24 February - RSS SnapShot! Pt 2

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SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

• A consumer protection watchdog bites the publi ...
  Electric utilities break the law and consumers must pay for their mistake. Nothing wrong with that, says the Ontario Energy Board.
• Ranking Toronto: We’re number 4!
  Once famously described as ‘New York run by the Swiss,’ Toronto rates higher than New York, or the Swiss.
• Begging for Care: Keeping seniors healthy and ...
  A woman exhausted from providing round-the-clock care for her mother-in-law, who suffers from dementia, begs for the help of a personal support worker.
• Libya in crisis: Gadhafi’s criminal fury
  For four decades, Libya’s Moammar Gadhafi has been a ruthless despot, a violently erratic terrorist precursor to Al Qaeda, and a pariah.
• Good policy down drain
  Unfair cancellation of Toronto’s downspout disconnection program is just a symptom of a far bigger problem: bad leadership.

Energy Collective

• A Closer Look at The Commission Report on the ...
  The following guest essay was written by David Whelpton. David is a private investor in the oil and gas industry. His blog is Knowledge and Investing. Below, David goes through the highlights of the report to the President on the Deepwater Horizon disaster, explaining the commission’s findings o ...
• Canadians More Likely than Americans to Believ ...
  More Canadians than Americans believe climate change is real, according to two surveys of public opinion on climate change commissioned by the
• Working for my grandchildren - why I am a pron ...
  I am haunted this early morning (0230) by a phrase seen on a blog comment yesterday.
• Report: Californians paying too high a price f ...
  Are Californians forking over too much green for green energy?
• Senate Democrats' Agenda Aims to Invest in Ene ...
  Last week, a group of Senate Democrat leaders unveiled their plan to build off of the innovation-centered budget proposal released by the President two weeks ago, including several important energy innovation investments.

EU Times

• Iran’s president: Mideast upheaval will reach ...
  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 an opposition rally ...
• Emanuel beats rivals to become next Chicago ma ...
  Former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel was elected mayor of Chicago on Tuesday, easily overwhelming five rivals to take the helm of the nation’s third-largest city as it prepares to chart a new course without the retiring Richard M. Daley. Emanuel trounced all opponents with 55 percent o ...
• Ten Reasons to Throw out your Microwave Oven
  From the conclusions of the Swiss, Russian and German scientific clinical studies, we can no longer ignore the microwave oven sitting in our kitchens. Based on this research, we will conclude this article with the following: 1. Continually eating food processed from a microwave oven causes long ...
• Islam is regarded as the biggest threat to Eur ...
  Laid-back Sweden questions its welcome for Muslims. The bullet exploded through the mosque’s window, sending glass splinters hurtling into the office worker’s neck. Frantically abandoning their New Year’s Eve chatter and coffee cups, worshippers rushed to the bloodied victim’s aid. The bullet ha ...
• Libya: “Kill them all” raves madman Colonel Ga ...
  Thousands flee Gaddafi’s wrath. MADMAN Muammar Gaddafi yesterday ordered his followers to kill the protesters fighting to oust him. The crazed dictator fanned the flames of the conflict tearing his country apart with a ranting, hour-long TV speech that sounded like a declaration of civil war. As ...

Stonecipher News

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

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

• Uk judge approves julian assange's extradition ...
  A judge has just ruled that Julian Assange can be extradited to Sweden, where he is wanted on questioning for sex crimes. He has not formally been charged. The Wikileaks founder is currently based in the UK, and has been fighting the extradition since last year. The original complaints actually ...
• Arab Unrest Propels Iran; Saudi King Rolls Out ...
  The civil war in Libya continues but much of Iraq is now in the hands of the rebellion. As the revolt spreads, Qaddafi Masses Forces in Tripoli for a final showdown or a counterstrike against the rebels. As rebellion crept closer to the capital and defections of military officers multiplied, Co ...
• Motorola XOOM Now Available For Sale On Verizo ...
  Motorola’s much-awaited XOOM tablet has today gone on sale in the U.S with mobile operator Verizon Wireless offering the Honeycomb-powered device for $599, requiring a two year contract and additional data plan. The subsidised plans start at $20 for 1GB ranging up to $80 for 10GB, with an unsub ...
• Apple to Hold an iPad 2 Event on 2nd March [Co ...
  Good news for the people those are waiting for iPad 2 . Now we came to know that Apple is going to hold an iPad 2 event on 2nd March in order to launch the most awaited 2nd generation iPad and it is confirmed. Finally the rumors were true. Invitations has been sent by Apple to an iPad 2 event o ...
• Tripoli: a city in the shadow of death
  By Robert Fisk Right: A fire burns in a street in the Libyan capital Tripoli in the early hours of yesterday morning Gunfire in the suburbs â and fear, hunger and rumour in the capital Thousands race for last tickets out of a city sinking into anarchy Up to 15,000 men, women and children besieg ...

Groklaw

• Irving Picard hits SEC's top lawyer with Berni ...
  The family of the top lawyer at the Securities and Exchange Commission invested with Bernie Madoff and earned more than $1.5 million in ill-gained profits, according to trustee Irving Picard, who has named the lawyer, David M. Becker, as a defendant in a clawback lawsuit, a Daily News investigat ...
• Genentech, Celltech colluded on patent - lawsu ...
  Genentech Inc allegedly colluded with Celltech R&D Ltd to fraudulently extend the life of a disputed patent and reaped more than a $1 billion in royalties, according to a lawsuit by rival drugmaker Human Genome Sciences Inc.... "Genentech has engaged in a massive, years-long conspiracy to monop ...
• Judge: Ex-Microsoft GM can't work in his new S ...
  A former Microsoft general manager's new job as a senior vice president at Salesforce.com "appears to be a direct violation of his non-compete agreement" with the Redmond company, a King County Superior Court judge said from the bench this morning -- indicating that she believes Microsoft is wit ...
• Can you run your own SOHO E-Mail Server?
  I've been running my own e-mail servers for decades. After all, back in the 80s I was helping run NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's e-mail systems and let me tell you in those days it wasn't easy! Today, thanks to easy e-mail servers such as CapeSoft Email Server, hMailServer, and Zimbra pretty ...
• Copyright Interlude: What is the Public Domain ...
  The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals is holding court in the Missouri Law School this week. One of the appeals being heard is a copyright case involving the 1939 Wizard of Oz movie (as well as Gone with the Wind and Tom & Jerry). The case is captioned, Warner Bros. Entertainment, et al. v. X One ...

WideShut

• Climate Alarmists Look To Hollywood For Brainw ...
  UN's Ban Ki-moon and discredited climate heads hit the Oscars to try and recruit Hollywood Celebs as Global Warming mascots.
• February 22, 2011, WideShut Radio
  On this week's WideShut Radio Keelan discusses David Cameron's corrupt welfare reforms and aspartame.
• WideShut Webcast Video Version: Episode 2
  Lots of 7/7 news, this week on Resistance Radio and a debunking of Jared Loughner is Glenn Beck.
• Cameron’s Welfare Wangle
  Cameron's Welfare Bill decoded: "Give us money to pay banksters". Why his proposals are wrong and won't work anyway.
• Computer Specialist: I Warned Police About 7/7 ...
  Man who worked alongside alleged 7/7 bombers says he warned police about their extremist beliefs 2 years before the attacks.

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?

TVNZ - Top Stories

• Quake death toll now 102 following Christchurc ...
  The death toll from Tuesday's 6.3 earthquake in Christchurch now stands at 102.
• Conditions improving for Chch residents as wat ...
  Power has been restored to 75% of Christchurch homes while 40% now have water.
• Australian presenter offends quake-affected vi ...
  An Australian presenter has made a twit of himself covering the Christchurch quake.
• 98 confirmed dead following Christchurch quake
  The death toll from the earthquake in Christchurch now stands at 98.
• Police start releasing names of quake victims
  Police have just released the names of four of the 98 people now confirmed dead in the devastating Christchurch earthquake on Tuesday.

Just World News

• Libya: What can and should outsiders do?
  I've been following the news of the carnage in Libya with huge sorrow, and there seems little hope it can be ended soon. Anti-Qadhafi forces seem to have taken control of large portions of the east of the country, while the country's dangerous and possibly deranged long-time leader has been rein ...
• Humor hour with "Tzipi" Livni
  That well-known democrat (irony alert), the head of Israel's Kadima Party "Tzipi" Livni, afforded me a good chuckle over my corn flakes this morning with this proposal for how democratization efforts should be run at the global level: Current events in the Middle East highlight the urgency of a ...
• Al-Jazeera: Big like Gutenberg??
  Nir Rosen* has a great piece on his new blog, detailing some of the ways Al-Jazeera has contributed to the speedy eruption of the current Arab Awakening. It's all thoughtful and worth reading. The money quote was this: "Jazeera is the new Gamal Abdel Nasr, the nationalist force uniting the regi ...
• Noha Radwan on being assaulted by pro-Mubarak ...
  Dr. Noha Radwan, a professor of comparative literature at U.C. Davis, was in Cairo during the height of the counter-revolution unleashed by the pro-Mubarak forces on February 2. She got caught by the pro-Mubarak, baltagiyeh thugs as she tried to cross the "front line" that divided them from her ...
• Watching the imperium collapse
  I apologize that I got too busy doing book publishing over the past few days to comment directly on the shameful decision by the Obama administration to veto last Friday's Security Council resolution that condemned Israel's continued settlement building program. What on earth were they thinking ...

First Truths

• Getting the Raw End in Wisconsin, Part II
  Center for a Stateless SocietyContinuing my commentary on events unfolding in Wisconsin, I write: The meaningful division is between those who use coercive manipulation of the bounds within which economic activities take place, and those who rely on voluntary, cooperative courses of action. Any ...
• No Work for the Weary
  The state, despite its constant insistence, cannot create jobs, but it can destroy them. I comment at the Center for a Stateless Society.
• In Libya and Elsewhere, the State Depends on S ...
  I commented on events in the Middle East and Northern Africa: These countries' productive majorities are no longer content to prop up and underwrite the dissolute culture of their "leaders," to work their fingers to the bone while palace parties rage in their capital cities. The truth that stati ...
• Getting the Raw End in Wisconsin
  My latest for the Center for a Stateless Society: But the anti-union turgidity of the Republican variant of the "free market" obscures what are the actual � as against the imagined �� effects of the state's pervasive interventions in the economy. When the state creates monopoly or oligopoly cond ...
• The False Menace of Socialism
  From my latest for C4SS: By itself, the word socialism requires no statism whatsoever; instead it denotes a set of outcomes as an answer to the “Social Question” raised by disparities of wealth and economic power in society caused by statist intervention. On that account, it’s very possible to ...

Media Co-Op

• Homelessness on Air
  24 hour radio broadcast, panel discussion and open mic  From coast to coast to frigid coast, the 9th Annual Homelessness Marathon takes place this Wednesday, the 23rd of February.  Inspired by Jeremy Weir Alderson's decision to broadcast l ...
• Check out the VMC's anti-Olympic archive
  On Friday, the Vancouver Media Co-op launched an Anti-Olympic Archive, dedicated to documenting and archiving several year's of anti-Olympic resistance against the 2010 Winter Games. It includes statements, posters, call-outs, corporate n ...
• Nova Scotia's First Community Supported Fisher ...
  The Story of "Off the Hook" "Off the Hook" is Atlantic Canada's first Community Supported Fishery (CSF). �Fishermen are able to get a good price for their product and consumers in Halifax are able to get fresh fish directly from the source ...
• Victoria Police Chief Guilty of 'Discreditable ...
  Remarks over undercover cop driving anti-Olympic protester bus cause Graham more grief Back in November 2009, Victoria police chief Jamie Graham caused minor controversy when he claimed that anti-Olympic protesters had rented a bus driven ...
• Martial Law, Repression, and Remilitarization ...
  On February 8, Felix Cuc Xo, a community activist from the settlement of Xya’al K’obe’ in northern Alta Verapaz, Guatemala, was beaten in front of his family and taken away by soldiers and police. He was detained in a private residence that was surrounded by police, and did not resurface. A stat ...

David Seaton's News Links

• The unbearable levity of Wikileaks and the rig ...
  David Seaton's News LinksI received the following comment on my last post:So previously, you did not think that globalization and instant communication tools were radiically changing the world?� It wasn't until wikileaks that you realized this was happening? Helloooo?�� To which I am tempted t ...
• Globalization and its discontents: a new parad ...
  I have an "impossibility theorem" for the global economy (...). It says that democracy, national sovereignty and global economic integration are mutually incompatible: we can combine any two of the three, but never have all three simultaneously and in full.� Dani Rodrik - Kennedy School Harv ...
• The Wikileaks cables: the portrait of an empir ...
  Not really the image that America would like to project at this moment David Seaton's News LinksThere are Wikileaks cables from almost every imaginable part of the world, but since I live in Spain, I'll fill you in on some of the dump's specific effects on Spanish pol ...
• Too bad Obama can't talk like Ricky Gervais
  David Seaton's News LinksI wasn't really paying attention, but I read that there was this big hoohah about Ricky Gervais presentation of the 2011 Golden Globe awards, so out of idle curiosity I dialed it up on YouTube. I was ravished. It was wonderful. All these fat egos of today's overbloated ...
• Wikileaks: comparing conspiracy theories
  Image by Christian Ségal������ David Seaton's News LinksIt isn't as if conspiracies don't exist, but generally stupidity or incompetence explain most disasters and even real conspiracies don't tend to be as elaborate as their legion of fans would like to believe. But if we define a "conspiracy" ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

• Cell phone radiation affects brain function ...
  Contact: EWG public affairs 202.667.6982 or alex@ewg.org Washington, D.C. – A study led by Dr. Nora D. Volkow, a pioneering brain imaging scientist who heads the National Institute on Drug Abuse, reports today that cell phone... [[ This is a content summary only. Vis ...
• EWG backs strict California chromium-6 goal
  February 16th, 2011 February 14, 2011 Michael Baes Pesticide and Environmental Toxicology Branch Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment California Environmental Protection Agency 1515 Clay St., 16th floor Oakland, California... [[ This is a conten ...
• EWG backs strict California chrome-6 goal
  February 16th, 2011 February 14, 2011 Michael Baes Pesticide and Environmental Toxicology Branch Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment California Environmental Protection Agency 1515 Clay St., 16th floor Oakland, California... [[ This is a conten ...
• Proposed federal fluoride cap too high
  February 16th, 2011 February 14, 2011 Howard K. Koh, M.D., M.P.H. Assistant Secretary for Health U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Community Water Fluoridation Comments Division of... [[ This is a content ...
• Obama Would Cut Subsidies to Wealthy Farms
  Contact: Contact EWG Public Affairs 202-667-6982 WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 – The Obama administration’s proposed 2012 federal budget released today targets several wasteful agriculture programs, including cutting $4.25 billion over 10 years from... [[ This is a content summary ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

• 14 Ways to Save Money on Groceries
  Yahoo Shine offers some advice on how to save money at the market with tips from Rebecca DiLiberto's Penny Saving Household Helper. Here are a few: Try lining your refrigerator's crisper drawer with paper towels; they'll absorb excess moisture and keep your vegetables from rotting A ...
• Are You or Your Family Eating Toxic Food Dyes?
  Food dyes are one of the most widely used and dangerous additives. While the European Union has recently placed regulations on labeling food dyes to inform consumers of the health risks, the United States has no such requirement. Here are some of the most common food dyes used today, according ...
• This Popular Drink Can SLOW Down Your Brain...
  Professional Perspectives on Water Fluoridation, a 15-minute preview of which is offered�above,�exposes the ongoing dangers of fluoridation in a concise and hard-hitting format. As they outline the science behind fluoridation and the effects it has had on entire generations, a select panel of ...
• Flying Amazingly Down a Mountain
  Speedriding, speedflying and wingsuitflying in Wengen, Switzerland.
• The Surprisingly Potent Asian Food that Delive ...
  According to a new study, krill oil has effects similar to fish oil on serum lipids, oxidative stress and inflammation -- but unlike fish oil, it works even with lower doses of EPA and DHA. EPA and DHA provide a variety of health benefits, including for your heart, your eyes, and illnesses caus ...

JAMA

• Preserving the Lifesaving Power of Antimicrobi ...
• This Week in JAMA [This Week in JAMA]
• Bisphosphonate Use and the Risk of Subtrochant ...
  Context Osteoporosis is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Oral bisphosphonates have become a mainstay of treatment, but concerns have emerged that long-term use of these drugs may suppress bone remodeling, leading to unusual fractures. Objective To determine whether prolonged ...
• Accuracy and Outcomes of Screening Mammography ...
  Context Women with a personal history of breast cancer (PHBC) are at risk of developing another breast cancer and are recommended for screening mammography. Few high-quality data exist on screening performance in PHBC women. Objective To examine the accuracy and outcomes of mammography screenin ...
• Effect of Nitroglycerin Ointment on Bone Densi ...
  Context Nitroglycerin stimulates bone formation and inhibits bone resorption, is inexpensive, and is widely available. Its effects on bone density, bone structure, and bone strength are unknown. Objectives To determine if nitroglycerin increases lumbar spine bone mineral density (BMD) and to ev ...

Survival - tribal peoples

• 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

• Province should act fast to end city hall scan ...
  It is welcome to see that Montreal city hall will be subjected to some adult supervision, at least in the matter involving allegations of impropriety against the city's auditor-general, Jacques Bergeron, and counter-allegations that senior city bureaucrats illicitly spied on him by hacking into ...
• McGill grad laid groundwork for 'Facebook Revo ...
  In 1983, an Egyptian gradu-I ate student finished his PhD at McGill University and returned home.
• Editorial: Prosecutors are right to be steamed ...
  No wonder the province's 450 crown prosecutors feel upset at the Liberal government. Two weeks ago, they went on strike for wage parity with the rest of the country - which in their case meant a salary hike of 40 per cent. This week, the government legislated them back to work with a six-per-cen ...
• Editorial: New course for Quebec is a well-tra ...
  That was the general reaction to the much ballyhooed and longawaited manifesto from former Parti Québécois cabinet heavyweight François Legault and his nascent Coalition for the Future of Quebec. The eight-page document hardly seems to justify the months Legault and his cohorts took to cobble it ...
• Anti-corruption unit: too little, too soon
  The formation of a Permanent Anti-Corruption Unit by the Quebec government is a welcome development in a province where, on the evidence of recent exposes, corruption is all too rife. However, with the announcement of the new task force last Friday the government was getting somewhat ahead of it ...

Food World Order

• peace cereal illegally misleading consumers?
  from cornucopia: The Cornucopia Institute filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission, alleging that Hearthside Food Solutions, which manufactures Peace Cereal, is misleading consumers by suggesting that its “natural” breakfast cereals are grown and processed without pesticides. The Peac ...
• 2/17 binge & purge: cola wars, polar bears & d ...
  video: coca-cola's secret recipe finally spills out into public* cancer causing chemicals found in cola coloring ingredient* docs are wondering if diet soda & strokes are linked* farmers rushing to deposit seeds in arctic doomsday vault where it's -4°f & patrolled by polar bears* bil ...
• epa to reduce fluoride levels in water due to ...
  from washington's blog: Today [jan7], the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a reduction in allowable fluoride levels in U.S. drinking water:HHS’ proposed recommendation of 0.7 milligrams of fluoride per liter of water ...
• worst freeze in 60yrs wipes out crops across U ...
  from end of the american dream: Get ready to pay a lot more for produce at the supermarket. In early February the worst freeze in 60 years wiped out entire crops all across the southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico. Already, it has been reported that some U.S. supermarkets have doubled or even t ...
• as oil and food prices rise, arab states buy u ...
  from green prophet: In response to the recent food riots in Algeria and Tunisia, and to rising oil prices (the price/barrel of crude is, once again, nearing $100) some Arab states (including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates) have been buying-up farm land in parts of Africa. In late 201 ...

CrusadeWatch

• 'Religion' will be the Cause of World War III
  source: Blitz weekly, February 23, 2011 by Dirgha Raj Prasai When blind people separately feel the organs and limbs of an elephant they come to varying conjectures. Similarly, the Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim and Christian religions are exchanging recriminations for their own persistenc ...
• Our Public Schools Their Mission Field
  source:  Awaypoint, Feb 4, 2011 The Gospel has been taught freely in public schools all over the world for some time.  Now children in the U.S. have that opportunity, too! from the Child Evangelism Fellowship website A fundamentalist Christian organization, Child Evangelism Fe ...
• Caste divide
  source: Frontline, Feb 22, 2011 S. DORAIRAJ � � Tensions run high within the Christian community in Thachur village, and the government has adopted a hands-off approach for now.  A. MURALITHARAN ...
• 'Eppadium' (Anyhow), the most recent novel of ...
  source:  Frontline,  Feb 22, 2011 WIELDING the pen with power and determination to smash the injustice and discrimination against Dalit Christians and other oppressed masses is part of the priestly duties of Fr Mark Stephen.
• Lessons from Conversion by Burning Temples and ...
  Over the last decade, a large number of Buddhist temples in Korea had been destroyed or damaged by fanatically devout Christians. More recently, the Buddha statues, regarded as the devil, were attacked and beheaded in the name of Jesus.

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

• Shocking Video Of Howard Dean Declaring That I ...
  In the shocking video you are about to watch, Howard Dean declares that it is the job of the government to redistribute our wealth.  Not only that, he says it in such a way that indicates that he believes that such a notion should be obvious to anyone with half a brain.  Well, w ...
• 12 Economic Collapse Scenarios That We Could P ...
  What could cause an economic collapse in 2011? Well, unfortunately there are quite a few "nightmare scenarios" that could plunge the entire globe into another massive financial crisis.  The United States, Japan and most of the nations in Europe are absolutely drowning in debt.  ...
• The More Americans That Go On Food Stamps The ...
  JP Morgan is the largest processor of food stamp benefits in the United States.  JP Morgan has contracted to provide food stamp debit cards in 26 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.  JP Morgan is paid for each case that it handles, so that means that the more Americans tha ...
• Precious Metals: 10 Things To Know Before Jump ...
  As the global economy became increasingly unstable during 2010, investors all over the world flocked to precious metals such as gold, silver, copper and platinum.  The price of gold set an all-time record high last year, and gold investors were euphoric.  Many analysts are proje ...
• Austerity In America: 22 Signs That It Is Alre ...
  Over the past couple of years, most Americans have shown little concern as austerity measures were imposed on financially troubled nations across Europe.  Even as austerity riots erupted in nations such as Greece and Spain, most Americans were still convinced that nothing like t ...

CASSE

• Economic and Environmental Perspective on Pres ...
  Brent Blackwelder remembers Ronald Reagan's ruinous results for the environment and the economy.
• How to Fix a Household Crisis
  Why are the fields of economics and ecology in crisis, and how can we work toward a solution?
• Enough Childish Name Calling
  Sharon Ede sets the record straight on exactly who's acting like a misanthrope, and she pokes a little fun along the way!
• Obama Steps onto Slippery Slope
  Brian Czech offers a vision of Obamanomics that values people and planet over profit and production.
• Remembering History
  Lisi Krall warns that even in a steady state, we could become half crazy for want of a diverse and magical natural world.

The Talking Clock

• AV debate: Spectator article accuses the Elect ...
  Ed Howker at The Spectator has a very interesting article that I'd like to point you in the direction of. In instances such as this, we have learned not to comment. However, The Spectator article begins: "I have been on the trail of the ‘Yes To Fairer Votes’ (YTFV) campaign, attempting ...
• Sneaking in martial law for the students and t ...
  Martial Law UK seems to be nearing yet again. The Daily Mail reports that: "SAS troops could be deployed on the streets alongside police as fears grow of a Mumbai-style terror attack on Britain, it emerged today." We know this game now though, don't we? What they mean is they've seen th ...
• (Jim) Corr Blimey! I agree with someone on pol ...
  Not often this happens, but - in a rare turn up for the books - here's someone with whom I agree entirely on matters of current affairs and politics. Step forward Jim Corr... Credit for this find goes to our good friend The Final Redoubt. And here is the film referred to by Jim Corr in t ...
• My goodness... a Minister who can admit to hav ...
  At The Talking Clock, we have a backlog of issues that we want to post about and all the relevant background is up there ^^^ in our open browser tabs. Lots of it. Part of one thought is simply this - blogging has changed under the present Government. Yes, we can harshly question David Came ...
• All those arguments against giving us a refere ...
  We will post about the AV referendum a little later. Just a quick question... What reason can the political class possibly give us to deny us a referendum on the European Empire now..? Costs are obviously not a problem... The people can obviously be trusted... Those are the old tw ...

Facing South

• Tennesseans rally for safer gas drilling
  Environmental groups are pressing the state of Tennessee to regulate "fracking," a controversial method of fracturing underground rock formations to release natural gas for drilling. The practice has been blamed for numerous cases of drinking water contamination nationwide. The Tennessee Oil an ...
• Aftershock: The disaster of hurricane recovery ...
  No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of continent, a part of the main. -John Donne Don't dare tell the people of Bolivar they live on an island. "It's a peninsula, not an island," they will say. Geographically, they're right. The 34-mile spit of low-lying marsh and ...
• House votes to halt strict coal ash rules, but ...
  The House of Representatives approved an amendment to a federal spending bill over the weekend that would prevent the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating the toxic ash from coal-fired power plants as hazardous waste. But advocates of strict federal oversight of coal ash regard the ...
• Report raises concerns about redistricting abu ...
  By Naomi Martin, The Lens Louisiana politicians could use their control over the upcoming congressional redistricting process to keep themselves -- and their parties -- in power for the next decade, according to a new report by the Public Affairs Research Council, an independent non-profit ba ...
• Southern Republicans launch sneak attack on co ...
  The House is expected to vote as early as today on amendments to a budget bill that would take away the Environmental Protection Agency's power to regulate toxic coal ash as a hazardous waste. Reps. Cliff Stearns (R-Fla.) and David McKinley (R-W.Va.) have offered amendments to a continuing reso ...

CenterLine

• Today’s Terrorism News
  Judge: Holder’s Comments About Portland Bomb Plot Case Violated DOJ Policy A federal judge ruled Wednesday that comments made by Attorney General Eric Holder about the case of a Portland teen accused of plotting to bomb a tree-lighting ceremony last … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Civil Liberties Groups Sue FBI Over Surveillance of Calif. Muslims The American Civil Liberties Union and the Council on American-Islamic Relations filed suit against the FBI Tuesday, alleging that the agency violated the constitutional rights of hundreds of California Muslims … Continue reading ...
• Today’s Terrorism News
  American Held in Pakistan Worked with CIA After reports in the foreign press on Sunday and Monday that Raymond Davis, the American man arrested in Pakistan after shooting two men at a traffic stop, was working for the CIA, multiple … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Noor to Serve 34 Months and Cooperate with Govt.; Military Jury Gives Him Symbolic 14 Years Noor Uthman Mohammed, a Sudanese weapons trainer who recently pleaded guilty to two terror charges at a Guantanamo military commission, will serve 34 more … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Abu Zubaydah Video Shown to Military Jury at Noor Hearing A never-before-seen video of Abu Zubaydah praising the 9/11 attacks and putting out a call for terror recruits was shown to the military jury deliberating a sentence for Noor Uthman … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

• LHC not yet a supersymmetry killer
  The world's largest particle smasher has seen no sign of supersymmetry yet. But it's too soon to give up on one of physicists' favourite theories
• Ribbons of sea ice enrobe volcanic island
  Sea ice swirls around the Pacific island of Shikotan in a new image from NASA's Earth Observing-1 satellite
• Today on New Scientist: 15 February 2011
  All today's stories on NewScientist.com, including: quantum-sniffing flies, astronauts on "Mars", and why van Goghs ain't what they used to be
• Today on New Scientist: 23 February 2011
  All today's stories on NewScientist.com, including: the first animal to wear armour, nanoparticles to deliver better vaccines, and thirsty cane toads
• Nanoparticles could help deliver better vaccin ...
  Engineers at MIT have designed a new type of nanoparticle, one that soon help deliver vaccines for diseases such as malaria and HIV

Tech Drive In

• FreedomBox Foundation All Set to Make Its Pres ...
  In this new age of social networking and digital communications, privacy became the most talked about and controversial subject. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg once famously said, "the age of privacy is over". This statement was kind of a warning bell to all those who wanted companies like Goo ...
• 6 Awesome Conky Configs That Just Works
  Beautiful Conky configurations have always been an integral part of all kinds of�Linux desktop eyecandy. With that in mind, we had featured here before an awesome collection of 13 Conky configs from around the web. Now, its time for a few more. Here are 6 more eyecandy conky configs for your Lin ...
• LG Introduces World's First Glassless 3D Phone ...
  Apart from the Nokia-MeeGo fiasco, one another significant thing happened during Mobile World Congress 2011 held at Barcelona, Spain from Feb 14-17, was the introduction of world's first glassless 3D smartphone by LG called Optimus 3D. And to everyone's amazement this incredible phone features 3 ...
• Enable Instant in Chrome's Omnibox for Faster ...
  I am not really sure if this is a new feature on Google Chrome. It might had been there for a long time now. But I only noticed it yesterday and I was totally taken aback. Instant-inside-omnibox is a very useful and very innovative feature in my opinion.� As you can see from the screenshot abo ...
• 15 Google Chrome Extensions to Help You Save T ...
  Google Chrome extensions have always been a great way to extend the functionality of Google Chrome in tune with the needs of each and every individual. We have featured here before incredible collection of Google Chrome extensions for enhanced security and privacy while browsing and now here is ...

Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

• 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 ...

Veterans Today

• Gaddafi Raved and Cursed, but he Faces Forces ...
  “I will die as a martyr,” Gaddafi said last night. Almost certainly true. By Robert Fisk — The Independent So he will go down fighting. That’s what Muammar Gaddafi told us last night, and most Libyans believe him. This will be no smooth flight to Riyadh or a gentle trip to a Red Sea holiday [... ...
• VETERANS FOR PEACE: STATEMENT IN SUPPORT OF W ...
  News from Veterans For Peace 216 S. Meramec Avenue St. Louis, MO 63105 (314) 725-6005 www.veteransforpeace.org February 23, 2011 With a name like “Veterans For Peace,” it’s a fair question to ask if we should make statements supporting union members battling government offensives in Wisconsin an ...
• Humanitarian War vs. Humanity
  The idea that wars are waged out of humanitarian concern may not at first appear even worthy of response. Wars kill humans. What can be humanitarian about that? But look at the sort of rhetoric that successfully sells new wars: "This conflict started Aug. 2, when the dictator of Iraq invaded ...
• Supreme US War Criminals Parlay Great Crimes I ...
  Supreme US war criminals, former presidents of corrupt and occupied criminal government apparatus announce opening of Arizona Civility Center. Mr. George Bush Sr and Mr. William Jefferson Clinton parlay great crimes into great fortunes by heading new Civility Center in Arizona. Two supreme globa ...
• A Tribute to American Patriot:In Memory of Joe ...
  On February 23, 2011, Joe Sobran, a prominent American journalist, syndicated columnist, and writer, would have turned 65. He did not live to see this day. He died on September 30, 2010. Below is my eulogy that originally appeared on the site of FGF last November.

electric politics

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

PR News

• Kimberly-Clark promotes Smalling to lead comms ...
  DALLAS: Kimberly-Clark Corporation named Ken Smalling its VP of global communications. He most recently served as the interim leader in this role, following the departure of Laura Moore, VP of global communications, in November.
• Richardson to chair APCO's global advisory off ...
  WASHINGTON: APCO Worldwide named former New Mexico governor and Energy Secretary Bill Richardson the chairman of Global Political Strategies, the international advisory group that the agency launched last year.
• Hallmark's SVP of corporate comms, Carr passes ...
  KANSAS CITY, MO: Nancy Carr, SVP of corporate communications at Hallmark Channels, passed away at age 50.
• Trust in financial services faltered in 2010, ...
  NEW YORK: Almost half of individual investors said they trusted financial services companies less in 2010 than the previous year, according to Edelman's second annual Trust in US Financial Services study.
• Qorvis Communications adds partners
  WASHINGTON: Qorvis Communications named four new partners, following the departures of Don Goldberg, Michael Quint, and Jason Siegel.

The Story Behind the Story

• EARTHQUAKES MEAN BUSINESS?? Event Contracts & ...
  New Madrid Bicentennial Galas Planned Several of the largest historical earthquakes to strike the continental United States occurred in the winter of 1811-1812 along the New Madrid Seismic Zone, which stretches from just west of Memphis, Tennessee into southern Illinois. These earthquakes produc ...
• Is Middle East War Imminent? If so — CL ...
  FROM POLITICS DAILY As Days of Rage continue across the Middle East, and thoughts are far from the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, the Israeli Foreign Ministry took the unusual step earlier this week of quietly shutting down four embassies and putting others on high alert. That’s because as a ...
• The Ice Queen of Narnia (Clinton) and “F ...
  Former CIA Analyst Ray McGovern Arrested and Beaten at Hillary Clinton’s Lecture About Free Speech Feb 17th, 2011 | By Hayden | TruthisTreason.net - Kevin Hayden As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lectured about freedom to the rest of the world at George Washington University and condemed gov ...
• Now This from the Islamabad Globe on the Davis ...
  Islamabad Globe CIA may shut up âDavisâ by killing him: Lahore jailers 20. Feb, 2011 Jaul authorities fear ‘Davis’ may be killed by American to shut him up. Image via Wikipedia Pakistan has never arrested an American mercenary before, so there is a learning curve. Islamabad has increased the sec ...
• U.S. “Diplomat” in Pakistan is CIA ...
  ATTENTION FRIENDS AND CONCERNED CITIZENS: This proves what is happening around the world with Hillary Clinton’s “Global Mission Chiefs”.  (See post below on “QDDR” in D.C.)  It shows the lies being spread across the board on this.   Clearly, CIA operatives are working overtime sowing chaos, t ...

k2p blog

• Gaddafi Jr.’s PhD thesis from LSE being ...
  Saif Al-Islam Gaddafis LSE Thesis is being examined on-line for plagiarism.
• Robot Marathon underway
  The world's first full-length marathon for two-legged robots kicked off in Japan on Thursday.
• Saudi King Abdullah summons Bahraini King to r ...
  The King of Bahrain, Shaikh Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, has rushed of to meet King Abdullah who has just returned after a long period abroad on medical grounds and can only be in response to a summons from his feudal lord.
• $35 billion US tanker decision imminent: Boein ...
  The much awaited winner of the order for 179 tanker aircraft for the US Air Force worth about $35 billion will be announced after markets close this evening (Thursday 24th February)
• Gaddafi ordered Lockerbie strike says his form ...
  Colonel Muammar Gaddafi ordered the 1988 terror attack that downed a Pan Am airliner over Lockerbie in Scotland, the Libyan leader's former justice minister told a Swedish reporter on Wednesday.

Left Foot Forward

• Another day, another false economy: The avoida ...
  Following the revelation yesterday that more than 50,000 NHS jobs face the axe, a report out today shows how funding cuts are leading to an "intolerable" bed-blocking crisis.
• The Afghan Surge: Where are we now?
  Left Foot Forward’s Patrick Bury, a former Captain in the Royal Irish Regiment who served in Sangin, Afghanistan, reports on the latest news out of Afghanistan.
• Good immigration policy must be based on good ...
  The debate on immigration will only ever be a productive one if it is based on accurate evidence, writes ippr's Sarah Mulley.
• A concerted policy effort can bring down teen ...
  We need to be careful about always seeing teenage pregnancy as a social evil, writes Kate Bell, former Director of Policy Advice and Communications at Gingerbread.
• Making the rehabilitation revolution a reality
  The Howard League for Penal Reform outline the evidence they gave to the Justice Affairs Select Committee, which they have been allowed to publish today.

Consumerist

• Keep Those Worst Company In America Nomination ...
  Since announcing that we're now accepting nominations for Worst Company In America, we've received thousands of suggestions encompassing everything from individual etsy sellers to global conglomerates to fictional entities. And if you haven't yet taken the opportunity to put in your two cents ( ...
• What's The Best Business Movie Of All Time?
  So it's the Oscars this weekend, when Hollywood pats itself on the back for releasing a handful of movies that weren't crappy. That started a little debate around Consumerist HQ as to what the greatest business movie of all time could possibly be. Is it the coke-fueled "greed is good" attitude ...
• Scenes From A Borders Liquidation Sale
  Savvy shoppers know that there aren't any true deals to be found at the liquidation sales of closing retailers, but most people aren't savvy shoppers. Employees of doomed Borders stores are sharing their experiences online, and report that their stores are doing record business now that the li ...
• Four Bankers Charged With Helping U.S. Taxpaye ...
  The latest news in the federal government's crackdown on taxpayers (or rather, people who are supposed to be paying taxes) with offshore bank accounts: Four bankers from Credit Suisse Group have been indicted on charges of aiding tax evaders in hiding around $3 billion in assets. Credit Suisse ...
• Shoplifter Stuffs Chainsaw Down His Pants
  If you were a criminal and needed to shoplift a chainsaw from a retail establishment discreetly, safely, and efficiently, how would you go about it? An Oklahoma man allegedly chose a novel method: stuffing it down his shorts. The effect was not subtle. A store employee told reporters, "I seen ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

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

UK Progressive

• Reprise: Missing The Ryder Cup Plot – Jobs and ...
  By Denis G. Campbell US President Barack Obama completed a little reported upon trip to India in mid-November. He led a business delegation that walked home from India with £7 billion pounds ($10 billion dollars) of business and US jobs. In advance of the Ryder Cup the Welsh Assembly Government ...
• Reprise: 2010′s Best Performance Poems – Katie ...
  Remember these names and that you saw them here first. Living in the land of Dylan Thomas, Wales’ greatest poet, I am awed by poetry well written. Even more so by poetry well spoken. Almost two decades ago Bill Moyers produced a series of broadcasts from New Jersey’s biennial Geraldine R. Dodge ...
• Reprise: FOX Viewers Grossly, Shockingly Misin ...
  NYU’s Professor Jay Rosen tweeted Friday, urging us to read the entire report by the non-partisan WorldPublicOpinion.org group about campaign messaging and FOX during the recent US elections. It had to be bad. One just could not be prepared for HOW bad. When respondents were asked their news/tel ...
• Reprise: Sarah Palin’s Presidential Strategy, ...
  by Robert Reich Monday night, Sarah Palin watched from the audience as daughter Bristol danced on ABC. Twenty-three million other Americans joined her from their homes. Tuesday, the former vice-presidential candidate started a 13-state book tour for her new book, “America By Heart,” which has a ...
• Reprise: Massachusetts Posts Pharma Payments t ...
  by Nicholas Kusnetz, ProPublica This week, Massachusetts became the first state to post an online database of payments from drug and medical device companies to the state’s health care providers. Thesearchable database covers reports from more than 280 companies and subsidiaries. The new data ...

NewsAlert

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JoNova

• New Poll. More skeptics than ever and yet the ...
  The good news is that skeptics are the majority, the bad news is that we’ll all have to pay the tax anyway. The IPA commissioned a Galaxy Poll in Australia and only one third of Australians believe that man-made global warming is real. Despite the advertising, the propaganda, the Nobel Prizes, t ...
• ABC – Agitprop for the Bureaucratic Clas ...
  The ABC is so afraid that the public might read comments from global warming skeptics that they frequently censor or delay reasonable comments, while allowing defamatory, unprofessional, and unsubstantiated ones through. (Guess which way the editors of The Drum vote?) Marc Hendrickx describes ho ...
• Johnny Ball on how he has been vilified
  Maintained by bullying and bluster, the facade grows more brittle by the day, as heretics start to come out of the woodwork — being pragmatic, concerned, but unapologetic. From the Daily Mail in the UK –  Johnny Ball says Beware of the Global Warming Fascists. More evidence that this is a propa ...
• Black Propaganda: US Government solicits softw ...
  Part of the US Government has been caught trying to buy software that would allow it to generate 500 fake personas generally known as sockpuppets. They plan to use Facebook, Twitter, and blog comments. This particular leaked email refers to a submission from the Air Force, and apparently for use ...
• Floods are manmade, you say now?
  After twenty years of drought predictions that turned out to be not worth a rhinestone rune-stone,  the acolytes of the scare campaign were keen to find some evidence that they were still “right”. Two new papers came along showing that, golly, warming really “formally” “officially” caused flood ...

ReNew America

• Obama's personal army: him vs. you and me?
  (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - As far back as the 2008 presidential campaign, then-candidate Barack Obama let slip a vision for his own personal civilian army. Not to protect you and me from enemies of this country, which is his number one constitutional responsibility...
• A struggle for democracy
  (Patrick Garry) - A great struggle is taking place in Wisconsin. And it is not just over the projected $3.6 billion state budget deficit; it is over the integrity and functioning of our democracy. Tens of thousands of public employees are skipping work to protest Governor Scott Walker's plan to ...
• Communists, socialists, Marxists, Oh my!
  (WorldNetDaily) - One of the main groups organizing the Wisconsin union protests is a spinoff from an activist academy modeled after Marxist community organizer Saul Alinsky and described as teaching tactics of direct action, confrontation and intimidation...
• Conservatives beating back unions in Wisconsin
  (Dick Morris) - Democracy is on the line in the streets of Madison, Wis. Will the popularly elected state legislature and governor (both now Republican for the first time in forever) get to run the state or will the union thugocracy, now crowding the streets, prevail?...
• The case for state-proposed amendments to the ...
  (Robert J. Thorpe) - The Framers anticipated that the U.S. Constitution would need to be amended from time to time, necessitating what James Madison referred to as government's ability "to originate the amendment of errors"...

Truth Offering

• Quick Rant: Why I Hate Politicians
  Am I the only one who absolutely despises our politicians right now more than ever? Wait, let me put that comment into context real quick: I love our country. I know what kind of potential we have as a nation, and it makes me sick that we're squandering our liberty and prosperity due to our igno ...
• Big Pharma: The Cure Is Worse Than the Disease
  Does this sound like a good option to you?: "Approximately 2 out of 3 people being treated for depression still have unresolved symptoms. If your anti-depressant alone isn't enough, talk to your doctor. One option you may consider is adding Abilify.�Abilify is approved to treat depression in ad ...
• Our Energy Crisis
  Did any of you by chance catch the documentary on History Channel recently called "Prophets of Doom"? If not, here's it is: Here's the synopsis of the doc from History Channel's own website [1]: "Today's world has troubles unique to its time in history, from the global financial crisis to tech ...
• Poll - Week Ending February 13, 2011
  Without question, there's plenty of turmoil in the political spectrum these days. A growing number of people seem to align themselves with Libertarian ideals, some calling themselves "The Tea Party." We wanted to know what you would label yourself, if anything. Here are the results from this wee ...
• 1984 in 2011
  In the Orwell classic "1984," Big Brother has such a grip on its citizenry, that kids will rat on their own parents. Spouses turn on one another. In all such cases, people are ripped from their lives and either tortured into complacency or killed. All in the name of staying safe. But of course, ...

2012 Blog

• 10 LHC Consequences / NASA Budget / Planet (X) ...
  I was quite OK with the LHC when experts explained that cosmic rays cause the creation of harmless mini-black holes in our atmosphere all the time. Now I don’t know what to think! Otto Rössler is the professor who sued and failed in his attempt to halt the Large Hadron Collidor. Over at Lifeboa ...
• Deadly 6.3 Quake in ChristChurch NZ
  Looks like dozens of people have died during an earthquake that struck Christchurch during their lunch hour. Several large office buildings have collapsed, as well as the cathedral. Another deadly earthquake occurring within 3 days of the full moon. I have written recently of the new pattern eme ...
• Noah’s Ark Finally Discovered?
  If you follow my line of thinking, you might just agree with my hypothesis. It starts out by looking at the Bible as a historical record that has been exaggerated for religious purposes, and ends with an amazing find in Iran. Ask any Biblical skeptic and they will supply you with many apparent c ...
• Solar Flare Update
  The biggest solar flare in four years has sent charged particles hurtling towards Earth. ABC News says: The radiation from Monday’s flare, known as a Coronal Mass Ejection, should pass the Earth today, Friday and Saturday. The charged particles will speed by at some 560 miles per second. …What ...
• X-Flare, CME Heading Towards Earth
  This just in from SpaceWeather.com: Sunspot 1158 has unleashed the strongest solar flare in more than four years. The eruption, which peaked at 0156 UT on Feb. 15th, registered X2 on the Richter scale of solar flares… X-flares are the strongest type of solar flare, and this is the first such eru ...

Facing South

• Tennesseans rally for safer gas drilling
  Environmental groups are pressing the state of Tennessee to regulate "fracking," a controversial method of fracturing underground rock formations to release natural gas for drilling. The practice has been blamed for numerous cases of drinking water contamination nationwide. The Tennessee Oil an ...
• Aftershock: The disaster of hurricane recovery ...
  No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of continent, a part of the main. -John Donne Don't dare tell the people of Bolivar they live on an island. "It's a peninsula, not an island," they will say. Geographically, they're right. The 34-mile spit of low-lying marsh and ...
• House votes to halt strict coal ash rules, but ...
  The House of Representatives approved an amendment to a federal spending bill over the weekend that would prevent the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating the toxic ash from coal-fired power plants as hazardous waste. But advocates of strict federal oversight of coal ash regard the ...
• Report raises concerns about redistricting abu ...
  By Naomi Martin, The Lens Louisiana politicians could use their control over the upcoming congressional redistricting process to keep themselves -- and their parties -- in power for the next decade, according to a new report by the Public Affairs Research Council, an independent non-profit ba ...
• Southern Republicans launch sneak attack on co ...
  The House is expected to vote as early as today on amendments to a budget bill that would take away the Environmental Protection Agency's power to regulate toxic coal ash as a hazardous waste. Reps. Cliff Stearns (R-Fla.) and David McKinley (R-W.Va.) have offered amendments to a continuing reso ...

One News Page

• Amanda Seyfried Single Again! Ryan Phillippe a ...
  AMANDA Seyfried is back on the market. The Dear John actress has reportedly ended her short-lived romance with actor Ryan Phillippe. The pair — Seyfried, 25, and Phillippe, 36 — dated for about three months. “They are not dating anymore,” a source told Us Weekly magazine. “And it’s ...
• Blink-182 Might Tour With Kid Cudi, Travis Bar ...
• Chris Brown Gets Rihanna Restraining Order Rel ...
  CHRIS Brown has had his restraining order against Rihanna relaxed. The 21-year-old singer — who was sentenced to five years probation and six months of community service for assaulting the What’s My Name hitmaker in 2009 — was told yesterday that the five-year order, which bans him from ...
• Justin Bieber In A New Haircut
  Justin Bieber haircut is once again in news and this time it's true. Early Monday morning her tweeted, 'thinking about getting a haircut....hmmmmmm.' and then appeared with a new haircut on the sets of TMZ Live. Justin Bieber haircut has added
• Chinese tourists emerge as top tax-free shoppe ...

Global Research TV

• Gaddafi Loses More Libyan Cities
• 4.5 Million Orphans in Iraq: Protests Over Foo ...
• Bahrain's Army Shoots Peaceful Protesters (War ...
• Rumsfeld's Award, Unrest in Egypt and Food Cri ...
• Swiss Shift Opinion to Abolish Militia

Daily Tech

• Patriot Announces Wildfire Series SSDs
  SSDs promise 500Gb/sec read and write performance
• Apple Releases OS X 10.7 "Lion" to Developers
  Microsoft isn't the only one to show developers some love
• Nanoparticles Provide Lifelong Immunity in Mic ...
  Nanoparticles activate two areas of the innate immune system, stimulating Toll-like receptors and providing lifelong immune protection in mice
• Sprint Gets HTC Arrive Windows Phone 7 Device
  Arrive is the first WP7 device on the network
• Reviews: Motorola Xoom is True iPad Competiter ...
  There's plenty to like about the Xoom, the problem is there's also plenty to dislike

Oriental Review

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

BlogHer

• Extreme Couponing Leads to Extreme Rebating
  Before this experiment in extreme couponing, I'd always used some coupons but had never really taken advantage of mail-in-rebate offers. I guess I've sent in less than 10 grocery rebates over the last 30 years. I never seemed to have the UPC or the bottle cap or the label - or if I had those, I ...
• I Learned This While Making My Bed
  I have been yelling for years about how making the bed was a complete waste of time. This is something that I believed deeply. I am a busy person and it seemed like a fool�s errand. You get out of bed, make it all nice, then wreck it up again every night? Redundant. Redundant. So I don�t make my ...
• The Power Of Woman: Sexy Or Scary?
  Women are friggin’ powerful. And during that fertile time of the month, our power escalates, especially with respect to how the opposite sex responds to us. At least, that’s what the research shows. This scares the hell out of some people. Just watch a man melt into a puddle of goo when a woman ...
• Own Your Beauty: Uniting Spirituality, Breath ...
  At the beginning of this month, I invited you guys to do an exercise with me:� to take some time each day and deeply inhale at least 10 times, the way that the lovely Karolyn invited us to do.� How have you done? I fully intended to start each day with this breathing exercise, but my memory ...
• Brighten Your Winter Menu During National Grap ...
  February is National Grapefruit Month, and the perfect time to inject a little citrus in your winter menu planning. Grapefruit is plentiful and affordable this time of year. Here are some ideas to get you started celebrating this seasonal fruit. Laura of The Balanced Plate gives a full run-down ...

Health Freedom Alliance

• Energy Drinks Pose Serious Health Risks To You ...
  Energy drinks are still a relatively new trend, so the health risks do not become apparent until chronic use (or abuse) manifests itself with dangerous side effects and in some cases death. The ...
• Veterans Finding New Life In Organic Farming
  “The military is not for the faint of heart, and farming isn’t either,” said Michael O’Gorman, an organic farmer who founded the nonprofit Farmer-Veteran Coalition, which supports sustainable-agriculture training. “There are eight times as many ...
• Little Pharma: The Medication of U.S. Children
  From asthma medications to antipsychotics, children are a big market for the pharmaceutical industry and they are making a killing as now one in four children is taking medication regularly.  That is an incredible figure ...
• Morningland Cheese Trial Update
  During the fall of 2010, the small family farm that has produced raw cheese for 30 years with a perfect record, was one of the many raw milk producers that were targeted by the FDA. ...
• Energy Saving Light Bulbs ‘could trigger ...
  The push to switch over to Compact Florescent Light (CFL) bulbs is facing a mighty backlash from consumers, health experts and environmentalists. As part of the governments “Green Revolution” campaign, Congress has passed legislation that requires the ‘energy-saving’ ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

• Did Rep. McKinley understand his own amendment ...
  Yesterday, I was re-reading the House floor debate over the coal industry riders pushed through by the Republican leadership (with a little help from our good friend, Democratic Rep. Nick J. Rahall). Something jumped out at me from the remarks made by Rep. David McKinley, R-W.Va., regarding his ...
• Why coal miners die on the job
  The U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration this morning made public its report on the death of 39-year-old Jesse Adkins of Belington, a roof bolter operator who was killed last July 29 at CONSOL Energy’s Loveridge Mine, near Fairview, Marion County. Adkins was killed when a mine wall, or ri ...
• About the GOP House mining budget riders &#823 ...
  As mentioned earlier, I was out for a few days, allowing me to miss all the fun in Washington, D.C., with the Republican House budget legislation and its various riders to block environmental initiatives of the Obama administration (see here and here for general summaries, focused mostly on the ...
• UMWA’s Cecil Roberts: ‘… Alt ...
  Hey folks, I’ve been out for a few days and am catching up on things. I wanted to make sure Coal Tattoo readers didn’t miss this commentary from United Mine Workers of America President Cecil Roberts, published first on the Perspectives page of the Sunday Gazette-Mail: When my great-uncle Bill ...
• Coal’s impacts: New study sorts out good ...
  Studies about the costs and benefits of coal are always a topic that generates heated discussion here on Coal Tattoo (see here, here and here). But understanding these costs and benefits is increasingly important, and whether any one particular study is perfect is less important than the fact t ...

Daniel Miessler

• Alex Hutton Talks VERIS
  via youtube.com This is a friend of mine who lives risk. Great guy, great asset for infosec. :: Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsSwords vs. ShadowsEuler’s DiskThe GiftJan-Ove Waldner ServesAndrei Arlovski “This is Sparta” Kick
• VMware Sad Face
  All products have issues, but I get particularly bothered when the very concept of an offering is violated. Take VMware…the concept is that you have a VM that’s created in whatever product (Server, Workstation, ESX, etc.), and that VM will run on any of the others. Nope. No such luck. I’ve just ...
• Foxes and Dogs | NatGeo
  Mavrik, the object of Trut’s attention, is about the size of a Shetland sheepdog, with chestnut orange fur and a white bib down his front. He plays his designated role in turn: wagging his tail, rolling on his back, panting eagerly in anticipation of attention. In adjacent cages lining either si ...
• Money Won’t Buy You Health Insurance | NYTimes
  Most employees assume that if they lose their job and the health coverage that comes along with it, they’ll be able to purchase insurance somewhere. The members of Congress who want to repeal the provision of last year’s health insurance law that makes it easier for individuals to buy coverage m ...
• How Does One Explain SQL Injection to a Non-Te ...
  Anyone got a good analogy to describe SQL Injection to people who don’t understand what a “back end” is, much less a SELECT statement? Here’s my response: SQL Injection is like a telephone operator who has to phonetically relay verbal speech between two people who cannot be connected, in a langu ...

Fitwatch

• Domestic extremists or domestic goddesses?
  This brilliant video was made by the Aldermaston Women's Peace Camp - the following text, is taken from their website During 2010 AWPC was under more overt surveillance than usual. From February, the women's camp was targeted with intrusive police photography. Camp made a formal complaint about ...
• Activist reports recent encounter with Mark Ke ...
  Fitwatch has been passed the following statement relating to an encounter by an activist with the ex-undercover cop, Mark Kennedy. Mark Kennedy encountered in London Last week ex-undercover police spy Mark Kennedy was encountered by chance by an activist who was an erstwhile friend. Kennedy was ...
• Legal Advice Drop-In for Student/Anti-Cuts Arr ...
  From LDMG: Legal Defence & Monitoring Group (LDMG) and Offmarket Infoshop in Hackney, London will now be offering a regular legal drop-in session for all those arrested on the Student Demonstrations or Anti-Cuts Actions. We will be able to offer: * Entirely free, confidential legal advice coming ...
• Manchester demo – police use s50 powers ...
  We have received this account from an eye-witness in Manchester. Police have abused ASBO legislation to obtain the personal details of anti-cuts demonstrators. Manchester police ended a day of orderly rallies and breakout groups of protesters by abusing legislation on anti-social behaviour in or ...
• Protesters sprayed as Hugh Orde advocates extr ...
  Three days after head of ACPO, Hugh Orde, promised the use of more extreme tactics on protesters, ten people have been cs/pepper sprayed at a London UKUncut protest outside Boots, with three needing hospital treatment. During the protest on Oxford Street, an activist tried to post a leaflet thro ...

Worldwide Hippies

• Anybody Still Listen to Phish?
  That one guy looks just like Chuck Norris! Hippies, Rejoice! Phish Going On Tour This Summer, Concert Dates Announced | Hilton Perez Last we heard from Phish, they were prepping for their first televised performance since their reunion on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. Now, they’ve announced thro ...
• Guess “HU” runs the world? Not&#82 ...
  By Clifford Marks | NationalJournal - Wikileaks Cables Show China Used Debt to Pressure U.S. on Taiwan China has sought to use its massive U.S. debt holdings to influence American financial policy and deter arms sales to Taiwan, according to diplomatic cables published by Wikileaks. Fears have c ...
• Never Get Off Of The Freaking Bus!
  The Vision of Heaven and Hell from the Windows of a Bus | OpEdNews At 5 am on Saturday, February 12, 2011, a bus full of aging hippies, with a few youngsters below 40, pulled out of Belfast Maine, headed into Canada for a day trip to an old style “farmers market” in downtown St. [...]
• The Futures Market: …response to my seri ...
  WWH -This letter arrived the other day in response to my series on the Collapse of Capitalism. I thought I should share it with all of you. Dear Mr. Pinko Pervert Polizatto, Whoopee! Climate change is creating food shortages. As a capitalist investor who specializes in commodities, particularly ...
• Inside LSD-Full Length Documentary
  Could LSD be the next drug in your doctor’s arsenal? New experiments have a few researchers believing that this trippy drug could become a pharmaceutical of the future. Outlawed in 1970, the street drug developed a reputation as the dangerous toy of the counterculture, capable of inspiring eithe ...

reference frame

• Judith Curry vs Gavin Schmidt
  Gavin Schmidt has been fighting against Judith Curry for some time (on discussion pages of Curry's blog - Part I and Part II - Real Climate, Watts' blog, and other places); see e.g. Climate Progress. The ecoterrorists have even established a special anti-Curry website which is totally incoh ...
• Japan: we wasted ¥6.55 trillion for 214 failed ...
  Today, we learned that based on the 2010 GDP figures, China overtook Japan as the world's second largest economy. It may be pretty unlikely for Japan to return to its place because the current mess in the land of the rising Sun seems pretty remarkable. Japan Times just announced ...
• ClimateGate's Gene Wahl: I did delete the e-ma ...
  Steve McIntyre has some interesting news about the famous May 2008 ClimateGate e-mail in which Phil Jones asks Mike to delete any mails he had with Keith (who is undergoing a minor family crisis), while Gene and Caspar will have to do the same thing. One of those five men, Gene, ...
• Nerdy girls need love too
  Amy Lee Radigan (British Columbia) has recorded a song that became a kind of hit. 160,000 views in three weeks is not bad. Sheldon Cooper and sonic screwdriver are among the guys she has a crush on. ;-) She's recording a CD that will be available in April via amylee ...
• Implications of 35/pb SUSY searches on best fi ...
  O. Buchmüller and 12 co-authors including John Ellis have made some new calculations within their previously used framework, Implications of Initial LHC Searches for Supersymmetry The so-far negative early searches by the CMS and ATLAS collaboration are incorporated into their updated b ...

No Frakking Consensus

• The Never-Policy-Prescriptive Pachauri
  The chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on climate change thinks you and your children should feel chilly in the winter and too hot in the summer. He also thinks it's his business to decide what amount of meat consumption is healthy and desirable.
• Bill McKibben Says It’s Urgent
  In the world inhabited by this environmental crusader, climate change is "a crisis that's breaking over our heads at this moment," ExxonMobil peddles petroleum the way drug dealers peddle heroin, and we "have no choice" but to turn our backs on fossil fuels.
• Scientists Have Allowed Themselves to Be Used
  An award-winning meteorologist says he's ashamed of - and embarrassed by - his profession.
• Friday Giggles
  On those days when one doesn't know whether to laugh or cry, I choose to laugh. The Daily Bayonet blog contrasts so completely with anything available from the mainstream media one can't help wondering what the world would be like if this gent were a late-night comic.
• Andrew Weaver vs Tim Flannery
  Two activist scientists, both committed to the climate change fight, have starkly different views of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. One says it's the most "rigorous scientific process" in which he has been involved. The other says it isn't good science, but "lowest-common-denomin ...

Tarpley

• Wisconsin Gop Governor in Neofascist Union-Bus ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net February 20, 2011 Washington DC, Feb. 20, 2011 – After four decades of disillusionment, and demoralization, disorientation and rout of the labor movement, the mass strike is once again abroad in the land. In dozens of state capitals, reactionary Republican ...
• Mubarak Toppled by CIA Because He Opposed US P ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net February 18, 2011 Washington DC, Feb. 18, 2011 — There never was an “Egyptian revolution,” but rather a behind-the-scenes military putsch by a junta of CIA puppet generals who evidently could not succeed in their goal of ousting Hosni Mubarak without the hel ...
• Hillary Announces Expanded US Cyber-Coup Campa ...
  Webster G. Tarpley TARPLEY.net February 16, 2011
• US Threat to Seize Suez Canal – Was This ...
  Webster G. Tarpley on The Alex Jones Show Infowars February 15, 2011 download file
• Massive CIA Campaign Drives Mubarak from Power ...
  Webster G. Tarpley on The Alex Jones Show Infowars February 11, 2011 download file

Modern Survivalism

• Earthquake Survival Kit 101
  While the devastating earthquake in Christchurch New Zealand is still on our minds, we should take the time to examine our own geographical location and decide whether or not it would be a good idea to assemble and earthquake survival kit. Hint: An earthquake survival kit will work in any situat ...
• Skyrocketing Oil Price and Inflation
  For every dollar increase in the price of oil, there is an equivalent increase in the cost of producing nearly everything that we consume. We have been facing the specter of inflation due to world record spending, deficits, and fiat money creation, but now we also need to factor in the rapidly i ...
• Another Quake Rocks Christchurch New Zealand
  On the heels of a major earthquake that rocked near Christchurch New Zealand on September 4, 2010 (magnitude 7.1), another major earthquake, this time a magnitude 6.3 struck the city of 350,000 during Tuesday afternoon 12:51PM local time February 22, 2011, and was followed by several large earth ...
• Population, Food, Oil … Collision?
  World population and growth Factoring the net birth minus death rate in the world each year, the annual increase to world population is about 75 million people. The current world population is about 6,900,000,000, or 6.9 billion. Annually, we add to the planet the equivalent population of any of ...
• Arctic Sea Ice, Thicker and Deeper
  A fresh update from the Polar Ice Prediction System (the operational model run by the Naval Oceanographic Office for sea ice forecasting) reveals that the North Pole arctic sea appears to be adding yet more sea ice to its depths, as was first reported at MSB in an article titled, 70 Trillion cub ...

Fast Company

• STEM's Shop Class Trades Woodworking for Mothe ...
  A Minnesota school high school swaps birdhouse construction for cutting edge computer building assignments.Building a birdhouse might have been a worthwhile vocation skill in the 1970s, but as the vacuum of construction sector’s free fall is filled by STEM jobs, shop class needs a reboot. Minnes ...
• Better Business Through Changing Behavior
  How can a company do something remarkable that no one else is considering? The United States Postal Service -- and an elevator company -- provide examples of such success from shifting their customers' actions. We continue our Leadership Hall of Fame series, a year-long look at the top business ...
• GM Posts First Profitable Year Since 2004
  General Motors has just posted its first profit since 2004, has beaten expectations, and is cutting a profit-sharing check to its employees. Is this a sign the motor industry has turned a corner and is ready to embrace the electric future? (Also: see our earlier post.)GM's fourth quarter net inc ...
• Topless, Electric, and Smart: The New Forspeed ...
  A Smart convertible? It's not as unlikely as it sounds. Smart, manufacturer of tiny, efficient vehicles, plans to debut a topless vehicle at next month's 2011 International Motor Show in Geneva.The electric Smart Forspeed is a sexier spinoff of the Smart Fortwo Electric Drive vehicle, which h ...
• BRIC Countries Compete for Africa's Assets
  China is all over Africa--with its massive aid packages, loans, investments, and thousands of Chinese construction workers. But Brazil is set on making its mark, too, and it's hiring locally to get on the good side of Africans who want jobs and whose resentment toward the Chinese is reportedly ...

Jadaliyya

• Jadaliyya Interview with Ali Ahmida
  [This interview is conducted by Jadaliyya Co-Editor, Noura Erakat] In this interview, Ali Ahmida (bio here) discusses how the recent civilian revolt began as a reformist movement and quickly transformed into a revolutionary one demanding regime change. Ahmida also places the opposition ...
• On International Intervention and the Dire Sit ...
  Yesterday, the United Nations Security Council held a formal meeting in which they condemned the violence in Libya and threatened to hold violators of international law accountable. At the same time, the Arab League held an extraordinary session in which it suspended Libya’s membership. ...
• قل حقوق اجتماعية ولا تقل مطالب فئوية [Say Soci ...
    Ø­Ùا..ÙÙد Ùجحت اÙØ«Ùرة اÙمصرÙØ© Ù٠إماÙØ© تÙاز٠اÙÙÙ٠اÙسÙاس٠ÙاÙاجتماع٠ÙصاÙØ­ جماÙÙر اÙمصرÙÙÙØ Ù…Ø¹Ø·ÙØ© Ø¥ÙاÙÙ… اÙمبادرة ÙاÙÙدرة ÙÙ٠اÙØ«Ùرة اÙمضادة مازاÙت تخÙض معرÙتÙا. Ùأما ÙÙد تغÙر Ù…Ùدا٠اÙÙ…ÙØ§Ø ...
• Notes from the Bahraini Field [Update 2]
  Monday, February 21 � Another demonstrator was buried yesterday; Abdulredha Mohammed Hassan, 32, died in the Salmaniya hospital after being shot in the head by the Bahraini army on Thursday. He is survived by his wife and two children, and his death brings the total number of those k ...
• The Revolution Against Neoliberalism
  On February 15th at 9:45 AM a comment was posted on the wall of the Kullina Khalid Saâid Facebook page, administered by the now very famous Wael Ghoneim, referring to a news item reporting that European governments were under pressure to freeze bank accounts of recently deposed members o ...

mediagazer

• Mags Need Women: The Byline Gap (Steve Smith/M ...
  Steve Smith / MinOnline: Mags Need Women: The Byline Gap  —  For years now the gender imbalance on many magazine industry writing staffs has been a subject of casual observations and occasional promises of change.  “The Sisterhood” columnist Elissa Strauss at the Jewish Daily Forward decided ...
• Emap: Return of paywalls pushed up subs by 25% ...
  Oliver Luft / Press Gazette: Emap: Return of paywalls pushed up subs by 25%  —  The reintroduction of paywalls across Emap's websites helped push subscriptions for its business titles up by a quarter, the company's director of media said today.  —  Conor Dignam said a number of Emap brands with ...
• Old Media Is Being Unbundled, Just Like Teleco ...
  Om Malik / GigaOM: Old Media Is Being Unbundled, Just Like Telecom Was  —  One of the biggest stories of my career — as someone who covered telecom industry — happened fifteen years ago: The 1996 Telecom Act was the start of the liberalization of an industry that had been vertical with very li ...
• Larry King To Piers Morgan: If You Say "I'm Da ...
  Alex Alvarez / Mediaite: Larry King To Piers Morgan: If You Say “I'm Dangerous,” You Better Be Dangerous  —  Larry King returned to his old CNN stomping grounds to speak with his successor of sorts, Piers Morgan.  Morgan took the opportunity to address King's earlier comment that CNN had been ...
• Traditional media owners start to dominate onl ...
  John Lewis / Media Week: Traditional media owners start to dominate online  —  Traditional media and information companies have begun to reassert their expertise in the digital space over much of the last decade, according to research from UKOM/Nielsen.  —  Traditional media sites start to domi ...

Chemtrail News

• Do Chemtrails Exist?
  Arizona is a hotbed for chemtrail believers. Former Arizona Sen. Karen Johnson even joined them in an online documentary entitled, "What are they spraying? ...
• Do Chemtrails Exist Phoenix News Story ...
  PHOENIX -- Several websites have popped up in Arizona, claiming the government or private industry, is secretly spraying the skies with chemicals to control ...www.kpho.com/news/26970058/detail.html
• Is ATS Supporting Ignorance Concerning Chem ...
  I ask that question because of the way Chemtrail threads have played out and where they are put I have noticed that these threads are moved to theSkunk ...www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread666473/pg1
• An airplane con(spiracy)trail
  But at least he didn't claim it was a chemtrail. Maybe that's next week's OpEd. Anyway, the point here is that credentials mean nothing when out of context ...
• CBS 5 Investigates The Chemtrail Contro ...
  Is it government testing or a natural phenomenon in the Arizona skies? We investigate the Chemtrail Controversy. Wednesday on CBS 5 News at 10PM!www.kpho.com/news/26959567/detail.html

World News - Top Stories

• 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.�...

no frakking consensus

• The Never-Policy-Prescriptive Pachauri
  The chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on climate change thinks you and your children should feel chilly in the winter and too hot in the summer. He also thinks it's his business to decide what amount of meat consumption is healthy and desirable.
• Bill McKibben Says It’s Urgent
  In the world inhabited by this environmental crusader, climate change is "a crisis that's breaking over our heads at this moment," ExxonMobil peddles petroleum the way drug dealers peddle heroin, and we "have no choice" but to turn our backs on fossil fuels.
• Scientists Have Allowed Themselves to Be Used
  An award-winning meteorologist says he's ashamed of - and embarrassed by - his profession.
• Friday Giggles
  On those days when one doesn't know whether to laugh or cry, I choose to laugh. The Daily Bayonet blog contrasts so completely with anything available from the mainstream media one can't help wondering what the world would be like if this gent were a late-night comic.
• Andrew Weaver vs Tim Flannery
  Two activist scientists, both committed to the climate change fight, have starkly different views of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. One says it's the most "rigorous scientific process" in which he has been involved. The other says it isn't good science, but "lowest-common-denomin ...

Pointman's

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

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

• Louisiana Unions Organize “We Stand with Wisco ...
  From a press release by SEIU Local 21LA: “We Stand with Wisconsin,” a solidarity rally, will be held at 5:00pm on Wednesday outside of the Baton Rouge City Hall (the Governmental Building) located at 222 St. Louis Street. The event is being organized by Service Employees International Union (S ...
• Blind Human Rights Lawyer Beaten and Isolated ...
  By Bill Quigley Chen Guangcheng, a blind, 39 year old, self-taught, human rights lawyer in China who was recently released after years in prison has been put in home detention, isolated and beaten by authorities. Winner of numerous human rights awards, Mr. Chen was imprisoned for investigating ...
• Wheelchair-Bound Man Denied Basic Medical Care ...
  From our friends at ACLU of Louisiana: Seeking immediate help for a disabled man held since April in inhumane conditions at the Iberia Parish Correctional Center (“ICC”), the ACLU of Louisiana today submitted an emergency second request for relief on his behalf. Reginald Peters, who requires ...
• Disaster Profiteers Continue to Seek Wealth in ...
  As Haiti approaches the one-year anniversary of their massive earthquake, the country is still in crisis. It’s clear that – as with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina - much of the promised relief and reconstruction aid has not reached those affected by the disaster. The details of a recent ...
• Guns and Terrorism: Two Unasked Question in Tu ...
  By Bill Quigley Question: How does a mentally unstable man who was kicked out of school and had run-ins with the law buy an assault weapon? The weapon reportedly used in the mass murders in Tucson was an assault weapon - a Glock 19, semi-automatic pistol, with an extended magazine. That weapo ...

Truth About Our World

• Unanswered Questions as Obama Anoints HW Bush
  On February 15, President Obama bestowed the Medal of Freedom, the United States’ highest award, to a group of people which includes former president George H.W. Bush. Having spent five years researching the elder Bush and discovering a staggering array of secrets to the man’s life—none of them ...
• The Green Nazis: Environmentalism in the Third ...
  Jurriaan Maessen Infowars It has been elaborately pointed out how the device of environmentalism is especially favoured by tyrants as a means of controlling their subjects. The current ‘green’ movement, as we know, is no exception. It has been nurtured from its very conception as a systematic eu ...
• Gates Foundation controls media through massiv ...
  by: Ethan A. Huff   Most major newspapers and media outlets in the world are owned by a handful of multinational corporate giants, who together control the content of what is distributed to the masses. But a recent report inThe Seattle Timesquestions the influence the world’s most powerful found ...
• Petraeus Accuses Afghan Parents of Burning Kid ...
  Attempt to Downplay Kunar Massacre Sparks Outrage Jason Ditz February 21, 2011 One would think that the effort to downplay the killings of as many as 64 civilians, including a large number of children, would be enough to spark considerable anti-US outrage, but apparently Gen. David Petraeus saw ...
• Why Nobody Trusts the Mainstream Media

Paul DeMaio

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

  Blacklisted News

• DEA to legalize marijuana only for ‘Big Pharma ...
  A Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) proposal to reclassify the main psychoactive chemical in marijuana as a Schedule III substance would allow pharmaceutical companies to market the drug while still penalizing common recreational use, according to marijuana law reform advocates.
• Another ‘runaway general’? Military reportedly ...
  The reporter who's story for Rolling Stone forced the resignation of former Gen. Stanley McChrystal has a new story out, this time focusing on what he calls "psyops" employed against elected officials by yet another "runaway general."
• Army of Fake Social Media Friends to Promote P ...
  Does a code of ethics still exist in Intelligence firms? Does it disappear behind closed doors, dirty deeds done in the dark and used against the American people who are supposed to be free to express themselves?
• Libyan opposition literally running protests f ...
  When Qaddafi's son, Saif al-Islam, accused foreigners and opposition groups of fomenting unrest within Libya, it appears no truer words have been spoken. It is not surprising BBC and the rest of the corporate owned media went through extensive measures to discredit his speech.
• Sniper Detecting Microphones Becoming More Pop ...
  Small lightweight microphones are saving the lives of US soldiers fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq. Shoulder Worn Acoustic Targeting Systems (SWATS), developed by defense company QinetiQ, use shockwave and muzzle blast noise to locate enemy gunfire .

The Intelligence Daily

• IntelFilter — February 23, 2011
  Today in history: February 23, 1971 —  Lt. Calley confessed (to My Lai Massacre) and...
• Why all of the Concern about Libya?
  By Gail Tverberg We keep hearing about unrest in the Middle East and Northern Africa, with Libya...
• Russia: Looking Ahead
  The domes of the Kremlin Putin and Medvedev will remain at the political helm throughout 2011 – and...
• As The Obamas And The Ultra-Wealthy Live The H ...
  By Michael T. Snyder (The Economic Collapse Blog) Barack Obama recently made the following...
• Waging War on Chicago Workers
  By Stephen Lendman In Washington, Obama, Democrats and Republicans are doing it. In Wisconsin and...

My AntiWar

• As Arab World Shakes, Iran’s Influence G ...
  Summary: Middle East While it is far too soon to write the final chapter on the uprisings? impact, Iran has already benefited from the ouster or undermining of Arab leaders who were its strong adversaries and has begun to project its growing influence, the analysts said. This week Iran sent two ...
• AIPAC Vetos U.N. Resolution on Israeli Settlem ...
  Summary: If AIPAC is successful in its desire to convince Washington to solve the Iran nuclear problem by force if necessary, it could lead to another war that almost certainly would have catastrophic global consequences. source: Veterans todayread more
• Saudi Opens Its Wallet to Stave Off Protests
• Sudan Rebel Group Denies Role in Anti-Protest ...
• Santorum Defends the Crusades

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

• As Arab World Shakes, Iran's Influence Grows
  Summary: Middle East While it is far too soon to write the final chapter on the uprisings’ impact, Iran has already benefited from the ouster or undermining of Arab leaders who were its strong adversaries and has begun to project its growing influence, the analysts said. This week Iran sent ...
• AIPAC Vetos U.N. Resolution on Israeli Settlem ...
  Summary: If AIPAC is successful in its desire to convince Washington to solve the Iran nuclear problem by force if necessary, it could lead to another war that almost certainly would have catastrophic global consequences. source: Veterans todayread more
• The West’s pillars of sand
  Summary: The three pillars upon which Western influence in the Middle East was built – a strong military presence, commercial ties and a string of dollar-dependent states – are crumbling. As a result, the Middle East that emerges in the weeks and months ahead may become much harder for the ...
• US and Iran could become strategic allies – wi ...
  Summary: india-iran Tighter sanctions and military threats haven't swayed Iran over its nuclear program. What the West really needs is genuine rapprochement – the kind that India is especially suited to facilitate. source: Christian Science Monitorread more
• WHITE HOUSE SUPPORT FOR MIDDLE EAST ‘UPRISINGS ...
  Summary: “Always and ever: Iran is the big play in the Middle East…Every regional decision has to be measured against the test: Is this moving us closer to—or further from—a positive change in the Iranian political system? That test should guide decisions about Bahrain, and about a lot mo ...

The Daily Galaxy

• Bizarre Alien Matter Discovered at Core of Sup ...
  Evidence for a bizarre state of matter has been found in the dense core of the star left behind, a so-called neutron star, based on cooling observed over a decade of Chandra observations. NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory discovered the first...
• Previously Unseen Galaxy-Sized Bubbles Extend ...
  An analysis of data from a NASA Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope turned up massive, previously unseen galactic structures. A group of astrophysicists located two massive bubbles of plasma, each extending tens of thousands of light-years, emitting high-energy radiation above and...
• The Weird Asteroid Kleopatra and Its Moons
  An image of the 217 kilometer long asteroid Kleopatra, discovered in 1880, taken by the Keck II telescope with adaptive optics, before (left) and after processing. The asteroid, shaped like a dog bone, has two moons, the outer Alexhelios and...
• Image of the Day: One of the Most Massive Blac ...
  NGC 4649 is a giant galaxy about 51 million light years from Earth that contains one of the biggest black holes ever found in the local universe.This is a composite image of data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory (shown in...
• NASA Launches Antarctic Balloons to Study Radi ...
  A research balloon launched in December of 2010 from McMurdo Station in Antarctica (below), as a test run ay 112,000 feet for launches in 2013 and 2014 of 20 such balloons to float in the circular wind patterns above the...

Natural News

• Experimental cancer drugs killing far more peo ...
  (NaturalNews) Experimental cancer drugs harm far more people than they help, according to a study conducted by researchers from Duke University Medical Center and published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology."This sounds a cautionary note," lead researcher Jeffrey Peppercorn said. "In most case ...
• Supreme Court Immunizes Vaccine Makers Against ...
  In a 6-2 decision, the Supreme Court voted to protect pharmaceutical companies from liability when their vaccines cause debilitating injuries and death. The high court majority considers vaccines "unavoidably unsafe" and was worried about drug makers being sued and obligated to compensate their ...
• Aquifers poisoned with drugs, chemicals and pe ...
  (NaturalNews) Mexico's Riviera Maya is an area of spectacular natural beauty along the Yucatan Peninsula and includes the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System (also known as the Belize Barrier Reef) which starts near Cancun and continues along the whole length of the Riviera Maya, southward to Guate ...
• Roundup, GMOs linked to emergence of deadly ne ...
  (NaturalNews) In a shocking warning letter to USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack, a highly experienced, ex-military pathogen researcher warns that the use of Roundup via GMO crops is resulting in the emergence of a deadly new pathogen -- previously unknown to science -- that's causing widespread spontan ...
• Full devastating effects of Gulf oil disaster ...
  (NaturalNews) The full extent of the damage caused by the BP oil disaster last April may not become apparent for at least another decade, says Samantha Joye, a professor in the Department of Marine Sciences at the University of Georgia. Contrary to claims made by BP's compensation fund that the ...

Threat Level

• British Court Orders Wikileaks’ Assange Extrad ...
  A British court Thursday ordered Wikileaks founder Julian Assange extradited to Sweden to face sex charges. His attorneys immediately said they would appeal the decision, a process which could take months. The Australian reported that Assange, 39, “showed no emotion when the judge issued his ver ...
• Tools of Tradecraft: The CIA’s Historic Spy Ki ...
• Donations Pour in for PS3 Hacker
  George Hotz is in the middle of what could be a long, punishing legal battle with Sony, and his money is running out. “Media, I need your help. This is the first time I have ever asked. Please, if you support this cause, help me out and spread the word,” he wrote on his newest [...]
• Feds Appeal Warrantless-Wiretapping Defeat
  The Obama administration is appealing the first — and likely only — lawsuit resulting in a ruling against the National Security Agency’s secret warrantless-surveillance program adopted in the wake of the 2001 terror attacks. A San Francisco federal judge in December awarded $20,400 each to tw ...
• Book Excerpt: Kingpin — How One Hacker Took Ov ...
  Published Tuesday, the new book by Wired.com senior editor Kevin Poulsen tells the story of Max Vision, a white hat computer hacker who turned to the dark side. Among other things, Max stole credit card data — “dumps” — on millions of consumers, which he sold in bulk to a card counterfeiter nam ...

PERRspectives : Blog

• Three Trillion and One Reasons for a War Tax
  Three trillion dollars. Once all the costs of the actual fighting, veterans care, expanded baseline defense spending and extra interest on the national debt are factored in, that's the price tag for the still-unfunded American wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. But there's one more reason to instit ...
• New Right-Wing Attack on Wisconsin Teachers Bo ...
  A word of advice to conservatives desperately trying to smear teachers and other public employees in Wisconsin: when trapped in a hole, first stop digging. On Monday, the right-wing blogosphere made the mistake of complaining that Wisconsin received millions of dollars in federal education aid ...
• Red State Socialists' Attack on Wisconsin Back ...
  For years, red state socialism - the steady, one-way flow of taxpayer dollars from Washington DC to solidly Republican states - has been one of the defining traits of American federalism. Which is why the conservative charge that Wisconsin schools - and their unionized teachers - received $670 ...
• The Republican Betrayal of the Elderly Begins
  Perhaps more than any other factor, the overwhelming Republican midterm triumph was fueled by the elderly. Voters 65 and over, the only age group to support John McCain in 2008, boosted their share of the turnout to 21% from 16% two years earlier. Nationwide, Republicans won seniors by a stagg ...
• Republican Myths in the GOP War on Public Empl ...
  In just the latest front in the perpetual GOP campaign to divide and conquer, Republicans are trying to get Americans to turn on their neighbors who work for government and unions on each other. Of course, the Republican assault on collective bargaining rights for public employees in Wisconsin, ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

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

CounterPunch

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

Institute for Middle East Understanding

• A father speaks for his son (Ahmet Dogan, Tim ...
  My son, Furkan, was killed in May by the Israeli military while attempting to deliver humanitarian aid by sea to the Gaza Strip. As he was just 19, he asked his mother and me for our permission to participate. Our decision will be with us for the rest of our lives. It is my responsibility to spe ...
• Jerusalem Racist Attacks (Alternative Informa ...
• This is the occupation: A letter from a reason ...
  Cautiously, feeling it out, I joined the protestors in Sheikh Jarrah. But I didn't get arrested there. I set out for Palestinian Jerusalem. The injustice became tangible and sharp. Pa ...
• Israel destroys hundreds of West Bank olive tr ...
  The Israeli military had entered the olive grove of a Palestinian farmer and destroyed between 230 and 250 of his olive trees (reports vary). The military claimed that they were clear ...
• Inside Carnegie, Trumpets; Outside, Bullhorns ...
  Opponents of the Israeli government's policies and actions toward the Palestinians have deemed the orchestra, in its role as one of Israel's most visible and successful cultural expor ...

Water - AlterNet

• House Proposes Budget Cuts for Clean Water as ...
  House lawmakers, who control the federal purse strings for the nation's water supplies, spend nearly $1 million a year on bottled water.
• Oscar-Nominated 'Gasland' Director Calls Lates ...
  Josh Fox talks about why the gas industry is losing control of the message and how it has underestimated the power of citizens affected by gas drilling.
• California Bill Brings Rainwater to Your Toile ...
  A bill has been introduced in California that would allow landowners to install rain barrel systems and not only capture water for outdoor use, but for indoor use as well.
• Republicans Launch Sneak Attack on Clean Water ...
  The GOP's CR budget bill includes language that would deny funding to the EPA to implement guidelines needed to enforce the Clean Water Act.
• Republicans Are Using the Budget to Wage a Mas ...
  Our water, air, food and public health are all being sacrificed to enrich the Right's corporate cronies.

Public Citizen in Texas

• City of Austin new NRG/Toshiba target
  So now San Antonio is sitting back watching with a knowing eye as NRG/Toshiba (formally know together as NINA) approaches the City of Austin with the hope that Austin hasn’t been paying attention to what they put San Antonio through just a year ago. Greg Harman of the San Antonio Current provide ...
• SB772 would require “tracer” compound in frack ...
  Senator Wendy Davis (D-Fort Worth) filed Senate Bill 772, which, if passed, would require companies using hydraulic fracturing to mine natural gas in Texas to include a unique tracer compound enabling regulators to determine which party is or is not responsible in the event that the fluids find ...
• Sign a petition to the Prime Minister of Japan ...
  Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS) are asking folks to sign on to a petition to the Prime Minister of Japan and his Cabinet in opposition to proposed loans from the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) for the construction of two new nuclear reactors in south Texas. NIRS ...
• WCS press conferance 103 [Flickr]
  Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:
• Middle East crisis could impact the global eco ...
  In a piece by John W. Schoen, senior producer at MSNBC, he leads with: As the turmoil in the Middle East spreads to Libya, a major oil producer, the shockwaves of Arab unrest are reverberating through the global oil supply chain – and threatening to spill over into the global economy.  Click her ...

Unexplained Mysteries

• New "thunder-thighs" dinosaur discovered
  The fossil remains of a new long-necked sauropod dinosaur have been discovered in a quarry in Utah. Named Brontomerus mcintoshi or "thunder-thighs" th...
• Man in India has 39 wives
  Ziona Chana is head of the world's biggest family with 39 wives, 94 children and 33 grandchildren. They all live together in a massive 100-room mansio...
• Snake-bites: a growing, global threat
  Estimates suggest the number of snake bites around the world is far greater than previously thought. An estimated 5.5 million snake bites happen world...
• Biggest solar storm to cause power outages
  Power outages lasting months are expected following an upcoming large-scale solar storm. The sun is entering its most active stage of its natural 11-1...
• Mutilations believed to be work of a panther
  A series of mystery animal deaths is beng attributed to a panther-like big cat sighted in the UK. Three adult swans and two lambs were recently found ...

Grassroots

• "Pourquoi la campagne": Via Campesina Africa l ...
  fatimatou_hima_plateforme_paysanne_du_niger.jpg In 2008, I was privileged to attend the 5th international conference of Grassroots International partner the Via Campesina, in Matola, Mozambique. The Via, a global movement representing over ...
• Anti-violence campaign spreads through Central ...
  guate-women.jpg In Central America, a new campaign to stop violence against women is gaining momentum. Launched by the Via Campesina International (the Via), the campaign is aimed at changing not only the attitudes of men towards women, bu ...
• Final Declaration from the World Assembly of S ...
  wsf-dakar4.jpg From to Tunisia to Egypt to Senegal, African social movements are reclaiming their political space. As people demonstrated – and celebrated – in the streets of Cairo, thousands of participants gathered for the World Social F ...
• New Scramble for Africa
  mozambique200811-small.jpg It is the tradition at World Social Forums (WSF) to focus a considerable amount of time, energy, resources and attention on issues faced by people in the host region and country. The 2011 World Social Forum in ...
• Peasants from La Via Campesina join the World ...
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Climate

• Australia Government to Set Carbon Price from ...
  Source:� Reuters Australia's government launched a third attempt on Thurs. to make carbon polluters pay for their emissions, unveiling plans for a fixed-price scheme from 2012 and vowing not to surrender.
• Climate Change Halves Peru Glacier: Official
  Source:� AFP A glacier on Peru's Huaytapallana Moutain shed half its surface ice in just 23 years, officials said, reinforcing concerns of climate change's growing threat to fresh water resources. �
• Libyan Turmoil Puts Focus on Arctic Oil: Green ...
  Source:� Reuters Unrest in the Middle East means the potential oil riches in Arctic areas like Greenland are more important than ever, the island's premier said on Wednesday.
• White House Report Parries Attacks on ‘Clean E ...
  Source:� The Hill A White House report unveiled Wednesday seeks to rebut GOP claims that Obama's energy proposals amount to "picking winners and losers" among energy technologies and are too costly. �
• Canadians More Concerned than Americans About ...
  Source:� Macleans.ca A new poll conducted by U.S. and Canadian think tanks found 80 percent of Canadians believe the science behind climate change, as opposed to 58 percent of Americans.

GreenBiz

• Spurring the Feds to Pursue Green from Data Ce ...
  Michelle Moore is on a green mission. The federal environmental executive with the Council for Environmental Quality offers an insider's view of President Obama's Green Gov Challenge and government efforts to rein in energy use in a conversation with GreenBiz Executive Editor Joel Makower.
• AMD Rethinks Green Goals After Restructuring
  AMD's carbon footprint shrank 72 percent after it transferred the bulk of its manufacturing business to a supplier.
• Major Railroad Buys $15M Worth of Plastic Rail ...
  �A major railroad in the United States has signed up to buy $15 million worth of recycled plastic railroad ties over the coming years.
• RecycleMatch Mixes eBay and Craigslist with On ...
  �RecycleMatch updated its web-based service this month to make getting rid of trash a mix of eBay and Craigslist.
• Water Footprinting Makes a Splash
  Water security is becoming a strategic issue as companies increasingly understand how looming crises will affect business operations, from manufacturing to markets.

Reuters Global

• Tweet like an Egyptian — Hillary Clinton ...
  Young Egyptians, who famously used Internet services like Facebook and Twitter to launch their recent revolution, turned the focus on Hillary Clinton on Wednesday and peppered the top U.S. diplomat with skeptical questions about longtime U.S. support for former President Hosni Mubarak and what ...
• Could revolt spread in Africa?
  So far there hasn’t been much political fallout in the rest of Africa from the revolts in the northernmost states. Could the revolt in Libya change the dynamic?
• Guest contribution:Report from an eye-witness ...
  A guest contribution from Lisa Goldman, a Tel Aviv based journalist, who interviewed an eye-witness in Tripoli
• On U.S.-Taliban talks, look at 2014 and work b ...
  Any talks between the U.S. and the Taliban will be a long haul. Consider what might be possible in 2014 and work back."
• UNsensational? Five more years of Ban Ki-moon
  It's hard to find a delegate to the United Nations who despises U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. But it's even harder to find someone who thinks he has the gravitas and charisma of his Nobel Peace Prize-winning predecessor Kofi Annan.

Booman Tribune

• Serious Question
  So, what issues would justify using live ammunition on peaceful protestors? This question applies to the United States of America, not Libya. Discuss
• History Lesson for Ricky Santorum
  Rick Santorum probably has no idea who Saladin and King Richard I of England were, or that they once went head to head in battle. For a while Richard the Lion-Hearted had the edge and he made a deal with Saladin to spare the lives of 2,700 residents of Acre. When Saladin couldn't keep his end o ...
• Arizona's Continued Downward Spiral
  When the AZGOP dropped SB1070 onto the heads of migrant and Latino communities, there were immediate calls for a boycott. Rep. Raúl Grijalva bravely joined the movement, putting his political future at risk but ultimately won his reelection in November 2010. Unfortunately, that election also s ...
• Holder, Obama Won't Defend DOMA
  How are so-called progressive bloggers going to explain this one? The administration is refusing to defend Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in court, which leaves it up to Congress to defend their law on their own. Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs FOR IMMEDIA ...
• Nice Prank
  Governor Walker talks to David Koch on the phone (or, so he thinks): Pwned. Discuss

European Tribune

• A critique of the ECB's liquidity policies
  My views on the ECB's policies get airtime on Eurointelligence: A critique of the ECBs...
• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch ...
  �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europe on this date in history:1848 - Louis-Philippe is...
• Libya - 23-24 February
  A new thread for events in Libya and protest movements elsewhere....
• Wednesday Open Thread
  Have a quiet word...
• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch ...
  �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europeans on this date in history:1898 - �mile Zola,...

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

• After Student Suicide, Too Many Schools Take t ...
  A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Two Ohio State University professors of Counselor Education say that when a student commits suicide, many schools inadvertently react in a potentially harmful way. It’s natural to want to cancel school for a day while students mourn, to hold ceremonies and memorial ...
• Depression the Leading Cause of College Dropou ...
  A GoodTherapy.org News Summary An estimated 40% of students who begin college don’t graduate from their initial school within six years. While some take longer or transfer to a different institution, a great deal of these students drop out altogether. Seeking to learn the causes behind college d ...
• Part One: What Are We Gonna Do With All This H ...
  By Judith Barr, MS, LPC, Power: Healing to the Root Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Judith and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile On January 8, 2011, there was a tragic massacre in Tucson, Arizona. A young man tried to assassinate Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords and kill ...
• Tips to Reboot Your Weight Loss Program
  By Marta Rocha, MHCI Click here to contact Marta and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile The New Year is in motion and how are you doing with your New Year’s resolution weight loss goals? Did you do well for a few weeks and now you are feeling depressed because you haven’t been able to stick with ...
• What’s Wrong With Me?
  By Norma Lee M.A., M.D., Cancer Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Norma and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile “Anna” is a 48 year-old woman who finished chemotherapy for ovarian cancer about a month ago. She came to see me because she was feeling “kind of depressed” and had very li ...

Mountaintop Removal

• Assessing the Human Impacts of Mountaintop Rem ...
  Assessing the Human Impacts of Mountaintop Removal Mining Gant Daily Mountaintop removal mining, a particularly destructive form of surface mining which involves literally blasting away the tops of mountains to get at the coal reserves below, has become the dominant land-use issue ... Jeff Bigg ...
• Coal River film to have WV premiere Saturday - ...
  Coal River film to have WV premiere Saturday West Virginia Public Broadcasting February 24, 2011 · A documentary film on mountaintop removal coal mining, featuring some well-known West Virginia activists will have its state premiere Saturday at the Appalachian Film Festival in Huntington. ... ...
• Crackdown on Mountaintop Removal Mining Taking ...
  Crackdown on Mountaintop Removal Mining Taking a Hit? WDTV The Obama Administration's crackdown on mountaintop removal has taken a hit in the US House with the passage of a spending bill that blocks such initiatives. Four major coal-related amendments made it into the bill, which still faces st ...
• Jeff Biggers: Why West Virginia can't wait - C ...
  Jeff Biggers: Why West Virginia can't wait Charleston Gazette But in joining other protesters in this extraordinary sit-in to halt reckless mountaintop removal mining -- including a coal miner and inspector who dedicated 40 years of his life to the industry, a Harlan County activist whose broth ...
• Drawing the Line on Western Coal Exports - It' ...
  Drawing the Line on Western Coal Exports It's Getting Hot In Here That means no mountaintop removal coal mining, no coal plants and no coal exports. Today, RAN joined in Salt Lake City with our friends in Peaceful Uprising, Utah Moms for Clean Air and the International Brotherhood of Boilermake ...

Memeorandum

• Union Thuggery Descends On FreedomWorks (Tabit ...
  Tabitha Hale / RedState: Union Thuggery Descends On FreedomWorks  —  Today, union thugs descended on the FreedomWorks office.  It was the middle of the day, and there was some excitement outside as all the buses pulled up and people started to fill the courtyard.  We decided to go out and show ...
• WikiLeaks founder must face Swedish rape alleg ...
  Guardian: WikiLeaks founder must face Swedish rape allegations  —  WikiLeaks founder handed verdict at Belmarsh magistrates court  —  Follow reactions to the ruling on our live blog  —  The WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is to be extradited to Sweden to face allegations of rape and sexual ass ...
• Neither Party Has Edge on Federal Budget Deali ...
  Lydia Saad / Gallup: Neither Party Has Edge on Federal Budget Dealings  —  Americans favor compromise over budget shutdown by 2-to-1 margin  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Americans are closely divided over whether the Republicans in Congress (42%) or President Obama and the Democrats (39%) are doing the b ...
• Obama Sits Out State Fights (Jonathan Weisman/ ...
  Jonathan Weisman / Wall Street Journal: Obama Sits Out State Fights  —  President Barack Obama, after initially lending his support to organized labor, has stepped back from the fights spreading in state capitals from Wisconsin to Tennessee, leaving union officials divided about his tactics.  ...
• Capuano 'bloody' comment becomes flashpoint in ...
  Kyle Cheney / Boston Herald: Capuano ‘bloody’ comment becomes flashpoint in union flap  —  U.S. Rep. Michael Capuano expressed regret Wednesday for his choice of words at a Tuesday rally to support Wisconsin workers, after national and local Republicans pounced on him for “over-the-top and infl ...

Energy & Environment News

• Green: Reading Deep in Climate Science
  "The Warming Papers" is a rich feast for anyone who wants to trace the history of climate science from its earliest origins to the present.
• I.H.T. Special Report: Energy: Iraq Struggles ...
  The country's target of a fivefold increase in oil production this decade may be unrealistic give the hurdles that have to be cleared, but half that amount may be achievable.
• I.H.T. Special Report: Energy: Is Natural Gas ...
  It may be cleaner than oil or coal, but skeptics say it is still far from ideal and it may drain investments in better alternatives like wind and solar energy.
• I.H.T. Special Report: Energy: Singapore Looks ...
  The city-state is a center for oil trading in Asia, but it’s storage capacity is reaching its limits, leading it to create new spaces, like the Jurong caves.
• Oil Companies Plan Evacuations From Libya
  While oil groups said the financial effect of the disruptions should be limited, investors feared that unrest could hamper production and exploration.

5+ quakes - 7 days

• M 5.1, offshore Bio-Bio, Chile
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• M 5.4, Tonga
  Thursday, February 24, 2011 03:01:16 UTCThursday, February 24, 2011 05:01:16 PM at epicenterDepth: 117.50 km (73.01 mi)
• M 5.5, South Island of New Zealand
  Tuesday, February 22, 2011 01:50:29 UTCTuesday, February 22, 2011 02:50:29 PM at epicenterDepth: 9.60 km (5.97 mi)
• M 5.6, South Island of New Zealand
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• M 6.3, South Island of New Zealand
  Monday, February 21, 2011 23:51:43 UTCTuesday, February 22, 2011 12:51:43 PM at epicenterDepth: 5.00 km (3.11 mi)

China Dialogue

• “China must measure happiness”
  To sustain the benefits of China’s rapid ascension, politicians should broaden their policy goals, writes leading economist Hu Angang, setting out his prescription for a national happiness index.In the years after the Second World War, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) established itself as the main ...
• Famine to feast
  Cars, holidays and hamburgers are transforming lives in urban China, with far-reaching consequences for the nation’s health. In an extract from his new book, Karl Gerth considers the changing role of food.Does the world need tens of millions of obese Chinese?  This question gets at a central di ...
• The dangers of happiness
  Economic growth may be an imperfect measure of human progress, but well-being indices are worse, writes Paul Ormerod. They furnish policymakers with misleading data – and an excuse to restrict our liberties.The idea that government policy should be focused more explicitly on promoting happiness ...
• Restoring the balance
  Tim Jackson is a sustainability adviser to the British government and the author of Prosperity without Growth, a controversial rebuttal of GDP-focused notions of success. He explains his philosophy to Tan Copsey.Tan Copsey: Why does Europe need to move away from existing growth-focused economies ...
• Towards sustainable capitalism
  The effort to reconcile climate economics with market forces has so far stalemated, but Jonathon Porritt and David Bent say there is a sustainable business model that works.The world’s financial markets are still very fragile, with economic recovery in Europe and the United States tentative and ...

AlterNet Top Stories

• Are Your Bonds Safe?
  “Last year I invested in a bond fund and now I’ve lost money. What happened? I thought bonds were supposed to be safe investments!”Recently several people have asked me this same question. Given the turbulent economic times we’re (hopefully!) coming out of, it’s understandable that folks want to ...
• Yes Maggie Gallagher, you are bigoted and NOM ...
  These days, it’s relatively easy to be a talking head on news programs. Just find some sucker with a lot of money willing to fund you,  created an organization with an important sounding name, give yourself an important sounding but meaningless title (senior fellow, research analyst, president ...
• Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann Would Call 18 ...
  Right-wing efforts to cast passive government, unfettered markets, and wholesale tax resistance as the founding values of ordinary America have very little basis.
• Are We Watching a Twitter Revolution in the Mi ...
  It seems that Al Jazeera on the one hand and social media on the other have locked into a highly effective feedback loop that is truly explosive.
• Uprising Spreads: Montanans Protest Republican ...
  In Montana protesters are challenging plans, which they say cut health, environmental and labor programs to pay for corporate tax cuts.

Threat Level

• British Court Orders Wikileaks’ Assange Extrad ...
  A British court Thursday ordered Wikileaks founder Julian Assange extradited to Sweden to face sex charges. His attorneys immediately said they would appeal the decision, a process which could take months. The Australian reported that Assange, 39, “showed no emotion when the judge issued his ver ...
• Tools of Tradecraft: The CIA’s Historic Spy Ki ...
• Donations Pour in for PS3 Hacker
  George Hotz is in the middle of what could be a long, punishing legal battle with Sony, and his money is running out. “Media, I need your help. This is the first time I have ever asked. Please, if you support this cause, help me out and spread the word,” he wrote on his newest [...]
• Feds Appeal Warrantless-Wiretapping Defeat
  The Obama administration is appealing the first — and likely only — lawsuit resulting in a ruling against the National Security Agency’s secret warrantless-surveillance program adopted in the wake of the 2001 terror attacks. A San Francisco federal judge in December awarded $20,400 each to tw ...
• Book Excerpt: Kingpin — How One Hacker Took Ov ...
  Published Tuesday, the new book by Wired.com senior editor Kevin Poulsen tells the story of Max Vision, a white hat computer hacker who turned to the dark side. Among other things, Max stole credit card data — “dumps” — on millions of consumers, which he sold in bulk to a card counterfeiter nam ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

• Gaddafi to address residents of west Libya tow ...
  DUBAI, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Libya's leader Muammar Gaddafi will "shortly" address residents of the town of Az-Zawiyah, 50 km (30 miles) west of the capital Tripoli, Al-Arabiya television reported on Thursday.
• Oil surges towards $120 as Libya unrest cuts s ...
  LONDON (Reuters) - Oil surged more than 7.5 percent to its highest since August 2008 on Thursday on concern unrest in Libya could spread to other major oil producers in the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia.
• Stock futures down as oil prices rally on Liby ...
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stock index futures fell on Thursday, signaling another down day on Wall Street, as oil continued to rally on turmoil in Libya, denting investor sentiment.
• UPDATE 1-Apple to host event, iPad 2 in the wi ...
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• Analysis: Revolt in Libya likely to scar its o ...
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Regardless of what comes next in Libya's lethal political standoff, the OPEC country's oil sector is nearly certain to suffer, bringing long-lasting supply disruptions or even permanent damage.

IntelNews

• Media concealed agent’s CIA capacity at US req ...
  Several American news outlets withheld information about the CIA capacity of a US citizen who was arrested in Pakistan last month after killing two men. Continue reading →
• News you may have missed #478
  Israel and Chile collaborated to spy on Iran and Venezuela. Korean spies broke into Indonesian delegation's hotel room. High-ranking Libyan pilots defect to Malta. Continue reading →
• American held in Pakistan is acting CIA statio ...
  A British and a Pakistani newspaper have confirmed that an American diplomat, who is being held in Pakistan for killing two armed men in Lahore, is in reality an employee of the Central Intelligence Agency. Continue reading →
• News you may have missed #477 (Germany edition ...
  German ex-foreign minister in spat with ex-CIA director. German spy chief claims Mubarak to stay in Egypt [unconfirmed]. Austrian on trial in Germany on charges of spying for Russia. Continue reading →
• Colin Powell wants answers over fake Iraq inte ...
  Regular readers of this blog will not be surprised by recent news that the Iraqi defector whose information helped build the Bush Administrationâs case for invading Iraq in 2003, has admitted he lied about Saddam Husseinâs alleged weapons of mass destruction. Continue reading →

War is a Crime.org

• From Afghanistan: We Support the People of Wis ...
  We Afghans Are All Bouazizi By Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers Afghan youth are quietly encouraged by the Egyptian uprising because the people of Afghanistan want what the people of Egypt want. We are all Bouazizi. We want dignified livelihoods. Dare any scientist prove to us that 30 years of wa ...
• Doreen Hicks: “Healthcare is a Human Right!”
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• IRAQ LETTER: “Armed with a calming demeanor, p ...
  IRAQ LETTER: �Armed with a calming demeanor, plastic flowers, white vests, and white cloth, approximately eighty White Group members formed a semicircle around the square.� From CPT Approximately 4000 to 5000 demonstrators gathered today at Freedom Square in the city center of Suleimaniya. �Th ...
• Mary Bottari & Mark Pocan: National Implicatio ...
• An Altered Ocean
  Scientists Forecast an Altered Ocean � February 23, 2011 - At the National Press Club Wednesday morning, scientists showed a video of an ocean teeming with wildlife: colorful coral, crabs, sea anemone and bright orange starfish. The video underscored some not-so-new, but still sobering, news. If ...

Grist - News

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

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Time - Top Stories

• As Goes Wisconsin... So Goes the Nation
  Why the crusade to change the bargain between government and its employees is spreading
• Among Libya's Prisoners: Interviews with Merce ...
  TIME's correspondent in Libya comes across a group of alleged Gaddafimercenaries. But many may turn out to be just more of Gaddafi's victims
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Farming Pathogens

• Egypt’s Food Pyramids
  A million minds momentarily magnetizing themselves along the same axis can turn a country’s deepest despair into an ecstatic sprint for freedom. What a people find revolting–a dictator decorated in American apologia–can be turned by a people’s revolt ridiculous. No wonder so much effort (and mon ...
• The Scientific American
  Science is the business right now. If the science works, the business works, and vice versa. –Craig Venter Bird flu marinates a chicken in its own juices, a satay best avoided whatever the menu special. In such short an order better for the bistro than the barn, infected birds rapidly bleed from ...
• Fearful Symmetry
  A colleague, genuinely perplexed, even outraged, asked me what the fuck was going on with all those dead birds in Arkansas. And, tongue-in-cheek, what would Mulder and Scully say? Scully: Mulder, it’s me. I got your message. Really, Beebe, Arkansas for a flock of dead birds? Does Skinner approve ...
• The Great Recession Flu
  Swine flu is so 2009. Like La Roux and v-neck t-shirts. And yet the United Kingdom is presently suffering a swine flu attack worse than anything it faced in 2009. The number of flu patients in intensive care has risen by 60 per cent in the past week to 738, four times greater than at [...]
• Alien vs. Predator
  Dallas: [looks at a pen being dissolved by alien's body fluid] I haven’t seen anything like that except, uh, molecular acid. Brett: It must be using it for blood. Parker: It’s got a wonderful defense mechanism. You don’t dare kill it. –Alien (1979) NASA announced earlier this month one of its re ...

Suzie-Q

• AFL-CIO Poll: Scott Walker Overreaching In WI, ...
  AFL-CIO poll: Scott Walker overreaching in WI, respondents side with unions by- DemFromCT  for Daily Kos Tue Feb 22, 2011 at 09:30 AM EST A new pair of AFL-CIO polls out from GQRR show support for the protestors and dropping numbers for Gov Scott Walker.  Mark Blumenthal covers the issue: New po ...
• How the Democrats Killed Roosevelt’s Dream of ...
  By Robert Scheer | TruthDig | Posted on Feb 17, 2011 Editor’s note: The following excerpt from Robert Scheer’s book “The Great American Stickup” details the perversion of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. This is especially relevant given news that the Obama administration is abandoning those institut ...
• Common Sense
  By Kathy Malloy | OpEdNews | February 21, 2011 at 18:26:30 There’s a lesson to be learned, Truthseekers, from our former countrymen in Great Britain. The media here isn’t covering this, for obvious reasons, but England is experiencing a very different kind of Tea Party uprising and we would do w ...
• Updates On Libya And Bahrain
  Bahrain/Libya Update Firedoglake- By: David Dayen Monday February 21, 2011 7:50 am Let’s play a little catchup on the two most deadly flashpoints in the Arab uprising right now. In Bahrain, scene of a dastardly attack on protesters while they slept in Pearl Square, the attempt at repression back ...
• The Fortune Behind Scott Walker’s Union-Bustin ...
  How John Birch Society Extremism Never Dies: The Fortune Behind Scott Walker’s Union-Busting Campaign Think Progress- By Lee Fang at 10:00 am Over 68,000 people have mobilized in Madison and progressive organizers are planning solidarity efforts across the country to denounce Gov. Scott Walker’s ...

Solari

• Catherine on Her Soapbox
  [Note from CAF: I published this on January 7, 2010. I am republishing as I feel like saying it again!] By Catherine Austin Fitts I would like to propose a contrary theory to the dire views of those looking behind the veil of recent economic statistics. First, if you look at the amount of money ...
• Monsanto Shifts ALL Liability to Farmers
  By Cassandra Anderson Farmers like genetically modified (GM) crops because they can plant them, spray them with herbicide and then there is very little maintenance until harvest. Farmers who plant Monsanto’s GM crops probably don’t realize what they bargain for when they sign the Monsanto Techn ...
• Defiant Gaddafi Vows to Die as Martyr, Fight R ...
  By Tripoli A defiant Muammar Gaddafi said on Tuesday he was ready to die “a martyr” in Libya, vowing to crush a growing revolt which has seen eastern regions break free of his 41-year rule and brought deadly unrest to the capital. Swathed in brown robes, Gaddafi seethed with anger and banged th ...
• Split in Economy Keeps Lid on Prices
  By Jon Hilsenrath and Justin Lahart The pace of consumer price increases in the U.S. is quickening after being dormant for months. But a tug of war between the prices of goods and the prices of services, playing out beneath the surface, could keep inflation from becoming the worry it is in Chin ...
• From Cairo to Madison, Some Pizza
  By Meredith Shiner 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 Street — a campus sta ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

• Times Scare
  ISLAMABAD–The apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job ...
• Stepping up - University at Buffalo The Spectr ...
  Stepping up University at Buffalo The Spectrum The president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, recognized the direness of the situation and began to mobilize military forces to combat the Taliban. ... and more��
• Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of ...
  BBC News Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women Chicago Tribune Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own Taliban insurgency? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line of thinking must ... Vietnam syndrome has begun in AfghanistanSri Lank ...
• Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United P ...
  Officials: Campus blasts perplexing United Press International ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique Pakistani institution ... and more��
• Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA ...
  Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing GMA news.tv An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the border between ... and more��

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

• Right-Wing Group Funded By the Kochs Ratchets ...
  Americans for Prosperity is taking an active role in Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's campaign to destroy state workers' collective bargaining rights.
• Leaked Intel Memo Directs Police to Pipe Down ...
  After some embarrassing incidents, authorities are teaching cops to keep a low profile online.
• Haitians Fear the “Death Se ...
  More cholera is imminent with the rainy season’s approach. “It’s a disaster area -- you don’t deport people in there, you try to get them out!â€
• New McCarthyism: Right-Wingers in Congress Tar ...
  McCarthy targeted people's identities and affiliations, not their actions, which destroyed innocent people's careers, spread a culture of fear and failed to make the US safer.
• Labor Uprising: The "Last Stand" Aga ...
  American elites have turned their attention to the last bastion of organized labor, the public sector unions. The protests in Wisconsin shows it won't be so easy.

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

• We are what we read. The Davis affair teaches ...
  The coverage of the Raymond Davis affair in Pakistan tells us much about America’s ability to see and process information.  The US news media, as usual these days, plays lapdog for the US government.  Most of the coverage on US websites give mostly speculation, often by people with no relevan ...
• More invisible signs of looming US inflation!
  Summary:  The inflationista’s are (again) hysterically sounding alarms about looming US inflation.  Or even hyperinflation.  Let’s review the data.  Can we see serious inflation?  No.  These fears are to a large extent fanned for political purposes.  Left and Right both see that America ...
• The Marine Corps Today, Tonight, and Tomorrow
  Summary:  G.I. Wilson and H. Thomas Hayden explain why America needs a Marine Corps.  As GW said before, “The USMC’s future lies its creative intellect, professionalism in the study and application of maneuver warfare, and delivering what the Nation needs post in a crisis be it humanitarian reli ...
• Updates on the Raymond Davis affair
  Summary:  A follow-up to The Raymond Davis incident shows that we’re often ignorant because we rely on the US news media.  Much interesting news.  Little of it appears in the US newspapers; our leaders prefer that we remain ignorant.  How sad that the people of Pakistan know more about this stor ...
• The Pentagon Labyrinth: 10 Short Essays to Hel ...
  Summary:   Here is an announcement by Chuck Spinney of a new book of interest to anyone who desires to better understand American’s defense apparatus — the largest investment ever made by our government. It is my pleasure to announce the publication of The Pentagon Labyrinth: 10 Short Essays ...

Open Your Eyes News

• ‘Israeli mercenaries in Kenya’
  Press TV – Kenyan lawmakers have strongly condemned Israel for dispatching mercenaries and spreading political unrest in the east African country, a report says. The lawmakers say the mercenaries of Israeli origin were planning to assassinate high-profile political figures and target key governm ...
• Wall Street cash bonuses down 8%
  BBC – Cash bonuses for Wall Street bankers fell by 8% to an average $128,530 (£79,259) in 2010, according to New York state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli. “Cash bonuses are down, but that’s not an indicator of a weakness on Wall Street,” said Mr DiNapoli. In fact, overall compensation, including ...
• 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 ...

The Progressive Realist

• Desperation in Libya
  As reports circulate that the vast majority of Libya is in the hands of the opposition, Gaddafi blames al-Qaeda and drug-addled youth for the revolution: Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader, has said in a speech on Libyan state television that al-Qaeda is responsible for the uprising in Libya. " ...
• Soros is Wrong: the Islamic Republic will Surv ...
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• Israel and Palestine on Same Page at UN Condem ...
  Leave it to Muammar Qaddafi to bring together the Israelis and Palestinians at the United Nations. I have just obtained the copy of a draft resolution from the Human Rights Council that strongly condemns the violence in Libya. The resolution is as strongly worded as they come. But what is more ...
• Egypt, Democracy and Foreign Policy
  One of the major points of speculation about the impact of the Egyptian uprising is over how a democratic government in Cairo will affect Egypt's foreign policy, in particular regarding Israel. A just-released Ifop poll of French opinion on the Afghanistan War (via Jean-Dominique Merchet) highli ...
• Arms Exporters React to Middle East Unrest
  Source: ABC News Arms suppliers have scrambled to readjust their export policies in the face of political unrest against client governments in the Middle East and North Africa. Germany, France, and the United Kingdom, the three largest exporters of arms within the European Union (EU), in addit ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

• The Audacity of the Olive Complexioned.
  On Tuesday the Kansas House voted 72-50 to approve the repeal a 2004 law that allows undocumented students to be recognized as state residents and pay in-state tuition at Kansas state and community colleges. The bill has since moved to the Senate and groups like the Kansas/Missouri Dream Allianc ...
• The American Prospect Announces New Editor
  Miles S. Rapoport, president of The American Prospect magazine, today announced that Kit Rachlis will become the magazine's new editor.Rachlis' career in journalism spans almost 30 years, during which time he has been an editor at The Village Voice, the LA Weekly, the Los Angeles Times and mos ...
• Lightning Round: Shockingly, Rich People are a ...
  Ezra Klein is right that the significance of the Koch prank call to Scott Walker is that certain interest groups have the governor's ear, any time, all the time. But the issue here is how "special" became a pejorative way of describing what is a dominant feature of our political system. As alwa ...
• Ah, the Bush Years
  When you're on the outside of a large, complex institution, particularly one that is largely opaque, it's tempting to believe that the people inside the institution know all kinds of things you don't. They're at the center of things, they're getting the inside scoop, they see levels you don't ev ...
• Government Shutdown? Don't Count on It
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Buzzflash

• Bahrain's People's Revolution Heralds New Hist ...
  HUSAIN ABDULLA FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Within a week of the launching of the people's revolution in Bahrain, the number of martyrs has reached eight, all murdered in cold blood by the riot police and soldiers. Since the first peaceful demonstration at sunrise on Monday, February 14 (Bahrain's ...
• Creative Corporate Coddling Comes to South Dak ...
  SHIRLEY FREDERICK FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT South Dakota, a state that takes care of its corporations, has taken coddling to a new level in the current legislative session. In the guise of saving money the Republican-controlled legislature is pushing SB 158, a bill that would suspend state regul ...
• Shame on America
  LUKE HIKEN FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT I am simply appalled at how numbed and dumbed down the American people have become. For the last many years, mercenaries and frustrated Pentagon hawks, furious over their lack of adequate battlefields upon which to ply their trade have found defenseless popul ...
• Egyptian Workers' Unfinished Revolution
  CARL FINAMORE FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT CAIRO-Exactly one week after the abrupt resignation of Egypt's President Mosni Mubarak shook the country and the world, another series of tremors occurred on Friday, February 18. In a clear signal that Egypt's revolution is not over, millions of newly ene ...
• How Workers Can Win in Wisconsin
  SHAMUS COOKE FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT The eruption of protests in Madison, Wisconsin against a rabidly anti-union governor and legislature has become "ground zero" in a fight that, on the surface, appears to be labor unions vs. Republicans.  Digging deeper will reveal a conflict brewing for ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

• Torture prosecutions and aid to Israel
  Debating universal jurisdiction and the Middle East with former Bush speechwriter David Frum
• The NYT's journalistic obedience
  The paper of record once again withholds key information because the government tells it to
• This week in winning hearts and minds
  Four incidents from the last week alone highlight why there is intense anti-American sentiment in the Muslim world
• U.S. Justice v. the world
  Federal judge throws out claims Rumsfeld and other Bush officials violated Constitutional rights. Only in America
• Serious doubt cast on FBI's anthrax case again ...
  A scientific panel concludes the Government overstated its genetic evidence against Bruce Ivins

The BiPartisan Report

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

Sciencebase

• Six slick science picks
  Science video widget – Shortform offered me a sneak preview of their video widget, which allows users to embed a video channel into their blog. Contraceptive pill not to blame for feminized fish – Despite claims that excreted contraceptive hormones are causing endocrine disruption in aquatic ani ...
• Five picks from the science news
  Fix your H, increase citations and get more grant money – Citations have become the currency of science, which is used to reward scientists and scientific institutions. Small variations in citation scores can make millions of pounds difference in the financial outcomes of national Research Asses ...
• Can we count on journal metrics?
  How do you rank science, how do you rate scientists, what kudos do you give their papers and what metrics do you attach to the impact of a paper? They’re questions as old as the scientific literature itself. But, no one has resolved them. Independent organisations and publishers have attempted w ...
• The perils of ranking
  Today, I discovered I was listed on a Top 100 of UK Twitter users by The Independent newspaper based on the algorithm from PeerIndex. I was #47, since you ask, same as Armando Iannucci. It’s not that long since I made it on to a similar PeerIndex list published elsewhere. It’s all very flatterin ...
• Heptastic science news
  The full list: The Twitter 100 – Its 200 million users share 110 million messages a day – and if you don't know who rules the twittersphere, you don't understand the 21st-century world. This guide is a definitive who's who of the UK's tweet elite. Although for some reason they included me on the ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

• Coalition Protests Ambre Energy’s Push for Coa ...
  Today a coalition of local air quality, climate and labor groups confronted Ambre Energy at the company’s U.S. headquarters in downtown Salt Lake City. Australia’s Ambre Energy has found itself the center of controversy as it begins a major push to build the U.S.’s first west coast facility for ...
• Equality California Issues Statement on Federa ...
  Today the American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER) filed a motion asking the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to lift the stay on U.S. District Court Judge Walker’s ruling in the Perry v. Schwarzenegger case, which would enable same-sex couples to marry. AFER is also requesting that the Califor ...
• Polls Show Voters in Michigan and Montana Stil ...
  Amid a push in Montana to repeal the state’s medical marijuana law and litigation related to some aspects of Michigan’s law, new polls show that voters in both states still overwhelmingly support allowing patients to use medical marijuana with doctors’ recommendations. In Montana on Monday, the ...
• EU Succumbs to U.S. Pressure on GM Contaminati ...
  Today, the head of Brussels-based Food & Water Europe and Washington D.C.-based Food & Water Watch denounced a recent EU Animal Committee vote to permit animal feed contaminated with genetically modified organisms (GMOs) as “spectacularly shortsighted.” The EU committee responsible for animal he ...
• Task Force Responds to Obama Administration's ...
  The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force applauds the Obama administration's announcement calling on the Department of Justice not to defend the discriminatory, so-called "Defense of Marriage Act" (DOMA). In a letter to Congress and a statement released today, Attorney General Eric Holder conclud ...

Common Dreams-Views

• US Uncut: A Progressive Response to Economic ...
  Sharon Delgado Around the country, cutbacks are being proposed and pushed through with great speed, as a kind of shock therapy to the economy, as Naomi Klein describes in her book Shock Doctrine.  But hold on—progressive groups, inspired b ...
• Poor Women Pay the Price in the Right’s War on ...
  Anika Rahman On Friday, February 18, the U.S. House of Representatives dealt a crushing blow to the health and well-being of millions of women across America: in a 240-185 vote, the the House approved H.R. 1 -- also known the Pence Amendme ...
• From Middle East to Madison, Justice Depends o ...
  Jay Walljasper The influence of the new digital commons in democratic uprisings from Tunisia to Egypt to Bahrain has been chronicled at length in news reports from the Middle East, with Facebook, twitter and other social media winning prai ...
• The Tunisia Effect
  Robert C. Koehler On one weekend in February of 2003, an estimated 10 million people in 60 countries took to the streets to protest the looming Iraq war. Never before in history had there been such massive, public opposition to a war befor ...
• The Year of Revolution: The “War on Tyranny” R ...
  Andy Worthington 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 th ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

• General Petraeus and ISAF, Blaming the Victims ...
  By Derrick Crowe General Petraeus and his public relations team reportedly engaged in a scummy attempt to deflect blame for an alleged civilian casualty event on Sunday, suggesting that Afghan parents caught in the crossfire of a coalition raid burned their own children to incriminate inter ...
• Polizeros Radio Tonight 10.30pm Central
  By Steve Hynd As usual every Thursday at 10.30 pm Central Time, I'll be podcasting with Josh Mull of Rethink Afghanistan & the Seminal and Bob Morris of Polizeros. The main topic tonight, as it has been for the last few weeks, will be events in the Middle East, as dominos fall. We'll also be tal ...
• What 'Strategic Relationship' With Pakistan?
  By Steve Hynd Michael Cohen has a good post today looking at what the Raymond Davis affair tells us about America's relationship with supposed key ally Pakistan in the "War on Terror", and gives us a precis of the true state of play. shall we catalog for a moment all the ways in which Pakistan i ...
• Afghanistan, After The Happy Talk
  By Steve Hynd I've noted often before that the "happy-talk" coming out of the US military about Afghanistan is more about message massaging the US public than about actual success. Today, three different stories underline just how true that is. Firstly, and perhaps most importantly, the Internat ...
• On Anniversary of Marjah Push, Escalation Stra ...
  By Derrick Crowe Exactly one year ago, on February 13, 2010, the U.S.-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan launched the first major military operations enabled by President Obama's 30,000 troop increase. President Obama and the high priests of counterinsurgency warfa ...

Water Wars

• RICOCHET:|: Water wars
  THE RECENT escalation of oil costs in the world market shocked governments and shook even the most stable economies. The dependence of the world on the fluid called oil has shaped international political structures and created new economic powers. Because of that dependence, oil is a precious co ...
• New Reservoirs Proposed to Help Ease Water War ...
  Local governments or Governor Nathan Deal's administration could contract with private partners to build reservoirs in Georgia under legislation proposed by state lawmakers.
• Summit Series Films Continue
  KENT—Two more films remain in the 2011 Kent Environmental Summit film series. Feb. 15 brings “Blue Gold: World Water Wars,” which describes the privatization of water in an era when water is becoming more and more scarce.
• Senator says water wars Georgia's #1 issue
  Senator Saxby Chambliss says Governor Nathan Deal's federal perspective will help in Georgia's water issue.
• Summit Series Films Continue
  KENT—Two more films remain in the 2011 Kent Environmental Summit film series. Feb. 15 brings “Blue Gold: World Water Wars,” which describes the privatization of water in an era when water is becoming more and more scarce.

WordPress | Economics

• On Greed
  Greed is an addiction to money.  It is a disease no different than an addiction to alcohol, or any o
• $100 Oil Is Devil’s Due For Drilling Bans
  Investor’sDaily.comEnergy: President Obama talks much of moving to sustainable energy. But as
• WEEKLY DISPATCH: Making Climate Change Happen, ...
  BY BEN HABIB. Mohandas “Mahatma” Ghandi once famously exhorted his countrymen to “be the change you
• George Soros And The Force
  George Soros And The Force by R.E. Prindle http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/soros-murdoch-beck-fox
• The Machinery of Freedom (6.5)
  This book is too long. It is a little outdated, written in the late 1960′s and early 1970

Electronic Intifada

• Gaddafi follows path of ousted dictators
  CAIRO (IPS) - The brutal response by Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi against pro-democracy protestors in the country indicates his determination not to leave office without a blo ...
• Why I tried to arrest Avigdor Lieberman
  If apartheid is a crime, there is only one way to treat its practitioners: arrest them. That is precisely what I tried to do when I confronted Avigdor Lieberman, the ar ...
• Libya's tragedy, Gaddafi's farce
  If you think Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is stupid, much less crazy, think twice. He was the first to sense and assess correctly the ripple effects of what happened in Tunisi ...
• Report exposes proliferation of rights abuses ...
  WASHINGTON (IPS) - A leading human rights group released a report Monday documenting the proliferation of human rights abuses in Iraq since the United States' invasion in 2003. ...
• Gaza reconstruction held hostage to politics
  Controversy has arisen between the Hamas-led government and the United Nations agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) during the past few weeks over stalled reconstruction in th ...

Afghanistan Sun

• US Christian leaders seek Obama's help to ...
  Christian leaders in the United States have sought President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's help for the release of Said Musa, who could be put to death in Afghanistan for ...
• NATO's Afghan night raids come with high ...
  SURKH ROD, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A few minutes and a few bullets were enough to turn Abdullah from an 11th grade student with dreams of becoming a translator to the despairing head of a family of ...
• Suicide bomber kills Afghan intelligence offic ...
  KABUL, Afghanistan -; A suicide bomber blew himself up Thursday in southern Afghanistan, killing one Afghan intelligence service officer and wounding more than two dozen other people. As tens of ...
• Did Davis double-cross US as recruitment point ...
  Pakistan came out during investigations, 'The Express Tribune' reported quoting an unnamed senior official of Punjab Police. "Davis was instrumental in recruiting young people from ...
• NATO asks Ukraine to send military instructors ...
  NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Thursday the alliance has asked Ukraine to consider allocating military instructors to help train Afghan security forces. The NATO chief arrived ...

Futurismic

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

geopolitics | geoeconomics

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

• DSS Director: Defense Security Service "Remiss ...
  By Nick Schwellenbach “We have been remiss in our fundamental oversight responsibilities to the Department and the U.S. Government,” read suggested talking points for a speech by Stanley Sims, the new Director of the Defense Security Service (DSS), at a...
• Quote of the Day
  By Bryan Rahija The Lexington Institute's Loren Thompson on the defense industry and the Tea Party: “The defense industry doesn’t know what to make of the Tea Party. It is accustomed to dealing with politicians motivated mainly by the desire...
• Morning Smoke: Executing Pentagon Plan to Save ...
  Where there's smoke, there's fire. POGO's Morning Smoke is a collection of the previous day's investigations, scoops, and opinions related to the world of government oversight. Have a story you'd like to see included? Contact POGO's blog editor. Pentagon gambles...
• Legal Document Sheds Light on Latest KBR Fraud ...
  By Neil Gordon On Friday, the Department of Justice announced it had intervened in a False Claims Act lawsuit against KBR filed by a former employee, James A. Brady III, in connection with KBR's LOGCAP III (Logistics Civil Augmentation Program)...
• Special Interest Snow Job
  By Mandy Smithberger Our creative friends at the Sunlight Foundation have put together a game to allow citizens to virtually fight special interests. In the game, "Capitol Defense," players throw snowballs "to stop lobbyists in their tracks and protect Congress's...

Digital Journal

• Canadian Federation of Students launches new s ...
  A new website has been launched by the Canadian Federation of Students, the largest student organization in the country, that calls on the federal government to lower student debt and improve access to post-secondary education.
• The Economist I.U.: Vancouver, BC, world’s mos ...
  Vancouver, British Columbia, is again at the top of the list of world's most livable cities according to an annual survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit.
• Simon Cowell signs 10-year-old Canadian singer
  A 10-year-old Canadian girl became a hit after her mother posted a video of her singing on YouTube and she has now signed a recording deal with Simon Cowell.
• Alleged bank robber wrecks car, gets busted in ...
  On Thursday afternoon York Regional Police were called to the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce at 12943 Highway 27 in the Township of King after a man had reportedly robbed the establishment.
• Four facing numerous kidnapping charges in To ...
  On Friday, February 11 Toronto Police 51 Division Major Crime officers began investigating a kidnapping in Toronto. By the end of the night four were in custody and the victim was safe.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

• UN peacekeeping missions face shortfalls
  The United Nations continues to set new records for the size and complexity of UN peacekeeping operations. But the missions are facing critical shortfalls in key equipment such as helicopters, the UN reports (“UN peacekeeping missions face shortfall of over a third in vital military helicopters, ...
• Be Heard on March 3rd: No Stealth Fighters
  Join us on March 3rd in a national day of action to tell Stephen Harper and your Member of Parliament No Stealth Fighters ! Ahead of the budget and possible elections, it’s more important than ever to be heard and voice your opposition to this multi-billion dollar purchase. The goal of the campa ...
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  Thank you for joining the campaign! Check your inbox shortly for an important message to share with your contacts. Please take a second to follow us on Facebook:
• Campaign Tools: Be Heard on March 3rd – No Ste ...
  Add Campaign Tools to your Website or Blog To add the petition and the banners to your site select the entire code on top of the object you want to appear on your site. Then copy and paste the code into your webpage or blog. Campaign Petition – Printed version (pdf) Leaflet: 10 reasons the [...] ...
• Nonviolence guru cited in Mideast revolutions
  Credit for the “people power” revolutions that have swept longstanding despots out of power in the Middle East and now threaten many similar regimes goes first and foremost to the courageous people in those countries who have taken it upon themselves, often at great personal risk, to demand the ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

• Defiant Crowds Demand Democracy in Bahrain
  February 24th, 2011 AOL News By: Hadeel al-Shalchi Soldiers opened fire Friday on thousands of protesters defying a government ban and streaming toward the landmark square that had been the symbolic center of the uprising to break the political grip of the Gulf nation’s leaders. Officials at the ...
• Dr. R. Geoffrey Broderick – Pet Expert
  Click the picture or link below to hear Kevin’s interview with pet expert, Dr. R. Geoffrey Broderick, and click here to purchase his Super-Food/Phyto-Food combo for your pet today! Dr. R. Geoffrey Broderick on The Kevin Trudeau Show 02/23/11
• The Kevin Trudeau Show: 2-23-11
  Today, pet expert, Dr. Geoffrey Broderick, stops by the show to explain how you can turn your petâs health around and even double its lifespan! Plus, Kevin gives you his predictions about the economy! Self Help: Improve Your Pet’s Health Wealth: Oil Prices On The Rise Home Prices Take Big Hit In ...
• Home Prices Near 2009 Lows — and May Fal ...
  February 23rd, 2011 CNNMoney.com By: Les Christie Home prices took a big hit at the end of 2010, even as the rest of the economy gained steam. National home prices fell 4.1% during the last three months of 2010, compared with 12 months earlier, according to the latest report from the S&P/Case-Sh ...
• Four Americans Captured by Pirates Killed
  February 23rd, 2011 ABC News By: Jim Sciutto, Martha Raddatz and Sarah Netter Four Americans aboard a hijacked yacht off the coast of Somalia were killed by their pirate captors Tuesday, touching off a firefight with a U.S. warship, military officials said. The Americans were sailing the world o ...

Pambazuka News

• Africa: Angola hosts 3rd African meeting on Cu ...
  The third African meeting on Solidarity with Cuba was held in Luanda, Angola, 11-12 September, to consolidate the friendship between the African and Cuban people and contribute to strengthening African solidarity towards the Caribbean island nation. ...
• Global: Afro-Colombian women fight prejudice b ...
  On an improvised stage “Bombón de chocolate” (Chocolate Candy) is being performed. The play, which narrates the story of an African-Colombian girl who feels rejected because of the colour of her skin, is one of the events at a special day on drug add...
• Global: May for the Cuban 5
  The month of May started with a great number of activities in support of the Cuban 5. On May 1st hundreds of thousands of Cubans marched on International Workers Day in Havana and other cities. They were joined by hundreds of internationalists in de...
• African diplomats reject anti-Cuba resolution ...
  The ambassador of the Republic of Congo to Cuba, Pascal Onguemby, rejected the lies included in an anti-Cuba resolution recently approved by the European Parliament. Addressing participants in the inauguration of the Eleventh International Conference...
• Haiti: Where solidarity means survival
  Perhaps more than anything today, Haiti needs a new macro-economy, one based above all on meeting the needs of its citizens. Post-earthquake economic restructuring could include equitable distribution of resources, high levels of employment with fair...

War in Context

• This is an Arab 1848. But US hegemony is only ...
  Tariq Ali writes: The refusal of the people to kiss or ignore the rod that has chastised them for so many decades has opened a new chapter in the history of the Arab nation. The absurd, if much vaunted, neocon notion that Arabs or Muslims were hostile to democracy has disappeared like parchment ...
• Arming democracy’s opponents
  The Daily Telegraph reports: Facing budget cuts at home, western arms firms are desperate for a share of the lucrative Middle East market. “The post-financial crisis reality,” said Herve Guillou, president of Cassidian Systems, a subsidiary of European aviation defence group EADS, “is that toda ...
• Revolutionary fervor in the Gulf
  Kristin Smith Diwan writes: As the GCC foreign ministers huddled in a Bahraini capital seemingly under siege, it is clear that the predicted stability of the oil states is being put to the test. Most analysts believed the Gulf would be spared the wave of rebellion spreading across the Arab Worl ...
• Bill McKibben: chamber of carbon
  Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com Consider it a tale of two speeches and a grim parable for our American moment. On March 24, 2010, Treasury Department Deputy Secretary Neil Wolin arrived for his lunchtime speaking slot at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s impressive headquarters, a sh ...
• The UN’s duty to Libyans
  Carne Ross writes: I spent four and a half years negotiating resolutions on the Middle East at the UN Security Council. When it wishes, the council can make decisions in hours. We agreed a resolution condemning the 9/11 attacks in less than an hour, the morning after the attacks took place. Tim ...

Watts Up With That?

• NASA’s Glory Climate Mission Hits a Snag
  The story below was released yesterday, but the mission has already been postponed once, and, twice. Taurus Delay Extended: 2/23/2011 - VANDENBERG AFB, Calif. – The Taurus launch scheduled for 2:09 a.m. (PST), Feb. 24, has been delayed due to technical issues. The … Continue reading →
• Carbon Trading: on in Australia, off in New Ha ...
  Australia appears to be ready to run down the Carbon Rabbit Hole, from the WUWT Tips and Notes page Richard says: February 23, 2011 at 7:20 pm A PRICE is set to be put on carbon from July 1, 2012, … Continue reading →
• Wild Photos! cougars acting like a pride of li ...
  This is rather offbeat, but it does fit in with the “nature” and “puzzling things” portion of WUWT as indicated in the masthead. These photos were emailed to me by the former Butte County Sheriff, Mick Grey, whom I have … Continue reading →
• The sound of ‘splode: volcanic frequency ...
  From Yale University and the University of British Columbia, an important step forward in being able to forecast explosive volcanic events. Before the explosion — volcano’s warning tremors explained New Haven, Ct. – No matter their size or shape, explosive … Continue reading →
• Gore’s ex “climate community organ ...
  American Thinker: Rats leaving sinking ship: DOE loses a crony capitalist With Republicans controlling the House of Representatives and able to subpoena officials, certain Obama administration officials are heading for the hills. The New York Times reports on the latest … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

• Imperialism and the historical context of the ...
  by Fazal Rahman, Ph.D. Guest Writer Dandelion Salad February 24, 2011 Summary The 1952 Bourgeois Democratic Revolution was launched by the Free Officers Movement of the armed forces against the corrupt and repressive monarchy of King Farouk, under whom Egypt had become the most important lever o ...
• Matt Taibbi: Why Isn’t Wall Street in Ja ...
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Democracy Now! Feb. 22, 2011 “Nobody goes to jail,â writes Matt Taibbi in the new issue of Rolling Stone magazine. âThis is the mantra of the financial-crisis era, one that saw virtually every major bank and financial company on Wall Street embroiled in obsce ...
• The Year of Revolution: The “War on Tyra ...
  by Andy Worthington Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.andyworthington.co.uk 23 February, 2011 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 — pl ...
• Arrest of CIA Agent Sheds Light on American Co ...
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Democracy Now! Feb. 23, 2011 Arrest of CIA Agent Sheds Light on American Covert War in Pakistan, Straining U.S.-Pakistani Relations U.S. officials have admitted an American detained in Pakistan for the murder of two men was a CIA agent and a former employee o ...
• Beltway Buzz: The Upcoming Bipartisan Congress ...
  by Sibel Edmonds Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Originally published by Boiling Frogs Post February 23, 2011 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 ...

Your New Reality

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  I didn't think I'd watch this all the way through, but if you grow some of your own food in the city, well, this is like a vision of some kind of heaven, and 28 minutes just flies by :
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  "I'm George Clooney And I Drank The Bong Water" Actor George Clooney on why he will never run for office : "I fucked too many chicks & did too many drugs." Clooney, 49, said a smart political campaigner would "start from the beginning by saying, 'I did it all. I drank the bong water. Now let ...
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  A screengrab from a photo by Victoria Hazou of the Egyptian Uprising, part of this remarkable Big Picture collection of the January 25 to February 6 protests to force President Hosni Mubarak to quit the presidency and leave the country :
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  Carl Sagan on The Moon : Fox News' Bill O'Reilly on The Moon : Bill O'Reilly's 'premium content' site should be called 'Bill O'Reilly, Master Troll'.
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  Charlie Sheen's response to American media hysteria about his latest drug, booze, hooker & porn star related adventures : (via @Reddit)

Wired - 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 ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

• Sen. Kerry, Syria’s Assad working to renew tal ...
  US Senator John Kerry and Syrian President Bashar Assad reportedly began drafting an unofficial position paper that would define the principles of negotiations with Israel. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade ...
• Asaf Gefen: Let the generals rule
  The sigh of relief in Israel after it turned out that for the time being the Egyptian people are making do with military rule could be heard all the way to Cairo’s Tahrir square. The democratic... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
• Nada Matta: The Egyptian Uprising and Workers’ ...
  The scenes coming from Egypt in the last 18 days are testimony to peoples’ ability to overcome fear through collective action and organization. Against state intimidation and killings, popular... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
• Jonathan Cook: Israeli army will cash in on Eg ...
  The main value of the 1979 Camp David treaty to the Israeli leadership has been three decades of calm on Israel’s south-western flank. That, in turn, has freed the army to concentrate on more... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
• American and Israeli anti-missile system test ...
  The US and Israel have successfully tested Israel’s Arrow 2 ballistic anti-missile system off the coast of California. The joint exercise between Israel Aerospace Industries and the US Missile... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...

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