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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Thursday, February 24, 2011

24 February - RSS SnapShot! Pt 3

18th cent watch-tower, Hatta, UAEImage via Wikipedia

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

Natural Health News

  • 5 Easy Ways to Reduce Your Cell Phone Exposure
    For several years, doctors and activists have been raising concerns about the possible connection between cell phones and brain cancer. And recent research conclusively determined that a cell phone's electromagnetic field can indeed cause changes in brain activity. Time Magazine lists five simp ...
  • Funny Drug Commercial Spoof
    An animated spoof of the pharmaceutical drug commercials by Big Pharma.
  • Could You Grow Food Like this Family?
    The Dervaes family has created a modern suburban homestead that has yielded an entirely new, revolutionary alternative lifestyle.
  • Humans Stink More Than Other Animals
    The body odor that comes from sweaty adult human skin turns out to be unique in the animal kingdom. Humans are particularly smelly because odors are released from nearly every part of your body -- while at the same time, other species living on you are simultaneously emitting odors too. Thi ...
  • Lavender Oil has Potent Antifungal Effect
    Lavender oil could be a weapon in the fight against antifungal-resistant infections. The essential oil shows a potent effect against fungi responsible for common skin and nail infections. Scientists tested lavender oil and found it to be lethal to a range of skin-pathogenic strains known as der ...

Antemedius

  • "End Of America 2011", Porter Stansberry's New ...
    Oh, gods! My brain feels like it is burning. Is the quart of Mia-Tia’s from last night? Is it the allergens blowing in the wind this morning? It is that new position that they wife wanted to try with the trapeze and the mayonnaise? I could only wish it were these things! No it is from giving u ...
  • Obama: Please Go To Wisconsin
    Well, here I go again, oversimplifying, being idealistic, possibly ranting. To all of these I plead guilty. In advance. President Obama's made a few statements about the demonstrations in Wisconsin. The most widely disseminated one is this one, reported in TPM: Well I'd say that I haven't f ...
  • Obama finds DOMA UNconstitutional!!
    From DOJ, a statement by Attorney General Holder says the Obama Administration found the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional and will no longer defend it in court. A Great Day for LGBT! Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, February 23, 2011 ...
  • When The Dam Failure Destroys Bakersfield
    Imagine a scene from a movie. Above the little town the dam looms in the pouring rain. Ominous thunder crackles through the clouds and we see waves lapping over the top of the earth structure, more and more water pours overtop the dam. Cut to another shot, some overworked public service emplo ...
  • Cutting $100 Billion?... Easy: If Only Washing ...
    Originally published at TomDispatch.com Here�s the latest news from Congress, in case you�ve been in Afghanistan for the last couple of weeks.� A debate about slashing the federal budget is now upon us, while fears of a possible government shutdown as spring approaches are on the rise.� The R ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Event on Miranda and Terrorist Suspects
    by Deborah Pearlstein by Deborah Pearlstein In case any one finds themselves in/around Philadelphia on March 5, this event may be of interest: Supreme Court litigators Carter G. Phillips and Kannon Shanmugam will argue a case based on hypothetical federal legislation that exempts police from ...
  • Cybersecurity Conference at Fordham Law
    by Duncan Hollis I'm off to Tokyo for a week, but before I go, I wanted to flag a really interesting looking upcoming conference at Fordham Law School.  It's entitled, Cyber Attacks: International Cybersecurity in the 21st Century and will take place next Friday, February 25, 2011.  The progra ...
  • Event on Miranda and Terrorist Suspects
    by Deborah Pearlstein by Deborah Pearlstein In case any one finds themselves in/around Philadelphia on March 5, this event may be of interest: Supreme Court litigators Carter G. Phillips and Kannon Shanmugam will argue a case based on hypothetical federal legislation that exempts police from ...
  • The Rule of Law as a Condition of Development?
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson A proposition at the center of much international development work in the past decade or more has been the importance of institutions - whether one talks about “good governance” or the “rule of law” or other terms referring to institutions of governance ...
  • Orin Kerr on the Strange Fourth Amendment Case ...
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Orin Kerr is the Fourth Amendment scholar that I definitely am not, so I read with interest his Volokh post this morning on Ashcroft v. Al-Kidd, which the Supreme Court will be hearing next week.  He says it is a strange case for a couple of reasons.  T ...

Investigate - Breaking News

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

My Care2 Picks

  • Anchors Away! The 'Stability' of U.S. Puppet D ...
    P.J.Crowley disingenuous support for freedom of the press as the U.S. cracked down on WikiLeaks and more recently an amazing ability to say nothing while being asked direct questions about the illegality of Israeli colonization of Palestinian landsSubmitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov' ...
  • Why Legalize Marijuana?
    Marijuana does not have the chemical dependency that other drugs have - meaning if there is addiction, it's never physical, the way many prescription drug addictions are.Submitted by John Cause to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • On the Arizona Law Criminalizing Immigrants to ...
    NAFTA allows subsidized corporate U.S. agribusiness to sell in Mexico, which destroyed many of Mexicos small subsistence farms which weren't subsidized. Starving Mexicans farmers move north in desperate search of jobs.U.S. endlessly scapegoats 'illegals'Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & ...
  • Monsanto's Roundup Triggers over 40 Plant Dise ...
    Monsanto Roundup is killing non GM crops, annihilating beneficial soil organisms and Monsanto forces farmers who purchase GM Roundup Ready seeds to only use the company's Roundup brand of glyphosate. Submitted by Sharon L. to Business �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Who Needs Wheat Anyways? The Top 50 Celiac Blo ...
    Celiac disease, also known as Celiac sprue or Coeliac disease, is an autoimmune disorder of the digestive system. Suspected to be in one out of every 133 Americans, this disease is basically an allergy to wheat. Submitted by Deena Marriecar to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

  • Aprueban extradición de Julian Assange a Sueci ...
    Aprueban extradici�n de Julian Assange a Suecia | ELESPECTADOR.COM: Un juez británico aprobó la extradición de Julian Assange, fundador de WikiLeaks, a Suecia, país que le reclama por cuatro... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Dialogue between Venezuelan Government and Opp ...
    Dialogue between Venezuelan Government and Opposition Student-led Hunger Strikers Brings Protest to an End | venezuelanalysis.com: "M�rida, February 23rd 2011 (Venezuelanalysis.com) – 23 days into a... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Leaked Intel Memo Directs Police to Pipe Down ...
    Leaked Intel Memo Directs Police to Pipe Down on Facebook | Civil Liberties | AlterNet February 23, 2011 - In February 2009, Gary Waters went to court in Brooklyn, accused of possessing a loaded 9mm... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Israel destroys hundreds of West Bank olive tr ...
    Israel destroys hundreds of West Bank olive trees to lay settlement water line: "Yesterday, February 22 2011, a number of Palestinian news agencies, including the agency that I work for, published... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Chinese TV praised Libyan leader Gaddafi as th ...
    Chinese TV praised Libyan leader Gaddafi as thinker, revolutionist | Ministry of Tofu: "Anthony Yuen: This man, unlike what Western media demonized him to be, is a thinker.Anthony Yuen: I read the... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • Farm Wars Public Service Announcement: Talk to ...
    We do not domesticate animals, they domesticate us. They tell us what they require, and we comply. In return, they consent to do what we require. Most approach this relationship with critters the other way around, which is simply bass ackwards.
  • Truth Squad Radio – People and Wildlife Living ...
    Join us Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2011! This Wednesday we will be speaking with guest author Joel Thomas!  People and wildlife are living closer together all the time and while problems continue to grow, many of them can be solved by simple information and techniques that can provide effective non-let ...
  • Monsanto Shifts ALL Liability to Farmers
    Monsanto does not accept liability for damages from genetically modified crops, shifts liability to farmers, and creates a condition on the sale of a farmer's land requiring the purchaser to sign a Monsanto Technology Use Agreement.
  • Hay Now — It’s Boycott Time: Land O’Lakes, Thi ...
    To produce its Round-Up Ready Alfalfa seeds, Monsanto partnered with a company called Forage Genetics International, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Land O'Lakes dairy co-op. That's right, Land O'Lakes stands to make a fortune from polluting our food supply with untested and unlabeled GMOs ...
  • Radio Liberty’s Dr. Stanley Monteith and Barb ...
    Catch me on Radio Liberty at 9:00pm Pacific Time tonight, February 17, with Dr. Stanley Monteith. We will be discussing GMOs. Radio Liberty: http://www.radioliberty.com/

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Union fight extends to Indiana
    ShareThisUnion fight extends to Indiana --Democratic lawmakers in that state have followed in the footsteps of their Wisconsin counterparts, fleeing the state until Republicans are willing to negotiate. 24 Feb 2011 The battle against unions in the Midwest escalated Wednesday as a second state, I ...
  • Ferry carrying US citizens can't leave Libya
    ShareThisFerry carrying US citizens can't leave Libya 24 Feb 2011 Rough seas prevented a ferry carrying hundreds of US citizens from fleeing Libya's uprising on Thursday as Britain's government said it was considering whether to send its military to evacuate oil workers stranded by the strife. A ...
  • 2 of Gadhafi's Pilots Defect, Crash Warplanes
    ShareThis2 of Gadhafi's Pilots Defect, Crash Warplanes --UN declares no-fly zone over Libya 24 Feb 2011 The UN has declared a no-fly zone of Libya to prevent Moammar Gadhafi from using warplanes to attack protesters, but some of his own pilots are finding their own ways to ensure the planes aren ...
  • Gaddafi loses more Libyan cities
    ShareThisGaddafi loses more Libyan cities --Protesters wrest control of more cities as unrest sweeps African nation despite Muammar Gaddafi's threat of crackdown. 24 Feb 2011 Muammar Gaddafi, Libya's long-standing ruler, has reportedly lost control of more cities as anti-government protests cont ...
  • Libyans brace for day 10 revolution
    ShareThisLibyans brace for day 10 revolution 24 Feb 2011 Libya's pro-democracy protesters are bracing for the tenth day of revolution against the country's ruler, Muammar Gaddafi, who, according to Spain, 'has lost all legitimacy.' On Thursday, in the northwestern city of Misrata, protesters tor ...

Daily Loaf

  • Do It Today: Antarctica art, Tim Barry at the ...
    Chill with Paul Suprenand's chilly art at Studio@620 or catch a great show at the Orpheum, a comedy fest in St. Pete Beach and other fun, random stuff tonight.
  • Bolts crush Coyotes 8-3
    The Tampa Bay Lightning was hoping a couple days on the road would recharge the batteries and get the team through the last week of a never-ending home stand. If the first period of Wednesday’s game against the Phoenix Coyotes was any the test, the Bolts passed with flying colors and then som ...
  • Poli want a cookie?: The Tampa Mayoral race “c ...
    It’s cookie season! No, I’m not referring to the overpriced ones sold by uniformed little girls — this cookie campaign is a little more political. I first spotted them at the Tampa mayoral debate we hosted here at CL Space a few weeks ago: large cookies with candidates’ names on them, each fro ...
  • CL Feature: Those Darlins, a Tennessee garage ...
    Jessi, Kelley and Nikki “Darlin” have covered some rather impressive ground in the four years they’ve been active as Those Darlins, from jamming retro country tunes on the front porch of a shack they once shared, to premiering a video for their own twang-punk number on Spin.com earlier this mon ...
  • Tampa mayoral race in its final days: Which ca ...
    Can Buckhorn or Turanchik squeeze into the runoff? Or will conventional wisdom hold, putting Greco and Ferlita in the top spots?

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Tennessee in Afghanistan
    Anyone missing this car? 23 February 2011 The weather in Kandahar was cool and bright all day.� I travelled around Kandahar City with people from the Central Asia Development Group (owned by a close friend) and we visited eight cash for work projects.� This is a very interesting story that I s ...
  • Thumb’s Up in Afghanistan
    22 February 2011 Arrived back in Kandahar today and immediately set off into the wilds.� Am not with troops at this time, but later will see about embedding. While driving in Kandahar City today, we passed by some American troops doing �route clearance.�� They were looking for bombs.� Their ...
  • Michael Yon to return to Afghanistan
    20 Feburary 2011 Reprinted from The US Report Author Kay B. Day Band-e-Amir in Bamyan Province is Afghanistan's first national park; it consists of six spectacular turquoise lakes separated by natural dams of travertine. [CIA World Factbook; photo and caption.] Michael Yon just wrapped up a se ...
  • Río de lágrimas: instantáneas al filo de la gu ...
    14 de febrero de 2011 El río Salween marca la frontera entre Tailandia y Birmania. En la ficción, "Rambo" cruzó la actual selva en la película "Rambo IV", pero, desgraciadamente, no hay nada de ficticio en la guerra, las bombas que con frecuencia vuelan desde Birmania a Tailandia, o las minas ...
  • Return to Afghanistan
    Day by Day 17 February 2011 All is looking good for my return to Afghanistan within one week.� The more researched photo-dispatches will be published here.� For daily updates that will not make it to main dispatches, please sign up for my Facebook. Your support is crucial for my work in Afg ...

The Killing Train

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

treehugger

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

Democratic Voice of Burma

  • Dunkley assault charge, refused bail
    Former Myanmar Times editor kept in Insein prison despite request by alleged assault victim to drop charges against Australian national
  • Tay Za rescued, German embassy blocks staff
    Burmese tycoon rescued by helicopter as four representatives from Htoo Trading Company struggle to obtain German visas
  • Down & Out in Rangoon
    View Photo Album Decades of mismanagement by the Burmese government have crippled the country’s economy, fuelling widespread poverty and a low life-expectacy level. With no social security system to alleviate the suffering, many are left to beg on the streets of the country’s economic hub, Rango ...
  • Monks warn of ‘corruptive’ gambling
    Warning follows murder of Irrawaddy man in gambling match after Burmese authorities temporarily lift the ban on betting games
  • Myanmar Times editor in court today
    Former editor of the Myanmar Times rumoured to be facing assault charges but officials think he will likely be deported back to native Australia

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Supreme Court allows state seat belt action to ...
    [JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] on Wednesday unanimously reversed [opinion, PDF] a California appeals court ruling [opinion, PDF] in Williamson v. Mazda Motors of America [docket], finding that a federal minimum safety standard [text] does not preempt state ...
  • DOJ to stop defending federal law barring same ...
    [JURIST] The US Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website] announced Wednesday that it will no longer defend the constitutionality [press release] of Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) [text; JURIST news archive], which defines marriage for federal purposes as a legal union betw ...
  • Supreme Court hears arguments in sentence redu ...
    [JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website] heard oral arguments [day call, PDF; merit briefs] in two cases: one determining whether a court may modify a sentence when the US Sentencing Commission [official website] has subsequently lowered the sentence range and the other examining the sta ...
  • Federal judge dismisses health care challenge
    [JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] ruled [opinion] Tuesday that Congress acted within its constitutional powers in passing the health care reform law [text; JURIST news archive] and that the law does not violate the religious freedom of pla ...
  • Algeria government lifts 19-year state of emer ...
    [JURIST] The Algerian Council of Ministers on Tuesday approved a draft ordinance repealing the country's 19-year state of emergency, delivering on a promise made the week before [JURIST report]. The draft ordinance will have the force of law upon publication in the Official Journal of Algeria [o ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • The House GOP's Plan Avert a Government Shutdo ...
    House Republicans are drafting a two-week continuing resolution to keep the government operating after the current CR expires on March 4 and will file the bill on Friday, National Journal has learned. The measure will contain about $4 billion in spending cuts and will merge cuts approved last ...
  • How Chris Christie Came to Launch a Crusade Ag ...
    If you've yet to grasp why the conservative political world is agog over a New Jersey governor, let The New York Times' Matt Bai enlighten you with his upcoming Times magazine cover story on Gov. Chris Christie (R) and his fight against the state's public sector unions: There is, in fact, somet ...
  • When Gay Marriage Came to Massachusetts
    Nearly 10 years ago when gay rights activists in Massachusetts initiated a legal challenge to the Commonwealth's unequal marriage laws, I feared they were moving too fast, too soon, risking a backlash for too small a prize. Even if gay couples won the right to marry under our state law, I arg ...
  • Ambassadors Caught on Tape, China Edition
    By Jeremiah Jenne While there weren't all that many actual protesters at last Sunday's "Jasmine Revolution" in Beijing, one attendee who did not escape the notice of sharp-eyed Chinese netizens was US Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman. The website M4 (四明网) posted footage of the ambassador being ...
  • Rolling Stone: Army Ordered Use of Psy-Ops Tac ...
    Michael Hastings, the reporter whose profile of Gen. Stanley McChrystal forced him to resign his command of forces in Afghanistan, is out with a new blockbuster in Rolling Stone. This time he details the U.S. Army's effort to used psychological warfare tactics against members of the U.S. Congres ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Bibi Rewrites History–and Reality
    Bibi Netanyahu, in a Knesset speech covered by Haaretz, announced some sweeping revisions to history and Israeli-Arab reality.  For example, did you know that a Palestinian state already exists?  Sure does, according to the Beeb, who said with regard to the Arab uprisings toppling dictators ri ...
  • Let the Good Times, and the Generals, Rule the ...
    Asaf Geffen’s biting satire from Ynet about Israel’s preference for military strongmen over democracy: It was not surprising to discover that the new international star for Israelis is Egyptian General Tantawi. Indeed, in a country ruled by generals such as our own, whatâs more natural for us th ...
  • Dan Shapiro to Be Obama’s New Israel Ambassado ...
    In a sign that Pres. Obama is rewarding those who devised the inert policy he’s adopted toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Haaretz reports that the new U.S. ambassador to Israel will be Dan Shapiro.  During the presidential election campaign, Shapiro ran a good operation on his candidate’ ...
  • Links for 2010-08-17 [Digg]
    Israel Wakes Up and Discovers Its Soldiers Abuse Palestinian Yesterday, a major scandal erupted in Israel over an IDF soldier, Eden Aberjil, who posted pictures on her Facebook account of her abusing bound Palestinian...
  • Links for 2010-04-03 [Digg]
    Anat Kam-Uri Blau Top Secret Israeli Leak Case The foreign media continue to open up the gagged Anat Kam-Uri Blau case with new stories in The Guardian, The Times, and The National.

Ode Magazine

  • Deepak Chopra on "The Soul of Leadership"
    By: Marco Visscher talks with leading light Deepak Chopra about his latest book, The Soul of Leadership: Unlocking Your Potential for Greatness. In the book, Chopra examines 21st Century leadership and offers guidance for addressing problems in the wo ...
  • A poem for Egypt
    By: Chintana after the riot - such a perfect moonlit night -Hekigodo Kawahigashi This is a poem for Egypt, Algeria, Bahrain, Iran, Jordan, Tunisia, Madison, Wisconsin and every place in the world that is currently experiencing unrest. Under the dis ...
  • Winning peace at heart
    By: PeaceCorso I just realized that the universal hand signal for peace and the universal hand signal for victory are identical. I can’t believe I’ve been doing peacework for decades and never thought of this! So Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s quote be ...
  • Awe aerobics for the soul
    By: Nazia Mallick Remember how when were little, we asked those "plausible" questions: "Why doesn’t the moon fall out of the sky?," "Why can’t we see the ghosts?" And then, as we grew older, the growth hormone of our inner child got stunted due to th ...
  • A valentine for peace
    By: PeaceCorso Well, here we are at the holiday that so many of us love to hate: Valentine’s Day. We’ve all heard the cynics blaming the Hallmarkians of the world for sentimentalizing love. Why have a holiday to celebrate love? My relationship doesn’ ...

OpEd News

  • Libya Learns from US Right's Approach to Wikil ...
    James_Redfield, author of the bestselling Celestine Prophecy, recently tweeted a quote from his new book, The Twelth Insight, "Karma has nothing to do with payback. It reflects back to you what you're doing." Now, we are seeing the regime of perhaps the worst, most despicable dictator, Muamar ...
  • Leslie Gelb's Unconvetional Wisdom
    Foreign Policy magazine's forty year celebration includes a section on unconventional wisdom. Most of what it contains within is rather conventional wisdom for readers of alternate websites and viewers of alternate news media.
  • American Dream or American Sword?
    This article contrasts the way our American dream has spread to the Middle East with the impotence of military measures today and suggests that our national security depends now more on saving the American dream and ensuring a sustainable energy future by taking funds from the Pentagon to do the ...
  • World Freedom Day is Sunday, March 6, 2011
    World Freedom Day is Sunday, March 6, 2011. On that day, I invite everyone on Earth to express in their way that the world will be free.
  • Union Busting in America
    The scheme is old, dirty and ongoing today.

Switchboard

  • Clean Energy Standard: How China Does Long-ter ...
    What will the U.S. clean energy standard look like? Following President Obama’s call for an 80-percent clean electricity-driven economy by 2035[1], Center for American Progress released a brief “Helping America Win the Clean Energy Race”. It outlines a framework for capitalizing on ...
  • What good is a touch screen if your fingers ar ...
    Reuters recently posted a story from Suzhou, China about workers at a factory making touch screens on contract for Apple who have been injured (including potentially at least one death) by inhaling hexyl hydride, also known as n-Hexane.  According to the Reuters story, Wintek, the ...
  • Army Corps: "Our Electric Fish Fence Works, Bu ...
    I’ve written here repeatedly about the Army Corps’ refusal to admit that its electric fish fence is not an adequate or reliable defense against Asian carp threatening to colonize the Great Lakes by moving through the Chicago Waterway System into Lake Michigan.  Despite repeated pos ...
  • "Pumping for Nothing" (Tar Sands parody song)
    After I posted my parody Cee Lo song yesterday on the recently passed House budget bill calling for drastic cuts in EPA funding, my colleague Liz Barratt-Brown chuckled and then she challenged me to parody an issue she works on: tar sands.  In case you're not familiar, this refers ...
  • Carter Niemeyer's Wolfer, and Thoughts on the ...
    Each day, I get as many e-mails from wolf expert Carter Niemeyer as live in an average wolf pack: anywhere from 2 to ten.  This never ceases to amaze me, because I know that Carter, like me, was pulled into the computer age kicking and screaming.  I try to read these pieces too, ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • SEK’s visual rhetoric compendium
    Since the front-page is quiet and y’all never seem to mind–and may have missed one or two items in the shuffle–I thought I’d post this list requested by a conference I’ll be speaking at this summer.  It’s just links to all of the visual rhetoric exegeses (a.k.a. McCloud or Bordwell-inspired “le ...
  • The cost of access
    I admit that there may be some meat in the interview “David Koch” scored with Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, but the most significant element of the Buffalo Beast’s prank is its very existence.  It demonstrates, concretely, how beholden conservatives feel to the Koch brothers.  Unlike the Ra ...
  • Refusing to Defend the Constitutionality of th ...
    The Obama administration is refusing to defend this constitutionality of DOMA as it applies to legally married same-sex couples. Sometimes, elections can have positive consequences! Related posts:But Of Course Court Rules DADT Unconstitutional Does the Obama Administration Have to Appeal t ...
  • Last Thucydides Post Until the Next One
    My WPR column this week puts a cap on Thucydipalooza: Thucydides is nearly ubiquitous in the serious and general study of American foreign policy. Although we lack good statistics for how often particular texts are taught in graduate or undergraduate courses, nearly every professor of internatio ...
  • Standing, Federalism, and the Tenth Amendment
    Dahlia Lithwick and Adam Liptak have good articles about yesterday’s oral argument in Bond v. U.S. The substantive issue of the case is whether a law implementing the 1993 Chemical Weapons convention can be used to bring federal charges against a woman who poisoned a woman who was impregnated by ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

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

environment 360

  • Invasive Species Reconsidered: Finding a Value ...
    One of the tenets of conservation management holds that alien species are ecologically harmful. But a new study is pointing to research that demonstrates that some non-native plants and animals can have beneficial impacts. BY CARL ZIMMER
  • China Unveils Plan to Cut Heavy Metal Pollutan ...
    China’s top environmental official has pledged to curb heavy metal pollutants in the wake of numerous major poisoning incidents, including cases of lead poisoning in children, that have sparked public protest in recent years. In a speech, Minister of Environmental Protection Zhou Shengxian descr ...
  • UN Calls for Green Investments Totaling 2 Perc ...
    The United Nations is calling for funding of renewable energy projects equal to 2 percent of world economic output, saying such investments would more than pay for themselves by creating new jobs, boosting economic growth, and improving health through cleaner air. The United Nations Environment ...
  • Interview: Unraveling the Mystery of Deformed ...
    For the last two decades, strange things have been happening to frogs. Some frog populations have high rates of limb deformities, while others have high incidences of “intersex” — traits associated with both males and females, such as male Yale UniversityDavid K. Skelly frogs whose testes con ...
  • Singapore is Greenest City in Asia, According ...
    Singapore has emerged as Asia’s greenest city thanks to a host of ambitious environmental programs and green initiatives, according to a new report. The Asia Green City Index — conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit and funded by Siemens — evaluated the environmental performance of 22 Asia ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Arrested US official actually works for CIA
    An American jailed in Pakistan for the fatal shooting of two armed men was secretly working for the CIA and scouting a neighborhood when he was arrested, a disclosure likely to further frustrate U.S. government efforts to free the man and strain relations between two countries partnered in a fra ...
  • Pentagon aide ’was killed by hitman’ claims di ...
    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. She suggested his work with the Pentagon over h ...
  • B.C. scientist hopes to extract aviator Amelia ...
    More than seven decades after aviator Amelia Earhart disappeared while attempting her ill-fated flight around the world, a British Columbia scientist hopes to extract DNA from letters she wrote to loved ones. Dongya Yang of Simon Fraser University is aiming to harvest Earhart’s DNA from dried sa ...
  • Quake in New Zealand kills at least 65, traps ...
    One of New Zealand’s biggest cities lay in ruins Tuesday after a powerful earthquake toppled tall buildings and churches on a busy weekday, killing at least 65 people in the country’s worst natural disaster in decades. The quake even shook a massive chunk of ice from New Zealand’s biggest glacie ...
  • New Bone Suggests Lucy Walked Like Us (Video)
    "A newly discovered bone from the foot of the same species as the famous Lucy skeleton is a clue to when human ancestors started walking like people, not apes." Video from: Time.com

Russia Today

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

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

Tippers News

  • DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
    DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Three men helped starve kids, court tol
    Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
    The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • BRUTAL TRUTH Of IRAQ WAR
    'War' on any country is a 'Terrorist Act.' How can it be anything else?? People sit in their cosy homes; happy and Falsely believing that the soldiers are in a Patriotic War; Well see for yourself and ask Whats Patriotic about Suffering of Human Beings?Submitted by Mary P. to US Politics & Gov' ...
  • The real terrorist was me - US Soldier -
    The Truth from a American Soldier who fought in an Unjust WAR in Iraq; thankfully his conscience willed him to admit that it was just a war for the rich elite few to get richer and had nothing to do with Patriosm or Security of Americans.He is a True HeroSubmitted by Mary P. to US Politics & Gov ...

The Freeman

  • A Libertarian Antipoverty Agenda
    Too many poor Americans cannot escape poverty because of the structural barriers government puts in their way.
  • A libertarian revolution in the Mid-East?
    As I sit writing this the famed eccentric President of Libya, Muammar al-Qaddaffi, is fleeing from hordes of protestors in Tripoli after having stated he will “Die a martyr” defending his throne. Waves of unrest have spread across Africa and the Middle East in the past month as protests have bro ...
  • Government Union Protests Spread
    “The offensive by Republican governors to tackle the power of public employee unions sparked new clashes Tuesday as protesters descended on Ohio’s capitol and Democratic lawmakers in Indiana fled the state to avoid a vote on anti-union legislation.” (Washington Post) The politicians have dug us ...
  • No Smoking in New York City’s Public Spaces
    “Smoking in New York City’s parks, beaches, boardwalks, pedestrian plazas and other public spaces will be banned from May 23 despite complaints about excessive meddling by government in people’s private lives. New Yorkers can smoke on sidewalks, parking lots, streets and in their homes, although ...
  • Medical Fraud in Wisconsin
    Engage in behavior that this government considers to be politically acceptable and get a free pass to break the law. Everyone else gets to go to prison.

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

  • 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 ...

Worldpress - Africa

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Wisconsin: teach some politicians a lesson by ...
    Rumblings of using Wisconsin’s recall provisions to remove Republican politicians who support Walker’s attempt to remove bargaining rights from unions are going around.  This is an excellent idea.  Destroying the political viability of some politicians, making it so they can never run for offi ...
  • Wisconsin: teach some politicians a lesson by ...
    Rumblings of using Wisconsin’s recall provisions to remove Republican politicians who support Walker’s attempt to remove bargaining rights from unions are going around.  This is an excellent idea.  Destroying the political viability of some politicians, making it so they can never run for offi ...
  • Talkin’bout a General Strike in Wisconsi ...
    Hearing more and more talk of this.  General strikes are illegal under Taft-Hartley. Will Obama send in the troops to break one up if it happens?  (I really doubt the National Gaurd will do it, so it would have to be the army.) Would be interesting to find out, wouldn’t it?  Would… clarify ma ...
  • Some thoughts on revolutions in the Middle Eas ...
    Looks like Gaddafi is in a bad way: reports of brigades defecting, pilots refusing orders, 3 major tribes coming out against him and a Fatwa for his death. This is interesting, because the lesson Gaddafi learned from the prior revolutions was clearly “use violence early and hard”.  If it doesn’ ...
  • Talkin’bout a General Strike in Wisconsin
    Hearing more and more talk of this.  General strikes are illegal under Taft-Hartley. Will Obama send in the troops to break one up if it happens?  (I really doubt the National Gaurd will do it, so it would have to be the army.) Would be interesting to find out, wouldn’t it?  Would… clarify ma ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

  • Coral reefs are taking a dive
    Corals around the world are in trouble and could fare much worse in the future, according to a report released today by The World Resources Institute. The report, Reefs at Risk Revisited updates a 1998 analysis that looks at the health of coral reefs worldwide. It incorporates new data and techn ...
  • Boosters speak up at meeting on NIH’s proposed ...
    After being deluged with complaints about their plan to dissolve one research center to make room for another, leaders at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) heard a welcome sound today: voices of support. At the same time, the plan’s prime mover, agency director Francis Collins, made it ...
  • Alternate theory poses dark matter challenge
    The predictions of a theory proposed as an alternative to dark matter have been verified in a new class of objects, according to a study currently in press. The results seem unlikely to convince astrophysicists to abandon dark matter as one of the cornerstones of the standard model of cosmology; ...
  • China vows to curb heavy-metal pollution
    Posted on behalf of Jane Qiu China’s environment ministry unveiled a long-awaited plan last Friday to tackle heavy-metal pollution that plagues the country’s soil, waterways, vegetation and food sources. With a sum of 75 billion yuan ($11.4 billion) earmarked for the problem, the plan, th ...
  • Military lab escapes prosecution over chemist’ ...
    A chemist working for the British military who died in a laboratory explosion in 2002 might have survived if not for serious safety failings by his employer. However the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) will not face prosecution over the death. Terry Jupp was working on improv ...

new geography

  • The Millennial Mosaic
    Esperanza Spalding, winner of the best new artist award at this year’s Grammies, personifies the ethnic trends reshaping America.  She is a fresh-faced 27-year old jazz bassist whose very name portrays her mixed ethnic and racial heritage as the daughter of an African-American father and a H ...
  • Census 2010: Urbanizing Indiana
    The first Census results for Indiana were recently released, painting a picture of an increasingly metropolitan state.  Indianapolis continues to be the growth champion as its strong economy attracted people from the rest of the state, as well as increasingly diverse populations.  Although   ...
  • The Still Elusive "Return to the City"
    Metropolitan area results are beginning to trickle in from the 2010 census. They reveal that, at least for the major metropolitan areas so far, there is little evidence to support the often repeated claim by think tanks and the media that people are moving from suburbs to the historical core ...
  • Dallas Charges Up for the Electric Chevy
    If they build it, will we come? Planners, utilities, auto industry execs, and retailers are hopeful that we will, as they get themselves ready for electric vehicles in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. This isn’t a pie-in-the-sky vision for the future. The reality is unfolding right now. In ...
  • Britian's Housing Crisis: Causes and Solution ...
    British house construction has remained at a low level for a decade.   Total new house and flat completions for all tenures last year were 113,670 for England, 17,470 for Scotland, and 6,170 for Wales. Excluding Northern Ireland that is 137,310 for Britain. Under 140,000 homes a year is lo ...

GM Watch

spiked

Cryptogon

  • New Pathogen Found in Roundup Ready GM Crops C ...
    Via: Institute of Science in Society: An open letter appeared on the Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance founded and run by Judith McGeary to save family farms in the US [1, 2]. The letter, written by Don Huber, professor emeritus at Purdue University, to Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, warns ...
  • Russia Plans to Spend $650 Billion on New Weap ...
    Via: BBC: Eight nuclear submarines, 600 jets and 1,000 helicopters feature in plans to renew Russia’s military by 2020, priced at 19tn roubles (£400bn; $650bn). One hundred warships are also due to be bought in, including two helicopter carriers, in addition to two already being purchased from ...
  • Sites Getting Punked By David Booth/Sorcha Faa ...
    Guys, please (PLEASE!) make sure you’re not helping to spread David Booth/Sorcha Faal/Sucha Fool nonsense. People have sent in about a dozen suggestions for a story that originated with David Booth. Sites are getting punked left and right with this. Attention: The source for the CIA Spy Captured ...
  • The Irish American Business Network
    I met John Richards when I was back in the U.S. He contacted me and asked me to mention this. If you have any interest, contact John Richards at john.richards@c3g.com: The Irish American Business Network (IABN) is one of the fastest growing social and business networks in the U.S. and Ireland. F ...
  • Saudi Regime Will Attempt to Maintain Power wi ...
    Via: Reuters: Saudi King Abdullah returned home on Wednesday after a three-month medical absence and unveiled benefits for Saudis worth some $37 billion in an apparent bid to insulate the world’s top oil exporter from an Arab protest wave.

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 ...

Desertification

  • AQUACROP (FAO / IISD)
    Read at : Water Issues Announcement List AQUACROP launches new plug-in program and AQUACROP Version 3.1+ http://www.fao.org/nr/water/aquacropplugin.html . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . … Continue reading →
  • The Groasis waterboxx (Groasis Newsletter / T. ...
    A message from Theo LALLEMAN (The Netherlands) : Fwd: Groasis Newsletter http://news.groasis.com/298/global/the-most-challenging-experiment 2011 started with a huge challenge. I went to Oman in the first week of January to do a planting experiment in the Sohar Free Zone. I walked … Continue read ...
  • Technologies to stop desertification (Herman E ...
    A message from Herman ESPINOSA (Toronto, Canada) : I was thinking about a Desertification article I saw on Internet, and was wondering if different technologies could be used to help develop/fund was needed to stop the Dessert. For example : … Continue reading →
  • Fund for Local Cooperation (FLC) managed by th ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.newera.com.na/article.php?articleid=37493&title=Finland%20funds%20%20research%20centre Finland funds research centre – by John Travolter Matali The Finnish Embassy in Windhoek last week signed a funding agreement to the tune of N$1.7 million fo ...
  • India named Global Host of World Environment D ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://yubanet.com/world/India-named-Global-Host-of-World-Environment-Day-2011.php By: UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Nairobi (Kenya), 22 February 2011 – The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) today announced that India, with one of the fastest ...

The Paper Trail

  • Judge Orders Quicken Loans to Pay $2.7 Million ...
    A West Virginia judge has slapped online mortgage giant Quicken Loans Inc. with more than $2.7 million in punitive damages and legal costs after finding the lender had defrauded a borrower by misleading her about her loan and using an inflated property appraisal.
  • District of Columbia’s Poor Pay Triple f ...
    Poor residents of Washington, D.C. receive the worst internet service and pay three times more than wealthier neighborhoods, according to a recent survey.
  • Bankers Take Debit Fee Duel To Friendly Territ ...
    Bankers dueling with retailers over a Federal Reserve plan to limit debit card processing fees took the fight into friendly territory today at a House Financial Services subcommittee hearing.
  • GAO: Worst of the Worst Federal Programs
    The Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Postal Service, already the butt of many bad jokes, are among the poster children on the GAO’s list of federal agencies at “high risk” of waste, fraud, abuse and mismanagement.
  • Federal Panel Says FBI Overstated Science Behi ...
    Federal investigators overstated the strength of the scientific evidence against a late Army researcher blamed for the anthrax mailings that killed five people in 2001, a panel of scientists said Tuesday after an 18-month review. However, the panel didn't contradict the FBI's conclusion that the ...

backofthebook.ca

  • Welcome to Canada, Randy Quaid
    By Frank Moher Dear Randy Quaid: I hear Canadian authorities have decided to let you stay in Canada, and, indeed, that Canadian citizenship is now in the works for you. This because your wife's dad was Canadian, so she was able to get her citizenship earlier this month, which means you can ...
  • Oda and da machine
    By Montreal Simon Oh. My. Mafia. I hear the Con mob in the PMO, now known as the Oda Gang, are desperate. The new boss is now claiming she couldn't have whacked KAIROS, because she has an alibi. She was out of town. So even though she owes her new position to ...
  • Best Gaddafi speech one-liners
    Here, from our Twitter feed, the best one-liners from those watching the Gaddafi speech (and yes, he's still a murderous despot): InklessPW Paul Wells You see how far Libya is from Western standards of democracy when you see how little thought Gaddafi has given to set design. kady kady o' ...
  • False news is good for you. Really.
    By Frank Moher The last time Avaaz.org organized an online petition, I wasn't too nice about it. But when it comes to "false news" -- yes, you read that right -- the activist organization is right on money. What is false news? Funny you should ask. I wondered exactly the same thing, ...
  • Bieberbortion
    by Rachel Krueger Bye Bieber Bunting rocks the cover of Rolling Stone next month, looking as bad-ass as his infant-face is capable of.  The Stone is teasing out its Biebernterview by releasing all the salacious bits, and the PITCHFORKS ARE A-GATHERIN.  Particularly around the Bieb’s stance ...

libcom

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

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • 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 ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

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

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

  • Fergie Jenkins, Baseball Hall of Famer (Feb 2, ...
    Canada's only Hall of Famer talks with Peter about pitching fastballs and dealing with life's curveballs.
  • Rex Murphy (Dec 18, 2010)
    We call him the wordsmith for his own amazing using of the English language - and part of that he gets from his voracious reading appetite of the works of others. Given the season, time for a visit from the one and only Rex Murphy, and his advice on the best books to give.
  • Prime Minister Stephen Harper (Jan 9, 2010)
    This month marks four years since Stephen Harper became Prime Minister. There have been few dull moments during that time and certainly no lack of controversy. This week, with a new year starting and new issues facing his government, the Prime Minister is our guest.
  • Brian Wilson, musician (encore), (Nov, 28, 200 ...
    This week, an encore presentation of one of our most memorable interviews from 2004 -- the musical genius behind the Beach Boys, the young California group that went head to head against the Beatles in the 1960s.
  • Antony Beevor, War Historian (Nov 7, 2009)
    At the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of eleventh month we pause, and remember those who have sacrificed in times of war. And there were millions in the last century. One author who has studied some of the 20th century's most historic battles has a new book, and this week he's our guest in wh ...

Scotts Contracting

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

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Egypt’s Invisible Labor Movement
    Egyptian Police Demanding Higher Wages and Better Working Conditions I get a very different picture of the Egyptian “revolution” from Al Jazeera and other international new sources than from the US media. The latter seems to focus exclusively on the massive street protests in Cairo and other Egy ...
  • Activism in New Zealand
    For me personally, the advantages of living in New Zealand far outweigh the negatives. In my mind, this relates less to tangible political or social features than to the reality that organizing for change is much easier here than in the US. For a 30 plus year activist, this is obviously a high ...
  • The Legacy of Sir Roger Douglas
    In brief , the policies introduced by Minister of Finance Sir Roger Douglas in the 1980s included the rapid elimination of import tariffs that protected New Zealand agricultural producers and manufacturers, rapid privatization of state owned industries, which for the most part ended up under for ...
  • The Chile of the Pacific
    An Early Laboratory for Neoliberal Reforms Overall I have enjoyed numerous lifestyle advantages living in New Zealand. There are a few notable exceptions, of course, beyond the emotional isolation of being separated from my family and American friends. Most relate, either directly or indirectly, ...
  • The Common Misfortunes of Capitalism
    Obviously there is both an upside and a downside to living in New Zealand. All developed and developing countries are forced to operate under the same global capitalist system, which is under near absolute control of multinational corporations, via the WTO, the Global Agreement on Tariff and Tra ...

Doug's Darkworld

  • Gaddafi vows to die a martyr, I for one hope h ...
    And by the way, we’re all so screwed by what’s going on now. I should be at work but I just need to keep watching the news and following developments in Libya and elsewhere. Well, mostly reading stuff on line, watching the broadcast news is pretty annoying but I do so for the images they [...]
  • World Revolution?
    The revolutionary movements now sweeping a dozen countries may very well herald a new chapter in world history. I mean, we are seeing simultaneously a number of events that even singly would have been one of the biggest stories of the year in the preceding decades. This is pretty incredible when ...
  • Ten World War Two Allied military blunders (Pa ...
    This is the second part of ten Allied military blunders of World War Two. The comments I made at the beginning of the first article still apply. The only thing I would add is that I have tried to select lesser known blunders, especially ones that made for an interesting story. With no further ad ...
  • The Voynich Manuscript, Shady Kilograms, Shyst ...
    So much for the good Berkeley weather. We’ve had torrential rain. Hail. Lightning. Wind. More rain. The cats wanted to go out this morning and when I held the door open, the wind blew them right back inside. They wisely decided they had some sleep to catch up on and didn’t want to go outside [.. ...
  • One Million Hits and Thanks for all the Commen ...
    TUNISIA ââââââââââââââââ : 100% done EGYPT ââââââââââââââââ : 100% done ALGERIA ââââââââââââââââ: in progress YEMEN: ââââââââââââââââ: in progress PALESTINE: âââââââââââââ: VIRUS DETECTED   Well, I recently passed a million hits on Doug’s Darkworld. Kinda of a strange feeling. A million people h ...

FourWinds10

  • The Planetary Population Protection & Atmosphe ...
    Millions of tons of Aerosols which are now determined to contain Aluminum Oxide, Barium, Strontium, and Sulphur Hexafluoride Toxins appear to have been already sprayed upon the population of this country, Great Britain, Canada, Ireland and other nations on Earth. A Congressman Ron Paul supporter ...
  • WAKE UP AMERICA YOU ARE BEING LIED TO!
    I took a walk along the beach Feb. 09, 2011. I had seen the many ads placed on your TV and news outlets all over the world paid for by BP proclaiming“The oil is gone and our beaches are clean”. The one that really gets me is how safe the seafood can be when this is what our beaches look like.   ...
  • Keiser Report: Eco-Eco Disasters (E120)
    This week Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, talk about eco-eco disasters, JP Morgan taking gold as collateral and Rand Paul's call for ending welfare to Israel. In the second half of the show, Max talks to investment adviser, Joshua Brown, about investing for freak weather and a dictator-fr ...
  • Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura: "The Gul ...
    *** FULL LENGTH 45 MINUTE EPISODE *** (Season 2, Episode 7) "The Gulf Oil Spill" The BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico has led to devastation along Louisiana's coast and in its fishing and tourism industries. But was it deliberate? Jesse Ventura leads his team into the bayou where they inves ...
  • THE GULF OF MEXICO IS DYING: A SPECIAL REPORT ...

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

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

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • Guys, Your Homes Are Filthy! (Girls, You're No ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—If you spent Valentine's Day alone this year, here's something that might make you a little more satisfied about your singledom: According to researchers from the University of Arizona, single men's apartments are covered in 15 times more bacteria than single women's are ...
  • Baby Bottle BPA Ban Still Leaves Children—and ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—As U.S. government agencies disagree over the health risks associated with the chemical bisphenol A, or BPA, Health Canada (Canada's equivalent of the United States' Food and Drug Administration, aka FDA) made its mark as it made Canada the first country to declare BPA a ...
  • 3 No-Fuss, No-Plastic, No-Product Hair Styling ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—During Rodale.com's Plastic-Free February challenge, I decided to focus most of my plastic-reduction efforts around beauty care products, mainly hair products. Although I always try to find more plant-based, less toxic hair styling products, the truth is, almost ...
  • Why Exercising on an Empty Stomach Is a Bad Id ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—To eat or not to eat…before a workout: It's a question that has perplexed gym rats for years, ever since Bill Phillips suggested in his 1999 bestseller Body for Life that exercising on an empty stomach would speed up fat burn. The idea is that not eating before exercise ...
  • Breastfeeding: It's Now Tax Deductible!
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Good news for new moms: Breastfeeding just became tax deductible. The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced last week that it's going to be providing its own form of breastfeeding help to struggling moms by making breast pumps and related supplies a tax write-off ...

big think

  • Why Cancer Attacks Some Tissues—And Not Others
    The human heart rarely develops cancer, but in men that live to the age of 90, the prostate gland almost invariably develops some cancer. Why should this be the case? According to Harold Varmus, the Director of the National Cancer Institute, we should be focusing more research on why some tiss ...
  • Panel Discusses The Human Spark and the Nature ...
    Last week I had the opportunity to moderate a world-class panel here on campus featuring AU film professor Larry Engel, science education advocate Eugenie Scott, and National Academies science education expert Jay Labov.� The evening started with a screening of a segment from the PBS Series The ...
  • More Thoughts on How Google Can Help Us Unders ...
    Charles Spencer of American University Media services did a terrific Web story on the Google science communication fellows program I will be participating in this year.  Here's an excerpt where I discuss some of the questions I will be examining: “I’m interested in the variety of data sourc ...
  • GA Rep. Seeks to Criminalize Unauthorized Vagi ...
    A Georgia Representative has introduced a bill to investigate all unsupervised miscarriages as crime scenes. Don't believe me? Here's the relevant language from HB 1, downloadable from legislature's website: When a spontaneous fetal death required to be reported by this Code section occurs ...
  • Ask Ray Kurzweil About the Future
    On Friday, February 25, Big Think will be interviewing Ray Kurzweil, the�futurist visionary, inventor, entrepreneur and modern-day Nostradamus, who predicted with uncanny accuracy the rise of the Internet,�the fall of the Soviet Union, and the year that a computer would beat a human being at che ...

Information Liberation

  • Houston Police Chief: Videotaping or Criticizi ...
    Houston Police Chief Charles McClelland is worried, very worried. People are using "anti-police" rhetoric and are actually daring to criticize the criminal actions of cops. People are recording their actions with video cameras and attempting to hol...
  • Dallas officer put on PAID leave after Faceboo ...
    Witness with horror the psychological maturity of the mental deficients who think they have a right to use violence against strangers. You'll be glad to know they're not firing this degenerate outright, instead they're giving her a paid vacation whi...
  • NJ Police Chief to Parents: Steal Facebook Pas ...
    *Trust sounds good. It*s a good clich*,* says Batelli. *[But] to stick your head in the sand and think that, in 9th, 10th, 8th grade, your child is not going to be exposed to alcohol, is not going to be exposed to drugs is kind of a na*ve way to go a...
  • WARNING GRAPHIC: Bahrain royal family orders a ...
    WARNING GRAPHIC VIDEO Bahrain's ruling family has defied mounting international criticism by ordering the army to turn on its people for the first time since pro-reform demonstrations erupted five days ago. As protesters attempted to converg...
  • More HBGary Federal Fallout: The Government Wa ...
    The latest in the long line of revelations from the HBGary Federal email leak, is that HBGary Federal wanted to create software that could make it easy for staffers to create and maintain a massive number of fake online social network personas, allow...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • 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 ...

RFF Library

  • National Assessment of Shoreline Change: Histo ...
    US Geological Survey / by Cheryl J. Hapke, Emily A. Himmelstoss, Meredith G. Kratzmann, Jeffrey H. List, and E. Robert Thieler http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2010/1118/pdf/of2010-1118.pdf [From Executive Summary] Beach erosion is a chronic problem along many open-ocean shores of the United States. As c ...
  • Oil and Gas Industry Guidance on Voluntary Sus ...
    IPIECA http://tinyurl.com/4fmwsq5 [From Press Release] The first edition of the Oil and gas industry guidance on voluntary sustainability reporting has been the principal industry-specific framework for use by oil and gas companies reporting on environmental, health and safety, and social and ec ...
  • The Option of an Oil Tax to Fund Transportatio ...
    RAND Corporation /by Keith Crane, Nicholas Burger, and Martin Wachs http://tinyurl.com/4584n4k [Abstract] This paper raises key issues associated with using an oil tax to fund U.S. transportation infrastructure, identifies the decisions Congress would need to make in designing such a tax, and ou ...
  • Saving Oil and Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissio ...
    Pew Center for Global Climate Change / by Cynthia J. Burbank and Nick Nigro http://tinyurl.com/476cb2q [Executive Summary] The United States consumes over 10 million barrels of oil per day moving people and goods on roads and rail throughout the country. Surface transportation generates over 23 ...
  • Green Rush: Investor-Owned Utilities’ Co ...
    Division of Ratepayer Advocates, California State Government http://tinyurl.com/4uw5h48 [From Press Release] The California Legislature has set standards for renewable procurement — including 20 percent of utilitiesâ power coming from renewable sources by 2010, with a flexible compliance date of ...

Scientific American - News

  • Why Are Americans So Ill-Informed on the Topic ...
    As glaciers melt and island populations migrate from shores to escape rising seas, many scientists remain baffled as to why the research consensus on human-induced climate change remains contentious in the U.S. [More]
  • Glory in the Sky: New Satellite Set to Monitor ...
    The solar forecast calls for sluggish times ahead, according to scientists in Boulder, Colo.--which could have a cooling effect on Earth. A better understanding of solar processes and their climatic impacts will be key to understanding how far such quiescence could go to counteract global warmin ...
  • Climate Change Extends Allergy Season in North ...
    Bad news for--achoo!--those who sniffle, er suffer their way through ragweed--sniff, snort, itch--season: A team of researchers has found that increased warming, particularly in the northern half of North America, has added weeks to the fall pollen season.It's enough to make you grab a tissue: M ...
  • Beam Bagged: "Reverse Laser" Functions as Near ...
    Since they were invented 50 years ago, lasers have become extraordinarily commonplace. Anyone with a few dollars to spare can get themselves a laser pointer, and every CD, DVD or Blu-ray player uses a laser to read the bits encoded on discs. (It goes without saying that the same is true of those ...
  • Mouse Study Reveals Mechanism behind Diabetes ...
    It is well known that diabetes wreaks havoc on the vascular system. In fact, vascular complications arising from diabetes are the leading cause of blindness, kidney failure and cardiovascular problems in the U.S. And yet, the physiological mechanisms that link diabetes, which afflicts 26 million ...

RAWA News

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frogblog

  • Libyans join hands with the people of Christch ...
    At lunchtime today I joined a group of Libyans in Wellington’s Midland Park. They were calling for an end to the cruel Gaddafi regime.   The first placard I saw was not about Libya at all. It read: “Our hearts go out to the victims of the Christchurch earthquake.” The vigil began with a minutes ...
  • Another earthquake in Christchurch – twi ...
    A sad day for us all. Our thoughts are with the people of Christchurch. I’ve found twitter to be a good way to get a feel for what’s happening: Tweets from people in/near Christchurch All earthquake-related tweets Photos tagged with eqnz
  • Privatisation is not a hit – not even at Kiwib ...
    Even among those on the right who will dominate participation in Kiwiblog internet polls, there is no majority support for partial privatisation of the energy SOEs. A scientific 3 News Reid Research poll is showing public opposition to partial privatisation as high as 60%. Which makes sense rea ...
  • The people of the Middle East need our support
    Since Mubarak fell the pro-democracy protests in other Arab countries have mushroomed. In Libya people are braving the bullets of Gaddafi’s thugs. Many have been killed. Today the people of Morocco have joined those in Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, and Bahrain in challenging their rulers. Many ...
  • Key keeps digging on BMW fleet purchase
    Is John Key really expecting anyone to believe that his Government’s shambolic handling of the BMW fleet purchase was caused by Private Kirifi Mila’s death in Afghanistan and Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s visit? “What I can say is it wasn’t helped by the death (of Private Kirifi Mil ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • Liberty's Easy Slide into Tyranny
    Huge conspiracies aren't what destroys people's freedom, the accumulation of errors, failed policies, and little and big unfairnesses do. It happens because The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men/ Gang aft agley,/ An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain. The FED, CIA, Executive Privilege, The ...
  • What should be done with illegal immigrants?
    That this question is even being asked reveals something about ourselves. How would you answer it if you were an illegal immigrant? Perhaps you've never heard of the Golden Rule. The rule may not be the best guide to moral behavior but asking yourself how you'd answer the question if you wer ...
  • A Revolting World
    Many in many lands are demonstrating against their governments. Some claim that people everywhere are revolting and that a worldwide revolution is imminent. Even both the orthodox and heterodox presses are all atwitter. But it is far easier to bring about a successful revolution than it is t ...
  • Demented Democracy
    An addiction to opinion, each person being entitled to his own, and the unwarranted notion that those who fight for their beliefs are "principled" is the reason that democracies teeter between antagonistic belief systems and are unable to resolve any social problems. Each party strives to re ...
  • Pity the Poor Economists
    The first thing a judicious reader notices is how much disagreement exists among economists on almost every, perhaps every, matter. Then it becomes clear that much of this disagreement is acrimonious. Some of these people appear to hate each other. Now ask yourselves, how likely would it hav ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Quote of the Day: Shutting Down the Government
    From Jamelle Bouie, writing about the possibility of a tea party-inspired government shutdown next month: Compared to 1995, today's GOP is far more anti-government and far more ideological than it was under Gingrich. For anyone who live through that era, this is hard to believe. But it ...
  • James Galbraith on Countervailing Powers
    My magazine piece on the decline of labor was all about labor's role as a countervailing power against the corporate community. The concept of countervailing powers is, of course, the brainchild of John Kenneth Galbraith, and today Ezra Klein talks to his son, James Galbraith, about how this ...
  • Obama Reverses Course on DOMA
    The Obama administration has decided to stop defending Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage for federal purposes as only between a man and a woman. This is from the Dept. of Justice statement: After careful consideration, including a review of my recommendation ...
  • The Worm Turns in Wisconsin
    What's the endgame in Wisconsin? Andy Kroll rounds up the possibilities today, and outcome #1 is that eventually the union busting bill passes. This has seemed the most likely outcome to me from the start. Gov. Scott Walker has run a very disciplined operation so far, he has a lot of leverag ...
  • Buying Justice
    Paul Waldman notes that New York state's chief justice recently announced that judges have to recuse themselves if a lawyer arguing a case before the court has contributed more than $2,500 to one of the judge's campaigns. You'd think that should have been obvious all along, wouldn't you? But ...

Insanity Report

  • Some People Deserve to Be Punched in the Throa ...
    What would Black History month be without some bullshit like this? Let me get this straight.  The most dangerous place for an African American is a womb because of the exploding outbreak of abortions right? oh ok. Funny, when we’re not talking about abortion everyone seems to be complaining abo ...
  • FacePalm of the Week: Glenn Beck Throws Stone ...
    I’ve been away for almost a week due to vacation so I’m still trying to catch up on all the things going on in the world. When this happens I can usually count on one of three people to help get me back on the path of tracking insanity: 1. Sarah Palin 2. Michele Bachmann [...]
  • IC 229: Taking Shit Too Far
    Topics for the show: Maybe Kriss went too far with the ‘Go Fuck Yourself’ Even if you have a PhD, you can’t just make stuff up Sharks are God’s way of telling us we ain’t shit Fantasia sounds like a Wookie You know, Unions are made up of real people. Someone tell the GOP Share [...]
  • Iraqi Informant Proud of Lies about WMDs
    LONDON — An Iraqi man whose testimony the United States used as a key evidence to build a case for war in Iraq says he is proud that he lied about his country developing mobile biological warfare labs. The Guardian newspaper published an interview Wednesday with Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, who ...
  • IC 228: Black Twitter & the Idiots Who Write ...
    Topics for the show: Slandering Olive Garden Lady Gaga and her attention whoring Tyrese writes a book and Jesus wept Black Twitter and the ignorant dumbasses who write about it The genders aren’t equal so just man the fuck up Allen West and other idiotic black republicans Share with your friends ...

Simple Climate

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

e!Science News

  • Analysis shows which people most likely found ...
    People found incompetent to stand trial are more likely to be unemployed, have been previously diagnosed with a psychotic disorder or have had psychiatric hospitalization, according to an analysis of 50 years of research, published by the American Psychological Association. read more
  • Is dairy colostrum the key to Olympic success?
    Scientists investigating natural ways to enhance athletic performance have found that bovine colostrum can massively reduce gut permeability – otherwise known as 'leaky gut syndrome.' Their findings, published in the March issue of the American Journal of Physiology-Gastrointestinal and Liver P ...
  • Planet formation in action?
    Using ESO's Very Large Telescope an international team of astronomers has been able to study the short-lived disc of material around a young star that is in the early stages of making a planetary system. For the first time a smaller companion could be detected that may be the cause of the large ...
  • Entire T-cell receptor repertoire sequenced re ...
    T-cell receptor diversity in blood samples from healthy individuals has been extensively cataloged for the first time in a study published online today in Genome Research (www.genome.org), setting the stage for a better understanding of infectious disease, cancer, and immune system disorders. r ...
  • Steroids to treat asthma: How safe are they?
    Children experiencing an asthma attack who are treated with a short burst of oral steroids may have a transient depression of immune response according to a new study led by Université de Montréal. These findings, published in this month's issue of Pediatric Allergy, Immunology and Pulmonology, ...

unEarthed

  • Toxic Air Pollution from Industrial Boilers to ...
    Increased protections for our right to breathe Earthjustice attorney Jim Pew has fought for these protections for over a decade. The EPA today issued its fi ...
  • Tr-Ash Talk: House Broken
    The Houseâs rabid attack on EPA authority to regulate coal ash Rep. David McKinley's amendment ties the EPAâs hands on the issue of coal ash—and sweetens the bottom line of industry. ...
  • Monday Reads: The Wildlife Meets Music Edition
    Animals' taste in music revealed (Creed doesn't make the cut) (Photo: drhstars01 / Photobucket) News headlines this week have prominently featured both musi ...
  • House Approves Anti-Environment Spending Bill
    House leaders give industry handouts and cut public health protections  It’s a shame that it took the House days and many late night and early morning hours to come up with a budget plan like this. And during the wee hours of 4: ...
  • House Majority Approves Anti-Environment Spend ...
    House leaders give industry handouts and cut public health protections  It’s a shame that it took the House days and many late night and early morning hours to come up with a budget plan like this. And during the wee hours of 4: ...

Brave New Climate

  • Advanced nuclear power systems to mitigate cli ...
    This is a modified version of the full conference paper. This is the most up-to-date executive summary available, written for a general — albeit technically conversant – audience, of the Integral Fast Reactor: 91st American Meteorology Society Annual Meeting, Jan 23-27, 2011, Seattle, WA  Sec ...
  • Open Thread 9 – technosolar catastrophe?
    This is the first Open Thread of 2011. The Open Thread is a general discussion forum, where you can talk about whatever you like — there is nothing ‘off topic’ here — within reason. So get up on your soap box! The standard commenting rules of courtesy apply, and at the very least your chat shoul ...
  • Safeguarding the nuclear fuel cycle
    Guest Post by Dr. William Hannum. A member of the Science Council for Global Initiatives, Bill worked for more than 40 years in nuclear power development, stretching from design and analysis of the Shippingport reactor to the Integral Fast Reactor. He earned his BA in physics at Princeton and hi ...
  • Gas aplenty, but UAE opts for nuclear – ...
    Dr Ziggy Switkowski (former CEO of Telstra, Optus and Kodak, recently retired Chairman of ANSTO, and now Chancellor of RMIT University) recently had an excellent article published in the Australian Financial Review. Unfortunately, there is no online version available, so for those who missed the ...
  • Climate Change – it’s complicated, but i ...
    I was recently invited to provide a response to an opinion article on climate change that was offered to “The Punch” website. The lead article can be read here: Itâs just too hard to understand climate change. My response, reproduced below (original here), should be read with this context in mi ...

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

  • Governor Scott Walker Breaks Multiple Laws
    Can anyone say perp walk?
  • Dear Rick Santelli – Fuck You
    Blaming public employee unions for the financial woes of the states. Fuck you. After the folks you represent (serve) on Wall Street stole so much money that they crashed the economy (and state’s budgets) and then the government had to bail them out because they were threatening to blow up the wh ...
  • David Koch – Destroying Democracy
    What does David Koch do when he is not trying to destroy democracy in America? Oh, I forgot. Pollute.
  • Wisconsin Concessions
    So the governator of Wisconsin believes the union folks have to make concessions. What concessions is he asking the filthy rich, and large corporations to make in his state? Oh, that’s right. They get handouts…. On the backs of the working folks.
  • Tea Baggers Wanted
    If you are a tea bagger the bus is leaving! Git on down to Virginia and climb aboard. If you are an idiot easily influenced by people that lie to you, you will fit right in. If you think giving billionaires tax cuts while cutting home heating oil subsidies is good for freezing senior citizens, [ ...

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

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  • No more negotiations: Back to 1967 borders now
    “Instead of abandoning the two-state solution, letâs modify it, make it less vague and less subject to manipulation. We can do that by shifting the goalposts back to the 1967 borders. We need to say that these borders of the future Palestinian state are a given, not a variable.” By Yossi Rapopo ...
  • Murder of Palestinian highlights Israeli judic ...
    According to the Israeli law system, if you’re an Arab and you beat a Jew to death, you’re a murderer. But if you’re Jewish and you stab an Arab, that’s manslaughter Some 18 months ago, the country was outraged when Leonid Arik Carp, a resident of Ramat Aviv, was attacked by a gang of youth, whi ...
  • From Madison to Cairo, the people are rising
    I canât help but wonder – is there a connection between the Wisconsin protests and the victory in Tahrir Square? It seems that no matter where you look these days, people are starting to stand for their rights. Here in the Mideast, the region is changing right before our eyes, at a pace that no ...
  • Media sidelines racist motives in killing of A ...
    Amid the revolutionary cheer that was emanating from Egypt last week, a group of Israeli Jews attacked and killed a Palestinian in the heart of West Jerusalem. 24-year-old Palestinian Hussam Rwidy was killed by a group of nationalist Jewish youth screaming “death to Arabs” as he was walking home ...
  • This is the occupation: A letter from a reason ...
    “Did I tear the screen that separated between my ordinary life and the backyard of the country I live in? I only know that what I have seen before my eyes will never disappear” I live in a decent apartment in a popular city, or at least you can say a city that is expensive to [...]

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Matt Weidner Blog

  • The Wall Street Wizards Caused All of This- Wi ...
    We all know that the mess this country faces is primarily the result of high stakes games that were played by Wall Street’s financial wizards.  The derivitives, the swaps, the pricing….it was all a game that was played both for and against all of us.  Shelter and Food are the two pillars of hu ...
  • Florida AG Announces Investigation Into Ben Ez ...
    Toss another foreclosure mill into the heap of problems being investigated by Florida’s Attorney General.  I just wonder whether anything will ever come of all this ‘nvestigating or whether it will all just be swept under a very, very, very big rug……..From Florida’s Attorney General: Allegation ...
  • Forget What You Think You Know About Justice&# ...
    I am so far beyond disturbed anymore.  I was disturbed a year ago after we went to Tallahassee and demanded a moratorium on foreclosures because of all the evidence of major problems.  I am sickened by what is happening in our courtrooms.  Courtrooms no longer symbolize for me the highest aspira ...
  • Egypt, Libya, Cop Killers In St. Petersburg an ...
    I’m encouraged to learn they may have caught the monster that gunned down a police officer just blocks from my home last night…a teenage monster, cop killer. I’m furious that taxpayers may be paying out the $100,000 reward…I’m even more furious that we’ll be paying out hundreds of dollars in dam ...
  • WHAT?!! One of the most shocking Robo Signer S ...
    Just when I thought I couldn’t be shocked or mind boggled anymore….something new crosses the wire that just leaves me speechless…. Robosigning Attorney Scandal….. Tweet this! Share and Enjoy: Scridb filter

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The Parallel Parliament

  • Affording Democracy – Canadian Idle
    When public services are only driven through a partisan lens, the effects on a country like Canada can be devastating, in part because they occur below the surface and away from the public eye. Here’s an example of what I’m talking about. Look at this chart. We’ve heard repeatedly in the last tw ...
  • Affording Democracy – Pushing the Noun
    At the end of the classic movie Inherit the Wind, lawyer Spencer Tracy casts a skeptical look at the journalist played by Gene Kelly and remarks, “You never pushed a noun against a verb except to blow up something.” Even back then (1960) the media was seen as more interested in sensationalism th ...
  • Affording Democracy – “Morning In ...
    So, it’s “Morning in America” again. The Republicans and the Tea Party recently celebrated what would have been Ronald Reagan’s 100th birthday by calling on the country to finish the revolution he started. This wouldn’t only be devastating for an America struggling under so many loads, it would ...
  • Can Canada Afford Democracy?
    Six months – even two months – ago, if pundits or politicians were asked, “If a scandal were to descend upon Ottawa, in which ministry do you think it would occur,” no one would have concluded CIDA or that its rather reclusive minister would be on the front page of every newspaper in the land. [ ...
  • Lighting the Kindling
    With all the hyper attention being paid to the unfolding drama of the CIDA minister this week, it’s important to remember that far greater issues are at stake. A couple of days ago I posted about the threat to the Canadian International Development Agency that comes with a scandal of this magnit ...

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

  • Obama’s 2012 budget does not bode well for saf ...
    In one of the more bizarre yet less publicized proposed cuts in the 2012 Obama budget, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Education and Research Centers are on the chopping block.  Bizarre, because the move is directly counter to Obama’s push on innovation and education a ...
  • Davos 2011 – Committed to changing the state o ...
    Cross-posted from the Risk Science Blog. As it did last year, the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos has left me with a daunting task – how do I summarize the highlights of the meeting in a single, short post? The answer of course is that I canât – Davos is so complex, diverse [...] ...
  • Davos 2011 – Partnering with teens to build a ...
    This is not a science and technology post – which is a bit odd for a science and technology blog.  But I wanted to introduce five people who together shake up the whole idea of the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos as being an elitist and increasingly irrelevant gathering of middle aged bal ...
  • Davos 2011: Global Risks permeate conversation ...
    Cross-posted from the Risk Science Blog. Take a metaphorical slice through this year’s annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, and Global Risk would be writ large through every part of it.  Hot on the heels of the sixth Global Risk report, this year’s meeting saw the launch of the Risk Re ...
  • Davos 2011 – physics superstar meets music sup ...
    I don’t usually write about personal interactions here, but this is one I couldn’t resist – physics superstar Lawrence Krauss talking cosmology with music superstar Peter Gabriel. I was with Lawrence at a World Economic Forum dinner when he bumped into Peter – as one does!  He immediately launc ...

Reader Supported News

  • More Than 200 Feared Dead in Libya Protest Cra ...
    Intro: "Witness describes 'massacre' as forces loyal to Gaddafi shoot unarmed protesters in Benghazi." Awaiting the wounded at the Suleimanieh Central hospital in Manama, Bahrain, 02/18/11. (photo: Caren Firouz/Reuters) Sorry, your browser cannot display frames!
  • Glenn Beck Falsely Links Planned Parenthood to ...
    Intro: "Glenn Beck devoted the February 18 edition of his Fox News show to promoting the false claim that Live Action's undercover videos showed Planned Parenthood abetting the sex trafficking of underage girls. Beck did not mention once during his hour-long show that, before any of the hoax vid ...
  • Qaddafi Vows No Mercy as Chaos Grows
    Bob Drogin and Raja Abdulrahim report: "Libyan strongman Moammar Kadafi offered no concessions to protesters who have shaken his regime by capturing several major cities, denouncing them as drunkards, terrorists and 'drug-fueled mice' who should be executed. But Kadafi's tough 75-minute nationwi ...
  • Private Emails Reveal an Obsessive Sarah Palin
    Intro: "A new memoir from an embittered former aide to Sarah Palin includes a trove of emails that vividly illustrate her intense focus on image and depiction in the media." A Tea Party supporter holds a Sarah Palin book, 11/01/10. (photo: Getty Images) Sorry, your browser cannot displa ...
  • Democratic Lawmakers Flee Indiana, as Protests ...
    The report begins: "Taking a page from the Democratic playbook in Wisconsin, Indiana Democrats fled to Illinois today to thwart Republican efforts to pass anti-union legislation." Labor protests have spread to Indiana, as Democratic lawmakers there flee the state, 02/22/11. (photo: Matt Detri ...

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

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

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

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Stop NATO

  • Stop NATO News February 23, 2011
    ==== stopnato-subscribe@yahoogroups.com ==== 1. Fidel Castro Says U.S. Plans NATO Invasion Of Libya 2. NATO-Ukraine Annual National Program Nears Completion 3. Afghan Capital: Explosion Hits District Near NATO Headquarters 4. Push For NATO Partnership Fuels Discord In Cyprus 5. Afghanistan: Geor ...
  • Stop NATO Digest February 22, 2011
    ==== stopnato-subscribe@yahoogroups.com ==== 1. Star Wars: U.S. Recruiting Space Allies 2. Space War: Pentagon’s Fourth Domain 3. Japan Assigns Medics To NATO’s Afghan War Mission 4. NATO Caucasus And Cental Asia Representative In Georgia For NATO Conference 5. Afghan Official: NATO Air Strike K ...
  • Africa: Global NATO Seeks To Recruit 50 New Mi ...
    Stop NATO February 20, 2011 Africa: Global NATO Seeks To Recruit 50 New Military Partners Rick Rozoff A recent article in Kenya’s Africa Review cited sources in the African Union (AU) disclosing that the 28-member North Atlantic Treaty Organization is preparing to sign a military partnership tre ...
  • NATO Surrenders Europe To U.S. Global Missile ...
    Stop NATO February 5, 2011 NATO Surrenders Europe To U.S. Global Missile Shield Project Rick Rozoff On January 27 the North Atlantic Treaty Organization took the most decisive step yet toward the implementation of the decades-old project first proposed by the Ronald Reagan administration for a S ...
  • Egypt: Will U.S. And NATO Launch Second Suez I ...
    Stop NATO February 2, 2011 Egypt: Will U.S. And NATO Launch Second Suez Intervention? Rick Rozoff On February 1 General James Mattis, commander of United States Central Command whose area of responsibility includes Egypt on its western end, stated that Washington currently has no plans to reinfo ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • More Dead Dolphins in the Gulf Raises Question ...
    AssociatedPress | February 23, 2011 Scientists have found four more dead baby dolphins on Horn Island in the Mississippi Gulf of Mexico and another on Ono Island off Orange Beach, Ala., adding to the unusually high number of dead dolphins found in the past two months. (Feb 23) Related Posts: Spi ...
  • NZ Military “Preparing for Large Exercis ...
    Before Its News by Zen Gardner February 23rd, 2011 Why all these “coincidences” involving natural disasters? Are they not “natural” after all? Here’s the excerpt that caught my eye this morning. It may not be evidence of anything, yet it might. After all, the U.S. military had a huge operation “ ...
  • Supreme Court & Pharmaceutical Terrorism
    IMVA By Dr. Mark Sircus February 22nd, 2011 The Supreme Court showed the world today that there is nothing supreme or noble about it and that it is as corrupt and cruel as most other governmental institutions. In a 6-3 vote, the high court ruled for Wyeth, saying they could not be sued for vacci ...
  • North American Union: Canada, U.S. Agree to Us ...
    Canada and the U.S. have signed an agreement that paves the way for the militaries from either nation to send troops across each other’s borders during an emergency, but some are questioning why the Harper government has kept silent on the deal. Ottawa Citizen February 22nd, 2011 Canada and the ...
  • Alaska State Rep Takes Boat After Refusing TSA ...
    Associated Press February 22nd, 2011 JUNEAU, Alaska — An Alaska state lawmaker is making her way back to the state capital of Juneau after refusing what she called an invasive pat-down search at a Seattle airport. Rep. Sharon Cissna, D-Anchorage, underwent a body scan as she was preparing to lea ...

FRS

  • Libyan east hails “freedom”
    REUTERS, Feb. 23, 2011 By Alexander Dziadosz BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) – Libyans celebrated the liberation of the east of the country from the rule of Muammar Gaddafi, who has vowed to crush the revolt and on Wednesday was trying to assert his grip on the capital Tripoli, in the west. Lying betw ...
  • Saudi Arabia watching Bahrain unrest
    Michael Birnbaum, Washington Post February 23, 2011 MANAMA, BAHRAIN â The morning after tens of thousands of demonstrators turned out in Bahrain’s capital to demand that King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa make democratic concessions or step aside, the monarch boarded a plane Wednesday to pay his resp ...
  • Philippines: An agreement by government and CP ...
    [Is the Communist Party of the Philippines-NDF is about to join the Prachanda-led forces in Nepal in bringing an end to people's war and adopting the "peaceful road" strategy?--a strategy which, in other countries, a number of formerly revolutionary parties have proclaimed when becoming parliame ...
  • Libya’s Moammar Gadhafi vows not to resign, de ...
    McClatchy Tribune, Wednesday, February 23, 2011 CAIRO â A defiant Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi vowed Tuesday not to resign and denounced the anti-government protesters who have challenged his regime as “greasy rats” and “drug-fueled mice” who deserve to be executed. “These gangs are cockroac ...
  • US: Attacks on unions spark class struggle
    New York Times, February 22, 2011 Thousands March on Capitols as Union Turmoil Spreads By SABRINA TAVERNISE and A. G. SULZBERGER COLUMBUS, Ohio — First Wisconsin. Now Ohio and Indiana. Battles with public employees’ unions spread on Tuesday, with Republican-dominated Legislatures pressing bills ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

  • Everyday Muslims at prayer
    Or: Finding the direction to Mecca in a Gap fitting room. Flickr photo
  • Criminalizing miscarriages
    A Georgia state representative has introduced a bill that would treat unsupervised miscarriages as potential crimes. If a miscarriage could not be proven to have occurred spontaneously, the woman will be subject to felony charges. Here's the bill. Scroll down and click on "latest version." Read ...
  • You're getting sleepy, very sleepy....and you ...
    Though there was some resistance, the military used psychological operations to influence senators and others to support the Afghanistan war. The list includes senators John McCain, Connecticut's Joe Lieberman, Jack Reed, Al Franken and Carl Levin, and well as Rep. Steve Israel of the House App ...
  • About that $1 billion a year in concessions fr ...
    ...Jonathan Pelto has something to say about that. I've wondered, myself, why state employee groups aren't crying foul more loudly, but maybe I don't hang out with enough state employee groups. Pelto writes: The number the Malloy Administration has used to “balance” the budget is not achievabl ...
  • Today's guest blogger: Susan Yolen, of Planned ...
    Susan Lloyd Yolen is vice president of public affairs and communications for Planned Parenthood of Southern New England. This is her first Still Small Voice blog. What is it about women as moral decision makers that so infuriates members of the US House? Many of those who voted late last week ...

Associated Content

  • Obama Reverses Stance on Defense of Marriage A ...
    The Obama Administration, after defending the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act, has decided to reverse itself and will now consider the Act unconstitutional. The Act remains on the books as challenges to it proceed through the courts.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Feb 2 ...
  • Are You Prepared for the Looming Government Sh ...
    As government officials battle it out over the budget, taxpayers are going to be left with the fallout of a government shutdown if they don't come to an agreement by March 4. There are several things you can do now to prepare yourself.Contributor: Chantalle Altland Published: Feb 23, 2011
  • Blogger Poses as Right-Wing Backer, Dupes Wis. ...
    A liberal Buffalo blogger posing as right-wing businessman David Koch managed to get a phone call with embattled Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. The conversation has stirred a lot of controversy and has people on both sides talking about the implications.Contributor: Jeanne Rose Published: Feb 23, ...
  • Chicago Election Results Sweep Emanuel into Ma ...
    The minute Rahm Emanuel left the Obama administration to run for Mayor of Chicago, he was the favorite. And the minute he was officially ruled as a Chicago resident after all, he had things wrapped up, as he sealed the deal officially last night.Contributor: Robert Dougherty Published: Feb 23, 2 ...
  • 2011 Oscar Countdown: Self Appearances by Host ...
    The two co-hosts for the 83rd Oscars are James Franco and Anne Hathaway, who are both very talented movie stars. Looking back at their guest appearances on television shows can help give a little insight into how well they might do.Contributor: Jeanne Rose Published: Feb 22, 2011

Popsci - Science

  • Science Tricks the Brain into Experiencing of ...
    If you’ve ever wondered what it might be like to have an extra arm, a team of Swedish researchers would love to show you. Scientists at the medical university Karolinska Institutet were wondering the same thing, so they set up an experiment to find out. It turns out it’s possible to experience ...
  • By Splitting the Hot from the Cold, a New Engi ...
    We really ask too much of our internal combustion engines--compression needs a cool environment and combustion a hot one--and the compromises made to accommodate those demands lead to abysmal efficiency. So a San Diego-based company is turning that around by splitting the engine into two parts- ...
  • Gallery: Terrifying Real-Life Zombies Walk The ...
  • With the World's Largest Antimatter Trap, UCSD ...
    Antimatter is a very fickle medium; infinitely interesting to study, it tends to disappear in a burst of gamma rays when it comes into contact with absolutely anything (anything that’s considered ordinary matter, anyhow). That property makes it difficult to get a good look at antimatter, so a t ...
  • Archive Gallery: How the World Will End
    A new ice age, exploding stars, the hypothetical Doomsday Machine, and more scenarios that are almost certain to eradicate life on Earth For all our talk on "the future now," there is one future we'd prefer to delay for the next five billion years, and that's the inevitability of our planet's d ...

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.

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

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

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Why China Isn't Going to Bail Out Europe's PIG ...
    And now for a feature with a little help from one of my cyber-friends. Iana Dreyer should be familiar to longtime IPE Zone reader via her previous blog Global Conditions. Having now joined the European Centre for IPE (ECIPE) headed by none other than the LSE's Razeen Sally, she is now a regular ...
  • Siberian Shuffle 2011: Russia Finally Joins WT ...
    Holy moley, I have written about Russia joining the WTO for practically the entire time this blog has been in existence [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]. To be sure, the Russians themselves have been the source of delay more often that not. It had ill-advised run-ins with neighbouring states Georg ...
  • LSE Alum Saif Qadhafi, Libyan Michael Corleone ...
    Just when I thought I was out...they pull me back in - Al Pacino as "Michael Corleone" in The Godfather III. When I was a wee lad, my uncle who was a big fan of The Godfather series forced me to watch these movies with him when I would much rather have watched The Smurfs. Being older--wiser I a ...
  • IPE Zone Fully Endorses US Gov't Shutdown
    It was quite an easy decision. After all, I am the sole author of the IPE Zone ;-) But seriously, I gather that one of the most popular video game series in the United States is called Unreal Tournament. In fact, I get the same feeling of unreality with budgetary discussions in the country that ...
  • Yanqui Protectionism: CFIUS, Huawei, and 3Leaf
    Here's another entry in the seemingly non-stop catalogue of US-China dustups. Given America's chronic external deficit, it must attract at least an equivalent amount of capital inflows to compensate. To date, the Chinese have been willing to purchase US Treasuries (perhaps more reluctantly in re ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • 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 ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U 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 ...

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

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

U N News

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

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Three GOP Governors Reject High-Speed Rail... ...
    Florida Gov. Rick Scott has become the third US governor to reject Obama’s high-speed rail plan by declining $2 billion of federal money meant to build an Orlando-to-Tampa high-speed rail line. This follows decisions by other Republican governors to reject funding for rail projects, suggest ...
  • Michelle Takes 'Private' Ski Vacation... To P ...
    �President Obama has been accused of having double standards after appealing for Americans to sacrifice their holidays just days before his wife and children went on a costly skiing trip.read more
  • Polio Vaccine... 60 Lab Studies Have Confirme ...
    Dr. Hilleman developed Merck's vaccine program. Beyond that milestone, he also oversaw the creation of more than three dozen vaccines given to billions. He developed more vaccines than any other single person in the history of medicine. ~ Terrence Aymread more
  • Obama Threatens Government Shutdown... 'Ending ...
    President Obama warned of stopped Social Security checks and issued a formal veto threat Tuesday to the Republican spending plan currently being debated in the House, setting the stage for a potential government shutdown next month. read more
  • The Federal Government Does NOT Fund Social Se ...
    Social Security is an investor funded program that has also been used to fund the government, it is NOT an entitlement program nor was it intended to be any form of welfare.� The 'entitlement' the government speaks of would be more aptly applied to them; they feeling they are entitled to ava ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • Max Keiser on Revolts: Americans Joining Middl ...
    Dozens of people have been reported killed in the Libyan capital Tripoli overnight as violence continues to spread across the country. Key administrative buildings have been set on fire, with thousands of anti-government activists still on the streets calling for an end to the 41-year rule of Co ...
  • Phil Donahue on “shut up and sing”
    More at therealnews.com Phil Donahue on corporate media and the Iraq war This post is courtesy of Robbie the Robot Please recycle. Don't throw away your peels Related posts:Betrayed in Iraq More at therealnews.com Leila Fadel: Leaders of Awakening Councils are... China and the Afghan War One War ...
  • Dentists in Moncton Support Poisoning of Monct ...
    I read on CBC where Moncton Dentists support the poisoning of citizens through their continued support of fluoridation. Either the Dentists in Moncton are dumber than dirt or they fear they must continue to support this poisoning, for to admit otherwise would open them to legal action for malpra ...
  • The VIEW FROM MOUNT FIAT – Your cost to cover ...
    North Americans, as a whole, are stupid. If you have not been following this blog or other Anti Anti-Truth sites, you are dumber than dirt and standing on the precipice of a cliff higher than Mount Everest. You are standing ON THE EDGE of Mount Fiat. If you think for that what you saw in [...] ...
  • Message to HBGary From Anonymous
    TRANSCRIPT OF ANONYMOUS MESSAGE TO HBGARY: Greetings HBGary (a computer “security” company), Your recent claims of “infiltrating” Anonymous amuse us, and so do your attempts at using Anonymous as a means to garner press attention for yourself. How’s this for attention? You brought this upon your ...

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

Bloomberg

Enviroblog

  • Fluoride in your water: How much is too much?
    By Sonya Lunder, EWG Senior Scientist Last month, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) proposed that public water systems cut back on the amount of fluoride they add to drinking water. Whether you live in a city... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for fu ...
  • Borax: Not the green alternative it's cracked ...
    By Rebecca Sutton, PhD, EWG Senior Scientist I'm just going to start with the bad news, OK? Borax is not a green cleaning ingredient, as many have been led to believe. Yes, the 20-mule team laundry booster box has a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, othe ...
  • Bottled Water Industry to EWG: Shut Up!
    By Alex Formuzis, EWG VP for Media Relations When the head of a public interest group (like, say, EWG) receives a threatening letter from one of the nation's top industry lobbyists, it generally means he's done something right. On January... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my websi ...
  • What's Inside: Clorox Shares a Little
    By Rebecca Sutton, EWG Senior Scientist Last week (Feb. 9), Clorox surprised me when it took a small step along the path to complete disclosure - and real consumer empowerment - by releasing a list of all the fragrance ingredients... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for f ...
  • Stewart to Pickens: "Is it horribly unsafe, is ...
    By Emily Ion, Dusty Horwitt, and Elaine ShannonOn a recent episode of Jon Stewart's "The Daily Show,"  Texas oil and gas executive T. Boone Pickens, proudly declared, "I have fracked 3,000 wells in my life.  I have never seen... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

  • F.A.Q.: Why do Chris Christie and Sarah Palin ...
    Put yourself in Christie's shoes. You're the governor of a Democratic-leaning state and you're constantly being attacked by your opponents as a right-wing ideologue with an extremist agenda. Wouldn't you jump at the chance to note that the son of one of ...
  • Tipsy 'Post' rants about Dems in far-off legis ...
    Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
  • How former liberal operative Josh Isay became ...
    On February 16, Josh Isay’s current and former clients dominated the local news. New York governor and former client Andrew Cuomo was threatening to usurp the duties of Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, a more recent client. The New York Times ran a 1,4 ...
  • Hello, 'Melo x 2 on tabloids today, but not on ...
    Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
  • Stagecraft warnings: Not all late Tennessee Wi ...
    The question naturally arises whether, hidden among the dusty playbills of the last decade of the great playwright's work, there's some gem that needs only a spit and polish to be rediscovered as one of Williams' greats. In the case of 1972's Small Craft Wa ...

Views & News from Norway

  • Oil prices soar to new heights
    Oil analysts in Oslo said they were almost trembling over the “dramatic” swings in oil prices on Thursday, as the value of Norway’s North Sea crude jumped to more than USD 119 a barrel. Widespread unrest in the Middle East threatened supplies, sending prices soaring. “This is dramatic, I’m sitti ...
  • Olympic boss suffers heart attack
    Gerhard Heiberg, the former Norwegian boss of the successful Olympics at Lillehammer who went on to join the International Olympic Committee (IOC), underwent surgery Thursday morning following what’s being called a mild heart attack. Heiberg, age 71, reportedly was on holiday in the mountains wh ...
  • Outrage after opening ceremony
    Television viewers in Norway were quick to air their fury at Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) after the state broadcaster kept interrupting what had been billed as live coverage of the opening ceremony for the Nordic World Ski Championships (Ski-VM 2011) Wednesday evening. They spread their scorn ov ...
  • Adecco director resigns in scandal
    The controversy surrounding illegal labour practices at public nursing homes run by employment firm Adecco Helse keeps growing, as further shocking revelations of labour law violations in several of the companies’ operations led to the resignation of Adecco Helse director BÃ¥rd Kristiansen. Fol ...
  • Outrage after opening ceremony
    Television viewers in Norway were quick to air their fury at Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) after the state broadcaster kept interrupting what had been billed as live coverage of the opening ceremony for the Nordic World Ski Championships (Ski-VM 2011) Wednesday evening. They spread their scorn ov ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Sustainable World Radio Interview with Doug We ...
    If you missed it, be sure to check out Part I of this interview, and then come back to this post to catch the finale. Part II of Sustainable World Radio’s interview with Doug gets into the nitty gritty of bacterial/fungi ratios and how and when to favour them, carbon sequestration and how to pr ...
  • The Myths of Globalization, Business and Money ...
    Permaculture teaches us to look at the physical and invisible forces at work in nature, communities, and society, and to neutrally observe how these energies impact the elements within a system, so that we may reorganize the resources we have available to use in a way that harnesses the useful a ...
  • Weekly Linkfest – Edition 17
    Welcome to round seventeen of our Weekly Linkfest, where we share the good, the bad, the ugly and the just plain interesting from what we’ve seen this week. I would greatly appreciate readers getting involved in this weekly linkfest. Please email editor (at) permaculture.org.au with links (and ...
  • Urban Permaculture Gets Redesigned
    by Frank Gapinski He looks like a rangy cowboy, but it’s not a six gun that he carries, but rather an artist’s pad and a felt pen marker. In his mid 50s and on a hot muggy Monday morning, Geoff Lawton and fifteen permaculture interns stride into a suburban home located in Lismore, NSW. The own ...
  • A Solar Powered Life – Part I
    Photo of the house showing some of the solar panels and solar hot water system I was happy to read that Zaytuna Farm had installed an off grid solar power system for their electrical requirements — “Advanced Solar, and independence, at PRI’s Zaytuna Farm”. However, upon reading the comments r ...

Telecrap Urinal

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

Anna's News

  • Court bars streaming of TV programming online
    In a key victory for television broadcasters, a federal court has ordered a Seattle start-up called ivi Inc. to stop distributing broadcast signals over the Internet without their consent.The U.S. District Court in New York issued a preliminary injunctionSubmitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �No ...
  • Battle of Sexes: Men fall, Women forgive
    Forgiveness sounds pretty good in literature that has been described as the highest kind of attitude. When it comes to real life, women are seen forgiving more than men that shows another emotional difference between two sexes. Submitted by Anna Smith to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Ad ...
  • 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. Submitted by Anna Smith to US Politics & Gov't ...
  • Weaker New Zealand quake packed a deadlier pun ...
    The latest New Zealand earthquake was a deadly combination of distance, depth and timing.While weaker than the one that rocked the area last September, it did more damage and cost lives, primarily because of its location. Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • 50 Awesome Blogs for Middle School Teachers
    It�s become more than a smidge cliche to ruminate on the difficulties facing tweens and teens as they attempt to navigate the tempestuous sea of hormones and middle school. But teaching them isn�t exactly lollipops and sugar pies, either ............Submitted by Anna Smith to Society & Culture ...

Medical Marijuana

  • 2/23/11 - Vaccines ProCon.org - US Supreme Cou ...
    vaccines.procon.org - UPDATED: Vaccines ProCon.org - On Feb. 22, 2011, the US Supreme Court ruled that vaccine injury claims must continue to be filed with the US Court of Federal Claims and cannot be filed directly against physicians or vaccine manufacturers in civil court.
  • 2/23/11 - Barack Obama Declares Defense of Mar ...
    gaymarriage.procon.org - Barack Obama Declares Defense of Marriage Act Unconstitutional - President Obama directed the Department of Justice today to stop defending in court the law that prevents gay marriage.
  • 2/14/11 - Health Care Reform Opinion Polls/Sur ...
    healthcarereform.procon.org - NEW: Health Care Reform Opinion Polls/Surveys - A Jan. 15-19, 2011 poll by CBS and the New York Times found that 40% of Americans want to repeal the March 2010 health care law while 48% want to let it stand. A Dec. 14-15 FOX News poll found that 59% of respondents ...
  • 2/14/11 - Help ProCon.org Win $5,000
    www.procon.org - Help ProCon.org Win $5,000: Write a short review of ProCon.org by Feb. 28 for a contest at GreatNonprofits.org. The most-reviewed nonprofit wins, so please take a few minutes and help us compete for the prize!
  • 1/06/11 - Are the new health care reform laws ...
    healthcareform.procon.org - UPDATED: Are the new health care reform laws constitutional? - A Virginia federal court ruled on Dec. 13, 2010 that the mandatory insurance provision was unconstitutional. At least 24 other legal challenges to the laws have emerged. Read pro and con statements about ...

Progressives United - Russ Feingold

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

Information Underground

  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    I have one disagreement. In one of your vids, you say 75% of the commissars were Jews. From Viscompte de Poncin's book "Freemasonary and Judaism" written in 1928, the following constituted the top level Bolshevic Government in 1919. SOVIET GOVERNMENT 1919 1.The High Commissaries of the Peopl ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Lets look at some of the points: 1. DBS is psycho Well, Isaac Newton was a nutcase but people aren't throwing his scientific principles out the window are they? In fact, sometimes angry people happen to get a lot done, they happen to be motivated. 2. DBS makes mistakes on his shows Yeah he doe ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Statistics: Posted by mchawe — Thu Feb 24, 2011 3:07 pm
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Really doubt there are going to be lots of TIU podcasts these days. As I said, was taking 2 weeks off, just got my office redone and hopefully good to go for a Sunday night show Statistics: Posted by Ognir — Thu Feb 24, 2011 2:11 pm
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is to be extradited to Sweden to face allegations of rape and sexual assault. Assange will appeal, his legal team confirmed. If this is unsuccessful, he will be extradited to Sweden in 10 days. Delivering his ruling at a hearing at Belmarsh magistrates court in ...
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