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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.

Sunday, February 6, 2011

6 February - RSS SnapShot! Pt 2

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World Wide Hippies

  • Steve Coogan Calls Out Top Gear For Racist Com ...
    Top Gear’s offensive stereotyping has gone too far, says Steve Coogan | The Guardian As a huge fan of Top Gear. I normally regard the presenters’ brand of irreverence as a part of the rough and tumble that goes with having a sense of humour. I’ve been on the show three times and had a go [...]
  • So, Why Exactly Is The Shit Hitting The Fan in ...
    Twenty reasons why it’s kicking off everywhere | BBC We’ve had revolution in Tunisia, Egypt’s Mubarak is teetering; in Yemen, Jordan and Syria suddenly protests have appeared. In Ireland young techno-savvy professionals are agitating for a “Second Republic”; in France the youth from banlieues ba ...
  • 7 of the Worst Dictators Backed By The US
    It Ain’t Just Mubarak — 7 of the Worst Dictators the U.S. Is Backing to the Hilt | Alternet Embattled Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, whose regime has received billions in U.S. aid, has been in the global media spotlight of late. He’s long been âour bastard,â but he’s not alone. Let’s take a l ...
  • Big Brother and the Holding Company: Turning R ...
    By Ricardo Levins Morales | opednews – The cold winds of political repression have begun to blow a little colder. The widening FBI probe of the anti-war and solidarity movements–launched with coordinated raids in Minneapolis and Chicago in September, 2010–attests to the expanding reach of Washi ...
  • Hippie.TV
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_G8txdH7CY

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • Why I Call Myself a Socialist: Is the World Re ...
    In most reasonably large towns in the United States and Europe, you can find, on some important public square or street, a professional theater. And so, in various quiet neighborhoods in these towns, you can usually also find some rather quiet individuals, the actors who work regularly in tha ...
  • 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, ...

Salon

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • Delphi Fuel Pumps Compatible with New E15 Meas ...
    Delphi announced that its OE quality fuel products are compatible with the new E15 measure approved last Friday by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to increase the amount of ethanol currently blended in fuel from 10 percent to 15 percent for all light-duty vehicles built in the las ...
  • Entergy Responds to Data Refuting Accusation t ...
    The Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant has been under attack for several years by a concerted, organized effort to force it to shut down. One of frequently employed tactics has been to widely publicize and repeatedly mention any event that puts the plant in a bad light. The tactic of repetition ...
  • Nathan Lewis on Energy Realities: Can We Get t ...
    Last week, President Obama threw down an ambitious national goal in his second State of the Union Address: by 2035, 80% of America's electricity will come from "clean" energy sources, double the share we now derive from clean sources. But what counts as "clean," how do we get there, and is the g ...
  • DOE: SunShot Initiative to Cut Cost of Solar P ...
    Rhone Resch listened carefully Friday as Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced “SunShot,” a new federal initiative with the ambitious goal of reducing the total cost of photovoltaic (PV) solar power systems by 75 percent by the end of the decade. Resch liked what he heard.
  • Tahrir Square and Katrina Syndrome
    Samuel Johnson once observed that nothing concentrates the mind like a hanging. If Dr. Johnson were alive today he would undoubtedly add the corollary that nothing concentrates the mind on the tenuous nature of oil supplies like political turmoil in the Middle East.

EU Times

  • Serbia Holds Biggest Opposition Protest In Yea ...
    Tens of thousands of disenchanted Serbs protested in central Belgrade Saturday in the biggest anti-government rally in years aimed at showing opposition strength ahead of scheduled 2012 elections. A pro-European Union coalition has governed Serbia since 2008, but persistent economic hardship and ...
  • Man caught eating baby
    Residents of a Papua New Guinea mining town say they found a man with a history of drug abuse allegedly eating his screaming, newborn son during a sorcery initiation ceremony. Police said locals on the outskirts of the town of Tabubil, in Western Province, woke on Thursday to the screams of the ...
  • George W Bush Cancels Visit to Switzerland Ove ...
    Former US President George W Bush has cancelled a visit to Switzerland amid concerns he could be arrested. The former leader had been due to speak at a charity gala, making the keynote speech at Keren Hayesod’s annual dinner on February 12. But human rights groups in the country have been callin ...
  • State multiculturalism has failed, says David ...
    David Cameron has criticised “state multiculturalism” in his first speech as prime minister on radicalisation and the causes of terrorism. At a security conference in Munich, he argued the UK needed a stronger national identity to prevent people turning to all kinds of extremism. He also signall ...
  • Afghan Rights Fall Short for Christian Convert ...
    The jail commander had remained silent as the prisoner, Sayed Mussa, told a reporter about his journey from Islam to Christianity: his secret baptism nine years earlier, his faith in Jesus Christ and the promise of heaven. But when Mr. Mussa said he believed in the Bible but also loved the Koran ...

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

  • Anderson Silva vs Georges St. Pierre superfigh ...
    So says Dana White at the UFC 126 post-fight press conference : "Yeah, if St. Pierre beats Shields in Toronto, I think we'll do that fight. ... GSP is up next for Anderson Silva . ... It's looking like we're going to do this GSP fight. I gotta figure out this (Yushin) Okami thing. So yeah, he's ...
  • David Cameronâs Speech on Multiculturalism
    The Prime Ministerâs speech in Munich yesterday generated many a febrile headline and caused the sort of hyperventilating hysteria amongst leftists across the UK that one would expect. Its explicit message was that multiculturalism as a policy has failed, and has made a significant contribution ...
  • Report: Assassination Attempt Made on Omar Sul ...
    The man to succeed Hosni Mubarak was the target of an assassination attempt. Was it the young tweeters who sparked a revolution? Nah. My money is on the Muslim Brotherhood. They killed Sadat -- it's how they do. This is the the group Obama wants involved in the "process." Report: Assassination ...
  • U.s. To micro-manage egyptian revolution to en ...
    It must be fairly clear to every observer by now that, while the US was initially caught on the hop by the onset of the Egyptian revolution, it has now adopted a strategy whereby it will attempt to pull all the strings needed to control the course of Egyptian politics into the immediate future
  • Cameron And The Multiculturalism Ritual
    Like some kind of tired ritual that every governing party must periodically tick off, David Cameron has got around to making his "multiculturalism is bad, promoting Britishness is good" speech. His predecessor said much the same about 'integration versus separatism' in 2007, but at least this P ...

Groklaw

  • The Blogger's Life (cartoon)
    [PJ: I know. 2007. But it's *funny*, and it's new to me. Maybe you too.] - Tech Comics, Datamation
  • U.S. Firms, China Are Locked in Major War Over ...
    China's bureaucrats have been rolling out an array of interlocking regulations and state spending aimed at making their country a global technology powerhouse by 2020. The new initiatives-shaped by rising nationalism and a belief that foreign companies unfairly dominate key technologies-range ...
  • Why Intel is closing Seattle lab, and what it ...
    Intel is shutting down its 10-year-old research operations near the University of Washington as part of a broader change in the way the company works with universities across the nation. - Todd Bishop, TechFlash
  • MIT 6.00 Introduction to Computer Science and ...
    [PJ: I was thinking it might help lawyers and other nonprogrammers to understand how to do simple programming, particularly if they are handling cases involving technology. MIT OpenCourseware has an introductory course in Computer Science and Programming, recorded in 2008. The link takes you t ...
  • Blurring the legal standard
    A recent case illustrates the importance of careful analysis and wording in legal writing. In Perry v. AT & T Operations, Inc. [justia.com], a lawyer's motion was stricken partly because it blurred the applicable legal standard. The motion for summary judgment inappropriately argued questions ...

WideShut

Waterkeeper Alliance

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Politics in the Zeros

  • Mubarak’s gone mad
    No translation needed, the meaning comes through loud and clear! Via Newshoggers. However… the protesters are tired, the US clearly doesn’t care about them or democracy in Egypt (else why would they continue to back Mubarak and Suleiman?) and the uprising may be about to fizzle. If that happens, ...
  • Dark brown coffee roast produces antioxidants
    Except, the darker the roast, the less the amount of caffeine. This would appear to be an insoluble dilemma, to choose either antioxidants or caffeine. Richard Grossman, who sent me the link suggests the solution is simply drink more coffee. Barrista, another double expresso please!
  • Head Torturer to take over as head of Egypt fr ...
    Suleiman, among his other despicable activities, was the CIA’s point man for extraordinary rendition. The planes would come in with prisoners, Suleiman would make sure they got tortured. Now, in the US plan, he may replace Mubarek whose personal fortune is estimated at multiple billions, no doub ...
  • Egypt gas pipeline attacked, shut down
    The pipeline sends natural gas to Israel and Jordan. WSJ says it was probably done by Bedouin with RPGs, who could certainly attack again anytime, especially considering that authorities are a teensy bit preoccupied with other matters now. At first the government pretended it was caused by a lea ...
  • Independentvoting.org 2011 conference
    Independentvoting.org asks "Can independents reform America?" Randy Miller with the Utah League of independent Voters asks "Can anything but an independent populist movement change America"

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • Many details about Mubarak/NDP's counter-revol ...
    ... are in this well-researched article by Esam al-Amin. H/t to Jonathan Wright. Amin gives a lot of details of the plan to launch the counter-revolution, starting with a key meeting by a "small clique of officials", held in Cairo on the afternoon of Monday, Jan.31: According to several source ...
  • Egypt, the world food-price crisis-- and JWB's ...
    I just want to pick up on the food-price dimension of what's happening in the Middle East (and other parts of the world) today. Since the beginning of the current wave of uprisings in the Arab world, I have been of the opinion that this crisis is about two things: livelihoods, and basic human d ...
  • Asmaa Mahfouz: The girl who kicked Egypt's hor ...
    A friend sent me this vlog, which was recorded on January 18 by Asmaa Mahfouz, a young Egyptian woman who describes on it how earlier in the month she had responded to the self-immolations then taking place in Egypt by deciding to go down to Tahrir Square and undertake a regular public vigil the ...
  • 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 ...

First Truths

  • The Very Literal "Conquest of Bread"
    In the last decade of the nineteenth century, the anarchist Peter Kropotkin published the book The Conquest of Bread, arguing, in part, that capitalism is a system geared to creating scarcities that allow a ruling elite to use the constant menace of poverty and starvation to exploit workers. In ...
  • 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.

Media Co-Op

  • A Strong Leadership
    The Algonquins of Barriere Lake defend their land â and their inherent right to self-governmen This article originally appeared in the Leveller. “The Canadian government is trying to forcibly assimilate our customs so they can sever our co ...
  • A Jumbo Deception: The Qat'muk Declaration, K ...
    The Ktunaxa Nation council's Qat'muk Declaration at first glance looks like an assertion of Indigenous sovereignty to protect a large watershed, grizzly bears and an endangered fragile ecosystem from resort development but is actually a plot created by native and non-native politicians to quicke ...
  • Balaclava! VMC Broadsheet issue 26
    From DTES to Cairo The February 1-15 issue takes a look at the inquiry into missing and murdered women, stands in solidarity with Egypt and Tunisia on a rainy day, walks with campaigns against gentrification and exposes big lies being told ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • The Child Abuse Laws Which Could Destroy Your ...
    By Dr. Mercola Child abuse is a horrific act, no matter how you define it. That's why we have so many laws, and public and private agencies, set up specifically with the charge to protect children and maintain their safety. It's exactly why so much funding is directed toward this goal. Bu ...
  • 99 Percent of Pregnant Women in U.S. Test Posi ...
    Virtually all pregnant women in the U.S. carry multiple chemicals in their bodies. This chemical load includes some banned since the 1970's, as well as others used in common products such as non-stick cookware, processed foods and personal care products. A new study marks the first time that th ...
  • Want Smarter Kids? Then Make Sure They Avoid ...
    In a nearly unprecedented about face, U.S. federal health officials�admit Americans are getting too much fluoride. It's causing spots on children's teeth (dental fluorosis)�and could be resulting in other, more serious problems. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has announced pl ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Editorial: Lift the veil of secrecy on public ...
    It makes you want to laugh ... until you cry. As part of the research for a Gazette series looking into what is a pervasive culture of secrecy embraced by public institutions in Quebec, a Montreal police spokesperson was asked what information the force deems appropriate to make public. ...
  • Lift the veil of secrecy on public spending
    It makes you want to laugh ... until you cry. As part of the research for a Gazette series looking into what is a pervasive culture of secrecy embraced by public institutions in Quebec, a Montreal police spokesperson was asked what information the force deems appropriate to make public. ...
  • And another thing ...
    Health Canada has made a puzzling and short-sighted move in disbanding its expert panel on how to get Canadians to reduce their potentially deadly salt intake. The Sodium Working Group was tasked in 2007 with developing, implementing and overseeing a salt-reduction plan.
  • 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.

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

  • COTO Report This Ain’t Oz an Interview w ...
    COTO Report and Megan Kargher are pleased to bring you a special two day interview with Freeman of freemantv, the freeman perspective and the free zone http://www.youtube.com/user/Freemantv… http://thefreemanperspective.blogspot… http://freemantv.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6JLgar45sU
  • 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 ...

The Economic Collapse

  • The Shadow Banking System: A Third Of All The ...
    You and I live in a totally different world than the ultra-rich and the international banking elite do.  Many of them live in a world where they simply do not pay income taxes.  Today, it is estimated that a third of all the wealth in the world is held in offshore banks.  So why ...
  • 17 National Debt Statistics Which Prove That W ...
    What we have done to future generations over the past 30 years is absolutely criminal.  30 years ago the U.S. national debt was a bit under one trillion dollars, and at that time it was considered a huge national crisis.  Today, the national debt is 14 times larger and the years ...
  • Almost Everything Is A Crime In America Now: 1 ...
    Doesn't it seem like almost everything is becoming a crime in America now?  Americans are being arrested and charged with crimes for doing things like leaving dog poop on the ground, opening up Christmas presents early, not recycling properly, farting in class and having brown l ...
  • The Working Poor
    As the middle class in America continues to be slowly wiped out, the number of working poor continues to increase. Today, nearly one out of every three families in the United States is considered to be "low income". Millions of American families are finding that they can barel ...
  • Christmas Stories
    If you and your family are blessed and prosperous this holiday season, you should consider yourself to be very fortunate, because there are tens of millions of other Americans that are desperately hanging on by their fingernails.  The Christmas stories that you are going to read ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Sunday Paper Review: 6th February 2011
    February again already? By heck! The supermarkets will have Christmas decorations going up next week. Tiresome how frequently I seem to pack the things up and then have to unpack them again. Still, we could aways ban it. Especially in Birmingham. Hold that thought until the end of this... ...
  • Is Theresa May actually Jacqui Smith in a mask ...
    News breaking on the BBC that the 'controversial' American pastor Terry Jones has been banned from entering Britain 'for the public good'. This is the guy who threatened to burn a copy of the Koran in the United States on the anniversary of 9/11. Now, leaving aside the fact that this blogg ...
  • David Cameron: The (timely) "multiculturalism ...
    A nice antidote to the poison of the Labour Party's electoral gerrymandering policy? (a matter of public record) Is Cameron's speech too little, too late? A timely intervention that spook central - who surely monitor blogs, Facebook and so on - advised Cameron that he needed to make? Wh ...
  • Quote of the Day: Our Nigel "has gone global", ...
    The always spectacular Mary Ellen Synon at the Daily Mail recounts a charming story about Nigel Farage today. I won't spoil it, but she ends with the lines: "'Next time you see Nigel,' said the Chinese-German-American, 'tell him he has fans in America and a waiting audience.' The UKIP leader ...
  • It's you 'civil servants' that are 'not in the ...
    While yesterday was taken up with Irish printing presses, we had to hold back our view on the Iraq War Inquiry cover-up - as has been made public by inquiry chair, Sir John Chilcot. The Evening Standard greeted an announcement by Chilcot yesterday by writing: "A cover-up row erupted when the ...

Facing South

  • Gulf oil spill claims czar under fire for rosy ...
    BP oil spill paymaster Kenneth Feinberg released a draft plan this week for deciding payments on final claims for damages for the disaster, and it's drawing fire for being too optimistic about the pace of recovery. Feinberg released the proposed methodology on Feb. 2 and said he would ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Midori vs Epiphany Review
    In the last couple months I've been seeing a lot of articles concerning the Midori web browser. It's a lightweight GTK-based browser that uses the WebKit rendering engine also used by browsers like Chromium and Safari. At version 0.2.9, it's relatively new (it's still a ways away from a 1.0 rele ...
  • 4 Beautiful Ubuntu Unity UI Mockups/Ideas
    When you look back at the history of Ubuntu through the years, you will see that, Ubuntu Unity is *the* most significant change ever happened to Ubuntu. Ubuntu Unity is a really interesting idea with limitless possibilities. Now, here are some innovative user created Ubuntu Unity UI mockups/idea ...
  • Super Cool Android 3.0 Powered Motorola XOOM V ...
    If this is not futuristic, what is? Watch this absolutely stunning advertisement featuring all new Android 3.0 "Honeycomb" powered Motorola XOOM tablet. Android 3.0 Powered Motorola Xoom Advert Android 3.0 "Honeycomb" is the new version of Google Android OS optimized for tablets. And M ...
  • Top 12 Most Popular Posts of Jan 2011
    Featured Comments from "Linux is User Friendly" Article If you are a regular visitor here, you most probably would have read the article discussing the user friendliness factor of Linux. The most interesting part of the article was the response we got from our readers in the form of comments(n ...
  • Desktopography - Wallpaper Fantasy World!
    What else do you expect from a project with the name Desktopography? Nothing but pure desktop eyecandy in the form of incredibly well designed wallpapers. Desktopography! "Designers and developers spend about 90% of their waking life in front of a computer so the most appealing genre for ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • ALL WAGES, PENSIONS, WELFARE AND TAXES IN EURO ...
    *Germany and France to control all wages, taxes, pensions and welfare benefits across the eurozone under new plan unveiled in Brussels *Economic coordination will result in  a planned economy and ineficiency, economic experts say *People of Europe will have no say in the transfer of control over ...
  • Dr Andrew Wakefield says BMJ has been hijacked ...
     [Personel note: soon after I found out that Baxter had contaminated 72 kilos of vaccine material with the deadly bird flu virus in their biosecurity lab in Austria in 2009, I contacted the BMJ and offered to write a report since I had written for them regularly before.  Knowing how the media op ...
  • French regulators who allowed deadly drugs ont ...
    French patients, pols attack gov’t over Mediator January 12, 2011 â 11:02am ET | By Tracy Staton Think FDA gets lots of flak from U.S. critics? Take a look at the blowback in France. Patients are suing and politicians are calling for public inquiry over the withdrawn diabetes drug Mediator. Crit ...
  • HOW TO BEAT THE GLOBALISTS: THE LESSONS EGYPTI ...
    The people of Egypt have protested for twelve days against the brutal oppression and corruption of the regime of Hosni Mubarak propped up by the US and European allies, including Germany, which supplied Mubarak with weapons. http://twocircles.net/2011feb04/german_weapons_used_quell_antimubarak_p ...
  • Dictator Mubarak might flee to strong ally and ...
    According to The New York Times, Vice President Omar Suleiman and top Egyptian military officials have been urging Mubarak to move to his home at the seaside resort of Sharm el-Sheikh or to go to Germany for his annual medical checkup on a one-way ticket to placate protestors. Germany supplies s ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • The Revolutions of the Outer and Inner Worlds
    By Les Visible I can speak with some small authority, only on those things I have experienced. I can speak with some intuitive reach, concerning individuals, forces and conditions that I have not experienced and… I can speculate to my hearts content. This is one of the reasons I use my own life ...
  • John’s Boner is a GOP Guidon, Flying a H ...
    By Les Visible The first thing I noticed about John Boner was that, despite being a traditionalist, as in traditional hypocrite and traditional sanctimonious, talking out of both sides of his mouth; “I am above all laws both moral and otherwise”, is his breaking from tradition. Generally Republi ...
  • Russell Means: Welcome To The Reservation
    The United States is one big reservation, and we are all in it. So says Russell Means, legendary actor, political activist and leader for the American Indian Movement. Means led the 1972 seizure of the Bureau of Indian Affairs headquarters in Washington, D.C., and in 1973 led a standoff at Wound ...
  • Bahrain’s revolution underway as the Day of Ra ...
    Bahrain will be the next in line for a popular revolution. The youth have decided that 14th February would be “The Day of Rage” against the Al Khalifa hereditary dictatorship that has repeatedly failed to make use of the opportunities for a return to civil, pluralistic and representative rule. T ...
  • The CPAC Defender of the Constitution Award go ...
    This can only qualify as a “you’ve got to be kidding me…” By Robert Herriman I would like to say Iâm shocked over this choice; however, the neocon dominated Conservative Political Action Conference has played us before with their other choices: John Ashcroft and Rush Limbaugh. Iâm trying to unde ...

Veterans Today

  • Why Are Americans Blocked From Watching Al Jaz ...
    Canadian television viewers looking for the most thorough and in-depth coverage of the uprising in Egypt have the option of tuning into Al Jazeera English, whose on-the-ground coverage of the turmoil is unmatched by any other outlet. American viewers, meanwhile, have little choice but to wait un ...
  • College Athletes Suffer Most From Today’s Comm ...
    Was there ever a “Golden Age” of intercollegiate sports? Many Americans believe that before the era of Big Time Football, pro baseball and NBA Basketball, going back to the mid-Nineteenth Century, there was a time when collegians competed only for the pure love of their sport, pushed by the desi ...
  • Off The Net: End the American Raj
    The developments in Tunisia and Egypt have provided the inspiration to Muslims all over the world that they can have their say. This is going to be a chain reaction in different Muslim countries of the world; a farewell to US puppets. Pakistan is considered to be a ripe case; Raymond Davis has c ...
  • America, Do You Remember Super Bowl 1991?
    What does Gulf War Veterans and Super Bowl Have in Common? Twenty years ago our military active duty and reservists placed on active duty and many reserve units working on mandays/active duty time for reserve manning stateside, in route flying missions, overseas in Europe and other middle east ...
  • F. WILLIAM ENGDAHL: Egypt’s Revolution- ...
    The G8 Map of Washington’s Greater Middle East extends right to the borders of China and Russia and West to Morocco By F. William Engdahl © F. William Engdahl, author Full Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order * 2-4-11 Fast on the heels of the regime change in Tunisi ...

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

  • GM conducting review for Chevy Sonic launch
    DETROIT: General Motors is in the midst of a review for the launch of its 2010 Chevy Sonic, which replaces its Aveo product, confirmed Terry Rhadigan, director of regional communications at the company.
  • Pfizer reorganizes its communications team
    NEW YORK: Pfizer confirmed that it restructured its communications team, reducing the number of executives who report to Sally Susman and streamlining the communications functions to align more closely with the company's business units.
  • Study: social media use spikes among tech comp ...
    PALO ALTO, CA: Social media use for PR by early stage tech companies, most notably Twitter and Facebook, spiked in the fourth quarter last year, according to a recent analysis.
  • Edelman tech EVP heads to Samsung
    RIDGEFIELD PARK, NJ: Ethan Rasiel is ending a 12-year stretch at Edelman to join Samsung Electronics America as director of PR for the consumer business division.
  • Donovan leaves Boston Scientific
    NATICK, MA: Boston Scientific said that Paul Donovan, SVP of corporate communications, left the medical device company.

The Story Behind the Story

  • Is the U.S. and ISRAEL Behind the Uprising in ...
    My guest on The Story Behind the Story, Mr. Barry Chamish, says absolutely, YES. THE U.S. IS BEHIND THE FALL OF MUBARAK by Barry Chamish Elad Pressman, editor of a major Israeli political website, was my guest on my radio show and did he have news! The Daily Telegraph had dug into Wikileaks docu ...
  • 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 ...

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Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • AT&T's Response To Verizon's iPhone Snark Is A ...
    Oh, snap...? AT&T has responded to Verizon's snarky iPhone 4 ad, in which the "can you hear me now?" guy says yes, now he can hear you, on Verizon's network, with one big yawner of an ad. In AT&T's newest spot, titled "Answer" debuted Friday night. In it, a very busy businessman is doing lots ...
  • Weather Beleagured Airports Give Priority To F ...
    If you've paid out a few grand in Super Bowl XLV tickets, airfare and hotel accommodations, you're probably going to be a bit grumpy if pesky weather conditions get in your way. In the face of snowy, icy conditions in the Dallas area Friday and this weekend, some airlines and airports are givin ...
  • Super Bowl Is An Awesome Time For Cybercrimina ...
    Apparently, it's impossible to watch TV these days without also being online and tweeting and posting and generally letting everyone you've ever known be aware of what you're doing, so it makes sense that during the Super Bowl, when ostensibly everyone is watching TV, Internet-related activity ...
  • Texas Restaurant Reaps The Sweet Benefits Of B ...
    Bill Hensley's Fish Bone Grill in Arlington, Texas was facing a meager future a few years ago, caught in the grip of the recession doing just okay business. As he says, he's not sure his restaurant would've survived. But then, like a huge, domed savior, the new Cowboys Stadium plopped down acro ...
  • Starbucks Trenta Holds Entire Bottle Of Wine
    We already knew that Starbucks new "Trenta" size was slightly larger than the capacity of the average human stomach (and how this was not really a big idea when you think about what 7-11 and Dunkin Donuts have been doing for years), but now, just for a little dose of extra perspective, Cockeyed ...

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

  • Mona Eltahawy on HBO’s ‘Real Time’ Debunks Ign ...
    Mona Eltahawy is an Egyptian born journalist appeared  and sparred/swatted down every argument the RWNJs raise about the Muslim world. Her premise: This revolution is destroying, thankfully, every myth the West has about the broader Muslim world. The most stunning visuals from the uprising in Ta ...
  • A Murder in Uganda
    The riots in Egypt obscured the chaos which erupted in Uganda at the January 28 funeral of murdered gay activist David Kato. Kato, 46, a prominent LGBT rights advocate in the east African nation, was beaten to death with a hammer on January 26. Last October, his name and photo were printed under ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Republicans: Get your act together!
    (Joseph Farah) - Barack Obama's State of the Union message was pretty much what I would expect. Even he, the biggest spender in the history of the White House, agrees it's time to cut the budget. There's too much debt, he says. Something's got to be done about it...
  • Power and the law
    (John Hayward) - The Obama Administration has been held in contempt by a New Orleans judge, for extending its offshore drilling moratorium in defiance of a court order. The Administration has also declared its intention to continue implementing ObamaCare, in defiance of a federal court judgment ...
  • Egypt's blood on Obama's hands?
    (Washington Times) - President Obama is signaling the Egyptian opposition that their time has come. In a terse statement last night, Mr. Obama announced a "moment of transformation" had arrived in Egypt, "the status quo is not sustainable" and a new government must begin to form "now"...
  • Muslims attack two Christian families in Egypt ...
    (AINA) - News of a massacre of two Christian Coptic families by Islamists just emerged from Upper Egypt with the return of the Internet connections after a week of Internet blackout by the Egyptian regime. The massacre took place on Sunday, January 30 at 3 PM in the village of Sharona near Magha ...
  • Why eligibility is a winning issue
    (Joseph Farah) - Conservatives make me laugh -- and cry, sometimes. From the very beginning of WND's relentless coverage of the eligibility issue, there were many very high-profile conservatives in public office and the media who discouraged any focus on it. They whispered and muttered that it w ...

Truth Offering

  • Interpreting Ted Rall's "The Anti-American Man ...
    Let me start by saying that I really hate using political terms like "left-wing" and "right-wing." It's lazy, small mindedness to do so, in my opinion. It allows us to summarize a person's entire belief system with a tiny little definition, and I don't like that. No one -- well, not most people ...
  • Poll - Week Ending January 31, 2011
    This past week, we asked you guys to tell us what you think is of most concern with our drinking water. Is it the fluoride government puts into the water that we consume? Is it the fact that there are increasing amounts of pharmaceuticals in our water supply? Or is it the fact that some policy m ...
  • Chemtrails from Indianapolis, Indiana
    Right now, Indianapolis is expecting a huge winter storm. And under normal conditions, that'd seem totally normal, right? I mean, Indiana gets snow. But what do you make of these chemtrails; these photos were taken this morning by a TruthOffering.com Contributor (Click to Enlarge): � Note that ...
  • Must-Read Articles From Around the Web - Janua ...
    "All is not what it seems in Egyptian Clashes" by Tony Cartalucci Before It's News - Go to the George Soros/Zbigniew Brzezinski International Crisis Group's website and you will see that the Egyptian clashes have hit surprisingly close to home for them. That's because none other than their own ...
  • Corporatism and "Certified Organic"
    More and more nowadays, anything small and special in the business world is quickly gobbled up by huge corporations. If it's profitable, the big boys want in...and of course, once that happens, what made that small company special is immediately wiped away. Why? Because corporations are all abou ...

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

  • Gulf oil spill claims czar under fire for rosy ...
    BP oil spill paymaster Kenneth Feinberg released a draft plan this week for deciding payments on final claims for damages for the disaster, and it's drawing fire for being too optimistic about the pace of recovery. Feinberg released the proposed methodology on Feb. 2 and said he would ...
  • 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 ...

One News Page

  • Denise Richards Worried Sick About Charlie She ...
    CHARLIE Sheen’s ex-wife Denise Richards is worried sick about the actor, who recently checked himself into rehab. “Denise is heartbroken and fears the day when she gets the call saying Charlie is no longer alive,” a source told the PopEater website. “Charlie surrounds himself with yes ...
  • Russell Brand says Jennifer Garner's mouth is ...
    Russell Brand has said that his co-star Jennifer Garner's mouth is like 'red-velvet cake.'
  • Food Network Chef: Super Bowl Recipe in 60 Sec ...
    Filed under: 2011 Bud Light Hotel, TMZ Sports We gave Food Network host Michael Symon one minute to give us a kick ass Super Bowl recipe -- and he nailed it with time to spare. Read more
  • Yeddy's assets: Rs 40.7 lakh cash and no cars!
    Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa, who has been under attack from the opposition over involvement in alleged land scams worth Rs 1,000 crore and nepotism, declared his assets and liabilities in Bengaluru on Sunday. According to the declaration, he has cash to the tune of Rs 40,71,782, ... ...
  • Muhammad Amir Optimistic About His Return
    Pakistani fast bowler Muhammad Amir was very disappointed after the announcement of the judgment by the ICC’s three men tribunal.

Global Research TV

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

  • Great Movie Review: Shannon of FrothyGirlz on ...
    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. **************************** It's been a ...
  • The Great Artwork Dilemma: Keep Everything You ...
    I was neither surprised nor upset by this discovery. In fact, I was pleased to have the one picture. I did not grow up in a house where our childhood artwork was ever put on display on the fridge or elsewhere. In fact, when I came home with a lumpy clay head in third grade and my mother insi ...
  • I Want to Stop Being That Girl on the Sideline ...
    I like to name it as if it's part of my past. But the fear must still be there, though masked and safely contained, because I don't think I ever really dealt with it, that I ever truly faced it. I say it like I'm some sort of recovering self-inflicting fear-monger. Oh yes, I was so driven by ...
  • 14 Days of Chocolate, Day 5: Buns in My Oven's ...
    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. ****************** ...
  • Retro Chic Super Bowl Party
    The Super Bowl Countdown ends on Sunday. At that point everyone joins together to watch commercials and eat! Oh, wait, I mean they join together to watch a football game. The Green Bay Packers and Pittsburgh Steelers meet up in Dallas on Sunday to run, throw, kick and pummel each other. That ma ...

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

  • Sen. Rockefeller doesn’t ’sugarcoa ...
    A few months ago here on Coal Tattoo, I asked if  West Virginia Sen. Jay Rockefeller was up to the task of  helping the coal industry “embrace the future,” if Sen. Rockefeller could lead out state on dealing with the vital issue of global warming. Anybody who read about the senator’s speech o ...
  • Happy birthday, Coal Tattoo
    Two years ago today, I wrote my first post here, called “Welcome to Coal Tattoo.” Since then, we’ve had more than 1,800 posts and more than 16,500 comments. Thanks everybody for taking the time to read and comment … Have a good weekend.
  • Friday roundup, Feb. 4, 2011
    People attend a funeral mass for dead miners in Sardinata, northeastern Colombia, Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. Twenty-one miners were killed when an explosion, likely caused by a methane gas buildup, rocked the underground coal mine early Wednesday. A similar blast killed 32 miners at the same mine ...
  • Sen. Manchin says ‘unbridled power&#8217 ...
    Here’s some news just in from the office of West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin: U.S. Senator Joe Manchin today addressed the annual West Virginia Coal Association Symposium, drawing applause from the crowd as he discussed his first piece of legislation, the âEPA Fair Play Act of 2011.â âI believe i ...
  • 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 ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Hackers Penetrate Nasdaq’s Computers | WSJ.com
    Hackers have repeatedly penetrated the computer network of the company that runs the Nasdaq Stock Market during the past year, and federal investigators are trying to identify the perpetrators and their purpose, according to people familiar with the matter. The exchange’s trading platformâthe pa ...
  • Kitty’s Favorite Position
    My friend Mark’s cat, Kitty. He likes sitting like this, up on Mark’s shoulder and arm. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsKitty Cat FacepalmOverlooking SFApple Employees Seeing iPhone 4 for First TimeCouldn’t Care LessFlower at COIT Tower
  • cooperati: Keltonin @ Annathalia’s Keep
    The door caved in with a cloud of dust, and Keltonin rolled as splinters and rusted nails rained down on him. A dozen young female creatures, initiates of the unholy arts, surrounded him in the chamber, circling around their blue flames candlestands, baring their odd fish teeth, gaping at the ad ...
  • My Favorite Walden Quote (So Far)
    One farmer says to me, “You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make bones with”; and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying his system with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones ...
  • Obama and Jesus | Imgur
    via imgur.com Owned. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsHalley’s CometAnatidaephobiaI was in a salon and Keanu Reeves walks in | ImgurReaganomicsMilitant Atheists

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

  • “Searching for the Missing: Behind the S ...
    By Carrie Eigbrett | WWH Some would call her a hero, some an angel walking amongst us. For her birthday and holidays she doesn’t ask for herself, but for asks for others. She ask only for tools of her trade so she can keep helping others. She doesn’t have a wall of [...]
  • Steve Coogan Calls Out Top Gear For Racist Com ...
    Top Gear’s offensive stereotyping has gone too far, says Steve Coogan | The Guardian As a huge fan of Top Gear. I normally regard the presenters’ brand of irreverence as a part of the rough and tumble that goes with having a sense of humour. I’ve been on the show three times and had a go [...]
  • So, Why Exactly Is The Shit Hitting The Fan in ...
    Twenty reasons why it’s kicking off everywhere | BBC We’ve had revolution in Tunisia, Egypt’s Mubarak is teetering; in Yemen, Jordan and Syria suddenly protests have appeared. In Ireland young techno-savvy professionals are agitating for a “Second Republic”; in France the youth from banlieues ba ...
  • 7 of the Worst Dictators Backed By The US
    It Ain’t Just Mubarak — 7 of the Worst Dictators the U.S. Is Backing to the Hilt | Alternet Embattled Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, whose regime has received billions in U.S. aid, has been in the global media spotlight of late. He’s long been âour bastard,â but he’s not alone. Let’s take a l ...
  • Big Brother and the Holding Company: Turning R ...
    By Ricardo Levins Morales | opednews – The cold winds of political repression have begun to blow a little colder. The widening FBI probe of the anti-war and solidarity movements–launched with coordinated raids in Minneapolis and Chicago in September, 2010–attests to the expanding reach of Washi ...

reference frame

  • Russian men will be nuked to Mars in 2037
    While the U.S. Constellation Program (CxP) has been abandoned and NASA's manned flights to Mars became very unlikely, the first cosmic nation of Russia is returning to its previous positions: Russia plans to build carrier rocket for Mars missions (RIA News)In 2013, Russia will begin tests ...
  • Magnetic pole: motion sped up by 800 percent
    The North Magnetic Pole is the place on Earth where the magnetic field has a vertical direction. This place doesn't coincide with the Geographic North Pole, linked to the axis of the Earth's spin. Because the Earth doesn't carry any significant electric charge, there's no God-given law ...
  • Tamino's challenge to Roy Spencer: answer
    Roy Spencer has addressed the following simple challenge to the climate research community: Show me one peer-reviewed paper that has ruled out natural, internal climate cycles as the cause of most of the recent warming in the thermometer record. Of course, I don't know of any such paper ...
  • Kepler: 1% of stars have visible planets
    The Kepler mission (NASA) has released several preprints but the most interesting one seems to be Characteristics of planetary candidates observed by Kepler, II: Analysis of the first four months of dataDuring four months in 2009 (May-September), they analyzed 156,453 stars and found that ...
  • Hardy's paradox kills all "realistic" models o ...
    There exists a widespread misconception among the readers of popular physics books - and sometimes even unpopular physics books - that Bell's inequalities have only falsified "local realist" models of quantum phenomena but some "nonlocal realist" models could still be true and replace the p ...

No Frakking Consensus

  • How Does the IPCC Safeguard Against Bias?
    According to insiders, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change selects its authors via a secretive process. Nothing prevents scientists belonging to certain schools-of-thought from dominating the reports that get produced.
  • NASA, Climate Change, and Children
    NASA used to be about the right stuff. It used to be about knowledge, human ingenuity, and the triumph of sheer brainpower in the face of unfavourable odds. Now, rather than seeking to inspire kids, NASA tries to frighten them.
  • 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.

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

  • Texas Blackouts, just-in-time delivery
    Why did cold weather in Texas cause power outages and rolling blackouts? Answer: just-in-time-electricity At the heart of the problem were the effects of unusually cold weather that shut down several coal-fired power plants in central Texas for various reasons, which then led to an immediate dem ...
  • TODAY show contacts MSB, Roof Collapse in Conn ...
    msb-note Having read a related article on ModernSurvivalBlog.com, the MSNBC TODAY show contacted MSB for contributing information regarding the Connecticut roof collapse events from the excessive snowfall so far, of Winter 2011, for a segment on the show. This video is that segment followed by s ...
  • Egypt Coup from Organized Groups of Outsiders
    Through an apparent reliable source on the ground in Egypt, MSB has learned that according to one eyewitness who lives there, original protesters are being replaced by HIGHLY ORGANIZED GROUPS, seemingly outsiders, and are creating the violence and attempting to spur the government coup of the Mu ...
  • Colossal Government Debt, Prepare for Inflatio ...
    Rather than accepting at face value the many mixed, and often revised messages from government economic reports and reporting, and rather than attempting to decipher the often twisted curves and angles of deliberate main stream interpretation and commentary on the state of the economy, we should ...
  • 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 ...

Fast Company

  • Super Bowl Ad Stories: "The Remake," Featuring ...
    When it comes to the Super Bowl, advertising agencies can spend months brainstorming the perfect ad. For Euro RSCG Chicago's chief creative officer Jason Peterson, who's produced four spots for the big game, that means concepting as many as 60 commercial ideas before finding the right one. ...
  • National Biodiesel Conference and Expo
    Pack your party hat and your sustainably made kazoo if you're headed to Phoenix for this year's annual event. Two new decisions by the Environmental Protection Agency should make this a banner year for biodiesel. In October, the EPA approved raising the ethanol blend rate in gasoline to 15%, fro ...
  • Is This Year's Super Bowl the Greenest Yet?
    Just Energy, a green energy retailer supplying renewable energy certificates to Super Bowl venues, is claiming that " the 2011 Super Bowl will be the greenest NFL championship on record." Is this true, or is it just greenwashing?Just Energy is contributing heavily to the Super Bowl's sustainab ...
  • Europe Enacts Trillion-Euro Energy Accord, But ...
    Europe has today committed to a trillion-Euro trans-continental energy grid, to reduce dependence on Mideast oil, strengthen energy supply resilience, and share spare energy more efficiently. But with a significant nuclear supply in the mix, it's not particularly green.The various governments in ...
  • BBC Cutting Arabic Services During Egyptian Un ...
    In polls, Egyptians stated they trust the BBC more than Al Jazeera. So why has the BBC announced plans to cut evening Arabic-language radio broadcasts just as Egypt undergoes a revolution and the Middle East enters an era of widespread unrest? Among the BBC's massive budget cuts announced in l ...

Jadaliyya

  • Little Protests, Big Erasures
    In a recent interview with Carol Rosenberg, Joint Detention Group Commander Col. Thomas� has stated that, contrary to reports issued by the Center for Constitutional Rights and CUNY Law School, detainees at Guantanamo Bay are not, in fact, engaged in protests. According to Col. Thom ...
  • Preparing Tomorrow's History Lessons
    Last night, my husband Michael Kennedy and I wrote an essay for Jadaliyya suggesting that the Polish Round Tables of 1989 might present a model for those hoping to move the Tahrir protest movements forward. He is an academic who works on Central and Eastern Europe, I on the Middle East. ...
  • NDP Reshuffle . . . But . . . [Updated]
    News that President Mubarak has resigned as the head of the NDP (the ruling National Democractic Part) was apparently false. But other reshuffling and resignations within the party took place as part of a series of arrangements intended to separate the ruling party from the state. Primar ...
  • The Egyptian Revolution: First Impressions fro ...
    Never has a revolution that seemed so lacking in prospects gathered momentum so quickly and so unexpectedly. The Egyptian Revolution, starting on January 25, lacked leadership and possessed little organization; its defining events, on Friday, January 28, occurred on a day when all commun ...
  • President Husni Mubarak Steps Down As Head of ...
    [Note: some news agencies are retracting this news, but the jury is still out. See updates below by Jadaliyya Co-Editors] News just arrived that President Mubarak has resigned as the head of the NDP (the ruling National Democractic Part), as part of a series of arrangements intended to ...

mediagazer

  • On TV, New Ways To Gauge the Ads (Jessica E. V ...
    Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal: On TV, New Ways To Gauge the Ads  —  The race for new ways to measure the impact of television commercials is heating up.  —  TiVo Inc. is expanding its service that allows advertisers to see how many and what kind of users are viewing their commerci ...
  • Forget Pittsburgh and Green Bay - Google Wins ...
    Julia Boorstin / Media Money with Julia Boorstin: Forget Pittsburgh and Green Bay — Google Wins the Super Bowl  —  The Super Bowl isn't just the biggest TV advertising event of the year, it's also one of YouTube's biggest events of the year.  Advertisers are determined to eke out the biggest p ...
  • How Much Super Bowl Is Too Much Super Bowl? (D ...
    David Roth / The Awl: How Much Super Bowl Is Too Much Super Bowl?  —  On Thursday morning, I went to the Paley Center for Media—which used to be the Museum of Television and Radio, and still kind of is, although it's now called the Paley Center for Media—and was brought down into a basement du ...
  • Readability Just Became Instapaper's Publisher ...
    MG Siegler / TechCrunch: Readability Just Became Instapaper's Publisher Payment Layer  —  Personally, I think the concept behind Readability is pretty awesome.  It gives you a way to read all your favorite articles on the web without all of the clutter of the web — meaning, mainly, ads.
  • The Daily Wait - I've been reading The Daily e ...
    John Gruber / Daring Fireball: The Daily Wait  —  I've been reading The Daily each day since its debut Wednesday.  Three days, three issues.  My opinion of it has declined each day.  Until I see an updated version of the app, I'm done with it.  I noticed yesterday that it took way too long to l ...

Chemtrail News

  • Global Rumblings: Leading Theories For Falling ...
    Between cloud seeding and possible connections to HAARP, chemtrail fallout must be considered, especially as it is being conducted nearly worldwide. Rosalind Peterson has been at the forefront of connecting geoengineering to GMOs as a ...Global Rumblings - http://globalrumblings.blogspot.com/
  • Chemtrails And Fear --
    I post it for illustration, since it graphically shows the chemtrail pattern of which I spoke yesterday and the day before. Hadn't actually thought of it as prison bars, but how very appropriate - we have been ..."We Do Not War Against Flesh... - http://stienster.blogspot.com/
  • c 22 misc 002 (2) - Chemtrail Truth
    Fresh chemtrail, Coast Range above Seaside, Oregon, USA.Latest Activity on Chemtrail Truth - http://chemtruth.ning.com/
  • List of chemtrail and weather modificat ...
    List of chemtrail and weather modification patents. Posted on February 5, 2011 by Admin · Cloud seeding. Image via Wikipedia. from Shep. United States Patent and Trademark Office 1338343 – April 27, 1920 – Process And Apparatus For The ... - http://inquiringminds.cc/
  • THE CHEMTRAIL PUZZLE COMES TOGETHER THA ...
    THE CHEMTRAIL PUZZLE COMES TOGETHER THANKS TO DRUNK GUY AT BAR: Evergreen International Aviation Connection In Planned Planetary Genocide Connect Chemtrails to CIA and US government ...LISTEN TO THE RED SHAMAN 2012 - http://indianinthemachine.wordpress.com/

    IPS - Inter Press Services

  • MIDEAST: Now Gaza Begins to Shake
    Ripple effects of the Egyptian uprising are now spreading to Gaza, where some groups are planning a new rally next week. Moves by some Gazans to mimic protesters in Egypt, Tunisia and Yemen by taking to the streets are making the Hamas government nervous.
  • EGYPT: An Air of Dangerous Freedom
    Imam Mohammed Al-Saba of the Eisa mosque here in the centre of the rural town Kirdasa takes the pulpit to tell his congregation he can smell "the air of freedom for the first time in 30 years."
  • Q&A: Looking to a World Without LDCs
    Maximising time, energy and resources toward improving living conditions for millions of people in the poorest countries of the world - the so-called Least Developed Countries (LDCs) - means that the "business-as-usual" approach must yield to a holistic strategy, says Arjun Karki, a lo ...
  • Global Crisis Strengthens WSF's Legitimacy
    European non-governmental organisations combating neo-liberal globalisation find their position vindicated by the ongoing socio-economic and environmental crisis upsetting the world.
  • MEXICO: Agave Sweetens Economic Prospects of I ...
    With a wooden spoon in hand, Hortencia Rómulo briskly stirs the amber-coloured liquid cooking in an enormous steel pot.

Scoop - NZ

  • Re. Mubarak 'must stay': as private citizen
    The US government has since said Wisner's comments were made as a private citizen.
  • Welcome to the New Middle Ages
    Imagine a world with a strong China reshaping Asia; India confidently extending its reach from Africa to Indonesia; Islam spreading its influence; a Europe replete with crises of legitimacy; sovereign city-states holding wealth and driving innovation; and private mercenary armies, religious radi ...
  • Welcome the the New Middle Ages
    Imagine a world with a strong China reshaping Asia; India confidently extending its reach from Africa to Indonesia; Islam spreading its influence; a Europe replete with crises of legitimacy; sovereign city-states holding wealth and driving innovation; and private mercenary armies, religious radi ...
  • Relatives of Pakistani Drone Victims Sue CIA
    Almost every day, people in the Pakistani region of Waziristan are killed or seriously injured by drone attacks carried out by the CIA. Now a group of victims' relatives is standing up to Washington -- by suing the US government.
  • US envoy: Hosni Mubarak must stay
    US special envoy Frank Wisner has said that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak should remain in power to oversee a transition to democracy. The remarks appear to contradict previous US calls for Mr Mubarak to begin an immediate transition. The state department has not yet commented.

Independent - London

  • Iran set to try US 'hiker spies'
    An Iranian court is holding a closed-door session to begin proceedings against three Americans detained 18 months ago and accused of spying.
  • In 2011, there are 100 uncontacted tribes worl ...
    It was once thought that all Yanomami Indians of the Brazilian Amazon had been contacted during the latter half of the 20th century, after which almost a fifth of their people died from diseases carried by gold-miners. Now, days after aerial photographs and footage of a threatened tribe living ...
  • Robert Fisk: The wrong Mubarak quits. Soon the ...
    The old man is going. The resignation last night of the leadership of the ruling Egyptian National Democratic Party – including Hosni Mubarak's son Gamal – will not appease those who want to claw the President down. But they will get their blood. The whole vast edifice of power which the NDP re ...
  • Brotherhood to hold Egypt talks
    Egypt's largest opposition group, the Muslim Brotherhood, said it would begin talks Sunday with the government to try and end the country's political crisis.
  • Tunisian police kill protesters
    Police fired at an angry crowd of 1,000 attacking the police station in the northwestern town of Kef on Saturday, killing two people and injuring 17 others, the Interior Ministry said.

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

  • 9 Questions That Stump Every Pro-Vaccine Advoc ...
    Since the flu pandemic was declared, there have been several so-called "vaccine experts" coming out of the wood work attempting to justify the effectiveness of vaccines. All of them parrot the same ridiculous historical and pseudoscientific perspectives of vaccinations which are easily squelched ...
  • 2 dead in Tunisia protest
    El Kef, Tunisia - Police fired into a crowd of protesters in El Kef, Tunisia, Saturday, killing two people and injuring 17, state media reported. CNN said Tunis Afrique Presse reported about 1,000 people had gathered outside a police station. They began throwing stones and Molotov cocktails at ...
  • Heart disease is a gut-immune-hormone disease
    An ancient surgical procedure, called trepanation, consisted of drilling a hole in the head and removing a piece of the skull. It is thought this practice was used to release evil spirits that caused mental illness, migraine headaches and other ills. Nowadays, however, if you went to your naturo ...
  • Serbia holds biggest opposition protest in yea ...
    Tens of thousands of disenchanted Serbs protested in central Belgrade on Saturday in the biggest anti-government rally in years aimed at showing opposition strength ahead of scheduled 2012 elections. A pro-European Union coalition has governed Serbia since 2008, but persistent economic hardship ...
  • Australia: Victorian towns put on flood watch
    TORRENTIAL rain boosted by the remnants of tropical cyclones Yasi and Anthony led to flash floods in Victoria, with parts of Melbourne battered by high winds and people rescued from rising waters in Mildura. Lightning strikes cut power to 30,000 homes when a belt of storms hit late yesterday. ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Wanker!
    What Impolitical finds on the intertoobs.
  • Perspectives . . .
    WARNING: Not politically-correct. May cause tighty-whitey-wedgie in the hard-of-thinking.
  • Finger-lickin' good . . .
    MRE'S ARE GHASTLY, war is hell. Still life with serpent is a delight to visit, to get down to the yummy details. Be sure to check out the python; her name is Louise.
  • Uniforms and politicians: A study in prioritie ...
    There's your Conservative. And then there's your Dipper.� Which experience do you think might lead to an improvement in your life?
  • Hidden charms . . .
    HAVE YOU EVER READ "The Works of the Earls of Rochester and Roscommon"? Me neither. It's an obscure volume of poetry from the 18th century — that was in-print continuously for a century. The secret of its, um, staying power, came to light with the discovery by Oxford University researcher, Dr Cl ...

Media Matters for America

  • Kristol Calls Out Colleagues In Right-Wing Med ...
    In a recent column, Weekly Standard editor William Kristol criticized "talk radio hosts" and conservatives for "sid[ing] with the dictator" Hosni Mubarak. Indeed, numerous conservatives, including Rush Limbaugh and Dick Morris, have argued that the United States should be supporting Mubarak.Kri ...
  • Who Didn't Beck Blame For Egypt's Unr ...
    As protesters took to the streets of Egypt this week, Glenn Beck took to his multiple broadcast platforms to weave an elaborate theory about the forces behind the uprising. During this span, Beck connected the protests and violence in Egypt to, among other things, Islamic socialists, Marxist co ...
  • CDC Debunks Right-Wing Claim That Obama Cancel ...
    On RedState.com, CNN contributor Erick Erickson claimed that the Obama Administration has canceled an annual Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report on abortion statistics because it is "afraid of the truth," and continued to insist that the report was "killed" even after the CDC said ...
  • Right-Wing Media Attack Planned Parenthood For ...
    Since the release of a second video from anti-choice group Live Action, which shows a Planned Parenthood worker at a Richmond, Virginia, clinic advising a man and woman posing as a pimp and prostitute, right-wing media have suggested that the video shows Planned Parenthood engaged in wrongdoin ...
  • Fox Escalates War On Climate Science As House ...
    In recent weeks Fox has repeatedly promoted skeptics' view that "there is no global warming," dismissing the extensive body of evidence supporting the scientific consensus on climate change. Meanwhile, congressional Republicans are drafting legislation to prohibit the Environmental Protection A ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Why the Republican Budget Plan is a Hairball
    The federal budget is $3.8 trillion. The Republicans have just come up with their plan to cut the federal budget. They've found $32 billion of cuts. Their fiery campaign rhetoric, fierce determination, righteous indignation, and bloviated anger have summoned forth a hairball. What happe ...
  • 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 ...

TruthOut

  • "Celebrate People's History: The Poster Book o ...
    "Celebrate People's History: The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution" Edited by Josh MacPhee, Foreword by Rebecca Solnit, The Feminist Press, $14.97 paperbackread more
  • Now Gaza Begins to Shake
    Gaza City - Ripple effects of the Egyptian uprising are now spreading to Gaza, where some groups are planning a new rally next week. Moves by some Gazans to mimic protesters in Egypt, Tunisia and Yemen by taking to the streets are making the Hamas government nervous.read more
  • Muslim Brotherhood Join Egypt Talks as Mubarak ...
    Cairo — Members of the Muslim Brotherhood joined other opposition groups meeting with Vice President Omar Suleiman on Sunday in what seemed a significant departure in the nation’s uprising and political history. The Brotherhood is an outlawed Islamist organization often depicted by the authorit ...
  • The Conservative Class War, Continued
    It was a terrible tabloid tale. While New York City was buried under a blizzard, widows and orphans freezing and starving in their apartments, union fat cats swigged brewskis and chuckled to themselves as sanitation workers conspired to stage a slowdown to gain leverage in their contract negotia ...
  • Gulf Spill Claims Czar Under Fire for Rosy Est ...
    BP oil spill paymaster Kenneth Feinberg released a draft plan this week for deciding payments on final claims for damages for the disaster, and it's drawing fire for being too optimistic about the pace of recovery.read more

Planetsave

  • Super Bowl Being Played in 5th Greenest Stadiu ...
    Ranking U.S. stadiums according to “the depth and breadth” of their green initiatives, national home solar company SunRun recently came up with a top 10 list of the greenest stadiums. Cowboys Stadium, where the Super Bowl is about to be played, came in at number 5. From the planning stages, when ...
  • How Climate Change Changes Evolution – One Bir ...
    As average global temperatures increase, biologists anticipate more negative impacts from this change on a great many species of plants and animals. In most cases, scientists expect climate change to damage ecosystem integrity and ultimately accelerate the extinction of a great many species (as ...
  • Shell Cancels Plans to Drill in Arctic (Succes ...
    “Shell announced that theyâve cancelled their plans to drill exploratory wells in the Arctic in 2011 due to lack of confidence that they would meet the standards to get the required permits,” Oceana (and plenty of others) enthusiastically reported yesterday. Of course, there is no known method o ...
  • Climate Change Tours in Google Earth
    In case you weren’t aware, Google Earth has been used to create a number of great climate change tours in the past year or so. From climate change effects to rainforest tours about solutions to it, there’s some really good stuff available. Google has a short video summarizing and highlighting so ...
  • Don’t Let Greenwashing Fool You, Join New “Gre ...
    Earth Day is right around the corner. And us green bloggers know what that means… tons of greenwashing, ridiculous offers and pitches from non-green companies trying to pretend they are green, millions of dollars spent on âgreenâ marketing and advertising (but not necessarily on greening our goo ...

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Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • 10 Things Monsanto Does Not Want You to Know - ...
    What’s wrong with Genetic Engineering? Genetic engineering is a radical technology that breaks down genetic barriers between humans, plants and animals. Once released, these genetically modified organisms (GMOs) can easily spread and interbreed with other organisms, and they are virtually imp ...
  • US Media & Egypt Coverage: Dodging the Real Is ...
    $60 Billion US Aid to Egypt=$60 Billion Current Net-worth of Mubarak Family With all eyes and attention on Egypt, the unsavory ‘US Foreign Policy’ has become the topic of choice among the intelligentsia, journalists, and the overly populated US analyst colony. There are scores ...
  • Oppose US-backed “transition” in Egypt - Egypt
    5 February 2011 The mass movement of Egyptian working people against the Mubarak dictatorship must oppose and reject the initiative by the American government to replace Mubarak with a military-dominated “transition” government. This maneuver is aimed at safeguarding the interests of imp ...
  • Massive anti-government protest on Egypt’s “da ...
    5 February 2011 Friday’s “day of departure” was a massive display of opposition to the Mubarak regime. Over a million took to the streets of Cairo, with hundreds of thousands flooding Tahrir Square, defying government thugs, military cordons and ignoring the curfew. After two days of stat ...
  • Obama’s crocodile tears over Egypt’s violence ...
    4 February 2011 “We pray that the violence in Egypt will end, and that the rights and aspirations of the Egyptian people will be realized, and that a better day will dawn over Egypt,” President Barack Obama solemnly intoned at the beginning of his remarks to the National Prayer Breakfast... ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • American sectarian politics divided by its own ...
    No one who pays close attention to politics can fail to notice that the more deeply America has become entangled in the Middle East the more closely our own polarized politics have come to resemble the politics of that troubled region, perhaps the most sectarian region of the globe, whose warrin ...
  • Yes, Some Things Do Come From Nothing
    You know how it goes: "What church do you go to?" (sigh) "I don't go to church." "Why not?" (gnashing teeth, rejects claim of Satanism) "I'm an atheist." (thrilled to finally get a chance to use the "argument" he learned in Sunday school) "Oh, yeah? Well, then how did everything start without Go ...
  • Manifesto Joe's Great Moments In Conservative ...
    I remember the time well. It was the 1980s, the prime of my young adulthood. He was supposed to be rebuilding America, and millions of jobs went overseas or to Mexico. Suddenly there were all these homeless people on the streets, hitting on you for spare change -- in 1980 they had either been li ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    Yeah, that trial balloon got shot down in record time. This train's leaving the station, Barry - get on board now. "The US state department has distanced itself from comments by a US special envoy, to the effect that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak should stay in office during a power transitio ...
  • A New Day in Egypt; A New Aljazeera Live Blog
    Day 12 of pro-democracy, anti-Mubarak protests began almost wo hours ago. The live blog is here. 12:06am: After a day of tension with the military trying to remove barricades set up by the protesters, one Al Jazeera correspondent says that things are relatively calm - more so than last night - a ...

Care 2

  • Smaller Government? New Congress Spends Littl ...
    During the first month of the last Congress, in 2009 the House met for 15 days and the Senate for 18. At the start of the one before that, the House was in town for 16 days and the Senate for 17. Submitted by Kit B. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Super Bowl Draws Fans, and Human Traffickers
    On Sunday, US Football fans expect to watch the game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Green Bay Packers,What they probably will not think about is the thousands of minors who will also be there, but for a completely different purpose: supplying sexSubmitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Society & ...
  • Ban ALL Drilling In Alaskas Arctic Waters - T ...
    BP and Shell recently announced that they�ll be delaying offshore drilling projects in Alaska�s Arctic waters. Our efforts are working. But we need to keep the pressure on to ensure the protection of Alaska�s crucial, fragile ecosystem. Submitted by Yrna M. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add ...
  • Dog chained and left for dead under South Caro ...
    This is making me cry...look at this poor sweet dog. He has been in so much pain and abuse, look at his sad eyes. This sweet dog needs so much love. Submitted by Debbie Rubenstein -Earp to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Sign petition to begin preservation of our wil ...
    Your children are going to ask where have all the creature gone to . Are you ready to say that you have hunted them to extinction, Why have we as a nation with some moral allowed out right slaughter of animal all around the world. Submitted by Yrna M. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment ...

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Obama’s Egypt Debacle
    Winston Churchill. Battle of Britain. His finest moment. Barack Obama? Egypt? God save us!! What a debacle. In the last eleven days Obama has succeeded in creating doubts about America’s policy goals in Egypt, fueled uncertainty and fear in Israel, painted his Administration into a no-win policy ...
  • Twitter Feeds Added to Our Blog + Open Thread
    LOOK AT THE RIGHT COLUMN, just below Recent Comments and Recent Posts. Last night and today, we’ve added instant Tweets via Twitter for 1) BBC World News, 2) Al Jazeera, and 3) the New York Times columnist Nick Kristoff, who’s writing about Egypt. I’m working on adding the live tweets from the d ...
  • Bad Luck Cadet #16 – No Jerking Off on My Rang ...
    No Jerking Off on My Range! is the sixteenth in a series of posts on my misadventures in becoming a police officer. The first in this series is Accidents Happen. I became a police officer while suffering a midlife crisis in my forties. I became a detective a few years later. Crime in my small [. ...
  • Mubarak Schools Obama
    * Bumped Up * I don’t want to minimize what has been transpiring in Egypt over the last ten days, but the media has worked overtime to tell a particular story of a people’s revolution ousting a brutal dictator. While Mubarak is in no danger of being described as an Egyptian version of Ghandi, he ...
  • Jared Loughner Kicking Egyptian Ass
    Let’s face facts–when it comes to a brutal killing machine, the Egyptian Police and Military are pansies compared to the lethality of Arizona’s crazy Congressional assasin, Jared Led Loughner. Here are the numbers. Loughner killed six and wounded 14 in a two minute period in early January 2011. ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • How the Human Body Clock Dates Back Millions o ...
    A breakthrough in science: a 24-hour clock has been found in human cells, giving important insights into various bodily functions. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Images of the Last Uncontacted Tribe on Earth
    Incredible images of an uncontacted tribe that could slide out of existence if illegal logging is not stopped in their protected area of Peru. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Most Beautiful National Birds on Earth
    Let us meet some of the most beautiful national birds in the world, before they too disappear due to human encroachment upon their territory. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 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 ...

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • From Sputnik to SunShot
    The Energy Department provided $27 million to nine new solar projects under a program to drive down the cost of solar power production.
  • On Our Radar: Rare Aerial Footage of Isolated ...
    A look at items on the environment around the Web.
  • Arizona Solar Plant Picks Chinese Supplier
    Suntech, the Chinese solar giant, will make photovoltaic panels for a 150-megawatt project, marking China's entry into a lucrative American market.
  • Rescuing the Earth's Weather History
    Widespread, highly accurate temperature observations began only in the mid-19th century, and global coverage was obtained only in the 20th century. This scanty record hurts modern climatology in many ways.
  • 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.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • From the Internet Archives: My 2003 Interview ...
    Here's a nice find. In October 2003 I interviewed Rashid Khalidi for the Mac Weekly. It wound up on the website and eventually got deleted around 2006, but it was still in the Internet Archives Wayback Machine at http://web.archive.org/web/20060612202355/http://www.macalester.edu/week... Overall ...
  • 9/11 FBI warning from key informant of "Kamika ...
    Caught an interesting item on Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs Post about a team of FBI agents who had key clues into the 9/11 conspiracy, serious and specific prior warnings from an Iranian informant and ex-SAVAK officer who was himself a major handler with a deep network of informants around the P ...
  • 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 ...

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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Institute for Policy Studies

  • Interview with Juan Cole
    In our special focus on Islamophobia, Foreign Policy In Focus interviews noted professor, writer, and blogger Juan Cole on Egypt, Islamofascism, and "America anxiety" in the Muslim world.
  • We Need to Rethink, Not Rearm NAFTA
    While Canada and the US get ready to move bilaterally to beef up border security, we wonder who benefits from the proposed "security perimeter."
  • Food, Egypt, and Wall Street
    As Egypt and the Middle East rise, Wall Street and congressional Republicans continue to ignore the financial reforms the world is demanding.
  • Mas de 250 Economistas llaman a Reformas que P ...
    En una carta entregada el 31 de enero, más de 250 economistas hacen un llamado urgente al gobierno de Obama para que reforme las reglas de comercio de los Estados Unidos que restringen el uso de controles de capital.
  • Justice for a 9-Year-Old Girl's Killers in the ...
    Everyone should have heard about the murder of Brisenia Flores by now.

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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    Please visit our new Media section for the latest details.
  • 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

  • Just in time for the Super Bowl, the FDA is qu ...
    After the recent E. coli O157:H7 outbreak linked to Bravo raw milk gouda cheese that sickened 38 (one with HUS), the New York Times is quickly becoming the go to newspaper for cheese lovers. Bill Neuman wrote yet another article on cheese – “Raw Milk Cheesemakers Fret Over Possible New Rules” – ...
  • American Food Service Recalls 3,170 Pounds of ...
    According to a FSIS release, American Food Service, a Pico Rivera, Calif. establishment, is recalling approximately 3,170 pounds of fresh ground beef patties and other bulk packages of ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7 announce late Friday night. FSIS inspection ...
  • 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 ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Report: $33M in EV tax credits went to buy unq ...
    Filed under: Car Buying, Government/Legal Is a bicycle an electric vehicle? How about a Hummer H3? These are some of the things that Americans claimed were hybrids, alternative-powered or plug-in electric vehicles on their tax forms, reports USA Today. What's more, the false claimants managed ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 02.04.11
    Top Gear host wants electric vehicles powered by bumper car technology Watch out! Italian designers envision amazing Solar Wind bridge It looks like the future, that's for sure. Agility Saietta electric m ...
  • 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 ...

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!

  • Democracy Now! Special Two-Hour Show On Saturd ...
    On Saturday, Feb. 5, Democracy Now! will broadcast a two-hour special from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. EST on the Egyptian uprising and the growing pro-democracy protests across the Arab world. The show will be hosted by Democracy Now! senior producer Sharif Abdel Koudouss in Cairo along with Amy Goodman ...
  • 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 ...

Digg Green

  • How Marijuana Works
    ­­Marijuana is the buds and leaves of the Cannabis sativa plant. This plant contains more than 400 chemicals, including delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the plant's main psychoactive chemical. THC is known to affect our brain's short-term memory. Additionally, marijuana affects motor coo ...
  • Germany Recycles 70% of Its Waste; US Onl ...
    Image: Facops Read it and weep: "Germany leads the European nations in recycling, with around 70 percent of the waste the country generates successfully recovered and reused each year. To put that figure into perspective, consider this: In 2007, the U.S. was able to recover only about 33 p ...
  • It May Be a Sputnik Moment, but Science F ...
    As science fair season kicks into high gear, participation among high school students appears to be declining. And many science teachers say the problem is not a lack of celebration, but the Obama administration’s own education policy, which holds schools accountable for math and reading sc ...
  • Department of Energy Seeks to Cut Solar C ...
    The U.S. Department of Energy said on Friday it will spend $27 million on a new effort to reduce the costs of solar power to be competitive with fossil fuels by the end of the decade.
  • Scientists Suggest Protocol for Messaging ...
    In 1974, humans broadcast the first message targeted at extraterrestrial life using the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico. The message, which was aimed at the globular star cluster M13 located 25,000 light years away, consisted of binary digits that encoded information about our ... ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • The Revolutions of the Outer and Inner Worlds
    By Les Visible I can speak with some small authority, only on those things I have experienced. I can speak with some intuitive reach, concerning individuals, forces and conditions that I have not experienced and… I can speculate to my hearts content. This is one of the reasons I use my own life ...
  • John’s Boner is a GOP Guidon, Flying a H ...
    By Les Visible The first thing I noticed about John Boner was that, despite being a traditionalist, as in traditional hypocrite and traditional sanctimonious, talking out of both sides of his mouth; “I am above all laws both moral and otherwise”, is his breaking from tradition. Generally Republi ...
  • Russell Means: Welcome To The Reservation
    The United States is one big reservation, and we are all in it. So says Russell Means, legendary actor, political activist and leader for the American Indian Movement. Means led the 1972 seizure of the Bureau of Indian Affairs headquarters in Washington, D.C., and in 1973 led a standoff at Wound ...
  • Bahrain’s revolution underway as the Day of Ra ...
    Bahrain will be the next in line for a popular revolution. The youth have decided that 14th February would be “The Day of Rage” against the Al Khalifa hereditary dictatorship that has repeatedly failed to make use of the opportunities for a return to civil, pluralistic and representative rule. T ...
  • The CPAC Defender of the Constitution Award go ...
    This can only qualify as a “you’ve got to be kidding me…” By Robert Herriman I would like to say Iâm shocked over this choice; however, the neocon dominated Conservative Political Action Conference has played us before with their other choices: John Ashcroft and Rush Limbaugh. Iâm trying to unde ...

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

  • 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

  • 5 Tips for a Green Home Remodel from Eco Archi ...
    While conjuring up comfort in the home seems like a basic principle, it’s a far more complex process for architect & remodeling guru Sarah Susanka, who believes that comfort can significantly influence the sustainability of your personal abode. With her mantra of “build better, not bigger,” Susa ...
  • San Francisco Will Receive $3.9M for Even More ...
    Trouncing the competition when it comes to green living, San Francisco has received an additional $3.9 million to expand the number of electric car chargers in the city. The Bay Area Air Quality Management District approved the amount to be distributed as a rebate for residents who buy new elect ...
  • Emilano Godoy’s Shiny Snowjob Chair Is Made fr ...
    When we caught a glimpse of Emiliano Godoy’s Snowjob Chair over at Designboom, we couldn’t help but be entranced by its spectacular sheen. A modern piece built with FSC certified wood with a vegetable based, biodegradable finish, each Snowjob has also been covered with a material called Ecoist – ...
  • Unrest In Egypt is Yet Another Reason For US t ...
    In response to the recent crisis in Egypt, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee said today that the situation should accelerate the US’s efforts to reduce foreign oil imports. Pushing the message further was Republican Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) with her belief that the rising tensi ...
  • Win a Sweet Recycled-Leather Biker Jacket (wor ...
    If you’re a firm believer that people who care about the planet and animals can be just as badass as the next guy (or gal, in this case), we think this sexy biker jacket from The Sway speaks right to your point. The edgy hand-patched jacket (worth $856) is made from offcuts and leftovers of [... ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Tiny Water Flea Has More Genes Than You Do
    By Mark Brown, Wired UK This tiny, near-microscopic water flea has more genes than you. In fact, this freshwater zooplankton is the first crustacean to have its genome sequenced, and its 31,000 genes crowns it the animal with the most genes so far. For those keeping count at home, the average h ...
  • Video: Uncontacted Tribe in Brazilian Jungle
    Video of an uncontacted tribe spotted in the Brazilian jungle has been released, bringing them to life in ways that photographs alone cannot. The tribe, believed to be Panoa Indians, have been monitored from a distance by Brazil’s National Indian Foundation, a government agency charged with h ...
  • Black Widow Spiders are Wasteful Gluttons
    The most venomous spider in North America, the black widow, is actually a bit of a couch potato. âThey’re sort of like humans, when they’re around a lot of food they become lazy and wasteful,â said J. Chadwick Johnson, a biologist at Arizona State University. âThey’ll kill food they don’t need, ...
  • Small Asteroid Passes Close to Earth Today
    A small asteroid swooped within 7,366 miles of Earth on Feb. 4 — today — at 2:40 p.m. EST [19:40 UT]. The object, called 2011 CQ1, was discovered earlier today by astronomer Richard Kowalski using a 0.68-meter telescope near Mount Bigelow outside of Tuscon, Arizona as part of the Catalina Sky S ...
  • Your Next Football Party Could Be Vacuum Fried
    Championship games come and go, but one Super Bowl matchup remains the same: yummy, unhealthy fried snacks versus healthy, unyummy vegetables. Perhaps that will change. Food engineers at Chile’s Pontificia Universidad Catolica  say they’ve developed a new way to use vacuum fryers to make lower ...

PakAlert

  • Egypt – Creative Destruction For A ‘Greater Mi ...
    Fast on the heels of the regime change in Tunisia came a popular-based protest movement launched on January 25 against the entrenched order of Egypt's Hosni Mubarak. Contrary to the carefully-cultivated impression that the Obama Administration is trying to retain the present regime of Mubarak, W ...
  • Muslim Brotherhood- Illuminati Tools
    In his book "Hostage to Khomeini," Robert Dreyfuss gave a pretty accurate rendering of the MB in 1980, which as I have witnessed, is common knowledge in high government, diplomatic and Intelligence circles: "The real Muslim Brotherhood is not the fanatical sheikh with his equally fanatical fo ...
  • VIDEO: THE EURO & U.S. DOLLAR COLLAPSE & DEVAL ...
    Trunews discuss the coming devaluation of the U.S. Dollar and the collapse of the Euro currency marked for an April 2011 time frame.This was confirmed by Pastor Lindsey Williams , the dollar is going to crash one hundred per cent it cannot sustain itself and it is going to collapse , the Euro wi ...
  • NATO Surrenders Europe To U.S. Global Missile ...
    On January 27 the North Atlantic Treaty Organization took the most decisive step yet toward the implementation of the decades-old project first proposed by the Ronald Reagan administration for a Strategic Defense Initiative, popularly known as Star Wars.
  • Lahore: A Target Of Indian Spies, And Now Amer ...
    US Ambassador complains to Pakistani Government that media reports have exposed the location of American residences inside Lahore’s military zone, but fails to mention why US personnel with diplomatic cover have been found at wrong places, sometimes carrying weapons that diplomats are not suppos ...

Andy Worthington

  • Guantánamo Prisoner Dies After Being Held for ...
    The Second World War lasted for six years, and at the end of it prisoners of war were released to resume their lives. At Guantánamo, on the other hand, the prison has just marked the ninth anniversary of its opening, and on Thursday the Pentagon announced that Awal Gul, a 48-year old Afghan pris ...
  • Guantánamo: A Tale of Two Tunisians
    Two weeks ago, in light of the uprising in Tunisia that brought to an end the 23-year reign of terror of President Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, I wrote an article about the twelve Tunisians held in Guantánamo throughout the prison’s nine-year history — the two men transferred to Tunisia in June 200 ...
  • Revolution in Egypt – and the Hypocrisy ...
    For the United States and other Western countries, the popular uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt (which threaten to spread to other countries, including Yemen and Algeria) are something of a nightmare. Just as the authorities in these countries are struggling — and failing — to cope with popular up ...
  • Guantánamo and the Military Commissions: Revol ...
    Last Friday, Ken Ota of the newspaper Revolution asked me to do a phone interview to discuss the recent announcement that President Obama was planning a new series of trials by Military Commission at Guantánamo, to explain the significance of this announcement, and to run through the largely sha ...
  • Andy Worthington Archived by the British Libra ...
    I’m delighted to report that my website Andy Worthington has been chosen by the British Library as part of its UK Web Archive. As the curators explain: The UK Web Archive contains websites that publish research, that reflect the diversity of lives, interests and activities throughout the UK, and ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • G! E! T! S! (bud) GETS! (bud) GETS! (bud) GE ...
    (Oh, was that too soon, Jets fans? Suck it up. Love, The Patriots Nation.) Forget football, it’s budget season again! And even though we paid all those pesky teachers last year, they want money again this year. So, of course, it will be controversial. There are several things in play this y ...
  • A Real Public Option In Connecticut?
    And so it would seem.The other day for an open thread at ePluribus Media I commented on "the intended public option that should be Sustinet in Connecticut," and it would seem that is to be the case if the Sustinet Health Partnership Board of Directors get their way according to the report they h ...
  • Dan Malloy scores first in Danbury
    Dan Malloy jumping off of the bench of the Danbury Whalers shortly after scoring the first goal in Whalers' history. [update] I have an interview from after the game at TK's. Let me say, in advance, that he was a bit reluctunt to give it since I am a political blogger... But as a hockey fan I ...
  • Still All That I Want
    Something that gets lost in the news about the unemployed is the fact that much of what used to be the backbone of this nation's economic prowess, the middle class, is now the working poor: Imagine That: Working Poor On The Rise After the Republicans crashed to economy in 2008 one thing became ...
  • Choosing a New Police Chief: No Local Ties, Pl ...
    Do you want your town to look like The Dukes of Hazzard? Then again, maybe New Milford has been run by Boss Hogg and Roscoe P. Coltrane for a while. If that's not your idea of how a quaint New England town should be run, then help make sure the next police chief has no local ties - political o ...

SPL Center

  • Who is Jared Lee Loughner?
    Is Jared Lee Loughner, the alleged mass murderer who shot U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona, a right-wing extremist? It’s hard to say. When you look at the Internet material he purportedly produced, the first impression you get is that the 22-year-old now in custody for the shooting of 20 ...
  • Buyer Beware: Veterans Today and its Anti-Isra ...
    Veterans Today (VT) is a website that bills itself as a “military veterans and foreign affairs journal.” And, indeed, many of its contributors are military veterans or veterans’ advocates from across the political spectrum. VT also offers some information about veterans’ benefits (lifted from th ...
  • Dearborn, Mich., Police Arrest Man in Apparent ...
    A 63-year-old Southern California man who reportedly has “a long history of antigovernment activities” was arrested in a car laden with explosives outside one of the nation’s largest mosques, the authorities said Sunday. More than 500 members of the Dearborn, Mich., mosque were attending a funer ...
  • White Supremacist Turned FBI Snitch Turner Sen ...
    The sentence wasn’t as harsh as he feared, but neo-Nazi blogger and shock-jock radio host Hal Turner will spend 25 months in prison worrying about white racists he believes will be eager to snuff him for having been an FBI informant. Turner, 48, whose vicious rhetoric was much admired among whit ...
  • Bias-Crimes Cop Accuses Suffolk County Executi ...
    Over the last several years, Suffolk County, N.Y., has been a hotbed of anti-Latino hate, a place that became infamous for the brutal murder of an Ecuadorian immigrant by a gang of white teens who were out for a night of âbeaner hopping.â County Executive Steve Levy has taken his share of critic ...

change: org.

  • Australian Rental Company Encourages Tourists ...
    Wicked Campers, a campervan rental company in Australia, has outfitted the thousand or so vehicles in their fleet with bumper stickers that read: "Kangaroos, run the buggers down!" Some have the original "run the fuckers down" version, from before the company CEO, John Webb, was told by his wife ...
  • More Trauma in Louisiana, This Time for HIV-Po ...
    AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs) are vital state programs that assist HIV-positive individuals with paying for the incredibly expensive medications needed to treat and manage this devastating disease. Without these essential medications, a person’s HIV disease is more likely to progress and ...
  • Get on Board: The Abolitionist Tour is Coming ...
    In some ways, it all started for Indianapolis DJ Jeff Popka when he noticed who was listening to his internet broadcasts. “I’m reaching people in South Korea, in Turkey, places you wouldn’t think. And I realized, I need to start doing something good, spreading good around.” That’s when he came u ...
  • Prison Officer Murdered on the Job
    Jayme Biendl worked as an officer for the Washington State Department of Corrections for 9 years, and was based at the Monroe Correctional Complex. She was often stationed in the chapel, where she had voiced concerns about the safety of working in the chapel. "She had talked with supervisors and ...
  • New Bill Aims to Keep Puppy Mills Out of Parad ...
    Hawaii, the so-called "progressive" state infamous for its very regressive attitudes regarding animals, might be taking steps this legislative season to actually change things for the better. Consider, for example, House Bill 1621. This bill would put in place new regulations to deal with the pr ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Hosni Mubarak's Power Fades as US Backs His De ...
    by Julian Borger in Munich and Chris McGreal in Cairo America yesterday swung its support behind Egypt's vice-president, Omar Suleiman, and the political transition he is leading, calling for a process of orderly reform.read more
  • Egypt Regime Digs in as Death Toll Mounts in T ...
    by Jack Shenker and Peter Beaumont in Cairo, Harriet Sherwood in Alexandria, and Julian Borger The Egyptian regime dug in today, defying international pressure to begin an immediate transfer of power while launching attacks on journalists and human rights observers.read more
  • Kucinich: Does Treatment of Pfc. Bradley Manni ...
    Release by Congressman Dennis KucinichWASHINGTON  - Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) yesterday wrote to Defense Secretary Robert Gates asking for information about reports that the Army ignored evidence of the mental health problems of Pfc. Bradley Manning, the soldier accused of leaking class ...
  • Murdoch Launches Bid to Rule News in the iPad ...
    by Stephen FoleyRupert Murdoch, the media mogul who parlayed a small Australian newspaper company into one of the world's biggest conglomerates, promised yesterday to "re-imagine" the newspaper and "make the business of newsgathering and editing viable again", as he launched the first daily news ...
  • Hillary Clinton Signals US Backing for Omar Su ...
    by Julian Borger in MunichThe US secretary of state Hillary Clinton today signalled how far the US has swung its support behind vice-president Omar Suleiman and the transition process he is leading in Egypt.Clinton was speaking at a security conference in Munich today, where the watchword on Egy ...

Lifehacker

  • Hack an IKEA Bookshelf into a Holder for Cardb ...
    Cardboard from shipping boxes and food products can pile up fast. This DIY holder wrangles your cardboard out of the way and keeps it neatly stacked for easy bundling. More��
  • Integrate Google Docs into Your Existing Docum ...
    We've featured a few ways to get Google Docs to sync to your desktop, but if you'd rather not use extra software, reader Sweens offers a very simple solution: Just save links to them in your Documents folder. More�� ...
  • Read "The Daily" Free on The Web [Re ...
    Heard the hype about The Daily, Rupert Murdoch's big iPad-only, newspaper-style app? Of course you have, because it's inescapable. Want to see some actual content? You can, for now, see most of it free, online, through Andy Baio's The Dail ...
  • What We Use: Whitson Gordon's Favorite Gear an ...
    This week, Lifehacker's editors are sharing the hardware, software, tips and tricks they use to keep Lifehacker running every day. I'm finishing it all up with some custom hardware, an absurd amount of apps, and a bit of Linux love. Mor ...
  • Create Entirely New Email Addresses as a Hotma ...
    Hotmail users can use the "name+something@hotmail.com" email filtering trick—so, you know, it's at Gmail's level from five years ago. But it's got an even more powerful spam-fighting, privacy-protecting option: creating an entirely new add ...

Water Privatization

Guardian

  • Egyptian government agrees to make concessions
    �� Muslim Brotherhood holds talks with government �� US swings support behind vice president Omar Suleiman �� Read the latest summary ترجم �ذ� ا�ص�حة إ�� ا�عرب�ة3.51pm: A marriage has taken been taking place in Tahrir Square between two protesters.Omar Robert Hamilton tweets what the bride said: ...
  • Russian rebel threatens more attacks
    Doku Umarov vows year of 'blood and tears' in message released a fortnight after suicide attack on Domodedovo airportThe leader of Russia's Islamist rebel movement has vowed to make 2011 "a year of blood and tears" in a message released two weeks after the deadly suicide bombing at Domodedovo ai ...
  • Cuts 'will mean 10,000 fewer police'
    Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper says coalition's 20% cut to police budget is 'completely out of touch with communities'More than 10,000 police officers in England and Wales are to be cut over the next two years in what the Labour party said was an example of the "shocking and brutal reality" ...
  • US espionage trial opens in Iran
    Three US citizens who claimed they were hiking along Iraqi border in 2009 to be tried behind closed doorsAn Iranian court today began closed-door proceedings in the espionage trial of three Americans whose detention has been the subject of impassioned family appeals and backdoor US diplomacy.Teh ...
  • Pregnant woman killed in flat fire
    Hunt for killer after postmortem raises suspicions over 19-year-old found dead in her flatPolice investigating the death of a heavily pregnant teenager in a fire in Newport are treating the incident as murder.Nikitta Grender, 19, who was eight months pregnant, was found after officers from Gwent ...

McClatchey

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • Oysters clear seas for local remedies
    This week saw formal scientific publication of a report that produces one of the starkest conclusions I've seen about humanity's relationship with the oceans. Globally, 85% of oyster beds have basically disappeared. The paper, in the journal BioScience (though not apparently on its website yet) ...
  • UN sticks with climate agenda - but what prosp ...
    Reports suggesting that UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is retiring from the climate change agenda have had commentators wondering a) what it means for prospects of a new global climate agreement and b) whether the UN remains committed to the issue. � What appears to be happening is that two ...
  • Arctic canary looking sicker than ever
    If the Arctic really is the "canary in the coal mine" for climate change impacts, as it's often been labelled, then it's a canary about which we know a little more following a spate of scientific papers coming out over the last week or so. And looking at what they say, as well as readings from ...
  • Forests: REDD or dead?
    There's pretty strong criticism this week for the UN-backed initiative on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD) - criticism timed for the opening, in New York, of the UN Forum on Forests. Forest destruction is a major cause of biodiversity loss around the world R ...
  • H for 'human': The missing climate link?
    As many commentators have pointed out down the years, virtually all the hopes expressed by governments in terms of reducing carbon emissions ultimately hang on technology. It stems from the famous IPAT equation: Impact = Population x Affluence x Technology ...sometimes expressed as... Impac ...



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