this case I would say that the idea that oil prices are manipulated by speculators is by no means limited to “left-wing blogs.” I wou ...

Discovery Educator Network

  • 41 Interesting Ways* to use an iPad in the Cla ...
    Tags: ipad, apps, classroom, edtech, elearningby: Andy Losik
  • Home
    Comments:Collection of iPad apps for children with special needs.  - Dean MantzTags: iPad, apps, specialeducation, needs, a4cwsn, disabbilitiesby: Dean Mantz
  • ViewPure - Videos without clutter
    Comments:Use the "Purify" button to play YouTube videos w/o any clutter.  - Dean MantzTags: youtube, viewpure, tools, viewer, education, tool, distractionless, WEB2.0by: Dean Mantz
  • My StoryMaker : Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
    Tags: books, storytelling, English, Web2.0, DigitalStorytelling, storymaker, writing, interactiveby: Dean Mantz
  • Text to mind map - WikIT
    Comments:Some great sites to convert text to mindmaps. - Dean MantzTags: text, mindmap, text2mindmapby: Dean Mantz

Rodale News

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

big think

  • How Economics Can Help Your Love Life
    "Signaling is an attempt to understand how information gets transferred in a market environment where the person on the selling side knows something about what they’re selling that the buying side perceives imperfectly," Nobel Laureate economist Michael Spence tells Big Think.  Sounds drab? Th ...
  • Beautiful, Dark, Twisted: George Condo at the ...
    Kanye West's album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy came out too late to be nominated for the Grammy Awards being held tonight, so we’ll have to wait until next year to see the master provocateur in action. Those familiar with the cover artwork of West’s album won’t have to wait so long t ...
  • HBO Special Sunset Limited Pits Believer Again ...
    My favorite films are ones like The Little Foxes, or Twelve Angry Men, or Glengarry Glen Ross, all movies that were adapted from plays to the big screen. The Sunset Limited, an HBO production directed by Tommy Lee Jones that features Jones and Samuel L. Jackson in this short film’s only onscreen ...
  • Men Single and Serious
    So for the slow weekend, I thought I'd stick in some more thoughts of movies I saw a year or so ago, before I became a BIG THINKer. I saw A Single Man and A Serious Man on New Year’s Eve, 2009 and didn’t take any notes or anything. And I’m pretty old and my memory’s shot. But here's what I wro ...
  • The Day after Tomorrow
    Last night it was easy to get carried away in the excitement of Mubarak's resignation and, as my facebook feed illustrated, most of my friends in Cairo did just that.� I spent the evening at high table at an Oxford college surrounded by economists and even they spent the whole dinner talking but ...

Information Liberation

  • Paul Supporters Hijack Cheney-Rumsfeld Reunion ...
    [...] One shout of "where's Bin Laden?" rang out as Cheney spoke of Rumsfeld. That led to the pro-Cheney contingent (which it should be said greatly outnumbers the opposition) to shout the hecklers down with the familiar "USA, USA" chant. It...
  • Warmist Tom Friedman endorses $10 per gallon g ...
    Hot, flat, and crowded, page 262- Google Books What Obama's Reading, President Obama Book List * Barnes*&*Noble Often seen with a book in hand, President Obama has been shaped by such notable reads as Hot, Flat, and Crowded by Thomas Fr...
  • Tom Woods On Peter Schiff Radio
    Part 2: ...
  • The FTC vs. the FTC
    The Federal Trade Commission has two principal components: the Bureau of Competition and the Bureau of Consumer Protection. These bureaus have seemingly contradictory objectives. The "competition" side of the FTC complains when there are too few firm...
  • The Tea Party and civil liberties
    It's long been clear that the best (and perhaps only) political hope for civil liberties in the U.S. is an alliance that transcends the standard Democrat v. GOP or left v. right dichotomies.* Last night's surprising (and temporary) failure of the*Hou...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

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

RFF Library

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

Scientific American - News

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

RAWA News

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frogblog

  • Prime Minister Gillard very welcome
    The visit by Australian PM, Julia Gillard, to New Zealand this week has caused some interest and intrigue.  Prime Minister John Key has cited opposition to her speaking in Parliament – and identified the Green Party as opposing. The background to this is the following. Her predecessor, Kevin Rud ...
  • A view from the inside: anti-nuclear diplomacy ...
    Former diplomat and Green MP Kennedy Graham describes the mid-1980s as some of the best years of his life. New Zealand, under David Lange’s leadership, had just become nuclear free, making, in Kennedy’s words, the most fearless, independent, and moral foreign policy choice since nationhood. I as ...
  • Join the Big Push against ECE cuts
    NZEI are cranking up the campaign against the Government’s shortsighted Early Childhood Education cuts that will force many early childhood education centres to either reduce services or raise fees.   They have a petition I’m hoping you will download (PDF) and circulate (deadline 20 May). And ...
  • Submit on the Alcohol Reform Bill
    Until Friday we have a unique opportunity to help change New Zealand’s heavy drinking culture. At the moment the Justice and Electoral Select Committee is taking submissions on the Alcohol Reform Bill. The Bill is a very very very small itsy bitsy step in the right direction, but it does not go ...
  • Nats use EPA to de-protect Horokiri Stream to ...
    OK, how bad can it get. Currently Horokiri, Ration and Pauatahanui Streams near Porirua are strongly protected under the Wellington Regional Freshwater Plan. And for good reason – they are the home of a lot of endangered New Zealand fish.  But these streams and their gullies are also the p ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • A Revolting World
    Many in many lands are demonstrating against their governments. Some claim that people everywhere are revolting and that a worldwide revolution is imminent. Even both the orthodox and heterodox presses are all atwitter. But it is far easier to bring about a successful revolution than it is t ...
  • Demented Democracy
    An addiction to opinion, each person being entitled to his own, and the unwarranted notion that those who fight for their beliefs are "principled" is the reason that democracies teeter between antagonistic belief systems and are unable to resolve any social problems. Each party strives to re ...
  • Pity the Poor Economists
    The first thing a judicious reader notices is how much disagreement exists among economists on almost every, perhaps every, matter. Then it becomes clear that much of this disagreement is acrimonious. Some of these people appear to hate each other. Now ask yourselves, how likely would it hav ...
  • Can America Be Changed?
    If the American people ever hope to take back their country, they need to understand America's political economy so the parts of it that are morally offensive and economically ineffective can be repudiated. Only then will Americans be able to make the changes that are needed to make Lincoln' ...
  • The Media in America: Selling Views, Calling i ...
    America's journalists are not "newshounds" They are nothing more than salesclerks, hocking the products their employers want to sell. The pretty faces that now function as most television news anchors are no different than the pretty models used to sell other products. The American "free" pr ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • The Republican Algorithm
    I think Paul Krugman is uncharacteristically wrong in his analysis of why Republicans are proposing the budget cuts they are: The answer, once you think about it, is obvious: sacrifice the future. Focus the cuts on programs whose benefits aren’t immediate; basically, eat America’s seed co ...
  • Weekend Miscellany
    Just a bit of weekend miscellany: As of this writing, my Friday post about Glenn Beck has gotten 466 comments. This is — by far — the most comments I've ever gotten on a post since I moved to Mother Jones. So I dived in to see why. Answer: a Beckian true believer named Suzanne somehow discov ...
  • Who Put Words in Keynes' Mouth?
    John Maynard Keynes is famous for saying "The market can stay irrational longer than you can remain solvent." He's also famous for quipping at a dinner party to someone who criticized him for contradicting himself, "When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?" Jason Zweig f ...
  • Those Inscrutable Chinese
    James Galbraith attends a roadshow sponsored by the Peter G. Peterson Foundation and reports back on a presentation from David Walker: Mr. Walker warned that “foreign lenders... can’t dump their debt but can curb their appetite” for new US Treasury bonds. This was an oblique reference to ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging - 11 February 2011
    For some reason, Inkblot has spent the past week burrowing under the quilt on our bed for his afternoon snooze. During cold weather this is pretty normal, but it's been anything but cold around here lately. It's 70 degrees right now, and has been all week. So what's up? Domino, as you can see, ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 228: Black Twitter & the Idiots Who Write ...
    Topics for the show: Slandering Olive Garden Lady Gaga and her attention whoring Tyrese writes a book and Jesus wept Black Twitter and the ignorant dumbasses who write about it The genders aren’t equal so just man the fuck up Allen West and other idiotic black republicans Share with your friends ...
  • Are Parents Really This Clueless?
    From the UKDailyMail: A desperate mother has condemned Microsoft after her 11-year-old son racked up a £1,000 debt on her debit card – through his Xbox. Brendan Jordan racked up a bill of £1,082.52 on his Xbox without realising all the purchases were being charged to his mum Dawn Matthews’ car ...
  • Dumbass of the Year Contender
    There’s several different levels of stupid. There’s the first level which is just random forgetfulness and absent mindedness.  You know, you accidentally put your hand on a hot stove or salt in your tea.  Or maybe you have a brain fart and you forget the name of a friend.  This is the everyday l ...
  • IC 227: FedEx’in Puppies
    Topics for the show: Fuck Valentines Day Woman decides to it would be wise to mail her son a puppy Violent video games make your kids rape? wait what? Kid runs up mom’s credit card on Xbox Live and she blames………..Microsoft Michelle Obama wears a $35 dress…why is this news? Christopher Lee is the ...
  • FacePalm of the Week: Another Cheating Politi ...
    I mean…seriously folks. First let me give my standard response to this type of thing: I don’t care that this man was trying to cheat on his wife. I don’t. To me committing adultery (or attempting to) doesn’t mean you can’t do your job. If it did, then hell, this entire country would come to [... ...

Simple Climate

  • Atlantic cold tongue tells of humans’ cl ...
    Aerosol emissions are more responsible than global warming for weakened trade winds, but pollution controls look set to show how government rules can reverse changes we have caused.
  • Climate researchers warn of food and forest ti ...
    With food prices reaching record highs, worsening droughts in east Africa will add to agricultural problems, while a parched Amazon could speed rather than fight global warming.
  • 2,000 year water temperature high underlines A ...
    Average temperatures of water flowing into the Arctic since 1890 are 2ºC higher than they have been on average in the previous two millennia, Robert Spielhagen and colleagues show.
  • Rain-soaked plants trudge downhill
    Surveys separated by 70 years show how climate change in Northern California has increased rainfall, causing plants to move to generally warmer, drier, lower altitude habitats.
  • Ice melt poses dual sea rise and water access ...
    One-fifth of the ice held in the world's ice caps and glaciers will melt by 2100, affecting water availability, adding around 12 cm to sea levels and threatening some coastal regions, predicts University of British Columbia's Valentina Radić.

e!Science News

  • Archaeologists find hidden African side to not ...
    One of North America's most famous Revolutionary-era buildings – a lone-surviving testament to an Enlightenment ideal – has a hidden West African face, University of Maryland archaeologists have discovered. read more
  • Why are vines overtaking the American tropics?
    Sleeping Beauty's kingdom was overgrown by vines when she fell into a deep sleep. Researchers at the Smithsonian in Panama and the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee received more than a million dollars from the U.S. National Science Foundation to discover why real vines are overtaking the Ame ...
  • Obesity takes heavy toll on knee arthritis
    More than 14 million visits were made to physicians' offices in 2008 by patients with knee problems. Five new studies presented at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) look at the effect that obesity has on knee arthritis and a patient's ability to recov ...
  • Mummies' false toes helped ancient Egyptians w ...
    Two artificial big toes – one found attached to the foot of an ancient Egyptian mummy – may have been the world's earliest functional prosthetic body parts, says the scientist who tested replicas on volunteers. read more
  • Gonorrhea acquires a piece of human DNA
    If a human cell and a bacterial cell met at a speed-dating event, they would never be expected to exchange phone numbers, much less genetic material. In more scientific terms, a direct transfer of DNA has never been recorded from humans to bacteria. read more

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Brave New Climate

  • Gas aplenty, but UAE opts for nuclear – ...
    Dr Ziggy Switkowski (former CEO of Telstra, Optus and Kodak, recently retired Chairman of ANSTO, and now Chancellor of RMIT University) recently had an excellent article published in the Australian Financial Review. Unfortunately, there is no online version available, so for those who missed the ...
  • Climate Change – it’s complicated, but i ...
    I was recently invited to provide a response to an opinion article on climate change that was offered to “The Punch” website. The lead article can be read here: Itâs just too hard to understand climate change. My response, reproduced below (original here), should be read with this context in mi ...
  • ABC Counterpoint radio on nuclear costs, and n ...
    Many have seen/listened to this already, but for completeness, here are the details of my recent interview with the ABC Radio program Counterpoint on the cost of nuclear energy. It is based on a discussion of the recent Energy peer-reviewed paper authored by Nicholson, Biegler & Brook. Should Au ...
  • Keeping solid information on nuclear energy on ...
    Guest Post by Luke Weston. Luke is a Melbourne-based physicist and occasional freelance electronic engineer, with a strong interest in educating the community about nuclear energy and related issues. Just this week, Martin Ferguson has been actively stepping up his efforts to keep nuclear energ ...
  • An environmentally sound, energy-rich future ( ...
    Here is a blog-post version of the poster to accompany the AMS paper discussed in the previous post. You can download a printable, high rez (11 MB) version of the poster here, or a low rez (1 MB) version here. ————————— ————————— In the part III, I’ll publish the conference paper that provides t ...

Indigenist Opinion

  • John John: The View From Occupied Canada #230
    Africa: Invasion of the Land Grabbers Suppose that, one day, a foreign investor decided to buy a vast tract of fertile land in the United States. Suppose all that is grown or produced on that land, and all profits made, would be shipped directly overseas. Worse, imagine that those Americans who ...
  • Adbusters: The left built Huffington, and we c ...
    Adbusters: The left built Huffington, and we can tear it down too | Raw Story: "The purchase of the Huffington Post by AOL left many of the progressive writers and readers that made the site into a powerhouse looking for a new home. Adbusters magazine set out to unite those disaffected former s ...
  • Look Forward, and Promote the Torturers | Empt ...
    Look Forward, and Promote the Torturers | Emptywheel: "There’s Matt, who froze Gul Rahman to death in the Salt Pit. Paul, his boss and the CIA Station Chief of Afghanistan, who ignored Matt’s requests for more help at the prison. There’s Albert, who staged a mock execution of Rahim al-Nashiri, a ...
  • GRANT SMITH : Pollard Espionage Ring Still Unf ...
    GRANT SMITH : Pollard Espionage Ring Still Unfolding : Veterans Today: "Almost one year ago Victor Gilinsky and Roger J. Mattson penned the stunning article “Revisiting the NUMEC Affair” in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. It describes how in the 1960s Israeli agents and their U.S. collaborato ...
  • Hitler's Shadow Reaches toward Today
    Hitler's Shadow Reaches toward Today: [consortiumnews.com] "The report, entitled “Hitler’s Shadow,” concentrates on the decisions by the U.S. Army’s Counterintelligence Corps to use Barbie and other ex-Nazis for early Cold War operations, but other work by investigative journalists and governmen ...

Republicans are a Disease

  • Fox News
    The more you watch, the less you know…
  • CPAC Wraps Up
    What a great week for conservatives who attended CPAC. We got to listen to one “conservative” nut job after another describe their “plan” for America. The sad truth is if America tried to implement any of their “ideas” our country would fail even faster than it is now failing. They all seem to w ...
  • Ronald Reagan’s 100th Birthday! America& ...
    So today is the day that all the inhabitants of right wing fantasy land praise Ronald Reagan, and his trickle down legacy. In my opinion, Ronald Reagan was America’s greatest traitor. Why would I say Ronald Reagan was a traitor? Because he was the most prolific person in America’s history to ope ...
  • Tea Party Founder Judson Phillips Lies on MSNB ...
    On “The Last Word” Judson Phillips said Social Security will be broke in 2037. Reality says that even if the trust fund currently 2.6 trillion dollars is exhausted in 2037 Social Security will still be able to pay out 80% of the benefits. Tell me Judson. If you want “respect” for your organizati ...
  • Why I Can’t Watch CNN
    Even though I enjoy watching some shows on CNN, I find it ever more difficult to not change the channel. When I turn on CNN I get the opportunity to see right wing conservative guests and commentators spew outright lie after outright lie. It makes me sick to my stomach to watch right wing mouth ...

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

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  • New reports hint at Ashkenazi’s unsavory behav ...
    Just as he is about to leave office, Chief of Staff Ashkenazi finds himself under unprecedented hostile media coverage Today we are finally bidding goodbye to Chief of Staff, Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi, who, as the Israeli saying goes, will now be able “to look after his house” (when we’d be rid of ...
  • A love story
    He comes to be with her once a year, stays for barely three months, then vanishes. It’s been like that since who knows when. How can a love story last this way? Somehow it does. How can she take it? Somehow she does. She gladly accepts the gifts he brings: A green dress, always a green [...]
  • Saeb Erekat’s resignation signals futili ...
    My initial reaction to the resignation of chief Palestinian Authority negotiator Saeb Erekat was sadness. Erekat has been a staple of negotiations for as long as I can remember and his leaving marks the end of an era. Erekat claims he left because he had to assume responsibility for the fact tha ...
  • Palestinian elections: recent polls show mixed ...
    In terms of Palestinian democracy, there is no question that calling Presidential and Parliamentary elections for September 2011 (and maybe local elections) is the right thing. Postponed since 2009, holding elections can only strengthen the democratic culture and the legitimacy of state authorit ...
  • Please, no more peace plans
    The Israeli leadership wants to hold on to the status-quo, the Palestinian leadership is split, and the US discovers the limits of its power. Under these circumstances, the problem is not the lack of solutions for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but the absence of political forces that could ...

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Matt Weidner Blog

  • EVERYTHING- EVERYTHING you need to know about ...
    I find it so disheartening to continue fighting to protect the basic rights that are already provided for by law.  The right to have a foreclosure complaint verified is a right. A RIGHT.  Not a privilege. And still, the foreclosure mills are able to continue violating consumer’s rights by igno ...
  • Bloggers Fueled The Revolution in Egypt- You&# ...
    The revolution in Egypt was successful largely because of bloggers and the internet.  Past protests and uprisings fizzled or were crushed, but the social media networks were able to keep this one alive. New York Times As I sit here today, it’s amazing to think just how far we’ve come in one sho ...
  • The Real Party in Interest In Your Foreclosure ...
    The servicers are hiding behind the lenders, the lenders are hiding behind Fannie and Freddie.  But who really benefits or loses from Fraudclosuregate?  China! Wall Street Journal Tweet this! Share and Enjoy: Scridb filter
  • An Father’s Apocolyptic Message To His S ...
    A friend shared a message with me that his father sent to him.  My friend reads my blog so he knows I have great fear for what’s happening across this country and we talk about it often, but it took the following message from his father to really get his attention and get him to [...]
  • Most Allonges Do Not Comply With The Law!
    Read carefully.  Most allonges that get dropped into court files are just dropped in….I’ve yet to see one that is “permanently” attached to the note it purports to endorse.  Most allonges are just floating around in the court file….not “permanent” by any stretch of the imagination.  I argue t ...

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The Parallel Parliament

  • The Tub Unplugged
    We don’t consider the private lives of journalists much – a good thing because it’s called “private” for a reason. I’ve been fortunate enough, however, to know many in the media who apply their limited spare time to many charitable causes. Brian Lilley, senior correspondent for Sun Media is one ...
  • Knick Knacks
    You bring your life with you – at least parts of it. MPs and Senators almost universally experience loneliness and a sense of detachment from those parts of their lives they possessed before coming to Ottawa. We compensate by filling our offices with memories and mementos from home or travel. Fo ...
  • Tribalism, Canadian Style
    “Things seem a bit better, eh?” The observation from a Conservative colleague as we fought our way through the cold winter blast along Wellington Street this week stuck in my craw. He believed MPs were treating one another better during Question Period. “But we’re still not getting anything seri ...
  • The School of Hard Knocks
    “My faith is gone.” Four words that represent the disillusionment of the age. A brief phrase uttered through tears over the phone by a retired teacher from London, Ontario that spells trouble for the Canadian International Development Agency in ways it likely never imagined. When CIDA recently a ...
  • The Fog of Ideology
    After reading Known and Unknown - Donald Rumsfeld’s tome (815 pages) – I put the book back in the shelf, flummoxed that smart people can be so dumb. He would have been better to have just called it “Known” because he never admits to self-doubt through the entire book. It was a frustrating read. ...

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

  • Lost in the Maize
    Well I guess it had to happen one day – after hanging out in QUACs (QUasi Academic Concerns) for more years than I care to remember, I am finally a bona fide academic!  Last week I shed my visiting professor status at the University of Michigan and took up the mantles of Professor of Environmen ...
  • What do people think about synthetic biology?
    The fifth Hart survey of what American adults think about emerging technologies like nanotechnology and synthetic biology was released today by my former colleagues at the Woodrow Wilson Center – the first since I left the group earlier this year. Each summer for the past five years, the Wilson ...
  • Rethinking nanotechnology – responding to a re ...
    Back in July, the US National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) posted a Request For Information in the Federal Register for input to the next NNI strategic plan – to be published later this year.  The closing date for comments was a couple of weeks ago now.  I got mine in in the nick of time.  ...
  • Is nanotechnology suffering from “silent rave” ...
    I couldn’t resist finishing the August in the Archives series with this piece on “silent rave” syndrome, which I am sad to say still seems to inflict the emerging technologies community! Originally posted October 5 2008 The silent rave might seem a rather bizarre social phenomenon; a group of st ...
  • Value-added nanotechnology
    The more the debate over what precisely nanotechnology is goes on, the more inclined I am to think that it’s something of an illusion.  Sure, nanoscale science is real.  And there are clearly technologies that exploit this.  But are they nanotechnologies, or are they simply clever uses of sci ...

Reader Supported News

  • Democracy Deferred, Egypt's Military Invokes M ...
    The report begins: "The Egyptian military has rejected the demands of pro-democracy protesters for a swift transfer of power to a civilian administration, saying it intends to rule by martial law until elections are held." Egyptian military police link arms to block protesters at Tahrir squar ...
  • Comic Relief: Sarah Palin on Egypt
    Robert Dreyfuss begins, "Sarah Palin, in her first comments on Egypt, managed to make no sense at all. None. I especially liked her 'not, not real enthused about what it is that that's being done [in DC].' Here's the full quote, which sounds like it was written by Miss South Carolina, speaking f ...
  • House GOP Slash Everything but Military
    Exertp: "From education to job training, the environment and nutrition, few domestic programs would be left untouched - and some would be eliminated - in the measure, which is expected to reach the floor for a vote next week. Among the programs targeted for elimination are Americorps and the Cor ...
  • Egypt After Mubarak - Live Updates
    Intro: "Follow all the latest developments and reaction here." When Mubarak announced that he would not leave, neither did the protesters, 02/10/11. (photo: Dylan Martinez/Reuters) Sorry, your browser cannot display frames!
  • House GOP Slash Everything but Military
    Exertp: "From education to job training, the environment and nutrition, few domestic programs would be left untouched - and some would be eliminated - in the measure, which is expected to reach the floor for a vote next week. Among the programs targeted for elimination are Americorps and the Cor ...

War Resisters League

  • Mubarak Ousted! Two Down, Twenty To Go . . .
    “The people have brought down the regime!” was a cry heard around the world when on Friday, February 11th, 18 days of unrelenting non-violent protest finally forced the end of Hosni Mubarak’s 30 year, US backed rule over Egypt. Ecstatic jubilation filled Cairo’s Midan al-Tahrir (Liberation Squar ...
  • The Egyptian Revolution and Police Tools &#821 ...
    As of this writing, the Egyptian revolution has entered its 16th day and is gaining ground and momentum: spreading to new regions, evolving into strikes and civil disobedience and clarifying its demands. What started as an impressive series of demonstrations on January 25th’s ‘Day of Wrath’ has ...
  • Anti-war Activists to Grand Jury: “We will not ...
    Tuesday, January 25th was the day that 23 anti-war and Palestine solidarity activists were made to appear before a Federal Grand Jury in Chicago. It was also the day that all of them refused to testify. In solidarity with those targeted by government repression, several rallies were held in citi ...
  • The other “Afghanistan Report”
    Whose stories are we telling about the war in Afghanistan? On the day following the White House report on the war in Afghanistan that names the war as a qualified success and calls for the U.S. to “stay the course,” we must lift up the alternative stories and reports of this near-decade of occup ...
  • Join the Online Demonstration for Peace in Kor ...
    President Obama is sending the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS George Washington (carrying 75 warplanes and a crew of over 6000) and other warships for additional war-games with the South Korean military beginning Sunday, November 28.� This only escalates the already tense situation on the ...

Center for a Livable Future

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

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

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

Stop NATO

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

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Intel Hub

  • Terrorist Who Trained London Bombers Was Worki ...
    Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com February 14, 2011 While talking heads like Glenn Beck continue to invoke the threat of radical Islam, they habitually ignore the blindingly obvious, that radical Islam is a creature of the US military-industrial complex. Case in point – the terrorist who trained t ...
  • A Silver Report: BACKWARDATION and the Fall of ...
    February 13th, 2011 A silver report. Coming economic collapse? It’s happening right now, and it will change everything. http://www.roadtoroota.com/ http://www.coinflation.com/ http://www.zerohedge.com/article/here… Related Posts: Must See Video – Political and Economic Chaos – A Silver Report By ...
  • The Problem With Transnationals And What To Do ...
    Anthony Migchels, Contributing Writer Activist Post February 13th, 2011 New York’s Public Advocate, Bill de Blasio, recently released a very important study about Wal-Mart’s effects on local communities. It represents a major step forward in the understanding of the effects of Big Business. Thes ...
  • Bob Chapman on The Intel Hub Radio Show
    Listen to the Podcast Here The International Forecaster Mr. Chapman is 72 years old. He was born in Boston, MA and attended Northeastern University majoring in business management. He spent three years in the U. S. Army Counterintelligence, mostly in Europe. He speaks German and French and is co ...
  • Alan Watt On The Egyptian Revolution
    February 12th, 2011 Related Posts: Globalist Stooge ElBaradei Prepares To Hijack Egyptian Revolution W O R L D W I D E : r E V O L U T I O N Egypt: Controlled Chaos or True Liberation? Mubarak Resigns – Live Updates Egypt: Whatâs Really Happening? Listen to the Globalists Protester Shot Dead [.. ...

FRS

  • Protests in Yemen continue
  • US puts Nepal Police on the payroll
    [Fifteen years after the start of the historic Nepalese People's War--and five years after its abandonment--another fruit of the so-called "peace process" is the growing US imperialist role in Nepali affairs.  While this role remains largely covert, this article celebrates the overt relationship ...
  • Cairo lessons: Safeguard your initiative, don ...
    [Written just before Mubarak's departure, this article focuses on the careful planning behind the apparently "spontaneous" eruption of the mass demonstrations which seized the initiative and changed the balance of forces. -- Frontlines ed.] Wall Street Journal FEBRUARY 11, 2011 The Secret Rally ...
  • Palestine: Saeb Erekat resigns in disgrace aft ...
    February 12, 2011 Saeb Erekat, the Palestine Liberation Organisation’s chief negotiator, has resigned from his post after an investigation showed his office was the source of a leak. Al Jazeera published over 1,600 documents, the Palestine Papers, which documented secret negotiations between Isr ...
  • Egypt army moves in on Tahrir, traffic flows
      By Marwa Awad and Dina Zayed Marwa Awad And Dina Zayed CAIRO (Reuters) â Egyptian soldiers formed lines and moved in around protesters still in Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Sunday as traffic started flowing through the square again for the first time in more than two weeks, Reuters witnesses said. ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

  • In honor of healthcare for all:
    Leftover sends this, from Physicians For a National Health Program, a group that on its website quotes Uwe E. Reinhardt: The issue of universal coverage is not a matter of economics. Little more than 1 percent of GDP assigned to health could cover all. It is a matter of soul. From the article: ...
  • Sex sells -- you knew that -- but in church?
    A new church in Indiana is promoting a series of sermons on God and sex with a provocative ad campaign that says, "What happens when God gets between the sheets?" Here's New Day Church's website. And thanks, Mike, who adds that soon there'll be profanity in church, too, because that's the lang ...
  • Save our public option
    Leftover sends this, the view from the Center for Public Integrity, by Wendell Potter, on today's hearing on Connecticut's landmark SustiNet program -- that's here in Connecticut, home of Sen. Joe Lieberman, who helped swing the hammer that killed public option. This will be one doozy of a hear ...
  • How do you keep a marriage happy?
    Laugh, says Michelle Obama. Reuters photo
  • Bill Russell's getting a Presidential Medal of ...
    But there's one honor that means more to him.

Associated Content

  • Justin Bieber Bald Look Premieres on 'Jimmy Ki ...
    The worst nightmare of Justin Bieber worshippers is to see him without his signature hair. Therefore, he and Jimmy Kimmel had a laugh at it, as Bieber pretended to be shaved by Kimmel, to end their Thursday night interview.Contributor: Robert Dougherty Published: Feb 13, 2011
  • Did President Bush Help Spark the Egyptian Fre ...
    An obscure program that trained election monitors initiated by President George W. Bush is being touted as one of the sparks that ignited that Egyptian uprising that eventually toppled President Hosni Mubarak.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Feb 13, 2011
  • Ron Paul Wins CPAC 2011 Straw Poll; Sarah Pali ...
    The CPAC 2011 straw poll went to Ron Paul on Saturday, showing he has a lot of support. The CPAC 2011 results also showed Sarah Palin with just 3% support.Contributor: Ryan Christopher DeVault Published: Feb 13, 2011
  • Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" a Rip-Off of Madon ...
    The song's message soon became secondary as the conversation turned to plagiarism. Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" bears a striking auditory resemblance to Madonna's "Express Yourself," and bloggers, musicians, and the average listener...Contributor: Saul Relative Published: Feb 12, 2011
  • Tim Pawlenty Hits Obama Foreign Policy at 2011 ...
    While Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney oriented their speeches at the 2011 CPAC meeting toward domestic policy, former Governor of Minnesota Tim Pawlenty launched an attack on President Barack Obama's foreign policy.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Feb 12, 2011

Popsci - Science

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

Veterans Today

  • 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 ...

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

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

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Egypt Not Alone in Having Demographics of Doom
    Back in elementary school, I remember learning how to interpret charts. For today's feature, I'll extend this fond reminisce and explain with a few handy images why Egypt is not alone in having demographic woes in the Middle East and North Africa. Woes that, in certain circumstances as Tunisia a ...
  • Of Bimbettes & Elite Euro Football Club Financ ...
    Let's have a weekend feature (for the first time in quite a few weeks). Sport, gossip, music and, er, supermarket items...ain't no other man in IPE brings it to you [baby]. Towards the turn of the millennium, there was an explosion of teen blonde bimbettes manufactured by the United States enter ...
  • 'Apps for Development,' a World Bank Competiti ...
    In case you missed it, submissions have now closed and voting has just begun--hopefully including yours--for the World Bank-sponsored 'Apps for Development' competition. I am sure that electronics-literate readers should be familiar with apps--an abbreviation for applications common to devices s ...
  • Shipbreaking, A Dirty But Necessary Industry
    A Bangladeshi colleague pointed out to me that a report he prepared for the World Bank has now come out in print form. There are probably few tasks in this world that are as "3D" (dirty, difficult, and dangerous) as shipbreaking. It involves dismantling disused vessels for scrap--usually in Bang ...
  • Why China Isn't Going to Bail Out Europe's PIG ...
    And now for a feature with a little help from one of my cyber-friends. Iana Dreyer should be familiar to longtime IPE Zone reader via her previous blog Global Conditions. Having now joined the European Centre for IPE (ECIPE) headed by none other than the LSE's Razeen Sally, she is now a regular ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • 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 ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U 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 ...

Voiceless Victim

  • Why Is Anyone Still A Catholic?
    On the day the Egyptian people succeeded in ousting an oppressive and controlling  regime noted for abuse of power and human rights abuses, it is worthwhile to evaluate the refusal of ordinary Catholics to consider the consequences of their own selfish, mindless and cowardly support for the paed ...
  • The Pope Calling The Berlusconi Black
    I’ve heard some pretty obvious cases of the pot calling the kettle black, but the recent controversy over the Pope ticking off Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi for child sexual exploitation shows how complete is the lack of self-awareness demonstrated by the psychopaths who surround and ...
  • Let The Pope Try and Claim This Letter Was Mis ...
    Since the recent emergence of a secret letter from the Papal Nuncio to Ireland written to the Irish Catholic Bishops Conference, which squashes any attempt by Irish Bishops to report child sexual abuse to the local police, the Vatican has predictably whined about the letter being  “misunderstoo ...
  • How Much More Evidence Do You Need Before You ...
    Documentary evidence was revealed in Ireland this week proving that Catholic officials do not report sex crimes against children to the police, and that this is official Church policy originating from Rome. Such disclosures should have been answered with judicial inquiries, charges being laid, a ...
  • Bill Zeller and others must not die in vain
    The tragedy of Bill Zeller’s lifetime of suffering from the effects of childhood sexual and physical abuse, which finally resulted in his recent suicide has touched people around the world. Bill was obviously a very special person and a great loss to those who knew him, and the rest of the world ...

WL Central

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

U N News

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

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • America's Unemployed... 10 Reasons Why America ...
    Have you been unemployed lately? If so, then you probably know how frustrating it is to try to find a job in the United States today. It now takes the average unemployed worker about 33 weeks to find a job. There are millions of Americans that have not been able to find a full-time jo ...
  • Trading in Your Guns for... Sex Toys?
    "Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not." — Thomas Jefferson read more
  • GOA Says E-Verify Program Needs Enhanced Biome ...
    A recent report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) demonstrates that the federal E-Verify program needs a biometric component, according to the S.ecurity I.ndustry A.ssociation (SIA).  (Hmmm... Guess I'll Have to quit using my initials 'S.I.A.' from now on... ~ SadInAmerica)  re ...
  • Did You Post Your Pictures on the Internet? T ...
    � We've all done it at one point or another, posting our pictures of ourselves, family and friends on websites and social network portals such as Facebook. read more
  • Planned Power Outages... Obama's Agenda to Ban ...
    � The rolling blackouts now being implemented in Texas and across the country as record cold weather grips the United States are a direct consequence of the Obama administration�s agenda to lay siege to the coal industry, launch a takeover of infrastructure under the contrived global w ...

Tatumba 2.0

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

Truth About Our World

  • Hogwash Alert: One Flu Shot To Protect All Hum ...
    The epitome of pseudoscientific research has just been raised a notch by influenza scientists. The claim which was recently brought to light earlier this year in lesser known publications, has now made its way to mainstream media to further infect the masses with a different brand of hogwash. Ac ...
  • Why the Media is Usually Wrong about Health In ...
    What if wrong answers in medical research aren’t an exception, but actually the rule? Many scholars who scrutinize health research are saying that it isn’t just an occasional individual study that has flaws, but the entire framework of medical research itself. Over and over, major pillars of con ...
  • Ron Paul: US to Blame for Egypt Chaos
  • Women, Children of Bedouin Village El Araqib B ...
    Tania Kepler AIC, February 10, 2011 Women and children of the Bedouin village of Al Araqib were beaten and gassed by Israel forces Thursday morning (10/2), in an attempt to halt the 16th demolition of their homes and property. � � � Demolitions in El Araqib this morning (photo courtesty of Negev ...
  • Dangerous Gardasil Vaccine Could Become Mandat ...
    WRITTEN BY KELLY HOLT Even as stories continue to surface about young girls who have suffered a host of side effects, including death, after taking the Gardasil vaccine, the drug still has not been tested for or proven as cancer-preventing. And now ObamaCare is calling for mandatory vaccinations ...

Bloomberg

Enviroblog

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

Quick Hits

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

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  • Stella wins her way to Eurovision
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  • German support for Liv Ullmann film
    A new film starring Norwegian actress and director Liv Ullmann has won more than NOK 5 million in support from a German film fund. The Norwegian-German production will start filming this summer. The German film fund Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen joins the Norwegian Film Institute in backing t ...
  • Government hails Egyptian people
    Norway’s government leaders joined their counterparts all over the world in hailing the perseverance of the Egyptian people who succeeded in forcing change through non-violent means. “The widespread will of the people has won,” said Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg. As jubilation continued throug ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

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    Zaytuna Farm, home of the Permaculture Research Institute of Australia, sets up an advanced solar electric system to demonstrate the best example of stand-alone solar electric power we can find. Here at Zaytuna Farm we have endeavored to demonstrate the efficiency and advantage of a stand alon ...
  • How We Designed Our Solar Greenhouse
    by Rob Avis We live and garden on an urban lot in Calgary, Canada, located on the 51st parallel north and approximately 80 km east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies. This northern climate presents many design challenges, including less than one hundred frost-free days, an annual mean t ...
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    by Dominick ter Huurne & Inke Falkner Having found the bush block we had long been searching for, a protracted settlement period gave us plenty of time to decide exactly what we wanted to do with it. At 40 hectares the property was much larger than we had ever envisaged buying, but [...]
  • Well Remembered
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  • US Soldier Waterboards His 4-Year Old Daughter
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Anna's News

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    Most wedding cakes barely survive the big day, with maybe just one slice being popped in a box to be preserved for posterity.This one, however, is still intact after 113 years, making it what is thought to be the world�s oldest complete wedding cake. Submitted by Anna Smith to Society & Cultu ...
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