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Thursday, February 24, 2011

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  • ENERGY-DR CONGO: Small Is Beautiful - And Elec ...
    While discussion of hydroelectric power on the Congo River is dominated by the massive Grand Inga project and the dream of power for the entire continent, construction of a series of smaller dams to benefit local communities may produce tangible results much more quickly.
  • Microcredit Critics Say Debt Doesn't Equal Ema ...
    In response to a pelting critique from academics, economists and grassroots organisers worldwide, the 2011 State of the Microcredit Summit Campaign Report plans to address the controversies surrounding a development scheme that many believe to have failed.
  • DEVELOPMENT-UGANDA: Better Coffee Brings Bette ...
    Producing quality Arabica coffee beans on the slopes of Mount Elgon in eastern Uganda is only viable once farmers are assured ready access to the global market. Fair trade has made this possible.
  • A World Going Hungry
    In an era of mass consumption in the West, the developing world is entering its second major hunger crisis in three years, with new figures from the World Bank showing food price hikes have forced 44 million people into economic hardship since last June.
  • LIBYA: Obama Says U.S. Considering "Full Range ...
    As more Libyan towns and cities fell to anti-government forces Wednesday, U.S. President Barack Obama said Washington is preparing "the full range of options" to respond to the ongoing violence in the oil-rich North African state.

Scoop - NZ

  • Abdullah Pours Money Into Saudi Housing, Welfa ...
    King Abdullah boosted spending on housing by 40 billion riyals ($10.7 billion), and earmarked more funds for education and social welfare amid popular uprisings sweeping the Arab world.
  • Mubarak Toppled by CIA. He Opposed US War wi ...
    The goal of these operations is to remove entrenched client rulers who have been in power so long that they have acquired a significant degree of autonomy vis-à-vis the imperial dictates coming from Washington and London, and have grown accustomed to acting to some degree as national rulers, rat ...
  • Libya vs Egypt: Why there is a difference - Hi ...
    Tunisia and Egypt are among the handful of Arab countries that are effectively detribalised. Egyptian leaders did not depend on the support of clans and tribal confederations. They banked on institutions like the military or a party system. When these institutions, most notably the army, decline ...
  • Tariq Ali: An Arab 1848, US hegemony only dent ...
    Tariq Ali: With western-backed despots being turfed out politics has changed for ever. So just how far can the revolution spread?
  • aangirfan: MOSSAD & CIA VERSUS MUBARAK
    The CIA had a People Power coup against Marcos in 1986. The CIA had a People Power coup against Suharto in 1998. The CIA had a People Power coup against Mubarak in 2011. Conclusion: (1) CIA coups make the poor much poorer. (2) The poor in Egypt, having been greatly helped by Muba ...

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Innovation Canada

  • A recipe for failure
    By definition, perfectionists set very high standards for themselves. As a result, they are also setting themselves up to fail. And when they do, research is now showing that many perfectionists resort to binge eating to alleviate feelings of loneliness, sadness and inadequacy. “Perfectionists o ...
  • The challenging spine, the adventurous mind
  • What’s love got to do with it?
    Toni Tennille promised “Love Will Keep Us Together,” and while it may be true that she and Daryl “the Captain” Dragon have stayed together for 40 years, it’s unlikely love was the only glue. Lasting relationships require commitment, satisfaction and trust, says Lorne Campbell, a social psycholog ...
  • Tackling the cancer conundrum
    Carol Cass has seen cancer from all sides. The internationally renowned cancer researcher has spent four decades pioneering the study of special proteins called nucleoside transporters that help cancer-fighting drugs work their way inside cancer cells. She has also been an administrator at resea ...
  • Picturing Alzheimer’s
    The numbers tell a startling story.   According to a 2009 study by the Alzheimer Society of Canada, 500,000 Canadians are living with Alzheimer’s disease or a related dementia. Of those, more than 71,000 are under 65, and approximately 50,000 are under 60. And 72 percent are women. An estimated ...

Signs of the times

  • Iran's president: Mideast upheaval will reach ...
    Tehran, Iran - Iran's president said Wednesday he is certain the wave of unrest in the Middle East will spread to Europe and North America, bringing an end to governments he accused of oppressing and humiliating people. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose own country resorted to violence to disperse a ...
  • Mountlake Terrace, US: We know what it is, but ...
    The thin plate that hit a home seems to be from a dishwasher, but how it took flight is still up in the air. Mystery solved. Part of it, anyway. The metal plate that seemed to fall from the sky and hit a Mountlake Terrace fourplex recently appears to be the thin front panel of a dishwasher. ...
  • Mystery behind two Libyan fighter jets landing ...
    AP reports that two Libyan air force jets arrived in Malta today. Military officials say their pilots have asked for political asylum amid a bloody crackdown on anti-government protesters in Libya, in which air force pilots were ordered to fire on civilian demonstrators (see previous BB post). ...
  • 130 Libyan soldiers executed for mutiny
    Scores of Libyan soldiers have been executed for refusing to open fire on pro-democracy protesters, International Federation for Human Rights (IFHR) says. An amateur video shows the bodies of some 130 slain soldiers with their hands tied behind their backs. The mutinous soldiers were shot dead ...
  • BEST OF THE WEB: Who is the Superpower, Americ ...
    Comment: The following article, by Reuters columnist Bernd Debusmann, gives one of the most clear and straightforward explanations of the real source of the Middle East problem that you're likely to find. On February 18, the United States vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution on Israeli ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Valentine's Day treat
    People sometime ask me why I blog, if there is any money in it, does anyone read this stuff, do I really expect to change anything and just what am I doing here anyways? To which I can only reply "I came for the waters." Or to twist another phrase, blogging is its own reward. Yes, I know that in ...
  • Indiana Deputy Attorney General wants blood in ...
    I learn via Jymn that the Deputy AG apparently tweeted for massacre: "Use live ammunition." He went on to tweet: "against thugs physically threatening legally-elected state legislators & governor? You're damn right I advocate deadly force." Lunacy.
  • Dear diary,
    All I ever wanted since I was a little boy was my own fashion house. I thought being a crazy evil dictator would let me do this. I mean, it worked for this guy! Now they all hate me. Damn, damn, damn, damn. Damn it all. Hmmph. Sigh. -Muammar
  • Perspectives . . .
    WASHINGTON'S BLOG declares: "The Founding Fathers Would Be Proud of the People of Egypt ... And Disgusted With the People of America". He's got a point, check out the rest of the article.America's founding fathers stood up for their freedom, winning it from the British (with the help of the Fren ...
  • Intervening in Libya?
    What should the world do in the case of the Libyan and other Arab revolutions? At Dawg's there's discussion of the intervening under the legal concept of Responsibility to Protect (R2P). This would likely mean the intervention by the liberal West, given that much of the rest of world doesn't su ...

Media Matters for America

  • Does Fox Want Obama To Put Americans In Libya ...
    Fox & Friends repeatedly criticized President Obama's recent statement on the violence in Libya for not "calling out [Libyan Dictator Moammar] Gadhafi" by name. But Fox & Friends largely ignored that the administration feared that attacking Gadhafi by name reportedly "could have put the thousan ...
  • Limbaugh Falsely Claims Wisconsin's Union-Bust ...
    Rush Limbaugh claimed that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's proposed union-busting bill is designed to "save union jobs" from a budget crisis that would necessitate layoffs. In reality, the parts of the bill restricting collective bargaining would not affect Wisconsin's budget shortfall.Limbaugh D ...
  • Obama Speaks Out On Middle East Protests -- Be ...
    Glenn Beck�slammed President�Obama�for not speaking out in support of Israel and protesters in the Middle East, despite ample evidence that Obama has done so. Beck�also reanimated�the long-debunked falsehood that Obama supported the release of the Lockerbie bomber.Beck: "I Haven't Heard Anybody ...
  • Hannity Clings To Falsehood That Tea Parties D ...
    On his Fox News show, Sean Hannity attacked Wisconsin protesters for carrying signs "comparing [Governor] Scott Walker to Adolf Hitler" and claimed that "the tea party movement was accused of" Nazi imagery "but there was no evidence" to support the claim. In fact, Nazi imagery has appeared at m ...
  • Limbaugh, Beck Leave Out Context On Test Score ...
    Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh have both misled listeners about Wisconsin students' performance on national reading tests in order to smear union teachers. In fact, Wisconsin public school eighth-graders' reading test scores surpass national averages.Beck And Limbaugh Suggest Wisconsin Teachers A ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • A New Principle of International Law: The Inte ...
    The Internet should have no borders. So did Secretary of State Clinton in effect declare in a major speech on February 15. This is the most dramatic and far-reaching linkage of information technology and statecraft in history. It is an extension, and a fulfillment, of the original vision of the ...
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  • Washington Wrecks the Economy: More Evidence
    We now have even more evidence that inept policies from Washington are causing enormous suffering across the country. It is not quite the line that the right-wingers are pushing. The new evidence is that the stimulus worked and was in fact more effective than had been predicted. The new evide ...
  • The Coming Shutdowns and Showdowns: What's Rea ...
    Wisconsin is in a showdown. Washington is headed for a government shutdown. Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker won't budge. He insists on delivering a knockout blow to public unions in his state (except for those, like the police, who supported his election).In DC, House Republicans won't budge ...
  • Bill Maher's Latest Hate Eruption
    Bill Maher just can't help himself. He hates Muslims and he will use every opportunity he has to express his feelings. Lucky for him, he has HBO. In this latest case, he is talking about Muslim misogyny. His point is that he cannot celebrate democratic revolutions in Muslim countries bec ...

TruthOut

  • Koch Brothers “Prank” No Laughing Matter
    Embattled Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker came under fire today after news broke about statements he made in a 20-minute phone call from a Boston-area alternative news reporter posing as David Koch, a billionaire whose PAC directly supported Walker and who has given millions to groups that have ...
  • Ohio Standing Up for Workers (Video)
    More GRITtv read more
  • New Jersey's Public Defender Accuses Governor ...
    Will Chris Christie, New Jersey's tough Republican Governor and rising GOP star, be the next president of the United States? That prospect is much less likely if the accusations of Yvonne Smith Segars, the head of New Jersey's Office of the Public Defender, turn out to be accurate.read more
  • Tom Engelhardt | All-American Decline in a New ...
    This is a global moment unlike any in memory, perhaps in history.� Yes,�comparisons�can be�made�to the wave of people power that swept Eastern Europe as the Soviet Union collapsed in 1989-91.� For those with longer memories, perhaps�1968�might come tread more
  • State Labor Attacks - Not Just Wisconsin
    The attack on public-employee unions in Wisconsin is in the news because of the large Egypt-style turnout of supporters at the state capital (70,000 on Saturday!), and the dramatic theater effect of Democratic Senators leaving the state to delay a vote on the measure, and give the public time to ...

Planetsave

  • Animal Activists Shocked at High Number Of Dog ...
    A recent report from the West Virginia Racing Commission has revealed that over 152 greyhound dogs have been euthanized, due to injuries acquired while racing, since 2005. The injuries occur because of the design of the tracks’ first turn. I would think that a greyhound racetrack that makes thou ...
  • Cartoon Caption Contest Winner
    Thanks for all of the great captions! The 4 finalists were: Robert Buckley – Sorry, Frosty. We honestly believed our tweets about climate change would work. dave lulich – âwormâ weather is on the way Emory – It’s amazing what you can do with your feces! Joe Yeoman – “Oliver, I bet we can figure. ...
  • Melting Snow and Ice Warm Northern Hemisphere
    The NASA Earth Observatory Image of the Day for the 24th of February showcases just how much energy is reflected back into space by the planet’s chryosphere, and how much that amount has decreased over the past 30 years. Mark Flanner of the University of Michigan and his colleagues have used sat ...
  • ‘Grolar’ Bears & ‘Narluga’ Whales? – Arctic Wa ...
    In 2006, Arctic hunters shot and killed a strange-looking, white bear. It was strange because the bear had large patches of brown fur in its coat. Subsequent genetic analysis showed that it was in fact a cross between a polar bear and a grizzly bear (making it a “grolar” or “pizzly” bear). Appar ...
  • ‘Grolar’ Bears & ‘Narluga’ Whales? – Arctic Wa ...
    In 2006, Arctic hunters shot and killed a strange-looking, white bear. It was strange because the bear had large patches of brown fur in its coat. Subsequent genetic analysis showed that it was in fact a cross between a polar bear and a grizzly bear (making it a “grolar” or “pizzly” bear). Appar ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • Indignez vous! by Stephane Hessel – the text - ...
    "Thousands of candles can be lit from one candle without diminishing it's life. Happiness never decreases by being shared" – Buddha You probably heard already, especially if you are in Western Europe, about the latest editorial phenomenon which some call The New Little Red Book. It’s Stephane ...
  • Venezuelan Parliamentarians Reject U.S. Lawmak ...
    Mérida – Feb 14, 2011 Yesterday Venezuela’s representatives to the Latin American Parliament (Parlatino) issued a unanimous rejection of threats made against Venezuela by U.S. lawmaker Connie Mack. In a rare show of unity among Parlatino’s Venezuelan pro- and anti-Chávez parliamentarians, the ...
  • Iran: An orchestrated revolution? - Iran/Persi ...
    February 14 in many Iranian cities was marked with massive rallies and opposition clashes with security forces. A number of Western media and politicians have tried to present it as a "continuation of the revolution in Tunisia and Egypt". U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ...
  • From Cairo to Madison, some pizza - World News
    MADISON, Wis. — Someone in Egypt has been paying attention to what’s happening in Madison and wanted to send a message of solidarity from across the globe — so they ordered a pizza. It might seem like a small gesture, but it’s overwhelming to the staff at Ian’s on State...
  • Wisconsin protests continue - World News
    23 February 2011 Demonstrations continued in the state capital of Wisconsin Tuesday against Governor Scott Walker’s budget-cutting proposal and attack on public employees. Protests inspired by the stand taken by Wisconsin workers also spread to other states across the country, including Indi ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Another Runaway General
    Apparently, our General staff is shot through with Little Ceasars who fancy themselves the masters of the universe or something. Last year it was McChrystal and insubordination. This year it is Caldwell, a three-star in charge of training Afghan troops who stands accused of using psy-ops against ...
  • 395 Years Later, How Little Has Changed
    On February 24, 1616, the Catholic Church declared the writings of Copernicus, who concluded from astronomical observations that the earth revolved around the sun, were "in error" and not to be read or discussed. The idea that the earth was not the center of the world directly contradicted churc ...
  • Winger Baby Pictures
    Found this pic at Bart's place. � Isn't he adorable? �His grandma said she didn't dare send him out to slop the hogs... he kept scarfing the pig's vittles before he got to the pen. �She only caught on when she realized he was fatter than the pigs were. See what you get when there's no News Wrap ...
  • Did you ever have one of those days?
    Yeah. Us too. Long story short, my netbook is in the computer hospital and Yellow Dog is waiting on a service tech. The roundup will resume tomorrow. Y'all who come here to read the roundup could leave interesting things you saw around the web today in comments. Just a thought. Or I could give ...
  • This is what an eliminationist looks like
    photo via TPM/MySpace The man in the photo is Jeff Cox. He is an assistant Attorney General in the state of Indiana, and a freakish authoritarian of the scariest sort. He is an eliminationist. He does not see opponents as fellow human beings with a valid viewpoint that deserves consideratio ...

Care 2

  • 40 Best Corporate Law Blogs
    For many, a career in corporate law is a great way to blend a passion for business with a love for the legal system. Whether you're a business or law student or already working in the field, it's smart to keep abreast of the latest news,......Submitted by Anna Smith to Business �|� �Note-it! �| ...
  • Alien View of Earth Shapes Search for New Worl ...
    Wondering if any of the Milky Way's 50 billion planets are similar to Earth? A team of astronomers has figured out which colors of light future telescopes should look for.Submitted by Nancy Bridget to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Earth's Core Rotation Faster Than Rest of the ...
    New research gives the first accurate estimate of how much faster Earth's core is rotating compared to the rest of the planet.Submitted by Kristena W. to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Cell Phones May Affect Brain Metabolism
    Power-talkers with cell phones glued to their ears may be getting more than conversation. A 50-minute call boosts activity in brain regions near the ear where a phone is located, a brain-scanning study published February 22 in the Journal of the American Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Welln ...
  • Lost parrot reunited with UK owners after 2 mo ...
    Jack, a Blue-fronted Amazon parrot,flew away from his home near Liverpool,northern England, in late November,after his owner forgot the bird was on his shoulder. The 12-year-old parrot discovered two months later,some 15 miles away clucking like a chickenSubmitted by Yrna M. to Animals �|� �Not ...

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Chris Christie on Wisconsin, More * Open Threa ...
    Bronwyn’s Note at 11 p.m. ET: I’m listening to John Batchelor, and his pre-show taped interview of Pat Lang hasn’t aired yet. So tune in. (9 p.m.-1:00 a.m. ET: Listen via iTunes (instructions), or go to NYC’s WABC, John’s anchor station.) John has just done a matchless analysis of China’s travai ...
  • Unions are PACs and a quick thought on DOMA
    This post began as just a replay of Megyn Kelly’s interview with Mike Langyel, President of the Milwaukee Teachers’ Union. It ended up being about that, and a bit about today’s news on DOMA. Okay, I know I’m committing some sin of ethnic prejudice, stereotyping, some sin, but Mike Langyel remind ...
  • Barack Obama’s Middle East Bungle
    A child with a match and gasoline is dangerous. If he lights the match and catches the petrol on fire look out. That my friends is an apt metaphor for the man child from Hawaii who inhabits the White House. The events of the past month in North Africa and the Middle East have spun [...]
  • Burn The Wells (& Open Thread)
    Bronwyn’s Note: I’m telling you! If you’re not listening to John Batchelor every night, you are missing the most fascinating revelations and stories that TV news cannot begin to match, especially during these history-making days and weeks. And, last night as I was listening, there was Larry John ...
  • Kids for Sale – Unbelievable
    Judges Get Paid by Privately Owned Prison to Send Them Customers – Kids As Young As 10 Years Old! Judges Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan are going to jail, but they should just go to hell. So says Sandy Fonzo the mother of Edward Kenzakoski, a 17 year old wrestling star who lost his college ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • The Strange Beauty of Benthic Sea Creatures
    Here are some really scary creatures that live on the deep sea bed... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • How the Octopus Survives Stromboli's Constant ...
    Volcanic eruptions are especially fascinating when they occur underwater and don't seem to have any effect on certain marine life. Here's why that is for the octopus. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the art ...
  • Coober Pedy: Australia's Underground Town
    A small town in Australia with lots of opal mines forces its residents to live underground. Unbelievable! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Pygmy Seahorses: The Ocean's Prettiest Camoufl ...
    Beautiful, tiny and brightly colored, pygmy seahorses are expert camouflage artists and the smallest seahorses in the world. Read on... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Incredible Images of Sunflowers to Beat the ...
    Chase the February blues away with cheery images of sunflowers. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Libya = Gaddafi FAIL - fights for freedom - no ...
    The locals are ready to kick some ass in Libya! Straight up amazing. Things are moving fast these days! Wisconsin solidarity :-D This suddenly dawned on me just a few mins ago! Behold Gaddafi FAIL: I had to repost these videos of real significant, serious rebellion & a certain unmistakable ca ...
  • #Egypt! And now... Algeria? Battle of Algiers ...
    Stunning turns in Egypt - you have to hand it to the Egyptians, they filtered & neutralized all those underhanded thug provocateur tricks in a snap. Then unloaded their dictator - Old School Civilization like a boss ;-D Update - they just posted an arrest warrant in Pakistan for ex-Prime Minist ...
  • House Tea Party momentarily blocks "PATRIOT" A ...
    It's not all bad news out there. The slip-by-night extension of expiring Patriot Act measures got knocked down mainly by liberal Dems and some Tea Party Republicans (Bachmann of course sided with the corporatist centrist squad behind all of this)... Bi-Partisan Alliance Beats Back PATRIOT Act Sn ...
  • From the Internet Archives: My 2003 Interview ...
    Here's a nice find. In October 2003 I interviewed Rashid Khalidi for the Mac Weekly. It wound up on the website and eventually got deleted around 2006, but it was still in the Internet Archives Wayback Machine at http://web.archive.org/web/20060612202355/http://www.macalester.edu/week... Overall ...
  • 9/11 FBI warning from key informant of "Kamika ...
    Caught an interesting item on Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs Post about a team of FBI agents who had key clues into the 9/11 conspiracy, serious and specific prior warnings from an Iranian informant and ex-SAVAK officer who was himself a major handler with a deep network of informants around the P ...

Daily Censored

  • Cairo, It’s Not a Revolution—Yet
    There is much to shout about which is wonderful in the uprisings throughout North Africa and the Middle East. We should be joyful! The world is rumbling and shaking against oppressive rule; people’s misery has caused them to take to the streets. The masses of people are no longer passive. The... ...
  • Greece: General strike turns ugly as corporati ...
    Today, Wednesday the 23rd of February, Greece was paralyzed by a nationwide general strike as hundreds of thousands of workers, shop keepers and civil servants walked off the job in a 24-hour protest over the so-called âSocialistâ government’s ongoing âausterityâ program.  Sound familiar?... ...
  • A coordinating committee is being formed in Wi ...
    From: Larry Miller’s blog: Larry miller is a member of ReThinking Schools and is a school union director in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. STEVEN VERBURG | Posted: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 The 97-union South Central Federation of Labor of Wisconsin is laying groundwork for a general strike if Gov.... ...
  • Koch Brothers: Clear Right-wing Strategy to go ...
    The billionaire brothers whose political action committee gave Gov. Scott Walker $43,000 and helped fund a multi-million dollar attack ad campaign against his opponent during the 2010 gubernatorial election have quietly opened a lobbying office in Madison just off the Capitol Square. Charles and ...
  • The United Nations position on human rights an ...
    Educators Network for Social Justice (ENSJ is an independent group of educators working to promote social justice teaching and policy in Milwaukee-area schools. If you wish to join the e-list of ENSJ, send an email to EducatorsNSJ@gmail.com, with “Subscribe to e-list” in the subject... [[ ...

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Equality Trust

  • The Wrong Cure - alternatives to the cuts
    The False Economy website is an excellent and still-developing resource exploring the alternatives to cuts. False Economy includes: a discussion of why the cuts are not progressive details of campaign actions a comprehensive further reading list ... and this short film [youtube:ynUCYo ...
  • Why we need a Fairness Test of the cuts
    A group of charities, including the Equality Trust, Child Poverty Action Group, Barnardo's and the TUC are asking the coalition government to commit to a Fairness Test on any tax rises or spending cuts they introduce. Full details...
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  • VAT rise would hit the poorest
    Bill Wilson's VAT motion to the Scottish Parliament reads as follows: That the Parliament notes the warning issued by Save the Children in Scotland that raising VAT to 20% could mean a £31 a week bill for the poorest families in Scotland and that the poorest 10% of the population currently s ...

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • The Epidemiology of Foodborne Illness with Pat ...
    It is great to have the best and most experienced foodborne illness epidemiologist in any law firm in the United States a few doors down the hall.
  • Food Safety - the "Rest of the Story, " or "Sh ...
    Michael T. Osterholm, Ph.D., M.P.H., (a.k.a., the god of food safety epidemiology) wrote today in the New England Journal of Medicine – “Foodborne Disease in 2011 — The Rest of the Story” today. Here are the highlights: So will the Food Safety Modernization Act result in immediate improvements ...
  • The 2008 Outbreak of Salmonella Saintpaul infe ...
    If there ever was a reason (in addition to the risk of bio-terrorism) to apply more resources to national and state surveillance of bacterial outbreaks, the 2008 Salmonella outbreak that sickened 1500 people in 43 states, the District of Columbia, and Canada is one that I hear (from consumers an ...
  • Senator Leahy Asks DOJ For Update On Peanut Co ...
    Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) sent a letter Tuesday to Attorney General Eric Holder, requesting information on the Department’s investigation into the Peanut Corporation of America (PCA).  In 2009, more than 2,000 products containing peanuts processed at PCA were reca ...
  • London Grocery Store Chickens Risky
    The Tests - According to tests on 20 grocery store chickens, picking up a package of chicken in Asda, Morrisons, Marks & Spencer, Sainsbury’s and Tesco could put you at risk of food poisoning. E. coli was found on one of the chickens from Sainsbury’s. Staphylococcus aureus, an MRSA-related bact ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Smart ForSpeed concept revealed before Geneva ...
    Filed under: Concept Cars, Convertible, Geneva Motor Show, Smart, Electric Smart Forspeed - Click above for high-res image gallery Not every future Smart model is in trouble of vanishing - some will never see the light of production. To wit, Daimler's minicar maker is bringing an all-electr ...
  • Report: Some dealers price gouging Chevy Volt ...
    Filed under: Car Buying, Hybrid, Sedan, Chevrolet, GM, Electric 2011 Chevrolet Volt - Click above for high-res image gallery Even though some Chevrolet dealers were warned not to sell the Volt above the MSRP, there is a distinct trend around the country where some dealers are trying to make ...
  • Audi, Voith enter new carbon fiber partnership
    Filed under: Technology, Audi Audi Aluminum A5 Coupe Prototype - Click above for high-res image Audi has put carbon fiber to good use in concept vehicles like the e-tron show cars and a special lightweight A5, which has a carbon fiber hood and rear deck, and in some parts of the R8 and RS 3. ...
  • Report: $33M in EV tax credits went to buy unq ...
    Filed under: Car Buying, Government/Legal Is a bicycle an electric vehicle? How about a Hummer H3? These are some of the things that Americans claimed were hybrids, alternative-powered or plug-in electric vehicles on their tax forms, reports USA Today. What's more, the false claimants managed ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 02.04.11
    Top Gear host wants electric vehicles powered by bumper car technology Watch out! Italian designers envision amazing Solar Wind bridge It looks like the future, that's for sure. Agility Saietta electric m ...

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Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Uprisings: From the Middle East to the Midwest
    As many as 80,000 people marched to the Wisconsin state Capitol in Madison on Saturday as part of an ongoing protest against newly elected Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s attempt to not just badger the state’s public employee unions, but to break them. The Madison uprising follows on the heels o ...
  • Arrest of CIA Agent Sheds Light on American Co ...
    U.S. officials have admitted an American detained in Pakistan for the murder of two men was a CIA agent and a former employee of the private security firm Blackwater, now called Xe Services. Up until Monday, the Obama administration had insisted Raymond Davis was a diplomat who had acted in sel ...
  • Matt Taibbi: "Why Isn't Wall Street in Jail?" ...
    Nobody goes to jail,” "writes Matt Taibbi in his the new issue of Rolling Stone magazine. “This is the mantra of the financial-crisis era, one that saw virtually every major bank and financial company on Wall Street embroiled in obscene criminal scandals that impoverished millions and collect ...
  • Juan Gonzalez Wins 2010 George Polk Award For ...
    Democracy Now’s own Juan Gonzalez has won a George Polk Award for his columns in the New York Daily News exposing the scandal behind Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s attempt to create a new computerized payroll system called CityTime. Juan’s reporting helped lead to the federal indictment of four consult ...
  • WATCH: Amy Goodman on C-SPAN's Washington Jour ...

Digg Green

  • NASA Completes 52-Year Mission To Find & ...
    After more than five decades of tireless work aimed at a single objective, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced Wednesday that it had finally completed its mission to find and kill God.
  • Discovery's Final Flight to Deliver Human ...
    NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida is in final count down to the final launch of the space shuttle Discovery this Thursday. The 11-day mission will deliver Robonaut, a humanoid robot, to the International Space Station, along with a new...
  • Marijuana's Active Ingredient Improves Ca ...
    The active ingredient in cannabis, THC, can help cancer patients improve their appetite and sense of taste. Patients who took THC pills had improved appetites and enjoyed their food more than patients who took a placebo.
  • Study: Cellphones Trigger Brain Response ...
    Cellphone use appears to increase brain activity in regions close to where the phone antenna is held against the head, according to a new study, but researchers said the health implications are still unknown.
  • Does Fish Oil Help Postpartum Depression? ...
    Pregnancy can induce a game of 20 (or 200) questions. Will I breastfeed? Is it a boy or a girl? What kind of stroller should I buy? Should I avoid sugar? Which supplements should I take? One supplement craze in the past few years is the omega-3 fatty acid called docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • U.S. charges global warming company was a frau ...
    CO2 Tech Ltd, a publicly traded company that lured investors with claims about products and services to fight global warming, was full of nothing but hot air, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said on Friday. It said the U.S. Justice Department had filed criminal fraud charges against ...
  • White House Aide Wheeler ‘was killed by ...
    Prominent Washington aide John Wheeler was assassinated by a hitman in a targeted killing, his widow has claimed. Katherine Klyce said the way her late husband’s body was dumped at a landfill site could only have been carried out by a professional. The 66-year-old suggested his work with the Pen ...
  • Scientists: Suns approaching Grand Cooling ass ...
    by Terrence Aym February 18, 2011 NASA and the ESA agree, and so does the Russian space agency, Roscosmos—the sun is headed for a Grand Solar Minimum and a Grand Cooling will commence. The aptly named Grand Cooling is exactly what it implies: the sun is going to cool. That cooling will also cool ...
  • TSA Source: Armed Agent Slips Past DFW Body Sc ...
    By GRANT STINCHFIELD 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 Administration. The source said ...
  • Ten ways public school destroys free thinking ...
    By Elizabeth Walling Those interested in alternative health will inevitably encounter reality: free thinking individuals are routinely ridiculed for thinking outside of the box and breaking from social normality. While this can be frustrating, it is even more disturbing that this suppression of ...

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • Bibigloo: A Glowing Postmodernist Igloo Made o ...
    Read the rest of Bibigloo: A Glowing Postmodernist Igloo Made of 250 Recycled Water Jugshttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable archi ...
  • Rejoice! Solar Decathlon Will Be Held in Washi ...
    One of the most important green design competitions of our time is back home. The popular Solar Decathlon, which was suddenly kicked off of the Washington Mall just last month, is now back in Washington. Word came in a conference call Wednesday to the twenty participating teams that the Departme ...
  • Spanish Elderly Care Center Wrapped in a Pixel ...
    This new elderly care center near Zamora, Spain rises from the landscape with a gently sloping profile set amid rows of crops. The project sits on a narrow lot, so to make the most of available space CSO Arquitectura wrapped the building and grounds in a playful grid that forms patios and green ...
  • Bik Van der Pol Unveils Butterfly Sanctuary In ...
    Submitted for the latest design competition produced by Enel Contemporanea for the MACRO museum in Rome, winners Bik Van der Pol created an architectural marvel named after an MC Escher quote, “Are you really sure that a floor can’t also be a ceiling?” The spectacular structure is both a homage ...
  • Stretchable Solar Cells Power Ultra-Sensitive ...
    Stanford researcher Zhenan Bao has developed a new stretchable, solar-powered “super skin” sensor that is so sensitive it can feel a fly touch down. The flexible electronic material harnesses polymer solar cells to generate electricity and can detect chemicals and sense various kinds of biologic ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • 3 Great Ways to Watch the Last Space Shuttle M ...
    NASA’s space shuttle Discovery is queued up for its final mission Thursday at 4:50 p.m. Eastern time, but you donât need to race to the Space Coast to catch the action. Thanks to the magic of the internet (and taxpayer dollars), you can watch Discovery and the two other final shuttle flights t ...
  • Dust-Watching Satellite to Launch Thursday
    NASA will launch a new satellite designed to probe how the sun and the Earth’s atmosphere conspire to shape Earth’s climate early Thursday morning. The satellite, called Glory, will watch the sun and the Earth’s atmosphere simultaneously to see how they interact. The six-foot-tall satellite com ...
  • Gorgeous Jeweled Beetle Reveals Its Tricks
    See Also: Amazing World of Insect-Wing Color Discovered Dung Beetles Inspire Video Enhancements for Camera Phones Brazilian Beetles Hold Key to Faster Computers
  • Video: Secrets of Swimming in Sand Revealed
    runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience799827006001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); Using a lizard, a snaky robot and computer simulations, researchers have captured the secrets of swimming through sand. Physicists filmed the movements ...
  • Cellphone Radiation Increases Brain Activity
    Radiation from a mobile phone call can make brain regions near the device burn more energy, according to a new study. Cellphones emit ultra-high-frequency radio waves during calls and data transfers, and some researchers have suspected this radiation — albeit inconclusively — of being linked to ...

PakAlert

  • Deadly Quake hits fragile New Zealand economy
    As rescue crews continued to search through the rubble for survivors of the deadly Christchurch earthquake, Tuesday's temblor already has shaken confidence in New Zealand's fragile economy. The New Zealand dollar, known as the kiwi, dropped about 2% in trading in the hours following the quake, w ...
  • The Zionist hand behind Internet
    In the following document we will give an insight into the Zionist penetration of the Internet and also show the level of cooperation between leading Zionist Internet entrepreneurs and the racist Zionist Apartheid state of Israel. The Zionist - contrary to the "liberal" views they officially ...
  • 6 Charts Which Prove That Central Banks All Ov ...
    If the U.S. dollar is being devalued so rapidly, then why does it sometimes increase in value against other global currencies? Well, it is because everybody is recklessly printing money now. The 6 charts which you are about to see below prove this. The truth is that it is not just the U.S. Fe ...
  • Proof! Middle Eastern Uprisings Fueled By US
    First noted by geopolitical analyst and historian Dr. Webster Tarpley, some suspicious similarities could be seen between the Egyptian unrest and another, known US-backed uprising in Serbia. Serbia's Otpor, or the "resistance," was funded to the tune of millions by the US National Endowment for ...
  • The Middle East and Then the World
    Beginning in North Africa, now unfolding in the Middle East and Iran, and soon to spread to Eastern Europe and Asia, the globalist fueled color revolutions are attempting to profoundly transform entire regions of the planet in one sweeping move. It is an ambitious gambit, perhaps even one born o ...

Andy Worthington

  • Andy Worthington Discusses the “Politica ...
    It’s always a pleasure to vent some disgust about current affairs with Scott Horton of Antiwar Radio, and on our 23rd outing recently, which is available here, Scott asked me to run through the bleak scenario that prevails at Guantánamo, now that President Obama has given up on even pretending ...
  • The Year of Revolution: The “War on Tyra ...
    Ten years ago, in July 2001, 200,000 protestors converged on Genova, Italy, to disrupt the 27th G8 Summit, at which the leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the UK and the US — plus the President of the European Commission — were meeting to discuss issues of global significa ...
  • After Recent Ruling in the Case of Bin Laden&# ...
    On February 10, it was reported that Ibrahim al-Qosi, a 50-year old Sudanese prisoner in Guantánamo who accepted a plea deal in his trial by Military Commission last July, had the 14-year sentence that was subsequently handed down by a military jury reduced to two years by Retired Vice Adm. Bruc ...
  • First US Film Festival Date: “Outside th ...
    I’m delighted to report that, on March 5, 2011, at 3 pm (venue to be announced), the documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (which I co-directed with filmmaker Polly Nash) will be shown at the D.C. Independent Film Festival, which runs from March 3 to 13 at various venues ...
  • Revolution in Libya: Protestors Respond to Gad ...
    “Now people are dying we’ve got nothing else to live for. What needs to happen is for the killing to stop. But that won’t happen until he [Gaddafi] is out. We just want to be able to live like human beings. Nothing will happen until protests really kick off in Tripoli, the capital. It’s like [.. ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Pamela Geller’s New Film: The Next Wave of Ant ...
    Anti-Muslim zealot Pamela Geller’s new film starts with a thud – literally. It’s the sound of a body striking a ground-level roof after plunging from lower Manhattan’s World Trade Center towers shortly after Islamic terrorists flew two jetliners into them in 2001. Just in case that gratuitously ...
  • Professor: Leaders Should Condemn Extremist Rh ...
    Editorâs Note: After publishing a professorâs article Friday about the effect of heated rhetoric on political violence, Hatewatch was contacted by another professor who similarly argued that the toxic political environment was a factor in the attempted assassination of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffor ...
  • American Family Association Official Has New T ...
    Bryan Fischer, the director of issue analysis for government and public policy at the American Family Association (AFA), has expanded his astounding bigotry to include not just Muslims and LGBT people, but Native Americans as well. In a post published Monday on the Rightly Concerned blog â a pro ...
  • Invited White Nationalist to Speak to Federali ...
    The Dallas chapter of the conservative legal group, The Federalist Society, is holding a debate Friday on âBirthright Citizenship for Children of Illegal Immigrants.â Participating on the panel is prominent white nationalist Peter Brimelow, who runs the anti-immigrant hate site VDARE.com. Also o ...
  • SPLC Hate Group Count Tops 1,000 as Radical Ri ...
    Editor’s Note: The Southern Poverty Law Center is today releasing its annual count of groups on the American radical right and analysis. What follows is the main essay from the new issue of the Intelligence Report, the SPLC’s investigative magazine. In the story, you’ll find links to our new hat ...

change: org.

  • Greyhounds Injured, Killed in West Virginia Do ...
    Is it okay for dogs to suffer injury and death just so people can watch them run around a track and promoters can make some cash? In West Virginia, apparently so. Greyhounds are placed at great risk in the state's dog races. According to the WV paper Charleston Daily Mail, at just one racetrack ...
  • Target Refuses Customers' Demands for Child La ...
    For months, thousands of Change.org members have been asking Target to sell gold jewelry made without child labor or forced labor.  Finally, a Target representative responded -- with two sentences of copy-and-paste PR boilerplate language that doesn't even begin to address their customers' conc ...
  • Amid Protests, Wisconsin Republicans Target Mi ...
    While massive protests hold the state's attention, Wisconsin Republicans are advancing voting laws that could disenfranchise thousands of the state's poor and minority voters. This week, with Democratic Senators still in hiding to prevent a vote on Gov. Scott Walker's plan to bust public sector ...
  • Montana Governor Saves Bison While Legislators ...
    Despite objections by Buffalo Field Campaign and other organizations, a federal judge gave the green light for the slaughter of over 500 bison in captivity. Additional bison captured for leaving the boundaries of Yellowstone National Park in search of food would be eligible to be killed as well. ...
  • Seattle Pacific University Faculty Say All Stu ...
    What happens when you pool together over 100 faculty members at Seattle Pacific University? You get a small army of academics writing their students to let them know that all students deserve a safe space to learn and experience college. As Support SPU Haven notes, more than 100 faculty members ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Microcredit Critics Say Debt Doesn't Equal Ema ...
    UNITED NATIONS - In response to a pelting critique from academics, economists and grassroots organizers worldwide, the 2011 State of the Microcredit Summit Campaign Report plans to address the controversies surrounding a development scheme that many believe to have failed. ...
  • Libya: Obama Says US Considering "Full Range o ...
    WASHINGTON - As more Libyan towns and cities fell to anti-government forces Wednesday, U.S. President Barack Obama said Washington is preparing "the full range of options" to respond to the ongoing violence in the oil-rich North African state. In a five-minute televised statement from the White ...
  • Lobbyists: Obama White House Hides Meetings Of ...
    Caught between their boss’s anti-lobbyist rhetoric and the reality of governing, President Barack Obama’s aides often steer meetings with lobbyists to a complex just off the White House grounds – and several of the lobbyists involved say they believe the choice of venue is no accident. It allows ...
  • Nations Braced for 'Hacklash' as Assange Verdi ...
    Julian Assange will today learn if he is to be extradited to Sweden to face rape and sexual assault allegations. The WikiLeaks founder's legal team has said it is already preparing an appeal in anticipation of the judge's decision going against him. ...
  • Assange Extradited; 'Democracies Ought to be S ...
    SYDNEY, Australia - The mother of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange condemned Thursday a court order for his extradition to Sweden as "political and legal gang rape", the Australian Associated Press reported. A British judge ruled Thursday that the 39-year-old Australian can be extradited to face ...

Lifehacker

  • Secure Erase Methods Probably Won't Work on Yo ...
    We've shown you how to properly erase your physical media before, but a recent study showed that most "secure erase" methods don't actually work very well on solid-state drives (SSDs). Here's what you need to know. More�� ...
  • Remains of the Day: Windows 8 in 2012? [For Wh ...
    Windows 8 may be on its way in 2012, doubleTwist updates with better wireless syncing for Macs, and Steve Jobs tries to clear up the App Store subscriptions controversy. More��
  • Pandora for Chrome Controls Your Music with Yo ...
    Chrome: No one really likes Pandora's overly Flashy desktop player, nor do they like having to switch to an open tab just to change tracks. The unofficial Pandora Chrome extension lets you control Pandora from your address bar, using only ...
  • Best Reward Credit Card: Amazon.com Rewards Vi ...
    Last week we asked you to share your favorite rewards credit card; you answered, then we rounded up the five most popular responses. Now we're back with the card you voted best. More��
  • Cleaning Out Recyclables Is Actually Worth the ...
    Is it worth cleaning that last blob from the jar? Unfortunately, the answer is yes, as Mother Jones magazine discovered. San Francisco's recycling coordinator says cleaner "bales" fetch more money, which funds most any city's program. [Mother Jones via GOOD] More�� ...

Water Privatization

Guardian

  • Gaddafi isolated as rebels seize cities and oi ...
    �� Gaddafi blames Libyan protests on Bin Laden �� Leader's hold on power confined mainly to Tripoli �� Rebels shutting down oil exports as revolution spreads �� Flights, navy and SAS rescuing Britons �� Nato 'will not intervene' �� Yemen: Protests in all major cities �� Read more: Libya rebel ...
  • Lobbyists funnelled £1.6m to MPs
    Investigation reveals more than £1.6m was channelled to MPs and lords in last year by corporations and interest groupsCorporations and interest groups have channelled more than £1.6m to MPs and lords in the past year through sponsorship of parliamentary groups, a Guardian investigation can revea ...
  • WikiLeaks founder must face Swedish rape alleg ...
    WikiLeaks founder can be sent to Sweden, Belmarsh magistrates court rules Follow reactions to the ruling on our live blogThe WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is to be extradited to Sweden to face allegations of rape and sexual assault. Assange will appeal, his legal team has confirmed. If they l ...
  • Number of 'neets' at record high
    Figures show 15.6% of 16-24 year-olds were 'neets' at end of last year, as thinktank warns young people's unemployment likely to rise to 1.2m in next five yearsThe number of 16- to 24-year-olds not in education, work or training in England hit a record year-on-year high at the end of last year, ...
  • Banker bashing may 'cost UK £20bn'
    Anthony Browne urged chancellor George Osborne to consider 'severe fiscal consequences' of anti-industry feelingOne of Boris Johnson's key aides has warned that banker bashing "is not a joyful, cost-free pastime" and could put the country at risk of losing £20bn in tax revenue.Anthony Browne, w ...

McClatchey

  • Commentary: The scourge of Somalia
    Jean and Scott Adam of Marina del Rey, Calif., lived a life many would envy, until it was cut short Tuesday by a band of Somali pirates. On their yacht, Quest, they had spent most of the last decade sailing to exotic locales and were on a trip from Thailand to the Mediterranean with another coup ...
  • Texas' effort to amend U.S. Constitution draws ...
    In the latest round of Texas vs. Washington, D.C., some Republican lawmakers in Austin want to rein in the federal government by amending the U.S. Constitution.
  • Rand Paul talks tea party, McConnell and big g ...
    FRANKFORT — In his new book, The Tea Party Goes to Washington, U.S. Sen. Rand Paul recounts his tense meeting last year with U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell in a Louisville airport hangar with Secret Service surrounding them.
  • Saudi influence could be key to outcome in Bah ...
    MANAMA, Bahrain — Even as mainly Shiite Muslim protesters camp out in Pearl Square demanding major reforms, the deciding factor in the outcome for Bahrain could be neighboring Saudi Arabia.
  • Texas budget solution? Steal from car theft pr ...
    A program credited with cutting car thefts in half across Texas may be on the chopping block.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • US climate cuts threaten isolation
    The latest flirtations of the US political right with "climate denial" look set to marginalise the country even further within the global community of nations - at least when it comes to climate change. Does the US risk isolating itself from the global community? The key to all this is the ad ...
  • War and peace: Making sense of climate conflic ...
    It must have seemed a good idea at the time; to get a group of people together from "both sides of the climate debate", put them in a room for a few days, and see whether peace would spontaneously break out. It's worked with apparently thorny issues such as nuclear arms control, it's failed with ...
  • Whaling: Beginning of the end?
    Is this the beginning of the end for Japanese whaling in the Antarctic? Clashes have been dramatic - enough to cause a U-turn? That is the biggest question arising from Wednesday's announcement in Tokyo that this season's whaling programme was being suspended. The Fisheries Agency (FAJ) hasn't ...
  • Palm oil deal points to corporate greening
    This week's announcement of a new partnership aimed at curbing deforestation in Indonesia should give succour to anyone who thinks consumers and companies, rather than governments, hold the key to curbing environmental decline. � Essentially, the world's second biggest (and Indonesia's biggest ...
  • Climate change: Contrary motion?
    � One issue, two reports, two different conclusions. In short, a recipe for confusion - at least, on the surface. Last week the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), the London-based think-tank, published a report suggesting that fears of mass migration caused by clim ...

The Wonk Room

thwap's schoolyard

  • A Little Story
    My father owned a couple of buildings in the east-end. Three-storey walk-ups. One fall Sunday he took me with him to inspect the building. I was about seven years old. As we approached the first building, we could see a lot of commotion in front. I saw a woman and her three children on the sidew ...
  • Hillary Clinton Goes to Haiti During Egyptian ...
    Mark Weisbrot from Common Dreams: It didn't get much attention in the media, but US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton did something quite surprising on Sunday. After taping interviews on five big Sunday talkshows about Egypt, she then boarded a plane to Haiti. Yes, Haiti. The most impoverish ...
  • stephen harper "Rising to the Challenge"
    Recently, one "trevorus" gave me a youtube link which turned out to be the harpercons' propaganda effort "Rising to the Challenge." Taking great advantage of their tenuous grip on government power, the commercial shows harper waddling around the hall of Parliament, and in his office, doodling ca ...
  • Let's Make a Deal! You give me $150 Billion, I ...
    I don't really have much time to blog these days but I gotta do something. So today's effort is simply to remind everyone how revoltingly stupid our present political-economy is. You know, the media, the political parties, most sources of opinion are working to normalize the atrocities we're for ...
  • A Healthy Reaction to Attacks on Democracy
    Crooks and Liars has a clip of Wisconsin Assembly Person Gordon Hintz reacting to the insulting treatment he is receiving at the hands of the Repug majority in the Wisconsin state assembly. As he makes clear, his anger stems from the fact that important stuff is being railroaded through without ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • OSHA orders reinstatement of Memphis truck dri ...
    Yesterday, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) office in Atlanta, Georgia, issued an order reinstating truck driver William Beecher.� As soon as he recovers from an unrelated temporary disability, he can return to work for United Auto Delivery and Recovery and the Memphis Au ...
  • NWC amicus brief argues to protection of bank ...
    On behalf of the National Whistleblowers Center, Stephen M. Kohn and I submitted a friend-of-the-court, or "amicus," brief today in Schroeder v. Greater New Orleans Federal Credit Union, Case No. 10-31169 in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.� There has been an unfortunate string o ...
  • Moral Courage in Organizations
    Editors Debra Comer and Gina Vega want to know why ethics education in business schools is not working. Years after business schools beefed up their ethics programs, half of employees still report seeing misconduct at work. They want employees to have both the motivation to discover and remedy m ...
  • Tunis, Egypt and now ... Wisconsin
    With the popular revolutions of Tunis and Egypt sparking interest in the power of peaceful protest, the world is on watch for the next hot spot. Yemen, Iran or Bahrain? How about Wisconsin? Yesterday hundreds of public employees and their supporters held a "citizens filibuster" in the state capi ...
  • DOL proposes increase in whistleblower protect ...
    The U.S. Department of Labor, for the first time, has proposed making its whistleblower protection program a separate line item. The Department released its proposed budget yesterday. It includes $21 million in a separate line for the whistleblower program. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis answe ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • The Privatization Of Public Data Sets A Bad Pr ...
    Last summer we wrote about a troubling lawsuit filed by a company called Public Engines against a competitor called Report See. Each company runs their own open website that reports crime data. Public Engines runs CrimeReports.com. Report See runs SpotCrime.com. They have very different busi ...
  • EU Realizes That You Fight Child Porn At The S ...
    We've noted recently, that more and more governments are looking to deal with crime online by censoring it via filters, rather than actually going after those responsible. At least some people are finally realizing that this doesn't make much sense. DH's Love Child points us to the news that s ...
  • Florida Court Realizes Its Mistake, Reverses O ...
    At the beginning of January, we wrote about a troubling court ruling in Florida, where a judge ordered XCentric, the operators of Ripoff Report, to remove some content from their website, despite the company's policy against such removals and the clear and well-established safe harbors for Ripof ...
  • Musician Sues Summit Entertainment For Taking ...
    This one is a bit confusing, but an artist named Matthew Smith apparently wrote a song back in 2002, but late last year he tried to re-market the song by trying to associate it with the Twilight Saga movies. He did so by doing some sort of deal with the company that sells pre-movie ads to promo ...
  • DailyDirt: Spaceships On The Drawing Board
    Getting into space isn't cheap or easy. However, the technology to get into orbit is making some awesome progress and getting more reliable -- and getting a little cheaper, bit by bit. There are lots of designs for rockets and spaceships, and some are more like science fiction than anything th ...

VacTruth

  • Doctors in UK Warned After a Catalogue of Vacc ...
    Doctors across the UK have come under immense criticism after a survey revealed a catalogue of vaccine blunders. The results revealed that family doctors had been involved in vaccination blunders affecting 98 children and 10 adults over the last five years. Vactruth.com
  • Vaccines Can’t Claim What Nutritional Suppleme ...
    Healthcare choice issues are being attacked on all sides, it seems, with no let up until there probably will be no freedom of choice in taking care of your children’s or your health in the manner YOU want.Vactruth.com
  • Catholics and Vaccines
    There apparently may be some misunderstanding that members of the Catholic faith are not bound to a specific religious belief about vaccines and vaccinations. Since many vaccines are grown on diploid cell media that resulted from aborted fetuses, the Catholic Church declares it a matter of consc ...
  • What Do Vaccines & McCarthyism Have In Common?
    Why do the blacklist hearings of Senator Joe McCarthy in the 1950s remind me of what’s going on with vaccinations today? Vactruth.com
  • Fact: Evidence in Vaccine Induced Injury Cases ...
    There has been reports that experts who give evidence in SBS cases are being sent home and discredited. This has been particularly evident in cases involving children with a vaccine injury. This total lack of regard is making a mockery of the legal justice system, giving parents and care givers ...

BroadSnark

  • Things You Might Have Missed
    How much do I love the goth who foreclosed on Wells Fargo? (HT @womanistmusings). Did you know that there is a mountain vault full of potatoes? In Israel news – The U.S. has once again vetoed a UN resolution against Israel.  (And can I just add that I really want to smack Susan Rice in [...]
  • On Jewish “Success”
    It’s hard to have a reasonable conversation about the apparent “success” of the Jewish community. For one thing, we Jews have an understandably defensive gut reaction to accusations of success.  And they are often accusations.  To quote the Illinois Holocaust Museum, Adolf Hitler and the Nazis a ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    So these people don’t have a chance in hell of pulling off a free school at Guy Ritchie’s house, but I do love them for trying. Apparently, it is attack women’s shelters week.  In Afghanistan, the state is trying to take them over. And in Canada, the border services/gestapo are now entering she ...
  • On Facts and Truth
    Our book group just finished reading The Whites of Their Eyes by Jill Lepore. Lepore is a historian and spends a lot of time focusing on historical facts that contradict the tea party narrative. So the group spent some time discussing whether or not there is such a thing as verifiable fact, whet ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Guess what guys?  If some prison guard fucks you up the ass, the FBI says it ain’t rape. DC as a tax free zone? These Russian artists are ballsalicious and I am seriously afraid for them. These pics of makeshift helmets in Egypt are pure awesome.  This letter is pretty funny too.  And as long ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

Armies of Liberation

  • Game changer in Yemen as protests swell
    In Egypt and Tunisia, the stance of the military was pivotal in the success of popular uprisings; in Yemen, it may be the tribes that are the determining factor. Anti-government protests across Yemen show no signs of abating. In Taiz, Yemen’s largest governorate, many who arrived last Friday are ...
  • In Yemen, Many Protests, One Villain
    It was only sheer chance or serendipity perhaps that southern Yemen’s “Day of Rage” was scheduled for Friday, earning the #Feb11 hashtag on Twitter. The Southern Uprising Facebook page drew nearly two thousand members since its founding two weeks ago in a nation with 2 percent Internet penetrati ...
  • Novak: The Southern Leaders Don’t Practi ...
    My interview with the Aden News Agency Jane Novak⦠a name that has become coupled with Yemen, not Yemen that is known as it is known by those who doesn’t know it, but Yemen as it known by its people, with all its sorrows and economical, political and humanitarian setbacks, that are recognized b ...
  • Jane Novak Interview with Aden News Agency Ara ...
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  • مُقارنة لمكافحة حركات التمرد في اليمن
    مُقارنة لمكافحة حركات التمرد في اليمن السبت, 02-أكتوبر-2010 شهارة نت- جين نوفاك* /تقرير - ترجمة: عبدالله عبدالوهاب ناجي، وجاسم محمد تعد اليمن من بين أكثر الدول فسادا وأقلها نموا في العالم، وهو ما يفسر الاستمرار الطويل للحرب في الشمال و انفجار حركة الاستقلال في الجنوب. ويتعامل الرئيس اليمني علي ع ...

Dark Politricks

  • Establishment Exploits OKC Bombing Victims To ...
  • Knee-Jerk No Fly Ban Discredits Global Warming ...
    Fearmongering by Met Office voodoo scientists about planes dropping out of the sky contradicted by numerous successful test flights Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Monday, April 19, 2010 With European governments coming under increasing pressure from airline groups to re-open airspace fo ...
  • Air France, Lufthansa Press for Airspace Re-Op ...
    Gregory Viscusi and Brian Parkin Bloomberg April 19, 2010 Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Air France- KLM Group and industry groups pressed European governments to loosen the unprecedented closing of the region’s airspace from last week’s Icelandic volcanic eruption as losses from the grounding of aircra ...
  • NPR and CNN worry that Global Warming may have ...
    John Lott’s Website April 19, 2010 This is just too bizarre: Diana Rehm (NPR): We do wonder whether there’s human involvement in all of these eruptions, earthquakes, storms - Elise Labott (senior State Department producer for CNN): – and how much global warming has a role in it. You know we’ve ...
  • Poll: Americans’ distrust of federal governmen ...
    Steven Thomma McClatchy Newspapers April 19, 2010 Already wary of the federal government, Americans have grown even more critical, less trusting and even fearful of Uncle Sam since President Barack Obama took office, according to an exhaustive new study being released Monday. The in-depth poll f ...

food and water watch

  • By: Rich's coworker
    In an effort to de-spin your story, the real reason there were no muffins or treats of any sort was because the bearer of treats was absent, and had been gone for the past few days. Perhaps if you "wish real hard" again, parabens can turn into magical antioxidants that are part of a complete ...
  • By: Top 50 Global Food Security Blogs
    [...] Food and Water Watch: Food & Water Watch works to ensure the food, water and fish we consume is safe, accessible and sustainable. [...]
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    [...] Food & Water Watch: The Food & Water Watch site advocates strong conservation measures, promoting policies that'll result in quality drinking water for everyone. [...]
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    [...] would also like to suggest you go over to read the blog of Food & Water Watch. You should find that to be very [...]
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    [...] Food and Water Watch: The latest info about food and agriculture policy from our favorite beltway insiders. [...]

treehugger

  • How Much Ocean Pollution Falls From The Sky? N ...
    Photo by mrpbps We know that a significant portion of ocean pollution comes from particles in the air released by fossil fuel combustion, power plants and the like, and that rainfall is a primary way it moves from air to ocean. But just how much of the ocean's pollution from from airborne c ...
  • The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year In An ...
    From his ongoing work through the Blue Ocean Institute, to his moving TED talk about the gulf oil spill's unseen victims, Carl Safina is one of our favorite ocean activists. Now, he is moving into the territory of Henry David Thoreau or even William Jordan with his new book Lazy Point: A Natural ...
  • From Salvaged Tree Trunks Come Very Cool Table ...
    Image: Nickadoo Tree Trunk Tables There´s a lot of wood furniture around these days that´s parading as green: the wood always seems to come from sustainable forests, which can be dubious. I´ve written about some recent products that do a lot to evoke nature but aren´t totally clear on how t ...
  • Furniture Outstanding in the Brit Insurance De ...
    Photo: B. Alter: Spun, Heatherwick Studio The Brit Insurance Design Awards are a showcase for the best international design. Now in its fourth year, there are over one hundred fabulous projects nominated. These will be narrowed down to one big winner, announced in March, 2011. Which one wil ...
  • Cardboard USB Sticks! Are these disposable USB ...
    A while back, Jaymi wrote an interesting post discussing 7 greener options for give-away USB flash drives. Whilst some made of wood or bamboo are truly gorgeous, they are also overdesigned, and probably too expensive to compete with non-green USB sticks when it comes to give-away merchandisi ...

Biosingularity

  • Strawberries, Blueberries May Ward Off High Bl ...
    Eating just 1 cup of strawberries or blueberries each week can reduce your risk of developing high blood pressure, a major risk factor for heart disease and stroke. The new findings appear in the February issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. The new study included 87,242 women wh ...
  • Putting up a struggle against cancer
    MIT scientists have discovered that cells lining the blood vessels secrete molecules that suppress tumor growth and keep cancer cells from invading other tissues, a finding that could lead to a new way to treat cancer. Elazer Edelman, professor in the MIT-Harvard Division of Health Sciences and ...
  • Woman’s voice restored after larynx tran ...
    A woman in the US is able to speak for the first time in 11 years after a pioneering voicebox transplant.Brenda Jensen said the operation, which took place in California, was a miracle which had restored her life.Thirteen days after the surgery she said her first words: “Good morning, I want to ...
  • Shingles Vaccine Cuts Disease Risk 55%
    The herpes zoster vaccine, better known as the shingles vaccine and recommended for adults 60 and older, cuts the risk of getting the painful disease by 55%, new research finds. “Compared to childhood vaccines, people would [probably] think 55% is not too impressive, because many childhood vacci ...
  • Delivering a potent cancer drug with nanoparti ...
    Researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have shown that they can deliver the cancer drug cisplatin much more effectively and safely in a form that has been encapsulated in a nanoparticle targeted to prostate tumor cells and is activated once it reaches its target. Using the new parti ...

CFACT

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Pruning Shears

  • Report from Columbus
    Yesterday I was in Columbus to join in the rally against SB 5, the Ohio GOP’s implementation of the assault on collective bargaining. Even before we got there it was clear Republicans were trying to discourage attendance: as the bus approached Columbus we were told the doors to the Senate build ...
  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postThe Raymond Davis case appears to be keeping (via) everything quiet on the drone front.A happy coda on Egypt from Mohammed Abdellah, of the former president’s National Democratic Party, on the largely peaceful resolution: “For all ...
  • The Daily Jellyby
    So Freddie deBoer posts (via) a serious, well articulated plea for those on the warpath against Social Security and Medicare to think about the real world impact. Andrew Sullivan responds with majestic indifference by citing Megan McCardle, someone whose analysis is so consistently deceptive or ...
  • Weekend wrapup
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post“6:09pm: No point any of our presenters trying to speak over the roar of Egyptians celebrating.”Combat operations have concluded for:Lance Cpl. Aaron M. SwansonSgt. Patrick R. CarrollCpl. Lucas T. PyeattSpec. Ryan A. Gartn ...
  • Cairo puts popular opinion back on the map
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postAlmost a year ago - February 21, 2010 - I wrote “Our image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing Muslims.” Almost every week since, something like those words have been part of my Sunday posts. I eithe ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Tell Kraft You're Joining the Boycott of their ...
    In a recent e-mail to an OCA activist, Kraft Foods admitted it uses genetically engineered bovine growth hormone, saying, "We are not rejecting milk from BGH/BST supplemented herds." BGH/BST is the genetically modified Bovine Growth Hormone developed by Monsanto and now marketed by Eli Lilly. It ...
  • Take Action! Become One of the Millions Agains ...
    Sign Organic Consumers Association's GMO & Factory Farm Truth-In-Labeling PetitionClick here to read this article
  • The High Price of Beauty
    Are girls increasing their risk of breast cancer by wearing blush, or their chances of reproductive abnormalities by applying lip gloss? It sounds crazy, but critics of the cosmetic industry say the concern is in the ingredients. Click here to read this article
  • Ten Percent of World's Crops Are Genetically E ...
    The amount of land devoted to genetically engineered crops grew 10% last year, and 7% in the year before, as farmers in major grain and soy exporting countries such as Brazil and Argentina continued to adopt the new seeds. Click here to read this article
  • Hey, Enviros, Greens, Climate Hawks - We All N ...
    A society is not sustainable if women don't have basic control over their fertility. That's just fundamental, a no-brainer.Click here to read this article

fotoFrontera

  • Los colores de nuestro planeta IV (Paisajes Na ...
    Nuestra serie 'Los colores de nuestro planeta', ha tenido tanto éxito que ya está aquí la cuarta parte de esta fascinante colección. Un verdadero tributo a la belleza de nuestros paisajes naturales que aún pueden disfrutarse en algunos lugares de la tierra. Para ver todas las imágenes de esta se ...
  • Imágenes y fotografías de perritos V (5 wallpa ...
    Dedicada especialmente a los mejores amigos del hombre y de la mujer también como pudimos verlo en nuestro reportaje '135 aniversario del Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show en el Madison Square Garden de la ciudad de Nueva York', el día de hoy les tengo en vivo y en directo la quinta parte de nues ...
  • Fotografías de playas al amanecer XVII (10 pos ...
    Para quienes siguen de cerca nuestra actualizaciones, sabrán que desde hace un par de meses o más estamos presentando la serie 'Playas Paradisiacas'. Aún así y para complementar esta fantástica colección, el día de hoy les ofrezco 'Fotografías de Playas al Amanecer'. Una verdadera delicia mirar ...
  • Trenes y locomotoras VI (5 Caballos de Hierro)
    ¿A usted le gustan los trenes? ¡A mi sí y mucho! Por eso y por que se que a usted también, el día de hoy le tengo en exclusiva la sexta parte de esta maravillosa colección con muchos trenes y locomotoras. ATENCIÓN: Para ver todas las fotos de esta serie, navegue usted hacia abajo y haga click so ...
  • Las imágenes más bonitas de Internet III
    Hace unos días, nuestro blog hermano www.fotofrontera.com, inició una excelente colección titulada 'Las imágenes más bonitas de Internet'. El día de hoy, deseo compartir con ustedes aquí la tercera parte de esta interesante serie. Al igual que nuestra recopilación de Selecciones Especiales del B ...

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 ...

Norwegianity

  • Koch’s suckers
    Remember, record snow is just more proof of global warming. No warm fronts colliding with cold fronts and no snow. We gots warm fronts up the ass. WI: Cheeseheads about to get fee’ed (Pawlentyism: all the hate but twice the weasel) Wisconsin Californicates itself (laws that keep your successors ...
  • Also
    This should go without saying, but don’t feed the troll. I find his comments instructive, and they remind me that when you’re on the Right, being right is more important than feeding babies, paying people an honest day’s wage or promoting democracy in places where they don’t listen to Ted Nugent ...
  • The links less read
    From today’s online front page of the Star Tribune: So fucking deep into the tea they can’t call “red meat” politics by name, and instead substitute “meat and potatoes” even though the article makes it damned clear they’re talking about red meat, as in “throwing red meat” to the ravenous hard r ...
  • Economic justice not everyone’s cup of t ...
    Paul Krugman: Representative Paul Ryan made an unintentionally apt comparison: “It’s like Cairo has moved to Madison.” It wasn’t the smartest thing for Mr. Ryan to say, since he probably didn’t mean to compare Mr. Walker, a fellow Republican, to Hosni Mubarak. Or maybe he did — after all, quite ...
  • He saiding/she saiding the revolution
    WINston smITh has pix and comments at his blog, Lost Continents. More stories at The Cap Times, but the other two statewide newspapers fucked the pooch on this one, insisting that both sides showed up and that there’s two sides to every story. Or, if you’re the Washington Post, one side: Funny, ...

Public News Service

  • Fed Budget Battle Threatens Preventive Care fo ...
    Fed Budget Battle Threatens Preventive Care for AZ Women and Families Phoenix, AZ – Spending cuts contained in the U-S House budget would completely eliminate the Title Ten federal family planning program. In Arizona, the program provides preventive health care for more than 40-thousand men, wo ...
  • Utility Updates Renewable Energy Commitment
    Utility Updates Renewable Energy Commitment Phoenix, AZ – Salt River Project is seeking public comments as it reviews and possibly modifies its commitment to clean, renewable energy sources. The utility currently plans to obtain 15-percent of its power through renewables and conservation by the ...
  • Congress Grapples with Internet Freedom Issues
    Congress Grapples with Internet Freedom Issues Phoenix, AZ – Against the backdrop of Middle East uprisings facilitated by Facebook and Twitter, Congress this week grappled over the issue of net neutrality, or how to keep the Internet open and free for everyone. Comments from Amalia (ah-MALL-ee-a ...
  • A Hungry Mob is an Angry Mob
    A Hungry Mob is an Angry Mob Phoenix, AZ – Freedom and democracy may be driving great changes in the Arab world, but experts in food production say there's an underlying catalyst: hunger and record-high food prices. The Food and Agriculture Organization recently released a study that says people ...
  • National Challenge Issued for Senior AZ Word L ...
    National Challenge Issued for Senior AZ Word Lovers Phoenix, AZ – The challenge has been officially issued for this year’s AARP National Spelling Bee. Registration is now open for the June 18 event, which draws competitors ages 50-plus from all over the country. Comments from Tim Summers, AARP W ...

Center for Food Safety

  • Bi-Partisan Legislation Introduced To Ban Dang ...
    Sixty-Four Organizations, Fishing Associations and Retailers Endorse Legislation; Lawmakers Cite Serious Economic, Environmental and Human Health Threats The Center for Food Safety along with 63 other groups, businesses and retailers applaud Senators Mark Begich (D-Alaska) and Lisa Murkowski (R- ...
  • Nature Happens – Humans Can’t Cont ...
    By Lisa J. Bunin, Liana Hoodes, Michael Sligh Last week, USDA announced its decision to allow the planting of Monsanto’s Roundup Ready (RR) GM alfalfa without any ongoing monitoring or regulation whatsoever.  Despite widespread consumer, farmer, and food industry opposition and contrary scientif ...
  • World’s First Genetically Engineered Biofuels ...
    Impacts on Human Health, Environment, and Farmers Not Fully Assessed DESPITE RISING GLOBAL FOOD PRICES, OBAMA ADMINISTRATION CONTINUES MISGUIDED BIOFUELS AGENDA The Center for Food Safety criticized an announcement today by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) that it will approve the world ...
  • Farmers And Conservationists Challenge Latest ...
    In defiance of earlier court ruling, USDA allows continued growing of controversial, illegally planted crop Today the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) issued a new decision to allow the U.S. sugar beet industry to continue growing Monsanto’s “Roundup Ready,” genetically ...
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Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • An FBI Snitch in Every Hood: Soledad O’Brien’s ...
    An FBI Snitch in Every Hood: Soledad O’Brien’s New CNN Black History Conspiracy Special - Jack & Jill Politics: "This time, though, Soledad (who is half black btw) has something very special that I think is worth your time. She has unveiled a whole new conspiracy for your parsing pleasure: the F ...
  • I am truly scared for my Black husband | Race- ...
    I am truly scared for my Black husband | Race-Talk: "Last year, at a Town hall meeting in New Orleans, a young African-American boy asked President Obama, “Why do people hate you? And why, aren’t they supposed to love you, if God is love?” The President was taken off-guard but was direct and hon ...
  • Queens Chronicle - The battle for a world with ...
    Queens Chronicle - The battle for a world without genocide: "In a room filled with people who have gone through, for many of us, the unthinkable — facing starvation and forced labor, being beaten when trying to sneak food to concentration camp prisoners — there pervaded a word that echoed throug ...
  • Reverend Manny: 21st Century FBI: An Embarrass ...
    21st Century FBI: An Embarrassment to Justice J. Edgar Would be Proud of | Reverend Manny and the Twilight Empire - "the Secular, Humanist Revival" - With images of dictatorial crackdown filling the internet media machine, it’s an opportune time for the American citizenry to re-examine our own n ...
  • Toban Black - Another COP-out: Grassroots, com ...
    Toban Black - Blog Shannon Biggs (on a Global Exchange blog) - “Getting the Message from the UNFCCC: ‘Just Go Home.’ . . . and ORGANIZE!” (The Cochabamba agreement isn’t exactly perfect, but it is the best that we’ve got.) Cam Fenton (on the Media Co-op) - “Frontline Communities and Climate Jus ...

Pensieve

  • More on Egypt
    Reading that now, a few days after the military pressured Mubarak to step down, the Egyptian parliament has been dissolved, and the Constitution invalidated by the Egyptian military. This fills me with fear. The mainstream media are treating these acts as a good thing, and the Egyptians they int ...
  • Update: Mubarak Not Stepping Down Tonight
    Related posts:Celestial Show Tonight Update on March Update, Perverse Justice
  • US involved in an Egyptian “military coup”?
    Photo by adaptorplug A CNN news story says that Hofni Mubarak will likely relinquish power to the Egyptian military tonight. This is what their source, âa senior Egyptian officalâ is quoted by CNN as saying: He said the process — which included dialogue between the government and opposition repr ...
  • President Llorens
    I’ve reconsidered my position about posting Wikileaks articles. This article not only discusses classified material disclosed by Wikileaks, but actually quotes it. I know some of my readers work for the US government, thus the warning. I am not an enemy of the United States of America. I simply ...
  • Magnificent
    This movie brought me to tears. It is the story of a man whose lack of limbs from birth relegated him to life as a circus side-show freak. It tells of how he was recognized by the owner of a rival circus as “magnificent”. After overcoming his bitterness, the man transformed from freak to hero. [ ...

Green Times

  • Environmental News 24/02/2011
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    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • GoGreen Man, a green hero to save our polluted ...
    It's official! The world's climate is changing. We are in a trouble now. Our polluted earth needs help… We need a new Green Hero!
  • Little penguins swim
    Penguins are flightless aquatic birds. Although they are classified as birds they can’t fly and on the other hand can swim very well. The little penguin is part of Australia and New Zealand’s fauna. It is the smallest one of all penguins and is found only in southern Australia and New Zeala ...
  • Shading Trees
    Today, the world consumes about 300 million tons of paper each year. According to paper manufacturer Boise Cascade, to produce 90,000 sheets of paper the manufacturer needs 128 cubic feet of wood! Recycling paper will help save water energy; it will reduce air pollution as well as saving tr ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

  • 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...

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Eviatar: Three Dead Children
    Guest Post by Aharan Eviatar The recent ghastly events in Arizona, especially the killing of Christina Greene, gunned down by a political lunatic at age nine, lead one to think of the phenomenon of political killing of children and what it implies for society. In particular, I would like to bri ...
  • Second School Year Opens at Salem’s Musi ...
    On Saturday February 19 we visited the Salem Music Center. We were accompanied by three professionals – Fuad, a music teacher from Tel Aviv-Yaffa, Ram – principal of Tel Aviv’s art high school, and Ruti – head of that school’s music department. The occasion was the opening of a second school yea ...
  • 7 hours ago in Al Arakib
    By Yeela Raanan It seemed that there were “red lines” even for the police brutality against the Bedouins of the Israeli Negev – while destroying homes that had no possibility for acquiring building permits, arresting people on their village lands in order to make room for JNF trees, beating ac ...
  • Please Help Rebuild 13 Water Cisterns Destroye ...
    crossposted from the Villages Group blog) The situation of the Palestinian cave-dwellers in South Hebron Hills continues to be difficult. They suffer from permanent harassment carried out by the military and settlers. This year, however, has been even more difficult, due to a severe drought. As ...
  • Al Arakib update: Four consecutive days of dem ...
    From the Negev Coexistence Forum (NCF) Last week brought four consecutive days of demolitions in Al Arakib. For the first time on February 9 we witnessed bulldozers clearly marked as belonging to the Jewish National Fund (JNF-KKL), destroying tents that had been erected overnight by the resident ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Former Sun CEO on prospects for Silicon Valley ...
    Scott McNealy, founder and former CEO of Sun Microsystems, talked with the Wall Street Journal about employment and the economy in the supposedly booming Silicon Valley. He thinks much has been lost and may not come back. His comments about the Valley apply to the state and country at large too. ...
  • Oklahoma cuts peak energy use 33%
    Oklahoma did this in a pilot test by raising rates during peak hours and providing a web portal so people could determine what the various rates are and then run the dishwasher and washing machine at night rather than during the day. If you give people useful information, they will make informed ...
  • Yet another reason why cap and trade doesn’t w ...
    An Eastern European criminal gang has broken into carbon registries and stolen millions. The thefts were so pervasive that many registries have been shut down. These were sophisticated attacks to be sure but it was appalling that security was so abysmal.
  • Federal Reserve president says, break up the b ...
    Thomas Hoenig, President Federal Reserve of Kansas City, in an extraordinary speech says the big banks must be broken up and essentially implies the system itself is broken and corrupt. While this is something any reader of this blog probably agrees with, having it come from a Fed president indi ...
  • U.S. condemns Libyan tumult but makes no threa ...
    The relentless inaction of the US on the slaughter in Libya seems to be all about the price of oil, doesn’t it?

Coteret

  • Yediot’s Plocker: Thank you Mossad for r ...
    On Sunday (January 9 2011), Yediot’s Itamar Eichner reported [emphasis mine; full translation here]: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is furious with outgoing Mossad Director Meir Dagan because of the briefing Dagan gave journalists last Thursday. In the course of that briefing, Dagan shared wi ...
  • “Rejectionist front”: Maariv detai ...
    As Israel’s diplomatic position erodes and the Palestinian Authority’s campaign for the unilateral recognition of a state in the 1967 borders gains ground, the demand for “direct negotiations” has become a central talking point of  Israeli government spokespeople. Here’s the latest example, fro ...
  • New Yorker editor David Remnick to Yediot: &#8 ...
    On December 24 2010, Yediot’s Friday Political Supplement ran an interview with New Yorker editor David Remnick by Adi Gold. Most of the interview was dedicated to his new biography of Barack Obama. Gold did ask a political question on Israel and Reminck’s response was very blunt. Note that th ...
  • Breaking the Silence’s landmark new book ...
    Breaking the Silence has just published a landmark collection of soldier testimonies from the Occupied Territories spanning the period 2000-2010. The 432 page book can now be browsed, downloaded and embedded here. If you read nothing else, take the time to look over the first to pages of the int ...
  • Following local pressure, Adidas reconsiders s ...
    This Maariv article [full translation below] from Friday is particularly badly written and repetitive, so I’ll summarize. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat decides to hold the first Jerusalem International Marathon in March 2011. He gets Adidas to sponsor the event. An Israeli runner registers and the ...

Deadline Live

The Air Vent

  • Josh – Summing it up
  • Spectator on O10
    Nic Lewis has co-written an article with the Spectator regarding S09. They used it for the cover story – click the image below for the magazine link. I have a copy, but haven’t read it in the published form myself.
  • A Calmer Conversation with the Nail
    by – Ryan ODonnell   I had made a post concerning the sensitivity of the S09 reconstruction with respect to changes in trend for the underlying surface stations HERE [insert link].  That post was a bit rushed, and the level of explanation I provided was insufficient.  Bishop Hill did a better ...
  • Liars and Knucklehead Reviewers
    When Steig went off the deep end the other day, I told people I wasn’t going to let it go.  Not after all that time work and abuse we took in getting this paper done.  He’s actually screaming that we are liars, and the reviewers that let our math pass are Knuckleheads.  Let’s see if [...]
  • SI 1 Images
    There is a lot of silliness going on in the believer community about which reconstructions are correct. It should be rather obvious by now and Ryan has some more work on that soon, but this image was one of my favorite from the initial submission. Of course it’s about the only one I contributed ...

Focal Point

  • GA Rep. Seeks to Criminalize Unauthorized Vagi ...
    A Georgia Representative has introduced a bill to investigate all unsupervised miscarriages as crime scenes. Don't believe me? Here's the relevant language from HB 1, downloadable from legislature's website: When a spontaneous fetal death required to be reported by this Code section occurs ...
  • Mudcat Saunders to Wisconsin Dems: Surrender f ...
    Sam Stein asks, "Would The Democrats Have Been Better Off Letting Walker's Bill Pass?" Better off how? If Wisconsin's Democratic legislators had sat still and let the bill pass, the majority of public employees in Wisconsin would have lost their collective bargaining rights without a fight. ...
  • House Votes to Defund Planned Parenthood, Titl ...
    The Party of Spite strikes again. The Republican-controlled House voted Friday to de-fund not only Planned Parenthood, but all Title X funds for clinics that perform abortions: If the resolution goes into law, the 95-year-old health care provider will lose funding from the federal governme ...
  • Debunking Myths About Epidurals for Childbirh
    From a good post by Dr. Harriet Hall debunking various myths about epidural analgesia for childbirth: In my opinion, it is unconscionable to let patients suffering from severe pain go untreated unless there is compelling evidence that not treating pain results in improved health outcomes. ...
  • World's Only Superpower Has 32 Legislators Liv ...
    Well, not everyone can live at C Street... Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) is demanding an investigation into reports that at least 32 members of Congress are living out of their D.C. offices, Jay Newton Small explains: Sure, most congressmen earn more than $10 ...

Inside Facebook

  • Payvment’s Shopping Mall App is a Competitor t ...
    Payvment is aggregating 1.2 million products from the 50,000 merchants for whom it powers ecommerce storefront Page tab apps into Shopping Mall. The Facebook app lets users search, browse, Like, and buy products and will help small merchants with few fans gain customers for free. By addressing t ...
  • Syncapse Gets $25 Million in Funding from ABS ...
    Enterprise social media marketing platform and service provider Syncapse has closed a $25 million Series C funding round with ABS Capital. CEO Michael Scissons tells us the money will go towards accelerating development of its platform and expanding its global services group. Syncapse is one of ...
  • Launch Conference 2011 Day One: Top Facebook I ...
    Today and tomorrow, 40 companies are introducing new or revamped products at San Francisco’s Launch conference. Here, we’ll review the products with significant Facebook integrations, both good and bad, and how the companies fit into the Facebook development ecosystem. Two standouts were Jibe th ...
  • Facebook Announces More Ways to Publish to Use ...
    Millions of websites and social games have implemented Facebook’s Like button social plugin, yet relatively few are taking advantage of the capability to publish news feed stories to users that click those buttons. In an effort to increase awareness of this option, Facebook posted to the Develop ...
  • Highlights This Week from the Inside Network J ...
    The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities in the Facebook Platform and social gaming ecosystem. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at Digital Chocolate, Come2Play, Arkadium, and Daglow Entertainm ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Craven US veto costs Washington its last shred ...
    Stuart Littlewood argues that the latest US veto of a draft UN Security Council resolution condemning Israel's squatter colonies in the occupied Palestinian territories "has finally lifted the scales from the eyes of all those who unwisely invested high hopes" in President Obama.
  • Israeli media "fears" the new Egypt
    Neve Gordon describes how Israel's media has been presenting Egyptian democracy as a threat, with one commentator lamenting the end of colonialism.
  • The veto and the case for impeaching President ...
    Alan Hart argues that the United States’s veto on 18 February of a UN Security Council resolution condemning Israel's colonization of the occupied West Bank undermines US national interests and amounts to high treason for which President Obama ought to be impeached.
  • Mind-sets and revolutions
    Paul J. Balles considers the problem of mind-set in politics, arguing that "we need to understand that our beliefs do influence our ability to deal with facts that may not support our beliefs" and that we "need to look more closely at the facts that don’t support our beliefs".
  • Turning against Mu'ammar Gaddafi of Libya
    Nureddin Sabir recounts a painful journey of hope, disappointment, betrayal, blood and murder that has seen him turn from loyal supporter to vehement opponent of Colonel Mu'ammar Gaddafi and his regime in Libya.

Amazon Rainforest

  • 1.ooo military forces end illegal gold mining ...
    The Peruvian military has cleared-out illegal gold mining along the country’s south-eastern Amazon region in a move aiming to protect the environment. The government sent about 1,000 security forces to the region of Madre de Dios to destroy the illegal operations, the state-funded BBC reported. ...
  • BREAKING: Chevron Guilty of Amazon Rainforest ...
    Amazon Watch and Rainforest Action Network just announced a major victory for the Amazon rainforest. An Ecuadorean judge today found Chevron guilty of one of the largest environmental crimes in history and ordered the company to pay a whopping $8 billion to clean up its damage in the Amazon. Che ...
  • First film footage of uncontacted Amazon Tribe
    The footage was filmed by the BBC’s Human Planet series shows a Tribe known as the Panoan, who live in virtual isolation from the outside world. The team needed too get footage of the Tribe as proof of their existence so as the government could protect them from illegal logging and mining operat ...
  • Second rancher sentenced for contract kill of ...
    A second rancher has been sentenced for his role in the murder of Dorothy Stang, an American nun who was gunned down in 2005 for her efforts on behalf of poor farmers in the Amazon Rainforest. Regivaldo Galvao was sentenced to 30 years in prison by a jury in the city of Pará. Last month [...]
  • Yasuni National Park- SAVED!
    President Raphael Correa now has approved an agreement to leave Ecuador’s largest oil reserves, amounting to some 900 million barrels, underground in Yasuni National Park in exchange for more than $3 billion. Under the unprecedented agreement, known as the Yasuni-ITT Initiative, the government o ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Boiling Frogs Beltway Buzz: The Upcoming Bipar ...
    A Caucus to Combat Terrorism, Domestic Violence, Divorce & Job Dissatisfaction via ‘Happiness Pill’ According to our inside sources a new Bipartisan Congressional Caucus for Prozac will be launched before the end of the 112th Congress. The primary purpose of the Prozac Caucus will be to raise aw ...
  • Hillary Clinton: Beware of the Mini Pharaoh in ...
    “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 pre-election donations or post-election maintenance contributions.  In most cases, PDLR requires savvy strategi ...
  • Jamiol Presents
  • Jamiol Presents
  • Breaking News: Ray McGovern Brutalized & Left ...
    To Those Who Second-Guess Our Police State Status: Shame on You! I just received the following news and I am way too upset to write a coherent piece on this. Ray McGovern is a good friend of mine. We live less than 10 miles apart. Together we have participated in many events and protests. He is ...

Afro Spear

  • War babies, Germany and love letters explainin ...
    Cross post from the Black Women in Europe⢠Blog War babies, Germany and love letters explaining the past From Noah Sow’s Blog: Afro-German History in New Karasek Book Release The post before this one is about a book release in German(y). The story is important to me though, so Iâll try to tell ...
  • “The Education Race Man on Black History ...
    Submission from educator, writer and AfroSpear Googlegroup blogger José Luis Vilson Click on image for article:
  • The Ballot or the Bullet
    46 years ago today, El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, aka Malcolm X, was assassinated. His wisdom is timeless.
  • American Exceptionalism
    I saw this over at brotherpeacemaker:
  • “The Gaddaffi we did not know” by ...
    No doubt that what is unfolding in Libya has left many shocked. Nobody would risk thinking that Libyan strong man Muamar Gadaffi would easily been cowered as it happened. Two days after disgruntled Libyans took to the street, Gadaffi was nowhere to be seen or heard. Who would believe that Gadaff ...

Expose the BNP

  • Expose the BNP: activists’ meeting
    Over the summer we have seen the extreme right enter parliament in Sweden and racist deportations of Roma people from France. Here at home the EDL have continued to target cities with Muslim communities, while the police are bringing trumped-up charges against anti-fascists. November 6 sees a na ...
  • Rotherham fascist leads secret double life
    A BNP activist is living a secret double life, desperate to prevent his employers from finding out about his extremist views – despite having stood as a candidate in last month’s election. Tom Holmes (25) received 715 votes in the recent elections for Rotherham Council but has managed to keep hi ...
  • Nick Griffin humiliated in Barking defeat
    The British National Party have suffered a humiliating defeat in the general election when Nick Griffin failed to gain a Westminster seat for the East London ward of Barking. Labour MP Margaret Hodge secured the seat with a 16,000 majority, with Griffin trailing third after the Conservative cand ...
  • Ten questions that expose Nick Griffin
    On the day that the BNP launches its election manifesto, Expose the BNP has researched 10 questions for journalists to put to the BNP leader, the answers to which reveal him to be a deeply racist, anti-Semitic Holocaust denier who boasts about his criminal past. 1. In which year did you stop den ...
  • Workshy Griffin left his parents penniless
    On yesterdayâs Today programme, BNP leader Nick Griffin told the Radio Four audience that âLiberal economics … have utterly bankrupted this country.â The truth is that Nick Griffin was himself declared bankrupt in 1991. Over several years thereafter he destroyed his parentsâ finances as well. Gr ...

Sen4Earth

  • Memorial Tribute to Hugh MacDougall
    Memorial Tribute to Hugh MacDougall “We are sending the power of love, peace and compassion, which can change the world.” â Hugh MacDougall, Australia, SEN Honorary Advisor Hugh was more to Suzanne and I than SEN’s Honorary Spiritual Advisor. He was the beloved friend we called brother, and he w ...
  • No to Monsanto and GMO: Action Central
    "SEN is greatly concerned that Monsanto and GMO give rise to a threat that if unchecked could eventually prove as catastrophic to mankind and the sustainability of all life on earth as global warming. We must scream bloody murder, and do so with facts." -- Gregory Hilbert, Co-Founder Sustainabil ...
  • Bill Gates On Climate Change & Energy: We Must ...
    Whether you know a little or a lot about Climate Change (aka Global Warming), SEN urges you to watch this one-hour video, because you will learn a great deal either way. Gates lays out a sweeping set of ideas for reducing CO2 emmissions to zero. Gates is no fool when it comes to matters of [...]
  • Week 2 – Worldwide Campaign to Save the ...
    The Grand Canyon is one of the world's most pristine and majestic treasures. Mother Nature needs our help to save it. We all need to act to protect the Grand Canyon. Pledge to do your part. Help us by adding your signature to the petitions and ask everyone you know and who cares for earth to do ...
  • Seize BP Demonstrations Nationwide
    SEN believes these demonstrations will help awaken politicians to outrage over inadequate regulation and control of international corporations, even if they do not succeed in gaining temporary seizure of BP on the basis of national emergency and evidence of criminal neglect and fraud by BP.

If Americans Knew

  • Gabrielle Giffords, Tom Hurndall and Palestini ...
    Alison Weir, CounterPunch - There is something particularly horrifying when someone is shot in the head. Perhaps it's the gruesome image, the destruction of the brain, the clear intent to kill. The recent shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is made even more nightmarish by the l ...
  • As Israel kills and maims, Outrage is directed ...
    Whenever Israel commits yet another atrocity, its defenders are quick to redirect public attention away from the grisly crime scene. Currently, there are headlines about allegedly anti-Semitic comments made by senior White House correspondent Helen Thomas. Pundits across the land evince outrage ...
  • An Open Letter to the Southern Poverty Law Cli ...
    I am disturbed by an article that the Center published in the fall 2007 issue of "Intelligence Report"--the Center's magazine. The item "Navy Extremist Disciplined--But Not for Extremism" is on page 11. The article focuses on Navy officer John Sharpe Jr.
  • NPR Watch: Linda Gradstein Has Done It Again o ...
    NPR's reporter Linda Gradstein has done it again. She has managed to take a "must report" story on Israeli-Palestinian relations -- the new report by B'Tselem on the non-combatants, including children, killed by the Israeli military during the Israeli attack on Gaza -- and report it in a manner ...
  • The invisible government: Propaganda Disguised ...
    John Pilger: In a speech in Chicago, John Pilger describes how propaganda has become such a potent force in our lives and, in the words of one of its founders, represents 'an invisible government'.

David J. Gregory

  • RICK SCOTT MADE MILLIONS OFF HEALTH NOW CUTS I ...
    Whether it's a political stunt or the act of an extremist ideologue, Scott is hurting real Floridians in concrete ways, including millions of people with private health insurance or Medicare benefits. He's taking away a law that ends the worst insurance company abuses and frees families, senior ...
  • CUT PENTAGON BUDGET: ACT NOW
    Their current proposal includes cuts in domestic spending, diplomacy, development, and international assistance but allows the Pentagon budget to continue to rise.
  • SAY NO to Patriot EXTENSIONS!
    Together, these provisions make a mockery of our civil liberties: They let government officials spy on whomever they want, for any reason, without ever letting them know or giving them a chance to challenge the order in court.
  • Secretariat the Horse, the Movie
    To be witness to history from afar is one thing, to be up close is another, and to have the wisdom to know the difference is the icing on the cake, of course, I am referring to great moments in history, of excelling in any endeavor, being human, or otherwise, of the bright spots and not of man’s ...
  • I understand and now you do, too!
    Why do they hate us? Is it really that hard to understand? 1st collector for I understand and now you do, too!Follow my videos on vodpod

Unsuitable Blog

  • Interview With Bill McKibben, Winner of Puffin ...
    Climate reality writer and activist Gregory Vickrey. (L) ( Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Founder of 350.org, writer and environmentalist Bill McKibben. (R) (Photo: Nancie Battaglia / 350.org) Bill McKibben, Schumann distinguished scholar at Middlebury College, is the author of a dozen boo ...
  • An Open Letter to Journalists From Gasland Dir ...
    With the recent Oscar nomination of my documentary film GASLAND, Big Gas and their PR attack machine hit a new low in its blatant disregard for the truth. In an unprecedented move, an oil and gas industry front group sent a letter to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences saying that th ...
  • 350.org say “Hello Business, Goodbye Gra ...
    For a while it wasn’t certain which side would blink first: the grassroots or the corporate loving heirarchy. Turns out that the grassroots blinked before the heirarchy had even been established. When, like 350.org you have a full time staff of just half a dozen people then you have a pretty eas ...
  • Friends of the Earth, iPods and The Competitio ...
    It was a windy Thursday evening at the beginning of 2011. An office in north London buzzed with anticipation at the launch of something exciting; something that would appeal to a new breed of eco-conscious consumers who want that extra something to keep them feeling good about their fast-pased, ...
  • A Story About Banks [Guest Post]
    A few weeks back I had a revelation. Many years ago I opened an account with the Midland Bank in Ipswich. Lots of the people that worked there used to come into the pub that I worked in at lunch-time and they all seemed very nice. Actually there was also a very affable man, a [...]

Subalternate Reality

  • Praying On Qasr al-Nil
    One of the more memorable scenes of the Egyptian revolution will surely be that of ordinary Egyptian’s praying on Cairo’s Qasr al-Nil Bridge as members of Egyptian state police direct their water cannons at them. Truly a remarkable sight. via Al Jazeera Filed under: Middle East Tagged: Al-Jazeer ...
  • “I Support Democratization, But…&# ...
    The Atlanticâs Jeffrey Goldberg â one of the key proponents of the disastrous invasion of Iraq â has some serious misgivings about the fledgling pro-democracy movement thatâs taken over the streets of Egypt. âI support democratization, but,â he cautions, âthe democratization we saw in Gaza (cour ...
  • All That Happens In The Middle East Can’ ...
    Uncertainly rules the day in Tunisia. Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the countryâs strong-armed and authoritarian ruler since 1987, is in Saudi Arabia while the interim government struggles to restore some semblance of order.  âConfusion, fear and horror in Tunisia as old regime’s militia carries on ...
  • Newt Comes Out As A Muslim-Baiter
    Early this week, disgraced former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich warned that “a commitment to religious freedom and God-given rights is being replaced by a secular oppression…”  Just hours after those words appeared on Human Events, Gingrich issued a statement forcefully opposing the constr ...
  • Wealthy Far More Likely To Default On Mortgage ...
    crossposted at Political Correction For much of the past two years, Congressional Republicans have wasted few opportunities to blame poor and working class Americans for the financial meltdown and the subsequent recession. They’ve argued that through well-intentioned government initiatives, in ...

Idea Lab | Technology

  • MIT's Civic Media Session Explores Data in Cit ...
    With a redoubled focus on the community in the civic media community, the Center for Future Civic Media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) launched a new series last week. These relaxed, informal conversations about civic media featured ground-level practitioners, activists, hack ...
  • LocalWiki Tries "Open-From-The-Start" Developm ...
    It's time for another project update. We've been hard at work on the core of the software that will power LocalWiki. We've also been spending time running around meeting people passionate about local media and planning out many things to come. Basic groundwork laid Many of you know abo ...
  • People of Color Must Innovate or Die in Digita ...
    In December in this space I asked about the lack of minorities at new media conferences -- both as participants and as speakers. The blog post generated a lot of comments; a Twitter discussion, and the start of a list of wonderful experts -- all persons of color -- who can help make your next ne ...
  • 'Data and Cities' Conference Pushes Open Data, ...
    When I entered Stamen's offices in the Mission district of San Francisco, I saw four people gathered around a computer screen. What were they doing? Nothing less than "mapping the world" -- not as it appears in flat dimension, but how it reveals itself. And they weren't joking. Stamen, a data vi ...
  • Knight, Mozilla Partner to Boost Tech-Journali ...
    I'm excited to announce the Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership, a Mozilla Drumbeat project supported by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation's Journalism Program. For the next three years, we will have the opportunity to engage a huge community, bring people together for trainin ...

Cutting Edge News

  • The Battle for Libya - Libyan Revolution Makes ...
    Unlike energy produced in most African states, nearly all of Libya’s oil and natural gas is produced onshore. This reduces development costs but increases the chances that political instability could impact output — and Libya has been anything but stable of late.Libya’s 1.8 million barrels per d ...
  • Pakistan on Edge - Revelations Seek to Link Di ...
    As US newspapers lifted a self-imposed gag on the CIA links of Raymond Davis, in place at the request of the US administration, according to�intelligence sources, the alleged killer of two Pakistanis had close links to the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) terrorist organization.The New York Time ...
  • Pakistan Edge - Pakistani Police: No Blasphemy ...
    Prime Minister of Pakistan Yousaf Raza Gillani last week categorically announced that the government will not amend the Blasphemy law and instructed Peoples Party parliamentarian Sherry Rehman to withdraw the bill proposing an amendment to the blasphemy law, and she withdrew the amendment bill.M ...
  • Edge of the Uninsured - An Illuminating Expedi ...
    As Congressional Republicans seek ways to starve the new health care reform law of necessary funding — and Democrats try to keep that from happening — it’s easy to lose sight of the reasons why reform was pursued in the first place.For a reminder, lawmakers might want to spend a few hours in Nas ...
  • Edge of Energy Security - Energy Security Less ...
    The political turmoil in Egypt has prompted renewed concerns about the security of oil and gas supplies from the Middle East. The country's proximity to two key chokepoints—the Suez Canal and the Bab al-Mandab Strait between the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden—is significant. Yet concerns about the ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • Counterrevolution 101
    By Dave Fryett The wretched of the Earth have seen what is possible. Power has been shown to be powerless in the face of determined mass opposition. And in every corner of our world the immiserated rejoice, because they know the day of liberation draws near
  • No One Curious What CIA Is Working On At The ...
    By Jay Janson What does the CIA have in store for Egypt? What chores will it assign its agents both American and Egyptian? American socialists and progressives are overly cooperative with mainstream media and Congress in hardly ever asking after our secret CIA shadow government
  • Lessons Learned In The Streets Of Cairo
    By William A. CookIf the streets of Cairo have taught us anything, they have demonstrated that vigilance against those who would control out of arrogance, oppress with indifference, deceive with impunity, and humiliate without feeling, have abandoned all natural sympathies and become , in fact ...
  • What Is True Sustainability?
    By Matthew SteinIf we are to develop an effective plan and roadmap for creating a sustainable world, we must first have a clear idea of what it truly means to be sustainable
  • Egypts Army Dissolves Parliament
    By Al Jazeera Military rulers say they will remain in charge for six months until elections are held as some protesters vow to remain

Contagious Love Experiment

  • Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichri ...
    Dear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
  • Practicing Peace in the New Year
    A friend, Frank Swift, that I met on my first journey has passed along some great practical steps towards peace for the new year. Frank has written a children’s book to help young people see an alternative to the competition and forcefulness that can too easily get instilled in our young people. ...
  • Sharing the writing of another Stieber
    My younger brother, Zack, has been fascinated by the Chinese practice of Falun Gong and is hoping that this post could be used to spark a further discussion about it. � Thoughts on Falun Gong by Zack Stieber � Most of us are aware that in China things work differently then here. The main thing o ...
  • Article in FOR
    The following is the rough draft for an article I wrote, reflecting on the war in Iraq, that was published in the recent edition of the Fellowship of Reconciliation’s magazine. For more info on getting the full magazine, check out: http://forusa.org/fall-2010-renewing-movement   Rhetoric and Re ...
  • Slate Interview: My Country Right or Wrong: Co ...
    Interview I did with a fascinating writer for SLATE whose special interest is on transformation and how people come to admit they’re wrong:   Address to article: http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/thewrongstuff/archive/2010/12/16/my-country-right-or-wrong-conscientious-objector-josh-stieber-on-bei ...

Yid With Lid

  • Muslim Brotherhood Leader: Iran is Our Role Mo ...
    This should close the argument regarding wheter the Muslim Brotherhood is peaceful or not.� Two weeks ago one of the Muslim Brotherhood big shots Kamal al-Halbavi was interviewed by the BBC and praised his buddies in Iran saying that they should be the role model for the new Egyptian government. ...
  • The Main Stream Media and the Middle East: Wow ...
    By Barry Rubin For those of us who have been trying to talk about Middle East dictators for a long time--I wrote my book on the subject, Modern Dictators, more than a quarter-century ago--it is amusing to see how people are lining up to be "horrified" by those evil repressive regimes. ...
  • Obama Still Silent on Libyan Massacres While t ...
    Last night the United Nations Security Council took up the issue of the massacre of Libyan citizens by the desperate dictator trying to cling to power Muammar� Gaddafi, Qaddafi or Kadafi. Protesters are being shot at from military helicopters and/or fighter Jets on orders by this blight upon ...
  • Wis. Department of Regulation and Licensing Lo ...
    Its not nice to lie, especially on camera.� During the past few days there have been many videos released showing doctors in Wisconsin giving teachers fake notes so they can say they were too ill to go to work the days they skipped school to protest the new Wisconsin union rules. �Of ...
  • Wisconsin Democratic State Senator Faces Recal ...
    Running away may not be a very good political strategy for the cut and run Democratic State Senators in Wisconsin. At least one of the hiding politicians is facing a recall effort.� The law is that State Senators who have been in office for at least a year can be recalled. Sen. Robert Wirch, D-P ...

The Real Agenda

  • Estado Policía en Honduras
    Ley permite que la policía se pidió a los fumadores en casa AP Adaptación Luis R. Miranda El último refugio para fumantes parece haberse entrado en extinción – al menos en Honduras. Una nueva ley que tomó efecto el lunes dice que los miembros de la familia pueden llamar a la policía si al ...
  • Tokyo-based Nomura: Oil prices may hit $220 a ...
    By Matt Egan Fox Business February 23, 2011 If the turmoil paralyzing parts of the Middle East and North Africa brings oil production in Libya and Algeria to a standstill, it could cause crude oil to explode to $220 a barrel, derailing the global economic recovery. According to a new report from ...
  • Philanthropic Journalism?
    The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation not only funds Genetically Modified Organisms and massive vaccination campaigns.  It also spends billions of dollars funding the media to help them spread its message. By Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda February 23, 2011 As if the fact most of the main stream ...
  • Oil on its way to $200 a barrel
    Crude climbed up to $110 today due to what experts say is the effects of Libyan and Middle East unrest. Oil insider Lindsey Williams says it´s just the beginning. “Unrest and oil prices will completely collapse U.S. Dollar in 2012.” Oil companies will open massive U.S. reserves to cope with lac ...
  • U.K. OK’s Cloned Meat and Milk, KO&#8217 ...
    Milk from cloned cows given green light by Defra Telegraph February 22, 2011 The comments are the clearest sign that the Government will give the official green light to farmers and food companies who want to supply butchers and supermarkets with the controversial products. However, animal welfa ...

Wind Watch

  • Property values and health impaired by wind tu ...
    Appraiser says average loss in home values is 25 percent East County residents who oppose a growing collection of industrial wind turbines proposed near rural residences have discovered that they have much in common with wind farm neighbors in the United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, Japan, Canad ...
  • How many bats are being killed?
    The Laurel Mountain Preservation Association wants to know how many bats are being killed by the AES Laurel Mountain Wind Project. The two sides went before the state Public Service Commission Monday. LMPA attorney Brad Stephens says they’ve been trying to get some basic numbers from AES’s bat d ...
  • Cape Cod Commission tackles regulating wind tu ...
    Draft regulations Setbacks: 3,000 feet for one-megawatt (or greater) turbines Regional review: Triggered if turbine is more than 65 feet tall Noise study: Required Shadow flicker study: Required Mitigation plans Noise, shadow flicker and decommission rules Building a wind turbine, even a small o ...
  • Turbine neighbours gagged in buy-up
    Victorians who have endured health problems from a nearby wind farm have been gagged from talking in return for the sale of their land. Spanish multinational energy company Acciona has been quietly buying farms adjacent to its site at Waubra, near Ballarat, as an increasing number of residents i ...
  • Wind farm fight heads to Supreme Court as comm ...
    The Supreme Court of South Australia will soon hear its first appeal against a proposed wind farm development. The appeal follows a landmark judgment by the Environment, Resources and Development Court late last year in favour of AGL’s Hallett 3 project at Mt Bryan – a decision hailed by develop ...

Not My Tribe

  • Santorum defends Murderous, anti-Christian Cru ...
    But first, since the top twenty searches on Google return this: Santorum 1. The frothy mix of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex. 2. Senator Rick Santorum. He said today that the Crusades have such a bad image because the American Left has formed a conspiracy to ta ...
  • “Invest in America” speak-out at L ...
    Instead of his lame-ass “town halls” like the Tea-Party ones he held for health care, remember those? The one at a Country Club on the far edge of town that started after the bus stopped running on a Friday evening, no more bus service till Monday morning? Working Class need not apply? Then they ...
  • What happens to Outsourced (Steve) Jobs worker ...
    a Taiwan manufacturer of touch-screens ordered a switch from wood alcohol as a cleaning solvent to n-hexane. Hexane is a petrochemical that’s more volatile than gasoline (octane) but won’t dissolve plastic and rubber like the in-between number heptane. Think mono, di, tri, tetra, penta, hexa, he ...
  • Associated Press Financial Tips from Yahoo new ...
    401k, the Republican Privatized answer to Social Security. Tanking. You won’t get enough out of your 401k and soon-to-be-privatized Social Security to pay either mortgage or rent, so suck it up. (Our CEO is doin’ jes fine, He has a Golden Parachute, you don’t, sucks to be you, now get back to wo ...
  • The Indiana State Legislature is following Wis ...
    The R’s pushing Union-busting and the D’s walking out. Yowza. Our Democratic “Socialist” Governor, Hickenlooper, is looking at cutting public school K-12 budgets. BUT…. Nobody’s talking about the R.T. phrase. As in, Really and Truly pay the damn bills. Industry makes beaucoup bux off having educ ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • F U Brian Deer, Steven Novella, David Gorski, ...
    Sometimes it just needs to be said. :) Brian Deer lies, Steven Novella, David Gorski and PZ Myers parrot lies. Truth On Alleged Fraud In The Study Of Autism Cases RevealedThese libelous accusations are based on the flimsiest possible construct. Deer claims fraud on the basis of differences ...
  • If X Then Y
    Pat Curley has commented on Chandler and Bursill's discussion. I haven't actually listened to that discussion coz I've been busy, but I will coment on this: 4. Bursill and Chandler decry the "If X then Y" nature of the CIT theories, where X is "the plane flew north of the Citgo" and Y is "then F ...
  • This perfectly encapsulates how I feel when tr ...
  • Debunkers are Losing the Propaganda War ! Poll ...
    A recent poll in the german magazine "Welt der Wunder" conducted by the well known Emnid Institute results in astonishing 89% of the german respondents not believing the official line 9/11. The magazine in 2010 already published the story of NATOs "secret nuclear war", where the consequences of ...
  • Jim Corr Omits Info about Roaring Fires in WTC ...
    Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog posted musician Jim Corr's recent interview today and states: It's a collection of talking points on WTC-7: 1. Three buildings, two planes 2. Freefall speed into its own footprint 3. Accounts of explosions (note that Corr fails to mention the firefighte ...

Fooducate

  • What Goes in to Aunt Jemima’s “Original Syrup” ...
    Aunt Jemima is a brand that’s been around for over 100 years. It conjures thoughts of  Southern hospitality. It’s comforting to know a brand has been around that long. You can probably trust it.. And thus, many people buy their pancake kit (mix + syrup) from Aunt Jemima. Here’s why Aunt Jemima ...
  • Safeway’s 22 “Simple Nutrition” Shelf Tags
    Following in the footsteps of many other grocery retailers, Safeway is introducing its own nutrition labeling system to the mix. “Consumers are inundated with conflicting nutrition information and are often skeptical of the nutrition claims on packaging,” said Safeway’s Barbara Walker, group vic ...
  • The “Comeback” of Ancient Grains
    How many of you have heard of the following grains? Spelt, Amaranth, Quinoa, Millet, Einkorn, Triticale, Emmer, or Teff If you haven’t, you soon will. An interesting article in the LA Times last week covered the growing trend of using Ancient Grains in breads and other baked goods. Buoyed by rec ...
  • Another Reason to Quit Cola [Caramel Coloring]
    Last week, the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) petitioned the FDA to ban certain types of caramel coloring because their production process creates carcinogenic chemicals: In contrast to the caramel one might make at home by melting sugar in a saucepan, the artificial brown colo ...
  • Before You Bite into Your Sunday Morning Bagel ...
    This is a guest blog post by Carol Harvey, director of nutrition labeling at Palate Works. This is segment #2 of “Eating Habits Weâve Learned from Food Industry and Friends” Spread-ing (too much) Love Does you feel like you’ve just won a backstage pass when you get an extra side of blue cheese d ...

Traffikd

  • Culture Vulture: Social Strategies for Differe ...
    Social media campaigns are becoming more integrated into the overall online marketing mix. And as with anything on the Web, you need to think global to succeed in the long term. To succeed with social media marketing for different cultures, you need to familiarise yourself with what’s happening ...
  • Internet Marketing and Social Media Degree Pro ...
    Guest post by Brian Jenkins Over a billion and a half people use the Internet, and this has created a plethora of opportunities for talented Internet marketers. Specialized knowledge in Internet marketing and social media is vital for many businesses. Yes, there are successful, self-taught Inte ...
  • How to Find Great Communities, Forums, and Blo ...
    To market your company effectively, you need to find out where your target audience is. In this post I’ll show you how you can do this. I like using examples, so in this case, I’ll assume you sell Star Wars merchandise.
  • Blogging Event Ideas to Spice Up Your Blog
    If you've ever gone to an industry conference, film festival, grand opening, or author signing, then you can appreciate the energy such events can create. Industry conferences gather together the best and brightest minds in order to share ideas and plan for the future. Film festivals celebrate g ...
  • Increasing Your Blog’s Interactivity: 10 Tips ...
    Guest post by Alexis Bonari Success in attracting and retaining readers is often influenced by a blog’s level of interactivity. Many readers are more active than passive and want to feel like they have a role in affecting a blog’s content, design, structure, and overall ongoing conversation. Po ...

Survival International

  • Borneo court: Penan land case can go ahead
    Penan children relaxing in their rainforest home, Sarawak, Borneo. © R. Hanbury-Tenison/Survival A Malaysian court has ruled that members of the Penan tribe can sue the government and a timber company for trespassing on their land. The Court of Appeal in Sarawak, the Malaysian part of Born ...
  • Amazon Indians in London to stop dams that wil ...
    Bishop Erwin Kräutler marches against the Belo Monte dam © Prelazia do Xingu Three Amazon Indians have begun a journey through Europe to protest against dams which threaten to destroy the lands and lives of thousands of tribal people. Ruth Buendia Mestoquiari, an Ashaninka Indian from Pe ...
  • Cartoon satire of ‘development’ launched in In ...
    Survival's 'There you go!' can be read in two minutes. © Oren Ginzburg/Survival Survival has today launched in India a cartoon book satirizing the destruction of tribal peoples in the name of ‘development’. The book, ‘There you go!’, designed to be read in two minutes, is being sent to Pri ...
  • Trial of Indian leader’s ‘assassins’ resumes
    Guarani leader Marcos Veron was killed in 2003. © Joaó Ripper/Survival The trial of three men accused of murdering renowned Guarani Indian leader Marcos Veron is set to resume on Monday in São Paulo, Brazil. â¨â¨Marcos Veron, an internationally respected Guarani Kaiowá leader, was beat ...
  • Chevron found guilty of Amazon destruction
    Waorani man, Ecuador © © John Wright/Survival In a historic court ruling, US oil company Chevron has been fined $8.6 billion for polluting a huge area of the Ecuadorian Amazon. Seventeen years after the case was taken to the courts, Chevron has been charged with dumping 18.5 billion gall ...

Greg Palast

  • Chevron Runs from Judgmentin Ecuador
    by Greg Palast Chevron petroleum Corporation is attempting to slither out of an $8 billion judgment rendered yesterday by a trial court in Ecuador for cancer deaths, illnesses and destruction caused by its Texaco unit. I've been there, in Ecuador. I met the victims.  They didn't lose their sh ...
  • Reagan: Killer, Coward, Con-man
    The Observer London by Greg Palast You're not going to like this. You shouldn't speak ill of the dead. But in this case, someone's got to. On the 100th Anniversary of Ronald Reagan's birth, as we suffer a week of Reagan-kitcheria and pukey peons, let us remember: Reagan was a con-man. Rea ...
  • Shake your head and throw something at your TV
    from MoviesOnline.ca Bush Family Fortunes is a documentary that will make you shake your head and want to throw something at your TV. If even half of what BBC investigative reporter Greg Palast reveals is true and you happen to be an American you may or may not be calling for a revolution depen ...
  • Peak Oil and a Changing Climate
    from The Nation The scientific community has long agreed that our dependence on fossil fuels inflicts massive damage on the environment and our health, while warming the globe in the process. But beyond the damage these fuels cause to us now, what will happen when the world's supply of oil ru ...
  • Palast ArrestedBusted by BP in Azerbaijan
    by Greg Palast BP's Azeri police arresting Palast for filming BP oil rig - Baku, Azerbaijan, December 2010"Here in Azerbaijan we believe in human rights. PLEASE GIVE US YOUR FILM." Oh, no, no, not good. The enforcers here come in three colors:  the military police still wearing their old Rus ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • Plastic bottle creations, recycled robot plant ...
    Every now and then I realise I’ve had some great ideas & links sent to my email but not shared them with you yet – this is one of those times! First up, Vernon got into touch to tell us about his plastic bottle creations. He says he’s been making them for 15 years and [...]
  • Upcycled & recycled Valentine’s Day gift ...
    Since it’s coming up to Valentine’s Day, I thought it might be nice to have a round up of fun recycling/upcycling Valentine’s Day crafts – for inspiration or purchase! Andrea Cook has been making cute Valentine’s Day cards out of recycled handmade paper and fabric scraps. Coupled-up kitties! Sar ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle storage heater bric ...
    Carole sent an email asking about storage heater bricks: does anyone know what to do with old storage heater bricks? Just had 4 old heaters taken out and I suspect the plumbers will just take the lot to the dump so want to see if I can save them and reuse them or find somewhere [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle an old wrought iron ...
    Sticking in the garden after yesterday’s “how to make cloches” question, I’m a member of UKVegGardeners and spotted this question on the forum yesterday: Anyone got any suggestions, please, on uses for an old wrought iron 3ft square garden gate which has reached the end of its gate life but must ...
  • What can I reuse or recycle to make garden clo ...
    I thought we’d already covered this but apparently not! At the weekend, I made some 4ft by 1ft garden planters from scrap wood – having a lot of fun and saving myself a heap of money in the process. I think I’ll probably use them in our front garden – there are just a few [...]

Age of Autism

  • We Lost Bruesewitz v. Wyeth, But We Gained Sot ...
    By Kent Heckenlively, Esq. I will confess my deep disappointment over the outcome in Bruesewitz v. Wyeth. The case was well-presented by the attorneys and I thought it might be one of those rare instances where there could be a...
  • National Vaccine Information Center Cites “Bet ...
    February 23, 2011 08:03 AM Eastern Time WASHINGTON--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), whose co-founders worked with Congress on the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 (PL-99-660), is calling yesterday’s U.S. Supreme Court decision giving drug ...
  • Supreme Court Ruling Abandons Vaccine-Injured ...
    Decision in Bruesewitz case leaves families with no hope of obtaining compensation from drug makers for vaccine injuries Nixa, MO – The National Autism Association (NAA) joins parents nationwide in calling yesterday’s Supreme Court decision in the Bruesewitz case a...
  • OK 7 Year Old with Autism Savannah Martin Wand ...
    There are those on the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee who continue to fight making autism wandering death a priority. Your tax dollars at work. Our hearts and prayers go out to the Martin family, who lost this beautiful girl in...
  • Vaccinated vs. Unvaccinated Children: Some Dat ...
    By Maria D. Majewska While in western countries government officials and their corporate sponsors aggressively resist conducting the studies comparing health of vaccinated vs. unvaccinated children , such studies have been, in fact, conducted in Africa. Below is the abstract...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

  • Farm Wars Public Service Announcement: Talk to ...
    We do not domesticate animals, they domesticate us. They tell us what they require, and we comply. In return, they consent to do what we require. Most approach this relationship with critters the other way around, which is simply bass ackwards.
  • Truth Squad Radio – People and Wildlife Living ...
    Join us Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2011! This Wednesday we will be speaking with guest author Joel Thomas!  People and wildlife are living closer together all the time and while problems continue to grow, many of them can be solved by simple information and techniques that can provide effective non-let ...
  • 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/

Open Your Eyes News

  • Australia to Set Tax on Carbon Emissions Start ...
    Bloomberg – Australia will set a price on carbon emissions next year in preparation for a trading program that could begin as early as 2015 aimed at curbing greenhouse gases.The government will impose a price starting on July 1, 2012, Prime Minister Julia Gillard said in a statement today. The a ...
  • Charges initiated against Pope for crimes agai ...
    Irish Times – Two German lawyers have initiated charges against Pope Benedict XVI at the International Criminal Court, alleging crimes against humanity. Christian Sailer and Gert-Joachim Hetzel, based at Marktheidenfeld in the Popeâs home state of Bavaria, last week submitted a 16,500-word docum ...
  • Rahm Emanuel wins Chicago mayoral vote
    CNN - Rahm Emanuel, the former chief of staff to President Barack Obama, won the Chicago mayoral election over five other challengers Tuesday, topping the 50% threshold to avoid a runoff vote, CNN projects. With almost 75% of the vote counted, Emanuel had almost 55% of the vote, far outdistancin ...
  • Ivory Coast: Abidjan attack kills 10 soldiers
    BBC - At least 10 soldiers loyal to Ivory Coast’s disputed President Laurent Gbagbo have been killed by unidentified gunmen in Abidjan. The army vehicles were attacked in an area aligned to his rival, Alassane Ouattara, who is recognised by the UN as the winner of last year’s polls. On Monday, ...
  • Oil Soars as Libyan Furor Shakes Markets
    NY Times – The political turmoil sweeping the Arab world drove oil prices sharply higher and stocks much lower on Tuesday despite efforts by Saudi Arabia to calm turbulent markets. The unrest that has spread from Tunisia to Libya pushed oil prices to a two-year high and has spurred an increase i ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Global warming: The United Nations courts Tins ...
    The United Nations has long courted celebrities for its peace-keeping and anti-poverty efforts, from Mia Farrow and Ricky Martin to George Clooney and Angelina Jolie. It is a mutually beneficial arrangement. Hollywood stars grasp at gravitas; the U.N. pushes for...
  • Deepwater drilling permits must move forward, ...
    Beyond dispute is that before the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, permit applications were resolved in some two weeks. Also clear is that the permit applications at issue here have experienced delays of four months, if not more."
  • Rainwater Capture Act of 2011 could help quenc ...
    When it comes to water management, California Assemblyman Jose Solorio focuses on three C's: capture, conservation and conveyance. Of those, the state has been most successful with conservation, Solorio says, but it hasn't been nearly as adept at capturing rain...
  • Greenest cars: natural gas Honda Civic GX, Nis ...
    For a list of the greenest 2011 model-year vehicles, there sure are a lot of traditional gasoline engines among the top 12 cars ranked by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy. The council's 14th annual ratings of the most...
  • Oscar voters tackle gas 'fracking' controversy
    Add one more unlikely group to the list of people debating the controversial process of hydraulic fracturing or "fracking" -- Oscar voters. Energy in Depth, a group representing oil and natural gas producers, has sent a letter to the Academy...

water.org

  • You’re Invited: March 1st Conference Cal ...
    Tuesday, March 1 The 45-minute call begins at 9 p.m. ET Call in number: 978-964-0049⨠Participant code: 449749# This is your chance to hear first-hand from Water.org International Programs Manager April Davies about the water and sanitation crisis in Ghana and the impact our programs a ...
  • Damons work as team for Water.org (Boston Glob ...
    Damons work as team (Boston Globe) – Kyle Damon and his famous brother make a formidable philanthropic duo. First, Matt Damon cofounded Water.org to call attention to the lack of clean drinking water around the world. Now, his big brother, an artist and ironman triathlete, has created Team Water ...
  • Water.org and KAMEKO partnership bring clean w ...
    Water.org has teamed up as a charity partner with the new pop/rock/soul artist KAMEKO and his “Tired of Being Broke” Musical Stimulus Gift Package Tour, which will kick off in Liberia March 19, 2011 at ATS stadium. This partnership will raise funds from the tour’s concert ticket sales and other ...
  • Rita Marley, KAMEKO partners with Water.org (M ...
    Matt Damonâs Water.org Partners With Rita Marley And KAMEKO For âTired Of Being Brokeâ Tour (Mi2N) – Water.org, a non-profit organization co-founded by Oscar winning actor Matt Damon and executive director Gary White, has teamed up alongside music legend Rita Marley to support the new pop/rock/s ...
  • Water.org powering microfinance for water (CFI ...
    Whatâs Matt Damon Got to Do With Microfinance? (Center for Financial Inclusion) – Reeta Roy, the president and CEO of The MasterCard Foundation, penned the post for the foundationâs blog many weeks ago. But the storyâs still fresh: an organization called Water.org is powering a âmarket-driven an ...

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

  • The Deniers on CBC Radio's 'Ideas'
    The science is settled - is now the mantra of climate change activism? Those who disagree are either in denial or in the pay of an oil company. But long time environmentalist and energy activist Lawrence Solomon says no, the science is not settled on global warming. Ideas producer David Cayley b ...

Margaret's News

  • Clueless in Washington and Tel Aviv
    For the people, �do something� is an exclamation of the US�s hopelessness regarding Palestine, not naïve hope, a frustrated exasperation at how the Americans could resignedly watch the Israeli occupation indulge in brutality day after day, then defend it.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� ...
  • The War of Ideas in the Middle East
    In response, Stand With Us, an organization of zealous advocates for Israel, paid to post ads headlined "Stop Palestinian Terrorism," featuring a character whose face - except the shifty eyes - was wrapped in a red-and-white keffiyya. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add ...
  • The UN is ripe for advancing the Palestinian a ...
    These messages, the Times said, were that "further settlement construction threatens peace in the region, and that halting construction has been misrepresented as an Israeli concession while in fact international law requires it." Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Co ...
  • Please add your name to our petition urging st ...
    Corporate CEOs spent more than $1 billion to elect politicians and now they want pay back. Recently elected politicians in many states are already saying �thank you� by pushing dangerous legislation that attacks workers. Submitted by Robert S. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a ...
  • Libya: Protesters, security clash in capital
    Libyan protesters celebrated in the streets of Benghazi on Monday, claiming control of the country's second largest city after bloody fighting, and anti-government unrest spread to the capital with clashes in Tripoli's main square for the first timeSubmitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World �|� �Not ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

  • Somali NOC President Supervises Athletics Coac ...
    The president was accompanied by Somali NOC secretary General Abdullahi Ahmed Tarabi, NOC executive office manager Mohamed Abdo Hajji, Somali Athletics acting President Khadija Aden Dahir and Secretary General Farah Ali Moalim.
  • U.S. Leaders Participate in Global Innovation ...
    More than 60 experts in science, technology, and innovation across government, research, finance, nonprofit, and corporate sectors from 20 countries are participating in the three-day event. The initiative fosters economic development and addresses
  • Ban Voices Sadness for Loss of Life in Deadly ...
    The 6.3-magnitude quake that shook the city at midday has claimed at least 65 lives, according to media reports, which are describing it as the country's worst natural disaster in 80 years.
  • U.S. Sends Sympathy and Condolences to The Peo ...
    The United States stands ready to provide assistance to the government of New Zealand and to the brave people of Christchurch. Our long history of friendship and mutual support in times of need is an example of our enduring bond.
  • UNOCI Deplores Excess Use of Force Against Dem ...
    The mission (UNOCI) condemned the disproportionate use of force by security forces, who it said used heavy weapons against the demonstrators.

Worldnews

  • Bartoli outclasses Peng to make Qatar ten ...
    DOHA (AFP) – France's Marion Bartoli completed a swift demolition job of China's Peng Shuai to storm into the semi-finals of the WTA Qatar Open here on Thursday. The world number 18, who is...
  • Arimura leads in Singapore, Tseng 2 shots ...
    Print E-mail Twitter Facebook Digg Delicious StumbleUpon Galleries SINGAPORE (AP) Japan's Chie Arimura overcame strong winds to shoot a 4-under 68 and take a one stroke lead after the first round of the HSBC Women's Champions on Thursday. Korea's Na Yeon Choi shot a 69, while world No. 1 Y ...
  • FDA Greenlights KODAK Laser Projection Te ...
    ROCHESTER, N.Y. - The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a variance that allows for the sale of KODAK Laser Projector Systems using KODAK Laser Projection Technology to cinema exhibitors without the need for individual site or show operator variances. This is an important step ...
  • American Idol Top 24: Chris Medina cut, J ...
    On Wednesday night's American Idol, the 61 remaining contestants boarded buses and made their way to Las Vegas to perform the music of The Beatles. Related Stories Casey Abrams sets the bar for American Idol Hollywood Week solos (video) American Idol group auditions: Jaycee Badeaux and othe ...
  • Scholes agrees to new one-year deal with ...
    London, Feb 24 (ANI): Midfielder Paul Scholes has informed Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson that he will sign a new one-year deal.�...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • Microcredit Critics Say Debt Doesn't Equal Ema ...
    UNITED NATIONS - In response to a pelting critique from academics, economists and grassroots organizers worldwide, the 2011 State of the Microcredit Summit Campaign Report plans to address the controversies surrounding a development scheme that many believe to have failed. ...
  • Libya: Obama Says US Considering "Full Range o ...
    WASHINGTON - As more Libyan towns and cities fell to anti-government forces Wednesday, U.S. President Barack Obama said Washington is preparing "the full range of options" to respond to the ongoing violence in the oil-rich North African state. In a five-minute televised statement from the White ...
  • Lobbyists: Obama White House Hides Meetings Of ...
    Caught between their boss’s anti-lobbyist rhetoric and the reality of governing, President Barack Obama’s aides often steer meetings with lobbyists to a complex just off the White House grounds – and several of the lobbyists involved say they believe the choice of venue is no accident. It allows ...
  • Nations Braced for 'Hacklash' as Assange Verdi ...
    Julian Assange will today learn if he is to be extradited to Sweden to face rape and sexual assault allegations. The WikiLeaks founder's legal team has said it is already preparing an appeal in anticipation of the judge's decision going against him. ...
  • Assange Extradited; 'Democracies Ought to be S ...
    SYDNEY, Australia - The mother of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange condemned Thursday a court order for his extradition to Sweden as "political and legal gang rape", the Australian Associated Press reported. A British judge ruled Thursday that the 39-year-old Australian can be extradited to face ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

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

Peoples Voice

  • Egyptian Uprising Overthrows its Zionist Maste ...
    Bob Finch Global Strategic Factors During the cold war period no liberation movement in any third world country was left to its own devices to fulfill the will of the people through the creation of democratic institutions and a more just society. They were continually corrupted by the superpow ...
  • Craven US veto costs Washington its last shred ...
    Stuart Littlewood Hang you head in shame, O Peace Prize laureate. The Nobel award, said Barack Obama at the time, was “an affirmation of American leadership on behalf of aspirations held by people in all nations” and must be shared with everyone who strives for "justice and dignity". Where wa ...
  • Has Justice Caught A Cold?
    Roland Lawrence In a city obsessed with the fate of the Detroit Lions, it casts a disturbing tell where the sensibilities and priorities of the city’s decision makers lie. It has been several months since Wayne County Procrastinator, I mean, Prosecutor Kym Worthy bailed on her responsibility t ...
  • Exorcism Versus America’s Naïve Movie In ...
    By Thor Thader “Man … can … surmount all his real enemies … but does he not immediately raise up to himself imaginary enemies, the demons of fancy, who haunt him with superstitious terrors and blast every enjoyment of life?” - Philo in David Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion Evil is ...
  • American Manufacturing Slowly Rotting Away: Ho ...
    Ian Fletcher I wrote in a previous article about why America's manufacturing sector, despite record output, is actually in very deep trouble: record output doesn't prove the sector healthy when we are running a huge trade deficit in manufactured goods, i.e. consuming more goods than we produce ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Deregulation in Canada: A disaster in the maki ...
    In Canada, regulations adopted by every level of government have historically helped to make this one of the safest, most desirable places to raise a family. But a slow, steady, and quiet erosion of regulations by our governments put Canadians' health, safety and well-being increasingly at risk. ...
  • BNN launches three-part series on income inequ ...
    CTV's Business News Network (BNN) begins a three-part series today looking at the gap between the rich and the rest of us. Today's show, at 5 pm EST, features Robert Reich, former U.S. secretary of labour. Tomorrow's show, 5 pm EST, features the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives' own Senio ...
  • Economist writer on the three top reasons why ...
    MIT Economist Daron Acemoglu writes in The Economist that there are three main reasons to care about worsening income inequality: Harmful effects on personal well-being, limited equality of opportunity, and more concentrated political power. On the third point, he writes: "Economic power tends t ...
  • A challenge to BC’s leadership candidates: dar ...
    On our Policy Note blog, Seth Klein suggests a new approach for BC leadership hopefuls: "As a number of fundamental crises become more apparent (ecological and economic, not to mention the democratic deficit), the public is looking for bold ideas and bold leadership. Sadly, too many political ...
  • CEO pay under review
    A week after we released our review of CEO pay in Canada, the Ontario Securities Commission says it's time to review how executives get paid. Read the story here.

World Wide Hippies

  • NZ Earthquake Blamed On Homosexuals
    ‘Despicable’: website blames Christchurch quake on gay community | Sydney Morning Herald A website that claims Christchurch’s devastating earthquake was an act of God triggered by the tolerance of homosexual behaviour in the city has been denounced as ”despicable and appalling” by New Zealand’s ...
  • US General Runs Psy-Ops On Senators
    Another Runaway General: Army Deploys Psy-Ops on U.S. Senators | Rolling Stone he U.S. Army illegally ordered a team of soldiers specializing in “psychological operations” to manipulate visiting American senators into providing more troops and funding for the war, Rolling Stone has learned â and ...
  • Dems Agree To Wisconsin Deal
    Wisconsin Assembly Reaches Deal To End Debate, Vote On Anti-Union Bill | Huffington Post Wisconsin Democrats in the state Assembly agreed to a deal in the pre-dawn hours Thursday to limit debate and reach a vote, perhaps by midday, on a bill taking away public workers’ collective bargaining righ ...
  • DOJ says Nertz to DOMA! Same-Sex Marriage Ban ...
    Obama, DOJ Say Part Of DOMA Is Unconstitutional, Will Not Defend It In Court | TPM The Obama Justice Department has decided that part of the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional and will not defend it in court. “After careful consideration, including a review of my recommendation, the Pre ...
  • Assange To Be Extradited
    Julian Assange to be extradited to Sweden | The Guardian WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is to be extradited to Sweden to face allegations of rape and sexual assault. Assange has been fighting extradition since he was arrested and bailed in December. He has consistently denied the allegations, ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • Comments By Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker Ab ...
    Audio of calls available here and here. SCOTT WALKER: The New York Times, of all things—I don't normally tell people to read the New York Times, but the front page of the New York Times, they've got a great story—one of these unbelievable moments of true journalism—what it's supposed to be, ...
  • Photos from Wisconsin
  • 'We Stand With You as You Stood With Us': Stat ...
    About Kamal Abbas and the Centre for Trade Unions and Workers Services: Kamal Abbas is General Coordinator of the CTUWS, an umbrella advocacy organization for independent unions in Egypt. The CTUWS, which was awarded the 1999 French Republic's Human Rights Prize, suffered repeated harassment a ...
  • Why Bradley Manning Is a Patriot, Not a Crimin ...
    Bradley Manning, a 23-year-old from Crescent, Oklahoma, enlisted in the U.S. military in 2007 to give something back to his country and, he hoped, the world. For the past seven months, Army Private First Class Manning has been held in solitary confinement in the Marine Corps brig in Quant ...
  • Why I Call Myself a Socialist: Is the World Re ...
    In most reasonably large towns in the United States and Europe, you can find, on some important public square or street, a professional theater. And so, in various quiet neighborhoods in these towns, you can usually also find some rather quiet individuals, the actors who work regularly in tha ...

Salon

  • Toyota recalls 2.17 million vehicles for gas p ...
    Toyota Motor Corp. recalled 2.17 million vehicles in the United States on Thursday to address accelerator pedals that could become entrapped in floor mats or jammed in driver's side carpeting, prompting federal regulators to close its investigation into the embattled automaker.
  • Assange faces extradition for sex crimes
    Julian Assange can be extradited to Sweden in a sex crimes inquiry, a British judge ruled Thursday, rejecting claims by the WikiLeaks founder that he would not face a fair trial there. Assange's lawyer said he would appeal.
  • Will the Tea Parties rise up against gay right ...
    With Barack Obama's Justice Department declining to defend the major portion of the Defense of Marriage Act against suits challenging its constitutionality, the "culture wars" should be reaching another overheated peak by week's end. (And not a second too soon! Politico just announced that th ...
  • The dirty secret of public-sector union bustin ...
    Amid all the rightful outrage over Gov. Scott Walker's proposal to do away with collective bargaining rights for public sector unions in Wisconsin, one important point has been neglected: The demise of public sector unions would be most detrimental to women and African-Americans, who make up ...
  • Jon Stewart interviews Donald Rumsfeld
    Donald�Rumsfeld appeared on the the Daily Show with Jon Stewart last night to plug his new memoir. While Stewart pressed for the inside scoops about the Iraq war and other unidentifiable skeleton's in Rumsfeld's closet, the former Defense Secretary kept his cool. If you were unsatisfied by th ...

 

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Utility-built solar or rooftop? Energy debate rages on
Sun-Sentinel (blog)
- Feb 24, 2011
- 29 minutes ago
By Julie Patel February 24, 2011 12:15 PM As legislation was proposed this week to allow utilities to charge customers for new renewable energy plants, a debate rages onabout whether ratepayer money should instead go to help customers install renewable ...
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GDF Suez: Franco-Chilean Group On Renewable Energies Created
Wall Street Journal
- Feb 24, 2011
- 6 hours ago
FR) Thursday said a Franco-Chilean group has been created to develop cooperation between the two countries on renewable and unconventional energies, which will be co-chaired by GDF Suez's Chairman and Chief Executive Gerard Mestrallet and the president ...
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RWE to Miss Growth Targets at Renewable Energy Unit on Investment Cuts
Bloomberg
- Feb 24, 2011
- 8 hours ago
By Nicholas Comfort - Thu Feb 24 09:00:00 GMT 2011 RWE AG, Germany's second-largest utility, said it will miss growth targets at its renewable energy and oil and natural gas production units because of reduced investment and project delays. ...
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Senate passes bills that undermine renewable power incentives, mandates
Billings Gazette
- Feb 23, 2011
- 14 hours ago
HELENA — Senate Republicans, after trying and failing earlier this Legislature, finally pushed forward a pair of bills Wednesday that dilute renewable-power incentives and mandates currently in state law. On both bills, supporters said they're acting ...
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3500 gallons spill from overturned WA fuel tanker
Seattle Times
- Feb 23, 2011
- 14 hours ago
A Washington Ecology Department spokeswoman says more than 3500 gallons of fuel spilled when a fuel tanker truck overturned on US Highway 101 about 25 miles south of Forks. The Associated Press A Washington Ecology Department spokeswoman says more than ...
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Tobacco Tricks Caterpillars With Treats
U.S. News & World Report
- Feb 24, 2011
- 1 hour ago
Hawkmoth caterpillars (Manduca sexta) readily eat the hairs, reports Ian Baldwin of the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany. But consuming them changes the odor of the caterpillars' bodies and excretions, Baldwin said February 21 ...
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Bill would expand state conservation corps into Puget Sound Corps
Seattle Times
- Feb 23, 2011
- 13 hours ago
Senate Bill 5230 would consolidate the administration of the Washington Conservation Corps from several agencies into the Ecology Department. Savings would be used to hire extra workers and set up a new, Puget Sound-focused branch of the corps. ...
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Judge recommends rate hike to pay for dam removal
San Jose Mercury News
- Feb 23, 2011
- 20 hours ago
... hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River in Oregon and California. Projected to begin in 2020, removing the dams is part of a landmark agreement to help salmon, give farmers better assurances of irrigation, and restore the ecology of the Klamath basin.
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Is SeaWorld safe for killer whale trainers?
CBS News
- Feb 24, 2011
- 3 hours ago
One year after a trainer's horrific death by a killer whale, Sea World announced its trainers would soon get back in the water with the whales. Whit Johnson reports. Chris Wragge talks to Dr. Jeffrey Ventre, a former SeaWorld trainer about the park's ...
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Water main break in Chanhassen causes sewage backup
Minneapolis Star Tribune
- Feb 24, 2011
- 1 hour ago
By TOM MEERSMAN, Star Tribune A broken water main in Chanhassen flooded basements in about 18 homes Wednesday night and resulted in water being shut off for 30 properties. Paul Oehme, city engineer and public works director, said an 8-inch water main ...
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Southside Still Troubled by Broken Water Main
WDEF News 12
- Feb 24, 2011
- 22 minutes ago
Tennessee American Water is still working on fixing the broken water main on Cowart Street. Officials say businesses like Niko's around the area have normal water pressure thanks to crews working overnight. They say the leak has been isolated and the ...
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Do You Know What's Contaminating Your Drinking Water?
Live in the Now
- Feb 24, 2011
- 1 hour ago
By Live in the Now The quality of the water you drink, cook with and bathe in has an enormous impact on your health. Here in the US, we are fortunate enough to have effective municipal sanitation systems for our water. Yet despite this, our water is ...
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