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The Wonk Room

• Kasich Proposes Another Privatization Scheme T ...
• Indiana’s New Evaluation System Shows Ra ...
• Do Americans Support Opting Out Of Health Refo ...
• Child Poverty Hits 25 Percent In Texas, But Go ...
• The Problems With Searching For An Alternative ...

thwap's schoolyard

• It Ain't a Waste of Time
  So, maybe the NDP is going to chicken-out and hide from the electorate, I mean "make Parliament work" by propping-up the monstrous harpercons for some crumbs in the budget. Of course, Liberal bloggers are working themselves into a sexual frenzy at the thought that their party has found its spine ...
• The Arab Street
  I don't know anything about "the Arab street." I think I've read that it's a journalist cliche for an attempt to describe public opinion around the Middle East. But I've also heard the term used rather frequently following the Tunisian Revolution. This revolution involved the overthrow of a corr ...
• Food in 2011
  Something else to watch for: "The Great Food Crisis of 2011" On the demand side, the culprits are population growth, rising affluence, and the use of grain to fuel cars. On the supply side: soil erosion, aquifer depletion, the loss of cropland to nonfarm uses, the diversion of irrigation water t ...
• A Little Story
  My father owned a couple of buildings in the east-end. Three-storey walk-ups. One fall Sunday he took me with him to inspect the building. I was about seven years old. As we approached the first building, we could see a lot of commotion in front. I saw a woman and her three children on the sidew ...
• Tunisia - How bad it had to get
  There's another global food crisis in the works. The global economic crisis is hitting the poorest nations worst. But there are elites and there are the rest of us. In a sense "We are all Tunisians now." http://counterpunch.org/ridley01142011.html

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

• Immigrant whistleblowers don't have to answer ...
  One of the most pernicious forms of exploitation today is the abuse of undocumented immigrant workers. It has been a long time since our immigration laws matched the aspiration of the Statue of Liberty, and millions of immigrant workers are forced into an undocumented status that leaves them vul ...
• More interns working on whistleblower cases
  We are pleased to have even more interns joining us this semester. You can see our first group of interns (who are still with us) here. �Standing are Christopher, Jesse, David, David, Zach, Shane, Milan and Naoki. Seated are Sabeen, Karen, Ryan, Sabrina and Whitney. Thank you all for your de ...
• Appeals Court to Rule Shortly on Constitutiona ...
  The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit is expected to rule shortly on the constitutionality of a key provision of America's most successful and powerful whistleblower protection law, the False Claims Act (FCA). ACLU v. Holder, Fourth Circuit Case No. 09-2086. The attack agains ...
• DOL issues new final rules for environmental w ...
  The U.S. Department of Labor has finally issued its responses to comments submitted in 2007 about its interim regulations for nuclear and environmental whistleblowers. Codified at 29 CFR Part 24, these regulations have been trendsetters for regulations affecting other whistleblower statutes. The ...
• Ninth Circuit protects social worker's court t ...
  Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued an opinion holding that a social worker is protected from retaliation for his courtroom testimony about  a former client. The case is Clairmont v. Sound Mental Health and Wilson, No. 09-35856 (9th Cir. 2011). From 2005 to 2007, S ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

• Gabriel Tane's Favorites Of The Week: Censorsh ...
  This week's list of "favorite" posts of the week is handed off to Gabriel Tane Friends! Countrymen! Techdirt-ians! Lend me your... eyes! It's my turn to stroke my ego and pretend that anyone cares to hear what I have to say about issues. But, if you're still reading (and keep on reading ...
• Building An Audience Takes Time, But In The Lo ...
  One of the regular complaints we hear when we talk about people like Amanda Palmer or Kevin Smith is that they have to spend so much time cultivating their "audience" that they don't have time to actually "work." Of course, that should be plainly ridiculous if you just look at those two. In th ...
• The Distributed Party Of 'We' Is Already In Co ...
  I tend not to be much of a believer in political "parties." They always seem to get lost in groupthink around what's best for "the party," rather than what's best, period. I even tend to have issues with groups like The Pirate Party. While I support many of the ideals and concepts within the ...
• Star Wars Is A Remix
  A few months back, Kirby Ferguson started a fascinating project called Everything is a Remix, highlighting how the concept of "remixing" what came before, and adding additional new elements to it is much, much more common than you would think. The project kicked off late last summer with a vide ...
• DailyDirt: Wind & Water Power
  It's generally a worthwhile goal to diversify -- putting all your eggs in one basket is almost asking for trouble. So it's nice to see folks working on different ways to generate electricity that don't involve burning fossil fuels or dealing with the hassle of radioactive materials (not that th ...

VacTruth

• Vaccinated Sibling Transmits Rotavirus to Unva ...
  In January of 2010, vaccine-derived rotavirus was transmitted from the vaccinated infant to his older, unvaccinated sibling that lead to 'symptomatic rotavirus gastroenteritis'.Vactruth.com
• Fearful UK Healthcare Workers Refuse Flu Vacci ...
  The side effects of the flu vaccine have been causing many UK healthcare workers to question its safety. In the US, a nurse was fired for refusing hers.Vactruth.com
• US Airman Developed Inflamed Heart After Small ...
  In 2003, an airman proceeded to go to the emergency room eight days following the administration of a smallpox vaccine. It was determined the airman developed myocarditis, or inflammation of the heart, as a consequence of the smallpox vaccination.Vactruth.com
• The Saga of Andy Wakefield Continues…
  The recent attacks against Dr. Andrew Wakefield are the latest battles in a failed attempt to preserve the international vaccine agenda.Vactruth.com
• FDA Duped Into Approving Fake Product for Huma ...
  An Independent Review Board approved fake product. How did this happen?Vactruth.com

BroadSnark

• On Snow and Relationships
  We have had a couple good snows this winter.  That means that I’ve had to navigate snow and ice covered sidewalks without breaking my neck.  Bad enough for me, who is generally steady on her feet when sober, but others really just have to forget about going anywhere until the snow melts. It is ...
• Things You Might Have Missed
  According to the Bureau of Justice, 7,225,800 people were under some sort of “correctional supervision” at the end of 2009.  That means they were either incarcerated or on parole.  How depressing is that? The beginning of these videos on anarchist economics was interesting.  I’ll be looking ...
• Things You Might Have Missed
  First Tunisia and now Egypt.  Let’s hope this game of dominoes goes on for a while.  By the looks of it, the young people are feeling it. The Haiti news has been fascinating this last week.  Baby Doc has the nerve to return to Haiti.  Michele Montas (maybe you saw her in the Agronomist) is [ ...
• Borders, Scale and Mental Boxes
  Michael Lind recently put out a piece in Slate called Let’s Stop Pretending the Constitution is Sacred.  He won’t get any lip from me on that.  I don’t think anything is sacred.  But in making his argument, he ends up undermining one of the key understandings central to his argument.  And ...
• Things You Might Have Missed
  Looks like Baby Doc got picked up by the police in Haiti today. Some people are wondering why he was allowed to fly in. Some people are wondering if they are really going to prosecute him. I’m wondering why the fuck that murdering bastard has been drinking wine and eating baguettes in France all ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

• The California Sink-Hole: Budget Cutting Doesn ...
  By Harley Schlanger Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, January 21, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 3
• ‘Economist’ Announces: A Big Mideast War Comin ...
  By Jeffrey Steinberg and Michele Steinberg Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, January 21, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 3
• LaRouche: ‘Who’s Eating You?’ The World Food C ...
  By Marcia Merry Baker Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, January 21, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 3
• Berwick, Blair, Hitler & Obama: The Death of L ...
  By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, January 21, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 3
• The January 22 Address (Notes): The State of t ...
  EIR News Service press release. By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

Armies of Liberation

• The blockade of South Yemen follows tactics of ...
  As Yemen’s blockade on southern Yemen enters its third week, stocks of food, medicine and oil have dwindled to dangerous levels. Prices have skyrocketed and already malnourished children bear the brunt of the military action. The blockade began 17 days ago when the Western Armored Division estab ...
• بقلم الكاتبة الامريكية جين نوفاك : ثلاثة أسابي ...
  مع دخول الحصار اليمني على اليمن الجنوبي أسبوعه الثالث ، إنخفضت المخزونات من المواد الغذائية والدواء و المشتقات النفطية الى مستويات تنذر بالخطر. و ارتفعت الأسعار و أصبح الأطفال يعانون بالفعل من سوء التغذية تحت وطأة العمليات العسكرية. وبدأ الحصار قبل 17 يوما عندما قامت وحدات المنطقة الغربية المدرع ...
• السلام مع الكرامة في اليمن: هل يمكن ايقاف دوام ...
  اÙسÙام مع اÙÙرامة Ù٠اÙÙÙ…Ù: ÙÙ ÙÙ…Ù٠اÙÙا٠دÙام٠اÙØ­Ø±Ø¨Ø Ùتبت: جÙÙ ÙÙÙاÙ*- ÙصحÙÙØ© “إجسامÙÙر” ترجمة/ عبداÙÙ٠عبداÙÙÙاب ÙاجÙ- ترجمة خاصة بÙ: اÙمستشار Ùت Ù٠حرب م٠حرÙب صعدة اÙستة Ù٠اÙÙÙ…Ù ÙÙ Ùسخة Ù…Ùررة Ù… ...
• Peace with Dignity in Yemen, Can the Cycle of ...
  Each of the six Sa’ada wars in Yemen was a photo copy of the one before, except the bombs got bigger, the children more frail and the jails more crowded. The Yemeni government systematically denied food, medicine and international aid to civilians in the northern Sa’ada province as a tactic of w ...
• Would Yemeni law find Anwar Awlaki guilty?
  Yemen’s Foreign Minister Abu Baker al Qirby urged Anwar Awlaki to turn himself to be tried under Yemeni law, vowing that no Yemeni citizen would be extradited to the US or any other country. The US announced last week that it had authorized Awlaki’s kill or capture, having determined he is an ac ...

Dark Politricks

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

food and water watch

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

treehugger

• Weekday Vegetarian: Red Lentil Dal with Cumin- ...
  Photo: Kelly Rossiter We are off to dinner at my mother-in-law's tonight, and she doesn't really get vegetarianism. So I make something to take along for my vegetarian son to eat, as he is usually on his way to dinner from work. It has to be something that is easy to reheat and doesn't requ ...
• See, Obama Still Cares About Climate Change (V ...
  See? Obama still cares about climate change! Despite keeping largely silent on the issue over the last year or two, failing to speak up to save the climate bill from certain death in the Senate, and not giving it any mention at all during his State of the Union address, he still wants Americ ...
• 75x More Fish Were Caught In Arctic From 1950- ...
  photo: ajburcar/Creative Commons Apropos of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization just told us that we're eating all time record amounts of fish: Researchers from the University of British Columbia are reporting that between 1950 and 2006 the total amount of fish caught in Arctic waters ...
• TreeHugger Founder Graham Hill Featured in Sho ...
  Photo: Screen grabs from video Chapter 1: The New City Our Dear Leader was interviewed for a documentary series about the future of mobility. The first instalment is about our increasingly urban future and how mega-cities are, in Graham's words, "very efficient sharing systems". Graham als ...
• Oprah's Vegan Challenge, Miranda Kerr's Green ...
  Photo: Oprah.com If there's any A-lister in the world that could bring veganism to the masses, it's Oprah -- and with a full show this week dedicated to meat-free diets, she's taking on the challenge. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Biosingularity

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

CFACT

• New study affirms natural climate change
  A new paper affirms the earth̢۪s long, moderate, natural climate cycle. Dr. U.R. Rao, former chair of India̢۪s Space Research Organization, says solar variations and cosmic rays account for 40 percent of the world̢۪s recent global warming.
• National Geographic's sea level rise projectio ...
  National Geographic made a serious error when it said that a 1-m sea level rise could occur if the polar ice caps melted.
• Is the world food chain stretched to the limit ...
  The U.S. could ease the current global food price spike with one administrative action--limiting the amount of U.S. corn that gets turned into corn ethanol.
• A step-change in Earth's climate outlook?
  As Britain suffers through its third straight harsh winter, a British watchdog group is calling for an inquiry into the failed recent long-range weather forecasts of the British Meteorological Office.
• Driving US families into fuel poverty
  Will America learn in time from the price being paid by British companies and families?

Ria Novosti Online News

• Syria, Turkey lay foundation of 'Friendship Da ...
  Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Syrian counterpart Muhammad Naji Utri on Sunday laid the foundation stone for a Friendship Dam on Turkish-Syrian border.
• Urals killers stab three people, set fire to c ...
  Unknown attackers in the Russian Urals Sverdlovsk region have killed three people and set fire to the apartment to disguise the murder, local investigators said on Sunday.
• Afghanistan security handover to begin on Marc ...
  The first phase of handing control of Afghanistan's provinces from international forces to Afghan security forces will start on March 21, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Sunday.
• 47th Munich Security Conference
• Saakashvili says August war aimed to end Georg ...
  Georgia's leader Mikheil Saakashvili said Russia planned to give a blow to Georgia's democracy and disrupt hydrocarbons supplies to Europe during the August 2008 conflict.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• Maiden flight of Russia's Soyuz-ST carrier roc ...
  The first flight of Russia's Soyuz-ST-B carrier rocket from the European space center in French Guiana has been scheduled for August 31, 2011, the Progress design bureau said on Wednesday.
• Medvedev calls on state corporations to raise ...
  Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told the modernization commission on Monday that state corporations must substantially increase investment in scientific research and development projects.
• Ukraine needs fewer universities - education m ...
  Ukrainian Education Minister Dmitriy Tabachnyk has criticized the country's higher education system, saying that the number of universities in Ukraine should be decreased.
• Russian space freighter Progress M-09M docks w ...
  A Russian cargo spacecraft, Progress M-09M, docked on Sunday with the International Space Station (ISS).
• Russian space freighter Progress M-09M docks w ...

Pruning Shears

• The unstoppable dumbassery of James Taranto
  Once more, with feeling: Eliminationist rhetoric among prominent commentators and high ranking elected officials is almost exclusively the province of the right. See here if you haven’t already. And here. And here. And here. Now that we’re up to speed, it seems that James Taranto has managed ...
• Blogroll Amnesty Day
  Today is Blogroll Amnesty Day, the day where bloggers promote their lesser trafficked bretheren (and sisteren(?)). Here are my 2011 selections:Corrente. Will always be Boldly Shrill to me.Lotus - Surviving a Dark Time Mikeb302000 - guns, politics, capital punishment, movies and musicHannah’s B ...
• The economic aspect of Egypt's protests
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post There appears to be a yawning chasm between what is happening in Egypt and elite opinions in DC. Consider this exchange between Chris Matthews and NBC News chief foreign affairs correspondent Richard Engel: ENGEL: The Muslim Br ...
• This Week in Tyranny
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Combat operations have concluded for these soldiers. I wonder how many US troops have to die in a single incident for it to receive satura ...
• Winter Break
  Getting away from it all.� Regular posting resumes this weekend.

Organic Consumers.org

• Extreme Weather Report From Home: The Thong Wi ...
  People across half of the US just experienced unprecedented cold, snow and ice brought in by a record setting winter storm. Climate deniers have been wondering, we thought its gonna be warm with global warming, so why is it so cold? The climate scientists on the other hand have been pointing out ...
• Mass Tree Deaths Prompt Fears of Amazon 'Clima ...
  Billions of trees died in the record drought that struck the Amazon in 2010, raising fears that the vast forest is on the verge of a tipping point, where it will stop absorbing greenhouse gas emissions and instead increase them. Click here to read this article
• "Tunisia, Egypt, ..... Will the U.S. be Next?"
  Tunisia and Egypt are both ruled by dictators, as are many other societies in the Arab world and beyond. But is it really that different in these United States, as our corporate media and government leaders would have us believe? Is this country so democratic and free that a similar sort of upri ...
• EPA to Regulate Rocket Fuel Chemical in Drinki ...
  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has identified the need to set a limit on the amount of perchlorate, a toxic chemical found in rocket fuel, that is permissible in water supplies. The agency says perchlorates negatively affects the body's ability to uptake iodine, which in turn al ...
• Coexistence: La Vida Locavore Defends the OCA
  A week or so ago, I wrote about the USDA's recent (but now obsolete) call for coexistence between farmers growing GE, non-GE, and organic crops. This referred to GE alfalfa, and since then the USDA decided to fully deregulate GE alfalfa, tossing aside any previous calls for coexistence.Click he ...

fotoFrontera

• Imágenes de cupidos para el 14 de febrero (San ...
  Continuando con esta enorme avalancha de imágenes de Amor para el 14 de febrero, presentamos en esta ocasión 15 postales de cupidos muy tiernos que seguramente le servirán para acompañar sus posts en sus blogs o para compartirlos a través de Facebook u otras redes sociales. Si desea ver más imág ...
• Imágenes de amor VIII (corazones, postales, ro ...
  En este mes del amor, queremos que tengas a tu disposición las mejores imágenes, postales, flores, rosas, chocolates y corazones para compartir con quienes más quieres. Para ello, estamos haciéndote llegar la parte número 8 de esta serie titulada 'Imágenes de Amor'. Descubre todos nuestros recur ...
• Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes X ...
  He aquí ni más ni menos que la parte número 41 de nuestra serie titulada 'Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas'. En esta ocasión, son 7 bellas fotografías que sintetizan lo mejor de nuestras colecciones. Para ver todas nuestras entregas, navegue entre los siguientes números. [1 ...
• Los colores de nuestro planeta II - Paraísos N ...
  Casi igual de rápido que la luz, presentamos la segunda parte de nuestra serie titulada 'Los colores de nuestro planeta'. En esta ocasión, se trata de 7 fotografías de paraísos naturales. Hermosas estampas de nuestra madre tierra. Si desea ver la primera parte de esta colección, haga usted click ...
• Nuevas Imágenes de Amor para todos los enamora ...
  Especialmente para todos los enamorados y aquéllos románticos que acostumbran enviar imágenes de amor, les presentamos esta interesante serie con 27 archivos dignos de ser enviados como regalos especiales este próximo 14 de febrero Día del Amor y la Amistad. Regale sobredosis de ternura en esta ...

Center for a Livable Future

• A Former Teacher’s Take on The New Dietary Gui ...
  Every five years, the United States Departments of Human Health Services and Agriculture jointly release the Dietary Guidelines for America in the hopes of encouraging every American to eat a healthy diet, however, chances are the average person will never set eyes on the report. As a former tea ...
• Oprah Enthusiastically Throws Her Support Behi ...
    Talk show host Oprah Winfrey may have just encouraged a large segment of her 30 million viewers to join the Meatless Monday movement following her latest show which gave us a rare glimpse into where some of our meat comes from. The Meatless Monday campaign’s national awareness has more t ...
• Understanding foodborne microbial hazards for ...
  One in six Americans contracts a foodborne illness each year (CDC). Such illness can mean an unpleasant day of vomiting, diarrhea, fever, and/or worseâ hospitalization or death in rare cases. âThere’s something that can be said about the problem of foodborne illness, that can’t be said of many o ...
• Again Ethanol and Food are in Conflict
  Corn prices have risen dramatically in the last 6 months and now food prices are following. This may be driving revolutions world-wide. And it will affect your grocery shopping soon.
• Shovel ready: Cuban urban agriculture as job c ...
  Iâve just returned from eight days in Cuba studying their sustainable agricultural system — especially their urban agriculture sector — and I have several key take-aways. One of the biggest insights was the untapped potential of urban agriculture as a creator of good jobs. The Cuban system wa ...

Norwegianity

• [embargoed until 2/6/11]
  Ken Martin is the new DFL chair. Chairman Ken had this to say about the DFL’s profoundly anti-democratic endorsement process: Martin may also shake up the endorsement process — last year, DFL endorsed candidate for governor Margaret Anderson Kelliher lost to Dayton in a primary. “There has to be ...
• Acornholing Planned Parenthood
  It’s official: the Army has just told General Vang’s clan and the Hmong American community and all the Hmong still in S.E. Asia to go suck on a rock. Serving as the only successful soldiers in the Vietnam era does not entitle them to full military burial honors even though the Hmong fought the C ...
• Another way in which cotton is not like oil
  My jaw just dropped. The IntercontinentalExchange just took action to cool off the overheated market for cotton futures. They’re taking the unprecedented step of requiring traders to show their trades are “economically appropriate.” Disregard for the moment the obvious truth that people with mon ...
• The rest of the links
  Mark Ames’ The A-List keeps sending me to Karl Bremer’s Ripple in Stillwater blog and if you’re into Michele Bachmann, you might want to bookmark it. Her latest episode revolves around her very quiet trip to Hawaii for a fundraiser. I say quiet because, as Bremer points out, today’s Margaret Car ...
• Jobs that pay $961,000 an hour
  One American, one solitary loner all by himself without the help or aid of any other human being last year performed feats so extraordinary as to require five billion dollars in compensation. $5,000,000,000.00. That comes out to over $15 apiece from 308 million Americans although in reality his ...

Public News Service

• National Park Service Rethinks Grand Canyon Fl ...
  National Park Service Rethinks Grand Canyon Flyovers Phoenix, AZ – Peace and quiet can be tough to find nowadays, even at a place as big and wild as the Grand Canyon. The National Park Service is proposing "substantial restoration" of the natural quiet in Grand Canyon National Park, with a new ...
• Wolf Numbers Growing on Arizona-New Mexico Bor ...
  Wolf Numbers Growing on Arizona-New Mexico Border Phoenix, AZ – The number of endangered Mexican gray wolves along Arizona’s eastern border is up nearly 20-percent in the latest count by federal wildlife officials. The annual survey last month found 50 wolves, up from 42 a year ago. Comments fro ...
• Organic 'Seed Money' Dries Up Soon
  Organic 'Seed Money' Dries Up Soon Phoenix, AZ - Arizona organic farmers, and those who want to be, have a few more weeks to apply for federal help to get them through the long transition process. The cut-off date for the Organic Initiative, part of the federal Environmental Quality Incentives P ...
• New Year's Resolution to Quit Smoking? – ...
  New Year's Resolution to Quit Smoking? – Tips to Help Kick the Habit for Good Phoenix, AZ – It’s the first week of the New Year and a crucial time for those who resolved to quit smoking – which takes an average of 7-8 tries before most people are successful. The American Lung Association offers ...
• Making Contributions That Matter
  Making Contributions That Matter Phoenix, AZ – Charitable foundations are under some of the same financial constraints as families and businesses, and a new report (from the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy) says most could be doing a better job of choosing education-related projec ...

Center for Food Safety

• Farmers And Conservationists Challenge Latest ...
  In defiance of earlier court ruling, USDA allows continued growing of controversial, illegally planted crop Today the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) issued a new decision to allow the U.S. sugar beet industry to continue growing Monsanto’s “Roundup Ready,” genetically ...
• Donate to CFS’s Legal Fund
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• Organic Industry Supports CFS in GE Sugar Beet ...
  Leading organic businesses and trade groups have filed a joint brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in support of the Center for Food Safety and opposed to Monsanto in the ongoing case regarding planting of Roundup Ready, genetically engineered sugar beets. Support from the o ...
• Fighting a Common Enemy on the GMO Battlefield
  Yesterday’s announcement by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) that it will once again allow unlimited, nation-wide commercial planting of Monsanto’s genetically-engineered (GE) Roundup Ready alfalfa, despite the many risks to organic and conventional farmers, is deeply disturbing, but no ...
• USDA Decision On GE Alfalfa Leaves Door Open F ...
  ROGUE AGENCY CHOOSES “BUSINESS AS USUAL” OVER SOUND SCIENCE CENTER ANNOUNCES IMMEDIATE LEGAL CHALLENGE TO USDA’S FLAWED ASSESSMENT  The Center for Food Safety criticized the announcement today by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) that it will once again allow unlimited, nation-wide comme ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

• Israeli Settler MK to Huckabee: ‘We’re Connect ...
  Israeli Settler MK to Huckabee: ‘We’re Connected to This Land No Less Than Your Indians’ « Tikun Olam-תקון עולם: Make the World a Better Place But I reserve the biggest laugh for Zeev’s recounting of his discussions with his pal, Mike, who the reporter erroneously credits with being a U.S. sen ...
• Protesters Being Tortured While Obama Blabs Ab ...
  Protesters Being Tortured While Obama Blabs About "Transition" | War Is A Crime .org It's notable that this NYT article is one of CNN's Ivan Watson's "Must Read" tweets, yesterday: WE had been detained by Egyptian authorities, handed over to the country’s dreaded Mukhabarat, the secret police, ...
• وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب: Those opportunists ...
  The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب: Those opportunists of Al-Ahram Center: "I can't stand those people at Al-Ahram Center. They were the ones who speak religiously about Mubarak and his 'vision' for years. They were the ones who even were used for sectarian propaganda by the ...
• A democratic Egypt may save Palestinian and Le ...
  A democratic Egypt may save Palestinian and Lebanese lives: [mondoweiss.net] "When Israel and Egypt signed a peace treaty in 1979, one of the big dividends for Israel was the removal of a major military threat on their doorstep. Egypt had participated in wars against Israel in 1948, 1956, 1967 a ...
• What Corruption and Force Have Wrought in Egyp ...
  What Corruption and Force Have Wrought in Egypt | CommonDreams.org: "The failure of the United States to halt the slow-motion ethnic cleansing of Palestinians by Israel has consequences. The failure to acknowledge the collective humiliation and anger felt by most Arabs because of the presence of ...

Pensieve

• President Llorens
  I’ve reconsidered my position about posting Wikileaks articles. This article not only discusses classified material disclosed by Wikileaks, but actually quotes it. I know some of my readers work for the US government, thus the warning. I am not an enemy of the United States of America. I simply ...
• Magnificent
  This movie brought me to tears. It is the story of a man whose lack of limbs from birth relegated him to life as a circus side-show freak. It tells of how he was recognized by the owner of a rival circus as “magnificent”. After overcoming his bitterness, the man transformed from freak to hero. [ ...
• Departure
  Photo by PeWu Iâm at the train station; no one knows Iâm there. Iâm standing in line, debating with myself. Should I buy a ticket or just walk away? Am I a coward for leaving? Is it brave to lie? I recognize the hurt that others are going through their lives crumbling to dust. Am [...] Related ...
• Muddy Metaphor
  I went to the La Silla River this morning. A year ago It was once more of a swamp than a river, with brackish water and muddy banks. But, a few months ago, hurricane flooded it; many houses were filled with mud, and cars were swept away. But soon after the storm passed, the river [...] Related ...
• Confused about the Amendments
  The constitutional amendments keep coming. It appears though that these still have to be ratified. The changes are only “initiatives”, and are not yet binding. The article I am using as a basis first said the “reform was approved”, but that it still needs to be “ratified” once the next legislatu ...

Green Times

• Solar hot water panels
  Old timbered houses often lack of a good isolation and thus are not really energy efficient, but its carbon footprint (glossary/categories/climate-change/carbon-footprint.html) can be reduced with solar hot water panels on the roof. A transferring liquid or the domestic water itself gets pumped ...
• The life and death of a peace lily
  The peace lily (Spathiphyllum) is capable of cleaning indoor air (lifestyle/invite-fresh-air-into-your-home.html) of many environmental pollutants (climate-change/pollutants.html) like benzene and formaldehyde. The flower, which got its name from its resemblance to a white flag. It requires a p ...
• Wind turbine
  Even though the installation of a wind turbine is a really expensive act, it is a great investment into our planet’s future. This highly efficient technology gives us the possibility to take advantage of a natural source of energy that is renewable (energy/renewable-energy.html). It regenerate ...
• Chemicals
  1. DEFINITION Chemicals are substances that are made from a chemical process or used in chemical processes. Agrochemicals is a short form for agricultural chemicals which are the chemicals used in cultivating the land. It refers to pesticides (http://www.greentimes.com.au/wildlife ...
• Tidal Power
  1. DEFINITION Tidal power is a form of hydro power (http://www.greentimes.com.au/energy/hydro-energy.html ) that converts the energy of tides into useful power. What is a tide? Tides are the rise and fall of sea levels caused by the gravitational forces produced by th ...

Citizens for Legitimate Government

• Egypt denies vice president targeted in shooti ...
  ShareThisEgypt denies vice president targeted in shooting 06 Feb 2011 Egypt's government is denying that the newly named vice president was targeted in an assassination attempt. A government statement says a stray bullet from an exchange of fire between "criminal elements" struck the lead car in ...
• WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in British co ...
  ShareThisWikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in British court to fight extradition 06 Feb 2011 WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange appears in a British court on Monday to fight his extradition to Sweden, with leaked details shedding new light on the rape and molestation accusations he faces. The two-d ...
• Cheney calls Mubarak a good friend, U.S. ally
  ShareThisUnsubs sticking togehter: Cheney calls Mubarak a good friend, U.S. ally 06 Feb 2011 Former Vice President [sic] Dick Cheney said Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is a good friend and U.S. ally, but declined to predict whether the embattled leader would heed protesters' calls to step dow ...
• Mubarak's wealth could reach 70bn
  ShareThisMubarak's wealth could reach 70bn 06 Feb 2011 Embattled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak could have amassed huge sums of money as much as 70 billion dollars during the decades that he has been a top official. According to analyses by Middle East experts, Mubarak has taken much of the ga ...
• US-led forces kill 4 Afghan civilians
  ShareThisUS-led forces kill 4 Afghan civilians 06 Feb 2011 US-led forces have killed four civilians, including a woman, in northern Afghanistan when they bombed their house in the war-ravaged country, a top government official says. According to the source, the US-led NATO forces carried out the ...

Daily Loaf

• Candidate forums for Tampa mayor & city counci ...
  The forums will be aired on CCTV, Bright House 615 or Verizon 15.
• A short Q&A with Repo! The Genetic Opera co-di ...
  A short Q&A with one half of the Degenerates directing team, Matthew Stiles, discussing Repo! The Genetic Opera live Feb. 4 at the Beach Theatre.
• Concert review: Joan of Arc at New World Brewe ...
  Get the truth. Know what happened. Why weren't you there? It was so good, bro-seph. You missed another awesome time.
• Save some trees: Log on to Yellow Pages opt ou ...
  So, instead of letting them sit on your porch for a few weeks and then just chucking them in the trash, you can save a few trees by visiting the Yellow Pages Association's National Yellow Pages Consumer Choice & Opt-Out Site to get them to stop dropping off unwanted phone books.
• Top Chef Podcast – All-Stars Ep. 8: Fuggetabou ...
  Hear the hilariously irreverent new episode of the Top Chef Podcast where we kvetch about Top Chef All-Stars.

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

• Meanwhile in Israel..
  By Jesse Bacon While their neighbors in Egypt struggled to defend their amazing movement from attack by pro-government goons, Israel used it’s remaining democracy to..further the investigation of NGO’s. The House Committee approved a motion for the first panel to be chaired by MK Fania Kirshenba ...
• What will you do?
  By Jesse Bacon My friend asked me, only half-jokingly “What if you have to change your name for your blog?” I wish a swift and durable success to the people’s movements in Cairo. I was just coming of age when the Berlin Wall fell (my “camp” was actually a nerdy kids Current Events class in June ...
• No more cancer: Israeli Army admits Jawaher ki ...
  By Jesse Bacon I In a triumph of the obvious truth over incoherent lies, the Israeli Army now admits that Jawaher Abu Rahmah was indeed killed by tear gas at a demo, not as their anonymous speculation would have it by cancer or an honor killing. These tales violated basic plausibility, but they ...
• When and where will Israel’s Tucson be?
  By Jesse Bacon By rights it should have been in 1995, when Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated. But the man who took over for him as Prime Minister after appearing at a rally where he was depicted as a Nazi is Prime Minister again. And Rabin’s party was just split into its final tiny segments. And th ...
• Exclusive Interview: JNF demolishes village fo ...
  By Jesse Bacon Bulldozes from the Jewish National Fund demolished the Bedouin village for Al-Arakib for the ninth time yesterday and today. They also demolished the village’s olive groves the week of Tu Bshvat, which celebrates the flowering of trees so they can grow a forest named after a Funda ...

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"

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

• SIX Cops Beating The Crap Out Of Underage Teen ...
• Florida Court Says You’re too Stupid to ...
  Ok, the title above is not a quote, but that’s essentially what an Orange County judge is saying in a decree he issued January 31st, 2011 declaring it illegal for individuals to distribute flyers or pamphlets, hold signs, talk about or in any way attempt to discuss jury nullification with prospe ...
• ‘World premiere’ of Atlas Shrugged movie trail ...
  FreedomWorks will host a premier of the trailer for the film adaption of Atlas Shrugged at the Conservative Political Action Conference. Since the novel by Ayn Rand was published in 1957, efforts to produce a film version have been attempted. All failed due to a variety of legal and editorial di ...
• Creative Destruction for a ‘Greater Midd ...
  February 5, 2011 © F. William Engdahl, author Full Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order * The G8 Map of Washington’s Greater Middle East extends right to the borders of China and Russia and West to Morocco Fast on the heels of the regime change in Tunisia came a popu ...
• Comedy Central “Daily Show” humili ...
  The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c

The Air Vent

• Still Not Qualified for Real Climate
  No I’m not back blogging, still way too busy but I am going to let you guys know that although I am a coauthor of the critiqued paper at a recent RC post here, my comments are unworthy of the great and all seeing climatologists there. I’ve had a nice conversation with Dr. Steig off-line [...]
• Closed
  On the SOP thread we got into too heated a discussion.  I’ve had more than my fair share of the public lately and don’t know when tAV will be back. Of all the elements of the periodic table stupididium is the most abundant.  The idiots pushed me over  the edge tonight.   I’ve had well [...]
• What Evidence for “Unprecedented Warming ...
  This is a new paper which takes a look at the statistical uncertainty of the long term warming trends by Pat Frank.  He looks at the uncertainty of the data including that created by non-stationary errors and comes to the reasonable conclusion that global trends for the length of the temp record ...
• SOP
  Today someone made a comment on the Cuccinelli vs Dr. Man thing which has me stirred up a bit.  I fully understand that some scientists may have the opinion that you don’t want Academics worrying about politics and there is some kind of problem with legal requests for emails.  What unfortunate ...
• Above the Law
  Most will notice that I’ve not been blogging this week. There really isn’t any time but Cuccinelli is now being given a new hurdle to uncover Mann’s emails. Virginia senators are considering changing law to prevent Mann’s private emails from being read.  First the university claims they don’t e ...

Focal Point

• Surprise! Lila Rose's Planned Parenthood "Stin ...
  Media Matters reveals that Lila Rose's undercover "sting" videos of Planned Parenthood have been doctored: -Why is Live Action Doctoring Its Planned Parenthood Audio? -Latest Lila Rose Video Ends Her Credibility Once and For All For more on anti-abortion extremist Lila Rose and her misbego ...
• Bloomberg Badmouths Groundhog Who Bit Him 2 Ye ...
  Mayor Mike Bloomberg isn't the type to forgive and forget. Two years ago, New York's official Groundhog Day groundhog, Staten Island Chuck, bit the mayor during the annual weather forecasting ceremony. This year, the Staten Island zoo equipped the groundhog hutch with a special plunger to ...R ...
• Thomas Should Recuse Himself in HCR Case for T ...
  A judge in Florida ruled this week that the entire Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional. According to political scientist and Supreme court-watcher Scott Lemieux, that's probably not the end of the world for health care reform: "Despite this, this ruling is less important than the contro ...
• Of Course Ultimatums Are Okay
  Morning Gloria of Jezebel asks, "Is It Ever Okay To Make a Relationship Ultimatum?" My answer: You'd better believe it. Seriously, though. I have a hard time wrapping my mind around the question. Why wouldn't it be okay, at least sometimes? We issue ultimatums all the time: -Either you g ...
• GOP: Party of Forced Teen Birth
  The House Republican majority is trying to redefine "rape" in order to deny a large percentage of rape and incest victims access to Medicaid-funded abortions, Nick Baumann reports: "With this legislation, which was introduced last week by Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.),�Republicans propose tha ...

Inside Facebook

• Highlights This Week From the Inside Network J ...
  The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities in the Facebook Platform and social gaming ecosystem. Here are this weekâs highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at Ubisoft, Gaia Interactive, Meteor Games, Games Cafe, an ...
• Facebook Roundup: Birthday, Congress, New HQ, ...
  Facebook Turns Seven Years Old – This year the social network grew from a single contained website to a framework for social interaction that is integrated across the web thanks to the Open Graph and social plugins. The Like button gave people a way to structure their affinity, and discover they ...
• Thanks to Our Sponsors
  Inside Facebook extends a big thank you to our sponsors for supporting the continued growth of Inside Facebook. Check them out below! Frima Studio develops social games for big brands. Shoutlet helps companies manage and monetize their social media communication. Kontagent is a developer of anal ...
• Free Facebook Credits Will Expire February 15t ...
  Facebook distributed free Credits last summer to increase awareness of its new “universal” virtual currency, but is now informing users that these promotional Credits will expire on February 15th, 2011. Users who received free promotional Credits but never spent them are seeing a notification in ...
• Facebook Implements Page Wall Post Comment Spa ...
  Facebook now turns spam and unrelated comments on Page posts gray to denote them as low quality, while leaving the blue background on other comments. This passive spam filter is applied to new comments on old posts, but hasn’t been retroactively applied to old comments. The filter will make it e ...

Truthout - Tweets

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ReDress News

• US arms industry and the people’s revolt in Eg ...
  Paul J. Balles comments on the USA’s ambivalent line on the people’s revolution in Egypt. He argues that although the administration has a growing fear that a government hostile to Washington could gain control Egypt, “the unspoken fear is that American arms manufacturers will lose a reliable cu ...
• The spirit of Egypt's Tahrir Square
  Christopher King views the United States' and Europe's equivocal attitudes towards the people's uprising in Egypt and considers what the impacts on Europe and the US might be if the uprising succeeds.
• Out with the collaborators: in with honest uni ...
  Stuart Littlewood views the deceitfulness, double-talk, vacuousness and lack of transparency that pervade the statements and actions of the United States, Israel, the UK and their quisling outfit in the occupied Palestinian territories, Fatah.
• Israel sides with its loyal ally in Cairo
  Lawrence Davidson considers the partnership in crime that unites Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his loyal ally, Egyptian ruler Hosni Mubarak. He urges the Obama administration to wash its hands off the "Mussolini-style fascists, Nazi-style brown shirts, and Israeli fanatics" in Ca ...
• Netanyahu and company must be proud of Mubarak ...
  Alan Hart views the international condemnation of the tactics used by Hosni Mubarak to quash the pro-freedom protests in Egypt, including unrestrained violence by paid thugs and plain-clothes policemen, but argues that one man will be pleased by Mubarak's conduct: his ally Israeli Prime Minister ...

Amazon Rainforest

• Second rancher sentenced for contract kill of ...
  A second rancher has been sentenced for his role in the murder of Dorothy Stang, an American nun who was gunned down in 2005 for her efforts on behalf of poor farmers in the Amazon Rainforest. Regivaldo Galvao was sentenced to 30 years in prison by a jury in the city of Pará. Last month [...]
• Yasuni National Park- SAVED!
  President Raphael Correa now has approved an agreement to leave Ecuador’s largest oil reserves, amounting to some 900 million barrels, underground in Yasuni National Park in exchange for more than $3 billion. Under the unprecedented agreement, known as the Yasuni-ITT Initiative, the government o ...
• Amazon watchgroups SILENT over new Chevron oil ...
  In the space of a week, a Chevron technical team has discovered two fresh oil spills in Ecuador’s oil-producing Amazon region. One covers three hectares (7.4 acres) near state-owned oil company Petroecuador’s Guanta production station in the heart of Cofan indigenous country. The other impacts h ...
• Amazon River dolphin new stunning photos!
  The Amazon River dolphin (Bufeo, Bufeo Colorado, Boto, Boto Cor de Rosa, Boutu, Nay, Tonina) or Pink River Dolphin (Inia geoffrensis), is a freshwater River dolphin endemic to the Orinoco, Amazon and Araguaia/Tocantins River systems of Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela. Thes ...
• Belo Monte dam auction proceeds despite protes ...
  Bidding for electricity generated by Brazil’s planned Belo Monte Dam in the Amazon rainforest has been marked by protests and legal confusion. A court injunction issued late Monday suspended the dam auction overnight, throwing the bidding process into a state of chaos. Just moments before the a ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• 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 of analyses out th ...
• The FBI “Kamikaze Pilots” Case
  In a public statement issued on Monday, January 31, members of the 9/11 Family Steering Committee demanded a prompt response from the former Chairman and the Executive Director of the 9/11 Commission regarding Former FBI Language Specialist Behrooz Sarshar’s censored testimony to the Commission. ...
• 9/11 Family Members Demand Answers from the 9/ ...
  The Witnessed & Documented “Kamikaze Pilots” Case In a public statement issued today (see below), members of the 9/11 Family Steering Committee demanded a prompt response from the former Chairman and Executive Director of the 9/11 Commission regarding Former FBI Language Specialist Behrooz Sars ...
• The Dream Team: Paul-Nader?
  Maybe there is hope after all… Isn’t it good to see a joint focus on macro issues and real diseases? Even better, to see micro differences and lame sideshows put aside for the badly needed greater good? What do ‘you’ think? This site depends exclusively on readers’ support. Please help us con ...
• Podcast Show #37
  The Boiling Frogs Presents Corey Pein Corey Pein recounts the creation of the recently launched groundbreaking site warisbusiness.com, a nonpartisan site covering military contracting, the global arms trade and the lobby, and how he began the project with two assumptions: The first- a lot of p ...

Afro Spear

• “The Vick Comeback: More Than Just On Th ...
  Op-ed submission by Project 21  Stories of redemption are common. Drug addicts kick their habits to rejoin civil society; corrupt investors become charitable. But rarely is there a story of someone overcoming their demons in which people not only want to watch, but want to cheer. Michael Vick’s ...
• An Education: One Moore Book
  This article in the Huffington Post was forwarded to the AfroSpear by Wayétu Moore, one of the creators and publisher of onemoorebook: When Liberia was my home, they called it sweet. Sweet was the word I remembered the most during the war. I was five and my father, two sisters and I fled Monrovi ...
• “Who is next after Mubarak?” by Nk ...
  Looking at the way a new dawn is unfolding in Maghreb, one can comfortable assert that this is but the beginning of a new dawn for Africa and the Middle East. It kicked off from Tunisia where a 23 years dictator was impelled to flee. This guy, Zine Al-Abidine Ben Ali was a master of [...]
• “DC a Sign of Our Nation’s Times&# ...
  Op-ed submission by Project 21  Our nation’s capital exemplifies what America can become, but not in a good way. Results from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey finds abysmally high percentages of single-parent households in underprivileged neighborhoods. As the District of Columbia i ...
• Samuel Yette and The Choice: Black Survival in ...
  From Black Agenda Report (BAR): Samuel Yette and The Choice: Black Survival in the United States. “Samuel Yette died last week and the choice he wrote of, a choice long ago reached by this country, is a choice weâve still not caught up to. It is a choice of this nation to more or less [...]

Expose the BNP

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

Sen4Earth

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

If Americans Knew

• As Israel kills and maims, Outrage is directed ...
  Whenever Israel commits yet another atrocity, its defenders are quick to redirect public attention away from the grisly crime scene. Currently, there are headlines about allegedly anti-Semitic comments made by senior White House correspondent Helen Thomas. Pundits across the land evince outrage ...
• An Open Letter to the Southern Poverty Law Cli ...
  I am disturbed by an article that the Center published in the fall 2007 issue of "Intelligence Report"--the Center's magazine. The item "Navy Extremist Disciplined--But Not for Extremism" is on page 11. The article focuses on Navy officer John Sharpe Jr.
• NPR Watch: Linda Gradstein Has Done It Again o ...
  NPR's reporter Linda Gradstein has done it again. She has managed to take a "must report" story on Israeli-Palestinian relations -- the new report by B'Tselem on the non-combatants, including children, killed by the Israeli military during the Israeli attack on Gaza -- and report it in a manner ...
• The invisible government: Propaganda Disguised ...
  John Pilger: In a speech in Chicago, John Pilger describes how propaganda has become such a potent force in our lives and, in the words of one of its founders, represents 'an invisible government'.
• A moment of truth: A word of faith, hope and l ...
  We, a group of Christian Palestinians, after prayer, reflection and an exchange of opinion, cry out from within the suffering in our country, under the Israeli occupation, with a cry of hope in the absence of all hope, a cry full of prayer and faith in a God ever vigilant, in God's divine provid ...

David J. Gregory

• Secretariat the Horse, the Movie
  To be witness to history from afar is one thing, to be up close is another, and to have the wisdom to know the difference is the icing on the cake, of course, I am referring to great moments in history, of excelling in any endeavor, being human, or otherwise, of the bright spots and not of man’s ...
• I understand and now you do, too!
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Unsuitable Blog

• Friends of the Earth, iPods and The Competitio ...
  It was a windy Thursday evening at the beginning of 2011. An office in north London buzzed with anticipation at the launch of something exciting; something that would appeal to a new breed of eco-conscious consumers who want that extra something to keep them feeling good about their fast-pased, ...
• A Story About Banks [Guest Post]
  A few weeks back I had a revelation. Many years ago I opened an account with the Midland Bank in Ipswich. Lots of the people that worked there used to come into the pub that I worked in at lunch-time and they all seemed very nice. Actually there was also a very affable man, a [...]
• Nature Conservancy Embrace Dow Chemical Busine ...
  Below is a long list of chemical compounds and elements. This is not just an ordinary list, for it is special in all sorts of ways – not least of all to anyone who is a supporter of our old friends The Nature Conservancy. The list contains just those substances that the US Environmental Protecti ...
• Sudden Oak Death – It’s News Becau ...
  It’s commonly called Sudden Oak Death, so why the picture of a stand of larch trees? That’s a question well worth asking, but a far more important question is: why has Phytophthora ramorum, the name of the fungus responsible, become such big news in the UK? Ever since P. ramorum started blowing ...
• Mother Nature Network: A Hypocritical Crock Of ...
  I make no apologies for the title of this post: I have just spent a short while reading the biographies of the Mother Nature Network Team, and have ended up in the kind of moral position that Immanuel Kant might have struggled with if he had had the internet to contend with in his philosophical ...

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

• Lawyers Voice Concerns About Live-Streaming Co ...
  One of the first things First Justice Mark Coven told us when we went down to the Quincy District Court to start talking about our project, Order in the Court 2.0, was that we had to hold an all-court meeting to introduce the project to everyone to get their input. This seemed like an excellent ...
• Why Huffington Post's 'Predict the News' Game ...
  Fellow Knight News Challenge winner Chris O'Brien recently posted on this site about "gamifying" the news. The idea behind the� movement O'Brien is speaking of, which Brad Flora touched on in another recent Idea Lab post, involves adding incentives -- pop-up achievements for tasks completed, pro ...
• Turning the iPad into an Open, Offline Mapping ...
  We've talked here before about TileMill, an open source tool for creating your own custom map tiles (the individual pieces that make up a full map of a city, country, and so on). But what sorts of things can you do with these map tiles? One area we wanted to explore was using them on Apple's lat ...
• Dotspotting Expands to Track Homicides, Food V ...
  Since my last post, we've been busily working on extending the functionality of Dotspotting, the first project in our larger Citytracking project aimed at helping people tell stories about cities. It's still, as my colleague Aaron puts it, very much in a "super alpha-beta-disco-ball" state -- wh ...
• How Can We 'Gamify' the News Experience?
  One of the biggest emerging conversations over the past year in Silicon Valley is around "gamification." Simply put, this is the idea of applying game mechanics, particularly those found in videogames, to all sorts of non-game experiences. After following this conversation for many months, I' ...

Cutting Edge News

• Revolt in Egypt - Middle East "Days of Rage" U ...
  Recent explosions of protest in Tunisia, Egypt, and Jordan have unsettled even the most self-assured governments around the world. Many countries with minimal economic and diplomatic ties to these nations—whose civic core is now erupting—are apprehensive. Their discomfort is not necessarily trac ...
• Egypt in Revolt - Survey of Egyptian Opinion s ...
  According to a Pew Forum survey, an overwhelming majority of those polled in Islam-dominated Egypt want those who commit adultery to be stoned, while thieves should have their hands cut off and apostates from the Mohammaden religion put to death. In addition, the survey shows that much of the Eg ...
• Oil Without A Plan - What if Saudi Arabia Erup ...
  The demonstrations in Egypt and elsewhere in the Arab world could well be the harbinger of an excruciating oil crisis. Not because Egypt is a major oil exporter. It isn’t. Egypt produces less than 1 percent of the world’s oil. And not even because it controls the Suez Canal, through which 1.8 mi ...
• Egypt in Revolt - The Egyptian Revolution Will ...
  The impact of unrest in Egypt on Israel’s security will not be known until it is clear who will be leading the country. Whatever his failings as a leader within Egypt, Hosni Mubarak faithfully upheld the peace treaty with Israel. If, however, Mubarak is replaced by someone who does not keep the ...
• Economic Recovery on Edge - Playing Chicken wi ...
  While Congress prepares its budget for this year, threatening deep cuts to a $14 trillion debt, the first real test of the GOP’s fiscal constitution is shaping up to come in the form of whether or not to raise the debt ceiling.Years ago, no one wanted to talk about expanding the credit line of t ...

High Country News

• The woodpile and me
  Is it ever possible to have too much wood in your woodpile?
• Alien life, it turns out, is much closer than ...
  California's Mono Lake is home to creatures almost as otherworldly as the landscape around them.
• The river comes last
  The Montana Legislature ratifies a water compact with the Crow Indian Tribe that favors consumptive users of the water at the expense of the Bighorn River itself, and of the world-class trout fishery in Bighorn Lake.
• Yes to wolves, but not so many
  Some Westerners support the return of wolves -- just not as many as environmentalists seem to want.
• War on The West: The sequel
  Life is going get even harder for Interior Secretary Ken Salazar as modern-day Sagebrush Rebels try to re-ignite a “War on the West.”

CounterCurrents

• A Manifesto For Change In Egypt
  By Mohamed ElBaradei In Egypt, as in Tunisia, there are other forces than just the president and the people. The army has been quite neutral so far, and I would expect it to remain that way. The soldiers and officers are part of the Egyptian people. They know the frustrations. They want to prot ...
• Egyptian Youth And New Dawn Hopes
  By Firas Al-AtraqchiFor young Egyptians, long-dormant patriotism and pride have been finally awakened
• A People Defies Its Dictator, And A Nations Fu ...
  By Robert FiskIt might be the end. It is certainly the beginning of the end. Across Egypt, tens of thousands of Arabs braved tear gas, water cannons, stun grenades and live fire yesterday to demand the removal of Hosni Mubarak after more than 30 years of dictatorship
• Middle East Intifadas
  By Stephen Lendman Initially in Tunisia, popular revolt spread regionally across North Africa and the Middle East, erupting in Algeria, Jordan, Egypt and Yemen
• Worsening Food Crisis Is Leading To Political ...
  By Devinder SharmaIn the midst of the chaos being witnessed across the Arab world -- Tunisia, Algeria and now Egypt -- what is being missed out is the role food inflation has played in triggering these protests

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

• Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Explains How It Wi ...
  By Barry Rubin We have been repeatedly assured�in the media--on the basis of no evidence--that if the Muslim Brotherhood comes to power in a coalition or even directly that the radical Islamist group would keep the peace treaty with Israel. On Russian television, one Brotherhood lea ...
• Anatomy of a Smear- How Media Matters Exploits ...
  You may not believe this but it is very true. Somewhere under a giant rock, located by the northern part of the Potomac river where it splits and forms a pattern that kind of looks like a wishbone, there is a secret lair filled with computers and television screens. The people who work there s ...
• The American Debate About Egypt Has Gone Stark ...
  "The world has gone mad today� And good's bad today..."� --Cole Porter, "Anything Goes" "Since bad men find the rule of kings no less burdensome than that of tyrants, the recognition of the right of private citizens to kill tyrants involves rather more chance of losing a king t ...
• 4 of 5 Groups Cited In Anti-Glenn Beck Letter ...
  Carried in the January 27th edition of the Wall Street Journal was an advertisement/open letter from four-hundred Rabbis organized by a socialist Jewish organization called Jewish Funds for Justice (JFJ), with strong ties to financier George Soros (the full ad is embedded at the bottom of this ...
• An Article That Can (and Should) Change Wester ...
  By Barry Rubin Rarely has a mass media article shaken me up as this one does. It is a rare, intense, view of what the Middle East is really like nowadays,�though it is�about� Pakistan, on�the eastern end of the region, in Pakistan. I wrote this before the events in Egypt but it certainl ...

The Real Agenda

• E.E.U.U dará secretos nucleares de Gran Bretañ ...
  Telegraph Versión Español: Luis R. Miranda Febrero 6, 2011 Información acerca de todos los misiles Trident que EE.UU. da al Reino Unido será compartida con Rusia como parte de un acuerdo de control de armas que el presidente Barack Obama firmará la próxima semana. Los analistas de Defensa afirma ...
• US agreed to tell Russia Britain’s nucle ...
  Telegraph February 4, 2011 Information about every Trident missile the US supplies to Britain will be given to Russia as part of an arms control deal signed by President Barack Obama next week. Defence analysts claim the agreement risks undermining Britain’s policy of refusing to confirm the exa ...
• A Trojan Horse called Net Neutrality
  By David Kravets Wired.com February 4, 2011 The Federal Communications Commission’s net-neutrality decision opens the FCC to “boundless authority to regulate the internet for whatever it sees fit,” the Electronic Frontier Foundation is warning. The civil rights group says the FCC’s action in Dec ...
• The Revolution the Globalists Yearned For
  How the main stream media sell lies, the people are co-opted and the globalists tighten up their grip By Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda Let me go straight to the point. Glenn Beck is not a patriot or anything close to it. Beck is a PR machine used to sell advertising on Fox News. [...]
• You must cyber behave
  By Alex Barker and James Blitz FT.com February 3 2011 Britain is to call for countries to agree rules for “acceptable behaviour” in cyberspace amid concern about what is seen as a growing security threat. William Hague, UK foreign secretary, will offer to host a conference in London this year “t ...

Wind Watch

• Wind turbines need to be farther apart, sugges ...
  A new formula has been devised to help wind farm owners generate energy more cost efficiently. Charles Meneveau, a Johns Hopkins University (JHU) fluid mechanics and turbulence expert, working with a colleague in Belgium, has devised the new precept through which the optimal spacing for a large ...
• Birders look for allies to fight wind turbines
  OAK HARBOR, Ohio — Birders said Tuesday they are seeking people from all walks of life who share their concerns about the proper siting of wind turbines in the ecologically fragile western Lake Erie region. At a brainstorming session in the Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge’s visitor center, Kenn ...
• Failed wind projects make builders skittish
  From now on, it may cost towns more to build industrial-sized wind turbines. The Cape and Vineyard Electric Cooperative, which lost hundreds of thousands of dollars last year when Harwich voters killed a proposal to build two wind turbines, now is evaluating projects based on financial risk. The ...
• Proposed wind restrictions would be strictest ...
  The head of a wind industry trade group and a lobbyist for the Wisconsin Realtors Association squared off over Gov. Scott Walker�s wind farm siting proposals. Denise Bode, chief executive of the American Wind Energy Association weighed in Friday on Wisconsin�s proposed wind-siting rule, calling ...
• North Kingstown requests statewide moratorium ...
  Winds of change are in the air. North Kingstown town officials are requesting the General Assembly invoke a statewide one-year moratorium on all land-based wind turbines more than 50 feet tall. It�s the first official move the town has made since instating a six-month moratorium on wind turbines ...

Not My Tribe

• Houston Police behaving badly
  Here’s the link. The Houston mayor says in a quote at the end of it that whoever published the video should be prosecuted. Punished as harshly as the officers? They got misdemeanor charges of Official Oppression. Not Aggravated Assault, Deadly weapon (they all had guns) Serious bodily injury. Ha ...
• Cameron vows Racial Cultural purity for Britia ...
  Says he doesn’t have anything against Islam, just “radical” Islam, meaning, Muslims who don’t bow down before his Naturally Superior White Culture. He also, as prime minister to ROYALTY, and incidentally the same Royal Family that used to hunt his ancestors, just for sport, babbles much about De ...
• al Maliki says he’s quitting in ’1 ...
  Smelling death in the air I suppose. He said that one of the symptoms of lack of democracy is when the leader stays in power for thirty years. And I have to add, another symptom is if that government is propped up by the jack-booted Stormtroopers of a foreign Dictatorship.. He also made a grand ...
• So the State Department is once more Dictating ...
  Hosni Mubarak must stay – US envoy Frank Wisner: ‘This is an ideal moment for Mubarak to show the way forward’ Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak “must stay in office” during a power transition, a US special envoy says. Frank Wisner was speaking as protesters kept up their demands for Mr Mubarak to ...
• Egypt = Gaza
  It’s an open air prison, a police state where all opposition voices are arrested. Our press is reporting the arrest of foreign journalist, what about the murder or disappearance of the #Jan25 organizers. On Thursday after a leadership consultation with Mohamed ElBaradei, the internet coordinator ...

Debunking the Debunkers

• Jesse Ventura: American Conspiracies Audio Boo ...
  The full audio book of Jesse Ventura's American Conspiracies. Here is the chapter on 9/11: Download audio book link Related links: Rep. Cohen: Ventura’s Show Promotes Terrorism TruTV's 'Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura' - 9/11 Jesse Ventura's Pentagon Episode & a response to Neighb ...
• Debunking the Debunkers
  Permanent Top Post--Scroll Down for Newer Posts Comments are only open to blog contributors, but feel free to contact us here if you have a point of contention or some kind words you would like to share. Ad hominems will be ignored, but well-formed rebuttals may be addressed (and that is a sub ...
• Loughner and Zeitgeist in Perspective
  James B. over at Screw Loose Change recently posted part of an article claiming that the film Zeitgeist heavily influenced Jared Loughner. James apparently felt that the article made "enough good points about Jared Loughner and the pan-conspiracy movie Zeitgeist" and "thought it deserved a post. ...
• aaaaaaaAAAAAAAHHHHHHH....
  The constant infighting about what hit the Pentagon is really starting to annoy me!
• Some brief thoughts on a few random things
  1) Michael Shermer, amazingly enough, has not linked the recent Tucson shootings to 9/11 Truth. He is however trying to claim there's nothing suspicious about the mass bird and fish deaths. What about the 96% drop in honeybees, Shermer? Is that normal? He of course puts all this hysteria down to ...

Fooducate

• Protect Yourself from Fake Guacamole [Superbow ...
  Big game today, and lots of snacking in front of the TV. Guacamole has become part of the tradition, as a healthy dip for your tortilla chips. Superbowl Sunday is the single biggest day for avocados every year, with 50 million pounds eaten! So why settle for a fake guacamole dip with 45 ingredie ...
• Need Inspiration? Watch this Trailer – Fat, Si ...
  The documentary Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead is scheduled to debut on April 1st. No Joke. It chronicles the story two men who struggle to lose weight, overcome the same rare disease and change their lives for good.  The uplifting story follows Joe Cross on a cross country road trip where he vows to d ...
• Who’s Your Daddy? Guess 8 Surprising Ownership ...
  Can you guess which megacorp on the right owns each of the young brands on the left? Solution after the jump. In many cases, these baby brands don’t prominently display their parent company logo on their packaging or website because they want to retain an innocent, healthy image, one that is lon ...
• 8 of 10 Healthy Kids’ Food – Aren’t
  Are you surprised? You shouldn’t be. Oakland, CA based Prevention Institute recently published a study entitled Claiming Health: Front-of-Package Labeling of Children’s Food with some interesting findings. The consumer protection group reviewed dozens of products that are marketed as healthy to ...
• Coming Soon: More Food, Everywhere
  AS if we don’t have enough opportunities to buy and eat food during the day. Now retailers that never sold food, are devoting entire sections to edible groceries. Reflecting a major shift in the way Americans shop for food, retailers better known for selling clothes or aspirin, including Walgree ...

Traffikd

• Internet Marketing and Social Media Degree Pro ...
  Guest post by Brian Jenkins Over a billion and a half people use the Internet, and this has created a plethora of opportunities for talented Internet marketers. Specialized knowledge in Internet marketing and social media is vital for many businesses. Yes, there are successful, self-taught Inte ...
• How to Find Great Communities, Forums, and Blo ...
  To market your company effectively, you need to find out where your target audience is. In this post I’ll show you how you can do this. I like using examples, so in this case, I’ll assume you sell Star Wars merchandise.
• Blogging Event Ideas to Spice Up Your Blog
  If you've ever gone to an industry conference, film festival, grand opening, or author signing, then you can appreciate the energy such events can create. Industry conferences gather together the best and brightest minds in order to share ideas and plan for the future. Film festivals celebrate g ...
• Increasing Your Blog’s Interactivity: 10 Tips ...
  Guest post by Alexis Bonari Success in attracting and retaining readers is often influenced by a blog’s level of interactivity. Many readers are more active than passive and want to feel like they have a role in affecting a blog’s content, design, structure, and overall ongoing conversation. Po ...
• 5 Facebook Apps That Really Make Money
  Guest post by Alexis Bonari If you aren't on Facebook by now, you are probably the only one who isn't. My grandmother has a Facebook page and anyone who can type, is able to start their own page with no problem. Most everyone uses Facebook as a social meeting place, but did you know that you ...

Survival International

• 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 ...

Greg Palast

• Shake your head and throw something at your TV
  from MoviesOnline.ca Bush Family Fortunes is a documentary that will make you shake your head and want to throw something at your TV. If even half of what BBC investigative reporter Greg Palast reveals is true and you happen to be an American you may or may not be calling for a revolution depen ...
• Peak Oil and a Changing Climate
  from The Nation The scientific community has long agreed that our dependence on fossil fuels inflicts massive damage on the environment and our health, while warming the globe in the process. But beyond the damage these fuels cause to us now, what will happen when the world's supply of oil ru ...
• Palast ArrestedBusted by BP in Azerbaijan
  by Greg Palast BP's Azeri police arresting Palast for filming BP oil rig - Baku, Azerbaijan, December 2010"Here in Azerbaijan we believe in human rights. PLEASE GIVE US YOUR FILM." Oh, no, no, not good. The enforcers here come in three colors:  the military police still wearing their old Rus ...
• The Real Wiki Hero
  by Marta Steele from OpEdNews with a Surprise P.S. from Greg Palast Is it not ironic that the same country that contributed Rupert Murdoch to the world has more recently donated Julian Assange, editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks since 2007, when it was founded to "report on and publish important info ...
• WIKI-CREEP ASSANGE, THE SCAMPPvt. Bradley, the ...
  by Greg Palast for Truthout/Buzzflash I'm a "hero" and it makes me want to puke.  This week I was voted a "Hero of the Media" in one of those fairly harmless polls that are little more than thermometers of face time on the idiot box. But this Nation Magazine gong is shared with Julian Assange, ...

Telegraph UK - oil

• BP: Big Oil is never far from trouble
  BP's shareholders are about to receive a dividend. They should enjoy it while they can, says Alistair Osborne.
• BP: Big Oil is never far from trouble
  BP's shareholders are about to receive a dividend. They should enjoy it while they can, says Alistair Osborne
• The PM's disappointing retreat on soaring fuel ...
  Telegraph View: Mr Cameron says a promised fuel tax stabiliser has turned into a 'difficult issue', but this is not so.
• Petrol prices to hit £6 a gallon
  Petrol could hit new record price as the price of oil on the world markets climbed higher following Alaska oil spill.
• Petrol price fear as leak closes oil field
  Global oil prices could rise sharply today after BP and other oil companies were forced to shut down almost all production from North America's biggest field.

Ian Welsh

• Master and Slave Morality
  Just read a large piece on strategic defaults in the Huffington Post.  That is to say, walking away from bad mortgages you can’t pay off, especially when the value of the loan is more than the value of the house.  Most of them felt horrible for walking away. The bottom line is this: there is [ ...
• The Egyptian Bottom Line
  Let’s be real clear, people, what do you think will happen to the protesters if Mubarak’s regime (whether he’s specifically in charge or not) remains in power? Can you say arrests and torture? Sure you can. Those are the stakes.  They can win, or they can get tortured.  When you enter the lion ...
• It’s time for Egyptians
  to storm Mubarak’s mansion.  It’s him, or them and he’s made it clear that he’d rather it was them.  And if the protests fail, a lot of them, including the women, are going to spend a lot of time being tortured.
• High rates for everyone
  The Wall Street Journal reports on how high rates are impacting Wall Street: $135 billion is also the record amount of money the 25 biggest publicly traded Wall Street banks and securities firms laid out in 2010 for employee pay and benefits, as our Deal Journal colleagues reported today. That’s ...
• High rates for everyone
  The Wall Street Journal reports on how high rates are impacting Wall Street: $135 billion is also the record amount of money the 25 biggest publicly traded Wall Street banks and securities firms laid out in 2010 for employee pay and benefits, as our Deal Journal colleagues reported today. That’s ...

Age of Autism

• Contest to Celebrate the Launch of Vaccine Epi ...
  We have books to give away, and we want to hear from you. Select one of the questions below and publish your answer as a comment to this post, 250 words or less, please. We’ll review them all and Age...
• Even the Kids Know
  Dan Olmsted and his Godson.
• The Bull Stops Here
  By Cathy Jameson The Age of Autism, the nation's first daily Web newspaper for the environmental-biomedical community – those who believe autism is an environmentally induced illness, that it is treatable, and that children can recover. For the most part,...
• On Vaccines and Autism, Gates and Gupta are an ...
  By Anne Dachel February 4, 2011, CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta interviewed Bill Gates about his plan to eradicate polio by 2012. (HERE) Gates went into great detail about the benefits of vaccines and how he plans to distribute them around...
• Bill Gates on CNN: They Kill Children (Vaccine ...
  Do you recall the ending of David Kirby's book Evidence of Harm? "The United States, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, is not exactly the most beloved nations on earth. What if the profitable export of our much vaunted...

Global BDS Movement

• Palestinian Civil Society Statement on the dr ...
  Professor John Ruggie, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General (SRSG) on transnational corporations and other Business enterprises is currently preparing his final report to the UN Human Rights Council, due in June 2011. The report will include Guiding Principles for the implement ...
• On the Second Anniversary of Israel’s Bloodbat ...
  Occupied Palestine, 27 December 2010 – On the morning of 27 December 2008 Israeli forces initiated a 23-day military offensive against the occupied and besieged Gaza Strip killing more than 1400 and injuring over 5000 Palestinians, predominantly civilians and refugees since 1948. read more
• Palestinian Civil Society reiterates call for ...
  Occupied Palestine, 22 December 2010 - We, the undersigned Palestinian civil society organizations, including farmers’ unions, agricultural organizations and popular committees, reiterate the call of the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) for a full boycott of Carmel-Agrexco due to its com ...
• Derail Israel's Unlawful A1 Train Project– End ...
  Occupied Palestinian Territory, 16 December 2010 - Israel’s A1 high-speed train project designed to connect Jerusalem and Tel Aviv violates international humanitarian law and human rights law. The A1 rail project forms a component of Israel’s ongoing plans to cement its regime of occupation, col ...
• Australian BDS Movement Begins to Emerge
  By Phil Monsour read more

Farm Wars

• Move Over GMO Alfalfa, Here Come the Beets
  In the wake of the recent GMO alfalfa victory for biotech pirates masquerading as USDA gatekeepers, here come the beets. This spring we can count on yet another biotech mutation receiving the USDA seal of approval, damn the law, full steam ahead.
• Truth Squad Radio Presents The Ruthie Report
  Listen to Ruthie’s commentary on the issue of illegal immigration, with week to week news updates, action alerts and activities on what we can do to stop the illegal immigration invasion.
• Truth Squad Radio – Mary Nash Stoddard on Aspa ...
  Join us this Wednesday as we talk about Aspartame/Neotame, and the dangers they pose with Mary Nash Stoddard!
• Farm Wars Public Service Announcement: Asparta ...
  AUDIO - Gladys and Bernie discover Aspartame in their breakfast cereal.
• Truth Squad Radio – Guardian Abuse
  Join us every Tuesday night to find out more about Guardian Abuse, which is an extremely popular and lucrative business involving the systematic looting and pillaging of our nation's most vulnerable people.

Open Your Eyes News

• In U.S., Majority Still Wants Less Corporate I ...
  Gallop – The large majority of Americans (62%) want major corporations to have less influence in the United States. While this is down from a peak of 68% in 2008, it remains well above the 52% recorded in 2001. Relatively few Americans would prefer to see corporations gain influence, but the 12% ...
• New Induced Stem Cells May Unmask Cancer at Ea ...
  ScienceDaily — By coaxing healthy and diseased human bone marrow to become embryonic-like stem cells, a team of Wisconsin scientists has laid the groundwork for observing the onset of the blood cancer leukemia in the laboratory dish. Read article
• Egypt protests: Hosni Mubarak’s power fa ...
  Guardian – 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. The policy, made clear by Hillary Clinton at the Munich Security Conference, was the latest sign of steps by the US an ...
• Pentagon Reports Billions of Dollars in Contra ...
  Politics Daily – The Pentagon paid hundreds of billions of dollars to defense contractors engaged in criminal or civil fraud — in some cases paying the companies after they were convicted, according to a new Defense Department report. At least 91 contractors holding contracts worth $270 billion ...
• Roadside bomb kills 5 civilians in N. Afghanis ...
  Xinhua – Five civilians were killed as a roadside bomb struck their vehicle in Kudnuz province 250 km north of Afghan capital on Thursday, police said. “The tragic incident happened in Gortipa district at around 10: 00 a.m. local time today as a result five innocent people including two men and ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

• Stepping out on the recycled red carpet
  When the Grammys and Oscars unroll their red carpets later this month, they'll be made from recycled water bottles. The power used during the telecasts will be 100% renewable. The food served will be organic and locally grown. It's all...
• L.A. air officials to vote on pollution tradin ...
  A nine-year battle between Los Angeles regional air quality officials, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and California public health groups over the integrity of the area's pollution trading system will be rejoined Friday, as air district officials vote on new...
• Wolverines threatened by climate change
  Wolverines in the continental United States could be wiped out by the end of the century if temperatures continue to rise, according to a new study from a scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Springtime snow cover helps...
• Shell oil company nixes drilling in Alaskan Ar ...
  Shell announced on Thursday it would forgo exploratory drilling in the Alaskan Arctic for this year, the result of a ruling last month that revoked the oil giant’s federal clean-air permits that allowed drilling ships and support vessels to operate...
• Disputed power plant for San Joaquin Valley cl ...
  Should all new power plants install the "best available technology" to control pollution? Not necessarily, the Obama administration said on Tuesday, reversing a long-held policy. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, battling an industry lawsuit, told a U.S. District Court in...

water.org

• Water.org powering microfinance for water (CFI ...
  Whatâs Matt Damon Got to Do With Microfinance? (Center for Financial Inclusion) – Reeta Roy, the president and CEO of The MasterCard Foundation, penned the post for the foundationâs blog many weeks ago. But the storyâs still fresh: an organization called Water.org is powering a âmarket-driven an ...
• Water.org ensuring the right to clean water (A ...
  Ensuring the Right to Clean Water, One Bottle at a Time: Matt Damon and water.org team up to end the global water crisis (ABC News) – Water.Org gives grants in 14 countries (with Haiti most recently added) utilizing the innovation of a micro-finance model called âwater creditâ. Using the power o ...
• Votes are in from Lowe’s Giving Campaign ...
  The Votes Are in: America Shows Its Love for National Parks, but Everyone Wins in Loweâs First Online Giving Campaign (Business Wire) MOORESVILLE, N.C. – Loweâs and the Loweâs Charitable and Educational Foundation are distributing grants totaling $1 million to the four charities that participate ...
• Hult Global Case Challenge video (Hult)
  Official Hult Global Case Challenge video 2011 (Hult) - The Hult Global Case Challenge is an international case competition that is open to all university and college students from around the world. On March 5th 2011 in partnership with Water.org, we will hold Regional events in five major citie ...
• Matt Damon recognized for Water.org (MTV)
  Matt Damon Recognized At Critics’ Choice Awards For Water.org Charity (MTV) – Damon was given the fourth annual Joel Siegel Award for Service to the Community. While Kimmel provided comic relief, joking that the Oscar winner is “the greatest guy in the world,” the actor received serious accolade ...

Before It's News

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Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

• J-street under attack Birthright trip cancel ...
  J Street�s raison d�etre was to redefine and reclaim the term, based on the conviction that standing idly by while Israel continues to build settlements and occupy the Palestinian people s fundamentally not a �pro-Israel� stance.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comm ...
• Another Israeli Voice for Egyptian Democracy
  Is this Jewish state such a fragile fantasy, that an entire region of the world must be kept imprisoned in order for it to thrive? How many children are in the basement? Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• The Arab World Is on Fire
  Op-Ed by Noam Chomsky, Thu. 2011-02-03 "The Arab world is on fire," al-Jazeera reported on Jan. 27, while throughout the region, Western allies "are quickly losing their influence." The shock wave was set in motion by the dramatic uprising in Tunisia...Submitted by wolf a. to World �|� �Note- ...
• Pot meets pop: Local entrepreneur plans to mar ...
  How strange is the emerging world of medical-marijuana entrepreneurship?Submitted by Carrie Burton to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Idaho Pharmacy Board Will Not Investigate Comp ...
  The law states that a health care worker may refuse to provide care related to abortion, emergency contraception or end-of-life care if it violates his or her conscience. In the Walgreens case, the nurse practitioner said the pharmacist refused...Submitted by Carrie Burton to Society & Culture ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

• Princeton's Impressive New Solar Plans: A Mode ...
  Princeton University not only plans to be home to one of the largest solar installations on any U.S. college campus by 2012, but it also aims to create a successful renewable energy business model for other schools to follow. read ...
• E•BOOM CAPITAL: MEMC Shares Up 10% on 2010 Res ...
  MEMC’s SunEdison subsidiary “simplifies solar” by developing, financing, operating and monitoring solar power plants for commercial, industrial and utility customers. ...
• E•BOOM CAPITAL: VC Cleantech Investment Up 8% ...
  United States venture capitalists invested $3.98 billion in cleantech companies in 2010, up eight percent from 2009, according to an analysis released today by Ernst & Young LLP based on data from Dow Jones VentureSource. The number ...
• IKEA Continues to Grow Solar
  Furniture manufacturing giant IKEA is known for providing affordable furnishing. Its global presence has been marked by big blue warehouse sized stores with yellow trim. The Swedish company is working to also be known for its sustai ...
• Second Largest Solar PV Installation On U.S. E ...
  Fifteen months after signing a power purchase agreement with Duke Energy Corp., in August 2009, SunEdison LLC began construction on a photovoltaic (PV) solar farm in Davidson County, North Carolina. read more

News Blaze

• Ban Hopes New Election in Myanmar Leads to 'In ...
  The statement added that the United Nations stood ready to work with the new government and all other stakeholders in the country to facilitate greater democratization, development and stability.
• Reconstruction and Stabilization News Feed
  Before participating in a signing ceremony with Croatian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Gordan Jandrokovic, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton spoke about the attacks on peaceful demonstrators and journalists in Egypt.
• UN Disappointed By Three-Year Extension of Som ...
  Somalia has not had a functioning central government for 20 years and has been riven by factional fighting, currently between the internationally recognized Transitional Federal Government (TFG), supported by a UN-backed African Union (AU) peacekeep
• U.S. Deplores The Unfair Trial Against Alan Gr ...
  We deplore the Cuban government's announcement that Cuban prosecutors intend to seek a 20 year sentence against Mr. Gross. As we have said many times before Mr. Gross is a dedicated international development worker who was in Cuba providing support
• Secretary Hillary Clinton's Remarks on Grenada ...
  Our nations cooperate bilaterally, as well as through the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative, the Partnership Framework for HIV and AIDS, the Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas, the Caribbean Youth Empowerment Program and other multilat

Historical Notes

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• Fidel Castro History Archive
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• Castro Speech database

libcom

• Roots of the Egyptian revolutionary moment
  Egypt-manifs-NEW-m.jpg Transcript of an interview with an Egyptian student and activist, describing the strikes and social movements that preceded the present rebellion. A vide ...
• Total personnel chaos in DHL (Russia)
  dhl_main_en.jpg This story started at the end of 2008. I was resigning from one company that deals with transportation between Russia and Ossetia. As many others – I was looking for a better job and ...
• Go Slow Strike at FagorMastercook (Mondragon c ...
  Workers fight for wage increase. A work-to-rule strike in underway in Wroclaw's FagorMastercook factory. Despite exceptionally good output, increased exports and a healthy profit, most workers are still taking home a meager 350 euros ...
• Student struggle in the Netherlands
  Last Friday, January 21, the Netherlands saw student action on a massive scale. Fifteen thousand students and sympathisers, maybe more, came together for a protest rally on the Malieveld in The Hague, the city in which the Dutch government is located. The ...
• Rebels in the Maghreb… who they are?
  Rebels in the Maghreb… who they are? The State and its enlightened commentators were first selling us that it was about: • a little obstacle in the smooth running of business, to get round as soon as possible; • an expression of brutality peculiar to countries not well civilized; read more

Free Range International

• Shifting Sands
  With most of the world’s attention focused unfolding events in the Mideast now is a good time to shed some light on the current ground-truth in Afghanistan.  Sami the Finn is always a good place to start and he provides interesting perspective on the suicide bombing at Kabul’s at  the Finest s ...
• What Is the Problem Here?
  One of the Chim Chims’ has asked to put up a guest post on a topic near and dear to both our hearts for different reasons:  the continuing efforts of the New York Times to kill a program I doubt was that big of a deal to begin with.  Chim Chim is a member of [...]
• The Start of a Long Year
  A few weeks back home we’re a blessing and also a time to partake in my favorite thing to do which is doing nothing.  I’m an expert.  While I was away a few articles caught my attention and they serve as a useful point of departure to evaluate where we are at the start of [...]
• You Can’t Handle the Truth
  The efforts of the international community to bring aid to Afghanistan, help develop the infrastructure with the goal of allowing Afghanistan a chance at self sufficiency are failing dismally.  That should not be a surprise to anyone with more than a passing knowledge of the international aid ra ...
• Afghanistan’s Forgotten Province
  There are a couple of recent articles in the flood of coverage about Afghanistan which caught my eye last week.  The first is factually wrong but I understand what the author was saying and he is, in a sense correct.  The second is factually correct, I understand what that reporter was saying to ...

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 ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

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

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

• Rex Murphy (Dec 18, 2010)
  We call him the wordsmith for his own amazing using of the English language - and part of that he gets from his voracious reading appetite of the works of others. Given the season, time for a visit from the one and only Rex Murphy, and his advice on the best books to give.
• Wayne Gretzky
  He is the Great One by name, by deed and by reputation. And when Canadians were asked who should be the final torchbearer in Vancouver, he was their first choice. And this week, he's ours. Hockey legend, Wayne Gretzky.
• Mark Tremblay, Healthy Living and Obesity Expe ...
  How fit are we? Not very, if you buy into the steady stream of new studies that have been making the news. They paint a very bleak picture of the present, but an even worse future if current trends continue. This week, our guest tells us why.
• Bruce McCulloch, Comedian (Jan 16, 2010)
  He was one of the creative geniuses behind the 1980's TV hit The Kids in the Hall, and now he, and they, are back. But what about those intervening years? What did he learn and how has it changed him? This week, we find out.
• Gordon Lightfoot, Singer/Songwriter (Nov 14, 2 ...
  He's a musical legend and an icon for songwriters around the world. There's only one voice that sounds like his. What more needs be said, other than he is our guest this week.

Scotts Contracting

• NFLs Green Energy Initiative
  NFL- National Football League- Green Energy Initiative. Kudos to the NFL and the On-going Green Initiative! Besides this years Super Bowl Game between the Green Bay Packers and the Pittsburgh Steelers is being advertised as the ‘Greenest Super Bowl of … Continue reading →
• 6 Trends That Will Shape Green Homes
  From energy efficiency to water conservation to density, here are the issues that will matter most to sustainable builders and consumers in 2011. 6 Trends That Will Shape Green Homes Brought to you via: St Louis Renewable Energy – Eco … Continue reading →
• Will the Bipartisanship Last?
  Roster Changes on Senate Energy Panel Could Threaten Emphasis Added by Scotty , KATIE HOWELL of Greenwire New York Times Feb 4, 2011 All eyes will be on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee this session as it attempts … Continue reading →
• 6 Trends That Will Shape Green Homes
  From energy efficiency to water conservation to density, here are the issues that will matter most to sustainable builders and consumers in 2011. 6 Trends That Will Shape Green Homes Brought to you via: St Louis Renewable Energy – Eco … Continue reading →
• 6 Trends That Will Shape Green Homes
  From energy efficiency to water conservation to density, here are the issues that will matter most to sustainable builders and consumers in 2011. Link Here: 6 Trends That Will Shape Green Homes Brought to you by: Eco Home http://ecohome.com/

The View From Abroad

• Hypocrisy of U.S. Foreign Policy Produces Terr ...
  U.S. support of tyrants betrays our principles and contributes to terrorism.
• Putting Things in Perspective
  The shooting in Tucson should make all Americans rethink our tragic War on Terror policies.
• Last Words Worth Acting Upon
  Richard Holbrooke knew we should end the war in Afghanistan.
• Logic, Not Emotions, Should Rule the Day
  Unemployment benefits meant to help the unemployed actually do more harm than good.
• Logic Not Emotions Should Rule the Day
  Unemployment benefits meant to help the unemployed actually do more harm than good.

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

• Nuclear Disarmament Would Make U.S. Undisputed ...
  Does no nukes equal more might for the U.S.?
• You Can't Tell Egypt's Players Without a Score ...
  Egypt's ruling apparatus is beset with competing agendas.
• Three Possible Scenarios for Egypt
  Hosni Mubarak is on his way out, but when and how remain open questions.
• Republican Calls to Drain the Pentagon Swamp P ...
  CATO report on defense cuts shows how libertarians come in handy on national security.
• Regime Change Redux
  Ever day U.S. soldiers risk and lose their lives ostensibly for the cause of Middle Eastern democracy, so why isn't Washington more firmly supportive of democracy in Egypt?

Law.com

• Latest Chevron Outtake: 'They're All Corrupt!'
  Donziger muses 'The judicial system is so utterly weak' in Corporate Counsel's latest release of outtakes from the documentary Crude.
• Minus Kagan, Supreme Court Lets 'Don't Ask' Po ...
  In an order Friday, the Supreme Court denied a motion aimed at allowing a worldwide ban on enforcement of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays in the military to take effect.
• MGA Loses Effort to Stall Trial in Fee Fight W ...
  A Los Angeles judge issued a tentative ruling Friday denying toymaker MGA Entertainment's efforts to stay a lawsuit that was filed by its former lawyers at O'Melveny & Myers.
• Proskauer and English Firm End Their Merger Di ...
  Proskauer Rose and SJ Berwin said Friday they had decided against merging, putting to an end months of speculation about a possible trans-Atlantic tie-up between the two law firms. The firms in a joint statement said "we recognized that the timetable necessary to reach the agreements that would ...
• IRS Throws In Towel on Closely Watched Interna ...

Iranian.com

• Iran's unrest comments "cross all red lines": ...
  (Reuters) - Iran's Supreme Leader has crossed all red lines by praising the social upheaval against Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak as an "Islamic liberation movement," Cairo's foreign minister said on Saturday. read more
• Islam on a Collision Course
  When he was asked why the vast majority of Egyptians, the heirs to a great pre-Islamic civilization, speak Arabic rather than Coptic, a leading Egyptian historian replied: “Because we had no Ferdowsi.” That would be the tenth-century Persian poet and the author of the Shahnameh (Book of Kings) w ...
• US 'spies' go on trial in Iran
  Iran has accused them of "spying and illegally entering the country."
• Egypt tells Iran: mind your own business
  CAIRO — Egypt's foreign minister has told Iran to mind its own business after Iran's top leader praised the Egyptian uprising as an appropriate response to dictatorial rule. read more
• Tunisia police shoot dead at least two at Kef ...
  Tunisian police have shot dead at least two people during a protest in the north-western town of Kef.read more

Most Revolutionary Act

• The Murder of Oscar Manassa
  I neglected to mention in my last blog that Oscar Manassa, the African American postal worker who was murdered, experienced the same vicious harassment I did for four years before he was killed. In fact this is why his legal team brought him to see me. He, too, complained of relentless prank cal ...
• Of Blogs, Bloggers and Blogging
  The end of January marked my one year anniversary blogging. I never imagined, in my wildest dreams, that blogging would be the main event of my sixties. When my publisher first suggested it, I thought blogging was something only young people did. That a blog was a public diary that announced to ...
• The IMF: Saved by the Economic Collapse
  IMF meeting Many people forget that the IMF was nearly bankrupt in 2007. Prior to the 2008 banking collapse, they only had outstanding loans to only a handful of countries (see http://www.nzherald.co.nz/guest-columnists/news/article.cfm?a_id=146&objectid=10396025). There was a move in the late n ...
• The IMF Protection Racket
  There seems to be strong consensus – at least in the streets of Europe – that the IMF (International Monetary Fund) is a protection racket. Here is the Wikipedia definition of protection racket: An extortion scheme whereby a criminal group or individual coerces other less powerful entities to p ...
• China and Japan Bail Out the Euro
  China, Japan and “Middle East” investors bailed out the Euro on January 25th. This hopefully will spare Portugal and Spain from IMF intervention and the harsh structural adjustment “austerity” cuts the IMF has recently imposed on Greece and Ireland. According to Klaus Regling, the head of the E ...

Doug's Darkworld

• We Are All Egyptians Now
  Well, the uprising continues in Egypt. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, it’s very possible we are entering a watershed period in world history where all sorts of things are going to unravel in the next few years. There’s so much going on that it’s hard to even focus on what’s important ...
• Tunisia, Lebanon, and now Egypt?
  As I type Egyptians are taking to the streets to demand reform and the end of the Mubarak regime. And they are continuing to do so in ever greater numbers despite ever more desperate measures to end the unrest, including a curfew, shutting down the Internet, and dismissing the entire upper gover ...
• The McMartin Preschool Trial: Grown Ups Behavi ...
  My post on the Lawndale Thunderbird case has inspired me to write a series a series of blogs on how people deceive themselves and other oddities of the human mind. Or more accurately, the oddities of human perception and how setting and beliefs and preconceptions can colour, and sometimes wildly ...
• What is outside the Universe revisited: &#8220 ...
  One of the side effects of trying to write thought provoking blog posts is that often they provoke a lot of thoughts, expressed in the form of comments. And unfortunately I often do not or cannot take the time to address them all properly. Hell, I could write a book on my responses to the [...]
• The 1977 Lawndale Illinois Thunderbird Attack
  In 1977 a giant bird attacked and tried to carry away a ten year old boy in central Illinois in front of multiple witnesses. Actually, two giant birds attacked, but only one tried to carry the kid away. The mother witnessed the attack and chased after the bird yelling, the bird released the boy ...

FourWinds10

• THE GULF OF MEXICO IS DYING: A SPECIAL REPORT ...
• 2. US Department of Defense is the Worst Pollu ...
  The US military is responsible for the most egregious and widespread pollution of the planet, yet this information and accompanying documentation goes almost entirely unreported. In spite of the evidence, the environmental impact of the US military goes largely unaddressed by environmental organ ...
• The Search for BP's Oil
  "Dolphins off the bow!" � I race to the front of the WeatherBird II, a research vessel owned by the University of South Florida. There they are, doing their sleek silvery thing, weaving between translucent waves, disappearing under the boat, reappearing in perfect formation on the other side. ft ...
• Exclusive: Submarine Dive Finds Oil, Dead Sea ...
  A mile below the surface in the Gulf of Mexico, there is little sign of life. "It looks like everything's dead," University of Georgia professor Samantha Joye said. In an exclusive trip aboard the U.S. Navy's deep-ocean research submersible Alvin, ABC News was given the chance to observe the imp ...
• THE GULF OF MEXICO IS DYING - A Special Report ...

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

• The World’s Most Fuel Efficient Car
  Join the forum discussion on this post This likely blows previous fuel efficiency records out of the water: VW to roll out 313mpg car in Germany and UK Last week at the Qatar Motor Show saw the world debut of Volkswagen’s XL1, a diesel-electric hybrid two-seater that can do 313mpg (0.9 l/100 ...
• Oil Price Could Doom Obama
  Join the forum discussion on this post The following guest post is from OilPrice.com. Normally I don’t add any of my own commentary to these guest essays, but in this case I would say that the idea that oil prices are manipulated by speculators is by no means limited to “left-wing blogs.” I wou ...
• What the RAND Report on Biofuels Really Said
  Join the forum discussion on this post The just-issued RAND report Alternative Fuels for Military Applications has generated quite a bit of controversy. However, in my opinion many of the news stories covering the report got the gist of the message wrong. In essence, what has been reported is “ ...
• Vinod Khosla and the Gasification/Fermentation ...
  Join the forum discussion on this post Vinod Khosla Prognosticates Vinod Khosla is once more offering up his prognostications on the future of the energy business: What Matters in Biofuels? Given the likely continued dominance of the internal combustion engine, cellulosic and sugar-derived f ...
• Great Green Fleet Neither Great Nor Green?
  Join the forum discussion on this post In my recent interview with Tom Hicks, who is the Deputy Assistant Secretary to the Navy (Energy), he explained some of the Navy’s energy initiatives. One of those is to sail the “Great Green Fleet.” The goal is that in 2012 they will put a carrier strike ...

Discovery Educator Network

• iPad Curriculum
  Comments:Kelly Tenkely of ilearntechnology.com has a new site.  ipadcurriculum where educational apps are reviewed and provides learning enrichment. - Dean MantzTags: ipad, apps, curriculum, education, blog, resources, iphone, tech, ktenkelyby: Dean Mantz
• Google, Twitter build Speak to Tweet for Egypt ...
  Highlights and Sticky Notes:Even if the Internet is down, people in Egypt can still use Twitter through a new service from Google and Twitter.Google, in combination with Twitter and its recently acquired SayNow engineers, has released a service for tweeting without an Internet connection.Tags: t ...
• Connecting Your Classroom to the Future (TechF ...
  Tags: Web2.0, Blooms, classroom, connecting, kathyschrock, education, presentation, vimeoby: Dean Mantz
• Survey reveals educators' must-have technologi ...
  Comments:Teacher survey shows educators feel there are must have technologies. - Dean MantzTags: technology, survey, education, educators, edchat, edtech, eschoolnews, toolsby: Dean Mantz
• How—and why—to teach innovation in our schools ...
  Comments:Thought provoking article from eSchool News about "Teaching innovation in our schools". - Dean MantzTags: innovation, creativity, teach, learning, schools, education, why—to, how—and, eschoolnewsby: Dean Mantz

Rodale News

• USDA Approves Genetically Engineered Sugar Bee ...
  RODALE NEWS, STATE COLLEGE, PA—In an unprecedented, and what some food safety groups call an illegal move, the United States Department of Agriculture Friday afternoon approved the planting and sale read more
• Growing GMO Threat Highlighted at Major Farmin ...
  RODALE NEWS, STATE COLLEGE, PA—More than 2,000 sustainable farmers, gardeners, registered dietitians, scientists, and consumer watchdog and food-safety advocates from around the country are attendi read more
• Are Our Kids Getting Too Much Medical Radiatio ...
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—High-tech imaging like CT and nuclear medicine scans, radiographic peeks into the heart, and even X-rays are medical miracles that can help save lives. read more
• Hold the Wheat: Some People Really Are Gluten- ...
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Gluten-free foods are rapidly proliferating on grocery store shelves. Gluten-free is the one of the fastest growing segments of the food industry (second only to foods free of genetically modified organisms, or GMOs). The foods were intended for people with wheat allergi ...
• Roundup Red Alert! What You Need to Know About ...
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Last week, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced its decision to allow farmers who favor genetically engineered seeds to grow GMO alfalfa, also known as GE alfalfa, anywhere they'd like—even right up against a field of organic or non-GMO crops. Due ...

big think

• Opinions About The Egyptian Uprising You Will ...
  Those of us writers who are not experts on foreign policy have done more reading than writing this week about the tense situation between the Egyptian government and the Egyptian people after the recent Egyptian uprising, even though most of us have no problem grasping the rudimentary aspects of ...
• Football's Concussion Crisis
  As America sits down to watch the Superbowl today, a quiet crisis ravages the very players that make this event possible. Evidence is mounting that football is potentially even more damaging to the brain than it is to the body.�According to an NFL-commissioned study, retired football players ag ...
• Time To Turn the Screws On Israel For The Sake ...
  Watching a succession of Western leaders, including Chancellor Merkel of German and Prime Minister Cameron of Britain speaking at the annual Munich Security Conference today, I was immediately struck by the huge importance they attached to the fast moving events in Egypt, and the wider Arab Worl ...
• Why Alien Life is Very, Very Likely
  NASA's Kepler probe has found 54 planets in the constellation Cygnus that have a "Goldilocks" relationship to their suns—not too hot, not too cold, but just right to have water and other attributes that support life as we know it on Earth. With so many possibly Earth-like planets in one small pa ...
• Book Tour Dates & Locations For March 15th Rel ...
  Based on interviews with over three hundred of the world’s top scientists, who are already inventing the future in their labs, I present the revolutionary developments in medicine, computers, quantum physics, and space travel that will forever change our way of life and alter the course of ...Re ...

Information Liberation

• How the Egyptian Revolution Will Eventually Be ...
  There is nothing in this dark and cynical world that is more beautiful than when a people rises up en masse against its suffocating and predatory political system and tells its murderous "leaders" to get the hell out of the country. Such a scen...
• Smoking In The Park Banned, Ticketed For Cussi ...
  When our founding fathers established this nation, they did so with the intention that government would be very limited and that there would be a tremendous amount of liberty and freedom.* But today that is such a distant memory that we don't even re...
• Full Affidavit On Latest Seizures Again Sugges ...
  A few days after everyone already knew it had seized the domains of some sites that apparently were associated with streaming sporting events online, Homeland Security has put out its official press release about the domain name seizures. As many pe...
• Free porn for everyone!
  Redtube.com is an internet site offering high quality porn for free. But competitor sex sites which were trying to charge for the same service didn't like the supposedly unfair competition (and California does have an "unfair competition" law). Thus,...
• Stefan Molyneux Responds to Peter Joseph
  Thank you so much to everyone who took the time to respond to my previous video -- including Peter Joseph, thank you for your time! Here is my response, I hope that people find this a productive, helpful and useful conversation. Sources are availab...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

FAS - Secrecy News

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Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

• The trouble with encryption
  Lots of us encrypt files using the likes of AxCrypt and TrueCrypt. If there’s a risk of losing a device carrying sensitive information such as contacts, email, bank statements, invoices etc, then it is worth using such a tool. The ease with which a file, folder or even complete hard drive or USB ...
• SpectroscopyNOW – February 1 issue
  Valentine’s Day science – Spring may not quite be in the air, but Valentine's Day is on the way and love is certainly on the minds of researchers in the US. A small functional magnetic resonance imaging has been used to investigate love. The study revealed brain activity in 10 women and 7 men wh ...
• Six science snippets
  Six science snippets from David Bradley What is entropy? – This property of all matter – this collapse into disorder – is given a name: entropy. Things that are disordered have greater entropy than things that are relatively more organized. A glass of water, in which the molecules of water itsel ...
• Seven slices of science stuff
  Seven slices of science stuff from David Bradley Vuja de – Thinking outside the box with new eyes? Haven't we see this managerial psychobabble before or is it just vuja de? Alchemist Newsletter – An element close to every Alchemist's heart, quicksilver, or more properly mercury, featured in the ...
• A tetralogy of science news
  Four more picks from the latest science news by David Bradley Tales of the unexpected: a night with Tim Radford – My mentor at The Guardian, Tim Radford, told tales of science writing at a special event last week and warned the audience that the public can be very squeamish about new scientific ...

RFF Library

• Assessment of Demand Response and Advanced Met ...
  Federal Energy Regulatory Commission http://www.ferc.gov/legal/staff-reports/2010-dr-report.pdf [E&E News PM story by Jenny Mandel, sub. req'd] The use of smart meters in the United States nearly doubled over the last two years, according to a survey of electric utilities, while the capacity of ...
• Future Transport Fuels
  European Expert Group on Future Transport Fuels, European Union http://tinyurl.com/46v87rl [From publication website] Decarbonising transport is a core theme of the EU 2020 strategy and of the common transport policy. The long-term perspective for transport in Europe has been laid out in the Com ...
• BP Energy Outlook 2030
  British Petroleum http://tinyurl.com/4exbh8a [From BP website] We hope that sharing this outlook contributes to the wider debate on global energy issues. It identifies long-term energy trends, building on our Statistical Review of World Energy, and then develops projections for world energy mark ...
• Creating Growth, Cutting Carbon: Making Sustai ...
  UK Department of Transport http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/regional/sustainabletransport/pdf/whitepaper.pdf [From publication website] The Local Transport White Paper sets out the Government’s vision for a sustainable local transport system that supports the economy and reduces carbon emissions. It ex ...
• 2010 Assessment of Demand Response and Advance ...
  Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and Z, Inc. http://www.ferc.gov/legal/staff-reports/2010-dr-report.pdf [Executive Summary] Advanced metering penetration and potential peak load reductions from electric power demand response have increased significantly since 2008. The Federal Energy Regulat ...

Scientific American - News

• For Want of a Pollinator, a Flower May Be Lost ...
  Earth's last passenger pigeon--Martha--died in 1914 at the Cincinnati Zoo, the final remnant of flocks that once darkened the sky. What's unknown, even nearly a century after this extinction, is how many of the plants in the eastern woodlands of the U.S. might have suffered as a result--or even ...
• Out with the Old: As Internet Addresses Run Ou ...
  After years of warnings that the Internet's predominant addressing system would run out of these numbers, the bottom of the barrel has finally been scraped. The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) announced Thursday that it has delegated the final 300 million addresses available through ...
• Ant Harm: Can Genetic Weapons Roll Back the Ex ...
  In 1907 Argentine ants ( Linepithema humile ) arrived in Los Angeles via a cargo ship. Within just a few years of their arrival the six-legged stowaways formed a single, massive colony--known as a supercolony--that stretched through California from south of the Mexico border to San FranciscoA li ...
• Copious Genes of Tiny Water Flea Promise a Lea ...
  Not far from milepost 200 on a stretch of the Pacific Coast Highway near the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area is a humble water hole known in some biology circles as Slimy Log Pond. It was from this inauspicious pool that a water flea ( Daphnia pulex ) dubbed The Chosen One was plucked in 2 ...
• Satellite TV and Other Low-Tech Solutions Rema ...
  Egyptians get most of their news from TV, rather than the Internet or newspapers, so when the local government scrambled the satellite TV signal earlier this week for the region's dominant independent news channel, Al Jazeera , the Qatar-based network found a way to subvert that censorship: i ...

RAWA News

• Iranian regime mutilated bodies of dead Afghan ...
  Radio Azadi (Translated by RAWA): Recently, bodies of some Afghan workers in Iran have been brought back to Ghor province in Afghanistan. The examination of the bodies shows that they have been cut and sewn back for unknown reasons. The relatives of the dead claim that maybe these operations hav ...
• January death toll in Afghanistan was 100 civi ...
  Deutsche Presse Agentur: The death toll in January in Afghanistan reached 100 civilians and 80 police, from a total of more than 300 attacks, the interior ministry announced Sunday. The figure for January represents a four per cent drop on December's figures. Most of the civilian victims were ki ...
• Afghan protestors condemn Iranian regime chant ...
  NCRI: A large number of Afghans took to the streets of Herat on Saturday to protest against the Iranian regime. The protest happened across from the regime’s consulate in Herat, with the protestors chanting, “death to Ahmadinejad” and “death to Khamenei,” referring to the mullahs’ President and ...
• The Afghan village that’s been wiped fro ...
  Mail Online: The impact of coalition operations in Afghanistan is often bogged down in statistics and political manoeuvring. But these photos of a devastated village in the Arghandad River Valley show the horror of war in stark reality. Tarok Kolache, a small settlement in Kandahar, has been com ...
• Stoning victim was bought bride
  The Scotsman: A YOUNG woman stoned to death in Afghanistan’s north had run away from home because her father had sold her into marriage with a wealthy relative, The Scotsman can reveal. Sediqa, thought to be in her early twenties, fled her village with another man, when she realised the “fiancé ...

frogblog

• The Taniwha of the Tarawera
  Yesterday I rafted down the Tarawera River in the Bay of Plenty. As we came around a bend on the river we came across a series of large steel beams sticking out of the water - ”The Taniwha of the Tarawera” muttered Tipene Marr stting next to me on the raft. These steel pos ...
• Crime and access to welfare
  Paula Bennett is horrified that people claim to have committed crimes because of poverty and difficulties accessing welfare. She claims welfare is accessible for those in need and is enough to live on. Newsflash Paula: There’s a huge black-market out there of people struggling to survive on low ...
• Manufacturing Bullshit
  Every year in New Zealand the alcohol industry spends $73 million on alcohol advertising. That’s $73 million spent manufacturing an image. The facts presented in this video are startling. It’s time the Government regulated alcohol advertising and took New Zealand’s heavy drin ...
• What is a real education?
  I asked young people directly what they need from their education. Their answers are summarised in our report, 'What is a real education', released today.
• Key lets down the Egyptian people
  Most New Zealanders have been inspired by the huge mobilisation of Egyptians against the Mubarak dictatorship. “Mubarak must go now” has been the cry from the streets, but not from the White House – or the Beehive. When street protests began Hillary Clinton asked Mubarak to brin ...

Patronus Analytical

• Greek aid worker kidnapped in Pakistan
• Aid worker killed in Iraq
• Update on kidnapped Greek aid worker
• NGO worker beaten to death in Dhaka
• Canadian aid worker murdered in Honduras

J Kozy

• Demented Democracy
  An addiction to opinion, each person being entitled to his own, and the unwarranted notion that those who fight for their beliefs are "principled" is the reason that democracies teeter between antagonistic belief systems and are unable to resolve any social problems. Each party strives to re ...
• Pity the Poor Economists
  The first thing a judicious reader notices is how much disagreement exists among economists on almost every, perhaps every, matter. Then it becomes clear that much of this disagreement is acrimonious. Some of these people appear to hate each other. Now ask yourselves, how likely would it hav ...
• Can America Be Changed?
  If the American people ever hope to take back their country, they need to understand America's political economy so the parts of it that are morally offensive and economically ineffective can be repudiated. Only then will Americans be able to make the changes that are needed to make Lincoln' ...
• The Media in America: Selling Views, Calling i ...
  America's journalists are not "newshounds" They are nothing more than salesclerks, hocking the products their employers want to sell. The pretty faces that now function as most television news anchors are no different than the pretty models used to sell other products. The American "free" pr ...
• America's Next Failure: the Police State
  Every police force in the nation has cold (unsolved) cases. The War on Drugs has been ineffective for more than forty years. No one knows where a vast number of illegal immigrants even are. The CIA has been unable to locate Osama bin Laden after more than ten years of searching. Your local polic ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

• Why Investors Want Higher Inflation
  I'm back. But I've been busy catching up on crossword puzzles this morning, and either this week's puzzles were harder than usual or else my brain is slowly decaying, because they took me a while to finish. Probably the latter. And speaking of brain decay, before I left I posted a chart showing ...
• Friday Cat Blogging - 4 February 2011
  The fence is becoming an increasingly popular hangout spot. A couple of days ago both cats hopped up at once and created a logjam. Domino couldn't figure out how to get down with Inkblot in the way, so she headed off in the wrong direction and got stopped by the rose bush. After convincing herse ...
• Housekeeping Note
  I'll be up in San Francisco today and tomorrow hobnobbing with the powers that be at Mother Jones. I might have some free time to post a thing or two, but I'm not sure about that. At best, posting will be light — though catblogging will appear at its regular time. I'll be back on Saturday.Commen ...
• Anti-Urbanism, Take Two
  Earlier today I wrote about the anti-urban bias in American public policy. Is it the fault of the Senate, which overrepresents the interests of rural states? Stephen Smith comments: I think all this talk of federal policy is misguided. Writing about the federal government sells well in journa ...
• Yes, Our Problem is Low Demand
  Normally, there's not much correlation between inflation expectations and asset prices. However, David Glasner has published a new paper showing that, beginning in 2008, this changed dramatically. If I understand his explanation correctly — and I'm not at all sure I do — the mechanism is fairly ...

Insanity Report

• IC 226: True Grit
  Topics for the show: Ain’t nothing wrong with a few manlaws Dan Snyder is a douchebag Halle Berry claims her ex used racial slurs…but do we believe her? Kim K is upset her titties are showing A woman takes her son out of school…to help rob a bank American Journalist show more care and grit [...] ...
• Mandatory Gun Ownership….wait what?
  After the horrific shooting of Congresswoman Gifford that killed 6 and injured 17, there was a lot of talk about how “Politics would change forever”.  If you believed that then I have a case of glass hammers to sell you.  Sure people temporarily quieted some of their most outlandish rhetoric. ...
• WTF Wednesday: An Image None of Us Want to Se ...
  Fresh off of her hilarious “What the Hell is she looking at?” Tea Party Express response to President Obama’s  State of the Union Address, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann is back in the news giving us all another reason to hate her by implanting an image in our heads that will haunt us for etern ...
• FacePalm of the Week: How to Torpedo Your Cam ...
  Thanks to JDan over at MediaStrut, I think it’s safe to say I already have the FacePalm of the Week for this week…even though it’s Monday: Hold on…the President has something to say: Seriously, what the fuck is this about?  I get it, politics gets testy sometimes.  I’m pretty sure Carol Mosele ...
• IC 225: Call a C.A.B.
  Topics for the show: Steve Harvey responds about his ex-wife’s claims Ted Haggard questions just how gay he is Bristol Palin is a “responsible sex” expert? Dylan watched the Jersey Shore… Kriss & Dylan scheme on another great movie/book idea Man has sex with show hogs….and gives them a vaginal i ...

Simple Climate

• Climate researchers warn of food and forest ti ...
  With food prices reaching record highs, worsening droughts in east Africa will add to agricultural problems, while a parched Amazon could speed rather than fight global warming.
• 2,000 year water temperature high underlines A ...
  Average temperatures of water flowing into the Arctic since 1890 are 2ºC higher than they have been on average in the previous two millennia, Robert Spielhagen and colleagues show.
• Rain-soaked plants trudge downhill
  Surveys separated by 70 years show how climate change in Northern California has increased rainfall, causing plants to move to generally warmer, drier, lower altitude habitats.
• Ice melt poses dual sea rise and water access ...
  One-fifth of the ice held in the world's ice caps and glaciers will melt by 2100, affecting water availability, adding around 12 cm to sea levels and threatening some coastal regions, predicts University of British Columbia's Valentina Radić.
• Greenhouse gases break temperature-rainfall li ...
  While warmer air can take up more water than colder air, the extra heat trapped in the lower atmosphere by gases like CO2 decreases how much of this is released as precipitation, explains Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research's Katja Frieler.

e!Science News

• Air pollutants from fireplaces and wood-burnin ...
  With millions of people warding off winter's chill with blazing fireplaces and wood-burning stoves, scientists are raising red flags about the potential health effects of the smoke released from burning wood. Their study, published in the American Chemical Society's (ACS') journal, Chemical Rese ...
• Petrol stations pollute their immediate surrou ...
  In Spain it is relatively common to come across petrol stations surrounded by houses, particularly in urban areas. Researchers from the University of Murcia (UM) have studied the effects of contamination at petrol stations that is potentially harmful to health, which can be noted in buildings le ...
• The brain knows what the nose smells, but how? ...
  Mice know fear. And they know to fear the scent of a predator. But how do their brains quickly figure out with a sniff that a cat is nearby? read more
• Discovery of jumping gene cluster tangles tree ...
  Since the days of Darwin, the "tree of life" has been the preeminent metaphor for the process of evolution, reflecting the gradual branching and changing of individual species. read more
• Peripheral artery disease harder on women
  Small calf muscles may be a feminine trait, but for women with peripheral artery disease (PAD) they're a major disadvantage. Researchers at Northwestern Medicine point to the smaller calf muscles of women as a gender difference that may cause women with PAD to experience problems walking and cli ...

unEarthed

• Congress V. The Environment: A Friend to Clean ...
  Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson refutes colleague's attacks Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson Let’s hear it for the champions of clean air! We at Earthjustice have spe ...
• 'Keep Your Hands Off My Clean Air Act Standard ...
  Powerful op-ed from Alex Allred, mother of three, takes Rep. Carter to task Alex Allred. Alex Allred is a wife, mother of three, author, former Olympic bob ...
• California Supreme Court Stands Up For Consume ...
  Court approves case to stop falsely promoted âMade in the U.S.A.â products The California Supreme Court last week sided with consumers and their ability to rel ...
• Power Plants: Unrivaled Sources of Mercury Air ...
  Recent reports detail sky-high mercury emissions of the worst toxic polluters When it comes to mercury pollution, coal-fired power plants are king. Two recent ...
• Congress V. The Environment: Who Can We Trust?
  Legislators who do and don't partner with polluters Rep. Fred Upton Early last evening, Reps. Fred Upton and Ed Whitfield, along with Sen. James Inhofe, rel ...

Brave New Climate

• An environmentally sound, energy-rich future ( ...
  Here is a blog-post version of the poster to accompany the AMS paper discussed in the previous post. You can download a printable, high rez (11 MB) version of the poster here, or a low rez (1 MB) version here. ————————— ————————— In the part III, I’ll publish the conference paper that provides t ...
• IFR: An optimized approach to meeting global e ...
  A few days ago, an important poster and written paper were presented at the 91st American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting, 23-27 Jan 2011, Seattle, WA; Second Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy. The Integral Fast Reactor (IFR): An Optimized Source for Global E ...
• Two countries, two paths, one crucial lesson l ...
  In the 1970s, two countries took two different paths in energy policy. Denmark pursued wind power, but failed to replace its fossil fuel power plants. It has among the highest carbon emissions per capita in Europe. France pursued nuclear power, and now has the lowest carbon emissions of any OECD ...
• New BNC podcast series and predict millionth p ...
  One of the new initiatives I’ll be trying in 2011 is an audio podcast series (I use the term ‘series’ loosely, as there’ll be no fixed schedule). This is now fairly straightforward to do, via my iPhone 4 and the Audioboo app. This type of media/blogging is quick and flexible to do on the fly. [. ...
• The cost of ending global warming – a ca ...
  Guest Post by Chris Uhlik. Dr Uhlik did a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering at Stanford 1979–1990. He worked at Toyota in Japan, built robot controllers, cellular telephone systems, internet routers, and now does engineering management at Google. Among his 8 years of projects as an engin ...

Indigenist Opinion

• Israeli Settler MK to Huckabee: ‘We’re Connect ...
  Israeli Settler MK to Huckabee: ‘We’re Connected to This Land No Less Than Your Indians’ « Tikun Olam-תקון עולם: Make the World a Better Place But I reserve the biggest laugh for Zeev’s recounting of his discussions with his pal, Mike, who the reporter erroneously credits with being a U.S. sen ...
• Protesters Being Tortured While Obama Blabs Ab ...
  Protesters Being Tortured While Obama Blabs About "Transition" | War Is A Crime .org It's notable that this NYT article is one of CNN's Ivan Watson's "Must Read" tweets, yesterday: WE had been detained by Egyptian authorities, handed over to the country’s dreaded Mukhabarat, the secret police, ...
• وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب: Those opportunists ...
  The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب: Those opportunists of Al-Ahram Center: "I can't stand those people at Al-Ahram Center. They were the ones who speak religiously about Mubarak and his 'vision' for years. They were the ones who even were used for sectarian propaganda by the ...
• A democratic Egypt may save Palestinian and Le ...
  A democratic Egypt may save Palestinian and Lebanese lives: [mondoweiss.net] "When Israel and Egypt signed a peace treaty in 1979, one of the big dividends for Israel was the removal of a major military threat on their doorstep. Egypt had participated in wars against Israel in 1948, 1956, 1967 a ...
• What Corruption and Force Have Wrought in Egyp ...
  What Corruption and Force Have Wrought in Egypt | CommonDreams.org: "The failure of the United States to halt the slow-motion ethnic cleansing of Palestinians by Israel has consequences. The failure to acknowledge the collective humiliation and anger felt by most Arabs because of the presence of ...

Republicans are a Disease

• Tea Party Founder Judson Phillips Lies on MSNB ...
  On “The Last Word” Judson Phillips said Social Security will be broke in 2037. Reality says that even if the trust fund currently 2.6 trillion dollars is exhausted in 2037 Social Security will still be able to pay out 80% of the benefits. Tell me Judson. If you want “respect” for your organizati ...
• Why I Can’t Watch CNN
  Even though I enjoy watching some shows on CNN, I find it ever more difficult to not change the channel. When I turn on CNN I get the opportunity to see right wing conservative guests and commentators spew outright lie after outright lie. It makes me sick to my stomach to watch right wing mouth ...
• Paul Ryan’s America
  In Paul Ryan’s America, your grandmother would already be dead. If she was lucky enough to survive, she would be pushing a shopping cart bagging for handouts, because someone on Wall Street churned her retirement into nothing, and her Social Security payouts would be $20 per month after “manager ...
• Impeach Clarence Thomas Now
  While Clarence Thomas ruled repeatedly for the benefit of the oligarchs, the Heritage Foundation paid his wife hundreds of thousands of dollars. Mr. Thomas neglected to claim this income on his financial disclosure statements, which is a crime if I remember correctly. So here we have billionaire ...
• Who Will Be Glenn Beck’s Next Target?
  So which “liberal” will be targeted for assassination on next on the Glenn Beck show? Which champion of the poor will be the next target of his rants? Which community organizer will Beck blame for all that is wrong in America?  What leader of an organization that is empowering minorities, and a ...

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

• Welcome to the New AmpedStatus.com
  We're back with a redesigned site and three new features! Introducing the AmpedStatus Social Network and two new Amped Coverage wires.
• Time to Fight Back! Join The Movement
  As a broad-based network representing people across the political spectrum, we are working together to reach common ground and fight for pivotal political reforms. As long as the economy and government are rigged in favor of the top economic 0.1%, we will all lose.
• Horrific Arizona Massacre Is A Sign of Tragedi ...
  Let This Tragedy Be A Wake Up Call. Given Socio-Political Conditions, Many More Violent Acts On the Way.
• AmpedStatus.com Hit By Mass DoS Attacks
  As you may have noticed, for most of the day yesterday AmpedStatus.com was down. Shortly after posting our new report we were hit with a heavy barrage of DoS attacks...
• Obama Renews Commitment to Complete Destructio ...
  Obama has just doubled down on the side of the financial terrorists. Meet Bill Daley and Gene Sperling - another JP Morgan-Goldman Sachs attack. Let's dig deep into their past and reveal everything that you need to know.

+972

• Al Jazeera reporter: Revolution is inspiring b ...
  I had the pleasure yesterday to interview one of my favourite TV correspondents, an Al Jazeera reporter stationed in Cairo, for the Hebrew foreign affairs blog I co-manage, Kav Hutz. Some of the questions were submitted by our readers. Was the reporter taken off guard by the events? Inspired? I ...
• Izzie in HolyLand – Part 18: The Egyptia ...
  As Izzie watches events unfold in Cairo, it begins to dawn on her just how precarious this new situation is Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz! Ruth: Yes, Ms. HolyLand? Izzie: Ruth, get me all seven kitchen cabinet ministers in here. Pronto! Ruth: Yes, Ms. HolyLand, right away. In walk Prime Minist ...
• +972 Magazine’s policy for commenting
  We formed +972 with the intention of adding new layers to the discourse surrounding Israel and Palestine, because we felt there were too many pieces missing. Our guiding principles are: reporting facts on the ground, allowing multiple and often unpopular or unusual views to be expressed, and gen ...
• Nobody mentions the Jewish Brotherhood
  Israelis bemoan the alleged rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, ignoring their own local variety While Israelis pay plenty of attention to the fear of the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, they steadfastly ignore the rise of the Jewish brotherhood in their own country. The motto of ...
• The Egyptians are giving us a lesson in democr ...
  In Israel we like to boast about being the only democracy in the Middle East, but while democracy in Israel slides down the slippery slope, the Egyptians are showing us what true democratic spirit is By Mati Shemoelof The media and Israel’s left wing has recently been dealing with the harassmen ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

• Showerhead swap project helps Perth household ...
  Perth residents can save water and money by swapping old showerheads for free new water saving showerheads under an Australian Government funded project launched today.
• New Chair for Murray-Darling Basin Authority
  The Hon. Craig Knowles has been appointed as Chair of the Murray-Darling Basin Authority.
• New Lynton to Belair urban trail is open for ...
  Cyclists and pedestrians are already taking advantage of the recently completed Lynton to Belair Urban Trail.
• Emergency heritage protection for Jordan Rive ...
  The Federal Environment Minister, Tony Burke, has used emergency powers under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act to place the Jordan River Levee site, near Brighton in Tasmania, on the national heritage list.
• Sydney Theatre Company shows the world how to ...
  The Sydney Theatre Company will officially open another innovative 'Green Precinct', jointly funded under the Gillard Government's Green Precincts Fund.

Matt Weidner Blog

• 5th DCA Opinion- Due Process Rights Violated W ...
  Think of how many things happen in foreclosure cases with no notice to the opposing party…..my biggest problem is ex parte motions to substitute party plaintiff, but their are others. This new opinion makes clear that our system justice is dependent on all sides being provided notice and the opp ...
• You And I Have A Rendezvous With Destiny- PLEA ...
  Turn this on during a quiet moment and listen to the words.  Listen carefully.  Remember what the world felt like then.  Many of us may not have agreed with the politics or the policies, but The President and most importantly our country was treated with the utmost respect.  I suggest the reason ...
• On Wall Street Pay Vaults Back Into the Strato ...
  One of the practical roadblocks to fairness in the courtroom is the perspective that recognizing homeowner defenses and forcing the Wall Street Wizards that caused this mess to pay for their misdeeds is the perception that doing so will ultimately cost taxpayers.  This is simply not true, in fac ...
• The US- Blindsided by Turmoil in Egypt
  We should all appreciate the significance of the civil war that has broken out in Egypt.  This will not end peacefully and it will not remain isolated to Egypt.  The relevance to our battles here in the United States are to break the delusion that our leaders have world affairs, and national aff ...
• The Pino Case- If The Court Considers Fraud on ...
  The Pino Appeal is Florida’s Ibanez moment.  The Florida Supreme Court will soon decide just how serious Florida courts are going to take systematic, repetitive fraud on the Courts of the State of Florida.  The bottom line is this…. Will banks and foreclosure mills  be given a free pass or wi ...

abelard - news

• hanson: obama's 1979 moment | politics usa new ...
  Remember the American Embassy hostages after Jimmy Carter's appeasement in the Middle East. It looks like Obama hasn't learnt.
• red ed wants socialist/fascist 'new' labour to ...
  Ed Milliband's Progressive Labour is anything but.
• democracy in the caliphate | politics news at ...
  The instability caused by oppressive Middle Eastern dictatorships is hitting more than world fossil fuel supplies.
• il Giro d'Italia 2011 - Italian unity Tour | I ...
  First raced in 1909, the Giro is one of the three major international three-week cycling road races. This year celebrates the 150th year of the united Italian nation state. Beta release.
• viaduc de millau tolls rise again tomorrow | f ...
  Details of the new costs of driving over the highest and longest bridge in France and Europe, if not the world.

The Parallel Parliament

• A World With No Crystal Ball
  What to say about the happenings in Egypt? It is one of the most remarkable developments of the last two decades. Yet the very surprise of it – the sheer speed of its unfolding – providing just as many opportunities for rapid opinion as it did for democratic developments. Now is hardly a time fo ...
• Footsteps and Fingerprints
  I heard it everywhere I trekked yesterday: “So, are we going to have an election?” My reply that I didn’t have the foggiest idea was met with considerable disappointment, as everywhere people seemed to have an opinion on the matter. It was our first day back to Parliament following our Christmas ...
• Women Of The Sun
  John Garang, deceased visionary and key political figure in south Sudan’s struggle for independence, once called them “the marginalized of the marginalized.” No more. Something is subtly changing in what will soon be the world’s newest nation and it’s not just statehood. It’s the millions of wom ...
• Who’s Watching Whom?
  We no sooner had descended from the Sudanese sky to a dirt airstrip than we were asked to immediately visit the commissioner in charge of the referendum process. It was something of a surprise because we’ve been going to that same village for over a decade delivering development programs and the ...
• Winds of Change – Back to Ottawa
  This is the final video from our remarkable trip to Sudan for the historic referendum. Of all our dozens of trips, leaving on this occasion was perhaps the most difficult. The Sudanese we have known for over a decade – administrators, soldiers, exiles, slaves, religious and educational leaders, ...

Vaccine Awakening

• New Vaccine Science Can Help Bridge the Divide
  by Barbara Loe Fisher Fear of the unknown is what terrifies us the most, fear of being unable to have control over what the future holds. At the root of that fear is knowing that the choices we make today could have a profound impact on what happens tomorrow. 1 Fear is a strong emotion ...
• Counting Blessings, Remembering the Children
  by Barbara Loe Fisher Every Christmas and New Year, when I give thanks for the people who have blessed my life, I remember the mothers and fathers of severely vaccine injured children, who have taught me the most about love and courage. I know that my son, Chris, who developed brain inflamma ...
• Thousands Of Americans Register for NVIC's New ...
  by Barbara Loe Fisher Thousands of Americans living in all 50 states took action and registered for the new NVIC Advocacy Portal at www.NVICadvocacy.org during Vaccine Awareness Week (Nov. 1-6, 2010) co-sponsored by the National Vaccine Informati ...
• Vaccine Science: A Search for Truth
  by Barbara Loe Fisher February 2009 turned out to be a month when vaccine science was put on trial in the U.S. Court of Claims in Washington, D.C., in mainstream media and on the internet, in the British Medical Journal and in vaccine safety research initiatives by the U.S. Department of Health ...
• Talking Vaccine Science with Government: Why D ...
  by Barbara Loe Fisher After the historic election in November that saw Barack Obama elected President, I wondered what he and his Administration would do about addressing the question that is on the minds of many parents: Why are so many vaccinated children today chronically ill, suffering with ...

2020 Science

• Nanotechnology – Unplugged
  Next Tuesday, we’ll be launching a new series of occasional discussions on contemporary public health risk issues at the University of Michigan Risk Science Center.  And the first topic is – no surprises – nanotechnology. Under the tagline “No PowerPoint, no script; just stimulating conversatio ...
• Davos 2011 – Committed to changing the state o ...
  Cross-posted from the Risk Science Blog. As it did last year, the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos has left me with a daunting task – how do I summarize the highlights of the meeting in a single, short post? The answer of course is that I canât – Davos is so complex, diverse [...] ...
• Davos 2011 – Partnering with teens to build a ...
  This is not a science and technology post – which is a bit odd for a science and technology blog.  But I wanted to introduce five people who together shake up the whole idea of the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos as being an elitist and increasingly irrelevant gathering of middle aged bal ...
• Davos 2011: Global Risks permeate conversation ...
  Cross-posted from the Risk Science Blog. Take a metaphorical slice through this year’s annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, and Global Risk would be writ large through every part of it.  Hot on the heels of the sixth Global Risk report, this year’s meeting saw the launch of the Risk Re ...
• Davos 2011 – physics superstar meets music sup ...
  I don’t usually write about personal interactions here, but this is one I couldn’t resist – physics superstar Lawrence Krauss talking cosmology with music superstar Peter Gabriel. I was with Lawrence at a World Economic Forum dinner when he bumped into Peter – as one does!  He immediately launc ...

Reader Supported News

• Leadership of Egypt's Ruling Party Resigns
  Intro: "The top leadership of Egypt's governing National Democratic Party, which has long been synonymous with corruption and rigged elections, resigned Saturday as the regime struggled to convince the country it was instituting change while still holding onto power. Among those who resigned was ...
• Income Swings May Mean Loss of Healthcare Cove ...
  Intro: "Under the new Affordable Care Act, the health reform package signed into law by President Barack Obama last March, millions of Americans whose income fluctuates during the year may lose health insurance for periods of time as their eligibility for different programs changes." A man lo ...
• Egyptian Officials Seek to Nudge Mubarak Out
  Intro: "President Hosni Mubarak appeared increasingly isolated on Saturday, with protests entering their 12th day and the Obama administration and some members of the Egyptian military and civilian elite pursuing plans to nudge him from power." Portrait, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. (pho ...
• Justice Thomas' Wife Virginia Thomas Now a Lob ...
  Exerpt: "Virginia 'Ginni' Thomas, wife of Justice Clarence Thomas, has recast herself yet again, this time as the head of a firm, Liberty Consulting, which boasts on its website using her 'experience and connections' to help clients 'with governmental affairs efforts' and political donation stra ...
• Bernard Madoff Lawsuit: Mets Owners Owe Victim ...
  Intro: "The owners of the Mets turned a blind eye to Bernard Madoff's massive fraud, reaping $300 million in false profits and using a large chunk to run the team, according to a lawsuit unsealed Friday." Disgraced financier Bernie Madoff. (photo: news.rtl.lu) Sorry, your browser cannot ...

War Resisters League

• Anti-war Activists to Grand Jury: “We will not ...
  Tuesday, January 25th was the day that 23 anti-war and Palestine solidarity activists were made to appear before a Federal Grand Jury in Chicago. It was also the day that all of them refused to testify. In solidarity with those targeted by government repression, several rallies were held in citi ...
• The other “Afghanistan Report”
  Whose stories are we telling about the war in Afghanistan? On the day following the White House report on the war in Afghanistan that names the war as a qualified success and calls for the U.S. to “stay the course,” we must lift up the alternative stories and reports of this near-decade of occup ...
• Join the Online Demonstration for Peace in Kor ...
  President Obama is sending the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS George Washington (carrying 75 warplanes and a crew of over 6000) and other warships for additional war-games with the South Korean military beginning Sunday, November 28.� This only escalates the already tense situation on the ...
• IVAW Women’s Retreat this weekend!
  Dear Supporters, My name is Joyce Wagner. I am a Marine Corps veteran who served in Iraq in 2004 and 2005, and I am a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War. This Labor Day, IVAW women will hold our first ever retreat in support of women veterans. Your donation today will help us make [...]
• Protest nuclear warhead test launch tomorrow!
  Protest September 14, 11:55 pm (midnight) missile launch at Vandenberg Air Force Base: NOTE 09/14/10: THIS LAUNCH AND PROTEST HAVE BEEN CANCELED– More info to come! Join the protest of the test launch of a Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) thermo-nuclear warhead delivery sy ...

Center for a Livable Future

• A Former Teacher’s Take on The New Dietary Gui ...
  Every five years, the United States Departments of Human Health Services and Agriculture jointly release the Dietary Guidelines for America in the hopes of encouraging every American to eat a healthy diet, however, chances are the average person will never set eyes on the report. As a former tea ...
• Oprah Enthusiastically Throws Her Support Behi ...
    Talk show host Oprah Winfrey may have just encouraged a large segment of her 30 million viewers to join the Meatless Monday movement following her latest show which gave us a rare glimpse into where some of our meat comes from. The Meatless Monday campaign’s national awareness has more t ...
• Understanding foodborne microbial hazards for ...
  One in six Americans contracts a foodborne illness each year (CDC). Such illness can mean an unpleasant day of vomiting, diarrhea, fever, and/or worseâ hospitalization or death in rare cases. âThere’s something that can be said about the problem of foodborne illness, that can’t be said of many o ...
• Again Ethanol and Food are in Conflict
  Corn prices have risen dramatically in the last 6 months and now food prices are following. This may be driving revolutions world-wide. And it will affect your grocery shopping soon.
• Shovel ready: Cuban urban agriculture as job c ...
  Iâve just returned from eight days in Cuba studying their sustainable agricultural system — especially their urban agriculture sector — and I have several key take-aways. One of the biggest insights was the untapped potential of urban agriculture as a creator of good jobs. The Cuban system wa ...

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

• ACTION ALERT: End fossil fuel subsidies!
  The Council of Canadians The Canadian government is subsidizing the fossil fuel industry to the tune of $1.38 billion per�year.� $1.38 billion per year�means: Source: The Council of Canadians ...
• Alberta Ecotrust currently accepting proposals ...
  Alberta Ecotrust Foundation If your non-profit or charity is working on an environmental project on the themes of air/climate/energy, water, or wilderness conservation, you may wish to apply for some funding to support that�work. Alber ...
• No Public Voice in Latest Tax Recovery Land Sa ...
  Alberta Wilderness Association 4 Feb 2011 The Government of Alberta’s latest announcement that it will transfer 84,000 acres of tax recovery land to local municipalities follows a ...
• ADVISORY: Environmental Law Conference in Vanc ...
  Ecojustice, University of Victoria's Environmental Law Centre and West Coast Environmental Law host a conference for public interest environmental law practitioners.
• 2011-02-01 Public Lands Act Draft Regulations ...
  AWA letter to SRD Minister, Mel Knight, with AWA comments on consultation process for draft regulations for the Public Lands Act, including recommendations for changes to make the regulations effective.

Stop NATO

• NATO Surrenders Europe To U.S. Global Missile ...
  Stop NATO February 5, 2011 NATO Surrenders Europe To U.S. Global Missile Shield Project Rick Rozoff 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 S ...
• Egypt: Will U.S. And NATO Launch Second Suez I ...
  Stop NATO February 2, 2011 Egypt: Will U.S. And NATO Launch Second Suez Intervention? Rick Rozoff On February 1 General James Mattis, commander of United States Central Command whose area of responsibility includes Egypt on its western end, stated that Washington currently has no plans to reinfo ...
• Washington Intensifies Push Into Central Asia
  Stop NATO January 29, 2011 Washington Intensifies Push Into Central Asia Rick Rozoff A recent editorial on the website of Voice of America reflected on last year being one in which the United States solidified relations with the five former Soviet republics in Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzsta ...
• Afghanistan: War Without End In A World Withou ...
  Stop NATO January 27, 2011 Afghanistan: War Without End In A World Without Conscience Rick Rozoff The largest foreign military force ever deployed in Afghanistan is now well into the tenth year of the longest and what has become the deadliest war of the 21st century. Some 154,000 occupation troo ...
• Ivory Coast: Testing Ground For U.S.-Backed Af ...
  Stop NATO January 23, 2011 Ivory Coast: Testing Ground For U.S.-Backed African Standby Force Rick Rozoff The announcements of presidential election results last month in West Africa and Eastern Europe have served as the pretext for the United States and its allies in the North Atlantic Treaty Or ...

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Intel Hub

• Fake Centrist Movement To Sweep Nation
  The Intel Hub Radio Shepard Ambellas and Alex Thomas Feb. 5, 2011 Similar to the co-opting of the tea parties, the mainstream media, along with their puppet masters behind the curtain, plan to push a new centrist movement as a means to infiltrate individuals who have pushed themselves out of the ...
• WikiLeaks Cables: US Agrees to Tell Russia Bri ...
  The Telegraph By Matthew Moore, Gordon Rayner and Christopher Hope February 4th, 2011 Information about every Trident missile the US supplies to Britain will be given to Russia as part of an arms control deal signed by President Barack Obama next week. Defence analysts claim the agreement risks ...
• 21st Century Inquisition
  IMVA By Dr. Mark Sircus February 4th, 2011 Medical viciousness, which flows like a river out of doctor’s arrogance and ignorance, drags many people to death’s door including the man in the above video. It has to do with a strict control of information that can be deadly to patients. In the above ...
• Fury Builds Over Blackouts Caused By De-Indust ...
  Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones Infowars.com February 4, 2011 Fury is building over rolling nationwide blackouts triggered by the Obama administration’s deliberate agenda to block the construction of new coal-fired plants, as local energy companies struggle to meet Americans’ power demands amids ...
• DHS Fear Mongering: America’s Super Bowl Polic ...
  Source: John Robertson February 4th, 2011 Here we go… ICE, Robots, Choppers, Fighters, Bomb Dogs, TSA Screening, Full Pat-Downs… Welcome to the #1 Sporting Event in the “Land of the Free”! A CBS video explains the Super Bowl security by way of a demonstration: With speed and precision, an airbor ...

FRS

• Houston, Texas: Cops Beating the Crap Out Of U ...
  February 04, 2011 CNN http://MOXNews.com
• Anti-Mubarak Protest in New York
  February 04, 2011 America’s biggest community of Egyptian-Americans staged a demonstration in New York to coincide with a huge Cairo protest to oust Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. About 200 people gathered in Times Square chanting
• Impromptu: The Cairo Commune
  Feb 04 2011 by Sinan Antoon They fought tooth and nail Wednesday night and defended al-Tahrir Square after a long day during which the last Pharao played his last card by unleashing his hired dogs to attack unarmed protesters who shook the earth in Egypt under his throne. When darkness fell, tho ...
• Omar Suleiman, the CIA’s man in Cairo an ...
  [News reports that the US is promoting an Egyptian "democratic transition" of a new Mubarak regime without Mubarak, focus on the figure of Omar Suleiman (who Mubarak named vice president last week).  This article details the bloody hands that Suleiman brings to these maneuvers in Washington's ve ...
• Israel gathering its Zionist supporters and op ...
  Hundreds  of EU lawmakers arrive for pro-Israel conference By GIL SHEFLER 02/04/2011 Forums will be held where issues like the boycotting of Israel, the threat of terrorism and Israel’s business sector will be debated. Some 450 European parliamentarians from 37 countries including all 27 members ...

Ken O'Keefe

• Global Revolution 2011
  I believe the time has come to unite, those of us who are sane, who can see that the masses are comprised of so many cultures and vastly different ways of life, yet we all demand essentially the same things. We demand to be treated with respect. We demand the right to a decent way of life. We ...
• Revolutions & Manipulations
  While millions of Egyptians are in the streets, in one of the most dramatic spontaneous uprisings in recent years, in an attempt to overthrow 30 years of Mubarak rule, a regime propped up by Israel and the United States, an undercurrent of opportunist plots threaten to turn this hopeful situatio ...
• Rise People Rise – The Global Revolution ...
  Let us realize once and for all, that we the people are one, that we are human, that our most precious gift is that of our humanity. Let us never sacrifice it again. Together we are unstoppable. We are the sleeping giant, we are the waking lion, we are fierce and we are fearless.
• The Samouni Family Children – Survivors ...
  January 12, 2011 is a day I will never forget, visiting the Samouni family could not possibly be anything but a life-changing event.  Words simply cannot describe the devastation wrought upon this family by a marauding band of Israeli psychopaths, otherwise known as the Givati Brigade of the Isr ...
• On the verge of Cast Lead II, a look back
  Today our team in Gaza met the Awaja family from Thabat.  There were nine members of this family, seven children aged 1 to 12 years old, but one son was murdered during Operation Cast Lead (2008-2009), so seven children is now six.  Today we visited a few days in the life of this family, courtes ...

StillSmallVoice

• A little more reading with Sunday's column...
  To read Sunday's column, go here.To read one writer's take on the Tunisian revolt, go here. To read more about Mohammed Bouazizi, go here or here. To see a photo of him in his hospital bed, go here (warning: the photo is graphic). To read more about the role of Facebook in recent revolts, go ...
• Come to Stowe Center on Thursday
  And join in the discussion at one of their Salons at Stowe with Michael Kramer, whose play, "Divine Rivalry" will be at Hartford Stage Feb. 24 through March 20. And me. I'll be there, too. The discussion will be abouth the power of words (Harriet Beecher Stowe certainly knew how to use them), ...
• Saw this yesterday. Should have posted it.
  Christians, protecting Muslims as they pray in Egypt. And thanks, Sensible, for the link.
• Live stream from Egypt
  Right here, at Al Jazeera.
• Bombay court says astrology is a science
  After our lusty conversation on the tilting of the universe, Cliff sends this, a story about a recent Bombay High Court decision. You can read more here. Flickr photo

Associated Content

• Obama Tells Mubarak that Egypt's Peaceful Tran ...
  Any and all interested parties, from the people demonstrating in Tahrir Square to those with political ambitions in the corridors of power in Cairo, are fully aware of the U. S. involvement in Egyptian political affairs. And so the Obama administration...Contributor: Saul Relative Published: Feb ...
• Dallas Weather Forecast Ominous Again for Supe ...
  Friday, the forecast for Super Bowl Sunday in Dallas looked promising. Today, the National Weather Service warns that early morning fog could give way to a bit more snow, which won't make the past ice and snow melt easier.Contributor: Robert Dougherty Published: Feb 05, 2011
• Report: Justin Bieber 'SNL' Cameo Coming Satur ...
  A Justin Bieber 'SNL' appearance is apparently coming on Saturday, Feb. 5 with host Dana Carvey.Contributor: Ryan Christopher DeVault Published: Feb 05, 2011
• Go Red for Women Day Feb. 4, 2011
  Go Red for Women is a movement to bring awareness to women about their heart attack risks. This is my Go Red for Women event, my experience as a heart attack survivor may save a life.Contributor: Amy Browne Published: Feb 04, 2011
• Previewing 2011 Super Bowl Commercials Taking ...
  What are the sponsors trying to do? Dampen a good 2011 Super Bowl by showing us something we're already familiar with? Ruin a bad Super Bowl XLV so that we have nothing to look forward to if there's a blowout?...Contributor: Saul Relative Published: Feb 04, 2011

Popsci - Science

• This Week in the Future, January 28-February 4 ...
  This week, we're doing things a little differently. Resident artist Baarbarian has captured five of our most eye-catching stories of the week in this picture, but to win a t-shirt adorned with it, you won't have to guess all five correctly. Instead, you'll have to tell us which story is your fa ...
• Water Flea Genome is the Most Complex Yet, and ...
  A microscopic, see-through water flea is the most complex creature ever studied, genomically speaking. Daphnia pulex is the first crustacean to ever have its genome sequenced, and it turns out it has about 31,000 genes — 25 percent more than we humans. Of all the invertebrate genomes sequenced ...
• What Could Possibly Go Wrong: Industrial Cyber ...
  Stuxnet gives hackers a blueprint for sophisticated new malware Computers already do so much of our work that it seems natural to let them take care of our sabotage, too. This might have been the line of thinking that led to Stuxnet, the first known malware worm designed to disrupt industrial p ...
• National Health Detective Squad Uses Genomic T ...
  Medical detectives National Institutes of Health have just cracked their first case wide open, a result they hope to repeat with a slew of other uncharacterized illnesses and conditions. The Undiagnosed Diseases Program (UDP), a sleuthing agency set up within the NIH in 2008 to connect the dots ...
• Scientists Mine Dormant Bacterial Genes For Ne ...
  Streptomyces coelicolor, a soil-dwelling bacterium, has one of the best-understood genomes in its genus. Even so, a computational analysis of its genome has led researchers to a surprise: a new antibiotic compound. By tinkering with the bacteria, researchers at the University of Groningen in th ...

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 ...

War is Business

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Hudson's Weather & Climate

• Global temperatures continue to fall.
  The January Global temperature, according to UAH satellite data, was 0.009C below the 1981-2010 average. The previous month, December 2010, was 0.181C above average A year ago, in January 2010, the global temperature was 0.542C above the 1981-2010 average. If the more standard 196 ...
• February: Westerlies come roaring back
  January 2011 turned out to be drier and colder than average. The provisional Central England Temperature (CET) mean for the month was 3.7C, compared with the average of 4.2C. It was a month again dominated by high pressure, with north and east winds more frequent than normal. Rainfall was ther ...
• Global temperature forecast for 2011
  Last year, according to the Met Office Hadley Centre, was the second warmest on record with a temperature anomaly of 0.50C above the 1961-1990 average. This was very close, but slightly below their forecast which was issued at the Copenhagen climate summit in December 2009. It stated global te ...
• Met Office: 2010 Globally second warmest on re ...
  Last week, researchers at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York, where temperature records extend back to 1880, announced that global surface temperatures in 2010 tied with 2005 as the warmest on record. This was similar to data released by National Oceanic and Atmospher ...
• The Met Office DID forecast a cold winter.
  There's been much in the news over the last week or so, regarding the issue of whether or not the Met Office did forecast a cold winter, and if so was this communicated to the government. You can read one version of events in the Independent newspaper by clicking here. Readers of this blog will ...

Internat'l Political Economy

• How Obesity is Reshaping Ambulances to Airline ...
  A few weeks ago, I admittedly pigged out on the globalization of American-style obesity. While it may be a laughing matter to some, you can chalk it up as another dubious American export alike the subprime mess that's being inflicted on the rest of the world in the name of "progress." Besides, i ...
• Home Prices Show London, Not NY is World Capit ...
  With apologies to a gangsta rapsta: New York! Concrete cesspool nightmares are made of There's nothing to raise house prices You're subprime in New York! Word up, it's the real estate posse in effect. In the past, I've argued that the volume of financial transactions in London far exceeds that ...
• Wimps Become Economists, Toughies Riot Police
  In this day and age, let's just say economists have an image problem. Likely as a consequence of being cheap and selfish as a rule, economists are usually adjudged among the least attractive of academics. While their political perspectives vary, something that unites your Milton Friedman with yo ...
• Mon Dieu! French Way to Weaning World Off USD
  And so France takes the helm of the G20. A few months ago, French President Nicolas Sarkozy--like his predecessor Charles de Gaulle of "exorbitant privilege" fame (see Barry Eichengreen's new book that uses this term for its title)--was calling for an international monetary system not so biased ...
• Brazil FinMin: From Currency War to Trade War
  If nothing else, you gotta love this guy for his military-industrial complex of sorts where economic misunderstandings forever threaten to take us to the brink of all-out conflict. A few months ago, Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega had the international press corps by the ear after his s ...

Economic Collapse Blog

• 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 ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

• Call Out for Submissions for Fire to the Priso ...
  We are currently beginning to compile issue 11 of Fire to the Prisons magazine. If you are not familiar with this project you can check out pre...
• "No Tears for the Fallen" -- flyer f ...
  This text is transcribed from a leaflet found in Central Indiana, presumably regarding recent events. Last August a drunken policeman, respo...
• California: Announcing a monthly anarchist sou ...
  TCN Radio is a new montly anarchist sound event from the East Bay of California. It features commentary, interviews and performance. The first...
• Philadelphia: Seeking submissions for defenest ...
  It's cold! A good time to stay in and write that piece you keep meaning to for Philly's radical paper of optimism and refusal defenestrator. Our...
• NYC Anarchist Book Fair Table and Presentation ...
  The 5th Annual NYC Anarchist Book Fair will be held Saturday, April 9, 2011, at Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square South, NYC. Present...

E U 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 ...

Voiceless Victim

• The Pope Calling The Berlusconi Black
  I’ve heard some pretty obvious cases of the pot calling the kettle black, but the recent controversy over the Pope ticking off Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi for child sexual exploitation shows how complete is the lack of self-awareness demonstrated by the psychopaths who surround and ...
• Let The Pope Try and Claim This Letter Was Mis ...
  Since the recent emergence of a secret letter from the Papal Nuncio to Ireland written to the Irish Catholic Bishops Conference, which squashes any attempt by Irish Bishops to report child sexual abuse to the local police, the Vatican has predictably whined about the letter being  “misunderstoo ...
• How Much More Evidence Do You Need Before You ...
  Documentary evidence was revealed in Ireland this week proving that Catholic officials do not report sex crimes against children to the police, and that this is official Church policy originating from Rome. Such disclosures should have been answered with judicial inquiries, charges being laid, a ...
• Bill Zeller and others must not die in vain
  The tragedy of Bill Zeller’s lifetime of suffering from the effects of childhood sexual and physical abuse, which finally resulted in his recent suicide has touched people around the world. Bill was obviously a very special person and a great loss to those who knew him, and the rest of the world ...
• Please Explain Why Catholic Bishops Get Away w ...
  I read with horror this week that a youth worker in the Northern Territory of Australia is facing charges under mandatory reporting laws. Her crime? While she did eventually report her concern about the possible sexual abuse of a five-year old child, she has been summonsed to appear before a mag ...

WL Central

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

U N News

• Ban welcomes release of final results of first ...
  Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today welcomed the announcement by Haiti's Provisional Electoral Council of the final results of the first round of presidential and legislative polls, and encouraged all concerned to take advantage of the opportunity to proceed with the electoral process.
• Haiti: UN human rights chief offers help to a ...
  The United Nations human rights chief has offered Haitian authorities technical assistance for prosecuting crimes committed during the 15-year rule of former president Jean-Claude Duvalier, who returned to the country last month from exile.
• UN agency welcomes Mexico's new refugee law
  The United Nations refugee agency today welcomed the entry into force of a new law in Mexico on the protection of refugees and asylum-seekers that now gives the country a legal framework that complies with international standards in this area.
• UN: Number of cholera deaths in Haiti shows si ...
  The number of people dying from cholera in Haiti has been on a downward trend or has stabilized in all ten of the country's departments affected by the outbreak, the United Nations humanitarian office reported today, adding that the number of hospitalized people has also been decreasing.
• Latin American and Caribbean unemployment drop ...
  The economic upturn in most Latin American and Caribbean countries in 2010 fuelled a 0.6 percentage point drop in unemployment - from 8.1 per cent in 2009 to 7.5 per cent - and is expected to lead to a further decrease of between 0.2 and 0.4 percentage points this year, the United Nations report ...

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

• Conservation News Brief
  Captain Paul Watson to arrive in Australia for final preparations for Operation Musashi Friday Harbor, WA – Just days after reaffirming that they will head to the Southern Oceans alone to defend the whales in the Antarctic Whale Sanctuary, even after Greenpeace and the Australian government h ...
• Whaling Opponents Collide at Sea
  On board the Steve Irwin in the Ross Sea –February 6th, 2009, 0800 Hours (Sydney Time)  February 5th, 2009 1300 Hours (PST), 75 Degrees 44 Minutes South and 165 Degrees 39 Minutes West The Sea Shepherd ship Steve Irwin collided with the Yushin Maru No.2 this morning in the Ross Sea as the harpo ...
• Dave Foreman’s Recent Speech At Nebraska Wesle ...
  Here’s a great speech Dave did in Nebraska recently. Fetzer Lecture Rewilding North America THURSDAY, MARCH 26 Click Here To Listen In!
• New Website All About Mexican Gray Wolves!
  There are only 52 Mexican gray wolves in the wilds of Arizona and New Mexico. The Rewilding Institute has joined with local, regional, and national conservation, scientific, and sportsmen’s organizations, and concerned citizens in launching a new website, mexicanwolves.org, to help save this hig ...
• Follow Rewilding On Twitter
  We’ve gotten with the times and signed up for a brand new Twitter account.  Now you can follow TRI on Twitter and get updates when we have new posts on the site. Follow Rewilding on Twitter!

Asia Sentinel

• Thailand and the WikiLeaks Cables II
  The Crown Prince promotes his dog to air chief marshal and displays his topless wife
• Free speech on trial in Thailand
  Thai webmaster facing 50 years for l�se majest� postings
• Burma and Cairns: Nargis and Yasi
  How could one person be killed in one storm when 138,000 died in one much like it?
• Kung Hei Fat Choi from Asia Sentinel!
  We'll be back on Monday 7.
• Egypt's Lessons for Asia
  Watching Tut's revolution from afar

We Know the Lies

• A Child's Self Control During Early Years a Go ...
  A study that followed children into adulthood found that kids with self-control issues tended to grow up to become adults with a far more troubling set of issues to deal with. ~ Audio read more
• Genetically Modified Food Will Kill You!
  Genetically modified food has entered the food supply through secrecy and deception. Some claimed that genetically modifying the food supply could even put an end to world hunger. At first glance, genetic modification really does look like a great idea. It allows for larger crops, enhanced ...
• GOP Death Panels and the Coming Holocaust
  The Republicans were right about the fact that there would be death panels.  What they did not say was that they would be on them.  The first thing they want to cut is reimbursements to doctors and hospitals for treating poor people.  They are sentencing poor people to death. read more
• The Mubarak-Obama Move to Crush Egypt’s Uprisi ...
  I must agree with As’ad AbuKhalil: The violence we are seeing in Egypt today (Wednesday) is a direct result of a green-light from Washington to “do what it takes” to preserve the Cairo regime. Today we have suddenly seen hundreds of “pro-Mubarak” goons pouring into the public squares to atta ...
• Pennsylvania... Supreme Court Weighing Paren ...
  The Pennsylvania Supreme Court will be hearing a case on the state’s parental consent law that requires minor teens to get their parent’s permission for an abortion.  ~ Steve Ertelt read more

Tatumba 2.0

• This will cause a Riot in da Hood!
  This will cause a riot in da Hood but the police, judge, and mayor would have you think that this video should be suppressed to prevent a negative backlash against the police. So tell me am I doing something wrong by posting this and perhaps inciting a riot in the ‘Hood’ or is it the [...] ...
• TATUMBA.COM FOR SALE
  TATUMBA.COM FOR SALE $6000.00 The time has come for me to sell off this site. I am retiring from this as I have nothing left in the tank to fight anymore. It is yours. You will get it all. I will hand over access to everything on here. It is time to move on. There [...] Related posts:Site I ...
• William K Black – Criminal Charges Must Be Lai ...
  William Black: Regulations were deliberately weakened to create conditions for systemic fraud Video Rating: 0 / 5 This post is courtesy of Robbie the Robot Please recycle. Don't throw away your peels Related posts:William Still, The Underground Railroad~Philadelphia To learn more…Read FREE Googl ...
• Bomb Planted At Spokane MLK Parade Had Anti Bl ...
  So the bomb that was planted at Spokane MLK Parade had an anti-blood clotting agent found in it. Ummm…why? By who? Funny how this has not garnered any national attention! What I want to know is if it had detonated and you were lucky enough not to be killed but unlucky enough to be injured, [...] ...
• Max Keiserism of the Day: American Express Bla ...
  My Max Keiserism of the Day: American Express Black Ops Card. Don’t leave Langley without it. This one is from June, 13, 2007. A blast from the past, but since Max posted it on his website to reminds us of how the CIA and US Military think that they are above the law. Interesting viewing. [...] ...

Truth About Our World

• Little Pharma: The Medication of U.S Children
  Maggie Kozel, M.D.   The Wall Street Journal recently reported that a study of prescription patterns in 2009, conducted by IMS Health, showed that 25 percent of children in the U.S. were on regular medication. IMS Health is a firm that provides marketing intelligence to pharmaceutical companies. ...
• Egypt: A Sleeping Giant Awakens
  by Rannie Amiri   Poor people gonna rise up And get their share Poor people gonna rise up And take whatâs theirs And finally the tables are starting to turn Talkin’ bout a revolution â Tracy Chapmanâs Talkinâ Bout A Revolution, 1988 The sleeping Egyptian giant has finally awoken. The Arab world ...
• Revolution: Is 1848 Repeating Itself in the Ar ...
  PART I: The Dynamics of Global Capitalism by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya Is history repeating itself? Have the events of 1848 in Europe repeated themselves in the Arab World? Will 2011 see the same outcomes as 1848? Only the Arab people can decide. Their fate is in their hands, but they should learn ...
• USDA Ruling Imperils Food Supply
  By Christopher J. Petherick Despite widespread opposition to genetically modified (GM) crops, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently approved GMalfalfa, threatening organic farms across the United States. In a related development, official Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) docume ...
• ‘Catastrophic Zionism’: How Turmoil Benefits I ...
  By Michael Collins Piper If there is anything that can be said about the crisis in Egypt—which is reverberating throughout the Middle East—it is that it is ultimately open to multiple interpretations. Any “expert” who purports to give you “the last word” on the topic is deceiving you and perhaps ...

Bloomberg

• At Motorola, "a Hop in Everybody's Step"
  CEO Ed Zander admits he hasn't checked every box on his to-do list. But he's happy to take credit for kick-starting innovation
• HP: Exiting from Network Gear?
  The computer maker may soon sell its ProCurve unit to one or more private-equity firms as part of an ongoing refocusing effort
• Big Traits for Big Blue
  IBM recruiter Michael Riegel says it seeks MBAs who do great work and possess "that intangible mix of humility, respect, and wisdom"
• Africa's 200 Million Empty Plates
  When the U.N. ponders the continent's ills and their tragic consequences, a sorry list of contributing factors needs to be on the table
• Michael Graves: Beyond Kettles
  Michael Graves: Beyond Kettles. The well-known designer discusses his many creations and notes, "I stayed true to what I thought was good design no matter who it was for".

Enviroblog

• Plastic Pollution Is Everywhere. Including Yo ...
  By Lisa Frack, EWG Social Media Manager Unless you've been living under a rock, you're aware that plastic creates pollution. And if you've been paying any attention at all to the state of our planet, you've heard of the Great... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full l ...
• Hexavalent Chromium: 11 Answers for Water Drin ...
  By Rebecca Sutton, PhD, EWG Senior Scientist When you see news reports about a cancer-causing chemical in drinking water everywhere you turn, you probably have a few questions. Of course you can read EWG's full report, but on the off... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website fo ...
• French law informs, protects cell phone users
  By Olga Naidenko, PhD, EWG Senior Scientist France will soon become the first nation anywhere to require merchants to inform consumers of the radiation levels of cell phones at the point of sale. The new French cell phone statute, part... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website ...
• EWG's Worst Environmental Stories of 2010
  By Nils J. Bruzelius, EWG Executive Editor We polled our staff to see what stories they thought had the biggest impact, for better or worse. Here are the results: We'll start with the worst today, so we can end on... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other ...
• EWG's Top 10 Good Environmental News Stories o ...
  By Nils J. Bruzelius, EWG Executive Editor Ok, our list of the "worst" environmental stories of the year was a bit of a downer. So here are EWG's Top 10 good environmental news stories. Yes, good things happened, too. And... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

• See 'The African Queen' with a crowd; marvel a ...
  The African Queen (1951), directed by John Huston, has endured as a classic with audiences who love the humorous sparring between the two middle-aged leads (Katharine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart), the adventurous obstacle-ridden plot involving a perilous tr ...
• F.A.Q.: How well did Cuomo do selling the new ...
  Jimmy: It's tougher this year [for Silver]. His normal tactic is Entish objection to undue haste. But he knows that Cuomo watched David Paterson's little trick of ramming through the substance of his budget in emergency extender bills with interest. And he ...
• Before, the Wilpons looked like dupes; now the ...
  The detailed account of the financial relationship between Bernie Madoff and Fred Wilpon in Wednesday's New York Times leaves Wilpon, the CEO and owner of the New York Mets, in a terrible spot. It makes him look quite a lot like a liar. More ...
• The 'News' takes a shot at the 'Times,' the 'P ...
  Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
• Sarsgaard, Gyllenhaal propel the drama in 'Thr ...
  In this production the emphasis is on Masha and Vershinin, played by the real-life couple of Gyllenhaal and Sarsgaard. Their emotional connection, evident from the first time they meet, propels the play forward. Gyllenhaal, as usual, brings a great deal of ...

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