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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • PAKISTAN: Injecting Disease With Medicine
    Once every two weeks, 45-year-old Perween Riaz enters a place with a sign outside that says "Ghazi Medical Centre" where she gets injections for headache and nausea from someone people know is not a real doctor.
  • INDIA: Hindus Flock to Temples of Death
    Disasters caused by overcrowded pilgrim centres are as old as the religious festivals themselves, but a dramatic increase in stampedes in recent years has caused national concern.
  • Time to Drag Sextortion into the Light
    In their 2010 book "Half the Sky", Pulitzer Prize-winners Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn write about a disturbing but not uncommon problem in Southern Africa - male teachers who trade good grades for sex with students.
  • Central Asian Regimes Fear Unrest
    As revolutions and popular protests against dictatorships spread across northern Africa and the Middle East, questions are being raised whether they will inspire similar uprisings in Central Asia. Activists say that it is now a question of when, not if, regime change comes in the region. ...
  • MIDEAST: Gaza Protesters Prepare for March 15
    A look at the Tunisian and Egyptian uprisings that succeeded in ousting long- entrenched dictators confirms a universal truth: it is the youth who are leading the way in forcing reform in the Middle East.

Scoop - NZ

  • Saudis, refiners, oil crisis, and rationing | ...
    Opec oil producers look at pumping more to European refineries as Libyan rebels claim to have seized oilfields and terminals
  • Oil's 'inflexion point' and Wahabi central ban ...
    The greatest threat to the global economy is not the oil shock itself but the risk that central banks will commit a blunder, compounding the damage by tightening monetary policy at exactly the wrong moment.
  • Fisk: The Kingdom of Oil
    The Middle East earthquake of the past five weeks has been the most tumultuous, shattering, mind-numbing experience in the history of the region since the fall of the Ottoman empire. For once, "shock and awe" was the right description.
  • US Pulling Back from 'vital' Afghan Valley | N ...
    After years of fighting for control of a prominent valley in the rugged mountains of eastern Afghanistan, the United States military has begun to pull back most of its forces from ground it once insisted was central to the campaign against the Taliban and Al Qaeda. The withdrawal from the Pech V ...
  • Bild sweeps Guttenberg's trouble under carpet ...
    One is noble, the other powerful: the Minister for Defence and the editor in chief of Bild, Kai Diekmann, are brothers in arms “with a shared taste for hair products.” Die Tageszeitung deplores the “buy-yourself-an-opinion” credo that has resulted in an unprecedented symbiosis between Karl-Theod ...

Independent - London

Rogue Government.com

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Take That, Rumsfeld! Current U.S. Defense Secr ...
    West Point, N.Y. - Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates bluntly told an audience of West Point cadets on Friday that it would be unwise for the United States to ever fight another war like Iraq or Afghanistan, and that the chances of carrying out a change of government in that fashion again were ...
  • Happy childhood years 'more likely to lead to ...
    Those who enjoyed an idyllic childhood could find that life has a nasty trick in store because, it seems, they are more likely to divorce. Researchers found that men and women with a stable upbringing could have more confidence and so be more ready to leave a failing relationship. For the lon ...
  • Charlie Sheen: 'I am on a drug ... called Char ...
    After his sitcom "Two and a Half Men" was canceled over a bizarre radio rant on the Alex Jones show, actor Charlie Sheen sat down with ABC News to give more from his side of the story. Unfortunately, that's not what happened. Asked if his recent behavior was indicative of drug use, Sheen's answ ...
  • 'Anonymous' targets the brothers Koch, claimin ...
    The decentralized protest group "Anonymous" has a new target: no, it's not a middle eastern dictator, a major bank or even a bit player in the military-industrial complex. It's none other than tea party financiers Charles and David Koch, who were being targeted, an open letter stated, for the ...
  • Wolf in Shepherd's Clothing: 'God-like' Myster ...
    The curse of the Roman Catholic Church is clericalism. Through health care and education, priests and lay people have done noble, self-sacrificing work in the poorest, most needful places. Its churches stand dressed in Gothic and Renaissance art, and house the exalted music of, inter alia, Byr ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • The liberation of Libya . . .
    ACCORDING TO ALJAZEERA, "Libyan police stations torched ", "Clashes reported across the country, as security forces and government supporters confront demonstrators". Maybe, just maybe, it's Libya's turn. Khaddaffy Duck's gotta be worried . . .
  • This afternoon of the Sunday, I works very har ...
    ...at the vestiges of ideas left to me for two mark in essay formatting; by students of the second year. In University. Fearful do, for the furture of humanity's. as currently that misundergraduating people cannot writing. I am now of, the understanding of who Nigerian; email - spam for the sum ...
  • The future that never was
    PALEO FUTURE is a site that displays the prognostication of bygone days, from 1870 to the 1990s. Below, an ad from Hughes Aircraft Co., touting the videophone in your future.
  • The Glenn Beck Conspiracy Theory Generator
    Fair and Balanced Paranoia, Delivered on Demand. Really. Lots of fun. (H/T to Helmut)
  • Saturday Morning Cartoons.
    "Doesn’t he look sweet and crunchy, Agatha?"

Media Matters for America

  • Chris Wallace Clings To Canard That Governmen ...
    Chris Wallace pushed the myth that government spending has not helped the economy in order to dismiss a Goldman Sachs report concluding that the House GOP budget plan would be a "drag" on the economy. But economists have said that the economy would be far worse today without the 2009 stimul ...
  • Huckabee Distorts His Record On Tax Increases
    Mike Huckabee falsely claimed that he did not sign legislation that imposed a 3 percent income tax surcharge while he was governor of Arkansas. In fact, as The Associated Press reported of the tax legislation, Huckabee "signed it in 2003 without a peep." Huckabee Claims He Didn't Sign Bill That ...
  • Beck Sees Evidence For His Grand Conspiracy Th ...
    Glenn Beck has asserted that protests in the Middle East, Europe, and the United States are all part of a "grand plan" coordinated by American leftists and Islamists working together to destroy Israel and the West and install a global caliphate or a new world order. In an attempt to validate th ...
  • Sean Hannity Forecasts World War III
    Sean Hannity recently joined his Fox News colleague Glenn Beck in pushing the theory that Middle East protests may lead to global unrest and, in Hannity's words, "World War III." Hannity previously claimed in 2006 that World War III (or possibly World War V) was already here.Hannity: World War ...
  • Caution: Alex Jones Is Using Sheen-Related Med ...
    Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been on a media blitz to discuss his bizarre interview with Charlie Sheen. Jones said on his radio show that he is using his appearances to promote his website, where he touts conspiracy theories claiming about involvement in disasters and terrorist attacks.Jo ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Libya On My Mind
    In early 2007, on two separate trips, I taught entrepreneurial business planning to an executive training program in Libya. The course was organized by Monitor Group, which I had worked for in the early 1990s, and was now consulting to the government on economic planning and "capacity building." ...
  • The Top 10 Names for the "Pro-Life," Pro-Cance ...
    Nothing says "sanctity of life" better than cervical cancer, breast cancer, and HIV!�That's why on February 18th, so-called "pro-life" members of the House of Representatives, voted 240 to 185 to defund�Planned Parenthood, a premier women's healthcare provider for nearly a century, serving 3 mil ...
  • PsyOps, Afghanistan, and Al Franken
    With all the controversy stirred by Michael Hastings' Rolling Stone article about the role of Army psychological operations units in hosting congressmembers (i.e. trying to manipulate them) I noticed Sen. Al Franken among the "targets." This prompts me to recount relate an episode from the 2008 ...
  • The Republican Shakedown
    You can't fight something with nothing. But as long as Democrats refuse to talk about the almost unprecedented buildup of income, wealth, and power at the top - and the refusal of the super-rich to pay their fair share of the nation's bills - Republicans will convince people it's all about gover ...
  • Did General Caldwell Point his Psy-Ops Team at ...
    Rolling Stone's Michael Hastings is a consistent home run hitter. First, he profiled the culture of disdain that General Stanley McChrystal and his command staff had for their civilian leadership partners -- ending McChrystal's storied military career. Now, Hastings has something right out ...

TruthOut

  • Out-of-Whack Budget Whackers: Washington's Fer ...
    Let's play a game called "Washington Budget Whackers Go Wacky"! Unfortunately, though, it's not a game. Ax-wielding Republicans and Democrats alike are madly whacking at our nation's public programs in a political contest to show which of them is the scroogiest of all. read more
  • Left Behind? American Youth and the Global Fig ...
    [O]ne has no choice but to do all in one's power to change that fate and at no matter what risk - eviction, imprisonment, torture, death. For the sake of one's children, in order to minimize the bill that they must pay, one must be careful not to take refuge in any delusion. - James Baldwin(1)re ...
  • Scapegoating Social Spending
  • E.J. Dionne, Jr. | Why the Wisconsin Fight Mat ...
    Washington - This is not the first time that Wisconsin has been at the center of national agitation over the role of unions. The earlier battle was staged in Sheboygan at Kohler, the legendary manufacturer of kitchen, bath and furniture products. The employees at Kohler had voted to join the Un ...
  • Revisiting the FBI's Dirty War on Black Americ ...
    Thanks to a CNN documentary airing this week, the tale of FBI informant Ernest Withers is now well known. The black photographer spent years busily documenting the civil rights movement and capturing candid images of its leaders, most notably Martin Luther King, Jr.read more

Planetsave

  • Tree Planting World Record Set in Philippines
    Over 64,000 trees were planted in 15 minutes last Thursday, setting a world record for the largest number of trees being simultaneously planted (who counted the trees, I’m not sure, but the Guinness Book of World Records confirmed that everything was correct and the counting was accurate). The p ...
  • New Wireless(!) Electric Bike That Can Charge ...
    Take a close look at Daymak’s new Shadow eBike wireless bicycle and see if you can spot what they mean by âwirelessâ. Did you see it, yet?  Iâll admit:  it took me a few glances to âgetâ the fact that this is the worldâs first, electric-motor-equipped bicycle that is FULLY wireless, meaning: ...
  • NASA Spacecraft Images New Zealand Quake Regio ...
    A day after a powerful magnitude 6.3 earthquake rocked Christchurch, a city of 377,000 on New Zealand’s South Island, on Feb. 22, 2011, the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument on NASA’s Terra spacecraft imaged the Christchurch region. The imaging was ...
  • Local or Vegetarian Food, Which is More Import ...
    Have you ever wondered which is better for the environment and for fighting global warming/climate change, eating local food or eating vegetarian? A study published on this matter in the journal Environmental Science & Technology answers that question you. Have an idea? Check if you’re right by ...
  • Imagine A World Without Oil [INFOGRAPHIC]
    Oil. It’s the single-most important resource for transportation in the world, but its use goes well beyond that. As a finite resource that can be attributed to much of the damage that has been done to the environment by man in the last century, many in the world are waking up to the fact that... ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • What Does the Libyan Opposition Want? - Africa
    As everyone knows, Muammar Gaddafi is an authoritarian dictator.  Authoritarian dictators are a dime a dozen in world history, though, so that is not what would distinguish him from the rest of his kind in history books.  What might make him stand out is this: in the twilight of his...
  • Protests in the gulf widen - World News
    DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Protests against the tight grip of Persian Gulf rulers widened Sunday as riot police in Oman battled pro-democracy demonstrators in a deadly clash that raised tensions in the region. Tiny Bahrain already is in turmoil and giant Saudi Arabia is seekin ...
  • Deaths in Oman protests - World News
    At least two people killed in industrial town of Sohar as police clash with anti-government demonstrators. At least two people have been killed in an industrial town in the northeast of Oman, after police fired rubber-coated bullets at anti-government protesters. ...
  • The American Civil War Redux: A Middle Class ...
    The thing about an epiphany is that it shouldn’t come as a surprise. It happens when we finally feel . . . a deep-in-our-marrow feel . . . what we know to be true. It is a collision of heart and mind. Both my wife and I are teachers who...
  • Analysis of the Global Insurrection Against Ne ...
    Guest Post: Analysis of the Global Insurrection Against Neo-Liberal Economic Domination and the Coming American Rebellion – We Are Egypt [Revolution Roundup #3] 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 f ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Big Business imposes its own "taxes," too
    When you really get down to it, what is the difference between the legal compulsion to pay taxes that are used to pay the salaries of government workers (who use those wages to support their unions), and the practical necessity of paying people like Charles and David Koch $4.50 a gallon for gas ...
  • Something's Happening Here
    Wanna believe? Believe in this: Protest sign in Madison: "The faith I have lost in our system has been replaced by a faith in the people" From Digby: However, while reading those two article together makes it seem that the allegedly populist Tea Party is an up from the bottom movement of ordinar ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    Send Gaddafi the bill for this one. "Libya's border with Tunisia is being overrun with migrants, many of them from Egypt, fleeing turmoil in Libya, aid workers say. A UN refugee official told the BBC that 20,000 Egyptians were stranded and needed food and shelter. Many are sleeping in the open d ...
  • Gotta Love The Corporate Media
    ON A DAY WITH 100,000 DEMONSTRATORS IN A SNOWSTORM... Not a flipping word about the world's biggest rectal orifice also being found in the governor's mansion in that state.
  • Voices of Organized Labor in Jefferson City on ...
    Previously: Rallies in Jefferson City, Saturday, Feb. 26th: support organized labor or teabaggers, your pick (February 24, 2011) Rallies in Jefferson City, Saturday, Feb. 26th: organized labor or teabaggers - photos (February 26, 2011) Indications of the lunatic fringe, on a vehicle parked near ...

Care 2

  • Wis. Family Cat Found 100 Miles Away
    A cat from Wisconsin made quite the journey. Just when everyone had given up hope of finding him, Santa helped reunite a family. Bam Bam, a 7-year-old tabby cat, had a history of wandering off, but never for weeks at a time Submitted by Yrna M. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Little Fish Exploding in Number, Models Show
    There are still plenty of fish in the sea�they're just the little ones, new models suggest... Submitted by Mary Patricia E. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Indianapolis Zoo getting orphaned Fla. dolphin
    Taz, a 6-month-old orphaned dolphin is getting a "home" at the Indianapolis Zoo. Taz is an Atlantic bottlenose dolphin that was found stranded Jan.13 on a sandbar off Sanibel Island, Fla. The zoo says it's been selected as the new home for Taz.Submitted by Yrna M. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� � ...
  • 6 Animals Humanity Accidentally Made Way Scari ...
    On any given day, we might get food poisoning from the entire roast chicken we ate for lunch, catch bird flu from the bi-weekly cockfight we attend behind the Circle K, or crash our car while swerving to hit some smug-ass deer, taunting us from ...Submitted by Bojan R. to Animals �|� �Note-it! ...
  • Saving The Wild Horses Of The Danube Delta (Ro ...
    FOUR PAWS has delivered 105 tons of fodder to Romania in an effort to prevent a population of 2500 wild horses from being culled. At the same time the local authorities, which see the animals as a threat to the protected marshlands, have agreed to put plaSubmitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� ...

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • “Intafada of the Starved” (& Open Thread!)
    Editor’s Note: Larry Johnson and Pat Lang are on John Batchelor’s Show tonight @ 9:30 p.m. ET. (The John Batchelor Show, nightly, 9 p.m.-1:00 a.m. ET.) Listen via iTunes (instructions), or go to NYC’s WABC, John’s anchor station, and click “Listen Live.” : : : : : : : : : : : : : [...]
  • Libya When Prisoners Had to Sing Tributes to t ...
    I took this video clip in March 2010 when I visited Tripoli, Libya and was interested in counter-terrorism activities of the Libyan government. When I was there, we were taken to a prison where hundreds of prisoners — most of whom were either Libya Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) members or other ...
  • What We Don’t Know About the Middle East
    The romantics and the naive celebrate the outbreak of “democracy” in Egypt, Libya, Bahrain, Yemen, Algeria and the potential to spread to Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Jordan and maybe Iran. If this was a Hollywood movie that might be a reasonable point of view, but something else is going on. Let’s st ...
  • Moon Minor
    The Obama administration presides over the end of shuttle and manned space for the US for the forseeable future, and this is a blow to engineering and national security. The moon colony is the logical step. The Chinese will go for it, however haphazardly, as long as the Communist Party sees the ...
  • Snowy Saturday Open Thread [Update]
    UPDATE: At the very end, I have added an Egyptian Facebook acquaintance’s image — he has replaced his face with “Free Libya” — and his choice for his favorite song of the “revolution.” Oh my. I overslept, and how. I am stuck at home. The snow is standing tall given temperatures in the 20s, … [.. ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • The Eruption of Mount Semeru as it Happened in ...
    The spectacular beauty of Mount Semeru erupting in 2004, as captured in a stunning sequence of pictures. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Incredible Images of Human Scar Tissue Seen at ...
    Almost beyond our imagination, these are some of the most extraordinary and beautiful images from a pathologist’s lab. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Amazing Microscopic Images from the Natural ...
    Incredible science images from the Wellcome Image Awards that show animal life like never before. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Oldest Fossils on Earth Tell of Earliest Oxyge ...
    Fossils of life forms from 600 million years ago were found at a place that was thought to be oxygen-free. How did they develop? read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Thunder Thighs: The Dinosaur that Shook the Ea ...
    A dinosaur named Thunder thighs was recently discovered in Eastern Utah. Find out why this paleontological relic had such great legs! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • U.N. Unveils Tool for Tracking Progress of Cli ...
    The United States, for example, offers a submission spelling out its views on how a committee on adaptation should be structured, financed and operated.
  • On Our Radar: Spain Lowers Speed Limit as Oil ...
    It will also reduce the cost of rail fares and raise the minimum percentage of biofuels blended into gasoline in a bid to reduce oil dependence.
  • Does the Southwest Face a Mega-Drought?
    The added warmth from emissions of greenhouse gases could tip the Southwest into an era of severe drought potentially lasting a millennium or more, a researcher says.
  • A Tipping Point for Oil Prices
    Most economists think that while high by historical standards and an impediment to growth, oil prices are not high enough to completely derail the economic recovery. But if prices go much higher, all bets are off.
  • A Mini-Compromise in California's Water Wars
    Two sides agree on how to protect the endangered delta smelt while managing water deliveries through the West Coast's largest and most degraded estuary -- but only through the end of June.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

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

Daily Censored

  • Its Time, That 1,000 lb Gorilla In The Corner& ...
    It started with someone praising Donald Trump for saying that the first thing he would do is put a tariff on Chinese goods if he was to be elected President.   And I replied… NO, A THOUSAND TIMES NO. The problem with the items from China is not that the jobs are going there. They have [...]
  • Tax breaks for the rich v. Budget Cuts for the ...
    By Donna Cooper | February 22, 2011 House leaders are unfortunately restricting their proposed budget cuts for the remainder of fiscal year 2011 to nonsecurity discretionary spending in an attempt to tame a $1.3 trillion deficit. This approach is especially shortsighted since the Federal Treasur ...
  • Thai web forum host facing 50 years in prison ...
    Thai web forum host facing 50 years in prison as authorities prosecute censorship law violations By Michael I. Niman Special to Daily Censored Februrary 28th 2011 Chiranuch Premchaiporn manages Thailand’s independent alternative news website Prachatai.com. In 2008, one or more unidentified reade ...
  • Fox News blasts protestors in Wisconsin
    Image: 47whitebuffalo’s Blog49tweetsretweet By: Jason Easley Fox News’ legal analyst Peter J. Johnson attacked the Wisconsin protesters as vile, “I mean this is really vile, in my view. What is this Facebook central? They’ve covered the capitol with posters on the walls. They’re sleeping on the ...
  • MOVEMENT FOR JUSTICE: BAMN organizes to save s ...
    SAVE OUR CITY! SAVE OUR SCHOOLS, JOBS & SERVICES! All Out for the March 2 National Day of Action Wednesday, March 2nd: RALLY at 12PM – at Gullen Mall, Wayne State University MARCH at 1PM down Woodward towards downtown 4:30PM – Rally at City/County Building (2 Woodward Ave., in front of Spirit of ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

Institute for Policy Studies

Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • Faster Response to Foodborne Outbreaks Makes " ...
    Three years after a Salmonella outbreak, first linked to United States Tomatoes and then Mexican Peppers, that sickened about 1,500 people and claimed two lives, U.S. epidemiologists have learned that speed is of the essence in identifying sources of food contamination and preventing further inf ...
  • Merle's BBQ Restaurant linked to Clostridium p ...
    According to press reports, the City of Evanston said Merle’s BBQ Restaurant was the source of a recent food borne illness outbreak that caused 30 people to get sick. The Evanston restaurant was catering parent/teacher conferences at Haven Middle School on Feb. 16, and people reported falling i ...
  • Dubai Food Safety Conference Starts Sunday
    Checking in to the Burj Al Arab at 11:00 PM Friday after a flight from Seattle to Atlanta and Atlanta to Dubai, left me a few more hours to tweak by Power Point for my lunch time speech at the Dubai Food Safety Conference on Monday. Hopefully, the attendees will be paying attention to my speech ...
  • Find Your Health Department to Report Food Poi ...
    Most state health departments encourage consumers to report food poisoning incidents to local health departments.� Food Safety News has provided links (see below) to pages on state health department or public health association Web sites where you can directly report a foodborne illness, or wher ...
  • Call for Nominations for up to four state or l ...
    The IAFP Foundation, through a contribution from Marler Clark, will fully support travel, hotel and registration expenses for up to four state or local health or state agricultural department employees to attend IAFP 2011.� Click here for the Awards criteria and Application form.� (Note: the app ...

AutoblogGreen

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

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Union Voices from Madison: "We Will Be Out Her ...
    Rank and file union members are among the thousands protesting Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s "budget repair" bill that would strip public workers of their right to collective bargaining. In this web exclusive video from the streets of Madison, Democracy Now! speaks to union members who ha ...
  • Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa on Eg ...
    Secretary General Amr Moussa is widely expected to run for president of Egypt in the country’s elections scheduled to be held in six months. In a diplomatic career that has spanned more than half a century, Moussa is currently one of Egypt’s best-known politicians. From 1991 to 2001, he served ...
  • Uprisings: From the Middle East to the Midwest
    As many as 80,000 people marched to the Wisconsin state Capitol in Madison on Saturday as part of an ongoing protest against newly elected Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s attempt to not just badger the state’s public employee unions, but to break them. The Madison uprising follows on the heels o ...
  • Arrest of CIA Agent Sheds Light on American Co ...
    U.S. officials have admitted an American detained in Pakistan for the murder of two men was a CIA agent and a former employee of the private security firm Blackwater, now called Xe Services. Up until Monday, the Obama administration had insisted Raymond Davis was a diplomat who had acted in sel ...
  • Matt Taibbi: "Why Isn't Wall Street in Jail?" ...
    Nobody goes to jail,” "writes Matt Taibbi in his the new issue of Rolling Stone magazine. “This is the mantra of the financial-crisis era, one that saw virtually every major bank and financial company on Wall Street embroiled in obscene criminal scandals that impoverished millions and collect ...

Digg Green

  • ‘Round-The-Clock’ Lifestyle Could Disrupt ...
    In Civilization and Its Discontents, Sigmund Freud argued that modern society was hard on human psychology, forcing people to get along in unnaturally close quarters. Now newly published research points out a different discontent in the developed world, namely, the disruption of our natural ...
  • High School Atheists Are Organizing -- Wh ...
    High school non-theist groups are getting dedicated support from a national organization but their schools are flipping out. What does this mean for the future of atheism?
  • Robotic fish could both save and enslave ...
    Fish are under constant threat from natural disasters, chemical spills, and even boat turbines. Their best chance for survival might be leaders who know when danger is imminent and lead the others to safety...and those leaders might be robot fish.
  • The Brain Seeing the Person Behind the Fa ...
    Neuroscience sleuths are on the case of face blindness, a strange malady that makes some people unable to distinguish friend from foe.
  • Ugly US medical experiments uncovered
    Shocking as it may seem, U.S. government doctors once thought it was fine to experiment on disabled people and prison inmates. Such experiments included giving hepatitis to mental patients in Connecticut, squirting a pandemic flu virus up the noses of prisoners in Maryland, and injecting ca ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • The Madman Sees a Kindred Spirit
    By Les Visible I would have to say that the whole world has gone through the looking glass and things that just wouldn’t happen on one side of the mirror are pro forma on the other. Here we see a telling example of just that. A few weeks ago, I said that when that Tunisian [...]
  • Saudi King rushes home; announces $10.7b new b ...
    Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah on Wednesday announced a series of benefits for citizens amounting to $10.7 billion, as he returned to the country after he spent three months abroad for health treatment, state television reported. The steps include funding to offset high inflation and to aid young ...
  • US Commanders Insist Afghan Parents Burn Kids ...
    And maybe they Afghan rebels override the controls on drones and fire missiles at themselves and they use cluster bombs to annihilate entire families at weddings… By Jason Ditz Reports that Gen. David Petraeus, the top US Commander in Afghanistan, accused parents in rural Kunar Province of burni ...
  • Roundup, GMOs linked to emergence of deadly ne ...
    By Mike Adams In a shocking warning letter to USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack, a highly experienced, ex-military pathogen researcher warns that the use of Roundup via GMO crops is resulting in the emergence of a deadly new pathogen — previously unknown to science — that’s causing widespread spontaneo ...
  • Experimental cancer drugs killing far more peo ...
    By David Guiterrez Experimental cancer drugs harm far more people than they help, according to a study conducted by researchers from Duke University Medical Center and published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. “This sounds a cautionary note,” lead researcher Jeffrey Peppercorn said. “In mos ...

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • Zaragoza’s Solar-Powered Spanish Pavilion is S ...
    Rising like a poplar forest from the banks of the Ebro river, Francisco “Patxi” Mangado‘s sustainably built Spanish Pavilion boasts a brilliant brise soleil composed of 750 ceramic pillars. This field of pillars shelters the interior spaces from the strong Spanish sun, while a pond at the buildi ...
  • Environmental Documentaries Bring A Green Them ...
    Gasland Gasland is the a visually provocative story by writer director Josh Fox who was inspired to explore the dangers of gas drilling when he was offered money to drill at his property in Pennsylvania. Certainly one of the most controversial films up for nomination, Gasland documents sever hea ...
  • Designer Ada Zanditon Unleashes the “Cryoflux” ...
    Britain’s design darling Ada Zanditon continues to shine bright in the fashion world, unleashing her latest line at the On/Off showcase at London Fashion Week last Friday. A clean and well-calculated collection inspired by Antartica, her clothing featured froms that towed the lines of femini ...
  • Actress Emma Watson Debuts Her Third—and Final ...
    Beyond watching superstar Jane of all trades Emma Watson grace the silver screen in Harry Potter, we’ve also become enamored with her work with fair trade clothier People Tree. Watson who has collaborated with the eco-conscious label for the past two seasons has recently launched her third line ...
  • Parasitic Emergency Homes Can Be Implanted Ont ...
    Read the rest of Parasitic Emergency Homes Can Be Implanted Onto Abandoned Buildingshttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: cargo collective, Eco ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Exotic Superfluid Found in Ultra-Dense Stellar ...
    The ultra-dense remains of the galaxy’s youngest supernova is full of bizarre quantum matter. Two new studies show for the first time that the core of the neutron star Cassiopeia A, is a superfluid, a friction-free state of matter that normally only exists in ultra-cold laboratory settings. âTh ...
  • Brain-Wasting Prions Amass Before Dealing Deat ...
    Infectious proteins that cause brain-wasting conditions like mad cow disease appear to build up in the brain long before initiating the cascade of deterioration that leads to dementia and death, a new study of mice finds. The findings suggest that other factors besides the misshapen infecti ...
  • How One Nuclear Skirmish Could Wreck the Plane ...
    WASHINGTON — Even a small nuclear exchange could ignite mega-firestorms and wreck the planetâs atmosphere. New climatological simulations show 100 Hiroshima-sized nuclear bombs — relatively small warheads, compared to the arsenals military superpowers stow today — detonated by neighboring c ...
  • Mosquito-Attacking Fungus Engineered to Block ...
    By John Timmer, Ars Technica Although public health efforts have eradicated some diseases and helped limit the impact of many others, malaria continues to present a massive public health issue. A large fraction of the world’s population lives in areas where the parasite poses a risk, and it ...
  • Navigational ‘Magic’ of Sea Turtles Explained
    For centuries, determining longitude was an extremely difficult task for sailors, so difficult that it’s been thought improbable — if not impossible — for animals to do it. But migratory sea turtles have now proved capable of sensing longitude, using almost imperceptible gradients in Earth’s ma ...

PakAlert

  • War, Martial Law, and the Economic Crisis
    A new report by the U.S. Army War College talks about the possibility of Pentagon resources and troops being used should the economic crisis lead to civil unrest, such as protests against businesses and government or runs on beleaguered banks.
  • Is Barack Obama About To Order The U.S. Milita ...
    As insane as it might sound, the United States may soon be getting involved in another war in the Middle East. According to White House spokesman Jay Carney, "no options" have been taken off the table when it comes to the situation in Libya. By saying that "all options" are being considered, t ...
  • Mob Robbers And Rampant Looting: Is This The F ...
    Have you ever heard of mob robberies? What happens is that dozens of young people storm a store at the same time, take whatever they want, and then storm out as powerless store clerks watch helplessly. Most of the time these "mob robbers" end up getting caught, but unfortunately "group crime" ...
  • “RAYMOND DAVIS” – CAN IMRAN KHAN SAVE AMERICA’ ...
    The standoff between the United States and Pakistan over the arrest of contractor Raymond Davis is not going to be solved unless both nations take a step into that “no man’s land” of trust and honesty. There is no question about diplomatic status, this was a clumsy mistake made by State Departm ...
  • In Photos: Recent Anti-Gov Roits and Clashes i ...
    Youths wearing ski masks hurled rocks and fire bombs at riot police as clashes broke out in Athens during a mass rally against austerity measures, part of a general strike that crippled services and public transportation around the country. Police fired tear gas and flash grenades at protesters, ...

Andy Worthington

  • The New American Revolution: Are Wisconsin&#82 ...
    As citizens of Western countries are inspired by the revolutions in the Middle East — and in particular, I think, by witnessing the unquechable determination of so many people to throw off the shackles of tyranny, no matter the cost — the first battleground to open up in the United States is Mad ...
  • Tunisia: The Unfinished Revolution, as Prime M ...
    Six weeks after Tunisia’s long-serving dictator, Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, was forced to flee the country after the popular uprising that has inspired similar movements throughout the Middle East, Mohamed Ghannouchi, who was the head of the transitional government that took over from Ben Ali, has ...
  • NGO Letter to Chair of UK Torture Inquiry, Rai ...
    In a recent article, Lawyers and Human Rights Groups Criticize Proposed UK Torture Inquiry, As the Government Fails to Address the Return of Shaker Aamer, the Last British Resident in Guantánamo, I addressed the concerns raised by nine NGOs — Amnesty International, Cageprisoners, JUSTICE, Liber ...
  • Lawyers and Human Rights Groups Criticize Prop ...
    “Whitewash” is a powerful word, but when it comes to the British government’s proposed judicial inquiry into British complicity in torture abroad in the years since the 9/11 attacks, Amnesty International and a number of prominent British NGOs — including Cageprisoners, JUSTICE, Liberty, the Med ...
  • Video: Andy Worthington Discusses the Revoluti ...
    On Friday, I spoke for the first time with the libertarian radio host Ernest Hancock, on his show Freedom’s Phoenix, about the revolution in Libya, following the publication of my recent articles, Revolution in Libya: Protestors Respond to Gaddafiâs Murderous Backlash with Remarkable Courage; US ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Neo-Confederates March up Dexter Avenue for Se ...
    Itâs hard to say exactly what the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) remembered so fondly on Saturday during a sesquicentennial celebration of Confederate President Jefferson Davisâ inauguration: a way of life that has been dead for a century and a half, or the day when the public at large appre ...
  • GOP, Caving in to Anti-Gay Groups, Tells GOPro ...
    Itâs official: The âbig tentâ of conservatism is big enough to include gay men and lesbians â just as long as they donât support same-sex marriage, gays in the military or other gay rights. âItâs got nothing to do with the orientation, itâs got to do with the principles that you advocate,â Ameri ...
  • Dearborn, Mich., Police Arrest Man in Apparent ...
    A 63-year-old Southern California man who reportedly has “a long history of antigovernment activities” was arrested in a car laden with explosives outside one of the nation’s largest mosques, the authorities said Sunday. More than 500 members of the Dearborn, Mich., mosque were attending a funer ...
  • Bias-Crimes Cop Accuses Suffolk County Executi ...
    Over the last several years, Suffolk County, N.Y., has been a hotbed of anti-Latino hate, a place that became infamous for the brutal murder of an Ecuadorian immigrant by a gang of white teens who were out for a night of âbeaner hopping.â County Executive Steve Levy (right) has taken his share o ...
  • Investigators: White Power Guerrilla Manual Be ...
    Two men charged with attempting to kill police officers in Hemet, Calif., used what prosecutors are calling a white power “guerrilla warfare manual” to guide a nine-month campaign of terror and violence against the police department, its buildings and vehicles. The anonymously written “White Res ...

change: org.

  • Oil and Gas Company Sets Sights on Greater Yel ...
    The Grand Tetons: home to spectacular views, natural wonders, prestigious wildlife and ... gas wells? Sound like a nightmare? If Plains Exploration and Production Company, or PXP, has its way, that nightmare could become a reality. The proposed project would place 136 natural gas wells along the ...
  • U.S. Plans to Deport Civil Engineering Student
    Brought to the United States when he was only two years, Mariano Cardoso faces deportation after living in Connecticut for over twenty years. He aspires to be a civil engineer, but those dreams were put on hold when ICE burst into his home without a warrant in August 2008, and arrested and place ...
  • Baby Steps Towards Licensed Midwives in Illino ...
    Right now, despite the best efforts of midwifery advocates, Illinois women do not have access to state-licensed midwives. Illinois provides no certification for midwives, leaving the roughly 800 to 1,000 women annually who want to have a home birth to rely on an unlicensed, unregulated midwife. ...
  • Activists Battle to Ban Sale of Live Animals a ...
    Live birds, turtles and frogs are all on the list of "products" you can purchase at some California farmers' markets, but if animal activists have their way, live animals sales will be taken off the menu. There is only one market in San Francisco that allows live chickens and other birds to be p ...
  • Last Chance to Stop the Deportation of Dreamer ...
    In January of this year, a shy young Olga Zanella was put into deportation proceedings.  Not knowing what to do, she reached out for help in fighting to remain in a country that has become her home and to accomplish her dream of becoming a dentist. In early February, Olga's deportation was exten ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Demonstrators Can Continue Overnight Stays in ...
    MADISON, Wis. — In a victory — at least a symbolic one — for Wisconsin’s public employee unions, the Capitol authorities announced on Sunday that demonstrators could continue their all-night sleepovers in the building and would not be forcibly ejected or arrested. ...
  • Capitol Police Plan to Clear Building at 4; Ci ...
    MADISON, WI – The Governor of Wisconsin, Scott Walker, ordered the Capitol police to close the Capitol building at 4:00pm (CST) today, just a few hours from now. Protesters who have occupied the building for 14 days, with no arrests, have been prepared for this eventuality, and have devised a nu ...
  • Small Nuclear War Could Reverse Global Warming ...
    Even a regional nuclear war could spark "unprecedented" global cooling and reduce rainfall for years, according to U.S. government computer models. Widespread famine and disease would likely follow, experts speculate. During the Cold War a nuclear exchange between superpowers—such as the one fe ...
  • The Price of Food is at the Heart of This Wave ...
    Revolution is breaking out all over. As Gaddafi marshals his thugs and mercenaries for a last-ditch fight in Tripoli, several died as protests grew more serious in Iraq. Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah tried to bribe his people into docility by splashing out $35bn on housing, social services and ed ...
  • DNC Pressures Obama, Passes Resolution Endorsi ...
    WASHINGTON -- Members of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) gave President Obama a rare push on Saturday, adopting a resolution attempting to encourage the administration to move toward a speedier withdrawal from Afghanistan.read more

Lifehacker

  • Picasa Web Albums Provides Free Storage for Sm ...
    Picasa offers everyone 1 GB of storage for photos and videos, and its paid storage is pretty cheap, too. Now it's even cheaper, because the service has stopped counting photos under 800 pixels wide, or videos less than 15 minutes, against ...
  • Avoid Dropping Screws by Wrapping Your Screwdr ...
    Magnetic screwdrivers are one of the best tools a DIYer could have, but if you're stuck with a non-magnetic version (or you're working with non-magnetic screws), a little plastic wrap can actually serve the same function. More��
  • Make Netflix Streams Pop Out in a Full Window ...
    Flash version 10.2 finally dual-monitor/full screen dilemma, but Netflix runs on Silverlight. Want to pop out a Netflix stream into a full window, without the chrome that would come with a full browser window? Tech site Tested points out ...
  • Find Out Why Gmail's Priority Inbox Marked Tha ...
    We've been fans of Gmail's Priority Inbox feature ever since it launched, but it was sometimes hard to tell why Gmail marked a message as important. It turns out, you don't even need to leave the inbox view to find out. More�� ...
  • Mac OS X Lion Migration Assistant Update Makes ...
    PC owners jonesing for the new MacBook Pros (or any future Mac, we suppose) would do well to take a quick look at what's coming down the pipeline with Mac OS X Lion. Mainly Migration Assistant's PC-to-Mac transfer improvements. More�� ...

Water Privatization

Guardian

  • Libya crisis: EU agrees sanctions against Gadd ...
    International action to pressure Gaddafi into surrendering gathers momentum with Russia and China joining the west in backing calls to prosecute him for war crimes The European Union has agreed sanctions against the Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi, including an arms embargo, asset freeze and visa ...
  • BA worker convicted of terror plot
    IT expert used position at airline to try to help attack US-bound planes with radical cleric Anwar al-AwlakiA disciple of the Yemen-based radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki has been found guilty of plotting to blow up a plane while working as a computer specialist with British Airways.Rajib Karim, 3 ...
  • Briton jailed in Iraq for murders
    Danny Fitzsimons avoids death penalty and lawyers press for reduced sentence to be served in UKA British former soldier has been jailed for 20 years by the supreme court of Iraq for the murder of two fellow security contractors, becoming the first westerner to be convicted in the country since t ...
  • Firms' living wage tax break floated
    Labour leader makes suggestion as new research shows 22p in every pound of increased wages between 1979 and 2005 went to society's highest earnersThe Labour party has published research showing 22p in every pound of increased wages between 1979 and 2005 had gone to society's highest earners, as ...
  • House prices record year-on-year fall
    Figures from the Land Registry show house prices fell by 0.9% in the year to JanuaryHouse prices in England and Wales recorded their first year-on-year fall for 15 months during January, latest figures show, as the housing market continued to come under pressure.The average cost of a home droppe ...

McClatchey

  • Commentary: A Peace Corps volunteer's journey
    Twenty years ago I was riding down a dusty road in rural Argentina gabbing in Spanish with a local journalist when suddenly a wave of nostalgia hit me, and I realized why I felt so happy: It was just like being in the Peace Corps again. At the time, I was doing investigative reporting on Argenti ...
  • Obama administration 'hostile to oil states,' ...
    WASHINGTON — With the unrest in the Middle East as his springboard, Gov. Sean Parnell lashed out at the Obama administration's stance on domestic oil production, saying the White House approach was having a tangible effect on the country's foreign policy.
  • 'Rising star' Rubio shuns D.C. spotlight
    After posing for photographs with top supporters for more than an hour, Marco Rubio strolled quietly into a ballroom at the Miami Airport Hilton Saturday night, found his place at the honored guests table at the front of the room and prepared to address the home crowd that so enthusiastically go ...
  • Activist pursuing Sarah Palin's official e-mai ...
    Anchorage citizen activist Andree McLeod has obtained a six-month protective order against a woman who threatened her life over her public records requests for former Gov. Sarah Palin's official e-mails.
  • Libyan rebels get U.S. nod, fear Gadhafi count ...
    BENGHAZI, Libya — The Obama administration appeared Sunday to welcome the formation of a national opposition government in Libya, as rebels feared dictator Moammar Gadhafi was preparing forces to launch counterattacks.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

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

The Wonk Room

thwap's schoolyard

  • Transit City, National Daycare Plan, The Kelow ...
    I was just reading the latest stupid nonsense coming out of the stupid, nonsensical Rob Ford government in Toronto about their negotiations with Metrolinx about the city's transit needs, when it occurred to me that "Transit City" is just one of a few overdue, much needed public investments that ...
  • Demand the Impossible! Demand Accountability!
    A lot of people are convinced that stephen harper and his gang will never be held accountable for their war crimes in Afghanistan. I have to say that the weight of evidence is on their side. It seems foolish to waste our time "demanding" that the laws be enforced against harper, and that our cou ...
  • The Power of Constitutional Insurgency
    Beyond Quixotic devotion to a Marxist political party, beyond pointlessly standing around in groups of varying size impotently "demanding" reforms under the watchful eyes of the police, beyond social democrats who imagine they can deliver a more humane form of capitalism, beyond isolated anarchi ...
  • 1848 and 2011
    In 1848, revolutions (eventually crushed with great bloodshed) broke out among several European nations (France, the German and Italian states, the Hapsburg Empire, Poland, Ireland). Obviously, economic factors aren't going to be the only things that stir up revolutionary sentiment. The human de ...
  • How Rob Ford Fellators Argue
    Toronto's free entertainment weekly Now is a left-left-liberal (or whatever, you get the idea) tabloid. It offers concise, unrestrained criticisms of the obvious buffoonery and hypocrisy of Mayor Rob Ford. Perhaps because of this, it feels compelled to give its letters section over to brain-dead ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Author Talk and Book Signing: "The Whistleblow ...
    Now, from the nation's leading whistleblower attorney, Stephen Martin Kohn, comes the first-ever consumer guide to whistleblowing. The Whistleblower's Handbook explains nearly all federal and state laws regarding whistleblowing and set forth twenty-one basic rules every potential whistleblower ...
  • PftPI plans conference on research integrity
    Professionals for the Public Interest (PftPI) will be hosting an event April 4, 2011, from 9:00 am to 2:15pm in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to discuss challenges to research integrity. It is called “Exploring Best Practices in Research Integrity.” It will be at the Sheraton Philadelphia City Cen ...
  • Michigan truck driver wins against Domino's
    The Department of Labor's Administrative Review Board (ARB) issued a ruling last month finding in favor of whistleblower Lavan Williams against his former employer, Domino's Pizza on claims of retaliatory firing. The ARB's decision affirms an order by the Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) in fa ...
  • OSHA orders reinstatement of Memphis truck dri ...
    Yesterday, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) office in Atlanta, Georgia, issued an order reinstating truck driver William Beecher.� As soon as he recovers from an unrelated temporary disability, he can return to work for United Auto Delivery and Recovery and the Memphis Au ...
  • NWC amicus brief argues to protection of bank ...
    On behalf of the National Whistleblowers Center, Stephen M. Kohn and I submitted a friend-of-the-court, or "amicus," brief today in Schroeder v. Greater New Orleans Federal Credit Union, Case No. 10-31169 in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.� There has been an unfortunate string o ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • HarperCollins Wants To Limit Library Ebook Len ...
    Colin was the first of a bunch of you to send in the news that publisher HarperCollins has bizarrely decided to cripple the ebooks they let libraries lend by adding a clause in their contract that says books can only be lent out 26 times before the license "expires." Why? Because they can, app ...
  • Hollywood Gone Mad: Complaining That Oscar Nom ...
    With the Oscars going on last night, it seems that some people just can't keep things in perspective. For example, check out this bizarre article from Variety, saying that the wonderful attention bump from being nominated comes with a downside: that it also increases the frequency of unauthoriz ...
  • Libyans Using Coded Dating Site Messages To Av ...
    A few different people have sent over this fascinating story of how Libyans have been using a popular muslim dating site to communicate about the protests in that country. It's been widely covered how various protesters around the middle east have been using tools like Facebook and Twitter to o ...
  • Swedish Government Helps Fund Documentary On T ...
    Even as some in the Swedish government -- at the urging of US diplomats and the US entertainment industry -- continue to look for ways to shut down The Pirate Bay, it appears that the Swedish government is funding part of the documentary on The Pirate Bay. This is from the same movie that was a ...
  • Most Insightful, Funniest Comments Of The Week ...
    In past weeks, we've usually had a few comments that charted high in both categories, but no such luck this week. There was not a single crossover comment in the top ten of either category. This week's winner in the most insightful came from Marcus Carab (once again -- which might make him the ...

VacTruth

  • Baby Gets Vaccine-Associated Paralytic Poliomy ...
    Adverse reactions to the Oral Polio Vaccine in healthy infants without any apparent immunodeficiencies can occur. Conversely, those with immune deficiencies, such as hypogammaglobulinemics, "...are 10,000 times more susceptible to vaccine-induced poliomyelitis than normal persons.”Vactruth.com
  • National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program a ...
    The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services HRSA division (Health Resources and Services Administration) held a public meeting of the FDA’s Advisory Committee on Childhood Vaccines (ACCV) in Rockville, Maryland, September 2-3, 2010, at which several charts were distributed. Petitioners’ Awa ...
  • Doctors in UK Warned After a Catalogue of Vacc ...
    Doctors across the UK have come under immense criticism after a survey revealed a catalogue of vaccine blunders. The results revealed that family doctors had been involved in vaccination blunders affecting 98 children and 10 adults over the last five years. Vactruth.com
  • Vaccines Can’t Claim What Nutritional Suppleme ...
    Healthcare choice issues are being attacked on all sides, it seems, with no let up until there probably will be no freedom of choice in taking care of your children’s or your health in the manner YOU want.Vactruth.com
  • Catholics and Vaccines
    There apparently may be some misunderstanding that members of the Catholic faith are not bound to a specific religious belief about vaccines and vaccinations. Since many vaccines are grown on diploid cell media that resulted from aborted fetuses, the Catholic Church declares it a matter of consc ...

BroadSnark

  • On Catholicism and Reform
    I’ve been thinking a lot about how you determine whether or not something is worth saving/fixing/reforming – whatever. What got me thinking about this was a book I read called A World Without Women. David Noble, the guy who wrote the book, wanted to examine why science was so inhospitable to wom ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    How much do I love the goth who foreclosed on Wells Fargo? (HT @womanistmusings). Did you know that there is a mountain vault full of potatoes? In Israel news – The U.S. has once again vetoed a UN resolution against Israel.  (And can I just add that I really want to smack Susan Rice in [...]
  • On Jewish “Success”
    It’s hard to have a reasonable conversation about the apparent “success” of the Jewish community. For one thing, we Jews have an understandably defensive gut reaction to accusations of success.  And they are often accusations.  To quote the Illinois Holocaust Museum, Adolf Hitler and the Nazis a ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    So these people don’t have a chance in hell of pulling off a free school at Guy Ritchie’s house, but I do love them for trying. Apparently, it is attack women’s shelters week.  In Afghanistan, the state is trying to take them over. And in Canada, the border services/gestapo are now entering she ...
  • On Facts and Truth
    Our book group just finished reading The Whites of Their Eyes by Jill Lepore. Lepore is a historian and spends a lot of time focusing on historical facts that contradict the tea party narrative. So the group spent some time discussing whether or not there is such a thing as verifiable fact, whet ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

Armies of Liberation

  • Injuries and fatalities in Yemen after anti-go ...
    In what may be the bloodiest day yet since anti-government protests broke out in Yemen two weeks ago, residents around Aden are reporting numerous fatalities as security forces opened fire on protesters in many districts throughout the day and evening Friday. Human Rights Watch issued a statemen ...
  • Game changer in Yemen as protests swell
    In Egypt and Tunisia, the stance of the military was pivotal in the success of popular uprisings; in Yemen, it may be the tribes that are the determining factor. Anti-government protests across Yemen show no signs of abating. In Taiz, Yemen’s largest governorate, many who arrived last Friday are ...
  • In Yemen, Many Protests, One Villain
    It was only sheer chance or serendipity perhaps that southern Yemen’s “Day of Rage” was scheduled for Friday, earning the #Feb11 hashtag on Twitter. The Southern Uprising Facebook page drew nearly two thousand members since its founding two weeks ago in a nation with 2 percent Internet penetrati ...
  • Novak: The Southern Leaders Don’t Practi ...
    My interview with the Aden News Agency Jane Novak⦠a name that has become coupled with Yemen, not Yemen that is known as it is known by those who doesn’t know it, but Yemen as it known by its people, with all its sorrows and economical, political and humanitarian setbacks, that are recognized b ...
  • Jane Novak Interview with Aden News Agency Ara ...
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Dark Politricks

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

food and water watch

  • By: Rich's coworker
    In an effort to de-spin your story, the real reason there were no muffins or treats of any sort was because the bearer of treats was absent, and had been gone for the past few days. Perhaps if you "wish real hard" again, parabens can turn into magical antioxidants that are part of a complete ...
  • By: Top 50 Global Food Security Blogs
    [...] Food and Water Watch: Food & Water Watch works to ensure the food, water and fish we consume is safe, accessible and sustainable. [...]
  • By: Online Degree 30 Best Water Conservation B ...
    [...] Food & Water Watch: The Food & Water Watch site advocates strong conservation measures, promoting policies that'll result in quality drinking water for everyone. [...]
  • By: Food and Water | Roland's Ramblings
    [...] would also like to suggest you go over to read the blog of Food & Water Watch. You should find that to be very [...]
  • By: Ecocentric’s Best of the Ecoblogosph ...
    [...] Food and Water Watch: The latest info about food and agriculture policy from our favorite beltway insiders. [...]

treehugger

  • California's Regulators Turn Blind Eye to Grou ...
    Photo by US Department of Agriculture via eutrophication&hypoxia on Flickr Creative Commons California's Central Valley is home to some of the state's largest dairies, and we're all quite familiar with how damaging dairy farms can be on the environment. It is responsible for about 4% of man ...
  • E.D.G.E.: An Experimental Dwelling for a Green ...
    Images Credit Dan Hoffman Architect William Yudchitz of Revelations Architects/Building Corporation designed EDGE to be an "experimental minimalist structure aims to meet basic human needs while still providing a qualitatively rich life". Within just a 340 square foot footprint, it does ...
  • Amur Tigers' Effective Population Cut By More ...
    photo: Neil McIntosh/Creative Commons An update on the precarious state of Amur tigers: New figures have been released on the effective breeding population of Amur tigers (also known as Siberian tigers) which show that the genetic diversity of the wild population is so low that there are ef ...
  • Turtles Now World's Most Endangered Vertebrate ...
    Critically endangered Yunnan box turtle, the world's third most-endangered turtle species. Photo: Wikipedia. Turtles and tortoises may not get the same sort of attention as the cuddlier and fuzzier animals of the world, but a new report from the Tortoise & Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group ...
  • Fair Trade Fortnight Says Show Off Your Label ...
    Image credit: The Fairtrade Foundation Everyone from Starbucks to Cadbury's chocolate seems to be going Fair Trade—so as Fair Trade Fortnight kicks off, it seems a fitting time to celebrate this movement for more ethical and equitable international trade. This year, the movement is asking p ...

Biosingularity

  • Diets Low In Omega-3 Linked to Depressive Beha ...
    Although most people in developed countries get plenty of calories each day, their diets are often lacking in key nutrients that their bodies have evolved to expect. Omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids, such as those found in fish and walnuts, are one category of crucial ingredients that the bod ...
  • Melanoma Drug Prolonged Patients’ Lives in Cli ...
    Advanced melanoma patients taking an experimental drug aimed at a particular mutation in their tumors lived longer than patients who did not receive the drug in a decisive clinical trial, the drugâs manufacturer, Roche, said Wednesday. via Melanoma Drug Prolonged Patientsâ Lives in Clinical Tria ...
  • Anders Ynnerman: Visualizing the medical data ...
    � Anders Ynnerman: Visualizing the medical data explosion | Video on TED.com.
  • Strawberries, Blueberries May Ward Off High Bl ...
    Eating just 1 cup of strawberries or blueberries each week can reduce your risk of developing high blood pressure, a major risk factor for heart disease and stroke. The new findings appear in the February issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. The new study included 87,242 women wh ...
  • Putting up a struggle against cancer
    MIT scientists have discovered that cells lining the blood vessels secrete molecules that suppress tumor growth and keep cancer cells from invading other tissues, a finding that could lead to a new way to treat cancer. Elazer Edelman, professor in the MIT-Harvard Division of Health Sciences and ...

CFACT

  • Environmentalist fraud and manslaughter
    In the name of banning DDT, GEF bureaucrats are consigning millions to death from malaria.
  • Have the Greens finally trapped biotech crops?
    The world in 2040 will have perhaps 8 billion people demanding twice as much food and lots of high-quality protein. Either we produce that extra food on the land we already farm, or we watch the most massive loss of wild-lands in all history.
  • Did the US ethanol mandate contribute to the E ...
    An analysis of recent commentary on ethanol production mandates in the United States and the riots in Egypt.
  • Washington Post compares Climate Depot to Drud ...
    Marc Morano is CFACT's editor in chief of Climate Depot, and he has been garnering extensive coverage lately. Last week he was cited in the Washington Times. This week it's the Washington Post's Capital Weather Gang and Fox Nation.
  • U.S. court deals smack-down to greens
    Two powerful, well-funded environmental groups suffered a smack-down at the hands of a rural Utah county when a U.S. court ruled the environmentalists couldn̢۪t challenge the county̢۪s ownership claims to dozens of roads on federal lands.

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Pruning Shears

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

Organic Consumers.org

  • Forbes Writer: GMO Labeling Would Violate Corp ...
    In a blog post on Forbes.com, Glenn Lammi, general counsel for the right-wing, pro-business think tank the Washington Legal Foundation, goes on the attack against Mark Bittman's recent New York Times op-ed column calling for the labeling of genetically engineered food.Click here to read this art ...
  • Behind the Arab Revolt Is a Word We Dare Not S ...
    Shortly after the invasion of Iraq in 2003, I interviewed Ray McGovern, one of an elite group of CIA officers who prepared then-president George W. Bush's daily intelligence brief. At that time, McGovern was at the apex of the "national security" monolith that is American power and had retired w ...
  • Corporate-Funded Online 'Astroturfing' Threate ...
    Every month more evidence piles up, suggesting that online comment threads and forums are being hijacked by people who aren't what they seem to be. The anonymity of the web gives companies and governments golden opportunities to run astroturf operations: fake grassroots campaigns, which create t ...
  • Several States Consider Loosening Raw Milk Res ...
    As the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) evaluates ways to further restrict Americans' access to raw milk and raw milk products, several US states are considering legislation to loosen the regulatory noose that limits freedom of food choice. Texas, Oregon, Minnesota, New Jersey, Massachusett ...
  • DEA to Legalize Marijuana Chemical for Big Pha ...
    Have no illusions about the true nature of the so-called "War on Drugs" and the actions of the DEA. The War on Drugs has always been about protecting the profits of the drug companies which have a long and well-documented history of copying street drugs, repackaging them as "medications" and sel ...

fotoFrontera

  • Paisajes naturales que son inolvidables I
    ¿Le ha pasado que en su mente aún perdura el recuerdo de aquéllos lindos paisajes que visitó usted en sus recientes vacaciones? En mi caso, aún conservo la imagen de las llanuras, flores, lagos, ríos, bosques, islas y bellas ciudades que visité durante mi estancia en Canadá. Para que juntos volv ...
  • Fotos de árboles en todas las estaciones del a ...
    ¿A quién no le gusta mirar la majestuosidad de los árboles? A mi me encanta observar despacio sus formas y colores. Y si usted como yo disfruta mirando estos enormes prodigios de la naturaleza, le invito a dar clic aquí o sobre las imágenes pequeñas para tener acceso directo al inicio de nuestra ...
  • Fotografías de ciudades con vista nocturna IV
    En la noche, todos los gatos son pardos, dice un refrán popular. Sin embargo, la belleza de las ciudades en la oscuridad, es realmente mágica. La combinación de colores con ese misterio que rodea las calles, los autos y quienes disfrutan la vida nocturna, hacen que se viva una experiencia única ...
  • Fotografías de caballos VII (Equinos de Pura S ...
    Ya está aquí la séptima parte de nuestra exitosa serie 'Fotografías de caballos pura sagre'. Una colección que sintetiza las mejores imágenes de estos hermosos equinos que corren por los verdes prados, montañas, bosques y playas. Muy pronto, recibirá usted la recopilación de todos los archivos s ...
  • Los colores de nuestro planeta IV (Paisajes Na ...
    Nuestra serie 'Los colores de nuestro planeta', ha tenido tanto éxito que ya está aquí la cuarta parte de esta fascinante colección. Un verdadero tributo a la belleza de nuestros paisajes naturales que aún pueden disfrutarse en algunos lugares de la tierra. Para ver todas las imágenes de esta se ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • Increasing global food security: The next gold ...
    What do Archer Daniels Midland, Cargill, Coca-Cola, DuPont, Monsanto, Kraft Foods, and Wal-Mart have in common? Some of the most financially successful companies in the world? Absolutely. Exploiters of workers and the environment? Some say so. The newest solution to global food insecurity and ...
  • 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 ...

Norwegianity

  • Madison! Madison! Madison!
    Saving as I go so yeah, more links than any sane person would ever try to click. WISCONSIN: C&L says 100,000 turned out Michele Bachmann compares Walker to Lincoln and Reagan Raw Story liveblogged the protest [WARNING: HUGE COLLECTION OF PICTURES] [MN pix] [NYC pix] WINston has pix from Saturday ...
  • Crushing the middle class
    What’s it all about? If you’re a righty, Wisconsin is about your deep resentment of public sector workers whose wages and benefits haven’t yet been completely eroded by the selfish few at the top (those who seek always to make their enormous piles even more grotesquely ginormous). If you’re a le ...
  • Link waggling
    FUCK THIS SHIT. WORDPRESS JUST ATE ABOUT 40 FUCKING LINKS AND I’M TOO DISGUSTED TO EVEN FORMAT WHAT’S LEFT OVER. And it fucking crashed because I thought to try to save the post in progress, which is pretty much what happened the last time it did this. Seriously, dozens of fucking links and I’m ...
  • No post today
    I’m up to my elbows in editing an ESL student’s post-graduate education paper and by the time I’m finished the only things I’ll be good for is torturing small animals while drinking copiously. And, not for the first time, I beg Congress to pass a Constitutional amendment requiring all Education ...
  • Answering the call
    Yes Virginia, gabbing with a prank caller for twenty minutes is a big deal, especially when you think he’s your sugar daddy. Everyone seemingly has a comment or an angle on the call and the goings on in Wisconsin. Sorted for your amusement: The call: Koch Whore (the original Buffalo Beast story) ...

Public News Service

  • Is Solar in the Zone? Arizonans Get to Make th ...
    Is Solar in the Zone? Arizonans Get to Make the Call Phoenix, AZ – The U.S. Department of Interior is looking for insider information when it comes to solar projects on public lands in Arizona. The agency is holding local meetings this week, starting with a session tomorrow (Tuesday) in Phoenix ...
  • Fed Budget Battle Threatens Preventive Care fo ...
    Fed Budget Battle Threatens Preventive Care for AZ Women and Families Phoenix, AZ – Spending cuts contained in the U-S House budget would completely eliminate the Title Ten federal family planning program. In Arizona, the program provides preventive health care for more than 40-thousand men, wo ...
  • Utility Updates Renewable Energy Commitment
    Utility Updates Renewable Energy Commitment Phoenix, AZ – Salt River Project is seeking public comments as it reviews and possibly modifies its commitment to clean, renewable energy sources. The utility currently plans to obtain 15-percent of its power through renewables and conservation by the ...
  • Congress Grapples with Internet Freedom Issues
    Congress Grapples with Internet Freedom Issues Phoenix, AZ – Against the backdrop of Middle East uprisings facilitated by Facebook and Twitter, Congress this week grappled over the issue of net neutrality, or how to keep the Internet open and free for everyone. Comments from Amalia (ah-MALL-ee-a ...
  • A Hungry Mob is an Angry Mob
    A Hungry Mob is an Angry Mob Phoenix, AZ – Freedom and democracy may be driving great changes in the Arab world, but experts in food production say there's an underlying catalyst: hunger and record-high food prices. The Food and Agriculture Organization recently released a study that says people ...

Center for Food Safety

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

  • Israeli Army Will Cash in on Egypt’s Upheavals ...
    Israeli Army Will Cash in on Egypt’s Upheavals | Dissident Voice: "And if the Egyptian political system really does open up, which is still far from sure, the Israeli military may actually be a beneficiary — if for all the wrong reasons. The main value of the 1979 Camp David treaty to the Israe ...
  • The upheaval in Egypt: what impact on U.S. imp ...
    The upheaval in Egypt: what impact on U.S. imperialism: [www.workers.org] "What is at stake in Egypt for Washington, and what is at stake for the people of Egypt? Egypt was not always the colony of a foreign power. In the era of Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egypt was a symbol of Arab dignity and freedom ...
  • Ahi-kā-roa: Special Rapporteur Report: Treaty ...
    Ahi-kā-roa: Special Rapporteur Report: Treaty settlements: "In July last year, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, James Anaya, visited New Zealand to investigate the situation of Māori. That visit was to follow up the 2005 visit of the previous Special Ra ...
  • John John: The View From Occupied Canada #233
    Vancouver Island Bald Eagles Are "Falling From the Sky" - Seattle News - The Daily Weekly It was one thing when starlings, robins, and turtledoves were falling dead from the sky in places like Kentucky, Italy, and Arkansas. Those places are far from the Pacific Northwest, and the birds are just ...
  • What's at stake in the O'odham trial | Roberto ...
    What's at stake in the O'odham trial | Roberto Cintli Rodriguez | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk: "Arizona is definitely not Egypt, where the UN has estimated that some 300 pro-democracy activists were killed … neither can Arizona be compared to Tunisia, Yemen, Algeria, Morocco, Bahrain, or es ...

Pensieve

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

Green Times

  • Catamaran in the harbour
    Boat trips can be really nice and relaxing... in particular when sailing! Engine ran water vehicles need a lot of fuel and are far from eco friendly. Sailing boats on the other hand, especially the light and fast sailing catamarans, make use of wind energy (glossary/categories/energy/wind-energ ...
  • Plastic state of mind parody
        This music clip, made by passionate volunteers on a super tiny budget, parodies a serious issue of our today’s consumer society. It was created on behalf of Green Sanga (http://greensangha.org/plastics-campaign/), a non profit organisation who is dedicated to saving our earth by awakening ...
  • Environmental News 25/02/2011
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • LED Light and Solar Power shines a way to help
    What are the basic needs these days? Food, water, medical aid, but what about light? Yes, light! Try to imagine life without it…
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The Briefing Room | Investigate

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

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • US exempts mercenaries from war crimes prosecu ...
    African mercenaries hired by the Gaddafi regime to kill Libyan protesters would be immune from prosecution for war crimes due to a clause in this weekend’s UN resolution that was demanded by the United States. This was done to protect mercenaries hired by the US in other conflicts from prosecuti ...
  • Spending must be cut. This is an issue the lef ...
    The chart is from an analysis from Mary Meeker at Kleiner Perkins, a major venture capital firm, about federal government spending and revenue (PDF). Silicon Valley Insider The US cannot grow its way out of this problem. It needs to cut spending, specifically entitlement spending. We hereby anno ...
  • Texas Tornados, Hey Baby Que Paso?
    Tex-Mex soul from the Texas Tornados; Doug Sahm, Freddie Fender, Flaco Jiménez, and Augie Meyer in Texas, 1992. Sahm and Meyer were in the Sir Douglas Quintet in the 60′s (despite the name, they were fron San Antonio) and pioneered the Tex-Mex sound that the Texas Tornados expanded upon. Both b ...
  • The predators at the top, billionaires and mil ...
    New York Times The predators at the top, billionaires and millionaires, are pitting ordinary workers against one another. So weâre left with the bizarre situation of unionized workers with a pension being resented by nonunion workers without one. The swells are in the background, having a good l ...
  • Where do we live? It’s complicated
    Unlike on Facebook where people say “It’s complicated” about their relationship, Sue and I say it about where we live. We’ve moved four times in six years, this last time from Laguna Woods CA to Cedar City UT because there were no jobs last year for CPAs (Sue is a CPA) in southern California eve ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • Police Close Down A Girl Scout Cookie Stand.
  • Libya: African mercenaries ‘immune from ...
    The UN Security Council agreed on Saturday evening to freeze international assets belonging to the Gaddafis and their key aides, to ban them from travelling and to block all arms sales to Tripoli. It also called for the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate the killings of demonstrat ...
  • ‘He does not remember it’: RFK kil ...
    LOS ANGELES â More than four decades after Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated, his convicted murderer wants to go free for a crime he says he can’t remember. It is not old age or some memory-snatching disease that has erased an act Sirhan Bishara Sirhan once said he committed “with 20 year ...
  • This Day In History – February 28
    1844 – A gun on USS Princeton explodes while the boat is on a Potomac River cruise, killing eight people, including two United States Cabinet members. 1854 – The Republican Party of the United States is organized in Ripon, Wisconsin. 1885 – The American Telephone and Telegraph Company is incorpo ...
  • G20 public inquiry needed: report
    A full-scale public inquiry is needed in light of the widespread and violent trampling of civil rights by police at last summer’s G20 summit in Toronto, a report concludes. The call for an inquiry is among recommendations in the report â by the Canadian Civil Liberties Association and National U ...

The Air Vent

  • Crystalline Silicon Ball
    Well Lucia has a post from Zeke which is experiencing a nice reception at her blog as well as Judith Curry’s.  As often is the case, my own head feels about to explode over some of the “known details”.  There are far too many otherwise smart people ready to accept them for my liking and [...]
  • Josh – Summing it up
  • Spectator on O10
    Nic Lewis has co-written an article with the Spectator regarding S09. They used it for the cover story – click the image below for the magazine link. I have a copy, but haven’t read it in the published form myself.
  • A Calmer Conversation with the Nail
    by – Ryan ODonnell   I had made a post concerning the sensitivity of the S09 reconstruction with respect to changes in trend for the underlying surface stations HERE [insert link].  That post was a bit rushed, and the level of explanation I provided was insufficient.  Bishop Hill did a better ...
  • Liars and Knucklehead Reviewers
    When Steig went off the deep end the other day, I told people I wasn’t going to let it go.  Not after all that time work and abuse we took in getting this paper done.  He’s actually screaming that we are liars, and the reviewers that let our math pass are Knuckleheads.  Let’s see if [...]

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • All of Facebook’s Like Buttons on Third-Party ...
    When users click the Like or Recommend button on a third-party website or Facebook it, it now publishes a full feed story instead of just a one-line Recent Activity Story. Previously, full stories with headlines, thumbnail images, and captions were only published if the website chose to implemen ...
  • This Week’s Headlines From Across Inside Netwo ...
    Here are all the latest headlines from around Inside Network. Inside Mobile Apps Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms, and virtual goods. Monday, February 21st, 2011 Verizon Launch Pushes Facebook for iPhone Usage, But Less Than Christmas Did Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011 Tel ...
  • Platform Update: 180 Pixel Profile Pictures, F ...
    The Platform Update for this week on the Facebook Developers Blog discussed how the pic_big Graph API call will soon return a slightly smaller version of a user’s profile picture, Facebook’s efforts to reduce its backlog of bugs, and its recent Startup Day. The December 2010 profile redesign sli ...
  • Highlights This Week From the Inside Network J ...
    The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities in the Facebook Platform and social gaming ecosystem. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at Arkadium, Daglow Entertainment, Come2Play, and Digital Chocol ...
  • Facebook Roundup: Renren IPO, Trademarks, Spro ...
    Chinese Facebook, Renren, Planning IPO – A China version of Facebook, Renren, is set for a $500 million IPO. Sprout Social Raises $10M – Sprout Social, a Facebook community mangement company, raised $10 million from NEA, putting the companyâs total valuation at $50 million. Facebookâs Sandberg N ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Julian Assange and Raymond A. Davis
    Christopher King considers the cases of two men the USA wants to extradite, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and CIA spy "Raymond A. David", on remand in Pakistan for murder. He argues that the murky case of “Davis” underlines the need for whistleblowers like Assange.
  • Craven US veto costs Washington its last shred ...
    Stuart Littlewood argues that the latest US veto of a draft UN Security Council resolution condemning Israel's squatter colonies in the occupied Palestinian territories "has finally lifted the scales from the eyes of all those who unwisely invested high hopes" in President Obama.
  • Israeli media "fears" the new Egypt
    Neve Gordon describes how Israel's media has been presenting Egyptian democracy as a threat, with one commentator lamenting the end of colonialism.
  • The veto and the case for impeaching President ...
    Alan Hart argues that the United States’s veto on 18 February of a UN Security Council resolution condemning Israel's colonization of the occupied West Bank undermines US national interests and amounts to high treason for which President Obama ought to be impeached.
  • Mind-sets and revolutions
    Paul J. Balles considers the problem of mind-set in politics, arguing that "we need to understand that our beliefs do influence our ability to deal with facts that may not support our beliefs" and that we "need to look more closely at the facts that don’t support our beliefs".

Amazon Rainforest

  • Brazil judge blocks Amazon Belo Monte dam:
    Federal Brasilian judge Ronaldo Desterro has blocked plans to build a huge hydro-electric dam in the Amazon rainforest because of environmental concerns. Judge Desterro said environmental requirements to build the Belo Monte dam had not been met. He also barred the national development bank, BND ...
  • 1.ooo military forces end illegal gold mining ...
    The Peruvian military has cleared-out illegal gold mining along the country’s south-eastern Amazon region in a move aiming to protect the environment. The government sent about 1,000 security forces to the region of Madre de Dios to destroy the illegal operations, the state-funded BBC reported. ...
  • BREAKING: Chevron Guilty of Amazon Rainforest ...
    Amazon Watch and Rainforest Action Network just announced a major victory for the Amazon rainforest. An Ecuadorean judge today found Chevron guilty of one of the largest environmental crimes in history and ordered the company to pay a whopping $8 billion to clean up its damage in the Amazon. Che ...
  • First film footage of uncontacted Amazon Tribe
    The footage was filmed by the BBC’s Human Planet series shows a Tribe known as the Panoan, who live in virtual isolation from the outside world. The team needed too get footage of the Tribe as proof of their existence so as the government could protect them from illegal logging and mining operat ...
  • Second rancher sentenced for contract kill of ...
    A second rancher has been sentenced for his role in the murder of Dorothy Stang, an American nun who was gunned down in 2005 for her efforts on behalf of poor farmers in the Amazon Rainforest. Regivaldo Galvao was sentenced to 30 years in prison by a jury in the city of Pará. Last month [...]

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Boiling Frogs Post Status & Update
    Boiling Frogs Year Two-A Personal Note Next week I’ll be leaving for a business related trip, followed by relocation related travel where I’ll be checking housing, schooling for my daughter, work,  among tons of other ‘life related’ details in a new hometown, and finalized by a short but straigh ...
  • Boiling Frogs Beltway Buzz: The Upcoming Bipar ...
    A Caucus to Combat Terrorism, Domestic Violence, Divorce & Job Dissatisfaction via ‘Happiness Pill’ According to our inside sources a new Bipartisan Congressional Caucus for Prozac will be launched before the end of the 112th Congress. The primary purpose of the Prozac Caucus will be to raise aw ...
  • Hillary Clinton: Beware of the Mini Pharaoh in ...
    “Speaking Fee” is the New Name for Political Donation Laundering-Rechanneling (PDLR) Political donation laundering-rechanneling (PDLR) is a business in its own right, whether it is for pre-election donations or post-election maintenance contributions.  In most cases, PDLR requires savvy strategi ...
  • Jamiol Presents
  • Jamiol Presents

Afro Spear

  • When Keeping It Real Goes Wrong, Part 13
    Earlier today, I was reading the post on “Tim Wise” from last year. Some recent new comments had shown up and I was curious; I re-read the entire post. It was very interesting and made me reflect on me, on my feelings related to the post’s contents and comments. Tim Wise doesn’t move me. In [... ...
  • Bishop Noel Jones in South Africa…The Pr ...
    The great Bishop Noel Jones, discussing the intersection of business and church, the practical and the spiritual, the dialectical and the liturgical. Bishop Noel Jones is considered a profound Christian theologian and intellectual. He has a way with the Word of God that leaves no room for doubt ...
  • “Revolution and the Muslim World” ...
    Artlice from STRATFOR The Muslim world, from North Africa to Iran, has experienced a wave of instability in the last few weeks. No regimes have been overthrown yet, although as of this writing, Libya was teetering on the brink. There have been moments in history where revolution spread in a regi ...
  • Congrats Museveni on “Tsunami-like win&# ...
    Dear Mr President of Uganda Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni, Though I am not your voter, I come from the same background like that of your humble voters. I come from the country where voters and all hoi polloi are but sheepish beasts of burden for hoity toitty like in your country. And they l ...
  • War babies, Germany and love letters explainin ...
    Cross post from the Black Women in Europe⢠Blog War babies, Germany and love letters explaining the past From Noah Sow’s Blog: Afro-German History in New Karasek Book Release The post before this one is about a book release in German(y). The story is important to me though, so Iâll try to tell ...

Expose the BNP

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

Sen4Earth

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

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

  • Rally to Save the American Dream
    In Wisconsin and around our country, the American Dream is under fierce attack. Instead of creating jobs, Republicans are giving tax breaks to corporations and the very rich—and then cutting funding for education, police, emergency response, and vital human services. On Saturday, February 26, a ...
  • RICK SCOTT MADE MILLIONS OFF HEALTH NOW CUTS I ...
    Whether it's a political stunt or the act of an extremist ideologue, Scott is hurting real Floridians in concrete ways, including millions of people with private health insurance or Medicare benefits. He's taking away a law that ends the worst insurance company abuses and frees families, senior ...
  • CUT PENTAGON BUDGET: ACT NOW
    Their current proposal includes cuts in domestic spending, diplomacy, development, and international assistance but allows the Pentagon budget to continue to rise.
  • SAY NO to Patriot EXTENSIONS!
    Together, these provisions make a mockery of our civil liberties: They let government officials spy on whomever they want, for any reason, without ever letting them know or giving them a chance to challenge the order in court.
  • Secretariat the Horse, the Movie
    To be witness to history from afar is one thing, to be up close is another, and to have the wisdom to know the difference is the icing on the cake, of course, I am referring to great moments in history, of excelling in any endeavor, being human, or otherwise, of the bright spots and not of man’s ...

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Ushahidi Takes First Steps in Evaluating Kenya ...
    This post was written by Melissa Tully and Jennifer Chan. It is the first in a series of blog posts documenting a 9-month Ushahidi evaluation project in partnership with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and supported by the Knight Foundation. A version of the post below was originally publish ...
  • MIT's Civic Media Session Explores Data in Cit ...
    With a redoubled focus on the community in the civic media community, the Center for Future Civic Media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) launched a new series last week. These relaxed, informal conversations about civic media featured ground-level practitioners, activists, hack ...
  • LocalWiki Tries "Open-From-The-Start" Developm ...
    It's time for another project update. We've been hard at work on the core of the software that will power LocalWiki. We've also been spending time running around meeting people passionate about local media and planning out many things to come. Basic groundwork laid Many of you know abo ...
  • People of Color Must Innovate or Die in Digita ...
    In December in this space I asked about the lack of minorities at new media conferences -- both as participants and as speakers. The blog post generated a lot of comments; a Twitter discussion, and the start of a list of wonderful experts -- all persons of color -- who can help make your next ne ...
  • 'Data and Cities' Conference Pushes Open Data, ...
    When I entered Stamen's offices in the Mission district of San Francisco, I saw four people gathered around a computer screen. What were they doing? Nothing less than "mapping the world" -- not as it appears in flat dimension, but how it reveals itself. And they weren't joking. Stamen, a data vi ...

Cutting Edge News

  • The Battle for Libya - Slippery Slope: Libya a ...
    Twenty years ago, at the close of the 1991 Gulf War, the imposition of a UN-mandated no-fly zone contributed to the formation of a safe haven for Iraqi Kurds, resulting in the liberation of nearly three million people from Baathist dictatorship a full decade before the rest of Iraq. In 1992, new ...
  • Farhud Arab-Nazi Alliance Amazing and Must not ...
    Last weekend, I was amazed as I watch an apparent Book TV re-run Edwin Black speaking on his book The Farhud. I guess I am one of the many who had no idea this was the case, that Arabs and Nazis enjoyed a vibrant alliance across Europe and the Middle East. I have been the Holocaust Museum in Was ...
  • The Battle for Libya - U.S. and NATO Intervent ...
    Muammar Qaddafi has vowed to fight to the bitter end, raising the prospect of a protracted and bloody conflict with opportunities for exploitation by radical Islamist elements. Although external military intervention could help prevent a very bad outcome, such action carries its own risks and po ...
  • Islam on Edge - Much to Fear in Continued Inst ...
    The Muslim world, from North Africa to Iran, has experienced a wave of instability in the last few weeks. No regimes have been overthrown yet, although as of this writing, Libya was teetering on the brink. There have been moments in history where revolution spread in a region or around the world ...
  • Economic Recovery on the Edge - Judge Orders Q ...
    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.Ohio County (W.Va.) Circuit Judge ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Egypt's Future Starts Coming Into Focus: There ...
    By Barry Rubin �All that [glitters] is not gold; Often have you heard that told... Gilded tombs do worms enfold��. --William Shakespeare, �Merchant of Venice� Is this the long-awaited Arab Spring of Democracy or is it a stealth Islamist revolution? Every country is different ...
  • The Ten Most Blatant Examples Of Media Bias Du ...
    The 18th Century British Politician/Political Theorist Edmond Burke is given credit for coining the term “Fourth Estate.” He said “there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporters' Gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all.” The job of that Fourth Es ...
  • J'Accuse: The New York Times Promotes Muslim B ...
    By Barry Rubin Recently, Tariq Ramadan, considered by the Western intelligentsia to be the very epitome of enlightened Islamism, wrote a New York Times op-ed in�which he was�not only allowed--among other total lies--to deny that the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood and his grandfather, who the ...
  • Soros Funded Hate Group Uses Terrorist Org. Su ...
    The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) started as a civil rights organization with good intentions, fighting racists such as the KKK. However in recent years it has gone crazy, leveling accusations of racism unjustly, branding as “bigoted” many groups and individuals whose only crime lies in th ...
  • Is Eliot Spitzer Trying to "Screw" His Co-Host ...
    Maybe its because he likes to wear nothing but socks in the green room, that giant #9 fastened to the door, but the word is that Elliot Spitzer the former NY Governor/Client #9 has not "gelled" with his co-host Pulitzer Prize winning Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker. In fact, he feels ...

The Real Agenda

  • NatGeo Psy-op? Employ Nuclear War to Reverse W ...
    Note: This magazine article echoes a government scenario where a small nuclear war among small countries could help reduce the effects of Global Warming. The article you can read below, also warns that such a small war would cause the planet Earth to miss summers for several years, cause the app ...
  • Seu médico será o seu revendedor de maconha
    As corporações farmacêuticas assumem o comércio de maconha, usando seu próprio grupo privado de homens armados, conhecidos como agentes da DEA. NaturalNews.com Em Português Luis R. Miranda Não tenha ilusões sobre a verdadeira natureza da chamada “Guerra contra as Drogas” e as ações da ...
  • O que está acontecendo no Oriente Médio?
    Por Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda 27 Fevereiro, 2011 Se a crise no Oriente Médio e Norte da África bloqueia a produção de petróleo na Líbia e na Argélia, os preços do petróleo podem explodir e atingir 220 dólares por barril. Segundo um novo relatório da Nomura-Tóquio, a parada simultânea de OP ...
  • Feds spied on NYT reporter on CIA leak case
    Politico.com Federal investigators trying to find out who leaked information about a CIA attempt to disrupt Iran’s nuclear program obtained a New York Times reporter’s three private credit reports, examined his personal bank records and obtained information about his phone calls and travel, acco ...
  • U.S. Will Be the World’s Third Largest E ...
    NBC The world is going to become richer and richer as developing economies play catch up over the coming years, according to Willem Buiter, chief economist at Citigroup. “We expect strong growth in the world economy until 2050, with average real GDP growth rates of 4.6 percent per annum until 20 ...

Wind Watch

  • Blunder revealed in battle over wind turbines
    Bosses behind plans for six towering wind turbines in the shadow of a Midland tourist attraction have been forced to make an embarrassing climb-down after bungling their last ditch attempt to gain support for the project. Wind Prospect Developments Ltd wants to install six 413ft turbines at King ...
  • County signs off on noisier turbines
    Rumble, rumble, rumble. Like an approaching freight train or thunderstorm rolling in. That’s how one neighbor of a Benton County wind farm described the noise, as debate raged on for more than an hour Monday over proposed wind turbine noise limits in Tippecanoe County. The Tippecanoe County comm ...
  • Hundreds march against Viking
    Around 350 Shetlanders turned out on a miserable Saturday morning to express their opposition to plans for a huge wind farm on the islands� mainland. The march was organised by Sustainable Shetland, a grassroots group with more than 800 members, who say Viking Energy�s proposed 457 megawatt wind ...
  • Anger over Scots forest windfarms
    A powerful group of multi-national firms has won one of Europe’s most lucrative energy deals to build as many as 1,000 new wind turbines in Scotland’s forests, Scotland on Sunday can reveal. Ministers will confirm this week that they have selected four foreign-owned energy giants to begin work o ...
  • Property values and health impaired by wind tu ...
    Appraiser says average loss in home values is 25 percent East County residents who oppose a growing collection of industrial wind turbines proposed near rural residences have discovered that they have much in common with wind farm neighbors in the United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, Japan, Canad ...

Not My Tribe

  • A union worker, a citizen and a CEO …
    Via UNAC’s Ward Reilly: A unionized public employee, an ill-informed citizen, and a CEO are sitting at a table. In the middle of the table is a plate with a dozen cookies on it. The CEO reaches across and takes 11 cookies, looks at the ill-informed citizen and says, “Watch out for that union guy ...
  • A brief pictorial of protest in Colorado Sprin ...
    Done by Ed and with music courtesy of Rage Against the Machine I still have to get the embed code right. But that’s a youtube link. Anyhow, I’ve thought of that a lot, how is it that everything is “protest” against the actions of others? Granted that the others happen to be in the wrong [...]
  • Recommendations for the Denver rally tomorrow& ...
    Find out if Fox News is finally realizing that their shit ain’t flying as well as they thought it would and if they’ve decided to charter a fleet of Greyhounds to bus in TeaBags for the “grass roots” counter rally, sponsored by Fox and the other Koch-suckers. Then have REAL grass- roots people i ...
  • Santorum defends Murderous, anti-Christian Cru ...
    But first, since the top twenty searches on Google return this: Santorum 1. The frothy mix of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex. 2. Senator Rick Santorum. He said today that the Crusades have such a bad image because the American Left has formed a conspiracy to ta ...
  • “Invest in America” speak-out at L ...
    Instead of his lame-ass “town halls” like the Tea-Party ones he held for health care, remember those? The one at a Country Club on the far edge of town that started after the bus stopped running on a Friday evening, no more bus service till Monday morning? Working Class need not apply? Then they ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • VIRAL EMAIL LETTER: The Laws of Physics and th ...
    Dear People at [Insert Media Name here], I've included a link to a You Tube video that I think everyone at your [Newspaper/TV Station/Radio Station] should watch. The video explains why our troops should not be in Afghanistan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwqLu8ZXIX0 Our troops must be wi ...
  • Action Alert: Send This Letter to Any Architec ...
    The latest action alert from AE911Truth asks that you "Put AE911Truth DVDs in the Hands of Every A/E in Your Community." But they point out that they, "...Are very grateful for any effort that you might wish to engage in. The important thing is that all of us do our part." So for those who canno ...
  • Action! Support Professor Richard Falk
    Thanks to Fran Shure at colorado911visibility.org for passing this along. Call to Action! TO: Citizens of the World Working for Peace ACTION NEEDED: Protest the Condemnation of Professor Richard Falk, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian te ...
  • The Sheen comments that matter
    While the mainstream media is having a field day over Charlie Sheen's supposedly alcohol and coke-free ramblings on AJ's show yesterday, and having fun debating whether or not him emphasizing the real name of the Jewish creator of his now cancelled TV show constitutes anti-Semitism, Paul Joesph ...
  • U.S. Army Deploys Psy-Ops on U.S. Senators
    Rolling Stone report Hey, if the U.S. Military is willing to use psy-ops on Senators, maybe they're also willing to use psy-ops on ordinary citizens... like on 9/11/2001 for example? This is in-your-face treason and fascism.

Fooducate

  • We’ve all been GMO’ed. Now What?
    GMO foods are a hotly debated topic in the past few years, and especially in the last month. We haven’t addressed this issue and thought it might be time to share some thoughts. GMO (Genetically modified organism) or GE (genetically engineered) foods were introduced into our food supply less tha ...
  • When Will Fooducate be Available for Android?
    Since launching the Fooducate iPhone App, we’ve been swamped by requests for an Android version. And we will be happy to oblige. We are working on an Android app, and expect it to be available soon. How soon? A beta version should be out in several weeks. If you’d like to be notified when the [. ...
  • Going Nuts? Celebrate World Pistachio Day
    Today, February 26th, is World Pistachio Day. Here are a few facts about this delicious nut. 1. The pistachio nut comes from the pistachio tree, native to western Asia – Turkey, Iran, Turkmenistan, and western Afghanistan. 2. Pistachios reached Europe from Iran at least as early as the 6th centu ...
  • A Case For Reading Food Labels
    This is a guest blog post by Andrea Simon. I’m a compulsive food label reader. I’m that girl you see standing in the aisle at Trader Joe’s with a jar of applesauce in each hand, analyzing one’s nutrition facts against the other. Sometimes I get stares—it doesn’t bother me. This is a habit I star ...
  • What Goes in to Aunt Jemima’s “Original Syrup” ...
    Aunt Jemima is a brand that’s been around for over 100 years. It conjures thoughts of  Southern hospitality. It’s comforting to know a brand has been around that long. You can probably trust it.. And thus, many people buy their pancake kit (mix + syrup) from Aunt Jemima. Here’s why Aunt Jemima ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • Industry bloggers call for mine to make tribal ...
    Vedanta's aluminium refinery in Lanjigarh, Odisha, India © Survival In the footsteps of former Survival supporters, such as Peter Cook and Spike Milligen, Michael Palin recently gave a fundraising talk for the organization. He described his visit to the Dongria Kondh tribe in India where a ...
  • Kenyans demonstrate against Ethiopia’s mega-da ...
    Friends of Lake Turkana demonstrate against China's involvement in building a giant hydroelectric dam, Gilgel Gibe 3. © Friends of Lake Turkana Kenyans have demonstrated against a hydroelectric mega-dam being built in neighbouring Ethiopia, over fears that it will devastate hundreds of thou ...
  • Borneo court: Penan land case can go ahead
    Penan children relaxing in their rainforest home, Sarawak, Borneo. © R. Hanbury-Tenison/Survival A Malaysian court has ruled that members of the Penan tribe can sue the government and a timber company for trespassing on their land. The Court of Appeal in Sarawak, the Malaysian part of Born ...
  • Amazon Indians in London to stop dams that wil ...
    Bishop Erwin Kräutler marches against the Belo Monte dam © Prelazia do Xingu Three Amazon Indians have begun a journey through Europe to protest against dams which threaten to destroy the lands and lives of thousands of tribal people. Ruth Buendia Mestoquiari, an Ashaninka Indian from Pe ...
  • Cartoon satire of ‘development’ launched in In ...
    Survival's 'There you go!' can be read in two minutes. © Oren Ginzburg/Survival Survival has today launched in India a cartoon book satirizing the destruction of tribal peoples in the name of ‘development’. The book, ‘There you go!’, designed to be read in two minutes, is being sent to Pri ...

Greg Palast

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle bleach bottles?
    Inspired by clearing out of bathroom cupboards this morning, I thought we’d have a cleaning themed week here on Recycle This. We’ve covered various cleaning related things in the past – pump action spray bottles, washing powder packaging, “freshener” shakers and reducing the amount of cleaning p ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle old glazed doors?
    We’ve had an email from Sandra: We’ve replaced some old fashioned doors with glass in them. What can we do with them now? I’ve got an eBay saved search which looks for cheap big used home/garden stuff in my local area – and there are always doors on there. Most don’t sell for a lot [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle a mattress frame
    On the Suggest an Item page, Wendy recently explained: We recently bought a new mattress after our Sleep Number bed (piece of junk, don’t get one) malfunctioned. We’ve saved the frame, which is made of black plastic and a lot of the cloth-like stuff that went around the air part. I was wondering ...
  • Five fantastic things to do with overripe frui ...
    “Overripe” is a bit of a euphemism – I mean fruit that’s past its raw eating prime. Fruit that’s going off a bit, frankly. I don’t mean mouldy or otherwise rank fruit, just fruit that’s just not as fresh as it once was. Bake fruity breads, cakes and muffins I’m pretty sure everyone knows that [. ...
  • What can I reuse or recycle to make seedling/p ...
    It might still be February but our 2011 growing season is already off and running here. In addition to the eight fruit trees John planted a couple of weeks ago, I planted out eight fruit bushes at the weekend and I started my first batch of cauliflower, greenhouse tomatoes and lettuce the weeken ...

Age of Autism

  • Alison Singer: Autism Mom, Pharma Wife
    By Jake Crosby Alison Singer: autism parent, IACC seat usurper, industry front group founder, recent guest on The Dr. Oz Show, and now - loyal Pharma-funded wife. Of course, that’s what she’s always been. We just didn’t know it, until...
  • This Will Only Hurt For...Ever: Compulsory Vac ...
    Managing Editor's Note: Thank you to Kimberly J. Garde for sharing her paper from The Phoenix Law Review on compulsory vaccination. Below is an introduction and the table of contents with a link to the full paper. By Kimberly J....
  • Autism’s Scapegoats
    By Norm Roberts There are several things we can agree on. Coal is nasty. Studies correlating incidence of autism and proximity to coal fired power plants shouldn’t be discounted. We need to clean up those plants. Coal’s likely role in...
  • Mary Holland on Fox & Friends to Discuss Pro-P ...
  • Best of AofA: "Henry Waxman Father of the Auti ...
    We ran this post in 2008. In light of the Bruesewitz v. Wyeth decision, we thought it a good time to review how the vaccine court came about. By J.B. Handley Almost 22 years ago, on October 20, 1986, the...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

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

Open Your Eyes News

  • ‘Islamophobia crime against humanity&#82 ...
    PressTV – Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has strongly criticized Islamophobia practiced in several European countries, especially Germany. “Islamophobia is a crime against humanity as much as anti-Semitism is,” he told a crowd of Turkish immigrants in the German city of Duesseldorf, ...
  • Drinks that kill
    The Nation – First it was a nine-year-old girl from Polonnaruwa who died. Then in a bizarre coincidence several miles away in the North, three little boys of almost identical age, 4,7 and 9 were rushed from a hospital at Vavuniya to the Anuradhapaura Teaching Hospital where fortunately, and than ...
  • Tunisian prime minister Mohamed Ghannouchi res ...
    Guardian - Tunisia was thrown into turmoil once more after Mohamed Ghannouchi resigned as prime minister of the post-revolution government amid further clashes between police and protestors. The interim president, Fouad Mebazaa, named the former government minister Beji Caid-Essebsi as Ghannouc ...
  • Zimbabwean army helping Gaddafi in Libya
    TheZimbabwean – Speculation that members of the Zimbabwe National Army are in Libya to help prop up cornered dictator Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, has gained momentum. This follows Zimbabweâs Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa (pictured) avoiding giving a straight answer to a question posed in Parl ...
  • Eleven Iraqi anti-government protesters killed ...
    Mail Online - Thousands marched on government buildings and clashed with security forces in cities across Iraq today, in the largest and most violent anti-government protests here since political unrest began spreading in the Arab world several weeks ago. In three northern Iraqi cities security ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Feds halt roundup of wild mustangs in Nevada
    A day after announcing it would scale back costly roundups of wild horses across the West, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management abruptly halted a controversial gather of mustangs in northeastern Nevada. The roundup ended Friday with the removal of...
  • Toxic metals: Ventura County Superfund site is ...
    Contamination is spreading from an old coastal Oxnard metal recycling plant, which is now a federal Superfund site. The Environmental Protection Agencyreported Thursday that lead, zinc and other pollutants are migrating from the 40-acre Halaco plant to the neighboring Ormond...
  • GlassPoint Solar uses the sun's heat to extrac ...
    The solar industry is usually on the oil industry’s case -- sniping about dirty energy and whatnot -- but the two sides came together Thursday in an unlikely alliance. Fremont-based company GlassPoint Solar unveiled a demonstration facility that uses solar...
  • Global warming: The United Nations courts Tins ...
    The United Nations has long courted celebrities for its peace-keeping and anti-poverty efforts, from Mia Farrow and Ricky Martin to George Clooney and Angelina Jolie. It is a mutually beneficial arrangement. Hollywood stars grasp at gravitas; the U.N. pushes for...
  • Deepwater drilling permits must move forward, ...
    Beyond dispute is that before the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, permit applications were resolved in some two weeks. Also clear is that the permit applications at issue here have experienced delays of four months, if not more."

water.org

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

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • Before the Almond Trees Disappear
    We do not have to continue to obliterate the past of the Arabs who lived in this land. It would be better to acknowledge the pain of their loss and offer them peaceful coexistence.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • The racist entity that is taking over Israel m ...
    This was true for the murders the underground carried out, and was also true for the pressure he put on the murderers to blow up buses and their passengers. The law states that someone who dispatches murders should receive multiple life sentences...Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note ...
  • Peace Now founder leading initiative for new s ...
    In a recent blog, Raz wrote that the new party will be center-left, motivated by the principles of peace, social justice, equality, education and clean politics.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Rapist Gets No Jail Time Because Victim Was So
    This was already posted, I just think it bears repeating. And if you're as outraged as I am, please post the link as many places as you can to reach as many people as possible. I'm beyond stunned after reading this article. PLEASE Let's get this out thereSubmitted by cyn r. to World �|� �Note-i ...
  • The Problem With Question 36. Why are so many ...
    Last month, I became an American citizen, a tremendous honor and no easy accomplishment, even for a Canadian. After living here for 12 years, I thought I knew everything. Then I learned how we mint AmericansSubmitted by Carrie Burton to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

  • PG&E Orders 15 MW Solar Farm
    Charging towards its five-year plan to own 250 MW of solar generation, California utility Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E) has signed a contract with solar developer SOLON Corporation to build a 15 MW solar power plant. read m ...
  • E•BOOM CAPITAL: First Solar Disappoints Invest ...
    First Solar production line in Frankfurt, Germany. Shares of First Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq: FSLR), the world’s largest solar company by market value, fell 4.5% in overnigh ...
  • Xcel Energy Cuts Solar Incentives, House Rebut ...
    On February 17, 2011 Xcel Energy, Inc. (NYSE: XEL), Colorado’s largest investor-owned utility, announced that it was suspending the solar energy incentive application process and cutting the associated rebate. read more
  • E•BOOM CAPITAL: News from Aleo Solar, Transpho ...
    Installation of solar panels manufactured by Aleo Solar AG Shares of Aleo Solar AG (XETRA: AS1.DE) are up more than 23% since Tuesday when Robert Bosch GnbH announced ...
  • New Jersey: Morris County Goes Solar
    In the U.S. state and local governments are continuing to find creative ways to fund and implement renewable energy projects. In New Jersey's Morris County the Morris County Improvement Authority (MCIA) has implemented a new model d ...

News Blaze

  • Cindy Sheehan and Vets Urge Travis AFB Airmen ...
    The protest is today, 28th February at the Travis AFB main gate 6:30-9 a.m., and 3:30-5:30 p.m.
  • Japanese Ship Freed By Somali Pirates
    The ship, which has a deadweight of 20,170 tonnes, is owned by Japanese shipping company NYK-Hinode Line Ltd., one of the oldest shipping lines plying the routes from the Far East to East Africa, and is flying a flag of convenience from Panama. Mana
  • Alameda Resident Files Complaint Against AUSD ...
    Traiman further said that AUSD Superintendent Kirsten Vital should know better, because she was warned by the FPPC last year after Erwin & Muir spent over $10,000 on the mass-mailing of more than 40,000 pieces of AUSD campaign literature disguised a
  • if You Don't Like Your Local School, The Stat ...
    Some people treat teaching as a mystical process, but it really isn't. It takes training to be a teacher. But if you don't like your local school, many states offer a simple alternative. Start Your Own School.
  • UN and Lebanese Forces Conduct Disaster Prepar ...
    Activities included the deployment of emergency response teams by LAF and UNIFIL, aerial and ground reconnaissance of affected area, search, rescue and relief activities, including first aid for victims, medical evacuation by ground and air transpor

Worldnews

  • Kate Hudson and Matt Bellamy buy £4m home ...
    Kate Hudson and Matt Bellamy have purchased a £4 million home in the UK. The couple - who are currently expecting their first child - have reportedly purchased a property in North London after the 31-year-old actress decided the UK would be a "great place" to raise a family. An insider... ...
  • Dollar moves narrowly in upper 81 yen in ...
    jitters+ (AP) - TOKYO, Feb. 28 (Kyodo)The U.S. dollar stuck to a narrow band in the upper 81 yen range Friday after hitting a three-week low in the mid-81 yen level as concerns over the volatile political situation in the Middle East and North Africa ran high. At 5 p.m., the dollar fetched ...
  • Balanced Budget will promote inclusive gr ...
    New Delhi, Feb 28 (ANI): Union Home Minister P Chidambaram has complimented Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee for presenting a good and balanced...
  • Vodafone mobile phone network crippled af ...
    Many Vodafone customers were left unable to make phone calls this morning, after the mobile phone network was targeted by burglars. Vodafone has 3.2 million UK subscribers. Photo: PA An overnight break-in at a Vodafone technical facility caused major disruption, with voice, text and mobile ...
  • EPA, its rules under fire
    The state and federal Environmental Protection agencies have become the targets of conservative legislators in Ohio and Washington who say too many regulations stymie new businesses and jobs. The resurgence in Republican power in the Ohio legislature and in the U.S. House of Representatives ...

Alex in Wonderland

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Common Dreams

  • Demonstrators Can Continue Overnight Stays in ...
    MADISON, Wis. — In a victory — at least a symbolic one — for Wisconsin’s public employee unions, the Capitol authorities announced on Sunday that demonstrators could continue their all-night sleepovers in the building and would not be forcibly ejected or arrested. ...
  • Capitol Police Plan to Clear Building at 4; Ci ...
    MADISON, WI – The Governor of Wisconsin, Scott Walker, ordered the Capitol police to close the Capitol building at 4:00pm (CST) today, just a few hours from now. Protesters who have occupied the building for 14 days, with no arrests, have been prepared for this eventuality, and have devised a nu ...
  • Small Nuclear War Could Reverse Global Warming ...
    Even a regional nuclear war could spark "unprecedented" global cooling and reduce rainfall for years, according to U.S. government computer models. Widespread famine and disease would likely follow, experts speculate. During the Cold War a nuclear exchange between superpowers—such as the one fe ...
  • The Price of Food is at the Heart of This Wave ...
    Revolution is breaking out all over. As Gaddafi marshals his thugs and mercenaries for a last-ditch fight in Tripoli, several died as protests grew more serious in Iraq. Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah tried to bribe his people into docility by splashing out $35bn on housing, social services and ed ...
  • DNC Pressures Obama, Passes Resolution Endorsi ...
    WASHINGTON -- Members of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) gave President Obama a rare push on Saturday, adopting a resolution attempting to encourage the administration to move toward a speedier withdrawal from Afghanistan.read more

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

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Energy Collective

  • Kilimanjaro Energy: Towering Ambitions
    Over the last decade, Nathaniel “Ned” David, a Harvard and Berkeley-trained PhD., has co-founded five technology companies that have collectively raised more than $700 million in financing. One, Syrrx, made a diabetes drug. A second, Achaogen, is developing a potent antibiotic.
  • Fracked gas is only cheap because extractors d ...
    I favor David and Goliath stories, especially when Goliath is a dangerous, selfish and greedy force that puts short term profits in front of health and safety issues that may affect generations. Though I have not yet had the opportunity to watch the movie, I have learned enough about Gasland and ...
  • Snow, cold and Canada: How does solar PV hold ...
    My Clean Break column today in the Toronto Star (it’s only online at the moment) looks at research underway at St. Lawrence College and Queen’s University in Kingston that is looking at how snowfall impacts the performance of PV panels from a variety of suppliers (crystalline and thin film) and ...
  • Oil Back at $100
    I am between flights and have been traveling for a few days, but wanted to get off a quickie on current oil prices.
  • W2 Energy Begins Construction Of Biobutanol Re ...
    W2 Energy, Inc. today announced that it has begun construction on a biobutanol reactor. Currently, biobutanol is commercially produced from petroleum. W2 Energy can make biobutanol simply by modifying its SunFilter Algae Reactor to grow a mixture of 60% biobutanol, 30% acetone and 10% ethanol.

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

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

Peoples Voice

  • World's End Explaining The Paths By Which The ...
    By Dr. Joseph Chiappalone In the late 1970s and early 1980s, even while I was practicing fulltime Medicine in Melbourne Australia, I experienced a set of extraordinary circumstances which allowed me to contact what I term Supra-Mental Consciousness. I had been vigorously questioning the sta ...
  • This is what democracy looks like
    Mary Shaw Around the world, the frustration of ordinary people with the economy, unemployment, corruption, and repression has reached critical mass. They're mad as hell, as the famous movie line goes, and they're not going to take it anymore. The people are taking to the streets in protest. ...
  • German Court Calls for Collider Safety Confere ...
    by LHC Safety Review COLOGNE, February 28 - As the world's largest atom smasher prepares to restart after a two-month break, a German court has called for the German Government to convene a conference on the collider's potential risks. After an intensive three-hour court hearing in Cologne, th ...
  • Spreading Activism for Change
    by Stephen Lendman Egyptians want it. So do Palestinians, Arabs throughout the region, protesting East and West Europeans, others across the world, and growing numbers in America, especially in Wisconsin - ground zero to save organized labor. At issue is freedom v. tyranny, what Aaron R ...
  • Middle East Protests Continue for Unmet Demand ...
    by Stephen Lendman So far, weeks of regional protests achieved nothing. Despite ousting Egypt's Mubarak and Tunisia's Ben Ali, their regimes remain in place, offering nothing but unfulfilled promises. On February 26, Egyptians again protested in Tahrir Square. This time, however, militar ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

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

World Wide Hippies

  • They are Believers, yes – but they got there f ...
    Robert Fisk: The destiny of this pageant lies in the Kingdom of Oil | The Independent The Middle East earthquake of the past five weeks has been the most tumultuous, shattering, mind-numbing experience in the history of the region since the fall of the Ottoman empire. For once, “shock and awe” w ...
  • Anonymous Declares War on Glenn Beck
    People of America we have heard your cries against the hate mongering and violent rhetoric of Glenn Beck and we stand with you. No longer will we tolerate his incessant conspiracy theories intended only to incite hate and violence in the uneducated. No longer will we sit idly by while he promote ...
  • Corporate-Funded Astroturfing: It’s What ...
    Corporate-Funded Online ‘Astroturfing’ Is More Advanced and More Automated Than You Might Think | Alternet Every month more evidence piles up, suggesting that online comment threads and forums are being hijacked by people who arenât what they seem to be. Every month more evidence piles up, sugge ...
  • Suze Rotolo, RIP
    Suze Rotolo, Bob Dylan’s Girlfriend and the Muse Behind Many of His Greatest Songs, Dead at 67 | Rolling Stone Suze Rotolo, Bob Dylan’s girlfriend in the early-Sixties, who walked arm-in-arm with the songwriter on the iconic cover of The Freehweelin’ Bob Dylan, died February 24th after a long i ...
  • WWH: Homegrown – Here is our best from last we ...
    Worldwide Hippies is your most trusted network of independent news and views on the web. Our goal is to create a dialogue between as diverse a group of people as possible to promote peace, civility and understanding. Our enemies are ignorance and intolerance. Our weapon is information. We want t ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • Cairo in Wisconsin
    The call reportedly arrived from Cairo. Pizza for the protesters, the voice said. It was Saturday, February 20th, and by then Ian's Pizza on State Street in Madison, Wisconsin, was overwhelmed. One employee had been assigned the sole task of answering the phone and taking down orders. An ...
  • VIDEO: Hear the Voices of Thompson
    Blair Hudson: 'This Will Have a Huge Ripple Effect' Anita Campbell: 'I Will Always Consider Thompson My Home' Craig Costello: 'High-Paying Jobs Leaving Town' Sheila Thompson: 'It Will Be Hard for Me to Start Over' Gloria Jacobs: 'It Can Happen Anywhere' Nuno Pereira: 'We All Have to Put Li ...
  • "An Inco family"
    Amanda Hart Homemaker 27 years old What brought me to Thompson was Inco. That’s where my dad started working when I was five and I've been in an Inco family ever since then. It went from my dad working at Inco, to my husband working at Vale and now my brother is also working at Vale. We always ...
  • "Going down with the ship"
    Terry Stoker Owner of Better Body Fitness 47 years old I was born in Thompson and I’ve been here all my life. Vale’s announcement, with the loss of that many jobs and the spinoff jobs that come with it, will have a huge impact on me. I would expect probably a thirty percent cut in my business. ...
  • "The needs are here"
    Dr. Ginette Poulin Family physician in Thompson through the Burntwood Regional Health Authority Currently we have 14 family physicians in Thompson. We service a good chunk of the North, including most First Nations reserves. People with health issues are stabilized and come to us first, then i ...

Salon

  • The story behind the "Roger Ailes indictment" ...
    On Sunday morning, the economics analyst and TV�commentator Barry Ritholtz dropped a bombshell on his blog: Roger Ailes, the powerful president of Fox News, will be indicted in connection with allegedly telling a News Corp. executive to lie to federal investigators, according to Ritholtz's bl ...
  • Labor wins the day in Wisconsin
    I'm not going to pretend to be dispassionate about the Wisconsin protests. The first civil disobedience I ever witnessed personally was in Madison in 1978, when I was covering a protest at the Board of Regents meeting, where students demanded the regents divest the university's holdings in So ...
  • Oscars 2011: Winners List
    "The King's Speech" takes the big prize. Who else took home prizes? "The Social Network," "The Fighter" or another? It's film's biggest night.
  • Wisconsin readies to clear Capitol of proteste ...
    Taylor Tengwall spent the last seven nights sleeping inside Wisconsin's Capitol building alongside thousands of fellow pro-union protesters, and he was hoping state officials would relent on their decision to clear the building for the night starting Sunday.
  • Gingrich says Obama's DOMA snub could be an im ...
    Newt Gingrich said in an interview with conservative website Newsmax that he believes President Obama's decision to stop enforcing the Defense of Marriage Act is a potentially impeachable offense. The former Speaker of the House -- and presumptive candidate for president -- stopped short of s ...

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • Kilimanjaro Energy: Towering Ambitions
    Over the last decade, Nathaniel “Ned” David, a Harvard and Berkeley-trained PhD., has co-founded five technology companies that have collectively raised more than $700 million in financing. One, Syrrx, made a diabetes drug. A second, Achaogen, is developing a potent antibiotic.
  • Fracked gas is only cheap because extractors d ...
    I favor David and Goliath stories, especially when Goliath is a dangerous, selfish and greedy force that puts short term profits in front of health and safety issues that may affect generations. Though I have not yet had the opportunity to watch the movie, I have learned enough about Gasland and ...
  • Snow, cold and Canada: How does solar PV hold ...
    My Clean Break column today in the Toronto Star (it’s only online at the moment) looks at research underway at St. Lawrence College and Queen’s University in Kingston that is looking at how snowfall impacts the performance of PV panels from a variety of suppliers (crystalline and thin film) and ...
  • Oil Back at $100
    I am between flights and have been traveling for a few days, but wanted to get off a quickie on current oil prices.
  • W2 Energy Begins Construction Of Biobutanol Re ...
    W2 Energy, Inc. today announced that it has begun construction on a biobutanol reactor. Currently, biobutanol is commercially produced from petroleum. W2 Energy can make biobutanol simply by modifying its SunFilter Algae Reactor to grow a mixture of 60% biobutanol, 30% acetone and 10% ethanol.

EU Times

  • 3M CEO blasts Obama as anti-business
    The chief executive of diversified manufacturer 3M Co called US President Barack Obama anti-business in an interview with the Financial Times, arguing that manufacturers could move to Canada or Mexico as a result. “We know what his instincts are – they are Robin Hood-esque,” 3M CEO George Buckle ...
  • U.S. experimented on disabled citizens and pri ...
    Pictures have emerged providing the shocking proof that U.S. government doctors once experimented on disabled American citizens and prison inmates. Such experiments included giving hepatitis to mental patients in Connecticut, squirting a pandemic flu virus up the noses of prisoners in Maryland, ...
  • Japan child porn cases surge to record high ch ...
    Japan’s number of known child pornography victims surged by half last year, data showed Thursday, a new record in a country where it is legal to possess sexually explicit images of children. Despite its production and distribution being outlawed, Japan is seen as a major global source of child p ...
  • US citizen recalls ‘humiliating’ post-9/11 arr ...
    Handcuffed and marched through Washington’s Dulles International Airport in his Muslim clothing, the man with the long, dark beard could only imagine what people were thinking. That scene unfolded in March 2003, a year and a half after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. One of the four planes hijac ...
  • Russia, Ukraine plan military drills
    The improvement in relations between Russia and Ukraine will soon result in joint military drills in a variety of formats, officials said Sunday. Relations between the two countries have improved significantly since Viktor Yanukovych was elected president last year, RIA Novosti reported. “The Ru ...

Stonecipher News

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

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Best Supporting Actor: Christian Bale
    The Best Supporting Actor statue has gone to Christian Bale for his role as drug addicted former professional boxer Dicky Ecklund in The Fighter . Bale was widely considered the front-runner in this category, having swept the awards this season. There was some speculation that Geoffrey Rush mig ...
  • Weekly Wrap-up: Cheapest Smartphone, 3G servic ...
    Its a big day today â Its the budget day and we will be doing some extensive coverage of it on trak.in. However, lets start off our Monday by looking at some of the buzziest posts of last week. India has millions of poor people who cannot afford to have food 2 times a day. Is cloning seeds solu ...
  • Obama to meet with UN’s Ban to discuss violenc ...
    WASHINGTON, D.C. (BNO NEWS) -- U.S. President Barack Obama will meet with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon in Washington, D.C. on Monday to discuss the ongoing violence in Libya, the White House said on late Sunday. Libya has been plunged into chaos as massive anti-government protes ...
  • GMAIL reset: yup my gmail account has been era ...
    I’m not feeling very chirpy right now. First there is the matter of the raging cold I’m battling — I could call it flu, but then I’d have to change sex — and second, there’s the Gmail issue. After watching a movie this afternoon with half-closed eyes, desultorily checking my email every ten min ...
  • OK Enda, What Are You Going To Do Now?
    They're still counting the results of the Irish election but it's clear that, as expected, the story of the day is Fianna Fail's collapse. Enda Kenny, who's not half as youthful as he looks (he's the Father of the House and has been a TD since 1975), will be Taoiseach but the election of 75 or ...

Groklaw

  • U.K. Comes out for Royalty-Free Standards for ...
    The U.K. has become the latest country to conclude that for information and communications technology (ICT) procurement purposes, "open standards" means "royalty free standards." While apparently falling short of a legal requirement, a Cabinet Office Procurement Policy Note recommends that all ...
  • Canonical and Banshee Agree to Disagree
    To prevent this kind of thing happening in the future I suggest that open-source projects that include provisions that have the potential to self-generate revenue come to agreement before they're bundled together on how this revenue is to be handled. In some ways this is a classic case of what h ...
  • Work for Utahs federal judges piling up while ...
    Civil and criminal case filings have jumped 25 and 23 percent, respectively, according to a court analysis of cases filed between July and January during the past two years. The increase comes at a time when President Barack Obama has yet to fill two federal District Court judge vacancies out of ...
  • Complaint Accuses Hunton and Williams of Dirty ...
    The organization Stop the Chamber says it filed the complaint on Wednesday. Stop the Chamber, a critic of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, was among the groups targeted by the security companies that Hunton & Williams worked with, according to e-mails. The 14-page complaint (PDF) accuses the three ...
  • How to improve your privacy.. by installing To ...
    Mobile communications can easily be surveilled. One step you can take to prevent tracking is to install Tor on your phone. Orbot, developed by the Guardian Project, is an application that implements Tor on Android phones. It allows mobile phone users to access the web, instant messaging, and e ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • US exempts mercenaries from war crimes prosecu ...
    African mercenaries hired by the Gaddafi regime to kill Libyan protesters would be immune from prosecution for war crimes due to a clause in this weekend’s UN resolution that was demanded by the United States. This was done to protect mercenaries hired by the US in other conflicts from prosecuti ...
  • Spending must be cut. This is an issue the lef ...
    The chart is from an analysis from Mary Meeker at Kleiner Perkins, a major venture capital firm, about federal government spending and revenue (PDF). Silicon Valley Insider The US cannot grow its way out of this problem. It needs to cut spending, specifically entitlement spending. We hereby anno ...
  • Texas Tornados, Hey Baby Que Paso?
    Tex-Mex soul from the Texas Tornados; Doug Sahm, Freddie Fender, Flaco Jiménez, and Augie Meyer in Texas, 1992. Sahm and Meyer were in the Sir Douglas Quintet in the 60′s (despite the name, they were fron San Antonio) and pioneered the Tex-Mex sound that the Texas Tornados expanded upon. Both b ...
  • The predators at the top, billionaires and mil ...
    New York Times The predators at the top, billionaires and millionaires, are pitting ordinary workers against one another. So weâre left with the bizarre situation of unionized workers with a pension being resented by nonunion workers without one. The swells are in the background, having a good l ...
  • Where do we live? It’s complicated
    Unlike on Facebook where people say “It’s complicated” about their relationship, Sue and I say it about where we live. We’ve moved four times in six years, this last time from Laguna Woods CA to Cedar City UT because there were no jobs last year for CPAs (Sue is a CPA) in southern California eve ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

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

First Truths

  • Robber Baron or Red?
    Over the past few months, I’ve been both excoriated by fellow left-libertarians for, inter alia, an approving reference to George Reisman and branded a “Red” for expounding the stateless, free market socialism of Benjamin Tucker and Francis Dashwood Tandy. That I’m neither an environment-hating ...
  • Getting the Raw End in Wisconsin, Part II
    Center for a Stateless SocietyContinuing my commentary on events unfolding in Wisconsin, I write: The meaningful division is between those who use coercive manipulation of the bounds within which economic activities take place, and those who rely on voluntary, cooperative courses of action. Any ...
  • No Work for the Weary
    The state, despite its constant insistence, cannot create jobs, but it can destroy them. I comment at the Center for a Stateless Society.
  • In Libya and Elsewhere, the State Depends on S ...
    I commented on events in the Middle East and Northern Africa: These countries' productive majorities are no longer content to prop up and underwrite the dissolute culture of their "leaders," to work their fingers to the bone while palace parties rage in their capital cities. The truth that stati ...
  • Getting the Raw End in Wisconsin
    My latest for the Center for a Stateless Society: But the anti-union turgidity of the Republican variant of the "free market" obscures what are the actual � as against the imagined �� effects of the state's pervasive interventions in the economy. When the state creates monopoly or oligopoly cond ...

Media Co-Op

  • Tent City Activists Go Homeless
    Harassed from Plaza to Field to Community Centre to Gazebo to Occupied Building By noon on 26 February 2011, people anticipating a tent city filled the wide sidewalk outside the Pantages at 144-156 East Hastings Street. A series of short s ...
  • Tent Village arrests
    TENT VILLAGE - Eleven housing activists were arrested Saturday night after occupying space in� an Olympic Athletes Village condo complex. The move came after a day of trying to set up a tent village to demand promised social housing. The two-hour occupation of an unrented retail space followed a ...
  • Edmonton rally in solidarity with the Libyan p ...
    Approximately 75 Edmontonians brave -20 winter weather to gather downtown at Sir Winston Churchill Square to show their solidarity with the people of Libya who are curren ...
  • No to Gaddafi in the Snow
    Despite the snow, Vancouver's Libyan community and supporters gathered outside the Pulbic Library to profess their disgust with Gaddafi's desperate and violent attempts at silencing dissent. According to Aljazeera, "citizens, including the country's former ambassador to India, are saying that wa ...
  • Broken Bridges: Vancouver Activist Darren Thur ...
    The following article is published in the booklet Broken Bridges (Feb. 2011). Please find the readable version and the printable booklet version attac ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • America: only one revolution to a customer
    David Seaton's News LinksWhy is it that when you study the graph above and then read the quotes below, the graph seems so real and the quotes seem some sort of political science fiction, verging from the absurd and childish to the puzzled or even hopeless?�What you are looking at in Tunisia, in ...
  • The unbearable levity of Wikileaks and the rig ...
    David Seaton's News LinksI received the following comment on my last post:So previously, you did not think that globalization and instant communication tools were radiically changing the world?� It wasn't until wikileaks that you realized this was happening? Helloooo?�� To which I am tempted t ...
  • Globalization and its discontents: a new parad ...
    I have an "impossibility theorem" for the global economy (...). It says that democracy, national sovereignty and global economic integration are mutually incompatible: we can combine any two of the three, but never have all three simultaneously and in full.� Dani Rodrik - Kennedy School Harv ...
  • The Wikileaks cables: the portrait of an empir ...
    Not really the image that America would like to project at this moment David Seaton's News LinksThere are Wikileaks cables from almost every imaginable part of the world, but since I live in Spain, I'll fill you in on some of the dump's specific effects on Spanish pol ...
  • Too bad Obama can't talk like Ricky Gervais
    David Seaton's News LinksI wasn't really paying attention, but I read that there was this big hoohah about Ricky Gervais presentation of the 2011 Golden Globe awards, so out of idle curiosity I dialed it up on YouTube. I was ravished. It was wonderful. All these fat egos of today's overbloated ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

  • EWG Comments to Dioxin Review Panel
    February 24th, 2011 February 23, 2010 Dr. Timothy Buckley, Chair Dioxin Review Panel of the Science Advisory Board Environmental Protection Agency 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W. Washington, DC 20460 Dear Dr. Buckley, These comments are... [[ This is a cont ...
  • Cell phone radiation affects brain function ...
    Contact: EWG public affairs 202.667.6982 or alex@ewg.org Washington, D.C. – A study led by Dr. Nora D. Volkow, a pioneering brain imaging scientist who heads the National Institute on Drug Abuse, reports today that cell phone... [[ This is a content summary only. Vis ...
  • EWG backs strict California chromium-6 goal
    February 16th, 2011 February 14, 2011 Michael Baes Pesticide and Environmental Toxicology Branch Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment California Environmental Protection Agency 1515 Clay St., 16th floor Oakland, California... [[ This is a conten ...
  • EWG backs strict California chrome-6 goal
    February 16th, 2011 February 14, 2011 Michael Baes Pesticide and Environmental Toxicology Branch Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment California Environmental Protection Agency 1515 Clay St., 16th floor Oakland, California... [[ This is a conten ...
  • Proposed federal fluoride cap too high
    February 16th, 2011 February 14, 2011 Howard K. Koh, M.D., M.P.H. Assistant Secretary for Health U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Community Water Fluoridation Comments Division of... [[ This is a content ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Startling NEW Evidence: This Drink Causes Your ...
    Glucose and fructose are both simple sugars, but scientists have long suspected there are differences in the way your body processes them. In a new study, researchers scanned the brains�of nine subjects after�they got an infusion of equal volumes of glucose, fructose or saline. The brain scans ...
  • The Baby Syndrome More Horrific Than Falling T ...
    Emily Bazelon, a senior editor at Slate, said the following in an NPR interview: "It used to be that the assumption was that every time you had evidence of the shaking -- medical evidence -- that you knew, you assumed that the baby would immediately stop breathing and go into a coma ... ...
  • The Simple Fibromyalgia Treatment that’s Nearl ...
    Dr. John Lowe is a skilled clinician, recognized as one of the leading experts on treating thyroid disease with natural medicine. In this interview, he discusses hypothyroidism and the lesser known thyroid hormone resistance, and how thyroid disease is connected to fibromyalgia.
  • 4 of the Most Dangerous Myths About Washing Yo ...
    Becker's ASC Review reveals nine widely held myths about washing your hands. Here are a few of them: Hot water is better than cold water for effective handwashing Scientists have found that various temperatures had "no effect on transient or resident bacterial reduction." Not only does hot ...
  • Can't Beat Food Cravings? Four Steps to Help Y ...
    Are you having trouble losing weight because of an addiction to sugary foods? ABC News shares Dr. Mehmet Oz's four steps for beating those cravings by detoxing your liver: Step 1: Replace grains with broccoli or cauliflower for one week, and eat garlic, chives and leeks Step 2: Durin ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Industry bloggers call for mine to make tribal ...
    Vedanta's aluminium refinery in Lanjigarh, Odisha, India © Survival In the footsteps of former Survival supporters, such as Peter Cook and Spike Milligen, Michael Palin recently gave a fundraising talk for the organization. He described his visit to the Dongria Kondh tribe in India where a ...
  • Kenyans demonstrate against Ethiopia’s mega-da ...
    Friends of Lake Turkana demonstrate against China's involvement in building a giant hydroelectric dam, Gilgel Gibe 3. © Friends of Lake Turkana Kenyans have demonstrated against a hydroelectric mega-dam being built in neighbouring Ethiopia, over fears that it will devastate hundreds of thou ...
  • Borneo court: Penan land case can go ahead
    Penan children relaxing in their rainforest home, Sarawak, Borneo. © R. Hanbury-Tenison/Survival A Malaysian court has ruled that members of the Penan tribe can sue the government and a timber company for trespassing on their land. The Court of Appeal in Sarawak, the Malaysian part of Born ...
  • Amazon Indians in London to stop dams that wil ...
    Bishop Erwin Kräutler marches against the Belo Monte dam © Prelazia do Xingu Three Amazon Indians have begun a journey through Europe to protest against dams which threaten to destroy the lands and lives of thousands of tribal people. Ruth Buendia Mestoquiari, an Ashaninka Indian from Pe ...
  • Cartoon satire of ‘development’ launched in In ...
    Survival's 'There you go!' can be read in two minutes. © Oren Ginzburg/Survival Survival has today launched in India a cartoon book satirizing the destruction of tribal peoples in the name of ‘development’. The book, ‘There you go!’, designed to be read in two minutes, is being sent to Pri ...

Montreal Gazette

  • Editorial: Tories twist crime stats to build m ...
    It's hard to know who is more to blame: The Conservatives for twisting the facts about crime in Canada to convince Canadians they are living in dangerous times. Or Canadians for going along with the Conservatives' imagined higher crime rates when the evidence right under their noses - from their ...
  • And another thing
    The good news announced this week by the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec about its performance in the past year is gratifying for several reasons.
  • Another scary tale from the health-care trench ...
    Last week, two years after Jean James's doctor ordered a diagnostic test for her - to assess blood flow to her kidney - Charles Lemoyne Hospital called to schedule an appointment. By then, as James rightly pointed out, "I could have been dead."
  • Lighting up the night sky is an atrocious ener ...
    A month ago, The Gazette's David Johnston wrote a gushing column on a photo of Montreal taken at night by the International Space station last December. He did not see an atrocious waste of electricity and an environmental calamity in that photograph. Rather he rotated it and saw a smiling man a ...
  • Premier's vision sounds good, but how do we pa ...
    Premier Jean Charest's inaugural address this week sounded more like a campaign speech than a legislative plan for the new National Assembly session.

Food World Order

  • the price of food is at the heart of this wave ...
    from independent: Revolution is breaking out all over. As Gaddafi marshals his thugs and mercenaries for a last-ditch fight in Tripoli, several died as protests grew more serious in Iraq... And it's not just the Middle East. This is an African crisis: Tunisia, where it started, is an African cou ...
  • mouse-pig & super-fish seek approval for human ...
    from toronto sun: The federal government is refusing to say whether it is close to approving genetically modified animals for human consumption. But if they do, you may never know it. So far, groups have applied to get approval for fish that grow twice as fast as normal, and pigs with mice ...
  • 2/24 binge & purge: suburban survivalists, bio ...
    suburban survivalists hoarding food, water & weapons* terror threats rising as fema orders $1b in dehydrated food* monsanto shifts all liability to farmers* uk ice cream parlor launches 'baby gaga' breast milk ice cream* usda raises projection, food costs will increase 4% in '11* ...
  • peace cereal illegally misleading consumers?
    from cornucopia: The Cornucopia Institute filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission, alleging that Hearthside Food Solutions, which manufactures Peace Cereal, is misleading consumers by suggesting that its “natural” breakfast cereals are grown and processed without pesticides. The Peac ...
  • 2/17 binge & purge: cola wars, polar bears & d ...
    video: coca-cola's secret recipe finally spills out into public* cancer causing chemicals found in cola coloring ingredient* docs are wondering if diet soda & strokes are linked* farmers rushing to deposit seeds in arctic doomsday vault where it's -4°f & patrolled by polar bears* bil ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

  • Heart Attacks And Drinking Hot or Warm Water
    This is a very good article… Not only about the warm water with your meal, but about Heart Attacks. The Chinese and Japanese drink hot tea with their meals for generations, not cold water, it is time we adopt their drinking habit especially while eating. For those who like to drink cold water, ...
  • Transcendence: The True Awakening From The Mat ...
  • Jim Corr: March from Wood Quay Dublin to the G ...
    ‘I am asking that the Irish people unite, as our forefathers did, and take to the streets at 11am Saturday 27th from Wood Quay Dublin, to voice our anger and concern over the actions of our politicians and what is happening to Ireland.’ -  Jim Corr
  • Announcing “This Is Disclosure” co ...
    After the success of the 2nd Annual Leeds Exopolitics Expo in August 2010 the organisers of the UKs only UFO Disclosure & Exopolitics conference announced in September 2010 that the next conference was going to be bigger and better! 2011 sees us bring the global attention on UFO Disclosure and ...
  • Truthjuice Gathering 2011
                                                         SPEAKERS CONFIRMED CHARLIE VEITCH - THE END OF FEAR MARK FOSTER - EMPOWERMENT FOR THE PEOPLE PHIL MEDLEY - STARGATES: A PERSONAL JOURNEY MICHAEL HALLAM - BURSTING THE ECONOMIC BUBBLE AND PRACTICAL TOOLS FOR LOCAL COMMUNITY BUILDING IAN MOORE ( ...

The Economic Collapse

  • Mob Robbers And Rampant Looting: Is This The F ...
    Have you ever heard of mob robberies?  What happens is that dozens of young people storm a store at the same time, take whatever they want, and then storm out as powerless store clerks watch helplessly.  Most of the time these "mob robbers" end up getting caught, but unfortunate ...
  • Stagflation 2011: Why It Is Here And Why It Is ...
    Are you ready for an economy that has high inflation and high unemployment at the same time? Well, welcome to "Stagflation 2011".  Stagflation exists when inflation and unemployment are both at high levels at the same time.  Of course we all know about the high unemployment sit ...
  • 18 Sobering Facts Which Prove That The Middle ...
    Have you heard the news?  The stock market is absolutely soaring and according to the U.S. government and the Federal Reserve we are in the beginning stages of a robust economic recovery.  Yippee!  The S&P 500 is up 6.8 percent so far in 2011, and the stock market recently hit a ...
  • Are The Wild Teacher Protests In Wisconsin A P ...
    Have you seen video of the teacher protests that are going on in Wisconsin?  We haven't seen anything like this in America in quite some time.  If you haven't seen video of the protests yet, some very good raw footage is posted below.  On the one hand it is good to see Americans ...
  • Barack Obama’s Budget For 2012: A Comple ...
    Is Barack Obama trying to play a joke on all of us?  The budget that the Obama administration has submitted for fiscal 2012 is so out of touch with reality that it may as well be a budget for "Narnia", "Fantasy Island", "Atlantis" or some other mythical land.  You can view the h ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Quote of the Day: The 'lets all laugh at the r ...
    While Boris Johnson is under consideration for our regular 'Quote of the Day' kudos, we couldn't help but make a special edition out of this gem... "The EU won the 2006 and 2010 World Cups in football (at least according to Romani Prodi and Jean-Claude Trichet, so it has to be true). It also ...
  • The Big Society (or, if you're reading subtitl ...
    David Cameron has written for the Daily Telegraph today, setting out his vision for the 'Big Society'. Those who attempt to read it might well be excused for coming away from the article none the wiser, for it is - if you'll excuse the phrase - pure bollock speak. There's only one sentence ...
  • Austerity Britain: Chancellor vs. Shadow Chanc ...
    As one of the few political blogs which will dare mention the Bilderberg Group, we thought we'd pose a little question... Leaving aside Cabinet member Ken Clarke (Bilderberg)... When there is a debate about the state of Britain's economy and we see the politicians - in this case George Osb ...
  • Middle East democracy spreading Cameron denyin ...
    This is hilarious. Listen to our great cast iron Prime Minister (stop sniggering at the back) talking on Al Jazeera about democracy and the will of the people, repression and so on... ...and then hear him say that the people can naff off, he won't give you a referendum on the European Empire ...
  • Fair Vote Canada: "AV is absolutely inappropri ...
    As the debate about AV doesn't particularly rage in the UK (because only Nick Clegg is interested), we went looking for an impartial view from that offered by either the 'Yes' or 'No' camps. We found the website of Fair Vote Canada... and it appears that we're vindicated entirely in damming A ...

Facing South

  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Oil and death after BP
    Ten months after BP's massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, scientists are still uncovering evidence of the disaster's long-term repercussions. Number of aborted or stillborn baby dolphins that have washed ashore so far this week along Mississippi's coast: 4 Number of dead baby dolphins t ...
  • Southern public workers: 'Welcome to our world ...
    In 1959, the state of Wisconsin, a hotbed of labor activism and progressive politics, became the first state in the nation to give public workers the right to bargain collectively. That same year, 1,000 miles away in North Carolina, state lawmakers -- stoked by Cold War anti-unionism and Jim ...
  • 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 ...

CenterLine

  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Saudi Man Arrested in Texas on WMD Charge A Saudi man studying chemical engineering at a college in Texas was arrested Wednesday night and charged yesterday with attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction, according to reports. Khalid Ali-M … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Judge: Holder’s Comments About Portland Bomb Plot Case Violated DOJ Policy A federal judge ruled Wednesday that comments made by Attorney General Eric Holder about the case of a Portland teen accused of plotting to bomb a tree-lighting ceremony last … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Civil Liberties Groups Sue FBI Over Surveillance of Calif. Muslims The American Civil Liberties Union and the Council on American-Islamic Relations filed suit against the FBI Tuesday, alleging that the agency violated the constitutional rights of hundreds of California Muslims … Continue reading ...
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    American Held in Pakistan Worked with CIA After reports in the foreign press on Sunday and Monday that Raymond Davis, the American man arrested in Pakistan after shooting two men at a traffic stop, was working for the CIA, multiple … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Noor to Serve 34 Months and Cooperate with Govt.; Military Jury Gives Him Symbolic 14 Years Noor Uthman Mohammed, a Sudanese weapons trainer who recently pleaded guilty to two terror charges at a Guantanamo military commission, will serve 34 more … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • Intel Shows Off MeeGo Tablet UI Experience[Scr ...
    MeeGo is in the news again, this time for all the right reasons. Few days ago, Nokia announced that they are going to partner with Microsoft and use Windows Phone 7 as its primary OS instead of MeeGo. Intel on the other hand is all set to go ahead with MeeGo platform without Nokia. Intel has rei ...
  • Microsoft's Radical New UI Experiment, Might b ...
    This is not the kind of videos we usually feature here simply because of the fact that it screams "Microsoft" on top of it. But I think this one deserves it. DailyTech reports that, in the three and a half minute video featured below, Microsoft may have shown the world what it has in store for t ...
  • Atolm GTK Theme + Clarity Icon Theme = Perfect ...
    Atolm GTK theme + Clarity icon theme is yet another very decent theme combination for your Ubuntu GNOME desktop. Unlike the previous GNOME theme combinations we had featured here before, this one is dedicated to all dark theme fans out there. That is my current desktop running Ubuntu 10.10. ...
  • Intel to Go Ahead With MeeGo Platform Without ...
    For beginners, MeeGo is a Linux based open source mobile operating system project which was announced at Mobile World Congress in February 2010 by Intel and Nokia in a joint press conference. With Nokia deciding to partner with Microsoft, the fate of Linux based MeeGo OS now hangs in balance. Or ...
  • London Stock Exchange(LSE) Now Runs on Linux!
    London Stock Exchange(LSE) has been testing its new Linux based core for sometime now and had recently set a new world record in trade speed using its new platform. The eventual adoption of Linux by London Stock Exchange(LSE) is now complete. The days of Microsoft .Net based TradElect platform a ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • German Defence Minister Guttenberg stripped of ...
    - Germany’s Defence Minister Karl Theodor zu Guttenberg stripped of his doctor title by Bayreuth University because of plagiarism - Guttenberg gave Bayreuth University 750,000 euros to set up a chair in medicine management: professor appointed was swine flu pandemic scare mongerer - Bayreuth t ...
  • Penny Bright powers ahead in New Zealand by-el ...
    From New Zealand anti-corruption campaigner Penny Bright: My Botany by-election campaign is going VERY well! (The last week is the most important! You Tube clips: 1) Me asking John Key directly if he is personally profiting from NZ’s growing indebtedness:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXwNoaO ...
  • US supreme court rules big pharma can’t ...
    Supreme Court: Drugmakers can’t be sued for defective vaccine February 23, 2011 â 4:05pm ET | By Maureen Martino In a six to two decision, the Supreme Court has ruled that families can’t sue drugmakers if their children suffered adverse effects from a vaccine. A 1986 law designed to encourage de ...
  • Globalists Prepare Libyan Intervention Under H ...
    Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com February 23, 2011 In a speech delivered earlier today with Secretary of State Clinton at his side, Obama announced that the government of the United States will soon intervene in Libya with its globalist partners under the threadbare cover of humanitarian aid and respect ...
  • Ireland’s ruling party heading for worst ...
    Ireland’s ruling party heading for worst ever defeat Angry voters on remote Irish islands have gone to the polls two days early in national elections likely to bring the worst election defeat ever for Ireland’s ruling party after a huge popular backlash against an EU-IMF austerity programme. By ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • The Madman Sees a Kindred Spirit
    By Les Visible I would have to say that the whole world has gone through the looking glass and things that just wouldn’t happen on one side of the mirror are pro forma on the other. Here we see a telling example of just that. A few weeks ago, I said that when that Tunisian [...]
  • Saudi King rushes home; announces $10.7b new b ...
    Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah on Wednesday announced a series of benefits for citizens amounting to $10.7 billion, as he returned to the country after he spent three months abroad for health treatment, state television reported. The steps include funding to offset high inflation and to aid young ...
  • US Commanders Insist Afghan Parents Burn Kids ...
    And maybe they Afghan rebels override the controls on drones and fire missiles at themselves and they use cluster bombs to annihilate entire families at weddings… By Jason Ditz Reports that Gen. David Petraeus, the top US Commander in Afghanistan, accused parents in rural Kunar Province of burni ...
  • Roundup, GMOs linked to emergence of deadly ne ...
    By Mike Adams In a shocking warning letter to USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack, a highly experienced, ex-military pathogen researcher warns that the use of Roundup via GMO crops is resulting in the emergence of a deadly new pathogen — previously unknown to science — that’s causing widespread spontaneo ...
  • Experimental cancer drugs killing far more peo ...
    By David Guiterrez Experimental cancer drugs harm far more people than they help, according to a study conducted by researchers from Duke University Medical Center and published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. “This sounds a cautionary note,” lead researcher Jeffrey Peppercorn said. “In mos ...

Veterans Today

  • No title
    By Air Commodore ® Khalid Iqbal Contemporary world has witnessed new heights of coercive diplomacy. A public statement by President Obama declaring Raymond Davis a diplomat and asking Pakistan for his repatriation was overkill; indeed it was a diplomatic faux pas. American media was forbidden to ...
  • Frank Buckles, Last Known U.S. Doughboy, Dies ...
    WASHINGTON – Frank Woodruff Buckles, who lied about his age to enlist in the Army in 1917 and became the last known U.S. veteran of World War I, died on February 27, 2011 at the age of 110.
  • Cpl. Frank Buckles
    Cpl. Frank Buckles passed away February 27, 2011 at the age of 110. Cpl. Buckles served with the AEF (American Expeditionary Forces) in World War I. Stationed in England and in France during WWI Cpl. Buckles served as an ambulance driver. His decorations include:
  • Gilad Atzmon: Hasbara’s Smear Fell Apart Again
    As funny as it may sound, Harry's Place -- the infamous Israeli propaganda website and Neocon outlet that rushed to advocate Blair’s criminal wars -- is now desperately insisting on mounting pressure on venues to stop me from spreading the necessary message about Israel and its lobbies. Harry ...
  • Why Gaza Should Be at The Forefront of Egypt&# ...
    On February 11, Egyptians managed to force the ouster of President Honi Mubarak, who had run the nation's affairs -- with more than a little help from Washington and Tel Aviv -- for more than 30 years. While much still remains to be done to secure the uprising's achievements, the Egyptian people ...

electric politics

  • A Dialectical Moment in Madison?
    The U.S. plutocracy won't feel safe until it's crushed all resistance. Case in point, the organized way the plutocrats set their sights on Wisconsin — the birthplace of public sector unions — hoping that Scott Walker, the newly elected Republican Governor, would show the rest of the country how ...
  • The Truth About Taxes
    In the economics profession, a "Harberger's triangle" shows the "deadweight loss" to society from taxes, the net loss, that is, from the optimum "free-market" equilibrium. It's a great, great theory if you're a math whiz. And virtually all neoclassical and neoliberal economists believe it's tru ...
  • Chili's Campaign in the Buckeye State
    Voters in Ohio's second congressional district have a real choice: the Democrat, Surya "Chili" Yalamanchili, wants to create jobs and is on the side of the workers, while his opponent, incumbent Republican Jean Schmidt, apparently has no policy views whatsoever except unconditional support for ...
  • Plato's Secret
    The Gods on Mount Olympus don't rule the world. Science does. But Plato couldn't say that in ancient Greece without a good chance of being put to death. So Plato did a sensible thing: he hid his secret, using musical codes, inside his already magnificent philosophical construction, a philosophy ...
  • Keeping the Present Inevitable
    Republocrats. Demicans. It adds up to Oligarchy. The wealthy have overtly seized control of the U.S. They're not of a mind to share the spoils. What to do? Nobody seems to know... Nevertheless, it helps to talk about the problem. And the more people who rattle their chains the better. Rick MacA ...

PR News

  • Weber Shandwick hires EVP, senior global corpo ...
    WASHINGTON, DC: Michael Stopford, who previously worked for NATO, was appointed to EVP and senior global corporate strategist at Weber Shandwick.
  • Former Qorvis partners start new firm
    WASHINGTON: Four former executives at Qorvis Communications opened Bluetext, an integrated marketing and communications firm based in Washington.
  • Rosenberg joins Cohn & Wolfe
    NEW YORK: Cohn & Wolfe hired Jeremy Rosenberg as SVP of its digital practice.
  • MSLGroup faces gender discrimination lawsuit
    NEW YORK: Monique da Silva, a former global healthcare director at MSLGroup, filed a $100 million class action lawsuit against Publicis Groupe and MSLGroup, alleging "systemic" discrimination against female PR employees.
  • Applebee's tops media impact list
    CHARLOTTE, NC: Applebee's won out among twenty casual dining brands with the highest value of mentions across the media and social media in the fourth quarter last year, according to a recent analysis.

The Story Behind the Story

  • Expose Written February 2009 Now Circulating G ...
    This was written back in 2009 — Beyond High Treason… US Gives China Eminent Domain Over US Property THIS IS AS REAL AND AS UGLY AS IT CAN GET! Connecting the dots… Dot #1 China begins its covert war on the FREE American republic in the 1950′s by taking over much of the PHARMACEUTICAL DRUG [...]
  • “Global Mission Chief” Huntsman Vi ...
      Do you really believe Jon Huntsman was just out shopping with his bodyguards, when he was obviously very interested in the events going down?  That is, until somebody with a video camera identified him — then, time to get away!!! This, from the Salt Lake Tribune gives the “official” response ...
  • Bernanke’s Hand Caught in the Cookie Jar ...
    Stunning, absolutely stunning admissions by Chairman Bernanke!!  He flat-out admits that he has no idea where $500 BILLION USD went!  (If HE doesn’t know, who the hell does??  What exactly does the term “Chairman” mean?) Oh, but wait folks.  This is only pertaining to LEGITIMATE BALANCE SHEE ...
  • 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 ...

k2p blog

Left Foot Forward

  • A new low in DWP’s war on disabled benefit cla ...
    On Friday, Left Foot Forward published a guide to faking up a benefits story in five easy steps using publicly available data; somebody followed the steps almost to the letter in concocting a story in today’s Sun.
  • Tackling environmental, social, political and ...
    First held in 2009, where more than 1,000 people took part, the aim of 6 Billion Ways is to highlight the interconnections between environmental, social, political and economic injustice and help build a broad movement for progressive change.
  • Searchlight’s ‘Fear and Hope&#8217 ...
    Searchlight, the group behind the anti-BNP 'HOPE not hate' campaign, have today published Fear and HOPE, a report examining British attitudes towards culture and identity in the 21st century.
  • Baroness Williams hits out at NHS reforms
    Senior Lib Dem peer Shirley Willimas has said she can't support the government's NHS reforms, calling the scale of the reforms "too great" and leaving "too many questions unanswered".
  • Miliband to warn of “cost of living cris ...
    Ed Miliband will warn this morning of a "cost of living crisis" at the launch of the Resolution Foundation's Commission on Living Standards, reports Shamik Das.

Consumerist

  • Walmart Bans Potentially Harmful Flame Retarda ...
    Following the lead of a handful of states, Walmart has decided to ban the use of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), a flame retardant found in hundreds of products ranging from furniture to textiles to electronics. The company says it will begin testing all products on June 1 for presence ...
  • Netflix Will Subtitle 80 Percent Of Streaming ...
    Netflix has been working on adding subtitles to streaming content for a while, and has made significant headway since last year. The Netflix Blog says about 30 percent of films on the service now offer the feature, which is key for the hearing impaired, treadmill users and parents who don't wa ...
  • Who Sucks The Most, AT&T Or Verizon? Vote With ...
    Instead of spitting their gum on the sidewalk like usual, people are using it to vote whether AT&T or Verizon sucks more. "Gum Election" is a project where people download a free poster off this site, post it out on the street, and people stick their gum on the entity that "sucks the most." Ear ...
  • Hackers Breach Nintendo 3DS Defenses Right Aft ...
    A major reason for a video game company to come out with a new device is to make it safer from attacks by modders who find ways to let the systems play unlicensed games, as well as swipe copies of legit titles. Nintendo's honeymoon for the 3DS handheld -- which was just released in Japan and co ...
  • Color-Coded Plastic Ties Tell You Day Your Bre ...
    Turns out that the plastic tags and twists on loafs of bread aren't just for looking pretty, they are coded to indicate what day the bread was baked on, writes Wise Bread. The most commonly-used code for 5-day a week delivery is is blue for Monday, green for Tuesday, red for Thursday, white for ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

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

UK Progressive

  • Reprise: And The Oscar Goes To… The World’s Fi ...
    by Theodora Filis, Contributing Editor The 2011 Academy Awards documentary film categories are filled with nominees who have focused on controversial environmental themes. Sun Come Up, by Jennifer Redfearn and Tim Metzger, is an early favourite in the documentary short category. Having won or be ...
  • Reprise: Shoq vs Hamsher vs Greenwald: The Twi ...
    Get out your pitchforks, torches, dog whistles and scorecards sports fans, this could take awhile. Twitter lit up around 2:00 am EST with two UFC cage battles between three prominent progressive Web personalities, the intriguing but mostly anonymous @Shoq (10,400 followers), @JaneHamsher  (8,700 ...
  • Reprise: The Real Economic Lesson China Could ...
    by Robert Reich Highlighting today’s summit between Chinese President Hu Jintao and President Obama is China’s agreement to buy $45 billion of American exports. The President says this will create more American jobs. That’s not exactly right. It will create more profits for American companies bu ...
  • Reprise: Lame Duck Turns Mighty for New Vets
    by Paul Rieckhoff The Oregon Ducks came up short against Auburn this week, but December’s lame duck delivered for vets. You may have missed it while buried in a blizzard or trapped in a holiday food coma, but Congress came through big-time for vets during the lame duck session.  In a surprising ...
  • Reprise: That Didn’t Take Long… RW Sees Obama ...
    Hey,  it was almost an entire week. Bill O’Reilly and Glenn Beck, FOX’s cable attack dogs had two interesting exchanges where they ‘embrace’ President Obama’s call for civility, see nothing wrong nor take any responsibility for their own contributions and then spend the second segment attacking ...

NewsAlert

  • GE's Tax-Break Guard Dogs
    Bloomberg Businessweek reports:The diversified conglomerate is likely to spend big bucks on lobbyists as the battle to reshape the U.S. tax code heats up
  • THE HILL POLL: On shutdown, more voters would ...
    The Hill reports:Twenty-nine percent of likely voters would blame Democrats for a government shutdown, compared to 23 percent who would hold Republicans responsible, according to a new poll conducted for The Hill. The results are surprising because most people blamed the GOP for the last govern ...
  • 3M chief warns Obama over business regulation
    The Financial Times
  • Condo deals die in shadows of financially dist ...
    The Chicago Tribune reports:Condo buyers who sat out last year's real estate market, waiting for prices to bottom or their own financial footing to improve, find themselves in an enviable situation. Prices have plunged, and mortgage interest rates, while slowly rising, remain near 5 percent, cr ...
  • Gov. Pat Quinn hits GOP union ‘crusade’
    The Chicago Sun-Times reports:As GOP Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker continues in a standoff with labor, Democratic Illinois Gov. Quinn told me some GOP governors are on an “ideological crusade” to strip away union collective-bargaining rights in order to reduce the political power of organized labo ...

JoNova

  • Does the lie matter? Only if you think Democra ...
    Thank you Julia Gillard. Nothing could have put the fire back into the carbon debate like promising not to tax us during an election, then barely scraping in by the thinnest of “wins”* (with hang-nail support of two men in some of the most conservative seats in the country) and then doing what y ...
  • New Poll. More skeptics than ever and yet the ...
    The good news is that skeptics are the majority, the bad news is that we’ll all have to pay the tax anyway. The IPA commissioned a Galaxy Poll in Australia and only one third of Australians believe that man-made global warming is real. Despite the advertising, the propaganda, the Nobel Prizes, t ...
  • ABC – Agitprop for the Bureaucratic Clas ...
    The ABC is so afraid that the public might read comments from global warming skeptics that they frequently censor or delay reasonable comments, while allowing defamatory, unprofessional, and unsubstantiated ones through. (Guess which way the editors of The Drum vote?) Marc Hendrickx describes ho ...
  • Johnny Ball on how he has been vilified
    Maintained by bullying and bluster, the facade grows more brittle by the day, as heretics start to come out of the woodwork — being pragmatic, concerned, but unapologetic. From the Daily Mail in the UK –  Johnny Ball says Beware of the Global Warming Fascists. More evidence that this is a propa ...
  • Black Propaganda: US Government solicits softw ...
    Part of the US Government has been caught trying to buy software that would allow it to generate 500 fake personas generally known as sockpuppets. They plan to use Facebook, Twitter, and blog comments. This particular leaked email refers to a submission from the Air Force, and apparently for use ...

ReNew America

  • What you need to know about our murderous enem ...
    (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - A highly interesting flow of information is making its way over the airwaves right under the noses of Washington's "political correctness" establishment. Are similar conversations going on with talk shows in your community? At the end of this column, we will ask you ab ...
  • No, no Con-Con
    (Henry Lamb) - The U.S. Constitution provides two ways to offer amendments to the Constitution: by resolution of the Congress; and by a Constitutional Convention requested by two-thirds of the states. In either case, the proposed amendment(s) must be ratified by three-fourths of the states...
  • The Rubicon of Wisconsin
    (Charles Krauthammer) - The magnificent turmoil now gripping statehouses in Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana and others marks an epic political moment. The nation faces a fiscal crisis of historic proportions and, remarkably, our muddled, gridlocked, allegedly broken politics has yielded a singular clar ...
  • Shutdown showdown week
    (Washington Times) - By week's end, we should know whether the House majority has what it takes to stand up for fiscal responsibility against President Obama and Senate Democrats. As the stopgap measure currently funding the federal government runs out Friday, the House is proposing to vote Tues ...
  • Welcome to the nightmare
    (Pat Boone) - Is it just me? Am I dreaming something that never was? Or do you remember the same things I do? Wasn't there a "once upon a time" when families all consisted of a mom, a dad and a kid or two? When most people went to a worship service every Saturday or Sunday, and many even enjoyed ...

To Do

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More investors for renewables: BlackRock and NTR team up
VentureBeat
- Feb 28, 2011
- 19 minutes ago
Today, investment firm BlackRock and European renewables company NTR said they would team up to launch a new renewable power investment group. NTR's CEO Jim Barry will take the role of chief investment officer on the BlackRock Alternative Investors ...
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Energy: Support Up For Renewable Energy
Chemical & Engineering News
- Feb 28, 2011
- 1 hour ago
Renewable energy technologies would get a big boost in 2012. Solar would receive $457 million, an 87.8% increase over 2010; offshore wind development would see a 60.6% increase to $127 million; geothermal, a 135.5% increase to $102 million; ...
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On-farm renewable energy production shows growth
Hawaii 24/7
- Feb 28, 2011
- 3 hours ago
The number of solar panels, wind turbines and methane digesters on America's farms and ranches has increased significantly over the past decade and there are now 8569 operations producing their own renewable energy, according to the results of the 2009 ...
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India Budget Disappoints Renewable Energy Sector, Gamesa Says
Bloomberg
- Feb 28, 2011
- 7 hours ago
Kymal, chairman of Gamesa Wind Turbines (India), said in Chennai: I am “disappointed with the lack of aggression and support for the renewable energy sector. India pays a huge fuel subsidy. We are doing nothing for renewable energy sector and continue ...
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Human Habitat

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Ecology of microbes focus of workshop
PhysOrg.com (press release)
- Feb 28, 2011
- 57 minutes ago
The National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS) is now accepting applications for its Investigative Workshop: Individual-based Ecology of Microbes: Observations and Modeling to be held June 8-10, 2011, at NIMBioS on the ...
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Tertiary Intuitions called upon to introduce climate change courses
GhanaWeb
- Feb 27, 2011
- Feb 27, 2011
The Team Leader of the Ghana Ecological Network, Dr Delali B Dovie mad= e the call during a Public Lecture organized on the theme 93Building Capacit= y for Ecology in Ghana for students and lecturers of the University for Development Studies at the ...
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Ecology minister: Azerbaijan urges to observe highest environmental standards ...
Trend News Agency
- Feb 28, 2011
- 5 hours ago
Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources Huseyn Bagirov, taking part in the international conference "Environmental aspects of Trans-Caspian pipelines" opened in Ashgabat, called for to observe the highest environmental standards in the Caspian Sea. ...
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Copying strategies could be best for the genes
University of Bristol
- Feb 28, 2011
- 5 hours ago
The findings of the study, published in Ecology Letters, show that apparently mindless survival strategies — such as the long-distance migration of many animals to breed at the place they were born — may not be as impractical as they appear. ...
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Water Power

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Destroying our Drinking Water is the Wrong Way to Create Jobs
Huffington Post (blog)
- Feb 28, 2011
- 4 hours ago
In a recent story, New York Times reporter Ian Urbina provided extensive detail on the threat to our water supply posed by hydrofracking for natural gas. America's deposits of natural gas are massive, although difficult to extract without damaging the ...
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Gates Mills Dam failure reported on Chagrin River, water headed downstream ...
NewsNet5.com
- Feb 28, 2011
- 1 hour ago
GATES MILLS, Ohio - The Gates Mills Dam on the Chagrin River failed Monday morning, which could cause rapidly rising water in portions of Lake County. The National Weather Service issued a flash flood warning at 10:12 am as a result of the complete dam ...
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PA Water Environment Assn. Marcellus Shale Conference March 8-9
NorthcentralPa.com
- Feb 28, 2011
- 1 hour ago
By Feed: PA Environment Digest This specialty conference will be presented with the objective of providing a forum for sharing information related to water management associated with the Marcellus Shale Gas Industry. The PWEA consistent with its ...
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TRA Hears Pro And Con Of Water Rate Increase Request
The Chattanoogan
- Feb 28, 2011
- 1 hour ago
The three-member board of the Tennessee Regulatory Authority heard some speakers praise the Tennessee American Water Company and others blast the firm that is seeking a 30.5 percent overall rate increase. Cindy Todd of the Tennessee Aquarium said the ...
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