2 February - RSS SnapShot! Pt 3

The Progressive Realist

• Troubling Developments Off Somalia
  One of the topics that I didn't hear much about while at USNI/AFCEA West 2011 last week was piracy. The topic just never came up, except when I brought it up. The specific event that got me thinking about piracy last week were the comments by Vice Admiral Fox, which are worth reading. The shift of t ...
• Egypt Crisis: A View From Europe
  My experience during the Romanian Revolution of 1989 taught me that no one can control the unfolding of events once a revolution has started. The possibilities for its deflection or losing control over it are practically endless. Therefore, no one can credibly predict how revolutions end. The fundam ...
• Cairo in Chaos: What’s Next?
  As Hosni Mubarak sends mixed signals about his next steps - from an undisclosed location -, what should Americans expect next? Our best Arab ally for the past 30 years has consistently shown himself to be a cagey autocrat, one not to be counted out prematurely, but this may even be too big for him ...
• Is the US Missing an Opportunity on Egypt?
  President Obama and his administration are in a tough public position on Egypt. The trajectory of the situation seems clear – Mubarak is done. But the question then becomes, does the White House try to get out in front and be seen as aiding the demonstrators and the transition? Or does it hold back ...
• Cairo 2011 Is Not Tehran 1979
  From London to Washington, and as far as Tehran, the question is being asked: Will Egypt of 2011 become the Iran of 1979? Some leading figures in Tehran, as well as Iranian state-run media, are trying to cast Egypt as another country caught up, as is Lebanon, in the region’s tilt toward the Islamis ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

• Different Jobs, Different Skills.
  Via Salon's Andrew Leonard, I wish this were said more often than it is: Alas, governing the United States is a task fundamentally different from running either a small business or a Fortune 500 company. You could even argue that the qualities that make for a good CEO -- at least insofar as judged ...
• A Long Shot's Long Game.
  Jamelle Bouie says Jon Huntsman's potential 2012 presidential campaign is a disaster waiting to happen. So why is he doing it? For the last few days, the only big piece of news to linger in the mainstream media besides the turmoil in Egypt has been the fate of Jon Huntsman. Huntsman, a Republican a ...
• Live Action Releases Video of Planned Parenthood S ...
  As predicted, after a dozen strange visits to Planned Parenthood clinics across the country, the anti-abortion group Live Action yesterday released a video (then an unedited version) that purports to catch a Planned Parenthood staffer at a New Jersey clinic aiding a child sex trafficker. As I wrot ...
• Republican Elites and the Individual Mandate.
  Progressives, many of whom like to think they're committed to some level of reason and logic even in the operation of political discourse, find themselves awfully frustrated when the topic of discussion turns to the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate. What's so maddening is that for many years ...
• The Little Picture: Civil Unions in Illinois.
  Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn signed legislation today that allows same-sex couples to enter into civil unions, which offer the same protections as marriage. (Flickr/Chris Eaves photostream)

Buzzflash

• WikiLeaks: Chinese “Locusts” Spreading into Latin ...
  NIKOLAS KOZLOFF FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT If Wikileaks documents are any indication, Chinese investors might have a big surprise in store as they continue their push into Latin America.  In their effort to extract raw resources, the Chinese have fared relatively well in such areas of the globe as Af ...
• Does Obama Have Reagan In His Heart?
  DAN DIMAGGIO FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Barack Obama was supposed to be a transformative politician. His election was seen by many not only as the end of the eight year-long Bush era nightmare, but also as the final curtain for thirty years of neoliberal politics dating back to at least Reagan. From ...
• Utah Lawmakers Want A Semiautomatic Pistol To Be T ...
  Until this situation, politicians never Managed to get before A chance to shoot themselves in the foot Not just as a metaphor.read more
• The New (But Not Improved) Newt Considers A 2012 W ...
  TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT It's quite amazing how no one seems to have Even once attempted to write him And explain his shelf life expired back when Bill and Monica were still an item.read more
• Stranded Piano Is Bigger Crime Than BP Oil Spill
  JACQUELINE MARCUS FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Mainstream news reporters were captivated by a grand piano that mysteriously appeared on the highest point of a sandbar off Miami's Biscayne Bay.  The story is that "Nicholas Harrington's family piano was trashed at a holiday party in South Florida. So Har ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

• Posting
  Update on the lack of activity here
• Bipartisanship pop quiz
  Identify the "Republican strategist," the "Democratic strategist," and the "Washington insider"
• Various matters
  Plus: More on Manning's detention, and the politicization of Scalia/Thomas
• America's treatment of detainees
  Amnesty denounces the conditions of Bradley Manning's detention, while new documents shed light on detainee deaths
• Bipartisan praise for Joe Lieberman
  He's spent decades advocating for violent, brutal, repressive policies, but that's no impediment to Beltway love

The BiPartisan Report

• Sex, lies and ‘edited’ videotape
• Nihilism 1 American People Nil
• Sheldon Whitehouse brings truth to the Senate floo ...
• Pesky facts spoil GOP’s mammogram arguments
• Those holier than thou Conservatives

Sciencebase

• 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 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

• Cutting Ag Subsidies Key to Implementing USDA’s Di ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 2, 2011US PIRGStatement of Elizabeth Hitchcock, U.S. PIRG Public Health Advocate on the USDA's announcement of new Dietary Guidelines for Americans. read more
• HUD Report Shows Unprecedented Increase in Need fo ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 2, 2011National Low Income Housing CoalitionHUD's biannual report to Congress on the housing needs of low income Americans shows that a record number of very low income households have severe housing problems, particularly housing costs that far exceed what they can ...
• New Satellite Images Reveal Continuing Human Right ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 2, 2011Amnesty International - USANew satellite image analysis released today shows that while  international attention is focused on the South Sudan referendum, grave violations of human rights continue in neighboring Darfur. Images secured by Amnesty International US ...
• Preposterous Smear Against Planned Parenthood Foll ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 1, 2011People for the American WayToday, anti-choice activist Lila Rose released a heavily-edited video purporting to show a single Planned Parenthood employee offering advice to an activist masquerading as a child sex trafficker. In fact, after the activist's visit, P ...
• Mubarak Promises Not Enough, Obama Should Push for ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 1, 2011Human Rights FirstEgyptian President Hosni Mubarak has announced that he will not be a candidate for the Presidency in elections scheduled for September or October, but that he will remain in office to oversee the enactment of political reforms.  Human Rights ...

Common Dreams-Views

• In Solidarity With the Egyptian People and the Sol ...
  by U.S. Military Veterans and AlliesAs veterans and friends and families of veterans and active-duty members of the US military, we stand in solidarity with the courageous Egyptian people and the brave members of the Egyptian military who have refused to repress the people, and in some cases, joined ...
• Fraudclosure: Will State AGs Step Up to Their Mome ...
  by Mary BottariRumor has it that the 50 state attorney general investigation into the Fraudclosure scandal is wrapping up. It's time for a backbone check. Will the state attorneys general just ask the big banks and service providers to turn over a chunk of change from seemingly bottomless pockets? ( ...
• Democracy in Egypt: The U.S. and Israel Can Adapt ...
  by Robert NaimanDemocracy is coming to Egypt. People outside of Egypt who consider that inconvenient to their current policies may kvetch, but ultimately they can adapt and they will, because as it becomes increasingly obvious that democratic change is a fait accompli, adaptation will appear superio ...
• Egypt: Lessons in Democracy
  by Stephen Zunes Together, the unarmed insurrection that overthrew the Ben Ali regime in Tunisia and the ongoing uprising in Egypt have dramatically altered the way many in the West view prospects for democratization in the Middle East. The dramatic events of recent weeks have illustrated that ...
• When Israel's Protective Net of Tyranny Tears
  by Amira HassThere is a miraculous moment in popular uprisings, when fear of the machinery of repression no longer deters people in their masses and that machinery begins to unravel into its component parts - who are also people. They stop obeying and begin thinking.read more

Newshoggers - AfPak

• After 2014 In Afghanistan
  By Steve Hynd I wrote yesterday that all the happy talk on the war in Afghanistan is just that, and that 2014 is not the end of the story by a long chalk. It's a theme taken up by the respected expert Martine van Bijlert of the Afghanistan Analysts Network today in a talk at the Davos 2011 Open Foru ...
• Happy Talk On The Afghan War Is Just Spin & 2014 I ...
  By Steve Hynd President Obama had some happy-talk on the Afghan occupation last night, saying: In Afghanistan, our troops have taken Taliban strongholds and trained Afghan security forces. Our purpose is clear: By preventing the Taliban from reestablishing a stranglehold over the Afghan people, we w ...
• The disconnect (again)
  By Dave Anderson I'm dittoing Bernard Finel's argument on the COIN tactical to strategic disconnect: By trying to suggest that local, operational successes can be assessed independently of strategic outcomes he is reinforcing the main problem in our discussions of COIN. Look, good COIN is COIN that ...
• The Private CIA That's Been Driving Af/Pak Agenda
  By Steve Hynd Today, the NYT's Mark Mazzetti decided to burn what appears to have been one of the newspapers - and the U.S. government's - prime sources on all things lurid in Af/Pak. Ex- Iran/Contra liar Duane “Dewey” Clarridge, a former head of the CIA’s Latin American operations who was the first ...
• Obama's War, One Year Later: 195 Million Say No to ...
  By Robert Greenwald Next month will mark the one-year anniversary of the launch of President Obama's escalated military campaign in Afghanistan. One year later, violence is still getting worse and costs are skyrocketing. After more than nine years, it's time to end this war. Take a strong p ...

Water Wars

• Arguments set in tri-state water wars case
  ATLANTA (AP)- An appeals court will hear arguments on the state of Georgia's request to overturn a ruling that could severely restrict metro Atlanta's water supply. Lawyers said the 11th U.S. Ci...
• One tribunal for all water disputes?
  The water resources ministry is toying with the idea of setting up an integrated water disputes tribunal that will be the one-stop forum for all inter-state water wars.
• Arguments set in tri-state water wars case
  An appeals court will hear arguments on the state of Georgia's request to overturn a ruling that could severely restrict metro Atlanta's water supply.
• Hearing Set in Water Wars Case
  The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta will hear arguments March 9 centering a long-running water dispute between Georgia, Alabama and Florida.
• Arguments set in tri-state water wars case
  An appeals court will hear arguments on the state of Georgia's request to overturn a ruling that could severely restrict metro Atlanta's water supply.

WordPress | Economics

• ObamaCare on Life Support
  I know that some disbelieved that President Obama would say that the “individual mandate” is not a t
• The Price of Water: A Comparison of Water Rates, U ...
  A first of its kind survey of residential water use and prices in 30 metropolitan regions in the Uni
• Big Govt. Because The "Smart People" Know Better.
  The Grotesque “Green” Ethanol Scam continues….. And the rest of the world suffers.
• There oughtn't be a [new] law for that
  American legislatures have a strange affection for naming laws to have feel-good acronyms that tell
• Upheaval in the Middle East?
  It would seem that the events in Tunisia have sparked a call to action across the Middle East, most

Electronic Intifada

• A million Egyptians united against Mubarak
  CAIRO (IPS) - Organizers called it Egypt's "million man march." Whether they achieved that targeted head count is unclear, but their message was unequivocal.
• An Egyptian revolution, unplugged
  WASHINGTON (IPS) - Despite the Hosni Mubarak regime's attempts at muzzling communication and dissent, and the reportedly government-sanctioned shutdown of Egypt's last stan ...
• Revolution spreads to Egypt's deprived Sinai
  SINAI (IPS) - A Bedouin youth casually spreads out a piece of cloth before a police headquarters in Sheikh Zwayyed town in Sinai, the vast desert area to the east of Cairo ...
• Egypt's revolution inspires Gaza's youth
  The revolution underway in Egypt is being closely watched by Gaza's youth who see it as a source of empowerment and inspiration. It has stirred our sentiments and has moved ...
• After the Palestine Papers, can the PA survive?
  With the 18-year-long Middle East peace process finally pronounced dead, is the Palestinian Authority finished too? That is the question being asked by Palestinians in the ...

Afghanistan Sun

• Afghan Taliban commanders willing for peace ta ...
  Taliban commanders in Afghanistan have said that they are willing to explore peace talks with the Hamid Karzai-led government, if they can have more solid guarantees about their own future and ...
• Afghanistan president to visit India
  Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai is leaving for a two-day visit to India where he is to meet with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and other senior officials, his spokesman said ...
• Afghan president in India to discuss security
  NEW DELHI -; Afghan President Hamid Karzai arrived in the Indian capital on Wednesday to discuss efforts to restore security in Afghanistan and to attend a conference on sustainable ...
• US General Says America Can Win Afghan War Without ...
  (RTTNews) - The United States can indeed win the war against Taliban-led Islamist insurgents in Afghanistan without Pakistani support, Deputy commander of US forces in Afghanistan has been quoted ...
• US military denies keeping, using cluster munition ...
  Cluster munitions still exist in 24 locations across Afghanistan KABUL, 2 February 2011 (IRIN) - US-led international forces say they do not have stockpiles of cluster munitions in Afghanistan and ...

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 ...

geopolitics | geoeconomics

• Geithner's Dirty Little Secret
• Swine Flu
• Putin and the Geopolitics of the New Cold War: Or ...
• The Fake Oil Crisis of 1973
• Fossiles Erdöl
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on Government Oversight

• Morning Smoke: Interior Takes Steps Towards Protec ...
  Where there's smoke, there's fire. POGO's Morning Smoke is a collection of the previous day's investigations, scoops, and opinions related to the world of government oversight. Have a story you'd like to see included? Contact POGO's blog editor. Interior Dept....
• Opengov: Securing Funding and Bringing about Cultu ...
  By Bryan Rahija Federal Computer Week brings news of a report that offers a model for implementing open government initiatives. The report, which is presented by the IBM Center for The Business of Government, identifies ten key challenges that the...
• Industry Wish List Partially Revealed
  By Bryan Rahija A fellow watchdog group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), has obtained and posted 33 responses to Rep. Darrell Issa's (R-CA) call for information about which government regulations represent the biggest bees in various industries'...
• POGO's Nick Schwellenbach to Testify on Reforms to ...
  By Bryan Rahija POGO Director of Investigations Nick Schwellenbach is testifying before the Senate Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Contracting this afternoon as part of a hearing entitled "Improving Federal Contract Auditing." The hearing is scheduled for 2:30, and Schwellenbach will...
• Morning Smoke: POGO Testifies Today on Improving F ...
  Where there's smoke, there's fire. POGO's Morning Smoke is a collection of the previous day's investigations, scoops, and opinions related to the world of government oversight. Have a story you'd like to see included? Contact POGO's blog editor. Hearing: Improving...

Digital Journal

• Toronto man arrested for robbery
  A Toronto man has been arrested following the robbery of the Esso Gas Station at 1485 Elgin Mills Road East in Richmond Hill Monday.
• Friend's call to police saves woman in domestic vi ...
  A woman who was kidnapped Friday by her ex-husband is safe today because of a quick cell phone call to a friend who then alerted Durham Regional Police.
• Vulnerable man missing from Ontario
  A vulnerable man has been reported missing from the town of Georgina Tuesday morning. The York Regional Police report that Paul Damstedt, 61, was noticed missing from his home at Sumach Drive by a family member.
• Will Toronto subways be a function of the Ontario ...
  There are various reports throughout the Toronto media that representatives of Mayor Rob Ford are discussing the possibility of uploading the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) to the Government of Ontario.
• Freedom to Read Week set for February 20 to Februa ...
  The freedom to read is a fundamental right for all Canadians. Freedom to Read week highlights the fight against censorship.

End Homelessness | Change.org

• Mississippi Launches Plan To End Child Homelessnes ...
  Fulfilling the wishes and happiness of children is at the heart of the holiday season. So, now seems particularly timely for Mississippi to launch a new plan to end child homelessness (pdf) in the state.  What better way to set the season of giving in motion than by committing to finding safe and s ...
• Thanksgiving 2.0: Food, Poverty and Telling the Tr ...
  This Thanksgiving, most of us around the country shared a bountiful harvest feast with friends and family. We celebrated all that we are thankful for by gorging ourselves right into a food coma. It's the American way. Unfortunately, it's also the American way to be thankful for all that we have whil ...
• Homeless People Wanted: Must Be Open to Demeaning, ...
  What are they thinking? People obviously don't see the homeless as human or they wouldn't attempt to hire them to do most of the insane, demeaning and illegal jobs out there. Here's a small sampling: Rob dead bodies. The Aokigahara forest at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan is the site of 50 to 100 su ...
• LA Plans to Make Homelessness Go the Way of the Do ...
  Instead of pretending homelessness doesn't exist, creating new laws to make it illegal to sit or sleep in public, or sending homeless residents on a one-way trip out of town, Los Angeles County may attempt to actually do something about ending homelessness. And the county is setting the bar high; it ...
• Don't Let Violence Against the Homeless Go Unpunis ...
  Despite its economic troubles, Detroit is not known for being kind to the homeless. That's too bad, since there are nearly 10,000 homeless people living there. In October, police say that Steven James Diponio, 54, became so enraged at Charles Duncan, 42, who was homeless and sleeping behind a school ...

Ceasefire.ca

• U.S. urges Canada to stick with F-35
  U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is urging the Canadian government to move ahead with its planned purchase of 65 American F-35 Joint Strike Fighters.
• F-35 purchase: What do Canadians think?
  The debate over the purchase of the F-35 continues, with Conservative and Liberal rhetoric on the issue growing increasingly heated. But does either party really care what Canadians think? An Ekos poll taken in November suggests that 54% of Canadians are opposed to the planned purchase. Other polls ...
• Activist coalition vows to oppose Obama as long as ...
  An American activist coalition, War is a Crime, is circulating a petition opposing President Obama’s renomination until he ends the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, reverses a number of draconian war policies, and drastically cuts military spending.  The list has grown to include the names of many act ...
• Winslow Wheeler on F-35 purchase
  In this written statement to the Standing Committee on National Defence, Director Winslow T. Wheeler of the Straus Military Reform Project uses his American experience to offer valuable insight to the Canadian government on the purchase of F-35 stealth fighters. (Winslow T. Wheeler,"Canada's Next Ge ...
• Ernie Regehr awarded Pearson Peace Medal
  Congratulations to Project Ploughshares’ co-founder Ernie Regehr on being awarded the Pearson Peace Medal! The medal is awarded by the United Nations Association in Canada to a Canadian who has personally contributed, through his or her working life and voluntary commitments, to causes to which Lest ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

• The Kevin Trudeau Show: 2-1-11
  Today, Kevin broadcasts his third ever LIVE radio broadcast in front of an audience on another jam packed Caribbean cruise ship! Find out how being âgreenâ has absolutely nothing to do with saving the planet and how foreign aid is causing the United States to fall deeper and deeper in debt. Self Hel ...
• Drug Recalls Surge
  February 1st, 2011 CNNMoney.com By: Parija Kavilanz Recalls of prescription and over the counter drugs are surging, raising questions about the quality of drug manufacturing in the United States. The Food and Drug Administration reported more than 1,742 recalls last year, skyrocketing from 426 in 20 ...
• Health Risks From Nanotechnology
  February 1st, 2011 AOL News By: Andrew Schneider For almost two years, molecular biologist Bénédicte Trouiller doused the drinking water of scores of lab mice with nano-titanium dioxide, the most common nanomaterial used in consumer products today. She knew that earlier studies conducted in test tub ...
• Federal Judge Recommends Criminal Charges for Lawy ...
  February 1st, 2011 ABA Journal By: Debra Cassens Weiss U.S. District Judge John McBryde of Fort Worth, Texas, has sanctioned three lawyers and recommended criminal charges against two of them for motions questioning his integrity in litigation over golf club patents. McBryde said the plaintiff in th ...
• Japan Vending Machine Recommends Drinks to Buyers
  February 1st, 2011 Reuters By: Elaine Lies A new Japanese canned drink vending machine uses facial recognition technology to “recommend” drinks based on the customer’s age and gender — and sales have tripled over those from regular vending machines as a result. The machines, developed by JR East Wat ...

Pambazuka News

• Southern Sudan: Sowing the seeds of agricultural r ...
  After the sound of gunfire fell silent in Southern Sudan, marking the end of one of Africa's longest running civil wars, Pio Kowr Ding decided he would return home to the autonomous region to take up an agricultural research job with the government. ...
• Ethiopia: Ethiopians to remember martyrs of the 20 ...
  Ethiopians from various cities in the US, Canada, Europe and Australia held a conference on Saturday to discuss and coordinate plans for the upcoming 5th anniversary of the Ethiopian election massacre. The participants discussed and updated each othe...
• March on Washington scheduled for November
  The Black is Back Coalition has announced a march and rally on the White House to take place November 13, 2010 beginning in Washington, DC’s historic Malcolm X Park. This will mark the second year in a row that this black coalition will be protestin...
• USA: Black community activist faces possible 10 ye ...
  Diop Olugbala (aka Wali Rahman) will be sentenced on Wednesday, 13 October to a possible 10 years in prison for speaking out on behalf of the rights of the black community. A press conference and demonstration will be held prior to Olugbala’s sentenc...
• Morocco: Expats returning home in greater numbers
  Faced with the woes of the global economic crisis, an increasing number of Moroccan expatriates are coming back home. Meanwhile, the government is intensifying effort to aid the community abroad as well as help them maintain ties with their home coun...

War in Context

• Mubarak’s campaign of state terrorism
  So much for President Obama’s ability to steer an orderly transition of power in Egypt. When he laid out his vision last night, it’s no wonder he had so little to say about Mubarak’s response. That Mubarak acknowledged the status quo is unsustainable and change must take place, said nothing about hi ...
• The first draft of an orderly transition
  The New York Times, in its role as state storyteller, spins a fine yarn about how the White House artfully engineered Hosni Mubarak’s removal. A pivotal place in the narrative goes to “Frank G. Wisner, an adroit ex-diplomat whom President Obama had asked hours before to undertake a supremely delicat ...
• Egyptians speak with one voice — live updates
  The Rorschach test from Cairo: a dignified and disciplined act of collective prayer? Or a dangerously large gathering of Muslims? Perhaps more than anything, American perceptions of Islam reveal the extent to which this nation celebrates religion without the slightest notion of piety — not surpri ...
• Standing up for democracy
  As the Million Egyptian March takes to the streets of Cairo, is President Obama finally ready to take a strong stand on the side of the people? In The Guardian, Michael Tomasky writes “Obama is in no position to offer the moral thunder the protesters and their supporters everywhere crave.” Why? Bec ...
• Egypt army will defend the freedom of the Egyptian ...
  It’s all over for Mubarak! Speculation that he might be able to turn the military against their own people can thankfully be laid to rest. Reuters: The army said on Monday it would not use force against Egyptians staging protests demanding President Hosni Mubarak step down, a statement said. It s ...

Watts Up With That?

• Wind power gets bent out of shape in Wyoming
  Trent Brome writes on his Facebook page: Arlington, WY – avg annual wind speed of 31mph, gusts above 110mph, seems like a great place for a wind turbine ….right? Photos from Feb 1, 2011 as the cold air mass that … Continue reading →
• The approach of Cyclone Yasi as told by the data
  In our previous post, we highlighted the BoM weather station on Willis Island, and wondered what would happen to it and to the staff who worked there. Fortunately the staff has been evacuated prior to Yasi hitting the island. They … Continue reading →
• Australia braces for Cyclone Yasi as it hits Categ ...
  UPDATE: Live The last radar image from Willis Island added below. The last radar image is truly striking. Also, see below for the differences between the Australia hurricane scale and the familiar Saffir-Simpson scale used in the USA. They are … Continue reading →
• Snow job: Gore channels liberal columnist as proo ...
  Dr. Ryan N. Maue Comments in addition to Previous Post… Time to build another igloo, this time in Oklahoma:  Al Gore finally responds to a question about global warming fueled snowstorms, and who does he cite?  Clarence Page at the … Continue reading →
• The Goreacle: Snowstorms caused by global warming
  Here Al Gore responds to Bill O’Reilly of Fox News on his blog: An Answer for Bill February 1, 2011 : 11:43 AM Last week on his show Bill OâReilly asked, âWhy has southern New York turned into the tundra?â … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

• Egypt’s Revolution: US Imperialism Brought to Heel ...
  by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad 2 February, 2011 With up to eight million Egyptian people defying nearly a week of military curfew in that country to insist implacably on the overthrow of the US-backed Mubarak regime, there can be little doubt that this is a people’s revolution. ...
• Scheer, Hedges, Sirota, Gross and Tucker: Building ...
  with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad February 2, 2011 Truthdig February 1, 2011 Robert Scheer, Chris Hedges, David Sirota, Larry Gross and Scott Tucker go looking for America’s missing movement in this special collaboration between Truthdig and Pacifica’s KPFK. [Note: Hedges starts at 3 ...
• State of the Union: Unnamable Politics and Useful ...
  by Joseph Natoli Guest Writer Dandelion Salad http://politicalaffairs.net January 28, 2011 February 2, 2011 âFor decades, Egyptâs authoritarian president, Hosni Mubarak, played a clever game with his political opponents. He tolerated a tiny and toothless opposition of liberal intellectuals whose vai ...
• Revolution in Egypt – and the Hypocrisy of the US ...
  by Andy Worthington Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.andyworthington.co.uk 2 February, 2011 For the United States and other Western countries, the popular uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt (which threaten to spread to other countries, including Yemen and Algeria) are something of a nightmare. Just a ...
• Come home with your rhetoric, Mr. President by Ral ...
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Ralph Nader The Nader Page Feb. 1, 2011 Dear President Obama: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reflected your sentiments when she commented on the Egyptian uprising with the words “We want to see free and fair elections.” But in the District of Columbia, whe ...

Your New Reality

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  Merry Christmas From Minsk
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  The Digital Nomad From the book Millennium: Winners and Losers in the Coming World Order :'(Electronic objects of leisure) like the laptop computer, are ubiquitous today, will help create a different human being. "'The memory card (ID card) will become the principal artificial limb o ...
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  See Robot. See Robot Run, at 1:24 : Not yet, but soon.
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  Riots Replace Protests A tense, compelling video from the heart of the recent London anti-austerity protest, otherwise known as DayX3 : Notice at about 1:50 a police paramedic, with a green cross on his should, can be seen also wielding a baton. The UK government, and London police, are so terr ...
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  Axis Of The Evil Dead How would NeoCons deal with the outbreak of a zombie uprising? Daniel W. Drezner at Foreign Policy takes a closer look : The neoconservative policy response to an undead uprising would be simple and direct. To paraphrase Robert Kagan, humans are from Earth, and zombies are f ...

Wired - Science

• Today’s Clean Tech Could Power the World By 2050
  Using existing technologies, the world could convert almost entirely to green power by mid-century — and it wouldn’t cost much more than people now spend on energy, says a new analysis of global energy use. The conclusions contradict the notion that green energy is still too small-scale, inefficien ...
• China Takes Lead in Race for Clean Nuclear Power
  China has officially announced it will launch a program to develop a thorium-fueled molten-salt nuclear reactor, taking a crucial step towards shifting to nuclear power as a primary energy source. The project was unveiled at the annual Chinese Academy of Sciences conference in Shanghai last week, a ...
• Satellite Shows Winter Megastorm Painting U.S. Whi ...
  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 Jan. 31 from space by the GOES 13 satellite, which regularly photographs the Eastern half of the planet from a distance of 22,000 miles above ...
• Unknown, Uncontacted Tribe Photographed in Brazili ...
  See Also: Amazon Tribe Shakes Foundation of Modern Linguistics Yucatan Jungles Are Feral Maya Gardens Lost Tribes Used Clever Tricks to Turn Amazon Wasteland to Farms Images: Gleison Miranda-FUNAI/Survival International.
• Vikings May Have Navigated Using Polarized Skyligh ...
  The Vikings may have used the ancient equivalent of polarized glass to navigate in cloudy weather, suggest new reports on a long-hypothesized but never-tested “sunstone compass.” Archaeologists know Vikings used sundials to steer between Norway and Greenland, but this method could only have worked ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

• Bashir Abu-Manneh: What’s Happening in Egypt?
  IOA Advisory Board member Bashir Abu-Manneh speaks about current events in Egypt. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...
• Jonathan Cook: Can the Palestinian Authority survi ...
  PASSIA director Mahdi Abdul Hadi: "It is now much clearer to Palestinians that they are living in a prison and that the PA leaders are there only to negotiate the terms of our imprisonment." The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in it ...
• Janan Abdu: Israel’s human rights abuses in the na ...
  My husband and other Palestinian prisoners are being denied basic rights and subjected to harsh treatment in detention. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...
• Peres: Israel has great respect for Egyptian presi ...
  President Shimon Peres has not abandoned his old friend Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. "We always have had and will have great respect for President Mubaraek. Not everything he did was right, but... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
• Amnesty: Palestinian human rights activist jailed ...
  Amnesty International: "Ameer Makhoul is well known for his human rights activism on behalf of Palestinians in Israel and those living under Israeli occupation. We fear that this may be the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in ...

Ria Novosti - Military

• Contenders for Indian fighter deal to show in forc ...
  All six participants of a tender to supply 126 light fighter jets to the Indian air force will showcase full flight displays at Aero India 2011 air show.
• Russia's 2nd Graney class nuclear sub to enter ser ...
  The Russian Navy will receive a second Graney class nuclear-powered multipurpose attack submarine in 2015.
• Russia loses new military satellite
  Russia has most likely lost a new dual-purpose geodesic satellite after it failed to reach a designated circular orbit 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) above Earth.
• Lavrov, Clinton to bring New START into force on F ...
  Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will exchange the instruments of ratification for the New START arms reduction pact in Munich on February 5, Russia's Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.
• Russian Navy to receive new nuclear attack submari ...
  The Russian Navy will receive a new Graney class nuclear-powered multipurpose attack submarine by the end of 2011, a spokesman for the Malakhit design bureau said on Monday.

NewsWise

• Expert on Egypt and Its Popular Culture Available ...
  Ted Swedenburg, who is on the editorial committee of Middle East Report and active with the King Fahd Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies, is available for comment on current events in Egypt.
• Expert on Nasser-Era Egypt Available for Comment
  Joel Gordon, director of the King Fahd Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies is available for comment about current events in Egypt.
• MicroRNA Cocktail Helps Turn Skin Cells into Stem ...
  New technique removes several hurdles in generating induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, smoothing the way for disease research and drug development.
• Size of Airborne Flu Virus Impacts Risk
  The results of a Virginia Tech study by environmental engineers and a virologist on the risk of airborne infection in public places from concentrations of influenza A viruses are published in the on-line, Feb. 2 issue of the United Kingdom's Journal of the Royal Society Interface.
• New Tumor Tracking Technique for Radiotherapy Spar ...
  Real-time, 4D approach demonstrated at Thomas Jefferson University predicts tumor motion during treatment.

Natural Health News

• At Last You Can Opt of Receiving Yellow Pages and ...
  The Yellow Pages Association has at long last opened a new site called the �National Yellow Pages Consumer Choice & Opt-Out Site�.� It contains sections such as "Download Our Sustainability Report" and "The Yellow Pages Directory Facts", but the important section is the opt-out one. All you need to ...
• But Will the Terrier Score the Winning Goal?
  As thousands of fans watch on, a dog runs onto the field -- and stays.
• Raising Awareness about Electromagnetic Pollution
  Electromagnetic pollution is a concern for everyone.� Increasing news coverage, studies, and even new legislation are all helping educate the public on radiation risks. One of the foremost experts in electromagnetic pollution is Camilla Rees.� She has devoted herself to making people aware of t ...
• Words of Wisdom from One of the Greatest Fitness L ...
  Jack LaLanne thrived into his 90�s.� He was a fitness advocate decades before the value of fitness was commonly recognized, and an anti-sugar pioneer as well.� Here are some words of wisdom from a great man.
• FDA Delays Antibiotic Milk Testing Due to Pressure ...
  Every year, U.S. inspectors find illegal levels of antibiotics in hundreds of dairy cows.� As a result of concerns that the drugs might be contaminating milk Americans drink, the FDA had planned to begin tests on milk from farms whose cows were repeatedly shown to be tainted by drug residue. Howev ...

Antemedius

• Welcome to the Port Writers Alliance
  I'm pleased to announce today the formation of the Port Writers Alliance. This is a collective effort of Antemedius, DocuDharma, Firefly Dreaming, Ignoring Asia, The Dream Antilles, The Stars Hollow Gazette, Wild Wild Left, and writing in the rAw. About The Name A little to the left of starboard ...
• Latest Wikileaks Revelation
  It's been a long time so in case you've forgotten, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi is the Libyan Intellegence officer convicted of organizing the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 that killed 270 including 11 people in the town of Lockerbie, Scotland where the plane fell to earth. Al-Megrahi was imprisoned f ...
• Decades in Making: U.S. Police State
  Andrew Kolin's new book "State Power and Democracy: Before and During the Presidency of George W. Bush" actually begins with the war for independence and continues into the Obama years. A 231-page monotone recounting of endless facts, it doesn't pick up with Bush the Lesser until page 137. Kolin chr ...
• Two Tightly Coiled, Steaming, Piles of OpEd On Egy ...
  Everyone has an opinion about what the future of Egypt will be, and to some degree or another everyone is likely to be wrong. Oh sure there will be some who have the outlines correct but it is all but impossible to predict the something a inherently chaotic as a popular uprising in a long time dicta ...
• The Art of Demonization
  One of the oldest excuses for war is that the enemy is irredeemably evil. He worships the wrong god, has the wrong skin and language, commits atrocities, and cannot be reasoned with. The long-standing tradition of making war on foreigners and converting those not killed to the proper religion "for t ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

• Israel Set to Investigate Progressive NGOs
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller This must be that vibrant democracy Richard Cohen recently extolled in defense of denying democracy to Egyptians: The Knesset House Committee on Wednesday approved the composition of two parliamentary panels to investigate the funding sources of human rig ...
• Registration Begins: 2011 ILA Asia-Pacific Regiona ...
  by Julian Ku by Julian Ku The Chinese (Taiwan) Society of International Law is pleased to hold the International Law Association (ILA) Asia-Pacific Regional Conference from May 29 to June 1, 2011 at the Grand Formosa Regent Taipei, a Four Seasons Hotel, in Taipei, Taiwan. The theme of the confere ...
• Arizona’s Proposed Constitutional Amendment to Pro ...
  by Julian Ku by Julian Ku I’ve been restrained in criticizing state laws that purport to ban the use of international or foreign law in state courts, as in Oklahoma and now one proposed in Arizona.  I think they are largely harmless, and probably constitutional.   But I am still struck by the u ...
• Chevron Files RICO Lawsuit Against Donziger, et. a ...
  by Roger Alford by Roger Alford The stakes just became larger in the ongoing battle over alleged environmental damage in Ecuador. Chevron just filed a lawsuit in the Southern District of New York against Steven Donziger and forty-seven lawyers, experts, consultants and named plaintiffs alleging ...
• Glenn Beck, Foreign Policy Expert
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller I realize that Fox has long since given up any pretense of engaging in journalism, but I’m still shocked that it continues to let someone who is so clearly mentally disturbed poison political discourse (and put lives in danger) in the U.S.  Here’s his late ...

Investigate - Breaking News

• New-look Investigate magazine HIS and HERS goes on ...
  As of Sunday...with more exclusive revelations about the Pike River disaster and police bungles in the rescue operation...and HERS features new poll results showing support for National is wide but shallow, and that a large number of voters want Winston...
• Investigate Political Poll 2011 - No1
  Investigate magazine's first big omnibus and political poll in more than five years is underway. If you want to fill in the survey form (takes less than two minutes on average) online, you'll find it here.
• BREAKING NEWS: Arizona shooter of Gabrielle Giffor ...
  The young gunman who shot and killed six people, and left Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in critical condition, appears to have borne a grudge against Giffords after meeting her in 2007 at the age of 19. According to reports, former...
• New study says CO2 rise a result of warmer tempera ...
  A new peer reviewed study supports another contention I raised in Air Con: that CO2 increase follows temperature increase, and that there appears to be no correlation between fossil fuel emissions and temperature. The paper is available in full in...
• RIP Chris Carter, Investigate columnist
  It's an odd thing, finding out on the radio news that your magazine's longest serving opinion columnist has passed away. What turns out to be his last column only hit the newsstands yesterday in the latest Investigate magazine: Chris Carter...

My Care2 Picks

• Facwebook : a U.S. program to bring down Arab regi ...
  The following article appeared in the English version of Algerian newspaper Ennahar.When the Tunisian revolt broke opinions were divided on the role played by social networking sites including Facebook The same scenario seems to repeat itself in EgyptSubmitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it ...
• Tip of the day: Reducing the dreaded dog smell
  As the cold weather of winter settles in, so too can the dreaded dog smell. Knowing that some people are offended by stinky dogs can make a dog owner even more self-conscious if their house starts to smell just like the dog.Submitted by Chaplain Andrea to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Mindfulness Meditation Training Changes Brain Stru ...
  Participating in an 8-week mindfulness meditation program appears to make measurable changes in brain regions associated with memory, sense of self, empathy and stress. In a study that will appear in the January 30 issue of Psychiatry Research: Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Wellness �|� �Note ...
• Italian scientists claim to have demonstrated cold ...
  They could be on to something here, but need to know if cold-fusion is comparable in energy output and cost to space-based solar power as described by David Kagan in his monumental book Sunstroke. Are their any biohazards associated with cold-fusion?Submitted by Dan Mahony to Science & Tech �|� �No ...
• Poisoning the Wind: Congress, Corporate Shills and ...
  We are entering a suffocating new era of greed and irresponsibility. Despite poisoning our own pool of oxygen, water, vegetation and livestock, the major energy corporations push onwards with no thought of ramifications for the rest of us.Submitted by John Farnham to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� � ...

Angry Indian News

• Lancaster Unity: Sikh and Hindu groups slam EDL
  Lancaster Unity: Sikh and Hindu groups slam EDL: "Leaders of some of the largest Sikh and Hindu organisations as well as Sikh Students in this country have signed a ‘Joint Statement’ condemning the... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Looters included undercover Egyptian police, hospi ...
  Looters included undercover Egyptian police, hospitals tell Human Rights Watch: [washingtonpost.com] "CAIRO - Human Rights Watch confirmed several cases of undercover police loyal to Egyptian... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• SPCA probes 'execution' of 100 sled dogs
  SPCA probes 'execution' of 100 sled dogs: [vancouversun.com] "VANCOUVER -- The 'execution-style' mass cull of 100 sled dogs owned by Whistler-based Outdoor Adventures has sparked an SPCA... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Panama: Kuna Yala's Climate Change Refugees - Indi ...
  Panama: Kuna Yala's Climate Change Refugees - Indigenous Peoples Issues and Resources: "Panama’s Kuna do not need a television to hear about global warming. It has already come to their front door... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Is the Palestinian Authority cracking down on Egyp ...
  Is the Palestinian Authority cracking down on Egypt solidarity demonstrations? (Updated, and yes they are): "Update: Human Rights Watch was there and has confirmed that the PA crushed the demo.I... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

• Truth Squad Radio – Mary Nash Stoddard on Aspartam ...
  Join us this Wednesday as we talk about Aspartame/Neotame, and the dangers they pose with Mary Nash Stoddard!
• Farm Wars Public Service Announcement: Aspartame P ...
  AUDIO - Gladys and Bernie discover Aspartame in their breakfast cereal.
• Truth Squad Radio – Guardian Abuse
  Join us every Tuesday night to find out more about Guardian Abuse, which is an extremely popular and lucrative business involving the systematic looting and pillaging of our nation's most vulnerable people.
• A Plea to the American Farmer…
  These are the people who will replenish the earth. These are the people who will "reboot the American Dream." Only this time, with a whole new operating system.
• Monsanto Shill gets the Stinkfly Boot!
  Talk to your local farmers about the hazards of GMOs, and emphasize the death grip that Monsanto will have on them if they choose that option. If we don't do it, who will?

True/Slant Headline Grabs

• The stupidity of crowds helps kill a planet - Todd ...
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• How to save a fishery: owning, renting, and expand ...
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• ‘Gossip Girl’ unethical because of threesome? - La ...
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Citizens for Legitimate Government

• Canada rejects U.S. senator's visa idea
  ShareThisCanada rejects U.S. senator's visa idea 02 Feb 2011 The Harper government has flatly rejected the idea raised by an influential U.S. senator of requiring Canadians to obtain visas to enter the United States following the release of an "alarming" report about security along America's norther ...
• Amazing reports about massive Midwest storm
  ShareThisAmazing reports about massive Midwest storm 01 Feb 2011 NASA is calling the storm exploding over in the Midwest "one of the largest winter storms since the 1950s." Here are some Twitter reports aggregated from a variety of sources, illustrating the power, severity and danger of this histori ...
• WikiLeaks: FBI hunts the 9/11 gang that got away
  ShareThisWikiLeaks: FBI hunts the 9/11 gang that got away 01 Feb 2011 The FBI has launched a manhunt for a previously unknown team of men suspected to be part of the 9/11 attacks, the Daily Telegraph can disclose. Secret documents reveal that the three Qatari men conducted surveillance on the target ...
• 'Al-Qaida on brink of using nuclear bomb'
  ShareThis'Al-Qaida on brink of using nuclear bomb' 01 Feb 2011 Al-Qaida [al-CIAduh] is on the verge of producing radioactive weapons after sourcing nuclear material and recruiting rogue scientists to build "dirty" bombs, according to leaked diplomatic documents. A leading atomic regulator has privat ...
• FEMA mobilized as winter storms hit U.S.
  ShareThisFEMA mobilized as winter storms hit U.S. 01 Feb 2011 The federal government is sending workers and equipment to at least 11 states as a winter storm bears down on a wide swath of the country, the White House said Tuesday. With storm watches and blizzard warnings up over most of the continen ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

• New-look Investigate magazine HIS and HERS goes on ...
  As of Sunday...with more exclusive revelations about the Pike River disaster and police bungles in the rescue operation...and HERS features new poll results showing support for National is wide but shallow, and that a large number of voters want Winston...
• Investigate Political Poll 2011 - No1
  Investigate magazine's first big omnibus and political poll in more than five years is underway. If you want to fill in the survey form (takes less than two minutes on average) online, you'll find it here.
• BREAKING NEWS: Arizona shooter of Gabrielle Giffor ...
  The young gunman who shot and killed six people, and left Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in critical condition, appears to have borne a grudge against Giffords after meeting her in 2007 at the age of 19. According to reports, former...
• New study says CO2 rise a result of warmer tempera ...
  A new peer reviewed study supports another contention I raised in Air Con: that CO2 increase follows temperature increase, and that there appears to be no correlation between fossil fuel emissions and temperature. The paper is available in full in...
• RIP Chris Carter, Investigate columnist
  It's an odd thing, finding out on the radio news that your magazine's longest serving opinion columnist has passed away. What turns out to be his last column only hit the newsstands yesterday in the latest Investigate magazine: Chris Carter...

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Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

• An Artery of Opium a Vein of Taliban
  27 July 2009 Sangin, Afghanistan {loadposition user8}
• Did Mubarak Flee?
  High USG source just told me Mubarak may have fled.� USG working to confirm.� US evacuation now very high priority. {loadposition user8}
• Egypt Eruption
  I asked General (ret.) Barry McCaffrey for his thoughts on the evolving situation in Egypt: Egypt is a few steps short of a disaster.� The corrupt, incompetent regime will not survive. Most likely outcome--- the Generals take charge, announce a reform government, start� the process of responding ...
• Night Into Day
  Sangin, Helmand Province Afghanistan 29 July 2009 Orders are given before every operation.� The orders filter down through various unit levels involved, until each platoon finally recieves its specific mission.� The concept for this mission came down from the 2 Rifles Battlegroup (battalion) to ...
• Tactics in Counterinsurgency
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The Killing Train

• More such philanthrocapitalism we shall be utterly ...
  Philanthrocapitalism, a book by Bishop and Edwards, argues that philanthropy will help the public accept a new age of plutocracy (the rule by wealth). The rich are giving their money away so effectively, they say, that the public won't mind increasing inequality. read more
• I am not a gadget
  Jaron Lanier, author of "You are not a gadget", is very well-informed about what he is writing about, which is some of the social consequences of the internet, and some of the implicit ideologies that are built into the internet as we are living with it today. Lanier was one of the early minds behin ...
• Raj Patel's "Value of Nothing"
  For various reasons I found myself with several hours on public transit and with Raj Patel's fine book "The Value of Nothing" in hand. I really liked a few things about it. First, it's a very readable summary of a lot of economic theories (and ideologies) that guide policies today. For a more mathem ...
• A short video on Toronto Star's recent G20 coverag ...
  Three minutes on technology and protests, focusing on the Toronto Star's recent G20 coverage, especially Rosie DiManno's articles.
• Thoughts on Nicholas Carr's "The Shallows"
  After a couple of recommendations from a couple of different directions, I read Nicholas Carr's "The Shallows: What the internet is doing to our brains". It combines neuroplasticity research (which I read about in Norman Doidge's "The Brain that Changes Itself") with ideas about a literary, print-ba ...

treehugger

• Baked Apple Stuffed with Candied Ginger and Almond ...
  Photos by Jaymi Heimbuch This recipe was created exclusively to pair with a bottle of 2009 Frögenbeerenauslese from Frog's Leap winery. Don't worry, it's is a lot easier to drink than it is to say. On the nose you will find both hints of honey and pomme fruit. But for a dessert wine, it isn't hea ...
• UK CO2 Emissions Dropped 8.7% in 2009
  Lloyd speculated before on 10 ways that recession can help the environment, while Mike offered a counterpoint on ways that an economic downturn can hinder progress toward sustainability. Now some official figgures coming out of the UK suggest, where short-term CO2 emissions are concerned at leas ...
• Frog's Leap Winery: Saves 64,000 Gallons of Water ...
  The eco-renovated Red Barn from the 1880's. Photos by Jaymi Heimbuch Frog's Leap Winery is an organic and biodynamic vineyard located in the heart of Napa's Rutherford region. Back in 1975, owner John Williams was living in St. Helena on a property that was a frog farm during the 1800s. Yes, a fr ...
• China Grants Permission for Megadam to be Built On ...
  Nu river; Photo by livepine via Flickr Creative Commons China's hydropower industry has earned a big win with power company Huadian gaining permission to build a 21.3GW dam on the Nu River. However, is the price too big? The dam is to be built in a world heritage site and will displace an estim ...
• Renewables Sector Sees Massive Jobs Growth
  Image credit: twicepix, used under Creative Commons license. We've seen reports before that switching to renewables could create 2.7 million jobs, and might create a whole new wave of green-collar employment, but it's only now that nations around the world are getting serious about renewables t ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

• Thailand pressured over Rohingya arrests
  Rights group asks Thai government to allow UN access to more than 200 Rohingya refugees who arrived on boats since January
• Buddhist nuns released, disrobed
  Authorities pressure Rangoon monastery to banish four nuns who were arrested following the September 2007 uprising
• Suu Kyi backs Egypt protestors
  Millions on the streets in Egypt as Burmese opposition icon, who is no stranger to dictatorial rule, tells demonstrators 'we're all with you'
• Thein Sein ‘will be president’
  Government official says that Burmese prime minister will become new leader of the country as parliament nominates candidates
• BP arm eyed investment in Burma
  Russian subsidiary TNK-BP had also expressed interest in operations in Cuba and Kurdistan before board vetoed the proposal

Telegraph - Climate Change

• Caroline Spelman loses her way in the woods
  Forestry Commission sell-off might actually double the Government's bill, says Geoffrey Lean
• Climate change: the top conspiracy theories
  Conspiracy theorists agree the data purported to show our planet is warming has been fabricated - but can't agree on whether to blame the East, the West, the Left or the Right.
• Himalayan glaciers spell trouble for climate scien ...
  The abject admission by the official Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) a year ago that it made a mistake, in its latest report, in predicting their disappearance by 2035 marked the lowest point in their reputation - and they have still far from recovered.
• Himalayan glaciers not melting because of climate ...
  Himalayan glaciers are actually advancing rather than retreating, claims the first major study since a controversial UN report said they would be melted within quarter of a century.
• Pole to pole: Daniel J Cox photographs Arctic pola ...
  Daniel J Cox photographs Arctic polar bears and penguins in Antarctica.

National Geographic | Environment

• Oil Markets Churn Over Egypt’s Potential as Gatewa ...
  World oil prices hit their highest level since 2008 due to concerns over Egypt—not due to its role as a commodity route, but as a potential vector for political instability.
• Groundhog Day 2011 & Punxsutawney Phil: Facts Behi ...
  With ancient origins and modern media smarts, "immortal" rodent Punxsutawney Phil rules Groundhog Day 2011. Get the surprising facts behind winter's wackiest U.S. weather prediction.
• UFO-Like Clouds Linked to Military Maneuvers?
  Three "hole-punch clouds" recently appeared close together, sparking suspicions of a military connection—and they may not be all wrong.
• Gulf Spill Dispersants Surprisingly Long-lasting
  Massive amounts of chemical dispersants pumped into the Gulf of Mexico to break up the BP oil spill lingered in the deep ocean for months, new research shows.
• Humans Left Africa Earlier, During Ice Age Heat Wa ...
  An Ice Age heat wave gave early humans a route out of Africa much earlier than thought, an ancient tool kit and climate evidence suggest.

Jurist - Legal Research

• France authorities arrest Srebrenica massacre susp ...
  [JURIST] French authorities announced Tuesday the identity of a Serbian man arrested a day earlier and suspected of participating in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre [JURIST news archive] in Bosnia, where a total of 8,000 Bosnian Muslims were killed. Milorad Momic, who has allegedly been living under a ...
• UN rights chief offers Haiti assistance with Duval ...
  [JURIST] The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay [official website], offered technical assistance [press release] on Tuesday to Haitian authorities in the prosecution of former Haitian president Jean-Claude Duvalier [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] for serious human rights violation ...
• Federal judge dismisses challenge to Idaho forest ...
  [JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the District Court for Idaho [official website] dismissed a lawsuit Friday brought by environmentalists challenging Idaho's state-created "roadless rule" [JURIST news archive] to protect its forests. Judge B Lynn Winmill's ruling upholds Idaho's plan [A ...
• Italy court convicts former Guantanamo detainee
  [JURIST] An Italian court on Monday convicted former Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainee Mohamed Ben Riadh Nasri [NYT materials] on terror charges and sentenced the Tunisian man to six years in prison. Prosecutors accused Nasri of working for a terror group [AP report] associated with al Q ...
• Pakistan court orders US government worker held
  [JURIST] A judge for the Lahore High Court [official website] on Tuesday ordered that US consulate worker Raymond Davis be held for the murder of two men in Pakistan last week, ignoring US protests [press release; JURIST report] that Davis enjoys diplomatic immunity. Chief Justice Ijaz Ihmad Chaudhr ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

• Obama to Mubarak: Transition 'Must Begin Now' (Tra ...
  President Obama made his firmest public comments to date calling for regime change in Egypt in remarks late Tuesday afternoon, warning President Mubarak, who said earlier Tuesday that he will not seek a fresh term, that the transition to new leadership "must begin now." Obama's full remarks: Good ...
• JFK's Bridge to the 21st Century
  by Andrew Sprung In a prior post, I recounted that in a recent reading of JFK's inaugural address I was struck by the sense of beleaguered peril that infused the new president's world view. I further noted that Kennedy's response to the danger of nuclear destruction was to invoke a 'moral eq ...
• State Reps. Wants to Force People to Buy Guns ... ...
  In the best political stunt we've seen in some time, five South Dakota state representatives have introduced a bill requiring residents over 21 to purchase guns. (They'd get to pick one "suitable to their temperament" and preference.) Why? To make a point about the individual mandate: R ...
• McConnell's Repeal Vote Rallies the Base
  Mitch McConnell has struck while the iron is hot. One day after federal District Judge Rodger Vinson ruled that the entire Democratic health care law is unconstitutional, McConnell told his GOP colleagues that he will force a vote on repealing it, bringing it up as an amendment to the Federal Aviat ...
• 42 Members of Congress Met With the Egyptian Milit ...
  Egypt, it turns out, has a respectable presence in Washington. Since protests swept through Cairo and Alexandria last week, the press has started delving into Egypt's relationship with the American government. The Egyptian government has spent $1.1 million per year employing some of the top ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

• [COAT] Canada at War in Iraq! New 54-page COAT re ...
• [COAT] Success! AntiCANSEC arms-bazaar campaign - ...
• [COAT] Raging Grans video: CANSEC-NO CANSEX-YES!&q ...
• [COAT] Arms Bazaar in Ottawa Citizen, letters-to-e ...
• [COAT] Oppose the CANSEC War Machine! - coat

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

• US and Vietnam sign nuclear energy agreement | Ass ...
• SKorea on alert after ship hit by mysterious blast ...
• Obama administration may send U.S.-Russia arms tre ...
• Energy Secretary Steven Chu on the nation's energy ...
• More tritium found at Vt. Yankee, NRC plans closed ...

Tikun Olam

• Jobs to Demolish Jackling House Next Week
  Architecture preservationists have lost a major battle to save an important part of California’s historic legacy.  Steve Jobs, owner of Woodside’s Jackling House, built at the turn of the century by George Washington Smith (who designed many of the distinctive buildings of Santa Barbara and was a c ...
• Obama Tells Mubarak to Go in All But Words
  Barack Obama has a lot of faults, but sometimes at critical junctures he gets things pitch perfect.  So was his speech tonight on the situation in Egypt, in which he all but told Mubarak his time is up.  What was amazing about the speech that the words he delivered were subtle, the message couched ...
• Galant is Out, Naveh is in as Interim IDF Chief of ...
  Galant is out.  Naveh is in, at least temporarily. It appears my fears of yesterday are being realized regarding the replacement for Yoav Galant as IDF chief of staff.  Any sentient person realizes that whoever takes that post will have blood on his hands.  And indeed, the new interim candidate i ...
• IDF Chief of Staff-Designate Likely to Lose Job Be ...
  Maj. Gen. Yoav Galant, the prime minister’s choice to be the next IDF chief of staff, has an almost insurmoutable obstacle in the path to his assuming his new job.  He stole (or ‘appropriated’ if you prefer niceties) government land and annexed it to his home, lied about it, and now has lost the su ...
• America’s Multiracial Baby Boom, Coming to Israel… ...
  The NY Times reported this week on a rising demographic phenomenon in American life: multiracialism.  One in seven new marriages in the U.S. in 2009 involved members of different races.  Multiracial Americans are one the fastest growing groups: Many young adults of mixed backgrounds are rejecting ...

Ode Magazine

• Kites for peace above Cairo
  By: Adriaan Wagenaar A Dutch journalist spotted kites in the sky above Cairo. After the fighter jets flying over Cairo last weekend to intimidate the protesting crowds, some protesters throwed their kites into the air above Cairo. Kites for peace. It reminded me to the fa ...
• How to let your own light shine
  By: moneville There’s the real you, and your mistress - the work you. Sure, some folks are lucky enough to have manifested a real passion into their daily work lives; claiming no desire to tip toe around town in a wig and glasses, pretending to be somet ...
• A business in a box
  Teenagers in a rural village in Madagascar show off ToughStuff products: a radio charger, an LED lamp and a solar panel.Photo: ToughStuff After spending decades working in some of the world’s poorest economies, Andrew Tanswell, a British management consultant and Medair em ...
• From dirt to shirt
  When he answers his phone, Eric Henry, president and co-owner of TS Designs in Burlington, North Carolina, is outside fretting about grasshoppers chomping their way through the employee vegetable garden. “We’ve tried screen mesh and now we’re thinking of getting guineas becau ...
• The tango according to Pippi Longstocking
  While members of Gotan Project, the prime movers of contemporary tango innovation, are resorting to slogans like “Tango 3.0” to extol the virtues of their recorded output, a modest yet far more playful revolution is taking place in Finland, second home to the tango for many d ...

OpEd News

• Judging the Judges Needed-- The Lesson of the Impe ...
  For those who believe federal corruption is only among congressmen with Bahamian villas, voracious sexual appetites, or trips to airport bathrooms, guess again" it occurs all over our courtrooms, where we think we receive justice. It is also the most difficult branch to correct, because federal judg ...
• Proof of US Government Support for Egyptian Uprisi ...
  This days old release from Wikileaks is getting no reporting at all from mainstream American press, nor is the "April 6 Youth Movement", the primary motivator of the Egyptian uprising.
• They Don't Even Try to Hide it Anymore
  On the cover of this weeks Time Magazine is a photoshopped picture of Barack Obama standing next to Ronald Reagan. Reagan has his arm around Obama's shoulder as Obama gushes a smile like he's meeting Frank Sinatra. The lead story in this mainstream magazine is "Why Obama, hearts Reagan and What He's ...
• Programmers "frank, direct, negative" on PBS' Need ...
  When Need To Know, a new public affairs offering, premiered nationwide in May on PBS -- and on line at PBS.org -- the hybrid effort was met with an outpouring of negative reaction from media activists and public television viewers alike.
• Blaming Religion for the Evils of the World is Lik ...
  Swami Vivekananda once said that if one looks closely at history, one will find that all of the horrors generally attributed to religion were really political in nature. Yet, it's interesting that we never hear politics being excoriated for the world's ills as we often do religion.

Switchboard

• Residents of award-winning, transit-oriented devel ...
    See that wide median running down the boulevard?  That's where the light rail will go.  Or not, as it may turn out. So much for the widely-touted concept of “transit-ready” development.  The residents of an acclaimed new urbanist village built around planned light rail (or bus rap ...
• Groundhog Day: Rockefeller Re-Run Is Bad News for ...
  It’s Groundhog Day today.  In the movie of the same name, the hero is condemned to relive the same day over and over, until he straightens out his life. The movie’s plot line came to mind on Monday when Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) re-introduced his bill from last year to block the Env ...
• Supporting Polluters Over Kids, Part II: Senate Ed ...
  As my colleague David Doniger explained yesterday, there’s a new pollution promoter on the scene, and his name is Senator John Barrasso from Wyoming. Senator Barrasso has introduced a bill (S. 228) that would allow unlimited carbon dioxide pollution and dismiss by Congressional fiat th ...
• Quebec may ban natural gas drilling due to environ ...
  A recent news article reports that the Quebec government is considering halting natural gas production in the province. Quebec Environment Minister Pierre Arcand is quoted as saying,�"I get the sense the industry isn't in control of the situation." Last year,�Quebec's Ministry of Natu ...
• No scientific integrity for wolves
  The Department of Interior today issued an updated policy on scientific integrity designed “to ensure and maintain the integrity of scientific and scholarly activities used in Departmental decision making.”  I’m all for scientific integrity and protecting scientists from political mani ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• The Shifting Civil-Military Balance in Egypt
  President Obama expressed a general sense of relief tonight that the Egyptian military Related posts:SRBMs Shifting Straits Balance Towards PRC? BSG Blogging I: Civil-Military Relations Egypt blogging
• John Nolte and Peter Schweizer’s Sputnik mom ...
  At some point in their quest to defend Sarah Palin from the likes of Jon Stewart, Big Hollywood’s John Nolte and Big Peace’s Peter Schweizer either lost the ability to understand the English language or acquired Palin’s ability to misunderstand it. Their new side-quest involves Stewart’s mocking of ...
• Oh my sweet rapture/I hear Jesus calling me home
  If you thought the Rapture Index was soooo 2004…well, you were right. Nevertheless, Rob’s post reminded me that since the Antichrist took the oath of office, I hadn’t much considered our proximity to the EndyTimies. Needless to say, we’re still almost fucked, though it appears that our holding patt ...
• Today In Winger Logic
  Apparently, a really dumb state law that does not seem to violate the federal Constitution proves something about the (in)ability of the federal government to regulate interstate commerce. What it proves, exactly, is unclear to me. But if you take some acid and throw on The Dark Side of the Moon ...
• For Its Next Trick, the Wall Street Journal Will C ...
  There’s a lot of egregious hackery in Vinson’s opinion yesterday. The Wall Street Journal has crossed some of Vinson’s hackery with some of its own. I’m not sure if this Vinson/WSJ law office history has topped Vinson’s assertion that not buying health insurance has no effect on markets in healt ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

• Cleveland Gains Passive House SmartHome
• What You Need To Know On Electric Bikes
• Green Tech Chatter: A Smart Meter Issue
• Ted Turner Turns His New Mexico Solar On
• On Green Scale, NASA Facility Aims High

National Law Journal | U.S.

• INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: Privacy and online data col ...
  Several key recent developments suggest a move toward federal data-privacy legislation.
• INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: A Microsoft win could benef ...
  Issue for high court is whether to lower the evidentiary standard for a bar invalidating patents.
• INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: DOJ steps up prosecutions f ...
  The agency has pursued recent IP enforcement actions under the Economic Espionage Act.
• INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: The scope of patentable sub ...
  Two recent decisions provide guidance as to how abstract a patentable invention can be.
• Imelda Marcos, son hit with $353.6 million sanctio ...
  Imelda Marcos and her son have been ordered to pay $353.6 million for failing to adhere to a permanent injunction tied to a $4.5 billion judgment in the multidistrict litigation over alleged human rights violations stemming from her late husband's rule over the Philippines.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

• Trout Unlimited to hold training session for Marce ...
  The following Trout Unlimited-sponsored training session is for those interested in learning about the signs and symptoms of trouble in the Marcellus Shale drilling areas, and to learn what’s normal when such activity is on-going. When: February 26, 2011 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM Where: Citizen’s Hose ...
• Changes Made to DEP’s Website
  FYI -  DEP has made a change to their website, making it a little harder to find violations of Oil & Gas drillers. From the DEP main page, you now have to click on “Latest News” tab - Violations are listed there now, along with the production data. Not hidden, just moved. You can also go there [. ...
• Become a Waterdog!
  Become a Pine Creek Waterdog!! It’s simple and could make a huge difference in protecting our environment and assisting the DEP in enforcing compliance with our regulations.  The Pine Creek Headwaters Protection Group is holding a training and registration for Waterdogs on February 8, 2011 from 7 to ...
• Waterdog Training January 10th 2011
  Waterdogs Training Monday, January 10th, 2011 7:00-9:00pm Jersey Shore Middle School Library Registration Fee $10 Additional $20 if you would like a TDS Meter Registration is due by January 3rd, 2011 Please make checks payable to: LCCD Lycoming County Conservation District 542 County Farm Road, Suit ...
• Pittsburgh Sets Model to Reject Corporate-Imposed ...
  November 30, 2010 By S.B. Thompson Chambersburg, PA – Edited for length * The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) is actively involved in many issues to help prevent corporations from raping America’s land and resources, including speaking out against uranium mining and mountaintop re ...

News Blaze

• Gortat Tears Up Boston
  Against the powerhouse Boston Celtics and the New Orleans Hornets, the 7' 0' center from Poland erupted for two quality games. The Hornets had recently won 10 games in a row.
• Is Governor Brown Really Open to New Ideas?
  Gov. Brown asks for ideas, but Green Party wants to know if he'll listen to 2 ideas to save the state: Oil severance tax and fixing 3-Strikes law.
• Anti-Malaria Alliance Saves Thousands of Lives Acr ...
  The anti-malaria alliance was able to save thousands of lives across the continent. What's even more important is that the success it has currently achieved now serves as a good model for tackling other social ills.
• Somali League: Elman Crashes Supper Shell By 4-1
  Elman celebrated its first goal when the popular striker Abdi Aziz Mohamed Ali scored during the 25th minute of the 1st half. The same striker scored the second goal for Elman FC.
• UN Officials Urge Egyptian Authorities to Heed Cal ...
  Ms. Pillay deplored the rising number of casualties, saying unconfirmed reports suggests that as many as 300 people may have been killed so far, over 3,000 injured and hundreds arrested. She urged authorities to ensure police and other security forc

environment 360

• Intel the Biggest Buyer of Renewable Energy in the ...
  Intel Corporation remains the top purchaser of renewable energy in the U.S., nearly doubling the amount of green energy credits it will buy in 2011 to more than 2.5 billion kilowatt-hours — the equivalent of powering 218,000 American homes — according to a new ranking by the U.S. Environmental Prote ...
• U.S. Scraps Plans to Restrict Planting of Genetica ...
  U.S. officials have rejected a proposal to regulate the planting of genetically modified alfalfa, a decision seen as a triumph for advocates of biotech crops. After conducting an analysis of economic and environmental factors, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack determined that alfalfa engineered ...
• That Shot of Tequila May Come With a Biofuel Chase ...
  Researchers have discovered that the Agave plant, used in making tequila, may be an excellent source of biofuels, with two agave species producing yields of biofuels that far surpassed the yields from biofuel feedstocks such as corn, wheat, soybean, and sorghum. Reporting in the journal Global Chang ...
• Change in Arctic Oscillation Chills North America ...
  This NASA satellite map shows how a major change in Arctic air currents has led to topsy-turvy weather across North America, with temperatures far below normal in the U.S. and western Canada and extreme warmth affecting many Arctic regions. The red and blue colors represent to what degree recent tem ...
• Interview: Gulf Panel Chief on the Complacency Beh ...
  William K. Reilly is co-chair of the presidential commission on last year's Gulf of Mexico oil spill, which released its final report on Jan. 11. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, Reilly, a former head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, describes the William K. Reilly missteps ...

Red Ice Creations

• The Coming Era of Brain-Based Law
  Accelerating technologies will undoubtedly challenge the basic assumptions of the mainstream culture and help shape our future values. Consequently, the legal system must adapt to reflect a new paradigm. Brain scan evidence already edged its way into an Indian murder trial, foreshadowing the use of ...
• Discovering the Largest Cave on Earth
  His feet move over limestone as sharp as razor blades yet invisible to the naked eye. The darkness is like pitch in the cavernous space, but the smell of moist air given off by the cave and jungle hangs heavily in the air. To explorer Mark Jenkins, it feels like being inside a mountain. In the silen ...
• Germany bans "anti-Israeli" movie
  Germany has banned the public screening of a movie, which depicts that atrocities Israel has committed against activists aboard an Ankara-backed Gaza-bound aid convoy. Modeled after the TV series of the same name, the movie tells the story of how the protagonist captures the Israeli military command ...
• Family of murdered former Pentagon official Wheele ...
  The family of former presidential aide and Pentagon official, John P. Wheeler III, is offering a $25,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of his killer. Wheeler, whose body was discovered in a Delaware landfill on New Year’s Eve, died from blunt force trauma. Wheeler’s family is desperat ...
• Grampa, what was "walking"?
  U3-X Personal Mobility Prototype Video from: YouTube.com What if? Helping people achieve greater mobility. Video from: YouTube.com Honda Walking Assist Devices Video from: YouTube.com Berkeley Bionics Human Exoskeleton Video from: YouTube.com Segway Video from: YouTube.com

Russia Today

• Russian court sentences Jehovah’s Witness for resi ...
  A Russian court has fined a woman for rejecting doctors’ advice to allow her five-year-old son to have a blood transfusion. Her decision resulted in the boy’s death in hospital. The verdict is the first such precedent...
• Egyptian demonstrators celebrate stamina
  RT’s Nadezhda Kevorkova, who is in the thick of events on Tahrir Square in Cairo, has witnessed personally that decades of Hosni Mubarak’s regime have left Egyptians no other choice but to strive for his resignation at...
• Diplomat expulsion linked to Anna Chapman
  The Russian diplomat expelled from Ireland on Tuesday was the source of fake IDs for Russian undercover agents in the US, claims British newspaper The Guardian.
• New death in Domodedovo terror attack
  The death toll of the suicide bombing in Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport has risen to 36, after a patient injured in the explosion died in hospital on Wednesday.
• When the music’s over: Georgian authorities said t ...
  High tension between Russia and Georgia is spilling into everyday life. Georgian restaurant owners are facing the threat of fines if they decide to perform Russian songs.

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

• More Paracast: George Filer
  Yeah I know I’ve been lazy lately (or so it seems), but trust me on this one. You won’t be disappointed with this interview Gene Steinberg and co-host Chris O’Brien of the Paracast had with Eastern MUFON Director George Filer, who also has the website Filer’s Files (which caters to guess what? You g ...
• The Paracast: Clifford Clift of MUFON
  This week’s Paracast with Gene Steinberg and Chris O’Brien is a conversation with MUFON International’s Clifford Clift. Subjects range from the nuts and bolts aspects of UFOs to the possible paranormal links with ghosts, angels, demons and Sasquatch. This was a down to earth and civil interview, eve ...
• Bizarre Beachcoming: Review of the Codex Seraphini ...
  Dr. Beachcoming, that eccentric collector of all things of an exotic historical nature, reviews The Codex Seraphinianus,  a book written by Luigi Serafini that is purportedly about an alien world complete with language, customs, architecture, flora and fauna. Luigi Serafini, Codex Seraphinianus (num ...
• Quantum DNA
  It’s been written that photosynthesis might be a quantum process. Now a paper appears that claims DNA itself is a quantum process: A Nobel Prize winning biologist has ignited controversy after publishing details of an experiment in which a fragment of DNA appeared to ‘teleport’ or imprint itself be ...
• The Paracast: Jerome Clark
  This week’s Paracast with Gene Steinberg and co-host Chris O’Brien features Jerome Clark, author of âThe UFO Encyclopediaâ and âHidden Realms, Lost Civilizations, and Beings from Other Worlds.” After listening to this interview, I was kind of surprised by a researcher in present day ufology who sti ...

Tippers News

• Why Did Aggie Boys Buy Sex at the Chicken Ranch?
  The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, the Texas A&M football team celebrates a win with a visit to their local brothel, the Chicken Ranch. The Aggie Boys are fSubmitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Two survivors of human trafficking share their sto ...
  She fiddles with her cell phone. In mid conversation, she holds it out, showing off who�s on the screen. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Trip to India inspires Everson woman to help victi ...
  EVERSON - Touched by her own memories of being adopted as an orphan, Sue Ann Heutink took her first overseas venture to help victims of human trafficking. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Free Human Trafficking Victim Sara Kruzan From Lif ...
  Sixteen-year-old human trafficking victim Sara Kruzan was sentenced to life in prison without parole when, in a desperate act to escape captivity, she shot her pimp. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Evidence Refutes Bp's and Fed's Deception
  In August, Truthout conducted soil and water sampling in Pass Christian Harbor, Mississippi; on Grand Isle, Louisiana; and around barrier islands off the coast of Louisiana, in order to test for the presence of oil from BP's Macondo Well. [extremely high]Submitted by Ellyn S. to Environment �|� �No ...

The Freeman

• Less-Revealing Scanner Software Unveiled by TSA
  “New software designed to make airport security scanners less intrusive debuted at the Las Vegas airport Tuesday, a response to last year’s uproar from passengers who thought the blurry but revealing images were an invasion of privacy.” (Washington Post) Missing the point. FEE Timely Classic “Big Br ...
• Jobs, But No Qualified Applicants
  “The dilemma is becoming more common across the country as employers report increasing numbers of job openings. But many of those jobs are not a good fit for those who are out of work. The reason, economists say, is that the recession accelerated the decline of some industries, such as housing const ...
• “Losing” Egypt
  The world is not a chessboard, and the United States cannot move people around, expecting them to obey.
• “Losing” Egypt
  The world is not a chessboard, and the United States cannot move people around and expect them to obey.
• Douglas Rogers (1984-2011)
  We at FEE are saddened to learn that Douglas Rogers, 26, author of The Freeman article “The Fiasco of Prohibition” (January/February 2011) was killed in a car accident recently. Doug was a Ph.D. candidate concentrating in the economics of crime at George Mason University and was studying under Profe ...

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

• U.S. defense contractors with the most at stake in ...
  Egypt -- where a popular uprising that began last week seeks the end to President Hosni Mubarak's 30-year rule -- is the second-largest recipient of U.S. foreign aid after Israel. The Egyptian government receives about $2 billion a year from the United States, with most of that assistance ...
• New paralegal training provides ray of hope for fo ...
  By Rosana Cruz, Bridge the Gulf Drive down this short stretch of St. Bernard Avenue, and you will see signs of a struggling neighborhood in despair. Bars, blighted homes, metal-grated storefronts, and the still-shuttered Circle Food Store tell the story of this strip. Here in New Orleans' 7th Wa ...
• Showdown over King Coal's rule in Kentucky
  A battle that took place last week in a Kentucky courtroom shined a spotlight on the cozy relationship between the coal industry and the state -- and will help decide whether citizens have the right to intervene in an environmental enforcement case that's been mishandled by regulators. On ...
• 'Billionaires club' of wealthy conservatives gathe ...
  For years the Koch brothers from Kansas (reportedly worth $21.5 billion each) have been hosting a secret gathering of conservative businessmen, operatives and politicians to with little fanfare. But this year's pow-wow at the Ranchos Las Palmas Resort and Spa in Rancho Mirage, California is draw ...
• What if executives feared prison time for health a ...
  By Jenny Brown, Labor Notes In the U.S., owners and managers of companies like BP, responsible for 11 deaths and 17 injuries in last year's Gulf oil rig explosion, never face jail time for the workers they kill. That's not the case everywhere: Steelworkers in Canada are pressing a prosecution of ...

Worldpress - Africa

• Preventing Maternal Deaths in West Africa
  Dr. Fredanna M'Cormack and her Bele Uman Project are working in Sierra Leone to save the lives of pregnant mothers and their babies.
• Interview with Kumi Naidoo
  The Greenpeace executive director talks about connections between the environment, poverty, peace, and how the interconnectedness of these issues can drive civil society.
• Re: Blood Diamonds: Still Bloody
  We are seeing a steadily growing tide of discontent with the Kimberley Process.
• Re: Conflict Minerals: the New Blood Diamonds
  I believe that the senators don't know the real issues on the ground and their well-intended legislation will be useless without knowledge of the actual situation.
• World Cup Crime in South Africa
  While South Africa boasts understandable pride and excitement to be hosting the World Cup, its citizens are fearful. An already disordered country will see crime escalate substantially when the crowds arrive.

Canadian Encyclopedia

• Trudeau, Pierre Elliott
  Pierre Elliott Trudeau, politician, writer, constitutional lawyer, prime minister of Canada 1968-79 and 1980-84 (b at Montr�al 18 Oct 1919; d at Montr�al 28 Sept 2000). Trudeau was born into a wealthy family, the
• Vimy Ridge
  Vimy Ridge, battle fought 9-14 April 1917 during WORLD WAR I . The long, low ridge formed a key position linking the Germans' new HINDENBURG LINE to their main trench lines leading north from HILL 70 near Arras, France.
• New France
  France was a colonial power in North America from the early 16th century, the age of great European discoveries and fishing expeditions, to the early 19th century, when Napol�on Bonaparte sold Louisiana to the US. From
• Native People: Eastern Woodlands
  Major Language and Tribal GroupsEastern Woodland Indians spoke languages belonging to 2 unrelated families, Iroquoian and Algonquian. At the onset of the historic period, Iroquoians occupied much of southern Ontario, northern
• Fur Trade
  Fur trade in Canada began as an adjunct to the fishing industry. Early in the 16th century fishermen from northwest Europe were taking rich catches of COD on the Grand Banks off Newfoundland and in the Gulf of St Lawrence (

How Can I Recycle This ?

• How can I reuse or recycle an old wrought iron gat ...
  Sticking in the garden after yesterday’s “how to make cloches” question, I’m a member of UKVegGardeners and spotted this question on the forum yesterday: Anyone got any suggestions, please, on uses for an old wrought iron 3ft square garden gate which has reached the end of its gate life but must hav ...
• How can I reuse or recycle restaurant menus?
  Jessica left a message on the “suggest an item” page: Hello, I work in a restaurant where we get new menus about every two weeks. They are nice menus, but have worn edges, maybe, some wear and tear. But we throw these menus out by the hundreds every two weeks. It seems so wasteful to [...]
• How can I use up, reuse or recycle goose fat?
  We’ve had an email from Ali, asking about goose fat: We jumped onto the goose fat bandwagon at Christmas because everyone was saying it was the best way to make roast potatoes but they were awful!! Not sure if it was my fault or the fat but either way they’re off the menu here now!! [...]
• How can I reuse or recycle broken ironing boards?
  Philip Mitchell Graham has left us another suggestion/excellent upcycle idea: Ironing boards. One of the great monuments to inbuilt obsolescence is the common ironing board. They are designed to break after a few years, because the folding mechanism is made of cheap mild steel and the legs often buc ...
• What can I reuse or recycle to make small seed env ...
  I asked this question on Twitter yesterday forgetting I had a blog dedicated to such things ;) Basically, I want to make some small envelopes/pouches for sharing spare seeds at a seed swap. I imagine I’ll make them using scrap paper (old envelopes seem a logical place to start but I’m open to other ...

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Media Consortium

• 1.4 million fans can’t be wrong: NPR’s Facebook pa ...
  But Carvin also emphasized the importance of audience expectations. “They still see our site as mainly dedicated to consuming news,” he said. Facebook, on the other hand, is a web venue in which people are used to chatting with their family and friends. ..NPR’s Facebook page is a complement to, not ...
• The Newsonomics of 2011 news metrics to watch » Ni ...
• Gallery: 15 iPad news apps
  Thinking about creating an iPad app for your newsroom? Want to see what other news media have come up with? Below are screengrabs of several news apps from newspapers, magazines radio, television, and online-only news websites.
• Five Months on Tumblr as Seen Through Pummelvision ...
• The Media Consortium: Weekly Diaspora: After DREAM ...

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

• Thousands of jobs to go as Pfizer looks to slash R ...
  Pfizer is to close its facility in Sandwich, Kent, as it drops its R&D spend by up to two billion dollars over the next two years. Sandwich is Pfizer’s main site in the UK and one of the country’s largest research centres. The company notes that four of its top ten drugs were discovered there, in ...
• Team drills near-record ice core
  Researchers working with the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide Ice Core project have drilled a column of ice nearly as deep as ten Empire State Buildings stacked atop one another. The final section of the 3,330-meter long core was extracted on 28 January. It is the longest ice core ever drilled by US ...
• US Department of Interior leads scientific integri ...
  When the White House Office of Science and Technology policy issued a long-awaited memo on scientific integrity in December 2010, watchdog groups said proof of the effort's success would come from actions taken by individual agencies. Quickest off the mark has been the Department of the Interior (D ...
• Community forests a growth investment, report find ...
  Governments in the developing world could get big returns by spending relatively small sums on locally controlled forests, says a report from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) based in Gland, Switzerland. The study, The Value of Investing in Locally Controlled Forestry ...
• No breakthrough to Antarctica's Lake Vostok
  A Russian drilling team hoping to reach the surface of Lake Vostok, a vast freshwater lake 3,750 metres under Antarctica's ice-sheet, appears to have run out of time as the region's summer drilling season draws to a close. The ambitious project, launched more than 20 years ago, has been repeatedl ...

new geography

• The Midwest: Coming Back?
  Oh my name it is nothing My age it is less The country I come from Is called the Midwest �Bob Dylan, �With God on Our Side,� 1964 For nearly a half century since the Minnesota-raised Robert Zimmerman wrote those lines, the American Midwest has widely been seen as a �loser� region�a place fr ...
• Regional Exchange Rates: The Cost of Living in US ...
  International travelers and expatriates have long known that currency exchange rates are not reliable indicators of purchasing power. For example, a traveler to France or Germany will notice that the dollar equivalent in Euros cannot buy as much as at home. Conversely, the traveler to China will ...
• Why Most Americans are Both Liberal and Conservati ...
  American politics is consumed by a bitter, at times violent, debate about the overall role of government and specific governmental programs. Pundits often frame this divide in terms of geography (red states versus blue states), ethnicity (Hispanics and blacks versus whites), class (rich versus poor ...
• Gifting China
  Listening to public radio, the host was interviewing a college professor as to why China has brought more innovation and progress in many areas of its growth, leaving other countries behind. In particular they mentioned high speed rail, low energy vehicles, and construction. The entire show was b ...
• Pimp My Stripmall, Please!
  If anything characterizes the face of Florida’s landscape, it is the proliferation of shopping malls of all types. Generation by generation, as population swelled, country roads widened into highways and each intersection seemed to blossom into four parking lots framed by strip centers decorated wi ...

GM Watch

• Shortchanged: Biotechnology and the emerging clima ...
• Animal feed lobby targets zero tolerance
• Another RTRS company charged with slave-like treat ...
• New briefing on cloning farm animals
• Dragging Monsanto to justice over GM alfalfa

spiked

• This yearning for freedom will not lead to theocra ...
  The fear that the Egyptian uprising will create ‘another Iran’ reveals the extent to which 1979 still haunts the Western imagination.
• The truth about the Muslim Brotherhood
  Secularist politics is weak in Egypt partly because the Brotherhood was often used as an attack dog against it.
• This is so much more than a ‘webol ...
  Egyptian bloggers talk exclusively to spiked about why an uprising takes more than technology.
• Message to America: Hands off Egypt!
  After decades of backing autocrats, the best thing Washington can do for the cause of Egyptian democracy is to butt out.
• Tommy Sheridan: hoist with the left’s own pe ...
  The imprisonment of Scottish socialist Sheridan is a disgrace to justice – and a sign of the danger of having illusions in the state.

Cryptogon

• Fed Passes China in Treasury Holdings
  Via: Financial Times: The Federal Reserve has surpassed China as the leading holder of US Treasury securities even though it has yet to reach the halfway mark in its latest round of quantitative easing, according to official figures. Based on weekly data released on Thursday, the New York Fed’s hold ...
• Australia’s Cyclone Yasi May Destroy Even &# ...
  Via: Reuters: Australia’s Cyclone Yasi, with winds of up to 300 km (186 miles) per hour, is so powerful it could blow apart even “cyclone proof” houses, engineers said on Wednesday. Yasi is headed for major towns and cities along the northeast coast. It is believed to be the strongest ever to hit Au ...
• Rumsfeld to Receive ‘Defender of the Constit ...
  Via: Raw Story: Former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld will be honored with the “Defender of the Constitution Award” at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), an annual event attended by numerous conservative activists, journalists, and politicians. Similar Absurdity: Obama Awa ...
• Air Force’s Second X-37B Space Plane Nears L ...
  Via: Space Flight Now: Two months after a sister ship successfully concluded a demo flight, the U.S. military’s second robotic X-37B space plane is in Florida preparing for blastoff March 4 on another secret mission, according to an Air Force official. The 29-foot-long, 14-foot-wide space plane is b ...
• Australia Evacuates Coastal Cities in Path of Big ...
  Via: Reuters: Australia evacuated thousands of people from its northeast coast on Tuesday as a cyclone rivalling Hurricane Katrina bore down on tourism towns and rural communities, with officials saying it could even threaten areas deep inland that were ruined by floods last month. Mines, rail lines ...

The Economic Collapse

• 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 ...

Desertification

• CONTAINER GARDENING AND CLEANING VILLAGES, TOWNS A ...
  VIDEO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58juqATSpoY A message from Patrick HARRY, Container Gardening Project founder and coordinator)   The birth of the Container Gardening Project in Malawi is a blessing to the nation, as it helps to create a healthy environment, free from litters.  … Continue readi ...
• Grow ‘blue-beard’ shrub as anti-desert ...
  Read at : http://www.bestlongislandmasonry.com/planning-for-desert-gardening http://www.finegardening.com/caryopteris-x-clandonensis-longwood-blue-blue-mist-shrub.aspx Caryopteris à clandonensis ‘Longwood Blue’ Blue bluebeard This is a shrub, itâs deciduous and it will grow back every and every spri ...
• Planning For Desert Gardening (Google / bestlongis ...
  Read at : Google Alert – Desert Gardening http://www.bestlongislandmasonry.com/planning-for-desert-gardening If you live in a dry and arid climate then your desert landscaping is going to take just a little much more planning than some other parts of the country. desert … Continue reading →
• MEA Bulletin – Issue No. 108 (IISD)
  Read at : Bulletin des Négociations de la Terre IISD RS is pleased to announce that the newest issue of MEA Bulletin is now available. To access the 108th issue directly, visit: http://www.iisd.ca/mea-l/meabulletin108.pdf . To read past issues and … Continue reading →
• Charcoal production in Somalia is continuing to ri ...
  Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://news.mongabay.com/2011/0123-somalia_kirkland.html Deforestation continues in Somalia despite charcoal ban Emily Kirkland, mongabay.com IRIN News, a news service operated by the UN Office for Humanitarian Affairs, has reported that charcoal production i ...

The Paper Trail

• Federal Judge with Medical Industry Investments Ru ...
  U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson, who ruled Monday that the health care reform law is unconstitutional, holds financial investments in health and medicine worth as much as $75,000.
• Newsmaker Interview:  Warren Says Congress Sh ...
  Elizabeth Warren, the government’s top advocate on consumer financial issues, says that Congress needs to hold auto dealers to the same basic rules of fairness that apply to other financial institutions.
• Potential 2012 GOP Slow to Enlist Big-Dollar Lobby ...
  One strong sign of a politician’s interest in the presidential race is always the amount of early money raised. New rules for identifying lobbyist-bundlers show just two potential GOP candidates for the 2012 nomination reporting large bundled contributions from registered lobbyists in the 2009-2010 ...
• WikiLeaks More Effective Than SEC, Says Enron Whis ...
  A former Enron accountant who blew the whistle on fraud at the energy giant says she doesn't trust the Securities and Exchange Commission to handle tips from company insiders, even though the agency plans to offer a generous new bounty for information about fraud.
• Treasury Can Sketch Out Rulemaking Areas Before Co ...
  Before the controversial Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) officially opens its doors on July 21, the Treasury Department may issue preliminary notices to the public about some rulemaking areas the new bureau will tackle, according to a government memo.

backofthebook.ca

• Final Total for F-35?
  by Eric Pettifor When buying an SLR camera, the price of the unit is not the entire cost. Will you need additional lenses? Tripod? Camera case/bag? Filters? Additional media? Apparently it's the same thing when buying fighter jets. You can't just buy 65 ...
• Bad Jokes are Good PR
  by Rachel Krueger Amy Chua is terrible at jokes.  She told one in early January about forcing her 7-year-old daughter to practice piano ‘right through dinner into the night’ with no breaks, and no one laughed.  Guys, the punchline is that the daughter got good at piano.  Honestly.   An excerp ...
• Stelmach resignation leaves old-school media in th ...
  By Brian Brennan Can the mainstream print media successfully reinvent itself to become as relevant to news consumers in the digital age as it used to be back in the days when readers looked to their morning newspapers for authoritative coverage of the previous day's events? The question arise ...
• Mike Farnworth: gay matters
  By Dave Brindle Is BC ready for a story asking if it's ready for a gay leader? It's the story that Mike Farnworth, a leading contender to replace the deposed Carole James as leader of BC’s NDP, knew would be told before he announced his candidacy. A story that I, along with ...
• The guy’s job
  By David Bitonti This morning, as I completed picking up after my Boston Terrier in the back yard, I looked down at my plastic-wrapped hand and thought, “Why am I doing this?” I only had to remember the conversation — more like protest — with my wife the last time pooper-scooping ...

Worldnews

• Govt. monitoring crude oil prices: Mukherjee ...
  New Delhi, Feb 2 (ANI): Expressing concern over the rise in crude oil prices in international markets due to turmoil in the Middle East, Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday said the government is monitoring the...
• Mitsubishi Motors reports dive in quarterly p ...
  TOKYO -- Net profit at Mitsubishi Motors Corp. skidded 75 percent last quarter, hurt by higher operating expenses and foreign exchange losses. The Tokyo-based maker of the Galant sedan and Outlander crossover SUV reported Wednesday a net profit of 2.68 billion yen ($32.9 million) for the three ...
• Yemen president to step down
  Yemen's president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, has said that he will step down when the current term of his 30-year rule expires in 2013. Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh Photo: EPA Mr Saleh, who has faced calls to resign from crowds of protesters this week, said he will freeze constitutional amendm ...
• 14 killed while traveling on train roof in In ...
  LUCKNOW, India - Police say 14 young job seekers traveling on the rooftop of an overcrowded train were killed when they hit a low overhead road bridge in northern India. Senior police officer Brij Lal says that another 13 people injured in the accident were hospitalized in Uttar Pradesh state. ...
• Aamir Khan turns baddie for 'Dhoom 3'
  New Delhi, Feb 2, (PTI): Wednesday, February 02, 2011 --> After John Abhrama and Hrithik Roshan, it is Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan's turn to play the baddie in Yash Raj's superhit franchise 'Dhoom'. Both Abhishek Bachchan and Uday Chopra will reprise their roles of...

Alex in Wonderland

• Report: Active-Duty Army PSYOPS Soldiers Embedded ...
  To better manufacture consent, U.S. Army soldiers are embedded as intern and fellows at local TV affiliates, along with previously reported newspapers and national outlets.
• Daily Briefing—15th-16th Sept 2010
  News and views from around the web posted to the Wonderland Wire
• Report: U.S. Troops ‘Still Killing Civilians’ in I ...
  A U.S.-Iraqi night raid results in the deaths of eight civilians weeks after U.S. combat operations were announced as over.
• Military Welfare Budget Won’t Thin Any Time ...
  Ivan Eland sat with RT to discuss the astronomical political clout held by the welfare queens of the military-industrial complex that will thwart any translation of the Pentagon's rhetoric into actual policy
• Because the System’s Not Rigged Enough for Cops an ...
  Kevin Carson on the criminal injustice system 'shrills' pushing the narrative that the letter of the law aides criminals against so-called 'crime fighters'.

MY Daily Apple

• TRI-SPRINTEC (Norgestimate And Ethinyl Estradiol) ...
  Updated Date: Jan 31, 2011 EST
• Low-Dose Tissue Plasminogen Activator in Pulmonary ...
• New Classification Of Sphincter Of Oddi Dysfunctio ...
  Sphincter of Oddi dysfunction (SOD) is a pathological syndrome that is usually classified into the biliary type or the pancreatic type according to the Milwaukee criteria. However, this classification has some drawbacks in clinical practice, some of which result in flawed classification and failure ...
• Did Vikings navigate by polarized light?
  'Sunstone' crystals may have helped seafarers to find the Sun on cloudy days.
• Green Cleaning Spruces Up Environment
  Green cleaning products are in. From kitchen sprays and bathroom scrubs to dishwashing detergents and liquid soaps, manufacturers all seem to be going au naturel.

Common Dreams

• WikiLeaks Among Nominees for Nobel Peace Prize
  by Wojciech MoskwaOSLO - Anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks has been nominated for the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian politician behind the proposal said on Wednesday, a day after the deadline for nominations expired.The Norwegian Nobel Committee accepts nominations for what many consider as the ...
• Scientists ask Congress to Put Aside Politics, Tak ...
  by Andrew RestucciaMore than a dozen scientists took aim at climate skeptics in a letter to members of Congress late last week, calling on lawmakers to put aside politics and focus on the science behind climate change.In the Jan. 28 letter, 18 scientists from various universities and research center ...
• Amnesty Urges Help for WikiLeaks Suspect, Bradley ...
  LONDON – Amnesty International urged Britain to help ease the "harsh and punitive" detention conditions of Bradley Manning, the US soldier suspected of leaking information to WikiLeaks. The rights group put pressure on the British government Tuesday to ensure that the army private's detention ...
• Will Cyclone Yasi Push Australia into Action on Cl ...
  by Damian Carrington With Cyclone Yasi bearing down on Queensland, the wind rising, the windows starting to rattle and the rain beginning to pelt, one can only imagine how those people holed up in their homes are feeling.read more
• EPA to Limit Rocket Fuel Chemical in Tap Water
  WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency is setting the first federal drinking water standard for a toxic rocket fuel ingredient linked to thyroid problems in pregnant women and young children, the Obama administration announced on Wednesday.read more

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

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Examine Religion - Tweets

• ExamineReligion: OC Diocese celebrates Catholic Sc ...
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• ExamineReligion: Rev LeVonia Ray Of Greater New Zi ...
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• ExamineReligion: REDress Project: Remembering 500 ...
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Energy Collective

• Shell Exits Algae Biofuels
  Is algae losing its green bubbling allure?
• Power Line Communications Now Being Used in More a ...
  � I had a nice catch-up call with Mike Holt the other day � Mike is Semitech Semiconductor�s VP Sales and Marketing and we had previously talked last August.
• Which of These Former Elected Officials Doesn’t Lo ...
  Which of these former elected officials doesn’t love ethanol mandates? Is it former vice president Al Gore, Democrat from Tennessee; former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, Republican from Georgia; or former Senator Rick Santorum, Republican from Pennsylvania? The answer is… …the one that isn’t t ...
• Consumer Privacy, Energy Use Data, and Trust
  Consumer privacy concerns are an important�focus of many Smart Grid conversations.� Everyone agrees that consumers need to be educated about the entirely new types of energy use data that can be created with Smart Grid technologies.� While we must ensure that consumers are aware of their rights and ...
• IFR: An optimized approach to meeting global energ ...
  The Integral Fast Reactor (IFR), developed at U.S. national laboratories in the latter years of the last century, can economically and cleanly supply all the energy the world needs without any further mining or enrichment of uranium. Instead of utilizing a mere 0.6% of the potential energy in uraniu ...

Green House - USA Today

• EPA to limit rocket fuel chemical in tap water
  The Obama administration announced Wednesday that it will develop first drinking water standard for a toxic rocket fuel ingredient linked to thyroid problems in pregnant women and young children.
• Yellow Pages offers opt-out website for phone book ...
  Don't want thick phone books delivered to your house anymore? The Yellow Pages industry is now offering an upgraded, user-friendly website to make it easier for consumers to opt-out or limit deliveries.
• Could you live with six pairs of shoes? Mom sparks ...
  Be honest -- how many pairs of shoes do you have? How many do you actually wear? Several Green House readers expressed shock that a California mom who, in an effort to simplify her life, has only six pairs of shoes.
• U.S. companies take bold greening efforts in 2010
  In a dramatic shift, U.S. companies are making b0lder and longer-term commitments to green their businesses despite a challenging economy, says a report Tuesday.
• AP: Of 91,000 Gulf oil spill claims, one final pay ...
  BP's compensation fund for Gulf oil spill victims has made a final settlement payment to only one of about 91,000 people and businesses waiting for checks, and that $10 million payout went to a BP business partner, reports the Associated Press.

Prior Art

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

Peoples Voice

• Crunch time coming for America in the Middle East?
  Alan Hart If more and more Arabs breach the wall of fear that has prevented them for decades from demanding their rights, expressing their rage at the corruption and repression of their governments and at regime impotence in the face of Israel’s arrogance of power, there’s one question above all ot ...
• Memo to Congress: Show Us the M-O-N-E-Y! (Part 1)
  Geraldine Perry Cuba Gooding Jr. became an overnight sensation when his character, pro football player Rod Tidwell, pithily directed his high-minded but needy agent Jerry Macguire, played by Tom Cruise, to "Show me the money!" Tidwell's terse directive is as practical as it is memorable and luckily ...
• Somebody please hand Abbas the revolver on the sil ...
  Stuart Littlewood In all our joy and excitement for Egypt let us not lose sight of the grey and sinister blob that is Mahmoud Abbas. He must be asking himself – fearfully - why he has so far escaped the purge while his bosom-buddies Hosni and Zine are sent packing in disgrace. Some say Abbas isn ...
• Reagan Revisionism: Planned Centennial Commemorati ...
  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 Watergate and humiliated by the taking of hostages in Ir ...
• This Ain't Ike's Grand Old Party
  by Mary Pitt As one who was born into the Republican Party almost a century ago, I do not even recognize the party as it exists today. My family hated Franklin Roosevelt as rabidly as the Tea Party hates Obama today. Despite the fact that the nation was deep in the depression before he took office, ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

• Gap between rich and poor: 8th Wonder of the World ...
  That's the tongue-in-cheek conclusion of the satiristic news source, The Onion, which names the growing gap between the rich and poor the 8th natural wonder of the world, calling the divide the "most colossal and enduring of mankind's creations." Said Committee Chariman Henri Jean-Baptiste: Of all ...
• Income inequality: A defining public issue in 2011
  Picking through the wreckage of the global recession, former Privy Council Clerk Alex Himelfarb takes stock of what happened and points to two trends he predicts might shape politics and policy in 2011: the "extraordinary resilience of neoliberal ideology" and the "reemergence of inequality as a def ...
• Health Canada putting profit before health in drug ...
  Health Canada is holding its final consultations on proposals to “modernize” standards on prescription drugs this week. A new CCPA study by Dr. Joel Lexchin examines Health Canada’s harmonizing initiatives to date, part of the modernization initiative, and finds they have been putting private profit ...
• CEO pay: Recession-proof
  A new study by CCPA Research Associate Hugh Mackenzie shows Canada's best paid 100 CEOs appear to be recession-proof. The study looks at 2009 compensation levels for Canada’s best paid 100 CEOs and finds they pocketed an average of $6.6 million during the darkest period of the recession – a stark c ...
• Looking into the crystal ball: 2011 predictions
  Happy New Year!�� As we round out another decade, thoughts turn to the future. The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives� Hugh Mackenzie, Shauna Mackinnon, Bruce Campbell, Trish Hennessy, Jim Stanford and Armine Yalnizyan weigh in on the issues facing Canada in the years ahead. They flag the e ...

World Wide Hippies

• Read It, Young Feminists
  100 Young Adult Books for the Feminist Reader | bitchmedia The Bitch Media Community Lending Library brings you our very first book list, made up of 100 young adult novels that every feminist should add to the stack of books on their bedside table. Here at the library we’ve been re-reading some of o ...
• US Corporate Welfare Giveaways
  by Rep. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) | progress.org -The Export-Import Bank: Corporate Welfare At Its Worst The US federal government is guilty of making huge corporate welfare handouts. Taxpayers are forced to pay for ridiculous things, including handouts to Enron, General Motors and AT&T. This country ha ...
• Be Kind – Simple, right?
  WWH – My personal answers to the ludicrous state of affairs on our planet are these: But first, some observations of my 63 years here: I had a relatively good first 18 years. Loving family, no lack for any of the essentials, a few close friends, a healthy curiosity about the world Having been [.. ...
• On Becoming a Minimalist
  WWH – I used to be a collector. I used to collect “things.” My mother is a collector of sorts. She collects stuff in general. She always had two or three of everything, just in case. I grew up in a house with rich, red carpets and crystal chandeliers. My mother was always decorating, cleaning, [... ...
• Executives Make All The Moolah
  That’s it, Joe. I’m changing my title to “Executive Editor.” I’m tired of getting the shaft! Life at the Top: Endless Obscene Bonuses for Execs, Everyone Else Getting Shafted | Alternet We historically, here in the United States, have had a word for power imbalances this striking and stark: plutocra ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

• Hillary Clinton on NBC's Meet the Press, January 3 ...
  ...SECRETARY CLINTON: I want the Egyptian people to have the chance to chart a new future. It needs to be an orderly, peaceful transition to real democracy, not faux democracy like the elections we saw in Iran two years ago, where you have one election 30 years ago and then the people just keep stay ...
• "I Shall Not Hate": Gaza Doctor Izzeldin Abuelaish ...
  AMY GOODMAN: Yesterday marked the second anniversary of the end of Israel’s assault on Gaza. Dubbed "Operation Cast Lead," up to 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis were killed in the 22-day assault between December 28th, 2008 and January 18th, 2009. More than half the Palestinians killed were civil ...
• Fox News: The No. 1 Name in Murder Fantasies
  Bill O'Reilly's recent "joke" about decapitating Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank was only the latest example of a demented Fox News culture that permits on-air personalities to fantasize about assassination and other forms of violence against those deemed enemies of the station, its personali ...
• Robert Greenwald on the Ed Show -- January 6, 2011 ...
• The Tyranny of Defense Inc.
  American politics is typically a grimy business of horses traded and pork delivered. Political speech, for its part, tends to be formulaic and eminently forgettable. Yet on occasion, a politician will transcend circumstance and bear witness to some lasting truth: George Washington in his Farewell Ad ...

Salon

• Chromium primer: How your drinking water may cause ...
  As House Republicans move to restrict the EPA, Hexavalent chromium--of�Erin Brockovich infamy--is trickling back onto the scene. The drinking-water pollutant has been found in three�Pennsylvania coal sites, according to a report by environmental watchdog EarthJustice. The organization lauds EPA g ...
• House GOP wants EPA restrictions
  In a sharp challenge to the Obama administration, House Republicans intend to unveil legislation Wednesday to ban the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act and expect to advance the bill quickly, officials disclosed Tuesday night.
• The case for running for president -- and losing
  The potential long-shot presidential candidacy of Jon Huntsman, the former Utah governor who has been serving as President Obama's ambassador to China for the last two years, has sparked some discussion over what he's actually trying to achieve.
• Mosque bomb suspect placed '85 airport explosive
  A California man accused of threatening to blow up a popular Detroit-area mosque has had several violent, unpredictable run-ins with the law dating back to the 1970s, including one in which he kidnapped his son from a foster home and crashed a plane while trying to get away.
• Obama: Egyptian protesters "an inspiration"
  President Barack Obama says the passion and dignity demonstrated by the people of Egypt has been an inspiration. He says young protesters will reach their destiny.

SMB News

• Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits cam ...
  For SMB News Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits camps PURWOBINANGUN: Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano spewed more deadly heat clouds Wednesday as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono visited some of the 50,000 evacuees in shelters. Searing gas billowed from the crater of the 2,914-metre (9 ...
• Kasaba throws spit on the camera
  \Kasaba throws spit on cameraMUMBAI: Ajmal Kasaba webcam spit on Tuesday during a hearing in the Bombay High Court for confirmation of the death penalty, which led the court strictly tell him to behave properly. Judjes a warning when they Kasaba altercation with the police and spit at the camera saw ...
• K’taka Speaker disqualifies 16 MLAs
  For SMB News KBANGALORE: Hours ahead of the trust vote for beleaguered Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa in the Assembly, Speaker K G Bopaiah disqualified sixteen rebel MLAs, including eleven from ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), legislative sources said on Monday. Bopaiah signed the disq ...
• Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8
  For SMB News Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8 KARACHI: Eight people including two children were killed and over 65 others suffered injuries when two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside Abdullah Shah Ghazi’s shrine in Clifton, official sources said here Thursday. Two heads, believed ...
• Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistake
  For SMB News Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistakes’ LONDON: Former president Gen. (Retd.) Pervez Musharraf Friday admitted that political mistakes were committed in the twilight years of his regime and sought apology from Pakistani nation for the same. “These mistakes caused damage to t ...

Toronto Star - Editorials

• Don’t stifle Internet innovation
  The federal telecommunications regulator has taken a wrong step with a decision that will force consumers and businesses to pay more for Internet use.
• Toughen conflict law
  Evidence from Mississauga’s inquiry into municipal conflict of interest shows existing rules need to be broadened.
• Egypt’s rebels find a voice
  Protest is not a program. After a week of upheaval Egyptian reformers have summoned a million people into the streets of Cairo to press for President Hosni Mubarak’s ouster, regime cha ...
• Green Act well intentioned, but flawed
  How green will next election be? Column Jan. 23
• Lower corporate taxes no cure-all
  The Conservative government should stop portraying this kind of tax cut as the magic bullet for what ails our economy.

Energy Collective

• Shell Exits Algae Biofuels
  Is algae losing its green bubbling allure?
• Power Line Communications Now Being Used in More a ...
  � I had a nice catch-up call with Mike Holt the other day � Mike is Semitech Semiconductor�s VP Sales and Marketing and we had previously talked last August.
• Which of These Former Elected Officials Doesn’t Lo ...
  Which of these former elected officials doesn’t love ethanol mandates? Is it former vice president Al Gore, Democrat from Tennessee; former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, Republican from Georgia; or former Senator Rick Santorum, Republican from Pennsylvania? The answer is… …the one that isn’t t ...
• Consumer Privacy, Energy Use Data, and Trust
  Consumer privacy concerns are an important�focus of many Smart Grid conversations.� Everyone agrees that consumers need to be educated about the entirely new types of energy use data that can be created with Smart Grid technologies.� While we must ensure that consumers are aware of their rights and ...
• IFR: An optimized approach to meeting global energ ...
  The Integral Fast Reactor (IFR), developed at U.S. national laboratories in the latter years of the last century, can economically and cleanly supply all the energy the world needs without any further mining or enrichment of uranium. Instead of utilizing a mere 0.6% of the potential energy in uraniu ...

EU 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 ...

Stonecipher News

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

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

• Google: Bing’s Search Results Are a “Cheap Imitati ...
  Google Fellow Amit Singhal recently accused Bing of copying some of Google’s search results. Google had created what it calls “synthetic queries” – test search queries which tie two terms which normally have no connection, and discovered that after a while the same connections start appearing on Bi ...
• Punxsutawney Phil Sees Early Spring
  Filed under: Daily Hot List Good news for people currently buried under feet of snow: an early spring is on its way. That's according to Punxsutawney Phil, the famed weather-predicting groundhog who peeked out of his burrow today in front of a crowd of thousands. Tradition says that if Phil sees hi ...
• NFL Notebook: Giants Still on their Couches Editio ...
  More photos » Morry Gash - AP 3 days ago: FILE - In this Dec. 26, 2010, file photo, Green Bay Packers' John Kuhn runs in for a touchdown during the second half of an NFL football game against the New York Giants in Green Bay, Wis. Since coming to Green Bay in 2007, Kuhn has evolved from special tea ...
• LG Optimus 3D: Worldâs First Smartphone with 3D Sc ...
  Is-This-LG-Optimis-3D-? Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona on February 14-17 will be a very exciting moment for LG fans. In the upcoming MWC, LG will launch their latest smartphone, called LG Optimus 3D . LG which based in South Korea seems to deliberately take advantage of MWC to launch a pr ...
• Groundhog Day! 9 Lessons for Church Planters
  Today is Groundhog Day! Will Punxsutawney Phil see his shadow? I love the movie Groundhog Day with Bill Murray. It's a classic comedy our family has watched many times. Focus on the Family offers this Move Watching Guide  with great questions if you'd like to discuss this movie with your kids, frie ...

Groklaw

• Linux Powering Your Cell Phone Network: A Case Stu ...
  We just published a Linux training case study on Optelian, a company who designs and manufacturers optical transport systems that send data across optical fiber. That means if you connect your Android phone (or iPhone or IPad or Blackberry) to a telecom carrier in North America (and if you don't, wh ...
• Ask the Experts: How to Get Paid to Work on Linux
  The demand for Linux talent clearly continues to rise. Intel's Linux and Open Source Technologist Dirk Hohndel says it's "because the number of Linux-based projects is rapidly increasing all over this industry. More and more devices and systems and services are built based on Linux, and therefore, ...
• Oracle to pay $46 million in false claims case
  Oracle Corp agreed to pay $46 million to settle claims that Sun Microsystems Inc, which it bought last year, submitted false claims to federal government agencies and paid kickbacks, the Justice Department said on Monday. It said the settlement resolved allegations that Sun knowingly paid kickbacks ...
• The Health Care Ruling: The Experts Speak
  No sooner did Judge Roger Vinson's ruling hit the airwaves that the reactions from pundits, experts and others started flowing in. Let's give you the highlights from around the blogosphere and our own reporting. Gillian Metzger, professor at Columbia Law School: "Judge Vinson's decision decla ...
• Microsoft casualties rise as eBay snags big Bing e ...
  Scott Prevost, formerly principal development manager for Microsoft's Bing search engine, is among the most recent top Microsofties to flee Redmond, Wash. Prevost, who joined Microsoft when the company acquired Powerset in 2008, is now the vice president of search market management at eBay. - Tad Sa ...

WideShut

• LaRouche Says Free Market Solution Is Masked Fasci ...
  On this week's WideShut Webcast Keelan talks to LaRouche member Aljosa Durnik about how free markets will not solve the recession.
• LIVE NOW: Keelan Talking to LaRouche Movement
  Resistance Radio: Keelan Balderson talking to a LaRouche PAC member now! Is the freemarket really the solution?
• Economic Assassin Talks With WideShutUK
  Keelan interviews the Economic Assassin Graham Sharkey about the recession, China, Ireland's bailout, the cuts, silver and much more.
• Homeland Security Say Using Cash Might Be Terroris ...
  DHS propaganda video claims using cash is weird and might be a sign of terrorism.
• Blair Uses Iraq War Inquiry To Push Anti-Iran Prop ...
  Iran is the new Iraq, and Blair is using the Iraq Inquiry to push the propaganda of a nuclear threat. We take a look at the facts.

Waterkeeper Alliance

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Politics in the Zeros

• The Leftover Left and their obsession with newspap ...
  Harry’s Place lampoons the bizarre tendency of current day revolutionary socialist groups to use their party newspaper as a primary means of organizing. A standard method for recruitment, one that has remained unchanged since prior to the Russian Revolution in 1917, is that of publishing a newspaper ...
• Navy milblogger blows gasket, says Google declared ...
  You just can’t make this stuff up. Galrhan at the US Naval Institute says Google doing voice2tweet from Egyptian protesters is somehow “declaring war” on the Egyptian government. Happily though, even some of those commenting on his post disagreed. You neglected to mention that Google-Saynow did this ...
• Cyclone Yasi about to hit Australia
  Cyclone Yasi is now a Cat 5 and will go ashore during high tide. Hurricanes turn clockwise in the southern hemisphere. The SW quadrant of Yasi will be most dangerous as it hits land, where waves and wind move in same direction. People living in the massive impact zone, where winds are expected to re ...
• Preparing California’s power grid for one-third re ...
  (My latest for CAIVN. While California is a leader on renewable energy, the same process of upgrading the grid is happening in most states) Renewable energy is variable in nature. Solar and wind power, the two primary ways of creating renewable energy, cannot be created on a steady, constant basis. ...
• Voices from Egypt via Twitter
  @speak2tweet on Twitter has voice recordings from protesters inside Egypt and those supporting them worldwide Via email from Josh Mull. Small World News has (via crowdsourcing) been translating the Speak2Tweet messages from Egypt (primarily into English, but French, Spanish, and German translations ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

• Search and rescue underway in Central Otago
  A search and rescue operation is underway on the Clutha River for a man reported missing.
• Police investigate mystery attack in Tauranga
  Police are investigating how a seriously injured man came to be dumped outside Tauranga Hospital overnight
• Mubarak's pledge 'inflames our anger'
  Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's pledge not to stand again for the presidency has been dismissed as too slow.
• Almost two million at risk of being hacked
  Thousands of New Zealanders risk having personal information stolen by hackers.
• Partner speaks of emotional anguish
  The partner of the woman shot dead when she was mistaken for a deer, has told of his pain.

Just World News

• Mubarak gives go-ahead to his goons
  This afternoon (U.S. Eastern time) we were waiting anxiously for the statement that, Egyptian state TV promised, was coming "shortly" from-- or on behalf of-- Pres. Mubarak. Would it contain notice of his resignation or his departure from the country? In the end, no. He promised only that he "would ...
• Arab democracy movements and the power of the 'rul ...
  I've been writing yet another piece of journalism on the Egyptian uprising. (I hope I can share it with you soon.) Writing truly does help me to think. So I was trying to think about-- yes, this is a big topic in Washington DC!-- what the attitude toward Israel of the post-Mubarak government in Ca ...
• My Middle East Channel piece on the MB
  ... is here. The editors there took quite a bit of time to turn it around. If I had had the time I would have tightened up the ending-- and also, inserted some of the material from this well-reported article in today's WaPo. I would also have noted that on Friday, Essam al-Erian was one of the nu ...
• My Salon piece on the geopolitical ripples from Ca ...
  ... is here. I only really got to the start of where I wanted to go with the piece, by the time I got to the last paragraph there. I have another non-blog piece about to come out, too: On the Muslim Brotherhood, at Middle East Channel. Both these pieces are spinoffs, really, from what I blogged h ...
• Tactical deployment of Muslim prayer in nonviolenc ...
  Yesterday I tweeted (@justworldbooks) about this amazing, 9-minute video clip from the Egyptian paper Al-Masry al-Yawm, which shows the large-scale confrontation across, I think, the broad expanse of Qasr al-Nil bridge on, I think, Saturday. It is shot from high up, and with some amazing lenses that ...

First Truths

• Managing the Unmanageable
  The Fed's huge profits would seem to contradict the constant bad news we hear about the economy, but only if the story behind the story is ignored. My comment for C4SS is here.
• Iraq's New Government Is As Old As Time
  I commented on the Iraqi government's personnel adjustment for C4SS.
• Robber Baron or Red?
  Over the past few months, I’ve been both excoriated by fellow left-libertarians for, inter alia, an approving reference to George Reisman and branded a “Red” for expounding the stateless, free market socialism of Benjamin Tucker and Francis Dashwood Tandy. That I’m neither an environment-hating defe ...
• The USSR Died, But the State Survived
  Often referred to as Europe's last dictatorship, Belarus is witness to protests following a controversial election. I commented here.
• No Work for the Weary
  The state, despite its constant insistence, cannot create jobs, but it can destroy them. I comment at the Center for a Stateless Society.

Media Co-Op

• Protests Against Destruction of Beaver Pond Forest ...
  Sit-in at Mayor's office, noon-hour rally outside City Hall, Algonquin defenders of the land chain themselves to trees in the forest FOR IMMEDIATE RELASE   Protests Against Destruction of Beaver Pond Forest Move to City Hall Ottawa, ON (Feb 1, ...
• Don't You Dare Call Them Lazy! Canada Youth Delega ...
  This sleep-in thing is catching on! Riding the wave of success and good vibes from last month’s inaugural sleep-in for Climate Justice, the Canada Youth Delegation have been staging a week-long sleepover in the lobby of Killam Library, Dalhou ...
• 600 in Support of Egyptian and Tunisian People at ...
  Freedom! Democracy, always Democracy!â Says Organizer Ahmed Khalif On Saturday, Dundas Square in the centre of Toronto filled with 600 people demonstrating in solidarity with ongoing revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt. The focus of protest was t ...
• Vancouver Rallies in Solidarity with the Peoples' ...
  (Click on the first photograph above to scroll through all of the full images.) # # # "No More Fear": Hope for the Future by Sandra Cuffe Many people from different communities, organizations, and other residents of Vancouver gathered outside the central branch of the Vancouver Public Library on Jan ...
• Tunisia Rally (Jan 22/2011)
  A group of around 60 Tunisian supporters rallied outside the Vancouver Public Library on Jan. 22, 2011. The solidarity rally recognized and thanked the efforts of Tunisian youth for the recent uprising that forced out President Ben ...

David Seaton's News Links

• How do you say, "Tienanmen" in Arabic?
  Bring on the goonsOmar Suleiman (Arabic: عمر س��ما��; born July 2, 1936) is an Egyptian politician and military figure who was appointed Vice President of Egypt on January 29, 2011. Previously, he was Minister without Portfolio and Director of the Egyptian General Intelligence Directorate (EGID), th ...
• Egypt.... the coup ... The bill?
  Up until now, President Mubarak has enjoyed the support of the armed forces. He was, after all, a career air force officer suddenly catapulted to the presidency when Anwar Sadat was assassinated in 1981. But if these protests continue and intensify there are bound to be senior voices within the mili ...
• A fairy tale as grim as Grimm could ever be (a fab ...
  David Seaton's News LinksOnce upon a time in a far off and pleasant land, during the reign of King George the Idiot, there lived a young man who dreamed of fame and greatness. He yearned so long and so deeply, that the Good Fairy was moved by his constant pleading and praying and appeared before him ...
• The "Sputnik Moment": One nation with paranoia for ...
  � David Seaton's News Links I remember once reading an Indian guru, who said that if the water buffalo had a god, it would probably look like a very large water buffalo. He believed that there is only one god, formless and all pervading, but that he/she/it responds to intense worship by taking on t ...
• Where is China headed?
  China's high speed train system David Seaton's News Link I heard a talk over a year ago at a meeting of the Madrid Fulbright association: the speaker was professor Fisac, the head of Chinese studies at Madrid University.� She said that in the course of conversation with an official of the Chinese C ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

• Congress Confirms Drillers Fracked with Diesel
  Contact: EWG Public Affairs, 202-667-6982; leeann@ewg.org Washington, DC -- The Environmental Working Group (EWG) commends the important investigation of hydraulic fracturing released today (Jan. 31) by U.S. Reps. Henry A. Waxman... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit ...
• NIH panel links Vitamin A in sunscreen to skin tum ...
  Contact: EWG Public Affairs: 202.667.6982 leeann@ewg.org A key independent science advisory panel has voted to confirm federal researchers' conclusion that retinyl palmitate, a form of vitamin A found in two-fifths of U.S. sunscreens,... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
• Obama Speech Misfired on Ethanol, Ag Policy
  Contact: EWG Public Affairs, (202) 667-6982 Washington, D.C. – President Barak Obama’s call to “stop subsidizing yesterday’s energy” in his State of the Union speech last night was welcome, but the President missed an opportunity to focus... [[ This is a content summary only ...
• New York State: 85 chemicals to avoid
  January 24th, 2011 By Olga Naidenko, EWG Senior Scientist When someone with $8 billion a year in purchasing power tells the world what they don’t want, marketers and manufacturers pay attention. That’s what’s happened... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my web ...
• EPA Unveils Plan to Help Identify ‘Brockovich’ Che ...
  Contact: EWG Public Affairs, (202) 667-6982 Washington, D.C. – The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) promised to help local water utilities address public concerns over the possible presence of hexavalent chromium (chromium-6) in... [[ This is a content summary only. V ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

• Doctor Warns: Eat This and You’ll Look 5 Years Old ...
  By Dr. Mercola In the early 1990's, soy and soy products exploded onto the supermarket scene with promises of bountiful health benefits. This "new miracle food," soy, was supposed to lower cholesterol, take the heat out of hot flashes, protect against breast and prostate cancer and offer a fill ...
• This Could Threaten the Future of Food – Destroyin ...
  Roundup, Monsanto's glyphosate-based herbicide, is causing Sudden Death Syndrome (SDS), a serious plant disease, in many fields. Study after study shows that glyphosate is contributing not only to the huge increase in SDS, but also to the outbreak of numerous other diseases. Glyphosate is the world ...
• Life Coaching Tips: The Feline Way
  Here are words of wisdom, all illustrated by some very characterful cats!
• Watch Boiled Water Freeze Instantly
  In Canada’s Northwest Territories, it's so cold that boiling water instantly freezes when tossed into the air.
• Statins Raise Stroke Risk
  Anyone who has had the type of stroke caused by bleeding in the brain should avoid the cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins, according to researchers. The drugs increase the risk of a second stroke in these patients. It was especially true of people who had strokes in one of their brain's fo ...

JAMA

• Tuberculosis Target [Lab Reports]
• Age Reversal [Lab Reports]
• Flu Clues [Lab Reports]
• Health of Resettled Iraqi Refugees--San Diego Coun ...
• Nonpolio Enterovirus and Human Parechovirus Survei ...

Survival - tribal peoples

• Outrage as construction of Belo Monte dam illegall ...
  Indians protesting against the Belo Monte dam © Verena Glass Brazil’s environmental agency, IBAMA, has issued a ‘partial’ installation licence for the Belo Monte dam, to be built on the Xingu River in the Amazon. The licence allows the initial stages of construction, including the clearing of ...
• Vedanta fights back over Indian hill tribe’s sacre ...
  Vedanta is still trying to get back into the Dongria Kondh's Niyamgiri Hills. © Survival International FTSE 100 mining giant Vedanta is challenging a ban on mining the sacred mountain of India’s Dongria Kondh tribe. The Orissa High Court will hear the case on Wednesday 2 February.
 The Dongria ...
• Unique new photos of uncontacted Brazilian Indians
  The photos reveal a thriving, healthy community with baskets full of manioc and papaya fresh from their gardens. © Gleison Miranda/FUNAI/Survival New photos obtained by Survival show uncontacted Indians in never-seen-before detail. The Indians are living in Brazil, near the Peruvian border, an ...
• Anti-mining activist shot dead in Philippines
  Nickel mining threatens to devastate the Palawan tribe's land. © Dario Novellino An anti-mining activist has been murdered in the Philippines. Dr Gerry Ortega was shot dead four days ago on Palawan island. Local mayor Edward Hagedorn told journalists, ‘From the initial findings, we know that t ...
• Cartoon book satirizing ‘development’ launched in ...
  Survival's 'There you go!' can be read in two minutes. © Oren Ginzburg/Survival Survival has launched in the United States a biting critique of how tribal peoples are being destroyed in the name of âdevelopmentâ. The critique is presented in a cartoon book called âThere you go!â that can be re ...

Montreal Gazette

• Editorial: Teddy bear draw was no picnic for 6-yea ...
  It's always good to encourage eco awareness and green behaviour, but there is such a thing as pushing it too far. That's what a school in Laval did when it ran a draw for a teddy bear in a kindergarten class, but pointedly excluded kids found in possession of lunch supplies packed in what sc ...
• Editorial: Recognizing that it's time to act on gl ...
  It has been three years since the federal government promised to come up with a national strategy to reduce greenhouse gases and to help the country adapt to the impacts of global warming. Where there should be an adaptation policy or a list of priority actions, there is still a void.
• Canadians don't want or need an election now
  It's perhaps not surprising that even as election speculation is approaching a fever pitch in the nation's capital, the rest of the country is markedly cool to the notion of a vote sooner than later.
• Canadians don't want or need an election now
  A new poll conducted for Postmedia News found 64 per cent of Canadians -possibly fully two-thirds, given the three-per-cent margin of error -see no need for a federal election any time soon.
• Prison is no place for the mentally ill
  In the 1920s and '30s in Canada, mentally ill people held in institutions underwent forced sterilization. By the '50s and '60s, electric-shock treatments were carried out routinely on patients in psychiatric facilities. Beginning in the '60s, there was a dramatic shift -from confining the ment ...

Food World Order

• reports suggest white house pressured vilsack to a ...
  from grist: As I reported last week, the USDA announced late Thursday it would allow the planting of genetically modified alfalfa, the nation's fourth-largest crop, without restriction. Was the decision based on a careful weighing of the evidence by the USDA -- or on political consideration em ...
• food skyrockets to highest prices ever
  from natural news: Figures recently released by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) index of 55 food commodities indicates that worldwide food prices hit a record high in December. Though the costs of some food commodities like rice, corn and soy actually decreased, oil seeds and sugar jumpe ...
• 12/23 binge & purge: hotel, motel, holiday in (cam ...
  obama to sign 'food safety bill' in early 2011* food safety bill proceeds after snafu fixed* terror plot to attack US hotel & restaurant food over a single weekend* al-ciada looking to attack US food?* US food chains investing in cambodia* feds order farmer to destroy wheat crops: sho ...
• hexavalent chromium found in drinking water of 31 ...
  from washington post: An environmental group that analyzed the drinking water in 35 cities across the United States, including Bethesda and Washington, found that most contained hexavalent chromium, a probable carcinogen that was made famous by the film "Erin Brockovich." The study, which will be re ...
• before your next grocery trip, get the non-gmo sho ...
  non-gmo shopping guide: get the app & download the pdf! from NonGmoShoppingGuide.com: The Institute for Responsible Technology is a world leader in educating policy makers and the public about genetically modified (GM) foods and crops. We investigate and report their risks and impact on health, e ...

CrusadeWatch

• Readers' Forum: Predatory conversions send a messa ...
  source: Contra Costa Times, 22-Jan-2011 By Samir Kalra and Mihir Meghani Guest Commentary Posted: 01/22/2011 12:01:00 AM PST THE RECENT Bay Area News Group coverage of Bhutanese refugees highlighted the experiences of Hindu and Buddhist Bhutanese refugees in the Bay Area, and ra ...
• Indian missionaries prepare to evangelize Bhutan
  source: Catholic Culture, January 28, 2011 (an example of Wolf in Sheep's clothing) Authorities in Bhutan have signaled that they will permit the registration at least one Christian organization in the landlocked Asian nation. Currently, Christians are permitted to worship in their homes ...
• "Crorepathy" Fr. Jegath Gasper Raj main ...
  source:  Asian Tribune The Sri Lankan Catholic Church, the Catholic Radio Veritas based in Phillipines, the Tamil Catholic hierachy and its priests have been the main links of the global network of the Church to protect, promote, provide succor and cover to the internationally banned T ...
• Sex, lies and money in the church
  source: Indian Express, October 24, 2010 Shevlin Sebastian It was midnight. Fr Jose George could not sleep because there was no fan in his room. Jose knocked on Anna Jacobs door. When she opened it, he told her he could not sleep. She invited him inside, because there was a fan. ...
• Denigration of Buddhism & conversion of the vu ...
  source:  Vijayvaani.com,   Oct 25, 2010 Christianisation was the third force of colonialism as best expressed by Jomo Kenyatta, the late Kenyan leader, who said: When the white man came he had the bible we had the land. Then he said let us close our eyes and pray. When we opened our eyes ...

Whole Truth Coalition

• An Invitation to Meet Hollie and Anne Greig
  ‘Hollie and Anne would like to thank their many supporters for their continuing hard work and support. Towards that end, they have decided to host an informal function near Berwick-upon-Tweed at the Marshall Meadows Hotel on Sunday the 21st of March from 2 until 5pm. The Marshall Meadows Hotel is s ...
• Robert Green Speaking at Truthjuice Llangollen, Ma ...
  Wednesday 24th March 2010 at 7pm Reporter Robert Green was arrested in Aberdeen for the crime of seeking justice and an investigation into the case of Down’s Syndrome girl, Hollie Greig, who says she was serially-raped over a decade by an establishment paedophile ring operating in Scotland. Robert ...
• Mary Rodwell The New Human Vers. 02
• Robert Green, Hollie and Ann Greig at The ‘C ...
  Robert Green, Hollie and Anne Greig have confirmed they will be appearing at the Child Snatching By The State conference being held on April 10th in Stafford, UK. In recent years, there has been a steady increase in media reports concerning Mothers and Fathers, Grandparents and Families reporting t ...
• COTO Report British Edition: An Interview with Dav ...
  COTO Report British Edition goes to the Isle of Wight to bring you an almost three hour long interview with Mr. David Icke by Megan ‘Verb’ Kargher.  In this interview we discuss his new book entitled Human Race Get Off Your Knees, the Lion Sleeps No More, the nature of reality and politics. links to ...

The Economic Collapse

• 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 ...

CASSE

• Sustaining Our Commonwealth of Nature and Knowledg ...
  How can we get a sustainable, fair, and efficient economy? Herman Daly breaks it down.
• What if We Stopped Fighting For Preservation?
  Tom Butler defends land preservation as a critical strategy for dealing with the downsides of economic growth.
• Might As Well Face It, We’re Addicted to Growth
  Dave Gardner examines how to get growth-addicted nations into a growth rehab.
• Opportunities for a Different Economy in 2011
  Brent Blackwelder wants to crush corruption, tame tax dodgers, and spread the word about the transition to a sustainable and fair economy.
• What If We Stopped Fighting for Preservation and F ...
  Tim Murray has a fresh idea for achieving conservation over the long haul.

The Talking Clock

• False Flag Terror: U.S. Court to hear evidence sug ...
  We heard this within a week of the underwear bomber incident... as did, no doubt, quite a large number of our free-thinking readers. And now, the whole world shall hear this testimony: Remember - those naked body scanners at airports were miraculously all ready, built and ready to be rolled ...
• And then you realise that you're not represented i ...
  I've just received an interesting email from the often brilliant people at Open Europe. They explain how: "The Government’s controversial European Union Bill will return to the House of Commons on 24 January, when MPs will discuss the so-called ‘referendum lock’ contained in the Bill. The lock ...
• Sunday Paper Review: 30th January 2011
  In her song In Your Eyes, the always lovely and always phenomenal Kylie Minogue once asked: "Is the world still spinning around?". Looking around the Sunday papers, the answer appears to be: "Yes... but only just." It certainly appears to have gone quite mad. Must be all the fluoride in the wa ...
• Biased BBC: How the opinions of the 'Question Time ...
  Sometimes, the things that you really should know are hidden in plain view - carefully left planted for the observant to notice and signpost. And so it is with this gem regarding the Biased BBC and it's flagship political programme Question Time. Over on Conservative Home, Alex Deane is lettin ...
• ...but the people everywhere they've kept faith wi ...
  Apologies for light blogging this week. Normal service will now resume. One thing about blogging is that you need to feel inspired enough by a story in order to want to comment. One subject - one person is guaranteed to get us back to the computer... --------------------------------------- ...

Facing South

• U.S. defense contractors with the most at stake in ...
  Egypt -- where a popular uprising that began last week seeks the end to President Hosni Mubarak's 30-year rule -- is the second-largest recipient of U.S. foreign aid after Israel. The Egyptian government receives about $2 billion a year from the United States, with most of that assistance ...
• New paralegal training provides ray of hope for fo ...
  By Rosana Cruz, Bridge the Gulf Drive down this short stretch of St. Bernard Avenue, and you will see signs of a struggling neighborhood in despair. Bars, blighted homes, metal-grated storefronts, and the still-shuttered Circle Food Store tell the story of this strip. Here in New Orleans' 7th Wa ...
• Showdown over King Coal's rule in Kentucky
  A battle that took place last week in a Kentucky courtroom shined a spotlight on the cozy relationship between the coal industry and the state -- and will help decide whether citizens have the right to intervene in an environmental enforcement case that's been mishandled by regulators. On ...
• 'Billionaires club' of wealthy conservatives gathe ...
  For years the Koch brothers from Kansas (reportedly worth $21.5 billion each) have been hosting a secret gathering of conservative businessmen, operatives and politicians to with little fanfare. But this year's pow-wow at the Ranchos Las Palmas Resort and Spa in Rancho Mirage, California is draw ...
• What if executives feared prison time for health a ...
  By Jenny Brown, Labor Notes In the U.S., owners and managers of companies like BP, responsible for 11 deaths and 17 injuries in last year's Gulf oil rig explosion, never face jail time for the workers they kill. That's not the case everywhere: Steelworkers in Canada are pressing a prosecution of ...

CenterLine

• Today’s Terrorism News
  WikiLeaks Cable Suggests Three Previously Undisclosed Qataris Were Part of 9/11 Plot The Washington Post reports that a U.S. diplomatic cable from 2010 released by WikiLeaks suggests that three Qatari men conducted surveillance of targets in New York and Washington … Continue reading →
• Online Open Forum: More on Egypt and Protests in t ...
  The Center on Law and Security has asked two of its fellows, Barton Gellman, TIME Magazine’s contributing editor-at-large, and Bernard Haykel, Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University, to continue our conversation about the rapidly progressing events in Egypt … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Former Gitmo Detainee Sentenced in Italy Mohamed Ben Riadh Nasri, a Tunisian national and former Guantanamo detainee, was found guilty in an Italian court on Monday of âcriminal association with the aim of terrorismâ and sentenced to six years in … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Moscow Says It Has Identified Airport Suicide Bomber Russian investigators said Saturday that they have identified the suicide bomber who attacked Moscowâs busiest airport last week as a 20-year-old man from the North Caucasus region, according to reports. Investigators did … Continue reading →
• Online Open Forum: Increasing Unrest in Egypt
  With developments in Lebanon, Yemen, Tunisia, and especially, Egypt, rapidly evolving with increased protests and unrest, CLS has asked a few of its colleagues to comment on the activities that are shaking the Arab and North African world. The latest … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

• Today on New Scientist: 27 January 2011
  All today's stories on NewScientist.com, including: a brain scanner for two heads, the oldest stars in the universe, and a fish with no stomach
• The right way for pigeons to follow their nose hom ...
  Evidence suggests pigeons follow their nose - not the Earth's magnetic field - to find their way home. A new study says only the right nostril will do
• Info-streams create cybermap of the scientific wor ...
  A global map of scientific collaborations has been created by drawing links between pairs of cities
• Monkey business: should airlines transport lab ani ...
  Air Canada has said that it is legally obliged to carry lab animals, enraging anti-vivisectionists
• Dark Sark is first island to get star-gazer status
  The tiny, car-less island, which was considered a feudal state until 2008, is hoping to attract more astro-tourists

Tech Drive In

• Orta 1.4.0 Released - The Best GTK Theme for Ubunt ...
  We have discussed about Orta GTK theme in length before and also about the impressive Orta GTK theme + Faenza icon theme combination, which in my view is the best theme I have used with Ubuntu in a long time. Its so simple and eye-pleasing at the same time. The recent release of Orta 1.4.0 version b ...
• World's Worst Hacker
  Slashdot.org has always been a really awesome source of information. This one is no different. Here is a video clip that allegedly demonstrates a hacker working in a honeypot. If you are worried about the future state and security of the Internet, this video will definitely help you calm yourself do ...
• MadBox 10.10 Review - An Ubuntu Based Openbox Dist ...
  MadBox is a relatively new Ubuntu-based Openbox distribution. It tries to cater to CrunchBang (�#!�) Linux users who want an Ubuntu-based Openbox distribution (as #! switched to a Debian base almost a year ago), as well as to users who want a fast and lightweight OS or one that will work on a slower ...
• Bodhi Linux Review - An Incredibly Good, Lightweig ...
  Bodhi Linux is NOT yet another Ubuntu based Linux distro. Bodhi Linux is among a very few number of Ubuntu based distros that run Enlightenment window manager instead of the popular alternatives like GNOME or KDE. I had never used anything other than GNOME, KDE and XFCE desktops before and I have to ...
• Android Overtakes iPhone in U.S. for the First Tim ...
  In line with the predictions by Gartner some months ago, open source Android OS is indeed winning the war against Apple's iOS in the great fight for U.S. smartphone market dominance. For the first time ever in U.S. smartphone history, more people are using Google's Android OS powered smartphones tha ...

Case About Bird Flu

• Pandemrix linked to increased neurological damage, ...
  Press release by THL, Finnish National Institute of Health and Welfare http://www.thl.fi/en_US/web/en/pressrelease?id=24103 Increased risk of narcolepsy observed among children and adolescents vaccinated with PandemrixR 1 Feb 2011 Among those 4-19 years of age who received Pandemrix®-vaccine had a m ...
• Documents emerge proving (Autism Scientist) Dr And ...
  (NaturalNews) New documents have emerged that clear Dr Andrew Wakefield of the allegations of fraud recently made by the British Medical Journal and its reporter Brian Deer. This new evidence “completely negates the allegations that I committed scientific fraud. Brian Deer and Dr. Godlee of the Brit ...
• EGYPT: ON THE WAY TO DEMOCRACY AGAINST ALL ODDS
  When the internet fell silent, the people of Egypt spoke more loudly.  When the government stopped the twitter, facebook and sms, and blocked websites – apart from the extremist Muslim Brotherhood – the people spoke with a new unity, power and clarity by marching in their millions for an end to the ...
• Looters included undercover Egyptian police
  Leila Fadel The Washington Post February 1, 2011 CAIRO – Human Rights Watch confirmed several cases of undercover police loyal to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s regime committing acts of violence and looting in an attempt to stoke fear of instability as demonstrations grew stronger Tuesday again ...
• Clashes break out in Tahrir Square
  More than 100 injured as pro-Mubarak supporters attack protesters seeking president’s ouster in Egyptian capital. Last Modified: 02 Feb 2011 13:24 GMT   Clashes have broken out between pro- and anti-government demonstrators in the Egyptian capital Cairo. Protesters from both sides threw stones at e ...

Invisible Opportunity

• Quote of the Day – Diet, injections and inju ...
  Diet, injections and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible. Even if all are miserable, all will believe ...
• Taco Bell beef faked? No more than the rest of the ...
  By Mike Adams The word spread like wildfire across the internet: An Alabama law firm had filed a class action lawsuit against Taco Bell in California, saying its meat fails to meet the definition of beef set forth by the U.S. government (and even that’s a pretty low hurdle, if you ask me). The lawsu ...
• What Is Globalization?
  What is globalization? Well, if you ask 100 different Americans you will probably get 100 different answers. Many people view globalization as harmless or even as a good thing. Other Americans believe that the United States will never be integrated into a global economic and political system. Still ...
• Police rule out suspect in Moscow airport bombing ...
  By Shaun Walker in Moscow The ethnic Russian man police believed could have been the suicide bomber at Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport has been cleared by DNA analysis, according to sources close to the investigation. On Thursday, the Kommersant newspaper named 32-year-old Vitaly Razdobudko as the prime ...
• Climate Change Claims Melt Away
  Environment: In 2007, the U.N. said the Himalayan glaciers will be gone by 2035 due to man-made global warming. Yet four years later, some are advancing. What’s retreating is the global warming narrative. Global warming alarmists felt a tingle in their legs when the United Nations Intergovernmental ...

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 ...

electric politics

• Good Sense and Nonsense
  Neoliberal economics lacks imagination. And the story it tells of greedy individuals maximizing their self-interest is — or should be — an insult to decent people everywhere. The fact that we can accept such a preposterous story so uncritically raises a big, red warning flag that society has someho ...
• From Boom to Bust and Back Again
  It's no accident that the White House won't regulate the banks. In our plutocratic system the White House is their wholly owned and fully brain-washed subsidiary, the only question being how best to pretend otherwise. To discuss various matters involving American and world high finance I turned onc ...
• Inflection Points
  What's the attraction of trying to remake the world so that everybody becomes like us? My answer is it's the logical extension of a terrifying, still very much alive American system of slavery but whatever your favorite explanation, the project itself is doomed. When will we ever learn? To talk abo ...
• Trench Warfare
  It's not just morally unconscionable that a tiny minority of Americans have almost all the money, it's a terrible thing in policy terms, especially if what you want is democracy. A plutocracy — let's not kid ourselves about this — is basically a slave system. To talk about how we got into our prese ...
• Priorities
  To be honest, the shrimp fishermen don't matter. The Gulf coast tourist traps don't matter. The economic effects of the spill. Don't matter. It's not about the money. What matters is that we're destroying the environment, killing countless innocent creatures. I keep hoping things may not be quite a ...

PR News

• Forever 21 talking to PR agencies
  VERNON, CA: Forever 21 is conducting an informal search for a PR agency to support issues and programs tied to its corporate brand.
• Retailers kick off Black History Month
  SEATTLE: Retailers, including Nordstrom and Kmart, are kicking off Black History Month with relevant CSR initiatives.
• Middleberg Communications unveils multimedia hub
  NEW YORK: Middleberg Communications launched a multimedia headquarters for its client's news called PressPass.
• GMMB promotes three
  WASHINGTON: GMMB promoted Alison Betty, Susan Feeney, and Kaia Lenhart to partners.
• ERA Real Estate starts agency search with RFP
  PARSIPPANY, NJ: ERA Real Estate has issued an RFP in search of an agency to help the residential real estate network grow and update its brand image.

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 ...

k2p blog

• Response from VC Kalasalingam Unversity
  Following the case of plagiarism that was brought to light by the retraction of a paper in the journal Biotechnology Advances, the Vice Chancellor has responded by email.
• Receiving compensation for incompetence in executi ...
  The General Manager of Howling Dogs in Whistler massacred 100 dogs and then successfully claimed compensation for the trauma of a wounded dog attacking him. The original claim was denied but this decision was overturned by Allan Wotherspoon the Review Officer.
• The message of the shoes is clear
  Tony Blair thinks it is too soon for elections in Egypt while the demonstrators wave their shoes at Mubarak's decision not to step down.
• Ice in Dallas as super-storm ranges from Texas to ...
  A paralyzing 2,000-mile swath of winter at its snowy, icy, messy worst pushed eastward across the United States on Tuesday causing disruptiion from Texas to Maine
• Queensland prepares as Yasi is due to hit in 8 hou ...
  Cyclone Yasi still at Category 5 strength is due to hit the North Queensland coast in about 8 hours from now (between midnight and 0100 on 3rd February local time).

Left Foot Forward

• So, Mr Cameron, who backs your NHS reforms? Erm&#8 ...
  David Cameron's claims the government's NHS reforms are backed by a "long list" of organisations looked on extremely shaky ground today, reports Shamik Das.
• Why is the government delaying the Bribery Act?
  International development secretary Andrew Mitchell, under pressure from big business, is delaying the implementation of the Bribery Act, reports David Taylor.
• “Perverse” cuts to regional funding wi ...
  We can expect the chorus of business leaders calling for a change of direction to grow ever louder as we head towards next month’s budget, writes Kevin Meagher.
• Will Mubarak’s long goodbye be enough to cal ...
  Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak announced his intention to stand down in September in a dramatic speech last night - yet will it be enough for the protesters?
• How long can the Lib Dems claim their tax policy h ...
  Next time you see Nick Clegg or Tim Farron emoting about the Lib Dems’ concern for the poorest, remember: the priority for them is income tax cuts, write Tim Horton & Howard Reed.

Consumerist

• Woman Charged With Animal Cruelty For Mailing Live ...
  "This is for your 11th birthday. It's what you wanted," was written on the outside of an Atlanta-bound Priority Mail box in a Minneapolis post office. It caught postal workers' attention when it started moving on its own and making loud panting sounds. They got permission to open the box and foun ...
• Whopping 11% Of US Homes Are Empty
  The vacancy sign is blazing over house divisions across the US. About 1 in 10 houses in America have no one living inside them, according to new data from the Census, CNBC reports. What this could mean is that more households are choosing to rent rather than buy. (To see if that's cost-effective f ...
• Wachovia Settles "Pick-a-Payment" Mortgage Loan Cl ...
  If you got a "Pick-a-Payment" mortgage from Wachovia between Aug 1 2003 and Dec 31 2008, you might be up for claiming some cash in a $50 million settlement. The settlement alleges that the bank deceived customers by not fully telling them that there could be negative amortization if they opted to ...
• How I Lost 90,000 United Miles
  Marissa says she booked a flight in 2008 before canceling and using the credit to try to buy another flight. But United said she'd waited too long to re-book the flight, so her sunk cost and frequent flyer miles are gone. She writes: I have been through a customer service maze for the last few we ...
• Tuesday And Wednesday Are Best Days To Buy Airfare ...
  The best day to buy airfare is often Tuesday, but Wednesday also offers good deals, which are sometimes even better. How come? Most sales kick off on Monday night and the other airlines match those prices by Tuesday morning. Rick Seaney, CEO of FareCompare.com, tells WSJ that his long-term analysi ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

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

UK Progressive

• Obama Addresses Mubarak Non-resignation Resignatio ...
  President Obama came out to address US and President Mubarak about two hours after Egypt’s President announced he would not reign but rather not seek re-election in September. We’ve been live-Tweet-blogging since Friday night. Join us on Twitter @UKProgressive Transcript of president Obama’s remarks ...
• Muslim, Christian, Jew… We are all Egyptian… and G ...
  After three days of monitoring and reporting on the situation in Egypt, it is a classic story of class uprising. When balancing headlines from the region showing the passion of people against a backdrop of caviare eating bankers in Davos and control of food commodity prices sown up by hedge fund ope ...
• Obamacare Now 2-2 in Federal Court; Struck Down in ...
  Two courts have ruled the Healthcare legislation constitutional and now a second, unconstitutional. Let the partisan bloviating begin. Judge Roger Vinson of US District Court in Pensacola, Florida has just ruled that the health care reform law enacted last year is unconstitutional. The 70 year old R ...
• The Monday Line: The Greatest Story Still Not Full ...
  While fires and tempers rage in Cairo and across Egypt, most government and media executives grow uneasy. The Middle East has not seen this level of mass popular unrest since the Shah of Iran was toppled in the late 1970s. Corrupt western propped-up regimes could fall like dominos but only a few med ...
• Sister Sarah Palin not Qualified to Run Nor Is She ...
  MSNBC’s acerbic Crossfire host Chris Matthews and panelists engaged in a frank exchange Sunday about the political future of the Facebook blogging half-term former Governor of Alaska. Unanimous opinion was Mrs. Palin was gaming the system to line her own pockets, was not qualified to run and indeed ...

NewsAlert

• Charlie Sheen's Family Seeking Conservatorship
  Newser
• New Film: Assembly Line Government Schools Setting ...
  Big Government
• The Debate About Glenn Beck
• Study: Students need more paths to career success
  AP
• Tea Party Shadows Health Care Ruling
  The New York Times reports:Among the legal commentariat, which blogs its instant analysis after each turn in the health care litigation, one assertion in Monday’s ruling against the law by Judge Roger Vinson is receiving particular attention. “It is difficult to imagine,” Judge Vinson, of Federal D ...

JoNova

• Yasi 2011 — Cyclonic force of nature
  File this under shock and awe. Send best wishes to North Queensland. Cyclone Yasi is now Category 4, with windspeeds of 270 km per hour (170 miles/hr). I do a double take each time I see just how far Yasi reaches. It reminds us of our relative power.  It’s 3000 km from Melbourne to Cape [...]
• The oceans, clouds and cosmic rays drive the clima ...
  Dr Noor van Andel spoke at the Dutch Meteorological Institute (KNMI), provocatively concluding there is no observational evidence for the influence of CO2 on past or present climate. He has released a high caliber slide set. He is the former head of research at Akzo Nobel. In the very long run, we n ...
• Vietnamese Translation
  Pat Kelly has produced the fifteenth translation of The Skeptics Handbook — Cẩm Nang Của NgÆ°á»i Hoài Nghi. Click on the cover to download a copy. The diacritical feast of glyphs in the file title looks like glorious unix nightmare. (So if the link doesn’t work for you, use the back up file her ...
• Hackers throw EU carbon market into intensive care ...
  The EU carbon market is in trouble again. Shucks.  Who would have guessed? Hackers have created so much disarray the EU market has been shut down. (Reuters) – The European Commission has frozen spot carbon trade in its 72 billion euro ($97.1 billion) emissions trading scheme after carbon permits we ...
• Freak January 2011 continues — cyclone coming our ...
  With wild blizzards in the Northern Hemisphere, and mass floods across the whole Eastern seaboard of Australia, it’s good that Perth is not being entirely abandoned by freak forces of nature. We were starting to feel left out. Perth is 32 degrees South of the Equator. We rarely get cyclones but they ...

ReNew America

• Judge strikes down healthcare reform law
  (Reuters) - A federal judge in Florida struck down President Barack Obama's landmark healthcare overhaul as unconstitutional on Monday, in the biggest legal challenge yet to federal authority to enact the law...
• The congressional probe of Islamofascism: watered ...
  (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - With parts of the Middle East in flames (as I write), it is worrisome to contemplate the possibility that all the rioting in Egypt (however motivated by innocents) may end up as a reprise of Iran/1979. The Islamofascist regime that took over then was far worse than the str ...
• The Supreme Court is not our benevolent dictator
  (Rob Schwarzwalder) - The clear and inherent constraints of the Constitution would, if applied with intellectual honesty, put an end to the expansionist vision of the federal government that is essential to the Left's program of statism. The Left cannot abide applying the Constitution as it is writt ...
• Congress probes Obama's pay-to-play healthcare wai ...
  (NewsMax) - Congressional investigators are demanding to know what criteria the Obama administration used to grant 733 healthcare-reform waivers on insurance plans covering more than 2 million Americans. The inquiry comes amidst allegations that waivers are being granted to reward political supporte ...
• Obama, GOP set for battle over budget, spending
  (Bloomberg) - President Barack Obama will send a multitrillion budget to Congress on Feb. 14, administration spokesman Kenneth Baer said, setting up a conflict over spending that may dominate a divided Congress for the rest of the year...

Truth Offering

• Interpreting Ted Rall's "The Anti-American Manifes ...
  Let me start by saying that I really hate using political terms like "left-wing" and "right-wing." It's lazy, small mindedness to do so, in my opinion. It allows us to summarize a person's entire belief system with a tiny little definition, and I don't like that. No one -- well, not most people anyw ...
• Poll - Week Ending January 31, 2011
  This past week, we asked you guys to tell us what you think is of most concern with our drinking water. Is it the fluoride government puts into the water that we consume? Is it the fact that there are increasing amounts of pharmaceuticals in our water supply? Or is it the fact that some policy maker ...
• Chemtrails from Indianapolis, Indiana
  Right now, Indianapolis is expecting a huge winter storm. And under normal conditions, that'd seem totally normal, right? I mean, Indiana gets snow. But what do you make of these chemtrails; these photos were taken this morning by a TruthOffering.com Contributor (Click to Enlarge): � Note that the ...
• Must-Read Articles From Around the Web - January 3 ...
  "All is not what it seems in Egyptian Clashes" by Tony Cartalucci Before It's News - Go to the George Soros/Zbigniew Brzezinski International Crisis Group's website and you will see that the Egyptian clashes have hit surprisingly close to home for them. That's because none other than their own Moha ...
• Corporatism and "Certified Organic"
  More and more nowadays, anything small and special in the business world is quickly gobbled up by huge corporations. If it's profitable, the big boys want in...and of course, once that happens, what made that small company special is immediately wiped away. Why? Because corporations are all about th ...

2012 Blog

• Amazing Scottish Bunker For Sale
  Not too far from where the majority of Scots live, a bunker is now for sale at a very reasonable price of £400,000: The complex at Cultybraggan Camp near Comrie, Perthshire, was completed in 1990 and is believed to be one of the most advanced structures of its kind. It was built to house 150 [...] ...
• New California Risk: Superstorm
  As if supervolcanoes and earthquakes weren’t enough to worry about, add floods to the list of natural events that could be catastrophic for Californians. A group of more than 100 scientists and experts say in a new report that California faces the risk of a massive “superstorm” that could flood a qu ...
• George Lucas Update
  LucasFilm has responded to the recent story about George Lucas being a 2012er, as told by Seth Rogen on TV show Ellen: [Lucas] was not serious when he talked about the end of the world in 2012, but he is an adamant believer that the world is flat, that Stonehenge was built by aliens, and [...] Rel ...
• Sea Rise Ark / Irish Giant Gene / Betelgeuse
  Experts are saying the sea levels will rise by 13 feet in the next thousand years. This is the first time such a long-range forecast has been made, and presumably the authors will never see their work disproved. I presume this work, which focuses on climate change, does not consider that the long-te ...
• Doomsday Driver
  A woman who claimed the world was going to end in an apocalyptic earthquake Friday was arrested in the Marin Headlands on allegations of abducting four people off the streets of Berkeley and San Francisco, a federal spokeswoman said. Lark Ann Freeman, 36, of Fairfield was booked into Marin County Ja ...

Facing South

• U.S. defense contractors with the most at stake in ...
  Egypt -- where a popular uprising that began last week seeks the end to President Hosni Mubarak's 30-year rule -- is the second-largest recipient of U.S. foreign aid after Israel. The Egyptian government receives about $2 billion a year from the United States, with most of that assistance ...
• New paralegal training provides ray of hope for fo ...
  By Rosana Cruz, Bridge the Gulf Drive down this short stretch of St. Bernard Avenue, and you will see signs of a struggling neighborhood in despair. Bars, blighted homes, metal-grated storefronts, and the still-shuttered Circle Food Store tell the story of this strip. Here in New Orleans' 7th Wa ...
• Showdown over King Coal's rule in Kentucky
  A battle that took place last week in a Kentucky courtroom shined a spotlight on the cozy relationship between the coal industry and the state -- and will help decide whether citizens have the right to intervene in an environmental enforcement case that's been mishandled by regulators. On ...
• 'Billionaires club' of wealthy conservatives gathe ...
  For years the Koch brothers from Kansas (reportedly worth $21.5 billion each) have been hosting a secret gathering of conservative businessmen, operatives and politicians to with little fanfare. But this year's pow-wow at the Ranchos Las Palmas Resort and Spa in Rancho Mirage, California is draw ...
• What if executives feared prison time for health a ...
  By Jenny Brown, Labor Notes In the U.S., owners and managers of companies like BP, responsible for 11 deaths and 17 injuries in last year's Gulf oil rig explosion, never face jail time for the workers they kill. That's not the case everywhere: Steelworkers in Canada are pressing a prosecution of ...

One News Page

• Sara departs 'The Biggest Loser'
  Sara is the latest contestant voted off the Biggest Loser following an elimination twist.
• Amazon, Asda drop 3DS price to £202
  Amazon and Asda lower their Nintendo 3DS pre-order prices to £202.
• PETA protests against international leather fair i ...
  People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) activists staged demonstration against India International Leather Fair being held in Chennai.
• 'US should do more to support anti-Islamist forces ...
• French President Nicolas Sarkozy calls for transit ...

Global Research TV

• Spoof on US State Department Position on Egypt
• Taking Responsibility for the Future
• The UN, Israel-Palestine and 9/11 Scholarship
• Contradictory US Objectives in Egypt Questioned
• La souveraineté monétaire de l'Afrique

Daily Tech

• Android Overtakes Symbian as World's No. 1 Smartph ...
  Android moved nearly 33 million units last quarter
• Netgear CEO Trashes Steve Jobs, Predicts WP7's Dem ...
  Says Apple will eventually lose out to the more open Android
• Microsoft Kills Disastrous KIN Phone's Data Servic ...
  KIN Studio is officially dead
• Buick Regal to Get GM's eAssist Hybrid Technology, ...
  EAssist technology to filter down to the Buick Regal
• Fuel Efficiency is King: Turbo Four to Replace BMW ...
  New engine to offer more power and torque than the naturally aspirated inline-6

Oriental Review

• Tragedy at Domodedovo Airport and Bias of the Time
  Stanislav Ivanov (Russia) The new terrorist attack in Russia on January 24, 2011 justifiably angered Russians and the entire world community. About 200 people suffered (35 of whom were killed) an attack by a suicide bomber in the passenger arrival lounge at Domodedovo airport. Hardly anyone could re ...
• Egypt in Fire: Statehood Wisdom Put to Test
  Yuri Tyssovski (Russia) The tide of popular protests in Egypt shows no signs of subsiding. Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in Cairo, Alexandria, Asyut, Port Said, and Suez to demand the immediate resignation of the current Egyptian leader H. Mubarak dubbed Egypt’s last Pharaoh by his ...
• Russian Terrorism: A New Angle
  By Joe Kleine While the smell of smoke still lingers in the air and the body count rises, there are already at least 2 popular theories on the Moscow bombing. The most well-known theory is that the Chechen Rebels bombed the airport. A precursory look at the Wikipedia history of Russian/Chechen relat ...
• The Prague Treaty Has Been Ratified: Now What?
  Vladimir Yevseyev (Russia) On January 26, 2011, the Federation Council of Russia’s Federal Assembly ratified the New Russian-American Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START). It shows that the “restart” of relations between our countries is on track. The US Senate consented to the Treaty in Dece ...
• Who Has Blown Up Moscow Airport?
  Any terrorist attack immanently pursues a certain political goal. Clear understanding of this goal and an analysis of the whole set of available facts about the horrific explosion in Domodedovo earlier this week may bring us closer to the answer to the key question: who are the perpetrators and who ...

BlogHer

• 14 Days of Chocolate, Day 2: David Lebovitz' Choco ...
  Every day from February 1-14, food bloggers in the BlogHer Publishing Network are sharing their very favorite chocolate recipes -- from chocolate gravy (!) to fondue, cookies, and cake. Sign up to get 14 Days of Chocolate in your inbox, and see all the chocolate in the series. ********************** ...
• Stopping The Spread of Cancer by Blocking One Rogu ...
  The main stumbling block I see is with the pharmaceutical industry itself, and whether they will actually spend the money to develop a drug like this. For years and years, we were told that the high cost of medication was due to the pharmaceutical industry's need to pay for research and developme ...
• BlogHer Network Member News, Feb 1: Maki Ito a Top ...
  Maki Ito of Just Hungry (pictured below) recently finished a book tour for The Just Bento Cookbook, which has been the top selling Japanese cookbook on both Amazon.com and Amazon.ca for the past several weeks. Todd Porter and Diane Cu from White on Rice Couple were featured in the print and onli ...
• Welcome to a Month of Movies! What Are Your All-Ti ...
  Every day during February 2011, we'll be talking movie reviews, celebrities, Oscar nominations, awards shows, DVDs you need to rent + more. Sign up to get A Month of Movies in your inbox each week in February -- and see all the movies in the series. **************************** It's a question ...
• 3 Creative Challenges to Waste Less Food and Save ...
  If you're like most Americans, you send an impressive amount of your hard-earned cash down the garbage disposal -- in the form of food waste. Okay, some of you don't have garbage disposals, and some of you compost all food scraps (good for you!), but you get my point: Many of us waste a lot of food ...

Health Freedom Alliance

• Bioengineered Salmon: California Bill Seeks Clear ...
  The FDA announced it was beginning the approval process for bio-engineered salmon in August last year. The agency determined the fish are safe for consumption based on research done by the very company selling it, ...
• Sick Gulf Residents Beg Officials For Relief
  Gulf residents are fighting for their lives. There are no jobs, nothing to fish and no support for those exposed to receive the medical care that is so desperately needed. All the while, tarballs continue to ...
• USDA Fully Deregulates GMO Alfalfa:Open Pollinatin ...
  Organic farmers have suffered a loss as the USDA has announced that they are allowing Monsanto’s Roundup Ready GM alfalfa to be planted without restrictions.  The news comes as a blow to the organic industry ...
• Politicians Ignoring Citizens Call for Freedom of ...
  Who will speak for the citizens of the United States if not our elected officials? Last year, anyone concerned about their health and access to nutritious food and natural medicine watched in horror as the government passed ...
• Politicians Ignoring Citizens Call for Freedom of ...
  Who will speak for the citizens of the United States if not our elected officials? Last year, anyone concerned about their health and access to nutritious food and natural medicine watched in horror as the government passed ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

• Coal industry drops appeal of Goodwin ruling
  The coal industry has dropped its challenge of U.S. District Judge Joseph R. Goodwin’s ruling throwing out the federal Army Corps of Engineers’ streamlined permit process for mountaintop removal valley fills. Some readers may recall that after Judge Goodwinâs ruling the Corps of Engineers suspended ...
• W.Va. suit over EPA crackdown transferred to D.C.
  Here’s the AP brief: A federal judge has issued an order moving West Virginia’s lawsuit challenging Environmental Protection Agency policies designed to curb surface coal mining to Washington, D.C. U.S. District Judge John Copenhaver Jr. issued the order Monday. It had been sought by the EPA and oth ...
• New report ties coal ash to hexavalent chromium
  A new report out this morning ties toxic coal ash to pollution of water supplies with the cancer-causing chemical hexavalent chromium. Here’s the announcement: Just weeks after recent headlines about hexavalent chromium, a cancer-causing toxic chemical, contaminated drinking water systems around th ...
• Sen. Rockefeller brings back bill to block Obama a ...
  Fresh from being named one of the political leaders an executives doing the most to derail action on global warming, West Virginia Sen. Jay Rockefeller has re-introduced his bill to block the Obama administration from doing anything about the climate crisis. As The Hill reported: Sen. Jay Rockefell ...
• Will the new Alpha talk sense on global warming?
  One of the things the national media kind of loved about Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship was how outspoken Blankenship was about global warming. By calling it a hoax or a myth or whatever his latest was, Blankenship played right into the narrative that coal is a dinosaur of an industry that won’t ...

Daniel Miessler

• The Reddit Angry Face Meme
  via google.com This guy is upset. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsHipster SharksGoogle Ngram Viewer20 Things I Learned About Browsers and the Web | GoogleUpdated Subnetting PostThis is a Problem
• Bot attacks Linux and Mac but can’t lock down its ...
  Known as Trojan.Jnanabot, or alternately as OSX/Koobface.A or trojan.osx.boonana.a, the bot made waves in October when researchers discovered its Java-based makeup allowed it to attack Mac and Linux machines, not just Windows PCs as is the case with most malware. Once installed, the trojan component ...
• For progress to be by accumulation and not by rand ...
  As a practical matter a psychologist who knew the work of William James as well as that of B.F. Skinner or an economist who knows Hayek and Smith as well as Samuelson or Keynes is always more impressive than one who knows only the ‘modern’ field as ‘modern’ was understood by the previous generation. ...
• Think You Know ‘How To Write A Sentence’? | NPR
  Fish is something of a sentence connoisseur, and he says writing a fine sentence is a delicate process â but it’s a process that can be learned. He laments that many educators approach teaching the craft the wrong way â by relying on rules rather than examples. Analyzing great sentences “will tell y ...
• danielmiessler.com | projects | grammar
  Committing grammar mistakes in business writing is like having body odor during a business meeting. Some may be able to look past it–or even fail to notice–but others might end the relationship immediately because of assumptions they’ll make about everything else about you. You never know which it’s ...

Fitwatch

• Manchester demo – police use s50 powers to g ...
  We have received this account from an eye-witness in Manchester. Police have abused ASBO legislation to obtain the personal details of anti-cuts demonstrators. Manchester police ended a day of orderly rallies and breakout groups of protesters by abusing legislation on anti-social behaviour in order ...
• Protesters sprayed as Hugh Orde advocates extreme ...
  Three days after head of ACPO, Hugh Orde, promised the use of more extreme tactics on protesters, ten people have been cs/pepper sprayed at a London UKUncut protest outside Boots, with three needing hospital treatment. During the protest on Oxford Street, an activist tried to post a leaflet through ...
• Statement by activist security collective on Lynn ...
  The following is a statement from the ActivistSecurity.org collective following discussions with individuals involved in the expose of 'Lynn Watson' as an undercover police infiltrator. The original of this, including photographs, can be found at their website http://www.activistsecurity.org/lynn_wa ...
• Schnews reposted
  In the interests of completeness, we reprint (with permission!) the Schnews article that broke the news about cop/govt trolling on activist websites.... INTER-NETCU AS GOVERNMENT AGENCY CAUGHT INFILTRATING ACTIVIST MEDIA OUTLET “No - stuff that - SHUT the place: Let’s not all stand around like lemmi ...
• Met’s published photos – info for stud ...
  Once again the Met have released a set of images of people they want in connection with the student protests last Thursday. If you or one of your mates is one of them, you’ll be worried and unsure about what to do. Before you do anything, read this first. The dilemma is this - if [...]

Worldwide Hippies

• ‘Why I Flattened Three Afghan Villages’
  I can’t recommend Restrepo enough. âWhy I Flattened Three Afghan Villagesâ | Wired When the day began for Lt. Col. David Flynn on Oct. 6, Taliban insurgents were using three southern Afghanistan hamlets as bomb factories. By the time the next day ended, Tarok Kolache, Khosrow Sofla and Lower Babur h ...
• Read It, Young Feminists
  100 Young Adult Books for the Feminist Reader | bitchmedia The Bitch Media Community Lending Library brings you our very first book list, made up of 100 young adult novels that every feminist should add to the stack of books on their bedside table. Here at the library we’ve been re-reading some of o ...
• US Corporate Welfare Giveaways
  by Rep. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) | progress.org -The Export-Import Bank: Corporate Welfare At Its Worst The US federal government is guilty of making huge corporate welfare handouts. Taxpayers are forced to pay for ridiculous things, including handouts to Enron, General Motors and AT&T. This country ha ...
• Be Kind – Simple, right?
  WWH – My personal answers to the ludicrous state of affairs on our planet are these: But first, some observations of my 63 years here: I had a relatively good first 18 years. Loving family, no lack for any of the essentials, a few close friends, a healthy curiosity about the world Having been [.. ...
• On Becoming a Minimalist
  WWH – I used to be a collector. I used to collect “things.” My mother is a collector of sorts. She collects stuff in general. She always had two or three of everything, just in case. I grew up in a house with rich, red carpets and crystal chandeliers. My mother was always decorating, cleaning, [... ...

reference frame

• Liberal parents believe the autism-vaccination lin ...
  Paul Nurse, the boss of the Royal Society, recently compared climate skeptics to the people who reject modern medicine, or those who doubt the relationship between HIV and AIDS, and who prefer alternative medicine instead. I have always thought that this analogy is mostly upside down ...
• Ban Ki-moon gives up fight against climate change
  In November 2009, the ClimateGate erupted and many of us were convinced that the establishment of climate fear would quickly collapse. I was imagining that it would be as fast as the Velvet Revolution that began exactly 20 years earlier. So many climate skeptics were disillusioned by ...
• What experiment would disprove string theory?
  You may disprove string theory by many observations that will almost certain not occur, for example: By detecting Lorentz violation at high energies: string theory predicts that the Lorentz symmetry is exact at any energy scale; recent experiments by the Fermi satellite and others have showed ...
• Hawaii governor: no Obama long-form birth certific ...
  World Net Daily and Yahoo Associated Content report that a former 2008 Hawaii election clerk, Tim Adams, has sworn that his supervisors told him that no long-form, hospital-generated birth certificate exists in Hawaii. He's not the only one. According to Examiner, Newser, The Daily Caller, ...
• China working on thorium reactors
  Ordinary nuclear power plants use uranium, Z=92, as their fuel. Nuclear fission has done and is doing a great service to the mankind. However, the uranium still has several disadvantages. The waste products remain radioactive for thousands of years. And the world's reserves of uranium are ...

No Frakking Consensus

• Teachers: the New Green Police
  Canadian teachers (who are employees of the state) are attempting to dictate how children's lunches should be packaged. Intruding so intimately into people's private lives is not an acceptable way to save the planet.
• Does the IPCC Follow the Rules? Insiders Say &#821 ...
  According to insiders, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change rules are being ignored on the one hand - and circumvented on the other.
• Credit Where It’s Due
  A news account suggests Michael Oppenheimer is a class act. Rather than calling climate skeptics "deniers" he admits they might be smart people.
• Mr. Chairman, Your Carriage Awaits
  The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is dysfunctional and unaccountable. That Rajendra Pachauri remains as its chairman - despite widespread calls for his resignation - is proof of this.
• If IPCC Meetings Were Televised
  The IPCC documents most likely to be read by outsiders - the Summaries for Policymakers - are not scientific statements at all. Rather, they are the result of a messy, arduous political negotiation that pits scientists against politicians.

Tarpley

• MK-Ultra Minion Assange of Wikileaks Targets CIA ...
  Webster G. Tarpley on The Alex Jones Show Infowars December 5, 2010 download file
• Emergency Call to Congress: Stop the Destruction o ...
  Webster G. Tarpley TARPLEY.net December 12, 2010 Dear Senator/Congressman – American voters are shocked and outraged by Obama’s latest betrayal of the FDR New Deal heritage. Most alarming in his dirty deal with the Republicans is the proposed sabotage of Social Security. We will work hard to defeat ...
• December 23, 1310: Emperor Henry VII of Luxemburg, ...
  Webster G. Tarpley TARPLEY.net December 23, 2010 Henry VII of Luxemburg Today, December 23, 2010, marks one of the most important world-historical anniversaries of all time. Seven hundred years ago this evening, the Holy Roman Emperor Henry VII of Luxemburg passed through the city gates of Mila ...
• Media Interviews
  English Deutsch Français Italiano Other          1 2 3 4 5 6 7  >  >| page: 1 of 7   total items: 68 Moscow Airport Bombing – Prime Suspects Include Chechens, Saakashvili, Steered by NATO Intelligence after Karzai Moscow visit, Khodokhovsky Verdict, Impotence of US-Backed Russian Oppositi ...
• World Crisis Radio
  Ad-Free Podcast When possible we try to provide a full-length, ad-free version of each week’s program. Select the appropriate file and listen now or download to your mp3 player. World Crisis Radio Ad-Free RSS Feed! Select Year 2011 2010 Select Program ...

Modern Survivalism

• So Much Snow, Roofs Collapsing in Northeast
  Permalink Snowfall records are being challenged and some are being smashed during this 2011 winter season in many parts of the U.S. The following NOAA snow depth map illustrates the magnitude of the snow depth across much of the northern portion of the U.S., particularly in the northeast where the s ...
• Drinking Swimming Pool Water in an Emergency
  Permalink You may be surprised to discover how many residential swimming pools are in your neighborhood. Just for fun, open up Google Earth and zoom into your neighborhood and see how many there are around you. City dwellers probably won’t see many, but many parts of the country are dotted with pool ...
• FOOD STORAGE 101, Inventory
  Permalink Do I need to inventory my food storage? This is a decision you ultimately need to make for yourself, but my question to you is, “why would you want to make more work for yourself”? FOOD STORAGE ORGANIZATION The way I look at it, organization is the key. If you have everything stored by [.. ...
• Total Inches of Snow in Boston so far
  Noticing that there are a-lot of questions lately regarding ‘How much snow has fallen in Boston‘, or ‘How many inches of snow so far in Boston‘, I decided to have a look – especially knowing that so many people live in the northeast U.S., and are having one of those good-old-fashioned winter’s. As e ...
• Bake Soil to Pasteurize Before Germinating Seeds
  For best results to successfully germinate seeds, soil from the garden should not be used unless it is first pasteurized to kill weed seeds and fungi. It is also safe practice to pasteurize potting soil bought from the store prior to planting seeds, although theoretically you can purchase ‘sterile’ ...

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