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on Government Oversight

  • The Morning Smoke: Is the White House Hiding L ...
    Where there's smoke, there's fire. POGO's Morning Smoke is a collection of the previous day's investigations, scoops, and opinions related to the world of government oversight. Have a story you'd like to see included? Contact POGO's blog editor. White House...
  • Commission Concerned with Contingency Contract ...
    By Scott Amey Losses from waste, fraud, and abuse "run into the tens of billions" when it comes to federal contracting for contingency operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a new report by the Commission on Wartime Contracting in...
  • Rolling Stone Psy-Ops Article Exposes Another ...
    By Nick Schwellenbach Rolling Stone’s Michael Hastings has written another article that’s gone viral. Here’s how it opens: The U.S. Army illegally ordered a team of soldiers specializing in “psychological operations” to manipulate visiting American senators into providing more troops...
  • Morning Smoke: The Real Story Behind the Gover ...
    Where there's smoke, there's fire. POGO's Morning Smoke is a collection of the previous day's investigations, scoops, and opinions related to the world of government oversight. Have a story you'd like to see included? Contact POGO's blog editor. Pentagon Opposes...
  • DSS Director: Defense Security Service "Remiss ...
    By Nick Schwellenbach “We have been remiss in our fundamental oversight responsibilities to the Department and the U.S. Government,” read suggested talking points for a speech by Stanley Sims, the new Director of the Defense Security Service (DSS), at a...

Digital Journal

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Gates channels Vizzini
    U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has warned against getting involved in future land wars in Asia (Thom Shanker, “Gates Warns Against Any More Wars Like Iraq or Afghanistan,” New York Times, 25 February 2011): Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates bluntly told an audience of West Point cadets o ...
  • Robert Green op-ed in Embassy Magazine
    Retired Royal Navy Commander Robert Green explains his views on nuclear deterrence in an article in the February 23rd, 2011 issue of Embassy Magazine (reprinted in full at Defence Watch): Nuclear deterrence has not prevented non-nuclear states from attacking allies of nuclear weapon states. Exam ...
  • UN peacekeeping missions face shortfalls
    The United Nations continues to set new records for the size and complexity of UN peacekeeping operations. But the missions are facing critical shortfalls in key equipment such as helicopters, the UN reports (“UN peacekeeping missions face shortfall of over a third in vital military helicopters, ...
  • Be Heard on March 3rd: No Stealth Fighters
    Join us on March 3rd in a national day of action to tell Stephen Harper and your Member of Parliament No Stealth Fighters ! Ahead of the budget and possible elections, it’s more important than ever to be heard and voice your opposition to this multi-billion dollar purchase. The goal of the campa ...
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Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Labor Battles Rage On in Wisconsin, Iowa, Ohio ...
    February 25th, 2011 AOL News By: Dana Chivvis As a raucous week in the Midwest comes to an end, several state legislatures remain deadlocked over bills that many see as attempts to wrest power away from unions. Wisconsin In the wee hours of this morning, Republicans in the State Assembly held a ...
  • Tart Cherry Juice Reduces Muscle Pain and Infl ...
    February 25th, 2011 Oregon Health & Science University Tart cherry juice may be a safer way to treat muscle pain and inflammation than over-the-counter pain relievers such as ibuprofen, according to researchers at Oregon Health & Science University. A study of athletes who competed in Oregon’s H ...
  • Eat Nuts to Prevent Baldness
    February 25th, 2011 Daily Mail By: Anna Dunlop The good news for men is that ­scientists have ­discovered a cause of baldness — the failure of hair-producing cells to develop properly. The bad news is that effective treatment could be a decade away. While your genes play a major role in hair los ...
  • Berries May Help High Blood Pressure
    February 25th, 2011 WebMD By: Denise Mann 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 Nutriti ...
  • Apples Cut Cancer Risk
    February 25th, 2011 Daily Mail Apples are known to protect against serious illnesses such cancer, but now scientists know why – it’s all in the peel. Tests at the University of Wisconsin show that antioxidants packed inside the peel can slow the growth of prostate cancer cells and breast cancer ...

Pambazuka News

  • Africa: Angola hosts 3rd African meeting on Cu ...
    The third African meeting on Solidarity with Cuba was held in Luanda, Angola, 11-12 September, to consolidate the friendship between the African and Cuban people and contribute to strengthening African solidarity towards the Caribbean island nation. ...
  • Global: Afro-Colombian women fight prejudice b ...
    On an improvised stage “Bombón de chocolate” (Chocolate Candy) is being performed. The play, which narrates the story of an African-Colombian girl who feels rejected because of the colour of her skin, is one of the events at a special day on drug add...
  • Global: May for the Cuban 5
    The month of May started with a great number of activities in support of the Cuban 5. On May 1st hundreds of thousands of Cubans marched on International Workers Day in Havana and other cities. They were joined by hundreds of internationalists in de...
  • Haiti: Women demand role in reconstruction
    Women's civil society groups were noticeable by their absence from the landmark Haiti donor conference on 31 March, which secured pledges of US$5.3 billion over the next two years to support the country’s post-quake recovery. Their lack of a presenc...
  • African diplomats reject anti-Cuba resolution ...
    The ambassador of the Republic of Congo to Cuba, Pascal Onguemby, rejected the lies included in an anti-Cuba resolution recently approved by the European Parliament. Addressing participants in the inauguration of the Eleventh International Conference...

War in Context

  • Andy Kroll: the spirit of Egypt in Madison
    Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com Right now, at the invaluable Antiwar.com website — overflowing with blazing headlines — you can see two worlds of trouble awkwardly intertwined.  The first is a Middle East newly afire, one in which Muammar Qaddafi’s rotting, mad regime is shrinkin ...
  • CIA linked to Pakistan Taliban
    Pakistan’s Express Tribune, which is affiliated with the New York Times, reports: As American newspapers lifted a self-imposed gag on the CIA links of Raymond Davis, in place on the request of the US administration, The Express Tribune has now learnt that the alleged killer of two Pakistanis ha ...
  • Libya uprising
    The New York Times reports from Zawiya: In this city 30 miles west of Tripoli, hundreds of people rejoiced in a central square on Sunday, waving the red, black and green flag that has come to signify a free Libya and shouting the chants that foretold the downfall of governments in Tunisia and E ...
  • The racist entity that is taking over Israel m ...
    Sefi Rachlevsky writes: The wretchedness of the law in the face of Rabbi Dov Lior has many meanings, and Lior’s refusal to be interrogated over his support for “The King’s Torah – The Laws for Killing Gentiles” – only marginally gets at the heart of the matter. Thirty years ago, the terrorist ...
  • Egypt: the military’s gambit
    Issandr El Amrani writes: I’m not sure how long the general Egyptian public can maintain the bizarre idea that the army is so great. This is the army that took power in a coup in 1952 and ended political pluralism, lost tons of wars after that and continued to justify its predation on the natio ...

Watts Up With That?

  • It’s Not About Me
    Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach One response to Christopher Booker graciously mentioning my work in the Telegraph is the predictable increase in the usual personal attacks on me, as opposed to attacking my ideas and claims. People are rehashing Tim … Continue reading →
  • New Geomagnetism Reference Page
    Adding to the growing collection of reference pages available on the drop down menu is the latest offering that display aspects of geomagnetism. This is helpful for people interested in Auroras or who want to monitor earthly effects from solar … Continue reading →
  • Nero’s thumb: now in comments
    Chronically angry troll Jack Greer left some smarmy comment in the WUWT wins Bloggies Best Science Blog announcement. I didn’t see what it was, because some other moderator snipped it. I suppose Jack can’t help himself. It did however, remind … Continue reading →
  • Snow in Saratoga
    “A veritable dusting” as Time says of Friday’s snow in San Francisco (“the first snow in 35 years“), but that was at 900 feet (in the Twin Peaks neighborhood). Here’s a picture I just got from some friends on the … Continue reading →
  • WUWT – Voted Best Science Blog in the 20 ...
    UPDATE: It is official now, here’s a screencap from the Bloggies page: I really like the fact that they used a thermometer in the design. =============================================================== This was truly surprising. According to the Bloggies Facebook page, WUWT has been named … Cont ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Urban Farming for Food Security
    Dandelion Salad FluxRostrum | Feb 26, 2011 Will Allen and the Growing Power team presented workshops on farming in urban settings and empowering youth and low income neighborhoods with fresh local produce at Our School at Blair Grocery. http://OurSchoolAtBlairGrocery.org http://GrowingPower.org ...
  • No Other Way Out by Chris Hedges
    by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig February 28, 2011 I have watched mothers and fathers keening in grief over the frail corpses of their children in hospitals in Gaza and rural villages in El Salvador, Bosnia and Kosovo. The faces of these dead children, their bodies ripped ...
  • Libya: The Empire strikes back By William Bowl ...
    by William Bowles Featured Writer Dandelion Salad williambowles.info Crossposted on Strategic Culture Foundation February 28, 2011 Pre-amble: I started writing this before events in Libya escalated, but it illustrates why it is imperative that we understand what exactly is going on in the Middle ...
  • It’s Well Past Time to Start Taking Peak ...
    by Jeremy R. Hammond Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Foreign Policy Journal February 28, 2011 Michael Lind writes a top-9 list of “most annoying sky-is-falling clichés in American foreign policy” under the headline “So Long, Chicken Little” in the March/April issue of Foreign Policy, with his se ...
  • Exclusive: Blessed are the destitute, for thei ...
    by Rocket Kirchner Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Rocket Kirchner (blog) Rocket Kirchner (youtube channel) February 27, 2011 In Aristophanes play Plutus, the god of wealth Plutus declares to Poverty and Destitution that they are like two sisters. Right away Poverty makes it crystal clear that t ...

Your New Reality

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    The American Uprising : Week One If The Police & Army Won't Help Quell Protests, They'll Send In The Robots By Darryl Mason Extraordinary scenes from Wisconsin last week showing the birth of the anti-austerity/USUncut movement. An occupation of the Wisconsin State Capitol was supposed to be e ...
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    Believe It, They're Still In Control By Darryl Mason Yes, some of these children may be amongst the most instantly irritating children in the history of the universe, but they are discussing a "new reality" just on a decade away and this blog was supposed to be about New Realities, so here it ...
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    A stunning aerial view of a shuttle launch AND free drinks : Watching one shuttle after another launch from the same angle, or angles, decade in and out on TV gets a bit meh. Yeah, yeah, another space shuttle flight, let me know if it explodes. It takes a view like this to remind you how far ...
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    I didn't think I'd watch this all the way through, but if you grow some of your own food in the city, well, this is like a vision of some kind of heaven, and 28 minutes just flies by :
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    "I'm George Clooney And I Drank The Bong Water" Actor George Clooney on why he will never run for office : "I fucked too many chicks & did too many drugs." Clooney, 49, said a smart political campaigner would "start from the beginning by saying, 'I did it all. I drank the bong water. Now let ...

Wired - 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 ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Israeli Panel: ’2002 hit of Hamas leader was j ...
    While criticizing decision makers for underestimating the risk of civilian injuries, probe panel says Israel's Gaza assassination of Salah Shehadeh was a necessary part of its war on 'murderous... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Merkel chides Netanyahu for failing to make ‘a ...
    A crisis erupted between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. During a telephone call this week, Merkel told Netanyahu that he had disappointed her and had done... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Sen. Kerry, Syria’s Assad working to renew tal ...
    US Senator John Kerry and Syrian President Bashar Assad reportedly began drafting an unofficial position paper that would define the principles of negotiations with Israel. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade ...
  • Asaf Gefen: Let the generals rule
    The sigh of relief in Israel after it turned out that for the time being the Egyptian people are making do with military rule could be heard all the way to Cairo’s Tahrir square. The democratic... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Nada Matta: The Egyptian Uprising and Workers’ ...
    The scenes coming from Egypt in the last 18 days are testimony to peoples’ ability to overcome fear through collective action and organization. Against state intimidation and killings, popular... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Elemental Mercury in Toronto, Ontario Could be ...
    Ryerson University study on the presence and impact of elemental mercury in downtown Toronto, Ontario.
  • Foster Parents Receive More Support than Kinsh ...
    Children who are placed with a relative because of mistreatment at home fare better in some areas than those placed in foster care, but they may have a higher risk of substance use and teenage pregnancy.
  • Survival of the Fittest: Marketing Expert Anti ...
    The projected sharp, across-the-board price increases over the next five to eight months mean fewer consumers for many brick-and-mortar and online retailers. With limited monies up for grabs, an electronic marketing professor predicts likely changes that consumers will see both in-store and onli ...
  • Improving the Information Systems Workplace Ca ...
    Researchers uncovered a serious gender gap in how male and female managers in the information systems field think about the challenges women in the profession face.
  • Chemist's Work Brings More National Recognitio ...
    Christine Aikens, K-State assistant professor of chemistry, has received the Sloan Research Fellowship for her success as a promising young scholar, particularly in the research areas of sustainable energy and gold nanoparticles.

Natural Health News

  • Happiness is a Slow-Motion Kitten
    Having a bad day?� A slow motion kitten might make it better!
  • Can You Pass this Test?
    Do you have what it takes ... to relax?� Click the link below to find out!
  • The Dirty Secret GMO Companies Don't Want You ...
    Most soybean, corn, cotton and canola crops in the U.S. are genetically altered. Some experts argue that these crops could pose serious health and environmental risks, but the scientific picture is currently incomplete -- deliberately so. Agricultural corporations such as Monsanto and Syngenta ...
  • A Fake Smile Can be Bad for Your Health
    New research suggests that putting on a fake smile to mask your unhappiness or displeasure may have unexpected consequences.� It can actually worsen your mood and cause you to withdraw from tasks. Scientists examined what happened when people engaged in fake smiling, an activity also known as � ...
  • Feds Tell Big Tobacco to Run Ad Campaigns Sayi ...
    The U.S. Justice Department wants big cigarette manufacturers to admit that they lied about the dangers of smoking.� This would force the industry to set up and pay for an advertising campaign apologizing for their past behavior. The move comes as part of a 12-year-old lawsuit against the toba ...

Antemedius

  • SCFL Calls For General Strike If Walker Plan I ...
    As the protests in Madison have continued and even grown in the face of an obdurate Governor and even a major winter storm they have not been alone. This weekend there were rallies in all 50 states in support of the public employees unions. That first-term Governor Scott Walker has overreach ...
  • Two Birds, One Stone: Solidarity Saturday In T ...
    Today is Solidarity Saturday. Your bloguero and thousands of others will brave the cold and head to Albany, New York, and other cities across America for demonstrations in support of Wisconsin’s beleaguered public workers and their unions. So the first bird (in this case a phoenix, for Ameri ...
  • 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 ...
  • Afghans for Wisconsinites
    From Afghanistan: We Support the People of Wisconsin and the World We Afghans Are All Bouazizi By Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers Afghan youth are quietly encouraged by the Egyptian uprising because the people of Afghanistan want what the people of Egypt want. We are all Bouazizi. We want dig ...
  • "End Of America 2011", Porter Stansberry's New ...
    Oh, gods! My brain feels like it is burning. Is the quart of Mia-Tia’s from last night? Is it the allergens blowing in the wind this morning? It is that new position that they wife wanted to try with the trapeze and the mayonnaise? I could only wish it were these things! No it is from giving u ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Welcome to the Blogosphere, Justice in Conflic ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller The blog is a solo venture run by Mark Kersten, a PhD student in international relations at the LSE.  I would explain the subject-matter of the blog, but I think the name speaks for itself.  I will say that the posts have been excellent so far; readers ...
  • Can the Security Council Define the Limits of ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Milan notes in a comment to my previous post that he is “troubled that the Security Council seems not to be referring ’situations’ as much as certain crimes committed by certain actors.”  He is referring to paragraphs 4 and 6 of the SC Resolution: 4. ...
  • Security Council Refers the Situation in Libya ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller The referral is part of a larger set of sanctions against Libya.  From the UN News Centre: The Security Council today voted unanimously to impose sanctions against the Libyan authorities, slapping the country with an arms embargo and freezing the assets ...
  • Judge Refuses to Attend Taylor Lawyer’s ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Here’s something you don’t see every day: A disciplinary hearing for the chief defence lawyer for former Liberian President Charles Taylor was adjourned indefinitely Friday after just seven minutes because one judge refused to attend. The hearing by ...
  • Orin Kerr on the Strange Fourth Amendment Case ...
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Orin Kerr is the Fourth Amendment scholar that I definitely am not, so I read with interest his Volokh post this morning on Ashcroft v. Al-Kidd, which the Supreme Court will be hearing next week.  He says it is a strange case for a couple of reasons.  T ...

Investigate - Breaking News

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

My Care2 Picks

  • Energy Saving Light Bulbs could trigger breas ...
    Compact Florescent Light (CFL) bulbs is facing a mighty backlash from consumers, health experts and environmentalists. As part of the governments �Green Revolution� campaign, Congress has passed legislation that requires the �energy-saving� CFL�s to replaSubmitted by Ellyn S. to Health & Wellnes ...
  • Inside the Muslim Brotherhood
    Muslim Brotherhood quietly sustained the real fires of protest until they engulfed Egypt in an all-out revolution to topple the corrupt and brutal 30-year reign of Hosni Mubarak...an outlawed movement hiding its roleSubmitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • 100 Books You Should Read Instead of Going to ...
    If your dream is to own a business, you should know that there are ways around going to business school. In fact, many of the world�s most successful CEOs have never been to college. Submitted by Angle Sharon to Business �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Tweeting with Uncle Sam
    The idea of using social networks to bring about political change is the brainchild of the cyber freedom fighters of North Africa and Middle East. The United States has brazenly adopted it. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • How Monsanto And Evangelical Christian Organiz ...
    U.S. taxpayer dollars are, against Presidential directive, being funneled from the United States Agency for International Development to Billy Graham's charities for use in Christian proselytizing�all while building Sarah Palin's 2012 campaign army.Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov' ...

Angry Indian News

  • No Right Turn: A well-deserved electoral kicki ...
    No Right Turn: A well-deserved electoral kicking: "Irish voters went to the polls on Friday in snap elections, and have delivered their (former) government a well-deserved electoral kicking. Fianna... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Palestinian Pundit: Egyptian Military Junta to ...
    Palestinian Pundit: Egyptian Military Junta to resume gas supplies to "Israel" march 4thCompany said "nonchalant - American Israel Corp." Today, Sunday is expected to resume gas supplies to the... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Attacks on Workers in Wisconsin Are Attacks on ...
    Pan-African News Wire: Attacks on Workers in Wisconsin Are Attacks on Black Workers Everywhere: "Dr. L. Toni Lewis, SEIU Healthcare ChairIn Wisconsin, nearly one in four African American workers is... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Pan-African News Wire: Pump Prices Could Hit $ ...
    Pan-African News Wire: Pump Prices Could Hit $4 This Year in the U.S.: "Turmoil in the Middle East and North Africa is pushing crude oil prices skyward, with gasoline prices following.Sen. Lindsey... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Tunisia PM announces resignation :: www.urukne ...
    Tunisia PM announces resignation :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dal medio oriente :: information from middle east :: [vs-1]: "Mohammed Ghannouchi, Tunisia's interim prime minister, has resigned,... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

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

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Rep. Paul Broun asked by constituent: When wil ...
    ShareThisRep. Paul Broun asked by constituent: When will someone shoot President Obama? 25 Feb 2011 A Republican congressman with Tea Party ties declined to fire back at a town hall audience member this week who asked him when someone was going to shoot President Obama. Rep. Paul Broun of Georgi ...
  • U.S. aircraft carrier to join drill with S. Ko ...
    ShareThisU.S. aircraft carrier to join drill with S. Korea: Officials 28 Feb 2011 South Korea and the United States on Monday morning kicked off their annual joint military drills amid continuing tensions on the peninsula. The 11-day joint maneuver, codenamed Key Resolve/Foal Eagle, draws some 2 ...
  • 'Canadian spy detained in Afghanistan'
    ShareThis'Canadian spy detained in Afghanistan' 27 Feb 2011 The Taliban have announced that their militants have detained a "Canadian spy" during arrest operations in war-ravaged Afghanistan. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said on Sunday that Rutherford Colin Mackenzie was arrested several ...
  • Probe: US killed 65 Afghan civilians
    ShareThisProbe: US killed 65 Afghan civilians 27 Feb 2011 The Afghan government confirms that the US-led military alliance has killed scores of civilians during recent operations in the northeastern part of the country. The Afghan government said its probe had found the US-led foreign forces kil ...
  • Britain Freezes Gaddafi Family's UK Assets
    ShareThisBritain Freezes Gaddafi Family's UK Assets 28 Feb 2011 The UK assets of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi and his family have been frozen by Chancellor George Osborne - the latest in a raft of sanctions to hit the Libyan leader. Gaddafi owns a stake in the publishing company Pearson, owners of th ...

Daily Loaf

  • Do It Today: Unity Art, a visual homage to 9/1 ...
    Artist Richard Sean Manning has pledged to name an original work of Unity Art to honor each of the 2,976 people (and counting) who perished on 9-11 and so far has created more than 700 pieces.
  • Rebecca Ammon recovers from two nights at the ...
    ...In the Towel Room clothes weren't allowed. I donned my baby blue thong, black patent leather heels and a towel---well I almost wore the towel.
  • Tampa candidates make last effort to reach vot ...
    Good morning, everyone.   So how ’bout that Oscar telecast? Hey, it came in under 3 1/2 hours.  Too bad I didn’t take the under in the Oscar pool I was participating in last night in Tampa. Tampa’s political version of the Academy Awards takes place tomorrow night, where 33 candidates, 28 f ...
  • El Chuzo BBQ: Late-night Colombian eats in Car ...
    The owners had their start with nothing more than a mobile cooker and tent, but have now been able to purchase their own building after becoming a popular spot among locals in Carrollwood.
  • Nearly 15,000 Tampa residents have already vot ...
    The candidates were certainly working it hard this past weekend. In fact, just as we were getting out of the house for the first time late afternoon to enjoy the rest of the day, we saw Thomas Scott coming directly to knock on our door and talk up his candidacy.

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Dead Taliban in Chora
    (A raw, unedited note from war.) Men lining up to pay respects to killed Taliban 27 February 2011 The places have names like Sangin, Arghandab, Panjwai, Now Zad, Musa Qala, Korengal Valley, Pech Valley, Tarin Kot, or Chora.� Names that mean almost nothing to most people, but everything to oth ...
  • Panjwai: Spanish Translation
    El peligrosísimo distrito de Panjwai, en la provincia de Kandahar 27 de febrero de 2011 Desde Tarin Kot, provincia de Uruzgán Panjwai viene siendo una de las zonas más peligrosas de Afganistán. En su suelo se ha derramado mucha sangre canadiense, estadounidense y afgana. Según el diario The ...
  • Buen trabajo en Afganistán
    22 de febrero de 2011 Hoy he vuelto de nuevo a Kandahar e inmediatamente me puesta en marcha hacia las zonas interiores más aisladas. En esta ocasión no voy con las tropas, pero más adelante veré la posibilidad de incorporarme o adherirme a alguna unidad. Mientras manejamos por la ciudad de ...
  • Panjwai
    Deadly Panjwai in Kandahar Province 27 February 2011 Filed from Tarin Kot, Urozgan Province Panjwai has been one of the most dangerous areas of Afghanistan.� Much Canadian, American, and Afghan blood has soaked into this ground. According to the New York Times: The districts of Panjwai and Z ...
  • Tennessee in Afghanistan
    Anyone missing this car? 23 February 2011 The weather in Kandahar was cool and bright all day.� I travelled around Kandahar City with people from the Central Asia Development Group (owned by a close friend) and we visited eight cash for work projects.� This is a very interesting story that I s ...

The Killing Train

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

treehugger

  • 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 ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Tobacco companies file lawsuit against FDA adv ...
    [JURIST] Two tobacco companies filed a lawsuit [press release] in the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] on Friday against the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) [official website] in order to enjoin a recent opinion by the agency's advisory committee due to confli ...
  • Court rules $10.1 billion class action against ...
    [JURIST] A three-judge panel for the Illinois Court of Appeals for the Fifth District [official website] on Thursday unanimously decided to reopen a $10.1 billion class action against Philip Morris [corporate website] involving deceptive marketing practices in light of a favorable 2008 US Suprem ...
  • Egypt considers term limits, presidential nomi ...
    [JURIST] The Egyptian military's judicial committee on Saturday proposed a constitutional amendment that would impose an eight-year term limit on the presidency in an attempt to prevent a repeat of the 30-year reign of former president Hosni Mubarak [Al Jazeera profile]. The proposed constitutio ...
  • UN Security Council unanimously imposes sancti ...
    [JURIST] The UN Security Council [official website] on Saturday voted unanimously [press release] to impose sanctions on Libyan leader Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi [NY Times backgrounder], marking the first unanimous referral to the International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website] in UN histo ...
  • Obama administration seeks delay of 'Don't Ask ...
    [JURIST] The Obama administration on Friday asked [brief, PDF] the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit [official website] to delay its review of an order striking down the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy (DADT) [10 USC § 654; JURIST news archive] because the policy will soon be e ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Acemoglu on Inequality and the Crash
    This excellent podcast interview with MIT's Daron Acemoglu examines the role of income inequality in the crash. Raghuram Rajan famously argued in his book Fault Lines that rising inequality called forth a political response--notably, housing subsidies--which in turn inflated the housing bubb ...
  • Reagan, Alzheimer's, and the Dilemma of Testin ...
    By Julian Fisher, MD Earlier this week, I commented on the issue of privacy in regard to personal health information for public figures.  This has emerged again with publication of Ron Reagan's biography of his father, "My Father at 100."  While there may be some controversy about the accuracy ...
  • The White House Gets Its First Male Social Sec ...
    Updated 1:23 p.m. Jeremy Bernard, a senior advisor to the U.S. Ambassador to France, will be the first male social secretary in White House history. "Jeremy shares our vision for the White House as the People's House, one that celebrates our history and culture in dynamic and inclusive wa ...
  • The View From Inside the Wisconsin State Capit ...
    MADISON -- "I am suffering from audio nausea from all these drums and shouting. I am on overload. I'm exhausted," sighed 42-year-old AFSCME staff representative Edward Sadlowski. The Wisconsin Local 40 member had been sleeping on the cold marble floor of the Wisconsin state Capitol in Madison fo ...
  • On Google, 'Abortion' is No. 1 Result for 'Mur ...
    Boing Boing's Cory Doctorow reported this morning that "abortion" was the No. 2 result for a Google search on the word "murder," but my own search returned the Wikipedia page for "abortion" as the top result for a Google search on the word. Doctorow says the search results are likely the result ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • The Israel Project on Arab Revolutions: ‘Good ...
    The Forward brings to us one of the most unintentionally funny articles of the week exploring how the Israel lobby is trying to get the Arab democratic revolutions to work for Israel, rather than against it.  Jennifer Lazlo-Mizrahi, married to the deputy head of Israel’s DC embassy and one of ...
  • Israeli Public Inquiry: Shehadeh Assassination ...
    In 2002, after a smaller bomb failed to succeed in murdering Salah Shehadeh, then Hamas military commander in Gaza, the IAF dropped a 2,000 bomb on a residential apartment building killing him and his entire family: 13 civilians in all along with tens of seriously wounded. The Israeli NGO Yesh D ...
  • J Street and the Death of Liberal Zionism
    At first glance, it may appear downright curmudgeonly to speak ill of J Street as it triumphantly open its second annual conference.  I attended its first conference in 2009 and hosted an unofficial progressive blogger panel there.  Since then I’ve had a testy relationship with the group which ...
  • Settlers Call for Palestinian Expulsion, Pales ...
    In a game of tit for tat, battling Israeli Jewish and Palestinian groups have called for forced expulsion of their opposite number from their native lands.  Aryeh Eldad, a radical settler leader and Israeli MK has published an ad in Haaretz which calls for Jordan’s King Abdullah to accept the m ...
  • Haaretz Profiles Shabak Director-Designate
    Several months ago, I posted here news from an Israeli source of the designation of Yitzhak Ilan, 54, to be the next Shabak chief.  Israel’s media cannot report his name as it is under gag (the rules state that no one under the rank of agency director can be named publicly, even if they’re long ...

Ode Magazine

  • Peace with who you are
    By: PeaceCorso I’ve always liked Michael Jackson’s song, The Man in the Mirror. Thanks to Google it was easy to find the lyric of the chorus. I'm Starting With The Man In The Mirror I'm Asking Him To Change His Ways And No Message Could Have Been A ...
  • Bubble-Is-Us
    By: danlaureano A mentally-active, communicative morning, here in Oakland. After a few weeks of admittedly focused self-absorption, I’m catching up on news from outside my bubble and piecing together my judgments of the world we share. Revolution in ...
  • Communities dancing for water
    By: maryleehardenbergh Who has access to clean water? Is our drinking water clean? These questions are brought to the fore by an international team of choreographers and environmentalists presenting Global Water Dances. On June 25, 2011, around th ...
  • Deepak Chopra on "The Soul of Leadership"
    By: Marco Visscher talks with leading light Deepak Chopra about his latest book, The Soul of Leadership: Unlocking Your Potential for Greatness. In the book, Chopra examines 21st Century leadership and offers guidance for addressing problems in the wo ...
  • A poem for Egypt
    By: Chintana after the riot - such a perfect moonlit night -Hekigodo Kawahigashi This is a poem for Egypt, Algeria, Bahrain, Iran, Jordan, Tunisia, Madison, Wisconsin and every place in the world that is currently experiencing unrest. Under the dis ...

OpEd News

  • This Is What Democracy Looks Like
    Around the world, the frustration of ordinary people with the economy, unemployment, corruption, and repression has reached critical mass...
  • Spreading Activism for Change
    Wisconsin is a make or break ground zero for change
  • A Crazy Prophet
    Much has been said about the part played by the social networks, like Facebook and Twitter, in the revolutions that are now turning the Arab world upside down. But for sheer influence, Aljazeera trumps them all. During the last decade, it has changed the Arab world beyond recognition. In the las ...
  • Upwards of 125,000 March in Madison, as Activi ...
    Energized by the images of Wisconsinites night after winter night -- and filling the state Capitol with chants of "What's disgusting? Union busting!" -- unions across the country are beginning to outline clear and uncompromising agendas for defending public services and the rights of public work ...
  • Updating the BP Gulf Oil Disaster: Wake up, Am ...
    Here are some of the latest videos contradicting and exposing the calculated lies of BP and the Obama Administration that the Gulf of Mexico is getting better everyday in every way.

Switchboard

  • Sen. Sherrod Brown and the Clean Air Act
    There are things to like in Sen. Sherrod Brown’s letter to President Obama today about the Clean Air Act and carbon pollution.  However, the letter is off base in its concern about EPA’s reasonable steps to assure that big new plants reduce their pollution to protect public health. ...
  • Gulf Spill Natural Resource Trustees: Show Us ...
    The government agencies responsible for overseeing the assessment and restoration of natural resources damaged by the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico have just announced the beginning of a formal public comment period on the scope of the restoration plan and accomp ...
  • Part II: EPA Health Protections Under Assault ...
    Last week, I pulled together an overview of recent editorials condemning the U.S. House of Representatives for its unprecedented clean air health protections at the Environment Protection Agency. There has also been quite a furor brewing over in the op-ed columns. As promised last ...
  • The Ripple Effects of Transit Investment
    Senator Max Baucus of Montana recently characterized the President’s new transportation bill as one that would benefit cities, and not his constituents. As I’ve mentioned before, federal transit dollars support rural transit agencies, too. There’s another way that federal transit ...
  • Solving sprawl with basketball (reprise)
      This past Saturday, Bill Clinton, basketball legend Alonzo Mourning and I watched a basketball game at Verizon Center in downtown DC.  The team that all three of us were rooting for lost, unfortunately, not least because star player Chris Wright (#4 in the photo above) missed t ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Democrats and Defense
    Bernstein: It seems to me that one of the biggest differences between the current budget battle and the budget wars of the past (specifically the 1980s through Bill Clinton’s first term) is the extent to which that Democrats have accepted current levels of military spending. Yet my impression is ...
  • Oscar Open Thread
    I’ll outsource my picks to Roy, and add only that I really hope Steinfled or Leo win supporting actress (the fact that the former is being nominated for “supporting” although she probably had a higher percentage of screen time than De Niro in Taxi Driver notwithstanding.) Related posts:Oscar T ...
  • Why Does the Right Want to Silence Free Speech ...
    Shorter Ann Althouse: “Political protest should be stamped out by the state if it offends my exceedingly delicate aesthetic sensibilities.” Alas, she makes no attempt to square this position with her recent arguments that principles of “free speech” mean that conservative commentators should ...
  • Your Liberal Media
    Heavily tilted towards the Republicans, despite Democratic control of the White House and Senate. And the media’s crush on President John McCain continues despite his rejection by the electorate — not surprisingly, he’ll be yelling at clouds on two different shows. Related posts:Your libera ...
  • A Warrior Against Contraception Speaks
    Shorter K-Lo: “I’d like to turn back the clock to a time in which women faced much more severe inequities, and if a lot more unintended pregnancies (and abortions) is the price we have to pay to make me think that life could suddenly revert to a 50s sitcom, we’d better pay it.” [...] Related ...

Desert Research Institute

  • Fighting an Infestation
    Kumud Acharya, Ph.D. has worked in Southern Nevada for the last four years studying the changing climate and its effect on the state’s water. Since coming to Las Vegas his focus has shifted to another problem, invasive species specially those living in Lake Mead.
  • 2010 DRI Annual Report
    The 2010 annual report is now available for download. This issue includes an interview with Executive Vice President for Research Dr. Terry Surles, our involvement with a large NSF grant to study climate change, an overview of the work in our divisions and centers, select researcher profiles, an ...
  • Tracking the Air Quality at Lake Tahoe
    In order to better understand the pollutant sources that are affecting Lake’s Tahoe’s water quality, Research Professor Hampden Kuhns, began studying Lake Tahoe in 2003 when he assembled the areas first emissions inventory. The inventory included local measurements using his TRAKER road ...
  • Building Concepts for Clarity
    Todd Mihevc has a knack for finding the right tools for the job, but he’s no handyman for hire. For 25 years, Mihevc, an Assistant Research Hydrogeologist at DRI, has been instrumental in developing equipment that surveys, studies, and samples water systems in Nevada. His latest research concern ...
  • Top Cited Article in the Journal of Human Evol ...
    Dr. Glenn Berger is lead author in top-cited article in Journal of Human Evolution. The article "Luminescence chronology of cave sediments at the Atapuerca paleoanthropological site, Spain" was the top-cited article published in the Journal of Human Evolution for the period of 2008 to 2010.

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

  • 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

environment 360

  • Plant Uses Solar Power to Generate Steam for O ...
    A California company has developed a method that uses solar-powered steam to coax oil from the earth, an innovation they say is cleaner and cheaper than using natural gas to generate the steam. At its pilot plant in Kern County, GlassPoint Solar uses a row of foil mirrors inside a greenhouse to ...
  • Local and Global Risks Threaten 75 Percent of ...
    Seventy-five percent of the planet’s coral reefs are already threatened by a variety of local and global pressures, including pollution, overfishing, and the effects of climate change, a comprehensive new analysis by the World Resources Institute (WRI) says. The most immediate risks come from lo ...
  • Alien Species Reconsidered: Finding a Value in ...
    One of the tenets of conservation management holds that alien species are ecologically harmful. But a new study is pointing to research that demonstrates that some non-native plants and animals can have beneficial impacts. BY CARL ZIMMER
  • China Unveils Plan to Cut Heavy Metal Pollutan ...
    China’s top environmental official has pledged to curb heavy metal pollutants in the wake of numerous major poisoning incidents, including cases of lead poisoning in children, that have sparked public protest in recent years. In a speech, Minister of Environmental Protection Zhou Shengxian descr ...
  • Cell Phone Radiation Triggers Activity in Huma ...
    The radiation emitted by cellphone antennas appears to stimulate activity in parts of the human brain, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Using positron emission tomography, researchers from the National Institutes of Health placed a cellphone devi ...

Red Ice Creations

  • General Orders Probe into Mind Control of Sena ...
    The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan is ordering an investigation into charges that an army unit trained in psychological operations was told to manipulate American senators to get more money and troops for the war. The orders came from the command of Lt. Gen. William Caldwell, a three-star gen ...
  • Indoctrinate U
    More at: indoctrinate-u.com Indoctrinate U is a 2007 American feature-length documentary film written by, directed by and starring Evan Coyne Maloney, on ideological conformism and political correctness in American higher education. Among other things, the film examines the use of institutional ...
  • The Amazing Neem Tree
    Video from: youtube.com Neem (Azadirachta indica) has worldwide medicinal and agricultural applications as a non-toxic alternative to synthetic chemicals for both curing and preventing disease. Neem seed oil is like a dream come true for the old snake oil salesman...1001 uses out of a single bot ...
  • State Controlled Consciousness - John Taylor G ...
    John Taylor Gatto is an American retired school teacher of 29 years 8 months and author of several books on education. He is an activist critical of compulsory schooling and the hegemonic nature of discourse on education and the education professions. Excerpt from an interview by the Swedish tea ...
  • Gadhafi militia open fire on Libya protesters
    Militias loyal to Moammar Gadhafi opened fire Friday on protesters streaming out of mosques and marching across the Libyan capital to demand the regime’s ouster, witnesses said, reporting at least four killed. Protesters came under fire from gunmen on rooftops said one man in the crowd, screamin ...

Russia Today

  • Libyan authorities jam RT's Arabic channel
    RT’s Arabic sister channel Rusiya al-Yaum, broadcasting in Libya via the Nilesat (AB4) satellite, is being jammed.
  • Shuttle launch caught mid-air by passenger’s c ...
    The launch of the space shuttle Discovery on February 24 was taken on a phone camera from a passing plane. The video became an instant hit on YouTube, beating the 1 million mark in less than a week.
  • “Using military force against civilian populat ...
    In the wake of events in Libya, the UN human rights council is holding its regular session in Geneva. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has condemned the use of military force against civilians.
  • NATO to “invade” Euro-2012?
    The North Atlantic Treaty Organization may help Poland and Ukraine, the host countries of the European Football Championship, with protection of the event, the military alliance’s secretary-general has said.
  • “We deploy troops only when we can make a diff ...
    Russia and Europe can work very closely together without creating new structures and organizations, but those already existing must be made to work, believes Danish Defense Minister Gitte Lillelund Bech.

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

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

Tippers News

  • Why Did Aggie Boys Buy Sex at the Chicken Ranc ...
    The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, the Texas A&M football team celebrates a win with a visit to their local brothel, the Chicken Ranch. The Aggie Boys are fSubmitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Two survivors of human trafficking share their ...
    She fiddles with her cell phone. In mid conversation, she holds it out, showing off who�s on the screen. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Trip to India inspires Everson woman to help v ...
    EVERSON - Touched by her own memories of being adopted as an orphan, Sue Ann Heutink took her first overseas venture to help victims of human trafficking. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Free Human Trafficking Victim Sara Kruzan From ...
    Sixteen-year-old human trafficking victim Sara Kruzan was sentenced to life in prison without parole when, in a desperate act to escape captivity, she shot her pimp. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Edward Janus | Disability Advocate and Activis ...
    Edward Janus | Disability Advocate and Activist (Disabled myself). Doing Daily Internet Activism for Supporting Causes of Change. Talking about: Armchair Activism for Oil-Spill Animals.Submitted by Edward Janus to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • Nullification Is New Tactic against Obamacare
    “In their battle against the federal health care legislation, Republican lawmakers in at least 11 states are turning to a centuries-old and rarely used tactic in an effort to wrest power from the federal governmentâ¦. The Republican-controlled Idaho House of Representatives became the first elec ...
  • Debate to Open on Patent Reform
    “Today, the U.S. Senate begins debate on sweeping patent reform legislation that, supporters say, will speed innovation and help alleviate the nation’s high unemployment.” (Fox News) What if patents retard innovation and sabotage competition? FEE Timely Classic “How âIntellectual Propertyâ Imped ...
  • From the FEE Archives: Friedman on Inflation
    Milton Friedman’s 1958 Mont Pelerin Society essay on inflation is the subject of a new post “From the Archives.” Here’s a teaser: Friedman believed the source of inflationary pressure mainly stemmed from calls for governmental responsibility and action to correct deviations from full employment. ...
  • Money, Inflation, and Rising World Commodity P ...
    Chairman Bernanke is being disingenuous about the options foreign central banks and governments have to counteract the Fed’s easy-money policy that threatens a global outbreak of inflation similar to the 1970s.
  • Lawrence Reed Profiled by Young Americans for ...
    The Young Americans for Liberty website features a profile of FEE President Lawrence W. Reed, calling him “the liberty movementâs ambassador to the rest of the world.” Here’s a teaser: Reed is known all over the world for his advocacy of freedom. His stories are laced with optimism and passion, ...

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

  • 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 ...

Worldpress - Africa

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • A bit more on the oil trap
    People will not ship or produce if the cost to produce+ship is higher than what they can recoup.  There is a bottom on prices despite what the idiotic supply and demand curves in textbooks show.  Contrary to what they tell you in economics 101 supply and demand is not a law, there are significan ...
  • Police moving to clear the WI capital (Or Are ...
    Sad, given the police union has been supportive.  Police are obeying an order they know is wrong. People who are willing to walk are gathering on the ground floor, those who will not cooperate are linking arms on the 1st floor.  Some reports of people forming a linked arm barrier outside the cap ...
  • European leaders draft a “competitiveness” tre ...
    No, I’m not kidding. It includes: a debt brake which will stop countries from deficit spending beyond a target; automatic monitoring which can force pension cuts; a requirement to monitor wages and productivity and to then lower wages if they rise “too quickly” Every one of these are anti-worker ...
  • One way the price of oil hurts the economy
    Promoted from comments: I work for a small freight forwarder. How small? My boss, and myself – that’s it. Last year we shipped over 55 million tons of beef, pork, and chicken; mostly to Australia and Hong Kong, but several smaller markets too. You pick up the product, stuff the container, and of ...
  • Wisdom
    is learning from other people’s mistakes. Foolishness is not even learning from your own. Fools must take at least partial responsibility for the results of their inability to learn.

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

  • Italian seismology manslaughter hearing delaye ...
    Posted on behalf of Nicola Nosengo The second anniversary of the earthquake that hit the Italian city of L'Aquila in 2009, killing 308 people, is on 6 April. But even then, it will be still too soon to know whether six Italian seismologists will be tried for manslaughter because of what they ...
  • Researchers sign up Virgin Galactic for space ...
    The first commercial contract to fly researchers into space has been signed by the Southwest Research Institute and Virgin Galactic. The non-profit institute located in San Antonio, Texas has paid deposits for two scientists be hurled into space to conduct experiments including biomedical mon ...
  • Dozens of prisoner experiments unearthed, as P ...
    Revelations that US government researchers gave syphilis to hundreds of Guatemalan prisoners in the 1940s prompted a formal apology last year, as well as a President’s bioethics commission meeting that starts today. But it turns out that the US government has more skeletons in its closet. A r ...
  • Malaspina expedition: Deep sea -omics
    Freelance journalist Lucas Laursen is joining the Malaspina expedition, a Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)-sponsored oceanographic survey circling the globe in the wake of Alessandro Malaspina’s 1789-1794 exploratory voyage. He will report from aboard the B.I.O. Hespérides for the month- ...
  • German scientists outraged in defence minister ...
    Thousands of German scientists and academics have signed an open letter to Chancellor Angela Merkel expressing their unhappiness over the official handling of the by-now notorious case of plagiarism on the part of her minister of defence. Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg is accused of having duplic ...

new geography

  • Sputnik Moments, Spending Cuts, and (Remember ...
    The stand-off in Washington over spending reductions has pushed aside serious discussion about a far more pressing issue:  job creation. Granted, the country is long overdue for action on spending cuts. There is much that our government does that we can live without. Bureaucracies’ programma ...
  • The State of Silicon Valley
    Every year, the top officials, policy wonks, and business managers convene at the annual State of the Valley conference to discuss and debate the health of the region. Over a thousand attendees trekked to San Jose, Calif., on Feb. 18 for the release of this year’s report. Published since 1995 ...
  • What The Census Tells Us About America’s Futur ...
    With the release of results for over 20 states, the 2010 Census has provided some strong indicators as to the real evolution of the country�s demography. In short, they reveal that Americans are continuing to disperse, becoming more ethnically diverse and leaning toward to what might be called � ...
  • Census 2010: A Texas Perspective
    If you want to get a glimpse of the future of the U.S., check out Fort Worth, TX. Never mind the cowboy boots, but you might want to practice your Spanish. Texas is growing explosively and much of that growth is among Latinos.   The latest Census Bureau figures show the Lone Star State gre ...
  • The Millennial Mosaic
    Esperanza Spalding, winner of the best new artist award at this year’s Grammies, personifies the ethnic trends reshaping America.  She is a fresh-faced 27-year old jazz bassist whose very name portrays her mixed ethnic and racial heritage as the daughter of an African-American father and a H ...

GM Watch

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Cryptogon

  • Cryptogon Readers Send Contributions
    Thank you to these Cryptogon readers who sent contributions in the second half of February. Eileen $40 Eileen $40 (Farmlet) KL $50 DS $20 JG $20 DL $25 CB $25 AT NZ$20 MH $10
  • U.S. and Allies Weigh a Libya No-Fly Zone
    Via: New York Times: Obama administration officials held talks on Sunday with European and other allied governments as they readied plans for the possible imposition of a no-fly zone over Libya to prevent further killings of civilians by forces loyal to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.
  • A Glimpse Inside One of Gaddafi’s Palace ...
    Video at the link. Via: Al Jazeera: Libyan leader’s palace outside Benghazi is not just luxurious, but a bunker designed to withstand a nuclear attack. As pro-democracy demonstrators gain control of more cities in eastern Libya, Muammar Gaddafi’s many properties in the hands of protesters have b ...
  • Take a Closer Look at Those Obama Posters
    *chortle* Via: io9:
  • The Pallet Wood Shed
    This is very interesting. Via: The Pallet Wood Shed: Last fall I had the need for a new shed to store my garden tractor in. Since I had a large number of used wooden pallets on hand I decided to put them to a good use. The following pictures show the end results.

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 ...

Desertification

  • Permaculture College Australia
    Read at : Permaculture College Australia http://permaculture.com.au/ We’ve had a wonderful start to the year at Djanbung Gardens and excited about the great 2011 PCA program here at home plus courses in Bellingen, Taiwan, USA and France. The new APT … Continue reading →
  • Desertification of fertile lands is caused by ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://infouniversidades.siu.edu.ar/english/noticia.php?titulo=the_clearing_of_trees_in_chaco_strengthens_desertification&id=1189 The Clearing of Trees in Chaco Strengthens Desertification Liana Chazarreta Universidad Nacional de Santiago del Estero Facul ...
  • Local water management (Google / Regional Coop ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://regional-cooperation.blogspot.com/2011/02/arlem-reports-on-water-management-and.html ARLEM REPORTS ON “LOCAL WATER MANAGEMENT” AND “URBAN DEVELOPMENT” MedGov Following its creation in Barcelona on 21 January 2010, the Euro-Mediterranean Regional an ...
  • Sustainable land-use planning in drylands (Goo ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://mideastenvironment.apps01.yorku.ca/?p=2040 New publication: An elephant in the planning room: Political demography and its influence on sustainable land-use planning in drylands Posted by Itay Greenspan by D.E. Orenstein, L. Jiang and S.P. Hamburg ...
  • The PRAIS portal, harnessing the power of know ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://vimeo.com/20238348 Harnessing the power of knowledge for combating desertification, land degradation and drought. New system for monitoring UNCCD by Luca Perez With support from GEF, UNEP and the UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre, … Continu ...

The Paper Trail

  • Will Washington Pull the Plug on HAMP?
    The future of the Obama administration’s troubled $30 billion initiative to bail out beleaguered homeowners is on the line.
  • Education Department Promises a Fix to Trouble ...
    After an investigation by ProPublica and Center for Public Integrity last week found that the Department of Education’s bureaucratic program for forgiving the federal student loans of disabled borrowers has kept many disabled applicants in debt, the department said this week that it will overhau ...
  • Refinery Settles Violations from ‘Avoida ...
    A Texas oil refinery featured in a joint Center for Public Integrity-ABC News investigation into the dangers of hydrofluoric acid has agreed to pay $303,000 to settle pollution violations stemming from a 2009 accident.
  • Koch Brothers Wade Into Wisconsin Union Fight
    Americans for Prosperity, a nonprofit funded in part by the conservative billionaire Koch brothers, has launched a 30-second television advertisement in Wisconsin that asks, “Who decides Wisconsin’s future: Voters or government unions?”
  • Judge Orders Quicken Loans to Pay $2.7 Million ...
    A West Virginia judge has slapped online mortgage giant Quicken Loans Inc. with more than $2.7 million in punitive damages and legal costs after finding the lender had defrauded a borrower by misleading her about her loan and using an inflated property appraisal.

backofthebook.ca

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

libcom

  • International Anarchist Statement in Solidarit ...
    An international anarchist solidarity statement with the Harare 46. When Mohammed Bouazizi set himself alight he unwittingly ignited a wave of popular uprisings and rebellions that have spread like wildfire across North Africa and th ...
  • Re:
    freelance writer
  • Report from Madison: Fascists and Unions in th ...
    Wisconsin Protest.png The whole situation centered in Madison, Wisconsin has become a major class confrontation. The university students (who may or may not be proletarian) excepted, from our side t ...
  • On Wisconsin! First of May Anarchist Alliance ...
    1 mayo E.jpg For over a week now, in response to the draconian anti-labor proposals of the Republican Governor, the people of Wisconsin have rose up in the hundreds of thousands in militant and creat ...
  • Strikes continue in Egypt despite military thr ...
    mahalla.jpg Despite threats from Egypt's new military government that the wave of strikes which has swept the country will no longer be tolerated, 15,000 workers at Misr Spinning and Weaving in Al-M ...

Free Range International

  • It Takes A Clue
    Nothing will sour the morale of combat troops faster then the realization that the commander at the top receives frequent visits from the Good Idea Fairy.   Which is a good start point for explaining why  General Stanley A McChrystal took to the pages of Foreign Policy last week to explain the u ...
  • Thugs, Mobs And Education
    The news this week has been dominated by the Lara Logan story.  Ms. Logan was the subject of  the most popular post in FRI history which can be found here.  Reactions to the news that Lara was subjected to “a brutal and sustained assault and beating” have cost at least one knucklehead his job ...
  • Naw Zad
    I just did something which would have been suicidal 10 months ago.  My colleague Little Mac and I, in the company of a Marine tank officer and Naval surface warfare officer (he’s a fires guy by trade) just strolled around the town of Naw Zad with no body armor, no helmets, no riflemen escorting ...
  • Ride For The Brand
    When I first started this blog I used to hammer away on a couple of themes which really bothered me.  The first was Provincial Reconstruction Teams which I maintain are, by design, unable to accomplish their assigned mission. The second theme had to do with the reason we remain in Afghanistan. O ...
  • Shifting Sands
    With most of the world’s attention focused unfolding events in the Mideast now is a good time to shed some light on the current ground-truth in Afghanistan.  Sami the Finn is always a good place to start and he provides interesting perspective on the suicide bombing at Kabul’s at  the Finest s ...

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 ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

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

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

  • Fergie Jenkins, Baseball Hall of Famer (Feb 2, ...
    Canada's only Hall of Famer talks with Peter about pitching fastballs and dealing with life's curveballs.
  • Rex Murphy (Dec 18, 2010)
    We call him the wordsmith for his own amazing using of the English language - and part of that he gets from his voracious reading appetite of the works of others. Given the season, time for a visit from the one and only Rex Murphy, and his advice on the best books to give.
  • Prime Minister Stephen Harper (Jan 9, 2010)
    This month marks four years since Stephen Harper became Prime Minister. There have been few dull moments during that time and certainly no lack of controversy. This week, with a new year starting and new issues facing his government, the Prime Minister is our guest.
  • Shawn Atleo, National Chief of the AFN (Dec 6, ...
    He is one of Canada's most influential and powerful aboriginal leaders, yet few Canadians know anything about him. He's a new face on the landscape and this week, he's our guest in his first major interview.
  • Brian Wilson, musician (encore), (Nov, 28, 200 ...
    This week, an encore presentation of one of our most memorable interviews from 2004 -- the musical genius behind the Beach Boys, the young California group that went head to head against the Beatles in the 1960s.

Scotts Contracting

  • Sen. Ben Nelson is 2010 Porker of the Year!
    On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 8:00 AM, Tom Schatz, President, Citizens Against Government Waste wrote: Dear Scotts Contracting, The results are in! Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) is the âwinnerâ of CAGWâs online poll for 2010 Porker of the … Continue reading →
  • new reports from the Zero Energy Commercial Bu ...
    high levels of energy efficiency are the first, largest and most important step on the way to net-zero Scotts Contracting can assist you in making your Building a Net-Zero – Energy Efficient Property. Click Here to email for additional Information … Continue reading →
  • Suggested Reading- Wall Construction Air and W ...
    On 2/26/11, Scott’s Contracting wrote: > The importance of location of the proper air barriers, vapor barriers > and water resistive barriers on the wall and the roles they play in highâperforming EIFS > > Evaluation of the Moisture Performance … Continue reading →
  • MVC Green Notes-Mo Votes Conservation- Feb. 25
    On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Joseph Katz wrote: MISSOURI VOTES CONSERVATION Green Notes – February 25, 2011 In this email: Our Legislative Watch Opposing Special Favors for CAFOs Defending PROP C Conservation Lobby Day 2011 Become … Continue reading →
  • A Personal Invitation to a Great Event!
    On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 2:18 PM, Kateri Callahan — Alliance to Save Energy wrote: Dear Readers: I write to personally invite you to the one event in 2011 that will feature leading policy makers, CEOs, energy ministers, … Continue reading →

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • Iran Has Several Military Bases in Libya
    In an interview today on the Al Arabyia news network, an informed source within the Revolutionary Guards Corps revealed that Iran has several military bases in Libya. The source, who requested anonymity due to his sensitive position within the Guards, elaborated further that the Iranian military ...
  • VIDEO: Enayat Fani hosts debate with Abbas Mil ...
    تحلیل مهم ترین رویدادهای سیاسی هفته، مصاحبه با خبرسازان در داخل و خارج از ایران و نگاهی موشکافانه به عملکرد دولتمردان و فعالان سیاسی در منطقه و جهان.
  • مردم "رهبر" را کانون همه مشکلات میدانند
    مشایی در محفلی خاص گفته است: مردم متوجه شده اند که همه مشکلات شخص رهبر است و نه احمدی نژاد
  • Iran says ready for building port facilities i ...
    TEHRAN (ISNA)-Iran is ready for building breakwater, jetty and port facilities in Syria, said Iranian Commander of Navy Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari.read more
  • Open Letter To Shohreh Aghdashloo
    In October of 1990, a 15 year old Kuwaiti girl known as “Nurse Nayirah” testified before US Congress saying she witnessed occupying Iraqi troops take babies out of incubators and intentionally leave them for dead. While the event was instrumental in convincing the American public to launch a blo ...

Most Revolutionary Act

  • US Unemployment: 9.0% or 18.5%?
    The US Department of Labor announced last fall that they were going to alter the scandalous way they report unemployment figures – to more accurately represent the true number of jobless in the US. Don’t hold your breath. Nevertheless the figures they released for January 2010 (13.9 million or ...
  • Egypt and the Mainstream Media
    Egyptian Federation of Independent Trade Unions The mainstream media continues to tell us their fairy tale version of the Egyptian revolution: the Egyptian people won a Facebook revolution that lasted just eighteen days. As a result of massive street protests, the military junta ousted Mubarak, ...
  • Update on Peer Teaching/Tutoring
    I have been asked to update a blog I originally posted in November with additional resources (on peer teaching/tutoring protocols and manuals. The are found at the end of the article. New Zealand’s (conservative) National government has spent the last year trying to implement “National Standard ...
  • Egypt’s Invisible Labor Movement
    Egyptian Police Demanding Higher Wages and Better Working Conditions I get a very different picture of the Egyptian “revolution” from Al Jazeera and other international new sources than from the US media. The latter seems to focus exclusively on the massive street protests in Cairo and other Egy ...
  • Activism in New Zealand
    For me personally, the advantages of living in New Zealand far outweigh the negatives. In my mind, this relates less to tangible political or social features than to the reality that organizing for change is much easier here than in the US. For a 30 plus year activist, this is obviously a high ...

Doug's Darkworld

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

FourWinds10

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

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • The Failure of U.S. Politicians to Open Electr ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post The following guest post was written by Mike Holly, who is the Chairman of Sorgo Fuels in Crosslake, Minnesota. Sorgo is a company involved in the production of energy from sweet sorghum, and Mike can be contacted at smikeholly “at” gmail.com. In his artic ...
  • Oil Back at $100
    Join the forum discussion on this post I am between flights and have been traveling for a few days, but wanted to get off a quickie on current oil prices. In hindsight, perhaps I was not aggressive enough with my predictions for 2011. My predictions covered two themes: Next generation biofuel ...
  • A Closer Look at The Commission Report on the ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post The following guest essay was written by David Whelpton. David is a private investor in the oil and gas industry. His blog is Knowledge and Investing. Below, David goes through the highlights of the report to the President on the Deepwater Horizon disaster ...
  • Due Diligence: How to Evaluate a Renewable Ene ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post Doing Due Diligence To people who follow the energy industry closely, it’s a common occurrence to come across announcements from companies proclaiming to have developed the key to the ‘next big thing’ — for solving the worldâs energy crisis. Maybe they sa ...
  • The Media’s Role in the Range Fuels Fiasco
    Join the forum discussion on this post Now that it seems that the mainstream media has finally caught on to the fact that something went terribly awry at Range Fuels, it is time for me to close the book on them. This will be my last Range Fuels story, but I think there is a [...]

Discovery Educator Network

  • Sixty Symbols - Physics and Astronomy videos
    Tags: physics, science, astronomy, symbols, education, highschool, reference, mathby: Dean Mantz
  • Life on the Screen: Visual Literacy in Educati ...
    Tags: literacy, education, visualliteracy, visual, edutopia, film, technology, life, GeorgeLucasby: Dean Mantz
  • Everloop: Home
    Comments:Secure and safte student socialnetworking site. - Dean MantzTags: socialnetworking, tweens, everloop, facebook, tools, web2.0, education, socialby: Dean Mantz
  • Richard Byrne
    Comments:Richard Byrne is the creator of Free Technology 4 Teachers.  This is his Google site with additional resources.  - Dean MantzTags: technology, resources, Web2.0, tools, education, teaching, richardbyrneby: Dean Mantz
  • Lead Up Events | Official Blog
    Tags: math, world_math_dayby: Cheryl Lykowski

Rodale News

  • Mind-Body-Mood Advisor: Smart People Eat Healt ...
    RODALE NEWS, LENOX, MA—If someone asked you the difference between omega-3 fats and trans fats, would you scratch your head? That could mean you need more of the former, and less of the latter. The food you eat can have a powerful effect on your mood. You don't have to be addicted to sugar to e ...
  • Don't Let Your Dog's Lick Make You Sick
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—The family pet is a hugely important part of many households; in fact, pets are often treated more like beloved relatives than like domesticated animals. read more
  • Climate Change May—No, Make That DOES—Make All ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Given the millions of allergy sufferers held hostage by the drippy noses, burning, watery eyes, and continuous sneezing sessions it induces, ragweed may be one of the most hated plants on the planet. And a new the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)-led study published ...
  • The Nickel Pincher: What to Do with the Plasti ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Reducing the amount of plastic you bring home is reasonably easy when you first start to paying attention to it. As those of you participating in this month's plastic-free challenge may have found, once you decide to cut back, you find all sorts of plastic that can easil ...
  • Guys, Your Homes Are Filthy! (Girls, You're No ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—If you spent Valentine's Day alone this year, here's something that might make you a little more satisfied about your singledom: According to researchers from the University of Arizona, single men's apartments are covered in 15 times more bacteria than single women's are ...

big think

  • A READING On Revolution: PRESIDENT KENNEDY’s F ...
    What do we think about when we hear the word “revolution” today? The Beatles? Tahrir Square? The word has a rich history in political rhetoric, and in particular in political speeches—primarily those given by the revolutionaries in the time of revolution. Yet as America watches events that certa ...
  • Men (and a woman) overboard in Yemen
    Waq al-waq has decided, in keeping with protests in Yemen, to keep a running tally of people resigning from the ruling GPC.� It very much looks like people are abandoning ship. This list only represent those who resigned in protest or to join the protesters, not those who were fired or forced ...
  • Let the Little Children: How to Behave in a Mu ...
    One of the unavoidable realities of going to look at art in a museum is the feeling that you the viewer are being viewed yourself—especially by your fellow patrons. In the current issue of Paper Monument: A Journal of Contemporary Art , Timothy Aubry muses on “How to Behave in an Art Museum ...
  • A Real Scientist Agrees with ME (on the Design ...
    The blogging scientist Minerva�agrees with ME against the transhumanist on the future pressure to design or enhance your offspring or else.� She's surprised that it's possible to agree with someone who was on Bush's Bioethics Council,�but that may be because nobody told her there were�lots of .. ...
  • The Gates Doctrine
    “Any future defense secretary,” Secretary of Defense Robert Gates told an audience of West Point cadets Friday, “who advises the president to again send a big American land army into Asia or into the Middle East or Africa should have his head examined.” In what was something of a farewell spee ...

Information Liberation

  • The War Party's Atrocity Porn
    "This is a massacre," the frantic Libyan woman, speaking by telephone while cowering in her apartment in Tripoli, told CNN's Anderson Cooper. "I hope you know that people around the world are watching and praying and wanting to do something," Ande...
  • War *ber Alles
    The United States government cannot get enough of war. With Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi*s regime falling to a rebelling population, CNN reports that a Pentagon spokesman said that the U.S. is looking at all options from the military side. ...
  • Libyan Soldiers -- They're Just Doing Their Jo ...
    I see that Libyan soldiers are fighting against their own people. But why should we condemn them? They are just following orders. They must obey their superiors. They didn*t ask for this mission. Killing Libyans was not in their job description. They...
  • Freedomain Radio - Schooled in Wisconsin!
    The grim facts behind the massive protests to come. Sources: http://www.fdrurl.com/wisconsin...
  • Girl Scout Cookie Stand Shut Down By Police
    "It was doing good.. and then... he came up. He was scaring us... because we thought all the adults were going to go to jail." - A little girl learns how "free-market capitalism" works in a police state. VILLA RICA, Ga. (WXIA) -- It sounds lik...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

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

RFF Library

  • United Nations Environment Programme Year Book ...
    UN Environment Programme http://unhq-appspub-01.un.org/lib/dhlrefweblog.nsf/dx/24022011120712PMUNRN43.htm The UNEP year book for 2011 is now available.The 8th Edition of the UN Environment Programme flagship report, the UNEP Year Book, examines these global emerging issues and provides the lates ...
  • Paying for Carbon Emissions Reduction
    Rand Corp. / by Flavia Tsang and Peter Burge http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers/OP312.html This paper explores how much British citizens might be willing to pay for carbon emissions reduction, and the implication of this for climate change policies. Much of the current valuation of carbo ...
  • The Option of an Oil Tax to Fund Transportatio ...
    Rand Corp. / by Keith Crane, Nicholas Burger and Martin Wachs http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers/OP320.html This paper raises key issues associated with using an oil tax to fund U.S. transportation infrastructure, identifies the decisions Congress would need to make in designing such a t ...
  • Managing California’s Water: From Conflict to ...
    Public Policy Institute of California / by Ellen Hanak, Jay Lund, Ariel Dinar, Brian Gray, Richard Howitt, Jeffrey Mount, Peter Moyle, and Barton “Buzzâ Thompson http://www.ppic.org/main/publication.asp?i=944 California has struggled to manage its water effectively for more than 30 years. Today, ...
  • Reefs at Risk Revisited
    World Resources Institute / by Lauretta Burke, Katie Reytar, Mark Spalding, and Allison Perry http://www.wri.org/publication/reefs-at-risk-revisited [Summary] Under the Reefs at Risk Revisited project, WRI and its partners have developed a new, detailed assessment of the status of and threats to ...

Scientific American - News

  • The Education of Jennifer Miller: An Update fr ...
    As the 2005 school year got underway, a new requirement in a Pennsylvania public school district mandated that all 9th-grade biology students listen to a statement questioning the validity of evolutionary theory and promoting intelligent design. Eleven parents of students in the Dover Area Schoo ...
  • Automaton, Know Thyself: Robots Become Self-Aw ...
    Robots might one day trace the origin of their consciousness to recent experiments aimed at instilling them with the ability to reflect on their own thinking.Although granting machines self-awareness might seem more like the stuff of science fiction than science, there are solid practical reason ...
  • Why Are Americans So Ill-Informed on the Topic ...
    As glaciers melt and island populations migrate from shores to escape rising seas, many scientists remain baffled as to why the research consensus on human-induced climate change remains contentious in the U.S. [More]
  • Glory in the Sky: New Satellite Set to Monitor ...
    The solar forecast calls for sluggish times ahead, according to scientists in Boulder, Colo.--which could have a cooling effect on Earth. A better understanding of solar processes and their climatic impacts will be key to understanding how far such quiescence could go to counteract global warmin ...
  • Climate Change Extends Allergy Season in North ...
    Bad news for--achoo!--those who sniffle, er suffer their way through ragweed--sniff, snort, itch--season: A team of researchers has found that increased warming, particularly in the northern half of North America, has added weeks to the fall pollen season.It's enough to make you grab a tissue: M ...

RAWA News

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frogblog

  • What does ‘a better Christchurch’ ...
    We do have a chance to do the new, green, environmentally sound, fantastically state-of-the-art, 21st-century place, that will attract the brains and the thinkers of the world to come and live here That’s former Christchurch mayor Garry Moore quoted in today’s papers under the headline ‘Better, ...
  • The purgatorial delights of liquefaction
    From middle distance it looks ugly – alien and threatening. Something from another planet, menacing to humans. Actually, from Middle Earth. At shovel distance, it starts to attain a character you can come to terms with. If that is a metaphor for this stricken city, then not all is lost. This mo ...
  • Day two in Hell
    Thursday night I convene a meeting of Green members in my house. Twelve turn up, one from the eastern suburbs. He is not sure if he can get back or, if not, where he will stay. He has student friends, so he is not worried. He is young, so he is not worried. We exchange stories [...]
  • Paying to rebuild Christchurch: A small tempor ...
    While the horror of Christchurch’s second earthquake continues to unfold, those of us not immediately involved in the recovery can begin to plan for the rebuilding of a city and the livelihoods of those who live there. The question that immediately comes to mind is how are we going to pay for th ...
  • Cry the Beloved City
    In the House, I had said, “Whatever lies ahead, we shall not be daunted”....may I meet my own standards.

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Hating on Vegetables
    James Oliphant's piece in the LA�Times today tells you everything you need to know about what's wrong with movement conservatism in America today: Former First Ladies Barbara and Laura Bush worked to end illiteracy. Nancy Reagan famously took on teenage drug use. Lady Bird Johnson planted ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging - 25 February 2011
    So here's the latest craze here at the homestead: piling on top of Kevin right after dinner time. Dinner for the cats is always at 5 pm and takes about two minutes to scarf down, and in the past they just meandered around the house for a while afterward. Lately, though, they track me down and ...
  • The Union Thuggery Lie
    Conservatives are going all in on the meme that "union thugs" are rampaging through Madison and turning the streets of the capital into a bloody nightmare. It's a pretty effective meme, too, since lots of people are predisposed to believe that union members tend to be pretty violent folks. (Hi ...
  • Chart of the Day: Waiting for Your Doctor
    Aaron Carroll has had it with people insisting that it's OK for the United States to spend so much on healthcare because, after all, we have the best healthcare in the world. You get what you pay for, and at least we don't have to wait forever to see a doctor, like they do in other countries, ...
  • Evolution of the Crazy
    Mild mannered Ron Brownstein writes today that Barack Obama faces a Republican Party more united, more right wing, and less compromising than any time in the past: In Washington, Obama is already colliding with a conservative GOP House majority determined to slash spending and regulation. But ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 231: Cocaine is a Helluva Drug
    Topics for the show: All natural ice cream……..with breast milk? Ciara vs Rihanna Twitter beef between celebrities…how stupid can they get? Spell check…….use it Charlie Sheen is 100% sober….yeah right Charlie Sheen and Alex Jones prove crazy always needs a companion Former Rep. Chris Lee has more ...
  • IC 230: The Orange Walrus
    Topics for the show: Revisiting Detroit’s plan for a Robocop statue Ryce & Kriss recap some lesson’s learned from the Ski trip Kanye gives his opinion on abortion but he should really just shut up An anti-abortion billboard targeted at African Americans The Obama Administration stops defending t ...
  • Some People Deserve to Be Punched in the Throa ...
    What would Black History month be without some bullshit like this? Let me get this straight.  The most dangerous place for an African American is a womb because of the exploding outbreak of abortions right? oh ok. Funny, when we’re not talking about abortion everyone seems to be complaining abo ...
  • FacePalm of the Week: Glenn Beck Throws Stone ...
    I’ve been away for almost a week due to vacation so I’m still trying to catch up on all the things going on in the world. When this happens I can usually count on one of three people to help get me back on the path of tracking insanity: 1. Sarah Palin 2. Michele Bachmann [...]
  • IC 229: Taking Shit Too Far
    Topics for the show: Maybe Kriss went too far with the ‘Go Fuck Yourself’ Even if you have a PhD, you can’t just make stuff up Sharks are God’s way of telling us we ain’t shit Fantasia sounds like a Wookie You know, Unions are made up of real people. Someone tell the GOP Share [...]

Simple Climate

  • Soot and methane cuts promise threefold benefi ...
    Called on by groups including the G8 to examine the science behind limiting emissions of short-lived substances causing climate change, the United Nations Environment Partnership finds just 16 control measures can boost climate, farming and health.
  • Evidence of humans’ role in deluges starts to ...
    Scientists find the first evidence that humans are causing extreme rainfall, while the identification that greenhouse gas emissions increased the odds of 2000’s record rainfall in the UK are set to open the flood gates for telling whether humans have influenced extreme weather events.
  • Atlantic cold tongue tells of humans’ cl ...
    Aerosol emissions are more responsible than global warming for weakened trade winds, but pollution controls look set to show how government rules can reverse changes we have caused.
  • Climate researchers warn of food and forest ti ...
    With food prices reaching record highs, worsening droughts in east Africa will add to agricultural problems, while a parched Amazon could speed rather than fight global warming.
  • 2,000 year water temperature high underlines A ...
    Average temperatures of water flowing into the Arctic since 1890 are 2ºC higher than they have been on average in the previous two millennia, Robert Spielhagen and colleagues show.

e!Science News

  • Study comparing tenofovir gel and oral tablet ...
    In the first study to make head-to-head comparisons between tenofovir gel and oral tenofovir – two promising approaches for preventing HIV in women – researchers found that daily use of the vaginal gel achieved a more than 100-times higher concentration of active drug in vaginal tissue than did ...
  • 'Stupid strategies' could be best for the gene ...
    Blindly copying what your parents did – no matter how stupid it may seem – could be the best strategy for the long-term success of your genes, according to research by the Universities of Exeter and Bristol. read more
  • Experts call for greater pain assessment in ho ...
    Nearly two-thirds of the hospital in-patients who took part in a survey had experienced pain in the last 24 hours and 42% of those rated their pain as more than seven out of ten, where ten was the worst pain imaginable, according to the March issue of the Journal of Clinical Nursing. read more
  • Free radicals may be good for you
    Fear of free radicals may be exaggerated, according to scientists from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet. A new study, published in the Journal of Physiology, shows that free radicals act as signal substances that cause the heart to beat with the correct force. read more
  • Blood pressure management: Sleep on it
    A daytime sleep could have cardiovascular benefits according to new research by Ryan Brindle and Sarah Conklin, PhD, from Allegheny College in Pennsylvania in the US. Their study, looking at the effect of a daytime nap on cardiovascular recovery following a stress test, found that those particip ...

unEarthed

  • Thanking House Leaders Who Stood For Clean Ai ...
    North Carolina resident thanks Rep. Mike McIntyre in a letter Rep. Mike McIntyre (D-NC) voted against the cement kiln amendment. This week has been a welcom ...
  • Arctic Alarm - Time To Agree On Environmental ...
    Drlling plans proceed despite inability to clean up oil spills Oil platforms along Gompertz Channel and Cook Inlet. © Florian Schulz / visionsofthewild.com ...
  • Friday Finds: BPA's Bearded Ladies
    Nuclear dilemmas, thin mint massacre, airborne heart attacks Maine Gov. Paul LePage recently said that in a worst case scenario BPA exposure may give women "little beards." Photo court ...
  • Toxic Air Pollution from Industrial Boilers to ...
    Increased protections for our right to breathe Earthjustice attorney Jim Pew has fought for these protections for over a decade. The EPA today issued its fi ...
  • Tr-Ash Talk: House Broken
    The Houseâs rabid attack on EPA authority to regulate coal ash Rep. David McKinley's amendment ties the EPAâs hands on the issue of coal ash—and sweetens the bottom line of industry. ...

Brave New Climate

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

Indigenist Opinion

  • 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 ...

Republicans are a Disease

  • Arrest Clarence Thomas
    Many others have been prosecuted for lying on their financial disclosure forms. Why is it that Clarence Thomas can commit a crime any 3 year old could prosecute successfully, and not be charged? Are we a nation of laws? If not, I should go steal some money….
  • Koch Brothers #1 In Global Warming – Sto ...
    To do anything about human caused climate change, it takes legislation. To move legislation you need support. To restrict support of legislation needed to keep global warming from destroying the lives of BILLIONS the Koch Brothers are #1 in spending money and energy to stop legislation dealing w ...
  • Other Than Starting the Destruction of the Mid ...
    What did Ronald Reagan really accomplish? I mean besides beginning the process of turning America into the largest debtor nation on the planet. Taking down the solar panels from the roof of the White House set the tone for more oil addicion. The list goes on all the way to hell. Ronald Reagan wa ...
  • Governor Scott Walker Breaks Multiple Laws
    Can anyone say perp walk?
  • Dear Rick Santelli – Fuck You
    Blaming public employee unions for the financial woes of the states. Fuck you. After the folks you represent (serve) on Wall Street stole so much money that they crashed the economy (and state’s budgets) and then the government had to bail them out because they were threatening to blow up the wh ...

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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  • The cure to Islamophobia: Azerbaijan
    “I’m not a feminist” says Elmira, and takes a sip from her pint of Turkish beer. “I mean, I do believe that women should have all the rights, but not that men should be weakened.” We’re at the Otto, a bar in downtown Baku that caters mostly to foreigners. Elmira, though an alumnus of the city’s ...
  • Age of revolutions: The day after the squares ...
    Change is coming to the Middle East, but it’s a much slower process than we’d like to think By Yael Lavie The Middle East revolution age has begun. Its time has come. Geographically moving from Eastern Europe in historical decade intervals, every global region gets its revolutionary age. It is ...
  • J Street director opens conference without say ...
    At last night’s opening plenary of the second annual J Street Conference, there was one motif that expectedly prevailed: The two-state solution and its critical importance to the future of Israel. This is not surprising, but the importance of the two-state solution was expressed over and over ag ...
  • An occupied territory: visiting Baku’s p ...
    There’s a wonderfully fond post about Azerbaijan in the works, but must precede it with this one – the sort of thing that might get me into trouble at the airport on the way out. It has to do with a realization that I had here, a satori of sorts, about what this place and [...]
  • Hebron demonstration signals a new intifada in ...
    Riding the wave of unrest in the Arab world, the PA called for a carefully controlled ‘day of rage’ throughout the West Bank against the United States for their recent veto of an internationally accepted resolution declaring (once again) that Israeli settlement activity is illegal. While in Rama ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

Matt Weidner Blog

  • The Dreaded Star Chambers Were Real…Now ...
    Many of the attorneys that are out there fighting for homeowners and consumers show the very highest honor and calling that is the profession of law.  The attorneys that are fighting for homeownerrs– and especially those who articulate that the fight for homeowners is also a fight to protect th ...
  • Agflation, Plant a Garden, Raise A Clam, Save ...
    I spent a little time in my tiny, but productive garden garden this morning, which got me obsessing over one of my growing concerns….the inflation of food prices around the world and the traumatic impact further problems with food pricing and delivery will have on each of us. I’m not getting out ...
  • Proof that No Citizen is Safe While The Florid ...
    The Florida Legislature is in session and the banking and mortgage industries are hard at work trying to paper over the lies and the dire consequences that they have created. Consumers and citizens are grossly outgunned and the banks and their teams of lawyers and lobbyists are working feverishl ...
  • The Banks Are Gonna Moonwalk Away From Fraudcl ...
    Rumors are that regulators are floating a $20 million settlement with all the servicers.  That’s an obscenely low number and there’s still much to fight about, but some version of this insanity will pass.  It’s inevitable. The banks own us and they are going to get away with murder.  Our cour ...
  • Star Chambers, First Thing We Do, Let’s ...
    The Star Chambers were real.  They are a critical force in our nation’s jurisprudence and it’s time that everyone takes the time to read and understand just exactly what they were.  Read About Star Chambers Here The Star Chambers are alive and well, as is the suppression of those who are tryin ...

abelard - news

The Parallel Parliament

  • Affording Democracy – All We have Left
    This is the last post in the “Affording Democracy” series, but it’s likely the most important. One of the most pivotal moments in our history was when we stopped saying “we as Canadians” and began saying “They the government.” It fails to serve the public interest and leaves citizens and their r ...
  • Affording Democracy – Canadian Idle
    When public services are only driven through a partisan lens, the effects on a country like Canada can be devastating, in part because they occur below the surface and away from the public eye. Here’s an example of what I’m talking about. Look at this chart. We’ve heard repeatedly in the last tw ...
  • Affording Democracy – Pushing the Noun
    At the end of the classic movie Inherit the Wind, lawyer Spencer Tracy casts a skeptical look at the journalist played by Gene Kelly and remarks, “You never pushed a noun against a verb except to blow up something.” Even back then (1960) the media was seen as more interested in sensationalism th ...
  • Affording Democracy – “Morning In ...
    So, it’s “Morning in America” again. The Republicans and the Tea Party recently celebrated what would have been Ronald Reagan’s 100th birthday by calling on the country to finish the revolution he started. This wouldn’t only be devastating for an America struggling under so many loads, it would ...
  • Can Canada Afford Democracy?
    Six months – even two months – ago, if pundits or politicians were asked, “If a scandal were to descend upon Ottawa, in which ministry do you think it would occur,” no one would have concluded CIDA or that its rather reclusive minister would be on the front page of every newspaper in the land. [ ...

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

  • The art of regulating nanotechnologies
    The recently published International Handbook on Regulating Nanotechnologies has a rather unconventional cover image. But it’s one that I must confess I am rather pleased with. The image is a photo of a piece of Murano glass that I picked up several years ago while visiting Venice. At the time I ...
  • Crowdsourcing “sinful” images for a tech talk ...
    How would you illustrate the “Seven Deadly Sins of Techno-Complacency” (see below)? On March 8, I’m giving a combined Second Live/Real Life talk on emerging technologies, inspired by the Seven Deadly Sins.  This will be a rather tongue in cheek affair as you might imagine, but with some serious ...
  • International Handbook on Regulating Nanotechn ...
    Here’s an offer I’m sure you won’t be able to resist: The opportunity to read the first and last chapters of the just-published International Handbook on Regulating Nanotechnologies – for free! Due to the farsightedness of my co-editors, the publishers have agreed to let authors post their chapt ...
  • The New Toxicology of Sophisticated Materials: ...
    Cross-posted from The Risk Science Blog Several months ago, I was asked by a colleague if I fancied co-authoring a review on nanotoxicology for a copy of Toxicological Sciences celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Society of Toxicology (coming out later this year). Fool that I am, I agreed.  ...
  • Nanotechnology – Unplugged
    Next Tuesday, we’ll be launching a new series of occasional discussions on contemporary public health risk issues at the University of Michigan Risk Science Center.  And the first topic is – no surprises – nanotechnology. Under the tagline “No PowerPoint, no script; just stimulating conversatio ...

Reader Supported News

  • 600 Defy Order to Leave Wisconsin Capitol
    What we are witnessing in Wisconsin is the power of unity and solidarity. The 600 protesters who stood their ground and refused to leave the Wisconsin State Capitol are examples of what a group of committed people can do if they stand up for a just cause. We are not only witnessing it in Madison ...
  • World Tells Qaddafi His Time Is Up
    Ian Black reports: "Muammar Gaddafi is running out of options and friends as international action to pressure him into surrendering gathers momentum, with Russia and China joining the west in backing calls to prosecute him for war crimes." Libyans hold their country's old national flag as the ...
  • Libya in Turmoil - Live Updates
    Intro: "Follow the events across the region as they unfold." An anti-government protester in Libya holds a sign, 02/16/11. (photo: Unspecified/Twitter) Sorry, your browser cannot display frames!
  • Defiant Clarence Thomas Fires Back
    Excerpt: "The liberal group Common Cause suggested in a January letter to the Justice Department that Justice Thomas's connection to conservative donors may have been grounds for him to recuse himself from the Supreme Court's ruling last year in Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission, t ...
  • FEC in Standoff Over Secret Campaign Money
    Intro: "Independent political groups, especially those backing conservatives, say federal disclosure law doesn't apply to them. The FEC is at an impasse: Democrats want full disclosure of who's paying for political ads; Republicans say they favor a hands-off approach." John Boehner, with Mitc ...

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

  • 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 ...

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • Stop NATO News February 28, 2011
    ==== stopnato-subscribe@yahoogroups.com ==== 1. Four NATO Soldiers Killed In Afghan Attacks 2. NATO Commander Promotes “In-Depth Cyberdefense” 3. U.S., NATO Allies Prepare For Military Intervention In Libya 4. U.S.-South Korea Military Exercise Labelled Preparation For War 5. Editorial: World Cr ...
  • Stop NATO News February 27, 2011
    1. Cyprus: NATO Eyes Only Non-Member/Partner European Nation 2. Defense Minister: Russia To Deploy Troops To Kuril Islands 3. U.S.-Pakistan Row Over CIA Killer Deepens 4. Integration: NATO Caucasus-Central Asia Representative To Visit Washington 5. Unilateral Concession: Russia Allows U.S. Afgha ...
  • Stop NATO News February 26, 2011
    ===== stopnato-subscribe@yahoogroups.com ==== 1. Bahrain: Top U.S. Military Officer Visits New Marine Base 2. Pakistan: Six Killed As 40 NATO Oil 3. 15,000 U.S. Troops Have Transited Russia For Afghan War 4. Russia Stands Firm On Kurils 5. After 103 Deaths, U.S. Troops Abandon Afghan Valley 6. I ...
  • Stop NATO News February 25, 2011
    ==== stopnato-subscribe@yahoogroups.com ==== 1. NATO Chief Convenes Emergency Meeting Of North Atlantic Council On Libya 2. Russia: U.S. Attempt To Interfere In Kurils Dispute Unacceptable 3. Cypriot President Vows To Veto NATO Partnership Decision 4. Moldova: “Twitter Revolution” Defense Minist ...
  • U.S. Backs Japan In Looming Confrontation With ...
    Stop NATO February 24, 2011 U.S. Backs Japan In Looming Confrontation With Russia Rick Rozoff Last week Kamitsuki Toyohisa, the Japanese Foreign Ministry counselor for European Affairs, said that the relationship between his country and Russia is “at its worst point in decades.” In fact the dram ...

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Intel Hub

  • Food Prices Skyrocket in Libyan Capital
    By MAGGIE MICHAEL, Associated Press February 28th, 2011 TRIPOLI, Libya â Residents of Libya’s capital say prices for basic foodstuffs are skyrocketing and long lines form at bakeries for rationed bread as Moammar Gadhafi loyals clamp down in Tripoli. One resident tells The Associated Press that ...
  • Another Insurgent Candidate Takes on the Estab ...
    Candidate for Kentucky Governorship drawing comparisons to Ron and Rand Paul.  He’s an advocate for liberty who homeschools his children and supports industrial hemp. Eric Blair Activist Post February 27th, 2011 Kentucky stepped into the national spotlight when the stateâs voters stunned the es ...
  • The Intel Hub Radio Show, Five Days A Week On ...
    The Intel Hub Radio February 27th, 2011 We are happy to announce that we have picked up the 8 to 10pm est Monday thru Friday slot on Oracle Broadcasting. The Intel Hub Radio will be hosted by Shepard Ambellas, Bob Tuskin, and executive producer Alex Thomas. We hope to bring you a jam packed news ...
  • Austin Gun Buy Back With Texans For Accountabl ...
    February 27th, 2011 Related Posts: FIRST EVER! â Austinites Outbid Police in Gun Buyback Counter-Program TAG – CIA Runs Drugs, DEA is a Failed Agency TAG’s John Bush on Fox, “Free Market Solves Problems Not Big Government TAG: John Bush Arrested For Protesting Outside Free Speech Zone At U.T. Au ...
  • Paedophile Flew 17-year-old Virginia Roberts t ...
    AAP February 27th, 2011 Roberts was “given” to Epstein’s friends Men were in 40s to 60s, “including royalty” Pictures shows Roberts with Prince Andrew No suggestion of a relationship between them AN AUSTRALIAN mother of three has revealed herself as the women at the centre of international under ...

FRS

  • UC Irvine: Stand With the Eleven–protest ...
    Feb 11, 2010 VISIT www.irvine11.com for updates On February 8th, 2010 Israeli Ambassador Micheal Oren spoke at UCIrvine. During his speech Oren was interrupted by 11 protesters who had every right to speak out. Now they are charged with disrupting the peace and are being targeted by hostile univ ...
  • Univ. of California-Irvine: 11 Students prosec ...
    [As the US student movement grows, a central focus is building support for justice in Palestine, and opposition to the exclusivist Jewish state of Israel with its history of ethnic cleansing, apartheid, and brutal attacks such as the siege of Gaza.  In California, the student campaign has taken ...
  • Uprising spreads further across Libya
    Feb 28, 2011 Libya’s uprising is moving ever closer to Tripoli with rebels taking Zawiyah. There are reports that troops loyal to Gaddafi are waiting to launch a counter-attack. Zawiyah’s strategic significance lies in it being only 50 kilometres from the Libyan leader’s stronghold in the capita ...
  • China’s Wen Vows to Curb Graft as Police ...
    By Bloomberg News – Feb 27, 2011 Paramilitary police march past a KFC restaurant on the Wangfujing pedestrian street in Beijing on Sunday Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao pledged to punish abuse of power by officials and narrow the growing wealth gap as police blanketed Beijing and Shanghai to head of ...
  • A Latin American revolutionary challenge to su ...
    http://machetera.wordpress.com/2011/02/26/from-latin-america-to-the-arab-world/ From Latin America to the Arab World – What’s going on in Libya? Santiago Alba Rico and Alma Allende – español February 26m 2011 Translation: Machetera We have the impression that a great worldwide liberation process ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

  • Did you watch the Oscars last night?
    Any surprises? Did your favorite win? Mine, "Winter's Bone," did not, but I'm trying to be grown-up about it. I wonder how many people watched the show, as well as followed comments on Twitter/Facebook. I have to say that I enjoyed the tweets from Jewcy, which included, but were not limited to: ...
  • Gov. Scott Walker says he campaigned on promis ...
    But that would be what the rest of us call "a lie." Read PolitiFact Wisconsin's analysis of that. Read Dana Milbank's column on Wisconsin's governor. Government is about give-and-take, yes? And thanks, Jac, for the link. Getty Images
  • On Wisconsin (you knew that headline was comin ...
    Resisting calls that they disband and go home to allow cleaning crews in, protesters remained in Madison's rotunda last night, continuing their weeks-long protest against Gov. Scott Walker's attempt to sidestep collective bargaining. Meanwhile, Ed Kilgore at New Republic suggests that Republica ...
  • What if Jesus never rose from the dead?
    A noted Biblical scholar and an authority on the historic Jesus -- John Dominic Crossan -- suggests that Jesus did not perform miracles and did not rise from the dead, but he did live a life as a "peasant with an attitude." Would that matter to believers, if the details of Jesus' life -- what ...
  • It's not Monsanto's fault. None of it, in fact ...
    Agri-biotechnology behemoth Monsanto requires farmers to sign an agreement that gives farmers all responsibility for any and all losses, injury or damages resulting from the use of Monsanto seeds. The contract has no expiration date. Do click on the Monsanto Technology Stewardship Agreement in ...

Associated Content

  • Report: Newt Gingrich to Form Exploratory Comm ...
    The Atlanta Journal Constitution is reporting that Newt Gingrich may be about to form an exploratory committee for his possible candidacy for President of the United States. This move would take place about March 8th.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Feb 27, 2011
  • Thousands Evacuate as Libya Spins Out of Contr ...
    In light of continued violence, the exodus of foreign nationals from Libya is a wise and necessary action.Contributor: Susan Montag Published: Feb 27, 2011
  • Spirit Awards 2011 Winners Get Rare Victories
    Most of the Independent Spirit Awards winners will be at the Oscars tonight. Yet except for Natalie Portman, they've all been mostly defeated in mainstream awards, so this was a rare chance for "Black Swan" James Franco and others to come out ahead.Contributor: Robert Dougherty Published: Feb 27 ...
  • Oscars Could Be Boring This Year
    Industry experts are saying the 83rd Academy Awards could wind up being boring this year.Contributor: Mark Paul Published: Feb 26, 2011
  • San Francisco Snow Arrives Overnight After 35- ...
    The Bay Area hasn't seen anything resembling snow in 35 years, so they were on edge when snow was projected yesterday. But it took until overnight for the first inch of snow since 1976 to hit parts of San Francisco.Contributor: Robert Dougherty Published: Feb 26, 2011

Popsci - Science

  • This Week in the Future, February 21-25, 2011
    For this week's TWitF, resident artist Baarbarian has put together a portrait of the modern man. Desperate, alone, undead (metaphorically), with only the comfort of alcohol to get him through his wintry days, the modern man can barely derive any enjoyment even from a Clipse video made with a Mi ...
  • Astronomers May Have Spotted Distant Baby Plan ...
    Scientists think they have seen a baby planet swirling to life around a very young sun-like star, about 350 light years from Earth in the southern constellation Chameleon. If they can confirm their discovery, it would be the earliest picture yet of a natal planetary system, further illuminating ...
  • Harvard Researchers Illuminate Connections Amo ...
    In 2007, Harvard scientists figured out how to combine fluorescent proteins to create an entire color palette, and then used it to make mouse neurons glow so they could be traced through the brain. The “Brainbow” technique has helped scientists follow neurons’ connections, which had been almost ...
  • Infecting Mosquitoes With Genetically Altered ...
    To combat malaria, why not skip the step of genetically altering mosquitoes and try some transgenic fungus instead? In a new study, researchers sprayed mosquitoes with a fungus that had been modified to deliver compounds that target the malaria parasite. They found the treatment could reduce di ...
  • Two Planets Discovered Sharing the Same Orbit
    In a cosmic first, the Kepler telescope has discovered two planets sharing the same orbit. There is a theory that says our moon was created when a body sharing our orbit crashed into Earth, but up until now no one had found evidence of co-orbiting planets elsewhere in the universe. It is possi ...

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 ...

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

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

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Can Manny Pacquiao Knock Out Chinese Textiles?
    Yours truly aside, survey after survey usually shows the same phenomenon among Filipinos of having a very favourable opinion of their former colonial masters in the United States. (Having the second largest Asian population Stateside may have something to do with it.) This was true even at the h ...
  • Fire Sale America, Way to Fix US Budget Woes?
    Here's a fun Newsweek article I missed by none other than LSE IDEAS' own Niall Ferguson. Yes, the same Newsweek sold for $1--a once-great American institution fallen under hard times like so many others. While I suspect that I may be writing more about shutting down American government for a pr ...
  • BRICs Guy Jim O'Neill: China's Rise Benefits A ...
    Jim O'Neill of Morgan Stanley should be familiar to one and all as the fellow who coined the acronym "BRICs" for the major emerging economies Brazil, Russia, India, and China (though he sometimes expresses regret putting Russia in there). Although a less neat acronym would be required, he's also ...
  • Robert Wade on De-Neoliberalizing the World Ba ...
    Here's yet another interesting article from the new LSE house journal Global Policy. It all started in the second issue of this publication when Robert Wade, a famously "heterodox" economist in our development department, envisioned post-crisis options for developing states. In particular, he me ...
  • Let the PRC Fund (Broke) US Primary Schools
    We see in China things we used to see in ourselves...can do, initiative...that used to be us! - Thomas Friedman I've been watching the BBC's interesting series The Chinese are Coming documenting the effects of China's rise on the continents of Africa [episode 1], South America and North America ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • 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 ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U 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 ...

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

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

U N News

  • Haiti: UN human rights expert urges presidenti ...
    The United Nations independent expert on human rights in Haiti, Michel Forst, today urged candidates in the country's upcoming presidential run-off election to spearhead the fight against impunity and champion greater respect of human rights.
  • UN chief heads to Los Angeles to discuss globa ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will be in Los Angeles next week as part of the United Nations initiative that aims to raise the profile of critical global issues in partnership with the international film and television industries.
  • Steps taken to prevent repeat of fraud in Hait ...
    Measures are being taken at the 1,500 voting centres for Haiti's presidential run-off election next month to prevent a repetition of fraud that marred the first round last November, a senior United Nations official said today.
  • Late US diplomat Holbrooke a shining example o ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today held up veteran United States diplomat Richard Holbrooke, who died in December, as a steadfast friend of the United Nations and a shining example of what the Organization can aspire to be.
  • UN official urges Latin American nations to ca ...
    The United Nations climate change chief today called on Latin American nations to fully capitalize on opportunities to take climate change action to the next level, building on the achievements reached at last year's conference in Cancún, Mexico.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Found After 120 Years... A Photo of Helen Kel ...
    �Photographs of Helen Keller, the world-renowned advocate for the deaf and the blind who suffered from both handicaps herself, are not hard to come by. After all, she only died in 1968, at the age of 87. However, an image of the pioneer which has surfaced this week is a little bit different. ...
  • Chinese Workers Poisoned From N-Hexane, a Chem ...
    Making one of the most sought after cell phones in the U.S. has proven to be dangerous for the health of workers in China.� Apple has admitted that 137 workers at a Chinese factory producing iPhones in Suzhou have become seriously ill from exposure to a toxic chemical used to make the device�s ...
  • Eye Damage Caused By Laser Pointers
    “Why isn’t he more careful when pointing that laser beam?” I wondered during a recent lecture. The speaker was careless with the red beam, casting it about before pointing it at the screen. I knew lasers could damage eyes. When used for treating medical problems, protective glasses must be w ...
  • Father 'Would Still Get His Daughter Vaccinate ...
    The father of a 29-year-old woman who was permanently injured as a young child by the DPT vaccine, a combination vaccine for diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough), and tetanus, says if he had to do it all over again, he would still get his daughter vaccinated. ~ Ethan A Huffread more
  • A Missing Piece of History... Jacqueline Kenne ...
    �The first lady's pink suit and pillbox hat are a symbol of JFK's assassination and became treasured by a nation. The suit is stored away for safekeeping, but the hat is nowhere to be found. ~ Faye Fiore - See Photosread more

Tatumba 2.0

  • The Charlie Sheen Test
    I want you to take a test. This is called The Charlie Sheen Test. To take this test please grab a pen and a piece of paper. Now count to 10. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Now I want you to write down the first word that comes to mind [...] Related posts:Charlie Veitch vs. McDonald’s Trying to stop p ...
  • I have had it with GoDaddy
    I have had it with GoDaddy and their over-stuffed shared servers. For the past couple of days the load time of pages on here have been brutally slow. A few months ago I talked about going to a dedicated server. While my traffic does not justify paying for that cost, I am going to switch [...] ...
  • Max Keiser on Revolts: Americans Joining Middl ...
    Dozens of people have been reported killed in the Libyan capital Tripoli overnight as violence continues to spread across the country. Key administrative buildings have been set on fire, with thousands of anti-government activists still on the streets calling for an end to the 41-year rule of Co ...
  • Phil Donahue on “shut up and sing”
    More at therealnews.com Phil Donahue on corporate media and the Iraq war This post is courtesy of Robbie the Robot Please recycle. Don't throw away your peels Related posts:Betrayed in Iraq More at therealnews.com Leila Fadel: Leaders of Awakening Councils are... China and the Afghan War One War ...
  • Dentists in Moncton Support Poisoning of Monct ...
    I read on CBC where Moncton Dentists support the poisoning of citizens through their continued support of fluoridation. Either the Dentists in Moncton are dumber than dirt or they fear they must continue to support this poisoning, for to admit otherwise would open them to legal action for malpra ...

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 “ ...

Bloomberg

Enviroblog

  • If you ask a caveman a chemistry question...
    By Alex Formuzis, EWG Vice-President for Media Relations Good news. Maine governor Paul LePage claims he has read the scientific research on the health dangers posed by bisphenol-A, the plastic component and synthetic estrogen. His conclusion? "Quite... [[ This is a content summary only. Vi ...
  • Fluoride in your water: How much is too much?
    By Sonya Lunder, EWG Senior Scientist Last month, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) proposed that public water systems cut back on the amount of fluoride they add to drinking water. Whether you live in a city... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for fu ...
  • Borax: Not the green alternative it's cracked ...
    By Rebecca Sutton, PhD, EWG Senior Scientist I'm just going to start with the bad news, OK? Borax is not a green cleaning ingredient, as many have been led to believe. Yes, the 20-mule team laundry booster box has a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, othe ...
  • Bottled Water Industry to EWG: Shut Up!
    By Alex Formuzis, EWG VP for Media Relations When the head of a public interest group (like, say, EWG) receives a threatening letter from one of the nation's top industry lobbyists, it generally means he's done something right. On January... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my websi ...
  • What's Inside: Clorox Shares a Little
    By Rebecca Sutton, EWG Senior Scientist Last week (Feb. 9), Clorox surprised me when it took a small step along the path to complete disclosure - and real consumer empowerment - by releasing a list of all the fragrance ingredients... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for f ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

  • Exalting crazy: See Kim Ji-woon's movies at BA ...
    While a couple of his films already been released in America, South Korean filmmaker Kim Ji-woon only really became a major force among film buffs here after the limited theatrical release of The Good, The Bad and the Weird, which pays homage to the “Manchu ...
  • Melo madness, media brokerage, opera salvation ...
    Here's what happened this week. More
  • Waiting for James: How the Knicks can build on ...
    With the passing of the NBA trading deadline Thursday afternoon, a number of things came into clear focus regarding the likely path of the New York Knicks, this season and beyond. Let's start with the immediate future of the basketball team. Adding Carmelo ...
  • How 'Nixon in China' can save opera
    A lack of arts education, expensive tickets, the total domination of film in the mainstream culture, high and low, that Generation X grew up with are all part of the picture. But above all, it's the fact that opera has presented itself to people under 50 as ...
  • We're upgrading! Tell us what you'd like to se ...
    Friends, we're upgrading our site design with some new features, functionality and integration with social networks you probably already use. Tell us what you'd like to see! More

Views & News from Norway

  • Pressure grows on Nobel committee
    As the Norwegian Nobel Committee starts meeting in Oslo for the first time this year, pressure is growing on both committee members and the system by which they’re chosen. They’re trying to remain immune from the rumbling, both over their selection process and their Nobel Peace Prize choices. Th ...
  • Missing boat lacked authorization
    A Norwegian boat that went missing in Antarctica last week with three persons on board had not received permission from relevant authorities to venture into the area, its skipper confirmed to Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK). He rejected claims, however, that he and his crew were irresponsible. Jarl ...
  • Northug drops next competition
    Norwegian skiing star Petter Northug won’t be participating in the next cross-country competition for men on Tuesday at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships (Ski-VM). Northug broke down in tears just after winning Sunday’s 30-kilometer race, and his coaches want him to save his strength. “Give ...
  • Jumpers put Norway in medals lead
    Norway, the host country for this year’s FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Oslo, jumped back into the medals lead after the Norwegian men’s ski jumping team won silver on the 100-meter Midtstuen Hill Sunday afternoon. Austria, once again, was best. Conditions were much better on Sunday than ...
  • Life along the ‘løyper’
    Ski trails are called løyper in Norwegian, and around 2,500 kilometers of them surround the Norwegian capital. Many of those around Holmenkollen, in the hills above Oslo, are being used  in the ongoing FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, and they currently have a life all their own. As the wor ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Soil Food Web Courses
    Fact: There are more living microorganisms in a tablespoon of healthy soil than there are people on the planet. Chances are, microbes do the most total work in your farm or garden. In fact, microorganisms do more work than all of us humans put together — about 10 times more according to Carbon ...
  • Michael Pawlyn: Using Nature’s Genius in Archi ...
    How can architects build a new world of sustainable beauty? By learning from nature. At TEDSalon in London, Michael Pawlyn describes three habits of nature that could transform architecture and society: radical resource efficiency, closed loops, and drawing energy from the sun. — TED ...
  • All the World’s Coral Reefs Could Be Destroyed ...
    As my country is host of the world’s largest known deep sea coral reefs outside Lofoten, and my wife’s country is part of the richest marine region on Earth, The Coral Triangle between Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines, it makes me sad to learn about the new report Reefs at Risk Revis ...
  • Our Next Permaculture Project Aid Worker Cours ...
    Life is never boring for a permaculture aid worker Photograph � Craig Mackintosh If you have completed a Permaculture Design Certificate Course, you may have considered starting a career as a Project Aid Worker. This course is specially targeted at preparing you with the skills and awarenes ...
  • America as a Free Fire Zone
    Copyright 2010 by Ernest Partridge. Published here with permission of the author. A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. — Second Amendment, United States Constitution On January 12, ...

Telecrap Urinal

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

Anna's News

  • Air travelers may have been exposed to measles
    Public health officials are warning travelers and workers present at four U.S. airports on two recent days that they may have been exposed to measles from a traveler arriving from London. Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • 100 Vegan Recipes That Even Your Kids Will Eat
    It's hard enough to get picky kids to eat foods that are good for them and will help them grow up strong, even without limiting the choices to only vegan options. While it might be a challenge, there are plenty of vegan recipes out there that can help ...Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Welln ...
  • Past medical testing on humans revealed
    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.......Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Welln ...
  • 'The King's Speech' wins 4 Oscar Awards
    As expected, "The King's Speech" shines at the 83rd Annual Academy Awards 2011. The movie won the 'Best Motion Picture' award. It also bagged the 'Original Screenplay' award.Tom Hooper (The King's Speech) won the 'Best Director' award, while the .........Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �No ...
  • 10 College Basketball Underclassmen Who Are As ...
    The names listed below have been bandied about in mock drafts for months, and will assuredly be announced by David Stern at the Prudential Center in Newark come June 23rd (barring a lockout) Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Medical Marijuana

  • 2/25/11 - NEW: History of the Individual Healt ...
    healthcarereform.procon.org - NEW: History of the Individual Health Insurance Mandate, 1989-2010: Republican Origins of Democratic Health Care Provision - Republicans oppose the Mar. 2010 health care reforms for many reasons, especially the provision creating an individual health care mandate w ...
  • 2/23/11 - Vaccines ProCon.org - US Supreme Cou ...
    vaccines.procon.org - UPDATED: Vaccines ProCon.org - On Feb. 22, 2011, the US Supreme Court ruled that vaccine injury claims must continue to be filed with the US Court of Federal Claims and cannot be filed directly against physicians or vaccine manufacturers in civil court.
  • 2/23/11 - Barack Obama Declares Defense of Mar ...
    gaymarriage.procon.org - Barack Obama Declares Defense of Marriage Act Unconstitutional - President Obama directed the Department of Justice today to stop defending in court the law that prevents gay marriage.
  • 2/14/11 - Health Care Reform Opinion Polls/Sur ...
    healthcarereform.procon.org - NEW: Health Care Reform Opinion Polls/Surveys - A Jan. 15-19, 2011 poll by CBS and the New York Times found that 40% of Americans want to repeal the March 2010 health care law while 48% want to let it stand. A Dec. 14-15 FOX News poll found that 59% of respondents ...
  • 2/14/11 - Help ProCon.org Win $5,000
    www.procon.org - Help ProCon.org Win $5,000: Write a short review of ProCon.org by Feb. 28 for a contest at GreatNonprofits.org. The most-reviewed nonprofit wins, so please take a few minutes and help us compete for the prize!

Progressives United - Russ Feingold

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

Information Underground

  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    UnitedAgainstZionism wrote: Christopher Marlowe wrote:From what I have seen of the truth movement, it seems to be made up of some very intelligent people with disturbing personality disorders. And if Kaminski is to be believed, it is as delicate as an israeli promise. ... And as far as dividing ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Key issues we dealt with lately were: * Uncompromised law enforcement needs to know that if thy investigate GUARDIUM (PTech and Michael S. Goff, tied to both) they will get to the bottom of who did 9/11. Those who take up that matter will be of great help to the world. Those researchers and 'o ...
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