22 February - RSS SnapShot! Pt 2

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World Wide Hippies

• Breaking news: Is Scott Walker Cutting Off Int ...
  By Mike Elk | thinkprogress – According to pro-labor protesters in Wisconsin, Gov. Scott Walker (R) may be taking a page from former Egyptian Dictator Hosni Mubarak and cutting off internet access to key protest organizers within the state Capitol building. If you are in the Capitol attempting t ...
• Armed Services Committee Sez: “Show Me T ...
  Lucking Out Inside the Beltway | The New York Times The House Republican majority made a big show last week of pursuing its campaign promise to slash the federal budget. Far less obvious was the discreet dinner break for campaign fund-raising taken by 13 freshmen Republicans on the Armed Service ...
• Libya Uses Airstrikes Against Protesters
  Image by Getty Images via @daylifeFresh violence rages in Libya | Al Jazeera Protesters say security forces using warplanes and live fire ‘massacred’ them, as UN warns of possible ‘war crimes’. Libyan forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi are waging a bloody operation to keep him in power, with residents reporting gunfire in parts of ...
• Update: New Zealand Earthquake
  New Zealand quake smashes buildings and cars, killing 65 | LA Times Rescue efforts and aftershocks continue through the night amid reports that the toll could go much higher. Two buses are reported crushed as buildings in Christchurch topple. A devastating 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck the New ...
• At least 40 people have been killed in Ciudad ...
  Ciudad Juarez sees 40 killed in violent weekend | BBC At least 40 people have been killed in Ciudad Juarez since Friday, making it one of the most violent weekends in the city in years, Mexican officials say. The killings were all apparently related to the drug-trafficking gangs. Juarez, on bord ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

• Photos from Wisconsin
• 'We Stand With You as You Stood With Us': Stat ...
  About Kamal Abbas and the Centre for Trade Unions and Workers Services: Kamal Abbas is General Coordinator of the CTUWS, an umbrella advocacy organization for independent unions in Egypt. The CTUWS, which was awarded the 1999 French Republic's Human Rights Prize, suffered repeated harassment a ...
• 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 ...

Salon

• Somali pirates kill 4 American hostages, accor ...
  The U.S. military says pirates killed four American hostages they were holding on a yacht off Somalia's coast.
• Liberalism and the post-union future
  The struggle in Wisconsin over the future of collective bargaining by public employees is the most dramatic battle in a war being waged on many fronts over the future of public sector unionism. In other states and cities, the issue is whether states whose revenues have collapsed because of th ...
• Richard Perle: Libya lobbyist
  As the brutal crackdown on protesters in Libya continues to unfold, Laura Rozen of Politico takes a look at the American power players who have lobbied on behalf of the Qadhafi regime in recent years.
• Quake in New Zealand kills at least 65, traps ...
  One of New Zealand's biggest cities lay in ruins Tuesday after a powerful earthquake toppled tall buildings and churches on a busy weekday, killing at least 65 people in the country's worst natural disaster in decades.
• Gadhafi addresses the nation underneath an umb ...
  Libyan President Moammar Gadhafi broke silence yesterday in Tripoli in a conspicuously short appearance on Libyan State TV. Sitting in a vehicle apparently in front of his residence and holding a white umbrella, Ghadafi confirmed that he had not fled the country to Venezuela. Apparently, the ...

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

• Good policy down drain
  Unfair cancellation of Toronto’s downspout disconnection program is just a symptom of a far bigger problem: bad leadership.
• Children’s physical fitness: Walk away from th ...
  New maximums for sedentary activity don't say we have to spend that time exercising. Why not?
• Conservatives hide rising cost
  Parliamentarians want the government to divulge the cost of incarcerating more offenders, keeping them in jail longer and building more prisons.
• Spaces must be affordable
  There are 17,000 kids waiting for the chance to get one of the city’s 24,000 child-care subsidies.
• Help victims quickly
  Ontario government must take urgent action to deal with those who were sprayed with Agent Orange in the 1960s.

Energy Collective

• Study Shows Benefits of Jatropha Plant Oil for ...
  SG Biofuels and Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) today released results of a study revealing the performance and emissions benefits of using Jatropha oil as a drop-in replacement for diesel fuel in industrial furnaces used for electric power generation and industrial heating.
• The Impact of Closing Vermont Yankee Nuclear P ...
  Rebecca and Mark, "Impact of Closing Vermont Yankee Nuclear Plant" is a topic of interest to many people in New England and the US. Please be so kind to post it on THE ENERGY COLLECTIVE website. The recently posted Dutch Renewables..... and Electric Vehicle............. articles have over ...
• Top Energy Efficient Tax Credits
  Improve the energy efficiency of your home and tax money at the same time with these energy efficiency tax credits: 1. Fuel Cells
• The Tragedy of the Commons: Reflecting on a Ce ...
  As the first decade of the twenty-first century comes to a close, the problem of the commons is more important to our lives – and more central to economics – than a century ago when the first issue of the American Economic Review appeared, with an examination by Professor Katharine Coman of Well ...
• Winning Our Energy Future with $15 billion for ...
  Today, we have an op-ed published in the Presidents' Day edition of The Plain Dealer, the largest newspaper in Ohio.

EU Times

• Milky Way has 50 billion planets estimates fir ...
  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. And some 500 million of those planets are in what is known as the Goldilocks zone, where the climate is thought to be not-too-hot and not-to ...
• Scientist finds Gulf bottom still oily, dead
  Oil from the BP spill remains stuck on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, according to a top scientist’s video and slides that she says demonstrate the oil isn’t degrading as hoped and has decimated life on parts of the sea floor. That report is at odds with a recent report by the BP [...]
• Gaddafi flees Tripoli as protesters set the Li ...
  Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is believed to have fled the capital Tripoli after anti-government demonstrators breached the state television building and set government property alight. Protesters appear to have gained a foothold in Tripoli as banks and government buildings were looted while dem ...
• China tries to stamp out ‘Jasmine Revolution’
  Jittery Chinese authorities wary of any domestic dissent staged a show of force Sunday to squelch a mysterious online call for a “Jasmine Revolution,” with only a handful of people joining protests apparently modeled on the pro-democracy demonstrations sweeping the Middle East. Authorities detai ...
• George Soros: Obama “Has Lost Control” Of Amer ...
  In his interview with CNN‘s Fareed Zakaria, George Soros had some lamenting to do. He told Zakaria that Obama âhas lost control of the [county's ecnomic] agendaâ and as a result it’s been left âin the hands of the Republican Partyâ. Though Soros thinks the GOP will be successful in its pursuit o ...

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

• MoMinis lets developers make 2D games for any ...
  Smartphones are supposed to be easy to develop apps for. But as new versions of mobile operating systems proliferate, fragmentation is wrecking that hope. That’s why Israeli firm MoMinis is launching a new game development and distribution platform today. The two-dimensional casual games create ...
• What next for the 'Mad Dog' of Libya?
  A GREAT COMMENT By Jamal Elshayyal Al-Jazeera " 2011 has already proven lie to the idea that the Arab world ever needed foreign help in order to achieve democracy ; and now it could prove false the notion that the American administration and other Western governments ever cared about human righ ...
• The Latest on QUICKHIT NFL Football
  It has been a while since last checking in on QUICKHIT NFL Football. The browser-based game, which won the community award for the best in that category, has been making consistent and worthwhile improvements. For anyone not familiar with QUICKHIT the game works in a similar fashion to other fr ...
• Wired for Work: Get a Job FAST using LinkedIn, ...
  Product Description In today's tough job market, it's hard to get the attention of recruiters or hiring managers. Routine job notices generate a blizzard of resumes, burying the best candidates. But now, you can get the inside track with free and low-cost networking tools. You'll get early noti ...
• American Held in Pakistan Shootings Worked Wit ...
  Via NYTimes.com (Feb 21, 2011) - The American arrested in Pakistan after shooting two men at a crowded traffic stop was part of a covert, C.I.A.-led team collecting intelligence and conducting surveillance on militant groups deep inside the country, according to American government officials. W ...

Groklaw

• Kinect developer claims credit for hack bounty ...
  Just after Microsoft announced a Windows software development kit for its hit Kinect motion controller today, a former "core" member of the device's development team said the idea for a bounty contest to hack the Kinect was his. - Daniel Terdiman, CNET News
• Is it the GPL or the App Stores?
  That GPL is by design incompatible with appstores is a hoax. It's the appstores that are designed to be incompatible with certain freedoms. - Carlo Piana, Twitter
• Copyright Interlude: What is the Public Domain ...
  The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals is holding court in the Missouri Law School this week. One of the appeals being heard is a copyright case involving the 1939 Wizard of Oz movie (as well as Gone with the Wind and Tom & Jerry). The case is captioned, Warner Bros. Entertainment, et al. v. X One ...
• Appellate briefs filed in SONY v Tenenbaum
  SONY BMG Music Entertainment v. Tenenbaum, where the RIAA appealed to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, despite being awarded $2250 for each download, for a total of $67,500, and where Tenenbaum cross appealed on the ground that the $67,500 was excessive, in view of the a ...
• Hollywood Property Values
  Stealing ideas is so old Hollywood. It still occurs, as does the cha-cha, but the new Hollywood operates less by stealing other people's ideas than by girding its own with mighty armies of lawyers who claim everything the studio produces as its perpetual possession, a sort of legalistic King Mid ...

WideShut

• WideShut Webcast Video Version: Episode 2
  Lots of 7/7 news, this week on Resistance Radio and a debunking of Jared Loughner is Glenn Beck.
• 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.

Politics in the Zeros

• Vallejo makes ‘dying cities’ and ‘most miserab ...
  They say no publicity is bad publicity, but doubtless Vallejo doesn’t feel that way after being ranked by two national magazines as a deeply undesirable place to live. Newsweek ranked Vallejo the #2 dying city due to its overall population decline between 2000 and 2009 and its decline in residen ...
• Largest sloping green roof in North America co ...
  An ice dam on the roof apparently blocked water from melting snow from draining properly. The roof was 250,000 sq ft and was a “virtual prarie meadow in the sky.” This was almost certainly not directly to the roof having plants on it but much more because of the huge amounts of snow this year. [ ...
• Qualifying Green Candidates
  I want to thank Bob for giving me the opportunity to post some of my writings here. This is the first time I have do so. I would like to introduce my self to those who don’t know me by referring you to another blog that I have written of the past few years… California [...]
• How to stop Norton Internet Security from runn ...
  I like Norton Internet Security. But sometimes it’ll be using 50% of CPU time on my laptop, which means the fan is whirring constantly. (You can check this by clicking Performance on the main screen.) After some poking around I discovered much of this background activity is Norton optimizing the ...
• Who would have ever thought Gaddifi’s regime w ...
  But it is. Protesters aided by defecting members of the army now control several cities in Libya. Police and army stations have been looted for weapons. The remaining thugs who rule Middle East countries are probably getting real nervous now. It would be delighful to see the corrupt House of Sau ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

• 65 people dead following Chch earthquake, resc ...
  Rescue efforts are continuing after yesterday's 6.3 magnitude earthquake that killed at least 65 people.
• Cold, wet, night for Christchurch quake victim ...
  Rain is continuing to fall in Christchurch as hundreds of people seek shelter at emergency welfare centres.
• NZ called 'unlucky country' by rating agency M ...
  New Zealand may face another year of anaemic economic growth says Moody's Analytics, a unit of the global credit rating company.
• Number for people worried about loved ones: 08 ...
  A telephone number has been set up for people concerned about loved ones.  
• At least 65 people dead following Christchurch ...
  Civil Defence has confirmed fatalities following the 6.3 magnitude Canterbury earthquake.

Just World News

• Noha Radwan on being assaulted by pro-Mubarak ...
  Dr. Noha Radwan, a professor of comparative literature at U.C. Davis, was in Cairo during the height of the counter-revolution unleashed by the pro-Mubarak forces on February 2. She got caught by the pro-Mubarak, baltagiyeh thugs as she tried to cross the "front line" that divided them from her ...
• Watching the imperium collapse
  I apologize that I got too busy doing book publishing over the past few days to comment directly on the shameful decision by the Obama administration to veto last Friday's Security Council resolution that condemned Israel's continued settlement building program. What on earth were they thinking ...
• 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 ...

First Truths

• Getting the Raw End in Wisconsin
  My latest for the Center for a Stateless Society: But the anti-union turgidity of the Republican variant of the "free market" obscures what are the actual � as against the imagined �� effects of the state's pervasive interventions in the economy. When the state creates monopoly or oligopoly cond ...
• 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.

Media Co-Op

• Check out the VMC's anti-Olympic archive
  On Friday, the Vancouver Media Co-op launched an Anti-Olympic Archive, dedicated to documenting and archiving several year's of anti-Olympic resistance against the 2010 Winter Games. It includes statements, posters, call-outs, corporate n ...
• Nova Scotia's First Community Supported Fisher ...
  The Story of "Off the Hook" "Off the Hook" is Atlantic Canada's first Community Supported Fishery (CSF). �Fishermen are able to get a good price for their product and consumers in Halifax are able to get fresh fish directly from the source ...
• Victoria Police Chief Guilty of 'Discreditable ...
  Remarks over undercover cop driving anti-Olympic protester bus cause Graham more grief Back in November 2009, Victoria police chief Jamie Graham caused minor controversy when he claimed that anti-Olympic protesters had rented a bus driven ...
• Martial Law, Repression, and Remilitarization ...
  On February 8, Felix Cuc Xo, a community activist from the settlement of Xya’al K’obe’ in northern Alta Verapaz, Guatemala, was beaten in front of his family and taken away by soldiers and police. He was detained in a private residence that was surrounded by police, and did not resurface. A stat ...
• Capitalism and the Loss of Humanity in The Wre ...
  More than a Movie Review The recently released film Black Swan, which went nationwide in the United States on December 17, 2010, has already received a lot of Oscar buzz, especially for the work of actress Natalie Portman, who has been nom ...

David Seaton's News Links

• The unbearable levity of Wikileaks and the rig ...
  David Seaton's News LinksI received the following comment on my last post:So previously, you did not think that globalization and instant communication tools were radiically changing the world?� It wasn't until wikileaks that you realized this was happening? Helloooo?�� To which I am tempted t ...
• Globalization and its discontents: a new parad ...
  I have an "impossibility theorem" for the global economy (...). It says that democracy, national sovereignty and global economic integration are mutually incompatible: we can combine any two of the three, but never have all three simultaneously and in full.� Dani Rodrik - Kennedy School Harv ...
• 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" ...

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

• The Surprisingly Potent Asian Food that Delive ...
  According to a new study, krill oil has effects similar to fish oil on serum lipids, oxidative stress and inflammation -- but unlike fish oil, it works even with lower doses of EPA and DHA. EPA and DHA provide a variety of health benefits, including for your heart, your eyes, and illnesses caus ...
• Snooky and the Metronome
  The terrifying metronome is at last vanquished.
• Parents: You Can Say No to Vaccinations, Right ...
  By Barbara Loe Fisher If you are a resident of Washington state, you should know that there is a bill quietly sailing through your state legislature that violates your privacy and threatens your right to make informed, voluntary decisions about vaccination. House Bill 1015 1 and Senate Bi ...
• Stairs vs. Escalator
  The easiest way to change people's behavior for the better is by making it fun to do.
• Lymph Node Study Shakes Pillar of Breast Cance ...
  A new study has shown that many women with early breast cancer do not actually benefit from the removal of armpit lymph nodes, a painful procedure that has been routine practice for 100 years. For about 20 percent of patients, removing the nodes has no advantage -- it neither improves survival ...

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

• Amazon Indians in London to stop dams that wil ...
  Bishop Erwin Kräutler marches against the Belo Monte dam © Prelazia do Xingu Three Amazon Indians have begun a journey through Europe to protest against dams which threaten to destroy the lands and lives of thousands of tribal people. Ruth Buendia Mestoquiari, an Ashaninka Indian from Pe ...
• Cartoon satire of ‘development’ launched in In ...
  Survival's 'There you go!' can be read in two minutes. © Oren Ginzburg/Survival Survival has today launched in India a cartoon book satirizing the destruction of tribal peoples in the name of ‘development’. The book, ‘There you go!’, designed to be read in two minutes, is being sent to Pri ...
• 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. ...

Montreal Gazette

• Editorial: A flash flood of change sweeps acro ...
  The shutters have been thrown open in the Middle East. Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak has fled, taking an unknown amount of the $70 billion his family reportedly amassed at the expense of his impoverished country. No longer can Mubarak masquerade as a benign patriarch; he is instead th ...
• Editorial: Anti-corruption unit: too little, t ...
  The formation of a Permanent Anti-Corruption Unit by the Quebec government is a welcome development in a province where, on the evidence of recent exposes, corruption is all too rife. However, with the announcement of the new task force last Friday the government was getting somewhat ahead ...
• A flash flood of change sweeps across Arab wor ...
  The shutters have been thrown open in the Middle East. Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak has fled, taking an unknown amount of the $70 billion his family reportedly amassed at the expense of his impoverished country. No longer can Mubarak masquerade as a benign patriarch; he is instead th ...
• Anti-corruption unit: too little, too soon
  Modelled after New York's fraud busting Department of Investigation, which was itself born of the rampant corruption of the Boss Tweed-Tammany Hall era more than a century ago, the Quebec operation will have a permanent staff of close to 200 and an annual budget of just over $30 million, ...
• NOW HEAR THIS: Turn down the volume!
  The amazing thing about television is that no matter what you watch -whether it's a documentary in Inuktitut or a high-scoring hockey game -the ads are always louder. MUCH LOUDER.

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

• Our Public Schools Their Mission Field
  source:  Awaypoint, Feb 4, 2011 The Gospel has been taught freely in public schools all over the world for some time.  Now children in the U.S. have that opportunity, too! from the Child Evangelism Fellowship website A fundamentalist Christian organization, Child Evangelism Fe ...
• Caste divide
  source: Frontline, Feb 22, 2011 S. DORAIRAJ � � Tensions run high within the Christian community in Thachur village, and the government has adopted a hands-off approach for now.  A. MURALITHARAN ...
• 'Eppadium' (Anyhow), the most recent novel of ...
  source:  Frontline,  Feb 22, 2011 WIELDING the pen with power and determination to smash the injustice and discrimination against Dalit Christians and other oppressed masses is part of the priestly duties of Fr Mark Stephen.
• Lessons from Conversion by Burning Temples and ...
  Over the last decade, a large number of Buddhist temples in Korea had been destroyed or damaged by fanatically devout Christians. More recently, the Buddha statues, regarded as the devil, were attacked and beheaded in the name of Jesus.
• 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 ...

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

• 20 Shocking New Economic Records That Were Set ...
  2010 was quite a year, wasn't it?  2010 will be remembered for a lot of things, but for those living in the United States, one of the main things that last year will be remembered for is economic decline.  The number of foreclosure filings set a new record, the number of home re ...
• House Prices – Up Or Down In 2011?
  How soon will it be before people finally start using the term "depression" to describe what has happened to the U.S. housing market?  It has been four and a half years since housing prices began to decline, and they are still falling.  In fact, U.S. housing prices have now fall ...
• 10 Things That Would Be Different If The Feder ...
  The vast majority of Americans, including many of those who believe that they are "educated" about the Federal Reserve, do not really understand how the Federal Reserve really makes money for the international banking elite.  Many of those opposed to the Federal Reserve will poi ...
• Two Americas: 12 Facts That Show That Those Wh ...
  Most Americans have a deep aversion to the phrase "redistribution of wealth", and rightly so.  On a fundamental level, it is just not right to take the money that one man has worked so hard to earn and "redistribute" it to someone else.  In the political realm, the phrase "a red ...
• 14 Eye Opening Statistics Which Reveal Just Ho ...
  Most Americans have become so accustomed to the "new normal" of continual economic decline that they don't even remember how good things were just a few short years ago.  Back in 2007, unemployment was very low, good jobs were much easier to get, far fewer Americans were living ...

CASSE

• Economic and Environmental Perspective on Pres ...
  Brent Blackwelder remembers Ronald Reagan's ruinous results for the environment and the economy.
• 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.

The Talking Clock

• 3.2 million: The number of immigrant voters th ...
  Well, it was a matter of public record that the Labour Party deliberately had an open door immigration policy for the purpose of gerrymandering future elections. Today, we find out the utterly disgusting extent that they took it to. 3.2 million people. Or, as the Daily Mail puts it: "La ...
• A message to economists from we, the thicko li ...
  Hello, economist bankers (or, at least, I think the third word is correct). There's much writing in the internet and talking on the telly about inflation, today. Now, I know enough about those complicated topics that you pay yourselves seven digit figures to anal-ise to be able to say this ...
• Clegg confesses: AV will damage the election c ...
  Well, well, well... that didn't take long, did it? Shall I just offer to run UKIP? I'll extended the same offer to the No2AV campaign too, if they like. This from the Daily Express on a Q&A with Nick Clegg: Mr Clegg was asked a range of questions during the hour-long session, ranging ...
• Bilderberg Group, Trilateral Commission and Co ...
  Bloody hell! Well done that man! Well done Russia Today! The Daily Mail has a graphic which helps those with little or patchy geography knowledge see easily what is going on. Remember when you look at it to add Morocco to the list of places with unrest, protests or disruption. Our friend ...
• 'No' to Clarke and Clegg's phony "Bill of Righ ...
  The following is doing the rounds by email. I would like to attribute the original author, but there isn't an original author on the email circulating. If it's yours, get in touch. We will not accept a Bilderberg attendee and a Europhile Quisling joining forces and foisting their corrupted ve ...

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
  American Held in Pakistan Worked with CIA After reports in the foreign press on Sunday and Monday that Raymond Davis, the American man arrested in Pakistan after shooting two men at a traffic stop, was working for the CIA, multiple … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Noor to Serve 34 Months and Cooperate with Govt.; Military Jury Gives Him Symbolic 14 Years Noor Uthman Mohammed, a Sudanese weapons trainer who recently pleaded guilty to two terror charges at a Guantanamo military commission, will serve 34 more … Continue reading →
• 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 →

Short Sharp Science

• Today on New Scientist: 22 February 2011
  All today's stories on NewScientist.com, including: the New Zealand earthquake, upgrading photosynthesis, and how to drive a car using mind control
• The unknown fault that caught out Christchurch
  Seismologists didn't realise that largest city in New Zealand's South Island lies directly over a major fault – until today
• Today on New Scientist: 21 February 2011
  All today's stories on NewScientist.com, including: the brains of psychopaths, augmented reality iPhones, and the philosophy of exoplanets
• China loans Japan a pair of pandas
  The loan is part of a renewed agreement on joint panda research, which may also improve relations between the two countries
• Exoplanet explosion sparks philosophical debat ...
  How many worlds are there out there? Are we alone in the universe? Once speculative questions are now being tackled with real data, says Rowan Hooper

Tech Drive In

• Super Cool Android 3.0 Powered Motorola XOOM V ...
  If this is not futuristic, what is? Watch this absolutely stunning advertisement featuring all new Android 3.0 "Honeycomb" powered Motorola XOOM tablet. Android 3.0 Powered Motorola Xoom Advert Android 3.0 "Honeycomb" is the new version of Google Android OS optimized for tablets. And M ...
• 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 ...

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

• Tens of thousands join anti-government rally i ...
  Tens of thousands of people gathered on Friday (February 18th) in downtown Tirana for an anti-government demonstration. The rally, organised by the opposition Socialist Party, was held nearly a month after another big demonstration in the capital turned deadly, with four people killed in clashes ...
• Bill Maher and the Bipartisan Campaign to Marg ...
  by Scott Creighton Right now there are an estimated 2 million people in Tehrir Square celebrating their victory and announcing their solidarity with the 1.5 million Palestinians locked in what John Holmes, the United Nation’s humanitarian chief, called the world’s largest open air prison. The pe ...
• Wikileaks Is A Rothschild Operation: Wound Riv ...
  After being made famous, Julian Assange’s first task is to wound a rival bank of the Rothschild Bank in Switzerland. The rival is Bank Julius Baer, the top Swiss bank for centuries: the competing Rothschild Bank opened in Switzerland in 1968. On January 17, 2011, Assange held a press conference ...
• Bahrain – an uprising on the verge of revoluti ...
  By Robert Fisk Bahrain is not Egypt. Bahrain is not Tunisia. And Bahrain is not Libya or Algeria or Yemen. True, the tens of thousands gathering again yesterday at the Pearl roundabout – most of them Shia but some of them Sunni Muslims – dressed themselves in Bahraini flags, just as the Cairo mi ...
• Bloodbath Failed: Libya’s Pro-West Regime at a ...
  By Jason Ditz 42 years is a long time to rule as an absolute tyrant, and Moammar Gadhafi become quite adept over the years at navigating the world of global diplomacy, transforming Libya from a pariah state (thanks to his nationalization of US oil interests) to US foil to key US ally (thanks to ...

Veterans Today

• Absence of Al Jazeera English in US Is Troubli ...
  You can watch Al Jazeera on TV almost anywhere in the world - except in the United States. How is this possible in our nation where freedom of the press is a basic constitutional tenet? Just what do cable and satellite carriers fear?
• STUART LITTLEWOOD : Craven US veto costs Washi ...
  Hang you head in shame, O Peace Prize laureate Stuart Littlewood / STAFF WRITER The Nobel award, said Barack Obama at the time, was âan affirmation of American leadership on behalf of aspirations held by people in all nationsâ and must be shared with everyone who strives for “justice and dignity ...
• JB Campbell: Anatomy of a Frame
  VICTOR BOUT, THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT “FALL GUY” WHEN THE 9/11 COVER STORY FALLS APART By J.B. Campbell STAFF WRITER As VT readers know, the Pentagon was hit by a Soviet-era naval cruise missile called the Granit, known by the US government as the Shipwreck, because thatâs what it does: wrecks big ...
• DIMITRI KHALEZOV, GORDON DUFF AND KEVIN BARRET ...
  TRUTH JIHAD RADIO INTERVIEW  “WIKILEAKS ON STEROIDS” Foreword by Gordon Duff Senior Editor Veterans Today Audio editing by Edward Rynearson [There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed. Visit the blog entry to see the video.] There are few more controversial figures than Dimitri Khal ...
• In The Midst of All the Chaos can We Please Ta ...
  The title of this poem is Soldiers Retreat I have written it for all Soldiers past, present, and future Yea though I Travel to the Solitude of my Being I am a Soldier. I have soldiered diligently. I have soldiered honorably. Though I have traveled the inroads of war and the back alleys of unknow ...

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

• Gaylord Hotels pairs leisure business with cha ...
  NASHVILLE, TN: Gaylord Hotels launched a new cause-driven program that focuses on building its leisure vacation business.
• AIG hires VP of investor relations
  NEW YORK: American International Group appointed Elizabeth Werner as VP and head of investor relations.
• H&K names Krotz a senior counselor
  CHICAGO: Hill & Knowlton hired Randy Krotz as a senior counselor in the firm's Chicago office.
• Howard Consulting Group names Guittard a VP
  WASHINGTON: Howard Consulting Group hired Cari Guittard as VP of global affairs.
• 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.

The Story Behind the Story

• U.S. “Diplomat” in Pakistan is CIA ...
  ATTENTION FRIENDS AND CONCERNED CITIZENS: This proves what is happening around the world with Hillary Clinton’s “Global Mission Chiefs”.  (See post below on “QDDR” in D.C.)  It shows the lies being spread across the board on this.   Clearly, CIA operatives are working overtime sowing chaos, t ...
• 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 ...

k2p blog

• Solar effects will give increased volcanic and ...
  We now think that it is not just general solar proton event levels which point towards more earthquakes but that individual solar proton events exacerbate immediate earthquake (and associated volcanism) risk.
• 65 dead and 200 trapped in Christchurch quake
  A 6.3 magnitude quake close to the surface has hit Christchurch. At least 200 are trapped and at least 65 have perished.
• “zu Googleberg”: PhD retracted at ...
  He has a nice smile and he is apparently popular but the Defence Minister of the Republic of Germany, Mr. zu Googleberg is nothing but a liar and a cheat.
• Success and goodness in management
  Success is transient. Just like profit or cash-flow – it is over once it has been recognised. Goodness lasts longer – it is like a balance sheet item.
• 48 pilot whales put down as 107 die on New Zea ...
  All members of a pod of 107 pilot whales that stranded on a remote New Zealand beach have died, including 48 that were euthanised.

Left Foot Forward

• The nasty campaign: NO-to-AV stoops to new low
  The Tory-led NO to AV campaign have over-stepped the mark with their latest advert against the alternative vote.
• The British left should engage in serious self ...
  Colonel Gaddafi made a quite extraordinary speech this afternoon, vowing to stay on and "die a martyr"; here, Seph Brown looks at the British left's questionable relationship with the tyrant.
• Bitterness and acrimony over Northern Ireland ...
  Ulster Unionist Party health minister Michael McGimpsey has been forced to deny that he intends to resign following a series of high profile spats with ministerial colleagues on the Stormont Executive.
• New Migration Watch report misses opportunity ...
  As we anticipate the next round of quarterly immigration figures from the Office of National Statistics this Thursday, a new Migration Watch UK report has been released amid a wave of media hyperbole.
• Buoyant tax revenues give Osborne room to mano ...
  The UK’s public finances were in much better shape in January than expected. There was a current budget surplus of £8.5bn and public sector net borrowing was -£3.7bn.

Consumerist

• PayPal Resolves Dispute In Your Favor By Drain ...
  When Russell contacted PayPal about what appeared to be fraud on his account, he rather naively assumed that his being proactive would pay off, and keep his checking account balance safe from the fraudsters. Not so fast! He wants to warn others not to be naive enough to actually believe what Pa ...
• Toy Manufacturers Try To Block Online Injury R ...
  The Consumer Product Safety Commission is set to launch a database in the next few weeks that tracks reports of injuries resulting from strollers and cribs. A group of children's product manufacturers are trying to coax lawmakers to stifle the database and roll back other health regulations. A ...
• Domino's Delivery Driver Saves Life Of Regular ...
  Imagine you work at a pizza place and an elderly customer has been ordering from your store every day for three years. What do you do when that customer suddenly stops calling? For one Domino's driver in Memphis, TN, the answer was clear: Go out and check on her. "We make her pizza every day b ...
• Capital One Burrows Into Your Wallet, Makes Yo ...
  Gerard, now 26, has spent his entire adult life fighting with Capital One. No, we are not exaggerating: he got his first credit card with the company at age 18, and they have been causing him payment and credit-report headaches ever since. I've had an endless battle with CapitalOne, and when ...
• Safeway Catches Alleged Shoplifters With Track ...
  Management of a Portland, Ore. Safeway was sick of getting ripped off by the same couple over and over again, so its security staff placed a tracking device on the van driven by the alleged shoplifters. Now the couple, accused of swiping more than $5 million worth of goods from the Safeway over ...

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

• Reprise: Massachusetts Posts Pharma Payments t ...
  by Nicholas Kusnetz, ProPublica This week, Massachusetts became the first state to post an online database of payments from drug and medical device companies to the state’s health care providers. Thesearchable database covers reports from more than 280 companies and subsidiaries. The new data ...
• Reprise: Massachusetts Folks Will Understand ! ...
  If you grew up in the US state of Massachusetts or anywhere near Bahston (Boston, as I did), 96% of these will make all the sense in the world. If you didn’t, 20% will be about the best you can do and they will be very funny. Happy Holidays to all our Massachusetts readers! 1. The [...]
• Reprise: For Brain-Injured Soldiers, Top Quali ...
  by T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, and Daniel Zwerdling, NPR Versions of this story were co-published with NPR and Stars and Stripes. For more coverage, listen to Morning Edition. One afternoon this fall, Bobby McKinney hunched over a coffee table with a clear glass surface. A lamp with a bare ...
• The Republican Strategy – Class Semantical War ...
  by Robert Reich 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 w ...
• 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 ...

NewsAlert

• G.O.P. Senators in Wisconsin Say They Will Res ...
  The New York Times
• Home prices hit post-bust lows in most big cit ...
  AP
• Howard Dean and the $100,000 Wisconsin Slush F ...
  The American Spectator
• Men fare better as economy recovers, but women ...
  McClatchy
• As a Share of Income Americans Have Most Affor ...
  Carp Diem

JoNova

• Black Propaganda: US Government solicits softw ...
  Part of the US Government has been caught trying to buy software that would allow it to generate 500 fake persona’s generally known as sockpuppets. They plan to use facebook, twitter and blog comments. This particular leaked email refers to a submission from the Air Force, and apparently for use ...
• Floods are manmade, you say now?
  After twenty years of drought predictions that turned out to be not worth a rhinestone rune-stone,  the acolytes of the scare campaign were keen to find some evidence that they were still “right”. Two new papers came along showing that, golly, warming really “formally” “officially” caused flood ...
• 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 ...

ReNew America

• Wisconsin Republicans step up pressure on Dems ...
  (Fox News) - Wisconsin Republicans on Sunday upped the pressure on Democrats who fled to Illinois to return home and vote on an anti-union bill, with the governor calling them obstructionists and a GOP lawmaker threatening to convene without them...
• Feds and unions: Foes to educational reform
  (Chuck Norris) - "The fate of our country won't be decided on a battlefield. It will be determined in a classroom." Do you believe that? Last week, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker called on 14 Senate Democrats, who fled the state instead of voting on a deficit-cutting anti-teacher union bill, to ret ...
• Pat Boone: Christians must mobilize now to def ...
  (Newsmax) - Christians must mobilize now if they are to have any hope in generating the momentum to turn President Barack Obama out of office in 2012, says legendary singer and conservative activist Pat Boone...
• Time to defund the destruction of human life
  (Jerome Hudson) - Planned Parenthood employees got caught giving underage-abortion advice to activists posing as sex traffickers and the liberal newsmakers went nuts. What's the message coming from the far Left media: Republicans want women and children to die, quickly...
• The King committee: ready to probe subversion
  (Wes Vernon, RA Analyst) - The lofty, privileged hear-no-evil see-no-evil advantage that Islamofascism has enjoyed in the United States may soon be a thing of the past. For starters, this likely means a look at the Muslim Brotherhood and Islam's persistent and silent invasion of the U.S....

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

• Deadly 6.3 Quake in ChristChurch NZ
  Looks like dozens of people have died during an earthquake that struck Christchurch during their lunch hour. Several large office buildings have collapsed, as well as the cathedral. Another deadly earthquake occurring within 3 days of the full moon. I have written recently of the new pattern eme ...
• Noah’s Ark Finally Discovered?
  If you follow my line of thinking, you might just agree with my hypothesis. It starts out by looking at the Bible as a historical record that has been exaggerated for religious purposes, and ends with an amazing find in Iran. Ask any Biblical skeptic and they will supply you with many apparent c ...
• 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 ...

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

• Sofia Vergara was nick-named 'toothpick' over ...
  London, Feb 15 (ANI): Columbian actress Sofia Vergara has revealed that she was once teased for her stick-thin figure.  The 'Modern Family' actress - who flaunts her curves on the latest cover of America's Shape magazine - says her brothers even nick-named her 'toothpick' when she was growing .. ...
• US condemns 'appalling' violence in Libya
  ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (AP) -- The U.S. is condemning as 'appalling' the violence in Libya, where security forces are unleashing a bloody crackdown on protesters demanding the ouster of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi....
• Leann Rimes to Marry in Montana?
  LEANN Rimes is planning to marry on a private ranch in Montana. The Can’t Fight the Moonlight singer is to tie the knot with fiance Eddie Cibrian later this year and has been inquiring about a number of venues in the mountainous US state. “LeAnn has approached a number of owners of private ...
• Miley Cyrus Nixed Billy Ray’s Appearance on Th ...
  MILEY Cyrus made her father Billy Ray cancel his scheduled appearance on US TV show The View. The Hannah Montana star is furious that the country music crooner has been speaking about her interviews, so is trying to stop him from doing anymore damage — sources say. “When Miley found out her ... ...
• Marie Osmond ‘Scraps Plans to Marry First Hubb ...
  MARIE Osmond has scrapped plans to remarry her first husband Stephen Craig. The performer apparently pulled the plugs on her marriage plans after the two got into a nasty fight over her fears of Stephen cheating. “Stephen and Marie were in a really good place with their relationship until the .. ...

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

• Apple Repair Consultants Outraged at Cuts to T ...
  Upset about lack of control, Apple is making significant alterations to how its services its computers
• Motorola Xoom $599 on Contract Feb 24, Verizon ...
  Verizon confirms on-contract pricing for Xoom
• Study: SSDs Are Resistant to Current Data Eras ...
  Revelation could prove a nightmare to careless businesses and individuals
• "Call of Juarez: The Cartel" Angers Critics, M ...
  Lawmakers in Chihuahua have asked federal authorities to ban the game due to its themes that reflect the current crime situation in Juarez
• Report: AT&T iPhone Users Making Up Majority o ...
  Instapaper founder believes iPhone adoption at Verizon will be more gradual than at AT&T

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

• Rewriting the New York Times Headline: Blog Us ...
  Today BlogHer was pleased to be quoted in a New York Times article by reporter Verne Kopytoff, provocatively entitled: Blogs Wane as the Young Drift to Sites Like Twitter. The article was prompted by a recent Pew Report from late last year entitled Generations 2010. Here's the interesting thing ...
• Excuse Me Please, While I Check a Message From ...
  AT&T announced recently that connecting machines to machines (M2M) with wireless devices is going to get easier. ReadWriteWeb's AT&T Makes App Creation Easier for Home Appliances, Other Objects tells us that apps aren't just for phones any more. A fast growing number of non-phone devices is com ...
• Second-Class Citizens
  Some of my blog fans have asked if I currently have a life-partner. I do, I actually have a wife. We were married in Dana Point, California on October 3, 2008. We are two of the 18,000 queer people who are legally married in California, having married during a brief time of legality before t ...
• Month of Movies: Kidman Chases Oscar Down the ...
  Every day during February 2011, we'll be talking movie reviews, celebrities, Oscar nominations, awards shows, DVDs you need to rent + more. Sign up to get A Month of Movies in your inbox each week in February -- and see all the movies in the series. ****************************� Rabbit Hole is ...
• Announcing BlogHer's Newest Event: BlogHer Han ...
  Lisa, Jory and I are thrilled to announce the latest addition to the BlogHer Conferences family: BlogHer Handmade '11. We are partnering with the pioneering women behind The Creative Connection�to serve two active and eager communities: Women who have turned their handmade creativity into envia ...

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

• UMWA’s Cecil Roberts: ‘… Alt ...
  Hey folks, I’ve been out for a few days and am catching up on things. I wanted to make sure Coal Tattoo readers didn’t miss this commentary from United Mine Workers of America President Cecil Roberts, published first on the Perspectives page of the Sunday Gazette-Mail: When my great-uncle Bill ...
• Coal’s impacts: New study sorts out good ...
  Studies about the costs and benefits of coal are always a topic that generates heated discussion here on Coal Tattoo (see here, here and here). But understanding these costs and benefits is increasingly important, and whether any one particular study is perfect is less important than the fact t ...
• 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 ...

Daniel Miessler

• How Does One Explain SQL Injection to a Non-Te ...
  Anyone got a good analogy to describe SQL Injection to people who don’t understand what a “back end” is, much less a SELECT statement? Here’s my response: SQL Injection is like a telephone operator who has to phonetically relay verbal speech between two people who cannot be connected, in a langu ...
• Swords vs. Shadows
  via youtube.com OMFG, this thing has the awesome. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsEuler’s DiskThe GiftJan-Ove Waldner ServesAndrei Arlovski “This is Sparta” KickThe Strange Powers of the Placebo Effect
• Server Side Browsers | Camen Design
  If we want to break away from an inherently centralised programming model and make developers lives easier we need to make the client and the server one and the same. Equal in capability and equal in developing tools and technologies. A headless browser would be a web browser running without a G ...
• One’s Belief in Free Will Defines His Politics
  I write a lot about free will, and people don’t understand why. I’ll try here again to explain. Simply, one’s stance on whether or not we choose our actions directly vs. whether our choices are the product of genes and environment deeply saturates all of a person’s political beliefs. Here are a ...
• 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

Fitwatch

• Domestic extremists or domestic goddesses?
  This brilliant video was made by the Aldermaston Women's Peace Camp - the following text, is taken from their website During 2010 AWPC was under more overt surveillance than usual. From February, the women's camp was targeted with intrusive police photography. Camp made a formal complaint about ...
• 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 ...

Worldwide Hippies

• Monsanto Ain’t Liable
  Monsanto Shifts ALL Liability to Farmers | Intel Hub Farmers like genetically modified (GM) crops because they can plant them, spray them with herbicide and then there is very little maintenance until harvest. Farmers who plant Monsanto’s GM crops probably don’t realize what they bargain for wh ...
• Breaking news: Is Scott Walker Cutting Off Int ...
  By Mike Elk | thinkprogress – According to pro-labor protesters in Wisconsin, Gov. Scott Walker (R) may be taking a page from former Egyptian Dictator Hosni Mubarak and cutting off internet access to key protest organizers within the state Capitol building. If you are in the Capitol attempting t ...
• Armed Services Committee Sez: “Show Me T ...
  Lucking Out Inside the Beltway | The New York Times The House Republican majority made a big show last week of pursuing its campaign promise to slash the federal budget. Far less obvious was the discreet dinner break for campaign fund-raising taken by 13 freshmen Republicans on the Armed Service ...
• Libya Uses Airstrikes Against Protesters
  Fresh violence rages in Libya | Al Jazeera Protesters say security forces using warplanes and live fire ‘massacred’ them, as UN warns of possible ‘war crimes’. Libyan forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi are waging a bloody operation to keep him in power, with residents reporting gunfire in parts of ...
• Update: New Zealand Earthquake
  New Zealand quake smashes buildings and cars, killing 65 | LA Times Rescue efforts and aftershocks continue through the night amid reports that the toll could go much higher. Two buses are reported crushed as buildings in Christchurch topple. A devastating 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck the New ...

reference frame

• Beware the global warming fascists
  Even mild-mannered chaps such as Johnny Ball get angry when they meet children at schools who have been brainwashed by the AGW crackpottery and who are scared of the future instead of being excited by the future - and by science. As he says, unimaginable amounts of money are effectively bei ...
• LIGO: no waves seen so far
  The world's 700 best LIGO scientists ;-) have gathered and published new upper bounds: Search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspiral, merger and ringdown (PDF)No gravitational waves have been seen so far. However, this particular analysis has de facto looked at pair ...
• Korea: heaviest snowfall on record
  This blog entry is the 4,000th text on this blog. In March 2000, scientists at The Independent proved that there would never be any snow again: Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past Researchers from world-renowned places such as the University of East Anglia - this one became ...
• Iranium
  I recommend the U.S. and other readers who are interested in the Middle East to watch Iranium, a 60-minute movie by pro-democratic Persian folks and conservative pundits: Full movie at YouTube It presents a rather convincing case for the opinion that as a potential owner of the nuclear ...
• How does an average French woman look like?
  A topic for Valentine's Day. Did you ever want to know how the/an average German woman or the/an average black American woman looks like? Those questions have already been calculated by Face Research. Here is a couple of nations: Here are the averages for 46 nations. You may ...

No Frakking Consensus

• Bill McKibben Says It’s Urgent
  In the world inhabited by this environmental crusader, climate change is "a crisis that's breaking over our heads at this moment," ExxonMobil peddles petroleum the way drug dealers peddle heroin, and we "have no choice" but to turn our backs on fossil fuels.
• 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.

Tarpley

• Wisconsin Gop Governor in Neofascist Union-Bus ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net February 20, 2011 Washington DC, Feb. 20, 2011 – After four decades of disillusionment, and demoralization, disorientation and rout of the labor movement, the mass strike is once again abroad in the land. In dozens of state capitals, reactionary Republican ...
• 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

Modern Survivalism

• Another Quake Rocks Christchurch New Zealand
  On the heels of a major earthquake that rocked near Christchurch New Zealand on September 4, 2010 (magnitude 7.1), another major earthquake, this time a magnitude 6.3 struck the city of 350,000 during Tuesday afternoon 12:51PM local time February 22, 2011, and was followed by several large earth ...
• Population, Food, Oil … Collision?
  World population and growth Factoring the net birth minus death rate in the world each year, the annual increase to world population is about 75 million people. The current world population is about 6,900,000,000, or 6.9 billion. Annually, we add to the planet the equivalent population of any of ...
• Arctic Sea Ice, Thicker and Deeper
  A fresh update from the Polar Ice Prediction System (the operational model run by the Naval Oceanographic Office for sea ice forecasting) reveals that the North Pole arctic sea appears to be adding yet more sea ice to its depths, as was first reported at MSB in an article titled, 70 Trillion cub ...
• 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 ...

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

• The Arab Revolts: Ten Tentative Observations
  The extraordinary developments in Tunisia and Egypt during the first six weeks of this year, and more recently in Bahrain, Libya, Yemen and elsewhere, have inaugurated a revolutionary moment in the Arab world not experienced since 1958. If sustained uprisings continue and spread, it has ...
• Libya: The Violence of An Unraveling Regime [O ...
  Last night, Saif al-Islam al-Qaddafi�son of Libyan "leader" Colonel Mu�ammar al-Qaddafi�gave a televised speech in which he denied the existence of genuine grievances and protests for regime change in Libya, attributing the last six days of social unrest to both foreign interference as w ...
• Egypt's Path Could be Distinct from Turkey's a ...
  It is striking that as Egypt turns a new page in history, voices as diverse as Financial Times, Le Monde and the New York Times want it to follow the Turkish model. But is the process in Turkey really repeatable? And who would stand to gain if it were taken as a model? It seems that lib ...
• Egypt: A Multi-Generational Revolt
  In the mainstream Western and Arab media, Egypt�s revolution is often presented as a revolution of the youth.�While it is true that young activists planned the January 25th demonstrations and organized and raised support throughout much of the process leading up to that day, this upris ...
• The Marriage of Sexism and Islamophobia; Re-Ma ...
  I find myself intermittently infuriated and nauseated by the news coverage of the sexual assault on a female CBS reporter in Tahrir Square during the celebrations the day that Husni Mubarak resigned. This coverage has ranged from the disappointing silence of Al-Jazeera to the blatant rac ...

mediagazer

• FiveThirtyEight's Nate Silver adjusts to New Y ...
  Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter: FiveThirtyEight's Nate Silver adjusts to New York Times as a blogger, 6 months after joining the newsroom  —  Until six months ago, Nate Silver had never worked in a newsroom.  Now he's at The New York Times, building his brand, strengthening his writing skills an ...
• When will Google put the 'You' back in YouTube ...
  Stefan Meeuws / The Next Web: When will Google put the ‘You’ back in YouTube?  —  YouTube is one of the biggest websites in the world, according to Alexa.  Every hour, another 35 hours are added to the website.  This is common knowledge, but you wouldn't guess it from YouTube's homepage.
• Al Jazeera English in talks with US cable prov ...
  Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk: Al Jazeera English in talks with US cable providers  —  Al Anstey, managing director of Al Jazeera English, is holding talks with US cable providers about carrying the network in the US for the first time.  —  According to a release from Al Jazeera, the first ...
• LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY ANNOUNCES WINNERS OF 20 ...
  Long Island University: LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY ANNOUNCES WINNERS OF 2010 GEORGE POLK AWARDS IN JOURNALISM  —  Rolling Stone honored for its history-making dispatch on the war in Afghanistan;  —  Associated Press wins for its extraordinary coverage of the Gulf oil spill  —  Long Island Universit ...
• Syrian blogger jailed as social media helps pr ...
  Nathan Olivarez-Giles / L.A. Times Tech Blog: Syrian blogger jailed as social media helps protestors in Middle East  —  A veteran blogger in Syria was jailed Sunday — yet another example of just how important to demonstrators, and threatening to government regimes, the Internet can be.  —  The ...

Chemtrail News

• Chemtrail cloud CREATION - Chemtrail ...
  Saturday Feb 19 2011 was GORGEOUS ALL DAY. Not a cloud or chemtrail or contrail in the sky. Smelled like sweet fresh dew. Sunday morning it was also just as ...chemtruth.ning.com/forum/topics/chemtrail-cloud-creation
• Chemtrails Global Warming Geoengineerin ...
  Download Chemtrails, Global Warming, Geoengineering, Climate Change, Bats, Frogs, Bees LitZ~Bundle from Torrent Reactor torrents database or choose analog ...www.torrentreactor.net/.../Chemtrails-Global-Warming-Geoen...
• 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/

World News - Top Stories

• Justin Bieber To Donate Chopped Locks To ...
  Teen superstar Justin Bieber is donating his famous locks to charity after undergoing a makeover. The Baby hit-maker is...
• 'Kate Plus 8': Kate Gosselin shares 'drea ...
  After spending months and months trying to get her to appear on his show, "Kate Plus 8" star Kate Gosselin finally gave in Monday night and appeared on "Lopez Tonight." So how was the interview? More than anything, it was simply entertaining. First of all, Lopez actually gave Kate permissio ...
• Kiefer Sutherland officially signs on for ...
  It is official. After rumors surfaced that Kiefer Sutherland might be returning to television, there is word today that he has officially signed on to star in the new Fox drama, "Touch" which will air on Fox Channel 10 in Tempe in the fall. According...
• Kevin Costner interview: I had to stop ma ...
  Kevin Costner hasn't worked for four years because he became a father - three times over. He talks to John Hiscock about the pressures of parenthood and his new movie. 560 315 TelegraphPlayer-8317724 There are several very good reasons why Kevin Costner hasn't made a film for four years. Du ...
• Lady Gaga @ Madison Square Garden, 2.22.1 ...
  It's nice to see that Lady Gaga can still let loose. Though her “Monster Ball” show is tightly scripted and has been essentially the same for more than a year, she still managed some new moments at last night's performance at Madison Square Garden. For the New York native, playing for the h ...

no frakking consensus

• Bill McKibben Says It’s Urgent
  In the world inhabited by this environmental crusader, climate change is "a crisis that's breaking over our heads at this moment," ExxonMobil peddles petroleum the way drug dealers peddle heroin, and we "have no choice" but to turn our backs on fossil fuels.
• 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.

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 ...

Paul DeMaio

• Does Bikesharing Have a Future?
  Bikesharing programs have received increasing attention in recent years with initiatives to increase bike usage, better meet the demand of a more mobile public, and lessen the environmental impacts of our transportation activities. Originally a concept fr ...
• Five Things Every Mayor Should Know Before Sta ...
  Bike-sharing is a two-wheeled transit service — call it bike transit — which started in 1965 in Amsterdam and has since spread to nearly 250 communities around the world. The service allows individuals to rent a bike from one of many unattended stations, or ...

  Blacklisted News

• Libyan warplanes bomb Tripoli
  In a fresh wave of violent crackdown on protests which have rocked the North African nation for nearly a week, Libyan army warplanes have bombed the capital city of Tripoli.
• "CIA spy" Davis was giving nuclear bomb materi ...
  Double murder-accused US official Raymond Davis has been found in possession of top-secret CIA documents, which point to him or the feared American Task Force 373 (TF373) operating in the region, providing Al-Qaeda terrorists with "nuclear fissile material" and "biological agents," according to ...
• Great American War Machine Rolls On Under Obam ...
• Rothschilds Stage Revolutions in Tunisia and E ...
• SEC Charges Seven in Global Warming Pump-and-D ...
  The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a group of seven individuals who perpetrated a fraudulent pump-and-dump scheme in the stock of a sham company that purported to provide products and services to fight global warming.

The Intelligence Daily

• IntelFilter — February 16, 2011
  February 16, 1991: Nicaraguan Contras leader Enrique Bermúdez is assassinated in Managua. Related:...
• Middle East Protests Continue
  By Stephen Lendman They continue in Egypt, Yemen, Algeria, Tunisia, and most recently in Iran and...
• Is “shale oil” the answer to “peak oil”?
  By Gail Tverberg According to the AP article: Companies are investing billions of dollars to get...
• IntelFilter — February 21, 2011
  Today in history, from Wikipedia: February 21, 1958 – The Peace symbol, commissioned by Campaign...
• Dissecting Japan’s New Defense Guidelines
  While Tokyo’s new defense guidelines don’t revise its ânon-nuclear principlesâ, lift...

My AntiWar

• ?Gaddafi Cares More for Himself and His Power ...
  The Libyan government faces international condemnation for a vicious assault on the growing uprising against the four-decade rule of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. On Monday, Libyan troops and pro-government mercenaries attacked a large demonstration in the capital of Tripoli. Armed forces hunted down ...
• ?Today is a Serious Showdown?: Thousands Occup ...
  The Wisconsin Assembly is set to begin debate today on Republican Governor Scott Walker?s plan to cut pay and eliminate collective bargaining rights for public employees. The unions have agreed to accept all of Walker’s proposed cuts, which would see them pay 12 percent of their health benefits ...
• Judge Convicted in Pennsylvania Kids-for-Cash ...
  A federal jury has found a former Pennsylvania judge guilty of participating in a so-called “kids-for-cash” scheme, in which he received money in exchange for sending juvenile offenders to for-profit youth jails over the years. Former Luzerne County Judge Mark Ciavarella, Jr. was convicted Frida ...
• Matt Taibbi: “Why Isn’t Wall Stree ...
  “Nobody goes to jail,? writes Matt Taibbi in the new issue of Rolling Stone magazine. ?This is the mantra of the financial-crisis era, one that saw virtually every major bank and financial company on Wall Street embroiled in obscene criminal scandals that impoverished millions and collectively d ...
• Labor Protests to Defend Collective Bargaining ...
  In Ohio, tens of thousands are expected to pour into the State Capitol of Columbus today for a rally against Senate Bill Five. The measure would require state employees to abandon collective bargaining, pay more toward health insurance premiums, and switch to a so-called “merit-based” pay system ...

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

• The West’s pillars of sand
  Summary: The three pillars upon which Western influence in the Middle East was built – a strong military presence, commercial ties and a string of dollar-dependent states – are crumbling. As a result, the Middle East that emerges in the weeks and months ahead may become much harder for the ...
• US and Iran could become strategic allies – wi ...
  Summary: india-iran Tighter sanctions and military threats haven't swayed Iran over its nuclear program. What the West really needs is genuine rapprochement – the kind that India is especially suited to facilitate. source: Christian Science Monitorread more
• WHITE HOUSE SUPPORT FOR MIDDLE EAST ‘UPRISINGS ...
  Summary: “Always and ever: Iran is the big play in the Middle East…Every regional decision has to be measured against the test: Is this moving us closer to—or further from—a positive change in the Iranian political system? That test should guide decisions about Bahrain, and about a lot mo ...
• Humiliation: The Catalyst for Arabs' Revolutio ...
  Summary: But like in Iran, humiliation also plays a catalyzing role in the unravelling of revolution. Since their independence, people in the Arab countries have been constantly humiliated, not least of all by their own despots. source: Huffington Postread more
• Iran, Syria and Iraq build pipeline to beat sa ...
  Summary: UPI reports how Iran is working with Iraq, Syria and Turkey to build a new gas pipeline in the region: "Despite tightening international economic sanctions, Iran is driving to boost its energy industry, including a natural gas pipeline to Iraq and Syria that may even run to southern ...

The Daily Galaxy

• Extreme Galaxies: Why are Some 300 Times Brigh ...
  Arp 220 is the closest galaxy to the Milly Way with an extreme luminosity, defined as being more than about 300 times that of our own galaxy. Some dramatic galaxies have values of luminosity ten times brighter still. Astronomers are...
• "The Extraterrestrial Silence" (Today's Most P ...
  "The idea that we are the only intelligent creatures in a cosmos of a hundred billion galaxies is so preposterous that there are very few astronomers today who would take it seriously. It is safest to assume therefore, that they...
• 'The Daily Galaxy' February Contest -Win a Fre ...
  Use it towards a purchase of an iPhone, iPad, Apple TV or Hundreds of Other Apple Products and Accessories. Users of Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Reddit, and StumbleUpon are invited to discover, review and share Daily Galaxy posts you love on...
• Get Your Daily Dose of Awe @The Daily Galaxy F ...
  Link & Share The Daily Galaxy Facebook Page
• Image of the Day: Great Blue Sand Dunes of Mar ...
  This is image of the Red Planet, snapped by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows blue sand dunes covering part of the Rabe crater, a 100-kilometre-diameter impact site in the planet's southern highlands. The dunes are an accumulation of basalt sands...

Natural News

• Nearly all drug trials scientifically invalid ...
  (NaturalNews) A new study in Science Translational Medicine has cast doubt over the scientific validity of nearly all randomized, double-blind placebo controlled studies involving pharmaceuticals used on human beings. It turns out that many pharmaceuticals only work because people expect them to ...
• Proposed new limits on vaccine exemptions: Are ...
  (NaturalNews) Health authorities around the country are set on further restricting vaccine exemption rights, probably due to the growing awareness of vaccine problems and increase in exemptions around the country. Currently, proposed laws in Washington State and New Jersey would limit the abilit ...
• The age-old struggle against vaccination: A re ...
  (NaturalNews) In the January 13, 2011 the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), slipped away from its historically solid scientific moorings with the printing of "The Age-Old Struggle against the anti-vaccinationists," by Poland and Jacobson. This reply is limited to just a few points; with so ...
• Why Wisconsin's economic protests will only sp ...
  (NaturalNews) What we're really seeing today with the union worker protests in Madison, Wisconsin is the collision of money desires with fiscal reality. Everywhere across the country, union workers want to take home more money. Across the board, from teachers and firemen to law enforcement offic ...
• With US running out of money, Obama turns on B ...
  (NaturalNews) In an effort to ease the overall budgetary burden in 2012 and reduce the federal deficit, the Obama administration has targeted Big Pharma by going after a few drug industry darling laws for alteration or extinction. The 12-year market exclusivity for patented, brand-name drugs, fo ...

Threat Level

• Book Excerpt: Kingpin — How One Hacker Took Ov ...
  Published Tuesday, the new book by Wired.com senior editor Kevin Poulsen tells the story of Max Vision, a white hat computer hacker who turned to the dark side. Among other things, Max stole credit card data — “dumps” — on millions of consumers, which he sold in bulk to a card counterfeiter nam ...
• Patriot Act Extension Lands On Obama’s Desk
  The House forwarded legislation Thursday to the president extending through May three controversial Patriot Act spy measures that were set to expire at month’s end. The 279-143 vote came two days after the Senate approved the same language. Earlier in the week, the House had agreed to prolong th ...
• Cyberwar Issues Likely to Be Addressed Only Af ...
  When it comes to developing cyberwarfare policy, the U.S. will likely wait for a catastrophic event and then overreact, rather than plan ahead, said former intelligence chief Mike McConnell at the RSA Conference on Wednesday. McConnell was pessimistic that Congress and the public would get its ...
• Sony Threatens to Terminate Service of PS3 Jai ...
  Sony said Wednesday it would permanently block PlayStation 3 owners from the PlayStation Network if they are using jailbroken consoles. Access to what Sony describes as a “world of entertainment” will be “terminated permanently,” the Japanese entertainment concern announced. “To avoid this, cons ...
• Surveillance Footage and Code Clues Indicate S ...
  New clues about Stuxnet provide the strongest evidence yet that the superworm targeted a nuclear enrichment plant in Iran, according to a new report. The clues come from surveillance cameras installed by international investigators at the Natanz enrichment plant in Iran – which show Iranian wor ...

PERRspectives : Blog

• Red State Socialists' Attack on Wisconsin Back ...
  For years, red state socialism - the steady, one-way flow of taxpayer dollars from Washington DC to solidly Republican states - has been one of the defining traits of American federalism. Which is why the conservative charge that Wisconsin schools - and their unionized teachers - received $670 ...
• The Republican Betrayal of the Elderly Begins
  Perhaps more than any other factor, the overwhelming Republican midterm triumph was fueled by the elderly. Voters 65 and over, the only age group to support John McCain in 2008, boosted their share of the turnout to 21% from 16% two years earlier. Nationwide, Republicans won seniors by a stagg ...
• Republican Myths in the GOP War on Public Empl ...
  In just the latest front in the perpetual GOP campaign to divide and conquer, Republicans are trying to get Americans to turn on their neighbors who work for government and unions on each other. Of course, the Republican assault on collective bargaining rights for public employees in Wisconsin, ...
• For Beck and Fox News, It's the End Times All ...
  Over the past several days, Fox News host Glenn Beck has explained that the unrest sweeping the Middle East augurs a New World Order jointly pursued by a combination of George Soros, radical Islamists and communist unions, all aided, apparently, by Google. But on Thursday, Beck literally turned ...
• Will GOP Push Ryan's Plan to Ration Medicare?
  On Tuesday, House Budget Committee Paul Ryan blasted Obama budget chief Jack Lew over entitlement spending, declaring "why did you duck?" But for their part, Republicans have yet to offer their own plan for addressing the fiscal health of Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. While Majority ...

Blackspot News Feed

• Madison Protests May Spark a New Era of Protes ...
  by Billy Wharton Guest Writer Dandelion Salad Examiner.com February 17, 2011 February 18, 2011 Protests are erupting across Wisconsin in response to Governor Scott Walker’s proposal to strip public employees of the right to collectively bargain in order to impose a severe austerity package. The ...
• Night Music: Talvihorros
• Democratic Senators Leave State to Stall Bill ...
  Madison, Wisconsin - In a continuing attempt to stall a vote on the anti-union bill proposed by Gov. Scott Walker, the 14 Democratic senators have left the state with state troopers dispatched by Republican Senate leaders on their heels. Without at least one additional senator in the chamber, th ...
• House Votes to Defund Planned Parenthood, Jack ...
  Editors Note: Update, the house voted to defund Planned Parenthood.  Since gaining the upper-hand in the House, Republicans have led what Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) called “the most comprehensive and radical assault on women’s health in our lifetime.” read more
• Security Forces in Bahrain Open Fire on Mourne ...
  Manama, Bahrain - Government forces opened fire on hundreds of mourners marching toward Pearl Square Friday, sending people running away in panic amid the boom of concussion grenades. But even as the people fled, at least one helicopter sprayed fire on them and a witness reported seeing mourners ...

Consortium News

• Ray McGovern Bloodied at Clinton Talk
  Ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern was roughed up by Hillary Clinton's security as she hailed peaceful protests, notes Robert Parry. February 17, 2011
• The Back Story on Iran's Clashes
  The U.S. media presents the new street protests in Iran as a morality play, but they are more complex, reports Robert Parry. February 17, 2011
• How Egypt's Revolt Challenges Israel
  Egypt's ouster of longtime dictator Hosni Mubarak tests Israel's policies toward the Palestinians, writes Lawrence Davidson. February 16, 2011
• Tear Down This Reagan Mythology
  The idol worship of Ronald Reagan has wildly exaggerated his role in "winning" the Cold War, observes Ivan Eland. February 16, 2011
• Short-Counting the Taliban
  Gen. David Petraeus wins out in a struggle over counting the number of Taliban fighters in Afghanistan, writes Gareth Porter. February 15, 2011

CounterPunch

• :
• Alexander Cockburn : Autumn of the Driveler
• Carl Ginsburg : Life in the Low to Mid-Teens
• Alexander Cockburn : Loose-Lip McChrystal Did ...
• Alexander Cockburn : He Should Have Kept His M ...

Institute for Middle East Understanding

• Mubarak name easier to erase than his legacy ...
  It was easy enough to rename Mubarak Children's Hospital the Al Tahrir Hospital in Gaza. Not so easy is the task of managing patients who need to cross over to the Egyptian side for t ...
• EU-Israel Cooperation (aic)
• Amnesty International says U.S. Veto of UNSC R ...
  Amnesty International Friday condemned the United States' veto of a United Nations Security Council resolution reaffirming that Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territ ...
• Israel: US Veto on Settlements Undermines Inte ...
  The US veto of a proposed United Nations Security Council Resolution calling upon Israel to end illegal policies that promote settlements in the occupied West Bank, including East Jer ...
• A false friend in the White House (Stephen M. ...
  The real reason for Obama's misguided decision was the profound influence of the Israel lobby. Indeed, few observers have missed this simple and obvious fact. One can only conclude th ...

Water - AlterNet

• California Bill Brings Rainwater to Your Toile ...
  A bill has been introduced in California that would allow landowners to install rain barrel systems and not only capture water for outdoor use, but for indoor use as well.
• Republicans Launch Sneak Attack on Clean Water ...
  The GOP's CR budget bill includes language that would deny funding to the EPA to implement guidelines needed to enforce the Clean Water Act.
• Republicans Are Using the Budget to Wage a Mas ...
  Our water, air, food and public health are all being sacrificed to enrich the Right's corporate cronies.
• Vision: Fight for a World Without Coal
  Philosopher Wendell Berry helped stop the building of the Louisville International Jetport, the damming of the Red River Gorge, and the nuclear power plant on the Ohio River.
• Chevron Guilty of Oil Contamination in Amazon: ...
  This case could also set a precedent for corporate accountability, transforming the way Big Oil operates around the globe.

Public Citizen in Texas

• France reports incidents at 8 nuclear plants
  According to the Associated Press, France, the most nuclear-dependent country in the world, with over 75 percent of its electricity coming from nuclear reactors, recently reported incidents at 8 of their 59 reactor units. French authorities say they are having to replace faulty metal bearings in ...
• NRC revising classification of low-level radio ...
  Reprint of NRC notice No. 11-027 February 16, 2011 PUBLIC MEETING FEB. 24 TO DISCUSS REVISIONS TO KEY NRC DOCUMENT ON CLASSIFICATION OF LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will hold a public meeting Feb. 24 in Rockville, Md., to discuss potential revisions to a key docu ...
• PLEASE MAKE ONE CALL THIS MORNING FOR HEALTH A ...
  We are truly in danger of losing the coal ash fight because of two anti-coal ash amendments tacked onto the House budget legislation.  We anticipate that the first amendment (No. 10) will be on the floor THIS AFTERNOON. These two amendments, Amendment 10 offered by Congressman Cliff Stearns (R-F ...
• Which power plants caused the rolling blackout ...
  ERCOT just released an updated list of all of the power plants that were not operating Feb 2, contributing to the power shortages that caused the rolling blackouts.  That document is here, but we present the data below for your convenience. Notice a trend? Natural gas and Lignite coal were the m ...
• The budget crisis, money in politics, and the ...
  The protests in Wisconsin. The passage of the CR in the House in the dead of night over the weekend. And the continued debate over how to balance the Texas $26 billion budget gap. We kept getting told there are no sacred cows- that all have to share in the burden and pain of budget [...]

Unexplained Mysteries

• Planet could be unrecognizable by 2050
  A growing population relying on fewer natural resources could make Earth unrecognizable in 40 years. As the Earth's population grows and our demand on...
• Loudest cat purrs as loud as a jet plane
  A cat called Smokey has raised eyebrows with her deafening purr that can reach 92 decibels. The cat's owner claims that the purring can drown out pret...
• Gulf of Mexico floor is now devoid of life
  A scientist recently revisited the Gulf floor to search for oil consuming life and found none whatsoever. In the summer of 2010, marine scientist Sama...
• 500m planets in our galaxy could support life
  Data from NASA's Kepler telescope suggests there are 50 billion planets in the Milky Way. To date Kepler has discovered 1,235 planets with 54 of those...
• DNA test to help solve Earhart mystery
  Researchers are hoping to determine whether a bone found on Nikumaroro is from the famed aviator. To do this DNA samples are to be collected from the ...

Grassroots

• Anti-violence campaign spreads through Central ...
  guate-women.jpg In Central America, a new campaign to stop violence against women is gaining momentum. Launched by the Via Campesina International (the Via), the campaign is aimed at changing not only the attitudes of men towards women, bu ...
• Final Declaration from the World Assembly of S ...
  wsf-dakar4.jpg From to Tunisia to Egypt to Senegal, African social movements are reclaiming their political space. As people demonstrated – and celebrated – in the streets of Cairo, thousands of participants gathered for the World Social F ...
• New Scramble for Africa
  mozambique200811-small.jpg It is the tradition at World Social Forums (WSF) to focus a considerable amount of time, energy, resources and attention on issues faced by people in the host region and country. The 2011 World Social Forum in ...
• Peasants from La Via Campesina join the World ...
  wsf-dakar6.jpg �read more
• At work: Grassroots International’s human righ ...
  2010_brazil_site_visit_046.jpg read more

Climate

• Tar Sands Row Threatens Canada-EU Trade Deal: ...
  Source:� Reuters Canada has threatened to scrap a trade deal with the European Union if the EU persists with plans that would block imports of Canada's highly polluting tar sands, according to EU sources.
• U.S. Sees Major Emitters Setting Own Climate G ...
  Source:� Reuters Major greenhouse gas emitters should set voluntary curbs on emissions for the time being since a U.N. climate treaty looks out of reach in 2011, the U.S. climate envoy said on Monday.
• Ethanol Execs Fear U.S. Budget Cuts to Hurt Gr ...
  Source:� Reuters Budget cuts by Congress and fresh fears about food security are among many obstacles threatening growth of U.S. ethanol, according to industry leaders.
• Natural Gas Big, Thriving and Growing Across W ...
  Source:� Register-Herald Fracking in the Marcellus shale is hogging the limelight in this legislative session in West Virginia, eclipsing a thriving and growing natural gas industry across the entire state.
• 50 Million 'Environmental Refugees' by 2020, E ...
  Source:� AFP Fifty million "environmental refugees" will flood into the global north by 2020, fleeing food shortages sparked by climate change, experts warned at a major science conference that ended Monday.

GreenBiz

• AMD Rethinks Green Goals After Restructuring
  AMD's carbon footprint shrank 72 percent after it transferred the bulk of its manufacturing business to a supplier.
• Major Railroad Buys $15M Worth of Plastic Rail ...
  �A major railroad in the United States has signed up to buy $15 million worth of recycled plastic railroad ties over the coming years.
• RecycleMatch Mixes eBay and Craigslist with On ...
  �RecycleMatch updated its web-based service this month to make getting rid of trash a mix of eBay and Craigslist.
• Water Footprinting Makes a Splash
  Water security is becoming a strategic issue as companies increasingly understand how looming crises will affect business operations, from manufacturing to markets.
• More Companies Now Willing to Pay Extra for Gr ...
  Increasingly, corporate real estate executives say they consider sustainability when making decisions about locations and that they are willing to pay more to lease green office space, according to recent research.

Reuters Global

• Guest contribution:Report from an eye-witness ...
  A guest contribution from Lisa Goldman, a Tel Aviv based journalist, who interviewed an eye-witness in Tripoli
• On U.S.-Taliban talks, look at 2014 and work b ...
  Any talks between the U.S. and the Taliban will be a long haul. Consider what might be possible in 2014 and work back."
• UNsensational? Five more years of Ban Ki-moon
  It's hard to find a delegate to the United Nations who despises U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. But it's even harder to find someone who thinks he has the gravitas and charisma of his Nobel Peace Prize-winning predecessor Kofi Annan.
• Indian minister plays musical speeches at UN c ...
  Those who spend much of their working week listening to speeches at the United Nations might be forgiven for thinking there's not much difference between most of them.
• ElBaradei: From nuclear diplomat to Cairo poli ...
  Egyptians have hardly embraced him since his return to the country, and Washington is deeply suspicious of the Nobel Prize winner, but don't write off Mohamed ElBaradei yet.

Booman Tribune

• Some Lame Thoughts on Revolution
  The loss of life is terrible, and the loss of stability is unsettling, and there are no assurances that the Arab World is headed for a better place, but there is a pretty good possibility that we will see a decrease in the threat of terrorism if people there begin to focus more on internal polit ...
• Whither Blogging?
  Is blogging dead? Do you blog less than you used to? Are you spending the majority of time using sites like Twitter and Facebook? I've tried to integrate social media with this site so I'm not stuck in 2005, but I don't get much out of Twitter and Facebook except tips for stuff to blog about, ...
• Libya is Teetering
  It's hard to credit every report out of Libya, but if even half of what is being reported is true, it looks very much like Muammar al-Gaddafi is soon going to be either hanging from a lamp post or flying to some luxurious exile. It also looks like his options for the locale of that luxurious ex ...
• President's Day Round-Up
  Even AdNags thinks the Republicans are exaggerating their mandate. You think? Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal is pretending that moderate Wisconsin Republicans are offering a reasonable compromise by sunsetting the loss of collective bargaining rights for public sector unions. The Hill rep ...
• Screwed So Long They Can't See Straight
  It seems like everyone is piling on public service unions, even some people who might surprise you. One of the common criticisms is that the unions have too much clout with politicians. If that is the case, then why are a bunch of newly-elected politicians trying to destroy them, and why do th ...

European Tribune

• Tuesday Open Thread
  Spill the beans...
• Libya - 22 February
  An open thread for updates and breaking news on the struggle in Libya and other...
• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch ...
  �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europe on this date in history:1882 - the Kingdom...
• Brand-new Monday Open Thread
  For the things that must be said....
• Libya
  Fighting goes on in Libya. There have been rumours (unconfirmed) of Gaddafi's flight. Use this...

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

• Global Angst, Celebrity Role Models, and the “ ...
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Tel Aviv University’s psychologist Dr. Carlo Strenger has an interesting theory on how social networking and celebrity role models are affecting today’s youth. With the “hot or not” comparison that social networking often engenders, paired with mass media attentio ...
• Is Facebook Making You Depressed? 3 Tips For C ...
  By Marta Rocha, MHCI Click here to contact Marta and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Do you spend hours of your day looking over the status updates of your Facebook friends? How do you feel after reading these updates? A recent study done by Jordan (2011) from the Stanford University in Calif ...
• Some Thoughts On Embracing Motherhood: Tips fo ...
  By Andrea Schneider, LCSW Postpartum Depression Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Andrea and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile I often hear the following from my new mom clients: â No one told me how hard motherhood would be. Why didn’t someone TELL me?â The tone is often indignan ...
• Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up
  A GoodTherapy.org Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up This week’s major psychotherapy and psychology news certainly had some themes: mental health becoming steadily more highly regarded and integrated in our institutions, online social networking, and the power of therapy to help ease pain. We ho ...
• Guided Imagery – A Simple yet Powerful Techniq ...
  By Traci Stein, PhD, MPH Complementary & Alternative Medicine Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Traci and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile “Guided imagery” is a technique in which a person is literally guided on a journey of the mind, usually with the purpose of enhancing positive ...

Mountaintop Removal

• Climate of Change on DVD, February 22 - Techno ...
  Technorati Climate of Change on DVD, February 22 Technorati Filmmaker Brian Hill visited West Virginia to document activists against mountaintop-removal mining. Ironically, many of the shots of desecrated and destroyed mountains are beautifully framed. We may not appreciate this method of coal ...
• One Week After Protest, Fights Against Mountai ...
  One Week After Protest, Fights Against Mountaintop Removal, EPA Continue WFPL A group of 14 protesters spent the weekend in Beshear's office protesting the surface mining technique commonly called Mountaintop Removal. The sit-in ended with the annual I Love Mountains Day rally in Frankfort on t ...
• Mountaintop Removal Protestors Occupy Kentucky ...
  Environment News Service Mountaintop Removal Protestors Occupy Kentucky Governor's Office Environment News Service The group, members of Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, gathered this morning at the office of the pro-coal governor, a Democrat, in an attempt to persuade Beshear to change his po ...
• Monday Roundup: Good Mainstreet News - Daily Y ...
  Daily Yonder Monday Roundup: Good Mainstreet News Daily Yonder Steve Beshear (center) meets with 20 Kentuckians, led by Silas House, who occupied his office to protest mountaintop removal mining. (Author Wendell Berry is to the right.) House wrote in the New York Times about why his group took ...
• Congressional Heroes Say No to Mountaintop Rem ...
  Congressional Heroes Say No to Mountaintop Removal Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) EPA's authority to curb mountaintop removal mining was no exception. As my colleague Jon Devine noted a few days ago, coal industry allies in Congress offered multiple amendments striking at EPA's abilit ...

Memeorandum

• Sen. Scott Brown says, 'I'm not a Tea Party me ...
  Michael O'Brien / The Hill: Sen. Scott Brown says, 'I'm not a Tea Party member,' welcomes GOP primary  —  “You're talking about being an ideologue?  If you're looking for one, I'm not it,” said Sen. Scott Brown.  —  Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) said he doesn't consider himself a member of the Tea ...
• Two-Thirds of Wisconsin Public-School 8th Grad ...
  Terence P. Jeffrey / CNSNews: Two-Thirds of Wisconsin Public-School 8th Graders Can't Read Proficiently—Despite Highest Per Pupil Spending in Midwest  —  (CNSNews.com) - Two-thirds of the eighth graders in Wisconsin public schools cannot read proficiently according to the U.S. Department of Ed ...
• No Daley on the Ballot as Chicago Votes for Ma ...
  ABCNEWS: No Daley on the Ballot as Chicago Votes for Mayor  —  No Daley on the ballot as Chicago voters choose a mayor almost certainly unlike any before  —  The campaign to replace Mayor Richard Daley has unfolded unlike any in Chicago's history, and almost certainly will end with a mayor unl ...
• 4 Americans on hijacked yacht dead off Somalia ...
  CBS News: 4 Americans on hijacked yacht dead off Somalia  —  U.S. Navy warship shadowing seized vessel takes action after gunshots are heard; 4 hostages apparently killed by captors, some pirates dead  —  The four Americans aboard a yacht hijacked by pirates off the coast of Somalia are dead.
• How Qaddafi Lost Libya (Andrew Solomon/News De ...
  Andrew Solomon / News Desk: How Qaddafi Lost Libya  —  It seemed unlikely that Libya, sandwiched between regime collapse in Tunisia and regime collapse in Egypt, could be untouched by the movement.  Qaddafi has had dominion over an increasingly malcontent country, and the citizens have been in ...

Energy & Environment News

• Green: U.P.S. Finds a Substitute for Diesel
  One challenge will be developing a national infrastructure for refueling.
• I.H.T. Special Report: Energy: Is Natural Gas ...
  It may be cleaner than oil or coal, but skeptics say it is still far from ideal and it may drain investments in better alternatives like wind and solar energy.
• I.H.T. Special Report: Energy: Singapore Looks ...
  The city-state is a center for oil trading in Asia, but it’s storage capacity is reaching its limits, leading it to create new spaces, like the Jurong caves.
• I.H.T. Special Report: Energy: Iraq Struggles ...
  The country's target of a fivefold increase in oil production this decade may be unrealistic give the hurdles that have to be cleared, but half that amount may be achievable.
• 3 States Challenge Federal Policy on Storing N ...
  Attorneys general from New York, Connecticut and Vermont expressed concern about the prospect of long-term storage of radioactive waste at plants.

5+ quakes - 7 days

• M 5.7, Volcano Islands, Japan region
  Tuesday, February 22, 2011 14:09:49 UTCWednesday, February 23, 2011 12:09:49 AM at epicenterDepth: 93.50 km (58.10 mi)
• M 5.4, Aisen, Chile
  Monday, February 21, 2011 05:38:51 UTCMonday, February 21, 2011 02:38:51 AM at epicenterDepth: 35.20 km (21.87 mi)
• M 5.9, near the east coast of the Kamchatka Pe ...
  Sunday, February 20, 2011 21:43:20 UTCMonday, February 21, 2011 09:43:20 AM at epicenterDepth: 9.60 km (5.97 mi)
• M 5.1, Flores Sea
  Sunday, February 20, 2011 17:52:53 UTCMonday, February 21, 2011 01:52:53 AM at epicenterDepth: 230.90 km (143.47 mi)
• M 5.0, South Sandwich Islands region
  Sunday, February 20, 2011 17:37:38 UTCSunday, February 20, 2011 03:37:38 PM at epicenterDepth: 23.60 km (14.66 mi)

China Dialogue

• Towards sustainable capitalism
  The effort to reconcile climate economics with market forces has so far stalemated, but Jonathon Porritt and David Bent say there is a sustainable business model that works.The world’s financial markets are still very fragile, with economic recovery in Europe and the United States tentative and ...
• “Growth can’t go on”
  To have any hope of protecting Earth’s resources, we must first abandon our obsession with economic expansion, argues Viki Johnson.From birth to puberty a hamster doubles its weight each week. If, then, instead of levelling-off in maturity as animals do, the hamster continued to grow at the same ...
• How to make China happy
  China’s newfound focus on well-being will be useless without wider political reform, writes Tang Hao, as we continue our special series on happiness.As China’s growth figures have rocketed, criticism of the country’s “GDP first” approach has also been rising. That criticism is now starting to in ...
• The pursuit of happiness
  Does economic growth improve our lives? Are there better ways to measure welfare? How do GDP and the environment interact? Opening chinadialogue’s week-long series on well-being economics, Sam Geall talks to Cormac Cullinan, attorney, campaigner and author of a manifesto for earth justice.“Are y ...
• Paper protection in western China
  Fragmented by the highways and railways of Xinjiang’s development drive, two nature reserves have come to symbolise the eroding worth of China’s protected areas, writes Sun Danping.At the Kalamaili Ungulate Nature Reserve in Xinjiang, China’s westernmost region, a group of Mongolian wild ass, or ...

AlterNet Top Stories

• Michele vs. Michelle: Breastfeeding Wars Rise ...
  Written by Amie Newman for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice. You may have taken a break from the news about Wisconsin, Egypt and the budget battles to read about the fabricated “debate” over breastfeeding supplies. I write “fabricated” bec ...
• Will the House of Saud Be the Next to Go Down?
  Protests in Bahrain could spill over to Saudi Arabia, giving the nation's unemployed youths reasons to dream of following the winds of the new Egypt.
• From Cairo to Madison: Hope and Solidarity are ...
  Solidarity is, indeed, a beautiful thing. It is a way we show our oneness with all of humanity; it is a way to reaffirm our own humanity.
• Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut: Paul ...
  An interview with co-founder of the Yippies and legendary satirist Krassner on his new book and his recent forays into journalism and activism.
• The Wisconsin Uprising
  Step one: Create your own budget crisis by giving out tax cuts to the privileged. Step two: “Solve” your crisis by attacking teachers and other public servants. (Cross-posted from the “Arguing the World” blog at Dissent magazine.) That’s how Republicans do it these days, folks. Certainly, that’s ...

Threat Level

• Book Excerpt: Kingpin — How One Hacker Took Ov ...
  Published Tuesday, the new book by Wired.com senior editor Kevin Poulsen tells the story of Max Vision, a white hat computer hacker who turned to the dark side. Among other things, Max stole credit card data — “dumps” — on millions of consumers, which he sold in bulk to a card counterfeiter nam ...
• Patriot Act Extension Lands On Obama’s Desk
  The House forwarded legislation Thursday to the president extending through May three controversial Patriot Act spy measures that were set to expire at month’s end. The 279-143 vote came two days after the Senate approved the same language. Earlier in the week, the House had agreed to prolong th ...
• Cyberwar Issues Likely to Be Addressed Only Af ...
  When it comes to developing cyberwarfare policy, the U.S. will likely wait for a catastrophic event and then overreact, rather than plan ahead, said former intelligence chief Mike McConnell at the RSA Conference on Wednesday. McConnell was pessimistic that Congress and the public would get its ...
• Sony Threatens to Terminate Service of PS3 Jai ...
  Sony said Wednesday it would permanently block PlayStation 3 owners from the PlayStation Network if they are using jailbroken consoles. Access to what Sony describes as a “world of entertainment” will be “terminated permanently,” the Japanese entertainment concern announced. “To avoid this, cons ...
• Surveillance Footage and Code Clues Indicate S ...
  New clues about Stuxnet provide the strongest evidence yet that the superworm targeted a nuclear enrichment plant in Iran, according to a new report. The clues come from surveillance cameras installed by international investigators at the Natanz enrichment plant in Iran – which show Iranian wor ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

• Flamboyant Gaddafi fights for survival
  LONDON (Reuters) - With his penchant for bedouin tents and heavily armed female bodyguards, along with a readiness to execute his opponents, Muammar Gaddafi has cut a disturbing figure as Libya's leader for more than 40 years.
• Factbox: What did CIA contractor Davis do in P ...
  (Reuters) - Conspiracy theories swirl around the case of Raymond Davis, a CIA contractor being held in Pakistan for shooting dead two men, but Pakistani police reports appear to support his account that he was the target of armed robbers.
• China official warns of domestic unrest and "h ...
  BEIJING (Reuters) - The Chinese government faces a turbulent time of domestic unrest and challenges from "hostile Western forces" that it will fight with more sophisticated controls, a Communist Party law-and-order official said.
• Special Report: Al Jazeera's news revolution
  DOHA (Reuters) - A journalist throws open the wide front door of Al Jazeera's Doha headquarters, cell phone pressed against his ear. "They were arrested last night," he bellows into his phone. "We can't get through to the producers. All the material was confiscated, and some of the equipment was ...
• New Jersey mayors hold their breath over state ...
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has built a national reputation as a fiscal conservative, but New Jersey mayors say they worry a $10.5 billion budget gap will be closed at their expense.

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