12 March - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

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Just World News

• Bayard Rustin understood Palestinians
  I just came across this great, short piece of writing, quoting the African-American, gay, Quaker activist Bayard Rustin: In 1968, American civil rights organizer Bayard Rustin wrote, “We would be mistaken to think that the only desires of young Negroes today are to have a job, to have a decent ...
• Open letter to the Pentagon's Rosa Brooks
  Dear Rosa: I hope you and the family are all well. It's been a while since we got to know you and your fabulous mother, the principled and gutsy activist Barbara Ehrenreich, when you were living in Virginia. You were still such a big human rights activist at that time. So anyway... No polite ...
• Egyptian activist Hossam on inspiration from P ...
  Key Egyptian democracy activist Hossam (3arabawy) el-Hamalawy had an important piece in the Guardian Unlimited yesterday, underlining the degree to which the Palestinian intifada of 2000-- which, lest we forget, started out with many days of unarmed peaceful protest until the death toll rose so ...
• Pro-democracy activism arriving in Saudi Arabia
  So this 'popular movement' thing is finally making its mark in Saudi Arabia-- the only country in the world that is named for one (still-ruling) family. Today, worldwide oil prices spiked after the markets absorbed news in an Egyptian newspaper yesterday that the Saudi authorities yesterday arr ...
• Pete Seeger joins BDS campaign!
  Great news from Max Blumenthal about this. I like his post particularly, because of the sound-track on the video there! Seeger had been inveigled by something called the "Arava Institute" into taking part on an event that claimed to be only about the environment... But later, he found out abou ...

frogblog

• The Welfare Working Group and benefit cuts by ...
  The Welfare Working Group wants to force beneficiaries to work, but proposes to pay them less if they do so. At page 107 of the Welfare Working Group’s report (PDF) the Group proposes changes to benefit abatement – i.e. the way benefits are reduced in response to income earned by the beneficiary ...
• International Year of the Forests
  Last night I went to an event at Parliament to acknowledge the International Year of the Forests. It was attended by forestry interests with diverse agendas, from preservation of the indigenous ecosystem, to selling logs to China. I was heartened by the unanimity in calling for the Minister to b ...
• Europe moves to tax all financial transactions
  The European Parliament is backing a tax on financial transactions — a ‘Robin Hood’ style Tobin tax that could raise as much as $200 billion euros a year from banks for addressing world poverty. The move was one of several to ensure banks take their share of responsibility for the global financi ...
• The Welfare Working Group and faith-based job ...
  Buried at page 53 of the Welfare Working Group’s report is this extraordinary statement: ... More generally, the evidence suggests that if there are well functioning labour market institutions, over the medium term the total number of jobs will expand to equal the number of people who are avail ...
• Where’s the plan?
  Today the UK Government released its draft Carbon Plan containing some 130 actions and targets to reduce emissions. With petrol prices nearing record highs, UK Energy Secretary, Chris Huhne, said Britain had no option but to speed up efforts to move away from oil. “Getting off the oil hook is ma ...

Patronus Analytical

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

J Kozy

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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

• Friday Cat Blogging - 11 March 2011
  A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that the cats have lately become very lap-oriented right after dinner, and this has had a side effect: Marian has become quite attached to taking pictures of me buried under cats. So here's the latest. On the left, I'm slouched low in my reading chair so tha ...
• Blind Spots on Left and Right
  Following up on Tyler Cowen's post about mistakes he thinks liberal and conservative economists make, David Leonhardt provides a matching pair of lists of economic blind spots among non-economists on left and right. You might agree with his lists or not, but he also has a broader point to ma ...
• Quote of the Day: Pentagon Says Pentagon Treat ...
  From Barack Obama, on the abusive treatment being meted out to Bradley Manning, the accused WikiLeaks leaker, in the Quantico brig: Well, OK then! As long as the Pentagon says so, I guess 23-hour solitary confinement, forced nudity at night and during inspections, repeated awakening at ni ...
• Can We Please Put Away the Smelling Salts?
  Just in case I wasn't crystal clear this morning, I want to double down on my view that NPR shouldn't have fired Vivian Schiller over James O'Keefe's latest video sting operation. First, though, here's a quick summary reminder of what Ron Schiller (no relation) said: The two actors clearl ...
• Arguing With the Right
  Paul Krugman notes today that Mike Huckabee is opposed to comparative effectiveness reviews. This is old news, of course. CER wasn't the basis for the whole death panel flap back in 2009 (end-of-life planning was), but it became the poster child for it pretty quickly anyway. After all, CER i ...

Insanity Report

• IC 234: For God & Country
  Topics for the show: Rep. Peter King’s hearing on the “Radicalization of the American Muslim community” The GOP’s minority problem It’s hard for white guys to understand why minorities might not trust law enforcement Why the “lesser of two evils” isn’t always bad Democrats & Liberals like showin ...
• Someone Tell Sean Penn To Sit The Fuck Down
  In a statement, Penn said: “I think [Charlie Sheen's] energies, intelligence and passion could be both of service and servicing to him, as it is to all who are touched by the struggle of the Haitian people. “Charlie is one of the very few public people who cannot be accused of using the media to ...
• IC 233: Fuck Chris Brown
  Topics for the show: Fuck Chris Brown When attention whoring is no longer an effective marketing tool Sean Penn wants Charlie Sheen to go to Haiti Why Black Folks love Charlie Sheen Lupe’s new album People don’t listen to lyrics anymore Woman rides for 35miles on hood of car as husband drives LA ...
• IC 232: This Ain’t Winning
  Topics for the show: BYU player gets suspended for having sex with his girlfriend The Westboro Baptist Church wins at the Supreme Court We as a society need to step up to handle these moral issues Bobbi Kristina denies she was using coke Charlie Sheen ain’t winning The McLobster The 2012 electio ...
• BYU Forward Reportedly Dismissed From Team For ...
  For the second day in a row I’m writing about a story I read that while I emotionally and morally disagree with it, in terms of whether it’s the right decision or not, I have to agree that it is. BYU announced on Tuesday that starting forward Brandon Davies was suspended for the rest of [...]

Simple Climate

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

e!Science News

• New technology to predict future appearance
  A Concordia graduate student has designed a promising computer program that could serve as a new tool in missing-child investigations and matters of national security. Khoa Luu has developed a more effective computer-based technique to age photographic images of people's faces – an advance that ...
• 70 percent of prostate cancer patients on ADT ...
  Seventy per cent of men who received androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT) after surgery to remove their prostate gland gained significant weight in the first year, putting on an average of 4.2kg, according to a paper in the March issue of the urology journal BJUI. read more
• Pushing HIV out the door: How host factors aid ...
  Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) – which causes AIDS – invades human immune cells and causes them to produce new copies of the virus, which can then infect new cells. A research team led by Professor Don C. Lamb (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich) and Priv.-Doz. Dr. Barbara Müller of He ...
• Mouse nose nerve cells mature after birth, all ...
  For rodent pups, bonding with mom isn't hard-wired in the womb. It develops over the first few weeks of life, which is achieved by their maturing sense of smell, possibly allowing these mammals a survival advantage by learning to identify mother, siblings, and home. read more
• 'Microparticles' useful in identifying earlies ...
  Monitoring blood for tiny particles released by cells lining the lungs may help clinicians diagnose emphysema in its earliest stages, according to researchers from Weill Cornell Medical College. The particles, called endothelial microparticles (EMPs), are shed during the disease process as tiny ...

unEarthed

• Our Climate Reality and Our Congressional Deniers
  A roundup of the week's highlights and lowlights on climate change On Tuesday, in a hearing in the House, representatives wrestled over whether they should accept the volumes of science produced by every major U.S. scientific and ...
• PA Gov. to Energy Exec: You’re the Boss of Eve ...
  The rest of us left wondering: is that even constitutional? Meet Bradford Energy CEO C. Alan Walker. He calls the shots. Fresh off his state’s radioactive r ...
• And...The Nonsense Continues in the House
  Administrator Jackson Clearly Explains How EPA Cuts Will Harm Public The questions came from all sides, but one in particular stood out: “How would HR 1 affect the EPA’s ability to protect the public?” asked Representative Henry ...
• Friday Finds: Single Serve Stupidity
  Tsunami-sized warnings, bullet train shout-outs, NJ fracking ban Would you like a bag for that? Del Monte now sells single-serve bananas wrapped in plastic. Photo courtesy of viZZZual.com ...
• House Budget Cuts Would Impact Pacific Tsunami ...
  Time to think twice about our priorities? On a day when every resident of the Pacific Rim is grateful for advanced warning systems, we are reminded of the�essential services that government agencies provide. Certainly, fishermen ...

Brave New Climate

• Discussion Thread – Japanese nuclear rea ...
  Please use this Discussion Thread for the situation in Japan with respect to the Miyagiken-Oki earthquake (8.9 magnitude) and the local nuclear reactors. Here is a precis of the situation as I understand it: 1. There is no credible risk of a serious accident. All reactors responded by insertion ...
• IFR FaD 9 – Summary of non-proliferation advan ...
  A fair amount of material has now accumulated on BNC regarding nuclear energy and the possible ‘proliferation’ implications of commercial nuclear power. Here is a list of the key posts: Response to an Integral Fast Reactor (IFR) critique (Barry Brook, George Stanford, Tom Blees) Carbon emissions ...
• BNC million hits approaches
  Those who follow BraveNewClimate (BNC) regularly will know that I ran a competition a while back to see who could guess when the page views would pass the 1,000,000 mark. A few people prognosticated prior to the cut-off hit count (970K), and soon (late Sunday or early Monday I suspect), the winn ...
• Correlates of global temperatures – part 2
  For context, make sure you read this first: A toy model for forecasting global temperatures â 2011 redux, part 1 Here is a list and brief description of the data sources I will be analysing: 1. Annual global temperature (WTI): This is the ‘dependent variable‘ in the model. The time span is 1979 ...
• A toy model for forecasting global temperature ...
  A little over two years ago, I wrote the following post on BNC: How hot should it have really been over the last 5 years? In it, I did some simple statistical tinkering to examine the (correlative) relationship between global temperatures and a few key factors, namely greenhouse gases, solar irr ...

Indigenist Opinion

• 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 ...

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

+972

• What if Israel is hit by an earthquake?
  Considering Israel lies near the Syrian-African fault line, and has not suffered from an earthquake in a while, we should all be concerned about ill-preparedness. Israel’s recent experience with a natural disaster (tragic, although milder than what happened in Japan) showed the terrible conseque ...
• A conservative defense for Apartheid & colonialism
  Some stuff you have to read with your own eyes in order to believe it. Prof. Richard Landes, who writes a pro-Israeli conservative blog named Augene Stables, is making what seems like a comparative case for Israeli colonialism. Answering a reader’s question regarding the legality of the Israeli ...
• Airport security and Palestinian Arab citizens ...
  This week, Israel’s Supreme Court chipped away at one of the most egregious Israeli practices: the infamous security examinations of Palestinian/Arab citizens at Israeli airports. The Court, responding to a 2007 petition by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel against the Israel Airports A ...
• The J street conference: An “A” fo ...
  From this Israeli’s perspective, the J Street conference looked like a pretty sleek production. Too bad that’s all it amounted to. Now that the folks at JStreet are finished patting each other on the back for a job well done, I’d like to give them a perspective on the conference from one who di ...
• Across the Jordan: Zionism as Shibboleth
  People discussing the Israeli-Palestinian issue must choose whether they are Zionists or not, whether they reject Jewish self-determination or embrace Jewish supremacy. This is the way things are and have always been, but it is not how things have to be in the future Some people believe that Zi ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

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

Matt Weidner Blog

• NUCLEAR BOMBSHELL! FREDDIE MAC REMOVES FILES F ...
  Federal mortgage backer Freddie Mac is taking its foreclosure cases from the Fort Lauderdale-based Marshall C. Watson law firm, one of eight Florida firms facing state scrutiny for its handling of home repossessions…. Full Story Here Tweet this! Share and Enjoy: Scridb filter
• Attacking Violations of the Pooling And Servic ...
  The Massachusetts Ibanez decision highlighted for all of us the fact that judges are increasingly aware…and incredulous…that these big shot lenders with their $1,000 an hour lawyers would be so careless and sloppy with the documentation relating multi million dollar’s worth of assets…. US BANK v ...
• A Foreclosure Based Court System- Survivial of ...
  Foreclosure filing fees are not just the lifeblood of our courts, they are the only blood left in the decimated corpse that is our court’s funding. A fair, open and properly funded court system is a pillar of our democracy and an absolute requirement of state and federal Constitutions, but our c ...
• In The News: Thousands of Deeds Likely Forgeries
  As if the country needed more proof of the outlaw behaviors of banks and their agents, The Baltimore Sun‘s Jamie Smith Hopkins reports that 1,000 or more Maryland deeds are likely forgeries, created by a foreclosure mill. A former notary from law firm Shapiro & Burson filed an affidavit with law ...
• 2nd DCA SMACKDOWN- ERROR TO GRANT SUMMARY JUDGMENT
  Another great decision, HOT OFF THE PRESSES! sandoro Tweet this! Share and Enjoy: Scridb filter

abelard - news

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

The Parallel Parliament

• Throwing Open the Windows
  This past week in the House has been one of the most traumatic of my brief time here, surpassed only by the drama of those few days when the PM went to the Governor General seeking the prorogation of Parliament in order to save his government. On Wednesday I encountered two media camera men atte ...
• An “Honourable” House
  A couple of years ago, I came across a speech by one of Parliament’s earliest speakers in which he reminded those participating in an unusually raucous Question Period that they were elected to Ottawa to behave in a manner beholden to the best principles of human engagement. He gently scolded th ...
• A Bridge To Cross
  Canadian church leaders have been working their way through the halls of Parliament in the last couple of days pressing members from all parties to take action on issues of international and domestic poverty before it becomes too late to do anything at all. I met with them in Michael Ignatieff’s ...
• “If We Know Not The Nature of Things”
  Would you have thought of it? I surely wouldn’t have. I’ve lived an entire 60 years and never seen anything like it. I knew John Diefenbaker, Lester Pearson, met Pierre Trudeau twice, had coffee with Brian Mulroney, dialogued with Joe Clark, talked politics with John Chretien, Africa with Paul M ...
• Safe Flight
  Appearances aside, the vast majority of work done on Parliament Hill is undertaken by the staff of MPs, senators and ministers. The typical aide is young, bilingual, single, intelligent and dedicated to their work. Beneath these main characteristics certain distinctions emerge. Some are committe ...

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

• Nanotechnology safety – a new video blog from ...
  Back in December 2009, I rode the Acela Express up to New York from Washington DC for the day to record one of a series of nanotechnology podcasts for the ASME – the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. The podcast was to be part of a new educational outreach initiative on all aspects of na ...
• The Seven Deadly Sins of Techno-Complacency – ...
  I don’t believe it – once again I’ve let myself be talked into doing an event in Second Life.  But this time it’s even worse – I’ll be hosting a combined second life and real-life event, and in effect acting as the medium between physical and virtual realities. The only compensation is that the ...
• The art of regulating nanotechnologies
  The recently published International Handbook on Regulating Nanotechnologies has a rather unconventional cover image. But it’s one that I must confess I am rather pleased with. The image is a photo of a piece of Murano glass that I picked up several years ago while visiting Venice. At the time I ...
• Davos 2011 – Partnering with teens to build a ...
  This is not a science and technology post – which is a bit odd for a science and technology blog.  But I wanted to introduce five people who together shake up the whole idea of the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos as being an elitist and increasingly irrelevant gathering of middle aged bal ...
• Davos 2011: Global Risks permeate conversation ...
  Cross-posted from the Risk Science Blog. Take a metaphorical slice through this year’s annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, and Global Risk would be writ large through every part of it.  Hot on the heels of the sixth Global Risk report, this year’s meeting saw the launch of the Risk Re ...

Reader Supported News

• Nuke Plant Trouble After Japan Quake
  Intro: "Japan's massive earthquake caused a power outage that disabled a nuclear reactor's cooling system, triggering evacuation orders for about 3,000 residents as the government declared its first-ever state of emergency at a nuclear plant. Japan's nuclear safety agency said pressure inside on ...
• Bradley Manning Speaks Out About Prison Torture
  Intro: "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." Bradley Manning has spoken out for the firs ...
• Demonstrators Dragged From Wisconsin Capitol
  Mischa Gaus reports: "Police dragged a hundred demonstrators from the Wisconsin statehouse Thursday to break a blockade trying to prevent state representatives from passing the governor's anti-union bill. Several thousand bellowed their disapproval outside, joined by more than 1,000 high school ...
• Demonstrators Dragged From Wisconsin Capitol
  Mischa Gaus reports: "Police dragged a hundred demonstrators from the Wisconsin statehouse Thursday to break a blockade trying to prevent state representatives from passing the governor's anti-union bill. Several thousand bellowed their disapproval outside, joined by more than 1,000 high school ...
• Thousands Storm Wisconsin Capitol
  Wisconsin State Journal reports: "Thousands of protesters rushed to the state Capitol Wednesday night, forcing their way through doors, crawling through windows and jamming corridors, as word spread of hastily called votes on Gov. Scott Walker's controversial bill limiting collective bargaining ...

War Resisters League

• Iraq/Wisconson Labor Solidarity: Two Statements
  In the wake of the threat posed to what remain of labor rights in Wisconsin, and the public’s powerful response, two Iraqi labor leaders, Hassan Jum’a and Faleh Abood, penned solidarity statements in late February on behalf the 26,000 member strong Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions, and the 15,000 ...
• Stepping up the Resistance to U.S. Islamophobia
  As Peter King, the new chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, steps up the U.S. government attack against Muslims living in the U.S., saying that he will “rely on Muslims to make his case that American Muslim leaders have failed to cooperate with law enforcement officials in the effo ...
• Mubarak Ousted! Two Down, Twenty To Go . . .
  “The people have brought down the regime!” was a cry heard around the world when on Friday, February 11th, 18 days of unrelenting non-violent protest finally forced the end of Hosni Mubarak’s 30 year, US backed rule over Egypt. Ecstatic jubilation filled Cairo’s Midan al-Tahrir (Liberation Squar ...
• The Egyptian Revolution and Police Tools &#821 ...
  As of this writing, the Egyptian revolution has entered its 16th day and is gaining ground and momentum: spreading to new regions, evolving into strikes and civil disobedience and clarifying its demands. What started as an impressive series of demonstrations on January 25th’s ‘Day of Wrath’ has ...
• Anti-war Activists to Grand Jury: “We will not ...
  Tuesday, January 25th was the day that 23 anti-war and Palestine solidarity activists were made to appear before a Federal Grand Jury in Chicago. It was also the day that all of them refused to testify. In solidarity with those targeted by government repression, several rallies were held in citi ...

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 ...

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

• Job Opportunity: Project Lead, Alberta Climate ...
  Position Project Lead Organization Alberta Climate Dialogue Organization Application Deadline 25 Mar 2011 (All day) Location Edmonton Link to Full Job Posting Source: Alb ...
• Call for Comments: Jackpine Mine Expansion & P ...
  Organization:  Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency Initiative:  Jackpine Mine Expansion and Pierre River Mine Projects Pu ...
• New findings prompt call that Alberta Governme ...
  Castle-Crown Wilderness Coalition Sierra Club Canada Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society - Southern Alberta 9 M ...
• Edmonton Water Week
  21 Mar 2011 - 00:00 - 26 Mar 2011 - 00:00 Edmonton Edmonton Water Week 21 Mar 2011 - 00:00 - 26 Mar 2011 - 00:00 Check the Edmonton Water Week website for a full slate of events Ed ...
• Call for Delegates: Member & Alternate, Albert ...
  Position:  Member & Alternate Organization:  Alberta Water Council The Alberta Water Council (AWC) has been ...

Stop NATO

• Stop NATO News March 11, 2011
  ==== stopnato-subscribe@yahoogroups.com ==== 1. African Union Rejects Foreign Military Intervention In Libya 2. NATO’s Rosy Picture Belied By Growing Hostilty Of Afghans 3. Georgia Participates In NATO Defense Ministers Meeting 4. Estonian Leader, CYBERCOM Chief: U.S. Joins NATO Cyber Center 5. ...
• Radio And Text: West Has Crossed The Rubicon O ...
  Voice of Russia March 10, 2011 West has crossed the Rubicon Interview with Rick Rozoff, a U.S. journalist covering NATO enlargement Yekaterina Kudashkina Rough transcription: The question at this point is to what extent NATO is prepared to intervene in the Libyan crisis. You know, the true momen ...
• Stop NATO News March 10, 2011
  ==== stopnato-subscribe@yahoogroups.com ==== 1. U.S. Official: NATO “Natural Choice For Military Action” Against Libya 2. NATO Troops Kill Afghan President’s Cousin 3. Police Slay Afghan Civilians, German Troops Kill Afghan Woman 4. Italian FM Calls For Joint EU-NATO Naval Blockade Of Libya 5. M ...
• Stop NATO News March 9, 2011
  ==== stopnato-subscribe@yahoogroups.com ==== 1. Video/Text: U.S. Contractors Destabilize Foreign Governments 2. Third NATO 3D NATO Radar Site To Be Constructed In Hungary 3. Libya: NATO Defense Chiefs Mull Flight Ban, Naval Blockade 4. USS Ronald Reagan Carrier Joining South Korean War Games 5. ...
• Point Of No Return: U.S. And NATO Prepare For ...
  Stop NATO March 8, 2011 Point Of No Return: U.S. And NATO Prepare For War With Libya Rick Rozoff March 7 was a pivotal moment in plans by Western powers to launch military operations against Libya. After meeting with Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard in Washington, President Barack Obama s ...

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Intel Hub

• Explosion Rocks Quake-Hit Japanese Nuke Plant ...
  � Shaking, Smoke Seen at Japanese Nuclear Plant Facing Possible Meltdown Explosion at Japan nuke plant, disaster toll rises AP Video of Explosion Another Picture ALL LIVE STREAMS ON ONE PAGE Video clip of explosion The Intel Hub March 12th, 2011 The main island of Japan could experience enough r ...
• Japan Nuclear Crisis: All Reports Indicate Mel ...
  Agency: Uranium fuel may be melting at reactor The International Business Times March 11th, 2011 In developments proving that the powerful 8.9-magintude earthquake has not retired from wreaking havoc, the temblor that triggered a massive tsunami besides landslides and fires is now plunging the c ...
• Japan On The Verge Of Nuclear Meltdown Within ...
  Update: We have spoken to multiple experts who believe that even in the worse case scenario it would be highly unlikely that the radiation would be strong enough to extensively damage the west coast of the United States. That being said they could be completely wrong. The Modern Survival Blog is ...
• Justifying NATO Military Intervention To Fullf ...
  By Doug Owen Blacklisted News March 11th, 2011 To understand why Western powers are pushing so hard to launch military operations against Libya, why now David Cameron is backing Sarkozy’d calls for Libya air strikes, and why the US now says “NATO is the ‘natural choice’ for Libya intervention, y ...
• NUKE PLANT: Japan PM Orders Wider Evacuation, ...
  URGENT: Radiation could already have leaked at nuke plant: TEPCO Link to live coverage Business Insider By Joe Weisenthal March 11th, 2011 Update: 4:29 PM ET: Anti-nuclear expert Kevin Kamp explains the nightmare scenario in Fukushma, via Forbes and the Institute for Public Accuracy: “The electr ...

FRS

• The Independent (UK): Only some revolutions wi ...
  By Jody McIntyre Thursday, 10 March 2011 Another ‘million person march’ happened in an Arab state earlier this week.  Headline news, you might think. At least on Al Jazeera?  Whilst the media continue to focus exclusively on events in Libya, the huge march in the south of Yemen was ignored. The ...
• Odisha, India: Inside the war theatre
  A report from India’s Tehelka Magazine, Vol 8, Issue 11, Dated 19 Mar 2011 Days after a volatile hostage crisis, TUSHA MITTAL treks into Odisha to question the Maoist party on strategy, violence and power THE KIDNAPPING of Collector RV Krishna in Odishaâs Malkangiri district has been the most re ...
• Qatif, Saudia Arabia: Saudi Police Open Fire o ...
  10 March, 2011:  Saudi police wound 3 protesters Saudi police have shot and wounded at least three protesters in the eastern city of Qatif after people poured out into the streets to demand freedom and release of prisoners. Witnesses said that hundreds of protesters, including women, took to the ...
• Bahrain: A world away from Manama
  Bahrain’s impoverished villages see little benefit from billions of dollars being invested in the glimmering capital. by Gregg Carlstrom Karzakan, Bahrain â Driving through this cheerless village, 20 kilometres southwest of Manama, it is easy to understand why thousands of protesters have camped ...
• Haiti: Both contenders for Comprador-in-Chief ...
  Haiti’s next president expected to revive military, worrying some who recall past with dread BEN FOX, Associated Press, March 9, 2011 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) â Their military fatigues faded and their grizzled faces stern, the squad of veterans barks out orders to rows of young men and women w ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

• What the world says about Japan and catastroph ...
  Never mind Pat Robertson raining down condemnation on the Japanese, says Anthea Butler, at Religion Dispatches. Check out what theological theories the world's social media is coughing up in regard to the devastating Japanese earthquake and tsunami. Some offerings found by Butler include: Jap ...
• Why Patricia Shechter missed Mass
  She'd planned to attend daily Mass throughout Lent, but then the phone rang. (I love this essay and I hope you do, too.) Flickr photo
• A perfect response, from Jon Cryer
  I have nothing to add, except what a creative way to turn the other cheek.
• After the tsunami, Google has set up a person ...
  You can get to it here. The behemoth communications giant has done this before, after the Haiti and the New Zealand earthquakes. You can read more about the devastating tsunami here. I'm off in search of appropriate charities; if you know of any, please share. Reuters photo
• The theology of caring for the environment
  No matter your theology, it's in your Book and in your best interest, writes the Rev. Chuck Currie, at Huffington Post. He says: For Christians, the battle over the federal budget contains many points of moral challenge. Tragically, those in control of the U.S. House of Representatives seem ...

Associated Content

• Governors Fight Over State Budgets and Taxes
  State governors have been at the center of debate over balancing state budgets. Lawmakers are imposing heavy tax burdens and stripping unions of their collective bargaining rights in the effort to balance the state budget.Contributor: Sandra Tedford Published: Mar 11, 2011
• Navy Ships Move to Assist Stricken Japan
  US Navy ships and personnel are moving to provide assistance to the survivors of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan today. Both ships stationed in Japan and ships of the Seventh Fleet are responding.Contributor: Charles Simmins Published: Mar 11, 2011
• Waiting for Tsunami: California Eyes Hawaii, O ...
  At 8:15 a.m. in Summerland, Calif., school bells ring out over this sleepy seaside community. It's Parent Conference week, so everyone is on campus early. They are waiting for the tsunami.Contributor: Karen W. Wyman Published: Mar 11, 2011
• Washington State Family Experiences Japan Eart ...
  A family from Washington state in Japan experienced the 8.8 magnitude earthquake firsthand.Contributor: Ryan Christopher DeVault Published: Mar 11, 2011
• Peter King's Hearings on American Muslim Exter ...
  Are Peter King's new hearings on American Muslim extremists a return to the McCarthy-era Communist hearings?Contributor: Kristin Watt Published: Mar 11, 2011

Popsci - Science

• Archive Gallery: Science Solves Crimes
  How earographs, invisible ink detectors, and the famed "Stamp Detective" used science to catch unsuspecting crooks. There's something timeless about a good detective story. At the end of a long day, it's nice to know that the clues check out, the crooks get caught, and everyone goes home happy. ...
• Archive Gallery: Science is the New Sherlock
• New Model Lets Researchers Crawl Through Virtu ...
  Using a combination of microscopy methods, Harvard researchers have untangled part of the circuitry of the cerebral cortex, illuminating brain connections in 3-D. A new neural circuit model will allow researchers to crawl through the individual connections in a neural network. Scientists have c ...
• Biggest Full Moon in 19 Years Almost Certainly ...
  On March 19th, the moon will be closer--and thus bigger--than it's been in two decades On March 19th, the moon will be closer to Earth than it's been since 1992. The full moon that night will appear about 14 percent larger and significantly brighter than usual, but despite the brightness, the s ...
• Coming Soon: Disposable Endoscopes Featuring t ...
  A new type of endoscope with a super-small camera on its end could yield cheap, disposable scopes for peering inside your body. The camera is about the size of a grain of kosher salt, and its designers say it's the smallest camera ever. Endoscopy involves inserting a cable with a camera lens on ...

Veterans Today

• FRANKLIN LAMB : Congressman Peter King’s ...
  His false assumptions are being roundly rejected across America and Europe. Counterterrorism experts, veteranâs organizations, interfaith leaders, local leaders and editorial boards, and most importantly the American public are rejecting King’s racist calumny.   FRANKLIN LAMB /Al Manar Half a ce ...
• LETTER TO WILLIAM HAGUE – HER MAJESTY’S AMBASS ...
  “We got ourselves into a bit of a mess because of a legal anomaly that needs to be fixed. A legal amendment to the law has been introduced, he said, and is working its way through the parliamentary process. “All three major political parties support the change.” Gould was confident that the amen ...
• CAROL DUFF: Appreciation of Grappa
  GRAPPA By Carol Duff RN, BA, MSN STAFF WRITER/Editor Grappa is a distillate made from grapes that are grown and vinified in Italy. Distillation, which is separating the alcohol from the water, must take place in Italian distilleries that meet EU and national requirements. Grappa is the only dist ...
• Luftwaffe Over New York, a WW2 Secret
  On August 27th 1943, a German Luftwaffe long-range photo reconnaissance bomber, a Junkers Ju-390 took off from its base in Norway and flew out across the Atlantic Ocean. Among its four man crew was a brave and daring woman Anna Kreisling, the ‘White Wolf of the Luftwaffe’. A nickname she had acq ...
• Hanan Habibzai: Afghanistan, The Music of War
  Tribal Musicians caught up as militancy increases in khyber pakhtunkhwa By Hanan Habibzai, STAFF WRITER Veterans Today Afghanistan Bureau Music shops in Peshawar are now struggling to stay open as the Taliban’s influence on daily life continues to spread further into government-controlled areas. ...

War is Business

• Libya’s WMD Experts: Skilled Labor At Ba ...
• Two Documentaries Worth Seeing (Aggregated)
• Canadian Opposition Party Running Against Lock ...
• Russia Loses Nothing By Halting Arms Sales To ...
• Do Benefits Of Arming Libyan Rebels Outweigh T ...

Hudson's Weather & Climate

• Is Solar activity to blame for Japan's massive ...
  The massive earthquake that affected Japan this morning is one of the strongest in recorded history at 8.9 on the Richter scale. With a number of powerful earthquakes recently it once again begs the question, is there a link between seismic activity and solar activity? Recently we have witne ...
• Severe gales affect parts of Yorkshire
  It's been a wild day across Yorkshire, with a fierce westerly wind causing disruption at Leeds Bradford airport where gusts have been exceeding 60mph. The highest recorded wind speed so far has been 67 mph at Fylingdales on the North York moors. The highest wind speeds could though be affect ...
• Goodbye to the Space Shuttle Discovery
  On Monday evening with clear skies across the North of England star gazers were treated to a wonderful, and it turns out historical spectacle in the southern sky. The International Space Station was clearly visible, closely followed in the same orbit by the Space Shuttle Discovery, which had b ...
• What now for Global temperatures?
  Latest satellite data from the University of Alabama (UAH) shows virtually no change in global temperatures from January's levels. The -0.02C anomaly relative to the 1981-2010 average equates to approximately +0.24C above the more standard 1961-1990 average used by the Met Office and World Meteo ...
• Winter 2010/2011: Cold and dry - as forecast!
  After a record breaking December, a mild February has meant that winter 2010/2011 across the UK as a whole has ended up only 15th coldest since UK figures started in 1910. Provisional UK data for winter 2010/2011 shows a mean of 2.39C, compared to the 1971-2000 average of 3.7C. How does that ...

Internat'l Political Economy

• LSE Alum Saif Qadhafi, Libyan Michael Corleone?
  Just when I thought I was out...they pull me back in - Al Pacino as "Michael Corleone" in The Godfather III. When I was a wee lad, my uncle who was a big fan of The Godfather series forced me to watch these movies with him when I would much rather have watched The Smurfs. Being older--wiser I a ...
• IPE Zone Fully Endorses US Gov't Shutdown
  It was quite an easy decision. After all, I am the sole author of the IPE Zone ;-) But seriously, I gather that one of the most popular video game series in the United States is called Unreal Tournament. In fact, I get the same feeling of unreality with budgetary discussions in the country that ...
• NAFTA: Game Over for US Ban on Mexican Trucks
  Here's something I hope that we can all agree is a good outcome. A sore point among many in US-Mexico relations has been the truck ban imposed on trucks making deliveries from Mexico to its ertswhile NAFTA "trade partner" the US of A. You see, trucker-protectionists were successful in convincing ...
• Education IPE: Gadhafi Brings Down LSE Director
  Well, I hope they're happy now. They've succeeded in ousting a person of great managerial skill--a rare feat in academia. Go ask Larry Summers. The irony of it all, of course, is in academia you are often punished for sparing the tried and true of "tradition" (i.e., not doing anything much). Esp ...
• Yanqui Protectionism: CFIUS, Huawei, and 3Leaf
  Here's another entry in the seemingly non-stop catalogue of US-China dustups. Given America's chronic external deficit, it must attract at least an equivalent amount of capital inflows to compensate. To date, the Chinese have been willing to purchase US Treasuries (perhaps more reluctantly in re ...

Economic Collapse Blog

• You Call This An Economic Recovery? 44 Million ...
  When Barack Obama, the Federal Reserve and the mainstream media tell us that we are in the middle of an economic recovery, is that supposed to be some kind of sick joke?  According to newly released numbers, over 44 million Americans are now on food stamps.  That is a new all-ti ...
• QE3? Several Top Federal Reserve Officials See ...
  The end of QE2 is still several months away and yet quite a few top Federal Reserve officials are already hinting that more quantitative easing may be necessary.  Apparently the U.S. economy is not moving forward as rapidly as they would like.  So it looks like "QE3" could be on ...
• Become A Teacher? 10 Examples That Show Why Be ...
  Today budget cutters are on the rampage from coast to coast and often one of their first targets is public school teachers. What we have witnessed recently in Wisconsin is just one example of this. The truth is that you do not want to become a teacher if you want to have finan ...
• As The Obamas And The Ultra-Wealthy Live The H ...
  Barack Obama recently made the following statement to American families that are struggling to survive in this economy: "If you’re a family trying to cut back, you might skip going out to dinner, or you might put off a vacation." A few days after making that statement Obama sen ...
• 21 Signs That The Once Great U.S. Economy Is B ...
  Once upon a time, the United States was the greatest industrial powerhouse that the world has ever seen.  Our immense economic machinery was the envy of the rest of the globe and it provided the foundation for the largest and most vibrant middle class in the history of the world ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

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

E U Times

• 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 ...

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

• 2011-03-12 The Canberra investigations of Juli ...
  TweetA whole new avenue of the Wikileaks story opened up in late November, early December 2010 when the Prime Minister of Australia said the following about Julian Assange: It’s a grossly irresponsible thing to do and an illegal thing to do. This writer took umbrage and responded with a letter p ...
• 2011-03-11: International Bradley Manning Supp ...
  Tweet March 20th, 2011 is International Bradley Manning Support Day. It will see coordinated rallies all over the world in support of Manning, the alleged whistleblower incarcerated under cruel and inhumane conditions in a marine brig in Quantico, Virginia. Since Manning was arrested 10 months ...
• 2011-03-11 Denial of 'Twitter 3' Request to Th ...
  TweetFederal Magistrate Judge Theresa C. Buchanan ruled the “Twitter 3,” who have become ensnared in a WikiLeaks investigation, cannot keep the US government from looking at their Twitter information and the information they would like to be public cannot be disclosed. With support from the ACLU ...
• 2011-03-11 Who's running Egypt?
  Tweet“The exceptional circumstances and putting the Constitution on hold are no grounds for dictatorship rule or and tyranny,” said Khaled Ali, head of The Egyptian Center for Economic and Social Rights (ECESR) in a statement yesterday. On Thursday, 10 March 2011 ECESR filed a lawsuit against th ...
• Cable: Gbagbo exclusively funds Ble Goude with ...
  Tweet Gbagbo's dictatorial grip of Ivory Coast has allowed him to dispose the country's budget at his will. This includes heavily funding Charles Ble Goude, the head of Young Patriots(COJEP), a focal point of young supporters of Gbagbo. A cable 08ABIDJAN396 reveals how Ble Goude was effectivel ...

U N News

• Peacebuilding and impunity on the agenda for B ...
  Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will travel to Guatemala next week for a three-day visit that will focus on peacebuilding issues and the Central American country's efforts to combat impunity.
• Haiti: UN plans to reinforce police for presid ...
  The 3,500-strong United Nations police force in Haiti is planning to reinforce its support of national police for the presidential run-off election on 20 March, although it does not expect trouble, according to the head of the contingent.
• US discriminates on right to safe water and sa ...
  The United States must do more to eliminate discrimination in access to safe drinking water and sanitation, an independent United Nations expert reported today, citing wide disparities that adversely affect people of colour and Native Americans.
• Argentina's Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo ...
  The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, a non-governmental organization that has been working for over 30 years to locate the families of children kidnapped and "disappeared" during the military dictatorship in Argentina, is this year's recipient of the United Nations cultural agency's peace prize.
• Haiti: UN human rights expert urges presidenti ...
  The United Nations independent expert on human rights in Haiti, Michel Forst, today urged candidates in the country's upcoming presidential run-off election to spearhead the fight against impunity and champion greater respect of human rights.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

• Furious Indonesian Response to WikiLeak Cables
  Yudhoyono spokesmen, others, denounce questions over SBY’s integrity, summon US ambassador
• Poverty Drives Pakistani Women to Prostitution
  Pakistani sex workers ask God to hear their prayers
• The Wandering Palate's Wine Purveyor
  The Palate picks Hong Kong-based Altaya as his Asian wine merchant of the year
• China's Mata Hari
  The bones of China's most valuable spy on Taiwan return home after 60 years
• Explosive WikiLeaks Cables Nail Yudhoyono
  US embassy in Jakarta has serious doubts about the Indonesian president's own integrity

We Know the Lies

• Interpretating the Occult Roots in 'The Wizard ...
  �Before writing the Wizard of Oz (or even contemplating becoming a children�s story author), Baum held many jobs � one as editor of the Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer. In 1890, Baum wrote a series of articles introducing his readers to Theosophy, including his views on Buddha, Mohammed, Confucius ...
• A Brainwashed Nation... How it Happened
  This amazing interview was done back in 1985 with a former KGB agent who was trained in subversion techniques. He explains the 4 basic steps to socially engineering entire generations into thinking and behaving the way those in power want them to. It’s shocking because our nation has been tr ...
• BBC Wants You to Believe Global Warming or Cli ...
  Just hours after the horrific earthquake and tsunami devastated coastal areas of Japan, global warming alarmists like the BBC are already injecting climate change propaganda into their coverage of the story, hastily exploiting the tragedy as a vehicle through which to push their increasin ...
• Colorado... Vaccine Pushing Doctor Tells Paren ...
  �When parents refuse to vaccinate their children one doctor reluctantly shows them the door. ~ Video read more
• A Sinister Partnership... Monsanto and Bill G ...
  Many have long suspected that U.S. policy on genetically modified (GM) organisms was being influenced by the multinational corporations that profit from genetic engineering and the export-oriented agribusiness. However, recently released Wikileaks cables document just how close that relation ...

Tatumba 2.0

• Charlie Sheen – A WINNER – Fires Truth Torpedo ...
  This why I love Charlie Sheen. This guy can lift the veil off of the corruption that the mainstream media keeps over the fluoridated media zombie’s eyes in a verbose and oh-so-eloquent way. Here Charlie vents to David Degraw about the financial tyranny consuming our wealth, resources and freedom ...
• The Fluoride Deception: the truth about water ...
  The Fluoride Deception is the latest mini documentary from Mike Adams, executive director of the Consumer Wellness Center. Through the use of animation and motion graphics, he exposes the truth about where fluoride really comes from: The toxic byproducts of the phosphate mining industry! Do your ...
• Alex Jones On The View
  Alex Jones On The View? Who would have thunk it? Alex Jones was on The View and blasted truth at 30 million viewers. Alex Jones goes prime-time speaking to the Yentas on The View. It is nice to see Alex getting a chance to blast some truth to the 30 million or more sheep that [...] Related ...
• Site Upgrade Completed
  I am pleased to announce that I have upgraded to a faster server. The following explains what I went through / am still going through to make this happen: Please recycle. Don't throw away your peels Related posts:Site Upgrades Coming Hello This site may be offline on a temporary basis... Site Im ...
• The Charlie Sheen Test
  I want you to take a test. This is called The Charlie Sheen Test. To take this test please grab a pen and a piece of paper. Now count to 10. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Now I want you to write down the first word that comes to mind [...] Related posts:Charlie Veitch vs. McDonald’s Trying to stop p ...

Truth About Our World

• Natural farming increases yields over conventional
    Have we forgotten common sense along the way? Nothing will out-do nature… by: David Gutierrez Farmers across Hawaii are turning to “natural farming,” a technique developed by South Korean farmer Han Kyu Cho that eschews the use of artificial fertilizers and pesticides in favor of efficient use ...
• Here’s a Way to Eliminate the Regulators ...
  Way to go, Sedgwick!   Maybe the citizens of tiny Sedgwick on the Maine coast were listening to the calls of Dave Milano, Ken Conrad, and others for more trust and community, and less rigid one-size-fits-all food regulation. On Saturday morning, Sedgwick became likely the first locale in the co ...
• Twelve unsustainable things that will soon com ...
  by Mike Adams   If you look around what’s really happening in our world today, there’s an inescapable pattern that curiously emerges:Much of what’s going on is simply unsustainable. It can’t go on for much longer, in other words. And it must collapse due to the laws of economics or physics. Here ...
• Britain fears huge loss in Libya
    The British Prime Minister should be more concerned when he makes a ‘far more aggressive’ call for military intervention in Libya than any other Western leader. According to what British officials say privately, there is a more pragmatic concern, based on which David Cameron would be forced to ...
• German Physicist Slams Climate Science, Says “ ...
  By P Gosselin on 10. März 2011 Prof. Knut Löschke, a solid state physicist, who conducted research until 1986, founded PC-Ware AG, and then turned it into a European IT company before leaving in 2009, had some harsh words about climate science and policy in an interview with the magazine Smart I ...

Bloomberg

• Grading Back-to-School Stocks
  Some outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential
• Akimbo: From Niches to Riches?
  The Internet video startup has amassed an impressive menu of online content. Subscribers are all it needs
• HP's New and Steady Hand
  The computer maker's latest results underscore CEO Mark Hurd's emphasis on execution -- and an apparent return to basics
• Google Buys Android for Its Mobile Arsenal
  The search giant quietly acquires the startup, netting possibly a key player in its push into wireless, "the next frontier in search"
• Merck Tumbles on Texas Verdict
  Autodesk posts strong profits, Gap lowers outlook for the year, and more of Friday's stocks in the news

Enviroblog

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

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

• Today's yakuza: Once again, without feeling
  Today’s yakuza film is amoral, refuting the concepts of honor and brotherhood its characters were once fixated by. Like the gunslingers in Sergio Leone’s pictures, these men of action do not serve the public, but only themselves and their loved ones. More ...
• A Capital week in review: What Del Posto's sta ...
  Here is what we learned this week. More
• Kruger's gay lover is so secret, even the 'Pos ...
  Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
• The cost of doing business with (or near) Carl ...
  Some New York businesses have known for a while that it isn't cheap to do business with Carl Kruger or an associated lobbyist, Richard Lipsky. It's only now that some of them are deciding it's not worth the cost. More
• An introduction to the New York-Albanian mob
  It's not every day that two weed dealers from New York City face the death penalty. These two are a pair of Albanian-American brothers from Staten Island named Saimir and Bruno Krasniqi, ages 29 and 26. They, along with a 27-year-old partner named Almir Rra ...

Views & News from Norway

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

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

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

Telecrap Urinal

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

Anna's News

• 20 Painless Ways to Save Money on Gas
  Cars are terrible. Sure, they can be sleek and beautiful, and there's a certain inspiration to the designs. But ultimately, cars are crazy expensive. They constantly depreciate, they brake down at inopportune times, and they become the focal point of yourSubmitted by Anna Smith to Green Lifestyl ...
• Polar Ice Loss: Picking Up the Pace
  Earth's polar ice sheets -- Greenland and Antarctica -- are melting at a quickening pace, overtaking mountain glaciers and ice caps as sources of sea-level rise much sooner than cryosphere scientists expected. Submitted by Anna Smith to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• New Wintering Grounds for Humpback Whales Disc ...
  Researchers have made a remarkable new discovery regarding humpback whale wintering grounds. Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Could gene tests tell if kids can be sports stars?
  Was your kid born to be an elite athlete? Marketers of genetic tests claim the answer is in mail-order kits costing less than $200.Some customers say the test results help them steer their children to appropriate sports. But skeptical doctors and.........Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & Tech ...
• 40 Important Lectures for Journalism Students
  Journalism and media are in the midst of a major transition as citizen reporting, technology and new opportunities for profit are popping up. No matter what changes happen in the industry, journalism students need to remember the basic principles of good Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �No ...

Medical Marijuana

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

Progressives United - Russ Feingold

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

Information Underground

• Technology, Energy, Genetically Modified or En ...
  Yes i am doubtful of the web bot program, the theory does not make sense. I got the email from John afew days ago, it's not on his site. John is a good guy thou, the expanding earth theory is the interesting part of the story.Statistics: Posted by bluejelly — Sat Mar 12, 2011 6:32 am
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c28eG8yJMyY This video came to mind...Just an idea. Statistics: Posted by SPECTEC — Sat Mar 12, 2011 6:08 am
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Total compliance with Rothschild World Economy plans? Maybe they're dragging their feet.Statistics: Posted by Wimpy — Sat Mar 12, 2011 5:55 am
• The Information Underground Radio Show • Re: T ...
  Yeah I guess Timbo. Keep it clean cuz it's not really that big of a deal for me. I have done some research on this after seeing "hoaxers" get repeatedly schooled in debates. I am pretty certain that there is not one single valid argument for a hoax. I have seen all of them get completely destro ...
• Economics, Money/Banking, Investments, Profite ...
  Bob Prechter and my drunken..crazy memories...of the early 1980s ... I've never returned to "Upbeat" in the US-ZOG...despite a Log scale... --CSR iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjhlhwW9d4A iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UX3COyLWDig iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ED ...

TVNZ

• Radiation leaking from Japan's quake-hit nucle ...
  Radiation leaked from an unstable Japanese nuclear reactor north of Tokyo today.
• Japan quake and tsunami - Day two as it happened
  Live updates following an 8.9 magnitude earthquake in Japan and subsequent tsunami.
• A magnitude 6.1 earthquake hits south east of ...
  A magnitude 6.1 earthquake hit south east of Tonga at 2:19pm (NZT).
• Europe and US step up pressure on Gaddafi to go
  Europe and the United States stepped up diplomatic pressure on Muammar Gaddafi to quit.
• People buried under rubble cry for help, 1300 ...
  The biggest earthquake to hit Japan on record triggered a 10-metre tsunami.

environment 360

• China Commits $30 Million To Clean Up Polluted ...
  Chinese officials said the government is planning to spend 200 million yuan ($30 million) to clean up the Baojiagou River, a badly polluted waterway that is the subject of "The Warriors of Qiugang," the Academy Award-nominated film co-produced by Yale Environment 360. China Daily reported that C ...
• U.S.'s Oldest Wild Bird Becomes a Mother at Age 60
  A 60-year-old Laysan albatross named Wisdom, the oldest known wild bird in the U.S., recently hatched a new chick in the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, a U.S. territory northwest of the main Hawaiian Island. Biologists with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service say USGSWisdom raising he ...
• Carbon Storage Projects Expanded in 2010 Despi ...
  Twenty-one new carbon capture and storage (CCS) demonstration projects were launched worldwide in 2010, despite rising technology costs, according to a new report by Australia’s Global CCS Institute. That growth represented a 10 percent increase from the previous year, and bumped the total numbe ...
• Iceland Considers Giant Cable to Sell Geotherm ...
  Iceland’s largest energy company is considering construction of the world’s longest underwater electric cable so the nation can sell its vast geothermal and volcanic energy to the European market. By the end of the year, state-owned energy company, Landsvirkjun, will complete a study of building ...
• Cash-Strapped North Korea Seeks UN Carbon Offs ...
  Desperate for cash, North Korea is hoping to sell carbon offsets from a series of hydropower dam projects through the UN-backed Clean Development Mechanism. According to published reports, the government of North Korea has worked with the Hanns Seidel Foundation, a German humanitarian organizati ...

oldephartte/Diigo

• The First Post | News, comment, opinion, peopl ...
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• Murrmurrs
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• killing Mother
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• The Disaffected Lib
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• Robert Reich
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backofthebook

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

Daily Beast

• Hillary Clinton on Middle East Women's Revolution
  In a rousing keynote speech at Newsweek and The Daily Beast's Women in the World summit, Secretary Clinton doubled down on her commitment to women's rights in the Middle East, unveiled a new State Department partnership with all-girls colleges, and...
• Why America Isn't Ready for a Disaster
  Japan's tradition of emergency planning and strict building codes saved countless lives this week-but what would happen here? Disaster-preparation expert Irwin Redlener on America's shocking lack of readiness-and our history of ignoring wakeup calls....
• What Rupert Murdoch's Lieutenant Knows
  A new name added Friday to the News of the World phone-tapping case is casting more doubt on former editor Andy Coulson's pleas of ignorance-and shifting the media glare to News International CEO Rebekah Brooks. William Underhill on the red-haired,...
• Ladies Lock and Load: American Women Buying Mo ...
  Women are gaining on men in the purchase of firearms for hunting and personal defense, according to the NRA and others. Thousands of women are learning how to shoot-and going hunting together, reports Shushannah Walshe. When Gina York married an avid...
• My Earthquake Experience in Tokyo
  When the ground began to shudder uncontrollably in the world's busiest train station, we ran for our lives. Andrew Pateras on surviving the record-breaking earthquake in Japan. Plus, see shocking photos and videos from the disaster zone. As a...

  Blacklisted News

• Japan Declares Nuclear Emergency After Devasta ...
• Saudi Police Fire On Protests; Day Of Rage Sil ...
  Ahead of a "day of rage" planned for Fri., wire reports said police opened fire on hundreds of protesters in the eastern part of the oil-rich kingdom. The gov't has banned all demonstrations. Yemen's president proposed giving more power to the legislature. Gulf oil-producing countries pledge ...
• Sheeple: Government Handouts = 35 Percent Of U ...
• Will The Japanese Earthquake Be The Straw That ...
• Video & Report: 88,000 People Are Missing In J ...
  Heartbreaking: While the death toll remains in the low hundreds right now (officially) it seems sure to spiral much higher. Wire: 8.9 MAG CAUSES CHAOS...BBC LIVE...MAPS, DETAILS...REUTERS: UPDATE...KYODO WIRE...NHK...Tokyo Feared the 'Big One'...Tsunami-hit port a frightened ghost town...L ...

The Intelligence Daily

• IntelFilter — March 4, 2011
  Today is History March 4, 1918 – The first case of Spanish flu occurs, the start of a devastating...
• The Distant Sound of Hoofbeats
  By John Michael Greer There are moments when the things nobody wants to talk about brush the...
• Egypt/Serbia/Georgia: Learning from others’ mi ...
  There is a Russian proverb: only a fool learns from his own mistakes. As Georgia’s foreign...
• Oil, the Economy and Policy
  By Gail Tverberg Steve Kopits, Managing Director of Douglas-Westood consulting firm, made a...
• IMF Rates Up Dictatorships Just Before Revolutions
  By Michael Collins The International Monetary Fund (IMF) made an embarrassing error just two days...

My AntiWar

• Arab League Prepares to Back No-Fly Zone
• Libyan Envoys Unwelcome at Arab Talks on Crisis
• Gadhafi’s Plane, Firepower Advantage Put ...
• In Libya, Boys Try to Join Fight Against Gadhafi
• Gen. Wesley Clark Says Libya Doesn’t Mee ...

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

• NAM: Respect Iran's nuclear rights
  Summary: member states of NAMThe Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) urges respect for Iran's right to develop its civilian nuclear program within the framework of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). source: Press TVread more
• EGYPT: ELBARADEI- NEW RELATIONS WITH IRAN IF I ...
  Summary: If elected President of Egypt, Mohamed ElBaradei commits to rebuild relations with Iran, after a silence of 30 yrs. source: AGI read more
• Obama does not get it
  Summary: If independent, democratic, governments are formed in the Middle East, they won't follow Washington's orders. source: Al-Jazeera Englishread more
• The J Street Scam
  Summary: GiraldiSupporters of J Street claim that its positions will become more nuanced as its influence grows, but one of the panels at the just-concluded convention debated "Is the Settlement Enterprise Destroying Israel’s Democracy?" One might well ask why there was a question mark at ...
• The So-Called Guardians of Free Speech
  Summary: As the United States and Britain look for an excuse to invade another oil-rich Arab country, the hypocrisy is familiar. Colonel Gadhafi is "delusional" and "blood-drenched" while the authors of an invasion that killed a million Iraqis, who have kidnapped and tortured in our name, ar ...

The Daily Galaxy

• Image of the Day: Japan's Quake & Tsunami Deva ...
  Houses are swept by water, causing many fires, following a tsunami and earthquake in Natori City in northeastern Japan today. Image credit: with thanks to The Daily Beast.com
• NASA to Scan Skies 24/7 for Near-Earth-Object ...
  Nasa is installing a network of surveillance cameras called the All-Sky Fireball Network to track meteorites as they enter the Earth's atmosphere. Each of the cameras has a special lens that can view the entire sky above it and a...
• July 7, 1958: The 1,700-foot Tall Tsunami that ...
  On the night of July 7th, 1958 the world’s largest recorded Tsunami engorged Alaska's Lituya bay, located about 250 miles west of Juneau. It was 1,700 feet or 520 meters, almost twice the height of the Eiffel Tower. The Tsunami...
• Ghostly Beauty of a Nebula & White Dwarf
  The incredibly beautiful planetary nebula, NGC 6210, is a complex cloud of gas produced in the dying stages of a star slightly less massive than our Sun., about 6,500 light-years away, in the constellation of Hercules. In this image, NGC...
• Image of the Day: New Infrared Image of the Sp ...
  The spiral arm segments of the Sunflower galaxy, 37 million light years away, also known as Messier 63, show up in this gorgeous image taken in infrared light by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Infrared light is sensitive to the dust...

Natural News

• Twelve unsustainable things that will soon com ...
  (NaturalNews) If you look around what's really happening in our world today, there's an inescapable pattern that curiously emerges: Much of what's going on is simply unsustainable. It can't go on for much longer, in other words. And it must collapse due to the laws of economics or physics.Here, ...
• Guatemalans to sue US government for secretly ...
  (NaturalNews) Last fall, it became widely public that the US government deliberately infected roughly 700 Guatemalans with syphilis in a 1940s experiment on the effectiveness of penicillin (http://www.naturalnews.com/029924_medical_experiments_Guatemala.html). Now, those involved in the experime ...
• Maine town becomes first to declare food sover ...
  (NaturalNews) The town of Sedgwick, Maine, currently leads the pack as far as food sovereignty is concerned. Local residents recently voted unanimously at a town hall meeting to pass an ordinance that reinforces its citizens' God-given rights to "produce, process, sell, purchase, and consume loc ...
• America's breadbasket aquifer running dry; mas ...
  (NaturalNews) It's the largest underground freshwater supply in the world, stretching from South Dakota all the way to Texas. It's underneath most of Nebraska's farmlands, and it provides crucial water resources for farming in Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma and even New Mexico. It's called the Ogall ...
• Big Pharma lies about R&D costs to justify ill ...
  (NaturalNews) If you listen purely to the industry side of the story, you might think that drug companies are more than vindicated in selling brand-name drugs for sometimes thousands of times more than they cost to produce, and raking in billions of dollars in profits every year. After all, much ...

Threat Level

• Judge Denies Request to Throw Out Order Seekin ...
  A judge presiding over the U.S. government’s request for Twitter records relating to associates of Wikileaks has denied a motion to throw out the request, ruling that the associates don’t have standing to challenge it. The judge also denied a request to unseal the government’s application for th ...
• Manning’s Father Condemns Treatment of Impriso ...
  Watch the full episode. See more FRONTLINE. The father of suspected WikiLeaks leaker Bradley Manning says the military has crossed a line in its treatment of his son and called the conditions under which he was being imprisoned “shocking.” Brian Manning broke his silence to a PBS Frontline corr ...
• Court Unlikely to Halt ‘Nude’ Airport Body Sca ...
  WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court on Thursday appeared unlikely it would block the use and ongoing deployment of the so-called “nude” airport body scanners, which the government maintains are necessary to protect the airways from terrorists. Still, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District o ...
• Airport ‘Nude’ Body Scanners: Are They Effective?
  The body scanners rolling out to airports nationwide may violate travelers’ privacy, and they might even cause cancer. But they prevent terrorists from wreaking havoc. Or do they? Some research claims the machines — which produce a virtual nude image of the body — might not detect explosives or ...
• Supreme Court Deciding Whether Congress May Co ...
  The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether Congress may take works out of the public domain and grant them copyright status. A federal appeals panel, reversing a lower court, ruled in July against a group of orchestra conductors, educators, performers, publishers, film archivists and moti ...

PERRspectives : Blog

• Right Fumes over "President of China," Forgets ...
  The conservative commentariat is predictably apoplectic this morning about a New York Times story on the Middle East which claimed "Mr. Obama has told people that it would be so much easier to be the president of China." While the Weekly Standard's Bill Kristol protested, "Unfortunately for him ...
• GOP to America: We're All Mississippians Now
  Republicans have seen the future and it's in Mississippi. On the same day Wisconsin Republicans turned to unprecedented and possibly illegal maneuvers to strip public workers of collective bargaining rights, the Michigan legislature blessed emergency powers for Governor Rick Snyder to terminate ...
• Arrest Made in Spokane Terror Plot
  As former IRA terror sympathizer turned anti-Muslim inquisitor Peter King prepares begins his Congressional hearings into Islamic radicalization, authorities have made an arrest in connection with January's backpack bomb plot in Spokane. While the identity and motivation of the suspect have yet ...
• It's the Tax Revenue, Stupid
  Call it the "Seriousness Test." Any so-called deficit hawk that refuses to countenance increasing federal taxes simply isn't serious. After all, as the CBO concluded in January, with tax revenues now below 15%, "levels that low have not been seen since 1950." The two-year tax cut compromise i ...
• Mitt Romney, Vulture Capitalist
  Ten years ago, George W. Bush was sworn in as America's first MBA President. Now, Mitt Romney wants to be the second. Two years after President Bush completed the worst economic record since Herbert Hoover, Romney the perpetual White House hopeful declared, "I spent my career in the private se ...

Blackspot News Feed

• Harvey Wasserman: Japan nuclear leak could bri ...
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ RTAmerica on Mar 11, 2011 In the aftermath of the Japanese earthquake, a nuclear reactor was fractured and radioactive material has been leaking into the atmosphere. Author Harvey Wasserman believes the radiation spewing into the air from the Japanese nuclear ...
• 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 ...

Consortium News

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

CounterPunch

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• Alexander Cockburn : Autumn of the Driveler
• Carl Ginsburg : Life in the Low to Mid-Teens
• Alexander Cockburn : Loose-Lip McChrystal Did ...
• Alexander Cockburn : He Should Have Kept His M ...

Institute for Middle East Understanding

• Tear down this Israeli wall (Roger Waters, Th ...
  In my view, the abhorrent and draconian control that Israel wields over the besieged Palestinians in Gaza and the Palestinians in the occupied West Bank (including East Jerusalem), co ...
• Chicago Activists Rename Downtown Street Signs ...
  Responding to an international call to action, Palestinian solidarity activists in Chicago renamed street signs on downtown street corners commemorating a Palestinian youth killed two ...
• Court Orders Palestinian Family to Share Jerus ...
  The Hamdallah family of the East Jerusalem neighborhood Ras al-Amud has been ordered to share their home with Israeli settlers. The decision, made by an Israeli court, follows an 11-y ...
• The New Israeli Left (Joseph Dana and Noam Sh ...
  Unlike traditional Israeli peace rallies, West Bank demonstrations are led by Palestinians. The Jewish participants arrive at the invitation of local Palestinian committees, and they must accept the political and tactical choices of the local leadership. Although there is coordination, it's the ...
• Generation Oslo: Ramzi Jaber (IMEU)
  As protests rage across the Arab world challenging authoritarian regimes and bringing some to an end, it has become clear that the age group dubbed "Generation Y" or "Generation Next" ...

Water - AlterNet

• The Health of the Gulf: Fishermen and Oilmen Clash
  With the oil industry shifting from friendly PR to legal battles, competing narratives about Gulf marine life have emerged.
• 'Fracking' Comes to Europe, Sparking Rising Co ...
  As concerns grow in the U.S. about fracking to extract natural gas from shale, companies have set their sights on Europe and its abundant reserves of this "unconventional" gas.
• Top 10 Most Toxic Cities & Top 10 Fittest ...
  Should you be concerned when you walk outside your house and guzzle a deep breath of air, or should you go out for a run like the rest of the local folks do? Find out...
• Say What? PA Governor Gives Energy Executive S ...
  Instead of ratcheting up oversight, PA's governor wants to hand authority over some of the state's most critical environmental decisions to an energy executive.
• Naomi Klein: Why Climate Change Is So Threaten ...
  "What we really need now is for the people fighting for economic justice and environmental justice to come together," says Klein.

Public Citizen in Texas

• Austin’s Fayette coal-fired power plant sued
  LCRA’s Fayette Power Project is under legal attack by three anti-pollution groups who filed a federal lawsuit on Monday against the coal-fired power plant located near La Grange, about 100 miles northwest of Houston. The lawsuit was filed by the Environmental Integrity Project, Environment Texas ...
• TLR Rally, PC Activist Andy Wilson confronting ...
  Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:
• Railroad Commission examiners say Range Resour ...
  According to hearing examiners for the Texas Railroad Commission, Range Resources was not responsible for contaminating two residential drinking water wells in Parker County. The Fort Worth company was accused by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in December of allowing methane and other ...
• Are Barnett Shale residents the lab rats in th ...
  Are desperate school boards having to make decisions about the fiscal health of their districts now vs the long-term health of their charges in the future?  Mike Norman, the editorial director of the Star-Telegram/Arlington and Northeast Tarrant County, writes about the precarious lab rat positi ...
• Bill with the potential to poison our school c ...
  A bill filed by Senator Florence Shapiro (R-Plano) – SB 468 - purports to promote “flexibility of the board of trustees of a school district in the management and operation of public schools in the district,” and makes several changes to the law, including class sizes and the repeal of Section ...

Unexplained Mysteries

• Ghost forces Kondhwa school to shut
  A school in India has closed after its students fled following reports of supernatural activity. Last Monday the students of Lady Haleema Begum Urdu S...
• SETI releases alien-hunting Android app
  SetiQuest Explorer is currently in a private beta stage and will be available on the iPhone this summer. "We want to tap into the brain power of the w...
• Archaeologists to dig for legendary elephant
  An excavation in the garden of a British pub hopes to uncover the remains of a famous elephant. The story of the Tregaron Elephant has been a part of ...
• Will Super Moon cause widespread disaster ?
  Richard Nolle claims that on the moon's closest approach on March 19th chaos will ensue. Referring to the event as an "extreme supermoon" Nolle believ...
• Laser scans Stonehenge for its secrets
  Archaeologists are scanning Stonehenge with lasers hoping to find clues to how it was constructed. In 1993, photographic documentation was performed t...

Grassroots

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

Climate

• Emergency Declared at Japanese Nuclear Plant
  Source:� New York Times 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.
• Obama Says Prepared to Tap U.S. Oil Reserves I ...
  Source:� Reuters President Obama said on Friday the United States is prepared to tap its strategic oil reserves to address rising gasoline prices if conditions require such a step.
• BP Expands in Brazilian Biofuels with $680 Mil ...
  Source:� Reuters BP has agreed to buy a Brazilian sugar and ethanol group for $680 million, expanding its presence in the country's biofuels industry.
• Norway Blocks Oil Drilling in Fish-Spawning Area
  Source:� AP Norway on Friday rejected oil drilling in ecologically sensitive waters just above the Arctic circle, partly because of worries over a disaster like the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
• Lawmakers Declare New Jersey a No-Fracking Zone
  Source:� NJ Spotlight New Jersey lawmakers approved a bill to ban the practice of drilling for natural gas by fracking. For practical purposes, the bill will have little impact since no drilling is occurring in New Jersey.

GreenBiz

• McDonald's Sets Long-Term Sustainable Beef, Co ...
  �McDonald's has laid out a long-term plan to move to more sustainable meat, coffee and packaging.
• Rare Earth Mining Becomes an Acceptable Risk O ...
  With a massive new mining facility in Malaysia under construction, it appears that more of the world is waking up to the potential risks of leaving the materials crucial to technology in China's hands.
• Recycled Cardboard Good For Earth, May Be Bad ...
  Swiss researchers have discovered that toxic mineral oils from recycled newspapers was being absorbed in foods commonly packaged in cartons made from recycled cardboard.
• BT to Require Carbon Management from Suppliers
  BT now expects its roughly 6,000 contracted suppliers to have a climate change policy in place, actively measure and report their emissions, and set challenging targets to reduce emissions, while also reporting on their progress.
• Carbon Trust and Siemens Strike £550M Green Fi ...
  New energy saving finance package promises to emulate government's Green Deal scheme.

Reuters Global

• Pakistan’s debate on drones, lifting the ...
  The secrecy on drones has helped fuel a poisonous debate in Pakistan. Will a rare admission by a high-ranking Pakistani military offiicer of their effectiveness change that?
• From Afghanistan to Libya; rethinking the role ...
  The U.S. military has been accused of dominating policy in Afghainstan. But what do we learn from its reluctance to intervene in Libya?
• In Pakistan, an assassination and the death of ...
  With the second high-profile assassination in a year, some Pakistanis are trying to resist the temptation to lapse into shocked silence
• U.S.-Pakistan relations better than they look
  For all the noise over the row over Raymond Davis, at a strategic level the positions of the United States and Pakistan are moving closer
• Tweet like an Egyptian — Hillary Clinton ...
  Young Egyptians, who famously used Internet services like Facebook and Twitter to launch their recent revolution, turned the focus on Hillary Clinton on Wednesday and peppered the top U.S. diplomat with skeptical questions about longtime U.S. support for former President Hosni Mubarak and what ...

Booman Tribune

• Wanker of the Day: Jeff Kaufmann
  You know what's funny in the aftermath of near-fatal shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords? Republican lawmakers who propose incredibly lax gun control laws and then refer to them as Give a Handgun to a Schizophrenic Bills. That's what happened in Iowa and it was caught on an open mic. Repu ...
• 5 Alaska Militia Terrorists Arrested
  In Fairbanks, Alaska five members of a militia group, the Alaska Peacemakers Militia, including its reputed leader, Francis Cox, have been arrested after they allegedly conspired to murder State Troopers, State Court Judges, and one Federal District Court Judge. Here are the reported details: ...
• Corbett Assaults Higher Education
  Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett's cuts to higher education amount to the theft of $2,200 from every student in the state college system. Isn't that awesome? In a news conference on Wednesday, Penn State's president, Graham B. Spanier, agreed, saying students can't bear the brunt of the c ...
• A Rand Paul Nightmare
  This reads like one of Rand Paul's nightmares. Over the years, Japan has spent billions of dollars developing the most advanced technology against earthquakes and tsunamis... ...Local authorities can usually contact residents directly through warning systems set up in each home; footpath ...
• Markey's Snarky Attack on Anti-Science GOP
  You have to watch this video of Rep. Ed Markey remarks at the committee hearing on climate change. He roasts his Republican adversaries their anti-science attitudes (the same Republicans owned by Big Oil who have proposed a bill that would strip the EPA of its authority to regulate air pollutan ...

European Tribune

• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch ...
  �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europeans on this date in history:1881 - birth of...
• Friday Open Thread
  Please gather round...
• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch ...
  �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europe on this date in history:1872 - Construction of...
• Thursday Open Thread
  Weave a tangled Web?...
• Why Serious People love the BRICs
  Brics becoming billionaire factory The number of billionaires in leading emerging economies has surpassed the...

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

• Glamour Magazine Investigative Report on Sexua ...
  A GoodTherapy.org Announcement GoodTherapy.org is pleased to assist Glamour magazine in an investigative report raising awareness about sexual exploitation in therapy. This article will bring to light true stories of real womens’ experiences and equip Glamour readers with knowledge and tools to ...
• Jimmy
  By Barbara ‘Basia’ Mosinski, LCAT, ATR-BC, MA, MFA Art Therapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Basia and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile The patient âJimmyâ that I described in the previous blog, who created a video project in art psychotherapy, has completed his video. He dec ...
• Authority: It’s an Inside Job!
  By Judith Barr, MS, LPC, Power: Healing to the Root Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Judith and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile What is happening in the Middle East right now is a very complex subject. It’s very difficult to look at more than one perspective at a time, much like ...
• Text Messaging May Aid in Smoking Cessation Th ...
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline A study released this month shows that text messages may aid in smoking cessation. Smokers involved in the study were required to perform certain self control tasks while the impulse regions of their brains were monitored. The results confirmed that interval monit ...
• Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up
  A GoodTherapy.org Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up Happy last official weekend of Winter! This week’s news covered a variety of youth topics, the psychology of Ash Wednesday, social psychology, and mental health trends around the country. We hope this week’s psychotherapy news can keep your mi ...

Mountaintop Removal

• Environmental film leads into music and dance ...
  Environmental film leads into music and dance Coast Weekend From the heart of Appalachia, May is a nurse whose town was threatened by mountaintop removal. Although she identifies herself as a "mountain woman" and a "hillbilly," May defies those stereotypes; she is a fiddler, health practitioner ...
• Local professor participates in sit-in at Capi ...
  Local professor participates in sit-in at Capitol Morehead News That's the name of a group of citizens who are committed to ending the practice of surface mining better known by many as mountaintop removal. Morehead State University Professor John Hennen was among 14 persons who traveled to Fra ...
• DEP ordered to add discharge limits for conduc ...
  DEP ordered to add discharge limits for conductivity Charleston Gazette But the appeal focused more attention on the US Environmental Protection Agency's crackdown on mountaintop removal and the growing body of science EPA cites showing water quality problems downstream from large mining operat ...
• Quakers Take Action Against Mountaintop Remova ...
  Baltimore Sun (blog) Quakers Take Action Against Mountaintop Removal Financing It's Getting Hot In Here They called for PNC executives to sign a �confession� admitting their investments in destructive mountaintop removal. Nine Earthquakers were eventually escorted out of the flower show by poli ...
• Groups plan march to Blair Mountain - West Vir ...
  Groups plan march to Blair Mountain West Virginia Public Broadcasting Nida quoted the mission statement for the event: "We march to preserve Blair Mountain, strengthen labor rights, abolish mountaintop removal in Appalachia and invest in sustainable job-creation for all Appalachian communities. ...

Memeorandum

• Murkowski opposes Planned Parenthood, Title X ...
  Sarah Kliff / The Politico: Murkowski opposes Planned Parenthood, Title X cuts  —  Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska has come out in opposition to the House's attempts to defund Planned Parenthood, making her the first Republican senator to specifically support the beleaguered organization.
• Japan Orders Evacuation Near 2nd Nuclear Plant ...
  Matthew L. Wald / New York Times: Japan Orders Evacuation Near 2nd Nuclear Plant  —  Japanese officials on Saturday issued broad evacuation orders for people living in the vicinity of two separate nuclear power plants that had experienced breakdowns in their cooling systems as a result of the e ...
• GOP spending plan plays better with Dems than ...
  Erik Wasson / The Hill: GOP spending plan plays better with Dems than conservatives  —  House Republicans unveiled a three-week continuing resolution Friday that funds the government through April 8 and cuts $6 billion in spending.  —  Senate Democrats immediately signaled that they could accep ...
• The Cook Report: Trend or Fluke? (Charlie Cook ...
  Charlie Cook / NationalJournal.com: The Cook Report: Trend or Fluke?  —  A new poll that shows independents warming to the role of government could signal an important shift.  —  I only get to celebrate special days like my birthday, wedding anniversary, Thanksgiving, and Christmas once a year ...
• Clinton aide: Manning 'mistreated' (Ed Pilking ...
  Ed Pilkington / Guardian: Clinton aide: Manning ‘mistreated’  —  PJ Crowley says Pentagon is being ‘ridiculous and stupid’ by subjecting WikiLeaks suspect to punitive conditions in jail  —  Hillary Clinton's spokesman has launched a public attack on the Pentagon for the way it is treating milit ...

Energy & Environment News

• Explosion Rocks Japan Nuclear Plant After Quake
  The chief cabinet secretary Yukio Edano confirmed earlier reports of an explosion at the Fukishima Daiichi nuclear plant, 150 miles north of Tokyo.
• Heat Damages Colombia Coffee, Raising Prices
  Changes linked to global warming have contributed to a shortage of the beans used in specialty coffees.
• Pinedale Journal: In Pinedale, Wyo., Residents ...
  Geography, weather and economy have combined to foul the air in one of the places people might least expect.
• Green: 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.
• Green: Payments to 9/11 Workers Are Off to Slo ...
  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.

5+ quakes - 7 days

• M 5.2, off the east coast of Honshu, Japan
  Saturday, March 12, 2011 09:00:02 UTCSaturday, March 12, 2011 07:00:02 PM at epicenterDepth: 41.30 km (25.66 mi)
• M 5.0, off the east coast of Honshu, Japan
  Saturday, March 12, 2011 08:52:50 UTCSaturday, March 12, 2011 06:52:50 PM at epicenterDepth: 38.10 km (23.67 mi)
• M 5.0, Kepulauan Babar, Indonesia
  Saturday, March 12, 2011 08:45:29 UTCSaturday, March 12, 2011 05:45:29 PM at epicenterDepth: 186.40 km (115.82 mi)
• M 5.0, Fiji region
  Saturday, March 12, 2011 08:38:39 UTCSaturday, March 12, 2011 08:38:39 PM at epicenterDepth: 229.30 km (142.48 mi)
• M 5.0, near the east coast of Honshu, Japan
  Saturday, March 12, 2011 08:13:41 UTCSaturday, March 12, 2011 05:13:41 PM at epicenterDepth: 26.80 km (16.65 mi)

China Dialogue

• Lessons from the flood (2)
  Pakistan’s engineering system has left the poorest most vulnerable to inundation. Continuing their exploration of the Indus basin, Daanish Mustafa and David Wrathall look at past failures of flood control.Pakistan benefits from an extraordinary water supply, sourced mainly from swift-flowing gla ...
• Lessons from the flood (3)
  In the wake of its destructive floods, Pakistan has an opportunity to address the social and physical problems that caused the disaster in the first place, argue Daanish Mustafa and David Wrathall, concluding their three-part article.So what can we expect to change in the aftermath of this mega- ...
• Lessons from the flood (1)
  Human error played a key role in last year’s devastating floods in Pakistan, write Daanish Mustafa and David Wrathall. In the first instalment of a three-part article, they call for a new approach to the Indus basin.Editor’s introduction: In July and August 2010, abnormally heavy monsoon fl ...
• Gas fracking’s burning debate
  America’s shale-gas industry is booming, but as fears grow over unconventional drilling techniques, environmental regulators are struggling to keep pace. Justin Gerdes reports.On January 17, a gas well operating on state forest lands in Ward Township, a small settlement in America’s north-easter ...
• Last ditch plea on Yangtze dam
  As China ratifies its new development plan, environmentalists are pleading with politicians to protect an imperilled fish reserve. Meng Si reports on the latest developments.China’s Xiaonanhai dam, a controversial hydropower scheme planned for the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, is set to de ...

AlterNet Top Stories

• Sex Party: What Happened at My First Orgy
  Like many forms of sex deemed "deviant," group sex seems to be becoming more mainstream.
• Moms-to-be: Are You Taking This Dangerous Drug?
  Americans are getting used to the withdrawal or severe restriction of drugs “previously thought safe.” From last year’s Avandia warnings to the withdrawal of Vioxx, Bextra, Baycol, Meridia, Trovan and Fen Phen, “Pill Buyer Beware” seems to be a shrewd stance, especially when a drug is new. Still ...
• The Health of the Gulf: Fishermen and Oilmen Clash
  With the oil industry shifting from friendly PR to legal battles, competing narratives about Gulf marine life have emerged.
• 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.
• Wisconsin Gov. Walker and Charlie Sheen: Let U ...
  Do the reckless anti-union machinations by Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker make him the Charlie Sheen of politics? If only celebrated actor Martin Sheen received the same media exposure as his troubled son Charlie. Never has his long-time work for union rights been more needed in the public and med ...

Threat Level

• Judge Denies Request to Throw Out Order Seekin ...
  A judge presiding over the U.S. government’s request for Twitter records relating to associates of Wikileaks has denied a motion to throw out the request, ruling that the associates don’t have standing to challenge it. The judge also denied a request to unseal the government’s application for th ...
• Manning’s Father Condemns Treatment of Impriso ...
  Watch the full episode. See more FRONTLINE. The father of suspected WikiLeaks leaker Bradley Manning says the military has crossed a line in its treatment of his son and called the conditions under which he was being imprisoned “shocking.” Brian Manning broke his silence to a PBS Frontline corr ...
• Court Unlikely to Halt ‘Nude’ Airport Body Sca ...
  WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court on Thursday appeared unlikely it would block the use and ongoing deployment of the so-called “nude” airport body scanners, which the government maintains are necessary to protect the airways from terrorists. Still, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District o ...
• Airport ‘Nude’ Body Scanners: Are They Effective?
  The body scanners rolling out to airports nationwide may violate travelers’ privacy, and they might even cause cancer. But they prevent terrorists from wreaking havoc. Or do they? Some research claims the machines — which produce a virtual nude image of the body — might not detect explosives or ...
• Supreme Court Deciding Whether Congress May Co ...
  The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether Congress may take works out of the public domain and grant them copyright status. A federal appeals panel, reversing a lower court, ruled in July against a group of orchestra conductors, educators, performers, publishers, film archivists and moti ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

• Snap analysis: Japan may have hours to prevent ...
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - 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.
• Analysis: Nuclear power growth at risk if Japa ...
  LONDON/DETROIT (Reuters) - The growing risk of a significant radiation leak at two Japanese nuclear power plants following Friday's earthquake and tsunami threatens to hurt an industry that has enjoyed a rebirth since the Three Mile Island accident in 1979 and the Chernobyl disaster in 1986.
• Japan warns of nuclear fuel melting after quak ...
  FUKUSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) - Japan warned of a meltdown on Saturday at a nuclear reactor damaged when a massive earthquake and tsunami struck the northeast coast, but said the risk of radiation contamination was small.
• Japan authorities: TEPCO plant fuel rods may h ...
  March 12 (Reuters) - Japanese nuclear authorities said that there was a high possibility that nuclear fuel rods at a reactor at Tokyo Electric Power's Daiichi plant may be melting or have melted, Jiji news agency reported.
• UPDATE 1-US did not deliver coolant to Japan n ...
  WASHINGTON, March 11 (Reuters) - The U.S. military did not provide any coolant for a Japanese nuclear plant affected by a massive earthquake on Friday, U.S. officials said.

IntelNews

• News you may have missed #482
  Kissinger wants US spy for Israel freed. MI5 short of surveillance officers says minister. US spy agencies lack fluent bilingual speakers. Continue reading →
• Russia may swap convicted spy for ‘merchant of ...
  Moscow and Washington may swap a Russian former defense official, convicted for spying for the United States, with notorious Russian weapons dealer Viktor Bout, who is being held in a US prison. Continue reading →
• News you may have missed #481
  Who brought down the CIA website last Thursday? Israeli cabinet minister to visit jailed spy in US. Egypt's spies dragged from shadows. Continue reading →
• Libyan TV accuses detained Dutch helicopter cr ...
  Just days after the capture of a British paramilitary and intelligence team in Libya, the countryâs state television has accused three Dutch marines, captured by pro-government loyalists, of spying. Continue reading →
• Arrest of British spy team in Libya reveals co ...
  All eight members of the British military and intelligence team arrested in Libya on Friday have now been released and are en route to Malta. But what exactly is behind this news story, and what does it reveal about covert Western involvement in Libya? Continue reading →

War is a Crime.org

• Battleground Wisconsin: Corporate Power v. Wor ...
  Battleground Wisconsin: Corporate Power v. Worker Rights - by Stephen Lendman The issue in Wisconsin and across America is simple and straightforward - a corporate-financed offensive to crush unions, returning workers to 19th century harshness with no rights whatever. As a result, well-funded u ...
• US House to debate for 2 hours and vote on Thu ...
  The resolution: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.uscongress/legislation.112hconres28 The number to call your congress member: (202) 224-3121 Timing could change, but currently set for Thursday.
• A Senator Bizarrely Backs What Majority of Ame ...
• Gov. Tom Corbett: Pennsylvania’s Savior
  by Walter Brasch Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett may be the most adept politician in America. With the nation focused upon the union-busting Tea Party-backed Scott Walker in Wisconsin, Corbett has snuck in a plan to mine the state's resources, increase employment, reduce educational problems, an ...
• JOIN THE END THE WAR PROTEST IN NEW YORK CITY ...
  by Joan Wile, author, "Grandmothers Against the War: Getting Off Our Fannies and Standing Up for Peace" (Citadel Press) It's encouraging to see the people uprisings abroad and in our own country. The Egypt revolt really sparked something, and, on its revolutionary heels, the workers of Wisco ...

Grist - News

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

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Technorati - What's Hot in Blogs

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Time - Top Stories

• Japan Wrestles with Nuke Crisis
  Japan Wrestles with Nuke Crisis
• Will Quake Cause Debt Problems?
  Any meaningful increase in spending could potentially have a negative impact on market sentiment towards Japanese debt
• Europe Unites Against Gaddafi, But Not on What ...
  European Union leaders all agree they want to see Gaddafi gone, butremain divided on how to deal with the Libyan strongman's attacks onrebels
• Crescent City: America's Tsunami Capital
  The logging and fishing town in northern California has faced a staggering 31 tsunamis since 1933
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Farming Pathogens

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

Suzie-Q

• Scott Walker Refusing To Release Details Of Co ...
  Think Progress- By George Zornick at 12:55 pm Shortly before signing the controversial bill that ends collective bargaining rights for public employees in Wisconsin, Gov. Scott Walker appeared on Morning Joe today to lambaste the pernicious influence of “union bosses” and “outside money” on the ...
• Speaking of Antiques~Double Feature~Starring H ...
  My guess is that Helen could be Phoenician, a heritage that goes back thousands of years. In recent studies, dna samples indicated that one third of the Lebanese have the genetic signature of the Phoenicians. I was fortunate enough to meet a Phoenician when I was in Beirut in 1965. We sit in a c ...
• Kochtopus: Covert Operations
  Suzie’s Note: This article is from last August but definitely worth repeating. Covert Operations The billionaire brothers who are waging a war against Obama. The New Yorker- by Jane Mayer August 30, 2010 On May 17th, a black-tie audience at the Metropolitan Opera House applauded as a tall, jovia ...
• Japan Earthquake: 8.9 Magnitude Earthquake Hits
  Japan Earthquake 2011: 8.9 Magnitude Earthquake Hits, 13-Foot Tsunami Triggered AP/The Huffington Post First Posted: 03/11/11 04:54 AM Updated: 03/11/11 12:00 PM TOKYO — A ferocious tsunami spawned by one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded slammed Japan’s eastern coast Friday, killing hun ...
• Koch Brothers Exposed (VIDEO)
  AlterNet- Posted by Robert Greenwald at 11:49 am March 10, 2011 Today Brave New Foundation announces our latest campaign. A campaign where we will take on one of the single greatest threats to our democracy: The Koch Brothers. With Outfoxed, we exposed the unbalanced propaganda that is Fox News. ...

Solari

• Firefighters Target M&I Bank For Executive Sup ...
  By Jesse Russell Update 3 p.m.: A call to M&I’s Capitol Square branch confirms the bank is closed for the rest of the day. When the firefighters arrived at the Capitol this morning they started the chant “MOVE YOUR MONEY!” Firefighters Local 311 President Joe Conway told the audience they shoul ...
• Smart Grids: Update from Blake Levitt
  By B. Blake Levitt Things are move quickly with citizen/legislative actions regarding SmartGrids/Meters: A total of 32 California towns and counting now have either legal ordinances or resolutions banning SmartMeters. These include Seaside, Rio Dell, Fairfax, Watsonville, Capitola, Monterey and ...
• Food For Thought: Urban Agriculture as Recovery
  Fountain House Roof Garden, New York By Elliot Madison âTo know I had a part in growing my own food changed me from being a âconsumerâ to a âproducer.â I know if I can do that, there isnât much I canât do.â –Laurel, a 30 year-old woman with bipolar disorder Fountain House is one of the [...]
• Frequent Flyer Miles/ Airline Tickets Needed F ...
  Dear Catherine, My name is John Henry Hall Jr. and I have been listening to you for a few months now. I first heard about you through Alex Jones. I have a 7 year old daughter who has juvenile diabetes… her name is Charla Nadadja Hall. Our family is facing a very important and urgent sit ...
• CPUC Calls for Smart Meter Opt-Out
  California regulators will ask Pacific Gas & Electric Co. to set up a process so its customers can opt out of SmartMeters if they have concerns about the devices’ potential health effects. California Public Utilities Commission President Michael Peevey says he will ask the utility to develop th ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

• As the Treatment of Bradly Manning Grows More ...
  If we take our heads out of the sand, we could see that what once happened to "foreign combatants" is now happening to Americans soldiers.
• 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.
• Corporations Are Working to Destroy One of the ...
  When you hear about frivolous lawsuits and tort reform, what that really means is taking away your ability to make right a harm that’s been done to you.
• Goon-Squad Politics: How the Wisc. GOP Trample ...
  When Wisconsin's G.O.P. senators couldn't get what they wanted in an open process, they resorted to goon-squad democracy. You got a problem wi' dat?
• The Fred Phelps Supreme Court Decision and Why ...
  When it comes to free speech and the First Amendment, the content of the speech, and whether or not we find it hateful, vile and abhorrent, is irrelevant.

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

• Robocop is not a good role model for the youth ...
  Summary:  They are building a statue of RoboCop in Detroit, pointing their youth down a well-worn path leading to a dead end.  Links to other posts in this series appear at the end. This is a bad idea. From “Detroit Needs Robocop, now more than ever. Why a proposed statue of the tragic hero i ...
• More about Saudi Arabia and the future Days of ...
  Summary:   Another brief about the situation in Saudi Arabia, looking deeper than the previous chapter (see the links at the end of this post).  Whatever happens today, the near future will see significant changes in this key region.  But perhaps not the changes we expect. Most of what we know a ...
• Red alert: Friday’s “Day of Rage& ...
  Summary:  Friday might be an important day, perhaps the most important day of the decade.  It’s the Day of Rage in Saudi Arabia.  The Princes have mobilized their vast security services to prevent or disperse the protests.  Will anybody dare to show up?  Will the Princes order the use of fo ...
• What is a warmonger?
  Summary:  A consequence and contributor to the militarization of US foreign policy is a vast pro-war establishment outside the government.  Often funded by government contractors, a horde of advocacy groups, think tanks, and academics exists to explain why the answer to most foreign policy ...
• Why the middle class is dying
  Summary:  The slow growth of employment (far slower than GDP or corporate profits) continues to puzzle economists.  Perhaps it’s just a short-term oddity.  Perhaps something has changed in the overall economy.  Slowly economists see, albeit dimly, the coming robot revolution (no, it’s not ...

Open Your Eyes News

• UN alarmed at huge decline in bee numbers
  AFP – The UN on Thursday expressed alarm at a huge decline in bee colonies under a multiple onslaught of pests and pollution, urging an international effort to save the pollinators that are vital for food crops. Much of the decline, ranging up to 85 percent in some areas, is taking place in the ...
• US Patriot Act extension sparks debate
  PressTV – The Act did not face much resistance from the public when it was first signed into law in 2001. However, there are now fears that the Act threatens the Americans’ civil rights. The US invaded Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003 after the 9/11 attack on World Trade Center in New York [...]
• Gaddafi troops advance on rebel forces
  AFP – Libyan fighter jets have bombed anti-Gaddafi forces as the European Union called on the Libyan leader to go and Barack Obama urged the world to keep up the pressure. “Colonel Gaddafi must relinquish power immediately,” said a European Union statement from Brussels at the end of an emergenc ...
• Afghanistan: 14 killed in two NWA drone attacks
  TNI – Fourteen people, including suspected militants, were killed in two separate missile attacks by the US drones on vehicles in Mir Ali Subdivision in North Waziristan Agency on Friday. Tribal sources said eight US spy planes were seen flying over the town before the missile strikes. In the fi ...
• Children aged five ‘given shocking sex lessons’
  The Telegraph – A report published on Wednesday claims that schools across England are using books that cover subjects such as orgasms and foreplay.  The study, by the Christian Institute, found a range of local councils recommended titles for use in primary sex education lessons that contained ...

The Progressive Realist

• Conservatives Smear Keith Ellison
  Rep. Keith Ellison's tearful testimony at Rep. Peter King's hearing on domestic radicalization yesterday was a compelling rebuke to the entire premise of the hearings. So it's only natural that conservatives would seek to smear him.  Ellison grew emotional over the case of Mohammed Salman Ham ...
• Peter King Likes to Hear from Muslims Peter Ki ...
  “We must be fully aware that homegrown radicalization is part of al Qaedaâs strategy to continue attacking the United States,” said Rep. Peter King (D-NY) as he opened yesterday’s House Committee on Homeland Security hearing on The Extent of Radicalization in the American Muslim Community and th ...
• Gates Slams Allies for Shirking in Afghanistan
  Robert Gates I don’t really know what this is supposed to accomplish: In a deliberately undiplomatic speech to NATO defense ministers, Mr. Gates called on European allies to put aside their domestic politics and work with the United States to secure the âsemblance of normalcyâ that he said was ...
• US Response to Japan
  The US Navy has dispatched 8 ships in response to the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan today. USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) USS Chancellorsville (CG 62) USS Preble (DDG 88) USS Essex (LHD 2) USS Germantown (LSD 42) USS Tortuga (LSD 46) USS Harpers Ferry (LSD 49) USS Blue Ridge (LCC ...
• Apologies and Recriminations
  Judah Grunstein has had a number of decent posts lately musing about Western options in Libya. I'm not sure where I come down on some of the questions he raises, but I understand the extreme ambivalence with which he looks at, well, pretty much every option available (including doing nothing). T ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

• Choosing to Lose
  Following the defeat of both the Republican and Democratic budget proposals in the Senate on Wednesday, it seemed both parties had the opportunity to go back to the drawing board and adopt a new strategy. For Democrats, this was the perfect opening to escape the narrow, Republican-enforced confi ...
• When Intentions Don't Matter
  Via ColorLines, The Root links to an Ohio news story about 10-year-old Nikko Burton who, as one of only two black students in his classroom, was asked to participate in a mock slave auction. White students in the class would have poked and prodded Nikko, just as might have happened at a real sla ...
• TAP's Take: Menaces to Society
  This week on our weekly podcast: Monica Potts, Adam Serwer, and Pema Levy discuss the Peter King hearings and fetal-pain laws. Listen Now: To download the mp3 directly, click here. Also, if you just want the RSS feed, it's here. We're on iTunes! Click "subscribe" to the right to get TAP's ...
• Who Gets Late-Term Abortions?
  I received some pushback on my column today concerning my assertion that most women who get late-term abortions (specifically, those who get them after 20 weeks) do so because of a fetal abnormality. This is incorrect; the�majority of women who get abortions after 20 weeks do so for other reason ...
• Attention Everyone: You Shouldn't Do This
  From the department of poor execution: 10-year old student Nikko Burton was humiliated by his teacher during a mock �slave auction� at Chapelfield Elementary in Ohio. Burton, one of two black students in the class, was chosen to be a �slave,� while other students role-played as �masters� who in ...

Buzzflash

• Why Ideas, Not Just Special Interests, Matter ...
  IAN FLETCHER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT It's a depressing thought, familiar to everyone who has ever argued with anyone else about economics: do ideas about what's true and false, right and wrong in economics even matter for policy-making in Washington?  Or is everything just sewn up by the powe ...
• Attacking Planned Parenthood With Anti-Abortio ...
  Abby Johnson, a former director of a Bryan, Texas, Planned Parenthood clinic, and a convert to the anti-abortion cause, has yet to respond to stories that her conversion story is chock full of holes. BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Live Action's two most media-centric and public activis ...
• Reid’s Proposal to Ban Prostitution in His Sta ...
  TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Legal brothels do quite well in Nevada --- Since the Seventies this stuff goes on. Aren't lobbyists kinda like hookers except They tend to keep their clothes on? http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_nevada_prostitution
• Koch Brothers Increased Wealth by $9 Billion L ...
  MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Based on a recent Forbes survey, Rachel Maddow revealed that while Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is stripping away the financial security of workers, the Koch brothers increased their wealth by $9 billion last year. Together, Maddow notes, they would ...
• Maybe the Suits Don't Have to Run Everything
  LEE HAVEN FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT So I wouldn't be a Falcons' fan if a guy in a suit didn't own them? We're talking about, they say, a $9 billion business coming to a halt if the football owners and players' union can't come to agreement, and they allow the season to be aborted. The owners, o ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

• Amnesty calls for protests over Bradley Mannin ...
  The international human rights group denounces the Obama administration for its "inhumane treatment"
• The "Bush-tortured" excuse for indefinite dete ...
  There are profound moral and empirical flaws in justifying Obama's new policy by blaming Bush's torture regime
• NYT and "torture": Searching for a justification
  The paper of record refuses to call waterboarding "torture" -- unless it's done by others
• The serial deceit of Geoff Morrell
  In the case of the accused WikiLeaks source, Geoff Morrell has proven how dishonest his statements are
• Obama's new executive order on Guantanamo
  The president again bolsters the Bush detention regime he long railed against

The BiPartisan Report

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

Sciencebase

• A periodic table of periodic table songs
  I’ve created an unusual Periodic Table. In this rendering of the classic PT, each element represents, not a chemical element, but a version of the classic Tom Lehrer song, The Elements; it’s every chemist’s favourite song, so why not? There are also a few ringers, see if you can spot them. But, ...
• Six science selections
  Astrologer Richard Nolle says the March 19 Supermoon will cause major earthquakes or other disasters. Scientists are not expecting any major disasters from the supermoon. | Space.com – On March 19, the moon will swing around Earth more closely than it has in the past 18 years, lighting up the ni ...
• The Endangered Elements Song
  Yesterday, I mentioned the rather serious issue of periodic threats, materials security, and dwindling elemental resources. I rather flippantly suggested that someone ought to do a cover version of the classic Tom Lehrer song, The Elements, which is sung to the tune of Gilbert & Sullivan‘s I am ...
• We are running out of chemicals
  Did you know there will soon be gaps in the Periodic Table? I say gaps, it’s not so much gaps as greyed out boxes where an element has become so scarce that our using it will no longer be a technological option. I’ve written about materials security before but the issue was raised by The [...]We ...
• How to spot a fake smile
  Apparently, most people are surprisingly bad at spotting fake smiles, according to the BBC at least (other observers suggest otherwise). One theory as to why this might be is that it is perhaps easier for people to get along if they don’t always know what others are really feeling. But, I’d ar ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

• President Obama is Right: We Can't Drill Our W ...
  Consumers are paying at the gas pump for Mideast unrest, and Big Oil wants to cash in. President Obama set the record straight Friday, making clear that we can’t drill our way out of this mess. Following is a statement by Deron Lovaas, federal transportation policy director for the Natural Resou ...
• Threat of Nuclear Disaster in Japan
  AP is reporting: “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.”read more
• Friends of the Earth Monitoring Ongoing Nuclea ...
  Nuclear experts at Friends of the Earth U.S. are monitoring the ongoing nuclear reactor emergency in Japan, which has occurred in the wake of the massive earthquake and tsunami this morning. Recent news reports indicate 11 Japanese commercial power reactors have shut down after the earthquake, a ...
• Gaza: Investigate Torture of Protest Organizer
  Hamas authorities in Gaza should investigate claims that security officials tortured a blogger and activist and prosecute any officials responsible, Human Rights Watch said today. The blogger had called for demonstrations in favor of ending the split between the Palestinian Authority in the West ...
• Federal Court Urged to Allow Post 9/11 Religio ...
  Today the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) urged a federal court judge to reject the government’s efforts to halt a  class action civil rights lawsuit on behalf of  eight Muslim, South Asian and Arab non-citizens swept up by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) and FBI in a rel ...

Common Dreams-Views

• The Crisis is Our Unwillingness to Make Rich P ...
  U.S. corporations are sitting on $2 trillion in cash -- trillion, not billion. The same people who shipped millions of jobs overseas, caused the financial crisis, and pay themselves multimillion-dollar bonuses every year are now sitting on a mountain of cash. Yet both state and local governments ...
• Japan's Quake Could Have Irradiated the Entire US
  Harvey Wasserman Had the massive 8.9 Richter-scale earthquake that has just savaged Japan hit off the California coast, it could have ripped apart at least four coastal reactors and sent a lethal cloud of radiation across the entire United ...
• On the Brink of Meltdown: The Fukushima Nuclea ...
  Robert Alvarez In the aftermath of the largest earthquake to occur in Japan in recorded history, 5,800 residents living within five miles of six reactors at the Fukushima nuclear station have been advised to evacuate and people living wit ...
• Wisconsin 'Citizens Cheated Out of Democracy'
  Elizabeth DiNovella Decades of labor law was undermined in ten quick seconds, as the Wisconsin Assembly voted 53-42 to strip workers of their right to collectively bargain. “Once again citizens cheated out of democracy,” Rep Barca said aft ...
• Tim DeChristopher Showed Us 'We Must Act', Let ...
  Subhankar Banerjee Exactly a week ago on March 3, young climate change activist Tim DeChristopher was convicted for disrupting oil and gas lease sales on public lands in southern Utah. He is an international celebrity right now.read more

Newshoggers - AfPak

• Afghanistan's COIN and Coin Disconnect
  By Steve Hynd As Derrick Crowe reminded us yesterday, the U.S. military's own COIN manual says: "I-113. The primary objective of any COIN operation is to foster development of effective governance by a legitimate government." But today, Colin Cookman reports that the Afghan government is about t ...
• Pentagon Assertions of “Progress” In Afghanist ...
  By Derrick Crowe The Pentagon wants you to ignore some inconvenient facts about the failure of the escalation strategy in Afghanistan. The latest Petraeus/Gates media tour is under way in preparation for the general's testimony to Congress next week, and they're trotting out the same, tired spin ...
• An Iraq Lesson Learned!
  By Steve Hynd This from the AP: The United States is beginning to decide what its responsibilities will be in Afghanistan after U.S. combat troops leave, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Monday, but he ruled out permanent military bases in the strategically important country. ...Gates said th ...
• Afghanistan War Not Worth the Burning of Child ...
  By Derrick Crowe Fresh from the reported killing of more than 60 civilians, U.S. forces in Kunar Province, Afghanistan, killed nine boys gathering firewood on a mountainside. General Petraeus says he's sorry. "We are deeply sorry for this tragedy and apologize to the members of the Afghan govern ...
• "A Taliban hornets nest that refuses to disappear"
  By Steve Hynd Unlike their American counterparts, Israeli war correspondents - well used to spin aimed at them - seem hard to fool with happy talk. Ilana Dayan of Haaretz has a report from Marjah in Afghanistan, where there's been talk of "big gains" and "militants pushed to the fringe" from imb ...

Water Wars

• Preventing water wars?
  IN addition to dire warnings about “water wars”, a former director general in the then Department of Water Affairs and Forestry, Mike Muller, was quoted in media saying that it’s time to start panicking about water supplies, otherwise we are headed for a major crisis in 2020. He singled out eThe ...
• Water wars: National City in tussle over board ...
  City Council voted against Mayor Ron Morrison serving on the Sweetwater Authority board, but he continues to attend the meetings anyway
• Georgia to ask appeals court to overturn water ...
  No comments have been posted.
• State optimistic as water war comes to a boil
  A panel of judges will try to answer the decades-old question of who should get how much water from Lake Lanier. The hotly-debated case went before the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta Wednesday.
• Water wars hearing: What's at stake
  ATLANTA - A tri-state dispute threatening the water supply of roughly 3 million people in metro Atlanta is headed to an appeals court Wednesday, although some involved in the case expect that negotiations not a court order will bring a resolution.

WordPress | Economics

• U.S. Macro in Two Simple Charts
  To understand the U.S. economy go no further than the following two charts.  In 2009 and 2010, publi
• Are Prisoners a Normal Good?
  I’ve recently been reading Foucault’s Discipline and Punish, his take on how and why the
• Defibrillating the Heart of the Continent
  CentreVenture Development Corporation recently announced a new plan to revitalize downtown Winnipeg.
• A Perfect Storm of GMOs, Chemicals and Cancer
  By Rady Ananda Several books, including Seeds of Destruction and Corrupt to the Core, along with the
• "God Bless Practical People"
  A quote from Ryan, hailing the makers of this primer on how to build a solidarity network, or

Electronic Intifada

• Global actions, backlash during Israeli Aparth ...
  The 7th annual Israeli Apartheid Week launched this week, with more than 75 cities across six continents participating in educational events and direct actions in suppo ...
• Interview: Palestinian women prisoners shackle ...
  VIENNA (IPS) - Female Palestinian prisoners detained in Israel are often denied legal representation and medical care while being housed in squalid conditions that can include ...
• Gaza truckers protest Israel's closure of comm ...
  On 2 March Israel announced the complete closure of Karni, the principal commercial crossing into the Gaza Strip, prompting protests by Palestinian traders who rely on ...
• Who benefits from EU-Israel academic cooperation?
  Academic cooperation between Europe and Israel has been encouraged by governments on both sides. But who benefits and who loses? David Cronin comments for The Electroni ...
• Dutch opposition boycotts parliamentary delega ...
  Dutch opposition parties boycotted a parliamentary delegation to the Middle East in February after parties supporting the right-wing government insisted on going ahead ...

Afghanistan Sun

• Veena Malik not to seek asylum in India over T ...
  Pakistani artiste Veena Malik, who has reportedly been threatened by the Taliban, has said she will not seek asylum in ...
• Anti-Taliban militia in northwest Pak ends coo ...
  The head of a pro-government militia fighting the Taliban in northwest Pakistan has declared to end all cooperation with the government, accusing it of failing to provide enough ...
• 4th Afghan student reported missing in US
  A fourth Afghan student who was enrolled in a month-long cultural program at a western New York college has gone missing without explanation.Sayed Sultan Sadat, 19, was reported missing March 2 from ...
• Nato kill relative of Afghan president
  Nato troops shot dead an aged relative of Afghan president Hamid Karzai after mistaking him for an insurgent, Afghan officials have said, as anger continues to grow over civilian casualties. ...
• Ex-Blackwater contractors guilty in Afghan&#03 ...
  Two former Blackwater contractors were found guilty on Friday of involuntary manslaughter in the May 2009 shooting death of an unarmed Afghan civilian in ...

Futurismic

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

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