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Wednesday, February 16, 2011

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  • Defector admits to WMD lies that triggered Ira ...
    Summary: The admission comes just after the eighth anniversary of Colin Powell's speech to the United Nations in which the then-US secretary of state relied heavily on lies that Janabi had told the German secret service, the BND. It also follows the release of former defence secretary Donald ...
  • UK says in talks on stepping up pressure on Ir ...
    Summary: Increased pressure could mean tightening existing sanctions or imposing additional ones, a government source said. The U.N. Security Council has imposed four rounds of sanctions on Tehran for refusing to freeze its uranium enrichment programme, which Western powers suspect is aimed ...
  • U.S. military interests could suffer
    Summary: Could the tiny Persian Gulf island state of Bahrain be the next U.S. diplomatic domino to fall in a rapidly changing Middle East? As riot police in Bahrain attacked hundreds of pro-democracy demonstrators Monday with tear gas, rubber bullets and concussion grenades, U.S. strategic i ...
  • ON EGYPT, THE UNITED STATES, AND THE MIDDLE EA ...
    Summary: The United States does not really support democratization in Egypt or anywhere else in the Middle East, because regional governments that were genuinely reflective of their people’s preferences would not support many aspects of current U.S. policy in the region—whether with regard t ...
  • The tyrant has gone. Now the real struggle be ...
    Summary: AsadabadiThe protesters have stripped Mubarak and his foreign backers of their authority. But the roots of despotism run deep source: The Guardianread more

The Daily Galaxy

  • New Tech Zooms in on Potential Twin Earths
    The search for habitable planets outside our solar system is heating up. NASA's Kepler spacecraft has located more than 1,200 planetary candidates, but confirming their planetary status remains a challenge. With some of the Kepler candidates, an eclipsing binary star...
  • Andromeda Provides New Clue to the Evolution o ...
    U.S. astronomers studying the Andromeda galaxy says a thick stellar disk of older stars offers clues to how large spiral galaxies like the Milky Way form. UCLA research astronomer Michael Rich and colleagues from Europe and Australia, using the Keck...
  • Richard Dawkins: "Life Exists Elsewhere in the ...
    It's no accident that we see stars in the sky, says famed Oxford biologist Richard Dawkins: they are a vital part of any universe capable of generating us. But, as Dawkins emphasizes, that does not mean that stars exists in...
  • Rare Masers -Cosmic 'Water Fountains'- Discove ...
    Three new water masers have been discovered in the Milky Way, including what could be one of the fastest ever found - reaching speeds of up to 350 km per second – and a rare ‘water fountain,' a special class...
  • Image of the Day: The Luminous Beauty of a Gal ...
    This image shows a composite of the N 70 nebula - a "Super Bubble" in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) satellite galaxy to the Milky Way system, located in the southern sky at a distance of about 160,000 light-years. N...

Natural News

  • USDA deregulates GMO corn engineered to produc ...
    (NaturalNews) Right on the heels of the USDA's decision to deregulate GM alfalfa (http://www.naturalnews.com/031196_GE_alfalfa_GMOs.html), the U.S. Department of Agriculture has now decided to completely deregulate genetically engineered corn used for ethanol production. This is just the latest ...
  • Obama allocates $44 billion for Homeland Secur ...
    (NaturalNews) The Obama administration recently announced its $3.73 trillion dollar budget plan for the 2012 fiscal year beginning on October 1. The new budget includes a more than $44 billion allocation for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to purchase 275 more naked body scanners ...
  • CFS to sue USDA for deregulating GM alfalfa
    (NaturalNews) The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) recent decision to fully deregulate Monsanto's genetically-modified (GM) alfalfa, despite its own findings that doing so will contaminate non-GM and organic agriculture, is a landmark decision that illustrates just how deeply embedded Mon ...
  • Chinese companies mass producing fake rice out ...
    (NaturalNews) The Chinese food contamination freak show is back in full swing with new reports out of Singapore indicating that certain Chinese companies are now mass producing and selling fake rice to unwitting villagers. According to a report in the Korean-language Weekly Hong Kong, the manufa ...
  • Wife of jailed herbalist Greg Caton to file cr ...
    (NaturalNews) Back in 2009, U.S. officials illegally kidnapped Greg Caton, an herbalist who makes anti-cancer herbal remedies, from his legal residence in Ecuador and unlawfully brought him back to the U.S. to be charged for a crime he did not commit. But Greg's wife, Cathryn, is planning to hav ...

Threat Level

  • Surveillance Footage and Code Clues Indicate S ...
    New clues about Stuxnet provide the strongest evidence yet that the superworm targeted a nuclear enrichment plant in Iran, according to a new report. The clues come from surveillance cameras installed by international investigators at the Natanz enrichment plant in Iran – which show Iranian wor ...
  • Senate Extends Patriot Act Spy Bill
    The Senate voted late Tuesday to extend through May three controversial Patriot Act spy measures that were set to expire at month’s end. The 86-12 vote came a day after the House voted to extend the same provisions to December 8. The fate of both bills remained unclear late Tuesday. The action i ...
  • Clinton Demands Net Freedom Abroad as Domestic ...
    Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton urged governments abroad Tuesday to embrace internet freedom even as the United States moves to tighten online restrictions at home. “History has shown us that repression often sows the seeds for revolution down the road,” Clinton said in reference to E ...
  • House Extends Key Patriot Act Provisions
    The House voted Monday to extend to December three expiring provisions of the Patriot Act spy legislation. The measure’s passage, by a 275-144 vote, was expected. The three provisions are expiring at month’s end. Rather than seriously debate or alter them, the House punted — the third failure ...
  • Spy Games: Inside the Convoluted Plot to Bring ...
    When Aaron Barr was finalizing a recent computer security presentation for the U.S. Transportation Security Administration, a colleague had a bit of good-natured advice for him: “Scare the shit out of them!” In retrospect, this may not have been the advice Barr needed. As CEO of the government- ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • State and Local Governments the Anti-Stimulus
    Back in October, Ezra Klein of the Washington Post warned of the "anti-stimulus." That is, the draconian budget cuts and steep layoffw at the state and local level, Klein argued, were more than offsetting the gains from the $787 billion federal stimulus program. Now, a new analysis from the Na ...
  • Introducing the Bipartisan War Tax Act of 2013
    George W. Bush was the first modern president to cut taxes during wartime. Now, the unpaid $2 trillion bill for the wars he fought - and chose to fight - is long overdue. While President Obama and the Republican leadership in Congress jockey to position their budget cutting plans, it's time fo ...
  • Mitt Romney Rewrites His Book - and History
    Perpetual presidential candidate Mitt Romney has performed more flips than an X Games champion. The pro-choice Senate candidate (and Planned Parenthood donor) of 1994 did a hard right turn on abortion for the approaching 2008 GOP primaries, prompting adviser Michael Murphy to acknowledge "he's ...
  • Kyl, Flake Highlight GOP's Broken Term Limits ...
    This week, Arizona Senator and Republican Minority Whip Jon Kyl declared he would not seek a fourth term in 2012. Of course, in 1994 Kyl, one of the signers of the GOP Contract with America, promised he would only serve two. And the ironies don't end there. Within hours of Kyl's announcement, ...
  • The Return of the Republican Malpractice Fraud ...
    Back in September 2009, Republicans made the unfortunate selection Louisiana Congressman and physician Charles Boustany to deliver the GOP response to President Obama's address on health care. Unfortunate, it turned out, because tort reform champion Boustany himself has been repeatedly - and su ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

  • Bush's Confronts an Outraged World
    Ex-President George W. Bush finds his travel plans limited by the principle of universal jurisdiction, reports Lawrence Davidson. February 14, 2011
  • Now, Egypt Faces 'the Hard Part'
    The Egyptian revolt enters a tricky phase as internal and external forces seek to limit economic reforms, says Danny Schechter. February 14, 2011
  • The CIA's Man in Egypt
    The final collapse of the Mubarak dictatorship leaves the future of CIA favorite, Omar Suleiman, in doubt, notes Scott Horton. February 12, 2011
  • Egypt's Conflicting Narratives
    One narrative of the Egyptian revolt is the protesters' battle for freedom; another is from the powerful, writes Michael Winship. February 11, 2011
  • Hard Lessons from the HuffPost Sale
    Some U.S. progressives are miffed by the sale of Huffington Post to AOL, seeing a sellout to the MSM, reports Robert Parry. February 11, 20111

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

  • PEC’s former general manager sentenced to five ...
    Former Pedernales Electric Cooperative General Manager Bennie Fuelberg has been sentenced to five years’ probation, 300 days in county jail, 1,000 hours of community service and $126,000 in restitution which goes to the co-op’s former law firm Clark, Thomas and Winters, and its insurance compan ...
  • Public Citizen testifies on rolling blackouts ...
    Senator Troy Fraser, the chair of Senate Natural Resources Committee, warned the major electric generation companies this afternoon that unless they move swiftly to shore up their power plants against extreme weather, they can expect more regulations from state government. Fraser said he would p ...
  • Gasland’s Oscar under attack by industry
    Industry groups began raising objections to the movie “Gasland” when the documentary first aired on HBO last June.  However, they recently stepped up their attacks when Gasland was nominated for an academy award.  Energy in Depth, a group representing a coalition of industry groups including t ...
  • WCS press conferance 103 [Flickr]
    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:
  • Peak Oil resurfaces with the release of new Wi ...
    While not a huge fan of Wikileaks, I find this new release from them to be of interest.  We havenât heard folks talking much about âpeak oilâ in a while, but a recent Wikileaks release confirmed what many have believed for years, that Saudi Arabia’s oil reserves may have been exaggerated by as ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Hitching a ride to Mars on an asteroid
    One physics professor has suggested astronouts get to Mars by hitching a ride on the back of an asteroid. The idea is not as ridiculous as it sounds, ...
  • Early humans very similar to ourselves
    Archaeologist John Shea has made the case that the earliest humans were very similar to modern humans. The research is based off of the idea that sear...
  • Two huge holes spotted in the sun
    Scientists in Japan have identified two large holes in the sun's magnetic field via the Hinode satellite. The two coronal holes are gaps through which...
  • Search begins for giant new planet
    Astronomers are on the hunt for a massive undiscovered planet lurking in our own solar system. The new planet could be four times the size of Jupiter ...
  • Tiny penguins turn blue
    Scientists have discovered a special protein in fairy penguins that turns their feathers blue. The fairy penguin may stand only 1 foot tall but it sta...

Grassroots

Climate

  • China to Shake Up Rare Earth Industry
    Source:� Reuters China will shake-up its rare earths sector over the next five years, Premier Wen Jiabao said today, as the country steps up controls over the production of the vital metals.
  • Ecuadoreans Plan to Pursue Chevron in Other Co ...
    Source:� New York Times Representatives for villagers said they were looking at waging legal battles in more than a dozen countries where Chevron operates, hoping to force it to pay.
  • Lawyers: No Plan Yet to Go after Chevron Money
    Source:� AP Lawyers for Ecuadoreans who won a $9.5 billion judgment against Chevron said Tuesday that they won't try to collect the award until the oil giant completes the appeals process.
  • Exxon Struggles to Find New Oil
    Source:� Wall Street Journal Exxon Mobil is struggling to find oil. Instead, it is stocking up on natural gas, mostly through its acquisition of XTO Energy.
  • Opponents Square Off over Wash.'s Coal-Fired P ...
    Source:� AP Opponents squared off in Olympia Tuesday over how quickly the state's only coal-fired power plant in Centralia, Wash., should transition to cleaner energy sources.

GreenBiz

Reuters Global

Booman Tribune

  • Boehner: You Don't Need No Stinking Jobs
    I knew the Republicans didn't care about job creation. I knew they didn't give a damn about the unemployed. I knew they wanted to turn the US of A into a third world country where the rich hold all the power, pull all the strings and the rest if us take what paltry wages and health care and s ...
  • The Stupid, It Burns
    You'd think that a First Lady that sticks to supporting veterans and promoting healthy eating and children's health would be immune to criticism. You'd be wrong. For example, studies show that kids who breastfeed longer have less chance of being obese. There are also studies that show other ...
  • Get on the Santorum Bandwagon
    This Associated Press story is kind of funny because it assumes that they are moderates among the Republicans who are thinking of running for president in 2012. Maybe Jon Huntsman could qualify; we'll have to see. But even the candidates like Romney and Pawlenty, who have somewhat moderate rec ...
  • Honoring John Lewis
    John Lewis is going to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom today. I've written about John Lewis repeatedly over the life of Booman Tribune. I admire and respect him more than any other living American. I am very happy to see him honored by the first African-American president. Without ...
  • Marc Grossman? Really?
    As Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton should be given wide latitude by the president in her hiring decisions, but I have to raise a major warning flag at her decision to nominate Marc Grossman to be the new special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan. In a nearly three-decade career at the S ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

  • Psychotherapy’s Impact on Social Anxiety is Ma ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Psychotherapy is a common course of treatment for dealing with social anxiety, and it has proven helpful for many people.  But to date, few studies have mapped its effects on the brain. A study recently published by the Association for Psychological Science found ...
  • Valentine’s Day Roundup: The Psychology of Lov ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary There’s no single key to happiness in life. Romantic, spiritual, familial, professional, financial and social fulfillment can all play a role. But on Valentine’s Day, romantic fulfillment takes the front seat of public attention. Romantic love is a topic that often ...
  • Do Social Networks Diminish Relationships, or ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline While social networks have been criticized for their “quantity over quality” affect on relationships, they may play a different role for those who struggle with shyness or social anxiety. An increasing number of therapists and counselors see Facebook and other net ...
  • Comedy and Tragedy, Depression and Recovery in ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline An interview with actress Jodie Foster is the cover story for the Winter 2011 issue of the National Alliance on Mental Illness’s publication Advocate. In the interview, Foster speaks about filming the upcoming movie The Beaver, in which she plays the wife of a man ...
  • What the Psychology of Sight Teaches Us About ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Often, the work of psychologists and neuroscientists provides insight into the realm of therapy and counseling by breaking down, into very small and specific actions, how and why our thoughts and actions relate the way they do. Sometimes this new knowledge is direc ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Mountaintop Removal Protestors Occupy Kentucky ...
    Environment News Service Mountaintop Removal Protestors Occupy Kentucky Governor's Office Environment News Service The group, members of Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, gathered this morning at the office of the pro-coal governor, a Democrat, in an attempt to persuade Beshear to change his po ...
  • Dirty Water Actors in Congress - Natural Resou ...
    Dirty Water Actors in Congress Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) This attack is transparently in response to EPA's �veto� of a mammoth waste dump project associated with a mountaintop removal coal mine in West Virginia that would have buried over 6 miles of streams with mining waste and ...
  • Sit-in to Oppose Mountaintop Removal at Beshea ...
    Environment News Service Sit-in to Oppose Mountaintop Removal at Beshear's Office Ends Monday Examiner.com Yesterday a sit in at Governor Steve Beshear's office in Frankfort ended after three days of protesting mountaintop removal in Kentucky. Beshear, a supporter of mountaintop removal and coa ...
  • One Love: The Nation Should Watch the Kentucky ...
    One Love: The Nation Should Watch the Kentucky Rising Sit-in on Valentine's Day Huffington Post (blog) UPDATE: 4pm EST: The 14 Kentucky Rising anti-mountaintop removal protesters declared a triumphant end to their historic sit-in, emerging today in front of a cheering throng of over 1200 suppor ...
  • State briefs -- Blair Mountain groups plan mar ...
    State briefs -- Blair Mountain groups plan march Daily Mail - Charleston by From staff and wire reports LOGAN � Groups trying to save Blair Mountain are planning a five-day march to draw attention to both the site of a historic labor battle and the practice of mountaintop-removal mining. The Fr ...

Memeorandum

  • From Prison, Madoff Says Banks 'Had to Know' o ...
    Diana B. Henriques / New York Times: From Prison, Madoff Says Banks ‘Had to Know’ of Fraud  —  BUTNER, N.C. — Bernard L. Madoff said he never thought the collapse of his Ponzi scheme would cause the sort of destruction that has befallen his family.  —  In his first interview for publication si ...
  • 'America's toughest sheriff' considering Arizo ...
    Daniel Strauss / The Hill: 'America's toughest sheriff' considering Arizona Senate run  —  Maricopa Sheriff Joe Arpaio said Monday he is open to the possibility of running for the seat of retiring Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) in 2012.  —  Arpaio, the conservative sheriff famous for his hard-line anti ...
  • Egypt Convenes a Panel to Revise Its Constitut ...
    New York Times: Egypt Convenes a Panel to Revise Its Constitution  —  CAIRO — The military officers governing Egypt convened a panel Tuesday to revise the country's constitution that included both a distinguished Coptic Christian jurist and a member of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, offering ...
  • An Appalling Reaction to an Outrageous Crime ( ...
    Jim Geraghty / National Review: An Appalling Reaction to an Outrageous Crime  —  The news from CBS about correspondent Lara Logan's assault in Egypt is awful beyond words.  —  At a time like this, we all feel helpless.  And angry.  The perpetrators, anonymous men in an angry mob, may never see ...
  • Birthers love Sarah Palin far more than any ot ...
    Greg Sargent / The Plum Line: Birthers love Sarah Palin far more than any other 2012 GOP hopeful  —  The new poll from the Dem firm Public Policy Polling finds that a majority of likely GOP primary voters falsely believe Obama wasn't born in the United States.  But this breakdown of their attit ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.6, offshore Bio-Bio, Chile
    Sunday, February 13, 2011 13:44:36 UTCSunday, February 13, 2011 10:44:36 AM at epicenterDepth: 18.70 km (11.62 mi)
  • M 6.1, Bio-Bio, Chile
    Saturday, February 12, 2011 01:17:03 UTCFriday, February 11, 2011 10:17:03 PM at epicenterDepth: 14.80 km (9.20 mi)
  • M 5.1, Bonin Islands, Japan region
    Friday, February 11, 2011 23:59:17 UTCSaturday, February 12, 2011 09:59:17 AM at epicenterDepth: 13.00 km (8.08 mi)
  • M 5.9, Bio-Bio, Chile
    Friday, February 11, 2011 23:39:21 UTCFriday, February 11, 2011 08:39:21 PM at epicenterDepth: 18.60 km (11.56 mi)
  • M 5.3, offshore Bio-Bio, Chile
    Friday, February 11, 2011 21:45:59 UTCFriday, February 11, 2011 06:45:59 PM at epicenterDepth: 28.80 km (17.90 mi)

China Dialogue

  • Non-profit power
    The role of civil society in global climate policy is mysterious to many in China, writes Chen Jiliang. But public campaigning is crucial work that must persist, even in the face of disappointing results.Civil society has always been a significant force in global climate-change politics. But in ...
  • The Chinese data chase
    Fearful of stifling economic development, China’s local environmental authorities are still falling short on data disclosure, seven grassroots groups found in an innovative study. Amy Sim explains.“As a civil society organisation, we must step up our work to support information disclosure, incre ...
  • Hydropower’s green excuse
    Seven years ago, public pressure brought plans to dam China’s Nu River to a halt. But top officials, bolstered by clean-energy targets, are backing the scheme once again, reports Meng Si.“Hydropower development is a must,” said a senior official from China’s top economic planners, the National D ...
  • Unscrambling the price spike
    The brutal drought in China’s grain-producing heartlands is compounding global fears over rising food prices. Now facing the spectre of hoarding and export bans, governments must find a way to work together, writes Alex Evans.What a rollercoaster ride the story of global food prices has been thi ...
  • Costly goodnight for toxic US town
    The pollute first, pay later model is catching up with America, now forced to finance ever-mounting clean-up jobs – like this one in the ghostly mining town of Picher. Kristi Eaton reports.It has been called the most toxic town in America, and now, less than 100 years after it received its chart ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Family Research Council has yet to come out wi ...
    In December after the Southern Poverty Law Center designated the organization as an anti-gay hate group, Peter Sprigg – one of FRC’s spokesman – said that they will be coming out with a more “detailed” response refuting these charges. It’s been almost two months and no detailed response has c ...
  • The Culture War On Jobs
    It might be the greatest bait and switch ever pulled on the American voter. For two successive election cycles we’ve been promised jobs, a recovering economy, attention to the Constitution. After the last one, triumphant Republican after triumphant Republican declared November’s to be an electio ...
  • Who is Influencing Obama’s ...
    How money in politics is compromising America's future.
  • With an $80 Billion Budget, How Did Our Intel ...
    You don’t need an $80-billion-plus budget and a morass of 17 intelligence agencies to look at the world and draw a few intelligent conclusions.
  • The Puzzling Uproar Over One County's Attempt ...
    We should be applauding -- not demonizing -- the LA County Department of Public Health for taking this important first step to help keep young people safe.

Threat Level

  • Surveillance Footage and Code Clues Indicate S ...
    New clues about Stuxnet provide the strongest evidence yet that the superworm targeted a nuclear enrichment plant in Iran, according to a new report. The clues come from surveillance cameras installed by international investigators at the Natanz enrichment plant in Iran – which show Iranian wor ...
  • Senate Extends Patriot Act Spy Bill
    The Senate voted late Tuesday to extend through May three controversial Patriot Act spy measures that were set to expire at month’s end. The 86-12 vote came a day after the House voted to extend the same provisions to December 8. The fate of both bills remained unclear late Tuesday. The action i ...
  • Clinton Demands Net Freedom Abroad as Domestic ...
    Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton urged governments abroad Tuesday to embrace internet freedom even as the United States moves to tighten online restrictions at home. “History has shown us that repression often sows the seeds for revolution down the road,” Clinton said in reference to E ...
  • House Extends Key Patriot Act Provisions
    The House voted Monday to extend to December three expiring provisions of the Patriot Act spy legislation. The measure’s passage, by a 275-144 vote, was expected. The three provisions are expiring at month’s end. Rather than seriously debate or alter them, the House punted — the third failure ...
  • Spy Games: Inside the Convoluted Plot to Bring ...
    When Aaron Barr was finalizing a recent computer security presentation for the U.S. Transportation Security Administration, a colleague had a bit of good-natured advice for him: “Scare the shit out of them!” In retrospect, this may not have been the advice Barr needed. As CEO of the government- ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • CBS reporter Lara Logan assaulted in Egypt: CB ...
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - CBS correspondent Lara Logan was beaten and sexually assaulted by a mob while covering the jubilation in Cairo's Tahrir Square on the day Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down, the U.S. broadcasting network said Tuesday.
  • "Hannah Montana" destroyed family, Miley's dad ...
    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The father of teen star Miley Cyrus said the Disney TV show "Hannah Montana" that made her a worldwide star, in truth destroyed his family, and he blamed it for sending his daughter out of control.
  • Food prices hit "dangerous levels": World Bank ...
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - World Bank chief Robert Zoellick on Tuesday said global food prices have reached "dangerous levels," and warned that their impact could complicate fragile political and social conditions in the Middle East and Central Asia.
  • Mubarak's retreat a far cry from the real Egyp ...
    SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Reuters) - Anyone wondering how veteran President Hosni Mubarak lost touch with Egyptian reality needs look no further than this Red Sea resort, where he took refuge after his overthrow last week by a popular uprising.
  • Factbox: Demands of Bahrain's protesters
    (Reuters) - Clashes broke out in Bahrain this week as security forces tightened their grip on Shi'ite communities in anti-government protests [nLDE71E0NE].

IntelNews

  • US denies smuggling spy equipment into Argenti ...
    The United States has denied charges by Argentine officials that it tried to smuggle espionage equipment into the South American country under the pretext of transporting training supplies for Argentine Federal Police. The charges were leveled on Thursday, after Argentine customs officials condu ...
  • Mubarak delayed exit in order to shift secret ...
    One of the reasons why Egyptâs disgraced ex-president kept prolonging his rule amidst ferocious anti-government protests this month, was to transfer billions of dollars-worth of personal assets into bank accounts around the world. Continue reading →
  • General arrested in Taiwan’s biggest spy scand ...
    A "tall, beautiful and chic" Chinese female operative, who held an Australian passport, appears to be behind Taiwanâs most serious espionage scandal in almost half a century, according to news reports. Continue reading →
  • News you may have missed #476
    Canada not in need of CIA-type agency says official. Australia and US sign secret satellite spy deal. US judge bars passport from ex-CIA agentâs trial. Continue reading →
  • News you may have missed #475 (Arab revolution ...
    Obama 'disappointed' with US intelligence on Tunisia. An Intelligence Failure in Egypt? Did US intelligence fail in North Africa? Continue reading →

War is a Crime.org

  • Naked Capitalism: Obama Happy to Screw You to ...
    Obama Happy to Cut Broad Range of Services to Preserve Pentagon Pork In another manifestation of Obama’s continuing move to the right, his latest stunt has been to out-Republican the Republicans as a defender of the Pentagon. The GOP, which is out to cut $100 billion more from Obama’s version, h ...
  • Middle East Protests Continue
    Middle East Protests Continue - by Stephen Lendman They continue in Egypt, Yemen, Algeria, Tunisia, and most recently in Iran and Bahrain, Al Jazeera saying: "At least one person has been killed and several others injured after (Bahrain) riot police opened fire at protesters holding a funeral se ...
  • Obama's Anti-Populist Budget
    Obama's Anti-Populist Budget - by Stephen Lendman Despite its flaws and failures during America's Great Depression, FDR's New Deal was remarkable for what it accomplished. It helped people, put millions back to work, reinvigorated the national spirit, built or renovated 700,000 miles of roads, 7 ...
  • U.S. Support for Justice Makes News . . . Bu ...
    Here's a report from El Publico: Una treintena de ONG de EEUU apoya la causa Escriben una carta de agradecimiento a la embajada Una treintena de ONG estadounidenses tiene previsto enviar hoy una carta a la Embajada española en Wa-shington y a los consulados de Nueva York, Boston, Chicago, Houst ...
  • Democracy Now on Obama's Budget Proposal

Grist - News

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

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Farming Pathogens

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  • The Scientific American
    Science is the business right now. If the science works, the business works, and vice versa. –Craig Venter Bird flu marinates a chicken in its own juices, a satay best avoided whatever the menu special. In such short an order better for the bistro than the barn, infected birds rapidly bleed from ...
  • Fearful Symmetry
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  • The Great Recession Flu
    Swine flu is so 2009. Like La Roux and v-neck t-shirts. And yet the United Kingdom is presently suffering a swine flu attack worse than anything it faced in 2009. The number of flu patients in intensive care has risen by 60 per cent in the past week to 738, four times greater than at [...]
  • Alien vs. Predator
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Suzie-Q

  • WikiLeaks: Suleiman told Israel he would &#821 ...
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  • Northrup Grumman: The Ultimate in Homeland Sec ...
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  • Iranian Lawmakers Call For Death Of Opposition ...
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  • BP Oil Disaster: Biggest Cover-Up In America&# ...
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Solari

  • Decapitalizing Housing
    Capital is slowly withdrawing from the American housing stock. We are transitioning from a model in which most Americans think of their homes as an investment, to one in which housing is a consumptive good. There is lots of news and most of it is bad for housing. Price inflation means maintenan ...
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  • MERS Lacks Right to Transfer Mortgages, Judge ...
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  • The Blizzaster Of 2011
    By Matt Stopera A collection of awesome pictures from around the country of the largest snow/ice storm to hit the US in decades. View More Pictures Here. . . .

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

  • Times Scare
    ISLAMABAD–The apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job ...
  • Stepping up - University at Buffalo The Spectr ...
    Stepping up University at Buffalo The Spectrum The president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, recognized the direness of the situation and began to mobilize military forces to combat the Taliban. ... and more��
  • Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of ...
    BBC News Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women Chicago Tribune Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own Taliban insurgency? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line of thinking must ... Vietnam syndrome has begun in AfghanistanSri Lank ...
  • Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United P ...
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  • Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA ...
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Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Eventually we’ll have unlimited cheap cl ...
    Summary:  Optimists about energy give glowing forecasts of new technologies, often with wildly underestimated estimates of when when these can generate substantial fractions of our energy.  In the real world technologies take decades to evolve from the laboratory to commercialization.   And then ...
  • Excessive optimism is our enemy, with Coal-to- ...
    Summary:  Confidence provides strengths for a society, but only when coupled with clear vision.  Unfortunately modern America too-often too often sees the future only in terms of doomsters’ pessimism and advocates’ optimism.  Here we have a case study of the latter. In the run-up to the 2008 ...
  • A powerful story about America’s dealing ...
    Summary:  We remain ignorant about the world because we reply on the news media for information.  Recent events provide a powerful case study illustrating not only how the US news media misinforms us but why the American government has a dark reputation in much of the world. The sanitized ve ...
  • Update about the potential for another year of ...
    Summary:  We have a fevered desire to know the future, especially about the dynamics that shape our lives.  Giving us confident answers pays well, tempting even the best of professionals.  Here we examine a case study:  the La Nina related weather and bad harvests.  Another in a series about foo ...
  • Update about the weather – on the Sun. P ...
    Summary:  The current fad for “black swans” just reflects our disinterest in non-consensus thinking.  We prefer the clear stories the news media tells us about poorly understood things (both natural and social phenomena).  We would be less often surprised if we would only open our vision to s ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Barack Obama announces $1.1tn spending cuts
    Guardian – Barack Obama has opened up a year-long battle with Congress after announcing a budget that proposes spending cuts in areas ranging from big, high-profile Pentagon projects to support for the inner-city poor. The president’s 204-page budget aims to cut $1.1tn (£686bn) over the next de ...
  • The Empire Of US Military Bases
    Russia Today -The United States has hundreds of military bases around the world…perhaps even thousands; however, no one knows for sure because even the Pentagon does not bother to keep track. What we do know is that the US Defense budget is now about the same as military spending in all other co ...
  • Is this the next generation of Taser? Prison t ...
    Daily Mail – It looks like something out of a video game, but this monstrous machine could come in very handy for breaking up prison fights. The Assault Intervention Device (AID) emits an invisible laser-like beam to trigger a brief but painful burning sensation and has been touted as a new type ...
  • High-fiber diet tied to lower odds of early de ...
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  • Tunisia deploys troops to stop Italy-bound mig ...
    Reuters – Tunisia has deployed soldiers to stop a tide of illegal immigrants trying to reach Italy, a military source said Monday, after Rome said a revolution in the north African country had set off a “biblical exodus.” Read article

The Progressive Realist

  • Norms and War
    I have an essay online at Current Intelligence on Michael Gross's recent book. Moral Dilemmas of Modern Warfare explores the ways in which "new wars" are challenging the existing law of armed conflict. read more
  • Afghan Women Fight Government Takeover of Wome ...
    KABUL, Afghanistan – To stop an imminent government takeover of shelters for abused women, Afghan human rights activists are fighting back, in public and behind the scenes, and rallying supporters in Afghanistan and abroad. Horia Mosadiq, an Afghanistan researcher for Amnesty International wrote ...
  • The Blindness of Moral Clarity
    Please join me in a thought experiment. I'm going to pinpoint what I consider the central falacy of the ultra-conservative foreign policy argument / critique. See if you agree that this theme -- blind spot, I'd say -- runs through a big proportion of what the hard-right says about the stance the ...
  • There Will Be (More) Blood in Middle East Upri ...
    Two protesters dead in Iran; violent clashes in Yemen; and at least two deaths in Bahrain. It's another day in the new Middle East, as people-powered revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt continue reverberating across the region. The internet certainly didn't deliver Tunisians and Egyptians from f ...
  • Trends in Multilateral Cooperation, Part II
    I had an idea once that the noun United Nations (and its acronym) should always be used in the plural. We should say "the United Nations are," not "the United Nations is."  It's a difficult grammatical discipline, and perhaps impractical. But the point remains: the UN isn't really an entity unto ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • There Will Be (More) Blood.
    Two protesters dead in Iran; violent clashes in Yemen; and at least two deaths in Bahrain. It's another day in the new Middle East, as people-powered revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt continue reverberating across the region. The internet certainly didn't deliver Tunisians and Egyptians from fr ...
  • Beyond Intellectualism.
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  • You Gots to Chill, Cont.
    Andrew Sullivan remains apoplectic about Obama's budget proposal: I didn't send eight years excoriating George "Deficits Don't Matter" Bush to provide excuses for Barack "Default Doesn't Matter" Obama. Like other fiscal conservatives, I'm just deeply disappointed by Obama's reprise of politi ...
  • The Politics of the New Middle America.
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  • Obama Has Too Much Faith in the American Peopl ...
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Buzzflash

  • Journalism Vs. Corporate Propaganda
    JEANINE MOLLOFF FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Just this past summer news veteran Bob Schieffer was called upon to eulogize the passing of Daniel Schorr-one of the last "giants" in the journalism profession.  Schorr had the fortitude and integrity to leak documents on Watergate to the Village Voice ...
  • Sleepwalking Toward Plutocracy
    MARSHALL C. WHITFIELD FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT "Corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands ...
  • CPAC is a Dinosaur that Belongs in the Creatio ...
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  • Obama's Ironic Legacy Might Be That He Continu ...
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  • Symbol of Wall Street to be Sold to Germany
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Sciencebase

  • The perils of ranking
    Today, I discovered I was listed on a Top 100 of UK Twitter users by The Independent newspaper based on the algorithm from PeerIndex. I was #47, since you ask, same as Armando Iannucci. It’s not that long since I made it on to a similar PeerIndex list published elsewhere. It’s all very flatterin ...
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  • Count envy, satisfaction and achievement
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  • Breaking down technology transfer barriers
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Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

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

Common Dreams-Views

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

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • On Anniversary of Marjah Push, Escalation Stra ...
    By Derrick Crowe Exactly one year ago, on February 13, 2010, the U.S.-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan launched the first major military operations enabled by President Obama's 30,000 troop increase. President Obama and the high priests of counterinsurgency warfa ...
  • One Year On, Where's That "Government In A Box ...
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  • So why are there so many troops in Afghanistan ...
    By Steve Hynd Press secretary Robert Gibbs has no idea. Q Secretary Napolitano testified this morning in front of the House committee and said in no uncertain terms that al-Awlaki in Yemen is the clearest threat -- terrorist threat to the United States and a bigger threat than Osama bin Laden or ...
  • We'll Know We're Winning By The Sound Of Guns
    By Steve Hynd Saint General David Petraeus is keeping up the happy talk while warning of more Afghan violence to come. "There's been considerable progress in taking away from the Taliban safe havens," Gen. David Petraeus said in an interview with NATO TV aired on Wednesday. "They have to fight b ...
  • US seeks Permanent Bases, Karzai Confirms
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Water Wars

  • Summit Series Films Continue
    KENT—Two more films remain in the 2011 Kent Environmental Summit film series. Feb. 15 brings “Blue Gold: World Water Wars,” which describes the privatization of water in an era when water is becoming more and more scarce.
  • Director Iciar Bollain on her new film, 'Even ...
    In Iciar Bollain's new film, "Even the Rain," it is the year 2000 and riots are raging in the streets of Cochabamba, Bolivia, when the director of a film about Columbus' voyages to the New World meets a local official....
  • Summit Series Films Continue
    KENT—Two more films remain in the 2011 Kent Environmental Summit film series. Feb. 15 brings “Blue Gold: World Water Wars,” which describes the privatization of water in an era when water is becoming more and more scarce.
  • Summit Series Films Continue
    KENT—Two more films remain in the 2011 Kent Environmental Summit film series. Feb. 15 brings “Blue Gold: World Water Wars,” which describes the privatization of water in an era when water is becoming more and more scarce.
  • Deal: solving water wars an important farm iss ...
    Associated Press - February 8, 2011 2:04 PM ET ATLANTA (AP) - Gov. Nathan Deal has told Georgia's largest farm lobbying group that not everyone will be happy with the steps necessary to resolve...

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Electronic Intifada

Afghanistan Sun

  • Afghanistan, US to hold bilateral meeting in W ...
    Pakistan has been excluded from the high-level Afghan-Pak-US trilateral meeting, as the United States and Afghanistan have decided to hold bilateral talks on the same scheduled ...
  • US-Afghan talks to go ahead without Pakistan
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  • Afghan death 'doesn't affect mission ...
    THE death of a New Zealand soldier in Afghanistan does not change New Zealand's commitment to rebuilding the war-torn country, Prime Minister John Key ...
  • Thorough Investigation of Afghan Bombing
    Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb told YLE on Wednesday morning that a thorough investigation will be made into the bombing that took the life of a Finnish peacekeeper in Afghanistan on ...
  • Afghan transit pact stalls on smuggling
    By Syed Fazl-e-Haider KARACHI - Implementation of a trade deal signed last year between Afghanistan and Pakistan has been delayed over issues that include guarantees to restrict the ...

Futurismic

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

geopolitics | geoeconomics

on Government Oversight

  • JSF Likely Far More Expensive Than Aircraft Th ...
    By Nick Schwellenbach This morning, veteran defense aerospace reporter Bill Sweetman took a look at the different unit costs of F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) variants in the new fiscal year 2012 budget request. His findings suggest that the JSF...
  • Morning Smoke: BP Gulf Official Quit Over Disa ...
    Where there's smoke, there's fire. POGO's Morning Smoke is a collection of the previous day's investigations, scoops, and opinions related to the world of government oversight. Have a story you'd like to see included? Contact POGO's blog editor. Suit Says...
  • Morning Smoke: Industry Lobbyists Mobilize Aga ...
    Where there's smoke, there's fire. POGO's Morning Smoke is a collection of the previous day's investigations, scoops, and opinions related to the world of government oversight. Have a story you'd like to see included? Contact POGO's blog editor. Wall Street...
  • Should Debarred Contractors Be Allowed to Buil ...
    By Neil Gordon Today, POGO submitted a public comment about a new rule limiting the ability of suspended or debarred contractors to do business with the federal government. The rule prohibits prime contractors from subcontracting with any entity that has...
  • Morning Smoke: Obama Administration Kills Cont ...
    Where there's smoke, there's fire. POGO's Morning Smoke is a collection of the previous day's investigations, scoops, and opinions related to the world of government oversight. Have a story you'd like to see included? Contact POGO's blog editor. Publishing contracts...

Digital Journal

  • CN Rail coal train derailment, Fort Fraser, BC
    CN Rail line remains closed 150 km west of Prince George, following a derailment of 36 cars carrying coal last night. The cause is still under investigation.
  • Microloans are a way out of poverty
    You're poor but have a great business idea. Where do you turn? In Toronto microlending is an option. In a climate of economic uncertainty microloans may be the way out of poverty for those who want to work at their own business.
  • Alberta Environment charges water misuse by St ...
    Statoil Canada Ltd., a subsidiary of the Norwegian energy giant Statoil, is facing charges of violating Alberta’s Water Act at its controversial oil sands operation in the province, according to a government announcement last week.
  • Toronto's Harbourfront Centre puts on parade o ...
    As part of Black History Month Toronto's Harbourfront Centre is producing two weekends of Kuumba 2011. The Kuumba Carnival Parade took place inside Saturday evening.
  • Mars Food, a small town style diner in the hea ...
    A quick breakfast for good price is a specialty of Mars Food located at 432 College Street. Mars Food has been a Toronto tradition for 60 years for a good reason - they serve you quickly with a friendly smile.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Taylor points to U.S. role in F-35 debate
    Esprit de Corps editor and publisher Scott Taylor comments on the silent role of the U.S. government in the F-35 debate (Scott Taylor, “The silent US hand guiding Canadaâs F-35 debate,” Embassy, 9 February 2011, full text here): Although no actual contract has been signed, the Harper Tories rema ...
  • NORAD role to expand?
    Last week's perimeter security talks between Prime Minister Harper and President Obama included an interesting proposal of expanding NORAD to cover land and sea operations. The proposed new deal would integrate Canada-U.S. command structures, headquarters, and operations with regards to continen ...
  • Go figure: What would it cost to save the worl ...
    $1.6 billion in military spending worldwide in 2010. What else could we have done with that money? Demilitarize.org shows some of the alternatives.
  • Respected Canadian negotiator removed from dis ...
    Respected Canadian disarmament negotiator Earl Turcotte has been removed from his post following American complaints that his stance on the international Convention on Cluster Munitions was too aggressive. Turcotte has since informed his colleagues that he will be resigning from the Department o ...
  • Steven Staples discusses F-35s on CTV Power Pl ...
    Watch Steven Staples discuss Canada’s controversial purchase of F-35s with Lt.-Gen. George Macdonald on CTV Power Play.

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Harmful Medical Devices Get OK Too Easily
    February 15th, 2011 Chicago Tribune By: Lindsey Tanner Most medical devices recalled in recent years because of deaths or life-threatening problems were cleared for approval under less stringent regulations that don’t require human testing, an analysis found. The report comes as the Food and Dru ...
  • The Simple Blood Test That Spots Cancer Six Ye ...
    February 15th, 2011 DailyMail.co.uk By: Fiona MacRae A simple blood test to spot cancer up to six years before a tumour forms could be available in Britain next year. The brainchild of a Nottingham University cancer specialist, it could provide vital early warning of lung and breast cancers – di ...
  • Misleading Study To Scare You About Calcium Su ...
    February 15th, 2011 ABC News By: Todd Neale Calcium supplementation — without giving vitamin D at the same time — appears to increase the risk of myocardial infarction, a new review of past research has shown. Among studies of patients with or at risk of osteoporosis, those who received calcium ...
  • Leading Experts Rethinking Food Allergy Causes
    February 15th, 2011 ParentDish.com By: Mary Beth Sammons The perplexing world of childhood food allergies is enough to make any parent break out in hives. But conventional wisdom is now being questioned when it comes to bottle-feeding whole milk to babies or keeping toddlers away from the peanut ...
  • Could a Pipeline Explode in Your Community?
    February 15th, 2011 AOL News By: Laura Parker The apparent gas line explosion in Allentown, Pa., that killed five people is certain to refocus attention to the 2 million miles of natural gas pipelines that lie under neighborhoods and subdivisions from coast to coast. The Allentown explosion came ...

Pambazuka News

  • Southern Sudan: Sowing the seeds of agricultur ...
    After the sound of gunfire fell silent in Southern Sudan, marking the end of one of Africa's longest running civil wars, Pio Kowr Ding decided he would return home to the autonomous region to take up an agricultural research job with the government. ...
  • Ethiopia: Ethiopians to remember martyrs of th ...
    Ethiopians from various cities in the US, Canada, Europe and Australia held a conference on Saturday to discuss and coordinate plans for the upcoming 5th anniversary of the Ethiopian election massacre. The participants discussed and updated each othe...
  • March on Washington scheduled for November
    The Black is Back Coalition has announced a march and rally on the White House to take place November 13, 2010 beginning in Washington, DC’s historic Malcolm X Park. This will mark the second year in a row that this black coalition will be protestin...
  • USA: Black community activist faces possible 1 ...
    Diop Olugbala (aka Wali Rahman) will be sentenced on Wednesday, 13 October to a possible 10 years in prison for speaking out on behalf of the rights of the black community. A press conference and demonstration will be held prior to Olugbala’s sentenc...
  • Morocco: Expats returning home in greater numb ...
    Faced with the woes of the global economic crisis, an increasing number of Moroccan expatriates are coming back home. Meanwhile, the government is intensifying effort to aid the community abroad as well as help them maintain ties with their home coun...

War in Context

  • This is as democratic as it gets
    The tearful TV appearance of Wael Ghonim, the Google executive who had been held in detention blindfolded for 12 days, had an emotional impact that reverberated across Egypt helping bring the revolution to its climax, but as Frederick Bowie notes, no less decisive — even if it garnered much less ...
  • Egyptian army hijacking revolution, activists ...
    The Guardian reports: Egypt’s revolution is in danger of being hijacked by the army, key political activists have warned, as concrete details of the country’s democratic transition period were revealed for the first time. Judge Tarek al-Beshry, a moderate Islamic thinker, announced that he had ...
  • Owning Egypt’s revolution
    Nawal el-Saadawi has been fighting for change in Egypt for more than half a century. Gilbert Achcar: Military rule at core of social and economic inequality in Egypt
  • Michael Schwartz: weapons of mass disruption
    Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com Here’s the truth of it: You don’t need an $80-billion-plus budget and a morass of 17 intelligence agencies to look at the world and draw a few intelligent conclusions.  Nor do you need $80 billion-plus and that same set of agencies to be caught off ...
  • The backbone of the Egyptian dictatorship rema ...
    Hossam el-Hamalawy writes: Since Hosni Mubarak fled from Cairo, and even before then, some middle-class activists have been urging Egyptians, in the name of patriotism, to suspend their protests and return to work, singing some of the most ridiculous lullabies: “Let’s build a new Egypt”, “Let’s ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Quote of the week: the middle ground where AGW ...
    This article was sent to me by Charles Hart, and I have to say, I really like this quote from Curt Stager in Fast Company. Between the extremes of Hansen’s pronouncements about coal death trains and people in Britain having … Continue reading →
  • Forget CO2, US Debt “Causes” Warmi ...
    Guest Posting by Ira Glickstein Total US Debt (public and private) as a percentage of US Gross Domestic Product (GDP) correlates with NASA GISS US Annual Mean Temperature Anomaly better than CO2 levels! So, if we want to reduce warming, … Continue reading →
  • New WUWT Ocean Reference Page added
    Introducing our newest reference page the WUWT Ocean page: http://wattsupwiththat.com/reference-pages/ocean/ We’ve also changed the WUWT “ENSO/Sea Level/Sea Surface Temperature Page” to the “ENSO (El Nino/La Nina Southern Oscillation)” and this page is now everything ENSO. If you have the WUWT … ...
  • Climate Audit requested of the Australian BoM ...
    On Jo Nova’s site, the cat is set amongst the pigeons: A team of skeptical scientists, citizens, and an Australian Senator have lodged a formal request with the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) to have the BOM and CSIRO audited. … Continue reading →
  • Blizzard stories from the National Weather Ser ...
    Mike Smith tips us to this NOAA Communications Office Summary of stories about the February blizzard. It makes for interesting reading. As Record Snow Falls, NWS Employees Hunker Down An Epic Storm: Tulsa, Okla. Chuck Hodges and Bruce Sherbon, forecasters … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • The starvation factor in the Egyptian revoluti ...
    By Jerry Mazza Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted at Intrepid Report www.jerrymazza.com February 15, 2011 Nobody likes to starve, regardless of their race, religion, political orientation, or whether you live in Jordan, Yemen, Tunisia, Egypt or America. But curiously what has, in large ...
  • The United States is Lying to Us By Timothy V. ...
    By Timothy V. Gatto Featured Writer Dandelion Salad liberalpro.blogspot.com February 15, 2011 The recent Revolution in Egypt is not complete. The Army still has control of the country and it is yet to be seen if they will give in to the demands of the people that fomented the revolution. This wi ...
  • An Absence of Love by Philip A. Farruggio
    by Philip A. Farruggio Featured Writer Dandelion Salad February 15, 2011 It’s Valentines Day, and many of us scurry about choosing gifts to show our love. Greeting cards, flowers, chocolates and other sweet tooth succulents are wrapped and delivered to those we hold in deep affection… a time for ...
  • Samir Amin: Obama is Bush, but with a differen ...
    Translated By Siv O’Neall Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Axisoflogic.com Feb 15, 2011 Samir Amin is a Franco-Egyptian economist, a member of the International Council of the World Social Forum and chairman of the World Forum for Alternatives. Samir Amin analyzes the political and economic crisi ...
  • Will Tunisia Transition from Tyranny into Demo ...
    by Andrew Gavin Marshall Featured Writer Dandelion Salad February 15, 2011 Part 1: America’s Strategic Repression of the “Arab Awakening” Part 2: Are We Witnessing the Start of a Global Revolution? North Africa and the Global Political Awakening, Part 3 It has been a month since President and di ...

Your New Reality

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    It's fascinating just how much more disturbing a horror movie can be when it is given a laugh track and re-edited to unfold like a Seinfeld episode :
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    Egypt Explodes It's been a long time coming, and now it's going to be all but impossible to turn it back to the way it was. Protesters are prepared to give their lives for this fight, the Mubarak 'government' and police are not so willing. January 25 : January 26 :
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    Obama Praises Tunisian Uprising, But Falls Silent On Egypt Keep in mind that US President Barack Obama only began praising the remarkable events in Tunisia after the US-friendly ruling family had already fled the country. Now Egypt is on the brink of a revolution. Massive protests fill the str ...
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    The editor-in-chief of Rupert Murdoch's app-only digital 'newspaper' The Daily tries to rally his journalists to go after The Really Big Stories now "Egypt is over" : Find me an amazing human story at a trial the rest of the media is missing. Find me a school district where the battle over refo ...
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    Wikileaks = Death To Dictators & America's Puppet Arab Leaders? It's all but impossible to deny that the Tunisian CableGate revelations about the corruption of that country's ruling family did not add fuel and fire to the remarkable events that exploded into a peoples' revolution and saw 'The F ...

Wired - Science

  • In Your Face: Close-Up Look at Doomed Comet
    NASA’s Stardust-NExT spacecraft flew past Comet Tempel 1 at 8:38 Pacific time Monday night, snapping photos as it sped by. In 2005, the Deep Impact probe blew a crater into Tempel 1 with an 800-pound metal slug. Since then, Tempel 1 has completed an orbit around the sun, losing ice and other ma ...
  • How Rockets Realign Ice Crystals
                        runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience790152474001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, best known for its mind-blowing photos and videos of the sun, started life as a rainbow killer. As the rocket carrying th ...
  • To Talk With Aliens, Learn to Speak With Dolph ...
    The Kepler Space Telescope announced a new bonanza of distant planets this month, reconfirming that solar systems, some possibly hosting life, are common in the universe. So if humanity someday arrives at an extraterrestrial cocktail party, will we be ready to mingle? At the Wild Dolphin Projec ...
  • Obama’s 2012 Budget Proposes Pains, Gains for ...
    President Obama sent the research community a valentine of sorts in his proposed 2012 federal budget. Sent to Congress on February 14, the budget was a pledge to fight for increased investment in research and education even as the president committed to a belt-tightening for most segments o ...
  • Sex Discrimination in Science Continues, But R ...
    By Kate Shaw, Ars Technica Today, more than half of all PhDs in the life sciences are awarded to women, compared to a measly 13 percent bestowed upon women in 1970. However, women still lag far behind men in full professorships and tenure track positions in math-intensive fields. Despite cl ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Shin Bet retracts claim that left-wing East Je ...
    Israeli Civil rights attorney Lea Tsemel: "The [activists] were focused and continue to be focused on legal, democratic and non-violent protest against settlement trends in East Jerusalem . . . the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • Barak: IDF soldiers may be called into Lebanon ...
    During tour with new IDF chief along northern border, the defense minister said Israel taught Hezbollah a lesson during the Second Lebanon War, but it could soon be forgotten. IOA Editor: Be... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • IDF base to be built in East Jerusalem
    Although the Ministry of Defense [and] the Jerusalem municipality have claimed that the base will be within the green line, the document proves otherwise... Most of the area in which the base is to... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • Al Jazeera/Empire: Pax Americana (video)
    Will the spread of democracy lead to a peaceful end to decades of autocratic rule in the Middle East or will the fear of Islamist extremism galvinise Washington's resolve to reinforce Pax Americana? ... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • New West-Bank settlement map
    An updated map of Israeli colonization of the West Bank was released by Peace Now. It deserves careful study. Also note the graph on the left which shows clearly that colonization peaked during the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Hip, Thigh Implants Can Raise Bone Fracture Ri ...
    Children with hip and thigh implants designed to help heal a broken bone or correct other bone conditions are at risk for subsequent fractures of the very bones that the implants were intended to treat, according to new research from Johns Hopkins Children's Center.
  • Radiation Helps Cure Hodgkin's Lymphoma, but F ...
    A systematic review comparing treatments for Hodgkin's lymphoma found a clear advantage to combined chemotherapy and radiation. However, the review did not address long-term side effects associated with radiation.
  • Combined Interventions Ease Job Re-Entry for C ...
    For cancer survivors who wish to return to work after treatment, a new evidence review suggests that therapies focusing on a wide range of health interventions might best enable them to do so.
  • For Back Pain, Spinal Manipulation Holds Its O ...
    If you're suffering from chronic lower back pain, a new review finds that spinal manipulation − the kind of hands-on regimen that a chiropractor might perform − is as helpful as other common treatments like painkillers.
  • Inhaled Epinephrine Confirmed Quick, Effective ...
    For more than 30 years, pediatricians have treated children who have croup with inhaled epinephrine to relieve their symptoms quickly. Now, a new review confirms the value of this approach.

Natural Health News

  • A Schnauzer with the Ability to Predict When P ...
    Scamp is a dog with the uncanny ability to know when a patient is going to die.
  • Antelope Grooming Cat
    Sometimes the oddest of pairs can become friends.
  • Hearing Loss May be an Early Sign of Dementia
    In some people, gradual hearing loss could be an early sign of Alzheimer's disease or other types of dementia. A new study indicates that the risk of dementia appears to rise as hearing declines. Older people with mild hearing impairment were nearly twice as likely to develop dementia, and ...
  • 14 Things Your Eyes Say About Your Health
    Your eyes are a unique window into health.� Yahoo Health has assembled a list of 14 things your eyes can tell you about your entire body.� Here are some of them: Disappearing eyebrows When the outer third of your eyebrow starts to disappear on its own, this is a common sign of thyroid disease. ...
  • Swine Flu Vaccinations for Children Were a Mis ...
    Dr Terhi Kilpi, the Chief Medical Officer of Finland's National Public Health Institute, has admitted that it may have been unnecessary to vaccinate children and young people against swine flu.� Kilpi said that she would no longer recommend the vaccination for children. According to YLE: ...

Antemedius

  • CIA & Pentagon Knew Their 'Enhanced Interrogat ...
    The CIA and Pentagon used "enhanced interrogation techniques"(EIT) on Middle East prisoners knowing they were illegal and considered to be torture by the United Nations, according to an article published in the January issue of the American magazine "Science." Tortures including sensory depriva ...
  • "Austerity" Comes to America
    Richard Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and currently a Visiting �Professor at the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New �School University in New York. He has a PhD in Economics from Yale �University as well as degrees from H ...
  • Egypt: Is The Revolution Being Co-Opted?
    Originally published at Asia Times I'll tip my hat to the new constitution Take a bow for the new revolution - The Who, Won't Get Fooled Again Were this an ad, the catchphrase would be "the sound of a new generation". A group of seven young January 25 revolutionaries, including Wael "Google ...
  • South Dakota To Make Killing Abortion Docs "Ju ...
    One of the ways that the anti-choice activists ply their trade it to intimidate doctors who provide abortions. They put out wanted posters, they show up at their houses, they even make up rhymes like “Tiller the baby killer” and repeat them again and again and again. Then some of their whacked o ...
  • Limbaugh, Beck Troubled by Egyptian Democratic ...
    Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck ostensibly stand for freedom and extension of human rights but the facts reveal a different result. A current case in point surrounds recent events in Egypt. To lovers of democracy throughout the world the confluence of events, brought about through a coalescing of ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Universal Exceptionalism in International Law ...
    by Harvard International Law Journal by Harvard International Law Journal [The following summary is the abstract from Universal Exceptionalism in International Law by Anu Bradford (an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School) & Eric A. Posner (the Kirkland & Ellis Pr ...
  • A Response to John Armour, Jack B. Jacobs and ...
    by Harvard International Law Journal by Harvard International Law Journal [Zenichi Shishido, a Professor at the Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy, Hitotsubashi University, responds to John Armour, Jack B. Jacobs and Curtis J. Milhaupt, The Evolution of Hostile Takeover Regi ...
  • The Evolution of Hostile Takeover Regimes in D ...
    by Harvard International Law Journal by Harvard International Law Journal [The following summary is the abstract from The Evolution of Hostile Takeover Regimes in Developed and Emerging Markets: An Analytical Framework by John Armour (the Hogan Lovells Professor of Law and Finance at the Uni ...
  • ICC Pre-Trial Chamber Criticizes Prosecutor
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Even when Moreno-Ocampo wins, he loses.  Pre-Trial Chamber II recently rejected a request by Mohammed Hussein Ali, one of the six Kenyans for whom the OTP has sought summonses, to submit “observations” on the investigation  That was an easy call; noth ...
  • Plaintiffs’ Lawyer Pablo Fajardo Discusses Che ...
    by Roger Alford by Roger Alford As I discussed yesterday, an Ecuador Court has issued an $8.6 billion judgment against Chevron. I just got off a press conference call with plaintiff’s chief lawyer in Ecuador, Pablo Fajardo. He stated that the plaintiffs will seek enforcement of the Lago Agr ...

Investigate - Breaking News

  • Free Movie tickets: CONVICTION
    The kind folk at 20th Century Fox have made available some double passes for our TBR, Twitter and Facebook readers to see the new movie CONVICTION, based on the true story of Betty Ann Waters who studied to become a...
  • 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...

My Care2 Picks

  • Monsanto's Roundup Triggers over 40 Plant Dise ...
    Monsanto Roundup is killing non GM crops, annihilating beneficial soil organisms and Monsanto forces farmers who purchase GM Roundup Ready seeds to only use the company's Roundup brand of glyphosate. Submitted by Sharon L. to Business �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • What You Need to Know About the Muslim Brother ...
    They adhered to an ultra-orthodox view of Islam, and in the 1930s Banna established the Secret Apparatus, an underground intelligence and paramilitary arm with a terrorist wing. Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Canada defeats GMO hazard legislation
    Canada�s House of Commons defeated Bill C-474, an Act that would have required an analysis of potential harm to export markets before permitting the commercialization of any new genetically engineered seed.Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Blood tests reveal chemical poisoning linked t ...
    Toxic chemicals from the BP disaster have entered the blood of some Gulf Coast citizens, who are showing symptoms like internal bleeding, kidney infection, muscle atrophy, pain, headaches, and bleeding from the ears. Submitted by John Farnham to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • U.S. Thanks and Encourages Spain to Prosecute ...
    Center for Constitutional Rights have already submitted proof to the Spanish courts that our government is not taking action under international law and treaties. ( BIAs,American Service Member Protection Act,Military Commission Act 2006 all defuse law )Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �N ...

Angry Indian News

  • Bahrain investigates protest deaths
    Bahrain investigates protest deaths :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dal medio oriente :: information from middle east :: [vs-1]: "At least one person has been killed and several others injured... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Tribesmen protest ends peacefully | Jordan Tim ...
    Tribesmen protest ends peacefully | Jordan Times: "AMMAN - A protest by tribesmen who blocked the airport road linking Amman and the south ended peacefully when officials talked to protesters,... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Bangkok Post : Poor people rally outside parli ...
    Bangkok Post : Poor people rally outside parliament: "An alliance of thousands of poor people was preparing for long-haul protest in front of the parliament on Wednesday, hoping for earnest... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Rally demands murder charge against cop who sh ...
    Rally demands murder charge against cop who shot woodcarver: "With a small group of police watching from a distance, protesters demanded that Birk face charges of murder.Many of them said there will... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • US to boost support for cyber dissidents - Blo ...
    US to boost support for cyber dissidents - Bloomberg: "WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States stands with cyber dissidents and democracy activists from the Middle East to China and beyond, Secretary of... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • Truth Squad Radio: Eric Herm – Son of a Farmer
    Eric Herm joins us this Wednesday evening to discuss the ravages of commercial agriculture, including the GMO blight.
  • Farmers Against Monsanto!
    Do you want to make a real difference in the fight against GMO alfalfa? If you do, then please download this poster and share it with farmers, feed stores, and anyone who might have an impact on alfalfa farmers' seed choices. It's time to take this to the streets.
  • Playing the Global Warming Card
    The global warming myth is thriving internationally, on the federal level and in state and local governments.
  • Directing Public Energy 101: The Petitioning S ...
    Real Power of the People lies in our everyday choices, and how we influence others by the lives we live. That is real power. It is the 'trickle up' effect as applied to activism. Instead of working from the top down, begging for the execs at Corp USA to show mercy, you work from the bottom up, s ...
  • Food Bank Locator
    Enter your zip code to find the nearest emergency food bank.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • US security contractors planned 'WikiLeaks att ...
    ShareThisUS security contractors planned 'WikiLeaks attack' 15 Feb 2011 The computer hackers' collective Anonymous has uncovered a proposal by a consortium of private contractors to attack and discredit WikiLeaks. Last week Anonymous volunteers broke into the servers of HB Gary Federal, a securi ...
  • CDC Reports First Human Cowpox Infection in La ...
    ShareThisCDC Reports First Human Cowpox Infection in Laboratory Worker --'The investigation revealed cowpox virus stocks in the laboratory's freezer, but no known or intentional use of cowpox in the patient's laboratory in the previous 5 years.' 08 Feb 2011 (Vienna, Austria) The first human cowp ...
  • US Senate votes extension of anti-terrorism po ...
    ShareThisUS Senate votes extension of anti-terrorism powers 15 Feb 2011 The US Senate voted Tuesday to extend controversial counter-terrorism search and surveillance powers at the heart of the Patriot Act law adopted after the September 11, 2001 attacks. With the three provisions set to expire F ...
  • F-16 jets, military copter over DC at midnight ...
    ShareThisF-16 jets, military copter over DC at midnight Wednesday 15 Feb 2011 As part of a post 9/11 training and preparedness military mission, F-16 jets, a coast guard helicopter and civil patrol aircraft will be flying over the Washington D.C. area from midnight to 2 a.m. on Wednesday, offici ...
  • Iraq delays purchase of US fighter jets
    ShareThisIraq delays purchase of US fighter jets 14 Feb 2011 Iraq is delaying the purchase of 18 American fighter jets over budget problems and has decided to funnel the money into food for the poor instead, said the Iraqi government spokesman Monday. Iraq, like, many Middle Eastern countries in ...

Daily Loaf

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • General Petraeus: Unfounded rumors
    16 February 2011 Just got this email from Geoff Morrell, Press Secretary for Secretary Robert Gates: "Despite some sensational speculation by one of the London papers, I can assure you General Petraeus is not quitting as ISAF commander, but nor does he plan to stay in Afghanistan forever. Obvi ...
  • River of Tears: Snapshots from the Edge of a W ...
    River of Tears Snapshots from the Edge of a War 14 Feburary 2011 The Salween River forms a border between Thailand and Burma.� �Rambo� fictionally crossed this jungle current in the movie Rambo IV.� But there is nothing fictional about the war, or the bombs that often fly from Burma into Th ...
  • JFCOM Disestablishment Working Group
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  • Great Britain Loses one of its Finest
    03 November 2009 British soldiers at war are an incredible group.� Courageous, competent, and committed in very difficult conditions.� An email came today from London, from a BBC correspondent who has been to Afghanistan saying that Staff Sergeant Olaf Schmid had been killed. To see the ...
  • The River - Part II
    “It had become a place of darkness. But there was in it one river especially, a mighty big river, that you could see on the map, resembling an immense snake uncoiled, with its head in the sea, its body curving at rest afar over a vast country, and its tail lost in the depths of the land. ...

The Killing Train

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

treehugger

  • Now Energy Companies are Spying on Green Activ ...
    Photo: youcanstickit.blog Doesn't anyone in Britain have a straight job? Last month we heard about the undercover agents who had infiltrated the eco activist groups. This week we have large energy companies hiring private investigators to snoop on environmentalists. It turns out that ...
  • California Proposes Ban on Sale of Shark Fins
    Photo: PlanetSave California legislators just introduced a bill that would ban the sale and distribution of shark fins. Shark fins are most popularly used in Chinese soup that's considered a delicacy. But, as you're likely aware, shark fins are most often procured as the result of a particu ...
  • After Almost 20 Years of Legal Battles, Chevro ...
    Image: Chevron in Ecuador It's been a long battle: people of the Ecuadorean Amazon against Chevron, which is accused of dumping more than 18 billion gallons of toxic waste sludge into the Amazon, leaving people sick with cancer and suffering miscarriages and birth defects. But the BBC repor ...
  • A Space-Age Apartment For a Couple That Sees C ...
    Images Credit Dash Marshall From our friends at Fast Company, "bridging the fuzzy border between design and business." Children dream about being astronauts. Adults dream about... orderliness. Architect Dash Marshall has managed to merge the two to create the ultimate big-kid fantasy: a ...
  • GOP Moves to Slash 29% of EPA's Funding
    Image: flick.com/jpmatth, CC I know, I know -- I already penned a post with a very similar headline last week. The GOP wants to gut the Environmental Protection Agency, stripping out a huge chunk of its funding. So what's the news? Well, that chunk just got a lot bigger. As in, twice as hug ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Egypt military appoints judges to amend consti ...
    [JURIST] The Egyptian Supreme Council of the Armed Forces announced Tuesday that it has formed a committee of judges and politicians to oversee amending the Egyptian constitution [text] within the next 10 days. When the council assumed power on Sunday, it indicated that part of its transition pl ...
  • Italy PM Berlusconi to stand trial on abuse of ...
    [JURIST] An Italian judge on Tuesday ordered billionaire media mogul and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] to stand trial on charges of paying for sex with a minor and abuse of power. Berlusconi allegedly paid 7,000 euros to then 17-year-old dancer, Kari ...
  • EU lawmakers consent to common patent system
    [JURIST] The European Parliament [official website] on Tuesday agreed to the establishment of a common patent system [press release] despite lack of accord from Spain and Italy. EU member states have attempted to establish a uniform patent system for several years, but a unanimous vote was unobt ...
  • Iran lawmakers urge death death penalty for op ...
    [JURIST] Iranian lawmakers called Tuesday for opposition leaders to face trial and death after Monday's clash with security forces. Thousands of Iranians protested Monday in solidarity with Egypt's revolt against ousted president Hasni Mubarak [Al Jazeera profile]. Pro-government legislators dem ...
  • Guantanamo detainee pleads guilty to terror ch ...
    [JURIST] Sudanese Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainee Noor Uthman Mohammed [DOD materials] pleaded guilty [press release] before a military tribunal Tuesday to terrorism charges. Mohammed entered guilty pleas [Reuters report] to one count of providing material support of terrorism and ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Will Democrats Force the Army Out of NASCAR?
    Mark Martin reclines against car, sponsored by the U.S. Army. credit: Grant Halverson/Getty Images The Pentagon has had a decade-long business partnership with the NASCAR stock-car racing circuit that has been a boon to the sport. But amid the House's Republican-led frenzy to cut federa ...
  • Haley Barbour Won't Denounce KKK Leader Licens ...
    Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, who is testing the waters for a potential 2012 presidential bid, declined to denounce a proposal by the Sons of Confederate Veterans to honor a Civil War general and founder of the Ku Klux Klan on state license plates. The AP reports: Questioned by reporters ...
  • Census Data Show Signs of a Hispanic Boom
    The U.S. Census Bureau is gradually releasing demographic data from its 2010 survey, and the first batch of state-level specifics show Hispanic populations rising sharply. Hispanic populations have grown, both by percentage of states' total populations and by raw numbers, in each of the eight s ...
  • Rand Paul vs. the PATRIOT Act
    The Senate has found a new leading critic of the PATRIOT Act: Kentucky's Rand Paul. Paul doesn't agree with many of his colleagues on a host of issues--he wants to end all foreign aid, for instance, and supports congressional term limits--but as debate has heated up over the past week about the ...
  • Obama Asks for 'Adult Conversation' on the Bud ...
    President Obama at his press conference at the White House on Tuesday. credit: AP Photo/Evan Vucci President Obama failed to hide his frustrations over attacks on his budget decisions in a press conference on Tuesday, calling for patience as he tries to tackle long-term deficits and app ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

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Tikun Olam

  • Jobs Destroys Jackling House, California Archi ...
    Steve Jobs has earned another distinction in his long career of technological innovation: destroyer of architectural history.  He tore down Jackling House, one of the finest examples of Spanish revival home architecture in northern California and he did it in a mere two weeks.  The home was desi ...
  • Jewish National Fund Bulldozers Destroying Al ...
    Alarming, devastating news that the battle of the Al Araqib Bedouin to remain on their village lands has taken an ominous turn. This from Israeli peace activist, Michael Warshavsky: Shooting and heavy violence in Al-Arakib: The people of Al-Arakib encircled in the cemetery The 17th violent evict ...
  • The Wages of Stuxnet Are Havoc
    While the wages of sin are reputed to be death, the wages of Stuxnet will be unforeseen havoc for years to come.  Several interesting reports out about the cyberweapon, which outgoing Israeli chief of staff Gabi Ashkenazi took credit for in his farewell party yesterday.  Those who read my blog ...
  • Links for 2010-06-05 [Digg]
    MV Rachel Corrie Forcibly Seized by Israeli Navy, Towed to A Malaysian NGO funding Rachel Corrie trip to Gaza reports she was seized a few mintues ago by Israeli navy and is being towed to Ashdod.
  • Salon Mazal Video Conference: Digital Activism ...
    Tomorrow I’ll be talking to Salon Mazal in Tel Aviv about digital activism and the struggle for political change in Israel and the Middle East.  So much to talk about: the Egyptian Revolution, Facebook, the Green Revolution, Twitter, exposing the dark secrets of the national security state, aff ...

Ode Magazine

  • A valentine for peace
    By: PeaceCorso Well, here we are at the holiday that so many of us love to hate: Valentine’s Day. We’ve all heard the cynics blaming the Hallmarkians of the world for sentimentalizing love. Why have a holiday to celebrate love? My relationship doesn’ ...
  • Mizukaburi Matsuri: Keeping at bay
    By: Anne Thomas Japan has wonderful festivals throughout the year. Some are huge and world renown. Others are so small only locals attend. But no matter the size, all of them are filled with great enthusiasm and merrymaking as people give their all to ...
  • The muse in the moment
    We all know meditation helps you relax. But can it also ease the symptoms of depression and anxiety disorders and improve quality of life for people with chronic diseases? Recent research suggests it can. For those of us who haven’t practiced it, meditation can seem like a ...
  • The secret life of metaphor
    By: James Geary Metaphor is most familiar as the literary device through which we describe one thing in terms of another, as in Shakespeare’s famous line from Romeo and Juliet, “Juliet is the sun.” But metaphor is much more than a mere literary device ...
  • A new food manifesto
    Itâs time to take back control of what and how we eat. Hereâs why. Food isn’t just something we need to shovel down our gullets each day to survive. It’s far more potent: the means, more than any other, by which we humans shape our planet and ourselves.Photo by Marko Matas ...

OpEd News

  • NRC on Experiments on "War on Terror" Detainee ...
    A National Research Council conference in 2008 discussed the possibility that experiments could be conducted on "war on terror" prisoners because Bush took away their Geneva protections. Evidence of changes in protections for prisoners argues this possibility make have become a reality, constitu ...
  • Tea Party Crashes: The Most Unpatriotic Act
    Tea Party abandons pledge to support liberty, with vote to extend the Patriot Act. 9/11 Whistleblower, Susan Lindauer, examines Patriot Act from the defendant's chair, with the unique perspective of a former defendant fighting that law.
  • Media, Mergers, Capitalism, and Popular Democr ...
    Historical and analytical background to the Huffington Post-AOL merger, from a class-conscious perspective.
  • Women's Eucharist Lives On Despite Rejection b ...
    On the second Sunday of each month, a group of six to fifteen women from the Detroit area meet to pray, sing, dance, reflect on the Sunday scriptures, and to break bread together--without a priest to officiate.
  • SAMIR AMIN SPEAKING ABOUT THE EGYPTIAN REVOLUT ...
    These are social revolts which can potentially lead to a crystallization of alternatives , which in the long run may become part of a socialist perspective . That is why the capitalist system , capital monopolies on a global scale , can not tolerate the development of these movements . It will m ...

Switchboard

  • Dirty Water Actors in Congress
    Though I’ve lived here for the better part of two decades, Washington, D.C. remains a bit of a mystery to me.  People here seem to simultaneously have the memory of an elephant and that of my very easily distracted pooch, Quincy.  (Don’t get me started on the attention spans of the ...
  • The House Budget Chooses the Path to Water Pol ...
    The Republican budget, which is being debated on the House floor, includes a simple choice about the path forward on water issues in California.  Unfortunately, the bill proposes to pick the path of conflict and gridlock, rather than of cooperation and success.  Nothing makes that ...
  • A Different Kind of Black Lung
    Maybe it’s news of the historic sit in against Mountain-top removal style coal mining going in Kentucky right now, but somehow Valentine’s Day got me thinking: Dear Utilities, where’s the love?  Pollution from our nation’s coal power plants is making hundreds of thousands of people ...
  • To The Budget Axemen: Why International Clean ...
    The massive cuts to the federal budget proposed last week for the remaining 2011 Fiscal Year would seriously hamstring international cooperation on clean energy and climate technologies, leaving little wiggle room for this key area of future U.S. innovative potential and job creati ...
  • Taking the shine out of Energy Star
    Unfortunately, the House of Representatives Appropriations Committee has proposed slashing the Energy Star budget by over $10 million, or 16%. That puts the program, and the benefits it delivers, at severe risk.  Since its launch in 1992, Energy Star has earned great consumer reco ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Norms and War
    I have an essay online at Current Intelligence on Michael Gross’s recent book. Moral Dilemmas of Modern Warfare explores the ways in which “new wars” are challenging the existing law of armed conflict. I’ll have more to say about his proposals in a forthcoming Foreign Affairs essay, but in th ...
  • One Man. One Knife.
    So, this should be a movie (true or no): Bishnu Shrestha, a brave Gurkha soldier in Indian Army, defeated 40 train robbers while returning home after a voluntary retirement.  The Indian army, is going to awarded Bishnu with Sourya Chakra, Bravery Award and Sarvottam Jeevan Raksha medals during ...
  • More Great Documentary Filmmaking
    Another neglected masterpiece of American cinema deals with a second landmark case that has returned to the center of constitutional discussion: Alas, the high production values cannot hide the fact that the film simply does not meet contemporary Tea Party standards of accuracy; among other thi ...
  • Things Can Always Get Worse
    As appalling as the reactions to the rape of Lara Logan that Mary Elizabeth Williams discusses are, the comments are actually worse. [via] …see also. And also. Related posts:The State of Sex Ed in This Country Is Even Worse Than I Thought Bad and Worse Williams: The Bottom Line Relat ...
  • Something Beyond Wanker of the Day
    Jerry Richardson. Related posts:Wanker of the Day Wanker of the Day Wanker of the Day Related posts:Wanker of the Day Wanker of the Day Wanker of the Day

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • Law professor says Egypt was a common destinat ...
    On Feb. 11, outgoing Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak resigned, leaving the country's government under military rule and its hopes for democracy uncertain. Also unclear is whether the country's history of human rights abuses and torture will continue in Egypt, according to Thomas Jefferson law p ...
  • 9th Circuit finds pharmaceutical sales reps ex ...
    The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit on Monday ruled that pharmaceutical sales representatives are exempt from federal overtime laws, creating what some see as an appellate court split that could find its way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
  • Iowa lawyer suspended for having oral sex with ...
    The Supreme Court of Iowa on Feb. 11 suspended Clovis Bowles after it determined that he violated attorney ethics rules by having sex with a client and obstructing an investigation into the matter.
  • Widener law professor charged with using 'viol ...
    An associate professor at Widener University School of Law is under investigation by school administrators for using "violent scenarios" in his criminal law course that involved him murdering Dean Linda Ammons.
  • Calif. lawyer pleads guilty to smuggling heroi ...
    A Beverly Hills, Calif., criminal defense attorney has pleaded no contest to smuggling heroin into a secure area of a downtown Los Angeles jail last year.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • Gas driller pays Pennsylvania state Senator Jo ...
    I received this comment from another blogger on this same article: “To paraphrase Jim Cramer, well known for his investment & corporate financial opinions on television and internet, the United States has the best government money can buy.” Published: Sunday, February 13, 2011, 11:04 PM Updated ...
  • FrackTracker
    Here’s an exceprt from the blog at Fracktracker, a useful site for info and maps and visuals. The Environmental Protection Agency has submitted a draft of its Hydraulic Fracturing Study Plan, which is to be reviewed by the Science Advisory Board (SAB), a group of independent scientists that w ...
  • A Comprehensive Website for News Headlines
    The below site, while not covering everything, does offers a lot of info in one place. Newspaper Headlines: http://www.marcellus-shale.us/Gas-Drilling_NEWS.htm
  • Groups File Federal Gas Drilling Lawsuit again ...
    Delaware River Basin Commission Served Notice Trenton, New Jersey —The Delaware Riverkeeper Network and Damascus Citizens for Sustainability have joined forces in filing a federal lawsuit against the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) in federal district court in Trenton, NJ. Complaints were ...
  • Oil and Gas Companies Illegally Using Diesel i ...
    By Adam Federman, Earth Island Journal Posted on February 1, 2011 The 2005 Bush-Cheney Energy Policy Act famously exempted hydraulic fracturing from the Safe Drinking Water Act. But it made one small exception: diesel fuel. The Policy Act states that the term “underground injection,” as it relat ...

News Blaze

  • Women With Disabilities Strive Hard to Be Prod ...
    Supported by the Foundation for Social Transformation (FST) and with a faculty drawn from the city's well-known institutes - the Institute of Hotel Management, Catering Technology & Applied Nutrition (IHM) and the North East Hotel Management Insti
  • Little Rock Central High School Honors Daisy B ...
    Dr. Patricia Washington McGraw: aka Nana Hemaa Akua Asantewaa mPata, founder and curator of the Washington Heritage House, located across the street from Central High School, presents a one-woman show in which she asks the audience to travel with he
  • Mental Healthcare for Transgender People: An E ...
    Although far from optimal, still considerable progress has been made in providing healthcare to transgender people in many parts of the world. Yet their mental health needs remain far from being served.
  • Mahatma Gandhi Continues to Inspire Women in I ...
    Women in India had always responded to nationalistic calls, turning out in large numbers during the 'raksha bandhan' demonstration by Rabindranath Tagore in 1905 or Tilak's Swadeshi movement. But it is only after Gandhi's non-violent strategy ca
  • President Obama and The People of The US Congr ...
    On behalf of President Obama and the people of the United States, I congratulate the people of Lithuania as you celebrate your 93rd national day this February 16.

environment 360

  • Asian Smart Meter Market to Surpass 350 Millio ...
    The number of smart meters in Asian markets will increase from 52.8 million in 2010 to more than 350.3 million by 2016 as governments and electric utilities across the region increasingly emphasize the technology, according to a new market report. That represents an annual growth rate of about 3 ...
  • Arctic Roamers: The Move of Southern Species i ...
    Grizzly bears mating with polar bears. Red foxes out-competing Arctic foxes. Exotic diseases making their way into once-isolated polar realms. These are just some of the worrisome phenomena now occurring as Arctic temperatures soar and the Arctic Ocean, a once-impermeable barrier, melts. BY ED ...
  • Rare Whooping Cranes Will Be Reintroduced in L ...
    U.S. wildlife biologists are reintroducing 10 whooping cranes — the most endangered species of crane in the world — to Louisiana. Whooping cranes, found only in North America, once numbered more than 15,000 individuals, but hunting and development drove the WikimediaWhooping cranes population ...
  • Florida Biorefinery Targets First Waste-to-Fue ...
    A UK-based company this week broke ground on a $130 million plant in Vero Beach, Fla. that company officials say will be the first to produce advanced biofuels from waste on a commercial scale. While other researchers are working on processes to convert waste into fuel, Ineos Bio’s plan would ga ...
  • U.S. Commits $50.5 Million to Promote Offshore ...
    U.S. officials say they will spend as much as $50.5 million to promote the growth of offshore wind energy in a push to achieve 54 gigawatts of electricity from offshore turbines by 2030. Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said the new initiative will seek to reduce th ...

Red Ice Creations

  • France wants new global finance system
    France will help the transition to a global financial system based on 'several international currencies', the French Economy Minister said today. France, as current head of the Group of 20 countries, will help the transition to a global financial system based on 'several international currencies ...
  • Terrorist Who Trained London Bombers Was Worki ...
    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 the London bombers was a US informant and has been ...
  • King Tut statue looted from Egypt museum
    Looters who raided Egypt's famed museum during the unrest that toppled Hosni Mubarak have hauled off a trove of ancient treasures, including a statue of King Tutankhamun, officials said. The plundered artefacts include a gilded wooden statue showing the boy pharaoh being carried by a goddess, an ...
  • Bush cancels visit to Switzerland after arrest ...
    Former President George W. Bush has canceled a visit to Switzerland, where he was to address a Jewish charity gala, due to the risk of legal action against him for alleged torture, rights groups said on Saturday. Bush was to be the keynote speaker at Keren Hayesod’s annual dinner on February 12 ...
  • France sees first ’saviour sibling’
    Doctors in France announced the country’s first birth of a "saviour sibling," selected at the embryonic stage to be a close genetic match to save a brother or sister suffering from a fatal inherited disorder. The child’s embryo was genetically selected to ensure he did not carry the gene for bet ...

Russia Today

  • Suspected terrorists caught in Moscow
    Four people suspected of planning a terror attack were detained at a Moscow railway station on Tuesday evening.
  • Cold War tales live on
    In the information age and the internet era that we live in, for many people around the world Russia remains a mysterious and misunderstood land, often portrayed as an evil totalitarian state where only vodka helps...
  • Lithuanian politician facing trial for questio ...
    A bitter row over freedom of speech has broken out in Lithuania as a local politician faces jail for his views on a massacre in the country's capital 20 years ago.
  • Cop that! Girl’s murder plot undone in sting
    A case in which a 19-year-old student tried to execute the cold-blooded murder of her own family has shocked Russia's southern city of Volgograd.
  • European backlash over multiculturalism
    European leaders are one by one denouncing the policy of multiculturalism. The latest “fail” stamp came from French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who said he does not want people to pray in an “ostentatious way” in the...

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

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

Tippers News

  • Why Did Aggie Boys Buy Sex at the Chicken Ranc ...
    The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, the Texas A&M football team celebrates a win with a visit to their local brothel, the Chicken Ranch. The Aggie Boys are fSubmitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Two survivors of human trafficking share their ...
    She fiddles with her cell phone. In mid conversation, she holds it out, showing off who�s on the screen. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Trip to India inspires Everson woman to help v ...
    EVERSON - Touched by her own memories of being adopted as an orphan, Sue Ann Heutink took her first overseas venture to help victims of human trafficking. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Free Human Trafficking Victim Sara Kruzan From ...
    Sixteen-year-old human trafficking victim Sara Kruzan was sentenced to life in prison without parole when, in a desperate act to escape captivity, she shot her pimp. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Edward Janus | Disability Advocate and Activis ...
    Edward Janus | Disability Advocate and Activist (Disabled myself). Doing Daily Internet Activism for Supporting Causes of Change. Talking about: Armchair Activism for Oil-Spill Animals.Submitted by Edward Janus to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • Are We Lacking “Ideas on a Grand Scale&# ...
    Government policies have encouraged massive malinvestments for more than a decade, and now that same government is blocking the necessary readjustments of capital and resources.
  • U.S. Policy to Address Internet Freedom
    “The State Departmentâs policy, a year in the making, has been bogged down by fierce debates over which projects it should support, and even more basically, whether to view the Internet primarily as a weapon to topple repressive regimes or as a tool that autocrats can use to root out and crush d ...
  • Lawmakers Set To Debate Daniels’ Voucher ...
    “Indiana lawmakers will start the debate today on the most controversial plank of Gov. Mitch Daniels’ sweeping education platform: a plan to use taxpayer money to help parents send their children to private schools. Opponents are gearing up to fight the voucher bill, which they say would drain m ...
  • Georgia Senate May Block Sunday Alcohol Bill A ...
    “In the past, Republican lawmakers have blamed the bill’s defeat on Sonny Perdue, a Christian conservative who vowed to veto any Sunday sales legislation while he was governor. Gov. Nathan Deal, who took office in January, said he would sign the legislation. Georgians in many parts of the state ...
  • Police Have More, Better Rights than You
    Justice itself depends on people being able to document their encounters with government agents, especially the police. If people are prevented from establishing the truth through evidence, then they have no defense against a corrupt, incompetent, or vengeful police officer.

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

  • VOICES: A plan for UAW success in the South
    By Joe Atkins, Labor South Back in May 2009, I wrote Cindy Estrada (now vice president) of the United Auto Workers a letter in response to her request for input about what might help the union to attain a stronger foothold in the South. The UAW's recent unveiling of a plan to devote $60 mill ...
  • Kentuckians show love for the mountains with h ...
    This Valentine's Day marks the fourth day of a historic sit-in at the Kentucky governor's office calling for an end to mountaintop removal. Meanwhile, thousands of Kentuckians are gathering outside in the state capital of Frankfort for the "I Love Mountains" march calling for an end to the envir ...
  • The truth about the Gulf's beaches (video)
    Incensed over BP ads claiming that the spilled oil is gone and the Gulf's beaches are clean, Hurricane Creekkeeper John Wathen of Alabama set out to document the truth. He's released a six-minute video of footage shot along the Fort Morgan Peninsula on Feb. 9, 2011: a familiar brown s ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Coal power's mercury menace
    Rank of coal-fired power plants among America's biggest sources of air pollution: 1 Of the five leading causes of death in the United States, number to which coal plant pollution contributes: 4 Number of U.S. water bodies impaired by mercury, a particularly toxic component of coal plant p ...
  • Glossing over the misdeeds of big business
    By Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest I was just beginning to recover from President Obama's dismaying speech at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce when I found myself in the middle of another effort to gloss over the misdeeds of big business. This occurred at the annual conference of the BlueGreen ...

Worldpress - Africa

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Ian Welsh

  • Elites continue to be mad for draining ordinar ...
    Simon Ward in the Financial Times argues that current inflation in the UK (running at 2.4% officially, or 2.75% by his estimates) represents “an overly-loose monetary policy stance” and requires the Bank of England to raise rates sooner than expected. Now, by any historical standards in periods ...
  • Rule for pundits: If you talk up cutting “enti ...
    And, on top of that, citing Catholic moral teachings to do so without mentioning teachings on just war (the Iraq war wasn’t and isn’t) or usury, which tie into your own social classes interests does not make you look honest.  As senior managing Principle and founder of “Sovereign Trends, LLC”, ...
  • Rule for pundits: If you talk up cutting &#822 ...
    And, on top of that, citing Catholic moral teachings to do so without mentioning teachings on just war (the Iraq war wasn’t and isn’t) or usury, which tie into your own social classes interests does not make you look honest.  As senior managing Principle and founder of “Sovereign Trends, LLC”, ...
  • Mubarak gone, military takes charge
    Good news, probably. We’ll see if they rein in the secret police and the various corrupt police stations which run semi-autonomously and engage in much of the rape and torture. Notice that this happened when the people marched on the presidential palace, and not before. Endgame here is probably ...
  • Mubarak gone, military takes charge
    Good news, probably. We’ll see if they rein in the secret police and the various corrupt police stations which run semi-autonomously and engage in much of the rape and torture. Notice that this happened when the people marched on the presidential palace, and not before. Endgame here is probably ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

  • Europe-wide patent advances
    It was expected, but still a relief for promoters of European innovation. Yesterday, the European Parliament voted in favour of a common EU patent system, under a so-called enhanced cooperation procedure. A common EU patent, valid in all EU countries, may sound like a common-sense idea. But a ...
  • Science falls short in anthrax investigation
    Posted on behalf of Gwyneth Zakaib When four letters containing anthrax killed five people and sickened 17 others in the United States in 2001, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) launched a massive effort to pinpoint the origin of the deadly spores. Nine years on, there is not enoug ...
  • US budget battle takes shape - extra
    US President Barack Obama faces a tough battle over his proposed budget for 2012. The plan, unveiled yesterday, makes a US$66.8-billion request for federal science spending, a 6% increase over current funding levels that backs up Obama’s call for continued investment in research, innovation and ...
  • Categorising all animals - a snip at over US$2 ...
    Posted on behalf of Ed Yong. How much would it cost to describe the entire animal kingdom? Well over US$200 billion, according to Fernando Carbayo and Antonio Marques from the University of Sao Paulo. Based on a survey of 44 Brazilian taxonomists (representing 9% of the country’s total), ...
  • Animal Research: Live Q&A
    In its 24 February issue, Nature will publish a News & Comment special examining the effects of anti-animal-research activism. On Friday 25 February at 4pm UK time, the author and editor of one of the stories will be fielding questions about the poll results and the special in an hour-long, live ...

new geography

  • Mortgage Meltdown: How Underwriting Went Under
    The White House remedies for the mortgage meltdown were presented on Friday. Congress will debate the life extension, death, or rebirth of federal mortgage entities Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac during the coming weeks. When the noise has died down, don't expect substantial change. But those wh ...
  • A Leg Up: World's Largest Cities No Longer Ho ...
    Throughout much of history, cities have served as incubators for upward mobility. A great city, wrote René Descartes in the 17th century, was “an inventory of the possible,” a place where people could lift their families out of poverty and create new futures. In his time, Amsterdam was that city ...
  • China Housing Market More Stable Than You May ...
    The sensationalist reporting of rising China tends to celebrate the country’s ascent. But there is one area where both economists and casual observers see a potential disaster: the real estate market.  Media reports of skyrocketing housing prices in first tier cities like Beijing and Shanghai ...
  • Regional Efficiency: The Swiss Model?
    Given that no one likes Switzerland’s banks, coo-coo clocks, high prices, smugness, dull cities, cheesy foods, or yodeling, I realize that it is too early to speak politically about “the Swiss Model.” But it needs to be pointed out that while the European Union evaporates and Homeland America g ...
  • Why Duany is Wrong About the Importance of Pub ...
    One of the news stories circling lately is an interview with Andres Duany where he asserts that public participation requirements are too onerous to enable great work to be done.� �Early in my career I worked as a public historian and historic preservation specialist, so rather than launch i ...

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  • Residential Energy Storage with Underground Fl ...
    A reader asked if I knew of a better way of storing energy for an off grid house than the ancient and familiar lead acid battery bank. Knowing that there really isn’t, I thought I’d try to be funny, so I said, “How about a big flywheel?” To my surprise, the guy wrote back and [...]
  • Deficit: Biggest Share of Economy Since 1945
    Via: AP: Not since World War II has the federal budget deficit made up such a big chunk of the U.S. economy. And within two or three years, economists fear the result could be sharply higher interest rates that would slow economic growth. The budget plan President Barack Obama sent Congress on M ...
  • DOE to Spend $27 Million on ‘Sun Shot&#8 ...
    ‘Sun Shot’, eh? Ok, let’s look at what was spent on the Apollo program: The final cost of project Apollo was reported to Congress as $25.4 billion in 1973. $25.4 billion in 1973 dollars would equal $123 billion in 2009 dollars (source). So, by allocating $27 million of today’s dollars to this ‘S ...
  • Argentina Seized Undeclared Weapons and Drugs ...
    Via: AFP: Argentina and the United States are engaged in a diplomatic spat after Buenos Aires authorities seized what they say are undeclared weapons and drugs on a US military aircraft last week. The Argentine government on Monday said it planned to lodge a formal protest with Washington, while ...
  • ‘Mubarak Falls Into Coma After Final Spe ...
    Let me guess: He’ll die and the majority of his looted billions won’t be found? Via: Al Arabiya: Egypt’s deposed president, Hosni Mubarak, went into a full coma on Saturday night at his residence in the Red Sea resort of Sharm al-Sheikh, an Egyptian newspaper reported on Monday, quoting well-inf ...

The Economic Collapse

  • Barack Obama’s Budget For 2012: A Comple ...
    Is Barack Obama trying to play a joke on all of us?  The budget that the Obama administration has submitted for fiscal 2012 is so out of touch with reality that it may as well be a budget for "Narnia", "Fantasy Island", "Atlantis" or some other mythical land.  You can view the h ...
  • 21 Signs That The Once Great U.S. Economy Is B ...
    Once upon a time, the United States was the greatest industrial powerhouse that the world has ever seen.  Our immense economic machinery was the envy of the rest of the globe and it provided the foundation for the largest and most vibrant middle class in the history of the world ...
  • Is Ben Bernanke A Liar, A Lunatic Or Is He Jus ...
    Did you see Ben Bernanke's testimony before the House Budget Committee on Wednesday? It was quite a show. Bernanke seems to believe that if he just keeps on repeating the same mantras over and over that somehow they will become true. Bernanke insists that the economy is getti ...
  • 10 Reasons Why It Has Become So Soul-Crushingl ...
    Have you been unemployed lately?  If so, then you probably know how frustrating it is to try to find a job in the United States today. It now takes the average unemployed worker about 33 weeks to find a job.  There are millions of Americans that have not been able to find a full ...
  • Find A Job? Good Luck In This Economy – ...
    The U.S. government is telling us that the unemployment rate fell all the way down to 9.0% in January.  Should we all cheer?  Is it now going to be a lot easier to find a job?  Has the economy finally turned around?  Are happy days here again?  Well, it is a good thing to have [ ...

Desertification

  • The spineless prickly pear cactus (Opuntia fic ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.thenational.ae/news/uae-news/farmers-serve-prickly-feast-to-livestock Farmers serve prickly feast to livestock Megan Detrie (Writer) The prickly pear cactus will soon be grown on UAE farms as a water-efficient food for animals. Known as Optunia ...
  • The “African Great Green Wall” (DN ...
    Read at : Announcement of the CSFD new report  on  the “African Great Green Wall” CSFD_FicheActualiteGMV_web CSFD_TopicBriefsGGW_lowres At the occasion of the Second Special Session of the Committee on Science and Technology of the UNCCD*,  the CSFD** launches a new … Continue reading →
  • Fruit Trees (Trees for Life)
    Read at : http://www.treesforlife.org/our-work/our-initiatives/fruit-trees Without them we would really be up a Tree . . . Our work is not because we think we can change the world; it is because we serve. When five, ten, or 15 people can work … Continue reading →
  • Nigeria : The steady march of the desert towar ...
    Read at : http://www.ngonewsafrica.org/?p=6140 Nigeria : The steady march of the desert towards the Atlantic Ocean Though politics has taken centre stage in Nigeriaâs national discourse and would remain so till after the April general elections, unusual happenings around the … Continue reading →
  • Organising women into groups and providing the ...
    Read at : http://www.new-ag.info/developments/devItem.php?a=1870 Woman organising to improve livelihoods With high year-round temperatures and a limited supply of ice and cold storage facilities at landing sites in the Gambia, a large proportion of fish caught by artisanal fishermen is smoked … ...

The Paper Trail

  • Federal Panel Says FBI Overstated Science Behi ...
    Federal investigators overstated the strength of the scientific evidence against a late Army researcher blamed for the anthrax mailings that killed five people in 2001, a panel of scientists said Tuesday after an 18-month review. However, the panel didn't contradict the FBI's conclusion that the ...
  • Budget Deliberations Silent on Medicare or Oth ...
    True fiscal hawks likely won’t find much to celebrate in this week’s budget machinations, talk of spending cuts aside. That’s because neither President Obama nor Congressional Republicans have much to say about cutting the entitlement programs that are driving the nation’s long-term debt problem ...
  • Judge Says Fannie Mae Whistleblower’s La ...
    As Congress begins to tackle the future of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-chartered mortgage giants that have been kept alive with $150 billion in taxpayer aid, a whistleblower lawsuit has been given the green light to proceed.
  • Data Confirms That Securitized Mortgages Less ...
    Government data analyzed by Federal Reserve economists shows what many home owners have already learned the hard way: Consumers have a much better chance of renegotiating a distressed mortgage if the original bank lender still holds it.
  • Grassley Targets Federal Charge Card Abuses
    Many federal employees have government-issued charge cards for work-related expenses, and a handful of workers are using taxpayer dollars to pay for entertainment, prostitutes, and gambling.

backofthebook.ca

  • Who is Bev Oda’s Con-sigliere?
    By Montreal Simon He rose in the House of Commons yesterday like a mob boss defending one of his gang members. While Bev Oda sat there wearing sunglasses, looking like her tongue had been cut out. But all I could see was the fear in his eyes, and his pudgy hands. And all I ...
  • McLuhan saw this coming
    By Dave Brindle Lost in all of the hum online about Egypt and the CRTC was that 2011 is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Marshall McLuhan. He was right. When I tweeted that, my friend Rod Mickleburgh of The Globe and Mail shot back: @davebrindleshow mcluhan was certainly right ...
  • Red, warm, and close to the heart
    By Jodi A. Shaw I’ve never been shy about my distaste for Valentine’s Day.   I don’t endorse or encourage celebrating it, I don’t accept Valentine’s Day gifts from anyone other than small children who have an innocent appreciation for the "holiday." Instead, every year I close my eyes, plug m ...
  • Sorry, PQ, but my BC is multilingual
    By Bev Schellenberg I see the Parti Quebecois are once again hammering BC for our perceived lack of French inclusiveness at last year's Winter Olympics. Boy, are they going to be mad when they hear about our new language curriculum. If proposed changes go through, French is about to become ...
  • Is Christy Clark the Sarah Palin of BC politic ...
    By Dave Brindle As one crusty but well-connected B.C. political observer DM'd me the other day, Christy Clark is not a deep thinker. Her chief rival to become leader of the B.C. Liberals and Premier, Kevin Falcon, may have had it right when he shot back at Ms. Clark's recent criticism of . ...

Worldnews

  • Banks 'had to know' of his fraud, inmate ...
    BUTNER, N.C. - Bernard Madoff said he never thought the collapse of his Ponzi scheme would cause the sort of destruction that has befallen his family. In his first interview for publication since his arrest in December 2008, Madoff maintained that family members knew nothing about his crime ...
  • Apple Offers Subscriptions for All iPad P ...
    8:31 p.m. | Updated Apple on Tuesday cleared the way for media companies to begin selling subscriptions to their magazine, newspaper, music and video content on the iPad and its other devices. But Apple is exacting a steep toll: 30 percent of the cost of the subscription and ownership of su ...
  • Chinese synchronised fish trick sparks co ...
    Chinese animal rights group call for a magic trick to be banned claiming fish have been implanted with magnets or are being controlled by harmful electric currents. 560 315 TelegraphPlayer-8327911 Magician Fu Yangdong appears to command the fish as they swim around a tank, and animal rights ...
  • China shores up North Korea with backdoor ...
    China is shoring up the North Korean regime with billions of dollars in backdoor trade deals that threaten to undermine UN sanctions imposed after the country's illegal missile and nuclear tests. Kim Jong Il (front left) and his son Kim Jong Un (front right) receive gifts from Chinese Minis ...
  • Japan suspends whaling operation
    A government official says Japan has temporarily suspended its Antarctic whaling operations after repeated disruptions by a conservation group. The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has been chasing the Japanese whaling fleet for weeks in the icy seas off Antarctica, trying to block Japan's ...

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Common Dreams

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

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DOE gives loan to Nevada US renewable transmission project
PennEnergy- Energy News (press release)
- Feb 16, 2011
- 3 minutes ago
The ON Line project, which is jointly owned by Great Basin Transmission South, LLC and NV Energy, consists of a new 500 kV AC transmission line that will carry about 600 MW of electricity, including from renewable energy resources, in northern Nevada. ...
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Datang Renewable Gains in Hong Kong on New `Buy' Rating From BNP Paribas
Bloomberg
- Feb 16, 2011
- 6 hours ago
Renewable Power Co., a developer of clean energy projects, rose after it was rated “buy” in new coverage at BNP Paribas. Datang Renewable shares gained 5.4 percent to HK$1.97 at the close on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, their biggest increase since ...
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Alteris Renewables Recognized for Excellence in Commercial Solar
PR Newswire (press release)
- Feb 16, 2011
- 1 hour ago
16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The top renewable energy integrator in the Northeast, Alteris Renewables, Inc., received an Intelegant Award for commercial solar installation from SunPower Corp, a leading manufacturer of the world's highest efficiency solar ...
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UK wind industry windfall to communities
Renewable Energy Focus
- Feb 16, 2011
- 2 hours ago
By Renewable Energy Focus staff It will be up to communities how the wind funds will be allocated. Maria McCaffery, CEO of RenewableUK, says: “The wind industry has voluntarily and with the full backing of key stakeholders and Government, ...
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Satellites can help create 'disease risk' maps
Salt Lake Tribune
- Feb 15, 2011
- 10 hours ago
The latest research, published in the journal Global Ecology and Biogeography, examined data collected from 2004 to 2006, when mice populations saw a three-fold increase but the prevalence of hantavirus remained constant, about 15 to 25 percent. ...
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Ecology of wetlands is topic at Cedar Bog this Saturday
Urbana Daily Citizen
- Feb 15, 2011
- 12 hours ago
In fact he considers Cedar Bog his first real investigation of fens, which sparked a life-long interest in this particular type of wetland ecology. Jim "retired" as a professor at Wright State University in December of 2009, but still maintains a lab ...
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Former Sentinel building in downtown Santa Cruz filling up after remodel
San Jose Mercury News
- Feb 11, 2011
- Feb 11, 2011
By Jondi Gumz -- Santa Cruz Sentinel The newly renovated offices of Ecology Action in Santa Cruz were open for tour on Friday afternoon. Tours of the New Sentinel building, which houses the nonprofit as well as several other businesses, were given to ...
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Gregoire names new head of Puget Sound Partnership
Seattle Times
- Feb 11, 2011
- Feb 11, 2011
O'Keefe joined the partnership last March after he worked at the Department of Ecology and for the Grant County Public Utility District. The agency was created in 2007 to clean up and protect Puget Sound.
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Calif. agency releases long-range Delta Plan draft
Bloomberg
- Feb 16, 2011
- 1 hour ago
(AP) — The first draft of a long-range plan to manage California's freshwater delta released by a state agency Tuesday did little to solve the state's historical conflict between groups fighting to strengthen the crumbling water system and protect the ...
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Dirty Water Actors in Congress
Natural Resources Defense Council (blog)
- Feb 16, 2011
- 1 hour ago
Case in point – although the Newt Gingrich-led Congress in the mid-90s tried in vain to pass the “Dirty Water Act” gutting the Clean Water Act notwithstanding broad public support for that law and the resources it protects, the House this week will ...
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Anschutz denies contaminating NY well water
Wall Street Journal
- Feb 15, 2011
- 8 hours ago
AP ALBANY, NY — A Denver-based energy exploration company says a lawsuit claiming its operations in southwest New York have contaminated drinking water with gas and silt is nothing more than "an act of financial extortion" by some lawyers trying to ...
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Barge grounded in S.F. Bay, leaks fuel
San Francisco Chronicle
- Feb 16, 2011
- 7 hours ago
A sand transportation barge sits in the water near the St. Francis Yacht Club after being intentionally run aground in San Francisco on Tuesday. The barge began taking on water and was run aground to prevent it from sinking in deeper waters. ...
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