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Thomas Paine

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

Friday, February 18, 2011

18 February - RSS SnapShot! Pt 3

Focal Point

  • Debunking Myths About Epidurals for Childbirh
    From a good post by Dr. Harriet Hall debunking various myths about epidural analgesia for childbirth: In my opinion, it is unconscionable to let patients suffering from severe pain go untreated unless there is compelling evidence that not treating pain results in improved health outcomes. ...
  • World's Only Superpower Has 32 Legislators Liv ...
    Well, not everyone can live at C Street... Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) is demanding an investigation into reports that at least 32 members of Congress are living out of their D.C. offices, Jay Newton Small explains: Sure, most congressmen earn more than $10 ...
  • A Former TSA Agent Speaks Out On Collective Ba ...
    Last week TSA Administrator John Pistole bestowed very limited collective bargaining rights on the nation's 40,000 Transportation Security Officers. Even if the TSOs vote to unionize, they will be barred from negotiating on basic issues like disciplinary standards, ostensibly in the interest of ...
  • Heavier Kids: Blame Working Moms...or Lazy Dad ...
    A new study of 900 kids reports a correlation between the number of hours a woman works outside the home and the BMI* of her children. "For a third grader of average height, the increase in BMI was equivalent to an extra one and a half to two pounds over what that child would normally gain i ...
  • Surprise! Lila Rose's Planned Parenthood "Stin ...
    Media Matters reveals that Lila Rose's undercover "sting" videos of Planned Parenthood have been doctored: -Why is Live Action Doctoring Its Planned Parenthood Audio? -Latest Lila Rose Video Ends Her Credibility Once and For All For more on anti-abortion extremist Lila Rose and her misbego ...

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook Tests Ad Surveys Asking Users Which A ...
    Facebook is testing a new format for the sponsored ads section of the site’s right sidebar. Users experiencing the test are shown two ads, and then a survey question asking “which of the two ads above would you prefer to see more of in the future?” Facebook may be using the collected to data to ...
  • Valentine’s, Turkey, Video and Games on this W ...
    Several apps in Turkish were on our list of Top 20 Emerging Facebook Apps this week, in addition to one in Chinese and another in Thai. Additionally, there were a few that showed growth due to Valentine’s Day, several video apps and a whole lot of games. We gather this information from AppData, ...
  • Facebook Splits Typeahead Search Results into ...
    Facebook now splits the instant typeahead search results that appear in the drop-down beneath its ever-present search bar into profiles, Pages, apps, groups, Events, and Questions. This helps users find the most relevant results, regardless of category. Category-sorted results could also help u ...
  • Facebook Wins Search-Related Patent for Visual ...
    Following a social-focused search patent it received last fall, Facebook has received another this week, titled: “Visual tags for search results generated from social network information.” The new patent (7,890,501) was a continuation of the previous one (7,788,260). This means than rather than ...
  • Microsoft Releases New Version of Bing Bar Too ...
    Today, Microsoft releases a new version of its Bing Bar downloadable browser tool bar that includes several Facebook capabilities. Bing Bar users can see when they have new notifications, messages, and friend requests, and view an activity feed and photos from friends without visiting Facebook.c ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • The desperate race to cobble together a Palest ...
    Stuart Littlewood views British Foreign Secretary William Hague's and EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton's protestations in favour of an Israeli-Palestinian settlement based on a return to the 1967 borders, against the background of their unwillingness to force Israel to implement UN Secur ...
  • Maybe Gaza should paddle its own canoe
    As the prospects of a two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict vanishes thanks to Israel's land grabs and willful failure to honour agreements it has signed up to, Stuart Littlewood considers the possibility of what is to many Palestinians currently unthinkable: a Palestinian state ...
  • Universal Jurisdiction: a major tool for justi ...
    Lawrence Davidson assesses the value of Universal Jurisdiction. He argues that it is "the best hope the world has to … hem in the criminal leaders of great power states who everyone had assumed were untouchable", and urges citizens to protect it against attempts by Western leaders to undermine i ...
  • Will democracy in Egypt benefit the Palestinia ...
    Alan Hart considers how a truly representative, democratically-elected government in Egypt could redefine the political and strategic equation in the Middle East in a manner that would deliver peace with justice.
  • The Egyptian army's weapons problem
    Christopher King argues that there is a high probability that weapons supplied by the USA to Egypt, among others, contain trojans - hidden and malicious circuits in microchips or programs in software - that can be activated by the US or Israel at will to ensure that they will not work if used ag ...

Amazon Rainforest

  • BREAKING: Chevron Guilty of Amazon Rainforest ...
    Amazon Watch and Rainforest Action Network just announced a major victory for the Amazon rainforest. An Ecuadorean judge today found Chevron guilty of one of the largest environmental crimes in history and ordered the company to pay a whopping $8 billion to clean up its damage in the Amazon. Che ...
  • First film footage of uncontacted Amazon Tribe
    The footage was filmed by the BBC’s Human Planet series shows a Tribe known as the Panoan, who live in virtual isolation from the outside world. The team needed too get footage of the Tribe as proof of their existence so as the government could protect them from illegal logging and mining operat ...
  • Second rancher sentenced for contract kill of ...
    A second rancher has been sentenced for his role in the murder of Dorothy Stang, an American nun who was gunned down in 2005 for her efforts on behalf of poor farmers in the Amazon Rainforest. Regivaldo Galvao was sentenced to 30 years in prison by a jury in the city of Pará. Last month [...]
  • Yasuni National Park- SAVED!
    President Raphael Correa now has approved an agreement to leave Ecuador’s largest oil reserves, amounting to some 900 million barrels, underground in Yasuni National Park in exchange for more than $3 billion. Under the unprecedented agreement, known as the Yasuni-ITT Initiative, the government o ...
  • Amazon watchgroups SILENT over new Chevron oil ...
    In the space of a week, a Chevron technical team has discovered two fresh oil spills in Ecuador’s oil-producing Amazon region. One covers three hectares (7.4 acres) near state-owned oil company Petroecuador’s Guanta production station in the heart of Cofan indigenous country. The other impacts h ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Jamiol Presents
  • Breaking News: Ray McGovern Brutalized & Left ...
    To Those Who Second-Guess Our Police State Status: Shame on You! I just received the following news and I am way too upset to write a coherent piece on this. Ray McGovern is a good friend of mine. We live less than 10 miles apart. Together we have participated in many events and protests. He is ...
  • Obama Administration’s Neocon Easter
    Resurrecting the Neocons: Marc Grossman in … Richard Perle & Douglas Feith in Queue Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has chosen a new special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan: a long-time controversial neocon, a man who has been famous for parading as a foreign agent in the lobby circuit, the ...
  • Podcast Show #38
    The Boiling Frogs Presents Nick Merrill Nick (Nicholas) Merrill joins us to recount his ‘surreal’ experience as the first American to stand up and challenge the FBI’s National Security Letters, living under FBI gag orders for the past six years, and being identified only as ‘John Doe’ in court ...
  • US Politics & the Myth of the Pendulum Swing
    Pacified & Lulled, Still Waiting for the Pendulum to Swing It was a rainy April day in 2004, and I was in the office of one of my professors at the university’s Public Policy Graduate Department. I was having one of those defeated and disillusioned moments that kept recurring during that time pe ...

Afro Spear

  • An Obama Pre-quel
    His name is Juan Rafael Santos. He is no longer with us on the physical plane – as far as I know. But his words survive. There is more truth per line – about our (P)resident, about our world, our government, us – than in any piece of writing I’ve seen in years…perhaps ever. Read [...]
  • Women of Color – Origins
    Via Victor Lee Lewis:
  • K’Naan On The Politics of Somali Pirates
    In my recent post on rapper Chubb Rock, my blog brother Qwami Ade introduced me to a collaboration video between the Chubster himself and Somali-Canadian rapper K’Naan. Of course I was impressed! I decided that I would find out more about this young man’s music. So the time came for me to seek a ...
  • Is South Saharan Africa reading Egypt’s ...
    Dramatic-cum-nicely-choreographed fall from grace of former Egyptian strong man, Muhammad Hosni Mubarak, was unprecedented though what happened in Tunisia tells it all. Defiant and arrogant as the tyrant has always been, nobody thought he would easily be toppled. Day-dreaming as it was seen in 1 ...
  • “Trust for us” by Dr. B.B. Robinso ...
    Op-ed submission by Project 21 There is a lot of discussion of the black community’s problems: poverty, crime, high incarceration rates and high unemployment. But there isn’t much discussion of “trust.” An absence of focus on the trust deficit in the black community obscures an unfortunate cause ...

Expose the BNP

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

Sen4Earth

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

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

  • 350.org say “Hello Business, Goodbye Gra ...
    For a while it wasn’t certain which side would blink first: the grassroots or the corporate loving heirarchy. Turns out that the grassroots blinked before the heirarchy had even been established. When, like 350.org you have a full time staff of just half a dozen people then you have a pretty eas ...
  • Friends of the Earth, iPods and The Competitio ...
    It was a windy Thursday evening at the beginning of 2011. An office in north London buzzed with anticipation at the launch of something exciting; something that would appeal to a new breed of eco-conscious consumers who want that extra something to keep them feeling good about their fast-pased, ...
  • A Story About Banks [Guest Post]
    A few weeks back I had a revelation. Many years ago I opened an account with the Midland Bank in Ipswich. Lots of the people that worked there used to come into the pub that I worked in at lunch-time and they all seemed very nice. Actually there was also a very affable man, a [...]
  • Nature Conservancy Embrace Dow Chemical Busine ...
    Below is a long list of chemical compounds and elements. This is not just an ordinary list, for it is special in all sorts of ways – not least of all to anyone who is a supporter of our old friends The Nature Conservancy. The list contains just those substances that the US Environmental Protecti ...
  • Sudden Oak Death – It’s News Becau ...
    It’s commonly called Sudden Oak Death, so why the picture of a stand of larch trees? That’s a question well worth asking, but a far more important question is: why has Phytophthora ramorum, the name of the fungus responsible, become such big news in the UK? Ever since P. ramorum started blowing ...

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • LocalWiki Tries "Open-From-The-Start" Developm ...
    It's time for another project update. We've been hard at work on the core of the software that will power LocalWiki. We've also been spending time running around meeting people passionate about local media and planning out many things to come. Basic groundwork laid Many of you know abo ...
  • People of Color Must Innovate or Die in Digita ...
    In December in this space I asked about the lack of minorities at new media conferences -- both as participants and as speakers. The blog post generated a lot of comments; a Twitter discussion, and the start of a list of wonderful experts -- all persons of color -- who can help make your next ne ...
  • 'Data and Cities' Conference Pushes Open Data, ...
    When I entered Stamen's offices in the Mission district of San Francisco, I saw four people gathered around a computer screen. What were they doing? Nothing less than "mapping the world" -- not as it appears in flat dimension, but how it reveals itself. And they weren't joking. Stamen, a data vi ...
  • Knight, Mozilla Partner to Boost Tech-Journali ...
    I'm excited to announce the Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership, a Mozilla Drumbeat project supported by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation's Journalism Program. For the next three years, we will have the opportunity to engage a huge community, bring people together for trainin ...
  • Lawyers Voice Concerns About Live-Streaming Co ...
    One of the first things First Justice Mark Coven told us when we went down to the Quincy District Court to start talking about our project, Order in the Court 2.0, was that we had to hold an all-court meeting to introduce the project to everyone to get their input. This seemed like an excellent ...

Cutting Edge News

  • University of Wisconsin Press and Budget Cut P ...
    Way back when, I was a student in Wisconsin. I always thought then that the University of Wisconsin Press was unnecessary. Seeing what is going on just north of here, with virtually everything on the chopping block, I could not agree more with prior writers. Any funding or free rent for Universi ...
  • University of Wisconsin Press and State Budget ...
    In response to calls to slash the state budget, I think it would make a far greater contribution to education to slash any funding to the University of Wisconsin Press. I just looked at their latest line-up. It includes one book entitled Greek Prostitutes and another called Composing While Danci ...
  • The Battle for Bahrain - Enraged Shiite Protes ...
    The government of Bahrain declared a state of emergency on February 17 for the entire country in an attempt to quell violent demonstrations by the Shiite Muslim community that, over the last four days, has taken to the streets demanding democratic reforms. The oil emirate’s national security cou ...
  • Egypt After the Revolt - Iran’s Threat of Wars ...
    Oil markets were in an uproar as news circulated that Iranian warships were expected to enter the vital Suez Canal, currently controlled by fractious Egypt. Oil prices slipped after gaining as much as 0.4 percent after Iran’s Press TV reported that a naval official confirmed the ships’ itinerary ...
  • Criticism and Rebuttal of "The Muslim Brotherh ...
    I write in response to Dr Rachel Ehrenfeld�s article The Muslim Brotherhood's March to Victory, which appeared on the Cutting Edge News site on January 18, with a follow-up article January 30, 2011. In her first piece, Dr. Ehrenfeld, of the New York-based American Center for Democracy, makes ser ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Did Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee Have a Lobotomy, ...
    Just when you think that Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) can't say anything dumber she surprises us once again. Jackson Lee who once wasted the Congresses time with a piece of legislation to honor the late Michael Jackson (A Tribute to an American Legend and Musical Icon) that mad ...
  • Breaking Update: Obama Tells Abbas He Will Vet ...
    As alluded to this morning, Palestinian President Abbas has indeed rejected the Obama compromise Security Council action and is insisting on a vote of the original resolution which says "Israeli settlements established in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, including East Jerusale ...
  • Those Iranian Warships--The Latest Obama Forei ...
    By Barry Rubin Following on the theme that the Muslim Brotherhood is a secular organization and that U.S. intelligence gets its breaking information from CNN, we have this remarkable statement in the State Department briefing by Assistant Secretary of State Philip Crowley: "I believ ...
  • Major Shocker (NOT): Obama Picks Unions Over F ...
    Folks you may have to sit down for this one. Yesterday the President of the United States was interviewed by Milwaukee Wisconsin TV Station WTMJ and when asked about the Union Protests regarding the States Budget he said he wasn't following it that closely but "Some of what I’ve heard coming out ...
  • BUT WAIT...Wasn't Guantanamo Supposed to Be Cl ...
    It was one of the first things that Barack Obama did on his first day as President of the United States. He signed an executive order to shut down the Guantanamo Bay terrorist detention center within a year. "We think that it is precisely our ideals that give us the strength and the moral hig ...

The Real Agenda

  • Google Chrome apresenta opção para bloquear co ...
    Em uma tentativa direta para facilitar o bloqueio de determinados conteúdos, Google oferece uma opção em seu navegador Chrome que permite aos usuários censurar conteúdos considerados “indesejáveis”. NYT Adaptação Luis R. Miranda Google tem enfrentado críticas sobre a qualidade dos seus ...
  • Pesticidas agrícolas interrompem hormônios mas ...
    Scientific American Adaptação Luis R. Miranda Muitos pesticidas agrícolas – incluindo alguns já testados e comumente encontrados em alimentos – alteram os hormônios masculinos, de acordo com novos testes realizados por cientistas britânicos. No estudo, os cientistas recomendam que todos os ...
  • Plaguicidas agrícolas perturban Hormonas Mascu ...
    Scientific American Adaptación Luis R. Miranda Febrero 17, 2011 Muchos pesticidas agrícolas – entre ellos algunos ya probados y que se encuentran comúnmente en los alimentos – alteran las hormonas masculinas; esto según nuevas pruebas realizadas por científicos británicos. En el estudio, l ...
  • Google Chrome presenta opción para bloquear co ...
    En un intento directo para facilitar el bloqueo de determinados contenidos, Google ofrece una opción en su navegador Chrome que permite a los usuarios censurar contenido que considere “indeseable”. NYT Adaptación Luis R. Miranda Google ha enfrentado críticas sobre la calidad de sus resultados ...
  • U.S. Senate Extends Patriot Act Spying
    Wired.com The Senate voted late Tuesday to extend through May three controversial Patriot Act spy measures that were set to expire at month’s end. The 86-12 vote came a day after the House voted to extend the same provisions to Dec. 8. The fate of both bills remained unclear late Tuesday. The ac ...

Wind Watch

  • Turbine neighbours gagged in buy-up
    Victorians who have endured health problems from a nearby wind farm have been gagged from talking in return for the sale of their land. Spanish multinational energy company Acciona has been quietly buying farms adjacent to its site at Waubra, near Ballarat, as an increasing number of residents i ...
  • Wind farm fight heads to Supreme Court as comm ...
    The Supreme Court of South Australia will soon hear its first appeal against a proposed wind farm development. The appeal follows a landmark judgment by the Environment, Resources and Development Court late last year in favour of AGL’s Hallett 3 project at Mt Bryan – a decision hailed by develop ...
  • We’ll fight the wind farms off the D-Day ...
    The view from the Normandy landing beaches is to be transformed â critics say “desecrated” â by an immense offshore wind farm. French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced this week that one of the most poignant sea and beachscapes in the world â the Calvados coast, between Juno and Omaha beaches ...
  • Opposition ‘very troubled’ by &#82 ...
    LANAI CITY – Lanai residents turned out Saturday to express strong opposition to bringing “big wind” to their island for the benefit of Oahu consumers. Testifiers expressed concern about how a proposed wind farm by Castle & Cooke could impact the environment, cultural sites, hunting access and s ...
  • North Kingstown requests statewide moratorium ...
    Winds of change are in the air. North Kingstown town officials are requesting the General Assembly invoke a statewide one-year moratorium on all land-based wind turbines more than 50 feet tall. It�s the first official move the town has made since instating a six-month moratorium on wind turbines ...

Not My Tribe

  • Hillary Free speech part two
    While she was speaking… she had a 71 year old Former CIA analyst BEATEN by Capitol Pigs for “heckling” her… not by screaming denunciations, but by quietly standing up and turning his back on her LIES. Like Sarah Palin having people beaten and arrested for not sitting down and not shutting up whi ...
  • Hillary says “Free the internet from pol ...
    And neglects the NeuenRealpolitik of Corporate control of Politics in America and its vassal states, and the strange silence on her part about Net Neutrality, just, you know, allow Corporate Overlords to control every aspect of the Internet through”free” Market business decisions. As though the ...
  • The Memorial Park Grenade and Drugs
    The CS Fuzz Dept isn’t squeaking very loudly about the grenade they found at Prospect Lake a couple of days ago. There’s ways to make a booby trap from a hand grenade, take one and set it down, prop a rock onto it and set the rock on a small stick, so the rock will [...]
  • American tv viewers outraged at rape of white ...
    You’ll think I’m minimizing the rape of CBS reporter Lara Logan at the hands of a mob of Egyptian “celebrants” at the height of the Mubarak-departure delirium, as reported so far, but I want to point out that hers is not even representative of the rapes suffered by the victims of America’s wars, ...
  • Bush/Blair have a fall guy!
    Iraqi Defector gave defective evidence deliberately, US/UK Defective Detectives failed to notice See? The Bush, Blair and other governments who launched the blatantly profit-driven war weren’t actually Lying to us in any way, oh, no… They were Misled by a bad ol’ Iraqi. That makes all better, th ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Debunkers are Losing the Propaganda War ! Poll ...
    A recent poll in the german magazine "Welt der Wunder" conducted by the well known Emnid Institute results in astonishing 89% of the german respondents not believing the official line 9/11. The magazine in 2010 already published the story of NATOs "secret nuclear war", where the consequences of ...
  • Jim Corr Omits Info about Roaring Fires in WTC ...
    Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog posted musician Jim Corr's recent interview today and states: It's a collection of talking points on WTC-7: 1. Three buildings, two planes 2. Freefall speed into its own footprint 3. Accounts of explosions (note that Corr fails to mention the firefighte ...
  • Jim Corr & Lord Monckton on Irish TV
    Some great info about 9/11 from Jim Corr, including the nanothermite. He knows his stuff. Lord Monckton focused solely on the issue of climate sensitivity, which is the most important question in the climate change debate: How much does CO2 affect temperature? The two debunkers in the audienc ...
  • How Pseudoskeptics hijack "Skepticism" to mean ...
    New article from DebunkingSkeptics.com. "Just look at us. Everything is backwards. Everything is upside down. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the major media destroy information, and religion destroys spirituality." - ...
  • Mike Adams on the invocation of 'Science' by d ...
    The downfall of science and the rise of intellectual tyranny (NaturalNews) The very reputation of so-called "science" has been irreparably damaged by the invocation of the term "science" by GMO lackeys, pesticide pushers, mercury advocates and fluoride poisoners who all claim to have science on ...

Fooducate

  • The Truth About Special K & Dieting
    Hey guys! I was watching TV and enjoying my dinner when a silly Special K commercial came on. You know, the one where a woman is lugging her Christmas tree outside and a group of reindeer mistakes her for Santa Claus? That’s the one. We’re meant to take the mistaken identity as a horrible insult ...
  • Spotted in a Shopping Cart – A Big Fat Lie
    We received this picture from Fooducate community member Tamar. The shopping carts are plastered with an advertisement. We can live with that, its a way for the grocer to make a few extra bucks. And if a snack is advertised, or a soda, so be it. It’s the American way. Bur what we really, absolut ...
  • The V8 Health Halo
    For years, V8 was a quirky vegetable drink sold by the Campbell soup company. But in the past few years, the brand has greatly expanded its offering, and now even includes a tea blend. Today we’ll take a look at the V8 Fusion line, which combines the perceived health of veggies with the sweetnes ...
  • Meet your Meat – Whole Foods Market’s 5-Step A ...
    Pushing the boundary on what foods are right to eat – from health, moral, and ecological perspectives – has been John Mackey’s mission since he opened the first Whole Foods Market over 30 years ago. Earlier this month, the grocery retailer took another step to encourage consumers – and suppliers ...
  • Show Your Valentine Some Love – With Beans…
    Valentine’s Day is all about romance. But it’s also a big industry.  A guy can’t afford NOT to buy flowers, choose expensive designer chocolates, and RSVP a table for two in a classy restaurant (which incidentally jacks up the rates for the special Valentine’s menu). And a gal needs to reciproc ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • 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 ...

Greg Palast

  • Chevron Runs from Judgmentin Ecuador
    by Greg Palast Chevron petroleum Corporation is attempting to slither out of an $8 billion judgment rendered yesterday by a trial court in Ecuador for cancer deaths, illnesses and destruction caused by its Texaco unit. I've been there, in Ecuador. I met the victims.  They didn't lose their sh ...
  • Reagan: Killer, Coward, Con-man
    The Observer London by Greg Palast You're not going to like this. You shouldn't speak ill of the dead. But in this case, someone's got to. On the 100th Anniversary of Ronald Reagan's birth, as we suffer a week of Reagan-kitcheria and pukey peons, let us remember: Reagan was a con-man. Rea ...
  • Shake your head and throw something at your TV
    from MoviesOnline.ca Bush Family Fortunes is a documentary that will make you shake your head and want to throw something at your TV. If even half of what BBC investigative reporter Greg Palast reveals is true and you happen to be an American you may or may not be calling for a revolution depen ...
  • Peak Oil and a Changing Climate
    from The Nation The scientific community has long agreed that our dependence on fossil fuels inflicts massive damage on the environment and our health, while warming the globe in the process. But beyond the damage these fuels cause to us now, what will happen when the world's supply of oil ru ...
  • Palast ArrestedBusted by BP in Azerbaijan
    by Greg Palast BP's Azeri police arresting Palast for filming BP oil rig - Baku, Azerbaijan, December 2010"Here in Azerbaijan we believe in human rights. PLEASE GIVE US YOUR FILM." Oh, no, no, not good. The enforcers here come in three colors:  the military police still wearing their old Rus ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle roofing felt?
    We’ve had an email from Daniel: Can I recycle roofing felt? I have a lot of small pieces to get rid of. I’ve not heard of it being recyclable and looking into it, it seems unlikely because it’s several hard/impossible to recycle materials all squished together. The better option would be to use ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle a Cillit Bang spray ...
    Shelagh emailed to ask: How can I reuse a Cillit Bang spray? It seems impossible to remove the nozzle to fill with a product. I’ve never used it so I don’t know what the bottle is like – but I’m going out to the shops in a few minutes so I’ll have a good look [...]
  • How can I repair a silicone baking mat?
    We’ve had another email from our good friend Petra: I’ve got a question about a silicone baking mat. I have two of them, but accidentally in both of them there is a cut from a knife or pizza slicer. Does anyone know of a method to repair these cuts? I can’t think of something myself [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle whiteboard marker p ...
    We’ve had an email from Julie asking: Can I recycle whiteboard marker pens? What plastic are they? I don’t know what plastic they are. I’ve spent about an hour this morning reading the “about our products” page of all the marker pen manufacturers I can think of but no one mentions that – and no ...
  • Upcycled & recycled Valentine’s Day gift ...
    Since it’s coming up to Valentine’s Day, I thought it might be nice to have a round up of fun recycling/upcycling Valentine’s Day crafts – for inspiration or purchase! Andrea Cook has been making cute Valentine’s Day cards out of recycled handmade paper and fabric scraps. Coupled-up kitties! Sar ...

Age of Autism

  • The Next Really Big Lie About Autism
    By Anne Dachel In August 2006, I wrote a piece called, The Really Big Lie about Autism. (HERE) It was about the claim by the medical community, health officials, and a parade of reporters, that the epidemic of kids with...
  • Best of Age of Autism: Dr. Ari Brown Plays Lia ...
    This post ran last spring. Dr. Brown was the "AAP autism expert" on Dr. Oz yesterday. By J.B. Handley Maybe doctors shouldn’t blog? Along with many other bloggers with apparently no interest in actually reading Karl Greenfeld’s article in Time...
  • Is it Ethical to Kill Children to Save Childre ...
    NEW YORK, Feb. 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Should the government promote a medical intervention that undeniably causes death and serious injury to a minority in order to save the lives of the majority? Vaccines are credited with saving the lives...
  • NJ Stands to Lose Freedom of Religious Exempti ...
    NJ, your right to a religious vaccine exemption is about to be denied. Which state is next? It’s time to make our voices heard at our elected legislative offices with a MASSIVE call-in/ write-in campaign. Contact info and details are...
  • An Autism Mom Discusses Recovering From Recove ...
    By Ann. A. Mom I cringe a bit lately when I read stories about recovered children. I'm ashamed to admit that these stories conjure up an enormous amount of self-pity and just plain jealousy in me. This hasn't, however, always...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

  • Radio Liberty’s Dr. Stanley Monteith and Barb ...
    Catch me on Radio Liberty at 9:00pm Pacific Time tonight, February 17, with Dr. Stanley Monteith. We will be discussing GMOs. Radio Liberty: http://www.radioliberty.com/
  • America’s Silent Killing Fields 2011
    We have systematically been inundated with GMOs at an alarming rate, with alfalfa, sugar beets, and corn for fuel being completely deregulated. It seems that the process of total genetic control of the planet is on the fast track.
  • Truth Squad Radio: Eric Herm – Son of a Farmer
    Eric Herm joins us this Wednesday evening to discuss the ravages of commercial agriculture, including the GMO blight.
  • Farmers Against Monsanto!
    Do you want to make a real difference in the fight against GMO alfalfa? If you do, then please download this poster and share it with farmers, feed stores, and anyone who might have an impact on alfalfa farmers' seed choices. It's time to take this to the streets.
  • Playing the Global Warming Card
    The global warming myth is thriving internationally, on the federal level and in state and local governments.

Open Your Eyes News

  • J&J recalls 70,000 Invega syringes
    Reuters – Johnson & Johnson said it has recalled 70,000 syringes filled with the antipsychotic drug Invega because of cracks in the syringes. A company spokesman said the issue, discovered during routine testing, has been resolved and production of the syringes has resumed at its Belgium manufac ...
  • Libya protests leave 24 dead, says rights grou ...
    BBC - At least 24 people have been killed in anti-government protests in Libya in recent days, rights activists say. Many others were wounded in the clashes between security forces and protesters, the US-based Human Rights Watch said. Protests continued overnight with thousands on the streets of ...
  • Indigenous home-buying scheme struggles for li ...
    The Australian – A total of 16 applications – all on the Northern Territory’s Tiwi Islands – have been approved since the program to provide 99-year leases on communal land was announced in the 2006-07 budget.  The NT is the only jurisdiction in which privately owned homes have been built under ...
  • British Forests sell-off abandoned as Cameron ...
    Guardian – David Cameron has ordered ministers to carry out the government’s biggest U-turn since the general election by abandoning plans to change the ownership of 258,000 hectares of state-owned woodland. Caroline Spelman, the environment secretary, will announce on Friday that a consultation ...
  • China gold demand growing at “explosive& ...
    Reuters – Demand in China for physical gold and gold-related investments is growing at an “explosive” pace and its appetite for the yellow metal is poised to remain robust amid inflation concerns, said an Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) executive. ICBC (1398.HK)(601398.SS), the wo ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Deepwater drilling permits must move forward, ...
    Beyond dispute is that before the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, permit applications were resolved in some two weeks. Also clear is that the permit applications at issue here have experienced delays of four months, if not more."
  • Rainwater Capture Act of 2011 could help quenc ...
    When it comes to water management, California Assemblyman Jose Solorio focuses on three C's: capture, conservation and conveyance. Of those, the state has been most successful with conservation, Solorio says, but it hasn't been nearly as adept at capturing rain...
  • Greenest cars: natural gas Honda Civic GX, Nis ...
    For a list of the greenest 2011 model-year vehicles, there sure are a lot of traditional gasoline engines among the top 12 cars ranked by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy. The council's 14th annual ratings of the most...
  • Oscar voters tackle gas 'fracking' controversy
    Add one more unlikely group to the list of people debating the controversial process of hydraulic fracturing or "fracking" -- Oscar voters. Energy in Depth, a group representing oil and natural gas producers, has sent a letter to the Academy...
  • Ex-astronaut out as New Mexico Energy czar
    Former astronaut and state legislator Harrison Schmitt has withdrawn his nomination to become New Mexico's head of the department of Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department, the latest setback as the state's new Republican governor tries to reverse her Democratic...

water.org

  • Water.org and KAMEKO partnership bring clean w ...
    Water.org has teamed up as a charity partner with the new pop/rock/soul artist KAMEKO and his “Tired of Being Broke” Musical Stimulus Gift Package Tour, which will kick off in Liberia March 19, 2011 at ATS stadium. This partnership will raise funds from the tour’s concert ticket sales and other ...
  • Rita Marley, KAMEKO partners with Water.org (M ...
    Matt Damonâs Water.org Partners With Rita Marley And KAMEKO For âTired Of Being Brokeâ Tour (Mi2N) – Water.org, a non-profit organization co-founded by Oscar winning actor Matt Damon and executive director Gary White, has teamed up alongside music legend Rita Marley to support the new pop/rock/s ...
  • Water.org powering microfinance for water (CFI ...
    Whatâs Matt Damon Got to Do With Microfinance? (Center for Financial Inclusion) – Reeta Roy, the president and CEO of The MasterCard Foundation, penned the post for the foundationâs blog many weeks ago. But the storyâs still fresh: an organization called Water.org is powering a âmarket-driven an ...
  • Water.org ensuring the right to clean water (A ...
    Ensuring the Right to Clean Water, One Bottle at a Time: Matt Damon and water.org team up to end the global water crisis (ABC News) – Water.Org gives grants in 14 countries (with Haiti most recently added) utilizing the innovation of a micro-finance model called âwater creditâ. Using the power o ...
  • Votes are in from Lowe’s Giving Campaign ...
    The Votes Are in: America Shows Its Love for National Parks, but Everyone Wins in Loweâs First Online Giving Campaign (Business Wire) MOORESVILLE, N.C. – Loweâs and the Loweâs Charitable and Educational Foundation are distributing grants totaling $1 million to the four charities that participate ...

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • Modern Orthodox Canadian convert denied right ...
    "I define myself as a Jew, it's a significant part of who I am, and it's hard for me to express just how great my disappointment is," he said. "It hurts inside." The situation is complicated by the lack of a body governing Orthodox policy...Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
  • U.S., UN urge Bahrain leaders to refrain from ...
    Clinton calls Bahrain's FM to express concern over violence; UN secretary-general says those responsible for violent crackdown should be brought to justice; Three dead, 231 wounded, 60 missing in Bahrain.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • How school trips to Hebron resemble visits to ...
    They will learn to touch history and hide from reality. They will believe that Abraham the patriarch has been buried for thousands of years in Hebron, but they will learn nothing about justice and humanity, which are buried there a thousand times deeper.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� ...
  • BTselem volunteers film soldiers waking child ...
    The soldiers enter the homes and demand that every child and youth over the age of 10 be wakened. They then photograph the minors and leave. B�Tselem knows of at least four incursions of this kind during January 2011. VIDEOSubmitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Commen ...
  • Mandela institution to file complaint against ...
    The Mandela institution catering for Palestinian prisoners affairs has launched international contacts with the aim of establishing a legal committee that would file a complaint against Israel at international courts for violating rights of Gaza prisonersSubmitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

  • U.S. Allocates $150 Million for Egypt's Recove ...
    The United States stands ready to provide assistance to Egypt to advance its efforts. I'm pleased to announce today we will be reprogramming $150 million for Egypt to put ourselves in a position to support the transition there and assist with their
  • EPA Awards $5.5 Million to Support Nanotechnol ...
    Nanotechnology is the science of very small matter called nanomaterials, which are structured in size between 1 to 100 nanometers. A nanometer is 100,000 times thinner than a strand of hair.
  • Secretary Hillary Clinton Congratulates Kosovo ...
    As I said during my visit, the United States is committed to your future and we are honored to be your friends and your partners. You are charting a new future for your country and for the region.
  • Art Institute of Chicago Develops Lesson Plans ...
    Lesson plan says that Vishnu has 10 avatars. They are the savior gods who come to earth to save humanity from evil at different intervals during the cycles of existence. In this activity, students write a story about a problem on earth. They imagine
  • 'House Republicans' Bill Would Gut Decades of ...
    The 2010 budget resolution expires March 4. The continuing resolution is supposed to simply provide stop-gap funding to keep the government from shutting down. Debate on the bill began today; a vote is expected in the House later this week.

Historical Notes

libcom

  • Australia: Construction workers strike over ex ...
    equus-strike.jpg Workers at a construction site in the centre of Perth, Western Australia, walked off in protest on Monday over the working conditions of workers on 457 migration visas. ...
  • 14 people hospitalised in latest repression of ...
    Section 22 of the Teacher's Union and the broader Oaxcan social movement take to the streets to protest the arrival of fraudulent President Calderon. Federal Police open fire with live rounds and tear gas grenades, resulting in at least 14 people wounded a ...
  • Indecorous and Free! Womyn's protests in Italy ...
    In this latest phase of widespread political and economic crisis, the subject of sexuality has become crucial. In this context the role of women is once again determined and exploited by those in power, within an old traditional ideological perspective. We ...
  • Wisconsin: war declared on state workers
    Walker.jpg The Governor of the State of Wisconsin, Scott Walker, has just dropped the anvil on public sector workers statewide. This is the start of a nationwide offensive to wipe out public sector u ...
  • Egyptian military tortured, “disappeared” thou ...
    Army.jpg Now that the wave of riots, demonstrations and strikes has toppled Mubarak and the military has taken over, this report examines the supposedly "neutral" role of the military so far. ...

Free Range International

  • Thugs, Mobs And Education
    The news this week has been dominated by the Lara Logan story.  Ms. Logan was the subject of  the most popular post in FRI history which can be found here.  Reactions to the news that Lara was subjected to “a brutal and sustained assault and beating” have cost at least one knucklehead his job ...
  • Naw Zad
    I just did something which would have been suicidal 10 months ago.  My colleague Little Mac and I, in the company of a Marine tank officer and Naval surface warfare officer (he’s a fires guy by trade) just strolled around the town of Naw Zad with no body armor, no helmets, no riflemen escorting ...
  • Ride For The Brand
    When I first started this blog I used to hammer away on a couple of themes which really bothered me.  The first was Provincial Reconstruction Teams which I maintain are, by design, unable to accomplish their assigned mission. The second theme had to do with the reason we remain in Afghanistan. O ...
  • Shifting Sands
    With most of the world’s attention focused unfolding events in the Mideast now is a good time to shed some light on the current ground-truth in Afghanistan.  Sami the Finn is always a good place to start and he provides interesting perspective on the suicide bombing at Kabul’s at  the Finest s ...
  • What Is the Problem Here?
    One of the Chim Chims’ has asked to put up a guest post on a topic near and dear to both our hearts for different reasons:  the continuing efforts of the New York Times to kill a program I doubt was that big of a deal to begin with.  Chim Chim is a member of [...]

The 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.  ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

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

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

  • Take Action Against Global Warming | Chevron T ...
    On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Take Action! at GreaterGood Network wrote: Content not displaying properly? View this message online: greatergood.com/emails/2011/pet-021711-enviro-solo-w.html Earlier this week, a court in Ecuador fined the Chevron Corporation $8 billion for their part … ...
  • Call on Congress to End Oil Subsidies
    On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Steve Kretzmann, Oil Change International wrote: Stay on top of the news and our campaigns to help build this movement to end dirty fossil fuel subsidies! ⢠Visit our blog, Price … Continue reading →
  • Thank You for Taking Action
    On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Environmental Defense Action Fund wrote: Having trouble using links or viewing images? View the Dear Scotts, Thank you for taking action and urging your members of Congress to oppose the new … Continue reading →
  • URGENT ALERT: House Could Vote Today to Gut Cl ...
    On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Environmental Defense Action Fund wrote: Having trouble using links or viewing images? View the web version. *** URGENT ALERT *** URGENT ALERT *** URGENT ALERT *** Dear Scotts, Please take action … Continue reading →
  • Obamas Budget-What do you think?
    On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Mitch Stewart, BarackObama.com wrote: Friend – This week, the President sent his budget to Congress. It’s a plan to rebuild our economy and win the future — a plan that will … Continue reading →

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • فراخوان سبزها برای راهپیمایی اول اسفند
    با عرض تسلیت به مناسبت شهادت دو تن از جوانان مظلوم این مرز و بوم درتظاهرات ۲۵ بهمن و با گرامیداشت خاطره دهها شهید جنبش سبز، از ملت بزرگوار ایران دعوت می شود تا در تجمعات بزرگداشت هفتمین روز شهادت این عزیزان که روز یکشنبه اول اسفندماه ۸۹، ساعت ۳ عصر در تهران و شهرستانهای سراسر کشور برگزار می شود، ...
  • Libya protests: Rallies continue after 'Day of ...
    Large protests have continued overnight in Libya following Thursday's "Day of Rage" against the government.read more
  • Book review: 'The Shah' by Abbas Milani
    Like Mubarak, the shah—in power for 37 years—was blinded by a megalomania and a thirst for power that isolated him from the needs and demands of his people. Like Mubarak, the shah, spurning the advice of others, refused to initiate reforms until it was too late to satisfy his critics. Like Mubar ...
  • The Smiling Cleric's Revolution
    Khatami now finds himself swept up in a revolt that promises an altogether different and more volatile path to change. But where the Green Movement's other leaders, Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, have confronted the regime from the outside, explicitly challenging its legitimacy, the for ...
  • Annual Meeting
    The recent revolts in Egypt, Tunisia and many other parts of the Arab world have had a profound effect on global politics. Given the enormous strategic importance of the region, all manner of political forces will try to turn events to their advantage. The need for principled anti-war and solida ...

Most Revolutionary Act

  • The Chile of the Pacific
    An Early Laboratory for Neoliberal Reforms Overall I have enjoyed numerous lifestyle advantages living in New Zealand. There are a few notable exceptions, of course, beyond the emotional isolation of being separated from my family and American friends. Most relate, either directly or indirectly, ...
  • The Common Misfortunes of Capitalism
    Obviously there is both an upside and a downside to living in New Zealand. All developed and developing countries are forced to operate under the same global capitalist system, which is under near absolute control of multinational corporations, via the WTO, the Global Agreement on Tariff and Tra ...
  • Bernie Sanders’ Filibuster and the Secr ...
    For those who haven’t seen the YouTube coverage of Senator Bernie Sanders 8½ hour filibuster on December 10, 2010, I highly recommend it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXLJBaoz0Ew The whole speech is available on C-SPAN http://www.c-span.org/ Maria Gilardin, host of TUC Radio, has also record ...
  • Cheap Coffee vs Health Care
    It only became clear once I left the US the immense sacrifices Americans make for their cheap gasoline and consumer goods (see Feb 10 blog). The most obvious is a range of domestic programs that other developed countries take for granted. These include publicly financed universal health care (in ...
  • American Ambivalence Towards Empire
    It took moving overseas for it to sink in that Americans owe their high standard of living to US military domination of third world resources. I have always understood the theory of “economic imperialism” – that the US maintains a monopoly on cheap third world labor and resources via military su ...

Doug's Darkworld

  • The Voynich Manuscript, Shady Kilograms, Shyst ...
    So much for the good Berkeley weather. We’ve had torrential rain. Hail. Lightning. Wind. More rain. The cats wanted to go out this morning and when I held the door open, the wind blew them right back inside. They wisely decided they had some sleep to catch up on and didn’t want to go outside [.. ...
  • One Million Hits and Thanks for all the Commen ...
    TUNISIA ââââââââââââââââ : 100% done EGYPT ââââââââââââââââ : 100% done ALGERIA ââââââââââââââââ: in progress YEMEN: ââââââââââââââââ: in progress PALESTINE: âââââââââââââ: VIRUS DETECTED   Well, I recently passed a million hits on Doug’s Darkworld. Kinda of a strange feeling. A million people h ...
  • Is it War Yet?
    I apologize for not being able to blog recently, there’s lots going on in the world, but alas, my Internet service as failed me miserably. We may very well be seeing the beginning of a world revolution on the streets of Cairo, and the only source of “news” I have most days is my television. [... ...
  • We Are All Egyptians Now
    Well, the uprising continues in Egypt. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, it’s very possible we are entering a watershed period in world history where all sorts of things are going to unravel in the next few years. There’s so much going on that it’s hard to even focus on what’s important ...
  • Tunisia, Lebanon, and now Egypt?
    As I type Egyptians are taking to the streets to demand reform and the end of the Mubarak regime. And they are continuing to do so in ever greater numbers despite ever more desperate measures to end the unrest, including a curfew, shutting down the Internet, and dismissing the entire upper gover ...

FourWinds10

  • Gulf of Mexico Women Cry Out in Alarm!
    Kendra Andresen and Vickie Perrin were our guests this past Sunday night Jan 30th. It was a very revealing show. They reported about what is and isn't going on in the Gulf. The Gulf is Dead..
  • ALERT: Louisiana Senator Concerned that Corex ...
    I emailed the Senator to confirm he wrote the letter and got this response: Yes it is my letter. I am deeply concerned about the health and welfare of our citizens. I have been collecting data and research since the disaster began. Since the commission did not adequately address this “second” ma ...
  • Videos of the âtoxicâ black sludge coating ...
    VIEW THESE HERE http://www.floridaoilspilllaw.com/ video-toxic-black-sludge-coating-ocean-floor-video
  • âFirstâ Dispersant Study Funded by Feds: T ...
    To combat last year’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill, nearly 800,000 gallons of chemical dispersant were injected directly into the oil and gas flow coming out of the wellhead nearly one mile deep in the Gulf of Mexico.  Now, as scientists begin to assess how well the strategy worked at breaking up ...
  • Oil leak shuts down BPâs largest onshore fie ...
    BP suffered an oil leak in the Dorset countryside late last year, causing such concern that its biggest onshore field in Western Europe has been shut down for the past two months. … Wytch Farm has not been producing its 25,000 barrels per day since November and the pipeline where the leak was di ...

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • The Media’s Role in the Range Fuels Fiasco
    Join the forum discussion on this post Now that it seems that the mainstream media has finally caught on to the fact that something went terribly awry at Range Fuels, it is time for me to close the book on them. This will be my last Range Fuels story, but I think there is a [...]
  • Butanol Q&A With Cobalt Technologies CEO Rick ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post In the previous story — Butanol 101 — I provided readers some background on the production of butanol, including my own background on working with butanol. This story is about one company’s efforts to commercialize bio-butanol. The interview originated fr ...
  • Reintroducing Butanol
    Join the forum discussion on this post This story was initially intended to cover a recent interview that I did with Cobalt Technologies CEO Rick Wilson. However, the introduction and background on butanol became long enough that I felt it was a standalone story. The interview with Rick Wilson ...
  • The Natural Gas Debate
    Join the forum discussion on this post The Economist just finished hosting an online debate on natural gas. The resolution was an interesting one: This house believes that natural gas will do more than renewables to limit the world’s carbon emissions. At first glance, the statement may seem pre ...
  • The World’s Most Fuel Efficient Car
    Join the forum discussion on this post This likely blows previous fuel efficiency records out of the water: VW to roll out 313mpg car in Germany and UK Last week at the Qatar Motor Show saw the world debut of Volkswagen’s XL1, a diesel-electric hybrid two-seater that can do 313mpg (0.9 l/100 ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • Breastfeeding: It's Now Tax Deductible!
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Good news for new moms: Breastfeeding just became tax deductible. The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced last week that it's going to be providing its own form of breastfeeding help to struggling moms by making breast pumps and related supplies a tax write-off ...
  • Protect Babies, Families by Banning Mothballs
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PAâIn 2008, the European Union banned the sale of mothballs containing the volatile chemical that gives them their classic smellânaphthalene. But here in the U.S., and in other parts of the world, the compoundâclassified as a possible human carcinogenâis still an insecticid ...
  • Protect Your Home Garden from New GMO Threats
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—The recent barrage of approvals allowing genetically engineered ingredients to infiltrate our coffee, milk, ice cream, and even apple pie is enough to persuade some health-conscious consumers to rip out the front lawn and start producing their own food free of geneticall ...
  • The Nickel Pincher: Save Money, Spare the Plas ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Buying whole organic chickens at the supermarket or, even better, local pastured chickens at a farm or farmer's market, is a great way to save money and cut down on the amount of plastic you have to deal with in the meat department. In some stores, an entire frozen organ ...
  • How Video Games Benefit Dads and Daughters
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Video games draw a lot of criticism, and it's undeniable that too much time in front of the TV or computer screen contributes to childhood obesity. But the games are likely here to stay and, if used thoughtfully, they may even provide some benefits. An example of this wa ...

big think

  • What Transmen Tell Us About Inequality in the ...
    In her memoir, accomplished economic historian (and my personal hero) Deirdre McCloskey, relates the conversation in which she informed her dean that she planned to transition from man to woman.* At the time, the dean joked that the change would be great for affirmative action (“one more woman, ...
  • Etna puts on a show, but keeps the curtains cl ...
    The week buzzed by … and we actually end with a bang (albeit a cloudy one). Dr. Boris Behncke brings us news that Etna seemed to have another eruption, however unlike the events of January 12-13 of this year (top left), these events have been obscured by clouds on the volcano. However, there a ...
  • Wisconsin Governor Hopes Unions Settle For A D ...
    The Republican Party has declared war on public servants in the United States the same way Middle East dictators have declared war on political dissidents. Members of the GOP like Scott Wilson, the governor of Wisconsin, want the people of Wisconsin to believe that the people who keep their ...R ...
  • Failing Chemistry: When a Good Van Gogh Goes B ...
    Around this time of year many high school and college students worldwide come to the sad realization that they’re failing chemistry. To them, a mole will always be just a burrowing mammal. Sometimes Avogadro’s number just has your number. Now, however, those sufferers have distinguished company— ...
  • Debunking Myths About Epidurals for Childbirh
    From a good post by Dr. Harriet Hall debunking various myths about epidural analgesia for childbirth: In my opinion, it is unconscionable to let patients suffering from severe pain go untreated unless there is compelling evidence that not treating pain results in improved health outcomes. ...

Information Liberation

  • Tailgating Tax-Feeder Is Injured, Mundane May ...
    Last June, Brian Hitchcock was rear-ended by a police motorcycle driven by Officer Anthony Parente of the Hermosa Beach, California Police Department. Parente had pulled behind Hitchcock at a stoplight; when the light changed, he pulled in even tight...
  • Rapists with a Badge
    According to the 3rd Quarter Report of The National Police Misconduct Statistics and Reporting Project, police officers committed sexual assaults at a rate of 79 per 100,000 law enforcement personal.* That rate is over two times the rate of the gener...
  • As Hillary Touts Free Speech, Police Brutalize ...
    From David Swanson: As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday about the failures of foreign leaders to respect people*s freedoms, a 71-year-old U.S. veteran Army officer, a man who spent 27 years in the CIA and ...
  • Wily Fox News Forced To Apologize On Air Over ...
    ...
  • Fox News Dirty Tricks Against Ron Paul No "Mis ...
    Forgive me for being cynical, but Fox News* claim that airing the wrong CPAC footage and then introducing an interview with Ron Paul on the false premise that he had been booed was merely a *mistake* rings somewhat hollow, especially given the fac...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Can we count on journal metrics?
    How do you rank science, how do you rate scientists, what kudos do you give their papers and what metrics do you attach to the impact of a paper? They’re questions as old as the scientific literature itself. But, no one has resolved them. Independent organisations and publishers have attempted w ...
  • The perils of ranking
    Today, I discovered I was listed on a Top 100 of UK Twitter users by The Independent newspaper based on the algorithm from PeerIndex. I was #47, since you ask, same as Armando Iannucci. It’s not that long since I made it on to a similar PeerIndex list published elsewhere. It’s all very flatterin ...
  • Heptastic science news
    The full list: The Twitter 100 – Its 200 million users share 110 million messages a day – and if you don't know who rules the twittersphere, you don't understand the 21st-century world. This guide is a definitive who's who of the UK's tweet elite. Although for some reason they included me on the ...
  • Count envy, satisfaction and achievement
    A friend of mine, András Paszternák, runs a thriving online nanotech community called Nanopaprika (he’s in Hungary, hence the name). He started the community (for which I am a Scientific & Advisory Board member) when he was doing his PhD and it has grown rapidly into one of the most targeted n ...
  • An octet of science news
    Perfect Perfume – a video for Valentine’s Day – A bit of fun for Valentine's Day as the team combinesto make our very own "perfect perfume"! The lingering risk of thirdhand smoke – As Dubowski suggests, the notion of thirdhand smoke putatively being hazardous to health is controversial. Research ...

RFF Library

  • Asia Green City Index
    Economist Intelligence Unit http://tinyurl.com/6g6gv94 [Yale Environment 360] Singapore has emerged as Asia’s greenest city thanks to a host of ambitious environmental programs and green initiatives, according to a new report. The Asia Green City Index — conducted by the Economist Intelligence U ...
  • National Land Cover Database Updated
    US Geological Survey http://tinyurl.com/4am4l3o The latest edition of the National Land Cover Database (NLCD 2006) is now publicly available. This massive database updates our knowledge of the Nation’s land cover and documents precisely where land cover change has occurred between 2001 and 2006. ...
  • Quarterly Food-at-Home Price Database
    USDA Economic Research Service http://www.ers.usda.gov/Data/QFAHPD/#2011-2-16 The Quarterly Food-at-Home Price Database (QFAHPD) provides food price data to support research on the economic determinants of food consumption, diet quality, and health outcomes. The QFAHPD database was constructed f ...
  • Atlas of Rural and Small-Town America
    USDA Economic Research Service http://www.ers.usda.gov/data/ruralatlas/#2011-2-17 The Atlas of Rural and Small-Town America is a mapping application that provides a spatial interpretation of county-level, economic and social conditions along four broad categories of socioeconomic factors: people ...
  • Driving Change: Reducing Vehicle Miles Travele ...
    Public Policy Institute of California / by Louise Bedsworth, Ellen Hanak, and Jed Kolko http://www.ppic.org/main/publication.asp?i=948 Can Californians cut down on their driving? Encouraging job growth near transit stations will help. So will pursuing policies that raise the cost of driving. Thi ...

Scientific American - News

  • Defective Growth Gene in Rare Dwarfism Disorde ...
    For the past 22 years Jaime Guevara-Aguirre has served as the de facto physician for a truly unique community in Ecuador. His patients stand on average 1.2 meters tall, a result of a rare genetic disorder known as Laron syndrome . Of the approximately 300 people in the world known to have the c ...
  • Are Greenhouse Gases Upping the Risks of Flood ...
    In autumn 2000 devastating floods swept through England and Wales, inundating homes, swamping roads and rail lines, and requiring the evacuation of more than 11,000 people. That fall was the wettest in the region since records began in 1766, and the subsequent flooding caused billions of dollars ...
  • Is a U.S. Nuclear Revival Finally Underway?
    The first new nuclear reactor ordered in the U.S. in roughly three decades is beginning to take shape in the red clay near Augusta, Ga. Southern Co. and its partners have dug 27.5 meters down into that soil to reach bedrock and are now filling up the hole to provide a stable foundation for what ...
  • Pesticides May Block Male Hormones
    Many agricultural pesticides – including some previously untested and commonly found in food  – disrupt male hormones, according to new tests conducted by British scientists.The scientists strongly recommended that all pesticides in use today be screened to check if they block testosterone and o ...
  • Twisted Light Could Enable Black Hole Detectio ...
    Black holes, as their name suggests, are dark. Perfectly dark. A black hole's gravity is so intense that beyond a certain boundary in its vicinity, known as the event horizon, nothing can escape. Not a rocket with its boosters on full blast nor a photon of light. Nothing. [More] ...

RAWA News

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frogblog

  • General debate, February 19, 2011
  • Climate change, lignite, and Solid Energy: Sea ...
    Matters are coming to a head, on the lignite saga in Southland. As climate change intensifies around the world and not least here in New Zealand, our national responsibility to respond proportionate to our size and liability increases commensurately. The UN has prescribed a national emission red ...
  • Thoughts from the Big Gay Out
    I am the gayest man in Parliament. Everybody knows. So it was a bit galling to get essentially upstaged by John Key and Phil Goff. Perhaps I’m just a bit self-absorbed, but this strikes me as suggesting a weird prism through which at least some straight people see this queer event. Let’s review: ...
  • National Standards race to nowhere
    Yesterday, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard visited our Parliament and promoted free trade agreements with all the fervour of the faithful. This position was predictable, but less well known is her stance on education. Julia is the leader who imposed the Australian version of National Sta ...
  • Dodgy trade deals done dirt cheap need scrutin ...
    The news last week that Natural Dairy was willing to threaten New Zealand’s reputation to advance their bid for the Crafar farms shows the kind of behaviour that goes on behind the scenes when dealing with trade and foreign investment issues.

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Keeping it Short
    Paul Krugman writes today about one of the difficulties of being a columnist: One of the hardest things about writing the column, as opposed to blogging, is the length constraint. It’s really, really hard to say something meaningful in a limited space. And yet, that constraint has its virtues ...
  • Manufacturing a Crisis
    Regardless of what you think about public sector unions, it's important to understand what's really going on in Wisconsin right now. Were they facing an unsustainable, existential budget crisis when Gov. Scott Walker took office earlier this year? No. Are they facing an unsustainable, existent ...
  • Chart of the Day: Sham Budget Cutting
    Via one of Ryan Avent's colleagues, here's a chart showing the trajectory of non-defense discretionary spending over the past 50 years. This is basically the spending that's left over after you take out Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the Pentagon, and interest on the national debt. This ...
  • No More Hospitals, Please
    NPR reports on New Hampshire governor John Lynch's call for hospitals to rein in their building boom in his state. The problem, he says, is that all the new construction isn't leading to better care: Governor Lynch: “Instead of using that excess cash to reduce health care costs, hospitals spe ...
  • Targeting Social Security
    Republicans want to slash a billion dollars out of Social Security's administrative budget? Seriously? Whatever you happen to think of Social Security as a program, even conservatives have always acknowledged that it's a very efficient bit of bureaucracy with extremely low administrative costs ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 229: Taking Shit Too Far
    Topics for the show: Maybe Kriss went too far with the ‘Go Fuck Yourself’ Even if you have a PhD, you can’t just make stuff up Sharks are God’s way of telling us we ain’t shit Fantasia sounds like a Wookie You know, Unions are made up of real people. Someone tell the GOP Share [...]
  • Iraqi Informant Proud of Lies about WMDs
    LONDON — An Iraqi man whose testimony the United States used as a key evidence to build a case for war in Iraq says he is proud that he lied about his country developing mobile biological warfare labs. The Guardian newspaper published an interview Wednesday with Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, who ...
  • IC 228: Black Twitter & the Idiots Who Write ...
    Topics for the show: Slandering Olive Garden Lady Gaga and her attention whoring Tyrese writes a book and Jesus wept Black Twitter and the ignorant dumbasses who write about it The genders aren’t equal so just man the fuck up Allen West and other idiotic black republicans Share with your friends ...
  • Are Parents Really This Clueless?
    From the UKDailyMail: A desperate mother has condemned Microsoft after her 11-year-old son racked up a £1,000 debt on her debit card – through his Xbox. Brendan Jordan racked up a bill of £1,082.52 on his Xbox without realising all the purchases were being charged to his mum Dawn Matthews’ car ...
  • Dumbass of the Year Contender
    There’s several different levels of stupid. There’s the first level which is just random forgetfulness and absent mindedness.  You know, you accidentally put your hand on a hot stove or salt in your tea.  Or maybe you have a brain fart and you forget the name of a friend.  This is the everyday l ...

Simple Climate

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

e!Science News

  • Knee replacement surgeries take more time, are ...
    Knee replacement surgery takes far more time to conduct in overweight and obese patients than in normal weight patients, according to recent research at Hospital for Special Surgery in New York. The study will be presented at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons annual meeting, held Feb. ...
  • Green chemistry offers route towards zero-wast ...
    Novel green chemical technologies will play a key role helping society move towards the elimination of waste while offering a wider range of products from biorefineries, according to a University of York scientist. read more
  • New study finds 9,500 ED visits related to cri ...
    Parents and caregivers have traditionally relied on cribs, playpens and bassinets to protect children while they sleep. The massive crib recalls followed by the announcement in December 2010 by the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to ban drop-side cribs have caused many f ...
  • Fishing down food web leaves fewer big fish, ...
    Predatory fish such as cod, tuna, and groupers have declined by two-thirds over the past 100 years, while small forage fish such as sardine, anchovy and capelin have more than doubled over the same period, according to University of British Columbia researchers. read more
  • Women are better at forgiving
    A study by the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) has carried out the first Spanish study into the emotional differences between the sexes and generations in terms of forgiveness. According to the study, parents forgive more than children, while women are better at forgiving than men. r ...

unEarthed

Brave New Climate

  • Safeguarding the nuclear fuel cycle
    Guest Post by Dr. William Hannum. A member of the Science Council for Global Initiatives, Bill worked for more than 40 years in nuclear power development, stretching from design and analysis of the Shippingport reactor to the Integral Fast Reactor. He earned his BA in physics at Princeton and hi ...
  • Gas aplenty, but UAE opts for nuclear – ...
    Dr Ziggy Switkowski (former CEO of Telstra, Optus and Kodak, recently retired Chairman of ANSTO, and now Chancellor of RMIT University) recently had an excellent article published in the Australian Financial Review. Unfortunately, there is no online version available, so for those who missed the ...
  • Climate Change – it’s complicated, but i ...
    I was recently invited to provide a response to an opinion article on climate change that was offered to “The Punch” website. The lead article can be read here: Itâs just too hard to understand climate change. My response, reproduced below (original here), should be read with this context in mi ...
  • ABC Counterpoint radio on nuclear costs, and n ...
    Many have seen/listened to this already, but for completeness, here are the details of my recent interview with the ABC Radio program Counterpoint on the cost of nuclear energy. It is based on a discussion of the recent Energy peer-reviewed paper authored by Nicholson, Biegler & Brook. Should Au ...
  • Keeping solid information on nuclear energy on ...
    Guest Post by Luke Weston. Luke is a Melbourne-based physicist and occasional freelance electronic engineer, with a strong interest in educating the community about nuclear energy and related issues. Just this week, Martin Ferguson has been actively stepping up his efforts to keep nuclear energ ...

Indigenist Opinion

  • 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 ...

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

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  • Novelist Ian McEwan plays for both teams in Ea ...
    The British author visited the Sheikh Jarrah protest – but also intends to receive the Jerusalem Prize for Literature from the patron of the city’s settlers, mayor Nir Barkat The celebrated British author Ian McEwan joined today the weekly protest in the neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, where Pale ...
  • Notes of a BDS sceptic
    BDS is a legitimate and peaceful course of action, and it certainly does not harm efforts to end the occupation. But does it help? If there is any consensus regarding the BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) campaign to end the occupation of Palestine, it is that BDS is important. It is not s ...
  • Palestinians rally to end division in the wake ...
    Roughly 400 people attended a demonstration in Ramallah’s Manara square this afternoon calling on Palestinians to end division within the society under occupation. The demonstration was organized by PNGO (The Palestinian NGO network). While the demonstration was not held under the banner of soli ...
  • A knight on Dizengoff Street: In praise of Isr ...
    I’m flying to the country of Georgia tonight on assignment. Knowing how unfamiliar our currency is around the world, I went to a change bureau down the street to turn a few Sheqels into Euros. On stepping in, the bureau’s owner was engaged in a conversation in Russian with an elderly gentleman. ...
  • Why I’ve decided to join the boycott movement ...
    As some of you may know, I’ve been against the BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) movement for a while now. I’ve never supported it, for various reasons, which I won’t go into right now. Because now, we’re here to talk about why I’ve decided to change my ways, and join the team. I was pisse ...

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Matt Weidner Blog

  • I believe that banking institutions are more d ...
    “I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will depri ...
  • The Law Offices Of David J Stern…Still C ...
    One of my biggest objections to the handling of Stern’s withdraw from 150,000 foreclosure cases in courts across the state is the way the firm just walked out…no substitution of a new law firm to handle the cases before hand….just out the door.  This is causing chaos all across the state and ul ...
  • The Greatest Quote About Fraudclosure Yet&#823 ...
    From an awesome story in Daily Business: Sandra Castillo-Rivera is fighting the foreclosure on her Doral townhouse, but first she’s got to figure out who has the right to take her on. Castillo-Rivera obtained a $220,000 mortgage loan in 2006 from WMC Mortgage, but Deutsche Bank, is foreclosing o ...
  • A Judge’s Order That Can Solve Every Iss ...
    With all the disputes that happen in litigation, parties need some effective means to resolve them and courts need a way to assist parties in making decision…..here it is: rockorder Tweet this! Share and Enjoy: Scridb filter
  • Why Isn’t Wall Street In Jail? New Rolli ...
    The power players are attacking all the people that helped make them powerful.  In foreclosure?  You’re being attacked.  Taxpayer?  You’re being attacked.  Infant, toddler? You’re being attacked. We’re all being attacked by Wall Street and their constituents that we elected to serve in our ...

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The Parallel Parliament

  • Lighting the Kindling
    With all the hyper attention being paid to the unfolding drama of the CIDA minister this week, it’s important to remember that far greater issues are at stake. A couple of days ago I posted about the threat to the Canadian International Development Agency that comes with a scandal of this magnit ...
  • The Two Welcomes
    Marshall McLuhan saw modern media and the pursuit of images as a restless machine, exciting us in so many ways but wearing us down in others. One of the dangers of so many things assaulting our senses at the same time, he believed, was that they could slowly erode our ability to remember. “We li ...
  • Those Things That Outlast Us
    Lyndon Johnson was a master politician, especially in comprehending the Congress and its inner workings. He was quoted later in life as saying, “It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility o ...
  • The Tub Unplugged
    We don’t consider the private lives of journalists much – a good thing because it’s called “private” for a reason. I’ve been fortunate enough, however, to know many in the media who apply their limited spare time to many charitable causes. Brian Lilley, senior correspondent for Sun Media is one ...
  • Knick Knacks
    You bring your life with you – at least parts of it. MPs and Senators almost universally experience loneliness and a sense of detachment from those parts of their lives they possessed before coming to Ottawa. We compensate by filling our offices with memories and mementos from home or travel. Fo ...

Vaccine Awakening

  • WA State Vaccine Law Threatens Exemptions & Vi ...
    by Barbara Loe Fisher If you are a resident of Washington state, you should know that there is a bill quietly sailing through your state legislature that violates your privacy and threatens your right to make informed, voluntary decisions about vaccination. House Bill 1015 1 and Senate Bill ...
  • New Vaccine Science Can Help Bridge the Divide
    by Barbara Loe Fisher Fear of the unknown is what terrifies us the most, fear of being unable to have control over what the future holds. At the root of that fear is knowing that the choices we make today could have a profound impact on what happens tomorrow. 1 Fear is a strong emotion ...
  • Counting Blessings, Remembering the Children
    by Barbara Loe Fisher Every Christmas and New Year, when I give thanks for the people who have blessed my life, I remember the mothers and fathers of severely vaccine injured children, who have taught me the most about love and courage. I know that my son, Chris, who developed brain inflamma ...
  • Thousands Of Americans Register for NVIC's New ...
    by Barbara Loe Fisher Thousands of Americans living in all 50 states took action and registered for the new NVIC Advocacy Portal at www.NVICadvocacy.org during Vaccine Awareness Week (Nov. 1-6, 2010) co-sponsored by the National Vaccine Informati ...
  • Vaccine Science: A Search for Truth
    by Barbara Loe Fisher February 2009 turned out to be a month when vaccine science was put on trial in the U.S. Court of Claims in Washington, D.C., in mainstream media and on the internet, in the British Medical Journal and in vaccine safety research initiatives by the U.S. Department of Health ...

2020 Science

  • International Handbook on Regulating Nanotechn ...
    Here’s an offer I’m sure you won’t be able to resist: The opportunity to read the first and last chapters of the just-published International Handbook on Regulating Nanotechnologies – for free! Due to the farsightedness of my co-editors, the publishers have agreed to let authors post their chapt ...
  • The New Toxicology of Sophisticated Materials: ...
    Cross-posted from The Risk Science Blog Several months ago, I was asked by a colleague if I fancied co-authoring a review on nanotoxicology for a copy of Toxicological Sciences celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Society of Toxicology (coming out later this year). Fool that I am, I agreed.  ...
  • Nanotechnology – Unplugged
    Next Tuesday, we’ll be launching a new series of occasional discussions on contemporary public health risk issues at the University of Michigan Risk Science Center.  And the first topic is – no surprises – nanotechnology. Under the tagline “No PowerPoint, no script; just stimulating conversatio ...
  • Small gods and the art of technology innovatio ...
    There’s something rather liberating about being asked to give a no-holds talk on your perspective on life, the universe and everything.  So when the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center asked if I would speak as part of their “Where do we go from here?” series, I jumped at it. No holds barred is ...
  • Reviewing the National Nanotechnology Initiati ...
    Here’s a bit of trivia: with the 4000 character limit on comments on the National Nanotechnology Initiative Draft Strategic Plan, you might as well ditch the official portal, and tweet your comments to the Office of Science and Technology Policy – 28 tweets would do it! As you can probably guess ...

Reader Supported News

  • Four Dead as Riot Police Storm Protest Camp in ...
    Martin Chulov reports: "At least four people have been killed in an early-morning raid by security forces on Pearl Square, the focal point of anti-government demonstrations in Bahrain, sparking street battles with riot police. Armoured trucks have been seen in central Manama and key roads are bl ...
  • Former Sen. Russ Feingold Launches 'Progressiv ...
    Tom Diemer reports: "Former Wisconsin Sen. Russ Feingold, regarded as liberal but independent during his three terms in the Senate, says he is starting a 'progressive' movement to support like-minded candidates and fight the influence of corporate money in campaigns." Sen. Russ Feingold takes ...
  • Ray McGovern Bloodied and Arrested at Clinton ...
    Partnership for Civil Justice reports: "As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave her speech at George Washington University yesterday condemning governments that arrest protesters and do not allow free expression, 71-year-old Ray McGovern was grabbed from the audience in plain view of her by p ...
  • Live Updates From Egypt
    Al Jazeera reports: "From our headquarters in Doha, we keep you updated with reports from our staff across the country and further afield." A girl who was among anti-government protesters in Tahrir Square holds her national flag, 02/07/11. (photo: Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images) Sorry ...
  • Thousands Protest Anti-Union Bill in Wisconsin
    The report begins: "Thousands of people descended on the Wisconsin state Capitol again Wednesday to protest a bill that would strip most public employees of their collective bargaining rights, but Gov. Scott Walker insisted he has the votes to pass the measure." At the Capitol Rotunda in Madi ...

War Resisters League

  • Stepping up the Resistance to U.S. Islamophobi ...
    As Peter King, the new chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, steps up the U.S. government attack against Muslims living in the U.S., saying that he will “rely on Muslims to make his case that American Muslim leaders have failed to cooperate with law enforcement officials in the effo ...
  • Mubarak Ousted! Two Down, Twenty To Go . . .
    “The people have brought down the regime!” was a cry heard around the world when on Friday, February 11th, 18 days of unrelenting non-violent protest finally forced the end of Hosni Mubarak’s 30 year, US backed rule over Egypt. Ecstatic jubilation filled Cairo’s Midan al-Tahrir (Liberation Squar ...
  • The Egyptian Revolution and Police Tools &#821 ...
    As of this writing, the Egyptian revolution has entered its 16th day and is gaining ground and momentum: spreading to new regions, evolving into strikes and civil disobedience and clarifying its demands. What started as an impressive series of demonstrations on January 25th’s ‘Day of Wrath’ has ...
  • Anti-war Activists to Grand Jury: “We will not ...
    Tuesday, January 25th was the day that 23 anti-war and Palestine solidarity activists were made to appear before a Federal Grand Jury in Chicago. It was also the day that all of them refused to testify. In solidarity with those targeted by government repression, several rallies were held in citi ...
  • The other “Afghanistan Report”
    Whose stories are we telling about the war in Afghanistan? On the day following the White House report on the war in Afghanistan that names the war as a qualified success and calls for the U.S. to “stay the course,” we must lift up the alternative stories and reports of this near-decade of occup ...

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 ...

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

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

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • The Disturbing Reality of Trauma-Based Mind Co ...
    Before Its News By Zen Gardner February 18th, 2011 In anyone’s sincere quest for truth, they will undoubtedly come up against the area of deliberate trauma-based mind control. At first it may seem like “conspiracy theory on steroids”, but as you investigate this subject further it becomes a dark ...
  • Where Should The Retired Space Shuttles Go?
    Rense.com By Clark C. McClelland Former ScO, KSC, Florida February 17th, 2011 I earlier today sent this to NASA Administrator, Charles J. Bolden, who is a former NASA Astronaut in Washington, DC. There is a small WAR going on as to WHERE the Space Shuttles will be distributed to various museums ...
  • Neocon David Horowitz Labels Ron Paul and His ...
    The Intel Hub February 17th, 2011 Ron Paul has made a huge impact on America. After winning two consecutive CPAC straw polls, the corporate media and powers that be are pulling out all the stops in a bid to destroy Ron Paul and his support for ending the Federal Reserve. Not only did Fox News [. ...
  • Murder on the Ski Slopes: The Mysterious Death ...
    By Andrew W. Griffin Red Dirt Report, editor February 17, 2011 OKLAHOMA CITY –  The recent shooting of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) and others, including Federal Justice John Roll, got me to thinking about the threats that often face public figures like members of Congress. While atten ...
  • DHS Anti-Child Pornography Operation Accidenta ...
    Editors Note: This is absolutely UNACCEPTABLE! The Department of Homeland Security is a rogue government agency that believes it operates above the Constitution. We CANNOT let this continue. Every single owner of the 84,000 sites that were shut down should file a lawsuit immediately. DHS MUST be ...

FRS

  • Wikileaks: Economic Reasons Behind the Siege o ...
    The Alternate Information Center                                                  Thursday, 10 February 2011 Shir Hever, JNews The ripple effects of the Wikileaks documents are still being felt, but until recently Israeli officials continued to boast that the documents were ‘good for Israel’. As ...
  • BBC: “Long-awaited Philippine peace talk ...
    15 February 2011� A ceasefire between government troops and the CPP is in effect for the week-long closed-door talks Peace talks between the Philippine government and communist rebels have resumed in Norway, more than six years after the last round broke down. The negotiations near Oslo are aime ...
  • Oakland, California: A People’s Hearing ...
    Saturday, February 19th & Sunday February 20th Edna Brewer Middle School 3748 13th Ave, Oakland 94610  (Gym Entrance) 9:00am-5:00pm Free food both days The People’s Hearing is an expression of the outrage over the string of Police murders in Oakland and the Bay Area preceding and following Osca ...
  • A Warning for Egyptian Revolutionaries: Courte ...
    [Many have noted some similarities between the "People Power" revolt which removed the Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos in 1986, and the February 2011 revolt which pushed Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak from power.  Some have even proposed that this kind of revolt is the 21st century method ...
  • Whose Media? How “Egypt Leaders Found ‘O ...
    New York Times February 15, 2011 by JAMES GLANZ and JOHN MARKOFF Epitaphs for the Mubarak government all note that the mobilizing power of the Internet was one of the Egyptian opposition’s most potent weapons. But quickly lost in the swirl of revolution was the government’s ferocious counteratta ...

Ken O'Keefe

  • The Egyptian Blockade of Gaza – February 26, 2 ...
    Is there any sane, right-minded person who supports the blatant and brutal collective punishment of the people of Gaza? So why would it carry on? There is only one reason, because we allow it. I say we carry on with what the people of Egypt started, they got rid of the dictator, let us, people ...
  • Global Revolution 2011
    I believe the time has come to unite, those of us who are sane, who can see that the masses are comprised of so many cultures and vastly different ways of life, yet we all demand essentially the same things. We demand to be treated with respect. We demand the right to a decent way of life. We ...
  • Revolutions & Manipulations
    While millions of Egyptians are in the streets, in one of the most dramatic spontaneous uprisings in recent years, in an attempt to overthrow 30 years of Mubarak rule, a regime propped up by Israel and the United States, an undercurrent of opportunist plots threaten to turn this hopeful situatio ...
  • Rise People Rise – The Global Revolution ...
    Let us realize once and for all, that we the people are one, that we are human, that our most precious gift is that of our humanity. Let us never sacrifice it again. Together we are unstoppable. We are the sleeping giant, we are the waking lion, we are fierce and we are fearless.
  • The Samouni Family Children – Survivors ...
    January 12, 2011 is a day I will never forget, visiting the Samouni family could not possibly be anything but a life-changing event.  Words simply cannot describe the devastation wrought upon this family by a marauding band of Israeli psychopaths, otherwise known as the Givati Brigade of the Isr ...

StillSmallVoice

  • The push against unions
    All eyes are on Wisconsin as that state's governor, Scott Walker, has been pushing a budget that includes sharply limiting�collective bargaining�for public employees. In response, Democrats left�in protest on Thursday. Pres. Obama called the budget plan�an "assault on unions." Here are some Wis ...
  • What happened during Sec. Clinton's Internet f ...
    While Sec. of State Hillary Clinton extolled freedom in a speech on Tuesday at George Washington University, a 71-year old former CIA analyst who'd been standing with his back to her in protest was dragged out of the auditorium, roughed up, and detained. You can read Ray McGovern's account here. ...
  • Join Rabia Chaudry for a live chat
    Rabia Chaudry, president of the Muslim Coalition of Connecticut, will participate in a live web chat at 11 a.m. Monday. You can participate by going here. Chaudry is also on the board of directors for the Madina Academy Islamic school, and she serves on the racial justice advisory committee fo ...
  • Male high school wrestling star refused to wre ...
    On Thursday, Joel Northrup, an Iowa high school wrestling champion, refused to wrestle Cassy Herkelman, who won the state championship by default. Northrup cited his religious beliefs, and his belief that boys and girls shouldn't compete against one another in wrestling. This is a tough call - ...
  • Being Jewish in Litchfield
    The U.S. Justice Department is getting involved in a lawsuit involving a conservative Hasidic congregation in Litchfield whose members want to convert a former sporting goods store into a synagogue on their town green. The group, Chabad Lubavitch, filed suit in 2009, saying the town denied its ...

Associated Content

  • Justin Bieber Shot by CSI to End TV Takeover
    Justin Bieber has done pretty much everything on his extensive TV publicity tour this month. So, for one last stunt, he returned to "CSI," tried and failed to kill off the team, and then experienced his first onscreen death scene.Contributor: Robert Dougherty Published: Feb 18, 2011
  • Auburn Tree Poisoning Suspect from Alabama Arr ...
    The Auburn campus is mourning the certain loss of their famed Toomer's Corner trees, which were poisoned after the Iron Bowl. But the suspected Alabama fan who bragged about it a few weeks ago was arrested yesterday.Contributor: Robert Dougherty Published: Feb 18, 2011
  • YouTube Video Pretends to Be Lewd, Producer is ...
    After Evan Emory was arrested for remixing a video to make it appear that kids are enjoying a lewd song, we look at other questionable YouTube cases to predict Evan's future.Contributor: Carrie Clark Published: Feb 18, 2011
  • Wisconsin Protests Continue, Union Workers Und ...
    New Wisconsin legislation, proposed by Republican Govenor Scott Walker, would restrain union workers' collective salary bargaining rights. This legislation has prompted many union workers and other protesters to demonstrate.Contributor: Melissa Matters Published: Feb 18, 2011
  • Evan Emory's Regrettable Youtube Video
    Evan Emory may currently be facing up to 20 years in prison, but will that be downgraded to a lesser charge?Contributor: Kristin Watt Published: Feb 18, 2011

Popsci - Science

  • FYI: If I Fell Through The Earth, What Would H ...
    Just getting to the center of the Earth and surviving is impossible. The Earth’s core is about 9,000°F—as hot as the sun’s surface—and would instantly roast anyone who found himself there. Then there’s the pressure, which can reach roughly three million times that on the Earth’s surface and wou ...
  • Implant Micro-Worms Under Your Skin To Monitor ...
    New nanotube “microworms” could lead to new types of linktextembeddable biological sensors or drug-delivery systems, according to researchers in Boston. The tubes’ length keeps them well anchored in the body, where they can monitor chemical conditions or slowly leak medicine into targeted areas ...
  • Yale Scientists Create the World's First Anti- ...
    Ever want to cancel out a laser beam? Now you can There are aspects of science that lend the subject its reputation, at least among schoolchildren, for being “boring” (Punnett squares come to mind). Then there are things like lasers that are completely awesome, regardless of whether you’re eigh ...
  • The Best Images from the 2010 International Sc ...
    We’re always suckers for a good art/science mashup, so perhaps it’s no surprise that we’re feeling pretty good about today’s release of the 2010 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge winners. This year’s winning entries included the most detailed 3-D model of the HIV vi ...
  • PopSci's Best Of: The 2010 International Scien ...

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 ...

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • Can the government be trusted on solar subsidi ...
    The government have announced that they are to look at subsidies payable to large scale solar power farms that have started to spring up across the country. The so called 'feed in tariffs' are the cash subsidies given to anyone who generates electricity by putting solar panels on their roof, a ...
  • Lowest January Arctic ice on satellite record
    One of the questions that I'm often asked is how can global temperatures have reached near-record levels, when here in the UK we have had record breaking cold? It's an issue that many people have great difficulty in accepting. Of course the answer is that the UK represents a tiny fraction of t ...
  • A wild start to February - back to square one ...
    Severe gales and heavy rain have battered Yorkshire in the last few days. The highest wind speed was recorded at Fylingdales on the North York Moors with 70mph on Friday. Pennine areas have had a month's worth of rain since Thursday. 79.2mm of rain was measured at Bingley in West Yorkshire sinc ...
  • Global temperatures continue to fall.
    The January Global temperature, according to UAH satellite data, was 0.009C below the 1981-2010 average. The previous month, December 2010, was 0.181C above average A year ago, in January 2010, the global temperature was 0.542C above the 1981-2010 average. If the more standard 196 ...
  • February: Westerlies come roaring back
    January 2011 turned out to be drier and colder than average. The provisional Central England Temperature (CET) mean for the month was 3.7C, compared with the average of 4.2C. It was a month again dominated by high pressure, with north and east winds more frequent than normal. Rainfall was ther ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Behavioural Economics? Try Biological Economic ...
    By now, all and sundry should be familiar with behavioural economics. In contrast to homo economicus or rational economic man, real humans are subject to all sorts of foibles during decision-making processes. This body of work was most memorably crystallized in Kahneman and Tversky's prospect th ...
  • From Davos to Doha: WTO Round Done in 2011?
    Running over the same old ground What have we found? The same old fears Wish you were here And now for some postcards from Davos. Sometime ago, I had a self-parodying feature of T-shirts being sold at the WTO headquarters gift shop in Geneva depicting how trade talks to conclude the Doha Develo ...
  • 'Tiger Mom' Amy Chua More American Than Chines ...
    Oh, to be rid of this riff-raff once and for all. Let's face it: there are certain popular authors social science academics find cringeworthy. Reading the output of such writers usually reveals obvious shortcomings. Dambisa Moyo combines regurgitation of others' ideas with simple factual errors. ...
  • Of Sexy Russian Spies and 'Erotic Capital'
    Lest you think I've become an econodullard obsessed with discount rates and multiplier effects--it's easy enough to find plenty enough of those without looking hard--here's funner stuff that showcases the diversity which the best IPE encompasses. Freakonomics-style dweebery doesn't count by the ...
  • Climate Apartheid? The India-Bangladesh Superf ...
    My friend came to me, with sadness in his eyes He told me that he wanted help Before his country dies And so begin the lyrics to "Bangla Desh" from George Harrison's Concert for Bangla Desh held on 1 August 1971 in Madison Square Garden. Well before we had Sir Bono and Sir Bob Geldof, Live Aid ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • 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 ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U 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 ...

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

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

U N News

  • UN chief heads to Los Angeles to discuss globa ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will be in Los Angeles next week as part of the United Nations initiative that aims to raise the profile of critical global issues in partnership with the international film and television industries.
  • Steps taken to prevent repeat of fraud in Hait ...
    Measures are being taken at the 1,500 voting centres for Haiti's presidential run-off election next month to prevent a repetition of fraud that marred the first round last November, a senior United Nations official said today.
  • Late US diplomat Holbrooke a shining example o ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today held up veteran United States diplomat Richard Holbrooke, who died in December, as a steadfast friend of the United Nations and a shining example of what the Organization can aspire to be.
  • UN official urges Latin American nations to ca ...
    The United Nations climate change chief today called on Latin American nations to fully capitalize on opportunities to take climate change action to the next level, building on the achievements reached at last year's conference in Cancún, Mexico.
  • UN special envoy calls for overhaul of Haitian ...
    The Special Envoy of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) for Haiti is calling for an urgent overhaul of the country's education system, which she says is the cornerstone of the impoverished nation's future prosperity.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Being Built For Your Children... A Total Infor ...
    You would think that in this ‘age of austerity’ that schools would find better things to spend money on than CCTV cameras, such as books or how about extra teaching staff to cope with the grossly overcrowded classrooms? read more
  • Income Tax Reward Up to $300,000.00!
    Freedom Law School is offering $100,000 to the first person who can demonstrate any of the three propositions listed below. The winner can collect up to $300,000 if he or she can prove all of the propositions below. read more
  • The Government Will Take Control of Your Retir ...
    In the late 1920s, the economy of the Weimar Republic was beset by numerous fiscal troubles. The global depression spread quickly to Germany, undermining the government's ability to make its reparation payments from the Great War. ~ Simon Black read more
  • Incumbents, Beware...
    For the past two years, virtually every House candidate who has come to the offices of The Cook Political Report for an interview has cited his or her desire to “shake things up” in Washington. Whether Democrat or Republican, they seemed united in the conviction that they could make a differ ...
  • Egypt Celebrates!... Hosni Mubarak Resigns Aft ...
    � EGYPT CELEBRATES!  MUBARAK RESIGNS! Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president, has resigned from his post, handing over power to the armed forces. ~ LIVE Stream read more

Tatumba 2.0

  • Message to HBGary From Anonymous
    TRANSCRIPT OF ANONYMOUS MESSAGE TO HBGARY: Greetings HBGary (a computer “security” company), Your recent claims of “infiltrating” Anonymous amuse us, and so do your attempts at using Anonymous as a means to garner press attention for yourself. How’s this for attention? You brought this upon your ...
  • A Wikileaks for the Federal Reserve?
    12/02/2010 Please like, share, subscribe & comment! www.RonPaul.com Ron Paul comments on the recent revelations about the Fed’s emergency loans and muses about a potential “Wikileaks for the Federal Reserve”. — –Ron Paul is America’s leading voice for limited, constitutional government, low taxe ...
  • Obama/Cheney – Policy differences or high crim ...
    More at therealnews.com Swanson: Obama allowing Cheney to play offense; constitution demands prosecution This post is courtesy of Robbie the Robot Please recycle. Don't throw away your peels Related posts:Alex Jones:The Fall of the Republic The Presidency of Barack H. Obama (High Quality) Full A ...
  • The crisis of neoliberalism
    Dumenil: Neoliberalism imposed a new discipline on worker, cutting the progress of purchasing power. Watch Pt.2 of this story at www.youtube.com Video Rating: 0 / 5 This post is courtesy of Robbie the Robot Please recycle. Don't throw away your peels Related posts:The Broker Who Warned of the Cr ...
  • Black Americans Still Face Higher Unemployment ...
    Black Americans Still Face Higher Unemployment, Incarceration Rates, and Lower Wages. The statistics do not lie. To me this is institutionalized societal racism. The Real News On ace with Jared Ball talks with Empower DC about the fight for affordable housing Video Rating: 5 / 5 This post is cou ...

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 ...

Bloomberg

Enviroblog

  • Borax: Not the green alternative it's cracked ...
    By Rebecca Sutton, PhD, EWG Senior Scientist I'm just going to start with the bad news, OK? Borax is not a green cleaning ingredient, as many have been led to believe. Yes, the 20-mule team laundry booster box has a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, othe ...
  • Bottled Water Industry to EWG: Shut Up!
    By Alex Formuzis, EWG VP for Media Relations When the head of a public interest group (like, say, EWG) receives a threatening letter from one of the nation's top industry lobbyists, it generally means he's done something right. On January... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my websi ...
  • What's Inside: Clorox Shares a Little
    By Rebecca Sutton, EWG Senior Scientist Last week (Feb. 9), Clorox surprised me when it took a small step along the path to complete disclosure - and real consumer empowerment - by releasing a list of all the fragrance ingredients... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for f ...
  • Stewart to Pickens: "Is it horribly unsafe, is ...
    By Emily Ion, Dusty Horwitt, and Elaine ShannonOn a recent episode of Jon Stewart's "The Daily Show,"  Texas oil and gas executive T. Boone Pickens, proudly declared, "I have fracked 3,000 wells in my life.  I have never seen... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website ...
  • Plastic Pollution Is Everywhere. Including Yo ...
    By Lisa Frack, EWG Social Media Manager Unless you've been living under a rock, you're aware that plastic creates pollution. And if you've been paying any attention at all to the state of our planet, you've heard of the Great... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full l ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

  • Melo Madness: Is everyone except Donnie Walsh ...
    The odd part of the trade discussions between the Denver Nuggets and New York Knicks over Carmelo Anthony is that the value of Anthony is apparently being determined by virtually everything other than his on-court ability. More
  • Big Blue school: IBM sets up shop in the shado ...
    IBM�s plans to open a high school for 100 aspiring information-technologists in Crown Heights, Brooklyn can seem innovative or desperate, depending on how you look at it.�It might be�both. More
  • Bloomberg, Palin, Morris: Maybe too much to ch ...
    Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
  • Eighth Blackbird, standard-bearers of the 'new ...
    Eighth Blackbird has curated this week’s Tune-In Music Festival and which, with large budgets, an experienced consulting artistic director, and an astonishingly dramatic (if somewhat unwieldy) space, is aiming more and more to be a player in New York’s new ...
  • Protest music: A young Brit channels the rage ...
    The British jazz pianist John Escreet lives in a sparsely furnished apartment in Flatbush. He keeps it very tidy, for a 25-year-old. There was, on a recent visit, almost nothing about the appearance of the place that squares with his jazz persona, which pro ...

Views & News from Norway

  • New central banker: Too much debt
    Norway’s new central banker made his formal debut this week, delivering his first annual address on the economy as head of Norges Bank. His audience was the traditional “who’s who” in business and government, and they were told Norwegians have too much debt. The prime minister, most of his cabin ...
  • New conductor greeted with glee
    Russian Vasily Petrenko has been named the new conductor of the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra from Spring 2013 – and has already laid out his hopes to make the orchestra one of the best in the world. Petrenko’s appointment has been greeted with praise by those who wish to see a conductor who combi ...
  • Parents appeal lengthy sentences for assaultin ...
    A judge in Hedmark County who’s been overseeing what’s been dubbed as Norway’s worst-ever case of sexual abuse against children sentenced all five defendants to relatively long prison terms by Norwegian standards on Friday. Four of the five filed immediate appeals. The main defendants, the 46-y ...
  • Oslo to restrict winter car use
    Oslo’s City Council has agreed to implement so-called “datokjøring,” meaning that half of the city’s cars must not be driven on particular winter days during times of high air pollution. The resolution will be implemented from next winter, and will designate which cars can drive on certain days ...
  • Ship grounding sets off oil spill
    An Icelandic-owned container ship ran aground and was leaking oil Friday around the scenic islands of Hvaler on Norwayâs southeast coast, setting off a spill that local officials called “a catastrophe.” By midday oil was washing up on the island of Akerøya. The ship, the 17,000-dwt cargo vessel ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Community Gardens Visited and Observed: Veggie ...
    Community gardens are a very valuable demonstration of how a community can grow its own food, provide its own power, harvest its own water from roofs and build appropriate buildings and infrastructure. They are a wonderful element in the community and permaculture people all over the world shou ...
  • We’re All in This Together?
    Courtesy: Marc Roberts Digg this! Share this on Reddit Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUpon Share this on del.icio.us Share this on Facebook Post this to MySpace Add this to Google Bookmarks Post this on D ...
  • Climate Belief Forensics II
    Editor’s Note: This is part II of a series. If you haven’t already, read Part I first. Considering the Latin root of the word, "forensics" is about bringing something before the forum the public perhaps should know about. And certainly, exploring the question where influential beliefs about th ...
  • Seller’s Market?
    Courtesy: Marc Roberts Digg this! Share this on Reddit Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUpon Share this on del.icio.us Share this on Facebook Post this to MySpace Add this to Google Bookmarks Post this on Di ...
  • Permaculture Design for Horses, People & Habit ...
    Click for larger view Introduction I want to share with you a few things about a permaculture design project I finished in late October 2010. Details of the design, some details of working with clients on design projects, basic costing and what to be aware of when doing so. I also outline how ...

Telecrap Urinal

  • US Soldier Waterboards His 4-Year Old Daughter
    Can you believe this? A US soldier, upset that his 4-year old daughter could not recite the alphabet, waterboarded her. He knew that she was afraid of water and that is why he chose this form of punishment. Related posts:Cops Bust Up Frail 84-Year Old Woman With Alzheimers Local Blogger Catche ...
  • Fish Hat Pope – Wake Up Soon
    Studio version of Fish Hat Pope' song 'Wake Up Soon' (altered lyrics to sunny afternoon by The Kinks!) Fish Hat Pope performed this live at the British Constitution Group meeting in London on Oct 31st 2009. Related posts:A little sniff for the dog mate? – Everything is OK Whistle Blowers W ...
  • US Government: Why we let the Underwear Bomber ...
    The US Government now admits that they allowed the Underwear Bomber to board the Christmas Flight from Amsterdam to Detroit. Related posts:BREAKING NEWS: US Government Admits It Helped Underwear Bomber Board Plane Extensive Interview with Kurt Haskell – Witness to Underwear Bomber Flight 253: ...
  • United Breaks Guitars – Don’t mess ...
    Well the United Airlines baggage handlers broke the guitar in to two pieces. Then Mr. Carroll complained to United and it fell on deaf ears. Because of that he vowed to write three songs about their callous disregard and uncaring attitude. Related posts:United We Fall – Canada is a figment of ...
  • Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth by Ric ...
    9/11 was an inside job. Nano thermite and thermate were used to pulverize these buildings, and in the process murdered thousands of innocent people. Related posts:Nigerian Man is a Al-CIA-Duh Terrorist – USA Caught in False-Flag Terror Plot National Security Alert from the CIT Climategate Scan ...

Anna's News

  • Laughing gas returning as option for laboring ...
    Labor pain is nothing to laugh at. Yet.The use of nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, during childbirth fell out of favor in the United States decades ago, and just two hospitals � one in San Francisco and one in Seattle � still offer it. Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! � ...
  • Is this the world's oldest wedding cake? Creat ...
    Most wedding cakes barely survive the big day, with maybe just one slice being popped in a box to be preserved for posterity.This one, however, is still intact after 113 years, making it what is thought to be the world�s oldest complete wedding cake. Submitted by Anna Smith to Society & Cultu ...
  • Top 10 Fitness Icons of All Time
    Everyone has their own inspiration for health, but there are a select few that inspire fitness better than anyone else. Martial arts celebrities, diet gurus, and those who bring fitness to the masses are all profiled here. Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a ...
  • Mysterious Manuscript's Age Determined
    The enigmatic Voynich Manuscript, a mysterious book that has frustrated codebreakers and linguists for a century, was penned on 15th-century parchment pages, according to U.S. researchers. Submitted by Anna Smith to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Save our seals: Mystery sickness striking down ...
    If he looks a little sorry for himself, then he has a very good reason.Sitting on a vet's stretcher, this seal pup is one of dozens hit by a mystery illness which is devastating the species in one of its biggest British breeding grounds.The sickness,.....Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals �|� � ...

Medical Marijuana

  • 2/14/11 - Health Care Reform Opinion Polls/Sur ...
    healthcarereform.procon.org - NEW: Health Care Reform Opinion Polls/Surveys - A Jan. 15-19, 2011 poll by CBS and the New York Times found that 40% of Americans want to repeal the March 2010 health care law while 48% want to let it stand. A Dec. 14-15 FOX News poll found that 59% of respondents ...
  • 2/14/11 - Help ProCon.org Win $5,000
    www.procon.org - Help ProCon.org Win $5,000: Write a short review of ProCon.org by Feb. 28 for a contest at GreatNonprofits.org. The most-reviewed nonprofit wins, so please take a few minutes and help us compete for the prize!
  • 1/06/11 - Are the new health care reform laws ...
    healthcareform.procon.org - UPDATED: Are the new health care reform laws constitutional? - A Virginia federal court ruled on Dec. 13, 2010 that the mandatory insurance provision was unconstitutional. At least 24 other legal challenges to the laws have emerged. Read pro and con statements about ...
  • 1/07/11 - Percentage of Men (by Country) Who P ...
    prostitution.procon.org - NEW: Percentage of Men (by Country) Who Paid for Sex at Least Once: The Johns Chart - Studies have found that 80% of men in Cambodia, 45% in Italy, and 15-20% in the United States have paid for sex at least once in their lifetimes. Results from 15 countries are availabl ...
  • 1/11/11 - 23 Constitutional Challenges to the ...
    healthcarereform.procon.org - NEW: 23 Constitutional Challenges to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) - The individual insurance mandate of the PPACA has been judged constitutional twice and unconstitutional once. Read the date filed, case name, PDF of the case itself, distri ...

Progressives United - Russ Feingold

  • My new group: Progressives United
    Today, I am proud to announce that progressives -- demanding change and demanding action -- have come together to help me launch a new group:�Progressives United � read more

Information Underground

  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Kudos to whoever made this vid using my audio about Brendon O'Connell. he fits my words to the video of O'Connell confronting the two Judaic Sayans. I think I pretty accurately described what went on, no? iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhjZ-E-hkPIStatistics: Posted by MonkeySeeMonkeyDo ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Ron Paul Is A Vicious Anti-Semite and Anti-American and Conservatives Need To Wash Their Hands of Him http://www.newsrealblog.com/2011/02/17/ ... Feature%29 Long ago Bill Buckley drummed the anti-Semites out of the conservative movement, and the movement thrived as a result. But the Jew-hat ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Moaning damn No More Money for IsraHELL Statistics: Posted by Ognir — Fri Feb 18, 2011 3:38 pm
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Letter to Christopher Jon Bjerknes on Egypt Revolution, Israel Shamir, Pan Islamism By Zahir Ebrahim http://bloghumanbeingsfirst.wordpress.c ... r-ebrahim/ An Additional Tangential Response to Zahir Ebrahim Christopher Jon Bjerknes http://www.jewishracism.com http://www.jewishracism.blogspo ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    CjB's ego is a direct match to that other scumbag in FranceStatistics: Posted by Ognir — Fri Feb 18, 2011 7:41 pm
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