20 February - RSS SnapShot! Pt 2

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Peoples Voice

• Is this the Beginning of The Second American R ...
  By Timothy Gatto What’s happening in Wisconsin is only a prelude to what is eventually going to happen all over the country. This nation is backsliding into a time when there were no Unions and people were being taken advantage of by those that employed them. This is a travesty. We are supposed ...
• Arabs are back to history
  Salim Nazzal Arabs are back to history in the most creative way paving the way towards the emerging of new Arabs. These are the words of Saif daana the Palestinian professor of sociology predicting in an article published at Al Jazeera site that the current revolution will not stop unless all t ...
• US Workers: Resurgent or Waging a Rearguard Ac ...
  by Stephen Lendman For decades, organized labor has been hammered after painful years of organizing, taking to the streets, going on strike, holding boycotts, battling police and National Guard forces, and paying with their blood and lives before real gains were won. Important ones incl ...
• Truth in Stuttgart
  Introduction by Gilad Atzmon: Three months ago, I briefly participated in a Palestinian solidarity conference in Stuttgart. The event was dedicated to the 'One State Solution'. As it happened, I was touring in Germany at the time, and thus accepted an invitation by the organiser to say a few wo ...
• Egypt's Spirit Lands in Wisconsin
  by Stephen Lendman It landed, but it's too soon to know where it's going or how committed workers are to stay the course and spread it to other US states.Read more �Original post blogged on b2evolution.

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

• BNN launches three-part series on income inequ ...
  CTV's Business News Network (BNN) begins a three-part series today looking at the gap between the rich and the rest of us. Today's show, at 5 pm EST, features Robert Reich, former U.S. secretary of labour. Tomorrow's show, 5 pm EST, features the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives' own Senio ...
• Economist writer on the three top reasons why ...
  MIT Economist Daron Acemoglu writes in The Economist that there are three main reasons to care about worsening income inequality: Harmful effects on personal well-being, limited equality of opportunity, and more concentrated political power. On the third point, he writes: "Economic power tends t ...
• A challenge to BC’s leadership candidates: dar ...
  On our Policy Note blog, Seth Klein suggests a new approach for BC leadership hopefuls: "As a number of fundamental crises become more apparent (ecological and economic, not to mention the democratic deficit), the public is looking for bold ideas and bold leadership. Sadly, too many political ...
• CEO pay under review
  A week after we released our review of CEO pay in Canada, the Ontario Securities Commission says it's time to review how executives get paid. Read the story here.
• Federal budget takes center stage
  It appears as though this year's federal budget will be particularly important in the parliamentary calendar as it may be what brings down the government. �Ignatieff appears to be planning to vote against Flaherty's budget unless there are some radical changes. �This will also increase the relev ...

World Wide Hippies

• The uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia show that I ...
  This is not an Islamic revolution | New Statesman In Europe, the popular uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East have been interpreted using a model that is more than 30 years old: the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran. Commentators have been expecting to see Islamist groups – the Muslim Bro ...
• Hippie.TV
• Something is Rotten: Denmark Takes Over Hippie ...
  Danish Supreme Court Deals Blow To Hippie Enclave | NPR The Danish government on Friday won a legal battle against a freewheeling neighborhood that has remained largely self-governing since its creation by hippie squatters four decades ago. The Supreme Court upheld a lower court decision from 20 ...
• ‘”Trust Fund Reserves Inadequate,& ...
  States ignored warnings on unemployment insurance | AP State officials had plenty of warning. Over the past three decades, two national commissions and a series of government audits sounded alarms about the dwindling amount of money states were setting aside to pay unemployment insurance to laid ...
• Just a little Bump From Alternet… (sniff ...
  Radical States: GOP Forcing Their Nightmarish Right-Wing Vision on People Who Elected Them | Alternet Given the opportunity to lead, far-right politicians have decided to ignore the nation’s needs and pursue their own narrow, unpopular ideological vendettas. More… Boehner’s All About Jobs, Unles ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

• Battlefield Wisconsin: Visualizing the protest
  The scene in Madison is frenzied.�As Wisconsin Republicans stood primed to revoke collective bargaining rights for state employees this week, 14 Democratic state senators fled in order to forestall a vote. The story captured the national imagination and galvanized a wide range of opinions. An ...
• NYC stabbing spree fits no mold; suspect indic ...
  After slashing his stepfather to death with a kitchen knife, police say 23-year-old Maksim Gelman picked his next victim with purpose and premeditation. He headed to the home of a female acquaintance, killed her mother, then waited patiently for hours for the young woman to come so he could k ...
• Libya snapshot: Three days of protests and gov ...
  �Through three days of major protests, Libya stands in stark contrast to neighboring North African countries Egypt and Tunisia. While the regimes in those countries countenanced anti-government protests to varying degrees, Libyan autocrat Moammar Gadhafi has struck down demonstrators with rou ...
• Cosmic census finds crowd of planets in our ga ...
  Scientists have estimated the first cosmic census of planets in our galaxy and the numbers are astronomical: at least 50 billion planets in the Milky Way.
• Egypt revolt becomes global case study
  It seems naive to hope the fallout from cataclysmic events in the Middle East and North Africa can spill beyond the region and stir distant, repressed populations with no cultural or historical affinity. Yet successful uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia have captivated dissidents and activists aroun ...

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

• The Conservative record: Immigrants see a hars ...
  Ottawa has deprived newcomers of the family support they need to integrate successfully.
• Annals of celebrity: Let Bieber be Bieber
  Teen pop star has views. So what?
• KAIROS Furor: Did PM bigfoot Oda?
  Stephen Harper was quick to kick Maxime Bernier and Helena Guergis out of cabinet, so it's odd that he is supporting Bev Oda.
• Sheppard Subway: Private partners may refuse t ...
  Toronto shouldn’t abandon its Transit City light-rail plan until an alternative comes that’s shown to be better.
• Punish rule-breakers, but respect the rest
  Toronto’s civil service has heroes as well as scamsters, and that’s worth bearing in mind while reading the auditor general’s recent report.

Energy Collective

• Is the Obama Administration getting the messag ...
  From NPR's Ira Flatow, February 18, 2011:
• The Forest Flip: The Overall Impact of Burning ...
  Talk about climate-related “flips” in the far north, and those engaged on the climate change issue normally think of the albedo flip, more formally Arctic amplification. That effect is serious enough by itself, as it results in more warming from the darker ocean absorbing more heat from sunligh ...
• ARPA-E funding at risk in H.R. 1
  As I noted in a previous blog (in conjunction with just
• Two new entries to market for small modular re ...
  Westinghouse and Holtec offer “passively safe” light water reactor designs
• BP to Feinberg: stop paying people so much
  Just when you thought BP couldn’t top former CEO Tony Hayward’s ham-handed statements last summer, it appears the giant oil conglomerate still has the mojo to make gulf residents’ blood boil.

EU Times

• Libya protests: 84 killed in growing unrest, s ...
  The number of people killed in three days of protests in Libya has risen to 84, according to the New York-based group Human Rights Watch. The main focus of the demonstrations against Col Muammar Gaddafi’s 42-year rule has been the second city Benghazi, where security forces are said to have atta ...
• Curveball doubts were shared with CIA, says ex ...
  Joschka Fischer accuses former CIA chief George Tenet over his knowledge of Iraqi defector’s sketchy background. Germany’s former foreign minister Joschka Fischer has accused the former head of the CIA George Tenet of making implausible claims about the handling of the Curveball case by the US. ...
• Russia Urges Israel to Stop Settlement Constru ...
  Russia urges Israel’s government to freeze construction of settlements in the West Bank, which violates international law and hinders Palestinian-Israeli talks, Russia’s permanent representative at the United Nations Vitaly Churkin told a UN Security Council session on Friday. According to Russi ...
• CBS News Correspondent Assaulted During Egypt ...
  On Friday, Feb. 11, the day Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down, CBS chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan was covering the jubilation in Tahrir Square for a “60 Minutes” story when she and her team and their security were surrounded by a dangerous element amidst the celebration. It w ...
• China calls US veto of UN resolution a ‘double ...
  The United States has vetoed a draft UN resolution condemning the expansion of Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory, turning a deaf ear to international calls and Palestinian appeals for an immediate stop. The totally unjustified but foreseeable veto was another example of t ...

Stonecipher News

• Normal Structure and Function of the Musculosk ...
  Mr. Ghaz says: Muscular dystrophies refer to a group of more than 30 genetic diseases which are characterized by progressive weakness and degeneration of the skeletal muscles..Studies and estimation show that after sustaining a hip fracture (as a result of osteoporosis) 20% of patients die withi ...
• Reasons to Donate Blood
  Have you ever donated blood? If you have why did you do it? It may have been for a loved one or a friend. It could have been for the free coupons and gift certificates blood centers provide for donations. Maybe you’re required to donate blood being that you’re in the medical field. In actua ...
• Special Education High School Transition Servi ...
  From my Factoidz page: 1414(d) and in Findings about “effective transition services to promote successful post-Students typically start transition services at the age 14 if educational services are still required as determined by the school district and the IEP team. However, Washington State’s ...
• Don't Quit Your Day Job
  This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Ashworth College. All opinions are 100% mine. With approximately 4,000,000 students today, more than 20 percent of all students enrolled in higher education are taking at least one course online. Self paced online courses ...
• Breast Cancer Gene May Raise Men’s Risk, Too
  Source: HealthDay News: "A faulty gene that greatly increases a woman’s risk of breast cancer also boosts a man’s risk for the disease, a new study finds. While most people think of breast cancer as a woman’s illness, in rare cases men can develop breast tumors as well. The new study found tha ...

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

• Watch Manchester United vs Crawley Town live o ...
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• Barclays Swindling Us All
  I never really swallowed the line about if we keep hitting the banks they will just go abroad and take all their money with them. My answer was we should double our efforts and wave them goodbye from the quayside because they are obviously not very good at their jobs as the £200bn bail out pai ...
• Somali Pirates Capture American Couple
  Actual pirates. Jean and Scott Adam, an American couple sailing across the Indian Ocean in a yacht, were capt aarrr ed yesterday by Somali pirates, and the pirates appeared to be taking the couple back to the Somali shore. The couple has been cruising around the world for over six years. Pirate ...
• There's a Tea Party rally in Wisconsin today â ...
  Red State says: Calling all tea party and grassroots conservatives in Wisconsin! This is your moment. Your state is ground zero in the fight against the unions. We win there, we win everywhere. The fight against the unions ... Well, there's an open declaration that it's not about solving the bu ...
• Cable 09MANAMA660, GRADING BAHRAIN’S PARLIAMEN ...
  Cable 09MANAMA660, GRADING BAHRAIN’S PARLIAMENT . 5.(C) The Bahrain of 2009 is a far cry from the unrest of the 1990s. State security courts have been abolished, street protests are considerably fewer and less violent, and Wifaq, as a legal, parliamentary opposition, has proven its ability to c ...

Groklaw

• Senators Introduce Sunshine in the Courtroom A ...
  Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) have introduced legislation to permit federal and appellate judges to allow the use of cameras in the courtroom. "The judicial branch of our federal government is a mystery to many Americans. Cameras in courtrooms ...
• Google requests re-examination of Java patents
  Google has launched a counter-attack in the dispute over the Java patents transferred to Oracle from Sun: the company has requested the US Patent and Trademark Office to re-examine ("ex parte re-examination") four of the patents. The process will involve an independent expert evaluating whether ...
• Google claims 'fair use' of Java against Orac ...
  This case isn't going to end anytime soon either, unless Google is willing to share some $$ with Oracle. That said, Oracle's legal claims have done little if anything to scare users or vendors away from Android, so for now this is one battle that is all about the lawyers. It's not stopping Andr ...
• Google Legal Move Could Alter Course of Oracle ...
  Re-examinations can actually take three or four years, and even longer, Daniels said in an interview Friday. "There have been re-exams in there for 10 years." Meanwhile, the re-examination process could potentially cause a substantial delay to the actual trial, as Google could ask the judge to ...
• Intel plans $5 bln Arizona chip plant by 2013
  The state-of-the-art plant, which will crank out microchips with next-generation 14 nanometer line-widths, is expected to bring thousands of jobs to the cash-strapped western U.S. state, which is offering more incentives to lure businesses. - Reuters

WideShut

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

Politics in the Zeros

• War may be good for the economy but isn’t for ...
  Stuart Bramhall on the US war-based economy and the collapse of genuine democracy. It only became clear once I left the US the immense sacrifices Americans make for their cheap gasoline and consumer goods. The most obvious is a range of domestic programs that other developed countries take for g ...
• Backupify backs and restores Facebook, Twitter ...
  Backupify is the leading backup provider for cloud based data, offering an all-in-one archiving, search and restore service for the most popular online services including Google Apps, Facebook, Twitter and more. They have a free version that backups up five accounts.
• Will Jerry Brown get a special election on the ...
  The train wreck that is the California budget negotiation continues. If Gov. Brown doesn’t get the special election or the measures don’t pass, then things will get very dire indeed.Crossposted from CAIVN. The California legislature must agree by a two-thirds vote to hold the June 8 special elec ...
• Klepto kitty is a real cat burglar
  Link.
• For the Middle East protesters. People got to ...
  The Middle East protesters are heroic and inspiring. They are literally putting their lives on the line. I helped organize multiple anti-Iraq war protests. Sometimes they were huge. Sometimes it got really tense with LAPD. But I knew the authorities would not open fire on us with assault rifles ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

• Battery hen activists prepared to stay overnig ...
  Activists who have chained themselves to silos at a battery hen farm, say they will stay longer to get their message across.
• Cyclone Atu expected to brush up against New Z ...
  The risk of Cyclone Atu brushing New Zealand has increased a little overnight.
• Police make arrest after Tauranga woman found ...
  A man has been arrested in Tauranga afer a woman was found dead in a house this morning.
• Man in court after buying four properties whil ...
  A beneficiary, who managed to buy four properties, has ended up court for ticking the wrong box.
• Two killed in crash near Foxton
  Two people have been killed in an accident at Foxton, 20km north of Levin.

Just World News

• Foreign policy goals of Egyptian democrats...
  Many U.S. commentators have tried to "sanitize" the foreign-policy impact of Egypt's still-ongoing revolution, by claiming that Egypt's current democrats have no foreign policy goals (unlike all those "uncivilized" Egyptians in the past who had dreams of Arab nationalism and such.) As'ad Abu Kh ...
• Kids, try this at home!
  Words found in books, 1850 through 2008. Explanations? I think we need to recognize that for both "Israel" and "Palestine" there was a pre-modern, Biblical usage of the word in English; and then at some point the "modern", political meaning got added in to that. You can, obviously, also try t ...
• Egypt's reform process: What, who, and how?
  I am trying to follow-- from the very great distance of central Virginia, USA, what is happening regarding the very necessary and WAYS overdue process of political/constitutional reform and rebuilding that Egypt so desperately needs if the democracy revolution of the past few weeks is to be able ...
• Quick notes for a quickly changing world
  1. Just 30 days ago, on January 14, I was making the 3.5-hour drive down from Charlottesville, VA to Greensboro, NC, for the Quaker conference held to mark the 50th anniversary of Pres. Eisenhower's prescient 1961 warning about the dangers of a 'Military-Industrial Complex' arising in the U.S. ...
• Appeal on behalf of 'Bedouins' in Israel
  Amos Gvirtz, who was my generous host in his home at Kibbutz Shefayim two years ago, sends out a short weekly report on some current rights outrage committed by the government of Israel, under the title "Don't say you didn't know". His latest email is longer than usual and comes with a short but ...

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

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

David Seaton's News Links

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

EWG - Environmental Working Group

• EWG backs strict California chromium-6 goal
  February 16th, 2011 February 14, 2011 Michael Baes Pesticide and Environmental Toxicology Branch Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment California Environmental Protection Agency 1515 Clay St., 16th floor Oakland, California... [[ This is a conten ...
• EWG backs strict California chrome-6 goal
  February 16th, 2011 February 14, 2011 Michael Baes Pesticide and Environmental Toxicology Branch Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment California Environmental Protection Agency 1515 Clay St., 16th floor Oakland, California... [[ This is a conten ...
• Proposed federal fluoride cap too high
  February 16th, 2011 February 14, 2011 Howard K. Koh, M.D., M.P.H. Assistant Secretary for Health U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Community Water Fluoridation Comments Division of... [[ This is a content ...
• Obama Would Cut Subsidies to Wealthy Farms
  Contact: Contact EWG Public Affairs 202-667-6982 WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 – The Obama administration’s proposed 2012 federal budget released today targets several wasteful agriculture programs, including cutting $4.25 billion over 10 years from... [[ This is a content summary ...
• House Republican Plan for EPA would Hurt Publi ...
  Contact: EWG public affairs 202.667.6982 or alex@ewg.org Washington, D.C. – Environmental Working Group (EWG) reaction to both the House Republican and Obama administration budget proposals for the Environmental Protection Agency. EWG... [[ This is a content summary ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

• Doctor Warns: Eat This and You’ll Look 5 Years ...
  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 fi ...
• Delusional Pepsi CEO Says Doritos are Not Bad ...
  PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi said on Fox Business Channel's American Icon program that "Doritos are not bad for you." She added that they are "nothing more than corn mashed up, fried up in oil, and flavored in the most delectable way." Of course, one bag of Doritos clocks in at 1,350 calories, with ...
• Why You Should Never Sleep With TV or Dim Ligh ...
  Exposure to even dim light at night, such as a glowing TV screen, could prompt changes in your brain that lead to mood disorders -- up to and including depression. Researchers placed hamsters in sleep environments with different lighting conditions. After eight weeks, the hamsters were tested f ...
• Talking Animals
  These pets really speak!
• 60 Lab Studies Now Confirm Cancer Link to a Va ...
  Dr. Maurice Hilleman made astounding revelations in an interview that was cut from The Health Century -- the admission that Merck drug company vaccines had been injecting dangerous viruses into people worldwide. Bear in mind that Dr. Hilleman was the developer of Merck's vaccine program. He dev ...

JAMA

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

Survival - tribal peoples

• Trial of Indian leader’s ‘assassins’ resumes
  Guarani leader Marcos Veron was killed in 2003. © Joaó Ripper/Survival The trial of three men accused of murdering renowned Guarani Indian leader Marcos Veron is set to resume on Monday in São Paulo, Brazil. â¨â¨Marcos Veron, an internationally respected Guarani Kaiowá leader, was beat ...
• Chevron found guilty of Amazon destruction
  Waorani man, Ecuador © © John Wright/Survival In a historic court ruling, US oil company Chevron has been fined $8.6 billion for polluting a huge area of the Ecuadorian Amazon. Seventeen years after the case was taken to the courts, Chevron has been charged with dumping 18.5 billion gall ...
• Bangladesh: Tribal people living in fear after ...
  The children of Ms Buddhapati Chakma,who was shot dead by soldiers, speak to local journalists after last year's attacks © Satrong Chakma This weekend marks the first anniversary of a vicious attack on Jumma tribal people by settlers and soldiers in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh. ...
• Alaskan mine site to be investigated following ...
  Open cast mines such as this one in West Papua have devastated local indigenous communities © Daniel Start/Survival A huge open-pit mine planned for Bristol Bay in south-west Alaska is to be investigated by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) following mass opposition from local i ...
• Uncontacted Amazon Indians face annihilation
  An Awá man stands amidst the burnt remains of his tribe's forest © Fiona Watson/Survival A shocking report obtained by Survival International reveals that the home of the nomadic Awá tribe suffered more deforestation than any other indigenous territory in the Amazon in 2009. Around 60 t ...

Montreal Gazette

• Arena plan will be a benefit for Westmount
  Westmount city council has moved forward on an ambitious and innovative new recreation facility by committing to hiring a project manager for the $37-million undertaking. Plans call for the construction of two underground rinks and a subterranean parking lot. New tennis courts are to be ...
• Civic spaces should be neutral ground for reli ...
  The mayor of Saguenay, Jean Tremblay, might be voicing a popular sentiment when he says that old-stock Quebecers have become too compliant in accommodating minority religions while failing to stick up strongly enough for their own beliefs. But he misses a crucial point.
• Oda and accountability
  Bev Oda, Canada's minister of international co-operation, has a choice: She could do the right thing and resign form cabinet now. Or she could wait until the speaker of the House of Commons makes a ruling on whether she is in breach of parliamentary privilege over conflicting testimony s ...
• Hard to find good guys in city hall's latest m ...
  It's hard to sympathize with anyone involved in the latest scandal to erupt in the snakepit that is Montreal city hall. Not the senior city bureaucrats who embarked on a 10-month spying campaign against the city's auditor-general, Jacques Bergeron. Not Bergeron, who faces allegations of ...
• Let's get this train on the tracks
  Pointe Claire Mayor Bill McMurchie perhaps got slightly carried away when he described the projected new West Island commuter-train system as the equivalent of a metro line.

Food World Order

• 2/17 binge & purge: cola wars, polar bears & d ...
  video: coca-cola's secret recipe finally spills out into public* cancer causing chemicals found in cola coloring ingredient* docs are wondering if diet soda & strokes are linked* farmers rushing to deposit seeds in arctic doomsday vault where it's -4°f & patrolled by polar bears* bil ...
• epa to reduce fluoride levels in water due to ...
  from washington's blog: Today [jan7], the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a reduction in allowable fluoride levels in U.S. drinking water:HHS’ proposed recommendation of 0.7 milligrams of fluoride per liter of water ...
• worst freeze in 60yrs wipes out crops across U ...
  from end of the american dream: Get ready to pay a lot more for produce at the supermarket. In early February the worst freeze in 60 years wiped out entire crops all across the southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico. Already, it has been reported that some U.S. supermarkets have doubled or even t ...
• as oil and food prices rise, arab states buy u ...
  from green prophet: In response to the recent food riots in Algeria and Tunisia, and to rising oil prices (the price/barrel of crude is, once again, nearing $100) some Arab states (including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates) have been buying-up farm land in parts of Africa. In late 201 ...
• 1/6 binge & purge: food banks, no-bids & drink ...
  millions in US heading to foodbanks for first time* usda certified organic's dirty little secret: neotame, from the makers of aspartame* food supply company, employing fmr head of defense contracting agency, wins $4b no-bid contract* pepsi puts an end to chewing by 'drinkifying' food* ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

• Are The Wild Teacher Protests In Wisconsin A P ...
  Have you seen video of the teacher protests that are going on in Wisconsin?  We haven't seen anything like this in America in quite some time.  If you haven't seen video of the protests yet, some very good raw footage is posted below.  On the one hand it is good to see Americans ...
• Barack Obama’s Budget For 2012: A Comple ...
  Is Barack Obama trying to play a joke on all of us?  The budget that the Obama administration has submitted for fiscal 2012 is so out of touch with reality that it may as well be a budget for "Narnia", "Fantasy Island", "Atlantis" or some other mythical land.  You can view the h ...
• 21 Signs That The Once Great U.S. Economy Is B ...
  Once upon a time, the United States was the greatest industrial powerhouse that the world has ever seen.  Our immense economic machinery was the envy of the rest of the globe and it provided the foundation for the largest and most vibrant middle class in the history of the world ...
• Is Ben Bernanke A Liar, A Lunatic Or Is He Jus ...
  Did you see Ben Bernanke's testimony before the House Budget Committee on Wednesday? It was quite a show. Bernanke seems to believe that if he just keeps on repeating the same mantras over and over that somehow they will become true. Bernanke insists that the economy is getti ...
• 10 Reasons Why It Has Become So Soul-Crushingl ...
  Have you been unemployed lately?  If so, then you probably know how frustrating it is to try to find a job in the United States today. It now takes the average unemployed worker about 33 weeks to find a job.  There are millions of Americans that have not been able to find a full ...

CASSE

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

The Talking Clock

• Council of Europe throws it's toys out of the ...
  There's a delicious report in the Daily Mail, covering the repercussions of the historic vote in the House of Commons of Thursday in which forty years of non-stop treason was put on pause and Members of Parliament finally told European dictators to get stuffed. But guess what? In the words o ...
• British newspapers - and the people - celebrat ...
  The newspapers have managed to come up with a whole heap of jubilation over yesterday's vote in the House of Commons in which our normally spineless and treacherous Members of Parliament, after four decades of betrayal of the nation state, finally said 'enough is enough - get stuffed'. The Da ...
• Debate on Parliamentary Sovereignty vs. Prison ...
  Just going through the pre-official Hansard record on the debate. Will return to the topic tomorrow when the approved final Hansard comes out, but thought we'd pick out some key debates and points from the record. This is a heavily condensed highlights summary. Do read as much as you are a ...
• Diana: Yes, Mr. Cameron, we approve wholeheart ...
  The Prime Minister, David Cameron, has followed this blog's lead... by publicly praising the humanitarian work and achievements of Diana, Princess of Wales. A report in the Daily Express highlights the PM's warm words for 'the People's Princess' during a Downing Street reception for the Diana ...
• British 'Democracy' in Action: Ken Clarke says ...
  You've got to laugh, really. EU-loving Ken 'Bilderberg' Clarke has pre-empted the vote in the House of Commons tomorrow which will decide what is to be done - if anything - to allow prison inmates to vote at elections. The Daily Telegraph quotes him as telling BBC Radio Four's Today progra ...

Facing South

• Report raises concerns about redistricting abu ...
  By Naomi Martin, The Lens Louisiana politicians could use their control over the upcoming congressional redistricting process to keep themselves -- and their parties -- in power for the next decade, according to a new report by the Public Affairs Research Council, an independent non-profit ba ...
• Southern Republicans launch sneak attack on co ...
  The House is expected to vote as early as today on amendments to a budget bill that would take away the Environmental Protection Agency's power to regulate toxic coal ash as a hazardous waste. Reps. Cliff Stearns (R-Fla.) and David McKinley (R-W.Va.) have offered amendments to a continuing reso ...
• INSTITUTE INDEX: A chilly budget for the poor
  Size of the budget proposal unveiled this week by President Obama: $3.7 trillion Amount the White House says the plan will reduce the deficit by over the next 10 years: $1 trillion Portion of debt reduction that would be achieved via spending freezes: 2/3 By tax increases: 1/3 Number of year ...
• VOICES: Obama's $36 billion nuke-powered givea ...
  By Harvey Wasserman Barack Obama's 2012 budget marks a major escalation in the nuclear war against a green-powered future, whose advocates are already fighting back. Amidst massive budget cuts for social and environmental programs, Obama wants $36 billion in loan guarantees for a reactor in ...
• 'Respect my Vote': Backlash grows against vote ...
  When Republicans launched campaigns in 20 states this year for laws requiring voters to show photo ID at the polls, they likely saw it as a chance to score a quick political victory on one of their favorite causes. But the GOP's urgent and coordinated push is encountering growing resistan ...

CenterLine

• Today’s Terrorism News
  Abu Zubaydah Video Shown to Military Jury at Noor Hearing A never-before-seen video of Abu Zubaydah praising the 9/11 attacks and putting out a call for terror recruits was shown to the military jury deliberating a sentence for Noor Uthman … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Panetta Says a Captured bin Laden Would ‘Probably’ Be Sent to Guantanamo CIA Director Leon Panetta told a Senate panel Wednesday that if Osama bin Laden or Ayman al-Zawahiri is captured, they would be detained by the military and probably … Continue reading →
• Official CLS Statement on Nir Rosen
  From Karen J. Greenberg, Executive Director, Center on Law and Security Nir Rosen is always provocative, but he crossed the line yesterday with his comments about Lara Logan. I am deeply distressed by what he wrote about Ms. Logan and … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Gitmo Detainee Pleads Guilty to Two  Charges in Plea Deal Noor Uthman Mohammed, a Sudanese detainee who has been at Guantanamo for nearly nine years, pleaded guilty to two charges Tuesday in a plea deal, according to reports. Noor, who … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  U.S. Charges Seven Men with Plot to Assist Taliban Seven men were charged in U.S. federal court in New York Monday with attempting to smuggle drugs into the United States for the Taliban and attempting to sell weapons to people … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

• Do casual words betray terrorists' murderous i ...
  Statements from al-Qaeda provide clues to the groups' future behaviour, says Peter Aldhous
• Watching the dawn of planet formation
  Snapshots of a planetary disc forming around a star 450 light years away could teach us about our own solar system
• Today on New Scientist: 18 February 2011
  All today's stories on NewScientist.com, including: sleepy black bears, the effect of botox on migraines, and a gravity-defying waterfall
• Cells cut ties with a twist
  Like the twist ties that seal off bags of bread, looping fibres may complete the final act of cell division
• Today on New Scientist: 11 February 2011
  All today's stories on NewScientist.com, including: a cyberweapon to take down the internet, taste bud trickery, and the diverse sex lives of animals

Tech Drive In

• VLC Celebrating its Tenth Birthday, VLC Truly ...
  Like most of you, VLC Media Player has been an integral part of my life around Linux�which started nearly 4 years ago. VLC is celebrating its 10 birthday and we at Tech Drive-in wish the awesome people behind VLC all the very best for the future. 10 Years of Open Source - VLC Media Player ...
• DNA Structure Animation in HTML5
  If you don't know what HTML5 is or how crucial it is to the whole future of the Internet ecosystem, you need to check out our previous article featuring 15�incredible�HTML5 demos showcasing prowess of HTML5 over Adobe Flash. Here is another nice and interesting HTML5 experiment that generates a ...
• Top 12 Most Popular Posts of Jan 2011
  Featured Comments from "Linux is User Friendly" Article If you are a regular visitor here, you most probably would have read the article discussing the user friendliness factor of Linux. The most interesting part of the article was the response we got from our readers in the form of comments(n ...
• Top 8 Newest GNOME GTK Themes Worth Trying Out
  If you are a regular here, you must already know that posts relating to Linux desktop eyecandy corners a huge chunk of our daily dose of Ubuntu/Linux articles. On top of the classic and most popular GTK themes for Ubuntu/GNOME we have�featured�here before, here are a bunch of very new and very a ...
• Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal Alpha 2 Review, Scr ...
  Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" alpha 2 was released a day ago. A lot has changed with Ubuntu since we reviewed the first alpha release of Ubuntu Natty some weeks ago. Here is a quick review of the latest release of Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal. What's New in Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal Alpha 2? ...

Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

• Love in the Time of the Hadron Collider
  By Les Visible I’m fond of saying that physicist have proven that the universe is thought born and that everything we see, touch, hear, taste and smell is composed of mindstuff. I’ve long had an image in my mind of science, cyclopean and with its one eye turned toward whatever corporate profit a ...
• Police launch “brutal” operation in Bahrain
  It was the early hours of the morning in Bahrain when the security forces launched a major operation to clear a camp of protesters in the capital, Manama. Men, women and children ran for their lives. Witnesses say it was a brutal assault. Most people were asleep when the police arrived in force, ...
• Serious Doubt Cast on FBI’s Anthrax Case ...
  BY GLENN GREENWALD For years, the FBI believed that it had identified the perpetrator of the 2001 anthrax attacks — former Army researcher Steven Hatfill — only to be forced to acknowledge that he wasn’t involved and then pay him $5.8 million for the damage he suffered from those false accusatio ...
• Panel Demolishes Official 9/11 Story
  By Greg Scott February 17th, 2011 Architect Richard Gage changed the opinions of two dozen (24 of 25) individuals in the audience that previously believed the official 9/11 Commission story after presenting his evidence at the Conscious Life Expo in Los Angeles. The other panelists included Sena ...
• Health Authorities Want Depression-Causing Dru ...
  Health authorities are pushing for drugs to be added to public water supplies that cause depression and memory loss, as a new study shows that the dangers of statins have been deliberately underplayed by drug companies, in a chilling throwback to how the population in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New W ...

Veterans Today

• KHODR : Israelophobia in America—Israelophilia ...
  BREAKING SURPRISE NEWS: Mohamed Khodr / Veterans Today The United States Vetoes a Palestinian Draft Resolution calling Israeli Settlements “Illegal” in the U.N. Security Council.   The Vote was 14 – 1. This is Obama’s first veto, a veto that gives Israel the impunity to further steal Palestinian ...
• EXCLUSIVE: Monsanto Agrees Clean-Up of Toxic B ...
  Monsanto has agreed to help clean-up a quarry in South Wales it is accused of polluting with a cocktail of toxic substances despite consistently refusing to accept liability, the Ecologist can reveal. But the taxpayer could still end up meeting the estimated £2 million clean-up bill.
• WILLIAM COOK : “We the Forgotten People of the ...
  Let’s admit it, the country has been stolen. William A. Cook / STAFF WRITER We thought we had used the democratic process to rid our country of George W. Bush by the peaceful election of a man who told Americans he would right the wrongs of that Zionist Cabal. Instead we have a houseboy doing [. ...
• EGYPT: Placebos, Protests and Precious Metal B ...
  We are constantly being advised that the Egyptian Military has the situation under control. As the situation develops it is becoming increasingly apparent that there is something wrong with this picture. The military and the media assures us that the morganatic wedding between the Generals and t ...
• Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s Tale O ...
  Faced with a budget out of control, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker decided to make a sucker's choice of either/or, and has gotten himself into a huge mess. Is he able to be a true leader of all the citizens in his state, and sit down at the table and come to an agreement with those he has alie ...

electric politics

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

PR News

• Newspaper Guild plans campaign against NY Time ...
  NEW YORK: The Newspaper Guild of New York is involved in a labor contract dispute with the New York Times Co., and has set aside $1 million for a potential public campaign.
• Hispanicize.com to launch for Latino social me ...
  MIAMI: Hispanicize.com, a social media resource site for Latinos in PR and communications, is set to go live on Monday.
• Marcomms industry eyes new media investments
  The marketing communications industry will likely increase investments in start-up companies, as liquidity returns and social media and mobile technologies are taken more seriously.
• Story Partners aligns with Runyan Public Affai ...
  WASHINGTON: Story Partners announced a strategic alliance with Runyan Public Affairs, a government relations shop founded by John Runyan.
• 3D hires McIntyre
  WASHINGTON: 3D Communications hired Todd McIntyre as an executive in the firm's Washington office, effective February 17.

The Story Behind the Story

• Updates on the Illuminati
  Food for thought from the incredible website: http://therr.posterous.com/real-meaning-of-666-that-no-one-ever-talks-ab “The Fallen Host came in the times of Jared before his son Enoch by hundreds of years… to mate with Human Women and Animals… and screw up the DNA all over… that is WHY Noah was ...
• New Antiseptic – “Hydrogen Baracks ...
  Look what folks in Scotland think about our Usurper in Chief  ——
• This Is as Bizarre as it Gets!! What’s ...
  My vote on this is that when the Chinese YUAN becomes the World’s Reserve Currency, millions of Chinese will suddenly become quite wealthy and can now afford “American-Style” luxuries.   They will become the “New Middle Class” while America’s middle class become the peasantry.  Imagine Robins ...
• Illuminati “Mirror Image” = Itanim ...
  Want to see something freaky and very telling?  In witchcraft and demonology, spells are “cast” by means of “magic mirrors” – which are believed to be the entrance to other dimensions.  “Through the looking glass” is more than simply symbolic, and the Qabala mystery religions teach that “Lilit ...
• QDDR — Comrade Clinton’s Globalist ...
  On Wednesday, February 2, 2011, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton convened the “first-ever” QDDR Meeting at Washington D.C.   This involved bringing in MOST of the 260 U.S. “Ambassadors” (now referred to as “Global Chiefs of Mission” by Clinton) at an unknown cost to taxpayers.  ...

k2p blog

• Plagiarism and the morphing of a Minister
  In the space of just 3 days, Baron Dr. Karl Theodor Maria Nikolaus Johann Jacob Philipp Franz Joseph Sylvester Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg, Defence Minister of the Federal Republic of Germany has morphed to Herr Theodor Googleberg, Merkel's Copycat Minister.
• Beijing turns the screw on rare earth material ...
  China is introducing new controls on production and export of the rare earth elements crucial for electronics and environmental technologies.
• Guttenberg (aka “Googleberg”) at a ...
  Guttenbergs plagiarism has caused German media to turn the posh Franconian surname "zu Guttenberg" into a far less noble "zu Googleberg."
• Floods and Global Warming is fashion not scien ...
  There is the attempt to link current weather to long term climate, to use computer models to achieve the evidence, and to alarm the public and policy makers that climate change is real and here.
• Guttenberg plagiarism: Germans fixated with ac ...
  As a sociological phenomenon, the rise of the "cut-and-paste" culture together with the German love of academic titles is a worthy subject for study. But what does not seem to be in doubt is that the German Defence Minister Guttenberg is just another politician who is a fraud.

Left Foot Forward

• Irish election: What’s on offer from the ...
  Rory Geraghty looks ahead to the Irish elections this Thursday, explaining how Fine Gael are proposing a much harsher medicine than has already been experienced under Fianna Fail.
• Egypt: A vindication for liberal interventioni ...
  Liberal Democrat blogger Daniel Furr looks at whether the Blair/Bush doctrine of liberal interventionism has been vindicated by the revolutions sweeping the Middle East.
• The weirdness at the core of Universal Credit
  As the details emerge of the government’s big ticket welfare reform, the introduction of Universal Credit, it looks as if for once the hubristic language might be justified.
• Look Left – ’AV it! Referendum campaign gets i ...
  After months of shadow boxing, the campaign proper kicked off this week as the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill finally received Royal Assent.
• Boris: The bankers’ best friend
  Boris Johnson held more meetings with bankers and the financial services industry than with government ministers, the Met police, his electors or the press since coming to power.

Consumerist

• Wells Fargo Negotiates With Homeowner Who "For ...
  Wells Fargo had a nice phone call this afternoon with the Goth homeowner who "foreclosed" on one of their local branches. "The sheriff's sale will not be happening," the Wells Fargo spokesperson told me with a laugh. "We are working with him towards a resolution that works for everyone." She ac ...
• Man Uses Minivan To Show How Much He Hates Ban ...
  While everyone else needs to e-mail us their nominations for this year's Worst Company In America tournament, we're pretty sure this California man's minivan counts as one vote for Bank of America. The 63-year-old is so frustrated by his dealings with Bank of America that he painted the messag ...
• Utility Overcharged Homeowners By $11,000 Afte ...
  One home was paying for both their power and their neighbor's after their meters go crossed. Over seven years they overpaid by $11,000 despite making costly upgrades to reduce power consumption. When they complained about the $300-$500 bills they kept receiving despite trying to be as frugal ...
• Man Sues All-You-Can-Eat Sushi Joint Because H ...
  How open is the phrase "All-You-Can-Eat"? That's what's at the heart of a lawsuit filed by a man against a Studio City, CA, sushi restaurant. The plaintiff went into the restaurant to take advantage of its $28 all-you-can-eat sushi offer. But when the man began only eating the raw fish and lea ...
• Mike Fights The Identity Thieves
  Someone stole Mike's identity and has been using it to pay for gas service and buy cellphones in his name. He's even got a $163 default judgment against him for something he never paid. Here's how he unraveled the threads of his identity thieves, and how he may never truly be free from their gr ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

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

UK Progressive

• US House Spends Four Days Passing Doomed $60 B ...
  We used to call lunch time outside school playtime recess. Thus far the US House has behaved more childishly and had more recess time off than any other during the first six weeks of the 112th Congress. Like most bad schoolboys caught unprepared doing their last minute revisions (cramming) for e ...
• GLAAD Makes Black History with Black Media
  Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) has done the unimaginable. It has cracked a firewall in black media with the two titans of black print and online news- Essence and Ebony. In October 2010, Essence.com, the online companion to Essence Magazine, featured a newly wedded lesbian cou ...
• Could Farming Plant The Seed Of Prosperity for ...
  Agriculture could offer returning soldiers, and wounded veterans, a chance to become entrepreneurs with programs like Combat Boots to Cowboy Boots and Farmer-Veteran Coalition. The Farmer-Veteran Coalition seeks to help returning veterans find employment, training and a place to heal on America’ ...
• Chris Matthews on the Other Bush Son, Jeb and ...
  Chris Matthews during his Sunday show has a roundtable discussion on the Republican Party elders urging him to run for the presidency in 2012. The pundits on his panel split 6-6 on whether he should run for the presidency.
• Road Trip – UK Progressive Travels Stateside
  From today onward we’ll check the President Obama v Republican Tea Party Budget battle live from Capitol Hill. Then UK Progressive will take only its 2nd break as we unplug from the Net 20 February – 02 March to allow me to work on finishing 3-long promised books on Social Media, Running for Off ...

NewsAlert

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JoNova

• House votes 244-179 to kill U.S. funding of UN ...
  Breaking News, straight from Climate Depot. Another victory for science! The House votes 244-179 to kill U.S. funding of UN IPCC! ‘[The US government] no longer wishes to have the IPCC prepare its comprehensive international climate science assessments’ Defund IPCC ‘amendment was sponsored by Re ...
• They say they believe but act like they don&#8 ...
  This week the Australian government tells us that we ought to pay more tax to prevent the increase in natural disasters that are dead-set bound-to-occur, yet the government itself is budgeting less for these events. Figure that. They’ve cut their expenditure projections for future natural disast ...
• Announcing a formal request for the Auditor Ge ...
  A team of skeptical scientists, citizens, and an Australian Senator have lodged a formal request with the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) to have the BOM and CSIRO audited. The BOM claim their adjustments are “neutral” yet Ken Stewart showed that the trend in the raw figures for our whol ...
• Time for a new rigorous Association of Scienti ...
  Below is the O so apt resignation of  Steven J. Welcenbach from the American Chemical Society (ACS). In it he describes how the largest scientific society in the world has become a non-scientific activist group bowing to political pressure and ignoring its members objections. Such is his ire and ...
• There are signs the wheel is turning.
  In the US there are significant moves at the highest levels to limit the carbon related power-grab.  (Thanks to SPPI for the heads-up.) Perhaps this is the point where the 2010 election results start to spoil the grandiose plans that once looked inevitable? Maybe democracy can save the day? Hous ...

ReNew America

• Obama's war on democracy
  (Washington Times) - Message to Wisconsin taxpayers: President Obama and the Democratic National Committee have declared war on you. Message to other states: You're next. The political unrest in Wisconsin, billed as some kind of grass-roots uprising, is being organized and directed by Barack Oba ...
• Apocalypse now: Wisconsin vs. big labor
  (Michelle Malkin) - Welcome to the reckoning. We have met the fiscal apocalypse, and it is smack dab in the middle of the heartland. As Wisconsin goes, so goes the nation. Let us pray it does not go the way of the decrepit welfare states of the European Union...
• Amendments passed to eliminate Obama czars and ...
  (Human Events) - The House passed two important conservative amendments on Thursday night: to eliminate funding for President Obama's czars and to prohibit the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from enforcing its net neutrality rules...
• Stunner! Supremes to give eligibility case ano ...
  (WorldNetDaily) - In a stunning move, the U.S. Supreme Court has scheduled another "conference" on a legal challenge to Barack Obama's eligibility to occupy the Oval Office, but officials there are not answering questions about whether two justices given their jobs by Obama will participate...
• Gov't has borrowed an additional $29,660 per h ...
  (CNSNews.com) - The federal government has borrowed an additional $29,660 per household in the United States since President Barack Obama signed his economic stimulus law two years ago. That brings the total national debt to $125,475.18 per household...

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

• Solar Flare Update
  The biggest solar flare in four years has sent charged particles hurtling towards Earth. ABC News says: The radiation from Monday’s flare, known as a Coronal Mass Ejection, should pass the Earth today, Friday and Saturday. The charged particles will speed by at some 560 miles per second. …What ...
• X-Flare, CME Heading Towards Earth
  This just in from SpaceWeather.com: Sunspot 1158 has unleashed the strongest solar flare in more than four years. The eruption, which peaked at 0156 UT on Feb. 15th, registered X2 on the Richter scale of solar flares… X-flares are the strongest type of solar flare, and this is the first such eru ...
• The Royal Society Laughs at 2012
  A few days ago, the highly-regarded Professor Jocelyn Bell Burnell gave a Royal Society lecture about the sham that is 2012. You can watch it online: http://royalsociety.org/The-end-of-the-world-in-2012/ Now for some criticisms! You have to wonder about a scientist who doesn’t understand how se ...
• Sun-Moon-Earth Magnetic Relationship
  For most people, the moon is a lump of barren rock that provides us with moonlight, and is the cause of tides. Along with that, we know that gravity is less on the moon, allowing astronauts to take floating steps. Few people know that our moon has a magnetic field, just like the Sun and [...] ...
• Another Icelandic Volcano Threatens
  This time the volcano is called Bárdarbunga, and a scientist has warned that the odds of it erupting are high. If it does, it could be substantially worse for Europe than Eyjafjallajökul which erupted in 2010, creating air traffic chaos: … there was “every reason to worry” as the sustained ear ...

Facing South

• Report raises concerns about redistricting abu ...
  By Naomi Martin, The Lens Louisiana politicians could use their control over the upcoming congressional redistricting process to keep themselves -- and their parties -- in power for the next decade, according to a new report by the Public Affairs Research Council, an independent non-profit ba ...
• Southern Republicans launch sneak attack on co ...
  The House is expected to vote as early as today on amendments to a budget bill that would take away the Environmental Protection Agency's power to regulate toxic coal ash as a hazardous waste. Reps. Cliff Stearns (R-Fla.) and David McKinley (R-W.Va.) have offered amendments to a continuing reso ...
• INSTITUTE INDEX: A chilly budget for the poor
  Size of the budget proposal unveiled this week by President Obama: $3.7 trillion Amount the White House says the plan will reduce the deficit by over the next 10 years: $1 trillion Portion of debt reduction that would be achieved via spending freezes: 2/3 By tax increases: 1/3 Number of year ...
• VOICES: Obama's $36 billion nuke-powered givea ...
  By Harvey Wasserman Barack Obama's 2012 budget marks a major escalation in the nuclear war against a green-powered future, whose advocates are already fighting back. Amidst massive budget cuts for social and environmental programs, Obama wants $36 billion in loan guarantees for a reactor in ...
• 'Respect my Vote': Backlash grows against vote ...
  When Republicans launched campaigns in 20 states this year for laws requiring voters to show photo ID at the polls, they likely saw it as a chance to score a quick political victory on one of their favorite causes. But the GOP's urgent and coordinated push is encountering growing resistan ...

One News Page

• Manchester City knocked out of UEFA Cup
  Hamburg eliminated Manchester City to reach the UEFA Cup semifinals, surviving a 2-1 loss in England to advance 4-3 on aggregate.
• Sheila flags off campaign against domestic vio ...
  When you witness an act of domestic violence in the neighbourhood, intervene by ringing the doorbell, says Breakthrough.
• David Duerson Dies at 50: Chicago Bears Safety ...
  DAVE Duerson has been found dead in his Miami home at the age of 50. The four-time Pro Bowl safety — who helped the Chicago Bears and New York Giants to Super Bowl — was found last night, the Bears said in a news release on their website. The cause of death wasn’t disclosed. “We are ...
• Player Ratings: Arsenal 2-0 Wolverhampton Wand ...
• Rihanna Not Happy With 'Come On'
  Pop singer Rihanna's new album titled 'SandM' is into too many controversies. Her new album has been renamed without her consent and as well as is been reportedly banned in a few countries. According to a British newspaper 'The Daily Mirror',

Global Research TV

• Rumsfeld's Award, Unrest in Egypt and Food Cri ...
• Swiss Shift Opinion to Abolish Militia
• Les invisibles (Partie 4)
• Big Pharma Creates Diseases to Sell Cures
• Obama's Total Media Takeover

Daily Tech

• Oracle, Apple, Cisco Fund Lobby Effort for Tax ...
  Firms want to bring foreign money home at discounted tax rate
• U.S. Government Accidentally Abuses Internet " ...
  Government believed the sites contained child pornography, but they did not
• China Appears to Have Committed "Unprecedented ...
  Government of Canada refuses to report how much information may have been lost
• Certain Hudson River Fish Resistant to Polluti ...
  Having a variant AHR2 receptor gene has made the tomcod resistant to PCBs in the Hudson River, but it may have harmful effects
• Obama Plans Meeting With Steve Jobs, Eric Schm ...
  President will discuss how to promote "innovation" with top tech luminaries

Oriental Review

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

BlogHer

• Unions Under Attack Across the US
  Unions across the United States have been under attack this week as states like Ohio and Wisconsin are working to pass bills that would end collective bargaining -- among other things. The tension has been high in the state capitols of Columbus and Madison, with thousands of supporters and oppon ...
• Sex in Literature Awards: Leave Authors Alone
  “Do you subscribe to Esquire?” my friend Hannah asks me. It’s a chilly February afternoon and we’ve met for lunch at the Hammer Museum’s café for the usual dishing session. Most women meeting to discuss their love lives would be thrilled to expense their lunches the way a sex columnist and the a ...
• What You Need to Know About Unemployment
  I'm realizing, now that I am once again gainfully employed and looking back on my several months of unemployment or very little employment, that there are quite a few things I didn't blog about having to do with the whole unemployment experience. In truth, the reason for that is that I've b ...
• How to Make Angry Birds Cupcakes
  For the past couple of months, I've been a little angry with Angry Birds. It started when I realized that my 6-year-old was better at the game than I was. Which was a little embarrassing but whatever. I'm not really into games anyway. But then my son introduced the game to my husband. And he ha ...
• Weekend Menu Planning: Eat More Heart Healthy ...
  Did you know that February is American Heart Month and that the American Heart Association recommends eating fish that's high in Omaga-3 fatty acids at least twice a week? I love fish and cook it fairly often, but when I checked to see which fish have the most Omega-3, I realized I could do bet ...

Health Freedom Alliance

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

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

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

Daniel Miessler

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

Fitwatch

• Activist reports recent encounter with Mark Ke ...
  Fitwatch has been passed the following statement relating to an encounter by an activist with the ex-undercover cop, Mark Kennedy. Mark Kennedy encountered in London Last week ex-undercover police spy Mark Kennedy was encountered by chance by an activist who was an erstwhile friend. Kennedy was ...
• Legal Advice Drop-In for Student/Anti-Cuts Arr ...
  From LDMG: Legal Defence & Monitoring Group (LDMG) and Offmarket Infoshop in Hackney, London will now be offering a regular legal drop-in session for all those arrested on the Student Demonstrations or Anti-Cuts Actions. We will be able to offer: * Entirely free, confidential legal advice coming ...
• Manchester demo – police use s50 powers ...
  We have received this account from an eye-witness in Manchester. Police have abused ASBO legislation to obtain the personal details of anti-cuts demonstrators. Manchester police ended a day of orderly rallies and breakout groups of protesters by abusing legislation on anti-social behaviour in or ...
• Protesters sprayed as Hugh Orde advocates extr ...
  Three days after head of ACPO, Hugh Orde, promised the use of more extreme tactics on protesters, ten people have been cs/pepper sprayed at a London UKUncut protest outside Boots, with three needing hospital treatment. During the protest on Oxford Street, an activist tried to post a leaflet thro ...
• Statement by activist security collective on L ...
  The following is a statement from the ActivistSecurity.org collective following discussions with individuals involved in the expose of 'Lynn Watson' as an undercover police infiltrator. The original of this, including photographs, can be found at their website http://www.activistsecurity.org/lyn ...

Worldwide Hippies

• Koch Bros’ Behind Wisconsin Union Bustin ...
  Koch Brothers Behind Wisconsin Effort To Kill Public Unions | Forbes As the nation focuses on the efforts of Governor Scott Walker to take away collective bargaining rights from public employees in Wisconsin, new information is coming to light that reveals what is truly going on here. Mother Jon ...
• The uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia show that I ...
  This is not an Islamic revolution | New Statesman In Europe, the popular uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East have been interpreted using a model that is more than 30 years old: the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran. Commentators have been expecting to see Islamist groups – the Muslim Bro ...
• Hippie.TV
• Something is Rotten: Denmark Takes Over Hippie ...
  Danish Supreme Court Deals Blow To Hippie Enclave | NPR The Danish government on Friday won a legal battle against a freewheeling neighborhood that has remained largely self-governing since its creation by hippie squatters four decades ago. The Supreme Court upheld a lower court decision from 20 ...
• ‘”Trust Fund Reserves Inadequate,& ...
  States ignored warnings on unemployment insurance | AP State officials had plenty of warning. Over the past three decades, two national commissions and a series of government audits sounded alarms about the dwindling amount of money states were setting aside to pay unemployment insurance to laid ...

reference frame

• House votes to ban U.S. funding for the IPCC
  Alarmist blog Climate Science Watch reports that the lower chamber of the U.S. Parliament has voted 244-179, largely separated by parties, to stop the U.S. contributions to the IPCC. Dr Robert Austin of Princeton, a prolific Princeton biophysicist, was one of the key witnesses explaini ...
• Prince Charles on corrosive skepticism
  Benny Peiser has sent us six interesting articles today: Prince Charles on corrosive skepticism: according to the British queen's eldest son, skepticism is corrosive for the society. The heir apparent was quickly criticized for contaminating his royal reputation. Fuel poverty in Wales ...
• The enigmatic cosmological constant
  The cosmological constant remains one of the most mysterious players in the current picture of the world. A building of the Faculty of Natural Sciences of the Charles University in Albertov. In those buildings, where the Velvet Revolution began on November 17th, 1989, Einstein sp ...
• Congress: 35+36 climate scientists clarify mis ...
  A week ago, a radical group of 18 climate bullies has tried to scare the U.S. Congress: Eighteen hardcore AGW alarmists threaten U.S. CongressMichael Mann, Kevin Trenberth, Ben Santer, and 15 additional combative climate crackpots have argued that the doomsday is imminent and they denied ...
• Johnny Ball: AGW crusaders liquidated 90% of m ...
  Johnny Ball has been a great popularizer of mathematics, especially among the British children. Even these days, at the age of 72, he can spontaneously, vigorously, and meaningfully answer any general science question from the kids: After a global warming fatwā was issued against ...

No Frakking Consensus

• Scientists Have Allowed Themselves to Be Used
  An award-winning meteorologist says he's ashamed of - and embarrassed by - his profession.
• Friday Giggles
  On those days when one doesn't know whether to laugh or cry, I choose to laugh. The Daily Bayonet blog contrasts so completely with anything available from the mainstream media one can't help wondering what the world would be like if this gent were a late-night comic.
• Andrew Weaver vs Tim Flannery
  Two activist scientists, both committed to the climate change fight, have starkly different views of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. One says it's the most "rigorous scientific process" in which he has been involved. The other says it isn't good science, but "lowest-common-denomin ...
• An IPCC History Lesson
  A full 13 years before the IPCC was born its first chairman seems to have already decided that fossil fuels affected the climate so adversely their use would need to be curtailed.
• It Isn’t a Conspiracy – It’s ...
  If much of the world were to snap out of it and realize that global warming has been over-hyped, large companies in wealthy and influential sectors of the economy would lose hundreds of billions.

Tarpley

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

Modern Survivalism

• Tomato Sauce from Dehydrated Tomatoes
  A very effective way to preserve and store fresh garden grown tomatoes is to dehydrate them. This post is about one thing you can do with your dehydrated tomatoes, later on. That is, to make tomato sauce! There really is no right or wrong way to make tomato sauce, because it really depends upon ...
• 300,000 mile Flaming Plasma Solar Tentacle
  A huge tentacle of burning solar plasma stretching 300,000 miles long and lifting as high as 100,000 miles above the surface of the sun has captured the interest of many observers. The enormous spectacle first appeared during February 17 and has been twisting, dissipating, and re-energizing in s ...
• Arkansas Earthquake Swarms, New Madrid or Natu ...
  During the past year, north central Arkansas has been experiencing swarms of earthquakes, off-and-on, which have shook the region with varying magnitude quakes from the 1′s to the 4′s. Some fear that the New Madrid Fault Zone has something to do with it, while others are convinced that local nat ...
• State Tax Burden
  One way to look at State tax burden when comparing one state with another, is to use the same weighting factor (or value, or importance) for each category (sales tax, income tax, property tax). If you value each category the same, that is, sales tax is just as important to you as income tax whic ...
• Lowest to Highest Taxes by State
  Have you ever wondered what U.S. State may be better to live in with relation to taxes and tax burden? While we cannot escape taxes, we can make decisions which will minimize our overall State tax burden, depending on each of our own financial situations and objectives. We’re talking about prope ...

Fast Company

• Fluorescent Tattoo Alert! MIT's Latest Trick f ...
  MIT is exploring embedded microworm biomedical sensors that detect medical conditions. And reading them could be as simple as shining a light on the skin and seeing the microworm tattoos glow.A number of research efforts are underway to exploit micro-particle technology to sense medical conditio ...
• Jordanian Health Program Connects Bedouin Moth ...
  The rural mothers of Jordan now have a direct, immediate line to qualified health care--their mobile phones. SOHITCOM�(Social Health and IT for Rural Communities) is a health initiative that connects rural mothers with competent doctors via mobile phones in an effort to overcome literacy and ...
• Smart Chevy MyLink In-Car System Arrives in 20 ...
  Chevrolet has just revealed its plans to build its MyLink technology into the 2012 Chevy Volt and Equinox--a system that adds security from OnStar and accesses streaming music content from Pandora and Stitcher SmartRadio, all controlled by voice and touch controls.Chevy is highlighting the MyLin ...
• Journalism Majors Beware: New Tests Hold Schoo ...
  Britain and the Collegiate Learning Assessment want to measure school success by whether students can succeed at work. Many college graduates are devoid of practical skills, according to�new evidence�from the provocative book,�Academically Adrift. Fed up with the disconnect between employers ...
• How Watson's $1 Million Jeopardy Win Helps IBM ...
  After crushing the humanoids on Jeopardy this week, IBM's Watson computer took home $1 million in prize money. Instead of throwing it away on Tiffany diamond-encrusted circuit boards or a Lamborghini to show up other supercomputers, Watson is showing that its silicon heart is in the right pl ...

Jadaliyya

• A Word on Africa: Djibouti
  âArab world unrest reaches Horn of Africaâ was how the Israeli website Ynet led off its coverage of the demonstrations that began in Djibouti yesterday. On Friday, thousands of protesters â 6,000, according to the Independent, in a country with a population of less than a million people ...
• From Cairo to Madison: the New Internationalis ...
  After being glued to Al-Jazeera for what seemed like decades, I returned to semi-normal life and found that there was breaking news in the academic circles as well. In the last three weeks, the popular overthrow of Ben Ali and Mubarak seems to have brought about the demise of another opp ...
• Notes from the Bahraini Field
  As of Saturday February 19, 2011, several people have been killed and hundreds more have been brutally injured in Bahrain. The Bahraini police and militaryâs violent oppression of the peaceful demonstrators was further escalated after the GCCâs 28th extraordinary meeting that took place ...
• Morocco on the Eve of the Demonstrations
  �When I go out in the street, no cares about #feb20, I connect and boom, the revolution is brewing� (Qd je sors ds la rue, no one cares about #feb20, je me connecte et boom c'est la révolution qui couve). The above, tweeted yesterday in the style of much that�s being produced on the in ...
• Sunken Mythologies
  "They told me in an articulate foreign tongue: all nations more or less are moving forward in the direction of history; towards globalization, the knowledge society and political modernity except for you making headway running in the opposite direction ...We know that your unenlightene ...

mediagazer

• Paul Miller And The Five Rules Of Stunt Resign ...
  Paul Carr / TechCrunch: Paul Miller And The Five Rules Of Stunt Resignation  —  On Friday afternoon, Paul J. Miller caused what passes for a kerfuffle inside the technology journalism meta-bubble.  —  Miller, as you know, is “Senior Associate Editor” at our estranged sister site Engadget - or ...
• Female Foreign Correspondents' Code of Silence ...
  ProPublica: Female Foreign Correspondents' Code of Silence, Finally Broken  —  This piece was co-published in the New York Times  —  Thousands of men blocked the road, surrounding the S.U.V. of the chief justice of Pakistan, a national hero for standing up to military rule.
• MSNBC Hosts Settle In After Olbermann (Bill Ca ...
  Bill Carter / Media Decoder: MSNBC Hosts Settle In After Olbermann  —  MSNBC has certainly felt the impact of the departure of its most successful host, Keith Olbermann, last month, though the network has not suffered anything that could be called a collapse.  —  Ratings for the host who replac ...
• Larry King claims Piers Morgan was 'oversold' ...
  BBC: Larry King claims Piers Morgan was ‘oversold’ to US  —  Larry King (right) bowed out in December after presenting his CNN talk show for 25 years  —  Former long-running CNN talk show host Larry King has claimed his successor Piers Morgan was “oversold” to US television audiences.
• BBC Charts New Course for its U.S. Newscast (B ...
  Brian Stelter / Media Decoder: BBC Charts New Course for its U.S. Newscast  —  Tapping into what it sees as a need for impartial international news on cable, the BBC said Friday that it would aggressively seek distribution in the United States for BBC World News America, its 24-hour news channe ...

Chemtrail News

• CBS Atlanta - Chemtrail Pictures Come i ...
  i love how the op provides no proof of anything yet claims there is no denying chemtrails,lol and were the ignorant ones for not beleiving, i think ignorance is taking someones word for something even tho there is absolutley no proof to ...AboveTopSecret.com Hot Topics - http://feeds.abovetopsec ...
• CBS Atlanta – Chemtrail Pictures Come i ...
  This post was mentioned on Twitter by Intelwars.com, MAX and CONTRACOMA, mikeswebpage. mikeswebpage said: TheIntelHub- CBS Atlanta – Chemtrail Pictures Come in By The Thousands!: February 19th, 2011 Thi… http://bit.ly/h4FfxG ... - http://theintelhub.com/
• Chemtrails And Solar Flares | Disinform ...
  Has anybody else noticed unusual chemtrail activity recently? Being that much of the radiation from Monday's solar flare was set to impact the Earth today, ...www.disinfo.com/2011/02/chemtrails-and-solar-flares/
• Momentarily DeCloaked Chemtrail UFOvide ...
  Discussion about Momentarily De-Cloaked Chemtrail UFO (video) at the GodlikeProductions Conspiracy Forum. Our topics include Conspiracy Theory, ...www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1365319/pg1
• YouTube - CBS Atlanta - Chemtrails
  For more information, visit http://www.coalitionagainstgeoengineering.org. Aired on 2/13/11.www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHnghDr_TDA

World News - Top Stories

• Lonely Planet leaves Australian orbit
  Sydney - Leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet has lost its last connection to founders Tony and Maureen Wheeler with the Melbourne-based English-Irish couple selling their remaining 25-per-cent stake to majority owner the British Broadcasting Corp. The BBC Worldwide paid 67 million ...
• Pruning is a necessary evil, and can be d ...
  Pruning can't help but wound a plant. But the injury doesn't have to compromise its health. Your job, as a pruner, is to pinch, snip, lop or saw in such a way as to facilitate your plants' natural healing. Plants have an uncanny ability to deal with wounds. Immediately after any wound, whet ...
• As crop prices rise, farmland soars
  JEFFERSON, IOWA - The bidders drove over snow- and ice-covered highways for a chance to own one of the most lucrative properties in the Midwest: 120 acres of farmland in Greene County, Iowa. The winner of last month's auction offered $8,200 an acre -- nearly $1 million. That's 44 percent hi ...
• Iran says enemy does not fear bombs
  Tehran, February 20: Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says the enemies of the Iranian nation have no fear of weapons, missiles and bombs yet they accuse the country of pursuing a military nuclear program. “How can a government which possesses more than 5,000 fifth-generation nuclear bom ...
• 2010 Winter Olympic sites become world cl ...
  One of the most successful winners at the 2010 Winter Olympics was the Canadian ski resort of Whistler. Home to both the Whistler and Blackcomb Mountain ski resorts, the ski village two hours north of Vancouver has been rated the top ski resort in North America for the past 12 years in a ro ...

no frakking consensus

• Scientists Have Allowed Themselves to Be Used
  An award-winning meteorologist says he's ashamed of - and embarrassed by - his profession.
• Friday Giggles
  On those days when one doesn't know whether to laugh or cry, I choose to laugh. The Daily Bayonet blog contrasts so completely with anything available from the mainstream media one can't help wondering what the world would be like if this gent were a late-night comic.
• Andrew Weaver vs Tim Flannery
  Two activist scientists, both committed to the climate change fight, have starkly different views of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. One says it's the most "rigorous scientific process" in which he has been involved. The other says it isn't good science, but "lowest-common-denomin ...
• An IPCC History Lesson
  A full 13 years before the IPCC was born its first chairman seems to have already decided that fossil fuels affected the climate so adversely their use would need to be curtailed.
• It Isn’t a Conspiracy – It’s ...
  If much of the world were to snap out of it and realize that global warming has been over-hyped, large companies in wealthy and influential sectors of the economy would lose hundreds of billions.

Pointman's

• Line of Descent Chapter 22
  Chapter 22 He lay full length on the ground, concealed within a clump of vegetation through which he studied the house and the hastily built positions in front of it. He held a rifle which poked out in front of him, stopping two feet short of the end of the cover. It had been in … Read more
• Don’t just sit on your butt blogging, do somet ...
  Iâm a blogger and commenter and enjoy reading and contributing to a variety of blogs but thereâs one attitude in the blogosphere that really bugs me big time; the whinge and dump mentality of a lot of bloggers and contributors. Whatâs whinge and dump? Itâs the idea that once youâve spotted and c ...
• Moderating, trolls, soup ladles and Ethics.
  If youâre running a blog, one of the chores that has to be done on an ongoing basis is moderating comments. I operate the common system where a contributorâs first comment is held for moderation. If I approve it, then they can comment freely thereafter. If I donât, then theyâre effectively shut ...
• Immoderate moderation at the DT
  My friend Locusts has just put up a piece at his place about the decline of debate at the Daily Telegraph to “just above the level of public toilet graffiti.” I left it shortly after Disqus was rushed into service and a bizarre censorship regime imposed, leaving the comment below. Sadly, occasio ...
• Why Climategate was not a computer hack.
  Why Climategate was not a computer hack. In the year since the Climategate material became public, I’ve read many articles on the effect the publication has had on the AGW debate. When it is referred to as a hack in them, I usually don’t bother reading any further. If the writer of the article i ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

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

Truth About Our World

• Insider Report: US Government Will Confiscate ...
  Author: Mac Slavo It’s no secret that the US government is broke, the US dollar is crashing and losing credibility globally, and the IMF, China, France and others have publicly stated their desire to eliminate the dollar as the world’s primary reserve currency. The IMF, for example, recently iss ...
• Sex, Lies, Iran, Israel and WikiLeaks
• Sociocide: Iraq Is No More
  War Is A Crime, February 17, 2011 As we approach the 8th anniversary of a U.S. invasion of Iraq, and having just passed the 20th anniversary of another, it’s worth reflecting on what’s been accomplished through two wars and the intervening sanctions that former Secretary of State Madeleine Albri ...
• 72 students not allowed into school
  Here’s another example of how unfree we really are.  Forced vaccinations.   “Well , it’s for the good of the other kids”. Really? Because if the other kids are vaccinated, then they won’t catch anything from the non-vaccinated, no?  It’s our bodies, and our kids, we have the right to choose w ...
• 60 Lab Studies Now Confirm Cancer Link to a Va ...
  Dr. Maurice Hilleman made astounding revelations in an interview that was cut from The Health Century — the admission that Merck drug company vaccines had been injecting dangerous viruses into people worldwide. Bear in mind that Dr. Hilleman was the developer of Merck’s vaccine program. He devel ...

  IPS - Inter Press Services

  • MEXICO: China Is Hiring; Only Professionals Ne ...
    Mexican pilot Armando Arauz is preparing the thick pile of documents and exams he needs to work for an airline in China.
  • U.S. House Pushes Through Deep Aid Cuts
    With a 2015 deadline fast approaching to meet a collective global promise to tackle poverty and improve education, health and environmental sustainability around the world, development and humanitarian advocates are up in arms over conservative lawmakers' proposals to slash and burn en ...
  • ITALY: Berlusconi Gets ‘Automatic Justic ...
    The trial of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on charges of underage prostitution has just taken a turn that some commentators are calling an appropriate twist of fate: the trial, due to begin on April 6, will be adjudicated by a panel of female judges.
  • When Asia Put Some Dictators Behind
    As Egypt takes tentative steps to replace ousted president Hosni Mubarak's three-decade authoritarian rule with a democratic culture, its political planners may want to look halfway across the world to the most populous Muslim country for lessons on how to prevent a return to strongman r ...
  • INDIA: Red Link With Nepal Fades
    With the powerful Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) relinquishing control of its fighting arm, the People's Liberation Army (PLA), the Indian government, faced with its own Maoist insurgency, can breathe more easily.

  Scoop - NZ

  • Bahrain Protesters Retake Square, Army retreat ...
    Rattled by the violence, the major opposition parties called the protests off. But in what appears to be a measure of who controls the movement now, the people refused the orders from their ostensible leaders. By mid-day, marchers set out from villages all around the city and from the city ce ...
  • Turning The Other Cheek - Egyptian Style | Win ...
    BUT if the soldiers holding those guns refuse to shoot then the power of the military leaders evaporates. So ultimately it is the foot soldiers who have the power in these situations. These are the enlisted men or, crucially in Egypt's case, conscripted men. Soldiers are trained to return violen ...
  • German Defence Minister's Plagiarism Scandal
    German Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg said on Friday he would temporarily relinquish his "doctor" title in the wake of accusations that he plagiarized entire passages of his dissertation. But his attempts to deflate the growing scandal may ultimately fall short.
  • The Threat of Civil Unrest in Pakistan and the ...
    On Feb. 13, the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) issued a statement demanding that the government of Pakistan execute U.S. government contractor Raymond Davis or turn him over to the TTP for judgment. Davis, a contract security officer for the CIA, has been in Pakistani custody since a Jan. 27 in ...
  • Spain's worker co-ops, a model for Cameron's U ...
    As Britain’s David Cameron embraces the ideal of worker co-operatives, a remarkable hi-tech variant with global operations is already thriving in the industrial heartland of Northern Spain.

  Independent - London

  • Robert Fisk: These are secular popular revolts ...
    Mubarak claimed that Islamists were behind the Egyptian revolution. Ben Ali said the same in Tunisia. King Abdullah of Jordan sees a dark and sinister hand – al-Qa'ida's hand, the Muslim Brotherhood's hand, an Islamist hand – behind the civil insurrection across the Arab world. Yesterday the Ba ...
  • Colonial past could be the saving of Rangoon
    Rising from Rangoon's cracked and chaotic streets is an extraordinary collection of colonial buildings – some elegant, some imposing, some delicate – but nearly all neglected and threatened by demolition to make way for new office blocks and shopping malls.
  • Gaddafi fights for his future as up to 200 die ...
    Libya was approaching a "tipping point" last night as widespread protests against Colonel Gaddafi's regime were met with increasing violence from security forces.
  • Protests continue in Yemen, Algeria and Morocc ...
    The wave of protests across the Arab world continued yesterday as Bahraini security forces ceded control of the symbolic Pearl Square in Manama to demonstrators and another protester was killed in Yemen.
  • Blooms replace bullets in Bahrain, while the r ...
    Chanting, singing and waving roses, Bahrain's Shia Muslims ran in their tens of thousands back into Pearl Square in the centre of Manama yesterday after two days of bloodshed as police and soldiers battled to keep them from the streets of the capital. The army's tanks withdrew from the area – Ba ...

  Rogue Government.com

  • Air Force ordered software to manage army of f ...
    In another document unearthed by "Anonymous," one of HBGary's employees also mentioned gaming geolocation services to make it appear as though selected fake persons were at actual events.
  • FBI Says There Is A 100% Chance of WMD Attack ...
  • BP workers could have prevented rig accident: ...
    BP had workers on the doomed Deepwater Horizon rig who could have prevented the missteps that led to the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill, but they were not consulted, the White House oil spill commission said on Thursday.
  • Huge solar flare jams radio, satellite signals ...
    A powerful solar eruption that triggered a huge geomagnetic storm has disturbed radio communications and could disrupt electrical power grids, radio and satellite communication in the next days, NASA� said.
  • Debit-Card Fee Plan May Hurt Small Banks
    Federal banking regulators, echoing an outcry from the financial industry, on Thursday said small banks could be hurt by a controversial plan to curb the debit-card processing fees banks charge merchants.

  Innovation Canada

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

  Signs of the times

  • The Drugs Won't Work if you Don't Believe in T ...
    Pain really is all in the mind, according to scientists who have discovered that positive thoughts can double a painkiller's effect while negative thoughts can cancel them out. Researchers from Oxford, Cambridge and two German universities made their conclusions after a novel experiment examin ...
  • US: Nearly 60 Small to Moderate Earthquakes St ...
    Nearly 60 small and moderate earthquakes struck Arkansas since Feb. 15, 2011, the most recent a magnitude 4.3 earthquake this morning 37 miles away from Little Rock. Many of the earthquakes are large enough to be felt. "These earthquake swarms are not that unusual for the region," said Harley B ...
  • Tarpley: Mubarak Toppled by CIA Because He Opp ...
    US Eyes Seizure of Suez Canal; Was this the Threat that Forced Mubarak to Quit? Washington DC - There never was an "Egyptian revolution," but rather a behind-the-scenes military putsch by a junta of CIA puppet generals who evidently could not succeed in their goal of ousting Hosni Mubarak wit ...
  • US: Earthquake Magnitude 3.5 Strikes Southern ...
    Authorities say a 3.5-magnitude earthquake has shaken southern Alabama, and people have reported feeling the quake as far away as Birmingham, Ala. Residents in the Pensacola area of the Florida panhandle also say they felt the quake, according to reports from the U.S. Geological Survey. Info ...
  • Bardarbunga volcano in Iceland: a geologist's ...
    An article on Bardarbunga, the volcano behind the recent Iceland eruption scare, written by geologist Ari Trausti Gudmundsson. This past spring, while the eruption at Eyjafjallajokull was taking place, there was large scale earthquake activity at Bardarbunga. The increased seismic activity in t ...

  The Galloping Beaver

  • Perspectives . . .
    "A Caligula can rule a long time, while the best men hesitate to do what is necessary to stop him, and the worst ones take advantage." — Aral Vorkosigan, "Cordelia's Honor", by Lois McMaster BujoldIggy, what are you going to do about it? Does anybody in the Liberal party have the balls? Doesn't ...
  • Perspectives . . .
    FABIUS MAXIMUS has an article worthy of attention. "A powerful story about America’s dealings with Pakistan, and how the news media hides the facts from us" tells about mysterious murders, and shows the difference between the US press and elsewhere. The murders are like an incident in a Len Deig ...
  • Parliamentary greenhouse
    The mind initially boggles. I thought this was a joke when I first read it as it seems utterly bizarre. The federal government has approved plans to build a magnificent $42-million glass dome on Parliament Hill as a new home for the House of Commons � a temporary one. The Commons will be move ...
  • Fighting back . . .
    THE CONSUMERIST has a delightful tale on one guy's effort to "stick it to the man". It seems that the Wells Fargo bank is not the easiest institution to deal with. Finally, Patrick Rodgers (below) had enough, so he "foreclosed" his local branch of Wells Fargo. That got the behemoth's attention . ...
  • "Bless Me, Father" - There's an App for That . ...
    But Bennie and his Jerks don't like it. Via the New York Daily News: Officials in Rome have declared that an app available on Apple's iPhones, iPads and the iPod touch cannot serve as a confessional. "One cannot speak in any way of confessing via iPhone," Federico Lombardi, the Vatican's spok ...

  Media Matters for America

  • Beck Slams Planned Parenthood With "Bad Tree" ...
    In an episode dedicated to vilifying Planned Parenthood, Fox News' Glenn Beck highlighted the organization's historical ties to Margaret Sanger -- a proponent of some forms of eugenics -- and stated: "I believe one thing is true: A bad tree cannot bear good fruit. Period. You need to know the r ...
  • In Hour-Long Attack On Planned Parenthood, Bec ...
    Glenn Beck devoted the February 18 edition of his Fox News show to promoting the false claim that Live Action's undercover videos showed Planned Parenthood abetting the sex trafficking of underage girls. Beck did not mention once during his hour-long show that, before any of the hoax videos wer ...
  • Beck Echoes Joel Richardson: Warns Of Antichri ...
    In addition to endorsing author and anti-Muslim activist Joel Richardson's attempts to link Islam to the Antichrist, Glenn Beck also echoed Richardson's views linking Turkey to a purported future Islamic caliphate.Beck Warns Of Sunni-Shiite Unification, New Islamic Empire Based In Turkey Beck: ...
  • Who Is Raymond Ruddy, Lila Rose's Funder?
    Raymond Ruddy funded Live Action's latest videos maligning Planned Parenthood. Ruddy has previously smeared Obama as an infanticide supporter and promoted fringe views on birth control, sex-education and reproductive rights. He also maintained a cozy and profitable relationship with the Bush ad ...
  • Fox Slams WI Protests But Cheered Tea Party P ...
    Fox News' coverage of the Wisconsin protests over Gov. Scott Walker's proposal to eliminate public employees' collective bargaining rights, among other things, has been marked with repeated attacks on the protesters. However, by contrast, Fox has relentlessly promoted and even encouraged vie ...

  Global Research.ca

  • VIDEO: Yemen Unrest Builds: Rivals Exchange Gu ...
    For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
  • Bahrain: An Escalation of Bloodshed
    For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
  • Time to Topple Corporate Dictators
    For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
  • The Fed's Policy of Creating Inflation: A Mass ...
    For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
  • From Cairo to Dakar to Durban, Another World A ...
    For more details, please click on the link to read the article.

  TPM Cafe

  • Common Ground with Republicans: Nix NSF Fundin ...
    One of the items on cut list for House Republicans is the National Science Foundation (NSF). They want to cut $150 million, or 2.2 percent, from its 2010 budget for the current fiscal year. This should be a place where progressives can find common ground with Republicans. Virtually no econom ...
  • The Republican Strategy
    The Republican strategy is to split the vast middle and working class - pitting unionized workers against non-unionized, public-sector workers against non-public, older workers within sight of Medicare and Social Security against younger workers who don't believe these programs will be there for ...
  • Eva Peron Wins: The Pretension of a "Savings L ...
    Peter Orszag, now a new vice-chairman of global banking at Citigroup and former US Office of Management and Budget under Barack Obama, has written a provocative and (with all due respect Peter) wrong-headed Financial Times oped proposing that the way to promote savings among America's low-incom ...
  • Obama Says U.S. Will Veto UN Resolution Condem ...
    The Obama administration is clearly desperate to avoid vetoing the United Nations Security Council Resolution condemning illegal Israel settlements. And it's not hard to see why. Given the turbulence in the Middle East, and the universal and strong opposition in the Arab and Muslim world to ...
  • Productivity Paradox
    U.S. GDP in March of 2008 was $14.546 Trillion and non farm employment was 137.841 million. Today, non-farm employment is 130.229 million and total GDP is $15.010 Trillion. So essentially we have $500 billion more output from almost 8 million fewer workers. For years analysts scoffed that the Di ...

  TruthOut

  • Scott Walker Runs on Koch Money
    Madison, Wisconsin - A new investigation by the Center for Media and Democracy documents the big money funneled by one of the richest men in America and one of the richest corporations in the world to put controversial Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker in office. The Republican Governors Associat ...
  • Wisconsin: The First Stop in An American Upris ...
    The uprising that swept Tunisia, Egypt, and parts of Europe is showing signs of blossoming across the United States.read more
  • Across the US, GOP Lawmakers Build States of D ...
    Forced at gunpoint this weekend to clean out a lot of old paper files in anticipation of some home improvements, I ran across some articles and obituaries I had saved following the death, a little more than five and a half years ago, of the late, great Ann Richards, former governor of Texas.read ...
  • Politicians, Filmmakers Campaign for End to Af ...
    Rep. Barbara Lee (D-California) today introduced bipartisan legislation that would end combat operations in Afghanistan and provide limited funding for a withdrawal of US forces. The Responsible End to the War in Afghanistan Act would ensure that the funds allocated for military operations in A ...
  • Cecile Richards on Friday's House Vote Defundi ...
    Friday, the House of Representatives voted in favor of the Pence Amendment, eliminating funding for Planned Parenthood. Since the first day they took office in January, the GOP and Tea Party majority in Congress have been focused like a lazer beam on one thing: eliminating accessread more

  Planetsave

  • Time to Support Tim DeChristopher
    This is a story I think I’ve touched on in the past on here and surely one I will be covering continuously in the next month or so. It also inspires a ton of ideas in my head for where the environmental and climate action movement should be headed and where I think this blog,... Read More...
  • Record Melting in Greenland during 2010
    2010 was an exceptional year for Greenland’s ice cap. Melting started early and stretched later in the year than usual. Little snow fell to replenish the losses. By the end of the season, much of southern Greenland had set a new record, with melting that lasted 50 days longer than average. This ...
  • The Mechanical Monstrosities of Fossil Fuel Ex ...
    via Well Home Related Infographics: The Internet and the Environment Little Things Can Add Up: Energy Savings of “Low-Hanging Fruit” Understanding Cap & Trade
  • Arkansas Earthquakes Related to Hydraulic Frac ...
    Arkansas is now seeing a ton of earthquakes in what is the continuation of an “earthquake swarm” that has been occurring over the past couple of years. The cause is unknown, but could very well be from hydraulic fracturing (or fracking) in the area. Additionally, this was a leading possibility f ...
  • Heavy Snow on the Korean Peninsula
    In mid-February 2011, residents along South Korea’s east coast were struggling to dig out from the heaviest snowfall in more than a century. The BBC reported that hundreds of stranded motorists awaited rescue, and hundreds of homes had collapsed under the weight of heavy snow. The South Korean g ...

  Water Quality - WordPress

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

  Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

  • Washington Intensifies Push Into Central Asia ...
    by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism J
  • Are We Witnessing the Start of a Global Revolu ...
    by Andrew Gavin Marshall Featured Writer Dandelion Salad January 28, 2011 North Africa and the Globa
  • Howard Zinn: Myths of the Good Wars (Three 'Ho ...
    Repost in case you missed this or would like to view it again.  We’re thinking of you, Howard
  • Chris Hedges on NPR: Government's not a corpor ...
    with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad January 27, 2011 NPR Journalist Chris Hedges wrote
  • Middle East: the Undoing of America’s Mendacio ...
    by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad 27 January, 2011 There may be plumes of acrid s

  Axis of Logic

  • Competing Wisconsin protests peaceful, draw th ...
    * Tea Party-backed rally outnumbered * Atmosphere friendly despite confrontation fears MADISON, Wis., Feb 19 (Reuters) - Supporters of legislation to reduce public employee union bargaining power and benefits in Wisconsin were far outnumbered by opponents on Saturday, as the two s ...
  • Ohio Protests Union-Busting Senate Bill, Gov C ...
    Made a trip to Ohio on Thursday to support the protest at the statehouse of Senate Bill 5. (I'm originally from Ohio) If passed, collective bargaining by unions could come to an end. I've heard various reports on the numbers in attendance - from 1,000 to 5,000 - and while...
  • Crowd descends on Ohio Statehouse to protest c ...
    COLUMBUS, Ohio - As many as 3,800 boisterous public workers from across the state descended on the Ohio Statehouse on Thursday, rocking the normally sleepy Capitol to protest a far-reaching bill that would restrict collective bargaining rights. The union workers filled the Statehou ...
  • Wisconsin Crowds Swell to 30,000; Key GOP Legi ...
    “I have never been prouder of our movement than I am at this moment,” shouted Wisconsin AFL-CIO President Phil Neuenfeldt, as he surveyed the crowds of union members and their supporters that surged around the state Capitol and into the streets of Madison Wednesday, literally closing the d ...
  • US withdrawal helping to drive Arab revolts - ...
    Why now? Why revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt this year, rather than last year, or 10 years ago, or never? The protestors now taking to the street daily in Jordan, Yemen, Bahrain, Libya, and Algeria are obviously inspired by the success of those revolutions, but what got the process started? ...

  They Gave Us a Republic

  • Beck's New Bugaboo_The Cheesehead Caliphate
    I'm one of those people that find Glenn Beck's comedy act mildly amusing as long as I don't have to... you know... actually watch the crazy sonofabitch. �He's a little easier to take in print. �Not that he seems any less insane but not having to actually hear the garbage makes it a little bit ea ...
  • Rick Scott Sells Out Kentucky to Big Pharma
    Yep, the same Big Health Care corporate criminal who bought the Florida governorship and is now systematically dismantling what little remains of 20th-century civilization there, is paying back his Big Pharma buddies by cancelling a program that reduces drug addiction in states like Kentucky. Bi ...
  • A Worm's Eye View Of This "Socialist" Thingy
    The following is based on an email I got this morning as part of an ongoing exchange in regard to the need for jobs programs, this one on the need for a viable public transportation system. � I picked one sentence... out of a few dozen but all saying pretty much the same thing... to base the rep ...
  • Ben Chandler, Broken Weathervane
    So DINO Ben Chandler votes with the rethuglicans to defund non-existent czars, then Stupak-loving Wire Hangar votes against them to preserve funding for Planned Parenthood, then the same repug-loving Blue Dog who voted against health care reform votes against the repug bill to defund the very sa ...
  • Wisconsin: the "fair and balanced" propaganda ...
    This had to have been staged by The Onion. Karma is a bitch (via Political Carnival and TPM) when others are relentlessly on message: The transcript: "Reporter": Well, you know, you say they're in hiding. They're not really in hiding. We kind of know where they are. [voices: "Fox Lies. Fox Li ...

  Care 2

  • Population Control The Eugenics Connection 2of ...
    Vaccinations for De-Population, sterilization for Population Control, especially sterilization of Inadequate peoples. Frank Notestein outlined his strategy for a Faster method of Population Control > Vaccinations Submitted by Amour a. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Puppy tortured to death infront of camera TAKE ...
    Please sign the petition Submitted by Bohm Judith to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Tell Congress: Don't Pull the Plug on NPR
    Conservatives have longed for any opportunity to defund NPR, PBS, and other public media, and now it looks like they may finally get their wish. Don't let Congress pull the plug on NPR and PBS! Sign the petition to reject cuts to public broadcasting.Submitted by Marilyn M. to US Politics & Gov't ...
  • Warning - Facebook stresses you out
    Be it for entertainment, social interaction or for a very good cause, Facebook can have its own psychological effects. Do you suffer from Facebook stress?Submitted by Audrey Wildlife Matters to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Yemen security forces shoot dead protester
    SANAA, Yemen (AP) � Yemeni riot police shot dead a protester and injured five others on Saturday when they opened fire on thousands marching in the 10th day of unrest rocking the capital Sanaa. Submitted by John Cause to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

  Smirking Chimp

  • Volunteers of America
  • Hillary vs. Hugo; State Department stirs up mo ...
  • Jackass Watch
  • What Can Americans Learn From Egypt?
  • “Never play cards with a man named ‘Doc’”

  Paul Krugman

  • More on Defense
    Wasteful, but not at the heart of our trouble.
  • Wisconsin
    It's a midwestern state.
  • Thank You, Boeing
    Learning from other peoples' mistakes.
  • Bad Central Bankers
    Who shares the Greenspan syndrome?
  • Realism on Defense Spending
    It's a lot of money, but not as much as some seem to think.

  No Quarter

  • Bad Luck Cadet #19 – Pepper Spray Me, Shoot Yo ...
    This is the 19th installment in the Bad Luck Cadet series. It’s best to start with Accidents Happen to enjoy my adventures at the police academy after turning 40. It’s all about the fun, laughter and pain. Well maybe pain, pain and pain! I made it through another week. It was now the week of [.. ...
  • We Watch Wisconsin in Wonder
    News wires can scarcely keep up … who knew that Republican Scott Walker, Wisconsin’s articulate, smart, tough new governor, would seize on a major but politically dicey reason that our states near bankruptcy, and set in motion a head-on collision of political ideologies and money interests. Even ...
  • It’s An Epidemic
    * Bumped Up * (This is a critical issue, written in Reverend Amy’s gifted language, that all of us as citizens must focus upon and demand that strong measures be taken to bring this unspeakable behavior to an end. – Bronwyn) No, I don’t mean whatever flu or cold this is going around right now. [ ...
  • Politics of Social Media Screaming (& Open Thr ...
    Bronwyn’s Note: YOU GO, GOV WALKER, YOU GO! THESE SPOILED STATE WORKERS HAVE HAD IT TOO GOOD FOR TOO LONG. The chickens are coming home to roost. Try living like the rest of the population. (Just had to type this. I just heard his speech in Madison, Wisconsin, and am thrilled he is standing tall ...
  • Runaway Democrats
    The Gilbert & Sullivan light opera in Madison, Wisconsin, is a choice example of the conflicts ahead as the new governors seek to close deficits by closing municipal union perquisites and advantages from the 20th century business model of AFSCME and SEIU and so forth. The terms of the brouhaha a ...

  Environmental Graffiti

  • Why the Vampire Spider is Attracted to the Sme ...
    Spiders that search out the scent of human feet! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Strange Geometric Stones of the Giant's Ca ...
    This array of about 40,000 interlocking stone columns looks mysterious and miraculous all at the same time. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 5 Long Lost Frogs of India Rediscoverd
    5 most threatened group of vertebrates, long lost frogs have been rediscovered in India. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 7 Incredible Images of the Births and Deaths o ...
    Gorgeous snapshots of life and death in the universe read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Breakthrough Technology Saves Marine Mammals f ...
    LIDO is a unique system for measuring marine noise pollution, helping to understand cetaceans' acoustic life and how it is affected by noise pollution. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...

  Foreign Policy in Focus

  • Israeli Military, President, and Intelligence ...
    The always lively debate within Israel over whether to attack Iran has turned bitter.
  • Washington Draws a Line in the Sand on Settlem ...
    Once again the U.S. places the burden of compromising on the settlements squarely on Palestine shoulders.
  • Review: Prophets of War
    William Hartung hammers Lockheed Martin and the military-industrial complex in his new book.
  • Is There Any Upside to Middle-East Protests fo ...
    Will al-Qaeda somehow find a way to turn the Middle-East protests to its advantage?
  • Interview with Phyllis Bennis
    In our special focus on Islamophobia, FPIF talks to Middle East specialist Phyllis Bennis.

  Global Elite

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

  Al Jazeera

  • 'Many killed' in Libya's Benghazi
    At least 15 mourners reportedly killed in eastern city as anti-government protests continue unabated.
  • Ideologies clash in Wisconsin
    Competing protests draw thousands in flashpoint US state over bid to roll back pay and union rights of government staff.
  • Iranian reformists call for protest
    More anti-government rallies planned for Sunday as MPs and clerics call for severe punishments for opposition leaders.
  • Protesters retake Bahrain centre
    Anti-government protesters reoccupy Pearl roundabout after troops and police withdraw from protest site in capital.
  • Algerian police break up protest
    Several people are injured and others are arrested as police thwart pro-democracy rally in capital Algiers, reports say.

  Green Inc. - NYT

  • Speedy Evolution, Indeed
    In a matter of decades, a rare genetic mutation that allowed a small number of tomcod to tolerate PCB contamination in the Hudson River spread through the broader population, allowing the species to thrive, scientists suggest.
  • Green Roof Collapses in Illinois
    Investigators are still trying to determine why a 700-by-50 foot section of a roof over a parking area buckled at a garden pond construction and supply company.
  • Is Fashion Week Smoking?
    A video filmed on Jan. 31 as the fashion village was being noisily erected at Lincoln Center shows smoke spewing into the air as diesel generators are turned on.
  • You Will Be Assimilated (if You Wish)
    Climateprediction.net, is a distributed-computing scheme that harnesses the power of people's computers at times they are sitting idle.
  • On Our Radar: Britain Drops Plan to Sell Fores ...
    "I am sorry, we got this one wrong, but we have listened to people's concerns," Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman tells the House of Commons.

  Dot Earth News

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

  Doug Feith : Hong Pong

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

  Daily Censored

  • Vicious Wave of Attacks Against Women’s Fundam ...
    It’s like a nightmare in a Fascist country. The Republican dominated House in South Dakota is attempting to pass a bill (House Bill 1171) that would expand “Justifiable homicide” to include murders of people that are intended to stop harm to a fetus. This could make it legal in South Dakota to k ...
  • Wisconsin rallies, Detroit is next – Rally pla ...
    Rally and March Wednesday February 23 Noon at the Michigan State Capitol Stop Emergency Financial Manager Dictatorships in Michigan! Defeat the New Jim Crow / House Bill 4214 ! Run Rob Bobb out of our State!  Save Public Education! Tell Snyder – Hell No More Budget Cuts!    Buses  to leav ...
  • Wikileaks claims Irishman gunned down in Boliv ...
      U.S. cable links Bolivian govt to death plot, secret plan The Guardina newspaper from England reported in 2009 that the police in Bolivia had shot dead three men, including one identified by local officials as an Irish national, over an alleged plot to assassinate the country’s president,... ...
  • Sometimes it’s not censorship
    By now, we’ve all heard and/or read the horrifying story of what happened to Lara Logan. This morning, however, I stumbled across an article criticizing CBS News for sitting on the story for five days. â[60 Minutes] correspondent Lara Logan was repeatedly sexually assaulted by thugs yelling,... ...
  • Reactionary Governor Walker of Wisconsin decla ...
    ‘Austerity’ is the word used by those in power to make it sound like we are all in this ‘budget crisis’ together, when in fact it is the ruling oligarchs of this nation, the banksters and their coin-operated politicians, that created the crisis that now threatens to bring... [[ This is a co ...

  AlterNet's Breaking News

  • AZ House Panel Approves Bill To Deny Violently ...
  • Sarah Palin Hires Aide, Hints at White House B ...
  • Striking Egyptian Workers Want Salaries Double ...
  • What's Happening in Wisconsin: Explained
  • The GOP's job-killing, healthcare slashing bud ...

  Institute for Policy Studies

  • Sometimes a Veto Means Victory
    Bureaucratic defeat within the United Nations security council might lead to diplomatic victory for those seeking to end Israeli settlements in Palestinian territories.
  • Global Solidarity is on the Rise for Mexican W ...
    Like Egyptians, Mexicans need international solidarity to help move to a real democracy.
  • Robin Hood 2.0
    Men in tights are taking on the global financial industry.
  • Interview with Phyllis Bennis
    In our special focus on Islamophobia, FPIF talks to Middle East specialist Phyllis Bennis.
  • Organics and the Science of Farming
    Some say that organic farming means going "backwards." These farmers think otherwise.

  Equality Trust

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

  PDA AMERICA

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

  Marler Blog

  • Everything you always wanted to know about foo ...
    With nearly two decades of foodborne illness litigation behind us, tens of thousand of clients and hundreds of experts involved in those cases, we have developed what I hope is a lot of good information about the state of food illness in the Untied States.� I hope you find this helpful. Bot ...
  • The Ohio State - Consumers will pay more for f ...
    Now, that is a shock.  But, according to research supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; the University of Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment Station; the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center; and the Marvin and June Morrison Chair in Agribusiness at Ari ...
  • Hello, I am your waiter and I should be home - ...
    I did get up a bit too early this morning, but just in time to see Elizabeth Cohen at CNN report - "US: Restaurant workers show up sick:" One out of eight restaurant workers has come to work at least twice in the past year while suffering from diarrhea or vomiting, according to a new survey of ...
  • If Illinois Farmer's Markets and Cottage Indus ...
    I heard the fears of the small, local, sustainable, locavore regarding the Food Safety Modernization Act, which is why exclusions for on-farm sales and sales at farmer’s markets, and direct sales to grocery stores and restaurants were added, along with additional protections with the Tester/Hage ...
  • Raw Milk Bad Boy, Michael Hartmann, in Contemp ...
    MPR Radio has become “Milk Public Radio” for its ongoing coverage of raw milk bad boy, Michael Hartmann, and his ongoing battle with state of Minnesota officials for raw milk sales and the customers sickened by E. coli, Campylobacter and Cryptosporidium. Mr. Hartmann is now facing potential jai ...

  AutoblogGreen

  • Report: Some dealers price gouging Chevy Volt ...
    Filed under: Car Buying, Hybrid, Sedan, Chevrolet, GM, Electric 2011 Chevrolet Volt - Click above for high-res image gallery Even though some Chevrolet dealers were warned not to sell the Volt above the MSRP, there is a distinct trend around the country where some dealers are trying to make ...
  • Audi, Voith enter new carbon fiber partnership
    Filed under: Technology, Audi Audi Aluminum A5 Coupe Prototype - Click above for high-res image Audi has put carbon fiber to good use in concept vehicles like the e-tron show cars and a special lightweight A5, which has a carbon fiber hood and rear deck, and in some parts of the R8 and RS 3. ...
  • Report: $33M in EV tax credits went to buy unq ...
    Filed under: Car Buying, Government/Legal Is a bicycle an electric vehicle? How about a Hummer H3? These are some of the things that Americans claimed were hybrids, alternative-powered or plug-in electric vehicles on their tax forms, reports USA Today. What's more, the false claimants managed ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 02.04.11
    Top Gear host wants electric vehicles powered by bumper car technology Watch out! Italian designers envision amazing Solar Wind bridge It looks like the future, that's for sure. Agility Saietta electric m ...
  • First full month sales show Chevy Volt leads w ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Sedan, Hatchback, Chevrolet, GM, Nissan, Electric So, how are the first two mainstream plug-in vehicles in the U.S. selling? Both the Chevrolet Volt and the Nissan Leaf had their first deliveries in December, which means January of 2011 was the first full month of sales f ...

  Rafe's Radar

  • Warning: Coupons make you spend more
    RetailMeNot CEO explains how coupons and deals are bumping up online shopping cart order sizes.
  • Robobrain vs. humanity: Discuss
    Author Stephen Baker covered the creation of the 'Jeopardy'-playing Watson computer. On Friday, the Reporters' Roundtable podcast tackles a simple question: what is unique about the human mind? As I write this, IBM's Watson project is doing a respectable job on the game show "Jeopardy." W ...
  • For better service, automate the waiters
    Storific lets you order food from your table, but the Paris-based start-up needs a more coherent sales strategy.
  • Path changes course with comments, e-mail acce ...
    The weird little photo-sharing site, now flush with VC cash, begins to layer necessary features into its service. Is it enough?
  • Backupify is more than a backup service
    Cloud backup service is much more than that. It can also be a smart, searchable tool for social-media discovery.

  Camera Obscura

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

  Democracy Now!

  • WATCH: Amy Goodman on C-SPAN's Washington Jour ...
  • "It’s Time to Push the Borders of Freedom": Eg ...
    Sanaa El Seif and Ziad Tareq are Egyptian students who are helping to publish a newspaper in defiance of laws requiring government permission. So far, the publication has focused on the voices of Tahrir Square. Senior Producer Sharif Abdel Kouddous shows one of the first printed copies to Demo ...
  • WATCH: Amy Goodman on Al Jazeera English EMPIR ...
    Are social networks triggering social revolution? And where will the next domino fall? Empire finds out. Amy Goodman, the host and executive producer of Democracy Now! joins Marwan Bishara to discuss these issues along with: Carl Bernstein, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist; ...
  • Noam Chomsky on Civil Rights, Obama, Latin Ame ...
    We continue our conversation with world-renowned public intellectual, MIT Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, Noam Chomsky. Watch the Part I of the Interview Democracy Uprising in the USA? here
  • Obama's Budget: Freezing the Poor
    President Barack Obama unleashed his proposed 2012 budget this week, pronouncing, proudly: “I’ve called for a freeze on annual domestic spending over the next five years. This freeze would cut the deficit by more than $400 billion over the next decade, bringing this kind of spending—domestic di ...

  Digg Green

  • Best Science Pictures of 2010 Announced ...
    A horror-movie virus and a forest of fungi feature among the winners of the 2010 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge.
  • Researchers aim to 'print' human skin
    Researchers are developing a specialized skin "printing" system that could be used in the future to treat soldiers wounded on the battlefield.
  • Are We One of Many Universes? MIT Physici ...
    Modern cosmology theory holds that our universe may be just one in a vast collection of universes known as the multiverse. MIT physicist Alan Guth has suggested that new universes (known as “pocket universes”) are constantly being created, but they...
  • Findings challenge conventional wisdom of ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- Neurons are complicated, but the basic functional concept is that synapses transmit electrical signals to the dendrites and cell body (input), and axons carry signals away (output). In one of many surprise findings, Northwestern University scientists have discovered that ax ...
  • Would You Buy a $40 Light Bulb?
    Philips LED replacement for 60-watt incandescent bulbs has a list price of $39.97 at Home Depot. When you pencil out the math, it's an efficient and, quite possibly, a cost-effective alternative to the traditional bulb.

  Invisible Opportunity

  • Love in the Time of the Hadron Collider
    By Les Visible I’m fond of saying that physicist have proven that the universe is thought born and that everything we see, touch, hear, taste and smell is composed of mindstuff. I’ve long had an image in my mind of science, cyclopean and with its one eye turned toward whatever corporate profit a ...
  • Police launch “brutal” operation in Bahrain
    It was the early hours of the morning in Bahrain when the security forces launched a major operation to clear a camp of protesters in the capital, Manama. Men, women and children ran for their lives. Witnesses say it was a brutal assault. Most people were asleep when the police arrived in force, ...
  • Serious Doubt Cast on FBI’s Anthrax Case ...
    BY GLENN GREENWALD For years, the FBI believed that it had identified the perpetrator of the 2001 anthrax attacks — former Army researcher Steven Hatfill — only to be forced to acknowledge that he wasn’t involved and then pay him $5.8 million for the damage he suffered from those false accusatio ...
  • Panel Demolishes Official 9/11 Story
    By Greg Scott February 17th, 2011 Architect Richard Gage changed the opinions of two dozen (24 of 25) individuals in the audience that previously believed the official 9/11 Commission story after presenting his evidence at the Conscious Life Expo in Los Angeles. The other panelists included Sena ...
  • Health Authorities Want Depression-Causing Dru ...
    Health authorities are pushing for drugs to be added to public water supplies that cause depression and memory loss, as a new study shows that the dangers of statins have been deliberately underplayed by drug companies, in a chilling throwback to how the population in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New W ...

  Global Insights

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

  AlterNet - DrugReporter

  • From Montgomery to Los Angeles and Beyond: For ...
    It's time to build a Civil and Human Rights Movement for the 21st Century. We hope you'll join us - in Alabama, Los Angeles, and beyond.
  • California Is Broke -- You Still Have the Righ ...
    Santa Cruz just became the latest county to announce it would "end" treatment-instead-of-incarceration program for low-level drug offenses because of a lack of funding.
  • Change We Can Believe In? Not for Medical Mari ...
    So much for the American Medical Association's demand for clinical cannabis research.
  • Thousands of Rockefeller Drug Law Convictions ...
    Officials recently shut down part of the Nassau County Crime Lab because it was discovered that a half-dozen drug cases had been subjected to incorrect analyses.
  • The Puzzling Uproar Over One County's Attempt ...
    We should be applauding -- not demonizing -- the LA County Department of Public Health for taking this important first step to help keep young people safe.

  Twilight Earth

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

  Inhabitat

  • 6 Green Designers at New York Fashion Week Fal ...
    This week our sustainable style site Ecouterre hit the runways at New York Fashion Week to bring you the hottest looks from this year’s shows — and they’ve rounded up six up-and-coming eco-designers that are sure to turn heads this fall! From cozy sustainably-crafted knits to flowing gowns and e ...
  • GIVEAWAY: Win a Shopping Spree From Hessnatur ...
    If you’re still feeling the ice-cold pangs of the weary winter, then it’s time to perk up because we’ve got a little something that may actually get you wishing Old Man Winter would extend his stay. This week we’ve teamed up with Eviana Hartman of Hessnatur to give one lucky reader his or her p ...
  • Green Home Expert Round-Up: All Our Top Expert ...
    Our spectacular Green Home Expert Series has enlisted the help of five of the world’s top green experts in the fields of architecture, interiors, and energy to help you turn your home into a sustainable sanctuary – from your basement floor to the top of your roof. But for those of you who may ha ...
  • Japan to Build World’s Fastest Train: A 310MPH ...
    China and Japan have been constantly trying to outdo each other when it comes to high-speed rail. Now, the Central Japan Railway Company has announced that it plans to build the world’s fastest train. The train, to be completed in 2027, will travel between Tokyo and Nagoya on a 178 miles rail ex ...
  • VIDEO INTERVIEW: Stewart Brand Says Nuclear Po ...
    Stewart Brand is an author, environmentalist, and above all, best known for his work as the founder of the Whole Earth Catalog. In 1966 Brand was one of the first environmentalists to push NASA — already with satellites orbiting the Earth — to release a picture of the “whole Earth” from space. ...

  Pogue's Posts

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

  WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Mutant Fish Safely Store Toxins in Fat
    Some fish in New York’s Hudson River have become resistant to several of the waterway’s more toxic pollutants. Instead of getting sick from dioxins and related compounds including some polychlorinated biphenyls, Atlantic tomcod harmlessly store these poisons in fat, a new study finds. But wha ...
  • Moon Race Brings 29 Teams to the Starting Line
    When a couple dozen companies sign contracts containing the words “moon” and “landing,” it’s a good indication that private lunar exploration is heating up. The X Prize Foundation on Thursday announced that 29 teams had signed contracts making them the official Google Lunar X Prize competitors, ...
  • Helpful Mutations Didn’t Sweep Through Early H ...
    Humans probably didn’t get swept up in evolution. Scientists have favored a model of evolution in which beneficial gene mutations quickly and dramatically sweep through a population due to the evolutionary advantages they confer. Such mutations would become nearly universal in a population. But ...
  • The Mystery of the Missing Moon Trees
    15 years after NASA astronomer David Williams started searching for them, hundreds of trees grown from space-faring seeds are still missing. The “moon trees,” whose seeds circled the moon 34 times in Apollo 14 astronaut Stuart Roosa’s pocket, were welcomed back to Earth with great fanfare in 19 ...
  • Ample Dark Matter Ignites Starburst Galaxies
    By Liat Clark, Wired UK Galaxies need 10 times less dark matter to sustain star formation than previously thought, but just the right amount can set off rapid star formation, a recent study suggests. The discovery was made after European Space Agency photos showed evidence of dark matter 300 bi ...

  PakAlert

  • Is China Hoarding Gold In Anticipation Of A Gl ...
    China officially has gold fever. Chinese demand for gold in 2011 is being called "explosive" and "voracious". China imported five times as much gold in 2010 as it did in 2009, and this year gold sales in China are projected to easily set another new all-time record. China produces more gold t ...
  • Video: Libya, Bahrain, Iran, Yemen and Other A ...
    It is not solely the Middle East that is destined to experience episodes of violent upheaval. What is transpiring in the Arab world will spread throughout many European states. While the call to arms will be spoken in different tongues, the underlying causes will be the same. The world leaders a ...
  • Bahrain: The Social Roots of Revolt Against An ...
    “Have you ever seen an island with no beaches?” The question posed by the young Bahraini taxi man standing among thousands of chanting anti-government protesters seemed at first to be a bit off the wall. But his explanation soon got to the heart of the grievances that have brought tens of thousa ...
  • Proof! Your TV & Computer Can Manipulate Your ...
    The TV and your computer monitor can be used to manipulate your nervous system. Here is the proof. Read it and weep
  • The Mask Of Zion – Pakistan
    The Zionist entity’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, an insidiously racist man devoid of any humanity and the architect of the Palestinian Nakba which ethnically cleansed Palestine of its indigenous, possessed an excessively xenophobic and brutally delusional world view. Nothing provides ...

  Andy Worthington

  • The Indictment for Torture Filed Against Georg ...
    Just two weeks ago, as former US President George W. Bush was preparing to make his first visit to Europe since the publication, last November, of his biography Decision Points, the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York, and the Berlin-based European Center for Constitutional and Human Ri ...
  • Moazzam Begg Interviews Former Guantánamo Pris ...
    Saber Lahmer (aka Sabir Lahmar) is one of the six Algerians held at Guantánamo from its earliest days, having been kidnapped by US agents in Bosnia-Herzegovina, in connection with an alleged plot to blow up the US embassy in Sarajevo, even though the plot has never been backed up by any evidence ...
  • Hiding Horrific Tales of Torture: Why The US G ...
    At Guantánamo on Tuesday, following hints last week, Noor Uthman Muhammed, a 53-year old Sudanese prisoner, and formerly a trainer at the Khaldan training camp in Afghanistan, accepted a plea deal in his trial by Military Commission. He is only the sixth prisoner convicted since the Commissions ...
  • George W. Bush, War Criminal, Is Not Welcome i ...
    Last week I returned from Poland, where I had been touring the documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (which I co-directed with filmmaker Polly Nash), and discussing the importance of an ongoing investigation into the complicity of the Polish government in the establishmen ...
  • Battle for Britain: Resisting the Privatizatio ...
    On Saturday, I published an article, Battle for Britain: Fighting the Coalition Governmentâs Vile Ideology â and Praise for UK Uncut, in which I summarized many facets of the coalition governmentâs “unprecedented assault on almost every aspect of British society — hard-pressed middle class and w ...

  Environment _ National Geographic

  • Cocaine to Blame for Rain Forest Loss, Study S ...
    Coca planting in Colombia has been linked to rising deforestation—and not all the damage is due to illegal activities, a new study says.
  • Hudson River Fish Evolve Toxic PCB Immunity
    Bottom-feeding fish in the Hudson River have developed a gene that renders them immune to the toxic effects of PCBs, according to new evolution research.
  • Extreme Storms and Floods Concretely Linked to ...
    New studies of severe storms and catastrophic floods provide more evidence that rising greenhouse gas levels actually do increase the odds of such extreme weather events—and perhaps make them stronger.
  • Protecting Health and the Planet With Clean Co ...
    A small Ghana business is part of a wave of efforts to address the staggering global toll of death and disease from cooking smoke.
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  drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

  SPL Center

  • Possible Terror Attack on MLK Parade in Spokan ...
    A backpack bomb with the potential of killing or injuring dozens of people was found Monday along the route of a Martin Luther King Day “unity march” in downtown Spokane, Wash., authorities said today. “It was a device that clearly was intended to harm or kill people,’’said Frank Harrill, a sen ...
  • Confederates March up Dexter Avenue for Second ...
    Itâs hard to say exactly what the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) remembered so fondly on Saturday during a sesquicentennial celebration of Confederate President Jefferson Davisâ inauguration: a way of life that has been dead for a century and a half, or the day when the public at large appre ...
  • GOP, Caving in to Anti-Gay Groups, Tells GOPro ...
    Itâs official: The âbig tentâ of conservatism is big enough to include gay men and lesbians â just as long as they donât support same-sex marriage, gays in the military or other gay rights. âItâs got nothing to do with the orientation, itâs got to do with the principles that you advocate,â Ameri ...
  • Dearborn, Mich., Police Arrest Man in Apparent ...
    A 63-year-old Southern California man who reportedly has “a long history of antigovernment activities” was arrested in a car laden with explosives outside one of the nation’s largest mosques, the authorities said Sunday. More than 500 members of the Dearborn, Mich., mosque were attending a funer ...
  • Bias-Crimes Cop Accuses Suffolk County Executi ...
    Over the last several years, Suffolk County, N.Y., has been a hotbed of anti-Latino hate, a place that became infamous for the brutal murder of an Ecuadorian immigrant by a gang of white teens who were out for a night of âbeaner hopping.â County Executive Steve Levy (right) has taken his share o ...

  change: org.

  • Wisconsin Update: Fox and the Tea Party Are No ...
    For the last four days, crowds of tens of thousands of Wisconsin workers have flooded the state capital of Madison in attempts to halt Republican efforts to smash state workers' collective bargaining rights. "I've been here since 10am and the crowd has been getting larger by the hour," said Milw ...
  • University of Illinois Students Support Remova ...
    Want to see some amazing student activism going on around the issue of Chick-fil-A, and the restaurant's ties to anti-gay organizations like Focus on the Family, the National Organization for Marriage, and the Ruth Institute? Take a look at the University of Illinois, where students on campus ha ...
  • Physicians Group Protests Use of Ferrets by Un ...
    The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine has filed a federal complaint against the University of Washington over its use of ferrets to train pediatric residents. According to PCRM, live ferrets are used by the school's pediatrics program to teach doctors how to do a endotracheal intuba ...
  • Public Transit Fuels Political Ad Battle Betwe ...
    The debate over Israel and Palestine has spilled over to our university senate meetings, corporate board rooms and now municipal train systems. The Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system has taken on the fun task fueling a political ad war between pro-Palestine and pro-Israel advocacy groups, maki ...
  • Victory! Borneo Government Cancels Coal Plant
    It's hard to think of a worse place to build a coal-fired power plant than in Malaysian Borneo, an island with rich rainforests, pristine beaches, and a tourism/fishing-dependent economy. So it's amazing news to hear that finally the Sabah government agrees. Ending a three year saga led by a st ...

  Common Dreams -News

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

  Lifehacker

  • TwitShift Creates a Twitter Feed of Yourself F ...
    Seeing what you were up to, and what you were excited enough to tweet about, can give you some helpful (and funny) perspective .TwitShift gives you a convenient way to follow your one-year-old self. More��
  • Recompute Is an Environmentally Friendly Cardb ...
    One of the concerns many environmentalists have voiced lately is how hard it is to recycle old computers. The cases themselves represent a lot of metal, and unless you specially recycle them they will end up directly in a landfill taking u ...
  • DIY Balloon Aerial Photography on the Cheap [W ...
    The GrassrootsMapping wiki details how to put together a balloon-powered aerial photography kit with $35 and some elbow grease. More��
  • Turn Any Desk into an Adjustable Drafting Tabl ...
    Drafting tables are great for writing, drawing, design, architecture, and other craftsmanship. DIY blog Curbly details how to make your own inexpensive drafting table from just about any desk. More��
  • From the Tips Box: Lifehacker Notifications, L ...
    Readers offer their best tips for getting Lifehacker notifications in the redesign, getting into locked cars, and getting more posts in the Facebook news feed. More��

  Water Privatization

  • Privatization: How much is too much?
    Even those who champion contracting-out city services acknowledge that if not handled properly, the savings won’t be there
  • USF Highlights Global Water Shortage at Film E ...
    The films showcase the importance of water and the growing crisis around the globe.
  • The Sunday Conversation: Gael García Bernal
    The actor talks about how politics infuses filmmaking in South America and his native Mexico. In the film "Even the Rain," Spain's unsuccessful Oscar entry, Gael García Bernal, 32, plays a director filming a period drama about Spain's conquest of Latin America in Bolivia during the 2000 demonstr ...
  • Deal proposed on United Water controlling Fran ...
    Reena Rose Sibayan/The Jersey JournalAn undated photo of United Water workers. FRANKLIN TWP (Somerset County) — Franklin Township is in discussions to unload the management of its water system by partnering with Harrington Park-based conglomerate United Water, which the company...
  • Michael Deane: Experts Agree U.S. Water Infras ...
    When municipalities work in tandem with private water service providers, the end result is likely to be more efficient, transparent and a better value for the customer.

  Guardian

  • John Boehner squares up to Obama
    House of Representatives provokes threat of veto from Barack Obama � and raises prospect of a government shutdownRepublicans pushed through a draconian series of budget cuts worth tens of billions of dollars on Saturday, raising the prospect of a showdown with President Barack Obama.Emboldened b ...
  • Berlusconi 'sleaze' attacked by mayor
    Matteo Renzi, Italy's popular mayor of Florence aged 36, says Berlusconi's generation should go into retirementIt is not the sex or sleaze swirling around Silvio Berlusconi that irks Matteo Renzi most. "I checked, and he is only six years younger than my granny," said the leftwing mayor of Flore ...
  • British gun dealer investigated in US
    Gary Hyde is under investigation in the US for deals that stretched across the globeHis lawyers contend he is a model citizen. And as a successful businessman, Gary Hyde certainly exudes an aura of respectability. For years the 41-year-old father of two was a volunteer police officer in his home ...
  • McConville family attack Adams
    Sinn Fein leader, who denies involvement in 1972 murder, is standing in constituency where remains were foundThe ghost of one of the victims of the Troubles in Northern Ireland has come back to haunt Gerry Adams with just six days to go in the Irish Republic's general election campaign.Relatives ...
  • Scotland's wild salmon face 'calamity'
    Deadly parasites found in fish farms will pose greater risk to wild fish if production soars because of Chinese deal, conservationists warnChina's appetite for Scottish farmed salmon is threatening dwindling stocks of sea trout and wild salmon, according to conservationists.A new trade agreement ...

  McClatchey

  • Gadhafi tries to crush Libyan protests with br ...
    WASHINGTON _Of all the revolutions and attempted revolutions sweeping the Middle East, the one in Libya is the murkiest. It's taking place in a police state, ruled by one man since 1969, where the handful of foreign journalists are barred from leaving the capital, outgoing international p ...
  • Florida high-speed rail advocates fight to kee ...
    Advocates for high-speed rail in Florida were hustling to keep it alive late Friday, cobbling plans to accept the federal money Gov. Rick Scott rejected this week.
  • Taliban claims attack on Afghan bank that kill ...
    KABUL, Afghanistan — A bomb and gun assault on a bank in eastern Afghanistan Saturday killed at least nine and injured 70, officials said, as insurgents continued to demonstrate their ability to strike despite claims of progress from the U.S.-led military coalition here.
  • Bahrain protesters occupy Pearl Square; Libya, ...
    MANAMA, Bahrain — Saturday was poised to be the most decisive day of the nearly week-long confrontation here between enraged protesters calling for major reforms and armed government security forces who repeatedly had shot at them.
  • Arab nations broaden ties to Latin America
    BOGOTA -- The imam keeps the volume on the speakers turned down so the call to prayer doesnt disturb the nearby coffee shops and convent. Even so, dozens of Lebanese, Syrians and Palestinians have heard the call, kicking off their shoes as they enter a nondescript mosque in this predominantly Ca ...

  BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • War and peace: Making sense of climate conflic ...
    It must have seemed a good idea at the time; to get a group of people together from "both sides of the climate debate", put them in a room for a few days, and see whether peace would spontaneously break out. It's worked with apparently thorny issues such as nuclear arms control, it's failed with ...
  • Whaling: Beginning of the end?
    Is this the beginning of the end for Japanese whaling in the Antarctic? Clashes have been dramatic - enough to cause a U-turn? That is the biggest question arising from Wednesday's announcement in Tokyo that this season's whaling programme was being suspended. The Fisheries Agency (FAJ) hasn't ...
  • Palm oil deal points to corporate greening
    This week's announcement of a new partnership aimed at curbing deforestation in Indonesia should give succour to anyone who thinks consumers and companies, rather than governments, hold the key to curbing environmental decline. � Essentially, the world's second biggest (and Indonesia's biggest ...
  • Climate change: Contrary motion?
    � One issue, two reports, two different conclusions. In short, a recipe for confusion - at least, on the surface. Last week the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), the London-based think-tank, published a report suggesting that fears of mass migration caused by clim ...
  • Oysters clear seas for local remedies
    This week saw formal scientific publication of a report that produces one of the starkest conclusions I've seen about humanity's relationship with the oceans. Globally, 85% of oyster beds have basically disappeared. The paper, in the journal BioScience (though not apparently on its website yet) ...

  The Wonk Room

  • AZ House Panel Approves Bill To Deny Violently ...
  • Despite Accepting $2.9M From Health Law, Gov P ...
  • CBO: Repeal Of Health Care Law Will Lead To &# ...
  • GOP House Passes Four Amendments To Defund Hea ...
    Moments ago, the House of Representatives passed four different amendments to the continuing resolution that would deny funding to the Affordable Care Act or the employees who are currently implementing the law, jeopardizing the law’s consumer protections and potentially leading to the loss of s ...
  • Harshest Critic Of DADT Repeal: There Is No In ...
    Last year, Marine Commandant Gen. James Amos became the face of the opposition to the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, going so far as to argue that if Congress lifted the ban against open service and allowed gays to serve without hiding their sexual orientation, the Marines could be so distract ...

  thwap's schoolyard

  • Nice Little Look at the Impact of a Minimum Wa ...
    Here. "terrorists and bankers kill jobs minimum wages do not."Bye.
  • "I support the Mubarak dictatorship."
    There. Now, if only all those sober, serious, geo-political analysts like Sean Hannity, David Warren (I simply can't resist saying what an arrogant display of ignorance his editorial is!), Vice President Joe Biden, and all the others hedging their bets on the mass protests against a 30-year dic ...
  • Oh Those Fucking Liberals (Part Whatever)
    I started this post this morning before taking a peek at "Progressive Bloggers" and reading about Jack Layton's worrying negotiations with stephen harper. Keep reading though ... Check out this video of Hillary ("hard-workin' white woman") giving some self-righteous lecture about other countrie ...
  • Stealing the Commons
    Maybe I'll be too sick and tired to post today. So I'll share this animated communist vision with you for now: Ta-ta!
  • Working Class Shit-Headery and Current Reading
    So, as some have pointed out, Toronto's disgusting rancid blob of pork Rob Ford is now moving against unionized city garbage workers. As others have pointed out, the supposed savings and efficiencies of privatization are generally non-existent. But, no doubt, there are some working Canadians wh ...

  Whistleblowers Protection Blog

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

  Science Express

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

  TechDirt

  • PaulT's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week
    This weeks' "favorites" post comes from PaulT, an English sysadmin living in Spain, who frequently chimes in with smart observations from his perspective. As is becoming traditional, I'd like to start by both thanking Mike for the opportunity to write this post, but also noting that it's a ...
  • The Trademarking Of Duff Beer: How Fictional T ...
    THResq points us to a fun, but thorough, law journal article by law student Benjamin Arrow, looking at whether or not Duff Beer, from the Simpsons, is protectable as a trademark in the real world (or you can go directly to the paper) (pdf). The analysis is actually more complex than you would t ...
  • The Five Senators Who Refuse To Say If They An ...
    While the bill had some significant shortcomings, we were still somewhat surprised to find out that a US Senator used an anonymous hold to block a bill designed to protect whistleblowers. At the time, we wondered if there would be a whistleblower who would reveal who blocked the bill. However, ...
  • Yet Another Company Says It Can Help You Sell ...
    We've seen a few websites pop up over the years claiming to create marketplaces to "sell" used MP3s. The RIAA and the major record labels continue to insist such things are illegal. However, yet another one, called ReDigi is apparently set to try and it insists that its system is completely le ...
  • DailyDirt: Robotic Planes... Seriously, And Do ...
    Human pilots get tired and need sleep -- and some airline pilots get some rest at "crash pads" when they're off duty. Knowing that might not be too comforting to many passengers, but who's willing to let a robot fly a few hundred people around? Autonomous planes are getting more advanced all t ...

  VacTruth

  • Catholics and Vaccines
    There apparently may be some misunderstanding that members of the Catholic faith are not bound to a specific religious belief about vaccines and vaccinations. Since many vaccines are grown on diploid cell media that resulted from aborted fetuses, the Catholic Church declares it a matter of consc ...
  • What Do Vaccines & McCarthyism Have In Common?
    Why do the blacklist hearings of Senator Joe McCarthy in the 1950s remind me of what’s going on with vaccinations today? Vactruth.com
  • Fact: Evidence in Vaccine Induced Injury Cases ...
    There has been reports that experts who give evidence in SBS cases are being sent home and discredited. This has been particularly evident in cases involving children with a vaccine injury. This total lack of regard is making a mockery of the legal justice system, giving parents and care givers ...
  • Jared Lee Loughner: Psychotic or Vaccine Induc ...
    Dismissing Jared Loughner's bloody murders in Arizona as the work of a madman is easy; people like him clearly seem deranged. Yet, shouldn't we demand better answers? Vactruth.com
  • Multiple Vaccines May Have Triggered Disease a ...
    March 2, 2003 Army Specialist Rachel Lacy was given five vaccinations at once: anthrax, hepatitis B, measles-mumps-rubella, smallpox, and typhoid. She also was given a tuberculin skin test on the day that. She died on April 4, 2003.Vactruth.com

  BroadSnark

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

  Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

  • LaRouche: The Angelides Report Tells the Truth ...
    EIR News Service press release.
  • GOP Steps Up Push or Deal with Obama To Carry ...
    EIR News Service press release.
  • LaRouche: Obama's Targeting of Mubarak Will Bl ...
    EIR News Service press release.
  • LaRouche on 'Russia Today' TV News: Egypt Uphe ...
    EIR News Service press release.
  • In Wake of FCIC Report, LPAC Says: LaRouche Wa ...
    EIR News Service press release.

  Armies of Liberation

  • Game changer in Yemen as protests swell
    In Egypt and Tunisia, the stance of the military was pivotal in the success of popular uprisings; in Yemen, it may be the tribes that are the determining factor. Anti-government protests across Yemen show no signs of abating. In Taiz, Yemen’s largest governorate, many who arrived last Friday are ...
  • In Yemen, Many Protests, One Villain
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