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Thomas Paine

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

Monday, February 28, 2011

28 February - RSS SnapShot! Pt 2

Truth Offering

  • US Falls In Level of Overall Economic Freedom ...
    The Heritage Foundation just released its annual Economic Freedom List. The list "measures ten components of economic freedom, assigning a grade in each using a scale from 0 to 100, where 100 represents the maximum freedom. The ten component scores are then averaged to give an overall economic f ...
  • Did J.P. Morgan Sink the Titanic!?
    1st Row: JP Morgan, Joseph Bruce Ismay, John Jacob Astor and Benjamin Guggenheim. 2nd Row: The Federal Reserve and the TitanicAs youngsters, we're all told the infamous story of the Titanic, the supposedly indestructible ship that sunk on its maiden voyage. We're all familiar with the story: the ...
  • Our Diet Is Killing Our DNA!
    Few people are aware of this simple fact: what you eat directly impacts your DNA. This likely seems like a strange new concept to most, considering we're all brought up with such an incorrect understanding of human health and wellness. Five years back, I was no different -- well, I always cared ...
  • Chemtrails: Scars in the Sky
    Geoengineering is a relatively new idea to the world. According to�Wikipedia,�"The modern concept of�geoengineering�(or�climate engineering) is usually taken to mean proposals to deliberately manipulate the�Earth's�climate�to counteract the effects of�global warming�from�greenhouse gas�emissions ...
  • The Mainstream Media: In the Pocket of the Glo ...
    For the record, I'd like to state that I believe in climate change; I believe that during any given period of time, the planet is either warming or cooling. Factually speaking, that is the nature of weather and climate: it's constantly in flux. To deny climate change is to deny reality. I think ...

2012 Blog

  • 35377 People Have Voted… Nothing Wins
    Since October 2006 I have been running a poll at Survive 2012, and with 35377 votes I think we have an accurate reflection of what visitors to my site think will happen in 2012: Nothing wins, with just over 56% of the vote. I was surprised that TEOTWAWKI came in second, and that aliens beat [... ...
  • 10 LHC Consequences / NASA Budget / Planet (X) ...
    I was quite OK with the LHC when experts explained that cosmic rays cause the creation of harmless mini-black holes in our atmosphere all the time. Now I don’t know what to think! Otto Rössler is the professor who sued and failed in his attempt to halt the Large Hadron Collidor. Over at Lifeboa ...
  • Deadly 6.3 Quake in ChristChurch NZ
    Looks like dozens of people have died during an earthquake that struck Christchurch during their lunch hour. Several large office buildings have collapsed, as well as the cathedral. Another deadly earthquake occurring within 3 days of the full moon. I have written recently of the new pattern eme ...
  • Noah’s Ark Finally Discovered?
    If you follow my line of thinking, you might just agree with my hypothesis. It starts out by looking at the Bible as a historical record that has been exaggerated for religious purposes, and ends with an amazing find in Iran. Ask any Biblical skeptic and they will supply you with many apparent c ...
  • Solar Flare Update
    The biggest solar flare in four years has sent charged particles hurtling towards Earth. ABC News says: The radiation from Monday’s flare, known as a Coronal Mass Ejection, should pass the Earth today, Friday and Saturday. The charged particles will speed by at some 560 miles per second. …What ...

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 ...

One News Page

  • 'Voodoo sex ceremony' sparked deadly Brooklyn ...
    A Voodoo sex ceremony meant to bring good luck triggered the Brooklyn blaze that killed one person and left dozens homeless, sources have revealed.
  • OSCAR WINNERS: A FULL LIST OF 2011 OSCAR WINNE ...
    HOT favorite The King’s Speech was the big winner at last night’s Oscars, taking home four awards. The movie — which tells the story of stammering British monarch King George VI — was named Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay, while its star Colin Firth picked up the prize for ...
  • Anna Friel - Anna Friel Confirms Rhys Ifans Ro ...
    Actress ANNA FRIEL has confirmed speculation she's dating RHYS IFANS, just two months after splitting from DAVID THEWLIS.The Pushing Daisies actress parted ways from Harry Potter star Thewlis late in 2010 after nine years together. Friel and Ifans sparked rumours of a romance earlier this month ...
  • 67 more Indians return from Libya
    A third batch of 67 Indians arrived in Mumbai from Libya early on Monday morning. So far, over 550 Indians have returned from strife-torn Libya on special Air India flights, but thousands continue to remain stranded.
  • Highlights of Union Budget 2011-12
    Union Finance Minister Pranab Minister on Monday presented the Union Budget 2011-12 in the Parliament.

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

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

BlogHer

  • Oscar 2011 Fashion Recap: Best, Worst, and Eve ...
    In all honesty, I watched the 83rd Annual Academy Awards just to see if Banksy was going to make an appearance. Sadly, he did not, nor did he win for best documentary as I had hoped ...but since I'm here to do a fashion recap, I'll get straight to it. My pick for Best Dressed of the night, H ...
  • Show & Tell: NieNie Asks -- What's Your Favori ...
    What is your favorite winter activity? I love to SKI! (Picture taken at Sundance ski resort) Tell me in the comments or share a picture.
  • Cancer Sisters and the Scene By the Sea
    As a pastor’s family, we are often given the honor of being involved in the different passages of life that affect various members of our congregation. Ten days ago, one of those passages came in the form of a memorial service for a church member’s daughter, Allison, who died of brain cancer at ...
  • When This Little Boy (Somewhat a Man) Comes to ...
    I grew this little thing inside of me for 9 months. And I grew this little thing inside of me for 9 months, who had a tiny little penis that was growing inside of my uterus. And I grew this little thing inside of me for 9 months, who had a tiny little penis that was growing inside of my uterus ...
  • Month of Movies: BlogHers Are Predicting "The ...
    Every day during February 2011, we'll be talking movie reviews, celebrities, Oscar nominations, awards shows, DVDs you need to rent + more. Sign up to get A Month of Movies in your inbox each week in February -- and see all the movies in the series. **************************** Let's be hones ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Vaccine Makers “Immunized” Against ...
    Pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer and Wyeth are happy, no doubt, with the recent Supreme Court decision protecting them from liability in vaccine-injury claims. The ruling was a blow to the Bruesewitz family who ...
  • Vitamin D Conspiracy Leads Straight to Big Pha ...
    Why do we listen to manufactured, trumped-up, faux-authorities on health? WHO, the AMA, countless front groups, and now the self-proclaimed Institute of Medicine? Do you notice the trend in vitamin bashing? The bent towards programming ...
  • Energy Drinks Pose Serious Health Risks To You ...
    Energy drinks are still a relatively new trend, so the health risks do not become apparent until chronic use (or abuse) manifests itself with dangerous side effects and in some cases death. The ...
  • Veterans Finding New Life In Organic Farming
    “The military is not for the faint of heart, and farming isn’t either,” said Michael O’Gorman, an organic farmer who founded the nonprofit Farmer-Veteran Coalition, which supports sustainable-agriculture training. “There are eight times as many ...
  • Little Pharma: The Medication of U.S. Children
    From asthma medications to antipsychotics, children are a big market for the pharmaceutical industry and they are making a killing as now one in four children is taking medication regularly.  That is an incredible figure ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Breaking news: PJM puts PATH on hold
    Here’s the announcement just in from PJM Interconnection: The outlook for a slower economic recovery has led the Board of PJM Interconnection to direct transmission owners to suspend efforts on the Potomac-Appalachian Transmission Highline (PATH). The news release doesn’t appear to be on PJM’s ...
  • Blaming EPA
    An item out of the Bluefield Daily Telegraph got some attention late last week, when it reported that a coal processing plant had closed because of the U.S. EPA crackdown on surface mining permits.  The Associated Press picked up the story, saying: A subsidiary of Russian mining and metals comp ...
  • Buffalo Creek, Feb. 26, 1972
    Here’s part of  “Disaster on Buffalo Creek: A Citizens’ Report on the Criminal Negligence in a West Virginia Mining Community,” which we posted online back in 1997 as part of Voices of Buffalo Creek, a series to mark the 25th anniversary of this terrible disaster: For the Buffalo Creek disast ...
  • Friday roundup, Feb. 25, 2011
    Afghan firefighters work to extinguish a fire at a coal depot in the old part of Kabul, Afghanistan,Thursday, Feb, 17, 2011. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin) Our friend Celeste Monforton had a great post recently on The Pump Handle blog titled, Congressman blames US coal miners for having black lung diseas ...
  • Why coal miners die on the job
    The U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration just released its report on the death of  Rhett Lee Mosley, a 32-year old lube truck operator with 6 years of mining experience Mosely  was killed on the Rex Coal Company Inc., Rex Strip No. 1 in Harlan County, Ky., on Nov. 23, 2010. Here’s what ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Shuttle Launch from Airplane
    Daniel Miessler 415 937 0063 | Mobile Sent via mobile device: Please forgive any brevity. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsKucinich Schools Congress on the WarSun Melts RockSwords vs. ShadowsJan-Ove Waldner ServesAnd Now I Give You TechnovikingA Thoroughly Gratef ...
  • On American Jobs
    I maintain the problem in this country is lack of regulation, a government which pimps out its people to runaway corporate monstrosities. Corporations have all the control and they use and dispose of human beings as they see fit. We have been told the only way is a global economy, it’s really to ...
  • Are All Drug Reps Hot? | The Last Psychiatrist
    There are some jobs where appearance is a bona fide occupational qualification (BFOQ– see, there’s even an acronym for it) and if you have to ask if your job is one of those, it doesn’t. Elite Modeling can hire based on looks, but Abercrombie & Fitch can’t.  I leaave you to tease out the details ...
  • BSQLHacker
    BSQL Hacker For Feature Requests, Feedback and Bug Reports use: http://bsql.uservoice.com/ See SQLIBench project to compare BSQLHacker with other SQL Injection tools. BSQL Hacker is an automated SQL Injection Framework / Tool designed to exploit SQL injection vulnerabilities virtually in any dat ...
  • MIT OpenCourseWare vs. KhanAcademy: Winner? Yo ...
    via ocw.mit.edu I am thrilled to see everyone jumping so forcefully into the self-education space. With schools like MIT doing this, combined with homegrown efforts like KhanAcademy, the look and feel of education is going to be far different in 10 years. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

  • 50 Photos from the 50-State Rallies to Save th ...
    Moveon- On Saturday, February 26th, Americans in all 50 states rallied to show solidarity with the people of Wisconsin, and to save the American Dream. It was a beautiful, powerful sight. Solidarity. Forward. Onward. Thank you to all of the amazing photographers who took these shots. If you’d li ...
  • 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 ...

reference frame

  • Bob Carter about Australian carbon tax
    Julia Gillard, a sickly five-year-old girl (chronic pneumonia) whose life was probably saved when her parents relocated from the cold, cloudy, windy, and rainy Wales to Australia where she became a prime minister 8 months ago, announced her plans to introduce a carbon [sic] tax from July 1s ...
  • MOND isn't beating dark matter
    The BBC application on my iPod Touch led me to the following article: Dark matter theory challenged by gassy galaxies resultThis stuff is based on a preprint by McCaugh. This paper chooses some "gassy galaxies" which are consistent with MOND - Modified Newtonian Dynamics - while requiring ...
  • LHC began its 2011 season
    Spotlight on CERN has been reformatted in 2011. Aside from some not-too-shocking answers that Rolf Heuer gave the lady, Anna Cook, in the TV News Studio, two chaps show you the 15 km of service tunnels; press review; the need for kids to talk about research instead of computer games a ...
  • Four reasons why I like string theory (guest b ...
    Guest blog by Phil Gibbs It is exactly one year since I started this blog, so to celebrate I will give my four top reasons for liking string theory. This is partly a response to a recent survey on Cosmic Variance which included a question about what likelihood people gave to strin ...
  • Iranian warships sail through Suez canal
    Well before the debates whether Egypt has allowed the two ships to get through abated, Iran used the chaotic situation in the largest Arab country and sent these two friendly looking ships to Syria - around Israel: This is Alvand, an Iranian warship with torpedoes and anti-ship m ...

No Frakking Consensus

  • Environmentalism Runs Amok
    Nearly half a century after the first Earth Day, the chessboard has changed dramatically. The players with the power, the war chests, and the influence are different now.
  • You Doubt Monger, You
    When environmentalists organize themselves, fund-raise, and try to spread their message this is considered legitimate democratic activity. Yet the minute climate skeptics do the same we're accused of being doubt-mongers who manufacture uncertainty in order to mislead the public.
  • Flying Cars and Sewing Machines
    People who look into the future and see only environmental devastation have lost their sense of wonder.
  • The Never-Policy-Prescriptive Pachauri
    The chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on climate change thinks you and your children should feel chilly in the winter and too hot in the summer. He also thinks it's his business to decide what amount of meat consumption is healthy and desirable.
  • Bill McKibben Says It’s Urgent
    In the world inhabited by this environmental crusader, climate change is "a crisis that's breaking over our heads at this moment," ExxonMobil peddles petroleum the way drug dealers peddle heroin, and we "have no choice" but to turn our backs on fossil fuels.

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • Magnitude 4.7 Earthquake in Arkansas?!
    The situation is getting downright crazy in Arkansas where hundreds of earthquakes have swarmed and rattled parts of the state. The latest earthquake, a magnitude 4.7, at a very shallow depth of 3.8 km, would be making main-stream news if it had occurred in San Francisco or Los Angeles. The regi ...
  • Major Quake Swarm, Krisuvik Volcano, Iceland
    Credit: base image – Icelandic Met Office, overlay – MSB Modern Survival for local Icelanders may be presented some challenges in the days ahead IF the trembling Krisuvik volcano decides to erupt. A sudden and major earthquake swarm has struck on the Reykjanes peninsula at the southwest of Icela ...
  • March 2011 Planet Killer Asteroid
    Close Encounter of the Asteroid Kind During early March, the Earth will be getting ‘a shave’, a close encounter by a planet-killer asteroid that will zip by very near earth’s orbital plane at a speed of 32.9 kilometers per second. That’s 73,595 miles per hour! Asteroid object ’23187′ also known ...
  • Garden Vegetable Calories
    When considering what vegetables to grow in your survival garden, you may want to think about the calories that you will get in return for the work that you put in. The following is a list of garden vegetables that have been normalized to an approximate 3.5 ounce serving, which is 100 grams, or ...
  • Christchurch, New Zealand, Tectonics and Quake ...
    The following video provides a basic explanation as to the tectonics of the region near and around New Zealand, along with a look at the New Zealand earthquakes on the South Island and North Island, and why the Christchurch earthquake caused so much damage. There are at least two lessons learned ...

Fast Company

  • Why a Former Hedge Funder Is Building a Museum ...
    Hands-on science museums--think New Jersey's Liberty Science Center or San Francisco's Exploratorium--are popular with school groups and adults alike. Can a hands-on math museum generate the same kind of excitement? Glen Whitney, a former algorithm manager at hedge fund giant Renaissance Techn ...
  • Winklevoss Talks Facebook Without Zuckerberg, ...
    Unless you somehow missed out on The Social Network, you'll know that twins Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss invented Facebook. Or, rather, that Mark Zuckerberg invented Facebook, with a big assist from the Winklevoss twins. Or, at the very least, that Sean Parker likes cocaine.The true tale behind ...
  • Baked In: The VC Who Discovered Facebook on Wh ...
    Kevin Efrusy tells us why Facebook and Twitter are bringing about a "fundamental disruption" in the way business is done on the Web.About the "Baked In" series: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg likes to say that social dynamics are going to work their way into every industry, and the companies of th ...
  • Gates Foundation Invests $70 Million to Help S ...
    A wheat killer is on the move from Africa to Australia. The Gates Foundation wants to stop it from wreaking havoc on the world. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced that it is investing $70 million into food security initiatives in order to battle one of climate change's looming th ...
  • The Corporate Pursuit of Happiness
    ODE TO JOY: Aaker says family time is her happiest. Above, with her husband, Andy Smith, and kids, Cooper, Devon, and T�a Sloane. | Photograph by Gabriela HasbunA Stanford marketing professor is teaching her students -- along with AOL, Facebook, and Adobe -- how to find and export joy.HAPPY HOUR ...

Jadaliyya

  • A Call From Saudi Intellectuals to the Politic ...
    The following translation from Arabic is provided by Khuloud. Declaration of National Reform It is no secret that the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt have led to crises and political agitations in many Arab countries- at the heart of which is our country. This has imposed new condi ...
  • Algeria's Military Capabilities
    The basic Algerian tripartite configuration of a national gendarmerie, the police, and the armed forces (army, navy, air force) mirrors in many ways its French counterparts.�As with the French national Gendarmerie, the Algerian equivalent, made up of 150,000 people, serves as a paramilit ...
  • من يخاف من أحلام جعفر بناهي؟ [Who is Afraid of ...
    � ست س��ات سج� �عدم مزا��ة ا�إخراج �عشر�� عاما� �عدم ا�اتصا� با�صح��� �� بعض ا�أح�ام ا�صادرة بح� ا�مخرج ا�إ�را�� جع�ر ب�ا�� (ت. 1960) �مجم�عة م� زم�اء� ع� مح�مة إ�را��ة �� ا�عشر�� م� د�سمبر ا�ماض�. �ا�ت�مة ا�مسا�ة �� تش��� ص�رة إ�را� �ا���ام بدعا�ة مغرضة ضد ا��ظام. �ظام �بد� أ�� أ��س إ� ...
  • Bad Faith at the Book Festival
    �Everywhere you look the boycott debate is in the news,� Joseph Dana notes in a recent article on his blog. The most prominent example involves British novelist Ian McEwan, who rejected calls to boycott the 2011 Jerusalem Book Festival after being awarded the Jerusalem Prize. Instead, Mc ...
  • الشعب هو الحل [The People are the Answer!]
    � ��د أد� س��ط ا��ظام ا�د��تات�ر� ا�ذ� ب�ا� ا�رئ�س ا�ت��س� ا�ساب� إ�� حا�ة م� ا��ش�ة �� ا�عا�م ا�عرب�� ��س ��ط �س��ط رئ�س م� أحس� ت�ام�ذ ا�رأسما��ة ا�د���ة �م� أ�ثر�م شم���ة �استبدادا ���� أ�ضا �أ� ا�شعب ا�عرب� �جد أخ�را ا�م���ة ا�سحر�ة ا�ت� ستحرر� م� ا�د��تات�ر�ة أ�ا ���:� "ا�شعب �� ا� ...

mediagazer

  • Tina Brown, Media Darling (Dylan Byers/Mediawe ...
    Dylan Byers / Mediaweek: Tina Brown, Media Darling  —  Anyone outside of New York City's media fishbowl could be forgiven for waking up last Monday and wondering what the heck some lady named Tina Brown was doing on the front page of The New York Times.  In the 21st century, Brown has edited a ...
  • The Billboard That Knows - Ad Industry Experim ...
    Emily Steel / Wall Street Journal: The Billboard That Knows  —  Ad Industry Experiments With Technologies That Recognize Expressions, Gestures  —  In the labs of some tech-savvy advertising agencies, engineers are testing new ways to use advanced technologies to make ads that can recognize hum ...
  • Andrew Sullivan Joins The Daily Beast! (Tina B ...
    Tina Brown / The Daily Beast: Andrew Sullivan Joins The Daily Beast!  —  In exciting news for the two-year-old Daily Beast, the blogging trailblazer is moving his influential Daily Dish to our site.  His blog will occupy a new channel starting in early April, and he will become a Newsweek cont ...
  • An American in Pakistan (Arthur S. Brisbane/Ne ...
    Arthur S. Brisbane / New York Times: An American in Pakistan  —  “What is the purpose of this supposedly independent paper — to ask permission of the government before reporting what the government is doing?”  —  Kevin Maher, Geneva, Ill.  —  “The New York Times is now, quite obviously and by i ...
  • After Iraq's Day of Rage, a Crackdown on Intel ...
    Stephanie McCrummen / Washington Post: After Iraq's Day of Rage, a Crackdown on Intellectuals  —  BAGHDAD - Iraqi security forces detained about 300 people, including prominent journalists, artists and lawyers who took part in nationwide demonstrations Friday, in what some of them described as ...

Chemtrail News

  • If you look up in the sky today: Con vs Chem T ...
    There are now countless reports of incidents of chemtrail spraying going on daily around the world yet the media turns a blind eye to them as if, ...
  • YouTube - Time4aHearing on Chemtrails G ...
    http://StopGREC.org ~credits video: http://youtube.com/911PLANET Gainesville Citizens CARE info@gc-care.org 352-230-021 Alachua County Commission, ...www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-TereLaJ1w
  • Chemtrails over calaveras county che ...
    Chemtrails over calaveras county. chemtrails beachwood ohio, chemtrail saskatoon, is hexavalent chromium in chemtrails, chemtrails over calaveras county.jawadalmalhi.com/peltier-chicago-chemtrail/
  • I'm a chemtrail pilot- ask me a que ...
    Discussion about I'm a chemtrail pilot- ask me a question at the GodlikeProductions Conspiracy Forum. Our topics include Conspiracy Theory, Secret Societies ...www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1372950/pg1
  • Why Is MSNBC Allowing Conspiracy Theorist Alex ...
    ... hint that Jones promotes fringe theories blaming the US government for 9/11 and distributes a documentary about "the chemtrail/geo-engineering" coverup. ...Media Research Center

World News - Top Stories

  • 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 ...

no frakking consensus

  • Environmentalism Runs Amok
    Nearly half a century after the first Earth Day, the chessboard has changed dramatically. The players with the power, the war chests, and the influence are different now.
  • You Doubt Monger, You
    When environmentalists organize themselves, fund-raise, and try to spread their message this is considered legitimate democratic activity. Yet the minute climate skeptics do the same we're accused of being doubt-mongers who manufacture uncertainty in order to mislead the public.
  • Flying Cars and Sewing Machines
    People who look into the future and see only environmental devastation have lost their sense of wonder.
  • The Never-Policy-Prescriptive Pachauri
    The chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on climate change thinks you and your children should feel chilly in the winter and too hot in the summer. He also thinks it's his business to decide what amount of meat consumption is healthy and desirable.
  • Bill McKibben Says It’s Urgent
    In the world inhabited by this environmental crusader, climate change is "a crisis that's breaking over our heads at this moment," ExxonMobil peddles petroleum the way drug dealers peddle heroin, and we "have no choice" but to turn our backs on fossil fuels.

Pointman's

  • The steady-state environment delusion
    Cosmologists have calculated that our particular universe is 13.7 billion years old. It came into existence with the big bang, as did space and time. Itâs big. It consists of lots of matter, especially hydrogen, which has aggregated into different objects. The ones we see in the night sky are t ...
  • Line of Descent Chapter 22
    Chapter 22 He lay full length on the ground, concealed within a clump of vegetation through which he studied the house and the hastily built positions in front of it. He held a rifle which poked out in front of him, stopping two feet short of the end of the cover. It had been in … Read more
  • Don’t just sit on your butt blogging, do somet ...
    Iâm a blogger and commenter and enjoy reading and contributing to a variety of blogs but thereâs one attitude in the blogosphere that really bugs me big time; the whinge and dump mentality of a lot of bloggers and contributors. Whatâs whinge and dump? Itâs the idea that once youâve spotted and c ...
  • Moderating, trolls, soup ladles and Ethics.
    If youâre running a blog, one of the chores that has to be done on an ongoing basis is moderating comments. I operate the common system where a contributorâs first comment is held for moderation. If I approve it, then they can comment freely thereafter. If I donât, then theyâre effectively shut ...
  • Immoderate moderation at the DT
    My friend Locusts has just put up a piece at his place about the decline of debate at the Daily Telegraph to “just above the level of public toilet graffiti.” I left it shortly after Disqus was rushed into service and a bizarre censorship regime imposed, leaving the comment below. Sadly, occasio ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Tom Joyner Doesn't Understand New Orleans Soci ...
    2-Cent is a remarkable New Orleans-based arts and activist group who have built a national reputation for creating videos that are both informative and entertaining. They have received major national awards and rave reviews in the media. Their videos regularly get thousands of views, and the mos ...
  • Louisiana Unions Organize “We Stand with Wisco ...
    From a press release by SEIU Local 21LA: “We Stand with Wisconsin,” a solidarity rally, will be held at 5:00pm on Wednesday outside of the Baton Rouge City Hall (the Governmental Building) located at 222 St. Louis Street. The event is being organized by Service Employees International Union (S ...
  • Blind Human Rights Lawyer Beaten and Isolated ...
    By Bill Quigley Chen Guangcheng, a blind, 39 year old, self-taught, human rights lawyer in China who was recently released after years in prison has been put in home detention, isolated and beaten by authorities. Winner of numerous human rights awards, Mr. Chen was imprisoned for investigating ...
  • Wheelchair-Bound Man Denied Basic Medical Care ...
    From our friends at ACLU of Louisiana: Seeking immediate help for a disabled man held since April in inhumane conditions at the Iberia Parish Correctional Center (“ICC”), the ACLU of Louisiana today submitted an emergency second request for relief on his behalf. Reginald Peters, who requires ...
  • Disaster Profiteers Continue to Seek Wealth in ...
    As Haiti approaches the one-year anniversary of their massive earthquake, the country is still in crisis. It’s clear that – as with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina - much of the promised relief and reconstruction aid has not reached those affected by the disaster. The details of a recent ...

Truth About Our World

  • The Complete Idiot’s Guide to the New Wo ...
  • Government Promises to Cut Social Security in ...
    Activist Post It’s official, national austerity measures are here!  As Wisconsin protesters fill the streets because of lost rights and benefits to workers, the nation is gearing up to face similar losses with social security being cut.  Comedian George Carlin warned us that this day would co ...
  • The Security Budget vs. the Necessities of Ame ...
    How does military spending impact Americans? by Kevin Zeese President Obama and the Congress have taken 66% of discretionary spending in the federal budget off the table –the SecurityBudget – while proposing a freeze to the rest of the budget and deep cuts to some programs that provide necessiti ...
  • No seeds, no independent research
    Companies that genetically engineer crops have a lock on what we know about their safety and benefits. By Doug Gurian-Sherman Soybeans, corn, cotton and canola — most of the acres planted in these crops in the United States are genetically altered. “Transgenic” seeds reduce the use of some insec ...
  • Media Demonizes Gaddafi as Pentagon Prepares A ...
    Kurt Nimmo Prison Planet.com Thursday, February 24, 2011 As we reported yesterday, the United States has specific instructions to intervene militarily in Libya under the cover of providing humanitarian assistance. Less than 24 hours after our report, the Pentagon has announced it is looking at “ ...

Paul DeMaio

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

    Blacklisted News

  • First U.S. scientist to die of plague in 50 ye ...
    A scientist died after becoming the first American researcher to contract the plague in 50 years, it has been revealed.
  • Global Economy? 23 Facts Which Prove That Glob ...
  • 'Dogs of War' Fighting for Gaddafi
    Kenyan mercenaries are among foreign soldiers helping the besieged Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi fight off an uprising. This was confirmed on Thursday by Col Gaddafi's former Chief of Protocol Nouri Al Misrahi in an interview with the Al Jazeera broadcasting network. Mr Misrahi was detaili ...
  • DNA "Genetic Patdown" Introduced to Airports b ...
    A new level of invasive screening is scheduled for airports this summer:� a portable DNA scanner to conduct on-site, real-time genetic testing.
  • JCOS Mullen Visits Horn of Africa Task Force
    The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff took time today during his whirlwind trip through the Middle East to visit with troops of Combined Joint Task Force Horn of Africa, whose full-time focus here is on maintaining stability and preventing conflict. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen’s visit here was ...

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • The Push of Conscience and Secretary Clinton
    Summary: Again and again, Hillary Clinton – both as a U.S. senator and as Secretary of State – has demonstrated a nonchalant readiness to unleash the vast destructiveness of American military power. The charitable explanation, I suppose, is that she knows nothing of war from direct personal ...
  • This is an Arab 1848. But US hegemony is only ...
    Summary: Egypt protestsThe refusal of the people to kiss or ignore the rod that has chastised them for so many decades has opened a new chapter in the history of the Arab nation. The absurd, if much vaunted, neocon notion that Arabs or Muslims were hostile to democracy has disappeared like p ...
  • Iran on new voyage of discovery
    Summary: Bahrain protestsOn Monday, with two Iranian warships about to sail through the Suez Canal - much to the chagrin of Israel which viewed the move "with utmost gravity'" - Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei addressed a group of foreign dignitaries from the Muslim world and c ...
  • MOSSADEGH IN EGYPT: A Hero's Welcome
    Summary: In 1951, the anti-colonial phenomenon known as ‘Mossadeghism’ was at a high. Iranian Premier Mohammad Mossadegh was generating worldwide attention during his six week stay in the United States, where he defended Iran's oil nationalization at the U.N. and met with President Truman an ...
  • As Arab World Shakes, Iran's Influence Grows
    Summary: Middle East While it is far too soon to write the final chapter on the uprisings’ impact, Iran has already benefited from the ouster or undermining of Arab leaders who were its strong adversaries and has begun to project its growing influence, the analysts said. This week Iran sent ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • The Search for 'Wormhole Stars'
    Scientists usually imagine wormholes connecting regions of empty space, but a new study led by Vladimir Dzhunushaliev at the Eurasian National University in Kazakhstan suggests that wormholes might exist between distant stars. Instead of being empty tunnels, these wormholes would...
  • Video Mashup: Galaxy Collision That Began 100 ...
    This new composite image from the Chandra X-ray Observatory, the Hubble Space Telescope, and the Spitzer Space Telescope shows two colliding galaxies more than a 100 million years after they first impacted each other. The continuing collision of the Antennae...
  • "WOW!" The Infamous 1977 'Extraterrestrial Sig ...
    August 15, 1977: the night before Elvis Presley died, at 11:16 p.m. an Ohio radio telescope called the Big Ear recorded a single pulse of radiation that seemed to come from somewhere in the constellation of Sagittarius at the 1420...
  • Image of the Day: Strange Red Galaxy with a Mo ...
    A monster black hole 100 million times the mass of the Sun is feeding off gas, dust and a ring of stars at the centre of Galaxy NGC-1097 50 million light-years away. The star-ringed black hole forms the eye of...
  • EcoAlert: Mega-Drought! A Prelude to Future Cl ...
    A new analysis of deep lake sediment suggests that the breakup and melting of massive icebergs in the North Atlantic may have triggered one of the most widespread and intense droughts in the past 50,000 years known as Heinrich Stadial...

Natural News

  • After touching your junk, TSA now wants to sca ...
    (NaturalNews) As if it's not enough for the TSA to feel you up at the airport, now they're experimenting with rapid results DNA scanners that can scan and analyze your DNA using just a drop of saliva. Spit at the TSA agent who is molesting you, in other words, and they can use that saliva to sca ...
  • Undercover agent slips through TSA naked body ...
    (NaturalNews) The "enhanced" screening procedures now used by the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) at the nation's airports has once again been demonstrated as a total failure, this time at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW). According to a high-ranking, inside source ...
  • Cloned milk, meat may soon hit UK store shelve ...
    (NaturalNews) Recent statements made by U.K. Minister of State for Agriculture and Food Jim Paice seem to suggest that Britons may soon be eating cloned milk and meat -- and they most likely will not even be aware of it. If Paice's suggestion that "there should be no restrictions on the use of o ...
  • Vaccines found to activate moron genes that ca ...
    (NaturalNews) Weekend satire special: New research accidentally conducted by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has discovered that vaccines activate the "moron" genes that normally lie dormant in human beings. Once activated, these "moron genes" cause individuals to lose higher brain functio ...
  • Conventional agriculture using up global suppl ...
    (NaturalNews) Modern agriculture is heavily reliant on the use of phosphorus, a mineral necessary for proper plant and crop growth. But conventional growing methods have all but depleted this natural mineral from certain areas of farmland, which has resulted in the widespread mining of phosphoru ...

Threat Level

  • Court Likely to Uphold Constitutionality of ‘N ...
    Part 1:Are They Constitutional? Part 2:Are They Safe? March 2 Part 3:Do They Work? March 8 Airline passengers in the United States understand they will be treated as suspected terrorists when going through airport security checkpoints. Yet nearly a decade after the Sept. 11, 2001 ...
  • PayPal Freezes Account of Group Raising Money ...
    PayPal has frozen the account of a group that has been raising money for the legal defense of accused WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning, citing a failure to meet PayPal’s requirement for nonprofit groups. According to Courage to Resist, a military veterans advocacy group that has been raising do ...
  • British Court Orders Wikileaks’ Assange Extrad ...
    A British court Thursday ordered Wikileaks founder Julian Assange extradited to Sweden to face sex charges. His attorneys immediately said they would appeal the decision, a process which could take months. The Australian reported that Assange, 39, “showed no emotion when the judge issued his ver ...
  • Tools of Tradecraft: The CIA’s Historic Spy Ki ...
  • Donations Pour in for PS3 Hacker
    George Hotz is in the middle of what could be a long, punishing legal battle with Sony, and his money is running out. “Media, I need your help. This is the first time I have ever asked. Please, if you support this cause, help me out and spread the word,” he wrote on his newest [...]

PERRspectives : Blog

  • A Modest Proposal to Rescue the States
    During the debate over the stimulus program in early 2009, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell proposed, "If the money were lent rather than just granted, states would, I think, spend it wisely and the states that didn't need it at all wouldn't take any." Now would be a good time to take him ...
  • State Budget Cuts Imperil U.S. Economic Recove ...
    As all eyes remained focused on the union-busting face-off in Wisconsin, the Commerce Department on Friday released a revised estimate of U.S. economic growth for the last quarter of 2010. And that downward GDP revision not only shatters prevailing myths about supposedly bloated government spen ...
  • Republicans Push to Legalize Anti-Abortion Ter ...
    During his 2004 campaign, Oklahoma Republican Senator Tom Coburn declared, "I favor the death penalty for abortionists." Four years later, vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin famously refused to condemn an abortion clinic bomber as a "terrorist." Last week, a GOP mayoral candidate in Jacks ...
  • God's Own Party Waits for the Chosen One
    "Two men say they're Jesus, one of them must be wrong." As it turns out, those 1982 Dire Straits lyrics sum up the current dire straits of the 2012 Republican presidential field. With the premature withdrawal of John Thune and Mike Pence from the ranks of the GOP White House hopefuls, social c ...
  • Three Trillion and One Reasons for a War Tax
    Three trillion dollars. Once all the costs of the actual fighting, veterans care, expanded baseline defense spending and extra interest on the national debt are factored in, that's the price tag for the still-unfunded American wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. But there's one more reason to instit ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

  • America's Radical 'Conservatism'
    The modern American Right has turned "conservatism" into a radical movement of risky ideas, warns Lawrence Davidson. February 26, 2011
  • America, a Land of No Prophets
    Biblical prophets chastised the powerful and spoke for the poor, but America lacks such a voice, laments Rev. Howard Bess. February 26, 2011
  • Recruiting America to War on Itself
    Republicans shift the blame for fiscal woes from Wall Street bankers to teachers and public employees, says Michael Winship. February 25, 2011
  • Political Upheaval and Women's Rights
    As Islamic and Christian fundamentalists gain political ground, women's rights are under siege, reports William John Cox. February 25, 2011
  • Budget Crisis? Duh, Tax the Rich!
    The solution to America's budget crisis is simple -- tax the rich -- but U.S. politics can't handle this truth, writes Robert Parry. February 24, 2011

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

  • France reports incidents at 8 nuclear plants
    According to the Associated Press, France, the most nuclear-dependent country in the world, with over 75 percent of its electricity coming from nuclear reactors, recently reported incidents at 8 of their 59 reactor units. French authorities say they are having to replace faulty metal bearings in ...
  • WCS press conferance 094 [Flickr]
    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:
  • Why Gasland should win the Oscar for best Docu ...
    I hope you’re going to have a great Oscar night, and while we may all have our favorites for best picture (True Grit was my favorite, but I think The Social Network and The King’s Speech are also very deserving), this year we have one of the most important issues of our time as the [...]
  • Eminent Domain: Coming to your town soon?
    The Texas Supreme Court, the state’s highest civil court, will hear a controversial case over whether a company that plans to build pipeline to carry carbon dioxide and natural gas from Louisiana to site south of Houston qualifies as a “common carrier,”  giving it the power of eminent domain. Th ...
  • Attack on climate change solutions through a g ...
    The funding bill the House of Representatives voted in favor of is an attack on climate change solutions and climate change science. The House cuts would: Prohibit the EPA from setting limits on greenhouse gas pollution from power plants, factories and refineries, among the most significant sour ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Two planets discovered sharing one orbit
    Kepler has found something unlike anything seen before - two planets sharing the same orbit. The two planets orbit their parent star every 9.8 days bu...
  • Company invents diesel secreting organism
    A biotechnology company in Massachusetts claims to be able to create diesel from basic ingredients. The claim is based on a genetically-engineered org...
  • Mice can re-grow their own heart
    New research has demonstrated that newly born mice can re-grow their own heart if it is damaged. The find could one day lead to re-awakening a regener...
  • Asian hornets could invade Britain
    A species of aggressive hornet that has already invaded France could move to Britain within 3 years. The hornets are thought to have been introduced i...
  • Nine Wari tombs discovered in Peru
    The discovery is being hailed as the most significant historic find in Peru since Machu Picchu. Flourishing between 700 and 1200 AD the Wari predated ...

Grassroots

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

GreenBiz

Reuters Global

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

Booman Tribune

  • Today in the Budget Impasse
    The Republicans wanted to cut $4 billion from the budget in any deal they made to keep the government open for two more weeks. The Democrats wanted a longer extension without cuts. The compromise is that $4 billion will be cut and the extension will be for only two weeks, but the cuts will com ...
  • GOP Indy Gov. Daniels: Limit Health Care
    Death Panels by any other name must smell sweeter when the Republicans are in charge. Just ask Indiana's Governor Mitch Daniels: Mitch Daniels edged into the debate over rationing health care Friday, saying there will "never be enough money" for every American to have access to all modern li ...
  • Monday Morning Odds & Ends
    Brooklyn Dodger legend Duke Snider died yesterday. In the 1950's the Yankees had Mickey Mantle, the Giants had Willie Mays, and the Dodgers had the Duke. They all played centerfield in New York City and one or two of them were in every World Series from 1949-1957. People fiercely debated whic ...
  • Fracked Water Not Fit to Drink
    Good old hydrofracking. You know about it right? It's the method to produce natural gas by fracturing rock formations with millions of gallons of water and toxic chemicals. It's been contaminating groundwater in the Western US for many years and now it is being pursued with a vengeance in the ...
  • Wanker of the Day: Kathryn Lopez
    Someone needs to volunteer to edit Kathryn Lopez's writing before she publishes it on the interwebs. She asks why the Republicans are waging a war on contraception and then says that they aren't really doing that. Then she says she wants to turn back the clock to before women had the pill, but ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

  • Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up
    A GoodTherapy.org Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up Enjoy this week’s top psychotherapy and psychology news and let us know what you think :-) Meditation Beats Dance for Harmonizing Body and Mind The Need for Culturally Responsive Mental Health Outreach Low Self-Esteem Increases Prejudice Plann ...
  • Part II: Notes from a Men’s Group – Anger, Sar ...
    By Richard J. Loebl, LSCW, PA, Men’s Issues Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Richard and/or see his GoodTherapy.org Profile This is the second entry in a series of blog articles about a menâs therapy group that I conduct on a weekly basis. For background information on the group se ...
  • Can Depression Be Treated Effectively Without ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline To date, psychotherapy (or psychotherapy combined with carefully-monitored prescriptions, sometimes temporarily) is recognized as the most effective way to treat depression. Unfortunately, Britain is experiencing a shortage in qualified therapists and counselors, ...
  • Global Angst, Celebrity Role Models, and the “ ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Tel Aviv University’s psychologist Dr. Carlo Strenger has an interesting theory on how social networking and celebrity role models are affecting today’s youth. With the “hot or not” comparison that social networking often engenders, paired with mass media attentio ...
  • Is Facebook Making You Depressed? 3 Tips For C ...
    By Marta Rocha, MHCI Click here to contact Marta and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Do you spend hours of your day looking over the status updates of your Facebook friends? How do you feel after reading these updates? A recent study done by Jordan (2011) from the Stanford University in Calif ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Compromise valuable in mountaintop mining deba ...
    Compromise valuable in mountaintop mining debate Lexington Herald Leader Either I hate mountaintop removal or I hate Berry or, worse, I am the lamest of the lame, the one who calls the matter "a difference of opinion." Unfortunately, how we mine coal is no difference of opinion, it is a differe ...
  • Ky. candidate stands against mountaintop remov ...
    Ky. candidate stands against mountaintop removal BusinessWeek Independent Gatewood Galbraith differentiated himself Thursday from all other Kentucky gubernatorial candidates by taking a strong stand against mountaintop removal mining. Galbraith told The Associated Press that the practice has .. ...
  • Local professor participates in sit-in at Capi ...
    Local professor participates in sit-in at Capitol Morehead News That's the name of a group of citizens who are committed to ending the practice of surface mining better known by many as mountaintop removal. Morehead State University Professor John Hennen was among 14 persons who traveled to Fra ...
  • EPA Loses Enthusiasm for Swift Rollback of Bus ...
    EPA Loses Enthusiasm for Swift Rollback of Bush 'Fill Rule' New York Times The intention, she said, was to clean up gold mining operations in Alaska, adding that the rule would also "curtail" mountaintop-removal coal mining in Appalachian states. Mountaintop removal is a controversial mining te ...
  • Ky. candidate stands against mountaintop remov ...
    Ky. candidate stands against mountaintop removal Bloomberg (AP) � Independent Gatewood Galbraith differentiated himself Thursday from all other Kentucky gubernatorial candidates by taking a strong stand against mountaintop removal mining. Galbraith told The Associated Press that the practice ha ...

Memeorandum

  • About 600 stalwart protesters allowed to stay ...
    host.madison.com: About 600 stalwart protesters allowed to stay in Capitol overnight  —  Hundreds of protesters remained at the state Capitol overnight without incident and were not arrested, after police spent most of Sunday meeting with union leaders and encouraging protesters to leave volunt ...
  • Demonstrators Can Continue Overnight Stays in ...
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  • Live Updates: Police to Clear Protestors from ...
    Michael Whitney / Firedoglake: Live Updates: Police to Clear Protestors from Wisconsin Capitol Building  —  I'm collecting live coverage of events as police prepare to clear out the Wisconsin Capitol Building in Madison, WI on the 14th day of protests against Gov. Scott Walker's union-busting b ...
  • Union Chief Doesn't Condemn Comparisons of Wis ...
    Fox News: Union Chief Doesn't Condemn Comparisons of Wisconsin's Walker to Hitler  —  The head of one of the nation's most powerful labor unions did not condemn the violent rhetoric in placards and signs held by union supporters demonstrating in Wisconsin despite two direct attempts Sunday to ...
  • Home News - The Dish is moving! In April, we' ...
    Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish: Home News  —  The Dish is moving!  In April, we'll be joining The Daily Beast.  —  For me, it's a strange mixture of excitement and sadness.  Sadness because the Atlantic has been a very special home for me and all the interns and staffers who have worked at t ...

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China Dialogue

  • Beijing’s blue-sky diary
    China’s capital has just endured a week of particularly hazardous pollution. In one year, how many good-air-quality days does the city see? Chen Zifan spoke with two residents who captured the visual evidence.Over the last year, two young Beijingers have roamed the streets and lanes of the city, ...
  • “We’re moving too slowly”
    Gro Harlem Brundtland – high priestess of sustainable development – tells Joydeep Gupta why progress towards a healthier, happier planet is still too slow, wrapping up our special series on well-being economics.Gro Harlem Brundtland is the high priestess of sustainable development. The former he ...
  • Bhutan’s experiment with happiness
    By giving well-being a central role in policymaking, the tiny Kingdom of Bhutan has staged a trial that has gripped the world. Dipika Chhetri reports on the environmental impacts.In global discussions about climate change and environment, the word “happiness” is surprisingly rare. But in Bhutan, ...
  • “China must measure happiness”
    To sustain the benefits of China’s rapid ascension, politicians should broaden their policy goals, writes leading economist Hu Angang, setting out his prescription for a national happiness index.In the years after the Second World War, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) established itself as the main ...
  • Famine to feast
    Cars, holidays and hamburgers are transforming lives in urban China, with far-reaching consequences for the nation’s health. In an extract from his new book, Karl Gerth considers the changing role of food.Does the world need tens of millions of obese Chinese?  This question gets at a central di ...

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  • Court Likely to Uphold Constitutionality of ‘N ...
    Part 1:Are They Constitutional? Part 2:Are They Safe? March 2 Part 3:Do They Work? March 8 Airline passengers in the United States understand they will be treated as suspected terrorists when going through airport security checkpoints. Yet nearly a decade after the Sept. 11, 2001 ...
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War is a Crime.org

  • Spreading Activism for Change
    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 ...
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  • Rendition & Torture: His Quest to Sue the US
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Grist - News

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

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Farming Pathogens

  • Egypt’s Food Pyramids
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  • The Scientific American
    Science is the business right now. If the science works, the business works, and vice versa. –Craig Venter Bird flu marinates a chicken in its own juices, a satay best avoided whatever the menu special. In such short an order better for the bistro than the barn, infected birds rapidly bleed from ...
  • Fearful Symmetry
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  • The Great Recession Flu
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  • Alien vs. Predator
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Suzie-Q

  • Wisconsin assembly approves budget repair bill
    After rushed procedure, vote, Democrats shout ‘shame!’ at leaving Republican members Badger Herald Thursday, February 24, 2011 11:59 p.m. Updated Friday, February 25, 2011 1:59:55 a.m. by Andrew Averill Republicans resorted to a surprise vote at 1:09 a.m. Friday morning to pass the governor’s co ...
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  • AFL-CIO Poll: Scott Walker Overreaching In WI, ...
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  • Common Sense
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Solari

  • Gurría of OECD Say Capital Controls Coming
    Remarks by Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General, delivered at the Economic Council of Finland 10th February 2011, Helsinki, Finland Prime Minister, ladies and gentlemen, It is my great pleasure to be in Helsinki today and to speak to you about the issue of global imbalances and the key policy c ...
  • Wisconsin Budget Bill Would Enable No-bid Sale ...
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  • GMO Crops: Failure to Yield
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  • B. Blake Levitt on Electromagnetic Environment ...
    By Catherine Austin Fitts This Thursday evening, I will be speaking with B. Blake Levitt about our electromagnetic environment, and what we as both households and communities can do to understand and protect our health from nonionizing radiation as an environmental pollutant. Blake is an award- ...
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Insurgency Watch - Newswire

  • Times Scare
    ISLAMABAD–The apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job ...
  • Stepping up - University at Buffalo The Spectr ...
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  • Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of ...
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  • Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United P ...
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Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Inciting fear of inflation in our minds for po ...
    Summary:  Americans today are easily led by fear, as our leaders well know.  Commies and Islamo-whatevers under the bed.  Global warming.   Alar on apples (see Wikipedia).  Repetition makes it so, the secret to successful propaganda.  Today we look at at a favorite of conservatives seeking polit ...
  • An explanation of the US and Pak governments&# ...
    Summary:  As standard fare the FM website provides analysis of current events.  Seeking hidden truths (often in vain) and using these incidents to illustrate larger dynamics at work in America.  The Raymond Davis affair is rich in lesson for us (this is the 4th post; links at the end).  ...
  • America’s broken OODA loop in action: a ...
    Summary:  It’s fun to watch narratives form in the media, such as the one we examine today.  Often mindlessly wrong, but each probably fills some need in our collective psyche.  Unfortunately this embrace of nonsensical narratives is part of our growing inability to clearly see the world ...
  • The core of the dispute with Pakistan about Ra ...
    Summary:  The fog spewed by America’s geopolitical experts (mostly faithful lapdogs for the US government, abetted by the lackeys of the news media), has obscured the core dispute between the US and Pakistani governments.  Was Davis an embassy employee?  That’s the question.  If he was jus ...
  • We are what we read. The Davis affair teaches ...
    The coverage of the Raymond Davis affair in Pakistan tells us much about America’s ability to see and process information.  The US news media, as usual these days, plays lapdog for the US government.  Most of the coverage on US websites give mostly speculation, often by people with no relevan ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Indian budget projects economic growth
    BBC – India’s government has unveiled its annual budget, saying that the economy is expected to grow at 9% in 2012. Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said the growth rate for the current fiscal year was projected at 8.5%. He said inflation would decrease over the next fiscal year – the current r ...
  • ‘Islamophobia crime against humanity’
    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 ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Unsolicited Advice for Arab Monarchs
    Watching events play out in Libya, it seems to me that the best advice the US government could offer to friendly regime leaders in Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the UAE, etc. is to get on the phone with King Juan Carlos I of Spain. The impression I get is that it’s pretty good to be the king, e ...
  • WikiLeaks: AFRICOM's Gen. Ward the Beneficiary ...
    As US embassy cables from Libya continue pouring out of the WikiLeaks archive with each new day, the whistle-blowing group yanked the faucet off this afternoon, reducing the deluge to a drip. A single document, dating from May 2009, was released by the group, describing a meeting between Muamma ...
  • Saudi Arabia and the Crisis in Bahrain
    The momentous events in Bahrain are placing the Saudi government in a difficult position.  On the one hand, the Saudis fear the potential “fall” of Bahrain to Iran, on the other, they know that a muscled intervention and interference could actually create it.  Indeed, as the United States knows ...
  • The Afghanistan Weekly Reader – February 25, 2 ...
    We are seeing increasing signs that the surge in Afghanistan is not working—U.S. troops are pulling back from what was once billed as a key strategic location and the nighttime raids that neo-conservatives claim have been so effective are actually killing many civilians, souring the Afghanistan ...
  • No Good News from North Korea
    No catch-up growth in the DPRK and no signs of change either: Recent refugees, scholars of North Korea and South Korean government officials see no signs that the economic hardships are pointing toward political instability. They see no existential threat to Kim Jong-il and his government, wheth ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Internet Commenters: Not Always Terrible
    S.E. Smith writes on unproductive language policing in online activism: [T]here’s an interesting trend I am noticing in online activism where language is being used for pro forma activism, and a form of dog whistling; ‘I corrected you about the use of [word] in your post, so I’m an ally to [com ...
  • Gay Marriage: Not that Unpopular Anymore
    It doesn't come as a surprise to learn that gay marriage isn't a particularly lucrative issue for Republicans anymore. The combination of growing tolerance -- 44 percent support gay marriage, up from 42 percent in 2004 and 37 percent in 2005 -- and a financial crisis have put the issue on the ba ...
  • Q&A: Working History
    Veronica Beebe talks to a labor historian about what makes Wisconsin so special. In other states in which the governor or the legislature has an anti-union agenda, labor has only managed to bring out much smaller crowds. What makes Wisconsin special? Wisconsin has a long history of important ...
  • The Endangered Middle Class
    Yesterday, The Brookings Institute hosted a panel discussion, along with Demos, which publishes the Prospect, and TAP to talk about America's endangered middle class. It was moderated by E.J. Dionne, Jr., and included our co-founder and co-editor, Robert Kuttner, as well as Jacob Hacker, Ron H ...
  • Crazy Fourth Amendment Cases
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Buzzflash

  • Why All Workers Should Support Unions
    SHAMUS COOKE FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT It's official: Republicans have declared war on organized labor. Unclear to millions of unorganized workers is whether or not they should care. Thanks to years of right wing propaganda -- and labor union inertia -- millions of Americans are "union skeptics, ...
  • Scott Walker and the Koch Brothers: Commitment ...
    MARK KARLIN, BUZZFLASH EDITOR FOR TRUTHOUT The infamous billionaire Koch brothers founded "Americans for Prosperity," but cut off the part about it being "prosperity for the few." This came to mind as I was reading an article in The New York Times this morning and saw a banner ad inviting re ...
  • The Corporatist-Republican Goal for America Is ...
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  • Fascism in the U.S.: Are We there Yet?
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  • Walker Whacks Wisconsin Taxpayers With Bill fo ...
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Sciencebase

  • Six slick science picks
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  • Five picks from the science news
    Fix your H, increase citations and get more grant money – Citations have become the currency of science, which is used to reward scientists and scientific institutions. Small variations in citation scores can make millions of pounds difference in the financial outcomes of national Research Asses ...
  • Can we count on journal metrics?
    How do you rank science, how do you rate scientists, what kudos do you give their papers and what metrics do you attach to the impact of a paper? They’re questions as old as the scientific literature itself. But, no one has resolved them. Independent organisations and publishers have attempted w ...
  • The perils of ranking
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Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Libya: Urgent Priority Must Be Given to Doctor ...
    While a Doctors Without Borders/M�decins Sans Fronti�res (MSF) medical team inside Libya attempts to reach health facilities trying to cope with high numbers of injured people, additional MSF teams with medical supplies, including necessary surgical materials, remain blocked from entering the co ...
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    With clean air and the climate at stake, WildEarth Guardians and the Sierra Club filed a formal challenge to a U.S. Bureau of Land Management decision authorizing the expansion of the Elk Creek coal mine in western Colorado.read more
  • Spanish Judges Rule Case on US Torture Can Con ...
    In response to news that the full panel of Judges of the Audencia Nacional (Spain’s High Court) rejected a Spanish prosecutor’s effort to stop an investigation into the role of  US officials for torture on Guantanamo, the Center for Constitutional Rights, which has submitted many papers in this ...
  • USDA Seeks Comments on Disabled Livestock Peti ...
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  • US: Honor Public Workers’ Bargaining Rights
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Common Dreams-Views

  • Wisconsin: Could a General Strike Happen Here? ...
    Pat Schneider The confrontation between labor and politics at the Wisconsin Capitol was just starting as workers in Egypt who left their jobs and took to the streets toppled a government, and it wasn't long before activists in Madison bega ...
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    Kristine Mattis Despite temperatures in the mid-teens and a steady snowfall, throngs of taxpaying citizens of Wisconsin assembled at the Madison capitol for the thirteenth consecutive day of the sustained protest of Governor Scott Walker’s ...
  • Upwards of 125,000 March in Madison, as Activi ...
    John Nichols It began outside the University of Wisconsin Memorial Union. A few dozen members of the Teaching Assistants Association, the oldest graduate employee union in the world, rallied to object to Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s p ...
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  • Will ABC News’ “Made in America” Series Avoid ...
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Newshoggers - AfPak

  • Fire Lt. General Caldwell
    By Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe The latest general to find himself excoriated in the pages of Rolling Stone, Lt. Gen. William Caldwell, should resign immediately for using psychological operations, commonly known as "psy-ops" against U.S. lawmakers visiting Afghanistan. If he will not resi ...
  • Damn those foreign fighters
    By Dave Anderson: Most people don't like heavily armed foreigners who have at best a minimal clue of the local cultural norms and power arrangements. This localized resentment creates accidental guerrillas and a quagmire where the foreigners won't leave until everyone who dislikes the foreigners ...
  • Not so much a "Runaway General" as S.O.P.
    A report that Lt. General William B. Caldwell unleashed his PSYOP team on visiting U.S. politicians in Afghanistan, from Rolling Stone reporter Michael Hastings, is being considered a bit of a bombshell. Here's the meat of the piece: Under duress, Holmes and his team provided Caldwell with backg ...
  • General Petraeus and ISAF, Blaming the Victims ...
    By Derrick Crowe General Petraeus and his public relations team reportedly engaged in a scummy attempt to deflect blame for an alleged civilian casualty event on Sunday, suggesting that Afghan parents caught in the crossfire of a coalition raid burned their own children to incriminate inter ...
  • Polizeros Radio Tonight 10.30pm Central
    By Steve Hynd As usual every Thursday at 10.30 pm Central Time, I'll be podcasting with Josh Mull of Rethink Afghanistan & the Seminal and Bob Morris of Polizeros. The main topic tonight, as it has been for the last few weeks, will be events in the Middle East, as dominos fall. We'll also be tal ...

Water Wars

  • Settlement may temporarily ease conflict over ...
    A four-month truce was called on one front in the Delta water wars Thursday when all sides agreed to settle a major lawsuit pitting water supplies against protections for Delta smelt.
  • India rejects Pak view on violation of Indus W ...
    "Avoiding water wars: Water Scarcity and Central Asia's Growing importance for stability in Afghanistan and Pakistan".
  • Water Wars
    Georgia's environmental regulators have adopted rules requiring a broader review before allowing water to be taken from one basin and sent to another.
  • Pak cites US report as validation of its conce ...
    Pakistan has cited a US Senate report "Avoiding water wars in South and Central Asia", released on February 22, as vindication of its stance that building of dams by India on the western rivers was in violation of the Indus Waters Treaty.
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Afghanistan Sun

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Futurismic

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