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Energy Collective

• Oil prices soar in spite of sharp increase in ...
  Domestic oil production is soaring, but so are global prices. It should be obvious that yet more drilling can’t have any significant impact on oil prices — particularly since the U.S. Energy Information Administration has been making that precise point for years now (see EIA: Full offshore dril ...
• Latest CO2 readings
  The US NOAA has updated its CO2 graphics, via its Trends in Carbon Dioxide page: � � � � And for those wanting the Big Picture: � �
• Alaska Natural Gas Pipeline Thwarted By Shale Gas
  In February, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission made its eleventh report to the U.S. Congress on the status of efforts to build a natural gas pipeline in Alaska. The twice-annual reports are required by the Energy Policy Act of 2005. Three efforts to bring gas from the North Slope of Alask ...
• GE launches global smart grid innovation hub j ...
  General Electric�announced today its new $40-million Grid IQ Innovation Centre, which will be located in Markham, Ontario,
• Asking Whether Clean Energy Can Help America’s ...
  �Having been a reporter for a long time, I�ve learned that you have to ask the right questions to get interesting answers.

Green House - USA Today

• EPA requires Energy Star TVs to use 40% less e ...
  The Environmental Protection Agency is upping the ante on TV efficiency by announcing Wednesday that models earning its Energy Star logo will soon be required to use 40% less energy than conventional models.
• Wyoming's smog exceeds Los Angeles' due to gas ...
  Rural Wyoming, known for breathtaking vistas, now has worse smog than Los Angeles because of its boom in natural gas drilling.
• Report: U.S. coal power plants emit toxic air ...
  Coal-fired power plants release more toxic air pollutants such as arsenic and lead in the United States tan any other industrial pollution source, says a report Tuesday from the American Lung Association.
• 'Climate change' rings truer than 'global war ...
  American skepticism about whether the world's weather is changing depends partly on wording. More believe in "climate change" than "global warming," a new study by the University of Michigan shows.
• Which U.S. cities, states LEED in green building?
  The nation's capital isn't just the epicenter of the U.S. government, it's also the leader among U.S. cities in green building, new data show.

Prior Art

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

Peoples Voice

• "Why Joseph Biden will be the Next Vice Presid ...
  By Robert Singer Click here to read why “this article is not currently available” at OpEdNews. October 9, 2008 Why Joseph Biden will be the Next Vice President of the United States A Palin/McCain presidency will not happen. Not because it violates the law of presidential politics, but becaus ...
• From the Axis of Evil to the Least Popular Country
  Kourosh Ziabari A poll recently conducted by the BBC World Service in 27 countries shows that Iran is considered to be the least popular country of the world, followed by North Korea, Pakistan and Israel. Iran which was dubbed a part of the Axis of Evil by the former U.S. President George W. B ...
• Why is Alex Jones' site attacking Michael Moore?
  By Raymond Ponzini A union member, a CEO and a Tea Party member are sitting at a table with 12 cookies. The CEO grabs 11 cookies, turns to the Tea Partier and says “The Union’s out to take your cookie!” Is that true Mr. Jones, are the unions and Michael Moore really out to take my cookie? I fi ...
• Bradley Manning Is Punished for Seeking a More ...
  By Kevin Zeese Reports that Bradley Manning is being held nude every night at the Quantico Brig, then forced to stand naked in the hallway while he waits for his clothes, shows the inconsistency of the treatment of Manning with basic American values of due process, fair trial and human dignity. ...
• Do Ideas Matter in Economic Policy, or Just Sp ...
  Ian Fletcher It’s a depressing thought, familiar to everyone who has ever argued with anyone else about economics: do ideas about what’s true and false, right and wrong, in economics even matter for policy-making in Washington? Or is everything just sewn up by the power of special interests be ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

• Deregulation in Canada: A disaster in the making
  In Canada, regulations adopted by every level of government have historically helped to make this one of the safest, most desirable places to raise a family. But a slow, steady, and quiet erosion of regulations by our governments put Canadians' health, safety and well-being increasingly at risk. ...
• BNN launches three-part series on income inequ ...
  CTV's Business News Network (BNN) begins a three-part series today looking at the gap between the rich and the rest of us. Today's show, at 5 pm EST, features Robert Reich, former U.S. secretary of labour. Tomorrow's show, 5 pm EST, features the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives' own Senio ...
• Economist writer on the three top reasons why ...
  MIT Economist Daron Acemoglu writes in The Economist that there are three main reasons to care about worsening income inequality: Harmful effects on personal well-being, limited equality of opportunity, and more concentrated political power. On the third point, he writes: "Economic power tends t ...
• A challenge to BC’s leadership candidates: dar ...
  On our Policy Note blog, Seth Klein suggests a new approach for BC leadership hopefuls: "As a number of fundamental crises become more apparent (ecological and economic, not to mention the democratic deficit), the public is looking for bold ideas and bold leadership. Sadly, too many political ...
• CEO pay under review
  A week after we released our review of CEO pay in Canada, the Ontario Securities Commission says it's time to review how executives get paid. Read the story here.

World Wide Hippies

• Anti-Public Employee Bill Passes Senate in Wis ...
  Wisconsin: What Happens Next? | Fire Dog Lake • Legal challenges. There are going to be a number of legal challenges to this bill. It will not be implemented right away. There’s the near-term challenge of how the bill got passed tonight. It was done in a way that may have violated open meetings ...
• Budget repair bill passes Senate, Thursday vot ...
  Thousands storm Capitol as GOP takes action | Wisconsin State Journal Thousands of protesters rushed to the state Capitol Wednesday night, forcing their way through doors, crawling through windows and jamming corridors, as word spread of hastily called votes on Gov. Scott Walker’s controversial ...
• GOP trying to take away college students&#8217 ...
  Ahead of the 2012 campaign, states debate voting rights | Yahoo If some GOP lawmakers get their way, it could be a whole lot tougher for people across the country to cast a ballot in the upcoming 2012 presidential election. Boosted by major electoral gains in state legislatures nationwide in the ...
• GOP: Taxing Girl Scouts, Cutting Taxes on Fore ...
  Georgia GOP Raising Taxes On Girl Scout Cookies While Cutting Taxes On Foreign Corporations | Think Progress Like many states, Georgia is facing a budget shortfall. To address the problem, the legislature is considering a bill that would expand the tax base by doing things like reinstating a sal ...
• They Killed Democracy! You Bastards!
  WWH – Perhaps in the year 2111, if Earth is still a viable ecosystem and we havenât blown each other to smithereens; if we havenât been reduced to bartering and begging; if a few great minds have access to non-revisionist history and analyzed the preceding century, they would come to the conclus ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

• The Forbes 400 vs. Everybody Else
  According to the most recent information, the Forbes 400 now have a greater net worth than the bottom 50% of U.S. households combined. In 2009, the total net worth of the Forbes 400 was $1.27 trillion. The best information now available shows that in 2009 the bottom 60% (yes, now it's 60%, n ...
• Cairo in Wisconsin
  The call reportedly arrived from Cairo. Pizza for the protesters, the voice said. It was Saturday, February 20th, and by then Ian's Pizza on State Street in Madison, Wisconsin, was overwhelmed. One employee had been assigned the sole task of answering the phone and taking down orders. An ...
• VIDEO: Hear the Voices of Thompson
  Blair Hudson: 'This Will Have a Huge Ripple Effect' Anita Campbell: 'I Will Always Consider Thompson My Home' Craig Costello: 'High-Paying Jobs Leaving Town' Sheila Thompson: 'It Will Be Hard for Me to Start Over' Gloria Jacobs: 'It Can Happen Anywhere' Nuno Pereira: 'We All Have to Put Li ...
• "An Inco family"
  Amanda Hart Homemaker 27 years old What brought me to Thompson was Inco. That’s where my dad started working when I was five and I've been in an Inco family ever since then. It went from my dad working at Inco, to my husband working at Vale and now my brother is also working at Vale. We always ...
• "Going down with the ship"
  Terry Stoker Owner of Better Body Fitness 47 years old I was born in Thompson and I’ve been here all my life. Vale’s announcement, with the loss of that many jobs and the spinoff jobs that come with it, will have a huge impact on me. I would expect probably a thirty percent cut in my business. ...

Salon

• Why authenticity matters
  When Mitt Romney tested out what he hopes will be the themes that define his 2012 presidential bid last weekend, much of the press coverage -- here and elsewhere -- focused on the idea that Romney was (once again) trying to reinvent himself. An image of Romney as a spineless opportunist took ...
• Scrooge ain't broke and neither is the government
  Maybe instead of playing budgetary chicken with congressional Republicans, the White House should search carnival side shows and TV shopping channels for a Democratic Glenn Beck. Any glib pitchman could outline a Republican scheme to sabotage the U.S. economy to gain political power far more ...
• Wisconsin shocker: Anti-union bill slips through
  Republicans in the Wisconsin Senate voted Wednesday night to strip nearly all collective bargaining rights from public workers after discovering a way to bypass the chamber's missing Democrats.
• Newt Gingrich, hypocrite in chief
  It's a good thing Newt Gingrich believes in a forgiving God, because he needs so much forgiving. He cheated on, and then abandoned, not just one sick wife, but two. His first wife got Gingrich's final word on their divorce in the hospital, while recovering from cancer surgery; he then married ...
• The "Bush-tortured" excuse for indefinite dete ...
  Yesterday, I�wrote about the fictitious excuse being offered to justify why Obama is continuing the indefinite detentions and military commissions which defined the Bush/Cheney Guantanamo detention scheme:��it's Congress' fault. �Today we have a new excuse:��it's Bush's fault.� Because Bush t ...

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

• Treat refugees fairly
  Canada has long been a refuge for people fleeing danger. Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government expects to take in 250,000 immigrants this year, including as many as 29,000 refugees.
• Ford’s first 100 days come easy, thanks to Miller
  Mayor Rob Ford claims success, so far, but only by riding former mayor David Miller’s coat-tails.
• Battling AIDS: A life and death vote
  Bill C-393 would make it easier for our generic firms to sell affordable life-saving drugs to poor countries.
• Final offer selection: Arbitrators pick one side
  Limiting Ontario arbitrators’ power to “split the difference” in labour-management contract disputes could benefit the province.
• A century of women’s rights: A struggle that c ...
  The battle for equality was real, dangerous and waged with passion 100 years ago.

Energy Collective

• Oil prices soar in spite of sharp increase in ...
  Domestic oil production is soaring, but so are global prices. It should be obvious that yet more drilling can’t have any significant impact on oil prices — particularly since the U.S. Energy Information Administration has been making that precise point for years now (see EIA: Full offshore dril ...
• Latest CO2 readings
  The US NOAA has updated its CO2 graphics, via its Trends in Carbon Dioxide page: � � � � And for those wanting the Big Picture: � �
• Alaska Natural Gas Pipeline Thwarted By Shale Gas
  In February, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission made its eleventh report to the U.S. Congress on the status of efforts to build a natural gas pipeline in Alaska. The twice-annual reports are required by the Energy Policy Act of 2005. Three efforts to bring gas from the North Slope of Alask ...
• GE launches global smart grid innovation hub j ...
  General Electric�announced today its new $40-million Grid IQ Innovation Centre, which will be located in Markham, Ontario,
• Asking Whether Clean Energy Can Help America’s ...
  �Having been a reporter for a long time, I�ve learned that you have to ask the right questions to get interesting answers.

EU Times

• US welfare nation: Government handouts make up ...
  Government handouts now make up a record-breaking one third of the total amount of wages and salaries in the U.S., according to a bombshell new study. The payouts – including Social Security, Medicare and unemployment insurance – are placing an increasing burden on the state at a time it is tryi ...
• Israel to ask U.S. for $20billion extra in mil ...
  Israel are expected to ask for an additional $20billion in U.S. military aid in order to help the country deal with potential threats arising from the ongoing uprisings in the Middle East. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal defence minister Ehud Barak was reported as saying his country ...
• Iranian Official Admits Aiding Hezbollah, Says ...
  On Wednesday, March 2nd, Commander of the Basij organization, Brigadier General Mohammad-Reza Naghdi spoke at a conference of specialist working groups of Basiji corps of engineers. “Seventy percent of the world’s fossil fuel reserve is under the feet of the soldiers of the Supreme Leadership an ...
• Mysterious Glowing Spiral Sighted in a Remote ...
  None of the world’s experts no what the strange spiral structure on the left is. Why the spiral glows is itself a mystery, with a leading hypothesis being illumination by light reflected from nearby stars. NASA astronomers think it is related to a star in a binary star system entering the planet ...
• Million dead fish swamp L.A. area marina
  ‘Seals are gorging themselves’ while leftovers are removed, dumped in bins. Sardines and other small fish in the hundreds of thousands washed up dead overnight in the harbor area of Redondo Beach, Calif., just south of Los Angeles, puzzling authorities and triggering a cleanup effort. Local tele ...

Stonecipher News

• Normal Structure and Function of the Musculosk ...
  Mr. Ghaz says: Muscular dystrophies refer to a group of more than 30 genetic diseases which are characterized by progressive weakness and degeneration of the skeletal muscles..Studies and estimation show that after sustaining a hip fracture (as a result of osteoporosis) 20% of patients die withi ...
• Reasons to Donate Blood
  Have you ever donated blood? If you have why did you do it? It may have been for a loved one or a friend. It could have been for the free coupons and gift certificates blood centers provide for donations. Maybe you’re required to donate blood being that you’re in the medical field. In actua ...
• Special Education High School Transition Services
  From my Factoidz page: 1414(d) and in Findings about “effective transition services to promote successful post-Students typically start transition services at the age 14 if educational services are still required as determined by the school district and the IEP team. However, Washington State’s ...
• Don't Quit Your Day Job
  This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Ashworth College. All opinions are 100% mine. With approximately 4,000,000 students today, more than 20 percent of all students enrolled in higher education are taking at least one course online. Self paced online courses ...
• Breast Cancer Gene May Raise Men’s Risk, Too
  Source: HealthDay News: "A faulty gene that greatly increases a woman’s risk of breast cancer also boosts a man’s risk for the disease, a new study finds. While most people think of breast cancer as a woman’s illness, in rare cases men can develop breast tumors as well. The new study found tha ...

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

• A note for Ash Wednesday
  Brethren, today is Ash Wednesday. I wish to share another quote from the Venerable Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen for your meditation: It is so hard to admit that one is a sinner; it is so hard to climb the hill of Calvary and kneel beneath a cross and ask for pardon, forgiveness. Certainly it is h ...
• Apple will Start the Production of White iPhon ...
  Good news for the people those are waiting for White iPhone 4. According to one analyst’s checks, Apple will start the production of White iPhone 4 sometime this month, along with shipments in April. According to Concord Securities Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, GSM-based White iPhone 4 will be dispatch ...
• What Warren Buffett’s top 10 stocks all have i ...
  Dear Daily Crux reader, Here is your Crux PM update: How you could retire in 10 years or less “Anyone can do it, but almost nobody will…” Bond King Bill Gross has dumped ALL U.S. Treasurys Report says Pimco is no longer holding any government debt in its flagship fund… Why many outsourced jobs ...
• Kinect hits 10 million sales
  For heaven’s sake, people, don’t encourage them . Microsoft has announced that Kinect has sold 10 million units since launching last November. That means one in five Xbox 360 owners have bought Kinect, a figure that has put the device in the Guinness Book of World Records. According to the reco ...
• Israel Wants Billions From US After Sticking I ...
  Chuck Spinney Recommends... First they stick it to the US generally and Barack Obama specifically on the matter of the settlements, and now they want $20 billion from the US.  Note that the source of this report, “Ynet,” is an Israeli news outlet. Israel seeks $20 billion in US military aid Def ...

Groklaw

• HP: The Linux Desktop Company
  Well, I didn't see this coming. HP CEO Leo Apotheker, according to Bloomberg/Newsweek said that "every one of the PCs shipped by HP will include the ability to run WebOS in addition to Microsoft Corp.'s Windows." I knew HP was serious about webOS, its Linux-based tablet/smartphone operating syst ...
• Patent Reform Passed in Senate: House Likely t ...
  The Senate measure includes: ... A new "first-window" post-grant patent opposition system with broader jurisdiction (but a shorter timeframe) than reexaminations. A provision that eliminates certain tax strategy patents. - Patently O
• Judge approves sale of SCOs Unix system
  The sale to a company called UnXis will close by March 31 unless Novell files an objection, posts a bond and obtains a stay, Richard A. Bolandz, CEO of UnXis, said Tuesday....Bolandz said he hoped to convince Novell not to pour more legal fees into stopping the sale and instead enter a business ...
• Microsoft knocks font size in 'App Store' trad ...
  In a motion filed this morning with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and discovered by blog Geekwire, Microsoft has lashed out at Apple's response to its January motion that calls the trademark claim too generic. In it, Microsoft says Apple's counter-argument does not follow the rules of the ...
• Judge eviscerates P2P lawyer: "I accepted you ...
  "I accepted you at your word," said the judge, pointing to Steele's assertion that the case was connected to Illinois. But, after allowing Steel to take discovery and issue subpoenas to Internet providers, "I start getting motions to quash" from places like Tennessee, Texas, New Jersey, from "pe ...

WideShut

• Why Taxation and the Census Are Redundant
  There is no money for public services and tax isn't event a blip on the national debt. The Census and Taxation are redundant.
• March 08, 2011, WideShut Webcast
  Keelan touches on some local headlines, the UK Census boycot and more info regarding the 7/7 London Bombings.
• Pro Wrestler Gaspard Not Above Police Brutality
  Former WWE wrestling star Shad Gaspard taken down by 3 cops for "jaywalking". Witnesses say he's innocent. Footage inside.
• Keelan Talks 7/7 Bombings On The Corbett Report
  James Corbett interviews Keelan Balderson on the London Bombings and the 7/7 Inquest.
• Venus Project Linked To The United Nations?
  Keelan talks to Axis4Peace about the Venus Project's ties to the UN, and Peter Joseph's dismissal of the New World Order.

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 ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

• Woman in runaway millionaire case vows to clea ...
  The woman who allegedly fled to Asia after Westpac mistakenly loaded $10 million into her boyfriend's account is vowing to clear her name.  
• Another large aftershock strikes Canterbury
  A 4.5 magnitude aftershock has rattled Christchurch tonight.
• End in sight for search work in CBD
  The search of buildings in the cordoned area of central Christchurch could be completed in just over a week.
• Rate cut 'pre-emptive strike' against quake - ...
  The country's Official Cash Rate has been cut to 2.5%, laregly in reaction to the Christchurch earthquake.
• Police confirm stabbing at Mt Albert Unitec campus
  There has been a stabbing at the Unitec campus in Mt Albert this afternoon, police have confirmed.

Just World News

• Egyptian activist Hossam on inspiration from P ...
  Key Egyptian democracy activist Hossam (3arabawy) el-Hamalawy had an important piece in the Guardian Unlimited yesterday, underlining the degree to which the Palestinian intifada of 2000-- which, lest we forget, started out with many days of unarmed peaceful protest until the death toll rose so ...
• Pro-democracy activism arriving in Saudi Arabia
  So this 'popular movement' thing is finally making its mark in Saudi Arabia-- the only country in the world that is named for one (still-ruling) family. Today, worldwide oil prices spiked after the markets absorbed news in an Egyptian newspaper yesterday that the Saudi authorities yesterday arr ...
• Pete Seeger joins BDS campaign!
  Great news from Max Blumenthal about this. I like his post particularly, because of the sound-track on the video there! Seeger had been inveigled by something called the "Arava Institute" into taking part on an event that claimed to be only about the environment... But later, he found out abou ...
• Libya: What can and should outsiders do?
  I've been following the news of the carnage in Libya with huge sorrow, and there seems little hope it can be ended soon. Anti-Qadhafi forces seem to have taken control of large portions of the east of the country, while the country's dangerous and possibly deranged long-time leader has been rein ...
• Humor hour with "Tzipi" Livni
  That well-known democrat (irony alert), the head of Israel's Kadima Party "Tzipi" Livni, afforded me a good chuckle over my corn flakes this morning with this proposal for how democratization efforts should be run at the global level: Current events in the Middle East highlight the urgency of a ...

frogblog

• International Year of the Forests
  Last night I went to an event at Parliament to acknowledge the International Year of the Forests. It was attended by forestry interests with diverse agendas, from preservation of the indigenous ecosystem, to selling logs to China. I was heartened by the unanimity in calling for the Minister to b ...
• Europe moves to tax all financial transactions
  The European Parliament is backing a tax on financial transactions — a ‘Robin Hood’ style Tobin tax that could raise as much as $200 billion euros a year from banks for addressing world poverty. The move was one of several to ensure banks take their share of responsibility for the global financi ...
• The Welfare Working Group and faith-based job ...
  Buried at page 53 of the Welfare Working Group’s report is this extraordinary statement: ... More generally, the evidence suggests that if there are well functioning labour market institutions, over the medium term the total number of jobs will expand to equal the number of people who are avail ...
• Where’s the plan?
  Today the UK Government released its draft Carbon Plan containing some 130 actions and targets to reduce emissions. With petrol prices nearing record highs, UK Energy Secretary, Chris Huhne, said Britain had no option but to speed up efforts to move away from oil. “Getting off the oil hook is ma ...
• US pressures NZ to tailor legislation for trad ...
  According to a report from Radio NZ a (nameless) United States congressman was happy to tell delegates that if New Zealand wanted to get anywhere with the Trans Pacific Partnership agreement then we may need to alter our intellectual property laws.

Patronus Analytical

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

J Kozy

• Liberty's Easy Slide into Tyranny
  Huge conspiracies aren't what destroys people's freedom, the accumulation of errors, failed policies, and little and big unfairnesses do. It happens because The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men/ Gang aft agley,/ An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain. The FED, CIA, Executive Privilege, The ...
• What should be done with illegal immigrants?
  That this question is even being asked reveals something about ourselves. How would you answer it if you were an illegal immigrant? Perhaps you've never heard of the Golden Rule. The rule may not be the best guide to moral behavior but asking yourself how you'd answer the question if you wer ...
• A Revolting World
  Many in many lands are demonstrating against their governments. Some claim that people everywhere are revolting and that a worldwide revolution is imminent. Even both the orthodox and heterodox presses are all atwitter. But it is far easier to bring about a successful revolution than it is t ...
• Demented Democracy
  An addiction to opinion, each person being entitled to his own, and the unwarranted notion that those who fight for their beliefs are "principled" is the reason that democracies teeter between antagonistic belief systems and are unable to resolve any social problems. Each party strives to re ...
• Pity the Poor Economists
  The first thing a judicious reader notices is how much disagreement exists among economists on almost every, perhaps every, matter. Then it becomes clear that much of this disagreement is acrimonious. Some of these people appear to hate each other. Now ask yourselves, how likely would it hav ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

• The High Cost of Premature Babies
  About 10% of all babies in the United States are born prematurely, a problem that costs $26 billion a year due to the additional health problems that are common among premature babies. A drug called 17P is one way of delaying premature births: Since 2003, the American Congress of Obstetri ...
• 14 Mistakes
  Tyler Cowen has put together a list of common mistakes made by left wing economists. I'm not an economist, but I'm left wing and I comment on economics, so close enough. So I'm going to go through the list and note where I stand on each of his items. I'm not going to explain things or justif ...
• Cashing Out
  Matt Yglesias, who's a big fan of cashing out welfare benefits, points us to a short piece in the Economist about a pilot program to help the homeless in London: The Square Mile has more rough sleepers than any other London borough except Westminster: 338 were identified by Broadway, a ch ...
• The Conservative Catch-22
  Paul Krugman on what blogs he doesn't read: Some have asked if there aren’t conservative sites I read regularly. Well, no. I will read anything I’ve been informed about that’s either interesting or revealing; but I don’t know of any economics or politics sites on that side that regularly ...
• Temper Tantrums From the GOP
  There is no excuse for Republicans holding up Peter Diamond's nomination to the Federal Reserve. Likewise, there's no excuse for holding up Donald Berwick's nomination to head up Medicare. Or for turning the federal court system into a third-world travesty because it continues to have so man ...

Insanity Report

• Someone Tell Sean Penn To Sit The Fuck Down
  In a statement, Penn said: “I think [Charlie Sheen's] energies, intelligence and passion could be both of service and servicing to him, as it is to all who are touched by the struggle of the Haitian people. “Charlie is one of the very few public people who cannot be accused of using the media to ...
• IC 233: Fuck Chris Brown
  Topics for the show: Fuck Chris Brown When attention whoring is no longer an effective marketing tool Sean Penn wants Charlie Sheen to go to Haiti Why Black Folks love Charlie Sheen Lupe’s new album People don’t listen to lyrics anymore Woman rides for 35miles on hood of car as husband drives LA ...
• IC 232: This Ain’t Winning
  Topics for the show: BYU player gets suspended for having sex with his girlfriend The Westboro Baptist Church wins at the Supreme Court We as a society need to step up to handle these moral issues Bobbi Kristina denies she was using coke Charlie Sheen ain’t winning The McLobster The 2012 electio ...
• BYU Forward Reportedly Dismissed From Team For ...
  For the second day in a row I’m writing about a story I read that while I emotionally and morally disagree with it, in terms of whether it’s the right decision or not, I have to agree that it is. BYU announced on Tuesday that starting forward Brandon Davies was suspended for the rest of [...]
• You Might Not Like It…But It’s the Right Decision
  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the First Amendment protects fundamentalist church members who mount anti-gay protests outside military funerals, despite the pain they cause grieving families. The court voted 8-1 in favor of the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan. The dec ...

Simple Climate

• Ice age rethink puts warming into context
  Researchers challenge a fundamental principle of climate science – the effect of Earth's relationship to the sun – but underline that we are still reversing what should be a long slow cool-off for the planet.
• Soot and methane cuts promise threefold benefits
  Called on by groups including the G8 to examine the science behind limiting emissions of short-lived substances causing climate change, the United Nations Environment Partnership finds just 16 control measures can boost climate, farming and health.
• Evidence of humans’ role in deluges starts to flow
  Scientists find the first evidence that humans are causing extreme rainfall, while the identification that greenhouse gas emissions increased the odds of 2000’s record rainfall in the UK are set to open the flood gates for telling whether humans have influenced extreme weather events.
• Atlantic cold tongue tells of humans’ cl ...
  Aerosol emissions are more responsible than global warming for weakened trade winds, but pollution controls look set to show how government rules can reverse changes we have caused.
• Climate researchers warn of food and forest ti ...
  With food prices reaching record highs, worsening droughts in east Africa will add to agricultural problems, while a parched Amazon could speed rather than fight global warming.

e!Science News

• New genetic deafness syndrome identified
  Ten years ago, scientists seeking to understand how a certain type of feature on a cell called an L-type calcium channel worked created a knockout mouse missing both copies of the CACNA1D gene. read more
• First international index developed to predict ...
  Although thousands of people commit suicide worldwide each year, researchers and doctors do not have any method for evaluating a person's likelihood of thinking about or trying to commit suicide. An international group of scientists, in which the Hospital del Mar Research Institute (IMIM) has pa ...
• Banana peels get a second life as water purifier
  To the surprisingly inventive uses for banana peels — which include polishing silverware, leather shoes, and the leaves of house plants — scientists have added purification of drinking water contaminated with potentially toxic metals. Their report, which concludes that minced banana peel perform ...
• Researchers in France and Austria find novel r ...
  Pacemaker cells in the sinoatrial node control heart rate, but what controls the ticking of these pacemaker cells? New research by Angelo Torrente and his colleagues of the M.E. Mangoni group's, reveals, for the first time, a critical functional interaction between Cav1.3 calcium ion (Ca2+) chan ...
• New mouse models generated for MYH9 genetic d ...
  Researchers have created the first mouse models of human MYH9 genetic disorders, which cause several problems -- including enlarged platelets and sometimes fatal kidney disease. read more

unEarthed

• Tr-Ash Talk: Under the Influence
  19 Congressmen oppose a rule designed to save the lives of their constituents When members of the House of Representatives return to their districts for April ...
• Friday Finds: Walmart Extinguishes Flame Retar ...
  LA biking bonanza, radioactive water supplies, Republican foam parties Walmart recently put the kibosh on allowing flame retardants in any of its products. Photo courtesy of samantha cele ...
• Oil and Gas Lobbyists Claim The Sky is Falling
  The latest cluck from clean air "Chicken Littles" The sky is falling again The National Petrochemical & Refiners Association put out a press statement today ...
• The New Majority: We Can't Go Backwards Fast E ...
  Reversing commonsense progress is the new favorite pastime of House leaders Rep. Fred Upton "Doh!" should be the motto of the new majority in the House, but ...
• Ambre Energy Gets Coal Export Permit Via Deception
  Coalition challenges the company's proposed Longview coal terminal With many older coal-fired power plants going offline in the United States and construction ...

Brave New Climate

• BNC million hits approaches
  Those who follow BraveNewClimate (BNC) regularly will know that I ran a competition a while back to see who could guess when the page views would pass the 1,000,000 mark. A few people prognosticated prior to the cut-off hit count (970K), and soon (late Sunday or early Monday I suspect), the winn ...
• Correlates of global temperatures – part 2
  For context, make sure you read this first: A toy model for forecasting global temperatures â 2011 redux, part 1 Here is a list and brief description of the data sources I will be analysing: 1. Annual global temperature (WTI): This is the ‘dependent variable‘ in the model. The time span is 1979 ...
• A toy model for forecasting global temperature ...
  A little over two years ago, I wrote the following post on BNC: How hot should it have really been over the last 5 years? In it, I did some simple statistical tinkering to examine the (correlative) relationship between global temperatures and a few key factors, namely greenhouse gases, solar irr ...
• Advanced nuclear power systems to mitigate cli ...
  This is a modified version of the full conference paper. This is the most up-to-date executive summary available, written for a general — albeit technically conversant – audience, of the Integral Fast Reactor: 91st American Meteorology Society Annual Meeting, Jan 23-27, 2011, Seattle, WA  Sec ...
• Open Thread 9 – technosolar catastrophe?
  This is the first Open Thread of 2011. The Open Thread is a general discussion forum, where you can talk about whatever you like — there is nothing ‘off topic’ here — within reason. So get up on your soap box! The standard commenting rules of courtesy apply, and at the very least your chat shoul ...

Indigenist Opinion

• 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 ...

Republicans are a Disease

• Shame Shame Shame
  Shame shame shame shame shame
• David Koch – We Want Our Money Back
  We Want Our Money Back Dear Mr. Koch. We want our money back. What money? The money you stole from AMERICA. The money you, and your friends socked away with the help of a corrupt system, bought and paid for politicians, and banksters. When you paid to put that maggot in the governor’s mansi ...
• Wake Up
  Wake up and do something. The billionaires, and the corporations they control have been destroying our nation for long enough.
• Governor Walker – When Will You Have The ...
  You want to jerk around state employees, and unions, all to make up for the money you refuse to collect from corporations and billionaires. They don’t pay near their fair share, and you want working families to make up the difference.
• Arrest Clarence Thomas
  Many others have been prosecuted for lying on their financial disclosure forms. Why is it that Clarence Thomas can commit a crime any 3 year old could prosecute successfully, and not be charged? Are we a nation of laws? If not, I should go steal some money….

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

• Overcoming Divide and Conquer Strategies: 99.9 ...
  The global bankers, who caused our economic crisis, are attempting to deflect blame and divide the American public by escalating attacks on public-sector workers.
• Analysis of the Global Insurrection Against Ne ...
  By David DeGraw, If you think what’s happening in Egypt won’t happen within the United States, you’ve been watching too much TV. The statistics speak for themselves.
• Welcome to the New AmpedStatus.com
  We're back with a redesigned site and three new features! Introducing the AmpedStatus Social Network and two new Amped Coverage wires.
• Time to Fight Back! Join The Movement
  As a broad-based network representing people across the political spectrum, we are working together to reach common ground and fight for pivotal political reforms. As long as the economy and government are rigged in favor of the top economic 0.1%, we will all lose.
• Horrific Arizona Massacre Is A Sign of Tragedi ...
  Let This Tragedy Be A Wake Up Call. Given Socio-Political Conditions, Many More Violent Acts On the Way.

+972

• The J street conference: An “A” fo ...
  From this Israeli’s perspective, the J Street conference looked like a pretty sleek production. Too bad that’s all it amounted to. Now that the folks at JStreet are finished patting each other on the back for a job well done, I’d like to give them a perspective on the conference from one who di ...
• Across the Jordan: Zionism as Shibboleth
  People discussing the Israeli-Palestinian issue must choose whether they are Zionists or not, whether they reject Jewish self-determination or embrace Jewish supremacy. This is the way things are and have always been, but it is not how things have to be in the future Some people believe that Zi ...
• Western powers still don’t know how to d ...
  By Maath Musleh The leaders of the industrialized states are still confused by the revolutions in the Arab world. Many of them have given public recognition to the historic changes taking place, but few are investing significantly in preparing for the new era. Instead, the leaders of the major w ...
• Mid East women fight uphill battle in patriarc ...
  In the Middle East, representation of women in the public sphere is lower than in any other region. Women face enormous obstacles, ranging from sexual harassment and honor killings to ingrained patriarchal attitudes that belittle their intelligence and value. That is why it was so uplifting to w ...
• IDF hopes Palestinians will be violent
  Some people in Israel are still naïve enough to think that the IDF’s task is to ensure the security of Israel and its residents. Here is what a senior officer serving in the West Bank told Ha’aretz (full credit for all the bizarre syntax and grammar errors in the following quotes should be give ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

• Decision date on koala threatened species lis ...
  Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke has extended the due date for a decision on whether to add the koala to the list of nationally threatened species.
• Gunns pulp mill environmental impact manageme ...
  Parliamentary Secretary for Sustainability and Urban Water Senator Don Farrell and South Australian Minister for Water Paul Caica today launched an innovative web tool to help Adelaide gardeners conserve water.
• Chaffey augmentation brought forward to secur ...
  Joint funding announced today by the Gillard and Keneally Governments will fast-track construction on a $43.33 million augmentation and complete safety upgrade of Chaffey Dam.
• Tony Abbott a risk to Murray Darling Basin re ...
  Water Minister Tony Burke said Mr Abbott's proposal to delay hundreds of millions of dollars in water buybacks would put at risk progress on reform in the Murray Darling Basin.
• Showerhead swap project helps Perth household ...
  Perth residents can save water and money by swapping old showerheads for free new water saving showerheads under an Australian Government funded project launched today.

Matt Weidner Blog

• 2nd DCA SMACKDOWN- ERROR TO GRANT SUMMARY JUDGMENT
  Another great decision, HOT OFF THE PRESSES! sandoro Tweet this! Share and Enjoy: Scridb filter
• David J. Stern- Unleashing More Chaos in His C ...
  Sure, the rich and powerful have rules.  They’re just different than the rules that you and I live by.  The entire foreclosuregate fiasco is a dramatic, long running, slow speed train wreck continuing example of this.  I’m past the point of outrage over the whole thing. The most current examp ...
• From The Clerk of Court- “There is no ne ...
  Okay.  The Clerk of Court takes the time to reach out to all the readers in a major metropolitan area.  Just when I think I cannot get more blown away with what’s happening in our country and in our courts, something even more extraordinary happens. BUT THIS MAY BE ONE OF THE MOST EXTRAORDINAR ...
• IMPORTANT FREE MEETING- FIRST AMENDMENT PANEL ...
  Keeping our press free, open and well funded is going to be one of the most important issues of this terrifying new era.  Whatever the URGENT issue that has you most concerned about on any given day, making sure that our press has access to the information is absolutely essential. COME JOIN THIS ...
• Foreclosure Today- More Kids In Poverty Than I ...
  Watch this story.  Listen to the stories of these crying kids.  Look at the tears in their eyes.  Listen to their questions. Pay particular attention to the quote from the one young girl, “I feel like it’s my fault.” No, it’s not the fault of this crying, devastated, damaged 11 year old girl. ...

abelard - news

• on president wilson, 1919 | politics usa news ...
  According to Keynes, a weak man, no doubt fine in his original setting as a man of the cloth, in over his head with 'real' politicians.
• the real price of subsidised filthy oil in the ...
  So you think that oil is expensive now? It's next to nothing compared to 80 years ago.
• what is 'quantitative easing'? | economics new ...
  Increasing the money supply, printing money, which leads to inflation. This is what was going on for the thirteen-odd years of New Labour government, and has now been stopped.
• the presidential candidate and the maths lesso ...
  There appears to be a strong correlation between socialist/liberal/left-wing politics and innumeracy. Here's an example.
• consumption and capital | economics news at ab ...
  Why sharing (spending) the wealth may not help society improve, at least in the short term. And why the more puritan saving of capital may help in the long term (if you can stand the pain).

The Parallel Parliament

• An “Honourable” House
  A couple of years ago, I came across a speech by one of Parliament’s earliest speakers in which he reminded those participating in an unusually raucous Question Period that they were elected to Ottawa to behave in a manner beholden to the best principles of human engagement. He gently scolded th ...
• A Bridge To Cross
  Canadian church leaders have been working their way through the halls of Parliament in the last couple of days pressing members from all parties to take action on issues of international and domestic poverty before it becomes too late to do anything at all. I met with them in Michael Ignatieff’s ...
• “If We Know Not The Nature of Things”
  Would you have thought of it? I surely wouldn’t have. I’ve lived an entire 60 years and never seen anything like it. I knew John Diefenbaker, Lester Pearson, met Pierre Trudeau twice, had coffee with Brian Mulroney, dialogued with Joe Clark, talked politics with John Chretien, Africa with Paul M ...
• Safe Flight
  Appearances aside, the vast majority of work done on Parliament Hill is undertaken by the staff of MPs, senators and ministers. The typical aide is young, bilingual, single, intelligent and dedicated to their work. Beneath these main characteristics certain distinctions emerge. Some are committe ...
• The Rock of Integrity
  Came to bed but couldn’t sleep, my thoughts filled with Jim Travers, the terrific journalist from the Toronto Star, whose sudden passing today infused Ottawa with a sense of tragedy. So many wonderful things are being said about him that my thoughts will pale in comparison. But my insights are t ...

Vaccine Awakening

• No Pharma Liability? No Vaccine Mandates.
  by Barbara Loe Fisher On February 22, 2011 the U.S. Supreme Court shielded drug companies from all liability for harm caused by vaccines mandated by government when companies could have made a safer vaccine. 1 From now on, drug companies selling vaccines in America will not be held accounta ...
• WA State Vaccine Law Threatens Exemptions & Vi ...
  by Barbara Loe Fisher If you are a resident of Washington state, you should know that there is a bill quietly sailing through your state legislature that violates your privacy and threatens your right to make informed, voluntary decisions about vaccination. House Bill 1015 1 and Senate Bill ...
• New Vaccine Science Can Help Bridge the Divide
  by Barbara Loe Fisher Fear of the unknown is what terrifies us the most, fear of being unable to have control over what the future holds. At the root of that fear is knowing that the choices we make today could have a profound impact on what happens tomorrow. 1 Fear is a strong emotion ...
• Counting Blessings, Remembering the Children
  by Barbara Loe Fisher Every Christmas and New Year, when I give thanks for the people who have blessed my life, I remember the mothers and fathers of severely vaccine injured children, who have taught me the most about love and courage. I know that my son, Chris, who developed brain inflamma ...
• Thousands Of Americans Register for NVIC's New ...
  by Barbara Loe Fisher Thousands of Americans living in all 50 states took action and registered for the new NVIC Advocacy Portal at www.NVICadvocacy.org during Vaccine Awareness Week (Nov. 1-6, 2010) co-sponsored by the National Vaccine Informati ...

2020 Science

• Nanotechnology safety – a new video blog from ...
  Back in December 2009, I rode the Acela Express up to New York from Washington DC for the day to record one of a series of nanotechnology podcasts for the ASME – the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. The podcast was to be part of a new educational outreach initiative on all aspects of na ...
• The Seven Deadly Sins of Techno-Complacency – ...
  I don’t believe it – once again I’ve let myself be talked into doing an event in Second Life.  But this time it’s even worse – I’ll be hosting a combined second life and real-life event, and in effect acting as the medium between physical and virtual realities. The only compensation is that the ...
• The art of regulating nanotechnologies
  The recently published International Handbook on Regulating Nanotechnologies has a rather unconventional cover image. But it’s one that I must confess I am rather pleased with. The image is a photo of a piece of Murano glass that I picked up several years ago while visiting Venice. At the time I ...
• Crowdsourcing “sinful” images for a tech talk ...
  How would you illustrate the “Seven Deadly Sins of Techno-Complacency” (see below)? On March 8, I’m giving a combined Second Live/Real Life talk on emerging technologies, inspired by the Seven Deadly Sins.  This will be a rather tongue in cheek affair as you might imagine, but with some serious ...
• International Handbook on Regulating Nanotechn ...
  Here’s an offer I’m sure you won’t be able to resist: The opportunity to read the first and last chapters of the just-published International Handbook on Regulating Nanotechnologies – for free! Due to the farsightedness of my co-editors, the publishers have agreed to let authors post their chapt ...

Reader Supported News

• UN/NATO Eye No-Fly Zone, Increased Surveillanc ...
  The report begins: "NATO has launched 24-hour air and sea surveillance of Libya as a possible precursor to a no-fly zone, amid signs of growing Arab support for western military intervention to stop the bombing of civilians." A rebel army officer teaches the use of weapons to civilians who ha ...
• Washington Divided Over the Politics of Interv ...
  David E. Sanger and Thom Shanker report: "Nearly three weeks after Libya erupted in what may now turn into a protracted civil war, the politics of military intervention to speed the ouster of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi grow more complicated by the day - for both the White House and Republicans. Pre ...
• Washington Divided Over the Politics of Interv ...
  David E. Sanger and Thom Shanker report: "Nearly three weeks after Libya erupted in what may now turn into a protracted civil war, the politics of military intervention to speed the ouster of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi grow more complicated by the day - for both the White House and Republicans. Pre ...
• Libyan Rebels, Kadafi Regime Both Claim Victories
  Borzou Daragahi and Garrett Therolf report: "Government attacks on Zawiya and Misurata continue to kill scores of civilians, but witnesses report that the rebels are holding their ground using light guns, Molotov cocktails and knives." A Libyan rebel with a rocket-propelled grenade launcher i ...
• Libyan Rebels, Kadafi Regime Both Claim Victories
  Borzou Daragahi and Garrett Therolf report: "Government attacks on Zawiya and Misurata continue to kill scores of civilians, but witnesses report that the rebels are holding their ground using light guns, Molotov cocktails and knives." A Libyan rebel with a rocket-propelled grenade launcher i ...

War Resisters League

• Stepping up the Resistance to U.S. Islamophobia
  As Peter King, the new chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, steps up the U.S. government attack against Muslims living in the U.S., saying that he will “rely on Muslims to make his case that American Muslim leaders have failed to cooperate with law enforcement officials in the effo ...
• Mubarak Ousted! Two Down, Twenty To Go . . .
  “The people have brought down the regime!” was a cry heard around the world when on Friday, February 11th, 18 days of unrelenting non-violent protest finally forced the end of Hosni Mubarak’s 30 year, US backed rule over Egypt. Ecstatic jubilation filled Cairo’s Midan al-Tahrir (Liberation Squar ...
• The Egyptian Revolution and Police Tools &#821 ...
  As of this writing, the Egyptian revolution has entered its 16th day and is gaining ground and momentum: spreading to new regions, evolving into strikes and civil disobedience and clarifying its demands. What started as an impressive series of demonstrations on January 25th’s ‘Day of Wrath’ has ...
• Anti-war Activists to Grand Jury: “We will not ...
  Tuesday, January 25th was the day that 23 anti-war and Palestine solidarity activists were made to appear before a Federal Grand Jury in Chicago. It was also the day that all of them refused to testify. In solidarity with those targeted by government repression, several rallies were held in citi ...
• The other “Afghanistan Report”
  Whose stories are we telling about the war in Afghanistan? On the day following the White House report on the war in Afghanistan that names the war as a qualified success and calls for the U.S. to “stay the course,” we must lift up the alternative stories and reports of this near-decade of occup ...

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 ...

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

• New findings prompt call that Alberta Governme ...
  Castle-Crown Wilderness Coalition Sierra Club Canada Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society - Southern Alberta 9 M ...
• Edmonton Water Week
  21 Mar 2011 - 00:00 - 26 Mar 2011 - 00:00 Edmonton Edmonton Water Week 21 Mar 2011 - 00:00 - 26 Mar 2011 - 00:00 Check the Edmonton Water Week website for a full slate of events Ed ...
• Call for Delegates: Member & Alternate, Albert ...
  Position:  Member & Alternate Organization:  Alberta Water Council The Alberta Water Council (AWC) has been ...
• Shell Environmental Fund
  Organization:  Shell Canada Deadline:  23 Mar 2011 (All day) In 2011, Shell is celebrating its 100-year an ...
• 12th Annual Run/Walk Wild for Wildlife
  3 Apr 2011 - 11:00 Wildlife Rehabilitation Society of Edmonton 3 Apr 2011 - 11:00 Early bird registration rate available until March�14 The annual Run/Walk Wild for Wildlife is ...

Stop NATO

• Stop NATO News March 9, 2011
  ==== stopnato-subscribe@yahoogroups.com ==== 1. Video/Text: U.S. Contractors Destabilize Foreign Governments 2. Third NATO 3D NATO Radar Site To Be Constructed In Hungary 3. Libya: NATO Defense Chiefs Mull Flight Ban, Naval Blockade 4. USS Ronald Reagan Carrier Joining South Korean War Games 5. ...
• Point Of No Return: U.S. And NATO Prepare For ...
  Stop NATO March 8, 2011 Point Of No Return: U.S. And NATO Prepare For War With Libya Rick Rozoff March 7 was a pivotal moment in plans by Western powers to launch military operations against Libya. After meeting with Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard in Washington, President Barack Obama s ...
• Stop NATO News March 8, 2011
  ==== stopnato-subscribe@yahoogroups.com ==== 1. U.S. To Build, Fund Military Training Center In Kyrgyzstan 2. U.S. Drone Attack Kills Five, Wounds Three In Pakistan 3. Ouattara’s Ivory Coast Ambassador To United States: “Temple Of Democracy” Should Intervene 4. Video/Text: General Petraeus “Joke ...
• Stop NATO News March 7, 2011
  ==== stopnato-subscribe@yahoogroups.com ==== 1. NATO Shells Tribal Area, Helicopters Cross Into Pakistan 2. NATO’s Libyan Intervention Threatens Malta’s Neutrality 3. Kabul: Afghans Protest Against NATO’s Slaying Of Children 4. Spratly Dispute With China: U.S. Provides Philippines With Patrol Sh ...
• Stop NATO News March 6, 2011
  ==== stopnato-subscribe@yahoogroups.com ==== 1. Pentagon In Europe Forever, NATO’s Global “Mission Creep” 2. U.S. Air Force Launches Secretive Space Plane 3. U.S. To Sell Cash-Strapped Romania F-16s, F-35s To Follow 4. Ex-NATO Commander, National Security Advisor James Jones On Broader Middle Ea ...

Before It's News

• Reporting FAIL
• Looking For Support
• Report: Albertas oil sands leaking contaminant ...
• Canadian House Speaker rules Tories breached e ...
• Third whammy hits Philippine ombudsman

Intel Hub

• US Gov’t Attorneys: Providing Detailed C ...
  Activist Post March 9th, 2011 Defense lawyers for organizations on the U.S. government’s “terror list” are frustrated fighting the designation, and seizure of assets in many cases, because the government claims it is too tedious to give an explanation of the charges. ”It would be extremely burd ...
• TSA Pats Down Pregnant Woman As Possible Secur ...
  The Intel Hub By Alex Thomas March 9th, 2011 In recent months we have seen the TSA search and harass 9 year old boys, disabled women, women with prosthetic breasts, attractive women, and just about anyone else that they have felt like harassing. Millions of Americans have denounced these Orwelli ...
• James O’Keefe Is A Council for National ...
  Roguegovernment.com By Lee Rogers March 9th, 2011 James O’Keefe the character who has generated a great deal of media attention for secretly recording compromising audio and video of people affiliated with so-called left leaning organizations has had close historical ties to the Council for Nati ...
• Pimco’s Biggest Fund Dumps Treasury Bond ...
  By: Reuters with CNBC.com March 9th, 2011 Pimco’s Total Return Fund, the world’s biggest bond fund, has dumped all U.S. government-related securities, including U.S. Treasurys and agency debt. The move was not a surprise given Pimco chief Bill Gross’s recent statements that Treasurys are over-va ...
• POLICE STATE: Drones To Be Used In Miami Have ...
  NotForSale2NWO March 9th, 2011 Related Posts: Domestic Use of Aerial Drones by Law Enforcement Likely to Prompt Privacy Debate US Gov’t Attorneys: Providing Detailed Charges to Those on Terror Lists ‘Extremely Burdensome’ TSA Pats Down Pregnant Woman As Possible Security Threat, Police State In ...

FRS

• Greece: 98 Migrants Hospitalized During 39 Day ...
  Mar 2, 2011 This is a video about an ongoing migrant hunger strike taking place in Greece. 300 people, mainly from North Africa, are on their 39th day of holding a hunger strike in a push for the legalization of all Greek migrants, but the Greek authorities are yet to budge. As of this writing [...]
• Personal Revolutions: One Woman’s View from th ...
  March 8,  2011 by Tahiyya Lulu Since February 14th 2011, Bahrain has been experiencing a massive popular uprising in which large numbers of women from different socio-economic, political and religious backgrounds have taken to the streets to demand greater rights, freedom and democracy. They wer ...
• Oakland, California: Adding to the US’ r ...
  Oakland must rehire cop who shot suspect in back Henry K. Lee, San Francisco Chronicle Saturday, March 5, 2011 An Oakland police officer who was fired after fatally shooting an unarmed drunken-driving suspect in the back has won his job back through arbitration, his attorney said Friday. Officer ...
• Saudi Arabia drafts in up to 10,000 troops ahe ...
  Saudi Arabia is drafting in up to 10,000 security forces to the north eastern Muslim Shia provinces ahead of mass protests planned next week. 12:37AM GMT 05 Mar 2011 Desperate to avoid mass uprisings against the House of Saud, security forces have deployed in huge numbers across the region. King ...
• Saudi Arabia bans protest rallies
  Interior ministry vows to use all steps “to prevent attempts to disrupt public order” following recent Shia protests. 5 Mar 2011 King Abdullah unveiled $37bn in benefits for citizens after returning from abroad last week Saudi Arabia has banned all protests and marches following recent anti-gove ...

Ken O'Keefe

• Tahrir4Gaza – Liberation for Gaza
  As the Arab people continue to exercise unarmed yet mighty power, there is one place above all others that remains at the heart of the struggle, Palestine. Despite all the money, propaganda, weapons, false imprisonment, ethnic cleansing, torture and mass-murder wielded against them, they have e ...
• The Egyptian Blockade of Gaza – February 26, 2 ...
  Is there any sane, right-minded person who supports the blatant and brutal collective punishment of the people of Gaza? So why would it carry on? There is only one reason, because we allow it. I say we carry on with what the people of Egypt started, they got rid of the dictator, let us, people ...
• Global Revolution 2011
  I believe the time has come to unite, those of us who are sane, who can see that the masses are comprised of so many cultures and vastly different ways of life, yet we all demand essentially the same things. We demand to be treated with respect. We demand the right to a decent way of life. We ...
• Revolutions & Manipulations
  While millions of Egyptians are in the streets, in one of the most dramatic spontaneous uprisings in recent years, in an attempt to overthrow 30 years of Mubarak rule, a regime propped up by Israel and the United States, an undercurrent of opportunist plots threaten to turn this hopeful situatio ...
• Rise People Rise – The Global Revolution ...
  Let us realize once and for all, that we the people are one, that we are human, that our most precious gift is that of our humanity. Let us never sacrifice it again. Together we are unstoppable. We are the sleeping giant, we are the waking lion, we are fierce and we are fearless.

StillSmallVoice

• Abortion does not lead to breast cancer
  No matter what that Indiana bill says. Indiana's HB 1210 would make that state one of the most restrictive in regard to reproductive rights, and would, among other things, require doctors to tell women seeking an abortion that such procedures increase the likelihood of breast cancer. This despi ...
• Illinois has abolished the death penalty
  On Wednesday, the Land of Lincoln became the 16th state to abolish capital punishment. The abolition of the state's death penalty has been 11 years in the making. Gov. Pat Quinn made his decision, he said, after reading several books, including the Bible. Here's a round-up of what some Christia ...
• Did Rep. Mike Pence skip biology?
  The Indiana Republican, defending his push to defund family planning services, said: “This isn’t about denying funding for women’s health services. It’s about defunding Planned Parenthood. The largest abortion provider in America should not be the largest recipient of taxpayer money.” In fact, ...
• Fanning the flames of Islamophobia: Your tax d ...
  Political Research Associates have published a report that says: government agencies responsible for domestic security have inadequate mechanisms to ensure quality and consistency in terrorism preparedness training provided by private vendors; public servants are regularly presented with mi ...
• Membership in Patriot Guard Riders has spiked
  Since the Supreme Court decision in favor of Westboro Church�last week -- that's�the military-funeral-protesting-hate-group --�membership in PGR has increased by 8,000 nationwide, according to a report from The Day in New London. And thanks, W., for the link. Flickr photo � �

Associated Content

• Former Alice in Chains Bassist Mike Starr Dead ...
  Mike Starr, the former bassist for rock band Alice in Chains, was found dead March 8, at the age of 44. No cause of death has been determined but he had been battling drug abuse for many years.Contributor: Jeanne Rose Published: Mar 09, 2011
• CBS and Warner Brothers Exploring Options to R ...
  Charlie Sheen's future on the show "Two and a Half Men" was finally decided when he was fired. Now the show's producers and creators are looking for possible replacements. One name that has circulated is Rob Lowe.Contributor: T.A.W. Published: Mar 09, 2011
• Prince William and Kate Middleton Will Outshin ...
  Prince William and Kate Middleton are proving just how strong of a couple they really are. Here are three ways in which they may leave a more lasting impression than that of Princess Diana and Prince Charles.Contributor: Jean Kelly Published: Mar 09, 2011
• Mike Starr, Alice in Chains Bassist, Found Dea ...
  Alt-metal grunge band Alice In Chains suffered another tragedy Tuesday when former bassist Mike Starr was found dead in his Salt Lake City home. This marks the second death for Alice In Chains members in less than a decade and follows...Contributor: Saul Relative Published: Mar 09, 2011
• Rob Lowe #Winning Talks to Replace Charlie Sheen?
  Reports suggest that actor Rob Lowe may be #winning talks to replace Charlie Sheen on the hit comedy "Two and a Half Men."Contributor: Grace Shreve Published: Mar 09, 2011

Popsci - Science

• DOE Exploring Superconducting Magnet Scheme fo ...
  Throwing cost concerns and caution to the wind, the U.S. Department of Energy is getting behind a project that aims to prove that superconducting magnetic energy storage (SMES) can work at the grid level. Via a $4.2 million ARPA-E grant, Swiss engineering firm ABB and a handful of partners plan ...
• Backyard Astronomer Nabs Stupendous Sun Photo
  Winter doldrums getting you down? Let this amazing photo of the sun brighten your day. The smoky puff on the left is a remnant of a solar flare that erupted from the sunspot below. Astrophotographer Alan Friedman captured this shot at a star party in the Florida Keys last week, using a fairly ...
• A Pacemaker for Your Gut Feigns Fullness, Tric ...
  European regulators have approved the sale of a new medical implant intended to be a less invasive option than gastric bypasses or stomach stapling procedures: a “gastric pacemaker” for the gut. When a person is eating, a device implanted in the abdomen triggers a premature notion of fullness b ...
• World's First Tissue-Engineered Urethras Deeme ...
  The organs were grown from the patients' own cells Six years ago, researchers at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine used tissue-engineering techniques to grow new urethras for five young male patients from their own cells. Now, an article published in the Lancet has declared th ...
• High-Powered NASA Grow-Light Reduces Chemother ...
  WARP 75 lamp eases pain A powerful NASA-developed grow lamp designed for the space shuttle can ease a debilitating side effect of cancer treatment, according to a new study. That’s directly from the lamp itself, not because it is used to grow medicinal plants. The treatment is under review by t ...

Veterans Today

• CIA, The Mother Hen
  Growing vandalism of CIA led foreign agencies in Pakistan By Brig Asif Haroon Raja Apart from its agenda in Afghanistan, the US had defined objectives set for Pakistan as well. Under the ruse of alliance, America wanted to denuclearize Pakistan and turn it into a compliant state subservient to I ...
• Agent Orange debate concerns retired Island Hy ...
  MANITOULIN—A decade before US choppers doused Vietnamese jungles with a cancer-causing defoliant dubbed Agent Orange, hydro workers from Manitoulin were not only blithely applying the stuff to the brush along transmission corridors but practically bathing in the toxic tincture.
• Pentagon Torture of Manning Recalls Stalin Era ...
  The United States of America is in the process of slowly and deliberately destroying a human being before the eyes of the world. All of President Obama's posturing about the conduct of dictator Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi of Libya will not expunge his own calculated cruelty in allowing his Pentag ...
• US Department of Labor announces ‘Stand Down’ ...
  WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Veterans’ Employment and Training Service today announced the availability of $600,000 in “Stand Down” grants that will provide an estimated 10,000 homeless veterans with opportunities to reintegrate into society. The grants are being awarded under th ...
• LA County High School of The Arts Hold Auction ...
  SOUTH PASADENA, CA – On March 18th LA County’s High School of the Arts (LACHSA) will be presenting an evening of art and music to benefit New Directions and their programs for homeless veterans. The talented LACHSA students will be creating and donating paintings, prints and photography pieces ...

War is Business

• Aim High: Russia Has ‘No Intention&#8217 ...
  Sell first loser Investment advice based on a report from: RIA Novosti
• Klare On Arab Uprisings And The Oil Economy (A ...
  Buy a backyard wind turbine Investment advice based on a report from: TomDispatch - Blog
• Jane’s: ‘China To Double Lending T ...
  Buy a battleship, no money down Investment advice based on a report from: Jane's Subject-based Alerts - Contract Awards
• Two-Time Loser Tries Again For Seat Of Democra ...
  Sell US antiwar movement Investment advice based on a report from: Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines
• Treason Charges For Zimbabweans Who Watched DV ...
  Sell bootleg DVDs Investment advice based on a report from: ReadWriteWeb

Hudson's Weather & Climate

• Goodbye to the Space Shuttle Discovery
  On Monday evening with clear skies across the North of England star gazers were treated to a wonderful, and it turns out historical spectacle in the southern sky. The International Space Station was clearly visible, closely followed in the same orbit by the Space Shuttle Discovery, which had b ...
• What now for Global temperatures?
  Latest satellite data from the University of Alabama (UAH) shows virtually no change in global temperatures from January's levels. The -0.02C anomaly relative to the 1981-2010 average equates to approximately +0.24C above the more standard 1961-1990 average used by the Met Office and World Meteo ...
• Winter 2010/2011: Cold and dry - as forecast!
  After a record breaking December, a mild February has meant that winter 2010/2011 across the UK as a whole has ended up only 15th coldest since UK figures started in 1910. Provisional UK data for winter 2010/2011 shows a mean of 2.39C, compared to the 1971-2000 average of 3.7C. How does that ...
• Can the government be trusted on solar subsidies?
  The government have announced that they are to look at subsidies payable to large scale solar power farms that have started to spring up across the country. The so called 'feed in tariffs' are the cash subsidies given to anyone who generates electricity by putting solar panels on their roof, a ...
• Lowest January Arctic ice on satellite record
  One of the questions that I'm often asked is how can global temperatures have reached near-record levels, when here in the UK we have had record breaking cold? It's an issue that many people have great difficulty in accepting. Of course the answer is that the UK represents a tiny fraction of t ...

Internat'l Political Economy

• Three Cheers for UK Women Drivers, Shame on EU
  My life fades, my vision dims. All that remains are memories. I remember a time of chaos, ruined dreams; this wasted land. Most of all, I remember the man we called Max, the Road Warrior. To understand who he was we have to go back to the other time... While I am generally among the most pro-Eu ...
• Deutschland Uber Alles, Even in Higher Education
  You've got to hand it to the Germans. I suppose they're a bit like a big brother who can do everything better than you--they're bound to create resentment. In a neat chronological and geographical inversion, Germany has been called the China of Europe as it beats the living daylight out of uncom ...
• Bahrain GP in Jeopardy: F1 and Authoritarianism
  In olden days a glimpse of stocking Was looked on as something shocking But now, heaven knows - anything goes It's weekend feature time. I suppose that hosting a Formula One grand prix is, above all else, a vanity project. In the same way that hosting the World Cup or the Winter or Summer Olymp ...
• Behavioural Economics? Try Biological Economics
  By now, all and sundry should be familiar with behavioural economics. In contrast to homo economicus or rational economic man, real humans are subject to all sorts of foibles during decision-making processes. This body of work was most memorably crystallized in Kahneman and Tversky's prospect th ...
• Bahrain Aside, F1 Show Has Woes in Oz & Spain
  A few days ago, I had a brace of posts [1, 2] on the cancellation of the first race of the Formula One season due to the troubles in the miniature kingdom of Bahrain. Formula One is of particular IPE interest since it is one of if not the most watched sports in the world depending on which sourc ...

Economic Collapse Blog

• Should We Be Alarmed That The Biggest Bond Fun ...
  Bill Gross, the manager of the biggest bond fund in the world, has forgotten more about bonds than most of us will ever learn. That is why the big move that PIMCO has just made is so unsettling.  At one time PIMCO held more U.S. government debt than any other bond fund on the [...]
• People Of Earth: Prepare For Economic Disaster
  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 wo ...
• Inflation Is Here – Just Open Up Your Ey ...
  Despite what Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says, rampant inflation is officially here.  The federal government is constantly monkeying with the numbers to keep the "official" rate of inflation below 2 percent, but it is becoming very difficult to deny that the cost of al ...
• 5 Dollar Gas? Get Ready To Pay An Arm And A Le ...
  One of the quickest ways to bring down the U.S. economy would be to dramatically increase the price of oil. Oil is the lifeblood of our economic system. Without it, our entire economy would come to a grinding halt. Almost every type of economic activity in this country depends ...
• 6 Charts Which Prove That Central Banks All Ov ...
  If the U.S. dollar is being devalued so rapidly, then why does it sometimes increase in value against other global currencies?  Well, it is because everybody is recklessly printing money now.  The 6 charts which you are about to see below prove this.  The truth is that it is not ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

• Nor'easter #11 Call for Submissions
  The Nor'easter collective of the Northeast Anarchist Network is getting ready to put together Nor'easter Issue 11 and it needs help from you! ...
• New York City Anarchist Book Fair proposals de ...
  The 5th Annual NYC Anarchist Book Fair will be held Saturday, April 9, 2011, at Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square South, NYC. Present...
• Eco-Anarchies Issue #1 Call For Papers
  We are presently seeking submissions for a new project that aims to explore the ineluctable connections between ecology and anarchy. Since G...
• Soliciting Submissions For Zine on Anti-Police ...
  Within the last eight months, Denver has seen an inspiring and growing movement against police terror. In a city with the worst brutality statis...
• TCN Radio: February 2011, Episode #2
  Here is the February episode of TCN Radio. The featured audio essays include a reading of an issue of Kerbloom pertaining to Letters of Insurgents,...

E U Times

• US welfare nation: Government handouts make up ...
  Government handouts now make up a record-breaking one third of the total amount of wages and salaries in the U.S., according to a bombshell new study. The payouts – including Social Security, Medicare and unemployment insurance – are placing an increasing burden on the state at a time it is tryi ...
• Israel to ask U.S. for $20billion extra in mil ...
  Israel are expected to ask for an additional $20billion in U.S. military aid in order to help the country deal with potential threats arising from the ongoing uprisings in the Middle East. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal defence minister Ehud Barak was reported as saying his country ...
• Iranian Official Admits Aiding Hezbollah, Says ...
  On Wednesday, March 2nd, Commander of the Basij organization, Brigadier General Mohammad-Reza Naghdi spoke at a conference of specialist working groups of Basiji corps of engineers. “Seventy percent of the world’s fossil fuel reserve is under the feet of the soldiers of the Supreme Leadership an ...
• Mysterious Glowing Spiral Sighted in a Remote ...
  None of the world’s experts no what the strange spiral structure on the left is. Why the spiral glows is itself a mystery, with a leading hypothesis being illumination by light reflected from nearby stars. NASA astronomers think it is related to a star in a binary star system entering the planet ...
• Million dead fish swamp L.A. area marina
  ‘Seals are gorging themselves’ while leftovers are removed, dumped in bins. Sardines and other small fish in the hundreds of thousands washed up dead overnight in the harbor area of Redondo Beach, Calif., just south of Los Angeles, puzzling authorities and triggering a cleanup effort. Local tele ...

Voiceless Victim

• Top 10 Catholic Excuses For Doing Absolutely N ...
  Priests at the pulpit do it. Catholic apologists do it mindlessly, understanding little. Cardinals and Bishops exploit their influence to do it to as many people as possible. The Vatican does little else. With alarming regularity and very little variation, they all trot out the same set of tired ...
• Gentle Slap on the Wrist and Comfy Retirement ...
  Details were revealed this week about the Vatican “taking action” last year against a Dutch Catholic Bishop working in Kenya, who had raped a 14-year-old Masai boy some years earlier while still a priest. So here we have an example of just exactly what the new, recently improved Vatican response ...
• The Real Role of the Media in the Catholic Chi ...
  The paedophile protecting Pope and his seriously creepy Vatican spokespersons try to paint the role of the media in the reporting of the Catholic Church child rape tsunami as a conspiracy. They can’t quite make up their minds who exactly is behind their fallacious nonsense of a persecution. The ...
• Why Is Anyone Still A Catholic?
  On the day the Egyptian people succeeded in ousting an oppressive and controlling  regime noted for abuse of power and human rights abuses, it is worthwhile to evaluate the refusal of ordinary Catholics to consider the consequences of their own selfish, mindless and cowardly support for the paed ...
• The Pope Calling The Berlusconi Black
  I’ve heard some pretty obvious cases of the pot calling the kettle black, but the recent controversy over the Pope ticking off Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi for child sexual exploitation shows how complete is the lack of self-awareness demonstrated by the psychopaths who surround and ...

WL Central

• 2011-03-09 Sudan: The protests and other viole ...
  TweetDemonstrators in downtown Khartoum's Abu Janzeer square were beaten with sticks and truncheons as they protested today for the end of President Omar al-Bashir’s 21-year rule. Reportedly five hundred riot police arrested over 50 protesters today, and beat up others. As WL Central reported, ...
• 2011-02-22 [UPDATE:1] US-Libya Business Associ ...
  Tweet[UPDATE - 2010-03-09] The Middle East Institute has posted video of a US-Libya business relations event that WL Central mentioned previously. The event called "US-Libya Relations: Surviving the WikiLeaks Controversy?" featured two individuals, David Mack and Charles Dittrich, with connectio ...
• 2011-03-09 Cables: Why Million Women March in ...
  Tweet Stories of what happened as Egyptian women protested in Tahrir Square and called for equality and fairness in Egyptian society in honor of International Women’s Day are circulating. Female Egyptians hoped to have a million women march. Unfortunately, only a few hundred women came out to de ...
• 2011-03-08 Mossad kidnaps Gaza’s chief power ...
  Tweet On February 18, Gaza’s chief power plant engineer, Dirar Abu Seesi, was kidnapped by the Mossad, while he was traveling in the Ukraine. Abu Seesi is now in Shikma Prison outside Ashkelon after being transferred from the Shabak torture center in Petah Tikva. (Source: richardsilverstein.co ...
• Campaigns and petitions
  Tweet To the UN Security Council: We urge you immediately to impose a no-fly zone on Libya to stop aerial bombings, attacks and the movement of Qaddafi's troops and weapons, which are inflicting a terrible toll on civilians, and to protect the needs and interests of the Libyan people. As L ...

U N News

• Haiti: UN plans to reinforce police for presid ...
  The 3,500-strong United Nations police force in Haiti is planning to reinforce its support of national police for the presidential run-off election on 20 March, although it does not expect trouble, according to the head of the contingent.
• US discriminates on right to safe water and sa ...
  The United States must do more to eliminate discrimination in access to safe drinking water and sanitation, an independent United Nations expert reported today, citing wide disparities that adversely affect people of colour and Native Americans.
• Argentina's Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo ...
  The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, a non-governmental organization that has been working for over 30 years to locate the families of children kidnapped and "disappeared" during the military dictatorship in Argentina, is this year's recipient of the United Nations cultural agency's peace prize.
• Haiti: UN human rights expert urges presidenti ...
  The United Nations independent expert on human rights in Haiti, Michel Forst, today urged candidates in the country's upcoming presidential run-off election to spearhead the fight against impunity and champion greater respect of human rights.
• UN chief heads to Los Angeles to discuss globa ...
  Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will be in Los Angeles next week as part of the United Nations initiative that aims to raise the profile of critical global issues in partnership with the international film and television industries.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

• Victory in the Southern Ocean Day for the Whales
  From Captain Paul Watson It’s official – The Japanese whaling fleet has called it quits in the Southern Ocean. At least for this season. If they return next season the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society will be ready to resume our efforts to obstruct and disable Japanese whaling operations. “Th ...
• Conservation News Brief
  Captain Paul Watson to arrive in Australia for final preparations for Operation Musashi Friday Harbor, WA – Just days after reaffirming that they will head to the Southern Oceans alone to defend the whales in the Antarctic Whale Sanctuary, even after Greenpeace and the Australian government h ...
• Whaling Opponents Collide at Sea
  On board the Steve Irwin in the Ross Sea –February 6th, 2009, 0800 Hours (Sydney Time)  February 5th, 2009 1300 Hours (PST), 75 Degrees 44 Minutes South and 165 Degrees 39 Minutes West The Sea Shepherd ship Steve Irwin collided with the Yushin Maru No.2 this morning in the Ross Sea as the harpo ...
• Dave Foreman’s Recent Speech At Nebraska Wesle ...
  Here’s a great speech Dave did in Nebraska recently. Fetzer Lecture Rewilding North America THURSDAY, MARCH 26 Click Here To Listen In!
• New Website All About Mexican Gray Wolves!
  There are only 52 Mexican gray wolves in the wilds of Arizona and New Mexico. The Rewilding Institute has joined with local, regional, and national conservation, scientific, and sportsmen’s organizations, and concerned citizens in launching a new website, mexicanwolves.org, to help save this hig ...

Asia Sentinel

• Seeking a Common Front Against China
  Philippines, Indonesia agree to seek cooperation over the Spratly and Paracel chains
• Don't Look for Jasmine in China
  Either tea or revolution
• Gloria Arroyo Ally May be Out in Philippines
  Ombudsman, who blocked investigations into several scandals, may be impeached
• Score One for Anwar
  Malaysian court throws out DNA evidence in sodomy case
• Does Malaysia's Governing Coalition Regain Mom ...
  Sunday's by-elections look good, but...

We Know the Lies

• Interpretating the Occult Roots in 'The Wizard ...
  �Before writing the Wizard of Oz (or even contemplating becoming a children�s story author), Baum held many jobs � one as editor of the Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer. In 1890, Baum wrote a series of articles introducing his readers to Theosophy, including his views on Buddha, Mohammed, Confucius ...
• A Brainwashed Nation... How it Happened
  This amazing interview was done back in 1985 with a former KGB agent who was trained in subversion techniques. He explains the 4 basic steps to socially engineering entire generations into thinking and behaving the way those in power want them to. It�s shocking because our nation has been tr ...
• TREASON!... Spineless Stephen Harper Secretly ...
  �A secretive agreement signed by U.S. President Barack Obama and Canadian minority Prime Minister Stephen Harper in Washington�on Friday February 4 aims to remove Canada�s sovereignty. The secretive deal between Obama and Harper will establish a new border AROUND Canada and the United Stat ...
• Ohio... SB 5... Dennis Kucinich Warns The Pass ...
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today (March 2) released the following statement after the Ohio State Senate voted 17-16 to pass S.B. 5, a proposal to end the right of workers to collectively bargain for fair benefits and working conditions.read more
• Pennsylvania... Gov. Corbett Drops Health Insu ...
  Efforts to slash social spending in the name of budget deficits continue across the country. In Pennsylvania, more than 40,000 people have been dropped from a state-subsidized insurance program for the working poor. read more

Tatumba 2.0

• The Fluoride Deception: the truth about water ...
  The Fluoride Deception is the latest mini documentary from Mike Adams, executive director of the Consumer Wellness Center. Through the use of animation and motion graphics, he exposes the truth about where fluoride really comes from: The toxic byproducts of the phosphate mining industry! Do your ...
• Alex Jones On The View
  Alex Jones On The View? Who would have thunk it? Alex Jones was on The View and blasted truth at 30 million viewers. Alex Jones goes prime-time speaking to the Yentas on The View. It is nice to see Alex getting a chance to blast some truth to the 30 million or more sheep that [...] Related ...
• Site Upgrade Completed
  I am pleased to announce that I have upgraded to a faster server. The following explains what I went through / am still going through to make this happen: Please recycle. Don't throw away your peels Related posts:Site Upgrades Coming Hello This site may be offline on a temporary basis... Site Im ...
• The Charlie Sheen Test
  I want you to take a test. This is called The Charlie Sheen Test. To take this test please grab a pen and a piece of paper. Now count to 10. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Now I want you to write down the first word that comes to mind [...] Related posts:Charlie Veitch vs. McDonald’s Trying to stop p ...
• I have had it with GoDaddy
  I have had it with GoDaddy and their over-stuffed shared servers. For the past couple of days the load time of pages on here have been brutally slow. A few months ago I talked about going to a dedicated server. While my traffic does not justify paying for that cost, I am going to switch [...] ...

Truth About Our World

• Past Medical Testing on Humans Revealed Yet Pr ...
  From mediamonarchy | ap: Shocking as it may seem, U.S. government doctors once thought it was fine to experiment on disabled people and prison inmates. Such experiments included giving hepatitis to mental patients in Connecticut, squirting a pandemic flu virus up the noses of prisoners in Maryla ...
• Corporate Media Coverage of Libya is a Psyop
  Kurt Nimmo Prison Planet.com In the interview here, war correspondent Keith Harmon Snow spells out how the lopsided coverage of the conflict in Libya is a Pentagon psyop. � The psyop is particularly evident on CNN, especially on Anderson Cooper�s show. Back in 2000, Alexander Cockburn wrote abou ...
• Left-wing bias? It’s written through the ...
  For 20 years I was a front man at the BBC, anchoring news and current ­affairs programmes, so I reckon nobody is better placed than me to ­answer the question that nags at many of its viewers � is the BBC biased? In my view, �bias� is too blunt a word to describe the subtleties of the ­pervading ...
• Watson’s real purpose is to make a New Man out ...
  � by Aaron Franz A Fortune Magazine article posted to CNNmoney.com puts IBM�s most recent and very high profile AI publicity stunt (Watson) into context. You�ll notice this sort of thing with huge media blitzes, because without being put into context they would serve no purpose. You must underst ...
• Prisoners Help Build Patriot Missiles
  By Noah Shachtman 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 th ...

Bloomberg

• Grading Back-to-School Stocks
  Some outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential
• Akimbo: From Niches to Riches?
  The Internet video startup has amassed an impressive menu of online content. Subscribers are all it needs
• Big Traits for Big Blue
  IBM recruiter Michael Riegel says it seeks MBAs who do great work and possess "that intangible mix of humility, respect, and wisdom"
• Africa's 200 Million Empty Plates
  When the U.N. ponders the continent's ills and their tragic consequences, a sorry list of contributing factors needs to be on the table
• Michael Graves: Beyond Kettles
  Michael Graves: Beyond Kettles. The well-known designer discusses his many creations and notes, "I stayed true to what I thought was good design no matter who it was for".

Enviroblog

• Labor camps? Fine. But BPA crosses the line.
  By Alex Formuzis, EWG Vice President for Media Relations China: Where anyone who speaks out against the government will likely languish for years in a prison cell; Where crackdowns on the press and Internet access happen again and again; Where... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my ...
• Hold the Applause
  By Jane Houlihan, EWG Senior Vice President for Research Two weeks ago (Feb. 17), fellow activists proclaimed the upbeat news that the European Union had banned xylene and five other toxic chemicals that pose risks to human health and the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my websi ...
• Dr. Oz Talks Toxics in Our Drinking Water
  In February, our friend Dr. Oz dedicated an entire show to the safety of the nation's drinking water. On the air, he revealed the results of the 'Dr. Oz National Tap Water Test' - a hands-on water testing experiment undertaken... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full ...
• EWG testifying on behalf of clean drinking wat ...
  By Leeann Brown, Press SecretaryEnvironmental Working Group's Senior Counsel Dusty Horwitt made his fourth appearance today (March 1, 2011) before the New York City Council's Committee on Environmental Protection to highlight the risks posed by the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visi ...
• If you ask a caveman a chemistry question...
  By Alex Formuzis, EWG Vice-President for Media Relations Good news. Maine governor Paul LePage claims he has read the scientific research on the health dangers posed by bisphenol-A, the plastic component and synthetic estrogen. His conclusion? "Quite... [[ This is a content summary only. Vi ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

• The Daily Beast taught Tina Brown a lesson, bu ...
  Tina Brown's inaugural issue of Newsweek has been on stands for a couple of days now. She's getting an intense version of the usual mix of fawning praise and abject nastiness you usually get when you try to do something, so like the two ends of a string bea ...
• 'Certified Copy' may look like something you'v ...
  In Abbas Kiarostami’s Certified Copy, his first film shot outside of his native Iran, a middle-aged couple named James and, simply, “She” (William Shimell and Juliette Binoche) drive around the beautiful landscape of Tuscany. They talk about art, they talk ...
• Living with four stars at Del Posto
  Last September, in sensational fashion, Del Posto earned a fourth star from The New York Times, making it one of just seven restaurants in New York to have earned such a distinction. The people who run the place have been reckoning with the consequences eve ...
• Living with four stars at Del Posto
  Last September, in sensational fashion, Del Posto earned a fourth star from The New York Times, making it one of just seven restaurants in New York to have earned such a distinction. The people who run the place have been reckoning with the consequences eve ...
• It's tournament time, and St. John's might act ...
  The Big East Tournament begins today at Madison Square Garden with the eight lowest seeds in a 16-team league squaring off. But unlike recent seasons, when St. John's found itself in that bottom scrum (or worse, when the league only invited the top 12 finis ...

Views & News from Norway

• A message to readers from the editor
  Several weeks ago I was diagnosed with what the Norwegians call lungebetennelse (pneumonia). I kept working, in an effort to keep you readers up to date during an especially busy news period through the skiing world championships. Now, however, I need to go offline and take a break for the first ...
• Not easy being a Swede in Norway
  NEWS ANALYSIS: When Norwegian skiing star Petter Northug flaunted his prowess and tried to humiliate his Swedish arch rival at the world championships last week, it was just the latest in a long list of recent jabs against Norway’s neighbours. Swedes have had to tolerate a lot of abuse in Norway ...
• Gasoline prices hit new all-time high
  Even though Norway is an oil-producing nation, it’s always had high prices for gasoline (petrol) because of heavy taxes to discourage use of private cars. Now the prices are higher than ever before, because of rising oil prices and the strong Norwegian currency. The violence in Libya, meanwhile, ...
• ‘Tea parties’ aim to integrate
  More than a thousand residents of Oslo were participating this week in unusual “tea parties,” sponsored by a local organization dedicated to tackling racism. Muslim families and immigrants from Africa, for example, were opening their homes to ethnic Norwegians and simply inviting them in for tea ...
• Dig to begin at royal Viking estate
  The largest archaeological project in Norway in nearly 10 years will begin in June to recover property of the Viking king Harald HÃ¥rfagre (alternatively known as “Harald Fairhair,” “Harald Finehair” or, simply, “Harald I”). He was, at any rate, the first king of Norway. Newspaper Aftenposten re ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

• A Solar Powered Life – Part III
  When the band Bananarama penned the ditty, “A cruel summer” back in 1983, I’m sure they must have been singing about solar power. Well, upon reflection, they probably weren’t. Anyway, it is an appropriate metaphor for solar power generation in the Macedon Ranges in Victoria and indeed elsewhere ...
• Head-Banging for Britain
  by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist, United Kingdom Should we reduce the speed limit to cut oil consumption? Should we impose new taxes on the banks? Should we stop hawking weapons in the Middle East? The answer in all these cases is obvious, ...
• My Internship Experience, Joelyn Ong, Singapore
  PDC Class Photo April 2010 Growing up and living in cities, I could hardly imagine life on a farm and having to grow my own food. However, doing a 10-week permaculture internship at Zaytuna Farm, The Channon in NSW, Australia, changed my perception totally of what real sustainable living mea ...
• O-Farm Community Gardens, Hong Kong
  O-Farm Hong Kong is championed by PDC graduate Yip Tsz Shing. It is a wonderful community garden where very small spaces, just a few metres (8 square metres on average), are rented by Hong Kong residents. Some may travel up to an hour and a half each way to come and garden fresh organic food [...]
• Why World Food Prices May Keep Climbing
  Editor’s Note: In addition to the post from Lester below, also check out this: "Warning Of ‘Food Price Riots In The UK’ — A senior economist at the worldwide bank HSBC has warned of civil unrest in Britain if food prices continue to soar." by Lester Brown, Earth Policy Institute In February, wor ...

Telecrap Urinal

• US Soldier Waterboards His 4-Year Old Daughter
  Can you believe this? A US soldier, upset that his 4-year old daughter could not recite the alphabet, waterboarded her. He knew that she was afraid of water and that is why he chose this form of punishment. Related posts:Cops Bust Up Frail 84-Year Old Woman With Alzheimers Local Blogger Catche ...
• Fish Hat Pope – Wake Up Soon
  Studio version of Fish Hat Pope' song 'Wake Up Soon' (altered lyrics to sunny afternoon by The Kinks!) Fish Hat Pope performed this live at the British Constitution Group meeting in London on Oct 31st 2009. Related posts:A little sniff for the dog mate? – Everything is OK Whistle Blowers W ...
• US Government: Why we let the Underwear Bomber ...
  The US Government now admits that they allowed the Underwear Bomber to board the Christmas Flight from Amsterdam to Detroit. Related posts:BREAKING NEWS: US Government Admits It Helped Underwear Bomber Board Plane Extensive Interview with Kurt Haskell – Witness to Underwear Bomber Flight 253: ...
• United Breaks Guitars – Don’t mess ...
  Well the United Airlines baggage handlers broke the guitar in to two pieces. Then Mr. Carroll complained to United and it fell on deaf ears. Because of that he vowed to write three songs about their callous disregard and uncaring attitude. Related posts:United We Fall – Canada is a figment of ...
• Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth by Ric ...
  9/11 was an inside job. Nano thermite and thermate were used to pulverize these buildings, and in the process murdered thousands of innocent people. Related posts:Nigerian Man is a Al-CIA-Duh Terrorist – USA Caught in False-Flag Terror Plot National Security Alert from the CIT Climategate Scan ...

Anna's News

• 'Singing' Mice: The Ongoing Debate of Nature V ...
  What happened to being "quiet as a mouse"? Researchers have recently shown that, rather than being the silent creatures of popular belief, mice emit ultrasonic calls in a variety of social contexts, and these calls have song-like characteristics. Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals �|� �Note-it! ...
• 50 Famous Travel Spots Every Literary Geek Sho ...
  Some of these locations were included for their great literary significance, but may be exceptionally volatile and unsafe for citizens and tourists alike. If the desire to visit any of them grows overwhelming to the point of capitulation, put forth.......Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �No ...
• I'd walk a million miles: Rare images of Hitle ...
  Previously unseen images from the fascinating private albums of Eva Braun have come to light.They give us incredible retrospective access to Hitler�s little known companion and her extraordinary life.Hitler and Braun were married on April 29, 1945,Submitted by Anna Smith to Society & Culture �| ...
• Type With Your Mind
  For people with spinal injuries or other conditions that impair use of the arms or vocal cords -- or for the curious who just think it's cool -- the intendiX spells words based on brain waves. Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• 20 Painless Ways to Save Money on Gas
  Cars are terrible. Sure, they can be sleek and beautiful, and there's a certain inspiration to the designs. But ultimately, cars are crazy expensive. They constantly depreciate, they brake down at inopportune times, and they become the focal point of yourSubmitted by Anna Smith to Green Lifestyl ...

Medical Marijuana

• 3/9/11 - 34 States with Death Penalty / 41 Fed ...
  deathpenalty.procon.org - UPDATED: 34 States with Death Penalty / 41 Federal Capital Crimes - On Mar. 9, 2011, Illinois Governor Pat Quinn (D) signed legislation to repeal the state's death penalty statute. Illinois joins 15 other states and the District of Columbia that do not have capital crim ...
• 2/25/11 - NEW: History of the Individual Healt ...
  healthcarereform.procon.org - NEW: History of the Individual Health Insurance Mandate, 1989-2010: Republican Origins of Democratic Health Care Provision - Republicans oppose the Mar. 2010 health care reforms for many reasons, especially the provision creating an individual health care mandate w ...
• 2/23/11 - Vaccines ProCon.org - US Supreme Cou ...
  vaccines.procon.org - UPDATED: Vaccines ProCon.org - On Feb. 22, 2011, the US Supreme Court ruled that vaccine injury claims must continue to be filed with the US Court of Federal Claims and cannot be filed directly against physicians or vaccine manufacturers in civil court.
• 2/23/11 - Barack Obama Declares Defense of Mar ...
  gaymarriage.procon.org - Barack Obama Declares Defense of Marriage Act Unconstitutional - President Obama directed the Department of Justice today to stop defending in court the law that prevents gay marriage.
• 2/14/11 - Health Care Reform Opinion Polls/Surveys
  healthcarereform.procon.org - NEW: Health Care Reform Opinion Polls/Surveys - A Jan. 15-19, 2011 poll by CBS and the New York Times found that 40% of Americans want to repeal the March 2010 health care law while 48% want to let it stand. A Dec. 14-15 FOX News poll found that 59% of respondents ...

Progressives United - Russ Feingold

• My new group: Progressives United
  Today, I am proud to announce that progressives -- demanding change and demanding action -- have come together to help me launch a new group:�Progressives United � read more

Information Underground

• Social Engineering • Re: The alchemists of the ...
  . . The DELIBERATE Dumbing Down of America!! (Psychology, Fluoride, GMO's, School Shootings) iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKVcdjuYtI4 Uploaded by JediMasterRich on Jan 24, 2011 PLEASE Download the free E-BOOK by Former assistant minister of Education under the Reagan administrat ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  I hear ya Jai man, but this stuff is all over MSMD's head. You are confusing him.Statistics: Posted by Timothy_Fitzpatrick — Thu Mar 10, 2011 9:29 am
• History and Philosophy of Zionism/Judaism/&quo ...
  Nesta Webster has some amazing stuff. Did you ever check out Occult Theocrasy, by Edith Starr Miller. They say it was a pen name.Statistics: Posted by Timothy_Fitzpatrick — Thu Mar 10, 2011 9:27 am
• History and Philosophy of Zionism/Judaism/&quo ...
  I really need to be granted the ability to edit this. There are some spelling errors, some excerpts are repeated, and I need t make a few additions.Statistics: Posted by blissentia — Thu Mar 10, 2011 8:26 am
• Health, Poisons, Diseases, Drugs • Re: Possibl ...
  jai_mann wrote: The Israeli's bought up those patents the last I heard (which was around 2003). Ingestion provides differing effects also due to the modification of thc and other CBD's into other forms after they pass through the liver. One of these things is actually much stronger than thc whi ...

TVNZ

• Dalai Lama plans to step down as Tibetan polit ...
  The Dalai Lama has announced he is stepping down as political leader of the Tibetan govermment in exile.
• Accused Arizona shooter Loughner says not guil ...
  Tucson shooting rampage suspect Jared Loughner pleaded not guilty today to an expanded, 49-count indictment.
• WikiLeaks cable identified 23 in Australia wit ...
  Six of the 23 Australian citizens and residents named in a January 21, 2010 cable as having links to al Qaeda, are women.
• 6.6 magnitude earthquake strikes Papua New Guinea
  Papua New Guinea's earthquake-prone New Britain Island has been rattled by a 6.5 magnitude quake but there are no reports of damage.
• Gaddafi forces have regained control of the ce ...
  Forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi regained control of the centre of Zawiyah, after using tanks and snipers to drive rebels out of their stronghold in the western city's main square, residents said

environment 360

• Iceland Considers Giant Cable to Sell Geotherm ...
  Iceland’s largest energy company is considering construction of the world’s longest underwater electric cable so the nation can sell its vast geothermal and volcanic energy to the European market. By the end of the year, state-owned energy company, Landsvirkjun, will complete a study of building ...
• Cash-Strapped North Korea Seeks UN Carbon Offs ...
  Desperate for cash, North Korea is hoping to sell carbon offsets from a series of hydropower dam projects through the UN-backed Clean Development Mechanism. According to published reports, CorbisPoster of Kim Jong-il in front of a dam the government of North Korea has worked with the Hanns Seid ...
• Agribusiness Boom Threatens Key African Wildli ...
  The Ethiopian region of Gambella is home to Africa’s second-largest mammal migration, with more than a million endangered antelope and other animals moving through its grasslands. But the government has now leased vast tracts to foreign agribusinesses who are planning huge farms on land designat ...
• As CO2 Levels Have Risen, Plants Are Releasing ...
  A study of plant samples from the past 150 years shows that as atmospheric concentrations of carbon Click to enlarge Emmy LammertsmaReduction in stomata density dioxide have steadily increased, the density and size of pores that allow plants to breathe has decreased, also reducing the plants ...
• Chinese Power Companies Target African Solar M ...
  Chinese companies are making a concerted effort to dominate the emerging solar energy market in Africa, a continent where nearly two-thirds of the population still lives off the grid. At an energy conference in South Africa this week, more than three-fourths of the exhibits were from Chinese ven ...

oldephartte/Diigo

• killing Mother
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• The Disaffected Lib
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• Robert Reich
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• OSINT
  Tags: osint government intelligence search Open Source

backofthebook

• Xoom vs iPad 2
  By Eric Pettifor A couple of posts ago I wrote of the Motorola Xoom tablet, extolling its virtues while trying to convince myself that I don’t need one. And truly, I don’t. My little netbook is all the portable computing I really need. What I might want, and might actually get ...
• Jason Kenney’s “very cynical&#8221 ...
  By Sandeep Chauhan Jason Kenney ought to love Charlie Sheen. Kenney and his office pulled a boner of a move with their fundraising letter targeting “very ethnic” communities, but it’s getting buffered a bit by Charlie’s shtick. I should probably be outraged, but I’m not. I should be shocke ...
• Revisited: Billy Elliot’s big city jive
  The musical Billy Elliot opened in Toronto the other night, with its composer, Sir Elton, in attendance. The Globe loved it. The Post didn't. But great or whatever, it's liable to hang around Toronto for as long as it has London and New York, because this is the ultimate big-city ...
• Lay off the Sheen, if not for his good, then f ...
  by Rachel Krueger This is me trying not to write about Charlie Sheen and failing.  Not writing about Charlie Sheen is more difficult than deciding whether to laugh at or pity him, which is weirdly hard. Because on the one hand, the man is a barrel of allegedly sober monkeys.  He’s funnier ...
• Revisited: “How I Got Arrested and Abuse ...
  On Friday, the CBC's The Fifth Estate broadcast "You Should Have Stayed at Home," about police tactics at the 2010 G20 Summit. Among those appearing in the documentary is Toronto playwright and director Tommy Taylor, whose harrowing account of his arrest and detention appeared on his facebook pa ...

Daily Beast

• How Peter King's Muslim Hearings Help the Terr ...
  Rep. Peter King's hearings today on homegrown Muslim terrorists may not make him a McCarthy or a bigot, but the anxiety he's creating within the Muslim-American community will reduce future cooperation with law enforcement-and could help al Qaeda's...
• Adele, Lady Gaga, and More Unconventional Pop ...
  Adele is has the country's bestselling album for the second week in a row and Lady Gaga is topping Billboard's singles chart. As Britney Spears and Rihanna trail them, is the pretty girls' reign over the pop music realm finally over? There is almost...
• NPR's Polarizing Shakeup
  NPR's federal funding is at risk and CEO Vivian Schiller is out after conservative activist James O'Keefe caught an NPR executive on camera railing against the Tea Party-but O'Keefe tells Howard Kurtz he's not pursuing a right-wing agenda. On Monday,...
• Paris' Fashion Frenzy
  Rumors swirled this week about John Galliano's successor at Dior and Kate Middleton's wedding dress. But with all this tweeting and gossiping, we're forgetting about the clothes. By Robin Givhan. Small brands and lesser-known designers don't get much...
• Don't Freak About Oil Prices!
  With oil above $100 a barrel, and gas nearing $4 a gallon, doomsayers wrongly predict the end of the recovery. Zachary Karabell on how the economy no longer lives and dies with energy. With gas prices approaching $4 at the pump and turmoil roiling...

  Blacklisted News

• Bank of America says nearly half its mortgages ...
  Bank of America Corp. is segregating almost half its 13.9 million mortgages into a “bad” bank comprised of its riskiest and worst-performing “legacy” loans, Bloomberg News reported, citing Terry Laughlin, who is running the new unit.
• Brookings/ex-CIA Wonk Reveals Middle East Agenda
  "Which Path to Persia?" was a Brookings Institute report written in 2009 describing in excruciating detail the Anglo-Americans' designs against Iran. It included plans for provoking war with Iran, arming and supporting terrorists within Iran, and the funding and organizing of a color revolution, ...
• Jesse Jackson Jr, "Change Constitution So Ever ...
  This is a hilarious speech from Jesse Jackson Jr., he says how the government should just declare an endless stream of products and services "rights" and somehow that would automatically create tons of jobs and solve our unemployment problems. Who is going to pay for all his socialist schemes is ...
• 25 Examples the U.S. Government is Absolutely ...
• Axis of Evil Doing…
  The 33rd parallel is a ring of fire…. always has been, since antiquity.

The Intelligence Daily

• IntelFilter — March 9, 2011
  Today’s Top Headlines: The Collapse of the Old Oil Order: How the Petroleum Age Will End...
• Point Of No Return: U.S. And NATO Prepare For ...
  By Rick Rozoff March 7 was a pivotal moment in plans by Western powers to launch military...
• Wisconsin Democrats Plan Capitulation
  By Stephen Lendman Three weeks and counting since Wisconsin public workers began heroically...
• Oman’s unrest may be a domino, not just to sup ...
  Posted by Heading Out (The Oil Drum) There are reports that the unrest in the Middle East has...
• U.S. And NATO Escalate World’s Deadliest War O ...
  By Rick Rozoff The United States and its military allies in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization...

My AntiWar

• Egypt: ‘Friday of National Unity’ ...
• Libyan Jets on Diplomatic Sorties as No-Fly Looms
• Obama Taps Close Aide Shapiro as Israel Ambassador
• ElBaradei: Egypt Needs New Constitution, Not A ...
• Attorney General Warns Against Alienating Muslims

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

• LIBYA, THE UNITED STATES, AND IRAN: JUST WHO I ...
  Summary: This week, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other Obama Administration officials complained publicly that Iran was “meddling” and “interfering” in events in the Middle East which are threatening the downfall of one U.S. ally after another. But the Obama Administration’s respo ...
• ‘Abolish Nukes in the Middle East and Beyond’
  Summary: Turning to the Middle East, Ikeda says that "enduring regional stability in the Middle East is unthinkable without denuclearization," and calls for creating "conditions propitious to negotiations for a Middle East free of all weapons of mass destruction including nuclear weapons". S ...
• Iran eyes treaty banning nuclear arms
  Summary: Dr SalehiIranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi says Tehran advocates adopting a convention prohibiting the production and development of nuclear weapons. source: Press TVread more
• In the Arab crisis, Iran is winning
  Summary: United States, Israel, and Russia will suffer most from the destabilization of the situation in the Middle East, while Iran, Turkey and Syria will have everything to gain. source: indrus.inread more
• Washington's dangerous (and deluded) support f ...
  Summary: For many people in Iran, though, especially those who remember the early years after the 1979 revolution, the MEK has come to represent an evil much more toxic than the American view of the Taliban and Al Qaeda. source: Foreign Policyread more

The Daily Galaxy

• Clues Found to Mystery of Mars' Missing Atmosp ...
  "The loss of Mars' atmosphere has been an ongoing mystery," says Doug McCuistion, director of the Mars Exploration Program. Now, rocks on Mars dug from far underground by crater-blasting impacts are providing glimpses of one possible way the planet's atmosphere...
• New Discovery: Most Ancient Cluster of Galaxie ...
  "We have measured the distance to the most distant mature cluster of galaxies ever found", says the lead author of the study in which the observations from ESO's VLT in Chile have been used (image above), Raphael Gobat of the...
• NASA Scientist's Claim of Extraterrestrial Lif ...
  Last week, NASA scientist Richard Hoover at the Marshall Space Flight Center near Huntsville, Alabama, published a paper in the Journal of Cosmology claiming that fragments collected from the Orgueil meteorite and two similar meteorites contain fossilised bacteria. Hoover made...
• Image of the Day: Fiery Remnants of Cosmic Obj ...
  "Observations like this [image], over a range of wavelengths, are really the only way to understand what's going on close to the black hole," says Andreas Eckart of the University of Cologne, who led the team. Sagittarius A*, located at...
• The Daily Flash -Eco, Space, Tech (3/10)
  Humans came from southern Africa – maybe If reports this week are to be believed, the entire anatomically modern human population descends from ancestors who lived in southern Africa. This flies in the face of a mass of evidence that...

Natural News

• America's breadbasket aquifer running dry; mas ...
  (NaturalNews) It's the largest underground freshwater supply in the world, stretching from South Dakota all the way to Texas. It's underneath most of Nebraska's farmlands, and it provides crucial water resources for farming in Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma and even New Mexico. It's called the Ogall ...
• Big Pharma lies about R&D costs to justify ill ...
  (NaturalNews) If you listen purely to the industry side of the story, you might think that drug companies are more than vindicated in selling brand-name drugs for sometimes thousands of times more than they cost to produce, and raking in billions of dollars in profits every year. After all, much ...
• Electroshock discpline on students? School suc ...
  (NaturalNews) For nearly 20 years, the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center (JREC), a special needs school for children and adults in Canton, Mass., has been utilizing a controversial, "moderately painful" electric shock discipline technique on its students that many say is inhumane. JREC is the o ...
• Countless millions of dead fish found floating ...
  (NaturalNews) In what is perhaps the most startling and disturbing mass animal die-off yet, countless millions of dead anchovies were found this morning floating in King Harbor Marina in Redondo Beach, Calif., according to reports from The Daily Breeze. Officials say they do not know the cause o ...
• Psychiatry has devolved from personalized ther ...
  (NaturalNews) Back in the day, psychiatrists used to actually consult intimately with their patients and provide some type of personalized, talk-based therapy as part of their practice. The modern-day approach to psychiatry, however, has become more like a series of drug dealing sessions in whic ...

Threat Level

• Airport ‘Nude’ Body Scanners: Are They Effective?
  The body scanners rolling out to airports nationwide may violate travelers’ privacy, and they might even cause cancer. But they prevent terrorists from wreaking havoc. Or do they? Some research claims the machines — which produce a virtual nude image of the body — might not detect explosives or ...
• Supreme Court Deciding Whether Congress May Co ...
  The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether Congress may take works out of the public domain and grant them copyright status. A federal appeals panel, reversing a lower court, ruled in July against a group of orchestra conductors, educators, performers, publishers, film archivists and moti ...
• An Interactive Timeline of Bradley Manning’s A ...
  The additional charges leveled at Pfc. Bradley Manning last week provide new information on the timing of Manning’s alleged leaking, including the surprising detail that by the time Manning allegedly leaked a notorious video of a 2007 Army helicopter attack in Iraq, he’d already allegedly passed ...
• Condemned Inmate Wins Right to Seek DNA
  The Supreme Court on Monday said inmates have a right to sue under a federal civil rights law toward the goal of winning post-conviction DNA testing. The 6-3 decision concerns Texas condemned inmate Henry Skinner, who was convicted of the 1993 murder of his girlfriend and her two sons. Skinner c ...
• Judge Lets Sony Unmask Visitors to PS3-Jailbre ...
  A federal magistrate is granting Sony the right to acquire the internet IP addresses of anybody who has visited PlayStation 3 hacker George Hotz’s website from January of 2009 to the present. Thursday’s decision by Magistrate Joseph Spero to allow Sony to subpoena Hotz’s web provider (.pdf) rai ...

PERRspectives : Blog

• Arrest Made in Spokane Terror Plot
  As former IRA terror sympathizer turned anti-Muslim inquisitor Peter King prepares begins his Congressional hearings into Islamic radicalization, authorities have made an arrest in connection with January's backpack bomb plot in Spokane. While the identity and motivation of the suspect have yet ...
• It's the Tax Revenue, Stupid
  Call it the "Seriousness Test." Any so-called deficit hawk that refuses to countenance increasing federal taxes simply isn't serious. After all, as the CBO concluded in January, with tax revenues now below 15%, "levels that low have not been seen since 1950." The two-year tax cut compromise i ...
• Mitt Romney, Vulture Capitalist
  Ten years ago, George W. Bush was sworn in as America's first MBA President. Now, Mitt Romney wants to be the second. Two years after President Bush completed the worst economic record since Herbert Hoover, Romney the perpetual White House hopeful declared, "I spent my career in the private se ...
• Celebrating the Lincoln Inaugurals, Now More T ...
  2011 is becoming a kind of political Rorschach Test; which of its myriad anniversaries you celebrate most says a lot about who you are and what you believe. While JFK's swearing-in 50 years ago conjures up what might have been, Ronald Reagan's 100th birthday commemorates what never was. And th ...
• The Biggest Loser: Haley Barbour Edition
  At some point in the next several weeks, former RNC chairman and current Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour will decide whether he will seek the White House in 2012. To be sure, Barbour's path to the presidency is full of obstacles. And it's not just because America's foremost neo-Confederate ...

Blackspot News Feed

• Post-Interrogation
  Some six hours of shooting later, I’m done with my being interviewed for Captured Ghosts. DVD will be out in autumn, they say. I have to leave for the airport in seven hours or less, heading on to Galway to be interviewed onstage. Voice is shot. This will be interesting. Or disastrous. Sent from ...
• "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 veteran ...
• The muckraking Marx by Todd Chretien
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Todd Chretien SocialistWorker.org March 9, 2011 The owners of the Rheinische Zeitung hired a “devil of a revolutionary” as editor. In 1841, things were looking good for Karl Marx. After completing his dissertation in philosophy, his mentor, the radical cr ...
• 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 the m ...

Consortium News

• Criminalizing the Truth-Tellers
  Washington's aggressive reaction to the WikiLeaks leaks seeks to scar the truth-tellers and frighten others, says Lawrence Davidson. March 5, 2011
• Power v. Truth, a Sad Mismatch
  Despite contrary video evidence, Secretary of State Clinton's aides say Ray McGovern was a heckler, reports Jonathan Schwarz. March 5, 2011
• Wackos of the World Unite!
  Craziness is roaming the world from Libya to Wisconsin, with a lengthy stopover in Washington DC, observes Michael Winship. March 5, 2011
• The 'Christian Nation' Flashpoint
  The Christian Right calls America "a Christian nation" despite growing numbers of non-Christians, notes Rev. Howard Bess. March 5, 2011
• Army's Mafia Abuse of Pvt. Manning
  Pvt. Bradley Manning, the alleged WikiLeaks leaker, faces cruel, Mafia-like treatment from the U.S. military, charges Ray McGovern. March 4, 2011

CounterPunch

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• Alexander Cockburn : Autumn of the Driveler
• Carl Ginsburg : Life in the Low to Mid-Teens
• Alexander Cockburn : Loose-Lip McChrystal Did ...
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Institute for Middle East Understanding

• PRESS BRIEFING: Young Palestinian Activists Lo ...
  Youth have been at the forefront of the revolutions and protests sweeping across the region and their use of new media and old fashioned organizing tactics to topple regimes long thou ...
• On the 100th Anniversary of International Wome ...
• Who are you calling feminist? (Haneen Zoabi, ...
  We can't call ourselves feminists if we occupy other women, demolish their homes, force them to live under a blockade, support settlement expansion, and then come home and talk about ...
• Israeli Prime Minister vows to maintain milita ...
  During a tour around the eastern West Bank on Tuesday, the Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu vowed to keep the Israeli military presence on the eastern border of the West Bank ...
• World looks at Israel as it looked at Aparthei ...
  The world is looking at Israel as it looked at South Africa during apartheid. The world is looking at how the only democracy in the Middle East conducts itself in the occupied territo ...

Water - AlterNet

• Naomi Klein: Why Climate Change Is So Threaten ...
  "What we really need now is for the people fighting for economic justice and environmental justice to come together," says Klein.
• Meet the Businesses Hoping to Cash in on Calif ...
  A lack of water in California means big business for the desalination industry and their lobbyist.
• Right-Wing Anti-Immigrant Groups' Latest Tacti ...
  Anti-immigration leaders have created and fostered an array of organizations designed to enlist environmentalists.
• Gaddafi Doubles Down, More Dangerous Than Ever
  It's stalemate time - and the lion is biding his time, never more dangerous when he maneuvers in the shade.
• Why Are California Regulators Turning a Blind ...
  In the Central Valley of California cows generate the same amount of fecal waste as a city of 21 million people, much of which goes untreated and pollutes waterways.

Public Citizen in Texas

• TLR Event [Flickr]
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Unexplained Mysteries

• Pope to answer questions on TV show
  For the first time ever the Pope will appear on a TV programme to answer questions about his faith. The show is called "In his image" and is scheduled...
• Discovery's first pilot recalls maiden flight
  At the end of a 27 year program, Discovery's first pilot recalls his harrowing first experiences. At the end of a colorful career as the most travelle...
• Roman soldiers killed by chemical weapons
  The remains of 20 men who died almost 2,000 years ago may have fallen foul to an early chemical weapon. The 19 Roman soldiers were defending the Syria...
• Gut-wrenching burger contains 13000 calories
  The Over De Flames restaurant is offering a massive burger equivalent to 26 quarter-pounders. The giant burger contains more calories than the average...
• Company offers post-death freeze services
  As an alternative to burial or cremation one company is offering to freeze your body and then shatter it. In something similar in concept to the shatt...

Grassroots

• International Social Movements Statement of So ...
  brazil_womens_march.jpg In advance of International Women�s Day, several organizations representing various social movements around the world � many of them Grassroots International partners, grantees, and allies � co-wrote a �Letter of So ...
• Celebrating Women’s Struggles and Victories
  lvc_ca_women.jpg Every year on March 8th � International Women�s Day � thousands of events are held throughout the world to inspire women and celebrate their achievements.� As I review Grassroots International�s past year in grant making, ...
• We Are the Solution: Celebrating African Famil ...
  ayesha_-_woman_farmer_griot_from_senegal_-_we_are_the_solution_4.jpg � According to Grassroots International ally Fahamu, �Agriculture�� remains the main source of income of a rural population generally estimated at 70% of the total popula ...
• "Pourquoi la campagne": Via Campesina Africa l ...
  fatimatou_hima_plateforme_paysanne_du_niger.jpg In 2008, I was privileged to attend the 5th international conference of Grassroots International partner the Via Campesina, in Matola, Mozambique. The Via, a global movement representing over ...
• Anti-violence campaign spreads through Central ...
  guate-women.jpg In Central America, a new campaign to stop violence against women is gaining momentum. Launched by the Via Campesina International (the Via), the campaign is aimed at changing not only the attitudes of men towards women, bu ...

Climate

• Ice Loss Accelerates in Greenland, Antarctica, ...
  Source:� Bloomberg Greenland and Antarctica's ice sheets are shrinking more quickly, suggesting UN projections for sea-level rise are too conservative, a NASA study said.
• House Dem Crafting Compromise Bill to Delay EP ...
  Source:� The Hill Rep. Gene Green (D-Texas) said Wednesday he is working on compromise legislation to delay EPA climate regulations until technology to capture carbon emissions can be developed.
• Algeria Eyes Huge Domestic Shale Gas Reserves
  Source:� Reuters Oil and gas producer Algeria is sitting on huge reserves of shale gas that the country now intends to develop with the help of international partners, the OPEC member's energy minister said.
• Evergreen Solar Posts Big Loss After Plant Closure
  Source:� Reuters U.S. solar panel maker Evergreen Solar Inc recorded a $411 million net loss for the fourth quarter after taking charges and write-downs for closing its Devens, Massachusetts manufacturing plant.
• Natural Causes Drove Russian Heat Wave, Study ...
  Source:� New York Times The deadly heat wave that seared Russia last summer was driven primarily by a natural weather phenomenon, not man-made causes, government researchers said in a study Wednesday.

GreenBiz

• BT to Require Carbon Management from Suppliers
  BT now expects its roughly 6,000 contracted suppliers to have a climate change policy in place, actively measure and report their emissions, and set challenging targets to reduce emissions, while also reporting on their progress.
• Carbon Trust and Siemens Strike £550M Green Fi ...
  New energy saving finance package promises to emulate government's Green Deal scheme.
• Death of Old-Style Lightbulb Forces Easy-Bake ...
  The pending ban of traditional lightbulbs, which spurred the lighting industry to introduce more energy efficiency products, has led to the redesign of a classic toy -- the Easy-Bake Oven.
• BPA-Free Plastic May Release Chemicals with Es ...
  Even plastic-containing products claiming to be BPA-free can still leach chemicals with estrogenic activity (EA), according to a new study published in the Environmental Health Perspectives Journal. The leaching can get worse during regular types of use, such as microwaving or dishwashiing.
• $44M in Energy Efficiency Savings Whets AT&T's ...
  AT&T implemented a whopping 4,200 energy efficiency projects in 2010, setting the stage for an even more aggressive corporate approach to energy management and conservation in 2011.

Reuters Global

• In Pakistan, an assassination and the death of ...
  With the second high-profile assassination in a year, some Pakistanis are trying to resist the temptation to lapse into shocked silence
• U.S.-Pakistan relations better than they look
  For all the noise over the row over Raymond Davis, at a strategic level the positions of the United States and Pakistan are moving closer
• Tweet like an Egyptian — Hillary Clinton ...
  Young Egyptians, who famously used Internet services like Facebook and Twitter to launch their recent revolution, turned the focus on Hillary Clinton on Wednesday and peppered the top U.S. diplomat with skeptical questions about longtime U.S. support for former President Hosni Mubarak and what ...
• Could revolt spread in Africa?
  So far there hasn’t been much political fallout in the rest of Africa from the revolts in the northernmost states. Could the revolt in Libya change the dynamic?
• On U.S.-Taliban talks, look at 2014 and work back
  Any talks between the U.S. and the Taliban will be a long haul. Consider what might be possible in 2014 and work back."

Booman Tribune

• Casual Observation
  So far, President Obama has been...I don't want to say "following my advice," but...doing exactly I would do about Libya if I were president. And I am extremely happy about it. He's changing the paradigm and not paying any price for it. Yet. But there are a lot of reasons that presidents ...
• Bent Over in Wisconsin
  It must be nice to have the kind of party unity that Republicans enjoy. And they don't really care if they get reelected so long as they advance the cause. They're like worker bees or ants or something. I admire their willingness to ram stuff down our throats without worrying about silly thin ...
• Kochs Want Massive US Trade Deficit
  I know many of you read the title to this diary and asked yourself "Why?" Why would the Koch Brothers have an interest in maintaining huge trade imbalances? Well read on and you'll learn why, and trust me the answer isn't that hard to guess. Many Republicans and conservatives astroturf grou ...
• Illinois Bans the Death Penalty
  Kudos to Illinois Governor Pat Quinn for making the state's death penalty moratorium permanent. It's about time. Illinois has become the 16th US state to abolish the death penalty, after the governor signed a bill making permanent a 10-year-old moratorium on executions. Governor Pat Quin ...
• Go, Rickey, Go
  I won the Iowa Caucuses and all I got was a crappy television show: Former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) might win the Iowa caucuses. He is spending plenty of time there, and GOP caucus-goers are of the same mind as the anti-abortion-rights, anti-gay-marriage conservative firebrand. But if 20 ...

European Tribune

• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch ...
  �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europeans on this date in history:1762 � French Huguenot...
• Wednesday Open Thread
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• Public vs private irresponsibility
  Martin Wolf's column today discusses the long term prospects of the euro (he is optimistic)...
• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch ...
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• Tuesday Open Thread
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Futurismic

• Personal Information: episode 24
  Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness! Share and Enjoy:Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness!
• Arguments against life extension
  Via Michael Anissimov, here’s a spectacularly empty diatribe against “deathhackers” by TechCrunch‘s Paul Carr. Carr objects to the idea of radical life extension as advocated by transhumanists, which is fair enough, but as written here most of his objections seem to boil down to personal distate ...
• Daddy, where does innovation come from?
  Plenty of folk have been linking to this excerpt from Matt Ridley’s new book The Rational Optimist, and with good reason – it’s a provocative piece that plays to advocates (and opponents) of free trade, open exchange, copyright reform and much more. The basic thesis? The one persistent factor th ...
• Replacement arms: mechanical or biological?
  Prosthetic limbs are still in their infancy, but there’s a lot of progress being made: Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory is working with Darpa (who else?), and has a research grant for trying out their mind-controlled modular prosthetic arm on five test subjects over the next couple of ye ...
• How to be a futurist
  The irrepressible Scott “Basic Instructions” Meyer has the lowdown if you’re thinking of a career in futurism: Click through for the whole thing. But take it from me, being a futurist is a lot of work for no money. Or maybe that’s just the way I do it… and I’ve never been featured in a [...]Foll ...

Therapy News

• Taming a Chid’s Tantrums
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline No one likes watching a child throw a fit. However, it is a vital form of communication. The reason was clarified in a recent article. “Anger can serve an important function — it’s energizing. When we’re mad about something, it can help us solve a problem. It’s th ...
• Feeling of Belonging to Your Race Boosts Happiness
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline According to a recent study, people who feel a strong link to their race are happier than those who don’t. The National Institute of Mental Health has funded research that shows the happiest people were those who could identify fully with their race. Stevie C.Y. Y ...
• Bridge the Gender Communication Gap
  By Lori Hollander LCSW-C, BCD Relationships & Marriage Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Lori and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Ava has had a hard day as Director of Nursing in a busy hospital. She changes hats from taking charge in the high paced world of health care, to being ...
• Yoga for Eating for Body Concerns
  By Deborah Klinger, MA, Eating & Food Issues Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Deborah and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile In addition to being a psychotherapist, I am a certified Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy practitioner and a yoga instructor. I’ve long been interested not only i ...
• Self-Esteem Directly Impacts Attitude Toward O ...
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline In two new studies published in the journal Psychological Science, researchers have linked how we see and feel about ourselves with how we then perceive and treat others. In one study, women who were under threat of social exclusion more actively pursued excluding ...

Mountaintop Removal

• Protest over mining blooms amid flower show - ...
  Baltimore Sun (blog) Protest over mining blooms amid flower show Newsworks.org (blog) They object to its investments in mountaintop-removal mining practices. The mining technique causes environmental damage by shearing off the tops of mountains with explosives. Protesters were not targeting the ...
• Kentuckians return to court to fight MTR pollu ...
  Kentuckians return to court to fight MTR pollution, represented by NRDC attorneys Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) Last fall, Kentucky clean water groups uncovered widespread reporting fraud and violations of the Clean Water Act by two mountaintop removal coal companies, Frasure Creek a ...
• Blair Mountain march planned for June - Charle ...
  Blair Mountain march planned for June Charleston Gazette This summer's march, organized by the Friends of Blair Mountain, will demand preservation of Blair Mountain, now threatened by coal companies, including Massey Energy and Arch Coal, that hope to begin mountaintop removal mining operations ...
• Galbraith Speaks Out On Mountaintop Removal - WFPL
  Galbraith Speaks Out On Mountaintop Removal WFPL Perennial independent gubernatorial candidate Gatewood Galbraith has taken a stance against the surface coal mining method commonly called mountaintop removal. The Associated Press reports that Galbraith says the practice has caused �unsurpassed ...
• Environmental protest disrupts flower show | P ...
  Environmental protest disrupts flower show | Philadelphia Inquirer | 2011-03-09 Philadelphia Inquirer The group claims PNC invests in mountaintop removal, a method of coal extraction that has "destroyed over 500 mountains and buried 1200 miles of rivers in toxic waste." Visibly distressed bank ...

Memeorandum

• Why I'm Fighting in Wisconsin - We can avoid m ...
  Scott Walker / Wall Street Journal: Why I'm Fighting in Wisconsin  —  We can avoid mass teacher layoffs and reward our best performers.  But we have to act now.  —  In 2010, Megan Sampson was named an Outstanding First Year Teacher in Wisconsin.  A week later, she got a layoff notice from the M ...
• Anti-Public Employee Bill Passes Senate in Wis ...
  David Dayen / Firedoglake: Anti-Public Employee Bill Passes Senate in Wisconsin; Only the Beginning of the Fight  —  Wisconsin's Capitol dome in Madison (photo: WxMom)  —  If you've been following along in my last post, you know the news: the Wisconsin State Senate rushed through and passed a b ...
• What happened in Wisconsin tonight (Ezra Klein)
  Ezra Klein: What happened in Wisconsin tonight  —  Here's what just happened in Wisconsin: the rules of the state's Senate require a quorum for any measures that spend money.  That's how the absence of the Senate's Democrats could stymie Gov. Scott Walker's proposed budget law — it spent money, ...
• GOP rams anti-union bill through Wis. Senate ( ...
  msnbc.com: GOP rams anti-union bill through Wis. Senate  —  End run around Democratic senators who left state to prevent passage  —  Below:  —  NBC News and msnbc.com  —  MADISON, Wis. — Republicans pushed a provision stripping public employees of their collective bargaining rights through …
• Senate advances collective bargaining changes; ...
  JSOnline: Senate advances collective bargaining changes; Democrats to return after Assembly vote  —  By Patrick Marley of the Journal Sentinel  —  Madison — The Senate - without Democrats present - abruptly voted Wednesday to eliminate almost all collective bargaining for most public workers.

Energy & Environment News

• Russia Cashes In on Anxiety Over Supply of Mid ...
  Perceptions of stability in Russia and instability in OPEC have lifted the ruble and Russian Micex index.
• European Pipeline Project Faces Formidable Obs ...
  Once seen as key to Europe's efforts to diversify its energy sources, the Nabucco pipeline faces rising costs and fierce competition for gas supplies.
• Reuters Breakingviews: Shale Gas Needs to Alla ...
  The drumbeat of public opinion against fracking, or hydraulic fracturing to extract shale gas, is getting louder.
• Dot Earth: Russian Heat Extraordinary But Not ...
  Russia's deadly heat wave was a rare event, indeed, but new analysis shows no hints of a link to building greenhouse gases.
• Green: Study Says Russian Heat Was Natural
  Any role of human-caused global warming could not be detected from the weather patterns behind the event, a researcher says.

5+ quakes - 7 days

• M 5.2, off the east coast of Honshu, Japan
  Thursday, March 10, 2011 09:02:21 UTCThursday, March 10, 2011 07:02:21 PM at epicenterDepth: 21.90 km (13.61 mi)
• M 5.7, off the east coast of Honshu, Japan
  Thursday, March 10, 2011 08:08:20 UTCThursday, March 10, 2011 06:08:20 PM at epicenterDepth: 17.20 km (10.69 mi)
• M 5.4, Myanmar-China border region
  Thursday, March 10, 2011 04:58:17 UTCThursday, March 10, 2011 11:28:17 AM at epicenterDepth: 34.90 km (21.69 mi)
• M 5.3, near the east coast of Honshu, Japan
  Wednesday, March 9, 2011 04:45:54 UTCWednesday, March 9, 2011 01:45:54 PM at epicenterDepth: 27.00 km (16.78 mi)
• M 5.7, near the east coast of Honshu, Japan
  Wednesday, March 9, 2011 04:37:03 UTCWednesday, March 9, 2011 01:37:03 PM at epicenterDepth: 25.50 km (15.84 mi)

China Dialogue

• Last ditch plea on Yangtze dam
  As China ratifies its new development plan, environmentalists are pleading with politicians to protect an imperilled fish reserve. Meng Si reports on the latest developments.China’s Xiaonanhai dam, a controversial hydropower scheme planned for the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, is set to de ...
• China’s green era begins
  This week, China is making history – launching not only its Five-Year Plan, but also a global green revolution, write Hu Angang and Liang Jiaochen.Five-year plans (FYPs), which set down and clarify national strategy, are one of China’s most important policy tools. Just as they have helped to dri ...
• China’s challenge to Europe
  The ambitious green goals in China’s new five-year plan are a test for EU leadership, writes Shin Wei Ng.China’s 12th Five-Year Plan (FYP) will be approved at the end of this week after the annual sessions of the National People’s Congress and Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference – ...
• Concrete measures in California
  A groundbreaking green building code in the western United States could help boost sustainable construction standards globally, writes John Anderson.If you visited a construction site in California over the past decade, the chances are good it incorporated some degree of sustainable building pra ...
• "China needs higher targets"
  Yesterday on chinadialogue, Pan Jiahua said China should adopt only moderate energy targets in its 12th Five-Year Plan. Yang Fuqiang, Hou Yanli and Li Jingjing disagree. Here, they urge the government to adopt more ambitious goals to help the country meet the challenges ahead. C ...

AlterNet Top Stories

• Why the Government's Unemployment Rate is Dang ...
  The latest jobs report indicates that the unemployment and job creation rates are better than a year ago, but there are problems with the numbers.
• Goon-Squad Politics: How the Wisc. GOP Trample ...
  When Wisconsin's G.O.P. senators couldn't get what they wanted in an open process, they resorted to goon-squad democracy. You got a problem wi' dat?
• Updated: Wisconsin GOP Rams Through Union-Bust ...
  Wisconsin Republicans pushed through a measure stripping state public employees of their collective bargaining rights. Here are the latest developments from Madison.
• New Wave of Protests Fighting Banksters
  It was tax day in 2009 that saw the first Tea Party protests, and the FOX-led media firestorm that’s followed has made it seem as though the Tea Party’s the only game in town if you want to complain about bailouts. This year, though, as tax day approaches, a new wave of protest is sweeping the [ ...
• Women’s Memorial March honors victims, families
  By Valerie Taliman, Race-Talk contributor, via Indian Country Today, In honor of Womenâs History Month and the 100th anniversary of International Womenâs Day on March 8th, ICTMN debuts Navajo writer Valerie Talimanâs new series on the growing human rights crisis in Canada where more than 600 N ...

Threat Level

• Airport ‘Nude’ Body Scanners: Are They Effective?
  The body scanners rolling out to airports nationwide may violate travelers’ privacy, and they might even cause cancer. But they prevent terrorists from wreaking havoc. Or do they? Some research claims the machines — which produce a virtual nude image of the body — might not detect explosives or ...
• Supreme Court Deciding Whether Congress May Co ...
  The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether Congress may take works out of the public domain and grant them copyright status. A federal appeals panel, reversing a lower court, ruled in July against a group of orchestra conductors, educators, performers, publishers, film archivists and moti ...
• An Interactive Timeline of Bradley Manning’s A ...
  The additional charges leveled at Pfc. Bradley Manning last week provide new information on the timing of Manning’s alleged leaking, including the surprising detail that by the time Manning allegedly leaked a notorious video of a 2007 Army helicopter attack in Iraq, he’d already allegedly passed ...
• Condemned Inmate Wins Right to Seek DNA
  The Supreme Court on Monday said inmates have a right to sue under a federal civil rights law toward the goal of winning post-conviction DNA testing. The 6-3 decision concerns Texas condemned inmate Henry Skinner, who was convicted of the 1993 murder of his girlfriend and her two sons. Skinner c ...
• Judge Lets Sony Unmask Visitors to PS3-Jailbre ...
  A federal magistrate is granting Sony the right to acquire the internet IP addresses of anybody who has visited PlayStation 3 hacker George Hotz’s website from January of 2009 to the present. Thursday’s decision by Magistrate Joseph Spero to allow Sony to subpoena Hotz’s web provider (.pdf) rai ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

• Wisconsin Senate passes union curbs as protest ...
  MADISON (Reuters) - Republicans in the Wisconsin state Senate approved sweeping curbs on collective bargaining by public employees on Wednesday in an abrupt and accelerated vote that caught many Democrats by surprise.
• Gasoline cost to jump $700 for average household
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. drivers will pay another 10 cents a gallon for gasoline before the latest jump in wholesale costs is fully passed on at the pump, and yearly motor fuel costs will rise 28 percent from last year, the Energy Department said on Wednesday.
• Carlos Slim ranks as world's richest person fo ...
  MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - At an age when most people enjoy retirement, Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim grew his personal fortune by some $20 billion in one year through gains in his telecommunications and mining businesses.
• Geithner says lending cuts could hurt U.S. inf ...
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - 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.
• EU and NATO to meet on Libya after raging battles
  TRIPOLI (Reuters) - NATO and the European Union begin talks on Thursday on a possible "no-fly" zone over Libya after some of the fiercest fighting of the three-week-old uprising against Muammar Gaddafi.

IntelNews

• Russia may swap convicted spy for ‘merchant of ...
  Moscow and Washington may swap a Russian former defense official, convicted for spying for the United States, with notorious Russian weapons dealer Viktor Bout, who is being held in a US prison. Continue reading →
• News you may have missed #481
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• Libyan TV accuses detained Dutch helicopter cr ...
  Just days after the capture of a British paramilitary and intelligence team in Libya, the countryâs state television has accused three Dutch marines, captured by pro-government loyalists, of spying. Continue reading →
• Arrest of British spy team in Libya reveals co ...
  All eight members of the British military and intelligence team arrested in Libya on Friday have now been released and are en route to Malta. But what exactly is behind this news story, and what does it reveal about covert Western involvement in Libya? Continue reading →
• News you may have missed #480 (CIA edition)
  Cuban-American exile leader funded ex-CIA agent on trial. Ex-CIA station chief sentenced for sexual abuse. Analysis: What should the CIA be doing in Libya? Continue reading →

War is a Crime.org

• Pack Journalism Promotes War on Libya
  Pack Journalism Promotes War on Libya - by Stephen Lendman America's major media never met an imperial war it didn't love and promote, never mind how lawless, mindless, destructive and counterproductive. Despite Washington already bogged down in two losing ones, Obama's heading for another on L ...
• Nakedness Justice and Bradley Manning
  by Debra Sweet On March 2, the U.S. military announced 22 more charges against Bradley Manning, the accused Army Private imprisoned in solitary confinement since May 2010. One of the new charges, “aiding the enemy,” is potentially punishable with death. This a most outrageous development, echo ...
• Secession, Autonomy, and Self-Determining Demo ...
  If at First You Don't Secede ... Randall Amster J.D., Ph.D. | Wednesday 09 March 2011 www.truthout.org Progressive eyes rightly have been transfixed on Wisconsin of late, with the en masse display of "people power" directly confronting attempts to erode public infrastructure and eviscerate the l ...
• Kucinich Announces Privileged Resolution to En ...
• 40 Md. Legislators Just Asked Congress to Move ...
  40 Md. Legislators Ask Congress to Move Money from Pentagon to Communities FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 4, 2011 Fund Our Communities: Bring the War Dollars Home www.ourfunds.org CONTACT: - Jean Athey, 301-570-0923, 240-688-5481 (cell), jeanathey@verizon.net - Fran Pollner, 301-585-7493, 240-46 ...

Grist - News

• Fish consumption at all time high, says U.N. a ...
  by Agence France-Presse. ROME -- Fish consumption reached record levels in 2010 and world stocks need to be urgently rebuilt, experts at the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said in a report Monday. "The contribution of fish to global diets has reached a record of almost 17 kil ...
• Bordeaux vineyards go organic, slowly but surely
  by Agence France-Presse. BORDEAUX, France -- Two historical Bordeaux wine estates have gone green, breaking a long resistance to organic viticulture amongst the region's elite producers. "Still in 2011, there are people who do not trust in the fact that it is possible to grow organic in Bor ...
• U.N. Chief Ban Ki-moon shifts focus from clima ...
  by Agence France-Presse. LONDON -- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is shifting his focus away from involvement in international climate change talks and toward new areas in the fight against global warming. Ban is to redirect his efforts from trying to push forward the international clim ...
• New Senate bill aims to avoid next oil spill
  by Agence France-Presse. WASHINGTON -- Senators plan to introduce in the coming weeks new legislation aiming to prevent another disastrous oil spill like last year's massive gusher in the Gulf of Mexico, Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) said Wednesday. A similar bill that would revise offshore ...
• Big cities are not always the biggest polluters
  by Agence France-Presse. WASHINGTON -- Big cities like New York, London, and Shanghai send less pollution into the atmosphere per capita than places like Denver and Rotterdam, said a study released Tuesday. Researchers examined data from 100 cities in 33 nations for clues about which were ...

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Time - Top Stories

• As the Dalai Lama Makes His Exit, What's Next ...
  As the Dalai Lama Makes His Exit, What's Next for the Tibetan Movement?
• Libya's Civil War: The Limits of People Power
  As Gaddafi settles in for the long-haul, the rebel government in Benghazi realizes it needs lots of help from overseas. Will it get it in time?
• YouTube's Greatest Adventure: Todd Bieber Retu ...
  It began with a blizzard, a lost roll of photos, and a YouTube video. But after a viral search, filmmaker Todd Bieber crossed the Atlantic and returned the film to its rightful owner -- and concluded the adventure of a lifetime
• The Third Rail Dems Won't Touch in Budget Fight
  You wanna cut? We'll show you cuts. That seems to be the new mantra Democrats have adopted in response to the GOP's assault on spending.
• Why Even Prius Drivers Should Worry About $4 Gas
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Farming Pathogens

• Egypt’s Food Pyramids
  A million minds momentarily magnetizing themselves along the same axis can turn a country’s deepest despair into an ecstatic sprint for freedom. What a people find revolting–a dictator decorated in American apologia–can be turned by a people’s revolt ridiculous. No wonder so much effort (and mon ...
• The Scientific American
  Science is the business right now. If the science works, the business works, and vice versa. –Craig Venter Bird flu marinates a chicken in its own juices, a satay best avoided whatever the menu special. In such short an order better for the bistro than the barn, infected birds rapidly bleed from ...
• Fearful Symmetry
  A colleague, genuinely perplexed, even outraged, asked me what the fuck was going on with all those dead birds in Arkansas. And, tongue-in-cheek, what would Mulder and Scully say? Scully: Mulder, it’s me. I got your message. Really, Beebe, Arkansas for a flock of dead birds? Does Skinner approve ...
• The Great Recession Flu
  Swine flu is so 2009. Like La Roux and v-neck t-shirts. And yet the United Kingdom is presently suffering a swine flu attack worse than anything it faced in 2009. The number of flu patients in intensive care has risen by 60 per cent in the past week to 738, four times greater than at [...]
• Alien vs. Predator
  Dallas: [looks at a pen being dissolved by alien's body fluid] I haven’t seen anything like that except, uh, molecular acid. Brett: It must be using it for blood. Parker: It’s got a wonderful defense mechanism. You don’t dare kill it. –Alien (1979) NASA announced earlier this month one of its re ...

Suzie-Q

• Wisconsin GOP Senators Pass Stand-Alone Anti-U ...
  Wisconsin GOP Senators Pass Stand-Alone Anti-Union Bill Without Democrats Present HuffPost- Sam Stein & Amanda Terkel First Posted: 03/ 9/11 07:45 PM Updated: 03/ 9/11 07:57 PM WASHINGTON — In a bold gambit to put an end to the weeks-long budget standoff in Wisconsin, Gov. Scott Walker (R) spli ...
• Evening Jukebox- Uprising
  Muse – Uprising
• Public Wants Compromise, Not Shutdown
  Bloomberg poll: Public wants compromise, not shutdown (and cut the military, not Medicare) by DemFromCT for Daily Kos Wed Mar 09, 2011 at 10:00 AM EST A new national Bloomberg poll conducted by the respected pollster J. Ann Selzer has some bad news for Republicans: Don’t shut down the federal go ...
• Gaddafi Threatens Armed Resistance Against No- ...
  Gaddafi threatens armed resistance against no-fly zone Imposition of no-fly zone zone in Libyan airspace ‘would prove west was trying to steal its oil’ Sam Jones and agencies guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 9 March 2011 13.19 GMT Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has warned that the imposition of a no-fly zone ...
• Michele Bachmann’s ‘Bombshell&#821 ...
  by Joan McCarter for Daily Kos Tue Mar 08, 2011 at 08:20 PM EST Dumb as a bag of hammers, or staggeringly deceitful? Of course, there’s always room for both with Rep. Michele Bachmann, who just “discovered” $105 billion in “secret” money in the Affordable Care Act. Here she is on Fox News reveal ...

Solari

• Catherine on GoldSeek Radio
  March 8, 2011 Catherine Austin Fitts & Chris Waltzek Gold Seek Radio Related Solari Report Commentaries Sir James Goldsmith (24 Feb 10) Dillon, Read & Co. Inc.& The Aristocracy of Stock Profits (2006-2007) Solari: The Missing Money Financial Coup d’Etat (2 Feb 09)
• Gates Foundation Makes Start-Up Equity Investm ...
  By Luke Timmerman Global health innovators have a rich new venture capitalist to turn to—the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Liquidia has attracted the interest in a technology for creating specific 3-D shaped particles that can be made to look like an invading virus does to the human immune s ...
• Equity Prices & Long-Term Treasury Yields Sinc ...
  By Joe Weisenthal [click on the image for a larger version] Continue reading the article . . .
• Study Hard to Find If Harvard Pays Off
  By Laurence Kotlikoff The notion that education pays and that better education pays better is taken for granted by almost everyone. For college professors like me, this is a very convenient idea, providing a high and growing demand for our services. Unfortunately, the facts seem to disagree. A ...
• MERS? It May Have Swallowed Your Loan
  By Michael Powell and Gretchen Morgenson FOR more than a decade, the American real estate market resembled an overstuffed novel, which is to say, it was an engrossing piece of fiction. Mortgage brokers hip deep in profits handed out no-doc mortgages to people with fictional incomes. Wall Street ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

• Times Scare
  ISLAMABAD–The apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job ...
• Stepping up - University at Buffalo The Spectrum
  Stepping up University at Buffalo The Spectrum The president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, recognized the direness of the situation and began to mobilize military forces to combat the Taliban. ... and more��
• Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of ...
  BBC News Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women Chicago Tribune Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own Taliban insurgency? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line of thinking must ... Vietnam syndrome has begun in AfghanistanSri Lank ...
• Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United P ...
  Officials: Campus blasts perplexing United Press International ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique Pakistani institution ... and more��
• Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA ...
  Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing GMA news.tv An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the border between ... and more��

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

• Goon-Squad Politics: How the Wisc. GOP Trample ...
  When Wisconsin's G.O.P. senators couldn't get what they wanted in an open process, they resorted to goon-squad democracy. You got a problem wi' dat?
• Obama Issues Significant Executive Order to En ...
  It doesn't go far enough, but Obama's Executive Order is an important step towards restoring the rule of law to a prison that was created entirely to flout the Constitution.
• Koch-Funded Group's "Road Show" in S ...
  At every stop, Americans for Prosperity's pro-Walker road show participants were vastly outnumbered by anti-Walker demonstrators.
• 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.
• Life Without Parole: When You Know You'll Spen ...
  Even prisoner advocacy groups focus mainly on the conditions of confinement, without necessarily questioning sentences that drive prisoners to despair.

Sideways News

• Could you be a 10:10 community champion?
  The Guardian Newspaper and Franny Armstrong, through the Guardian 10:10 campaign, challenge organisations and individuals to cut their carbon footprint by 10%.
• Brit mums strict about eco-chores
  Families in the UK are increasingly likely to be nagged about doing eco-chores, a new study conducted on behalf of the Energy Saving Trust has revealed.
• UK venue offers rainforest weddings
  Getting married in a luscious rainforest has never been easier or more eco-friendly, according to the Eden Project.
• Battery recycling 'too difficult'
  The European Recycling Platform (ERP) reports that while only a third of households at present recycle batteries, four out of five said they would do so if it was made easier.
• 10 green resolutions to save you money
  By taking green steps at home, you can save money and make life easier. Being smart about waste, consumption and resources won't only win you the thanks of forthcoming generations: you'll feel the financial benefit immediately. 1. Make money from old electronics As your electronic goods become o ...

Fabius Maximus

• Red alert: Friday’s “Day of Rage& ...
  Summary:  Friday might be an important day, perhaps the most important day of the decade.  It’s the Day of Rage in Saudi Arabia.  The Princes have mobilized their vast security services to prevent or disperse the protests.  Will anybody dare to show up?  Will the Princes order the use of fo ...
• What is a warmonger?
  Summary:  A consequence and contributor to the militarization of US foreign policy is a vast pro-war establishment outside the government.  Often funded by government contractors, a horde of advocacy groups, think tanks, and academics exists to explain why the answer to most foreign policy ...
• Why the middle class is dying
  Summary:  The slow growth of employment (far slower than GDP or corporate profits) continues to puzzle economists.  Perhaps it’s just a short-term oddity.  Perhaps something has changed in the overall economy.  Slowly economists see, albeit dimly, the coming robot revolution (no, it’s not ...
• “You just have not seen enough people bl ...
  Summary:  There is a belief among some combat veterans that anti-war advocates “just have not seen enough people bleed to death”. They know that rapid intervention by America’s most highly trained and experienced warriors could stifle Qadaafi’s plans to unleash terror and death on the pro-democ ...
• About invading Libya – let’s give ...
  Summary:  Large military forces give us a greater range of options — but they also narrow our options.  The existence of arms creates pressure to use them.  Our ability to intervene creates a feeling of responsibility.  Deaths following our failure to intervene become our fault (see Lang’s ...

Open Your Eyes News

• Kuwait demonstrators call on prime minister to ...
  Google –  Hundreds of young Kuwaitis demonstrated for reform in the oil-rich Gulf emirate on Tuesday and the replacement of the current prime minister. Around 1,000 people gathered in a square near government offices on the seafront amid tight security with a helicopter hovering overhead. The ...
• Chinese military ‘growing fast’: think tank
  Agence France-Presse - China is building its military capability at a rapid pace but it remains a “regional power with regional concerns”, the think tank IISS said in its annual report on the world’s armies on Tuesday. The respected International Institute for Strategic Studies said that despit ...
• ‘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 ...

The Progressive Realist

• Democratic Capitalism As An Antidote To Terrorism
  This part of Adam Rawnsley's piece on how little traction al-Qaeda's message has gotten here in the U.S. made me laugh: “It is the culture of hating death and loving wealth,” Khan wrote of American Muslim culture in a post to his “Ignored Puzzle Pieces of Knowledge” blog, using a play on Osama B ...
• 2010 Was Afghanistan’s Bloodiest Year in a Decade
  Last year started off with hopeful signs for civilians living in Afghanistan. A report by the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission claimed that civilian casualties in the country during the first two months of 2010 were down slightly from the previous year. However, those hopes were s ...
• The New COIN Doctrine: More Aid and Developmen ...
  Orbis Operations, a consulting firm which operates in Afghanistan, has just published an eye-opening report on development in Afghanistan.  The main conclusion of the report is that policymakers wrongly assume that development can “win the hearts and minds” without improvements in governance and ...
• Q&A: Rafsanjani’s Removal Shows Divide Among A ...
  The following interview was conducted with a political operative in Iran with close ties to Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani. He spoke by telephone from Tehran with Arash Aramesh of InsideIRAN about the recent developments in the Assembly of Experts and Rafsanjani’s political future. span id= ...
• Pakistan to Buy Chinese Submarines
  Pakistan is looking to expand their submarine force, and has found an interesting partner to build the submarines for them. Islamabad is planning to buy six submarines outright with options of joint development of conventional submarines with China, The Express Tribune reported. The newspaper d ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

• Live Reaction to the Senate Vote in Madison
  Tonight, the Wisconsin Senate voted to limit the collective bargaining power of public workers. Below, The UpTake has a live feed of the reaction. Watch live streaming video from theuptake at livestream.com
• The Downside of the Recall
  Jamelle Bouie says that while recall elections seem like a way to give power to the people, they actually do more harm than good. Will 2011 be the year of the recall election? In January, conservative activists tried -- and failed -- to recall the mayor of Omaha, Nebraska, Jim Suttle, becau ...
• Will Gingrich Survive His Infidelity Problem?
  Easy answer? Yes, of course he will. Just as Ronald Reagan survived his divorce problem, George W. Bush survived his alcohol problem, and John McCain survived his "maverick" problem. I've made this point before -- indeed, I make it all the time -- but partisanship and interest-group loyalty go ...
• The Real Budget Battle Is Coming
  Robert Hiltonsmith says Republicans are hyping their $61 billion cut to this year's budget, but their real targets are Social Security and Medicare. Conservatives have always used misguided public fear about the size of the national deficit as an excuse to target government programs they hate ...
• Plea Bargain in Farmworker Death
  In 2008, Maria Isavel Vasquez Jimenez died after pruning grapes for nine hours in the California heat. It was nearly 100 degrees. She was two months pregnant and 17 years old. Authorities there charged the farm supervisors in her death, accusing them of not allowing Jimenez to get water or shade ...

Buzzflash

• McCain Claims iPads & iPods Are Made In the US ...
  TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Yeah, Mr. Maverick made a mistake But people shouldn't let it Be a big thing since China owns us --- So, he deserves partial credit. http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/03/06/mccain-flunks-made-in-america-101/
• Scott Walker Defies Wisconsin's Open Records L ...
  MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT While tens of thousands of advocates for saving the middle class have come to Madison the past few weeks, Scott Walker is countering that he has received a few thousand emails in support of his assault on unions. But even while the ratio of protes ...
• Scott Walker's Kremlin on Lake Mendota
  MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT It took Scott Walker to make the seat of Wisconsin government the Kremlin on Lake Mendota. BuzzFlash at Truthout has documented over the past two weeks Walker's disregard for accountability to the Milwaukee County Board when he was its executive dir ...
• WikiLeaks: The More Things Change, the More Th ...
  NIKOLAS KOZLOFF FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT This past fall, I had the opportunity to observe the first round of Brazil's presidential election.  In a logistical feat, the government managed to draw correspondents from all over the world for the occasion while taking care of all travel amenities.  ...
• Are Right-Wingers Simply Stuck in Adolescence?
  PETER MICHAELSON FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Not every modern conservative had a grandpa who made moonshine whiskey. With no family history of being pursued by federal revenuers, where does their extreme dislike of government come from? The mentality is expressed succinctly in a reader's comment a ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

• The "Bush-tortured" excuse for indefinite dete ...
  There are profound moral and empirical flaws in justifying Obama's new policy by blaming Bush's torture regime
• NYT and "torture": Searching for a justification
  The paper of record refuses to call waterboarding "torture" -- unless it's done by others
• The serial deceit of Geoff Morrell
  In the case of the accused WikiLeaks source, Geoff Morrell has proven how dishonest his statements are
• Obama's new executive order on Guantanamo
  The president again bolsters the Bush detention regime he long railed against
• Bradley Manning could face death: For what?
  New charges filed against the whistle-blowing private accuse him of "aiding the enemy"

The BiPartisan Report

• Sex, lies and ‘edited’ videotape
• Nihilism 1 American People Nil
• Sheldon Whitehouse brings truth to the Senate ...
• Pesky facts spoil GOP’s mammogram arguments
• Those holier than thou Conservatives

Sciencebase

• We are running out of chemicals
  Did you know there will soon be gaps in the Periodic Table? I say gaps, it’s not so much gaps as greyed out boxes where an element has become so scarce that our using it will no longer be a technological option. I’ve written about materials security before but the issue was raised by The [...]We ...
• How to spot a fake smile
  Apparently, most people are surprisingly bad at spotting fake smiles, according to the BBC at least (other observers suggest otherwise). One theory as to why this might be is that it is perhaps easier for people to get along if they don’t always know what others are really feeling. But, I’d ar ...
• The Elements Song – Periodic Table of Videos
  The PToV team has spliced together a great version of the classic Tom Lehrer song, The Elements. I love this song and I’m sure Lehrer would agree this creative version is elementary. Featuring Prof Martyn Poliakoff and all the gang. Related Posts:Periodic table of videos at the moviesReal chem ...
• Five science selects
  Persistence of vision – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – If persistence of vision were the explanation for how the mind perceives moving pictures in cinema, cinema wouldn't work, because the persistence would constantly produce images of complementary colour to what is on the screen. The Vic ...
• Five science selects
  How to Find Trustworthy Science and Health Information – Today, we’re overwhelmed with sources of information, with hundreds of television stations and millions of Web sites, and it can be hard to figure out what to trust. Google recently tweaked its search algorithm to bring higher quality site ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

• Parks Group Supports Study to Honor Buffalo So ...
  “The National Parks Conservation Association is happy to support Rep. Speier’s legislation, The Buffalo Soldiers in the National Parks Study Act, to determine how the Buffalo Soldier’s story should be represented within the National Park System.”read more
• Forty-eight Conservation Groups Call on Sen. B ...
  Forty-eight conservation organizations, representing millions of Americans, called on Sen. Barbara Boxer (D.-Calif.) today to use her power as chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee to put a stop to legislation removing Endangered Species Act protection for gray wolves.read more
• Senate Rejects House Attempt to Roll Back Amer ...
  The U.S. Senate today rejected the House of Representative’s ill-conceived attempt to roll back some of our nation’s most important laws protecting public health and the environment. The House’s continuing resolution (HR1) would have stopped the Environmental Protection Agency from implementing ...
• Abolition of Death Penalty in Illinois Raises ...
  "In signing legislation that will abolish the death penalty in Illinois, Governor Pat Quinn has raised the stakes for governors in other states that also struggle with broken death penalty systems," said Virginia Sloan, President of The Constitution Project (TCP).read more
• Forty-Eight Conservation Groups Call on Sen. B ...
  Forty-eight conservation organizations, representing millions of Americans, called on Sen. Barbara Boxer (D.-Calif.) today to use her power as chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee to put a stop to legislation removing Endangered Species Act protection for gray wolves.read more

Common Dreams-Views

• The Wisconsin Effect: Union Power Rediscovered
  Brian Tierney Only four months ago the consensus among the political establishment was that of a right-wing resurgence in U.S. politics.read more
• 'No Fly Zone'? Senator Kerry, the UN Charter i ...
  Robert Naiman 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 U.S. military force in Libya.read more
• The GOP’s Ingenious Madman Strategy
  WASHINGTON — Richard Nixon espoused what he called “the madman theory.” It’s a negotiating approach that induces the other side to believe you are capable of dangerously irrational actions and leads it to back down to avoid the wreckage your rage might let loose.read more
• Who 'Contributes' to Public Workers' Pensions?
  David Cay Johnston When it comes to improving public understanding of tax policy, nothing has been more troubling than the deeply flawed coverage of the Wisconsin state employees’ fight over collective bargaining. Economic nonsense is bein ...
• Americans for Prosperity Road Show is Classic ...
  Anne Landman For some, when the going gets tough, the tough gas up the custom-painted luxury motorcoach.Americans for Prosperity protester in Madison, WIread more

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