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Thomas Paine

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

Friday, February 4, 2011

4 February - RSS SnapShot! Pt 2

World Wide Hippies

  • No More Smokes In Times Square
    New York poised to ban smoking in Central Park, Times Square | CSM The air in Central Park, the green refuge at the heart of Manhattan, is going to be even fresher under a new city law that will make it harder for the city’s smokers to find a place to puff away. The new law, which [...]
  • Are there no workhouses? US looks to China mo ...
    National Law Center Increasingly, cities across the nation are implementing punitive measures to sweep homeless people out of downtown areas. Ã Laws that make it illegal to do things that people experiencing homelessness must do as a result of their homeless status ultimately ‘criminalize’ ...
  • Mubarak Targets Journalists
    Mubarak intensifies press attacks with assaults, detentions | Committee To Protect Journalists Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak unleashed an unprecedented and systematic attack on international media today as his supporters assaulted reporters in the streets while security forces began obstructi ...
  • Pittsburgh in the 60’s
    I loves me some PHIL Well we all know what’s been going on in the past few days. Unless of course you happen to be related to Phil. Yes, you must know Phil, don’t you? Pennsylvania’s most famous groundhog! So, I’m just going to talk about Phil today because I love the chubby little guy. Groundho ...
  • Chomsky on Mideast Transcript
    Chomsky: Why the Mideast Turmoil Is a Direct Threat to the American Empire | Alternet An interview with Noam Chomsky about what this means for the future of the Middle East and U.S. foreign policy in the region. In recent weeks, popular uprisings in the Arab world have led to the ouster of Tunis ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • Hillary Clinton on NBC's Meet the Press, Janua ...
    ...SECRETARY CLINTON: I want the Egyptian people to have the chance to chart a new future. It needs to be an orderly, peaceful transition to real democracy, not faux democracy like the elections we saw in Iran two years ago, where you have one election 30 years ago and then the people just keep ...
  • "I Shall Not Hate": Gaza Doctor Izzeldin Abuel ...
    AMY GOODMAN: Yesterday marked the second anniversary of the end of Israel’s assault on Gaza. Dubbed "Operation Cast Lead," up to 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis were killed in the 22-day assault between December 28th, 2008 and January 18th, 2009. More than half the Palestinians killed were c ...
  • Fox News: The No. 1 Name in Murder Fantasies
    Bill O'Reilly's recent "joke" about decapitating Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank was only the latest example of a demented Fox News culture that permits on-air personalities to fantasize about assassination and other forms of violence against those deemed enemies of the station, its perso ...
  • Robert Greenwald on the Ed Show -- January 6, ...
  • The Tyranny of Defense Inc.
    American politics is typically a grimy business of horses traded and pork delivered. Political speech, for its part, tends to be formulaic and eminently forgettable. Yet on occasion, a politician will transcend circumstance and bear witness to some lasting truth: George Washington in his Farewel ...

Salon

  • The scandal that almost destroyed Ronald Reaga ...
    On Nov. 13, 1986, President Reagan declared in a national address, "We did not -- repeat -- did not trade weapons or anything else for hostages -- nor will we." His assertion ran counter to covert operations that had been ongoing for several years. Reagan was faced with an uncomfortable quest ...
  • The Kenneth Cole tweet heard around the world
    Twitter has a couple of unspoken rules. You won't find them anywhere in Twitter's user support section.� You probably won't learn about them by reading one of those "10 ways to win awesome followers" blog posts. You really just have to fail, apologize and try not to do it again.
  • Sarah Palin leaves CPAC keynote speaker-less o ...
    Every year, Sarah Palin is invited to the Conservative Political Action Conference, and every year she decides not to go. This tradition actually dates back to before she was selected as John McCain's running mate! This year, organizers asked her to give the "keynote" speech after the straw p ...
  • The "Southern Strategy," fulfilled
    Democrats thought they had solved their Southern problem in 1976, when a peanut farmer-turned-Georgia governor named Jimmy Carter swept through the old Confederacy, winning every state except Virginia en route to a narrow electoral college victory over President Gerald Ford. For the first tim ...
  • Donald Rumsfeld was right about everything, bo ...
    Reviled two-time Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has finally written his memoir. It is titled "Known and Unknown," after a a typically obtuse quote he gave to the press while mismanaging the "global war on terrorism." In his memoir, Rumsfeld is settling various old scores, and, obviously, t ...

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

  • Tween makeup: Let girls be girls
    Makeup was just for dress-up until Walmart came up with a plan to retail it for 8- to 12-year-olds.
  • End this abuse
    As it brings those responsible for the Whistler sled dog tragedy to account, B.C. should look into better funding for those charged with enforcing its laws against animal cruelty.
  • A good case for tougher penalties
    Distracted drivers pose a threat to themselves and others, yet many Ontarians still flout the law using their cellphone while behind the wheel.
  • Spell out the security deal
    Canada’s trade relationship – as well as its political and security relationship – with Washington is vital to our prosperity. The Harper government
  • Egypt in turmoil, Mubarak should step down now
    Egypt has suffered enough. President Hosni Mubarak should see the writing on the wall, and bow out now.

Energy Collective

EU Times

  • DEA Agent Is Suing Government For Allegedly Re ...
    Undercover DEA agent Lee Paige learned the hard, painful way that whatever happens on video… immediately goes on YouTube. Paige is currently attempting to sue the U.S. government for releasing a video of him shooting himself in the foot with a Glock during a presentation about drug education at ...
  • Cairo square chaos intensifies, violence sprea ...
    Protesters and regime supporters skirmished in a second day of rock-throwing battles at a central Cairo square while new lawlessness spread around the city. New looting and arson erupted, and gangs of thugs supporting President Hosni Mubarak attacked reporters, foreigners and rights workers whil ...
  • NASA Warns of 2012 Solar Storms
    NASA 2012 Researchers say intense solar storm coming in 2012. NASA researchers announced that a storm is coming, the most intense solar maximum in fifty years that could rival the the solar storm of 1958. But just like hurricanes often do, they become far stronger then anyone expected. “Like mos ...
  • Top CIA Spy Takes Over Deadly Egyptian Protest ...
    Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) reports circulating in the Kremlin today state that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has agreed to allow the United States Central Intelligence Agency’s top spy to take over his countries military and police forces in order to stamp out the growing thre ...
  • TSA Wants to Feel Up Your Mind
    Stranded travelers could face a new homeland security toy this week. On Tuesday, the Transportation Security Administration announced that it’s begun “testing new software” on select airport body-scanning machines in Las Vegas, Atlanta, and Washington DC. The new imaging technology “auto-detects ...

Stonecipher News

  • Reasons to Donate Blood
    Have you ever donated blood? If you have why did you do it? It may have been for a loved one or a friend. It could have been for the free coupons and gift certificates blood centers provide for donations. Maybe you’re required to donate blood being that you’re in the medical field. In actua ...
  • Special Education High School Transition Servi ...
    From my Factoidz page: 1414(d) and in Findings about “effective transition services to promote successful post-Students typically start transition services at the age 14 if educational services are still required as determined by the school district and the IEP team. However, Washington State’s ...
  • Don't Quit Your Day Job
    This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Ashworth College. All opinions are 100% mine. With approximately 4,000,000 students today, more than 20 percent of all students enrolled in higher education are taking at least one course online. Self paced online courses ...
  • Breast Cancer Gene May Raise Men’s Risk, Too
    Source: HealthDay News: "A faulty gene that greatly increases a woman’s risk of breast cancer also boosts a man’s risk for the disease, a new study finds. While most people think of breast cancer as a woman’s illness, in rare cases men can develop breast tumors as well. The new study found tha ...
  • Diabetics Urged to Confer With Their Doctor Ab ...
    According to Amanda Gardner HealthDay Reporter, "THURSDAY, July 15 (HealthDay News) -- One day after a U.S. advisory panel recommended that the controversial diabetes drug Avandia stay on the market -- albeit with added restrictions -- several medical organizations are urging patients not to cha ...

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Nokia commits to âembrace changeâ as WP7 rumor ...
    Speculation over Nokia’s potential adoption of an OS other than Symbian and MeeGo continues, with the company’s share price buoyed amid rumors of a surprise announcement at the Finnish company’s pre- MWC investors event and after a European analyst publicly called for the  adoption of Windows ...
  • Australia Prime Minister Gillard at Fault for ...
    Apparently, the fact that a category 5 cyclone (Australian for hurricane) has hit Australia is because the country has an atheist prime minister Julia Gillard. (See: Cyclone no time for atheist PM ) This is not an innocent mistake. This is vicious and malicious hate-mongering. It's symptomatic ...
  • HOW TO: Jailbreak iPad 4.2.1 Using Greenpois0n ...
    HOW TO: Jailbreak iPad 4.2.1 Using Greenpois0n RC5 is a post from: Gadgets DNA Chronic Dev Team have already released an updated version of  Greenpois0n untethered  jailbreak tool that allow you to jailbreak iPad on iOS 4.2.1 firmware apart from jailbreaking iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS , iPod Touch 4G ...
  • Bernanke Says Everything is A-OK (Other than E ...
    The market closed up again today as Ben Bernanke let the National Press Club know that either the economy is fucked, or it isn't (Money McBags is still trying to decipher Benny B's speech but as "blowhard" is what Money McBags' considers a command and not a language, it may take some time), pro ...
  • 10 Biggest Super Bowl Fiascoes – NFL Football
    Top Ten list of the biggest Super Bowl associated fiascoes of all time. Editor’s Note: This is a repost of an article that originally appeared on OnlineDegree.net . 10 Biggest Super Bowl Fiascoes The Super Bowl is undoubtedly America's most hyped sporting and television event

Groklaw

  • Cheating Accusations Highlight Microsofts Dec ...
    Rather, I believe the incident underscores Microsoft's waning ability to compete on raw merit. Increasingly, the company relies on imitation, fearmongering, litigation and lock-in for its profitability. That, in turn, is bad news for users.... More recently, Microsoft created an anti-OpenOffice. ...
  • Search Engine Slap Fight: Microsoft Denies Che ...
    "In simple terms, Google's 'experiment' was rigged to manipulate Bing search results through a type of attack also known as click fraud. That's right, the same type of attack employed by spammers on the web to trick consumers and produce bogus search results," he wrote. [PJ: And Bing didn't catc ...
  • Microsoft casualties rise as eBay snags big Bi ...
    Scott Prevost, formerly principal development manager for Microsoft's Bing search engine, is among the most recent top Microsofties to flee Redmond, Wash. Prevost, who joined Microsoft when the company acquired Powerset in 2008, is now the vice president of search market management at eBay. - Ta ...
  • My thoughts on this weeks debate
    Earlier this week I was on a search panel with Harry Shum of Bing and Rich Skrenta of Blekko (and moderated by Vivek Wadhwa) and the video now live. It's forty minutes long, but it covers a lot of ground...I didn't expect that Microsoft would deny the claims so strongly. Yusuf Mehdi's post says ...
  • Google Exec Still Missing in Egypt
    If any of you have seen my friend Wael @Ghonim please call +44 20 7031 3008 A pic of Wael is here. - Chris DiBona, Google, on Twitter

WideShut

Waterkeeper Alliance

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Politics in the Zeros

  • How Obama silenced the anti-war movement and h ...
    What happened to the anti-war movement that thrived under George W. Bush? Obama got elected. That’s what really ended the anti-war movement, which at its peak brought millions into the streets worldwide in opposition to the Iraq War. The protests had been getting smaller, as more realized that t ...
  • Bridge with wind turbines built in
    This amazing design makes wind turbines part of the structure for a bridge. The innovative turbine bridge’s pedestrian walkway would be covered in electricity-generating solar panels as well as a series of small greenhouses, in a bid to promote local independent growers to set up shop in what wo ...
  • Is someone at Planned Parenthood taking stupid ...
    Yup. ACORN-like pimp videos have surfaced showing an imposter pimp getting advice from Planned Parenthood on how to get abortions for underage girls. Of course it was a setup. But after ACORN you’d need to be terminally stupid to fall for it.
  • Polizeros radio podcast tonight. Egypt, speak2 ...
    Topics will be Egypt, and speak2tweet, which participant Josh Mull is heavily involved in. This is the service that posts links to audio phone calls from Egypt protesters on Twitter. The podcast is hosted on BlogTalkRadio. Call in to listen live at 626-414-3492 tonight at 8:30 PST (9:30 MST, 10: ...
  • On state bankruptcy and bond traders
    Implicit in the question of whether states should be allowed to file bankruptcy is, what happens to the bondholders? Do they get paid in full or take a haircut? In fact, this is probably a core issue. Bond holders say that defaults or haircuts will have unseemly effects. They weep crocodile tear ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • My piece in The Hill yesterday
    ... was here. This was the piece I wrote Tuesday morning, that I mentioned in this JWN post later that morning. So really, you could read the two together... First, the "Hill" piece, then the blog post. Bottom line: There is tremendous amount a successor regime in Egypt could do to support Pal ...
  • Mubarak and the Egyptian army: the Pinochet op ...
    In last night's post, I said that prior to his speech, Muabarak had the option to be like Frederik De Klerk but instead had come out swinging with his dead-end rear-guard action like Ceausescu. Today, the veteran Middle East expert Bill Quandt* has a good piece on Politico in which--identifying ...
  • Mubarak gives go-ahead to his goons
    This afternoon (U.S. Eastern time) we were waiting anxiously for the statement that, Egyptian state TV promised, was coming "shortly" from-- or on behalf of-- Pres. Mubarak. Would it contain notice of his resignation or his departure from the country? In the end, no. He promised only that he "w ...
  • Arab democracy movements and the power of the ...
    I've been writing yet another piece of journalism on the Egyptian uprising. (I hope I can share it with you soon.) Writing truly does help me to think. So I was trying to think about-- yes, this is a big topic in Washington DC!-- what the attitude toward Israel of the post-Mubarak government i ...
  • My Middle East Channel piece on the MB
    ... is here. The editors there took quite a bit of time to turn it around. If I had had the time I would have tightened up the ending-- and also, inserted some of the material from this well-reported article in today's WaPo. I would also have noted that on Friday, Essam al-Erian was one of th ...

First Truths

  • Anarchists Are No Bomb-Throwers
    In a statement responding to mail bomb explosions at two embassies in Rome, Italian Interior Minister Roberto Maroni has placed blame on an “international anarchist movement.” And in light of the general assumptions regarding anarchists — those unhinged madmen in black masks — we shouldn’t be ...
  • The "Reform" of Kings and Masters
    Some of my take on happenings in the Arab world, for C4SS: The reformist approach — substituting trifling adjustments to the gears of the political machine for any radical alteration — is the castle in the air delusion that mere periodic upkeep can keep said machine running smoothly. If we acqui ...
  • Greece Ignores Labor's True Value
    The state hoards wealth in the hands of a small elite, leaving labor with no alternative to underpayment and exploitation. My comment on the Greek workers' strike is here.
  • Managing the Unmanageable
    The Fed's huge profits would seem to contradict the constant bad news we hear about the economy, but only if the story behind the story is ignored. My comment for C4SS is here.
  • Iraq's New Government Is As Old As Time
    I commented on the Iraqi government's personnel adjustment for C4SS.

Media Co-Op

  • Ste-Anne Students Say "Non" to Increasing Debt ...
    Led by the Association générale des étudiant.e.s de l'Université Ste-Anne, students at Nova Scotia's only francophone university, in Pointe de l'Église on the Acadian Sho ...
  • “Husni Mubarak go to Saudi, Ben Ali is waitin ...
    Protesters in Ottawa Send Message to Egypt, Urge Canadians to Support Democracy In Egypt On a cold, chilling weather day in Ottawa, nearly 200 protesters gather in support of the “March of Millions” for Egypt in front of the Egyptian Embas ...
  • Temperatures Plunge, Debts Rise, Students Figh ...
    Students "Beat back the Dexter attack" Defying a snowstorm and freezing temperatures, students in Halifax were out in force today, turning out the largest protest the city has seen in years.     “Tuition fees are too damn high,” said Kings ...
  • Student Day of Action - Neither Rain, Nor Slee ...
    An estimated 1000 students marched through downtown Halifax on Februrary 2nd, 2011 for the Student Day of Action. Students called for the government not to proceed with the 3% tuition hike and 4% funding cut to universities.
  • Labour movement shows solidarity at The People ...
      On January 29, 2011, thousands in solidarity with the 900 locked out steelworkers from Hamilton’s US Steel plant and the 9000 pensioners who still belong to the plant’s union local converged at The People vs. US Steel rally and march in downtown Hamilton.  Trade unionists and supporters bused ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • What is next for Julian Assange?
    We could be spectators for the start of the cyber Great War � and they�ve just knocked over Franz Ferdinand.(...) The difference now is that this battle is extra-national; it isn�t one country against another, so much as an establishment of nations fighting a global insurgency � with the sou ...
  • How do you say, "Tienanmen" in Arabic?
    Bring on the goonsOmar Suleiman (Arabic: عمر س��ما��; born July 2, 1936) is an Egyptian politician and military figure who was appointed Vice President of Egypt on January 29, 2011. Previously, he was Minister without Portfolio and Director of the Egyptian General Intelligence Directorate (EGID) ...
  • Egypt.... the coup ... The bill?
    Up until now, President Mubarak has enjoyed the support of the armed forces. He was, after all, a career air force officer suddenly catapulted to the presidency when Anwar Sadat was assassinated in 1981. But if these protests continue and intensify there are bound to be senior voices within the ...
  • A fairy tale as grim as Grimm could ever be (a ...
    David Seaton's News LinksOnce upon a time in a far off and pleasant land, during the reign of King George the Idiot, there lived a young man who dreamed of fame and greatness. He yearned so long and so deeply, that the Good Fairy was moved by his constant pleading and praying and appeared before ...
  • The "Sputnik Moment": One nation with paranoia ...
    � David Seaton's News Links I remember once reading an Indian guru, who said that if the water buffalo had a god, it would probably look like a very large water buffalo. He believed that there is only one god, formless and all pervading, but that he/she/it responds to intense worship by taking ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

  • Cities Confirm EWG Tap Water Tests
    Contact: EWG Public Affairs 202-667-6982; leeann@ewg.org Washington, DC – Testing by four municipal drinking water suppliers has confirmed the results of a study by the Environmental Working Group that detected widespread contamination by... [[ This is a content summar ...
  • EPA Regulates Fuel Explosive in Tap Water
    Contact: EWG Public Affairs, 202-667-6982; leeann@ewg.org Washington, DC – Perchlorate, a common ingredient in rocket fuel and a potent thyroid toxin, will finally be regulated in drinking water, Environmental Protection Agency... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit ...
  • Congress Confirms Drillers Fracked with Diesel
    Contact: EWG Public Affairs, 202-667-6982; leeann@ewg.org Washington, DC -- The Environmental Working Group (EWG) commends the important investigation of hydraulic fracturing released today (Jan. 31) by U.S. Reps. Henry A. Waxman... [[ This is a content summary only. Vi ...
  • NIH panel links Vitamin A in sunscreen to skin ...
    Contact: EWG Public Affairs: 202.667.6982 leeann@ewg.org A key independent science advisory panel has voted to confirm federal researchers' conclusion that retinyl palmitate, a form of vitamin A found in two-fifths of U.S. sunscreens,... [[ This is a content summary on ...
  • Obama Speech Misfired on Ethanol, Ag Policy
    Contact: EWG Public Affairs, (202) 667-6982 Washington, D.C. – President Barak Obama’s call to “stop subsidizing yesterday’s energy” in his State of the Union speech last night was welcome, but the President missed an opportunity to focus... [[ This is a content summary ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Nearly 250,000 Deaths From ONE Common Mistake ...
    By Dr. Mercola It's been seven years since I posted the comprehensive, footnoted research article, Death by Medicine, on this website. Authored in two parts by Gary Null PhD, Carolyn Dean MD ND, Martin Feldman MD, Debora Rasio MD, and Dorothy Smith PhD, it described in excruciating detai ...
  • Overcoming the Most Common Sleep Disorder on E ...
    Health.com offers a whole host of ways for you to make sure that you get a good night's sleep. To review all of them, see the source link below. Your sleeping area Use your bedroom only for sleeping Move the TV out of your bedroom Keep your bedroom quiet and dark Your ev ...
  • A Friend Like You
    The photographer Tanja Askani has captured fascinating images of friendships and encounters between foreign species of animals.
  • These Popular Drugs Can Make You Violent – Avo ...
    Some medications have been linked to an increased risk for violent, even homicidal behavior. A recent study identified 31 drugs that are disproportionately linked with violent behavior. Time Magazine lists the top ten offenders: Varenicline (Chantix): The number one violence-inducing dru ...
  • Do You Make This Common Mistake When Your Chil ...
    Fever is one of the prime reasons that parents call their children's doctors, and it is true that any fever in an infant younger than 3 months is cause for major concern, as there is a risk of serious bacterial infections. Also, a child who has a seizure with fever should be checked by a physici ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Gillian Anderson narrates unique film of uncon ...
    A still from new aerial footage of an uncontacted Amazon tribe in Brazil © BBC/FUNAI/Survival Movie star Gillian Anderson has launched Survival’s new campaign to protect some of the world’s last uncontacted tribes with an extraordinary new film. The film shows uncontacted Indians on the Br ...
  • Success: Peru acts to save uncontacted tribes
    Global coverage of the newly-released photos has pushed the Peruvian government into action © Gleison Miranda/FUNAI/Survival Peru’s authorities have announced that they will work together with Brazil to stop loggers entering isolated Indians’ territory along the two countries’ joint border. ...
  • Outrage as construction of Belo Monte dam ille ...
    Indians protesting against the Belo Monte dam © Verena Glass Brazil’s environmental agency, IBAMA, has issued a ‘partial’ installation licence for the Belo Monte dam, to be built on the Xingu River in the Amazon. The licence allows the initial stages of construction, including the clearin ...
  • Vedanta fights back over Indian hill tribe’s s ...
    Vedanta is still trying to get back into the Dongria Kondh's Niyamgiri Hills. © Survival International FTSE 100 mining giant Vedanta is challenging a ban on mining the sacred mountain of India’s Dongria Kondh tribe. The Orissa High Court will hear the case on Wednesday 2 February.
 The Don ...
  • Unique new photos of uncontacted Brazilian Ind ...
    The photos reveal a thriving, healthy community with baskets full of manioc and papaya fresh from their gardens. © Gleison Miranda/FUNAI/Survival New photos obtained by Survival show uncontacted Indians in never-seen-before detail. The Indians are living in Brazil, near the Peruvian border ...

Montreal Gazette

  • Business tax cut opens a worthwhile debate
    It has reduced the federal levy on corporate profits from 21 per cent to 16.5 per cent at the beginning of this year, with a further reduction to 15 per cent set to kick in next year. The opposition parties, in turn, are aligned against the measure, and if they join in defeating the upco ...
  • STM and corporate ads: every little bit of cas ...
    For $15.5 million a year, private corporations might soon have the right to put their logos on metro floors and maps and even under the iconic symbol of Montreal's underground subway system. The Societe de transport de Montreal seems to think this is a good deal.
  • Editorial: CRTC Internet ruling hurt the littl ...
    Canadians are among the heaviest users of the Internet in the world. We email, watch movies, draft documents, make conference calls, do business and send photos to far-flung family members. Trapped by winter storms, separated by vast distances, we've come to rely on the Internet's fast, ...
  • Editorial: Teddy bear draw was no picnic for 6 ...
    It's always good to encourage eco awareness and green behaviour, but there is such a thing as pushing it too far. That's what a school in Laval did when it ran a draw for a teddy bear in a kindergarten class, but pointedly excluded kids found in possession of lunch supplies packed in wha ...
  • Editorial: Recognizing that it's time to act o ...
    It has been three years since the federal government promised to come up with a national strategy to reduce greenhouse gases and to help the country adapt to the impacts of global warming. Where there should be an adaptation policy or a list of priority actions, there is still a void.

Food World Order

  • 2/3 binge & purge: federal farm & volatility v ...
    global food prices hit new record high* world entering era of food price volatility* bernanke: federal reserve not to blame for food price inflation* US foolishly looks to monsanto to feed the world* new report says calif. passing up food stamps* "thank you for suing us': taco bel ...
  • US to regulate rocket fuel chemical in water
    from afp: The US government said Wednesday it plans to limit the amount of perchlorate, a chemical found in rocket fuel, explosives and bleach, that is present in the drinking water of millions of Americans. Studies have shown a link between consuming perchlorate and thyroid problems in pregnant ...
  • reports suggest white house pressured vilsack ...
    from grist: As I reported last week, the USDA announced late Thursday it would allow the planting of genetically modified alfalfa, the nation's fourth-largest crop, without restriction. Was the decision based on a careful weighing of the evidence by the USDA -- or on political consideratio ...
  • food skyrockets to highest prices ever
    from natural news: Figures recently released by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) index of 55 food commodities indicates that worldwide food prices hit a record high in December. Though the costs of some food commodities like rice, corn and soy actually decreased, oil seeds and sugar j ...
  • 12/23 binge & purge: hotel, motel, holiday in ...
    obama to sign 'food safety bill' in early 2011* food safety bill proceeds after snafu fixed* terror plot to attack US hotel & restaurant food over a single weekend* al-ciada looking to attack US food?* US food chains investing in cambodia* feds order farmer to destroy wheat crops: ...

CrusadeWatch

  • Readers' Forum: Predatory conversions send a m ...
    source: Contra Costa Times, 22-Jan-2011 By Samir Kalra and Mihir Meghani Guest Commentary Posted: 01/22/2011 12:01:00 AM PST THE RECENT Bay Area News Group coverage of Bhutanese refugees highlighted the experiences of Hindu and Buddhist Bhutanese refugees in the Bay Area, an ...
  • Indian missionaries prepare to evangelize Bhut ...
    source: Catholic Culture, January 28, 2011 (an example of Wolf in Sheep's clothing) Authorities in Bhutan have signaled that they will permit the registration at least one Christian organization in the landlocked Asian nation. Currently, Christians are permitted to worship in their h ...
  • "Crorepathy" Fr. Jegath Gasper Raj m ...
    source:  Asian Tribune The Sri Lankan Catholic Church, the Catholic Radio Veritas based in Phillipines, the Tamil Catholic hierachy and its priests have been the main links of the global network of the Church to protect, promote, provide succor and cover to the internationally bann ...
  • Sex, lies and money in the church
    source: Indian Express, October 24, 2010 Shevlin Sebastian It was midnight. Fr Jose George could not sleep because there was no fan in his room. Jose knocked on Anna Jacobs door. When she opened it, he told her he could not sleep. She invited him inside, because there was a fa ...
  • Denigration of Buddhism & conversion of th ...
    source:  Vijayvaani.com,   Oct 25, 2010 Christianisation was the third force of colonialism as best expressed by Jomo Kenyatta, the late Kenyan leader, who said: When the white man came he had the bible we had the land. Then he said let us close our eyes and pray. When we opened our ...

Whole Truth Coalition

  • An Invitation to Meet Hollie and Anne Greig
    ‘Hollie and Anne would like to thank their many supporters for their continuing hard work and support. Towards that end, they have decided to host an informal function near Berwick-upon-Tweed at the Marshall Meadows Hotel on Sunday the 21st of March from 2 until 5pm. The Marshall Meadows Hotel ...
  • Robert Green Speaking at Truthjuice Llangollen ...
    Wednesday 24th March 2010 at 7pm Reporter Robert Green was arrested in Aberdeen for the crime of seeking justice and an investigation into the case of Down’s Syndrome girl, Hollie Greig, who says she was serially-raped over a decade by an establishment paedophile ring operating in Scotland. Rob ...
  • Mary Rodwell The New Human Vers. 02
  • Robert Green, Hollie and Ann Greig at The &#82 ...
    Robert Green, Hollie and Anne Greig have confirmed they will be appearing at the Child Snatching By The State conference being held on April 10th in Stafford, UK. In recent years, there has been a steady increase in media reports concerning Mothers and Fathers, Grandparents and Families reporti ...
  • COTO Report British Edition: An Interview with ...
    COTO Report British Edition goes to the Isle of Wight to bring you an almost three hour long interview with Mr. David Icke by Megan ‘Verb’ Kargher.  In this interview we discuss his new book entitled Human Race Get Off Your Knees, the Lion Sleeps No More, the nature of reality and politics. link ...

The Economic Collapse

  • Pissed Off!: 67 Percent Of Americans Are Dissa ...
    The American people are becoming increasingly angry about the extraordinary amount of power and influence that corporations have in the United States today.  A new Gallup poll found that 67 percent of Americans are dissatisfied with the size and influence of major corporations i ...
  • The More Americans That Go On Food Stamps The ...
    JP Morgan is the largest processor of food stamp benefits in the United States.  JP Morgan has contracted to provide food stamp debit cards in 26 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.  JP Morgan is paid for each case that it handles, so that means that the more Americans tha ...
  • Precious Metals: 10 Things To Know Before Jump ...
    As the global economy became increasingly unstable during 2010, investors all over the world flocked to precious metals such as gold, silver, copper and platinum.  The price of gold set an all-time record high last year, and gold investors were euphoric.  Many analysts are proje ...
  • Even Donald Trump Is Warning That An Economic ...
    In a shocking new interview, Donald Trump has gone farther than he ever has before in discussing a potential economic collapse in America.  Using phrases such as "you’re going to pay $25 for a loaf of bread pretty soon" and "we could end up being another Egypt", Trump explained ...
  • Nothing Is Stable Anymore
    The world is becoming a very unstable place, and the pace at which things are changing all around us has become absolutely mind-numbing.  In fact, change has become one of the only constants in today's world.  Once upon a time, people in the United States could actually make 20 ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Quote of the Day: David Cameron is a ***** edi ...
    Yet more calls from a pontificating Western leader for an orderly transition in Egypt to meet with the will of the people, marked with a chastisement that: "...the steps taken so far haven't met the aspirations of the Egyptian people." So said David Cameron, arriving at... a European Union ...
  • Gerard Batten warns the EU that we, the people ...
    Listen carefully. Gerard has, it always appears to me, done a lot of research into our WRITTEN constitutional documents... there's something about Magna Carta and Lawful Rebellion in here for those of you interested in such topics: Quite right. I'm getting beyond the point of patience with th ...
  • If the people of Egypt are looking for democra ...
    I've spent a fair amount of time over the last couple of days watching the unfolding crisis and violence on the streets of Egypt. As I write, Hillary Clinton is on TV - giving her views on how there must be a swift move towards free and fair elections. We've had BBC News strap lines about ...
  • False Flag Terror: U.S. Court to hear evidence ...
    We heard this within a week of the underwear bomber incident... as did, no doubt, quite a large number of our free-thinking readers. And now, the whole world shall hear this testimony: Remember - those naked body scanners at airports were miraculously all ready, built and ready to be rol ...
  • And then you realise that you're not represent ...
    I've just received an interesting email from the often brilliant people at Open Europe. They explain how: "The Government’s controversial European Union Bill will return to the House of Commons on 24 January, when MPs will discuss the so-called ‘referendum lock’ contained in the Bill. The ...

Facing South

  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The partisan fight over healt ...
    Date on which President Obama signed into law the Affordable Care Act implementing comprehensive health care reform: 3/23/2010 Date when a group of state attorneys general filed a lawsuit seeking to have the law declared unconstitutional in part because of its mandate that all Americans buy ins ...
  • Hexavalent chromium pollution linked to coal a ...
    The landmark $333 million court settlement that propelled legal researcher Erin Brockovich to environmental stardom involved the contamination of a California town's groundwater with hexavalent chromium, a toxic compound known to cause cancer. Now the same dangerous heavy metal, usual ...
  • Report: Voter ID laws 'unaffordable' for North ...
    Today, Facing South and the Institute for Southern Studies released an analysis [pdf] showing that a voter ID bill proposed by North Carolina Republicans could cost the state $20 million or more over the next three years, exacerbating the state's $3.7 billion budget gap. Drawing on data from ot ...
  • Machinists sue South Carolina governor for ant ...
    By Jenny Brown, Labor NotesAnti-union rhetoric and threats are emanating from new governors in several states, including Wisconsin, Ohio, and Florida. But none has been so explicit as South Carolina, where incoming Governor Nikki Haley has announced her determination to specifically ...
  • U.S. defense contractors with the most at stak ...
    Egypt -- where a popular uprising that began last week seeks the end to President Hosni Mubarak's 30-year rule -- is the second-largest recipient of U.S. foreign aid after Israel. The Egyptian government receives about $2 billion a year from the United States, with most of that assist ...

CenterLine

  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Detainee Dies at Guantanamo The U.S. military announced Thursday that Awal Gul, a 48-year-old ex-Taliban commander, died of an apparent heart attack after exercising at Guantanamo. Gul had reportedly been working out on an elliptical machine inside the prisonâs Camp … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Study: Fewer Muslim-American Terror Suspects in 2010 than Previous Year A new study by the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security says that the number of Muslim Americans suspected of terrorism in 2010 fell by half compared to 2009, … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    WikiLeaks Cable Suggests Three Previously Undisclosed Qataris Were Part of 9/11 Plot The Washington Post reports that a U.S. diplomatic cable from 2010 released by WikiLeaks suggests that three Qatari men conducted surveillance of targets in New York and Washington … Continue reading →
  • Online Open Forum: More on Egypt and Protests ...
    The Center on Law and Security has asked two of its fellows, Barton Gellman, TIME Magazine’s contributing editor-at-large, and Bernard Haykel, Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University, to continue our conversation about the rapidly progressing events in Egypt … Continue reading ...
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Former Gitmo Detainee Sentenced in Italy Mohamed Ben Riadh Nasri, a Tunisian national and former Guantanamo detainee, was found guilty in an Italian court on Monday of âcriminal association with the aim of terrorismâ and sentenced to six years in … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • First Ever Release of Elementary OS "Jupiter" ...
    Elementary project refined Linux desktop like no other. And now, the much anticipated Elementary OS codenamed Jupiter is all set to have its first ever official release. The official tagline goes like this - "Its gonna be huge". Considering the sheer amount of changes and improvements Elementary ...
  • Very Nice Stop Motion Animation Video Made Usi ...
    This video was done by Stefan Schwaha as an art project featuring some of his visual ideas in the form of a stop-motion animation. The video was created solely using open source tools like ffmpeg, imagemagick, the gimp, etc. Thanks to�Stefan Schwaha for the video. You could find the full ...
  • GNOME Shell Review - It's Starting to Look Goo ...
    GNOME is among the most widely used Linux desktop environments out there, if not *the* most widely used one. GNOME Shell is the latest incarnation of GNOME which is still undergoing heavy development. Months ago, we captured the evolution of GNOME Shell in detail and I think its time for another ...
  • Orta 1.4.0 Released - The Best GTK Theme for U ...
    We have discussed about Orta GTK theme in length before and also about the impressive Orta GTK theme + Faenza icon theme combination, which in my view is the best theme I have used with Ubuntu in a long time. Its so simple and eye-pleasing at the same time. The recent release of Orta 1.4.0 versi ...
  • World's Worst Hacker
    Slashdot.org has always been a really awesome source of information. This one is no different. Here is a video clip that allegedly demonstrates a hacker working in a honeypot. If you are worried about the future state and security of the Internet, this video will definitely help you calm yoursel ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • Swedish media report on neurological damage ca ...
     Got an unusual illness after vaccination  From Sweden’s Expressen When Frida Sivermark,17, came home from school, she sat down in the couch and fell asleep. - How nice she can finally relax, her mother said about her otherwise so active daughter. Because her parents didn’t suspect that Fri ...
  • Germany Has “Ambitious Plan” To Re ...
    – Focus on Fiscal Discipline, Coordination, Bank Stress Tests, EFSF Reform – Won’t Support EFSF Funds For Bank Capitalization But Indirect Help Via Sovereigns – German Politicians, Business, Academics Must Convince Public Of Euro’s Value By Michael Casey Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES NEW YORK (Dow Jone ...
  • Mubarak family fortune estimated at 40 billion ...
    Hosni Mubarak’s family has accumulated a fortune that could be as high as 40 billion dollars even as the Egyptian people suffer from economic strains due to rocketing food prices, privatisations and high unemployment. The money is believed to come from Egypt’s mineral wealth, property, the touri ...
  • Head of world’s largest bond fund compar ...
    The head of the world’s largest bond fund, PIMCO’s Bill Gross, has compared the chief of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke to the devil and called on investors to reject the “devilâs bargain” of low or negative interest rates resulting in the erosion of their assets by inflation in an extraordi ...
  • Pandemrix linked to increased neurological dam ...
    Press release by THL, Finnish National Institute of Health and Welfare http://www.thl.fi/en_US/web/en/pressrelease?id=24103 Increased risk of narcolepsy observed among children and adolescents vaccinated with PandemrixR 1 Feb 2011 Among those 4-19 years of age who received Pandemrix®-vaccine had ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Holocaust Porn, I Know it When I see It
    By Les Visible You see this everywhere all the time. You see it on the highway, in the fashion that people drive. You see it in supermarket lines. More than half the people perpetually look like they have to take a leak. They are in a state of urgency to get somewhere but when they [...]
  • Egypt Uprising is a Two Minute Warning For Old ...
    By Allen Roland Revolution is in the air and particularly in the Middle East. The flood waters of discontent as well as the desire for true change is rising throughout the world and that includes the United States. President Obama still does not get that millions of Americans voted for true chan ...
  • Family of slain ex-Pentagon official wants inf ...
    By RANDALL CHASE WILMINGTON, Del. â The family of a slain ex-Pentagon official whose body was found in a Delaware landfill still doesn’t know what happened to him, and their attempts to get more information from law enforcement have been rebuffed, their attorney said Monday. Colm Connolly, an at ...
  • Rahm Emanuel’s Father Specialized in Bus ...
    A well-placed British source informed WMR that Rahm Emanuel’s father, Benjamin Emanuel, specialized in the terrorist bombings of buses carrying British troops and policemen during the British Mandate in Palestine. British MI-6 files contain information on the elder Emanuel’s participation in the ...
  • Riots In Egypt – Caused Solely By Climate Chan ...
    By Tory Aardvark Aardvark had a bet with another blogger than before the week was out, someone, somewhere would blame the unrest in Egypt on Anthropogenic Global Warming, a bet that will now pay out. The ecomentalists at Climate Progress are linking food prices to extreme weather and an increase ...

Veterans Today

  • Gilad Atzmon: The French Philosopher
    What makes one a philosopher? Probably, the capacity to aim at the essence of things, while celebrating the love of wisdom (philo-sophos). Though Bernard-Henri Lévy presents himself as a French philosopher, he seems to lack that elementary capacity. Unlike a true philosopher, Levy engages in an ...
  • US FOREIGN POLICY CRISIS: Gordon Duff speaks w ...
    Senior Veterans Today Editor Gordon Duff interviews staff writer Jonathan Azaziah on the greater geopolitical issues facing the USA and it’s role in the Middle East theatre.
  • Dr. Ashraf Ezzat: All the President’s Men in E ...
    Only a criminal regime could allow such criminal acts to dominate and terrorize innocent people with impunity. It is becoming obvious now that all parties involved or affected by this uprising are buying more time to sort out their private agendas in an attempt to come out of this without losin ...
  • Conservative Attack on Veteran Benefits &#8211 ...
    Heritage Foundation Staff Recommends Cutting Veterans Benefits The Veterans of Foreign Wars, The American Legion, AMVETS, Disabled American Veterans and many individual Veterans have criticized Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann (R-Minnesota) for her move to cutting disabled Veteran benefits. Ms. B ...
  • Israel places resources at Suleiman’s disposal ...
    Former Director of the Egyptian General Intelligence Directorate (EGID), and current ‘vice-president’ Omar Suleiman is told he has Israeli assets at his disposal Via the Middle-East Monitor Well-placed Israeli sources have disclosed that the Zionist state has offered to place “all its capabilit ...

electric politics

  • The Story of Our Lives
    We need to pay more attention to the world around us. It's not easy. We're constantly bombarded by interruptions, in large part due to the way we've organized ourselves around technology. But if we can't stay focused we lose the ability to create and follow narrative threads, especially those r ...
  • Good Sense and Nonsense
    Neoliberal economics lacks imagination. And the story it tells of greedy individuals maximizing their self-interest is — or should be — an insult to decent people everywhere. The fact that we can accept such a preposterous story so uncritically raises a big, red warning flag that society has so ...
  • From Boom to Bust and Back Again
    It's no accident that the White House won't regulate the banks. In our plutocratic system the White House is their wholly owned and fully brain-washed subsidiary, the only question being how best to pretend otherwise. To discuss various matters involving American and world high finance I turned ...
  • Inflection Points
    What's the attraction of trying to remake the world so that everybody becomes like us? My answer is it's the logical extension of a terrifying, still very much alive American system of slavery but whatever your favorite explanation, the project itself is doomed. When will we ever learn? To talk ...
  • Trench Warfare
    It's not just morally unconscionable that a tiny minority of Americans have almost all the money, it's a terrible thing in policy terms, especially if what you want is democracy. A plutocracy — let's not kid ourselves about this — is basically a slave system. To talk about how we got into our p ...

PR News

The Story Behind the Story

  • The Major Reason to “End the Fed” ...
    This is a chilling video.  How can anybody be so full of lies and so clearly obfuscatory and evasive?? Watch the hook-nosed witch behind her telling Coleman what not to say while she is under the gun!!  (Doesn’t she remind you of H.R. Puffenstuff’s “witchiepoo”??)  Also, look closely at the p ...
  • “Reformed Judaism” Synonymous with ...
    In regards to the “Origins of Modern Zionism” by Jack Manuelian wherein he documented that “Modern Zionism” is composed of both Islamic and Catholic leaders – this new statement by New York “Rabbis” is now understandable.  Keep also in mind that the “Brotherhood of Islam” is radical Shiite and ...
  • Money Mechanics Video by A. True Ott, PhD
    � Here we go folks.  I recorded this on December, 20.   Thanks to Alex S. the seminar is now on YouTube in its entirety. Recorded 20 Dec 2010; Please share widely.
  • The Origins of “Zionism” – a ...
    The Origins Of Modern Zionism By Jack Manuelian 4-30-5 Modern Zionism has its roots in a 17th century false Jewish messiah by the name of Sabbatai Zevi who claimed to be the promised savior of the Jews that has come to establish the Jewish kingdom in the promised land known then as Palestine. Ze ...
  • Oops!! Now Where Did I Put that Vial of VX??? ...
    Dugway Proving Grounds, west of Salt Lake City, is the home of some very nasty neighbors.  No run-of-the-mill “civilian” really knows what is stored there, and in what amounts.  The average citizen of Utah can only speculate and guess what is actually there, and so, when Hollywood churns out a ...

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Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Buy Gas From Shell On Sat Jan 29? Check Your C ...
    If you filled up with gas from Shell on Saturday, January 29 2010, and paid with plastic, you should check your card statement to see if you got double-billed. StorefrontBacktalk got hold of a confidential memo which said that a telco outage resulted in 401,120 double-billed transactions having ...
  • Daily Show & Colbert Report Returning To Hulu
    It's been almost a year since a squabble between Viacom and Hulu ended up with Comedy Central's one-two punch of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report being pulled from the online video site. But now the two sides have reached an accord that will bring both of these shows, along with a bunch of ...
  • Spot Fake Product Reviews By Looking For Marke ...
    Online marketers are constantly trying to game the system by leaving puffed up reviews for their own products on online shopping sites. But they often leave tracks behind. One of the biggest is "marketing speak," turns of phrase and words that no human would ever use to describe an actual exper ...
  • Kenneth Cole Thinks Egyptian Turmoil Is Hilari ...
    When you think of Kenneth Cole, you probably don't associate the apparel brand with edgy, topical humor. And you probably won't ever again, after the company stuck its shiny leather shoe in its mouth with a Tweet referencing the current political upheaval in Egypt. Around 10 a.m. ET this morni ...
  • Documents Show Chase Doubted Madoff But Did Bu ...
    Newly released documents reveal that executives at JPMorgan Chase were aware of the possible Ponzi-ness of Bernie Madoff's investment business more than 18 months before it was revealed to be a mammoth scam. From the NY Times: On June 15, 2007, an obviously high-level risk management officer ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

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

UK Progressive

  • Inside FOX’s Glenn Beck’s Mind: Communist Domi ...
    Yesterday US media reacted negatively to the latest xenophobic garbage spew from the mouth (and, one might assume, mind) of FOX’s Glen Beck. MSNBC’s Hardball with chris Matthews was especially insightful with the Washington Post’s Associate editor Gene Robinson weighing in hysterically (as in fu ...
  • Are The EPA, FDA & USDA Protecting Consumers?
    Genetically engineered foods have been in the news a lot lately. European environmental organizations and public interest groups have been actively protesting against GE foods for months, and the recent controversy over the unrestricted planting of engineered alfalfa has brought the issue of gen ...
  • Saying Who We Are
    Black History Month is that time of year when the achievements and courage of people of African descent are acknowledged and celebrated. However, for decades now, Black History Month has not once acknowledged or celebrated the contributions of its lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer c ...
  • Obama Addresses Mubarak Non-resignation Resign ...
    President Obama came out to address US and President Mubarak about two hours after Egypt’s President announced he would not reign but rather not seek re-election in September. We’ve been live-Tweet-blogging since Friday night. Join us on Twitter @UKProgressive Transcript of president Obama’s rem ...
  • Muslim, Christian, Jew… We are all Egyptian… a ...
    After three days of monitoring and reporting on the situation in Egypt, it is a classic story of class uprising. When balancing headlines from the region showing the passion of people against a backdrop of caviare eating bankers in Davos and control of food commodity prices sown up by hedge fund ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Climate sceptics and scientists attempt peace ...
    Fred Pearce from New Scientist thinks that there was a real meeting between climate skeptics and “scientists” last week in Lisbon, but therein lies the problem right from the start. The climate skeptics are the scientists, and in the end, hardly anyone else turned up. The unskeptical “scientists ...
  • Yasi is a monster — but not an unusual one
    For all the other Christine Milne’s out there, who think coal mining causes cyclones, the empirical evidence inconveniently declares that super-cyclones have been hitting Queensland regularly for the last 5000 years. As usual, it’s the name-callers who cling to 100 year time-frames and deny the ...
  • Yasi 2011 — Cyclonic force of nature
    File this under shock and awe. Send best wishes to North Queensland. Cyclone Yasi is now Category 4, with windspeeds of 270 km per hour (170 miles/hr). I do a double take each time I see just how far Yasi reaches. It reminds us of our relative power.  It’s 3000 km from Melbourne to Cape [...]
  • The oceans, clouds and cosmic rays drive the c ...
    Dr Noor van Andel spoke at the Dutch Meteorological Institute (KNMI), provocatively concluding there is no observational evidence for the influence of CO2 on past or present climate. He has released a high caliber slide set. He is the former head of research at Akzo Nobel. In the very long run, ...
  • Vietnamese Translation
    Pat Kelly has produced the fifteenth translation of The Skeptics Handbook — Cẩm Nang Của NgÆ°á»i Hoài Nghi. Click on the cover to download a copy. The diacritical feast of glyphs in the file title looks like glorious unix nightmare. (So if the link doesn’t work for you, use the back up file ...

ReNew America

  • GOP senators fail to repeal health care law
    (USA Today) - An effort Wednesday by Republican senators to repeal last year's health care law failed as expected, but some political watchers say the vote may help influence the courts that will ultimately decide the law's fate...
  • Senate repeals part of health care law
    (Politico) - The Senate voted Wednesday for the first time to repeal a piece of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, rolling back a new tax reporting requirement that's been universally panned by business owners...
  • Obama signs START treaty
    (Associated Press) - President Barack Obama pushed a key foreign policy goal a step closer to completion Wednesday with the signing of documents for a nuclear arms treaty with Russia. The treaty is a cornerstone of Obama's efforts to "reset" U.S. relations with Russia...
  • Michael Reagan: My dad's principles can restor ...
    (NewsMax) - President Ronald Reagan was an effective leader because he never lost sight of the big picture of expanding freedom in the world, his eldest son Michael tells Newsmax.TV...
  • Rooting out 'Obamacare' requires hard work
    (Ernest Istook) - Voters made one thing clear in November: They want "Obamacare" repealed. Unfortunately, that's easier said than done. Monday's court decision declared the law unconstitutional, but it may take months - even years - before the legal challenges to Obamacare are finally resolved.. ...

Truth Offering

  • Original Music Created for TruthOffering.com b ...
    Talented singer and musician Chris Phenom has created two tracks for TruthOffering.com, and we want to share them with you. Chris's tracks feature some amazing lyrics that relate directly to what we're trying to get at here at TruthOffering.com: the Truth! Listen to what he has to say, and check ...
  • Truth Offering Podcast with Matt Gordon - Jan. ...
    Here's our second Podcast, this week featuring TruthOffering.com's Matt Gordon and friend of the show/talented musician, Chris Phenom. Chris teamed up with his producer, Robert Maxwell, and created the brand-new theme song for the TruthOffering.com podcast! I think you guys will appreciate, not ...
  • Truth Offering Podcast w/ Matt Gordon - Dec. 1 ...
    Check out our first Podcast featuring TruthOffering.com's Matt Gordon. Topics range from WikiLeaks and Internet censorship, to food freedom and the Federal Reserve. Being that it's our first Podcast, it's a work-in-progress. So, please leave any and all feedback. Thanks...and enjoy: �
  • S. 510: The Death of Food Freedom Act
    In the world of liberty lovers and food freedom fighters, there's been a ton of attention lately on Senate bill S.510 -- the deceitfully-named, "Food Safety Modernization Act [1]." But in the mainstream media, there's been but a whimper; a pathetic trickle of occasional, fleeting and understated ...
  • Politicians and the Voting Public: A Toxic Rel ...
    At TruthOffering.com, we've written much about what's known as the Liberty to Tyranny cycle. The reason we've focused so much attention on this cycle is that we believe in it completely. That is to say, since every civilization has followed this cycle's projection, it's reasonable to suspect the ...

2012 Blog

  • Amazing Scottish Bunker For Sale
    Not too far from where the majority of Scots live, a bunker is now for sale at a very reasonable price of £400,000: The complex at Cultybraggan Camp near Comrie, Perthshire, was completed in 1990 and is believed to be one of the most advanced structures of its kind. It was built to house 150 [. ...
  • New California Risk: Superstorm
    As if supervolcanoes and earthquakes weren’t enough to worry about, add floods to the list of natural events that could be catastrophic for Californians. A group of more than 100 scientists and experts say in a new report that California faces the risk of a massive “superstorm” that could flood ...
  • George Lucas Update
    LucasFilm has responded to the recent story about George Lucas being a 2012er, as told by Seth Rogen on TV show Ellen: [Lucas] was not serious when he talked about the end of the world in 2012, but he is an adamant believer that the world is flat, that Stonehenge was built by aliens, and [...] ...
  • Sea Rise Ark / Irish Giant Gene / Betelgeuse
    Experts are saying the sea levels will rise by 13 feet in the next thousand years. This is the first time such a long-range forecast has been made, and presumably the authors will never see their work disproved. I presume this work, which focuses on climate change, does not consider that the lon ...
  • Doomsday Driver
    A woman who claimed the world was going to end in an apocalyptic earthquake Friday was arrested in the Marin Headlands on allegations of abducting four people off the streets of Berkeley and San Francisco, a federal spokeswoman said. Lark Ann Freeman, 36, of Fairfield was booked into Marin Count ...

Facing South

  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The partisan fight over healt ...
    Date on which President Obama signed into law the Affordable Care Act implementing comprehensive health care reform: 3/23/2010 Date when a group of state attorneys general filed a lawsuit seeking to have the law declared unconstitutional in part because of its mandate that all Americans buy ins ...
  • Hexavalent chromium pollution linked to coal a ...
    The landmark $333 million court settlement that propelled legal researcher Erin Brockovich to environmental stardom involved the contamination of a California town's groundwater with hexavalent chromium, a toxic compound known to cause cancer. Now the same dangerous heavy metal, usual ...
  • Report: Voter ID laws 'unaffordable' for North ...
    Today, Facing South and the Institute for Southern Studies released an analysis [pdf] showing that a voter ID bill proposed by North Carolina Republicans could cost the state $20 million or more over the next three years, exacerbating the state's $3.7 billion budget gap. Drawing on data from ot ...
  • Machinists sue South Carolina governor for ant ...
    By Jenny Brown, Labor NotesAnti-union rhetoric and threats are emanating from new governors in several states, including Wisconsin, Ohio, and Florida. But none has been so explicit as South Carolina, where incoming Governor Nikki Haley has announced her determination to specifically ...
  • U.S. defense contractors with the most at stak ...
    Egypt -- where a popular uprising that began last week seeks the end to President Hosni Mubarak's 30-year rule -- is the second-largest recipient of U.S. foreign aid after Israel. The Egyptian government receives about $2 billion a year from the United States, with most of that assist ...

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Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • The United States Must Take Russia’s Interests ...
    Andrei Pravov (Russia) A recent interview with the American political scientist Ariel Cohen produced a feeling more of déjà vu than anything else. We have seen these arguments before. In the early 1990s, Russian newspapers loved to publish the opinions of numerous Western politicians and politic ...
  • Egypt Leaving an Epoch Behind
    Dmitry Sedov (Russia) The Anglo-Saxon globalization ran into a major roadblock: at the moment the Egyptian regime which the West has propped up for decades is on the verge of collapse. Even if Mubarak’s nominee Omar Suleiman manages to cling on, the global centers of power will have to face a di ...
  • Tragedy at Domodedovo Airport and Bias of the ...
    Stanislav Ivanov (Russia) The new terrorist attack in Russia on January 24, 2011 justifiably angered Russians and the entire world community. About 200 people suffered (35 of whom were killed) an attack by a suicide bomber in the passenger arrival lounge at Domodedovo airport. Hardly anyone coul ...
  • Egypt in Fire: Statehood Wisdom Put to Test
    Yuri Tyssovski (Russia) The tide of popular protests in Egypt shows no signs of subsiding. Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in Cairo, Alexandria, Asyut, Port Said, and Suez to demand the immediate resignation of the current Egyptian leader H. Mubarak dubbed Egypt’s last Pharaoh by ...
  • Russian Terrorism: A New Angle
    By Joe Kleine While the smell of smoke still lingers in the air and the body count rises, there are already at least 2 popular theories on the Moscow bombing. The most well-known theory is that the Chechen Rebels bombed the airport. A precursory look at the Wikipedia history of Russian/Chechen r ...

BlogHer

  • Today is National Wear Red Day!
    Today is National Wear Red Day! You may be asking yourself, what does that mean? Well, National Wear Red Day occurs annually on the first Friday in February. It is an initiative of the American Heart Association to raise awareness about the risk of heart disease among women. Did you know that a ...
  • 14 Days of Chocolate, Day 4: She Craves' Homem ...
    Every day from February 1-14, food bloggers in the BlogHer Publishing Network are sharing their very favorite chocolate recipes -- from chocolate gravy (!) to fondue, cookies, and cake. Sign up to get 14 Days of Chocolate in your inbox, and see all the chocolate in the series. ****************** ...
  • 36 Hours at Sundance: One Great Movie + Kevin ...
    Every day during February 2011, we'll be talking movie reviews, celebrities, Oscar nominations, awards shows, DVDs you need to rent + more. Sign up to get A Month of Movies in your inbox each week in February -- and see all the movies in the series. **************************** For film brats, ...
  • She vs. Her: Why I Love/Why I Hate Super Bowl ...
    Katie Walters more Step Off My Super Bowl. If asked, I would vehemently deny being obsessive. In any way. Except maybe the Super Bowl. The Super Bowl is when champions are born, legends are made, records are broken -- and oh, the pure pigskin bliss if your beloved team {heavy sigh} sh ...
  • Where This Woman Creates (Really)
    I'm often intrigued by the immaculate photos I see of people's homes and workspaces perfectly staged and decorated. Do people actually live that way? I wonder. It's too easy to compare other people's picture-perfect to my own life-in-progress and find myself lacking. Some sites I don't even r ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • To End World Hunger, End Factory Farms: Worldw ...
    The struggle to feed the world has created frustration with its failure, especially for the ones who are hungry and especially because we live in a time where food production is at its highest. Government ...
  • Soy Based Infant Formula May Cause Infertility
    Soy has penetrated the food supply in a bad way. It can be found in nearly three quarters of processed foods used as a filler for meats, in vegetable oil, mac and cheese, salad dressings ...
  • Bioengineered Salmon: California Bill Seeks Cl ...
    The FDA announced it was beginning the approval process for bio-engineered salmon in August last year. The agency determined the fish are safe for consumption based on research done by the very company selling it, ...
  • Sick Gulf Residents Beg Officials For Relief
    Gulf residents are fighting for their lives. There are no jobs, nothing to fish and no support for those exposed to receive the medical care that is so desperately needed. All the while, tarballs continue to ...
  • USDA Fully Deregulates GMO Alfalfa:Open Pollin ...
    Organic farmers have suffered a loss as the USDA has announced that they are allowing Monsanto’s Roundup Ready GM alfalfa to be planted without restrictions.  The news comes as a blow to the organic industry ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Common sense update: Does Sen. Manchin really ...
    West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin got some publicity yesterday when he delivered his “maiden speech” on the Senate floor. But Sen. Manchin also was grilling experts during a hearing of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. But does Sen. Manchin need to do a little more homework before ...
  • CSE offering to ‘retrofit’ problem ...
    Here’s the latest on the developing investigation of problems with the most widely used emergency breathing units in the coal industry: CSE has continued to investigate SR-100 units with top and bottom covers that may be difficult to remove as NIOSH reported to users in the November 5, 2010 not ...
  • Another mining death in West Virginia
    This just in from The Associated Press: CAMERON, W.Va. (AP) — There’s been another death at a West Virginia coal mine. The federal Mine Safety and Health Administration says a bulldozer operator died at Consol Energy’s McElroy Mine in Marshall County on Thursday. MSHA spokeswoman Amy Louviere s ...
  • Capito cries over ’spilt milk’ rul ...
    My good friend Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., always gets a lot of mileage at the West Virginia Coal Association Symposium when she reminds the industry how her father, former Gov. Arch Moore,  used to call the Gazette “The Morning Sick Call.” In today’s version of the story, Rep. Capito ...
  • W.Va. political leaders vow to keep fighting E ...
    I missed MSHA chief Joe Main’s speech to the West Virginia Coal Association, but I was able to stop by the group’s annual symposium this morning to hear a couple of the state’s political leaders address the industry. The talks from Senate President … er, Acting Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin and Rep. Sh ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Varnish Enabled
    I’ve enabled a Varnish proxy on the site, and I’m curious as to whether we’ll see any speed improvements on the site. Please let me know if it feels faster, slower, or otherwise different. And for the geeks out there, any tips you have on optimizing Varnish for WordPress would be much appreciate ...
  • Determining a Personal Data Retention Strategy
    If you spent any time in the IT world you’re likely to be particularly tuned to the threat risk of losing data. Losing data sucks, and it’s one of the sneaky kind of risks, where everything is 100% ok until it is 0% so. So why is it any different for our personal data? It’s [...]
  • danielmiessler.com | study | webappsec resourc ...
    Here I’ll be attempting to capture most primary items one will need to set up a webappsec environment. I’ll be grouping by: Suites and Frameworks Standalone Scanning Tools Vulnerable Web Applications Online Download Utilities Additional Resources via danielmiessler.com A collection of web applic ...
  • Facebook is a Ponzi Scheme | Joseph Perla
    Have you ever bought a Facebook ad? I have. I have talked to many, many people who have. We have spent hundreds, many have spent thousands or even more, experimenting with Facebook ads. They are worthless. Nobody ever looks at them, and nobody ever clicks on them. I just talked to someone who wa ...
  • Great Vocabulary
    via static.neatoshop.com Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsWhat Your Phone Says About YouThis is a ProblemAnother TimeHalley’s CometAnatidaephobia

Fitwatch

  • Legal Advice Drop-In for Student/Anti-Cuts Arr ...
    From LDMG: Legal Defence & Monitoring Group (LDMG) and Offmarket Infoshop in Hackney, London will now be offering a regular legal drop-in session for all those arrested on the Student Demonstrations or Anti-Cuts Actions. We will be able to offer: * Entirely free, confidential legal advice coming ...
  • Manchester demo – police use s50 powers ...
    We have received this account from an eye-witness in Manchester. Police have abused ASBO legislation to obtain the personal details of anti-cuts demonstrators. Manchester police ended a day of orderly rallies and breakout groups of protesters by abusing legislation on anti-social behaviour in or ...
  • Protesters sprayed as Hugh Orde advocates extr ...
    Three days after head of ACPO, Hugh Orde, promised the use of more extreme tactics on protesters, ten people have been cs/pepper sprayed at a London UKUncut protest outside Boots, with three needing hospital treatment. During the protest on Oxford Street, an activist tried to post a leaflet thro ...
  • Statement by activist security collective on L ...
    The following is a statement from the ActivistSecurity.org collective following discussions with individuals involved in the expose of 'Lynn Watson' as an undercover police infiltrator. The original of this, including photographs, can be found at their website http://www.activistsecurity.org/lyn ...
  • Schnews reposted
    In the interests of completeness, we reprint (with permission!) the Schnews article that broke the news about cop/govt trolling on activist websites.... INTER-NETCU AS GOVERNMENT AGENCY CAUGHT INFILTRATING ACTIVIST MEDIA OUTLET “No - stuff that - SHUT the place: Let’s not all stand around like l ...

Worldwide Hippies

  • No More Smokes In Times Square
    New York poised to ban smoking in Central Park, Times Square | CSM The air in Central Park, the green refuge at the heart of Manhattan, is going to be even fresher under a new city law that will make it harder for the city’s smokers to find a place to puff away. The new law, which [...]
  • Are there no workhouses? US looks to China mo ...
    National Law Center Increasingly, cities across the nation are implementing punitive measures to sweep homeless people out of downtown areas. Ã Laws that make it illegal to do things that people experiencing homelessness must do as a result of their homeless status ultimately ‘criminalize’ ...
  • Mubarak Targets Journalists
    Mubarak intensifies press attacks with assaults, detentions | Committee To Protect Journalists Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak unleashed an unprecedented and systematic attack on international media today as his supporters assaulted reporters in the streets while security forces began obstructi ...
  • Pittsburgh in the 60’s
    I loves me some PHIL Well we all know what’s been going on in the past few days. Unless of course you happen to be related to Phil. Yes, you must know Phil, don’t you? Pennsylvania’s most famous groundhog! So, I’m just going to talk about Phil today because I love the chubby little guy. Groundho ...
  • Chomsky on Mideast Transcript
    Chomsky: Why the Mideast Turmoil Is a Direct Threat to the American Empire | Alternet An interview with Noam Chomsky about what this means for the future of the Middle East and U.S. foreign policy in the region. In recent weeks, popular uprisings in the Arab world have led to the ouster of Tunis ...

reference frame

  • EU 2020 climate targets: $3.9 trillion
    A few years ago, when this blog was getting started, there was a counter in the sidebar that was copied from (and created by) Steve Milloy's JunkScience.COM. It was showing the nanodegrees Celsius that the carbon regulation managed to subtract from the global mean temperature - 0.07 °C ...
  • Do the causes of temperature changes matter?
    A key part of the climate panic methodology is to take the data and numbers out of their proper context. This procedure is being systematically applied to all quantities describing the atmosphere, all climatic phenomena, all weather events, as well as their real or hypothetical impacts. ...
  • Global UAH AMSU: January 2011 cooler than norm ...
    Dr Roy Spencer has released the January 2011 reading of their UAH AMSU global temperature. Ladies and Gentlemen, the anomaly is Delta T = -0.009 °C. Imagine that you're a global warming alarmist who has been working on the climate apocalypse for decades. You have been talking about ...
  • Geometry for every solution of Navier-Stokes
    Two weeks ago, I forgot to mention an exciting preprint, From Navier-Stokes To Einsteinby Irene Bredberg, Cynthia Keeler, Vyacheslav Lysov, and - last but not least - Andrew Strominger. For every solution of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations of hydrodynamics in "d" dimensions, th ...
  • Czech climate change boss: it's nonsense to dr ...
    Long-time Czech IPCC boss: adaptation to 11 °F of warming wouldn't be a problem Dr Jan Pretel is the director of the Climate Change Department of the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute. For years, he was the top Czech representative in the IPCC; he is as mainstream as you can get (at ...

No Frakking Consensus

  • Want Kids to Learn Science?
    A comic that contemplates how children might be motivated to take more of an interest during science class.
  • What They Said About the Climate Models
    Governments around the world are convinced CO2 emissions are dangerous. Where did they get that idea? From computer models that even IPCC insiders say are uncertain, unreliable, and unvalidated.
  • Teachers: the New Green Police
    Canadian teachers (who are employees of the state) are attempting to dictate how children's lunches should be packaged. Intruding so intimately into people's private lives is not an acceptable way to save the planet.
  • Does the IPCC Follow the Rules? Insiders Say & ...
    According to insiders, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change rules are being ignored on the one hand - and circumvented on the other.
  • Credit Where It’s Due
    A news account suggests Michael Oppenheimer is a class act. Rather than calling climate skeptics "deniers" he admits they might be smart people.

Tarpley

  • MK-Ultra Minion Assange of Wikileaks Targets ...
    Webster G. Tarpley on The Alex Jones Show Infowars December 5, 2010 download file
  • Emergency Call to Congress: Stop the Destructi ...
    Webster G. Tarpley TARPLEY.net December 12, 2010 Dear Senator/Congressman – American voters are shocked and outraged by Obama’s latest betrayal of the FDR New Deal heritage. Most alarming in his dirty deal with the Republicans is the proposed sabotage of Social Security. We will work hard to def ...
  • December 23, 1310: Emperor Henry VII of Luxemb ...
    Webster G. Tarpley TARPLEY.net December 23, 2010 Henry VII of Luxemburg Today, December 23, 2010, marks one of the most important world-historical anniversaries of all time. Seven hundred years ago this evening, the Holy Roman Emperor Henry VII of Luxemburg passed through the city gates of ...
  • Media Interviews
    English Deutsch Français Italiano Other          1 2 3 4 5 6 7  >  >| page: 1 of 7   total items: 68 Moscow Airport Bombing – Prime Suspects Include Chechens, Saakashvili, Steered by NATO Intelligence after Karzai Moscow visit, Khodokhovsky Verdict, Impotence of US-Backed Russian Oppo ...
  • World Crisis Radio
    Ad-Free Podcast When possible we try to provide a full-length, ad-free version of each week’s program. Select the appropriate file and listen now or download to your mp3 player. World Crisis Radio Ad-Free RSS Feed! Select Year 2011 2010 Select Program ...

Modern Survivalism

  • 3 Things To Help Prevent Home Burglary
    The following three actions will frustrate a home burglary attempt, quite possibly denying break-in altogether. Install longer screws in door strike-plate A strike plate is the metal plate screwed to your door jamb with a hole for the bolt of the door-lock. When the door is closed, the bolt exte ...
  • Roof Collapse Chaos in Connecticut!
    Depending on the actual water content in the snow, the snow can weight about 6 pounds per square foot at a depth of 12 inches. The weight of the snow will then equal about 600 pounds for every 10�10 foot area of 1 foot deep snow. The weight of 2 feet of snow on a [...]
  • So Much Snow, Roofs Collapsing in Northeast
    Permalink Snowfall records are being challenged and some are being smashed during this 2011 winter season in many parts of the U.S. The following NOAA snow depth map illustrates the magnitude of the snow depth across much of the northern portion of the U.S., particularly in the northeast where t ...
  • Drinking Swimming Pool Water in an Emergency
    Permalink You may be surprised to discover how many residential swimming pools are in your neighborhood. Just for fun, open up Google Earth and zoom into your neighborhood and see how many there are around you. City dwellers probably won’t see many, but many parts of the country are dotted with ...
  • FOOD STORAGE 101, Inventory
    Permalink Do I need to inventory my food storage? This is a decision you ultimately need to make for yourself, but my question to you is, “why would you want to make more work for yourself”? FOOD STORAGE ORGANIZATION The way I look at it, organization is the key. If you have everything stored by ...

Fast Company

  • Shell Ditches Algae Biofuel
    Oil companies are decent barometers of which biofuels are on the upswing. Case in point: As the hype around algae fuel has increased over the past few years, BP, Exxon, and Shell have all made algae biofuel commitments. Now, as the hype is dying down, so is the oil industry's interest. This we ...
  • Microsoft Sides With Apple on H.264 Video, Lea ...
    Microsoft's just promised to place H.264 video at the core of its web experiences. Why should you care? Because it means the tech giant is siding with another company--Apple--at the expense of Google, which is pushing its own video codec.In a blog posting titled "HTML5 and Web Video: Questions f ...
  • iFive: Apple's Subscription Mess, State Dept.' ...
    NASA's Kepler space telescope has found an Earth-sized planet, in an Earth-like habitable zone. In fact, it's found several--though we, obviously, don't know if they're Earth-like. It's also found six planets orbiting a very Sun-like star. All of these are firsts. The search for life "out there" ...
  • How Boomer Bodysuits Help Researchers Empathiz ...
    Photograph by Guido VittiRozanne Puleo and Lisa D'Ambrosio Research fellow and research scientist, MIT Agelab Cambridge, Massachusetts Puleo, 36, left, and D'Ambrosio, 43, use a suit called AGNES (the age gain now empathy system) to research the changing needs of boomers. Puleo: "The s ...
  • Google Instant Scores 98% Adoption Rate, 2% Op ...
    When Google launched Instant back in September, users were confronted by one of the most radical makeovers of online search in years: a results-as-you-type search engine, which flashes answers to predicted queries with each key stroke--without having to hit return. Many worried of the impact s ...

Jadaliyya

  • Everything Is Illuminated
    Everything is exposed. Every crack is showing. Protesters throughout Egypt have put their bodies on the line day after day, their vulnerable, breakable bodies, and with their bodies, they have forced, each day, a bit more of the story to become illuminated. Anyone familiar with the comb ...
  • [Updated w/ Translation] بيان شباب معتصم بالتح ...
    [Translation Below. Thanks to Fida Adely] أ�� ا��ص�د: �ع�د ا�رئ�س �أحداث ا�أربعاء 2 �برا�ر �ح� محتج�� م�ذ 25 ��ا�ر ا�ماض�� �معتصم�� �� م�دا� ا�تحر�ر� �د�٠ بشدة ا�اعتداء ا�غاشم ا�ذ� ��ذت� مرتز�ة ا�حزب ا��ط�� ع���ا �� م�ر اعتصام�ا ��م ا�أربعاء� 2 �برا�ر تحت غطاء ا�مظا�رة ا�مؤ�دة ��رئ�س ...
  • Into Egypt's Uncharted Territory
    Amidst the monumental Egyptian popular uprising of 2011, Plan A for the Egyptian regime and the Obama administration was for Husni Mubarak to remain president of Egypt indefinitely. They have now moved on to Plan B. It was clear that Mubarak was no longer calling the shots before his br ...
  • The "Anderson Cooper Effect" on American TV Re ...
    UPDATE BELOW. On February 2, CNN journalist Anderson Cooper was one of many victims of violence by Mubarakoids who turned Tahrir Square into a battle zone. Cooper was beaten by thugs, as were other members of his crew. A BBC crew was arrested, blindfolded and taken into custody for sever ...
  • 9 am in Cairo after a Hellish Night: A Brief R ...
    This is a brief report after what promised to be a fateful night in which the Egyptian regime had resolved to break the will of protesters, particularly in Midan al-Tahreer. Like most readers, I have been glued to the tube and the internet, following multiple channels, and reading multip ...

    IPS - Inter Press Services

  • EGYPT-U.S.: Obama Pressed to Pressurise Milita ...
    On the eve of massive planned protests dubbed "Day of Departure" in Egypt, continuing attacks by pro-government conspirators on anti-government protestors and roundups of human rights activists and foreign journalists are contributing to pressures on the administration of President B ...
  • OP-ED: The Fox Guarding the Henhouse
    The extraordinary events of January 2011 in Egypt should prove one point for good: Democrat or Republican, liberal or conservative, U.S. presidents wish their favoured Arab states would forever remain nice, docile autocracies.
  • U.S.-EGYPT: Neo-Cons Split on Mubarak
    The ongoing crisis in Egypt has resulted in a rare split among U.S. hawks, as some leading neo-conservatives have called for Washington to help oust President Hosni Mubarak, while others have joined the Israeli government in quietly supporting Egyptian leader against protesters calling ...
  • Amazon Drought Accelerating Climate Change
    Last year's severe drought in the Amazon will pump billions of tonnes of additional carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere, a new report has found.
  • EGYPT: Mubarak Switches On Smear Campaign
    The regime of embattled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has unleashed a media campaign to discredit pro-democracy protestors. That comes on the back of a violent crackdown by his supporters.

Scoop - NZ

  • Mubarak wants to quit, but can't
    Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has revealed he wants to leave office, but fears chaos if he resigns. Mubarak told the US ABC Television network that he was "very unhappy" about the scenes of violence in Egypt and did not want to see Egyptians fighting each other. The beleaguered Egyptian ...
  • Thousands in Yemen Protest Against the Governm ...
    Yemen, one of the Middle East’s most impoverished countries and a haven for Al Qaeda militants, became the latest Arab state to witness mass protests on Thursday, as thousands of Yemenis took to the streets in the capital and other regions to demand a change in government. The scenes broadcast a ...
  • Obama backs Mubarak’s bid to retain power
    The White House has decided to throw its weight behind the present regime, rather than turn to an untested coalition of opposition parties headed by Mohammed ElBaradei.
  • Spiegel: No Quick Fix for Arab Youth
    The unrest in the Arab world is being fueled by massive economic problems, as young populations, who are facing a grim future, vent their frustration on the streets. But economists argue that the region's opposition movements may not be acting in the best interests of the youth.
  • Spiegel Pics: Mubarak's Men Will Fiercely Defe ...
    Things took a nasty turn on Wednesday when government loyalists attacked anti-Mubarak protesters in Cairo. As the violence continued early Thursday, the army moved in to create a buffer zone. In Thursday's newspapers, German commentators discuss the crucial role of the military and the dilemmas ...

Independent - London

  • Protesters gather in Cairo for 'day of departu ...
    The Egyptian military guarded thousands of protesters pouring into Cairo's main square on today in an attempt to drive out President Hosni Mubarak after a week and half of pro-democracy demonstrations.
  • Cameron urges 'orderly transition' in Egypt
    David Cameron today urged the regime in Egypt to act on international calls for an orderly transition to democracy.
  • US in talks with senior Egyptians over crisis
    Talks are under way between the Obama administration and senior Egyptian officials on the possible immediate resignation of President Hosni Mubarak and the formation of a military-backed caretaker government, US officials said.
  • Somalia drought could threaten millions
    The United Nations and aid groups warned of a possible looming catastrophe as a severe drought plunged millions of Somalis into crisis after rains failed for several consecutive seasons in the Horn of Africa nation.
  • Troops join Queensland cyclone relief mission
    Australia marshalled 4,000 troops and sent a supply ship with tons of food to its cyclone-stricken north-east coast today, as residents in wrecked towns confronted debris that included boats hurled into neighbours' gardens.

Rogue Government.com

Innovation Canada

  • Tackling the cancer conundrum
    Carol Cass has seen cancer from all sides. The internationally renowned cancer researcher has spent four decades pioneering the study of special proteins called nucleoside transporters that help cancer-fighting drugs work their way inside cancer cells. She has also been an administrator at resea ...
  • Picturing Alzheimer’s
    The numbers tell a startling story.   According to a 2009 study by the Alzheimer Society of Canada, 500,000 Canadians are living with Alzheimer’s disease or a related dementia. Of those, more than 71,000 are under 65, and approximately 50,000 are under 60. And 72 percent are women. An estimated ...
  • Quitting time
    Despite the best intentions of a 34-year-old National Non-Smoking Week, which starts on Jan. 16, one of the most disheartening things for anyone trying to quit smoking is the extremely high likelihood that his or her efforts will end in failure. “Even with proper treatment, around 70 to 80 perce ...
  • Discoveries of the deep
    Oceans cover more than 70 percent of the planet. Hidden beneath them is an entire world we know very little about, a world of undersea mountain ranges and ocean basins that play host to hundreds of thousands of underwater species. In the late 1990s, marine scientists expressed their concern with ...
  • Shakin' all over
    At the Royal Military College of Canada (RMC) in Kingston, Ont., Richard Bathurst is a mover and a shaker. Literally. Over the past 20 years, Bathurst, a civil engineering professor who is cross-appointed to Queen’s University, has become an internationally recognized authority on earthquake-res ...

Signs of the times

  • SOTT FOCUS: There's Something Happening Here
    What it is aint exactly clear... But let's try and get some perspective anyway. The peaceful mass demonstrations in Egypt over the past ten days against dictator Hosni Mubarak turned into a pitched battle on February 2 when coordinated groups of "pro-government supporters" armed with knives, ...
  • Russia's myth of "remote suicide bomber":Text ...
    A "Black Widow" suicide bomber planned a terrorist attack in central Moscow on New Year's Eve but was killed when an unexpected text message set off her bomb too early, according to Russian security sources. The unnamed woman, who is thought to be part of the same group that struck Moscow's D ...
  • US: An Elderly Couple's Defiant Stand Against ...
    A 91-year-old Minnesota man and his 82-year-old wife say they weren't scared, but the guy trying to rob them sure was. A masked intruder wanting money barged into Wally and Betty's apartment in St. Charles over the weekend. However, he got something in return. Wally was sitting at his comput ...
  • Australia: Super-cell thunderstorm pounds Vict ...
    A super-cell thunderstorm has hit Victoria, bringing widespread flash flooding. About a dozen people have been rescued from floodwaters in Mildura, in Melbourne's south-east near Geelong, and the State Emergency Service (SES) is responding to 1,400 calls for help. Crews helped a woman and her ...
  • Diplomatic Car Runs Over Twenty Peaceful Prote ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Hey Ottawa
    Your cops are N/S and need to be replaced before your society seizes. Why anyone would want to report anything to that crowd now is beyond me.
  • Perspectives . . .
    Remember your first e-mail? 17 years and a century ago . . .
  • RIP, Charlie . . .
    CHARLIE KAMAN just died. Thanks for the guitars, Charlie, we'll miss you. Charley pioneered the use of composites in building musical instruments.
  • The winds of change . . .
    IN EGYPT, THE PRESSURE IS ON, for change and reform. One of the major players in the cluster-fuck is the Islamic Brotherhood. The IB is the best-organized and largest opposition movement, and a major consideration in Egypt's future.Here in North America, the IB is virtually unknown. Well, the Br ...
  • Gender gyre . . .
    THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT has a fine book review by Carol Tavris, "The new neurosexism", a review of "DELUSIONS OF GENDER", by Cordelia Fine. Apparently, a lot of recent literature on the mental differences between men and women is rather suspect. Tavris points out the book's importance:Tod ...

Media Matters for America

  • Rush Limbaugh: I'm Kind Of A Big Deal
    Radio host Rush Limbaugh makes it known that he finds himself extremely wise and important.Limbaugh: "It Ain't Bragging If You've Done It" Limbaugh: "You Don't Know What It's Like To Be Right As Often As I Am." From the November 8, 2010, edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Sh ...
  • Right-Wing Media Blame Obama For Violence In E ...
    Conservative media outlets have claimed that President Obama is to blame for the outbreak of violence in Egypt. In fact, news reports and human rights groups have reported that the violence broke out when supporters of Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak attacked demonstrators.Right-Wing Media Claim ...
  • Wash. Times Bases Call For Pigfor ...
    The Washington Times editorial board has demanded a congressional investigation into the allegations pushed by right-wing fabulist Andrew Breitbart of fraud in the Pigford settlement for black farmers who were victims of discrimination committed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. But the Ti ...
  • Right-Wing Media Attack Obama With "Dangerousl ...
    Right-wing media have seized on the conflict in Egypt to attack President Obama by comparing him to former President Carter and the Iranian uprising in the late '70s. However, experts have noted that comparing the uprising in Egypt to the 1979 Iranian revolution is "dangerously misleading."Righ ...
  • Yes, Tantaros, "Lunatic Theories" About Egypt ...
    On Fox News' Fox & Friends, Fox News contributor Andrea Tantaros responded to Daily Beast contributor Michelle Goldberg's statement that "lunatic theories" about Egypt have aired on Fox by claiming, "I haven't seen any of that on this network." In fact, Glenn Beck has been widely criticized for ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Foreign Policy 101
    I was primed to issue a rant but you would all profit much more by reading this interview with Noam Chomsky. My only thought is that the events in Egypt ought to induce the sickening feeling that the regime whose face is being exposed has been a U.S. client for decades and is only one of many ...
  • A True Friend of Egyptian Democracy and Our Ow ...
    When I lampooned here yesterday the enthusiasms, "wisdom," and real motives of neo-conservatives who are pontificating about democratic upheavals in Egypt and other Arab states, I presented them as false prophets and knew better than to offer myself as a true one. Hannah Arendt filled that bill, ...
  • Soros on Egypt & America's Complicity in Egypt ...
    In the Washington Post this morning, George Soros describes very well America's equities in Egypt's current political struggle. America is not all powerful and does not have a magic wand to turn totalitarian regimes into well-functioning democracies, but there are times when the balance in Amer ...
  • Next For Obama: Palestine
    President Mubarak announced yesterday that he would not be seeking reelection, telling the world what it already knew. What was more interesting about the announcement was the way it was foreshadowed by the actions of the American administration. Obama has decided that he wants to be part of wha ...
  • Unintentional Revolutionaries
    Every century seems to have its revolutions and their progenitors. Often, the gap between the idea and its political effect can be 50 years or more. The first volume of Marx's Das Capital was published in 1867, but it wasn't until 1917 that a Marxist Revolution in Russia occurred. When we look b ...

TruthOut

  • Progressive Girls Voices Interview With Gloria ...
    Women's Media Center Progressive Girls Voices Journalists interview Gloria Steinem.
  • Pogrom in Cairo - Where Was Obama?
    Contrary to what we were led to believe - that the US-backed and US-financed Egyptian military would protect the right to peaceful protest - on Wednesday, February 2, in Cairo, the Egyptian military permitted "Mubarak supporters" - who, according to press reports, were clearly organized by the g ...
  • In Tahrir
    On Tuesday morning I walked around Cairo's Tahrir Square, weaving through and around the thousands of fellow protesters, trying to get a view of things. The space felt like a giant playground. Everything was accessible to me. Pro-democracy and anti-regime chants rose and fell. read more
  • Thom Hartmann | A Lobbyist's Hit List (Video)
    Thom Hartmann reports on the business lobbyists who are demanding that Rep. Darrell Issa�(R-California) go after important environmental and financial regulations.�
  • News in Brief: Protests in Yemen Remain Passio ...
    Protests in Yemen Remain Passionate, but Peacefulread more

Planetsave

  • Greenpeace’s Arctic Sunrise to be in New York
    If you’re in the New York area, you may be interested to know that Greenpeace’s Arctic Sunrise (a ship) will be in New York City from February 4-11. It is rolling in as part of Greenpeace’s East Coast Coal Free Future Tour. Check it out if you have the time. via Greenpeace USA. Related Stories:. ...
  • Weather Causes Grain and Food Price Spikes [VI ...
    Note the final comment at the end. No joking matter here  – climate change means more than most Americans understand or admit. h/t Climate Denial Crock of the Week Related Story: Rising & Record Food Prices, Food Riots Due to Extreme Weather Events
  • Greenpeace: Re-Open Whale Meat Embezzlement In ...
    Following the Japanese governments admission and apology for embezzlement related to Japan’s whaling policy and industry (whaling officials finally acknowledged accepting whale meat ‘gifts’ from the company conducting whale hunts, Kyodo Senpaku), Greenpeace is urging the initiation of an officia ...
  • Mixed Message from USDA Chief Vilsack [Cartoon ...
    US Ag Secretary, Tom Vilsack tells us to eat more natural foods a few days after fully deregulating GMO alfalfa…I’m confused. Confused as well? Read the links below and try to figure out this mess. From The New York Times: Governmentâs Dietary Advice: Eat Less From Elephant Journal: The USDA cav ...
  • Oscar Nomination for Anti-Fracking Film “Gasla ...
    “Gasland,” which won a special jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival, has also been nominated for an Oscar now, for Best Documentary. The filmmakers delve into the increasingly infamous and environmentally damaging process of hydraulic fracturing (aka fracking). The chemicals used in fracking ...

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Axis of Logic

  • Workers close Heinz plant in Venezuela - World ...
    The US-based food company said that the strike is illegal and hits production A plant run by Heinz in the state of Carabobo, north central Venezuela, was shut down by workers, who demanded the signing of their collective bargaining agreement. "The company believes that we are still living ...
  • America loses another ally as Yemen's Presiden ...
    The President of Yemen, one of America's foremost allies in the "war on terror", has become the latest leader in the Middle East to announce he will be stepping down as he seeks to calm anger and stave off the street protests which have gripped Egypt and Tunisia. Yemen is...
  • Evo Morales Calls for Increased Food Productio ...
    La Paz, Feb 2 (Prensa Latina) Bolivian President Evo Morales today urged farmers, community leaders and governments of the Bolivian altiplano to increase food production to ease the crisis triggered by the weather.   Bolivia should not wait for industrialized countries to change develop ...
  • Berlin commune eviction results in arrests and ...
    Eviction of Liebig 14 former squat in Friedrichshain takes five hours and 2,500 police to counter protesters It took German police five hours to evict tenants from one of Berlin's last former squats today after angry residents booby-trapped the house. There were dozens of arrests ...
  • Free diabetes and blood pressure drugs for Bra ...
    Brazil is to provide free medicines for everyone suffering from high blood pressure or diabetes. The drugs will be distributed through a nationwide network of budget pharmacies, where many medicines are already heavily subsidised. President Dilma Rousseff said the measure was part of he ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    So you "fear" the chaos you are CAUSING, you miserable motherfucker? "Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has said he would like to resign immediately but fears the country would descend into chaos if he did so. In his first interview since anti-government protests began, he told ABC News he was "f ...
  • Repugs Work Diligently at NOT Creating Jobs
    How stupid do the rethuglicans think their voters are? karoli at Crooks and Liars: I see our elected representatives are hard at work, representing their constituencies. Not that those constituencies even vaguely represent voters, you understand. No, they would like to repeal the Patient Protect ...
  • New Day in Egypt; New Aljazeera Live Blog
    Find the latest here. It's 1:30 a.m. Friday in Egypt - first day of the weekend. Monster protests are planned for today.
  • There's method to GOP madness risking defaults ...
    The conventional wisdom is that Republicans are playing a game of chicken with the nation's debt ceiling - refusing to raise the debt limit unless deep budget cuts are made first - in an effort to repeat their success in the lame duck session when the GOP was able to extort another tax cut for t ...
  • Facing outrage, the GOP abandons their effort ...
    As I am sure you are aware by now, the republicans in the house tried to define the crime of rape away. If it wasn't "forcible" -- if the woman wasn't beaten within an inch of her life or threatened with a deadly weapon -- it wasn't really rape, and any pregnancy that resulted would just have to ...

Care 2

  • Senate bans secret holds, makes other rule cha ...
    The Senate voted Thursday to eliminate so-called "secret holds" that many senators complained caused unnecessary delays in approving bills and nominations and contributed to a general legislative backlog in the chamberSubmitted by Cal Mendelsohn to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a C ...
  • "Extinct" Salmon Discovered in Japanese Lake
    A Japanese salmon thought to have been extinct for 70 years has been discovered in a lake near Mount Fuji. The kunimasu salmon, also called the black kokanee, is a subspecies of sockeye salmon that's found only in Japan. Submitted by Yrna M. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Kentucky tightens rules for sandhill crane hun ...
    Kentucky hunting regulators have tightened their proposal for sandhill cranes,known as �flying ribeyes� and others as a spectacular link to the prehistoricpast. The new proposal would reduce the number of hunters who could participate to 400,down from 750Submitted by Yrna M. to Animals �|� �Not ...
  • The 10 Worst Winter Storms in U.S. History
    People joked about the level of online panic, as well, and with good reason: the storms of early 2011 are no different than the ones we see every winter, and they're definitely not enough to rank among the worst we've ever seen.Submitted by Katie Miller to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a C ...
  • 10 Biggest Super Bowl Fiascos
    In the past, some reveled in it while others found it bothersome, as it contributed to a few memorable fiascos that added drama, horror or humor to an already exciting week.Submitted by Katie Miller to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Questions About Obama and The Muslim Brotherho ...
    Indeed, the more answers I get about this organization, the more questions I have. For instance, why did Obama invite the PM of the Muslim Brotherhood to his speech in Cairo on June, 9, 2009? Especially considering the contentious relationship between the Brotherhood, and Egypt’s president? Is t ...
  • New Feature Up at NoQuarter * Open Thread [Egy ...
    [UPDATE ON EGYPT: Astonishingly (and disturbingly), the Amnesty International delegate has been "detained" in Egypt, along with other key human rights delegates. Their whereabouts are "unknown." Below the fold, I'm pasting the e-mail I just received from AI.] When you open one of our posts, you’ ...
  • Exit
    Editor’s Note: John has plenty to say about Obama and his administration.   Am told of genuine frustration and doubt at White House with regard the decision by Hosni Mubarak to make a fight of the transition. The Robert Gibbs recommendation that Mubarak depart immediately is regarded as gesture. ...
  • Before the Splat
    Question. How does Egypt selects new leadership? Dissect the probable answers by asking the possible questions. Dissection is the process of disassembling and observing something to determine its internal structure and as an aid to understanding … Perhaps it is time for the dissection of the que ...
  • Bad Weather Day for Punxsutawney Phil (Open Th ...
    Editor’s UPDATE: Turn on CNN and listen to Anderson Cooper. He and crew are barricaded in their rooms and have had to turn the lights off. There is gunfire — very loud. He reports that the military allowed pro-Mubarak protestors to come into the protest areas despite their clearly having weapons ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • The Cruel and Bizarre Traditions of Chinese He ...
    Chinese medicine practices the cruel and unusual tradition of using the body parts of endangered animals. But why? read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Dying to Be Popular: Dangerous New Teen Trends
    New teen trends are even more bizarre and deadly than ever before. Informing yourself of these trends will hopefully prevent another senseless tragedy. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • Mapping the Oxygen Starved Dead Zones of Our O ...
    A new map shows the terrible blight of man made dead zones in our oceans. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Underground Graffiti Art of Paris' Catacom ...
    Deep beneath Paris, in the long disused tunnels of its catacombs and quarries, a sub-culture of artists exists whose works adorn the walls. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Chocolate Vs Carob: Making an Environmental Ch ...
    We may substitute carob for chocolate or cocoa powder for reasons of health or taste. Here is the environmental background information for deciding which we should use. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the a ...

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • Oil Spill, Redux: Revisiting a Mystery
    In the early weeks of the gulf spill, the flow rate -- the single most important piece of information needed in the response effort -- was badly off base. A researcher has a theory about how federal scientists erred, and the implications are haunting.
  • Government Backs $1 Billion Plan to Make Gasol ...
    The Energy Department has offered a large loan guarantee to a Texas company that plans to spend $1 billion on four plants to convert wood chips into biodiesel.
  • Oyster Reefs Are Vanishing From Overharvesting
    Roughly 85 percent of the world's wild oyster reefs have disappeared over the last century, largely as a result of destructive overharvesting and other manufactured causes, a study finds.
  • Could Prizes Emerge From the Gowanus Muck?
    As they clean up debris from the once-teeming waterway before the real Superfund cleanup begins in earnest, federal officials plan to preserve anything they find that seems historically significant.
  • Another Challenge to Greenhouse Gas Regulation
    A draft bill from three Republicans would reverse the E.P.A.'s landmark 2009 finding that greenhouse gases pose a threat to human health and the environment, and thus undercut the rationale for any regulation of these substances.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Rock the Casbah
    Been watching somewhat in awe, a bit suspicious of the usual suspects & color revolution schemes, but with warmest regards to Egyptians fighting for their rights & giving their lives on the streets. One song says it all: Rock the Casbah This vid is probably the winner though the music is schma ...
  • The Kids Ain't All Right: FDA: Vitamin C illeg ...
    “It’s like an epidemic, in the sense that they’re infected with these wrong ideas, and they’re spreading it to other researchers through journals.” -- Dr. John Ioannidis I can't recommend NaturalNews.com enough. For excellent info that has helped me quite a bit thru a still-dubious diet but now ...
  • Seize the Year!! It's ours!! Now with Fractal ...
    The last piece of litter I noticed in 2010 was a Four Loko can by the Hiawatha Franklin station. Had a nice New Years roundabout. Basement foursquare. Bonsai tree, Heatbox. Cabooze. Loud basement jamming. Wookiefoot. Igorrr. Stranvisky Conducts Firebird And the new Fractal microwave cloaking ...
  • Russia & China not buying BIS Fractional Reser ...
    A bit of Xmas cheer pushin back against LA school district police brutality: How a Google Engineer (and Reddit) Got a Teenager Out of Jail for Christmas Fiddlesticks: It's Over: Jason Rosenbaum: BREAKING: FCC breaks Obama's promise, allows corporate censorship online with fake Net Neutrality Pre ...
  • Robert Erickson: Featured Pic for Top 10 Polit ...
    Friend of mine says this is still a running gag at her office six months later! :-D My mom is happy the Christmas tablecloth went a bit viral! Star Tribune featured the penny drop as the most photogenic political moment in Minnesota politics for 2010! The boring 2010 campaign season featured on ...

Daily Censored

  • Open proposal for US revolution: expose/end co ...
    source: Carl Herman, Examiner.com “We denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs to those who ...
  • The Washington Post and its Blood Bank Kaplan ...
    Much has transpired regarding the for-profit college scam in the United States.  The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued Kaplan University over their hiring polices, accusing the for-profit parasite college of discriminating in hiring against black job applicants using credit histories. ...
  • Revolutions Know No Color
    By Michael Collins The legitimate demands of the people everywhere have no color, nor do their revolutions. These are not the revolutions arising from staged events by the White House, the National Endowment for Democracy, and other meddlers. We are witnessing what Mark Levine called human natio ...
  • Nominal DFT President Keith Johnson tries to c ...
    For Immediate Release:                      Johnson collaborates with DPS EFM Rob Bobb in dismantling public education in Detroit Contact: Steve Conn. 313-645-9340 Detroit Federation of Teachers (DFT) nominal president Keith Johnson has brought internal union charges against union activists Stev ...
  • Attorneys Attack Rights of Citizen Journalists
      The Florida Bar has proposed a new rule to eliminate coverage of court proceedings by citizen journalists. The Bar’s proposed rule prohibits anyone other than an employee of a traditional media outlet or an official court reporter from using any device which can make video or audio recording f ...

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Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • The Country Market recalls raw milk because of ...
    The Country Market of Medical Lake, WA is recalling raw fluid milk because it may be contaminated with Escherichia coli bacteria (E. coli) that can cause serious illness.� The recall was initiated after routine sampling by the Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) discovered that th ...
  • The Food Safety Law Firm is moving
    Marler Clark has outgrown our space on the 66th floor of the Columbia Tower and we are less that a month away from moving into a new and larger space a number of floors lower in the Russell Investments Center - closer to the water, the Pike's Place Market, Art Museum and Symphony Hall. The Ru ...
  • Know your farmer, know your food - except when ...
    The USDA program, “Know your farmer, know your food,” sounds great, but it requires a certain level of trust of the farmer when you are not buying it directly from the farmer on the farm. Even when you are “looking the farmer in the eye,” he or she might well be crossing the fingers of one hand ...
  • FDA "cracks" down on mass produced eggs
    500 million egg were recalled in August after nearly 2,000 were sickened.  And, now the FDA is in the implementation phase of a new federal rule (“Egg Rule”) aimed at preventing Salmonella in shell eggs. The FDA has now inspected 35 shell egg farms in six states--Ohio, Maine, Pennsylvania, Wash ...
  • Off to Washington D.C. again - next week
    I have the honor of being the opening speaker at the GAP Conference at American University School of Law next week in DC. I am also going to show this video.

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 02.04.11
    Top Gear host wants electric vehicles powered by bumper car technology Watch out! Italian designers envision amazing Solar Wind bridge It looks like the future, that's for sure. Agility Saietta electric m ...
  • First full month sales show Chevy Volt leads w ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Sedan, Hatchback, Chevrolet, GM, Nissan, Electric So, how are the first two mainstream plug-in vehicles in the U.S. selling? Both the Chevrolet Volt and the Nissan Leaf had their first deliveries in December, which means January of 2011 was the first full month of sales f ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 02.03.11
    Meet (again) the first three-plug-in vehicle household Felix Kramer, of all people, certainly deserves this. All-electric Myers Motors Duo on target for April 2011 deliveries Can a small electric trike find a home in the Volt/Leaf era ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 02.02.11
    One million plug-in vehicles by 2015 How reasonable is Obama's goal? Newt Gingrich shows strong support for ethanol subsidies And the knives come out at the Wall Street Journal. Analyst: It's time for a T ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 02.01.11
    Ford Focus Electric to launch without DC fast-charge capability Focus is on Level 2 charging. Report: 2012 Fiat 500 rated 30/38 mpg city/highway And that's only if you get the manual. Lansing man becomes ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Live From Egypt: The True Face of the Mubarak ...
    Cairo, Egypt—The Mubarak regime launched a brutal and coordinated campaign of violence today to take back the streets of Cairo from Egypt’s mass pro-democracy movement. Pro-Mubarak mobs began gathering near Tahrir square shortly after Mubarak’s speech on Tuesday night and held a rally in front ...
  • When Corporations Choose Despots Over Democrac ...
    “People holding a sign ‘To: America. From: the Egyptian People. Stop supporting Mubarak. It’s over!” so tweeted my brave colleague, “Democracy Now!” senior producer Sharif Abdel Kouddous, from the streets of Cairo. More than 2 million people rallied throughout Egypt on Tuesday, most of them cr ...
  • Noam Chomsky (Part 2): “This Is The Most Remar ...
    In recent weeks, popular uprisings in the Arab world have led to the ouster of Tunisian dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the imminent end of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarakâs regime, a new Jordanian government, and a pledge by Yemenâs longtime dictator to leave office at the end of his term. ...
  • "I Either Leave Here Free or Dead": Egyptian P ...
    Egyptian protester Nazly Hussein describes bloodshed in Cairo and the role of the United States in funding the violent oppression by the Egyptian government. NAZLY HUSSEIN: I am Nazly Hussein. I was at a medical center about half an hour ago. People come in with all kinds of injuries. People ...
  • "It's a Massacre": Eyewitness Account of Attac ...
    Cairo resident Selma al-Tarzi calls in a report from the streets of Tahrir Square, where violent clashes have erupted. SELMA AL-TARZI: My name is Selma al-Tarzi. And right now I’m at the entrance of the square from the Egyptian Museum side. It’s a massacre. They’re coming in in government ca ...

Digg Green

Invisible Opportunity

  • Holocaust Porn, I Know it When I see It
    By Les Visible You see this everywhere all the time. You see it on the highway, in the fashion that people drive. You see it in supermarket lines. More than half the people perpetually look like they have to take a leak. They are in a state of urgency to get somewhere but when they [...]
  • Egypt Uprising is a Two Minute Warning For Old ...
    By Allen Roland Revolution is in the air and particularly in the Middle East. The flood waters of discontent as well as the desire for true change is rising throughout the world and that includes the United States. President Obama still does not get that millions of Americans voted for true chan ...
  • Family of slain ex-Pentagon official wants inf ...
    By RANDALL CHASE WILMINGTON, Del. â The family of a slain ex-Pentagon official whose body was found in a Delaware landfill still doesn’t know what happened to him, and their attempts to get more information from law enforcement have been rebuffed, their attorney said Monday. Colm Connolly, an at ...
  • Rahm Emanuel’s Father Specialized in Bus ...
    A well-placed British source informed WMR that Rahm Emanuel’s father, Benjamin Emanuel, specialized in the terrorist bombings of buses carrying British troops and policemen during the British Mandate in Palestine. British MI-6 files contain information on the elder Emanuel’s participation in the ...
  • Riots In Egypt – Caused Solely By Climate Chan ...
    By Tory Aardvark Aardvark had a bet with another blogger than before the week was out, someone, somewhere would blame the unrest in Egypt on Anthropogenic Global Warming, a bet that will now pay out. The ecomentalists at Climate Progress are linking food prices to extreme weather and an increase ...

Global Insights

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

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Twilight Earth

  • Mixed message from USDA chief Vilsack [cartoon ...
    US Ag Secretary, Tom Vilsack tells us to eat more natural foods a few days after fully deregulating GMO alfalfa…I’m confused. Confused as well? Read the links below and try to figure out this mess. From The New York Times: Governmentâs Dietary Advice: Eat Less From Elephant Journal: The USDA cav ...
  • BREAKING: Deleted Monsanto cartoon panel, leak ...
    Unlike the former Monsanto cartoon on this subject, this version shows a bit more clearly who surrendered the future of organic agriculture to Monsanto. There’s been a lot of talk from both sides (organic and biotech) about compromise. That is misleading and almost laughable (read: cryable). Dea ...
  • Official Release of “Zeitgeist: Moving Forward ...
    An important part of thinking about building a sustainable future for ourselves is considering that some of the premises and paradigms which brought us to this point need to be discarded. Maybe even most of them. But because we don’t talk about that, we can’t get out of the trap we find ourselve ...
  • Ronald Reagan, Sarah Palin’s lifeguard
    Ronald Reagan killed the Fairness Doctrine, thus spawning the one-sided, fear-mongering, bs-fest that is Rush Limbaugh and inevitably, FOX News. Now I think I see why Palin called him “America’s lifeguard” (referring, of course, to Sarah Palin’s America). Wondering what the Fairness Doctrine has ...
  • The Republican triple threat
    Look who’s behind the people you support… What to read From Grist: We canât beat China at cleantech as long as GOP keeps kissing fossil-fuel ass From Ecopolitology: Koch BrothersâTilting at Clean Energy From The Inspired Economist: Koch Industries Exploits Unemployment Rate to Support Big Oil Ag ...

Inhabitat

  • Wind Turbine Bridge Transforms Italian Viaduct ...
    A bridge that repurposes abandoned viaducts, produces energy AND looks futuristically sleek? Yes, it can be true, and it is Italyâs proposed Wind Turbine Viaduct called “Solar Wind.” Southern Italy is dotted with unused viaducts, and rather than spending $50 million to tear them down, town offic ...
  • Incredible Home Made from Old Tires and Pop Ca ...
    In July 2009, Sandra Burkholder and her family began building an earthship – a sustainable house built out of used tires and pop cans. Called the Darfield Earthship, the home features green building methods, water conservation, organic growing techniques, and renewable energy. The inspiring proj ...
  • Lamp Party: Rainbow Colored Lights Made of Rec ...
    Cleaning up after a party can be a real drag – but it can also be a clever way to scavenge for materials for your next craft project. Case in point: Fabio de Minicis‘ fab lamps made out of recycled party straws, cups and plates. The flat plates make the perfect lamp base, while the [...]
  • Bruce White’s Gorgeous Chairs Give New Life to ...
    It was love at first sight when we spotted these gorgeous chairs by Bruce White of AHAlife. Each Reclaimed Horseshoe Chair has been welded and sculpted by hand by Bruce himself. He first starts by laying out a series of horseshoes and then he selects individual pieces for each section of the cha ...
  • Green Overdrive Video: Neighbor Car Sharing Wi ...
    Here comes the next generation of car sharing: neighbor-to-neighbor, or car sharing 2.0! RelayRides is a young startup that connects people who want to loan out their car to people that want to rent local cars on demand. The car owner sets the price and makes money off the deal and the car borro ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Spring-Loaded Heels Gave Extra Step to Early H ...
    Stone Age people, unlike their Neandertal contemporaries, had heel bones spring-loaded for long runs, a new study suggests. Neandertals weren’t left in the dust, though. The backs of their feet gave them a leg up on power walking, say anthropologist David Raichlen of the University of Arizon ...
  • Beautiful Spiral Galaxy Has Oddly Flat Center
    This stunner of a galaxy, called NGC 3621, may look like a run-of-the-mill spiral galaxy. But closer observation shows that it’s missing the characteristic central bulge that marks most spiral galaxies. NGC 3621 is a fairly bright galaxy, easily visible to medium-sized telescopes, that lies abo ...
  • Mars’ Shifty Sand Dunes Knocked Down by Dry Ic ...
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