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IPS - Inter Press Services

• China Faces its Own Sleazedogs
  Peng Gaofeng spent three years looking for his abducted son, launching an Internet campaign that eventually drew 300,000 followers. Last month, Peng was reunited with his son, and the 34-year-old has vowed to help the thousands of Chinese parents who are still trying to find their missin ...
• U.S.: Critics Condemn Islam Hearings as Witch ...
  On the eve of a controversial hearing by lawmakers on extremist Islam in the United States, civil rights and Muslim- American groups are warning of its potential repercussions, which they say may undermine the very intent of the proceeding.
• Tanzania Biofuel Project's Barren Promise
  An ambitious project to produce clean energy for the Netherlands and Belgium has degenerated into a controversial abuse of natural resources in Africa.
• IBSA Together in Resisting No-fly Zone
  India has found backing at this week's India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) ministers meeting for its stance that a no-fly zone over Libya must follow multilateral consultations.
• LATIN AMERICA: Fighting Rise in Non-Communicab ...
  Some 50 non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in Latin America have formed a coalition to fight cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, diabetes and cancer, which have become the main causes of death and disability for people in the region.

Scoop - NZ

• How the Swedes Set Up Julian Assange
  The Swedish police papers pertaining to Assange case have surfaced on the web – and there are some shocking revelations.
• Prisoners Help Build Patriot Missiles | Danger ...
  This spring, the United Arab Emirates is expected to close a deal for $7 billion dollars’ worth of American arms. Nearly half of the cash will be spent on Patriot missiles, which cost as much as $5.9 million apiece. But what makes those eye-popping sums even more shocking is that some of the wo ...
• Confronting New Saudi Realities
  The popular uprisings in the Middle East are yet another wakeup call on two fronts—the fragility of our world’s energy security and the inherent structural weakness in Middle East governments that lack popular legitimacy. While all eyes are on Libya and the growing threat of civil war, the comin ...
• 'Bunga Bunga' at the Vienna Opera Ball - SPIEGEL
  The glamorous Vienna Opera Ball got the 'bunga bunga' treatment on Thursday with an appearance by the young woman at the center of the Silvio Berlusconi underage sex scandal. Karima el-Mahroug, better known as Ruby, came along as the date of Austrian entrepreneur Richard Lugner.
• Prosecution of Ray McGovern is Dropped « Anti ...
  The charges against Ray McGovern have been dropped and the government has decided not to proceed with its prosecution. Mr. McGovern, age 71, was subjected to an outrageous and abusive arrest, which left him bruised and bleeding. He had been standing silently with his back turned to Secretary of ...

Independent - London

• Protesters reject Yemen reform plan
  Yemen's embattled president has failed to pacify protesters with plans to draw up a new constitution.
• American Apparel boss Dov Charney 'used assist ...
  He convinced the world that luminous spandex and skinny jeans could somehow represent acceptable wardrobe staples. But behind the scenes, Dov Charney, founder of the fashion chain American Apparel, took an equally unorthodox approach to workplace ethics, according to the latest sexual harassmen ...
• US public broadcasting chief Vivian Schiller q ...
  The future of public broadcasting in the United States, already hazy because of pressure from conservative Republicans for deep cuts in its funding, looked even more precarious last night after National Public Radio's (NPR) chief executive took the fall for one of her senior subordinates saying ...
• Jewels from £73m heist found in Paris sewer
  Investigators have dug up jewels worth £15.5m hidden in a Paris sewer, part of a 2008 heist targeting the luxury jeweller Harry Winston.
• Andrew's trip to Yemen was followed by arms deal
  The Government licensed the sale of £160,000 worth of bullets and body armour to the Yemeni government after Prince Andrew met the country's Prime Minister for trade talks.

Rogue Government.com

• GAO Says Eliminating $1 Bills Could Save Bill ...
  Washington has come down with a case of fiscal fever as the Obama administration proposes everything from spending freezes on domestic programs to selling off unused government property to bring the budget back in line. Now, one study argues that the government can save billions of doll ...
• Anti-government protesters may have been hit ...
  DOCTORS from the scene of violent anti-government protests in Yemen's capital said that what was thought to be tear gas fired by government forces on demonstrators may have been nerve gas, which is forbidden under international law.
• US Catholic Bishops unveil new Bible
  Just in time for the Lenten season, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops released an updated translation of the Bible on Ash Wednesday that does away with dated terminology and will also be available on a different kind of tablet than the ones used by Moses: the iPad.
• Geithner says lending cuts could hurt U.S. in ...
  U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner urged lawmakers on Wednesday to approve capital increases for global lending institutions and warned that failure to do so could harm U.S. influence abroad.
• Secret FBI, CIA Documents, Sex Videos Found A ...
  This mountain of shredded paper taking over several rooms was found inside the Egyptian Secret Police’s headquarters in Cairo on March 5, when hundreds of angry people invaded it. They called this day their Bastille Day.

Innovation Canada

• Women and science
  Five Canadian women. Five accomplished scientists. Five perspectives.
• A recipe for failure
  By definition, perfectionists set very high standards for themselves. As a result, they are also setting themselves up to fail. And when they do, research is now showing that many perfectionists resort to binge eating to alleviate feelings of loneliness, sadness and inadequacy. “Perfectionists o ...
• The challenging spine, the adventurous mind
• What’s love got to do with it?
  Toni Tennille promised “Love Will Keep Us Together,” and while it may be true that she and Daryl “the Captain” Dragon have stayed together for 40 years, it’s unlikely love was the only glue. Lasting relationships require commitment, satisfaction and trust, says Lorne Campbell, a social psycholog ...
• Tackling the cancer conundrum
  Carol Cass has seen cancer from all sides. The internationally renowned cancer researcher has spent four decades pioneering the study of special proteins called nucleoside transporters that help cancer-fighting drugs work their way inside cancer cells. She has also been an administrator at resea ...

Signs of the times

• Fireball Over Italy - 8th March
  A fireball reported over Italy. A still below from the video. A flash video of the fireball can be viewed here.
• Powerful X-Class Solar Flare
  March 9th ended with a powerful solar flare. Earth-orbiting satellites detected an X1.5-class explosion from behemoth sunspot 1166 around 2323 UT. A movie from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory shows a bright flash of UV radiation plus some material being hurled away from the blast site: Af ...
• GOP rams anti-union bill through Wisconsin Senate
• Wisconsin GOP bypasses Dems, cuts collective b ...
  Madison, Wisconsin - The Wisconsin Senate voted Wednesday night to strip nearly all collective bargaining rights from public workers, approving an explosive proposal that had rocked the state and unions nationwide after Republicans discovered a way to bypass the chamber's missing Democrats. ...
• Criminalizing Nature: Dark Times for Herbal Me ...
  Our European Office, is preparing for a legal challenge against EU herb laws. As we reported to you last November, thousands of products associated with traditional medicine will soon become illegal throughout the European Union (EU). And more and more, EU legislation influences US domestic pol ...

The Galloping Beaver

• Wisconsin
  Governor Walker and our Cons are the same species.� More after the live stream. Watch live streaming video from theuptake at livestream.com Sometimes I think the best description of 'capital' is that of a pathogen. It afflicts the compassion and empathy centres of the brain like an encephaliti ...
• Stephen Harperreality
  You know, I was thinking earlier today that Stephen Harper might be the Canadian prime minister to leave a legacy of election fraud and contempt motions. The contrast between the Stephen Harper in the video voice-over above, and the Stephen Harper, master of a den of liars, theives and chara ...
• Boogity boogity twang . . .
  A 1948 Gibson guitar once played by Eric Clapton, being held by Alicia Scalera at the auction house Bonhams in New York. Piotr Redlinski for The New York Times THE NYT ASKS, "Why would someone pay $959,500 for a used guitar?" Apparently, ol' Slowhand is parting with some choice equipment at auc ...
• The future that never was
  PALEO FUTURE is a site that displays the prognostication of bygone days, from 1870 to the 1990s. Below, an ad from Hughes Aircraft Co., touting the videophone in your future.
• The Industrial Revolution:
  Making you Malthusly redundant for 250 years. Paul Krugman starts to get it. Computers, it turns out, can quickly analyze millions of documents, cheaply performing a task that used to require armies of lawyers and paralegals. In this case, then, technological progress is actually reducing the d ...

Media Matters for America

• Tucker Carlson Makes A Fact-Free Attack On WI ...
  Tucker Carlson claimed that Wisconsin public sector workers "make more than you do" and "won't even consider" taking pay and benefits cuts. In fact, Wisconsin public sector workers make less than their private sector counterparts, and union leaders in the state have agreed to take cuts in their ...
• Napolitano Drags Out Deceptively Cropped ...
  Andrew Napolitano�used a deceptively cropped portion of�a July 2009 speech given by former NEA General Counsel Bob Chanin to�claim that unions are solely interested in attaining power, not advocating for workers.�In fact,�Chanin said in that very speech that "what unions do first and foremost i ...
• Stossel Babbles In Support Of Allowing&nb ...
  John Stossel�lashed out at laws prohibiting discriminatory firing as "harmful," claiming that the Americans With Disabilities Act prohibition against employers firing workers because of their disabilities "makes it harder for them to get hired."�In fact,�studies have shown�there is no evidence ...
• Expert Calls Claim That 85 Percent Of Mosques ...
  Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum granted legitimacy to the claim that 85 percent of U.S. mosques are led by extremists. This claim has been spread throughout the conservative media, but studies of the Muslim community have debunked the claim and an academic who has studied Muslims in Ameri ...
• Newsmax Donates To Politicians, Then Gives The ...
  For at least the third time in the past year, right-wing website Newsmax has provided positive coverage to a Florida politician whose campaign or political committee has received money from Newsmax or its CEO, Christopher Ruddy. This financial support has not been disclosed in campaign endorsem ...

Global Research.ca

• The Global Economic Crisis: Central Banking a ...
  The Rothschilds ascended to the throne of international banking with the Battle of Waterloo...
• International Women's Day
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• The Tragic Failure of "Post-Communism" in East ...
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• Stealing from Social Security to Pay for Wars ...
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• The Middle East’s Feminist Revolution
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.

TPM Cafe

• This Week in Bigotry: Huckabee, Jews, Natalie ...
  Mike Huckabee Refuses to Accept that Natalie Portman isn't Single:Despite the fact that Natalie Portman's engagement to Benjamin Millepied became public�last�year, a delusional Mike Huckabee insists the actress is�single.Huckabee's state of denial suggests he is in the first stage of the grievi ...
• Divestment And Other Matters
  Last week, at the J Street Conference, I appeared on a panel considering BDS. I made the case I had made last spring in The Nation, that lumping the three�together--boycott, divestment, and sanctions--was rash. Moreover, targeting West Bank settlements is not the same as targeting Israel more ge ...
• Why the Democrats Should Never Have Started Pa ...
  It's called ransom. That's what Republicans are demanding from the White House and congressional Democrats for not pulling the plug on the government.Problem is, when you pay ransom once, you're almost begging to pay it again. And that's exactly the pickle the Obama administration is finding its ...
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• The Birth of the People's Party
  Look at the outrage in Madison, Wisconsin. Look at the crowds in DesMoines, Iowa. Look at the demonstrations in Indiana and Ohio and elswhere around America.Hear what they're saying: Stop attacking unions. Stop making scapegoats out of public employees. Stop protecting the super-rich from paying ...

TruthOut

• "No-Fly Zone"? Senator Kerry, the UN Charter I ...
  Surely no one has been surprised to see Senator McCain engaged in what Defense Secretary Gates has rightly called "loose talk" about the use of US military force in Libya. But to see Sen. John Kerry, the Democratic head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee - the man who as a Vietnam vetera ...
• 911 Is a Joke (Because It's Broke)
  As the Great Blizzard of 2010 blanketed New York City, most residents were blissfully unaware that their city's 911 system was on the brink of collapse. The system fielded 50,000 calls in a single day, and at one point the backlog swelled to 1,300 calls. The mayor was called to account for the s ...
• Investigation: Interpol and Julian Assange's R ...
  Why did Julian Assange receive an Interpol Red Notice, but Gaddafi only an Orange? Tess Lawrence investigates the murky world of Interpol exclusively for IA, asking some troubling questions and uncovering some startling facts. Why was Julian Assange – who has not yet been charged – given th ...
• News in Brief: NPR Executives Resign Over Flap ...
  NPR Executives Resign Over Flapsread more
• The Cairo-Madison Connection
  On Feb. 20, Kamal Abbas, Egyptian union leader and prominent figure in the Jan. 25 movement, sent a message to the “workers of Wisconsin”: “We stand with you as you stood with us.” Egyptian workers have long fought for fundamental rights denied by the U.S.-backed Hosni Mubarak regime. Kamal is ...

Planetsave

• The Feds and Food=Fooderal Confusion [cartoon]
  For those unfamiliar with the work of Wendell Berry (and for those familiar who may need a little refresher), he is David to the agribusiness Goliath. Berry works tirelessly to promote proper land stewardship, sustainability, and conservation and uses every opportunity to point out the drastic s ...
• Get Involved in Politics.. Hear Me Out (Going ...
  I’ve got a love-hate relationship with politics, for sure. It can be extremely frustrating, especially given the ignorance and corruption dominating U.S. politics today. I have sworn myself off of politics in the past, but have come back around to it. One of the reasons I’ve done so is the clear ...
• More Americans Believe in Climate Change than ...
  A new study conducted by researchers from the University of Michigan, show that more Americans believe in “climate change” than in “global warming.” The study, which will see its results published in an upcoming issure of the journal Public Opinion Quarterly, surveyed 2,267 adult Americans askin ...
• Perennial Crops, Sustainable Agriculture: A 21 ...
  When two German scientists figured out how to how to turn atmospheric nitrogen into ammonia, in what is now known as the Haber-Bosch process, human society was, at the risk of cliche, transformed. Considered by many as the most important invention of the 20th century, Haber-Bosch harnessed, for ...
• Japan Hit with Earthquake, Minor Tsunami Today
  A magnitude 7.2 earthquake hit Japan today. It hit off the coast and has not resulted in great damage or human injury. It created a “minor tsunami” and shook buildings in the capital city of Tokyo for approximately 30 seconds, but it has not done much to disturb normal daily life in the country. ...

Water Quality - WordPress

• Water quality workshops coming to E.R.
  The Watershed Center Grand Traverse Bay will be hosting three workshops in March and April to facili
• ePluribus Media Community || Want to know wher ...
  ePluribus Media Community || Want to know where the water is going? via ePluribus Media Community ||
• Over 200,000 people participated in World Wate ...
  A total of 212,502 people across six continents celebrated World Water Monitoring Day (WWMD) 2010, a
• Island life – is it really as glamorous as it ...
  It was a typical bright and sunny morning as I walked down the Talibon Pier towards the tiny boat th
• W.Va. Legislature Holds Hearings on Marcellus
  This story by AP writer Lawrence Messina provides an update and valuable reminder on an important to

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• The Mysterious Collapse of World Trade Center ...
  by Jeremy R. Hammond Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Foreign Policy Journal February 14, 2011 Accord
• Nick Merrill, the first American to stand up a ...
  by Peter B. Collins and Sibel Edmonds Featured Writer Dandelion Salad originally published by Boilin
• Compelling New Evidence About Aafia Siddiqui’s ...
  by Andy Worthington Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.andyworthington.co.uk 14 February, 2011 Regu
• Fight for a World Without Coal by Chris Hedges
  by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig February 14, 2011 Image by iLoveMountains.o
• Tourism Boycott for Egyptian Reforms by Joel S ...
  by Joel S. Hirschhorn Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.foavc.org February 13, 2011 Image via Wiki

Axis of Logic

• THE NEW ZEITGEIST: "MOVING FORWARD." OFFICIAL ...
  Original Zeitgeist Movie: Zeitgeist - Full Movie (published on Axis of Logic in September, 2009)...
• Quinn signs death penalty ban, commutes 15 dea ...
  SPRINGFIELD — Gov. Pat Quinn today signed into law a historic ban on the death penalty in Illinois and commuted the sentences of 15 death row inmates to life without parole. Quinn signed the legislation in his Capitol office surrounded by longtime opponents of capital punishment in a state wh ...
• The hedge fund manager and the nurse - Critica ...
  March 8, 2011 - Time to question the way economic dogma values different kinds of work. Common sense tells us it's wrong that hedge fund manager John Paulson made $3.7 billion in 2007, while a typical nurse earned about $45,000. Paulson made his billions by betting against the subprime mor ...
• You can't pee for free - Editor's Choice
  In his 1994 book entitled The Location of Culture, post-colonial theorist Homi Bhaba writes that "cafes are part of the social phenomena of the 'third place' [which] . . . people occupy outside of the home and work.  It's a place to relax, to be alone, to socialize, to read,...
• Tunisia interim leaders dissolve secret police ...
  Tunisia's interior ministry has announced it is dissolving the country's secret police service. The agency had been widely accused of committing human rights abuses during the rule of President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, who was ousted on 14 January. Interim Prime Minister Caid Essebsi has a ...

They Gave Us a Republic

• The $19-an-Hour Bastards Who Are Destroying th ...
  Digby: Here's another one of those greedy bastards who's trying to destroy America: He is worried, he says, about a lot: the future of the bankrupt supermarket chain he works for, the midcareer colleagues who feel trapped and hopeless, and anyone, really, who strives for a middle-class life anym ...
• The Nightowl Newswrap
  We were raised right, that you don't speak of the dead unless you have something nice to say ... So here goes...David Broder is dead. That's nice. He was the pundit who was singularly responsible for the false equivalency, both-sides-do-it bullshit that has neutered the American press and brough ...
• "Everyone Knows" the DCCC is Killing the Democ ...
  From Steve Benen, evidence that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is trying to exploit the attempt by House repugs to destroy the country with catastrophic budget cuts: Indeed, here's a press release the DCCC sent out yesterday in a key North Carolina district: "Everyone knows that ...
• Repugs Never Apologize for Lying; Democrats Ha ...
  Steve M. described this inanity perfectly: GUY WHO THINKS ALL TEABAGGERS ARE RACISTS UPSETS PEOPLE WHO THINK ALL MUSLIMS ARE TERRORISTS Ron Schiller, NPR's former senior vice president of fundraising (he quit last week), was filmed by James O'Keefe's crew discussing a possible $5 million contrib ...
• Suspect arrested in attempted bombing of MLK m ...
  UPDATED BELOW I have mentioned before that in the wake of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 I was one of the people in my hospital who was trained to respond to a terrorist attack. As a medical lab professional, I got additional training in bioterror response and evidence collection. T ...

Care 2

• China legislator urges shark fin ban
  A member of China's parliament has proposed a ban on the trade in shark fins, state press said Wednesday -- a move that would likely face huge opposition from the nation's culinary traditionalists.Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• 5 Miraculous Animal Births
  Birth. It�s the miracle of life.Submitted by Pedja S. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Alarming rise in manta ray hunting threatens o ...
  From India to Ecuador, manta and mobula fishing has become big business for fisheries who are selling their gills to be used in soups and traditional Chinese medicine. Conservationists have warned that demand could soon rival that of the contSubmitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! ...
• Kos Island: Dog Got Shot On The Head & Was Thr ...
  The dog had been left tied up on a very short chain for around 6 days with no food and water.... neighbors had been supplying the dog with food and water whilst trying to find the owner to see if anything could be done.Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Two-headed tortoise also has five legs - CBS N ...
  Magdalena the tortoise has two heads, two brains, two nervous systems and five legs... Submitted by Mary Patricia E. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

• Unions? What Unions? Labor Leaders to Blame fo ...
• Wisconsin, Meet the Military
• Trauma for Working Class in America: Fray or D ...
• Kindness, Generosity, and Bombing Libya
• The F Word: Philanthro-Feudalism is the Future!

Paul Krugman

• Live on Times Talks
  Watch Paul Krugman discuss the economy with Andrew Rosenthal, the editorial page editor of The New York Times.
• The Last Refuge
  Affairs of state, he says.
• A Note On Oil
  Don't count on the Saudis.
• Republicans and Medicare
  They've always hated it.
• Godwin's Law Violation
  One of those mornings.

No Quarter

• Evening Open Thread [Update]
  [The first update below is pertinent to Larry Johnson's post, "Wrongs, Not Rights for Egyptian Women." The update section describes how WOMEN were integral to the "post-colonial revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt, and Algeria that led to independence," but soon were forced into marginalized positions ...
• Some Celebration *Reprised*
  I wrote this two years ago after International Women’s Day (which was Tuesday, the 100th such celebration). I have written about women in Afghanistan recently, and this one also looks at women there, and other countries, as well. We are all connected, each and every one of us. As long as women a ...
• Wrongs, Not Rights for Egyptian Women
  Apparently International Women’s Day in Cairo was not so swell for the girls. Allahpundit at Hotair seems a bit surprised by this development. If he had been reading at NoQuarter he should have expected this nonsense. Foreign Policy editor Blake Hounshell tweeted the story and Allahpundit picked ...
• Great Women Dominate My Notes * Open Thread
  Poor CNN … their reporters and crews were in a Tripoli hotel, with 100 other reporters, for Qaddafi to take questions. Rumors are spiked with speculation that Qaddafi is going to step down. The journalists waited over 3 hours. At one point, Qaddafi appeared, walked by, and stepped behind a curta ...
• Gratitude for a Friend
  I feel compelled to share this with all of you and hope you will indulge me in a departure from my usual subject matter… * * * We arrived at the bedside of my best friendâs husband and hearing my voice, he did his best to raise his painfully thin, frail hands for me to [...]

Environmental Graffiti

• Salar de Uyuni: The Largest Salt Flats on Earth
  The salt flats of Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia are one of the world's most marvelous natural wonders. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• Sea Lion Silhouetted Against the Waves
  Stunning images of the silhouettes of sea lions swimming. Learn a little more about the animal itself... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• An Oasis of Hope for Endangered Sharks and Sea ...
  The new Seamount Marine Management Area around Cocos Island gives hope to endangered species. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• Insect Mind Control: The Fungus that Turn Ants ...
  A breakthrough discovery on 'zombie ants' that are manipulated by four new species of fungus found in the Brazilian rainforest. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• 13 Most Beautiful Bridges on Earth
  Bridges are one of the most needed and often overlooked architectural structures in the world. Here we look at 13 of the most beautiful. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

• Top 10 Wins for Women's Movements
  Here's some good news in celebration of International Women's Day.
• By Enabling India's Nuke Program U.S. Shares B ...
  Our illegal nuclear deal with India goads Pakistan to expand its illegal nuclear program.
• Not Only al Qaeda But West on Outside Looking ...
  Al Qaeda is itching to become a player in Libya.
• Protecting Women Human Rights Defenders
  Women human rights defenders have been threatened, tortured, raped, exiled, and assassinated. But they have not been silenced.
• Crisis in Cote d'Ivoire: What Impact on Women?
  The political crisis in Cote d'Ivoire has had major diplomatic, financial, economic and social repercussions on the population, including on women and the organisations that defend their rights.

Global Elite

• Fear, Intimidation & Media Disinformation: U.K ...
  Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, August 20, 2009 An official UK government report –quoted extensively in Britain’s tabloid media– is warning the British public that there will ...
• President European Commission Advocated World ...
  Jurriaan Maessen. Infowars. July 24th, 2009 On September 7, 1992, two term President of the European Commission Jacques Delors gave a speech to the Royal Institute of International ...
• Billions of People Expected to Die Under Curre ...
  Barbara Minton, Natural News, July 21st, 2009 Your right to eat healthy food and use supplements of your choice is rapidly vanishing, but every effort has been made to keep you in t ...
• Bioweapons, Dangerous Vaccines, and Threats of ...
  Stephen Lendman, Global Research, July 7th, 2009 Although international law prohibits the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons, America has had an active biological warfare p ...
• Today we’re all prisoners in the USA
  Papers, Please! June 2, 2009 As of today, June 1, 2009, even U.S. citizens are officially prisoners in the USA, or exiles barred from entering our own country without the government ...

Al Jazeera

• Battles rage over Libyan cities
  Forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi pound Az-Zawiyah and Ras Lanuf as world debates imposition of a no-fly zone.
• France supports Libya rebel council
  Paris becomes first major European power to recognise National Council as country's legitimate representative.
• Russia bans arms sales to Libya
  In move reinforcing UN sanctions, Dmitry Medvedev signs decree halting all weapons sales to Libya.
• New constitution promised for Yemen
  President Saleh pledges to put new constitution to a referendum within a year.
• Dalai Lama to quit political role
  Tibetan spiritual leader says he will step down as political head of government-in-exile at next session of parliament.

Green Inc. - NYT

• Natural Causes Drove Russian Heat Wave, Study ...
  Any role of human-caused global warming could not be detected from the weather patterns behind the event, a researcher says.
• Filling Stations Fret Over Price Creep
  People are spending less -- for example, filling the tank only halfway, a Shell station owner in Houston laments.
• New York Senate Confirms Environmental Chief
  Mr. Martens, 54, had been working as the department's acting commissioner since January, when he was first nominated by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
• On Our Radar: $2 Billion Carbon Bill for Europ ...
  The top ten airlines, including British Airways, Air France, Lufthansa and Ryanair, would have to buy about 21 million permits, an official says.
• Albatross Is a Mother at 60
  Her name is Wisdom, and she also bore chicks in 2008, 2009 and 2010.

Dot Earth News

• Russian Heat Extraordinary But Not Unnatural
  Russia's deadly heat wave was a rare event, indeed, but new analysis shows no hints of a link to building greenhouse gases.
• 'Ground Truthing' Satellite Views of Violence ...
  Video provides closeup confirmation after satellites pinpoint deadly attacks in Sudan.
• The Elusive Dream of American Energy Plans
  Congress sticks with its "same as it ever was" approach to energy.
• Orbiting Eyes Capture Sudan Village Destruction
  More evidence that space-based probes can help reveal, and potentially prevent, human rights abuses on the ground.
• NASA Scientist Sees Signs of Life in Meteorites
  A NASA scientist publishes fresh analysis showing signs of extraterrestrial life -- fossil cyanobacteria -- in three meteorites.

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

• Libya = Gaddafi FAIL - fights for freedom - no ...
  The locals are ready to kick some ass in Libya! Straight up amazing. Things are moving fast these days! Wisconsin solidarity :-D This suddenly dawned on me just a few mins ago! Behold Gaddafi FAIL: I had to repost these videos of real significant, serious rebellion & a certain unmistakable ca ...
• #Egypt! And now... Algeria? Battle of Algiers ...
  Stunning turns in Egypt - you have to hand it to the Egyptians, they filtered & neutralized all those underhanded thug provocateur tricks in a snap. Then unloaded their dictator - Old School Civilization like a boss ;-D Update - they just posted an arrest warrant in Pakistan for ex-Prime Minist ...
• House Tea Party momentarily blocks "PATRIOT" A ...
  It's not all bad news out there. The slip-by-night extension of expiring Patriot Act measures got knocked down mainly by liberal Dems and some Tea Party Republicans (Bachmann of course sided with the corporatist centrist squad behind all of this)... Bi-Partisan Alliance Beats Back PATRIOT Act Sn ...
• From the Internet Archives: My 2003 Interview ...
  Here's a nice find. In October 2003 I interviewed Rashid Khalidi for the Mac Weekly. It wound up on the website and eventually got deleted around 2006, but it was still in the Internet Archives Wayback Machine at http://web.archive.org/web/20060612202355/http://www.macalester.edu/week... Overall ...
• 9/11 FBI warning from key informant of "Kamika ...
  Caught an interesting item on Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs Post about a team of FBI agents who had key clues into the 9/11 conspiracy, serious and specific prior warnings from an Iranian informant and ex-SAVAK officer who was himself a major handler with a deep network of informants around the P ...

Daily Censored

• The “Critical” Crisis of Public Education in A ...
  The “Critical” Crisis of Public Education in America By: Solomon Comissiong The United States continues to produce one of the most underachieving and disproportionately unequal public school systems within the realm of industrialized countries. Despite a wealth of monetary resources the American ...
• A friend asked about my thoughts on Ms Schille ...
  Bottom line is you are right it is very sad,  We need to stop hurting each other. The banks are crying about possibly losing $20.5 billion dollars because the new consumer safety bill will reduce their profit from debit card transactions from $0.44 to $0.12 per transaction.  The Banks could prob ...
• CENSORED IN 1977: ELECTRONIC SMOG
  CENSORED IN 1977: ELECTRONIC SMOG     “Studies have linked sustained microwave exposure to headaches, dizziness, fatigue, irritability, loss of judgment, leukemia, cataracts, changes in the blood-brain barrier, heart trouble, and central nervous disorders.” Yet a cover-up exists. The food indust ...
• Gang Rape and Racial Harassment Exposed at Son ...
  KPFA’s program Women at Risk with Carmen Reed March 8, 2011 covers Racial Harassment and Rape at SSU. Students tell their personal stories of racism and gang rape and the continuing lack of support on the Sonoma State University campus. The interviews can be heard in the archives of KPFAâlink be ...
• Fraudulent Faith : Christianity & Tyranny
  The conflation of religion and nationalism, or “God and country,” has long been a hallmark of the American ethos. Many of the first Europeans to unsettle the so-called New World were fleeing from domineering, state-sanctioned religious institutions like the Church of England and the Roman Cathol ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

• China congress chief rules out multi-party system
• Morocco king vows sweeping reforms
• New Irish PM takes the reins at head of coalition
• Dalai Lama to resign political role
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Institute for Policy Studies

• Name This Moment
  Democracy Spring? The Great Neocon Refudiation?
• Chicken a la King
  The hearings sponsored by Peter King and the campaign against sharia are two sides of the same Islamophobic coin.
• The Lineup: Week of March 7-13, 2011
  William A. Collins laments the dangers that the nation's health care system poses to our health while Robert Alvarez explains why managing nuclear weapons should be the Pentagon's job, instead of an Energy Department task.
• The Government's Nuclear Millstone
  There's no transforming our energy future without completely overhauling the Energy Department.
• Don't "No-Fly" Libya
  What would a no-fly zone in Libya mean? A bit of history may provide some perspective.

Equality Trust

• The Wrong Cure - alternatives to the cuts
  The False Economy website is an excellent and still-developing resource exploring the alternatives to cuts. False Economy includes: a discussion of why the cuts are not progressive details of campaign actions a comprehensive further reading list ... and this short film [youtube:ynUCYo ...
• Why we need a Fairness Test of the cuts
  A group of charities, including the Equality Trust, Child Poverty Action Group, Barnardo's and the TUC are asking the coalition government to commit to a Fairness Test on any tax rises or spending cuts they introduce. Full details...
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  Please visit our new Media section for the latest details.
• VAT rise would hit the poorest
  Bill Wilson's VAT motion to the Scottish Parliament reads as follows: That the Parliament notes the warning issued by Save the Children in Scotland that raising VAT to 20% could mean a £31 a week bill for the poorest families in Scotland and that the poorest 10% of the population currently s ...

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

• Nut Recalls unrelated to Foodborne Illness Out ...
  Given my job, it is little wonder that I tend to focus on the problems with a product when it actually causes illnesses.  There are, however, times when looking at recalls can also make you aware of problems that seem to repeat themselves. March 2011 – Skippy Peanut Butter: Salmonella Unilever ...
• A Few Decades of Bad Mixed Nuts - List of nut- ...
  December 2010 – Multistate DeFranco and Sons In Shell Hazelnuts An outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 was associated with eating DeFanco and Sons in-shell hazelnuts (also known as filberts)that had been purchased from bulk bins in grocery stores or in a repacked form  sold from November 2, 2010 to Dec ...
• Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) labo ...
  The Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) laboratory has confirmed E. coli O157:H7 contamination of in-shell hazelnuts (also known as filberts) collected from the home of an ill Minnesotan. The contaminated hazelnuts are part of a multi-state recall announced last Friday, March 4, by DeFranc ...
• Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan E. coli Reca ...
  Routine surveillance activities by health departments in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan identified seven E. coli O157:H7 cases with the same DNA fingerprint with onsets between December 20, 2010 and January 28, 2011. Three have been identified in Wisconsin, three in Minnesota and one in Michi ...
• George Packing tells FDA to go packing - Packe ...
  Capital Press reporter Mateusz Perkowski got Shaun George to engage his mouth before his brain in today’s story – “Hazelnut packer declines FDA request for grower list.” According to the Press, George “has refused to give the U.S. Food and Drug Administration a list of its farmer suppliers the a ...

AutoblogGreen

• Smart ForSpeed concept revealed before Geneva ...
  Filed under: Concept Cars, Convertible, Geneva Motor Show, Smart, Electric Smart Forspeed - Click above for high-res image gallery Not every future Smart model is in trouble of vanishing - some will never see the light of production. To wit, Daimler's minicar maker is bringing an all-electr ...
• Report: Some dealers price gouging Chevy Volt ...
  Filed under: Car Buying, Hybrid, Sedan, Chevrolet, GM, Electric 2011 Chevrolet Volt - Click above for high-res image gallery Even though some Chevrolet dealers were warned not to sell the Volt above the MSRP, there is a distinct trend around the country where some dealers are trying to make ...
• Audi, Voith enter new carbon fiber partnership
  Filed under: Technology, Audi Audi Aluminum A5 Coupe Prototype - Click above for high-res image Audi has put carbon fiber to good use in concept vehicles like the e-tron show cars and a special lightweight A5, which has a carbon fiber hood and rear deck, and in some parts of the R8 and RS 3. ...
• Report: $33M in EV tax credits went to buy unq ...
  Filed under: Car Buying, Government/Legal Is a bicycle an electric vehicle? How about a Hummer H3? These are some of the things that Americans claimed were hybrids, alternative-powered or plug-in electric vehicles on their tax forms, reports USA Today. What's more, the false claimants managed ...
• AutoblogGreen for 02.04.11
  Top Gear host wants electric vehicles powered by bumper car technology Watch out! Italian designers envision amazing Solar Wind bridge It looks like the future, that's for sure. Agility Saietta electric m ...

Rafe's Radar

• Socialcam: Mobile video sharing done right
  Sharing videos from your iPhone is easy and fun with this new app, thanks to clever technical and social features.
• E-mail anger meter gets sensitivity training
  New version of ToneCheck, a "spell-checker" for sentiment, gets improved, thanks to other users' angry e-mails.
• Domo launching 'pre-social' mobile app ahead o ...
  New mobile app helps you find the friends you haven't met yet.
• Manilla vs. PageOnce: Building better bills
  The paper bills you get in the mail? Holdovers from a bygone time. But they'll be with us for a while yet, judging by the current state of the art in online billing. ...
• Add social context to your e-mail in-box
  Free tools Xobni, Rapportive, and WhoSent.it make your incoming e-mail a lot more useful.

Camera Obscura

• No title
• Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
• The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
• Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
• Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...

Democracy Now!

• Audio: Wisconsin Democratic Senator Questions ...
  Wisconsin Democratic Senator Chris Larson speaks to Democracy Now! as he races back to Madison to challenge tonight’s anti-union vote to end collective bargaining rights for most public employee workers. "I think a lot of what theyâve done is on the borderlines of what is legal," Larson says. " ...
• Don't Ice Out Public Media
  The aspen grove on Kebler Pass in Colorado is one of the largest organisms in the world. Thousands of aspen share the same, interconnected root system. Last weekend, I snowmobiled over the pass, 10,000 feet above sea level, between the towns of Paonia and Crested Butte. I was racing through Col ...
• "America is Not Broke!": Michael Moore address ...
  State-workers and their supporters have been rallying in unprecedented numbers in Madison over the last few weeks. Tens of thousands of teachers, firemen, police officers, students, and families have taken to the streets and to the halls of the state capitol to demonstrate their opposition to ...
• Social Media and Online Outreach Internship (S ...
  Democracy Now! is now taking applications for our Spring and Summer Social Media and Online Outreach Internship Program. Spring intern positions available immediately. Social Media and Online Outreach Intern Position Overview: Democracy Now!’s Social Media and Online Outreach Intern work ...
• Arab Hip-Hop and Revolution: The Narcicyst on ...
  Yassin Salman AKA Hip-Hop Artist "The Narcicyst", sits down with Democracy Now! senior producer Sharif Abdel Koudous.

Digg Green

• Whale shark feeding frenzies mystify, enl ...
  If this year is like the last few, one of the most mysterious creatures in the world will soon descend upon the waters off of the Yucatan Peninsula. The blue, plankton-rich waters will become an all-you-can-eat haven for hundreds of giant whale sharks, an annual event known as "afuera."
• Evolution drives many plants and animals ...
  For the vast majority of plants and animals, the 'bigger is better' view of evolution may not be far off the mark, says a new broad-scale study of natural selection. Organisms with bigger bodies or faster growth rates tend to live longer, mate more and produce more offspring, whether they a ...
• Shedding our penis spines helped us becom ...
  Genetic comparison with chimps suggests that losing chunks of DNA – including one associated with penis spines – played a crucial role in making us human
• Shuttle Discovery Comes Back to Earth for ...
  After its 13-day STS-133 mission, the space shuttle Discovery landed for the final time today at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The orbiter spent a total of 365 days in space
• Baby stars born to 'napping' parents
  Cardiff University astronomers believe that a young star's long "napping" could trigger the formation of a second generation of smaller stars and planets orbiting around it.

Invisible Opportunity

• Digging Yourself in and Digging Yourself Out
  By Les Visible Earth is a training ground for souls. In order to live in the higher kingdoms of being you need certain built in qualities or you can’t enter. It’s like any club, where you need a membership and where the membership is based on something like; degree of wealth, political contacts, ...
• After 20 years, nearly everyone still wants GM ...
  Rady Ananda, Contributing Writer At this MSNBC poll, over 40,000 people have voted strongly in favor of labeling genetically modified foods: 96% of all respondents. But, a review of several polls going back to 1994 reveals that the numbers have always been high — the vast majority of people have ...
• Secret FBI, CIA Documents and Sex Video Tapes ...
  By Jesus Diaz This mountain of shredded paper taking over several rooms was found inside the Egyptian Secret Police’s headquarters in Cairo last Saturday. About 2,500 angry demonstrators invaded the building in what Egyptians are now calling their Bastille Day, finding documents and tapes that m ...
• Whole Foods – Major Betrayal of Organic ...
  by Dr. Mercola Organic consumers and producers in the U.S. are facing betrayal. A self-appointed group of “Organic Elites”, including Whole Foods Market, Organic Valley, and Stonyfield Farm, are surrendering to Monsanto. Top executives from these companies publicly stated several weeks ago that ...
• 2012 Doom ain’t what it used to be
  In spite of the title, 2012 is still ALL about catastrophe, and cataclysm. To reach any other conclusion is to not be aware of manifesting circumstances. These include the many features of the planet that show scarring from past catastrophe as well as the amnesiac nature of our own species and t ...

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

• ACLU Calls on DEA to Allow Sale of Medical Mar ...
  The ACLU has released a brief calling on the DEA to grant research permits for the production of medical cannabis.
• 'I Thought I Was Dying': A Common Synthetic An ...
  Ten years after taking the medication, Bobby Grozier suffers from brain damage and he's lost more than $3 million in medical costs and income.
• Missed Opportunity: Obama and Calderon Fail to ...
  Mexican President Felipe Calderon and President Obama ignored the elephant in the room in their meeting -- drug prohibition is the cause of prohibition.
• Drug Users of the World Unite!
  America's longest running war is not in Afghanistan or Iraq. It's the 40-year war on drugs - and the war on drugs is a war on us.
• The Good, the Bad and the Terrifying Proposals ...
  We should celebrate our success curbing cigarette smoking and continue to encourage people to cut back or give up cigarettes, but let's not get carried away.

Twilight Earth

• Cartoon caption contest
  Take a look at the cartoon below and enter your caption idea in the comment section (more ifo on prize, etc. below the cartoon). Eligible captions will be those posted on my site, Elephant Journal, Wend Magazine, PlanetSave, Eco-Snobbery Sucks, Ecolutionist, Ecopolitology, and Twilight Earth. Wi ...
• Exposed: Why the GOP wants to eliminate Clean ...
  Whether we can believe this see-through-elephant-trunk footage or not, the possibility that elephants have a triple fitration system within their trunks has to have some credence. Otherwise, why on earth would leading Republicans try to make it easier for big polluters to further pollute the air ...
• Apples may lose trees [cartoon]
  The rest of Joe Mohr’s cartoons, and cartoon updates and other green news on Twitter @GreenCartoons. Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets BeatâMay Lose Beets (cartoon) Eco-Snobbery Sucks: The Cartoon Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets BeatâMay Lose Beets (cartoon) Ec ...
• Mixed message from USDA chief Vilsack [cartoon]
  US Ag Secretary, Tom Vilsack tells us to eat more natural foods a few days after fully deregulating GMO alfalfa…I’m confused. Confused as well? Read the links below and try to figure out this mess. From The New York Times: Governmentâs Dietary Advice: Eat Less From Elephant Journal: The USDA cav ...
• BREAKING: Deleted Monsanto cartoon panel, leaked!
  Unlike the former Monsanto cartoon on this subject, this version shows a bit more clearly who surrendered the future of organic agriculture to Monsanto. There’s been a lot of talk from both sides (organic and biotech) about compromise. That is misleading and almost laughable (read: cryable). Dea ...

Inhabitat

• Green-Roofed Modern Japanese Production Facili ...
  The INCS Zero production facility in Japan features a 180 meter cobblestone path that angles along an immense lawn that turns into a verdant green roof. Under an abstracted torii gate lies the entrance to this very unique factory in Japan, which is an ode to traditional Japanese craft. Located i ...
• Liberty Luxe Renewable Energy Powered Tower Op ...
  After 45 years of construction, New York‘s Liberty Luxe tower is set to open by the waterfront at Battery Park City. Liberty Luxe, like 9 other buildings developed in Battery Park City since 2001, generates on-site energy with building integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) systems designed by RELAB. Qu ...
• T-Shirt Chair Weaves Together a Meaningful Sto ...
  If your collection of t-shirts is worn beyond repair, then turn them into a funky new chair full of memories! To create her original T-shirt Chair, Maria Westerberg wove together shirts from forty of the designer’s friends along with other once-treasured textiles to create a colorful mosaic of h ...
• Grass Ottoman Is a Living Growing Chia Chair
  Chia pets are so 1995 – but why not give a nod to this little piece of green decor with a Chia chair? The Grass Ottoman by GH Design is a living, growing bench that melds plant-life and furniture into one. Constructed of a fade resistant plastic set on a lightweight, yet stable and solid, [...]
• Veritas RSIII Roadster is the World’s Fastest ...
  The gorgeous and beastly Veritas RS III Roadster was released just over a year ago, and now Vermont AG is adding a hybrid drive to its V10-powered retro ride. The Hybrid version adds a 105 kilowatt electric motor to the BMW-sourced 507-horsepower V10 engine, producing a cool 600 hp in the new it ...

Pogue's Posts

• The Fading Sounds of Analog Technology
  As digital technology takes over, we're losing the sounds of analog technologies. And sometimes that's a real loss. A dial tone can serve a useful purpose, at least on TV.
• A Parent's Struggle With a Child's iPad Addiction
  Is a gadget automatically bad for our kids just because it's electronic? What if it's fostering a love of music, or expertise in strategy and problem-solving?
• What Is President Obama Asking Tech Leaders?
  David Pogue's Twitter followers imagine what is being discussed among President Obama and Silicon Valley's tech leaders.
• The Ethics of Free Cellphone Calls
  There are a growing number of ways to avoid paying for calls -- some offered by carriers, others amounting to a hack.
• Page Numbers for Kindle Books an Imperfect Sol ...
  With electronic books, neither page numbers nor "location numbers" are the perfect solution.

WIRED Magazine | Science

• Farewell Discovery: Longest-Lived Shuttle’s Gr ...
  The space shuttle Discovery returned to Earth for the last time this morning, ending its reign as the world’s longest running and most-traveled spaceship.
• Genetic Errors Nixed Penis Spines, Enlarged Ou ...
  Geneticists have linked the physical appearance of humans to patches of DNA lost in the 5 million years since we shared a common ancestor with chimpanzees. One loss prevented men from growing penile barbs, which chimps possess. Another enlarged some regions of our brain. “We can know what makes ...
• Tiny Fibers Put the Head on Stout Beer
  Mathematicians have discovered dissolved nitrogen gas does bubble from stout beers via tiny plant fibers, although much more slowly than carbonated beers. The days of plastic widgets in cans of stout may be numbered. Credit: Michael Devereux
• Physics of Pruney Fingers Revealed
  An exploration of mathematical shapes could explain why skin gets wrinkled after too much time in the tub. Understanding the geometry of wrinkly skin could help design new materials that can stretch out without losing strength. “The paper explains a mechanism that can explain the structural sta ...
• Photo: Mad Dash to Catch Space Shuttle Crossin ...
  Intrepid astrophotographer Alan Friedman raced against time to reach exactly the right spot at the right fraction of a second to snap this stunning photo of the International Space Station, with the Space Shuttle Discovery attached, crossing the sun. Friedman drove 1,800 miles from his home in ...

PakAlert

• Zionist Rulers of Saudi Arabia
  RESEARCH AND PRESENTATION OF MOHAMMAD SAKHER who was ordered killed by the Saudi Regime for the following findings: 1. Are the Saudi Family members belonging to the Tribe of ANZA BEN WA’EL as they allege to be? 2. Is Islam their actual religion? 3. Are they of an ARAB ORIGIN at al ...
• U.S. And NATO Escalate World’s Deadliest War O ...
  Not only has the U.S. killed over 2,000 people with drone missile strikes in North and South Waziristan, but over the last five months NATO has slain several Pakistani military personnel, extending the war into a nation with a population of 170 million and nuclear weapons. While most of the w ...
• Earth’s sixth mass extinction could already be ...
  Life on earth is on the verge of a mass extinction comparable to that which wiped out the dinosaurs, scientists at UC Berkeley have warned. Such events have happened only five times before in the last 540 million years, and each saw three-quarters or more of all animal species become extinct. ...
• Will The Day Of Rage In Saudi Arabia On March ...
  The price of oil is shaping up to be the number one economic story of 2011, and right now the eyes of the investing world are closely watching the developing situation in Saudi Arabia. All of the other recent Middle East revolutions have been organized on the Internet, and now all over Facebook ...
• People Of Earth: Prepare For Global Economic D ...
  It is not just the United States that is headed for an economic collapse. The truth is that the entire world is heading for a massive economic meltdown and the people of earth need to be warned about the coming economic disaster that is going to sweep the globe. The current world financial sys ...

Andy Worthington

• Terror Suspects in the UK, Torture, the Law, S ...
  My friend Richard Haley, of Scotland Against Criminalising Communities (SACC), recently put me up for two nights in Edinburgh, during a visit as part of my ongoing tour of the documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo,” which I co-directed with filmmaker Polly Nash. Richard an ...
• Andy Worthington Discusses Bradley Manning, Wi ...
  A few days ago I had the pleasure to talk to Kevin Gosztola of Op-Ed News for his regular podcast show, “This Week in WikiLeaks,” which is available below (or on the Op-Ed News page here). The 24-minute show followed up on the announcement that 22 new charges — including one that potentially ca ...
• Quarterly Fundraiser: Help Me Raise $1500 for ...
  Please support my work! Every three months, I put out a request for my readers and supporters to help keep me afloat financially. If you can help out at all, please click on the âDonateâ button above to make a payment via PayPal. All contributions are welcome, whether it’s $25, $100 or $5 ...
• Egypt: Some Progress on the Release of Politic ...
  On Saturday, after intense protests on Friday, when thousands of demonstrators surrounded the State Security buildings in Alexandria and Giza, demanding the release of political prisoners and the dissolution of the hated State Security agency (which employs about 100,000 of Egypt’s 500,0000-stro ...
• Video: Michael Moore Tells Wisconsin Protestor ...
  Three weeks ago, a burning ember of the inspiration for revolution that was seeded in Tunisia and spread to Egypt, and is now erupting in numerous countries through North Africa and the Gulf, landed in Wisconsin, reawakening large-scale protests in a manner not seen for decades. Since then, up t ...

Environment _ National Geographic

• Pictures -- Oil States: Are They Stable? Why I ...
  NoneWhether due to monarchic rule, corruption, or economic stagnation, market anxiety is high due to perceived peril in the eight nations of the Middle East and North Africa that supply one-third of the world's oil.
• Pictures: Odd Stingless Stingrays Discovered i ...
  NoneLooking more like pancakes than fish, two new species of freshwater stingrays have been discovered in the Amazon, a new study says.
• Presented By:
• Huge Impact Crater Found in Remote Congo
  A circular depression deep in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is the first known impact crater in central Africa, a new study says.
• Kilauea Volcano Pictures: Hawaii Eruption Spur ...
  NoneA new vent in Hawaii's Kilauea volcano ripped open Saturday, shooting lava up to 80 feet high, scientists say.

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

• HT Gives "Thumbs Up" to NM School Budget
  Here are a few snippets from the 2/4/11 editorial in The Housatonic Times. "...all those who assemble the proposed education budget went into the current process with new resolve to craft a package that met all the needs and would also be politically palatable. Better communication was establi ...
• G! E! T! S! (bud) GETS! (bud) GETS! (bud) GETS!
  (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 ...

SPL Center

• The Spokane Bomb Attempt: Who Is Kevin William ...
  So who is the suspect accused of building a âweapon of mass destructionâ and planting it along the route of a Martin Luther King Jr. Day unity parade route in Spokane, Wash.? The emerging picture suggests 36-year-old Kevin William Harpham is a âlone wolfââ with a military ordinance background an ...
• Feds Push to Destroy White Supremacist Hal Tur ...
  Imprisoned neo-Nazi radio host Hal Turner, one of the most vitriolic racists in America, who routinely suggested killing his enemies, may lose a bit of his venom if federal attorneys are successful in their proposition to destroy his guns. Following his conviction in December, U.S. District Judg ...
• Far-Right African Americans Chosen to Testify ...
  Tomorrow, the House Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement will hold a hearing at the Rayburn House Building entitled, “Making Immigration Work for American Minorities.” On the witness list are two figures whose views of immigrants are less than charitable: Carol Swain, an African-Am ...
• Neo-Confederates March up Dexter Avenue for Se ...
  Itâs hard to say exactly what the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) remembered so fondly on Saturday during a sesquicentennial celebration of Confederate President Jefferson Davisâ inauguration: a way of life that has been dead for a century and a half, or the day when the public at large appre ...
• GOP, Caving in to Anti-Gay Groups, Tells GOPro ...
  Itâs official: The âbig tentâ of conservatism is big enough to include gay men and lesbians â just as long as they donât support same-sex marriage, gays in the military or other gay rights. âItâs got nothing to do with the orientation, itâs got to do with the principles that you advocate,â Ameri ...

change: org.

• Kansas Wants To Keep Unconstitutional Laws Abo ...
  Have you ever just wanted to take someone by the lapel of his or her suit and scream, “What is wrong with you?” Right in their face? No? Maybe it’s just me. Because I really want to go up to Jan Pauls and Lance Kinzer, both Kansas state representatives (a Democrat and Republican, respectively), ...
• Victory! Science Wins Out Over Politics to Pro ...
  U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has scrapped a proposal to kill the wolves of Unimak Island in Alaska. Aerial hunting was a prominent component of the plan to protect caribou populations for human hunting purposes. Almost 18,000 Change.org members joined together with Defenders of Wildlife to voi ...
• 13-Year-Old Throat Cancer Patient Will Die Wit ...
  When Arsen Mkrtchyan was only four, doctors in Armenia told his mother that he had a fatal type of throat cancer that causes recurring tumors to form, and that there was nothing they could do for him. It was a death sentence. In pursuit of a miracle, Arsen's mother put her son's story on the int ...
• Victory! Washington D.C. Brothel Closes Perman ...
  Sky Spa, a brothel that has been operating in downtown Washington, D.C. for nearly a year, has finally shut down. Local activists launched a campaign on Change.org asking the brothel's landlord Jerry Schaeffer to shut down the operation and refuse to rent to other brothels in the future. Now, S ...
• Latest Puppy Mill Scandal Highlights Need for ...
  Proving once again that Hawaii can be sorely lacking in aloha for animals, another puppy mill has been found in the City and County of Honolulu. According to KHON, 150 dogs were rescued from a breeding facility that both neighbors and authorities described as a "noisy, filthy puppy mill." The re ...

Common Dreams -News

• 'General Strike!' Thousands Storm, Reoccupy Wi ...
  Thousands of protesters rushed to the state Capitol on Wednesday night as word spread of the hastily called votes that sent Gov. Scott Walker's controversial bill limiting collective bargaining rights for public workers speeding through the Legislature. Shortly after 8 p.m., hundreds of proteste ...
• Obama Makes Indefinite Detention and Military ...
  President Obama yesterday formalized indefinite detention for dozens of men held at Guantanamo Bay and announced that the Pentagon would move ahead with military trials for a handful of other detainees. read more
• Targeted Civilian Killings Spiral in Afghan Wa ...
  KABUL - Targeted killings of civilians in Afghanistan doubled last year, the United Nations said on Wednesday, as an expanding insurgency strikes at Western efforts to build up the Afghan government and security forces. In an annual report, the United Nations said 2010 marked the most lethal yea ...
• Israel Postpones Deportation of Foreign Worker ...
  Interior Minister Eli Yishai instructed the Population and Immigration Authority Wednesday morning to postpone the deportation of children and families of foreign workers enrolled in state-run kindergartens and preschools by a few months. Yishai delayed the deportation in order to enact the gove ...
• Mexico Approves GM Maize Pilot Project
  MEXICO CITY — Mexico has approved its first pilot project to grow genetically-modified (GM) maize, a move expected to draw fire from environmental groups who fear its impact on treasured local corn. The Agriculture Ministry said in a statement Tuesday that it had approved the project to grow GM ...

Lifehacker

• Firefox 4 Release Candidate Now Available to E ...
  Windows/Mac/Linux: Mozilla dropped the Firefox 4 release candidate for developers yesterday, but as of this afternoon the release candidate is available for everyone to download and test out. If you've been waiting for something a bit more ...
• Digital Painting 101: Mixing Paint
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• From the Tips Box: Flash on iOS, BitTorrent In ...
  Readers offer their best tips for viewing Flash sites on iOS, keeping your computer from sleeping during BitTorrent sessions, and paying a bit less for an iPad. More��
• Remains of the Day: Internet Explorer 9 Arrivi ...
  Microsoft provides an official release date for Internet Explorer 9, a smartphone card-reader app gets (wrongfully) attacked, Apple releases its iOS/Mac development platform for anyone to tinker with, and the Google Apps Marketplace celeb ...
• Keep OS X's Help Viewer from Floating Above Ot ...
  Mac's Help Viewer is great for when you need a bit of extra documentation, but it annoyingly floats over all your windows so you can't see what you're doing. Here's how to make it act like a normal application. More�� ...

Water Privatization

• USF Highlights Global Water Shortage at Film E ...
  The films showcase the importance of water and the growing crisis around the globe.
• Co-treatment debate heats up
  A public meeting about liquid waste management attracted a standing-room only crowd and triggered a heated debate about a private business treating sewage.
• Beacon Bits | Briefs
  International water expert to speak at UT about water resources Peter Gleick, an internationally recognized water expert and co-founder and president of the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment and Security, will discuss how water resources are connected to human health, ene ...
• The President’s Day: March 9, 2011
  8:00 AM The President meets with Indonesian businessmen to promote investment opportunities in the country in areas of renewable energy, agriculture, tourism infrastructure, sustainable mining, ship building and repair, and garments and textiles, among others. The President is also expected to p ...
• Water’s Monopoly Game — Public? Private?
  Food and Water Watch, a group linked to Ralph Nader, opposes privatization of water. "You want to privatize my water? This isn’t Bolivia, Pal. We’re not going to let you thieve from us so you can get a seat on the board of directors of the winning firm. Take a leap Sanders.”

Guardian

• Nato troops 'kill Afghan president's cousin'
  Shooting in botched nighttime operation set to increase Hamid Karzai's anger at killing of civilians by Nato-led forcesA furious row between Nato-led forces and the Afghan president over the killing of civilians looks set to turn into a full-blown crisis after an elderly cousin of Hamid Karzai w ...
• State employees to retire later on less
  Hutton review recommends nurses, teachers and other state employees lose final salary pension scheme and work six years longerSix million public sector workers are to lose their generous final salary pension schemes and will have to work for up to six years longer under plans to ease the state's ...
• France recognises Libya rebel leaders
  �� France officially recognises Libyan transitional council �� Nato and EU in talks over Libya �� New airstrikes in Ras Lanuf �� Russia to ban all weapons sales to Libya1.12pm: It is still unclear who controls Zawiyah, which was the focus of intense fighting yesterday, Reuters reports:One fighte ...
• Guardian reporter missing in Libya
  Ghaith Abdul-Ahad was last heard from on outskirts of ZawiyaUrgent efforts are under way to establish the whereabouts of the Guardian correspondent Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, who has been reporting from western Libya for the past two weeks.Abdul-Ahad entered the country from Tunisia and was last in touc ...
• Moody's cuts Spain's credit rating
  Downgrade to third rank for Spain heightens ongoing European Union debt crisisMoody's has cut Spain's credit rating by another notch, escalating the ongoing debt crisis in the eurozone.Spain's rating was downgraded to Aa2, Moody's third highest rating, as the agency warned that the country had u ...

McClatchey

• Dalai Lama steps away from political role in Tibet
  BEIJING — The Dalai Lama on Thursday announced that he intends to transfer his political authority over the Tibetan government in exile to an elected leader, a move that he said would promote democratic development but that the Chinese government slammed as tricks to deceive the international co ...
• Two Republican lawmakers target Sharia law in ...
  Two Republican legislators want to make sure Florida courts arent tainted by what one of them calls foreign shenanigans: Muslim Sharia law or legal codes from other nations.
• Sen. McCaskill repays $89,000 for chartered fl ...
  WASHINGTON — Sen. Claire McCaskill sent the U.S. Treasury a personal check Wednesday for nearly $89,000 to cover the costs of chartered flights on a plane that she co-owns and has used for Senate business.
• DeMint demands end to NPR funding
  WASHINGTON — Sen. Jim DeMint said Wednesday that the resignations of National Public Radio's chief executive and a top fundraiser weren't enough as the South Carolina Republican led his party's drive in Congress to defund public broadcasting.
• Senate bill would extend deepwater offshore dr ...
  WASHINGTON — Senators said Wednesday that a bill extending exploratory leases in the Gulf of Mexico will encourage drilling — and help bring down the price of oil.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

• Green tuna goes FAD-free
  Environmental group Greenpeace is claiming something of a victory with the news that the UK's biggest supplier of canned tuna, Princes, is going to source its fish from more sustainable supplies than previously. Greenpeace has been spearheading a campaign to get companies to adopt sustainable t ...
• China and EU share climate vision
  China and the European Union are setting out plans for changing energy use and curbing carbon emissions within a space of a few days. As one of them is the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases while the other would be third in the global list if its emissions were tallied as a single enti ...
• Refining the sixth great extinction
  Are we living through the sixth mass extinction of life in Earth history? That we are is something you'll often hear asserted in conservation circles - and you'll easily find dozens of news articles taking the notion at face value. It's even acquired a posh name - the Holocene extinction.   In ...
• Discard bathwater, not baby
  More selective fishing tends to produce fewer discards Everybody wants to do it: nobody is entirely sure how that should be done. Discarding fish is, on one level, an outrageous practice; so surely stopping it is the right thing? A byproduct of measures to keep fishing within sustainable limit ...
• US climate cuts threaten isolation
  The latest flirtations of the US political right with "climate denial" look set to marginalise the country even further within the global community of nations - at least when it comes to climate change. Does the US risk isolating itself from the global community? The key to all this is the ad ...

The Wonk Room

• Boehner Will Defend Constitutionality Of DOMA
• Bachmann: GOP ‘In Twilight Zone’ F ...
• REPORT: Ending Pennsylvania’s Special In ...
• TX Department Of Agriculture Launches Border V ...
• Santorum Claimed Divorce Has ‘Biggest Im ...

thwap's schoolyard

• In Denial About harper
  Dale over at Hill Queeries reports on parliamentary budget officer Kevin Page's response to the harpercons denying budget forecasts to the opposition: Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page appeared before the Commons finance committee yesterday and said that in his 25 years in the public ser ...
• Property Damage Versus Torture
  It's interesting how fucked-up people can be. Well and truly fucked-up and even when you take them by the hair on the back of their head, shove their faces right up to their stupidity and then rub their noses in it, they still can't figure it out. On the intertubes somewhere I'm being taken to ...
• "Can a Slut be Raped?"
  That was the title of a review (apparently in TIME Magazine) for Jodie Foster's "The Accused." That film was was based on a true story in which an intoxicated, single woman was gang-raped in a bar and the men who did it manage to plea-bargain down to "reckless endangerment." In all honestly, "A ...
• stephen harper "Rising to the Challenge"
  Recently, one "trevorus" gave me a youtube link which turned out to be the harpercons' propaganda effort "Rising to the Challenge." Taking great advantage of their tenuous grip on government power, the commercial shows harper waddling around the hall of Parliament, and in his office, doodling ca ...
• Let's Make a Deal! You give me $150 Billion, I ...
  I don't really have much time to blog these days but I gotta do something. So today's effort is simply to remind everyone how revoltingly stupid our present political-economy is. You know, the media, the political parties, most sources of opinion are working to normalize the atrocities we're for ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

• NWC Executive Director will hold an open form ...
  On Sunday April 10, 2011, Stephen Kohn, Executive Director at the National Whistleblowers Center, will be available at 4:00 pm (EST) for an online chat forum at Firedoglake’s Book Salon. The topic of this book salon will be The Whistleblower’s Handbook. For two hours Mr. Kohn will be holding an ...
• Top Ten Things You Should Know Before You Blow ...
  Article Reposted from the Corporate Crime Reporter (March 9, 2011) Whistleblowing is a hot area of legal practice. Why? Well, whistleblowing can mean big money for the corporate defense attorney, for the whistleblower, and for the whistleblower’s lawyer. There is of course the False ...
• Stephen Kohn to argue Tides v. Boeing, April 1 ...
  The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has scheduled oral argument in a case that will decide if disclosures to the media can be protected under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX). The oral argument will be on Friday, April 15, 2011, at the William K. Nakamura U.S. Courthouse, 1010 Fifth Avenue, 7th Fl ...
• Puerto Rican attorneys under attack in Free Sp ...
  "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers," says Dick the Butcher in Shakespeare's Henry VI Part 2. The famous quote conveys the idea that if you want to maintain power by suppressing the people, then lawyers are your enemy. The powers that be in Puerto Rico have that same idea, and the ...
• Horton reports again on Obama Administration's ...
  In April 2009, the Department of Justice (DOJ) served a subpoena on New York Times reporter James Risen. DOJ wants to know his source for a story he published in his book, State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration. The book describes a horribly botched CIA effort to ...

Science Express

• Fermi maps an active galaxy's 'smokestack plumes'
  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' virus
  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

• Questions About Copyright On Stormtrooper Cost ...
  Over the past few years, we've covered the ongoing legal battle between Andrew Ainsworth -- the prop designer who created the original Stormtrooper costumes for Star Wars -- and George Lucas. Ainsworth had been selling Stormtrooper costumes, and Lucas claimed it was a copyright violation. In 2 ...
• Should Governments Mandate Cookie Transparency?
  The BBC is reporting on the EU's e-privacy directive that's set to go into effect towards the end of May, which will apparently require that sites using cookies get explicit consent from users before using certain forms of cookies. As some have noted, the BBC's version of this is a bit one-side ...
• DailyDirt: Computers Are Beating Us At Our Own ...
  Artificial intelligence is a fun topic -- especially when it's applied to playing games with humans. The classic "man vs. machine" battles are always entertaining... until we hit the Singularity, and computer AI just consistently trounces humans in everything. Here are a few more examples of c ...
• SF Plastic Surgeon Files Defamation Claim Agai ...
  Paul Alan Levy points us to the news of how a San Francisco-based plastic surgeon, Usha Rajagopal, has sued some people who wrote negative reviews of her work for defamation. However, he notes, despite the fact that she's in California and the reviews she's upset about appeared on Google -- a C ...
• Down To Just 3 Senators Who Refuse To Say If T ...
  A few weeks ago, we noted that WNYC's On the Media's attempt to out the Senator who put an anonymous block on a bill to protect whistleblowers, had narrowed down the list to just five Senators. Since then, two of the five remaining Senators -- David Vitter and Mitch McConnell have both said th ...

VacTruth

• 3 Easy Steps Parents Can Use to Form an Opinio ...
  Parents can use these 3 easy steps to form an opinion about vaccines.Vactruth.com
• The Press Conference About the U.S. Supreme Co ...
  Numerous vaccine safety advocates assembled on the apron of the massive front steps to the U.S. Supreme Court on First Street, NE, in Washington, DC, to let the court—and the world—know that the highest court in the land got it wrong and did not act to protect an individual’s right to be compens ...
• The 2009 Pandemic Flu “Conspiracies” Investigation
  Was it appropriate for WHO to take advice from experts who had declarable financial and research ties with pharmaceutical companies producing antivirals and influenza vaccines?Vactruth.com
• Baby Gets Vaccine-Associated Paralytic Poliomy ...
  Adverse reactions to the Oral Polio Vaccine in healthy infants without any apparent immunodeficiencies can occur. Conversely, those with immune deficiencies, such as hypogammaglobulinemics, "...are 10,000 times more susceptible to vaccine-induced poliomyelitis than normal persons.”Vactruth.com
• National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program a ...
  The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services HRSA division (Health Resources and Services Administration) held a public meeting of the FDA’s Advisory Committee on Childhood Vaccines (ACCV) in Rockville, Maryland, September 2-3, 2010, at which several charts were distributed. Petitioners’ Awa ...

BroadSnark

• Things You Might Have Missed
  This take-down of hipsters is just gorgeously hateful. It is mind boggling that there are so many obstacles to growing a few vegetables in your yard and selling them.  But the informal economy is going to win in the end. Apparently, the Catholic Church is now answering all your sex questions.  W ...
• To All the Marriage Pushers
  If I have to read one more article on how a group of people must somehow be damaged because they aren’t in a 1950s nuclear family, I am going to spit nails. Kay S. Hymowitz has a piece in the Wall Street Journal where she complains that men in their twenties “hang out in…a hybrid state [...]
• Things You Might Have Missed
  A short post this week, as I just got back from a HIPS benefit production of the Vagina Monologues and I have had a bit too much to drink.  I think it was the booze-infused cunt cake that finally did me in. Please read this post on government medical experiments on people.  I knew about [...]
• On Catholicism and Reform
  I’ve been thinking a lot about how you determine whether or not something is worth saving/fixing/reforming – whatever. What got me thinking about this was a book I read called A World Without Women. David Noble, the guy who wrote the book, wanted to examine why science was so inhospitable to wom ...
• Things You Might Have Missed
  How much do I love the goth who foreclosed on Wells Fargo? (HT @womanistmusings). Did you know that there is a mountain vault full of potatoes? In Israel news – The U.S. has once again vetoed a UN resolution against Israel.  (And can I just add that I really want to smack Susan Rice in [...]

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

• The LaRouche Show, March 5, 2011
  Revulsion or Revolution
• Dialogue with LaRouche: The Science Behind Gla ...
  Dialog with Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, March 4, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 9
• ‘World Food Crisis’ a Direct Product of the Br ...
  By Marcia Merry Baker Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, March 4, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 9
• There Is a Limit to a Tyrant’s Power!
  By Helga Zepp-LaRouche Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, March 4, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 9
• The Doom of Quadaffy-Duck
  By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, March 4, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 9

Armies of Liberation

• Injuries and fatalities in Yemen after anti-go ...
  In what may be the bloodiest day yet since anti-government protests broke out in Yemen two weeks ago, residents around Aden are reporting numerous fatalities as security forces opened fire on protesters in many districts throughout the day and evening Friday. Human Rights Watch issued a statemen ...
• Game changer in Yemen as protests swell
  In Egypt and Tunisia, the stance of the military was pivotal in the success of popular uprisings; in Yemen, it may be the tribes that are the determining factor. Anti-government protests across Yemen show no signs of abating. In Taiz, Yemen’s largest governorate, many who arrived last Friday are ...
• In Yemen, Many Protests, One Villain
  It was only sheer chance or serendipity perhaps that southern Yemen’s “Day of Rage” was scheduled for Friday, earning the #Feb11 hashtag on Twitter. The Southern Uprising Facebook page drew nearly two thousand members since its founding two weeks ago in a nation with 2 percent Internet penetrati ...
• Novak: The Southern Leaders Don’t Practi ...
  My interview with the Aden News Agency Jane Novak⦠a name that has become coupled with Yemen, not Yemen that is known as it is known by those who doesn’t know it, but Yemen as it known by its people, with all its sorrows and economical, political and humanitarian setbacks, that are recognized b ...
• Jane Novak Interview with Aden News Agency Arabic
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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 Blogs
  [...] 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

• Tiger Poo Apparently Effective at Warding Off ...
  Photo: Todd Ryburn / CC What could strike fear in a pesky invasive pest as much as a hungry tiger on the prowl? Well, its poo, apparently. One researcher working on a natural way of warding off animals in Australia discovered that the big cat's droppings proved an effective deterrent which c ...
• Kaleidoscopes Turn Annoying Subway Ads Into Co ...
  Image via Vimeo video Public transportation is nothing if not entertaining and creatively stimulating. And so it should be if we're hoping for millions of people to switch to using subway systems instead of driving cars. One of the frustrations of public transit is the dearth of mindless ad ...
• Almost Instant Library Has Green Roof, Living Wall
  Le Corbusier said Creation is a Patient Search, but sometimes people are in a hurry. The Zeidler Partnership had to crank out an Electronic Learning Centre and 10 classrooms is a couple of months for Mohawk College in Hamilton, Ontario, and fast-track its construction to be completed in time ...
• Iceland's Clean Energy Is a Hot Commodity for ...
  From our friends at Fast Company, "bridging the fuzzy border between design and business." Anyone who witnessed the wrath of Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano last year knows that the country possesses ample geothermal resources. Iceland has so much geothermal energy, in fact, that it mig ...
• Why Are Germans Boycotting E10, the Ethanol Fuel?
  Image: volkerhoffmann11, YouTube excerpt Germans rate respect for having a national identity as eco-conscious people. Should it therefore come as a surprise that Germans are not embracing the advent of E10, a 10% ethanol-gasoline mixture, which has replaced normal gas at the pumps on a mand ...

Biosingularity

• Exploiting cancer cells’ weaknesses
  When designing new cancer drugs, biologists often target specific gene mutations found only in cancer cells, or in a subset of cancer cells. A team of MIT biologists is now taking a slightly different approach, targeting a trait shared by nearly all cancer cells — they have too many chromosomes. ...
• The Deadliest Diets
  Two specific eating patterns increase the risk of death for older adults, a 10-year study finds. Compared to people who ate healthy foods, men and women in their 70s had a 40% higher risk of death if they got most of their calories from high-fat dairy foods or from sweets and desserts. Universit ...
• Toxic House Cats?
  Toxoplasmosis is a serious disease when transmitted from a pregnant mother to the unborn fetus, potentially resulting in stillbirth, brain damage, or long-term eye damage that can lead to blindness. Even worse, it’s extremely common in a most common animal, the house cat—and it’s easily transmis ...
• The code for survival
  When cells are exposed to life-threatening stresses, they take quick action to save themselves. Among other defenses, they start manufacturing proteins that perform critical tasks such as repairing DNA. Researchers at MIT and the University of Albany have now discovered one way that cells boost ...
• Wandering Tumor Cells Predict Poor Outcome
  Women with metastatic breast cancer who have no tumor cells circulating in their blood after the first round of treatment live longer than those who do, French researchers report.Circulating tumor cells, or CTCs, are cells that break off from a tumor and escape into the bloodstream. These cells ...

CFACT

• More biofuels, more greenhouse gases
  A new study estimates that the world has more than 702 million hectares of marginal land suitable for growing biofuels, while another finds that plowing would release massive amounts of soil carbon - mostly as nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas 300 times as powerful as CO2.
• Krugman flunks food and history
  Krugman is trying to frighten us about what̢۪s very likely the finest weather humanity has ever seen. We̢۪re still getting heat waves, blizzards and some hurricanes, but fewer of them. Still, you are three times as likely to read about the severe weather we do get because the media is seekin ...
• New report casts more doubt on temperature data
• Capitol Hill eyes cuts to federal land purchases
  Facing ballooning federal deficits, the House of Representatives is preparing to take the knife to a variety of programs, including those aimed at bringing more land under Washington̢۪s ownership.
• Sea serpent to produce wave energy

Ria Novosti Online News

• Russia expects independent analysis of situati ...
  Russia expects an independent and unbiased analysis of situation in Libya from the recently appointed UN envoy to the country, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday.
• Yemeni president offers new constitution
  Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has pledged to put a new constitution to a referendum this year and create a parliamentary system in the country, world media reported Thursday.
• Ramzan Kadyrov scores two goals against Brazil
  Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov scored twice during the friendly match between his team, Grozny, and the Brazilian national team held on March 8. Grozny lost 6-4 to the Brazilian all-stars, who included Cafu, Bebeto, Dunga and Romario. Ramzan Kadyrov said the Brazilian football stars did it gra ...
• NATO, EU begin talks on Libya no-fly zone
  NATO and the European Union begin two-day talks in Brussels on Thursday over the situation in Libya, where battles between protesters and forces loyal to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi have already claimed several thousand lives.
• France recognizes rebel Libyan National Council
  France on Thursday formally recognized the rebel Libyan National Council as the only legitimate governing body in the country and plans to send an ambassador to the insurgent stronghold of Benghazi, French media reported.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• U.S. Discovery shuttle safely makes final land ...
  Space shuttle Discovery has landed at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida completing its 39th and final flight, NASA said on Wednesday.
• WWF cancels Amur Leopard count due to lack of snow
  The World Wildlife Fund said on Wednesday it was postponing a large-scale count of the endangered Amur Leopard in the Russian Far East until next year due to a lack of fresh snow fall.
• Russia to supply $139mn worth of equipment for ...
  Russia will supply over 100 million euros ($139mn) worth of equipment for the international ITER thermonuclear reactor, under construction in south France, the state nuclear corporation Rosatom reported.
• Shuttle Discovery undocks from ISS, heads for ...
  The space shuttle Discovery on Monday undocked from the U.S. segment of the International Space Station (ISS), a statement on NASA's website said.
• Disabling of oxygen generator aboard ISS no th ...
  The disabling of the Russian oxygen generator Elektron on board the International Space Station is no threat to its crew, an International Space Station representative said on Saturday.

Pruning Shears

• Calling BS on Freedom Works' Top 10 (Part 2)
  Part 1 can be found here   3. Ohio’s state and local government employees’ pensions are severely underfunded.   Again, how does SB5 solve this?  The loss of money in pensions is due to overenthusiastic assumptions by the states based on the economy at the time.  And of course, let’s not forg ...
• Calling BS on Freedom Works' Top 10 (Part 1)
  Ok, my mistake.. it was Freedom Works (not Americans For Prosperity) that put out that list of the “Top 10 Reasons to Support SB5 in Ohio to Limit Public Sector Collective Bargaining“… that might explain why I had trouble finding it.  Since I am a mommy and a student, I am going to break this up ...
• 'No On SB 5': Pictures of recent events; rally ...
  TomorrowRally in Columbus against SB 5. You still may be able to reserve a seat here.Tuesday, March 8Rally at the StatehouseWest Lawn1 Capitol SquareColumbus, OhioRally begins: 11:30 a.m.Pictures of recent eventsFrom a town hall meeting this past Saturday, March 5th at the Fatima Center in Clev ...
• Please welcome Anna in Cbus!
  [NOTE: Anna has joined the site as a contributor.  She will be posting on SB5 and other issues from Columbus.  Please welcome her! - Dan] Hi, nice to be here.  I was invited to blog a little here and wanted to take a chance to introduce myself.  I am a wife, mom, and grad student.  Currently re ...
• -
  Hi, nice to be here.  I was invited to blog a little here and wanted to take a chance to introduce myself.  I am a wife, mom, and grad student.  Currently re-evaluating my political title, but I am about as far left as they come. My intent in my first entry was to write up a dispute to a link fl ...

Organic Consumers.org

• Most "Natural" Cereals Likely Contain GMOs
  Does "natural" mean non-GMO? Not likely. Many breakfast cereals labeled natural are likely to contain ingredients from genetically modified corn, soy, canola, and sugar beets.Click here to read this article
• Organic Advocates Voice Concern for 'Natural' Food
  An organics watchdog group's criticism of a cereal company that describes its products as "all natural" is the latest in the debate about whether the term is being used to confuse consumers or simply give them more information.An organics watchdog group's criticism of a cereal company that descr ...
• Obama Administration's Ag Policy: Token Nods t ...
  A year and a half ago, I complained that President Obama's food and ag policy was "giving me whiplash," because the administration seemed to keep zigzagging between progressive change and the agrichemical status quo. Click here to read this article
• Florida Lawmaker Wants to Make Farm Photos Illegal
  Along with mountains of oranges, tomatoes, and sugar, Florida's branch of Big Ag Inc. is a reliable producer of bad news. Whether it's the fight over proto-slavery conditions for its tomato workers, the push to perfect genetically modified oranges, or the outrage of the crony capitalist "solutio ...
• David Suzuki: Politicians Who Reject Science a ...
  My life as a scientist got its boost in the United States. I was attending college in Massachusetts in 1957 on a scholarship when the Soviet Union launched the first Sputnik satellite. The event also launched the space race between the U.S.S.R. and the U.S., as the Americans started pouring mone ...

fotoFrontera

• A orillas del Mar I (15 fotos de Sol y Arena)
  ATENCIÓN: Para ver todas las fotos de esta serie, navegue usted hacia abajo y haga click sobre las imágenes que más le gusten para ampliar su tamaño y guardarlas en su computadora si así lo desea. Con 15 bellísimas fotografías, damos inicio a esta nueva colección titulada 'A orillas del ...
• Fotografías de Ríos I (14 imágenes en Alta Res ...
  ATENCIÓN: Para ver todas las fotos de esta serie, navegue usted hacia abajo y haga click sobre las imágenes que más le gusten para ampliar su tamaño y guardarlas en su computadora si así lo desea. Hace no mucho, presentamos una colección titulada 'Como Ríos de agua viva'. En esta ocasión y ...
• Fotografías de carreteras y caminos rurales I ...
  ATENCIÓN: Para ver todas las fotos de esta serie, navegue usted hacia abajo y haga click sobre las imágenes que más le gusten para ampliar su tamaño y guardarlas en su computadora si así lo desea. Fotografías de carreteras, es una nueva serie que pretende cubrir un segmento del cual poco se ...
• Paisajes fantásticos by Photoshop (21 imágenes)
  ATENCIÓN: Para ver todas las fotos de esta serie, navegue usted hacia abajo y haga click sobre las imágenes que más le gusten para ampliar su tamaño y guardarlas en su computadora si así lo desea. NO OLVIDE usted hacer click sobre las imágenes para ampliar su tamaño Más de una vez me he s ...
• Feliz Día Internacional de la Mujer (8 de Marz ...
  El Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas a través de su editor José Luis Ávila Herrera, rinde un merecido homenaje a todas las mujeres del mundo. Hoy, me uno a millones de personas que reconocemos la invaluable participación de este maravilloso e incansable ser llamado mujer. Por eso y por mucho más, no q ...

Center for a Livable Future

• Organic Farming: What is Technology’s Role?
  A recent post entitled “Organic Farmers: Can They Be Tech Savvy?”  by Mr. Hunter Richards serves as a reminder of why one interested in sustainable farming mustn’t instinctively cringe at the thought of new technology and agriculture. As the blog states, organic food has taken off as an indust ...
• Chicken, Ascendant
  Between now and April 3, the USDA is inviting comment on a just-completed, major research effort to reassess how much of the food in the United States actually makes its way into our mouths.  Its findings suggest that in the chicken-versus-beef rivalry, the popularity of boneless chicken is edgi ...
• Pesticide use reporting bill discussed in the ...
  The Maryland Department of Agriculture has surveyed MD farmers about their pesticide use just four times since 1988—most recently in 2004 when an estimated 10.7 million pounds was applied (full report). A bill heard yesterday in the Maryland General Assembly Environmental Matters Committee (Hous ...
• Health experts worldwide agree, people who eat ...
  As physicians we recognize that lean meats may be a healthy part of almost anyone’s diet. However, based on the preponderance of evidence compiled by scientists and health experts across the globe, there is little doubt that a diet high in red and processed meats is linked to serious health risk ...
• Notes from New Zealand: China’s Investment in ...
  CLF Director Robert S. Lawrence, MD, is on sabbatical in Auckland, New Zealand, where he is studying the country’s agriculture system. As we waited in the Sydney airport for our connecting flight to Auckland, I picked up a copy of The Australian, one of the major newspapers in Australia, and n ...

Norwegianity

• Sorry for the light morning post, here’s ...
  NPR can’t die fast enough to suit me, but in so doing they could at least try to drag down the scum who suckered them. Instead, I suspect their board will give O’Keefe some kind of medal. Ian “David Koch on line 1″ Murphy’s somewhat impressed, but not willing to compare O’Keefe’s scams to his [...]
• No time to write, here’s 51 links instead
  Yes, they most certainly are. Even war criminal and all round bastard John Yoo is snarking. Which is why this Mr. Fish cartoon is his best ever: When you’ve lost Matt Damon, you’ve pretty much lost it all. News: Even wealthy suburbs are into cutting school budgets (which pretty much proves that ...
• The wank tank right
  It’s hard to say, but I think maybe the NYTimes is a little embarrassed by the Peter King radical Islam hearings, enough so that they’re scrutinizing the right a little more closely this morning: Or not. It’s really hard to figure out what these assholes think is newsworthy, and what’s being flo ...
• The Axis of Hibernian-Islamo-lutefisking
  Jason Bo-Alan Beckman, a Wayzata based money manager, has just been charged with participating in a $194-million investment fraud that dates back to at least 2006. Bill Cooper’s TCF Financial Corporation is based in Wayzata, btw. Not saying anything about that other than to remind readers that t ...
• The future has consequences
  I could easily post a link a day about Watson, the Jeopardy-playing IBM supercomputer, and maybe I should. It might make it less of a shock that we no longer need legal researchers as computers now search case law much faster and better than humans do, and that has consequences. Some programs go ...

Public News Service

• Poll Finds Strong Public Support for Endangere ...
  Poll Finds Strong Public Support for Endangered Species Act…and Wolves Phoenix, AZ – A new poll on wildlife management, the Endangered Species Act and wolves shows strong public support for all three. U.S. House Republicans hope to remove ESA protections for wolves as part of a stopgap federal ...
• Debt Reduction Roadmap
  Debt Reduction Roadmap Washington D.C. – A federal government shutdown has been avoided, at least for the next two weeks, with enactment of a stop-gap spending bill. But the measure leaves unresolved House-passed spending cuts of 60-billion dollars which still need to be reconciled with the Sen ...
• EPA: "Burn Wisely" – Tax Credit Extended ...
  EPA: "Burn Wisely" – Tax Credit Extended for New Wood Stoves Phoenix, AZ – Old Man Winter will be around for a bit longer in Arizona's high country, which means a few more weeks of wood burning for heat. The E.P.A.'s Burn Wise program offers tips to make sure Arizonans get the most bang for thei ...
• Arizona Parents Compete for Attention of Scree ...
  Arizona Parents Compete for Attention of Screen-Saturated Teens Phoenix, AZ – A recent study of 2,000 U.S. young people shows just what Arizona parents are up against in the screen-saturated world of pre-teens and teenagers. Comments from author of “Let the Baby Drive: Navigating the Road of New ...
• 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 ...

Center for Food Safety

• Bi-Partisan Legislation Introduced To Ban Dang ...
  Sixty-Four Organizations, Fishing Associations and Retailers Endorse Legislation; Lawmakers Cite Serious Economic, Environmental and Human Health Threats The Center for Food Safety along with 63 other groups, businesses and retailers applaud Senators Mark Begich (D-Alaska) and Lisa Murkowski (R- ...
• Nature Happens – Humans Can’t Cont ...
  By Lisa J. Bunin, Liana Hoodes, Michael Sligh Last week, USDA announced its decision to allow the planting of Monsanto’s Roundup Ready (RR) GM alfalfa without any ongoing monitoring or regulation whatsoever.  Despite widespread consumer, farmer, and food industry opposition and contrary scientif ...
• World’s First Genetically Engineered Biofuels ...
  Impacts on Human Health, Environment, and Farmers Not Fully Assessed DESPITE RISING GLOBAL FOOD PRICES, OBAMA ADMINISTRATION CONTINUES MISGUIDED BIOFUELS AGENDA The Center for Food Safety criticized an announcement today by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) that it will approve the world ...
• 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 ...
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Angry Indian Op-Eds

• Imperial Feminism : Culture Mop
  Imperial Feminism : Culture Mop: "It is important to recognize the brutality that occurred in the streets of Cairo that day and the days that followed, as well as the ongoing harassment of women in Egypt. We should not deny the clear and disturbing reality of this problem. However, it is not fai ...
• WaPo: Same Sex Couples Lead to Marriage Licens ...
  Rod 2.0:Beta #gay #news #lgbt #gaynews: WaPo: Same Sex Couples Lead to Marriage Licenses Doubling in D.C.: "The total number of applications more than doubled since the first same-sex couples lined up to get their licenses, from about 3,100 in the previous year to 6,600 during the past 12 months ...
• A Real Sharia Law Promoter for Peter King to I ...
  A Real Sharia Law Promoter for Peter King to Investigate | The Nation: [FOTO: Masked Provisional IRA volunteers at a rally in August 1979. US Rep. Peter King has long supported and actively advocated the use of political violence as a means of national resistance for the Celtic peoples of Irelan ...
• Ahi-kā-roa: Special Rapporteur Report: Treaty ...
  Ahi-kā-roa: Special Rapporteur Report: Treaty settlements: "In July last year, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, James Anaya, visited New Zealand to investigate the situation of Māori. That visit was to follow up the 2005 visit of the previous Special Ra ...
• John John: The View From Occupied Canada #233
  Vancouver Island Bald Eagles Are "Falling From the Sky" - Seattle News - The Daily Weekly It was one thing when starlings, robins, and turtledoves were falling dead from the sky in places like Kentucky, Italy, and Arkansas. Those places are far from the Pacific Northwest, and the birds are just ...

Pensieve

• More on Egypt
  Reading that now, a few days after the military pressured Mubarak to step down, the Egyptian parliament has been dissolved, and the Constitution invalidated by the Egyptian military. This fills me with fear. The mainstream media are treating these acts as a good thing, and the Egyptians they int ...
• Update: Mubarak Not Stepping Down Tonight
  Related posts:Celestial Show Tonight Update on March Update, Perverse Justice
• US involved in an Egyptian “military coup”?
  Photo by adaptorplug A CNN news story says that Hofni Mubarak will likely relinquish power to the Egyptian military tonight. This is what their source, âa senior Egyptian officalâ is quoted by CNN as saying: He said the process — which included dialogue between the government and opposition repr ...
• 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. [ ...

Green Times

• Solar-powered parking meter
  Parking meters like this one are becoming more common around Australian cities. A small solar panel on top of the device converts solar energy (glossary/categories/energy/solar-renewable-energy.html) into electricity which gets stocked in a battery, providing a running meter even on cloudy days ...
• Cloud building up
  Clouds truly look beautiful but they are in most cases synonym of rain and thunderstorm... Cloud formations come from water condensation (wildlife/condensation.html) in the cool higher atmospheric (wildlife/condensation.html) layers. The water condenses and  piles up until the air is oversaturat ...
• Fish Party
  When is a fish party not a party? A fish party may sound like a lot of fun, but not in this case… This video is part of Greenpeace UK's newest campaign, fighting back against the canned tuna or tinned tuna industry's cruel method of fishing. The latest method uses something called a Fish Aggreg ...
• Environmental News 08/03/2011
  Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
• Clean Up Australia Day 2011: Community Spirit ...
  Helping to collect over 16,280 tonnes of rubbish, the Cubs at 1st Bentleigh Scout Group join in the community spirit!

The Briefing Room | Investigate

• Latest Investigate HIS HERS onsale
• Free Movie tickets: CONVICTION
  The kind folk at 20th Century Fox have made available some double passes for our TBR, Twitter and Facebook readers to see the new movie CONVICTION, based on the true story of Betty Ann Waters who studied to become a...
• New-look Investigate magazine HIS and HERS goe ...
  As of Sunday...with more exclusive revelations about the Pike River disaster and police bungles in the rescue operation...and HERS features new poll results showing support for National is wide but shallow, and that a large number of voters want Winston...
• Investigate Political Poll 2011 - No1
  Investigate magazine's first big omnibus and political poll in more than five years is underway. If you want to fill in the survey form (takes less than two minutes on average) online, you'll find it here.
• BREAKING NEWS: Arizona shooter of Gabrielle Gi ...
  The young gunman who shot and killed six people, and left Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in critical condition, appears to have borne a grudge against Giffords after meeting her in 2007 at the age of 19. According to reports, former...

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

• Israeli solidarity activist interrogated by po ...
  Sara Benninga, whose speech I reposted here on the blog, was interrogated by the police after speaking at the JStreet conference I attended. She provided one of the voices for a new direction for Jewish and Israeli activists working alongside Palestinians for justice. For this she rewarded with ...
• Eviatar: Three Dead Children
  Guest Post by Aharan Eviatar The recent ghastly events in Arizona, especially the killing of Christina Greene, gunned down by a political lunatic at age nine, lead one to think of the phenomenon of political killing of children and what it implies for society. In particular, I would like to bri ...
• Second School Year Opens at Salem’s Musi ...
  On Saturday February 19 we visited the Salem Music Center. We were accompanied by three professionals – Fuad, a music teacher from Tel Aviv-Yaffa, Ram – principal of Tel Aviv’s art high school, and Ruti – head of that school’s music department. The occasion was the opening of a second school yea ...
• 7 hours ago in Al Arakib
  By Yeela Raanan It seemed that there were “red lines” even for the police brutality against the Bedouins of the Israeli Negev – while destroying homes that had no possibility for acquiring building permits, arresting people on their village lands in order to make room for JNF trees, beating ac ...
• Please Help Rebuild 13 Water Cisterns Destroye ...
  crossposted from the Villages Group blog) The situation of the Palestinian cave-dwellers in South Hebron Hills continues to be difficult. They suffer from permanent harassment carried out by the military and settlers. This year, however, has been even more difficult, due to a severe drought. As ...

Politics in the Zeros

• Investment banks will surely hire him after he ...
  Because this recent high school grad who wants be a bankster is their kind of guy; entrepreneurial and devoid of ethics. Aspiring hedge fund manager charged with changing high school kids’ grades for cash
• White supremcacist arrested in Spokane MLK bom ...
  “What to me this arrest suggests is that the Martin Luther King Day attack is what it always looked like: A terror-mass murder attempt directed at black people and their sympathizers,” said Mark Potok [of the SPLC]
• US Uncut crashes Bank of America conference
  Bank of America, the largest bank and 5th largest corporation in America is reported to have paid zero federal income tax in 2009, funneling its income through 115 foreign tax-haven subsidiaries. The $3 in my wallet is more than ExxonMobil, GE and Bank of America paid in taxes last year, combine ...
• Liberals don’t get it why the O’Keefe NPR vide ...
  Liberals blogs predictably are filled with rants about how the Tea Party is indeed racist. But that’s not entirely true. The Karl Denninger branch of the Tea Party isn’t racist, and he co-founded the original Tea Party. Go to his site and see if you find any racism. I don’t think you can because ...
• Pension crisis forces Costa Mesa to layoff hal ...
  The financial implosion at CalPERS, the giant California public pension fund, is now directly impacting municipalities. The city of Costa Mesa recently voted to send pink slips to 203 out of 472 of its full-time employees, warning them that they could lose their jobs within six months. The city ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

• Chemtrail Snow tested with Metal Detector! Mt. ...
• The Charlie Sheen Effect – He’s still Here
  By Jack Blood Deadlinelive.info 3.9.11 The question has begun to be asked, rightfully so, IS CHARLIE SHEEN A GIANT MEDIA HOAX? If so… Its the greatest hoax in media history! I have resisted weighing in on the psych soap opera playing out day by day in the global media… Is Charlie a maniacal, meg ...
• Deadline Live – March 9 2011
  Wednesday’s Guest – DEADLINE LIVE RADIO: Prof. Michel Chossudovsky Director of Centre for Research on Globalization – Author of The Global Economic Crisis – The Great Depression of the XXI Century
• This Day In History – March 10
  1876 â Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call by saying “Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you.” 1902 – This was the day that a case regarding the invention of the movie camera was decided. The U.S. Court ruled that Thomas Edison was not the original inventor of the m ...
• Hedge Fund Icon Returning All Money to Clients ...
  THIS IS A MAJOR INDICATOR! PAY ATTENTION !   (Reuters) – Billionaire hedge-fund manager Carl Icahn is returning capital to outside investors, marking the end of an era as he joins other prominent stock pickers who no longer want the headaches of handling other people’s money. Icahn, known for a ...

The Air Vent

• Another brick in the Wahl
  Still no time for climate blogging.  In fact if anything, time is shorter. If you have any interest in climate science and why the skeptics are winning the war of reason over ‘scientists’, read this post by Steve Mosher and Charles the moderator at WUWT. The recent CA article is also worth your ...
• kgnd & Cross-Validation: PART II – Parti ...
  by Ryan O’Donnell kgnd & Cross-Validation: PART II (TTLS vs. Ridge Regression and Table S3) In his O’Donnellgate post, Steig makes the following observation: Itâs perhaps also worth pointing out that the *main* criticism I had of OâDonnellâs paper was never addressed. If youâre interested in thi ...
• Nick Stokes – TempLS
  Nick Stokes has been messing around with another regression of the Antarctic, he’s done some good stuff but I believe is seeing some of the difficulty of spatial trend containment using PCA methods.  It’s fairly interesting: Antarctic, RO10, Steig and TempLS.
• kgnd & Cross-Validation – By Ryan ODonnell
  PART I (West Antarctica) IMPORTANT NOTE:  The code has been modified to extract station-by-station cross-validation results for TTLS.  If you are using the code, please download the new copy RO10 Code.txt and use that.  Data is here internal.cv.Rdata.
• Crystalline Silicon Ball
  Well Lucia has a post from Zeke which is experiencing a nice reception at her blog as well as Judith Curry’s.  As often is the case, my own head feels about to explode over some of the “known details”.  There are far too many otherwise smart people ready to accept them for my liking and [...]

Focal Point

• Sex Advice Columnist Dan Savage As Ethicist
  Benjamin Dueholm has a cover story in the Washington Monthly assessing sex advice columnist Dan Savage as an ethicist: Savage yields to no one in his sexual libertarianism, but he has not been content to relegate the ideas of right and wrong to cultural conservatives. Wading deep into the f ...
• Slavery Proponents Not Stupid, Excellent at Ra ...
  "Secession wasn’t evidence that the South didn’t have a reasoned intellectual life. In fact, it was the strongest evidence that it did," according to the teaser on a blog post by historian Michael O'Brien on the New York Times' website. Historical evidence abounds that Southerners were not ...
• Of Course Birth Control Prevents Abortions: De ...
  Kirsten Powers has a piece in the Daily Beast arguing that birth control doesn't prevent abortions. Her case is largely based on a blatant factual error. She writes: In the U.S., the story isn’t much different. A January 2011 fact sheet by the pro-abortion rights Guttmacher Institute listed ...
• Scott Walker Snuck Ringers Into Budget Speech
  Wisconsin governor Scott Walker defied a court order to ban citizens from the capitol building during his budget address. Citizens were left out in the cold while Walker's allies were smuggled in, possibly through hidden civil defense tunnels, Abe Sauer reports in the Awl: Walker entered to ...
• Obama Admin Declines to Defend Entire "Defense ...
  Good news: Attorney General Eric Holder announced last week that the Justice Department will no longer defend Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act, the part that defines marriage as the union of one man and one woman. Holder said that the executive would continue to enforce the law until it ...

Inside Facebook

• Reminder: Deprecation of FMBL Page Apps and PO ...
  This week, Facebook is completing two major migrations that impact Page admins and could break apps if developers haven’t prepared. Starting March 11th, Page admins will no longer be able to install new FMBL apps and developers will no longer be able to create them. Instead, they are to develop ...
• Facebook Videos Moved to the Profile’s Photos Tab
  A thread on Quora from Evan Priestley, an engineer with Facebook, outlines how the company has moved videos from its own separate tab to the photos tab on profiles. Pages continue to have a separate video tab with the new layout. The change may temporarily make videos difficult to find for some ...
• Insto.re Lets Local Businesses Offer Instant R ...
  Momentus Media has released a new tool called Insto.re that allows brick and mortar businesses to offer customers an in-store reward for Liking their Facebook Page via mobile phone. Business owners set up a deal such as “Free Cookie with Facebook Like”, then customers visit a unique Insto.re ...
• Badoo, Video, Luck, Mobile and Connect on This ...
  A wide variety of applications composed our list of the top 20 growing Facebook apps this week. Most of the growth for the non-game apps came from outside of the U.S. Our list was compiled based on AppData, our data tracking service covering traffic growth for apps on Facebook, and covers apps t ...
• Highlights This Week from the Inside Network J ...
  The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities in the Facebook Platform and social gaming ecosystem. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at Digital Chocolate, Arkadium, Diversion Inc, EverTold, Funcom, ...

Truthout - Tweets

• truthout: Investigation: Interpol and Julian A ...
  truthout: Investigation: Interpol and Julian Assange's Red Notice http://bit.ly/g90zag #p2 #p2b #p21
• truthout: "No-Fly Zone"? Senator Kerry, the UN ...
  truthout: "No-Fly Zone"? Senator Kerry, the UN Charter Is Supreme Law http://bit.ly/ecMZaI #p2 #p2b #p21
• truthout: The Cairo-Madison Connection http:// ...
  truthout: The Cairo-Madison Connection http://bit.ly/gZXLD2 #p2 #p2b #p21
• truthout: News in Brief: NPR Executives Resign ...
  truthout: News in Brief: NPR Executives Resign Over Flaps, and More ... http://bit.ly/fcIvhV #p2 #p2b #p21
• truthout: 911 Is a Joke (Because It's Broke) h ...
  truthout: 911 Is a Joke (Because It's Broke) http://bit.ly/hd5STF #p2 #p2b #p21

ReDress News

• Netanyahu's illusory peace plan
  Jonathan Cook considers Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's imminent plan to buy time and fend off world pressure in the context of Israel's unprecedented and growing international isolation.
• The grievous return of Henry Kissinger
  Lawrence Davidson views Henry Kissinger's recent lobbying to free Jonathan Pollard, an American convicted of spying for Israel, against the background of a history of bad judgements, amoral decisions and war crimes by the former US secretary of state. "The real Henry Kissinger, who implausabily ...
• Exposed: Israel's sham inquiry into murder abo ...
  Richard Lightbown assess in forensic detail Israel's submission to the UN Panel of Inquiry on the Gaza Flotilla raid (the Turkel Commission Report) against available evidence, showing how the commission received much of its testimony via a third party, discouraged witnesses from the flotilla fro ...
• Could pariah status spell the end for Zionism?
  Alan Hart considers the possibility of whether a global perception of Israeli Jews as citizens of a pariah state and the prospect of real sanctions will alarm enough of them to the point where they will take to the streets in significant numbers to demand that their leaders be serious about peac ...
• Israel on the wrong side of history
  Uri Avnery argues that Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's policy of maintaining Israel as a garrison state, enlarging the settlements, preventing the foundation of a real Palestinian state and promoting eternal conflict is leading to a cul-de-sac and international isolation from which i ...

Amazon Rainforest

• Brazil judge blocks Amazon Belo Monte dam:
  Federal Brasilian judge Ronaldo Desterro has blocked plans to build a huge hydro-electric dam in the Amazon rainforest because of environmental concerns. Judge Desterro said environmental requirements to build the Belo Monte dam had not been met. He also barred the national development bank, BND ...
• 1.ooo military forces end illegal gold mining ...
  The Peruvian military has cleared-out illegal gold mining along the country’s south-eastern Amazon region in a move aiming to protect the environment. The government sent about 1,000 security forces to the region of Madre de Dios to destroy the illegal operations, the state-funded BBC reported. ...
• BREAKING: Chevron Guilty of Amazon Rainforest ...
  Amazon Watch and Rainforest Action Network just announced a major victory for the Amazon rainforest. An Ecuadorean judge today found Chevron guilty of one of the largest environmental crimes in history and ordered the company to pay a whopping $8 billion to clean up its damage in the Amazon. Che ...
• First film footage of uncontacted Amazon Tribe
  The footage was filmed by the BBC’s Human Planet series shows a Tribe known as the Panoan, who live in virtual isolation from the outside world. The team needed too get footage of the Tribe as proof of their existence so as the government could protect them from illegal logging and mining operat ...
• Second rancher sentenced for contract kill of ...
  A second rancher has been sentenced for his role in the murder of Dorothy Stang, an American nun who was gunned down in 2005 for her efforts on behalf of poor farmers in the Amazon Rainforest. Regivaldo Galvao was sentenced to 30 years in prison by a jury in the city of Pará. Last month [...]

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• Boiling Frogs Post Countdown-Week 2
  We Need Your Support to ‘Help Wake up the American public before the water gets too hot to climb out of the pot’ I want to thank those of you who have contributed to Boiling Frogs Post during our first week campaign. Thank You! Next, I want to briefly respond to a common inquiry I’ve received fr ...
• Sibel Edmonds’ Boiling Frogs Post: Year Two
  We Need Your Support to Continue & Expand: Countdown Week 1 In October 2009 I launched Boiling Frogs Post  with one purpose in mind: To establish a venue for investigative articles, editorials, analyses, discussions, and interviews on issues largely censored by the media. We are entering our sec ...
• Boiling Frogs Post Status & Update
  Boiling Frogs Year Two-A Personal Note Next week I’ll be leaving for a business related trip, followed by relocation related travel where I’ll be checking housing, schooling for my daughter, work,  among tons of other ‘life related’ details in a new hometown, and finalized by a short but straigh ...
• Boiling Frogs Beltway Buzz: The Upcoming Bipar ...
  A Caucus to Combat Terrorism, Domestic Violence, Divorce & Job Dissatisfaction via ‘Happiness Pill’ According to our inside sources a new Bipartisan Congressional Caucus for Prozac will be launched before the end of the 112th Congress. The primary purpose of the Prozac Caucus will be to raise aw ...
• Hillary Clinton: Beware of the Mini Pharaoh in ...
  “Speaking Fee” is the New Name for Political Donation Laundering-Rechanneling (PDLR) Political donation laundering-rechanneling (PDLR) is a business in its own right, whether it is for pre-election donations or post-election maintenance contributions.  In most cases, PDLR requires savvy strategi ...

Afro Spear

• “If Gadaffi is right “drug addicts ...
  Though it can be regarded as buffoonish, the idea that protesters in Libya are drugged young and jobless people sometimes makes sense. Even if this is not the case in Libya, there is a naked truth behind this. When Muamar Gadaffi was cornered, he employed mercenaries in duped or dumped cops from ...
• Byts and Bytes
  1. Psyco-Slavery: Black Boys, White Female Teachers & the Rise of A.D.H.D.   2. How China has created a new slave empire in Africa 3. Afro-Futurism: The Marketing of Revolution
• FREE WESLEY SNIPES!!!
  They gave Ron Isley three years. They gave Wesley Snipes three years. What did they give the CEO/CFO’s of Merrill Lynch, AIG, Goldmund Sachs?! I’ll tell you what they gave them: a handjob. They gave them record bonuses, the highest being almost half a billion dollars. They, meaning the people ch ...
• When Keeping It Real Goes Wrong, Part 13
  Earlier today, I was reading the post on “Tim Wise” from last year. Some recent new comments had shown up and I was curious; I re-read the entire post. It was very interesting and made me reflect on me, on my feelings related to the post’s contents and comments. Tim Wise doesn’t move me. In [...]
• Bishop Noel Jones in South Africa…The Pr ...
  The great Bishop Noel Jones, discussing the intersection of business and church, the practical and the spiritual, the dialectical and the liturgical. Bishop Noel Jones is considered a profound Christian theologian and intellectual. He has a way with the Word of God that leaves no room for doubt ...

Expose the BNP

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

Sen4Earth

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

If Americans Knew

• Gabrielle Giffords, Tom Hurndall and Palestini ...
  Alison Weir, CounterPunch - There is something particularly horrifying when someone is shot in the head. Perhaps it's the gruesome image, the destruction of the brain, the clear intent to kill. The recent shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is made even more nightmarish by the l ...
• As Israel kills and maims, Outrage is directed ...
  Whenever Israel commits yet another atrocity, its defenders are quick to redirect public attention away from the grisly crime scene. Currently, there are headlines about allegedly anti-Semitic comments made by senior White House correspondent Helen Thomas. Pundits across the land evince outrage ...
• An Open Letter to the Southern Poverty Law Cli ...
  I am disturbed by an article that the Center published in the fall 2007 issue of "Intelligence Report"--the Center's magazine. The item "Navy Extremist Disciplined--But Not for Extremism" is on page 11. The article focuses on Navy officer John Sharpe Jr.
• NPR Watch: Linda Gradstein Has Done It Again o ...
  NPR's reporter Linda Gradstein has done it again. She has managed to take a "must report" story on Israeli-Palestinian relations -- the new report by B'Tselem on the non-combatants, including children, killed by the Israeli military during the Israeli attack on Gaza -- and report it in a manner ...
• The invisible government: Propaganda Disguised ...
  John Pilger: In a speech in Chicago, John Pilger describes how propaganda has become such a potent force in our lives and, in the words of one of its founders, represents 'an invisible government'.

David J. Gregory

• Republican Cuts Devastate interests to THE PEOPLE
  Congress needs to hear from all of us right away, because the only chance we have to stop this budget is if Senate Democrats stand united against it. And the first vote could come today.1 Can you call Sen. Nelson and tell him to stand strong against Republicans‘ massive, devastating cuts? Senato ...
• Rally to Save the American Dream
  In Wisconsin and around our country, the American Dream is under fierce attack. Instead of creating jobs, Republicans are giving tax breaks to corporations and the very rich—and then cutting funding for education, police, emergency response, and vital human services. On Saturday, February 26, a ...
• RICK SCOTT MADE MILLIONS OFF HEALTH NOW CUTS I ...
  Whether it's a political stunt or the act of an extremist ideologue, Scott is hurting real Floridians in concrete ways, including millions of people with private health insurance or Medicare benefits. He's taking away a law that ends the worst insurance company abuses and frees families, senior ...
• CUT PENTAGON BUDGET: ACT NOW
  Their current proposal includes cuts in domestic spending, diplomacy, development, and international assistance but allows the Pentagon budget to continue to rise.
• SAY NO to Patriot EXTENSIONS!
  Together, these provisions make a mockery of our civil liberties: They let government officials spy on whomever they want, for any reason, without ever letting them know or giving them a chance to challenge the order in court.

Unsuitable Blog

• UK Census 2011: Why I Will Be Breaking The Law ...
  On Sunday March 27, 2011 I will be breaking the law. If you live in England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland then I would also like you to break the law. We can do it together, and I know for a fact that an awful lot of people will be doing the same. The UK [...]
• Interview With Bill McKibben, Winner of Puffin ...
  Climate reality writer and activist Gregory Vickrey. (L) ( Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Founder of 350.org, writer and environmentalist Bill McKibben. (R) (Photo: Nancie Battaglia / 350.org) Bill McKibben, Schumann distinguished scholar at Middlebury College, is the author of a dozen boo ...
• An Open Letter to Journalists From Gasland Dir ...
  With the recent Oscar nomination of my documentary film GASLAND, Big Gas and their PR attack machine hit a new low in its blatant disregard for the truth. In an unprecedented move, an oil and gas industry front group sent a letter to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences saying that th ...
• 350.org say “Hello Business, Goodbye Gra ...
  For a while it wasn’t certain which side would blink first: the grassroots or the corporate loving heirarchy. Turns out that the grassroots blinked before the heirarchy had even been established. When, like 350.org you have a full time staff of just half a dozen people then you have a pretty eas ...
• Friends of the Earth, iPods and The Competitio ...
  It was a windy Thursday evening at the beginning of 2011. An office in north London buzzed with anticipation at the launch of something exciting; something that would appeal to a new breed of eco-conscious consumers who want that extra something to keep them feeling good about their fast-pased, ...

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

• How to Design a Simple Newsgame Authoring Tool
  Our teams at Georgia Tech and UC Santa Cruz have been working on an authoring tool that helps journalists quickly create bite-sized newsgames. The Cartoonist has been the working title for the tool because our intention is to create games akin to editorial cartoons, in terms of the amount of inf ...
• Drupal Now Accessible Via Any Phone
  MIT's Center for Future Civic Media has done a variety of breakthrough civic systems with phones. Examples range from Leo Burd's What's Up platform to the Call4Action class and its cool student projects. We at C4 love these projects, but working with phones has always been a bear. A lot o ...
• Knight News Innovation Lab Seeks Executive Dir ...
  The Knight News Innovation Laboratory at Northwestern University, whose mission is to "accelerate media innovation" in the Chicago region and beyond, is seeking an executive director. The lab, supported by a four-year, $4.2 million grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, is part ...
• Drupal Now Accessible Via Mobile Phone
  MIT's Center for Future Civic Media has done a variety of breakthrough civic systems with phones. Examples range from Leo Burd's What's Up platform to the Call4Action class and its cool student projects. We at C4 love these projects, but working with phones has always been a bear. A lot o ...
• Open Media Project's User-Driven, New Media Ne ...
  Last week, the Open Media Foundation and the Internet Archive announced a significant development in the Open Media Project, the open-source effort designed to enable more community participation and control over community media organizations. The Internet Archive Drupal Module, which was the fi ...

Cutting Edge News

• The Battle for Bahrain - Persian Gulf Oil King ...
  The oil-rich Arab states of the Persian Gulf may soon inject huge sums of aid money into Oman and Bahrain to quiet the unrest that has erupted in both countries recently. Reports of the likely funding -- which includes more than $10 billion for Bahrain alone, a nation of some 900,000 citizens -- ...
• Film Review - True Grit: Lacking a Moral Compass
  One scene from the 1969 version of True Grit, directed by the journeyman Henry Hathaway, that is interestingly altered in the new remake by the Brothers Coen comes when John Wayne as federal marshal Reuben, "Rooster," Cogburn — who is played in the remake by Jeff Bridges — is giving his employer ...
• Book Review - Missouri’s Clemens becomes Calif ...
  Roy Morris, Jr. Lighting Out for the Territory: How Samuel Clemens Headed West and Became Mark Twain. Simon & Schuster, 2010. 304 pp.Most of us understand Mark Twain as a Western writer—whether “West” is defined in terms of his Missouri provenance (certainly the frontier at the time of his birth ...
• Rethinking War Strategy - Never Fight a Land W ...
  U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, speaking at West Point, said last week that “Any future defense secretary who advises the president to again send a big American land army into Asia or into the Middle East or Africa should have his head examined.” In saying this, Gates was repeating a dic ...
• Egypt After the Revolt - Sheik Yusuf Qaradawi ...
  Sheik Yusuf Qaradawi is an Egyptian Islamic theologian best known for his TV program Shariah and Life broadcast through Al-Jazeera to an approximate 40 million people worldwide. Qaradawi has written and published more than 100 books and, in 1997, founded the popular website "Islam Online," for w ...

High Country News

• Finding place
  A wilderness ranger has spent the last 14 years coming to intimately know -- and love -- a remarkable corner of Alaska.
• Oregon sculptor turns beach trash into meaning ...
  Angela Haseltine Pozzi makes thought-provoking art from the trash that washes up on Oregon's beaches.
• New national forest rule lacks rigor
  Environmentalists like the tone of the Forest Service's new draft planning rule, but worry about how - and if - it will be enforced on the ground.
• Thirteen ways of looking at a mushroom cloud
  Ann Ronald's Friendly Fallout 1953 is an experiment in literary fission that describes 11 actual nuclear detonations through the eyes of mostly fictional characters.
• Regaining identity through restoration
  Charles Wilkinson's new book, The People Are Dancing Again: The History of the Siletz Tribe of Western Oregon describes how a tribe "terminated" by the federal government fought to regain its identity.

CounterCurrents

• Counterrevolution 101
  By Dave Fryett The wretched of the Earth have seen what is possible. Power has been shown to be powerless in the face of determined mass opposition. And in every corner of our world the immiserated rejoice, because they know the day of liberation draws near
• No One Curious What CIA Is Working On At The ...
  By Jay Janson What does the CIA have in store for Egypt? What chores will it assign its agents both American and Egyptian? American socialists and progressives are overly cooperative with mainstream media and Congress in hardly ever asking after our secret CIA shadow government
• Lessons Learned In The Streets Of Cairo
  By William A. CookIf the streets of Cairo have taught us anything, they have demonstrated that vigilance against those who would control out of arrogance, oppress with indifference, deceive with impunity, and humiliate without feeling, have abandoned all natural sympathies and become , in fact ...
• What Is True Sustainability?
  By Matthew SteinIf we are to develop an effective plan and roadmap for creating a sustainable world, we must first have a clear idea of what it truly means to be sustainable
• Egypts Army Dissolves Parliament
  By Al Jazeera Military rulers say they will remain in charge for six months until elections are held as some protesters vow to remain

Contagious Love Experiment

• Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
  Dear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
• Practicing Peace in the New Year
  A friend, Frank Swift, that I met on my first journey has passed along some great practical steps towards peace for the new year. Frank has written a children’s book to help young people see an alternative to the competition and forcefulness that can too easily get instilled in our young people. ...
• Sharing the writing of another Stieber
  My younger brother, Zack, has been fascinated by the Chinese practice of Falun Gong and is hoping that this post could be used to spark a further discussion about it. � Thoughts on Falun Gong by Zack Stieber � Most of us are aware that in China things work differently then here. The main thing o ...
• Article in FOR
  The following is the rough draft for an article I wrote, reflecting on the war in Iraq, that was published in the recent edition of the Fellowship of Reconciliation’s magazine. For more info on getting the full magazine, check out: http://forusa.org/fall-2010-renewing-movement   Rhetoric and Re ...
• Slate Interview: My Country Right or Wrong: Co ...
  Interview I did with a fascinating writer for SLATE whose special interest is on transformation and how people come to admit they’re wrong:   Address to article: http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/thewrongstuff/archive/2010/12/16/my-country-right-or-wrong-conscientious-objector-josh-stieber-on-bei ...

Yid With Lid

• The Legal Penalties Of Supporting The BDS Acti ...
  For all the noise the BDS movement is making lately it seems they are (intentionally?) forgetting to mention a tiny fact - it is illegal for US firms to boycott Israel and you could face up to 10 years in prison for violating the anti boycott laws. The antiboycott laws were adopted to enco ...
• Rick Moran Hosts The Battle of the Bloggers
  It was a battle of the bloggers last night on the Rick Moran Show.�� Called a political potpourri, it really was an hour-long battle between four very opinionated people.� Jazz Shaw of the Hot Air Green Room, Doug Mataconis of Below the Beltway, our host Rick Moran who writes at the Right Wing N ...
• Top Bahrain Opposition Cleric: We Want Sharia ...
  By Barry Rubin Not everyone in the opposition movements in Arab countries are Islamists, of course, but at least outside of Tunisia, where they are also present, they are the most powerful organized force. Here's an excerpt from the Friday, March 4�sermon of�Sheik Isa Qassim, considered ...
• Audio Interview with NPR's Media Reporter Davi ...
  Not many people were surprised National Public Radio announced that President and CEO Vivian Schiller had resigned, the day after the release of an undercover video sting showing a former top NPR executive vilifying grass-roots conservatives and questioning the need for continued federal funding ...
• UH-OH!!! Moonbats Say Global Warming Will Scre ...
  It's time to add to the list of dumb things the global warming moonbats claim is caused by their hoax.� During the past two years the left has blamed global warming for Incredible shrinking sheep, Invasion of jellyfish in the Mediterranean, Surge in fatal shark attack, Boy Scout tornado death ...

The Real Agenda

• Un 82% de los niños de EE.UU. con educación de ...
  Anuncio se produce mientras Barack Obama hace un llamado para gastar más para “arreglar” el sistema educativo americano. Obama envió al Congreso de los EE.UU. un presupuesto 3,730,000,000,000 trillones de dólares Por Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda Marzo 10, 2011 Se estima que 82 por ciento de l ...
• “Markets Like Totalitarian Governments&# ...
  Zero Hedge March 4, 2011 Wall Street’s shadow king, Blackrock’s Larry Fink who manages over $3 trillion, and is the world’s biggest asset manager, appeared on Bloomberg TV in an interview with Erik Schatzker, and the first thing he said is that the “market likes totalitarian governments.   ” Tha ...
• 82 % of U.S. school children left behind?
  Announcement comes as Barack Obama called for more spending to fix American education system as he sent the U.S. Congress a $3.73 trillion budget AP An estimated 82 percent of U.S. schools could be labeled as “failing” under the nation’s No Child Left Behind Act this year, Education Secretary Ar ...
• U.S. Homeland Security Kept Undercover Sex Tou ...
  Massachusetts-based web hosting firm removed the site from its servers due to complaints The Smoking Gun March 9, 2011 In an aggressive bid to entice prospective “sex tourists,” the Department of Homeland Security last year launched an undercover web site that purported to arrange trips from the ...
• Pro-War Perception Management Media Operation
  Corporate Media Enhances Western Attention to an attack on Libya, other countries in the Middle East By Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda March 9, 2011 While a former U.S. Ambassador blatantly says on international television that United States foreign policy in the Middle East is driven by the co ...

Wind Watch

• Committee suspends PSC wind siting rule
  A legislative committee voted Tuesday to suspend a wind siting rule adopted last year by the state Public Service Commission. The 5-to-2 vote along party lines by the Legislature’s joint committee that reviews administrative rules means there are now no standards in effect across the state gover ...
• Sound the main issue at Public Service Board h ...
  The Public Service Board began its third week of hearings on the Kingdom Community Wind project in Lowell with a bang. Or at least with the argument by a noise expert that wind turbines sound similar enough to banging noises like explosions, guns firing, and sonic booms that the Public Service B ...
• Wind farms causing problems in Bureau County
  Wind energy keeps growing in popularity as a renewable energy source. But for a group of people in the Bureau County town of Ohio,Ill., itâs growing into a major problem. “It sounds like an airport at my house and I live in the country,” Al Harris, an Ohio resident for eight years, said. “You ca ...
• Wind farms and deadly skies: Turbines on Texas ...
  SARITA â The 260-foot-tall wind turbines of the Kenedy Ranch stand like a steel forest along the edge of the Laguna Madre and pump out hundreds of megawatts of emission-free electricity. The spinning blades, alongside some of the most important habitat in Texas and one of North America’s largest ...
• Wind turbines threat to idyllic Lake District
  A beauty spot in one of England�s most ­scenic regions faces being ruined for ever after a Government official ignored the concerns of thousands of people and gave the go-ahead to a wind farm. Despite more than 2,000 letters of protest from residents and opposition from councils and politicians, ...

Not My Tribe

• Corporate personhood: unintended consequences
  yes/no: are corporations persons? Are Corporations composed of shareholders? Do Corporations act on behalf and with the explicit consent of the shareholders? Has the corporation, with said consent, used any consideration of value including the intellectual property of the corporate officers or o ...
• Merrifield portrayed as Lenin, Princess Lisa s ...
  But you know, right, that somebody who is pandering to the Lunatic Fringe of the Right Wing, the ones stupid enough and hate-filled enough to do it, the ones who feel anybody who isn’t a lock-step conformist racist elitist Wealthy Republiklan member or their really STUPID minions is a “commie”… ...
• Princess Lisa, “conservative” spen ...
  She sent this Email, cc’ed to Dennis Hisey, Amy Lathen and Sallie Clark, her TeaBag Terrorist accomplices, and to the Fascist Sheriff and Police Chief:I assume these are copyright violations. Ed, I am forwarding this on to Chief Meyers of the Colorado police department and El Paso County’s Sheri ...
• Ballot Caging and the real difference between ...
  The R’s don’t want people to vote. More people politically active, means they lose. Very simple. You might ask yourself Self, what’s the worst that could happen? What’s the difference between a D and an R? What real difference does it make if large groups of people are disenfranchised? Why not a ...
• Labor Rally In Austin commemorated Fallen Workers
  For those who think Disabled Workers complain too much about how we’re cast out by society, these are mock coffins carried to commemorate the ones who are now forever silent and can no longer complain about how deregulated workplaces, Union Busting TeaParty “heroes” like Don Blankenship and Scot ...

Debunking the Debunkers

• The World Trade Center WAS a Controlled Demolition
  Back in February of 2009, debunker Mark “Gravy” Roberts announced that the “9/11‘truth’ movement has dried up and blown away,” and that he wouldn’t be adding anything new to his site “unless big news arises.” Some of the “big news” Roberts last added was an honest mistake made by a contributor t ...
• Why Michael Shermer Believes Weird Things...
  Michael Shermer on why smart people believe weird things. I agree with his theory, and I would argue that Shermer himself is a perfect example.
• The CIA Commits Over 100,000 Serious Crimes Ea ...
  The following is from a book I am currently reading entitled "50 Things You're Not Supposed To Know," which can be read on this site for free. The next time a 9/11 "debunker" tells you that 9/11 couldn't have been an inside job because someone involved would have talked, ask them how many of the ...
• Re-Investigation of 9/11
  AnnaYeisley YouTube.com Mar 5, 2011 Take Back our Country's Commitment to Truth A Future of Darkness and Insanity Related Info: 9/11 Activism Tools
• Curley's Mistranslation - Part Deux!
  One year ago (to the day, in fact), I responded to Pat Curley's mistranslation of the Sibel/Sarshar testimony. Pat's problem with Sibel Edmonds is that she supposedly misrepresented the contents of a 2004 Chicago Tribune article. As I wrote last year: Pat's February 2009 analysis of the article ...

Fooducate

• Wonder Launches SmartWheat Bread. Does it Deli ...
  Earlier this week, Hostess, the parent company of Wonder Bread, announced a new line of soft bread with 100% whole wheat: SmartWheat is a new, soft 100% whole wheat bread with 22 grams of whole grain, the calcium of 8 ounces of milk in two slices, and a good source of 9 vitamins and minerals. [...]
• Kool-Aid Brings Back the Fun [Not Kool]
  This full page ad was spotted in Rachel Ray’s EveryDay magazine. “Bring back the fun” is supposed to trigger parents’ memories of a happy, carefree childhood, and nudge them to impart the same on their offspring. Just look at those happy smiling faces, those playfully extended tongues… …COVERED ...
• The NEW Special K Cereal Bars [Nutrition Impos ...
  A few days ago, Kellogg’s announced it was adding more fiber to its Special K cereal bars, and introducing 2 new flavors. This was an interesting opportunity to examine the bars, fooducate style. What you need to know: We’re sorry to report that the Special-K brand is doing an enormous disservic ...
• My Friends Use To Laugh At Me…And THEN I Made ...
  This is a guest post by Lisa Cain, PhD, a.k.a Snack-Girl Do you think Snack Girl is done trying to convince you to eat broccoli? I will NEVER give up (really). Back in January, I took a stab at convincing broccoli haters to eat broccoli again with a broccoli and peanut sauce recipe. But, I [...]
• Do “Healthy” Product Names Deliver on their Pr ...
  The wonders of food marketing never cease to amaze, and infuriate. Fooducate community member Cassie posted the front and back of a bag of  Snyder’s eatsmart Naturals Garden Veggie Sticks – Potato, Tomato, & Spinach. What a name for a product: eatsmart – yessir, we all want to do that Naturals ...

Traffikd

• Four Pre-Writing Exercises for Inspired Bloggers
  Rebecca Chelsey's recent post on ways to spark our creativity got me thinking about the next step: how to take that creativity and turn it into meaningful sentences on the page. In other words, what we do with that spark of inspiration will determine the success or setbacks we face when we blog. ...
• 8 Simple Sources of Creative Inspiration
  As a creative person, I've noticed that creativity and creative ideas tend to present themselves whenever they see fit, and rarely otherwise. This is an especially unfortunate habit for my creativity to have because I am in the field of design. Over the years I've researched and stumbled upon ei ...
• Culture Vulture: Social Strategies for Differe ...
  Social media campaigns are becoming more integrated into the overall online marketing mix. And as with anything on the Web, you need to think global to succeed in the long term. To succeed with social media marketing for different cultures, you need to familiarise yourself with what’s happening ...
• Internet Marketing and Social Media Degree Pro ...
  Guest post by Brian Jenkins Over a billion and a half people use the Internet, and this has created a plethora of opportunities for talented Internet marketers. Specialized knowledge in Internet marketing and social media is vital for many businesses. Yes, there are successful, self-taught Inte ...
• How to Find Great Communities, Forums, and Blo ...
  To market your company effectively, you need to find out where your target audience is. In this post I’ll show you how you can do this. I like using examples, so in this case, I’ll assume you sell Star Wars merchandise.

Survival International

• 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 Peruâs authorities have announced that they will work together with Brazil to stop loggers entering isolated Indiansâ territory along the two countriesâ joint border ...
• Peru admits timber certificates faked in secre ...
  A Murunahua man. The Murunahua's reserve is occupied by illegal loggers © Chris Fagan/Upper Amazon Conservancy Peruâs government has secretly admitted that 70-90% of its mahogany exports were illegally felled, according to a US embassy cable revealed by Wikileaks. Furthermore, Peruâs gove ...
• Amazon Indians protest in London as judge bloc ...
  The Indians are calling for three controversial dam projects in the Amazon to be halted. © M. Cowan/Survival âThese projects will force my people from their land and end our way of life.â Ruth Buendia Mestoquiari, Ashaninka leader. Three Amazon Indians protested in London today against ...
• Indian leader’s killers convicted of kidnappin ...
  Guarani Indian leader Marcos Veron © Joaó Ripper/Survival Three men on trial for the murder of Brazilian Indian leader Marcos Veron have been acquitted of homicide, but convicted of kidnapping, torture and criminal conspiracy in relation to his death. They were also acquitted of charges of ...
• Industry bloggers call for mine to make tribal ...
  Vedanta's aluminium refinery in Lanjigarh, Odisha, India © Survival In the footsteps of former Survival supporters, such as Peter Cook and Spike Milligen, Michael Palin recently gave a fundraising talk for the organization. He described his visit to the Dongria Kondh tribe in India where a ...

Greg Palast

• Chevron Runs from Judgmentin Ecuador
  by Greg Palast Chevron petroleum Corporation is attempting to slither out of an $8 billion judgment rendered yesterday by a trial court in Ecuador for cancer deaths, illnesses and destruction caused by its Texaco unit. I've been there, in Ecuador. I met the victims.  They didn't lose their sh ...
• Reagan: Killer, Coward, Con-man
  The Observer London by Greg Palast You're not going to like this. You shouldn't speak ill of the dead. But in this case, someone's got to. On the 100th Anniversary of Ronald Reagan's birth, as we suffer a week of Reagan-kitcheria and pukey peons, let us remember: Reagan was a con-man. Rea ...
• Shake your head and throw something at your TV
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• Peak Oil and a Changing Climate
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• Palast ArrestedBusted by BP in Azerbaijan
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• How can I reuse or recycle plug-in air fresheners?
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Age of Autism

• Mainstream Media Backs Supreme Court, Abandons ...
  By Anne Dachel March 5, 2011, the Los Angeles Times published an editorial aptly called, Inoculating vaccine makers (HERE) The essence of the article was that although it’s regrettable that vaccines damage some children, the Supreme Court did the right...
• NAA Pieces of Hope Autism Conference in Missis ...
  Register HERE for Pieces of HOPE A conference for those affected by Autism Spectrum Disorders April 2, 2011 8:30am - 5:00pm Highland Colony Baptist Church, Ridgeland, MS NAA Mississippi April 1, 2011- Meet & Greet, Meet the Author Night 5:30-8:00pm...
• Terrific Temple Grandin Article in Contra Cost ...
  Managing Editor's Note: Ms. Grandin has some sage advice, and I always appreciate her honesty and respect for those on the more severe side of the spectrum. Read the original article by Ms. Benca HERE. Temple Grandin gives message of...
• The Difference: Bruesewitz v Berkovitz
  Managing Editor's Note: Thank you to our friends at Vaccination News by allowing us to run their article. By F. Edward Yazbak, MD, FAAP The Difference Bruesewitz v Berkovitz 22 years Different Decisions Different US Supreme Courts Different Press and...
• British Medical Journal Fails to Acknowledge i ...
  By John Stone British Medical Journal has failed to acknowledge its own competing interests the Wakefield affair, and have failed to publish a letter pointing out their neglect. My letter was submitted in response to a news report by Bob...

Global BDS Movement

• BNC thanks CUT Brazil for their public stateme ...
  Artur Henrique da Silva Santos - National President CUT Quintino Severo - General Secretary João Antonio Felicio - International Relations Secretary Dear comrades of the CUT Brazil,   As the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC), a wide coalition of Palestinian p ...
• French court reveals fraud committed by Carmel ...
  As a result of the French Coalition Against Agrexco's read more
• Commemorate Land Day 2011 by Joining the Globa ...
  � Commemorate Land Day 2011 by Joining the Global BDS Day of Action 30 March 2011 read more
• Adidas: Apartheid is not fair play, drop spons ...
  Occupied Palestine, 17 February 2011 – The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC), the largest coalition of Palestinian civil society organizations and unions, calls on Adidas to withdraw its sponsorship of the first Jerusalem marathon to take place on March 25, 2 ...
• The "Palestine Papers": Grave Palestinian conc ...
  The "Palestine Papers": Grave Palestinian concessions met with utter Israeli rejectionism With revolutionary change across the Arab World eroding Israel's power in the region, BDS has become a key strategy of the Palestinian people for a global struggle to hold Israel accountable and assert ou ...

Farm Wars

• Truth Squad Radio: Monsanto’s GMO Threat!
  This Wednesday we will discuss the future of organics, the recent discovery of a huge threat from agrobacterium, and the Monsanto seed contracts which hold the farmer liable for all damages caused by the aggressive spread of GMO contaminated crops.
• Foundations of Evil
  Many "philanthropic" foundations have been used in America as a tax dodge to protect family fortunes, to polish tarnished images of robber barons and worst of all, to make the public fund depopulation and other detrimental policies that benefit the controlling elite.
• Is Your Favorite Charity Infiltrated?
  Before you write a check, sign a petition or declare your unwavering support for foundations or "nonprofit" organizations (NPOs), you may wish to investigate their agendas by using this step-by-step guide.
• Scientists Under Attack For Speaking Out About ...
  Statements made by scientists themselves prove that 95% of the research in the area of genetic engineering is paid by the industry. Only 5% of the research is independent. The big danger for freedom of science and our democracy is evident. Can the public -- we all -- still trust our scientists?
• Welcome to Monsanto Zone…
  You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind; a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That's the signpost up ahead — your next stop, Monsanto Zone...

Open Your Eyes News

• ‘Islam has no place in our country&#8217 ...
  Mail Online – Germany’s new interior minister has waded straight into controversy by claiming that Islam is not a key part of the German way of life. Hans-Peter Friedrich, who took office last week in a cabinet reshuffle, stoked an increasingly serious row about immigration in his country when h ...
• AIG repays $6.9 billion to bailout program
  Associated Press – American International Group Inc. has paid the federal government nearly $7 billion this week after selling off assets, trimming its financial bailout balance to just under $60 billion. The Treasury Department says $6.6 billion comes from AIG’s sale last week of MetLife Inc. h ...
• Climate Fact Of The Day – Spectroscopic ...
  Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 13, EGU2011-4505-1, 2011 How much CO2 really contributes to global warming? Spectroscopic studies and modelling of the in?uence of H2O, CO2 and CH4 on our climate Hermann Harde, Helmut-Schmidt-Universität Hamburg, Germany Based on the actual HITRAN’2008 databa ...
• Two Darfur rebels to be tried for peacekeepers ...
  AFP – Two Darfur rebel leaders will be put on trial for the deaths of 12 African peacekeepers in 2007 in the war-torn western region of Sudan, the International Criminal Court said on Tuesday. Judges “found substantial grounds to believe that Abdallah Banda and Saleh Jerbo are criminally respons ...
• Food sold in recycled cardboard packaging &#82 ...
  BBC – Leading food manufacturers are changing their packaging because of health concerns about boxes made from recycled cardboard, the BBC has learned. Researchers found toxic chemicals from recycled newspapers had contaminated food sold in many cardboard cartons. The chemicals, known as mineral ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

• Erin Brockovich again takes up the cause of Hi ...
  At the end of “Erin Brockovich,” a housewife sick from toxic chromium weeps with joy as she's handed her portion of a historic $333-million settlement between residents of this small desert town and the utility that poisoned their drinking water....
• Senate rebuffs GOP cuts to environmental progr ...
  The Senate on Wednesday voted down a House spending proposal that contained a wide array of cuts to environmental initiatives in California and across the nation. The measure, approved by the Republican-led House last month, sliced more than $60 billion...
• EPA agrees to strengthen ship ballast rules
  The federal government has agreed to develop more stringent national regulations governing the discharge of ship ballast water, which has been a major source of troublesome invasive species in California and other states. Under a settlement filed Tuesday in the...
• Book review: 'Hot: Living Through the Next Fif ...
  Conservatives sometimes enjoy deriding global warming as the "religion" of enviro lefties, which is a bizarre logical leap. Based on empirical evidence compiled by researchers the world over, it’s completely rational to conclude that mankind would be wise to do...
• California ban on dry-cleaning chemical perc r ...
  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that a California regulation that bans the use of the chemical perchloroethylene by dry-cleaning businesses would replace a less stringent federal rule in most parts of the state. In 2007, the California Air Resources...

water.org

• Water.org video will inspire you (Tonic)
  We Bet Matt Damonâs New Water.Org Video Will Inspire You (Tonic) – Amidst all the chatter about Charlie Sheen, there are still celebs out there doing good. Like Matt Damon, who has been working tirelessly on behalf of Water.org, the organization he co-founded, for the past few years. He recently ...
• Matt Damon speaks out on Water (Huffington Post)
  Matt Damon, Co-Founder Of Water.org, Speaks Out About Global Water Crisis (Huffington Post) – Matt Damon chose to focus his efforts on the global water crisis for two reasons: “One was the enormity of the problem and two was the availability of solutions.” He co-founded Water.org to find those s ...
• Matt Damon talks Water on Ellen (Ellen)
  Matt Damon – Wednesday, March 2, 2011 (Ellen) After eight seasons, the biggest superstar is finally stopping by for the very first time — the sexy MATT DAMON! Not only has the Oscar-winning actor been in some of the best films ever, he’s an incredible humanitarian. He’s also quite the funny guy ...
• The most important video (Ecorazzi)
  Most Important Video Of The Day: Matt Damon On The Water Crisis (Ecorazzi) – Back in early January, Water.org quietly released a six-part interview with co-founder Matt Damon on his activism for clean water and why the topic is so important to him. The almost 9-minute interview is refreshing in ...
• Bringing clean water to those in need (Milkshake)
  Water, Water, Everywhere, Nor Any Drop to Drink (Milkshake) – Co-founded by Matt Damon and Gary White, Water.org is a nonprofit organization that works to bring clean water to communities in Africa, South Asia, and Central America. They use a multi-pronged approach to ensure every penny donated ...

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Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

• Why employee pensions aren't bankrupting states
  If assets in local and state plans were suddenly frozen, they'd have money to pay out for another 13 years, on average. In Wisconsin, it's 18 years. Submitted by Kit B. to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• How Wisconsin Could Turn Austerity into Prospe ...
  As states struggle to meet their budgets, public pensions are on the chopping block; but they needn't be. States can keep their pension funds intact and leverage them into many times that sum in loans, just as Wall Street banks do. Submitted by Kit B. to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �A ...
• Why Washington Doesn't Care About Jobs
  As much as the pernicious influence of big money and the plutocrats� pseudo-obsession with budget deficits, it is this social distance between decision-makers and citizens that explains the almost surreal detachment of the current Washington political-->Submitted by Kit B. to Society & Culture ...
• Subsidized Hate
  The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that the Westboro Baptist Church's protests of military funerals are protected under the First Amendment.WBC conducts the majority of its activities tax-free under the 501(c)(3) provision�which is rather odd -->Submitted by Kit B. to Society & Culture � ...
• On Womens Day, GOP Attacks Women
  In the state and local public sector unions that these governors are trying to enfeeble, members are more likely to be women � teachers, librarians, nurses, and public health workers. On the state level, 52 percent of workers are women; on the local-->Submitted by Kit B. to Society & Culture �| ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

• SunPower and Toshiba Sign 48-Megawatt Supply D ...
  SunPower Corporation (Nasdaq: SPWRA) has signed an agreement to supply 48 megawatts of high-efficiency solar modules to the Toshiba Corporation (OTC: TOSBF.PK) over the next year. read more
• Florida Home to World's First Hybrid Energy Plant
  Florida's largest electric utility Florida Power & Light Company (NYSE:NEE-PC) is the owner and operator of the world's first hybrid solar natural gas energy center. read more
• Amtech Systems Posts Record Breaking Solar Orders
  Arizona-based solar and semiconductor solutions provider Amtech Systems, Inc (Nasdaq: ASYS) is establishing itself as a global leader in the solar sector. read more
• Argonne Measures Cost of Solar PV Using Monte ...
  At the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois, a team of scientists has developed a novel way to evaluate the cost of solar photovoltaic (PV) power. read more
• Los Angeles Continues to Build Renewable Energ ...
  On the heels of announcing that it had met a 2010 target to source 20 percent of its power demand from renewable sources, the city of Los Angeles, California has announced plans to build an 11.6 MW� a solar power plant. read more

News Blaze

• HHS Officials to Make Affordable Care Act Anno ...
  Today, Steve Larsen, Director of the Center for Consumer Information & Insurance Oversight and Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, Director of Coverage Policy in the Office of Health Reform will discuss the announcement on a press conference call at 12:30 PM ES
• Kids 'N Comedy Wants Videos From Comedians, Ag ...
  Kids 'N Comedy is soliciting videos from any and all English-speaking comedians age ten to eighteen for its 'Stand Up and Be Counted' contest. Entries are due by April Fools Day (April 1, 2011).
• The Queen is Joined By Annie Lennox to Celebra ...
  Britain's largest annual inter-faith gathering, the Observance will also be attended by the current Commonwealth Chairperson-in-office, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar of Trinidad and Tobago, and more than 1,000 school children.
• Ban Calls on More Businesses to Embrace UN-Led ...
  The steps include treating all women and men fairly at work; promoting education, training and professional development for women; and measuring and publicly reporting on progress to achieve gender equality.
• USF Poly Opens Student Health Clinic
  Services are made possible through the student health fee and are available at no additional charge to USF Poly students. The health center is open 1:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays and Wednesdays when classes are in session.

Worldnews

• Dalai Lama says he'll give up political r ...
  TIM SULLIVAN Associated Press= DHARMSALA, India (AP) — The Dalai Lama said Thursday that he will give up his political role in the Tibetan government-in-exile and shift some power to an elected representative, as the 76-year-old Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader struggles with growing worri ...
• Source: Lohan won't accept plea deal Thur ...
  2011-03-10 16:38:46.0Source: Lohan won't accept plea deal ThursdayLindsay Lohan1159103Celebrities2@webnews/enpproperty--> LOS ANGELES – Lindsay Lohan will not accept a plea deal that includes a guaranteed jail sentence when she returns to court on Thursday, a source close to the actress sai ...
• Scarlett Johansson & Patrick Murphy To Re ...
  On Wednesday, March 9, 2011 Human Rights Campaign announced that Scarlett Johansson to receive Ally for Equality Award and Patrick Murphy, former Congressman from Pennsylvania to receive the HRC National Leadership Award at the 2011 HRC Los Angeles Gala. Also Rabbi Denise Eger and Rev. Cano ...
• Gulf Air unveils state-of-the-art 'Falcon ...
  Gulf Air, the national carrier of the Kingdom of Bahrain, officially opened its new, premium ‘Falcon Gold’ lounge at London Heathrow Terminal 4. The expansive, 6500 sq.ft Falcon Gold lounge – one of the largest in the terminal - seamlessly combines contemporary design and architecture with ...
• Harry Redknapp 'dreaming impossible dream ...
  • Manager says he enjoyed the occasion but not the 90 minutes • Cautions against wishing for Barcelona in quarter-finals Harry Redknapp has taken Spurs from the bottom of the Premier League to the last eight of the Champions League. Photograph: Dylan Martinez/Reuters Harry Redknapp said tha ...

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

• A Possible Way Forward For Health Care IT Is O ...
  Globally the sale of health care information systems is a multibillion dollar industry. The vast costs, frequent failed systems, and inability of systems to talk to each other regularly attract media comment...
• Bits: Gmail Adds Smart Filters to Mail
  Google introduced Smart Filters, a new filtering system, to its Gmail service on Wednesday. It says the feature will cull unimportant mass mailings in inboxes.
• It's OK To Stare At The Sun (When This Happens)
  Astrophotographer Alan Friedman captures the silhouette of space shuttle Discovery against the sun during its last mission.
• Market Access & Market Optimization In China C ...
  This event will bring together experts from a Chinese and worldwide perspective to discuss how the current changes will directly impact market access in China and as a result affect global strategies. The conference will focus on the key issues that face the pharma industry and considerations wh ...
• Psoriasis Medication Rises Hope In The Fight A ...
  Fumaric acid salts have been in use against severe psoriasis for a long time. About ten years ago, researchers in Bochum speculated that they may also have a favourable effect on Multiple Sclerosis (MS) as a result of their TH2 polarizing mechanisms. In parallel to phase III studies, research i ...

Common Dreams

• 'General Strike!' Thousands Storm, Reoccupy Wi ...
  Thousands of protesters rushed to the state Capitol on Wednesday night as word spread of the hastily called votes that sent Gov. Scott Walker's controversial bill limiting collective bargaining rights for public workers speeding through the Legislature. Shortly after 8 p.m., hundreds of proteste ...
• Obama Makes Indefinite Detention and Military ...
  President Obama yesterday formalized indefinite detention for dozens of men held at Guantanamo Bay and announced that the Pentagon would move ahead with military trials for a handful of other detainees. read more
• Targeted Civilian Killings Spiral in Afghan Wa ...
  KABUL - Targeted killings of civilians in Afghanistan doubled last year, the United Nations said on Wednesday, as an expanding insurgency strikes at Western efforts to build up the Afghan government and security forces. In an annual report, the United Nations said 2010 marked the most lethal yea ...
• Israel Postpones Deportation of Foreign Worker ...
  Interior Minister Eli Yishai instructed the Population and Immigration Authority Wednesday morning to postpone the deportation of children and families of foreign workers enrolled in state-run kindergartens and preschools by a few months. Yishai delayed the deportation in order to enact the gove ...
• Mexico Approves GM Maize Pilot Project
  MEXICO CITY — Mexico has approved its first pilot project to grow genetically-modified (GM) maize, a move expected to draw fire from environmental groups who fear its impact on treasured local corn. The Agriculture Ministry said in a statement Tuesday that it had approved the project to grow GM ...

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Commentary: Path to renewable energy requires care

Summit County Citizens Voice

- Mar 10, 2011

- 6 hours ago

Chuck is an off-grid resident, owner of Southern Colorado Appraisal Services and a member of the San Luis Valley Renewable Communities board of directors. By Chuck Tidd By putting forward a plan to approve large scale solar developments on BLM land, ...

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UK Plans Incentives to Spur $7.2 Billion in Renewable Heat Programs

Bloomberg

- Mar 10, 2011

- 2 hours ago

By Sally Bakewell - Thu Mar 10 11:55:45 GMT 2011 The UK government set out incentives aimed at spurring 4.5 billion pounds ($7.2 billion) of investment in renewable heating systems by 2020, the first program of its kind in the world. ...

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Ethanol Industry Says It, Too, Needs Retail Infrastructure Boost

Edmunds.com (blog)

- Mar 10, 2011

- 3 hours ago

The federal government has great hopes for renewable alternative energy to help reduce the nation's oil use, and the ethanol industry sees its product as the best of the readily available alternatives. But a new report sponsored by the industry trade ...

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2011 Excellence in Renewable Energy Awards -- Projects of the Year

RenewableEnergyWorld.com

- Mar 10, 2011

- 5 hours ago

By RenewableEnergyWorld.com Editors The nominations have been reviewed; the editors votes are in and we are now pleased to announce the winners of the 2011 Excellence in Renewable Energy Awards for Project of the Year. This year's Projects of the Year ...

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Agro-ecology and the Right to Food

Americas Quarterly

- Mar 09, 2011

- 18 hours ago

On Tuesday, Olivier de Schutter, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to food, presented his new report, “Agro-Ecology and the Right to Food,” before the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland. The report, which is based on an ...

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US Ecology 4Q profit jumps 71 percent

Forbes

- Mar 08, 2011

- Mar 08, 2011

AP , 03.08.11, 07:54 AM EST BOISE, Idaho -- Radioactive and hazardous waste services company US Ecology Inc. said Tuesday its profit rose 71 percent in the fourth quarter on greater revenue from its base business and individual cleanup projects. ...

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Defense of 'human ecology' must come first, Pope reminds Brazilian bishops

Catholic Culture

- Mar 09, 2011

- 19 hours ago

Pope Benedict XVI endorsed a Lenten environmental campaign backed by the Brazilian Catholic bishops—with the important proviso that “the first ecology to be defended is 'human ecology.'” In a message to the Brazilian hierarchy, the Pope gave his ...

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Wunderlich Securities Has Buy On US Ecology (ECOL)

Benzinga

- Mar 09, 2011

- Mar 09, 2011

By Jonathan Chen Wunderlich Securities has a Buy rating and a $20 price target on shares of US Ecology Inc. (NASDAQ: ECOL). In a note to investors, Wunderlich writes, "We reiterate our Buy rating and $20 target on US Ecology, Inc. (ECOL) shares. ...

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Ga. asks appeals court to overturn water ruling

BusinessWeek

- Mar 10, 2011

- 1 hour ago

By RAY HENRY A long-running dispute threatening metro Atlanta's main water supply for 3 million people went before appellate judges Wednesday who suggested they could revise or overturn a looming order that would severely restrict the city's use of ...

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Water quality in lakes declining

WatertownDailyTimes.com

- Mar 10, 2011

- 3 hours ago

By MARC HELLER WASHINGTON — Water quality in the Great Lakes improved steadily for two decades, but that progress has stalled and may even be reversing, a US-Canadian panel concluded. The US-Canadian International Joint Commission reported Wednesday ...

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Robert Pattinson Looks Gorgeous In New Water For Elephants Photos

Entertainmentwise

- Mar 10, 2011

- 1 hour ago

There are just under two months until Water For Elephants is released in the UK and If you're finding it hard to wait, we've got some new stills from the film to whet your appetite. The movie, based on the novel by Sara Gruen tells the story of Jacob ...

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Erin Brockovich Returns to Battle Toxic Water

Daily Beast

- Mar 10, 2011

- 7 hours ago

That woman, Roberta Walker, still lives in Hinkley, and has once again enlisted Brockovich to rally residents against PG&E, who have allegedly polluted the water again. The two are expected to rally the townspeople at a water board meeting on Wednesday ...

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