14 March - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

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Common Dreams-Views

• Meltdowns Grow More Likely at the Fukushima Re ...
  Robert Alvarez Japan's government and nuclear industry, with assistance from the U.S. military, is in a desperate race to stave off multiple nuclear reactor meltdowns — as well as potential fires in pools of spent fuel.read more
• Fukushima in Germany
  Anna Gyorgy As photos of the explosion in the Fukushima Daiichi station reactor No. 1, just 170 miles north of Tokyo, went around the world on Saturday, 60,000 people in Germany joined hands to call for a shutdown of all nuclear plants – n ...
• Undaunted! More Than 100,000 Wisconsinites Ral ...
  John Nichols "Wow! You go away for a couple of weeks and look at what happened!" shouted state Senator Jon Erpenbach, as he surveyed a crowd that organizers estimated at well over 100,000 that had rallied to welcome home Wisconsin's dissi ...
• Overrating Education
  Christopher Brauchli Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. --Herbert George Wells, The Outline of History It shows perspicacity-the ongoing attacks on children, teachers and, collectively, education ...
• From Charlie Sheen to Reagan Nostalgia, the '8 ...
  David Sirota Charlie Sheen is hogging the spotlight. "Tron" and "Wall Street" have just left theaters. Moammar Gaddafi is the planet's top bad guy. Millionaires are enjoying budget-busting tax cuts. Conservatives are saber-rattling against ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

• Karzai Asks NATO To Stop Operations
  By Steve Hynd Is Afghanistan a sovereign nation or not? I guess we'll find out. During a meeting in Kunar to discuss recent civilian deaths including those of children, President Karzai said: "On behalf of you and the Afghan people, today I would like to respectfully, and not arrogantly, ask Nat ...
• Afghanistan's COIN and Coin Disconnect
  By Steve Hynd As Derrick Crowe reminded us yesterday, the U.S. military's own COIN manual says: "I-113. The primary objective of any COIN operation is to foster development of effective governance by a legitimate government." But today, Colin Cookman reports that the Afghan government is about t ...
• Pentagon Assertions of “Progress” In Afghanist ...
  By Derrick Crowe The Pentagon wants you to ignore some inconvenient facts about the failure of the escalation strategy in Afghanistan. The latest Petraeus/Gates media tour is under way in preparation for the general's testimony to Congress next week, and they're trotting out the same, tired spin ...
• An Iraq Lesson Learned!
  By Steve Hynd This from the AP: The United States is beginning to decide what its responsibilities will be in Afghanistan after U.S. combat troops leave, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Monday, but he ruled out permanent military bases in the strategically important country. ...Gates said th ...
• Afghanistan War Not Worth the Burning of Child ...
  By Derrick Crowe Fresh from the reported killing of more than 60 civilians, U.S. forces in Kunar Province, Afghanistan, killed nine boys gathering firewood on a mountainside. General Petraeus says he's sorry. "We are deeply sorry for this tragedy and apologize to the members of the Afghan govern ...

Water Wars

• Water Wars to be Decided on Next Week
  Lawyers will soon update a federal judge on the status of attempts to resolve a lingering water dispute between Georgia and Alabama
• Preventing water wars?
  IN addition to dire warnings about “water wars”, a former director general in the then Department of Water Affairs and Forestry, Mike Muller, was quoted in media saying that it’s time to start panicking about water supplies, otherwise we are headed for a major crisis in 2020. He singled out eThe ...
• Water wars: National City in tussle over board ...
  City Council voted against Mayor Ron Morrison serving on the Sweetwater Authority board, but he continues to attend the meetings anyway
• Georgia to ask appeals court to overturn water ...
  No comments have been posted.
• State optimistic as water war comes to a boil
  A panel of judges will try to answer the decades-old question of who should get how much water from Lake Lanier. The hotly-debated case went before the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta Wednesday.

WordPress | Economics

• An Expert View?
  You would think, would you not, that a person described by Australia’s ABC News as “one
• Multiple Intrepretations
  I figured I should expound further upon an old post into more specific instances. What I meant with
• Ignorance and greed
  Demonstrations in Dhaka these days, supporting Yunus I was teaching in one of the universities while
• The Weakness of Democracy: How the Majority is ...
  In the 1980′s a group of Canada’s business elite set out to destroy government ownership
• More on the Broken Window Fallacy
  The Independent Institute’s David Theroux has a valuable post on the broken window fallacy. He

Electronic Intifada

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

Afghanistan Sun

• Etisalat plans $100 million investment in Afgh ...
  ABU DHABI Etisalat on Sunday announced another $100 million for investment in Afghanistan to further strengthen its presence in the country and increase its telecommunications market share to over ...
• U.S. military says Karzai's cousin died i ...
  KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -; The shooting death of Afghan President Hamid Karzai's cousin was a tragic accident, but the overnight raid during which it occurred was justifiable because it netted a ...
• Etisalat's $100m for Afghanistan
  Pre-paid mobile phone cards for sale on a Kabul street. The telecoms operator Etisalat Afghanistan wants to grow its revenues. Mauricio Lima / ...
• Opponents bomb kills four civilians
  KABUL (AP/AIP): A roadside bomb killed four Afghan civilians in a car in the country?s south, the government said Sunday. The victims were driving in Kandahar province?s Shorabak district when ...
• Two Taliban killed in blitz of foreign forces
  LASHKARGAH: (AIP): The border police gunned down an Afghan National Police (ANP) cop here, an official said Sunday. A verbal dispute took place between the police personnel at a police station in ...

Futurismic

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

geopolitics | geoeconomics

• Geithner's Dirty Little Secret
• Swine Flu
• Putin and the Geopolitics of the New Cold War: ...
• The Fake Oil Crisis of 1973
• Fossiles Erdöl
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on Government Oversight

• Morning Smoke: House Panel Examines Ongoing Pr ...
  Where there's smoke, there's fire. POGO's Morning Smoke is a collection of the previous day's investigations, scoops, and opinions related to the world of government oversight. Have a story you'd like to see included? Contact POGO's blog editor. Lawmakers: When...
• Morning Smoke: Pentagon Tester Calls for Stryk ...
  Where there's smoke, there's fire. POGO's Morning Smoke is a collection of the previous day's investigations, scoops, and opinions related to the world of government oversight. Have a story you'd like to see included? Contact POGO's blog editor. Pentagon Tester...
• Senator Who Opposed Derivatives Oversight Join ...
  By Michael Smallberg Former Senator Judd Gregg (R-NH), who consistently opposed efforts to bring more transparency to the over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives market, has joined the board of directors of IntercontinentalExchange (ICE), a “leading operator of regulated futures exchanges and over-th ...
• SEC Employees Cited for Misconduct Rarely Face ...
  By Michael Smallberg In the aftermath of the financial crisis, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Mary Schapiro and other senior SEC officials have been working hard to restore the agency’s reputation as a tough cop on the beat protecting...
• Morning Smoke: Employee Misconduct Goes Unpuni ...
  Where there's smoke, there's fire. POGO's Morning Smoke is a collection of the previous day's investigations, scoops, and opinions related to the world of government oversight. Have a story you'd like to see included? Contact POGO's blog editor. Watchdog: SEC...

Digital Journal

• Committee calls for Nova Scotia to raise minim ...
  The Nova Scotia Minimum Wage Review Committee has recommended March 10 to the goverment that the minimum wage be raised to $10 from $9.65 per hour beginning October 1, 2011.
• Starter pistols are being used by criminals as ...
  The use of starter pistols as a weapon during crimes is a concern of Durham Regional Police and other agencies in the Greater Toronto Area. Four starter pistols have been seized by DRPS in just the last two weeks.
• Reviewing ‘Conversations for Tiny Minds’ by Pa ...
  Paul Wallis probably knew deep down that his e-book ‘Conversations for Tiny Minds’ may be self-contradictory, but that didn’t stop him launching a convincing yet grimly corrosive critique of modern trends in conversation and, ultimately, of himself.
• Ontario: Sarah Thomson seeking Liberal nominat ...
  Former Toronto mayoral candidate Sarah Thomson announced through her Facebook page that she has decided to seek the Liberal nomination in downtown Toronto's Trinity-Spadina riding for October's Ontario provincial election.
• Study: Canada's military spending at highest p ...
  A new study shows Canada will spend at least $22.3 billion on its military forces in 2010-11 which represents an increase of 54 percent since 9/11.

End Homelessness | Change.org

• Mississippi Launches Plan To End Child Homeles ...
  Fulfilling the wishes and happiness of children is at the heart of the holiday season. So, now seems particularly timely for Mississippi to launch a new plan to end child homelessness (pdf) in the state.  What better way to set the season of giving in motion than by committing to finding safe a ...
• Thanksgiving 2.0: Food, Poverty and Telling th ...
  This Thanksgiving, most of us around the country shared a bountiful harvest feast with friends and family. We celebrated all that we are thankful for by gorging ourselves right into a food coma. It's the American way. Unfortunately, it's also the American way to be thankful for all that we have ...
• Homeless People Wanted: Must Be Open to Demean ...
  What are they thinking? People obviously don't see the homeless as human or they wouldn't attempt to hire them to do most of the insane, demeaning and illegal jobs out there. Here's a small sampling: Rob dead bodies. The Aokigahara forest at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan is the site of 50 to 10 ...
• LA Plans to Make Homelessness Go the Way of th ...
  Instead of pretending homelessness doesn't exist, creating new laws to make it illegal to sit or sleep in public, or sending homeless residents on a one-way trip out of town, Los Angeles County may attempt to actually do something about ending homelessness. And the county is setting the bar high ...
• Don't Let Violence Against the Homeless Go Unp ...
  Despite its economic troubles, Detroit is not known for being kind to the homeless. That's too bad, since there are nearly 10,000 homeless people living there. In October, police say that Steven James Diponio, 54, became so enraged at Charles Duncan, 42, who was homeless and sleeping behind a sc ...

Ceasefire.ca

• Ottawa event: Facing off for social justice in ...
  Radiation and health, physicians in conflict zones, the social determinants of health, and many other topics will be discussed at this conference in Ottawa on March 25th and 26th. Speakers will include President of the Canadian Medical Association Dr. Jeff Turnbull; Dr. Helen Caldicott; and reno ...
• Parliamentary Budget Office reports F-35 to co ...
  Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page has reported that the price tag for the F-35 stealth fighters that the Harper government wants to buy is likely to end up much higher than the government has been suggesting. Page’s report, which echoes concerns voiced by F-35 critics, warns that the real ...
• CCPA report: Canadian military spending highes ...
  The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has published a new report on Canada’s military spending. Canadian Military Spending 2010-11, written by Ceasefire.ca editor Bill Robinson, shows that Canadian military spending is higher now than it has been at any other time since the end of the Seco ...
• “Regional” nuclear war would have global effects
  New research indicates that a “regional”, limited nuclear war would have even more devastating global consequences than previously expected. In addition to creating a global “nuclear haze” effect that would lead to global famine, a nuclear war involving as few as 100 Hiroshima-size nuclear bombs ...
• Sign the petition! – No Stealth Fighters
  Install this petition on your website or blog

Kevin Trudeau Show

• The Kevin Trudeau Show: 3-12-11
  Today, Kevin reveals even more proof that is always, always, ALWAYS about the money! Self Help: Find A Good Doctor! See KT Live! Help Fight The Good Fight! One Minute Cure The Only Answer To Cancer Make A Wise Financial Decision Be The First To Know! Health: Docs Turn Away Unvaccinated Patients ...
• The Kevin Trudeau Show: 3-10-11
  Today, Kevin explains why America has become the land of free lunches instead of the land of opportunity. Plus, turn off the news and put down the newspapers, Kevin gives you the FACTS behind the HCG Protocol. Self Help: The Weight Loss Cure HCG Weight Loss Miracle Get 3 of KT’s Books FREE! HCG ...
• The Kevin Trudeau Show: 3-9-11
  Today, the star of Ancient Aliens and publisher of Legendary Times Magazine, Giorgio Tsoukalos, joins Kevin for the entire hour and explains the facts and evidence that aliens have visited Earth.  Find out how the technology that they used surpasses our modern technology and how it would be impo ...
• Innocent Until Proven Guilty No Longer Applies
  March 8th, 2011 USA Today By: The Associated Press DNA confirmed that a man arrested Friday in Connecticut is the East Coast Rapist suspected of terrorizing women with sexual assaults from Virginia to Rhode Island over 12 years, police said Saturday. Lt. Julie Johnson said DNA was collected and ...
• The Kevin Trudeau Show: 3-5-11
  Today, Kevin reveals the REAL reason why the government is sending over billions of dollars in aid to countries all around the world. Plus, pet expert, Dr. Geoffrey Broderick, stops by the show to explain how you can turn your pet’s health around and even double its lifespan! Self Help: Viral De ...

Pambazuka News

• Haiti: Government says Aristide can come home
  Haiti's government has said it was ready to issue a new passport to former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, which would allow him to return after almost seven years in exile in South Africa. 'The government will give assurances that as soon as it re...
• Cuba: Cuban organisation fights for release of ...
  Enrique Roman, first vice-president of the Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), has underlined that the movement in solidarity with Cuba prioritises in 2011 the struggle for the release of the five Cuban antiterrorist heroes incarc...
• Haiti: Returned ex-dictator Duvalier charged
  Haiti on Tuesday briefly detained former dictator Jean-Claude 'Baby Doc' Duvalier, back from exile in France, and charged him with corruption, theft and abuses of power allegedly committed during his 15-year rule. While a noisy crowd of his supporter...
• Break the Silence Congo week
  The purpose of the Break the Silence Congo Week is to raise consciousness about the devastating situation in the Congo and mobilize support on behalf of the people of the Congo. Break the Silence Congo Week will take place from Sunday 17 October to S...
• Morocco: Expats returning home in greater numbers
  Faced with the woes of the global economic crisis, an increasing number of Moroccan expatriates are coming back home. Meanwhile, the government is intensifying effort to aid the community abroad as well as help them maintain ties with their home coun...

War in Context

• The fight for Libya
  Samia Nakhoul reports: By the time the outside world agrees on a response to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s bloody onslaught against a popular revolt, it could all be over. The advance of Gaddafi’s better-armed forces, who seem to have shown little regard for civilians when storming in to ret ...
• Obama’s regime of secrecy
  Mark Benjamin reports: It shouldn’t be much of a surprise that State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley has resigned his post in wake of his too-candid assessment of the incarceration conditions of suspected Wikileaker Private First Class Bradley Manning. Last Thursday, Crowley told a panel at ...
• The new Israeli Left
  Joseph Dana and Noam Sheizaf write: As the controversial 443 highway, which connects Tel Aviv with Jerusalem by passing through the West Bank, begins to curve toward Israel’s capital, the eye is inevitably drawn to an imposing gray structure with massive concrete walls, part of the Ofer Militar ...
• Pepe Escobar: mummies and models in the new Mi ...
  Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com They can’t help themselves.  Really, they can’t.  Like children, the most monstrous of secret police outfits evidently come to believe themselves immortal.  They lose all ability to imagine that they might ever go down and so keep records to the v ...
• Intifada update
  Saudi Arabia’s day of little rage Friday was Saudi Arabia’s “day of rage”, planned for and anticipated for weeks. But, in the event, there wasn’t even a grumble â unless you count the ongoing protests in the eastern province which had been going on for a week. The protests in the east, where t ...

Watts Up With That?

• Nuclear power perspective
  By Mike Smith There is no question that the events in Japan are ongoing and serious. That said, I believe a lot of people are being misled by much of the news coverage.  Take a look at these headlines from … Continue reading →
• How Much Would You Buy?
  Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In the US, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is imposing the first US rules on CO2. I thought I’d take a look at the EPA’s own estimates of cost and benefit of CO2 regulation, to … Continue reading →
• A personal note
  I’ve been on the road for two weeks, and my blogging has been fairly erratic. Today I drove about 700 miles and surveyed 4 USHCN weather stations. I started early this morning in Dallas. let me give a shout out … Continue reading →
• Global warming down under: 10 little facts
  by Professor Bob Carter Control the language, and you control the outcome of any debate Ten dishonest slogans about global warming, and ten little facts. Each of the following ten numbered statements reproduces verbatim, or almost verbatim, statements made recently … Continue reading →
• Weekly Climate Energy News Roundup
  The Week That Was: 2011-03-12 (March 12, 2011) Brought to You by SEPP (www.sepp.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) PLEASE NOTE: The complete TWTW, including the full text of the articles, can be downloaded in an easily printable … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

• Harvey Wasserman: Emergency at Onagawa nuclear ...
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ RussiaToday on Mar 13, 2011 Japan has declared an emergency alert at another nuclear power plant in the north-east of the country. Radiation levels of about 700 times higher than normal have reportedly been detected at the facility in Onagawa. Authorities are ...
• Exclusive: Natural catastrophes and the love o ...
  by Rocket Kirchner Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Rocket Kirchner (blog) Rocket Kirchner (youtube channel) March 13, 2011 I can hear it now, “If God is so good, then why does he allow such evil to happen in the world that hurt so many people like what happened in Japan?” So, I figure before th ...
• Peace is not yours to give, Mr. President by K ...
  by Kathleen Kirwin Guest Writer Dandelion Salad March 13, 2011 AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA Peace is not yours to give, Mr. President. But hope is certainly yours to take away. As I listened to a friend and colleague in Afghanistan a few days ago, the difference I discerned in his voice fro ...
• Japan: Death toll expected to exceed 10,000 + ...
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ http://rt.com/ Northeastern Japan has been hit by a tsunami reaching 10 meters high in some areas that were caused by an earthquake measuring 8.9 on the Richter scale. The confirmed death toll has exceeded 900 with more than 10,000 missing and feared dead. Th ...
• Dennis Kucinich: End the Fed – Reclaim E ...
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ UpTakeVideo on Mar 12, 2011 Representative Dennis Kucinich, (D- Ohio) attacks Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker for his trashing of workers’ rights. The Governor signed a bill that eliminated most collective bargaining rights for public employees. This “Speak ...

Your New Reality

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  Japan : Destruction So Vast, So Comprehensive, Your Brain Can Barely Register What You're Seeing A shocking compilation of tsunami footage from Japan. In seconds, the lives, the dreams, the homes an entire city full of people are destroyed. Somewhere in this apocalyptic mess are thousands of pe ...
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  Bladerunner is one of the few widely recognised classic films of the 1980s, undoubtably one of the best Hollywood films of all time, and as news report carry word that there may be movie prequels, or sequels, or both, to come in the next few years, my mind was drawn back to the beautiful concept ...
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  Why did a British intelligence agent take a very clear photo, left below, of London July 7 bombers a year before the attacks, and send American intelligence agencies the distorted, blurred, heavily cropped, all but unidentifiable, image on the right? Why would a British intelligence agent pur ...
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  Christian & Jewish American adults hurl abuse & hate at American Muslim children. "Eat sand, go home." The manufactured, heavily promoted Hate War vilifying all Muslims as The Enemy is active & ongoing in the United States, in the UK, across Europe, in Australia. Even little kids are deemed ...
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  Millions Of Americans Will Not Be Killed By Nuclear Fallout In Two Weeks, It's Just A Fake Map By Darryl Mason Australian Radiation Services finds itself inadvertently caught up in a fast spreading online hoax, following the unnerving explosion at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan, after ...

Wired - 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 ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

• Richard Silverstein: The kidnapping of Dirar A ...
  Not for the first time, Seattle, WA-based Richard Silverstein plays a key role in revealing news stories about Israeli government activities -- whether anti-democratic acts or outright crimes, as is... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
• Gilbert Achcar: First and above all, it’s a de ...
  The central slogan in the Egyptian movement is "the people want to overthrow the regime"; the equivalent that has been put forward by some forces in Palestine is: "the people want to end the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, no ...
• Israel approves 500 new homes in West Bank set ...
  Ministerial committee on settlements with participation of Netanyahu and Barak approve further settlement building as response to the fatal stabbing in West Bank settlement in which family of five... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
• Noam Chomsky BBC interview with Jeremy Paxman
  A personal question: how old are you now? 82. Why haven't you mellowed? Because I look at the world... and there're things happening in the world which should lead anyone to become indignant,... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
• Roger Water: Tear down this Israeli wall
  [T]he abhorrent and draconian control that Israel wields over the besieged Palestinians in Gaza and the Palestinians in the occupied West Bank (including East Jerusalem), coupled with its denial of... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...

Ria Novosti - Military

• 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.
• Russia to prioritize modern weaponry in new ar ...
  Russia will focus on purchases of advanced weaponry in a new state arms procurement program until 2020, First Deputy Defense Minister Vladimir Popovkin said.
• Russia set to buy 500 combat vehicles from France
  Russia is in talks with French military manufacturer Panhard on the purchase of 500 light armored vehicles for its border guards, a Russian military think-tank said on Friday.
• NATO mulling 'range of options' in Libya - Ras ...
  NATO is considering a range of options, including humanitarian aid and military intervention, but any action should have a clear legal basis, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Thursday.
• Russia hopes to make $9.5 bln in 2011 arms sal ...
  Russia's state-run arms exporter, Rosoboronexport, said on Wednesday it expects to make up to $9.5 billion in arms sales this year.

NewsWise

• Annual Meeting, American Educational Research ...
  Education reporters and editors are invited to join more than 13,000 education researchers at the AERA Annual Meeting in New Orleans, April 8 to 12.
• Combination Overcomes Breast Cancer Resistance ...
  Breast cancer tumors take numerous paths to resist the targeted drug Herceptin, but a single roadblock at a crucial crossroads may restore a tumor's vulnerability to treatment, scientists at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center report on line at Nature Medicine.
• Japan Experts
  Hundreds are confirmed dead and thousands without shelter or power after an earthquake of 8.9 magnitude, and resulting tsunami, near the Japanese island of Honshu. These University of Wisconsin-Madison experts can provide context and analysis for interested media.
• Family Websites Helps Parents Explain Natural ...
  The National Center for Family Literacy's homepage as well as its Wonderopolis.org site will have special lessons on the disaster in Japan beginning Saturday, March 12. The free, online lessons and activities will help parents explain the natural disasters to their children.
• Experts on Earthquakes, Tsunamis and Power Pla ...
  Seismology, geophysics, civil engineering and nuclear power experts at the University of Utah are available for comment and questions about today's earthquake in Japan and its potential aftermath.

Natural Health News

• Unstoppable Kitty
  When this kitty wants a treat, no bottle stopper is going to stop him from getting what he wants. �
• One Bowl – Two Cats
  It’s bad enough when you have to share your lunch with somebody else. But definitely, three’s a crowd.
• Unstoppable Cat
  When this kitty wants a treat, no bottle stopper is going to stop him from getting what he wants.
• The War on Cancer: a Progress Report for Skeptics
  In 1971 President Nixon and Congress declared war on cancer. So what’s happened in the 40 years since? After weeding out the hype and filling in the actual statistics, it turns out not much. “These summary statistics show that the war on cancer has not gone well,” says the article’s author, Rey ...
• A Toe-Tale Sign: Can Your Toenails Predict Lun ...
  In a novel experiment, scientists took toenail clippings from men, both smokers and nonsmokers, and screened them for nicotine levels. More than a decade later, the results show that nicotine detected in the toenail samples correlated with smokers� diagnosis of lung cancer. While the toenail st ...

Antemedius

• This Week In The Dream Antilles
  What a crappy, if prolific week: A (hopefully temporary) set back in Wisconsin. Violence in Libya. An earthquake and tsunami and nuclear emergency in Japan. Bad, winter weather, flooding and power outages, in Eastern New York and New England. Your bloguero is about ready to push back from th ...
• The Koch Brothers Own Scott Walker
  The Gilded Age of America in the late nineteenth century embodied ownership of politicians. While political bosses like Boss Tweed and Jim Fisk controlled and owned politicians, these representatives knew what their corporate sponsors expected. It was a period when the United States Senate was ...
• Michigan Fascism Old News in DC
  Michigan governors aren't breaking entirely new ground in the ongoing U.S. collapse into fascism. Sure, they'll be able to overthrow local elected governments and install cronies and corporations to rule over Americans without the pretense of public servants mediating. But the president of the U ...
• The New McCarthyism Starts Today
  Today we might be seeing the start of the New McCarthyism is the House of Representatives. Homeland Security Committee Chair Peter King will convene the first of what he intends to be series of investigative panels on the supposed radicalization of Muslim Americans. Rep. King, who represent ...
• The Law of War Criminals
  Two years and two months ago the American people hailed a new President and an end to our national nightmare of the Bush reign of eight years of trampling the Constitution, the laws that govern and the economy. Since then the reality that nothing has changed comes down with crashing reality. Th ...

Climategate

• Dean of science…suggesting rising seas t…
  Dean of science…suggesting rising seas this next century of up to 100 metres, or Al Gore six metres. When I see things like that I know these are false. You mentioned the IPCC report; that suggests, at worst on best scenarios, 59 centimetres. http://www.google.com
• ABC science presenter Robyn Williams seeks mor ...
  ABC science presenter Robyn Williams who in 2007 believed seas could rise 100 meters, seeks more truth from scientists after Climategate.
• How to avoid your own Climategate scandal
  What are the lessons of Climategate? More honesty and transparency in science? Not according to attorney Alan Nelson in the Guardian UK today.  To him, the lesson is how not to get caught next time. So how do universities and academics ensure that their correspondence does not become the “smoki ...
• What is the “likelihood” that the 2007 IPCC Re ...
  A very interesting analysis of the IPPC Assessment and has some important questions that invite others to help him answer. Please read his article and let him know what conclusions you draw.
• Schools call for a “balanced teaching of globa ...
  USA Today reports that US schools are finally calling for both sides of global warming to be taught, because it is after all, a theory -- not a fact:

Opinio Juris

• Let Slip the Coasean Bribes of War
  by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson I am in transit and canât comment on this now, but Ian Ayres offers this post via Freakonomics blog and Balkinization on war-time bribes to officers on the other side to switch sides or not fight.  Thoughts? (ps.  I actually have a sort of technical ...
• UN Releases Comments on Draft Articles on Resp ...
  by Kristen Boon by Kristen Boon The UN has just released its comments on the ILC’s set of 66 Articles on the Responsibility of International Organizations (“RIO”):  http://untreaty.un.org/ola/UNCommentsonRIO.pdf The commentary is interesting both for what it says and what it doesn’t say. It ...
• A Response to Milanovic and Verdier on Rights ...
  by Chimene Keitner by Chimene Keitner First and most importantly, my sincere thanks to Marko Milanovic and Pierre-Hugues Verdier for taking the time to offer such careful and insightful reactions to my work. I’m extremely fortunate to have them as “virtual” colleagues, and I appreciate the ef ...
• A Comment on Chimène Keitner’s “Right Beyond B ...
  by Pierre-Hugues Verdier First of all, I would like to thank Chimène for the opportunity to comment on “Rights Beyond Borders.” I have also had the opportunity to read Marko’s insightful comments, and I will refer to them later on. The article takes on a thorny question that constitutional c ...
• A Comment on Rights Beyond Borders
  by Marko Milanovic by Marko Milanovic Chimène Keitner has written a powerful article in ‘Rights Beyond Borders.’ She is right that there have been few comparative discussions of the extraterritorial reach of domestic (constitutional) protections of individual rights. Her piece goes a long way ...

Investigate - Breaking News

• 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...

My Care2 Picks

• JOB PARTY: because America needs 15 million jo ...
  15 million unemployed. 12 million underemployed. Unions under attack. - Record corporate profits. Banker crimes unpunished. Tea Party on the march. - It's time for change. It's time to fight back. It's time for the Job Party. JOIN US. Submitted by Maurice C. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it ...
• The Protest Movement in Egypt
  The Protest Movement in Egypt: "Dictators" do not Dictate, They Obey OrdersSubmitted by Paul Mcglone to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• 10 Common Misconceptions about PTSD
  Commonly associated with soldiers who�ve experienced unthinkable tragedies while at war, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) can disrupt the lives of various people from various backgrounds. Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Wise County family says drilling forced them t ...
  A Wise County family sued companies involved in natural gas drilling Tuesday, alleging that equipment and operations related to more than 50 wells around their home in recent years poisoned their blood, caused various ailments and forced them to move out.Submitted by Sylvia W. to Business �|� � ...
• LA mystery as millions of fish float belly up ...
  Millions of dead sardines were found floating in a marina just south of Los Angeles on Tuesday.Submitted by John Farnham to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

• Viola Wilkins: Socialist Party (Australia)-The ...
  Socialist Party (Australia) � Blog Archive � The sorry state of the Australian union movement Unions need to organise political opposition to the NT Intervention The real attitudes of the pro-Labor... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• The Indypendent » Meeting Slogans With Gunfire ...
  The Indypendent » Meeting Slogans With Gunfire: Saudi Forces Use Live Amunition Against Protesters: "On the eve of Saudi Arabia’s “Day of Rage,” country-wide protests planned for Friday March 11,... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• ElBaradei warns of danger facing 25 January re ...
  ElBaradei warns of danger facing 25 January revolution | Al-Masry Al-Youm: Today's News from Egypt: "Mohamed ElBaradei, former International Atomic Energy Agency head and potential candidate for the... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Official Row: State Dept Spokesman Slams Mistr ...
  Official Row: State Dept Spokesman Slams Mistreatment of Bradley Manning -- News from Antiwar.com: "Crowley has since insisted that the comments were his “personal opinion” and not official State... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• ei: Interview: Palestinian women prisoners sha ...
  ei: Interview: Palestinian women prisoners shackled during childbirth: "VIENNA (IPS) - Female Palestinian prisoners detained in Israel are often denied legal representation and medical care while... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

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...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

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Citizens for Legitimate Government

• Unauthorized US strike kills 4 Pakistanis
  ShareThisUnauthorized US strike kills 4 Pakistanis 14 Mar 2011 At least four people have been killed in a non-UN mandated US drone strike in Pakistan's northwestern region of Waziristan, officials say. Officials told Press TV that a US drone fired missiles at a village near Miranshah town in the ...
• U.S. Military Crew Passes Through Radioactive ...
  ShareThisU.S. Military Crew Passes Through Radioactive Cloud --Prevailing winds picking up radioactive material from crippled reactors in northeastern Japan --U.S. helicopters flying missions north of damaged reactors became coated with particulate radiation 14 Mar 2011 The Pentagon was expected ...
• Tokyo nuke cloud crisis
  ShareThisTokyo nuke cloud crisis 14 Mar 2011 Japan is teetering on the brink of nuclear catastrophe amid fears a radioactive cloud could envelop Tokyo's 13million residents. The Foreign Office warned Brits to avoid the capital as it was feared a SECOND nuclear reactor was heading for meltdown af ...
• Super earthquake No2 alert in Japan
  ShareThisBreaking: Super earthquake No2 alert in Japan 14 Mar 2011 Shattered Japan is braced for a fresh quake nightmare - with a mega aftershock likely to hit at any moment. The alert was issued as millions who survived the tsunami that devastated the hi-tech superpower spent a third day withou ...
• 3 injured, 7 missing in blast at Japan nuke plant
  ShareThis3 injured, 7 missing in blast at Japan nuke plant 13 Mar 2011 Tokyo Electric Power Co. says three workers have been injured and seven are missing after an explosion at the stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant. Japan's chief cabinet secretary says a hydrogen explosion occurred Monda ...

Daily Loaf

• Buckhorn’s new ad calls Ferlita’s campaign “sl ...
  Happy first Monday after Daylight Savings has kicked into effect.  Yay?  I’m thinking not for most of you today. Okay, this is the last full week of the Tampa mayoral and City Council races.  Keep it here to learn all the latest.  You might have missed the fact that the candidates debated ...
• As NCAA Tourney comes to Tampa, the games migh ...
  What made those games and years epic back into the mid to late 90's was the fact that those teams had most of their stars return for another season, as opposed to going to the pros.
• Bob Buckhorn’s new ad blasts Rose Ferlita’s “s ...
  As the last full week of the Tampa mayoral campaign begins this morning with another debate, this time on WFLA radio, Bob Buckhorn is responding to Rose Ferlita’s attack ad from last week with an ad that, well, gets sort of negative as it accuses opponent Rose Ferlita of engaging in “sleazy” ta ...
• Genetically modified alfalfa controversy in review
  Alfalfa is commonly known to be the fourth most grown crop in the United States. Farmers use the millions of acres of alfalfa to produce forage seed and hay for cows and other livestock. The controversy surrounding United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) approved planting of genetically ...
• Do It Today: Pi Day at MOSI, and a heartwarmin ...
  Celebrate Pi Day today and take the Pi Day Challenge to get into MOSI for free from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. today.

Vaccine Resistance Movement

• VRM: L-Histidine, Squaline, & Human Chorionic ...
  “Vaccination is a monstrosity, a misbegotten offspring of error and ignorance; it should have no place in either hygiene or medicine. Believe not in vaccination, it is a world wide delusion, an unscientific practice, a fatal superstition with consequences measured today by tears and sorrow ...
• VRM: Gardasil/Cervarix – A Legacy Of Shame
  The headlines alone tell the whole story. ‘Teenage girl left brain-damaged  after receiving cervical cancer jab‘, ‘Thousands of UK schoolgirls have suffered adverse reactions…several reported multiple reactions’, ‘20,575 adverse reactions, 352 reports of abnormal pap smears post vaccinati ...
• VRM: Dr. Wakefield’s Imminent Vindicatio ...
  Dr. Andrew Wakefield’s 1998 Study demonstrated “anti-myelin antibodies and digestive tract pathologies in children with autism after being given the Urabi strain triple live virus MMR vaccine. All 12 children in the Study had intestinal abnormalities (known as Inflammatory Bowel Disease), with c ...
• VRM: A Concise Compendium The Problem With Vac ...
  The advent of cloned DNA vaccines & Synthetic Genomics, backed by proponents of the Trans-humanist & Bioethics movements (this is a post-Darwinian view, in which the species has the power to direct its own evolution), has opened a Pandora’s Box spelling the inevitable death of natural immunity. ...
• VRM: Medical Industry Data Proves Influenza Va ...
  The Influenza virus itself is constantly mutating from year to year. While mainstream doctors are traditionally divided, several prominent Studies have come forward in recent years challenging the Status Quo on the efficacy of the sacrosanct Flu shot & awakened an increasingly distrustf ...

B.C. Preppers Network

• You Know You're Getting Old When...
  A few weeks back we received our new high-efficiency front loading LG washer and dryer set and I have to say, I'm pretty impressed by them. The set was only around $1000 (on sale) but I felt like I'd gone from a Chevette to a Cadillac when compared to our old set.� A cute little luxury fe ...
• Control Your Home Thermostat On the Internet!
  Today a fellow from our natural gas company came by to install a new thermostat as part of the Peaksaver program that we signed up for.�If you haven't heard of Peaksaver, basically what it does is allow the Ontario government electricity provider to turn off your central air conditioner ...
• Happy Day!: The Water Bill Arrived!
  After being shocked a few months ago with a water bill of over $240 I decided to do a few things to cut down on our water use We converted our main toilet to a dual-flush and installed a water saving device on the second (haven't switched it over to a dual yet). We also installed a new ...
• Strawberry Picking
  Our family went strawberry picking this morning, it's a fun thing to do once in a while and I think it's a good way to help our 3-year old daughter realize where food comes from. While my wife picked berries with our oldest I went for a walk around the farm with our youngest in the stroller ...
• Pioneer Solar: PV System For Free?
  I received a flyer from Pioneer Solar in the mail the other day which claims to help people get a solar system installed on their house, farm, or business for free. Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, like most things there's good and bad points about it and what might be a good deal f ...

Michael Yon

• 101st Airborne
  04 March 2011 Plans are afoot to embed with the 2-506 Infantry in Paktika Province.� If all goes well, the hard work will begin several weeks from now.� The Battalion Commander is Lieutenant Colonel Don Hill. Please see their latest newsletter: Please Click to view the entire newsletter. ...
• War Stories & Rumors
  Russian Tank near Tarin Kot 02 March 2011 There are always the stories.� Some true, some not, most are hybrids.� There was the story in Iraq of the farmer who found a crashed UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle).� The farmer thought it might try to fly away so he tied it to a tree.�� There was the ru ...
• Scorch & Puddle
  The Puddle 28 February 2011 Urozgan Province, Afghanistan This morning, we drove a dangerous unpaved road from Tarin Kot to Dehrawud, passing recent bomb craters and ancient wrecks of two Soviet tanks.� The muddy road often splashed brown soup across the windshield while grey skies threatened ...
• Dead Taliban in Chora
  (A raw, unedited note from war.) Men lining up to pay respects to killed Taliban 27 February 2011 The places have names like Sangin, Arghandab, Panjwai, Now Zad, Musa Qala, Korengal Valley, Pech Valley, Tarin Kot, or Chora.� Names that mean almost nothing to most people, but everything to oth ...
• Panjwai: Spanish Translation
  El peligrosísimo distrito de Panjwai, en la provincia de Kandahar 27 de febrero de 2011 Desde Tarin Kot, provincia de Uruzgán Panjwai viene siendo una de las zonas más peligrosas de Afganistán. En su suelo se ha derramado mucha sangre canadiense, estadounidense y afgana. Según el diario The ...

The Killing Train

• Wikileaks and the Future of Information
  Wikileaks and the future of information from Justin Podur on Vimeo. read more
• Settle in and wait for the coup in Egypt
  Most people are interested in something that no one knows or can know: what is going to happen in Egypt? It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future (that's from Keynes). There are lessons from past revolutions that might help us understand what is happening, but from where ...
• More such philanthrocapitalism we shall be utt ...
  Philanthrocapitalism, a book by Bishop and Edwards, argues that philanthropy will help the public accept a new age of plutocracy (the rule by wealth). The rich are giving their money away so effectively, they say, that the public won't mind increasing inequality. read more
• I am not a gadget
  Jaron Lanier, author of "You are not a gadget", is very well-informed about what he is writing about, which is some of the social consequences of the internet, and some of the implicit ideologies that are built into the internet as we are living with it today. Lanier was one of the early minds b ...
• Raj Patel's "Value of Nothing"
  For various reasons I found myself with several hours on public transit and with Raj Patel's fine book "The Value of Nothing" in hand. I really liked a few things about it. First, it's a very readable summary of a lot of economic theories (and ideologies) that guide policies today. For a more ma ...

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 ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

• Parties lobby EU for end to sanctions
  National Democratic Force puts name to letter calling on EU to recognise post-election Burma 'evolution' as justifying an end to embargo
• Gem fair sees jade prices soar 10-fold
  Rising prices for precious Burmese stone largely down to Chinese buyers, suggesting that the US-sanctioned industry is bouyant
• ‘Buildings cracked; everything shook’
  Burmese speak of Japan earthquake as 2,000 bodies are found this morning in Miyagi Prefecture and 10,000 remain missing in Minamisanriku
• Progress is stifled by a stale debate
  Only the Burmese opposition can re-invest sanctions with a political meaning that has largely been drained from them over the years
• Rangoon workers stage mass strike
  More than 1,500 factory employees demand an increase to meagre salaries that see them receive less than a dollar for a 12-hour day

Telegraph - Climate Change

• How my family and I hatched a plan to keep lob ...
  A charity is working to reverse the effects of overfishing on one of Cornwall's premium 'common resources', writes Roger Highfield.
• Met Office climate survey: why our obsession w ...
  Arctic winters, red-hot summers and melting snow caps. Climate change is one of the most talked about issues today. But how much do we really know about the climate on our very own doorstep? And what can we really do about it?
• Met Office climate survey: how to get involved
  The Met Office is urging people to blow bubbles and spot vapour trails as part of a national survey of Britain's climate.
• Met Office urges public to blow bubbles and co ...
  The Met Office is urging people to blow bubbles and spot vapour trails as part of a national survey of Britain's climate.
• Unscientific hype about the flooding risks fro ...
  The warmists have sound financial grounds for hyping the dangers of flooding posed by climate change, writes Christopher Booker

National Geographic | Environment

• 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
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• 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.

Jurist - Legal Research

• Virginia Supreme Court to hear global warming ...
  [JURIST] The Supreme Court of Virginia [official website] on Friday agreed to hear a case seeking to determine whether Virignia Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli [official profile] can subpoena records about a former professor at the University of Virginia [academic website]. Cuccinelli is req ...
• Cuba court sentences US contractor to fifteen ...
  [JURIST] A court in Cuba on Saturday sentenced [Cubadebate report, in Spanish] US contractor Alan Gross to 15 years in prison for attempting to undermine the communist government of Cuba, according to a state-run website. US National Security spokesman Tommy Vietor immediately denounced the ruli ...
• Arab League calls for UN no-fly zone over Libya
  [JURIST] The League of Arab States [official website, in Arabic] on Saturday adopted a resolution calling for the United Nations Security Council [official website] to impose a no-fly zone over Libya. The Arab League declared that Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] ...
• Ninth Circuit overturns corruption conviction ...
  [JURIST] The US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals [officials website] on Friday overturned [opinion, PDF] the corruption conviction of Vic Kohring, a former Republican member of the Alaska State Legislature [official website]. Kohring was caught on tape accepting cash from Bill Allen, an executive ...
• US legislators introduce bill ending bullying ...
  [JURIST] US Representative Jared Polis (D-CO) and Senator Al Franken (D-MN) [official websites] on Thursday introduced legislation to protect lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) students in federally funded public elementary and high schools from bullying. The Student Non-Discriminatio ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

• State Vs. Pentagon: Clinton Spokesman Says Bra ...
  BBC correspondent Philippa Thomas reports on her personal blog that P.J. Crowley, the main spokesman for the U.S. State Department, told a small gathering at MIT that WikiLeaker Pfc. Bradley Manning is being grossly mistreated in custody at a military brig: What did Crowley think, he asked, abo ...
• Obama: Administration Ready to Tap Oil Reserve ...
  The Obama administration has "teed up" a withdrawal of oil from the nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserves and is ready to move forward in a matter of days if need be, President Obama said at his press conference Friday. "If we see significant disruptions, or shifts in the market that are so dis ...
• Obama: Bradley Manning Is Being Treated Approp ...
  After news broke that State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley had told a small gathering that Pfc. Bradley Manning's treatment is "ridiculous and counterproductive and stupid," President Obama was asked about Manning's treatment as his press conference Friday. His response: The Pentagon tells h ...
• The Missing GOP Presidential Field and Its Costs
  My colleague Ron Brownstein has a great column in the new National Journal that makes the point that the Republican presidential field is not the force that is shaping the party's policy agenda--that's mostly because there isn't any field, at least not yet, and among the candidates who do seem l ...
• GOP White House Candidates Follow the Agenda, ...
  credit: AP Photo/Mark Humphrey Politics, like nature, abhors a vacuum. Proving that truism, the slowly emerging class of Republican presidential candidates increasingly looks like a bunch of bystanders. More-dynamic party forces are shaping both the GOP's public image and its interna ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

• [COAT] ***SPAM*** Libya's Qaddafi stars in U.S ...
• [COAT] Watch my antiWAR music video (Dylan/See ...
• [COAT] Peace Surge NOW! Save Ottawa Ban on War ...
• [COAT] Afghan MP tells Ottawa to Stop Arms Sho ...
• [COAT] Ottawa's Mayor & War Bazaars! Democracy ...

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

• US and Vietnam sign nuclear energy agreement | ...
• SKorea on alert after ship hit by mysterious b ...
• Obama administration may send U.S.-Russia arms ...
• Energy Secretary Steven Chu on the nation's en ...
• More tritium found at Vt. Yankee, NRC plans cl ...

Tikun Olam

• Itamar: Turning Victims into National Blood Sa ...
  The victims of the Itamar massacre were buried today in Israel and most who eulogized the Fogel family shouted suitably racist slogans demanding vengeance and the like.  They called them a korban, or blood sacrifice on the altar of Greater Israel.  But there was a still small voice of sanity, an ...
• Death in Itamar
  Today, the specter of death stalks the settlement of Itamar. A Palestinian militant penetrated the security barriers intended to protect the residents and broke into a home of the sleeping Fogel family and stabbed to death the parents and three of their children, leaving behind three young orpha ...
• Abu Seesi’s Brother Confirms Ukrainian Securit ...
  I had a long, heartbreaking conversation this morning with Dirar Abu Seesi’s brother, Yousef, who just returned to his home in Holland from a three week stay in Ukraine.  He called his visit there “one of the worst three weeks of my life.” Yousef had traveled to that country for a reunion with ...
• Israeli Security Sources Hint Abu Seesi Involv ...
  With a partial gag in place, Israeli media can report on what the foreign media are saying about the extraordinary rendition of Dirar Abu Seesi from Ukraine to an Israeli prison, but they can’t generate original domestic reporting on the matter.  This is course doesn’t seem to apply to the secu ...
• Shabak Modifies Abu Seesi Gag, Extraordinary R ...
  Thanks to a major AP story breaking the Dirar Abu Seesi case, the Shabak has modified its gag order and allowed reporting inside Israel that derives from foreign sources (such as AP).  But Israeli media are still not allowed to develop their own original reporting, so that leaves us to continue ...

Ode Magazine

• Deploying the power of film for social change
  By: srosenzw If you’re seeking an alternative to the glitzy, glamorous, and purely entertainment-based film festivals that dominate most headlines, take a trip to the art-loving island of Bali. This year Bali's Ubud will host the Global Social Change F ...
• A new kind of personal wealth
  It turns out money can buy happiness, after allâwhen consumers create a market for mindful consumption. A lot has changed for Rachel Aydt in the past two years. Since the magazine she worked for shut down in 2008, she’s been faced with plenty of financial uncertainty. Aydt ...
• 200 years of remarkable development
  By: EmilyAviles In this BBC video, Swedish academic, medical doctor, public speaker and statistician Hans Rosling tells the story of of the world's development - past, present and future. Using vast quantities of public data (data from 200 countries over 200 years ...
• The muse in the moment
  We all know meditation helps you relax. But can it also ease the symptoms of depression and anxiety disorders and improve quality of life for people with chronic diseases? Recent research suggests it can. For those of us who haven’t practiced it, meditation can seem like a ...
• Practicing peace and love
  By: PeaceCorso "Peace and love are ever in us, being and working; but we be not always in peace and love." These are the insightful words of Dame Julian of Norwich. Wikipedia says: Julian of Norwich (c. November 8, 1342 - c. 1416) is thought of as on ...

OpEd News

• Our Man in Havana
  Washington's war on Cuba
• Post Nuclear Japan, Pre Disaster United States
  Japan's today is our tomorrow unless we tell the rulers that nuclear power is totally unacceptable.
• Our Time of Universal Deceit Needs An Orwell
  The US government, which is profligate in its wars, profligate in tax cuts and bailouts for the mega-rich, and profligate in giving unlimited monopoly power to unregulated financial institutions, blames the resulting financial crisis on "handouts" to the poor and "entitlements" to the elderly.
• Band of Brothers #5 / The miracle Of Heart Cen ...
  Five Vietnam and one Iraq veteran with PTSD faced their deepest fears and inspired each other to open their hearts, conquer their fears and find themselves in the process: Allen L Roland
• The Women of the Libyan Revolution and Why are ...
  The Libyan Revolution is not just a men's revolution but a women's revolution as well, despite the wretched attempts by some on the Left, not to mention certain conspiracists, to misrepresent their common struggle as a Western-controlled proxy-operation. Meanwhile, for Gaddafi to actually triump ...

Switchboard

• Upton Bill: The Song
  Shortly after Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), the new chair of the House Energy & Commerce Committee, introduced federal legislation to block the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from updating Clean Air Act pollution standards, I�dashed off a parody song to memorialize his bill.��Of co ...
• High Gas Prices are a Demand Problem
        Matthew Yglesias has is exactly right on the global nature of oil and gasoline prices: Oil is produced and consumed in particular places, but there’s a single worldwide price of oil that’s determined by global supply and global demand. It’s not possible for one country to ...
• What do Patagonia's disappearing lakes have to ...
  On March 5-6, Lake Cachet 2, in Chile’s Patagonia, disappeared.  On March 21-22, President Obama will visit Santiago to meet with Chilean President Piñera.  What do these two seemingly unrelated events have in common?  Both are real examples of why Chile should not allow HidroAysé ...
• India Climate Change and Energy News - Februar ...
  Climate Change Business Standard “Budget has a Strong Green Leaning” 3/1/11 “From an allocation of over Rs 600 crore towards forest regeneration and environmental remediation programs, to exemptions given to hybrid automobile makers and solar lanterns, the 2011-12 Budget, though ...
• On Obama's trip to Chile, he should bring "la ...
  President Obama has a scheduled trip to Chile later this month. And in the agenda, clean energy should be a top priority.  Chile is a small country, another world away, but it is on the precipice of an energy policy disaster and its success—or failure—in confronting its energy chal ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• I would say marking essays has done this to my ...
  …but I actually think it’s objectively true that I should take a big red pen to Althouse’s statement at 0:24 in this video and have her eight-six “has found” and replace it with “is.” Related posts:The Brain Seizure Cases My Brain! The Tinfoil Does Nothing!! Stab in the Brain Related posts: ...
• #4 Seed? We Was Robbed…
  Tourney bracket now up. Remember to join the LGM Tourney Challenge: League: LGM Password: zevon Related posts:Tourney Final Reminder Final Bracket Reminder LGM Baseball Challenge (Tourney Update II) Related posts:Tourney Final Reminder Final Bracket Reminder LGM Baseball Challenge (Tourney ...
• Meanwhile, in Libya…
  The rebel situation continues to deteriorate: On Saturday morning, pro-Qaddafi troops launched an assault on Misrata (Misurata), the city of some 600,000 due east of the capital of Tripoli, which has been in rebel hands for weeks. In the wake of government victories at Zawiya and Ra’s Lanuf, it ...
• Fukushima Situation Continues to Develop…
  Goes almost without saying that the situation remains alarming: On Saturday, Japanese officials took the extraordinary step of flooding the crippled No. 1 reactor at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, 170 miles north of Tokyo, with seawater in a last-ditch effort to avoid a nuclear meltdow ...
• Ignore this post, it’s just for the record.*
  This is completely irrelevant and I apologize in advance for posting it, but as it’s been recommended by people with law degrees that I track this closely and keep it out in the open, The Donalde has again claimed that I threatened his life … by threatening to throw journalism students at him. Â ...

Desert Research Institute

• Kendrick Taylor Interviewed by NPR About West ...
  By improving our understanding of how natural changes in greenhouse gas influenced climate in the past, the science community will be able to do a better job of predicting future climate changes caused by the emissions of greenhouse gases by human activity.
• DRI is a Nevada Asset
  Nevada’s legislature was visionary in 1959 when it created DRI as the environmental research campus of the state’s university system. DRI has flourished as an entrepreneurial campus of 500 scientists, engineers and technicians who leveraged the state’s $8.2 million allocation last year into ...
• Storm Peak Laboratory Cloud Property Validatio ...
  Scientists are busy working at DRI’s Storm Peak Lab at Steamboat Springs, Colo. gathering in-cloud measurements and also verifying the data from radars and other instrumentation that is measuring clouds at four different elevations; one site in town and three within the Steamboat Springs ...
• Fighting an Infestation
  Kumud Acharya, Ph.D. has worked in Southern Nevada for the last four years studying the changing climate and its effect on the state’s water. Since coming to Las Vegas his focus has shifted to another problem, invasive species specially those living in Lake Mead.
• 2010 DRI Annual Report
  The 2010 annual report is now available for download. This issue includes an interview with Executive Vice President for Research Dr. Terry Surles, our involvement with a large NSF grant to study climate change, an overview of the work in our divisions and centers, select researcher profiles, an ...

Earth Techling

• West London Gets A New Green Suburb
• IBM Helping College With Smart Buildings
• Tiny Device Looks To Extend Battery Life
• Oregon Wave Power Start Up Goes Prototype
• A Scottish Net Zero Home To Hang Your Kilt In

National Law Journal | U.S.

• CORPORATE RESTRUCTURING & BANKRUPTCY: Big bank ...
  It's been a good time to be a bankruptcy lawyer. Though it's been almost three years since the economy began its meltdown, several massive bankruptcies are continuing to generate big fees for attorneys.
• LEGAL AID: A SPECIAL REPORT: The Power of Hope
  An in-depth report examining the impact of legal aid programs on clients and the politics surrounding funding.
• Fee fight headed for courtroom
  A $4 million jury award for a man savagely beaten outside a Washington nightclub is at the center of a rare court fight over fees between attorneys who represented the plaintiff.
• Divided on discovery
  The federal judiciary appears evenly split and prosecutors and defense lawyers sharply divided over a proposal to broaden criminal discovery obligations following a high-profile case of alleged government misconduct, according to a national survey.
• OPINION: Ethical oversight for the justices
  Congress should pass bill requiring justices to provide reasons for recusal decisions, with review by outside panel.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

• PRESS CONFERENCE – Moratorium on Drillin ...
  March 9 – 10 AM Moratorium on future gas leases in State Forests Representative Vitali will hold a press conference in Media Room, main Capitol. Greg will announce the introduction of a bill for 3 year moratorium on leasing in State Forests. He would like to have a stage full of representatives ...
• Toxic Water Interactive Map
  Here is a link to the interactive map that was put out by the New York Times with their article “Toxic Contamination From Natural Gas Wells” If you have not had a chance to check it out yet, you should. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/02/27/us/natural-gas-map.html?ref=us
• Marcellus Shale Drilling – Avenues for A ...
  See the below message from Penn Futures. Register today! Pre-registration is required. As drilling for natural gas in the Marcellus Shale continues in our region and across Pennsylvania, PennFuture, Clean Water Action, PennEnvironment, Pennsylvania Sierra Club, Responsible Drilling Alliance and ...
• Cheaper by the billion
  Via Penn Futures – Friday, March 04, 2011 Range Resources is selling the 52,000-acres it owns in the Barnett Shale natural gas play in Texas for a cool $900 million. Is Range bailing out of one of the most productive shale plays in America? Are they going bankrupt? Um, no. According to one indus ...
• Documents: Politics, Recycling and Tracking of ...
  The New York times ran this article recently. Documents: Politics, Recycling and Tracking of Natural Gas Waste Over the past nine months, The Times reviewed more than 30,000 pages of documents obtained through open records requests of state and federal agencies and by visiting various regional o ...

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

environment 360

• U.S. Solar Market Grew 67 Percent in 2010, Rep ...
  The U.S. solar market increased by 67 percent in 2010 — from $3.6 billion in 2009 to $6 billion — making it the nation’s fastest-growing energy sector, according to a trade industry report. Total installed capacity of photovoltaic and solar thermal systems reached 956 iStockphoto megawatts — mo ...
• Collapse of Honeybee Populations Now a Global ...
  The mysterious decline of honeybee populations observed in the U.S. and Europe is now a global phenomenon, according to a new report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Scientists say significant die-offs are now occurring in managed bee colonies in China and Japan, and there a ...
• U.S. High-Speed Rail: Time to Hop Aboard or Be ...
  In recent months, several conservative governors have rejected federal funds to begin constructing high-speed rail lines in their states. But a high-speed rail advocate argues that such ideologically driven actions are folly, as other U.S. states and countries around the world are moving swiftly ...
• Blooms of Arctic Plankton Occurring Far Earlie ...
  The steady disappearance of summer sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is causing annual blooms of phytoplankton to occur as much as 50 days earlier now than in the late 1990s, a major shift that could have profound consequences for the Arctic Ocean food chain. Click to enlarge Scripps Institution of ...
• Costa Rican Marine Reserve Will Protect 2.5 Mi ...
  The Costa Rican government has vastly expanded a marine protected area in the eastern tropical Pacific, creating a 3,900-square-mile ocean reserve that is home to more than 30 endemic species. The so-called “Seamounts Marine Management Area,” a UNESCO Photo gallery Conservation InternationalMar ...

Red Ice Creations

• Piers Corbyn: Massive Japan Earthquake & Tsuna ...
  Meteorologist, astrophysicist, consultant, and owner of the business Weather Action, Piers Corbyn, talks with Alex about the Japanese tsunami. Piers says “The massive Japan Earthquake and Tsunami were triggered by massive events on the Sun and there are more to come in the next two years” Video ...
• Japan says partial meltdown likely at 2nd reactor
  Japan’s top government spokesman says a partial meltdown is likely under way at second reactor affected by Friday’s massive earthquake. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said Sunday that radiation at the nuclear power plant in Fukushima briefly rose above legal limits, but it has since decline ...
• Japan quake shifted Earth 4 inches on its axis
  The massive earthquake that shook Japan and triggered a huge tsunami appears to have shifted the Earth on its axis and moved an island of Japan, a media report said Saturday. NASA’s Terra satellite’s first view of northeastern Japan flooding following the earthquake and tsunami in northeastern J ...
• Japan Earthquake: Helicopter aerial view video ...
  A ferocious tsunami spawned by one of the largest earthquakes on record slammed Japan's eastern coast on Friday, killing hundreds of people as it swept away ships, cars and homes while widespread fires burned out of control. Police said 200 to 300 bodies were found in the northeastern coastal ci ...
• Extreme Supermoon: Will it Trigger Natural Dis ...
  On March 19, the moon will swing around Earth more closely than it has in the past 18 years, lighting up the night sky from just 221,567 miles (356,577 kilometers) away. On top of that, it will be full. And one astrologer believes it could inflict massive damage on the planet. Richard Nolle, a n ...

Russia Today

• Fifth-gen fighter PAK FA goes supersonic
  The Russian prototype fifth-generation fighter jet has broken the sound barrier for the first time during a test flight.
• Gaddafi wins more territory back as G8 meets o ...
  Colonel Gaddafi’s forces are pushing the opposition back, reclaiming more and more cities in the rebel-stronghold of the country. Meanwhile, the G8 is assembling in Paris to discuss the imposing of no-fly zone in the...
• Japanese stiff upper lip to encounter disaster ...
  Millions of residents have spent a third night without water, food or heating along Japan’s devastated northeastern coast. Commuter chaos, kilometer-long queues and fears of nuclear contamination are on the daily agenda...
• We will collect full dossier on Libya’s events ...
  The main task now is to prevent Gaddafi and his accomplices from destroying evidence of their crimes against the people of Libya, announced Dr. Haytham Manna, spokesperson of the with headquarters in Paris.
• No radiation from Japan detected in Russia
  Russian Emergency Ministry confirms that radiation levels in the Russia’s Far East remain normal, but the ongoing change in the weather might turn the situation to the worse.

Dad2059′s Webzine of Science Fiction, Science Fact and Esoterica

• WikiLeaks, Allnewsweb and the TEA Party
  When one looks at the above title, the individual has to ask, WTF? What could these three things have in common? Well, according to ‘Mirage Men‘ author, Mark Pilkington, not really a whole hell of a lot, just rampant opportunism: When the first mention of UFOs in the tranche of diplomatic paper ...
• Even Gary Bekkum is skeptical
  Gary Bekkum’s  STARpod.org’s site is usually replete with government conspiracies, psychic spies, hamsters, Bigelow’s Skinwalker Ranch, Laura Eisenhower’s Mars Colony and other wondrous esoteric oddities that it’s hard to believe that Gary could be skeptical of anything. But he is. He is very s ...
• More Paracast: George Filer
  Yeah I know I’ve been lazy lately (or so it seems), but trust me on this one. You won’t be disappointed with this interview Gene Steinberg and co-host Chris O’Brien of the Paracast had with Eastern MUFON Director George Filer, who also has the website Filer’s Files (which caters to guess what? Y ...
• The Paracast: Clifford Clift of MUFON
  This week’s Paracast with Gene Steinberg and Chris O’Brien is a conversation with MUFON International’s Clifford Clift. Subjects range from the nuts and bolts aspects of UFOs to the possible paranormal links with ghosts, angels, demons and Sasquatch. This was a down to earth and civil interview, ...
• Bizarre Beachcoming: Review of the Codex Serap ...
  Dr. Beachcoming, that eccentric collector of all things of an exotic historical nature, reviews The Codex Seraphinianus,  a book written by Luigi Serafini that is purportedly about an alien world complete with language, customs, architecture, flora and fauna. Luigi Serafini, Codex Seraphinianus ...

Tippers News

• Domestic violence
  The statistics are startling: It's estimated that every 18 minutes a woman in the United States is beaten. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Yes, trafficking happens right here
  A common misconception about human trafficking and modern slavery is that it does not happen here. But it does. It's a documented fact. Take the case of two girls, ages 15 and 16, who ran away from a juvenile home in Fremont in 2007.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a ...
• Human smuggling
  THERE is no doubt that rampant poverty, unemployment and a bleak future stare young Pakistanis in the face. The situation invariably provides a breeding ground Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Public opinion stopped GM, says campaigner + T ...
  Interesting article in The Independent in which Lord Melchett, the former director of Greenpeace, speaks out. Also, have you signed this Avaaz petition yet? http://www.avaaz.org/en/eu_gmo/?cl=743766348&v=7138 (You'll have to copy + paste the link!)Submitted by Graeme that's Graeme to Enviro ...
• Two week-old kitten left for dead in locked cl ...
  Thanks to a passerby and local animal shelter, a two week-old kitten left for dead in a bolted-shut clothes recycling bin was rescued and has made a full recovery. The kitten was rescued about a month ago when a passing person heard the cry Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� ...

The Freeman

• Trade Rep May Move to Commerce Dept.
  “Obama’s aides are pondering a government reorganization, and one of the possibilities is combining the trade rep’s office with the Commerce Department.” (USA Today) A free-market society would have neither one. FEE Timely Classic “Free Tradeâs Never-Ending Battle” by Arthur E. Foulkes
• Wisconsin Employees’ Unions Lose Battle with G ...
  “Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker won his drive to strip the state’s government workers of nearly all of their collective-bargaining rights Thursday, after a three-week standoff that brought tens of thousands of protesters to the Capitol.” (Washington Post) The taxpayers have no representative. FEE T ...
• A Revolutionary for All Seasons
  If it hasn’t been done already, I hope someone is translating Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man into Arabic.
• Big Investor Dumps Government Bonds
  “The world’s largest bond investor has sold off all his fund’s U.S. government-related holdings, according to a published reportâ¦. Treasury prices nevertheless rose Wednesday after the government saw strong bidding at an auction of debt.” (ABC News) Mixed signals. FEE Timely Classic “Deficits D ...
• Schools Fail Government’s Test
  “More than 80,000 of the nationâs 100,000 public schools could be labeled as failing under No Child Left Behind, the main federal law on public education, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan told Congress on Wednesday. Mr. Duncan said the estimate, based on an analysis of testing trends and the w ...

Teaching Online Journalism

• Teaching about storytelling
  As a follow-up to Tuesday’s post about getting a story (and teaching students about stories), I’m going to refer to three earlier posts here: The elements of storytelling RGMP 11: Tell a good story with images and sound Storytelling 101 with âThe Annoying Orangeâ What I learned from Ken ...
• Is your story actually a story?
  “The problem with many news stories is that theyâre not really stories at all.” (Source: Advancing the Story, an excellent blog about broadcast journalism and multimedia.) This is true not only in TV news but across the board — and not only for student work! Sometimes the material is new (or at ...
• Web literacy: Should be required
  A student calls me on the phone. “Professor McAdams, I wonder if you could help me. I’ve never taken a class with you, but …” “Yes, what can I do for you?” I reply. “I bought my own website, but I’m not sure how to get my Web pages there.” From past experience, I know what I need to ask now. ...
• Can journalism education rise to the challenge?
  Most journalism programs face the same challenges: How to find, employ and retain faculty who are comfortable teaching new skills and techniques. How to provide equipment and software to students (especially with shrinking budgets). How to keep up with a rapidly changing field. Perhaps mos ...
• HTML and CSS Resources for Teaching
  Every year around this time, I update the resources I use in teaching my advanced online design class. I know there are a million lists like these online. I try to keep mine short, simple and current. Also, I’m not teaching programmers or graphic design majors. My students are journalists. C ...

Facing South

• VOICES: Meet the scandal-plagued billionaire b ...
  By Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest The bond between David Koch and Scott Walker is not the only relationship between a reactionary billionaire and a rightwing politician contaminating the U.S. political scene. Attention also needs to be paid to what's going on between Sheldon Adelson and Ne ...
• Fort Bragg infant death toll may climb to twelve
  By Joaquin Sapien, ProPublica and Aaron Kessler, Sarasota Herald-Tribune A 12th infant apparently has died of undetermined causes in military housing at Fort Bragg, N.C., and� investigators are now trying to determine whether the death is linked to fumes from contaminated drywall or some othe ...
• Another citizen lawsuit against a coal company ...
  Environmental watchdogs are taking yet another coal mining company to court over massive violations of the federal Clean Water Act in Kentucky, raising questions about the state's ability to oversee the industry effectively. Nally and Hamilton Enterprises received notice [pdf] yesterd ...
• Florida lawmaker warns North Carolina against ...
  A Florida lawmaker recently wrote the governor of North Carolina warning her state against adopting a financing plan for new power plants that turned into a economic disaster for his state's ratepayers. Florida State Sen. Mike Fasano (in photo) -- a conservative, pro-business Republic ...
• Come celebrate 40 years of change in the South!
  The Institute is 40 years old -- and we want you to come help us celebrate! On Saturday, March 26 come join us in Durham, North Carolina as we celebrate the Institute's four decades of working for a more just, democratic and sustainable South. The exciting and inspiring Rev. Lennox Yearwood ...

Worldpress - Africa

• Nigeria's Delicate Presidential Election Trans ...
  Nigeria's election history is shambolic and corrupt. If the country's new national electoral body is to conduct a free and fair election in January, it has its work cut out for it.
• Africa's Women Turn 50
  Fifty years into African independence, African women still face a much more challenging existence than men, with significant political, social and economic changes needed for gender equality.
• The Abandoned Children of Sierra Leone
  Minors in Sierra Leone are going to jail for years for petty crimes, while corrupt public officials not only go unpunished, but mismanage the funds that could be educating these neglected youths.
• Will Freedom of Expression Hold in Southern Sudan?
  With southern Sudan likely to find itself an independent nation, in addition to problems with healthcare, electricity and illiteracy, it may also face challenges to the freedom of its media.
• Will Freedom of Expression Hold in Southern Sudan?
  With southern Sudan likely to find itself an independent nation, in addition to problems with healthcare, electricity and illiteracy, it may also face challenges to the freedom of its media.

Telegraph UK - oil

• Japan earthquake: Many are the terrors of the ...
  Why do we insist on blaming ourselves for natural disasters like the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, asks Boris Johnson.
• Brick maker turns to wood as oil price climbs
  The last time that HG Matthews used wood to fire its Buckinghamshire brick kilns was in 1926, during the General Strike.
• New Zealand earthquake: the vengeance of Mothe ...
  Whatever the cause of the increase in disasters, humanity has made their impact far worse, writes Geoffrey Lean.
• If the Saudis revolt, the world's in trouble
  The fate of the global recovery rests on events in Riyadh, says Jeremy Warner .
• Libya: BP suspends operations and evacuates staff
  BP, the oil giant, has said today that it is suspending operations in Libya and evacuating expatriate staff and their families amid the escalating violence.

Ian Welsh

• Burning down your house to generate heat
  Some years ago I worked for a large insurance company.  I was originally hired to help deal with a class action suit, but soon found myself working on something different, demutualizing the company.  Mutual insurance companies are owned by their customers, not by shareholders.  This has a num ...
• Watch oil prices tomorrow
  Tomorrow’s oil markets should be interesting. The New York Times reports that the Saudi police have already opened fire on protesters in the major oil producing provinces on the Persian Gulf shore: Saudi police opened fire at a protest march in a restive, oil-rich province of the kingdom on Thur ...
• Off to London
  for a week, in a couple weeks. This will be the first time I’ve visited England, since, oh, about 1978.  What I remember about that trip: Southampton row houses, a nice open air book market, and Trafalgar square. So, for those of you who have been to London more recently, or lived (or live) the ...
• The kids might be all right
  My generation is doing something right: First from Josh Marshall summarizing a recent Rasmussen poll on the age breakdown of support for the unions in Wisconsin: But when you look at this poll the pro-union / anti-union division turns heavily on age too. The younger votes have a far more progres ...
• Off to London
  for a week, in a couple weeks. This will be the first time I’ve visited England, since, oh, about 1978.  What I remember about that trip: Southampton row houses, a nice open air book market, and Trafalgar square. So, for those of you who have been to London more recently, or lived (or live) the ...

Media Consortium

• Top 6 Mistakes to Avoid in Mobile Usability | ...
  Mobile applications are important for providing users with an alternate means of accessing your web page, as well as keeping connected anywhere and at any time. The programs are an integral part of staying competitive within your market, so they should be created wisely.
• 1.4 million fans can’t be wrong: NPR’s Faceboo ...
  But Carvin also emphasized the importance of audience expectations. “They still see our site as mainly dedicated to consuming news,” he said. Facebook, on the other hand, is a web venue in which people are used to chatting with their family and friends. ..NPR’s Facebook page is a complement to, ...
• The Newsonomics of 2011 news metrics to watch ...
• Gallery: 15 iPad news apps
  Thinking about creating an iPad app for your newsroom? Want to see what other news media have come up with? Below are screengrabs of several news apps from newspapers, magazines radio, television, and online-only news websites.
• Five Months on Tumblr as Seen Through Pummelvi ...

Reality Asserts Itself

• Drug Wars in Juarez Fuels Boom in El Paso
  My colleague Malak Behrouznami recently returned from Juarez Mexico where she grew up as a child. She as a wonderful heritage - her father is Iranian and her Mother is Mexican. She went Juarez for family and journalistic reasons. One of her objectives was to find out why Juarez has become a terr ...
• PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI NEGOTIATIONS TO NOWHERE NO ...
  A few months ago when shooting a documentary in the Middle East, we met Zeina, a 13-year-old Palestinian living in a Beirut refugee camp. She was traumatized as she watched the Israeli Gaza war on television. It changed her life. She now thinks of revenge and cannot understand the Israeli childr ...
• FROM JOE McCARTHY TO GLEN BECK – TIME TO END F ...
  I listened to Glen Becks "Restoring Honor" speech today hoping to find something of substance to write about. I found a stringing together of such empty phrases it does not bear discussion.  The more important issue is why a man whose megalomania seems to have no bounds can become such a phenome ...
• PAKISTAN FLOODS AND A FAILED POLICY - UN Sec. ...
  Ban Ki Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, says of the flooding in Pakistan "The world has never seen such a disaster. It's much beyond anybody's imagination". At least 20 million people have lost their homes, more than 1600 have died, and disease and hunger will claim many, many mo ...
• China and the end of the end of history
  Many economists and political analysts think the current recovery, as it's being called, is a rather temporary phenomenon. Many expect the recession to kick back in, and perhaps within a few years get much more serious. What does that mean in terms of the future of the world economy and world po ...

Great Beyond ( Nature )

• Malaspina expedition: Pausing in Perth
  Freelance journalist Lucas Laursen is joining the Malaspina expedition, a Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)-sponsored oceanographic survey circling the globe in the wake of Alessandro Malaspina’s 1789-1794 exploratory voyage. He will report from aboard the B.I.O. Hespérides for the mo ...
• Nature Climate Change ready for launch
  Nature Climate Change, the latest addition to the Nature branch of science journals, has made its debut in publishing original research with an online paper on climate impacts on African maize yields. The study, by David Lobell of Stanford University in California and scientists with the Inte ...
• Fukushima crisis: Anatomy of a meltdown
  As Japan struggles with its worst nuclear disaster in decades, I thought it might be useful to provide a few more technical details about the reactors at Fukushima, and the most likely scenario for what is happening there. The plant The Fukushima Daiichi power station operates six boiling ...
• UPDATE: Japan's nuclear crisis
  The situation at the Fukushima Daiichi power station is evolving rapidly this morning. Last night, even as operators took the drastic measure of filling reactor #1 with seawater to prevent a metldown, officials declared an emergency at the plant's reactor #3. According to a statement from Tokyo ...
• View from Tokyo: Meltdown and panic
  The following was posted on behalf of David Cyranoski. Japan awoke Saturday to some horrible images of houses, cars, and people being carried away by tsunami waves with body counts rising into the many hundreds. In the wake of that drama came confusing reports of what appears as though it may ...

new geography

• Perspectives on Urban Cores and Suburbs
  Our virtually instant analysis of 2000 census trends in metropolitan areas has the generated wide interest. The principal purpose is to chronicle the change in metropolitan area population and the extent to which that change occurred in the urban core as opposed to suburban areas. From a po ...
• What kind of Cities do we Want, Sustainable, L ...
  A critical issue from the dreadful earthquake that has severely damaged so much of central Christchurch, taken so many lives, and terrified so many residents of the whole urban area, lies in whether the Central Area should be rebuilt. Some believe it should be abandoned for some other locatio ...
• Are Chinese Ready to Rent?
  In 2010 “House price” ranked third on the list of the top 10 most popular phrases used by Chinese netizens. It came to no one's surprise. In most Chinese cities housing prices have increased significantly over the past decade, with an especially sharp rise over the past three years. “Hous ...
• California’s Demographic Dilemma: A Class And ...
  The newly released Census reports reveal that California faces a profound gap between the cities where people are moving to and the cities that hold all the political power. It is a tale that divides the state between its coastal metropolitan regions that dominate the state�s politics � particul ...
• New Jersey: Still Suburbanizing
  The state of New Jersey virtually defines suburbanization in the United States.  New Jersey is not home to the core of any major metropolitan area but, major portions of the nation's largest metropolitan area (New York) and the fifth largest metropolitan area (Philadelphia) are in the stat ...

GM Watch

• World's biggest dairy exporter red flagged for ...
• Committee postpones vote on GM alfalfa ban
• Malta’s stand on GMOs
• Tribunal decides: Somerset GM contamination si ...
• Tribunal decides: Somerset GM contamination si ...

spiked

• People have too much wealth? Get stuffed!
  Yet another anti-consumerist tract slams people’s obsession with stuff – overlooking the fact that this so-called stuff has improved our lives hugely.
• The decline of the West… again
  A few years ago Niall Ferguson thought Islam would bring about the end of the West. Now he’s scared of China.
• Mastering the dark arts of winning
  With Messi, Iniesta and Xavi in their ranks, Barcelona may play heavenly football but they’re no angels
• Late abortion: the new clash in the Choice Wars
  Ann Furedi says Philadelphia’s ‘Baby Butcher’ scandal shows exactly why we need a principled defence of abortion – as late as necessary.
• Swapping one shade of austerity for another
  Yes, Ireland’s party of government was booted out, but the election was far from ‘truly historic’.

Cryptogon

• U.S. Navy: 7th Fleet Repositions Ships After L ...
  Via: U.S. Navy: From U.S. 7th Fleet Public Affairs PACIFIC OCEAN (March 14, 2011) – The U.S. 7th Fleet has temporarily repositioned its ships and aircraft away from the Fukushima Dai-Ichi Nuclear Power Plant after detecting low level contamination in the air and on its aircraft operating in the ...
• EMERGENCY JAPAN: THREE METER TSUNAMI WARNING F ...
  I have to go out now so I am not monitoring events. Stick with live sources for updates on this. CNN Live: Visual Confirmation From Helicopters: Tsunami inbound, Sendai. — BBC live blog: Sea level has dropped five metres off Fukushima, confirming imminent arrival of tsunami — Source is Reuters l ...
• Implications of Japanese Earthquake
  J writes: Kevin, Would you comment on what the situation in Japan means for the rest of the world. I have been trying to get my head around what has happened, and what is still happening, but I’m not able to do it. Millions of Japanese are without water, food and electricity. Some of the [...]
• Nikkei Down Nearly 5%
  Bloomberg: Bank of Japan Will Add $146 Billion to Stabilize Markets After Earthquake — Pump It: Bloomberg: Japan Adds $86 Billion to Stabilize Markets After Quake: The Bank of Japan began pouring cash into the banking system after the nationâs most powerful earthquake on record, while later toda ...
• Yen Rallies on Repatriation
  Via: Reuters: The yen rallied broadly early in Asia on Monday but quickly pared gains in volatile trade as nervous traders waited to see what action Japanese officials will take to keep markets calm after Friday’s massive earthquake and tsunami hit the country. The Japanese currency had risen sh ...

The Economic Collapse

• Has The Tsunami In Japan Destroyed The Japanes ...
  The entire world is in a state of mourning today as details regarding the horrific damage caused by the massive tsunami in Japan continue to trickle in.  The magnitude 8.9 earthquake that caused the tsunami was the largest earthquake that Japan has ever experienced in modern tim ...
• Should We Be Alarmed That The Biggest Bond Fun ...
  Bill Gross, the manager of the biggest bond fund in the world, has forgotten more about bonds than most of us will ever learn. That is why the big move that PIMCO has just made is so unsettling.  At one time PIMCO held more U.S. government debt than any other bond fund on the [...]
• People Of Earth: Prepare For Economic Disaster
  It is not just the United States that is headed for an economic collapse.  The truth is that the entire world is heading for a massive economic meltdown and the people of earth need to be warned about the coming economic disaster that is going to sweep the globe.  The current wo ...
• Inflation Is Here – Just Open Up Your Ey ...
  Despite what Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says, rampant inflation is officially here.  The federal government is constantly monkeying with the numbers to keep the "official" rate of inflation below 2 percent, but it is becoming very difficult to deny that the cost of al ...
• 5 Dollar Gas? Get Ready To Pay An Arm And A Le ...
  One of the quickest ways to bring down the U.S. economy would be to dramatically increase the price of oil. Oil is the lifeblood of our economic system. Without it, our entire economy would come to a grinding halt. Almost every type of economic activity in this country depends ...

Desertification

• Updated list of my videos (Willem Van Cotthem)
  Here is an updated list of my videos, some of them related to desertification : SCHOOL GARDEN IN SAMBELKUNDA (THE GAMBIA) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF09axycfJ4 BEAUTY OF PHALAENOPSIS ORCHID FLOWERS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVvvZu3SyE4 PHALAENOPSIS ORCHID SYMPHONY http://www.youtube.co ...
• Raise of global sea level by an average of 1.3 ...
  Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110308150228.htm Melting Ice Sheets Now Largest Contributor to Sea Level Rise ScienceDaily (Mar. 8, 2011) â The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are losing mass at an accelerating pace, according to a new NASA-funded satellite study. The … ...
• Global Warming’ Vs. ‘Climate Chang ...
  Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110308173242.htm It’s All in a Name: ‘Global Warming’ Vs. ‘Climate Change’ ScienceDaily (Mar. 9, 2011) â Many Americans are skeptical about whether the world’s weather is changing, but apparently the degree of skepticism varies systematicall ...
• Impact of local deforestation on the snowcap a ...
  Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110305112136.htm Deforestation’s Impact on Mount Kilimanjaro Calculated ScienceDaily (Mar. 9, 2011) â The impact that local deforestation might have on the snowcap and glaciers atop Mount Kilimanjaro are being calculated at The University of ...
• Purification of drinking water contaminated wi ...
  Read at : Science Daily http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110309113030.htm Banana Peels Get a Second Life as Water Purifier ScienceDaily (Mar. 10, 2011) â To the surprisingly inventive uses for banana peels — which include polishing silverware, leather shoes, and the leaves of house … ...

The Paper Trail

• Big banks can fund mortgage aid programs If go ...
  As budget-conscious House Republicans try to kill a $1 billion program to help unemployed Americans avoid foreclosure, Democrat Barney Frank today suggested another funding source: Require the big banks to pick up the tab.
• Philadelphia Housing Authority spent millions ...
  The agency in charge of low-income housing for Philadelphia paid $30.5 million to outside law firms over a three-year period and couldn’t fully explain what the money paid for, according to a new audit.
• No guns in latest ATF raid were knowingly allo ...
  A week after a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives whistleblower described how agents allowed hundreds of U.S. weapons to slip into the hands of Mexican gunrunners, authorities rounded up the mayor and police chief of a small New Mexico town for allegedly conspiring to send weapo ...
• SEC chief says agency lawyer should have recus ...
  WASHINGTON — The head of the Securities and Exchange Commission said Thursday she erred in allowing a former agency official who benefited financially from Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme to play a key role crafting policy on how Madoffs' victims should be compensated.
• House Republicans ask for explanation of ATF g ...
  A group of House Republicans are demanding the details of a federal investigation that enabled guns suspected of being bought by a drug cartel to slip into Mexico.

backofthebook.ca

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

libcom

• On the Occupation at the University of Wiscons ...
  strike.JPG This text was taken from here, posted yesterday. It deserves reproducing because it examines significant problems and contradictions of university occupations that have relevance elsewhere ...
• South-east Asia: thousands strike in Burma and ...
  Burmese Strikers.jpg Shoe factory workers in Burma confront notoriously tyrannical authorities while workers at Yamaha motorcycles in strikes over pay. More than 1,500 workers ...
• Anonymous Anarchist Action hacktivist group fo ...
  anonanarchistactionflag.png A(A)A is the first specifically libertarian communist grouping to emerge out of Anonymous, the world wide hacking network most famous for retaliation operations actions in ...
• Callout for funds for Beyond Resistance, organ ...
  5500731372_a3f8c62ed7_z.jpg On February 22nd at just before 1pm, a devastating earthquake, measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale, and just 10km deep, hit Christchurch, the second biggest city in New Zea ...
• Housing Activist found dead in Warsaw
  jolablokada.png On March 7 we learned that one of the most active members of the tenants' movement, Jolanta Brzeska, was found dead in the woods. Her body had been burnt beyond ...

Free Range International

• Crickets
  Crickets as in “I hear nothing but crickets” is the word of the day for Regimental Combat Team 1 (RCT 1) based in Camp Dwyer and controlling the southern districts of Helmand Province.  I needed to do a little district level coordination last weekend and was able to catch a ride to Marjah with ...
• It Takes A Clue
  Nothing will sour the morale of combat troops faster then the realization that the commander at the top receives frequent visits from the Good Idea Fairy.   Which is a good start point for explaining why  General Stanley A McChrystal took to the pages of Foreign Policy last week to explain the u ...
• Thugs, Mobs And Education
  The news this week has been dominated by the Lara Logan story.  Ms. Logan was the subject of  the most popular post in FRI history which can be found here.  Reactions to the news that Lara was subjected to “a brutal and sustained assault and beating” have cost at least one knucklehead his job ...
• Naw Zad
  I just did something which would have been suicidal 10 months ago.  My colleague Little Mac and I, in the company of a Marine tank officer and Naval surface warfare officer (he’s a fires guy by trade) just strolled around the town of Naw Zad with no body armor, no helmets, no riflemen escorting ...
• Ride For The Brand
  When I first started this blog I used to hammer away on a couple of themes which really bothered me.  The first was Provincial Reconstruction Teams which I maintain are, by design, unable to accomplish their assigned mission. The second theme had to do with the reason we remain in Afghanistan. O ...

The Story Behind the Story

• HAARP AND DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPONS DEPLOYED &#8 ...
  Here’s the EVENT CONTRACT scheduled for 3-11-11 that we discussed on the radio show. (Nothing to do with Planet X – only HAARP and Energy Pulse weapons causing fish kills along the fault zones). The markets are shocked and stunned this morning – and you can bet that Goldman Sachs will be ringing ...
• Krista Branch — REMEMBER WHO WE ARE &#82 ...
  It doesn’t get much better than this — Krista Branch hits a nerve – AMERICA WAKE UP NOW!!!  
• 3-11-11 “Battle for L.A.” Opens in ...
  The Khazarian Controllers of Hollywood have really outdone themselves this time.  Friday, March 11 – the blur between fiction and reality takes another step forward as the “Battle for L.A.” is brought to the silver screen.  Here is a brief trailer: After you watch this trailer, consider the fo ...
• Water, Water, Water — Libya’s Hidd ...
  Friday, March 4, 2011 Virtually unknown in the West: Libya’s water resources A. PEASANT at  twelfthbough.blogspot.com We still wonder how on earth did Gaddafi manage to stay in power for forty years? Did no one notice his madness until now? Did no one notice that he built a HUGE FRESH WATER PIP ...
• Liberty Coins? It’s Either Liberty or L ...
  Friends: We should be watching this one very closely!!  I would hope that reason and JUSTICE prevails here.  It should be self-evident, (that is if we yet are governed by constitutional principles) that PEOPLE have the inherent right to barter and exchange goods and services between themselves ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

• Downsizing – downscaling? See these tiny ...
  Here’s a great company doing inspiring work www.tumbleweedhouses.com The company creator, Jay Shafer started off making a super small mobile home for himself measuring  just 89 square feet! Their video is a testament to less being more – they’re now selling ready made mobile cabins and the plan ...
• Air powered environmentally friendly car being ...
  Sounds a little strange right – an air powered car – why isn’t this big news I wonder… There’s a great company in France operated by a former Formula 1 engineer now producing cars running on compressed air. They’re not great to look at, super fast, or I’m guessing really comfortable, but they’re ...
• Deforestation – environmental & human ef ...
  There are many types of forest in the world from Temperate Forest to Tropical forest. The one thing all forests have in common is that the trees in them act as the lungs to our planet converting CO2 to Oxygen.  In addition, forests provide a canopy or shading of the earth which helps maintain te ...
• Could cancer be Fungus? If so, maybe here&#821 ...
  Recently I visited a dear friend who has been dealing with breast cancer for over ten years. After a long attempt to avoid surgery and medication, she was forced to have a double mastectomy. She has chosen to avoid the chemo treatments. This takes a lot of courage given that the standard thing t ...
• Doctors Warn about GM Food Risks
  It’s barely been a week since I wrote about the dangers of genetically modified (GM) foods and now the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) has released a strongly-worded warning about the health dangers associated with Frankenfoods. Calling for a moratorium on GM foods, the AAEM sa ...

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

• Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian singer-songwriter
  Peter Mansbridge sits down with Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon to discuss his hits, and those songs that were never sung.
• Ed Clark, TD Bank President and CEO (Dec 11, 2010)
  It's now one of the biggest, most powerful banks anywhere -- and it's Canadian. Leading it, a former Ottawa bureaucrat, who walks into the boardrooms of Bay Street and Wall Street with a confidence reserved for the world's most influential business leaders. Ed Clark is our guest this week - and ...
• Pervez Musharraf, former President of Pakistan ...
  He's been a general and a president, leading Pakistan while wearing those both hats in the tense days following 9-11. Now Pervez Musharraf is out of office and exiled from his country. But that hasn't stopped him from wading into the debate about Pakistan, Afghanistan and how countries like C ...
• Wayne Gretzky
  He is the Great One by name, by deed and by reputation. And when Canadians were asked who should be the final torchbearer in Vancouver, he was their first choice. And this week, he's ours. Hockey legend, Wayne Gretzky.
• Mark Tremblay, Healthy Living and Obesity Expe ...
  How fit are we? Not very, if you buy into the steady stream of new studies that have been making the news. They paint a very bleak picture of the present, but an even worse future if current trends continue. This week, our guest tells us why.

Scotts Contracting

• Prop C – Missouri Renewable Energy Stand ...
  On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Erin Noble wrote: Prop C – Missouri Renewable Energy Standard Update and Next Steps Thank you for signing the letter urging Governor Nixon calling on him to veto SCR1 which undercut … Continue reading →
• One Week Until the Introduction to FREE Green- ...
  On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 5:04 PM, CRS Events wrote: One Week Left Until the "Introduction to Green-e" Webinar Series Join us for three upcoming webinars that give an overview of the Green-e programs and how they work … Continue reading →
• Selecting sustainable cabinetry requires caref ...
  A product is only as sustainable as the sum of its parts. In the case of cabinetry, there are quite a few parts–from raw materials to resins to finishes–to add up. Here’s what to look for when selecting cabinetry for … Continue reading →
• Nuclear is not the Answer Dan Rathers
  For everyone who says nuclear waste is not harmful– Lets put some in your Back Yard. ­ [1]As for the Costs Graphs Show- Nuclear Energy is not needed for Clean Energy Production­-Renewable Energy Head-to-He­ad with Nuclear for Clean Energy Production­.[Last … Continue reading →
• Sen. Ben Nelson is 2010 Porker of the Year!
  On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 8:00 AM, Tom Schatz, President, Citizens Against Government Waste wrote: Dear Scotts Contracting, The results are in! Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) is the âwinnerâ of CAGWâs online poll for 2010 Porker of the … Continue reading →

The View From Abroad

• Abraham Lincoln: Biggest Fraud in American Hi ...
  The 150th anniversary of Lincoln's first inaugural is a good time to re-evaluate the Great Emancipator's record.
• What’s Good for the Goose is Good for the Gander
  If Obama can nullify an act of Congress, why can't juries and states?
• Drastic Cuts in Spending are Needed Now
  To avoid food riots spreading to the U.S., Washington must fix its fiscal and monetary problems.
• Hypocrisy of U.S. Foreign Policy Produces Terr ...
  U.S. support of tyrants betrays our principles and contributes to terrorism.
• Putting Things in Perspective
  The shooting in Tucson should make all Americans rethink our tragic War on Terror policies.

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

• Whipping Wisps Into Storm Clouds: Iran and the ...
  As with Iraq, U.S. and Israel extrapolating shreds of evidence against Iran into a casus belli.
• 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.
• One of Hiroshima's Objectives: To Prove the Ma ...
  After Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Congress believed that the Manhattan Project was money well-spent.
• Calls for Libya No-Fly Zone an Excuse to Put A ...
  Reason must not be supplanted by guilt.
• Beneath Shortening the War and Shocking the So ...
  The atomic bombs we dropped on Japan may have been all about Russia.

Law.com

• Latest Chevron Outtake: 'They're All Corrupt!'
  Donziger muses 'The judicial system is so utterly weak' in Corporate Counsel's latest release of outtakes from the documentary Crude.
• Minus Kagan, Supreme Court Lets 'Don't Ask' Po ...
  In an order Friday, the Supreme Court denied a motion aimed at allowing a worldwide ban on enforcement of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays in the military to take effect.
• MGA Loses Effort to Stall Trial in Fee Fight W ...
  A Los Angeles judge issued a tentative ruling Friday denying toymaker MGA Entertainment's efforts to stay a lawsuit that was filed by its former lawyers at O'Melveny & Myers.
• Proskauer and English Firm End Their Merger Di ...
  Proskauer Rose and SJ Berwin said Friday they had decided against merging, putting to an end months of speculation about a possible trans-Atlantic tie-up between the two law firms. The firms in a joint statement said "we recognized that the timetable necessary to reach the agreements that would ...
• IRS Throws In Towel on Closely Watched Interna ...

Iranian.com

• گزارش فرزندان رهنورد و میرحسین ازملاقات سه شنب ...
  چکیده : پس از اتمام این ملاقات محدود و غیر طبیعی از ما مصرانه خواسته شد که در این باره کاملا سکوت کنیم. فشار نیروهای امنیتی برای مسکوت نگه داشتن این موضوع برای ما ابهام برانگیز است. انگیزه ها و دلایل پنهان و آشکار و استفاده های احتمالی از آن هر چه باشد اجبار زندانبانان برای تن دادن به این ملاقات ...
• Iran arrests Bahai followers for proselytising ...
  Iran's Intelligence Ministry has arrested a number of adherents of the Bahai religious minority for proselytising their faith in schools, student news agency ISNA reported on Saturday quoting a court official. The arrests were the outcome of nine months of undercover investigation in the capital ...
• Five Israelis killed in West Bank
  Five Israelis, who according to media reports were all members of the same family, have been killed in an overnight attack on a West Bank settlement. Israeli army officials said on Saturday that a Palestinian got into the Itamar settlement near Nablus in the north of the West Bank and killed ...
• SAS seize Iranian rockets destined for Taliban ...
  The haul is the strongest evidence yet of a significant escalation in Tehran's support for the Taliban, military officials said. The consignment of 48 rockets hidden in three trucks was intercepted last month after a fierce fire fight which left several insurgents dead in the remote souther ...
• ایت الله مکارم: چهارشنبه سوري يك سنت خرافي است
  آيت الله مكارم شيرازي در پاسخ به استفتاء شنوندگان برنامه زمزم احكام راديو معارف، اعمالي كه در چهارشنبه سوري انجام مي گيرد، را حرام دانستند.read more

Most Revolutionary Act

• The War on Public Education
  (As a child and adolescent psychiatrist for 30+ years – and a teacher for two years before that – I have special reason to be concerned by the recent attack on teachers unions and public education in general.) Given increasing school closures and teacher layoffs in many states, moves by Con ...
• The CIA’s Strange Bedfellows in Pakistan
  Owing to Balochistan’s (see prior blog) strategic importance as an energy transit route, its people have long served as pawns for major world powers. The Balochi are an ethnic group belonging to the larger Iranian peoples and speak dialects distantly related to Kurdish. In the 19th century the ...
• Redrawing the Map: the Balkanization of Pakistan
    If Pakistan is an Ally, Why Are We Trying to Break Up Their Country? After ten years of fighting unwinnable wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, many Americans recognize that the wars in the Middle East are really about oil and natural gas, rather than terrorism. Bush’s decision to invade A ...
• Our CIA “Freedom Fighters” in Pa ...
  The CIA’s use of mercenaries to fight covert wars is an essential component of US foreign policy as old as the CIA itself. It effectively evades the Constitutional requirement that only allows Congress to declare war, as well as effectively concealing the vast majority of these “interventions” f ...
• The Way Forward: Join Something!
  While the massive protests in state capitals last week are a great start, Americans still have a long way to go to achieve an Egyptian-style revolution that will restore working democracy in the US. To begin with, American workers need to be better organized. There’s no question that Mubarak’s d ...

Doug's Darkworld

• “The solid human waste matter intersects ...
  The post title, my old friend Ralph Johnson came up with that in high school, it never caught on. At least I think he did, memory is a fuzzy thing, it’s a story we tell ourselves more than anything. Ralph also went around for a year saying “devastating” hoping it would catch on, but alas, [...]
• The Power of Prayer
  “When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.” Various random thoughts on God, atheism, and related topics. What can I say, I gave up my agnostic ways a few weeks back, and [...]
• Charlie Sheen, dead hostages, protesters on a ...
  So I’m walking home from work Thursday afternoon, and there are helicopters circling downtown Berkeley. I’m like, what’s up? I turn on the TV news, and yes, protesters have chained themselves onto a ledge on a building on campus. And I suspect the typical response most people would have, is some ...
• “How is the world ruled and led to war? ...
  The Arab Awakening continues. German tanks roll across Poland. Life goes on in America as if nothing is happening, as if the events unfolding in the Middle East are no more inconvenience than a brief rise in gas prices and a few images of demonstrators on TV. I mean, most Americans couldn’t find ...
• Gaddafi vows to die a martyr, I for one hope h ...
  And by the way, we’re all so screwed by what’s going on now. I should be at work but I just need to keep watching the news and following developments in Libya and elsewhere. Well, mostly reading stuff on line, watching the broadcast news is pretty annoying but I do so for the images they [...]

FourWinds10

• WRAPUP 13: RADIATION LEAKING FROM JAPAN'S QU ...
• EVERYTHING DEAD ! COREXIT FLOATING PLEASE HELP ...
  Five Blocks from my home no LIFE!! 3/6/2011 WERE NEXT! VIEW VIDEO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAz1jdUp6I4 March 6, 2011
• Ecuador orders Chevron to apologize, pay $8.6 ...
• Gulf of Mexico Women Cry Out in Alarm!
  Kendra Andresen and Vickie Perrin were our guests this past Sunday night Jan 30th. It was a very revealing show. They reported about what is and isn't going on in the Gulf. The Gulf is Dead..
• Mystery as greenish-yellow goo falls from the ...

Crisis Maven

• Economic Musings VI: Modern Economies – ...
  There is a great debate in the history of economics whether there can be under-consumption in any real historic moment of the state of an economy and if so, whether it has detrimental effects and if so, what is to be done about it. And modern economists seem to have found a magic wand with [...]
• Blogs and Web Sites you may want to follow
  The following is a list of blogs and websites that CrisisMaven has followed and observed over the last few months and that readers may want to check out from time to time. Note: neither the sequence of how the blogs are listed here nor any comments by CrisisMaven are an endorsement nor criticism ...
• Economic Musings VII: Marketing doesn’t ...
  Have you ever wondered if marketing and advertising are the same, if not, what’s the difference and which is the more important of the two? And why should you care? The most successful economic model is without doubt the market economy. It is the consequence of the wealth effects of the division ...
• CrisisMaven’s Blog News 2010-03-07: Over 25,00 ...
  Yesterday around 16:37 GMT we passed the 25,000 threshold … - next report will probably be posted when we’re past the 50,000 mark. Thanks to all avid readers: on 2010-03-18 at around 19:25 GMT we went past our first 20,000 views on our blog in about eight weeks since we began publishing! After t ...
• Economic Musings VIII: Is there a limit to eco ...
  Something which puzzles many thinkers and frightens many young people concerned about waste or the pillaging of our natural resources is the question: can “an economy” (whatever that is – we’ll come to that in a minute) grow indefinitely? How can there be unlimited economic growth if we’ve never ...

Capital Flow Analysis

• Stock buybacks are bad for investors: Further ...
  In the working paper “The Buyback Monitor - July 2009: Corporate Stock Buyback Profits of 273 Firms from 2000 into 2009“, published on the Social Sciences Research Network, M.A. Gumport, CFA, provides further evidence that stock buybacks are not as good for investors as often touted. The follo ...
• Why Obama’s healthcare scheme portends stagfl ...
  The trillion-dollar Obama health care plan increases the odds that US economic recover will be delayed, and that unemployment and inflation will increase. The main thrust of the Obama plan is to increase taxes on individuals earning more than $250,000 a year, while forcing all but the tiniest ...
• How long would it take to work off the US trad ...
  The rest of the world holds $16.8 trillion in US financial assets, according to Federal Reserve release Z.1, as of Q1 2009. [...]
• Why Bernanke’s flawed “exit strategy” policy p ...
  In a lead op-ed editorial in the Wall Street Journal on July 21, 2009, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke revealed the Fed’s exit strategy with regards to the inflationary effects of the Obama “spending is stimulus” packages and other government measure to contain the current crisis. This ar ...
• Stocks surge on spurious earnings reports: Q2 2009
  No one knows for sure the real earnings of American corporations. In Q1 2009, according to the Federal Reserve flow of funds table F.102, after-tax profits of US non-financial, non-farm corporations, on an annual basis, were about $589.9 billion. However, about 50% of these after-tax earnings ...

R-Squared Energy Blog

• The Mirage of Fail Safe Engineering
  Join the forum discussion on this post Harsh Reality As I have said many times, all of our energy options require trade-offs. I can’t think of any that don’t have some negative consequences and risks associated with their production and/or use. One job of the engineer is to minimize those risk ...
• What You Aren’t Being Told About Ethanol and C ...
  Join the forum discussion on this post Good Ideas Gone Bad History is littered with examples of ideas that seemed to be good for a while, but were later discovered to have unpleasant consequences. The pharmaceutical industry is full of cases of promising drugs that went through testing, receiv ...
• Electric Aviation is the Future of Transport
  Join the forum discussion on this post During an average week, I will see a few ideas that at first glance appear to be a little crazy. On second glance, some of them still seem crazy, but then some of the seemingly crazy ideas are not as crazy as I initially thought. This essay is [...]
• Setting the Record Straight on Cello Energy an ...
  Join the forum discussion on this post The Art of Spin Politicians are known for their ability to spin any situation to make sure it doesn’t present them in an unfavorable light. In that vein, I’m beginning to feel as if Vinod Khosla would make a fine politician. As much as I am tired of writi ...
• The Failure of U.S. Politicians to Open Electr ...
  Join the forum discussion on this post The following guest post was written by Mike Holly, who is the Chairman of Sorgo Fuels in Crosslake, Minnesota. Sorgo is a company involved in the production of energy from sweet sorghum, and Mike can be contacted at smikeholly “at” gmail.com. In his artic ...

Discovery Educator Network

• Pollmo Polls - The simplest polls on the web
  Comments:"Pollmo is the world's simplest polling application. Find out what you want to know today! No account or sign up required - Create a new poll in just three easy steps:" - Fred DelventhalTags: polls, survey, poll, web2.0, tools, pollingby: Fred Delventhal
• Mel & Sydney
  Tags: owl_box, Live_web_camby: Cheryl Lykowski
• Monthly Holiday Lists | Articles
  Comments:Monthly Holiday lists include popular holidays for each month plus other lists associated with each month. - Fred DelventhalTags: lists, holiday, monthly, spelling, vocabulary, education, languagearts, holidaysby: Fred Delventhal
• Common Core State Standards Initiative | Home
  Tags: national_standardsby: eva harvell
• hmstateproject - home
  Comments:Elementary student project connecting all 50 states with students in Milwaukee, Wisconsin via @imcguy. - Dean MantzTags: collaboration, geography, socialstudies, hmstateproject, wiki, states, projects, imcguyby: Dean Mantz

Rodale News

• What's Better, Local or Organic?
  RODALE NEWS, ANAHEIM, CA—Natural Products Expo West, the largest trade show in the country showcasing natural and organic food and products, kicked off in Anaheim Thursday with a focus on farms and locally grown food. Although the show features many healthy, ecofriendly non-edibles, like reusab ...
• Tanning Salons Named as Major Threat to Kids' ...
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—These facts about the dangers of tanning don’t make for very sunny reading: Overexposure to ultraviolet radiation (UVR) has dramatically increased melanoma risk in this country in the last 30 years. The most rapid increases of this lethal form of skin cancer have occurre ...
• Weight-Loss Secrets for Fat Cats and Plump Dogs
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Diabetes, arthritis, other chronic diseases…obesity takes a toll on your health and can rack up huge medical bills. And if you're a dog or cat, you're just as vulnerable. According to a new report from the Association for Pet Obesity Prevention (APOP), an epidemic of fel ...
• Pass the Mealworms Please: Why Eating Insects ...
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PAâThe factory farms of the commercial livestock industry are a large contributor to greenhouse-gas production, not to mention antibiotic-resistant germs. Those are good reasons to shop around for tasty organic beef and chicken, and maybe make your diet a little less meat-c ...
• The Nickel Pincher: Easy, Crispy, Crunchy, Hea ...
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—For most of us, crackers are things that come in plastic sleeves with a bunch of unpronounceable ingredients, and usually go stale before we have a chance to eat them all. But homemade crackers are actually remarkably easy to make, not to mention healthier than most pack ...

big think

• What if?
  Let’s dream for a minute. What if we lived in a world in which students and educators… had access to all of the information in their textbooks – and an incredible wealth of primary documents – for free? had access to free, robust, and often multimedia and interactive learning resources (text ...
• Final Round XIV Video Game Tournament Celebrat ...
  If I wasn't out of town, helping our peripatetic college student move out of her dorm at the end of the quarter, I would probably be going to a video game tournament today... ...despite the fact that I have never played a modern video game. The first video game I remember playing regularly w ...
• Are College Students Too Liberal to Vote?
  One way to win to elections is to keep the people who support your opponent from voting. That’s why Republicans in New Hampshire proposed new laws last week making it difficult for college students to vote. Last year, a conservative group calling itself Latinos for Reform ran an ad suggesting ...
• 2 Partial Meltdowns as Nuclear Disaster Worsen ...
  It's now Sunday morning, and the situation in Japan continues to get worse by the hour. Clearly, as everyone is now universally admitting in the media, we are witnessing the greatest reactor accident since Chernobyl.� New developments:� 1. The Japanese government has now�acknowledged�that ...
• Is Altruism More Practical? (Or is Practical ...
  So I know you've missed me:� Well, I've been busy hearing about various scientific accounts of virtue at the meeting of the recipients of the University of Chicago Science of Virtues grant recipients.� The payoff for you, over the next few weeks, is that I picked up a lot of blog-fodder. But I ...

Information Liberation

• Nuclear Melt-Down? The Government to the Rescue
  The nuclear power plant failures and explosions near Fukushima, Japan are an excellent case example of the failure of government. Here, the Japanese government has been horribly derelict before, during and after this incident. This freak occurre...
• Government Union Thug Commits Terror Attack, I ...
  The band was rocking, the crowd was dancing, and a good time was being had by all at the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo when something went very wrong. People suddenly started coughing and choking, and several panicked people fled from the tent where...
• New Orleans Cop Smacks Video Camera Out of Man ...
  A New Orleans police officer violently smacked a camera out of the hands of a man as he was videotaping them making an arrest. Ritchie Katko, 30, was standing several feet away from a group of officers making an arrest when one of the officers tur...
• A Governmental Campaign Against Bullying? Really?
  At a White House meeting on the topic today, the Obamas launched the web site StopBullying.gov * taking a laudable, if inconsistently held, stand against bullying. Seldom before has so much irony been encapsulated in just the URL for a site alone. A...
• The Broken Window Is Not the Only Fallacy Bein ...
  First the great Larry Summers pronounced that the earthquake and tsunami will bring positive economic benefits to Japan. Now this morning*s New York Times greets us with the headline, *Japan's Strict Building Codes Saved Lives*. Not property rights...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

• What Are Rights?
  Itâs pretty much impossible these days to switch on the TV, radio or internet without hearing someone or other speaking of rights. âI have a right!â, âItâs my right…â, âMy rights have been violated!â Typically, claims of rights take the … Continue reading →
• The Gates Re-open…
  …and youâve all been issued with a golden ticket. The few weeksâ closure I announced last November have turned into a few months. Sorry about that. But the break, apart from allowing me to clear a very large backlog of … Continue reading →
• Ozboy’s Bar And Grill Is Closed For Repairs
  It’s only temporary. A couple of weeks. But the recent shenanigans round here have forced me to do some thinking about how LibertyGibbert can run better in the future. I’ve spoken to a couple of you about this today, to … Continue reading →
• The Dragon’s Dissent Part III: Naked Nat ...
  The emergence of China as the world’s new superpower has raised many questions in the international community and across the blogosphere regarding the longer-range agenda of the Middle Kingdom. In a recent discussion on this forum, the question of Chinese … Continue reading →
• U.S. Elections: Will Liberty Win?
  Well today’s the day. As just about every other blog in the sphere is covering the elections today, I thought I’d throw the forum open, and we can discuss the results as they come in, in real time. If as … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

• Nuclear reactor explosion, not nuclear explosion
  It is not skilful engineering or clever reactor design that precludes a nuclear explosion at a nuclear power plant, it is the laws of physics. The materials in a nuclear reactor core and the uranium enrichment level make impossible a nuclear explosion of the type for which nuclear weapons are de ...
• A periodic table of periodic table songs
  I’ve created an unusual Periodic Table. In this rendering of the classic PT, each element represents, not a chemical element, but a version of the classic Tom Lehrer song, The Elements; it’s every chemist’s favourite song, so why not? There are also a few ringers, see if you can spot them. But, ...
• Six science selections
  Astrologer Richard Nolle says the March 19 Supermoon will cause major earthquakes or other disasters. Scientists are not expecting any major disasters from the supermoon. | Space.com – On March 19, the moon will swing around Earth more closely than it has in the past 18 years, lighting up the ni ...
• The Endangered Elements Song
  Yesterday, I mentioned the rather serious issue of periodic threats, materials security, and dwindling elemental resources. I rather flippantly suggested that someone ought to do a cover version of the classic Tom Lehrer song, The Elements, which is sung to the tune of Gilbert & Sullivan‘s I am ...
• We are running out of chemicals
  Did you know there will soon be gaps in the Periodic Table? I say gaps, it’s not so much gaps as greyed out boxes where an element has become so scarce that our using it will no longer be a technological option. I’ve written about materials security before but the issue was raised by The [...]We ...

RFF Library

• Japan–Earthquake/Tsunami Resources
  INFOdocket http://infodocket.com/2011/03/11/japan-earthquaketsunami-resources/ We will continue to update this collection as new resource are discovered and/or events warrant. Filed under: New Web Tool, The Natural World Tagged: Disaster, New Web Resource
• Vehicle Electrification Policy Study
  International Council on Clean Transportation / Chuck Shulock, Ed Pike, Alan Lloyd, and Robert Rose http://www.theicct.org/pubs/ICCT_VEPstudy_March2011.pdf [From Report Page] Transforming the passenger and light-duty vehicle fleet into one more heavily reliant on electric vehicles will demand co ...
• Improving Energy Market Regulation Domestic an ...
  Council on Foreign Relations / by Daniel P. Ahn http://tinyurl.com/4qpjut7 Highs and volatile energy prices have driven the regulation of commodity financial markets to the forefront of the U.S. and G20 policy agendas, including the upcoming 2011 G20 meeting in France. Integrated commodity marke ...
• Implementation of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery ...
  US NOAA, National Marine Fisheries Service http://www.legislative.noaa.gov/Testimony/Schwaab030811.pdf [PEN-e posting]  This testimony of Eric Schwaab, Assistant Administrator of the National Marine Fisheries Service, before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, Subcommit ...
• Flood Insurance: Public Policy Goals Provide a ...
  Government Accountability Office http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-11-429T?source=ra Congressional action is needed to increase the financial stability of NFIP and limit taxpayer exposure. GAO previously identified four public policy goals that can provide a framework for crafting or evaluating pr ...

Scientific American - News

• Inventing the Future of Energy: A Q&A with ARP ...
  NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.--Every day the U.S. imports $1 billion worth of oil. Yet, the nation is no closer to weaning itself from such foreign oil than it was 40 years ago when President Carter called energy reform the " moral equivalent of war ."Enter ARPA–e , the Advanced Research Projects Agency ...
• Nuclear Experts Explain Worst-Case Scenario at ...
  First came the earthquake , centered just off the east coast of Japan, near Honshu. The horror of the tsunami quickly followed. Now the world waits as emergency crews attempt to stop a core meltdown from occurring at the Fukushima Daichi nuclear reactor, already the site of an explosion of th ...
• Worldwide Monitoring Network Allows for Rapid ...
  At 2:46 P.M. Tokyo time, one of the largest earthquakes of the past century hit just off the coast of Honshu, the main island of Japan. The 8.9-magnitude quake stirred up massive tsunami waves that battered coastal cities, especially along the east coast north of Tokyo. [More] ...
• Blue Carbon: An Oceanic Opportunity to Fight C ...
  Mangroves are tangled orchards of spindly shrubs that thrive in the interface between land and sea. They bloom in muddy soil where the water is briny and shallow, and the air muggy. Salt marshes and sea grasses also flourish in these brackish hinterlands. Worldwide, these coastal habitats are re ...
• 2011 Lemelson--M.I.T. Student Inventor Prizes ...
  The Lemelson–M.I.T. Program recognized four student inventors Wednesday poised to make a profound impact in the areas of disease diagnostics, drug development, assistive devices such as wheelchairs, and security screening for explosives. Each of the winners--from the California Institute of Tech ...

First Truths

• To Vote Is To Choose Your Masters
  With an eye to new state voting bills, I commented for C4SS: At the same time, hand in hand with the tyranny of the majority problem, American democracy can be considered as facilitating the tyranny of the minority. Where, as in the United States, political debate and electoral politics are conf ...
• Afghanistan and the Neoliberal Empire
  For the Center for a Stateless Society, I wrote: For the economic program of the American ruling class to function, governments amenable to its hierarchical, corporate framework are a practical imperative. Today, the Big Business economic blueprint, created by and for the state’s elites, is so u ...
• The Greenspan Version of "Free Market"
  For the Center for a Stateless Society, I wrote: The related falsehoods — that Republicans favor anything remotely similar to a free market and that Democrats are all that standing between us and the GOP’s dog-eat-dog version of laissez faire — are belied by the fact that, as articulated by Kevi ...
• Contaminants of the Corporate State
  For the Center for a Stateless Society, I take on Texaco as a useful example of the corporate malfeasance generated by the state: Responsibility and stewardship won't — indeed can't — result from a system where a tiny elite controlling huge hoards of resources doesn't have to literally pay for i ...
• Organized Crime Fights Organized Crime?
  At the Center for a Stateless Society, I write: The rudiment of anarchism's canon "no masters," its starting point, is an unambiguous attention to basic and widely-accepted moral values, not an involved, scholarly rationale but an affirmation of principles that almost all of us adhere to anyway. ...

Media Co-Op

• **URGENT** Montréal : vigile pour les arrêtéEs ...
  Le 12 mars, lors de la grande manifestation syndicale de Montréal, 12 personnes ont été arrêtée sur la base de leur apparence physique et leur orientation politique. En effet, les policiers sont intervenus pour retirer les gens ciblés du rassemblement, sur des bases complètement arbitraires, pou ...
• Report from revolutionary Tunisia
  Interview with photojournalist Matthew Cassel in Tunisia Listen to an interview from revolutionary Tunisia featuring journalist and photographer Matthew Cassel, editor at Electronic Intifada. Cassel speaks about the ongoing struggle for ju ...
• Free and Accessible Transit campaign builds it ...
  Their movement may still be in its initial stages, but organizers of the Free and Accessible Transit campaign were not short of ideas at their latest meeting. Last Thursday, nine representatives from the Greater Toronto Workers’ Assembly (GTWA) congregated in a College Street boardroom to discus ...
• Making Waves
  Local musician plans paddling tour in honour of friend's life After the death of a close friend in 2009, Halifax-based musician Zac Crouse opted to pay tribute in a manner reflective of the life that had been lost. His upcoming Paddle to t ...
• Are There Any Limits to Free Expression in a D ...
  What follows is an essay I have a court order to write as punishment for a postering offense that is at this moment being sent to the judge and the crown. I would normally prefer not to use my name when expressing my views on the internet ...

David Seaton's News Links

• Arab Spring is 1989? Whose 1989?
  Barack ObamachevIn the last decade, America has tried applying our individualistic narrative to the Middle East. Now, as the people in multiple countries there struggle to take greater control for themselves, we want to see our story play out in their efforts, and we worry that it won't. Sheena ...
• What the hell is Rupert Murdoch up to?
  "Der Antisemitismus ist der Sozialismus der dummen Kerle" "Antisemitism is the socialism of fools" August Bebel David Seaton's News LinksI am coming to the conclusion that something very strange is going on.� I come to that conclusion merely starting from the simple premise ...
• America: only one revolution to a customer
  David Seaton's News LinksWhy is it that when you study the graph above and then read the quotes below, the graph seems so real and the quotes seem some sort of political science fiction, verging from the absurd and childish to the puzzled or even hopeless?�What you are looking at in Tunisia, in ...
• The unbearable levity of Wikileaks and the rig ...
  David Seaton's News LinksI received the following comment on my last post:So previously, you did not think that globalization and instant communication tools were radiically changing the world?� It wasn't until wikileaks that you realized this was happening? Helloooo?�� To which I am tempted t ...
• Globalization and its discontents: a new paradigm
  I have an "impossibility theorem" for the global economy (...). It says that democracy, national sovereignty and global economic integration are mutually incompatible: we can combine any two of the three, but never have all three simultaneously and in full.� Dani Rodrik - Kennedy School Harv ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

• EPA to require tap water tests for unregulated ...
  Contact: EWG public affairs 202.667.6982 The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed a nationwide plan to require water utilities to test drinking water for 28 contaminants currently unregulated by federal law, including six... [[ This is a content summary only. Vis ...
• New Map Reveals Hot Spots in Emerging Global F ...
  Contact: Patricia Brooks, 202-351-1757, patricia@matchmapmedia.com, Donald Carr, 202-939-9141, don@ewg.org Washington, DC – Volatile food markets and food insecurity contributed to the civic unrest that recently brought down... [[ This is a content summary only. Visi ...
• Seasoned Capitol Hill Reporter Joins EWG Publ ...
  Contact: Contact EWG Public Affairs 202-667-6982 Washington, D.C. – The Environmental Working Group is pleased to announce the arrival of Sara Sciammacco as the newest member of its public affairs team as a press secretary. She comes to... [[ This is a content summar ...
• EWG Fans More Than One Million Strong
  Contact: EWG public affairs 202.667.6982 Washington, D.C. – Since 2006, Environmental Working Group has been building an email list of engaged consumers who sign up to get regular alerts about our latest research and practical tips to... [[ This is a content summary onl ...
• EWG Comments to Dioxin Review Panel
  February 24th, 2011 February 23, 2010 Dr. Timothy Buckley, Chair Dioxin Review Panel of the Science Advisory Board Environmental Protection Agency 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W. Washington, DC 20460 Dear Dr. Buckley, These comments are... [[ This is a cont ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

• Baby Laughing Hysterically at Ripping Paper
  This 8 month old boy laughed hysterically while when his dad ripped up a job rejection letter. It was so much fun that they moved on to credit card solicitations!
• This 'Beloved' Food Can Cause Allergic Reactio ...
  Soy can be found in almost every product on your grocery store shelves -- corn chips, ice cream, canned tuna and every packaged food you can think of. It goes under names like yeast extract, soy protein, soybean oil, soy lecithin and soy flour. But soy is one of the top eight allergens that cau ...
• Is this Causing Your Chronic Cough?
  Vitamin B-12 deficiency is a known cause of central and peripheral nervous system damage. It has been implicated in sensory neuropathy and autonomic nervous system dysfunction -- which can in turn have a role in chronic, unexplained coughs. A recent study showed that vitamin B-12 deficiency pa ...
• Government 'Cops' Know They Can't Protect You ...
  By Dr. Mercola Instead of fading away over the years, the business of defrauding the government of billions of dollars annually is not only� still going strong, but is increasing, according to the most recent report from the Health Care Fraud and Abuse Program. And Baby-Boomers beware: You' ...
• What NOT to Do Before Your Next Dental Appoint ...
  Researchers at the University of Otago, in Dunedin, New Zealand compared impacted third molar extractions in the same patient with and without antibiotic prophylaxis. Ninety-five patients were divided into two groups and served as their own control, receiving antibiotics for one surgery and plac ...

JAMA

• Increasing the Global Health Workforce [Letters]
• Increasing the Global Health Workforce--Reply ...
• FDA Takes Slow Road Toward Withdrawal of Drug ...
• Study Suggests Gene May Predict Success of The ...
• First MRI-Safe Pacemaker Receives Conditional ...

Survival - tribal peoples

• 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

• Urgent action needed on hockey violence
  Everybody's talking since the Pacioretty hit by Chara. Here's who should butt out and who should step up
• Access delayed is access denied
  Is the public health-care system delaying access to the latest technology?
• Upside of an election: we'd save $4 million
  There are a lot of useful things that the federal government could do with $4 million. Certainly much better things than advertising the upcoming federal budget.
• Shale-gas report offers something for all
  Quebec's environmental review agency, the Bureau des audiences publiques sur l'environnement, has rendered a Solomonic judgment in its eagerly awaited report on shale-gas exploitation. There is something in its recommendations for all concerned: the government, the industry, and the environmenta ...
• Editorial: Graffiti and a sad, senseless death
  In the annals of senseless crime in this city, the killing of Brian Kachur stands out as a particularly sad case. Sad for the loss of a young life. Sad for his family and friends. Sad even for his killers, whose foolish crime will doubtless haunt them for the rest of their lives. Sad because it ...

Food World Order

• 2/10 binge & purge: seeders, makers, actions
  secret seeders plant edible veggies for inner-city poor* raw milk cheesemakers fret over possible new rules* military steps in to buy up gulf seafood* high sugar prices stimulate neotame/nutrasweet take up* action: ask hhs to end US water fluoridation program* natural news launche ...
• 1/27 binge & purge: fake food future
  yo quiero weird ingredients: lawsuit vs taco bell's fake beef* fox covers fake blueberries story uncovered by natural news* the naked truth about kids' food advertising* 'bug mac' & lovely 'grub': food of the future* US makes record soybean sale to china* pick your poison: the ...
• 3/10 binge & purge: dustbowl, perceptions, sov ...
  US farmers fear the return of the dust bowl* new survey on hunger in america measures problems, perceptions; part of awareness campaign w/ tyson foods* usda criticizes ground beef testing for e. coli* US makes biggest canada feed wheat buy in decade* sedgwick, maine declares 'food so ...
• 'flossophy' fundraiser for health-conscious ki ...
  my girlfriend, the amazing cassie cohn, is currently raising funds for her latest directing project: a music video for 'flossophy 101', a health-conscious kid's song by van oodles ... if you support media monarchy, please consider a donation and help give this project some teeth! 'flossophy ...
• fda official: "just eat a goddamn vegetable"
  from onion news network: During the Daily Briefing, Tucker Hope reports that the FDA is urging Americans to put something green in their dumb mouths.

CrusadeWatch

• 'Religion' will be the Cause of World War III
  source: Blitz weekly, February 23, 2011 by Dirgha Raj Prasai When blind people separately feel the organs and limbs of an elephant they come to varying conjectures. Similarly, the Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim and Christian religions are exchanging recriminations for their own persistenc ...
• Our Public Schools Their Mission Field
  source:  Awaypoint, Feb 4, 2011 The Gospel has been taught freely in public schools all over the world for some time.  Now children in the U.S. have that opportunity, too! from the Child Evangelism Fellowship website A fundamentalist Christian organization, Child Evangelism Fe ...
• Caste divide
  source: Frontline, Feb 22, 2011 S. DORAIRAJ � � Tensions run high within the Christian community in Thachur village, and the government has adopted a hands-off approach for now.  A. MURALITHARAN ...
• 'Eppadium' (Anyhow), the most recent novel of ...
  source:  Frontline,  Feb 22, 2011 WIELDING the pen with power and determination to smash the injustice and discrimination against Dalit Christians and other oppressed masses is part of the priestly duties of Fr Mark Stephen.
• Lessons from Conversion by Burning Temples and ...
  Over the last decade, a large number of Buddhist temples in Korea had been destroyed or damaged by fanatically devout Christians. More recently, the Buddha statues, regarded as the devil, were attacked and beheaded in the name of Jesus.

Whole Truth Coalition

• Lawfull Rebellion - Roger Hayes challenges Liv ...
  “Wirral Council is taking Roger Hayes to Birkenhead county court for non-payment of council tax. Mr Hayes, chairman of The British Constitution Group, claims the council tax is illegal and imposed without his consent. His stand has won support from all over the country, and demonstrators travel ...
• Mary Rodwell The New Human Vers. 02
• Robert Green, Hollie and Ann Greig at The &#82 ...
  Robert Green, Hollie and Anne Greig have confirmed they will be appearing at the Child Snatching By The State conference being held on April 10th in Stafford, UK. In recent years, there has been a steady increase in media reports concerning Mothers and Fathers, Grandparents and Families reporti ...
• COTO Report British Edition: An Interview with ...
  COTO Report British Edition goes to the Isle of Wight to bring you an almost three hour long interview with Mr. David Icke by Megan ‘Verb’ Kargher.  In this interview we discuss his new book entitled Human Race Get Off Your Knees, the Lion Sleeps No More, the nature of reality and politics. link ...
• A Warm Embrace - The Great Bell Chant
  A Warm Embrace - The Great Bell Chant from R Smittenaar on Vimeo. Watch in Full Screen, believe me it’s worth it!

The Economic Collapse

• Has The Tsunami In Japan Destroyed The Japanes ...
  The entire world is in a state of mourning today as details regarding the horrific damage caused by the massive tsunami in Japan continue to trickle in.  The magnitude 8.9 earthquake that caused the tsunami was the largest earthquake that Japan has ever experienced in modern tim ...
• Should We Be Alarmed That The Biggest Bond Fun ...
  Bill Gross, the manager of the biggest bond fund in the world, has forgotten more about bonds than most of us will ever learn. That is why the big move that PIMCO has just made is so unsettling.  At one time PIMCO held more U.S. government debt than any other bond fund on the [...]
• People Of Earth: Prepare For Economic Disaster
  It is not just the United States that is headed for an economic collapse.  The truth is that the entire world is heading for a massive economic meltdown and the people of earth need to be warned about the coming economic disaster that is going to sweep the globe.  The current wo ...
• Inflation Is Here – Just Open Up Your Ey ...
  Despite what Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says, rampant inflation is officially here.  The federal government is constantly monkeying with the numbers to keep the "official" rate of inflation below 2 percent, but it is becoming very difficult to deny that the cost of al ...
• 5 Dollar Gas? Get Ready To Pay An Arm And A Le ...
  One of the quickest ways to bring down the U.S. economy would be to dramatically increase the price of oil. Oil is the lifeblood of our economic system. Without it, our entire economy would come to a grinding halt. Almost every type of economic activity in this country depends ...

CASSE

• The Full Seas Act and the College of the 21st ...
  by Brian Czech If we aren’t living in an “educable moment,” then we must be dumber than a doggone boot.  Financial collapse, fiscal crisis, skyrocketing gas prices, global warming, revolutions in crowded countries, unemployment all around… let’s graduate from the College of the 21st Century and ...
• Growth of GDP and Discontent in Egypt and Tunisia
  Egypt and Tunisia have a lesson: GDP is a measure of the commotion of money in an economy, not a measure of delivered well-being.
• A Liberating (but Damned Uncomfortable) Conversion
  Herman Daly entreats economists not to eschew the wonderful wisdom of Wendell Berry.
• Economic and Environmental Perspective on Pres ...
  Brent Blackwelder remembers Ronald Reagan's ruinous results for the environment and the economy.
• How to Fix a Household Crisis
  Why are the fields of economics and ecology in crisis, and how can we work toward a solution?

The Talking Clock

• Bill Cash MP tips defenders of the national co ...
  Now then, fellow national constitution defenders - and you freemen who I so admire... want to see a politician standing up in the House of Commons telling you that you are RIGHT!? That the constitution DOES come first and that statutes have to - lawfully - play second fiddle? This is a gem... ...
• Sunday Paper Review: 13th March 2011
  It will come as little surprise to anyone that the events in Japan dominate the newspapers this Sunday. As far as this blog is concerned, we avoided comment as there seems little sensible anyone can say. At least we're not sitting there saying the words 'incredible' and/or 'devestation' in ...
• Quote of the Day: Stuff 'EU', Nick Clegg edition
  "The greatest irony possible would be for an unelected Baroness Ashton, who has never stood for any office in her life, lecturing Colonel Gaddafi, who has likewise never stood for election, on how to make Libya more democratic. One unelected empire cannot give lectures on how to do democracy to ...
• Airstrikes in Libya did not take place - Russi ...
  See also: Prison Planet.com - Russian Military Claims Libya Air Strikes Did Not Happen
• Quote of the Day: No2AV edition
  Oh good. We're in agreement... "We recognise that some of those strongly committed to proportional representation genuinely believe that the alternative vote is an incremental step to the fairer system of proportional representation. But we do not accept that the electoral voting system can b ...

Facing South

• VOICES: Meet the scandal-plagued billionaire b ...
  By Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest The bond between David Koch and Scott Walker is not the only relationship between a reactionary billionaire and a rightwing politician contaminating the U.S. political scene. Attention also needs to be paid to what's going on between Sheldon Adelson and Ne ...
• Fort Bragg infant death toll may climb to twelve
  By Joaquin Sapien, ProPublica and Aaron Kessler, Sarasota Herald-Tribune A 12th infant apparently has died of undetermined causes in military housing at Fort Bragg, N.C., and� investigators are now trying to determine whether the death is linked to fumes from contaminated drywall or some othe ...
• Another citizen lawsuit against a coal company ...
  Environmental watchdogs are taking yet another coal mining company to court over massive violations of the federal Clean Water Act in Kentucky, raising questions about the state's ability to oversee the industry effectively. Nally and Hamilton Enterprises received notice [pdf] yesterd ...
• Florida lawmaker warns North Carolina against ...
  A Florida lawmaker recently wrote the governor of North Carolina warning her state against adopting a financing plan for new power plants that turned into a economic disaster for his state's ratepayers. Florida State Sen. Mike Fasano (in photo) -- a conservative, pro-business Republic ...
• Come celebrate 40 years of change in the South!
  The Institute is 40 years old -- and we want you to come help us celebrate! On Saturday, March 26 come join us in Durham, North Carolina as we celebrate the Institute's four decades of working for a more just, democratic and sustainable South. The exciting and inspiring Rev. Lennox Yearwood ...

CenterLine

• Today’s Terrorism News
  Amid Criticism, Rep. King Opens Radicalization Hearings A series of congressional hearings on the radicalization of American Muslims opened Thursday, with at times emotional testimony from seven witnesses, who offered divergent claims – that the the Muslim community is ignoring … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Man Arrested in MLK Parade Bomb Case A man with past ties to a white supremacist group was arrested early Wednesday by federal agents in connection with the bomb found on January 17 along a MLK parade route in Spokane, … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Bombings Kill Scores in Pakistan A suicide bomber attacked the funeral procession for an anti-Taliban tribal elderâs wife in northwest Pakistan Wednesday. Early reports on the death toll from the attack differed, but multiple reports said at least 30 people … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Obama Resumes Military Trials at Guantanamo Two years after ordering a halt to new military charges against detainees at Guantanamo, President Obama issued an executive order Monday allowing the resumption of military trials at the prison and put forward a … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Congressional Hearings on Muslim Radicalization to Begin Thursday With a series of House hearings on the radicalization of American Muslims beginning Thursday, the White House moved this weekend to reassure Muslims that it âwill not stigmatize or demonize entire communities … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

• Today on New Scientist: 8 March 2011
  All today's stories on NewScientist.com, including: engineered urethras, elephant cooperation, and close encounters of the mud-slinging kind
• The secret life of a container lost at sea
  The 10,000 shipping containers lost at sea every year can disrupt ecosystems and may even create "stepping stones" which help invasive species spread
• Bird boom in wake of mad cow outbreak
  North American birds boom in years following mad cow outbreaks in Europe
• Today on New Scientist: 7 March 2011
  All today's stories on NewScientist.com, including: GPS chaos, Nathan Myhrvold, handheld cameras to see through objects, and a sparky Frankenstein
• Fukushima explosion: radioactive core appears ...
  An explosion has ripped through a nuclear power plant damaged by Friday's Japanese megaquake, although the reactor core seems to be intact

Tech Drive In

• VLC Celebrating its Tenth Birthday, VLC Truly ...
  Like most of you, VLC Media Player has been an integral part of my life around Linux�which started nearly 4 years ago. VLC is celebrating its 10 birthday and we at Tech Drive-in wish the awesome people behind VLC all the very best for the future. 10 Years of Open Source - VLC Media Player ...
• DNA Structure Animation in HTML5
  If you don't know what HTML5 is or how crucial it is to the whole future of the Internet ecosystem, you need to check out our previous article featuring 15�incredible�HTML5 demos showcasing prowess of HTML5 over Adobe Flash. Here is another nice and interesting HTML5 experiment that generates a ...
• Integrating Software Center with Launchpad(Mockup)
  While�Tweak-Center mockup was a brilliant idea that stood out from the rest of the crowd, here is another very interesting concept that demands your attention.�USC Launchpad Concept integrates Ubuntu Software Center with Launchpad and thereby provide easy access of hundreds of awesome applicatio ...
• Top 8 Newest GNOME GTK Themes Worth Trying Out
  If you are a regular here, you must already know that posts relating to Linux desktop eyecandy corners a huge chunk of our daily dose of Ubuntu/Linux articles. On top of the classic and most popular GTK themes for Ubuntu/GNOME we have�featured�here before, here are a bunch of very new and very a ...
• What Makes Diaspora Special?
  You all must be already aware of open source Facebook alternative called Diaspora. I have been using it for a month now and I am really starting to like it. Now a lot of people ask me what's so special about Diaspora, what makes it different. For that, you need to watch this "introduction to Dia ...

Case About Bird Flu

• AUSTRIAN JUSTICE MINISTRY TRIED TO BRING DEFAM ...
  - THE AUSTRIAN MINISTRY OF JUSTICE ASKED STATE PROSECUTORS TO BRING CHARGES OF DEFAMATION AGAINST ME IN DECEMBER 2010 - THE CASE HAD TO BE DROPPED IN FEBRUARY BECAUSE I HAD GIVEN SO MUCH PROOF OF THE CORRUPTION OF  JUDGE MICHAELA LAUER AND OTHER JUSTICE OFFICIALS - OFFICIAL VIKTOR EGGERT ADMITTE ...
• Is Austria worse than Sudan? My experience wit ...
  When I filed charges against Baxter in April 2009 for contaminating 72 kilos of seasonal flu vaccine with the deadly bird flu virus, I had no idea Austrian justice officials were going to turn out to be the extended arm of a criminal network and that I was going to be in danger of losing [...]
• Data shows flu vaccines double risk of getting ...
  Vaccines may have increased swine flu risk By Annie Guest From: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/03/04/3155750.htm Updated Fri Mar 4, 2011 7:37pm AEDT There is renewed controversy surrounding influenza vaccines, with some studies showing people immunised against the seasonal flu might hav ...
• German defence minister Guttenberg to face cri ...
  Prosecutors to investigate plagiarism charges against ex-minister Mar 3, 2011, 15:28 GMT Berlin – German prosecutors are to conduct a formal investigation into plagiarism allegations against former defence minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, they announced Thursday. Earlier in the day, Guttenbe ...
• New Irish government betrays every election pr ...
  Voter betrayal: FG/Labour to ditch pledges on economy They will brazenly follow Fianna Fail’s four-year austerity plan as Labour protects public sector By JODY CORCORAN Sunday March 06 2011 The Fine Gael/Labour coalition Government is to implement in detail the outgoing Government’s four-year au ...

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 ( ...

Veterans Today

• ROGER WATERS :Tear down this Israeli wall
  I want the music industry to support Palestinians’ rights and oppose this inhumane barrier by Roger Waters In 1980, a song I wrote, Another Brick in the Wall Part 2, was banned by the government of South Africa because it was being used by black South African children to advocate their right t ...
• LAWRENCE DAVIDSON : ON THE DENIAL OF COMMUNITY ...
  Governor Corbett�s claim is inaccurate. The fact is that PA, and other states in similar situations, do have the money to eliminate deficits and fund important social services like education. � Dr. Lawrence Davidson I live in a university town just west of the city of Philadelphia Pennsylvania ( ...
• 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 ...
• ALLEN L ROLAND : Band of Brothers #5 / The mir ...
  They had never met me but they had been told about me, by their adjustment counselor Sal, and were prepared for an eight week commitment to face their fears and open their hearts in the process. They knew I was a licensed psychotherapist but also a former active duty Naval aviator ~ and that mad ...
• Forced marriage: Northern, Afghanistan Mazar-i ...
  Four years back when the Taliban regime was still ruling over Afghanistan, an old man in his 70s got married to a 16 years old girl without her consensus. The man called Namaz who has got another wife too, claims that he had paid 15,000,000 Afghanis (Equivalent to US$ 1,500) to her father as dow ...

electric politics

• A Sweet Voice of Reason
  There's nobody I would rather have on my side in a meeting than Dr. Alton Frye, a former president of Council on Foreign Relations. Even if you disagree with him — and even if he's wrong — Alton is so pleasant, reasonable, and diplomatic that he finds the critical points of accommodation. Where ...
• The Anthrax Letters
  Without the anthrax letter attacks in September-October 2001 it's quite possible — indeed, likely — that the Patriot Act would not have become law. Coincidence, or conspiracy? I've always been skeptical of the "lone nut" theory because, it seems to me, once an individual had started sending ant ...
• A Dialectical Moment in Madison?
  The U.S. plutocracy won't feel safe until it's crushed all resistance. Case in point, the organized way the plutocrats set their sights on Wisconsin — the birthplace of public sector unions — hoping that Scott Walker, the newly elected Republican Governor, would show the rest of the country how ...
• The Truth About Taxes
  In the economics profession, a "Harberger's triangle" shows the "deadweight loss" to society from taxes, the net loss, that is, from the optimum "free-market" equilibrium. It's a great, great theory if you're a math whiz. And virtually all neoclassical and neoliberal economists believe it's tru ...
• Chili's Campaign in the Buckeye State
  Voters in Ohio's second congressional district have a real choice: the Democrat, Surya "Chili" Yalamanchili, wants to create jobs and is on the side of the workers, while his opponent, incumbent Republican Jean Schmidt, apparently has no policy views whatsoever except unconditional support for ...

PR News

• Nissan announces senior leadership changes
  FRANKLIN, TN: As part of a move to shift senior leadership roles in the US, Nissan announced two changes in its marketing communications department.
• Guardian Life Insurance issues RFP
  NEW YORK: The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America confirmed it has issued an RFP for corporate work.
• Monster.com promotes job search technology at SXSW
  MAYNARD, MA: Monster.com and South by Southwest are partnering for the first time to bring a Hiring Hub to the annual music and film festival that kicks off today.
• Alexandria Real Estate Equities hires Russo
  PASADENA, CA: Alexandria Real Estate Equities, a real estate investment trust, hired Russo Partners for PR support.
• Mike Marino, HR consultant, passes away
  NEW YORK: Mike Marino an HR consultant to the PR industry passed away in early March.

The Story Behind the Story

• HAARP AND DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPONS DEPLOYED &#8 ...
  Here’s the EVENT CONTRACT scheduled for 3-11-11 that we discussed on the radio show. (Nothing to do with Planet X – only HAARP and Energy Pulse weapons causing fish kills along the fault zones). The markets are shocked and stunned this morning – and you can bet that Goldman Sachs will be ringing ...
• Krista Branch — REMEMBER WHO WE ARE &#82 ...
  It doesn’t get much better than this — Krista Branch hits a nerve – AMERICA WAKE UP NOW!!!  
• 3-11-11 “Battle for L.A.” Opens in ...
  The Khazarian Controllers of Hollywood have really outdone themselves this time.  Friday, March 11 – the blur between fiction and reality takes another step forward as the “Battle for L.A.” is brought to the silver screen.  Here is a brief trailer: After you watch this trailer, consider the fo ...
• Water, Water, Water — Libya’s Hidd ...
  Friday, March 4, 2011 Virtually unknown in the West: Libya’s water resources A. PEASANT at  twelfthbough.blogspot.com We still wonder how on earth did Gaddafi manage to stay in power for forty years? Did no one notice his madness until now? Did no one notice that he built a HUGE FRESH WATER PIP ...
• Liberty Coins? It’s Either Liberty or L ...
  Friends: We should be watching this one very closely!!  I would hope that reason and JUSTICE prevails here.  It should be self-evident, (that is if we yet are governed by constitutional principles) that PEOPLE have the inherent right to barter and exchange goods and services between themselves ...

k2p blog

• The Great Sendai Quake: Status at Fukushima Da ...
  A hydrogen explosion has taken place at the reactor No.3 building. The cooling of reactor No.3 at Fukushima Dai.ichi nuclear plant is probably subject to many leaks and the reactor vessel is not filling up with coolant as it should.
• The Great Sendai Quake was due: Miyagi earthqu ...
  The Sendai area is prone to major earthquakes with a frequency of every 30 - 40 years. The last major quake was of magnitude 7.7 in 1978. The quake and tsunami 1142 years ago in 869 AD are though to have had a magnitude of 8.6 and a tsunami similar to the quake and subsequent tsunami on 11th Mar ...
• The Great Sendai Quake: Unbridled Power agains ...
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• The Great Sendai Quake: Two reactors at Fukush ...
  Reactors No.1 and 3 at Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant have probably had fuel rods exposed and with loss of cooling and have probably suffered core damage and melting - a partial if not a complete meltdown.
• The Great Sendai Quake – Fukushima nucle ...
  Radioactive leaks from Fukushima 1 and Fukushima No.2 have occurred.

Left Foot Forward

• Does social mobility reduce income inequality?
  If you asked most people, they would tell you that in Britain today, mobility is low and inequality is high, writes Lee Savage research and policy analyst at the Resolution Foundation.
• Hague now has a whole series of questions to a ...
  William Hague has come under increasing pressure in the last few weeks, criticised for a series of blunders over Libya, Egypt and the whole Middle East, culminating in the disastrous SAS mission.
• Grassroots Lib Dems expect Clegg and Burstow t ...
  Liberal Democrats and members of the press turned up to Spring Conference in Sheffield expecting a destructive rebellion to surge through the party, not least on the proposals to reform the NHS. In the end we had an impassioned but reasoned debate, but no bloodbath, and with a grassroots victory ...
• Women’s History Month Profiles: Rosa Lux ...
  Rosa Luxemburg's understanding of revolutions as an interaction between organisation and spontaneity led her to a unique form of libertarian-marxism
• Open letter to Lib Dem members from John Healey
  Following today's decision by the Liberal Democrats to push for a re-write of the Government's NHS bill, John Healey writes an open letter to Lib Dem members exclusively on Left Foot Forward.

Consumerist

• Morning Deals
  ClothingSears: [Apparel] $10 off $50 Apparel and Home Fashions w/ Coupon TENFIFTY + One More CouponExpress: [Dresses] Extra 30% Off Dresses SaleWoman Within: [Apparel] Free Tote + Free Shipping on $25 Purchase w/ Coupon WW40553Dillards.com: [Clothing & Accessories] Dillard's sale: Extra 40% off ...
• Charlie Sheen-Inspired Tiger Blood Energy Drin ...
  We've definitely reached Charlie Sheen saturation, in fact, it hurts just typing his name, but for those of you who just can't get enough of that wacky guy, you can now buy an inevitable by-product of his popular public breakdown: Tiger Blood, an energy potion that comes in an IV bag. You don' ...
• Worst Company In America Bracket To Be Reveale ...
  We've finally finished sorting through the your e-mail nominations for this year's Worst Company In America tournament. Now we're set to reveal the 32 businesses vying for the title. The complete bracket will be posted here at 12:00 p.m. ET on Monday at the same time as I'll be unveiling the m ...
• Readers Find Lost Money Using Unclaimed.org
  Last week we told you about Unclaimed.org, a free non-profit site that's a convenient portal for searching for unclaimed property state by state. Well Consumerist readers report they're finding tons of cash under the couch cushions using it! Via comments and email, here's what people have been ...
• Millionaire Dentist Steals Navy Vet's Credit C ...
  A millionaire dentist has been charged with credit-card theft and forgery after stealing a credit card from a Navy veteran and buying two large pizzas with it, reports WTSP. The 14-year Navy vet had dropped his card in the parking lot where his was buying supplies for his 9-year old son's birt ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

• Development Agencies Fail to Take On Corruptio ...
  Canadian Press: Darling of Development World, Stung by Corruption Problems, Says Others in Worse Shape The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria – a $21.7 billion health fund backed by prominent celebrities – is responding to allegations that the fund has lost up to $34 millio ...
• Feds Subpoena Lawyer in CIA Leak Case: Whistle ...
  St. Louis Beacon: Feds Take Unusual Step of Subpoenaing Sterling's Lawyer The lawyer representing Jeffrey Sterling – the former CIA officer charged with leaking national security secrets to the press – was subpoenaed to appear before a grand jury in order to discuss Sterling’s case. Fed ...
• Teresa Chambers Case Highlights Limitations of ...
  Last week, the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) ordered the National Park Service to reinstate whistleblower Teresa Chambers as Chief of the U.S. Park Police, as well as to reimburse her for back pay and legal costs. Her case garnered national attention when she was removed by the Bush ...
• Orange County Register: Which Mystery Senator ...
  By Wikimedia user Markus Schweiss Orange County Register: Which Mystery Senator Killed Whistleblower Bill? This article details how the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA) – a bill that would have strengthened protections for federal employees – was killed by one senator’s d ...
• Justice Department Leakers of Classified Info. ...
  Three months ago, journalist Michael Isikoff noted the disturbing "Double Standard" in White House Leak Inquiries.  But now it's not just the Executive Branch.  Josh Gerstein of Politico just published an article on how a judge ruled that the Justice Department can keep secret names of its own ...

UK Progressive

• Defense of Marriage
  Republican John Boehner, Speaker of the House, will defend the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in court. Boehner says he needs to take time-out from creating jobs to defend marriage because President Obama and the Department of Justice just won’t do it. Don’t cry, Mr. Speaker, you did create at l ...
• Safe Nuclear Power and Tsunami Warnings, Pshaw ...
  Watching the horrific damage, explosion of a Japanese nuclear reactor and remembering the US Republican Party’s shameless lobbying attempts to get even more nuclear plants built coupled with their attempts to gut the National Weather Service and tsunami warning system budgets, I am reminded of t ...
• Toxic Cosmetics Marketed to Black Women
  Every International Women’s Day celebration I delight in knowing I’m in a sisterhood with women across the globe fighting for gender justice. But as lesbian women of African descent, my struggle for justice intersects several fronts. Often times, it’s not only the nationally organized visible an ...
• Ladies and Gentlemen, Your Compassionately Con ...
  Enough to get you upset yet? See what happens when you sit out and pout through the 2010 midterm elections because the Democrats did not do EVERYTHING you wanted? Want more of the same in 2012? Then get off your tail, get involved and vote the GOP buggers out!
• Pacific Basin Braces for Tsunamis in Wake of D ...
  UPDATED An 8.8-8.9 magnitude earthquake near Sendai Prefecture in Northern Japan triggered a series of tsunamis and fires that destroyed the oil refinery near , triggered automatic shut down of nuclear reactors in the area, destroyed the airport and buried much of the low lying farmlands in mud ...

NewsAlert

• Rahm Emanuel and the Chicago Mob Linked 36th Ward
  The Chicago Sun-Times
• Philly Mob: National Geographic Special
  National Geographic
• Rising gas prices affect spring break plans
  The Baltimore Sun
• Japan quake toll could number in tens of thousands
  The L.A. Times reports:More than 500,000 people have been forced to evacuate in the wake of the massive earthquake and tsunami, with many cut off from food, electricity and water. Los Angeles rescue team arrives in Japan. Power rationing begins.
• Poll Confirms America's Entitlement Culture... ...
  Big Government

JoNova

• Carbon Tax Australia? Welcome to Futility Island
  Assume the IPCC is right. Assume that Australia would have kept emitting the same proportion of global emissions of CO2 for the next four decades — despite the rapid catch up in emissions-per-capita as the developing world gets cars, frozen foods, and holidays-in-Bali. Then assume somehow, theor ...
• Carbon Tax Australia? Welcome to Futility Island
  Assume the IPCC is right. Assume that Australia would have kept emitting the same proportion of global emissions of CO2 for the next four decades — despite the rapid catch up in emissions-per-capita as the developing world gets cars, frozen foods, and holidays-in-Bali. Then assume somehow, theor ...
• (Un)Skeptical Science uses unmeasureable fudge ...
  A comment from Tel late last year was so surgically cutting, it’s worthy of it’s own post.  Un-Skeptical Science was trying to explain why climate sensitivity is high. The post includes formula’s and fancy graphs, and looks authoritative — yet underlying everything are errors of reasoning that ...
• (Un)Skeptical Science uses unmeasureable fudge ...
  A comment from Tel late last year was so surgically cutting, it’s worthy of it’s own post.  Un-Skeptical Science was trying to explain why climate sensitivity is high. The post includes formula’s and fancy graphs, and looks authoritative — yet underlying everything are errors of reasoning that ...
• New Here? The “ten second” guide to the world ...
  [Thanks to Julia Gillard, there are many new people visiting the site. This is the page to help traverse the gap...] Almost everything you thought you knew about man made global warming might be a worthless half-truth. The evidence shows temperature controls carbon dioxide (you read that correct ...

ReNew America

• Chairman Peter King vs. the silliness brigade
  (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - There were some dramatic and silly moments at the congressional hearings on Radical Islam's war against America this past week. Homeland Security Committee Chairman Pete King (R-N.Y.) deserves our thanks for getting the much anticipated probe off the ground; especially ...
• What would Jesus cut?
  (Joseph Farah) - In predictable fashion to the growing awareness in Washington that the borrowing-and-spending cycle is no longer sustainable, left-winger Jim Wallis has asked his fellow travelers, few of whom actually attend church or study the Bible, "What would Jesus cut?"...
• The itch that's destroying America
  (Joan Swirsky, RA analyst) - It's a funny thing about itches...the more you scratch, the more you itch. This is because scratching floods your system with histamine, which causes -- itching! Oh, you can get rid of the itching with an over-the-counter medication, or go to the doctor for something ...
• 'Us vs. them' unions
  (Washington Times) - Republicans in the Wisconsin statehouse had enough of Democratic Party antics designed to insulate its union supporter base from the pains of the economic malaise affecting the rest of us. The state Senate voted Wednesday to ban public-sector employees from entering into col ...
• House Republicans win early battle over net-ne ...
  (Wall Street Journal) - House Republicans took the first step toward blocking the Federal Communications Commission's effort to assert authority over Internet lines Wednesday, advancing one of several policy disputes GOP lawmakers have with the Obama administration...

Truth Offering

• Truth Offering Podcast w/ Matt Gordon - Dec. 1 ...
  Check out our first Podcast featuring TruthOffering.com's Matt Gordon. Topics range from WikiLeaks and Internet censorship, to food freedom and the Federal Reserve. Being that it's our first Podcast, it's a work-in-progress. So, please leave any and all feedback. Thanks...and enjoy: �
• A Nation of Cowardly, Morally-Bankrupt Sheep
  Sheep are led to slaughter. They are controlled from birth to death. They are oppressed. And once they are controlled, they will never again be free. WE are a nation of SHEEP! Note: this isn't for the faint of heart. I'm frustrated! Why!? Because I care. I care deeply; about this country; about ...
• The False Flag Cyber Attack Takedown of the In ...
  Here are some of today's top shock headlines: "Army of hackers targets the Swedish government, Sarah Palin and credit card giants in WikiLeaks 'Operation: Payback'" - The Daily Mail "Hackers Rise for WikiLeaks" - Wall Street Journal "WikiLeaks backers hit MasterCard and Visa in cyberstrike" - ...
• S. 510: The Death of Food Freedom Act
  In the world of liberty lovers and food freedom fighters, there's been a ton of attention lately on Senate bill S.510 -- the deceitfully-named, "Food Safety Modernization Act [1]." But in the mainstream media, there's been but a whimper; a pathetic trickle of occasional, fleeting and understated ...
• Politicians and the Voting Public: A Toxic Rel ...
  At TruthOffering.com, we've written much about what's known as the Liberty to Tyranny cycle. The reason we've focused so much attention on this cycle is that we believe in it completely. That is to say, since every civilization has followed this cycle's projection, it's reasonable to suspect the ...

2012 Blog

• Hardened Shelters Owner Interview
  This screened on Australian breakfast TV last week: Link: http://au.tv.yahoo.com/sunrise/video/-/watch/24323859/bunker-buy-up/ Related posts:december212012.com – Beautiful Site, Deluded Owner New 2012 Social Network Chinese Air Raid Shelters / LHC in 2012 / Mzora Stone Circle Related posts:dec ...
• New Christchurch Quake Predicted
  Popular long-range weather forecaster Ken Ring is warning that a second jolt will hit the already-devastated South Island city on March 20. “If I lived in Christchurch, I’d get out for a few days over that time, go camping, visit friends, just get out and keep safe,” he said.  “And if you don’t ...
• Migrating Pole / Wood on Iceberg / Kaku on Yel ...
  Numbers can be presented in many ways. But given that the movement of the magnetic north pole is in a singular direction, all that matters is the speed. This graph is compelling: Unlike climate change data, this is the entire available data, no selective windows here. This photo is doing the rou ...
• Zahi Hawass Quits?
  On his blog, Dr Zahi Hawass explains why he has resigned from his position of Minister of State for Antiquities Affairs. While there are suggestions and rumours that he was asked to leave, Hawass says it is because he no longer trusts some of his colleagues in light of recent thefts/lootings: Th ...
• Meteoroid Tracking / New 2012 Drink / Missing ...
  NASA is installing a network of smart cameras across the USA to track fireballs and meteoroids. Soon there will be 15, and then they plan to expand nationwide. These cameras are automated and linked together so that they can triangulate paths and orbits. If NASA was expecting an influx of fireba ...

Facing South

• VOICES: Meet the scandal-plagued billionaire b ...
  By Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest The bond between David Koch and Scott Walker is not the only relationship between a reactionary billionaire and a rightwing politician contaminating the U.S. political scene. Attention also needs to be paid to what's going on between Sheldon Adelson and Ne ...
• Fort Bragg infant death toll may climb to twelve
  By Joaquin Sapien, ProPublica and Aaron Kessler, Sarasota Herald-Tribune A 12th infant apparently has died of undetermined causes in military housing at Fort Bragg, N.C., and� investigators are now trying to determine whether the death is linked to fumes from contaminated drywall or some othe ...
• Another citizen lawsuit against a coal company ...
  Environmental watchdogs are taking yet another coal mining company to court over massive violations of the federal Clean Water Act in Kentucky, raising questions about the state's ability to oversee the industry effectively. Nally and Hamilton Enterprises received notice [pdf] yesterd ...
• Florida lawmaker warns North Carolina against ...
  A Florida lawmaker recently wrote the governor of North Carolina warning her state against adopting a financing plan for new power plants that turned into a economic disaster for his state's ratepayers. Florida State Sen. Mike Fasano (in photo) -- a conservative, pro-business Republic ...
• Come celebrate 40 years of change in the South!
  The Institute is 40 years old -- and we want you to come help us celebrate! On Saturday, March 26 come join us in Durham, North Carolina as we celebrate the Institute's four decades of working for a more just, democratic and sustainable South. The exciting and inspiring Rev. Lennox Yearwood ...

One News Page

• Barry Manilow 'in love' with Britney Spears
  Singer Barry Manilow has revealed that he is in love with pop princess Britney Spears.
• Radiation at reactor normal after blast: Japan ...
• IMAGES: Japan comes to terms with tragedy
  Rediff.com brings you some unforgettable images from the devastated regions of Japan
• Too early to assess impact on Japan's nuclear ...
• Mila Kunis 'not responsible' for Justin Timber ...

Global Research TV

• Solutions locales pour un désordre global (Ban ...
• America's Project of Conquest: All-Out Blitzkr ...
• Precious Life (Trailer) - A Palestinian Woman' ...
• Was Bush a Failure?
• Controlled Demolition During 9/11 is Only Conc ...

Daily Tech

• AT&T Implementing Data Caps on DSL/U-Verse Lin ...
  The end is near for all-you-can-eat broadband plans
• 3/10/2011 Daily Hardware Reviews
  DailyTech's roundup of hardware reviews from around the web for Thursday
• Microsoft Out $1.2 Million After MS Points Scam
  Hackers developed an algorithm that allowed them to use old MS Points codes to make new ones
• Post-Earthquake Japanese Reactors Face Meltdow ...
  Japanese nuclear disaster is cause for pause, reflection
• A Hybrid Isn't the Answer for All with Rising ...
  Gas prices could drop tomorrow and hybrids might not be as desirable

Oriental Review

• With Their Fists Clenched: The Protest Potenti ...
  Nil Nikandrov (Russia) It will take time to really grasp the significance of the uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, and other Arab countries, but at least one thing is already clear: the younger generation played the key role in the developments. Fairly similar discontent is brewing in the Western hem ...
• The West’s Most Convincing Argument
  Dmitry Sedov (Russia) The statement made by NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen that the alliance is not going to launch an operation in Libya without UN blessing grabbed the headlines. Rasmussen did voice extreme concern over the situation in the country and expressed the view that the ...
• The Last Victory of Muammar Gaddafi
  *** On March 6, 2010 it became clear that the Libyan regime has defeated the internal uprising and suspended the chaotization of the Arab world. A routine clandestine mission by a British diplomat protected by 8 SAS officers to the eastern base of Libyan opposition ended up with their detention ...
• Geopolitical Dimension of the Rebellion in Yemen
  Vladislav Gulevich (Ukraine) A tide of extremism is sweeping across Yemen. Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the group seeking to overthrow the pro-Western regimes in Yemen and the nearby Saudi Arabia, is regarded as the number one terrorist force in the region. The group’s activity increasingl ...
• The United States Will Take Libya’s Oil and Ga ...
  Sergei Balmasov (Russia) According to statements made in Washington, the idea of a military intervention in Libya is being discussed. A NATO strike group with American and British troops at its heart is already drawing close to the shores of that country. The US representative to the UN Susan Ri ...

BlogHer

• Month of Breakfast: I'm Craving Biscuits and Gravy
  What's for breakfast? We're talking morning meals every day on BlogHer.com from oatmeal to waffles (mmmm, waffles). Sign up for the weekly newsletter and see all the breakfast ideas in the series. **************************** In his post Better Homemade Biscuits and Gravy, Nick of The Paupere ...
• Kids' Birthday Parties and Food Allergies
  At the grocery store the other day, I overheard a woman talking to with another woman about her child's upcoming birthday party. She rambled on about how difficult it would be to accommodate one of the children coming to the birthday party who was on a gluten-free diet. She complained that s ...
• A Month of Awesome Women: Joan Jett
  Every day in March 2011, we'll be talking about one awesome woman and why she's so interesting. Some you may know; some may be new to you, so check out all the awesome women in the series now. **************************** Think of your favorite female rock musician and now consider this -- she m ...
• BlogHer Network Member News, March 13: Sabrina ...
  Sabrina Enayatulla from Slice of Lemon was a part of a documentary film titled “Fashioning Faith.” Lindsey Douglas of The Douglas Drama has a daughter, Mary Margaret, who was asked to speak at University Baptist Church in Waco, Texas (the church started by the David Crowder Band). Naomi Zik ...
• How I Knew I Chose the Right One
  It’s dark and late, so late I don’t even hear the Clydesdales clopping anymore. Ambling down Bourbon Street barefoot, I admire my OPI Red pedicure, although surely it will soon be coated with dirt. Blissfully drunk, my shoulders bump into my friends beside me. I laugh, and so do they. I walk on ...

Health Freedom Alliance

• Food Crisis & Triumph (Part 3) Success of Alte ...
  In part three of the this Food Crisis & Triumph mini-series you will read more about what alternative markets are, what they mean for you, and what to avoid. In addition to your health and ...
• Shameful past of medical trials prompts new US ...
  Information about disturbing past medical experimentations is just now surfacing the mainstream circuit, but might not be news to those who have fought injustices like these for decades. The government finally apologizes for the 1940′s ...
• US Pediatric Influenza Deaths Spike Higher
  I thought vaccines saved lives and if you don’t rush out to get them every flu season you are a moron or you don’t love your children. Now we are seeing a recent spike in ...
• Better Think Positive: Pessimism Can Block Therapy
  Which came first? The healing or the doctor telling you you would be healed? This information is not so much about pessimism blocking therapy as it is about the power of suggestion. Brain scans can ...
• The USDA Paves Way For GM Takeover (Part II)
  Recent GM Approvals Spread Ruin, Not End Hunger Continued from The USDA Paves Way For GM Takeover (Part I) In the previous article, we explored how the USDA has partnered up with the genetically modified food companies, particularly ...

Live News Wire

• Editorial: As The Country Mourned, Tucson Need ...
  Those who criticized the reaction of the crowd at Wednesday night's memorial have it ingrained that a perfect memorial is one with candles, flowers and tears. The citizens of Tucson and the American people have mourned for five days. Wednesday's event was not a time to mourn some more. It was a ...
• Police Made Visits To Loughner Home Before Sho ...
  The Tucson, Arizona family home of 22-year-old Jared Loughner had been visited by authorities before the shooting of a congresswoman and 18 others last Saturday, new information by the New York Times revealed Wednesday. It's unclear what the visits were about or what prompted the call to author ...
• Criminal Charges Filed Against Congresswoman’s ...
  Newly-released court documents offer a glimpse into the motive behind Jared Loughner's attempted assassination of Tucson Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords on Saturday. Recovered from Loughner's home was a letter addressed to Jared Loughner from Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Giffords mailed a ...
• “Unbelievable Tragedy:” Congresswoman Shot By ...
  At least fifteen gunshots rang out shortly after 10:10am Arizona Time Saturday, bullets fatally striking a Federal Judge and injuring a prominent Congresswoman. Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) of Arizona's Eighth District was wounded at a public meet-and-greet event outside a grocery s ...
• Queensland Facing Flood Of “Biblical” Proportions
  The worst floods in 50 years to hit Queensland, Australia are being described as nothing short of Biblical. More than 1,000 people have been evacuated, though officials say as the floodwaters get worse, as many as 4,000 residents could be asked to vacate their homes and businesses later this we ...

Coal Tattoo

• Friday roundup, March 11, 2011
  Indian coal workers are silhouetted as they work at a coal factory on the outskirts of Amritsar, India, Monday, March 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri) The New York Times had an interesting story yesterday headlined, Clean-coal Debate Focuses on Gasification Plant: A bill now on Gov. Pat Quinn’s ...
• MSHA secrecy: Joe Main won’t release rec ...
  Regular readers know that we’ve been trying since last June to get the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration to release records or otherwise discuss what exactly MSHA did after two significant “methane outbursts” at Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch Mine in 2003 and 2004. Federal and state ...
• WVDEP ordered to set permit limits for conduct ...
  Word just coming in this afternoon that the West Virginia Environmental Quality Board has ruled for the Sierra Club in a major permit appeal that put the spotlight on conductivity pollution from strip mines and on the U.S. EPA’s effort to crack down on mountaintop removal. Board members unanimou ...
• Activists to announce march to save Blair Mountain
  The folks from the Friends of Blair Mountain are set to announce later today their plans for a “a massive non-violent five-day march” from Marmet to Logan County to call attention to their efforts to preserve the site of the 1921 labor battle. According to a press advisory about today’s event: ...
• Suit seeks to block new Massey permit
  UPDATED:   U.S. District Judge Robert C. Chambers just issued an order temporarily blocking this permit, and scheduling a more detailed hearing for March 22.  See here for more. Earlier today, Massey Energy issued a news release to tout the approval by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers of a Cl ...

Daniel Miessler

• Baby Laughing Hysterically at Ripping Paper
  via youtube.com I love me some laughing babies. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsSwords vs. ShadowsEuler’s DiskThe GiftJan-Ove Waldner ServesAndrei Arlovski “This is Sparta” KickThe Strange Powers of the Placebo EffectThe Merits of Reading
• Study: Diet May Help ADHD Kids More Than Drugs
  Hyperactivity. Fidgeting. Inattention. Impulsivity. If your child has one or more of these qualities on a regular basis, you may be told that he or she has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. If so, they’d be among about 10 percent of children in the United States. Kids with ADHD can be re ...
• Our Position on Free Will Shapes Our Politics
  Many believe the discussion of free will is pointless. This is usually because one believes it’s been settled (for the religious who believe God gave it to us) or because one believes it doesn’t matter (for the secular types who believe there is no practical benefit to having the discussion). I ...
• Khan Academy Intro
  via khanacademy.org Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsThe Khanacademy.org OverviewForget IQ, Collective Intelligence is the New Measure of Smart | Singularity HubProbably the Coolest AnimalFather and Son Take HD Video From Space Using Their Own BalloonDiminished R ...
• K
  Related PostsReligious LogicMy Kind of JesusA Bird Taking Out a DeerChallenges Facing TeachersThe Guilty Grin of a Poop JokeThe Top-Selling iPhone Apps in Europe and the U.S.Obama and Jesus | Imgur

Fitwatch

• Domestic extremists or domestic goddesses?
  This brilliant video was made by the Aldermaston Women's Peace Camp - the following text, is taken from their website During 2010 AWPC was under more overt surveillance than usual. From February, the women's camp was targeted with intrusive police photography. Camp made a formal complaint about ...
• Activist reports recent encounter with Mark Ke ...
  Fitwatch has been passed the following statement relating to an encounter by an activist with the ex-undercover cop, Mark Kennedy. Mark Kennedy encountered in London Last week ex-undercover police spy Mark Kennedy was encountered by chance by an activist who was an erstwhile friend. Kennedy was ...
• Legal Advice Drop-In for Student/Anti-Cuts Arr ...
  From LDMG: Legal Defence & Monitoring Group (LDMG) and Offmarket Infoshop in Hackney, London will now be offering a regular legal drop-in session for all those arrested on the Student Demonstrations or Anti-Cuts Actions. We will be able to offer: * Entirely free, confidential legal advice coming ...
• Manchester demo – police use s50 powers ...
  We have received this account from an eye-witness in Manchester. Police have abused ASBO legislation to obtain the personal details of anti-cuts demonstrators. Manchester police ended a day of orderly rallies and breakout groups of protesters by abusing legislation on anti-social behaviour in or ...
• Protesters sprayed as Hugh Orde advocates extr ...
  Three days after head of ACPO, Hugh Orde, promised the use of more extreme tactics on protesters, ten people have been cs/pepper sprayed at a London UKUncut protest outside Boots, with three needing hospital treatment. During the protest on Oxford Street, an activist tried to post a leaflet thro ...

Worldwide Hippies

• Beck Finds O’Keefe NPR Video Misleading? ...
  Questions Raised About O’Keefe’s Editing Of NPR Sting Video | NPR When conservative political activist James O’Keefe released the 11-minute edited version of his secretly recorded video of then-NPR chief fundraiser Ron Schiller slamming conservatives, O’Keefe also posted what he says is the enti ...
• Bachmann Fails American History 101
  Bachmann Flubs Fifth Grade American History | Think Progress ep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) made a high profile trip to New Hampshire today as part of a potential 2012 presidential run, but the tea party favorite, who often refers to the early days of the Republic in speeches and media appearances, ...
• 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 ...

reference frame

• CDF: a new confirmation of top quark pair asym ...
  Just a few links and remarks. In January, we looked at a reported huge 3-to-1 asymmetry of the top-antitop (vs antitop-top) quark pairs produced inside the CDF detector at the Tevatron. The effect occurred for high invariant masses - above 450 GeV - and depended on muons. Th ...
• NPR: Brian Greene on The Hidden Reality
  Ira Flatow interviews Brian Greene for 17 minutes if you have time (audio). It's not only about Brian's new book. Somewhat controversial hypotheses but as Brian says, the book is not an uncritical manifesto for the multiverse.
• NASA's Glory climate satellite is doomed
  Alexander Ač just informed me that NASA's climatic satellite called Glory - which should have studied aerosols in the atmosphere - has been destroyed. NASA press release about the failure, Google NewsA press conference on the failure started on NASA TV at 2 p.m. Central European Time i.e. ...
• Bubble blowers will be verifying climate models
  The British Met Office has been criticized for its incorrect predictions of the weather (almost always warmer than the reality) and for its detachment from the empirical data. Some enlightened minds in the Met Office agreed that it was a great idea to observe the weather and the clima ...
• Another blow for nuclear energy
  Remotely related: Holy cow, the president of an official EU's EESC body has declared that the earthquake was a sign from Mother Nature that we need to combat global warming. I want these crooks to be outlawed! The Japanese earthquake has led to serious problems with the cooling systems ...

No Frakking Consensus

• Was the Fix In Before the IPCC Existed?
  In 1970s and 80s some scientists already believed human CO2 emissions would cause global warming. How do we know the IPCC's 2007 conclusions weren't preordained?
• Dr Nadelhoffer, I’m Not Impressed
  An expert who testified to Congress this week reached well beyond his own scientific expertise. By advocating a particular response to climate change he brings science into disrepute.
• The EPA and the Canadian Climate Modeler
  Why did a Canadian expert fly 2,500 miles across three time zones to testify in Washington, DC this week when there are plenty of US experts? And who footed the bill?
• Fiddling While Infants Perish
  13 times as many children die before their first birthday in Rwanda as in Canada or the UK. Most people live below the poverty line, and 3 out of 10 are illiterate. Yet a UN official says Rwanda has demonstrated "leadership" by banning plastic bags.
• Green Math: Let’s Spend a Billion to Sav ...
  The person in charge of green energy projects for a group of Los Angeles community colleges wanted to cut down trees and obliterate playing fields so that $1 billion could be spent on alternative energy installations. Power currently costs these colleges less than $8 million a year.

Tarpley

• US-UK Imperialist Rampage Envelops Libya in Ci ...
  Webster G. Tarpley on The Alex Jones Show Infowars March 1, 2011 download file Coast to Coast AM tonight from 2am to 5am eastern
• Webster Tarpley will be interviewed Tuesday ni ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net March 1, 2011 Check you local radio station for the exact time. Listen and call in! Locate Radio Stations Near You Call Number: 800-618-8255 First Time Caller: 818-501-4721 � � �
• Wisconsin Gop Governor in Neofascist Union-Bus ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net February 20, 2011 Washington DC, Feb. 20, 2011 – After four decades of disillusionment, and demoralization, disorientation and rout of the labor movement, the mass strike is once again abroad in the land. In dozens of state capitals, reactionary Republican ...
• Mubarak Toppled by CIA Because He Opposed US P ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net February 18, 2011 Washington DC, Feb. 18, 2011 — There never was an “Egyptian revolution,” but rather a behind-the-scenes military putsch by a junta of CIA puppet generals who evidently could not succeed in their goal of ousting Hosni Mubarak without the hel ...
• Hillary Announces Expanded US Cyber-Coup Campa ...
  Webster G. Tarpley TARPLEY.net February 16, 2011

Modern Survivalism

• West Coast USA Danger IF Japan Nuclear Reactor ...
  “If they can’t restore power to the plant (and cool the reactor), then there’s the possibility of some sort of core meltdown”. An alarming statement made by James Acton, a physicist who examined Japan’s Kashiwazaki nuclear plant after a 2007 earthquake, who told CNN that Japanese authorities are ...
• Tsunami Warning, San Francisco, California
  The San Francisco Bay area, California is scrambling to prepare for a Tsunami of unknown proportions as it streaks across the Pacific Ocean at 500 mph following a devastating magnitude 8.9 earthquake off the coast of Japan which triggered an astonishing 23 foot tall tsunami there. Evacuations ar ...
• 72-hour-kit, Vehicle, Food Storage
  Ever wonder what is the best way to store food in a 72-hour survival kit for your vehicle? There is a perfect solution to keeping your vehicle survival food fresh, the longest. It is simple. Keep your survival food in a cooler! Depending on the size of your vehicle’s trunk, tailgate space, picku ...
• Gulf Stream Update, March 2011
  We have received a number of emails inquiring about the current state of the Gulf Stream conveyor. There had been (and still is) a great deal of concern regarding the health of the Gulf Stream following the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico where more than 5 million barrels of oil and an [...]
• North Korea EMP weapon
  Image: abc NEWS / International The main stream media today is reporting that North Korea ‘nears completion’ of an Electromagnetic Pulse Bomb, a bomb (nuclear) which creates an EMP (electro magnetic pulse). Although any nuclear bomb will create its own EMP with the blast, a single bomb specifica ...

Fast Company

• T-Mobile, Sprint Back Mobile Marketing Company ...
  "What's the short code for American Idol?" asks Joseph Gillespie, CEO of mobile marketing company Zoove, referring to the show's text-message voting system. "It's the largest use-case in history, but no one can remember it because the number doesn't make any sense." How brands connect to cons ...
• Christopher "moot" Poole's Canvas Brings the F ...
  The founder of the Web message board 4Chan took the stage at SXSW to explain how his new project, Canvas, could far exceed 4Chan's 12-million-user popularity with Facebook-friendly appeal. Like your daughter bringing home an ex-convict for dinner and saying that he's actually a "really good guy, ...
• Groupon Client Goes Public With Beef at SXSW, ...
  Sunday's Groupon panel on the Fast Company and PepsiCo stage took an unexpected turn when Travis Kalanick, a longtime Silicon Valley entrepreneur who runs online car service Uber, spoke frankly about his negative experiences as a client of Groupon--and several Groupon staffers in the audience to ...
• The Future of Reading Online Is Customization ...
  Someone might want to tell the SXSW-attending web designers still queuing up for iPad2s outside a pop-up Apple store a few blocks away from the Austin Convention Center: The iPad itself is not going to transform the way we read online. Or so said Khoi Vinh, former design director for NYTimes.com ...
• Cameron Sinclair Spearheads Japan Disaster Rel ...
  This afternoon from the stage at South by Southwest, Architecture for Humanity's Cameron Sinclair will announce a $75,000 commitment from donors to rebuilding from the Japanese earthquake, along with a personal pledge: If the donation link bit.ly/sxsw4JP is reTweeted 100,000 times, he'll donate ...

Jadaliyya

• Notes from the Bahraini Field [Update 5]
  [The following is part of a series of email reports from Jadaliyya affiliates in Manama. They will be updated regularly to reflect the latest developments in Bahrain.] Friday March 11, 2011 Thousands of protesters marched towards the King's Court in Riffa, an area where many me ...
• What is a Sari Nusseibeh For?
  Sari Nusseibeh, What is a Palestinian State Worth? Cambridge, MA: Harvard Belknap Press, 2011. Among Palestinians there may well be a more fundamental underlying cultural or religious disposition to believe in the reality of death so strongly as to view life as being on a par with death ...
• Bahrain this Weekend: An Invitation to Dialogu ...
  Today, Sunday March 12, 2011, on the same day that Bahrain's Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa claimed the regime was open to a national dialogue on all issues, security forces violently dispersed peaceful protesters at several locations--inlcuding the Bahrain Financial Ha ...
• Of Predators and Radicals: King's Hearings and ...
  To understand Congressman Peter King�s (R-NY) hearings on the �extent of radicalization� of U.S. Muslims before the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security, one need not go so far back as the McCarthy era or Japanese interment (At the same time Congressman Mike Honda of California�s pu ...
• Mahmoud Darwish: Standing Before the Ruins of ...
  March 13th is Mahmoud Darwish�s birthday. He departed on August 9th, 2008, but he is seventy today and his poems are t/here for us. Jadaliyya celebrates his presence by publishing this translation. � Standing Before the Ruins of Al-Birweh � Like birds, I tread lightly on the earth� ...

mediagazer

• John Montorio Joins HuffPo: Journalism vs Chur ...
  TechCrunch: John Montorio Joins HuffPo: Journalism vs Churnalism Battle Rages On  —  TechCrunch has learned that John Montorio has been named Culture and Entertainment Editor for Aol's Huffington Post Media Group content division.  —  Montorio is a 30-year veteran of two of the country's bigge ...
• When Unrest Stirs, Bloggers Are Already in Pla ...
  Jennifer Preston / New York Times: When Unrest Stirs, Bloggers Are Already in Place  —  As the protests spread across Tunisia for weeks, many international news organizations scrambled to cover the unrest just before President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali fled on Jan. 14, ending 23 years of authori ...
• Will Girl Walks Into a Bar Lead Indie Films to ...
  Liz Shannon Miller / GigaOM: Will Girl Walks Into a Bar Lead Indie Films to the Web?  —  The idea that Girl Walks Into a Bar, an independent feature with a Hollywood-friendly cast and a $1 million dollar budget, is “The First Major Motion Picture Made For The Internet,” could be up for debate.
• Does the i have it for quality journalism? (Pe ...
  Peter Preston / Guardian: Does the i have it for quality journalism?  —  Small, cheap and modest, the mini-Independent may be proving a good idea  —  One figure stands out from a generally grisly set of national newspaper circulation statistics in February.  It's not unexpected: Indy people hav ...
• Confessions of a Recovering Op-Ed Columnist (F ...
  Frank Rich / New York Times: Confessions of a Recovering Op-Ed Columnist  —  THE first political columnist I ever encountered, after a fashion, was Walter Lippmann.  It happened on a snowy afternoon when I was a kid of 11 or 12 growing up in Washington during the J.F.K. years.  My wallet had so ...

Chemtrail News

• The difference between a CHEMTRAIL and ...
  Discussion about The difference between a CHEMTRAIL and CONTRAIL! at the GodlikeProductions Conspiracy Forum. Our topics include Conspiracy Theory, ...www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1384518/pg1
• Chemtrail question, nothing major., page 1
  If chemtrails are real. Is there any proof of them being used to place sound buffers in the air. I read how they can be used to block certain SOL related ...www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread671093/pg1
• Chemtrail haze over Florida | Flickr - ...
  You can see a little video I shot later in this same day of a chemtrail sunset. www.youtube.com/user/PlowedClouds?feature=mhum#p/a/u/0/E4.www.flickr.com/photos/stacyflower/5513145944/
• Newsvine - Chemtrails: 'Smart' ...
  A Dr. in the video admits probable chemtrail in 30 countries and usage of smart dust by the army and that it looks like iridescent glittery dust. ...nearing.newsvine.com/_.../6221975-chemtrails-smart-dust-nan...
• Chemtrail Watchers | Facebook
  Welcome to a Facebook Page about Chemtrail Watchers. Join Facebook to start connecting with Chemtrail Watchers.www.facebook.com/ChemtrailWatchers

World News - Top Stories

• 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 ...

no frakking consensus

• Was the Fix In Before the IPCC Existed?
  In 1970s and 80s some scientists already believed human CO2 emissions would cause global warming. How do we know the IPCC's 2007 conclusions weren't preordained?
• Dr Nadelhoffer, I’m Not Impressed
  An expert who testified to Congress this week reached well beyond his own scientific expertise. By advocating a particular response to climate change he brings science into disrepute.
• The EPA and the Canadian Climate Modeler
  Why did a Canadian expert fly 2,500 miles across three time zones to testify in Washington, DC this week when there are plenty of US experts? And who footed the bill?
• Fiddling While Infants Perish
  13 times as many children die before their first birthday in Rwanda as in Canada or the UK. Most people live below the poverty line, and 3 out of 10 are illiterate. Yet a UN official says Rwanda has demonstrated "leadership" by banning plastic bags.
• Green Math: Let’s Spend a Billion to Sav ...
  The person in charge of green energy projects for a group of Los Angeles community colleges wanted to cut down trees and obliterate playing fields so that $1 billion could be spent on alternative energy installations. Power currently costs these colleges less than $8 million a year.

Pointman's

• Internet security 2 : There’s a lot more going ...
  In a previous article here, I gave some information about what basic precautions you should take in order to enjoy the web safely. Iâd like to drop down to a slightly lower level and tell you a few more simple things you can do to make surfing the web a lot safer. They wonât be technical … Read ...
• Some thoughts on fanatics and how to fight them.
  Iâve always liked Churchillâs definition of a fanatic. âA fanatic is one who canât change his mind and wonât change the subject.â Once you get past the witty aspect of the definition, thereâs a deep truth in it too. They simply canât change their mind. Iâve seen a lot of debates in the blogosphe ...
• The steady-state environment delusion
  Cosmologists have calculated that our particular universe is 13.7 billion years old. It came into existence with the big bang, as did space and time. Itâs big. It consists of lots of matter, especially hydrogen, which has aggregated into different objects. The ones we see in the night sky are t ...
• Line of Descent Chapter 22
  Chapter 22 He lay full length on the ground, concealed within a clump of vegetation through which he studied the house and the hastily built positions in front of it. He held a rifle which poked out in front of him, stopping two feet short of the end of the cover. It had been in … Read more
• Don’t just sit on your butt blogging, do somet ...
  Iâm a blogger and commenter and enjoy reading and contributing to a variety of blogs but thereâs one attitude in the blogosphere that really bugs me big time; the whinge and dump mentality of a lot of bloggers and contributors. Whatâs whinge and dump? Itâs the idea that once youâve spotted and c ...

Journalists' Toolkit

• Flash Journalism updates
  I have been hard at work updating the Flash Journalism website. New tutorials for ActionScript 3.0 and for working on the Timeline in CS4 and CS5 have been added. The old pages from the original site (created to support the book I wrote about Flash journalism in 2004) are still online, and all t ...
• New tutorial: Windows Live Movie Maker
  As an aid to a journalism training session I agreed to give, I created a short PowerPoint that is aimed at journalism students. Windows Live Movie Maker Tutorial Windows Live Movie Maker is quite different from its predecessor — Windows Movie Maker (not “live”). It is less versatile in several w ...
• Convert WMA files with Switch
  Switch Sound File Converter is a free program from NCH Software. You can download it here (Mac or Windows). I have been using this program and recommending it widely for about two years. It’s easy to use, and it’s especially useful for converting WMA format files to WAV so that we can edit them ...
• Use Kuler, Photoshop to make a quick palette
  What’s the quickest way to whip up a beautiful color palette for a new website? 1. Start with Kuler, a free online tool from Adobe. 2. Register and sign in so you can download a color swatch for your chosen palette(s). Not signed in? Then you can’t download. (Pay attention to WHERE you save the ...
• New resource: Page Design Basics
  This resource — Page Design Basics — provides a very simple overview of how to lay out a Web page. Students new to using CSS often make a mess of it because they do not grasp the utility of DIVs. By introducing these four regions of a Web page, an instructor can help students understand [...]

Justice Roars - Louisiana

• Lawsuit Alleges Prisoner Abuse at Tangipahoa P ...
  From our friends at the ACLU of Louisiana: Roger Mason is a 52-year-old man with Schizophrenia. On August 18, 2009, Mr. Mason was arrested and placed in Tangipahoa Parish Prison. Despite clear evidence of Mr. Mason’s mental illness, the prison staff provided grossly inadequate care to him for ...
• Alabama to Host Historic Meeting of Formerly I ...
  Reprinted From Change.org: From February 28th -- March 2nd, Alabama will play host to formerly incarcerated activists from across the country as they convene in an effort to organize what may well be our nation's next major civil rights movement. The conference, which is being organized by a ste ...
• A “Southern” Tradition: Unmasking Issues of R ...
  Proposing a Series of Conversations on the Past, Present, and Future of Southern University at New Orleans By Tracie L. Washington, Esq On Tuesday, Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) ordered a study of the feasibility of merging Southern University at New Orleans (SUNO) and the University of New Orleans ...
• LJI Co-Director Tracie Washington Named One of ...
  The Root, a daily online magazine published by Washington Post/Newsweek Interactive, has named Louisiana Justice Institute Co-Director Tracie Washington as one of it's twenty Leading Black Women Advocating Change. The list, published this week in commemoration of Women's History Month, aims to " ...
• African American Leadership Project to Host Aw ...
  From the The African American Leadership Project: The African American Leadership Project (AALP) will host its first Morris F.X. Jeff Jr. Community Service Awards ceremony on Thursday February 17th from 7:00pm to 11:00pm at the Anthony Bean Community Theatre, located at 1333 So. Carrollton Ave. ...

Truth About Our World

• Vaccines may have increased swine flu risk
  By Annie Guest There is renewed controversy surrounding influenza vaccines, with some studies showing people immunised against the seasonal flu might have been at greater risk during the swine flu outbreak. Infectious diseases expert Professor Peter Collignon has called for a review of Australia ...
• Japanese Nuclear Meltdown Confirmed
  Infowars.com March 12, 2011 � As we accurately reported earlier today, the explosion at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan was the result of a nuclear meltdown of the reactor core at the facility. The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA)confirmed the meltdownSaturday afternoon. Fukushim ...
• Nature Blowing Its Top and Bottom
  From Dr. Sircus’ Blog http://blog.imva.info/   Violent eruptions along Russiaâs volcano belt are affecting global weather patterns and prices to boot, says this article by Ben Aris. Prepare to pay more for your flour and coal this year. Volcanoes on the countryâs eastern seaboard of Kamchatka h ...
• Sperm Meets Chemicals: Are They Really Making ...
  I don’t think it takes a genius to figure out the causes of increased male infertility.  The chemicals in our food, products (colognes, sprays, etc), environment, medications,  just to name a few, are most definitely the causes.   by Catherine Pearson The connection between chemical exposure a ...
• Measles On The Rise? What You Should Know
  Most of the population ARE vaccinated against the measles, so don’t give me the BS that we shouldn’t take the risk NOT to vaccinate our children against it. What this rise in measles tells me, is that  the vaccine is useless , period.   Leigh Vinocur, M.D. Measles is nothing to sneeze at and ho ...

Gyrovague's Raves

• The power of lonely
  What we do better without other people around (Tim Gabor for The Boston Globe) By Leon Neyfakh You hear it all the time: We humans are social animals. We need to spend time together to be happy and functional, and we extract a vast array of benefits from maintaining intimate relationships and as ...
• The Ethnicity of the U.S. Ambassador Does Not ...
  By Yu Yongsheng Translated By Liangzi He Edited by Hoishan Chan China – Huanqiu – Original Article (Chinese) On March 9, U.S. President Barack Obama formally nominated Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke as the next ambassador to China, succeeding the incumbent ambassador Jon Huntsman, who will lea ...
• The Importance of Logic and Critical Thinking
  By Curtis Silver Real or fake? Tilt shift photography pushes the limits of visible logic. âCritical thinking is a desire to seek, patience to doubt, fondness to meditate, slowness to assert, readiness to consider, carefulness to dispose and set in order; and hatred for every kind of imposture.â ...
• Bacteria hijack an immune signaling system to ...
  By Diana Gitig Our immune system operates under the basic premise that "self" is different from "non-self." Its primary function lies in distinguishing between these entities, leaving the former alone while attacking the latter. Yet we now know that our guts are home to populations of bacterial ...
• Heteroflexible
  By Jessica Grose Ann, your reading of Bergner’s article seemed spot on for me, particularly the part about women not wanting to find clear-cut answers in order to keep the door open for sexual possibility. The part of "What Do Women Want?" that stood out to me most was the discussion of sexologi ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

• The legacy of Phineas Gage
  FROM SARAH MEE, POLICY ADVISER This rather macabre illustration is of the skull of Phineas Gage, an American railroad construction foreman. In 1845 he was the victim of an explosion that caused a three foot long iron rod to pass through his left cheek and out of the top of his skull. Remarkably, ...
• An Agrarian Renaissance?
  FROM DINO MCMAHON IN THE SCIENCE POLICY CENTRE On Tuesday 15 February, I went along to the launch of the all-party parliamentary group on Agroecology.  Agroecology is the science of sustainable agriculture.  It studies the interaction between plants, animals, humans and the environment.  an incr ...
• Human Embryology: a different kind of policy p ...
  The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) was a policy first –the first executive, non-departmental public body in the world. It has sole authority and responsibility for research and routine practice for IVF and stored gametes.  Created in 1991, HFEA had a clear role at a time whe ...
• A little less conversation…
  FROM SARAH  ‘SMEE’ MEE, POLICY ADVISER In the realm of global food security, little is spared intense debate. However, few would disagree that the global food system as it stands is failing. At the stakeholder launch of the Governmentâs Foresight report on Global Food and Farming Futures on Tue ...
• America’s “Sputnik moment”
  FROM MICHAEL ASHCROFT IN THE SCIENCE POLICY CENTRE… In 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik into orbit, shattering the established belief that the US led the world in space technology. This shock led to the space race and the many benefits â technology, innovation and education – associated w ...

NAU Resistance

• It’s Official. Stephen Harper is Privatizing O ...
  "AbitibiBowater NAFTA settlement has privatized Canadian water, trade committee hears"
• One World Government- Does Anything Stand In T ...
  What last obstacles must they overcome in order to declare their new world order, one world government official or a success?
• The North American Union Conspiracy
  They Have Called For The Real Time Tracking Via Biometric And RFID Technology Of All Travelers In North America, The Full Integration Of Our Law Enforcement Teams, Harmonizing Our Laws And Standards And The Thinning And Eventual Removal Of The Internal, Physical Borders- The Consolidation Of Nor ...
• A North American Security Perimeter Threatens ...
  “I have great confidence that Prime Minister Harper is going to be very protective of certain core values of Canada, just as I would be very protective of the core values of the United States, and those won’t always match up perfectly.”- Obama
• Stop Fortress North America Campaign
  Canadians Urged To Take Action NOW On Canada-U.S. Border & Trade Scam!

Gaea Times

• Now, hairbrush that reads your mind
  WASHINGTON - Who says hairbrush can only be used to comb locks? Scientists have made a hairbrush like device that would be able to monitor mental activity. One of the main techniques for measuring and monitoring mental activity, called functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), can often b ...
• Man U?s bemused Fergie tells shifty Roo to res ...
  LONDON - Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has told key striker Wayne Rooney that he must respect the club and its traditions if he wants to stay on. Commenting on reports that suggest that the star player wants to leave Manchester United for another club - either Manchester City or ...
• Google Street Viewers spot ?God? floating over ...
  SYDNEY - Google Street View has spotted a god-like figure floating midair above a lake in Quarten, Switzerland. Although the image, discovered by the Gawker blog, is apparently the result of some sort of light distortion or lens flare, blogger Max Read has questioned whether it might have more ...
• Dogs reduce stress in autistic children: Study
  WASHINGTON - Dogs-apart from being man’s best friend-have a special role to play in the lives of children with special needs. A new study by the Universite de Montreal has suggested that specifically trained service dogs can help reduce the anxiety and enhance the socialization skills of child ...
• How sex hormones influence right heart function
  WASHINGTON - A new study has revealed human sex hormones influence the structure and function of the right ventricle (RV) of the heart. The researchers found that in women receiving hormone therapy, higher estrogen levels were associated with higher RV ejection fraction and lower RV end-systol ...

TruthNews Australia

• Tsunami engulfs northern Japan
  Shocking video shows a huge tsunami racing across the countryside near Sendai, Japan, sweeping away farms and houses. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHtvA-lIksU
• Interview with Bob McIlvaine at Ground Zero
  On 12 January 2011 I met with Bob McIlvaine at 1 Liberty Plaza next to Manhattan's Ground Zero. Together we visited the Family Room, a special place dedicated to the memories of all those who died on 11 September 2001. Afterwards I spoke to Bob about his ongoing activism for 9/11 truth, ...
• The Oklahoma bombing revisited: interview with ...
  Before 9/11 there was the Oklahoma bombing - a devastating terrorist attack which killed 168 people, including 19 children under the age of 6. The attack took place on April 19, 1995 and was quickly pinned on Gulf War veteran Timothy McVeigh who, it is said, planned and executed the attacks with ...
• Aussies Wanna KISS!
  Tonight we welcome Rachel Emmes, author of “AUSSIES wanna KISS” (Keep It Simple Stupid), a new book which outlines problems and suggests solutions to the growing power of the "corporatocracy" and loss of true democracy in Australia. This is a very important interview which we urge you to shar ...
• The air traveller’s dilemma: X-ray strip ...
  Remember the days when taking a commercial airline flight was an exciting, fun experience? Well those days are long gone, and the discomfort factor is set to get a whole lot worse. With the widespread introduction of naked body scanners and "enhanced patdowns" this year air travel in America has ...

Beacon

• Earthquake and Tsunami Hit Japan
  The most powerful earthquake in recorded history to hit Japan struck on Friday, triggering a deadly tsunami that is destroying coastal towns and killing hundreds. The quake also caused trouble for two Japanese nuclear power plants, causing a fire at one and issues with cooling at another. Gove ...
• International Talks Underway to Protect North ...
  Paragorgia coral, aka bubblegum coral, at the Pratt seamount. © NOAA The U.S. government is nearing the conclusion of international negotiations for the management of fisheries on the high seas of the North Pacific Ocean. These quiet talks have been ongoing since April 2006 and are likely t ...
• Make a Bid to Save the Earth
  On March 29th, for the second year running, Oceana will benefit from Christie�s Green Auction, along with NRDC, Central Park Conservancy and Conservation International. There are some fantastic items already up for bid online, including a chance to meet Lady Gaga, an eco-vacation in the Maldive ...
• Ted Danson on His New Book, ‘Oceana’
  I�ve been involved in ocean conservation for decades, and in that time, a lot has changed, but a lot has stayed the same. Last year I decided it was time to write it all down before I get too old to tell the difference. With the talented Michael D�Orso as my co-author, I wrote �Oceana: Our ...
• Confronting Illegal Fishing in Sala y Gomez
  The naval team approaches the fishing boat. © Ford Cochran and Alex Munoz Wilson Oceana and National Geographic are currently aboard a Chilean naval ship, the Comandante Toro, on a scientific expedition in the waters of the newly created marine park around Sala y Gomez island (FYI, an alter ...

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