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IPS - Inter Press Services

• AFRICA: Pneumonia Vaccine Rollout Will Protect ...
  The Kenyatta International Conference Centre resembled one big nursery with parents and their crying babies. One wondered whether it was tears of pain or joy. Hundreds of parents with their infants thronged the Centre where they received their first shot against pneumonia, and not even their t ...
• LIBYA: Benghazi Stands Firm Against Gaddafi's ...
  The red, green and black flag-waving Libyans calling for the downfall of Muammar Gaddafi are staging a show of force in Benghazi. The support for the three-week-old revolution comes at the rebels' lowest military moment.
• LIBYA: Religious Leaders Hold Out Against Gaddafi
  Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi claims Al-Qaeda and other Muslim extremists are behind the recent rebellion to oust him from power. Salem Geber, the most well-known cleric in Benghazi, Libya's second-largest city, says this explanation is not only wrong, but a vintage Gaddafi tactic to ins ...
• ITALY: Migrants Settle Into Permanent Struggle
  The momentous political events in North Africa have been accompanied by increasingly apocalyptic warnings from the Italian government of a mass influx of unwanted immigration from Tunisia and Libya.
• HEALTH: Market Interests Fight Iodised Salt
  Russia and the Ukraine have been warned they are lagging behind the rest of the former Soviet bloc in introducing a simple and inexpensive health measure that has stopped child mental retardation across the region.

Scoop - NZ

• Vice-Chairman of Rothschild: "Carbon trading m ...
  Unless governments cede some of their sovereignty to a new world body, he says, a global carbon trading scheme cannot be enforced and regulated.
• Nuclear Meltdown at Quake-Damaged Japanese Pla ...
  And so now the question is simple: Did the floor of the containment vessel crack? If not, the situation can still be salvaged by somehow re-containing the nuclear core. But if the floor has cracked, it is highly likely that the melting fuel will burn through the floor of the containment system a ...
• ABC News - Japan Earthquake in photos
  Japan Earthquake in photos
• The makings of a chatter ring Combo | Jitter R ...
  Combo moves for the chatter ring are generally comprised of a blend of two or more individual tricks or moves performed in succession. The secret to performing effective Combo’s is to engineer a smooth transition between the individual components – no obvious turns on the main ring, or pauses, a ...
• Libya: the prospect of war | openDemocracy
  Nato is already involved, as confirmed by the best independent source available - NATO Watch. A current briefing reports regular Awac flights from southern Europe and a move to 24/7 surveillance flights (see NATO Watch Briefing Paper, 18); other sources quoted by NATO Watch report that a Nato t ...

Independent - London

• Southern Sudan accuses north of planning genocide
  Southern Sudan has broken off talks with the north after accusing Khartoum of arming and directing militia attacks that have killed hundreds of people in the south in recent weeks.
• Residents queue to be tested, but experts say ...
  Japan was battling a mounting nuclear crisis yesterday as officials desperately tried to ensure that fuel rods in damaged reactors did not overheat, risking an explosion that could release more radioactive material into the air.
• Cooling system must be brought under control t ...
  Several "alarming scenarios" face the engineers who were last night struggling to prevent meltdowns of two atomic reactors damaged in Japan's tsunami disaster, one of Britain's leading nuclear experts said yesterday.
• Fighters and residents flee eastwards as Gadda ...
  Advancing forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi drove rebels from the oil port of Brega yesterday as Western governments absorbed an unexpectedly strong call by the Arab League for a no-fly zone to help rebels prevent the regime overrunning the rest of Libya.
• Bravado fades away as rebels prepare for last ...
  The sandstorm added to the terror and panic; one could hear the shrill sound of the shells and rockets coming in but had no idea where they would land until the shattering noise of the explosion and orange flames lit up the swirling dust.

Rogue Government.com

• Radioactive Releases in Japan Could Last Mont ...
  As the scale of Japan’s nuclear crisis begins to come to light, experts in Japan and the United States say the country is now facing a cascade of accumulating problems that suggest that radioactive releases of steam from the crippled plants could go on for weeks or even months.
• Protesters in DC demonstrate against the PATR ...
  Included in the protests were those opposed to extending the USA PATRIOT Act, which gives law enforcement authorities sweeping surveillance powers that have been criticized for endangering innocent American's civil liberties.
• Bank of Japan pumps in 15 trillion yen
  Japanese stocks fell 6 percent and long-term government bond yields rose on Monday as investors expected the massive earthquake and tsunami that devastated the country's northeast to take a toll on the economy and require significant government borrowing.
• Meltdown Caused Japanese Nuke Plant Explosion ...
  The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) said Saturday afternoon the explosion at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant could only have been caused by a meltdown of the reactor core.
• Arab League May Back Libya No-Fly Zone
  Arab states meeting in Cairo are likely to back the idea of a no-fly zone over Libya, an Egyptian official said, in a decision that will provide the regional support NATO has said is needed for any military action.

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

• US: UFOs Over Williamsburg? Man Captures Light ...
  Here's one for the X-Files. Philip DiPaolo, a family man and respected community activist, says he saw a silently pulsing, moving light floating over his beloved Williamsburg neighborhood last Monday - one year after witnesses saw a similar phenomenon in the same area. DiPaolo, 50, saw t ...
• New Zealand: DOC Seeking Public Help Over Bird ...
  The Department of Conservation (DOC) is hoping people will come forward with with information as it investigates the shooting of more than 100 protected birds in Northland. The birds, which included godwits, knots and endangered dotterels, were shot at remote Okato Creek in Kaipara Harbour ab ...
• 2nd Blast at Stricken Japan Nuclear Plant, New ...
  A hydrogen explosion rocked the earthquake-stricken nuclear plant in Japan where authorities have been working desperately to avert a meltdown, while media said a fresh tsunami was heading for the same coastline that was hit last week. Japan's nuclear agency confirmed there was an explosion at ...
• Is The Big One About To Hit California?
  California may be the next in line for a devastating earthquake, based on a recent history of massive geological activity and other naturally-occurring indicators. Quakes in one part of the world help to trigger seismic events thousands of miles away, sometimes even months later. Hours after ...
• Gaddafi's army will kill half a million, warn ...
  Rebels flee Ras Lanuf and call on UN to impose no-fly zone as Gaddafi's forces recapture strategically important towns Muammar Gaddafi's army won control of a strategic rebel-held Libyan town and laid siege to another as the revolutionary administration in Benghazi again appealed for foreign mi ...

The Galloping Beaver

• Before and after . . .
  ABC NEWS FROM OZ has a report organized by Andrew Kesper, that shows Google satellite pics, with a slider to see the before-and-after. Wow.
• Perspectives . . .
  IMGUR is an interesting ad-hoc collection of pictures. "Monstrous Discrepancies" is worthy of attention.
• Demotivators . . .
  PUNDIT KITCHEN is a division of the I Can Has Cheezburger empire. Delightfully irreverent.
• Sun News gots ICBMs !
  David Akin wants to know what we think of the new Sun News theme and on-air graphics. Well, let's see ... there's kind of a storyline to it, isn't there ... An ICBM smashes into the centre of Canada and Sun News rises up out of the ashes like a .... giant 70's gyro disco ball ... which then s ...
• Alison
  I say West End Bob, I think the Lady has reappeared!

Media Matters for America

• Wallace's "Power Player" Designation For O'Kee ...
  For the second time, Chris Wallace named James O'Keefe Fox News Sunday's "Power Player of the Week." But Wallace ignored O'Keefe's history of discredited claims and allegations that O'Keefe deceptively edits his videos, including the NPR video that earned him the latest "Power Player" designati ...
• Fox Wages War Against NPR As News Corp. Donate ...
  Fox News frequently lambasts National Public Radio as a "bias[ed]," "defamatory" news outlet, and attacks have intensified of late because of the recent forced resignations of two of its top executives. However, Fox News parent company News Corp. appears to harbor a different view of NPR's valu ...
• NPR Is "Fair": Conservatives And Media Critics ...
  Media critics and conservative commentators are responding to the recent controversy over NPR by praising the network's reporting. In addition, some Tea Party activists say that NPR's coverage of their group has been "fair."Conservative Commentators Praise NPR Blankley: NPR is "fair." Media Ma ...
• Krauthammer Trots Out The Falsehood That Socia ...
  In his column, Charles Krauthammer called claims that Social Security is solvent until 2037 a "breathtaking fraud" and said that the Social Security trust fund consists of "little pieces of paper" that "amount to nothing." In fact, the Social Security trust fund consists of U.S. Treasury securi ...
• Fox Invents Notion That Health Care Reform Wil ...
  Fox News' Bill Hemmer and Dr. Manny Alvarez suggested that the health care reform law will lead to people "need[ing] a prescription for everyday items like aspirin." They based this claim on a provision in the law that merely requires people who buy medications using money from tax-free medical ...

Global Research.ca

• The Return of Pan-Arabism Amidst Upheaval: An ...
  Pan-Arabism is set to make a return as a major force. Currently, the Arab World can be categorized into five groupings.
• Japan: Anti-Nuclear Groups Sound New Nuclear D ...
  "There are many areas that remain unclear in the government’s explanation, which is why we cannot accept that the coast is clear," Professor Hiroaki Koiwa from the Research Reactor Institute at the national Kyoto University told IPS.
• Libya welcomes African Union panel, slams Arab ...
  The leaders of South Africa, Uganda, Mauritania, Congo, and Mali will form a panel that will travel to Libya to end crisis.
• Tsunami wreak $50 million damage in California
  California hit by tsunami.
• Russia's Kamchatka Volcanos have been Unusuall ...
  Volcanoes on the Russia’s eastern seaboard of Kamchatka have been unusually active since 2010.

TPM Cafe

• Supporting a No-Fly Zone is Still Fiddling: R ...
  My friend Anne-Marie Slaughter, former Director of Policy Planning at the State Department and now back teaching at Princeton University, has written a compelling, passionate call for the US to immediately push for a UN Resolution to impose a no-fly zone over Libya. She outlines the reasons som ...
• HBO's Charlie Sheen: Bill Maher Trashes Muslim ...
  I can't wait for HBO to dump Bill Maher, which they would have done years ago if he directed his hate at African-Americans, gays, Jews, Latinos or pretty much any group other than Muslims. Last night, his guest was the terrific Minnesota Congressman, Keith Ellison, who is a Muslim. He's ...
• Tears for a Journalist: Change in the Middle ...
  There are more than sixty of leading young activists from revolts and revolutions throughout the Middle East at the 6th Annual Al Jazeera Forum. I am attending this fascinating meeting as a guest of Al Jazeera. Turkey Foreign Minister Ahmet Ahmet Davutoglu just landed in Doha to speak at the ...
• No-Fly Zone Over Libya Could Backfire & Underm ...
  I recorded a few minutes of comments outlining my concerns over the Libya No-Fly Zone debate. In short, a no-fly zone is a high cost, low return strategy that doesn't necessarily create a military tipping point in favor of the Libyan opposition. Gaddafi is at war with his own people, and it's ...
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TruthOut

• Madison Rally Bigger Than Biggest Tea Party Rally
  Police estimated up to 100,000 people turned out in Madison, WI yesterday to protest Gov. Scott Walker's (R) assault on unions, making it bigger than any protests the city has witnessed, even those during the Vietnam War. read more
• Humanitarian Pays With Life for Feeding the Ch ...
  February 26, 2011, marks the eighth anniversary of the imprisonment of Dr. Rafil Dhafir. Dhafir continues to pay the price for feeding the children of Iraq during the US- and UK-sponsored UN sanctions against that country. read more
• For Wisconsin Lawmakers, a Hero's Homecoming
  Madison, Wis. - They are the unlikeliest of folk heroes. But this group of once-obscure lawmakers - a dairy farmer, a lawyer and a woman who is seven months pregnant, among others - that fled this capital nearly a month ago, returned Saturday to the cheers of tens of thousands who once again pa ...
• The Printing Press and the Euromess
  On March 15, Federal Reserve Bank officials will convene to decide on which way to direct - or redirect - their resources. Accusations that the Fed is running the printing press on overtime (as Republican budget maven Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin put it) have been steadily on the rise. read more
• Religious Leaders Hold Out Against Qaddafi
  Benghazi, Libya� - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi claims Al-Qaeda and other Muslim extremists are behind the recent rebellion to oust him from power. Salem Geber, the most well-known cleric in Benghazi, Libya's second-largest city, says this explanation is not only wrong, but a vintage Gaddafi ta ...

Planetsave

• Before and After Image of Northeastern Japan a ...
  Coastal flooding from the March 11, 2011 tsunami triggered by a magnitude 8.9 earthquake off Japan's northeast coast can be seen in this before/after image pair from the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) instrument on NASA's Terra spacecraft.
• McDonald’s Pushed to Do More to Address Climat ...
  First, let’s do the numbers: McDonald’s has over 32,478 restaurants in 60% of the world’s countries and recorded $24 billion in revenue last year. That’s more restaurants than any other company in the world, and $24 billion is…well, it’s a lot of money.
• iPhone App Crowdsources EV Charging Locations
  Even though there is electricity everywhere, electric vehicles supposedly face an uphill battle without a formal “charging infrastructure.” But a new app for the iPhone crowdsources private outlets for public EV charging. The app is called Plugshare, and in addition to providing you with the loc ...
• Planetary Core Does Affect Climate, Just Not Much
  The changing face of Earth’s climate is more and more being attributed to humans and our effect on the planet and its atmosphere. The latest set of observations which back up our dominant role in changing the climate comes not from any of the normal sources – land, sea, air – but rather from dee ...
• Pacific Northwest Will Suffer Same Fate as Japan
  The Japanese earthquake which measured 8.9 is being called one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded, but Robert Yeats, a professor emeritus of geology at Oregon State University, said that “this is our wake up call.”

Water Quality - WordPress

• Should I still be doing maintenance on my aera ...
  Should I still be doing maintenance on my aeration system this time of year? Sharon – Farmingt
• But what have you done for me lately?
  Source: Suzanne Mettler, "Reconstituting the Submerged State: The Challenges of Social Policy R
• sludgewatch-l: 10 Cities with the worst drink ...
  10 U.S. cities with the worst drinking water If you live in Pensacola, Fla., you may want to invest
• The Conscious Cook-by Tal Ronnen
  Tal Ronnen author of “the conscious cook” and most other vegan chefs who are perfecting meatless rec
• Water quality workshops coming to E.R.
  The Watershed Center Grand Traverse Bay will be hosting three workshops in March and April to facili

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• Ray McGovern Brutalized & Left Bleeding by ...
  Updated: Feb. 18, 2011; added an interview with Ray McGovern and a video from Democracy Now! by Sibe
• USA MATRIOT ACT by Cindy Sheehan
  by Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbo
• Restoring Economic Sovereignty: The Push for S ...
  by Ellen Brown Featured Writer Dandelion Salad webofdebt.com February 16, 2011 It is time to declare
• Cindy Sheehan: Egypt's military follows the wi ...
  by Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbo
• The starvation factor in the Egyptian revoluti ...
  By Jerry Mazza Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted at Intrepid Report www.jerrymazza.com Feb

Axis of Logic

• Facebook To Share Users' Home Addresses, Phone ...
  Editor's Note: Mark Crispin Miller wrote this summary of an article written by Bianca Bosker on Huffington Post: Facebook will be moving forward with a controversial plan to give third-party developers and external websites the ability to access users' home addresses and cellphone number ...
• Japan: Partial meltdowns presumed at crippled ...
  Tokyo:  Japanese officials struggled on Sunday to contain a widening nuclear crisis in the aftermath of a devastating earthquake and tsunami, saying they presumed that partial meltdowns had occurred at two crippled reactors and that they were bracing for a second explo ...
• Death toll expected to exceed 10,000 in tsunam ...
  Vehicles are crushed by a collapsed wall at a carpark in Mito city in Ibaraki prefecture on March 11, 2011 after a massive earthquake rocked Japan                             Northeastern Japan has been hit by a tsunami reaching 10 meters high in some areas that were caused by an earthquake ...
• Bradley Manning Now "Catatonic"; Obama ENOUGH! ...
  As Obama's crime of the destruction of Bradley Manning continues to unfold before our very eyes, Manning friend David House now tells us that over 8 months in isolation with movement and sleep restrictions placed on him have been having their intended effect.  House has told MSNBC that by the...
• INSIDE JOB Official Trailer in HD! - World News
  From Academy Award® nominated filmmaker, Charles Ferguson ("No End In Sight"), comes INSIDE JOB, the first film to expose the shocking truth behind the economic crisis of 2008. The global financial meltdown, at a cost of over $20 trillion, resulted in millions of people losing their home ...

They Gave Us a Republic

• The Nightowl Newswrap
  Earthquake? Check. Tsunami? Check. Nuclear threat? Check. Volcanic eruption? Check. All that's left are locusts and frogs. "A volcano in southwestern Japan erupted Sunday after nearly two weeks of relative silence, sending ash and rocks up to four kilometres (two and a half miles) into the air, ...
• Who had Sunday in the "Crowley 'Steps Down'" pool?
  Personally, I was off by a full 24 hours. I figured he would be gone by breakfast Saturday. On Friday, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley denounced the conditions of Bradley Manning's detention as "ridiculous, counterproductive and stupid," forcing President Obama to address those comments ...
• Kansas City Labor Rally Against SB 1: right to ...
  Crossposted from Show Me Progress. Previously: Kansas City Labor Rally Against SB 1: right to get paid less, part 1 In addition to the union members who attended yesterday's rally at the IBEW complex a number of area public office holders addressed the rally or were in attendance, including Jack ...
• Kansas City Labor Rally Against SB 1: right to ...
  Cross posted from Show Me Progress. Yesterday Blue Girl and I attended the labor rally at the IBEW complex in Kansas City. From the AFL-CIO release: Workers Rally in Kansas City to Stop Legislative Attacks on Middle Class Missourians Agenda that includes "right to work" and a repeal of child lab ...
• The Risks of Privatization
  Tomorrow, the Kentucky General Assembly convenes in special session to try to close the gap in the state's budget for Medicaid. A big part of the discussion will - or should - concentrate on the multi-million-dollar fraud committed by the state's Medicaid contractor. Actually, the headline in ...

Care 2

• Are The New England States Becoming The New Ho ...
  The northeast has historically been a hotbed for marijuana use � with five of the six New England states self-reporting some of the highest percentages of marijuana consumption in the nation. But recently New England has also become a regional leader in Submitted by John Cause to US Politics & G ...
• End the sale of live Live mutilated turtles in ...
  Please Take Action! Submitted by Stephanie S. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Anti-Stray Laws, Stop From The Romanian Parliament
  The representatives of PDL who in the last week have caused a shock to the project law of Senator Marinescu, were not able to force the vote of the Romanian Parliament which returned the law on strays to the ADP Commission yesterday.Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a C ...
• Pet store staff face multiple charges, felonies
  The owner of Pet Fashions and six employees, including the district manager, were arraigned Tuesday in Town of Poughkeepsie Court on a total of 70 charges, including animal cruelty, forgery and selling unfit puppies.Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Education important in curbing surrogacy, huma ...
  Readers voice their opinions about a report on a group of Vietnamese women who were rescued in Thailand from a gang running a surrogate-baby racketSubmitted by Vivien Green to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

• Sorry about the poisoning!
• Pennsylvania's Corbett Expands Conservative Wa ...
• Idiot-proofing your life
• He's Back! Gadaffi Redux May Cause Lots of Red ...
• Preludes, 2011

Paul Krugman

• Cockroach Ideas
  Impossible to flush away.
• The Wisconsin Effect
  Remember Madison!
• Japan
  Minor thoughts on a major catastrophe.
• Travel Day
  Fly, fly away.
• A Note On Household Balance Sheets
  Debtors aren't big stock-market investors.

No Quarter

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

Environmental Graffiti

• Food Forensics: Detecting Bioterrorism, Fraud ...
  Food forensics is like CSI when it comes to food crimes. This fascinating science reveals the culprit of bioterrorism, fraud and contamination. Here's how. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
• Earliest Traces of Humans in the Americas Foun ...
  Cave divers have found what may be the earliest trace of human beings in the Americas, hidden in a submerged cave. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• The Best Preserved Mummy Ever Discovered
  The new wet mummy accidentally unearthed in an unmarked grave in China was found complete with body hair, clothes and jewelry, all in pristine condition. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• Discovery of New Gut Bacteria that Could Affec ...
  The discovery of a new gut bacteria helps us understand the relationship between the host body and its gut microbes. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• Little Playdough People Found on the Streets o ...
  Mr Surename Here from Finland makes small characters out of homemade playdough and places them around town. This is a form of eco-street art that he also shares online. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the a ...

Foreign Policy in Focus

• Will Fukushima Reactor Crisis Finally Sour Jap ...
  The video of Fukushima exploding gone viral can't be good for the nuclear energy industry.
• Putin's Extravagant Proposal to Abolish Visas ...
  Prime Minister Putin one-ups Vice President Biden.
• Japan Faces Possible Three-Mile Island
  A meltdown would affect the future of nuclear energy in the United States, as well as Japan.
• Interview with Wajahat Ali
  The playwright Wajahat Ali talks about the King hearings and the cultural impact of Islamophobia.
• Hatoyama's Confession
  Nine months after stepping down as Prime Minister, Yukio Hatoyama conceded that he had just given "deterrence" as the factor necessitating retention of the US Marine Corps on Okinawa because he needed a pretext.

Global Elite

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

Al Jazeera

• Fresh blast at Japan nuclear plant
  At least 11 injured as new explosion rocks quake-hit Fukushima plant, sparking radioactive fears amid nuclear crisis.
• Disaster in Japan: Live blog
  Latest updates as earthquake-stricken Japan faces an urgent nuclear crisis on top of an already massive humanitarian tragedy
• Deadly blast hits Iraqi army base
  Police sources say suicide bomber targets army headquarters northeast of Baghdad, killing 10 soldiers and injuring 25.
• Tension as Bahrain awaits protests
  Reports of citizen-run checkpoints in Gulf state as people wonder whether neighbouring Saudi Arabia will send troops.
• India 'world's biggest arms buyer'
  Report says New Delhi is pushing to modernise its military in a bid to counter China and gain international clout.

Green Inc. - NYT

• Feared Meltdowns Underline Concerns About Nucl ...
  Critics have long questioned the viability of nuclear power in earthquake-prone regions.
• Spilled Milk Regulations a Myth, E.P.A. Says
  Assertions by Republican lawmakers and in the press that dairy farmers will have to build containment facilities are "fictions," the agency's chief says.
• Hearing Is Set in Climate Fraud Case
  A yearlong effort force the University of Virginia to turn over the documents of a prominent climatologist is headed to the state's Supreme Court.
• Do We Get Tsunamis Yet?
  A geophysicist in California hopes that images of the devastation in Japan will galvanize the West Coast to prepare for such an episode.
• Payments to 9/11 Workers Are Off to Slow Start
  Small initial payments have gone out to many of the more than 10,000 rescue workers who settled a lawsuit over health claims related to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. But the bulk of the money has yet to be distributed.

Dot Earth News

• A Postcard to the Pacific Northwest: Prepare
  A timeline of great jolts off the Pacific Northwest coast constitutes a stark warning.
• On Earthquakes, Warming and Risk (Mis)Perception
  A discussion of problems communicating risks attending earthquakes and global warming.
• Ocean-Spanning Power of Japan's Great Quake on ...
  Scientists produce a mesmerizing simulation of the globe-spanning waves generated by the potent earthquake off Japan.
• Despite Foreshock, No Way to Anticipate Japan' ...
  A potent earthquake off Japan's coast two days before the massive disaster overnight was almost assuredly a foreshock.
• Academy Endorses Navy Concerns on Warming, Arc ...
  A scientific review endorses Navy concerns about security risks attending warming.

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

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

Daily Censored

• Michael Collins: Post Nuclear Japan, Pre Disas ...
  Michael Collins The Japanese disaster at Fukushima I is a human tragedy of striking proportions. As many as ten thousand citizens may be dead in the general  catastrophe, with many more at risk for radiation poisoning at levels yet to be determined. The fact that Japan is a highly organized and ...
• Solidarity forever! San Diego and the quislin ...
  � � By Emily Alpert March 11, 2011 � The biggest surprise at the school board meeting Thursday night was that board President Richard Barrera � a labor organizer long seen as a union ally on the school board � ended up voting to warn teachers of layoffs. Barrera himself told the crowd of teacher ...
• Revolt: Obama escalates Bush policies of Orwel ...
  Source: Carl Herman, Examiner.com Lifting the Veil is a two-hour film that documents how the Obama Administration is continuing and escalating the policies of the Bush Administration in the unlawful areas of US wars and economic fraud. These policies are easily shown as Orwellian unlawful, as I ...
• the Grand Paradox
  AFP While discussing the uprising that was taking place in Bahrain, its crown prince had this interesting comment,  “…at the end of the day we all are going to have to live in the same country together and talk to one another.”  That is something we should pay attention to here in this country.  ...
• A Few Thoughts… (1,000 words or less)
  On Illegal Immigration, we are told that we have the most liberal immigration policy in the world, admitting a million immigrants every year.  And, this justifies the Arizona profiling?  Well, yes, we have a liberal policy except when it comes to farm workers.   We have kept these people illegal ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

• Caring For Our Loved Ones, Even Across The Globe
• Corning's Journey From Cookware To Gorilla Glass
• How To Beat Sleep Apnea? Cut It Out (Surgically)
• Say Aaa! Then Zzz: Tonsillectomy Helps Kids Sleep
• When Neil Diamond Finally Put Himself Into His ...

Institute for Policy Studies

• Colombia Is No Model for Mexico's Drug War
  Far from breaking morale, the tactic of taking out the heads of trafficking groups gives junior thugs a shot at becoming the kingpin--if only briefly.
• Expert Available: Robert Alvarez on Japan's Nu ...
  Robert Alvarez is available for interviews about Japan's nuclear emergency.
• Meltdowns Grow More Likely at the Fukushima Re ...
  A hydrogen explosion yesterday at Unit 1 severely damaged the reactor building, blowing apart its roof.
• Japan Faces Possible Three-Mile Island
  A meltdown would affect the future of nuclear energy in the United States, as well as Japan.
• Interview with Wajahat Ali
  The playwright Wajahat Ali talks about the King hearings and the cultural impact of Islamophobia.

Equality Trust

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

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

Marler Blog

• A Food Poisoning Alphabet - GBS (Guillain Bar ...
  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that 48 million-foodborne illness cases occur in the United States every year. At least 128,000 Americans are hospitalized, and 3,000 die after eating contaminated food.  Clearly, the vast majority of people become ill, but not ser ...
• When lawyers for companies you have sued use y ...
  When defense counsel for multi-billion dollar Cargill (who I sued on behalf of Stephanie Smith and others in a 2007 E. coli O157:H7 Outbreak) paints me as the industry Bogey Man in his presentation before the American Council for Food Safety & Quality: "Lessons Learned from Recent Foodborne Illn ...
• Interview with Fruit Grower Magazine on the Fo ...
  I had an nice chat a few weeks ago with the folks over at Fruit Grower Magazine on their cover story on the Food Safety Modernization Act - An Opposing View - The nation’s top consumer advocate/attorney on food safety says the bill will benefit many growers.  Here is the interview: One of the t ...
• 2011 Food Defense Summit
  On March 22, I’ll be heading to Denver for the Food Defense Summit, a.k.a. “The summit created by food manufacturing executives, for food manufacturing executives” to give my perspective on keeping their businesses out of lawsuits – or as I like to call it: safer food production.   2011 Food De ...
• Creekstone Farms Premium Beef Recalls 14,158 P ...
  Creekstone Farms Premium Beef, an Arkansas City, Kan., establishment, is recalling approximately 14,158 pounds of ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced. The products subject to ...

AutoblogGreen

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

Rafe's Radar

• Zoove--it would take a real doofus to screw it up
  A former CNET boss lands at a mobile phone infrastructure company that's already sitting on a gold mine.
• LinkedIn launches personal news service
  New LinkedIn Today service shows you what people in your professional network are reading.
• Socialcam: Mobile video sharing done right
  Sharing videos from your iPhone is easy and fun with this new app, thanks to clever technical and social features.
• E-mail anger meter gets sensitivity training
  New version of ToneCheck, a "spell-checker" for sentiment, gets improved, thanks to other users' angry e-mails.
• Domo launching 'pre-social' mobile app ahead o ...
  New mobile app helps you find the friends you haven't met yet.

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

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

Digg Green

• The Salton Sea: A 'Dead' Sea Ready to Ris ...
  The mysterious Salton Sea has been abandoned for decades, but one woman has made it her business to bring it back to life.
• The Birth of a Word (video)
  MIT researcher Deb Roy parsed 90,000 hours of home video to watch his son's "gaaaa" slowly turn into "water."
• Are we ever going to use antimatter to dr ...
  The question is tantalizing because while chemical reactions liberate about one part in a billion of the energy trapped inside matter - and even nuclear reactions spring only about one percent of that energy free - antimatter promises to release what Frank Close calls ‘the full mc2 latent w ...
• Do Genes Influence Your Political Identit ...
  For genes to translate to a political preference, people with DRD4 must also have a large, diverse group of friends as kids.
• Japan Quake Will Shift Earth's Mass -NASA ...
  NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s (JPL) specialist Richard Gross has stated that following the earthquake the Earth’s figure axis (the axis around which the Earth is balanced by mass) has shifted by about 15 centimeters - 2 times greater than after...

Invisible Opportunity

• Red-Eyed Stallions in Pursuit of the Mare of D ...
  By Les Visible Considering what BP, the Zio-Ogres and the deranged nobility at Buckingham Palace have unleashed through their poisoning of The Gulf of Mexico, in tandem with the meltdowns in Japan, we are a great deal closer to the wind waves of poison that are predicted, by Half Past Human, to ...
• The Dark Side of the Devic Realm Rising
  By Les Visible I guess I have to speculate a little. The reason for that is that a significant portion of people do not believe in Mother Nature as a conscious force. Of course that doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter if you believe in werewolves or not, if you happen to get torn apart by [...]
• Tsunami Strikes Japan After 8.9-Magnitude Eart ...
• Quote of the Day – I am the Count…
  I am the Count of Little Footsteps the scratching of the leaves in the streets behind them that tireless warrior…. that cold chill at the nape of the neck death to all tyrants death to all landlords and banks to all things that turn the warm heart cold and terrorize the soul….   - Les [...]
• The David Rockefeller, Ball and Chain, Armaged ...
  By Les Visible I know youâre waiting for Kissinger to ooze onto the screen like one of the devilâs darkest wet dreams but The Ides of March are not yet at hand, on that day, that toad, will before you stand. But Toooooooday, we have D…D… D…. David Rockefeller, the brother of Kissingerâs mentor ( ...

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

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

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

• Emergent Architecture Unveils Crystalline, Sol ...
  Read the rest of Emergent Architecture Unveils Crystalline, Solar-Powered Sports Center for Chinahttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "solar en ...
• Samantha Pleet Channels Norse Mythology and As ...
  Samantha Pleet’s Fall/Winter 2011 collection incorporates a multitude of themes to create one charming and very wearable collection. Inspired by mythology, astronomy, medieval crusaders, and a recent jaunt to Iceland, her 14-piece lineup is an expressive collection of spangled tap shorts, tassel ...
• INHABITAT INTERVIEW: 8 Questions with Architec ...
  Read the rest of INHABITAT INTERVIEW: 8 Questions with Architect Tom Kundighttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", arc ...
• 5 Tips to Green Your Living Space from Zem Joaquin
  You’ve all heard the tired mantras about changing your lightbulbs and recycling at home in order to save the planet – are you yawning yet? Many consumers think that ‘going green’ is an altruistic gesture that often comes at great expense and inconvenience (not to mention crunchy brown earthmama ...
• LAST CHANCE to ENTER: Stop the Paper Towels Gr ...
  TODAY IS YOUR LAST CHANCE TO ENTER THIS CONTEST! Our Stop the Paper Towels green graphic design competition is ending today – so if you haven’t gotten your design in yet, now’s your chance! If you haven’t heard about it yet, Inhabitat and PeopleTowels are asking you to put your graphic design sk ...

Pogue's Posts

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

WIRED Magazine | Science

• The Tsunami’s Ripple Effect
  I’m in southern South America preparing to lead a geological field trip and am just now catching up on the huge earthquake in Japan, the subsequent tsunami, and news about the devastation. My thoughts are with all the people directly affected by this disaster. There’s obviously a lot of news ou ...
• Space Duct Tape Could Confuse Mars Rover
  The NASA equivalent of duct tape could leak enough methane to confuse the next Mars rover’s life-detecting sensors. Astrobiologists found evidence for three distinct plumes of methane flowing from beneath the planet’s surface, like swamp gas or a burp, in January 2009. The gas could simply mean ...
• Turn Your Cellphone Into a High-Powered Scient ...
  Using tape, rubber and a tiny glass ball, researchers transformed an iPhone into a cheap yet powerful microscope able to image tiny blood cells. They’ve also added a clinical-grade cellphone spectroscope that might be able to measure some vital signs. And with a few dollars and some patience, ...
• Earthquake Is Biggest in Japan’s Recorded History
  Japan Earthquakes Tsunami A computer model for the tsunami created by an 8.9-magnitude earthquake that struck 80 miles east of Honshu, Japan on March 11, 2011. Credit: NOAA/PMEL/Center for Tsunami Research
• Laser-Powered Tractor Beam Could Move Tiny Par ...
  Another piece of Star Trek technology has become a reality. Captain Kirk would instantly recognize new blueprints developed by a team of Chinese scientists as plans for a tractor beam. The proposed device hasn’t yet been built. But a similar one conceived by an American physicist was tested las ...

PakAlert

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

Andy Worthington

• Six New UK Screenings of “Outside the Law: Sto ...
  “‘Outside the Law’ is a powerful film that has helped ensure that Guantánamo and the men unlawfully held there have not been forgotten.” Kate Allen, Director, Amnesty International UK “[T]his is a strong movie examining the imprisonment and subsequent torture of those falsely accused of anti-Ame ...
• In Tunisia, the Revolution Rolls On with the A ...
  In Tunisia, where the revolutionary impulses that are sweeping the Middle East began less than three months ago, with the self-immolation of 19-year old Mohamed Bouazizi, the flight of the dictator Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, on January 14, was not just the end of a hated 31-year tyranny, but also ...
• Quarterly Fundraiser Day 3: Sponsor One of My ...
  Please support my work! It’s Day 3 of my quarterly fundraising appeal, in which I take a short break from pounding my typepad into submission with despair at Obama’s cowardice, disdain for US lawmakers and the right-wing judges of the D.C. Circuit Court, and, instead, harangue you, my rea ...
• Guantánamo: Obama Turns the Clock Back to the ...
  Those of us who have been studying Guantánamo closely were not surprised when, on March 7, President Obama announced that he was lifting a ban on trials by Military Commission at Guantánamo, which he imposed on his first day in office in January 2009, and also issued an executive order establish ...
• Quarterly Fundraiser Day 2: 28 Reasons to Supp ...
  Please support my work! Yesterday, I published a fundraising appeal (as I do every three months), asking my readers and supporters to help me raise $1500 to fund the maintenance and technical support of my website, and also to cover the otherwise unpaid hours I spend writing the many arti ...

Environment _ National Geographic

• Japan Tsunami Pictures: Nuclear Reactor and Ci ...
  NoneThe day after Japan's biggest earthquake, cities smoldered, soldiers lent helping hands, and a nuclear reactor exploded.
• Tsunami Waves Hit U.S.—Some Damage in Hawaii, ...
  The deadly earthquake that struck Japan Friday sent a tsunami racing across the Pacific Ocean, reaching Hawaii, the Pacific Northwest, and California.
• Is That a Banana in Your Water?
  Researchers in Brazil have found a way to use banana peels to extract toxic heavy metals from river water
• Japan Earthquake and Tsunami News and Pictures
  None
• Tsunami Pictures: Epic Waves, Earthquake Shock ...
  NoneThe biggest earthquake in Japan's history Friday sparked three-story tsunami waves, hundreds of casualties, and towering infernos.

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

• Alleged Spokane Bomber Fantasized about Killin ...
  Kevin William Harpham, the alleged Martin Luther King Day bomber who was arrested yesterday, was deeply involved in the white supremacist movement and once fantasized about killing anti-racists. The Army veteran posted his thoughts, in fact, more than 1,000 times on the racist and anti-Semitic i ...
• After Vicious Anti-Muslim Rally, a Deafening S ...
  The silence from those who organized and promoted a California anti-Muslim protest that devolved into a revolting display of hatred has been deafening. A major Muslim organization released a video compilation (no longer available) earlier this week that depicted a Feb. 13 rally in Yorba Linda pr ...
• American Front Founder David Lynch Shot to Death
  Early this morning, a man was killed and a woman injured in a shooting in Citrus Heights, Calif., a suburb of Sacramento. Law enforcement authorities said the man, who was shot in the head and torso, was found dead inside the home. The woman, who was shot in the leg, was taken to a local hospita ...
• ‘Burn a Koran Day’ Pastor Plans New Desecratio ...
  Terry Jones, the virulently Islamophobic pastor behind last fallâs barely averted âInternational Burn a Koran Day,â may have lost a battle or two, but his personal crusade is clearly still on. Having reluctantly canceled plans to burn Islamâs holy book last Sept. 11 â an idea that won him worldw ...
• The Spokane Bomb Attempt: Who Is Kevin William ...
  So who is the suspect accused of building a âweapon of mass destructionâ and planting it along the route of a Martin Luther King Jr. Day unity parade route in Spokane, Wash.? The emerging picture suggests 36-year-old Kevin William Harpham is a âlone wolfââ with a military ordnance background and ...

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• Victory! 50 Cent donates Gaddafi fee to UNICEF
  On Monday, we kicked off a petition asking Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson to donate the fee he’d received from performing for a private performance that the Venice Film Festival in 2005. A few days and a couple hundred signatures later, 50 wised up and announced he’d be making a donation to UNICEF. Wh ...
• Marriage Equality Takes to the Airwaves in Rho ...
  Rhode Island is one of the latest states to address the issue of marriage equality, with a bill having just been heard by a Senate committee with much debate. During this hearing, emotional testimony was put forward by men and women working hard for the right to marry, telling stories about the ...
• No Surprise: Homeless Patients Cost Hospitals More
  A recent Canadian study found that hospital patients who are homeless end up costing hospitals more money. Really, it took a study to find this out? Please excuse the sarcasm; this just seems to be obvious. Obvious to those of us advocating for the health and wellbeing of those living in poverty ...
• Argentinian Journalist Threatens Rape To Prove ...
  Every day, women around the world are whistled at on their way to work, cat called on their trip to the grocery store, harangued while they walk their dog, and otherwise harassed as they go about their daily business. In some of these situations, verbal assault is coupled with physical touching ...
• Orange County Police Dept Refuses Promotions t ...
  A police department in Orange County, CA, seems opposed to having Latino leaders over their white officers. Three Latino police officers in Westminster, CA, have filed suit against their employer, claiming they were denied promotion based on their ethnicity. Officers Brian Perez, Jose Flores, an ...

Common Dreams -News

• State Department's P.J. Crowley Forced Out by ...
  WASHINGTON -- P.J. Crowley is abruptly stepping down as State Department spokesman under pressure from the White House, according to senior officials familiar with the matter, because of controversial comments he made about the Bradley Manning case. ...
• Outlook for Democracy Dims Across Much of the ...
  CAIRO, Egypt — A poster depicting 15 Middle Eastern heads of state stood out among the other signs hoisted in the air Saturday by hundreds of protesters at a rally outside the Arab League meeting in Cairo. The Tunisian and Egyptian presidents were crossed out, and question marks hung over the fa ...
• Saudi Prince: Loyal Saudi Foil "Evil" Protests
  JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia -- A senior Saudi prince said in comments published on Sunday that loyal Saudis had foiled plans by "evil people" to stage protests. Web activists had slated March 11 as the first day for mass protests around the country in favor of democratic government and a constitutional ...
• Japan Frantic to Avert Multiple Nuclear Meltdowns
  KORIYAMA, Japan� -- Japan's nuclear crisis intensified Sunday as authorities raced to combat the threat of multiple reactor meltdowns and more than 170,000 people evacuated the quake- and tsunami-savaged northeastern coast where fears spread over possible radioactive contamination. Nuclear plant ...
• Promises, Promises: Obama Rebuffs Invites to S ...
  WASHINGTON� -- Union leaders urged Vice President Joe Biden during a White House meeting last month to go to Wisconsin and rally the faithful in their fight against Gov. Scott Walker's move to curtail collective bargaining rights for most public employees. Request rebuffed, they asked for Labor ...

Lifehacker

• How to Get Good at Making Money [Money]
  Making money is a skill or talent that you can develop and improve. Jason Fried, co-founder of 37signals, shares six lessons he learned on the way to getting (really) good at making money as an entrepreneur. More��
• Determine a Fair Rental Price with Zillow's Re ...
  Whether you're a landlord (or an "accidental landlord" thanks to the economy) or a renter, knowing whether a rental price is fair for a particular property can be empowering. Now you can use Zillow's new rental estimate feature to get that ...
• Sweet Home! Auto-Uploads Photos and Videos fro ...
  Looking for an easy way to transfer your photos and videos from your Android device to your computer or network drive? Sweet Home! can do it automatically and wirelessly. More��
• This Week In Downloads [Download Roundup]
  Check out the latest and greatest software from the top downloads over the past week. More��
• Install The iPad 2 In Your Car's Dashboard
  The iPad 2 has just been released, and the intrepid individuals at Soundman Car Audio detail how to install the iPad 2 into a Ford F150 dashboard. "I got Facetime in my dash!" More��

Water Privatization

• Students battle bottled water
  Green ideas: New Westminster Secondary School students and Marie-Claire Massicotte, left, and Hannah Crisp want bottled water sales banned at their school.
• Letters
  To Don Bauder and Moss Gropen: Regarding “the voters” having widely rejected Mike Aguirre and voted for Prop C profitization, I don’t believe it ( “Bar Rejects Charges Against Aguirre” and “Water’s Monopoly Game — Public? Private?”
• Group pushes privatization
  Chicago’s new mayor should consider privatizing everything from the city’s water system, garbage collection and curbside recycling to building management and the 311 non-emergency center to resolve a structural deficit that literally has the city on the brink of bankruptcy, according to the Civi ...
• Letter - Creating the world we want
  The continued “debate” in this province, country and all over the world about the usage, abuse, rights and privatization of resources such as water and land is simply absurd.
• 2,000mw added in national grid: Naveed Qamar
  LAHORE: Federal Minister for Water and Power Syed Naveed Qamar has said Almighty Allah has blessed Pakistan with numerous resources and there are also many suitable sites for dams.

Guardian

• Explosion at stricken Japan nuclear plant
  A second reactor building at the Fukushima Daiichi atomic power plant has exploded but officials say there is a 'low possibility' of a dangerous radiation leak Read the latest information in the Guardian's live blogJapan's nuclear crisis has deepened after a second reactor building at the Fukus ...
• Saudi forces prepare to enter Bahrain
  Crown Prince of Bahrain expected to invite Saudi support following anti-government demonstrations in capitalSaudi forces are preparing to intervene in neighbouring Bahrain, after a day of clashes between police and protesters who mounted the most serious challenge to the island's royal family si ...
• 'You must make yourself interesting'
  One of the UK's favourite sports presenters on his freakishly successful double careerIn many respects an interview is not unlike an internet date. You read about the person you're going to meet, and form some advance impressions � but everything still rests on those first�few minutes in each o ...
• Is this the world's heaviest cookbook?
  It runs to almost 2,500 pages and weighs 18kg and might just be the ultimate encyclopedia for serious foodiesGot a spare 30 hours and £395 burning a hole in your pocket? If so, you might want to place an order for Nathan Myhrvold's six-volume cookbook, published in the United States today, and ...
• The tug and pull of nonstop talk
  Please, football commentators, pause the flow of words occasionally to let the game breatheWatching highlights of the 1981 FA�Cup final replay between Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur on ESPN Classic, two things struck me. First, the greatness of Glenn Hoddle, often obscured by later wackin ...

McClatchey

• Is 2011 the year for Republican governors?
  It may be a bigger threat to President Barack Obama than Romney, Palin or Gingrich a crew by the name of Christie, Scott and Walker that is slashing budgets, undercutting the new health care law and picking fights with unions.
• Obama's Latin America trip offers look at chan ...
  As President Barack Obama prepares for his trip to Brazil, Chile and El Salvador this week, there is optimism in the region that his swing south will begin a new relationship — one that reflects the profound changes Latin America has undergone in the past decade.
• Some funds for California's disabled saved fro ...
  Like hundreds of people this winter fighting budget cuts, Steve Doherty trekked to the state Capitol on a recent Monday to argue his case.
• Normally hawkish Lindsey Graham less gung-ho o ...
  WASHINGTON — Critical mistakes in executing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have made Sen. Lindsey Graham more cautious about U.S. military intervention in Libya, leading him to break with long-time allies urging an aggressive response.
• Commentary: Silly lawmakers aren't just in D.C.
  We in Missouri know that Washington is not to be trusted, what with its wild spending, its socialistic takeover of the American health care system and now its plan to ruin dinners out by putting calorie counts on the menu.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

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

The Wonk Room

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

thwap's schoolyard

• Demand the Impossible! Demand Accountability!
  A lot of people are convinced that stephen harper and his gang will never be held accountable for their war crimes in Afghanistan. I have to say that the weight of evidence is on their side. It seems foolish to waste our time "demanding" that the laws be enforced against harper, and that our cou ...
• There's No Reward For Hard Work In Canada
  Crushing levels of taxation leave us with almost nothing left over ... Bone-headed politicians seemed determined to punish success ... Overly generous welfare systems allow others to live comfortably while refusing to work ... Remember, we're all in this together ... In all honesty, I h ...
• 1848 and 2011
  In 1848, revolutions (eventually crushed with great bloodshed) broke out among several European nations (France, the German and Italian states, the Hapsburg Empire, Poland, Ireland). Obviously, economic factors aren't going to be the only things that stir up revolutionary sentiment. The human de ...
• How Rob Ford Fellators Argue
  Toronto's free entertainment weekly Now is a left-left-liberal (or whatever, you get the idea) tabloid. It offers concise, unrestrained criticisms of the obvious buffoonery and hypocrisy of Mayor Rob Ford. Perhaps because of this, it feels compelled to give its letters section over to brain-dead ...
• Bare-Knuckle Rules Following
  I have often fantasized that if the opposition parties defeat harper, they treat the harpercons with the same contempt and brazen illegal bullying that the harpercons used to dish out. But it's just occurred to me that the rules of the game in Canada are such that they wouldn't have to break th ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

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

Science Express

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

TechDirt

• Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week ...
  I'm running around SXSW this weekend, so let's just get right to it. On the insightful side there were simply no standouts this week. A bunch of comments all were pretty closely ranked, so we'll go with the top two and then an editor's choice (which was ranked 4th). The comment that came in t ...
• cc's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week
  This week's favorite posts come courtesy of cc, who's been having fun doing battle in the comments Do you ever get the feeling that Techdirt has just way too many departments? Yes? Well, it's thanks to that abundance thing Mike is always on about... And it looks like today I'm adding my own: ...
• Retroactive Drug Monopoly Raises Rates From $1 ...
  A bunch of you have been sending in the somewhat horrifying story of how KV Pharmaceutical has been retroactively granted a monopoly on the drug Makena, which is use to prevent premature births. The product has been on the market for years, and normally costs about $10 per dose... but thanks to ...
• The Changing Way That Math Is Taught To Children
  NPR has a fascinating story about how the methods for teaching basic mathematics have been changing in schools. For example, they show the following comparison for teaching multiplication: The Way We Used To Multiply The old way to multiply required a student to add the products of 36 x ...
• State Department Spokesperson Says Bradley Man ...
  We've written a few times about how we believe Bradley Manning's treatment in prison is horrifying. It goes beyond what's reasonable, and in recent weeks has only gotten worse, as he's now being stripped naked every night. However Glenn Greenwald points us to the very surprising news tha ...

VacTruth

• Too Little, Too Late
  Can we afford to keep spend billions of dollars on false pandemics and on vaccines production without much oversight and testing?Vactruth.com
• FLUORIDE: How WRONG Can Health Agencies Be?
  Does fluoride in our drinking water prove that government agencies make mistakes?Vactruth.com
• 3 Easy Steps Parents Can Use to Form an Opinio ...
  Parents can use these 3 easy steps to form an opinion about vaccines.Vactruth.com
• The Press Conference About the U.S. Supreme Co ...
  Numerous vaccine safety advocates assembled on the apron of the massive front steps to the U.S. Supreme Court on First Street, NE, in Washington, DC, to let the court—and the world—know that the highest court in the land got it wrong and did not act to protect an individual’s right to be compens ...
• The 2009 Pandemic Flu “Conspiracies” Investigation
  Was it appropriate for WHO to take advice from experts who had declarable financial and research ties with pharmaceutical companies producing antivirals and influenza vaccines?Vactruth.com

BroadSnark

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

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

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

Armies of Liberation

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

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

food and water watch

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

treehugger

• Natural Products Expo 2011 Report: Functional ...
  Cardboard Cafe at Expo West being recycled. Photos by RCruger Ancient grains, coconut water, fair trade chocolates, protein bars, and organic pet food were in abundance in Orange County this weekend, where baobab and sea buckthorn joined acai, goji berry and chia seeds, the reigning antioxi ...
• 6th Annual Memorial Ride and Walk Honoring NYC ...
  Bicyclist placing flowers at Memorial for Fuen Bai in the LES photo: Bonnie Hulkower Today, families, friends, residents and bicycle advocates participated in the 6th Annual Memorial Ride and Walk for New Yorkers who have been killed by cars while walking or biking on city streets. The even ...
• SeaWorld Releases Its 1,000th Rescued Turtle ( ...
  Photo: ukanda / cc Just days ago, a 100 pound loggerhead turtle was released into the waters of Canaveral National Seashore in Florida marking the reaching of a milestone in animal rescue. The unnamed turtle represents the 1,000th to be rescued, rehabilitated, and released by the conservatio ...
• Tiny Endangered Kittens Born From Frozen Embryos
  Photo: Susan Poag via The Times-Picayune Scientists at the Audubon Nature Institute in New Orleans have made a genetic-breakthrough of the most adorable proportions -- successfully producing two endangered kittens via in vitro fertilization. With sperm taken from a male African black-footed ...
• RAN Labels Chevron's Defense Team 'Human Right ...
  It's been month since the historic ruling in Ecuador that found Chevron guilty of polluting a large swath of the Ecuadorean Amazon. In response, as it has said all along, Chevron has vowed to not pay the $8.6 billion fine imposed on it, and on Thursday it won a preliminary injunction in a fe ...

Biosingularity

• Soda Health Facts: Are Soft Drinks Really Bad ...
  Just about every week, it seems, a new study warns of another potential health risk linked to soft drinks. The most recent headlines have raised concerns that diet sodas boost stroke risk. Diet and regular sodas have both been linked to obesity, kidney damage, and certain cancers. Regular soft d ...
• New Technique May Help Diagnose Asthma, COPD
  Researchers in Australia have identified four molecular characteristics, or biomarkers, of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which they say could lead to better ways to diagnose the respiratory conditions. The biomarkers were discovered using a relatively new field of scie ...
• Detecting whether a heart attack has occurred
  During about 30 percent of all heart attacks, the patient experiences no symptoms. However, unmistakable signs of the attack remain in the bloodstream for days. MIT researchers, working with Massachusetts General Hospital’s Cardiovascular Research Center, have now designed a tiny implant that ca ...
• High-Fiber Diet Cuts Death Risk
  Filling up on fiber — particularly fiber from whole grains — may reduce your risk of dying from heart disease, infections, and respiratory diseases, says a new study published online in the Archives of Internal Medicine. Men and women who ate the most dietary fiber were 22% less likely to die fr ...
• Reprogrammed Stem Cells Are Rife with Mutations
  Adult cells that have been reprogrammed into stem cells harbor a number of genetic mutations, some of which appear in genes that have been linked to cancer. While scientists don’t yet know how this might affect the use of the cells in medicine, they say the findings show that the cells need to b ...

CFACT

• Virginia's governor is blind to renewable ener ...
  Despite the unreliability and costliness of renewable energy, Governor McDonnell is promoting them in Virginia.
• Environmentalist fraud and manslaughter
  In the name of banning DDT, GEF bureaucrats are consigning millions to death from malaria.
• Have the Greens finally trapped biotech crops?
  The world in 2040 will have perhaps 8 billion people demanding twice as much food and lots of high-quality protein. Either we produce that extra food on the land we already farm, or we watch the most massive loss of wild-lands in all history.
• Did the US ethanol mandate contribute to the E ...
  An analysis of recent commentary on ethanol production mandates in the United States and the riots in Egypt.
• Washington Post compares Climate Depot to Drud ...
  Marc Morano is CFACT's editor in chief of Climate Depot, and he has been garnering extensive coverage lately. Last week he was cited in the Washington Times. This week it's the Washington Post's Capital Weather Gang and Fox Nation.

Ria Novosti Online News

• Indian Navy seizes 61 pirates in Arabian Sea
  The Indian Navy has seized a pirate ship, rescuing 13 crewmembers and arresting 61 suspected Somali pirates in the Arabian Sea, national media reported on Monday.
• Police say 5,000 dead or missing in Japan quake
  The number of those killed or missing after Friday's massive earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan has topped 5,000, Kyodo news reported on Monday citing police.
• Aftermath of Japan’s strongest recorded quake
  The death toll in Japan's earthquake and tsunami is likely to exceed 10,000 in one state alone, an official said on Sunday, as (m) millions of survivors were left without drinking water, electricity and proper food along the pulverised northeastern coast. In the hard-hit port city of Sendai, daz ...
• Kadyrov to be inaugurated for second term as C ...
  Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov is to be inaugurated for his second term as the leader of the North Caucus republic on April 5, a representative of Kadyrov's administration and the republic's government said on Monday.
• China donates $4.6 million in aid to quake-hit ...
  China on Monday pledged $4.6 million in emergency aid to support a huge relief effort in Japan after a massive earthquake and tsunami struck the island nation, Xinhua news agency reported.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

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

Pruning Shears

• Weekend wrapup
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Thoughts and prayers to the victims in Japan. Don’t even know if a donation would be helpful at the moment.The president has his head comp ...
• 'No on SB 5': Additional rallies for this comi ...
  If you can’t make it to the Strongsville rally on Tuesday, here are some others that day: Oberlin Corner of N. Main St. and W. Lorain St. 5:00 pm Vandalia Corner of Maple St. and E. National Rd. 5:00 pm Westerville Westerville Library 126 South State St. 6:00 pm Salem St. Pauls Church 935 E. ...
• 'No On SB 5': Strongsville rally Tues. March 1 ...
  From Mary Devring, Executive Director, Cuyahoga County Democratic Party:The following message is from our Brothers and Sisters at the AFL-CIO. Please plan on attending. We need drivers for the 15th at one of the locations listed below. If you can help out please call one of the two numbers li ...
• The lesson
  Yes, the lavish funding from billionaires didn’t hurt, and yes they’re ideologically inclined to pass crap like the “budget” “repair” “bill” in the first place, but there’s another reason for things like that and Ohio’s SB 5 to happen: We have not provided clear consequences for doing massively ...
• Calling BS on Freedom Works' Top 10 (Part 2)
  Part 1 can be found here   3. Ohio’s state and local government employees’ pensions are severely underfunded.   Again, how does SB5 solve this?  The loss of money in pensions is due to overenthusiastic assumptions by the states based on the economy at the time.  And of course, let’s not forg ...

Organic Consumers.org

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

fotoFrontera

• Wallpapers para iPad y iPad2 (Imágenes de 1024 ...
  Si usted tiene un iPad de primera generación o un iPad2, el Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas le trae en exclusiva 20 wallpapers para su tableta. Son imágenes de 1024x1024 pixeles de resolución inspirados en la serie los colores de nuestro planeta. Espero que les gusten y sobre todo, que les sean de g ...
• Terremoto de 8.9 grados y Tsunami en Japón (43 ...
  La mañana de este viernes 11 de marzo, tuvo lugar en Japón uno de los terremotos más devastadores en la historia de esta región asiática. El temblor fue de 8.9 grados en la escala de Richter. Se estiman en cientos los muertos y en miles los desaparecidos por esta catástrofe natural. Casas y come ...
• Aviones supersónicos VI (15 imágenes para comp ...
  ATENCIÓN: Para ver todas las fotos de esta serie, navegue usted hacia abajo y haga click sobre las imágenes que más le gusten para ampliar su tamaño y guardarlas en su computadora si así lo desea. He aquí la parte número X de nuestra serie 'Aviones Supersónicos'. Una colección muy interesa ...
• Tributo a la infancia VII (fotos de niñas, flo ...
  ATENCIÓN: Para ver todas las fotos de esta serie, navegue usted hacia abajo y haga click sobre las imágenes que más le gusten para ampliar su tamaño y guardarlas en su computadora si así lo desea. Tributo a la infancia, es una serie muy bonita en la cual el Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas rind ...
• Wallpapers de autos muy bonitos VII (15 imágenes)
  ATENCIÓN: Para ver todas las fotos de esta serie, navegue usted hacia abajo y haga click sobre las imágenes que más le gusten para ampliar su tamaño y guardarlas en su computadora si así lo desea. Desde hace mucho, hemos compartido con ustedes una gran diversidad de imágenes y wallpapers rel ...

Center for a Livable Future

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

Norwegianity

• Wisconsin, now with more tractors
  Another Saturday, another 100,000 pro-union folks marching in Madison. Heroes welcome for the WI 14 Tractors! [and pictures that actually show the tractors!] Pictures and some text from WINston (plus a supportive music video from Bulgaria) Nick Kristof on the need to pay teachers more, not less ...
• Wisconsin update
  Just got off the phone with WINston who says the crowds in Madison today were the biggest he’s seen to date. I’ll link to his blog post as soon as it’s up. Not a lot to link to yet, newspapers no longer having sufficient funds for any kind of Saturday coverage. The UpTake is still [...]
• Go go Godzilla!
  Yes there was a big earthquake in Japan [slideshow] and yes their nuclear reactors are melting down and there have been fire-breathing gorilla-whale sightings but I’m more concerned with whether there was any ice that came with that dusting of snow that hit the Twin Cities last night. Very white ...
• Can’t-idate Bridgefail
  Taylor has the best Colbert clip ever. Go watch it now. So funny I laughed out loud (without the help of drugs). So trenchant I had to put on my boots. So apt I gave it its own post. Really, when it was all over I expected Colbert to be taken straight to heaven by [...]
• Clusterlinking
  Harsh reviews for Peter King’s Islam-bashing hearings. Eugene Robinson called it a witch hunt. Peter King himself put the hearings in the proper context by pointing out that Neo-Nazis aren’t as big a threat as Islamo Americans. [factchecked] [more dumb stuff] [more factchecking] Cable did their ...

Public News Service

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

Center for Food Safety

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

• Tom is Moving in on Libya
  Even as I write here President Obama and his European allies are moving fast to invade Libya under the guise of a humanitarian mission. A "no-fly-zone" will most likely be declared soon and policed by Nato in the days ahead.� This tactic will allow Tom to essentially occupy Libya in a r ...
• UNDERNEWS: Thomas Knapp, Anti-War
  UNDERNEWS: "The power to declare war — and thereby to legally categorize a group of persons (historically on, but not necessarily constrained to, the basis of their allegiance to a particular state) as 'the enemy' — is exclusively reserved, per the US Constitution, to Congress. Congress hasn’t e ...
• Paul Craig Roberts: Our Time of Universal Dec ...
  Our Time of Universal Deceit Needs an Orwell | FPJ: “Support the troops” originated in the public relations department of the military/security complex. What “support the troops” really means is to support the profits of the armaments industry and the neoconservative ideology of US world heg ...
• Palaverer: Vine Deloria, Custer Died for Your Sins
  Palaverer: "He opens to communication in his prose above all by using clear, simple prose, the hardest kind to produce. That, and, more interesting to me, through humor. As an analogue, I went through a phase where I read a bunch of Czech literature, Jaroslav Hasek‘s The Good Solder Svejk and ...
• Guest Editorial: Garvey's Ghost: Black Talk: W ...
  Garvey's Ghost: Black Talk: Who is "The Enemy"? Long ago when Bush II was in office I made a note that it was very dangerous to give the executive the power to decide who is and is not "an enemy" and that such a power was ripe for abuse. Anyone who reads the above quote ought to see why Assange ...

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

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

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

• The Limousines – Internet Killed The Video Star
• Japan earthquake. Is a full recovery even possible
  The Agonist has a comprehensive if deeply depressing piece detailing the multitude of severe problems facing Japan now, any one of which could cripple a country. Talk Left has more, including the sombre news that six reactors have failed or are in danger of doing so. Hundreds of thousands are ho ...
• Obama fires State spokesman for saying torture ...
  From Steve Hynd at Newshoggers Crowley had called Mannings detention, naked and in solitary confinement, “ridiculous and counterproductive and stupid”. Which it is. It’s also criminal. I will not be supporting Obama’s re-election bid. Ditto.
• Solar power heats Fairbanks, Alaska home in winter
  “You wouldnât believe how many engineers have told me in the past year that itâs impossible,” Thorsten Chlupp said of the fossil-fuel free system. “I already know I need to build an outdoor swimming pool because I have too much heat.” The system stores excess heat in a 14-by-8 foot water tank. T ...
• Japan’s biggest long-term problem may be elect ...
  With millions already without power, [Prime Minister] Kan said Japan would undergo planned outages in the coming days to preserve what electricity remained. Large areas of the quake area are without power. This lessens demand. When those areas come back online, more power will be needed. But sev ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

• Hell On Earth – New Nuke Explosion, Tsun ...
  Another explosion has rocked the Fukushima power plant damaged by Friday’s huge earthquake Japan’s central bank has injected a record 15tn yen ($184bn) into money markets, as the Tokyo stock market plummeted on the first business day since the earthquake Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan has cal ...
• This Day In History – March 14
  1757 – Admiral Sir John Byng is executed by firing squad aboard HMS Monarch for breach of the Articles of War. 1794 – Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin. 1883 – Karl Marx, German philosopher and political theorist (b. 1818), died. 1900 – The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing ...
• Deadline Live – March 11 2011
  FRIDAY on Deadline Live Radio…. Paul Topete from the Band “Poker Face”
• Lest We Forget, the Focus Should Be the Fed
  Well, there certainly is a lot going on in the news these days. Like the old Chinese curse said, we are living in exciting times. There are many uprisings in North Africa. People are dying in Libya and Saudi Arabia as they struggle against oppression. It looks like they may be gearing up to send ...
• Into The Fire – Official Trailer
  Press For Truth Presents Into The Fire World leaders and activists from around the world gathered for the G20 Summit. With over 19,000 police officers and security personnel on hand, the results lead to over 1100 arrests, martial law in downtown Toronto, and the most massive violation of civil l ...

The Air Vent

• Update on Winds paper
  Copied from comments on the other thread Anastassia Makarieva Some of the readers may still be interested the fate of our draft paper “Where do winds come from?” and our condensation theory as originally highlighted on The Air Vent here. A second referee was appointed –- many thanks to all of th ...
• Saving The World, One Progressive at a Time
  Josh had this awesome depiction of Romm right where I see him.  At least at the elevation of its nesting habitat, it is safe from the 5 feet of sea level rise. Although, there’s good news, the emerging species may now be able to nest a little lower.  Hopefully we’ll know soon what this little [...]
• Another brick in the Wahl
  Still no time for climate blogging.  In fact if anything, time is shorter. If you have any interest in climate science and why the skeptics are winning the war of reason over ‘scientists’, read this post by Steve Mosher and Charles the moderator at WUWT. The recent CA article is also worth your ...
• kgnd & Cross-Validation: PART II – Parti ...
  by Ryan O’Donnell kgnd & Cross-Validation: PART II (TTLS vs. Ridge Regression and Table S3) In his O’Donnellgate post, Steig makes the following observation: Itâs perhaps also worth pointing out that the *main* criticism I had of OâDonnellâs paper was never addressed. If youâre interested in thi ...
• Nick Stokes – TempLS
  Nick Stokes has been messing around with another regression of the Antarctic, he’s done some good stuff but I believe is seeing some of the difficulty of spatial trend containment using PCA methods.  It’s fairly interesting: Antarctic, RO10, Steig and TempLS.

Focal Point

• Fly of Newt: Gingrich Blames Adultery on Patri ...
  “There’s no question that at times in my life, partially driven by how passionately I felt about this country, that I worked far too hard and that things happened in my life that were not appropriate,” former House Speaker and serial adulterer Newt Gingrich told an interviewer for the Christia ...
• Friends With Benefits: Why Private Sector Work ...
  The Republicans are trying to pit private sector workers against public sector workers. It's easy for a struggling private sector worker with low wages and no benefits to resent of private sector workers with job security, pensions, health care, and more--especially if that worker's state taxes ...
• Did Wisconsin Senators Break State's Open Meet ...
  In their haste to pass a union-busting bill in the dead of night, without a quorum, Wisconsin's Republican senators may have violated the state's open meetings law. As I report in Working In These Times, the Republicans are trying to cloud the issue by asserting that they followed senate rules . ...
• Sex Advice Columnist Dan Savage As Ethicist
  Benjamin Dueholm has a cover story in the Washington Monthly assessing sex advice columnist Dan Savage as an ethicist: Savage yields to no one in his sexual libertarianism, but he has not been content to relegate the ideas of right and wrong to cultural conservatives. Wading deep into the f ...
• Slavery Proponents Not Stupid, Excellent at Ra ...
  "Secession wasn’t evidence that the South didn’t have a reasoned intellectual life. In fact, it was the strongest evidence that it did," according to the teaser on a blog post by historian Michael O'Brien on the New York Times' website. Historical evidence abounds that Southerners were not ...

Inside Facebook

• This Week’s Headlines From Across Inside Network
  Here are all the latest headlines from around Inside Network. Inside Mobile Apps Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms, and virtual goods. Monday, March 7th, 2011 Gameloft Will Cut Dungeon Hunter II’s Price Based on Facebook, Twitter Votes iOS Trading-Card Game Shadow Era Rac ...
• Highlights This Week from the Inside Network J ...
  The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities in the Facebook Platform and social gaming ecosystem. Here are this week�s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at Jagex Games Studios, NaturalMotion, Funcom, EverTold,Diversio ...
• Inside Network Speaking in Austin at SXSW Next ...
  Two Inside Network staffers will be speaking at the South By Southwest Interactive conference in Austin, Texas this coming week. Josh Constine, lead writer on Inside Facebook, will be moderating a panel of Facebook platform developers discussing the value of Facebook fans. Kim-Mai Cutler, lead w ...
• Facebook Roundup: Skype, Al Jazeera, Video, Mo ...
  Facebook, Skype Rumored to be in Talks – Thereâs a rumor going around that Skype and Facebook are going to partner to allow users to make calls within Facebook. Al Jazeera Show Will Script From Facebook – A new show on the Al Jazeera English network, âThe Stream,â is set to take its content cues ...
• Facebook Expands @ Mention Tagging to Comments
  Facebook users can now tag their friends, Pages, Groups, and Events in comments to news feed stories and wall posts to create linked mentions. This will help users carry on conversations with other commenters and allow them to easily reference different entities on Facebook. In September 2009, u ...

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ReDress News

• Consequences of Israeli weapons testing on Gaza
  Richard Lightbown argues that Israel's use of depleted uranium, white phosphorus and other toxic metals in its war on the people of the Gaza Strip has put the whole of the Strip’s population and its environment - air, soil, groundwater and possibly seawater - at risk of serious long-term injury ...
• Netanyahu's illusory peace plan
  Jonathan Cook considers Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's imminent plan to buy time and fend off world pressure in the context of Israel's unprecedented and growing international isolation.
• The grievous return of Henry Kissinger
  Lawrence Davidson views Henry Kissinger's recent lobbying to free Jonathan Pollard, an American convicted of spying for Israel, against the background of a history of bad judgements, amoral decisions and war crimes by the former US secretary of state. "The real Henry Kissinger, who implausabily ...
• Exposed: Israel's sham inquiry into murder abo ...
  Richard Lightbown assess in forensic detail Israel's submission to the UN Panel of Inquiry on the Gaza Flotilla raid (the Turkel Commission Report) against available evidence, showing how the commission received much of its testimony via a third party, discouraged witnesses from the flotilla fro ...
• Could pariah status spell the end for Zionism?
  Alan Hart considers the possibility of whether a global perception of Israeli Jews as citizens of a pariah state and the prospect of real sanctions will alarm enough of them to the point where they will take to the streets in significant numbers to demand that their leaders be serious about peac ...

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

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

Afro Spear

• Ted Williams: Not So Shiny & New
  When things are shiny & new, everyone wants a piece. Iâm happy that Ted was “discovered” & Iâm VERY happy that he is in recovery now but it’s a shame how it all played out for him under the media pressure. Shame on Kraft, The Cavaliers & them other bitches who dropped Ted like a [...]
• White or Black Led Urban Ministries…Who ...
  Recently I received my e-newsletter from UrbanFaith.com a well rounded online Christian website by parent company UMI (Urban Ministries Inc.), which reports on news, culture, world events and lifestyle to name a few. Urban Faith does this professionally, and with a uniquely Black Christian persp ...
• “If Gadaffi is right “drug addicts ...
  Though it can be regarded as buffoonish, the idea that protesters in Libya are drugged young and jobless people sometimes makes sense. Even if this is not the case in Libya, there is a naked truth behind this. When Muamar Gadaffi was cornered, he employed mercenaries in duped or dumped cops from ...
• Byts and Bytes
  1. Psyco-Slavery: Black Boys, White Female Teachers & the Rise of A.D.H.D.   2. How China has created a new slave empire in Africa 3. Afro-Futurism: The Marketing of Revolution
• FREE WESLEY SNIPES!!!
  They gave Ron Isley three years. They gave Wesley Snipes three years. What did they give the CEO/CFO’s of Merrill Lynch, AIG, Goldmund Sachs?! I’ll tell you what they gave them: a handjob. They gave them record bonuses, the highest being almost half a billion dollars. They, meaning the people ch ...

Expose the BNP

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

Sen4Earth

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

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

• International Atomic Energy Agency Spinning Li ...
  In the light of the Japanese earthquake and subsequent tsumani, government and internation agencies are working like crazy to ensure no news remains good news regarding the Fukushima nuclear power plant. Yet from the BBC we hear the following: There are now problems at the number three reactor – ...
• ExxonMobil Biofuel Advert Officially Pronounce ...
  ASA Adjudication on ExxonMobil UK Ltd ExxonMobil UK Ltd ExxonMobil House Ermyn Way Leatherhead Surrey KT22 8UX Date: 9 March 2011 Media: Television Sector: Utilities Number of complaints: 1 Agency: Euro RSCG London Ltd Complaint Ref: 141542 Ad A TV ad for ExxonMobil UK Ltd (ExxonMobil) featured ...
• UK Census 2011: Why I Will Be Breaking The Law ...
  On Sunday March 27, 2011 I will be breaking the law. If you live in England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland then I would also like you to break the law. We can do it together, and I know for a fact that an awful lot of people will be doing the same. The UK [...]
• Interview With Bill McKibben, Winner of Puffin ...
  Climate reality writer and activist Gregory Vickrey. (L) ( Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Founder of 350.org, writer and environmentalist Bill McKibben. (R) (Photo: Nancie Battaglia / 350.org) Bill McKibben, Schumann distinguished scholar at Middlebury College, is the author of a dozen boo ...
• An Open Letter to Journalists From Gasland Dir ...
  With the recent Oscar nomination of my documentary film GASLAND, Big Gas and their PR attack machine hit a new low in its blatant disregard for the truth. In an unprecedented move, an oil and gas industry front group sent a letter to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences saying that th ...

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

• Lost in Boston: REALTIME
  For the last several months, we have been testing a system called Lost in Boston: REALTIME with a variety of community partners. This video describes a bit about the project. Rick Borovoy loves Boston, but he hates how hard it is to figure out where one is. Boston is tough to navigate, ...
• Junkyard Jumbotron
  Rick Borovoy just released the Junkyard Jumbotron project, which allows laptops or phones in close proximity to be ganged together to form a large display. The Junkyard Jumbotron requires no special software; it is simply a web page that receives real-time updates from our server, allowing sc ...
• VoIP Drupal Kicks Off at Drupalcon
  Last week I wrote about another project that's come to a boil at the Center for Future Civic Media: VoIP Drupal. Here is a brief video of Leo Burd lecturing at DrupalCon 2011 on the release of Voip Drupal, a plugin that allow full interaction between Drupal CMS and phones. VoIP Drupal i ...
• How to Design a Simple Newsgame Authoring Tool
  Our teams at Georgia Tech and UC Santa Cruz have been working on an authoring tool that helps journalists quickly create bite-sized newsgames. The Cartoonist has been the working title for the tool because our intention is to create games akin to editorial cartoons, in terms of the amount of inf ...
• Drupal Now Accessible Via Any Phone
  MIT's Center for Future Civic Media has done a variety of breakthrough civic systems with phones. Examples range from Leo Burd's What's Up platform to the Call4Action class and its cool student projects. We at C4 love these projects, but working with phones has always been a bear. A lot o ...

Cutting Edge News

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

High Country News

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

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

• Lenin's Lessons for Obama on Dealing with Radi ...
  By Barry Rubin I just don�t get it. The more degrees from famous universities U.S. leaders have, the less they seem to know, especially about history. Consider this in light of their inability to understand that not only al-Qaida but also Syria, Hamas, Hizballah, the Muslim Brotherho ...
• Israel May Have as Much Oil As Saudi Arabia-Mo ...
  WAY TO GO MOSES!! Shortly after she stepped down from her position as Prime Minister Golda Meir toured the US. In talking about the advantages in resources the Arab states had over Israel, she blamed Moses. �Too bad, that after leading his people across the miraculously parted Red Sea, ...
• DOJ Gets Smacked Again For Dragging Feet on Ob ...
  On Jan 31 Judge Roger Vinson threw out the entire Obamacare bill, based on the unconstitutionality of the mandate to purchase insurance.� The government's reaction to the ruling was to stall by asking the Judge to clarify his ruling. Last week they got their clarification right between the e ...
• U.S. Middle East Policy and Those Little Ideas ...
  By Barry Rubin I listened again to President Barack Obama�s main speech on Egypt back during the revolution and two phrases caught my ear. They were both intended, perhaps, as bland phrases yet they carry an awesome amount of meaning. The first was this: �Suppressing ideas never mak ...
• Moonbats Blame Japanese Earthquake/Tsunami on ...
  It's time to add to the list of dumb things the global warming moonbats claim is caused by their hoax.� During the past two years the left has blamed global warming for Incredible shrinking sheep, Invasion of jellyfish in the Mediterranean, Surge in fatal shark attack, Boy Scout tornado dea ...

The Real Agenda

• Robber Barons, Revolution, and Social Control
  The Century of Social Engineering, Part 1 By Andrew Gavin Marshall March 10, 2011 Introduction In Part 1 of this series, “The Century of Social Engineering,” I briefly document the economic, political and social background to the 20th century in America, by taking a brief look at the major socia ...
• Globalists with an eye on Libya’s Resources
  Russia’s Envoy to NATO: Western Powers, Multinationals with an eye on Libya’s Resources Filed under: Corruption, War Zone
• Western Colonization of Libya
  Military Industrial Complex recruiting rebels to destabilize Libyan government.  Special Forces on the ground for a while. Filed under: War Zone
• Airport Scanners emit 10 times more radiation ...
  USA Today March 12, 2011 The Transportation Security Administration announced Friday that it would retest every full-body X-ray scanner that emits ionizing radiation — 247 machines at 38 airports — after maintenance records on some of the devices showed radiation levels 10 times higher than expe ...
• How the Tsunami Followed the Earthquake in Japan
  Filed under: Uncategorized

Wind Watch

• Doubt over green energy’s clean bill of ...
  Wind turbines are closing in on four generations of the Quinn family who still live at Mt Bryan in South Australia’s picturesque and productive Mt Lofty Ranges. Rosemary Quinn, 74, says she spends her nights locked inside the 1900s stone house she has occupied for 55 years. She shuts the windows ...
• Wind farm plan nixed in Brimfield
  BRIMFIELD – Boston-based First Wind has withdrawn a proposal to build a wind farm on top of West Mountain, a move that has pleased its opponents. “West Mountain was not the place for eight to 10 wind turbines, and I’m happy that they’re leaving. I’m calling everybody that I can think of,” Select ...
• Questions of costs, jobs and influence surroun ...
  Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley on Thursday will ask lawmakers to support a proposal to raise almost every state resident’s electric bill for the next 20 years to underwrite a plan for Maryland to generate some of the nation’s first offshore wind power. O’Malley’s legislation runs counter to a cam ...
• Wind farm falls flat
  ST. HENRY – NextEra Energy Resources announced Tuesday it is pulling the plug on a locally-proposed wind farm project out of respect for the area’s rich religious history. Representatives of the Florida-based wind development company told The Daily Standard they changed their minds about constru ...
• Wind energy moratorium one step closer to reality
  HARTFORD � Proposed wind turbine projects in Colebrook moved one step closer � to being halted in their tracks. The Joint Energy and Technology Committee of the Connecticut General Assembly issued a favorable report on HB 6249, which would enact an immediate moratorium on wind energy projects un ...

Not My Tribe

• The Pope has a facebook page… just not B ...
  John Paul 2nd. Yep. Here’s my deal… After I’ve been gone for 6 years… don’t try to contact me. No prayers, no seances, nothing like that. If I’m in heaven where i hope, you’ll just piss me all the way off. ESPECIALLY I ain’t going to be reading any emails, tweets or Friend requests. I [...]
• So here’s what vote suppression looks li ...
  Even with the literally untold billions of dollars spent on the hate-mail attack ads, and the “don’t vote ’cause they’ll screw you anyway” campaign, we squeaked out of a massive TeaTard RepubliKlan regime such as the one of Scott Walker of Wisconsin. Tossed workers rights back to the beginning o ...
• Corporate personhood: unintended consequences
  yes/no: are corporations persons? Are Corporations composed of shareholders? Do Corporations act on behalf and with the explicit consent of the shareholders? Has the corporation, with said consent, used any consideration of value including the intellectual property of the corporate officers or o ...
• Merrifield portrayed as Lenin, Princess Lisa s ...
  But you know, right, that somebody who is pandering to the Lunatic Fringe of the Right Wing, the ones stupid enough and hate-filled enough to do it, the ones who feel anybody who isn’t a lock-step conformist racist elitist Wealthy Republiklan member or their really STUPID minions is a “commie”… ...
• Princess Lisa, “conservative” spen ...
  She sent this Email, cc’ed to Dennis Hisey, Amy Lathen and Sallie Clark, her TeaBag Terrorist accomplices, and to the Fascist Sheriff and Police Chief:I assume these are copyright violations. Ed, I am forwarding this on to Chief Meyers of the Colorado police department and El Paso County’s Sheri ...

Debunking the Debunkers

• How Pseudoskeptics hijack "Skepticism" to mean ...
  New article from DebunkingSkeptics.com. "Just look at us. Everything is backwards. Everything is upside down. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the major media destroy information, and religion destroys spirituality." - ...
• New document supports Norman Mineta's testimon ...
  During testimony given to the 9/11 Commission, then Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta had the following exchange with 9/11 commissioner Lee Hamilton regarding the plane coming into the Pentagon: MR. MINETA: ...There was a young man who had come in and said to the vice president, "The pla ...
• Pumpitout Radio: Foreknowledge and Lack of Air ...
  Jeff Hill's Pumpitout radio show featuring John-Michael Talboo detailing his research into the many pre 9/11 warnings of terrorist attacks using planes as weapons. Also, the UNBELIEVABLE LACK of response from NORAD and other facilities equipped to defend our air space on the morning of Septem ...
• Confirmed: FBI Got Warning Day Before OKC Bombing
  New documents released under the Freedom of Information Act confirm that the FBI received a phone call the day before the Oklahoma City bombing warning that the attack was imminent, and that the feds tried to reach a deal with bomber Terry Nichols to take the death penalty off the table if he ad ...
• Mike Adams & Andrew Wakefield on Scientific Re ...
  Dr Andrew Wakefield speaks on the structure of scientific revolutions: Vaccines, viruses and evolution An excellent discussion on the history of science and how revolutionary figures are often savagely attacked, despite being correct. The stuff about cold fusion was interesting. Steven Jones ...

Fooducate

• Corazonas Oatmeal Squares – Heart Healthy or M ...
  “Proven to Lower Cholesterol” is a mighty strong claim. But Corazonas, a brand built around heart health, places this health claim front and center. How can one product, such as this oatmeal square, help to reduce cholesterol? What you need to know: According to Corazonas’s website (and NOT on t ...
• What’s Bob Marley Doing at a Food Show?
  Fooducate has hit the road and is spending some time at Natural Products Expo West in Anaheim, a trade show dedicated to the Natural Food Industry. Over 3000 natural and organic food and ingredient manufacturers exhibit their goods twice a year to 50,000 visitors from the food and retail industr ...
• Really Irritating Napkin [See Picture]
  Dear food and beverage brands, Instead of asking us to help you raise pennies for various health causes, how about making products that don’t make us sick in the first place? Thank you. Get Fooducated: iPhone App RSS Subscription or Email Subscription Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/fooducate ...
• Portion Distortion – The Hidden Enemy. How YOU ...
  One of the trickiest aspects of eating well is consuming the right portion size. Eating homemade, unprocessed foods, with lots of whole grains, low fat meats and dairy can still lead to excessive calorie consumption if you don’t exercise portion restraint. It gets worse when you buy foods in pac ...
• Wonder Launches SmartWheat Bread. Does it Deli ...
  Earlier this week, Hostess, the parent company of Wonder Bread, announced a new line of soft bread with 100% whole wheat: SmartWheat is a new, soft 100% whole wheat bread with 22 grams of whole grain, the calcium of 8 ounces of milk in two slices, and a good source of 9 vitamins and minerals. [...]

Traffikd

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

Survival International

• Land clearing begins for destructive Amazon dam
  Amazon Indians are calling for the Belo Monte dam to be halted © M. Cowan/ Survival Construction workers have begun to bulldoze land in the Brazilian Amazon to make way for the controversial Belo Monte mega-dam. Earlier this week, Norte Energia, the company building the dam, sent its worke ...
• Success: Peru acts to save uncontacted tribes
  Global coverage of the newly-released photos has pushed the Peruvian government into action © Gleison Miranda/FUNAI/Survival Peruâs authorities have announced that they will work together with Brazil to stop loggers entering isolated Indiansâ territory along the two countriesâ joint border ...
• Peru admits timber certificates faked in secre ...
  A Murunahua man. The Murunahua's reserve is occupied by illegal loggers © Chris Fagan/Upper Amazon Conservancy Peruâs government has secretly admitted that 70-90% of its mahogany exports were illegally felled, according to a US embassy cable revealed by Wikileaks. Furthermore, Peruâs gove ...
• Amazon Indians protest in London as judge bloc ...
  The Indians are calling for three controversial dam projects in the Amazon to be halted. © M. Cowan/Survival âThese projects will force my people from their land and end our way of life.â Ruth Buendia Mestoquiari, Ashaninka leader. Three Amazon Indians protested in London today against ...
• Indian leader’s killers convicted of kidnappin ...
  Guarani Indian leader Marcos Veron © Joaó Ripper/Survival Three men on trial for the murder of Brazilian Indian leader Marcos Veron have been acquitted of homicide, but convicted of kidnapping, torture and criminal conspiracy in relation to his death. They were also acquitted of charges of ...

Greg Palast

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

• BMJ's Godlee “It Did Not Occur to Us.” Now, Wh ...
  By John Stone Fiona Godlee, British Medical Journal editor’s defence of their failure to disclose financial interests “it did not occur to us”(HERE) , brought to mind the very similar reaction of MMR litigation judge Sir Nigel Davis when he...
• Catalyst for Debate with BMJ from Alliance for ...
  From Vera Hassner Sharav of the Alliance for Human Research Protection website in response to the BMJ competing interests declaration. See the original content at the AHRP site HERE. FYI The editor in chief of the BMJ acknowledges that AHRP...
• Seeking Insurance: Autism and Education
  By Cathy Jameson I don’t recall where I read this or if I overheard it. I’ve managed a few Google searches to no avail on the topic, but I thought I heard that public school districts have access to insurance...
• One If By Pill! Two if By Surgery! The British ...
  From US News Health. American healthcare is fantastic at treating acute conditions (surgery, broken bones) but not so with chronic illness, most of which is a function of the terrible American diet. By Jenifer Goodwin HealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, March 9...
• BMJ Admits Competing Commercial Interests in W ...
  BMJ editor admits that they should have disclosed competing commercial interests in Wakefield attack By John Stone British Medical Journal’s editor has been forced into an embarrassing admission that the journal should have disclosed connections with MMR manufacturers Merck and...

Global BDS Movement

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

Farm Wars

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

Open Your Eyes News

• Fiji: Overfishing threat grows
  Fiji Times – Conservation International has highlighted how Fiji’s marine environment continues to be threatened by overfishing. The organisation’s co-ordinator, Loraini Sivo, said about 80 per cent of Fiji’s population lived along the coast and relied heavily on marine resources for their livel ...
• Climate Fact Of The Day – Northern Hemis ...
  Rutgers snow analysis for this winter (Dec-Feb) for the northern hemisphere reported by Steve Goddard to be the third greatest. Three of the four snowiest Northern Hemisphere winters since 1967 have been in the last four years. Four of the five snowiest winters have been since CRU experts told u ...
• Celebrating 400 years of sunspot observations
  PhysOrg – In March of 1611, a German medical student named Johannes Fabricius left school at Leiden in Holland carrying several of the new-fangled telescopes that were beginning to appear in the Netherlands. He was off to visit his father â the well-known astronomer and astrologer David Fabriciu ...
• Why summer is the Gulf’s SAD season
  The National – Scientists and psychologists have long pinpointed Vitamin D deficiency as a reason why colder temperatures and shorter days lead to “winter blues” in other parts of the world. But in the UAE, the condition may exist in reverse, a research team from Zayed University has found. Resi ...
• Up to 100,000 protest Wisconsin law curbing unions
  Reuters – Up to 100,000 people protested at the Wisconsin state Capitol on Saturday against a new law curbing the union rights of public workers that is seen as one of the biggest challenges in decades facing U.S. organized labor. Read article

L.A. Times - Greenspace

• Green building: Solar panels and earthquake fa ...
  The Los Angeles Community College System, blessed with $5.7 billion in voter-approved bonds, had a grand plan to be a national model of green energy: its nine colleges would be self-sufficient in electricity thanks to solar, wind and geothermal power....
• Poisoned fish: An old mercury mine taints Cali ...
  An abandoned mercury mine that for decades has sent polluted, orange waste into a creek that eventually feeds into San Francisco Bay is a threat to human health and should be added to a list of the nation's worst polluted...
• $6-billion solar industry logs another record year
  The solar industry seems to have turned in yet another record-breaking year in 2010, as the total market value of the sector spiked 67% to $6 billion from $3.6 billion in 2009, according to an annual report. Companies installed 878...
• Plastic prevalent among small fish in Pacific ...
  “As the larger pieces of plastic break down they mimic the size, shape and texture of natural food,” said Charles Moore, the founder of Algalita and an author of the study. “What we're seeing is the entire food web being contaminated by plastic.”
• Erin Brockovich again takes up the cause of Hi ...
  At the end of “Erin Brockovich,” a housewife sick from toxic chromium weeps with joy as she's handed her portion of a historic $333-million settlement between residents of this small desert town and the utility that poisoned their drinking water....

water.org

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

Before It's News

• Former Mayor Says Gainesvilles Secret Biomass ...
• Funny Animal Video - Long-Eared Jerboa - the C ...
• Explosion at Japanese nuclear plant
• Third Reactor Loses Cooling at Japanese Nuclea ...
• Muslim Fundamentalists seek to ban padded Bras

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

• Settlement attack could trigger terrorism by J ...
  Attack at Itamar will cast pall over intelligence cooperation between Israel and Palestinian security services, as well as over lofty goal of restarting the diplomatic process.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Netanyahu: Palestinians, world must condemn se ...
  Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad also commented on the attack on Saturday, saying that "Violence does not justify violence, we condemn it completely, whoever does it and whoever the victims are." Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Wilson formally enters U.S. Senate race
  Former U.S. Rep. Heather Wilson formally entered the race to replace Democrat Jeff Bingaman in the Senate today during an event that was clearly designed to discourage other Republicans from challenging Wilson for the party�s nomination.Submitted by Carrie Burton to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Not ...
• The Fading Power of Becks Alarms
  Almost every time I flipped on television last week, there was a deeply angry guy on a running tirade about the conspiracies afoot, the enemies around all corners, and how he alone seemed to understand what was under way.Submitted by Carrie Burton to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a C ...
• Exclusive: Limbaughs parent company still usi ...
  The company responsible for syndicating big conservative radio names like Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity has been using paid actors to call in to their radio shows.Submitted by Carrie Burton to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

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

News Blaze

• UN Bridges The Gulf Between The World's Variou ...
  The closing ceremonies coincided with a meeting of the High Panel on Peace and Dialogue among Cultures, set up last year by UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova to chart new avenues for peace and promote cultural diversity in a globalized world.
• Spring Cleaning Can Make You Happier This Year
  Participating organizations include Operation Kid Equip, a nonprofit in Royal Oak, Michigan that provides school supplies, toiletries, and food to tens-of-thousands of kids in need, The American Cancer Society, and Habitat for Humanity locations acr
• First Humanitarian/Military Ship off Libya is ...
  As a major world power, China is now beginning to 'show the flag' around the world. This will soon cause panic in Washington but China bashing and panic is NOT the right way to react.
• Terrorist Murders Israeli Family of Five in Th ...
  The terrorist broke into the house around 1am armed with a knife and stabbed the mother, father, a three-month old baby and children ages 11 and three. The victims were apparently sleeping.
• UN Scaling Up Aid Delivery as Post-Election Un ...
  C�te d'Ivoire has been beset by political uncertainty, with factional fighting and other forms of violence flaring up in Abidjan and the western region, since incumbent president Laurent Gbagbo refused to leave office after his UN-certified defeat

Worldnews

• Oprah Winfrey named highest earning celeb ...
  Melbourne, March 14 (ANI): American magazine Parade has revealed the list of top 2010 money makers in their annual What People Earn issue.� The entertainment rich list...
• Breastfed babies ‘grow up to be more inte ...
  London: Babies who are breastfed grow up to be more intelligent, suggests a new study. The most comprehensive British study of breastfeeding to date has shown that it continues to have an effect on a child's mental ability right through secondary school. The study of more than 10,000 childr ...
• Calif. port town attracts tsunamis
  CRESCENT CITY, Calif. -- Since the tidal gauge was installed in the boat basin in 1934, this small port on California's rugged northern coast has been hit by 34 tsunamis, large and small. The latest on Friday took one life about 20 miles to the south at the mouth of the Klamath River, where ...
• Bubbly Smith looks to England clash
  MOHALI, India (CMC) — Opener Devon Smith says scoring his maiden One-Day International century has given him added confidence for West Indies' clash with England next Thursday in Chennai. The left-hander made 107 last Friday as West Indies beat Ireland by 44 runs to inch even closer to a qu ...
• Shaggy collaborates with rapper Pitbull
  DIAMOND-selling reggae act Shaggy continues his crossover surge into the international music market with the release of a brand new single entitled Fire Up / Forget The Recession which features Miami-based recording artiste Pitbull. The new single which boasts a Latin dance beat is centred ...

Alex in Wonderland

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

MY Daily Apple

• Kelsey's Dream is Kylie's dream come true
  USA TODAY's Kindness Challenge winner, Kylie Kuhns, 13, of Mifflinburg, Pa., raised $25,000 for her charity, exceeding her goal by almost $8 ...
• Primer: Japan's Nuclear Crisis
  Officials are struggling to contain a crisis triggered by Friday's massive earthquake and tsunami.
• Unsafe Casual Sex and Older People
  For everyone under 30, this may come as a surprise - older people do have sex. And, guess what? Surprise again - even if they aren't married, many of them still have sex.... Read Full Post
• Green: Feared Meltdowns Underline Concerns Abo ...
  Critics have long questioned the viability of nuclear power in earthquake-prone regions.
• 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.

Common Dreams

• State Department's P.J. Crowley Forced Out by ...
  WASHINGTON -- P.J. Crowley is abruptly stepping down as State Department spokesman under pressure from the White House, according to senior officials familiar with the matter, because of controversial comments he made about the Bradley Manning case. ...
• Outlook for Democracy Dims Across Much of the ...
  CAIRO, Egypt — A poster depicting 15 Middle Eastern heads of state stood out among the other signs hoisted in the air Saturday by hundreds of protesters at a rally outside the Arab League meeting in Cairo. The Tunisian and Egyptian presidents were crossed out, and question marks hung over the fa ...
• Saudi Prince: Loyal Saudi Foil "Evil" Protests
  JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia -- A senior Saudi prince said in comments published on Sunday that loyal Saudis had foiled plans by "evil people" to stage protests. Web activists had slated March 11 as the first day for mass protests around the country in favor of democratic government and a constitutional ...
• Japan Frantic to Avert Multiple Nuclear Meltdowns
  KORIYAMA, Japan� -- Japan's nuclear crisis intensified Sunday as authorities raced to combat the threat of multiple reactor meltdowns and more than 170,000 people evacuated the quake- and tsunami-savaged northeastern coast where fears spread over possible radioactive contamination. Nuclear plant ...
• Promises, Promises: Obama Rebuffs Invites to S ...
  WASHINGTON� -- Union leaders urged Vice President Joe Biden during a White House meeting last month to go to Wisconsin and rally the faithful in their fight against Gov. Scott Walker's move to curtail collective bargaining rights for most public employees. Request rebuffed, they asked for Labor ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

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Examine Religion - Tweets

• ExamineReligion: Where is the love? http://exm ...
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• ExamineReligion: Canadian psychic medium corre ...
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• ExamineReligion: Interview with Savannah's gen ...
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• ExamineReligion: Circle Sanctuary Offers Suppo ...
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Energy Collective

• Japanese Reactor Explosion Explained
  Here is what likely happened as described in my trusty nuclear engineering text book Intro to Nuclear Engineering 3rd edition Lamarsh:
• Walmart, Hayek, Atul Gawande and Energy
  I’ve been reading The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande. Gawande has a world-class resume, to put it mildly: He’s a surgeon, a teacher at Harvard Medical School, a staff writer for the New Yorker and a MacArthur fellow.
• Can Startups Weather Entry of GE, Siemens and ...
  Analysts predict the EV charging industry to swell to $1.1 billion by 2013 — and even though they won't have any plug-in vehicles ready until 2012, Toyota, the world's largest automaker wants a piece of it.
• TEPCO Update 9 PM Tokyo time March 13
  Thanks for this to Dan Yurman.... follows his up-to-the-minute tweets about Fukushima at @djysrv Unit 1(Shut down)
• Information Sheet Regarding the Tohoku Earthqu ...
  I received this information sheet. It is important to disseminate the facts that it contains as widely as possible. In the interest of making sure that the information transfer is successful, I have not edited it. Information Sheet Regarding the Tohoku EarthquakeThe Federation of Electric Power ...

Green House - USA Today

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

Prior Art

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

Peoples Voice

• Nuclear Meltdown in Japan
  by Stephen Lendman For years, Helen Caldicott warned it's coming. In her 1978 book, "Nuclear Madness," she said: "As a physician, I contend that nuclear technology threatens life on our planet with extinction. If present trends continue, the air we breathe, the food we eat, and the wate ...
• UNITE TO FIGHT THE RIGHT: STOP THE REPUBLICAN ...
  Jack A. Smith Republican politicians in Washington and the nation's state houses are virtually wilding in the streets. It's as though they are drunk with power, even though the Democrats actually are stronger by virtue of controlling the White House and Senate. The actions by Wisconsin Republi ...
• Gilad Atzmon: What About A No Fly Zone for The ...
  Gilad Atzmon “Even the Israelis in Gaza, when they moved into the Gaza Strip, they moved in with tanks to fight such extremists. It's the same thing here” Muammar Gaddafi (France 24) In the last few days the UN have paved the way for a no-fly zone in Libya. David Cameron and Barack Obama have ...
• Liberals and Pimping the Pain of the People
  Larry Pinkney “People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.” -James Baldwin “Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.” ...
• Bahrain’s revolution reaches what could ...
  Bahrain Freedom Movement The people’s revolution is on its track; calling for the removal of the regime and performing various activities on the road to victory. In the past week several remarkable activities were undertaken with sounding success. First came the picketing of the financial harb ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

• Ben Parfitt on the dangers of fracking in toda ...
  The Vancouver Sun today published Ben Parfitt's op ed on the dangers of "fracking" in Northern BC. (Fracking is hydraulic fracturing: a method of extracting gas by injecting fluid and sand into cracks in rock formations to force them further open.) A group of citizens in the Peace Region — Pea ...
• Celebrating International Women's Day
  Fun fact: Did you know 69 per cent of the staff at the CCPA are women? In the past year the CCPA has been proud to publish two major books that focus on women's knowledge and empowerment.� In Speaking Truth to Power: A reader on Canadian women's inequality, the book's authors celebrate gains m ...
• Things about a changing Canada that 'You Ought ...
  The CCPA has launched a graphics-based series aimed at highlighting poignant facts and figures distilled from the many reports and studies that we publish every year. The series is called You Oughta Know, and uses a graphic to feature one interesting piece of information about the state of a c ...
• Five reasons to stop the corporate tax cut
  CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan gives us five strong reasons to say no to more corporate tax cuts in this short video.
• Carbon pricing explained, in words and images
  Today the CCPA-BC published a new study on carbon pricing, and we created a "zooming presentation" to go with it, using a web-based software called Prezi. Watch the presentation below and share the link with your contacts. And download the report or summary here: Fair and Effective Carbon Pricin ...

World Wide Hippies

• The UN Says Hippies Were Right: We know that!
  justmeans. – The UN Says Hippies Were Right: GMO’s Are Out, Eco-Ag Is In Decades ago, a sizable if motley group of individuals began to reject chemical agriculture arguing that food grown with chemicals was less wholesome, negatively affected the environment and less resilient. Many of these bac ...
• GRANT SMITHIES, sucks! – Slams Carlos fo ...
  GRANT SMITHIES | Stuff - Santana, just like the first time Playing music, says Carlos Santana, is like pashing a hot chick. “Do you remember what it felt like the first time you French-kissed a woman?” he asks, a tad impertinently, given that I scarcely know the man. “Everything is very pure, ve ...
• Owsley Stanley, RIP
  Psychedelic icon Owsley Stanley dies in Australia | National Post Owsley “Bear” Stanley, a 1960s counterculture figure who flooded the flower power scene with LSD and was an early benefactor of the Grateful Dead, died in a car crash in his adopted home country of Australia on Sunday, his family ...
• Wisconsin Republican Senators: They Really Car ...
  The Wisconsin Recall & Protecting Child Predators | Talk 2 Action Wisconsin Republican State Senator Randy Hopper is a top target of the recall campaign being waged by Democrats and unions over Republican efforts to eliminate collective bargaining rights for public employees. The backlash has a ...
• China Syndrome in Japan?
  Japanese authorities rush to save lives, avert nuclear crisis | CNN Japanese authorities are operating on the presumption that possible meltdowns are under way at two nuclear reactors, a government official said Sunday, adding that there have been no indications yet of hazardous emissions of rad ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

• Michele Bachmann says Tea Party has bipartisan ...
  Congresswoman Michele Bachmann was on Fox News last night, espousing an interesting interpretation of the Tea Party -- as a bipartisan coalition.
• After weekend of huge protests, Wisconsin look ...
  Clogging the Wisconsin Capitol grounds and screaming angry chants, tens of thousands of undaunted pro-labor protesters descended on Madison again Saturday and vowed to focus on future elections now that contentious cuts to public worker union rights have become law.
• How you can help victims of the Japan earthqua ...
  As the disaster continues to unfold in Japan and other parts of the Pacific rim, many are looking for ways to help. We've compiled a list of notable relief efforts already underway.�
• Gadhafi drives rebels from one of last strongholds
  Moammar Gadhafi's forces drove rebels from one of their final strongholds on Libya's main coastal highway on Sunday, pushing at least 25 miles deeper into opposition territory after hours of terrifying assault from the air, land and sea.
• Nuke industry spin: Be "reassured" by Japan
  As Japan struggles to contain a growing nuclear crisis -- with more than 200,000 people evacuated, an explosion at one power plant, and possible meltdowns in several reactors -- the American nuclear industry faces a different challenge: how to position itself in the intense public-relations b ...

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

• Portuguese school: It won’t fix the problem
  Trustee Maria Rodrigues has argued that an alternative school for Portuguese students could help curb their high dropout rate.
• 'Party' discipline: Ford's whip won't last
  Mayor Rob Ford’s rigid control over the voting of sympathetic councillors should be seen as a sign of weakness, not strength.
• Japan's earthquake: Amazing grace amid calamity
  For all the terror that shook their world on Friday, the Japanese refused to be cowed by the crushing force of nature.
• TTC: Customer service officer is running late
  A troubling jump in “distracted driving” complaints shows that the TTC still has a long way to go in restoring consumer confidence.
• Poverty: PM’s policy is to do nothing
  Millions of Canadians cannot lift their families out of poverty despite working full-time.

Energy Collective

• Japanese Reactor Explosion Explained
  Here is what likely happened as described in my trusty nuclear engineering text book Intro to Nuclear Engineering 3rd edition Lamarsh:
• Walmart, Hayek, Atul Gawande and Energy
  I’ve been reading The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande. Gawande has a world-class resume, to put it mildly: He’s a surgeon, a teacher at Harvard Medical School, a staff writer for the New Yorker and a MacArthur fellow.
• Can Startups Weather Entry of GE, Siemens and ...
  Analysts predict the EV charging industry to swell to $1.1 billion by 2013 — and even though they won't have any plug-in vehicles ready until 2012, Toyota, the world's largest automaker wants a piece of it.
• TEPCO Update 9 PM Tokyo time March 13
  Thanks for this to Dan Yurman.... follows his up-to-the-minute tweets about Fukushima at @djysrv Unit 1(Shut down)
• Information Sheet Regarding the Tohoku Earthqu ...
  I received this information sheet. It is important to disseminate the facts that it contains as widely as possible. In the interest of making sure that the information transfer is successful, I have not edited it. Information Sheet Regarding the Tohoku EarthquakeThe Federation of Electric Power ...

EU Times

• U.S. research team says it has found Atlantis ...
  It has remained a tantalising mystery for thousands of years, but now a U.S. led research team believes it has found the legendary lost city of Atlantis. They claim to have pinpointed the exact location of the metropolis under mud flats in southern Spain. The team of archaeologists and geologist ...
• Fukushima Fallout: Next Few Days Critical
  Nuclear experts have warned the next few days will be crucial in determining exactly how bad the fallout from the Fukushima power plant disaster could be. They say advanced Japanese engineering at the 40-year-old facility will avoid a Chernobyl-style disaster, but any radiation leak could still ...
• Boy killed, 300 wounded as Yemen police storm ...
  Yemeni police stormed a camp set up by thousands of protesters demanding the end of President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s 32-year rule, killing one person and wounding hundreds early on Saturday, witnesses and medical sources said. Witnesses told Reuters hundreds of security forces, armed with bats and ...
• Obama administration approved $40billion in pr ...
  The U.S. government approved $40billion in private arms sales to countries including Libya and Egypt in 2009 – before they both dissolved into unrest this year – the State Department reported. From 2008 to 2009, the U.S. authorised an increase in sales of military shipments to the now-toppled Eg ...
• Obama says coolant sent to Japan’s nuke plant ...
  U.S. President Barack Obama said on Friday that the United States rushed coolant to a Japanese nuclear power plant as a precaution after a 8.9-magnitude earthquake hit the U.S. ally. Obama told reporters at the White House that when he spoke to Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan on Friday morning ...

Stonecipher News

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

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

• Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan
  Surely nobody has missed seeing the footage of that terrible earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Many people want to help, but don't know where to begin. I'm sure there will be all sorts of organizations, private and governmental, which will be leaping into the fray. I wanted to make you aware of ...
• Is Libya already lost?
  Libya may already be lost. “Lost”, that is, for people-power democratisation. The Arab freedom wave has seemed an irresistible force, smashing down old post-colonial crony dictatorships in four Arab states and counting. But it has run smack into world oil politics in Libya and crashed to a stop ...
• iPad 2s selling for silly money...
  It's not just Apple who are making a fortune from sales of the new iPad 2 -- some regular punters are raking in the dollars too. College student Amanda Foote queued for nearly 41 hours for the iPad 2 release at Apple's flagship store in New York, had a stranger eat her doughnuts and slept for a ...
• Mitch Daniels and That Social Issues “Truce”
  By David Boaz Washington Post blogger Jennifer Rubin is surprisingly alone as a conservative beating up on Gov. Mitch Daniels this week for his reiterated call for a "truce" on social issues while the country confronts the "new Red Menace" of deficits and debt
• (Independent) Gaddafi’s men poised to strike a ...
  A strategic town is lost in the east with another expected to follow soon. In the west, a symbolic centre of resistance is about to suffer an onslaught that it is unlikely to survive. With no international action to stop Muammar Gaddafi's fierce offensive, the survival of Libya's revolution han ...

Groklaw

• For a Price (Yet Undetermined), Desmarais Will ...
  The intellectual property brokerage firm called Ocean Tomo will later this month host an auction, the likes of which we've never before come across. Round Rock Research, the patent-licensing company owned by former Kirkland & Ellis superstar patent lawyer John Desmarais, will auction off four " ...
• Why patents lead to stagnation
  The Allocation of Talent: Implications for Growth, by Kevin M. Murphy, Andrei Shleifer, and Robert W. Vishny Abstract: A country's most talented people typically organize production by others, so they can spread their ability advantage over a larger scale. When they start firm ...
• Bringing Down the Imperial Walker, and Other P ...
  In case you don't know, there's been a whole lotta protestin' goin' on in Wisconsin.... Here, though, I want to discuss the many pop culture-related signs I've seen at the protests, with an eye towards then thinking through what we're to make of them. To some, they might seem frivolous, a refus ...
• 'Free' Culture Folks Discuss Models For Sustai ...
  Last year, I was invited to attend the FCForum's event on creating sustainable models for creativity in the digital age in Barcelona. Unfortunately, due to timing and conflicts, I was unable to attend, though I heard from many who were able to make it and enjoyed it. Out of that event, the FCFor ...
• Nokia's SEC Filing Lists Risks in MS Deal
  Those risks and uncertainties include the following: - Definitive agreements with Microsoft for the proposed partnership may not be entered into in a timely manner, or at all, or on terms beneficial to us. - New sources of revenue expected to be generated from the Microsoft partnership, such ...

WideShut

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

Politics in the Zeros

• The Limousines – Internet Killed The Video Star
• Japan earthquake. Is a full recovery even possible
  The Agonist has a comprehensive if deeply depressing piece detailing the multitude of severe problems facing Japan now, any one of which could cripple a country. Talk Left has more, including the sombre news that six reactors have failed or are in danger of doing so. Hundreds of thousands are ho ...
• Obama fires State spokesman for saying torture ...
  From Steve Hynd at Newshoggers Crowley had called Mannings detention, naked and in solitary confinement, “ridiculous and counterproductive and stupid”. Which it is. It’s also criminal. I will not be supporting Obama’s re-election bid. Ditto.
• Solar power heats Fairbanks, Alaska home in winter
  “You wouldnât believe how many engineers have told me in the past year that itâs impossible,” Thorsten Chlupp said of the fossil-fuel free system. “I already know I need to build an outdoor swimming pool because I have too much heat.” The system stores excess heat in a 14-by-8 foot water tank. T ...
• Japan’s biggest long-term problem may be elect ...
  With millions already without power, [Prime Minister] Kan said Japan would undergo planned outages in the coming days to preserve what electricity remained. Large areas of the quake area are without power. This lessens demand. When those areas come back online, more power will be needed. But sev ...

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Poor growth takes shine off renewables

Financial Times

- Mar 13, 2011

- 17 hours ago

By Sylvia Pfeifer and Miles Johnson Renewable energy holds out the prospect of a carbon-free future for Europe, but for investors in the sector the experience to date has been anything but bright. Just over three years ago, Iberdrola, ...

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World's First Renewable Heat Incentive Launched

4RFV

- Mar 14, 2011

- 45 minutes ago

The Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) will support emerging technologies and businesses in the UK, strengthening security of supply by reducing dependence on fossil fuel heating and emissions. Currently around half of the UK's carbon emissions come from ...

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Green economy feels the heat

This is Somerset

- Mar 14, 2011

- 4 hours ago

This was clear at a recent renewable energy round table event, where many industry experts talked about the impact the review would have on confidence in the sector. And it seems their fears were well-founded. Just last week we saw the company Earth ...

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Spotlight Shines on Greensburg Wind

Kansas Farmer

- Mar 14, 2011

- 6 hours ago

The Greensburg Wind Farm has been named "Wind Project of the Year" by RenewableEnergyWorld.com, a leading renewable energy publication. This award recognizes the project's community benefits and unique financing model. Jeff Bernicke, president of ...

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Environmental study of shipyard site begins March 14 in Fairhaven

Access Washington

- Mar 11, 2011

- Mar 11, 2011

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

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Can “agro-ecology” feed the world?

swissinfo.ch

- Mar 13, 2011

- Mar 13, 2011

De Schutter believes the long-term solution to feeding the planet's projected nine billion people in 2050 is a move towards agro-ecology. “We won't solve hunger and stop climate change with industrial farming on large plantations,” he said. ...

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Ecology proposes changes to motor vehicle emissions testing program

Access Washington

- Mar 11, 2011

- Mar 11, 2011

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

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Taste of Coastal Carolina event benefits river ecology efforts

ENC Today

- Mar 12, 2011

- Mar 12, 2011

Lovers of good food, pay close attention. On Tuesday from 6 to 8 pm, chefs from around the area will gather at New Bern's Riverfront Convention Center for the eighth annual Taste of Coastal Carolina. The event is hosted by the Neuse Riverkeeper ...

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SeaWorld trainers may go back in water with orcas

Washington Post

- Mar 14, 2011

- 5 hours ago

SeaWorld's three theme parks are slowly working to get trainers back in the water with killer whales, one year after a 6-ton orca named Tilikum suddenly dragged a trainer off a platform by her hair and drowned her. There is no timetable for getting ...

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No air, water contamination detected in Mass. chemical plant explosion; 4 hurt ...

Washington Post

- Mar 14, 2011

- 21 minutes ago

Officials say they have not detected any air or water contamination resulting from a chemical plant explosion in Massachusetts that sent four workers to the hospital. The explosion Sunday caused a fire at one of the Bostik Inc. buildings in an ...

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Japan tsunami: '35m wall of water flattened whole town'

BBC News

- Mar 14, 2011

- 22 minutes ago

The scale of the devastation is becoming clear in Japan 72 hours after the massive earthquake and tsunami struck the northern part of the country. Entire towns have been swept away and hundreds of thousands of survivors are unable to return home. ...

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Millions suffer without power and water as temperatures fall near freezing

Boston Globe

- Mar 13, 2011

- 8 hours ago

Hundreds of thousands of people across a ravaged swath of the country suffered for a third day yesterday without water, electricity, and proper food, as the Japanese grappled with the immensity of the disaster. Near-freezing temperatures compounded the ...

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