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• Zambezi Floods Displace Thousands in Namibia
  Thousands of people and livestock in the Caprivi Strip have had to be evacuated as annual floodwaters rise in the Zambezi. However, loss of life has been kept to a minimum as informal warning systems prove to be effective.
• KENYA: Community Turns Garbage Into Energy Source
  A community-based organisation in the Kenyan slum area of Kibera set out to clean up garbage and deal with waste water; Ushiriki Wa Safi ended up creating a community cooker that turns waste into an energy source.
• Aid Agencies Rush to Japan's Humanitarian Front
  Day five of Japan's post-earthquake, post-tsunami life dawned dismally Tuesday, with soaring radiation levels from the Fukushima Daiichi power plants and a relentlessly rising death toll in the four worst-affected prefectures.
• BAHRAIN: Saudi Intervention Likely to Bring Re ...
  Saudi Arabia's incursion into neighbouring Bahrain is a risky move that could further inflame domestic unrest in both countries and give a propaganda boost to Tehran's campaign to cultivate the Arab street.
• Cooperation Strategic To Protect Tigris and Eu ...
  On a dusty street in the north-eastern Iraqi city of Sulaimaniya one recent day, an elderly man sold heaps of tomatoes, fruits and other fresh produce from a makeshift trolley.

Scoop - NZ

• Saudi Intervention in Bahrain | STRATFOR
  The Bahraini regime has used the military option before. On Feb. 17, the military deployed immediately after a police crackdown in Manama’s Pearl Square and was able to calm down the situation for a while by encircling the area with tanks. If Bahrain indeed has requested Saudi intervention this ...
• Japan Faces Potential Nuclear Disaster, Radiat ...
  In a brief address to the nation at 11 a.m. Tokyo time, Prime Minister Naoto Kan pleaded for calm, but warned that radiation had already spread from the crippled reactors and there was “a very high risk” of further leakage. Fortunately, the prevailing winds were sweeping most of the plume of rad ...
• Japan, the Persian Gulf and Energy | STRATFOR
  Japan depends on nuclear energy and it depends on the Persian Gulf, which is where it gets most of its oil. It was, therefore, a profoundly bad week for Japan, not only because of the extensive damage and human suffering but also because Japan was being shown that it can’t readily escape the rea ...
• U.S.-Saudi Tensions Intensify With Mideast Turmoil
  Monday’s action, in which more than 2,000 Saudi-led troops from gulf states crossed the narrow causeway into Bahrain, demonstrated that the Saudis were willing to back their threats with firepower. The move created another quandary for the Obama administration, which obliquely criticized the ...
• Red Alert: Radiation Rising and Heading South ...
  The nuclear reactor situation in Japan has deteriorated significantly. Two more explosions occurred at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on March 15. The first occurred at 6:10 a.m. local time at reactor No. 2, which had seen nuclear fuel rods exposed for several hours after dropping ...

Independent - London

• In pictures: Hindu festival of colours
  Hindus in India celebrate Lath mar Holi, the festival of colour heralding Spring, by covering themselves in bright pigments.
• Japan prepares to restart work at nuclear plant
  Japan ordered emergency workers to withdraw from its stricken nuclear complex today amid a surge in radiation, temporarily suspending efforts to cool the overheating reactors. Hours later, officials said they were preparing to send the team back in.
• Emperor tells Japanese 'don't give up'
  Japanese Emperor Akihito has addressed the nation, expressing his condolences for victims of the massive earthquake and tsunami and telling the nation not to give up.
• Deal bid to avert Spanish airport strikes
  The state-owned company which runs Spain's airports has reached a preliminary agreement with unions that have called 22 days of strikes during peak holiday seasons in protest at plans to privatise half the firm.
• Video: Commuter panic filmed as quake hits
  Video footage of the Japan earthquake as it strikes the train station in the city of Narita.

Rogue Government.com

• Radiation leaps after Japan plant blasts and ...
  Japan warned radioactive levels had become "significantly" higher around a quake-stricken nuclear power plant on Tuesday after explosions at two reactors, and the French embassy said a low level radioactive wind could reach Tokyo by the evening.
• Tokyo Shares Drop 14%
  An early decline in Japanese shares picked up speed Tuesday afternoon, with the main index skidding 14.4% as the country's prime minister warned of a high risk of elevated levels of radiation from a reactor at the Fukushima nuclear-power plant after another explosion earlier in the day.
• TSA Cooked The Books For Years On Costs, Fede ...
  The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a letter to Transportation Committee Chairman John L. Mica (R-FL) that confirms the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has used faulty data and withheld information when evaluating and comparing the costs of the all-fede ...
• CERN particle collisions resume
  CERN scientists said Monday they staged their first speed-of-light particle collisions of the year at the weekend, resuming their probes into the origins of the cosmos in the centre's Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
• USS Reagan went through radioactive cloud
  THE crew of the US aircraft carrier, on a humanitarian mission to Japan, received a month's worth of radiation in about an hour, a US newspaper reported yesterday.

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

• Midsomer Murders: On the trail of the real Mid ...
  As uproar threatens the sleepy world of Midsomer Murders, Iain Hollingshead visits Haddenham - which has featured regularly in the long-running murder mystery series - to discover the truth behind the camera. If Greg Dyke, the former Director-General of the BBC, thought the organisation he once ...
• Canadian university puts ancient, mysterious s ...
  A mysterious sculpture held by Montreal's Concordia University - an artifact possibly thousands of years old and thought by some experts to predate the pyramids of Egypt - is being displayed publicly for the first time in hopes of attracting international attention and fresh insights into it ...
• The Roman Ninth Legion's mysterious loss
  The disappearance of Rome's Ninth Legion has long baffled historians, but could a brutal ambush have been the event that forged the England-Scotland border, asks archaeologist Dr Miles Russell. One of the most enduring legends of Roman Britain concerns the disappearance of the Ninth Legion. ...
• UK: Locked up and sedated: Dementia patients b ...
  Elderly patients with dementia are being illegally locked in their rooms and sedated in hospitals and care homes, a report warns. Staff are routinely flouting official guidelines and depriving confused residents of their basic human rights in the belief that it is in their best interests. A hi ...
• Judge OKs feds' access to WikiLeakers Twitter info
  Rebuffs constitutional challenges A federal judge in Virginia has given investigators access to the Twitter records of four WikiLeaks associates, including the email addresses associated with the accounts and the IP addresses used to access them. Friday's decision by US Magistrate Judge Theres ...

The Galloping Beaver

• Multi-Kulti BS . . .
  Kanwar Mahfooz THE POLITICALLY-CORRECT ARE BECOMING TIRESOME, and the sooner we can slap some sense into their darling little minds, the better. According to Licia Corbella at The Calgary Herald, there is lunacy in Winnipeg. Apparently a number of Islamic families are upset and demanding change ...
• Nasty bitch . . .
  MUAMMAR'S "GO-TO GAL", is a middle-aged matron by name of Huda Ben Amer, aka "Huda Al-Shannaga – Huda the executioner". No job too dirty or nasty. This bitch is a real piece of work. According to The Telegraph, she got her start in the regime when she grabbed the legs of a man being hanged, who ...
• Reach out and touch someone . . .
  THE TELEGRAPH has a book review by Toby Harnden of an account of the British trials in Afghanistan, "Dead Men Risen". This column is about the snipers.Operating from a remote patrol base in Helmand, two British snipers were responsible for killing 75 Taliban fighters in just 40 days. In one rema ...
• The Waiting
  It has been, in the sense of the old Chinese curse, an interesting weekend. The earthquake and tsunami that struck north-eastern Japan on Friday and the subsequent nuclear crisis are frightening events that hit very, very close to home for me and mine. As many of you know, I spent many years in ...
• Before and after . . .
  ABC NEWS FROM OZ has a report organized by Andrew Kesper, that shows Google satellite pics, with a slider to see the before-and-after. Wow.

Media Matters for America

• Hypocrisy Alert: Conservative Media Decry Unio ...
  The conservative media have denounced unions in Wisconsin for attempting to negotiate contracts before that state's recently passed anti-union law goes into effect, referring to what they're doing as a "cheap trick." But the conservative media praised Wisconsin Republicans when they used qu ...
• Beck Dismisses Cancer Deaths From Chernobyl
  Glenn Beck accused the "I hate nukes" people at the United Nations of distorting the number of deaths resulting from the Chernobyl disaster. In fact, the UN's estimated death toll of 4,000 includes fatalities connected to increased exposure to radiation, and that figure is far lower than estima ...
• Glenn Beck Uses Fox To Demonize Unions
  Glenn Beck has repeatedly used his Fox News show as a platform to villify labor unions, accusing unions of perpetuating violence, linking them to communists, likening union pensions to rape, accusing unions of wanting to destroy "the Western way of life," and claiming that unions are destroying ...
• Right-Wing Media's Cognitive Dissonance Persis ...
  The right-wing media has consistently portrayed the medical case of Canadian baby Joseph Maraachli as a fight for survival, claiming he was "rescued" from the Canadian hospital treating him, thus "sav[ing]" the child's life. In fact, Maraachli's condition is incurable -- a fact conceded even by ...
• Right-Wing Finds New Evidence Of "Indoctrinat ...
  The right-wing media have seized on a video of students protesting against Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker as evidence of children being "indoctrinate[d]" to support progressive causes. As Media Matters has noted, right-wing media have repeatedly seized on YouTube videos of children ...

Global Research.ca

• For a Better Global Civilization
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Saudi military prepares to enter Bahrain
  Bahrain is expected to invite Saudi military support following anti-government demonstrations.
• Our Time of Universal Deceit Needs An Orwell
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• The Fukushima Nuclear Accident: Unmeasured amo ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• VIDEO: Resolution Proposed to End Illegal Afgh ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.

TPM Cafe

• The Libyan Rebels Deserve Outside Military Help
  There are many good reasons to be cautious about outside international intervention (especially American) on behalf of the Libyan rebels. For that matter, there are always good reasons to pause before getting involved in a violent conflict. In the current case, those reasons have been swamped by ...
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• Bradley Manning Abuse
  Kudos to the New York Times for an excellent editorial today calling out the Administration for the abuse of Bradley Manning, the alleged Wikileaks whistleblower. For those of you who have not been following the events, Manning has been held under conditions that PJ crowly called last Thursday ...
• Important lessons from the antinuclear movement
  Japan's desperate struggle to contain the nuclear catastrophe at the Fukushima Daiichi reactors should bring the Obama's attempt to reintroduce nuclear power in the US to a grinding halt. Instead, the administration has responded with an anxious defense of nuclear power. Indeed, energy secretary ...
• Itamar: Already, The Aftermath
  Today - The Netanyahu government has announced that, in response to the murders at Itamar, it would build 500 new housing units in the territories. Mourning for the victims has barely begun, but the government has already managed to desecrate their memory. What is the statement the government ...

TruthOut

• Comparative Suffering: Iceland vs. Ireland
  A reader asked me a good question recently: Why do I have such kind words for Iceland's economic performance, when the decline in its gross domestic product was not much different from Estonia's? Because Iceland was supposed to be the worst case. �But, as a report from the International Monetar ...
• Class Warfare, the Final Chapter
  "There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning." -Warren Buffett to The New York Times, November 26, 2006 There is overwhelming evidence that we are entering the final chapter of class warfare in the US. Today, in the "public arena," i ...
• Salary Ceiling, a Lever for Change
  Over the last 30 years, disparities in income have exploded. While a big company CEO earned about 35 times the average salary of one of his employees during the Trentes glorieuses [the French appellation for the period of glowing economic prosperity from 1945 to 1975], today, he earns 300 times ...
• Japan Confronts Multiple Crises as Death Toll ...
  Tokyo - Anxiety mounted in Japan on Tuesday as the country struggled to come to grips with the scope of the natural disaster that struck last Friday and the nuclear crisis it unleashed.read more
• How the Tiny Kingdom of Bahrain Strong-Armed t ...
  The men walking down the street looked ordinary enough.  Ordinary, at least, for these days of tumult and protest in the Middle East.  They wore sneakers and jeans and long-sleeved T-shirts.  Some waved the national flag.  Many held their hands up high.  Some flashed peace signs.  A number w ...

Planetsave

• Cheap and Easy Ways to Make Your Home more Ene ...
  This post is made possible by energy-efficiency specialists WellHome and their Home Weatherization Giveaway Sweepstakes. Take a quick visual quiz of your home’s energy use to see your potential yearly savings. Hurry! For your shot at a grand prize of $2500 in energy efficiency upgrades, enter by ...
• The Republican Book on $cience [cartoon]
  Since taking over the House, the Republicans have utilized their sway to continue their attack on the environment. Any time you fight to weaken clean air and water standards, carbon (etc.) emissions standards, and make every effort to make the world a less healthy place to live, one has to wonde ...
• West Antarctic Ice Sheet More Stable than Prev ...
  In many climate models and scientists’ theories the West Antarctic ice sheet is expected to melt over the coming hundreds of years and raise the sea levels. Much of this is based on the theory that during the last interglacial period the ice sheet must have melted in order to raise the sea level ...
• Images Show Widespread Flooding in Japan
  Following the devastating earthquake which struck Japan and the resulting tsunami, flood waters have submerged crop lands and settlements along the affected east coast. Shown here is a before and after image of  the areas surrounding the Kitakami River, the fourth largest river in Japan, which f ...
• Fukushima 50 Evacuated as Radiation Levels Spi ...
  Only hours after we reported that between40 and 70 nuclear engineers had remained behind at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant after the majority of staff were evacuated, reports from several major news agencies are confirming that they have since been evacuated as a result of a major rad ...

Water Quality - WordPress

• Check Water Violations In Your Area
  Image via Wikipedia What public water systems in your area have violations recorded in Envirofacts S
• Ecuador: Chevron contesting US$ 8.6 billion fi ...
  A court in Ecuador has fined US oil multinational Chevron US$ 8.6 billion for polluting a large part
• CD Howe: Threats to Groundwater Supplies in Ca ...
  Threats to Groundwater Supplies in Canada Require Coordinated Response: C.D. Howe Institute TORONTO,
• San Diego County to Hold Meeting on Gregory Ca ...
  Proponents want to build a garbage dump, next to tribal land of the Pala Band of Mission Indians, ne
• To Mrs. Obama-Health & natural resources
  Dear Mrs. Obama, You have selected the Nations health and particularly the health of our children to

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• America is a Military State By Timothy Gatto
  By Timothy V. Gatto Featured Writer Dandelion Salad liberalpro.blogspot.com February 17, 2011 Americ
• Obama Administration’s Neocon Easter by Sibel ...
  by Sibel Edmonds Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Originally published by Boiling Frogs Post February
• Documents Indicate Policy Plan That Fueled Ira ...
  by Jeremy R. Hammond Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Foreign Policy Journal February 17, 2011 Secret
• It's Time to "Whig" It by Steven Jonas, MD, MPH
  by Steven Jonas, MD, MPH Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted on Buzzflash.com February 17, 2
• Ray McGovern Brutalized & Left Bleeding by ...
  Updated: Feb. 18, 2011; added an interview with Ray McGovern and a video from Democracy Now! by Sibe

Axis of Logic

• Wallerstein: Libya and the World Left - World
  There is so much hypocrisy and so much confused analysis about what is going on in Libya that one hardly knows where to begin. The most neglected aspect of the situation is the deep division in the world left. Several left Latin American states, and most notably Venezuela, are fulsome...
• Paraprosdokians - Poetry/Literature
  Lighten up A "paraprosdokian" is a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to re-frame or reinterpret the first part.  It is frequently used for humorous or dramatic effect.  Do not...
• Tokyo Electric to Build US Nuclear Plants - En ...
  The no-BS info on Japan's disastrous nuclear operators I need to speak to you, not as a reporter, but in my former capacity as lead investigator in several government nuclear plant fraud and racketeering investigations. I don't know the law in Japan, so I can't tell you if Tokyo Elec ...
• Radiation From Japan's Nuclear Plant Now Poses ...
  March 15, 2011 — A third explosion at the Japanese nuclear plant damaged by the earthquake and tsunami, as well as a fire at another reactor, has resulted in fresh release of radiation that is now considered to be harmful and has increased fears over a catastrophic meltdown. Radiation levels. ...
• Bahrain: Gulf states intervene against mass pr ...
  15 March 2011 Over a thousand military and police personnel from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), the Saudi Arabia-led association of Persian Gulf monarchies, have been sent to Bahrain in an effort to put down the insurrection against the al-Khalifa monarchy. A Saudi official stated on ...

They Gave Us a Republic

• The Nightowl Newswrap
  Can anyone explain the difference between General Petraeus and an airport windsock? We really want to know, because we can't discern one. They're both merely hollow, manufactured things that just go whichever way the wind blows. We aren't much for carved-in-stone rules, but we do have a few, an ...
• Since NPR likes to get all het up and fire peo ...
  ...the prudent thing for them to do would be to fire every last one of the following on-air personalities: Robert Siegel � Michele Norris Melissa Block Renee Montagne Scott Simon Liane Hansen Guy Raz Michel Martin Neal Conan Susan Stamberg Nina Totenberg Linda Wertheimer Daniel Zwer ...
• Our Cowardly Political Class
  The following is sourced from an Truthdig article by Chris Hedges: Power Concedes Nothing Without a Demand That article pretty much lays bare our own failures in refusing to stand up not for what America is today but for what it used to be and our compromise and/or capitulate political philosoph ...
• ...and the Buckeyes are even more pissed off t ...
  It's really inexcusable that Ohio elected John Kasich as Governor. It isn't as if they didn't have plenty of warning about what they were going to get -- he represented the Ohio 12 for 18 years and hosted a Fox News show for six more. He was more a known quantity than any ngubernatorial candidat ...
• Evan Bayh follows the money to K Street and Fo ...
  "Follow the money." Americans of a certain age (mine) will remember that phrase as being the thread that "Deep Throat" handed to Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward in a D.C. parking garage so he could unravel a Watergate scandal that would later bring down a president. But in today's cash-sot ...

Care 2

• Three die after consuming cold drink
  Three members of a family, including two teenaged girls, died while two others fell ill after they drank aerated drinks in this Uttar Pradesh city Monday. Thought to be a case of food poisoning, police are probing after the odour in the...Submitted by Jigar S. to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! ...
• End the sale of live Live mutilated turtles in ...
  There's a new petition on Change.org that needs our attention. The video posted there is gruesome and painful to watch. No living-being should undergo such traumatic delayed death. Please sign and share. Submitted by Lashitha S. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Couple Tattoos: Twosome Tattoos to Show Your Love
  Have you been thinking to do something lovey-dovey for your better half? Couple tattoos are a unique way to make your relationship extra special.Submitted by 'Boban '. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Gray Wolves Need Your Help Today - TAKE ACTION!
  Under the mistaken belief that wolves have recovered and can be turned over to state management, some in Congress are vocally supporting legislation to remove protections for wolves under the Endangered Species Act.Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Tell President Obama to strengthen vehicle sta ...
  Urge President Obama to strengthen pollution and fuel efficiency standards to deliver 60 miles per gallon by 2025. Submitted by Cher C. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

• Wisconsin Governor's Allies Ran a Toxic Bailou ...
• The Key to Rebuilding Workers' Power: Unrig th ...
• NPR Scandal Reversal: The Raw Footage Shows So ...
• Quakes, Tsunamis, Meltdowns: The Japanese Disa ...
• Inside America's 'Adjustment Bureau'

Paul Krugman

• A Note On Titles and Such
  The odd manners of American hierarchy.
• Social Security Suicide
  Mr. President, say it ain't so.
• Meltdown Macroeconomics
  By all means worry, but not about crowding out.
• Well, So Much For Lufthansa
  Double doctors devalued.
• Stimulating Happiness
  Jobless means joyless.

No Quarter

• Obama Surrenders America
  Barack Obama no longer deserves to be called President. A President is someone with a vision who makes decisions. Obama? A spectator who is more worried about picking his bracket for the NCAA Basketball Final Four then he is in bringing stability to the Middle East. This kid makes Jimmy Carter l ...
• When Scientists Cheat: The Fallout
  While studying infantile autism as a young graduate student, I hoped to live long enough to learn what caused these beautiful little people to be trapped inside their own heads and bodies and how to reverse it. I was sure, after meeting many parents, that the “refrigerator mother” causation theo ...
• Gbagbo Rules Quaddafi
  Spoke Mark Schroder, Stratfor.com, re the disintegration of Cote D’Ivoire and its major city Abidjan, these last week since the wrecked presidential election in early December. Laurent Gbagbo refuses to leave his palace, almost all the major military and police figures remain loyal to him, and t ...
• Voters Revolt * Open Thread [Update]
  Update: In the comments section, see KenoshaMarge’s excellent rebuttal of my post. : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : Unbelievable. Voters in November elected a large number [...]
• Earthquakes, Tsunamis and Terrorism
  Why is nature metaphorically described as a woman? You know, “Mother Nature.” So in the total scheme of things who is the bigger bad ass? Mother Nature or Osama Bin Laden. I raise the question in hopes of provoking some rational thought about the much hyped threat of terrorism. Someone alert New ...

Environmental Graffiti

• How Your Story Can Help Preserve the World's O ...
  The Ocean Story Boat: Messages & stories from around the world in the campaign for a new Race for the Oceans read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• 10 Statements About Airplanes and Flying: Fact ...
  Can you separate fact from fiction when it comes to airplanes and traveling by air. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• How Hunter-Gatherer Societies Depend on Distan ...
  Researchers have found that hunter-gatherer societies show how we humans grew culturally and evolved over time in well mixed groups. Find out more... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• Food Forensics: Detecting Bioterrorism, Fraud ...
  Food forensics is like CSI when it comes to food crimes. This fascinating science reveals the culprit of bioterrorism, fraud and contamination. Here's how. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
• Earliest Traces of Humans in the Americas Foun ...
  Cave divers have found what may be the earliest trace of human beings in the Americas, hidden in a submerged cave. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

• In a Perfect World, Fukushima Would Halt Nucle ...
  Will the Department of Energy stop trying to spur a nuclear renaissance?
• The Arab Revolutions and the Democratic Imagin ...
  Will activists in the Arab world bring about a new stage of democracy?
• Failure to Open "New Chapter of Engagement" Wi ...
  President Obama has squandered the good will he fostered with Latin America at the 2009 Summit of the Americas.
• The Age of Activism
  We must fight hard in our Age of Activism to construct a new political entity: the activist state. If we fail, we will slip, inexorably, into an Age of Apocalypse.
• The Battle for Greece
  A popular movement is up against an embattled government in Greece.

Global Elite

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

Al Jazeera

• Bahrain forces attack protesters
  Casualties reported as security forces drive out pro-democracy protesters from capital''s Pearl Roundabout.
• Live Blog: Bahrain crackdown
  The latest news, photos and videos from Bahrain, where security forces have attacked protesters camped out in Pearl Roundabout.
• Japan races to cool stricken reactors
  Workers at Fukushima nuclear plant return to work after high radiation forced them to briefly abandon their posts.
• Gaddafi tells West to stay out of Libya
  Leader dismisses rebels as "rats" and urges supporters to confront a possible invasion of country for its oil.
• Fire raises Japan radiation threat
  Blaze at Unit 4 of Fukushima Daiichi plant complicates problems that began with last week's quake and tsunami havoc.

Green Inc. - NYT

• Model Shows Intense Wave Power of Tsunami
  The wave energy from the event was on par with the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, which killed more than 200,000 people, a researcher says.
• Reactor Containment Design Has Long Been Quest ...
  The warnings were stark and issued repeatedly as far back as 1972: If the cooling systems ever failed at a Mark 1 nuclear reactor, the primary containment vessel surrounding the reactor would probably burst.
• A Foil for the Koch Brothers?
  The hedge fund manager Thomas F. Steyer speaks out against efforts to hobble the E.P.A.'s regulatory steps on greenhouse gases.
• Questions on the Nuclear Crisis in Japan
  New York Times reporters covering the nuclear crisis in Japan are answering questions from readers.
• On Our Radar: Wind and Solar Stocks Surge on N ...
  "The nuclear catastrophe in Japan has changed the value of nuclear for good," one analyst asserts.

Dot Earth News

• 'Republicans for Environmental Protection' &#8 ...
  Should the group "Republicans for Environmental Protection" drop the word Republican from its name?
• A Postcard to the Pacific Northwest: Prepare
  A timeline of great jolts off the Pacific Northwest coast constitutes a stark warning.
• On Earthquakes, Warming and Risk (Mis)Perception
  A discussion of problems communicating risks attending earthquakes and global warming.
• Ocean-Spanning Power of Japan's Great Quake on ...
  Scientists produce a mesmerizing simulation of the globe-spanning waves generated by the potent earthquake off Japan.
• Despite Foreshock, No Way to Anticipate Japan' ...
  A potent earthquake off Japan's coast two days before the massive disaster overnight was almost assuredly a foreshock.

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

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

Daily Censored

• Karzai’s Police Force: While State Secur ...
  Karzai’s Police Force: While State Security Forces Across the Middle East Falter, in Afghanistan, NATO Continues to Build. Our perceptions of the future of the middle east and the ability of western states to influence events therein have shifted radically over the course of these historic fe ...
• Revolt, Americans: War is illegal
  Source: Carl Herman, Examiner.com Because war law is so clear in letter and intent, and US “reasons” for current wars not even close to lawful and now uncontested as lies known to be lies as they were told, we can rationally and confidently conclude that “leadership” from both parties and corpor ...
• Can America Be Saved?
  Some may think that question is absurd, but for the last few years, more and more people are waking up to the rampant corruption and starting to wonder. They have seen the damage that has resulted from the widespread fraud committed by the big banks in loan origination, securitization, servicing ...
• They say “cutback”, Detroit studen ...
  Thanks to the reporting of Diane Bukowski (Voice of Detroit, SOUTHEASTERN HIGH CHOIR WINS VICTORY Posted on http://voiceofdetroit.net/?author=2, March 13, 2011 by Diane Bukowski)  it has come to the attention of many waging battle against the forces of privatization that that students from South ...
• Michael Collins: Post Nuclear Japan, Pre Disas ...
  Michael Collins The Japanese disaster at Fukushima I is a human tragedy of striking proportions. As many as ten thousand citizens may be dead in the general  catastrophe, with many more at risk for radiation poisoning at levels yet to be determined. The fact that Japan is a highly organized and ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

• Maine Gov. LePage Asks For â€&tilde ...
• Family's Murder Adds To Israeli, Palestinian T ...
• De Niro and Penn back Palestinian film at UN
• Hillary Clinton Egypt Trip Marks Highest Level ...
• Microsoft releases new Internet Explorer 9 browser

Institute for Policy Studies

• Fukushima Should Foment a U.S. Political Tsunami
  Will the Department of Energy stop trying to bring on a nuclear renaissance?
• French Government Advises its Citizens to Stay ...
  It's ironic that the French are giving such strong advice to their citizens in Japan.
• The Age of Activism
  We must fight hard in our Age of Activism to construct a new political entity: the activist state. If we fail, we will slip, inexorably, into an Age of Apocalypse.
• Behind the Explosion at Fukushima Unit No. 3
  The photos from Fukushima illustrate a dire situation.
• The Lineup: Week of March 14-21, 2011
  Sanho Tree explains why adopting Colombia's failed anti-drug policies in Mexico is a mistake and Donald Kaul says we should stay out of Libya.

Equality Trust

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

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

Marler Blog

• Poisoned - The True Story of the Deadly E. col ...
  Coming to your favorite bookstore this spring is a well-written tale by author Jeff Benedict about the 1993 Jack in the Box E. coli Outbreak that rocked the fast food and beef industries and launched the career of one young trial lawyer. Although I lived through much of this (18 years ago), I l ...
• The Marler Clark Network: A complete Guide to ...
  Over the last two decades, we have created over 30 websites focused on foodborne illnesses - the bugs that sicken us as well as the medical complications.� All of the sites have been a collaboration between the lawyers and staff at Marler Clark as well as the best experts in the field.� Each pag ...
• Michigan State University Receives USDA E. col ...
  Michigan State University has received a $2.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to develop strategies to reduce the amount of E. coli released by cattle, and in effect, decrease the number of foodborne illness in humans. The project, which is being led by Shannon Manning, ...
• Explaining Gastroenteritis with food safety at ...
• The 411 on Botulism, Campylobacter, E. coli, H ...
  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that 48 million-foodborne illness cases occur in the United States every year. At least 128,000 Americans are hospitalized, and 3,000 die after eating contaminated food. Here are some of the main players: Botulism is a rare but pote ...

AutoblogGreen

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

Rafe's Radar

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

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

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

Digg Green

• Green Chemistry Discovery Could Lead to S ...
  Polyurethane--used in everything from insulation to floor coatings--is made with toxic isocyanates. But maybe not for long.
• Pepsi One-ups Coke with 100% Plant Based ...
  Pepsi plans to pour its drinks into bottles derived entirely from plants, which would give them more plant content than Coca-Cola's PlantBottles.
• Speed Demon Creates a Shock - NASA
  WISE has captured a star zipping through space like a race car driver. Just as some drivers obey the speed limit while others treat every road as if it were the Autobahn, some stars move through space faster than others. NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, captured this ima ...
• Live Destruction Coverage Of Nuclear Powe ...
  The Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant exploded due to pumping system failure, a result of the recent tsunami. Luckily for nearby residents, favorable winds blew the radioactive mess offshore and into the Pacific.
• New Technology Creates a More Eco-Friendl ...
  Just in time for St. Patrick's Day, Irish mathematicians discover a biodegradable alternative to the plastic widget in cans of Guinness.

Invisible Opportunity

• Henry Kissinger; a Loathsome Toad
  By Les Visible Well, the Ides of March are here and so… Oh I do not want to write about this man. I donât know what Iâm going to say and I would appreciate the readers being my temporary research assistant and putting all the details in the comments section. Maybe if one of my [...]
• 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 ...
• FEAR of the FEAR
  By Jim Kirwan This ‘case’ was actively being built by those 300 ‘special-leaders’ who called themselves the Tri-lateral Commission way back in 1973. I commemorated what they were doing then, with this painting in Part One of the Journey. It was at that point in time that our wages were frozen an ...
• Video – Plane Hits Empire State Building ...
  Must have been Al Japia…
• Kozyrev’s Mirrors
  Interview with Alexander V. Trofimov, MD by Carol Hiltner IMAGINE STANDING UNDER A VAST, SCINTILLATING AURORA BOREALIS, and seeing it change colors as you changed your thoughts. This exact situation led Russian medical doctor Alexander V. Trofimov into his groundbreaking research on human consci ...

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

• New York City Spending $75 Million a Year on M ...
  A new study reveals that since 1996 New York City has spent from half a billion to over a billion dollars arresting people for less than an ounce of marijuana.
• IRS Approach Poses New Threat to California Ma ...
  The IRS, not the DEA might put the Marin Alliance for Medical Marijuana out of business, setting a grave precedent for other CA medical marijuana distributors.
• New Jersey's Medical Marijuana Muddle
  Patients, providers, advocates, and family members have lined up to unleash volleys of criticism at NJ's proposed medical marijuana rules.
• Why Did the Zetas Ambush Two US Agents on a Lo ...
  The FBI and other security agencies are still investigating the attack and fishing around for fiendish plots against Americans, but it’s not likely this was a planned gig.
• The Passing of a Drug Reform Hero: Retired Jud ...
  Marks devoted his life to change NY's draconian Rockefeller drug laws and helped secure clemency for prisoners rotting away in prison for their roles in minor drug crimes.

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

• PUU-BO: BIG Unveils Prefabricated Wood Eco Com ...
  Inhabitat favorite BIG just unveiled a modern prefabricated eco village that will be constructed in the Finnish city of Kouvola. Dubbed “PUU-BO”, the flexible wooden housing project won first place in Finland’s E2 (Ecology + Economy) Timber Competition, which challenged designers to utilize wood ...
• Shenzen Interchange: New Landmark Tower Has Gr ...
  Read the rest of Shenzen Interchange: New Landmark Tower Has Green Pockets Chiseled Right Into Its Sideshttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "s ...
• Alter Studio’s Tower House is a Refurbished Ze ...
  Alter Studio Architetti Associati recently took second place in the Tower House Competition for Treviso, Italy, which challenged architects to refurbish a twenty story landmark in the area. The proposal transforms the existing tower into 3 attached structures, each of which is designed with its ...
• WattsClever Charger Recharges Regular Alkaline ...
  If you’re like us and have a drawer full of drained alkaline batteries that you’ve been hoarding just hoping they’ll somehow be usable again one day, we’ve got good news for you! WattsClever is a new kind of battery charger that allows you to recharge those dead Duracells – yes, even the regular ...
• Gigantic Tree Trunk Benches Made From Recovere ...
  Designer Lies-Marie Hoffmann recently dropped a series of sculptural benches made from Elm-trunks throughout the streets of Stockholm. Dubbed “Homage to the Elm trees”, the project investigated how sculptural sustainable designs can influence environmental awareness and the public’s appreciation ...

Pogue's Posts

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

WIRED Magazine | Science

• Japan Struggles to Control Quake-Damaged Nuke ...
  In the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami that struck northeastern Japan on March 11, engineers are flooding three nuclear reactors with seawater in an effort to cool their radioactive cores and to prevent all of their nuclear fuel from melting down. Explosions have been recorded at tw ...
• NASA Considers Shooting Space Junk With Lasers
  The growing cloud of space junk surrounding the Earth is a hazard to spaceflight, and will only get worse as large pieces of debris collide and fragment. NASA space scientists have hit on a new way to manage the mess: Use mid-powered lasers to nudge space junk off collision courses. The U.S. mi ...
• Midway’s Albatrosses Survive the Tsunami
  The famed albatrosses of Midway Atoll took a beating from the tsunami, but their population will survive, say biologists on the islands. There are, of course, more pressing concerns in the tsunami’s aftermath than wildlife, and some might balk at paying attention to birds right now. But compass ...
• Camera Traps Reveal Secret Animal Worlds
  Catching images of wild animals, especially rare ones, can be exceedingly difficult for photographers. But the Smithsonian Institution recently released more than 200,000 wildlife images captured by automated cameras hidden in forests, mountains and savannas across the globe. Called Smithsonia ...
• North America Safe From Radioactive Particles
  Radioactive particles from the failing Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station pose little immediate risk to North America, and should fall into the Pacific before reaching western shores. Using a publicly available modeling system for airborne pollutants developed by the National Oceanic and A ...

PakAlert

• Urgent: Surviving Radioactive Fallout
  Surviving Radioactive Fallout & Radiation Contamination from Japan, Iran or North Korea. Also, Mid-East, South Korea, Pakistan, India, China, Russia, Chernobyl, etc.
• Do Not Donate to Illuminati Charities
  Over 350 years ago, the apparition of Our Lady of Good Success in Quito, Ecuador predicted that at the end of the 20th century, Satan would almost totally rule the world by means of Freemasonry. Does the Illuminati rule organizations like the Fabian Society and its offspring, the charity Oxfam, ...
• The Dangers of Nuclear War
  Dr. Michel Chossudovsky on the issue of global survival and his conversations with Fidel Castro about nuclear war
• Videos: Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Caused by ...
  A huge 8.9 Richter scale earthquake rocked Tokyo today resulting in a giant tsunami causing incredible amounts of damage, injuries and deaths. My first reaction was to check the University of Tokyo's HAARP induction magnetometer to see if HAARP was fired up around the time of the quake. Sure en ...
• Saudi police open fire on demonstrators – Photos
  Saudi police opened fire Thursday to disperse a protest in the mainly Shiite east, leaving at least one man injured, as the government struggled to prevent a wave of unrest sweeping the Arab world from reaching the kingdom. The rare violence raised concern about a crackdown ahead of more planned ...

Andy Worthington

• BMA Emergency Meeting Calls on Government to D ...
  Yesterday, the British Medical Association (BMA), the union that represents 140,000 doctors in the UK, dealt a major blow to the coalition government’s plans for the biggest overhaul of the NHS since its foundation in 1948 by voting to tell the health minister Andrew Lansley to “call a halt to t ...
• Jail Without Trial Forever: Andy Worthington D ...
  Last week, for our 24th Antiwar Radio interview (19 minutes, available here), the tireless Scott Horton and I discussed the latest bleak news from Guantánamo, which sets the seal on Barack Obama as the man who not only failed to close Guantánamo, but, in many crucial respects, deliberately conti ...
• Save the NHS! Will the BMA Do the Right Thing, ...
  At the heart of the coalition government’s unprecedented plans to butcher the British state — under cover of the financial crisis caused by their chums in the City – and to privatize everything that has not been privatized over the last 30 years, there is so much bad news that it is hard to ke ...
• Six New UK Screenings of “Outside the Law: Sto ...
  “‘Outside the Law’ is a powerful film that has helped ensure that Guantánamo and the men unlawfully held there have not been forgotten.” Kate Allen, Director, Amnesty International UK “[T]his is a strong movie examining the imprisonment and subsequent torture of those falsely accused of anti-Ame ...
• In Tunisia, the Revolution Rolls On with the A ...
  In Tunisia, where the revolutionary impulses that are sweeping the Middle East began less than three months ago, with the self-immolation of 19-year old Mohamed Bouazizi, the flight of the dictator Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, on January 14, was not just the end of a hated 31-year tyranny, but also ...

Environment _ National Geographic

• Japan Earthquake Not the "Big One?"
  Though Friday's earthquake was the largest in Japanese history, it struck far from where experts had predicted the "big one," experts say.
• Presented By:
• Japan Tsunami: 20 Unforgettable Pictures
  NoneA giant wave tosses cars like toys, a yacht teeters atop a building, and a refinery burns in unforgettable pictures chosen by our editors.
• Japan Battles to Avert Nuclear Power Plant Dis ...
  Amid the fight to prevent a catastrophic meltdown, competing lessons are drawn from Japan’s past experience with earthquakes exceeding nuclear plant design.
• 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.

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

• SPLC Hate Group Count Tops 1,000 as Radical Ri ...
  Editor’s Note: The Southern Poverty Law Center is today releasing its annual count of groups on the American radical right and analysis. What follows is the main essay from the new issue of the Intelligence Report, the SPLC’s investigative magazine. In the story, you’ll find links to our new hat ...
• American Family Association Official Has New T ...
  Bryan Fischer, the director of issue analysis for government and public policy at the American Family Association (AFA), has expanded his astounding bigotry to include not just Muslims and LGBT people, but Native Americans as well. In a post published Monday on the Rightly Concerned blog â a pro ...
• FBI: Confessed California Planned Parenthood B ...
  The FBI on Thursday said Donny Eugene Mower, 37, has confessed to the September firebombing of a Planned Parenthood center in Madera, Calif. The FBI said Mower also was responsible for posting hostile signs at a Madera Islamic Center in late August. The FBI was already investigating the Islamic ...
• Arizona Jury Hands Nativist Murderer Shawna Fo ...
  Shawna Forde, the anti-immigrant vigilante leader who orchestrated the murder of a Latino man and his 9-year-old daughter, will receive the death penalty, a Pima County, Ariz., jury decided today. The decision is binding on the judge hearing the case. The case of Forde, a one-time member of the ...
• Militia Figure Shawna Forde Found Guilty of Ar ...
  Concluding a three-week trial that exposed the most unsavory side of Arizonaâs militant border vigilante movement, a jury on Monday found Shawna Forde guilty of two counts of first-degree murder for the May 2009 killings of Raul Flores, 29, and his 9-year-old daughter in the border town of Ariva ...

change: org.

• "The Verdict Is Clear" on San Francisco's Livi ...
  With a hearing on New York City's proposed living wage legislation coming up in a matter of weeks, it's time to seriously ratchet up our efforts to convince the New York City Council that living wage laws are a good thing. And what better way to do that than to look at cities that have implement ...
• Meet the Bill that Could Ruin Michigan's Farm- ...
  Like most parents, Michigan resident Rachael Hilliker cares very much about the kinds of foods her kids eat. Hilliker has a three-year-old daughter, Claire, and her fiance is the father of an eight-year-old and 10-year old. All three children attend Michigan's public school system. So when Hilli ...
• Fitness for Women Magazine Publishes Di ...
  Fitness for Women, a British magazine, just launched its second issue, but animal lovers should leave this one on the newsstand. On page 13 of the April issue, the fitness rag has published an article called "Vitamin D High." The misguided blurb states that meat eaters have higher intake of v ...
• ‘Corrective’ Rape Campaign Dominat ...
  Yesterday we reported about the victory of Luleki Sizwe, a tiny group of lesbian activists based out of a safehouse in the townships of Cape Town that started an international fight against 'corrective rape', whereby men rape lesbian women to 'turn' them straight. In just three months, their ...
• Kent State Students: Don't Discriminate Agains ...
  Why did Drew Hellebrand sign up for an American Sign Language class at Kent State University? Sheer curiosity. "A couple of my roommates were taking [ASL], and I would see them signing back and forth across the house and it drove me nuts," he laughs. That's how Hellebrand - now a 25-year-old Ken ...

Common Dreams -News

• Fresh Fire at Japan Nuclear Reactor: Operator
  A fresh fire broke out at a reactor of Japan's quake-hit Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant early Wednesday, operator Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) said. An employee confirmed smoke was pouring from the roof of the number-four reactor at the plant, a TEPCO spokesman told reporters. "We immediate ...
• Bradley Manning's Military Doctors Accused Ove ...
  A leading group of doctors in the US concerned with the ethical treatment of patients has questioned the role of military psychiatrists in Quantico, Virginia, where the suspected WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning is being subjected to harsh treatment that some call torture. ...
• Official: Japan's Nuclear Situation Nearing Se ...
  The explosion Tuesday at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has elevated the situation there to a "serious accident" on a level just below Chernobyl, a French nuclear official said, referring to an international scale that rates the severity of such incidents. ...
• Thousands Rally in Gaza, West Bank for 'Unity'
  Thousands of Palestinians rallied in Gaza City and the West Bank on Tuesday in a mass show of strength to call for end to the division in their national movement. The biggest gathering was in Gaza City, where officials from the Hamas-run interior ministry said vast crowds had packed into the cit ...
• Greetings From Fitzwalkerstan: Wisconsin GOP D ...
  Not content to deny state, county and municipal employees and teachers a voice in the workplace -- with legislation that takes away collective bargaining rights -- Wisconsin Republicans have now�moved to deny Democratic legislators the right to vote on legislation as it is being considered by st ...

Lifehacker

• The Disk Is a Metal Filter Replacement for Aer ...
  Is "The Disk," a metal replacement for the AeroPress coffee maker, strictly necessary or a big money-saver? Not so much. But it does give those looking to up their coffee game a bit more coffee in their coffee. More�� ...
• Weatherspark Forecasts and Averages Historical ...
  Current conditions and five-day forecasts? Every site has those. Historical data and averages dating back to the late 1940s, laid out in charts, graphs, and averages? That's what Weatherspark is offering up to people looking for some conte ...
• Use Your Camera's Timer to Take Steadier Shots ...
  If you have trouble pressing the shutter button down without shaking the camera, reader Mujtaba shares a quick solution: just use your camera's timer. More��
• Improve Smartphone Signal with a Drinking Glas ...
  We've shared a few ways to boost your cell phone signal before, but technology weblog The Next Web shows us another way: just stick it in a glass. More��
• Friendly Remakes Facebook for Better iPad Usab ...
  iPad only: Facebook's iPhone app looks pretty rough at a double resolution stretch, and the web site isn't quite finger-friendly. Friendly Plus is an iPad app that exists only to give Facebook a two-column, tablet-focused view and better t ...

Water Privatization

• Lodi agrees to look into privatizing new water ...
  LODI - Privatization of Lodi's future water treatment facility will be researched and considered before the plant is opened in 2012, although that scenario appears to be unlikely.
• 3 teams finalists for utility review
  The Tulsa Metropolitan Utility Authority has narrowed the field to three professional teams for conducting a comprehensive assessment of the city's water and sewer system.
• Say no to privatizing water
  World Water Day, a United Nations-sponsored event on March 22 is fast approaching. Nationally, provincially, regionally and here in Campbell River, water issues keep bubbling up.
• House passes CUC privatization, renewable ener ...
  The House of Representatives passed 18-0 yesterday a conference committee bill that restores the Commonwealth Utilities Corp.'s procurement authority to be able to enter into agreements with private firms, including those that could supply CUC with renewable energy such as solar, wind, geotherma ...
• Water privatization bad move in Mount Olive
  ROXBURY — Patrolman Ken Rocco on Thursday charged two Mount Olive men with theft for snatching an... - 1:48 pm An 81-year-old township man apparently lost control of his car Monday morning and died as a result...

Guardian

• Growing humanitarian crisis as nuclear drama o ...
  �� Sharp increase in radiation from Fukushima plant �� Smoke rising from badly damaged No 3 reactor �� Another fire seen within No 4 reactor building �� Reactor workers ordered out for health reasons �� Earthquake felt in Shizuoka, south-west of Tokyo �� Read the Guardian's latest news story on ...
• Bahrain forces attack protesters
  Focal point of demonstrations overrun by riot police as part of crackdown aimed at crushing anti-government uprisingMilitary troops have opened a large-scale assault against hundreds of anti-government protesters occupying a landmark site in Bahrain's capital.The focal point for Bahrain's demons ...
• Unemployment rises to 2.53 million
  �� Jobless number above 2.5 million �� Claimant count drops 10,200 �� Youth unemployment highest since 1992 �� Local government sheds jobs �� But private sector employment rises 77,000Unemployment in Britain's recession-scarred economy is continuing to climb, with more than 2.53 million Britons ...
• Ed Miliband: AV is good for voters
  Labour leader urges supporters to look beyond Nick Clegg's broken promises and concentrate on the main issueEd Miliband will make his strongest intervention yet in the referendum on the alternative vote (AV) when he addresses a Labour Yes rally on Wednesday, urging voters not to reduce the refer ...
• Bolshoi head quits over erotic photos
  Gennady Yanin steps down after a link to a website with the photos is sent to thousands of email addressesThe director of the Bolshoi theatre's ballet troupe has stepped down after erotic photos of him appeared on the internet in an apparent dirty tricks campaign to force him from his job.Gennad ...

McClatchey

• More nuclear radiation monitors may be placed ...
  WASHINGTON — The state of Alaska is considering adding additional radiation monitors in rural areas as a precautionary measure as federal nuclear officials continue to monitor Japan's failing Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
• Commentary: U.N. Human Rights Council is like ...
  Imagine a tribunal where governments appear to face the worlds judgment on their respect for human rights. Now imagine Moammar Gadhafis Libya sitting on that tribunal. It sounds absurd. But it is the true picture of the U.N. Human Rights Council.
• Commentary: Obama should play education card i ...
  When President Barack Obama starts his much-awaited first trip to South America on March 19, he should take his recent State of the Union address on education, science and innovation with him, and turn it into a hemispheric cause.
• Americans in Japan voice anxiety over nuclear ...
  TOKYO — With minor levels of excess radiation detected in Tokyo and at two nearby U.S. military bases, alarm is building among Americans in Japan who fear the Japanese government and the U.S. military are underplaying the threat of contamination from four out-of-control nuclear reactors.
• Japan's disruption throws a wrench into world' ...
  WASHINGTON — The disaster unfolding in Japan provided a stark reminder Tuesday of how interconnected the global economy has become, with the price of stocks and commodities skidding everywhere as investors weighed how long one of the world's economic engines will be sputtering.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

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

The Wonk Room

• Committee From Koch Votes To Deny Climate Change
  Written with guest blogger Kristen Bartoloni, Researcher for Progress Central. Today, Republicans in the House energy committee voted not once, not twice, but three times, against amendments recognizing that climate change is real, despite the broad scientific consensus that “climate change is h ...
• Utah Governor Gary Herbert Signs Immigration B ...
• As Energy Speculation Hits An All-Time High, C ...
• Despite Budget Crisis, Arizona Lawmakers Propo ...
• House Education Chairman’s Foot Dragging ...

thwap's schoolyard

• What am I smoking?
  In the comments to this post from "The Galloping Beaver" about the Federal Court of Appeals decision against the harpercons on the "In-and-out" scandal, wherein I say that this is just one more nail in harper's political coffin and that he's toast, commentator Dana asks: Man alive, thwap, haven' ...
• Oh Those Fucking Liberals (Part Whatever)
  I started this post this morning before taking a peek at "Progressive Bloggers" and reading about Jack Layton's worrying negotiations with stephen harper. Keep reading though ... Check out this video of Hillary ("hard-workin' white woman") giving some self-righteous lecture about other countrie ...
• More Politicians Who Have Sunk Beyond Redemption
  Yesterday I wrote about how if Barack Obama hadn't already lowered himself beyond redemption he did when he forced P. J. Crowley to resign for his criticism of the torture of whistle-blower Bradley Manning. The Harvard constitutional lawyer, Barack Obama, has been "assured" by government lawyers ...
• harper is Determined to Have the Election Whic ...
  That's the reason he's pushing forward with these asinine tax cuts. He's an incompetent. He's a liar. He's a creep. He advocates lying to Parliament. He advocates withholding from the people's representatives ANYTHING and EVERYTHING they need to do their job. All it should take is one campaign ...
• The Opposition's Logic
  So what's going on with the Liberals and the NDP and the Bloc? Very quickly: The Bloc has the least to worry about. They don't like harper, Quebec doesn't like harper. harper might give Quebec more autonomy, along with all the other provinces, but for the most part, harper's policies are unpopu ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

• Whistleblowers' Pensions Threatened By Intelli ...
  TAKE�ACTION! Tomorrow, March 15th, in a "closed" mark-up at 2:30 pm EST, the members of the Senate Intelligence Committee plan to slip into an appropriations bill a provision that will give the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and the heads of other intelligence agencies, such as the CIA ...
• Release Bradley Manning
  TAKE ACTION! “Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.”  These words are enshrined in our Bill of Rights in the 8th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. They apply to every American. They apply to Private First Class Bradley ...
• Carolyn Lerner confirmation hearing is available
  The Office of Special Counsel (OSC) is the federal government's attorney charged with protecting federal employee whistleblowers. It took President Obama a long time to finally pick a nominee for this position. Today, the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee (HSGAC) held a h ...
• Supreme Court ignores Iqbal and relaxes pleadi ...
  On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a landmark decision on the right of criminal defendants to sue to get access to DNA that might prove their innocence. The case is Skinner v. Switzer, Case No. 09-9000 (3-7-2011). Before the Supreme Court got to the DNA issue, it first had to review the st ...
• NWC Executive Director will hold an open forum ...
  On Sunday April 10, 2011, Stephen Kohn, Executive Director at the National Whistleblowers Center, will be available at 4:00 pm (EST) for an online chat forum at Firedoglake’s Book Salon. The topic of this book salon will be The Whistleblower’s Handbook. For two hours Mr. Kohn will be holding an ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

• For All The Promises Of Transparency, Obama Ad ...
  One of the first moves that President Obama made upon taking office was to tell federal agencies to default to "allow" when it came to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, and only deny in specific situations. It looks like that's not really happening. A new report points out that while ...
• Judge Not Impressed By Reverse Class Action At ...
  We recently wrote about an attempt by one of the growing number of mass P2P pre-settlement lawsuit lawyers, John Steele, to file a reverse of defendant class action lawsuit to try to get around the issue of misjoinder in combining a bunch of totally unrelated individuals in a single lawsuit. Ty ...
• The Future Of Journalism Involves Recognizing ...
  One of my biggest complaints about the way some old school journalism folks view "the news business," is that they still have trouble recognizing they're in the community business. They're so focused on delivering the "news," they forget the bigger issue. The news business has always been a co ...
• Hulu Realizing That Taking Orders From Every E ...
  We've discussed in the past how Hulu really is in a somewhat impossible predicament, in that to be truly innovative, it needs to disrupt the classic TV business model. But the "classic TV businesses" are the ones who own Hulu -- and who want to cripple the service. We keep hearing that the fol ...
• That Was Fast: News Corp's Just Launched iPad- ...
  We had warned from early on that News Corp's "iPad-only" fee-based publication, The Daily, was a disaster in the making. After a ton of hype, and launching a few weeks ago to a ton of overwrought praise, all we've been hearing is that people aren't buying. A bunch of folks checked it out early ...

VacTruth

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

BroadSnark

• Things You Might Have Missed
  This art project is amazing.  At first it seemed kind of weird that they would take these silly pictures of women who had been through so much trauma.  But then when you hear the explanation.  Very cool. Police in New Orleans used licensing as an excuse to close down an anarchist bookstore/arts ...
• Finding My Mouth In Mexico
  Not a lot of time to write this week, so instead I am going to link to an old piece I put up on Matador. There are no signs in Mexico, at least none that aren’t out of date or unintentionally funny. My personal favorite was the sign on Chacala beach that said no mascots [...]
• Things You Might Have Missed
  This take-down of hipsters is just gorgeously hateful. It is mind boggling that there are so many obstacles to growing a few vegetables in your yard and selling them.  But the informal economy is going to win in the end. Apparently, the Catholic Church is now answering all your sex questions.  W ...
• To All the Marriage Pushers
  If I have to read one more article on how a group of people must somehow be damaged because they aren’t in a 1950s nuclear family, I am going to spit nails. Kay S. Hymowitz has a piece in the Wall Street Journal where she complains that men in their twenties “hang out in…a hybrid state [...]
• Things You Might Have Missed
  A short post this week, as I just got back from a HIPS benefit production of the Vagina Monologues and I have had a bit too much to drink.  I think it was the booze-infused cunt cake that finally did me in. Please read this post on government medical experiments on people.  I knew about [...]

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

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

Armies of Liberation

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

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

food and water watch

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

treehugger

• First Space-Based Gas Station Set to Open in 2015
  In space, no one can hear you scream -- about the soaring prices at the pump, that is. For what will be the very first time, plans for a space-based satellite filling station have been announced, with a launch date set for 2015. It may sound like a bit of unnecessary convenience some 22,369 ...
• Will US West Coast Citizens Exceed Banana Equi ...
  Banana inflorescence. Image credit:Wikipedia US citizens can hold off a bit on going internet shopping for potassium iodide to guard against radioactive iodine exposure, leaving the pills for those that might need them first (in Japan for example). Holding the worry aside, first take a mo ...
• The Electric First Taxi Company was Launched i ...
  The Atlantic's Alexis Madrigal has a fascinating story of one of the first cars ever to hit the streets of Philadelphia -- and yes, it was electric. From that massive electric carriage car, called the Electroboat, sprung the nation's first taxi company. Again, all electric. It makes for a gr ...
• GOP Votes to Deny Existence of Climate Change
  Image: MyNC The GOP is In the process of attempting to pass legislation that would overrule the EPA's finding that greenhouse gases pose a threat to human health. Its aim is to protect corporate interests by preventing the EPA from cracking down on the nation's largest emitters of carbon di ...
• How Green Is Your Fast Food? Greenopia Has the ...
  Image: babble.com Ever wonder which, of the country's fast food options, would be your greenest bet?Check out Greenopia's latest rankings of more than 20 popular fast food chains in the U.S. Restaurants are ranked according to how well they meet Greenopia'...Read the full story on TreeHugge ...

Biosingularity

• Exploiting cancer cells’ weaknesses
  When designing new cancer drugs, biologists often target specific gene mutations found only in cancer cells, or in a subset of cancer cells. A team of MIT biologists is now taking a slightly different approach, targeting a trait shared by nearly all cancer cells — they have too many chromosomes. ...
• Mutant Fish Safely Store Toxins in Fat
  Some fish in New York’s Hudson River have become resistant to several of the waterway’s more toxic pollutants. Instead of getting sick from dioxins and related compounds including some polychlorinated biphenyls, Atlantic tomcod harmlessly store these poisons in fat, a new study finds. But what’s ...
• Gut microbes influence behavior
  Gut microbes acquired early in life can impact brain development in mice and subsequent behavior, such as decreasing physical activity and increasing anxiety, according to a study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. “This paper opens the door to new studie ...
• A Sharper Future for Retinal Implants
  Retinal implants can already restore sight to people who have lost it owing to degenerative eye diseases like macular degeneration or retinitis pigmentosa. Now new research suggests a way to make higher-quality, more biocompatible retinal implants by integrating living neural cells with a soft o ...
• Tiny Water Flea Has More Genes Than You Do
  This tiny, near-microscopic water flea has more genes than you. In fact, this freshwater zooplankton is the first crustacean to have its genome sequenced, and its 31,000 genes crowns it the animal with the most genes so far. For those keeping count at home, the average human has about 20,000 to ...

CFACT

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

Ria Novosti Online News

• Oil prices may soar to $150-200 per bbl on Mid ...
• S. Korea to send boric acid to Japan to cope w ...
  South Korea will send boric acid to Japan to help cope with the possible nuclear crisis triggered by last week's massive earthquake and tsunami, the South Korean Yonhap news agency said citing the country's government.
• Powerful Earthquake in Japan
• Russian Soyuz TMA-M spacecraft with ISS crew l ...
  Russia's Soyuz TMA-M spacecraft with two Russian cosmonauts and a U.S. astronaut from the International Space Station (ISS) landed on Wednesday at a designated area in Kazakhstan, Mission Control said.
• Ties that bind: the USSR dissolution and post- ...
  The referendum on the preservation of the Soviet Union, held on March 17, 1991, was a desperate attempt by the authorities to stop the ever-accelerating process of disintegration by appealing directly to the people. Today’s attempts to spur integration among the former Soviet republics are in no ...

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• Russian Soyuz TMA-M spacecraft with ISS crew l ...
  Russia's Soyuz TMA-M spacecraft with two Russian cosmonauts and a U.S. astronaut from the International Space Station (ISS) landed on Wednesday at a designated area in Kazakhstan, Mission Control said.
• Russia may reset launch of Soyuz spacecraft fo ...
  The launch of the Soyuz TMA-21 spacecraft carrying members of a new crew to the International Space Station could be conducted between April 5-10, head of Russia's space agency Roscosmos Anatoly Perminov said.
• U.S. Discovery shuttle safely makes final land ...
  Space shuttle Discovery has landed at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida completing its 39th and final flight, NASA said on Wednesday.
• WWF cancels Amur Leopard count due to lack of snow
  The World Wildlife Fund said on Wednesday it was postponing a large-scale count of the endangered Amur Leopard in the Russian Far East until next year due to a lack of fresh snow fall.
• Russia to supply $139mn worth of equipment for ...
  Russia will supply over 100 million euros ($139mn) worth of equipment for the international ITER thermonuclear reactor, under construction in south France, the state nuclear corporation Rosatom reported.

Pruning Shears

• Calling BS on Freedom Works' Top 10 (Part 3)
  Part 1 and Part 2   It has been a long week and an even longer weekend.  My thoughts are constantly on Japan and it sometimes makes it difficult to focus on the things going on here.  It’s that goldfish attention span of the Twitter generation.  8. A clear conflict of interest exists between pol ...
• Weekend wrapup
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Thoughts and prayers to the victims in Japan. Don’t even know if a donation would be helpful at the moment.The president has his head comp ...
• 'No on SB 5': Additional rallies for this comi ...
  If you can’t make it to the Strongsville rally on Tuesday, here are some others that day: Oberlin Corner of N. Main St. and W. Lorain St. 5:00 pm Vandalia Corner of Maple St. and E. National Rd. 5:00 pm Westerville Westerville Library 126 South State St. 6:00 pm Salem St. Pauls Church 935 E. ...
• 'No On SB 5': Strongsville rally Tues. March 1 ...
  From Mary Devring, Executive Director, Cuyahoga County Democratic Party:The following message is from our Brothers and Sisters at the AFL-CIO. Please plan on attending. We need drivers for the 15th at one of the locations listed below. If you can help out please call one of the two numbers li ...
• The lesson
  Yes, the lavish funding from billionaires didn’t hurt, and yes they’re ideologically inclined to pass crap like the “budget” “repair” “bill” in the first place, but there’s another reason for things like that and Ohio’s SB 5 to happen: We have not provided clear consequences for doing massively ...

Organic Consumers.org

• Open Letter to Natural Food Stores and Coops: ...
  Dear Grocery Store Manager, I believe that if we are to safeguard public health, the environment, small-scale farms, and a stable climate, we need to move organics from being a niche market to becoming the norm, as they were before World War II, and we need to do this as soon as possible. Accord ...
• Are Regulators Doing Enough to Prevent Bee Die ...
  For beekeepers, loss is something that comes with the territory. It's accepted that the cold winter months will whittle down the number of honeybees in a colony. But for Colorado beekeeper Tom Theobald, like many beekeepers across the country, the past several winters have brought losses that ec ...
• Higher Food Prices May be Here to Stay
  Agronomist Roger Elmore suspected trouble in July, when Iowa's cool summer nights didn't get as cool as usual. The evening heat, he knew, could mean a smaller corn harvest at a time when global food markets are so tight that anything less than a bumper U.S. yield can send prices higher.Click he ...
• Japan Radioactivity Could Enter Food Chain
  Radioactive materials spewed into the air by Japan's earthquake-crippled nuclear plant may contaminate food and water resources, with children and unborn babies most at risk of possibly developing cancer.Click here to read this article
• Genetically Altered Pigs Debate Set to Sizzle
  Not even its creators have tasted it yet. Still wallowing in the bureaucratic muck of regulatory approval processes in Canada and the United States, the genetically modified "Enviropig" is likely years away from potential human consumption.Click here to read this article

fotoFrontera

• Fotografías de flores para el Día de las Madres I
  ATENCIÓN: Para ver todas las fotos de esta serie, navegue usted hacia abajo y haga click sobre las imágenes que más le gusten para ampliar su tamaño y guardarlas en su computadora si así lo desea. Aunque faltan todavía casi dos meses para festejar el Día de las Madres, el Banco de Imágenes ...
• Los colores de nuestro planeta V (15 paisajes ...
  ATENCIÓN: Para ver todas las fotos de esta serie, navegue usted hacia abajo y haga click sobre las imágenes que más le gusten para ampliar su tamaño y guardarlas en su computadora si así lo desea. Jamás me cansaré de decir que nuestro planeta tiene una enorme diversidad de paisajes natu ...
• Fotografías de animales tiernos y salvajes I ( ...
  ATENCIÓN: Para ver todas las fotos de esta serie, navegue usted hacia abajo y haga click sobre las imágenes que más le gusten para ampliar su tamaño y guardarlas en su computadora si así lo desea. La ternura de los animales, es incomparable. Creo que la mayoría de ustedes tiene en casa una ...
• Fotografías de árboles en todas las estacione ...
  ATENCIÓN: Para ver todas las fotos de esta serie, navegue usted hacia abajo y haga click sobre las imágenes que más le gusten para ampliar su tamaño y guardarlas en su computadora si así lo desea. A donde quiera que vayamos, siempre encontraremos árboles. Sí, estos pequeños y enormes tro ...
• 10 wallpapers de playas paradisiacas para iPad ...

Center for a Livable Future

• What’s Cookin’ in Your Soil Kitchen?
  What’s Cooking in your ‘Soil Kitchen’? There is probably lots cooking but you might not like all that’s on the menu. So if you are an urban agriculturalist in the mid-Atlantic (NYC-Philadelphia-Baltimore-DC) area scratching your head about all this talk of soil contamination, grab a soil sample ...
• The Locavore debate, revisited
  How can local food systems support a resilient and sustainable future food economy in the United States? That was the question of the day at a recent conference entitled, “Reviving the American Economy-One Heirloom Tomato at a Time.”  But for some, the question isn’t so much how, but even can ...
• In Media, Big Ag Looms Large while Farmers Get ...
  In September 1965, CBS broadcast its first episode of Green Acres, a mini-series documenting a family’s transition from an urban life of prestige and luxury, to one of mud, manure, and chaos on a farm in the fictional town of Hooterville. Green Acres took off, in part capitalizing on the popula ...
• Organic Farming: What is Technology’s Role?
  A recent post entitled “Organic Farmers: Can They Be Tech Savvy?”  by Mr. Hunter Richards serves as a reminder of why one interested in sustainable farming mustn’t instinctively cringe at the thought of new technology and agriculture. As the blog states, organic food has taken off as an indust ...
• Chicken, Ascendant
  Between now and April 3, the USDA is inviting comment on a just-completed, major research effort to reassess how much of the food in the United States actually makes its way into our mouths.  Its findings suggest that in the chicken-versus-beef rivalry, the popularity of boneless chicken is edgi ...

Norwegianity

• Overt and undercover Republicans team up to de ...
  You can take away the labels but city politics are emphatically partisan just the same. Former Deputy Mayor of L.A. Alfred J.R. Villalobos is an excellent case in point. The L.A. Times is all over his case this morning for his role in recently uncovered corruption at CalPERS, the 800-lb. gorilla ...
• Japonsin
  Everything you need to know about Japan. - If you didn’t watch the Oscars, Inside Job was the Oscar-winning documentary on how the banksters screwed the rest of us to death. Paul Krugman reviews Inside Job today, as does Jonathan at Real Economics but the real “economic” news today is that your ...
• Wisconsin, now with more tractors
  Another Saturday, another 100,000 pro-union folks marching in Madison. Heroes welcome for the WI 14 Tractors! [and pictures that actually show the tractors!] Pictures and some text from WINston (plus a supportive music video from Bulgaria) Nick Kristof on the need to pay teachers more, not less ...
• Wisconsin update
  Just got off the phone with WINston who says the crowds in Madison today were the biggest he’s seen to date. I’ll link to his blog post as soon as it’s up. Not a lot to link to yet, newspapers no longer having sufficient funds for any kind of Saturday coverage. The UpTake is still [...]
• Go go Godzilla!
  Yes there was a big earthquake in Japan [slideshow] and yes their nuclear reactors are melting down and there have been fire-breathing gorilla-whale sightings but I’m more concerned with whether there was any ice that came with that dusting of snow that hit the Twin Cities last night. Very white ...

Public News Service

• Plans Proceed for Northern AZ Shooting Range N ...
  Plans Proceed for Northern AZ Shooting Range Next to National Monument Flagstaff, AZ – Arizona Game and Fish Commissioners are moving forward with plans for a regional shooting range within hearing distance of Walnut Canyon National Monument outside Flagstaff. Opponents say the gunfire will dist ...
• A New Way for Arizonans to Report, Research Un ...
  A New Way for Arizonans to Report, Research Unsafe Products Phoenix, AZ - A new website promises open access to product safety information, including reports about potential problems and manufacturers' responses to them. It's www.SaferProducts.gov, launched last Friday (March 11) by the Consumer ...
• Arizona Receiving Toxic Strawberries from Cali ...
  Arizona Receiving Toxic Strawberries from California? Phoenix, AZ – Arizona gets most of its strawberries from California. Critics of a controversial pesticide used in that state's strawberry fields want methyl iodide to be banned. A coalition of California environmental and farmworker groups h ...
• Poll Finds Strong Public Support for Endangere ...
  Poll Finds Strong Public Support for Endangered Species Act…and Wolves Phoenix, AZ – A new poll on wildlife management, the Endangered Species Act and wolves shows strong public support for all three. U.S. House Republicans hope to remove ESA protections for wolves as part of a stopgap federal ...
• Debt Reduction Roadmap
  Debt Reduction Roadmap Washington D.C. – A federal government shutdown has been avoided, at least for the next two weeks, with enactment of a stop-gap spending bill. But the measure leaves unresolved House-passed spending cuts of 60-billion dollars which still need to be reconciled with the Sen ...

Center for Food Safety

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

• Libya, Getting it Right: A Revolutionary Pan-A ...
  Libya, Getting it Right: A Revolutionary Pan-African Perspective | Dissident Voice: "Thousands of Indians, Egyptians, Chinese, Filipinos, Turks, Germans, English, Italians, Malaysians, Koreans and a host of other nationalities are lining up at the borders and the airport to leave Libya. It begs ...
• The facts about racism in Libya | SocialistWor ...
  The facts about racism in Libya | SocialistWorker.org: "THE UPRISING against the dictatorial regime of Col. Muammar Qaddafi, like the revolutionary upsurges in Tunisia and Egypt, has inspired people around the world who yearn for social change. If the people of Libya succeed in overthrowing a ru ...
• Hullabaloo: How to force a false confession
  Hullabaloo: "I suppose we are supposed be grateful that they are only using this particular technique on an American soldier for seven hours a day instead of the weeks or days they routinely used on Al Qaeda members. Perhaps they learned through their long experience at Gitmo and Bagram that com ...
• Tom is Moving in on Libya
  Even as I write here President Obama and his European allies are moving fast to invade Libya under the guise of a humanitarian mission. A "no-fly-zone" will most likely be declared soon and policed by Nato in the days ahead.� This tactic will allow Tom to essentially occupy Libya in a r ...
• UNDERNEWS: Thomas Knapp, Anti-War
  UNDERNEWS: "The power to declare war — and thereby to legally categorize a group of persons (historically on, but not necessarily constrained to, the basis of their allegiance to a particular state) as 'the enemy' — is exclusively reserved, per the US Constitution, to Congress. Congress hasn’t e ...

Pensieve

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

Green Times

• What's on 14 March 2011
  It's all about ACTION this week! The NSW Election is looming (26 March) and there's plenty of events highlighting the environmental issues this election will be fought on. This weekend also sees a Giant Swap Party taking place in Sydney - Out with the old, in with the (almost) new!!
• Flower in the night
  Flowers are beautiful�� even at night! Some flowers only bloom in the dark, like this cactus and the moonflower, the evening primrose or the night phlox. The scent of these night blooming plants is often more intense as in the darkness insects cannot see their usual attractant: their colour ...
• Environmental News 15/03/2011
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• Environmental News 14/03/2011
  Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
• Protect beautiful Lake McKenzie, Fraser Island
  Beautiful clear blue water... Did you know that less than 1% (http://www.saveourmarinelife.org.au/) of Australia’s South West marine environment is protected?! Overfishing, climate change, sea pollution and a lot of other factors destroy the marine environment more and more. Life in th ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

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

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

• Abdallah Abu Rahmah is free, may all Palestini ...
  Great news on the heels of the horrible killings in Itamar settlement and Netanyahu’s exploitation of them. It’s good to have a hopeful example even if its freedom for a man who should have never been imprisoned. Indeed, the protests Abdallah Abu Rahmah helped organize are still going on after h ...
• Please report any unattended human rights
  I read Neve Gordon’s piece a few months back about human rights websites being banned at Ben Gurion airport, and thought what a perfect microcosm of the front Israel is trying to put up to the world. While they wouldn’t think of banning such websites to their own population, I hope, internation ...
• Israeli solidarity activist interrogated by po ...
  Sara Benninga, whose speech I reposted here on the blog, was interrogated by the police after speaking at the JStreet conference I attended. She provided one of the voices for a new direction for Jewish and Israeli activists working alongside Palestinians for justice. For this she rewarded with ...
• Eviatar: Three Dead Children
  Guest Post by Aharan Eviatar The recent ghastly events in Arizona, especially the killing of Christina Greene, gunned down by a political lunatic at age nine, lead one to think of the phenomenon of political killing of children and what it implies for society. In particular, I would like to bri ...
• Second School Year Opens at Salem’s Musi ...
  On Saturday February 19 we visited the Salem Music Center. We were accompanied by three professionals – Fuad, a music teacher from Tel Aviv-Yaffa, Ram – principal of Tel Aviv’s art high school, and Ruti – head of that school’s music department. The occasion was the opening of a second school yea ...

Politics in the Zeros

• Wisconsin. We’re not winning, not even close
  I haven’t blogged much about Wisconsin for two reasons. First, based on my experience organizing anti- Iraq war protests, getting hundreds of thousands in the streets is no guarantee that demands will be met. You may just be ignored. Second, there’s been no call to arms from the major unions, no ...
• Flat Top from the C Trail, Cedar City UT
  The C Trail was built in 1996 to commemorate 100 years of Utah statehood. That snow covered mountain is Flat Top, elevation 10,600 feet. Cedar is 5,800 feet. I took this photo about ten minutes up the trail, and the trailhead is five minutes walk from our back door. This Spring I plan to hike [...]
• Japan disaster likely to impact California economy
  (Crossposted from CAIVN) As Japan suffers from a horrendous death toll and substantial damage to several of its nuclear reactors, trade with California will unquestionably be impacted due to the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami. Much of the trade both ways is in technology and electronics. If ...
• Chernobyl clean-up expert slams Japan, IAEA
  Slamming the Japanese response at Fukushima, Russian nuclear accident specialist Iouli Andreev accused corporations and the United Nations’ International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) of willfully ignoring lessons from the world’s worst nuclear accident 25 years ago to protect the industry’s expan ...
• Finding the energy to do it right
  The severity of the earthquake tsunami catastrophe that struck Japan last Friday is just now being absorbed, in bits and pieces of anecdotal commentary. The idea that they were able to rescue a man from the rooftop of his home some 15 km at sea is an indication of the power of the tsunami and [...]

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

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The Air Vent

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

Focal Point

• Guest Blogging at The American Prospect's Blog ...
  This week, I will be guest blogging at TAPPED, the group blog of the American Prospect. I've got big plans for the week ahead. Please join me. My first post is on right wing hoaxster James O'Keefe and the established media outlets who enable him. Two senior NPR executives lost their jobs befor ...
• Fly of Newt: Gingrich Blames Adultery on Patri ...
  “There’s no question that at times in my life, partially driven by how passionately I felt about this country, that I worked far too hard and that things happened in my life that were not appropriate,” former House Speaker and serial adulterer Newt Gingrich told an interviewer for the Christia ...
• Friends With Benefits: Why Private Sector Work ...
  The Republicans are trying to pit private sector workers against public sector workers. It's easy for a struggling private sector worker with low wages and no benefits to resent of private sector workers with job security, pensions, health care, and more--especially if that worker's state taxes ...
• Did Wisconsin Senators Break State's Open Meet ...
  In their haste to pass a union-busting bill in the dead of night, without a quorum, Wisconsin's Republican senators may have violated the state's open meetings law. As I report in Working In These Times, the Republicans are trying to cloud the issue by asserting that they followed senate rules . ...
• Sex Advice Columnist Dan Savage As Ethicist
  Benjamin Dueholm has a cover story in the Washington Monthly assessing sex advice columnist Dan Savage as an ethicist: Savage yields to no one in his sexual libertarianism, but he has not been content to relegate the ideas of right and wrong to cultural conservatives. Wading deep into the f ...

Inside Facebook

• Facebook Launching Local Deals Subscription Se ...
  Facebook is showing a special story in the news feed urging users to subscribe to updates about its Deals location-based check-in rewards program, and to invite their friends to subscribe too. A link in the story leads to a new subscription page for Deals which says that subscribers will soon ge ...
• Eventbrite Reduces SXSW Overcrowding, Says Fac ...
  Eventbrite shared data at its South By South West Interactive panel on social commerce showing that when the site integrated Facebook Connect at the start of 2009, it hit its inflection point and doubled gross ticket sales that year. The data could inspire more ecommerce sites to consider signif ...
• Announcing Inside Virtual Goods: Profiling the ...
  Games on social networks became a billion dollar business in 2010, enabling the market’s big developers to secure significant investments and pursue sizable exits. Now that Zynga has clearly established itself as the 800 pound gorilla, EA/Playfish are bringing more IP to market, and Playdom is b ...
• Facebook Comments Box Plugin Now Accepts AOL f ...
  The recently released version of Facebook’s Comments Box social plugin for third-party websites now accepts AOL accounts for login. Initially the plugin only allowed Facebook and Yahoo! for login, though we discovered there was live code for Twitter and Google logins present but inactive. The ad ...
• Facebook’s Discover New Games Module Shows Use ...
  Facebook is a testing a “Discover New Games” sidebar module that shows several of a user’s friends who play a specific game. This new, free discovery channel could make up for some of the lost virality that resulted from Facebook closing several viral channels this year. Therefore, it could pote ...

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ReDress News

• Clearing up myths and misconceptions about Gad ...
  Muhammad al-Arabi views some of the myths and misconceptions that are used by Libyan dictator Mu'ammar Gaddafi's backers to justify supporting his murderous regime. He argues that, far from being a progressive anti-imperialist, Gaddafi has not only played a destructive role among national liber ...
• Consequences of Israeli weapons testing on Gaza
  Richard Lightbown argues that Israel's use of depleted uranium, white phosphorus and other toxic metals in its war on the people of the Gaza Strip has put the whole of the Strip’s population and its environment - air, soil, groundwater and possibly seawater - at risk of serious long-term injury ...
• Netanyahu's illusory peace plan
  Jonathan Cook considers Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's imminent plan to buy time and fend off world pressure in the context of Israel's unprecedented and growing international isolation.
• The grievous return of Henry Kissinger
  Lawrence Davidson views Henry Kissinger's recent lobbying to free Jonathan Pollard, an American convicted of spying for Israel, against the background of a history of bad judgements, amoral decisions and war crimes by the former US secretary of state. "The real Henry Kissinger, who implausabily ...
• Exposed: Israel's sham inquiry into murder abo ...
  Richard Lightbown assess in forensic detail Israel's submission to the UN Panel of Inquiry on the Gaza Flotilla raid (the Turkel Commission Report) against available evidence, showing how the commission received much of its testimony via a third party, discouraged witnesses from the flotilla fro ...

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

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

Afro Spear

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

Expose the BNP

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

Sen4Earth

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

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

• MIT Produces a String of Civic Media Success S ...
  As we wind the way toward the end of our four year grant, I thought it would be nice to describe some of what we've learned at MIT's Center for Future Civic Media (C4). In the coming weeks, I will call on a few of our researchers to offer similar blog reflections on our unique blend of communiti ...
• Lost in Boston: REALTIME
  For the last several months, we have been testing a system called Lost in Boston: REALTIME with a variety of community partners. This video describes a bit about the project. Rick Borovoy loves Boston, but he hates how hard it is to figure out where one is. Boston is tough to navigate, ...
• Junkyard Jumbotron
  Rick Borovoy just released the Junkyard Jumbotron project, which allows laptops or phones in close proximity to be ganged together to form a large display. The Junkyard Jumbotron requires no special software; it is simply a web page that receives real-time updates from our server, allowing sc ...
• VoIP Drupal Kicks Off at Drupalcon
  Last week I wrote about another project that's come to a boil at the Center for Future Civic Media: VoIP Drupal. Here is a brief video of Leo Burd lecturing at DrupalCon 2011 on the release of Voip Drupal, a plugin that allow full interaction between Drupal CMS and phones. VoIP Drupal i ...
• How to Design a Simple Newsgame Authoring Tool
  Our teams at Georgia Tech and UC Santa Cruz have been working on an authoring tool that helps journalists quickly create bite-sized newsgames. The Cartoonist has been the working title for the tool because our intention is to create games akin to editorial cartoons, in terms of the amount of inf ...

Cutting Edge News

• The Race for Electric - Israeli-Funded EVida G ...
  Lithium-iron-phosphate batteries being built in Israel by the two year-old battery start-up EVida will power small but practical and freeway-capable electric cars built in China by the French-German EV manufacturer Mia Electric for sale in Europe, a competitive market for electric vehicles.The o ...
• Race for Batteries - Making Batteries Affordab ...
  Future batteries used by the energy grid to store power from the wind and sun must be reliable, durable and safe, but affordability is really the key to widespread deployment, according to a new report. The report is one of the most comprehensive reviews of electrochemical energy storage to date ...
• After the BP Spill - New Study Reveals Aerosol ...
  Scientists from the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science were part of a national research team to find two plumes of oil-based pollutants downwind of the BP Deep Water Horizon oil spill. A study prepared by the�research team offers new insight into the mecha ...
• Edge on the Ocean - Oldest known wild bird in ...
  The oldest known U.S. wild bird – a coyly conservative 60 -- is a new mother. The bird, a Laysan albatross named Wisdom, was spotted a few weeks ago with a chick by John Klavitter, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist and the deputy manager of the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge. The ...
• The Edge of Terrorism - The Truth Left Behind: ...
  Editor’s Note: Some of the passages in this chapter may be disturbing because of their violent and graphic nature. In the bright sun of Pakistan’s winter, three men walked through the gate of a compound on the outskirts of Karachi, the fate of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in their h ...

High Country News

• It's March and all is well, right?
  Just because the spring weather is lovely doesn't mean that climate change is not a problem.
• A prodigal son is honored by his hometown
  Controversial writer Dalton Trumbo returns to his hometown of Grand Junction, Colo. -- in a bronze bathtub.
• Finding place
  A wilderness ranger has spent the last 14 years coming to intimately know -- and love -- a remarkable corner of Alaska.
• Oregon sculptor turns beach trash into meaning ...
  Angela Haseltine Pozzi makes thought-provoking art from the trash that washes up on Oregon's beaches.
• New national forest rule lacks rigor
  Environmentalists like the tone of the Forest Service's new draft planning rule, but worry about how - and if - it will be enforced on the ground.

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

• Uh-Oh! Egyptian Revolutionaries Ungrateful to ...
  By Barry Rubin Who�d possibly have thought it? Answer: Anybody who understands the Middle East. You see, the Obama Administration rushed to get rid of the Mubarak government in the belief that this action would make Egyptians see that they are simply wonderful people. This would assure t ...
• Newsbusted: Its All Sarah Palin's Fault!
  The wacko left is always finding obscure and nonsensical things to blame on Sarah Palin, In This edition of Newsbusted we learn of the latest stupid charge the left is trying to pin on the former Governor of Alaska. But Ms Palin isn't the only target of the progressive power brokers, they also h ...
• Israel Seizes Syrian Ship Bringing Iranian Wea ...
  Early Tuesday morning (Israel Time), IDF fighters boarded the cargo ship Victoria at sea, then 200 miles out from Israel. The Victoria is a German-owned vessel, operated by a French operating company, and flying the Liberian flag. The commando unit executed this raid was Shayetet 13. ...
• Searching For Marizela: New Videos, Message Fr ...
  Michelle Malkin's Cousin Marizela is still missing, please read the below and get acquainted with Marizela ... if you have any information that can help return Marizela to her loving family please call the SPD Missing Persons Bureau ASAP. The number there is 206-684-5582 �Crossposted from Mi ...
• Violence And Unions It's In Their DNA
  Exploiting the battle between the governor and public employees in Wisconsin, frequent White House visitor, AFL-CIO Chief Richard Trumpka has been trying to resuscitate a critically ill labor movement by setting up the entire conservative movement as the “enemy." Trumpka argues that the $14+ tri ...

The Real Agenda

• National Health Insurance: A Socialist Nightmare
  By Russell L. Blaylock, M.D. One characteristic of the collectivists is that when a particular term becomes unpopular, such as the word socialism, they create a succession of more socially friendly terms. For example, in the 1800s they did not shy away from the term socialism, but as people bega ...
• 6.4 quake shakes Japan as Predicted by Earthqu ...
  As predicted by Earthquake Watch, another significant earthquake was felt today, March 15 in the Asian country. Mainichi Daily News A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 6.4 jolted Shizuoka Prefecture and its vicinity, including Tokyo, on Tuesday evening, at a time when Japan is struggling to ...
• Terremoto no Japão foi previsto há um mês
  As previsões são baseadas em cálculos relacionados com a atividade solar, mais especificamente, as erupções de massa coronal no hemisfério norte solar. Por Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda 15 de março de 2011 Há dois dias o astrofísico e meteorologista Piers Corbyn, quem faz previsões do tempo, c ...
• Terremoto en Japón previsto desde hace un mes
  Las predicciones se basan en cálculos relacionados con la actividad solar, más concretamente, erupciones de masa coronal en el hemisferio norte solar. Por Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda Marzo 15, 2011 Hace un par de días, el astrofísico y meteorólogo Piers Corbyn, quien realiza previsiones del ...
• Tokyo stock market collapses
  Threat of nuclear fallout and consequences of earthquake drove the Nikkei down 11% U.S. Dollar dropped to a record low against Yen WSJ March 15, 2011 Asian shares tumbled Tuesday as Tokyo’s stock benchmark plunged 11% on panic selling amid worries that a possible nuclear catastrophe in Japan wou ...

Wind Watch

• Wind farms causing problems in Bureau County
  Wind energy keeps growing in popularity as a renewable energy source. But for a group of people in the Bureau County town of Ohio,Ill., itâs growing into a major problem. “It sounds like an airport at my house and I live in the country,” Al Harris, an Ohio resident for eight years, said. “You ca ...
• Wind farms and deadly skies: Turbines on Texas ...
  SARITA â The 260-foot-tall wind turbines of the Kenedy Ranch stand like a steel forest along the edge of the Laguna Madre and pump out hundreds of megawatts of emission-free electricity. The spinning blades, alongside some of the most important habitat in Texas and one of North America’s largest ...
• Doubt over green energy’s clean bill of ...
  Wind turbines are closing in on four generations of the Quinn family who still live at Mt Bryan in South Australia’s picturesque and productive Mt Lofty Ranges. Rosemary Quinn, 74, says she spends her nights locked inside the 1900s stone house she has occupied for 55 years. She shuts the windows ...
• Wind farm plan nixed in Brimfield
  BRIMFIELD – Boston-based First Wind has withdrawn a proposal to build a wind farm on top of West Mountain, a move that has pleased its opponents. “West Mountain was not the place for eight to 10 wind turbines, and I’m happy that they’re leaving. I’m calling everybody that I can think of,” Select ...
• Questions of costs, jobs and influence surroun ...
  Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley on Thursday will ask lawmakers to support a proposal to raise almost every state resident’s electric bill for the next 20 years to underwrite a plan for Maryland to generate some of the nation’s first offshore wind power. O’Malley’s legislation runs counter to a cam ...

Not My Tribe

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

Debunking the Debunkers

• Richard Gage and Chris Mohr Debate WTC Collapse
  Uploaded by AllWeNeedIsAHero on Mar 12, 2011 I added a song at the beginning but that was it, this is the full unedited debate between Richard Gage & Chris Mohr The audio can be downloaded here. Related Info: 9/11 Controversy Strikes Again at UC Boulder Face-Off 2/25/11 Answers from NIST ...
• 2/25/11 Answers from NIST to Questions by Chri ...
  (Comments by me have been added to this article in red) The following written answers were provided to Chris Mohr, Investigative journalist, by NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) on 2/25/11 in preparation for the debate that Mohr had with AE911Truth in Boulder, CO on 3/6/11. ...
• How Pseudoskeptics hijack "Skepticism" to mean ...
  New article from DebunkingSkeptics.com. "Just look at us. Everything is backwards. Everything is upside down. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the major media destroy information, and religion destroys spirituality." - ...
• New document supports Norman Mineta's testimon ...
  During testimony given to the 9/11 Commission, then Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta had the following exchange with 9/11 commissioner Lee Hamilton regarding the plane coming into the Pentagon: MR. MINETA: ...There was a young man who had come in and said to the vice president, "The pla ...
• Pumpitout Radio: Foreknowledge and Lack of Air ...
  Jeff Hill's Pumpitout radio show featuring John-Michael Talboo detailing his research into the many pre 9/11 warnings of terrorist attacks using planes as weapons. Also, the UNBELIEVABLE LACK of response from NORAD and other facilities equipped to defend our air space on the morning of Septem ...

Fooducate

• HFCS or Any Other Name
  This is a guest blog post by Kiyah Duffey, PhD. In a petition to the FDA last September, the Corn Refiners Association urged the regulatory agency to consider an alternative name for use on product labels: allowing the use of “corn sugar”, it argued, as opposed to HFCS would help consumers under ...
• Today is National Potato Chip Day. 10 Things Y ...
  1. Potato Chips date back to 1853. An unhappy customer at a restaurant in Saratoga Springs, NY kept returning his fried potatoes to the chef, requesting they be prepared much thinner. The chef sliced them so thin that they could not be eaten with a fork. Thus was born the potato chip. 2. It wasn ...
• Corazonas Oatmeal Squares – Heart Healthy or M ...
  “Proven to Lower Cholesterol” is a mighty strong claim. But Corazonas, a brand built around heart health, places this health claim front and center. How can one product, such as this oatmeal square, help to reduce cholesterol? What you need to know: According to Corazonas’s website (and NOT on t ...
• What’s Bob Marley Doing at a Food Show?
  Fooducate has hit the road and is spending some time at Natural Products Expo West in Anaheim, a trade show dedicated to the Natural Food Industry. Over 3000 natural and organic food and ingredient manufacturers exhibit their goods twice a year to 50,000 visitors from the food and retail industr ...
• Really Irritating Napkin [See Picture]
  Dear food and beverage brands, Instead of asking us to help you raise pennies for various health causes, how about making products that don’t make us sick in the first place? Thank you. Get Fooducated: iPhone App RSS Subscription or Email Subscription Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/fooducate ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

• Back to court for Vedanta Resources’ controver ...
  Vedanta has appealed the decision of India's Environment Minister to block their mine on the Dongria Kondh's ancestral land. © Survival India’s Supreme Court is to consider a new bid to green-light FTSE 100 Vedanta Resources’ infamous bauxite mine in Orissa state, east India. The mine was ...
• 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 ...

Greg Palast

• No BS Info on Japan NuclearObama invites Tokyo ...
  for Truthout/Buzzflash by Greg Palast What South Texas project could look like.(Image by NINA - Nuclear Innovation North America) I need to speak to you, not as a reporter, but in my former capacity as lead investigator in several government nuclear plant fraud and racketeering investigatio ...
• Chevron Runs from Judgmentin Ecuador
  by Greg Palast Chevron petroleum Corporation is attempting to slither out of an $8 billion judgment rendered yesterday by a trial court in Ecuador for cancer deaths, illnesses and destruction caused by its Texaco unit. I've been there, in Ecuador. I met the victims.  They didn't lose their sh ...
• Reagan: Killer, Coward, Con-man
  The Observer London by Greg Palast You're not going to like this. You shouldn't speak ill of the dead. But in this case, someone's got to. On the 100th Anniversary of Ronald Reagan's birth, as we suffer a week of Reagan-kitcheria and pukey peons, let us remember: Reagan was a con-man. Rea ...
• Shake your head and throw something at your TV
  from MoviesOnline.ca Bush Family Fortunes is a documentary that will make you shake your head and want to throw something at your TV. If even half of what BBC investigative reporter Greg Palast reveals is true and you happen to be an American you may or may not be calling for a revolution depen ...
• Peak Oil and a Changing Climate
  from The Nation The scientific community has long agreed that our dependence on fossil fuels inflicts massive damage on the environment and our health, while warming the globe in the process. But beyond the damage these fuels cause to us now, what will happen when the world's supply of oil ru ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

• How can I reuse or recycle storage heater bricks?
  Carole sent an email asking about storage heater bricks: does anyone know what to do with old storage heater bricks? Just had 4 old heaters taken out and I suspect the plumbers will just take the lot to the dump so want to see if I can save them and reuse them or find somewhere [...]
• How can I reuse or recycle an old wrought iron ...
  Sticking in the garden after yesterday’s “how to make cloches” question, I’m a member of UKVegGardeners and spotted this question on the forum yesterday: Anyone got any suggestions, please, on uses for an old wrought iron 3ft square garden gate which has reached the end of its gate life but must ...
• Plastic-free and aerosol-free cleaning – ...
  This week, we’ve had a vaguely spring cleaning inspired week here on Recycle This and looked at a few cleaning related questions – so far, reusing/recycling bleach bottles, making homemade dishcloths/pot scrubbers, and reusing/recycling air fresheners. Today though, I’d like to hear your tips an ...
• What can I reuse or recycle to make garden clo ...
  I thought we’d already covered this but apparently not! At the weekend, I made some 4ft by 1ft garden planters from scrap wood – having a lot of fun and saving myself a heap of money in the process. I think I’ll probably use them in our front garden – there are just a few [...]
• How can I reuse or recycle Keurig coffee K-cups?
  From one coffee-related post to another. We’ve had an email from Rose about “K-cups”: I love drinking the various flavors of Keurig coffee, but hate wasting the cups since they can’t be recycled I need suggestions on what to do. Kids crafts would be great since I have 2 little ones. I hadn’t hea ...

Age of Autism

• A Theory of XMRV Creation
  By Kent Heckenlively, Esq. It's been said that some of the greatest tragedies happen because those in charge fail to ask the most basic questions. Consider the fire which swept the Apollo 1 capsule in 1967, killing all three astronauts....
• "The Dark Side of Autism" Violence, Assault, P ...
  From The Washington Post, a frank look at the reality of autism for thousands of families. As the teens with autism age out this problem is going to grow. Cute little boys who punch are a far cry from adult...
• The AutismOne/Generation Rescue Conference Hot ...
  The Westin Lombard is sold out! But don't worry, AutismOne/Generation Rescue had found wonderful deals nearby for you. Families, don’t miss out on the full kitchens at the Marriott Towne Place Suites. There are a limited number of blocked rooms...
• Dr. Paul Offit Speaks: Japanese “Foolish” to t ...
  Breaking news this morning: Japanese vaccine recalled for contamination: Sanofi Pasteur and partner Daiichi Sankyo have decided to voluntarily recall 13 lots of a paediatric vaccine in Japan, where its use is currently suspended. The affected lots of ActHIB, which...
• Calling all Gods & Goddesses! WINNING! Means A ...
  We have a WINNING! opportunity for you! The "Your Healing Retreat" conference is this June 3-5 at the Kanuga Conference center in Henderson, NC. And one lucky person out of the next 100 people who register for the conference will...

Global BDS Movement

• Students Against Israeli Apartheid at the Univ ...
  Sign the SAIA Toronto Divestment Petition � read more
• BNC thanks CUT Brazil for their public stateme ...
  Artur Henrique da Silva Santos - National President CUT Quintino Severo - General Secretary João Antonio Felicio - International Relations Secretary Dear comrades of the CUT Brazil,   As the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC), a wide coalition of Palestinian p ...
• French court reveals fraud committed by Carmel ...
  As a result of the French Coalition Against Agrexco's read more
• Commemorate Land Day 2011 by Joining the Globa ...
  � Commemorate Land Day 2011 by Joining the Global BDS Day of Action 30 March 2011 read more
• Adidas: Apartheid is not fair play, drop spons ...
  Occupied Palestine, 17 February 2011 – The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC), the largest coalition of Palestinian civil society organizations and unions, calls on Adidas to withdraw its sponsorship of the first Jerusalem marathon to take place on March 25, 2 ...

Farm Wars

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

Open Your Eyes News

• Gaddafi tanks attack town, no U.N. move yet
  Reuters – Muammar Gaddafi’s tanks and artillery struck a rebel-held town and other loyalist forces advanced on Libya’s main rebel bastion of Benghazi on Wednesday as diplomatic efforts to stop him appeared to lose momentum. Italy, a potential base for a no-fly zone proposed by Britain and France ...
• General Electric-designed reactors in Fukushim ...
  MSNBC – The General Electric-designed nuclear reactors involved in the Japanese emergency are very similar to 23 reactors in use in the United States, according to Nuclear Regulatory Commission records. The NRC database of nuclear power plants shows that 23 of the 104 nuclear plants in the U.S. ...
• Japan’s Nuclear Crisis Is “Complet ...
  MSNBC
• Workers briefly abandon Japan nuclear plant as ...
  Reuters – Japan’s nuclear crisis appeared to be spinning out of control on Wednesday after workers withdrew briefly from a stricken power plant because of surging radiation levels and a helicopter failed to drop water on the most troubled reactor. Early in the day another fire broke out at the e ...
• UK: Mobile firms told to cut charges by Ofcom
  Independent – The cost of calling mobile phones from other networks and landlines is set to become cheaper after Ofcom imposed a reduction in charges. The regulator ruled today that termination charges – the amount mobile phone companies bill their rivals for handling calls from their networks – ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

• Fight continues over West Coast coal exports t ...
  Plans for a major West Coast coal export facility-- the subject of an intense fight over greenhouse gases and U.S. coal supplies to Asia--took a new turn when Millennium Bulk Terminals Inc. announced it was withdrawing its permit for the...
• U.S. will do new studies on Keystone XL tar sa ...
  The U.S. State Department is going to require additional environmental studies before granting a permit for the 1,660-mile Keystone XL pipeline, proposed to carry oil from the tar sands of northern Canada through the U.S. heartland and on to south...
• Flat-tailed horned lizard won't be listed as a ...
  In its fourth withdrawal of a proposal to list the flat-tailed horned lizard since 1993, the federal wildlife agency determined that threats to the lizard including urban and agricultural development, off-road vehicles, military exercises, sand and gravel mining, alternative energy projects and ...
• Clean-tech: a decade of explosive growth with ...
  What a difference a decade makes. Once shunned as an industry only a tree-hugger could love, clean-tech has blossomed into an economic heavyweight, according to a report from research firm Clean Edge Inc. Companies working on green construction and the...
• Green building: Solar panels and earthquake fa ...
  The Los Angeles Community College System, blessed with $5.7 billion in voter-approved bonds, had a grand plan to be a national model of green energy: its nine colleges would be self-sufficient in electricity thanks to solar, wind and geothermal power....

water.org

• Regional winners of Hult Global Case Challenge ...
  Hult International Business School announces the five regional winning teams of its 2nd Annual Hult Global Case Challenge (PR-USA.net) - Boston University School of Management, Stanford University Graduate School of Business, University of Belgrade Faculty of Organizational Sciences, SDA Bocconi ...
• April Rinne selected WEF Young Global Leader (WEF)
  World Economic Forum Announces Young Global Leaders 2011 (North America) (World Economic Forum) – The World Economic Forum has announced its Young Global Leaders (YGLs) for 2011. The honour, bestowed each year by the Forum, recognizes up to 200 outstanding young leaders from around the world for ...
• WASH Advocacy Initiative calls for safe water ...
  W.A.S.H. Advocacy Initiative is launched and celebrates International Women’s Day with a call for safe water, sanitation and hygiene for all (The Cypress Times) WASHINGTON, DC â On International Womenâs Day, the WASH Advocacy Initiative calls on U.S. policy makers, corporate and philanthropic le ...
• How poop & social media can raise awareness (M ...
  How Poop & Social Media Can Raise Awareness for Charity (Mashable) – On March 13 you â our dear reader â will have a chance to poop on your friends. For charity. As strange as it may sound, âWorld Poopinâ Dayâ is a pretty smart way of mixing social media with under-served water sanitation issues ...
• Water.org video will inspire you (Tonic)
  We Bet Matt Damonâs New Water.Org Video Will Inspire You (Tonic) – Amidst all the chatter about Charlie Sheen, there are still celebs out there doing good. Like Matt Damon, who has been working tirelessly on behalf of Water.org, the organization he co-founded, for the past few years. He recently ...

Before It's News

• The Disengagement Of President Obama
• Potty Training My Non-Verbal Autistic Daughter
• The Post-American Liberal Culture
• Ireland Hammered to Raise Corporate Tax
• Government health officials are still trying t ...

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

• Settlement attack could trigger terrorism by J ...
  Attack at Itamar will cast pall over intelligence cooperation between Israel and Palestinian security services, as well as over lofty goal of restarting the diplomatic process.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Netanyahu: Palestinians, world must condemn se ...
  Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad also commented on the attack on Saturday, saying that "Violence does not justify violence, we condemn it completely, whoever does it and whoever the victims are." Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Chomsky: Itâs About Democracy, Stupid!
  Chomsky: Why the Fate of Democracy Is at Stake in Madison | Alternet Labor unions were crucial in the overthrow of Mubarak in Egypt, and are one of the few mechanisms the people have to protect themselves from corporate power.Submitted by Joseph M. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �A ...
• NPR Kerfluffle: Political Sting
  The Age of the Political Sting | Mother Jones Vivian Schiller, the CEO of National Public Radio, resigned Wednesday after her chief fundraiser was caught making nasty comments about the tea party movement during a conversation with someone he Submitted by Joseph M. to US Politics & Gov't �|� ...
• Xenophobia: We Like Ours Fresh
  A striking image of the Twin Towers burning down was a backdrop Thursday to Homeland Security Chairman Peter King�s hearing on the radicalization of Islam.Submitted by Joseph M. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

• Solar Developer Reports 196 Percent Growth
  With reports like Clean Edge Inc.'s Clean Energy Trends 2011 hitting the press, it is becoming increasingly clear that in 2010 clean energy had a banner year.� What is also clear, is that the solar sector may have had an explosive ...
• E•BOOM CAPITAL: Nuclear Crisis Scares World Ma ...
  Worker at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant today. The Japanese nuclear nightmare prompted more selling on the world’s stock markets today, after the Nikkei 225 inde ...
• Solar Stocks Surge Alongside Nuclear Fear
  Solar stocks are rising as a result of growing fears around Japan's nuclear crisis. On Monday morning, traders were betting that solar power would surge in demand as a result of nuclear fears.� As a result, industry leader, First S ...
• New U.S. Solar Player Makes Big Move
  EPG�Solar LLC was established in 2010 by parent company Elemental Power Group to focus solely on the development and procurement of solar energy projects. read more
• U.S. Solar Industry Has Record-Breaking Year i ...
  A new industry report conducted by the Solar Energy Industries Association and GTM Research highlights record-breaking growth for the United States' solar power industry in 2010. read more

News Blaze

• Back Against The Wall: The 'I Have a Dream' fo ...
  In a way, D.H. has become something of a Dr. King. Her followers on Facebook and her true fans who have supported her since day one refer to themselves as 'marchers.'
• UN Expert: Abyei Conflict Could Derail Sudan's ...
  The referendum was seen as the culmination of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) that ended two decades of civil war between the northern and southern Sudan. The CPA paved the way for the right to self-determination for Southern Sudan.
• Consol Energy to Pay $5.5M to Settle Clean Wat ...
  Consol has agreed to build and operate an advanced water treatment plant using reverse osmosis technology near Manington, W.Va. to remove high levels of chloride from mining wastewater.
• Soundbites From Real Life - Indian Housekeeper ...
  These are women who spend their best years on an unrelenting double shift - working furiously to clean up other people's homes, cook other people's food, and look after other people's children, even as they struggle to feed their own families
• U.S. and UAE to Tackle Issues in The Middle East
  But the UAE is currently the president of the Gulf Cooperation Council, and he is here representing the GCC, so we will have a very comprehensive discussion.

Worldnews

• Recipes
  Print�� �� Font Resizefood | recipeToasted Chicken Sandwiches With Caramelized Apples and Smoked Gouda Who says you can't have sandwiches for supper? Toasted Chicken Sandwiches With Caramelized Apples and Smoked Gouda From "Chicken and Egg," by Janice Cole (Chronicle Books). Makes 4 sandwic ...
• Tokyo stocks finish strong
  March 16, 2011: 3:39 AM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Japanese stocks rebounded Wednesday, with the leading stock index recovering nearly 6% from a two-day plunge stemming from the crisis created by the March 11 earthquake. The Nikkei 225 index, the most prominent measure of Tokyo market stocks ...
• Former asylum seeker faces jail over £30, ...
  A former asylum seeker who lives in a £1.2 million house paid for by the taxpayer fraudulently claimed nearly £30,000, a court heard yesterday. Toorpakai Saiedi lied about a secret bank account which contained 'significant savings' Photo: REX By Caroline Gammell 7:00AM GMT 16 Mar 2011 Toorp ...
• Naomi and Wynonna in The Judds on OWN
  OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network will premiere "The Judds," following legendary mother-daughter duo Naomi and Wynonna Judd on their reunion concert tour, on Sunday, April 10, 2011 (9-10 p.m. ET/PT). Naomi and Wynonna Judd are on the road together again and fans will get an intimate look and the c ...
• A cloud of nuclear mistrust spreads aroun ...
  It is unprecedented: four atomic reactors in dire trouble at once, three threatening meltdown from overheating, and a fourth hit by a fire in its storage pond for radioactive spent fuel. All day yesterday, dire reports continued to circulate about the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, faced ...

Alex in Wonderland

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

MY Daily Apple

• Last Chance For Eligible Consumers To Enroll I ...
  Consumers who are eligible for Medicare, but who have not yet enrolled in Medicare Part B, should do so before March 31, when the General Enrollment Period (GEP) ends. Part B of Medicare covers a range of services, including doctor visits and outpatient therapy. Consumers who enroll during the G ...
• HPV infection: Vaccine may prevent most common ...
  HPV infection — Comprehensive overview covers symptoms, modes of transmission, treatment, prevention, including HPV vaccine.
• Innovative orthopedic operation using 'telesco ...
  An innovative operation using "telescoping rods" performed at Hospital for Special Surgery in Manhattan enabled a young Long Island boy to walk for the first time, and the child and his mother are going to Washington, D.C., to tell their story.
• Diphtheria
  Diphtheria — Comprehensive overview covers symptoms of this infection that's preventable with a vaccine.
• Smarter Than You Think: Poker Bots Invade Onli ...
  Card-playing software is now good enough to win tens of thousands of dollars on major poker sites, and human players aren’t happy about it.

Common Dreams

• Fresh Fire at Japan Nuclear Reactor: Operator
  A fresh fire broke out at a reactor of Japan's quake-hit Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant early Wednesday, operator Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) said. An employee confirmed smoke was pouring from the roof of the number-four reactor at the plant, a TEPCO spokesman told reporters. "We immediate ...
• Bradley Manning's Military Doctors Accused Ove ...
  A leading group of doctors in the US concerned with the ethical treatment of patients has questioned the role of military psychiatrists in Quantico, Virginia, where the suspected WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning is being subjected to harsh treatment that some call torture. ...
• Official: Japan's Nuclear Situation Nearing Se ...
  The explosion Tuesday at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has elevated the situation there to a "serious accident" on a level just below Chernobyl, a French nuclear official said, referring to an international scale that rates the severity of such incidents. ...
• Thousands Rally in Gaza, West Bank for 'Unity'
  Thousands of Palestinians rallied in Gaza City and the West Bank on Tuesday in a mass show of strength to call for end to the division in their national movement. The biggest gathering was in Gaza City, where officials from the Hamas-run interior ministry said vast crowds had packed into the cit ...
• Greetings From Fitzwalkerstan: Wisconsin GOP D ...
  Not content to deny state, county and municipal employees and teachers a voice in the workplace -- with legislation that takes away collective bargaining rights -- Wisconsin Republicans have now�moved to deny Democratic legislators the right to vote on legislation as it is being considered by st ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

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

Examine Religion - Tweets

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Energy Collective

• Fukushima Nuclear Accident – 16 March update
  This is an update of the situation as of 10 am JST Wednesday 16 March.
• Energy in the Aftermath of Japan's Sendai Quake
  Investors and companies around the world are scrambling to assess the impact of the Sendai earthquake and tsunami on supply chains and markets, both within Japan and globally, between the direct damage from the event and the disruption to critical infrastructure in its aftermath. An item I spott ...
• How Japan Should Impact the US Nuclear Debate
  My thoughts and prayers have been and will continue to be with the people of Japan. Their suffering is both a tragedy and testimony to the fragility of even the most developed infrastructure.
• ANALYSIS: Nuclear Moratorium in Germany Could ...
  Carbon dioxide emissions in Germany may increase by 4 percent annually in response to a moratorium on seven of the country's oldest nuclear power plants, as power generation is shifted from nuclear power, a zero carbon source, to the other carbon-intensive energy sources that currently make up t ...
• Barriers to High Speed Rail in the US
  The New York Times had an interesting article over the weekend on the state of Florida’s recent rejection of federal money to build a high speed rail line between Orlando and Tampa.

Green House - USA Today

• Gallup: Oil drilling gains favor with Americans
  More Americans are worried about energy costs and supportive of offshore oil drilling than a year ago, a new Gallup poll reveals.
• Report: Non-nuclear clean energy to double by 2020
  As concerns mount over nuclear power safety in the aftermath of Japan's massive earthquake, a new report says other energy sources not derived from fossil fuels are expanding and will likely double market share within a decade.
• GOP House moves to stop EPA climate rules
  Citing high gas prices, the GOP-controlled U.S. House is moving to strip the Environmental Protection Agency of its power to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, which is a key part of President's Obama's climate agenda.
• U.S. solar industry reports record 2010 growth
  The U.S. solar power market grew a record 67% last year, making it the fastest growing energy sector, the industry reports Thursday.
• EPA requires Energy Star TVs to use 40% less e ...
  The Environmental Protection Agency is upping the ante on TV efficiency by announcing Wednesday that models earning its Energy Star logo will soon be required to use 40% less energy than conventional models.

Prior Art

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

Peoples Voice

• Red Alert in Japan: An Unfolding Nuclear Catas ...
  by Stephen Lendman Since March 12, a potentially unprecedented catastrophe has been unfolding in Japan, despite official denials and corroborating media reports - managed, not real news. Believe none of them. Nonetheless, on March 15, Reuters suggested what's ongoing, headlining: "Japan braces ...
• Abusing Asylum Seekers in the Sinai
  by Stephen Lendman A new Physicians for Human Rights - Israel (PHR-I) report discusses atrocities committed against sub-Saharan Africans seeking refugee status in Israel. Titled "Hostages, Torture, and Rape," it explains the ordeal experienced by 284 victims. PHR-I said its Open Clinic ...
• From Celebrities To Tsunamis: "If they can get ...
  by Phil Rockstroh Even before the floodwaters of the tsunami that inundated western Japan receded (and a threat of a global-wide disaster, engendered by the core breach of multiple nuclear reactors, loomed) in the US, Godzilla jokes began trending on Twitter. A number of years back, Pauline Ka ...
• Japan's Tragedy Provides Us All an Opportunity ...
  by Brian McAfee The severe blow from nature with which the Japanese people were struck with on Friday, March eleventh purportedly took the lives of over ten thousand people while forever altering the lives and emotional well-being of hundreds of thousands more. The need to address the multif ...
• From Hiroshima to Fukushima to US!
  Eileen Fleming [The World]---"It's like the third atomic bomb attack on Japan. But this time, we made it ourselves."- Keijiro Matsushima, an 82-year-old survivor of America’s atomic bombing of Hiroshima. [1] Japan's quake-damaged northeast has helped recall the fact that sixty-six years ago H ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

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

World Wide Hippies

• America: Gun Crazy
  Americans Buy a Close to 1 Million Guns in February 2011 | Ammoland Could this be another record year for gun purchases? February NSSF-Adjusted NICS Background Checks Up 13.6% The February 2011 NSSF-adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) figure of 963,746 is an increas ...
• Ultimate Frisbee Team: Diss-tances Hippies. &# ...
  WWH -Interesting, how Hippie bashing is used to build one’s self or group up. I read and hear it often. But this article,”You know man, is just too far out”! The writer tries to distance the sport of Ultimate Frisbee from Hippies. – “I’d have to say we’re definitely pretty un-hippie-ish…” The ...
• Wisconsin: Vote, But Only If You’re A Re ...
  Wisconsin GOP to bar Dems from voting in senate committee meetings | Daily Kos This is insane: Fitzgerald: Dem senators won’t be allowed to vote in committees Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald wrote this afternoon in an email to his caucus that Senate Dems remain in contempt of the Senate ...
• Stand up. Speak Out.
  WWH- There has been a lot going on in the world during the past couple of weeks. Sometimes, it’s hard to take it all in and sometimes it scares the hell out of us. I suspect our government and the powers that be like it or prefer us to be in a state of fear. [...]
• Patrick Grass Busted For “imitation cont ...
  Chesapeake boys suspended for possession of oregano | Pilot Online It was an Italian spice that got Adam Grass suspended from the seventh grade at Hickory Middle School on Thursday, according to his father, Patrick Grass. It was oregano, contained in a plastic baggie so it resembled marijuana. T ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

• Workers evacuate nuke plant due to high radiation
  Japan suspended operations to prevent a stricken nuclear plant from melting down Wednesday after a surge in radiation made it too dangerous for workers to remain at the facility.
• New York crime spree suspect told cops: I had ...
  A man accused of killing four people and wounding four others in a 28-hour rampage told police he had cancer, lamented his family life, said he wished police had shot him and declared he had experienced "a doozy of a day," authorities said in a court document released Tuesday.
• Debunking a viral blog post on the nuke threat
  A viral blog post claimed that there was no chance "significant radiation" would be released from damaged reactors in Japan, but despite having been republished widely around the Web, the post has not held up to scrutiny.
• Japan earthquake: Photos of the devastation an ...
  Four days after the earthquake, volunteers and victims alike work around the clock to rescue any remaining survivors. From the 70-year-old woman pulled from the wreckage alive to the 60-year-old man found floating on his roof 10 miles offshore, the efforts are nothing short of heroic. The dam ...
• Glenn Beck versus James O'Keefe (and Andrew Br ...
  Increasingly unpopular television clown and radio revivalist Glenn Beck confused folks on the left and right recently when his "news" website the Blaze published a thorough and fair debunking of the recent NPR "sting" video produced by youthful video prankster and unprincipled conservative sm ...

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

• Libya’s shattered hopes
  Moammar Gadhafi is winning his one-man war to stop the Arab Awakening dead in its tracks, literally. He has now beaten Libya’s democratic forces back to their Benghazi stronghold, where they launched a ragtag rebellion a month ago against his 4 ...
• Time for cameras in court, not more consultation
  In keeping with the principle of open justice, Ontario’s courts should end their long-held camera-shyness.
• Learning from Japan’s crisis
  These are days of horror, privation and fear for millions of Japanese. Officials in the hard-hit port city of Sendai report that 10,000 may have died in that flattened region alone ...
• Portuguese school: It won’t fix the problem
  Trustee Maria Rodrigues has argued that an alternative school for Portuguese students could help curb their high dropout rate.
• 'Party' discipline: Ford's whip won't last
  Mayor Rob Ford’s rigid control over the voting of sympathetic councillors should be seen as a sign of weakness, not strength.

Energy Collective

• Fukushima Nuclear Accident – 16 March update
  This is an update of the situation as of 10 am JST Wednesday 16 March.
• Energy in the Aftermath of Japan's Sendai Quake
  Investors and companies around the world are scrambling to assess the impact of the Sendai earthquake and tsunami on supply chains and markets, both within Japan and globally, between the direct damage from the event and the disruption to critical infrastructure in its aftermath. An item I spott ...
• How Japan Should Impact the US Nuclear Debate
  My thoughts and prayers have been and will continue to be with the people of Japan. Their suffering is both a tragedy and testimony to the fragility of even the most developed infrastructure.
• ANALYSIS: Nuclear Moratorium in Germany Could ...
  Carbon dioxide emissions in Germany may increase by 4 percent annually in response to a moratorium on seven of the country's oldest nuclear power plants, as power generation is shifted from nuclear power, a zero carbon source, to the other carbon-intensive energy sources that currently make up t ...
• Barriers to High Speed Rail in the US
  The New York Times had an interesting article over the weekend on the state of Florida’s recent rejection of federal money to build a high speed rail line between Orlando and Tampa.

EU Times

• Japan tsumani and earthquake: America on nucle ...
  -California ‘monitoring situation closely’ amid dramatic escalation of disaster -Japan’s nuclear crisis now appears worse than the Three Mile Island nuclear accident in 1979 – but not yet as bad as Chernobyl in 1986 -Japan PM tells people within 19 miles of plant to stay indoors as radiation rea ...
• Former PM Ehud Olmert faces indictment in Holy ...
  Prosecution announces intention to put suspects on trial for bribery, corruption, and other charges; charges against Olmert pending hearing. The Tel Aviv District’s prosecution announced Monday that it intended to indict former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert along with other suspects in the Holyland ...
• Russia sends experts to help monitor situation ...
  Russian nuclear specialists will leave for Japan Monday to help study the situation of Japan’s nuclear power stations after the devastating earthquake. Experts from Russian Atomic Energy Agency and the Institute for Safe Development of Nuclear Power Industry of the Russian Academy of Sciences wi ...
• Russia’s Zhirinovsky calls on Japanese to move ...
  Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the colorful and flamboyant leader of Russia’s LDPR party, has called on Japanese to leave “the dangerous islands” and move to the unpopulated Russian territories, the newsru.com website reported on Sunday. Zhirinovsky, 64, also deputy speaker of the lower house, offered Ru ...
• Hawaii Tsunami Damages Jump to Tens of Millions
  Lost homes, sunken boats and damaged piers caused tsunami damage estimates to jump into the tens of millions of dollars Monday. The rough estimate combines damage to homes, businesses, hotels, boats, piers and government infrastructure. The most serious damages were near Kealakekua Bay and Kailu ...

Stonecipher News

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

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

• Watch: Manchester United 2 - 1 Marseille
  Just a quick summary tonight - I have a politics essay to finish! Manchester United played a solid, strong game against a difficult to beat, well rehearsed Marseille side. A Chicharito double pulled United through this one, with his fantastic ability to find space in the box proving vital at th ...
• Because We Didn’t Invade Iran, Saudia Arabia W ...
  I admit to not giving my full attention to matters in the Middle East, but does this make sense to anyone : “Yesterday, because of the failure of President Obama to confront Iran’s hegemony and expansion of its radical Islamic sphere of power in the Middle East, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, i ...
• Next #PdFLeaks Event: "WikiLeaks and the Law" ...
  Is Julian Assange a journalist? How does Bradley Manning compare to Daniel Ellsberg? How far does the First Amendment go in protecting the press when publishing classified information? These are just some of the many questions we'll grapple with next Monday night when The Institute of Informati ...
• The Saudi Invasion Of Bahrain
  I am old enough to remember the days when the entire world stopped dead in its tracks as one Middle East autocracy invaded a tiny neighboring state, and the US corralled a massive coalition to repel it. From that moment on, because in part of the threat Saddam's invasion of Kuwait posed to the ...
• iOS Dead Space Gets iPad 2 Optimizing Update
  While dedicated portable consoles like the Nintendo DS and PSP do quite well for themselve, many believe that smartphone platforms like Apple’s iOS or Google’s Android will eventually fade these consoles out. Of course, this is probably a stretch for the near future but games like Dead Space on ...

Groklaw

• EFF Seeks Cooperating FOIA Reviewers
  EFF is setting up an email list to connect you to the important work we do to ensure government accountability. EFF strongly believes in government transparency and accountability and regularly files requests with federal agencies under the Freedom of Information Act to get information on how t ...
• Service players feel Oracle heat
  Oracle has been accused of using scare tactics and smear campaigns to loosen the channel's hold on the Sun hardware maintenance market. Since the software giant's acquisition of Sun a year ago, Oracle has made a series of changes to its hardware maintenance policies, which channel sources claim ...
• SAP, IBM team up on in-memory analytics
  SAP announced Friday it has integrated its in-memory HANA (High-Performance Analytic Appliance) with IBM's DB2 database, a move that underscores the companies' increasing alignment against rival Oracle and its Exadata platform. - Chris Kanaracus, ComputerWorld
• Novell Acquisition Delayed by DOJ Patent Inves ...
  Novell did not specify which assets Microsoft will get, but senior IT analyst Katherine Egbert of Jefferies & Co. said in November that they are "most likely related to WordPerfect, which Novell acquired in the late 1990s, and through which Novell had sued Microsoft for anti-competitive behavior ...
• Previous Article U.S. Antitrust will review Mi ...
  There are also some interesting tidbits in a new report on Groklaw.net, which says a Microsoft employee is on the advisory board of UnXis, which is purchasing SCO and its Unix software. SCO, you might remember, filed for bankruptcy and unsuccessfully sued Novell over ownership of Unix source cod ...

WideShut

• The Doubler Edders Bogus Banker Bonus Tax
  Labour's bank bonus tax is just part of the false political paradaigm, the only solution is a complete rethink of the banking system.
• Banker Blocking Media From Calling Him A Banker
  Ex-RBS head Sir Fred Goodwin takes out injunction preventing media from calling him a Banker.
• Ian Puddick: The Saga Continues
  The details of Mr. Puddick's wife's affair and her lover's illegal expense claims deemed irrelevant, despite blog being about such topics.
• Why Taxation and the Census Are Redundant
  There is no money for public services and tax isn't event a blip on the national debt. The Census and Taxation are redundant.
• March 08, 2011, WideShut Webcast
  Keelan touches on some local headlines, the UK Census boycot and more info regarding the 7/7 London Bombings.
  
  

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Renewable heat scheme could benefit farmers

FarmersWeekly

- Mar 16, 2011

- 3 hours ago

The £860m Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) is the world's first financial incentive of its kind and aims to reduce the UK's reliance on fossil fuels and cut greenhouse gas emissions. It will encourage installation of equipment such as biomass boilers, ...

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Tsunami's ripples could reach Nevada on renewable energy, Yucca Mountain fronts

Las Vegas Sun

- Mar 16, 2011

- 4 hours ago

For Nevada, ending or significantly scaling back nuclear development could either bring about the demise of or facilitate renewable energy development. It could also do the same for the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository. ...

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World Council for Renewable Energy calls for a ban on new nuclear power ...

solarserver.com

- Mar 16, 2011

- 36 minutes ago

On March 13th, 2011 The World Council for Renewable Energy (WCRE) called for a global ban on new nuclear power and a phase-out of current plants, as well as a decisive, immediate move to 100% renewable energy. The statement by the WCRE began with an ...

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German green industries say can fill nuclear gaps

Reuters

- Mar 16, 2011

- 2 hours ago

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German renewable industry lobby BEE said on Wednesday it would be able to supply 47 percent of German power requirements by 2020, joining a debate on how to replace nuclear generation capacity. The lobby, which groups 22 ...

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Ecology and Environment, Inc. Reports Six-Fold Increase in Earnings on Growing ...

GlobeNewsWire (press release)

- Mar 16, 2011

- 52 minutes ago

LANCASTER, NY, March 16, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ecology and Environment, Inc., (E & E) (Nasdaq:EEI) reported revenues for the second quarter of fiscal year 2011 of $41.8 million, up 35% from the $31.1 million reported in the second quarter of fiscal ...

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Youth, ecology benefit from worthwhile program

BCLocalNews

- Mar 15, 2011

- 13 hours ago

ADDITIONAL REVENUE from Victoria will help the YER Program to keep doing good work with the ecology and the youth of the Comox Valley. By Staff Writer - Comox Valley Record The Youth and Ecological Restoration Program (YER) has received additional ...

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On The Issues Magazine Launches: 'The Ecology of Women'

PR Newswire (press release)

- Mar 15, 2011

- 17 hours ago

NEW YORK, March 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Spring 2011 edition of On The Issues Magazine – "The Ecology of Women" – examines how environmental health affects women's lives, particularly the toxins and chemicals that enter our bodies from the air, ...

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Ecology Day to mark a celebration of 20 years of green

SILive.com

- Mar 16, 2011

- 2 hours ago

By Kiawana Rich STATEN ISLAND, NY -- "A Story of Success" is the theme for Ecology Day 2011, the observance's 20th edition, slated for April 30 from 11 am to 3 pm in the Staten Island Mall, New Springville. Said Program Coordinator Eleanor Conforti, ...

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Study: San Joaquin Valley exposed to tainted water

San Jose Mercury News

- Mar 16, 2011

- 35 minutes ago

A new study shows more than a million San Joaquin Valley residents are exposed to tainted drinking water and the cost to clean up the water supply would be at least $150 million. The Oakland-based think tank Pacific Institute's report, ...

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Water board orders Shell to clean up neighborhood

BusinessWeek

- Mar 16, 2011

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A California water board has ordered Shell Oil Co. to clean up a Carson neighborhood built on top of an oil storage facility that could hold up to 140 million gallons of crude oil. The Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board required the ...

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Desperate Japan to use water cannon at stricken nuclear plant

New York Post

- Mar 16, 2011

- 34 minutes ago

Following the cancellation of a helicopter mission to pour water on No. 3 reactor due to high radiation levels, emergency workers planned to use a water cannon normally used by riot police to aim water into the spent fuel pool of No. ...

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6 million gallons of water flood 'Villa Taj' mansion

Chicago Tribune

- Mar 16, 2011

- 17 minutes ago

The most recent asking price was $13 million, but that was before several pipes burst in second-floor bathrooms of the vacant home, flooding it with an estimated 6 million gallons of water over several weeks. That is enough water to supply the entire ...

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