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Thomas Paine

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

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

2 February - RSS SnapShot! Pt 2

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libcom

  • Total personnel chaos in DHL (Russia)
    dhl_main_en.jpg This story started at the end of 2008. I was resigning from one company that deals with transportation between Russia and Ossetia. As many others – I was looking for a better job and I wa ...
  • Go Slow Strike at FagorMastercook (Mondragon capit ...
    Workers fight for wage increase. A work-to-rule strike in underway in Wroclaw's FagorMastercook factory. Despite exceptionally good output, increased exports and a healthy profit, most workers are still taking home a meager 350 euros a m ...
  • Student struggle in the Netherlands
    Last Friday, January 21, the Netherlands saw student action on a massive scale. Fifteen thousand students and sympathisers, maybe more, came together for a protest rally on the Malieveld in The Hague, the city in which the Dutch government is located. The acti ...
  • Rebels in the Maghreb… who they are?
    Rebels in the Maghreb… who they are? The State and its enlightened commentators were first selling us that it was about: • a little obstacle in the smooth running of business, to get round as soon as possible; • an expression of brutality peculiar to countries not well civilized; read more
  • Anarchism and Syndicalism in the Colonial and Post ...
    Announcement of new book that develops a truly global history of the anarchist movement. Book Announcement: Anarchism and Syndicalism in the Colonial and Postcolonial World, 1870-1940 URL: http://labourhistory.net/news/i1012_6.php "Anar ...

Free Range International

  • 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 super ...
  • What Is the Problem Here?
    One of the Chim Chims’ has asked to put up a guest post on a topic near and dear to both our hearts for different reasons:  the continuing efforts of the New York Times to kill a program I doubt was that big of a deal to begin with.  Chim Chim is a member of [...]
  • The Start of a Long Year
    A few weeks back home we’re a blessing and also a time to partake in my favorite thing to do which is doing nothing.  I’m an expert.  While I was away a few articles caught my attention and they serve as a useful point of departure to evaluate where we are at the start of [...]
  • You Can’t Handle the Truth
    The efforts of the international community to bring aid to Afghanistan, help develop the infrastructure with the goal of allowing Afghanistan a chance at self sufficiency are failing dismally.  That should not be a surprise to anyone with more than a passing knowledge of the international aid racket ...
  • Afghanistan’s Forgotten Province
    There are a couple of recent articles in the flood of coverage about Afghanistan which caught my eye last week.  The first is factually wrong but I understand what the author was saying and he is, in a sense correct.  The second is factually correct, I understand what that reporter was saying too an ...

The Story Behind the Story

  • The Major Reason to “End the Fed” &#82 ...
    This is a chilling video.  How can anybody be so full of lies and so clearly obfuscatory and evasive?? Watch the hook-nosed witch behind her telling Coleman what not to say while she is under the gun!!  (Doesn’t she remind you of H.R. Puffenstuff’s “witchiepoo”??)  Also, look closely at the pin o ...
  • “Reformed Judaism” Synonymous with Zio ...
    In regards to the “Origins of Modern Zionism” by Jack Manuelian wherein he documented that “Modern Zionism” is composed of both Islamic and Catholic leaders – this new statement by New York “Rabbis” is now understandable.  Keep also in mind that the “Brotherhood of Islam” is radical Shiite and is t ...
  • Money Mechanics Video by A. True Ott, PhD
    � Here we go folks.  I recorded this on December, 20.   Thanks to Alex S. the seminar is now on YouTube in its entirety. Recorded 20 Dec 2010; Please share widely.
  • The Origins of “Zionism” – a Luc ...
    The Origins Of Modern Zionism By Jack Manuelian 4-30-5 Modern Zionism has its roots in a 17th century false Jewish messiah by the name of Sabbatai Zevi who claimed to be the promised savior of the Jews that has come to establish the Jewish kingdom in the promised land known then as Palestine. Zevi w ...
  • Oops!! Now Where Did I Put that Vial of VX???????
    Dugway Proving Grounds, west of Salt Lake City, is the home of some very nasty neighbors.  No run-of-the-mill “civilian” really knows what is stored there, and in what amounts.  The average citizen of Utah can only speculate and guess what is actually there, and so, when Hollywood churns out a dis ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

  • Downsizing – downscaling? See these tiny hou ...
    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 plans fo ...
  • Air powered environmentally friendly car being pro ...
    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 in ...
  • Deforestation – environmental & human effect ...
    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 temper ...
  • Could cancer be Fungus? If so, maybe here’s ...
    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 to do ...
  • 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 says t ...

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

  • Governor General David Johnston (Oct 9, 2010)
    Peter talks about the role of the GG -- plus technology and hockey -- in Johnston's first interview as the Queen's representative in Canada
  • James Cameron, Director and Activist (Oct 2, 2010)
    He's one of Hollywood's most powerful figures, and, he's been one of the oil sands most vocal critics. That combination had the oil industry on edge when Avatar director, Canadian James Cameron visited Alberta.
  • Margaret Bloodworth, Retired Senior Bureaucrat and ...
    She was at the front lines of Canada's response to 9-11, just part of a distinguished three decade long public service career. Margaret Bloodworth has now retired, but her thoughts on the country's safety, and the role of a senior public servant make her this week's guest.
  • Tony Blair, former British PM (Sept 11, 2010)
    He was British prime minister for a decade of change and controversy. This week, as his book "A Journey" hits shelves around the world, Tony Blair is our guest.
  • Anne Murray, Singer and Author, "All of Me" (Oct 2 ...
    She will always be Canada's Snowbird - the girl next door who sang her way to international stardom. It all looked so easy. But as her new book reveals, it was nothing like that. This week she tells us all about it.

Scotts Contracting

  • Please take action to beat back the polluter assau ...
    Dear Scotts Contracting, Please take action to beat back the polluter assault on our clean air standards. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) is having an Al Pacino "I’d take a flamethrower to your environmental standards" moment. He has introduced a bill … Continue reading →
  • Free Cost Saving Calculator- Insulation and Window
    Insulation Upgrade Use this calculator to estimate the cost saving and greenhouse gas reduction for upgrading your insulation or windows. You may be surprised how quickly more insulation will pay for itself A caution: This calculator is likely to overestimate … Continue reading →
  • Green Tips for Everyday Home Care
    On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Scott’s Contracting prvided: 1 minute to preventing bathroom mold One minute a day is about all it takes to help prevent mold and keep your bathroom sparkling. Find out how in … Continue reading →
  • USA Dept of Energy Solar Financial Opportunities-
    Information for Your: Business, Industry, Universities, Consumers, Federal Energy Managers, Inventors, States, Tribes
  • Grants and Loan Opportunities for Missouri Residen ...
    On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: Find information here on the available Grants and Funding Sources from the Missouri Department of Energy Grants and Loans DNR Transform Missouri Energy Conservation Energy Revolving Fund Funding … Continue reading →

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • تشکیل کمیته دفاع از حقوق بشر مردم مصر در مجلس شورا ...
    کمیسیون امیت ملی و سیاست خارجی مجلس شورای اسلامی تشکیل کمیته دفاع از حقوق بشر مردم مصر در مجلس شورای اسلامی را در دستور کار خود قرار داد. read more
  • Has Egypt Learned From Iran's Mistakes?
    Reza Pahlavi talks to CNN's Piers Morgan about the state of affairs in Egypt:
  • Iran Cracks Down While Egypt Cracks Up
    Tehran is claiming that the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt reflect the heady days of 1979. Not so fast says the Green Movement -- it's 2009 that's a better parallel. BY BARBARA SLAVIN | JANUARY 31, 2011 read more
  • Iran hangs man who claimed to be God: report
    TEHRAN (AFP) – Iran has executed a man who claimed he was God, after he was found guilty of heresy and corruption, the official Fars news agency reported on Monday. read more
  • یافتن جنین در شکم پسر ٢٢ ساله کرمانی
    کرمان - خبرگزاری مهر: در پدیده ای استثنایی و در میان تعجب کادر پزشکی بیمارستان شهید باهنر کرمان یک جنین که در بدن یک پسر ٢٢ ساله کرمانی رشد کرده بود از شکم این بیمار خارج شد. به گزارش خبرنگار مهر در کرمان، در پدیده عجیب و استثنایی عصر یکشنبه در میان تعجب کادر پزشکی بیمارستان شهید باهنر کرمان یک ج ...

Most Revolutionary Act

  • The IMF: Saved by the Economic Collapse
    IMF meeting Many people forget that the IMF was nearly bankrupt in 2007. Prior to the 2008 banking collapse, they only had outstanding loans to only a handful of countries (see http://www.nzherald.co.nz/guest-columnists/news/article.cfm?a_id=146&objectid=10396025). There was a move in the late ninet ...
  • The IMF Protection Racket
    There seems to be strong consensus – at least in the streets of Europe – that the IMF (International Monetary Fund) is a protection racket. Here is the Wikipedia definition of protection racket: An extortion scheme whereby a criminal group or individual coerces other less powerful entities to pay m ...
  • China and Japan Bail Out the Euro
    China, Japan and “Middle East” investors bailed out the Euro on January 25th. This hopefully will spare Portugal and Spain from IMF intervention and the harsh structural adjustment “austerity” cuts the IMF has recently imposed on Greece and Ireland. According to Klaus Regling, the head of the Europ ...
  • South Africa: from Political to Economic Apartheid
    The corporate controlled media lies about everything else. Thus I had no logical reason to assume they told us the truth about the fall of South Africa’s apartheid regime in the 1990s. I should have known the fairy tale about local activism and international sanctions (driven mainly by campus acti ...
  • CO2 Emissions Affect Company Stock Values
    According to a recent study by Professor Paul Griffin (University of California-Davis), Associate Professor David Lont (University of Otago, New Zealand) and Yuan Sun (University of California-Berkeley), the amount of greenhouse gasses a company produces has a significant effect on its stock price ...

Doug's Darkworld

  • 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 governmen ...
  • The McMartin Preschool Trial: Grown Ups Behaving B ...
    My post on the Lawndale Thunderbird case has inspired me to write a series a series of blogs on how people deceive themselves and other oddities of the human mind. Or more accurately, the oddities of human perception and how setting and beliefs and preconceptions can colour, and sometimes wildly dis ...
  • What is outside the Universe revisited: “The ...
    One of the side effects of trying to write thought provoking blog posts is that often they provoke a lot of thoughts, expressed in the form of comments. And unfortunately I often do not or cannot take the time to address them all properly. Hell, I could write a book on my responses to the [...]
  • The 1977 Lawndale Illinois Thunderbird Attack
    In 1977 a giant bird attacked and tried to carry away a ten year old boy in central Illinois in front of multiple witnesses. Actually, two giant birds attacked, but only one tried to carry the kid away. The mother witnessed the attack and chased after the bird yelling, the bird released the boy and ...

FourWinds10

  • THE GULF OF MEXICO IS DYING: A SPECIAL REPORT ON ...
  • 2. US Department of Defense is the Worst Polluter ...
    The US military is responsible for the most egregious and widespread pollution of the planet, yet this information and accompanying documentation goes almost entirely unreported. In spite of the evidence, the environmental impact of the US military goes largely unaddressed by environmental organizat ...
  • The Search for BP's Oil
    "Dolphins off the bow!" � I race to the front of the WeatherBird II, a research vessel owned by the University of South Florida. There they are, doing their sleek silvery thing, weaving between translucent waves, disappearing under the boat, reappearing in perfect formation on the other side. fter t ...
  • THE GULF OF MEXICO IS DYING - A Special Report on ...
  • Consequences of the BP Oil Spill
    The BP oil disaster might end up shifting the entire global energy paradigm -- IF the public is aware of the situation and its consequences. Here are some of the long term effects of the disaster. � Dr. Mercola's Comments: � It's been just over seven months since the Deepwater Horizon exploded, lead ...

Crisis Maven

  • Economic Musings VI: Modern Economies – Dyin ...
    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 of ...
  • Economic Musings VII: Marketing doesn’t adve ...
    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 of ...
  • CrisisMaven’s Blog News 2010-03-07: Over 25,000 We ...
    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 that, ...
  • Economic Musings VIII: Is there a limit to economi ...
    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 hea ...

Capital Flow Analysis

  • Stock buybacks are bad for investors: Further evid ...
    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 following ...
  • Why Obama’s healthcare scheme portends stagflatio ...
    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 bus ...
  • How long would it take to work off the US trade de ...
    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 porte ...
    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 articl ...
  • Stocks surge on spurious earnings reports: Q2 2009
    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 were ...

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • What the RAND Report on Biofuels Really Said
    Join the forum discussion on this post The just-issued RAND report Alternative Fuels for Military Applications has generated quite a bit of controversy. However, in my opinion many of the news stories covering the report got the gist of the message wrong. In essence, what has been reported is “RAND ...
  • Vinod Khosla and the Gasification/Fermentation Deb ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post Vinod Khosla Prognosticates Vinod Khosla is once more offering up his prognostications on the future of the energy business: What Matters in Biofuels? Given the likely continued dominance of the internal combustion engine, cellulosic and sugar-derived fuels ...
  • Great Green Fleet Neither Great Nor Green?
    Join the forum discussion on this post In my recent interview with Tom Hicks, who is the Deputy Assistant Secretary to the Navy (Energy), he explained some of the Navy’s energy initiatives. One of those is to sail the “Great Green Fleet.” The goal is that in 2012 they will put a carrier strike grou ...
  • EPA Expands E15 Decree
    Join the forum discussion on this post This week the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved the use of 15% ethanol fuel blends (E15) for 2011-2006 model year cars: EPA Grants E15 Fuel Waiver for Model Years 2001 – 2006 Cars and Light Trucks WASHINGTON â The U.S. Environmental Protection A ...
  • Marginal Land Produces Marginal Biomass
    Join the forum discussion on this post The global potential for energy crops is a topic of great interest, and the media is often filled with reports of the potential for production on marginal land. Indeed, some of these reports go so far as to suggest that a substantial fraction or even all of cu ...

Discovery Educator Network

  • compfight + a flickr™ search tool
    Comments:Find images to use in blogs, presentations, etc under CC. - Dean MantzTags: flickr, search, photos, creativecommons, tools, photography, copyright, ccby: Dean Mantz
  • Google Apps for Education Guide to Going Google
    Comments:EDU Guide for Google Apps in Education (GAE) - Dean MantzTags: apps, google, PLN, GAE, domain, K12by: Dean Mantz
  • CK12.ORG - FlexBooks
    Tags: ebooks, textbooks, flexbooks, curriculum, science, opensource, math, ck12, history, technology, mathematics, engineeringby: Dean Mantz
  • Negro Leagues Baseball eMuseum
    Comments:History of the Black (Negro) Baseball League. Teacher resources provided. - Dean MantzTags: baseball, negro, teaching, diversity, tools, teachers, leagues, technology, black_historyby: Dean Mantz
  • My Fake Wall - MyFakeWall.com
    Comments:Site lets users create and maintain fake Facebook-type profiles online. Requires registration. - Randy RodgersTags: facebook, template, fake, wall, history, fake wall, projects, educationby: Randy Rodgers

Rodale News

  • USDA Poised to Approve the Next GE Crop
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Now that the USDA has ignored public opinion and approved genetically engineered alfalfa, the agency is expected to approve yet another genetically modified crop next week. After a five-year battle with industry and lawmakers over the use of genetically engineered (GE or GMO ...
  • Organic Community Calls for Unity
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Last week, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced its decision to completely deregulate genetically engineered alfalfa, also known as Roundup Ready, GE, or GMO alfalfa. Organic and conventional farming coalitions, dairies, and grass-fed beef operations ...
  • Health Experts Have Beef with New Gov't Dietary Gu ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—In an effort to curb the ballooning obesity problem and rein in chronic illness, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Department of Health and Human Services Monday announced the new 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans. The new guidelines, recommendations ...
  • 5 Recipes That Will Spruce Up Your Looks
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—We now know there’s no such thing as a “healthy” tan, but plenty of people still think that tan skin makes you look healthier. Well, science says different. New research finds that humans actually prefer the golden skin color that can result from eating lots of carotenoid-ri ...
  • Mind-Body-Mood Advisor: Yes, You Can Choose to Be ...
    RODALE NEWS, LENOX, PA—Is your happiness within your control? Is making the correct choices in life—choosing a spouse, a career, a lifestyle—the best way to be happy in life? Or is your level of happiness pretty much hardwired, a product of your genes and your childhood experience? We'd all like to ...

big think

  • Thinking About Our (Internet) Revolution!
    When the late Idi Amin launched a successful coup attempt against the then President of Uganda, Milton Obote, he made sure that the latter was attending Commonwealth Conference, before sending key army units to secure the Presidential Palace, and key of course, the radio station. When years later .. ...
  • Happiness--Part 5: Another Happy President (Jeffe ...
    The author of the Declaration of Independence and surely our most "intellectual" president, Thomas Jefferson, wrote that we have life and liberty for the pursuit of happiness.��In his private letters, Jefferson carefully distinguished�between�the modern, individualistic life devoted to the pursuit . ...
  • Wednesday Whatzits: Kirishima Update, Taal's restl ...
    The ice remains here in Ohio - and the weather is truly crazed. The temperature when I woke up this morning: 36F. Temperature an hour and a half later: 25F … and continuing to fall on its way to somewhere in the teens. Got some quick hits to make before trying to figure out what to do with my ...R ...
  • Energies of the Future
    Every Wednesday, Michio Kaku will be answering reader questions about physics and futuristic science. If you have a question for Dr. Kaku, just post it in the comments section below and check back on Wednesdays to see if he answers it. Today, Dr. Kaku addresses a question posed by Davis Tan: What ...
  • Memorable Observations From Farsight 2011: Beyond ...
    I didn’t get to watch the livestream of the first half of our Farsight 2011: Beyond The Search Box event today, but the parts I did see were enough to show me just how much of a role the participants played in the way I see and use my online access everyday. For instance, I could not maintain this . ...

Information Liberation

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Ozboy’s Bar And Grill Is Closed For Repairs
    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 Nationa ...
    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 →

FAS - Secrecy News

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Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • The trouble with encryption
    Lots of us encrypt files using the likes of AxCrypt and TrueCrypt. If there’s a risk of losing a device carrying sensitive information such as contacts, email, bank statements, invoices etc, then it is worth using such a tool. The ease with which a file, folder or even complete hard drive or USB dev ...
  • SpectroscopyNOW – February 1 issue
    Valentine’s Day science – Spring may not quite be in the air, but Valentine's Day is on the way and love is certainly on the minds of researchers in the US. A small functional magnetic resonance imaging has been used to investigate love. The study revealed brain activity in 10 women and 7 men when [ ...
  • Six science snippets
    Six science snippets from David Bradley What is entropy? – This property of all matter – this collapse into disorder – is given a name: entropy. Things that are disordered have greater entropy than things that are relatively more organized. A glass of water, in which the molecules of water itself ca ...
  • Seven slices of science stuff
    Seven slices of science stuff from David Bradley Vuja de – Thinking outside the box with new eyes? Haven't we see this managerial psychobabble before or is it just vuja de? Alchemist Newsletter – An element close to every Alchemist's heart, quicksilver, or more properly mercury, featured in the chem ...
  • A tetralogy of science news
    Four more picks from the latest science news by David Bradley Tales of the unexpected: a night with Tim Radford – My mentor at The Guardian, Tim Radford, told tales of science writing at a special event last week and warned the audience that the public can be very squeamish about new scientific prac ...

RFF Library

  • A Policy, Legal, and Regulatory Evaluation of the ...
    Southern States Energy Board http://www.sseb.org/downloads/pipeline.pdf [Abstract] The report focuses on the transportation of carbon dioxide (CO2) through pipelines from a “source” to a geologic ”sink,” the possibility of a federal mandate requiring capture and storage of CO2. An overview of carbon ...
  • Proposed Rule: National Ambient Air Quality Standa ...
    US EPA http://www.epa.gov/airquality/carbonmonoxide/pdfs/CO-NAAQS-RIN2060-AI43-NPR-Preamble-RegText.pdf [From New York Times, 1/31/11] The current air quality standards for carbon monoxide (CO) are strong enough to protect public health, U.S. EPA said today as the agency issued a proposal  to keep t ...
  • Clean Air Issues in the 112th Congress
    Congressional Research Service / by James E. McCarthy http://assets.opencrs.com/rpts/R41563_20110104.pdf [Summary] Although air quality has improved substantially in the United States in the 40 years of EPA’s Clean Air Act regulation, many issues remain unresolved, and, in recent months, members of ...
  • Quantifying Vulnerability to Climate Change: Impli ...
    Center for Global Development / by David Wheeler http://www.cgdev.org/files/1424759_file_Wheeler_Quantifying_Vulnerability_FINAL.pdf [From report website] The effects of climate change have been and will be worse in poor countries and small-island states, those least able to adapt to the climate-rel ...
  • Ocean Fertilization: A Scientific Summary for Poli ...
    UNESCO, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0019/001906/190674e.pdf [From Introduction] Concern over human-driven climate change and the lack of success in constraining greenhouse gas emissions have increased scientific and policy interest in geoengineering − ...

Scientific American - News

  • How the Sea Horse Got Its Curves
    The sea horse's signature "S" shape holds a secret weapon: It is an adaptation for the ambush hunting style favored by these tiny, carnivorous fish, according to new research that looked at the biomechanical properties of the sea horse's curvaceous neck region. [More]
  • Real CSI: Patchy U.S. Death Investigations Put the ...
    Watch Frontline's documentary produced in conjunction with this story tonight. ( Check local listings. ) And listen to NPR's All Things Considered for more on this story. ( Check local listings. ) In detective novels and television crime dramas like "CSI," the nation's morgues are staffed by high ...
  • Where's Saturn? Cassini Spacecraft Helping Provide ...
    Astronomers have had a solid handle on the orbits of our solar system's planets since at least the 17th century, when Johannes Kepler formulated his laws of planetary motion . But the fine details of those orbits are not always obvious, especially for the more distant outer planets, owing to the gr ...
  • Circuit-Breaker?: Electric Car Popularity May Depe ...
    General Motors, Ford and other carmakers are increasingly trying to sell consumers on a future where fleets of battery-powered cars cruise along U.S. highways and byways. Turning such a vision into reality, however, requires far more than simply making electric cars available--drivers need to know h ...
  • Milk of Life: Dairy Cows Inoculated against Sepsis ...
    Most people would probably prefer if traces of dairy cows' vaccinations don't show up in their milk, but one research team is looking into deliberately adding antibodies to milk as a way to help malnourished children in developing countries. [More]

RAWA News

  • Afghanistan: IDPs Stranded at the “Slaughter ...
    Eurasianet.org: A third of a million desperate people once lived in Maslakh, a camp of wind-blown mud brick houses erected upon a brittle lunar landscape in western Afghanistan. Ten years after the US-led invasion, the population of internally displaced waxes and wanes, subject to the whims of the c ...
  • Canada in Afghanistan – The Big Lie machine
    The Vancouver Sun: Despite all the evidence that continuing to stay in this benighted country is worse than pointless, despite the fact that the majority of Canadians want to get out sooner rather than later and despite the fact that even Stephen Harper recognizes that the Karzai regime is one of th ...
  • Woman stoned to death in north Afghanistan
    BBC News: The man and woman were accused of adultery in the district of Dashte Archi in Kunduz province last August. Hundreds of people attended the stoning but no-one was charged. The area is still under Taliban control. After viewing the footage, regional police chief Gen Daoud Daoud said those re ...
  • Ten troops a day suffer mental health problems in ...
    Daily Mirror: THE war on terror is taking its toll on the mental state of British troops with a dramatic rise in the number seeking psychiatric help. The daily threat of roadside bombs, fierce gun battles and seeing comrades killed or horrifically maimed in the blood and dust of Afghanistan has led ...
  • More evidence of US war crimes
    WSWS: The ACLU states that 25-30 of the 190 deaths that occurred under custody of the U.S. government at Guantanamo Bay were “unjustifiable homicides”. In our view, every single one of them qualify for this charge because their imprisonment and the war that brought them there was unjustified from th ...

frogblog

  • Can you pick the odd man out?
    "Boorish and unbecoming of a Prime Minister" was Sue Kedgley's take on John Key's Radio Sport interview with Tony Veitch in which the PM revealed his sexual fantasies. I'm with Sue on this one.
  • No return on PPP investment
    John Key’s Government is poised to start tendering for public private partnerships (PPPs) to build and run our schools. I’ve said before what a terrible idea this is – overseas research suggests that no matter how you cut the PPP cake, the public ends up funding the projects while t ...
  • ECE vs motorways – which is the better inves ...
    John Key’s cuts to early childhood education come into affect today. John Key says don’t worry, it will only effect centres with the most qualified staff. Very reassuring! Meanwhile fees will go up and kids will miss out. NZEI has launched a petition today urging the Government to r ...
  • Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement: Release the t ...
    The governments of nine countries are currently negotiating in secret for a far-reaching agreement called the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA). John Key’s Government doesn’t want us to see the NZ position or any of the text until it is signed and sealed and cannot be changed.
  • General debate, February 1, 2011

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • 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's dr ...
  • The Media in America: Selling Views, Calling it Ne ...
    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" press ...
  • America's Next Failure: the Police State
    Every police force in the nation has cold (unsolved) cases. The War on Drugs has been ineffective for more than forty years. No one knows where a vast number of illegal immigrants even are. The CIA has been unable to locate Osama bin Laden after more than ten years of searching. Your local police ca ...
  • Western Civilization and Classical Economics: The ...
    When a civilization abandons its morality, no rationalization can be devised to justify its continued existence. It is likely that many reasons can be given for this abandonment in the Western world, although I am convinced that one predominatesthe expansion of law. Law once governed various kin ...
  • The Mythical United States of America: Rushing int ...
    The mythical United States of America so highly lauded exists nowhere. It is a Shangri-la. The Preamble of the Constitution makes perfectly clear what kind of nation the United States was meant to be. What exists today fulfills none of those goals. Some have argued that the nation was a fraud fr ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Judge Vinson Revisited
    A knowledgeable reader writes in to take issue with my earlier post about Judge Vinson's ruling on the constitutionality of the healthcare reform law's individual mandate provision: As someone who works in health policy and has studied this issue pretty closely in consultation with several lawyer ...
  • America's Love Affair With Ronald Reagan
    I agree with Brendan Nyhan and others that Ronald Reagan didn't actually change Americans' attitude toward government that much. What's more, to the extent that attitudes did change, it was mainly thanks to a backlash against 70s liberalism that would have happened with or without Reagan. Still, wh ...
  • Huntsman for President! (In 2016)
    Over at Democracy in America, Jon Fasman is trying to figure out why Jon Huntsman might be considering a run for the Republican presidential nomination this year: Jon Huntsman was a successful governor, is a successful ambassador, is personable, handsome, accomplished, fluent in Mandarin and has ...
  • Why Judge Vinson's Decision Matters
    A couple of times yesterday I started up a post on the federal district court judge who ruled that the healthcare reform law was unconstitutional. And both times I killed it because I didn't really care. This case is going to the Supreme Court, and they don't give a rat's ass about the legal argumen ...
  • The $700 Million Neon Sign
    In its never-ending quest for a pro football team, one of the groups with plans to build a new stadium in Los Angeles is teeing up an announcement: Backers of a plan to build a football stadium in downtown Los Angeles are set to announce Tuesday that they have reached a naming-rights deal worth $ ...

Insanity Report

  • FacePalm of the Week: How to Torpedo Your Campaig ...
    Thanks to JDan over at MediaStrut, I think it’s safe to say I already have the FacePalm of the Week for this week…even though it’s Monday: Hold on…the President has something to say: Seriously, what the fuck is this about?  I get it, politics gets testy sometimes.  I’m pretty sure Carol Moseley Br ...
  • IC 225: Call a C.A.B.
    Topics for the show: Steve Harvey responds about his ex-wife’s claims Ted Haggard questions just how gay he is Bristol Palin is a “responsible sex” expert? Dylan watched the Jersey Shore… Kriss & Dylan scheme on another great movie/book idea Man has sex with show hogs….and gives them a vaginal infec ...
  • Ted Haggard Making a Fool of Himself…Again
    I swear Ted Haggard is the gift that keeps giving.  Every time you think you’ve heard it all and this guy has finally fallen off the radar, he pops up in an interview somewhere and you’re left thinking “Man, he should have stayed home.”  Last time we heard from Ted, he was part of a [...]
  • Someone Tell Don Imus to Shutup
    I purposely avoided commenting on the news last Friday that Keith Olbermann and MSNBC split ways.  I’ve made my feeling known about Olbermann rather frequently.  However, let me say that I do appreciate Keith for what he did and his team spent on MSNBC.  During the Bush years Olbermann seem to be th ...
  • FacePalm of the Week: Assault with a Deadly Dildo
    A woman who made news for attacking a police officer with a “clear, rigid feminine pleasure device” is claiming that she was acting in self-defense. Carolee Bildsten was found by a police officer lying in the grass down the street from a Joe’s Crab Shack in Gurnee, Illinois last November. She told t ...

Simple Climate

  • 2,000 year water temperature high underlines Arcti ...
    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 thre ...
    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.
  • Greenhouse gases break temperature-rainfall link
    While warmer air can take up more water than colder air, the extra heat trapped in the lower atmosphere by gases like CO2 decreases how much of this is released as precipitation, explains Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research's Katja Frieler.
  • Dust research polishes climate models
    The smallest, cooling, particles are a lower proportion of all atmospheric dust than climate models assume, says the US National Center for Atmospheric Research's Jasper Kok, likely meaning there are more particles than previously thought overall and helping improve accuracy of climate predictions i ...

e!Science News

  • MicroRNA cocktail helps turn skin cells into stem ...
    Stem cells are ideal tools to understand disease and develop new treatments; however, they can be difficult to obtain in necessary quantities. In particular, generating induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells can be an arduous task because reprogramming differentiated adult skin cells into iPS cells re ...
  • Internet addresses: An inevitable shortage, but an ...
    As Internet authorities prepare to announce that they have handed over all of the available addresses, a USC research group that monitors address usage has completed the latest in its series of Internet censuses. read more
  • Painful hip fractures strike breast cancer survivo ...
    A hip fracture is not common in a 54-year-old woman, unless she is a 54-year-old breast cancer survivor, according to a new Northwestern Medicine study. Researchers found that a combination of early menopause due to breast cancer treatment and common drugs used to treat breast cancer, could be weake ...
  • A new model for studying Parkinson's
    Evidence is steadily mounting that genetic factors play an important role in many cases of Parkinson's disease (PD). In a study published February 2, 2011, online in the Journal of Neuroscience, researchers from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland report a new mammalia ...
  • New state scorecard on children's health care find ...
    Two years after the reauthorization and expansion of the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), a new Commonwealth Fund state-by-state scorecard evaluating how the health care system is working for children finds that federal and state action on behalf of children has helped preserve, and even ...

unEarthed

Brave New Climate

  • IFR: An optimized approach to meeting global energ ...
    A few days ago, an important poster and written paper were presented at the 91st American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting, 23-27 Jan 2011, Seattle, WA; Second Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy. The Integral Fast Reactor (IFR): An Optimized Source for Global Energ ...
  • Two countries, two paths, one crucial lesson learn ...
    In the 1970s, two countries took two different paths in energy policy. Denmark pursued wind power, but failed to replace its fossil fuel power plants. It has among the highest carbon emissions per capita in Europe. France pursued nuclear power, and now has the lowest carbon emissions of any OECD cou ...
  • New BNC podcast series and predict millionth page ...
    One of the new initiatives I’ll be trying in 2011 is an audio podcast series (I use the term ‘series’ loosely, as there’ll be no fixed schedule). This is now fairly straightforward to do, via my iPhone 4 and the Audioboo app. This type of media/blogging is quick and flexible to do on the fly. [...]
  • The cost of ending global warming – a calcul ...
    Guest Post by Chris Uhlik. Dr Uhlik did a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering at Stanford 1979–1990. He worked at Toyota in Japan, built robot controllers, cellular telephone systems, internet routers, and now does engineering management at Google. Among his 8 years of projects as an engineeri ...
  • Livestock and Climate Change … Status update
    Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. His recently published book is CSIRO Perfidy. The United Nations report Livestock’s Long Shadow (LLS) came out in 2006 with an estimate that 18 percent of anthropogenic greenhou ...

Indigenist Opinion

  • Guest Editorial - Layla Anwar: Protesting...
    An Arab Woman Blues - Reflections in a sealed bottle...: Protesting... [FOTO-Source: صورة أيقونية ليوم الغضب الثاني ستصبح اشهر صورة لأبطال مصر #Jan25] So far I have seen no real indicators for more open democratic societies in the making. Leaving aside my own allergy to the word "democracy" and it ...
  • ei: Documents reveal PA-Israel collaboration to ta ...
    ei: Documents reveal PA-Israel collaboration to target resistance Details on the growing security cooperation between the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority, the United States and the United Kingdom were revealed yesterday, the third day of Al Jazeera network's release of more than 1,600 internal ...
  • The Jim Crow Guidebook | SocialistWorker.org
    The Jim Crow Guidebook | SocialistWorker.org: "WHERE DID Blacks use the bathroom, get a drink, safely stop for gas, and perform all the other quotidian acts of road-tripping under Jim Crow segregation? I had seen references to a "Negro" guidebook in the New York Times, but never actually read one un ...
  • Egypt is offline - is Google just cashing in? | Ra ...
    Egypt is offline - is Google just cashing in? | Radio Netherlands Worldwide Twitter and Google recently joined forces to help Egypt talk to the world. The Egyptian authorities last week decided to block most internet and SMS traffic, but the two companies combined efforts and came up with a way arou ...
  • All Eyes on Egypt, Daniel Pipes Looks to Iran � Lo ...
    All Eyes on Egypt, Daniel Pipes Looks to Iran � LobeLog.com: "It’s right there in the opinion section of the Washington Times, where even Frank Gaffney is zoomed in on the Muslim Brotherhood and has the decency not to mention Iran. (Gaffney’s piece is called “The Muslim Brotherhood is the Enemy“, an ...

Republicans are a Disease

  • Tea Party Founder Judson Phillips Lies on MSNBC
    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 organization o ...
  • 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 piec ...
  • Paul Ryan’s America
    In Paul Ryan’s America, your grandmother would already be dead. If she was lucky enough to survive, she would be pushing a shopping cart bagging for handouts, because someone on Wall Street churned her retirement into nothing, and her Social Security payouts would be $20 per month after “managers” p ...
  • Impeach Clarence Thomas Now
    While Clarence Thomas ruled repeatedly for the benefit of the oligarchs, the Heritage Foundation paid his wife hundreds of thousands of dollars. Mr. Thomas neglected to claim this income on his financial disclosure statements, which is a crime if I remember correctly. So here we have billionaires la ...
  • Who Will Be Glenn Beck’s Next Target?
    So which “liberal” will be targeted for assassination on next on the Glenn Beck show? Which champion of the poor will be the next target of his rants? Which community organizer will Beck blame for all that is wrong in America?  What leader of an organization that is empowering minorities, and attem ...

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 found ...
  • 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 – 304-237-2688 o ...
  • 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 Conference H ...
  • New Flier for Appalachia Rising
  • Appalachia Rising Uniting Celebrities, Appalachian ...
    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 coalfi ...

Amped Status

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  • Matzpen Founder Akiva Orr on Israel’s Wars w ...
    Speaking with Akiva Orr is a humble encounter given the gravity of his experience on the ground in Israel/Palestine. Born in 1930’s Berlin, Orr has lived the entirety of Israel’s existence. From Eric Fried to Joe Slovo, Akiva can speak for days about his personal relationships with some of the most ...
  • IDF officer’s career torpedoed over corrupti ...
    In Israel, reporting on the upheaval in Egypt has been sidelined by news that the appointment of Major General Yoav Galant to IDF Chief of Staff has been cancelled. Yedioth, Israel’s most widely read newspaper, devoted half of its pages to coverage of this development, pushing news of Mubrak’s decis ...
  • And a little child shall lead them / by Yoram Kani ...
    Facebook made the world a more open place, enabling the youth of Egypt to share ideas and organize protests against an oppressive regime.  Don’t worry, though, because this won’t happen in Israel. Here, we protest the price of gasoline and fall asleep in the midst of our cries Yoram Kaniuk When th ...
  • Protest in front of Jewish National Fund
    Following the 11th demolition of the Bedouin village of Al Arakib yesterday (January 31), a protest was held outside the Jewish National Fund building in Jerusalem today. A group of upwards of 100 people gathered in the cold and rain at 2pm today with the message, in Hebrew, Arabic and English: “Th ...
  • No, Egyptian uprising won’t hurt the peace p ...
    (simply because there is no such thing) Yesterday, Politico’s Laura Rozen posted this tweet: On Isr/Egypt, official tells me while Egypt unrest demos status quo unstable, makes Isr hunker down, less willing to “take risks for peace. Hey, wasn’t that the Israeli reply to⦠just about any event in re ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

Matt Weidner Blog

  • New York Times Reports on The Collapse of David J ...
    The collapse of the Law Offices of David J. Stern is causing chaos and costing taxpayers millions of dollars.  Clerks of Court, judicial assistants and judges across this state are left sorting through files and processing Stipulation to Withdraw paperwork and generally left to try and sort out the ...
  • RED ALERT! IMMEDIATE ACTION REQUIRED- YOUR FIRST A ...
    The thing I fear most is the suffocating grip of restrictions on free speech and our ability to freely and widely disseminate information.  I can feel the cold, suppressing grip of the state gripping my throat, crimping my fingers, suffocating my speech that demands to be free. This proposed rule ma ...
  • Attorneys Should Hold Private, Secret Hearings To ...
    I really think my head is going to explode.  It’s getting way past the point of being able to make sense of any of this….from the Palm Beach Post: In an opinion that could have unfathomable consequences in countless foreclosure cases, The Florida Bar says attorneys must notify a judge about potenti ...
  • BOMBSHELL- Florida Circuit Court Judge’s Ord ...
    The State of Florida is in the grips of what is perhaps the greatest financial crisis in history.  Facing a projected $3 billion budget deficit deficit, we will have fewer law enforcement officers on the street.  Violent criminals will be released from prisons.  Medicine and medical care for the sic ...
  • The Financial Crisis (Crime) Inquiry Commission- B ...
    New York Times- TRULY startling revelations were few in the voluminous report, published last Thursday by the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission on the origins of the financial panic. This is hardly a shock, given the flood-the-zone coverage and analysis of the crisis since it erupted four years ag ...

abelard - news

The Parallel Parliament

  • Footsteps and Fingerprints
    I heard it everywhere I trekked yesterday: “So, are we going to have an election?” My reply that I didn’t have the foggiest idea was met with considerable disappointment, as everywhere people seemed to have an opinion on the matter. It was our first day back to Parliament following our Christmas bre ...
  • Women Of The Sun
    John Garang, deceased visionary and key political figure in south Sudan’s struggle for independence, once called them “the marginalized of the marginalized.” No more. Something is subtly changing in what will soon be the world’s newest nation and it’s not just statehood. It’s the millions of women w ...
  • Who’s Watching Whom?
    We no sooner had descended from the Sudanese sky to a dirt airstrip than we were asked to immediately visit the commissioner in charge of the referendum process. It was something of a surprise because we’ve been going to that same village for over a decade delivering development programs and the req ...
  • Winds of Change – Back to Ottawa
    This is the final video from our remarkable trip to Sudan for the historic referendum. Of all our dozens of trips, leaving on this occasion was perhaps the most difficult. The Sudanese we have known for over a decade – administrators, soldiers, exiles, slaves, religious and educational leaders, NGO ...
  • Winds of Change – Departure
    Filed under: Personal, The New Internationalism

Vaccine Awakening

  • New Vaccine Science Can Help Bridge the Divide
    by Barbara Loe Fisher Fear of the unknown is what terrifies us the most, fear of being unable to have control over what the future holds. At the root of that fear is knowing that the choices we make today could have a profound impact on what happens tomorrow. 1 Fear is a strong emotion tha ...
  • 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 inflammation ...
  • Thousands Of Americans Register for NVIC's New Adv ...
    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 Information C ...
  • 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 and ...
  • Talking Vaccine Science with Government: Why Do It ...
    by Barbara Loe Fisher After the historic election in November that saw Barack Obama elected President, I wondered what he and his Administration would do about addressing the question that is on the minds of many parents: Why are so many vaccinated children today chronically ill, suffering with lea ...

2020 Science

  • 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 conversation”, ...
  • Davos 2011 – Committed to changing the state of th ...
    Cross-posted from the Risk Science Blog. As it did last year, the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos has left me with a daunting task – how do I summarize the highlights of the meeting in a single, short post? The answer of course is that I canât – Davos is so complex, diverse [...] ...
  • Davos 2011 – Partnering with teens to build a bett ...
    This is not a science and technology post – which is a bit odd for a science and technology blog.  But I wanted to introduce five people who together shake up the whole idea of the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos as being an elitist and increasingly irrelevant gathering of middle aged balding ...
  • Davos 2011: Global Risks permeate conversations th ...
    Cross-posted from the Risk Science Blog. Take a metaphorical slice through this year’s annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, and Global Risk would be writ large through every part of it.  Hot on the heels of the sixth Global Risk report, this year’s meeting saw the launch of the Risk Respon ...
  • Asking smart people dumb questions – the new role ...
    Cross-posted at ForumBlog.org – the World Economic Forum blog My high school physics teacher used to tell me thereâs no such think as a dumb question.  Itâs a lesson Iâve carried with me through my professional career as a scientist.  But itâs a philosophy that might be just about to come back and ...

Reader Supported News

  • Egypt Protests - Live Updates
    Intro: "Follow all the latest developments and reaction here." Egyptian anti-riot police clash with protesters in Cairo, 01/28/11. (photo: AP) Sorry, your browser cannot display frames!
  • Mubarak: "I Will Die on Egyptian Soil"
    David D. Kirkpatrick and Mark Landler report: "President Hosni Mubarak announced that he would not run for another term in elections scheduled for the fall, appearing on state television to promise an orderly transition but saying he would serve out his term. In comments translated by CNN, he swore ...
  • Hundreds of Thousands Join Egyptian Protests
    Jeffrey Fleishman and Ned Parker report: "The crowd is the largest in a week of demonstrations against President Hosni Mubarak. Meanwhile, international pressure on Mubarak grows." The crowd, with estimates ranging from 250,000 to more than one million, gathers in Tahrir Square in Cairo, 02/01/11 ...
  • Jordan's King Abdullah Dismisses Government
    The Associated Press reports: "Jordan's King Abdullah II fired his government Tuesday in the wake of street protests and asked an ex-prime minister to form a new Cabinet, ordering him to launch immediate political reforms." Thousands of Jordanians took to the streets inspired by the protests in T ...
  • Thousands Converge on Koch Brothers Billionaire's ...
    David Dayen reports: "Twenty-five protesters were arrested in Rancho Mirage, California, Sunday at a protest in front of the Rancho Las Palmas Resort, site of the 'Billionaire's Caucus,' an annual meeting put on by the Koch Brothers and other corporate entities and conservative movement operators." ...

War Resisters League

  • Anti-war Activists to Grand Jury: “We will not par ...
    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 cities a ...
  • 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 occupatio ...
  • Join the Online Demonstration for Peace in Korea - ...
    President Obama is sending the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS George Washington (carrying 75 warplanes and a crew of over 6000) and other warships for additional war-games with the South Korean military beginning Sunday, November 28.� This only escalates the already tense situation on the Kore ...
  • IVAW Women’s Retreat this weekend!
    Dear Supporters, My name is Joyce Wagner. I am a Marine Corps veteran who served in Iraq in 2004 and 2005, and I am a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War. This Labor Day, IVAW women will hold our first ever retreat in support of women veterans. Your donation today will help us make [...]
  • Protest nuclear warhead test launch tomorrow!
    Protest September 14, 11:55 pm (midnight) missile launch at Vandenberg Air Force Base: NOTE 09/14/10: THIS LAUNCH AND PROTEST HAVE BEEN CANCELED– More info to come! Join the protest of the test launch of a Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) thermo-nuclear warhead delivery system ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • Understanding foodborne microbial hazards for smar ...
    One in six Americans contracts a foodborne illness each year (CDC). Such illness can mean an unpleasant day of vomiting, diarrhea, fever, and/or worseâ hospitalization or death in rare cases. âThere’s something that can be said about the problem of foodborne illness, that can’t be said of many other ...
  • Again Ethanol and Food are in Conflict
    Corn prices have risen dramatically in the last 6 months and now food prices are following. This may be driving revolutions world-wide. And it will affect your grocery shopping soon.
  • Shovel ready: Cuban urban agriculture as job creat ...
    Iâve just returned from eight days in Cuba studying their sustainable agricultural system — especially their urban agriculture sector — and I have several key take-aways. One of the biggest insights was the untapped potential of urban agriculture as a creator of good jobs. The Cuban system was re ...
  • New kit can help farmers reduce pesticide impact
    A Farmer Information Kit released recently by the Maryland Pesticide Network (MPN) seems to show that concern about the impacts of pesticides on our environment and health is becoming more widespread, judging by the organizations and disciplines that were part of the kit’s production. The kit is a ...
  • Leading U.S. Food Service Provider Introduces Meat ...
    The national non-profit Meatless Monday campaign is proving to be “The Little Engine That Could” in the environmental public health world. In just the last two years national awareness of Meatless Monday more than doubled. According to a commissioned survey by FGI Research more than 30 percent of Am ...

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

  • 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, Kyrgyzstan, T ...
  • Afghanistan: War Without End In A World Without Co ...
    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 troops, ...
  • Ivory Coast: Testing Ground For U.S.-Backed Africa ...
    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 Organi ...
  • Britain Spearheads “Mini-NATO” In Arct ...
    Stop NATO January 22, 2011 Britain Spearheads “Mini-NATO” In Arctic Ocean, Baltic Sea Rick Rozoff On January 19 and 20 British Prime Minister David Cameron hosted his counterparts from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania at the first Nordic Baltic Summit to conso ...
  • Washington To Rearm Georgia For New Conflicts
    Stop NATO January 14, 2011 Washington To Rearm Georgia For New Conflicts Rick Rozoff Recent reports in the Russian news media have detailed plans by the U.S. to provide the Mikheil Saakashvili government in Georgia with tens of millions of dollars worth of anti-aircraft and anti-tank weapons. The Ru ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • Celente: Revolutionary Fervor to Spread Beyond Ara ...
    Rense.com By Gerald Celente February 2nd, 2011 KINGSTON, NY, 1 February 2011 – When the Tunisian government toppled, the mass media and their stable of experts ­ who were blindsided by these events ­ quickly stepped in to proclaim the obvious: that citizens of other Arab nations would be emboldene ...
  • Did You Know That HIV Tests Come Up Positive For H ...
    The Intel Hub by Liam Scheff February 1st, 2010 Originally appeared at reducetheburden.org Greetings Class; Please take your seats. Michael, please stop bothering Cynthia. Susan, please stop showing your bottom to everyone. Today, we’re going to review antibody testing for HIV, a reckless process us ...
  • Ski-Mask Wearing Thug Assists Police At Checkpoint ...
    Rickey Stokes News February 1st, 2011 HOUSTON COUNTY: What would you do if two black males, in civilian clothes, turns blue lights on to pull you over, on an unmarked vehicle, and one of the two is wearing a ski mask? That is happening in Houston County. Houston County Sheriff Vice Deputy Phillip Sm ...
  • An Open Letter to Egypt – Must Read!
    After following the events in Egypt for the past week I have decided to write an OpEd about what I see in Egypt. Philip Brennan | PhilipBrennan.net | 1 February 2011: Dear Egypt, While our governments in the west have been watching events unfold in your country with some trepidation, We the People h ...
  • Wall Street Banks ‘Warned of Terror Threat&# ...
    AFP Feb. 1, 2011 NEW YORK â US officials have warned the leaders of Wall Street banks that the firms and their executives may be the targets of al-Qaeda plots, the NBC network reported Tuesday. NBC’s New York affiliate said that intelligence officials are worried that al-Qaeda operatives in Yemen ma ...

FRS

  • Worldwide protests of the Indian governments&#8217 ...
    Austin Boston London Los Angeles New York San Francisco Vancouver
  • Orissa, India: 1000′s protest govt approval ...
      Agitation against Posco in Orissa, last May May 18, 2010–Shooting at locals to help a foreign multinational set up its plant, that spells disaster.  1500 villagers who have fought the POSCO project for years,  felt the force of the Orissa police  as they staged a protest against the Posco proje ...
  • With protests in several Middle East countries, th ...
    Wednesday 02 February 2011 By Harriet Alexander, The Telegraph (UK) Algeria President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who has ruled the country since 1999, was elected on the promise to end the violence that had plagued the country for much of its history since independence from France in 1962. To a certain e ...
  • Cairo’s shockwaves felt in Amman as king sac ...
    By Catrina Stewart Wednesday, 2 February 2011 In a sign of further shockwaves reverberating across the Arab world, King Abdullah II of Jordan sacked his government in a surprise move after three weeks of street protests calling for economic and political reform. The king dismissed Samir Rifai, the u ...
  • Mubarak won’t seek new term; go now, crowds ...
    February 01. 2011 Sarah El Deeb and Hadeel Al-Shalchi / Associated Press Cairoâ President Hosni Mubarak defied a quarter-million protesters demanding he step down immediately, announcing Tuesday he would serve out the last months of his term and “die on Egyptian soil.” He promised not to seek re-ele ...

Ken O'Keefe

  • Global Revolution 2011
    I believe the time has come to unite, those of us who are sane, who can see that the masses are comprised of so many cultures and vastly different ways of life, yet we all demand essentially the same things. We demand to be treated with respect. We demand the right to a decent way of life. We dem ...
  • 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 situation in ...
  • Rise People Rise – The Global Revolution is ...
    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 of t ...
    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 Israeli ...
  • On the verge of Cast Lead II, a look back
    Today our team in Gaza met the Awaja family from Thabat.  There were nine members of this family, seven children aged 1 to 12 years old, but one son was murdered during Operation Cast Lead (2008-2009), so seven children is now six.  Today we visited a few days in the life of this family, courtesy [. ...

StillSmallVoice

  • Mona Eltahawy explains it all for you
    The New York-based columnist and commentator has become the go-to authority on Egypt. You can read more about Eltahawy here.
  • Favorite sign carried in huge Egyptian protest yes ...
    Go already. My arm's starting to hurt. You can read more here. Reuters photo
  • What is the latest from Al Jazeera on the Egyptian ...
    Hard to say, since the Qatar-based news organization is carried by only a handful of�cable providers�-- despite its impressive boots-on-the-ground coverage of the Egyptian revolution. Think that will change? Washington's taken notice. Here's more on Al Jazeera. Until cable providers decide to fol ...
  • Enough with the Tiger Mother
    What do various faith traditions say about being a parent? From Homa Sabet Tavangar, at Huffington Post: The debate on parenting or education best practices isn't going away, and President Obama's 2011 State of the Union address added serious emphasis to these concerns. But if we lurch from one se ...
  • A little more reading with today's column...
    Oh, if only I could be a videographer... The read the column, go here. On Monday, Teresa A. Wierbicki, Immaculate Conception Shelter and Housing Corp. development director, said: On behalf of our staff, board of directors, and the many clients we serve in our shelter and through our supportive hous ...

Associated Content

  • Punxsutawney Phil and 'Delaware O'Donnell:' Who's ...
    In fairness, shouldn't it be the less intelligent of the two who gets up at daybreak to look for shadows in the hopes of shedding light on winter's length?Contributor: Carol Bengle Gilbert Published: Feb 01, 2011
  • Egypt Protests Reintroduce Talks of Internet 'Kill ...
    In the unthinkable event that we, the United States, experienced such turmoil, we would still have our Internet, iPhones, and CNN, right?Contributor: Paul Rados Published: Feb 01, 2011
  • Keeping Food Safe when the Power Goes Out
    With winter storms and power outages abundant, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has reissued recommendations on how to keep food safe and lower the risk of food-borne illness.Contributor: Donna Porter Published: Feb 01, 2011
  • Charlie Sheen's 3-Month Rehab Could Cost CBS' 'Two ...
    Actor Charlie Sheen's struggle with drugs and alcohol has landed hm in rehab for three months, leaving his show "Two And A Half Men" hanging in the balance. Some of the producers' options to keep the show going may not be pretty.Contributor: Shayna Leah Published: Feb 01, 2011
  • Charlie Sheen, Rehab and the Fate of 'Two And a Ha ...
    Now in its eighth season, "Two and a Half Men" is a wildly successful show. Unfortunately, Charlie Sheen, one of "Men's" main characters, is supposed to enter rehab for a three-month treatment course. What will "Two and a Half Men" do without Charlie Sheen?Contributor: Melissa Matters Published: F ...

Popsci - Science

  • Using Special Crystals, Researchers Make a Paper C ...
    The first invisibility cloak that works on visible objects Metamaterials have long been thought the key to creating the working, visible spectrum “invisibility cloak” promised us by sci-fi, but it might be time for metamaterials to move over. Two independent labs—one at the University of Birmingham ...
  • New Model Says the Cosmos Is At Least 250 Times La ...
    How big is the universe anyhow? We know the universe is roughly 4 billion years old and we know how far light travels in a year, so ostensibly it would seem the visible universe is contained to a radius of 14 billion light years. But we know that photons in the cosmic microwave background have trav ...
  • Black Lab Sniffs Out Bowel Cancer in Patients with ...
    Remember when the Pentagon spent $19 billion to find the best possible bomb detector only to find out it was a dog? The same could be true for cancer diagnosis. After pouring countless dollars into high-tech diagnostic tools, dogs have exhibited a unique talent for accurately sniffing out biomarker ...
  • This Is Your Massive Snowstorm, America
    This January may have been the snowiest month on record here in New York, but it looks like the winter isn't anywhere near ready to stop vomiting snow all over the country. NASA posted this image of the positively massive storm that's about to hit the Midwest (and then the rest of the country), and ...
  • Using Muons as a Disguise, Chemists Fool Helium In ...
    The quantum trick helps illustrate how atomic mass can affect chemical reactions Chemists have messed with the constituent parts of a helium atom and fooled it into behaving like it was hydrogen. This form of alchemy allows a physical test of how atomic mass affects chemical reaction rates. The tr ...

Veterans Today

  • Few Many House Republicans reject tax payer-financ ...
    Washington (CNN)– It’s now official. Starting February 1, members of Congress may receive generous health care benefits — subsidized by Uncle Sam. Only 16 of  242 House Republicans have declined health care benefits. That’s six percent principled, 94 percent hypocritical By Dana Bash Most lawmaker ...
  • Camp Lejeune Water Pamphlet Comes Under Fire
    WASHINGTON — Congressional investigators will meet with Navy officials as soon as next week to pressure the military to reconsider a public relations booklet about historic water contamination at Camp Lejeune that they say is misleading. By Barbara Barrett of the Raleigh News Observer The booklet co ...
  • Bookmaker: Odds Favor Mubarak Stepping down and le ...
    The oldest established North American bookmaker, appropriately named Bookmaker.com, has released odds on what will happen next to Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak. From Gambling 911 Demonstrations in the Arab world’s most populated nation continued for a [ninth] straight day with calls for Mubarak to s ...
  • Imperial Economics of the Egyptian Revolution
    Just a matter of time before Americans begin asking what the Egyptian revolution means for them—Americans, the unthinking rabble who matter. Economists are there to deliver the imperialist [and dumbed-down] perspective on the revolution after Americans dig out from a major blizzard and check their b ...
  • DENISE NICHOLS: Medical Alerts for Desert Storm V ...
    Gut problems for Desert Storm Veterans listed as IBS for VA Claims. Irritable Bowel Syndrome is a symptom that can be explored to get more answers. Referrals need to be made to rule out Cancers and other diseases ie Crohn's Disease. The Department of Veterans Affairs need to have a more active, p ...

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • 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 therefor ...
  • Global temperature forecast for 2011
    Last year, according to the Met Office Hadley Centre, was the second warmest on record with a temperature anomaly of 0.50C above the 1961-1990 average. This was very close, but slightly below their forecast which was issued at the Copenhagen climate summit in December 2009. It stated global temper ...
  • Met Office: 2010 Globally second warmest on record
    Last week, researchers at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York, where temperature records extend back to 1880, announced that global surface temperatures in 2010 tied with 2005 as the warmest on record. This was similar to data released by National Oceanic and Atmospheric A ...
  • The Met Office DID forecast a cold winter.
    There's been much in the news over the last week or so, regarding the issue of whether or not the Met Office did forecast a cold winter, and if so was this communicated to the government. You can read one version of events in the Independent newspaper by clicking here. Readers of this blog will kno ...
  • Coal takes the strain...again.
    On BBC Look North on friday I reported that during the recent intense cold weather, it's been our traditional coal and gas fired power stations that have been working flat out to keep our homes and businesses warm. And for the third winter running, the intense cold has gone hand in hand with per ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Mon Dieu! French Way to Weaning World Off USD
    And so France takes the helm of the G20. A few months ago, French President Nicolas Sarkozy--like his predecessor Charles de Gaulle of "exorbitant privilege" fame (see Barry Eichengreen's new book that uses this term for its title)--was calling for an international monetary system not so biased towa ...
  • Brazil FinMin: From Currency War to Trade War
    If nothing else, you gotta love this guy for his military-industrial complex of sorts where economic misunderstandings forever threaten to take us to the brink of all-out conflict. A few months ago, Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega had the international press corps by the ear after his state ...
  • Flunk Barry Eichengreen on World's Top Exporter
    As a stickler for accuracy, I must bring up one of my favourite recurring threads about the United States' continuing status as the world's largest exporter. It's a bit startling to see renowned academic Barry Eichengreen making a schoolboy howler. I'm just beginning to read what appears to be a mos ...
  • PIGS? With Belgian Breakup, Perhaps PIGS-FW
    Here's something that may have been overlooked in all the current brouhaha over troubled eurozone peripheral economies Portugal, Ireland, Greece, and Spain. With two bailed out (Greece and Ireland) and one allegedly being forced to feed at the trough (Portugal), there may be another in dire straits. ...
  • 'Apps for Development,' a World Bank Competition
    In case you missed it, submissions have now closed and voting has just begun--hopefully including yours--for the World Bank-sponsored 'Apps for Development' competition. I am sure that electronics-literate readers should be familiar with apps--an abbreviation for applications common to devices such ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • Nothing Is Stable Anymore
    The world is becoming a very unstable place, and the pace at which things are changing all around us has become absolutely mind-numbing.  In fact, change has become one of the only constants in today's world.  Once upon a time, people in the United States could actually make 20 or 3 ...
  • Austerity In America: 22 Signs That It Is Already ...
    Over the past couple of years, most Americans have shown little concern as austerity measures were imposed on financially troubled nations across Europe.  Even as austerity riots erupted in nations such as Greece and Spain, most Americans were still convinced that nothing like that ...
  • Housing Armageddon: 12 Facts Which Show That We Ar ...
    We are officially in the middle of the worst housing collapse in U.S. history - and unfortunately it is going to get even worse.  Already, U.S. housing prices have fallen further during this economic downturn (26 percent), then they did during the Great Depression (25.9 percent).  A ...
  • Food Riots 2011
    The stunningly violent food riots in Tunisia and Algeria show just how quickly things can change.  Just a few months ago, these two northern Africa nations were considered to be very stable, very peaceful and without any major problems.  But now protesters are openly squaring off wi ...
  • The Internet Kill Switch – One Of The Favori ...
    This past week was a perfect example of how the "Internet kill switch" is rapidly becoming one of the favorite new tools of tyrannical governments all over the globe. Once upon a time, the Internet was a bastion of liberty and freedom, but now nation after nation is cracking down o ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

  • Egypt crowds unmoved by Mubarak’s vow not to run
    President Hosni Mubarak defied a quarter-million protesters demanding he step down immediately, announcing Tuesday he would serve out the last months of his term and “die on Egyptian soil.” He promised not to seek re-election, but that did not calm public fury as clashes erupted between his opponent ...
  • World Powers Stunned After Message From God Broadc ...
    A mysterious Russian Space Forces (VKS) report circulating in the Kremlin today states that on 28 January our world was “officially” contacted by an extraterrestrial/ inter-dimensional intelligence source whose communication “beacons” descended upon the world’s holiest city of Jerusalem and the Amer ...
  • 5 Somalis Brought to South Korea to Be Tried for P ...
    Five Somali pirates captured during a raid on a hijacked cargo ship in the Arabian Sea were brought Sunday to South Korea, where they could face life imprisonment, the coast guard said. The men were arrested as South Korean commandos raided the South Korean-operated Samho Jewelry earlier this month, ...
  • Soldiers shoot at university students in Nigeria
    Soldiers in a central Nigerian city opened fire Saturday on university students protesting continuing violence between Christians and Muslims, witnesses said, with at least nine people killed in the ensuing violence. The shooting came as gas stations and farmers’ markets smoldered after late Friday ...
  • Malawi set to make breaking wind a crime
    Breaking wind is set to be made a crime in an African country. The government of Malawi plan to punish persistent offenders ‘who foul the air’ in a bid to ‘mould responsible and disciplined citizens.’ But locals fear that pinning responsibility on the crime will be difficult – and may lead to miscar ...

Voiceless Victim

  • How Much More Evidence Do You Need Before You Stop ...
    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, and i ...
  • 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. Bi ...
  • Please Explain Why Catholic Bishops Get Away with ...
    I read with horror this week that a youth worker in the Northern Territory of Australia is facing charges under mandatory reporting laws. Her crime? While she did eventually report her concern about the possible sexual abuse of a five-year old child, she has been summonsed to appear before a magistr ...
  • “Apostolic Visitation” another Papal P ...
    Will the "apostolic visitation" result in any real, concrete action, or is the Church driven PR resulting from the event an end in itself? Will the Church be held accountable for producing any changes or do they expect the smoke and mirrors of the "apostolic visitation" to obscure the fact that once ...
  • Child Sexual Abuse Victims Abandoned by their Fami ...
    I have discovered a disturbing thing about children abused by Catholic Church sponsored sexual predators. I’ve met a lot of other victims recently and heard their histories, each one shocking in its own way. Each victim has their own twist of the knife that makes their story truly heart wrenching, s ...

WL Central

  • 2011-01-07 EFF: The Best of Cablegate: Instances W ...
    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 Lawsu ...
  • Twitter Details & Messages of Birgitta Jónsdóttir ...
    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 - i ...
  • 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 rad ...
  • 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 Iceland ...
  • 2011-01-08: Twitter on censorship: No censorship o ...
    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 users in ...

U N News

  • Haiti: UN human rights chief offers help to addre ...
    The United Nations human rights chief has offered Haitian authorities technical assistance for prosecuting crimes committed during the 15-year rule of former president Jean-Claude Duvalier, who returned to the country last month from exile.
  • UN agency welcomes Mexico's new refugee law
    The United Nations refugee agency today welcomed the entry into force of a new law in Mexico on the protection of refugees and asylum-seekers that now gives the country a legal framework that complies with international standards in this area.
  • UN: Number of cholera deaths in Haiti shows signs ...
    The number of people dying from cholera in Haiti has been on a downward trend or has stabilized in all ten of the country's departments affected by the outbreak, the United Nations humanitarian office reported today, adding that the number of hospitalized people has also been decreasing.
  • Latin American and Caribbean unemployment dropped ...
    The economic upturn in most Latin American and Caribbean countries in 2010 fuelled a 0.6 percentage point drop in unemployment - from 8.1 per cent in 2009 to 7.5 per cent - and is expected to lead to a further decrease of between 0.2 and 0.4 percentage points this year, the United Nations reported t ...
  • UN human rights chief voices concern over migrants ...
    The United Nations human rights chief today voiced deep concern over the fate of a group of about 40 migrants who have been missing since they were abducted in Mexico last month, and death threats to a prominent human rights defender assisting other migrants who escaped the kidnapping ordeal.

Conspiracy Reality TV

  • Mystery Missile Launch, Big Pharma Begins Microchi ...
    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 office ...
  • The Absurdity Of Starting A Small Business In The ...
    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 are T ...

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 have ...
  • 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 harpoon v ...
  • Dave Foreman’s Recent Speech At Nebraska Wesleyan ...
    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 highly ...
  • 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

  • 'MADE IN THE U.S.A.' Tear Gas Used on Protesters ...
    � Egyptian riot police are firing tear gas canisters bearing the label "Made in U.S.A" against street demonstrations in Cairo, according to protesters who provided ABC News with pictures of the canisters. ~ Sarah Wali - Deena Sami ABCNews - Video read more
  • * URGENT! ~ 257 Communist Towns to be Built in th ...
    This is the most shocking article I've read in a long, long time! The magnitude of this information is nothing short of... SHOCKING! I urge you to read it a second, even a third time. Get this out to everyone... family, friends, even your enemies! (257 Communist towns to be built in the U.S.!!!) ...
  • WATCH Al Jazeera TV Online Live Stream ...
    � RIOTING IN EGYPT Egyptian citizens have taken to the streets of Cairo. Tens of thousands of anti-government protesters have launched an all out attack on the Egyptian government and police fired back with rubber bullets, tear gas and water cannons. read more
  • The Largest Mega City in the World to be Created i ...
    � � By the end of the decade, China plans to move ever greater numbers into its cities, creating some city zones with 50 million to 100 million people and "small" city clusters of 10 million to 25 million.  read more
  • South Dakota... Bill Introduced Requiring Adults t ...
    Five South Dakota lawmakers have introduced legislation that would require any adult 21 or older to buy a firearm “sufficient to provide for their ordinary self-defense.” (If only every state would do what S.D. has done... fine those refusing to have a firearm. ~ S.I.A.) read more

Tatumba 2.0

  • William K Black – Criminal Charges Must Be Laid
    William Black: Regulations were deliberately weakened to create conditions for systemic fraud Video Rating: 0 / 5 This post is courtesy of Robbie the Robot Please recycle. Don't throw away your peels Related posts:William Still, The Underground Railroad~Philadelphia To learn more…Read FREE Google On ...
  • Bomb Planted At Spokane MLK Parade Had Anti Blood ...
    So the bomb that was planted at Spokane MLK Parade had an anti-blood clotting agent found in it. Ummm…why? By who? Funny how this has not garnered any national attention! What I want to know is if it had detonated and you were lucky enough not to be killed but unlucky enough to be injured, [...] ...
  • Max Keiserism of the Day: American Express Black O ...
    My Max Keiserism of the Day: American Express Black Ops Card. Don’t leave Langley without it. This one is from June, 13, 2007. A blast from the past, but since Max posted it on his website to reminds us of how the CIA and US Military think that they are above the law. Interesting viewing. [...] ...
  • Egyptian protests organized by the USA?
    Hmmph, it figures that the USA is involved in this uprising in Egypt. This may have backfired though because the Egyptian government thugs pulled the plug on all of the Internet so the USA could not interfere with their virtual reality through their co-opted social networks. Protests inspired by the ...
  • US COLLAPSE INEVITABLE
    Join ‘The WAVE’ today at www.GreeneWave.com Video Rating: 0 / 5 BUY SILVER AT WHOLESALE This post is courtesy of Robbie the Robot Please recycle. Don't throw away your peels Related posts:Economy Stage 4 Cancer Patient ~ Stocks Rigged Join the WAVE at www.GreeneWave.com www.todaysthv.com banksterbus ...

Truth About Our World

  • The Protest Movement in Egypt: “Dictators&#8 ...
    by Michel Chossudovsky The Mubarak regime could collapse in the a face of a nationwide protest movement… What prospects for Egypt and the Arab World? “Dictators” do not dictate, they obey orders. This is true in Egypt, Tunisia and Algeria. Dictators are invariably political puppets. Dictators do no ...
  • The Global Awakening vs. The Internet Kill Switch
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  • The Pharaoh will Fall, Oil will Climb, and Wall St ...
    Eric Blair Activist Post Yesterday, oil broke through the $100 mark for the first time since 2008 due to the populist uprising in Arab nations, indicating it’s well on its way to new heights. Many financial insiders have predicted oil will go to $150 per barrel and beyond this year. But if $100/ ...
  • The ‘Peace Process’ Exposed As A Psy-O ...
  • Washington’s Plan B: Why Obama Fears Democra ...
    by Shamus Cooke Workers Action, January 31, 2011 Raising Lazarus from the dead would be easier than reviving the Egyptian President. So Obama is on to plan B. And as it turns out, plan B looks a lot like the status-quo, minus a change of face. The new face is a man handpicked by the [...]

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    My AntiWar

    CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

    • Dead-Enders on the Potomac
      Summary: Mubarak & ObamaNo, as the Tunisian example showed, and as the Egyptian experience may yet drive home, the US will stand by its favored authoritarian Arab states until the bitter end. From the January 28 performance on the Potomac, it is not clear that the US can even imagine an alternat ...
    • Iran backs Egypt's 'revolution of the noble'
      Summary: TEHRAN: Iran on Sunday praised Egypt's "revolution of the noble" and slammed Western governments' "backward" reaction to the uprising in the Arab nation, state media reported. source: Times of Indiaread more
    • EGYPT, IRAN, AND THE SHIFTING BALANCE OF POWER IN ...
      Summary: America’s international standing is under mounting strain on multiple fronts. Nowhere is this more glaring than in the Middle East, where the balance of influence (and hence, power) is shifting away from the United States and toward Iran, Turkey and their allies. This trend may, in fa ...
    • Egypt Protests Show American Foreign-Policy Folly
      Summary: Never has it been clearer that the U.S. needs to reassess its long-term Middle East strategy. It needs new approaches and new partners. Listening more closely to Turkey, the closest U.S. ally in the Muslim Middle East, would be a good start. A wise second step would be a reversal of po ...
    • Medvedev: No sign Iran making nuclear weapons
      Summary: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says the international community has no proof that Iran is building nuclear weapons. source: China Dailyread more

    The Daily Galaxy

    • Year 2100: The Emerging Milky-Way Internet
      "Over the next million years, a descendant of the Internet will maintain contact with inhabited planets throughout our galaxy and begin to spread out into the larger universe, linking up countless new or existing civilizations into the Universenet, a network...
    • Image of the Day: Colossal Star Glows Through a N ...
      Image of the Day: Cocoon Nebula Cloaks a Colossal Star Destined to Become a Black Hole The breathtakingly beautiful Cocoon Nebula is located about 4,000 light years away toward the constellation of Cygnus. Hidden inside the Cocoon is a newly...
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    • Enigma: Black Holes Glow with a Hot Ring of Light
      Stephen Hawkings great discovery was that the mysterious regions in space we call black holes radiate heat through quantum effects. Hawking has said that "black holes are not really black after all: they glow like a hot body, and the...
    • The Daily Flash -Sci, Space, Tech (1/31)
      Fingerprints on fabrics could now solve crimes Picture the scene: a body is found dead after falling from a high balcony. As forensics teams gather at the scene they need to understand whether it was an accident or something more...

    Natural News

    • Are MMR vaccines dangerous for children? Dr Suzann ...
      (NaturalNews) Are routine vaccines dangerous for children? Dr Suzanne Humphries, a practicing nephrologist (kidney physician) says the vaccine industry isn't giving people both sides of the story, and parents need to get informed before subjecting their children to vaccines that can potentially caus ...
    • With Obamacare ruled unconstitutional; states embr ...
      (NaturalNews) Federal Judge Roger Vinson ruled this week that the "individual mandate" portion of Obama's health care reform was unconstitutional, dealing a significant blow to the Obama administration's desire to force government-run health insurance on the entire U.S. population. Department of Jus ...
    • Rival journal attacks Lancet for publishing Wakefi ...
      (NaturalNews) Efforts to discredit and destroy the work of Dr. Andrew Wakefield, the man responsible for raising awareness about the dangers of the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) combo vaccine via the study he published in the late 1990s, continue with attacks now coming from rival medical journa ...
    • Robert Scott Bell show launch delayed by freak wea ...
      (NaturalNews) The "storm of the century" that's wreaking havoc across the United States today has also taken offline the audio broadcast hub for our planned launch of the Robert Scott Bell show. As a result, we won't be broadcasting on Feb 1 as planned.We will attempt to launch the show at 12 noon ( ...
    • NaturalNews exclusive: International Medical Counc ...
      (NaturalNews) To hear it from proponents of the vaccine industry, vaccines are based on rock-solid science that proves them to be completely safe and widely effective. These beliefs, however, are not factually based on real science but rather a persistent vaccine mythology that has been propagandize ...

    Threat Level

    • Phone Tweets Trickling Out of Egypt
      new TWTR.Widget({ version: 2, type: 'profile', rpp: 10, interval: 6000, width: 640, height: 300, theme: { shell: { background: '#f5f0f5', color: '#000000' }, tweets: { [...]
    • Report: Efforts to Secure Nation’s Power Grid Inef ...
      The official government cybersecurity standards for the electric power grid fall far short of even the most basic security standards observed by noncritical industries, according to a new audit. The standards have also been implemented spottily and in illogical ways, concludes a Jan. 26 report fro ...
    • Egypt’s Last-Standing ISP Goes Dark
      A small Egyptian ISP that continued sputtering along after the government ordered Egypt off the internet Friday is now offline. Security researcher Renesys said Monday the Noor Group, believed to be the last Egyptian ISP in operation, had provided access to the aviation, banking and financial sector ...
    • Hacker Challenging Court Order to Surrender Comput ...
      The lawyer representing a hacker who published the first major PlayStation 3 jailbreak on the internet said Sunday he would challenge a federal judge’s order requiring his client surrender his computer gear to console-maker Sony. New Jersey’s George Hotz, well-known in the jailbreaking community for ...
    • Internet ‘Kill Switch’ Legislation Back in Play
      Legislation granting the president internet-killing powers is to be re-introduced soon to a Senate committee, the proposal’s chief sponsor told Wired.com on Friday. The resurgence of the so-called “kill switch” legislation came the same day Egyptians faced an internet blackout designed to counter ma ...

    PERRspectives : Blog

    • Right-Wing Hoax Highlights GOP Redefinition of Rap ...
      As TPM and others reported last week, Planned Parenthood had alerted the FBI that some of its clinics had likely been targeted by right-wing activists claiming to run an interstate sex trafficking ring that involves minors and illegal immigrants. So that the anti-abortion group Live Action and its ...
    • Egyptians' Approval of U.S. Tripled After Obama Be ...
      While the Obama administration is grappling to find the right path forward in Egypt, Republicans are deeply divided. Fearful of the Muslim Brotherhood and fearful for Israel, some like John Bolton and Rep. Thaddeus McCotter have urged support for the authoritarian "devil we know." Others, like Bil ...
    • London Calling
      Appearing on Fox News Sunday, House Speaker John Boehner insisted, "What we have to understand is cutting spending will in fact help create jobs in America." But across the pond in the UK, Boehner's conservative allies are learning a different lesson. While U.S. gross domestic product jumped by 3. ...
    • Cantor Gives GOP Credit for Improving U.S. Economy
      This week, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) became the latest Republican to give his party credit for the improving U.S. economy. After the Commerce Department reported American gross domestic product (GDP) jumped by 3.2% in the fourth quarter of 2010, Cantor attributed the gains to the Dec ...
    • Sarah Palin and the Homer Simpson Economy
      In a 1999 episode of "The Simpsons," theoretical physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking says to Homer, "Your theory of a donut shaped universe intrigues me." Sadly, the same can't be said of Sarah Palin's call for a donut-based economy for the United States. Palin's boost for the American break ...

    Blackspot News Feed

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

    Consortium News

    • US-Israeli Strategy Crashes in Egypt
      The uprising in Egypt marks an end to a long U.S.-Israeli strategy of imposing "order" on the Middle East, says Gareth Porter. February 1, 2011
    • The Hope of Groundhog Day
      The classic movie "Groundhog Day" captured the human plight of struggling to learn from life's lessons, observes Winslow Myers. February 1, 2011
    • Reagan's Bargain/Charlie Wilson's War
      From the Archive: Pakistan's nuclear arsenal, now totaling 100 or so bombs, is another part of Ronald Reagan's legacy. By Peter W. Dickson
    • Lebanon Marks Another US Reversal
      U.S.-Israeli policies run into another reversal in Lebanon with the rise of the militant Shiite group, Hezbollah, notes Ivan Eland. February 1, 2011
    • Assailing Assange on '60 Minutes'
      "60 Minutes" reporter Steve Kroft takes the side of secrecy in duel with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, notes David Swanson. January 31, 2011

    CounterPunch

    Institute for Middle East Understanding

    Water - AlterNet

    Public Citizen in Texas

    • Texas leads in use of diesel as fracking fluid
      Drilling companies injected more than 32 million gallons of fluids containing diesel into the ground during hydraulic fracturing operations from 2005 to 2009, according to federal lawmakers.  About a third of the 32 million gallons was straight diesel fuel, with 49.8% of the 32.2 million gallons of ...
    • TPPF Energy Report Shows Lack of Vision
      Keynote’s promotion of coal leans heavily on unrealistic view of the Texas energy market In a forum held last Thursday the conservative Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF) unveiled a report that attempts to sway the debate about Texas energy policy off its current trajectory – namely ideas put for ...
    • White House climate change coordinator resigns
      Carol M. Browner, the White House coordinator for energy and climate change policy, is resigning.  Ms. Browner, a former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, was charged with directing the administration’s effort to enact comprehensive legislation to reduce emissions of climate-alte ...
    • WCS press conferance 094 [Flickr]
      Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:
    • Vermont Governor appoints two new commissioners to ...
      Governor Peter Shumlin, the newly sworn in Governor of Vermont, has appointed Montpelier attorney Richard Saudek and Vermont Law School professor Peter Bradford to the Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact Commission (TLLRWCC).   The TLLRWCC is an 8 member legal entity, separate and distinct fro ...

    Unexplained Mysteries

    • Man blows up balloons with his ears
      36-year-old Zhang Xijiang has the unusual ability of being able to breath through his ears. "I always felt my ears could breathe like a nose. My neigh...
    • Large Hadron Collider to run until 2012
      Plans for an extended shutdown for the LHC have been postponed until the end of 2012. The machine had been due to be shut down at the end of 2011 so t...
    • Unusual royal wedding souvenir produced
      A new souvenir for the upcoming royal wedding urges lovers to "lie back and think of England" Novelty condoms manufactured by Crown Jewels Condoms of ...
    • Malawi to make breaking wind a crime
      The government of Malawi is planning to make breaking wind a criminal offence. The bizarre new law will see citizens being punished for "fouling the a...
    • Glow in the dark lake in Australia
      Fires, floods and algae converge to showcase nature at its most exotic - a lake that glows in the dark. Fires that started in December 2006 in the mou...

    Grassroots

    • Manifest Haiti: U.S. Food Aid and Monsanto
      4681874221_9aa39475ec_b.jpg Make no mistake; Haiti needs seeds and food. Following last January�s devastating earthquake, it�s been all hands on deck in the small island nation�but decision making on rebuilding�is very often�in all hands but H ...
    • Man-made disasters need human solutions: Honduras ...
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    • One Year on in Haiti
      Previous Publication Info Previous publication:� Huffington Post Outside Link:� One Year on in Haiti oneyear.jpg Shee ...
    • God Willing and the Creek Don’t Rise…
      Subheadline:� Planning for disaster is part of responsible development river-haiti.jpg Those living on the margins have very little wiggle room for survival even in good times.�But ...
    • Gaza: Stories of Strength amid Assault and Siege
      3407229255_9879b60da3_b.jpg �Year before last, I was sitting in the living room of my childhood home sharing a cup of morning coffee with my mother and musing over the holidays. We laughed over kitschy Christmas gifts from well-meaning relativ ...

    Climate

    • Upton, Inhofe to Float Plan Wed. that Blocks EPA C ...
      Source:� The Hill House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) and Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) will unveil draft legislation Wednesday that would prohibit the EPA from regulating CO2.
    • Canada-U.S. Pipe Would Cut Mideast Oil Imports: St ...
      Source:� Reuters A proposed pipeline from Canada's oil sands to the Gulf of Mexico would help "essentially eliminate" U.S. oil imports from the Middle East in a decade or two, according to a DOE study.
    • First of Megaloads Begins Trip Across Idaho
      Source:� AP After a long legal fight, a giant truckload of oil refinery equipment began its journey Tuesday onto scenic U.S. Highway 12 -- the first of what environmentalists fear could be hundreds of truckloads.
    • Drillers Defend Injecting Diesel into Ground
      Source:� Houston Chronicle Drilling companies injected more than 32 million gallons of fluids containing diesel into the ground during fracking operations from 2005 to 2009, but the industry says the practice was legal.
    • Chevron Accuses Ecuadorean Plaintiffs of Extortion
      Source:� Reuters Chevron Corp filed a civil racketeering lawsuit against Ecuadorean plaintiffs in U.S. court on Tuesday, opening up another legal front in its 17-year-old battle over pollution claims.

    GreenBiz

    • Enterprise Rent-A-Car Makes $150M Green Building P ...
      The company has developed a new green building standard to guide its investment called the Enterprise Sustainable Construction Protocol (ESCP). Enterprise Rent-A-Car expects ESCP could rack up energy and water savings of up to 35 percent.
    • How the Chevy Volt Became the Heartbeat of GM
      The second part of an in-depth look at how GM took its electric vehicle from concept to prize-winning machine, and the seven steps the program's leader used to shepherd it across the finish line.
    • Best Practices for New Wave of Green Certification ...
      More and more, non-manufacturing tech companies are seeking certification of their operations and products under the international standard for environmental management systems. Executives at Blue Coat Systems talk about how the firm's headquarters attained certification in half the time it usually ...
    • USPS Green Team Projects Rake in $27M
      �Green teams in the United States Postal Service saved $14 million by using less and recycling more, and also made an additional $13 million from selling recyclables.
    • InterContinental Lands a Green Building 'First' in ...
      A bid by the InterContinental Hotels Group to make its existing properties more environmentally responsible has earned the company a green building first in the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design program.

    Reuters Global

    Booman Tribune

    • Ice Storm
      We lost power and our driveway is a skating rink. I do have internet access on my phone, but it's hard to write much on a phone. Discuss
    • Bolton: No Mubarak? Bomb Iran!
      Of course this could be satire, but considering John Bolton is not known for his sense of humor, I suspect he's as serious as a Dick Cheney heart attack when he says Israel needs to blow s**t up bomb Iran ASAP if Mubarak is deposed: Former US Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton said the ...
    • Our Angel of Death
      They sent a solid Princeton man to tell Hosni Mubarak that the jig is up. Who better the play the role of Grim Reaper of the Great American Empire than the son of Frank Wisner? For the uninitiated, Frank Wisner Sr. cut his teeth as the OSS liaison to the Gehlen Organisation in post-war Germany. He ...
    • Bush, the Great Democratizer
      It's kind of understandable that conservatives are remembering that George W. Bush talked about a democracy agenda for the Middle East, are seeing a movement towards democracy in Tunisia and Egypt, and are drawing the conclusion that Bush is responsible for the present crises in the Arab world. Of ...
    • An Experiment in Futility
      The president is going after fossil fuel subsidies for the third straight year. He probably won't have any more success this time. When he releases his new budget in two weeks, President Obama will propose doing away with roughly $4 billion a year in subsidies and tax breaks for oil companies, ...

    European Tribune

    Futurismic

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

    Therapy News

    • What is CBT?
      By Jenifer Garrido, MSW, LCSW, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Jenifer and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile As a Cognitive Behavioral Therapist (CBT), my goal is to teach people that a life free of depression, anxiety and other “negative emotions” is wit ...
    • The Presence of Peers Changes Self-Worth and Behav ...
      A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Peer pressure is cited as a driving factor (conscious or otherwise) behind any number of harmful choices: lying, cheating, stealing, binge drinking, reckless behavior, illicit drug use, and even bullying and violence. This isn’t isolated to adolescents: these behaviors ...
    • Nurses and Substance Abuse: Choosing Support over ...
      A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Medical nurses run a higher risk than the general public of suffering from substance abuse and addiction: some studies place the rate as high as 20%. Seeking to protect the safety and well-being of patients, many hospitals have a zero-tolerance policy. But new researc ...
    • Training VFW Bartenders to Recognize Mental Health ...
      A GoodTherapy.org News Headline People who regularly visit the same bar may jokingly refer to their bartenders as their therapists. Social workers at Ohio State University think there may be some truth to this bond. They hope to start a training program for VFW bartenders that could help veterans ge ...
    • Recent Study Reveals a Better Way to Breathe Throu ...
      By Becki A. Hein, MS, LPC, Anxiety Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Becki and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Treatment for anxiety attacks often includes directions to engage in deep, slow breathing in order to relax. In fact, deep breathing can actually make panic symptoms worse. ...

    Mountaintop Removal

    • Mountaintop removal study comes late in the game - ...
      Treehugger Mountaintop removal study comes late in the game Charleston Gazette (blog) Researchers back then might have been studying mountaintop removal somewhere, but they sure weren't doing it in West Virginia. So for more then 30 years now ... Coal Operators Organize Rally for Mountain Top Remov ...
    • Finally, Washington frowns on mountaintop removal ...
      Kansas Farmer Finally, Washington frowns on mountaintop removal mining Santa Rosa Press Gazette After making a full scientific assessment of environmental impacts, the EPA has revoked the permit for the largest mountaintop removal project ever to ... Bay plan adds to W.Va. lawmaker umbrage vs EPABl ...
    • Gov. McDonnell: Virginia prepared to protect coal ...
      Gov. McDonnell: Virginia prepared to protect coal Bloomberg While McDonnell did not mention it by name, a proposed mountaintop removal mine in Virginia would appear to be a likely candidate for a future Virginia ... and more��
    • Judge Allows Mountaintop-Removal Lawsuit to Procee ...
      Judge Allows Mountaintop-Removal Lawsuit to Proceed New York Times Mining companies can proceed with their challenge to US EPA's new policies on mountaintop-removal coal mining, ... Breaking news: Court ruling in coal industry case over EPA crackdown on ...Charleston Gazette (blog) Judge declines s ...
    • Coal industry drops appeal of Goodwin ruling - Cha ...
      Coal industry drops appeal of Goodwin ruling Charleston Gazette (blog) This entry was posted on Tuesday, February 1, 2011 at 3:54 pm and is filed under Legal actions, Mountaintop Removal. You can follow any responses to this ...

    Memeorandum

    • Egypt's Army Calls for End to Protests (Wall Stree ...
      Wall Street Journal: Egypt's Army Calls for End to Protests  —  By MARGARET COKER and CHARLES LEVINSON in Cairo and JONATHAN WEISMAN in Washington  —  Egypt's army called on protesters to return home Wednesday, and Internet connections were restored, as the government moved to restore some normalc ...
    • Senate moves closer to deal repealing 1099 provisi ...
      Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill: Senate moves closer to deal repealing 1099 provision in healthcare law  —  The Senate this week seems closer than ever to approving a repeal of the widely opposed 1099 language in last year's healthcare law, with Democrats and Republicans prepared to support nearly iden ...
    • Satellite Shows Winter Megastorm Painting U.S. Whi ...
      Dave Mosher / Wired Science: Satellite Shows Winter Megastorm Painting U.S. White  —  A NASA photograph of the Midwest megastorm gives profound visual truth to what it means for a snowstorm to blanket the United States.  —  The image was captured from space Jan. 31 by the GOES 13 satellite, which ...
    • Will Boehner's be the shortest Speakership ever? ( ...
      Mike Stark / StarkReports.com: Will Boehner's be the shortest Speakership ever?  —  Remember the videos at the bottom of this post?  —  The New York Times passed on the story (if there ever was one; Page 6 of the New York Post isn't known as the beginning and end of truth), but evidently Boehner ha ...
    • Wisconsin attorney general: "Health care law is de ...
      Greg Sargent / The Plum Line: Wisconsin attorney general: “Health care law is dead”  —  Okay, so here's the next frontier in the war over the Affordable Care Act: Republican state officials around the country who are hostile to the law may now seize on Judge Vinson's decision yesterday to threaten ...

    Energy & Environment News

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    China Dialogue

    • Drying up the Han
      China’s bold programme to divert water to its parched northern cities will come at a cost for the clear-running Han River and those who rely on its flow, says Wang Kunzuo.If you wanted to trace the roots of Chinese civilization, you would do well to take a trip along the banks of the Han River. This ...
    • Moving the masses
      Struck by a spate of fatal landslides, Shaanxi plans to relocate 2.4 million people to safer ground. But will this ambitious programme work? Meng Dengke reports.On December 7, a hugely ambitious resettlement project planned for Shaanxi province in north China secured approval in principle from the s ...
    • Lessons from the Tiger
      Rather than their cleaning up their own act in the Year of the Tiger, China’s environmental authorities have tried to shift the burden onto the public, writes Tang Hao. If one word could sum up China’s environmental events of the Year of the Tiger, it would be “leak”. At the beginning of 2010, a die ...
    • Talking tactics
      China’s performance in Cancún points to a new, more conciliatory climate diplomacy from a country that knows the sharp end of the blame game, write Angel Hsu and Zhao Yupu.Last month’s UN-led climate talks in Cancún, Mexico, were largely touted as a success, as countries reached near consensus on cr ...
    • The wrong direction west
      Beijing has renewed its efforts to drive development in western China but, amid the fanfare, environmental risks are being ignored, write Dong Zhenguo and Zhang Guilin.Last year, Beijing boosted its decade-long campaign to develop the economically backward regions of western China by launching a fre ...

    AlterNet Top Stories

    Threat Level

    • Phone Tweets Trickling Out of Egypt
      new TWTR.Widget({ version: 2, type: 'profile', rpp: 10, interval: 6000, width: 640, height: 300, theme: { shell: { background: '#f5f0f5', color: '#000000' }, tweets: { [...]
    • Report: Efforts to Secure Nation’s Power Grid Inef ...
      The official government cybersecurity standards for the electric power grid fall far short of even the most basic security standards observed by noncritical industries, according to a new audit. The standards have also been implemented spottily and in illogical ways, concludes a Jan. 26 report fro ...
    • Egypt’s Last-Standing ISP Goes Dark
      A small Egyptian ISP that continued sputtering along after the government ordered Egypt off the internet Friday is now offline. Security researcher Renesys said Monday the Noor Group, believed to be the last Egyptian ISP in operation, had provided access to the aviation, banking and financial sector ...
    • Hacker Challenging Court Order to Surrender Comput ...
      The lawyer representing a hacker who published the first major PlayStation 3 jailbreak on the internet said Sunday he would challenge a federal judge’s order requiring his client surrender his computer gear to console-maker Sony. New Jersey’s George Hotz, well-known in the jailbreaking community for ...
    • Internet ‘Kill Switch’ Legislation Back in Play
      Legislation granting the president internet-killing powers is to be re-introduced soon to a Senate committee, the proposal’s chief sponsor told Wired.com on Friday. The resurgence of the so-called “kill switch” legislation came the same day Egyptians faced an internet blackout designed to counter ma ...

    Reuters - Most Popular Articles

    • Storm slams U.S. Midwest, heads northeast
      CHICAGO (Reuters) - A colossal winter storm stretching from New Mexico to Maine hit the heartland of the United States with snow, high winds and freezing rain on Tuesday, and experts said the worst was still to come as the storm moved northeast and temperatures were set to plunge.
    • La Nina helps fuel monster Australian cyclone Yasi
      SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Record ocean temperatures and an intense La Nina weather pattern have helped spawn one of the most powerful cyclones in Australia but whether there's a direct climate change link is less clear.
    • Australia braces for "heartbreak" as giant cyclone ...
      CAIRNS, Australia (Reuters) - One of the most powerful cyclones on record began pounding Australia's northeast coast, threatening popular tourist cities and with people scrambling to find refuge after police turned them away from overcrowded shelters.
    • Frightened Australian cyclone evacuees turned away
      CAIRNS, Australia (Reuters) - Australian police turned people away from jammed evacuation shelters on Wednesday as a huge cyclone neared the northeast coast, leaving many to wait outside in the open, praying police will relent and squeeze them in before the storm arrives.
    • Monster storm carves path across United States
      CHICAGO (Reuters) - A monster winter storm stretching from New Mexico to Maine laid down a sheet of ice on the Plains and lower Midwest on Tuesday, turning to snow as it crept north, and forecasters said the worst was yet to come.

    IntelNews

    • Analysis: Spy Agencies Failed to Predict Egypt Upr ...
      It is becoming increasingly clear that the ongoing popular uprising in Egypt represents the most important geopolitical development in the Middle East since the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran. In light of this, it is remarkable how unprepared foreign intelligence agencies have proven in forecasting ...
    • Emirates authorities deny Oman spy ring allegation ...
      The government of the United Arab Emirates has denied operating an espionage network in the neighboring Sultanate of Oman, saying that spying goes against the countryâs values. The official denial was issued in response to a news report by Omanâs state news agency, which said that Omani authorities ...
    • Analysis: What is the CIA doing in Egypt?
      Every time there is a popular uprising anywhere in the Muslim world, the minds of American intelligence planners go immediately to 1979, when the Iranian Revolution tore down almost overnight one of Washington closest allies in the Middle East. By ignoring the immense unpopularity of the Shahâs brut ...
    • News you may have missed #472
      French spies become embroiled in Renault's espionage saga. Palestinian Authority documents leaked by ex-MI6 agent. NY Times editor calls Assange 'spy-like'. Continue reading →
    • Revelations continue in ex-CIA agent’s trial in Te ...
      A United States government informant testifying at the immigration trial of a former CIA agent has described how he was smuggled into the US from Mexico onboard a luxury boat. It was believed that the former agent, Cuban-born Luis Posada Carriles, had arrived in the US from Honduras in 2005 using a ...

    War is a Crime.org

    • Reagan Revisionism: Planned Centennial Commemorati ...
      Reagan Revisionism: Planned Centennial Commemoration Hoopla - by Stephen Lendman A weeklong infomercial followed his death on June 5, 2004, mythology airbrushing truth, including Marilyn Berger in the New York Times, saying: "To a nation hungry for a hero, a nation battered by Vietnam, damaged by Wa ...
    • Afghanistan War Weekly: February 1, 2011
      The revolutionary upheavals in Tunisia and Egypt have crowded out much of this week’s news about the Afghanistan war. Though 3,000 miles from Afghanistan, the events in North Africa may/should force some serious rethinking by the United States about its imperial strategies. Yet its options are lim ...
    • Public Says Cut Pentagon, Obama Says Increase It
      By David Swanson Did you know that the U.S. public wants military spending cut? Did you know that President Barack Obama wants to increase it for his third year in a row? Actually I already know that most of you didn't know either of these things. A poll released on Tuesday and in line with other ...
    • Two Images of Revolution
      from Twitter - not sure whom to credit
    • Hosni Mubarak will you please go now!
      Hosni Mubarak will you please go now! The time has come. The time has come. The time is now. Just go. Go. Go! I don't care how. You can go by foot. You can go by cow. Hosni Mubarak will you please go now! You can go on skates. You can go on skis. You can go in a hat. But Please go. P ...

    Grist - News

    • Fish consumption at all time high, says U.N. agenc ...
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