8 February - RSS SnapShot! Pt 3

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Pogue's Posts

• A Loophole in a Verizon iPhone Rule
  Because of a technical limitation, the Verizon iPhone will not let you talk and use the Internet at the same time -- unless you're on Wi-Fi.
• The Commuter Bike Redesigned and Electrified
  It's no Segway, but the new YikeBike has been designed for safety, ease of riding and it's foldable. The biggest problem: The price.
• On Google's Bing Sting
  Google says it caught Microsoft copying its search results and incorporating them into its own Bing service, in a move reminiscent of some earlier Microsoft tactics.
• Quora Raises Questions
  Here is a question for Quora: Why not make this thing easier for normal people to figure out?
• A Conclusion on Occlusion
  David Pogue gets a lesson on word usage.

WIRED Magazine | Science

• Words Make Sense of Numbers
  Knowing a language that uses counting words can shape oneâs ability to understand large numbers. A new study of deaf people who have made up their own hand signals to communicate shows that without number words, it’s hard to keep track of more than three objects at a time. âLearning language re ...
• Allergies Linked to Brain Tumor Protection
  Hay fever, dog, peanut and other allergies may protect sufferers from certain types of brain tumors, a new study suggests. In surveys of hospital patients, individuals with glioma — a common form of brain and spinal cancer — were less likely than cancer-free individuals to report having aller ...
• Dr. Seussian Mystery Fluid Could Have Saved To ...
  A mixture of cornstarch and water best known for entertaining kindergartners could have plugged the spewing Macondo oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, say physicists. Where regular drilling mud failed to stop the flow, oobleck — a complex fluid that seems to switch between liquid and solid — succe ...
• Quantum Fluctuations May Melt Ultracold Glass
  runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience777190536001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); Just above absolute zero, the coldest temperature possible in the universe, quantum fluctuations can melt some forms of glass into goo. At the subatomic s ...
• Video: Roiling Sun Captured From All Angles
  runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience780788805001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); When it comes to solar storms, there’s no longer any place to hide. For the first time, solar scientists have obtained simultaneous views of the entire ...

PakAlert

• American Warships Heading to Egypt
  Connecticut National Guard Detachment 2, Company I, 185th Aviation Regiment of Groton has mobilized and will deploy to the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt. The unit will provide an on-demand aviation asset to the Multinational Force and Observers commander to support its mission of supervising the securi ...
• Egypt – Creative Destruction For A ‘Greater Mi ...
  Fast on the heels of the regime change in Tunisia came a popular-based protest movement launched on January 25 against the entrenched order of Egypt's Hosni Mubarak. Contrary to the carefully-cultivated impression that the Obama Administration is trying to retain the present regime of Mubarak, W ...
• Muslim Brotherhood- Illuminati Tools
  In his book "Hostage to Khomeini," Robert Dreyfuss gave a pretty accurate rendering of the MB in 1980, which as I have witnessed, is common knowledge in high government, diplomatic and Intelligence circles: "The real Muslim Brotherhood is not the fanatical sheikh with his equally fanatical fo ...
• VIDEO: THE EURO & U.S. DOLLAR COLLAPSE & DEVAL ...
  Trunews discuss the coming devaluation of the U.S. Dollar and the collapse of the Euro currency marked for an April 2011 time frame.This was confirmed by Pastor Lindsey Williams , the dollar is going to crash one hundred per cent it cannot sustain itself and it is going to collapse , the Euro wi ...
• NATO Surrenders Europe To U.S. Global Missile ...
  On January 27 the North Atlantic Treaty Organization took the most decisive step yet toward the implementation of the decades-old project first proposed by the Ronald Reagan administration for a Strategic Defense Initiative, popularly known as Star Wars.

Andy Worthington

• The 11-Year Old American Girl Who Knows More A ...
  I’m posting below an essay about Guantánamo, written as a school project by Sammie Killmer, a sixth-grade schoolgirl in Denver, Colorado, who understands more about Guantánamo and the men held there than most adults in a position of influence in the United States. This is not coincidental, as ...
• Guantánamo Prisoner Dies After Being Held for ...
  The Second World War lasted for six years, and at the end of it prisoners of war were released to resume their lives. At Guantánamo, on the other hand, the prison has just marked the ninth anniversary of its opening, and on Thursday the Pentagon announced that Awal Gul, a 48-year old Afghan pris ...
• Guantánamo: A Tale of Two Tunisians
  Two weeks ago, in light of the uprising in Tunisia that brought to an end the 23-year reign of terror of President Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, I wrote an article about the twelve Tunisians held in Guantánamo throughout the prison’s nine-year history — the two men transferred to Tunisia in June 200 ...
• Revolution in Egypt – and the Hypocrisy ...
  For the United States and other Western countries, the popular uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt (which threaten to spread to other countries, including Yemen and Algeria) are something of a nightmare. Just as the authorities in these countries are struggling — and failing — to cope with popular up ...
• Guantánamo and the Military Commissions: Revol ...
  Last Friday, Ken Ota of the newspaper Revolution asked me to do a phone interview to discuss the recent announcement that President Obama was planning a new series of trials by Military Commission at Guantánamo, to explain the significance of this announcement, and to run through the largely sha ...

Environment _ National Geographic

• Pictures: Kickoff Time for Green Stadiums
  NoneAs Green Bay and Pittsburgh face off Sunday in Super Bowl XLV in the NFL's newest and largest stadium, a drive for greener design and cleaner energy is under way at arenas worldwide.
• "Extinct" Salmon Discovered in Japanese Lake
  A Japanese TV host helped identify a fish from a Mount Fuji lake as the kunimasu salmon, thought to have gone extinct 70 years ago.
• "Killer" Winter Storm Seen From Space; U.S. Bl ...
  A new NASA picture shows just how big the current U.S. winter storm is. Hitting at least 30 states, it's among the worst in 50 years.
• Oil Markets Churn Over Egypt’s Potential as Ga ...
  World oil prices hit their highest level since 2008 due to concerns over Egypt—not due to its role as a commodity route, but as a potential vector for political instability.
• Groundhog Day 2011 & Punxsutawney Phil: Facts ...
  With ancient origins and modern media smarts, "immortal" rodent Punxsutawney Phil rules Groundhog Day 2011. Get the surprising facts behind winter's wackiest U.S. weather prediction.

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

• Anti-Gay Christian Group Uses Deception to Rai ...
  The anti-gay Traditional Values Coalition (TVC) once again is turning to a highly valued traditional device to raise funds: fear and falsehoods. The Christian Seniors Association (CSA), a front group of the TVC, recently sent out a fundraising letter claiming that the Matthew Shepard and James B ...
• Would-Be Koran Burner Terry Jones Barred from ...
  Controversial Florida pastor Terry Jones, who got worldwide attention last September because of his “International Burn a Koran Day,” has been denied entry into the United Kingdom. Jones, pastor at Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Fla., had been invited to speak and participate in a se ...
• Expert: Political Rhetoric Likely a Factor in ...
  Editor’s Note: In a Jan. 19 letter published in The New York Times, Arizona political scientist James W. Clarke argued that it would be wrong to dismiss the idea that the toxic political environment was a factor in Jared L. Loughner’s attempted assassination of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, an a ...
• Hi, I’m a Sovereign Citizen! – Group to Write ...
  They already have alternate identification cards and travel warrants. Now, all Tim Turner thinks he needs is an introduction to police and some good old-fashioned face time for his “Republic for the United States of America” to become a reality. That, at least, seems to be the prime motivation b ...
• ‘Burn a Koran Day’ Pastor Plans New Desecratio ...
  Terry Jones, the virulently Islamophobic pastor behind last fallâs barely averted âInternational Burn a Koran Day,â may have lost a battle or two, but his personal crusade is clearly still on. Having reluctantly canceled plans to burn Islamâs holy book last Sept. 11 â an idea that won him worldw ...

change: org.

• DKNY Still Using Bunny Fur in the Year of the ...
  Last week marked the beginning of the Year of the Rabbit in the Chinese calendar. In Chinese culture, the rabbit is a "symbol of peace, intelligence, and harmonious living." But many real rabbits don't get to live a live of peace and harmony: An estimated one billion rabbits are killed each year ...
• Hawaii May Buy Into the Plastic Bag Ban Trend
  Slowly, island by island, county by county, the state of Hawaii is joining the movement towards a future free of single-use plastic bags. Maui county was the first to ban the use in 2008, followed by Kauai in 2009, with the bans taking place starting January of this year. Now, Hawai'i island is ...
• 165,000 Tell Ohio Governor Kasich: Pardon Kell ...
  Your voice counts. If you've ever doubted that, you should have been in Columbus, Ohio today as 165,000 signatures were delivered to Ohio Govenor John Kasich on behalf of Akron mom Kelley Williams-Bolar, jailed last month for sending her children to a safer school. Convicted of a felony, her car ...
• City Council Turns Away From Breed Discriminat ...
  Late last year, Sterling Heights, Mich. was considering a proposal targeting pit bull owners. Dog owners and advocates protested, including over 500 Change.org community members, and the city council took another look at their ordinance. "Much thought was given to whether the ultimate objective ...
• California Senator to Insurance Industry: Stop ...
  As much as our country fawns over babies and the unborn, pregnant women are often treated like second-class citizens, at least by the insurance industry. For those women not covered in an employer group insurance policy, access to care is parsed to the point of non-existence. Last year, an inves ...

Common Dreams -News

• Hillary Clinton Signals US Backing for Omar Su ...
  by Julian Borger in MunichThe US secretary of state Hillary Clinton today signalled how far the US has swung its support behind vice-president Omar Suleiman and the transition process he is leading in Egypt.Clinton was speaking at a security conference in Munich today, where the watchword on Egy ...
• Global Crisis Strengthens WSF’s Legitimacy
  by Julio GodoyBERLIN - European non-governmental organisations combating neo-liberal globalisation find their position vindicated by the ongoing socio-economic and environmental crisis upsetting the world.read more
• Census Reveals Devastating Effect of Katrina o ...
  by David UsborneThe shrinking of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina has hardly been a secret, but now the evidence is there for all to see. According to newly released data from last year's National Census, it lost a staggering 29 per cent of its population between 2000 and 2010, more than anyo ...
• Egypt Protesters Hold Their Ground
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• Egypt's Military-Industrial Complex
  by Pratap ChatterjeeIn early January 2010, Bob Livingston, a former chairman of the appropriations committee in the US House of Representatives, flew to Cairo accompanied by William Miner, one of his staff.read more

Lifehacker

• How to Fold Bed Sheets (Without Ending Up with ...
  We've mentioned how to fold fitted sheets before, but reader wjglenn offers not only easy to follow along pictures, but a method to keep all your sheets packed neat and tight with minimal effort. More��
• Follow Us on Twitter and We'll Keep It Short a ...
  Writers occasionally get inspired to write creative introductions to their posts, or reference previous works to get you in the right frame of mind. Isn't that the worst? Our Twitter feed, on the other hand, is nothing but straight Lifehac ...
• Use Airplane Mode to Silence Your Phone Instea ...
  We've talked a lot about cell phone etiquette in the past, and one of the first rules is putting your phone on silent when others are around. Blogger Patrick Rhone offers a more conversation-friendly solution: Put it in Airplane Mode. M ...
• Kindle Update Adds Paper-Synced Page Numbers t ...
  Amazon offers a Kindle firmware update preview with a few convenient features thrown in. Most convenient, perhaps, are page numbers that correspond to those in paper-based books, so you won't be the oddity at your book club. [Kindle Daily Post] More��
• Help the U.S. Government Help Prevent You From ...
  ConsumerFinance.gov is the website for the newly-launched Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. They're open to hearing your ideas on how to better protect you from getting screwed by banks, identity thieves, and pretty much anyone who c ...

Water Privatization

• USF Highlights Global Water Shortage at Film E ...
  The films showcase the importance of water and the growing crisis around the globe.
• USF Highlights Global Water Shortage at Film E ...
  The films showcase the importance of water and the growing crisis around the globe.
• Water is Focus of Global Sustainability Master ...
  The inaugural class in the School of Global Sustainability master's program looks to make a difference around the world.
• Deal proposed on United Water controlling Fran ...
  Reena Rose Sibayan/The Jersey JournalAn undated photo of United Water workers. FRANKLIN TWP (Somerset County) — Franklin Township is in discussions to unload the management of its water system by partnering with Harrington Park-based conglomerate United Water, which the company...
• Michael Deane: Experts Agree U.S. Water Infras ...
  When municipalities work in tandem with private water service providers, the end result is likely to be more efficient, transparent and a better value for the customer.

Guardian

• Balls accuses government of cutting taxes for ...
  Shadow chancellor attacks coalition approach to banks even after George Osborne slapped an extra £800m tax profits this yearLabour accused the government of delivering tax cuts for the banking sector even after George Osborne slapped an extra £800m tax on bank profits this year as the coalition ...
• LIVE: Protesters block Tahrir Square
  �� Technical problems have forced us to start a new blog, part one is here, apologies �� Hundreds of thousands of protesters rally in Tahrir Square �� Vice president Omar Suleiman gives new concessions �� William Hague visits Tunisia to back 'democratic hopes' ترجم �ذ� ا�ص�حة إ�� ا�عرب�ة2.53pm: ...
• Gray and Keys join TalkSport
  Station says it has scored 'sensational coup' by signing former Sky Sports presenters who were caught up in sexism stormDisgraced former Sky Sports presenters Richard Keys and Andy Gray have been signed up by TalkSport to present a flagship daytime show on the talk radio station, MediaGuardian.c ...
• Search and rescue bid process halted
  MoD investigating how commercially sensitive information relating to privatisation fell into hands of preferred supplierThe government has cancelled a planned £6bn sell-off of the country's search and rescue helicopters, after it emerged the successful bidder had warned of receiving access to co ...
• LIVE: Assange extradition hearing
  The WikiLeaks founder begins the second and last day of his extradition hearing over allegations of rape and sexual assault in Sweden2.50pm: Hurtig says Assange was at one point difficult to get hold of because he was in hiding following the pronouncements of some US politicians.Assange's lawyer ...

McClatchey

• Commentary: The time has come to make a deal
  One of the best NFL seasons in history is now over. We salute NFL players for their extraordinary talent and we deeply appreciate the tremendous support of the fans.
• As health care law rolls out, many insurers dr ...
  As arguments about the constitutionality of health care reform reverberate through courtrooms in Florida and across the nation, two provisions that have already kicked in are sparking opposite reactions from insurers.
• Moderate Democratic 'Blue Dogs' hope to bounce ...
  WASHINGTON — The diminished Blue Dogs are hoping to get their Capitol Hill bite back.
• Kansas Gov. Brownback eliminates Arts Commissi ...
  TOPEKA — Gov. Sam Brownback signed an executive order Monday abolishing the Kansas Arts Commission and replacing it with a private, nonprofit organization.
• Democracy in Egypt is California man's goal
  Muhammed Abdul Azeez fights relentlessly for Egyptian democracy in Northern California, giving speeches and leading protests.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

• Climate change: Contrary motion?
  � One issue, two reports, two different conclusions. In short, a recipe for confusion - at least, on the surface. Last week the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), the London-based think-tank, published a report suggesting that fears of mass migration caused by clim ...
• Oysters clear seas for local remedies
  This week saw formal scientific publication of a report that produces one of the starkest conclusions I've seen about humanity's relationship with the oceans. Globally, 85% of oyster beds have basically disappeared. The paper, in the journal BioScience (though not apparently on its website yet) ...
• UN sticks with climate agenda - but what prosp ...
  Reports suggesting that UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is retiring from the climate change agenda have had commentators wondering a) what it means for prospects of a new global climate agreement and b) whether the UN remains committed to the issue. � What appears to be happening is that two ...
• Arctic canary looking sicker than ever
  If the Arctic really is the "canary in the coal mine" for climate change impacts, as it's often been labelled, then it's a canary about which we know a little more following a spate of scientific papers coming out over the last week or so. And looking at what they say, as well as readings from ...
• Forests: REDD or dead?
  There's pretty strong criticism this week for the UN-backed initiative on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD) - criticism timed for the opening, in New York, of the UN Forum on Forests. Forest destruction is a major cause of biodiversity loss around the world R ...

The Wonk Room

• Unless Lawmakers Act, 236,000 Workers In Nine ...
• What ABC’s Candid Camera Skit Says About ...
• Climate Deniers Look Out, See Catastrophic Sto ...
• Pawlenty: Rescinding Funds To Implement DADT R ...
• At Tea Party Event, Gov. Scott Unveils Budget ...

thwap's schoolyard

• The Release of Alex Hundert
  He plead "guilty" to attending a panel discussion and there was other various and sundry dirty details but have no fear: I’ve had a long time to think about it, and I realised that I don’t really care how panel discussions are classified by the courts. What I care about is that we are able to ...
• Mark My Words II
  Just a quick thought. If there turns out to be a massacre in Egypt, the fall-out will be similar to that which followed the Tiananmen Square massacre in the PRC: "Human Rights enhancement" marches on in parallel. In Part I, I reviewed Clinton's steps to evade congressional efforts to ...
• Link About "Housing on the Knife's Edge"
  Jim Flaherty (likely acting on the advice of people less stupid than he is) has decided to tighten-up the rules for buying a house in Canada. Heck, I'll let David Macdonald of Progressive Economics Forum tell it: On the heels of multiple warnings from the Bank of Canada that Canadians have take ...
• The Power of Constitutional Insurgency
  Beyond Quixotic devotion to a Marxist political party, beyond pointlessly standing around in groups of varying size impotently "demanding" reforms under the watchful eyes of the police, beyond social democrats who imagine they can deliver a more humane form of capitalism, beyond isolated anarchi ...
• Mark My Words ...
  I don't know what's going to happen in Tunisia or Egypt. Neither does the amoral, deluded, scum-bag administration of Barack Obama. But mark my words, they're sitting there waiting to see how this all plays out. If some Mubarak-clone military strongman manages to replace the original version, to ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

• Former Special Counsel Sentencing Postponed Ag ...
  Today, Magistrate Judge Deborah Robinson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia postponed Scott Bloch’s sentencing once again until Thursday, March 10, 2011. Prosecutors urged the judge to reconsider her ruling last week that the charge of lying to Congress carries a one-month m ...
• 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 ...

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

• Sony Demanding Identity Of Anyone Who Saw PS3 ...
  Sony continues to massively overreact to the news that a hacker figured out how to "jailbreak" the PS3 in order to re-enable the functionality that Sony had deleted from PS3s. Beyond getting a far overreaching gag order on George Hotz, who figured out the jailbreak, and playing Whac-a-Mole to t ...
• If You Don't Offer Legit Versions, Is It That ...
  Sage Freehaven points us to an amusing, but telling, customer service chat between a guy in the UK who wanted to buy the latest version of RosettaStone's Vietnamese language program, and a RosettaStone customer service rep. The guy's main concern is that it appears an older version is available ...
• Do Tools Ever Die Off?
  Robert Krulwich, who has done some interviews with Kevin Kelly recently, highlighted a recent discussion in which Kelly makes quite a claim: "I say there is no species of technology that have ever gone globally extinct on this planet." Further in the debate, Kelly expanded and even bet Kru ...
• Canadian Broadband Regulators Annoyed That Peo ...
  If you were paying attention last week in Canada, there was a huge fight over an attempt by Canadian regulators, the CRTC, to implement new "usage based billing" pricing structures for independent ISPs who make use of Bell Canada's network. The effective result of this, of course, is to try to ...
• MPAA Threatens To Have Google Disconnected Fro ...
  While Homeland Security insists that Google is different than the sites whose domain names its seized lately, its agents haven't done a very good job of explaining why (beyond "in our minds, it's different.") However, at least according to the automated script the MPAA uses to warn ISPs of file ...

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 LaRouche Show, February 5, 2011
  Transforming the Galaxy: The LaRouche Youth Movement International Candidates’ Movement
• The LaRouche Show, January 29, 2011
  Will You Eat Next Year? Special Report from Australia and Canada
• 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

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

• Report: Indigenous Communities Are Fighting fo ...
  Image: Rights and Resources A new report from the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) has some good news and bad news. The good: recognition of land and resource rights for indigenous populations has been on the rise in recent years, but the bad: that increase stagnated last year, despite ...
• Greenland Play Dramatises Our Inept Responses ...
  Plays about climate change are all the rage in London right now. What with The Heretic at the Royal Court and Greenland at The National playing simultaneously, it appears theater land is suddenly making a conscious effort to get involved in the climate conversation. Nicholas Hytner, director ...
• Adorable Piggies Rescued From Factory Farm Cel ...
  Photos: Gabriela Penela. Vegan activism in South America is not as extended as in the northern hemisphere (or, at least, not as communicated), perhaps because horrifying factory farming practices took more time to come here. Recently, however, the subject has become more present and gro ...
• Cancer Alley: Staggering Illness Alongside Big ...
  Image: Global Justice Game There's a region in Louisiana known as cancer alley (or chemical corridor, take your pick). You can guess why. Cancer claims victims at an alarming rate along the 85-mile stretch of the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, where more than 140 ind ...
• Solar Companies Consider Legal Action Against ...
  Yesterday I reported that the British government was reviewing solar subsidies because they had proved too popular. In particular, there was concern that commercial entities were setting up gigantic utility-scale solar farms with money that was originally intended to subsidize residential so ...

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

• India and the next green revolution
  Until recent decades, India was famous for its famines, not its computer industry. India̢۪s dense population and erratic monsoon rainfall put it constantly at food risk. Tomorrow, India̢۪s farmers will need another Green Revolution to feed India as it becomes the world̢۪s most populous cou ...
• Make your year-end contribution today!
  CFACT has become the preeminent organization presenting constructive alternatives to green radicalism that hold the left at bay. Your gift will have a direct impact on our educational programs and on our award-winning outreach.
• 'Cool it' with all the research dollars
  Preparation and adaptation for all climate change is the simple, common-sense, cost-effective and precautionary Plan B that all governments can - and should - support.
• End the ethanol subsidies
  Congressional inaction would save taxpayers $6 billion; lower beef, pork, poultry and egg prices; and save tens of thousands of gallons of water.
• CFACT to showcase experts at Cancun climate co ...
  CFACT will feature two prominent experts on climate science and policy at COP 16, the UN conference on climate change which convenes next week in Cancun, Mexico.

Ria Novosti Online News

• Women Talk: Feminism — A Swearword in Russia?
  Feminism vs. Femininity in Russia was the theme of an on-air discussion in which one renowned radio station recently invited me to participate. I agreed and yet...
• Egyptian president forms panel to drive consti ...
  Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has formed a panel to oversee constitutional amendments, the country's vice president said on Tuesday, as anti-government protests entered their third week.
• Political crisis in Egypt
• Russia ready for anti-terrorism cooperation, M ...
  Russia will always be an ally of counties fighting against terrorism, President Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday.
• Foreign Ministry official 'doesn't know' why M ...
  The head of the Russian Foreign Ministry's consular department said on Tuesday he does not know why a Moscow correspondent for the British newspaper The Guardian was expelled from the country.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• Russian cosmonauts to conduct spacewalk Feb. 1 ...
• Russia's nanotechnology head to meet Indian in ...
  Head of the Russian Nanotechnology Corporation (Rosnano) Anatoly Chubais arrived in India on Monday on a five-day visit to hold talks with chiefs of industry.
• NASA twin probe fetches first 3-dimensional im ...
  Twin spacecraft STEREO A ("Ahead") and B ("Behind") reached their final locations on opposite sides of the Sun and transmitted the first ever three-dimensional image of the sun.
• 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.

Pruning Shears

• 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.There was some propaganda this week trumpeting the fabulous news that “drone strikes do appear to becoming less lethal for civilians as tim ...
• 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 ...

Organic Consumers.org

• The Organic Elite Surrenders to Monsanto: What ...
  In the wake of a 12-year battle to keep Monsanto's Genetically Engineered (GE) crops from contaminating the nation's 25,000 organic farms and ranches, America's organic consumers and producers are facing betrayal. A self-appointed cabal of the Organic Elite, spearheaded by Whole Foods Market, Or ...
• "Signs of Change" Says Bolivia's Morales as Wo ...
  Tens of thousands of people marched through the streets of Dakar on Sunday to mark the start of the annual World Social Forum. Activists carried colorful banners denouncing land grabs, restrictive immigration laws, agricultural subsidies in Europe and the U.S. and many other issues.Click here to ...
• Droughts, Floods and Food
  The consequences of this food crisis go far beyond economics. After all, the big question about uprisings against corrupt and oppressive regimes in the Middle East isn't so much why they're happening as why they're happening now. And there's little question that sky-high food prices have been an ...
• Wikileaks Exposes Unholy Alliance of U.S. Gove ...
  Many of us who have been fighting the wholesale introduction of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) into the environment have known all along how the U.S. government was being influenced by the US-based transnational corporations that profit from genetic engineering and the export-oriented, a ...
• One out of Every Seven Americans Survives on F ...
  "More than 14% of the population drew food stamps in November to purchase groceries as high unemployment and muted wage growth crimped budgets. The number of recipients was up 0.9% from October, according to the new report by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Compared to a year ago, the number ...

fotoFrontera

• Imágenes hermosas para San Valentín - 14 de Fe ...
  Estamos ya a 7 de febrero y nuestro compromiso de ofrecerle a usted las mejores imágenes para este próximo Día del Amor y la Amistad sigue en pie. Prueba de ello, son estas 28 ilustraciones muy especiales para el día de San Valentín. Para ver más, utilice nuestras etiquetas abajo de estas líneas ...
• Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes X ...
  Si es su primera vez en este fotoblog, le informo que esta es la entrega número 42 de nuestra serie titulada 'Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas'. Para ver todas las fotografías de cada serie, haga usted click sobre las imágenes de muestra. Gracias. ATENCIÓN: Para ver todas l ...
• Pobreza extrema en África (hambruna y desnutri ...
  Con la firme intención de crear conciencia global sobre la enorme necesidad de alimentos en varias regiones del continente Africano, el Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas presenta esta triste, pero real exposición de fotografías que nos acercan cara a cara con la realidad que se vive diariamente en Áfr ...
• Deslizamientos de tierra en Brasil (31 fotogra ...
  Hace más de 20 días, una serie de inundaciones repentinas y deslizamientos de tierra sacudió la región Serrana de la montaña cerca de Río de Janeiro en Brasil. Ello provocó la destrucción de carreteras y edificios en toda la zona afectada. Casi 14.000 personas han perdido sus hogares, 759 según ...
• 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 ...

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

• More links
  I omitted one small detail from my earlier mention of my trip to Iowa Sunday. Mom has seen Michele Bachmann in action and is very impressed. More insights into what drives this blog, but it’s not just Mom. It’s also people like John Lott who clog our airwaves and tell lies 24/7 to people like [. ...
• 33 links highlighted by a bacon mug
  Happy Monday and welcome to all the HuffPo refugees streaming in from wherever the hell it is those people go when they’re not guzzling the ego-driven swill over at Arianna’s. AOL buys HuffPost, Al Giordano leaves before the door can hit him on the ass [Driftglass] [Brauer] [WSJ] [TBogg] [Scott ...
• [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 ...

Public News Service

• “Birthright Citizenship” Bill Gets ...
  “Birthright Citizenship” Bill Gets First Hearing in AZ Senate Phoenix, AZ – A bill to deny citizenship to children of undocumented immigrants had its first hearing Monday in the Arizona Senate. Supporters say it would end the lure of birthright citizenship for immigrants. Opponents say the measu ...
• Bill Changing Abortion Definition May Limit Ru ...
  Bill Changing Abortion Definition May Limit Rural Health Care Phoenix, AZ – The Arizona House is considering imposing the same regulations on abortion pills that apply to surgical abortions. Abortion providers say the change could limit women’s reproductive health services in rural Arizona. Comm ...
• Federal Cash Available to Low-Income AZ Famili ...
  Federal Cash Available to Low-Income AZ Families Phoenix, AZ – Today (Friday) is Earned Income Tax Credit Awareness Day, a reminder to low-income families that they may be eligible to receive up to $5,600 by simply filing a federal tax return. Volunteers are available at sites across the state t ...
• Arizona Facing Lawsuit Over Constitutional Ame ...
  Arizona Facing Lawsuit Over Constitutional Amendment Phoenix, AZ – The State of Arizona is facing a lawsuit from the National Labor Relations Board over a constitutional amendment approved by voters last fall. Comments from Rebekah Friend, executive director, Arizona AFL-CIO.
• Federal Laws May Help AZ Schools Deal With Bul ...
  Federal Laws May Help AZ Schools Deal With Bullies Phoenix, AZ - Bullying remains a problem in many Arizona school districts and elsewhere. Some say more anti-bullying policies are needed, but others say federal laws already on the books may be enough to handle much of the problem. Comments from ...

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

• Rep. Maxine Waters: Haiti's Doubtful Elections ...
  Haiti's Doubtful Elections Cloud Future Recovery: [blackstarnews.com] "Many Haitians and international observers have never felt Haiti's Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) to be legitimately organized under the Prev�l government, and I remain convinced that the presidential election held on Nov ...
• Malik Sekou Osei : The U.S. Will Hijack Egypt' ...
  The U.S. Will Hijack Egypt's Revolution: [blackstarnews.com] "The tactics of the Obama Administration towards Egypt has flowed from two strategic aims at this point: defending the Egyptian capitalist neo-colonialist state and maintaining Egypt as the key player of American imperialist foreign po ...
• The View From Occupied Canada #230
  Revolution spreads to Egypt's deprived Sinai :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dal medio oriente :: information from middle east :: [vs-1] SINAI (IPS) - A Bedouin youth casually spreads out a piece of cloth before a police headquarters in Sheikh Zwayyed town in Sinai, the vast desert area to t ...
• We Know How to Help Cut the Deficit -- End Aid ...
  US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation : President Obama, We Know How to Help Cut the Deficit -- End Aid to Israel We agree with these goals and want to do our part to help. As the President prepares to send his FY2012 budget request to Congress next month, we recommend that he cut the defi ...
• US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation: Oma ...
  US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation: Omar Barghouti: "Why Is BDS a Moral Duty Today?": "by Omar Barghouti The Huffington Post February 1, 2011 In his angry attack on the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel, Mr. Bernard-Henri Levy desperately attempts to smear t ...

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

• Environmental News 08/02/2011
  Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
• Photovoltaic solar panels on a country house
  Rising energy prices and fossil fuels depletion mean home owners have to think of new sources of energy that will offer them independence and sustainability. Even tough our country provides many hours of sun and solar panels offer good return on investment, many people still hesitate to inv ...
• Mobile Public Toilets
  Everyone needs to go to the toilet sooner or later... The topic becomes more unpleasant when it comes to temporary loos. In those mobile public toilets, chemicals like formaldehyde and tensides are used to stop the natural process of decay and prevent the smell. The use of these chemical makes t ...
• Gorilla Eraser
  This huge gorilla eraser is not just a cool item to put on your desk... 2 % of the revenue generatedfrom the sale of each eraser will be donated to the centre of biological diversity (http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/ If you put an external link, make sure you tell them about it once its publ ...
• Globalisation
  1. DEFINITION Globalisation refers to the increasing connectivity and interdependence between the world�s markets and businesses. Globalisation got more important over the last decades as technologies, communication tools, infrastructures and transportation have improved. Those advanc ...

Citizens for Legitimate Government

• Israeli cmdr. urges readiness for war
  ShareThisIsraeli cmdr. urges readiness for war 08 Feb 2011 The Israeli army chief has urged Tel Aviv to make preparations for an all-out war over the recent developments across the Middle East, a report says. Israel's Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Gabi Ashkenazi has said that given the recen ...
• 'Gaza patients in critical condition'
  ShareThis'Gaza patients in critical condition' 07 Feb 2011 The Gaza Health Ministry has warned that the current shortage of medicine due to Israel's blockade has caused a serious health disaster for Palestinian patients. According to the ministry, more than 170 medicines and 140 medical consumab ...
• Activists plan 2nd Gaza-bound flotilla
  ShareThisActivists plan 2nd Gaza-bound flotilla 08 Feb 2011 International activists are planning to send an aid convoy to the blockaded Gaza Strip on the anniversary of Tel Aviv's deadly attack on a humanitarian mission. The mission has been organized by Spanish activists Manuel Tapial and Laura ...
• Record Low Arctic Sea Ice Extent for January
  ShareThisRecord Low Arctic Sea Ice Extent for January 08 Feb 2011 The U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) has reported that Arctic sea ice was at its lowest extent ever recorded for January (since satellite records began)... NSIDC reported that ice extent was unusually low in Hudson B ...
• Milan judge frees former Guantanamo inmate con ...
  ShareThisMilan judge frees former Guantanamo inmate convicted of association with terrorism aim --'Both the defence and the prosecution asked the judge to take into account his illegal and inhumane detention at Guantanamo.' 07 Feb 2011 A judge on Monday ordered that a Tunisian convicted of crimi ...

Daily Loaf

• Dance Review: Gaspar – A Pirate Fantasy hopes ...
  This swashbuckling ballet about Tampa’s favorite legend, José Gaspar may become an annual event in the Bay area.
• Call to Artists: FMoPA International Photo Com ...
  FMoPA International Photography Competition now accepting entries from everyone around the world!
• Rick Scott wants to bleed state govt., but wil ...
  Rick Scott had his biggest day since being inaugurated as the Governor of Florida on Monday, unveiling his budget in Eustis, and alienating a whole lotta folks – some of them Republicans, as you can learn from our post this morning. Tonight’s a big night in the race for mayor in Tampa; What ma ...
• Brian Blair’s attempt to spin his campaign spe ...
  Again, the violation is hardly the worst thing a candidate has done (especially around these parts). But the spinning is just ugly. Pay the fine and walk away. Instead, Joe Chillura takes the fall for a keying error.
• The lost art of charm
  Dating and hooking up is a game. Figuring out how to play and who to play with makes you a winner or a loser.  I have run across more than my fair share of both over the years, but more often than not I wonder when will guys figure it out. Although my one-on-one dating experience [...]

Vaccine Resistance Movement

• VRM: Dr. Wakefield’s Imminent Vindicatio ...
  Dr. Andrew Wakefield’s 1998 Study demonstrated “anti-myelin antibodies and digestive tract pathologies in children with autism after being given the Urabi strain triple live virus MMR vaccine. All 12 children in the Study had intestinal abnormalities (known as Inflammatory Bowel Disease), with c ...
• VRM: A Concise Compendium The Problem With Vac ...
  The advent of cloned DNA vaccines & Synthetic Genomics, backed by proponents of the Trans-humanist & Bioethics movements (this is a post-Darwinian view, in which the species has the power to direct its own evolution), has opened a Pandora’s Box spelling the inevitable death of natural immunity. ...
• VRM: Medical Industry Data Proves Influenza Va ...
  The Influenza virus itself is constantly mutating from year to year. While mainstream doctors are traditionally divided, several prominent Studies have come forward in recent years challenging the Status Quo on the efficacy of the sacrosanct Flu shot & awakened an increasingly distrustf ...
• VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 3 – ...
  For centuries humankind has depended on an inherent natural immunity to survive; adapting to environmental changes while overcoming mutable diseases, viruses, bacterial or biological threats & inter-species cross contamination. With the 21st Century advancement of high-tech laboratory ...
• VRM: GlaxosmithKline Implicated In Systemic Cl ...
  ‘A psychiatrist on the payroll of GlaxoSmithKline has been sentenced to 13 months in prison after pleading guilty to committing research fraud in clinical trials for antidepressant Paxil. Palazzo enrolled children who did not actually suffer from major depressive or obsessive compulsive diso ...

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

Image by Josh Mishell via Flickr

• The River - Part II
  “It had become a place of darkness. But there was in it one river especially, a mighty big river, that you could see on the map, resembling an immense snake uncoiled, with its head in the sea, its body curving at rest afar over a vast country, and its tail lost in the depths of the land. ...
• Sangin Then, and Now
  2 February 2011 During the summer of 2009, the British were fighting hard for Sangin.� They were always outnumbered by Taliban and terrain.� Casualties were high. Today, US Marines are paying in blood for the very same ground because, in part, they gave up a miniscule speck of Afghanistan, and ...
• An Artery of Opium a Vein of Taliban
  27 July 2009 Sangin, Afghanistan {loadposition user8}
• Did Mubarak Flee?
  High USG source just told me Mubarak may have fled.� USG working to confirm.� US evacuation now very high priority. {loadposition user8}
• Egypt Eruption
  Image by barspiller via Flickr
  I asked General (ret.) Barry McCaffrey for his thoughts on the evolving situation in Egypt: Egypt is a few steps short of a disaster.� The corrupt, incompetent regime will not survive. Most likely outcome--- the Generals take charge, announce a reform government, start� the process of respon ...

The Killing Train

• Settle in and wait for the coup in Egypt
  Most people are interested in something that no one knows or can know: what is going to happen in Egypt? It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future (that's from Keynes). There are lessons from past revolutions that might help us understand what is happening, but from where ...
• More such philanthrocapitalism we shall be utt ...
  Philanthrocapitalism, a book by Bishop and Edwards, argues that philanthropy will help the public accept a new age of plutocracy (the rule by wealth). The rich are giving their money away so effectively, they say, that the public won't mind increasing inequality. read more
• I am not a gadget
  Jaron Lanier, author of "You are not a gadget", is very well-informed about what he is writing about, which is some of the social consequences of the internet, and some of the implicit ideologies that are built into the internet as we are living with it today. Lanier was one of the early minds b ...
• Raj Patel's "Value of Nothing"
  For various reasons I found myself with several hours on public transit and with Raj Patel's fine book "The Value of Nothing" in hand. I really liked a few things about it. First, it's a very readable summary of a lot of economic theories (and ideologies) that guide policies today. For a more ma ...
• A short video on Toronto Star's recent G20 cov ...
  Three minutes on technology and protests, focusing on the Toronto Star's recent G20 coverage, especially Rosie DiManno's articles.

treehugger

• Report: Indigenous Communities Are Fighting fo ...
  Image: Rights and Resources A new report from the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) has some good news and bad news. The good: recognition of land and resource rights for indigenous populations has been on the rise in recent years, but the bad: that increase stagnated last year, despite ...
• Greenland Play Dramatises Our Inept Responses ...
  Plays about climate change are all the rage in London right now. What with The Heretic at the Royal Court and Greenland at The National playing simultaneously, it appears theater land is suddenly making a conscious effort to get involved in the climate conversation. Nicholas Hytner, director ...
• Adorable Piggies Rescued From Factory Farm Cel ...
  Photos: Gabriela Penela. Vegan activism in South America is not as extended as in the northern hemisphere (or, at least, not as communicated), perhaps because horrifying factory farming practices took more time to come here. Recently, however, the subject has become more present and gro ...
• Cancer Alley: Staggering Illness Alongside Big ...
  Image: Global Justice Game There's a region in Louisiana known as cancer alley (or chemical corridor, take your pick). You can guess why. Cancer claims victims at an alarming rate along the 85-mile stretch of the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, where more than 140 ind ...
• Solar Companies Consider Legal Action Against ...
  Yesterday I reported that the British government was reviewing solar subsidies because they had proved too popular. In particular, there was concern that commercial entities were setting up gigantic utility-scale solar farms with money that was originally intended to subsidize residential so ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

• Employers bow to strikers’ demands
  Two seperate strikes in Rangoon garment factories meet with rare success as employers agree to demands for better working conditions
• Climate-related migration ‘a serious threat’
  More than a third of Burma's population at risk of flooding as the ADB paints an alarming picture of the future of a transient region
• Images from The Lady
  View Photo Album Filming has finished for the first ever biopic of Aung San Suu Kyi, entitled The Lady and directed by Luc Besson. Taking the leading role is former Bond girl Michelle Yeoh who met the Burmese opposition icon in November last year. She told the Guardian shortly after her visit to ...
• Suu Kyi wants West to ‘modify’ sanctions
  National League for Democracy requests meetings with US, EU, Canada and Australia to discuss how policy can me made more effective
• UN chief hails ‘important step’ in Burma
  UN pledges to work with new Burmese president Thein Sein and hopes the new parliament 'marks a change in the status quo'

Telegraph - Climate Change

• Polar bears having fewer cubs due to global wa ...
  Polar bears numbers could plummet with climate change, according to a new study that showed females are giving birth to fewer cubs due to the loss of sea ice.
• Goose steps and mass graves? We're only trying ...
  I enjoy a visit to ClarksonWorld along with the next man, but I can't live there, writes Robert Webb.
• Amazon rainforest 'could start contributing to ...
  Two severe droughts have hit the rainforest in five years, raising concerns over its ability to counter greenhouse gas emissions.
• Caroline Spelman loses her way in the woods
  Forestry Commission sell-off might actually double the Government's bill, says Geoffrey Lean
• Climate change: the top conspiracy theories
  Conspiracy theorists agree the data purported to show our planet is warming has been fabricated - but can't agree on whether to blame the East, the West, the Left or the Right.

National Geographic | Environment

• Pictures: Kickoff Time for Green Stadiums
  NoneAs Green Bay and Pittsburgh face off Sunday in Super Bowl XLV in the NFL's newest and largest stadium, a drive for greener design and cleaner energy is under way at arenas worldwide.
• "Extinct" Salmon Discovered in Japanese Lake
  A Japanese TV host helped identify a fish from a Mount Fuji lake as the kunimasu salmon, thought to have gone extinct 70 years ago.
• "Killer" Winter Storm Seen From Space; U.S. Bl ...
  A new NASA picture shows just how big the current U.S. winter storm is. Hitting at least 30 states, it's among the worst in 50 years.
• Oil Markets Churn Over Egypt’s Potential as Ga ...
  World oil prices hit their highest level since 2008 due to concerns over Egypt—not due to its role as a commodity route, but as a potential vector for political instability.
• Groundhog Day 2011 & Punxsutawney Phil: Facts ...
  With ancient origins and modern media smarts, "immortal" rodent Punxsutawney Phil rules Groundhog Day 2011. Get the surprising facts behind winter's wackiest U.S. weather prediction.

Jurist - Legal Research

• Italy court orders release of former Guantanam ...
  [JURIST] A Milan court on Monday ordered Italian authorities to release former Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainee Abdel Ben Mabrouk [NYT materials], finding that the eight years Mabrouk served at Guantanamo and the year he spent in an Italian prison were sufficient punishment. The jud ...
• Bank of America settles excessive overdraft fe ...
  [JURIST] Bank of America (BOA) [corporate website] has reached a $410 million settlement in a class action suit accusing the bank of excessive overdraft fees, according to documents submitted Friday in the US District Court Southern District of Florida [official website]. BOA is among more than ...
• Former Pennsylvania judge goes on trial over j ...
  [JURIST] Prosecutors and defense attorneys in the US District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania [official website] on Monday began selecting the jury in the corruption trial of former Pennsylvania judge Mark Ciavarella for his role in a juvenile sentencing scandal [JURIST news archiv ...
• UK did not pressure Scotland to release Locker ...
  [JURIST] The UK's top civil servant reported [text, PDF] Monday that the previous administration "[did] all it could" to facilitate a Libyan appeal to to allow for the release of convicted Lockerbie [BBC backgrounder] bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] fro ...
• UN rights experts call for end to female genit ...
  [JURIST] UN rights experts called Monday for all global communities to participate in the effort to end [press release] female genital mutilation (FGM) [WHO backgrounder; JURIST news archive]. The statement, marking the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Genital Mutilation and Cutting, enco ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

• Video of the Day: Robert Gibbs Says 'I Am Not ...
  Press Secretary Robert Gibbs is leaving the White House next week, and Politico has put together a video montage of all the different ways he's demurred over the years when asked questions he considered outside his area of expertise. Watch:
• Rep. Frank Wolf on Pushing for Reform in Egypt
  Congressman Frank Wolf, the Virginia Republican who introduced a resolution criticizing Egypt in early 2009, says he's had a hard time raising concerns about Hosni Mubarak's regime. "We've had problems all the time with the State Department," says Wolf of pressing the executive branch on the hu ...
• When Ronald Reagan Endorsed Ron Paul
  Ben Smith of Politico has identified what he predicts will be the "best campaign ad of 2012." It will be a Haley Barbour spot featuring something any GOP hopeful would kill for: Ronald Reagan's endorsement, which he bestowed during Barbour's 1982 Senate campaign. Here's Reagan: I'd like to take ...
• Hitting Obama for Appearing at the Chamber
  How do liberals feel about President Obama going to speak at the Chamber of Commerce today? Well, the usual suspects for Chamber-related discontent seem okay with it. The AFL-CIO (which released a joint statement with the Chamber just last month) says it had no problem with Obama's decision to ...
• Obama Tries to Friend the Chamber
  Applause lines can reveal a lot about the relationship between a speaker and an audience, and, as President Obama appeared at the Chamber of Commerce today for the overt purpose of developing their relationship, it's probably notable that there were only two moments of genuine clapping (by my co ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

• [COAT] Canada at War in Iraq! New 54-page COA ...
• [COAT] Success! AntiCANSEC arms-bazaar campaig ...
• [COAT] Raging Grans video: CANSEC-NO CANSEX-YE ...
• [COAT] Arms Bazaar in Ottawa Citizen, letters- ...
• [COAT] Oppose the CANSEC War Machine! - coat

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

• US and Vietnam sign nuclear energy agreement | ...
• SKorea on alert after ship hit by mysterious b ...
• Obama administration may send U.S.-Russia arms ...
• Energy Secretary Steven Chu on the nation's en ...
• More tritium found at Vt. Yankee, NRC plans cl ...

Tikun Olam

• Stand With Us’ Assault on the Jewish Peace Mov ...
  Why is Stand With Us assaulting American Jews?  I use the term “assault” both in its figurative and literal sense.  In tactics that echo those of the Israeli right-wing advocacy group, Im Tirzu, Stand With Us members have engaged in verbal and physical confrontations with activists from Jewish ...
• Suleiman: Israel’s Pick for President
  It should help Egyptian interim strongman Omar Suleiman’s prospects of getting the nod to take over permanently for his mentor, Mubarak, after Egyptians read the glowing things Israeli defense ministry officials reported to U.S. diplomats in this Wikileaks cable, which resulted from Israeli cons ...
• Links for 2010-03-21 [Digg]
  Happy Passover: Settlers, Immigrants, and Jewish Values "You shall not oppress the stranger because you know the soul of the stranger for you yourselves were immigrants in the land of Egypt (Exodus 23:9)"
• Kamm Agrees to Plea Bargain, Israel’s Assange ...
  In a plea bargain that could serve as a precursor for what might be in store for Julian Assange should he ever be extradited to the U.S., Anat Kamm agreed to a plea deal with Israeli authorities by which she agrees to plead guilty to leaking top secret IDF documents to Haaretz journalist, Uri Bl ...
• What the Hell are They Worried About?
  Bibi Netanyahu is shreying about the Muslim Brotherhood in terms redolent of Al Qaeda.  Mubarak uses the Brotherhood and a combination of impending chaos and religious holy war as the reason he can’t relinquish power.  Obama seems to have drunk the Kool Aid as well.  So I want to know: what t ...

Ode Magazine

• The secret life of metaphor
  By: James Geary Metaphor is most familiar as the literary device through which we describe one thing in terms of another, as in Shakespeare’s famous line from Romeo and Juliet, “Juliet is the sun.” But metaphor is much more than a mere literary device ...
• A new food manifesto
  Itâs time to take back control of what and how we eat. Hereâs why. Food isn’t just something we need to shovel down our gullets each day to survive. It’s far more potent: the means, more than any other, by which we humans shape our planet and ourselves.Photo by Marko Matas ...
• Harness a vocabulary of intention
  By: Nazia Mallick Are you using diminishing language in your speech and writing? The law of diminishing returns is defined as: "A point beyond which the application of additional sources yield less than proportional increases in output." In the same wa ...
• A sustainable solution to unsafe drinking wate ...
  By: efriend For centuries, the town of Thimi, just outside of Kathmandu, Nepal, has been renowned for its pottery. Here, you will find family after family with the surname "Prajapati," identifying them with the traditional pottery-producing caste that ...
• Lessons learned from war
  By: Charlie_Badenhop I have many fond memories of sitting in a small room in my wife’s grandmother’s house, sipping tea, and giving oba-chan the space to say whatever was on her mind. When I asked her about World War II, here’s what she had to say: ...

OpEd News

• George Bush: Preliminary Indictment for Tortur ...
  A first step but a long way from getting him in the dock.
• Mubarak's Thirty-Year Dictatorship
  Mubarak's 30-year thuggish reign.
• Patriot Act Vote on Tuesday
  Washington sources tell us that a Patriot Act renewal bill is scheduled for a vote in the House TOMORROW, Tuesday Feb 8.They will attempt to pass the bill, HR514, under "suspension of the rules,"which requires a two-thirds vote.Defeating this will only require 1/3 of Congress.That will buy us ti ...
• Reflections on Liberal Zionism
  I once was a liberal Zionist, but now I see myself as a religious American Jew in solidarity with justice for the Palestinian people. Israel's security and our liberation as Jews are both tied to justice for the Palestinians.
• Tell Old Pharaoh...
  The White House's foreign policy towards Egypt is a complete embarrassment. Especially to me, as I once deluded myself into thinking that the Obama Administration was doing the right thing. Despite the missteps, its not too late for the United States Government to change tack. Will it?

Switchboard

• Energy expert: "Drilling should slow" until we ...
  Philip K. Verleger, Jr. is an expert in energy markets. He served as a Senior Staff Economist on President Ford’s Council of Economic Advisers and Director of the Office of Energy Policy at the U.S. Treasury in President Carter’s administration. He is now publisher of the The Petro ...
• Tell Congress Not to Dismantle the EPA
  Recently, Newt Gingrich called for eliminating the EPA and replacing it with a polluter-friendly version of itself. As Reuters and USA Today report, most Americans don’t think much of that idea – or of proposals by members of Congress to dismantle the agency’s ability to protect ou ...
• Bring back the whale study, New York
  There’s a lot of excitement in New York over recent news that whales, seals, and dolphins have returned to our waters. They’re showing up in such vast numbers that one ferry boat captain now offers weekend tours so folks can catch a glimpse of humpback, blue, fin, and right whales ...
• Love Letter from a Big Polluter? Issa Valentin ...
  Valentine's Day is coming a little early for House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, who is getting a lot of love from the companies that don’t want to be held accountable for the standards and safeguards that protect Americans' health – particularly ...
• House Appropriator Proposes Major Cuts to US F ...
  The Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee Hal Rogers (R-KY) just proposed significant cuts to US international funding.  While the proposal he just released doesn’t spell out the exact cuts for different programs and categories of funding, we expect that the Majority Membe ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• Pawlenty
  Definitely going the full wingnut. Maybe he can interpose himself between gay and lesbian troops and their base. If they can dig him up, the 2012 GOP frontrunner. Related posts:Trying to appear to be delivering on a promise China in Lebanon Thinking About 2012 Related posts:Trying to ap ...
• How, exactly, do you film someone being stalke ...
  I know, I know: more Mad Men.  This will have to tide you over.  Now, something lumbering as quickly as a zombie wouldn’t seem to pose much of a threat, so it goes without saying that turning them into something threatening would entail speeding them up or increasing their numbers unto ubiquit ...
• Clay Fight!
  I will grant that there’s a certain courage in a Kentucky Senator lauding Cassius Marcellus Clay over Henry Clay: âAs long as I sit at Henry Clayâs desk, I will remember his lifelong desire to forge agreement, but I will also keep close to my heart the principled stand of his cousin Cassius who ...
• Dan Drezner, “Postmodernist”
  Adam Weinsten has written a delicious appraisal of Danâs newest book, âTheory of International Politics and Zombies.â I think heâs mostly spot-on, particularly his genealogy of Dreznerâs position in the discipline and his implication that TIPZ represents Dan having the last laugh on the Chicago ...
• Sadly Enough
  …a case can be made that this year’s Super Bowl ads were marginally less sexist than last year’s.    Still, whenever Eminem is a relief from misogyny (at least in his second ad) it’s rarely a good sign, and of course Groupon managed to open whole new frontiers of offensiveness. Related post ...

Desert Research Institute

• 2010 DRI Annual Report
  The 2010 annual report is now available for download. This issue includes an interview with Executive Vice President for Research Dr. Terry Surles, our involvement with a large NSF grant to study climate change, an overview of the work in our divisions and centers, select researcher profiles, an ...
• Tracking the Air Quality at Lake Tahoe
  In order to better understand the pollutant sources that are affecting Lake’s Tahoe’s water quality, Research Professor Hampden Kuhns, began studying Lake Tahoe in 2003 when he assembled the areas first emissions inventory. The inventory included local measurements using his TRAKER road ...
• Building Concepts for Clarity
  Todd Mihevc has a knack for finding the right tools for the job, but he’s no handyman for hire. For 25 years, Mihevc, an Assistant Research Hydrogeologist at DRI, has been instrumental in developing equipment that surveys, studies, and samples water systems in Nevada. His latest research concern ...
• Top Cited Article in the Journal of Human Evol ...
  Dr. Glenn Berger is lead author in top-cited article in Journal of Human Evolution. The article "Luminescence chronology of cave sediments at the Atapuerca paleoanthropological site, Spain" was the top-cited article published in the Journal of Human Evolution for the period of 2008 to 2010.
• DRI Researcher Published in Nature Geoscience
  The atmosphere over the Dead Sea, researchers have found, is laden with oxidized mercury. Some of the highest levels of oxidized mercury ever observed outside the polar regions exist there.

Earth Techling

• LEED California Concert Hall Is Stunning
• Infiniti M35h Hybrid Rolls Into Europe
• LEED Platinum Comes To Fairbanks, Alaska
• Biogas Comes To Detroit Edison Portfolio
• Wind Power May Blow In North Carolina

National Law Journal | U.S.

• Porn victims demanding restitution
  District courts across the country are divided over whether — and to what extent — defendants in child pornography possession cases should have to pay for the losses a victim has suffered.
• Trade court should have remanded anti-dumping ...
  The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a rare ruling remanding a completed trade proceeding to the U.S Department of Commerce over the agency's objections because of evidence of fraud that surfaced in a later trade proceeding.
• First-of-its-kind lawsuit seeks to improve Los ...
  California's Parent Empowerment Act, enacted last year, gives parents the legal means to make changes to public schools they deem under-performing. Kirkland & Ellis partners Mark Holscher and Jay Lefkowitz discuss the lawsuit they have filed under the new law against the Compton Unified School D ...
• Suit against law school over sexual assault ch ...
  A student at Vermont Law School is suing the school for more than $1 million, alleging negligence in the handling of a sexual assault allegation against him. In response, the school may accuse him of attempting to retaliate against his accuser.
• DODD-FRANK ACT: Agenda Unknown
  The new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, slated to open on July 21, seems sure to generate enough rulemakings and enforcement actions to sustain entire practice groups. But questions abound over the regulatory entity's mission.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

• A Comprehensive Website for News Headlines
  The below site, while not covering everything, does offers a lot of info in one place. Newspaper Headlines: http://www.marcellus-shale.us/Gas-Drilling_NEWS.htm
• Groups File Federal Gas Drilling Lawsuit again ...
  Delaware River Basin Commission Served Notice Trenton, New Jersey —The Delaware Riverkeeper Network and Damascus Citizens for Sustainability have joined forces in filing a federal lawsuit against the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) in federal district court in Trenton, NJ. Complaints were ...
• Oil and Gas Companies Illegally Using Diesel i ...
  By Adam Federman, Earth Island Journal Posted on February 1, 2011 The 2005 Bush-Cheney Energy Policy Act famously exempted hydraulic fracturing from the Safe Drinking Water Act. But it made one small exception: diesel fuel. The Policy Act states that the term “underground injection,” as it relat ...
• PA DEP Fines Pennsylvania General Energy Co. L ...
  COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA Dept. of Environmental Protection Commonwealth News Bureau Room 308, Main Capitol Building Harrisburg PA., 17120 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 02/2/2011 CONTACT: Daniel T. Spadoni, Department of Environmental Protection North-central Regional Office 570-327-3659 DEP Fines Pe ...
• Trout Unlimited to hold training session for M ...
  The following Trout Unlimited-sponsored training session is for those interested in learning about the signs and symptoms of trouble in the Marcellus Shale drilling areas, and to learn what’s normal when such activity is on-going. When: February 26, 2011 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM Where: Citizen’s ...

News Blaze

• U.S. Congratulates Sudan on the Results of the ...
  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton today congratulated the Government of Sudan on the results of the Southern Sudan Referendum.
• Austin Trout Wins WBA Title, Ponders Future
  'I have some control over my career now,' said the Mayfield graduate, who improved to 22-0. 'I won't be sitting here waiting for other people to dictate who I fight. I feel like my career has just started.'
• 6 Market Moves in 2011: Will They Make You Ric ...
  If you are on the right side of these six financial market moves expected in 2011 it can make you rich.
• Factory Worker Discovers Ming Vase
  The BBC reported that the vase, which stands 11.5 inches tall, is the largest ever found of a rare group of early Ming 'moonflasks' whose production dates somewhere between the years 1403 and 1424.
• UN Rural Development Fund Notes Progress in It ...
  IFAD, a specialized agency of the United Nations, is dedicated to eradicating rural poverty in developing countries. Seventy-five per cent of the world's poorest people - 1.4 billion women, children and men - live in rural areas and depend on agric

environment 360

• World’s Oyster Populations Have Declined Preci ...
  Roughly 85 percent of the world’s oyster beds have disappeared and in many locations oysters are functionally extinct due to overharvesting and disease, according to a new study. In a wide-ranging survey of Click to enlarge BioscienceMAP: Condition of oysters worldwide 144 bays and 44 ecoreg ...
• Deep Beneath Antarctic Ice, Russians Near Goal ...
  After punching through more than two miles of Antarctic ice, a Russian drilling team is just 100 feet from the surface of an enormous sub-glacial lake that has not been disturbed for millions of years. The New Jersey-sized Lake Vostok — the third-largest lake in the world, by water volume — sits ...
• Africa’s Flourishing Niger Delta Threatened by ...
  The inland Niger delta of Mali is a unique wetland ecosystem that supports a million farmers, fishermen, and herders and a rich diversity of wildlife. But now, the country’s president and Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi have begun a major agricultural project that will divert much of the river’s w ...
• Ten Most Threatened Forests
  Conservational International has identified what it says are the world’s 10 most threatened forest hotspots, all of which have lost 90 percent or more of their original woodlands to human activity. Five of the endangered forests are in the Asia-Pacific region, three are in Africa, Conservat ...
• Intel the Biggest Buyer of Renewable Energy in ...
  Intel Corporation remains the top purchaser of renewable energy in the U.S., nearly doubling the amount of green energy credits it will buy in 2011 to more than 2.5 billion kilowatt-hours — the equivalent of powering 218,000 American homes — according to a new ranking by the U.S. Environmental P ...

Red Ice Creations

• The Equity Market Is Now Controlled By The Mac ...
  "Things have changed," he cautions. With 50-70% of all trades being conducted by algorithms at micro-second time intervals, real human traders are increasingly challenged to understand how our markets actually work. "No longer do the technical patterns - that have lasted for years and years, and ...
• Birds use quantum theory to literally 'see' Ea ...
  Birds may be able to ‘see’ the Earth’s electromagnetic field as they fly through the sky, scientists have suggested. Many creatures, including all birds, navigate by sensing the direction of the magnetic forces around our planet to guide them. But now researchers have found that different reacti ...
• Live Coverage of the Egypt Riots - Al Jazeera ...
  The 2011 Egyptian protests or the Youth Revolution, are a series of street demonstrations, protests, and civil disobedience acts that have taken place in Egypt since 25 January 2011, with organisers counting on the Tunisian uprising to inspire the crowds to mobilize. The demonstrations and riots ...
• Lightning and fire: Japan on alert after volca ...
  A one-mile cordon has been established around a volcano on Mount Kirishima after it erupted scattering rocks and ash across southern Japan and sending smoke billowing 5,000ft into the air.A small evacuation center was set up overnight in the town of Takaharu’People told us their windows were rat ...
• Egypt unplugs Internet as protests loom; "unpr ...
  About a half-hour past midnight Friday morning in Egypt, the Internet went dead. Almost simultaneously, the handful of companies that pipe the Internet into and out of Egypt went dark as protesters were gearing up for a fresh round of demonstrations calling for the end of President Hosni Mubarak ...

Russia Today

• Four arrested in anti-terror operation
  Officials say an entire terrorist cell has been neutralized in central Russia, in the Republic of Bashkortostan.
• FSB sacks senior officials over airport bombin ...
  Two officials from the counter-terrorism unit of the Federal Security Service (FSB) have been sacked for their failure to prevent the suicide bombing at Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport.
• Time stops: Russia abolishes daylight saving t ...
  President Medvedev has announced the abolition of daylight saving time starting autumn 2011. Medvedev argued that switching clocks twice a year is harmful for people’s health and triggers stress.
• Assange is safer in the UK than in Sweden - ex ...
  Dr Brian Palmer, a social anthropologist from Uppsala University, believes that Julian Assange is safer in the UK than in Sweden. RT has asked him about why Sweden wants the WikiLeaks founder so badly and his fate if he...
• Nonresistance to evil by force: the Army versi ...
  The army started slowly forcing people out from Tahrir Square and occupied new positions in Cairo, making tiresome, useless and formal checks more severe.

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

• Even Gary Bekkum is skeptical
  Gary Bekkum’s  STARpod.org’s site is usually replete with government conspiracies, psychic spies, hamsters, Bigelow’s Skinwalker Ranch, Laura Eisenhower’s Mars Colony and other wondrous esoteric oddities that it’s hard to believe that Gary could be skeptical of anything. But he is. He is very s ...
• More Paracast: George Filer
  Yeah I know I’ve been lazy lately (or so it seems), but trust me on this one. You won’t be disappointed with this interview Gene Steinberg and co-host Chris O’Brien of the Paracast had with Eastern MUFON Director George Filer, who also has the website Filer’s Files (which caters to guess what? Y ...
• The Paracast: Clifford Clift of MUFON
  This week’s Paracast with Gene Steinberg and Chris O’Brien is a conversation with MUFON International’s Clifford Clift. Subjects range from the nuts and bolts aspects of UFOs to the possible paranormal links with ghosts, angels, demons and Sasquatch. This was a down to earth and civil interview, ...
• Bizarre Beachcoming: Review of the Codex Serap ...
  Dr. Beachcoming, that eccentric collector of all things of an exotic historical nature, reviews The Codex Seraphinianus,  a book written by Luigi Serafini that is purportedly about an alien world complete with language, customs, architecture, flora and fauna. Luigi Serafini, Codex Seraphinianus ...
• Quantum DNA
  It’s been written that photosynthesis might be a quantum process. Now a paper appears that claims DNA itself is a quantum process: A Nobel Prize winning biologist has ignited controversy after publishing details of an experiment in which a fragment of DNA appeared to ‘teleport’ or imprint itsel ...

Tippers News

• Domestic violence
  The statistics are startling: It's estimated that every 18 minutes a woman in the United States is beaten. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Yes, trafficking happens right here
  A common misconception about human trafficking and modern slavery is that it does not happen here. But it does. It's a documented fact. Take the case of two girls, ages 15 and 16, who ran away from a juvenile home in Fremont in 2007.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a ...
• Human smuggling
  THERE is no doubt that rampant poverty, unemployment and a bleak future stare young Pakistanis in the face. The situation invariably provides a breeding ground Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Public opinion stopped GM, says campaigner + T ...
  Interesting article in The Independent in which Lord Melchett, the former director of Greenpeace, speaks out. Also, have you signed this Avaaz petition yet? http://www.avaaz.org/en/eu_gmo/?cl=743766348&v=7138 (You'll have to copy + paste the link!)Submitted by Graeme that's Graeme to Enviro ...
• Two week-old kitten left for dead in locked cl ...
  Thanks to a passerby and local animal shelter, a two week-old kitten left for dead in a bolted-shut clothes recycling bin was rescued and has made a full recovery. The kitten was rescued about a month ago when a passing person heard the cry Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� ...

The Freeman

• Obama Says He’ll Help Business
  “President Obama on Monday pledged to make government an ally of companies as they emerge from the bleak downturn of recent years, even as he challenged executives to do their part to help resurrect the economy.” (Washington Post) Thereâs a another setting besides ally and adversary. FEE Timely ...
• Tax Break Proposed for Energy Efficiency
  “One week after he called on lawmakers to close tax-code loopholes that benefit specific industries, President Obama proposed one of his own â a tax break aimed at spurring the development of energy-efficient commercial buildings.” (Washington Times) More of the same. FEE Timely Classic “Uninten ...
• The Limits of Social Media
  Fundamentally, you can’t Tweet free trade any more than you can Tweet a revolution.
• Safe Food at Any Cost
  More regulations always have the effect of reducing the number of operators in the regulated sector.
• House to Scrutinize Obama-Era Regulations
  “House Republicans are scrutinizing a wide array of existing and proposed Obama administration regulations in areas as diverse as the environment and Wall Street, and they are taking guidance from industry groups that say the rules threaten jobs.” (Washington Post) Regulation didnât begin with O ...

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

• Grand Isle businesses battered by BP oil disas ...
  By Rocky Kistner, Bridge the Gulf For more than 30 years, Sarah and her daughter Annette Rigaud�owned one of the most popular eateries on�Grand Isle, La. Sarah's Restaurant is�a cozy place filled with mementos of sun-splashed beach vacations and fishing trips. It was a prosperous business, pa ...
• Virginia uranium mining panel meets as concern ...
  A special panel of the National Academy of Sciences is meeting in Richmond, Va. today to gather information for its study on whether uranium can be mined and milled safely in the state. This will be the NAS panel's last town hall-style meeting in Virginia for public comment, and dozen ...
• Gulf oil spill claims czar under fire for rosy ...
  BP oil spill paymaster Kenneth Feinberg released a draft plan this week for deciding payments on final claims for damages for the disaster, and it's drawing fire for being too optimistic about the pace of recovery. Feinberg released the proposed methodology on Feb. 2 and said he would ...
• INSTITUTE INDEX: The partisan fight over healt ...
  Date on which President Obama signed into law the Affordable Care Act implementing comprehensive health care reform: 3/23/2010 Date when a group of state attorneys general filed a lawsuit seeking to have the law declared unconstitutional in part because of its mandate that all Americans buy ins ...
• Hexavalent chromium pollution linked to coal a ...
  The landmark $333 million court settlement that propelled legal researcher Erin Brockovich to environmental stardom involved the contamination of a California town's groundwater with hexavalent chromium, a toxic compound known to cause cancer. Now the same dangerous heavy metal, usual ...

Worldpress - Africa

• Will Freedom of Expression Hold in Southern Su ...
  With southern Sudan likely to find itself an independent nation, in addition to problems with healthcare, electricity and illiteracy, it may also face challenges to the freedom of its media.
• Will Freedom of Expression Hold in Southern Su ...
  With southern Sudan likely to find itself an independent nation, in addition to problems with healthcare, electricity and illiteracy, it may also face challenges to the freedom of its media.
• Preventing Maternal Deaths in West Africa
  Dr. Fredanna M'Cormack and her Bele Uman Project are working in Sierra Leone to save the lives of pregnant mothers and their babies.
• Interview with Kumi Naidoo
  The Greenpeace executive director talks about connections between the environment, poverty, peace, and how the interconnectedness of these issues can drive civil society.
• Re: Blood Diamonds: Still Bloody
  We are seeing a steadily growing tide of discontent with the Kimberley Process.

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

• AOL Buys Huffpo
  Arianna Huffington cashes out.  This is the American dream baby, make something, then sell it to a soulless corporation which stands against everything you claim to stand for.  What do you care?  You’ve cashed out. Cashing out is one of the biggest problems with American style business, actua ...
• 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 ...

Media Consortium

• 1.4 million fans can’t be wrong: NPR’s Faceboo ...
  But Carvin also emphasized the importance of audience expectations. “They still see our site as mainly dedicated to consuming news,” he said. Facebook, on the other hand, is a web venue in which people are used to chatting with their family and friends. ..NPR’s Facebook page is a complement to, ...
• The Newsonomics of 2011 news metrics to watch ...
• Gallery: 15 iPad news apps
  Thinking about creating an iPad app for your newsroom? Want to see what other news media have come up with? Below are screengrabs of several news apps from newspapers, magazines radio, television, and online-only news websites.
• Five Months on Tumblr as Seen Through Pummelvi ...
• The Media Consortium: Weekly Diaspora: After D ...

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

• British archaeologists call out UK government ...
  British archaeologists are protesting a government policy requiring the reburial of human remains within two years of excavation. A letter to Britain’s Justice Secretary, Kenneth Clarke, which was reprinted in the Guardian , from 40 of the country’s archaeologists denounced a new interpre ...
• EU's overdue chief scientist to be appointed t ...
  The appointment of Europe’s first chief scientist will hopefully happen this year, Maire Geoghegan-Quinn, the research commissioner told reporters in London today. She blamed the financial crisis for the delay in making the appointment, which José Manuel Barroso, the Commission president, pr ...
• Rwandan physicist to head science academy for ...
  Posted on behalf of Linda Nordling. Romain Murenzi, a physicist and Rwanda’s former science minister, was today named as the new executive director of TWAS, the academy of sciences for the developing world. Murenzi will replace Muhamed Hassan, who has spent nearly 30 years in the post. Mu ...
• Here comes the (entire) Sun
  By Adam Mann While many in the US today are focused on a terrestrial contest pitting two teams against one another, engineers at NASA are concentrating on a pair of orbiting satellites working in tandem. Around the time of tonight's Superbowl halftime show (about 01:00 hours GMT), the two S ...
• What does surrendering your uranium get you? S ...
  Among the latest tranche of Wikileaks memos are an intriguing batch out of Tripoli, detailing the scientific cooperation provided to Libya by the US in exchange for the surrendering its uranium centrifuge programme and highly enriched uranium (HEU) from its 10MW research reactor at the Tajura Nu ...

new geography

• A New Tribe for New Geographies: Reasonable Pe ...
  I am Singaporean, with a half-Indian, half-Eurasian father; a half-Pakistani, half-Malay mother. Dad converted to Islam from Roman Catholicism; each year my brothers and I celebrate Eid ful Fitr, Eid ul Adha and Christmas with different parts of our family. Cousins, aunts and uncles have mar ...
• Brown’s California Budget Proposals: a Big Ste ...
  I admit it. I had low expectations for Jerry Brown’s third term as governor. After seeing his budget proposal, I’m ready to reconsider my expectations. I think it is a great effort, and it deserves the support of all of us tired of seeing our state reduced to laughing stock. Being an economi ...
• Super Bowl XLV: The $10 Billion Bag of Chips
  I am raining on the big parade by equating the Super Bowl with trade deficits, budget shortfalls, state bonds on the edge of default, and unemployment close to ten percent. But if thirty-second ads that cost $2.7 million or The Black Eyed Peas at halftime can’t lift the economy out of its doldru ...
• Orange County Vantage Point: One Eye on Egypt ...
  Scenes from Egypt, Tunisia and other places in the Middle East provide a stark reminder of the chaos that can consume entire nations. The scene on Bolsa Avenue in Little Saigon last week offered evidence that chaos can be overcome. Don’t get me wrong—chaos had a place along Bolsa as streams of ...
• The Social Side of the Internet
  Is success in social networking measured by the number of �Friends� you have on Facebook, or �Followers� you have on Twitter, or �Connections� you make on LinkedIn?  The jury is still out on how social media and social networking will ultimately play out, but new research shows real benefit ...

GM Watch

• Unapproved GM crops to be allowed into Britain
• The last thing our hungry world needs is more ...
• USDA allows planting of GM beets despite court ...
• Dutch NGOs criticized for supporting 'responsi ...
• Uruguay: The story of Jorge Merola and his wif ...

spiked

• The Egyptian uprising: ‘why now?’ ...
  Those two questions are torturing observers, who are so obsessed with the mechanics of the revolt that they have missed its historic importance.
• A kick in the NADS for democracy
  Meet the all-party Western lobby to halt the Egyptian uprising: the New Authoritarian Democrats.
• For America, stability trumps freedom
  In echoing Mubarak’s call for an ‘orderly transition’, the US is undermining the fight for democratic rights.
• Peddling ancient prejudices about Egypt
  Rumours about looting and beheaded mummies give credence to the idea that Egyptians don’t respect our global cultural heritage.
• Crime View: thou shalt fear thy neighbour
  The crime-mapping website launched by the police and lauded by the media doesn’t empower us - it turns us into panicked netizens.

Cryptogon

• Egypt: Pentagon Moving Warships, Preparing for ...
  Translation: The Suez Canal will remain open. Via: Los Angeles Times: The Pentagon is moving U.S. warships and other military assets to make sure it is prepared in case evacuation of U.S. citizens from Egypt becomes necessary, officials said Friday. The Kearsarge, an amphibious assault ship carr ...
• Homeland Security Hijacks Domain Names of Site ...
  That’s right. Don’t believe it? Here it is, from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) / Department of Homeland Security: The websites seized yesterday were popular “linking” sites – a type of website that provides access, or “links,” to other websites where pirated sporting and pay-per ...
• U.S. Has Secret Tools to Force Internet on Dic ...
  The de facto role of the US armed forces will be to keep the world safe for our economy and open to our cultural assault. To those ends, we will do a fair amount of killing. —Ralph Peters Oh sure. U.S. PSYOP is just going to provide open Internet connections to the oppressed masses… *roll [...]
• Chinese Corn Imports Forecast to Soar
  Via: Financial Times: Corn prices – and with them, the price of meat – are set to explode if the latest import estimates from China are correct. Last year, Beijing recorded its largest imports of corn since its disastrous crop of 1995-96. But this year could see further record buying. The US Gra ...
• New Zealand: Rural Broadband Light at the End ...
  You’ve heard of putting a wolf in charge of guarding a hen house. In rural New Zealand, we’ll get two wolves on the job. The final announcement has not yet been made, so I suppose there’s a chance that it might not be as bad as it looks now. However, my money is on the [...]

The Economic Collapse

• Ashley’s Tragic Story: A Heartbreaking E ...
  What you are about to read is perhaps the most heartbreaking story that I have ever come across. It is so tragic that I am not even quite sure how to introduce it. Some time ago, a reader named Ashley sent me an email that described the nightmare that she has been living [...]
• The Riots In Egypt And The Price Of Oil
  As if the world economy did not have enough problems already, now the riots in Egypt threaten to send the price of oil soaring into the stratosphere.  On Friday, the price of U.S. crude soared 4 percent.  A 4 percent rise in a single day is pretty staggering.  The price of Brent ...
• Warning Signs
  Do you see all of the warning signs that are flashing all around you?  These days it seems like there is more bad economic news in a single week than there used to be in an entire month.  2011 is already shaping up to be a very dark year for the world economy.  The price [...]
• Shut Down The Federal Reserve, Break Up The Bi ...
  How do we fix the economy?  That is a question that tens of millions of Americans are asking right now.  Republicans are harshly criticizing the empty economic proposals being put forward by Barack Obama and the Democrats, but the Republicans don't seem to have any real solution ...
• Empty Promises: 5 Reasons Why Barack Obama&#82 ...
  Barack Obama's State of the Union address sure sounded good, didn't it?  There were lots of solemn promises, lots of stuff about America's "bright future" and a line about how we are now facing this generation's "Sputnik moment" that will surely make headlines all over the globe ...

Desertification

• Three improved soybean varieties (Ecosensorium ...
  Read at : http://www.ecosensorium.org/ INNOVATION IN ACTION – Better soybean varieties offer African farmers new opportunities Two African nationsâMalawi and Nigeriaâhave released three improved soybean varieties that can enhance the productivity of the crop and offer farmers better opportunitie ...
• “Helping Farmers Grow More Food” ( ...
  Read at : http://www.lavidalocavore.org/diary/4440/helping-farmers-grow-more-food by: Jill Richardson Food and agriculture came up exactly once in the State of the Union. It’s disappointing but not shocking. Here’s what Obama said: This is just a part of how we are shaping a … Continue reading →
• Groasis / AquaPro, a deceptively simple invent ...
  Read at : http://www.lavidalocavore.org/diary/4451/making-a-weeks-worth-of-rain-last-the-whole-year Making a Week’s Worth of Rain Last the Whole Year Crossposted from the Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet. We think of deserts as dry wastelands incapable of food production.  Surprisin ...
• U.S. looks to Monsanto to feed the world (La V ...
  Read at : http://www.lavidalocavore.org/diary/4463/us-looks-to-monsanto-to-feed-the-world by: Marcia Ishii-Eiteman Originally posted on Pesticide Action Network’s blog, Groundtruth. At the annual World Economic Forum this past weekend in Davos, Switzerland, U.S. Agency for International Developm ...
• The State of Smallholders in Agriculture (IFAD ...
  Read at : http://ifad-un.blogspot.com/2011/01/capturing-state-of-smallholders-in.html Capturing âthe State of Smallholders in Agricultureâ in Latin America Posted by Greg Benchwick Examining Latin America at the New Directions for Smallholder Agriculture Conference This is rural poverty in Latin ...

The Paper Trail

• Issa Releases Letters From Industry on Regulat ...
  Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, has released a massive collection of letters received from nonprofits, businesses, and trade associations regarding the impact of government regulations on job creation nationwide.
• FDIC Wants Bank Execs to Wait 3 Years for Enti ...
  If the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp’s new executive pay proposal is adopted, top U.S. bankers will have to wait at least three years to collect half of their bonuses.
• Multiple Safety Failures Identified in Chemica ...
  A new report on a 2008 explosion at a West Virginia pesticide factory offers a chilling account that raises questions about safeguards at the plant.
• Federal Judge with Medical Industry Investment ...
  U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson, who ruled Monday that the health care reform law is unconstitutional, holds financial investments in health and medicine worth as much as $75,000.
• Newsmaker Interview:  Warren Says Congres ...
  Elizabeth Warren, the government’s top advocate on consumer financial issues, says that Congress needs to hold auto dealers to the same basic rules of fairness that apply to other financial institutions.

backofthebook.ca

• Is Christy Clark the Sarah Palin of BC politic ...
  By Dave Brindle As one crusty but well-connected B.C. political observer DM'd me the other day, Christy Clark is not a deep thinker. Her chief rival to become leader of the B.C. Liberals and Premier, Kevin Falcon, may have had it right when he shot back at Ms. Clark's recent criticism of . ...
• Clement leads anti-UBB forces down slippery sl ...
  By Frank Moher So, all you digerati who are celebrating this morning because the Conservatives have told the CRTC to rescind its decision on user based internet billing, or else: do you really want the federal government calling the shots on this? The Tories especially? One can't help but ...
• Final Total for F-35?
  by Eric Pettifor When buying an SLR camera, the price of the unit is not the entire cost. Will you need additional lenses? Tripod? Camera case/bag? Filters? Additional media? Apparently it's the same thing when buying fighter jets. You can't just buy 65 ...
• Bad Jokes are Good PR
  by Rachel Krueger Amy Chua is terrible at jokes.  She told one in early January about forcing her 7-year-old daughter to practice piano ‘right through dinner into the night’ with no breaks, and no one laughed.  Guys, the punchline is that the daughter got good at piano.  Honestly.   An ex ...
• Stelmach resignation leaves old-school media i ...
  By Brian Brennan Can the mainstream print media successfully reinvent itself to become as relevant to news consumers in the digital age as it used to be back in the days when readers looked to their morning newspapers for authoritative coverage of the previous day's events? The question a ...

Worldnews

• Qantas awarded for 'best cellars in the s ...
  Melbourne, Feb 8 (ANI): Australia based airline, Qantas, has been voted as having the best onboard wine, scooping the top honours during a worldwide airline competition.� Qantas took out...
• 'Jersey Shore' star Jwoww admires Angelin ...
  New York, Feb 08 (ANI): In an interview, the prettiest member of 'Jersey Shore', Jwoww, has revealed that she admires Angelina Jolie and might even follow in her...
• China Hikes Interest Rates Again to Damp ...
  The Associated Press By TINI TRAN Associated Press BEIJING February 8, 2011 (AP) China's central bank is raising interest rates for the second time in just over a month in a bid to dampen high inflation.FILE - In this Jan. 14, 2011, file photo released by China's Xinhua news agency, a staff ...
• Let them boo me! Tevez relishing Old Traf ...
  Carlos Tevez is not concerned about the prospect of being jeered on Saturday when he returns to Old Trafford wearing the colours of . Once a favourite at , he is now an inspirational figure in manager Roberto Mancini's ambitious side. A first-half hat-trick against West Bromwich on Saturday ...
• Assange fights extradition on sex allegat ...
  London (CNN) -- Lawyers for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange are due to wrap up their case Tuesday against sending him from the United Kingdom to Sweden over allegations of sexual misconduct. Swedish prosecutors want him sent back to face questioning over claims which he denies. Assange sai ...

Alex in Wonderland

• Report: Active-Duty Army PSYOPS Soldiers Embed ...
  To better manufacture consent, U.S. Army soldiers are embedded as intern and fellows at local TV affiliates, along with previously reported newspapers and national outlets.
• Daily Briefing—15th-16th Sept 2010
  News and views from around the web posted to the Wonderland Wire
• Report: U.S. Troops ‘Still Killing Civilians’ ...
  A U.S.-Iraqi night raid results in the deaths of eight civilians weeks after U.S. combat operations were announced as over.
• Military Welfare Budget Won’t Thin Any T ...
  Ivan Eland sat with RT to discuss the astronomical political clout held by the welfare queens of the military-industrial complex that will thwart any translation of the Pentagon's rhetoric into actual policy
• Because the System’s Not Rigged Enough for Cop ...
  Kevin Carson on the criminal injustice system 'shrills' pushing the narrative that the letter of the law aides criminals against so-called 'crime fighters'.

MY Daily Apple

• Dermatologists Caution That Atopic Dermatitis ...
  Atopic dermatitis, one of the most common forms of eczema in this family of inflammatory skin diseases, is a chronic disease marked by red, cracked and itchy skin. Now, increasing evidence indicates atopic dermatitis is a precursor to allergic diseases rather than a consequence...
• SENSODYNE (Potassium Nitrate And Sodium Fluori ...
  Updated Date: Feb 7, 2011 EST
• ADHD 'cheats'
  Head teachers claim some parents are lying to doctors
• BUPROPION HYDROCHLORIDEtablet, Film Coated [Ph ...
  Updated Date: Feb 7, 2011 EST
• New Video on Reproductive Health Bill in the P ...
  MANILA� -- Family planning is widely practised in Asia, but it remains controversial in the Philippines. The Congress there is debating a bill that would make contraceptives available to people who can't afford them. The Catholic Church opposes the measure. Supporters say it would save lives and ...

Common Dreams

• Hillary Clinton Signals US Backing for Omar Su ...
  by Julian Borger in MunichThe US secretary of state Hillary Clinton today signalled how far the US has swung its support behind vice-president Omar Suleiman and the transition process he is leading in Egypt.Clinton was speaking at a security conference in Munich today, where the watchword on Egy ...
• Global Crisis Strengthens WSF’s Legitimacy
  by Julio GodoyBERLIN - European non-governmental organisations combating neo-liberal globalisation find their position vindicated by the ongoing socio-economic and environmental crisis upsetting the world.read more
• Census Reveals Devastating Effect of Katrina o ...
  by David UsborneThe shrinking of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina has hardly been a secret, but now the evidence is there for all to see. According to newly released data from last year's National Census, it lost a staggering 29 per cent of its population between 2000 and 2010, more than anyo ...
• Egypt Protesters Hold Their Ground
  read more
• Egypt's Military-Industrial Complex
  by Pratap ChatterjeeIn early January 2010, Bob Livingston, a former chairman of the appropriations committee in the US House of Representatives, flew to Cairo accompanied by William Miner, one of his staff.read more

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

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Examine Religion - Tweets

• ExamineReligion: Confession: There's an app fo ...
  ExamineReligion: Confession: There's an app for THAT?! http://exm.nr/hpvvs6
• ExamineReligion: Jerusalem UFO still likely a ...
  ExamineReligion: Jerusalem UFO still likely a hoax http://exm.nr/hLx5fQ
• ExamineReligion: Birmingham Free Press defends ...
  ExamineReligion: Birmingham Free Press defends Deism http://exm.nr/g2kMrR
• ExamineReligion: Murder In The Name Of God h ...
  ExamineReligion: Murder In The Name Of God http://exm.nr/dPwhX2
• ExamineReligion: Has the recession affected Am ...
  ExamineReligion: Has the recession affected American marriages? http://exm.nr/e2yP8Y

Energy Collective

• Building Policies and Guidelines for Energy Us ...
  Distributech 2011 showed that the Smart Grid is big, and getting bigger.� With over 8000 attendees and 400 exhibitors, there was plenty of buzz about distribution automation, partnerships, and the last link in the value chain � the consumer.� Many exhibitors featured their own or partnered Home ...
• Idaho Judge Keeps Lid on Alternative Energy Ho ...
  The penny stock firm that wants to build a $6 billion nuclear reactor is back in business
• Will Flooding in Queensland Australia Increase ...
• The Natural Gas Debate: Will It Do More than R ...
  The Economist just finished hosting an online debate on natural gas. The resolution was an interesting one: This house believes that natural gas will do more than renewables to limit the world’s carbon emissions. At first glance, the statement may seem preposterous; after all natural gas is a fo ...
• Environmentalists sue to halt AB 32. Wait...wh ...
  Someone please explain this to me:

Green House - USA Today

• Are you hoarding incandescents? CFL, LED optio ...
  As the lights dim on Thomas Edison's 131-year-old incandescent light bulb, some Americans are not adapting to more efficient options. Rather, they're stockpiling the old bulbs, as my USA TODAY colleague Jayne O'Donnell and I report in today's paper.
• Obama fast-tracks Mid-Atlantic offshore wind e ...
  The Obama administration announced plans Monday to spend $50 million to speed the development of offshore wind farms, aiming to issue leases off four Atlantic Coast states by the end of this year.
• Polls: Americans back EPA and clean energy
  Despite Newt Gingrich's recent call to abolish the Environmental Protection Agency, new polls show Americans want the EPA to do more - not less -- and want Congress to provide incentives for clean energy sources such as solar and wind.
• Is climate change causing millions to migrate?
  Two new studies paint contrasting views of whether climate changed-induced weather will force millions of people to migrate to safer areas. One says yes, the other no.
• As Green Week begins, how much should schools ...
  As National Green Weeks gets underway in many U.S. schools, a recent incident in Quebec has sparked controversy. A kindergarten boy there told his parents the he'd be excluded from a school contest to win a stuffed teddy bear if he packed his sandwich in a plastic bag.

Prior Art

• Recent Patent Litigation Weekly Columns
  Much of the patent news that was published on this blog has been moved to the IP Insider section of the Corporate Counsel website. Here's a list of the last several Patent Litigation Weekly columns— Oct. 25, 2010: Big Patent-Licensing...
• Paul Allen v. The Internet
  Former Microsoft executive and billionaire Paul Allen sued several major Internet companies and three large retailers for patent infringement today, asserting that four patents originating at Interval Research, Allen's dot-com era think tank, cover basic web browsing and e-commerce technologies. ...
• Citing Possible Bias, ACLU Asks Rader to Recus ...
  With the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit set to consider a landmark case over the validity of human gene patents, attorneys for the plaintiffs in the suit are asking the court's chief judge to recuse himself from the matter—before the panel that will hear it has even been s ...
• Law360 Calls Lawyer-Owned Shell Company a "Pub ...
  seems to have a pretty flexible definition of that term. Last month, it included . Who is so concerned about such fairness? That would be , the Texas law firm that owns Americans for Fair Patent Use, which is a limited liability company set up to prosecute a false marking lawsuit filed ...
• Eben Moglen on Bilski, software patents, and b ...
  Moglen's position on the subject of software patents—that they should be banned—is, to say the least, outside the mainstream in legal circles. It has, however, garnered support among software developers and other techies, especially those who work in the world of open-source and free s ...

Peoples Voice

• Mubarak's Thirty-Year Dictatorship
  by Stephen Lendman Throughout decades of brutal rule, Mubarak remained a steadfast US ally. As a result, Washington rewarded him generously. US administrations also ignored his crimes, corruption, and lawlessness, as late January released WikiLeaks cables reveal, showing Obama knew he kept p ...
• George Bush: Preliminary Indictment for Tortur ...
  by Stephen Lendman A previous article addressed torture as official US policy under Bush, accessed through the following link: http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2008/07/torture-as-official-us-policy.html It remains so under Obama, authorized at the highest levels of government as part of ...
• Idiot or Evil Genius?
  By Silver Shield Back when I was a thoroughly indoctrinated Fox News Junkie, I was constantly confronted by people calling George W. Bush either a complete idiot or and evil genius. GWB was either a drooling buffoon who was incapable of doing the simplest of tasks or he was a third generation ...
• Washington Faces the Arab Revolts: Sacrificing ...
  James Petras Introduction To understand the Obama regime’s policy toward Egypt, the Mubarak dictatorship and the popular uprising it is essential to locate it in an historical context. The essential point is that Washington, after several decades of being deeply embedded in the state str ...
• "They Call It “Pharming” And It&#8 ...
  By Robert Singer Click here to read why this “article is not currently available” at the OpEdNews link: http://www.opednews.com/articles/They-Call-It-Pharming-An-by-Robert-Singer-080916-752.html They Call It “Pharming” And It’s Phrightening! Biofuels are often blamed for 85% of corn price incre ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

• Gap between rich and poor: 8th Wonder of the W ...
  That's the tongue-in-cheek conclusion of the satiristic news source, The Onion, which names the growing gap between the rich and poor the 8th natural wonder of the world, calling the divide the "most colossal and enduring of mankind's creations." Said Committee Chariman Henri Jean-Baptiste: Of ...
• Income inequality: A defining public issue in ...
  Picking through the wreckage of the global recession, former Privy Council Clerk Alex Himelfarb takes stock of what happened and points to two trends he predicts might shape politics and policy in 2011: the "extraordinary resilience of neoliberal ideology" and the "reemergence of inequality as a ...
• Health Canada putting profit before health in ...
  Health Canada is holding its final consultations on proposals to “modernize” standards on prescription drugs this week. A new CCPA study by Dr. Joel Lexchin examines Health Canada’s harmonizing initiatives to date, part of the modernization initiative, and finds they have been putting private pr ...
• CEO pay: Recession-proof
  A new study by CCPA Research Associate Hugh Mackenzie shows Canada's best paid 100 CEOs appear to be recession-proof. The study looks at 2009 compensation levels for Canada’s best paid 100 CEOs and finds they pocketed an average of $6.6 million during the darkest period of the recession – a sta ...
• Looking into the crystal ball: 2011 prediction ...
  Happy New Year!�� As we round out another decade, thoughts turn to the future. The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives� Hugh Mackenzie, Shauna Mackinnon, Bruce Campbell, Trish Hennessy, Jim Stanford and Armine Yalnizyan weigh in on the issues facing Canada in the years ahead. They flag t ...

World Wide Hippies

• Egyptian Google dude Wael Ghonim released afte ...
  Welcome to the revolution, Google. Freed Egyptian Google exec cheered by thousands | CBC News Thousands of protesters crammed Egypt’s Tahrir Square on Tuesday, hoping to catch a glimpse of a Google Inc. executive whose detention by secret police has made him a figurehead for anti-government demo ...
• Olbermann Goes Current
  Olbermann Said to Be Going to Current TV | The New York Times Keith Olbermann, the former top-rated host of “Countdown” on the news channel MSNBC, will announce his next television home on Tuesday, and people familiar with his plans pointed Monday to a possible deal with the public affairs chann ...
• The Pentagon’s battlefield vision of tom ...
  6 Terrifying New Weapons Being Created by the Pentagon | Alternet In the future, the power of magnetism will be harnessed to make today’s high explosives seem feeble, “guided bullets” will put the current crop of snipers to shame, and new multi-purpose missiles will strike targets in a flash fro ...
• Recognizing the Language of Tyranny
  By Chris Hedges | truthdig – Empires communicate in two languages. One language is expressed in imperatives. It is the language of command and force. This militarized language disdains human life and celebrates hypermasculinity. It demands. It makes no attempt to justify the flagrant theft of na ...
• William S. Burroughs Remembered
  97 Things You Didn’t Know About William S. Burroughs | Flavorwire Writer, philosopher, artist, and co-founder of the Beat Generation, William S. Burroughs — who died in 1997 at the age of 83 — continues to be a vital cultural force today. The author of books like Junky, Queer, and Naked Lunch, B ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

• Why I Call Myself a Socialist: Is the World Re ...
  In most reasonably large towns in the United States and Europe, you can find, on some important public square or street, a professional theater. And so, in various quiet neighborhoods in these towns, you can usually also find some rather quiet individuals, the actors who work regularly in tha ...
• Hillary Clinton on NBC's Meet the Press, Janua ...
  ...SECRETARY CLINTON: I want the Egyptian people to have the chance to chart a new future. It needs to be an orderly, peaceful transition to real democracy, not faux democracy like the elections we saw in Iran two years ago, where you have one election 30 years ago and then the people just keep ...
• "I Shall Not Hate": Gaza Doctor Izzeldin Abuel ...
  AMY GOODMAN: Yesterday marked the second anniversary of the end of Israel’s assault on Gaza. Dubbed "Operation Cast Lead," up to 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis were killed in the 22-day assault between December 28th, 2008 and January 18th, 2009. More than half the Palestinians killed were c ...
• Fox News: The No. 1 Name in Murder Fantasies
  Bill O'Reilly's recent "joke" about decapitating Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank was only the latest example of a demented Fox News culture that permits on-air personalities to fantasize about assassination and other forms of violence against those deemed enemies of the station, its perso ...
• Robert Greenwald on the Ed Show -- January 6, ...

Salon

• Planned Parenthood to retrain workers
  Planned Parenthood says it will retrain employees who have direct contact with patients in how to report potential risks to minors, following the release of secretly recorded videotapes by an anti-abortion group.
• Obama wants jobless aid
  The Obama administration is proposing short-term relief to states saddled with unemployment insurance debt, coupled with a delayed increase in the income level used to tax employers for the aid to the jobless.
• Super Bust: The big game flops
  Roads froze and airports closed. Falling ice sent six people to the hospital. Finally, seats to the big game vanished hours before kickoff. Super Bowl week in Texas was not always so super.
• The steep price of crossing Nancy Pelosi
  Officially, Jane Harman's career in�Congress will come to a close in the next few weeks, when the California Democrat steps down in the middle of her ninth term to become the new president of the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington. In reality, though, it's been over for years now -- ever sin ...
• The Oscars: Soon to feature moms
  Oscar producers are taking "thanks, Mom" to another level.

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

• Privatization makes sense for trash collection
  Contracting out waste removal just might be the way of the future, at least for half of Toronto.
• Welfare paymentsCards are the way to go
  It’s not often that improved bureaucracy and the best interests of welfare recipients can be met with the same change. But replacing welfare cheques with reloadable debit cards is one way.
• Out of the rubble
  A turbulent era in Haiti shuddered to a close Monday when President René Préval’s term in office formally expired. For most of the past 20 years just two figures have dominated the ...
• Change at the top for Mounties
  By leaving, William Elliot is giving the national police force a chance to heal and regain public confidence
• The Ford agenda: Freeze pay for councillors
  Even the Ford administration sometimes gets it right, and finds the Star in agreement.

Energy Collective

• Building Policies and Guidelines for Energy Us ...
  Distributech 2011 showed that the Smart Grid is big, and getting bigger.� With over 8000 attendees and 400 exhibitors, there was plenty of buzz about distribution automation, partnerships, and the last link in the value chain � the consumer.� Many exhibitors featured their own or partnered Home ...
• Idaho Judge Keeps Lid on Alternative Energy Ho ...
  The penny stock firm that wants to build a $6 billion nuclear reactor is back in business
• Will Flooding in Queensland Australia Increase ...
• The Natural Gas Debate: Will It Do More than R ...
  The Economist just finished hosting an online debate on natural gas. The resolution was an interesting one: This house believes that natural gas will do more than renewables to limit the world’s carbon emissions. At first glance, the statement may seem preposterous; after all natural gas is a fo ...
• Environmentalists sue to halt AB 32. Wait...wh ...
  Someone please explain this to me:

EU Times

• South Korean President warns Nation must prepa ...
  South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak called Monday for new strategies to help secure a stable supply of food amid growing concerns about a global food crisis. “The likelihood of a global food crisis is rising due to climate change. We need to set up national strategies and research to tackle the ...
• Young Kuwaitis call for anti-government protes ...
  A Kuwaiti youth group called Sunday for a mass rally outside parliament on Tuesday to protest the government’s “undemocratic practices” and to press for its ouster. The group, Fifth Fence, said it is using Twitter, the US-based microblogging service that allows people to use mobile phones and co ...
• China Makes Fake Rice from Plastic? Vietnam Re ...
  A number of Chinese companies have been involved over the years in various scandals involving fake or tainted goods. Perhaps the most dangerous of all involve food, including the now famous 2008 milk scandal in which Chinese-made milk was found to contain the toxin melamine. The end result was 2 ...
• New Superstorms Warned Have ‘Doomed’ World Foo ...
  A grim report prepared by Russia’s Agricultural Ministry for Prime Minister Putin warns that our world’s ability to feed itself in 2011 has been ‘doomed’ due the latest Superstorms that slammed into the United States and Australia this past week. A Superstorm is an extremely large and powerful s ...
• Mars500 crew ‘arrives at Red Planet’ on simula ...
  The crew of the Mars500 simulated mission to the Red Planet have reached a key milestone. The six men, sealed since June inside steel containers representing a spacecraft, have “gone into orbit” at their destination. Three of the group will now “descend” to the planet, don real spacesuits and wa ...

Stonecipher News

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

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

• NYT: Iran’s Opposition Seeks Rally to Back Egy ...
  NYT: Iran’s Opposition Seeks Rally to Back Egypt and Tunisia : With democracy tremors rocking the Arab world,  Iran ’s opposition has challenged its hard-line leaders to allow a peaceful demonstration — ostensibly in support of the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt
• Arianna Huffington, queen of all media
  I have only met Arianna Huffington once. I remember it vividly but my guess is she doesn’t remember it much at all, which says volumes about both of us. The scene was surreal. Huffington and I were in Larry Flynt’s office in Los Angeles, participating in an experimental online talk show Larry w ...
• Hosni Mubarak and Saddam Hussein
  The pro-establishment, neocon line on the tremendous revolutionary events in Egypt has essentially been as follows: “Sure, Mubarak might be a brutal strongman, but he ensures stability. This is why the U.S. government has favored himâas a lesser of evils. Those trying to oust him from power hav ...
• Keith Olbermann: New Venture Announced
  Keith Olberman’s new venture will be announced today via teleconference. The former MSNBC anchor recently left the media company following months of disputes with the management. Get the full story with pictures and video below! Joining MSNBC in 2003 to host âCountdown,â the former ESPN reporte ...
• Around the Pound (2/7): West Coast Offense vs. ...
  In today's edition of Around the Pound, we take a look at an article by Tony Grossi highlighting the West Coast Offense against Pittsburgh, Terry Pluto's notes and nuggets from this past Sunday, how many people watched the Super Bowl, and a "season in review" post from the perspective of an Ind ...

Groklaw

• Free Software Uesrs Group in EU Parliament
  Unknown to the masses, there is a Free Software Users Group in the European Parliament! Spread the word - Carlo Piana, Twitter
• EGYPT: Footage allegedly shows Google exec bei ...
  Al Jazeera has posted footage on its website that purportedly shows Egyptian plainclothes officers dragging Google executive Wael Ghonim away to detention. The video, posted on YouTube, shows a group of four men following a crowd of young men on the street, then grabbing one who resembles Ghoni ...
• OECD: Egyptian Internet Shutdown Could Cost Co ...
  The Egyptian Internet shutdown could possibly cost the country $90 million, according to preliminary estimates from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Telecom and Internet services account for 3-4 percent of GDP in Egypt, or a loss of about $18 million per day, O ...
• Nasdaq Acknowledges Security Breach
  Authorities haven't yet been able to follow the trail to any specific individual or country. Those familiar with the case said that some evidence points toward Russia, but the person or people responsible could be almost anywhere, perhaps using computers in Russia merely as a conduit. - Devlin B ...
• Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" released in Linux, FreeBS ...
  There are many goodies in Debian 6.0 GNU/Linux, not the least of which is the new completely free-as-in-freedom Linux kernel, which no longer contains firmware modules that Debian developers found troublesome. "These [non-free modules] were split out into separate packages and moved out of the ...

WideShut

• Euro-American Establishment Bringing GM Crops ...
  EU to allow GM contaminated animal feed in to the UK unregulated.
• Elite Consolidation Of Media: AOL Buys Huffing ...
  AOL expands it's online presence by buying up the Huffington Post.
• New DVD’s From Child Abuse Investigator ...
  The latest documentaries from bulldog child abuse investigator Bill Maloney, of Pie n Mash Films.
• Ex-Board Member’s Lewd Behaviour Doesn&# ...
  Guy Carpenter board member's lewd & criminal behaviour deemed irrelevant in freedom of speech case against Ian puddick.
• Dear George: About The Banker Bashing
  Dear George, I'm so glad to hear that you think it's time we put all this bank bashing behind us.

Politics in the Zeros

• Health Care Reform bill contains heat-seeking ...
  (To my knowledge, this is the first post about this anywhere. Please distribute widely. Feedback and collaboration welcome.) The HCR bill contains a rider that, by codifying and unifying recent case law, makes it much harder for tax shelters to avoid taxes. This may well explain why there is suc ...
• The Worst Gig
  Via Mike Finnigan on Facebook. He’s been on the road for 45 years playing keyboards and has a tale of his own. There are many other such tales on The Worst Gig! When I was starting out I used to play in nightclubs for weeks at a time. Then they might pick up an option [...]
• California’s landmark climate law tentatively ...
  In perhaps a startling decision from a court generally known for being liberal, San Francisco Superior Court Judge Ernest Goldsmith has tentatively ruled that the California Air Resources Board (CARB) violated state law in enacting plans for reducing greenhouse gases and implementing cap-and-tra ...
• Informants infiltrate British activist groups ...
  At least one of them, Mark Stone (who was paid £100,000 a year by police), spent seven years as a leader of the organization he was informing on. This of course, can and does happen in the States. Consider the multitude of supposed revolutionary Marxist parties here in the US. Now that a real li ...
• The inanity of Superbowl ads
  There is something seriously skewed about a culture that spends inordinate amounts of time anticipating then discussing advertisements broadcast during a sporting event. Josh Mull, Polizeros contributer and co-participant in our podcasts, sums it up well on Twitter.

TVNZ - Top Stories

• Harawira determined to stay with party despite ...
  Hone Harawira says he is determined to stay with the Maori Party despite being suspended from the party caucus.
• Key pledges ongoing shake-up of public sector
  John Key has opened fire on the public service and public spending.
• Graffiti handwriting could be key in Guy murde ...
  Scott Guy's wife wants anyone with information on attacks on her property to come forward.
• Concerns for missing Hutt Valley man Karl Baar ...
  Police are concerned about the safety of a missing Lower Hutt man who is thought to have gang affiliations.
• NZ woman dies in Thailand, reportedly from foo ...
  A Kiwi woman on holiday in Thailand has died from apparent food poisoning, apparently after eating toxic seaweed.

Just World News

• Changed travel plans
  By the way, I know I'd blogged earlier that I would be in Cairo and Beirut around now. I've postponed those visits. My (somewhat childish, let's face it) journalistic impulses urge me to go-- at least to Cairo, right now! But I have a business to run here: some great book projects underway. Also ...
• JWN's 8th blogiversary
  ... is today. Over the Christmas of 2002, my son Tarek said to me a number of times, "Mom, you really should start a blog." I said, "A what?" (not surprisingly)... And then as he told me more about the concept, I became more and more intrigued. Long story short, he helped set me up JWN... firs ...
• Can Omar Suleiman be Egypt's De Klerk?
  ... As a Quaker, I have to believe in the possibility that any person on God's earth is capable of becoming a better person and acting in a more generous and wise manner than hitherto. In his speech on Tuesday, Hosni Mubarak announced that his role model in life was Ceausescu, not De Klerk. Si ...
• Many details about Mubarak/NDP's counter-revol ...
  ... are in this well-researched article by Esam al-Amin. H/t to Jonathan Wright. Amin gives a lot of details of the plan to launch the counter-revolution, starting with a key meeting by a "small clique of officials", held in Cairo on the afternoon of Monday, Jan.31: According to several source ...
• Egypt, the world food-price crisis-- and JWB's ...
  I just want to pick up on the food-price dimension of what's happening in the Middle East (and other parts of the world) today. Since the beginning of the current wave of uprisings in the Arab world, I have been of the opinion that this crisis is about two things: livelihoods, and basic human d ...

First Truths

• Guest Appearances...
  Catch me on Thinking Liberty tomorrow (2/8/2011) at 8:00 PM Eastern, and Wednesday (2/9/2011) on The Peter Mac Show at 8:00 PM Eastern.
• The Very Literal "Conquest of Bread"
  In the last decade of the nineteenth century, the anarchist Peter Kropotkin published the book The Conquest of Bread, arguing, in part, that capitalism is a system geared to creating scarcities that allow a ruling elite to use the constant menace of poverty and starvation to exploit workers. In ...
• Anarchists Are No Bomb-Throwers
  In a statement responding to mail bomb explosions at two embassies in Rome, Italian Interior Minister Roberto Maroni has placed blame on an “international anarchist movement.” And in light of the general assumptions regarding anarchists — those unhinged madmen in black masks — we shouldn’t be ...
• The "Reform" of Kings and Masters
  Some of my take on happenings in the Arab world, for C4SS: The reformist approach — substituting trifling adjustments to the gears of the political machine for any radical alteration — is the castle in the air delusion that mere periodic upkeep can keep said machine running smoothly. If we acqui ...
• Greece Ignores Labor's True Value
  The state hoards wealth in the hands of a small elite, leaving labor with no alternative to underpayment and exploitation. My comment on the Greek workers' strike is here.

Media Co-Op

• Canadian immigration has "gone crazy": lawyer
  Victor Morales has lived in Montreal for 32 years, and is the father of three Canadian kids. Yet when the Chilean-born musician, who is the primary caregiver for his terminally ill Canadian mom, applied for permanent residence on humanitarian and compassionate grounds, Citizenship and Immigratio ...
• Students: "This Is What Democracy Looks Like!"
  Those appearing in the video Liz Johnston, King's Student Dan Brown, Vice President (External) for the University of King's College Elise Graham, Chairperson of the Canadian Federation of Students - Nova Scotia The cast of Hair (Un ...
• Mubarak, dégage!
  As thousands of Egyptians continue to take to the streets in opposition to President Hosni Mubarak's dictatorship, hundreds did the same in Montreal as a show of support and solidarity. About 700 people marched from Dorchester Square to the Egyptian Consulate in Montreal, chanting "Mubarak, déga ...
• Gentrification Bombards the Heart of East Vanc ...
  City Planners Terminate Norquay Working Group City planners came back to Norquay on 3 February 2011 after a three-month absence. Sudden diktat set a meeting for Chinese New Year. Once again, the majority of Norquay residents suffered crass ...
• A Strong Leadership
  The Algonquins of Barriere Lake defend their land â and their inherent right to self-governmen This article originally appeared in the Leveller. “The Canadian government is trying to forcibly assimilate our customs so they can sever our co ...

David Seaton's News Links

• America's future role in the Middle East
  "There are forces at work in any society, and particularly one that is facing these kinds of challenges, that will try to derail or overtake the process to pursue their own specific agenda.... [That is] why I think it is important to support the transition process announced by the Egyptian gove ...
• What is next for Julian Assange?
  We could be spectators for the start of the cyber Great War � and they�ve just knocked over Franz Ferdinand.(...) The difference now is that this battle is extra-national; it isn�t one country against another, so much as an establishment of nations fighting a global insurgency � with the sou ...
• How do you say, "Tienanmen" in Arabic?
  Bring on the goonsOmar Suleiman (Arabic: عمر س��ما��; born July 2, 1936) is an Egyptian politician and military figure who was appointed Vice President of Egypt on January 29, 2011. Previously, he was Minister without Portfolio and Director of the Egyptian General Intelligence Directorate (EGID) ...
• Egypt.... the coup ... The bill?
  Up until now, President Mubarak has enjoyed the support of the armed forces. He was, after all, a career air force officer suddenly catapulted to the presidency when Anwar Sadat was assassinated in 1981. But if these protests continue and intensify there are bound to be senior voices within the ...
• A fairy tale as grim as Grimm could ever be (a ...
  David Seaton's News LinksOnce upon a time in a far off and pleasant land, during the reign of King George the Idiot, there lived a young man who dreamed of fame and greatness. He yearned so long and so deeply, that the Good Fairy was moved by his constant pleading and praying and appeared before ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

• Close Look at Shoe Inserts Raises a Welter of ...
  "Orthotics" is the name for the shoe inserts many athletes use in an attempt to prevent injuries. But analysis shows that, while shoe inserts or orthotics could theoretically be helpful as a short-term method of preventing injury, it is not entirely clear how to make inserts that work. The noti ...
• ALERT -- Email this to Your Parents and Grandp ...
  Here's something you might not have known about AOL -- 80 percent of the company's profits come from subscribers, but 75 percent of those subscribers are paying for something they don't actually need. Many of AOL's subscribers are older people who don't realize that they do not need to pay an e ...
• The Newest Dangerous Sweetener to Hit Your Foo ...
  By Dr. Mercola Since 2002 an artificial sweetener called neotame has been approved for use in food and drink products around the world, although so far its use appears to be very limited. Neotame is a chemical derivative of aspartame, and judging by the chemicals used in its manufacturing, ...
• One of the Most Dangerous 'Drinks' You Can Giv ...
  New research reveals that there could indeed be a link between the controversial MMR vaccine and autism, as well as bowel disease in children. The study appears to confirm the findings of doctor Andrew Wakefield, who suggested a possible link in 1998 and has since been accused of fraud. A rese ...
• U.S. Government Starts its Own Drug Company
  The U.S. government, faced with a diminished drug-development pipeline in the private sector, is starting its own federal drug development center. The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences will receive $1 billion in funding to conduct drug research, with the goal of attracting pr ...

JAMA

• IOM Endorses Vitamin D, Calcium Only for Bone ...
• Picture This: The Average US Child Has Nearly ...
• Experts Hope to Clear Confusion With First Gui ...
• Exercise and the Heart [Lab Reports]
• Tuberculosis Target [Lab Reports]

Survival - tribal peoples

• Hundreds protest against Ecuador leader’s arre ...
  Pepe Luis Acacho, Shuar leader, Ecuador © Survival Pepe Luis Acacho, an indigenous Shuar leader, has been arrested just two days after he was chosen as leading candidate for the presidency of CONAIE, Ecuador’s main indigenous organization. Acacho was arrested along with two other Shuar men ...
• India’s policy of ‘integrating’ tribal people ...
  The MP of India's Andaman Islands has called for Jarawa children to be 'weaned' away from the tribe in order to 'drastically mainstream' them. © Salomé/Survival India’s Minister of Tribal Affairs, Kantilal Bhuria, has announced that he supports the ‘integration’ of India’s tribal communitie ...
• 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

• An adult debate on language? Not yet
  Maxime Bernier says he didn't expect to create the storm that ensued when he told an interviewer last Friday that Quebec doesn't need Bill 101 to preserve the predominance of the French language. He must be kidding. As might realistically have been expected, political opponents and pundi ...
• Cops investigating cops should stop
  Quebec's system of investigating killings by police officers should be completely overhauled.
• Cops investigating cops should stop
  The current system requires that a killing by an officer in one force be investigated by police from a different force. In Quebec, this means that the Surete du Quebec investigates killings by Montreal police and Montreal police investigate killings by the SQ. Right there, the problem is ...
• Editorial: Lift the veil of secrecy on public ...
  It makes you want to laugh ... until you cry. As part of the research for a Gazette series looking into what is a pervasive culture of secrecy embraced by public institutions in Quebec, a Montreal police spokesperson was asked what information the force deems appropriate to make public. ...
• Lift the veil of secrecy on public spending
  It makes you want to laugh ... until you cry. As part of the research for a Gazette series looking into what is a pervasive culture of secrecy embraced by public institutions in Quebec, a Montreal police spokesperson was asked what information the force deems appropriate to make public. ...

Food World Order

• 1,000+ layoffs possible after a&p bankruptcy
  from press of atlantic city: More than 1,000 workers at a grocery distributor in New Jersey could lose their jobs in February in the wake of a bankruptcy filing by supermarket giant A&P. Officials with Woodbridge Logistics say they filed notice earlier this month with state regulators warning th ...
• usda deregulates genetically engineered sugar ...
  from change.org: The USDA announced on Friday, February 4, that it would "partially deregulate" Roundup Ready sugar beets, allowing farmers to begin planting the GE crop this spring. Despite a California Supreme Court ruling six months back in August which halted the deregulation of GE sug ...
• Study finds oysters are disappearing worldwide
  from yahoo news: a new study finds oysters are disappearing worldwide A study published in Bioscience, the journal of the American Institute of Biological Sciences, found that the oysters are rapidly disappearing, and that 85 percent of their reefs have been lost a result of disease and over- ...
• 2/3 binge & purge: federal farm & volatility v ...
  global food prices hit new record high* world entering era of food price volatility* bernanke: federal reserve not to blame for food price inflation* US foolishly looks to monsanto to feed the world* new report says calif. passing up food stamps* "thank you for suing us': taco bel ...
• US to regulate rocket fuel chemical in water
  from afp: The US government said Wednesday it plans to limit the amount of perchlorate, a chemical found in rocket fuel, explosives and bleach, that is present in the drinking water of millions of Americans. Studies have shown a link between consuming perchlorate and thyroid problems in pregnant ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

• COTO Report This Ain’t Oz an Interview w ...
  COTO Report and Megan Kargher are pleased to bring you a special two day interview with Freeman of freemantv, the freeman perspective and the free zone http://www.youtube.com/user/Freemantv… http://thefreemanperspective.blogspot… http://freemantv.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6JLgar45sU
• An Invitation to Meet Hollie and Anne Greig
  ‘Hollie and Anne would like to thank their many supporters for their continuing hard work and support. Towards that end, they have decided to host an informal function near Berwick-upon-Tweed at the Marshall Meadows Hotel on Sunday the 21st of March from 2 until 5pm. The Marshall Meadows Hotel ...
• Robert Green Speaking at Truthjuice Llangollen ...
  Wednesday 24th March 2010 at 7pm Reporter Robert Green was arrested in Aberdeen for the crime of seeking justice and an investigation into the case of Down’s Syndrome girl, Hollie Greig, who says she was serially-raped over a decade by an establishment paedophile ring operating in Scotland. Rob ...
• Mary Rodwell The New Human Vers. 02
• Robert Green, Hollie and Ann Greig at The &#82 ...
  Robert Green, Hollie and Anne Greig have confirmed they will be appearing at the Child Snatching By The State conference being held on April 10th in Stafford, UK. In recent years, there has been a steady increase in media reports concerning Mothers and Fathers, Grandparents and Families reporti ...

The Economic Collapse

• Ashley’s Tragic Story: A Heartbreaking E ...
  What you are about to read is perhaps the most heartbreaking story that I have ever come across. It is so tragic that I am not even quite sure how to introduce it. Some time ago, a reader named Ashley sent me an email that described the nightmare that she has been living [...]
• The Riots In Egypt And The Price Of Oil
  As if the world economy did not have enough problems already, now the riots in Egypt threaten to send the price of oil soaring into the stratosphere.  On Friday, the price of U.S. crude soared 4 percent.  A 4 percent rise in a single day is pretty staggering.  The price of Brent ...
• Warning Signs
  Do you see all of the warning signs that are flashing all around you?  These days it seems like there is more bad economic news in a single week than there used to be in an entire month.  2011 is already shaping up to be a very dark year for the world economy.  The price [...]
• Shut Down The Federal Reserve, Break Up The Bi ...
  How do we fix the economy?  That is a question that tens of millions of Americans are asking right now.  Republicans are harshly criticizing the empty economic proposals being put forward by Barack Obama and the Democrats, but the Republicans don't seem to have any real solution ...
• Empty Promises: 5 Reasons Why Barack Obama&#82 ...
  Barack Obama's State of the Union address sure sounded good, didn't it?  There were lots of solemn promises, lots of stuff about America's "bright future" and a line about how we are now facing this generation's "Sputnik moment" that will surely make headlines all over the globe ...

CASSE

• Obama Steps onto Slippery Slope
  Brian Czech offers a vision of Obamanomics that values people and planet over profit and production.
• Remembering History
  Lisi Krall warns that even in a steady state, we could become half crazy for want of a diverse and magical natural world.
• Sustaining Our Commonwealth of Nature and Know ...
  How can we get a sustainable, fair, and efficient economy? Herman Daly breaks it down.
• What if We Stopped Fighting For Preservation?
  Tom Butler defends land preservation as a critical strategy for dealing with the downsides of economic growth.
• Might As Well Face It, We’re Addicted to Growt ...
  Dave Gardner examines how to get growth-addicted nations into a growth rehab.

The Talking Clock

• How predictable. A spin doctor has become the ...
  Well, this has all backfired a little on Downing Street. No doubt they were hoping that the resignation of Andy Coulson during Tony Blair's evidence to the Iraq inquiry might have meant he could slip off silently back into the shadows. However, this is Britain - land of The X Factor. "W ...
• Dear world, if Britain's Foreign Secretary (Wi ...
  As Foreign Secretary, part of William Hague's job will be to ponce around the world stage pontificating and lecturing the rest of the world about 'democracy' and 'the will of the people'. If he lectures YOUR country, read on for our view on why you should ignore this particular Foreign Secret ...
• Labour: Johnson's resignation is a right Balls ...
  Labour The Marxist Party's Alan Johnson has resigned as Shadow Chancellor for 'personal reasons'. Who cares? Goodbye. Don't let the door slap you on the arse as you exit. And who are they promoting in his place? Ed Balls! How hilarious! We predict that the curse of Gordon Brown wi ...
• Sunday Paper Review: 6th February 2011
  February again already? By heck! The supermarkets will have Christmas decorations going up next week. Tiresome how frequently I seem to pack the things up and then have to unpack them again. Still, we could aways ban it. Especially in Birmingham. Hold that thought until the end of this... ...
• Is Theresa May actually Jacqui Smith in a mask ...
  News breaking on the BBC that the 'controversial' American pastor Terry Jones has been banned from entering Britain 'for the public good'. This is the guy who threatened to burn a copy of the Koran in the United States on the anniversary of 9/11. Now, leaving aside the fact that this blogg ...

Facing South

• Grand Isle businesses battered by BP oil disas ...
  By Rocky Kistner, Bridge the Gulf For more than 30 years, Sarah and her daughter Annette Rigaud�owned one of the most popular eateries on�Grand Isle, La. Sarah's Restaurant is�a cozy place filled with mementos of sun-splashed beach vacations and fishing trips. It was a prosperous business, pa ...
• Virginia uranium mining panel meets as concern ...
  A special panel of the National Academy of Sciences is meeting in Richmond, Va. today to gather information for its study on whether uranium can be mined and milled safely in the state. This will be the NAS panel's last town hall-style meeting in Virginia for public comment, and dozen ...
• Gulf oil spill claims czar under fire for rosy ...
  BP oil spill paymaster Kenneth Feinberg released a draft plan this week for deciding payments on final claims for damages for the disaster, and it's drawing fire for being too optimistic about the pace of recovery. Feinberg released the proposed methodology on Feb. 2 and said he would ...
• INSTITUTE INDEX: The partisan fight over healt ...
  Date on which President Obama signed into law the Affordable Care Act implementing comprehensive health care reform: 3/23/2010 Date when a group of state attorneys general filed a lawsuit seeking to have the law declared unconstitutional in part because of its mandate that all Americans buy ins ...
• Hexavalent chromium pollution linked to coal a ...
  The landmark $333 million court settlement that propelled legal researcher Erin Brockovich to environmental stardom involved the contamination of a California town's groundwater with hexavalent chromium, a toxic compound known to cause cancer. Now the same dangerous heavy metal, usual ...

CenterLine

• Today’s Terrorism News
  Chechen Militant Claims Responsibility for Moscow Airport Attack In a video released late Monday to a site frequented by Chechen Islamists, Chechen rebel leader Doku Umarov claimed responsibility for directing the suicide bombing at Moscowâs Domodedovo Airport that killed 36 … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Lawyer for Deceased Gitmo Detainee Disputes Military’s Portrayal The lawyer for Guantanamo detainee Awal Gul, who died of an apparent heart attack at the prison last week, has lashed out at the militaryâs portrayal of his client, saying Gul had … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Detainee Dies at Guantanamo The U.S. military announced Thursday that Awal Gul, a 48-year-old ex-Taliban commander, died of an apparent heart attack after exercising at Guantanamo. Gul had reportedly been working out on an elliptical machine inside the prisonâs Camp … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Study: Fewer Muslim-American Terror Suspects in 2010 than Previous Year A new study by the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security says that the number of Muslim Americans suspected of terrorism in 2010 fell by half compared to 2009, … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  WikiLeaks Cable Suggests Three Previously Undisclosed Qataris Were Part of 9/11 Plot The Washington Post reports that a U.S. diplomatic cable from 2010 released by WikiLeaks suggests that three Qatari men conducted surveillance of targets in New York and Washington … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

• Dark Sark is first island to get stargazer sta ...
  The tiny, car-less island, which was considered a feudal state until 2008, is hoping to attract more astro-tourists
• Today on New Scientist: 1 February 2011
  All today's stories on NewScientist.com, including: self-encrypting discs, creating life from scratch and how to control lightning
• Huge radio telescope array 'listens' to deep s ...
  A network of interconnected radio telescopes has produced its sharpest images of deep space yet
• Today on New Scientist: 7 February 2011
  All today's stories on NewScientist.com, including: seeing the whole of the sun, a mammoth mind map, and why it's tough for pandas to go vegetarian
• Humble water flea packs giant genetic punch
  Daphnia pulex is the first crustacean to have its genome sequenced - and it has more genes than any other species so far

Tech Drive In

• Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal - First Impressions
  At the time of writing this article, Ubuntu 11.04 codenamed "Natty Narwhal" is still very much in its nascent stages of development. I really wanted to take it for a spin and write about my first hand impressions on latest build Ubuntu Natty. I installed Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal Alpha 1 in my ...
• Last.fm Free Music Player Google Chrome Extens ...
  Tech Drive-in has covered several posts on useful Google Chrome extensions before, the most prominent being the one where we featured useful Chrome extensions for a more secure browsing experience. But this one is special. A Last.fm music player extension for Google Chrome that�does exactly what ...
• Impressive LibreOffice UI Mockups You Need to ...
  LibreOffice is already my default office suite in Ubuntu though there is not much of a difference between OpenOffice and LibreOffice for now. But things are moving fast and LibreOffice is going to have its first official release soon. Meanwhile, you might want to remove all traces of OpenOffice ...
• Elementary Studio GTK Theme - Fusion of Elemen ...
  Elementary Studio GTK theme is a nice and impressive fusion of DanRabbit's Elementary GTK theme and beautiful dark Ubuntu Studio default theme. Elementary theme is supposed to be the default theme for upcoming Elementary OS codenamed "Jupiter".� Elementary Studio GTK Theme Based on the po ...
• Midori vs Epiphany Review
  In the last couple months I've been seeing a lot of articles concerning the Midori web browser. It's a lightweight GTK-based browser that uses the WebKit rendering engine also used by browsers like Chromium and Safari. At version 0.2.9, it's relatively new (it's still a ways away from a 1.0 rele ...

Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

• The Fundie Flu and the Chosen People Too
  By Les Visible I’m picking up a wide net of depression and incipient despair that has its roots in too much information, juxtaposed with too much change. People handle change differently. The smallest group embraces it for whatever their reasons may be. The larger group exercises some degree of ...
• Sherri Tenpenny warns parents about safety of ...
  By Mike Adams Are vaccines really safe and effective? More and more credentialed health professionals are beginning to question that assumption, and what they’re finding out about the lack of real science behind the assumed safety and efficacy of vaccines is actually quite shocking. Today, Dr Sh ...
• How Climate Sanity Has Been Gored
  By Larry Bell My new book, Climate of Corruption: Politics and Power Behind the Global Warming Hoax, is dedicated to Al Gore, whose invention of the Internet made it possible–and whose invention of facts made it necessary. Beginning with the aggressively hyped 1988 U.S. Senate hearings he organi ...
• Nobel Prize Winner Luc Montagnier Supports Sci ...
  By Dana Ullman Dr. Luc Montagnier, the French virologist who won the Nobel Prize in 2008 for discovering the AIDS virus, has surprised the scientific community with his strong support for homeopathic medicine. In a remarkable interview published in Science magazine of December 24, 2010, (1) Prof ...
• Sick Brains in Teens – Is There A Root C ...
  By: Dr Sherri Tenpenny It’s been nearly a month since the nation’s attention was focused on Tucson, where five were killed and 13 injured , including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, several other shootings missed the mainstream news. Violence seems to be erupting among youths everywhere, from ...

Veterans Today

• VA Secretary Shinseki Announces Innovation Awa ...
  In his State of the Union Address, President Obama made clear that innovation is vital to the American economy – and that government has an important role to serve in supporting innovators across the country. The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is committed to finding new technologies, proce ...
• Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News
  Veterans! Here's your Top 10 News stories of the day compiled from the latest sources. W encourage you to browse our list so that you can take what you want and keep what you need.
• SIBEL EDMONDS: Let It Cut Both Ways-US Foreign ...
  Material Support to Dictators Who Inflict Terror By Sibel Edmonds STAFF WRITER In June 2010 our rights and liberties suffered a major setback. The United States Supreme Court upheld the broad application of a federal law making it a crime to provide “material support” to designated “foreign terr ...
• Franklin Lamb: As Tahrir Square goes so goes t ...
  As Tahrir Square goes so goes the Middle East? by Franklin Lamb, Al Manar Beirut It is difficult to overstate the potential for Egyptian citizens advancing universal aspirations for freedom, dignity and basic human rights now spreading from the determination of those who for more than a week hav ...
• Egyptian Intifada: A Timeline (Week 1)
  By Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa al-Omrani CAIRO; Feb 8, 2011 (Veterans Today) — Whoever comes out on top after the dust settles in Egypt, one thing’s for certain: the political equation in the Middle East — characterized for decades by Israeli regional hegemony — will never be the same again. A ...

electric politics

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

PR News

• Widmeyer promotes Parrot to SVP
  WASHINGTON: Widmeyer Communications promoted Teresa Valerio Parrot, head of the firm's higher education practice, to SVP.
• Pepsi Max doubles "Crash the Super Bowl" buzz, ...
  PURCHASE, NY: PepsiCo is celebrating successes from its "Crash the Super Bowl" program that featured consumer-generated commercials for both Doritos and Pepsi Max.
• Cigna starts search for new AOR
  BLOOMFIELD, CT: Cigna issued an RFP to eight undisclosed agencies as part of a search for a global AOR.
• Denny's launches new brand positioning campaig ...
  SPARTANBURG, SC: Restaurant chain Denny's has launched a new campaign "America's Diner is Always Open," to position the brand around a new theme of "openness."
• Clear Channel Radio hires EVP, marketing and c ...
  NEW YORK: Former Hearst executive Wendy Goldberg was named EVP of marketing and communications at Clear Channel Radio.

The Story Behind the Story

• Full-Body Scanners at Airports – THIS WI ...
  Make sure you understand this, all you bleating sheeple out there who think for one second that Full-body Scanners at airports are justified.  Just in case you don’t remember, or don’t even know, an international flight (Delta Airlines Flight 235) originating in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, (hom ...
• Carnicom Institute and Dr. Ilya Perlingieri Pa ...
  Vitally important updates on Chemtrails can be found at: http://carnicominstitute.org/perlingieri.html A. True Ott, PhD
• Beware Kucinich and “American Monetary I ...
  Richard: Thanks for this post.  It is right on point. Letting Congress and the Executive Branch control money creation and disbursal exclusively frightens me much WORSE than the FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM as it now stands.  Case in point – Obama and his demoncrats patting themselves on the back (d ...
• 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 ...

k2p blog

• La Niña and NAO driving current stormy weather
  Recent extreme weather events as far as Australia and Africa are being fueled by a climate phenomenon known as La Niña.
• Aero India 2011 kicks off tomorrow: MMRCA and ...
  Over 600 vendors from over 60 countries are expected to participate in the 5 day Aero India 2011 air show in Bangalore from 9th - 13th February.
• Do super storms indicate that earth’s ma ...
  Magnetic polar shifts have occurred many times in Earth's history. It's happening again now to every planet in the solar system including Earth. The magnetic field drives weather to a significant degree and when that field starts migrating super storms start erupting.
• Maryland and Washington begin to sound like De ...
  Many residents of Pepco's service area in Maryland and the District, have concluded that blackouts are likely to get even louder as the utility's fed-up customers turn increasingly to backup power.
• Not a very sporting day today
  Corruption in cricket and in sumo is rife.

Left Foot Forward

• IFS: Welsh “lose” from Barnett Formula
  Plaid Cymru have dubbed as “significant” new research making clear that the Barnett Formula is underfunding Wales, reports Ed Jacobs.
• Big Society faces £5 billion of cuts
  If the state is not prepared to help build voluntary local capacity in places like Liverpool, then who is? Asks John Popham of the cuts which threaten the "Big Society".
• The coalition’s unfair pensions changes ...
  Yvette Cooper MP is the Shadow Home Secretary and Shadow Minister for Women and Equality From child care support to pensions, from employment to bus travel, it seems David Cameron’s government is determined to hit women hardest. As Rachel Reeves’s campaign has shown, the plans to change the pens ...
• Counter-extremism group’s financial woes ...
  Quilliam's case shows the shortfalls of private funding, and the danger of the pace of the Tory-led government's programme of swingeing cuts, writes George Readings.
• The IoD are wrong: there is no quick fix for t ...
  Todays Institute of Directors "Freebie Growth Plan" report is wrong; if implemented, the measures they propose would lead to considerable losses for most taxpayers.

Consumerist

• Sony Goes After People Who Spread PS3 Hack
  First Sony went after alleged PS3 hackers who broke down the console's firmware, opening it up to gamers to run pirated, copied and unlicensed games. Now it wants information on those who posted details of the hack online, even though they had no hand in its creation. Wired reports the company ...
• Duracell Battery Pack Comes With Free Glue Sti ...
  Here's an interesting cross-promo. Reader Ally spotted a pack of Duracells at her lokcal Hannaford that came with a FREE glue stick. It wasn't something that the store had shrinkwrapped together, but the glue stick was actually in the package itself. What's the marketing strategy here? Maybe be ...
• Personal Finance Roundup
  10 Hidden Costs That Hurt Your Wallet [Wise Bread] "There are hidden costs, such as the time and money it takes to get to the store, that determine which decision is truly the less-expensive route." How to Avoid Common Money Mistakes [Get Rich Slowly] "Here are some tips to avoid costly money ...
• Researchers Link Processed Food To Lower IQs I ...
  It could be that munching on processed foods packed with fat and sugar may make kids a bit less intelligent. British researchers have found 3-year-olds who munch on such grub tend to have a slightly lower IQ when they reach age 8. Meanwhile, 3-year-olds with healthier diets were shown to have h ...
• Florida Bans Coke-And-Meth-Like "Bath Salts" S ...
  Florida became the second state after Louisiana to ban sales of MDPV, a synthetic drug with effects similar to meth and cocaine that sellers are marketing as "bath salts," NPR reports. They can be found in convenience stores and gas stations. Besides their high, authorities have said that the d ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

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

UK Progressive

• Step Away from the Microwave, Keep Your Hands ...
  An estimated 90% of American families have microwave ovens and use them daily for everything from heating up their baby’s bottle to meal preparation. Marketed as safe, efficient, and a more convenient way of preparing food, compared to conventional ovens, daily millions use them. Indeed, most co ...
• Ayman Mohyeldin Speaks After His Release From ...
  Al Jazeera English reporter Ayman Mohyeldin discusses his treatment by miltary guards when he was arrested yesterday near Tahrir Square. The brutality against their reporters continues.
• President Obama Endures Bill O’Reilly of FOX N ...
  A disgusting treatment of the Man and Office of President of the United States by a thuggish, interrupting, rude, know nothing blowhard FOX talk show host. President Obama patiently and confidently schooled O’Reilly. He should have walked out of the interview and said, “until you can learn how ...
• The Monday Line: Egypt Gets ‘It’ – Why the Wes ...
  Like the colony of ants from the penultimate scene of the Disney/Pixar film “A Bug’s Life,” the people of Egypt got ‘it’ and realised that, like the film’s grasshoppers, the bullying tyrants of Mubarak’s police apparatus had to brutally keep everyone under the heel of his boot to rule. In the fi ...
• Damning Wikileaks Embassy Cables Dampen MSM’s ...
  Why are US and global mainstream media (MSM), only running with the story a ‘constitutional reform committee’ being formed when all sides in the meeting seem to disagree and protests continue to march and camp in Cairo’s Tahrir Sq.? There was an historic meeting today between The Muslim Brotherh ...

NewsAlert

• Social Psychologists Detect Liberal Bias Withi ...
  The New York Times
• Robert Plant on Letterman - 4 February 2011
  CBS-TV
• Rahm’s $18.5 million paychecks — How did he do ...
  The Chicago Sun-Times
• Case Settled: Union Employees, You Can Badmout ...
  Forbes
• A License to Shampoo: Jobs Needing State Appro ...
  The Wall Street Journal reports:"Occupations prefer to be licensed because they can restrict competition and obtain higher wages," said Morris Kleiner, a labor professor at the University of Minnesota. "If you go to any statehouse, you'll see a line of occupations out the door wanting to be lice ...

JoNova

• The SOI still rules
  Who would have thought that if you knew the air pressure in Darwin and Tahiti in June, you could figure out that the start of 2011 might be a Stalingrad Winter up North and a cooler wetter summer down south (Not that people in Sydney feel all that cool right now). But the air pressure [...]
• The money is leaving the room
  There is still billions invested in research, billions circling in carbon markets, and billions tossed as government subsidies. But there are a few less billion available now than there was before Christmas. Reality bites and Green Energy is left to face the music. Austerity pulling plug on Euro ...
• Climate sceptics and scientists attempt peace ...
  Fred Pearce from New Scientist thinks that there was a real meeting between climate skeptics and “scientists” last week in Lisbon, but therein lies the problem right from the start. The climate skeptics are the scientists, and in the end, hardly anyone else turned up. The unskeptical “scientists ...
• Yasi is a monster — but not an unusual one
  For all the other Christine Milne’s out there, who think coal mining causes cyclones, the empirical evidence inconveniently declares that super-cyclones have been hitting Queensland regularly for the last 5000 years. As usual, it’s the name-callers who cling to 100 year time-frames and deny the ...
• Yasi 2011 — Cyclonic force of nature
  File this under shock and awe. Send best wishes to North Queensland. Cyclone Yasi is now Category 4, with windspeeds of 270 km per hour (170 miles/hr). I do a double take each time I see just how far Yasi reaches. It reminds us of our relative power.  It’s 3000 km from Melbourne to Cape [...]

ReNew America

• Like pulling teeth: Obamacare root canal repea ...
  (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - Now that the Republicans have kept their promise to vote on Obamacare repeal (successfully in the GOP-dominated House, unsuccessfully -- as expected -- in the Democrat-run Senate), let's focus on some specifics on the tough road ahead for getting rid of the president's ...
• Obama's discriminatory application of laws abo ...
  (David Limbaugh) - Is there anything about the Obama administration that doesn't reek of discriminatory application and enforcement of laws and the arbitrary and capricious abuse of power? Obama's best defense against the charge that he's doing outrageous things is that to correctly accuse him o ...
• Ronald Reagan's centennial celebration (PDF fi ...
  (Washington Times) - Click to view The Washington Times' 14-page special section commemorating the centennial of the 40th President of the United States...
• Reagan's communism rollback a model for Tea Pa ...
  (Washington Times) - Years ago, when I was a media fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, I got to sit down with Martin Anderson, one of Ronald Reagan's closest advisers. We were discussing what had happened at Reykjavik, Iceland, in 1986, when Reagan met with Soviet leader Mik ...
• Top 10 interesting facts about Ronald Reagan
  (Human Events) - Ronald Reagan lived a rich life and had an amazing presidency. Let's recall some highlights... (1) In his 1984 reelection bid, Reagan received 525 electoral votes, the most of any candidate in U.S. history, as he garnered 58.8% of the vote and won 49 states in his race against W ...

Truth Offering

• Poll - Week Ending February 6, 2011
  So what's going on in Egypt? Is it the CIA doing their dirty work? Is it a legitimate uprising? Is it a sign of things to come in the US? What exactly is happening? Further still, should we be getting involved? Well, we don't know what's going on there just yet, but here's what you guys think:
• Interpreting Ted Rall's "The Anti-American Man ...
  Let me start by saying that I really hate using political terms like "left-wing" and "right-wing." It's lazy, small mindedness to do so, in my opinion. It allows us to summarize a person's entire belief system with a tiny little definition, and I don't like that. No one -- well, not most people ...
• Poll - Week Ending January 31, 2011
  This past week, we asked you guys to tell us what you think is of most concern with our drinking water. Is it the fluoride government puts into the water that we consume? Is it the fact that there are increasing amounts of pharmaceuticals in our water supply? Or is it the fact that some policy m ...
• Chemtrails from Indianapolis, Indiana
  Right now, Indianapolis is expecting a huge winter storm. And under normal conditions, that'd seem totally normal, right? I mean, Indiana gets snow. But what do you make of these chemtrails; these photos were taken this morning by a TruthOffering.com Contributor (Click to Enlarge): � Note that ...
• Must-Read Articles From Around the Web - Janua ...
  "All is not what it seems in Egyptian Clashes" by Tony Cartalucci Before It's News - Go to the George Soros/Zbigniew Brzezinski International Crisis Group's website and you will see that the Egyptian clashes have hit surprisingly close to home for them. That's because none other than their own ...

2012 Blog

• Power Grid Disinformation??
  If you have been following 2012 in the broadest sense, you’ll know that: 1) A Coronal Mass Ejection (from the Sun) could wipe out the electrical grid in the USA and potentialy elsewhere. 2) The next solar maximum (and therefore heightened odds of a CME) is in  2012/2013. 3) The recent solar min ...
• Amazing Scottish Bunker For Sale
  Not too far from where the majority of Scots live, a bunker is now for sale at a very reasonable price of £400,000: The complex at Cultybraggan Camp near Comrie, Perthshire, was completed in 1990 and is believed to be one of the most advanced structures of its kind. It was built to house 150 [. ...
• New California Risk: Superstorm
  As if supervolcanoes and earthquakes weren’t enough to worry about, add floods to the list of natural events that could be catastrophic for Californians. A group of more than 100 scientists and experts say in a new report that California faces the risk of a massive “superstorm” that could flood ...
• George Lucas Update
  LucasFilm has responded to the recent story about George Lucas being a 2012er, as told by Seth Rogen on TV show Ellen: [Lucas] was not serious when he talked about the end of the world in 2012, but he is an adamant believer that the world is flat, that Stonehenge was built by aliens, and [...] ...
• Sea Rise Ark / Irish Giant Gene / Betelgeuse
  Experts are saying the sea levels will rise by 13 feet in the next thousand years. This is the first time such a long-range forecast has been made, and presumably the authors will never see their work disproved. I presume this work, which focuses on climate change, does not consider that the lon ...

Facing South

• Grand Isle businesses battered by BP oil disas ...
  By Rocky Kistner, Bridge the Gulf For more than 30 years, Sarah and her daughter Annette Rigaud�owned one of the most popular eateries on�Grand Isle, La. Sarah's Restaurant is�a cozy place filled with mementos of sun-splashed beach vacations and fishing trips. It was a prosperous business, pa ...
• Virginia uranium mining panel meets as concern ...
  A special panel of the National Academy of Sciences is meeting in Richmond, Va. today to gather information for its study on whether uranium can be mined and milled safely in the state. This will be the NAS panel's last town hall-style meeting in Virginia for public comment, and dozen ...
• Gulf oil spill claims czar under fire for rosy ...
  BP oil spill paymaster Kenneth Feinberg released a draft plan this week for deciding payments on final claims for damages for the disaster, and it's drawing fire for being too optimistic about the pace of recovery. Feinberg released the proposed methodology on Feb. 2 and said he would ...
• INSTITUTE INDEX: The partisan fight over healt ...
  Date on which President Obama signed into law the Affordable Care Act implementing comprehensive health care reform: 3/23/2010 Date when a group of state attorneys general filed a lawsuit seeking to have the law declared unconstitutional in part because of its mandate that all Americans buy ins ...
• Hexavalent chromium pollution linked to coal a ...
  The landmark $333 million court settlement that propelled legal researcher Erin Brockovich to environmental stardom involved the contamination of a California town's groundwater with hexavalent chromium, a toxic compound known to cause cancer. Now the same dangerous heavy metal, usual ...

One News Page

• I'll do everything to make comeback from 'wors ...
  Lahore, Feb 8(ANI): Pakistan fast bowler Mohammad Amir, who has been handed down a five-year ban by the International Cricket Council (ICC) for spot-fixing, has said that he would comeback from the 'worst day of my life'.
• World's tallest model Amazon Eve ready to pose ...
  Washington, Feb 8 (ANI): Amazon Eve has revealed that she's ready to pose nude for Playboy magazine.  'Sure I would do Playboy. I would need to reduce my muscle mass and soften up a bit, but Hefner is the only one I would pose nude for, because he does it so tastefully,' she told FOX411 in an .. ...
• Hoogenband says 'special athlete' Thorpe can w ...
  Abu Dhabi, Feb 8(ANI): Former Dutch swimmer Pieter van den Hoogenband believes that five-time Olympic gold medallist Ian Thorpe can add to his gold medal tally during the 2012 London Olympics.
• Lady Gaga's beau to pen diet book
• So what if security officer cleaned Mayawati's ...
  Mayawati’s party can’t understand why a security officer bending to clean the Chief Minister’s shoes is a matter of any concern. “It’s the same as if it rains, and someone’s shoes get dirty, and then others help to clean off the mud. What is wrong in that?” asked a BSP MLA, Syed ...

Global Research TV

• Scores Wounded in Bangladesh Clashes
• Obama Blocks US Torture Probe
• Punchlines for Progress: Freedom of Speech Exp ...
• Egypt: Revolution in the Making
• Spoof on US State Department Position on Egypt

Daily Tech

• Sprint Unveils Echo, World's First Dual-Screen ...
  Android-based device poised to change definition of multi-tasking
• Last.fm for Mobile to Become Subscription-base ...
  "It is not practical for us to deliver an ad supported radio experience," Last.fm staffer writes
• Two New Therapies Could Help Prevent Elderly B ...
  Alu RNA plays a crucial role in the death of retinal cells in those with geographic atrophy, but two new therapies could prevent this toxic RNA from accumulating, thus preventing blindness in older Americans with this condition
• UPDATE: Buick Regal to Get GM's eAssist Hybrid ...
  EAssist technology to filter down to the Buick Regal
• Researchers Discover 16,500 Year Old Cemetery ...
  Discovery marks the oldest discovered cemetery yet

Oriental Review

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

BlogHer

• The Worst Valentine's Day Gifts Ever
  Valentine's Day is coming up, and you've got less than a week to come up with the perfect present for the love of your life.� What's it going to be?� The usual flowers and candy?� An original love sonnet?� A trip to Greece?� I don't know you and I'm no Dear Abby, so I can't tell you what the per ...
• 14 Days of Chocolate, Day 8: Whisk: a Food Blo ...
  Every day from February 1-14, food bloggers in the BlogHer Publishing Network are sharing their very favorite chocolate recipes -- from chocolate gravy (!) to fondue, cookies, and cake. Sign up to get 14 Days of Chocolate in your inbox, and see all the chocolate in the series. ****************** ...
• Football Season Withdrawals? Let These Footba ...
  Every day during February 2011, we'll be talking movie reviews, celebrities, Oscar nominations, awards shows, DVDs you need to rent + more. Sign up to get A Month of Movies in your inbox each week in February -- and see all the movies in the series. **************************** Pep: "This is th ...
• When It Is Hard To Pray
  Do you want to pray or meditate, but find it hard to actually do it? I have heard so many reasons, and have used a few of them myself: It is hard to find the time. It is never quiet enough. I start, but then do not know what to say. It doesn't feel like God or the Universe is interested. My con ...
• (REVIEW) Sex After 50: For Pamela Madsen, It's ...
  Is there good sex after 50? Hell yeah! And if anyone wants a front-row seat at a roller-coaster ride of sexual energy and discovery, the book to glom onto is Shameless, just out from Rodale Press and by Pamela Madsen. Shameless is the story of Madsen’s post-marriage, post-40s, sexual reawakening ...

Health Freedom Alliance

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

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

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

Daniel Miessler

• Good Times With Varnish, Nginx, and Apache Ben ...
  I learned some web server Kung Fu this weekend. I now know how to set up both Nginx and Varnish, and I’ve been messing around off and on with optimizations of Apache, Nginx, and Varnish–using Apache Bench to test from another Linode system I own. It’s pretty fun, and I came up with some fun [... ...
• The iPhone Is Helen Of Troy | TechCrunch
  And “more” is music to Apple’s ears. Because they don’t have a losing card here. In fact, they only have winning cards. If you choose a Verizon iPhone, Apple wins. If you choose an AT&T iPhone, Apple wins. What we have are two beaus fawning over the same beautiful woman. Each is arguing — again, ...
• The Tiny Humanity Bubble | Jack Adam
  via blog.jackadam.net I love things that give us perspective. It’s fun to look at this image, contemplate our smallness, and then think about the significance of the Bible. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsGrades PerspectiveThis is my Favorite PictureAmerica by t ...
• This is my Favorite Picture
  via i.imgur.com In other news, I’m going to start showing up to Republican political events with many copies of Orwell novels. Now if I can just get them to read anything other than the Bible. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsObama and Jesus | ImgurHalley’s Comet ...
• A Stunning Resume
  via forrst-production.s3.amazonaws.com The only question that remains is whether or not the person viewing wants to be stunned. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsThe Climate Science Debate at InformationIsBeautifulThundercellThe New York Times Summarizes the Recen ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

• Egyptian Google dude Wael Ghonim released afte ...
  Welcome to the revolution, Google. Freed Egyptian Google exec cheered by thousands | CBC News Thousands of protesters crammed Egypt’s Tahrir Square on Tuesday, hoping to catch a glimpse of a Google Inc. executive whose detention by secret police has made him a figurehead for anti-government demo ...
• Olbermann Goes Current
  Olbermann Said to Be Going to Current TV | The New York Times Keith Olbermann, the former top-rated host of “Countdown” on the news channel MSNBC, will announce his next television home on Tuesday, and people familiar with his plans pointed Monday to a possible deal with the public affairs chann ...
• The Pentagon’s battlefield vision of tom ...
  6 Terrifying New Weapons Being Created by the Pentagon | Alternet In the future, the power of magnetism will be harnessed to make today’s high explosives seem feeble, “guided bullets” will put the current crop of snipers to shame, and new multi-purpose missiles will strike targets in a flash fro ...
• Recognizing the Language of Tyranny
  By Chris Hedges | truthdig – Empires communicate in two languages. One language is expressed in imperatives. It is the language of command and force. This militarized language disdains human life and celebrates hypermasculinity. It demands. It makes no attempt to justify the flagrant theft of na ...
• William S. Burroughs Remembered
  97 Things You Didn’t Know About William S. Burroughs | Flavorwire Writer, philosopher, artist, and co-founder of the Beat Generation, William S. Burroughs — who died in 1997 at the age of 83 — continues to be a vital cultural force today. The author of books like Junky, Queer, and Naked Lunch, B ...

reference frame

• Do you think inflation probably happened? A po ...
  Sean Carroll asked his readers to quantify their confidence that various physical explanations or theories are right. The TRF readers don't have to be explained that polls don't mean anything in science, and I actually expect most of the answers to be bogus. With all my imme ...
• Why is the Wigner-Eckart theorem useful?
  ...and other questions... The Wigner-Eckart Theorem Wikipedia on the theorem is a formula that tells us about all "simple constraints" that group theory - the mathematical incarnation of the wisdom about symmetries, especially in the SO(3) ≈ SU(2) case (rotations in a three-dimens ...
• Eighteen hardcore AGW alarmists threaten U.S. ...
  How many climate alarmists are there among the U.S. climate scientists? If you count those who are ready to chastise the members of the U.S. Congress, the answer turns out to be eighteen. The Hill brings us the full text of their letter: Scientists ask Congress to put aside politics and t ...
• IPv4 addresses are gone: cap and trade
  The transition to IPv6 will produce glitches: no need to hurry The IPv4 addresses began to be distributed approximately 40 years ago. Today, they're essentially gone. This incumbent arrangement to identify the computers on the network by a sequence of 4 bytes (usually written as f ...
• Peter Sissons on AGW censorship in BBC: When o ...
  Peter Sissons, a long-time as well as recent BBC anchor, just published his memoirs that present some details about the left-wing institutional bias in the BBC News and the political correctness that culminated with the global warming religion: The BBC became a propaganda machine for clim ...

No Frakking Consensus

• Climategate 2.0
  I regard a recently-released 700-page document containing candid IPCC insider comments as Climategate 2.0. This gold mine confirms some of our worst fears.
• How Does the IPCC Safeguard Against Bias?
  According to insiders, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change selects its authors via a secretive process. Nothing prevents scientists belonging to certain schools-of-thought from dominating the reports that get produced.
• NASA, Climate Change, and Children
  NASA used to be about the right stuff. It used to be about knowledge, human ingenuity, and the triumph of sheer brainpower in the face of unfavourable odds. Now, rather than seeking to inspire kids, NASA tries to frighten them.
• Want Kids to Learn Science?
  A comic that contemplates how children might be motivated to take more of an interest during science class.
• What They Said About the Climate Models
  Governments around the world are convinced CO2 emissions are dangerous. Where did they get that idea? From computer models that even IPCC insiders say are uncertain, unreliable, and unvalidated.

Tarpley

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

Modern Survivalism

• Emergency Alert System, Direct from President
  The familiar emergency alert system, the one where we in the U.S. occasionally hear a radio or television broadcast interruption that reassuringly reminds us that ‘this is only a test’… well, it has just been upgraded to enable emergency alert messaging direct from the President, or FEMA, and is ...
• All Ambassadors Called Back to Washington!
  In an unprecedented move, apparently one that has never happened before, nearly all U.S. Ambassadors to all nations have been called back to Washington for a summit conference this week. politico.com reports, “Ambassadors from almost all 260 U.S. embassies, consulates and other posts in more tha ...
• Texas Blackouts, just-in-time delivery
  Why did cold weather in Texas cause power outages and rolling blackouts? Answer: just-in-time-electricity At the heart of the problem were the effects of unusually cold weather that shut down several coal-fired power plants in central Texas for various reasons, which then led to an immediate dem ...
• TODAY show contacts MSB, Roof Collapse in Conn ...
  msb-note Having read a related article on ModernSurvivalBlog.com, the MSNBC TODAY show contacted MSB for contributing information regarding the Connecticut roof collapse events from the excessive snowfall so far, of Winter 2011, for a segment on the show. This video is that segment followed by s ...
• Egypt Coup from Organized Groups of Outsiders
  Through an apparent reliable source on the ground in Egypt, MSB has learned that according to one eyewitness who lives there, original protesters are being replaced by HIGHLY ORGANIZED GROUPS, seemingly outsiders, and are creating the violence and attempting to spur the government coup of the Mu ...

Fast Company

• On the Road: A Tricked-Out Ford Escape for Bli ...
  Using technology developed by Virginia Tech's Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory, a blind driver recently completed a 1.5-mile loop. In 2006, Virginia Tech began the daunting task of building a car for blind drivers. The Blind Driver Challenge team at Virginia Tech's Robotics and Mechanisms Lab ...
• Echo’s e2 Brings Real-Time Tools to the Web
  The days of the static web are over. Echo’s service will help content-focused companies bake real-time chatter into their own experiences.Surf around the web, and you’ll see that, despite the explosion of real-time user activity, most sites are still pretty static. But users likely aren’t going ...
• Smart Growth Helps Cities Adapt to Aging Boome ...
  As baby boomers age, the need for elderly friendly towns and cities becomes increasingly important. This week, the EPA announced the winners of the fourth annual Building Healthy Communities for Active Aging award. The award honors communities that are improving quality of life through "smart ...
• iFive: Verizon iPhone Sales, Email's Decline?, ...
  Fifteen years ago today, President Bill Clinton signed a historic act to overhaul the telecoms industry in the U.S., noting "Today, with the stroke of a pen, our laws will catch up with the future." It let cable companies offer phone and Net, and spiked a huge wave of social and political contro ...
• Meet the Biggest Threat to Google, AOL, and Mi ...
  In the world of email, a short list of companies dominate--Google, AOL, Yahoo, Microsoft--but there's a new player in the game that's ready to tear down their firewalls: Ronald Reagan. Just as Reagan took on Walter Mondale and Jimmy Carter, the conservative icon's family isn't about to bow down ...

Jadaliyya

• "You'll Be Late for the Revolution!" An Anthro ...
  Foreword This is the diary of one week (much too short although it felt so long) that I spent in Egypt in the middle of the popular revolution that began on 25 January 2011 and that at the time of writing this is still continuing - to an uncertain direction. Ever since the demonstrators ...
• Statement of the April 6 Movement Regarding th ...
  [This statement was prepared by the April 6 movement. Translation below by Fida Adely & Aiman Haddad] February 6, 2011 The Egyptian Resistance Movement The youth of Egypt have stood their ground and struggled against the tyrants.�We have faced bullets against bare chests with great co ...
• Making History in Tahrir
  Nightingale, do not fear your song Speak your complaint and tell of your ordeal The song will not kill you but Holding back song is what will kill you I wonder! Salah Jahin (1930-1986) � Watching Egyptians protest today is a sight I never ...
• Revolutionary Contagion: Morocco and a Plea fo ...
  Since January 15th, media discourse on the Arab world has almost uniformly coalesced around a single term, �contagion.� This is a telling semantic choice given the word�s broader associations with disease; a synonym for �infection� or �contamination,� it carries rhetorical connotations t ...
• Indyk Won't Apologize for U.S. Policy Toward E ...
  The new activist group RootsAction put out an alert this week calling on the U.S. government to apologize for its policy of backing a dictator in Egypt for 30 years. Washington Stakeout today questioned Martin Indyk (currently director of foreign policy at Brookings, senior adviser ...

mediagazer

• The New HuffPo-AOL Combo: The Free, Anti-Murdo ...
  Ken Doctor / Newsonomics: The New HuffPo-AOL Combo: The Free, Anti-Murdoch Alternative?  —  Today, it seems like the only people willing to stake out boldly the future of American digital news media aren't, by birth, American.  There's Rupert Murdoch, of course, who now heads the world's larges ...
• Looking for fresh content from The Daily durin ...
  Damon Kiesow / Poynter: Looking for fresh content from The Daily during the day?  You'll have to hunt for it  —  I have been reading The Daily regularly since it launched on Wednesday, and almost every time I open the app, I've been confused to see a message telling me that “a new issue” is be ...
• Can This Journalist Be Replaced by Software an ...
  Christopher Mims / Technology Review: Can This Journalist Be Replaced by Software and Mechanical Turk?  —  If you think your current boss is a drag, imagine being directed by a piece of software.  —  An experiment being conducted by an alliance of journalists and computer scientists aims to co ...
• Paul Haggis Denounces Scientology in New Yorke ...
  Daniel Frankel / The Wrap: Paul Haggis Denounces Scientology in New Yorker Opus  —  Consider Paul Haggis' Operating Thetan status officially revoked.  —  Now dissonant from the Church of Scientology, to which he loyally adhered to for 37 years, Haggis serves as key source in The New Yorker's 2 ...
• The Pied Piper of Social Media (Ben Popper/New ...
  Ben Popper / New York Observer: The Pied Piper of Social Media  —  At this point in his career, Toby Daniels' biggest challenge is keeping up with his own creation.  Two years ago, the fast-talking Brit launched Social Media Week as a small New York conference featuring forty events.  He was t ...

Chemtrail News

• Is the U.S. Bullying Other Nations into Geoeng ...
  The U.S. thwarts the UN ban on geoengineering, agreed to by 193 nations, because profits are more important than Planet Earth and it's inhabitants.Conscious Life News - http://consciouslifenews.com/
• What's in the chemtrails ? Climate ...
  My search led me to a so called climate control program. The program was started in 1990 over 20 years ago and is now having noticeable effects on us and the…Latest Activity on Chemtrail Truth - http://chemtruth.ning.com/
• Mechelen, Belgium Chemtrail Photos | Ai ...
  Photos of chemtrails over Mechelen , Belgium provide evidence of a worldwide geo -engineering effort.AirCrap.org - http://aircrap.org/
• Chemtrails Is The Government Poisoning ...
  ATLANTA -- Conspiracy theorists believe the U.S. government is spreading toxic chemicals from planes. Friday, February 4, 2011.www.cbsatlanta.com/news/26718985/detail.html
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