- 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 ...
- Senator Who Opposed Derivatives Oversight Join ...
By Michael Smallberg Former Senator Judd Gregg (R-NH), who consistently opposed efforts to bring more transparency to the over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives market, has joined the board of directors of IntercontinentalExchange (ICE), a “leading operator of regulated futures exchanges and over-th ...
- SEC Employees Cited for Misconduct Rarely Face ...
By Michael Smallberg In the aftermath of the financial crisis, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Mary Schapiro and other senior SEC officials have been working hard to restore the agency’s reputation as a tough cop on the beat protecting...
- Morning Smoke: Employee Misconduct Goes Unpuni ...
Where there's smoke, there's fire. POGO's Morning Smoke is a collection of the previous day's investigations, scoops, and opinions related to the world of government oversight. Have a story you'd like to see included? Contact POGO's blog editor. Watchdog: SEC...
- Checking in on BOEMRE: How's the Reorganizatio ...
Efforts to reorganize the Bureau of Ocean Energy, Management, Regulation, and Enforcement (BOEMRE) may not be striking the right balance between getting the agency's house in order and delivering essential services, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO). From GAO's...
- DARPA Awards Contract to Company Founded by Ag ...
By Rhya Ghose We’re all for family bonding, but in some situations, it just may not be appropriate. Consider the case of Regina Dugan, director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). DARPA awarded a contract valued at $400,000...
- Mississippi Launches Plan To End Child Homeles ...
Fulfilling the wishes and happiness of children is at the heart of the holiday season. So, now seems particularly timely for Mississippi to launch a new plan to end child homelessness (pdf) in the state. What better way to set the season of giving in motion than by committing to finding safe a ...
- Thanksgiving 2.0: Food, Poverty and Telling th ...
This Thanksgiving, most of us around the country shared a bountiful harvest feast with friends and family. We celebrated all that we are thankful for by gorging ourselves right into a food coma. It's the American way. Unfortunately, it's also the American way to be thankful for all that we have ...
- Homeless People Wanted: Must Be Open to Demean ...
What are they thinking? People obviously don't see the homeless as human or they wouldn't attempt to hire them to do most of the insane, demeaning and illegal jobs out there. Here's a small sampling: Rob dead bodies. The Aokigahara forest at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan is the site of 50 to 10 ...
- LA Plans to Make Homelessness Go the Way of th ...
Instead of pretending homelessness doesn't exist, creating new laws to make it illegal to sit or sleep in public, or sending homeless residents on a one-way trip out of town, Los Angeles County may attempt to actually do something about ending homelessness. And the county is setting the bar high ...
- Don't Let Violence Against the Homeless Go Unp ...
Despite its economic troubles, Detroit is not known for being kind to the homeless. That's too bad, since there are nearly 10,000 homeless people living there. In October, police say that Steven James Diponio, 54, became so enraged at Charles Duncan, 42, who was homeless and sleeping behind a sc ...
- CCPA report: Canadian military spending highes ...
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has published a new report on Canada’s military spending. Canadian Military Spending 2010-11, written by Ceasefire.ca editor Bill Robinson, shows that Canadian military spending is higher now than it has been at any other time since the end of the Seco ...
- “Regional” nuclear war would have global effects
New research indicates that a “regional”, limited nuclear war would have even more devastating global consequences than previously expected. In addition to creating a global “nuclear haze” effect that would lead to global famine, a nuclear war involving as few as 100 Hiroshima-size nuclear bombs ...
- Sign the petition! – No Stealth Fighters
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- For Facebook users – No Stealth Fighters profi ...
We’re very excited about the launch of our Canada-wide campaign on March 3rd to say to Prime Minister Harper: âNo Stealth Fighters!â In the lead-up to the start of the campaign this week, please upload this photo as your Facebook profile picture to let everyone know how you feel about this multi ...
- Gates channels Vizzini
U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has warned against getting involved in future land wars in Asia (Thom Shanker, “Gates Warns Against Any More Wars Like Iraq or Afghanistan,” New York Times, 25 February 2011): Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates bluntly told an audience of West Point cadets o ...
- Giorgio Tsoukalos – Ancient Aliens & Leg ...
Click the picture or link below to hear Kevin’s interview with the star of Ancient Aliens and the publisher of Legendary Times, Giorgio Tsoukalos! Giorgio Tsoukalos on The Kevin Trudeau Show 3/9/11
- The Kevin Trudeau Show: 3-9-11
Today, the star of Ancient Aliens and publisher of Legendary Times Magazine, Giorgio Tsoukalos, joins Kevin for the entire hour and explains the facts and evidence that aliens have visited Earth. Find out how the technology that they used surpasses our modern technology and how it would be impo ...
- Innocent Until Proven Guilty No Longer Applies
March 8th, 2011 USA Today By: The Associated Press DNA confirmed that a man arrested Friday in Connecticut is the East Coast Rapist suspected of terrorizing women with sexual assaults from Virginia to Rhode Island over 12 years, police said Saturday. Lt. Julie Johnson said DNA was collected and ...
- The Kevin Trudeau Show: 3-5-11
Today, Kevin reveals the REAL reason why the government is sending over billions of dollars in aid to countries all around the world. Plus, pet expert, Dr. Geoffrey Broderick, stops by the show to explain how you can turn your pet’s health around and even double its lifespan! Self Help: Viral De ...
- The Kevin Trudeau Show: 3-3-11
Today, Kevin exposes the evil that lurks within the government and explains how riding your bike without a license or registration may be considered illegal one day. Self Help: Reprogram Your Brain Be Prepared! See KT Live! Health: FDA Pulls 500 Cold Medicines From the Market FDA Kne ...
- Africa: Angola hosts 3rd African meeting on Cu ...
The third African meeting on Solidarity with Cuba was held in Luanda, Angola, 11-12 September, to consolidate the friendship between the African and Cuban people and contribute to strengthening African solidarity towards the Caribbean island nation. ...
- Global: Afro-Colombian women fight prejudice b ...
On an improvised stage “Bombón de chocolate” (Chocolate Candy) is being performed. The play, which narrates the story of an African-Colombian girl who feels rejected because of the colour of her skin, is one of the events at a special day on drug add...
- Global: May for the Cuban 5
The month of May started with a great number of activities in support of the Cuban 5. On May 1st hundreds of thousands of Cubans marched on International Workers Day in Havana and other cities. They were joined by hundreds of internationalists in de...
- Haiti: Women demand role in reconstruction
Women's civil society groups were noticeable by their absence from the landmark Haiti donor conference on 31 March, which secured pledges of US$5.3 billion over the next two years to support the country’s post-quake recovery. Their lack of a presenc...
- African diplomats reject anti-Cuba resolution ...
The ambassador of the Republic of Congo to Cuba, Pascal Onguemby, rejected the lies included in an anti-Cuba resolution recently approved by the European Parliament. Addressing participants in the inauguration of the Eleventh International Conference...
- Time to support the Libyan revolution
There are those, such as Stephen Kinzer, who regard this as “a highly obscure conflict” — as though we really don’t know enough to judge what’s going on. When journalists are getting arrested, beaten up and tortured, it does indeed get hard to know what’s going on, but it’s not hard to take sid ...
- Why the Egyptian revolution is more significan ...
Sam Haselby writes: How does the revolution in Egypt compare with the American Revolution? There is no comparison. It is more impressive and more important. So far. In the United States, the American Revolution is sacred history. As a result, Americans tend to associate its slogans and symbols ...
- A long battle ahead for Egyptian women
Jumanah Younis writes: A demonstration commemorating International Women’s Day was attacked on Tuesday afternoon in Cairo’s Tahrir Square. More than 200 men charged on the women â forcing some to the ground, dragging others out of the crowd, groping and sexually harassing them as police and mil ...
- Obama does not get it
Lamis Andoni writes: Barack Obama, the US president, has still not fully grasped the essence of the revolutions underway in the Arab world. He genuinely seems to believe that the people rallying for democracy in the region are making a pro-Western, if not pro-Israeli, statement. “All the force ...
- ‘Go to Obama and tell him: We don’t want his a ...
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- Visualizing the “Greenhouse Effect” ...
Guest post by Ira Glickstein The Atmospheric âgreenhouse effectâ has been analogized to a blanket that insulates the Sun-warmed Earth and slows the rate of heat transmission, thus increasing mean temperatures above what they would be absent âgreenhouse gasesâ (GHGs). … Continue reading →
- Congress looking to put the kibosh on GHG rela ...
Energy Tax Prevention Act Would Put the Reins on EPA Power Grab Freedom Action Supports Quick Passage Washington, D.C., March 10, 2011 âA House subcommittee on Thursday is expected to mark up a bill, the Energy Tax Prevention Act, sponsored … Continue reading →
- NOAA finds”climate change” blamele ...
We mentioned this previously on WUWT, now it is officially peer reviewed and accepted. Maybe this will be a lesson to those in the MSM and eco blogland who immediately jump on every newsworthy weather event, and with no supporting … Continue reading →
- Hump Day Hilarity
Honestly, how did I miss this one? This certainly deserves some sort of headline award. Who knew that NASA was into reanimation of people killed by global warming climate change climate disruption climate challenges? The full story and comments are … Continue reading →
- Antarctic ice models “not correct” ...
There’s some surprising reaction to the press release we covered on WUWT recently. Here’s some excerpts: Knowing how the massive ice sheets atop Antarctica and Greenland work is key to predicting how global warming could raise sea levels and flood … Continue reading →
- Empire Means Never Having to Mean it’s S ...
by Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehanâs Soapbox Blog Cindy Sheehanâs Soapbox March 9, 2011 âThe US is deeply sorryâ¦these deaths shouldnât have happened.â — General David Petraeus after nine Afghan children gathering wood were slaughtered by the US. On 3 March, occupying ...
- Noam Chomsky: Obama is Worse
http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ ludvan67 on Mar 9, 2011 This is an unedited version of Jeremy Paxman’s interview with Professor in linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), philosopher, cognitive scientist and political activist, Noam Chomsky. Noam Chomsky and Jeremy P ...
- 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 ...
- Central Banking at the Centre of Power by Andr ...
by Andrew Gavin Marshall Featured Writer Dandelion Salad March 9, 2011 The following is an excerpt of a chapter by Andrew Gavin Marshall from the new book by Global Research Publishers, “The Global Economic Crisis: The Great Depression of the XXI Century.” Introduction To understand the histo ...
- Point Of No Return: U.S. And NATO Prepare For ...
by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism March 9, 2011 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, Presiden ...
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The American Uprising : Week One If The Police & Army Won't Help Quell Protests, They'll Send In The Robots By Darryl Mason Extraordinary scenes from Wisconsin last week showing the birth of the anti-austerity/USUncut movement. An occupation of the Wisconsin State Capitol was supposed to be e ...
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Believe It, They're Still In Control By Darryl Mason Yes, some of these children may be amongst the most instantly irritating children in the history of the universe, but they are discussing a "new reality" just on a decade away and this blog was supposed to be about New Realities, so here it ...
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A stunning aerial view of a shuttle launch AND free drinks : Watching one shuttle after another launch from the same angle, or angles, decade in and out on TV gets a bit meh. Yeah, yeah, another space shuttle flight, let me know if it explodes. It takes a view like this to remind you how far ...
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"I'm George Clooney And I Drank The Bong Water" Actor George Clooney on why he will never run for office : "I fucked too many chicks & did too many drugs." Clooney, 49, said a smart political campaigner would "start from the beginning by saying, 'I did it all. I drank the bong water. Now let ...
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Play Nice Little Human, Play Nice IBM has plans to create a line of children's toys that will teach them how to get on better with other children, and, presumably, how to be nice to robots, too : “…to help a child who plays rough with other children the interaction data can include multiple in ...
- Salman Masalha: Whose imagination?
For several months we have been witness to various and sundry Knesset bills that have turned Israeli legislation into a circus. First some religious conversion bill or another, then a bill regulating... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
- Jonathan Cook: Netanyahu’s illusory peace plan
Yossi Alpher: "At this point it's all spin designed to fend off pressures... The object of the exercise is to gain a day, or a week, or a month, before having to come up with some sort of new spin." The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
- Israel grouped with Iran, North Korea as world ...
BBC poll surveying 27 countries shows that Israel is viewed as having a negative influence in the world; negative opinions in US and UK increased over past year. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the ...
- Leftist Israelis face masked policemen at East ...
Israeli security service agents have obscured their identities in the past when confronting Palestinians, but this is a new phenomenon for Israeli citizens. IOA Editor: No mask could possibly... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
- Amira Hass: The Israeli occupation echoes from ...
The author is reminded that the Palestinians are under occupation when almost all Egyptians refuse to meet with her because she writes for an Israeli newspaper. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the ...
- Cedars-Sinai's Mobile Medical Clinics Receive ...
Thanks to a grant from the George Hoag Family Foundation, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's COACH for Kids and Their Families(r) program will be able to expand healthcare services to more homeless children living in transitional shelters in Greater Los Angeles.
- Some Patients with Cerebral Palsy Have Asymmet ...
Johns Hopkins Children's Center researchers have discovered that most children with severe cerebral palsy have starkly asymmetric pelvic bones. The newly identified misalignment can affect how surgeries of the pelvis, spine and surrounding structures are performed, the researchers say.
- Researchers Identify Biomarker for Creutzfeldt ...
Neena Singh, MD, PhD and colleagues at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have identified the first disease-specific biomarker for sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD), a universally fatal, degenerative brain disease for which there is no cure.
- Student Innovator Uses Sound Waves, T-Rays for ...
Benjamin Clough is dedicated to making the world a safer place for emergency first responders, police and military personnel, chemical plant employees, and many others. The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute doctoral student has developed a novel method for extending the distance from which powerf ...
- University of South Carolina LEEDing by Example
The U.S. Green Building Council ranked South Carolina among the top 10 states for LEED green buildings. The University of South Carolina has been a catalyst for and leader of green building in Palmetto State.
- Dog Plays Basketball
Zeke the dog gets ready for March Madness.
- Using Lasers to Kill Mosquitos that Cause Malaria
Nathan Myhrvold presents a live demo of a new mosquito-zapping device that you have to see to believe.
- Health-Washing: Is 'Healthy' Fast Food for Real?
McDonald's Fruit & Maple Oatmeal is a supposedly "healthy" breakfast item that actually contains more sugar than a Snickers bar. �Fast-food joints routinely offer healthy-sounding options that aren't really health food. Time Magazine lists a few, including: McDonald's Premium Caesar Salad with ...
- Omega-3 Builds Muscle Mass in Cancer Patients
For cancer patients, supplementation with omega-3 fats could help them maintain and even regain lost muscle mass, according to a new study. Most patients who took a daily supplement for 10 weeks either maintained or gained muscle mass.� Patients who didn't take anything either maintained or los ...
- Diabetics in the U.S. and Six Other Countries ...
Millions of people worldwide may be at risk of early death from diabetes as a result of poor diagnosis and ineffective treatment. A new study found problems with diabetes treatment in Colombia, England, Iran, Mexico, Scotland, Thailand, and the United States. In the United States alone, nearly ...
- New Netroots Founded: 'RootsAction' Independen ...
Jeff Cohen, media critic and lecturer, according the bio posted on his site jeffcohen.org, "is founding director of the Park Center for Independent Media at Ithaca College, where he is an associate professor of journalism. His latest book is Cable News Confidential: My Misadventures in Corporat ...
- Pentagon Torture of Manning Recalls Stalin's A ...
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 ...
- 20 Years To Make A Man, Happy Anniversary Liz
Not everything a blogger posts can be political all the time. This is why I am going to take this opportunity to talk about the person that more than any other has made me the man I am. Today is the 15th anniversary of my marriage to my wife Liz. We met 20 years ago when she was working as a ...
- World Has Had Enough Of U.S. Imperialism
Michael Hudson is President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends (ISLET), a Wall Street Financial Analyst, Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City and is the author of "Super-Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Em ...
- Speaker Boehner Stop Lying, Broke Nations Can' ...
We’re flat broke. What do you think of when you read that? Having been busted more than a few times in my life it means no money and no prospect of getting any. Pretty simple and straight forward, unless, of course, you are the Speaker of the House; then “broke” can be parsed and spun and twis ...
- Some preliminary thoughts on the Gitmo Executi ...
by Deborah Pearlstein by Deborah Pearlstein Having just read through the new order quickly, a few thoughts. First, as had been long rumored, the order essentially sets up a periodic review system for the Guantanamo detainees. The review system is discretionary in nature, but appears designe ...
- How to Announce ‘Opinio Juris’
by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Opinio juris meaning the legal concept, not the blog. Â The “Fact Sheet” (linked here to Lawfare) that went out with the new executive order on Guantanamo detainees that Deborah notes below has a final section on international law principles. Â The poin ...
- Celebrating the Legacy of Louis Henkin at Colu ...
by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Our friends at Columbia Law School have asked us to announce a one-day conference celebrating the legacy of the late Louis Henkin. The conference will be held on March 28 in Jerome Green Hall: 4:00-5:00 pm A Commemoration of the Life and Legacy ...
- Human Writes
by Roger Alford by Roger Alford I just received Anuradha Kumar’s book “Human Rights: Global Perspectives” from interlibrary loan. Perhaps they should increase the salary for book binders.
- New Executive Order on Guantanamo
by Deborah Pearlstein by Deborah Pearlstein The President’s much-anticipated executive order on Guantanamo was released today. I hope to read and comment on it shortly (not to mention figure out how to post a PDF). In the meantime, the press statement is here. It reads in its entirety as fo ...
- Suspect In MLK Day Bomb Charged With Attempted ...
Suspect In MLK Day Bomb Charged With Attempted Use Of WMD | TPMMuckraker: "The man arrested in connection with a bomb found along a Martin Luther King Day parade route in Spokane, Wash., earlier this... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
- White House working to stop flow of mercenarie ...
White House working to stop flow of mercenaries into Libya | The Cable: "Though the Obama administration hasn't yet decided whether or how to aid the Libyan opposition, the White House is working to... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
- this recall petition is racist bullshit | angr ...
this recall petition is racist bullshit | angry asian man: "This can only be described as f%%king ridiculous... Last week, our friend Jay Chen, president of the Hacienda La Puente Unified School... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
- Who are you calling feminist?
Who are you calling feminist?: [www.jpost.com/Opinion] "In 1977, the UN General Assembly voted to adopt a resolution proclaiming a United Nations Day for Women’s Rights and International Peace.Even... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
- NPR Puts Ron Schiller On Ice After James O'Kee ...
NPR Puts Ron Schiller On Ice After James O'Keefe Video | TPMMuckraker: "According to NPR spokeswoman Dana Davis Rehm, Schiller has been placed on administrative leave in response to the incident. She... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
- Truth Squad Radio: Monsanto’s GMO Threat!
This Wednesday we will discuss the future of organics, the recent discovery of a huge threat from agrobacterium, and the Monsanto seed contracts which hold the farmer liable for all damages caused by the aggressive spread of GMO contaminated crops.
- Foundations of Evil
Many "philanthropic" foundations have been used in America as a tax dodge to protect family fortunes, to polish tarnished images of robber barons and worst of all, to make the public fund depopulation and other detrimental policies that benefit the controlling elite.
- Is Your Favorite Charity Infiltrated?
Before you write a check, sign a petition or declare your unwavering support for foundations or "nonprofit" organizations (NPOs), you may wish to investigate their agendas by using this step-by-step guide.
- Scientists Under Attack For Speaking Out About ...
Statements made by scientists themselves prove that 95% of the research in the area of genetic engineering is paid by the industry. Only 5% of the research is independent. The big danger for freedom of science and our democracy is evident. Can the public -- we all -- still trust our scientists?
- Welcome to Monsanto Zone…
You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind; a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That's the signpost up ahead — your next stop, Monsanto Zone...
- Top UK businessmen among 9 arrested in bank probe
ShareThisTop UK businessmen among 9 arrested in bank probe 09 Mar 2011 Police have arrested nine people, including two of Britain's wealthiest entrepreneurs, on suspicion of fraud in connection with the 2008 collapse of Iceland's Kaupthing bank during the global financial crisis. Britain's Serio ...
- GOP rams anti-union bill through Wis. Senate
ShareThisGOP rams anti-union bill through Wis. Senate --End run around Democratic senators who left state to prevent passage 09 Mar 2011 Republicans pushed a provision stripping public employees of their collective bargaining rights through the state Senate Wednesday evening after finding a way ...
- Wis. GOP Strips Public Workers' Bargaining Rights
ShareThisWis. GOP Strips Public Workers' Bargaining Rights --Wis. Republicans vote to strip nearly all collective bargaining rights from public workers 09 Mar 2011 Republicans in the Wisconsin Senate voted Wednesday night to strip nearly all collective bargaining rights from public workers after ...
- U.S. officials pushed products deemed unsafe b ...
ShareThisU.S. officials pushed products deemed unsafe by China 09 Mar 2011 When it comes to protecting consumers, American politicians in China don't always practice what they preach, unpublished U.S. diplomatic cables show. In 2007, two U.S. Congressmen privately admonished a Chinese official a ...
- US air strike targets Iraqi doctor
ShareThisUS air strike targets Iraqi doctor 09 Mar 2011 An Iraqi doctor has been killed when a missile fired by the US forces struck his house in Iraq's northern province of al-Tamim, a report says. US military warplanes conducted an airstrike on Sunday and targeted several residences in a villa ...
- Lightning end slide, beat Blackhawks in shootout.
The Tampa Bay Lightning took to the ice against the defending Stanley Cup Champion Chicago Blackhawks Wednesday night at the St. Pete Times Forum in a game that had a must-win feel to it. The Lightning, winless in their last 4 games, overcame late-game adversity and beat the Blackhawks 4-3 wi ...
- Dems Elect Thurston as Their Next Leader; Rous ...
While the votes were being tallied, a representative from the AFL-CIO asked the Democrats present to oppose the unemployment compensation bill that was being discussed in various committees this week
- A Tale of Three Rallies in Tallahassee
The Tea Party rally began as the first Awake the State rally was winding down. A crowd lacking the diversity of the liberal rally managed to fall short of not only the 10 thousand that were expected, it fell short of the 500 that attended the Awake the State rally, managing to reach about 400 o ...
- Ferlita reveals “additional specifics” at news ...
Buckhorn bristled at Ferlita's common man rhetoric, saying "I want my mayor to inspire, to elevate, not to encourage people to settle for what's comfortable and mediocre," adding, "for her to be content for fast food jobs, is not somebody I want to be my mayo
- Jennifer Aniston’s perverse sex tape: the twis ...
An underage hand job, a bestiality orgy, an attempt to create child porn, a homosexual conspiracy, cock and ball torture, and a money shot.
- VRM: L-Histidine, Squaline, & Human Chorionic ...
“Vaccination is a monstrosity, a misbegotten offspring of error and ignorance; it should have no place in either hygiene or medicine. Believe not in vaccination, it is a world wide delusion, an unscientific practice, a fatal superstition with consequences measured today by tears and sorrow ...
- VRM: Gardasil/Cervarix – A Legacy Of Shame
The headlines alone tell the whole story. ‘Teenage girl left brain-damaged after receiving cervical cancer jab‘, ‘Thousands of UK schoolgirls have suffered adverse reactions…several reported multiple reactions’, ‘20,575 adverse reactions, 352 reports of abnormal pap smears post vaccinati ...
- VRM: Dr. Wakefield’s Imminent Vindicatio ...
Dr. Andrew Wakefield’s 1998 Study demonstrated “anti-myelin antibodies and digestive tract pathologies in children with autism after being given the Urabi strain triple live virus MMR vaccine. All 12 children in the Study had intestinal abnormalities (known as Inflammatory Bowel Disease), with c ...
- VRM: A Concise Compendium The Problem With Vac ...
The advent of cloned DNA vaccines & Synthetic Genomics, backed by proponents of the Trans-humanist & Bioethics movements (this is a post-Darwinian view, in which the species has the power to direct its own evolution), has opened a Pandora’s Box spelling the inevitable death of natural immunity. ...
- VRM: Medical Industry Data Proves Influenza Va ...
The Influenza virus itself is constantly mutating from year to year. While mainstream doctors are traditionally divided, several prominent Studies have come forward in recent years challenging the Status Quo on the efficacy of the sacrosanct Flu shot & awakened an increasingly distrustf ...
- You Know You're Getting Old When...
A few weeks back we received our new high-efficiency front loading LG washer and dryer set and I have to say, I'm pretty impressed by them. The set was only around $1000 (on sale) but I felt like I'd gone from a Chevette to a Cadillac when compared to our old set.� A cute little luxury fe ...
- Control Your Home Thermostat On the Internet!
Today a fellow from our natural gas company came by to install a new thermostat as part of the Peaksaver program that we signed up for.�If you haven't heard of Peaksaver, basically what it does is allow the Ontario government electricity provider to turn off your central air conditioner ...
- Happy Day!: The Water Bill Arrived!
After being shocked a few months ago with a water bill of over $240 I decided to do a few things to cut down on our water use We converted our main toilet to a dual-flush and installed a water saving device on the second (haven't switched it over to a dual yet). We also installed a new ...
- Strawberry Picking
Our family went strawberry picking this morning, it's a fun thing to do once in a while and I think it's a good way to help our 3-year old daughter realize where food comes from. While my wife picked berries with our oldest I went for a walk around the farm with our youngest in the stroller ...
- Pioneer Solar: PV System For Free?
I received a flyer from Pioneer Solar in the mail the other day which claims to help people get a solar system installed on their house, farm, or business for free. Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, like most things there's good and bad points about it and what might be a good deal f ...
- 101st Airborne
04 March 2011 Plans are afoot to embed with the 2-506 Infantry in Paktika Province.� If all goes well, the hard work will begin several weeks from now.� The Battalion Commander is Lieutenant Colonel Don Hill. Please see their latest newsletter: Please Click to view the entire newsletter. ...
- War Stories & Rumors
Russian Tank near Tarin Kot 02 March 2011 There are always the stories.� Some true, some not, most are hybrids.� There was the story in Iraq of the farmer who found a crashed UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle).� The farmer thought it might try to fly away so he tied it to a tree.�� There was the ru ...
- Scorch & Puddle
The Puddle 28 February 2011 Urozgan Province, Afghanistan This morning, we drove a dangerous unpaved road from Tarin Kot to Dehrawud, passing recent bomb craters and ancient wrecks of two Soviet tanks.� The muddy road often splashed brown soup across the windshield while grey skies threatened ...
- Dead Taliban in Chora
(A raw, unedited note from war.) Men lining up to pay respects to killed Taliban 27 February 2011 The places have names like Sangin, Arghandab, Panjwai, Now Zad, Musa Qala, Korengal Valley, Pech Valley, Tarin Kot, or Chora.� Names that mean almost nothing to most people, but everything to oth ...
- Panjwai: Spanish Translation
El peligrosísimo distrito de Panjwai, en la provincia de Kandahar 27 de febrero de 2011 Desde Tarin Kot, provincia de Uruzgán Panjwai viene siendo una de las zonas más peligrosas de Afganistán. En su suelo se ha derramado mucha sangre canadiense, estadounidense y afgana. Según el diario The ...
- Wikileaks and the Future of Information
Wikileaks and the future of information from Justin Podur on Vimeo. read more
- Settle in and wait for the coup in Egypt
Most people are interested in something that no one knows or can know: what is going to happen in Egypt? It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future (that's from Keynes). There are lessons from past revolutions that might help us understand what is happening, but from where ...
- More such philanthrocapitalism we shall be utt ...
Philanthrocapitalism, a book by Bishop and Edwards, argues that philanthropy will help the public accept a new age of plutocracy (the rule by wealth). The rich are giving their money away so effectively, they say, that the public won't mind increasing inequality. read more
- I am not a gadget
Jaron Lanier, author of "You are not a gadget", is very well-informed about what he is writing about, which is some of the social consequences of the internet, and some of the implicit ideologies that are built into the internet as we are living with it today. Lanier was one of the early minds b ...
- Raj Patel's "Value of Nothing"
For various reasons I found myself with several hours on public transit and with Raj Patel's fine book "The Value of Nothing" in hand. I really liked a few things about it. First, it's a very readable summary of a lot of economic theories (and ideologies) that guide policies today. For a more ma ...
- Tiger Poo Apparently Effective at Warding Off ...
Photo: Todd Ryburn / CC What could strike fear in a pesky invasive pest as much as a hungry tiger on the prowl? Well, its poo, apparently. One researcher working on a natural way of warding off animals in Australia discovered that the big cat's droppings proved an effective deterrent which c ...
- Kaleidoscopes Turn Annoying Subway Ads Into Co ...
Image via Vimeo video Public transportation is nothing if not entertaining and creatively stimulating. And so it should be if we're hoping for millions of people to switch to using subway systems instead of driving cars. One of the frustrations of public transit is the dearth of mindless ad ...
- Almost Instant Library Has Green Roof, Living Wall
Le Corbusier said Creation is a Patient Search, but sometimes people are in a hurry. The Zeidler Partnership had to crank out an Electronic Learning Centre and 10 classrooms is a couple of months for Mohawk College in Hamilton, Ontario, and fast-track its construction to be completed in time ...
- Iceland's Clean Energy Is a Hot Commodity for ...
From our friends at Fast Company, "bridging the fuzzy border between design and business." Anyone who witnessed the wrath of Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano last year knows that the country possesses ample geothermal resources. Iceland has so much geothermal energy, in fact, that it mig ...
- Why Are Germans Boycotting E10, the Ethanol Fuel?
Image: volkerhoffmann11, YouTube excerpt Germans rate respect for having a national identity as eco-conscious people. Should it therefore come as a surprise that Germans are not embracing the advent of E10, a 10% ethanol-gasoline mixture, which has replaced normal gas at the pumps on a mand ...
- Illinois abolishes death penalty
[JURIST] Illinois Governor Pat Quinn [official website] signed Senate Bill 3539 [text] on Wednesday, absolishing the death penalty [JURIST news archive] in Illinois. Two months after the Illinois Senate [official website] approved the bill [JURIST report], Quinn signed the bill [audio] into law. ...
- Blagojevich asks judge to cancel retrial
[JURIST] Former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich [JURIST news archive] on Wednesday asked a federal judge to cancel his retrial [motion to dismiss] and sentence him on the single charge on which was originally convicted. Blagojevich was found guilty [JURIST report] last year of making false sta ...
- UN to probe Gaddafi over Libya torture allegations
[JURIST] The UN appointed a team of special prosecutors on Wednesday to investigate allegations that Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] has ordered forces to torture and abduct opponents. Although a probe was launched last week [JURIST report] in the International C ...
- Lawyer for ex-Liberia president argues bias in ...
[JURIST] A defense lawyer representing former Liberian president Charles Taylor [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] on Tuesday accused the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) [official website] of political bias during his closing arguments in Taylor's trial [OSJI backgrounder] in The Hague on ...
- DOJ appeals Florida health care ruling
[JURIST] The US Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website] on Tuesday appealed [notice, PDF] a ruling in the US District Court for the Northern District of Florida [official website] declaring the health care reform law [HR 3590; JURIST news archive] unconstitutional [order, PDF]. On Friday, ...
- On David Broder
The first time I sat in the Washington Post's main newsroom conference room, David Broder quietly predicted that Barack Obama would be elected president. It was early December 2007, about a week before my first day, and I'd been brought in to be introduced and to sit with the august politics ...
- Illinois Finally Ends Its Dance With the Death ...
News today from Springfield, Ill., where Gov. Pat Quinn signed legislation that ends capital punishment in the Land of Lincoln. The governor also commuted 15 existing death sentences to life without parole. The move came roughly eight years after then-Governor Pat Ryan (now in prison himself) em ...
- What to Expect From Peter King's Muslim Radica ...
In a move that's stirred much criticism, New York Rep. Peter King on Thursday, at 9:30 a.m. Eastern, will hold a hearing of the House Homeland Security Committee examining radicalization among American Muslims. Not since the Bush administration has public debate erupted so sharply over whether ...
- Three Strikes at NPR: Why Vivian Schiller Was ...
The forced resignation of NPR President and CEO Vivian Schiller is by any measure a very sad ending to what was until a few months ago a superbly successful tenure. Three management mishaps made her departure inevitable: the abrupt dismissal of Juan Williams, NPR's most prominent African-Amer ...
- Picture of the Day: Obama Tosses Football With ...
When you're the president of the United States, you can play with a football inside the house. Here, Obama tosses a football with Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Monday, March 7. In Australian rules football, throwing, per se, isn't allowed: The ball must be tapped with an open hand, ...
- Dirar Abu Seesi: Breaking the Israeli Gag
Looks like we’re in the infant stages of breaking the Israeli gag on reporting the kidnapping, extraordinary rendition, & imprisonment of Dirar Abu Seesi, first in a Shabak torture facililty and now in Shikma Prison. Â Rehavia Berman has published the news at his blog. So far it has not been tak ...
- Peter King’s Anti-Muslim Jihad
Tomorrow, Rep. Peter King, one of the most prominent anti-Muslim members of Congress (who wrote a suspense novel about a Congressman who foils an Al Qaeda plot), plans to hold the first of several hearings on the supposed menace posed by the radicalization of American Muslims. As one who has stu ...
- Links for 2010-08-17 [Digg]
Israel Wakes Up and Discovers Its Soldiers Abuse Palestinian Yesterday, a major scandal erupted in Israel over an IDF soldier, Eden Aberjil, who posted pictures on her Facebook account of her abusing bound Palestinian...
- Links for 2010-04-03 [Digg]
Anat Kam-Uri Blau Top Secret Israeli Leak Case The foreign media continue to open up the gagged Anat Kam-Uri Blau case with new stories in The Guardian, The Times, and The National.
- Links for 2010-03-30 [Digg]
Overseas Media Begins Reporting Kam Case An Israeli journalist disappears into the maw of the intelligence services. A gag order prevents newspapers reporting the story. Only overseas media can do so, but they hesitate since so little is known. That's why blogs exist and that's the role t ...
- A new kind of personal wealth
It turns out money can buy happiness, after allâwhen consumers create a market for mindful consumption. A lot has changed for Rachel Aydt in the past two years. Since the magazine she worked for shut down in 2008, she’s been faced with plenty of financial uncertainty. Aydt ...
- 200 years of remarkable development
By: EmilyAviles In this BBC video, Swedish academic, medical doctor, public speaker and statistician Hans Rosling tells the story of of the world's development - past, present and future. Using vast quantities of public data (data from 200 countries over 200 years ...
- The muse in the moment
We all know meditation helps you relax. But can it also ease the symptoms of depression and anxiety disorders and improve quality of life for people with chronic diseases? Recent research suggests it can. For those of us who haven’t practiced it, meditation can seem like a ...
- Practicing peace and love
By: PeaceCorso "Peace and love are ever in us, being and working; but we be not always in peace and love." These are the insightful words of Dame Julian of Norwich. Wikipedia says: Julian of Norwich (c. November 8, 1342 - c. 1416) is thought of as on ...
- A new food manifesto
Itâs time to take back control of what and how we eat. Hereâs why. Food isn’t just something we need to shovel down our gullets each day to survive. It’s far more potent: the means, more than any other, by which we humans shape our planet and ourselves.Photo by Marko Matas ...
- Cleaner, Cheaper and Faster: Why Efficiency Be ...
With oil prices back above $100 per barrel and gasoline prices rapidly jumping up in the last two weeks, drivers are feeling the pain at the pump and unease about the future. While some in Washington advocate drilling as the solution, there are better ways to provide stability for ...
- Former Bush official states Halliburton Loopho ...
Last week I blogged about a quote in a ProPublica article from the former Bush Administration official who was in charge of EPA's drinking water program, Benjamin Grumbles. Regarding a controversial report on hydraulic fracturing issued by the Bush Administration's EPA, Mr. Grumble ...
- Media scan 3/9: Benefits of new bulbs, new fue ...
Last night Dale Bryk went head-to-head with Stephen Colbert on the Colbert Report about new energy efficiency standards for light bulbs and the benefits they will bring to both the environment and the economy… Thom Cmar spoke to the Associated Press about legal victory in the fight ...
- Green Budget shows how we can invest in bioene ...
The environmental community released its annual Green Budget yesterday, laying out our vision for how smart investments in clean energy can drive America’s economic recovery. My colleague Cai Steger posted a great recap of the Department of Energy’s section and other NRDC energy po ...
- Health Matters, and So Does Climate Change
Yesterday another scientist reminded me how vital it is to share and discuss the latest research findings on climate change and health. Professor Donald Roberts testified before the House Energy and Power Subcommittee, and mentioned a recent paper in the Proceedings of the Nationa ...
- How to ruin thirty days in a night (by violati ...
On the last day I teach in a quarter, I like to leave the students with a memorable exampleâsomething so memorable they’ll hold the lessons of the class close long after they leave. Â For my “slow horror” course, I chose to remind them that the purpose of a film is to manipulate its audience, an ...
- March “Madness?”
We gots one of those ESPN Tournament Challenge Leagues… League: LGM Password: zevon As always, the victor will receive a prize, of sorts. Related posts:LGM Tourney Challenge Tourney Final Reminder Tourney Challenge Related posts:LGM Tourney Challenge Tourney Final Reminder Tourney Chall ...
- On Saving the Iraqi Air Force
Interesting article on why the Iraqi Air Force didn’t fight in 2003: Rather than being afraid to fight in 2003 as the Americans initially speculated, Iraq was simply following the same pattern it had set nearly twenty years before. Ever since the Iran-Iraq War, Baghdad had tried to protect its a ...
- Romney’s 2008 Problem
Matt thinks Mittens has a good chance of getting the 2012 nomination: I think itâs worth recalling that Mitt Romney won National Reviewâs endorsement in 2008 explicitly on the theory that he was equally conservative as Fred Thompson and more conservative than the others. Rush Limbaugh also endo ...
- Soon to Become the Bestselling “Bicycle ...
Shorter John Cassidy: “Those damned Jacobin bike line activists.  Everyone knows that foremost in the Declaration of Independence is the inalienable right of all people dumb enough to drive into Manhattan for dinner to park for free.” UPDATE: Duncan beat me to it (1,2). I blame the humo ...
- DRI is a Nevada Asset
Nevada’s legislature was visionary in 1959 when it created DRI as the environmental research campus of the state’s university system. DRI has flourished as an entrepreneurial campus of 500 scientists, engineers and technicians who leveraged the state’s $8.2 million allocation last year into ...
- Storm Peak Laboratory Cloud Property Validatio ...
Scientists are busy working at DRI’s Storm Peak Lab at Steamboat Springs, Colo. gathering in-cloud measurements and also verifying the data from radars and other instrumentation that is measuring clouds at four different elevations; one site in town and three within the Steamboat Springs ...
- Fighting an Infestation
Kumud Acharya, Ph.D. has worked in Southern Nevada for the last four years studying the changing climate and its effect on the state’s water. Since coming to Las Vegas his focus has shifted to another problem, invasive species specially those living in Lake Mead.
- 2010 DRI Annual Report
The 2010 annual report is now available for download. This issue includes an interview with Executive Vice President for Research Dr. Terry Surles, our involvement with a large NSF grant to study climate change, an overview of the work in our divisions and centers, select researcher profiles, an ...
- Tracking the Air Quality at Lake Tahoe
In order to better understand the pollutant sources that are affecting Lake’s Tahoe’s water quality, Research Professor Hampden Kuhns, began studying Lake Tahoe in 2003 when he assembled the areas first emissions inventory. The inventory included local measurements using his TRAKER road ...
- PRESS CONFERENCE – Moratorium on Drillin ...
March 9 – 10 AM Moratorium on future gas leases in State Forests Representative Vitali will hold a press conference in Media Room, main Capitol. Greg will announce the introduction of a bill for 3 year moratorium on leasing in State Forests. He would like to have a stage full of representatives ...
- Toxic Water Interactive Map
Here is a link to the interactive map that was put out by the New York Times with their article “Toxic Contamination From Natural Gas Wells” If you have not had a chance to check it out yet, you should. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/02/27/us/natural-gas-map.html?ref=us
- Marcellus Shale Drilling – Avenues for A ...
See the below message from Penn Futures. Register today! Pre-registration is required. As drilling for natural gas in the Marcellus Shale continues in our region and across Pennsylvania, PennFuture, Clean Water Action, PennEnvironment, Pennsylvania Sierra Club, Responsible Drilling Alliance and ...
- Cheaper by the billion
Via Penn Futures – Friday, March 04, 2011 Range Resources is selling the 52,000-acres it owns in the Barnett Shale natural gas play in Texas for a cool $900 million. Is Range bailing out of one of the most productive shale plays in America? Are they going bankrupt? Um, no. According to one indus ...
- Documents: Politics, Recycling and Tracking of ...
The New York times ran this article recently. Documents: Politics, Recycling and Tracking of Natural Gas Waste Over the past nine months, The Times reviewed more than 30,000 pages of documents obtained through open records requests of state and federal agencies and by visiting various regional o ...
- 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 ...
- If we don’t fight, TSA-like security coming to ...
"We’re talking about what would be a criminal act in any other place," Rep. David Simpson (R) told Raw Story. "If you viewed someone naked without their permission or consent, or as a condition of travel, it would be sexual harassment or vouyerism. If you touched people’s privates, that would be ...
- Mass fish death in California harbor; millions
Millions of dead fish were found floating in a California harbor after apparently becoming trapped and expiring due to lack of oxygen, experts said. The silver-colored fish appeared overnight at King Harbor in Redondo Beach, where the surface of the water was covered, said officials. Locals sugg ...
- Chossudovsky on Libyan ’Battle for Oil’ (Video)
"RT talks to Michel Chossudovsky - Director of the Center for Research on Globalization, in Canada." Video from: YouTube.com/RT
- Iceland votes NO to Icesave debt (Video)
Voters in Iceland have overwhelmingly rejected proposals to pay the UK and the Netherlands in the wake of collapse of the Icesave bank. 93% of voters said "No" in a referendum. Johanna Sigurdardottir said that her government would stay in office, despite the "No" results. "This has no impact on ...
- Iceland votes to reject debt slavery, is threa ...
Iceland faces downgrade if Icesave deal fails: Moody’s Iceland’s rejection in a referendum of a new deal with Britain and The Netherlands to repay money lost in the collapse of Icesave bank would hit the country’s ratings, Moody’s warned on Wednesday. It could also hit money committed by Iceland ...
- WikiLeaks, Allnewsweb and the TEA Party
When one looks at the above title, the individual has to ask, WTF? What could these three things have in common? Well, according to ‘Mirage Men‘ author, Mark Pilkington, not really a whole hell of a lot, just rampant opportunism: When the first mention of UFOs in the tranche of diplomatic paper ...
- Even Gary Bekkum is skeptical
Gary Bekkum’s STARpod.org’s site is usually replete with government conspiracies, psychic spies, hamsters, Bigelow’s Skinwalker Ranch, Laura Eisenhower’s Mars Colony and other wondrous esoteric oddities that it’s hard to believe that Gary could be skeptical of anything. But he is. He is very s ...
- More Paracast: George Filer
Yeah I know I’ve been lazy lately (or so it seems), but trust me on this one. You won’t be disappointed with this interview Gene Steinberg and co-host Chris O’Brien of the Paracast had with Eastern MUFON Director George Filer, who also has the website Filer’s Files (which caters to guess what? Y ...
- The Paracast: Clifford Clift of MUFON
This week’s Paracast with Gene Steinberg and Chris O’Brien is a conversation with MUFON International’s Clifford Clift. Subjects range from the nuts and bolts aspects of UFOs to the possible paranormal links with ghosts, angels, demons and Sasquatch. This was a down to earth and civil interview, ...
- Bizarre Beachcoming: Review of the Codex Serap ...
Dr. Beachcoming, that eccentric collector of all things of an exotic historical nature, reviews The Codex Seraphinianus, a book written by Luigi Serafini that is purportedly about an alien world complete with language, customs, architecture, flora and fauna. Luigi Serafini, Codex Seraphinianus ...
- Is your story actually a story?
“The problem with many news stories is that theyâre not really stories at all.” (Source: Advancing the Story, an excellent blog about broadcast journalism and multimedia.) This is true not only in TV news but across the board — and not only for student work! Sometimes the material is new (or at ...
- Web literacy: Should be required
A student calls me on the phone. “Professor McAdams, I wonder if you could help me. I’ve never taken a class with you, but …” “Yes, what can I do for you?” I reply. “I bought my own website, but I’m not sure how to get my Web pages there.” From past experience, I know what I need to ask now. ...
- Can journalism education rise to the challenge?
Most journalism programs face the same challenges: How to find, employ and retain faculty who are comfortable teaching new skills and techniques. How to provide equipment and software to students (especially with shrinking budgets). How to keep up with a rapidly changing field. Perhaps mos ...
- HTML and CSS Resources for Teaching
Every year around this time, I update the resources I use in teaching my advanced online design class. I know there are a million lists like these online. I try to keep mine short, simple and current. Also, I’m not teaching programmers or graphic design majors. My students are journalists. C ...
- Visual narratives: Empirical data
From a research study by two scholars at Stanford: In this paper, we investigate the design of narrative visualizations and identify techniques for telling stories with data graphics. We take an empirical approach, analyzing visualizations from online journalism, blogs, instructional videos, an ...
- Florida lawmaker warns North Carolina against ...
A Florida lawmaker recently wrote the governor of North Carolina warning her state against adopting a financing plan for new power plants that turned into a economic disaster for his state's ratepayers. Florida State Sen. Mike Fasano (in photo) -- a conservative, pro-business Republic ...
- Come celebrate 40 years of change in the South!
The Institute is 40 years old -- and we want you to come help us celebrate! On Saturday, March 26 come join us in Durham, North Carolina as we celebrate the Institute's four decades of working for a more just, democratic and sustainable South. The exciting and inspiring Rev. Lennox Yearwood ...
- VOICES: Challenging corporate America's hiring ...
By Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest You would never know it from the preoccupation with budget deficits and the attack on public unions, but there is still a severe jobs crisis in the United States. The focus on the state and federal fiscal situation has deflected attention from what shou ...
- EPA puts off long-promised coal ash protections
Communities imperiled by poorly managed coal ash won't be getting help from the federal government any time soon. The Obama administration announced last week that it would not issue long-awaited federal regulations this year after all. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Li ...
- Life and death on Big Oil's fence line
The environmental destruction caused by Louisiana's oil industry did not begin with the BP disaster, and a visit to the town of Norco 25 miles west of New Orleans powerfully illustrates that reality. Built on land adjacent to the Mississippi River that once supported vast sugar planta ...
- Off to London
for a week, in a couple weeks. This will be the first time I’ve visited England, since, oh, about 1978. What I remember about that trip: Southampton row houses, a nice open air book market, and Trafalgar square. So, for those of you who have been to London more recently, or lived (or live) the ...
- The kids might be all right
My generation is doing something right: First from Josh Marshall summarizing a recent Rasmussen poll on the age breakdown of support for the unions in Wisconsin: But when you look at this poll the pro-union / anti-union division turns heavily on age too. The younger votes have a far more progres ...
- Off to London
for a week, in a couple weeks. This will be the first time I’ve visited England, since, oh, about 1978. What I remember about that trip: Southampton row houses, a nice open air book market, and Trafalgar square. So, for those of you who have been to London more recently, or lived (or live) the ...
- The kids might be all right
My generation is doing something right: First from Josh Marshall summarizing a recent Rasmussen poll on the age breakdown of support for the unions in Wisconsin: But when you look at this poll the pro-union / anti-union division turns heavily on age too. The younger votes have a far more progres ...
- Police moving to clear the WI capital (Or Are ...
Update 2: Well, well, well. That is impressive, the police essentially refused the order. My hat is off to them. This is an extraordinarily encouraging sign, in that it indicates that the security apparatus has limits to what it will do. If elites1want real crushing, they’re clearly going ...
- Drug Wars in Juarez Fuels Boom in El Paso
My colleague Malak Behrouznami recently returned from Juarez Mexico where she grew up as a child. She as a wonderful heritage - her father is Iranian and her Mother is Mexican. She went Juarez for family and journalistic reasons. One of her objectives was to find out why Juarez has become a terr ...
- PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI NEGOTIATIONS TO NOWHERE NO ...
A few months ago when shooting a documentary in the Middle East, we met Zeina, a 13-year-old Palestinian living in a Beirut refugee camp. She was traumatized as she watched the Israeli Gaza war on television. It changed her life. She now thinks of revenge and cannot understand the Israeli childr ...
- FROM JOE McCARTHY TO GLEN BECK – TIME TO END F ...
I listened to Glen Becks "Restoring Honor" speech today hoping to find something of substance to write about. I found a stringing together of such empty phrases it does not bear discussion. The more important issue is why a man whose megalomania seems to have no bounds can become such a phenome ...
- PAKISTAN FLOODS AND A FAILED POLICY - UN Sec. ...
Ban Ki Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, says of the flooding in Pakistan "The world has never seen such a disaster. It's much beyond anybody's imagination". At least 20 million people have lost their homes, more than 1600 have died, and disease and hunger will claim many, many mo ...
- China and the end of the end of history
Many economists and political analysts think the current recovery, as it's being called, is a rather temporary phenomenon. Many expect the recession to kick back in, and perhaps within a few years get much more serious. What does that mean in terms of the future of the world economy and world po ...
- Senate Passes Patent Reform Bill
The America Invents Act, the latest in a series of attempts to reform the US patent system, passed the Senate on 8 March with bipartisan support by a vote of 95-5. Championed by Patrick Leahy, a Democrat from Vermont, the bill aims to streamline the patent application process and reduce the curr ...
- London museum to repatriate ancestral remains
Scores of human remains are to be handed back to their descendants in Australia by London’s Natural History Museum. The museum will return 138 samples dating back to the mid-1800s – including bone and soft tissue – to the people of the Torres Strait Islands, which lie between Australia and Pa ...
- USC receives $200m gift
The University of Southern California has received an unrestricted $200 million gift to support its science, social science, and humanities teaching and research, it announced today. USC is to add the names of donors Dana and David Dornsife to its College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. The Do ...
- Hot dates for scars on Mars
Posted on behalf of Adam Mann When researchers want to know how old a particular lava flow is on Mars, they count the number of craters that pockmark the feature. Older surfaces have more craters than fresh ones. But this technique only allows scientists to estimate the relative age of one ...
- Climate scientists testify as Republicans prep ...
With Republicans in the US House of Representatives preparing to advance a bill to block the federal climate regulations this week, Democrats at last secured a hearing on the underlying science. The result was yet another seemingly fruitless debate between skeptics and mainstream climate scient ...
- New Jersey: Still Suburbanizing
The state of New Jersey virtually defines suburbanization in the United States. New Jersey is not home to the core of any major metropolitan area but, major portions of the nation's largest metropolitan area (New York) and the fifth largest metropolitan area (Philadelphia) are in the stat ...
- The Protean Future Of American Cities
The ongoing Census reveals the continuing evolution of America�s cities from small urban cores to dispersed, multi-polar regions that includes the city�s surrounding areas and suburbs. This is not exactly what most urban pundits, and journalists covering cities, would like to see, but the realit ...
- What India Hands to the World
Yoga. Mantras. Bollywood. Henna tattoos. Once unique to India, each of these has now become common-place in households across the globe. As a first generation East Indian American, I've had an opportunity to contrast the world my parents experienced with the one I inhabit. When my parents f ...
- High Speed Rail: The Dream Scheme Scenario
Ever since Jay Gould, Leland Stanford, and Cornelius Vanderbilt acquired their first legislatures, railroads have been best understood as political networks, rather than as transportation lines. The Obama administration is hyping high-speed rail (HSR) with a $53 billion proposal not because the ...
- From the Great Moderation to the Great Stagnation
For much of the past decade, I was a proponent of the thesis that that the American economy had entered a “great moderation,” where expansions lasted longer and recessions were fewer, shorter and milder. Productivity had seemingly reached a permanently high plateau; inflation seemed tamed. T ...
- Yemen: Anti-Government Protesters May Have Bee ...
Via: The Australian: Earlier reports indicated that the gas used was tear gas, but doctors who have been treating the wounded refuted that claim today. “The material in this gas makes people convulse for hours. It paralyses them. They couldn’t move at all. We tried to give them oxygen but it did ...
- WORLD’S LARGEST BOND FUND DUMPS ALL U.S. ...
Via: Reuters: The world’s largest bond fund has gone ultra bearish on the United States, dumping all of its U.S. government-related debt holdings. The move by Bill Gross’s $236.9 billion PIMCO Total Return fund completed last month comes in the wake of a vicious Treasury market sell-off and just ...
- Sedgwick, Maine Declares Food Sovereignty
Via: The Complete Patient: On Saturday morning, Sedgwick became likely the first locale in the country to pass a “Food Sovereignty” law. It’s the proposed ordinance I first described last fall, when I introduced the “Five Musketeers”, a group of farmers and consumers intent on pushing back again ...
- Prison Labor Used to Build Parts for Patriot M ...
Via: Wired: This spring, the United Arab Emirates is expected to close a deal for $7 billion dollars’ worth of American arms. Nearly half of the cash will be spent on Patriot missiles, which cost as much as $5.9 million apiece. But what makes those eye-popping sums even more shocking is that som ...
- Hard Times Generation: Homeless Kids
Via: CBS / 60 Minutes: The government considers a family of four to be impoverished if they take in less than $22,000 a year. Based on that standard, and government projections of unemployment, it is estimated the poverty rate for kids in this country will soon hit 25 percent. Those children wou ...
- 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 ...
- Napolitano quizzed on ATF probe, NRA weighs in
Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano told a Senate committee today that she knew nothing of a shift in strategy that delayed arrests of suspected gun traffickers and allowed hundreds of guns to be transported into Mexico.
- Grassley asks for independent investigator to ...
Sen. Charles Grassley, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, demanded Tuesday that an independent watchdog be used to investigate the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives decision to let hundreds of guns fall into the hands of straw buyers for suspected Mexican wea ...
- USDA Audit Says E. Coli Testing in Ground Beef ...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture, in charge of keeping the potentially lethal E. coli bacteria out of your food, has concluded its own testing process for ground beef is flawed and may be missing bacteria during tests.
- Mexico Demands Information on Controversial AT ...
Mexico's foreign ministry is demanding information from the U.S. government on a controversial Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives operation that let more than 1,700 weapons pass through straw buyers for suspected Mexican gun runners in hopes of making a bigger criminal case.
- After a Disabled Borrower’s Six-Year Ord ...
After six years battling to persuade the Education Department that she was too disabled to work again, the government finally has forgiven the student debt of disabled former police officer Tina Brooks. She was featured in a Feb. 13 story about the government’s broken program for forgiving the f ...
- 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” ...
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 ...
- Callout for funds for Beyond Resistance, organ ...
5500731372_a3f8c62ed7_z.jpg On February 22nd at just before 1pm, a devastating earthquake, measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale, and just 10km deep, hit Christchurch, the second biggest city in New Zea ...
- Housing Activist found dead in Warsaw
jolablokada.png On March 7 we learned that one of the most active members of the tenants' movement, Jolanta Brzeska, was found dead in the woods. Her body had been burnt beyond ...
- Death of a Worker: Work Kills at Modelama Text ...
In a report on the death at work of a textile factory worker and subsequent strike in Gurgaon, India. The following report about the sad death of a garment worker at Modelama factory in Gurgaon was sent by a friend of Gurgaon workers ...
- 1 little, 2 little, 10000 little Indians
5prosvjed2.jpg Article about 5th protest in Zagreb What the protesters promised, it came true – today`s protest was the largest so far. According to some estimates, around 1000 ...
- Italy: Revolts and riots in migrant detention ...
images.jpeg 1 March: after a revolt that has gone on for days, the detention centre in Gradisca is in a state of collapse: one single cell left for the 100 detainees, people eating and sleeping in th ...
- Crickets
Crickets as in “I hear nothing but crickets” is the word of the day for Regimental Combat Team 1 (RCT 1) based in Camp Dwyer and controlling the southern districts of Helmand Province. Â I needed to do a little district level coordination last weekend and was able to catch a ride to Marjah with ...
- It Takes A Clue
Nothing will sour the morale of combat troops faster then the realization that the commander at the top receives frequent visits from the Good Idea Fairy. Which is a good start point for explaining why General Stanley A McChrystal took to the pages of Foreign Policy last week to explain the u ...
- Thugs, Mobs And Education
The news this week has been dominated by the Lara Logan story. Ms. Logan was the subject of the most popular post in FRI history which can be found here. Reactions to the news that Lara was subjected to “a brutal and sustained assault and beating” have cost at least one knucklehead his job ...
- Naw Zad
I just did something which would have been suicidal 10 months ago. My colleague Little Mac and I, in the company of a Marine tank officer and Naval surface warfare officer (he’s a fires guy by trade) just strolled around the town of Naw Zad with no body armor, no helmets, no riflemen escorting ...
- Ride For The Brand
When I first started this blog I used to hammer away on a couple of themes which really bothered me. The first was Provincial Reconstruction Teams which I maintain are, by design, unable to accomplish their assigned mission. The second theme had to do with the reason we remain in Afghanistan. O ...
- Water, Water, Water — Libya’s Hidd ...
Friday, March 4, 2011 Virtually unknown in the West: Libya’s water resources A. PEASANT at twelfthbough.blogspot.com We still wonder how on earth did Gaddafi manage to stay in power for forty years? Did no one notice his madness until now? Did no one notice that he built a HUGE FRESH WATER PIP ...
- Liberty Coins? It’s Either Liberty or L ...
Friends: We should be watching this one very closely!! I would hope that reason and JUSTICE prevails here. It should be self-evident, (that is if we yet are governed by constitutional principles) that PEOPLE have the inherent right to barter and exchange goods and services between themselves ...
- Closing Olympic Ceremony – Beijing China ...
Ok, all you sleeping Sheeple!!  Still think there is not an evil, anti-Christian Illuminati-based conspiracy afoot? Then check this video out immediately, (and share it widely). Disclose.tv – London 2012 7/7 Olympics Sacrifice Ritual Video Just in case you don’t remember, allow me to jog yo ...
- 5 Proposals to Combat ‘Global Warming’ That Sh ...
5 Proposals to Combat ‘Global Warming’ That Should Make Us All Cringe Eric Blair March 1, 2011 Taxing the air we exhale, rationing human necessities, a global one-child policy, geoengineering (high-altitude chemical spraying), and now nuclear war have all been proposed to combat global warming. ...
- A Study in Hypocrisy and Dichotomy – BYU ...
By:Â A. True Ott, PhD Brigham Young University is today under the national spotlight, and this time no amount of “spin doctoring” by ex-BYU Cougar/Boston Celtic great (and LDS Bishop) Danny Ainge, and the PR department of the LDS Church “Brethren” in Salt Lake City will be able to obfuscate the ...
- Downsizing – downscaling? See these tiny ...
Here’s a great company doing inspiring work www.tumbleweedhouses.com The company creator, Jay Shafer started off making a super small mobile home for himself measuring just 89 square feet! Their video is a testament to less being more – they’re now selling ready made mobile cabins and the plan ...
- Air powered environmentally friendly car being ...
Sounds a little strange right – an air powered car – why isn’t this big news I wonder… There’s a great company in France operated by a former Formula 1 engineer now producing cars running on compressed air. They’re not great to look at, super fast, or I’m guessing really comfortable, but they’re ...
- Deforestation – environmental & human ef ...
There are many types of forest in the world from Temperate Forest to Tropical forest. The one thing all forests have in common is that the trees in them act as the lungs to our planet converting CO2 to Oxygen. In addition, forests provide a canopy or shading of the earth which helps maintain te ...
- Could cancer be Fungus? If so, maybe here̵ ...
Recently I visited a dear friend who has been dealing with breast cancer for over ten years. After a long attempt to avoid surgery and medication, she was forced to have a double mastectomy. She has chosen to avoid the chemo treatments. This takes a lot of courage given that the standard thing t ...
- Doctors Warn about GM Food Risks
It’s barely been a week since I wrote about the dangers of genetically modified (GM) foods and now the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) has released a strongly-worded warning about the health dangers associated with Frankenfoods. Calling for a moratorium on GM foods, the AAEM sa ...
- Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian singer-songwriter
Peter Mansbridge sits down with Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon to discuss his hits, and those songs that were never sung.
- Ed Clark, TD Bank President and CEO (Dec 11, 2010)
It's now one of the biggest, most powerful banks anywhere -- and it's Canadian. Leading it, a former Ottawa bureaucrat, who walks into the boardrooms of Bay Street and Wall Street with a confidence reserved for the world's most influential business leaders. Ed Clark is our guest this week - and ...
- Pervez Musharraf, former President of Pakistan ...
He's been a general and a president, leading Pakistan while wearing those both hats in the tense days following 9-11. Now Pervez Musharraf is out of office and exiled from his country. But that hasn't stopped him from wading into the debate about Pakistan, Afghanistan and how countries like C ...
- Wayne Gretzky
He is the Great One by name, by deed and by reputation. And when Canadians were asked who should be the final torchbearer in Vancouver, he was their first choice. And this week, he's ours. Hockey legend, Wayne Gretzky.
- Mark Tremblay, Healthy Living and Obesity Expe ...
How fit are we? Not very, if you buy into the steady stream of new studies that have been making the news. They paint a very bleak picture of the present, but an even worse future if current trends continue. This week, our guest tells us why.
- Prop C – Missouri Renewable Energy Stand ...
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Erin Noble wrote: Prop C – Missouri Renewable Energy Standard Update and Next Steps Thank you for signing the letter urging Governor Nixon calling on him to veto SCR1 which undercut … Continue reading →
- One Week Until the Introduction to FREE Green- ...
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 5:04 PM, CRS Events wrote: One Week Left Until the "Introduction to Green-e" Webinar Series Join us for three upcoming webinars that give an overview of the Green-e programs and how they work … Continue reading →
- Selecting sustainable cabinetry requires caref ...
A product is only as sustainable as the sum of its parts. In the case of cabinetry, there are quite a few parts–from raw materials to resins to finishes–to add up. Here’s what to look for when selecting cabinetry for … Continue reading →
- Nuclear is not the Answer Dan Rathers
For everyone who says nuclear waste is not harmful– Lets put some in your Back Yard. Â [1]As for the Costs Graphs Show- Nuclear Energy is not needed for Clean Energy ProductionÂ-Renewable Energy Head-to-HeÂad with Nuclear for Clean Energy ProductionÂ.[Last … Continue reading →
- Sen. Ben Nelson is 2010 Porker of the Year!
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 8:00 AM, Tom Schatz, President, Citizens Against Government Waste wrote: Dear Scotts Contracting, The results are in! Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) is the âwinnerâ of CAGWâs online poll for 2010 Porker of the … Continue reading →
- Redrawing the Map: the Balkanization of Pakistan
If Pakistan is an Ally, Why Are We Trying to Break Up Their Country? After ten years of fighting unwinnable wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, many Americans recognize that the wars in the Middle East are really about oil and natural gas, rather than terrorism. Bush’s decision to invade A ...
- Our CIA “Freedom Fighters” in Pa ...
The CIA’s use of mercenaries to fight covert wars is an essential component of US foreign policy as old as the CIA itself. It effectively evades the Constitutional requirement that only allows Congress to declare war, as well as effectively concealing the vast majority of these “interventions” f ...
- The Way Forward: Join Something!
While the massive protests in state capitals last week are a great start, Americans still have a long way to go to achieve an Egyptian-style revolution that will restore working democracy in the US. To begin with, American workers need to be better organized. There’s no question that Mubarak’s d ...
- Overcoming Pro-Corporate Messaging
From www.adbusters.org My last blog was about the five memes or psychological messages that discourage Americans from joining with co-workers, neighbors and other community members to fight the business and corporate interests that negatively impact so many aspects of our lives. These paralyzing ...
- Thinking Like Egyptians
It’s extremely heartening to see Americans’ fascination with the popular uprisings in the Middle East, as well as speculation across the blogosphere about the potential to replicate them in the US. Massive turnout in Madison and other state capitals is very promising, as American workers realiz ...
- “The solid human waste matter intersects ...
The post title, my old friend Ralph Johnson came up with that in high school, it never caught on. At least I think he did, memory is a fuzzy thing, it’s a story we tell ourselves more than anything. Ralph also went around for a year saying “devastating” hoping it would catch on, but alas, [...]
- The Power of Prayer
“When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.” Various random thoughts on God, atheism, and related topics. What can I say, I gave up my agnostic ways a few weeks back, and [...]
- Charlie Sheen, dead hostages, protesters on a ...
So I’m walking home from work Thursday afternoon, and there are helicopters circling downtown Berkeley. I’m like, what’s up? I turn on the TV news, and yes, protesters have chained themselves onto a ledge on a building on campus. And I suspect the typical response most people would have, is some ...
- “How is the world ruled and led to war? ...
The Arab Awakening continues. German tanks roll across Poland. Life goes on in America as if nothing is happening, as if the events unfolding in the Middle East are no more inconvenience than a brief rise in gas prices and a few images of demonstrators on TV. I mean, most Americans couldn’t find ...
- Gaddafi vows to die a martyr, I for one hope h ...
And by the way, we’re all so screwed by what’s going on now. I should be at work but I just need to keep watching the news and following developments in Libya and elsewhere. Well, mostly reading stuff on line, watching the broadcast news is pretty annoying but I do so for the images they [...]
- Economic Musings VI: Modern Economies – ...
There is a great debate in the history of economics whether there can be under-consumption in any real historic moment of the state of an economy and if so, whether it has detrimental effects and if so, what is to be done about it. And modern economists seem to have found a magic wand with [...]
- Blogs and Web Sites you may want to follow
The following is a list of blogs and websites that CrisisMaven has followed and observed over the last few months and that readers may want to check out from time to time. Note: neither the sequence of how the blogs are listed here nor any comments by CrisisMaven are an endorsement nor criticism ...
- Economic Musings VII: Marketing doesn’t ...
Have you ever wondered if marketing and advertising are the same, if not, what’s the difference and which is the more important of the two? And why should you care? The most successful economic model is without doubt the market economy. It is the consequence of the wealth effects of the division ...
- CrisisMaven’s Blog News 2010-03-07: Over 25,00 ...
Yesterday around 16:37 GMT we passed the 25,000 threshold … - next report will probably be posted when we’re past the 50,000 mark. Thanks to all avid readers: on 2010-03-18 at around 19:25 GMT we went past our first 20,000 views on our blog in about eight weeks since we began publishing! After t ...
- Economic Musings VIII: Is there a limit to eco ...
Something which puzzles many thinkers and frightens many young people concerned about waste or the pillaging of our natural resources is the question: can “an economy” (whatever that is – we’ll come to that in a minute) grow indefinitely? How can there be unlimited economic growth if we’ve never ...
- Stock buybacks are bad for investors: Further ...
In the working paper “The Buyback Monitor - July 2009: Corporate Stock Buyback Profits of 273 Firms from 2000 into 2009“, published on the Social Sciences Research Network, M.A. Gumport, CFA, provides further evidence that stock buybacks are not as good for investors as often touted. The follo ...
- Why Obama’s healthcare scheme portends stagfl ...
The trillion-dollar Obama health care plan increases the odds that US economic recover will be delayed, and that unemployment and inflation will increase. The main thrust of the Obama plan is to increase taxes on individuals earning more than $250,000 a year, while forcing all but the tiniest ...
- How long would it take to work off the US trad ...
The rest of the world holds $16.8 trillion in US financial assets, according to Federal Reserve release Z.1, as of Q1 2009. [...]
- Why Bernanke’s flawed “exit strategy” policy p ...
In a lead op-ed editorial in the Wall Street Journal on July 21, 2009, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke revealed the Fed’s exit strategy with regards to the inflationary effects of the Obama “spending is stimulus” packages and other government measure to contain the current crisis. This ar ...
- Stocks surge on spurious earnings reports: Q2 2009
No one knows for sure the real earnings of American corporations. In Q1 2009, according to the Federal Reserve flow of funds table F.102, after-tax profits of US non-financial, non-farm corporations, on an annual basis, were about $589.9 billion. However, about 50% of these after-tax earnings ...
- What You Aren’t Being Told About Ethanol and C ...
Join the forum discussion on this post Good Ideas Gone Bad History is littered with examples of ideas that seemed to be good for a while, but were later discovered to have unpleasant consequences. The pharmaceutical industry is full of cases of promising drugs that went through testing, receiv ...
- Electric Aviation is the Future of Transport
Join the forum discussion on this post During an average week, I will see a few ideas that at first glance appear to be a little crazy. On second glance, some of them still seem crazy, but then some of the seemingly crazy ideas are not as crazy as I initially thought. This essay is [...]
- Setting the Record Straight on Cello Energy an ...
Join the forum discussion on this post The Art of Spin Politicians are known for their ability to spin any situation to make sure it doesn’t present them in an unfavorable light. In that vein, I’m beginning to feel as if Vinod Khosla would make a fine politician. As much as I am tired of writi ...
- The Failure of U.S. Politicians to Open Electr ...
Join the forum discussion on this post The following guest post was written by Mike Holly, who is the Chairman of Sorgo Fuels in Crosslake, Minnesota. Sorgo is a company involved in the production of energy from sweet sorghum, and Mike can be contacted at smikeholly “at” gmail.com. In his artic ...
- Oil Back at $100
Join the forum discussion on this post I am between flights and have been traveling for a few days, but wanted to get off a quickie on current oil prices. In hindsight, perhaps I was not aggressive enough with my predictions for 2011. My predictions covered two themes: Next generation biofuel ...
- hmstateproject - home
Comments:Elementary student project connecting all 50 states with students in Milwaukee, Wisconsin via @imcguy. - Dean MantzTags: collaboration, geography, socialstudies, hmstateproject, wiki, states, projects, imcguyby: Dean Mantz
- Technology and teachers change inner-city scho ...
Tags: education, teachers, Technologyby: Dean Mantz
- iOS Apps for Productivity and Fun (iPad, iPhon ...
Tags: apps, ipad, ipod, ios, iphone, itouch, wfryerby: Dean Mantz
- TwitDoc.com - the EASY way to share your docum ...
Tags: twitdoc, Scribd, Glogster, lessonplanby: Dean Mantz
- [video] Anime di argilla
Comments:La riserva naturale regionale dei Calanchi di Montalbano Jonico (Mt) raccontata in un viaggio nell’area protetta recentemente istituita, dopo una lunga attesa. - OLA ChannelTags: basilicata, calanchi, riserva, montalbano, jonico, ambiente, environment, parksby: OLA Channel
- Be As Happy as Hawaii, Wherever You Live
RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—For the second year in a row, Hawaii has been dubbed the happiest place to live in the United States, perhaps not surprisingly. The Aloha State grabbed the top spot on the most recent state-by-state ranking conducted by the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, a "Dow Inde ...
- How to Make Sure Your Baby’s Crib Is Safe for ...
RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—In a perfect world, the only concern parents would have about getting their baby to sleep would be which lullaby to sing. But recent crib recalls have heightened the public’s awareness of the need to hold crib manufacturers to higher standards. Now, a new study conducted ...
- Rodale.com Earthworm Drain Cleaner Sweepstakes ...
NO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT OF ANY KIND IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED. A purchase or payment will not improve your chances of winning. read more
- All Plastics Are Bad for Your Body, New Study ...
RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—It used to be that people who just couldn't break the plastic habit to go plastic-free could at least rely on certain types of plastics, usually those labeled #2, #4, or #5 in the triangle of arrows on the bottom, because those plastics weren't made using bisphenol A or ...
- Organic Farming Threatened by Budget Cuts
RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—In its sweeping proposal of budget cuts of upwards of $60 billion, the House of Representatives has proposed everything from cutting funding to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to eliminating compostable forks from the congressional cafeteria. It's obvious that t ...
- Sarah (Palin) We Hardly Knew You
This New Republic author shares with us abundant�evidence that Republican leaders of various kinds have turned on Sarah Palin.� It's true enough that many were seduced by the promise of a�fresh face with a fascinating personal story, a big family,�religious faith, and a cool "First Dude."� ...
- The Factories of Tomorrow
The conventional wisdom is that American manufacturing jobs, once lost to low-wage locales around the globe, will never again return to the U.S. What that fails to take into account is a revolution in manufacturing that is being brought about by new 3D printing technologies that make it poss ...
- Identity Theft: Seeing or Not Seeing Gender in Art
One of my favorite minor masterpieces in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art is Young Woman Drawing (1801) by French master Jacques-Louis David. Or at least it was long thought to be by David. In the 1950s, experts believed that Constance Marie Charpentier, one of David’s wome ...
- READING: Thomas Aquinas, and Tiger Mothers
While reading about the relationship between Thomas Aquinas and insider trading allegations, it occurred to us that the evolution of thinking about any classic crime has an almost-classic arc: deplore; examine; philosophize. Was what the Tiger Mother wrought a crime? She was richly deplored. And ...
- By Your Friends We Shall Know You Tony Blair
When I first met Tony Blair in 1993 at his house in Islington in North London, I was struck by two things. First, the man who had just recently become leader of the UK Labour Party was disarmingly engaging. Secondly, the man who was to go on to become Britain’s Prime Minister, and arguably the . ...
- The Socialism of Agri-Patents
I'm watching the movie Unknown, which is about what happens when a man's identity is stripped away while in a foreign country. Without a passport or any other proof of identity, he is left to wander and then turn to a battle for recapturing who he is...
- Dick Morris calls Ron Paul "horrific," advocat ...
Unbelievable, Dick Morris hangs up on Peter Schiff after Peter dares to question his profuse idiocy....
- The Cannibalization of Charlie Sheen
Conventional wisdom tells us that the rich and famous have it easy, that they get away with murder, that they can buy and charm their way out of all the social traps the rest of us face. But in fact, people love to see a fall from grace, and the...
- New Footage: WTC Attack September 11, 2001 fro ...
WTC Attack September 11, 2001 from New York Police Helicopter Video obtained by FOIA to NIST by an anonymous person who directed it be sent to Cryptome. Excerpt of the NIST letter. Quote: These electronic files image were provided to NIST by ...
- Scott Horton Interviews Will Grigg on Antiwar ...
MP3 here. (18:21) Will Grigg, blogger and author of Liberty in Eclipse, discusses the *Red State Fascist* camaraderie protest against Muslims in Yorba Linda, CA; why Sharia law and the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition are equally likely to supplant th...
- What Are Rights?
Itâs pretty much impossible these days to switch on the TV, radio or internet without hearing someone or other speaking of rights. âI have a right!â, âItâs my right…â, âMy rights have been violated!â Typically, claims of rights take the … Continue reading →
- The Gates Re-open…
…and youâve all been issued with a golden ticket. The few weeksâ closure I announced last November have turned into a few months. Sorry about that. But the break, apart from allowing me to clear a very large backlog of … Continue reading →
- Ozboy’s Bar And Grill Is Closed For Repairs
It’s only temporary. A couple of weeks. But the recent shenanigans round here have forced me to do some thinking about how LibertyGibbert can run better in the future. I’ve spoken to a couple of you about this today, to … Continue reading →
- The Dragon’s Dissent Part III: Naked Nat ...
The emergence of China as the world’s new superpower has raised many questions in the international community and across the blogosphere regarding the longer-range agenda of the Middle Kingdom. In a recent discussion on this forum, the question of Chinese … Continue reading →
- U.S. Elections: Will Liberty Win?
Well today’s the day. As just about every other blog in the sphere is covering the elections today, I thought I’d throw the forum open, and we can discuss the results as they come in, in real time. If as … Continue reading →
- The Endangered Elements Song
Yesterday, I mentioned the rather serious issue of periodic threats, materials security, and dwindling elemental resources. I rather flippantly suggested that someone ought to do a cover version of the classic Tom Lehrer song, The Elements, which is sung to the tune of Gilbert & Sullivan‘s I am ...
- 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 ...
- The Carbon Plan (UK)
United Kingdom Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) http://www.decc.gov.uk/ The Carbon Plan: Is being initially published in draft, ahead of a final version in the Autumn – to be updated annually. This will allow the final live version to take account of the fourth carbon budget to be ...
- On-Farm Renewable Energy Production Survey (2009)
2007 Census of Agriculture (Volume 3 ⢠Special Studies ⢠Part 6; AC-07-SS-6) http://www.agcensus.usda.gov/Publications/2007/Online_Highlights/On-Farm_Energy_Production/energy09.pdf The number of solar panels, wind turbines and methane digesters on America’s farms and ranches has increased si ...
- Renewable Energy in America: Markets, Economic ...
American Council on Renewable Energy http://www.acore.org/files/pdfs/states/reamerica_mar11.pdf [Press Release] The report shows that in 2010, the total installed base of new renewable electricity exceeded 50 GW in the United States. Texas, California, and Iowa led in renewable energy generation ...
- Public Attitudes Towards Energy Efficiency and ...
Consumer Federation of America / by Mark Cooper http://www.consumerfed.org/pdfs/CFA-Appliance-Efficiency-Report-3-11.pdf [From Executive Summary] The data revealed the following: Nearly all Americans (95%) think it “beneficial for appliances like refrigerators, clothes washers, and air condition ...
- Europe Energy Efficiency Plan 2011
European Commission http://tinyurl.com/4zox6vp [From Introduction] Energy efficiency is at the heart of the EU’s Europe 2020 Strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth and of the transition to a resource efficient economy. Energy efficiency is one of the most cost effective ways to enh ...
- 2011 Lemelson--M.I.T. Student Inventor Prizes ...
The Lemelson–M.I.T. Program recognized four student inventors Wednesday poised to make a profound impact in the areas of disease diagnostics, drug development, assistive devices such as wheelchairs, and security screening for explosives. Each of the winners--from the California Institute of Tech ...
- String Query: Physicists Prove to Be of Many M ...
NEW YORK CITY--Amid a panel discussion about string theory and other candidates for the theory of everything--the long-sought system that would unify the four forces of physics--Brian Greene said something that sounded a bit curious. "If you asked me, 'Do I believe in string theory?'" began Gree ...
- County-Level "Diabetes Belt" Carves a Swath th ...
More than 18 million people in the U.S. have been diagnosed with diabetes , which costs an estimated $174 billion annually. Typically, local public health agencies carry out the initiatives to manage and prevent this chronic disease, but because prevalence figures are generally given on nationa ...
- Earthbound: Potential Suitors Await News on Sp ...
After 26 years, 230 million kilometers, and a combined year in orbit, space shuttle Discovery is headed home one last time. The oldest, most utilized shuttle in NASA's fleet is inbound from its final visit to the International Space Station and is scheduled to touch down at Kennedy Space Cente ...
- Raze of Glory: NASA Earth-Observing Climate Sa ...
In the last few years NASA has built and launched two world-class climate satellites, both of which promised invaluable new data on the natural and human influences on Earth's changing climate. Neither of them, however, will ever deliver the data that climate scientists so eagerly expected from ...
- The Greenspan Version of "Free Market"
For the Center for a Stateless Society, I wrote: The related falsehoods — that Republicans favor anything remotely similar to a free market and that Democrats are all that standing between us and the GOP’s dog-eat-dog version of laissez faire — are belied by the fact that, as articulated by Kevi ...
- Contaminants of the Corporate State
For the Center for a Stateless Society, I take on Texaco as a useful example of the corporate malfeasance generated by the state: Responsibility and stewardship won't — indeed can't — result from a system where a tiny elite controlling huge hoards of resources doesn't have to literally pay for i ...
- Organized Crime Fights Organized Crime?
At the Center for a Stateless Society, I write: The rudiment of anarchism's canon "no masters," its starting point, is an unambiguous attention to basic and widely-accepted moral values, not an involved, scholarly rationale but an affirmation of principles that almost all of us adhere to anyway. ...
- The Revolving-Door Polity of Corporatism
In a C4SS commentary regarding the appointment of Jeffrey Immelt to the Economic Recovery Advisory Board, I write: And regardless of the sound bites they direct at the public, politicians and CEOs understand full well that the myth is just that, a handy piece of rhetoric intended to obfuscate wh ...
- The Pretense of "Austerity"
For C4SS, I write: The truth of state capitalism, though, is that it harnesses and exploits the labor and aptitude of the many to fatten a parasitic few. Working people lay the foundational infrastructure of state-capitalism, allowing its top-heavy imbalances to carry on in the face of counterva ...
- IWD takes to the streets in Montreal
On March 8th, nearly 500 people - mostly women - took to the streets of Montreal to mark the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day. While there was a clear focus on the rights of women in Montreal� - including the ongoing fight against cuts to social services, sexism in advertising, and ...
- Info-Graphic: Parts Per Billion: Big Oil gets ...
In early March 2011, the federal government of Canada announced that it would be cutting over $10 billion dollars in spending in the upcoming 2011 annual budget. This includes massive cuts to environmental monitoring bodies like Environment Canada and Natural Resources Canada. Also included in ...
- 100th International Women's Day
200 people march down Commercial Drive in Vancouver on the 100th International Womens Day March on unceded coast salish territory/Vancouver. Women, men, girls, babies and ...
- Toronto Campus Confronts Mining Giant
Barrick Gold and the Munk Out of U of T Campaign Peter Munk is the founder and Chairman of Barrick Gold, the largest pure gold mining corporation in the world. The company is based in Toronto with mining operations spread globally. Munk re ...
- 'A Tommy Douglas Moment' for Pensions
Labour groups and other Haligonians organizing to expand CPP On March 2, a community assembly was held to strategize on methods to pressure the federal government to expand Canada Pension Plan (CPP) benefits. “The CPP is one of the great ...
- Arab Spring is 1989? Whose 1989?
Barack ObamachevIn the last decade, America has tried applying our individualistic narrative to the Middle East. Now, as the people in multiple countries there struggle to take greater control for themselves, we want to see our story play out in their efforts, and we worry that it won't. Sheena ...
- What the hell is Rupert Murdoch up to?
"Der Antisemitismus ist der Sozialismus der dummen Kerle" "Antisemitism is the socialism of fools" August Bebel David Seaton's News LinksI am coming to the conclusion that something very strange is going on.� I come to that conclusion merely starting from the simple premise ...
- America: only one revolution to a customer
David Seaton's News LinksWhy is it that when you study the graph above and then read the quotes below, the graph seems so real and the quotes seem some sort of political science fiction, verging from the absurd and childish to the puzzled or even hopeless?�What you are looking at in Tunisia, in ...
- The unbearable levity of Wikileaks and the rig ...
David Seaton's News LinksI received the following comment on my last post:So previously, you did not think that globalization and instant communication tools were radiically changing the world?� It wasn't until wikileaks that you realized this was happening? Helloooo?�� To which I am tempted t ...
- Globalization and its discontents: a new paradigm
I have an "impossibility theorem" for the global economy (...). It says that democracy, national sovereignty and global economic integration are mutually incompatible: we can combine any two of the three, but never have all three simultaneously and in full.� Dani Rodrik - Kennedy School Harv ...
- EPA to require tap water tests for unregulated ...
Contact: EWG public affairs 202.667.6982 The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed a nationwide plan to require water utilities to test drinking water for 28 contaminants currently unregulated by federal law, including six... [[ This is a content summary only. Vis ...
- New Map Reveals Hot Spots in Emerging Global F ...
Contact: Patricia Brooks, 202-351-1757, patricia@matchmapmedia.com, Donald Carr, 202-939-9141, don@ewg.org Washington, DC – Volatile food markets and food insecurity contributed to the civic unrest that recently brought down... [[ This is a content summary only. Visi ...
- Seasoned Capitol Hill Reporter Joins EWG Publ ...
Contact: Contact EWG Public Affairs 202-667-6982 Washington, D.C. – The Environmental Working Group is pleased to announce the arrival of Sara Sciammacco as the newest member of its public affairs team as a press secretary. She comes to... [[ This is a content summar ...
- EWG Fans More Than One Million Strong
Contact: EWG public affairs 202.667.6982 Washington, D.C. – Since 2006, Environmental Working Group has been building an email list of engaged consumers who sign up to get regular alerts about our latest research and practical tips to... [[ This is a content summary onl ...
- EWG Comments to Dioxin Review Panel
February 24th, 2011 February 23, 2010 Dr. Timothy Buckley, Chair Dioxin Review Panel of the Science Advisory Board Environmental Protection Agency 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W. Washington, DC 20460 Dear Dr. Buckley, These comments are... [[ This is a cont ...
- What Dose of Oral Vitamin D Do You Need to Pre ...
Researchers have found that daily intakes of vitamin D by adults in the range of 4000-8000 IU are needed to maintain blood levels of vitamin D metabolites in the range needed to reduce by about half the risk of breast cancer, colon cancer, multiple sclerosis, and type 1 diabetes. While an Inst ...
- Do the Chemicals That Turn Soda Brown Also Cau ...
Soda is bad for your health. But it may be even worse than you'd thought. According to the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), the "caramel coloring" used in Coke, Pepsi and other sodas is carcinogenic. The artificial brown coloring is made by reacting corn sugar with ammonia and ...
- Frequent Hunger and Sweet Cravings? You May Be ...
David Kirchoff, president of Weight Watchers, the world's largest diet company, recently said on their website: "Calorie counting has become unhelpful. When we have a 100-calorie apple in one hand and a 100-calorie pack of cookies in the other, and we view them as being 'the same' because the ...
- Why Aren't GMO Foods Labeled?
You can avoid sugar, aspartame, trans-fats, or MSG if you're a savvy reader of labels. But if you want to avoid genetically modified organisms (GMO's), it's not so easy. They're not listed on labels. You could buy organic foods, which by law can't contain more than 5 percent GMO's -- but now tha ...
- Men With High Levels of This Have a 4 Times LO ...
Everyday chemicals may be lowering your sperm count, scrambling DNA sperm data, or causing sperm mobility problems.� You might already know that narrow bike seats and antidepressants can cause problems.� MSN lists seven more you might not have heard about: 1. Cash register receipts About 40 ...
- Success: Peru acts to save uncontacted tribes
Global coverage of the newly-released photos has pushed the Peruvian government into action © Gleison Miranda/FUNAI/Survival Peruâs authorities have announced that they will work together with Brazil to stop loggers entering isolated Indiansâ territory along the two countriesâ joint border ...
- Peru admits timber certificates faked in secre ...
A Murunahua man. The Murunahua's reserve is occupied by illegal loggers © Chris Fagan/Upper Amazon Conservancy Peruâs government has secretly admitted that 70-90% of its mahogany exports were illegally felled, according to a US embassy cable revealed by Wikileaks. Furthermore, Peruâs gove ...
- Amazon Indians protest in London as judge bloc ...
The Indians are calling for three controversial dam projects in the Amazon to be halted. © M. Cowan/Survival âThese projects will force my people from their land and end our way of life.â Ruth Buendia Mestoquiari, Ashaninka leader. Three Amazon Indians protested in London today against ...
- Indian leader’s killers convicted of kidnappin ...
Guarani Indian leader Marcos Veron © Joaó Ripper/Survival Three men on trial for the murder of Brazilian Indian leader Marcos Veron have been acquitted of homicide, but convicted of kidnapping, torture and criminal conspiracy in relation to his death. They were also acquitted of charges of ...
- Industry bloggers call for mine to make tribal ...
Vedanta's aluminium refinery in Lanjigarh, Odisha, India © Survival In the footsteps of former Survival supporters, such as Peter Cook and Spike Milligen, Michael Palin recently gave a fundraising talk for the organization. He described his visit to the Dongria Kondh tribe in India where a ...
- Shale-gas report offers something for all
Quebec's environmental review agency, the Bureau des audiences publiques sur l'environnement, has rendered a Solomonic judgment in its eagerly awaited report on shale-gas exploitation. There is something in its recommendations for all concerned: the government, the industry, and the environmenta ...
- Editorial: Graffiti and a sad, senseless death
In the annals of senseless crime in this city, the killing of Brian Kachur stands out as a particularly sad case. Sad for the loss of a young life. Sad for his family and friends. Sad even for his killers, whose foolish crime will doubtless haunt them for the rest of their lives. Sad because it ...
- Graffiti and a death both sad and senseless
In the annals of senseless crime in this city, the killing of Brian Kachur stands out as a particularly sad case. Sad for the loss of a young life. Sad for his family and friends. Sad even for his killers, whose foolish crime will doubtless haunt them for the rest of their lives. Sad because it ...
- Integrity commissioner's severance fails smell ...
The federal government has heaped disgrace upon disgrace in its handling of the Christiane Ouimet affair.
- Integrity commissioner's severance fails smell ...
Ouimet is the former public sector integrity commissioner, the first ever appointed and, as scathingly laid out in a report by the federal auditor-general, she was the worst fit possible in the office. The shocking disgrace on top of that is the more than half-million dollars she was paid by the ...
- fda official: "just eat a goddamn vegetable"
from onion news network: During the Daily Briefing, Tucker Hope reports that the FDA is urging Americans to put something green in their dumb mouths.
- in new food culture, a young generation of far ...
oregon farmer "looks more indie rock star than seed farmer" from nytimes: For years, Tyler Jones, a livestock farmer here, avoided telling his grandfather how disillusioned he had become with industrial farming. After all, his grandfather had worked closely with Earl L. Butz, the former feder ...
- bad food makes kids dumber, study says
from grist: A new study says 3-year-olds who mostly eat processed foods have lower IQs five years later. (So Pop-Tarts and Sunny-D are why we're "falling behind" China in math and science?) The study, cited in The Guardian, examined the diets of 14,000 wee Britlets, based on what their parents r ...
- 3/3 binge & purge: poison, polls, paycheck
satire: gerber recalls 60,000 jars of baby poison* poll: do you believe gmo foods should be labeled?* states try to loosen raw milk restrictions as fda tries to tighten them* uk restaurant's breast milk ice cream seized by council officials* whole foods ceo: don't call it 'whole payc ...
- usda admits involvement in south dakota mass b ...
from allgov: The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has assumed responsibility for the deaths of more than 300 birds in Yankton, South Dakota. But the USDA insists it had nothing to do with other mass die-offs of birds recently in Arkansas, Louisiana, Alabama and Kentucky. The South Dakota ...
- 'Religion' will be the Cause of World War III
source: Blitz weekly, February 23, 2011 by Dirgha Raj Prasai When blind people separately feel the organs and limbs of an elephant they come to varying conjectures. Similarly, the Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim and Christian religions are exchanging recriminations for their own persistenc ...
- Our Public Schools Their Mission Field
source: Awaypoint, Feb 4, 2011 The Gospel has been taught freely in public schools all over the world for some time. Now children in the U.S. have that opportunity, too! from the Child Evangelism Fellowship website A fundamentalist Christian organization, Child Evangelism Fe ...
- Caste divide
source: Frontline, Feb 22, 2011 S. DORAIRAJ � � Tensions run high within the Christian community in Thachur village, and the government has adopted a hands-off approach for now. A. MURALITHARAN ...
- 'Eppadium' (Anyhow), the most recent novel of ...
source: Frontline, Feb 22, 2011 WIELDING the pen with power and determination to smash the injustice and discrimination against Dalit Christians and other oppressed masses is part of the priestly duties of Fr Mark Stephen.
- Lessons from Conversion by Burning Temples and ...
Over the last decade, a large number of Buddhist temples in Korea had been destroyed or damaged by fanatically devout Christians. More recently, the Buddha statues, regarded as the devil, were attacked and beheaded in the name of Jesus.
- 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 ...
- British Constitution Group: The day the people ...
Everything I see from the supporters of the British Constitution Group and from those in lawful rebellion under the Magna Carta appears, to me, to be lawful. Do watch this closely... H/T: Whole Truth Coalition
- National 'In Praise of Smugglers' Day
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Yes, this is the story of the Government which changed from a "nanny state" government into... a "nanny state" government - because it's actually the SAME government. Like a puppet on a string, as Sandie Shaw once said. All we did when we chucked La ...
- Quote of the Day: The 'lets all laugh at the r ...
While Boris Johnson is under consideration for our regular 'Quote of the Day' kudos, we couldn't help but make a special edition out of this gem... "The EU won the 2006 and 2010 World Cups in football (at least according to Romani Prodi and Jean-Claude Trichet, so it has to be true). It also ...
- Huge widespread public support for British Con ...
Smile at us, pay us, pass us; but do not quite forget; For we are the people of England, that never have spoken yet. G.K. Chesterton Just returning to an earlier blogpost. We started the day by wondering if history would place the British Constitution Group and those in lawful rebellion (u ...
- To census or not to census, that is the questi ...
So, the dreaded census form arrived on the doormat today. I'm not sure that I want to fill in a form that is so intrusive. The census is fair enough in theory. Those of us whose families have lived on this island for hundreds of years will have found out a great amount of fascinating infor ...
- Florida lawmaker warns North Carolina against ...
A Florida lawmaker recently wrote the governor of North Carolina warning her state against adopting a financing plan for new power plants that turned into a economic disaster for his state's ratepayers. Florida State Sen. Mike Fasano (in photo) -- a conservative, pro-business Republic ...
- Come celebrate 40 years of change in the South!
The Institute is 40 years old -- and we want you to come help us celebrate! On Saturday, March 26 come join us in Durham, North Carolina as we celebrate the Institute's four decades of working for a more just, democratic and sustainable South. The exciting and inspiring Rev. Lennox Yearwood ...
- VOICES: Challenging corporate America's hiring ...
By Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest You would never know it from the preoccupation with budget deficits and the attack on public unions, but there is still a severe jobs crisis in the United States. The focus on the state and federal fiscal situation has deflected attention from what shou ...
- EPA puts off long-promised coal ash protections
Communities imperiled by poorly managed coal ash won't be getting help from the federal government any time soon. The Obama administration announced last week that it would not issue long-awaited federal regulations this year after all. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Li ...
- Life and death on Big Oil's fence line
The environmental destruction caused by Louisiana's oil industry did not begin with the BP disaster, and a visit to the town of Norco 25 miles west of New Orleans powerfully illustrates that reality. Built on land adjacent to the Mississippi River that once supported vast sugar planta ...
- Today’s Terrorism News
Bombings Kill Scores in Pakistan A suicide bomber attacked the funeral procession for an anti-Taliban tribal elderâs wife in northwest Pakistan Wednesday. Early reports on the death toll from the attack differed, but multiple reports said at least 30 people … Continue reading →
- Today’s Terrorism News
Obama Resumes Military Trials at Guantanamo Two years after ordering a halt to new military charges against detainees at Guantanamo, President Obama issued an executive order Monday allowing the resumption of military trials at the prison and put forward a … Continue reading →
- Today’s Terrorism News
Congressional Hearings on Muslim Radicalization to Begin Thursday With a series of House hearings on the radicalization of American Muslims beginning Thursday, the White House moved this weekend to reassure Muslims that it âwill not stigmatize or demonize entire communities … Continue reading →
- Today’s Terrorism News
Two New Jersey Men Plead Guilty to Terror Conspiracy Charges Two New Jersey men pleaded guilty Thursday to felony conspiracy charges related to their attempt to join the terror group al Shabab in Somalia last year. Mohamed Alessa, 21 and … Continue reading →
- Today’s Terrorism News
Germany Investigates Whether Shooting Deaths of 2 U.S. Airmen Are Linked to Terror Two U.S. airmen were shot and killed Wednesday outside Germanyâs Frankfurt Airport by a suspect, now in custody, described in reports as a 21-year-old Kosovo native of … Continue reading →
- What Makes Diaspora Special?
You all must be already aware of open source Facebook alternative called Diaspora. I have been using it for a month now and I am really starting to like it. Now a lot of people ask me what's so special about Diaspora, what makes it different. For that, you need to watch this "introduction to Dia ...
- 15 Very New and Unique Ubuntu Wallpapers
It has been really long since we featured any new collection of wallpapers for Ubuntu or Linux. Article featuring�Ubuntu/Linux wallpaper packs was the last in this particular category and even that was several months ago. So here is it once again, a nice and simple collection of 15 Ubuntu brande ...
- Steve Jobs Introducing Macintosh 24-JAN-1984[V ...
Now, this video is a very special one especially to those who are ardent followers of computers and technology. In this video, Apple Inc.'s co-founder Steve Jobs introduces Macintosh to the world for the very first time on 24 JAN 1984. This event in many ways marked the beginning of PC revolutio ...
- Exaile 0.3.2.1 Released, Install Exaile in Ubu ...
Exaile is a very good music player alternative for Linux. Exaile is nimble and can handle large music collections without any problems. Exaile 0.3.2.1 was released a day ago. Exaile 0.3.2.1 is a bugfix release for version 0.3.2.
- Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal Alpha 3 Review, Scr ...
It hasn't been long since we last reviewed Ubuntu Natty Alpha 2 and now, Ubuntu Natty Alpha 3 is already here. This is yet another milestone in this major build up towards the much anticipated release of Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal final on April 28, 2011. As is expected, latest Ubuntu 11.04 Natt ...
- AUSTRIAN JUSTICE MINISTRY TRIED TO BRING DEFAM ...
- THE AUSTRIAN MINISTRY OF JUSTICE ASKED STATE PROSECUTORS TO BRING CHARGES OF DEFAMATION AGAINST ME IN DECEMBER 2010 - THE CASE HAD TO BE DROPPED IN FEBRUARY BECAUSE I HAD GIVEN SO MUCH PROOF OF THE CORRUPTION OF JUDGE MICHAELA LAUER AND OTHER JUSTICE OFFICIALS - OFFICIAL VIKTOR EGGERT ADMITTE ...
- Is Austria worse than Sudan? My experience wit ...
When I filed charges against Baxter in April 2009 for contaminating 72 kilos of seasonal flu vaccine with the deadly bird flu virus, I had no idea Austrian justice officials were going to turn out to be the extended arm of a criminal network and that I was going to be in danger of losing [...]
- Data shows flu vaccines double risk of getting ...
Vaccines may have increased swine flu risk By Annie Guest From: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/03/04/3155750.htm Updated Fri Mar 4, 2011 7:37pm AEDT There is renewed controversy surrounding influenza vaccines, with some studies showing people immunised against the seasonal flu might hav ...
- German defence minister Guttenberg to face cri ...
Prosecutors to investigate plagiarism charges against ex-minister Mar 3, 2011, 15:28 GMT Berlin – German prosecutors are to conduct a formal investigation into plagiarism allegations against former defence minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, they announced Thursday. Earlier in the day, Guttenbe ...
- New Irish government betrays every election pr ...
Voter betrayal: FG/Labour to ditch pledges on economy They will brazenly follow Fianna Fail’s four-year austerity plan as Labour protects public sector By JODY CORCORAN Sunday March 06 2011 The Fine Gael/Labour coalition Government is to implement in detail the outgoing Government’s four-year au ...
- Digging Yourself in and Digging Yourself Out
By Les Visible Earth is a training ground for souls. In order to live in the higher kingdoms of being you need certain built in qualities or you can’t enter. It’s like any club, where you need a membership and where the membership is based on something like; degree of wealth, political contacts, ...
- After 20 years, nearly everyone still wants GM ...
Rady Ananda, Contributing Writer At this MSNBC poll, over 40,000 people have voted strongly in favor of labeling genetically modified foods: 96% of all respondents. But, a review of several polls going back to 1994 reveals that the numbers have always been high — the vast majority of people have ...
- Secret FBI, CIA Documents and Sex Video Tapes ...
By Jesus Diaz This mountain of shredded paper taking over several rooms was found inside the Egyptian Secret Police’s headquarters in Cairo last Saturday. About 2,500 angry demonstrators invaded the building in what Egyptians are now calling their Bastille Day, finding documents and tapes that m ...
- Whole Foods – Major Betrayal of Organic ...
by Dr. Mercola Organic consumers and producers in the U.S. are facing betrayal. A self-appointed group of “Organic Elites”, including Whole Foods Market, Organic Valley, and Stonyfield Farm, are surrendering to Monsanto. Top executives from these companies publicly stated several weeks ago that ...
- 2012 Doom ain’t what it used to be
In spite of the title, 2012 is still ALL about catastrophe, and cataclysm. To reach any other conclusion is to not be aware of manifesting circumstances. These include the many features of the planet that show scarring from past catastrophe as well as the amnesiac nature of our own species and t ...
- 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 ...
- The Anthrax Letters
Without the anthrax letter attacks in September-October 2001 it's quite possible — indeed, likely — that the Patriot Act would not have become law. Coincidence, or conspiracy? I've always been skeptical of the "lone nut" theory because, it seems to me, once an individual had started sending ant ...
- A Dialectical Moment in Madison?
The U.S. plutocracy won't feel safe until it's crushed all resistance. Case in point, the organized way the plutocrats set their sights on Wisconsin — the birthplace of public sector unions — hoping that Scott Walker, the newly elected Republican Governor, would show the rest of the country how ...
- The Truth About Taxes
In the economics profession, a "Harberger's triangle" shows the "deadweight loss" to society from taxes, the net loss, that is, from the optimum "free-market" equilibrium. It's a great, great theory if you're a math whiz. And virtually all neoclassical and neoliberal economists believe it's tru ...
- Chili's Campaign in the Buckeye State
Voters in Ohio's second congressional district have a real choice: the Democrat, Surya "Chili" Yalamanchili, wants to create jobs and is on the side of the workers, while his opponent, incumbent Republican Jean Schmidt, apparently has no policy views whatsoever except unconditional support for ...
- Plato's Secret
The Gods on Mount Olympus don't rule the world. Science does. But Plato couldn't say that in ancient Greece without a good chance of being put to death. So Plato did a sensible thing: he hid his secret, using musical codes, inside his already magnificent philosophical construction, a philosophy ...
- Water, Water, Water — Libya’s Hidd ...
Friday, March 4, 2011 Virtually unknown in the West: Libya’s water resources A. PEASANT at twelfthbough.blogspot.com We still wonder how on earth did Gaddafi manage to stay in power for forty years? Did no one notice his madness until now? Did no one notice that he built a HUGE FRESH WATER PIP ...
- Liberty Coins? It’s Either Liberty or L ...
Friends: We should be watching this one very closely!! I would hope that reason and JUSTICE prevails here. It should be self-evident, (that is if we yet are governed by constitutional principles) that PEOPLE have the inherent right to barter and exchange goods and services between themselves ...
- Closing Olympic Ceremony – Beijing China ...
Ok, all you sleeping Sheeple!!  Still think there is not an evil, anti-Christian Illuminati-based conspiracy afoot? Then check this video out immediately, (and share it widely). Disclose.tv – London 2012 7/7 Olympics Sacrifice Ritual Video Just in case you don’t remember, allow me to jog yo ...
- 5 Proposals to Combat ‘Global Warming’ That Sh ...
5 Proposals to Combat ‘Global Warming’ That Should Make Us All Cringe Eric Blair March 1, 2011 Taxing the air we exhale, rationing human necessities, a global one-child policy, geoengineering (high-altitude chemical spraying), and now nuclear war have all been proposed to combat global warming. ...
- A Study in Hypocrisy and Dichotomy – BYU ...
By:Â A. True Ott, PhD Brigham Young University is today under the national spotlight, and this time no amount of “spin doctoring” by ex-BYU Cougar/Boston Celtic great (and LDS Bishop) Danny Ainge, and the PR department of the LDS Church “Brethren” in Salt Lake City will be able to obfuscate the ...
- 1800Flowers Fixes Balloon Mixup, Sends Refund ...
Chad ordered flowers for his fiancee's birthday from 1800Flowers.com, and they included the wrong balloon with her order, making Chad look insensitive in front of her family. That's annoying. But don't clear a space in the Garden of Discontent just yet, because a quick call to the company got C ...
- Wireless Industry Group Says All Those Overage ...
There has been a lot of talk in recent years about cellphone bill shock and overages and what can be done to stop it. Now comes a new study by a wireless industry trade group that claims consumers are actually saving money because of all these overage. "Most consumers who exceed their current ...
- Consumerist On Bloomberg: Revenge Of The TSA
Catch Ben Popken on "Taking Stock with Pimm Fox" tonight on Bloomberg TV. He'll be talking about the TSA asking for a cut of bag check fees, as well as the recent decision to uphold a $311,000 verdict against a debt collector. Tune in to Bloomberg TV, or watch online at Bloomberg.com/tv, at 5:4 ...
- At UPS, 'Improper Packaging' Means 'Someone Cu ...
Michelle sold her engagement ring to a friend, and shipped it from a UPS Store in the Midwest. The ring was valuable, so she purchased $200 worth of shipping insurance on the ring and sent it on its way to New England. When the box arrived, it had been cut open and the ring removed. Michelle's ...
- Texas Pols Want To Outlaw Full-Body Scans & Pa ...
Politicians in the Texas state legislature have authored a pair of bills they hope would keep the TSA from using full-body scanners and enhanced pat-downs at airports in the Lone Star State. From the Star-Telegram: One of the bills would ban "body imaging scanning equipment" from being instal ...
- Development Agencies Fail to Take On Corruptio ...
Canadian Press: Darling of Development World, Stung by Corruption Problems, Says Others in Worse Shape The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria – a $21.7 billion health fund backed by prominent celebrities – is responding to allegations that the fund has lost up to $34 millio ...
- Feds Subpoena Lawyer in CIA Leak Case: Whistle ...
St. Louis Beacon: Feds Take Unusual Step of Subpoenaing Sterling's Lawyer The lawyer representing Jeffrey Sterling – the former CIA officer charged with leaking national security secrets to the press – was subpoenaed to appear before a grand jury in order to discuss Sterling’s case. Fed ...
- Teresa Chambers Case Highlights Limitations of ...
Last week, the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) ordered the National Park Service to reinstate whistleblower Teresa Chambers as Chief of the U.S. Park Police, as well as to reimburse her for back pay and legal costs. Her case garnered national attention when she was removed by the Bush ...
- Orange County Register: Which Mystery Senator ...
By Wikimedia user Markus Schweiss Orange County Register: Which Mystery Senator Killed Whistleblower Bill? This article details how the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA) – a bill that would have strengthened protections for federal employees – was killed by one senator’s d ...
- Justice Department Leakers of Classified Info. ...
Three months ago, journalist Michael Isikoff noted the disturbing "Double Standard" in White House Leak Inquiries. But now it's not just the Executive Branch. Josh Gerstein of Politico just published an article on how a judge ruled that the Justice Department can keep secret names of its own ...
- Growing Up Union – Wisconsin as Tipping Point
The line’s been crossed. Will America’s working sheep bleat in outrage on Twitter or take real action? Brainwashed by FOX, the Republican Party, American Crossroads, Karl Rove and the Koch Brothers into voting for ‘change,’ can they now see the endgame and fight for their rights? Or will they si ...
- Maddow vs. Megyn – Snarky FOX News Actress Hoi ...
The Rachel Maddow Show at 9:00 pm is the only remaining must-see show on MSNBC since Keith Olbermann quit to join Current TV. There was a segment last evening highlighting the string of Republican gaffes/failures but none as jaw-dropping as this self-promotional tweet disrespectful to a woman be ...
- Book Review: Larry David Never Picks Up Hitchh ...
Anyone who knows the hyper-nervous star of Curb Your Enthusiasm and creator of Seinfeld will attest to that. Paul Samuel Dolman was vacationing on Martha’s Vineyard when, on South Road, he stuck out his thumb looking for a ride. A car slowed and inside, the driver, the iconic curmudgeon Larry Da ...
- Why the Democrats Should Never Have Started Pa ...
It’s called ransom. That’s what Republicans are demanding from the White House and congressional Democrats for not pulling the plug on the government. Problem is, when you pay ransom once, you’re almost begging to pay it again. And that’s exactly the pickle the Obama administration is finding it ...
- The Power Fossil Fuel Industries Have Over Pub ...
The fossil fuel industry uses their power to control public health and safety agencies even as documented health issues continue to surface. The gas industry has began a powerful assault against anyone who speaks out on the dangers of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) and the threat to public heal ...
- The ABC notices the anti-carbon tax rage
Lateline reports on the rising anger among Australians on the carbon tax issue. Though as usual, it does’t actually spend a lot of time talking to the people who understand what drives this movement. Instead the reporter, John Stewart, tries to link it to the Tea Party (but only because presum ...
- The Big Scare Campaign looks set to claim anot ...
It made my day. The front page of The Australian: Record Labor low on Carbon Fury. Julia Gillards message is finally getting though and the voters are sitting up and paying attention. Where previously, they said “I like the idea of being good global citizens”, the question has changed:Â now no ...
- The Silent Giant Coal Monster
Greg Combet (our Minister for keeping-the-weather-the-same) can keep a straight face when he tells coal miners that their jobs are protected with him. You might think that’s insane, (especially if you are Green) but he has a point. Even if carbon mattered, our coal exports do not. (Not that Comb ...
- Unthreaded
I’ll be away for a week with the family resting on warm beaches, near wandering rivers and spectacular gorges. I’ll be thinking of you. (Actually, I won’t be completely gone, though I may be beyond mobile range, and in uncharted non-NBN territory, there will still be some guest posts thanks to t ...
- Australian politics churning
Things are hotting up in politics downunder. The immovable force meets the polls. Twenty years of PR catches up on the PM who didn’t do her homework. As Tim Blair says:Â It’s a meltdown, Labor is seething. Bring Your PopCorn. “There is evidence the public’s general confidence is being shaken by ...
- GOP leaders back hearings on Muslims
(Washington Times) - Saying extremist elements of Islam are a real threat that need to be confronted, House Republican leaders on Tuesday defended the Homeland Security Committee chairman's decision to begin hearings this week to investigate the inroads radical Muslims have made in America...
- Sen. Inhofe: Obama trying to kill oil and gas, ...
(NewsMax) - Sen. Jim Inhofe tells Newsmax that the Obama administration is "trying to kill oil and gas" by refusing to allow the United States to exploit its abundant natural resources in an effort to drive the country toward green energy...
- Obama's green-jobs fantasies
(John Stossel) - Anyone who understands basic economics already knows that President Obama's $2.3 billion green-jobs initiative was snake oil. Now, thanks to Kenneth P. Green, we have statistics as well as theory to prove it...
- Tapping the reserve
(John Hayward) - If you've been to the gas station recently... well, I'd better give you a moment to sit down and recover from the shock. Take a few deep breaths. Go to your happy place. As I was saying, if you've been to the gas station recently, you've noticed prices at the pump are skyrocketi ...
- King charges the Saracens
(Washington Times) - The White House and left-wing activists are vigorously opposing congressional hearings on homegrown Islamic radicalism. Apparently they don't think there's a threat, or that if the government ignores it, danger will go away. Rep. Peter King, New York Republican and chairman ...
- Truth Offering Podcast with Matt Gordon - Feb. ...
Good friend of TruthOffering.com and �ber (yeah, I said "�ber!) talented musician, Chris Phenom, is back to chat with Matt Gordon. �This week's topics range from WikiLeaks, peak oil, and Agenda 21, to genetically modified foods, geoengineering (chemtrails), Libertarianism, and the question of th ...
- Original Music Created for TruthOffering.com b ...
Talented singer and musician Chris Phenom has created two tracks for TruthOffering.com, and we want to share them with you. Chris's tracks feature some amazing lyrics that relate directly to what we're trying to get at here at TruthOffering.com: the Truth! Listen to what he has to say, and check ...
- Levi's: All-American or Neo-Communist
It seems that everywhere I go recently, I see these massive Levi's billboards along the side of the road. At first, I thought nothing of them. After all, they're just billboards, right? Plus Levi's is an all-American company, right? Visually, these ads are quite striking; mostly black and white, ...
- US Falls In Level of Overall Economic Freedom ...
The Heritage Foundation just released its annual Economic Freedom List. The list "measures ten components of economic freedom, assigning a grade in each using a scale from 0 to 100, where 100 represents the maximum freedom. The ten component scores are then averaged to give an overall economic f ...
- Did J.P. Morgan Sink the Titanic!?
1st Row: JP Morgan, Joseph Bruce Ismay, John Jacob Astor and Benjamin Guggenheim. 2nd Row: The Federal Reserve and the TitanicAs youngsters, we're all told the infamous story of the Titanic, the supposedly indestructible ship that sunk on its maiden voyage. We're all familiar with the story: the ...
- Zahi Hawass Quits?
On his blog, Dr Zahi Hawass explains why he has resigned from his position of Minister of State for Antiquities Affairs. While there are suggestions and rumours that he was asked to leave, Hawass says it is because he no longer trusts some of his colleagues in light of recent thefts/lootings: Th ...
- Meteoroid Tracking / New 2012 Drink / Missing ...
NASA is installing a network of smart cameras across the USA to track fireballs and meteoroids. Soon there will be 15, and then they plan to expand nationwide. These cameras are automated and linked together so that they can triangulate paths and orbits. If NASA was expecting an influx of fireba ...
- Laacher See & Christchurch Volcanoes
Might be nothing, but the Laacher See volcano in Germany erupted around the time of (perhaps) the last global cataclysm – roughly 12,900 years ago. While scientists say it wasn’t responsible for much back then, The Laacher eruption coincides with the onset of the abrupt Younger Dryas re-glaciat ...
- 35377 People Have Voted… Nothing Wins
Since October 2006 I have been running a poll at Survive 2012, and with 35377 votes I think we have an accurate reflection of what visitors to my site think will happen in 2012: Nothing wins, with just over 56% of the vote. I was surprised that TEOTWAWKI came in second, and that aliens beat [... ...
- 10 LHC Consequences / NASA Budget / Planet (X) ...
I was quite OK with the LHC when experts explained that cosmic rays cause the creation of harmless mini-black holes in our atmosphere all the time. Now I don’t know what to think! Otto Rössler is the professor who sued and failed in his attempt to halt the Large Hadron Collidor. Over at Lifeboa ...
- Florida lawmaker warns North Carolina against ...
A Florida lawmaker recently wrote the governor of North Carolina warning her state against adopting a financing plan for new power plants that turned into a economic disaster for his state's ratepayers. Florida State Sen. Mike Fasano (in photo) -- a conservative, pro-business Republic ...
- Come celebrate 40 years of change in the South!
The Institute is 40 years old -- and we want you to come help us celebrate! On Saturday, March 26 come join us in Durham, North Carolina as we celebrate the Institute's four decades of working for a more just, democratic and sustainable South. The exciting and inspiring Rev. Lennox Yearwood ...
- VOICES: Challenging corporate America's hiring ...
By Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest You would never know it from the preoccupation with budget deficits and the attack on public unions, but there is still a severe jobs crisis in the United States. The focus on the state and federal fiscal situation has deflected attention from what shou ...
- EPA puts off long-promised coal ash protections
Communities imperiled by poorly managed coal ash won't be getting help from the federal government any time soon. The Obama administration announced last week that it would not issue long-awaited federal regulations this year after all. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Li ...
- Life and death on Big Oil's fence line
The environmental destruction caused by Louisiana's oil industry did not begin with the BP disaster, and a visit to the town of Norco 25 miles west of New Orleans powerfully illustrates that reality. Built on land adjacent to the Mississippi River that once supported vast sugar planta ...
- The Last Victory of Muammar Gaddafi
*** On March 6, 2010 it became clear that the Libyan regime has defeated the internal uprising and suspended the chaotization of the Arab world. A routine clandestine mission by a British diplomat protected by 8 SAS officers to the eastern base of Libyan opposition ended up with their detention ...
- Geopolitical Dimension of the Rebellion in Yemen
Vladislav Gulevich (Ukraine) A tide of extremism is sweeping across Yemen. Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the group seeking to overthrow the pro-Western regimes in Yemen and the nearby Saudi Arabia, is regarded as the number one terrorist force in the region. The group’s activity increasingl ...
- The United States Will Take Libya’s Oil and Ga ...
Sergei Balmasov (Russia) According to statements made in Washington, the idea of a military intervention in Libya is being discussed. A NATO strike group with American and British troops at its heart is already drawing close to the shores of that country. The US representative to the UN Susan Ri ...
- Libya: Will It Follow Sudan’s Track?
Vitaly Bilan (Russia) It would obviously be problematic to transfer power in Libya as it was done in Egypt. Therefore, the country can expect to take either the hard “Iraq” or soft “Sudan” option. In either case, however, there will be far-reaching consequences for the entire continent. Virtual ...
- The Theory of ‘Manageable Chaos’ P ...
Sergey Shashkov (Russia) An act of self-immolation by a Tunisian street vendor in protest of the confiscation of his wares by municipal officials in December was covered in the media as the catalyst for mass riots in Tunisia, which later spread to Egypt, Yemen, Iran, Algeria, Bahrain, Jordan, Ku ...
- BlogHer Network Member News, March 9: Bloggie ...
Tanis Miller of Attack of the Redneck Mommy won a Bloggie for the Best Canadian Blog in the 2011 Weblog Awards. It was her third win and she's now a member of the Hall of Fame in that category. Ree Drummond from The Pioneer Woman won several Bloggie Awards this year: Best Photography of a Weblo ...
- Extreme Couponers Share Frugal Living Tips
It's official - I'm not just experimenting with extreme couponing, I am an extreme couponer. I know this because my cabinets and freezer are still full of food and also because last week's grocery shopping trips were incredibly small ones. Last week at the commissary, I spent $7.29. We bought tw ...
- The Return From Iraq: When Coming Home Is Not ...
�There are no happy endings, because nothing ends.� � The Wizard, Schmendrick, from The Last Unicorn Intact. We use it when �things� are �not broken,� when they are still �working.�� And we use it sometimes to gloss over the hidden fissures��the cracks that deepen under stress and strain. My ...
- Even Though Sometimes My Punch Lines Fall Flat
I’ll admit –- technically speaking, I’m not a very funny person. By this, I mean that I can’t remember any great jokes, and I can’t entertain a crowd with a hysterical story. Sometimes my punch lines fall flat, and jokes in movies often fly right over my head. I can never come up with a witty ...
- A Month of Awesome Women: Amelia Earhart
Every day in March 2011, we'll be talking about one awesome woman and why she's so powerful. Some will be well known; some may be new to you, so check out all the awesome women in the series now. **************************** As someone who works in educational publishing, it's often my job to fi ...
- Editorial: As The Country Mourned, Tucson Need ...
Those who criticized the reaction of the crowd at Wednesday night's memorial have it ingrained that a perfect memorial is one with candles, flowers and tears. The citizens of Tucson and the American people have mourned for five days. Wednesday's event was not a time to mourn some more. It was a ...
- Police Made Visits To Loughner Home Before Sho ...
The Tucson, Arizona family home of 22-year-old Jared Loughner had been visited by authorities before the shooting of a congresswoman and 18 others last Saturday, new information by the New York Times revealed Wednesday. It's unclear what the visits were about or what prompted the call to author ...
- Criminal Charges Filed Against Congresswoman’s ...
Newly-released court documents offer a glimpse into the motive behind Jared Loughner's attempted assassination of Tucson Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords on Saturday. Recovered from Loughner's home was a letter addressed to Jared Loughner from Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Giffords mailed a ...
- “Unbelievable Tragedy:” Congresswoman Shot By ...
At least fifteen gunshots rang out shortly after 10:10am Arizona Time Saturday, bullets fatally striking a Federal Judge and injuring a prominent Congresswoman. Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) of Arizona's Eighth District was wounded at a public meet-and-greet event outside a grocery s ...
- Queensland Facing Flood Of “Biblical” Proportions
The worst floods in 50 years to hit Queensland, Australia are being described as nothing short of Biblical. More than 1,000 people have been evacuated, though officials say as the floodwaters get worse, as many as 4,000 residents could be asked to vacate their homes and businesses later this we ...
- Activists to announce march to save Blair Mountain
The folks from the Friends of Blair Mountain are set to announce later today their plans for a “a massive non-violent five-day march” from Marmet to Logan County to call attention to their efforts to preserve the site of the 1921 labor battle. According to a press advisory about today’s event: ...
- Suit seeks to block new Massey permit
UPDATED:  U.S. District Judge Robert C. Chambers just issued an order temporarily blocking this permit, and scheduling a more detailed hearing for March 22. See here for more. Earlier today, Massey Energy issued a news release to tout the approval by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers of a Cl ...
- When will Joe Main release MSHA’s secret ...
Republican leaders in the House Education and Workforce Committee aren’t finished grilling MSHA chief Joe Main over the audit reports that Main has so far refused to make public regarding his agency’s failings. Yesterday, Committee Chairman John Kline, R-Minn., wrote this letter to Main, asking ...
- Tomblin to unveil new mine rescue vehicle
Senate President Earl Ray Tomblin, acting as governor, has scheduled a big photo op at the Capitol for later this morning. On his newly redesigned Web site, Tomblin’s staff calls the event “the official worldwide launching and unveiling of a one-of-a-kind mobile technology tool.” The media advi ...
- Duke Energy CEO talks “clean power”
Time magazine had an interesting piece last week in which they interviewed Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers about the future of energy and the environment. Among other things in the story: … That effort finally failed in 2010, when the climate bill died in the Senate, and with global-warming-denying ...
- The Pros And Cons Of Facebook Comments | TechC ...
Pros Real names and identities greatly reduces the number of trolls and anonymous cowards in comments. Social virality boosts traffic by creating a feedback loop between Facebook and participating sites. �Friends pull in their friends, creating a social entry point to your site. Automatic sign-i ...
- Texas BBQ
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- Commenting Systems: Facebook Comments vs. DISQUS
Until recently I had settled on DISQUS as my chosen commenting system. It’s stable, it has a nice presentation, and it provides good features. But now I’m forced to reconsider because Facebook just entered the game. I’d hate to be DISQUS right now. I’ve tentatively enabled Facebook commenting he ...
- APT Being Co-opted by Marketing Types
The co-opting of APT by the marketing folks have led to the point that people are classifying any malware, rootkit or bot as “APT”. Zeus is not APT, Aurora is not APT. APT is a level of threat, a description of the sophistication, patience and talent behind an attack. The attacks are targeted ...
- Sleepytime Sleep Optimizer
A security guy that a friend of mine knows wrote this. It optimizes your sleep based on human sleep cycles and how much time remains between now and when you need to wake up. [ Sleepyti.me ] Related PostsSleep and ExerciseFuturePundit: One Night Of Sleep Not Enough To Make Up DeficitSleeping for ...
- Domestic extremists or domestic goddesses?
This brilliant video was made by the Aldermaston Women's Peace Camp - the following text, is taken from their website During 2010 AWPC was under more overt surveillance than usual. From February, the women's camp was targeted with intrusive police photography. Camp made a formal complaint about ...
- Activist reports recent encounter with Mark Ke ...
Fitwatch has been passed the following statement relating to an encounter by an activist with the ex-undercover cop, Mark Kennedy. Mark Kennedy encountered in London Last week ex-undercover police spy Mark Kennedy was encountered by chance by an activist who was an erstwhile friend. Kennedy was ...
- Legal Advice Drop-In for Student/Anti-Cuts Arr ...
From LDMG: Legal Defence & Monitoring Group (LDMG) and Offmarket Infoshop in Hackney, London will now be offering a regular legal drop-in session for all those arrested on the Student Demonstrations or Anti-Cuts Actions. We will be able to offer: * Entirely free, confidential legal advice coming ...
- Manchester demo – police use s50 powers ...
We have received this account from an eye-witness in Manchester. Police have abused ASBO legislation to obtain the personal details of anti-cuts demonstrators. Manchester police ended a day of orderly rallies and breakout groups of protesters by abusing legislation on anti-social behaviour in or ...
- Protesters sprayed as Hugh Orde advocates extr ...
Three days after head of ACPO, Hugh Orde, promised the use of more extreme tactics on protesters, ten people have been cs/pepper sprayed at a London UKUncut protest outside Boots, with three needing hospital treatment. During the protest on Oxford Street, an activist tried to post a leaflet thro ...
- 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 ...
- L.A. community colleges’ green energy pl ...
Grand dream loses sheen in glare of daylight | LA Times Larry Eisenberg had a vision. “Amazing,” he called it. “Spectacular.” The Los Angeles Community College District would become a paragon of clean energy. By generating solar, wind and geothermal power, the district would supply all its elect ...
- Sarah Palin Loses Friends, Stops Influencing P ...
Why Conservatives Turned on Sarah Palin | The New Republic It’s never easy to extricate yourself from a fling that got way too serious. But that’s exactly what many conservatives are trying to do after a few heady years of Sarah Palin infatuation. In the wake of Palin’s deeply unserious reality ...
- GOP is Afraid Of The Ladies
Female Sexuality Still Terrifying to Conservative Lawmakers | Alternet The dusty old argument that female sexuality is a subversive force that needs to be strictly controlled is alive and well in the GOP. The Republican attack on Planned Parenthood, in the form of the House zeroing out funding f ...
- EU climate tax czar's faux pas in Australia
James Delingpole has pointed out the following interview, Aussie sceptics destroy EU carbon commissionerRadio host Steve Price and climate blogger Andrew Bolt interviewed an important EU official, Ms Jill Hoggan of the U.K., which I found stunning: Jill Duggan appears around 48 ...
- Natalie Portman, the scientist
Natalie Angier of the New York Times studied the overlap between the movie industry and science: Natalie Portman, Oscar Winner, Was Also a Precocious ScientistThe intersection is almost non-existent. Both fields require an ego but the movie industry is all about the ephemeral values such ...
- Hansen: warming should have been 2-4 °F in the ...
According to all the datasets except for GISS (and try to guess who is the boss of GISS), the 2001-2010 decade saw a very slight cooling trend. In 1988, James Hansen gave a testimony in front of the U.S. Congress in which he overestimated the warming trend for the next 20 years by a fa ...
- Models are wrong: ice sheets grow from the bot ...
Some people have rather insanely claimed that the climate models are OK - they are qualitatively settled. We can trust their predictions for the future centuries because the models' treatment of the phenomena is unlikely to change much in the following decades. But the reality is that ...
- CMS: Higgs not between 144 and 207 GeV if...
...a heavy fourth generation of fermions exists The subtitle obviously makes the finding much less spectacular - because the fourth generation of fermions is unlikely to exist - and because the Higgs mass is probably below 144 GeV, anyway. Nevertheless, it is impressive to w ...
- US-UK Imperialist Rampage Envelops Libya in Ci ...
Webster G. Tarpley on The Alex Jones Show Infowars March 1, 2011 download file Coast to Coast AM tonight from 2am to 5am eastern
- Webster Tarpley will be interviewed Tuesday ni ...
Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net March 1, 2011 Check you local radio station for the exact time. Listen and call in! Locate Radio Stations Near You Call Number: 800-618-8255 First Time Caller: 818-501-4721 � � �
- Wisconsin Gop Governor in Neofascist Union-Bus ...
Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net February 20, 2011 Washington DC, Feb. 20, 2011 – After four decades of disillusionment, and demoralization, disorientation and rout of the labor movement, the mass strike is once again abroad in the land. In dozens of state capitals, reactionary Republican ...
- Mubarak Toppled by CIA Because He Opposed US P ...
Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net February 18, 2011 Washington DC, Feb. 18, 2011 — There never was an “Egyptian revolution,” but rather a behind-the-scenes military putsch by a junta of CIA puppet generals who evidently could not succeed in their goal of ousting Hosni Mubarak without the hel ...
- Hillary Announces Expanded US Cyber-Coup Campa ...
Webster G. Tarpley TARPLEY.net February 16, 2011
- North Korea EMP weapon
Image: abc NEWS / International The main stream media today is reporting that North Korea ‘nears completion’ of an Electromagnetic Pulse Bomb, a bomb (nuclear) which creates an EMP (electro magnetic pulse). Although any nuclear bomb will create its own EMP with the blast, a single bomb specifica ...
- Choosing a Hand Grain Mill
How do I choose which hand grain mill to buy? There is quite a range of prices for various hand grain mills, and it may seem difficult to decide which one to choose, but you can narrow your choice by deciding two basic things first. One, do you intend to grind/mill into flour for breads [...]
- Millions of Dead Fish near Los Angeles
Images from news links listed below Redondo Beach California, Kings Harbor, millions of dead Anchovies were discovered during the morning of March 8 clogging parts of the harbor. It is literally a ‘sea of Anchovies’. Some residents are saying that in all their life they’ve never seen such a dram ...
- Shelf Reliance
msb-note MSB welcomes a new sponsor, Shelf Reliance, who specializes particularly in food storage and food rotation products. Every prepper knows that it is a challenge to manage the storage and proper rotation of their food preps. No doubt there are countless methods, many of which come with th ...
- FEMA says, Get a Survival Kit
A public service announcement from FEMA is suggesting that we all get a survival kit, in case our ‘world is turned upside down’. Very interesting… and good advice. I wonder if they know something coming up that we don’t know… (grin) Get a Kit Make a Plan Stay Informed The following is a pretty g ...
- iFive: AOL Job Cuts, SpaceX Expands Facility, ...
1. AOL is expected to lay off between 400 and 500 people in the U.S. today (about 8-10% of its staff), as part of its push to make itself more profitable. The content side of AOL is likely to take the biggest hit, due to the new acquisition of Huffington Post--Jonathon Dube, VP of news is one of ...
- EVs Gain Traction as Toyota Prius Sales Hit 3 ...
Toyota announced this week that the Prius, the first (and perhaps most beloved) mass-produced hybrid vehicle, passed 3 million sales worldwide in February. This isn't just a boon for Toyota; it's a big deal for the entire car industry.In 2007, the Prius made headlines when it hit the one milli ...
- Results: Charlie Sheen Pulls in 400,000 Clicks ...
Vatican assassin Charlie Sheen may not be pulling in millions for long as an employed sitcom star, but online, this highly evolved warlock may just have some #tigerblood left yet. Earlier this week, Sheen signed on with Los Angeles-based startup Ad.ly, which helps pair social media celebs with ...
- VeriFone Talks Smack: Does Square Actually Hav ...
Electronic payment firm Verifone launched a surprise attack on hot mobile-payment startup Square today, with CEO Douglas Bergeron penning an open letter that chastised Square's security flaws, urged a recall of Square's products, and asked credit giants from Visa to MasterCard to review an app ...
- Gollum Shmollum: Kinect Hack Does CGI Animatio ...
An enterprising team of animators has hacked Microsoft's Kinect sensor suite to do something tangibly amazing: They're using the cheap hardware as a motion-replication system to power CGI characters. Remember the millions of dollars needed for Gollum in Lord of The Rings? Yup--like that.Kinect h ...
- Why Syria Is not Next . . . so far [With Arabi ...
As millions of Arabs stir their respective countries with demonstrations and slogans of change and transition, certain Arab states have been generally spared, including some oil rich countries and Syria. Syria stands out as a powerful regional player without the benefit of economic prosp ...
- The Student Movement in 1968
A couple of weeks ago on Jadaliyya, Jessica Winegar reported on some of the stories she heard from the older men and women she met in Tahrir Square in Cairo.�A number of them spoke of being leftist student activists in the 1970s but in the years since had to watch, as Winegar writes, �th ...
- Don't Blame the King for Islamophobia, Blame t ...
Peter King and the Homeland Security Committee�s hearings on the radicalization of American Muslims are upon us. Mainstream op-ed pieces have increasingly suggested the �divisiveness� of this New McCarthyism, especially after the Southern Poverty Law Center listed Robert Spencer and Pame ...
- "Coalition for a Republic" Announced in Bahrai ...
On Monday, March 7, 2011, Hassan Mushaimi, Secretary General of al-Haq Movement, one of the leading opposition groups in Bahrain, announced the formation of the "Coalition for a Republic" in Bahrain, comprised of al-Haq Movement for Liberty and Democracy, al-Wifaq National Islamic Moveme ...
- Personal Revolutions: One Woman's View from th ...
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 were met with a brutal cra ...
- As Charlie Sheen Tweets, Twitter's Valuation G ...
Evelyn M. Rusli / DealBook: As Charlie Sheen Tweets, Twitter's Valuation Grows — Actor Charlie Sheen has tweeted the word “winning” more than a dozen times since starting his Twitter account on March 1. — It may seem like a peculiar mantra, given the recent spectacle of his life and his ma ...
- On Apple TV Special Apps, Sports, And The Slow ...
MG Siegler / TechCrunch: On Apple TV Special Apps, Sports, And The Slow Bleeding Of Cable — Buried today in the iOS 4.3 release is an unmentioned, but very interesting update for the Apple TV: access to both MLB.tv and NBA League Pass. Yes, the live sports are coming to the Apple TV!
- Flipboard To Release New Version Thursday: Her ...
Lauren Indvik / Mashable!: Flipboard To Release New Version Thursday: Here's What's New [PICS] — Flipboard is slated to launch version 1.2 of its popular social newsreading app for the iPad Thursday, just one day before the iPad 2 arrives in Apple stores across the country. — Flipboard co- ...
- David Broder dies; Pulitzer-winning Washington ...
Adam Bernstein / Washington Post: David Broder dies; Pulitzer-winning Washington Post political columnist — David S. Broder, 81, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The Washington Post and one of the most respected writers on national politics for four decades, died Wednesday at Capital Ho ...
- Exclusive: AOL Will Lay Off Several Hundred Em ...
Kara Swisher / BoomTown: Exclusive: AOL Will Lay Off Several Hundred Employees, Starting Tomorrow — The AOL layoffs are finally here, and they are smaller than some had been expecting. — According to several people close to the situation, the New York-based Internet giant will lay off up t ...
- Dalai Lama says he'll give up political r ...
TIM SULLIVAN Associated Press= DHARMSALA, India (AP) — The Dalai Lama said Thursday that he will give up his political role in the Tibetan government-in-exile and shift some power to an elected representative, as the 76-year-old Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader struggles with growing worri ...
- Source: Lohan won't accept plea deal Thur ...
2011-03-10 16:38:46.0Source: Lohan won't accept plea deal ThursdayLindsay Lohan1159103Celebrities2@webnews/enpproperty--> LOS ANGELES – Lindsay Lohan will not accept a plea deal that includes a guaranteed jail sentence when she returns to court on Thursday, a source close to the actress sai ...
- Scarlett Johansson & Patrick Murphy To Re ...
On Wednesday, March 9, 2011 Human Rights Campaign announced that Scarlett Johansson to receive Ally for Equality Award and Patrick Murphy, former Congressman from Pennsylvania to receive the HRC National Leadership Award at the 2011 HRC Los Angeles Gala. Also Rabbi Denise Eger and Rev. Cano ...
- Gulf Air unveils state-of-the-art 'Falcon ...
Gulf Air, the national carrier of the Kingdom of Bahrain, officially opened its new, premium ‘Falcon Gold’ lounge at London Heathrow Terminal 4. The expansive, 6500 sq.ft Falcon Gold lounge – one of the largest in the terminal - seamlessly combines contemporary design and architecture with ...
- Harry Redknapp 'dreaming impossible dream ...
• Manager says he enjoyed the occasion but not the 90 minutes • Cautions against wishing for Barcelona in quarter-finals Harry Redknapp has taken Spurs from the bottom of the Premier League to the last eight of the Champions League. Photograph: Dylan Martinez/Reuters Harry Redknapp said tha ...
- Some thoughts on fanatics and how to fight them.
Iâve always liked Churchillâs definition of a fanatic. âA fanatic is one who canât change his mind and wonât change the subject.â Once you get past the witty aspect of the definition, thereâs a deep truth in it too. They simply canât change their mind. Iâve seen a lot of debates in the blogosphe ...
- The steady-state environment delusion
Cosmologists have calculated that our particular universe is 13.7 billion years old. It came into existence with the big bang, as did space and time. Itâs big. It consists of lots of matter, especially hydrogen, which has aggregated into different objects. The ones we see in the night sky are t ...
- Line of Descent Chapter 22
Chapter 22 He lay full length on the ground, concealed within a clump of vegetation through which he studied the house and the hastily built positions in front of it. He held a rifle which poked out in front of him, stopping two feet short of the end of the cover. It had been in … Read more
- Don’t just sit on your butt blogging, do somet ...
Iâm a blogger and commenter and enjoy reading and contributing to a variety of blogs but thereâs one attitude in the blogosphere that really bugs me big time; the whinge and dump mentality of a lot of bloggers and contributors. Whatâs whinge and dump? Itâs the idea that once youâve spotted and c ...
- Moderating, trolls, soup ladles and Ethics.
If youâre running a blog, one of the chores that has to be done on an ongoing basis is moderating comments. I operate the common system where a contributorâs first comment is held for moderation. If I approve it, then they can comment freely thereafter. If I donât, then theyâre effectively shut ...
- Flash Journalism updates
I have been hard at work updating the Flash Journalism website. New tutorials for ActionScript 3.0 and for working on the Timeline in CS4 and CS5 have been added. The old pages from the original site (created to support the book I wrote about Flash journalism in 2004) are still online, and all t ...
- New tutorial: Windows Live Movie Maker
As an aid to a journalism training session I agreed to give, I created a short PowerPoint that is aimed at journalism students. Windows Live Movie Maker Tutorial Windows Live Movie Maker is quite different from its predecessor — Windows Movie Maker (not “live”). It is less versatile in several w ...
- Convert WMA files with Switch
Switch Sound File Converter is a free program from NCH Software. You can download it here (Mac or Windows). I have been using this program and recommending it widely for about two years. It’s easy to use, and it’s especially useful for converting WMA format files to WAV so that we can edit them ...
- Use Kuler, Photoshop to make a quick palette
What’s the quickest way to whip up a beautiful color palette for a new website? 1. Start with Kuler, a free online tool from Adobe. 2. Register and sign in so you can download a color swatch for your chosen palette(s). Not signed in? Then you can’t download. (Pay attention to WHERE you save the ...
- New resource: Page Design Basics
This resource — Page Design Basics — provides a very simple overview of how to lay out a Web page. Students new to using CSS often make a mess of it because they do not grasp the utility of DIVs. By introducing these four regions of a Web page, an instructor can help students understand [...]
- Critics Say Times-Picayune Website Amplifies D ...
New Orleans-based writer and attorney Billy Sothern started a blog last month called NO Comment that highlights the often offensive comments found on nola.com, the online home of the Times-Picayune. NO Comment's mission says, This is a blog to highlight and discuss offensive, irresponsible, and ...
- Mississippi Activists Plan Rally Against Polic ...
The announcement below is adapted from information from our friends at Justice For Billey Joe Johnson, Jr., and Color Of Change: This weekend, activists in George County, Mississippi, will be hosting two days of action to demand justice for Billey Joe Johnson, Jr. and all other victims of polic ...
- Groups to Challenge Disparate Punishment Under ...
From our friends at Women With A Vision and Center for Constitutional Rights: Attorneys, Advocates Say Antiquated Law Unfairly Brands Poor Women and LGBT People with Scarlet Letter, Disproportionately Affects African Americans The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), Andrea J. Ritchie ...
- New Orleans Police Attack Mardi Gras Parade
On Sunday night, at least 20 officers descended on a Mardi Gras parade, arresting several costumed marchers, and repeatedly deploying tasers, pepper spray, and physical violence. The parade, which consisted of local artists and other neighborhood residents, as well as quite a few tourists, began ...
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Last week, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), Andrea J. Ritchie, Esq., and the Law Clinic at Loyola University New Orleans College of Law filed a federal civil rights complaint in the US District Court Eastern District of Louisiana on behalf of nine anonymous plaintiffs. The case, ...
- 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 ...
- Ten things we don’t understand
about humans WHAT A STRANGE CREATURE YOU ARE We belong to a remarkably quirky species. Despite our best efforts, some of our strangest foibles still defy explanation But as science probes deeper into these eccentricities, it is becoming clear that behaviours and attributes that seem frivolous ...
- How one cybercriminal stole $86 million
Jim Giles Kevin Poulsen’s Kingpin: How one hacker took over the billion-dollar cybercrime underground is a gripping tale that goes beyond the hacker stereotype On 16 August 2006, an email landed in the inboxes of thousands of criminals around the world containing news of a hostile takeover. Many ...
- How to choose the best running shoe
by Frank Swain Cheap sports shoes can be as good as expensive ones, says Benno Nigg, the sports scientist who helped design David Beckham’s Predator boot In your new book, Biomechanics of Sports Shoes, you say that expensive running shoes are no better at preventing injury than cheap ones. Isn’t ...
- Anonymous revives Operation Payback
wages war on "copywrong" By Nate Anderson The hacker collective Anonymous has once again cranked up Operation Payback, its attack on pro-copyright trade groups, this time taking down the website for Broadcast Music International (BMI). More attacks are on the way. Launching a denial of service a ...
- Patent trolls fatten up on vaguely worded patents
By Matthew Lasar Patent trollsâoutfits that buy some vaguely worded patent, then wander around the IT landscape suing or threatening to sue you and everyone else in search of damages or royalty paymentsâhave become a scourge. One of our (least) favorite of these entities is the Webvention Compan ...
- An Agrarian Renaissance?
FROM DINO MCMAHON IN THE SCIENCE POLICY CENTRE On Tuesday 15 February, I went along to the launch of the all-party parliamentary group on Agroecology. Agroecology is the science of sustainable agriculture. It studies the interaction between plants, animals, humans and the environment. an incr ...
- Human Embryology: a different kind of policy p ...
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) was a policy first –the first executive, non-departmental public body in the world. It has sole authority and responsibility for research and routine practice for IVF and stored gametes. Created in 1991, HFEA had a clear role at a time whe ...
- A little less conversation…
FROM SARAHÂ ‘SMEE’ MEE, POLICY ADVISER In the realm of global food security, little is spared intense debate. However, few would disagree that the global food system as it stands is failing. At the stakeholder launch of the Governmentâs Foresight report on Global Food and Farming Futures on Tue ...
- America’s “Sputnik moment”
FROM MICHAEL ASHCROFT IN THE SCIENCE POLICY CENTRE… In 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik into orbit, shattering the established belief that the US led the world in space technology. This shock led to the space race and the many benefits â technology, innovation and education – associated w ...
- Fewer Eurocrats, more research, greater impact ...
FROM LUKE CLARKE, POLICY ADVISER, The UK is not always renowned for its embracing of all things European. But in science and research, the UK has found an area where it definitely does get ‘bang for its buck’ via Brussels. Recently released figures from the European Research Council show that U ...
- ?Neanderthals shopped at stone-age Tiffany?s? ...
LONDON - In 1959 in the Grotte du Renne in central France, archaeologists found a wide range of ornaments and tools, indicating the existence of a stone-age Tiffany’s, but a new study has disproved that theory. University of Oxford researchers have shown that the artefacts were jumbled up with ...
- Laser surgery for long-sightedness to make spe ...
LONDON - Conventionally, laser surgery tackles shortsightedness, but doctors are now using laser treatment to restore 20/20 vision in those suffering from long-sightedness too. By the age of 50, most adults find they can’t read a menu, book or newspaper without holding it at arm’s length. Th ...
- Elusive green comet Hartley 2 will be visible ...
WASHINGTON - Hartley 2, the comet that was discovered in 1986 by Australian astronomer Malcolm Hartley, has been shrouded in mystery for a very long time, but today it will make its closest pass, offering prime viewing via binoculars and telescopes. Hartley 2 will be passing the brilliant star ...
- New fluorescent light surface may kill MRSA
WASHINGTON - Scientists at the University of New Mexico are working on a new type of antimicrobial surface which, equipped with fluorescent lights, would be able to fight off prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection. The new polymer-type material, “conjugated ...
- It?s official! Booze impairs decision-making
WASHINGTON - It is well known that alcohol alters behaviour, but surprisingly it is not well studied at the brain level. However, a new research shows that certain areas in the brain associated with error processing are significantly affected by the effects of alcohol. According to Beth Anders ...
- Interview with Bob McIlvaine at Ground Zero
On 12 January 2011 I met with Bob McIlvaine at 1 Liberty Plaza next to Manhattan's Ground Zero. Together we visited the Family Room, a special place dedicated to the memories of all those who died on 11 September 2001. Afterwards I spoke to Bob about his ongoing activism for 9/11 truth, ...
- The Oklahoma bombing revisited: interview with ...
Before 9/11 there was the Oklahoma bombing - a devastating terrorist attack which killed 168 people, including 19 children under the age of 6. The attack took place on April 19, 1995 and was quickly pinned on Gulf War veteran Timothy McVeigh who, it is said, planned and executed the attacks with ...
- Aussies Wanna KISS!
Tonight we welcome Rachel Emmes, author of “AUSSIES wanna KISS” (Keep It Simple Stupid), a new book which outlines problems and suggests solutions to the growing power of the "corporatocracy" and loss of true democracy in Australia. This is a very important interview which we urge you to shar ...
- The air traveller’s dilemma: X-ray strip ...
Remember the days when taking a commercial airline flight was an exciting, fun experience? Well those days are long gone, and the discomfort factor is set to get a whole lot worse. With the widespread introduction of naked body scanners and "enhanced patdowns" this year air travel in America has ...
- Don’t touch my Junk!
Tonight we cover the ongoing debacle over airport screenings with some important information about plans to roll out the naked scanners in Australia. A report from crikey.com.au states that "...instead of ordering persons who refused body scanning to submit to a hands on experience, the Australi ...
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