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Thomas Paine

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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

22 February - RSS SnapShot! Pt 3

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IntelNews

  • News you may have missed #478
    Israel and Chile collaborated to spy on Iran and Venezuela. Korean spies broke into Indonesian delegation's hotel room. High-ranking Libyan pilots defect to Malta. Continue reading →
  • American held in Pakistan is acting CIA statio ...
    A British and a Pakistani newspaper have confirmed that an American diplomat, who is being held in Pakistan for killing two armed men in Lahore, is in reality an employee of the Central Intelligence Agency. Continue reading →
  • News you may have missed #477 (Germany edition ...
    German ex-foreign minister in spat with ex-CIA director. German spy chief claims Mubarak to stay in Egypt [unconfirmed]. Austrian on trial in Germany on charges of spying for Russia. Continue reading →
  • Colin Powell wants answers over fake Iraq inte ...
    Regular readers of this blog will not be surprised by recent news that the Iraqi defector whose information helped build the Bush Administrationâs case for invading Iraq in 2003, has admitted he lied about Saddam Husseinâs alleged weapons of mass destruction. Continue reading →
  • US denies smuggling spy equipment into Argenti ...
    The United States has denied charges by Argentine officials that it tried to smuggle espionage equipment into the South American country under the pretext of transporting training supplies for Argentine Federal Police. The charges were leveled on Thursday, after Argentine customs officials condu ...

War is a Crime.org

  • Charlottesville--Right Now: David Swanson join ...
    2.21.11 Best-selling author David Swanson joins Coy to discuss the labor unrest in Wisconsin. Be sure to check out his most recent book War is a Lie. �Standard Podcast [14:56m]: Hide Player | Play in Popup | Download (21) read more
  • Frontline: Gigi's Revolution - Egypt
    22 February 2011 - Her family is part of the Egyptian elite, but 24-year-old Gigi Ibrahim says she's fighting for her country's future. With thousands following her Twitter feed, Gigi has become something of a celebrity in Cairo's Tahrir Square. In this video, we see her attempts to convince her ...
  • Waging War on Chicago Workers
    Waging War on Chicago Workers - by Stephen Lendman In Washington, Obama, Democrats and Republicans are doing it. In Wisconsin and other states, so are Governor Scott Walker, other governors, and mayors across America - planning major social benefits cuts and other ways to address budget shortfal ...
  • From Egypt to Madison
  • The Security Budget vs. the Necessities of Ame ...
    By Kevin Zeese President Obama and the Congress have taken 66% of discretionary spending in the federal budget off the table – the Security Budget – while proposing a freeze to the rest of the budget and deep cuts to some programs that provide necessities for the American people. His budget crys ...

Grist - News

  • Fish consumption at all time high, says U.N. a ...
    by Agence France-Presse. ROME -- Fish consumption reached record levels in 2010 and world stocks need to be urgently rebuilt, experts at the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said in a report Monday. "The contribution of fish to global diets has reached a record of almost 17 kil ...
  • Bordeaux vineyards go organic, slowly but sure ...
    by Agence France-Presse. BORDEAUX, France -- Two historical Bordeaux wine estates have gone green, breaking a long resistance to organic viticulture amongst the region's elite producers. "Still in 2011, there are people who do not trust in the fact that it is possible to grow organic in Bor ...
  • U.N. Chief Ban Ki-moon shifts focus from clima ...
    by Agence France-Presse. LONDON -- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is shifting his focus away from involvement in international climate change talks and toward new areas in the fight against global warming. Ban is to redirect his efforts from trying to push forward the international clim ...
  • New Senate bill aims to avoid next oil spill
    by Agence France-Presse. WASHINGTON -- Senators plan to introduce in the coming weeks new legislation aiming to prevent another disastrous oil spill like last year's massive gusher in the Gulf of Mexico, Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) said Wednesday. A similar bill that would revise offshore ...
  • Big cities are not always the biggest polluter ...
    by Agence France-Presse. WASHINGTON -- Big cities like New York, London, and Shanghai send less pollution into the atmosphere per capita than places like Denver and Rotterdam, said a study released Tuesday. Researchers examined data from 100 cities in 33 nations for clues about which were ...

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Suzie-Q

  • How the Democrats Killed Roosevelt’s Dream of ...
    By Robert Scheer | TruthDig | Posted on Feb 17, 2011 Editor’s note: The following excerpt from Robert Scheer’s book “The Great American Stickup” details the perversion of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. This is especially relevant given news that the Obama administration is abandoning those institut ...
  • Common Sense
    By Kathy Malloy | OpEdNews | February 21, 2011 at 18:26:30 There’s a lesson to be learned, Truthseekers, from our former countrymen in Great Britain. The media here isn’t covering this, for obvious reasons, but England is experiencing a very different kind of Tea Party uprising and we would do w ...
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    Bahrain/Libya Update Firedoglake- By: David Dayen Monday February 21, 2011 7:50 am Let’s play a little catchup on the two most deadly flashpoints in the Arab uprising right now. In Bahrain, scene of a dastardly attack on protesters while they slept in Pearl Square, the attempt at repression back ...
  • The Fortune Behind Scott Walker’s Union-Bustin ...
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Solari

  • Happy President’s Day!
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  • Thousands of Protesters Surround Wis. Capitol
    Budget fight wages on as nearly 70,000 show up for peaceful rally in Madison An estimated 70,000 protesters converged on the Wisconsin Capitol on Saturday, with supporters of Republican efforts to scrap the union rights of state workers facing off against pro-union activists. Supporters of Rep ...
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Insurgency Watch - Newswire

  • Times Scare
    ISLAMABAD–The apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job ...
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  • Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of ...
    BBC News Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women Chicago Tribune Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own Taliban insurgency? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line of thinking must ... Vietnam syndrome has begun in AfghanistanSri Lank ...
  • Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United P ...
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Sideways News

  • Could you be a 10:10 community champion?
    The Guardian Newspaper and Franny Armstrong, through the Guardian 10:10 campaign, challenge organisations and individuals to cut their carbon footprint by 10%.
  • Brit mums strict about eco-chores
    Families in the UK are increasingly likely to be nagged about doing eco-chores, a new study conducted on behalf of the Energy Saving Trust has revealed.
  • UK venue offers rainforest weddings
    Getting married in a luscious rainforest has never been easier or more eco-friendly, according to the Eden Project.
  • Battery recycling 'too difficult'
    The European Recycling Platform (ERP) reports that while only a third of households at present recycle batteries, four out of five said they would do so if it was made easier.
  • 10 green resolutions to save you money
    By taking green steps at home, you can save money and make life easier. Being smart about waste, consumption and resources won't only win you the thanks of forthcoming generations: you'll feel the financial benefit immediately. 1. Make money from old electronics As your electronic goods become o ...

Fabius Maximus

  • More invisible signs of looming US inflation!
    Summary:  The inflationista’s are (again) hysterically sounding alarms about looming US inflation.  Or even hyperinflation.  Let’s review the data.  Can we see serious inflation?  No.  These fears are to a large extent fanned for political purposes.  Left and Right both see that America ...
  • The Marine Corps Today, Tonight, and Tomorrow
    Summary:  G.I. Wilson and H. Thomas Hayden explain why America needs a Marine Corps.  As GW said before, “The USMC’s future lies its creative intellect, professionalism in the study and application of maneuver warfare, and delivering what the Nation needs post in a crisis be it humanitarian reli ...
  • Updates on the Raymond Davis affair
    Summary:  A follow-up to The Raymond Davis incident shows that we’re often ignorant because we rely on the US news media.  Much interesting news.  Little of it appears in the US newspapers; our leaders prefer that we remain ignorant.  How sad that the people of Pakistan know more about this stor ...
  • The Pentagon Labyrinth: 10 Short Essays to Hel ...
    Summary:   Here is an announcement by Chuck Spinney of a new book of interest to anyone who desires to better understand American’s defense apparatus — the largest investment ever made by our government. It is my pleasure to announce the publication of The Pentagon Labyrinth: 10 Short Essays ...
  • The Raymond Davis incident shows that we&#8217 ...
    Summary:   Here we have another case study in disinformation.  The story of Raymond Davis (US covert operative in Pakistan) illustrates how our mainstream media and experts collude to help the government shape our view of the world.  It’s important that the sheep of America receive distorte ...

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  • In Yemen, Leader Says He’ll Talk, but Not Quit
    NYTimes – SANA, Yemen â President Ali Abdullah Saleh, looking shaken at a news conference here on Monday, said he would not give in to the demands of protesters who have sought his ouster during 10 days of sustained demonstrations around Yemen. âWhy do they want to return to chaos?â he said, ...
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  • Suicide bomber kills 30 in Afghanistan
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  • EU farming subsidies for the Royal family must ...
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The Progressive Realist

  • From LSE to the ICC for Qaddafi's Son?
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TAPPED - The American Prospect

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Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

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Newshoggers - AfPak

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    By Derrick Crowe Exactly one year ago, on February 13, 2010, the U.S.-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan launched the first major military operations enabled by President Obama's 30,000 troop increase. President Obama and the high priests of counterinsurgency warfa ...
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Water Wars

  • New Reservoirs Proposed to Help Ease Water War ...
    Local governments or Governor Nathan Deal's administration could contract with private partners to build reservoirs in Georgia under legislation proposed by state lawmakers.
  • Summit Series Films Continue
    KENT—Two more films remain in the 2011 Kent Environmental Summit film series. Feb. 15 brings “Blue Gold: World Water Wars,” which describes the privatization of water in an era when water is becoming more and more scarce.
  • Senator says water wars Georgia's #1 issue
    Senator Saxby Chambliss says Governor Nathan Deal's federal perspective will help in Georgia's water issue.
  • Summit Series Films Continue
    KENT—Two more films remain in the 2011 Kent Environmental Summit film series. Feb. 15 brings “Blue Gold: World Water Wars,” which describes the privatization of water in an era when water is becoming more and more scarce.
  • Summit Series Films Continue
    KENT—Two more films remain in the 2011 Kent Environmental Summit film series. Feb. 15 brings “Blue Gold: World Water Wars,” which describes the privatization of water in an era when water is becoming more and more scarce.

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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 ...

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on Government Oversight

  • Morning Smoke: New Oil Spill Report Lays Blame ...
    Where there's smoke, there's fire. POGO's Morning Smoke is a collection of the previous day's investigations, scoops, and opinions related to the world of government oversight. Have a story you'd like to see included? Contact POGO's blog editor. BP knew...
  • Pentagon Fighting Anti-Insourcing Proposal
    By Scott Amey Yesterday, POGO blogged about Congressman Pete Sessions' (R-TX) proposed amendment to the Defense Appropriations Act (H.R. 1), which would prevent the government from bringing certain outsourced jobs in-house regardless of whether or not the insourcing would result...
  • The $20 Cup of Coffee
    Yesterday, POGO Facebook pal Scott Kuechenmeister related an experience from his work as a contractor in Afghanistan that would make most taxpayers cringe: Scott posted the comment on POGO's Facebook wall. Feel free to join the discussion and "like" our...
  • Morning Smoke: ArmorGroup Still Guarding Kabul ...
    Where there's smoke, there's fire. POGO's Morning Smoke is a collection of the previous day's investigations, scoops, and opinions related to the world of government oversight. Have a story you'd like to see included? Contact POGO's blog editor. Vodka Butt-Shot...
  • POGO Joins Groups Urging Congress to Ensure Ad ...
    In a letter sent to Congress yesterday, POGO joined a coalition of national, state and local groups raising serious concerns about the funding cuts to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) proposed last...

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End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Be Heard on March 3rd: No Stealth Fighters
    Join us on March 3rd in a national day of action to tell Stephen Harper and your Member of Parliament No Stealth Fighters ! Ahead of the budget and possible elections, it’s more important than ever to be heard and voice your opposition to this multi-billion dollar purchase. The goal of the campa ...
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    Thank you for joining the campaign! Check your inbox shortly for an important message to share with your contacts. Please take a second to follow us on Facebook:
  • Campaign Tools: Be Heard on March 3rd – No Ste ...
    Add Campaign Tools to your Website or Blog To add the petition and the banners to your site select the entire code on top of the object you want to appear on your site. Then copy and paste the code into your webpage or blog. Campaign Petition – Printed version (pdf) Leaflet: 10 reasons the [...] ...
  • Nonviolence guru cited in Mideast revolutions
    Credit for the “people power” revolutions that have swept longstanding despots out of power in the Middle East and now threaten many similar regimes goes first and foremost to the courageous people in those countries who have taken it upon themselves, often at great personal risk, to demand the ...
  • MP proposes nuke-free Canadian Arctic
    Yukon Member of Parliament Larry Bagnell has proposed a private member’s bill to make the Canadian Arctic a nuclear-weapon-free zone. Bill C-629, introduced on February 15th, would would make it a criminal offense to “possess, manufacture, test, store, transport or deploy a nuclear weapon in the ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Harmful Medical Devices Get OK Too Easily
    February 15th, 2011 Chicago Tribune By: Lindsey Tanner Most medical devices recalled in recent years because of deaths or life-threatening problems were cleared for approval under less stringent regulations that don’t require human testing, an analysis found. The report comes as the Food and Dru ...
  • The Simple Blood Test That Spots Cancer Six Ye ...
    February 15th, 2011 DailyMail.co.uk By: Fiona MacRae A simple blood test to spot cancer up to six years before a tumour forms could be available in Britain next year. The brainchild of a Nottingham University cancer specialist, it could provide vital early warning of lung and breast cancers – di ...
  • Misleading Study To Scare You About Calcium Su ...
    February 15th, 2011 ABC News By: Todd Neale Calcium supplementation — without giving vitamin D at the same time — appears to increase the risk of myocardial infarction, a new review of past research has shown. Among studies of patients with or at risk of osteoporosis, those who received calcium ...
  • Leading Experts Rethinking Food Allergy Causes
    February 15th, 2011 ParentDish.com By: Mary Beth Sammons The perplexing world of childhood food allergies is enough to make any parent break out in hives. But conventional wisdom is now being questioned when it comes to bottle-feeding whole milk to babies or keeping toddlers away from the peanut ...
  • Could a Pipeline Explode in Your Community?
    February 15th, 2011 AOL News By: Laura Parker The apparent gas line explosion in Allentown, Pa., that killed five people is certain to refocus attention to the 2 million miles of natural gas pipelines that lie under neighborhoods and subdivisions from coast to coast. The Allentown explosion came ...

Pambazuka News

  • Haiti: Government says Aristide can come home
    Haiti's government has said it was ready to issue a new passport to former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, which would allow him to return after almost seven years in exile in South Africa. 'The government will give assurances that as soon as it re...
  • Cuba: Cuban organisation fights for release of ...
    Enrique Roman, first vice-president of the Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), has underlined that the movement in solidarity with Cuba prioritises in 2011 the struggle for the release of the five Cuban antiterrorist heroes incarc...
  • Haiti: Returned ex-dictator Duvalier charged
    Haiti on Tuesday briefly detained former dictator Jean-Claude 'Baby Doc' Duvalier, back from exile in France, and charged him with corruption, theft and abuses of power allegedly committed during his 15-year rule. While a noisy crowd of his supporter...
  • Break the Silence Congo week
    The purpose of the Break the Silence Congo Week is to raise consciousness about the devastating situation in the Congo and mobilize support on behalf of the people of the Congo. Break the Silence Congo Week will take place from Sunday 17 October to S...
  • Black Congress to convene in D.C. to set black ...
    As criticisms of President Obama’s war and economic policies mount, the group that first questioned his intentions regarding the concerns of the black community is holding a national Congress to define a black agenda to serve the interests of black p...

War in Context

  • Intervention in Libya
    Marc Lynch writes: The unfolding situation in Libya has been horrible to behold. No matter how many times we warn that dictators will do what they must to stay in power, it is still shocking to see the images of brutalized civilians which have been flooding al-Jazeera and circulating on the int ...
  • Libya uprising
    In one of the latest developments, Reuters reports that Libya’s justice minister has resigned in protest at “excessive use of violence against protesters.” The best way to follow the rapidly changing events in Libya is through Twitter #Feb17 and #Libya. The BBC reports: On Monday, reports fr ...
  • Anti-government protests continue in Bahrain
    The Washington Post reports: Saudi Arabia said Sunday that it stands ready “with all its capabilities” to shore up Bahrain’s ruling royal family if a standoff with the Shiite-led opposition is not resolved soon, underscoring the kingdom’s deep concern about its neighbor’s ongoing political cris ...
  • Gaddafi cruelly resists, but this Arab democra ...
    In agreement with Gilles Kepel who has dubbed events unfolding across the Middle East as the “Arab democratic revolution,” David Hirst writes: ome now say, this emergence of democracy as an ideal and politically mobilising force amounts to nothing less than a “third way” in modern Arab history. ...
  • William Astore: six vows to support our troops
    Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com Last year, in a joint investigation Propublica and National Public Radio reported that “[t]he military medical system is failing to diagnose brain injuries in troops who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, many of whom receive little or no treatment fo ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Climate Bloodhounds
    Steve McIntyre is blogging again. This time it is about a little noticed Climategate email where Dr. Raymond Bradley disses skeptics as being too unsophisticated to be able to figure out what was withheld. I agree with Steve, when he … Continue reading →
  • Theory: Climate change to affect food safety
    I suppose it’s a toss up between “do you want fries with that?” and all the food content danger it implies, or the chance that you’ll get moldy or infected food. Our society has made great advances in food safety … Continue reading →
  • 6.3 quake in Christchurch, NZ, 65 deaths repor ...
    Note aftershocks ranging from  5.6 to 4.5 have also been felt in the last few hours. Here is a list of quakes. We wish our Kiwi friends well, and hope that the quake is not as bad as first reports … Continue reading →
  • The first global scale polluters – plank ...
    The EPA could have regulated these little suckers right out of existence for changing the balance of the atmosphere. From the National Science Foundation and Ohio State University: Plankton key to origin of Earth’s first breathable atmosphere COLUMBUS, Ohio â … Continue reading →
  • Joe Bastardi resigns at Accuweather after 32 y ...
    From Joe Bastardi’s Fan Page at Facebook: Farewell to Joe Bastardi who has left AccuWeather after a distinguished 32-year career. We appreciate Joeâs dedicated service to our clients over these many years and wish him luck with all his endeavors. … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • Massacre in Libya + Khaled Mattawa: Libya is F ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Democracy Now! Feb. 21, 2011 Massacre in Libya: Witnesses Say Protesters Have Taken Control of Benghazi Despite Gov’t Violence After a week of deadly unrest in the North African country of Libya, tens of thousands of people celebrated Sunday as they retook th ...
  • A New American Workers’ Movement Has Beg ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Crossposted with permission from www.socialistproject.ca/bullet/ by Dan La Botz Socialist Project | The Bullet solidarity-us.org, February 17, 2011 February 21, 2011 Thousands of workers demonstrated at the state capital in Madison, Wisconsin on February 15 a ...
  • African Americans and the struggle for sociali ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ By Abayomi Azikiwe www.workers.org Editor, Pan-African News Wire Feb 19, 2011 In 1901 the Socialist Party of America, after much ideological and political struggle, emerged as a coalition of various factions within the socialist movement. It had conservative, ...
  • Still voting for these hypocrites and liars. W ...
    by Philip A. Farruggio Featured Writer Dandelion Salad February 21, 2011 Remember the 2000 presidential election? Many progressives like yours truly supported Ralph Nader and other Green Party candidates. Here in Florida, we were vilified by the Democrats for not supporting Gore- they railed tha ...
  • Hillary Clinton: Beware of the Mini Pharaoh in ...
    by Sibel Edmonds Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Originally published by Boiling Frogs Post February 21, 2011 “Speaking Fee” is the New Name for Political Donation Laundering-Rechanneling (PDLR) Political donation laundering-rechanneling (PDLR) is a business in its own right, whether it is for p ...

Your New Reality

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    A screengrab from a photo by Victoria Hazou of the Egyptian Uprising, part of this remarkable Big Picture collection of the January 25 to February 6 protests to force President Hosni Mubarak to quit the presidency and leave the country :
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    Carl Sagan on The Moon : Fox News' Bill O'Reilly on The Moon : Bill O'Reilly's 'premium content' site should be called 'Bill O'Reilly, Master Troll'.
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    Charlie Sheen's response to American media hysteria about his latest drug, booze, hooker & porn star related adventures : (via @Reddit)
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    The Digital Imprints Of New Borns It is no longer up to a child to decide if they want to have a digital life, or begin to leave online footprints as they become teenagers, that decision has already been made for them, for many from before they're even born : Internet security company AVG surve ...
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    Kurt Cobain was born 44 years ago. I'm shocked to find I've never written about Nirvana or Cobain on this blog. How quickly we forget.

Wired - Science

  • Alan Turing’s Patterns in Nature, and Beyond
    See Also: Searching for Network Laws in Slime Hidden Fractals Suggest Answer to Ancient Math Problem Earth’s Most Stunning Natural Fractal Patterns Video: Mysterious Patterns Reveal Self-Organizing Muscle Fibers Baffling Patterns Form in Scientific Sandbox
  • Mutant Fish Safely Store Toxins in Fat
    Some fish in New York’s Hudson River have become resistant to several of the waterway’s more toxic pollutants. Instead of getting sick from dioxins and related compounds including some polychlorinated biphenyls, Atlantic tomcod harmlessly store these poisons in fat, a new study finds. But wha ...
  • Moon Race Brings 29 Teams to the Starting Line
    When a couple dozen companies sign contracts containing the words “moon” and “landing,” it’s a good indication that private lunar exploration is heating up. The X Prize Foundation on Thursday announced that 29 teams had signed contracts making them the official Google Lunar X Prize competitors, ...
  • Helpful Mutations Didn’t Sweep Through Early H ...
    Humans probably didn’t get swept up in evolution. Scientists have favored a model of evolution in which beneficial gene mutations quickly and dramatically sweep through a population due to the evolutionary advantages they confer. Such mutations would become nearly universal in a population. But ...
  • The Mystery of the Missing Moon Trees
    15 years after NASA astronomer David Williams started searching for them, hundreds of trees grown from space-faring seeds are still missing. The “moon trees,” whose seeds circled the moon 34 times in Apollo 14 astronaut Stuart Roosa’s pocket, were welcomed back to Earth with great fanfare in 19 ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • American and Israeli anti-missile system test ...
    The US and Israel have successfully tested Israel’s Arrow 2 ballistic anti-missile system off the coast of California. The joint exercise between Israel Aerospace Industries and the US Missile... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Jonathan Cook: Egypt and Israel
    The main value of the 1979 Camp David treaty to the Israeli leadership has been three decades of calm on Israel’s south-western flank. That, in turn, has freed the army to concentrate on more... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
  • Indian Air Force purchases missiles from Israe ...
    The Indian Air Force and the Israeli weapons manufacturer Rafael Advanced Defense Systems are set to sign a major contract in March 2011, which will outfit India’s Tejas fighter jets with Rafael’s... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
  • Bil’in marks six years of struggle with mass d ...
    Six years have passed since residents of Bil'in, together with their Israeli and international supporters, started regularly demonstrating against the Wall and the confiscation of more than half... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Libya’s Gaddafi could find refuge in Israel
    If the story told ... is true, Gaddafi is entitled to immigrate to Israel as a Jew under Israel’s Law of Return. Even if every other country on earth refused him entry, Israel would be obligated by... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Argon, the Augmented Reality Web Browser, Avai ...
    The Georgia Institute of Technology announces the release of Argon, the first mobile augmented reality (AR) browser based on open Web standards. Argon is available now for free download to the iPhone at Apple's App Store.
  • Baylor University's Institute for Oral History ...
    Baylor University's Institute for Oral History has won the Texas Historical Commission's 2011 Award of Excellence in Preserving History.
  • Class Is in Session for Local High School Pare ...
    Parents of Proviso East High School students will return to class later this week to learn about health and wellness. Loyola University Chicago Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing (MNSON) and Proviso East will host "Parents University" from 5:30 - 10 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 23, at 807 S. First Av ...
  • Simple Spit and Blood Tests Might Detect Burno ...
    Your blood and the level of a hormone in your spit could reveal if you're on the point of burnout, according to research undertaken by Dr. Sonia Lupien and Robert-Paul Juster of the Centre for Studies on Human Stress of Louis-H. Lafontaine Hospital and the University of Montreal.
  • Vaccine Made With Synthetic Gene Protects Agai ...
    Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have developed an experimental vaccine that appears to protect against an increasingly common and particularly deadly form of pneumococcal pneumonia. Details of the new vaccine, which was tested in an animal model, are repo ...

Natural Health News

  • A Tribute to those who Rescue Homeless Animals
    These animals were all rescued from Humane Societies in Illinois; every year litereally millions of homeless animals end up euthanized, as there is not enough space in shelters for them.
  • Crying Dog and Baby
    When baby cries, the dog cries too.
  • Why Muscles are Sore After Workouts
    Many times, you can finish a workout and feel great, but the next day your body starts to ache. Your muscles feel sore because they are damaged and need time to recover; this is called DOMS, delayed onset muscle soreness. DOMS starts between 8 and 24 hours after a workout. It happens most often ...
  • Clean Water and Education Could Outperform Vac ...
    A new study has taken a look at how the Haitian cholera outbreak is likely to evolve. It found that clean water and hygiene education measures are likely to be more effective at reducing the spread of the disease than a vaccination campaign. The researchers created disease dispersion models for ...
  • Flaws in Popular Research Method Exposed
    Influential studies into subjects which include the safety and effectiveness of medicines have been called into question by a new report into ways of identifying research bias. The reveals the danger of relying only on published work to create research reviews, a common approach which is often ...

Antemedius

  • Arab Revolutions Bring To Mind Europe In 1848
    Has there been a time in history where we’ve seen so many popular uprisings against autocratic governments? Right now there are four active uprisings and many more simmering ones across the Arab world. The governments of Tunisia and Egypt have fallen and it looks as though Libya and perhaps Ba ...
  • My Little Town 20110221: Gene and Katy
    This is an installment of an extremely irregular series that I write when I begin to remember people from my childhood. I grew up, for the most part, in Hackett, Arkansas, just about nine miles south of Fort Smith, Arkansas, almost on the border with Oklahoma. This was quite the "redneck" part ...
  • Feed The Wisconsin Demonstrators Pizza!!
    I just ordered 2 pizzas to be delivered to demonstrators in Madison, Wisconsin. Rachel Maddow has the story: You're probably already familiar with ordering take-out food online. Some restaurants let you do it directly and others use a middle man service, but the idea is that you log on, plac ...
  • Naomi Klein On Why Wisconsin Matters: A Classi ...
    February 19, 2011
  • What's for Dinner? v5.30: New Cooking Book
    Hello, all! Tonight I am publishing the introduction to a new cooking book that I have in the works. It is not so much a cook book as it is a guide for people who have not cooked much before, or who want to improve their skills. It will also have information that even experienced cooks will f ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Orin Kerr on the Strange Fourth Amendment Case ...
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Orin Kerr is the Fourth Amendment scholar that I definitely am not, so I read with interest his Volokh post this morning on Ashcroft v. Al-Kidd, which the Supreme Court will be hearing next week.  He says it is a strange case for a couple of reasons.  T ...
  • The Rule of Law as a Condition of Development?
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson A proposition at the center of much international development work in the past decade or more has been the importance of institutions - whether one talks about “good governance” or the “rule of law” or other terms referring to institutions of governance ...
  • Muhammed Pleads Guilty to “Conspiracy&#8 ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Yes, after nearly nine years of detention in Guantanamo, Noor Uthan Muhammed has pleaded guilty to two non-existent war crimes.  As the ACLU notes in its post on the plea, although the court reporter faithfully translated each time he said “yes” to whe ...
  • Another Dangerous Lawsuit — This One Inv ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller According to the Jerusalem Post, five purchasers of Jimmy Carter’s new book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid have filed a $5 million lawsuit in federal court in New York against Carter and Simon & Schuster, the book’s publisher.  The lawsuit alleges that ...
  • Misrepresenting Al-Haq’s Position on Palestini ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller David Bernstein and NGO Monitor have worked themselves into a lather about Human Rights Watch’s decision to appoint Shawan Jabarin, the head of Al-Haq, a leading Palestinian human-rights group, to its Mideast Advisory Board.  In support of their ire, t ...

Investigate - Breaking News

  • Free Movie tickets: CONVICTION
    The kind folk at 20th Century Fox have made available some double passes for our TBR, Twitter and Facebook readers to see the new movie CONVICTION, based on the true story of Betty Ann Waters who studied to become a...
  • New-look Investigate magazine HIS and HERS goe ...
    As of Sunday...with more exclusive revelations about the Pike River disaster and police bungles in the rescue operation...and HERS features new poll results showing support for National is wide but shallow, and that a large number of voters want Winston...
  • Investigate Political Poll 2011 - No1
    Investigate magazine's first big omnibus and political poll in more than five years is underway. If you want to fill in the survey form (takes less than two minutes on average) online, you'll find it here.
  • BREAKING NEWS: Arizona shooter of Gabrielle Gi ...
    The young gunman who shot and killed six people, and left Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in critical condition, appears to have borne a grudge against Giffords after meeting her in 2007 at the age of 19. According to reports, former...
  • New study says CO2 rise a result of warmer tem ...
    A new peer reviewed study supports another contention I raised in Air Con: that CO2 increase follows temperature increase, and that there appears to be no correlation between fossil fuel emissions and temperature. The paper is available in full in...

My Care2 Picks

  • Anchors Away! The 'Stability' of U.S. Puppet D ...
    P.J.Crowley disingenuous support for freedom of the press as the U.S. cracked down on WikiLeaks and more recently an amazing ability to say nothing while being asked direct questions about the illegality of Israeli colonization of Palestinian landsSubmitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov' ...
  • Monsanto's Roundup Triggers over 40 Plant Dise ...
    Monsanto Roundup is killing non GM crops, annihilating beneficial soil organisms and Monsanto forces farmers who purchase GM Roundup Ready seeds to only use the company's Roundup brand of glyphosate. Submitted by Sharon L. to Business �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Who Needs Wheat Anyways? The Top 50 Celiac Blo ...
    Celiac disease, also known as Celiac sprue or Coeliac disease, is an autoimmune disorder of the digestive system. Suspected to be in one out of every 133 Americans, this disease is basically an allergy to wheat. Submitted by Deena Marriecar to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • What You Need to Know About the Muslim Brother ...
    They adhered to an ultra-orthodox view of Islam, and in the 1930s Banna established the Secret Apparatus, an underground intelligence and paramilitary arm with a terrorist wing. Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Canada defeats GMO hazard legislation
    Canada�s House of Commons defeated Bill C-474, an Act that would have required an analysis of potential harm to export markets before permitting the commercialization of any new genetically engineered seed.Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

  • Mapuexpress - Informativo Mapuche
    Mapuexpress - Informativo Mapuche: "Gentileza: Nanette Liberona y Gustavo Pe�a - - The company Endesa has made bad practices in our communities since arriving in our region to develop their studies... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Possible Aristide return increases Haiti's pol ...
    Possible Aristide return increases Haiti's political drama: "(FinalCall.com) - The latest news coming out of Haiti at FinalCall.com press time concerned the possible return of former President... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • The Chinese people say “NO' to GE rice | Human ...
    The Chinese people say “NO' to GE rice | Humanitarian News: "“We don’t want GE rice!” is the clear message that has rung loud and clear in China. Here at the Greenpeace office in Beijing, we have... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Thousands join Iraq anti-govt demo - Yahoo! Ne ...
    Thousands join Iraq anti-govt demo - Yahoo! News: "SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq (AFP) – Around 4,000 demonstrators crowded Tahrir Square in the centre of the Iraqi city of Sulaimaniyah on Tuesday, the latest... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • CorpWatch�:�Indian Roads Endanger Ways of Life ...
    CorpWatch�:�Indian Roads Endanger Ways of Life: The Role of Wilbur Smith Associates: "In 2007, Saravanan learned about a new danger facing both the species and his fishing village, Urur Kuppam.... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • Monsanto Shifts ALL Liability to Farmers
    Monsanto does not accept liability for damages from genetically modified crops, shifts liability to farmers, and creates a condition on the sale of a farmer's land requiring the purchaser to sign a Monsanto Technology Use Agreement.
  • Hay Now — It’s Boycott Time: Land O’Lakes, Thi ...
    To produce its Round-Up Ready Alfalfa seeds, Monsanto partnered with a company called Forage Genetics International, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Land O'Lakes dairy co-op. That's right, Land O'Lakes stands to make a fortune from polluting our food supply with untested and unlabeled GMOs ...
  • Radio Liberty’s Dr. Stanley Monteith and Barb ...
    Catch me on Radio Liberty at 9:00pm Pacific Time tonight, February 17, with Dr. Stanley Monteith. We will be discussing GMOs. Radio Liberty: http://www.radioliberty.com/
  • America’s Silent Killing Fields 2011
    We have systematically been inundated with GMOs at an alarming rate, with alfalfa, sugar beets, and corn for fuel being completely deregulated. It seems that the process of total genetic control of the planet is on the fast track.
  • Truth Squad Radio: Eric Herm – Son of a Farmer
    Eric Herm joins us this Wednesday evening to discuss the ravages of commercial agriculture, including the GMO blight.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Supreme Court rules against Pittsburgh parents ...
    ShareThisSupreme Court rules against Pittsburgh parents in drug vaccine case 22 Feb 2011 The Supreme Court ruled today that a federal law bars lawsuits against drug makers over serious side effects from childhood vaccines. By a 6-2 vote, the court ruled against the parents of a child who sued th ...
  • Afghanistan peace council seeks release of Gua ...
    ShareThisAfghanistan peace council seeks release of Guantanamo Bay prisoners --About 20 senior Taliban still held in US military jail 21 Feb 2011 Hamid Karzai’s peace council will send a delegation to Guantanamo Bay to speak to imprisoned Taliban leaders about possible release in a peace process ...
  • Police arrest 11-year-old over 'inappropriate' ...
    ShareThisPolice arrest 11-year-old over 'inappropriate' stick figure drawing 22 Feb 2011 An 11-year-old Arvada, Colorodo, boy was arrested and hauled away in handcuffs for drawing stick figures in school, something his therapist told him to do. His parents say they understand what he did was ina ...
  • 'Libya air raids death toll hits 1,000'
    ShareThis'Libya air raids death toll hits 1,000' 22 Feb 2011 Some 1,000 people have been killed by Libyan security forces in bomb attacks against pro-democracy demonstrators in the North African country, reports say. A Rome-based group representing Arab expatriates revealed the mascara on Tuesda ...
  • Gaddafi calls protesters "rats"
    ShareThisGaddafi calls protesters "rats" 22 Feb 2011 Libya's embattled ruler Muammar Gaddafi, in a TV address, has declared that he has no intention to resign, calling protesters "rats and cockroaches." He threatened to step up crackdown against pro-democracy protesters, saying, "We have not use ...

Daily Loaf

  • CD Review: Diplo, Riddimentary: Diplo Selects ...
    Edgewater, Fla. native raids Greensleeves vaults with good results.
  • Gulf oil spill researcher finds dead sea life ...
    The research trip she took in December was the last of five done by her team across 2,600 square miles, and they have plenty of pictures and samples to document their findings. The images she showed at the science conference included bottom-dwelling sea life that had been choked by the oil -- d ...
  • New music releases out this Tuesday, February ...
    More new music! Yay!! Check out all of the ones you want to know about (some with audio, some with video) below. Click here to check out new music releases that dropped last week and here for new releases that have come out in the past several months… Adele, 21 (Columbia / XL Recordings) Th ...
  • A festival of gastronomical proportions: MOSI’ ...
    This event will feature 70 vintners with a variety of wines on hand, everything from reds, whites, champagnes, domestics and imports, and sumptuous food and desserts from 30-plus restaurants, including The Melting Pot and Ruth’s Chris Steak House
  • Sandy Murman wants County to meet soon with Ta ...
    "Some people may resist it because of a turf battle, we have to get through it," Murman said.

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • VRM: Gardasil/Cervarix – A Legacy Of Sha ...
    The headlines alone tell the whole story. ‘Teenage girl left brain-damaged  after receiving cervical cancer jab‘, ‘Thousands of UK schoolgirls have suffered adverse reactions…several reported multiple reactions’, ‘20,575 adverse reactions, 352 reports of abnormal pap smears post vaccinati ...
  • VRM: Dr. Wakefield’s Imminent Vindicatio ...
    Dr. Andrew Wakefield’s 1998 Study demonstrated “anti-myelin antibodies and digestive tract pathologies in children with autism after being given the Urabi strain triple live virus MMR vaccine. All 12 children in the Study had intestinal abnormalities (known as Inflammatory Bowel Disease), with c ...
  • VRM: A Concise Compendium The Problem With Vac ...
    The advent of cloned DNA vaccines & Synthetic Genomics, backed by proponents of the Trans-humanist & Bioethics movements (this is a post-Darwinian view, in which the species has the power to direct its own evolution), has opened a Pandora’s Box spelling the inevitable death of natural immunity. ...
  • VRM: Medical Industry Data Proves Influenza Va ...
    The Influenza virus itself is constantly mutating from year to year. While mainstream doctors are traditionally divided, several prominent Studies have come forward in recent years challenging the Status Quo on the efficacy of the sacrosanct Flu shot & awakened an increasingly distrustf ...
  • VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 3 – ...
    For centuries humankind has depended on an inherent natural immunity to survive; adapting to environmental changes while overcoming mutable diseases, viruses, bacterial or biological threats & inter-species cross contamination. With the 21st Century advancement of high-tech laboratory ...

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Thumb’s Up in Afghanistan
    22 February 2011 Arrived back in Kandahar today and immediately set off into the wilds.� Am not with troops at this time, but later will see about embedding. While driving in Kandahar City today, we passed by some American troops doing �route clearance.�� They were looking for bombs.� Their ...
  • Michael Yon to return to Afghanistan
    20 Feburary 2011 Reprinted from The US Report Author Kay B. Day Band-e-Amir in Bamyan Province is Afghanistan's first national park; it consists of six spectacular turquoise lakes separated by natural dams of travertine. [CIA World Factbook; photo and caption.] Michael Yon just wrapped up a se ...
  • Río de lágrimas: instantáneas al filo de la gu ...
    14 de febrero de 2011 El río Salween marca la frontera entre Tailandia y Birmania. En la ficción, "Rambo" cruzó la actual selva en la película "Rambo IV", pero, desgraciadamente, no hay nada de ficticio en la guerra, las bombas que con frecuencia vuelan desde Birmania a Tailandia, o las minas ...
  • Return to Afghanistan
    Day by Day 17 February 2011 All is looking good for my return to Afghanistan within one week.� The more researched photo-dispatches will be published here.� For daily updates that will not make it to main dispatches, please sign up for my Facebook. Your support is crucial for my work in Afg ...
  • General Petraeus: Unfounded rumors
    16 February 2011 Just got this email from Geoff Morrell, Press Secretary for Secretary Robert Gates: "Despite some sensational speculation by one of the London papers, I can assure you General Petraeus is not quitting as ISAF commander, but nor does he plan to stay in Afghanistan forever. Obvi ...

The Killing Train

  • Wikileaks and the Future of Information
    Wikileaks and the future of information from Justin Podur on Vimeo. read more
  • Settle in and wait for the coup in Egypt
    Most people are interested in something that no one knows or can know: what is going to happen in Egypt? It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future (that's from Keynes). There are lessons from past revolutions that might help us understand what is happening, but from where ...
  • More such philanthrocapitalism we shall be utt ...
    Philanthrocapitalism, a book by Bishop and Edwards, argues that philanthropy will help the public accept a new age of plutocracy (the rule by wealth). The rich are giving their money away so effectively, they say, that the public won't mind increasing inequality. read more
  • I am not a gadget
    Jaron Lanier, author of "You are not a gadget", is very well-informed about what he is writing about, which is some of the social consequences of the internet, and some of the implicit ideologies that are built into the internet as we are living with it today. Lanier was one of the early minds b ...
  • Raj Patel's "Value of Nothing"
    For various reasons I found myself with several hours on public transit and with Raj Patel's fine book "The Value of Nothing" in hand. I really liked a few things about it. First, it's a very readable summary of a lot of economic theories (and ideologies) that guide policies today. For a more ma ...

treehugger

  • Climate Skeptic Threatened by Greens? Or Maybe ...
    Just as the hubub over climate skeptic James Delingpole's drubbing at the hands of Sir Paul Nurse begins to die down, another prominent UK skeptic appears to be having a hard time of it. Former childrens' TV presenter and climate skeptic Johnnie Ball was widely reported as receiving threats— ...
  • A Mini Worm Composter Kit from Outer Space (Vi ...
    Image credit: BEECycle By now it is pretty common knowledge that I am obsessed with compost. Whether reflecting on compost as animal husbandry or learning how worm compost suppresses plant diseases, composting is a window in a miraculous and poorly understood world. It only stands to reason ...
  • BMW Launches New Green Car Brand, Adds Option ...
    Image via BMW Range anxiety, that fear of going for a lovely country drive in your green electric vehicle, only to get stuck miles from home after the battery gives out, is being eased by BMW. The company is adding an internal combustion range extender to its Megacity EV, a concept car expe ...
  • For Star Wars Fans, Recycled Computer Parts Tu ...
    Images via Gadjitz Creative craftster Sage Werbock has come up with a clever idea for recycling old computer parts and providing Star Wars fans something to lust over. It's an 18-inch tall, 15 lb At-At made from floppy drive housing, power supply boxes, power cords and other scrap metal. .. ...
  • FARM:shop is a Farm Growing in a Store
    Photo: B. Alter You could call FARM:shop a legal grow-op: they are growing vegetables inside an abandoned house instead of dope. And some tilapia fish, not to mention basil and chickens on the roof. FARM:shop is, literally, a farm growing in a shop in London. A small eco-design group ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

  • Burma’s report to UN ‘is fictional’
    Hong Kong-based legal group says Universal Periodic Review is a collection of fabrications aimed at garnering respect from UN
  • Paul Copeland: On sanctions & ICC
    Toronto-based lawyer Paul Copeland has played an active role in a number of international Burmese pro-democracy pressure groups, including Canadian Friends of Burma and Euro-Burma Offce. He tells DVB about how he first gained interest in Burma and why there is such sharp divisions over Western s ...
  • Bomb suspect lawyer ‘denied case report’
    Eleven Karen youths in first hearing for alleged bomb plot but lawyer claims to know little about the details of the charges
  • Army seizes 30,000 acres of farmland
    Farmers turn to ILO but risk heavy retribution from Burmese government, which has a history of zero tolerance towards complainants
  • World football chief to visit Burma
    FIFA President Sepp Blatter due to attend opening of football academy on two-day trip to Burma, says head of country's footballing body

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Egypt chief prosecutor seeks to freeze ex-pres ...
    [JURIST] Egypt's chief prosecutor on Monday requested that Foreign Ministry officials take steps to freeze any foreign assets belonging to former president Hosni Mubarak [Al Jazeera profile] and his family.Prosecutor Abdel Magid made the request [AFP report] even though Mubarak submitted a decla ...
  • India president: government to address corrupt ...
    [JURIST] Indian President Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil [official website] announced Monday that the government will work to eradicate corruption. In her address to both houses of Parliament [official website] to open the budget session, Patil stated that India will take measures to ratify the U ...
  • Tunisia seeks extradition of ousted president
    [JURIST] The Tunisian Ministry of Foreign Affairs [official website] on Sunday submitted a formal request to Saudi Arabian authorities to extradite ousted former president [press release, in Arabic] Zine Al Abidine Ben Ali [BBC profile, JURIST news archive] following the filing of additional cha ...
  • Federal prosecutors end criminal investigation ...
    [JURIST] Federal prosecutors have dropped a criminal investigation against former Countrywide Financial Corporation [JURIST news archive] executive Angelo Mozilo, concluding that he was not involved in any criminal conduct during his time as director over the company, according to Friday reports ...
  • UK judge warns proposed bill of rights could f ...
    [JURIST] Former UK Lord Chief Justice Lord Woolf warned Monday that a British Bill of Rights, as proposed by various members of the British government, would conflict [BBC audio] with the European Convention on Human Rights [text, PDF], which the UK has incorporated into its law. While the gover ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Leaked Palin Emails
    I've been reading a leaked copy of "Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin: A Memoir of our Tumultuous Years," the tell-all memoir from Frank Bailey, once a member of Palin's inner circle. The book reminds me of the memoir by Scott McClellan, George W. Bush's former press secretary: the author's sudden ...
  • 'Obamacare': More Than Just a Word
    "If this health care plan is the greatest thing ever, why are Democrats so offended when you call it 'Obamacare'?" asked Joe Scarborough a few weeks ago on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," describing a rendezvous with a Democrat angry at his use of the word. "Because you got 'Obama,'" he continued ...
  • Chicago Election: A Look Back With Mayor Daley
    As voters in Chicago go to the polls to cast their ballots in the city's mayoral election, it's worth looking back at what went into remaking the city Rahm Emanuel will soon run. The strong frontrunner in the polls, Emanuel may even win 50 percent of the vote in today's primary contest and avoid ...
  • Hillary Clinton 'Strongly' Condemns Violence i ...
    As the situation in Libya worsened Monday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton issued her strongest statement yet on the escalating violence. Said Clinton: The world is watching the situation in Libya with alarm. We join the international community in strongly condemning the violence in Libya. ...
  • The Favorite Gadgets of Presidents Obama, Clin ...
    From President Obama's fight to keep his BlackBerry to the only two e-mails Bill Clinton sent while in office, Business Insider rounds up the gadgets used by recent presidents, unearthing such nuggets as the report that Steve Jobs sent Bill Clinton an iPhone in 2007 and that former president Geo ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Links for 2010-03-30 [Digg]
    Overseas Media Begins Reporting Kam Case An Israeli journalist disappears into the maw of the intelligence services. A gag order prevents newspapers reporting the story. Only overseas media can do so, but they hesitate since so little is known. That's why blogs exist and that's the role t ...
  • ‘Revenge’ of the Blogger’s Wife
    My wife shared this cartoon with me, clearly agreeing with the sentiment entirely regarding my own attitude toward this blog and you, my readers.  When I protested that I didn’t take that attitude toward my blog in conversation with her, she reminded me that I have been known to ask her how man ...
  • The Shores of Tripoli Run Red With Martyrs’ Bl ...
    The Marine Corps hymn brags of the force’s presence from the “halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli.”  But the Marines haven’t been in Tripoli since the early 1800s, when they attacked the Barbary pirates.  It doubtful they’ll be going back there any time soon, though those shores of Tri ...
  • Links for 2010-03-18 [Digg]
    Shin Bet Secretly Detains Reporter Leaking Top-Secret Docume I was the first blogger or journalist to break this story outside Israel. Anat Kam, a young Israeli reporter was secretly arrested and imprisoned for allegedly leaking top secret IDF documents about targeted assassinations.
  • Uzi Arad Resigns As Bibi’s National Security A ...
    Caught up in a tug of war between Avigdor Lieberman and Bibi Netayahu over who would become Israel’s new ambassador to London, Uzi Arad resigned in a huff as Netanyahu’s national security advisor.  Lieberman bridled at Arad’s nomination for the post being shoved down his throat.  Netanyahu ref ...

Ode Magazine

  • A valentine for peace
    By: PeaceCorso Well, here we are at the holiday that so many of us love to hate: Valentine’s Day. We’ve all heard the cynics blaming the Hallmarkians of the world for sentimentalizing love. Why have a holiday to celebrate love? My relationship doesn’ ...
  • Mizukaburi Matsuri: Keeping at bay
    By: Anne Thomas Japan has wonderful festivals throughout the year. Some are huge and world renown. Others are so small only locals attend. But no matter the size, all of them are filled with great enthusiasm and merrymaking as people give their all to ...
  • The muse in the moment
    We all know meditation helps you relax. But can it also ease the symptoms of depression and anxiety disorders and improve quality of life for people with chronic diseases? Recent research suggests it can. For those of us who haven’t practiced it, meditation can seem like a ...
  • The secret life of metaphor
    By: James Geary Metaphor is most familiar as the literary device through which we describe one thing in terms of another, as in Shakespeare’s famous line from Romeo and Juliet, “Juliet is the sun.” But metaphor is much more than a mere literary device ...
  • A new food manifesto
    Itâs time to take back control of what and how we eat. Hereâs why. Food isn’t just something we need to shovel down our gullets each day to survive. It’s far more potent: the means, more than any other, by which we humans shape our planet and ourselves.Photo by Marko Matas ...

OpEd News

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  • Dolphin Calves Washing Up on Gulf Coast Shores
    Out of sight, out of mind. Neither is likely to be the case as we continue to see the impacts of the BP Gulf disaster bubbling up from just below the surface. And the Sun Herald may have exposed one of the most disturbing in the form of dead baby dolphins washing up onto Mississi ...
  • Trouble In The Air: Warmer Temperatures Length ...
    Spring is just around the corner, even if I can see snowflakes falling today. As part of the annual Rite of Spring, I’ll be calling my physician to get allergy medicine lined up. For me -- as for 36 million other Americans with seasonal allergies - -the approach of warmer weather m ...
  • The wonderful world of neighborhood associatio ...
    I really shouldn’t get started and, if this post weren’t leading to such a wildly amusing place, I wouldn’t.  Neighborhood associations do some wonderful things in distressed communities, pursuing economic development and other progressive neighborhood improvements.  But, in more a ...
  • A Republican Rampage
    With the nation challenged by two grinding wars, a struggling economy and mounting debt, House Republicans used their new majority status this week to go on a reckless rampage against essential health and environmental safeguards Americans everywhere both depend on and expect.� Un ...
  • Congressional Heroes Say No to Mountaintop Rem ...
    The House spending bill that passed early yesterday is an all-out assault on the power of the Environmental Protection Agency to protect people from air and water pollution.  EPA’s authority to curb mountaintop removal mining was no exception. As my colleague Jon Devine noted a few ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Nutty, Yet Principled
    Nothing is more damaging to the abortion criminalization lobby than people who actually take the stuff other anti-choicers merely pretend to believe seriously. Investigating miscarriages is appalling, barbaric public policy — but if you accept anti-choice logic, since self-administered abortio ...
  • Althouse of the Day
    George Will is a serious intellectual, so just like other conservatives when he expresses a belief that protests and procedural gimmicks constitute an attempt to “repeal an election,” this must be based on deeply held principles, right? Well, let’s look at whether he believed that the most dec ...
  • Pirates Kill Four Americans
    This is quite bad: At approximately 1 a.m. EST today, while negotiations were ongoing to secure the release of four American hostages, U.S. forces responded to gunfire aboard the pirated vessel (S/V) Quest. As they responded to the gunfire, reaching and boarding the Quest, the forces discovered ...
  • “EUREKA!”
    I’m embarrassed that I didn’t see this until three days ago: Related posts:This sort of stupidity takes talent. Related posts:This sort of stupidity takes talent.
  • Check out that face! (Being lecture notes on t ...
    After re-watching the infamous silent episode from the fourth season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, “Hush,” I am compelled to conclude that Joss Whedon loves him some tracking shots.  Unless the camera is tightly framed on someone’s face, it’s either panning or tilting or both.  If this were my ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

  • Concentrated Photovoltaic Gets A Spotlight
    The National Renewable Energy Lab says its partnership with Amonix has yielded a concentrating photovoltaics technology competitive with natural gas on price.
  • Geneva Auto Show: Rolls Royce 102EX Phantom
    Rolls Royce has arrived on the electric car scene, promising to debut in Geneva a one off EV research project to see if its affluent base wants to go green.
  • Solar Decathlon Deserves The National Mall
    The annual Solar Decathlon event, held at the National Mall is Washington D.C., has been booted from the property. One of its supporters argues for its reinstatement.
  • Geneva Auto Show: Smart Forspeed
    Daimler's Smart forspeed concept electric vehicle, debuting at the Geneva Motor Show, is sleek and sexy but definitely not speedy.
  • Geneva Auto Show: BMW ActiveE
    BMW plans to display at the 2011 Geneva Motor Show its ActiveE electric vehicle concept, which will be available later this year globally on a trial basis.

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • Huge settlement? No thanks.
    Plaintiffs' lawyers who obtained the record $624 million class action settlement last year on behalf of shareholders of Countrywide Financial Corp. are scrambling to remake their deal after more than two dozen major institutional funds opted out.
  • Litigation funders face discovery woes
    While battling its insurers over funds to cover hurricane damage, a Florida hotel company consulted an investmnet group which funds lawsuits for a share of the recovery. The investment never happened, according to court documents — but the conversations weren't forgotten by the parties the hotel ...
  • Firm seeking payback from Abramoff pal
    Lawyers for Greenberg Traurig are demanding that Abramoff business partner Michael Scanlon make restitution to the firm to cover its losses.
  • Federal judge enters default against China in ...
    A federal judge has granted a default motion against the People's Republic of China in a $2.2 billion lawsuit brought by a California software firm over copyright infringement.
  • News: Big bankruptcies, big legal fees
    With complex issues and huge money at stake, cases yield millions for firms.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • EPA Wants to Look at Full Lifecycle of Frackin ...
    by Nicholas Kusnetz ProPublica, Feb. 9, 2011, 2:32 p.m The EPA has proposed examining every aspect of hydraulic fracturing, from water withdrawals to waste disposal, according to a draft plan the agency released Tuesday. If the study goes forward as planned, it would be the most comprehensive in ...
  • Gas driller pays Pennsylvania state Senator Jo ...
    I received this comment from another blogger on this same article: “To paraphrase Jim Cramer, well known for his investment & corporate financial opinions on television and internet, the United States has the best government money can buy.” Published: Sunday, February 13, 2011, 11:04 PM Updated ...
  • FrackTracker
    Here’s an exceprt from the blog at Fracktracker, a useful site for info and maps and visuals. The Environmental Protection Agency has submitted a draft of its Hydraulic Fracturing Study Plan, which is to be reviewed by the Science Advisory Board (SAB), a group of independent scientists that w ...
  • A Comprehensive Website for News Headlines
    The below site, while not covering everything, does offers a lot of info in one place. Newspaper Headlines: http://www.marcellus-shale.us/Gas-Drilling_NEWS.htm
  • Groups File Federal Gas Drilling Lawsuit again ...
    Delaware River Basin Commission Served Notice Trenton, New Jersey —The Delaware Riverkeeper Network and Damascus Citizens for Sustainability have joined forces in filing a federal lawsuit against the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) in federal district court in Trenton, NJ. Complaints were ...

News Blaze

  • Partnership Between UN and Member States Key t ...
    There are currently 121,000 military, police and civilian personnel serving on 14 peacekeeping operations and one special political mission, all led by the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO).
  • Hindus Upset With Goddess Lakshmi's Image on ' ...
    Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada today, said that it is disturbing to see goddess Lakshmi who was highly revered in Hinduism on the bottle of a potion which some of its retailers claimed to increase 'intensity of orgasms.' Laksh
  • UN Calls for Probe Into Allegations of Human O ...
    In his report, Mr. Ban notes that political developments in Kosovo over the past three months, in particular the 12 December Assembly elections, slowed down momentum generated by the European Union's declared readiness to facilitate dialogue. 'It
  • U.S. Calls on Libya to Stop The Unacceptable B ...
    Now is the time to stop this unacceptable bloodshed. We are working urgently with friends and partners around the world to convey this message to the Libyan government.
  • Somali Government Condemns Terrorist Attack in ...
    Seven people lost their lives in the attack and 35 others were wounded. Fifteen of the injured were discharged from hospital after receiving mild treatment. While 20 of them are still in the hospital. The dead include two children aged 10 and 11 who

environment 360

  • How Fisheries Can Gain From The Lessons of Sus ...
    As agriculture and energy production have made strides toward becoming more sustainable, the world’s fisheries have lagged behind. But restoring our beleaguered oceans to health will require an emphasis on diversification and conservation — and a more sensible mix of fishing practices. BY JOHN ...
  • UN Calls for Green Investments Totaling 2 Perc ...
    The United Nations is calling for funding of renewable energy projects equal to 2 percent of world economic output, saying such investments would more than pay for themselves by creating new jobs, boosting economic growth, and improving health through cleaner air. The United Nations Environment ...
  • Singapore is Greenest City in Asia, According ...
    Singapore has emerged as Asia’s greenest city thanks to a host of ambitious environmental programs and green initiatives, according to a new report. The Asia Green City Index — conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit and funded by Siemens — evaluated the environmental performance of 22 Asia ...
  • Coal Costs U.S. $500 Billion In ‘Hidden’ Costs ...
    Coal production costs the U.S. up to $500 billion each year in hidden health, economic, and environmental impacts, according to a new study by Harvard researchers. Researchers at the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School Wikimedia Commons found that the public ...
  • Future Effects of Rising Seas Depicted for U.S ...
    Rising sea levels could inundate 9 percent of the land within 180 U.S. cities by 2100, with cities along the Gulf of Mexico and the south Atlantic coast facing the most critical threats, according to a new study. Using elevation data from the U.S. Geological Survey, Click to enlarge University ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Huge New Planet (Brown Dwarf?) Discovered in O ...
    Largest planet in the solar system could be about to be discovered - and it's up to four times the size of Jupiter. Scientists believe they may have found a new planet in the far reaches of the solar system, up to four times the mass of Jupiter. Its orbit would be thousands of times further from ...
  • Leasing of U.S. Base Guantánamo Bay
    U.S. Naval Base Guantánamo Bay is unique in the tradition of American military bases. Established by the Cuban-American Lease Agreements (2 parts) and the Cuban-American Treaty of Relations in 1903, it is the oldest U.S. base on foreign soil, the only one in a Communist country (Cuba), and the o ...
  • Inside Job: how bankers caused the financial c ...
    The film Inside Job brilliantly exposes the corruption in US banking that led to the 2008 crash. We ask four bankers for their verdict on this damning indictment of their world. When Michael Moore made his debut feature, Roger and Me, he set about vilifying the boss of General Motors, the now de ...
  • George Soros and Egypt's New Constitution
    The United States and its allies are still feigning surprise at the unfolding revolutionary conflagration consuming the Middle East. However, those aware of the West's decades old network of NGOs and how their sole purpose is reordering the world to align to Western imperial interests can clearl ...
  • Race to Reach Antarctica's Giant Buried Lake V ...
    It’s a race against the clock for a group of drillers as they hurriedly work to hit their goal depth while in an extremely dangerous and foreign environment. No, it’s not the plot of the 1998 sci-fi/action film Armageddon. It’s a true story for a group of Russian scientists in the Antarctic, fra ...

Russia Today

  • US found itself between rock and hard place wi ...
    Amid the continuing unrest across the Arab world, RT spoke with Evgeny Primakov, an expert on the Middle East and former Russian foreign minister, who says the revolts in the Arab world are a purely social explosion,...
  • Last days on the Red Planet
    The final space walk of a simulated voyage to Mars will soon be underway in Moscow, before the crew pack their bags and “head back” to Earth.
  • Foreigners leave Libya
    Several European countries, including Russia, are sending special planes to bring their citizens back home from the latest troubled North African country, Libya.
  • North Africa, Mid-East…Midwest? You wouldn’t r ...
    While riots in Libya and Bahrain dominate news and the US backs protests abroad, many think it is not so supportive of what is going on in its own backyard.
  • Desperate refugees descend on Italy
    Italy is boosting security on its borders to stop a surge in illegal immigration. Thousands of refugees from North Africa are fleeing to the country, their numbers growing as the violence spreads.

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

  • WikiLeaks, Allnewsweb and the TEA Party
    When one looks at the above title, the individual has to ask, WTF? What could these three things have in common? Well, according to ‘Mirage Men‘ author, Mark Pilkington, not really a whole hell of a lot, just rampant opportunism: When the first mention of UFOs in the tranche of diplomatic paper ...
  • Even Gary Bekkum is skeptical
    Gary Bekkum’s  STARpod.org’s site is usually replete with government conspiracies, psychic spies, hamsters, Bigelow’s Skinwalker Ranch, Laura Eisenhower’s Mars Colony and other wondrous esoteric oddities that it’s hard to believe that Gary could be skeptical of anything. But he is. He is very s ...
  • More Paracast: George Filer
    Yeah I know I’ve been lazy lately (or so it seems), but trust me on this one. You won’t be disappointed with this interview Gene Steinberg and co-host Chris O’Brien of the Paracast had with Eastern MUFON Director George Filer, who also has the website Filer’s Files (which caters to guess what? Y ...
  • The Paracast: Clifford Clift of MUFON
    This week’s Paracast with Gene Steinberg and Chris O’Brien is a conversation with MUFON International’s Clifford Clift. Subjects range from the nuts and bolts aspects of UFOs to the possible paranormal links with ghosts, angels, demons and Sasquatch. This was a down to earth and civil interview, ...
  • Bizarre Beachcoming: Review of the Codex Serap ...
    Dr. Beachcoming, that eccentric collector of all things of an exotic historical nature, reviews The Codex Seraphinianus,  a book written by Luigi Serafini that is purportedly about an alien world complete with language, customs, architecture, flora and fauna. Luigi Serafini, Codex Seraphinianus ...

Tippers News

  • Domestic violence
    The statistics are startling: It's estimated that every 18 minutes a woman in the United States is beaten. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Yes, trafficking happens right here
    A common misconception about human trafficking and modern slavery is that it does not happen here. But it does. It's a documented fact. Take the case of two girls, ages 15 and 16, who ran away from a juvenile home in Fremont in 2007.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a ...
  • Human smuggling
    THERE is no doubt that rampant poverty, unemployment and a bleak future stare young Pakistanis in the face. The situation invariably provides a breeding ground Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Public opinion stopped GM, says campaigner + T ...
    Interesting article in The Independent in which Lord Melchett, the former director of Greenpeace, speaks out. Also, have you signed this Avaaz petition yet? http://www.avaaz.org/en/eu_gmo/?cl=743766348&v=7138 (You'll have to copy + paste the link!)Submitted by Graeme that's Graeme to Enviro ...
  • Two week-old kitten left for dead in locked cl ...
    Thanks to a passerby and local animal shelter, a two week-old kitten left for dead in a bolted-shut clothes recycling bin was rescued and has made a full recovery. The kitten was rescued about a month ago when a passing person heard the cry Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� ...

The Freeman

  • Libyan Violence Propels Oil Prices
    “Oil prices soared and global stocks plunged Monday on signs that Libya, a major exporter, will cut oil production amid spreading violence and unrest.” (Washington Times) Letâs hope the politicians donât do anything stupid in response. FEE Timely Classic “Price Controls and Shortages” by George ...
  • Former Congressmen Have No Trouble Finding Job ...
    “The tough job market doesn’t seem to be hurting many former members of Congress. Less than three months after leaving Capitol Hill, a dozen have found work so far with groups that seek to influence their former colleagues, despite rules that impose restrictions on lobbying once they leave offic ...
  • Coercion is What Makes the Difference
    This past weekend, the New York Times ran a story on the Park Slope Food Co-op in Brooklyn, NY. It seems some of the members of the cooperative grocery store are hiring their nannies or other non-family members to work the occasional shift at the store as required by its by-laws. What follows is ...
  • Governing the Traffic Commons
    In the past dozen years or so I’ve come to appreciate more and more the “nonmarket foundations of the market process.”
  • FEE @ 2011 International Students for Liberty ...
    Yesterday wrapped up the 2011 International Students for Liberty Conference in Washington D.C. –where over 500 college students from across the globe got together to celebrate the message of liberty. FEE had a great presence at the 2011 ISFLC including several lectures by Chris Coyne on Austrian ...

Teaching Online Journalism

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

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 ...

Worldpress - Africa

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Talkin’bout a General Strike in Wisconsin
    Hearing more and more talk of this.  General strikes are illegal under Taft-Hartley. Will Obama send in the troops to break one up if it happens?  (I really doubt the National Gaurd will do it, so it would have to be the army.) Would be interesting to find out, wouldn’t it?  Would… clarify ma ...
  • Some thoughts on revolutions in the Middle Eas ...
    Looks like Gaddafi is in a bad way: reports of brigades defecting, pilots refusing orders, 3 major tribes coming out against him and a Fatwa for his death. This is interesting, because the lesson Gaddafi learned from the prior revolutions was clearly “use violence early and hard”.  If it doesn’ ...
  • You don’t always get what you vote for
    but you sure don’t get what you don’t vote for. Fianna Fáil, the party in power for 20 of the past 23 years, faces a drubbing in Irelandâs general election on February 25, with Fine Gael, the other centre-right party, appearing to pick up support rather than the left-of-centre Labour party or m ...
  • You don’t always get what you vote for
    but you sure don’t get what you don’t vote for. Fianna Fáil, the party in power for 20 of the past 23 years, faces a drubbing in Irelandâs general election on February 25, with Fine Gael, the other centre-right party, appearing to pick up support rather than the left-of-centre Labour party or m ...
  • Words or Dollars
    From TPM’s David Kurtz: let’s take note of Obama’s clear-eyed understanding of America’s role in the world and the real limits of American power as he just stated it in his press conference: What we didn’t do was pretend that we could dictate the outcome in Egypt — because we can’t. So we were v ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

  • Spain limits PhD fellowships for foreign stude ...
    Posted on behalf of Michele Catanzaro Only students already resident in Spain will be allowed to apply to one of the country’s two main PhD fellowship programmes this year. And no more than 50 of the roughly 950 fellowships will go to non-European students. The FPU programme, run by the M ...
  • Berkeley chemist to head Scripps Institute
    Scripps Research Institute, a biomedical research powerhouse with facilties in California and Florida, will soon have a new president. Michael Marletta, a chemist at the University of California-Berkeley, will succeed Richard Lerner, who has headed Scripps for the last 25 years, beginning Jan ...
  • How to fund a European university
    These are tough times for Europe’s 5,000 or so universities. As public funding is slashed as a result of the financial downturn, universities must now look elsewhere to galvanise their financial security (see Nature's coverage of the financial crisis). A report published today from the Europe ...
  • A ‘fracking’ inconvenience for South African a ...
    Posted on behalf of Linda Nordling South African astronomers fear that an bid by the oil company Shell to drill for gas in South Africa’s arid Karoo could threaten the country’s astronomy ambitions—and scupper its chances to beat Australia to host the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) of radio tel ...
  • New Zealand rushes to aid earthquake-devastate ...
    A magnitude 6.3 earthquake has devastated the New Zealand city of Christchurch, with the government reporting 65 dead. New Zealand’s prime minister John Key said today’s disaster could prove to be the country’s “darkest day”. A state of emergency has now been declared in Christchurch as searc ...

new geography

  • The Still Elusive "Return to the City"
    Metropolitan area results are beginning to trickle in from the 2010 census. They reveal that, at least for the major metropolitan areas so far, there is little evidence to support the often repeated claim by think tanks and the media that people are moving from suburbs to the historical core ...
  • Dallas Charges Up for the Electric Chevy
    If they build it, will we come? Planners, utilities, auto industry execs, and retailers are hopeful that we will, as they get themselves ready for electric vehicles in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. This isn’t a pie-in-the-sky vision for the future. The reality is unfolding right now. In ...
  • Britian's Housing Crisis: Causes and Solution ...
    British house construction has remained at a low level for a decade.   Total new house and flat completions for all tenures last year were 113,670 for England, 17,470 for Scotland, and 6,170 for Wales. Excluding Northern Ireland that is 137,310 for Britain. Under 140,000 homes a year is lo ...
  • Obama’s High-Speed Rail Obsession
    Perhaps nothing so illustrates President Obama�s occasional disconnect with reality than his fervent advocacy of high-speed rail. Amid mounting pressure for budget cuts that affect existing programs, including those for the inner city, the president has made his $53 billion proposal to create a ...
  • The Evolving Urban Form: Seoul
    Based upon the preliminary results of the South Korea 2010 census, Seoul has become the world's second largest metropolitan area. The jurisdictions making out the metropolitan area, the provincial level municipality of Seoul (which is the national capital), the province of Gyeonggi and the p ...

GM Watch

spiked

Cryptogon

  • New Zealand: Christchurch Earthquake
    I’ll just respond to all the emails with a post: We’re fine. We live near the top of the North Island (far from Christchurch). Thanks for your concern. Via: New Zealand Herald: Police have reported “multiple fatalities” at several locations in the downtown area, including where two buses were cr ...
  • Italian Stock Market Halted: Technical Difficu ...
    Oh sure. Via: Wall Street Journal: The European country considered most exposed to the unrest in Libya is its former colonial ruler, Italy. And investors wanting to do something about that today have limited options: the Italian Bourse is closed due to technical problems. It is expected to reope ...
  • Libya: Crimes Against Humanity
    Via: 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 the capital Tripoli and ot ...
  • Two Libyan Air Force Colonels Refuse to Launch ...
    Via: Reuters: Two Libyan Air Force fighter pilots defected on Monday and flew their jets to Malta where they told authorities they had been ordered to bomb protesters, Maltese government officials said. They said the two pilots, both colonels, took off from a base near Tripoli. One of them has r ...
  • Detroit to Close Half of Public Schools
    Via: The Detroit News: Swift and severe changes are coming to Detroit Public Schools. State education officials have ordered Robert Bobb to immediately implement a financial restructuring plan that balances the district’s books by closing half of its schools, swelling high school class sizes to ...

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 ...

Desertification

  • Water and adaptation to climate change in tran ...
    Read at : Water Issues Announcement List information_notice_adaptation_and_transboundary_cooperation_workshop_final_rev Second workshop on water and adaptation to climate change in transboundary basins: challenges, progress and lessons learnt (Geneva, 12-13 April 2011) We ...
  • Southern Sudan will need to invest in infrastr ...
    Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?Reportid=91951 SUDAN: Farming the future in the South YEI, 17 February 2011 (IRIN) – With independence only months away, Southern Sudan will need to invest in infrastructure to feed and employ its people, while seeking alternatives to … Continue read ...
  • Knowledge Management for the UNCCD: Invitation ...
    Read at : Land Degradation Announcement List KM for the UNCCD The Secretariat of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification would like to invite you to participate on a side event on Knowledge Management for the UNCCD. In … Continue reading →
  • African nightshade (Solanum scabrum) : interes ...
    Read at : http://blogs.worldwatch.org/nourishingtheplanet/african-nightshade-an-underappreciated-native-comes-into-the-light/ African Nightshade: An Underappreciated Native Comes into the Light Danielle Nierenberg By Matt Styslinger The term ânightshadeâ refers collectively to a wide-ranging gro ...
  • The spineless prickly pear cactus (Opuntia fic ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.thenational.ae/news/uae-news/farmers-serve-prickly-feast-to-livestock Farmers serve prickly feast to livestock Megan Detrie (Writer) The prickly pear cactus will soon be grown on UAE farms as a water-efficient food for animals. Known as Optunia ...

The Paper Trail

  • District of Columbia’s Poor Pay Triple f ...
    Poor residents of Washington, D.C. receive the worst internet service and pay three times more than wealthier neighborhoods, according to a recent survey.
  • Bankers Take Debit Fee Duel To Friendly Territ ...
    Bankers dueling with retailers over a Federal Reserve plan to limit debit card processing fees took the fight into friendly territory today at a House Financial Services subcommittee hearing.
  • GAO: Worst of the Worst Federal Programs
    The Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Postal Service, already the butt of many bad jokes, are among the poster children on the GAO’s list of federal agencies at “high risk” of waste, fraud, abuse and mismanagement.
  • Federal Panel Says FBI Overstated Science Behi ...
    Federal investigators overstated the strength of the scientific evidence against a late Army researcher blamed for the anthrax mailings that killed five people in 2001, a panel of scientists said Tuesday after an 18-month review. However, the panel didn't contradict the FBI's conclusion that the ...
  • Budget Deliberations Silent on Medicare or Oth ...
    True fiscal hawks likely won’t find much to celebrate in this week’s budget machinations, talk of spending cuts aside. That’s because neither President Obama nor Congressional Republicans have much to say about cutting the entitlement programs that are driving the nation’s long-term debt problem ...

backofthebook.ca

  • False news is good for you. Really.
    By Frank Moher The last time Avaaz.org organized an online petition, I wasn't too nice about it. But when it comes to "false news" -- yes, you read that right -- the activist organization is right on money. What is false news? Funny you should ask. I wondered exactly the same thing, ...
  • Bieberbortion
    by Rachel Krueger Bye Bieber Bunting rocks the cover of Rolling Stone next month, looking as bad-ass as his infant-face is capable of.  The Stone is teasing out its Biebernterview by releasing all the salacious bits, and the PITCHFORKS ARE A-GATHERIN.  Particularly around the Bieb’s stance ...
  • Who is Bev Oda’s Con-sigliere?
    By Montreal Simon He rose in the House of Commons yesterday like a mob boss defending one of his gang members. While Bev Oda sat there wearing sunglasses, looking like her tongue had been cut out. But all I could see was the fear in his eyes, and his pudgy hands. And all I ...
  • McLuhan saw this coming
    By Dave Brindle Lost in all of the hum online about Egypt and the CRTC was that 2011 is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Marshall McLuhan. He was right. When I tweeted that, my friend Rod Mickleburgh of The Globe and Mail shot back: @davebrindleshow mcluhan was certainly right ...
  • Red, warm, and close to the heart
    By Jodi A. Shaw I’ve never been shy about my distaste for Valentine’s Day.   I don’t endorse or encourage celebrating it, I don’t accept Valentine’s Day gifts from anyone other than small children who have an innocent appreciation for the "holiday." Instead, every year I close my eyes, plug m ...

libcom

  • Report from Madison: Fascists and Unions in th ...
    Wisconsin Protest.png The whole situation centered in Madison, Wisconsin has become a major class confrontation. The university students (who may or may not be proletarian) excepted, from our side t ...
  • On Wisconsin! First of May Anarchist Alliance ...
    1 mayo E.jpg For over a week now, in response to the draconian anti-labor proposals of the Republican Governor, the people of Wisconsin have rose up in the hundreds of thousands in militant and creat ...
  • Strikes continue in Egypt despite military thr ...
    mahalla.jpg Despite threats from Egypt's new military government that the wave of strikes which has swept the country will no longer be tolerated, 15,000 workers at Misr Spinning and Weaving in Al-M ...
  • The Flames of Phaphamani
    Pedro Alexis Tabensky on recent events in Grahamstown, South Africa, and the increasing repression of poor people's movements there. by Pedro Alexis Tabensky read more
  • Demonstrations continue against attack on Wisc ...
    Wisconsin.jpg Update on the protests against wage cuts and the removal of collective bargaining for state workers in Wisconsin, with words of warning about the Democrats and unions from a local worke ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • 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 ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

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

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

  • Olivia Chow, NDP MP (Jan 15, 2011)
    Jack Layton and Olivia Chow: Ottawa’s political power couple -- he’s a party leader, she’s one of his backbenchers. But only one of them makes the cut for this week’s program, and its not him! Olivia Chow is our guest and there’s lots to talk about.
  • Margaret Bloodworth, Retired Senior Bureaucrat ...
    She was at the front lines of Canada's response to 9-11, just part of a distinguished three decade long public service career. Margaret Bloodworth has now retired, but her thoughts on the country's safety, and the role of a senior public servant make her this week's guest.
  • Tony Blair, former British PM (Sept 11, 2010)
    He was British prime minister for a decade of change and controversy. This week, as his book "A Journey" hits shelves around the world, Tony Blair is our guest.
  • Colm Feore (encore)
    His acting career is prolific, his roles varied, his talent immeasurable. Whether on the Shakespearean stage or the big or small screen, he's one of the most recognizable Canadian faces in the business. In this encore broadcast from 2001, Colm Feore discusses "acting is acting is acting".
  • Rick Hansen
    His courage and determination are known around the world - while his commitment to spinal cord research has raised millions. He is a remarkable Canadian and one we're excited and proud to have as our guest this week.

Scotts Contracting

  • Gov‘t Software Creates ’Fake People’ to Spread ...
    The US government is offering private intelligence companies contracts to create software to manage "fake people" on social media sites and create the illusion of consensus on controversial issues. The contract calls for the development of "Persona Management Software" which … Continue reading →
  • Republicans Ax the Budget $61 Million
    The Proposed cuts sound good in theory while actually doing more harm than good. (Using Simple Math anyone can see) Did the proposed cuts enacted by the House in the wee hours make any one else sick?  If your are … Continue reading →
  • Used Wind Turbines Wanted- Guest Post
    USED WIND TURBINES FOR SALE? USED WIND TURBINES WANTED? Are you planning to repower? Want to sell your exisiting wind turbines? Want to achieve the best sales price? Are you searching for a used wind turbine? ralph wrote: Bonus 600 … Continue reading →
  • Glory Departs Feb 23 NASAs latest Climate Chan ...
    The NASA satellite Glory is set to launch into the Earths Atmosphere. The Glory Launch will further Climatologist study of Airborne Particles (Aerosols) and how they affect the the Earths Climate. They will be studying the ubiquitous particles (existing or … Continue reading →
  • CME-Solar Storm Web Resources-Q and A
    In a previous Article I reported: More Active Sun Means Nasty Solar Storms Ahead. In this post I added emphasis on the facts that: "The sun is waking up from a deep slumber, and in the next few years we … Continue reading →

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • بی‌خبری از وضعیت مهدی کروبی و همسرش
    به نوشتۀ سایت‌های نزدیک به مهدی کروبی، مأموران رژیم به خانۀ وی هجوم برده و آقای کروبی و همسرش را در اطاق‌های جداگانه حبس کرده‌اند. اما سایت سحام نیوز می‌افزاید که "هیچ خبری از سرنوشت مهدی کروبی و همسرش در دست نیست".read more
  • توقیف کتاب‌ها و اسناد موجود در منزل کروبی / با ...
    سایت حزب اعتماد ملی خبر داد که عصر روز گذشته، ماموران امنیتی با حضور در منزل مهدی کروبی، تعداد زیادی از کتاب‌ها و اسناد وی را توقیف کرده و به همراه خود برده‌اند. ماموران همچنین علی کروبی را نیز در منزلش بازداشت کرده‌اند.read more
  • Iranian Governemt Closed Down Freedom Messenge ...
    As of now Freedom Messenger channel is still closed. It is becoming more and more apparent that this is an attempt by the Iranian government to interfere with this channel by reporting frivolous copyright violations. We are asking all Iranians to continue to call on Youtube to enable this chann ...
  • Iran detains son of prominent opposition leade ...
    The website also says security forces raided the elder Karroubi's house, locking him and his wife Fatemeh in separate rooms and confiscating books and documents.
  • زمزمه های اختلاف نظر میان فرماندهان سپاه پاسدا ...
    هیچ آدم عاقلی نمی پذیرد برای تعدادی معدود آدم معترض که رسانه های دولتی تبلیغ می کنند به این همه نیرو نیاز باشد

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Activism in New Zealand
    For me personally, the advantages of living in New Zealand far outweigh the negatives. In my mind, this relates less to tangible political or social features than to the reality that organizing for change is much easier here than in the US. For a 30 plus year activist, this is obviously a high ...
  • The Legacy of Sir Roger Douglas
    In brief , the policies introduced by Minister of Finance Sir Roger Douglas in the 1980s included the rapid elimination of import tariffs that protected New Zealand agricultural producers and manufacturers, rapid privatization of state owned industries, which for the most part ended up under for ...
  • The Chile of the Pacific
    An Early Laboratory for Neoliberal Reforms Overall I have enjoyed numerous lifestyle advantages living in New Zealand. There are a few notable exceptions, of course, beyond the emotional isolation of being separated from my family and American friends. Most relate, either directly or indirectly, ...
  • The Common Misfortunes of Capitalism
    Obviously there is both an upside and a downside to living in New Zealand. All developed and developing countries are forced to operate under the same global capitalist system, which is under near absolute control of multinational corporations, via the WTO, the Global Agreement on Tariff and Tra ...
  • Bernie Sanders’ Filibuster and the Secr ...
    For those who haven’t seen the YouTube coverage of Senator Bernie Sanders 8½ hour filibuster on December 10, 2010, I highly recommend it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXLJBaoz0Ew The whole speech is available on C-SPAN http://www.c-span.org/ Maria Gilardin, host of TUC Radio, has also record ...

Doug's Darkworld

  • World Revolution?
    The revolutionary movements now sweeping a dozen countries may very well herald a new chapter in world history. I mean, we are seeing simultaneously a number of events that even singly would have been one of the biggest stories of the year in the preceding decades. This is pretty incredible when ...
  • Ten World War Two Allied military blunders (Pa ...
    This is the second part of ten Allied military blunders of World War Two. The comments I made at the beginning of the first article still apply. The only thing I would add is that I have tried to select lesser known blunders, especially ones that made for an interesting story. With no further ad ...
  • The Voynich Manuscript, Shady Kilograms, Shyst ...
    So much for the good Berkeley weather. We’ve had torrential rain. Hail. Lightning. Wind. More rain. The cats wanted to go out this morning and when I held the door open, the wind blew them right back inside. They wisely decided they had some sleep to catch up on and didn’t want to go outside [.. ...
  • One Million Hits and Thanks for all the Commen ...
    TUNISIA ââââââââââââââââ : 100% done EGYPT ââââââââââââââââ : 100% done ALGERIA ââââââââââââââââ: in progress YEMEN: ââââââââââââââââ: in progress PALESTINE: âââââââââââââ: VIRUS DETECTED   Well, I recently passed a million hits on Doug’s Darkworld. Kinda of a strange feeling. A million people h ...
  • Is it War Yet?
    I apologize for not being able to blog recently, there’s lots going on in the world, but alas, my Internet service as failed me miserably. We may very well be seeing the beginning of a world revolution on the streets of Cairo, and the only source of “news” I have most days is my television. [... ...

FourWinds10

  • NEW MADRID EARTHQUAKE AND MORE
  • A Dot on the Map, Until the Earth Started Shak ...
    GUY, Ark. — Everybody around here is getting used to the earthquakes, and that does not sit well with Dirk DeTurck. He sent out 600 fliers and made, well, had to be around 100 phone calls, trying to attract people to his meeting on earthquake preparedness. And yet on a recent Tuesday night, he s ...
  • Unusual Black Oil Plume
    Indian Creek Eastpoint, Florida � John Hutchison and I have been traveling the beaches of the Gulf of Mexico, using his "special frequencies" to clean the polluted Gulf waters. I have joked with John about the radio frequencies becoming a "beacon" to "other enitites". � On January 28, 2011 "some ...
  • 3,000+ foot long mysterious black blob of kill ...
    Big blob of gunk found in the Gulf, From a distance the toxic goo looks like oil, but up close it smells like rotten eggs and wiggles like jelly. Scientists have no idea what it is or how it wound up in the northern Gulf of Mexico… [j]ust off the Florida Panhandle coastline, within site of Perdi ...
  • Naomi Klein: The Mystery of the Black Goo
    When The Nation's Naomi Klein traveled to the Gulf of Mexico in December to report on the aftermath of BP's Deepwater Horizon spill, she saw disturbing signs of the oil's destruction. But after she left, the research crew aboard the Weatherbird II encountered a slimy substance made up of dead pl ...

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Due Diligence: How to Evaluate a Renewable Ene ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post Doing Due Diligence To people who follow the energy industry closely, it’s a common occurrence to come across announcements from companies proclaiming to have developed the key to the ‘next big thing’ — for solving the worldâs energy crisis. Maybe they sa ...
  • The Media’s Role in the Range Fuels Fiasco
    Join the forum discussion on this post Now that it seems that the mainstream media has finally caught on to the fact that something went terribly awry at Range Fuels, it is time for me to close the book on them. This will be my last Range Fuels story, but I think there is a [...]
  • Butanol Q&A With Cobalt Technologies CEO Rick ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post In the previous story — Butanol 101 — I provided readers some background on the production of butanol, including my own background on working with butanol. This story is about one company’s efforts to commercialize bio-butanol. The interview originated fr ...
  • Reintroducing Butanol
    Join the forum discussion on this post This story was initially intended to cover a recent interview that I did with Cobalt Technologies CEO Rick Wilson. However, the introduction and background on butanol became long enough that I felt it was a standalone story. The interview with Rick Wilson ...
  • The Natural Gas Debate
    Join the forum discussion on this post The Economist just finished hosting an online debate on natural gas. The resolution was an interesting one: This house believes that natural gas will do more than renewables to limit the world’s carbon emissions. At first glance, the statement may seem pre ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • 3 No-Fuss, No-Plastic, No-Product Hair Styling ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—During Rodale.com's Plastic-Free February challenge, I decided to focus most of my plastic-reduction efforts around beauty care products, mainly hair products. Although I always try to find more plant-based, less toxic hair styling products, the truth is, almost ...
  • Why Exercising on an Empty Stomach Is a Bad Id ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—To eat or not to eat…before a workout: It's a question that has perplexed gym rats for years, ever since Bill Phillips suggested in his 1999 bestseller Body for Life that exercising on an empty stomach would speed up fat burn. The idea is that not eating before exercise ...
  • Breastfeeding: It's Now Tax Deductible!
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Good news for new moms: Breastfeeding just became tax deductible. The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced last week that it's going to be providing its own form of breastfeeding help to struggling moms by making breast pumps and related supplies a tax write-off ...
  • Protect Babies, Families by Banning Mothballs
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PAâIn 2008, the European Union banned the sale of mothballs containing the volatile chemical that gives them their classic smellânaphthalene. But here in the U.S., and in other parts of the world, the compoundâclassified as a possible human carcinogenâis still an insecticid ...
  • Protect Your Home Garden from New GMO Threats
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—The recent barrage of approvals allowing genetically engineered ingredients to infiltrate our coffee, milk, ice cream, and even apple pie is enough to persuade some health-conscious consumers to rip out the front lawn and start producing their own food free of geneticall ...

big think

  • Who Needs Happy Endings?
    Joyce Carol Oates has written a beautiful book about grief following the loss of a spouse. As Oates is one of the most prolific American writers much has been written about it: comparing it to Joan Didion’s Year of Magical Thinking; praising its prose; considering the psychological split between ...
  • Sweden’s Approach to the Sex Trade: Let the Bu ...
    Sometime I wonder why there isn’t more creative energy applied to finding solutions to social problems that have been created by the proliferation of the sex trades. The debate around policy appears to be driven by those with political (and moral) agendas in such a way that two distinct camps ha ...
  • The Design Republic of China: What Happens Whe ...
    What will it take for the Western world to change its mind about what "Made in China" signifies? Unfortunately, for most people, those three words - "Made in China" - carry all kinds of unintended economic baggage: cheap, shoddily-made goods; the loss of tens of thousands U.S. jobs; inhuman fact ...
  • 502 - Hung Out to Dry: A Taxonomy of City Bloc ...
    Kublai Khan had noticed that Marco Polo's cities resembled one another, as if the passage from one to another involved not a journey but a change of elements.� In an urbanist twist to the Tales of the Thousand and One Nights, Polo the Venetian regales Khan the Mongolian with glimpses of som ...
  • Another sizable earthquake in Christchurch, Ne ...
    Last year, the city of Christchurch in New Zealand experienced a M7.2 earthquake. Luckily that earthquake was centered in a relatively unpopulated area outside the city in the middle of the night. Today, it seems, a potential aftershock of the September 2010 earthquake has struck the closer to t ...

Information Liberation

  • When Tax-Feeders Revolt
    What would happen if tax victims, rather than tax-feeders, were to go on strike? If Madison -- or the capital city of any of Leviathan's other 49 regional administrative units -- were over-run by thousands of productive people who decided that they ...
  • Greece and America: the Taxman Wants More
    Agents from the Financial and Economic Crime Unit sat at the Three Little Pigs Cafe bar in Athens recently working a stakeout to find a suspected tax cheat*the Three Little Pigs owner. These Greek government gumshoes were soon asking to look at cust...
  • TSA's naked body scanners worthless: Agent sli ...
    An undercover TSA agent was able to get through security at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport with a handgun during testing of the enhanced-imaging body scanners, according to a high-ranking, inside source at the Transportation Security Adminis...
  • The Other Captive Nations
    We are living in an Orwell novel, so it is not expected that anyone would remember President Ronald Reagan*s war on Libya in 1986. Both Reagan and his vice president Bush were on television daily to decry Libya as a terror state ruled by a wicke...
  • The Latest Pakistani Outrage on US Soil
    You probably heard about the Pakistani intelligence operative who shot and killed two Americans in Washington, D.C. He says the men were trying to rob him, though he shot them ten times, including one as he was fleeing the scene. Two other Pakistanis...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Five picks from the science news
    Fix your H, increase citations and get more grant money – Citations have become the currency of science, which is used to reward scientists and scientific institutions. Small variations in citation scores can make millions of pounds difference in the financial outcomes of national Research Asses ...
  • Can we count on journal metrics?
    How do you rank science, how do you rate scientists, what kudos do you give their papers and what metrics do you attach to the impact of a paper? They’re questions as old as the scientific literature itself. But, no one has resolved them. Independent organisations and publishers have attempted w ...
  • The perils of ranking
    Today, I discovered I was listed on a Top 100 of UK Twitter users by The Independent newspaper based on the algorithm from PeerIndex. I was #47, since you ask, same as Armando Iannucci. It’s not that long since I made it on to a similar PeerIndex list published elsewhere. It’s all very flatterin ...
  • Heptastic science news
    The full list: The Twitter 100 – Its 200 million users share 110 million messages a day – and if you don't know who rules the twittersphere, you don't understand the 21st-century world. This guide is a definitive who's who of the UK's tweet elite. Although for some reason they included me on the ...
  • Count envy, satisfaction and achievement
    A friend of mine, András Paszternák, runs a thriving online nanotech community called Nanopaprika (he’s in Hungary, hence the name). He started the community (for which I am a Scientific & Advisory Board member) when he was doing his PhD and it has grown rapidly into one of the most targeted n ...

RFF Library

  • How U.S. Federal Climate Policy Could Affect C ...
    World Resources Institute / by Shally Venugopal, Amanda Sauer and Kyle Loughlin http://tinyurl.com/62hteze This study, conducted with Standard & Poors Rating Services, examines how climate change policy drivers could be incorporated into the evaluation of credit quality. It analyzes two types of ...
  • Energy Emergence: Rebound & Backfire as Emerge ...
    Breakthrough Institute / by Jesse Jenkins, Ted Nordhaus, and Michael Shellenberger http://thebreakthrough.org/blog/Energy_Emergence.pdf [Summary] Energy efficiency is widely viewed as an inexpensive way to reduce aggregate energy consumption and thus greenhouse gas emissions. Many national gover ...
  • Draft Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissio ...
    US EPA http://tinyurl.com/467rcez [From Executive Summary] An emissions inventory that identifies and quantifies a country’s primary anthropogenic sources and sinks of greenhouse gases is essential for addressing climate change. This inventory adheres to both 1) a comprehensive and detailed set ...
  • Asia Green City Index
    Economist Intelligence Unit http://tinyurl.com/6g6gv94 [Yale Environment 360] Singapore has emerged as Asia’s greenest city thanks to a host of ambitious environmental programs and green initiatives, according to a new report. The Asia Green City Index — conducted by the Economist Intelligence U ...
  • National Land Cover Database Updated
    US Geological Survey http://tinyurl.com/4am4l3o The latest edition of the National Land Cover Database (NLCD 2006) is now publicly available. This massive database updates our knowledge of the Nation’s land cover and documents precisely where land cover change has occurred between 2001 and 2006. ...

Scientific American - News

  • Glory in the Sky: New Satellite Set to Monitor ...
    The solar forecast calls for sluggish times ahead, according to scientists in Boulder, Colo.--which could have a cooling effect on Earth. A better understanding of solar processes and their climatic impacts will be key to understanding how far such quiescence could go to counteract global warmin ...
  • Climate Change Extends Allergy Season in North ...
    Bad news for--achoo!--those who sniffle, er suffer their way through ragweed--sniff, snort, itch--season: A team of researchers has found that increased warming, particularly in the northern half of North America, has added weeks to the fall pollen season.It's enough to make you grab a tissue: M ...
  • Beam Bagged: "Reverse Laser" Functions as Near ...
    Since they were invented 50 years ago, lasers have become extraordinarily commonplace. Anyone with a few dollars to spare can get themselves a laser pointer, and every CD, DVD or Blu-ray player uses a laser to read the bits encoded on discs. (It goes without saying that the same is true of those ...
  • Mouse Study Reveals Mechanism behind Diabetes ...
    It is well known that diabetes wreaks havoc on the vascular system. In fact, vascular complications arising from diabetes are the leading cause of blindness, kidney failure and cardiovascular problems in the U.S. And yet, the physiological mechanisms that link diabetes, which afflicts 26 million ...
  • Defective Growth Gene in Rare Dwarfism Disorde ...
    For the past 22 years Jaime Guevara-Aguirre has served as the de facto physician for a truly unique community in Ecuador. His patients stand on average 1.2 meters tall, a result of a rare genetic disorder known as Laron syndrome . Of the approximately 300 people in the world known to have the c ...

RAWA News

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frogblog

  • Another earthquake in Christchurch – twi ...
    A sad day for us all. Our thoughts are with the people of Christchurch. I’ve found twitter to be a good way to get a feel for what’s happening: Tweets from people in/near Christchurch All earthquake-related tweets Photos tagged with eqnz
  • Privatisation is not a hit – not even at Kiwib ...
    Even among those on the right who will dominate participation in Kiwiblog internet polls, there is no majority support for partial privatisation of the energy SOEs. A scientific 3 News Reid Research poll is showing public opposition to partial privatisation as high as 60%. Which makes sense rea ...
  • The people of the Middle East need our support
    Since Mubarak fell the pro-democracy protests in other Arab countries have mushroomed. In Libya people are braving the bullets of Gaddafi’s thugs. Many have been killed. Today the people of Morocco have joined those in Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, and Bahrain in challenging their rulers. Many ...
  • Key keeps digging on BMW fleet purchase
    Is John Key really expecting anyone to believe that his Government’s shambolic handling of the BMW fleet purchase was caused by Private Kirifi Mila’s death in Afghanistan and Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s visit? “What I can say is it wasn’t helped by the death (of Private Kirifi Mil ...
  • Greens agree to cast Carter proxy
    The Green Party has agreed to cast proxy votes for Te Atatū MP Chris Carter. The agreement takes effect in the next session of Parliament. Mr Carter can tell us whether he wishes to support or oppose and we will cast his vote accordingly.  (And we will use the Green Party’s position as a default ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • What should be done with illegal immigrants?
    That this question is even being asked reveals something about ourselves. How would you answer it if you were an illegal immigrant? Perhaps you've never heard of the Golden Rule. The rule may not be the best guide to moral behavior but asking yourself how you'd answer the question if you wer ...
  • A Revolting World
    Many in many lands are demonstrating against their governments. Some claim that people everywhere are revolting and that a worldwide revolution is imminent. Even both the orthodox and heterodox presses are all atwitter. But it is far easier to bring about a successful revolution than it is t ...
  • Demented Democracy
    An addiction to opinion, each person being entitled to his own, and the unwarranted notion that those who fight for their beliefs are "principled" is the reason that democracies teeter between antagonistic belief systems and are unable to resolve any social problems. Each party strives to re ...
  • Pity the Poor Economists
    The first thing a judicious reader notices is how much disagreement exists among economists on almost every, perhaps every, matter. Then it becomes clear that much of this disagreement is acrimonious. Some of these people appear to hate each other. Now ask yourselves, how likely would it hav ...
  • Can America Be Changed?
    If the American people ever hope to take back their country, they need to understand America's political economy so the parts of it that are morally offensive and economically ineffective can be repudiated. Only then will Americans be able to make the changes that are needed to make Lincoln' ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Bad Rumblings in the Economy
    Bad economic news #1: Real estate prices slid again in December, pushing a leading price index within a whisper of its lowest level since the housing crash began, data released Tuesday showed....“Despite improvements in the overall economy, housing continues to drift lower and weaker,” Da ...
  • The Death and Life of the Democratic Party
    Wisconsin's public sector unions are the ones in the news right now, but it's private sector unions that have shriveled away almost to nothing over the past several decades. In the current issue of Mother Jones, I tell the story of that decline and how it's affected the Democratic Party, cha ...
  • Qaddafi Bombing His Own People?
    From the Guardian: The two Libyan Air Force fighter pilots who apparently defected earlier with their jets to Malta have told Maltese government officials that they had been ordered to bomb protesters, Reuters reports. And the New York Times: The faltering government of the Libyan s ...
  • Conservatives and Cops
    Two quick hits today, both responding to posters at Outside the Beltway. First, Steven Taylor notes that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's union busting efforts are aimed only at some public sector unions, not all of them. This prompts a question aimed at Walker's allies: If it is a fundament ...
  • Chart of the Day: Republican vs. Democratic Sp ...
    The federal government can spend money on social programs two ways: directly, via ordinary tax-funded programs (Medicare, food stamps, etc.) or indirectly, via tax expenditures (tax deductions for charitable contributions, employer health insurance, etc.). Christopher Faricy, a political sci ...

Insanity Report

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

Simple Climate

  • Evidence of humans’ role in deluges starts to ...
    Scientists find the first evidence that humans are causing extreme rainfall, while the identification that greenhouse gas emissions increased the odds of 2000’s record rainfall in the UK are set to open the flood gates for telling whether humans have influenced extreme weather events.
  • Atlantic cold tongue tells of humans’ cl ...
    Aerosol emissions are more responsible than global warming for weakened trade winds, but pollution controls look set to show how government rules can reverse changes we have caused.
  • Climate researchers warn of food and forest ti ...
    With food prices reaching record highs, worsening droughts in east Africa will add to agricultural problems, while a parched Amazon could speed rather than fight global warming.
  • 2,000 year water temperature high underlines A ...
    Average temperatures of water flowing into the Arctic since 1890 are 2ºC higher than they have been on average in the previous two millennia, Robert Spielhagen and colleagues show.
  • Rain-soaked plants trudge downhill
    Surveys separated by 70 years show how climate change in Northern California has increased rainfall, causing plants to move to generally warmer, drier, lower altitude habitats.

e!Science News

  • Using EEGs to diagnose autism spectrum disorde ...
    A computational physicist and a cognitive neuroscientist at Children's Hospital Boston have come up with the beginnings of a noninvasive test to evaluate an infant's autism risk. It combines the standard electroencephalogram (EEG), which records electrical activity in the brain, with machine-lea ...
  • Vaccine made with synthetic gene protects agai ...
    Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have developed an experimental vaccine that appears to protect against an increasingly common and particularly deadly form of pneumococcal pneumonia. Details of the new vaccine, which was tested in an animal model, are repo ...
  • Simple spit and blood tests might detect burno ...
    Your blood and the level of a hormone in your spit could reveal if you're on the point of burnout, according to research undertaken by Dr. Sonia Lupien and Robert-Paul Juster of the Centre for Studies on Human Stress of Louis-H. Lafontaine Hospital and the University of Montreal. In addition to ...
  • Cancer-related pathways reveal potential treat ...
    Cross-disciplinary teams of scientists studying genetic pathways that are mutated in many forms of cancer, but which also cause certain forms of congenital heart disease – including hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), a thickening of the heart muscle that is the leading cause of sudden death in c ...
  • Gastric bypass surgery associated with improve ...
    Gastric bypass surgery appears to lead to better long-term results including greater weight loss, resolution of diabetes and improved quality of life compared with sleeve gastrectomy and "lap-band" surgery, according to two reports in the February issue of Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Ar ...

unEarthed

Brave New Climate

  • Open Thread 9 – technosolar catastrophe?
    This is the first Open Thread of 2011. The Open Thread is a general discussion forum, where you can talk about whatever you like — there is nothing ‘off topic’ here — within reason. So get up on your soap box! The standard commenting rules of courtesy apply, and at the very least your chat shoul ...
  • Safeguarding the nuclear fuel cycle
    Guest Post by Dr. William Hannum. A member of the Science Council for Global Initiatives, Bill worked for more than 40 years in nuclear power development, stretching from design and analysis of the Shippingport reactor to the Integral Fast Reactor. He earned his BA in physics at Princeton and hi ...
  • Gas aplenty, but UAE opts for nuclear – ...
    Dr Ziggy Switkowski (former CEO of Telstra, Optus and Kodak, recently retired Chairman of ANSTO, and now Chancellor of RMIT University) recently had an excellent article published in the Australian Financial Review. Unfortunately, there is no online version available, so for those who missed the ...
  • Climate Change – it’s complicated, but i ...
    I was recently invited to provide a response to an opinion article on climate change that was offered to “The Punch” website. The lead article can be read here: Itâs just too hard to understand climate change. My response, reproduced below (original here), should be read with this context in mi ...
  • ABC Counterpoint radio on nuclear costs, and n ...
    Many have seen/listened to this already, but for completeness, here are the details of my recent interview with the ABC Radio program Counterpoint on the cost of nuclear energy. It is based on a discussion of the recent Energy peer-reviewed paper authored by Nicholson, Biegler & Brook. Should Au ...

Indigenist Opinion

  • Sins of the Fathers: A Three Part Series Exami ...
    Sins of the Fathers: A Three Part Series Examining Black Victims of Sexual Abuse by Catholic Priests: CHICAGO (FinalCall.com) - David Nolan, now 42, said his sordid tale of sexual abuse by a Catholic priest began when he was 13 years old. He said the priest used his position of authority and pow ...
  • *The Confessions Of Nat Turner- Novelist Willi ...
    AMERICAN LEFT HISTORY: "Directly below is a review (January 29,2007)of William Styron's book (originally written in 1967) 'The Confessions Of Nat Turner', an imaginative literary treatment (for the most part) of the justly famous 1831 slave rebellion led by the heroic Turner and his band of fell ...
  • Khalid Muhammad on Donahue
    Editor's Note: Being this is ‘Black History’ month in the US, I felt it was appropriate to mention Bro. Min. Khalid Muhammad as his day of emergence was on Feb. 17th and whether you loved him, hated him or feared him, he spoke from the heart and with sincere love and dedication to his own people ...
  • Recy Taylor: A Symbol of Jim Crow's Forgotten ...
    Recy Taylor: A Symbol of Jim Crow's Forgotten Horror: [theroot.com] "Days after the brutal attack, Taylor's story traveled through word of mouth, catching the attention of a Montgomery NAACP activist named Rosa Parks. A seasoned anti-rape crusader, who focused on the sexual assaults of black wom ...
  • THE PLAGUE OF THE CENTURY � Desertpeace
    THE PLAGUE OF THE CENTURY � Desertpeace: "Throughout history mankind’s existence has been threatened by various plagues, usually in the form of infectious diseases. Modern times call for modern threats, not necessarily of the viral type, but as uber nationalism, zionism in particular. One of th ...

Republicans are a Disease

  • David Koch – Destroying Democracy
    What does David Koch do when he is not trying to destroy democracy in America? Oh, I forgot. Pollute.
  • Wisconsin Concessions
    So the governator of Wisconsin believes the union folks have to make concessions. What concessions is he asking the filthy rich, and large corporations to make in his state? Oh, that’s right. They get handouts…. On the backs of the working folks.
  • Tea Baggers Wanted
    If you are a tea bagger the bus is leaving! Git on down to Virginia and climb aboard. If you are an idiot easily influenced by people that lie to you, you will fit right in. If you think giving billionaires tax cuts while cutting home heating oil subsidies is good for freezing senior citizens, [ ...
  • Fight to the Death
    It seems like Republicans would fight to the death protecting tax cuts for billionaires. If some state needs to balance their budget, they have to get the money by screwing the union employees. Help the rich, and screw the rest. Today’s GOP.
  • Fox News
    The more you watch, the less you know…

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

  • Analysis of the Global Insurrection Against Ne ...
    By David DeGraw, If you think what’s happening in Egypt won’t happen within the United States, you’ve been watching too much TV. The statistics speak for themselves.
  • Welcome to the New AmpedStatus.com
    We're back with a redesigned site and three new features! Introducing the AmpedStatus Social Network and two new Amped Coverage wires.
  • Time to Fight Back! Join The Movement
    As a broad-based network representing people across the political spectrum, we are working together to reach common ground and fight for pivotal political reforms. As long as the economy and government are rigged in favor of the top economic 0.1%, we will all lose.
  • Horrific Arizona Massacre Is A Sign of Tragedi ...
    Let This Tragedy Be A Wake Up Call. Given Socio-Political Conditions, Many More Violent Acts On the Way.
  • AmpedStatus.com Hit By Mass DoS Attacks
    As you may have noticed, for most of the day yesterday AmpedStatus.com was down. Shortly after posting our new report we were hit with a heavy barrage of DoS attacks...

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  • Netanyahu gets back at Lieberman, NGO probe di ...
    The Knesset delivered some good news yesterday: The decision to form an investigative committee that would look into the work of leftwing NGOs has lost momentum and is likely not to be implemented. It seems that the second vote, necessary to confirm the probe, won’t even take place. The NGO’s in ...
  • Letter from Tripoli: An eyewitness account
    Yesterday evening (21 February) I was able to speak via Skype for about 20 minutes with a friend who lives in Sarraj, a suburb of Tripoli that is located 10 kilometers west of the city’s center. He agreed to my publishing a summary of the main points of our conversation; and he also answered som ...
  • Between the lines: an Israeli look at Georgia& ...
    Gori will forever remain in my memory, like an image from some strange dream. I don’t necessarily mean a bad dream, there’s something very pleasantly bewitching about this city, as there is about everywhere in Georgia, but it’s spooky nonetheless, especially on a cold winter’s day. Gori is ...
  • A settler’s argument for the Right of Re ...
    By Eliaz Cohen | Translation: Dimi Reider The story of the return of the descendants of the members of Kfar Etzion, a Jewish kibbutz destroyed in the war of 1948, can offer a healing model to the conflict between the two nations in this one country. For over sixty years, [...]
  • Israeli Army Targeting Children in Beit Ummar
    The Israeli army has been arresting children in the village of Nabi Saleh for the past two months as a means of applying pressure on the village to end its popular unarmed resistance against the occupation. On Saturday 19 February, Israeli army officials adopted a similar strategy against the so ...

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Matt Weidner Blog

  • WHAT?!! One of the most shocking Robo Signer S ...
    Just when I thought I couldn’t be shocked or mind boggled anymore….something new crosses the wire that just leaves me speechless…. Robosigning Attorney Scandal….. Tweet this! Share and Enjoy: Scridb filter
  • Karma Strikes in AZ; The ID AG Fades; MERS S ...
    From the site, “Chink in the Armor” Karma Strikes in AZ Karma is a funny thing.  âAs ye sow,  so shall ye reapâ  is the basic concept.  Karma is like that big bucket of water at the water parks that fills to a certain tipping point and then hundreds of gallon come splashing over the [...]
  • The Communist Manifesto- Alive in Well In Amer ...
    The working people have nothing to lose but their chains. The theory of the Fat Cats may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property. You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private property is already done away wi ...
  • MERS Is Trying To MoonWalk Away From The Crime ...
    Last week, I wrote that April Charney’s quote, “Can you get a divorce if you’ve never been married” was my favorite Fraudclosure quote.  Charney was referring to the fact that in most cases, the mortgages being foreclosed on never made it into the trusts so trying to enforce them as such is a l ...
  • The David Stern Chaos Is Costing Taxpayers Mil ...
    There is absolute chaos in courtrooms all across the state of Florida.  Last week in Lee County, an attorney for David Stern’s office begged for leniency (and got it time and time again) by arguing that they were withdrawing from 150,000 cases across the State of Florida.  Maybe if Mr. Stern w ...

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The Parallel Parliament

  • Affording Democracy – “Morning In ...
    So, it’s “Morning in America” again. The Republicans and the Tea Party recently celebrated what would have been Ronald Reagan’s 100th birthday by calling on the country to finish the revolution he started. This wouldn’t only be devastating for an America struggling under so many loads, it would ...
  • Can Canada Afford Democracy?
    Six months – even two months – ago, if pundits or politicians were asked, “If a scandal were to descend upon Ottawa, in which ministry do you think it would occur,” no one would have concluded CIDA or that its rather reclusive minister would be on the front page of every newspaper in the land. [ ...
  • Lighting the Kindling
    With all the hyper attention being paid to the unfolding drama of the CIDA minister this week, it’s important to remember that far greater issues are at stake. A couple of days ago I posted about the threat to the Canadian International Development Agency that comes with a scandal of this magnit ...
  • The Two Welcomes
    Marshall McLuhan saw modern media and the pursuit of images as a restless machine, exciting us in so many ways but wearing us down in others. One of the dangers of so many things assaulting our senses at the same time, he believed, was that they could slowly erode our ability to remember. “We li ...
  • Those Things That Outlast Us
    Lyndon Johnson was a master politician, especially in comprehending the Congress and its inner workings. He was quoted later in life as saying, “It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility o ...

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

  • International Handbook on Regulating Nanotechn ...
    Here’s an offer I’m sure you won’t be able to resist: The opportunity to read the first and last chapters of the just-published International Handbook on Regulating Nanotechnologies – for free! Due to the farsightedness of my co-editors, the publishers have agreed to let authors post their chapt ...
  • The New Toxicology of Sophisticated Materials: ...
    Cross-posted from The Risk Science Blog Several months ago, I was asked by a colleague if I fancied co-authoring a review on nanotoxicology for a copy of Toxicological Sciences celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Society of Toxicology (coming out later this year). Fool that I am, I agreed.  ...
  • Nanotechnology – Unplugged
    Next Tuesday, we’ll be launching a new series of occasional discussions on contemporary public health risk issues at the University of Michigan Risk Science Center.  And the first topic is – no surprises – nanotechnology. Under the tagline “No PowerPoint, no script; just stimulating conversatio ...
  • Small gods and the art of technology innovatio ...
    There’s something rather liberating about being asked to give a no-holds talk on your perspective on life, the universe and everything.  So when the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center asked if I would speak as part of their “Where do we go from here?” series, I jumped at it. No holds barred is ...
  • Lost in the Maize
    As you’ll have gathered from last week’s Lost in the Maize, I’ve been on the road this week.  In fact, I am writing this on the plane back to Detroit, looking forward to a quick wash, shave, sleep, and catch-up with family, before heading off to the Society for Risk Analysis annual meeting in Sa ...

Reader Supported News

  • Protests in the Middle East - Live Updates
    Intro: "Follow the events across the region as they unfold." Ahmed Butaki grieves over the body of his brother, Mohmoud Butaki, killed by Bahraini police. (photo: Getty Images) Sorry, your browser cannot display frames!
  • Protesters Die as Crackdown in Libya Intensifi ...
    The report begins: "Security forces loyal to Libya's Moammar Gadhafi unleashed heavy gunfire Sunday on thousands marching in a rebellious eastern city, cutting down mourners trying to bury victims in a bloody cycle of violence that has killed more than 200 people in the fiercest crackdown on the ...
  • Memories of 1995 Haunt GOP as Shutdown Talk Gr ...
    The report begins: "Few memories haunt Republicans more deeply than the 1995-96 partial shutdown of the federal government, which helped President Bill Clinton reverse his falling fortunes and recast House Republicans as stubborn partisans, not savvy insurgents." House Speaker John Boehner. ( ...
  • Protesters Die as Crackdown in Libya Intensifi ...
    The report begins: "Security forces loyal to Libya's Moammar Gadhafi unleashed heavy gunfire Sunday on thousands marching in a rebellious eastern city, cutting down mourners trying to bury victims in a bloody cycle of violence that has killed more than 200 people in the fiercest crackdown on the ...
  • Memories of 1995 Haunt GOP as Shutdown Talk Gr ...
    The report begins: "Few memories haunt Republicans more deeply than the 1995-96 partial shutdown of the federal government, which helped President Bill Clinton reverse his falling fortunes and recast House Republicans as stubborn partisans, not savvy insurgents." House Speaker John Boehner. ( ...

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

  • Antibacterial soap: Poses environmental health ...
    To protect yourself from harmful germs wash your hands, for at least 20 seconds, with plain old soap and water. That simple advice might be the take-away message from last week’s Food and Water Watch-sponsored congressional briefing on triclosan, an antibacterial agent found in hundreds of anti ...
  • The Cristo Rey/Amazing Grace Community Garden: ...
            Where there was once a block of run-down row homes in McElderry Park in East Baltimore, Maryland, there is now a burgeoning vegetable garden. The Amazing Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church started the garden to provide green space for the community and produce for the church’s foo ...
  • Jackson touts 50-year plan to ‘perennialize’ l ...
    The Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture was celebrating its 20th annual conference Feb. 2-5, but it seems that keynote speaker Wes Jackson wasn’t there to celebrate. Instead, he was on a mission to gather allies for his proposal of a 50-year farm bill, which could supplement th ...
  • Bills banning arsenic take shape in MD General ...
    Dr. Keeve Nachman, Director of the Farming for the Future Program at CLF, spoke at a press conference yesterday in the Maryland House of Delegates. The press conference was organized by Montgomery County Delegate Tom Hucker and Prince George’s County Senator Paul Pinsky.  Senator Pinsky and Del ...
  • A Former Teacher’s Take on The New Dietary Gui ...
    Every five years, the United States Departments of Human Health Services and Agriculture jointly release the Dietary Guidelines for America in the hopes of encouraging every American to eat a healthy diet, however, chances are the average person will never set eyes on the report. As a former tea ...

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • Africa: Global NATO Seeks To Recruit 50 New Mi ...
    Stop NATO February 20, 2011 Africa: Global NATO Seeks To Recruit 50 New Military Partners Rick Rozoff A recent article in Kenya’s Africa Review cited sources in the African Union (AU) disclosing that the 28-member North Atlantic Treaty Organization is preparing to sign a military partnership tre ...
  • NATO Surrenders Europe To U.S. Global Missile ...
    Stop NATO February 5, 2011 NATO Surrenders Europe To U.S. Global Missile Shield Project Rick Rozoff On January 27 the North Atlantic Treaty Organization took the most decisive step yet toward the implementation of the decades-old project first proposed by the Ronald Reagan administration for a S ...
  • Egypt: Will U.S. And NATO Launch Second Suez I ...
    Stop NATO February 2, 2011 Egypt: Will U.S. And NATO Launch Second Suez Intervention? Rick Rozoff On February 1 General James Mattis, commander of United States Central Command whose area of responsibility includes Egypt on its western end, stated that Washington currently has no plans to reinfo ...
  • Washington Intensifies Push Into Central Asia
    Stop NATO January 29, 2011 Washington Intensifies Push Into Central Asia Rick Rozoff A recent editorial on the website of Voice of America reflected on last year being one in which the United States solidified relations with the five former Soviet republics in Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzsta ...
  • Afghanistan: War Without End In A World Withou ...
    Stop NATO January 27, 2011 Afghanistan: War Without End In A World Without Conscience Rick Rozoff The largest foreign military force ever deployed in Afghanistan is now well into the tenth year of the longest and what has become the deadliest war of the 21st century. Some 154,000 occupation troo ...

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Intel Hub

  • Charlie McGrath: World in Crisis
    February 21st, 2011 http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/ar… http://www.zerohedge.com/article/oil-… http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/02/w… http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/… Related Posts: Worst Freeze In 60 Years Wipes Out Entire Crops Across The Southwestern U.S. And Northern Mexico Major Fo ...
  • New Zealand Rattled By Strong Quake
    CNN February 21st, 2011 A 6.3-magnitude earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand, on Tuesday afternoon, seriously damaged the city’s cathedrals, burst water mains, buckled streets and shut down phone service, according to media reports. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake struck just before ...
  • Captured CIA Agent Connected To False Flags Wi ...
    NotForSale2NWO February 21st, 2011 This is not only being reported by Press TV, it is being reported by multiple other news outlets that are not connected to the Iranian government. Was Raymond David a false flag operative? ‘CIA agent Davis linked to Taliban’ http://presstv.com/detail/166139.htm ...
  • Gaddafi’s Israel Threat Linked To Libya Riots?
    Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com February 21, 2011 Is it merely a coincidence that less than a week after Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi threatened Israel by calling on Palestinians to capitalize on the wave of popular uprisings in the Middle East by massing peacefully on the borders of the Zionis ...
  • Monsanto Shifts ALL Liability to Farmers
    By Cassandra Anderson Morph City February 21, 2011 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 whe ...

FRS

  • Discount for Dictators
  • Algeria braces for more protests
    Oil-rich country on high alert as opposition groups mobilise for weekend of rallies and gatherings calling for democracy Angelique Chrisafis guardian.co.uk Friday 18 February 2011 Protesters against Algeria‘s military regime are to hold further pro-democracy demonstrations on Saturday, despite t ...
  • Hundreds protest police violence in Syria
    Feb 18, 2011, Beirut – Hundreds of Syrians protested police violence after traffic wardens reportedly beat up a young man in Damascus, a Syrian opposition website reported Friday. The Dubai-based all4Syria.info also posted a video of the protest, which it said took place on Thursday. The crowd c ...
  • Yemen: Protesters can topple Saleh: Yemeni an ...
    February 17, 2011 euronews spoke with Abdullah Al Fakih, a political science professor at Sanaa University, who believes Yemen’s anti-government protesters could topple President Saleh. Al Fakih described the demonstrations as “a popular youth movement.”  “It began with protests calling for the ...
  • Bahrain troops shoot at protesters: ex MP
    Thousands attend Bahrain protest funerals February 18, 2011 Thousands of people have attended the funerals of those killed in yesterday’s security crackdown in Bahrain. At least four people died and more than 230 others were wounded when riot police drove activists from a makeshift camp in Pearl ...

Ken O'Keefe

  • Tahrir4Gaza – Liberation for Gaza
    As the Arab people continue to exercise unarmed yet mighty power, there is one place above all others that remains at the heart of the struggle, Palestine. Despite all the money, propaganda, weapons, false imprisonment, ethnic cleansing, torture and mass-murder wielded against them, they have e ...
  • The Egyptian Blockade of Gaza – February 26, 2 ...
    Is there any sane, right-minded person who supports the blatant and brutal collective punishment of the people of Gaza? So why would it carry on? There is only one reason, because we allow it. I say we carry on with what the people of Egypt started, they got rid of the dictator, let us, people ...
  • Global Revolution 2011
    I believe the time has come to unite, those of us who are sane, who can see that the masses are comprised of so many cultures and vastly different ways of life, yet we all demand essentially the same things. We demand to be treated with respect. We demand the right to a decent way of life. We ...
  • Revolutions & Manipulations
    While millions of Egyptians are in the streets, in one of the most dramatic spontaneous uprisings in recent years, in an attempt to overthrow 30 years of Mubarak rule, a regime propped up by Israel and the United States, an undercurrent of opportunist plots threaten to turn this hopeful situatio ...
  • Rise People Rise – The Global Revolution ...
    Let us realize once and for all, that we the people are one, that we are human, that our most precious gift is that of our humanity. Let us never sacrifice it again. Together we are unstoppable. We are the sleeping giant, we are the waking lion, we are fierce and we are fearless.

StillSmallVoice

  • Married man to become a Roman Catholic priest
    And his wife is already a nun. A German couple has entered -- separately --� lives religious after getting special approval from the Vatican. The couple, who have two grown children, remain married. They married as Lutherans. Flickr photo
  • Happy birthday, George
    Today is George Washington's birthday, and I hope you plan to celebrate accordingly. But if your party involves cherry trees, you might want to reexamine your history.� Some of what we learned in grade school about our First President was manufactured by a fawning author of the day named Past ...
  • And a little bit more on unions
    This was my mom's union. And this: ...is my husband's union.
  • What's happening in Libya
    Mother Jones has been running explainers -- but if you dip down into the comments, you'll see that not everyone is a fan. Here's another resource for Libyan news, and here's yet another. Reuters photo
  • Connecticut is the most Italian of states?
    And East Haven is the most Italian of Connecticut towns? Read this fine story from the Courant's Mara Lee. According to census takers from 2009, about 20 percent of Connecticut residents claim some Italian heritage, as do nearly half of East Haven residents. This? Does not surprise me. East ...

Associated Content

  • Middle East Protests Grow as Leaders Turn to V ...
    An explosion of violence against protesters has swept across North Africa and the Middle East. News from Iraq has been pushed aside...Contributor: Douglas Stewart Published: Feb 21, 2011
  • Daytona 500 Winner Trevor Bayne Youngest Ever
    In what would be a day of firsts and records set, Bayne became the winner of the Daytona 500, with only two laps to go. He crossed the finish line to give the Woods Brothers racing team its fifth Daytona 500 victory, but its first in 35 years...Contributor: Saul Relative Published: Feb 21, 2011
  • Presidents Day 2011 Falls 40 Years After Holid ...
    Before 1971, the country honored Washington's birthday every Feb. 22. However, the holiday was then changed into Presidents Day, and falls a day before Washington's birthday this year.Contributor: Robert Dougherty Published: Feb 21, 2011
  • Elisa Baker Charged with Murder of Zahra Baker
    Elisa Baker has now been charged with the murder of 10-year-old stepdaughter Zahra Baker in North Carlina.Contributor: Ryan Christopher DeVault Published: Feb 21, 2011
  • Latest 99er Unemployment Extension Blocked by ...
    California Rep. Barbara Lee's effort to get 14 more weeks of unemployment benefits added to the Tier 1 category of extension benefits currently available to the qualifying jobless was blocked Thursday from getting to the floor of...Contributor: Saul Relative Published: Feb 20, 2011

Popsci - Science

  • Archive Gallery: How the World Will End
    A new ice age, exploding stars, the hypothetical Doomsday Machine, and more scenarios that are almost certain to eradicate life on Earth For all our talk on "the future now," there is one future we'd prefer to delay for the next five billion years, and that's the inevitability of our planet's d ...
  • Archive Gallery: Doomsday Predictions
  • This Week in the Future, February 14-18, 2011
    We've made it through another week, which means it's time to look back at the past five days of science and tech before we move forward into the next. As always, this also means you've got a chance to win a t-shirt with Baarbarian's fantastic PopSci-inspired design. This week, that design inclu ...
  • FYI: If I Fell Through The Earth, What Would H ...
    Just getting to the center of the Earth and surviving is impossible. The Earth’s core is about 9,000°F—as hot as the sun’s surface—and would instantly roast anyone who found himself there. Then there’s the pressure, which can reach roughly three million times that on the Earth’s surface and wou ...
  • Implant Micro-Worms Under Your Skin To Monitor ...
    New nanotube “microworms” could lead to new types of linktextembeddable biological sensors or drug-delivery systems, according to researchers in Boston. The tubes’ length keeps them well anchored in the body, where they can monitor chemical conditions or slowly leak medicine into targeted areas ...

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 ...

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

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

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Yanqui Protectionism: CFIUS, Huawei, and 3Leaf
    Here's another entry in the seemingly non-stop catalogue of US-China dustups. Given America's chronic external deficit, it must attract at least an equivalent amount of capital inflows to compensate. To date, the Chinese have been willing to purchase US Treasuries (perhaps more reluctantly in re ...
  • Middle East 'Political Risk' - Bahrain F1 Edit ...
    There's an interesting feature from Reuters on what unrest in Middle East / North Africa means: The winds of change blowing across the Northern Sahara all but demand a look at foreign operations disclosures, particularly as many companies are deeply entrenched in preparing this year’s annual rep ...
  • Why Remittances Matter So Much More Than Aid
    This Thursday, Labour MP and Shadow Secretary of State for International Development Harriet Harman is going to give a talk at the LSE on the moral imperative for rich countries like the UK to devote 0.7% of their GDP to development aid. While the history of why we have this 0.7% aid target is a ...
  • On Today's Menu: US Federal & State Default
    Simply put, Americans have money management issues. By any conventional accounting standard, the US is bankrupt. Democrats are generally reluctant to reduce benefits that cost a lot but would probably result in Main Street USA looking like downtown Cairo if removed. Meanwhile, Republicans' under ...
  • China Shows Its G-20 Might, Wins on Imbalances
    In case you missed it, and I can't blame you if you did because it mostly consisted of theatrics as opposed to anything substantial, the G-20 convened a meeting on the question of global economic imbalances over the weekend in Paris and issued a tame communique. Instead of having a substantial b ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • 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 ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U 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 ...

Voiceless Victim

  • The Real Role of the Media in the Catholic Chi ...
    The paedophile protecting Pope and his seriously creepy Vatican spokespersons try to paint the role of the media in the reporting of the Catholic Church child rape tsunami as a conspiracy. They can’t quite make up their minds who exactly is behind their fallacious nonsense of a persecution. The ...
  • Why Is Anyone Still A Catholic?
    On the day the Egyptian people succeeded in ousting an oppressive and controlling  regime noted for abuse of power and human rights abuses, it is worthwhile to evaluate the refusal of ordinary Catholics to consider the consequences of their own selfish, mindless and cowardly support for the paed ...
  • The Pope Calling The Berlusconi Black
    I’ve heard some pretty obvious cases of the pot calling the kettle black, but the recent controversy over the Pope ticking off Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi for child sexual exploitation shows how complete is the lack of self-awareness demonstrated by the psychopaths who surround and ...
  • Let The Pope Try and Claim This Letter Was Mis ...
    Since the recent emergence of a secret letter from the Papal Nuncio to Ireland written to the Irish Catholic Bishops Conference, which squashes any attempt by Irish Bishops to report child sexual abuse to the local police, the Vatican has predictably whined about the letter being  “misunderstoo ...
  • How Much More Evidence Do You Need Before You ...
    Documentary evidence was revealed in Ireland this week proving that Catholic officials do not report sex crimes against children to the police, and that this is official Church policy originating from Rome. Such disclosures should have been answered with judicial inquiries, charges being laid, a ...

WL Central

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

U N News

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

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

  • Victory in the Southern Ocean Day for the Whal ...
    From Captain Paul Watson It’s official – The Japanese whaling fleet has called it quits in the Southern Ocean. At least for this season. If they return next season the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society will be ready to resume our efforts to obstruct and disable Japanese whaling operations. “Th ...
  • Conservation News Brief
    Captain Paul Watson to arrive in Australia for final preparations for Operation Musashi Friday Harbor, WA – Just days after reaffirming that they will head to the Southern Oceans alone to defend the whales in the Antarctic Whale Sanctuary, even after Greenpeace and the Australian government h ...
  • Whaling Opponents Collide at Sea
    On board the Steve Irwin in the Ross Sea –February 6th, 2009, 0800 Hours (Sydney Time)  February 5th, 2009 1300 Hours (PST), 75 Degrees 44 Minutes South and 165 Degrees 39 Minutes West The Sea Shepherd ship Steve Irwin collided with the Yushin Maru No.2 this morning in the Ross Sea as the harpo ...
  • Dave Foreman’s Recent Speech At Nebraska Wesle ...
    Here’s a great speech Dave did in Nebraska recently. Fetzer Lecture Rewilding North America THURSDAY, MARCH 26 Click Here To Listen In!
  • New Website All About Mexican Gray Wolves!
    There are only 52 Mexican gray wolves in the wilds of Arizona and New Mexico. The Rewilding Institute has joined with local, regional, and national conservation, scientific, and sportsmen’s organizations, and concerned citizens in launching a new website, mexicanwolves.org, to help save this hig ...

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Problem - Reaction - Solution... How the 'Drug ...
    �Eighteenth-century German philosopher Georg Friedrich Hegel long ago developed, among other things, what he called the principle of �thesis, antithesis, synthesis� (known as the Hegelian Dialect) to explain the process of deliberately enacted social disorder and change as a road to power. ~ ...
  • Problem - Reaction - Solution... How the 'Dru ...
    The hookers lured men from local taverns back to these safehouses after their drinks had been previously spiked with LSD. White’s team secretly filmed the subsequent events in each house. ~ Michael E Kreca read more
  • Eye Damage Caused By Laser Pointers
    “Why isn’t he more careful when pointing that laser beam?” I wondered during a recent lecture. The speaker was careless with the red beam, casting it about before pointing it at the screen. I knew lasers could damage eyes. When used for treating medical problems, protective glasses must be w ...
  • Indian Prophecies... Hopi and Other Tribes
    �   �The Hopi Indians, which means good, peaceful, or wise, come from a group of Southwestern people called Pueblo, but their language is different. They live in northeast Arizona at the southern end of the Black Mesa. read more
  • Chemtrail Photos Wanted... by ABC, CBS, CNN, ...
    � This alert is meant for the entire world, not just those living in the U.S. It is of the utmost importance that we flood the U.S. media with an awareness that a heinous crime is being committed against humanity and our precious planet in the skies around the globe.  ~ Brian Andrews  ( ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • Phil Donahue on “shut up and sing”
    More at therealnews.com Phil Donahue on corporate media and the Iraq war This post is courtesy of Robbie the Robot Please recycle. Don't throw away your peels Related posts:Betrayed in Iraq More at therealnews.com Leila Fadel: Leaders of Awakening Councils are... China and the Afghan War One War ...
  • Dentists in Moncton Support Poisoning of Monct ...
    I read on CBC where Moncton Dentists support the poisoning of citizens through their continued support of fluoridation. Either the Dentists in Moncton are dumber than dirt or they fear they must continue to support this poisoning, for to admit otherwise would open them to legal action for malpra ...
  • The VIEW FROM MOUNT FIAT – Your cost to cover ...
    North Americans, as a whole, are stupid. If you have not been following this blog or other Anti Anti-Truth sites, you are dumber than dirt and standing on the precipice of a cliff higher than Mount Everest. You are standing ON THE EDGE of Mount Fiat. If you think for that what you saw in [...] ...
  • Message to HBGary From Anonymous
    TRANSCRIPT OF ANONYMOUS MESSAGE TO HBGARY: Greetings HBGary (a computer “security” company), Your recent claims of “infiltrating” Anonymous amuse us, and so do your attempts at using Anonymous as a means to garner press attention for yourself. How’s this for attention? You brought this upon your ...
  • A Wikileaks for the Federal Reserve?
    12/02/2010 Please like, share, subscribe & comment! www.RonPaul.com Ron Paul comments on the recent revelations about the Fed’s emergency loans and muses about a potential “Wikileaks for the Federal Reserve”. — –Ron Paul is America’s leading voice for limited, constitutional government, low taxe ...

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 ...

Bloomberg

Enviroblog

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

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

  • How former liberal operative Josh Isay became ...
    On February 16, Josh Isay’s current and former clients dominated the local news. New York governor and former client Andrew Cuomo was threatening to usurp the duties of Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, a more recent client. The New York Times ran a 1,4 ...
  • Hello, 'Melo x 2 on tabloids today, but not on ...
    Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
  • Stagecraft warnings: Not all late Tennessee Wi ...
    The question naturally arises whether, hidden among the dusty playbills of the last decade of the great playwright's work, there's some gem that needs only a spit and polish to be rediscovered as one of Williams' greats. In the case of 1972's Small Craft Wa ...
  • Brace for destruction: Dolan welcomes Isiah Th ...
    While much of the basketball world focuses on whether the Knicks will succeed in their pursuit of Carmelo Anthony, the grim reality for Knicks fans is that the franchise, temporarily rescued by the competent guidance of general manager Donnie Walsh, is back ...
  • Afterlife of a diva: Renata Scotto on aging, t ...
    On the walls of her office, there are more photos of the productions she’s directed than of her. There's a Tosca starring Deborah Voigt, a Lucia with a bloody wedding dress; in her memoir, she railed against the tradition of bloodying the dress, saying that ...

Views & News from Norway

  • Adecco nursing home scandal grows
    One of Norway’s biggest private nursing home companies, Adecco Helse, has been rocked by revelations that employees at one of its flagship homes have in some cases worked 84 hours a week without overtime pay, as well as slept in beds in the nursing home’s cellar. The city of Oslo fired them from ...
  • Statoil flees Libya but oil prices rise
    Norway’s state-controlled oil and gas company, Statoil, has decided to close its office in the Libyan capital of Tripoli and withdraw all non-Libyan personnel, in response to protests and violence across the country. Statoil operates oil projects in Mabruk og Murzuk in the Libyan desert, working ...
  • Ski-VM to profit despite unsold seats
    There were still 75,000 tickets available this week to the Nordic World Ski Championships (Ski-VM 2011) that starts in Oslo on Wednesday,  and only one event is sold out. Organizers claim they’ll still log a profit on the event that will help keep new facilities at Holmenkollen alive long after ...
  • ‘Breakthrough’ in Philippines talk ...
    Norwegian negotiators were reporting a “breakthrough” on Tuesday after a week of peace talks between the two sides of the Philippinesâ 40-year-long internal strife.  They reportedly made significant progress in negotiations held in Asker, just outside of Oslo. The talks were the first formal ne ...
  • Speculation rife over cabinet shuffle
    Reports of changes in the Norwegian government’s ministerial cabinet have intensified, with the replacement of beleaguered Health Minister Anne-Grete Strøm-Erichsen expected. Fellow ministers Jonas Gahr Støre and Trond Giske are among her replacement candidates, reports newspaper Aftenposten, as ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Urban Permaculture Gets Redesigned
    by Frank Gapinski He looks like a rangy cowboy, but it’s not a six gun that he carries, but rather an artist’s pad and a felt pen marker. In his mid 50s and on a hot muggy Monday morning, Geoff Lawton and fifteen permaculture interns stride into a suburban home located in Lismore, NSW. The own ...
  • A Solar Powered Life – Part I
    Photo of the house showing some of the solar panels and solar hot water system I was happy to read that Zaytuna Farm had installed an off grid solar power system for their electrical requirements — “Advanced Solar, and independence, at PRI’s Zaytuna Farm”. However, upon reading the comments r ...
  • Vandana Shiva: The Future of Food
    Vandana Shiva shares a lucid discussion on Monsanto’s inexplicable view of nature as the enemy of mankind, and their determination to sell us ‘liberation’ from it. Aside from being an impossible battle, it’s also a wholly misguided one, based on a self-interested, short-term-thinking profit ment ...
  • All Washed Up
    Courtesy: Marc Roberts Digg this! Share this on Reddit Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUpon Share this on del.icio.us Share this on Facebook Post this to MySpace Add this to Google Bookmarks Post this on Di ...
  • Update on the Jordan Valley Permaculture Proje ...
    I felt fully prepared leaving for Jordan three weeks ago. Equipped with a 55ltr backpack laden with books, a compost thermometer, a dumpy level as hand luggage and a few well chosen words of advice from former patrons of the land: "Leave all expectations behind". In fact, as i remember correctl ...

Telecrap Urinal

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

Anna's News

  • After 257 days two astronauts successfully lan ...
    After 257 days in a locked steel capsule, six researchers on a 520-day mock flight to Mars have finally �landed� on the Red Planet. The all-male crew - three Russians, a Chinese, a Frenchman and an Italian-Colombian - has been inside a windowless capsule Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & Tech ...
  • Eating more fiber could mean longer life
    Eat more fiber and you just may live longer.That's the message from the largest study of its kind to find a link between high-fiber diets and lower risks of death not only from heart disease, but from infectious and respiratory illnesses as well. Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Wellness �| ...
  • China limits smoking in films, TV shows
    China is ordering makers of films and TV shows to limit the amount of smoking depicted on-screen, the latest effort to curb rampant tobacco use in the country with the largest number of smokers in the world. Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • 70 Excellent Links for Dyslexia Support
    Living as a dyslexic can be a difficult experience, especially when it comes to college courses. However, you should know that you�re not alone in your journey. With these helpful links, you can find resources including learning tools, communities,Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Wellness �| ...
  • King Tut Statues Stolen From Egypt Museum
    Sad news was announced about some of the treasures kept at the Egyptian National Museum just after Hosni Mubarak stepped down as Egypt's president. Submitted by Anna Smith to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Medical Marijuana

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

Progressives United - Russ Feingold

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

Information Underground

  • Self-Appointed "Masters" • Sodomy, R ...
    The Jewish View By Avi Lazerson In one week, the US news agencies reported that sodomy was no longer considered a crime and in another story, reported that a man was accused of raping several girls between the ages of ten and twelve years. During that week, there was talk in the papers of the ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Ognir wrote: For a full listing of their paid disinformation Sayanim, you can go here: http://www.gilad.co.uk/storage/Aaronovich_Hasbara.pdf I'm sure that it's just a coincidence that this Hasbara division was started in 2001; probably just before 9/11 I'd bet.Statistics: Posted by maz — T ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    In a their latest Goebbels-like attempt to turn the tide of public opinion WTF, why do they have to blot a good article saying that crap.Statistics: Posted by bluejelly — Tue Feb 22, 2011 4:25 pm
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    The JDIF logo, now where have I seen that design before? The MOSSAD logo, oh yes of course... that's where! In a recent turn of events, Israel's IDF has decided to step up their failed info cyber-wars. In a their latest Goebbels-like attempt to turn the tide of public opin ...

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