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IPS - Inter Press Services

• Tough Task Ahead for Japan
  Japan's reputation as a world leader in disaster management is facing a crucial test as the country scrambles to deal with the massive destruction caused by a strong earthquake on Friday that has left mounting deaths in the densely populated northeast.
• MIDEAST: Obama Besieged by Policy Challenges
  Rarely, if ever, has a post-World War II U.S. president been beset by so many foreign policy challenges and uncertainties in one key geo-strategic region at the same time.
• Businesses in Brazil Rediscover "Route to the ...
  Companies from Brazil and India -- whose bilateral trade flow rose nearly threefold in the last three years -- are starting to diversify and complement their business dealings in order to strengthen the two emerging powers' economic presence in the world, in a kind of new two-way "route to the ...
• WATER: Working Together on River Management
  Postwar Angola is keen to expand irrigation for much-needed development, Namibia is prioritising clean drinking water and sanitation, while Botswana wants to preserve the integrity of the world-renowned Okavango Delta for tourism.
• U.S. Hearing on 'Radical Islam' Opens
  Al-Qaeda is targeting Muslim Americans for recruits to terrorism and the community must do more to combat radicalisation, a U.S. politician has said as he opened hearings in Washington that have been criticised as a witch hunt.

Scoop - NZ

• Surge in Arab protests expected Friday in Gulf ...
  Arab uprisings that have spread to the conservative Gulf region face a crucial test this week in Saudi Arabia where activists have made unprecedented calls for mass protests against the kingdom's absolute monarchy. Gulf leaders are struggling to hold back an Internet-era generation of Arabs w ...
• The science of climate change | Garnaut Review
  # Observations and research outcomes since 2008 have confirmed and strengthened the position that the mainstream science then held with a high level of certainty, that the Earth is warming and that human emissions of greenhouse gases are the primary cause. * By mainstream science I mean t ...
• Women march for better life on International W ...
  "Here women have sex with someone powerful to get into parliament. Women are treated like objects. I'm ashamed to have a prime minister like Berlusconi," said protester Irene D'Onfronio, 62.
• Bahrain and the Battle Between Iran and Saudi ...
  The world’s attention is focused on Libya, which is now in a state of civil war with the winner far from clear. While crucial for the Libyan people and of some significance to the world’s oil markets, in our view, Libya is not the most important event in the Arab world at the moment. The demonst ...
• Libya: the Washington-London dilemma | openDem ...
  In their pursuit of Muammar Gaddafi’s downfall, the powers that led the charge into Iraq face both military and political problems.

Independent - London

• Two killed as Yemeni police storm sit-in site
  Yemeni security forces fired live bullets and tear gas on two pro-democracy demonstrations today, killing two people - including a 15-year-old student - as the government clamps down on a growing protest movement, witnesses said.
• Japan earthquake: latest developments
  Following are main developments in the 8.9 magnitude earthquake that struck northeast Japan yesterday.
• Japan requests British help over earthquake
  Japan has requested help from the UK in the aid effort after yesterday's magnitude 8.9 earthquake rocked the country, a Foreign Office spokesman said.
• Fears of meltdown after explosion at nuclear plant
  An explosion at a nuclear power station Saturday destroyed a building housing the reactor amid fears that it could melt down after being hit by a powerful earthquake and tsunami.
• Libyan rebels brace for government attack on M ...
  The last rebel holdout in western Libya was bracing for a government attack today, with signs rebel morale was faltering after they were defeated or forced to retreat in other parts of the country.

Rogue Government.com

• Report says two Japanese plants struggling to ...
  Reactors at two Japanese power plants can no longer cool radioactive substances inside, a prominent electric company said Saturday, according to a news agency report that added that atomic material may have leaked out of one of the plants.
• TSA to retest airport body scanners for radia ...
  The Transportation Security Administration announced Friday that it would retest every full-body X-ray scanner that emits ionizing radiation — 247 machines at 38 airports — after maintenance records on some of the devices showed radiation levels 10 times higher than expected.
• Police search home of priest class minion act ...
  How much do you want to be that Alex Jones will be claiming that this police raid was part of some sort of New World Order conspiracy?  Police raided Sheen's home looking for weapons.
• Response of W.H.O. To Swine Flu Is Criticized
  A panel of independent experts has harshly reviewed the World Health Organization’s handling of the 2009 epidemic of H1N1 swine flu, though it found no evidence supporting the most outlandish accusation made against the agency: that it exaggerated the alarm to help vaccine companies get r ...
• Massive quake hits Japan
  An 8.8-magnitude earthquake hit Japan early Friday, triggering tsunami warnings and sending people fleeing out of buildings in the capital.  The quake rattled buildings and toppled cars off bridges and waters underneath. In Tokyo, crowds huddled together and tried to reach relatives via ...

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

• Japan Earthquake Triggered Volcano Eruption In ...
  The major earthquake that hit Japan today may have just triggered some volcanoes in Russia as well. While reports are still vague on the incident, there is a strong correlation between the two occurrences. In Russia, there are reports that earthquakes where felt during the eruption.
• Earthquake and Tsunami near Sendai, Japan
  On March 11, 2011, at 2:46 p.m. local time (05:46 Universal Time, or UTC), a magnitude 8.9 earthquake struck off the east coast of Japan, at 38.3 degrees North latitude and 142.4 degrees East longitude. The epicenter was 130 kilometers (80 miles) east of Sendai, and 373 kilometers (231 miles) ...
• Emergencies declared at 5 Japan nuclear reactors
  Tokyo - Japan declared states of emergency for five nuclear reactors at two power plants after the units lost cooling ability in the aftermath of Friday's powerful earthquake. Thousands of residents were evacuated as workers struggled to get the reactors under control to prevent meltdowns. Op ...
• Tonga: Earthquake Magnitude 6.1 - 12th March
  Date-Time: Saturday, March 12, 2011 at 01:19:07 UTC Saturday, March 12, 2011 at 02:19:07 PM at epicenter Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones Location: 16.727°S, 173.174°W Depth: 10.9 km (6.8 miles) Region: TONGA Distances: 106 km (65 miles) SE of Hihifo, Tonga 229 km (142 miles) N ...
• The End of Honey-Bees?
  The mysterious collapse of honey-bee colonies is becoming a global phenomenon. Declines in managed bee colonies, seen increasingly in Europe and the US in the past decade, are also now being observed in China and Japan and there are the first signs of African collapses from Egypt, according to t ...

The Galloping Beaver

• Demotivators . . .
  PUNDIT KITCHEN is a division of the I Can Has Cheezburger empire. Delightfully irreverent.
• Sun News gots ICBMs !
  David Akin wants to know what we think of the new Sun News theme and on-air graphics. Well, let's see ... there's kind of a storyline to it, isn't there ... An ICBM smashes into the centre of Canada and Sun News rises up out of the ashes like a .... giant 70's gyro disco ball ... which then s ...
• Alison
  I say West End Bob, I think the Lady has reappeared!
• Theo and Liam . . .
  RIP.
• Tune in, turn on
  Sunday, March 6 5 p.m. Pacific/8 p.m. Eastern VIRTUALLY SPEAKING SUNDAY; MAPLE SYRUP EDITION This week host Kevin Wood speaks with blogger and performing artist Lindsay Stewart aka PSA about copyright, the Canadian federal budget and the likelihood of a federal election in Canada this spring. ...

Media Matters for America

• Fox Wages War Against NPR As News Corp. Donate ...
  Fox News frequently lambasts National Public Radio as a "bias[ed]," "defamatory" news outlet, and attacks have intensified of late because of the recent forced resignations of two of its top executives. However, Fox News parent company News Corp. appears to harbor a different view of NPR's valu ...
• NPR Is "Fair": Conservatives And Media Critics ...
  Media critics and conservative commentators are responding to the recent controversy over NPR by praising the network's reporting. In addition, some Tea Party activists say that NPR's coverage of their group has been "fair."Conservative Commentators Praise NPR Blankley: NPR is "fair." Media Ma ...
• Krauthammer Trots Out The Falsehood That Socia ...
  In his column, Charles Krauthammer called claims that Social Security is solvent until 2037 a "breathtaking fraud" and said that the Social Security trust fund consists of "little pieces of paper" that "amount to nothing." In fact, the Social Security trust fund consists of U.S. Treasury securi ...
• Fox Invents Notion That Health Care Reform Wil ...
  Fox News' Bill Hemmer and Dr. Manny Alvarez suggested that the health care reform law will lead to people "need[ing] a prescription for everyday items like aspirin." They based this claim on a provision in the law that merely requires people who buy medications using money from tax-free medical ...
• "Liar": Right-Wing Media Falsely Smear Ellison ...
  The right-wing media is claiming that Rep. Keith Ellison made up a "phony Islamophobic story" that a Muslim first responder who died in the September 11 attacks had been subject to dark rumors that he may have been involved in the attack. In fact, numerous media outlets reported on such "unfoun ...

Global Research.ca

• If You Love This Planet:: The Dangers of Nucle ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Japanese, Russian, Indonesian Volcanoes Erupt ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Why So Many Americans Hate Obama
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• "Class and Conflict" at the "Neoliberal" Univ ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Bahrain: Ex-Prisoners Denounce Britain’s ‘Tort ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.

TPM Cafe

• No-Fly Zone Over Libya Could Backfire & Underm ...
  I recorded a few minutes of comments outlining my concerns over the Libya No-Fly Zone debate. In short, a no-fly zone is a high cost, low return strategy that doesn't necessarily create a military tipping point in favor of the Libyan opposition. Gaddafi is at war with his own people, and it's ...
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• Why Obama Isn't Fighting the Budget Battle
  In the next week the action moves from Wisconsin to Washington, where the deadline looms for a possible government shutdown over the federal budget. President Obama has to take a more direct and personal role in that budget battle - both for the economy's sake and for the sake of his reelection ...
• AIPAC's Secret Strategy
  There are three reasons why monitoring AIPAC (the American Israel Public Affairs Committee) is a valuable use of time for anyone following events in the Middle East. The first is that AIPAC faithfully reflects the positions of the Netanyahu government (actually it often telegraphs them before ...
• Why The Street's Euphoric Birthday Has Almost ...
  What a difference two years makes. On March 9, 2009 the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit the bottom -- closing at a 12-year low of 6,547. Today the Dow is soaring well over 12,000. From its peak in October, 2007 until its trough two years ago, the stock market lost almost $8 trillion in value ...

TruthOut

• Emergency Declared at Japanese Nuclear Plant
  The Japanese government declared an "atomic power emergency" and evacuated thousands of residents living close to a nuclear plant in northern Japan after a major earthquake, but officials said there had been no radiation leak from the facility and that problems with its cooling system were not c ...
• Wisconsin Governor Rescinds Layoff Notices
  Madison, Wis. - Gov. Scott Walker announced on Friday that he was rescinding layoff notices for 1,500 state workers after Wisconsin lawmakers approved his plan to cut collective bargaining rights and benefits for public employees. The approval, after nearly a month of angry demonstrations and pr ...
• Muslim-American Terrorism Down in 2010
  The number of Muslim Americans involved in terrorist threats declined in 2010 from the previous year, although you wouldn’t know that from the tone of a congressional hearing scheduled for Thursday on “the extent of radicalization of the American Muslim community.”read more
• The Last Hurdle for Corporate Capitalism: Deun ...
  The campaign to control private-sector union membership has been mostly successful as corporate US capitalism shifted its attention to the last hurdle to a union-free country: public-sector unions. Critical examination of the connection between money and politics is helpful to understand the exp ...
• Military Cutbacks Won't Fix Deficit
  I am baffled by the argument that the United States can incur big savings by ending the war in Afghanistan and, more generally, by cutting bloated defense budgets. I’ve mostly been hearing this from liberals, and indeed this is a variation of a debate that has continued for years. Now, I am not ...

Planetsave

• Nuclear Emergency Declared After Japan Earthqu ...
  After a devastating earthquake struck Japan, leaving its citizens searching for family members and loved ones. A tsunami emerged and added to the devastation. Now, Japan has initiated a Nuclear Emergency after several of their nuclear reactor cooling systems failed.
• Indonesian Volcano Erupting After Japan Earthq ...
  One of Indonesia's most active volcano’s has erupted, sending lava and searing gas clouds tumbling down its slopes.
• Japan Earthquake Update: Ship With 100 people, ...
  A ship carrying about 100 people was swept away by the huge tsunami that hit Japan on Friday and its fate was unknown, public broadcaster NHK reported, citing Miyagi prefecture police.
• Japan Earthquake Trigged Volcano Eruption In R ...
  The major earthquake that just hit Japan, may have just triggered the some volcanoes in Russia. While reports are still vague on the incident there is a strong correlation between the two incidents. In Russia there are reports that earthquakes where felt during the eruption.
• McMurdo Sound Free of Sea Ice
  2011 is the first year since NASA’s Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensor, which launched on NASAâs Terra satellite in late 1999, has seen the tip of Hut Point Peninsula in McMurdo Sound, free of sea ice. The images below show the same location in 2003, 2006, 2008 and 2011 ...

Water Quality - WordPress

• sludgewatch-l: 10 Cities with the worst drink ...
  10 U.S. cities with the worst drinking water If you live in Pensacola, Fla., you may want to invest
• The Conscious Cook-by Tal Ronnen
  Tal Ronnen author of “the conscious cook” and most other vegan chefs who are perfecting meatless rec
• Water quality workshops coming to E.R.
  The Watershed Center Grand Traverse Bay will be hosting three workshops in March and April to facili
• ePluribus Media Community || Want to know wher ...
  ePluribus Media Community || Want to know where the water is going? via ePluribus Media Community ||
• Over 200,000 people participated in World Wate ...
  A total of 212,502 people across six continents celebrated World Water Monitoring Day (WWMD) 2010, a

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• Samir Amin: Obama is Bush, but with a differen ...
  Translated By Siv O’Neall Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Axisoflogic.com Feb 15, 2011 Samir Amin is
• Will Tunisia Transition from Tyranny into Demo ...
  by Andrew Gavin Marshall Featured Writer Dandelion Salad February 15, 2011 Part 1: America’s Strateg
• Chevron Runs from Judgment in Ecuador by Greg ...
  by Greg Palast Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.gregpalast.com February 15, 2011 Image by Rainfor
• The Mysterious Collapse of World Trade Center ...
  by Jeremy R. Hammond Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Foreign Policy Journal February 14, 2011 Accord
• Nick Merrill, the first American to stand up a ...
  by Peter B. Collins and Sibel Edmonds Featured Writer Dandelion Salad originally published by Boilin

Axis of Logic

• Expert: Threat of Nuclear Catastrophe in Japan ...
  The Associated Press reports:  “Japan ordered thousands of residents near a northeastern nuclear power plant to evacuate today following a massive earthquake that caused a problem in the plant’s cooling system.” The Institute for Public Accuracy issued the following release: Kamps is a ...
• Groundbreaking New UN Report on How to Feed th ...
  A new report from the UN advises ditching corporate-controlled and chemically intensive farming in favor of agroecology. There are a billion hungry people in the world and that number could rise as food insecurity increases along with population growth, economic fallout and enviro ...
• Ohio executes inmate using new, single-drug me ...
  Friday, March 11, 2011; A02   Ohio executed an inmate Thursday with a single drug previously used to euthanize animals, the first execution of its kind in the United States and a potentially pivotal development in the nation's emotional battle over capital punishment. Johnnie ...
• Wisconsin’s anti-worker law: An historic attac ...
  11 March 2011 The Wisconsin Assembly’s passage of a bill that will strip collective bargaining rights and cut wages and benefits for nearly 200,000 public sector workers marks a giant step toward the open dictatorship of the banks and corporations. The approval of the anti-worker bill ...
• France recognises Libyan opposition leadership ...
  11 March 2011 The French government of President Nicolas Sarkozy yesterday extended official diplomatic recognition to the so-called Libyan Interim Transitional National Council, the first outside government to do so. According to Agence France Presse, the Sarkozy administration will ...

They Gave Us a Republic

• The Nightowl Newswrap
  Shorter, more foul-mouthed Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLine): The Democrats in Congress are a bunch of spineless pussies and gutless cowards who couldn't put up a fight if their children's lives depended on it...and they do. Ever wonder what class warfare looks like? Wonder no more. Here it is, cuts t ...
• Repug Deficit Cutting: Give $4 Billion to Big ...
  Zandar: One oil company cleared over $9 billion in profit in one quarter last year. � Half a billion a year to a company that earns $40 billion a year is kinda, well, chump change. Even if Exxon Mobil got all $4 billion plus in federal subsidies, and it lost them, the company still would have ma ...
• They are setting up tragedies and they know it ...
  I can not, for the life of me, figure out why any lawmaker gleefully pursues legislation that will, if enacted, most certainly result in suffering, death and heartache for someone who lives in their district -- �unless they are just so craven and venal that human life is expendable if it is lost ...
• Social Security: One person's gold is another' ...
  Remember the "lockbox?" Charles Krauthammer's attack on Social Security in this morning's Washington Post got me thinking again about the much-maligned Al Gore, whose warnings about raids to the Social Security's "lockbox" earned him relentless ridicule, most famously on Saturday Night Live, but ...
• So much for "compassionate conservatism"
  You always knew it was a scam. Now they have officially abandoned all pretense of giving one hair on a rat's furry ass about anyone or anything other than transfering the rest of the middle class wealth to the upper one percent. Hell, since they've already got most of that, they are now going af ...

Care 2

• Great white shark population lower than previo ...
  Great white shark: Researchers have found that fewer great whites are in the Pacific ocean than previously believed. Other shark species from around the world have also suffered steep population declines like the great white shark's in recent years. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Animals ...
• GOOD NEWS! Grannies with Gumption: Standing u ...
  Chevron didn�t stand a chance before the ire of indigenous villager Maria Aguinda. Enbridge quailed before the determination of Saik�uz First Nation Chief Jackie Thomas.Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Business �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Aging Rates, Gender Gap in Mortality Similar A ...
  Humans aren't the only ones who grow old gracefully, says a new study of primate aging patterns.Submitted by Kristena W. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• USDA okays rice modified with human gene to be ...
  Mass drugging, like through the food or water supply, violates basic pharmaceutical dosage principles.Submitted by Kathy B. to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• The science of the 2011 Sendai earthquake and ...
  Earthquake and tsunami science and resources.Submitted by LongBeachGrows aka LB Grows to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

• In Defense of NPR
• NPR Scandal: The Real Story, Please
• MadisonWorld: A Future Where Corporations Have ...
• Wisconsin is Not Your Father's "Culture Wars" ...
• Wisconsin Republicans implode: Mass GOP recall ...

Paul Krugman

• Same As It Ever Was
  2011=1937.
• The "Rationing" Switcheroo
  Life, liberty, and the all expenses paid pursuit of happiness?
• Ricardian Confusions, Continued (Seriously Won ...
  Further incomprehensible thoughts.
• Last Night's Event
  Me me me me me.
• Ricardian Confusions (Wonkish)
  Would-be classical economists who don't understand their own model.

No Quarter

• Only You Can Prevent Bullying
  I had to check my calendar today after seeing the video of Barack Obama weighing in on the problem of school bullying. My first thought, “Is this a Saturday Night Live bit?” I thought it was a goof. At a time when the price of oil is soaring towards $200 dollars a barrel and the [...]
• Clapper: Bungler or ClapTrapper? (Open Thread)
  Oh, James Clapper can wait just a minute. You can blame Greta for playing the video that led to Clapper getting bumped below the fold. First, we learn how to cook: Charlie Sheen’s Winning Recipes from Charlie Sheen Original: I have a couple national security questions for you that I hope you can ...
• Do-Nothing Candidates
  Spoke Bill Whalen, Hoover, re the wandering Mitt Romney candidacy, as Romney spends much time in California (when not in chilly New Hampshire, below) with his wife and because one of his son lives there. The puzzle is why Romney wants to be president? Bill Whalen observes the Romney’s is deviled ...
• Rep. King’s Homeland Security Hearing (Live)
  Join me in listening to and “live blogging” the hearing starting at around 9:20 a.m. ET, available via C-Span Radio 3. [2 p.m. Update: Will Be aired in full tonight on C-Span starting at around 10:00 p.m. ET.] “‘The Extent of Radicalization’ among American Muslims“ New York Republican Congressma ...
• Evening Open Thread [Update]
  [The first update below is pertinent to Larry Johnson's post, "Wrongs, Not Rights for Egyptian Women." The update section describes how WOMEN were integral to the "post-colonial revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt, and Algeria that led to independence," but soon were forced into marginalized positions ...

Environmental Graffiti

• How Pigeons Navigate Using Their Right Nostril
  An interesting research study suggests that pigeons are disoriented without their olfactory sense and that they use the right nostril to navigate. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• Playing with Fire Resistance: Asbestos Use and ...
  Revered for its incredible resistance, asbestos has been used for millennia until the whole extend of its damage to human health became visible. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• When Diatoms Turn Into Art
  Dr. Paul Hargraves takes SEM images of diatoms, a type of algae, that his colleague, Fay Darling digitally colorizes - with stunning results. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• New Jaguar-Spotted Catfish Discovered in the A ...
  A tiny new fish has been discovered in the heart of the rain forest, discover how, and why it is important read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• Brazilian Wandering Spider Venom Could Be the ...
  A venomous spider may hold the answer for those with erectile dysfunction who cannot take Viagra. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

• Japan Faces Possible Three-Mile Island
  A meltdown would affect the future of nuclear energy in the United States, as well as Japan.
• Interview with Wajahat Ali
  The playwright Wajahat Ali talks about the King hearings and the cultural impact of Islamophobia.
• Hatoyama's Confession
  Nine months after stepping down as Prime Minister, Yukio Hatoyama conceded that he had just given "deterrence" as the factor necessitating retention of the US Marine Corps on Okinawa because he needed a pretext.
• Presidential Meeting Puts US-Mexico Relations ...
  The presidential summit made a show of putting the bi-national relationship back on track - in precisely the wrong direction.
• One of Hiroshima's Objectives: To Prove the Ma ...
  After Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Congress believed that the Manhattan Project was money well-spent.

Global Elite

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

Al Jazeera

• Japan fears nuclear plant meltdown
  Blast reported at nuclear plant amid worries that quake-hit reactor can no longer cool radioactive substances.
• Libyan rebels in retreat
  Gaddafi forces reverse rebels' advances as they recapture key towns and now threaten Benghazi, an opposition stronghold.
• Yemen police storm protest site
  At least one person killed and dozens injured as security forces try to disperse pro-democracy protesters in Sanaa.
• Clashes erupt in South Sudan
  Casualties reported as rebel militia launches a pre-dawn attack on capital of south Sudan's oil-rich Upper Nile state.
• Cuba frees leading dissident
  Oscar Elias Biscet is one of last political prisoners freed under last year's deal between Havana and Catholic Church.

Green Inc. - NYT

• Do We Get Tsunamis Yet?
  A geophysicist in California hopes that images of the devastation in Japan will galvanize the West Coast to prepare for such an episode.
• Payments to 9/11 Workers Are Off to Slow Start
  Small initial payments have gone out to many of the more than 10,000 rescue workers who settled a lawsuit over health claims related to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. But the bulk of the money has yet to be distributed.
• Polar Ice Loss Is Accelerating, Scientists Say
  The increasing ice loss means that for the first time, Greenland and Antarctica appear to be adding more to rising sea levels than the world's other reserves of ice -- primarily mountain glaciers, which are also melting because of rising temperatures.
• A Bird That Likes Shade-Grown Coffee
  In the winter, cerulean warblers alight in Colombia, taking refuge in the shade of trees in mountain coffee-growing climes.
• Study Says Navy Must Adapt to Climate Change
  A report from the National Research Council builds on previous work by the Pentagon, State Department, the intelligence community and independent groups that have concluded that climate change is a "threat multiplier" that adds new and unpredictable dangers to global stability.

Dot Earth News

• Ocean-Spanning Power of Japan's Great Quake on ...
  Scientists produce a mesmerizing simulation of the globe-spanning waves generated by the potent earthquake off Japan.
• Despite Foreshock, No Way to Anticipate Japan' ...
  A potent earthquake off Japan's coast two days before the massive disaster overnight was almost assuredly a foreshock.
• Academy Endorses Navy Concerns on Warming, Arc ...
  A scientific review endorses Navy concerns about security risks attending warming.
• Pedal to the Metal
  You've awoken at the wheel of an accelerating car and haven't taken driver's ed. Welcome to the human predicament of the 21st century.
• Russian Heat Extraordinary But Not Unnatural
  Russia's deadly heat wave was a rare event, indeed, but new analysis shows no hints of a link to building greenhouse gases.

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

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

Daily Censored

• Massive Budget Cuts to Maryland Education (Vid ...
  http://blip.tv/file/4870126 On March 10, 2011 Your World News had the opportunity to attend the Mass Rally at the Maryland State Capitol where thousands of teachers, parents, students as well as community members were protesting the Massive Proposed Budget Cuts (94 Million Dollars) to Maryland S ...
• Republican Fascism
  Are the Republicans and the far Right leaning toward fascism? That sounds like a radical question, and certainly not all Republicans are fascists, but let’s consider past and current historical events. We need to start with a little history. Benito Mussolini is recognized as the father of fascis ...
• Time for a General Strike: MLK and the 1968 fi ...
  Sanitation workers engaged in a general strike demanding the right to collectively bargain in Memphis, 1968. At a solidarity rally for the rights of public workers in Wisconsin and working people throughout the United States one could see a green and white AFSCME sign which said, “It’s about Fre ...
• Now is our time: Wisconsin!
  Protest at the State Capitol – Arrive as early as possible. Saturday March 12 Protest at the State Capitol — activities all day – Main rally 3 PM Buses leaving from MTEA, Voces de la Frontera and ASFCME sites. Check their websites for departure times and locations. Or see the bottom of this emai ...
• The “Critical” Crisis of Public Education in A ...
  The “Critical” Crisis of Public Education in America By: Solomon Comissiong The United States continues to produce one of the most underachieving and disproportionately unequal public school systems within the realm of industrialized countries. Despite a wealth of monetary resources the American ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

• Niger votes for civilian president
• Niger voters pick president in return to civil ...
• Niger voters pick president in return to civil ...
• Yemen police 'kill 2, use poison gas' on protests
• Palestinians 'kill Israeli settler family in beds'

Institute for Policy Studies

• Japan Faces Possible Three-Mile Island
  A meltdown would affect the future of nuclear energy in the United States, as well as Japan.
• Interview with Wajahat Ali
  The playwright Wajahat Ali talks about the King hearings and the cultural impact of Islamophobia.
• On the Brink of Meltdown: The Fukushima Nuclea ...
  The devastating Japanese quake and its outcome could generate a political tsunami here in the United States.
• Europe Takes the Lead in Drive to Tax Speculators
  There are still places in the world where folks from across the political spectrum can have a rational discussion about fair taxation.
• Wisconsin Union Struggle Is All Too Familiar f ...
  Rather than race to the bottom, where no one has rights, why shouldn't we work together to ensure that everyone does?

Equality Trust

• Traduction des preuves en Français
   Les preuves en Français Preuves à l’appui: une introduction Preuves à l’appui: la santé physique Preuves à l’appui: la santé mentale Preuves à l’appui: la toxicomanie Preuves à l’appui: l’éducation Preuves à l’appui: la population carcérale      
• Response to criticism of The Spirit Level
    Find our full response to criticism of The Spirit Level here.  
• The Wrong Cure - alternatives to the cuts
  The False Economy website is an excellent and still-developing resource exploring the alternatives to cuts. False Economy includes: a discussion of why the cuts are not progressive details of campaign actions a comprehensive further reading list ... and this short film [youtube:ynUCYo ...
• Why we need a Fairness Test of the cuts
  A group of charities, including the Equality Trust, Child Poverty Action Group, Barnardo's and the TUC are asking the coalition government to commit to a Fairness Test on any tax rises or spending cuts they introduce. Full details...
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  Don't forget to sign up to our email newsletter to receive quarterly updates about our work and next week's response from Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett to questions about the Spirit Level analysis.

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

• 2011 Food Defense Summit
  On March 22, I’ll be heading to Denver for the Food Defense Summit, a.k.a. “The summit created by food manufacturing executives, for food manufacturing executives” to give my perspective on keeping their businesses out of lawsuits – or as I like to call it: safer food production.   2011 Food De ...
• Creekstone Farms Premium Beef Recalls 14,158 P ...
  Creekstone Farms Premium Beef, an Arkansas City, Kan., establishment, is recalling approximately 14,158 pounds of ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced. The products subject to ...
• Support Wisconsin and US workers - Support a n ...
  My mom and dad were both public employee union teachers.� They worked hard all their lives teaching kids and young adults.� My brother is a union plumber.� In honor of my parents, my brother and Wisconsin and other state union workers who are fighting for their rights, I am closing my law firm e ...
• Interview with Fruit Grower Magazine on the Fo ...
  I had an nice chat a few weeks ago with the folks over at Fruit Grower Magazine on their cover story on the Food Safety Modernization Act - An Opposing View - The nation’s top consumer advocate/attorney on food safety says the bill will benefit many growers.  Here is the interview: One of the t ...
• Nut Recalls unrelated to Foodborne Illness Out ...
  Given my job, it is little wonder that I tend to focus on the problems with a product when it actually causes illnesses.  There are, however, times when looking at recalls can also make you aware of problems that seem to repeat themselves. March 2011 – Skippy Peanut Butter: Salmonella Unilever ...

AutoblogGreen

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

Rafe's Radar

• LinkedIn launches personal news service
  New LinkedIn Today service shows you what people in your professional network are reading.
• Socialcam: Mobile video sharing done right
  Sharing videos from your iPhone is easy and fun with this new app, thanks to clever technical and social features.
• E-mail anger meter gets sensitivity training
  New version of ToneCheck, a "spell-checker" for sentiment, gets improved, thanks to other users' angry e-mails.
• Domo launching 'pre-social' mobile app ahead o ...
  New mobile app helps you find the friends you haven't met yet.
• Manilla vs. PageOnce: Building better bills
  The paper bills you get in the mail? Holdovers from a bygone time. But they'll be with us for a while yet, judging by the current state of the art in online billing. ...

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

• Mark Potok: Peter King Hearings on Muslims "De ...
  A controversial hearing on the radicalization of the American-Muslim community has opened today on Capitol Hill, led by New York Republican Rep. Peter King. Critics have described the hearings as a modern-day form of McCarthyism designed to stoke fear against American Muslims. King has refused ...
• Audio: Wisconsin Democratic Senator Questions ...
  Wisconsin Democratic Senator Chris Larson speaks to Democracy Now! as he races back to Madison to challenge tonight’s anti-union vote to end collective bargaining rights for most public employee workers. "I think a lot of what theyâve done is on the borderlines of what is legal," Larson says. " ...
• Don't Ice Out Public Media
  The aspen grove on Kebler Pass in Colorado is one of the largest organisms in the world. Thousands of aspen share the same, interconnected root system. Last weekend, I snowmobiled over the pass, 10,000 feet above sea level, between the towns of Paonia and Crested Butte. I was racing through Col ...
• "America is Not Broke!": Michael Moore address ...
  State-workers and their supporters have been rallying in unprecedented numbers in Madison over the last few weeks. Tens of thousands of teachers, firemen, police officers, students, and families have taken to the streets and to the halls of the state capitol to demonstrate their opposition to ...
• Social Media and Online Outreach Internship (S ...
  Democracy Now! is now taking applications for our Spring and Summer Social Media and Online Outreach Internship Program. Spring intern positions available immediately. Social Media and Online Outreach Intern Position Overview: Democracy Now!’s Social Media and Online Outreach Intern work ...

Digg Green

• Dating: The Science Behind the Language o ...
  Successful and longer lasting romantic relationships are linked to similarities in speech patterns and verbal communication.
• How Scientists Prank Each other? [GIF]
  Some times scientists also do prank with each ...
• The physics of bank shots
  New research by engineers at North Carolina State University show that, from many areas of the basketball court within 12 feet of the basket, you have a better chance of scoring with a bank shot than with a direct shot. The study also shows the optimal aim points to convert a bank shot fro ...
• No, the "supermoon" didn’t cause the Japa ...
  Despite what a lot of people are saying, there is no way the Japan earthquake was caused by the Moon.
• Engineering Students Design a Lock Pickin ...
  Crimes are usually committed by humans. As it turns out, we are not only making crime happen on our own, but we are designing robots to help us in our extra-legal endeavors. I don't know what the students at the Olin College of Engineering are up to in their spare time, but they have ...

Invisible Opportunity

• Tsunami Strikes Japan After 8.9-Magnitude Eart ...
• Quote of the Day – I am the Count…
  I am the Count of Little Footsteps the scratching of the leaves in the streets behind them that tireless warrior…. that cold chill at the nape of the neck death to all tyrants death to all landlords and banks to all things that turn the warm heart cold and terrorize the soul….   - Les [...]
• The David Rockefeller, Ball and Chain, Armaged ...
  By Les Visible I know youâre waiting for Kissinger to ooze onto the screen like one of the devilâs darkest wet dreams but The Ides of March are not yet at hand, on that day, that toad, will before you stand. But Toooooooday, we have D…D… D…. David Rockefeller, the brother of Kissingerâs mentor ( ...
• Researchers Find That IPCC Climate Models Are ...
  Scientists examined the climate model output and compared it to the abrupt warming experienced in the Northern Hemisphere post-1980. The researchers determined that the rise in temperatures was associated with both an increase in the Arctic Oscillation and a simultaneous weakening of the Pacific ...
• School bus driver fired over Confederate flag
  By JEFF BARNARD GRANTS PASS, Ore.—An Oregon school bus driver fired after he refused to remove a Confederate battle flag flying from his pickup truck has enlisted the help of a conservative civil liberties group in hopes of getting his job back. The Rutherford Institute of Charlottesville, Va., ...

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

• Why Did the Zetas Ambush Two US Agents on a Lo ...
  The FBI and other security agencies are still investigating the attack and fishing around for fiendish plots against Americans, but it’s not likely this was a planned gig.
• The Passing of a Drug Reform Hero: Retired Jud ...
  Marks devoted his life to change NY's draconian Rockefeller drug laws and helped secure clemency for prisoners rotting away in prison for their roles in minor drug crimes.
• Whoa! Almost 8 in 10 Connecticut Voters Suppor ...
  Medical marijuana had the support of a whopping 79% of respondents. Support was above 70% in every demographic, with even 72% of Republicans favoring it.
• ACLU Calls on DEA to Allow Sale of Medical Mar ...
  The ACLU has released a brief calling on the DEA to grant research permits for the production of medical cannabis.
• 'I Thought I Was Dying': A Common Synthetic An ...
  Ten years after taking the medication, Bobby Grozier suffers from brain damage and he's lost more than $3 million in medical costs and income.

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

• Despite Major Earthquake Zero Tokyo Buildings ...
  Japan is no stranger to earthquakes, but this morning’s incident was nothing like the country had ever seen before. Registering at a record breaking magnitude 8.9, the earthquake even triggered a staggering 33 foot tsunami which swept away boats, cars, homes and people as widespread fires burned ...
• Japanese Nuclear Plant Rocked by Earthquake, N ...
  The 8.9 magnitude earthquake that hit Japan on Friday, March 11, caused massive damage and destruction, including the failure of a nuclear power plant cooling system.
• Exoskeleton-Wrapped O-14 Skyscraper Nears Comp ...
  We originally showcased plans for this striking O-14 tower in Dubai back in 2007, and now the beautiful latticed building is finally nearing completion. Designed by Jesse Resiser and Nanoko Umemoto of RUR Architecture (the same architects who designed New York’s New Museum), the building feature ...
• Panasonic Unveils Solar Power Table That Wirel ...
  According to Akihabara News, Panasonic recently unveiled a solar table at Tokyo’s Security Show that harnesses QI technology to wirelessly charge your gadgets whenever you place them on the countertop! The solar panels located at the center of the table power a system of wireless charging pads. ...
• House Panel Considers Privatizing Rail
  After a third Republican governor said no to federal high-speed rail money citing potential cost overruns, a House committee is looking into building railways without federal involvement. House Transportation Committee Chairman John Micaâs (R-Fla.) office said on Friday that the House Subcommitt ...

Pogue's Posts

• Verizon Clarifies iPad Activation Fes
  Verizon confirms there is NO re-activation charge for the month-to-month iPad 2 cell service. There is an activation charge for those with Verizon's MiFi.
• 3 Software Programs That Add to the iPad 2's A ...
  In the end, software is why we buy hardware, and there are a few iPad programs worth mentioning.
• The Fading Sounds of Analog Technology
  As digital technology takes over, we're losing the sounds of analog technologies. And sometimes that's a real loss. A dial tone can serve a useful purpose, at least on TV.
• A Parent's Struggle With a Child's iPad Addiction
  Is a gadget automatically bad for our kids just because it's electronic? What if it's fostering a love of music, or expertise in strategy and problem-solving?
• What Is President Obama Asking Tech Leaders?
  David Pogue's Twitter followers imagine what is being discussed among President Obama and Silicon Valley's tech leaders.

WIRED Magazine | Science

• Space Duct Tape Could Confuse Mars Rover
  The NASA equivalent of duct tape could leak enough methane to confuse the next Mars rover’s life-detecting sensors. Astrobiologists found evidence for three distinct plumes of methane flowing from beneath the planet’s surface, like swamp gas or a burp, in January 2009. The gas could simply mean ...
• Turn Your Cellphone Into a High-Powered Scient ...
  Using tape, rubber and a tiny glass ball, researchers transformed an iPhone into a cheap yet powerful microscope able to image tiny blood cells. They’ve also added a clinical-grade cellphone spectroscope that might be able to measure some vital signs. And with a few dollars and some patience, ...
• Earthquake Is Biggest in Japan’s Recorded History
  Japan Earthquakes Tsunami A computer model for the tsunami created by an 8.9-magnitude earthquake that struck 80 miles east of Honshu, Japan on March 11, 2011. Credit: NOAA/PMEL/Center for Tsunami Research
• Laser-Powered Tractor Beam Could Move Tiny Par ...
  Another piece of Star Trek technology has become a reality. Captain Kirk would instantly recognize new blueprints developed by a team of Chinese scientists as plans for a tractor beam. The proposed device hasn’t yet been built. But a similar one conceived by an American physicist was tested las ...
• GOP Assault on Environment Defeated — For Now
  No limits on neurotoxic pollution by cement plants. No protecting endangered fish in San Francisco Bay. And no regulation of greenhouse gases. Those are just some of the “riders” tacked onto HR 1, the GOP spending bill defeated March 9 in the Senate but sure to return as Congress negotiates how ...

PakAlert

• Videos: Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Caused by ...
  A huge 8.9 Richter scale earthquake rocked Tokyo today resulting in a giant tsunami causing incredible amounts of damage, injuries and deaths. My first reaction was to check the University of Tokyo's HAARP induction magnetometer to see if HAARP was fired up around the time of the quake. Sure en ...
• Saudi police open fire on demonstrators – Photos
  Saudi police opened fire Thursday to disperse a protest in the mainly Shiite east, leaving at least one man injured, as the government struggled to prevent a wave of unrest sweeping the Arab world from reaching the kingdom. The rare violence raised concern about a crackdown ahead of more planned ...
• Are The Prophets Of Doom Right About Major War ...
  Are the "prophets of doom" right? Is a major war going to erupt in the Middle East? Is the price of oil going to $200 a barrel? Is the price of gold going to hit $2000 at some point over the next two years? Is the Dow going to drop to 5000 by the end of 2012? Right now there are some very respe ...
• Tsunami hits Japan after massive 8.9 magnitude ...
  A massive earthquake has hit the north-east of Japan, triggering a tsunami that has caused extensive damage. Japanese television showed cars, ships and even buildings being swept away by a vast wall of water after the 8.9-magnitude earthquake. The quake has sparked fires in several areas i ...
• 8 Reasons Why Silver Is the Investment of the ...
  By Mac Slavo If there’s one asset that’s heated up over the last several months amid tensions in the middle east and a second round of the Federal Reserve’s quantitative easing, it’s silver. The price has risen so dramatically, some 20% since January 1, 2011 through today, that investors may be ...

Andy Worthington

• In Tunisia, the Revolution Rolls On with the A ...
  In Tunisia, where the revolutionary impulses that are sweeping the Middle East began less than three months ago, with the self-immolation of 19-year old Mohamed Bouazizi, the flight of the dictator Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, on January 14, was not just the end of a hated 31-year tyranny, but also ...
• Quarterly Fundraiser Day 3: Sponsor One of My ...
  Please support my work! It’s Day 3 of my quarterly fundraising appeal, in which I take a short break from pounding my typepad into submission with despair at Obama’s cowardice, disdain for US lawmakers and the right-wing judges of the D.C. Circuit Court, and, instead, harangue you, my rea ...
• Guantánamo: Obama Turns the Clock Back to the ...
  Those of us who have been studying Guantánamo closely were not surprised when, on March 7, President Obama announced that he was lifting a ban on trials by Military Commission at Guantánamo, which he imposed on his first day in office in January 2009, and also issued an executive order establish ...
• Quarterly Fundraiser Day 2: 28 Reasons to Supp ...
  Please support my work! Yesterday, I published a fundraising appeal (as I do every three months), asking my readers and supporters to help me raise $1500 to fund the maintenance and technical support of my website, and also to cover the otherwise unpaid hours I spend writing the many arti ...
• Terror Suspects in the UK, Torture, the Law, S ...
  My friend Richard Haley, of Scotland Against Criminalising Communities (SACC), recently put me up for two nights in Edinburgh, during a visit as part of my ongoing tour of the documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo,” which I co-directed with filmmaker Polly Nash. Richard an ...

Environment _ National Geographic

• Tsunami Waves Hit U.S.—Some Damage in Hawaii, ...
  The deadly earthquake that struck Japan Friday sent a tsunami racing across the Pacific Ocean, reaching Hawaii, the Pacific Northwest, and California.
• Is That a Banana in Your Water?
  Researchers in Brazil have found a way to use banana peels to extract toxic heavy metals from river water
• Japan Earthquake and Tsunami News and Pictures
  None
• Tsunami Pictures: Epic Waves, Earthquake Shock ...
  NoneThe biggest earthquake in Japan's history Friday sparked three-story tsunami waves, hundreds of casualties, and towering infernos.
• Gulf Oil Spill Helps Explain Air Pollution Mystery
  Monitoring the Gulf aftermath revealed pollution due to heavy compounds once thought to play no role in poor air quality, a new study says.

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

• HT Gives "Thumbs Up" to NM School Budget
  Here are a few snippets from the 2/4/11 editorial in The Housatonic Times. "...all those who assemble the proposed education budget went into the current process with new resolve to craft a package that met all the needs and would also be politically palatable. Better communication was establi ...
• G! E! T! S! (bud) GETS! (bud) GETS! (bud) GETS!
  (Oh, was that too soon, Jets fans? Suck it up. Love, The Patriots Nation.) Forget football, it’s budget season again! And even though we paid all those pesky teachers last year, they want money again this year. So, of course, it will be controversial. There are several things in play this y ...
• A Real Public Option In Connecticut?
  And so it would seem.The other day for an open thread at ePluribus Media I commented on "the intended public option that should be Sustinet in Connecticut," and it would seem that is to be the case if the Sustinet Health Partnership Board of Directors get their way according to the report they h ...
• Dan Malloy scores first in Danbury
  Dan Malloy jumping off of the bench of the Danbury Whalers shortly after scoring the first goal in Whalers' history. [update] I have an interview from after the game at TK's. Let me say, in advance, that he was a bit reluctunt to give it since I am a political blogger... But as a hockey fan I ...
• Still All That I Want
  Something that gets lost in the news about the unemployed is the fact that much of what used to be the backbone of this nation's economic prowess, the middle class, is now the working poor: Imagine That: Working Poor On The Rise After the Republicans crashed to economy in 2008 one thing became ...

SPL Center

• Why Are Peter King’s Hearings So Loathsome? Le ...
  Some people seem to have great difficulty in understanding why U.S. Rep. Peter King’s hearings on radicalization of American Muslims, set to open this Thursday, are seen as so loathsome by so many. Let me try to explain. Imagine, for starters, if another congressman — say, Keith Ellison of Minne ...
• Aryan Nations Attorney’s Murder-for-Hire Trial ...
  COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho — The trial of former Aryan Nations attorney Edgar Steele was postponed and moved from North Idaho to Boise on Monday by a federal judge who earlier was steadfast in refusing additional delays. Steele, 65, faces four federal charges in an alleged failed plot to hire a hit ma ...
• Bryan Fischer: American Indians Should Have ‘A ...
  Evidently, no amount of scorn is going to prevent Bryan Fischer, chief mouthpiece for the American Family Association (AFA), from asserting that the white European settlers of the New World and their descendants had the moral, Christian authority to conquer the natives of North America and appro ...
• New Leaders at Tanton’s Nativist Network, But ...
  The Social Contract magazine, the most overtly white nationalist organ of John Tanton’s network of anti-immigrant organizations, so outdid itself with its fall 2010 edition calling for a ban on Muslim immigration that even some of its readership reacted with distaste. The 68-page volume was pack ...
• Ron Paul Invites Neo-Confederate Witness to Te ...
  This morning, U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) hosted his first hearing as chairman of the House subcommittee that oversees the Federal Reserve, the nation’s central bank. Paul wants to look at the institution’s impact on job creation and the unemployment rate. Paul, a vicious opponent of the Fed, i ...

change: org.

• Success! New York Times Public Editor Says Chi ...
  In a matter of days, over 40,000 Change.org members have sent emails expressing outrage over a recent New York Times article that insinuated an 11-year-old Texas girl was to blame for her own gang-rape. This afternoon the public editor, Arthur Brisbane, took note of this outpouring by condemning ...
• One Oregon Bill Could Revolutionize the Local ...
  Oregon's Friends of Family Farmers Act (HB 2222) may be only a bill and not even close to sitting on Capitol Hill, but it's poised to shake up the state's local food system. Small farmers face huge obstacles, struggling to jump through hoops that industrial-scale agricultural operations pass wit ...
• Unwanted Phone Books: It Doesn't Matter If The ...
  The way the industry portrays it, the efforts of several cities and states to end the waste of the printed Yellow Pages are a devastating blow to small businesses, offline Grannies, and even to the Constitution. They say hordes of people in one of the most wired cities in this nation would be ut ...
• Wildlife Coalition Pressures U.S. to List Afri ...
  The African lions that are left in the wild — less than 40,000 — face many threats such as habitat loss and destruction, disease, prey loss, poisoning and hunting. In fact, according to Defenders of Wildlife, the population of the African lion has decreased by half over the last 60 years. The Af ...
• Still No Justice for Lesbian Hate Crime Victim ...
  It's been more than six months now since Carol Ann and Laura Stutte came home from a weekend anniversary trip to Nashville, to find their Vonore, Tennessee home burned to the ground. The damage -- which you can viscerally see in this YouTube segment that chronicles what the house looked like bef ...

Common Dreams -News

• Saudi Arabian Security Forces Quell 'Day of Ra ...
  Saudi security forces came out in strength in Riyadh on a "day of rage" organized by pro-democracy campaigners who managed only small demonstrations in the eastern provinces. Expectations that the unrest sweeping the Arab world in the last few weeks would spread to its most conservative kingdom ...
• Stripped Naked Every Night, Bradley Manning Te ...
  Bradley Manning, the US soldier being held in solitary confinement on suspicion of having released state secrets to WikiLeaks, has spoken out for the first time about what he claims is his punitive and unlawful treatment in military prison. ...
• State Dept. Spokesman Crowley Slams Pentagon o ...
  The harsh conditions in which Bradley Manning, the accused WikiLeaks leaker, are being held have helped make him a cause celebre on parts of the left, but the complaints have generated little official government sympathy -- until now. read ...
• Mideast Turmoil Rocks Western Reputations
  LONDON� - NMS International has taken to hiding its website behind a password and director Louis Oliver gives a false name when he answers his phone. read more
• Residents ordered to evacuate after Japan nuke ...
  TOKYO — The Japanese government has issued an evacuation order to thousands of residents near a nuclear power plant rocked by the giant 8.9-magnitude earthquake that hit the Pacific Rim nation Friday. The move came after Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said the nuclear power plant in Fukushi ...

Lifehacker

• Make Sure You're Prepared for Disaster with a ...
  After Japan's earthquake and tsunami earlier this morning, most of the West coast and Hawaii are both under a Tsunami warning. If you don't have an adequate emergency kit in your home, here's how to put one together so you're prepared in t ...
• Digital Painting 101, Lesson #5: Putting It Al ...
  For the final installment of Digital Painting 101, concept artist Matt Kohr showcases each of the previously explained techniques in an illustration demo. The speed of this video is different than the previous four installments: It's a ...
• From the Tips Box: Audiobooks, Cable Organizat ...
  Readers offer their best tips for motivating yourself to listen to your audiobooks, organizing cables in your backpack, and getting notifications for UPS tracking. More��
• Use Headphone Wrapping Methods on All Your Cab ...
  We've shared many headphone wrapping techniques over the years, but our favorite is still the devil horns method for keeping them tangle-free. Over at Mac-centric weblog Mac|Life, they're using this for all their cables—and it works pretty ...
• Trakt Automatically Tracks What You Watch and ...
  Kind of like a Last.fm for video, Trakt tracks what TV shows and movies you watch, digests the data, and suggests other TV shows and movies you might enjoy. Better yet, you can get plug-ins for your media center so you don't have to bothe ...

Water Privatization

• SC approval sought to rehab Angat dam
  The Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corp. is asking the Supreme Court to allow the rehabilitation of the Angat hydro facility to ensure supply of drinking water in the National Capital Region.
• Summit Series Films Continue
  KENT—Two more films remain in the 2011 Kent Environmental Summit film series. Feb. 15 brings “Blue Gold: World Water Wars,” which describes the privatization of water in an era when water is becoming more and more scarce.
• Thousands Mark Canada's Second Bottled Water F ...
  OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - March 10, 2011) - Today, people across Canada and around the world are marking the second Bottled Water Free Day.
• Huge desal plant in Yanbu to supply 15m gallon ...
  JEDDAH: The Saline Water Conversion Corporation Saline Water Conversion Corporation ( SWCC SWCC ) and a South Korean company is jointly building the world's largest desalination plant in Yanbu, about 350 km northwest of Jeddah, with a capacity of 15 million gallons potable water per day.
• USF Highlights Global Water Shortage at Film E ...
  The films showcase the importance of water and the growing crisis around the globe.

Guardian

• Blast at nuclear plant after Japan tsunami
  �� Explosion reported at Fukushima nuclear plant �� Death toll said to be more than 1,300 �� Tsunami engulfs northern port of Sendai and islands �� 215,000 people are in emergency shelters �� Around 50,000 rescuers have been deployed �� Google launches missing person finder Read the Guardian's ...
• Nick Clegg faces party faithful
  Full coverage from the coalition partner's conference in Sheffield, where Nick Clegg and NHS reforms are expected to come under fire12.04pm: Here's a summary of where we are.�� The Lib Dems have voted for an extensive and radical rewrite of the government's NHS bill. Nick Clegg averted a defeat ...
• Japan on new nuclear alert as quake toll rises
  Country hit by worst earthquake in its recorded history, leaving more than 1,000 people dead and many missing Japan tsunami and earthquake � live coverage More than 1,000 people were believed dead and many more missing after the worst earthquake in Japan's records struck its north-east coast, u ...
• Prince Andrew pulls out of trade trip
  Buckingham Palace says trip 'postponed' because of safety concerns rather than cancelled in light of revelationsPrince Andrew has pulled out of a proposed trip to Saudi Arabia after almost three weeks of damaging revelations about his personal integrity and links with corrupt and repressive regi ...
• Deepcut suspects not investigated
  Father of soldier who died at barracks calls for public inquiry after new report seen by BBCPolice investigating the unresolved deaths of four soldiers at Deepcut barracks failed to follow up potential suspects who could have been responsible for their murder, according to a new report into the ...

McClatchey

• Commentary: Texas secessionists want a revolut ...
  It's almost mid-March.
• Commentary: Fort Pillow and Civil War lessons
  The courage, ingenuity and sacrifice displayed by men on both sides do nothing to eradicate the Civil War's legacy of misery and slaughter.
• Senate GOP moderates feel heat from the tea party
  WASHINGTON — Minutes after the Senate rejected a huge, controversial Republican budget-cutting plan this week, Democrats pounced hard, blasting moderate GOP senators who supported the package.
• State Dept. official's comments about WikiLeak ...
  WASHINGTON — Public criticism by a State Department spokesman about the treatment of an Army private accused of giving classified U.S. material to WikiLeaks has sparked speculation of a rift within the U.S. government over the handling of the prisoner.
• Tsunami warning website fails Pacific Coast re ...
  WASHINGTON — So many people surged to the West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center website that it slowed to a crawl early Friday, unable to provide critical information to the public about the coastal impact in the U.S. of a massive earthquake in Japan.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

• Bees: a sting in the tale
  � The United Nations Environment Programme (Unep) buzzes into the ongoing discussion of bee decline this week, with a report examining the global nature of the issue and some of the reasons behind it. Their top-line conclusions are that it's becoming a widespread, if not quite global, phenomen ...
• Green tuna goes FAD-free
  Environmental group Greenpeace is claiming something of a victory with the news that the UK's biggest supplier of canned tuna, Princes, is going to source its fish from more sustainable supplies than previously. Greenpeace has been spearheading a campaign to get companies to adopt sustainable t ...
• China and EU share climate vision
  China and the European Union are setting out plans for changing energy use and curbing carbon emissions within a space of a few days. As one of them is the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases while the other would be third in the global list if its emissions were tallied as a single enti ...
• Refining the sixth great extinction
  Are we living through the sixth mass extinction of life in Earth history? That we are is something you'll often hear asserted in conservation circles - and you'll easily find dozens of news articles taking the notion at face value. It's even acquired a posh name - the Holocene extinction.   In ...
• Discard bathwater, not baby
  More selective fishing tends to produce fewer discards Everybody wants to do it: nobody is entirely sure how that should be done. Discarding fish is, on one level, an outrageous practice; so surely stopping it is the right thing? A byproduct of measures to keep fishing within sustainable limit ...

The Wonk Room

• The Stern Interview Part Two: We Need A New In ...
• Opponents Of Maryland Marriage Bill: Homosexua ...
• Police Officer Found Guilty Of Raping Undocume ...
• Navy: Global Warming Is Real And Poses Threat ...
• After Banks Cause Huge Deficits, Wells Fargo C ...

thwap's schoolyard

• 1848 and 2011
  In 1848, revolutions (eventually crushed with great bloodshed) broke out among several European nations (France, the German and Italian states, the Hapsburg Empire, Poland, Ireland). Obviously, economic factors aren't going to be the only things that stir up revolutionary sentiment. The human de ...
• How Rob Ford Fellators Argue
  Toronto's free entertainment weekly Now is a left-left-liberal (or whatever, you get the idea) tabloid. It offers concise, unrestrained criticisms of the obvious buffoonery and hypocrisy of Mayor Rob Ford. Perhaps because of this, it feels compelled to give its letters section over to brain-dead ...
• Bare-Knuckle Rules Following
  I have often fantasized that if the opposition parties defeat harper, they treat the harpercons with the same contempt and brazen illegal bullying that the harpercons used to dish out. But it's just occurred to me that the rules of the game in Canada are such that they wouldn't have to break th ...
• Canada's Punditocracy Call's It Like It Is
  I have to admit it. Actually, there was some good analysis of the significance of harper's attempt to refuse the Colvin emails and other documents to Parliament. In that act of contempt towards Parliament harper was revealing more authoritarian traits than anything the concern trolls have been a ...
• The First Thing After harper is Defeated? War ...
  That has to be the first order of business. Payback has to be a bitch for that stupid mother-fucker. Peter MacKay too. Every harpercon associated with that filthy business. An honest to goddamned trial. Then an investigation into the handbook for obstructing committees. Then an investigation ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

• Carolyn Lerner confirmation hearing is available
  The Office of Special Counsel (OSC) is the federal government's attorney charged with protecting federal employee whistleblowers. It took President Obama a long time to finally pick a nominee for this position. Today, the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee (HSGAC) held a h ...
• Supreme Court ignores Iqbal and relaxes pleadi ...
  On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a landmark decision on the right of criminal defendants to sue to get access to DNA that might prove their innocence. The case is Skinner v. Switzer, Case No. 09-9000 (3-7-2011). Before the Supreme Court got to the DNA issue, it first had to review the st ...
• NWC Executive Director will hold an open forum ...
  On Sunday April 10, 2011, Stephen Kohn, Executive Director at the National Whistleblowers Center, will be available at 4:00 pm (EST) for an online chat forum at Firedoglake’s Book Salon. The topic of this book salon will be The Whistleblower’s Handbook. For two hours Mr. Kohn will be holding an ...
• NWC Executive Director will hold an open form ...
  On Sunday April 10, 2011, Stephen Kohn, Executive Director at the National Whistleblowers Center, will be available at 4:00 pm (EST) for an online chat forum at Firedoglake’s Book Salon. The topic of this book salon will be The Whistleblower’s Handbook. For two hours Mr. Kohn will be holding an ...
• Top Ten Things You Should Know Before You Blow ...
  Article Reposted from the Corporate Crime Reporter (March 9, 2011) Whistleblowing is a hot area of legal practice. Why? Well, whistleblowing can mean big money for the corporate defense attorney, for the whistleblower, and for the whistleblower’s lawyer. There is of course the False ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

• Retroactive Drug Monopoly Raises Rates From $1 ...
  A bunch of you have been sending in the somewhat horrifying story of how KV Pharmaceutical has been retroactively granted a monopoly on the drug Makena, which is use to prevent premature births. The product has been on the market for years, and normally costs about $10 per dose... but thanks to ...
• The Changing Way That Math Is Taught To Children
  NPR has a fascinating story about how the methods for teaching basic mathematics have been changing in schools. For example, they show the following comparison for teaching multiplication: The Way We Used To Multiply The old way to multiply required a student to add the products of 36 x ...
• State Department Spokesperson Says Bradley Man ...
  We've written a few times about how we believe Bradley Manning's treatment in prison is horrifying. It goes beyond what's reasonable, and in recent weeks has only gotten worse, as he's now being stripped naked every night. However Glenn Greenwald points us to the very surprising news tha ...
• DailyDirt: Teach Your Children Well
  Teachers don't have an easy job, but at least they get the summers off (in the US). Technology might be able to help improve things by increasing the amount of teacher-to-student attention time, but investments in classroom technology are also competing for pretty limited resources. It's a tou ...
• Live By IP, Die By IP: Sony PS3s Seized By EU ...
  We've been talking about how ridiculously aggressive Sony has been lately in enforcing its intellectual property rights concerning PS3s, so it seems like there might be a bit of karmic retribution in the fact that a shipment of PS3s has been seized in Europe as part of an ongoing legal fight wit ...

VacTruth

• FLUORIDE: How WRONG Can Health Agencies Be?
  Does fluoride in our drinking water prove that government agencies make mistakes?Vactruth.com
• 3 Easy Steps Parents Can Use to Form an Opinio ...
  Parents can use these 3 easy steps to form an opinion about vaccines.Vactruth.com
• The Press Conference About the U.S. Supreme Co ...
  Numerous vaccine safety advocates assembled on the apron of the massive front steps to the U.S. Supreme Court on First Street, NE, in Washington, DC, to let the court—and the world—know that the highest court in the land got it wrong and did not act to protect an individual’s right to be compens ...
• The 2009 Pandemic Flu “Conspiracies” Investigation
  Was it appropriate for WHO to take advice from experts who had declarable financial and research ties with pharmaceutical companies producing antivirals and influenza vaccines?Vactruth.com
• Baby Gets Vaccine-Associated Paralytic Poliomy ...
  Adverse reactions to the Oral Polio Vaccine in healthy infants without any apparent immunodeficiencies can occur. Conversely, those with immune deficiencies, such as hypogammaglobulinemics, "...are 10,000 times more susceptible to vaccine-induced poliomyelitis than normal persons.”Vactruth.com

BroadSnark

• Finding My Mouth In Mexico
  Not a lot of time to write this week, so instead I am going to link to an old piece I put up on Matador. There are no signs in Mexico, at least none that aren’t out of date or unintentionally funny. My personal favorite was the sign on Chacala beach that said no mascots [...]
• Things You Might Have Missed
  This take-down of hipsters is just gorgeously hateful. It is mind boggling that there are so many obstacles to growing a few vegetables in your yard and selling them.  But the informal economy is going to win in the end. Apparently, the Catholic Church is now answering all your sex questions.  W ...
• To All the Marriage Pushers
  If I have to read one more article on how a group of people must somehow be damaged because they aren’t in a 1950s nuclear family, I am going to spit nails. Kay S. Hymowitz has a piece in the Wall Street Journal where she complains that men in their twenties “hang out in…a hybrid state [...]
• Things You Might Have Missed
  A short post this week, as I just got back from a HIPS benefit production of the Vagina Monologues and I have had a bit too much to drink.  I think it was the booze-infused cunt cake that finally did me in. Please read this post on government medical experiments on people.  I knew about [...]
• On Catholicism and Reform
  I’ve been thinking a lot about how you determine whether or not something is worth saving/fixing/reforming – whatever. What got me thinking about this was a book I read called A World Without Women. David Noble, the guy who wrote the book, wanted to examine why science was so inhospitable to wom ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

• Indonesia Fights Globalized Agro-Food Speculators
  EIR News Service press release.
• Cairo Comes to the United States
  EIR News Service press release.
• EIR’s Hoefle: It’s the Deivatives, Stupid!
  EIR News Service press release.
• Freeze Food Prices Now!
  Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, February 18, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 7
• BüSo Party Congress in Berlin: We Are Paying ...
  By Helga Zepp-LaRouche Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, February 18, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 7

Armies of Liberation

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

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

food and water watch

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

treehugger

• From Living The Gasoline Dream To SUV-wrecked ...
  "Nothing but flowers..." Image and caption credit: Flickr, Old Sarge The small town I grew up in had a community freezer to rent for your half-cow, a garden in nearly every yard; and, hardware, grocery, and clothing stores. Homes came with 1-car garages. Kids mostly walked or biked to s ...
• Hipster Farm Bands T-Shirts Debut on Grist
  The other night, I logged onto Twitter -- I'm just getting back into it, so follow me! -- and, as so often is the case, there was a pointless-yet-engrossing hashtag word game in progress that I couldn't pass up. Sparked by a Grist post about farming being the new hipster profession of choice ...
• Peak Coffee Incoming: Climate Change is Killin ...
  "It is not too far-fetched to begin questioning the very existence of specialty coffee." That's a quote from a coffee trade group, the Specialty Coffee Association of America, that's one among many such organizations warning that climate change is pushing us towards peak coffee. Yes, it's a ...
• Bus Rapid Transit is Win-Win-Win (Video)
  Most Cities Need BRT We've mentioned it previously, bus rapid transit (BRT) is great! It's a lot less expensive to build than a subway or light-rail system, but it brings many of the same benefits by repurposing space that would otherwise be used by private cars. What do you need for BRT? 1 ...
• WWF: New 'Green' File Format (Like PDF, But Ca ...
  Image: WWF Nice Reminder Not to Print for No Reason, But... A few weeks ago Jaymi wrote about a new 'green' file format created by the German chapter of the WWF. I hate to be a party pooper, but I have a few thoughts about the practical realities that face this new file format....Read the ...

Biosingularity

• High-Fiber Diet Cuts Death Risk
  Filling up on fiber — particularly fiber from whole grains — may reduce your risk of dying from heart disease, infections, and respiratory diseases, says a new study published online in the Archives of Internal Medicine. Men and women who ate the most dietary fiber were 22% less likely to die fr ...
• Reprogrammed Stem Cells Are Rife with Mutations
  Adult cells that have been reprogrammed into stem cells harbor a number of genetic mutations, some of which appear in genes that have been linked to cancer. While scientists don’t yet know how this might affect the use of the cells in medicine, they say the findings show that the cells need to b ...
• The memory virus: gene boosts memories made we ...
  Memories fade with time, often to the annoyance of those who can’t recall important details. But scientists have now found a way to boost the recall of memories even after they’ve started to fade. Unfortunately, the method involves injecting an engineered virus directly into the brain, so those ...
• Bacteria on Farms May Protect Against Asthma
  New research lends support to the idea that exposure to a wide range of microbes explains why farm kids have lower asthma rates than city kids. School-aged children in the studies who lived on farms were about 30% to 50% less likely to have asthma than non-farm children who lived nearby. Farm-dw ...
• Parts of brain can switch functions
  When your brain encounters sensory stimuli, such as the scent of your morning coffee or the sound of a honking car, that input gets shuttled to the appropriate brain region for analysis. The coffee aroma goes to the olfactory cortex, while sounds are processed in the auditory cortex. That divisi ...

CFACT

• Wind power: questionable benefits, concealed i ...
  EPA trumpets dubious shale gas risks - but ignores environmental impacts of wind turbines.
• CFACT's Morano explains on Fox News why Greens ...
  Environmentalists are getting exactly what they want.
• Battle brewing over proposed coal export port ...
  China̢۪s growing appetite for energy and America̢۪s abundance of coal are putting a small port on Washington̢۪s Pacific Coast in the middle of a clash between local officials and environmentalists.
• CBS News covers CFACT's human hamster wheel at ...
  CFACT's Collegians brought a giant human-sized hamster wheel to CPAC to highlight the follies of renewable energy policies.
• Use energy, get rich and save the planet

Ria Novosti Online News

• Russian tourist among first lucky buyers of iPad 2
  Russian Alexei Shumilov became the first person to buy two iPad 2 tablets at the New York City's flagship Apple store on Fifth Avenue after hours of waiting.
• Radiation levels increase at Fukushima No.1 af ...
  Radiation levels at the quake-hit Fukushima No.1 nuclear plant in northeastern Japan have increased following a reported blast, the television said quoting local authorities on Saturday.
• Death toll in Japan megaquake tops 700 - polic ...
  Police said at least 703 people have been killed by the powerful earthquake and tsunami that swept northern Japan on Friday, with the death toll likely to run into a thousand, according to the government.
• Meltdown stopped at Fukushima No.1 plant in Ja ...
  Experts have released pressure and let out steam in nuclear reactors at the quake-hit Fukushima No.1 plant in northeastern Japan in a move to prevent radiation leaks in the area, the Industry Ministry said on Saturday.
• Powerful Earthquake in Japan

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

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

Pruning Shears

• The lesson
  Yes, the lavish funding from billionaires didn’t hurt, and yes they’re ideologically inclined to pass crap like the “budget” “repair” “bill” in the first place, but there’s another reason for things like that and Ohio’s SB 5 to happen: We have not provided clear consequences for doing massively ...
• Calling BS on Freedom Works' Top 10 (Part 2)
  Part 1 can be found here   3. Ohio’s state and local government employees’ pensions are severely underfunded.   Again, how does SB5 solve this?  The loss of money in pensions is due to overenthusiastic assumptions by the states based on the economy at the time.  And of course, let’s not forg ...
• Calling BS on Freedom Works' Top 10 (Part 1)
  Ok, my mistake.. it was Freedom Works (not Americans For Prosperity) that put out that list of the “Top 10 Reasons to Support SB5 in Ohio to Limit Public Sector Collective Bargaining“… that might explain why I had trouble finding it.  Since I am a mommy and a student, I am going to break this up ...
• 'No On SB 5': Pictures of recent events; rally ...
  TomorrowRally in Columbus against SB 5. You still may be able to reserve a seat here.Tuesday, March 8Rally at the StatehouseWest Lawn1 Capitol SquareColumbus, OhioRally begins: 11:30 a.m.Pictures of recent eventsFrom a town hall meeting this past Saturday, March 5th at the Fatima Center in Clev ...
• Please welcome Anna in Cbus!
  [NOTE: Anna has joined the site as a contributor.  She will be posting on SB5 and other issues from Columbus.  Please welcome her! - Dan] Hi, nice to be here.  I was invited to blog a little here and wanted to take a chance to introduce myself.  I am a wife, mom, and grad student.  Currently re ...

Organic Consumers.org

• Debunking the Stubborn Myth that Only Industri ...
  I've written about it once already, but I want to return to The Economist's recent special series about how industrial agriculture is the true and only way to feed the 9 billion people who will inhabit the world by 2050. The framing, I think, is extremely interesting.Click here to read this ar ...
• Why World Food Prices May Keep Climbing
  In February, world food prices reached the highest level on record. Soaring food prices are already a source of spreading hunger and political unrest, and it appears likely that they will climb further in the months ahead.Click here to read this article
• How to Save the World's Oysters - and Eat Them ...
  The headlines were enough to make you throw away your shucking knife: "More than 85 percent of [oyster] reefs have been lost due to overfishing, according to a new study," said The Independent. Foodie bloggers panicked over the news -- was it suddenly an eco-crime to belly up to the oyster bar? ...
• America's Breadbasket Aquifer Running Dry; Mas ...
  It's the largest underground freshwater supply in the world, stretching from South Dakota all the way to Texas. It's underneath most of Nebraska's farmlands, and it provides crucial water resources for farming in Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma and even New Mexico. It's called the Ogallala Aquifer, ...
• Stop Syngenta's New Frankenfuel Corn!
  The USDA recently approved a new variety of corn genetically engineered by Syngenta to make it easier to process into ethanol. OCA is extremely concerned that this puts the public in danger of corn-based food ingredients being contaminated with genes designed for bio-fuels.Click here to read thi ...

fotoFrontera

• Terremoto de 8.9 grados y Tsunami en Japón (43 ...
  La mañana de este viernes 11 de marzo, tuvo lugar en Japón uno de los terremotos más devastadores en la historia de esta región asiática. El temblor fue de 8.9 grados en la escala de Richter. Se estiman en cientos los muertos y en miles los desaparecidos por esta catástrofe natural. Casas y come ...
• Aviones supersónicos VI (15 imágenes para comp ...
  ATENCIÓN: Para ver todas las fotos de esta serie, navegue usted hacia abajo y haga click sobre las imágenes que más le gusten para ampliar su tamaño y guardarlas en su computadora si así lo desea. He aquí la parte número X de nuestra serie 'Aviones Supersónicos'. Una colección muy interesa ...
• Tributo a la infancia VII (fotos de niñas, flo ...
  ATENCIÓN: Para ver todas las fotos de esta serie, navegue usted hacia abajo y haga click sobre las imágenes que más le gusten para ampliar su tamaño y guardarlas en su computadora si así lo desea. Tributo a la infancia, es una serie muy bonita en la cual el Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas rind ...
• Wallpapers de autos muy bonitos VII (15 imágenes)
  ATENCIÓN: Para ver todas las fotos de esta serie, navegue usted hacia abajo y haga click sobre las imágenes que más le gusten para ampliar su tamaño y guardarlas en su computadora si así lo desea. Desde hace mucho, hemos compartido con ustedes una gran diversidad de imágenes y wallpapers rel ...
• Texturas, fondos y backgrounds abstractos parte VI
  Para ver más Fondos, Texturas y Backgrounds Abstractos, navegue por los siguientes números. [1][2][3][4][5][6] ATENCIÓN: Para ver todas las fotos de esta serie, navegue usted hacia abajo y haga click sobre las imágenes que más le gusten para ampliar su tamaño y guardarlas en su computadora si as ...

Center for a Livable Future

• The Locavore debate, revisited
  How can local food systems support a resilient and sustainable future food economy in the United States? That was the question of the day at a recent conference entitled, “Reviving the American Economy-One Heirloom Tomato at a Time.”  But for some, the question isn’t so much how, but even can ...
• In Media, Big Ag Looms Large while Farmers Get ...
  In September 1965, CBS broadcast its first episode of Green Acres, a mini-series documenting a family’s transition from an urban life of prestige and luxury, to one of mud, manure, and chaos on a farm in the fictional town of Hooterville. Green Acres took off, in part capitalizing on the popula ...
• Organic Farming: What is Technology’s Role?
  A recent post entitled “Organic Farmers: Can They Be Tech Savvy?”  by Mr. Hunter Richards serves as a reminder of why one interested in sustainable farming mustn’t instinctively cringe at the thought of new technology and agriculture. As the blog states, organic food has taken off as an indust ...
• Chicken, Ascendant
  Between now and April 3, the USDA is inviting comment on a just-completed, major research effort to reassess how much of the food in the United States actually makes its way into our mouths.  Its findings suggest that in the chicken-versus-beef rivalry, the popularity of boneless chicken is edgi ...
• Pesticide use reporting bill discussed in the ...
  The Maryland Department of Agriculture has surveyed MD farmers about their pesticide use just four times since 1988—most recently in 2004 when an estimated 10.7 million pounds was applied (full report). A bill heard yesterday in the Maryland General Assembly Environmental Matters Committee (Hous ...

Norwegianity

• Can’t-idate Bridgefail
  Taylor has the best Colbert clip ever. Go watch it now. So funny I laughed out loud (without the help of drugs). So trenchant I had to put on my boots. So apt I gave it its own post. Really, when it was all over I expected Colbert to be taken straight to heaven by [...]
• Clusterlinking
  Harsh reviews for Peter King’s Islam-bashing hearings. Eugene Robinson called it a witch hunt. Peter King himself put the hearings in the proper context by pointing out that Neo-Nazis aren’t as big a threat as Islamo Americans. [factchecked] [more dumb stuff] [more factchecking] Cable did their ...
• By any means necessary
  Pretty much sums it up, don’t you think? State Troopers as Schutzstaffel, keeping out the protesters as Madison cops couldn’t be trusted to shoot (if it came down to that). No pizzas in Madison last night as they kept the trains running on time (ask not who’s in the boxcars; the boxcars roll for ...
• Sorry for the light morning post, here’s ...
  NPR can’t die fast enough to suit me, but in so doing they could at least try to drag down the scum who suckered them. Instead, I suspect their board will give O’Keefe some kind of medal. Ian “David Koch on line 1″ Murphy’s somewhat impressed, but not willing to compare O’Keefe’s scams to his [...]
• No time to write, here’s 51 links instead
  Yes, they most certainly are. Even war criminal and all round bastard John Yoo is snarking. Which is why this Mr. Fish cartoon is his best ever: When you’ve lost Matt Damon, you’ve pretty much lost it all. News: Even wealthy suburbs are into cutting school budgets (which pretty much proves that ...

Public News Service

• Implosion Set for Coal Stack on AZ-NV Border Today
  Implosion Set for Coal Stack on AZ-NV Border Today Phoenix, AZ – It’s seen as a sign of the times, as well as Arizona's shift toward renewable energy – the 500-foot Mohave Generating Station smokestack is set to come down today (Friday). Green advocates say the Arizona's air is a lot healthier s ...
• Family Planning Help for AZ’s Uninsured ...
  Family Planning Help for AZ’s Uninsured Women Phoenix, AZ – Because of a large private donation, Arizona women without health insurance may be able to get 12-years of birth control at about half the normal price. The private funding takes on added significance with the state ready to cut 175-tho ...
• Report: Revenue Projection Errors Plague State ...
  Report: Revenue Projection Errors Plague States, AZ Not Immune Phoenix, AZ – A new report tracking state revenue projections shows errors have plagued states during the economic downturn, and the more severe economic times are, the more “off” the projections. The study shows Arizona's double-di ...
• Former Forest Service Chief Questions Federal ...
  Former Forest Service Chief Questions Federal Budget Moves Phoenix, AZ – Cuts to U.S. Forest Service programs outlined in the U.S. House Republican proposed budget should give Arizonans pause, according to former Forest Service Chief Dale Bosworth. He says there would be implications for forest ...
• Arizona’s Toothless Law Hurts Kids&#8217 ...
  Arizona’s Toothless Law Hurts Kids’ Dental Health Phoenix, AZ – An Arizona law provides for preventive dental care for toddlers in their pediatrician’s office, but lawmakers have provided no funding. Arizona is one of only 11 states that won’t pay for what advocates call a simple, inexpensive se ...

Center for Food Safety

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

• John John: The View From Occupied Canada #234
  Imperialist hands off Libya! The United States and the European powers are moving towards direct military intervention in Libya. They are seeking to exploit a legitimate popular uprising against the 41-year rule of Muammar Gaddafi, preempt any possibility of a more radical regime emerging, and i ...
• SOUTH LEBANON: US neo-cons urge Libya intervention
  SOUTH LEBANON: US neo-cons urge Libya intervention By JIM LOBE, Al Jazeera In a distinct echo of the tactics they pursued to encourage US intervention in the Balkans and Iraq, a familiar clutch of neo-conservatives appealed Friday for the United States and NATO to "immediately" prepare military ...
• TheAngryindian Interviews: Pascal Uccelli
  Editor's Note: While there is a lot to be desired in terms of mainstream social media, there are gems to be found for those interested in social justice and human rights. One such activist is France's Pascal Uccelli, artist and editor of the l'ecriture sans calmants blog. I asked him a few que ...
• Imperial Feminism : Culture Mop
  Imperial Feminism : Culture Mop: "It is important to recognize the brutality that occurred in the streets of Cairo that day and the days that followed, as well as the ongoing harassment of women in Egypt. We should not deny the clear and disturbing reality of this problem. However, it is not fai ...
• WaPo: Same Sex Couples Lead to Marriage Licens ...
  Rod 2.0:Beta #gay #news #lgbt #gaynews: WaPo: Same Sex Couples Lead to Marriage Licenses Doubling in D.C.: "The total number of applications more than doubled since the first same-sex couples lined up to get their licenses, from about 3,100 in the previous year to 6,600 during the past 12 months ...

Pensieve

• More on Egypt
  Reading that now, a few days after the military pressured Mubarak to step down, the Egyptian parliament has been dissolved, and the Constitution invalidated by the Egyptian military. This fills me with fear. The mainstream media are treating these acts as a good thing, and the Egyptians they int ...
• Update: Mubarak Not Stepping Down Tonight
  Related posts:Celestial Show Tonight Update on March Update, Perverse Justice
• US involved in an Egyptian “military coup”?
  Photo by adaptorplug A CNN news story says that Hofni Mubarak will likely relinquish power to the Egyptian military tonight. This is what their source, âa senior Egyptian officalâ is quoted by CNN as saying: He said the process — which included dialogue between the government and opposition repr ...
• President Llorens
  I’ve reconsidered my position about posting Wikileaks articles. This article not only discusses classified material disclosed by Wikileaks, but actually quotes it. I know some of my readers work for the US government, thus the warning. I am not an enemy of the United States of America. I simply ...
• Magnificent
  This movie brought me to tears. It is the story of a man whose lack of limbs from birth relegated him to life as a circus side-show freak. It tells of how he was recognized by the owner of a rival circus as “magnificent”. After overcoming his bitterness, the man transformed from freak to hero. [ ...

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

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

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

• Please report any unattended human rights
  I read Neve Gordon’s piece a few months back about human rights websites being banned at Ben Gurion airport, and thought what a perfect microcosm of the front Israel is trying to put up to the world. While they wouldn’t think of banning such websites to their own population, I hope, internation ...
• Israeli solidarity activist interrogated by po ...
  Sara Benninga, whose speech I reposted here on the blog, was interrogated by the police after speaking at the JStreet conference I attended. She provided one of the voices for a new direction for Jewish and Israeli activists working alongside Palestinians for justice. For this she rewarded with ...
• Eviatar: Three Dead Children
  Guest Post by Aharan Eviatar The recent ghastly events in Arizona, especially the killing of Christina Greene, gunned down by a political lunatic at age nine, lead one to think of the phenomenon of political killing of children and what it implies for society. In particular, I would like to bri ...
• Second School Year Opens at Salem’s Musi ...
  On Saturday February 19 we visited the Salem Music Center. We were accompanied by three professionals – Fuad, a music teacher from Tel Aviv-Yaffa, Ram – principal of Tel Aviv’s art high school, and Ruti – head of that school’s music department. The occasion was the opening of a second school yea ...
• 7 hours ago in Al Arakib
  By Yeela Raanan It seemed that there were “red lines” even for the police brutality against the Bedouins of the Israeli Negev – while destroying homes that had no possibility for acquiring building permits, arresting people on their village lands in order to make room for JNF trees, beating ac ...

Politics in the Zeros

• Not one building collapsed in Toyko
  This is due to their strict building codes and major preventative measures. A quake that big in Los Angeles would cause thousands of buildings to crumble. I was in L.A. during the Northridge quake. The damage was severe and that was a 6.7, or what some of the Japan aftershocks will be. Japan was ...
• 3 Mile Island 2.0: Will Fukushima fail?
  The Energy Collective has the history and stats for the nuclear plant damaged in the Japan quake.
• Utah state senator for sale on eBay
  A prairie dog just delivered this to me, saying it was from an anonymous source… My state senator Jerry Stevenson voted for the food tax, for SB224 and for SJR 9 and SB165. I just don’t need him anymore and I‘m selling him on eBay! Please share far and wide. It will help raise money [...]
• Polizeros Radio. Eric Martin interview
  Libya no-fly zone, NPR sting, 2012 elections, Afghanistan war, and more. Eric Martin is senior Editor of ProgressiveRealist.org “a metablog about American foreign policy.” With Steve Hynd of Newshoggers, and Josh Mull of Firedoglake & Rethink Afghanistan and myself. Listen to the show on BlogTal ...
• Japan earthquake
  The Big Picture has videos and photos of the devastating quake and tsunami in Japan. This partial image from a much larger photo shows homes on fire after the tsunami hit and dumped huge amounts of debris. I was in L.A. during the Northridge earthquake. That was a 6.7. This one was a monster 8.8 ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

• Explosion At Nuclear Power Plant In Japan &#82 ...
• End the Fed: Filmmaker Tad Lumpkin Animates th ...
  “Any time you give unlimited capacity to print money, then the government’s going to grow,” says filmmaker Tad Lumpkin. Lumpkin created the animated feature The American Dream, which is available on YouTube, to explain U.S. monetary policy and its consequences in a way that would be accessible t ...
• STAND DOWN? Army reprimands 9 officers in Fort ...
  By Lolita C. Baldor Associated Press / March 10, 2011 WASHINGTON—Nine Army officers are being reprimanded for leadership failures in connection with the shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, and their failure to detect and report problems with the accused shooter, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, as he m ...
• Memory Hole Video of the Day – Tesla Tec ...
• Saudia Arabia quashes “Day of Rage&#8221 ...
  Saudia Arabia quashes protests but massive crowds swarm Yemeni cities, tensions wrack Bahrain An anti-government protestor reacts during a demonstration demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Sanaa, Yemen, Friday, March 11, 2011. Yemen’s embattled president on Thurs ...

The Air Vent

• Saving The World, One Progressive at a Time
  Josh had this awesome depiction of Romm right where I see him.  At least at the elevation of its nesting habitat, it is safe from the 5 feet of sea level rise. Although, there’s good news, the emerging species may now be able to nest a little lower.  Hopefully we’ll know soon what this little [...]
• Another brick in the Wahl
  Still no time for climate blogging.  In fact if anything, time is shorter. If you have any interest in climate science and why the skeptics are winning the war of reason over ‘scientists’, read this post by Steve Mosher and Charles the moderator at WUWT. The recent CA article is also worth your ...
• kgnd & Cross-Validation: PART II – Parti ...
  by Ryan O’Donnell kgnd & Cross-Validation: PART II (TTLS vs. Ridge Regression and Table S3) In his O’Donnellgate post, Steig makes the following observation: Itâs perhaps also worth pointing out that the *main* criticism I had of OâDonnellâs paper was never addressed. If youâre interested in thi ...
• Nick Stokes – TempLS
  Nick Stokes has been messing around with another regression of the Antarctic, he’s done some good stuff but I believe is seeing some of the difficulty of spatial trend containment using PCA methods.  It’s fairly interesting: Antarctic, RO10, Steig and TempLS.
• kgnd & Cross-Validation – By Ryan ODonnell
  PART I (West Antarctica) IMPORTANT NOTE:  The code has been modified to extract station-by-station cross-validation results for TTLS.  If you are using the code, please download the new copy RO10 Code.txt and use that.  Data is here internal.cv.Rdata.

Focal Point

• Friends With Benefits: Why Private Sector Work ...
  The Republicans are trying to pit private sector workers against public sector workers. It's easy for a struggling private sector worker with low wages and no benefits to resent of private sector workers with job security, pensions, health care, and more--especially if that worker's state taxes ...
• Did Wisconsin Senators Break State's Open Meet ...
  In their haste to pass a union-busting bill in the dead of night, without a quorum, Wisconsin's Republican senators may have violated the state's open meetings law. As I report in Working In These Times, the Republicans are trying to cloud the issue by asserting that they followed senate rules . ...
• Sex Advice Columnist Dan Savage As Ethicist
  Benjamin Dueholm has a cover story in the Washington Monthly assessing sex advice columnist Dan Savage as an ethicist: Savage yields to no one in his sexual libertarianism, but he has not been content to relegate the ideas of right and wrong to cultural conservatives. Wading deep into the f ...
• Slavery Proponents Not Stupid, Excellent at Ra ...
  "Secession wasn’t evidence that the South didn’t have a reasoned intellectual life. In fact, it was the strongest evidence that it did," according to the teaser on a blog post by historian Michael O'Brien on the New York Times' website. Historical evidence abounds that Southerners were not ...
• Of Course Birth Control Prevents Abortions: De ...
  Kirsten Powers has a piece in the Daily Beast arguing that birth control doesn't prevent abortions. Her case is largely based on a blatant factual error. She writes: In the U.S., the story isn’t much different. A January 2011 fact sheet by the pro-abortion rights Guttmacher Institute listed ...

Inside Facebook

• Inside Network Speaking in Austin at SXSW Next ...
  Two Inside Network staffers will be speaking at the South By Southwest Interactive conference in Austin, Texas this coming week. Josh Constine, lead writer on Inside Facebook, will be moderating a panel of Facebook platform developers discussing the value of Facebook fans. Kim-Mai Cutler, lead w ...
• Facebook Roundup: Skype, Al Jazeera, Video, Mo ...
  Facebook, Skype Rumored to be in Talks – Thereâs a rumor going around that Skype and Facebook are going to partner to allow users to make calls within Facebook. Al Jazeera Show Will Script From Facebook – A new show on the Al Jazeera English network, âThe Stream,â is set to take its content cues ...
• Facebook Expands @ Mention Tagging to Comments
  Facebook users can now tag their friends, Pages, Groups, and Events in comments to news feed stories and wall posts to create linked mentions. This will help users carry on conversations with other commenters and allow them to easily reference different entities on Facebook. In September 2009, u ...
• Worldwide Gains, Possible US Traffic Slowdown ...
  Some differences between different data sources appear in our latest effort to triangulate Facebook’s traffic. The company had a pretty strong February around the world, according to data from our Inside Facebook Gold report, gaining 23.8 million new users to total 641.1 million monthly actives. ...
• Photo, iPad, Video, Mobile and Profile Banner ...
  Several profile banner applications, in addition to video apps, a few photo apps, games and others composed our list of top 20 emerging Facebook apps this week. The list of top 20 emerging apps was compiled based on AppData, our data tracking service covering traffic growth for apps on Facebook ...

Truthout - Tweets

• truthout: Emergency Declared at Japanese Nucle ...
  truthout: Emergency Declared at Japanese Nuclear Plant http://bit.ly/gcp7gU #p2 #p2b #p21
• truthout: Wisconsin Governor Rescinds Layoff N ...
  truthout: Wisconsin Governor Rescinds Layoff Notices http://bit.ly/eWdNlT #p2 #p2b #p21
• truthout: Military Cutbacks Won't Fix Deficit ...
  truthout: Military Cutbacks Won't Fix Deficit http://bit.ly/dY5m7I #p2 #p2b #p21
• truthout: In Defense of NPR http://bit.ly/hFmR ...
  truthout: In Defense of NPR http://bit.ly/hFmRqO #p2 #p2b #p21
• truthout: Muslim-American Terrorism Down in 20 ...
  truthout: Muslim-American Terrorism Down in 2010 http://bit.ly/dVEDcq #p2 #p2b #p21

ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

• Belo Monte hydroelectric dam construction work ...
  The company leading the dam project, Norte Energia, announced that infrastructure work on roads that will provide access to the region started on Monday morning. The £7bn Belo Monte dam on the Amazon’s Xingu river is scheduled to start producing energy on 31 December 2014 and would be the seco ...
• Brazil judge blocks Amazon Belo Monte dam:
  Federal Brasilian judge Ronaldo Desterro has blocked plans to build a huge hydro-electric dam in the Amazon rainforest because of environmental concerns. Judge Desterro said environmental requirements to build the Belo Monte dam had not been met. He also barred the national development bank, BND ...
• 1.ooo military forces end illegal gold mining ...
  The Peruvian military has cleared-out illegal gold mining along the country’s south-eastern Amazon region in a move aiming to protect the environment. The government sent about 1,000 security forces to the region of Madre de Dios to destroy the illegal operations, the state-funded BBC reported. ...
• BREAKING: Chevron Guilty of Amazon Rainforest ...
  Amazon Watch and Rainforest Action Network just announced a major victory for the Amazon rainforest. An Ecuadorean judge today found Chevron guilty of one of the largest environmental crimes in history and ordered the company to pay a whopping $8 billion to clean up its damage in the Amazon. Che ...
• First film footage of uncontacted Amazon Tribe
  The footage was filmed by the BBC’s Human Planet series shows a Tribe known as the Panoan, who live in virtual isolation from the outside world. The team needed too get footage of the Tribe as proof of their existence so as the government could protect them from illegal logging and mining operat ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• Jamiol Presents
• Boiling Frogs Post Countdown-Week 2
  We Need Your Support to ‘Help Wake up the American public before the water gets too hot to climb out of the pot’ I want to thank those of you who have contributed to Boiling Frogs Post during our first week campaign. Thank You! Next, I want to briefly respond to a common inquiry I’ve received fr ...
• Sibel Edmonds’ Boiling Frogs Post: Year Two
  We Need Your Support to Continue & Expand: Countdown Week 1 In October 2009 I launched Boiling Frogs Post  with one purpose in mind: To establish a venue for investigative articles, editorials, analyses, discussions, and interviews on issues largely censored by the media. We are entering our sec ...
• Boiling Frogs Post Status & Update
  Boiling Frogs Year Two-A Personal Note Next week I’ll be leaving for a business related trip, followed by relocation related travel where I’ll be checking housing, schooling for my daughter, work,  among tons of other ‘life related’ details in a new hometown, and finalized by a short but straigh ...
• Boiling Frogs Beltway Buzz: The Upcoming Bipar ...
  A Caucus to Combat Terrorism, Domestic Violence, Divorce & Job Dissatisfaction via ‘Happiness Pill’ According to our inside sources a new Bipartisan Congressional Caucus for Prozac will be launched before the end of the 112th Congress. The primary purpose of the Prozac Caucus will be to raise aw ...

Afro Spear

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

Expose the BNP

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

Sen4Earth

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

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

• ExxonMobil Biofuel Advert Officially Pronounce ...
  ASA Adjudication on ExxonMobil UK Ltd ExxonMobil UK Ltd ExxonMobil House Ermyn Way Leatherhead Surrey KT22 8UX Date: 9 March 2011 Media: Television Sector: Utilities Number of complaints: 1 Agency: Euro RSCG London Ltd Complaint Ref: 141542 Ad A TV ad for ExxonMobil UK Ltd (ExxonMobil) featured ...
• UK Census 2011: Why I Will Be Breaking The Law ...
  On Sunday March 27, 2011 I will be breaking the law. If you live in England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland then I would also like you to break the law. We can do it together, and I know for a fact that an awful lot of people will be doing the same. The UK [...]
• Interview With Bill McKibben, Winner of Puffin ...
  Climate reality writer and activist Gregory Vickrey. (L) ( Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Founder of 350.org, writer and environmentalist Bill McKibben. (R) (Photo: Nancie Battaglia / 350.org) Bill McKibben, Schumann distinguished scholar at Middlebury College, is the author of a dozen boo ...
• An Open Letter to Journalists From Gasland Dir ...
  With the recent Oscar nomination of my documentary film GASLAND, Big Gas and their PR attack machine hit a new low in its blatant disregard for the truth. In an unprecedented move, an oil and gas industry front group sent a letter to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences saying that th ...
• 350.org say “Hello Business, Goodbye Gra ...
  For a while it wasn’t certain which side would blink first: the grassroots or the corporate loving heirarchy. Turns out that the grassroots blinked before the heirarchy had even been established. When, like 350.org you have a full time staff of just half a dozen people then you have a pretty eas ...

Subalternate Reality

• Keith Ellison’s Tears And Epistemic Closure
  Rep. Peter King’s hearings looking into the “radicalization” of the American Muslim community, and the suggestion that the community doesn’t cooperate with law enforcement, was largely a waste of time and tax dollars. The affair didn’t produce a single insight into the actual and urgent issue of ...
• Praying On Qasr al-Nil
  One of the more memorable scenes of the Egyptian revolution will surely be that of ordinary Egyptian’s praying on Cairo’s Qasr al-Nil Bridge as members of Egyptian state police direct their water cannons at them. Truly a remarkable sight. via Al Jazeera Filed under: Middle East Tagged: Al-Jazeer ...
• “I Support Democratization, But…&# ...
  The Atlanticâs Jeffrey Goldberg â one of the key proponents of the disastrous invasion of Iraq â has some serious misgivings about the fledgling pro-democracy movement thatâs taken over the streets of Egypt. âI support democratization, but,â he cautions, âthe democratization we saw in Gaza (cour ...
• All That Happens In The Middle East Can’ ...
  Uncertainly rules the day in Tunisia. Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the countryâs strong-armed and authoritarian ruler since 1987, is in Saudi Arabia while the interim government struggles to restore some semblance of order.  âConfusion, fear and horror in Tunisia as old regime’s militia carries on ...
• Newt Comes Out As A Muslim-Baiter
  Early this week, disgraced former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich warned that “a commitment to religious freedom and God-given rights is being replaced by a secular oppression…”  Just hours after those words appeared on Human Events, Gingrich issued a statement forcefully opposing the constr ...

Idea Lab | Technology

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

Cutting Edge News

• Deaf Community Nationwide Appeal to NY Gov. Cuomo
  We appeal to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo: All eyes across America are on New York�s legislative session, and we are joining millions of Americans to strongly object to your proposed budget elimination of the 4201 Schools for the Deaf.�We strongly recommend that you take this proposed eliminat ...
• Congress Should Proceed with Islamic Extremism ...
  The hearings on Islamic extremism scheduled by Rep. Peter King must move forward and should include our best experts, that is,�those without a political ax to grind. When I read that scholar Walid Phares would be dropped from King's witness list, (see NY Congressman King Fends off Critics on Top ...
• King Should not Fear the Truth from Walid Phares
  Rep. Peter King should not fear the testimony of noted Islamic terror expert Walid Phares as has been reported in The Cutting Edge (see NY Congressman King Fends off Critics on Top Terror Expert Testimony at Congressional Hearings, News March 3, 2011). As one who has read one of Phares's recent ...
• Edge on the Environment - Coal Ash Plans Raise ...
  Coal consumption is increasing in many parts of the world, driven by skyrocketing energy demands in rapidly developing countries like China. But with coal comes pollution: from climate-changing carbon dioxide to coal ash,� the powdery toxic waste left over from burning coal to produce electricit ...
• The Cold War - Gorbachev’s Foreign Policy Chan ...
  Mikhail Gorbachev was elected General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union on March 11, 1985. At 54, he was the youngest member of the ruling Politburo, which voted him into power. For the next six years, he instituted policies that would alter the course of history and ultimatel ...

High Country News

• A prodigal son is honored by his hometown
  Controversial writer Dalton Trumbo returns to his hometown of Grand Junction, Colo. -- in a bronze bathtub.
• Finding place
  A wilderness ranger has spent the last 14 years coming to intimately know -- and love -- a remarkable corner of Alaska.
• Oregon sculptor turns beach trash into meaning ...
  Angela Haseltine Pozzi makes thought-provoking art from the trash that washes up on Oregon's beaches.
• New national forest rule lacks rigor
  Environmentalists like the tone of the Forest Service's new draft planning rule, but worry about how - and if - it will be enforced on the ground.
• Thirteen ways of looking at a mushroom cloud
  Ann Ronald's Friendly Fallout 1953 is an experiment in literary fission that describes 11 actual nuclear detonations through the eyes of mostly fictional characters.

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

• Moonbats Blame Japanese Earthquake/Tsunami on ...
  It's time to add to the list of dumb things the global warming moonbats claim is caused by their hoax.� During the past two years the left has blamed global warming for Incredible shrinking sheep, Invasion of jellyfish in the Mediterranean, Surge in fatal shark attack, Boy Scout tornado dea ...
• U.S. Head of Intelligence James Clapper Should ...
  By Barry Rubin If the Obama Administration would listen more to Secretary of State Hilary Clinton and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates it might salvage its foreign policy. But it has a penchant for picking--and listening to--people who are incompetent, ideologically wacky�or totally out ...
• Mr President, YOU LIE! Obama Misled Public Ab ...
  This afternoon the President of the United States tried one again to mislead the public about domestic oil production and how much untapped oil is left in the ground.� He said that domestic oil production is at the highest level in seven years and he indicated that American reserves are not adeq ...
• Al Sharpton Needs To Find a New Reason To Hate ...
  Never a loss for a reason to hate, professional bigot Al Sharpton needs to find a new reason to chose the "chosen people," despite that at least one expert believes that things are going to be very good for America at least through the 2014 election. In the middle east, there is a new social med ...
• Second Damaging NPR Video Released, Executive ...
  James O' Keefe released a second NPR video, this time the target was NPR exeutive Betsy Liley who was also in in the first video. Liley, NPR's senior director of institutional giving, is featured on the phone with the fictitious members of the Muslim brotherhood, who were looking for a way to do ...

The Real Agenda

• Radiation leaking from quake-hit nuclear plant
  - Explosion blew the roof off the facility in the wake of a massive earthquake - Earth’s axis shifts 25 cm Reuters The developments raised fears of a disastrous meltdown at the plant, which was damaged by Friday’s 8.9-magnitude earthquake, the strongest ever recorded in Japan. “We are looking in ...
• Japanese Nuclear Plant Blows up
  - Japan declares emergency at all 5 nuclear units - Government evacuating a radius of 20 kilometers, about 50,000 people AP An explosion at a nuclear power station Saturday destroyed a building housing the reactor amid fears that it was close to a disastrous meltdown after being hit by a powerfu ...
• Japan is hours away from nuclear tragedy
  Japanese officials may only have hours to cool reactors that have been disabled by Friday’s massive earthquake and tsunami or face a nuclear meltdown. Reuters Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) (9501.T) is racing to cool down the reactor core after a highly unusual “station blackout” — the total lo ...
• Extreme Super (Full) Moon to Cause Chaos?
  Accuweather.com Mar 1, 2011 Coming up later this month (March 19 to be exact) the moon will make its closest approach to Earth (called lunar perigee) in 18 years. A new or full moon at 90% or greater of its closest perigee to Earth has been named a “SuperMoon” by astrologer Richard Nolle. This t ...
• Largest Earthquake since 1900 hits Japan
  8.9 magnitude on Richter scale caused a 7 feet tall tsunami that hit the pacific coast of Japan WSJ The most devastating earthquake to hit Japan in at least 300 years rocked the country on Friday afternoon, triggering a 10-meter tsunami that violently engulfed cars and other objects in its path ...

Wind Watch

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

Not My Tribe

• So here’s what vote suppression looks li ...
  Even with the literally untold billions of dollars spent on the hate-mail attack ads, and the “don’t vote ’cause they’ll screw you anyway” campaign, we squeaked out of a massive TeaTard RepubliKlan regime such as the one of Scott Walker of Wisconsin. Tossed workers rights back to the beginning o ...
• Corporate personhood: unintended consequences
  yes/no: are corporations persons? Are Corporations composed of shareholders? Do Corporations act on behalf and with the explicit consent of the shareholders? Has the corporation, with said consent, used any consideration of value including the intellectual property of the corporate officers or o ...
• Merrifield portrayed as Lenin, Princess Lisa s ...
  But you know, right, that somebody who is pandering to the Lunatic Fringe of the Right Wing, the ones stupid enough and hate-filled enough to do it, the ones who feel anybody who isn’t a lock-step conformist racist elitist Wealthy Republiklan member or their really STUPID minions is a “commie”… ...
• Princess Lisa, “conservative” spen ...
  She sent this Email, cc’ed to Dennis Hisey, Amy Lathen and Sallie Clark, her TeaBag Terrorist accomplices, and to the Fascist Sheriff and Police Chief:I assume these are copyright violations. Ed, I am forwarding this on to Chief Meyers of the Colorado police department and El Paso County’s Sheri ...
• Ballot Caging and the real difference between ...
  The R’s don’t want people to vote. More people politically active, means they lose. Very simple. You might ask yourself Self, what’s the worst that could happen? What’s the difference between a D and an R? What real difference does it make if large groups of people are disenfranchised? Why not a ...

Debunking the Debunkers

• New document supports Norman Mineta's testimon ...
  During testimony given to the 9/11 Commission, then Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta had the following exchange with 9/11 commissioner Lee Hamilton regarding the plane coming into the Pentagon: MR. MINETA: ...There was a young man who had come in and said to the vice president, "The pla ...
• Pumpitout Radio: Foreknowledge and Lack of Air ...
  Jeff Hill's Pumpitout radio show featuring John-Michael Talboo detailing his research into the many pre 9/11 warnings of terrorist attacks using planes as weapons. Also, the UNBELIEVABLE LACK of response from NORAD and other facilities equipped to defend our air space on the morning of Septem ...
• Confirmed: FBI Got Warning Day Before OKC Bombing
  New documents released under the Freedom of Information Act confirm that the FBI received a phone call the day before the Oklahoma City bombing warning that the attack was imminent, and that the feds tried to reach a deal with bomber Terry Nichols to take the death penalty off the table if he ad ...
• Mike Adams & Andrew Wakefield on Scientific Re ...
  Dr Andrew Wakefield speaks on the structure of scientific revolutions: Vaccines, viruses and evolution An excellent discussion on the history of science and how revolutionary figures are often savagely attacked, despite being correct. The stuff about cold fusion was interesting. Steven Jones ...
• Debunking the Debunkers on Pumpitout Radio
  Jeff Hill's Pumpitout radio show featuring Adam Taylor and myself. We discuss the undeniable evidence which proves that the public has not been told the truth concerning the atrocities that took place on September 11, 2001. We also discuss the numerous errors made by so-called 9/11 "debunkers." ...

Fooducate

• Really Irritating Napkin [See Picture]
  Dear food and beverage brands, Instead of asking us to help you raise pennies for various health causes, how about making products that don’t make us sick in the first place? Thank you. Get Fooducated: iPhone App RSS Subscription or Email Subscription Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/fooducate ...
• Portion Distortion – The Hidden Enemy. How YOU ...
  One of the trickiest aspects of eating well is consuming the right portion size. Eating homemade, unprocessed foods, with lots of whole grains, low fat meats and dairy can still lead to excessive calorie consumption if you don’t exercise portion restraint. It gets worse when you buy foods in pac ...
• Wonder Launches SmartWheat Bread. Does it Deli ...
  Earlier this week, Hostess, the parent company of Wonder Bread, announced a new line of soft bread with 100% whole wheat: SmartWheat is a new, soft 100% whole wheat bread with 22 grams of whole grain, the calcium of 8 ounces of milk in two slices, and a good source of 9 vitamins and minerals. [...]
• Kool-Aid Brings Back the Fun [Not Kool]
  This full page ad was spotted in Rachel Ray’s EveryDay magazine. “Bring back the fun” is supposed to trigger parents’ memories of a happy, carefree childhood, and nudge them to impart the same on their offspring. Just look at those happy smiling faces, those playfully extended tongues… …COVERED ...
• The NEW Special K Cereal Bars [Nutrition Impos ...
  A few days ago, Kellogg’s announced it was adding more fiber to its Special K cereal bars, and introducing 2 new flavors. This was an interesting opportunity to examine the bars, fooducate style. What you need to know: We’re sorry to report that the Special-K brand is doing an enormous disservic ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

• Land clearing begins for destructive Amazon dam
  Amazon Indians are calling for the Belo Monte dam to be halted © M. Cowan/ Survival Construction workers have begun to bulldoze land in the Brazilian Amazon to make way for the controversial Belo Monte mega-dam. Earlier this week, Norte Energia, the company building the dam, sent its worke ...
• 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 ...

Greg Palast

• Chevron Runs from Judgmentin Ecuador
  by Greg Palast Chevron petroleum Corporation is attempting to slither out of an $8 billion judgment rendered yesterday by a trial court in Ecuador for cancer deaths, illnesses and destruction caused by its Texaco unit. I've been there, in Ecuador. I met the victims.  They didn't lose their sh ...
• Reagan: Killer, Coward, Con-man
  The Observer London by Greg Palast You're not going to like this. You shouldn't speak ill of the dead. But in this case, someone's got to. On the 100th Anniversary of Ronald Reagan's birth, as we suffer a week of Reagan-kitcheria and pukey peons, let us remember: Reagan was a con-man. Rea ...
• Shake your head and throw something at your TV
  from MoviesOnline.ca Bush Family Fortunes is a documentary that will make you shake your head and want to throw something at your TV. If even half of what BBC investigative reporter Greg Palast reveals is true and you happen to be an American you may or may not be calling for a revolution depen ...
• Peak Oil and a Changing Climate
  from The Nation The scientific community has long agreed that our dependence on fossil fuels inflicts massive damage on the environment and our health, while warming the globe in the process. But beyond the damage these fuels cause to us now, what will happen when the world's supply of oil ru ...
• Palast ArrestedBusted by BP in Azerbaijan
  by Greg Palast BP's Azeri police arresting Palast for filming BP oil rig - Baku, Azerbaijan, December 2010"Here in Azerbaijan we believe in human rights. PLEASE GIVE US YOUR FILM." Oh, no, no, not good. The enforcers here come in three colors:  the military police still wearing their old Rus ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

• How can I reuse or recycle zip lock coffee bea ...
  I had one of those “it’s amazing how things mount up” moments the other day when I opened our tea & coffee cupboard and was confronted with this: They’re all empty, flattened out version of these: John likes his coffee. To be fair, he does prefer quality rather than quantity and these represents ...
• Upcycling leather jackets into shoes, pill bot ...
  Some more news/links from my inbox that I thought may interest you guys: Matt from Mes Footwork has been in touch to tell us about their new range of upcycled trainers: “We make shoes in Newcastle from recycled leather jackets (or any other item of clothing). The jackets are usually bought in ch ...
• Where can I source fabric production waste pro ...
  We’ve had an email from Karen which is a bit different from our normal “how can I recycle…” questions but a good question all the same: I’m a fashion student and I am interested in doing my final project/collection using waste products! I’ve been looking for things like parachute silk with fault ...
• Fantastic stuff made from fused plastic carrie ...
  I was going to write an article on different ways to reuse & recycle plastic carrier bags but then I started seeing such great pieces made from fusing the bags that I thought they deserved their own post — some really amazing stuff. I love, love, love Emily Grace and the Yellow Suitcase jeweller ...
• How can I reuse or recycle plug-in air fresheners?
  Following on in our vaguely spring-cleaning inspired cleaning week here on Recycle This, I received this email from Helen: How do I recycle plug in air freshener? My daughter has been diagnosed with allergies and they’ve recommended no air fresheners now. I’ve got four to get rid of. We’ve not u ...

Age of Autism

• Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Interviews Dr. Boyd Hale ...
  Please watch the interview of Dr. Boyd Haley, Professor Emeritus at the University of Kentucky, by environmental lawyer, Robert Kennedy Jr. Dr. Haley is a leading international expert on mercury toxicity. Kennedy and Haley discuss what exposure to mercury is...
• European Parliament Censures World Health Orga ...
  By John Stone The Environment Committee of the European Parliament has questioned the influence pharmaceutical industry in the light of the swine flu fiasco. A press release from the parliament reports: “Michèle Rivasi (Greens/EFA, FR), who drafted the report and...
• Mainstream Media Backs Supreme Court, Abandons ...
  By Anne Dachel March 5, 2011, the Los Angeles Times published an editorial aptly called, Inoculating vaccine makers (HERE) The essence of the article was that although it’s regrettable that vaccines damage some children, the Supreme Court did the right...
• NAA Pieces of Hope Autism Conference in Missis ...
  Register HERE for Pieces of HOPE A conference for those affected by Autism Spectrum Disorders April 2, 2011 8:30am - 5:00pm Highland Colony Baptist Church, Ridgeland, MS NAA Mississippi April 1, 2011- Meet & Greet, Meet the Author Night 5:30-8:00pm...
• Terrific Temple Grandin Article in Contra Cost ...
  Managing Editor's Note: Ms. Grandin has some sage advice, and I always appreciate her honesty and respect for those on the more severe side of the spectrum. Read the original article by Ms. Benca HERE. Temple Grandin gives message of...

Global BDS Movement

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

Farm Wars

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

Open Your Eyes News

• US drone kills five in Pakistan
  Herald Sun – At least five militants were killed in two US drone attacks near Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan.The first drone fired two missiles targeting a suspected militant vehicle in Khaisor town, about 30 kilometres north of Miranshah, the main town in the North Waziristan region, securi ...
• 17th century witch chronicles put online
  Yahoo News – A 350-year-old notebook which documents the trials of women convicted of witchcraft in England during the 17th century has been published online.  The notebook written by Nehemiah Wallington, an English Puritan, recounts the fate of women accused of having relationships with the de ...
• NASA scientist finds ‘alien life’ ...
  Yahoo News – A NASA scientist’s claim that he found tiny fossils of alien life in the remnants of a meteorite has stirred both excitement and skepticism, and is being closely reviewed by 100 experts. Richard Hoover’s paper, along with pictures of the microscopic earthworm-like creatures, were pu ...
• U.S. targeted EU on GM foods: WikiLeaks
  CBC – Senior U.S. officials in Paris advised the George Bush administration to launch a military-style trade war against the European Union for resisting genetically modified foods, according to newly released WikiLeaks cables. The then U.S. ambassador to France, Craig Stapleton, asked the gover ...
• TSA Never Tested Full-Body Scans For Mass Tran ...
  Forbes – When it comes to full body scanners, the Department of Homeland Security doesnât always offer the same level of transparency that it imposes on your clothes. Last week, I wrote about a new set of documents the Electronic Privacy and Information Center (EPIC) obtained through the Freedom ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

• Poisoned fish: An old mercury mine taints Cali ...
  An abandoned mercury mine that for decades has sent polluted, orange waste into a creek that eventually feeds into San Francisco Bay is a threat to human health and should be added to a list of the nation's worst polluted...
• $6-billion solar industry logs another record year
  The solar industry seems to have turned in yet another record-breaking year in 2010, as the total market value of the sector spiked 67% to $6 billion from $3.6 billion in 2009, according to an annual report. Companies installed 878...
• Plastic prevalent among small fish in Pacific ...
  “As the larger pieces of plastic break down they mimic the size, shape and texture of natural food,” said Charles Moore, the founder of Algalita and an author of the study. “What we're seeing is the entire food web being contaminated by plastic.”
• Erin Brockovich again takes up the cause of Hi ...
  At the end of “Erin Brockovich,” a housewife sick from toxic chromium weeps with joy as she's handed her portion of a historic $333-million settlement between residents of this small desert town and the utility that poisoned their drinking water....
• Senate rebuffs GOP cuts to environmental progr ...
  The Senate on Wednesday voted down a House spending proposal that contained a wide array of cuts to environmental initiatives in California and across the nation. The measure, approved by the Republican-led House last month, sliced more than $60 billion...

water.org

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

Before It's News

• Father shamelessly promotes Florida performances
• Fox 59 Bullied Into Dropping News Story About ...
• Japanese quakes epicenter located near Marian ...
• More on Sisters
• Iowa House passes collective bargaining bill

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

• On Womens Day, GOP Attacks Women
  In the state and local public sector unions that these governors are trying to enfeeble, members are more likely to be women � teachers, librarians, nurses, and public health workers. On the state level, 52 percent of workers are women; on the local-->Submitted by Kit B. to Society & Culture �| ...
• China Takes Stricter Methods to Stifle Demonst ...
  A more heavy-handed blanket of security shrouded major Chinese cities Sunday, as police randomly questioned students, rounded up foreign journalists and other perceived trouble-makers and forced shops designated as gathering points for demonstration toSubmitted by Naoko I. to World �|� �Note-it ...
• U.S. Diplomat Accused of Disparaging Okinawans
  Head of the Japanese affairs office and a former consul general in Okinawa Prefecture, described Okinawan people as "masters of manipulation and extortion" when dealing with the central government.Submitted by Naoko I. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Maehara to Quit Cabinet Over Donations
  Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara expressed his intention to resign Sunday to take responsibility for illegaly accepting donations from a foreign national, further damaging the already shaky Cabinet ot Prime Minister Naoto Kan.Submitted by Naoko I. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• An Arab Israeli Woman Fighting on All Fronts
  "Every woman is a woman of frustration. Me, I'm just struggle." Hanin Zoabi, 41, is a Palestinian Israeli woman, a fighiting woman. An elected member of the Israeli Knesset parliament, she is the first woman on an Arab party's list, Balad. Submitted by Naoko I. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

• New U.S. Solar Player Makes Big Move
  EPG�Solar LLC was established in 2010 by parent company Elemental Power Group to focus solely on the development and procurement of solar energy projects. read more
• U.S. Solar Industry Has Record-Breaking Year i ...
  A new industry report conducted by the Solar Energy Industries Association and GTM Research highlights record-breaking growth for the United States' solar power industry in 2010. read more
• SunPower and Toshiba Sign 48-Megawatt Supply D ...
  SunPower Corporation (Nasdaq: SPWRA) has signed an agreement to supply 48 megawatts of high-efficiency solar modules to the Toshiba Corporation (OTC: TOSBF.PK) over the next year. read more
• Florida Home to World's First Hybrid Energy Plant
  Florida's largest electric utility Florida Power & Light Company (NYSE:NEE-PC) is the owner and operator of the world's first hybrid solar natural gas energy center. read more
• Amtech Systems Posts Record Breaking Solar Orders
  Arizona-based solar and semiconductor solutions provider Amtech Systems, Inc (Nasdaq: ASYS) is establishing itself as a global leader in the solar sector. read more

News Blaze

• EPA Updates National Air Toxics Assessment
  The assessment shows that EPA, the states, and industry are continuing to make progress to reduce air toxic emissions. Between 1990 and 2005, air toxic emissions were reduced by about 42 percent from industrial and mobile sources.
• Freedom House Calls for The Release of Detaine ...
  Freedom House is deeply concerned about the well-being of eight political and civil society activists who have been arbitrarily arrested in Cameroon and urges authorities to release them immediately without harm.
• UN Voices Sorrow, Pledges Assistance After Dea ...
  The quake, which struck at 2:46 p.m. local time, measured 8.9 on the Richter scale. Its epicentre was undersea, about 400 kilometres northeast of the Japanese capital, Tokyo. The subsequent tsunami inundated towns, villages and farmland along the co
• Courageous Wisconsin Senators Find a Way to Re ...
  The bill moves to the state Assembly today, where it's expected to gain quick approval. Then Walker's signature will put the finishing touches on a historic leap forward for the school reform movement.
• Cambodia and Thailand Agree to UNESCO Meeting ...
  The agreement follows a recent mission to Cambodia and Thailand by Ko�chiro Matsuura, UNESCO's Special Envoy for Preah Vihear, who met with the prime ministers of the two nations and other senior officials.

Worldnews

• Noose tightening around Muammar Gaddafi, ...
  US President Barack Obama has warned that "the noose" around Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi was tightening and said the international community had an obligation to prevent a Rawanda-style civilian massacre in the north African nation. "Across the board, we are slowly tightening the noose on ...
• Obama prepared to tap US oil reserve
  WASHINGTON - President Obama said yesterday he is prepared to tap the country's emergency oil reserve if necessary. But as gas prices climbed toward $4 a gallon, the president said the United States must adopt a long-term strategy of conservation and domestic production to wean itself off f ...
• US, allies 'tightening noose' around Gadd ...
  President Barack Obama said the United States and its allies are slowly tightening the noose on Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and that a no-fly zone remains an option to put pressure on him. Obama, accused by critics of reacting too slowly to the turmoil in...
• Noose tightening around Gaddafi, says Oba ...
  Washington, Mar 12 (PTI) Saturday, March 12, 2011 --> US President Barack Obama has warned that ''the noose'' around Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi was tightening and said the international community had an obligation to prevent a Rawanda-style civilian massacre in the north African nation. " ...
• Obama, GOP both eye budget behemoths
  WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and the Senate's top Republican both declared Friday that they want to take on the huge entitlement programs driving America's long-term deficits — but their lines of attack differ sharply, and that could lead to a showdown over government borrowing. Sena ...

Alex in Wonderland

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

MY Daily Apple

• Impact of growth hormone therapy on adult heig ...
  Objective To systematically determine the impact of growth hormone therapy on adult height of children with idiopathic short stature. Design Systematic review. Data sources Cochrane Central...
• Popular baby media may not actually advance le ...
  Parents who want to provide their babies a learning advantage these days often turn to what's been nicknamed "baby media" videos specifically ...
• Academy Makes Extra Effort to Equip Members fo ...
  The date for implementing ICD-10-CM is on the horizon. And to ensure that family physicians are ready, the Academy has added to its cache of resources ahead of the Oct. 1, 2013, implementation date.
• Springy Nanostructured Metals Hold Promise For ...
  Rutgers researchers have identified a class of high-strength metal alloys that show potential to make springs, sensors and switches smaller and more responsive...
• Vascular brain disorder often misdiagnosed as ...
  A devastating vascular disorder of the brain called CADASIL, which strikes young adults and leads to early dementia, often is misdiagnosed as multiple sclerosis, researchers report.

Common Dreams

• Saudi Arabian Security Forces Quell 'Day of Ra ...
  Saudi security forces came out in strength in Riyadh on a "day of rage" organized by pro-democracy campaigners who managed only small demonstrations in the eastern provinces. Expectations that the unrest sweeping the Arab world in the last few weeks would spread to its most conservative kingdom ...
• Stripped Naked Every Night, Bradley Manning Te ...
  Bradley Manning, the US soldier being held in solitary confinement on suspicion of having released state secrets to WikiLeaks, has spoken out for the first time about what he claims is his punitive and unlawful treatment in military prison. ...
• State Dept. Spokesman Crowley Slams Pentagon o ...
  The harsh conditions in which Bradley Manning, the accused WikiLeaks leaker, are being held have helped make him a cause celebre on parts of the left, but the complaints have generated little official government sympathy -- until now. read ...
• Mideast Turmoil Rocks Western Reputations
  LONDON� - NMS International has taken to hiding its website behind a password and director Louis Oliver gives a false name when he answers his phone. read more
• Residents ordered to evacuate after Japan nuke ...
  TOKYO — The Japanese government has issued an evacuation order to thousands of residents near a nuclear power plant rocked by the giant 8.9-magnitude earthquake that hit the Pacific Rim nation Friday. The move came after Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said the nuclear power plant in Fukushi ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

• James Moore
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• Sarah Polley
• Jay Baruchel
• David Suzuki

Examine Religion - Tweets

• ExamineReligion: Take part in an unforgettable ...
  ExamineReligion: Take part in an unforgettable outdoor adventure this summer http://exm.nr/fXzM2m
• ExamineReligion: Imran Khan to address the fun ...
  ExamineReligion: Imran Khan to address the fund raising event at Columbia University on March23rd http://exm.nr/heKoyJ
• ExamineReligion: NY Students considering law a ...
  ExamineReligion: NY Students considering law as career should apply for this free summer program http://exm.nr/fObuKA
• ExamineReligion: Muslims despise Western democ ...
  ExamineReligion: Muslims despise Western democratic ideals and freedoms Pt 6 http://exm.nr/gyp4V2
• ExamineReligion: Unitarian Universalists disap ...
  ExamineReligion: Unitarian Universalists disappointed, continue fight for equal marriage in MD http://exm.nr/gcoqQh

Energy Collective

• Discussion Thread – What We Know About the Jap ...
  Please use this Discussion Thread for the situation in Japan with respect to the earthquake and the local nuclear reactors. Here is a summary of the situation as I understand it: 1. There is no credible risk of a serious accident. All reactors responded by insertion of control rods to shut down ...
• Japan: Will Fukushima Fail? UPDATED
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• Japan Quake: Fukushima Reactor Must Be Shut Do ...
  Guest post re Japan nuclear Fukushima emergency. The following post is info from a�CNN article�comment by someone named jjj4591.
• BREAKING: Global Updates on Japan Fukushima Nu ...
  An 8.9 magnitude earthquake is affecting nuclear power stations in Japan.� A global media track of reports on the status of Japanese nuclear reactors has been running since 8 AM EST at the ANS Nuclear Cafe.This blog post mirrors the content from the ANS blog.� The post has two sections (1) updat ...
• Solar not just a California thing anymore
  The United States solar businesses boomed, as usual, in 2010, growing 67 percent to $6 billion, according to an annual report released Thursday by an industry trade group.

Green House - USA Today

• GOP House moves to stop EPA climate rules
  Citing high gas prices, the GOP-controlled U.S. House is moving to strip the Environmental Protection Agency of its power to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, which is a key part of President's Obama's climate agenda.
• U.S. solar industry reports record 2010 growth
  The U.S. solar power market grew a record 67% last year, making it the fastest growing energy sector, the industry reports Thursday.
• EPA requires Energy Star TVs to use 40% less e ...
  The Environmental Protection Agency is upping the ante on TV efficiency by announcing Wednesday that models earning its Energy Star logo will soon be required to use 40% less energy than conventional models.
• Wyoming's smog exceeds Los Angeles' due to gas ...
  Rural Wyoming, known for breathtaking vistas, now has worse smog than Los Angeles because of its boom in natural gas drilling.
• Report: U.S. coal power plants emit toxic air ...
  Coal-fired power plants release more toxic air pollutants such as arsenic and lead in the United States tan any other industrial pollution source, says a report Tuesday from the American Lung Association.

Prior Art

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

Peoples Voice

• Gilad Atzmon: The Penny Has Dropped
  Gilad Atzmon Ynet reported yesterday , that in a BBC global poll gauging attitudes towards various countries worldwide, Israel came pretty much at the bottom -- There were just three countries less popular than the Jewish State – Pakistan, North Korea and Iran. The Israelis must find it hard ...
• Corporate Coup d'Etat in Wisconsin
  by Stephen Lendman Ralph Nader calls Washington corporate-occupied territory - "every department agency controlled by the overwhelming presence of corporate lobbyists, corporate executives in high government positions, turning the government against its own people." Nader also said corpo ...
• A Perfect Storm of GMOs, Chemicals and Cancer
  By Rady Ananda Food Freedom Several books, including Seeds of Destruction and Corrupt to the Core, along with the film, The Idiot Cycle, lay out the framework for and evidence of a concerted effort to sicken and then treat humanity, while earning obscene profits. When we factor in other recent ...
• If the Script Calls for Credible “Bad Gu ...
  Peter Chamberlin The best-laid plans of America’s sickest minds are unraveling before their bloodshot evil eyes. The further the CIA mind-twisters stretch in trying to make their crazy “militant Islamist” scheme work somewhere in the Muslim world, the more the edges ravel on the magnificiant ...
• Egypt: Peering into the revolution’s cry ...
  Eric Walberg Comparisons between Egypt’s revolution and others during the past abound and are instructive. They suggest two scenarios for the post-revolutionary period. Egypt’s revolution is considered to be a startling new development, the result of the Internet age. But it is actually more ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

• Canada's military spending higher now than any ...
  A new CCPA study finds Canadian military spending is higher now than at any time since the end of the Second World War, thanks to twelve years of budget increases. Canada is the 13th largest military spender in the world and the 6th largest within the 26-member NATO alliance. The study points o ...
• Federal outsourcing creating a shadow public s ...
  If the federal government wants to get serious about spending controls, it needs to look critically at its ballooning outsourcing costs. The Shadow Public Service, a new CCPA�study, finds that over the past five years, personnel outsourcing costs have risen 79%. While federal departments have ...
• Inequality and revolution
  Income inequality "has emerged as a major social and economic issue" in Canada and elsewhere, writes Canadian author and political commentator Frances Russell. "More importantly, no longer is it the sole concern of the left," Russell writes. "Such stalwarts of the economic right as the Internat ...
• The Remaining Light - A CCPA documentary film ...
  Announcing the release of our first documentary film! The Remaining Light journeys through an often invisible part of Canada's health care system -- the community-based services that provide care to seniors as they age and die. The film features the stories of seniors and their families, a ...
• Feminism redux? New book offers idea of 'femi ...
  Pre-orders have started for a new CCPA book with a critical eye on feminism, edited by Jessica Yee: a frequent CCPA contributor, founder of the Native Youth Sexual Health Network, and one of�The Toronto Star's�'people to watch' of 2010. Feminism FOR REAL: Deconstructing the academic industrial ...

World Wide Hippies

• Chomsky: It’s About Democracy, Stupid!
  Chomsky: Why the Fate of Democracy Is at Stake in Madison | Alternet Labor unions were crucial in the overthrow of Mubarak in Egypt, and are one of the few mechanisms the people have to protect themselves from corporate power. Egyptian workers have long fought for fundamental rights denied by th ...
• Polar ice sheets becoming largest contributor ...
  BY MAUREEN NANDINI MITRA | earthisland – New figures upend conservative UN estimates Expected, not-so great finding. Ocean waters are rising faster. A new NASA study says Greenland and Antarticaâs ice sheets are melting at far higher rates than expected, and the melting rate is accelerating ever ...
• Republicans To Provide Jobs in One Hour
  Republicans Set To Solve Jobs Issues In 1 Hour Worth Of Talks | The Ham Report With little to back up their efforts of getting Americans back to work, House Republicans have announced a jobs forum in which they will “listen to American job creators, entrepreneurs and innovators about ways to gro ...
• Weekly Hippie Trivia
  A new Trivia Question will be posted every Friday at 8:00 pm (EST). You can post your answer in the comments section below the question and be entered into a chance to win a WWH Bumpersticker! Naval officer, pastor and theologian – imprisoned for not being enthusiastic enough. His famous quote ...
• Xenophobia: We Like Ours Fresh
  Twin Towers Photo on Display During King Hearings | Roll Call A striking image of the Twin Towers burning down was a backdrop Thursday to Homeland Security Chairman Peter King’s hearing on the radicalization of Islam. The framed photograph was shown by C-SPAN cameras just as Rep. Keith Ellison ( ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

• Radiation levels surge near Japanese nuclear p ...
  Japanese nuclear officials say radiation levels inside a nuclear power plant have surged to 1,000 times their normal levels after the cooling system failed.
• Tsunami sweeps 5 to sea, one man missing in Ca ...
  A tsunami swept at least five people watching the waves out to sea Friday and ripped docks out of harbors in California, spreading the destruction of a devastating Japanese earthquake to the shores of the United States.
• Photos from the earthquake in Japan
  One of the largest earthquakes in recorded history struck off the coast of Japan on Friday causing a number of tsunamis to tear through coastal cities across the country. The Kyodo News Agency in Japan estimates that the death toll will top 1,000 and the costs to recover could reach the hundr ...
• White supremacist charged in MLK Day bomb plot
  A 36-year-old resident of Washington state has been arrested and charged with planting a backpack bomb along the route of a Spokane Martin Luther King Day parade in January.
• Japan's devastation goes viral
  When the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami hit on Boxing Day, 2004, there was no YouTube or Twitter yet. Facebook was still mostly an Ivy League geek hangout. And images of the devastation were still mostly disseminated by the major news outlets. Even when a massive earthquake hit Haiti in ...

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

• TTC: Customer service officer is running late
  A troubling jump in “distracted driving” complaints shows that the TTC still has a long way to go in restoring consumer confidence.
• Poverty: PM’s policy is to do nothing
  Millions of Canadians cannot lift their families out of poverty despite working full-time.
• Hoist a glass to the royal couple
  Let bars open early for the royal wedding so local monarchists can toast “Kate and Wills” with more than just tea and crumpets.
• Treat refugees fairly
  Canada has long been a refuge for people fleeing danger. Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government expects to take in 250,000 immigrants this year, including as many as 29,000 refugees.
• Ford’s first 100 days come easy, thanks to Miller
  Mayor Rob Ford claims success, so far, but only by riding former mayor David Miller’s coat-tails.

Energy Collective

• Discussion Thread – What We Know About the Jap ...
  Please use this Discussion Thread for the situation in Japan with respect to the earthquake and the local nuclear reactors. Here is a summary of the situation as I understand it: 1. There is no credible risk of a serious accident. All reactors responded by insertion of control rods to shut down ...
• Japan: Will Fukushima Fail? UPDATED
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• Japan Quake: Fukushima Reactor Must Be Shut Do ...
  Guest post re Japan nuclear Fukushima emergency. The following post is info from a�CNN article�comment by someone named jjj4591.
• BREAKING: Global Updates on Japan Fukushima Nu ...
  An 8.9 magnitude earthquake is affecting nuclear power stations in Japan.� A global media track of reports on the status of Japanese nuclear reactors has been running since 8 AM EST at the ANS Nuclear Cafe.This blog post mirrors the content from the ANS blog.� The post has two sections (1) updat ...
• Solar not just a California thing anymore
  The United States solar businesses boomed, as usual, in 2010, growing 67 percent to $6 billion, according to an annual report released Thursday by an industry trade group.

EU Times

• Saudi Arabia police open fire at protest in Qatif
  Police in Saudi Arabia have opened fire to disperse protesters in the eastern city of Qatif, a day before planned countrywide anti-government protests. Witnesses said police also beat demonstrators with batons injuring at least three people. The protesters, from the Shia minority, were demanding ...
• China: Iran entitled to nuclear energy
  China has reaffirmed Iran’s right to peaceful nuclear technology, urging Tehran at the same time to expand its cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Li Song, the deputy head of the Department of Arms Control of China’s Foreign Ministry, said Wednesday that as a signator ...
• Thousands in eastern Russia evacuated over tsu ...
  More than 10,000 people in parts of eastern Russia were evacuated Friday amid fears of a tsunami hitting the region after the massive earthquake in northern Japan, Russian media reported Friday, citing national emergency services. Evacuation efforts focused on the island of Sakhalin and the isla ...
• Tsunami warning extended to New Zealand
  Civil Defence has issued a marine tsunami warning for New Zealand after a magnitude 8.9 earthquake struck Japan early tonight, NZ time, but says it does not expect it to pose a threat for people on land. A wave of up to 1 metre may reach the coasts of the central and northern North Island [...]
• Scientists discover “zombie ants” in Brazil
  ‘Zombie ants’ may sound like the title of an Ed Wood movie, but, according to National Geographic, they are quite real. Oddly, there’s nothing very zombie-like about the actual ants. It’s only when a particular fungus takes over the ant’s brain that things get weird. Once the “stalk of the newfo ...

Stonecipher News

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

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

• Fukushima Reactor “In Meltdown”
  A nuclear reactor in tsunami crippled Fukushima prefecture is suspected of having entered meltdown, and radioactive material has been released into the atmosphere during the incident. After the quake caused the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant’s Reactor #1 to automatically shut down as it was de ...
• After embracing the suck, Clemson takes a big ...
  Embrace the suck. That’s what new Clemson coach Brad Brownell told his team during preseason conditioning drills. His players wondered why Brownell had them running so hard – and early in the morning – when they weren’t going to use the full-time full-court pressure defense that they employed u ...
• To the Shores of Tripoli
  Michael Brendan Dougherty spotted this in the Times of Malta : Around 400 US Marines have been dispatched to a US base in Greece ahead of deployment on warships off Libya, an American military spokesman said today. “The operation is part of forces reposition in the region… with regard to Libya, ...
• Limera1n Exploit Patched In iPad 2 – SHAtter T ...
  Bad news for jailbreakers as Apple has patched Geohot’s limera1n exploit in iPad2. This was confirmed by iPhone hacker iH8sn0w in his tweet- Confirmed: limera1n is patched in iPad 2. limera1n exploit is being used in all the the jailbreak tools – Greenpois0n , sn0wbreeze and PwnageTool which me ...
• Obama: U.S. 'Slowly Tightening The Noose' Arou ...
  President Obama says he is "absolutely" concerned about Libyan Leader Muammar Qaddafi prevailing against opposition rebels but said the U.S. and its allies are "slowly tightening the noose" around him in an effort to push the dictator from power. "I've not taken any options off the table at thi ...

Groklaw

• The REAL Reason DC Wants To Hold Google Hearings
  And here's the real reason he's holding a hearing, according to Business Insider Politix editor John Ellis: This is a classic fund-raising ploy. You let it be known that you are going to hold hearings into "issues" relating to XYZ company's "anti-trust" position. You say that the hearings wil ...
• Google Feels More Heat From the Hill
  UPDATE: It turns out that Sen. Mike Lee, as a lawyer in private practice, represented 1-800-Contacts, and the senator's chief of staff, Spencer Stokes, acted as a lobbyist for company. The senator's spokesman said, "This has absolutely nothing to do with why Mr. Lee is calling for hearings. The ...
• Tea Party senator presses for 'vigorous' overs ...
  In a letter [PDF] to Sen. Herb Kohl (D-Wis.), the chairman of a Senate antitrust panel, Lee said that Google's dominance of the Internet search arena prompts the "need for vigorous antitrust oversight and enforcement in this area."... Two Utah-based online companies that have had run-ins with Go ...
• Lee calls for Google anti-trust hearing
  Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, is calling for hearings into whether Google violates anti-trust laws and abuses its dominant position as the pre-eminent search engine....Lee is a former attorney for Draper-based 1-800 CONTACTS, an online contact lens retailer that has sued rival outlets alleging they wer ...
• US Proposals For Secret TPP 'Son Of ACTA' Trea ...
  We've mentioned a couple of times that now that ACTA is "complete", if not yet approved, USTR negotiators have moved on to what many are calling the son of ACTA in the form of the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP). The USTR has shown what it's learned from the ACTA negotiations: which is ...

WideShut

• Banker Blocking Media From Calling Him A Banker
  Ex-RBS head Sir Fred Goodwin takes out injunction preventing media from calling him a Banker.
• Ian Puddick: The Saga Continues
  The details of Mr. Puddick's wife's affair and her lover's illegal expense claims deemed irrelevant, despite blog being about such topics.
• Why Taxation and the Census Are Redundant
  There is no money for public services and tax isn't event a blip on the national debt. The Census and Taxation are redundant.
• March 08, 2011, WideShut Webcast
  Keelan touches on some local headlines, the UK Census boycot and more info regarding the 7/7 London Bombings.
• Pro Wrestler Gaspard Not Above Police Brutality
  Former WWE wrestling star Shad Gaspard taken down by 3 cops for "jaywalking". Witnesses say he's innocent. Footage inside.

Politics in the Zeros

• Not one building collapsed in Toyko
  This is due to their strict building codes and major preventative measures. A quake that big in Los Angeles would cause thousands of buildings to crumble. I was in L.A. during the Northridge quake. The damage was severe and that was a 6.7, or what some of the Japan aftershocks will be. Japan was ...
• 3 Mile Island 2.0: Will Fukushima fail?
  The Energy Collective has the history and stats for the nuclear plant damaged in the Japan quake.
• Utah state senator for sale on eBay
  A prairie dog just delivered this to me, saying it was from an anonymous source… My state senator Jerry Stevenson voted for the food tax, for SB224 and for SJR 9 and SB165. I just don’t need him anymore and I‘m selling him on eBay! Please share far and wide. It will help raise money [...]
• Polizeros Radio. Eric Martin interview
  Libya no-fly zone, NPR sting, 2012 elections, Afghanistan war, and more. Eric Martin is senior Editor of ProgressiveRealist.org “a metablog about American foreign policy.” With Steve Hynd of Newshoggers, and Josh Mull of Firedoglake & Rethink Afghanistan and myself. Listen to the show on BlogTal ...
• Japan earthquake
  The Big Picture has videos and photos of the devastating quake and tsunami in Japan. This partial image from a much larger photo shows homes on fire after the tsunami hit and dumped huge amounts of debris. I was in L.A. during the Northridge earthquake. That was a 6.7. This one was a monster 8.8 ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

• Radiation leaking from Japan's quake-hit nucle ...
  Radiation leaked from an unstable Japanese nuclear reactor north of Tokyo today.
• Japan battles crisis at quake-hit nuclear plants
  Japanese authorities battling to contain rising pressure in nuclear reactors damaged by a masssive earthquake were forced to release radioactive steam from one plant today.
• New Zealand tsunami warning lifted
  Civil Defence has cancelled a tsunami warning for New Zealand.
• Police are calling for information about missi ...
  West Auckland Police are calling for information about a missing 11-year old boy.
• Expected death toll from Christchurch quake falls
  The expected death toll from the Christchurch quake on February 22 has fallen to 180.

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£2000 loan for green homes "does not go far enough"

stv.tv

- Mar 12, 2011

- 1 hour ago

Interest-free loans of up to £2000 will be available for a range of renewable heat and electricity technologies from April 1. These include heat pumps, solar panels, micro-wind turbines and biomass boilers. And anyone who installs electricity ...

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Obama Press Conference Address Oil and Renewable Energy

IPWatchdog.com

- Mar 11, 2011

- 17 hours ago

In a continued effort to pursue alternative and renewable energy solutions the Department of Commerce recently announced the opening of a $12 million i6 Green Challenge in partnership with the US Departments of Agriculture, Energy, the US Environmental ...

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Interior Announces 19 Priority Renewable Energy Projects for 2011

SustainableBusiness.com

- Mar 11, 2011

- Mar 11, 2011

The US Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) this week announced a list of 19 "priority" projects for developing renewable energy within the National System of Public Lands in 2011. The priority list includes nine solar projects, ...

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30% growth of overall investment in renewable energy in 2010

REVE

- Mar 12, 2011

- 5 hours ago

Uncertainties connected with the continuing global financial crisis have not hindered investment in renewable energy. According to the latest industry report from Ernst & Young (Renewable Energy Country Attractiveness Indices), investments in 2010 ...

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Ecology proposes changes to motor vehicle emissions testing program

Access Washington

- Mar 11, 2011

- 15 hours ago

OLYMPIA – The Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) is inviting comments on a proposal to streamline the state's motor vehicle emissions testing program. Ecology proposes to adopt a new rule that details how the program will work beginning in July ...

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SOURCE: Ecology and Environment, Inc.

Marketwire (press release)

- Mar 11, 2011

- 22 hours ago

Headquartered in Lancaster, NY, Ecology and Environment, Inc. has completed more than 50000 projects for a wide variety of clients in 113 countries, providing environmental solutions in nearly every ecosystem on the planet. The company is listed on the ...

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Environmental study of shipyard site begins March 14 in Fairhaven

Access Washington

- Mar 11, 2011

- 19 hours ago

The Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) will oversee work that will identify the type and extent of contamination from past shipyard operations. The field work is part of an environmental study of the site, required by a legal agreement between ...

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State rejects well drilling ban, approves county plan for Lake Whatcom safeguards

TheNewsTribune.com

- Mar 12, 2011

- 5 hours ago

BELLINGHAM - The state Department of Ecology has rejected Mayor Dan Pike's petition asking for a moratorium on new well drilling in the Lake Whatcom watershed, after Whatcom County Executive Pete Kremen agreed to take other steps to protect the lake ...

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American States Water's profit surges in 4Q

BusinessWeek

- Mar 12, 2011

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American States Water Co. said Friday its profit more than doubled in the fourth quarter, aided by retroactive rate increases in California. The company reported net income of $9.1 million, or 48 cents a share, for the three months ended Dec. 31. ...

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Lawyers to update judge on tri-state water dispute

MiamiHerald.com

- Mar 12, 2011

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AP ATLANTA -- Lawyers will soon update a federal judge on the status of attempts to resolve a lingering water dispute between Georgia and Alabama. Attorneys are scheduled to give US District Court Judge Karon Bowdre an update Wednesday on attempts to ...

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Japan to fill leaking nuke reactor with sea water

Reuters Africa

- Mar 12, 2011

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TOKYO, March 12 (Reuters) - Tokyo Electric Power Co plans to fill a leaking reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant with sea water to cool it down and reduce pressure in the unit, Japan's top government spokesman said on Saturday. ...

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Flooding Rivers Soak Parts of Northern New Jersey

New York Times

- Mar 11, 2011

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By NR KLEINFIELD Rivers gushed over their banks in portions of northern New Jersey and elsewhere in the region on Friday after heavy rain doused the area for the second time in a week, resulting in roads knee-deep in water, sopping homes, ...

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