18 February - RSS SnapShot! Pt 2

Prior Art

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

Peoples Voice

• Houston cops stomp 15-yr-old; charged with mis ...
  By Rady Ananda The recent public release of a video capturing police brutality that resulted in seven Houston police officers being fired while only four have been charged with misdemeanors has prompted fresh outrage. (Image: From top left heading clockwise are Drew Ryser, Phillip Bryan, Andrew ...
• Middle East Protests, Violence and Strikes Con ...
  by Stephen Lendman Whatever set them off, the genie is out of the bottle and spreading from Tunisia to Egypt, Jordan, Yemen, Algeria, Bahrain, Iran, Libya, Iraq, and perhaps America, in Wisconsin over proposed wage, benefits, and union bargaining rights cuts. A forthcoming article covers outrag ...
• Tawtin or Return: Divergent views from Lebanon ...
  Franklin Lamb Shatila Refugee Camp, Beirut Lebanese opponents of civil rights for Palestinian Refugees often use less objective and more crude wording to define "tawtin" ("settlement") than is normally employed in civil society discussions. During last summer's debate in parliament, which fail ...
• Can The Egyptian Revolution Be Enacted in the ...
  Ziad Shaker elJishi I was asked today how America was going to be under Sarah Palin and what i thought a good alternative to her would be? America under Palin (or Newt Gingrich for that matter) will be a very ugly place especially for the 80% of the population of Americans who are removed ...
• America is a Military State
  By Timothy Gatto Americans are walking around with blinders. The current government is no different than the government that preceded it. The country is involved in a myriad of ground actions in countries across the globe. One must wonder if World War II ever ended. We spend an inordinate amoun ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

• Canada’s immigration policy: Who is on the gue ...
  Immigrants are Canada’s ticket to economic growth in the coming years, as the Minister of Immigration and Citizenship rightly stated this week. But CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan lays out the untold story of the troubling shift in immigration policy towards “guest” workers in this Globe ...
• Get the facts: Child care isn't there to force ...
  In spring 2009 we dedicated an entire issue of�Our Schools / Our Selves�to the topic of child care in Canada, and over a year later�Beyond Child�s Play: Caring for and educating young children in Canada�remains one of the most detailed, up-to-date and thorough publications on the subject. It bri ...
• Gap between rich and poor: 8th Wonder of the W ...
  That's the tongue-in-cheek conclusion of the satiristic news source, The Onion, which names the growing gap between the rich and poor the 8th natural wonder of the world, calling the divide the "most colossal and enduring of mankind's creations." Said Committee Chariman Henri Jean-Baptiste: Of ...
• Income inequality: A defining public issue in ...
  Picking through the wreckage of the global recession, former Privy Council Clerk Alex Himelfarb takes stock of what happened and points to two trends he predicts might shape politics and policy in 2011: the "extraordinary resilience of neoliberal ideology" and the "reemergence of inequality as a ...
• Health Canada putting profit before health in ...
  Health Canada is holding its final consultations on proposals to “modernize” standards on prescription drugs this week. A new CCPA study by Dr. Joel Lexchin examines Health Canada’s harmonizing initiatives to date, part of the modernization initiative, and finds they have been putting private pr ...

World Wide Hippies

• It is spreading. 25,000 protested In Madison, ...
  Public Employee Union Protests Spread From Wisconsin to Ohio | Bloomberg In what union leaders say is becoming a national fight, protests against legislation to restrict public employees’ collective-bargaining rights spread from Wisconsin to Ohio. In Madison, Wisconsin, crowds that police estima ...
• The real reason why we can’t raise taxes ...
  They need that money to wrap gifts!
• Sea Shepherd may have brought Japanese whaling ...
  FIS- The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) has successfully interfered with and caused the halt of Japanâs whaling operations in the Antarctic Ocean, a Fisheries Agency (JFA) official said this week. The animal rights organisationâs efforts have caused government officials to consider bri ...
• Mythical Republican Candidate Ties Obama
  Why in the hell would you vote for the greater of two evils? Especially when there isn’t one. Nameless Republican Ties Obama in 2012 Election Preferences | Gallup U.S. registered voters are evenly split about whether they would back President Barack Obama for re-election in 2012 (45%) or “the Re ...
• Pittsburgh in the 60’s
  CHOICE Yep, I’m about to get into a very important subject and I know that whatever I say I’m bound to really make someone somewhere really angry. I realized awhile ago the there’s a whole generation that has grown up never knowing what it was like before having a choice. There are also those fo ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

• Why Bradley Manning Is a Patriot, Not a Crimin ...
  Bradley Manning, a 23-year-old from Crescent, Oklahoma, enlisted in the U.S. military in 2007 to give something back to his country and, he hoped, the world. For the past seven months, Army Private First Class Manning has been held in solitary confinement in the Marine Corps brig in Quant ...
• Why I Call Myself a Socialist: Is the World Re ...
  In most reasonably large towns in the United States and Europe, you can find, on some important public square or street, a professional theater. And so, in various quiet neighborhoods in these towns, you can usually also find some rather quiet individuals, the actors who work regularly in tha ...
• Hillary Clinton on NBC's Meet the Press, Janua ...
  ...SECRETARY CLINTON: I want the Egyptian people to have the chance to chart a new future. It needs to be an orderly, peaceful transition to real democracy, not faux democracy like the elections we saw in Iran two years ago, where you have one election 30 years ago and then the people just keep ...
• "I Shall Not Hate": Gaza Doctor Izzeldin Abuel ...
  AMY GOODMAN: Yesterday marked the second anniversary of the end of Israel’s assault on Gaza. Dubbed "Operation Cast Lead," up to 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis were killed in the 22-day assault between December 28th, 2008 and January 18th, 2009. More than half the Palestinians killed were c ...
• Fox News: The No. 1 Name in Murder Fantasies
  Bill O'Reilly's recent "joke" about decapitating Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank was only the latest example of a demented Fox News culture that permits on-air personalities to fantasize about assassination and other forms of violence against those deemed enemies of the station, its perso ...

Salon

• Libya primer: How the North African nation res ...
  After a relatively modest protest broke out early Wednesday in Libya, citizens organized today's "day of rage," a nationwide protest organized largely through social media. But unlike its similarly protesting neighbors in North Africa, Libya is rich with oil money, and it is using that wealth ...
• Targets of Chamber of Commerce fight back
  Three attorneys at Hunton & Williams, the international law firm that is implicated in a scheme to attack WikiLeaks and critics of the Chamber of Commerce, will be hit with bar complaints next week by anti-Chamber activists who were targeted in the scheme.
• Iowa wrestling star refuses to face girl
  A standout Iowa high school wrestler refused to compete against a girl at the state tournament on Thursday, relinquishing any chance of becoming a champion because he says wrestling a girl would conflict with his religious beliefs.
• Keith Brown pleads guilty to sexually abusing ...
  The distraught father of The 5 Browns musical group pleaded guilty Thursday to sexually abusing his daughters when they were children in a deal that will send him to prison for at least 10 years.
• 111 charged in Medicare scams worth $225 milli ...
  Federal authorities charged more than 100 doctors, nurses and physical therapists in nine cities with Medicare fraud Thursday, part of a massive nationwide bust that snared more suspects than any other in history.

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

• KAIROS Furor: Did PM bigfoot Oda?
  Stephen Harper was quick to kick Maxime Bernier and Helena Guergis out of cabinet, so it's odd that he is supporting Bev Oda.
• Sheppard Subway: Private partners may refuse t ...
  Toronto shouldn’t abandon its Transit City light-rail plan until an alternative comes that’s shown to be better.
• Punish rule-breakers, but respect the rest
  Toronto’s civil service has heroes as well as scamsters, and that’s worth bearing in mind while reading the auditor general’s recent report.
• Deporting criminals: Canada walks a fine line
  Should Canadians shrug off the fact that a man convicted of gunning down the president of Bangladesh 35 years ago is now living in a Toronto suburb, dodging punishment back home? Of course not.
• Oda has thrown away her credibility
  At best International Co-operation Minister Bev Oda has shaken confidence in the way the Harper government doles out taxpayers’ cash. At worst, she tried to mislead Parliament and ...

Energy Collective

• Is High-Speed Rail Worth Its Cost?
  The editors of the Washington Post have expressed serious reservations concerning the administration's plans for investing up to $53 billion in new high-speed rail systems, with the goal of linking 80% of the US population by a new fast rail network.
• Is the deregulated market in the ERCOT region ...
  Michael Giberson
• Solar Power Growth Up 70% Worldwide
  While the United States isn’t reaching its solar power potential, new information from the European Photovoltaic Industry Association makes it clear that over the past year growth has been substantial worldwide.
• Graph of the Day: The Cost of Production Of Oi ...
  TreeHugger points to a TOD post looking at the cost of production for oil from various sources - Does Peak Oil Even Matter?. The summary - "Peak Oilers have always pointed out that we will never run out of oil, it will just get a lot more expensive.
• Greening our Cars and Trucks
  Want to help reduce U.S. oil dependence, cut dangerous carbon pollution and save money at the gas pump? Providing Americans with more choices of clean, high-efficiency cars and trucks is vital to reaching those goals. We must also focus on how we fuel our vehicles. Fortunately, we know the polic ...

EU Times

• John W. Boyd demands more from government for ...
  In December, when President Barack Obama signed the “Claims Resolution Act of 2010,” which appropriated $1.15 billion to black farmers who said the U.S. Department of Agriculture had discriminated against them, many thought the matter had been laid to rest. Dr. John W. Boyd, president of the Nat ...
• Huge solar flare jams radio, satellite signals
  A powerful solar eruption that has already disturbed radio communications in China could disrupt electrical power grids and satellites used on Earth in the next days, NASA said. The massive sunspot, which astronomers say is the size of Jupiter, is the strongest solar flare in four years, NASA sa ...
• Apple CEO Steve Jobs diagnosed with Cancer, ha ...
  Apple founder and CEO Steve Jobs has terminal pancreatic cancer and may live for just six more weeks, a media report said Thursday. The 55-year-old Jobs in January announced that at his request, the board of directors granted him a medical leave of absence so that he could focus on his health. S ...
• Obama Issues Government Shutdown Threat
  President Obama warned of stopped Social Security checks and issued a formal veto threat Tuesday to the Republican spending plan currently being debated in the House, setting the stage for a potential government shutdown next month. Democrats in the last congress did not pass a budget at all, so ...
• France wants new global finance system
  France will help the transition to a global financial system based on ‘several international currencies’, the French Economy Minister said today. France, as current head of the Group of 20 countries, will help the transition to a global financial system based on ‘several international currencies ...

Stonecipher News

• Normal Structure and Function of the Musculosk ...
  Mr. Ghaz says: Muscular dystrophies refer to a group of more than 30 genetic diseases which are characterized by progressive weakness and degeneration of the skeletal muscles..Studies and estimation show that after sustaining a hip fracture (as a result of osteoporosis) 20% of patients die withi ...
• 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 ...

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

• Adéu, Barcelona: Mobile World Congress 2011 is ...
  We've still got a handful of posts in the pipeline, but with the gates closed and everyone in the air heading back to their respective homes, our adventures at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona have come to a close. The good news is we can return to our regular four of hours of sleep each nigh ...
• Rumor Mill: Apple Developing An "iPhone Nano"
  Much like the iPod Nano, this version of the iPhone would be smaller, cheaper and appeal to a wider range of users: Apple Inc. is working on new versions of the iPhone that are aimed at slowing the advance of competing handsets based on Google Inc.’s Android software, according to people who ha ...
• Citizens Turn Out in Manama and Madison
  by Choire Sicha .bbpBox{background:url(http://a0.twimg.com/profile_background_images/4431004/twitter_post.png) #9AE4E8;padding:20px;} Opposition leaders in #Bahrain tell me they are planning a huge march in next few days to retake Pearl Roundabout. Fri Feb 18 10:52:19 via web Nicholas Kristof N ...
• Android “isn’t for girls”, says INQ boss
  They may have just launched two Android -wielding handsets, but according to the CEO at  INQ , Google ‘s OS “isn’t for girls”. Despite bring crowned the most popular mobile platform in the world, INQ Boss, Frank Meehan, says Google needs to stop focusing on early adopters, and start thinking ab ...
• Serene Branson Opens Up About Migraine ["The E ...
  KCBS Los Angeles reporter Serene (Who I insist on calling “Serena” for some reason!) Branson’s incoherent report following Sunday’s 2011 Grammy Awards fueled Internet speculation that she suffered an on-air stroke, but doctors at UCLA, where she underwent a brain scan and blood work after the f ...

Groklaw

• The future for Qt, MeeGo and Symbian CTO Ric ...
  Nokia CTO Rich Green talks to Conversations readers about the futures of Qt, MeeGo and Symbian. With 150 million more Symbian devices planned for the next year, there's still lots of work to be done in providing a great user experience for current Symbian users and for new owners. Plus ongoing s ...
• U.S. Government Shuts Down 84,000 Websites, B ...
  A noble initiative, but one that went wrong, badly. The above failure again shows that the seizure process is a flawed one, as has been shown several times before in earlier copyright infringement sweeps. If the Government would only allow for due process to take place, this and other mistakes w ...
• IBM's post-Jeopardy Watson plans
  IBM says its supercomputer Watson, after learning to play Jeopardy, can solve real problems in health care and financial services. [PJ: Could you ask it who is behind all the legal attacks on Linux? What? Too simple?] - CNN Money
• LibreOffice gaining developers
  To this day #LibreOffice has 133 developers and 55 localizers. We gain 1 developer every day & 1 localizer every 2days. - Charles-H. Schultz, Twitter
• Movie Studios, Publishers Seek Limits On Celeb ...
  What kind of control should celebrities have over creative works that involve their images? In a high-stakes case just argued in a California appeals court, media companies are asking for courts to place clearer limits on celebrities' intellectual property rights in their own images, known as "r ...

WideShut

• Cameron’s Welfare Wangle
  Cameron's Welfare Bill decoded: "Give us money to pay banksters". Why his proposals are wrong and won't work anyway.
• Computer Specialist: I Warned Police About 7/7 ...
  Man who worked alongside alleged 7/7 bombers says he warned police about their extremist beliefs 2 years before the attacks.
• Why Am I Sick? A look At Drug Companies
  If a drug company's goal is to make profit, then where does that leave health?
• The End Game: IMF SDRs?
  The end is nigh, a world currency, a world central bank and a one world government.
• WideShut Webcast Video Version: Episode 1
  Keelan covers this week's alternative news headlines in an all new TV format!

Politics in the Zeros

• Polizeros Radio. Middle East protests, Pakista ...
  Middle East protests may topple more governments but the underlying problems of poverty, rising prices, and income disparities will remain. Will the outcome for many of these countries be something like Pakistan is now? And who is Raymond Davis, supposed diplomat who killed two Pakistanis with h ...
• Vernon Hunter remembrance
  Today at noon EST, the Internal Revenue Service will have a moment of silence in honor of Vietnam veteran and IRS agent Vernon Hunter who was killed one year ago when a pilot deliberately crashed his plane into an IRS building in Austin where he was working. He died in what can only be called [. ...
• Novel boat launch
  That’s the owner in the stern. Get the full story about what happened at the Big Picture’s ephemera blog!
• Polizeros Radio podcast tonight. Middle East u ...
  And is Wisconsin the next Egypt? The podcast is hosted on BlogTalkRadio. Call in to listen live at 626-414-3492 tonight at 8:30 PST (9:30 MST, 10:30 CST, 11:30 EST.) You can also download it or listen to the archive on BlogTalkRadio after it’s done. With Steve Hynd of Newshoggers, Josh Mull from ...
• Why isn’t Wall Street in jail? Control fraud o ...
  Taibbi A veritable mountain of evidence indicates that when it comes to Wall Street, the justice system not only sucks at punishing financial criminals, it has actually evolved into a highly effective mechanism for protecting financial criminals. This institutional reality has absolutely nothing ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

• First see-through motorway sound barrier insta ...
  Some of the more expensive house in Auckland can now boast the country's most expensive sound barrier to reduce traffic noise
• Teen critical after suspected hit and run
  Police are investigating a possible hit and run after an 18-year-old woman was found badly injured in Auckland late last night
• Sprinkler system saves Christchurch factory
  A sprinkler system has saved a Christchurch bedding factory from severe damage after a chemical explosion overnight
• Police seek info man seen acting suspiciously ...
  Auckland police are looking for information about a man seen acting suspiciously around a teenager
• Fonterra freezes local milk prices for 2011
  Under fire for the price of milk, Fonterra has announced it's freezing milk prices for the rest of the year.

Just World News

• Kids, try this at home!
  Words found in books, 1850 through 2008. Explanations? I think we need to recognize that for both "Israel" and "Palestine" there was a pre-modern, Biblical usage of the word in English; and then at some point the "modern", political meaning got added in to that. You can, obviously, also try t ...
• 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 ...

First Truths

• The False Menace of Socialism
  From my latest for C4SS: By itself, the word socialism requires no statism whatsoever; instead it denotes a set of outcomes as an answer to the “Social Question” raised by disparities of wealth and economic power in society caused by statist intervention. On that account, it’s very possible to ...
• "Shared Value" and State Capitalism
  I had to respond to the combined follies of Robert Reich and Michael Porter, so, at C4SS, I did: For all of its predictable paeans to the state's prying into our lives and our exchanges, Porter and Kramer offer something of a spotty account of how "re-localization" and internalization of corpora ...
• Sudan and the Democracy of the Market
  For C4SS, I argue that Sudan's probable split into two separate states might do better by replacing the state altogether, by allowing individuals to govern themselves.
• Statist "Private Property" Is Theft
  In a commentary piece for the Center for a Stateless Society, I contend that the state's bogus property rights fly in the face of the genuine sort based not on violent edict but on legitimate moral claims.
• The Elephant(s) in the Room for the GOP
  For C4SS, I argue that anyone hoping that the freshman Republicans who entered Congress on the Tea Party wave will bring change to government is going to be disappointed.

Media Co-Op

• Repudiate the Presence of Obama in Chile and ...
  PRESS RELEASE The State Departement of the U.S.A. and the Chancellery of the Chilean government of Piñera have kept secret the exact date that the head of the yankee imperialism will step on Chilean soil, to do its colony inspection. They have limited to announce that this visit will take place ...
• Women's Memorial March for Missing and Murder ...
  DOWNTOWN EASTSIDE - More than 2,000 friends, family members and supporters�marched through the Downtown Eastside to commemorate the thousands of missing and murdered women in Canada since the 1970s. This year's event marked the 20th�annual memorial march.�Elders stopped along the march route whe ...
• Family's Deportation Hearing Left Undecided
  More than 100 people show up in court to support Chaudhry family HALIFAX – A local family of five facing deportation to Pakistan will have to wait a little bit longer to learn their fate. Fakhira Chaudhry and Chaudhry Roouf Ahmad listened ...
• Rally 4 Egypt: Celebrating the Path to Freedom
  Over 100 people gathered outside the downtown Vancouver Public Library on Feb. 12, 2011, to show their support for the Eygptian people's determined and courageous struggl ...
• SFU, a High Class Corporate Prostitute?
  Simon Fraser University (SFU) community and supporters rallied outside the January 27 meeting of the SFU Board of Governors to demand for the Goldcorp donation to be put ...

David Seaton's News Links

• The Wikileaks cables: the portrait of an empir ...
  Not really the image that America would like to project at this moment David Seaton's News LinksThere are Wikileaks cables from almost every imaginable part of the world, but since I live in Spain, I'll fill you in on some of the dump's specific effects on Spanish pol ...
• Too bad Obama can't talk like Ricky Gervais
  David Seaton's News LinksI wasn't really paying attention, but I read that there was this big hoohah about Ricky Gervais presentation of the 2011 Golden Globe awards, so out of idle curiosity I dialed it up on YouTube. I was ravished. It was wonderful. All these fat egos of today's overbloated ...
• Wikileaks: comparing conspiracy theories
  Image by Christian Ségal������ David Seaton's News LinksIt isn't as if conspiracies don't exist, but generally stupidity or incompetence explain most disasters and even real conspiracies don't tend to be as elaborate as their legion of fans would like to believe. But if we define a "conspiracy" ...
• The Nephew from Hell: Edward Bernays and the s ...
  David Seaton's News LinksA couple of summers ago I read a lovely book called "The Metaphysical Club - A Story of� Ideas in America", a Pulitzer Prize winner, by Louis Menand.� The book is about a group of philosophers: William James, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Charles Sanders Peirce, and John ...
• The travails of Pfc Bradley Manning
  From the beginning of his detention, Manning has been held in intensive solitary confinement. For 23 out of 24 hours every day -- for seven straight months and counting -- he sits completely alone in his cell. Even inside his cell, his activities are heavily restricted; he's barred even from e ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

• EWG backs strict California chromium-6 goal
  February 16th, 2011 February 14, 2011 Michael Baes Pesticide and Environmental Toxicology Branch Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment California Environmental Protection Agency 1515 Clay St., 16th floor Oakland, California... [[ This is a conten ...
• EWG backs strict California chrome-6 goal
  February 16th, 2011 February 14, 2011 Michael Baes Pesticide and Environmental Toxicology Branch Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment California Environmental Protection Agency 1515 Clay St., 16th floor Oakland, California... [[ This is a conten ...
• Proposed federal fluoride cap too high
  February 16th, 2011 February 14, 2011 Howard K. Koh, M.D., M.P.H. Assistant Secretary for Health U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Community Water Fluoridation Comments Division of... [[ This is a content ...
• 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 ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

• Talking Animals
  These pets really speak!
• 60 Lab Studies Now Confirm Cancer Link to a Va ...
  Dr. Maurice Hilleman made astounding revelations in an interview that was cut from The Health Century -- the admission that Merck drug company vaccines had been injecting dangerous viruses into people worldwide. Bear in mind that Dr. Hilleman was the developer of Merck's vaccine program. He dev ...
• How Parents Can Ruin their Children's Health
  Research is showing that most preschool children develop a taste for salt, sugar and fat at their homes. In an experiment, researchers looked at the association between the taste preferences of more than 100 preschool children and their emerging awareness of brands of fast food and sugar-sweeten ...
• New Ways to Think About Grief
  The so-called "five stages" of grief are deeply embedded in current culture -- denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. But recently, researchers using sophisticated methods of data collection have begun to overturn this and other preconceptions about grief. Time Magazine lists some ...
• Talking Mynah Bird
  This Mynah bird, rescued from death at the age of three days old, has become quite a conversationalist a year later.

JAMA

• A Historical Perspective on Clinical Trials In ...
• Minding the Gap Between Efforts to Reduce Read ...
• 2012 Theme Issue on Comparative Effectiveness ...
• Preventing Falls in Acute Care Hospitals [Lett ...
• Preventing Falls in Acute Care Hospitals--Repl ...

Survival - tribal peoples

• Trial of Indian leader’s ‘assassins’ resumes
  Guarani leader Marcos Veron was killed in 2003. © Joaó Ripper/Survival The trial of three men accused of murdering renowned Guarani Indian leader Marcos Veron is set to resume on Monday in São Paulo, Brazil. â¨â¨Marcos Veron, an internationally respected Guarani Kaiowá leader, was beat ...
• Chevron found guilty of Amazon destruction
  Waorani man, Ecuador © © John Wright/Survival In a historic court ruling, US oil company Chevron has been fined $8.6 billion for polluting a huge area of the Ecuadorian Amazon. Seventeen years after the case was taken to the courts, Chevron has been charged with dumping 18.5 billion gall ...
• Bangladesh: Tribal people living in fear after ...
  The children of Ms Buddhapati Chakma,who was shot dead by soldiers, speak to local journalists after last year's attacks © Satrong Chakma This weekend marks the first anniversary of a vicious attack on Jumma tribal people by settlers and soldiers in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh. ...
• 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

• Civic spaces should be neutral ground for reli ...
  The mayor of Saguenay, Jean Tremblay, might be voicing a popular sentiment when he says that old-stock Quebecers have become too compliant in accommodating minority religions while failing to stick up strongly enough for their own beliefs. But he misses a crucial point.
• Oda and accountability
  Bev Oda, Canada's minister of international co-operation, has a choice: She could do the right thing and resign form cabinet now. Or she could wait until the speaker of the House of Commons makes a ruling on whether she is in breach of parliamentary privilege over conflicting testimony s ...
• Hard to find good guys in city hall's latest m ...
  It's hard to sympathize with anyone involved in the latest scandal to erupt in the snakepit that is Montreal city hall. Not the senior city bureaucrats who embarked on a 10-month spying campaign against the city's auditor-general, Jacques Bergeron. Not Bergeron, who faces allegations of ...
• 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.

Food World Order

• 2/17 binge & purge: cola wars, polar bears & d ...
  video: coca-cola's secret recipe finally spills out into public* cancer causing chemicals found in cola coloring ingredient* docs are wondering if diet soda & strokes are linked* farmers rushing to deposit seeds in arctic doomsday vault where it's -4°f & patrolled by polar bears* bil ...
• 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* ...

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

• Doom And Gloom
  Have you noticed that most Americans seem to know far more about American Idol, Dancing with the Stars, Justin Bieber and their favorite sports teams than they do about world affairs?  Most Americans cannot even find Tunisia and Algeria on a map, and if you told them that food r ...
• Shocking Video Of Howard Dean Declaring That I ...
  In the shocking video you are about to watch, Howard Dean declares that it is the job of the government to redistribute our wealth.  Not only that, he says it in such a way that indicates that he believes that such a notion should be obvious to anyone with half a brain.  Well, w ...
• 20 Shocking New Economic Records That Were Set ...
  2010 was quite a year, wasn't it?  2010 will be remembered for a lot of things, but for those living in the United States, one of the main things that last year will be remembered for is economic decline.  The number of foreclosure filings set a new record, the number of home re ...
• House Prices – Up Or Down In 2011?
  How soon will it be before people finally start using the term "depression" to describe what has happened to the U.S. housing market?  It has been four and a half years since housing prices began to decline, and they are still falling.  In fact, U.S. housing prices have now fall ...
• 10 Things That Would Be Different If The Feder ...
  The vast majority of Americans, including many of those who believe that they are "educated" about the Federal Reserve, do not really understand how the Federal Reserve really makes money for the international banking elite.  Many of those opposed to the Federal Reserve will poi ...

CASSE

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

The Talking Clock

• We would welcome 'fairer votes'... but we say ...
  Some time back, this blog said that we would use the electoral reform referendum for a poll of our own and would encourage people to deliberately spoil their ballot paper by writing what they wanted to happen regarding the EU - namely, writing 'No2EU' in their ballot forms. Today, we back ped ...
• Idiot of the week: Our Nominations
  In a condensed format from the norm, we've looked at a few stories worthy of mention and decided to give you a Friday morning list of our nominations for 'Idiot of the Week'. Is it... European Court President Jean-Paul Costa who does not see the irony of comparing Britain to a dictatorship ...
• Dear world, if Britain's Foreign Secretary (Wi ...
  As Foreign Secretary, part of William Hague's job will be to ponce around the world stage pontificating and lecturing the rest of the world about 'democracy' and 'the will of the people'. If he lectures YOUR country, read on for our view on why you should ignore this particular Foreign Secret ...
• Sunday Paper Review: 6th February 2011
  February again already? By heck! The supermarkets will have Christmas decorations going up next week. Tiresome how frequently I seem to pack the things up and then have to unpack them again. Still, we could aways ban it. Especially in Birmingham. Hold that thought until the end of this... ...
• One way of getting us out of Europe, Gerard... ...
  Only UKIP has the balls to ask the questions... Empire, Gerard? Nice touch! I'll bet anything that if the EU try doing this, we'll be an independent sovereign state again, faster than you can say 'Bilderberg'... Let's hope this goes viral and people start asking themselves... who DOES o ...

Facing South

• Southern Republicans launch sneak attack on co ...
  The House is expected to vote as early as today on amendments to a budget bill that would take away the Environmental Protection Agency's power to regulate toxic coal ash as a hazardous waste. Reps. Cliff Stearns (R-Fla.) and David McKinley (R-W.Va.) have offered amendments to a continuing reso ...
• INSTITUTE INDEX: A chilly budget for the poor
  Size of the budget proposal unveiled this week by President Obama: $3.7 trillion Amount the White House says the plan will reduce the deficit by over the next 10 years: $1 trillion Portion of debt reduction that would be achieved via spending freezes: 2/3 By tax increases: 1/3 Number of year ...
• VOICES: Obama's $36 billion nuke-powered givea ...
  By Harvey Wasserman Barack Obama's 2012 budget marks a major escalation in the nuclear war against a green-powered future, whose advocates are already fighting back. Amidst massive budget cuts for social and environmental programs, Obama wants $36 billion in loan guarantees for a reactor in ...
• 'Respect my Vote': Backlash grows against vote ...
  When Republicans launched campaigns in 20 states this year for laws requiring voters to show photo ID at the polls, they likely saw it as a chance to score a quick political victory on one of their favorite causes. But the GOP's urgent and coordinated push is encountering growing resistan ...
• Mississippi coal plant taken to court
  By Ada McMahon, Bridge the Gulf On Monday, Feb. 14, the Sierra Club took Mississippi Power's proposed lignite coalmine and power plant to court, as part of its ongoing attempt to stop the project from being built. � In a morning press conference, the environmental group and a diverse range ...

CenterLine

• Today’s Terrorism News
  Abu Zubaydah Video Shown to Military Jury at Noor Hearing A never-before-seen video of Abu Zubaydah praising the 9/11 attacks and putting out a call for terror recruits was shown to the military jury deliberating a sentence for Noor Uthman … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Panetta Says a Captured bin Laden Would ‘Probably’ Be Sent to Guantanamo CIA Director Leon Panetta told a Senate panel Wednesday that if Osama bin Laden or Ayman al-Zawahiri is captured, they would be detained by the military and probably … Continue reading →
• Official CLS Statement on Nir Rosen
  From Karen J. Greenberg, Executive Director, Center on Law and Security Nir Rosen is always provocative, but he crossed the line yesterday with his comments about Lara Logan. I am deeply distressed by what he wrote about Ms. Logan and … Continue reading →
• 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 →

Short Sharp Science

• Cells cut ties with a twist
  Like the twist ties that seal off bags of bread, looping fibres may complete the final act of cell division
• Today on New Scientist: 11 February 2011
  All today's stories on NewScientist.com, including: a cyberweapon to take down the internet, taste bud trickery, and the diverse sex lives of animals
• First water map of Earth's leaky surface
  See the first-ever global survey of Earth's permeability, showing which regions have rocks that water can pass through
• Today on New Scientist: 17 February 2011
  All today's stories on NewScientist.com, including: counting toddlers, a jet-propelled fossil, and why men's bones could affect their sperm count
• Beautiful blue view of the red planet
  These blue dunes are an accumulation of basalt sands that lie in an impact crater on Mars

Tech Drive In

• Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal Alpha 2 Review, Scr ...
  Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" alpha 2 was released a day ago. A lot has changed with Ubuntu since we reviewed the first alpha release of Ubuntu Natty some weeks ago. Here is a quick review of the latest release of Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal. What's New in Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal Alpha 2? ...
• What Makes Diaspora Special?
  You all must be already aware of open source Facebook alternative called Diaspora. I have been using it for a month now and I am really starting to like it. Now a lot of people ask me what's so special about Diaspora, what makes it different. For that, you need to watch this "introduction to Dia ...
• Very Nice Stop Motion Animation Video Made Usi ...
  This video was done by Stefan Schwaha as an art project featuring some of his visual ideas in the form of a stop-motion animation. The video was created solely using open source tools like ffmpeg, imagemagick, the gimp, etc. Thanks to�Stefan Schwaha for the video. You could find the full ...
• Exaile 0.3.2.1 Released, Install Exaile in Ubu ...
  Exaile is a very good music player alternative for Linux. Exaile is nimble and can handle large music collections without any problems. Exaile 0.3.2.1 was released a day ago. Exaile 0.3.2.1 is a bugfix release for version 0.3.2.
• GNOME Shell Review - It's Starting to Look Goo ...
  GNOME is among the most widely used Linux desktop environments out there, if not *the* most widely used one. GNOME Shell is the latest incarnation of GNOME which is still undergoing heavy development. Months ago, we captured the evolution of GNOME Shell in detail and I think its time for another ...

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

• Police launch “brutal” operation in Bahrain
  It was the early hours of the morning in Bahrain when the security forces launched a major operation to clear a camp of protesters in the capital, Manama. Men, women and children ran for their lives. Witnesses say it was a brutal assault. Most people were asleep when the police arrived in force, ...
• Serious Doubt Cast on FBI’s Anthrax Case ...
  BY GLENN GREENWALD For years, the FBI believed that it had identified the perpetrator of the 2001 anthrax attacks — former Army researcher Steven Hatfill — only to be forced to acknowledge that he wasn’t involved and then pay him $5.8 million for the damage he suffered from those false accusatio ...
• Panel Demolishes Official 9/11 Story
  By Greg Scott February 17th, 2011 Architect Richard Gage changed the opinions of two dozen (24 of 25) individuals in the audience that previously believed the official 9/11 Commission story after presenting his evidence at the Conscious Life Expo in Los Angeles. The other panelists included Sena ...
• Health Authorities Want Depression-Causing Dru ...
  Health authorities are pushing for drugs to be added to public water supplies that cause depression and memory loss, as a new study shows that the dangers of statins have been deliberately underplayed by drug companies, in a chilling throwback to how the population in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New W ...
• Janet Diane Mourglia-Swerdlow: The Dangers of ...

Veterans Today

• SYED ZAIDI: RAYMOND DAVIS, AN AMERICAN &#8220 ...
  The Raymond Davis murders — American empire comes unhinged FOR THE BENEFIT OF MY AMERICAN FRIENDS By Dr. Zaidi for Veterans Today About a year ago Gordon Duff and Jeff Gates, both associated with the Veterans Today website, and both well-connected with the Pentagon and the Pakistani military, vi ...
• Is Our Competitive Spirit Helping or Hurting A ...
  The mere thought that man's primary imperative is in pursuit of conflict and greed - and that's essentially what competition is - is counterintuitive. The fact is, our tendency to be competitive rather than cooperative is man's primary dysfunction.
• Desert Storm Veterans, the Lead Element in the ...
  The aim to tie the story of environmental hazards to all that have been concerned from the patient sufferers be it civilian or military, to the lead Senator that exposed the Plight of the Gulf War Veterans in 1994(Senator Reigle), to the doctors that cared to try to answer the needs despite gove ...
• Proportionality and Restraint
  War’s not Over Soldiers and Dogs Stay off the Grass Controversy over American military efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan is common. America has been at war for over ten years. Children of troops that fought America’s enemies in the first days of the war on terror are now fighting too. There is no ...
• Egyptians Forced Anti-Muslim Bigots to Be Nake ...
  By Ali Baghdadi The majority of American politicians and corporate media make me sick to my stomach. In plain English, they make me want to vomit. All the problems of the world are blamed on Muslim “extremists”, “fundamentalists” and “radicals”. Soon, racist bigots may even claim that global war ...

electric politics

• The Truth About Taxes
  In the economics profession, a "Harberger's triangle" shows the "deadweight loss" to society from taxes, the net loss, that is, from the optimum "free-market" equilibrium. It's a great, great theory if you're a math whiz. And virtually all neoclassical and neoliberal economists believe it's tru ...
• Chili's Campaign in the Buckeye State
  Voters in Ohio's second congressional district have a real choice: the Democrat, Surya "Chili" Yalamanchili, wants to create jobs and is on the side of the workers, while his opponent, incumbent Republican Jean Schmidt, apparently has no policy views whatsoever except unconditional support for ...
• Plato's Secret
  The Gods on Mount Olympus don't rule the world. Science does. But Plato couldn't say that in ancient Greece without a good chance of being put to death. So Plato did a sensible thing: he hid his secret, using musical codes, inside his already magnificent philosophical construction, a philosophy ...
• Keeping the Present Inevitable
  Republocrats. Demicans. It adds up to Oligarchy. The wealthy have overtly seized control of the U.S. They're not of a mind to share the spoils. What to do? Nobody seems to know... Nevertheless, it helps to talk about the problem. And the more people who rattle their chains the better. Rick MacA ...
• 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 ...

PR News

• eBay tops social media interaction score card
  CHICAGO: Auction and shopping site eBay tops the list among 50 brands with the most engaging and interactive social media marketing, according to a recent analysis.
• MedeFile signs IR, corporate comms firm
  BOCA RATON, FL: Elite Financial Communications Group has been appointed to handle investor relations and corporate communications for MedeFile International, which provides solutions for portable electronic medical records for patients.
• MZ Group expands US, BRIC IR footprint
  NEW YORK: Multinational MZ Group, an independent investor relations consulting firm, has expanded its presence in the United States and the BRICs.
• Quinn & Co. PR promotes Semanoff
  NEW YORK: Quinn & Co. Public Relations promoted David Semanoff to associate VP and head of its food, wine, and spirits division.
• Burson launches global political practice
  WASHINGTON: Burson-Marsteller launched the Government and Political Services (GPS) Group, a global practice aimed at corporate and political clients and staffed by executives from Burson-Marsteller, Penn Schoen Berland, and Prime Policy Group.

The Story Behind the Story

• Updates on the Illuminati
  Food for thought from the incredible website: http://therr.posterous.com/real-meaning-of-666-that-no-one-ever-talks-ab “The Fallen Host came in the times of Jared before his son Enoch by hundreds of years… to mate with Human Women and Animals… and screw up the DNA all over… that is WHY Noah was ...
• New Antiseptic – “Hydrogen Baracks ...
  Look what folks in Scotland think about our Usurper in Chief  ——
• This Is as Bizarre as it Gets!! What’s ...
  My vote on this is that when the Chinese YUAN becomes the World’s Reserve Currency, millions of Chinese will suddenly become quite wealthy and can now afford “American-Style” luxuries.   They will become the “New Middle Class” while America’s middle class become the peasantry.  Imagine Robins ...
• Illuminati “Mirror Image” = Itanim ...
  Want to see something freaky and very telling?  In witchcraft and demonology, spells are “cast” by means of “magic mirrors” – which are believed to be the entrance to other dimensions.  “Through the looking glass” is more than simply symbolic, and the Qabala mystery religions teach that “Lilit ...
• 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.  ...

k2p blog

• Guttenberg (aka “Googleberg”) at a ...
  Guttenbergs plagiarism has caused German media to turn the posh Franconian surname "zu Guttenberg" into a far less noble "zu Googleberg."
• Floods and Global Warming is fashion not scien ...
  There is the attempt to link current weather to long term climate, to use computer models to achieve the evidence, and to alarm the public and policy makers that climate change is real and here.
• Guttenberg plagiarism: Germans fixated with ac ...
  As a sociological phenomenon, the rise of the "cut-and-paste" culture together with the German love of academic titles is a worthy subject for study. But what does not seem to be in doubt is that the German Defence Minister Guttenberg is just another politician who is a fraud.
• A quiet sun flexes its muscles
  The first interplanetary shock, driven by the solar flare Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) from Sunday, is expected at on 17th February and will be followed by Monday's R3/CME.
• Peer review becomes incestuous when it comes t ...
  A critique of faults in a paper supporting global warming was sent to the author of the erroneous paper for peer-review!!

Left Foot Forward

• ‘Simplification’ leads to severely disabled yo ...
  Yesterday’s Welfare Reform Bill contains huge changes for the UK’s social security system - as well as a number of damaging new sanctions and fines, reports Nicola Smith.
• Realpolitik alive and well under the Obama adm ...
  There is no doubt that Bahrain is a less likely place for the popular unrest sweeping the Middle East to settle, over and above more traditionally volatile states in the region.
• No frontline cuts? Really, Mr Cameron?
  In a week of u-turns for the better, there was further evidence today of a u-turn for the worse - the breaking of David Cameron's pre-election pledge that there would be no frontline cuts to public services.
• Government ramps up Trident work despite coali ...
  As the government cracks under pressure on forest sales and housing benefit for the long-term unemployed, further revelations on Trident replacement spending are adding to their headaches.
• Lecturers up in arms at the quango that escape ...
  From April university staff will be compelled to pay an annual membership fee of £68 – a cost previously picked up by government – to the Institute for Learning.

Consumerist

• Wells Fargo Meeting Today With Philly Homeowne ...
  Wells Fargo is meeting today at noon with the Philadelphia homeowner who "foreclosed" on them, The Consumerist has exclusively learned. Patrick says he "received a call from upon high." late yesterday and that he now has an appointment, "with a very senior Wells Fargo person." It will be inter ...
• Most Don't Trust Labor Unions Or Corporations
  In the wake of labor union strife with the Wisconsin government, the population is slow to trust either unions or employers. A report from the Pew Research Center found a 25-year low 45 percent of respondents hold favorable views of unions, while 47 percent view corporations favorably -- also ...
• Compared To The Rest Of The World, Americans A ...
  Despite the best efforts of Tom Cruise to capture the booze-swilling hearts of a nation in Cocktail, Americans have one of the lowers per capita drinking rates in the world. The Daily Mail cites a World Health Authority report that finds the average American drinks the equivalent of about 470 ...
• Morning Deals
  ClothingExpress: [Clothing & Accessories] BOGO 50% Off Everything!Bebe: [Clothing & Accessories] Save Up To 70% Off + Free Shipping!Naturalizer: [Shoes] $10 Off $10 Purchase w/ Coupon AUUAMWet Seal: [Apparel] Extra 40% Off Clearance EventUrban Boundaries: [Apparel] 25% Off Entire Purchase w/ Co ...
• Zombie Debt Collector Tries To Collect 11-Year ...
  Christopher is currently being haunted my a small debt from his past. At least, it might be from his past: he's not sure. A collection agency is after him trying to collect a $315 PayPal balance from the dot-com bubble era. He doesn't remember owing PayPal any money, but who knows? That was a c ...

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

• Could Farming Plant The Seed Of Prosperity for ...
  Agriculture could offer returning soldiers, and wounded veterans, a chance to become entrepreneurs with programs like Combat Boots to Cowboy Boots and Farmer-Veteran Coalition. The Farmer-Veteran Coalition seeks to help returning veterans find employment, training and a place to heal on America’ ...
• Chris Matthews on the Other Bush Son, Jeb and ...
  Chris Matthews during his Sunday show has a roundtable discussion on the Republican Party elders urging him to run for the presidency in 2012. The pundits on his panel split 6-6 on whether he should run for the presidency.
• Road Trip – UK Progressive Travels Stateside
  From today onward we’ll check the President Obama v Republican Tea Party Budget battle live from Capitol Hill. Then UK Progressive will take only its 2nd break as we unplug from the Net 20 February – 02 March to allow me to work on finishing 3-long promised books on Social Media, Running for Off ...
• O’Reilly Challenged by Lawrence O’Donnell
  Lawrence O’Donnell schools FOX’s Bill O’Reilly on his “low-voltage” lies and using Glenn Beck’s insanity as cover. Could he be Keith Olbermann reincarnate? Never raises his voice, never loses his cool, just goes straight at the lies of BillO. A transcript follows the video: Time for tonight’s re ...
• 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 ...

NewsAlert

• Wisconsin Governor Dares Dem Senators To Retur ...
• Houston Will Overtake Chicago: Former U.S. Cen ...
  MSNBC reports:Steve Murdock, a former Texas state demographer and previous director of the U.S Census Bureau, said while he wasn't shocked Chicago didn't slip, residents shouldn't feel too comfy at No. 3. "If Chicago doesn't change direction, it's obvious Houston could overtake Chicago and beco ...
• His Real Estate Agent? Craigslist
  The New York Times
• Climate zealots made my life hell for being a ...
  The Daily Mail
• Jury: Illinois State workers fired because the ...
  The Chicago Sun-Times reports:Sixteen former state transportation workers were illegally fired by impeached ex-Gov. Blagojevich’s administration because they were Republicans, a federal jury decided Thursday. The group, comprising low-level holdovers from former Republican Gov. George Ryan’s te ...

JoNova

• They say they believe but act like they dont
  This week the Australian government tells us that we ought to pay more tax to prevent the increase in natural disasters that are dead-set bound-to-occur, yet the government itself is budgeting less for these events. Figure that. They’ve cut their expenditure projections for future natural disast ...
• 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 ...

ReNew America

• Democrats: emboldening America's enemies & ter ...
  (Ann Coulter) - The Middle East is on fire again, and crazy Muslims with funny names aren't helping things -- Mahmoud, ElBaradei, al-Banna, Barack... The major new development is that NOW liberals want to get rid of a dictator in the Middle East! Where were they when we were taking out the guy w ...
• Hawaii lawmakers OK same-sex civil unions
  (Associated Press) - The Hawaii Legislature approved a bill on Wednesday allowing civil unions for same-sex couples, sending the measure to the governor, who has said he will sign it into law. Democratic Gov. Neil Abercrombie's office said he intends to sign the bill within 10 days, and civil un ...
• Calif court to answer question on gay marriage ...
  (Associated Press) - California's highest court is wading back into the legal morass surrounding the state's voter-approved gay marriage ban. The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to rule on a question from a federal appeals court mulling the constitutionality of the 2008 ban known as Pr ...
• Eligibility resolution nears
  (Joseph Farah) - If anyone has a right to be frustrated and demoralized about the eligibility issue, it is me. For nearly three years, I have stuck my neck out on it, devoting massive news-gathering resources to unwrapping Barack Obama's real-life narrative, endured abuse as a "conspiracy theori ...
• Reining in the administrative state
  (Robert E. Moffit) - Call it "legislation through regulation." Increasingly, Congress writes sweeping, big-picture legislation (think Obamacare) and gives regulatory agencies a free hand to fill in the details. Meanwhile, it's the agency-written rules and regulations that determine how the law g ...

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

• Solar Flare Update
  The biggest solar flare in four years has sent charged particles hurtling towards Earth. ABC News says: The radiation from Monday’s flare, known as a Coronal Mass Ejection, should pass the Earth today, Friday and Saturday. The charged particles will speed by at some 560 miles per second. …What ...
• 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 ...

Facing South

• Southern Republicans launch sneak attack on co ...
  The House is expected to vote as early as today on amendments to a budget bill that would take away the Environmental Protection Agency's power to regulate toxic coal ash as a hazardous waste. Reps. Cliff Stearns (R-Fla.) and David McKinley (R-W.Va.) have offered amendments to a continuing reso ...
• INSTITUTE INDEX: A chilly budget for the poor
  Size of the budget proposal unveiled this week by President Obama: $3.7 trillion Amount the White House says the plan will reduce the deficit by over the next 10 years: $1 trillion Portion of debt reduction that would be achieved via spending freezes: 2/3 By tax increases: 1/3 Number of year ...
• VOICES: Obama's $36 billion nuke-powered givea ...
  By Harvey Wasserman Barack Obama's 2012 budget marks a major escalation in the nuclear war against a green-powered future, whose advocates are already fighting back. Amidst massive budget cuts for social and environmental programs, Obama wants $36 billion in loan guarantees for a reactor in ...
• 'Respect my Vote': Backlash grows against vote ...
  When Republicans launched campaigns in 20 states this year for laws requiring voters to show photo ID at the polls, they likely saw it as a chance to score a quick political victory on one of their favorite causes. But the GOP's urgent and coordinated push is encountering growing resistan ...
• Mississippi coal plant taken to court
  By Ada McMahon, Bridge the Gulf On Monday, Feb. 14, the Sierra Club took Mississippi Power's proposed lignite coalmine and power plant to court, as part of its ongoing attempt to stop the project from being built. � In a morning press conference, the environmental group and a diverse range ...

One News Page

• 'Narnia' producer Moore dies, aged 39
  Perry Moore dies of an apparent OxyContin overdose at his New York apartment.
• Maoists kill Special Police Officer
  Maoists Friday gunned down a special police officer (SPO) in an interior part of Orissa, police said.
• Eva Longoria - Longoria: 'starting Over Is Har ...
  Actress EVA LONGORIA has turned to religion to help her overcome her divorce from basketball star TONY PARKER as she begins her 'new journey' in life.The Desperate Housewives star split from the San Antonio Spurs player in November (10) and their divorce was finalised in January (11). Reports .. ...
• 71 injured in Uganda election violence: Red Cr ...
• Ajmer Dargah blast: Accused in judicial custod ...
  The chief judicial magistrate here on Friday ordered judicial custody for Bharat Rateshwar Shah, accused in Dargah blast case.

Global Research TV

• Swiss Shift Opinion to Abolish Militia
• Les invisibles (Partie 4)
• Big Pharma Creates Diseases to Sell Cures
• Obama's Total Media Takeover
• Chilcot, Straw, and the Secret Memo

Daily Tech

• Obama Gives Intel CEO a Spot on Jobs Council
  Otellini will give Obama a helping hand on getting Americans back to work
• Report: DOJ Eyeing Apple for Antitrust Violati ...
  Big Brother is watching Apple
• AMD Marketing Campaign Makes Fun of Intel Chip ...
  The Cougar Point flaw is music to AMD's ears
• U.S. House Votes to Allow Cable Providers to T ...
  It has seen the end of the net neutrality legislation, it will soon see the end of the Rebellion...
• Chevrolet Unveils MyLink Handsfree System
  MyLink is like Sync with a bowtie

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

• Month of Movies: Will Helena Bonham Carter Be ...
  Every day during February 2011, we'll be talking movie reviews, celebrities, Oscar nominations, awards shows, DVDs you need to rent + more. Sign up to get A Month of Movies in your inbox each week in February -- and see all the movies in the series. **************************** I don't yet k ...
• Why, Why, Why: Lil' Kim Beheads Nicki Minaj on ...
  During an interview in November, Nicki Minaj called rapper Lil� Kim a �has been� -- among other things. Clearly Kim isn�t taking the jab well. On the cover of her new mixtape Black Friday, released on Valentine's Day, is an image of a beheaded and dismembered Minaj in a pool of blood with an obv ...
• The Internet Strikes Back: What Net Neutrality ...
  I'm taking a break from your regularly scheduled discussion of all things Man-Titty and Romance to participate in The Internet Strikes Back, which focuses on Net Neutrality. For those of you not in the U.S., or in the U.S. and not sure what the hell I'm talking about, Net Neutrality is about ...
• Inside the Conservative Political Action Confe ...
  Each year, conservatives converge on Washington, DC for the Conservative Political Action Conference. Started in 1973 by the American Conservative Union (ACU), the event has grown to be the largest right-of-center conference of the year. This past weekend, more than 11,000 people attended and se ...
• Groupon's FTD Failure a Valentine's Day PR Nig ...
  If you love saving money, chances are that you -- like me -- viewed Groupon's arrival on the frugal scene with initial suspicion that gave way to complete and unabashed devotion. Half off places you'd shop anyway? There's nothing wrong with that, except when, well, there are things wrong with th ...

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

• Friday roundup, Feb. 19, 2011
  Pakistani Qaseem Shah, 66, foreground, breaks coal while working in a brick factory on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2011. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen) Today’s news and commentary roundup will include some material from last week, because I ran out of time last Friday a ...
• The latest results of MSHA ‘impact&#8217 ...
  Here’s the latest from the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration: The U.S. Department of Laborâs Mine Safety and Health Administration today announced that federal inspectors issued 377 citations and orders during special impact inspections conducted at 15 coal and seven metal/nonmetal min ...
• MSHA update: District 4 not alone in failing m ...
  My buddy Howard Berkes over at NPR had another piece about MSHA chief Joe Main’s plans to split his agency’s Southern West Virginia district office in two, in the hopes that doing so will make mine safety problems in the region more manageable. Howard raised a perfectly reasonable question, giv ...
• New Harvard study: Fully accounting for coal&# ...
  The Boston Globe’s GreenBlog has an item out today about a new study from the Harvard Medical School’s Center for Health and the Global Environment. Here’s how reporter Beth Daley summarizes it: By now, we all know coalâs climate change reputation: Power plants that burn it release enormous amo ...
• Guest blog: Do you pay more taxes than coal?
  This is a guest blog by Ted Boettner, executive director of the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy, and is cross-posted from that organization’s blog: The New York Times and the Economist both had interesting pieces last week highlighting the difficulties of federal corporate tax reform ...

Daniel Miessler

• The Strange Powers of the Placebo Effect
  via youtube.com Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsEuler’s DiskThe GiftJan-Ove Waldner ServesAndrei Arlovski “This is Sparta” KickThe Merits of Reading
• Optimizing WordPress with Nginx, Varnish, W3 T ...
  So I’ve spent the last couple of weeks tweaking my web server stack. I like my site to pop, and I’ve finally achieved a configuration that I’m somewhat happy with. In sum, I’m running Varnish as a front-end to Nginx which is running WordPress loaded with the W3-Total-Cache plugin. The W3-Total-C ...
• Google Realtime Search
  via google.com Um, how did I miss this? I am the color of enthused. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsGoogle Ngram ViewerGoogle Launches Shopping App for iPhone | Mashable20 Things I Learned About Browsers and the Web | GoogleThis is a ProblemAnother Time
• The Fundo Learning System
  I have an idea for a learning system. I came up with it while thinking about IT learning, but I’m sure it works for many disciplines. It’s very simple: You do two things simultaneously: Focus on fundamentals Focus on building things that require extremely advanced skills So one example, again fr ...
• Homelessness: Cutting out the middle men | The ...
  Broadway tried a brave and novel approach: giving each homeless person hundreds of pounds to be spent as they wished. According to a new report on the project by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, a think-tank, it worked—a success that might offer broader lessons for public-service reform and effic ...

Fitwatch

• Activist reports recent encounter with Mark Ke ...
  Fitwatch has been passed the following statement relating to an encounter by an activist with the ex-undercover cop, Mark Kennedy. Mark Kennedy encountered in London Last week ex-undercover police spy Mark Kennedy was encountered by chance by an activist who was an erstwhile friend. Kennedy was ...
• 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 ...

Worldwide Hippies

• Well, At Least Obama’s Coming Out On The ...
  Obama joins Wisconsin’s budget battle, opposing Republican anti-union bill | Washington Post President Obama thrust himself and his political operation this week into Wisconsin’s broiling budget battle, mobilizing opposition Thursday to a Republican bill that would curb public-worker benefits wh ...
• It is spreading. 25,000 protested In Madison, ...
  Public Employee Union Protests Spread From Wisconsin to Ohio | Bloomberg In what union leaders say is becoming a national fight, protests against legislation to restrict public employees’ collective-bargaining rights spread from Wisconsin to Ohio. In Madison, Wisconsin, crowds that police estima ...
• The real reason why we can’t raise taxes ...
  They need that money to wrap gifts!
• Sea Shepherd may have brought Japanese whaling ...
  FIS- The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) has successfully interfered with and caused the halt of Japanâs whaling operations in the Antarctic Ocean, a Fisheries Agency (JFA) official said this week. The animal rights organisationâs efforts have caused government officials to consider bri ...
• Mythical Republican Candidate Ties Obama
  Why in the hell would you vote for the greater of two evils? Especially when there isn’t one. Nameless Republican Ties Obama in 2012 Election Preferences | Gallup U.S. registered voters are evenly split about whether they would back President Barack Obama for re-election in 2012 (45%) or “the Re ...

reference frame

• Johnny Ball: AGW crusaders liquidated 90% of m ...
  Johnny Ball has been a great popularizer of mathematics, especially among the British children. Even these days, at the age of 72, he can spontaneously, vigorously, and meaningfully answer any general science question from the kids: After a global warming fatwā was issued against ...
• Gavin Schmidt: there's no theory that extremes ...
  There has been a lot of havoc in the media world about two recent papers in Nature whose authors argued that bad rainstorms are caused by humans (Min et al.) and that the British 2000 floods were caused by humans (Pall et al.). The idea that climate extremes are supposed to get l ...
• Are pathological mathematical structures impor ...
  Javier was intrigued by the following preprint: Quantum D-branes and exotic smooth R4The authors argue that strings or D-branes may propagate on backgrounds that are homeomorphic to R^4 but not diffeomorphic to R^4 - some four-dimensional space with an inequivalent "smoothness" structure. ...
• Do you think inflation probably happened? A po ...
  Sean Carroll asked his readers to quantify their confidence that various physical explanations or theories are right. The TRF readers don't have to be explained that polls don't mean anything in science, and I actually expect most of the answers to be bogus. With all my imme ...
• Why is the Wigner-Eckart theorem useful?
  ...and other questions... The Wigner-Eckart Theorem Wikipedia on the theorem is a formula that tells us about all "simple constraints" that group theory - the mathematical incarnation of the wisdom about symmetries, especially in the SO(3) ≈ SU(2) case (rotations in a three-dimens ...

No Frakking Consensus

• Andrew Weaver vs Tim Flannery
  Two activist scientists, both committed to the climate change fight, have starkly different views of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. One says it's the most "rigorous scientific process" in which he has been involved. The other says it isn't good science, but "lowest-common-denomin ...
• 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.

Tarpley

• Mubarak Toppled by CIA Because He Opposed US P ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net February 18, 2011 Washington DC, Feb. 18, 2011 — There never was an “Egyptian revolution,” but rather a behind-the-scenes military putsch by a junta of CIA puppet generals who evidently could not succeed in their goal of ousting Hosni Mubarak without the hel ...
• Hillary Announces Expanded US Cyber-Coup Campa ...
  Webster G. Tarpley TARPLEY.net February 16, 2011
• US Threat to Seize Suez Canal – Was This ...
  Webster G. Tarpley on The Alex Jones Show Infowars February 15, 2011 download file
• Massive CIA Campaign Drives Mubarak from Power ...
  Webster G. Tarpley on The Alex Jones Show Infowars February 11, 2011 download file
• Mubarak Defies CIA Coup; Won’t Quit; No ...
  Webster G. Tarpley on The Alex Jones Show Infowars February 10, 2011 download file

Modern Survivalism

• State Tax Burden
  One way to look at State tax burden when comparing one state with another, is to use the same weighting factor (or value, or importance) for each category (sales tax, income tax, property tax). If you value each category the same, that is, sales tax is just as important to you as income tax whic ...
• Lowest to Highest Taxes by State
  Have you ever wondered what U.S. State may be better to live in with relation to taxes and tax burden? While we cannot escape taxes, we can make decisions which will minimize our overall State tax burden, depending on each of our own financial situations and objectives. We’re talking about prope ...
• 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 ...

Fast Company

• Smart Chevy MyLink In-Car System Arrives in 20 ...
  Chevrolet has just revealed its plans to build its MyLink technology into the 2012 Chevy Volt and Equinox--a system that adds security from OnStar and accesses streaming music content from Pandora and Stitcher SmartRadio, all controlled by voice and touch controls.Chevy is highlighting the MyLin ...
• Journalism Majors Beware: New Tests Hold Schoo ...
  Britain and the Collegiate Learning Assessment want to measure school success by whether students can succeed at work. Many college graduates are devoid of practical skills, according to�new evidence�from the provocative book,�Academically Adrift. Fed up with the disconnect between employers ...
• How Watson's $1 Million Jeopardy Win Helps IBM ...
  After crushing the humanoids on Jeopardy this week, IBM's Watson computer took home $1 million in prize money. Instead of throwing it away on Tiffany diamond-encrusted circuit boards or a Lamborghini to show up other supercomputers, Watson is showing that its silicon heart is in the right pl ...
• South Korea to Invest $7.18 Billion in Smart G ...
  South Korea announced this week that it will invest $7.18 billion into a nationwide smart grid, to be completed by 2030. The state-run�Korea Electric Power Corp (KEPCO) announced the move, saying the investment is an effort to curb the country's carbon emissions and improve efficiency in its e ...
• Scare Tactics: Norton's Cybercrime Index Track ...
  Thanks to the bold and clear distinctions of the Homeland Security Department's innovative, color-coded (and recently retired) terror alert system, the American public was able to react in a practical manner to threats to our national security. If the terror alert level was set to red, for exa ...

Jadaliyya

• Litmus Test Rowdiness in Damascus Today (Video ...
  [No text, no comment, just video. Yes, it is that significant . . . potentially] � Al-Hariqah, Damascus, February 17th Altercations. �
• Iraq and Its Tahrir Square
  [This article is a slightly updated and edited translation of the original Arabic version that was posted on Jadaliyya and can be found here.] Iraqâs absence from the âEgypt Today, Tomorrow the Worldâ map, published a week after the massive demonstration in Egypt on January 25th and whi ...
• Is Bahrain Next?
  On Monday hundreds of young Bahrainis poured into the streets in communities and villages across the small island country. Mobilized by decades of autocratic excess, torture, and years of anguish over the unfulfilled promises of political reform, the country’s activist community is strug ...
• Libya Erupts and Morocco Protests Planned for ...
  The revolutionary wind is heading west as well. In addition to clashes in Benghazi, earlier today, one of al-Qadhdhafi�s murals went up in flames in al-Bayda. They chanted �It�s your turn Qadhdhafi, O dictator.⠠ � � � � ��
• 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 ...

mediagazer

• Ousted Time Inc CEO Griffin fires back about r ...
  Keith J. Kelly / New York Post: Ousted Time Inc CEO Griffin fires back about reason for departure  —  Jack Griffin, the ousted CEO of Time Inc. has fired back at Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes who blamed yesterday's firing on a clash of management styles.  —  Said Griffin in his first public resp ...
• What Bob Iger Values Most In TV's Digital Futu ...
  Andrew Wallenstein / paidContent: What Bob Iger Values Most In TV's Digital Future  —  If there was any doubt as to how Disney (NYSE: DIS) CEO Bob Iger sees the changing TV world, it became abundantly clear in the closing hours of Disney's investors conference on Thursday in Anaheim.  —  In sh ...
• Paul Friedman out at CBS News (Chris Ariens/me ...
  Chris Ariens / mediabistro.com: Paul Friedman out at CBS News  —  TVNewser has learned another CBS News executive is out the door today.  Executive VP for news Paul Friedman is leaving the company.  Incoming chairman of the news division Jeff Fager made the announcement in a memo to staff a sh ...
• Security Forces in Bahrain Open Fire on Mourne ...
  New York Times: Security Forces in Bahrain Open Fire on Mourners  —  MANAMA, Bahrain — Government forces opened fire on hundreds of mourners marching toward Pearl Square Friday, sending people running away in panic amid the boom of concussion grenades.  But even as the people fled, at least on ...
• Yes, we do know what day it is (but we probabl ...
  David Marsh / Guardian: Yes, we do know what day it is (but we probably won't say so) |  Mind your language  —  For an online readership, words such as ‘tonight’ and ‘yesterday’ can be confusing and misleading - so we have dropped them  —  I am writing this at 5pm on Thursday in London.

Chemtrail News

• Uncensored Magazine | Chemtrails in Rus ...
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• Beware The Chemtrails Of … February | V ...
  You know those seemingly innocuous lines planes leave in the sky? Well, you probably thought you knew them. I mean, you've seen them your whole life. They were.Videogum - http://videogum.com/
• Question? chemtrails : Aliens & UFO ...
  I would like to know if anyone could shed any light to the where abouts of the airfeilds in englang where these chemtrail aircraft are ...www.disclose.tv/forum/question-chemtrails-t43787.html
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World News - Top Stories

• German Defense Minister Drops Doctoral Ti ...
  By PATRICK MCGROARTY BERLIN—Embattled German Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg said he will stop using his doctoral title until an investigation into allegations he plagiarized parts of his dissertation is completed. View Full Image Associated Press German Defense Minister Karl-Th ...
• Lady Gaga: I Want To Be In Movies
  Lady Gaga: born to be a movie star? The Grammy-winning singer, fashion trailblazer, gay rights activist and recent hatchling is no stranger to the camera, and in an interview on Friday, she said she plans on taking that to the next level: the big screen. Speaking to "The Morning Mash Up" on ...
• Dina Lohan: Lindsay faces `lifelong` addi ...
  Dina Lohan says daughter Lindsay faces a 'lifelong struggle with addiction'. Dina and Michael Lohan head into Nassau County Family Court outside New York. Michael has filed papers to re-open their divorce case...
• Tablet Explosion Looking More Subdued
  A Gartner survey highlighted the continued success of smartphones as the top selling device again this year, but tablets sat way down at the bottom of the list. "Smartphones were followed by laptop computers and desktop computers in rankings of U.S. consumers' average intent to purchase in ...
• Hillary Clinton to urge Taliban to reject ...
  Continue reading the main story Taliban Conflict Make-or-break year ahead Can Afghan forces step up? Who are the Taliban? Pakistan's very unhappy new year US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will say on Friday that Taliban fighters in Afghanistan face a stark choice between war and peace, ...

no frakking consensus

• Andrew Weaver vs Tim Flannery
  Two activist scientists, both committed to the climate change fight, have starkly different views of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. One says it's the most "rigorous scientific process" in which he has been involved. The other says it isn't good science, but "lowest-common-denomin ...
• 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.

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 [.. ...

Justice Roars - Louisiana

• Wheelchair-Bound Man Denied Basic Medical Care ...
  From our friends at ACLU of Louisiana: Seeking immediate help for a disabled man held since April in inhumane conditions at the Iberia Parish Correctional Center (“ICC”), the ACLU of Louisiana today submitted an emergency second request for relief on his behalf. Reginald Peters, who requires ...
• Disaster Profiteers Continue to Seek Wealth in ...
  As Haiti approaches the one-year anniversary of their massive earthquake, the country is still in crisis. It’s clear that – as with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina - much of the promised relief and reconstruction aid has not reached those affected by the disaster. The details of a recent ...
• Guns and Terrorism: Two Unasked Question in Tu ...
  By Bill Quigley Question: How does a mentally unstable man who was kicked out of school and had run-ins with the law buy an assault weapon? The weapon reportedly used in the mass murders in Tucson was an assault weapon - a Glock 19, semi-automatic pistol, with an extended magazine. That weapo ...
• Rapides Parish Jail Seeks Expansion That WIll ...
  From our friends at ACLU of Louisiana: The American Civil Liberties Union today filed a public records request with Rapides Parish Sheriff Charles F. Wagner, Jr., seeking disclosure of the study and supporting data that some Rapides Parish officials tout as supporting expansion of the Rapide ...
• Million Plus Remain Homeless and Displaced in ...
  By Bill Quigley and Jeena Shah One year after the January 12 2010 earthquake, more than a million people remain homeless in Haiti. Homemade shelters and tents are everywhere in Port au Prince. People are living under plastic tarps or sheets in concrete parks, up to the edge of major streets, i ...

Truth About Our World

• The Shame Of Being An American
  Paul Craig Roberts Prisonplanet.com Feb 17, 2011 The United States government has overestimated the amount of shame that it and American citizens can live down.  On February 15 “the indispensable people” had to suffer the hypocrisy of the U.S. Secretary of State delivering a speech about America ...
• Judge gives go-ahead to add fluoride to city's ...
  By JENNY HOPE Plans to add fluoride to tap water in Southampton were endorsed by a judge yesterday Plans to add fluoride to tap water in a major city were endorsed by a judge yesterday despite overwhelming public opposition. Mr Justice Holman rejected claims that the decision-making process was ...
• CANCER IS A FUNGUS … … AND IT IS ...
  By David Icke The figures are fantastic. Some eight million people die every year from cancer worldwide, more than half a million in the United States alone. The global number is predicted to rise to twelve million by 2030. Cancer is the biggest cause of death for people under 85 and in the US o ...
• David Icke – Get Off Your Ass – Ti ...
• Hogwash Alert: One Flu Shot To Protect All Hum ...
  The epitome of pseudoscientific research has just been raised a notch by influenza scientists. The claim which was recently brought to light earlier this year in lesser known publications, has now made its way to mainstream media to further infect the masses with a different brand of hogwash. Ac ...

  IPS - Inter Press Services

• ARGENTINA: Sustained Effort Needed to Eradicat ...
  One of the potential impacts of climate change that arouses most concern is an increase in diseases transmitted by tropical insects, like Chagas' disease, Argentina's main endemic illness.
• Residents of Razed Afghan Village Dispute U.S. ...
  The commander of U.S.-NATO forces in southern Afghanistan, Maj. Gen. James Terry, asserted last month that the homes systematically destroyed by U.S. forces across three districts of Kandahar province as part of Operation Dragon Strike in October and November "were abandoned, empty and ...
• AFRICA: Billions Lost to State Coffers Due to ...
  Bad governance and the persistence of the tax avoidance industry allow billions of dollars of profit to be siphoned out of Africa, untaxed, every year.
• MEXICO: Peanuts in Times of Food Crisis
  Yandi Condado and a small group of farmers in the southern Mexican state of Puebla decided a few years ago to process their peanuts as an economic boost -- and to defend this traditional crop against the advances of more profitable options.
• PAKISTAN: Killer Sets Off National Introspecti ...
  The United States is putting pressure on Pakistan to release jailed American Raymond Davis, who has confessed to killing two men. But some Pakistanis want their government to demand concessions from the U.S. in exchange for Davis's freedom.

Scoop - NZ

• US Housing Crash Bites Deeper
  The rolling real estate crash that ravaged Florida and the Southwest is delivering a new wave of distress to communities once thought to be immune
• NT elders condemn intervention | Green Left We ...
  More than 400 people attended a February 7 forum that condemned the federal government’s intervention into Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory. The forum was organised by Concerned Australians. It coincided with the launch of a public statement addressed “to the people of Austral ...
• Egypt: The Distance Between Enthusiasm and Rea ...
  The Egyptian military is opaque. It isn’t clear who was reluctant to act and who was eager. We would guess that the people who now make up the ruling military council were reluctant to act. They were of the same generation as Hosni Mubarak, owed their careers to him and were his friends. Younger ...
• The Tahrir Effect in .. Kabul ?
  There is also the dependence of both regimes on U.S. money. Mubarak's Egypt received $1.5 billion in financial support annually from Washington, $1.3 billion in the military and $200 million in the economic sector. For Afghanistan, the U.S. has spent some $55 billion over the past nine years - w ...
• 'Curveball' could be jailed for Iraqi warmonge ...
  Agent whose lies about Saddam's weapons capability led to Iraq war has broken German law, says Green MP

Independent - London

• Death demanded for Iran dissidents
  Thousands of government supporters have called for the execution of opposition leaders at Friday prayers in the Iranian capital Tehran, following last week's anti-government demonstrations.
• Gadhafi rallies supporters amid widening prote ...
  Libyan leader Colonel Gadhafi drove through his nation's capital in a motorcade, drawing a cheering crowd as the long-time ruler tried to rally support amid reports of widening anti-government protests.
• Thousands join funerals of protesters in Bahra ...
  Several thousand Shi'ites turned out in Bahrain today to bury three of those killed in a crackdown ordered by the island state's Sunni ruling family to quell opposition protests inspired by Egypt.
• Video: Shark attack in Australia
  Police say a diver has been killed by two great white sharks off the south Australian coast.
• Video: Gang arsenal seized in Mexico
  Mexican police have seized an arsenal of machine guns after a vicious shootout in Zitacuaro, Michocoan.

Rogue Government.com

• The Return Of COICA; Because Censorship Is Coo ...
  As expected, Congress is holding hearings as it prepares to reintroduce COICA, a horribly written piece of legislation that effectively gives the US government more powers to censor websites.
• FBI Translator Submitted Report Entitled "Kami ...
  According to newly-declassified documents, an FBI translator filed reports titled "Kamikaze Pilots" with the Bureau warning of an al-Qaeda plot to attack America in a suicide mission involving planes within the next months.
• Sacred Cows: Why Lawmakers Are Stuck on Medica ...
• Deposed Tunisian President In Coma According T ...
• Biggest Solar Flare In Years Headed For Earth

Innovation Canada

• The challenging spine, the adventurous mind
• 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 ...

Signs of the times

• Woman with learning difficulties could be forc ...
  A woman with learning difficulties could be forcibly sterilised after she gives birth this week to stop her becoming pregnant again. The secretive Court of Protection will rule on the woman's case on Tuesday, in a rare open hearing scheduled because of the overwhelming "public interest" in und ...
• Argentina accuses US of trying to smuggle weap ...
  Diplomatic row over cargo US claims was intended for training program further sours already poor relationship Relations between the US and Argentina have deteriorated after Buenos Aires lodged a formal complaint over a US military plane that landed late last week carrying guns, drugs and satell ...
• A Thermal Airburst Impact Structure
  Mark Boslough's super computer generated, comet airburst simulation is a must see. In it we see the exploding comet detonating high in the atmosphere, and becoming a supersonic down draft of thermal impact plasma hotter than the surface of the sun. But watch the sequence closely. And pay parti ...
• USA, Penn & Teller - Openly Admit They Are a ...
  The well known duo Penn & Teller were recently confronted at a Florida University over a 9/11 truth issue (Building 7) by radio talk show host and activist Bob Tuskin. At the event Penn stated that he had never seen the footage of Building 7 falling into it's own footprint on that dreadful Septe ...
• US to boost support for cyber dissidents
  The United States stands with cyber dissidents and democracy activists from the Middle East to China and beyond, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday. She pledged to expand the Obama administration's efforts to foil Internet repression in autocratic states. In an impassioned ...

The Galloping Beaver

• We have ways of making you talk
  The Toronto Star reports that the officer involved here has pleaded guilty to uttering threats. How about armed assault? Abuse of authority? People swept up by the Toronto Police at the G8/G20 were charged with more serious crimes for a whole lot less. If soap bubbles can be considered assaul ...
• Perspectives . . .
• Street perspectives . . .
  Vivian Maier (1926-2009) VIVIAN MAIER WAS A STREET PHOTOGRAPHER, who photographed life in Chicago from the 1950's to the 1990's. Vivian's work was discovered at an auction here in Chicago where she resided most of her life. Her discovered work includes over 100,000 mostly medium format negatives ...
• Starring someone I know very well
  Tune in via Blogtalk Radio or join the live virtual audience in Second Life THURSDAY Feb 17 - 6pm pacific |9 pm eastern DAHLIA LITHWICK @ VIRTUALLY SPEAKING w/ Jay Ackroyd Interviews with scholars, authors, pundits and public officials: an eclectic sampling of established and emerging voi ...
• Mubarak salts the earth
  Hosni shoves back and sets his terms. He won't go without being burnt out. The revolution, if it is to succeed and political power Egypt wrested from his control and influence, almost certainly now requires that he be chased to the airport or the Sahara by the masses. The problem is that this r ...

Media Matters for America

• Laura Ingraham Grossly Misrepresents Planned P ...
  Laura Ingraham claimed on Fox News that "Planned Parenthood makes most of its money from the abortion procedure" and "without the abortion services, Planned Parenthood is basically out of business." In fact, abortion services make up less than 15 percent of Planned Parenthood's annual revenue.I ...
• Fox Celebrates Stimulus Anniversary By Ignorin ...
  Fox marked the two-year anniversary of the enactment of President Obama's economic recovery package by attacking the bill and ignoring independent estimates, which have found that the stimulus significantly boosted gross domestic product and employment.Nonpartisan Economists: Stimulus Has Raise ...
• In First Appearance As CNN Contributor, Dana L ...
  Recently-minted CNN contributor Dana Loesch claimed that breast pumps will be subject to the "massive excise tax" on medical devices under the health care reform law. In fact, the law exempts medical devices that are "generally purchased by the general public at retail for individual use."Loesc ...
• Beck's Radio Chatter About The Budget Is Nothi ...
  Glenn Beck and his radio sidekicks ripped into President Obama's recently released budget proposal, as well as Obama's remarks about the proposal at a press conference, but many of their criticisms were based on falsehoods and misleading framing.Beck Falsely Claims Social Security Is A "Huge Co ...
• Who Is Joel Richardson, Beck's End Times Proph ...
  Author Joel Richardson has a long history of antagonism toward Islam, having written in his book The Islamic Antichrist that Islam will be the "primary vehicle" "used by Satan to fulfill the prophecies of the Bible." He has also agreed with the Florida pastor who planned to burn Qurans that "Is ...

Global Research.ca

• Dictators are "Disposable": The Rise and Fall ...
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• Mohawk College Forces Finkelstein Out of Campu ...
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• The Arab Revolutions and Us: Start Quaking in ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Runoff Election Campaign Begins in Haiti
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• The Birth of the New Egyptians
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.

TPM Cafe

• The Republican Strategy
  The Republican strategy is to split the vast middle and working class - pitting unionized workers against non-unionized, public-sector workers against non-public, older workers within sight of Medicare and Social Security against younger workers who don't believe these programs will be there for ...
• Eva Peron Wins: The Pretension of a "Savings L ...
  Peter Orszag, now a new vice-chairman of global banking at Citigroup and former US Office of Management and Budget under Barack Obama, has written a provocative and (with all due respect Peter) wrong-headed Financial Times oped proposing that the way to promote savings among America's low-incom ...
• Obama Says U.S. Will Veto UN Resolution Condem ...
  The Obama administration is clearly desperate to avoid vetoing the United Nations Security Council Resolution condemning illegal Israel settlements. And it's not hard to see why. Given the turbulence in the Middle East, and the universal and strong opposition in the Arab and Muslim world to ...
• Productivity Paradox
  U.S. GDP in March of 2008 was $14.546 Trillion and non farm employment was 137.841 million. Today, non-farm employment is 130.229 million and total GDP is $15.010 Trillion. So essentially we have $500 billion more output from almost 8 million fewer workers. For years analysts scoffed that the Di ...
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TruthOut

• Wisconsin Crowds Swell to 30,000; Key GOP Legi ...
  "I have never been prouder of our movement than I am at this moment," shouted Wisconsin AFL-CIO President Phil Neuenfeldt, as he surveyed the crowds of union members and their supporters that surged around the state Capitol and into the streets of Madison Wednesday, literally closing the downto ...
• Sex, Oil, Chaos and Corruption at the American ...
  Anyone who still wonders why the Bush administration invaded Iraq would do well to become familiar with an institution whose existence few Americans are aware of: the American University of Iraq-Sulaimaniya. read more
• Robert Reich | Budget Baloney
  New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, a Republican presidential hopeful, says in order to “save” Social Security the retirement age should be raised. The media are congratulating him for his putative “courage.” Deficit hawks are proclaiming Social Security one of the big entitlements that has to b ...
• Interview With Bill McKibben, Winner of Puffin ...
  Bill McKibben, Schumann distinguished scholar at Middlebury College, is the author of a dozen books about the environment, including "The End of Nature" (1989), regarded as the first book for a general audience about global warming.read more
• Noam Chomsky on Wisconsin's Resistance to the ...
  World-renowned public intellectual Noam Chomsky discusses several domestic issues in the United States, including the protests in defense of public sector employees and unions in Wisconsin, how the U.S. deification of former President Ronald Reagan resembles North Korea, and the crackdown on pol ...

Planetsave

• Heavy Snow on the Korean Peninsula
  In mid-February 2011, residents along South Korea’s east coast were struggling to dig out from the heaviest snowfall in more than a century. The BBC reported that hundreds of stranded motorists awaited rescue, and hundreds of homes had collapsed under the weight of heavy snow. The South Korean g ...
• Greenpeace Activists Climb Old Coal Power Plan ...
  On the heals of a momentous new study on the true cost of coal released by leading Harvard economist Dr. Paul Epstein, Greenpeace engaged in some trademark direct action in Bridgeport, Connecticut this morning. Greenpeace activists climbed an old coal power plant there and hung a banner (above) ...
• Harvard Study: Estimates $500 Billion a Year F ...
  Well, it doesn’t seem like Harvard Medical School will be getting any donations from the fossil fuel industry any time soon. A new study that is soon to be released and published in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences authored by Dr. Paul Epstein, the Director of Harvard Medical Schoo ...
• Paved Highways of Clouds Across the North Atla ...
  What do you get when you mix below-freezing air temperatures, frigid northwest winds from Canada, and ocean temperatures hovering around 39 to 40 degrees Fahrenheit (4 to 5 degrees Celsius)? Paved highways of clouds across the skies of the North Atlantic. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectror ...
• Is Climate Change the GOP Galileo Moment?
  We’ve been featuring Mark Hertsgaard’s new book (which we’ll soon be giving away), HOT: Living Through the Next 50 Years on Earth, and activism on here lately (including his video interviews with infamous Senator Inhofe and oil lobbyists). Now, he’s got a new piece out in Politico that is clearl ...

Water Quality - WordPress

• If stone flies are good measure, James water q ...
  The Boathouse at Rocketts Landing and Friends of the James River Park  christened “Deepwater Sponger
• The Sewage Pipe They Tried to Hide
  Paloma Aguirre of Wildcoast went to Playas de Tijuana and filmed this: The day after we contacted au
• Sewage Scandal on the Border
  On Tuesday morning (January 18) I detected a horrible stench at the south end of Seacoast Drive in I
• DEQ Takes Aim at Farmers
  Urgent Action Alert from Oregon Farm Bureau: Oregon DEQ is revising the water quality standards regu
• Runoff turns Elliott Bay into murky stew
  Runoff turns Elliott Bay into murky stew 2013981790_elliottbay20m.html I heard a clay particle in wa

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• Middle East: the Undoing of America’s Mendacio ...
  by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad 27 January, 2011 There may be plumes of acrid s
• "Ask Not What Your Country Blah Blah Blah," an ...
  By Gary Corseri Featured Writer Dandelion Salad January 27, 2011 “Truly men hate the truth; th
• Afghanistan: War Without End In A World Withou ...
  by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism J
• Riding With the Beast by Philip A. Farruggio
  by Philip A. Farruggio Featured Writer Dandelion Salad January 26, 2011 Story goes that Nixon made a
• Obama’s Collapse: The Return of the Military C ...
  by Andy Worthington Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.andyworthington.co.uk 25 January, 2011 For T

Axis of Logic

• Wisconsin Protests Build. Workers Converge on ...
  Protestors Converge on Capitol Nine Arrested As Capitol Protests Continue Man Apparently Tried To Charge Into Assembly MADISON, Wis. -- Nine people have been arrested in the third day of widespread protests at the state Capitol. The state Department of Administration estimate ...
• Sociocide: Iraq Is No More - Iraq
  War Is A Crime, February 17, 2011 As we approach the 8th anniversary of a U.S. invasion of Iraq, and having just passed the 20th anniversary of another, it's worth reflecting on what's been accomplished through two wars and the intervening sanctions that former Secretary of ...
• Is the Apocalypse upon us? In dramatic turnaro ...
  WASHINGTON – In a dramatic departure from longstanding policy, the United States intends to support a United Nations Security Council resolutions censuring Israel for building settlements in Palestinian territory. The Obama administration told Arab governments Tuesday it will back a draft r ...
• United States. Boehner: ‘So Be It’ If Federal ...
  Editor's Note: Barack Obama has no problem with Boehner's assault on Federal Workers (see video below). Their only beef is about whether the Democrats or Republicans get credit for the attack and who will get to do the bloodletting in the next presidential election. - Les Blough, Editor ...
• Bahrain: The Social Roots of Revolt Against An ...
  “Have you ever seen an island with no beaches?” The question posed by the young Bahraini taxi man standing among thousands of chanting anti-government protesters seemed at first to be a bit off the wall. But his explanation soon got to the heart of the grievances that have brought tens ...

They Gave Us a Republic

• History repeating itself in Wisconsin union-bu ...
  If I had to guess, my bet is that the union-busting governor of Wisconsin believes his path to national greatness is to stage a replay of another famous governor waging another famous war against organized labor, which led him to wake up one day in the White House -- sent there largely on the ac ...
• Kentucky Senate Teaches Schoolchildren the Tru ...
  Because nothing creates jobs, overhauls the tax system, cures drug addiction and eliminates domestic abuse and poverty like forcing children to recite the pledge of allegiance. The Herald: With no discussion, the state Senate approved a bill Thursday to require each school in the state to set as ...
• More Evidence That Fox News Is Like Soviet Sta ...
  I have sincerely tried to keep an open mind about this. I tried to watch it. The straight news seemed credible for short periods, but would be followed quickly by brazen opinion, with no transitions or labeling. The coverage of Barbra Streisand's brief involvement in politics a few years back wa ...
• The Nightowl Newswrap
  This thrills us to the marrow and we hope we hear many, many more stories like this. "Shortly after the overreaching CEO of Sacramento's so-called cybersecurity outfit, HBGary Federal, assembled an online attack plan against pro-Wikileaks supporters like Salon journalist Glenn Greenwald and prem ...
• "What's Disgusting? Union Busting!" With Pix ...
  From the Nation: "I have never been prouder of our movement than I am at this moment," �shouted Wisconsin AFL-CIO President Phil Neuenfeldt, as he surveyed the crowds of union members and their supporters that surged around the state Capitol and into the streets of Madison Wednesday, literally c ...

Care 2

• The week in wildlife - in pictures
  A cold cabybara has a warm shower, a black bear is disturbed from hibernation and a displaced orangutan explores a fresh clearing for a palm oil plantation. A pick of this week's best images from the natural world Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Your morning adorable: The Smithsonian Conserv ...
  Staff at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Virginia have found a creative way to make sure two cheetah cubs born there in December have an upbringing that's as close as possible to what they would have in the wild Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Bayou Tribes Want Payback from BP for Lost Way ...
  The approximately 20,000 American Indians living near Louisiana�s coast, including Houma, Chitimacha, Choctaw and Biloxi tribes, amongst others, recruited a New York City lawyer in fear they would not be compensated fairlySubmitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a ...
• Motive In Dog Shooting Unknown
  Michael Bailey,has been charged with two felony counts of reckless conduct with a deadly weapon and one felony count of cruelty to animals.He shot the dog,named Dozer,while the dog was chained in his doghouse.Veterinarians had to amputate of the dog's legSubmitted by Yrna M. to Animals �|� �Not ...
• Cat found slain, mutilated in Maury Co.
  Authorities in Maury County are investigating after a woman found her seven-month-old cat dead with its head and tail chopped off. Owner, Brenda Ferguson said family members wondered if a dog had killed the feline but the wounds appeared to be clean-cut. Submitted by Yrna M. to Animals �|� �Not ...

Smirking Chimp

• A Reagan Litmus Test for 2012 GOP hopefuls
• Diplomatic and Consular Immunity: One Rule for ...
• Room for independents in Congress?
• Home Sweet Wall Street
• Cold Day in Hell Arrives for Patients

Paul Krugman

• The Billion Price Index
  Nice, but not really in conflict with the CPI.
• Mervyn King Greenspans Himself
  On behalf of a conservative government, of course.
• Actually It's 787 Words
  And getting there was hard!
• Agnotology
  Learned ignorance is on the rise.
• Medicare And Medicaid Are Big
  Private insurance, not so much.

No Quarter

• Found It! (& Open Thread)
  The way to balance your budget is to simply not count your standing obligations. Whoopeee! Why did the Harvard economists not think of this? I know that Press Secretary Gibbs was no Tony Snow. He was slow talking, but he was not with a slow wit. This new Carnival Operator barking from the podium ...
• Hillary Blamed for Ray McGovern’s Beating
  During a speech by Hillary earlier this week at George Washington University retired CIA analyst, Ray McGovern, was physically accosted and arrested for disorderly conduct for the simple act of standing up and turning his back to Hillary. Ray ended his career at the CIA as one of the senior offi ...
• It’s An Epidemic
  No, I don’t mean whatever flu or cold this is going around right now. I mean what is happening to a number of our women who serve their country in the military. This is a disheartening result, and is a stain on the honor of those who serve. And that would be this – there [...]
• Rasha’s Story: A Woman Speaks Out in Saudi Ara ...
  Editor’s Note: Reprinted from the blog for The New Agenda (TNA) with the express permission of its founder Amy Siskind. : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : [...]
• Sex and the Mountain
  Does a news story title that has the word sex get your attention? This post is important to you and any friends you have that live in the mountains. You have been trying to help them save the air and water around here and you should be fired up. Some congressman just went into the [...]

Environmental Graffiti

• 7 Incredible Images of the Births and Deaths o ...
  Gorgeous snapshots of life and death in the universe read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• Breakthrough Technology Saves Marine Mammals f ...
  LIDO is a unique system for measuring marine noise pollution, helping to understand cetaceans' acoustic life and how it is affected by noise pollution. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
• 13 Most Incredible Geological Wonders on Earth
  Join us for a tour of thirteen of the world's most incredible geological wonders - examples of the power of nature to create beautiful things! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• 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 ...

Foreign Policy in Focus

• Is There Any Upside to Middle-East Protests fo ...
  Will al-Qaeda somehow find a way to turn the Middle-East protests to its advantage?
• Interview with Phyllis Bennis
  In our special focus on Islamophobia, FPIF talks to Middle East specialist Phyllis Bennis.
• New U.S. Rebuke of Settlements a Product of Eg ...
  Washington calls Israeli settlements illegitimate, if not illegal.
• Last Thing Washington Needs Is to Share Blame ...
  Should the United States keep its distance from developments in Egypt?
• Poverty Capitalism: Interview with Ananya Roy
  Ananya Roy talks about the promise and perils of microfinance.

Global Elite

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

Al Jazeera

• Yemen observes 'Friday of Fury'
  At least three killed as tens of thousands of demonstrators, both pro- and anti-government, march in several cities.
• 'Victory march' fills Cairo square
  Thousands gather for celebrations in Egyptian capital's Tahrir Square to mark the toppling of Hosni Mubarak a week ago.
• Bahrain tense amid funerals
  Military keeps capital Manama under lockdown, a day after a deadly police assault on anti-government demonstrators.
• Libyans bury dead after clashes
  Funerals for those killed, expected in both Benghazi and Al Bayda, could act as a catalyst for more protests.
• Fresh protests hit Iraqi cities
  Thousands turn out across country, demanding better service delivery and jobs from government.

Green Inc. - NYT

• Is Fashion Week Smoking?
  A video filmed on Jan. 31 as the fashion village was being noisily erected at Lincoln Center shows smoke spewing into the air as diesel generators are turned on.
• You Will Be Assimilated (if You Wish)
  Climateprediction.net, is a distributed-computing scheme that harnesses the power of people's computers at times they are sitting idle.
• On Our Radar: Britain Drops Plan to Sell Fores ...
  "I am sorry, we got this one wrong, but we have listened to people's concerns," Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman tells the House of Commons.
• Progress Reported on Oil Plugging System
  An oil consortium's plugging and spill containment system includes a capping stack that can fit over a well, contain the leak and pour chemical dispersants over the spill..
• BP Challenges Spill Settlement Terms
  The planned payments far exceed the extent of likely future damages because they overstate the potential for future losses, the company insists.

Dot Earth News

• On Storms, Warming, Caveats and the Front Page
  The tension between the need for accuracy and attention is revealed in a paper on heavy rain and warming.
• A Harder Rain's Gonna Fall (and Already Is)
  Scientists using weather records and climate models describe a definitive human fingerprint in patterns of heavy precipitation.
• The A, B, C's of Limiting Climate Risk
  In a new climate report, an environmental group focuses on innovation, adaptation and building the capacity for aggressive responses.
• Fostering Progress on a Finite (and Budget Str ...
  With politicians scrambling to cut budgets, it's time to focus on fostering progress from the ground up, and the Web out.
• On Peer Review and (Climate) Progress
  A journal editor defends peer review.

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

• Reactionary Governor Walker of Wisconsin decla ...
  ‘Austerity’ is the word used by those in power to make it sound like we are all in this ‘budget crisis’ together, when in fact it is the ruling oligarchs of this nation, the banksters and their coin-operated politicians, that created the crisis that now threatens to bring... [[ This is a co ...
• Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission releases r ...
  To get to the heart of what went wrong with the report released  on January 27th, 2011 the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission released its report on the Wall Street debacle and the pirated loot.  On page 254 of the report, it is reported that the largest investor in a cash fund managed by Bank ...
• Peter Phillips and Mickey Huff Ask Activists t ...
  Dear Friends of Project Censored and KPFA, Mickey Huff and I have been volunteer hosts on the Thursday Morning Mix show on KPFA (8:00-9:00 AM) since late December. We have covered some very important topics including: US Economy and the Collapse of the Dollar, Immigrants Rights, Racism and White ...
• The Great Accountability and “World-Class Work ...
  “Hello. We’re the ones who control your lives. We make the decisions that affect all of you. Isn’t it interesting to know that those who run our lives would have the nerve to tell you about it in this manner? Suffer, you fools. We know everything you do, and we know where you go.... [[ This ...
• 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 ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

• US regulators examine Apple media platform: WS ...
• US had 48 million Hispanics in 2009: survey
• USA's Ligety wins world giant slalom gold
• Obama to name Intel chief to jobs council
• Facebook adds civil unions to profiles

Institute for Policy Studies

• Interview with Phyllis Bennis
  In our special focus on Islamophobia, FPIF talks to Middle East specialist Phyllis Bennis.
• Organics and the Science of Farming
  Some say that organic farming means going "backwards." These farmers think otherwise.
• Labor Rights Advocates Congratulate Bridgeston ...
  Union representing rubber workers receives award for work to end child labor.
• Activists in More than 20 Countries Urge G20 L ...
  IPS Global Economy and climate experts are available for comment.
• Arizona Vigilante Declared Guilty on All Charg ...
  Justice is served as a border vigilante faces sentencing next week, but factors that gave rise to anti-immigrant hysteria remain.

Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

• Hello, I am your waiter and I should be home - ...
  I did get up a bit too early this morning, but just in time to see Elizabeth Cohen at CNN report - "US: Restaurant workers show up sick:" One out of eight restaurant workers has come to work at least twice in the past year while suffering from diarrhea or vomiting, according to a new survey of ...
• If Illinois Farmer's Markets and Cottage Indus ...
  I heard the fears of the small, local, sustainable, locavore regarding the Food Safety Modernization Act, which is why exclusions for on-farm sales and sales at farmer’s markets, and direct sales to grocery stores and restaurants were added, along with additional protections with the Tester/Hage ...
• Raw Milk Bad Boy, Michael Hartmann, in Contemp ...
  MPR Radio has become “Milk Public Radio” for its ongoing coverage of raw milk bad boy, Michael Hartmann, and his ongoing battle with state of Minnesota officials for raw milk sales and the customers sickened by E. coli, Campylobacter and Cryptosporidium. Mr. Hartmann is now facing potential jai ...
• Comments on Blogs - the good, bad and ugly
  Comments on my blog, and other sites I am sure, tend to be made by people who disagree with a point made.� My bet is that you seldom hear from people who agree with you (although it has been known to happen).� On my blog, I have tried to have a policy of allowing all comments, although I must ad ...
• 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 ...

AutoblogGreen

• Report: Some dealers price gouging Chevy Volt ...
  Filed under: Car Buying, Hybrid, Sedan, Chevrolet, GM, Electric 2011 Chevrolet Volt - Click above for high-res image gallery Even though some Chevrolet dealers were warned not to sell the Volt above the MSRP, there is a distinct trend around the country where some dealers are trying to make ...
• Audi, Voith enter new carbon fiber partnership
  Filed under: Technology, Audi Audi Aluminum A5 Coupe Prototype - Click above for high-res image Audi has put carbon fiber to good use in concept vehicles like the e-tron show cars and a special lightweight A5, which has a carbon fiber hood and rear deck, and in some parts of the R8 and RS 3. ...
• 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 ...

Rafe's Radar

• Warning: Coupons make you spend more
  RetailMeNot CEO explains how coupons and deals are bumping up online shopping cart order sizes.
• 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.

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

• WATCH: Amy Goodman on Al Jazeera English EMPIR ...
  Are social networks triggering social revolution? And where will the next domino fall? Empire finds out. Amy Goodman, the host and executive producer of Democracy Now! joins Marwan Bishara to discuss these issues along with: Carl Bernstein, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist; ...
• Noam Chomsky on Civil Rights, Obama, Latin Ame ...
  We continue our conversation with world-renowned public intellectual, MIT Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, Noam Chomsky. Watch the Part I of the Interview Democracy Uprising in the USA? here
• Obama's Budget: Freezing the Poor
  President Barack Obama unleashed his proposed 2012 budget this week, pronouncing, proudly: “I’ve called for a freeze on annual domestic spending over the next five years. This freeze would cut the deficit by more than $400 billion over the next decade, bringing this kind of spending—domestic di ...
• 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 ...

Digg Green

• Controlling a Computer With Thoughts?
  Researchers will place brain-computer interfaces in patients with spinal cord injuries to test if it is possible for them to control external devices, such as a computer cursor or a prosthetic limb, with their thoughts.
• APOD: 2011 February 18 - Planetary Nebula ...
  Cast off by dying sunlike stars, planetary nebulae are a brief but glorious final phase of stellar evolution. The gaseous shrouds are ionized by an extremely hot central source, the shrinking core of a star running out of fuel for nuclear fusion. Shining in the cosmic night, their simple sy ...
• Happy Pluto Discovery Day! (Nova)
  Exactly eighty years ago, Clyde Tombaugh (February 4, 1906 - January 17, 1997) discovered the elusive Planet X, which later became known as Pluto. And yes, the thumbnail is a photo of the always awesome Neil deGrasse Tyson.
• Climate change and extreme flooding linke ...
  Two studies suggest for the first time a clear link between global warming and extreme precipitation.
• What will suspended animation really be l ...
  Today, Science published the first comprehensive study of bear hibernation, which revealed that many of our assumptions about it were wrong. What we learned will help scientists studying suspended animation for humans on long space voyages.

Invisible Opportunity

• Police launch “brutal” operation in Bahrain
  It was the early hours of the morning in Bahrain when the security forces launched a major operation to clear a camp of protesters in the capital, Manama. Men, women and children ran for their lives. Witnesses say it was a brutal assault. Most people were asleep when the police arrived in force, ...
• Serious Doubt Cast on FBI’s Anthrax Case ...
  BY GLENN GREENWALD For years, the FBI believed that it had identified the perpetrator of the 2001 anthrax attacks — former Army researcher Steven Hatfill — only to be forced to acknowledge that he wasn’t involved and then pay him $5.8 million for the damage he suffered from those false accusatio ...
• Panel Demolishes Official 9/11 Story
  By Greg Scott February 17th, 2011 Architect Richard Gage changed the opinions of two dozen (24 of 25) individuals in the audience that previously believed the official 9/11 Commission story after presenting his evidence at the Conscious Life Expo in Los Angeles. The other panelists included Sena ...
• Health Authorities Want Depression-Causing Dru ...
  Health authorities are pushing for drugs to be added to public water supplies that cause depression and memory loss, as a new study shows that the dangers of statins have been deliberately underplayed by drug companies, in a chilling throwback to how the population in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New W ...
• Janet Diane Mourglia-Swerdlow: The Dangers of ...

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

• California Is Broke -- You Still Have the Righ ...
  Santa Cruz just became the latest county to announce it would "end" treatment-instead-of-incarceration program for low-level drug offenses because of a lack of funding.
• Change We Can Believe In? Not for Medical Mari ...
  So much for the American Medical Association's demand for clinical cannabis research.
• Thousands of Rockefeller Drug Law Convictions ...
  Officials recently shut down part of the Nassau County Crime Lab because it was discovered that a half-dozen drug cases had been subjected to incorrect analyses.
• The Puzzling Uproar Over One County's Attempt ...
  We should be applauding -- not demonizing -- the LA County Department of Public Health for taking this important first step to help keep young people safe.
• The Disastrous War on Drugs Turns 40: 5 Ways t ...
  Four decadesafter President Nixon declared his war on drugs, let's take a look at the devastation and figure out how to end this thing.

Twilight Earth

• Cartoon caption contest
  Take a look at the cartoon below and enter your caption idea in the comment section (more ifo on prize, etc. below the cartoon). Eligible captions will be those posted on my site, Elephant Journal, Wend Magazine, PlanetSave, Eco-Snobbery Sucks, Ecolutionist, Ecopolitology, and Twilight Earth. Wi ...
• Exposed: Why the GOP wants to eliminate Clean ...
  Whether we can believe this see-through-elephant-trunk footage or not, the possibility that elephants have a triple fitration system within their trunks has to have some credence. Otherwise, why on earth would leading Republicans try to make it easier for big polluters to further pollute the air ...
• Apples may lose trees [cartoon]
  The rest of Joe Mohr’s cartoons, and cartoon updates and other green news on Twitter @GreenCartoons. Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets BeatâMay Lose Beets (cartoon) Eco-Snobbery Sucks: The Cartoon Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets BeatâMay Lose Beets (cartoon) Ec ...
• Mixed message from USDA chief Vilsack [cartoon ...
  US Ag Secretary, Tom Vilsack tells us to eat more natural foods a few days after fully deregulating GMO alfalfa…I’m confused. Confused as well? Read the links below and try to figure out this mess. From The New York Times: Governmentâs Dietary Advice: Eat Less From Elephant Journal: The USDA cav ...
• BREAKING: Deleted Monsanto cartoon panel, leak ...
  Unlike the former Monsanto cartoon on this subject, this version shows a bit more clearly who surrendered the future of organic agriculture to Monsanto. There’s been a lot of talk from both sides (organic and biotech) about compromise. That is misleading and almost laughable (read: cryable). Dea ...

Inhabitat

• Win this Stunning Recycled Bic Pen Chandelier ...
  Light up your eco pad – score this $1200 Volivik chandelier for free! Let there be light! If your pad has been looking drab, brighten it up with this conversation-starting Volivik chandelier made from 347 recycled bic pens. Truly a statement piece, this magnificent green light fixture is worth $ ...
• Faberhaus Pavilion: Tiny, Off-Grid Eco Cottage ...
  Read the rest of Faberhaus Pavilion: Tiny, Off-Grid Eco Cottage For Nature Lovershttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture ...
• Green Overdrive Video: The Electric VW Bug!
  Introducing the all-electric VW bug! No, you can’t buy it out on the showroom floor — DIY-er and entrepreneur Al Bullock electrified his VW bug and has been driving around Livermore, Calif. for the past three years. It cost him around $18,000 to turn the classic car into an EV, and you might thi ...
• Xcel Energy Rocks Colorado Solar Industry by D ...
  The thriving solar electric industry in Colorado just came to a screeching halt as the largest utility and main provider of renewable energy rebates in Colorado, Xcel Energy, effectively halted all rebate applications.  The startling news caught the renewable energy industry off guard, and has t ...
• IKEA Building Its Own Personal Wind Farm to Po ...
  Swedish furniture giant IKEA announced today that it’s joined forces with Stockholm-based wind power company O2 to build a nine-turbine wind farm that will power 17 of their stores in Sweden. The wind farm is expected to be completed in 2012 and will be located in the Swedish province of Dalarna ...

Pogue's Posts

• What Is President Obama Asking Tech Leaders?
  David Pogue's Twitter followers imagine what is being discussed among President Obama and Silicon Valley's tech leaders.
• The Ethics of Free Cellphone Calls
  There are a growing number of ways to avoid paying for calls -- some offered by carriers, others amounting to a hack.
• Page Numbers for Kindle Books an Imperfect Sol ...
  With electronic books, neither page numbers nor "location numbers" are the perfect solution.
• A Loophole in a Verizon iPhone Rule
  Because of a technical limitation, the Verizon iPhone will not let you talk and use the Internet at the same time -- unless you're on Wi-Fi.
• The Commuter Bike Redesigned and Electrified
  It's no Segway, but the new YikeBike has been designed for safety, ease of riding and it's foldable. The biggest problem: The price.

WIRED Magazine | Science

• Helpful Mutations Didn’t Sweep Through Early H ...
  Humans probably didn’t get swept up in evolution. Scientists have favored a model of evolution in which beneficial gene mutations quickly and dramatically sweep through a population due to the evolutionary advantages they confer. Such mutations would become nearly universal in a population. But ...
• The Mystery of the Missing Moon Trees
  15 years after NASA astronomer David Williams started searching for them, hundreds of trees grown from space-faring seeds are still missing. The “moon trees,” whose seeds circled the moon 34 times in Apollo 14 astronaut Stuart Roosa’s pocket, were welcomed back to Earth with great fanfare in 19 ...
• Ample Dark Matter Ignites Starburst Galaxies
  By Liat Clark, Wired UK Galaxies need 10 times less dark matter to sustain star formation than previously thought, but just the right amount can set off rapid star formation, a recent study suggests. The discovery was made after European Space Agency photos showed evidence of dark matter 300 bi ...
• Physicists Build World’s First Antilaser
  Less than a year after it was first suggested, the world’s first antilaser is here. A team of physicists have built a contraption that, instead of flashing bright beams, utterly extinguishes specific wavelengths of light. Conventional lasers create intense beams of light by stimulating atoms to ...
• Gallery: 10 Stunning Science Visualizations
  See Also: Worms, Fractals and Mars: Top Science Image Galleries of 2010 Video: Kepler’s Exoplanets vs. the Solar System Best Science Visualization Videos of 2009 Do Fear the Reaper: Readers Visualize Death Data Biggest-Ever Night Sky Image Released to Public

PakAlert

• Video: Libya, Bahrain, Iran, Yemen and Other A ...
  It is not solely the Middle East that is destined to experience episodes of violent upheaval. What is transpiring in the Arab world will spread throughout many European states. While the call to arms will be spoken in different tongues, the underlying causes will be the same. The world leaders a ...
• Bahrain: The Social Roots of Revolt Against An ...
  “Have you ever seen an island with no beaches?” The question posed by the young Bahraini taxi man standing among thousands of chanting anti-government protesters seemed at first to be a bit off the wall. But his explanation soon got to the heart of the grievances that have brought tens of thousa ...
• Proof! Your TV & Computer Can Manipulate Your ...
  The TV and your computer monitor can be used to manipulate your nervous system. Here is the proof. Read it and weep
• The Mask Of Zion – Pakistan
  The Zionist entity’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, an insidiously racist man devoid of any humanity and the architect of the Palestinian Nakba which ethnically cleansed Palestine of its indigenous, possessed an excessively xenophobic and brutally delusional world view. Nothing provides ...
• Video: Israeli’s are immune to 9/11 litigation ...
  Michael Chertcoff (Dual Israeli/US citizen) wrote it, not John Ashcroft. Inside the Patriot Act, it gives immunity to ANY Israeli against litigation related to 9/11. If the public knew this, there would be an uprising against the Act….

Andy Worthington

• Moazzam Begg Interviews Former Guantánamo Pris ...
  Saber Lahmer (aka Sabir Lahmar) is one of the six Algerians held at Guantánamo from its earliest days, having been kidnapped by US agents in Bosnia-Herzegovina, in connection with an alleged plot to blow up the US embassy in Sarajevo, even though the plot has never been backed up by any evidence ...
• Hiding Horrific Tales of Torture: Why The US G ...
  At Guantánamo on Tuesday, following hints last week, Noor Uthman Muhammed, a 53-year old Sudanese prisoner, and formerly a trainer at the Khaldan training camp in Afghanistan, accepted a plea deal in his trial by Military Commission. He is only the sixth prisoner convicted since the Commissions ...
• George W. Bush, War Criminal, Is Not Welcome i ...
  Last week I returned from Poland, where I had been touring the documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (which I co-directed with filmmaker Polly Nash), and discussing the importance of an ongoing investigation into the complicity of the Polish government in the establishmen ...
• Battle for Britain: Resisting the Privatizatio ...
  On Saturday, I published an article, Battle for Britain: Fighting the Coalition Governmentâs Vile Ideology â and Praise for UK Uncut, in which I summarized many facets of the coalition governmentâs “unprecedented assault on almost every aspect of British society — hard-pressed middle class and w ...
• Compelling New Evidence About Aafia Siddiqui&# ...
  Regular readers will know that I have long been concerned by the case of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, the Pakistani neuroscientist whose story is one of the murkiest in the whole of the “War on Terror.” Dr. Siddiqui disappeared with her three children in Karachi in March 2003, and for five years neither ...

Environment _ National Geographic

• Hudson River Fish Evolve Toxic PCB Immunity
  Bottom-feeding fish in the Hudson River have developed a gene that renders them immune to the toxic effects of PCBs, according to new evolution research.
• Extreme Storms and Floods Concretely Linked to ...
  New studies of severe storms and catastrophic floods provide more evidence that rising greenhouse gas levels actually do increase the odds of such extreme weather events—and perhaps make them stronger.
• Protecting Health and the Planet With Clean Co ...
  A small Ghana business is part of a wave of efforts to address the staggering global toll of death and disease from cooking smoke.
• Presented By:
• Best News Pictures of 2010: World Press Winner ...
  NoneWhooper swans, a victim of the Taliban, and Bolivian wrestlers are among the winners of the 2010 World Press Photo Contest.

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

• Bias-Crimes Cop Accuses Suffolk County Executi ...
  Over the last several years, Suffolk County, N.Y., has been a hotbed of anti-Latino hate, a place that became infamous for the brutal murder of an Ecuadorian immigrant by a gang of white teens who were out for a night of âbeaner hopping.â County Executive Steve Levy (right) has taken his share o ...
• Investigators: White Power Guerrilla Manual Be ...
  Two men charged with attempting to kill police officers in Hemet, Calif., used what prosecutors are calling a white power “guerrilla warfare manual” to guide a nine-month campaign of terror and violence against the police department, its buildings and vehicles. The anonymously written “White Res ...
• On-Again, Off-Again Neo-Nazi Jacques Pluss is ...
  The last time we met Jacques Pluss, a former history professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University who was fired after his ties to neo-Nazism surfaced in 2005, he was in the midst of a serious identity crisis. One minute, he was an avowed white supremacist proudly standing behind his statements, o ...
• Conspiracy Trial Opens for Pennsylvania Cops i ...
  WILKES-BARRE, Pa. â The federal trial of three police officers accused of trying to cover up the murder of an undocumented Mexican immigrant â a hate crime that drew the nationâs attention to violence against Hispanics two years ago â opened this week with a focus on the small Northeast Pennsylv ...
• Grammy Award Given to Jamaican Singer of Anti- ...
  Jamaican dancehall star Buju Banton’s poisonously anti-gay lyrics have made him a target for worldwide boycotts and protests by LGBT rights activists who say his songs encourage anti-gay violence, especially among fans on the heavily homophobic Caribbean island. Despite this history of hate, the ...

change: org.

• Mauritanian Anti-Slavery Activists Pardoned by ...
  In December, six anti-slavery activists in Mauritania were arrested on trumped up charges when they tried to intervene in a human trafficking case involving the local police commissioner. This week, after outrage from several international human rights organizations and hundreds of Change.org me ...
• Thailand Sequesters Rohingya Refugees from UN ...
  Fifty-three Rohingya "boat people" have been detained in isolated Thai prisons since 2009. Their crime? Fleeing brutal persecution in their homeland of Burma. In late January, Thailand nabbed another 158 Rohingya who had survived a harrowing journey on ramshackle home-made boats. Thai officials ...
• Missouri Legislators Determined to Keep Puppy ...
  If you're of working age, and you live in Missouri, there's about a one-in-ten chance you're unemployed. My advice to you? Go into the puppy mill business, because it seems to be the only industry Missouri legislators care about these days. After all, members of the Missouri House Agriculture Co ...
• Halton Catholic District School Board: New Pol ...
  After an extremely large amount of interest in our Change.org petition, an activist-run Facebook group, and numerous articles in the gay press (where the story originated), Toronto and regional news outlets were all talking about the Halton Catholic District School Board's ban on gay-straight al ...
• Morgan the Captive Orca Gets a Lawyer
  A few months ago, Annie Hartnett brought you the story of Morgan, a young orca who had been found stranded and was being held at the Harderwijk Dolfinarium. More than seven months and thousands of supporters later, Morgan is still waiting in her small tank at the marine park. But now, the Orca ...

Common Dreams -News

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

Lifehacker

• Five Overpriced Car Repairs and What to Pay Fo ...
  Don't pay a shop more than $300 for a brake job, and don't pay disposal fees for your old car battery—the shop gets $10 for it. Car maintenance webapp DriverSide explains and prices five common repairs . [DriverSide] More »
• T Creates Just About the Most Minimalist To-Do ...
  Windows/Mac/Linux: There are quite a few command line to-do lists out there (like our own Gina Trapani's Todo.txt), but if you want something minimalist that will force you to stop organizing yourself and just get to work, t is a good bet. ...
• Check if Your Emails Are Getting Read with URL ...
  If you're sending links in an email and want to make sure they're getting read, weblog Digital Inspiration reminds us that most URL shorteners let you know who's clicked your links—so you know if your email's been read or ignored. More  ...
• How Working Parents Cook for Kids (and Sometim ...
  Pete Wells wrote for two years in the New York Times Magazine about his efforts to cook dinner for his 4-year-old son after working a full day. Here's the rare bit: he admits now that he never figured it out. But his lessons learned, and t ...
• What Data of Mine Does Chrome Send to Google? ...
  Dear Lifehacker, I dig Chrome for its speed and its many small but handy features. But I'm also wondering how much privacy I'm trading for the convenience and quickness. What, exactly, does Chrome know about me, and what does it share with ...

Water Privatization

• Exeter/Hampton/Rockingham community calendar
  n aliento chamber players in-concert: 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 18 at Christ Episcopal Church, 43 Pine St., Exeter. Sacred and Profane: The Brahms Piano Quintet has become cornerstone of the literature; a "sacred" composition held in the highest regard.
• New N.J. group cites pitfalls of privatization
  TRENTON - A coalition of labor, environmental, and community groups says the weak economy is stoking a rush to privatize operations and services traditionally performed by governments, despite some well-known potential pitfalls.
• Summit Series Films Continue
  KENT—Two more films remain in the 2011 Kent Environmental Summit film series. Feb. 15 brings “Blue Gold: World Water Wars,” which describes the privatization of water in an era when water is becoming more and more scarce.
• Letters
  To Don Bauder and Moss Gropen: Regarding “the voters” having widely rejected Mike Aguirre and voted for Prop C profitization, I don’t believe it (“Bar Rejects Charges Against Aguirre” and “Water’s Monopoly Game — Public? Private?”
• Congress probe on water rate hike sought
  AMID the water rate hike in Metro Manila and adjoining provinces, two party-list legislators seek an urgent inquiry, in aid of legislation, on the increase they called “unjust”. read more

Guardian

• Libya protesters in deadly clashes with police
  �� Bahrain: tens of thousands mourn killed protesters �� Egypt: protesters return to Tahrir Square �� Libya: reports claim up to 50 killed �� Yemen: crowds demonstrating in Sana'a and Taiz �� Protesting in Middle East? Send us a voice recording �� Read a summary of events so far2.25pm � Bahrain: ...
• Hacker 'passed info to many at NoW'
  Lawyer for agent Sky Andrew tells high court that private investigator Glenn Mulcaire's claim 'hits paper's defence for six'Glenn Mulcaire, the private investigator at the centre of the News of the World phone-hacking case, passed phone intercept information to several individuals working on the ...
• AV 'inherently unfair', says Cameron
  Prime minister attacks claims made by his deputy, Nick Clegg, in No campaign speech ahead of voting reform referendumDavid Cameron has raised the stakes in the battle over the alternative vote, calling it a referendum that will determine Britain's future and saying a Yes vote would be bad for de ...
• Court blocks prisoners' vote claim
  Almost 600 prisoners denied right to vote in 2010 general election have launched legal actionThe high court has blocked compensation claims by prisoners who were barred from voting in last year's general election.Claims have been launched in county courts nationwide by 585 serving prisoners and ...
• Brothers guilty over 'Lapland' park
  Victor and Henry Mears promised visitors a winter wonderland but offered fairy lights on trees and broken ice rinkTwo brothers have been convicted of misleading thousands of customers into visiting what they claimed was a Lapland-style theme park.Victor and Henry Mears were found guilty by a jur ...

McClatchey

• Tolerant, tech-savvy young Islamists may resha ...
  CAIRO — Ahmed Fatehelbab and his young Islamist friends used to speak in code to evade Egyptian authorities as they planned gatherings over the phone. With the overthrow this month of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, however, the old cover of "a doctor's appointment at 4 p.m." is obsolet ...
• Need for food aid surges in San Luis Obispo, C ...
  The number of people in San Luis Obispo County applying for a federal program that provides food to the needy has zoomed upward, according to the countys social services director, and even with that increase, thousands of people who could receive the benefit are not applying.
• Pot bust in Rainer, Washington
  RAINIER Thurston County narcotics detectives arrested six people at a Rainier residence Wednesday afternoon after they found about 380 growing marijuana plants worth an estimated $760,000 in four rooms there, court papers state.
• Commentary: Phill Kline, Planned Parenthood an ...
  Phill Klines supporters this week took to the Internet to celebrate their heros accomplishments and drum up donations.
• Bahraini troops fire on peaceful protesters in ...
  MANAMA, Bahrain — Bahraini troops fired live ammunition and tear gas Friday at thousands of peaceful protesters in the capital's main square, causing dozens of casualties.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

• Whaling: Beginning of the end?
  Is this the beginning of the end for Japanese whaling in the Antarctic? Clashes have been dramatic - enough to cause a U-turn? That is the biggest question arising from Wednesday's announcement in Tokyo that this season's whaling programme was being suspended. The Fisheries Agency (FAJ) hasn't ...
• Palm oil deal points to corporate greening
  This week's announcement of a new partnership aimed at curbing deforestation in Indonesia should give succour to anyone who thinks consumers and companies, rather than governments, hold the key to curbing environmental decline. � Essentially, the world's second biggest (and Indonesia's biggest ...
• Climate change: Contrary motion?
  � One issue, two reports, two different conclusions. In short, a recipe for confusion - at least, on the surface. Last week the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), the London-based think-tank, published a report suggesting that fears of mass migration caused by clim ...
• Oysters clear seas for local remedies
  This week saw formal scientific publication of a report that produces one of the starkest conclusions I've seen about humanity's relationship with the oceans. Globally, 85% of oyster beds have basically disappeared. The paper, in the journal BioScience (though not apparently on its website yet) ...
• UN sticks with climate agenda - but what prosp ...
  Reports suggesting that UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is retiring from the climate change agenda have had commentators wondering a) what it means for prospects of a new global climate agreement and b) whether the UN remains committed to the issue. � What appears to be happening is that two ...

The Wonk Room

• GOP House Passes Four Amendments To Defund Hea ...
  Moments ago, the House of Representatives passed four different amendments to the continuing resolution that would deny funding to the Affordable Care Act or the employees who are currently implementing the law, jeopardizing the law’s consumer protections and potentially leading to the loss of s ...
• Harshest Critic Of DADT Repeal: There Is No In ...
  Last year, Marine Commandant Gen. James Amos became the face of the opposition to the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, going so far as to argue that if Congress lifted the ban against open service and allowed gays to serve without hiding their sexual orientation, the Marines could be so distract ...
• Scientists Find Global Boiling Fingerprints: G ...
  Confirming the obvious to anyone who’s been watching the world’s weather go haywire, Nature has published a pair of articles that link greenhouse pollution to killer weather disasters. In “Human contribution to more-intense precipitation extremes,” researchers in Canada and Scotland found that c ...
• Another Republican Comes Out Against Extending ...
  Republicans have been all over the map on which parts of the Affordable Care Act they preserve and which they want to repeal, but if we consider the bill House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) offered in 2009 as a blueprint for where the party stands on health care, then we can assume that most Repub ...
• Christian Post: Military Chaplians Don’t ...
  Box Turtle Bulletin’s Timothy Kincaid notes that the Family Research Center (FRC)’s claims that the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell would undermine religious freedoms and lead to a mass exodus of Christian chaplains were overblown at best and lies at worst. From the Christian Post: Army Chaplain ...

thwap's schoolyard

• Transit City, National Daycare Plan, The Kelow ...
  I was just reading the latest stupid nonsense coming out of the stupid, nonsensical Rob Ford government in Toronto about their negotiations with Metrolinx about the city's transit needs, when it occurred to me that "Transit City" is just one of a few overdue, much needed public investments that ...
• Mark My Words II
  Just a quick thought. If there turns out to be a massacre in Egypt, the fall-out will be similar to that which followed the Tiananmen Square massacre in the PRC: "Human Rights enhancement" marches on in parallel. In Part I, I reviewed Clinton's steps to evade congressional efforts to ...
• The Power of Constitutional Insurgency
  Beyond Quixotic devotion to a Marxist political party, beyond pointlessly standing around in groups of varying size impotently "demanding" reforms under the watchful eyes of the police, beyond social democrats who imagine they can deliver a more humane form of capitalism, beyond isolated anarchi ...
• 1848 and 2011
  In 1848, revolutions (eventually crushed with great bloodshed) broke out among several European nations (France, the German and Italian states, the Hapsburg Empire, Poland, Ireland). Obviously, economic factors aren't going to be the only things that stir up revolutionary sentiment. The human de ...
• Mark My Words ...
  I don't know what's going to happen in Tunisia or Egypt. Neither does the amoral, deluded, scum-bag administration of Barack Obama. But mark my words, they're sitting there waiting to see how this all plays out. If some Mubarak-clone military strongman manages to replace the original version, to ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

• Tunis, Egypt and now ... Wisconsin
  With the popular revolutions of Tunis and Egypt sparking interest in the power of peaceful protest, the world is on watch for the next hot spot. Yemen, Iran or Bahrain? How about Wisconsin? Yesterday hundreds of public employees and their supporters held a "citizens filibuster" in the state capi ...
• DOL proposes increase in whistleblower protect ...
  The U.S. Department of Labor, for the first time, has proposed making its whistleblower protection program a separate line item. The Department released its proposed budget yesterday. It includes $21 million in a separate line for the whistleblower program. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis answe ...
• NWC Board Member Returns to Court Tomorrow
  Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, a member of the National Whistleblowers Center’s Board of Directors and founder and leader of the No FEAR Coalition, will be appearing before the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) tomorrow, February 9, 2011, objecting to her removal from the Environmental Protecti ...
• CNBC Airs Whistleblower Series "Bounty Hunters ...
  CNBC is airing a special series by Eamon Javers entitled "Bounty Hunters" this week. You can watch Mr. Javers' report on Tuesday, February 8 and Wednesday, February 9, on "Squawk Box", "Squawk On The Street", and "Power Lunch." On Thursday, February 10 and Friday, February 11, he will rep ...
• Former Special Counsel Sentencing Postponed Ag ...
  Today, Magistrate Judge Deborah Robinson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia postponed Scott Bloch’s sentencing once again until Thursday, March 10, 2011. Prosecutors urged the judge to reconsider her ruling last week that the charge of lying to Congress carries a one-month m ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

• Police Chief Tells Parents To Hack Kids' Faceb ...
  Chrys Matyszcyk points us to a report about how a police chief in New Jersey is running seminars for parents on how to hack their kids' Facebook accounts and install spyware and keyloggers to spy on everything they do. There's so much wrong with the claims by Mahwah Police Chief James Batelli, ...
• Dell Employees Arrested Over Incredibly Stupid ...
  In the long list of really bad marketing ideas, I'd have to say that "pretending to take an entire office hostage to celebrate the release of a new product" may be somewhere near the top. However, that's what two Dell marketing employees thought to do -- and since they were the only two who kne ...
• Fark Points Out That Even Though It Doesn't Co ...
  Earlier this year, we wrote about how Fark, Reddit, Digg, Slashdot, TechCrunch and others were sued over a highly questionable patent (6,370,535) concerning a system for creating online news and press releases. Despite calling out to the combined communities of these various sites, no one has y ...
• Mardi Gras Indians Still Trying To Copyright C ...
  Last year, we wrote about the ridiculous situation down in New Orleans where the "Mardi Gras Indians" -- a group of New Orleans residents who create elaborate costumes for Mardi Gras -- were trying to copyright their outfits. Of course, as we've noted over and over again, clothing doesn't get c ...
• Walmart Employees Fired For Disarming Gun-Toti ...
  Walmart has pretty specific rules for how employees are supposed to deal with shoplifters, however, it does seem a bit bizarre that the company would go so far as to fire some employees who disarmed a gun-toting thief. Obviously, the idea is that they don't want to encourage other employees to ...

VacTruth

• What Do Vaccines & McCarthyism Have In Common?
  Why do the blacklist hearings of Senator Joe McCarthy in the 1950s remind me of what’s going on with vaccinations today? Vactruth.com
• Fact: Evidence in Vaccine Induced Injury Cases ...
  There has been reports that experts who give evidence in SBS cases are being sent home and discredited. This has been particularly evident in cases involving children with a vaccine injury. This total lack of regard is making a mockery of the legal justice system, giving parents and care givers ...
• Jared Lee Loughner: Psychotic or Vaccine Induc ...
  Dismissing Jared Loughner's bloody murders in Arizona as the work of a madman is easy; people like him clearly seem deranged. Yet, shouldn't we demand better answers? Vactruth.com
• Multiple Vaccines May Have Triggered Disease a ...
  March 2, 2003 Army Specialist Rachel Lacy was given five vaccinations at once: anthrax, hepatitis B, measles-mumps-rubella, smallpox, and typhoid. She also was given a tuberculin skin test on the day that. She died on April 4, 2003.Vactruth.com
• Vaccinated Sibling Transmits Rotavirus to Unva ...
  In January of 2010, vaccine-derived rotavirus was transmitted from the vaccinated infant to his older, unvaccinated sibling that lead to 'symptomatic rotavirus gastroenteritis'.Vactruth.com

BroadSnark

• On Jewish “Success”
  It’s hard to have a reasonable conversation about the apparent “success” of the Jewish community. For one thing, we Jews have an understandably defensive gut reaction to accusations of success.  And they are often accusations.  To quote the Illinois Holocaust Museum, Adolf Hitler and the Nazis a ...
• Things You Might Have Missed
  So these people don’t have a chance in hell of pulling off a free school at Guy Ritchie’s house, but I do love them for trying. Apparently, it is attack women’s shelters week.  In Afghanistan, the state is trying to take them over. And in Canada, the border services/gestapo are now entering she ...
• On Facts and Truth
  Our book group just finished reading The Whites of Their Eyes by Jill Lepore. Lepore is a historian and spends a lot of time focusing on historical facts that contradict the tea party narrative. So the group spent some time discussing whether or not there is such a thing as verifiable fact, whet ...
• Things You Might Have Missed
  Guess what guys?  If some prison guard fucks you up the ass, the FBI says it ain’t rape. DC as a tax free zone? These Russian artists are ballsalicious and I am seriously afraid for them. These pics of makeshift helmets in Egypt are pure awesome.  This letter is pretty funny too.  And as long ...
• On Snow and Relationships
  We have had a couple good snows this winter.  That means that I’ve had to navigate snow and ice covered sidewalks without breaking my neck.  Bad enough for me, who is generally steady on her feet when sober, but others really just have to forget about going anywhere until the snow melts. It is ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

• GOP Steps Up Push or Deal with Obama To Carry ...
  EIR News Service press release.
• LaRouche: Obama's Targeting of Mubarak Will Bl ...
  EIR News Service press release.
• LaRouche on 'Russia Today' TV News: Egypt Uphe ...
  EIR News Service press release.
• In Wake of FCIC Report, LPAC Says: LaRouche Wa ...
  EIR News Service press release.
• Lyndon LaRouche Opening Statement to Private L ...
  EIR News Service press release.

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

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

food and water watch

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

treehugger

• Can You Trademark Urban Homesteading?
  Photo Credit: Kristine Paulus via Flickr Creative Commons Attribution License. The Dervaes family of Pasadena is well-known for practicing self-sufficiency on their urban lot. They grow over 7000 pounds of food. They use very little power from the grid. They have been an inspiration to many ...
• Coal Plant Shutdown a Long-Awaited Step in the ...
  Photo credit: Mona Miri It is a step towards victory for Massachusetts—a top official at Dominion Energy publicly announced the Salem power plant is expected to shut down in the next 5 years. In 2005, I began my environmental series documenting the coal and oil power plant that was resp ...
• When Pollution Becomes a Public Health Issue
  Rosa Perea spends many days struggling to help her five-year old son, Yousef Abdallah, control his severe asthma. Her Chicago neighborhood is home to numerous polluting industries—most of which emit soot and smog pollution. "It's so hard," Perea says, "before this I've never been close or ...
• Massive Ethical Business Strategy Revealed by ...
  Image credit: The Cooperative Group From Wal-Mart's controversial sustainability efforts to Marks & Spencer's aggressive Plan A program, there have been some major top-down green strategies revealed in the business world. But one chain of supermarkets, banks, pharmacies and more is setting ...
• California Bill Brings Rainwater to Your Toile ...
  Photo by Ladycliff via Flickr Creative Commons While rainwater collection is a contentious issue in some areas, California is looking to make it a little easier to use your rain barrels as a water source. This week, AB 275, the Rainwater Capture Act of 2011 was introduced into the Californi ...

Biosingularity

• Gut microbes influence behavior
  Gut microbes acquired early in life can impact brain development in mice and subsequent behavior, such as decreasing physical activity and increasing anxiety, according to a study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. “This paper opens the door to new studie ...
• A Sharper Future for Retinal Implants
  Retinal implants can already restore sight to people who have lost it owing to degenerative eye diseases like macular degeneration or retinitis pigmentosa. Now new research suggests a way to make higher-quality, more biocompatible retinal implants by integrating living neural cells with a soft o ...
• Tiny Water Flea Has More Genes Than You Do
  This tiny, near-microscopic water flea has more genes than you. In fact, this freshwater zooplankton is the first crustacean to have its genome sequenced, and its 31,000 genes crowns it the animal with the most genes so far. For those keeping count at home, the average human has about 20,000 to ...
• Researchers “Grow” New Blood Vesse ...
  Synthetic blood vessels that can be made in advance and stored until surgery could help patients undergoing heart surgery, hemodialysis—cleansing of the blood in cases of kidney failure—and other procedures. Laura Niklason, an anesthesiologist and biomedical engineer at Yale University, and her ...
• A clearer picture of vision
  The human retina — the part of the eye that converts incoming light into electrochemical signals — has about 100 million light-sensitive cells. So retinal images contain a huge amount of data. High-level visual-processing tasks — like object recognition, gauging size and distance, or calculating ...

CFACT

• Have the Greens finally trapped biotech crops?
  The world in 2040 will have perhaps 8 billion people demanding twice as much food and lots of high-quality protein. Either we produce that extra food on the land we already farm, or we watch the most massive loss of wild-lands in all history.
• Did the US ethanol mandate contribute to the E ...
  An analysis of recent commentary on ethanol production mandates in the United States and the riots in Egypt.
• Washington Post compares Climate Depot to Drud ...
  Marc Morano is CFACT's editor in chief of Climate Depot, and he has been garnering extensive coverage lately. Last week he was cited in the Washington Times. This week it's the Washington Post's Capital Weather Gang and Fox Nation.
• U.S. court deals smack-down to greens
  Two powerful, well-funded environmental groups suffered a smack-down at the hands of a rural Utah county when a U.S. court ruled the environmentalists couldn̢۪t challenge the county̢۪s ownership claims to dozens of roads on federal lands.
• CFACT's Morano exposes anti-American climate e ...
  The editor of CFACT's Climate Depot, Marc Morano, was recently cited in a Washington Times editorial.

Ria Novosti Online News

• TNK-BP interested in cooperation with Rosneft- ...
  Russian-British oil giant TNK-BP is interested in joint projects with the Rosneft-BP alliance, the company said on Friday following a board meeting.
• EU may revise Energy Charter with view to Russ ...
  The European Union is ready to discuss Russia's proposals for amendments to the European Energy Charter, the head of the Delegation of the European Union to Russia said on Friday.
• Medvedev calls on officials to ensure security ...
  Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Friday told members of Russia's Security Council that they must deal with any attempts to disrupt the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
• EU expects positive discussions with Putin in ...
  The European Union is looking forward to Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's upcoming two-day visit to Brussels, the head of the Delegation of the European Union to Russia said on Friday.
• Medvedev and Putin skiing at Rosa Khutor in So ...
  Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited Alpine European Cup competitions at the Krasnaya Polyana in Sochi and also took the slopes a couple of times.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• Europe's ATV-2 space freighter heads to ISS
  The European Space Agency's said it launched a second Automated Transfer Vehicle, the Johannes Kepler, from the Kourou space center in French Guiana on Thursday.
• Russian cosmonauts complete spacewalk
  Two Russian cosmonauts on board the International Space Station completed their spacewalk one hour earlier than expected, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported from the mission control center.
• Mars mission participants walk on 'Red Planet'
  Participants in the simulation of a manned mission to Mars completed on Monday the first of three scheduled walks on a mock-up of the surface of the Red Planet.
• International Space Station
• Mars500 stimulated mission 'lands' on Red Plan ...
  The crew of the Mars500 stimulated mission on Saturday landed on the "surface" of the Red Planet.

Pruning Shears

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

Organic Consumers.org

• Interview With Bill McKibben on the Climate Cr ...
  Bill McKibben, Schumann distinguished scholar at Middlebury College, is the author of a dozen books about the environment, including "The End of Nature" (1989), regarded as the first book for a general audience about global warming. He is also founder of the global grassroots climate movement 35 ...
• Wisconsin Crowds Swell to 30,000; Key GOP Legi ...
  "I have never been prouder of our movement than I am at this moment," shouted Wisconsin AFL-CIO President Phil Neuenfeldt, as he surveyed the crowds of union members and their supporters that surged around the state Capitol and into the streets of Madison Wednesday, literally closing the downtow ...
• After Surviving War in Iraq, U.S. Troops Now B ...
  They survived live fire, explosive devices, terror attacks and grueling desert conditions. But upon returning home to seek treatment for the mental anguish that too often accompanies war, U.S. soldiers are now being killed by the pharmaceutical industry in record numbers.Click here to read this ...
• Monsanto, Dow to Begin Pushing Dangerous 2,4-D ...
  It is something that many farmers of genetically-modified (GM) crops are already trying to do and failing to succeed in, but that the chemical companies responsible for the problem may soon be pushing as an alleged "solution." The Dow Chemical Company has sponsored a study that aims to position ...
• Millions Against Monsanto Truth-in-Labeling Le ...
  Dear Editor, As a citizen and shopper concerned about the health, environmental, ethical, and socio-economic hazards of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) and industrial-scale factory farms or CAFOs (Confined Animal Feeding Operations), I am writing to inform your readers about a new consumer ...

fotoFrontera

• Animales increíbles IV (Fotomanipulaciones en ...
  Haz clic aquí o sobre las imágenes para ver todas las fotografíasPara ver más fotomontajes de animales en Photoshop, revise los siguientes números. [1][2][3][4][más] ATENCIÓN: Para ver todas las fotos de esta serie, navegue usted hacia abajo y haga click sobre las imágenes que más le gusten para ...
• Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes X ...
  Haz clic aquí o sobre las imágenes para ver todas las fotografíasSi desea ver más imágenes bonitas de nuestra serie 'Selecciones Especiales', explore usted con detalle los números siguientes. [1][2][3][4][5]-[6]-[7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] [21][22][23][24][25][26][27][2 ...
• Wallpapers de Disney II (Mickey Mouse y Daisy)
  Haz clic aquí o sobre las imágenes para ver todas las fotografíasSi desea ver nuestra colección anterior sobre Wallpapers de Disney y en donde Winnie Pooh es la gran estrella, haga usted clic aquí. ATENCIÓN: Para ver todas las fotos de esta serie, navegue usted hacia abajo y haga click sobre las ...
• Fotografías de comida II (Embutidos y Salchich ...
  Haz clic aquí o sobre las imágenes para ver todas las fotografíasPara ver la primera parte de nuestra serie fotografías de comida (Salchichas y Embutidos), haga usted clic aquí. ATENCIÓN: Para ver todas las fotos de esta serie, navegue usted hacia abajo y haga click sobre las imágenes que más le ...
• Regalos y postales para el Día del Amor y la A ...
  Especialmente para usted que hoy nos visita, tenemos a continuación 33 postales de corazones, flores, peluches y un sinfín de regalos que le darán grandes ideas de lo que usted puede obsequiar a ese ser querido. De igual forma, puede editar las imágenes en línea a través de PicNik de Google y co ...

Center for a Livable Future

• The Cristo Rey/Amazing Grace Community Garden: ...
          Where there was once a block of run-down row homes in McElderry Park in East Baltimore, Maryland, there is now a burgeoning vegetable garden. The Amazing Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church started the garden to provide green space for the community and produce for the church’s foo ...
• Jackson touts 50-year plan to ‘perennialize’ l ...
  The Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture was celebrating its 20th annual conference Feb. 2-5, but it seems that keynote speaker Wes Jackson wasn’t there to celebrate. Instead, he was on a mission to gather allies for his proposal of a 50-year farm bill, which could supplement th ...
• Bills banning arsenic take shape in MD General ...
  Dr. Keeve Nachman, Director of the Farming for the Future Program at CLF, spoke at a press conference yesterday in the Maryland House of Delegates. The press conference was organized by Montgomery County Delegate Tom Hucker and Prince George’s County Senator Paul Pinsky.  Senator Pinsky and Del ...
• A Former Teacher’s Take on The New Dietary Gui ...
  Every five years, the United States Departments of Human Health Services and Agriculture jointly release the Dietary Guidelines for America in the hopes of encouraging every American to eat a healthy diet, however, chances are the average person will never set eyes on the report. As a former tea ...
• Oprah Enthusiastically Throws Her Support Behi ...
    Talk show host Oprah Winfrey may have just encouraged a large segment of her 30 million viewers to join the Meatless Monday movement following her latest show which gave us a rare glimpse into where some of our meat comes from. The Meatless Monday campaign’s national awareness has more t ...

Norwegianity

• Cheeseheads R US
  Wisconsin: David Dayen, Naked Capitalism, Rachel Maddow [v], TBogg [v with music], Susie Madrak [v], Bob Collins, Nick Coleman [v], WINston [p], WINston [v], WINston [v], and some background from Rachel Maddow [v]. Also, Fox’s take. And from Lambert: I read John Hinderakerâs take on the even ...
• Janie’s got a gun (hidden in her rectum? ...
  So many questions, so few answers. Matt Taibbi would like to know Why Isn’t Wall Street in Jail? Excerpt: You want to win elections, you bang on the jailable class. You build prisons and fill them with people for selling dime bags and stealing CD players. But for stealing a billion dollars? For ...
• Punishing us for not giving them everything fa ...
  It takes a Villager to ignore a story that big…. - AP: Machines first out-calculated us in simple math. Then they replaced us on the assembly lines, explored places we couldn’t get to, even beat our champions at chess. Now a computer called Watson has bested our best at “Jeopardy!” And ye shall ...
• Convictions
  Well, that didn’t take long. Iowa Governor Terry Branstad just axed over 25% of his state’s nursing home inspectors. Iowa, per capita, is one of the oldest states in the union. I’m glad I left before I got old. Newsiness: Shawna Forde: guilty as all hell and death eligible [more] [more] If a job ...
• More links to stuff other people made up
  I haven’t linked to much on the Chamber of Commerce’s thuggish agitprop, but Big Daddy Malcontent has been on top of it (post with Jane Hamsher video, and a very good comment), as well as more from emptywheel. FDL has an interactive relationship map. Glenn Greenwald, one of the targets, has more ...

Public News Service

• Arizona Parents Compete for Attention of Scree ...
  Arizona Parents Compete for Attention of Screen-Saturated Teens Phoenix, AZ – A recent study of 2,000 U.S. young people shows just what Arizona parents are up against in the screen-saturated world of pre-teens and teenagers. Comments from author of “Let the Baby Drive: Navigating the Road of New ...
• Bill Changing Abortion Definition May Limit Ru ...
  Bill Changing Abortion Definition May Limit Rural Health Care Phoenix, AZ – The Arizona House is considering imposing the same regulations on abortion pills that apply to surgical abortions. Abortion providers say the change could limit women’s reproductive health services in rural Arizona. Comm ...
• Project Pushes Adult Support ”Web” ...
  Project Pushes Adult Support ”Web” for AZ Students Phoenix, AZ – Communities and adults across Arizona are being asked to take more responsibility for giving students the support they need to succeed. A year-long initiative from the Arizona School Boards Association will reach into every county ...
• Federal Cash Available to Low-Income AZ Famili ...
  Federal Cash Available to Low-Income AZ Families Phoenix, AZ – Today (Friday) is Earned Income Tax Credit Awareness Day, a reminder to low-income families that they may be eligible to receive up to $5,600 by simply filing a federal tax return. Volunteers are available at sites across the state t ...
• Arizona Facing Lawsuit Over Constitutional Ame ...
  Arizona Facing Lawsuit Over Constitutional Amendment Phoenix, AZ – The State of Arizona is facing a lawsuit from the National Labor Relations Board over a constitutional amendment approved by voters last fall. Comments from Rebekah Friend, executive director, Arizona AFL-CIO.

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

• Queens Chronicle - The battle for a world with ...
  Queens Chronicle - The battle for a world without genocide: "In a room filled with people who have gone through, for many of us, the unthinkable — facing starvation and forced labor, being beaten when trying to sneak food to concentration camp prisoners — there pervaded a word that echoed throug ...
• Reverend Manny: 21st Century FBI: An Embarrass ...
  21st Century FBI: An Embarrassment to Justice J. Edgar Would be Proud of | Reverend Manny and the Twilight Empire - "the Secular, Humanist Revival" - With images of dictatorial crackdown filling the internet media machine, it’s an opportune time for the American citizenry to re-examine our own n ...
• Palestinian Pundit: Egypt protests continue in ...
  Palestinian Pundit: Egypt protests continue in the factories Hossam el-Hamalawy - (Hossam el-Hamalawy is an Egyptian journalist from Cairo. He blogs at arabawy.org) guardian.co.uk, Monday 14 February 2011 "Since Hosni Mubarak fled from Cairo, and even before then, some middle-class activists h ...
• Biting the source that feeds you - Other Views ...
  Biting the source that feeds you - Other Views - MiamiHerald.com: "And know this: That every conversation you have with the reporters you’re working with, every snarky comment they make about you, every detail of your collaboration, may be used in a high-profile account of the whole affair that ...
• John John: The View From Occupied Canada #231
  Indian remains unearthed on future Pleasanton Safeway site - Inside Bay Area PLEASANTON -- One stretch of land on Pleasanton's southwest side continues to be a historical treasure trove for archaeologists. For at least the fourth time in the past decade, Dr. James Allan and his colleagues ...

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

• Free Movie tickets: CONVICTION
  The kind folk at 20th Century Fox have made available some double passes for our TBR, Twitter and Facebook readers to see the new movie CONVICTION, based on the true story of Betty Ann Waters who studied to become a...
• New-look Investigate magazine HIS and HERS goe ...
  As of Sunday...with more exclusive revelations about the Pike River disaster and police bungles in the rescue operation...and HERS features new poll results showing support for National is wide but shallow, and that a large number of voters want Winston...
• Investigate Political Poll 2011 - No1
  Investigate magazine's first big omnibus and political poll in more than five years is underway. If you want to fill in the survey form (takes less than two minutes on average) online, you'll find it here.
• BREAKING NEWS: Arizona shooter of Gabrielle Gi ...
  The young gunman who shot and killed six people, and left Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in critical condition, appears to have borne a grudge against Giffords after meeting her in 2007 at the age of 19. According to reports, former...
• New study says CO2 rise a result of warmer tem ...
  A new peer reviewed study supports another contention I raised in Air Con: that CO2 increase follows temperature increase, and that there appears to be no correlation between fossil fuel emissions and temperature. The paper is available in full in...

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

• 7 hours ago in Al Arakib
  By Yeela Raanan It seemed that there were “red lines” even for the police brutality against the Bedouins of the Israeli Negev – while destroying homes that had no possibility for acquiring building permits, arresting people on their village lands in order to make room for JNF trees, beating ac ...
• Please Help Rebuild 13 Water Cisterns Destroye ...
  crossposted from the Villages Group blog) The situation of the Palestinian cave-dwellers in South Hebron Hills continues to be difficult. They suffer from permanent harassment carried out by the military and settlers. This year, however, has been even more difficult, due to a severe drought. As ...
• Al Arakib update: Four consecutive days of dem ...
  From the Negev Coexistence Forum (NCF) Last week brought four consecutive days of demolitions in Al Arakib. For the first time on February 9 we witnessed bulldozers clearly marked as belonging to the Jewish National Fund (JNF-KKL), destroying tents that had been erected overnight by the resident ...
• Report from Sheikh Jarrah’s 65th weekly ...
  By David Shulman February 11, 2011 Sheikh Jarrah It took the Planning Committee of the Jerusalem City Council less than fifteen minutes to approve plans for the next wave of evictions in Sheikh Jarrah. We knew it was coming. Six large Palestinian familiesâsome fifty souls– are to be expelled f ...
• Videos of women protestors and other recommend ...
  One of my sources sends the following recommendation for on-the-ground reports from Egypt. Here are three of the many women of the Egyptian Revolution – that will counter some of those images of passive Muslim women. Change in the Middle East is being pushed forward by women like Mona, Asma, Sa ...

Politics in the Zeros

• Polizeros Radio. Middle East protests, Pakista ...
  Middle East protests may topple more governments but the underlying problems of poverty, rising prices, and income disparities will remain. Will the outcome for many of these countries be something like Pakistan is now? And who is Raymond Davis, supposed diplomat who killed two Pakistanis with h ...
• Vernon Hunter remembrance
  Today at noon EST, the Internal Revenue Service will have a moment of silence in honor of Vietnam veteran and IRS agent Vernon Hunter who was killed one year ago when a pilot deliberately crashed his plane into an IRS building in Austin where he was working. He died in what can only be called [. ...
• Novel boat launch
  That’s the owner in the stern. Get the full story about what happened at the Big Picture’s ephemera blog!
• Polizeros Radio podcast tonight. Middle East u ...
  And is Wisconsin the next Egypt? The podcast is hosted on BlogTalkRadio. Call in to listen live at 626-414-3492 tonight at 8:30 PST (9:30 MST, 10:30 CST, 11:30 EST.) You can also download it or listen to the archive on BlogTalkRadio after it’s done. With Steve Hynd of Newshoggers, Josh Mull from ...
• Why isn’t Wall Street in jail? Control fraud o ...
  Taibbi A veritable mountain of evidence indicates that when it comes to Wall Street, the justice system not only sucks at punishing financial criminals, it has actually evolved into a highly effective mechanism for protecting financial criminals. This institutional reality has absolutely nothing ...

Coteret

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

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• Why would Anyone want the UN to take over the ...
  The UN has long been an organization of Social Engineering , Central planning, Eugenics, and Global Government. The UN plan is a collectivist one, that replaces rights with “privileges” – At this time the Web is FREE, but recent issues regarding copyrights, “security” / wikileaks, and details of ...
• It Started in Wisconsin – “Austeri ...
  Wisconsin Democrats (and rent a Mobs)Holding Taxpayers And Voters Hostage To Unions source In case you haven’t been paying attention to what is going on in Wisconsin, here are a few of the main issues in the bill proposed by Governor Scott Walker that has Union leaders’ heads about to explode: R ...
• George Soros & Egypt’s New Constitution
  For Egyptians, the nightmare is just beginning. by Tony Cartalucci The United States and its allies are still feigning surprise at the unfolding revolutionary conflagration consuming the Middle East. However, those aware of the West’s decades old network of NGOs and how their sole purpose is reo ...
• Making Fortune on Poverty: JP Morgan’s B ...
  While most Americans are struggling hard to overcome the hardships of the recession, the profits of national banks continue to rise. JP Morgan is among those cashing-in … and it’s a contract to process food stamp payments that’s helping it on its way. RT’s Maria Portnaya found out how the rich b ...
• Under Pressure Japan Pulls Whaling Fleet
  Japan abandoned the rest of its whale hunting season in Antarctic waters Friday citing repeated harassment by Sea Shepherd activists, after netting only a fifth of its targeted catch of 850 whales. (Feb. 18)

The Air Vent

• Spectator on O10
  Nic Lewis has co-written an article with the Spectator regarding S09. They used it for the cover story – click the image below for the magazine link. I have a copy, but haven’t read it in the published form myself.
• A Calmer Conversation with the Nail
  by – Ryan ODonnell   I had made a post concerning the sensitivity of the S09 reconstruction with respect to changes in trend for the underlying surface stations HERE [insert link].  That post was a bit rushed, and the level of explanation I provided was insufficient.  Bishop Hill did a better ...
• Liars and Knucklehead Reviewers
  When Steig went off the deep end the other day, I told people I wasn’t going to let it go.  Not after all that time work and abuse we took in getting this paper done.  He’s actually screaming that we are liars, and the reviewers that let our math pass are Knuckleheads.  Let’s see if [...]
• SI 1 Images
  There is a lot of silliness going on in the believer community about which reconstructions are correct. It should be rather obvious by now and Ryan has some more work on that soon, but this image was one of my favorite from the initial submission. Of course it’s about the only one I contributed ...
• Matters of Fact
  Ryan ODonnell Subsequent to my post on Feb 7, 2010 here, Steig informed me by email that he had not seen our Response to his Third Review, as I had previously assumed. I apologize for my misunderstanding on this point, which was, however, incidental to the major concerns expressed in my post. A ...

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