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Thomas Paine

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

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

16 February - RSS SnapShot! Pt 2

King Abdullah of Jordan making a cameo appearanceImage via Wikipedia

Energy Collective

  • It's the Shoreham Syndrome, Not the China Synd ...
    Harvey Wasserman, a long time professional antinuclear energy campaigner, is once again on Huffington Post, claiming that the repeatedly announced increase in the nuclear loan guarantee program is a "giveaway." He is dead wrong on so many levels.
  • Does Jeff Lyng’s Rise in ASES Suggest Turnover ...
    The American Solar Energy Society (ASES) has named Jeff Lyng the new chairman of the board. Normally, this would not be breaking news in my world except that
  • President Obama's Budget Would Invest in Energ ...
    President Obama released his fiscal year 2012 budget proposal this morning, a solid endorsement of the necessity to increase public investment in energy innovation amidst proposals to indiscriminately cut discretionary spending across all federal programs.
  • Arctic Oil and Gas: The Emerging Question
    �What would happen if a Deepwater Horizon-type oil spill were to happen in the Arctic?� is a question Arctic coastal nations�have been asking themselves for almost a year now. It is important to stress that this is not a high-flown hypothetical.
  • Budget Roundup
    While I will always think the President could bring more political gravitas to energy policy, at least there's some interesting energy dynamics in the 2012 budget proposal released yesterday.

EU Times

  • Another Cyclone hits northern Australia
    A tropical cyclone Wednesday hit Australia’s northern city of Darwin, prompting authorities to issue evacuation notices and close the airport, a media report said. People have been told to prepare for a huge tidal surge late Wednesday, with dozens of homes already damaged by the cyclone Carlos, ...
  • Italy declares state of emergency over influx ...
    A state of emergency has been declared by the Italian government after 5,000 illegal immigrants fleeing riot-torn Tunisia arrived in just five days. Coastguard officials said that in just one 12-hour period 977 had arrived, with many more boats seen on radar screens approaching from north Africa ...
  • Obama reassures Jordan King of US support agai ...
    The president made a weekend call to Jordanian King Abdullah II to assure him of U.S. support, but also to say that Washington wants Jordan to move toward reform. With protests rocking the Middle East, the Obama administration is reaching out to King Abdullah II of Jordan, trying to reassure a b ...
  • China wealth linked to obesity
    Over the next few days, Al Jazeera will be looking at the impact of rising food prices around the world. With increasing wealth in China, expensive culinary tastes have grown in popularity. And as Al Jazeera’s Melissa Chan now reports from Beijing, it is also impacting waistlines. Related posts: ...
  • Russia: Destination Mars!
    A new word is launched in Russia: a Marsonaut. The six members of the simulation programme for a visit to Mars have started the third phase of the experiment, namely a Mars landing followed by the first Mars walk. The Russian flag now flies firmly and proudly on the Red Planet! Work is under way ...

Stonecipher News

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

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Americaâs murderer-diplomat in pakistan, a str ...
    NOVANEWS   FAISALABAD; SHUMALIA, WIFE OF FAHIM, ONE OF TWO MEN KILLED BY RAYMOND DAVIS (SUICIDE) DAVIS FOR AAFIA SWAP DEMANDED âEnclaves of Americans, CIA, Blackwater, âdiplomats,â are said to be all over Pakistan.  Webster Tarpley (video below) claims they are recruiting and training terrori ...
  • Social media on mobile phones: the future is c ...
    This week I’m at the Mobile World Congress , the annual jamboree for some 50,000 people from 200 countries whose livelihoods are focused on the device you probably wake up with, carry everywhere with you, and are more likely to miss than even your misplaced or stolen credit card: your mobile ph ...
  • ..and now ‘Raymond’s’ balsphemy
    'Raymond Davis' commits blasphemy in Kot Lakpat Jail Mr. “Raymond Davis” really doesn’t know where he is. He doesn’t realize that he is in jail. He has not come to the terms with the facts that he is in Pakistan and that he is not above the law. He is obviously very agitated and frustrated at b ...
  • Sorry, False Alarm: âCurveballâ Confesses He L ...
    From The Guardian (why don’t we see these stories in the U.S. media?) The defector who convinced the White House that Iraq had a secret biological weapons program has admitted for the first time that he lied about his story, then watched in shock as it was used to justify the war
  • Israel 2011 â Spiritual War
    Israel horoscope, astrology predictions for war in 2011. The revolution in Egypt and spreading unrest in the Arab world poses a threat to Middle East stability, and particularly to the hopes of peace for Israel. Pro-Western regimes around Israel are facing growing criticism from their citizens ...

Groklaw

  • Swingin' Stephen Elop confirms Nokia-MS deal i ...
    When we asked if, strategically, it was about sideswiping Apple as it doesn't tend to go after Microsoft, Elop said: "I'm not going to make any specific comments. But it is the case and was absolutely a topic of discussion, that Microsoft plus Nokia has a remarkably strong IP portfolio, and we w ...
  • NOKIA: Here's Why We Jumped Off The "Burning P ...
    Nokia's history of innovation in the hardware space, global hardware scale, strong history of intellectual property creation and navigation assets are second to none.... There are other mobile ecosystems. We will disrupt them. [PJ: Hmm. I wonder if there's a connection between those two sente ...
  • Virgin goes back to the manual after system cr ...
    This latest computer crash, which looks to be as serious as the 2010 fiasco, will place more question marks around the integrity and robustness of the .NET based Navitaire New Skies system which claims to be able to handle load spikes and scale easily as passenger volumes increase. - ITWorld
  • Why 'Watson' matters to lawyers
    Today, the amount of information available to lawyers is practically unmanageable. Because of the digitization of data and the ever expanding reach of the Internet, we now have easy access to an ocean of unstructured information: news stories, academic essays, technical documents, blog postings, ...
  • Fosdem 2011 Keynote Eben Moglen Part 1 of 3
    Keynote Eben Moglen at Fosdem 2011 bruxelles belgium - YouTube

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Just another stomach-turning coverup by the Ca ...
    Hundreds of children were raped and abused in Philadelphia and the monsignor in charge of investigating it instead shuffled priests around putting more children at risk. And of course they continue to stonewall. It occurs to me that the only accusations and convictions so far have been against p ...
  • Bill introduced to ban open carry of handguns ...
    What’s that you say? You didn’t even know open carry was legal in California? Why yes it is. The gun must be in clear view at all times and be unloaded. You may also legally carry ammo on a clip next to the holstered gun. You don’t need a license. (However, as one who lived [...]
  • US Postal Service may default
    Retiree health care benefits are a major part of the problem as is declining mail volume. Why mail a letter when you can email or text someone? They are threatening to default if Congress doesn’t allow them to put less than the mandated amount into their health care fund. This is a California-st ...
  • HBGary. Down the rabbit hole. And don’t mess w ...
    I’ve been remiss on posting about the escalating HBGary scandal. They’re a shadowy cybersecurity company who pitched clients like BofA on how they could destroy Wikileaks for them. Their CEO boasted they could take down Anonymous and instead the company got their head handed to them on a platter ...
  • Mubarak and senior military ordered protesters ...
    Robert Fisk on The Independent Mubarak ordered the Egyptian Third Army to crush the demonstrators in Tahrir Square with their tanks after flying F-16 fighter bombers at low level over the protesters. Many of the senior tank commanders could be seen tearing off their headsets – over which they ha ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • Egypt's reform process: What, who, and how?
    I am trying to follow-- from the very great distance of central Virginia, USA, what is happening regarding the very necessary and WAYS overdue process of political/constitutional reform and rebuilding that Egypt so desperately needs if the democracy revolution of the past few weeks is to be able ...
  • Quick notes for a quickly changing world
    1. Just 30 days ago, on January 14, I was making the 3.5-hour drive down from Charlottesville, VA to Greensboro, NC, for the Quaker conference held to mark the 50th anniversary of Pres. Eisenhower's prescient 1961 warning about the dangers of a 'Military-Industrial Complex' arising in the U.S. ...
  • Appeal on behalf of 'Bedouins' in Israel
    Amos Gvirtz, who was my generous host in his home at Kibbutz Shefayim two years ago, sends out a short weekly report on some current rights outrage committed by the government of Israel, under the title "Don't say you didn't know". His latest email is longer than usual and comes with a short but ...
  • D. Levy: Also too little, too late?
    Daniel Levy is an engaging and energetic young Brit-Israeli who first made a name for himself helping to organize those-- as it turned out ill-fated, and perhaps all along misguided?-- "Geneva Accords" and who in recent years has been making quite a splash at Washington DC's New America Foundati ...
  • Sweet victory! Many more steps needed!
    Nothing more to say right now. Am tweeting. And trying to work.... (On reflection, the title of yesterday's post should maybe have been "Death dance of the Co-dependents." But too morbid.)

First Truths

  • Renting Our Lives from the State
    Institutions like Bank of America, little more than arms of the state, have consumers of lending services over the barrel. I comment on Bank of America's settlement with Fannie and Freddie for C4SS.
  • Bribery, Thy Name Is Government
    For the Center for a Stateless Society I criticized governments for their amenability to bribes even while they prosecute the same.
  • The Greenspan Version of "Free Market"
    For the Center for a Stateless Society, I wrote: The related falsehoods — that Republicans favor anything remotely similar to a free market and that Democrats are all that standing between us and the GOP’s dog-eat-dog version of laissez faire — are belied by the fact that, as articulated by Kevi ...
  • Speed Bumps on the Information Superhighway
    For the Center for a Stateless Society, I raise objections to IP law and praise networks of free individuals within the context of Facebook.
  • Organized Crime Fights Organized Crime?
    At the Center for a Stateless Society, I write: The rudiment of anarchism's canon "no masters," its starting point, is an unambiguous attention to basic and widely-accepted moral values, not an involved, scholarly rationale but an affirmation of principles that almost all of us adhere to anyway. ...

Media Co-Op

  • Local Family of Five Faces Deportation to Paki ...
    Packed courtroom expected in support of Chaudhry family HALIFAX – A local family could learn tomorrow if they will be deported to Pakistan. Fakhira Chaudhry, Chaudhry Roouf Ahmad and their three children, Noor-Ul-Imaan, Rukhna Roouf, and M ...
  • Under the Volcano Episode 1
    FAIL (the browser should render some flash content, not this). � Highlights from the 2010 Under the Volcano festival in North Vancouv ...
  • Media Co-op Investor: February
    We Look at the Parts Which Make Up Magna Welcome to Media Co-op Investor! The Media Co-op Investor Series aims to help the general public understand the stock market, how it works and the major companies which benefit from it. Every two w ...
  • Love and War in the Congo
      Two local events bring a few snapshots of life in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), one of the world's most horrific conflict zones, to Halifax this African Heritage Month. The central African country has been the scene of resourc ...
  • The Problem with W2: Co-option through capital
    Selling Out: In various political movements (usually communists and anarchists), a "sellout" is a person or group pretending to adhere to a genuinely pro-working class ideology, only to follow t ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Is "freedom" just another word for nothing lef ...
    David Seaton's News Links There is a world, a universe, of pain in the following quote from the Financial Times: If you want something to get angry about, I wouldn�t look at tuition fees. I�d look at a little graph produced by Leon Feinstein of the Institute for Education, which shows tests of ...
  • Holbrooke and Assange: the end of empire and t ...
    Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori "You've got to stop this war in Afghanistan." The last words of Richard HolbrookeDavid Seaton's News LinksAmerica's most famous über-diplomat went out like an old Roman: his last words, lucid and noble, are worthy of the best moments that American history has ...
  • Wikileaks (virtual world) versus lynching the ...
    David Seaton's News LinksOn Saturday the 11th of December, about 50 people demonstrated in favor of Julian Assange in front of the US Embassy in London. The demonstration was organized on the Internet.� Two days before, in the same city, a crowd of rioting students nearly lynched the Prince of W ...
  • Freedom in America: as plain as the nose on yo ...
    Severe Concomitant Esotropia David Seaton's News LinksThe most obvious things are often the hardest to see: for example, without a mirror it is impossible to see the nose on your face... unless of course you suffer from severe concomitant esotropia, in which case you hardly ...
  • James Moody (1925 – 2010) Homage to a Jazz Mas ...
    The Durgafilms Dance Company interprets King Pleasure's canonical version of "James Moody's Mood for Love". (Image editing by David Seaton) David Seaton's News LinksThe Great Jazz saxophonist, James Moody just died three days ago. He is best known for his 1949 solo improvisation of "I'm in the ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

  • Obama Would Cut Subsidies to Wealthy Farms
    Contact: Contact EWG Public Affairs 202-667-6982 WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 – The Obama administration’s proposed 2012 federal budget released today targets several wasteful agriculture programs, including cutting $4.25 billion over 10 years from... [[ This is a content summary ...
  • House Republican Plan for EPA would Hurt Publi ...
    Contact: EWG public affairs 202.667.6982 or alex@ewg.org Washington, D.C. – Environmental Working Group (EWG) reaction to both the House Republican and Obama administration budget proposals for the Environmental Protection Agency. EWG... [[ This is a content summary ...
  • Cities Confirm EWG Tap Water Tests
    Contact: EWG Public Affairs 202-667-6982; leeann@ewg.org Washington, DC – Testing by four municipal drinking water suppliers has confirmed the results of a study by the Environmental Working Group that detected widespread contamination by... [[ This is a content summar ...
  • EPA Regulates Fuel Explosive in Tap Water
    Contact: EWG Public Affairs, 202-667-6982; leeann@ewg.org Washington, DC – Perchlorate, a common ingredient in rocket fuel and a potent thyroid toxin, will finally be regulated in drinking water, Environmental Protection Agency... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit ...
  • Congress Confirms Drillers Fracked with Diesel
    Contact: EWG Public Affairs, 202-667-6982; leeann@ewg.org Washington, DC -- The Environmental Working Group (EWG) commends the important investigation of hydraulic fracturing released today (Jan. 31) by U.S. Reps. Henry A. Waxman... [[ This is a content summary only. Vi ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Talking Mynah Bird
    This Mynah bird, rescued from death at the age of three days old, has become quite a conversationalist a year later.
  • Many High-Tech Health Interventions Unnecessar ...
    In recent years, over 20 percent of patients who received an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD, a device that regulates heartbeats) were not actually good candidates for the device. Researchers looked at more than 111,000 patients who received ICD implants. More than 25,000 did not me ...
  • Bonobos are Smarter than You Think
    Can these animals actually understand English?
  • The Type of Meat that's Full of Cancer-Causing ...
    Jenna Woginrich was a vegetarian for the bulk of her adult life, starting once she discovered the horrors of the brutal American factory farm system and its effects on the environment. Now, after a decade, she is a vegetarian no longer. Instead, she owns and operates a small farm where she raise ...
  • At Last You Can Opt Out of Receiving Yellow Pa ...
    The Yellow Pages Association has at long last opened a new site called the "National Yellow Pages Consumer Choice & Opt-Out Site." It contains sections such as "Download Our Sustainability Report" and "The Yellow Pages Directory Facts," but the important section is the opt-out one. All you need ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Alaskan mine site to be investigated following ...
    Open cast mines such as this one in West Papua have devastated local indigenous communities © Daniel Start/Survival A huge open-pit mine planned for Bristol Bay in south-west Alaska is to be investigated by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) following mass opposition from local i ...
  • Uncontacted Amazon Indians face annihilation
    An Awá man stands amidst the burnt remains of his tribe's forest © Fiona Watson/Survival A shocking report obtained by Survival International reveals that the home of the nomadic Awá tribe suffered more deforestation than any other indigenous territory in the Amazon in 2009. Around 60 t ...
  • Six indigenous children die of malnutrition in ...
    Wichí girls, Pilcamayo River, Argentina. © Survival International An eighteen-month-old Wichí boy was one of six indigenous children in the past week to die of malnutrition in Argentina’s northern province of Salta. Julián Darío Pérez was re-admitted to hospital having been discharged the ...
  • Indians call on Brazil’s President to halt Bel ...
    Amazon Indians protesting in Brasília against the Belo Monte dam © Amazon Watch Hundreds of people, including over 80 Amazonian Indians, gathered yesterday outside the Brazilian Congress and Presidential Palace to protest at the proposed Belo Monte dam in the Amazon rainforest. A delegat ...
  • Hundreds protest against Ecuador leader’s arre ...
    Pepe Luis Acacho, Shuar leader, Ecuador © Survival Pepe Luis Acacho, an indigenous Shuar leader, has been arrested just two days after he was chosen as leading candidate for the presidency of CONAIE, Ecuador’s main indigenous organization. Acacho was arrested along with two other Shuar men ...

Montreal Gazette

  • Let's get this train on the tracks
    Pointe Claire Mayor Bill McMurchie perhaps got slightly carried away when he described the projected new West Island commuter-train system as the equivalent of a metro line.
  • Quebecers have no reason to feel threatened
    Anglophones of Quebec, you can breathe easy. According to a new poll on French, bilingualism and Bill 101, your French-speaking compatriots no longer think you constitute the greatest threat to the survival of the French language in Quebec.
  • Quebecers have no reason to feel threatened
    Anglophones of Quebec, you can breathe easy. According to a new poll on French, bilingualism and Bill 101, your French-speaking compatriots no longer think you constitute the greatest threat to the survival of the French language in Quebec.
  • For Egyptians, now comes the hard part
    Looking at what lies ahead for Egypt, getting rid of Hosni Mubarak was probably the easy part. What the hundreds of thousands who joined the street protests demanded was Mubarak's departure and the establishment of true democracy in the country, as opposed to the sham democracy that prev ...
  • Quebecers have no reason to feel threatened
    The bad news is that the reason you're no longer a threat is because there are fewer of you and francophones have moved on to a new source of worry: multiculturalism.

Food World Order

  • epa to reduce fluoride levels in water due to ...
    from washington's blog: Today [jan7], the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a reduction in allowable fluoride levels in U.S. drinking water:HHS’ proposed recommendation of 0.7 milligrams of fluoride per liter of water ...
  • worst freeze in 60yrs wipes out crops across U ...
    from end of the american dream: Get ready to pay a lot more for produce at the supermarket. In early February the worst freeze in 60 years wiped out entire crops all across the southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico. Already, it has been reported that some U.S. supermarkets have doubled or even t ...
  • as oil and food prices rise, arab states buy u ...
    from green prophet: In response to the recent food riots in Algeria and Tunisia, and to rising oil prices (the price/barrel of crude is, once again, nearing $100) some Arab states (including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates) have been buying-up farm land in parts of Africa. In late 201 ...
  • 1/6 binge & purge: food banks, no-bids & drink ...
    millions in US heading to foodbanks for first time* usda certified organic's dirty little secret: neotame, from the makers of aspartame* food supply company, employing fmr head of defense contracting agency, wins $4b no-bid contract* pepsi puts an end to chewing by 'drinkifying' food* ...
  • 2/10 binge & purge: seeders, makers, actions
    secret seeders plant edible veggies for inner-city poor* raw milk cheesemakers fret over possible new rules* military steps in to buy up gulf seafood* high sugar prices stimulate neotame/nutrasweet take up* action: ask hhs to end US water fluoridation program* natural news launche ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • 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 [ ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • EUSSR: Call Me Dave's apparent candour (or cro ...
    Did you catch PMQs earlier today? If not, you must watch either via the BBC website or on BBC Parliament. Call Me Dave is seemingly entering 'eu-sceptic' mode. Firstly, prompted by Nicholas Soames (a man utterly loathed by this blogger for Diana related reasons), Call Me Dave blasted the n ...
  • On the English Defence League, the Labour betr ...
    I've just spent an interesting half hour or so watching both a Sky News interview and Newsnight profile of English Defence League leader 'Tommy Robinson' ahead of the EDL's protest which is apparently going to take place in Luton today. Both clips were featured by our blogging neighbour, The ...
  • Global economies, crashed by design?
    Going to post this very quickly, to clear these research tabs from my browser... and because it requires you to form your own narrative by connecting the dots. Last week, the Daily Telegraph reported that Dominique Strauss-Kahn of the IMF had "called for a new world currency". Now, this is ...
  • Quote of the Month (and it's only 4th February ...
    "Tribal loyalty is a mighty force, so on no account would I dismiss Bumptious as an opportunistic, turncoat laughing stock of a preposterously puffed-up buffoon who, in tandem with his insanely publicity-crazed soulmate, has achieved the unimaginable, by retroactively investing his predecessor M ...
  • Quote of the Day: David Cameron is a ***** edi ...
    Yet more calls from a pontificating Western leader for an orderly transition in Egypt to meet with the will of the people, marked with a chastisement that: "...the steps taken so far haven't met the aspirations of the Egyptian people." So said David Cameron, arriving at... a European Union ...

Facing South

  • Well-connected law firm involved in dirty-tric ...
    After whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks announced back in 2009 that it was planning to dump internal Bank of America documents to the web, the financial giant turned to the U.S. Department of Justice for advice, according to recently leaked e-mails. The DOJ reportedly referred the ban ...
  • 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 ...

CenterLine

  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Gitmo Detainee Pleads Guilty to Two  Charges in Plea Deal Noor Uthman Mohammed, a Sudanese detainee who has been at Guantanamo for nearly nine years, pleaded guilty to two charges Tuesday in a plea deal, according to reports. Noor, who … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    U.S. Charges Seven Men with Plot to Assist Taliban Seven men were charged in U.S. federal court in New York Monday with attempting to smuggle drugs into the United States for the Taliban and attempting to sell weapons to people … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Al-Awlaki Recording Criticizes U.S., Expresses Support for Jailed Yemeni Journalist A recording believed to be of Anwar al-Awlaki was posted to jihadist forums Sunday, according to reports. In it, al-Awlaki criticizes the Yemeni government for cooperating with the United States … Continue readin ...
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Report: Plea Deal for Gitmo Detainee May Be in the Works The Miami Herald reports that a pre-trial hearing for a Sudanese detainee held at Guantanamo that was scheduled for next week was abruptly canceled late Thursday, with the Pentagon … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Gitmo Detainee al-Qosi Has Sentence Reduced to Two Years The Pentagon announced Wednesday that the sentence of Guantanamo detainee Ibrahim al-Qosi, who pleaded guilty in July to war crimes including providing material support for al Qaeda, had been reduced to … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • LibreOffice 3.3 Released, Download Candidates ...
    LibreOffice 3.3 stable is released finally with enormous amount of bug fixes and other major improvements. OpenOffice has already become memory and LibreOffice is the new name for revolution. As Mark Shuttleworth himself stated�before, LibreOffice is already a default in ongoing Ubuntu Natty rel ...
  • Human Love, Probe - Two New Short Films Using ...
    Here comes even more movies and short films made using Blender for visual effects. For starters, Blender is a free and open source 3D content creation application. If you have seen the brilliant collection of Blender made videos we have featured here before, you probably don't need any more lect ...
  • Intel to Go Ahead With MeeGo Platform Without ...
    For beginners, MeeGo is a Linux based open source mobile operating system project which was announced at Mobile World Congress in February 2010 by Intel and Nokia in a joint press conference. With Nokia deciding to partner with Microsoft, the fate of Linux based MeeGo OS now hangs in balance. Or ...
  • London Stock Exchange(LSE) Now Runs on Linux!
    London Stock Exchange(LSE) has been testing its new Linux based core for sometime now and had recently set a new world record in trade speed using its new platform. The eventual adoption of Linux by London Stock Exchange(LSE) is now complete. The days of Microsoft .Net based TradElect platform a ...
  • Top 5 Bit Torrent Clients for Ubuntu
    Applications for Ubuntu/Linux are not at all in short supply. But picking the best from the rest is not an easy thing to do. There are a number of really good bit torrent clients for Ubuntu out there. Here we intend feature a collection of 5 really good bit torrent clients for Ubuntu which we th ...

Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

  • Bahrain Protests: Thousands Of Anti-Government ...
    Bahrain’s security forces fired tear gas and rubber bullets Monday at thousands of anti-government protesters heeding calls to unite in a major rally and bring the Arab reform wave to the Gulf for the first time. The punishing tactics by authorities appeared to foil plans for a mass gathering in ...
  • Jihadi who helped train 7/7 bomber freed by US ...
    By Shiv Malik An American jihadist who set up the terrorist training camp where the leader of the 2005 London suicide bombers learned how to manufacture explosives, has been quietly released after serving only four and a half years of a possible 70-year sentence, a Guardian investigation has lea ...
  • Does America Need an Egyptian-Style Non-Violen ...
    By WASHINGTON at washingtonsblog2.blogspot.com http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/02/does-america-need-egyptian-style-non.htmlYesterday, I pointed out that the the Egyptian protesters are acting more like the free people which America’s Founding Fathers envisioned than the American people ourse ...
  • Algeria shuts down internet and Facebook as pr ...
    By Nabila Ramdani 7:25PM GMT 12 Feb 2011 Plastic bullets and tear gas were used to try and disperse large crowds in major cities and towns, with 30,000 riot police taking to the streets in Algiers alone. There were also reports of journalists being targeted by state-sponsored thugs to stop repor ...
  • Fresh produce prices to double or triple follo ...
    By Mike Adams A theory of what’s happening I’m not going to go into all the details here, but from what I’ve been reading and researching about a number of seemingly-unrelated events, some clues that might explain their commonality begin to emerge. It all seems to lead to the theory that this is ...

Veterans Today

  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News
    Veterans!  Hereâs your Top 10 News stories of the day compiled from the latest sources We encourage you to browse our list so that you can take what you want and keep what you needâ¦.. Dominguez, Henderson to Lead “Pivotal” Task Force.  The former chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity ...
  • STUART LITTLEWOOD : Maybe Gaza should paddle i ...
    And who can blame them? Last time, I hear, President Abbas and his gruesome crew wouldn’t allow Hamas to contest the elections under their own party name… and they still lost, went into a sulk, turned quisling and deeply shamed the Palestinian people.
  • GORDON DUFF: CAUGHT! FOX NEWS-RON PAUL MEDIA ...
    MEDIA GIANT FALSIFIES COVERAGE OF REFORMER Pro-War Network Switches Video, Cuts Cheers, Inserts Booing By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Fox News, the network of Hannity, Beck, O’Reilly and Limbaugh, the voice of Wall Street (they own the Wall Street Journal) and the Israeli lobby, was c ...
  • A Viable Solution for the Afghan Problem
    By Khalil Nouri STAFF WRITER / EDITOR The success of scientific methodology is due primarily to its objectivity. In politics, unfortunately, there is little objectivity and a lot of emotion that makes visibility of reality on-the-ground very difficult. The unprecedented terrorist act of 9/11 by ...
  • CIA, Pentagon Knew “Enhanced Interrogation” Wa ...
    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.”

electric politics

  • Scientia Potentia Est
    Anybody in the U.S. who wants higher education should be able to have it. Preferably, for free. But that's not how the system works... What a waste! Nevertheless, good things are happening. For some inspiration from the community college level I turned to the maverick educator Wick Sloane. God ...
  • An American Criminologist
    It's one of those things that everybody seems to know but nobody puts into words, until somebody does. Jonathan Simon, in his award winning book Governing Through Crime, observes that American ideas about criminal justice are not only out of kilter but have metastasized into almost every area o ...
  • American Puppet Theater
    I hope that voters boycott the Democrats in November, to send a message to Washington about make-believe politics. And if you think about it, voting is not your only civic duty — there's plenty to do at the local level, often to greater effect. Sam Smith, of the Progressive Review, helps keep o ...
  • The Truth Is Out There
    Forever, it seems like, unidentified things have been flying around in the skies. UFO deniers claim everything can be explained — that nothing is really out of the ordinary — but that's factually incorrect. In her recent book on UFOs Leslie Kean takes a "militantly agnostic" position in advocat ...
  • What is Religion Good For?
    In international comparisons, poverty is correlated with religiosity while wealth is correlated with secularism. Except in America — where as is true for so many other critical social metrics we are an extreme outlier. But just how out of sync have churches become? To find out I turned to the R ...

PR News

The Story Behind the Story

  • QDDR — Comrade Clinton’s Globalist ...
    On Wednesday, February 2, 2011, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton convened the “first-ever” QDDR Meeting at Washington D.C.   This involved bringing in MOST of the 260 U.S. “Ambassadors” (now referred to as “Global Chiefs of Mission” by Clinton) at an unknown cost to taxpayers.  ...
  • Sarah “Airhead” Palin Does it Agai ...
    Comic Relief: Sarah Palin on Egypt Robert Dreyfuss | February 6, 2011 Sarah Palin, in her first comments on Egypt, managed to make no sense at all. None. I especially liked her “not, not real enthused about what it is that that’s being done [in DC].” Here’s the full quote, which sounds like it w ...
  • ABC News On Davis’ Pakistan Story vs. &# ...
    The only real difference in these stories, to me,  is the “Project Northwoods” twist and of course the nuclear and/or biological weapons-to-be-deployed allegations, which are unsupportable, of course. Keep in mind that Davis shot 7 times and killed the two Pakistanis.  It is not known how the ...
  • OPERATION NORTHWOOD? Could this be reason for ...
    � CIA Spy Captured Giving Nuclear Bomb To Terrorists Posted by EU Times on Feb 11th, 2011 While all eyes in the West are currently trained on the ongoing revolution taking place in Egypt, Russia�s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) is warning that the situation on the sub-continent has turned �g ...
  • Judge Roll Murder Motive? You Decide!!
    John McCarthy Roll was a federal judge for the United States District Court for the District of Arizona. He joined the court in 1991 after being nominated by President George H.W. Bush. Roll was shot and killed on January 8, 2011, in Tucson, Arizona, in a SUPPOSEDLY random shooting by a crazed, ...

k2p blog

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Borders Turns The Page To Chapter 11
    We knew this was going to happen, and now it has come to pass: Borders has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and plans to shutter 30% of its stores as a result. Click here for the list of stores to be closed. "It has become increasingly clear that in light of the environment of curta ...
  • Going Green Doesn't Always Mean Plugging In Wh ...
    You don't have to buy a car that plugs into an outlet to be green or run on batteries, says a new scorecard of the most eco-friendly vehicles on the road. The American Council for an Engery-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) released a list of its picks, including the natural gas Honda Civic GX at the ...
  • At Casual Male XL, Everyone Wins The Super Bow ...
    Reader Brian has made an amazing discovery. The clothing company Casual Male XL exists in a heartwarming yet incredibly boring alternate universe where there is no victor in the Super Bowl. Everybody wins!
  • Economy Hammers Quickie Vegas Wedding Industry
    At any given moment, the Las Vegas Strip is strewn with gown-wearing brides and unshaven grooms with befuddled, what-have-I-done looks on their faces. But tough economic times have brought the population of these leap-before-you-lookers down to its lowest level since 1993. The AP reports the 9 ...
  • Restaurant Seats Us, Then Kicks Us Out For Bei ...
    When you're late for your restaurant reservation, it's well within the establishment's rights not to seat you at all, or to make you wait until after customers who actually showed up on time are settled at their tables. Steven writes that he showed up late for his reservation on Valentine's Day ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

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

UK Progressive

  • The Obama Budget: And Why the Coming Debate Ov ...
    President Obama has chosen to fight fire with gasoline. Republicans want America to believe the economy is still lousy because government is too big, and the way to revive the economy is to cut federal spending. Today (Sunday) Republican Speaker John Boehner even refused to rule out a government ...
  • You Can’t Make This Stuff Up – House Republica ...
    The Subcommittee on Energy and Power held a hearing titled “The Energy Tax Prevention Act of 2011” on Wednesday, February 9th, to discuss draft legislation, authored by Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitefield (R-KY), to prevent the EPA from implementing a cap-and-trade ...
  • Never Give Up. One Woman Makes a Difference fo ...
    The children call her Mrs. Chocolate because of her lifelong love of it. Each child revels in that joyous moment after summer’s term break, especially when entering Year 6, for that day they can stand heel-to-heel and back-to-back with her to see if they finally attained the same height or just ...
  • The Monday Line – CPAC Right Wing Freak Show. ...
    While most of the sane world celebrated the past astonishing 18-days leading to 80-million Egyptian people crying for and winning their freedom peacefully, the wing nuttier side of the world just doubled down on the crazy at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washingto ...
  • Incredible PSA From NASA – The Open Road Still ...
    As only those who have explored other worlds and life outside the confines of earth can do, comes this stunning PSA for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Damewse transforms Michael Marantz’s original video EARTH: The Pale Blue Dot, with its beautiful Carl Sagan reading ...

NewsAlert

  • From Prison, Madoff Says Banks ‘Had to Know’ o ...
    The New York Times reports: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 since his arrest in December 2008, Mr. Madoff — looking noticeably thinner and rumpled in ...
  • Decline in real estate sales greater than stat ...
    Instapundit
  • Pennsylvania Employees Fired in Clinic Inquiry
    The New York Times reports:Gov. Tom Corbett of Pennsylvania said Tuesday that several state workers had been fired and the state’s abortion clinics would be subjected to stricter oversight as a result of an investigation into a Philadelphia clinic where, according to the district attorney, a wom ...
  • BABs Would Return Under Obama Plan
    The Bond Buyer reports:The $3.7 trillion fiscal 2012 budget proposed by President Obama Monday would permanently reinstate an expanded Build America Bond program but at a lower 28% subsidy rate. It also would simplify arbitrage restrictions, expand the smaller-issuer arbitrage rebate exemption, ...
  • Fox News Suggests Mayor Daley Didn't Run Chica ...
    Chicago Mayoral Candidates Debate Pensions, Valentines Day Plans: MyFoxCHICAGO.com

JoNova

  • Announcing a formal request for the Auditor Ge ...
    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. The BOM claim their adjustments are “neutral” yet Ken Stewart showed that the trend in the raw figures for our whol ...
  • Time for a new rigorous Association of Scienti ...
    Below is the O so apt resignation of  Steven J. Welcenbach from the American Chemical Society (ACS). In it he describes how the largest scientific society in the world has become a non-scientific activist group bowing to political pressure and ignoring it’s members objections. Such is his ire a ...
  • There are signs the wheel is turning.
    In the US there are significant moves at the highest levels to limit the carbon related power-grab.  (Thanks to SPPI for the heads-up.) Perhaps this is the point where the 2010 election results start to spoil the grandiose plans that once looked inevitable? Maybe democracy can save the day? Hous ...
  • Garnaut: spend billions! Why? So they don’t sa ...
    Gillard condemns us to the carbon tax plan (commencing 1 July 2012), and the future emissions trading plans (2015), setting Australia up to be the last dumb-patsy-standing as the rest of the world heads the other way and bails out of the carbon facade. Australia must immediately pour billions in ...
  • “Climate committee” is a government advertisin ...
    The Government says it wants a “climate expert” to sell the message to the public, and who do they pick? A small mammal expert whose predictions on the climate are so wrong any normal person would slink off in shame. But not Flannery, the Teflon prophet, reality doesn’t stick to him.  How can i ...

ReNew America

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

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

  • X-Flare, CME Heading Towards Earth
    This just in from SpaceWeather.com: Sunspot 1158 has unleashed the strongest solar flare in more than four years. The eruption, which peaked at 0156 UT on Feb. 15th, registered X2 on the Richter scale of solar flares… X-flares are the strongest type of solar flare, and this is the first such eru ...
  • The Royal Society Laughs at 2012
    A few days ago, the highly-regarded Professor Jocelyn Bell Burnell gave a Royal Society lecture about the sham that is 2012. You can watch it online: http://royalsociety.org/The-end-of-the-world-in-2012/ Now for some criticisms! You have to wonder about a scientist who doesn’t understand how se ...
  • Sun-Moon-Earth Magnetic Relationship
    For most people, the moon is a lump of barren rock that provides us with moonlight, and is the cause of tides. Along with that, we know that gravity is less on the moon, allowing astronauts to take floating steps. Few people know that our moon has a magnetic field, just like the Sun and [...] ...
  • Another Icelandic Volcano Threatens
    This time the volcano is called Bárdarbunga, and a scientist has warned that the odds of it erupting are high. If it does, it could be substantially worse for Europe than Eyjafjallajökul which erupted in 2010, creating air traffic chaos: … there was “every reason to worry” as the sustained ear ...
  • Chinese Air Raid Shelters / LHC in 2012 / Mzor ...
    This CNN video lets us know that there are lots of Chinese folk living in old, underground shelters. The question – is this a sign that the Chinese Govt. deems shelters unnecessary, or is it true that they plan on evicting the residents? http://edition.cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2011/02/07/yoon ...

Facing South

  • Well-connected law firm involved in dirty-tric ...
    After whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks announced back in 2009 that it was planning to dump internal Bank of America documents to the web, the financial giant turned to the U.S. Department of Justice for advice, according to recently leaked e-mails. The DOJ reportedly referred the ban ...
  • 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 ...

One News Page

  • Obama has quit smoking, says Michelle
    President Obama has quit smoking and has not had a cigarette in almost a year, his wife, Michelle Obama, said on Tuesday.
  • CPI (M) slams PM over coaltion politics remark ...
    New Delhi, Feb 16 (ANI): Senior Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Sitaram Yechury on Wednesday criticized the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, over his comments that the coaltion politics was being a hindrance to governance.
  • Global celebrity culture fuelling 'fear of ins ...
    London, Feb 16 (ANI): A university psychologist has warned that the global celebrity culture is adding fuel to the 'fear of insignificance' by undermining one's self-image and sense of self-worth.
  • China's 'naked officials' to be subjected to m ...
    New Delhi, Feb 16 (ANI): A senior discipline official in China has revealed that 'naked officials', the name given to public servants whose wives have taken residence abroad and who are suspected to be more prone to corruption, will soon be subjected to more scrutiny.
  • Lady Gaga had designers up all night for Gramm ...
    London, Feb 16 (ANI): Pop icon Lady Gaga caused her fashion designers to stay up all night preparing costumes for her Grammy performance.  The singer threw her design team into a panic in the run-up to her performance at the Grammy Awards - as she scrapped all the costumes two days before the .. ...

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

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

BlogHer

  • The BlogHer '11 Agenda. Step One: The Prelimin ...
    Today we are excited to announce that most of the break-out sessions have been added to the BlogHer '11 online agenda. As we explained in our call for ideas, these break-outs are just one segment of programming at BlogHer, but they are an important one! Here are the components, including what we ...
  • A Month of Movies: What's Your Favorite Quirky ...
    Every day during February 2011, we'll be talking movie reviews, celebrities, Oscar nominations, awards shows, DVDs you need to rent + more. Sign up to get A Month of Movies in your inbox each week in February -- and see all the movies in the series. **************************** From the quirk ...
  • Aasiya Hassan: To Him She Belongs And To Him S ...
    I�ve been thinking about Aasiya Hassan non-stop for two days. All I know about her is this: She was a Pakistani-American, a mother of two small children, a Muslim, a co-owner of a television station, and the victim of a horrific murder at the hands of her abusive husband. He was convicted yest ...
  • (VIDEO) Serene Branson at the Grammys: A Strok ...
    Editor's Note: Anissa Mayhew suffered a massive stroke in November 2009. Read Rita Arens' interview with Anissa about the stroke and her subsequent coma and long fight back to recovery. Anissa's post reflects the brevity with which she now types, one-handed. It was a night of musical performanc ...
  • How Dangerous Are Over-The-Counter Painkillers ...
    It has become second nature for most of us to self medicate our headaches, joint pain, and athletic injuries with over-the-counter pain medications. Many of us may have even been directed to do so by a physician. But how safe are over-the-counter painkillers? It's easy to forget that just be ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Veterans Finding New Life In Organic Farming
    “The military is not for the faint of heart, and farming isn’t either,” said Michael O’Gorman, an organic farmer who founded the nonprofit Farmer-Veteran Coalition, which supports sustainable-agriculture training. “There are eight times as many ...
  • Little Pharma: The Medication of U.S. Children
    From asthma medications to antipsychotics, children are a big market for the pharmaceutical industry and they are making a killing as now one in four children is taking medication regularly.  That is an incredible figure ...
  • Morningland Cheese Trial Update
    During the fall of 2010, the small family farm that has produced raw cheese for 30 years with a perfect record, was one of the many raw milk producers that were targeted by the FDA. ...
  • Energy Saving Light Bulbs ‘could trigger ...
    The push to switch over to Compact Florescent Light (CFL) bulbs is facing a mighty backlash from consumers, health experts and environmentalists. As part of the governments “Green Revolution” campaign, Congress has passed legislation that requires the ‘energy-saving’ ...
  • Health Authorities Want Depression-Causing Dru ...
    As if flouride and hexavalent chromium in public water supplies aren’t bad enough, health authorities are now pushing for the addition of drug statins as well. Drug companies claim that statins will lower cholesterol and prevent ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Oh, Sen. Manchin … about those coal subs ...
    We had some fun two weeks ago asking the question, Does Sen. Manchin really think coal doesn’t get ‘a penny of subsidies’? Well, now it seems that President Obama is interested in making it so. As my buddy Peter Gartrell reported for Platts: The coal industry stands to lose nearly $2.6 billion ...
  • GOP budget riders aimed at blocking Obama on c ...
    Republicans in the House are hoping to derail some of the Obama administration’s initiatives regarding the coal industry by attaching “riders” to a government funding bill that is being debated this week on the House floor. One proposed amendment by Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Fla., would block EPA f ...
  • MSHA releases statement on new district office
    As explained in our print story this morning — and a nice post by Howard Berkes on the NPR blog, The Two-Way, MSHA chief Joe Main and Labor Secretary Hilda Solis couldn’t be bothered to answer questions yesterday about the Obama budget proposal for a new MSHA district in Southern West Virginia. ...
  • Kentucky protest ends with rally
    Part of a group calling themselves Kentucky Rising leave the state capitol building, Monday, Feb. 14, 2011, where they had occupied the governor’s offices since Friday to greet the I Love The Mountains Rally in Frankfort, Ky. From left to right is Doug Doerrfeld, Patty Wallace, Terri Blanton, W ...
  • Obama proposes more money for MSHA
    President Obama’s budget for the 2012 financial year that starts Oct. 1 includes increased funding for protecting the health and safety of our nation’s coal miners. According to this summary of Obama’s proposal for the Department of Labor, the budget would increase spending on the U.S. Mine Saf ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Can someone please explain this optical illusi ...
    Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsThis is my Favorite PictureOverlooking SFCouldn’t Care LessFlower at COIT TowerThree Flowers at COIT Tower
  • The Noisebridge Hackerspace in SF
    via youtube.com I just attended this month’s Bay Area OWASP meeting here. Utterly and completely brilliant. This is a major part of why I moved home to the Bay Area. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsOWASP AppSensorJan-Ove Waldner ServesAnd Now I Give You Technovi ...
  • The Khanacademy.org Overview
    via singularityhub.com Wow, these new features are simply stunning. This man is at the very top of my respect list. Just brilliant. Think of what this single person is doing for the benefit of the world. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsForget IQ, Collective Inte ...
  • The Khan Academy IS the Future of Education | ...
    Salman Khan has taken a simple idea, YouTube videos that explain math, and transformed it into the future of education. I’m just going to come out and say it: the Khan Academy is the best thing that has happened to education since Socrates. The brainchild of Salman Khan, the Khan Academy became ...
  • The Coffee Trinity is Complete
    via amazon.com Above is an image of our new coffee/water-heating solution: the Zojirushi CV-DSC40 VE Hybrid Water Boiler and Warmer. It’s an alternative to a coffee maker that obviously does this step for you, and also to a traditional teapot. A few friends have one, and I spent some time resear ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

  • Mike Huckabee Hates Abortion
    Mike sez it’s more important than war, the economy, global oppression, genocide, corruption, etc. etc. Huckabee: Abortion issue trumps all | CNN Several likely GOP presidential candidates have spent the bulk of their time stressing fiscal and economic issues, but Mike Huckabee said Monday that ...
  • Cheesehead Governor Set To Destroy Public Unio ...
    A ‘Dictator’ Governor Sets Out to Cut Wages, Slash Benefits and Destroy Public Unions | The Nation Wisconsin Governor Scott Walkerâs proposal to strip public employees of most collective bargaining rights, cut pay and gut benefits without any negotiation represents the most radical assault yet b ...
  • DOJ Involved with BOA in Plot To Make Wikileak ...
    Spy Games: Inside the Convoluted Plot to Bring Down WikiLeaks | Wired 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, thi ...
  • Berlusconi: He’s No Don Corleone
    Silvio Berlusconi: Sex charge trial to begin in April | BBC Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi has been indicted to stand trial on charges of paying for sex with an under-age girl and abuse of power. Examining judge Cristina Di Censo said the process would start on 6 April, after prosecutors in Milan ...
  • “We’re Poisoned. We’re Sick. ...
    by: Dahr Jamail and Erika Blumenfeld, t r u t h o u t | Report Residents who live along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, all the way from Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, to well into western Florida, continue to tell me of acute symptoms they attribute to ongoing exposure to toxic chemicals being ...

reference frame

  • Poland, EU are joining the shale gas revolutio ...
    Shale gas is natural gas (NG) produced from shale i.e. from finely grained sedimentary rock composed of mud, flakes, and fragments of minerals. Czech readers may want to know that "shale gas" is "plyn z břidlic", something we don't usually talk about. ;-) Benny Peiser has di ...
  • Japan: we wasted ¥6.55 trillion for 214 failed ...
    Today, we learned that based on the 2010 GDP figures, China overtook Japan as the world's second largest economy. It may be pretty unlikely for Japan to return to its place because the current mess in the land of the rising Sun seems pretty remarkable. Japan Times just announced ...
  • Nerdy girls need love too
    Amy Lee Radigan (British Columbia) has recorded a song that became a kind of hit. 160,000 views in three weeks is not bad. Sheldon Cooper and sonic screwdriver are among the guys she has a crush on. ;-) She's recording a CD that will be available in April via amylee ...
  • Magnetic pole: motion sped up by 800 percent
    The North Magnetic Pole is the place on Earth where the magnetic field has a vertical direction. This place doesn't coincide with the Geographic North Pole, linked to the axis of the Earth's spin. Because the Earth doesn't carry any significant electric charge, there's no God-given law ...
  • The Nazi father of global warming apocalypse
    We often think about environmentalism as a left-wing ideology. However, the mass-organized environmentalism can only be invariantly identified as a totalitarian ideology; whether it is left-wing or right-wing is somewhat flexible. In the article The Roots of Environmentalism, I have di ...

No Frakking Consensus

  • An IPCC History Lesson
    A full 13 years before the IPCC was born its first chairman seems to have already decided that fossil fuels affected the climate so adversely their use would need to be curtailed.
  • It Isn’t a Conspiracy – It’s ...
    If much of the world were to snap out of it and realize that global warming has been over-hyped, large companies in wealthy and influential sectors of the economy would lose hundreds of billions.
  • How Do You Say ‘Independent’ in Au ...
    Any government body headed by eco-campaigner Tim Flannery cannot possibly be considered "independent".
  • Bill McKibben’s Bad Example
    Those seemingly nice people brimming with such concern for the planet are actually profoundly intolerant.
  • Michael Crichton’s Legacy
    The late Michael Crichton drew our attention to the startling lack of rigour in climate science when compared to drug testing.

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • Lieberman Crafts Internet Kill-Switch Legislat ...
    In case you haven’t read about this already, those of you in the U.S. may be interested to know that a new congressional bill to enable an Internet Kill Switch for the U.S. has been crafted by Senator Joseph Lieberman (I-Connecticut), Susan Collins (R-Maine), and Tom Carper (D-Delaware). Yes, th ...
  • Stunning Asteroid Video
    Staying with the topic of Asteroids, (16 New Asteroids to Fly By Earth), the following visualization and realization that the planet Earth is revolving in the middle of an asteroid shooting gallery is an eye opening experience to see. Where do most asteroids come from? Most asteroids come from a ...
  • 16 New Asteroids to Fly By Earth
    An Asteroid striking the earth is seen in science fiction. An asteroid striking the earth is also scientific fact. There are craters clearly visible all over the moon, and there are many such craters here on earth. NASA’s Near Earth Object Program currently lists 80 NEO’s (near-earth-objects, as ...
  • How to Put Out a Grease Fire
    Fire needs three things to burn. Heat, Oxygen, and Fuel. A fire will keep growing until one of those is removed. The safest way to extinguish a grease fire burning in a pan is to remove the oxygen. In the following order, Put on oven mits to protect your hands. Grab the lid that fits [...]
  • Staring Down the Barrel at Sunspot 1158
    Do you like staring down the barrel of a gun? This is a fairly good analogy for what the Earth is facing at this moment, as sunspot region 1158 points directly at the planet. Dr. Tony Philips of spaceweather.com calls the region, “Behemoth”. “The active region is now more than 100,000 km wide wi ...

Fast Company

  • Coal Costs the U.S. $500 Billion Annually in H ...
    A report from Harvard researchers in this month's Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences will reveal that coal use costs the U.S. between a third and over half a trillion dollars each year in health, economic, and environmental impacts.Coal is the most popular electricity-generating fuel, ...
  • Whoops! Did Intel Just Leak the New MacBook Pr ...
    We think Apple's on the verge of updating its MacBook Pro line of laptops, but Intel may have let the cat out of the bag early with an image in an ad. Skinnier? Check. Optical drives? Gone (probably).Intel's just popped up with a new advert for "the 2nd generation of Intel Core processors" and a ...
  • Facebook, Twitter, and Foursquare Could Learn ...
    MXit spends enormous resources encouraging its users to become more educated, healthier, and, most recently, better citizens. MXit, a popular mobile messaging client that reaches an astounding 40% of South Africans, has an aggressive corporate social responsibility program that US-based socia ...
  • World Wide Wapner: JabberJury.com Is "The Peop ...
    Launching today, JabberJury's like Court TV, Hot or Not, YouTube and your favorite social media site all rolled into one easy way to make your case and settle it with a crowd.What guy hasn’t wanted to defend a bad call on his favorite sports team- or from his significant other? Or a teenager who ...
  • Clinton: We're Not Hypocrites Because We Conde ...
    In her second major speech on Internet freedom, the Secretary of State explains why she can both advocate for online government transparency and slam WikiLeaks.In her second major speech on Internet freedom Tuesday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the U.S. government was not being hypocr ...

Jadaliyya

  • Egypt, Tunisia, and 'The Resumption of Arab Hi ...
    The recent popular uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt attest above all to the indomitability of the human spirit, and the extraordinary capacity of collective action to bring out the very best in humanity. In these respects the daring, creativity, discipline, resolve, perseverance and euphor ...
  • King Abdullah Announces a Discount for Dictato ...
    Two Arab dictators are out of the game, but there are others. Here is a cartoon by Khalil Bendib about possible efforts to accomodate future ex-presidents. �
  • Tunisia, Egypt, Lebanon?
    We are living in extraordinary times. 2011 Egypt, in hindsight, will be seen as just as, if not more, �historic� as �the 1952 coup. This precedent and others should that this revolution is not the instantiation of thepolitical awakening of a �stagnant� part of the world, and nor was it b ...
  • Why Tahrir Infuriates the Neo-Cons
    Everywhere you turn, Niall Ferguson is berating Obamaâs âmuddlingâ of Egypt. Heâs blogging on The Daily Beast, spewing angrily on MSNBCâs Morning Joe, and inaugurating his new column in Newsweek with a cover story blasting Obama. Tahrir Square is the neo-consâ worst nightmare… And Fergus ...
  • The Architects of the Egyptian Uprising and th ...
    On February 11, 2011, President Mubarak finally resigned, less than 24-hours after he refused the protestors demand âGo Mubarak Go!â that has been echoing across Egypt for the past two weeks.   The euphoria that swept the protestors gathered in Tahrir Square cannot be described in words: ...

mediagazer

  • Panelists Tout Addressable Ads As Industry's ' ...
    Andrea Morabito / Broadcasting & Cable: Panelists Tout Addressable Ads As Industry's ‘Holy Grail’  —  But with implementation years off, 2011 will be the year of interactivity  —  New York — While the “holy grail” of advertising, addressable television, may be years off from becoming mainstream ...
  • Want To Buy Into A Hollywood Movie? Now You Ca ...
    Michael Arrington / TechCrunch: Want To Buy Into A Hollywood Movie?  Now You Can  —  A company called Audience Productions has filed to go public with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and are selling $10/share preferred stock to people who want to invest in the movie they're creating.  ...
  • Exclusive: Facebook Grabs Microsoft Global Ad ...
    Kara Swisher / BoomTown: Exclusive: Facebook Grabs Microsoft Global Ad Head Carolyn Everson  —  Apparently, it's not only in Google's pond where Facebook fishes for talent-the social networking giant has recruited Microsoft's global advertising head Carolyn Everson as one of its top sales exec ...
  • Freedom Communications releases social media p ...
    Jim Romenesko / Poynter: Freedom Communications releases social media policy to staff  —  Romenesko Misc.  —  The Orange County Register parent says it “encourages its associates to participate in these [social] media as a means of generating interest in the Company's products and services and ...
  • Apple's Subscription Rules Raise Possible Anti ...
    Nathan Koppel / Wall Street Journal: Apple's Subscription Rules Raise Possible Antitrust Issues  —  Apple Inc.'s new subscription service could draw antitrust scrutiny, according to law professors.  —  Apple will allow magazines, newspapers and other publishers to sell subscriptions of varying ...

Chemtrail News

  • Podcast of the Groundbreaking Chemtrail ...
    Podcast of the Groundbreaking Chemtrail/ Geoengineering Radio Broadcast That ... The Sheeple are hearing about chemtrails! The usually censored radio waves ...dailypaul.com/.../podcast-of-the-groundbreaking-chemtrail-ge...
  • New Zealand Government connects chemtrails< ...
    According to an article in infonews.co.nz, the formation of chemtrails allegedly originate from aerosols which do not disappear like the usual vapour ...www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread662197/pg1
  • EPA meets with Chemtrail Activist
    Bob Tuskin meets with his local EPA officials to discuss the dangers of Geo- Enginerring or Chem Trails.www.prisonplanet.com/epa-meets-with-chemtrail-activist.html
  • Chemtrails Halted for Navy Fest U.S. Op ...
    Surprise Military brass dont like chemtrails either So they stopped them for 3 days in San Diego this week while they enjoyed their multimillion dollar ...beforeitsnews.com/.../Chemtrails_Halted_for_Navy_Fest,_U.S...
  • YouTube - EPA meets with Chemtrail Acti ...
    Bob Tuskin, http://www.TheyLIE.com meets with his local EPA officials to discuss the dangers of "Geo-Enginerring" or Chem Trails.www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRuc4c5RVWk

World News - Top Stories

  • 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 ...

no frakking consensus

  • An IPCC History Lesson
    A full 13 years before the IPCC was born its first chairman seems to have already decided that fossil fuels affected the climate so adversely their use would need to be curtailed.
  • It Isn’t a Conspiracy – It’s ...
    If much of the world were to snap out of it and realize that global warming has been over-hyped, large companies in wealthy and influential sectors of the economy would lose hundreds of billions.
  • How Do You Say ‘Independent’ in Au ...
    Any government body headed by eco-campaigner Tim Flannery cannot possibly be considered "independent".
  • Bill McKibben’s Bad Example
    Those seemingly nice people brimming with such concern for the planet are actually profoundly intolerant.
  • Michael Crichton’s Legacy
    The late Michael Crichton drew our attention to the startling lack of rigour in climate science when compared to drug testing.

Pointman's

  • Don’t just sit on your butt blogging, do somet ...
    Iâm a blogger and commenter and enjoy reading and contributing to a variety of blogs but thereâs one attitude in the blogosphere that really bugs me big time; the whinge and dump mentality of a lot of bloggers and contributors. Whatâs whinge and dump? Itâs the idea that once youâve spotted and c ...
  • Moderating, trolls, soup ladles and Ethics.
    If youâre running a blog, one of the chores that has to be done on an ongoing basis is moderating comments. I operate the common system where a contributorâs first comment is held for moderation. If I approve it, then they can comment freely thereafter. If I donât, then theyâre effectively shut ...
  • Immoderate moderation at the DT
    My friend Locusts has just put up a piece at his place about the decline of debate at the Daily Telegraph to “just above the level of public toilet graffiti.” I left it shortly after Disqus was rushed into service and a bizarre censorship regime imposed, leaving the comment below. Sadly, occasio ...
  • Why Climategate was not a computer hack.
    Why Climategate was not a computer hack. In the year since the Climategate material became public, I’ve read many articles on the effect the publication has had on the AGW debate. When it is referred to as a hack in them, I usually don’t bother reading any further. If the writer of the article i ...
  • The MSM and Climate Alarmism
    The supine coverage by the MSM (Main Stream Media) of all things anti-alarmist is completely in tune with their complete failure to cover the Climategate scandal. Itâs in line with what the late journalist Walter Cronkite observed (I believe it was him). Of all the kinds of censorship, the mos ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

    IPS - Inter Press Services

  • CAMBODIA: Refugees Face New Risks
    Cambodia must ensure it offers a safe haven to asylum seekers, rights groups say, following the government's closure this week of a United Nations-run refugee centre, home to dozens of Montagnards from Vietnam.
  • CHINA: Deaths Rise With Smoke
    Five years ago China pledged to ban smoking in all indoor public places by January of this year. That promise remains unfulfilled and is today symbolic of the lack of progress made in the fight against tobacco use in China, where up to a million people die of smoking-related complication ...
  • Palestinian Revolution by Default
    The Egyptian revolution, and the threat to autocratic Arab regimes all over the region, have forced rapid changes on the Palestinian political scene - with major players Hamas and Fatah scrambling to catch up.
  • Soviet Shadow Over Russia
    With less than a year remaining for parliamentary and presidential elections in Russia, human rights activists and opposition forces have become targets of political intimidation and frequent harassment by law enforcement agencies. They see an effort to exclude them from the country's de ...
  • EGYPT-U.S.: Revolution or Coup?
    Four days after the stunning departure of Hosni Mubarak from the presidential palace in Cairo, analysts here are still trying to determine whether his ouster represents a revolution heralding the advent of democratic governance or a coup d'etat staged by the already-dominant military. ...

Scoop - NZ

Independent - London

  • TV reporter Lara Logan in Cairo sex attack
    A top CBS News correspondent was subjected to a horrific sex attack and beating while reporting on the tumultuous events in Egypt.
  • TV reporter in Cairo sex attack
    A top CBS News correspondent was subjected to a horrific sex attack and beating while reporting on the tumultuous events in Egypt.
  • Anti-government protests spread to Libya
    Hundreds of Libyans calling for the removal of the government took to the streets today in the country's second-largest city as Egypt-inspired unrest spread to the country long ruled by Moammar Gadhafi.
  • Scottish deerhound is best in show at Westmins ...
    A Scottish deerhound that loves to chase deer and rabbits on a 50-acre farm in Virginia won best in show at the Westminster Kennel Club last night and the title of America's top dog.
  • New cyclone hits Australia
    A cyclone struck a glancing blow on Australia's main northern city today, two weeks after a much stronger storm devastated another part of the weather-weary country.

Rogue Government.com

  • Barack Obama’s Budget For 2012: A Complete And ...
    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.
  • Is Mubarak a Mason?
    Interesting photo of Mubarak.
  • Deficit is biggest as share of economy since ...
    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.
  • Afghan war costs $300 million a day: Pentagon
    The withdrawal of American troops from Iraq will allow for a reduced US defense budget in 2012 but the war in Afghanistan still costs the United States close to 300 million dollars a day.
  • Argentina Seized Undeclared Weapons and Drugs ...
    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.

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • 111 US diplomats were killed during service ab ...
    The fact that US diplomats posted abroad during the last 200 years or so have been flirting with danger and the reality that the worldwide anti-American sentiment has been persisting for a very long time, can be substantiated by the fact that out of the 234 US Foreign Service officials who have ...
  • Anonymous hack reveals HBGary plan to destroy ...
    Data released as part of a hacking attack by the Anonymous group has shown what appears to be a corporate plan to destroy WikiLeaks. Aaron Barr, head of security services firm HBGary Federal, claimed last week to have infiltrated the Anonymous hacking group's leadership and to have identified ...
  • Anonymous speaks: the inside story of the HBGa ...
    It has been an embarrassing week for security firm HBGary and its HBGary Federal offshoot. HBGary Federal CEO Aaron Barr thought he had unmasked the hacker hordes of Anonymous and was preparing to name and shame those responsible for co-ordinating the group's actions, including the denial-of-s ...
  • Tunisia Running Country Wide Facebook, Gmail & ...
    We have mentioned Facebook plenty of times, they have had their fair share of security issues and we have mentioned Tunisia once way back in regards to Internet Repression. It seems like the government of Tunisia have been basically phishing their users with fake versions of login pages for Fac ...
  • Cliff landslide leads to Coast to Coast closur ...
    A section of the Coast to Coast Walk in Cumbria has been closed after a landslip near its starting point. A 40m stretch of the cliff-top path at South Head at St Bees has collapsed and authorities say it is unsafe for the public to use. Police were alerted yesterday evening and immediately cor ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Tuesday night...
  • The Glenn Beck Conspiracy Theory Generator
    Fair and Balanced Paranoia, Delivered on Demand. Really. Lots of fun. (H/T to Helmut)
  • Perfidious Conservatives
    Under Stephen Harper signed documents under ministers' signatures are mean whatever his regime says they mean. This may yet be a kiss of death from Harper, but given who they are I think that would be against odds. If the Speaker and the House cannot hold the government to account over this, t ...
  • Odious Oda . . .
    MACLEANS.CA has a great piece by Scott Feschuk, "Bev Oda is trying SO HARD". Apparently Bev is doing The Weasel, and Scott is not impressed:You have to admire the grade-school panache with which Oda tried to pull this off. The little up-arrow. The word NOT all in caps. SO ADORABLE. It’s just how ...
  • Perspectives . . .
    IT'S NOT EASY, SOMETIMES, to be politically-correct. Being part of the vanguard of the progressives requires a certitude of righteousness that can triumph reality on occasion. It's when reality bites back, that problems arise. John Tierney's article in the NYT, "Social Scientist Sees Bias Withi ...

Media Matters for America

  • Fox Shelters AZ Gov. And Her Lawsuit From The ...
    Fox News promoted Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer's claim that the federal government has failed to "do its job" on border security without mentioning that border security efforts have increased measurably under President Obama: Deportations, drug seizures, and the number of Border Patrol agents hav ...
  • Predictable: Right-Wing Media Mislead On Obama ...
    Since President Obama released his FY 2011 budget, right-wing media have covered the proposal by promoting false and misleading claims, such as that it creates $2 trillion in "new taxes" and "ignore the deficit."Palin, Right-Wing Media Falsely Claim Budget Will Only Cut "$775 Million A Year" R ...
  • Double Standard: Fox Attacks GM's Bonuses; Def ...
    Fox News has attacked General Motors and Chrysler for reports that they plan to award bonuses to their workers while "you, the taxpayer" are "still waiting to get paid back" from government loans given to car companies. Previously, however, Fox figures have defended big businesses' right to pay ...
  • National Review Joins Breitbart's Fla ...
    National Review is the latest right-wing publication to join serial fabricator Andrew Breitbart's campaign attacking the Pigford settlement for black farmers who were allegedly discriminated against by the Agriculture Department. National Review's Dan Foster mimics many of Breitbart's errors, i ...
  • Serial Health Care Misinformer McCaughey Pushe ...
    In her 2011 Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) speech, serial health care misinformer Betsy McCaughey repeated long-debunked attacks on the health care bill, including the false attacks that the bill "forces you to enroll" in a health care plan "whether you can afford it or not"; th ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Why We Should Raise Taxes on the Super-Rich an ...
    My proposal to raise the marginal tax to 70 percent on incomes over $15 million, to 60 percent on incomes between $5 million and $15 million, and to 50 percent on incomes between $500,000 and $5 million, has generated considerable debate. Some progressives think it's pie-in-the-sky. Here, for ex ...
  • My Theory of Ultra-Conservatives' Wrongheadedn ...
    I'd like you to 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 s ...
  • Future Schlock
    Is President Obama stupid, or does he think you are stupid? That's what we have to ask when listening to the president and his minions promote his farkakte budget principles. In this case, the devil is not in the details, but in the background music. The principles used to support the presiden ...
  • Should He, or Shouldn't He - Obama & Mideast P ...
    I'd really really like to add a full-throated 'go for it' to the chorus calling on President Obama to offer his own framework for Israeli-Palestinian peace. Bernard's NYT Magazine piece yesterday was mighty convincing about the gap between the sides having narrowed. I certainly share the view th ...
  • Where to Find a Trillon Dollars
    Even by Washington standards, a trillion dollars is a lot of money. That's approximately the figure for the cumulative savings President Obama wants to extract from proposed federal budgets over the next ten years. While some of the money would come from closing tax loopholes and increasing th ...

TruthOut

  • The Fertility Show
    The premise of the 2006 movie "Children of Men," directed by Alfonso Cuaron, was that an unexplained phenomenon had rendered the entire human population sterile and the world had turned childless. For many years, no one is able to conceive, so when people find out that a young woman is pregnant, ...
  • Feds Approve Monsanto Herbicide-Resistant Crop ...
    The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has approved plantings of three genetically engineered (GE) crops in as many weeks, including Monsanto Co.'s Roundup Ready sugar beets and alfalfa that are engineered to tolerate Roundup Ready weed-killing herbicide. The USDA on February 11 also legalized ...
  • Economic Turmoil Has Preceded Revolutions, Tho ...
    Maybe it’s because I spent time working for the United Nations Development Program in the Philippines in the ‘90s — I was a bit surprised that few people have mentioned the parallel between the Egyptian uprising and the People Power Revolution in Manila, which took place in 1986. read more
  • Chevron Runs From Judgment in Ecuador
    Chevron Petroleum Corporation is attempting to slither out of an $8 billion judgment rendered yesterday by a trial court in Ecuador for cancer deaths, illnesses and destruction caused by its Texaco unit. I've been there, in Ecuador. I met the victims. They didn't lose their shrimp boats; they ...
  • How Courts Avoid Doing Justice
    It is apparent that in order to put more than 2.3 million people behind bars and keep them there, while simultaneously building a prison guard/police arm of the state that numbers in the millions, courts must make credible findings that an enormous number of American citizens are violent, danger ...

Planetsave

  • La Nina Bringing Warm Winter to Southeast
    There was a sudden change from an El Niño phase to La Niña in July 2010 which led many forecasters to believe that there would be warm temperatures throughout the Southeast of America. However, the region has been experiencing an extremely cold winter, as a result of the interruption of the No ...
  • Cyclone Bingiza Moves Across Northern Madagasc ...
    NASA’s Aqua and Terra satellites have captured visible and infrared satellite images of Tropical Cyclone Bingiza as it made landfall over northeastern Madagascar. Tropical Cyclone Bingiza made landfall on Madagascar on February 14, 2011. The U.S. Navyâs Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) report ...
  • Chevron Found Guilty! But Still Trying to Avoi ...
    If you’re just tuning in, Chevron and a previously independent company it now owns (Texaco, which it bought in 2001) have been using and abusing Ecuador for about half a century. They dumped billions upon billions of of gallons of toxic waste into Ecuador’s Amazon, causing cancer and death to a ...
  • Take Cold Showers (Going Green Tip #13)
    The best things in life are free. This doesn’t only apply to open source applications on the web but other aspects of life as well. You may be surprised, but one of the best things you can do for yourself and mother nature is take cold showers on a daily basis. Sound crazy? Yes, it... Read More. ...
  • Climate Variation During Greenhouse Conditions
    Researchers from the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton, England, have concluded that man-made global warming would probably not greatly change the influence had on the environment by inter-annual climate instances such as El Niño – Southern Oscillation (ENSO) or the Arctic Oscillation/ ...

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Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • Arrests and deaths as Egypt protest spreads ac ...
    Iranians defy government ban to join rally in Tehran, with demonstrations and street clashes in Bahrain and Yemen Egypt's uprising has sent powerful shockwaves across the Middle East , with two deaths reported in street clashes in Iran and Bahrain and violent ...
  • Naomi Klein: Addicted to risk - Environment/Na ...
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  • Egypt Unrest & Discontent - Egypt
    “The Revolution Came and The Revolution Went; Unrest Turned Back Into Discontent” - Marat Sade Can The Egyptian People Sustain Their Momentum To Continue To Push For Deeper Change? It is now the long morning after, as protesters returned to Tahrir Square to cle ...
  • I eat out of bins too. So what? - World News
    Sasha Hall must have thought she was in luck when she found a bin outside Tesco overflowing with food. She helped herself to packets of potato waffles, pies and ham – a small fraction of the goods that had been abandoned after the store's freezers broke down. But when police...
  • Protests, counter-protests held in Tehran. Ira ...
    Protests, counter-protests held in Tehran February 14, 2011 Press TV: Small groups of anti-government protesters have disrupted order in the Iranian capital Tehran, prompting citizens to hold counter-demonstrations. The protesters, mostly supporters of defeated presidential ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Nothing "exceptional" in right wing attacks ag ...
    There is nothing exceptional about "American Exceptionalism" or the right wing's latest obsession with it. The idea that America is favored above all other nations has a long and pernicious pedigree in American history, and is nothing more than the extension into politics of the peculiar manifes ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    That's what they all say - right up until the flames start licking at their feet. "President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said the opposition protests seen in Iranian cities on Monday are "going nowhere" and vowed to punish their organisers. Mr Ahmadinejad told state television that "enemies" were tr ...
  • If Halperin said it, you know it's contrived
    John Boehner is taking a lot of heat today after telling reporters today that he didn't really give a flip about public sector jobs lost. "In the last two years, under President Obama, the federal government has added 200,000 new federal jobs. If some of those jobs are lost so be it." Of course, ...
  • Obama's Perestroika
    Via Zandar, this first-person account is from Zero Hedge: I believe the Congress and President have no intention of really aiding the unemployed -- due to various political reasons and their total removal from the suffering of most Americans, their cold-hearted, self-serving natures. Had they re ...
  • Cairo puts popular opinion back on the map
    America's foreign policy has long embraced repressive regimes when it was convenient to do so. �Events in Egypt have demonstrated the price of convenience, and it may already be making a difference. Cross posted from Pruning Shears. No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this ...

Care 2

  • Climate change and Africa's vanishing lake
    As South Africa prepares to host the United Nations climate change summit in Durban this year, Lake Chad is living proof of the continent's environment in crisis. It was almost double the area of Gauteng just four decades ago but has shrunk by 95%. It is Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environmen ...
  • The revenge of trickle-down economics
    Differences between Democrats and Republicans on the deficit are cosmetic. Both are committed to a broken, corrupt system. Both sides agree that government spending will continue to follow the old "trickle down" theory, despite its failure to date.Submitted by Norm C. to Business �|� �Note-it! ...
  • Cyclists shouldn't 'share the road', they shol ...
    It's called the cycle track. Though we recently discovered it, we didn't invent it: It's been the backbone of the world's most attractive, comfortable, safe bicycling environments for decades in European cities like Utrecht and Groningen.Submitted by Judy C. to Green Lifestyle �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
  • Westpork faces abuse charges, again
    One of Australia's biggest pork producers, Westpork, is facing over 30 charges of alleged animal cruelty. This is the second time the piggery, based north of Perth, has been charged under the Animal Welfare Act 2002.Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Report Details Sabotage of Birth Control
    Men who abuse women physically and emotionally may also sabotage their partners� birth control, pressuring them to become pregnant against their will, new reports suggest.Submitted by Dave Kane to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Tweet Heart Tehran
    VALENTINE’S DAY 2011 NOT. Speaking Melik Kaylan, WSJ, re how the Tehran regime bans Valentine’s day and anything else it can figure to ban — cheeseburgers, rock and rap music, holding hands in public, lipstick — and has lost credibility to the tougth of the nation, fully 70% of the population. S ...
  • Congressional Humors Spawn Comic Cottage Indus ...
    * Bumped Up * My eyes honed in like laser beams at the Breaking News.  President Obamaâs advisor, and MIT economist, Jonathan Gruber was (via AP): “…turning to comic books to help make the pitch for the administration’s embattled health care law.” [snip]…”[with] a defensible text that is fa ...
  • Curveball Comes Clean and Rumsfeld Forgets
    Yes America, you were lied into an unnecessary war in Iraq. The U.K.’s Guardian is out today (Tuesday) with news that the source of the intel used by Colin Powell to sell the U.N on the case for going to war with Iraq lied. Remember Curveball? He comes clean in an exclusive interview with the [. ...
  • Mutilated Firewall (& Open Thread)
    John Bussey, WSJ, comments on the fact that China has passed Japan to become the second GDP on the planet. Speaking John Bussey on Wed 16 with Gordon Chang re the China growth picture and its false front. Spoke Gordon Chang, Sunday 13, re the CCP fear of the web and its social media. The [...]
  • Like I Said
    Niall Ferguson’s appearance on Morning Joe is garnering lots of well deserved attention today. Here’s the full unedited appearance: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Glad that I am not the only sane person warning about the incompetence of the Obama team t ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • How Bacteria Can Tell Time of Death for Bodies ...
    Studies of bacterial life cycles in decomposing flesh have just been released. These studies are extremely important when determining the time of death. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • Quick Guide to the Best Environmentally Friend ...
    Here is help for choosing environmentally friendly products: general guidelines, specific tips and recommendations for environmentally friendly products for the home. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the art ...
  • 8 Amazing Ways Sheep Are Smarter Than You Thou ...
    Sheep have many amazing abilities that few people know about. Their intelligence is superior to most animals on earth. Here's some of the facts that studies have dsicover read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the ...
  • The Time Capsule House Opened After 100 Years
    A time capsule of a house shuttered for 100 years has been opened to the public. Find out what lay hidden inside. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Hidden Alaska: Snapshots of America's Last Wil ...
    Hidden Alaska: Bristol Bay and Beyond, an incredible new book by Dave Atcheson and Michael Melford, is a love story about America's last wild frontier. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • A New Policy on Radioactive Hotel Guests
    The Nuclear Regulatory Commission counsels doctors to advise patients not to stay in hotels if they have just undergone radiation.
  • Climate Change Drives Instability, U.N. Offici ...
    Drought, falling crop yields and competition for water are fostering conflict throughout Africa and elsewhere in the developing world,the top climate official warns. Unless nations take aggressive action to reduce the emissions causing global warming, she warns, such conflicts will spread, toppl ...
  • Net Zero Energy, Transmuted Into Art
    The National Renewable Energy Lab's new hyper-efficient office building in Golden, Colo., is meant to inspire builders and architects with the notion that net zero energy use is not only attainable but also affordable and even elegant.
  • On Our Radar: Costner Is Sued Over Spill Techn ...
    The actor Stephen Baldwin contends that he was duped into selling off his interest in a company prematurely.
  • Federal Royalties for Gold and Copper?
    The Obama budget seeks royalty payments from new efforts to mine gold, silver, copper and other metals on public lands. Unlike oil, coal and natural gas companies, hard-rock miners have not been subject to such payments.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

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

Daily Censored

  • Living in a ‘Weimar Germany’ moment: confront ...
    Protest the Assault on Working People of Wisconsin “Fascism ought to more properly be called corporatism since it is the merger of the state and corporate power.”                                   — Benito Mussolini Wall Street Greed created the depression, why s ...
  • Cut, Slice, Slash, It’s Time.
    States and other municipalities are going bankrupt.  This country is self-destructing.  We are simply ignoring the klaxon.  But, lets examine this. Governors and mayors facing large deficits have set their sights on a relatively new target — the soaring expense of health benefits for millions of ...
  • Right-Wing Denounces Democracy
    Over the last two and a half weeks, the world witnessed Egypt’s stunning move toward democracy. We watched as the brutal dictator Hosni Mubarak unleashed camel and horseback riding thugs to bash in the heads and disrupt peaceful protesters. We heard and saw through the lies about foreign... ...
  • To all defenders of public education: BAMN
    U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is hosting an International Summit on the Teaching Profession in New York City on March 16-17. It is by “invitation only” and timed to take place right before the “Celebration of Teaching and Learning” at the NYC Hilton. Duncan will be... [[ This is a ...
  • The New York Stock Exchange up for sale in ‘st ...
    Almost stealth like, but slowly and surely, foreign conglomerates are buying the assets of the United States.  It was not until the Soviet Union finally fell that the assets of that country were finally stripped and sold to oligarchs and privatized.  In America, the asset stripping is being done ...

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Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • Jimmy John's and Tiny Greens Salmonella seroty ...
    According the the CDC, between November 1, 2010, through February 9, 2011, 140 individuals infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella serotype I 4,[5],12:i:-, whose illnesses began (onset dates) since November 1, were reported from 26 states and the District of Columbia. The number of il ...
  • Colorado Bill Leaves Poisoned Consumers Withou ...
    Retailers in Colorado might well escape any liability for a consumer’s illnesses if Colorado House Bill 11-1190 becomes law – even if the manufacturer is bankrupt or from a foreign country. According to a summary of the Bill: The bill applies to a product liability action brought against a foo ...
  • "Cottage Food" exemption sought in Washington ...
    My State Senator, Phil Rockefeller, has introduced SB 5748 – “An act relating to cottage food operations.” Apparently, Senator Phil wants to make sure candy, cereal, granola, dry mixes, vinegar, dried herbs, and baked goods can be sold along with a statement in at least 11 point font that "Made ...
  • What can Twitter teach you about antibiotic re ...
    Actually, quite a lot if you follow @marynmck on Twitter.  Maryn McKenna is a journalist for national magazines and the author of SUPERBUG and BEATING BACK THE DEVIL. She finds emerging diseases strangely exciting.  Here is what she posted today on Wired, after seeing the chicken post I made l ...
  • FSIS to spend $700,000 on non-O157:H7 shiga-to ...
    It has been since October 2009 that we filed the Petition for an Interpretive Rule Declaring enterohemorrhagic Shiga Toxin-producing Serotypes of Escherichia coli, Including Non-O157 Serotypes, to be Adulterants Within the Meaning of 21 U.S.C. � 601(m)(1) with the Food Safety Inspection Service ...

AutoblogGreen

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

Rafe's Radar

  • Robobrain vs. humanity: Discuss
    Author Stephen Baker covered the creation of the 'Jeopardy'-playing Watson computer. On Friday, the Reporters' Roundtable podcast tackles a simple question: what is unique about the human mind? As I write this, IBM's Watson project is doing a respectable job on the game show "Jeopardy." W ...
  • For better service, automate the waiters
    Storific lets you order food from your table, but the Paris-based start-up needs a more coherent sales strategy.
  • Path changes course with comments, e-mail acce ...
    The weird little photo-sharing site, now flush with VC cash, begins to layer necessary features into its service. Is it enough?
  • Backupify is more than a backup service
    Cloud backup service is much more than that. It can also be a smart, searchable tool for social-media discovery.
  • The Daily: A good morning paper
    The new iPad-only newspaper, The Daily, is a strong online news journal, well worth the reasonable subscription fee.

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Protest Crackdown in Iran: A Report From Faraz ...
    In Iran, tens of thousands of people took to the streets Monday in the largest Iranian protests since the aftermath of the nationâs disputed 2009 election. At least one protester died and several were injured as security forces used tear gas, pepper spray and batons in an attempt to disperse th ...
  • "Egypt, A People Victorious"by Anjali Kamat
    CAIRO, Egypt: Feb 12, 2011 The sounds of freedom continue to ring through Cairo, twenty-four hours after Hosni Mubarak was forced to resign by the awe-inspiring resilience and courage of millions of Egyptians who poured onto the streets in unprecedented numbers for 18 continuous days. After th ...
  • The Egyptian Revolution: A Democracy Now! Spec ...
    As news of Hosni Mubarak’s resignation breaks, Democracy Now! broadcasts live reaction from Tahrir Square and beyond with Senior Producer Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Correspondent Anjali Kamat. "People are holding their hands up in victory," reports Kouddous. "This will be a day that no one will ...
  • AUDIO: Thousands March from Tahrir Square to P ...
    Democracy Now! correspondent Anjali Kamat reports about 5,000 people filled with "a mixture of rage and sadness" marched from Tahrir Square to the Egyptian state television building after Pres. Hosni Mubarak’s address. "The state television building is emblematic of the power of the state aga ...
  • AUDIO: "Until Mubarak Leaves They Are Determin ...
    Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak refused to step down tonight, despite early reports that he would announce his resignation. Democracy Now! senior producer Sharif Abdel Kouddous reports from Tahrir Square. "The demand that Mubarak step down is the glue," he says.

Digg Green

  • For Cold Virus, Zinc May Edge Out Even Ch ...
    Taken within 24 hours of the first runny nose or sore throat, zinc lozenges, tablets or syrups can cut colds short by an average of a day or more and sharply reduce the severity of symptoms, researchers have concluded.
  • Fly sniffs molecule's quantum vibrations ...
    It has been generally assumed that a smell arises when an odour molecule slides into a receptor like a key in a lock, altering the receptor's shape and triggering a cascade of chemical events that eventually reach the brain.
  • To Talk With Aliens, Learn to Speak With ...
    If humanity someday arrives at an extraterrestrial cocktail party, will we be ready to mingle? At the Wild Dolphin Project in Jupiter, Florida, researchers practice for contact by trying to talk with dolphins.
  • Creatures from the Arctic abyss (VID)
    The Census of Marine Life is bringing to light extraordinary microscopic creatures never before seen by human eyes.
  • A Glass of Red Wine Can Enhance the Posit ...
    The ingredient resveratrol which naturally occurs in red wine enhances the effects of a drug used to combat the disease.

Invisible Opportunity

  • Bahrain Protests: Thousands Of Anti-Government ...
    Bahrain’s security forces fired tear gas and rubber bullets Monday at thousands of anti-government protesters heeding calls to unite in a major rally and bring the Arab reform wave to the Gulf for the first time. The punishing tactics by authorities appeared to foil plans for a mass gathering in ...
  • Jihadi who helped train 7/7 bomber freed by US ...
    By Shiv Malik An American jihadist who set up the terrorist training camp where the leader of the 2005 London suicide bombers learned how to manufacture explosives, has been quietly released after serving only four and a half years of a possible 70-year sentence, a Guardian investigation has lea ...
  • Does America Need an Egyptian-Style Non-Violen ...
    By WASHINGTON at washingtonsblog2.blogspot.com http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/02/does-america-need-egyptian-style-non.htmlYesterday, I pointed out that the the Egyptian protesters are acting more like the free people which America’s Founding Fathers envisioned than the American people ourse ...
  • Algeria shuts down internet and Facebook as pr ...
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Inhabitat

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