16 March - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

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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 [...]

TVNZ - Top Stories

• Japanese Emperor 'deeply worried' by nuclear c ...
  Japanese Emperor Akihito said he is "deeply worried" about the country's nuclear crisis, in a rare TV address.
• Organisers put finishing touches on quake memorial
  The New Zealand flag will fly at half-mast on all government and public buildings this Friday.
• Redundant Christchurch workers eligible for pa ...
  Workers laid off at a Christchurch yarn plant will be eligible for the emergency payments from Work and Income.
• Fresh reactor fire escalates Japan's crisis
  Japan is racing to avert a catastrophe after fire broke out today at a quake-crippled nuclear plant.
• Organisers put finishing touches on quake memorial
  Dame Malvina Major will perform You'll Never Walk Alone at Friday's national earthquake memorial service.

Just World News

• Interview with R. Visser at 8th anniversary of ...
  (I first became acquainted with (and came to admire) Reidar Visser's work when he started posting comments here on JWN during and after Iraq's December 2005 election... Last fall, he was one of the four authors in Just World Books's inaugural list. So now, as the eighth anniversary of the U.S. i ...
• Freeman, El-Haddad, Foust in Charlottesville, ...
  My publishing company's three great authors Chas Freeman, Laila El-Haddad, and josh Foust will all be in Charlottesville this Saturday, taking part in a panel discussion on developments in the (Greater) Middle East under the auspices of the Virginia Festival of the Book. The discussion will be ...
• Two months of tumult: Pointers for the global ...
  The two months since the fall of Tunisia's Pres. Zein el-Abidine Ben Ali have been marked by tumult throughout the Arab world and now, most recently, by the mega-lethal effects that geological and oceanic activity have had in Japan: effects that remind us again how vulnerable is all human life o ...
• Bayard Rustin understood Palestinians
  I just came across this great, short piece of writing, quoting the African-American, gay, Quaker activist Bayard Rustin: In 1968, American civil rights organizer Bayard Rustin wrote, “We would be mistaken to think that the only desires of young Negroes today are to have a job, to have a decent ...
• Open letter to the Pentagon's Rosa Brooks
  Dear Rosa: I hope you and the family are all well. It's been a while since we got to know you and your fabulous mother, the principled and gutsy activist Barbara Ehrenreich, when you were living in Virginia. You were still such a big human rights activist at that time. So anyway... No polite ...

frogblog

• Japan’s nuclear catastrophe worsens
  It seems that efforts to contain the radiation leaks and partial meltdown at Japan’s Fukushima power plant have been abandoned: UPDATE 5.26pm NZDT: JAPAN has suspended operations to prevent a stricken nuclear plant from melting down after a surge in radiation made it too dangerous for workers to ...
• Podcast: Christchurch
  Our Green MPs have been down in Christchurch mucking in to help residents in the aftermath of the earthquake. Kevin Hague, Keith Locke, and Catherine Delahunty speak about their experiences, the needs they encountered, and what, if any green shoots of hope they saw emerging from the destruction. ...
• General debate, March 16, 2011
  This is where to comment on issues there is not a current thread for. There has been too much threadjacking lately, and persistant offenders will face a period in moderation if it continues.
• Paula Bennett on Welfare Working Group: Nothin ...
  Metiria Turei questioned Paul Bennett today on whether she will rule out some of the most extreme and punitive recommendations of the Welfare Working Group. Bennett rules nothing out. We really do have a mean and uncaring Government that seems intent on further victimising those who are alread ...
• Milk ’Investigation’ a creamwash
  The MAF review of the domestic milk market in New Zealand is a creamwash – which is to say that if it isn’t a complete whitewash it certainly comes close. It fails to address the central issue of the lack of competition in the domestic market. In fact it admits it hasn’t even investigated this [...]

Patronus Analytical

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

J Kozy

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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

• From the Mailbag: Building Up New York City
  Earlier today, I linked to a Ryan Avent post complaining that although dense cities like New York are much greener than towns and suburbs, his lefty, environmentally-aware neighbors fight against new high-density developments in the city anyway. A little later, I had an email exchange with H ...
• Death by WiFi
  The Wall Street Journal writes today about the latest in pseudo trends: finding a place to work that's internet free: Gone are the days when a café with good enough coffee, a lax policy on lingering and an open Wi-Fi signal made it the perfect spot for writers to work. With infinite temptatio ...
• Avoiding the President
  Here's the latest on gun legislation in the aftermath of the Tucson shooting: Administration officials have concluded that Obama would probably lose any legislative fight against the National Rifle Association. So, they are taking a different approach: Inviting the NRA to sit down for a chat. ...
• Defunding the Left
  Dave Weigel says that Republican governors like Scott Walker, Rick Scott, and John Kasich are "using the power to push through structural political and economic changes that will be hard to reverse. They're making the same bet Obama did — if they do this, the economy will rebound, and their ...
• The Other Shoe
  Megan McArdle comments on the stock market crashes that have followed Japan's recent earthquake: Periodically, you hear students of the Great Depression wondering whether another shoe is going to drop, the way it did with Austria's Creditanstalt in 1931. The economy looked as if it was g ...

Insanity Report

• It’s 2011 and Uncle Toms Still Exist
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• IC 234: For God & Country
  Topics for the show: Rep. Peter King’s hearing on the “Radicalization of the American Muslim community” The GOP’s minority problem It’s hard for white guys to understand why minorities might not trust law enforcement Why the “lesser of two evils” isn’t always bad Democrats & Liberals like showin ...
• Someone Tell Sean Penn To Sit The Fuck Down
  In a statement, Penn said: “I think [Charlie Sheen's] energies, intelligence and passion could be both of service and servicing to him, as it is to all who are touched by the struggle of the Haitian people. “Charlie is one of the very few public people who cannot be accused of using the media to ...
• IC 233: Fuck Chris Brown
  Topics for the show: Fuck Chris Brown When attention whoring is no longer an effective marketing tool Sean Penn wants Charlie Sheen to go to Haiti Why Black Folks love Charlie Sheen Lupe’s new album People don’t listen to lyrics anymore Woman rides for 35miles on hood of car as husband drives LA ...
• IC 232: This Ain’t Winning
  Topics for the show: BYU player gets suspended for having sex with his girlfriend The Westboro Baptist Church wins at the Supreme Court We as a society need to step up to handle these moral issues Bobbi Kristina denies she was using coke Charlie Sheen ain’t winning The McLobster The 2012 electio ...

Simple Climate

• Climate change could hit least responsible hardest
  By studying how population density is related to climate, Jason Samson of McGill University shows that those most responsible for emitting greenhouse gases are insulated from the consequences of their actions.
• Ice age rethink puts warming into context
  Researchers challenge a fundamental principle of climate science – the effect of Earth's relationship to the sun – but underline that we are still reversing what should be a long slow cool-off for the planet.
• Soot and methane cuts promise threefold benefits
  Called on by groups including the G8 to examine the science behind limiting emissions of short-lived substances causing climate change, the United Nations Environment Partnership finds just 16 control measures can boost climate, farming and health.
• Evidence of humans’ role in deluges starts to flow
  Scientists find the first evidence that humans are causing extreme rainfall, while the identification that greenhouse gas emissions increased the odds of 2000’s record rainfall in the UK are set to open the flood gates for telling whether humans have influenced extreme weather events.
• Atlantic cold tongue tells of humans’ cl ...
  Aerosol emissions are more responsible than global warming for weakened trade winds, but pollution controls look set to show how government rules can reverse changes we have caused.

e!Science News

• Treatment breakthrough for rare disease linked ...
  University of Manchester scientists have led an international team to discover new treatments for a rare and potentially lethal childhood disease that is the clinical opposite of diabetes mellitus. read more
• Tests on century-old equipment show how far X- ...
  Researchers recently tested first-generation x-ray equipment from 1896 and found that it produced radiation doses and exposure times that were vastly higher than those of today's systems, according a study published online and in the May print edition of Radiology. read more
• World first -- Localized delivery of an anti-c ...
  Soon, drug delivery that precisely targets cancerous cells without exposing the healthy surrounding tissue to the medication's toxic effects will no longer be an oncologist's dream but a medical reality, thanks to the work of Professor Sylvain Martel, Director of the Nanorobotics Laboratory at P ...
• Newer antimalarials more effective than quinin ...
  Quinine should no longer be the drug of choice for treating severe malaria, according to an updated systematic review by Cochrane researchers. It is now evident that the antimalarial drug artesunate, which is derived from herbs used in Chinese medicine, is more effective at preventing death in p ...
• Insulin-releasing switch discovered
  Johns Hopkins researchers believe they have uncovered the molecular switch for the secretion of insulin — the hormone that regulates blood sugar — providing for the first time an explanation of this process. In a report published online March 1 in Cell Metabolism, the researchers say the work so ...

unEarthed

• Ending The Secret About Chemicals In Our Drink ...
  Bill in Congress would end chemical secrecy loophole in Safe Drinking Water Act Forgive me for stating the obvious, but secret gas drilling chemicals don’t bel ...
• Tr-Ash Talk: Reaching Beyond Rhetoric
  From nukes to coal ash: regulators must distinguish fact from fiction Coal ash flood in Tennessee “We all have a responsibility to ensure that the American ...
• Tr-Ash Talk: Liar, Liar, Plant on Fire
  From nukes to coal ash: regulators must distinguish fact from fiction Coal ash flood in Tennessee “We all have a responsibility to ensure that the American ...
• Our Climate Reality and Our Congressional Deniers
  A roundup of the week's highlights and lowlights on climate change On Tuesday, in a hearing in the House, representatives wrestled over whether they should accept the volumes of science produced by every major U.S. scientific and ...
• PA Gov. to Energy Exec: You’re the Boss of Eve ...
  The rest of us left wondering: is that even constitutional? Meet Bradford Energy CEO C. Alan Walker. He calls the shots. Fresh off his state’s radioactive r ...

Brave New Climate

• Fukushima Nuclear Accident – 16 March update
  This is an update of the situation as of 10 am JST Wednesday 16 March. (For background on events of 15 March and earlier, start with this post and its included links.) Note that this is a blog, not a news website, and thus the following analysis, like all others on BraveNewClimate, is a mixture ...
• Think climate when judging nuclear power
  Guest Post by Ben Heard. Ben is Director of Adelaide-based advisory firm ThinkClimate Consulting, a Masters graduate of Monash University in Corporate Environmental Sustainability, and a member of the TIA Environmental and Sustainability Action Committee. After several years with major consultin ...
• Fukushima Nuclear Accident – 15 March su ...
  The situation surrounding the Fukushima Nuclear Accident, triggered by Japan’s largest recorded earthquake and the resulting 10 m high tsunami, continues to develop rapidly. This post is intended to be a concise update of the situation as of 12pm Japan Standard Time, 15 March 2011. For a summary ...
• TEPCO reactor by reactor status report at Fuku ...
  Current status of reactors, from TEPCO (will update as required, click to enlarge) � Filed under: Hot News, Nuclear
• Further technical information on Fukushima rea ...
  Below is edited material sent to me in confidence from some colleagues in the professional nuclear engineering and research community. It provides some further insight into what is going on at Fukushima, and what is still unknown. The main document was written by one nuclear engineer; the quotes ...

Indigenist Opinion

• 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 ...

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

• A99 Operation Empire State Rebellion – C ...
  We are a decentralized non-violent resistance movement which seeks to restore the rule of law and fight back against the organized criminal class.
• Overcoming Divide and Conquer Strategies: 99.9 ...
  The global bankers, who caused our economic crisis, are attempting to deflect blame and divide the American public by escalating attacks on public-sector workers.
• Analysis of the Global Insurrection Against Ne ...
  By David DeGraw, If you think what’s happening in Egypt won’t happen within the United States, you’ve been watching too much TV. The statistics speak for themselves.
• Welcome to the New AmpedStatus.com
  We're back with a redesigned site and three new features! Introducing the AmpedStatus Social Network and two new Amped Coverage wires.
• Time to Fight Back! Join The Movement
  As a broad-based network representing people across the political spectrum, we are working together to reach common ground and fight for pivotal political reforms. As long as the economy and government are rigged in favor of the top economic 0.1%, we will all lose.

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• Purim shopping in Tel-Aviv: Oscar’s easy ...
  We have three days left before the busiest partying weekend of the entire year. The Talmud itself urges us to drink so much during the holiday of Purim that we won’t quite remember the point of Purim itself. Since the biblical story of Queen Esther ends with the gruesome massacre of 50,000 inno ...
• The “Israel fetish”: singling out ...
  I was recently in New York City and decided to visit the Jewish Heritage Museum in Battery Park (a Holocaust museum), as I had never been there, though I have been to a fair share of Holocaust museums in the world. As I entered the beginning of the permanent exhibit, I overheard a guide talking ...
• Ami Kaufman’s post re: J Street Conference: “A ...
  The following is a post written by Mr. Mark Zivin, an active J Street member, in response to my earlier post titled: “The J Street conference: An ‘A’ for effort, ‘F’ for results”. In my post I claimed that the conference failed where it matters most: bringing major league politicians from Capit ...
• Update on crowd-funded journalism for Egypt re ...
  Last week, I initiated an experiment in crowd-funded journalism with this blog post.  In it, I described my first trip to Cairo in 2009, my feelings at watching the revolution from afar, and the obstacles that freelance journalists face in finding enough commissions to pay for journalism ...
• Palestinian protest leader released from Israe ...
  By Libby Lenkinski Friedlander Yesterday, March 14, at about 3:30 PM, Abdallah Abu Rahmah, Coordinator of the Bil’in Popular Committee, was released from Ofer Military Prison after serving his 15-month expanded sentence. Abu Rahmah was arrested on 10 December 2009 and sentenced to 12 months imp ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

• Environment groups meet to discuss Murray Dar ...
  Water Minister Tony Burke has today hosted a roundtable with representatives from Australian environment and conservation groups on Murray Darling Basin reform.
• HMAS Sydney II and HSK Kormoran shipwrecks on ...
  Heritage Minister, Tony Burke today announced that the HMAS Sydney II and the HSK Kormoran shipwreck sites have been added to Australia's Commonwealth and National Heritage Lists.
• Decision date on koala threatened species lis ...
  Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke has extended the due date for a decision on whether to add the koala to the list of nationally threatened species.
• Gunns pulp mill environmental impact manageme ...
  Parliamentary Secretary for Sustainability and Urban Water Senator Don Farrell and South Australian Minister for Water Paul Caica today launched an innovative web tool to help Adelaide gardeners conserve water.
• Chaffey augmentation brought forward to secur ...
  Joint funding announced today by the Gillard and Keneally Governments will fast-track construction on a $43.33 million augmentation and complete safety upgrade of Chaffey Dam.

Matt Weidner Blog

• A Brilliant Little Cartoon….Scary Times ...
  More to think about….Provacateur Network Tweet this! Share and Enjoy: Scridb filter
• David J. Stern- The Man Behind The Crumbling F ...
  From the Sun Sentinel: Attorney David J. Stern has spent much of the past year in the spotlight, as reports of legal troubles plaguing Florida’s home foreclosure system continue to emerge. Stern’s Plantation-based foreclosure practice is one of eight under investigation by the Florida attorney g ...
• Commander K and The Matrix…
  A little off-topic post from a friend…. Commander K came by yesterday afternoon.  What a lively conversation we had. âWeâre downwinders,  you know.â  I told him. A quick look of serious concern flashed across his face.  You see,  Commander K is an ex submariner.  While never having his own ...
• Transcript From A Judge That Really “Get ...
  Finally, a judge that finally is speaking freely about what happens in court every single day….. the Court’s experience with law firms in these matters — when I have to touch a file more times than I need to because of sloppy, shoddy, negligent work done by attorneys that rises to the level of g ...
• ECONOMIC COLLAPSE- Coming Soon to a Country Ne ...
  The economy is already perilous in this country and the crisis in Japan is only going to make things worse….much, much worse. Hold on folks, things are going to get bumpy…. People of Earth Tweet this! Share and Enjoy: Scridb filter

abelard - news

• fossil media in panic mode over japanese earth ...
  Panic stops clear thought. The fossil media is sowing ill-informed panic over the Japanese earthquake. Their analytic abilities are lower than their low normal.
• cosmo filthy fossil fuel fire still not exting ...
  Fossil media misreporting to real problems with fossil fuels, as usual, this time post-Japan quake.
• frederic bastiat - free markets | economics ne ...
  Frederic Bastiat was a 19th century political economist concerned with the right of an individual to life, liberty, and property, which could not be achieved by socialism.
• on president wilson, 1919 | politics usa news ...
  According to Keynes, a weak man, no doubt fine in his original setting as a man of the cloth, in over his head with 'real' politicians.
• the real price of subsidised filthy oil in the ...
  So you think that oil is expensive now? It's next to nothing compared to 80 years ago.

The Parallel Parliament

• Before Japan there was …?
  Climatologists continue to alert us that natural disasters are destined to increase substantially as a result of our planet heating up through climate change. We can attempt to deny it but the evidence continues to pile up. And now here we are again on the outside looking in on the worst disaste ...
• R4N – Responsibility For Neglect
  The flowering of democracy through the regions of North Africa and the Middle East didn’t quite work out as planned. Those exhilarating days of fascination witnessing old orders get swept away by citizens in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen have led to more languished days of … what? New constitutions? Acc ...
• Throwing Open the Windows
  This past week in the House has been one of the most traumatic of my brief time here, surpassed only by the drama of those few days when the PM went to the Governor General seeking the prorogation of Parliament in order to save his government. On Wednesday I encountered two media camera men atte ...
• An “Honourable” House
  A couple of years ago, I came across a speech by one of Parliament’s earliest speakers in which he reminded those participating in an unusually raucous Question Period that they were elected to Ottawa to behave in a manner beholden to the best principles of human engagement. He gently scolded th ...
• A Bridge To Cross
  Canadian church leaders have been working their way through the halls of Parliament in the last couple of days pressing members from all parties to take action on issues of international and domestic poverty before it becomes too late to do anything at all. I met with them in Michael Ignatieff’s ...

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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

Reader Supported News

• Next up for Wisconsin: The Mother of All Recal ...
  Mark Guarino reports: "The partisan fight over collective-bargaining rights in Wisconsin is moving from the streets of Madison toward the ballot box. A recall drive of unprecedented scale is underway, with 32 efforts targeting 16 state senators involved in the three-week budget standoff between ...
• Next up for Wisconsin: The Mother of All Recal ...
  Mark Guarino reports: "The partisan fight over collective-bargaining rights in Wisconsin is moving from the streets of Madison toward the ballot box. A recall drive of unprecedented scale is underway, with 32 efforts targeting 16 state senators involved in the three-week budget standoff between ...
• Japan Faces Prospect of Nuclear Catastrophe as ...
  The New York Times reports, "Japan faced the likelihood of a catastrophic nuclear accident Tuesday morning, as an explosion at the most crippled of three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station damaged its crucial steel containment structure, emergency workers were withdrawn from ...
• Anonymous Reveals Bank of America Foreclosure Scam
  Excerpt: "The hacker group Anonymous has released a cache of emails obtained from someone said to be a former Bank of America employee.... The emails detail correspondence between employees of Balboa Insurance, a Bank of America insurance unit, in which they appear to be discussing the removal o ...
• New Blast Reported at Nuclear Plant as Japan S ...
  The New York Times reports, "An explosion early Tuesday morning may have damaged the inner steel containment vessel of the No. 2 reactor at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, leading to the wide release of radioactive materials there and forcing the evacuation of emergency workers, ...

War Resisters League

• WRL Organizers Hit the West Coast
  From February 25th to March 7th,WRL organizing coordinator Kimber Heinz and field organizer Ali Issa began a three-stop trip on the West Coast where they met with WRL locals and affiliates, as well as allied organizations working on GI resistance, civilian support for anti-war veteran organizing ...
• Iraq/Wisconson Labor Solidarity: Two Statements
  In the wake of the threat posed to what remain of labor rights in Wisconsin, and the public’s powerful response, two Iraqi labor leaders, Hassan Jum’a and Faleh Abood, penned solidarity statements in late February on behalf the 26,000 member strong Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions, and the 15,000 ...
• Stepping up the Resistance to U.S. Islamophobia
  As Peter King, the new chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, steps up the U.S. government attack against Muslims living in the U.S., saying that he will “rely on Muslims to make his case that American Muslim leaders have failed to cooperate with law enforcement officials in the effo ...
• Mubarak Ousted! Two Down, Twenty To Go . . .
  “The people have brought down the regime!” was a cry heard around the world when on Friday, February 11th, 18 days of unrelenting non-violent protest finally forced the end of Hosni Mubarak’s 30 year, US backed rule over Egypt. Ecstatic jubilation filled Cairo’s Midan al-Tahrir (Liberation Squar ...
• The Egyptian Revolution and Police Tools &#821 ...
  As of this writing, the Egyptian revolution has entered its 16th day and is gaining ground and momentum: spreading to new regions, evolving into strikes and civil disobedience and clarifying its demands. What started as an impressive series of demonstrations on January 25th’s ‘Day of Wrath’ has ...

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 ...

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

• New report finds strong climate policies creat ...
  Upcoming federal budget should increase support for renewable energy and efficiency programs, research suggests Pembina Institute 15 Mar 2011 ...
• Despite “Threatened” Listing, Alberta Grizzly ...
  Alberta Wilderness Association Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society â Southern Alberta Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative ...
• Poll finds huge support for legislating Castle ...
  Castle Special Place Working Group 14 Mar 2011 (Lethbridge) Lethbridge and Coaldale residents overwhelmingly oppose logging and support establishment of a Wildland Park in the Cast ...
• Press Screening: Edmontonian Film Maker David ...
  Sierra Club Prairie 6 Mar 2011 (Edmonton) “White Water, Black Gold” follows Edmontonian David Lavallee on his three year journey across western Canada in search of answers about th ...
• Job Opportunity: Project Lead, Alberta Climate ...
  Position Project Lead Organization Alberta Climate Dialogue Organization Application Deadline 25 Mar 2011 (All day) Location Edmonton Link to Full Job Posting Source: Alb ...

Stop NATO

• Stop NATO News March 16, 2011
  ==== stopnato-subscribe@yahoogroups.com ==== 1. NATO Air Strike Kills Two Afghan Boys In East Of Country 2. Central Asia: NATO Increases Ties With Kyrgyzstan 3. Future Western Diplomats, Academics Receive NATO Indoctrination 4. Next Iraq, Sudan, Lebanon, Gaza: Syria Opposes Libyan Intervention 5 ...
• William James: The Moral Equivalent Of War
  And the hapless Soldier’s sigh Runs in blood down Palace walls William Blake ==== The Moral Equivalent of War 1906 William James, member of the Anti-Imperialist League [Emphasis added] The war against war is going to be no holiday excursion or camping party. The military feelings are too deeply ...
• Stop NATO News March 15, 2011
  ==== stopnato-subscribe@yahoogroups.com ==== 1. Africans See Through NATO Intervention Plans In Libya 2. NATO Vehicle Kills Five-Year-Old Child In Southern Afghanistan 3. Lebanon Poised For New Stage Of Pro-Western “Cedar Revolution” 4. Report: Gulf Cooperation Council Troops To Be Deployed To B ...
• Mark Twain: The War Prayer
  The War Prayer Opus posthumous Mark Twain, vice president of the Anti-Imperialist League from 1901-1910 It was a time of great and exalting excitement. The country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy fire of patriotism; the drums were beating, the bands playing, the t ...
• Stop NATO News March 14, 2011
  ==== stopnato-subscribe@yahoogroups.com ==== 1. Afghanistan: NATO Casualites Continue To Mount 2. U.S. Would Face New Vietnam If It Invaded: Venezuela 3. SIPRI: India World’s Largest Arms Importer, U.S. Largest Exporter 4. China Opposes Outside Interference In Middle Eastern Affairs 5. Civilian ...

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 ...

Intel Hub

• Fukushima Workers Withdraw From Nuclear Power ...
  CANADIAN NEWS BROADCAST ON FALLOUT - US minimal radiation?   This will be the last update until tomorrow morning. Please take the time to read this article on the amount of spent fuel rods that were stored at the Fukushima nuclear power plant and what their implications could mean. Also take the ...
• Logical Assessment of Japan’s Nuke Disaster – FAQ
  Deadline Live By Jack Blood March 15th, 2011 There has been a lot of speculation about Japan’s ongoing, and ever widening Nuclear Reactor Disaster. Maybe to put your mind at ease, or to give some hope for those who might be effected by this event… We have put together some best and worst case sc ...
• Expanding U.S.-Mexico Economic and Security Co ...
  The Intel Hub By Dana Gabriel – Contributing Writer March 15th, 2011 There were growing concerns over drug violence prior to the recent U.S.-Mexico summit, along with other issues which have been a source of friction between the two countries. Despite any perceived tension, both leaders showcase ...
• Level 6 Event – Radiation Levels Soar As ...
  Source of Graphic: Rense (Click To Enlarge) The Intel Hub Shepard Ambellas March 15, 2011 According to our sources this is now a Level 6 event and readings will be fluctuating and rising rapidly. At this time it is openly admitted that readings are 400 mR/hr at 20 miles out from the source. It i ...
• Tokyo Shares Drop 14%
  The Wall Street Journal By BRAD FRISCHKORN March 14th, 2011 TOKYOâAn 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 nuclea ...

FRS

• Orissa, India: Maoist prisoner demands govt. r ...
  Don’t go back on word, Maoist leader warns Naveen Indian Express, March 15 2011 Maoist ideologue Ganti Prasadam has warned Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik against going back on his word to release 700-odd tribals lodged in various jails of Orissa. In a statement from jail, Prasadam (55) said it wo ...
• Haiti: U.S. Asks South Africa to Delay Aristid ...
  [This move--the latest in many such moves--to prevent the return of Aristide to Haiti is an eloquent clarification of the US' promotion of democracy in Haiti, and throughout the world. -- Frontlines ed.] By REUTERS, March 14, 2011 The Obama administration said Monday that the former Haitian pres ...
• Bahraini opposition to Saudi Arabian and Gulf ...
  Mar 14 2011 by Jadaliyya Reports Troops from the GCC Peninsula Shield Forces, originating mostly from Saudi Arabia but also the United Arab Emirates, arrived in Bahrain today. When the Bahraini Crown Prince visited Saudi Arabia last week, he was given an ultimatum and a deadline: either the Bahr ...
• US State Dept. spokesman quits, cannot defend ...
  [Clinton's Spokesman thinks mistreatment of Bradley Manning will backfire, discredit US power and harm US goals. -- Frontlines ed.] Washington (CNN) — P.J. Crowley abruptly resigned Sunday as State Department spokesman over controversial comments he made about the Bradley Manning case. Sources c ...
• Violent clashes in Bahrain
  Euronews on  Mar 14, 2011 In one of the most violent confrontations since troops killed seven protesters last month, police used tear gas and water cannon to break up demonstrations against the kingdom’s royal family. Witnesses said rubber bullets were also fired by police. Bahrain is gripped i ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

• Think Rep. Peter King has seen this?
  It's from the Department of Homeland Security, while the cartoon below is from the U.S. War Department. �
• Richard Dawkins and the Japanese catastrophe
  In regard to believers praying for the people of Japan, Dawkins writes: Perhaps they think that their god was not responsible for the earthquake. If they believe that their god designed a world in which such things happen but left the world alone thereafter and does not intervene when it turns ...
• Jews pray, airline freaks
  Three Orthodox Jews began praying on an Alaska Airlines flight from Mexico City to Los Angeles this weekend. Law enforcement officials were alerted, and they met the plane when it landed. Turns out�the flight attendants were concerned, in part, with the men's tefillin, or ritual prayer boxes. D ...
• A little more reading with Wednesday's column...
  The top photo is�Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, at New Haven St. Patrick's Day parade on Sunday. To his left is Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman. The bottom photo is one of the multitude of souvenior-sellers, wearing an orange and white and green mohawk that I'm pretty sure is a wig. To read more about early U.S. ...
• Could Baja Arizona be our 51st state?
  A few people in Pima County are exploring that. And thanks, Lawrence, for the link.

Associated Content

• Drink Red Wine to Avoid Radiation Illnesses
  The threat of radiation exposure is now affecting a larger portion of Japan, but red wine and other antioxidants might help.Contributor: Lucinda Gunnin Published: Mar 15, 2011
• Comedian Gilbert Gottfried Fired by Aflac for ...
  Gilbert Gottfried is no longer the voice of Aflac's iconic duck. The company fired him for posting comments mocking the disaster in Japan to Twitter.Contributor: Jeanne Rose Published: Mar 15, 2011
• Social Gamers of Zynga's FarmVille Can Donate ...
  Within a day after the devastating tsunami hit Japan, the folks at Zynga placed a donation vehicle inside the online game.Contributor: Pam Gaulin Published: Mar 15, 2011
• Ides of March 2011 Provides New Warnings
  The Ides of March has endured for centuries thanks to Julius Caesar and William Shakespeare. March 15 is a day of warning and dread after Caesar's assassination, although there's more than enough dread right now to go around.Contributor: Robert Dougherty Published: Mar 15, 2011
• Japan Facing Radiation Issues After Tragic Tsu ...
  The country of Japan has had a very hard few days. On March 11, 2011, the country was hit by an earthquake and tsunami. Now, the country's nuclear reactors are having issues and may meltdown.Contributor: T.A.W. Published: Mar 15, 2011

Popsci - Science

• Implantable Tumor Tracker Is a Tiny Lab That L ...
  Rather than bringing people into the lab, researchers at MIT are putting tiny labs into people via a tiny implantable capsule that can track the growth of a tumor or detect heart-deterioration or even silent heart attacks from inside the body. The miniature lab is small enough to implant via a ...
• Secretary Chu Says U.S. Administration Remains ...
  In testimony today before a Congressional subcommittee, Energy Secretary Steven Chu stood behind the U.S.’s nuclear energy industry, reiterating the administration’s commitment to diversifying the nations energy portfolio. That means a lot of things like wind, solar, and natural gas, Chu said. ...
• How One Man Waged War Against Gravity
  The story of Roger Babson, gravity's sworn enemy, and his Gravity Research Foundation Beside the path leading from the library to the academic quad at Tufts University is what appears to be a misplaced gravestone, pictured here. As an undergraduate physics student at Tufts, needless to say, I f ...
• Boiling Fuel Pools at Japanese Nuclear Plant M ...
  Japan’s nuclear disaster continues to unfold this morning, and as workers at the Fukushima Daiichi continue to pump seawater into the crippled reactors there a new threat is emerging: the spent fuel rods in the cooling pools at each reactor. While reactors Nos. 1-3 remain unstable due to core h ...
• How Nuclear Reactors Work, And How They Fail
  Several of Japan's nuclear power plants are experiencing serious damage from the earthquake and ensuing tsunami. Here's what you need to know to understand the news, as it happens Several of Japan's nuclear power plants, especially the Fukushima Naiishi plant in northeastern Japan, are experien ...

Veterans Today

• Afghanistan: The “Great Game” of Deceit
  By Khalil Nouri STAFF WRITER / EDITOR The Viceroy of India, Lord Curzon, at the beginning of the 20th century aptly described Afghanistan as “a piece on the chessboard on which is being played out the game for domination of the world.” At that time, the Great Game was being played between Czaris ...
• Imperial Drop Dead Bleak Apathy Eclipses Prisi ...
  Imperial Drop Dead Bleak Apathy Eclipses Prisms Brightest Colors Across World Spectrum Dominance The brightest colors of the prism illuminating the spectrum of opposing viewpoints. The colors begin with the brightest of hope and idealism and move to the darkest drop dead black hole reality.  U.S ...
• M J ROSENBERG : AIPAC’s NEWEST STRATEGY
  The next few months, as AIPAC prepares for its annual conference (May 22-24), will be especially fruitful for AIPAC watchers.  This year, the leading Republican candidates for president will also be in attendance, all vying for support by promising undying loyalty to the AIPAC agenda. � By M J R ...
• Afghanistan ‘Suicide Bombing’ Kill ...
  At least 36 people have been killed in an apparent suicide attack on an army recruitment centre in northern Afghanistan, local officials have said. More than 40 people were also reported to have been injured in the attack in the city of Kunduz.
• Is Obama Even Worse Than Bush?
  When I advocated the impeachment of George W. Bush, I did so despite, not because of, all the animosity it fueled among impeachment supporters. I didn't want retribution. I wanted to deter the continuation and repetition of Bush's crimes and abuses. Specifically, and by far most importantly - ...

War is Business

• Did India Sell Weapons To Burma Before 2007 Cr ...
• Life Plus 80 Years: Back-Patting By US Prosecu ...
• Kyrgyzstan Facing ‘Possible Surge In Ter ...
• Arab Monarchies Won’t Go Down Without A ...
• Afghan Governor Complains About Foreign-Led De ...

Hudson's Weather & Climate

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

Internat'l Political Economy

• Japan's Lean Mfg Becomes the World's Problem
  It's not always that you feel sorry for Japanese automotive behemoth Toyota, but I'm sure we should all wish it well at the moment. For several years now, the Japanese have been the world's "lean manufacturing" innovators as exemplified by the likes of the Toyota Production System. During conven ...
• Why "Who Owns the US?" is a Trick Question
  OK, so I may have been (partly) at fault on this one. A few years ago, I ran a feature on "Don't Offend the Chinese, the Real Owners of America." The basic premise of that article went like this: America is broke while China is rich. Although this fact is self-evident, most of the support China ...
• On Out-of-Wedlock Births Becoming Western Norm
  A ghetto bastard, born next to the projects Livin' in the slums with da bums; I sit and watch them Why do I have to be like this? Momma said I'm priceless So I am all worthless, starved, and it's just for being a nice kid A few weeks ago, Charles M. Blow came out with a widely commented op-ed ...
• Adios Panama Canal: PRC's Colombia Railway Plan
  It's been a longstanding ambition of many a would-be-conquistador that may finally come true. For, here's an interesting bit of realpolitik that you may have missed of the early Chinese bird catching the Latin American worm. Among Latin American countries, Colombia is regarded as having among th ...
• US Air Force Tanker Wars: Boeing Upends EADS
  Here is another instance where waving the red, white, and blue seems to have paid off for an American firm. I have made a lengthy earlier post on US Air Force efforts to replace it ancient, 50-some-year-old fleet of KC-135 air refuelling tankers. To make a long story short, the world's two large ...

Economic Collapse Blog

• Federal Bureaucrats: Get Your Dirty Hands Off ...
  In the United States today, thousands upon thousands of ridiculous federal regulations tightly control almost every area of our lives.  One example of this is that starting on January 1st, we are no longer going to be able to buy certain kinds of light bulbs in the United States ...
• Sheeple: Government Handouts = 35 Percent Of U ...
  The ratio of government handouts to wages and salaries in the United States is now at an all-time high.  According to TrimTabs Investment Research, government handouts have reached a level that is equivalent to 35 percent of all wages and salaries in the United States.  Consider ...
• Will The Day Of Rage In Saudi Arabia On March ...
  The price of oil is shaping up to be the number one economic story of 2011, and right now the eyes of the investing world are closely watching the developing situation in Saudi Arabia.  All of the other recent Middle East revolutions have been organized on the Internet, and now ...
• Wars, Rumors Of Wars, Skyrocketing Oil Prices ...
  Did anyone out there anticipate that 2011 would be such a wild year?  The year is barely over two months old and we have already seen multiple civil wars erupt, rumors of more wars all over the mainstream media (potentially even including the United States), riots and revolution ...
• Global Economy? 23 Facts Which Prove That Glob ...
  From now on, whenever you hear the term "the global economy" you should immediately equate it with the destruction of the U.S. middle class.  Over the past several decades, the American economy has been slowly but surely merged into the emerging one world economic system.  Unfor ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

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

E U Times

• 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 ...

Voiceless Victim

• Who’s Looking After The Children?
  “Who’s looking after the children?” In Australia this week one man dared to ask this question of the highest court in the land. The High Court of Australia replied, “We’re only interested in looking after child rapists.” As a result, this courageous crusader is likely to die in jail, while some ...
• Top 10 Catholic Excuses For Doing Absolutely N ...
  Priests at the pulpit do it. Catholic apologists do it mindlessly, understanding little. Cardinals and Bishops exploit their influence to do it to as many people as possible. The Vatican does little else. With alarming regularity and very little variation, they all trot out the same set of tired ...
• Gentle Slap on the Wrist and Comfy Retirement ...
  Details were revealed this week about the Vatican “taking action” last year against a Dutch Catholic Bishop working in Kenya, who had raped a 14-year-old Masai boy some years earlier while still a priest. So here we have an example of just exactly what the new, recently improved Vatican response ...
• The Real Role of the Media in the Catholic Chi ...
  The paedophile protecting Pope and his seriously creepy Vatican spokespersons try to paint the role of the media in the reporting of the Catholic Church child rape tsunami as a conspiracy. They can’t quite make up their minds who exactly is behind their fallacious nonsense of a persecution. The ...
• Why Is Anyone Still A Catholic?
  On the day the Egyptian people succeeded in ousting an oppressive and controlling  regime noted for abuse of power and human rights abuses, it is worthwhile to evaluate the refusal of ordinary Catholics to consider the consequences of their own selfish, mindless and cowardly support for the paed ...

WL Central

• 2011-03-16 Japan's Growing Nuclear Calamity Co ...
  TweetRussian nuclear accident specialist Iouli Andreyev, who helped with cleanup in the aftermath of Chernobyl, said on March 16, “The Japanese were very greedy, and they used every square inch of the space. But when you have a dense placing of spent fuel in the basin, you have a high possibilit ...
• 2011-03-15 #Syria protests #Mar15 in #Damascus ...
  TweetSyria's day of rage was originally scheduled for February 5, but no protesters showed up. On February 15, we reported the arrest of a teen blogger and speculated that the patience of the Syrian people which president Bashar al-Assad was assured would protect his country from protests may so ...
• 2011-03-15 Rallies for a united #Palestine met ...
  TweetWL Central will be updating news on Palestine, with new items added at the top. You can contact me on twitter @GeorgieBC or by email at admin@wlcentral.org. Current time and date in Gaza: TUESDAY, March 15 In a day of rare unity, the Palestinian Authority attacked protesters in the West ...
• 2011-03-15 Journalists Expelled from #Yemen & ...
  Tweet WL Central continues its updates on Yemen, with new items added at the top. All times are based off of Sanaa time in Yemen. You can contact me on Twitter @kgosztola or by email at kgosztola@hotmail.com. Current time and date in Sanaa: Tuesday, March 15 9:22 PM Journalist Iona Craig files ...
• 2011-03-13 Anonymous-Bank of America Employee ...
  TweetSeveral writers have published their thoughts on the bank employee emails posted by Anonymous. They appear to have been caught up in the news cycle, hoping to get ahead of this story and get the most traffic to their post. In rushing the story, at least a few have committed a basic failure ...

U N News

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

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

• Madrasah Reform in Pakistan
  Seeking to calm the mujahadeen
• Book Bombs In Indonesia
  Jihadis seek to kill individuals who oppose them
• Another Lese Majeste Case in Thailand
  Web designer gets 13 years
• India's Catastrophic Nuclear Plans
  The Japan disaster could be replicated multiple times in India
• Singapore's Speaker's Corner Shut Down for Polls
  The city state can’t tolerate unrestricted speech during an election campaign

We Know the Lies

• Is Your Partner 'Cheating'?... The Telling 'S ...
  � Next time you are talking with a potential mate, listen up and you might just hear their cheating heart. Researchers have discovered that people can tell how likely a person of the opposite sex is to be a cheater, just by listening to their voice...� read more
• Destroying U. S. Sovereignty From Within... Ob ...
  �There were growing concerns over drug violence prior to the recent U.S.-Mexico summit, along with other issues which have been a source of friction between the two countries. Despite any perceived tension, both leaders showcased their bilateral partnership and vowed to enhance collabora ...
• Again Soros Speaks of... Communist Chinese Dic ...
  �Billionaire investor George Soros has once again cited China�s dictatorship as the model for the rest of the world in a speech at an elite gathering in Europe. ~ Video read more
• Listen... Can You Hear the Distant Sound of t ...
  �The inhabitants of dying empires in the past used to listen nervously for the distant sound of hoofbeats that told them the barbarians were on the way... ~ John Michael Greerread more
• LARGE SCALE COVER UP of Japan's Multiple Nucle ...
  � All the nuclear reactors at the earthquake stricken Fukushima nuclear plant are under threat of� melting down and exploding in a chain reaction that will signify the world�s worst ever nuclear disaster and send clouds of radioactive particles hurtling towards the United States... ...

Tatumba 2.0

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

Truth About Our World

• We Can Change the World Together
  Tonight, as the world watches in horror the latest events in Japan ( Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant has just errupted on fire), I’m spending my evening listening to  music, thanks to a friend of mine.  He inadvertently reminded me of the importance of celebrating life .  My heart is ...
• Winds chase evacuees in Japan; Hawaii threaten ...
  Rady Ananda, Contributing Writer Activist Post In a deepening tragedy, after an earthquake and tsunami caused four explosions at nuclear reactor plants in Japan, most of those who evacuated the area headed south, since winds normally would have pushed the radioactive clouds to the north and east ...
• Class Warfare, the Final Chapter
  by: Michael Pirsch, t r u t h o u t | News Analysis   “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 cla ...
• CCTV: When Criminals Control the Cameras
• Tokyo Electric to Build US Nuclear Plants: The ...
    Why did we ever let our countries take our money to build nuclear weapons? Did we think it was needed for protection?  From whom? Did we not think that it would destroy not only our “enemies”, but ourselves too?  And humanity? When did it ever become a good idea?  We were so brainwashed and ...

Bloomberg

• No Lull in the Airlines' Headwinds
  The industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley
• Akimbo: From Niches to Riches?
  The Internet video startup has amassed an impressive menu of online content. Subscribers are all it needs
• Giant Steps for China's Net
  Huge valuations given to Baidu and the proposed Yahoo-Alibaba deal show the market for Chinese Web outfits may have reached a turning point
• Do Online MBAs Make the Grade?
  Their popularity is soaring, but some are diploma mills, making recruiters wary of virtual degrees. Here are tips for picking a good program
• Don't Count the U.S. Consumer Out
  Despite higher energy prices, we expect consumers to continue spending and the U.S. economy to grow

Enviroblog

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

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

• St. John's NCAA tournament: The hard part star ...
  After suffering a pair of difficult losses in this weekend's Big East Tournament—a 79-73 defeat to Syracuse, and senior D.J. Kennedy to a season-ending knee injury—St. John's prospects in the NCAA tournament are ... mixed. They're still good enough to mak ...
• Right now, the action is not in Buchanan, NY
  Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
• Racing turns its rheumy eyes to the Queens guy ...
  HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla.—Mike Repole was happy. After a four-month layoff, his undefeated horse, Uncle Mo, ran his first race as a three-year-old colt and swept away the competition on an inexorable path to the Kentucky Derby. "It's the first time in three mo ...
• Flatbush Avenue freakout: How a race-baiting h ...
  The former Royal Video storefront wraps around Brooklyn's bustling Flatbush Avenue, where it marks the boundary between Park Slope to the south and Prospect Heights to the north, right where the broad commercial thoroughfare busts diagonally through the per ...
• The stage adventures of Winkie, teddy-bear ter ...
  Back in 2006, Grove Press published a debut novel by Clifford Chase, the quirky Winkie, about a teddy bear who comes to life and, ultimately, faces trial as a notorious terrorist. The risky premise and difficult story, its two halves alternating between wid ...

Views & News from Norway

• Ambassador accused of beating wife
  Norwegian authorities are caught in a difficult diplomatic dilemma, after an ambassador stationed in Oslo was reported to the local police for beating his wife. She has sought shelter in a local crisis center, and may be allowed to stay in Norway if and when the abusive ambassador is recalled. I ...
• Police can finally question US embassy staff
  Norwegian civilians who have conducted surveillance for the US Embassy in Oslo must finally submit to questioning by Norwegian police. The surveillance itself is under investigation because of concerns it was illegal. Police have been stymied for months in their attempts to probe the surveillanc ...
• Maria Amelie hopes for spring in Norway
  UPDATED: Celebrated but deported refugee Maria Amelie has moved on from Moscow to Krakow in Poland, seven weeks after she was expelled from Norway following many years as an illegal alien. She still aims to return to Norway, as she awaits a hoped-for change in the law. Amelie told newspaper Afte ...
• Concerns fly over fighter jet costs
  Norwegian politicians are once again deeply concerned by reports of soaring prices for the US-made fighter jets that the government has agreed to buy. Newspaper Dagsavisen reported Tuesday that the price may have jumped from the NOK 18 billion approved by the Parliament, to an astonishing NOK 14 ...
• Norwegians join exodus from Japan
  Hundreds of Norwegians living and working in Japan were feeling forced to leave the earthquake-ravaged country on Tuesday, because of growing fears of radiation leaks from severely damaged nuclear power plants. Norway’s Foreign Ministry has now strongly advised against traveling to or staying in ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

• Cecilia’s 13 Steps to Creating Beauty in the P ...
  by Erin Marteal & Cecilia Macaulay After encountering numerous objections to permaculture in the public garden sector based on a perceived fault in aesthetics, I’ve become keenly interested in the relationship between permaculture and beauty. (See background article, Permaculture is many things ...
• April 10-23 Permaculture Design Certificate (P ...
  The view at sunset, westwards from Marda, Palestine Photograph © copyright Craig Mackintosh Join international Permaculture designers and teachers, Rhamis Kent, Klaudia van Gool and Murad Alkhufash at Marda farm, Palestine for a Permaculture Design Certificate Course (PDC). The PDC is an int ...
• Permaculture Australia Survey – A Chance to Ha ...
  Warm Greetings to all members of the Permaculture community, The idea of unifying the many components that make up the Permaculture movement in Australia is not a new one, but after a rich 30-year history, it is an idea whose time has come. This survey initiative enables all of you that have com ...
• A Solar Powered Life – Part III
  When the band Bananarama penned the ditty, “A cruel summer” back in 1983, I’m sure they must have been singing about solar power. Well, upon reflection, they probably weren’t. Anyway, it is an appropriate metaphor for solar power generation in the Macedon Ranges in Victoria and indeed elsewhere ...
• Head-Banging for Britain
  by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist, United Kingdom Should we reduce the speed limit to cut oil consumption? Should we impose new taxes on the banks? Should we stop hawking weapons in the Middle East? The answer in all these cases is obvious, ...

Telecrap Urinal

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

Anna's News

• Tsunami killed thousands of seabirds at Midway
  Thousands of seabirds were killed when the tsunami generated by last week's massive earthquake off Japan flooded Midway, a remote atoll northwest of the main Hawaiian islands. Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Japan's 'Cat Island' Survived Quake
  Tashirojima, otherwise known as Japan's "Cat Island" due to its numerous feline inhabitants, is intact after the recent devastating 9-magnitude earthquake and resulting tsunami, according to Japan Earthquake Animal Rescue and Support. ...........Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �Note-it! �| ...
• 10 Totally Ridiculous Pharmaceutical Ads
  Pharmaceutical ads had gotten so out of control recently, Congress got involved. But even before pharmaceutical companies were known as the big bad corporate meanie in our society, drug ads have been pretty ridiculous. Here are some of the best, .........Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �No ...
• Top 5 Worst Nuclear Disasters
  Nuclear power has something of a checkered history. Although it does provide carbon-free energy at reasonable prices, it has exposed its dangerous side with near meltdowns and leaked radiation. The International Atomic Energy Agency -- an intergovernmentaSubmitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �No ...
• The 50 Best Snacks for Your Childs Backpack
  Making sure your kids eat right as they dash between classes, after-school activities and plans with friends is tough, which is why it's important for parents to get creative when it comes to ensuring nutritional standards in their kids' lives even when..Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Welln ...

Medical Marijuana

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

Progressives United - Russ Feingold

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

Information Underground

• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  what jenny's document says, is there have already been several nuclear wars worth of material disbursed. so you have already been taking iodine (if you were smart) or you haven't. And in for the event, the amount of release world-wide, is likely another couple of bumps-up in the 'background' r ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  We ought to go back to Haiti...if HAARP is a geo weapon and it was also used on Haiti...what for? ...well, they've discovered oil there...relief effort or invasion? OIL IN HAITI http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressc ... g_in_Haiti iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDMMtIYcXbA iframe ht ...
• Survival & Defence • Diatomaceous Earth (f ...
  Diatomaceous Earth (food grade): bug killer you can eat! Diatomacious Earth (often referred to as "DE") is an off white talc-like powder that is the fossilized remains of marine phytoplankton. When sprinkled on a bug that has an exoskeleton (such as bed bugs, ants or fleas) it gets caught betw ...
• History and Philosophy of Zionism/Judaism/&quo ...
  This is a very interesting site BTW... http://furtherglory.wordpress.com/2011/ ... ath-train/ --- An American Jewish soldier’s letter to his wife about the Dachau “death train” Filed under: Dachau, Germany, World War II — Tags: Dachau death train, Dachau massacre, Hans Merbach — furtherglor ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  This is the magnetometer up in Alaska...you can go back to last week...it clearly shows some type of activity from the 8th of March up to the day of the earthquake...I think HAARP is some type of geo weapon no doubt.. http://maestro.haarp.alaska.edu/cgi-bin ... 0310&Bx=on iframe http://www.y ...

TVNZ

• Bahrain politician - 'This is a war of annihil ...
  At least five protesters have been killed and hundreds wounded in a crackdown by Bahraini forces.
• Japanese Emperor 'deeply worried' by nuclear c ...
  Japanese Emperor Akihito said he is "deeply worried" about the country's nuclear crisis, in a rare TV address.
• Gaddafi forces attack rebel-held Misrata
  Forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi have launched an attack on the rebel-held city of Misrata.
• Workers evacuate quake-crippled Japan nuclear ...
  Workers at a quake-crippled nuclear plant in Japan have been evacuated due to the radiation risk.
• Reactor 4 ablaze as Japan's nuclear crisis deepens
  A fresh fire has broken out at the quake-stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in northern Japan.

environment 360

• Japan Nuclear Crisis Prompts Global Review of ...
  From the United States to China, governments are carefully watching the rapidly unfolding events at two stricken Japanese nuclear power plants to determine how the crisis will affect plans to significantly expand nuclear power. In the U. S., a fragile bipartisan consensus in favor of expanding n ...
• U.S. Solar Market Grew 67 Percent in 2010, Rep ...
  The U.S. solar market increased by 67 percent in 2010 — from $3.6 billion in 2009 to $6 billion — making it the nation’s fastest-growing energy sector, according to a trade industry report. Total installed capacity of photovoltaic and solar thermal systems reached 956 iStockphoto megawatts — mo ...
• Collapse of Honeybee Populations Now a Global ...
  The mysterious decline of honeybee populations observed in the U.S. and Europe is now a global phenomenon, according to a new report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Scientists say significant die-offs are now occurring in managed bee colonies in China and Japan, and there a ...
• U.S. High-Speed Rail: Time to Hop Aboard or Be ...
  In recent months, several conservative governors have rejected federal funds to begin constructing high-speed rail lines in their states. But a high-speed rail advocate argues that such ideologically driven actions are folly, as other U.S. states and countries around the world are moving swiftly ...
• Blooms of Arctic Plankton Occurring Far Earlie ...
  The steady disappearance of summer sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is causing annual blooms of phytoplankton to occur as much as 50 days earlier now than in the late 1990s, a major shift that could have profound consequences for the Arctic Ocean food chain. Click to enlarge Scripps Institution of ...

oldephartte/Diigo

• Science Clarified
  Tags: science resource answers teaching education web 2.0
• The First Post | News, comment, opinion, peopl ...
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• killing Mother
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• The Disaffected Lib
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backofthebook

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

Daily Beast

• Notes on Charlie Sheen and the End of Empire
  With his tweets, his manic interviews, his insurgent campaign against the entertainment world, Sheen is giving America exactly what it wants out of a modern celebrity. In the full version of an article that appeared in this week's Newsweek, Bret Easton...
• Gilbert Gottfried on Japan and More Jokes That ...
  The Aflac duck was canned after an ill-advised attempt at humor involving the Japan tsunami. From a Haley Barbour aide (the earthquake) to Howard Stern (bestiality), see more jokes that cost the tellers their jobs. Gallery: Jokes That Get People...
• Diaries From Japan: Dispatches From People Liv ...
  The Daily Beast is collecting dispatches from people living across Japan, as the country rebuilds-while still under fear of a nuclear disaster. To submit yours, email newsweektsunami@gmail.com or send a tweet with the hashtag #japandiaries. Plus, read...
• Complete Methodology: Most Vulnerable Power Plants
  How The Daily Beast ranked America's 65 nuclear power facilities. For this ranking of nuclear power plant vulnerability, safety records, natural disaster possibilities and nearby populations were ranked equally. For each facility, we tabulated the...
• Most Vulnerable U.S. Nuclear Plants
  With the nuclear crisis in Japan growing hourly, The Daily Beast rates the vulnerability of all 65 U.S. nuclear facilities based on safety records, potential disasters and nearby populations. As the crisis at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant grows...

  Blacklisted News

• Egypt's ElBaradei: Con-man in Chief?
  Globalist stooge ElBaradei is prying his way into the presidency.
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• Japan jolted by new earthquakes as fears of ra ...
  Earthquakes of magnitude 6.1 and 6.2 strike areas south of Tokyo. As Japan holds it breath over radiation leaks at the Fukushima nuclear complex, the latest quakes raise fears about another nuclear facility. But the International Atomic Energy Agency says the Hamaoka plant is operating normally.
• Expanding U.S.-Mexico Economic and Security Co ...
  There were growing concerns over drug violence prior to the recent U.S.-Mexico summit, along with other issues which have been a source of friction between the two countries. Despite any perceived tension, both leaders showcased their bilateral partnership and vowed to enhance collaboration. The ...
• Nuclear Disaster ‘Will Have Political Impact a ...
  The nuclear disaster in Fukushima makes it hard to ignore the vulnurabilities of the technology. It could spell the end of nuclear power, German commentators argue on Monday. The government in Berlin may now cave in to mounting pressure to suspend its 12-year extension of reactor lifetimes, they ...

The Intelligence Daily

• Safety of nuclear power and death of the nucle ...
  By Euan Mearns (The Oil Drum) Yesterday, I believe, will go down in history as one of the most...
• Western World’s Decline Accelerates: USA, Euro ...
  By John Stanton “You can’t handle the truth!” said Jack Nicholson’s character in A Few Good Men. To...
• Winds chase evacuees in Japan; Hawaii threaten ...
  By Rady Ananda In a deepening tragedy, after an earthquake and tsunami caused four explosions at...
• 27 Signs That The Nuclear Crisis In Japan Is M ...
  By Michael T. Snyder (The Economic Collapse Blog) How much of a threat is the nuclear crisis in...
• IntelFilter — March 9, 2011
  Today’s Top Headlines: The Collapse of the Old Oil Order: How the Petroleum Age Will End...

My AntiWar

• US Advisers Saw Early Signs of Trouble at Afgh ...
• Poll: Nearly Two-Thirds of Americans Say Afgha ...
• Azerbaijan Condemned for Reaction to Protests
• Israel Intercepts Ship It Says Carried Iranian ...
• Scoring Wins, Gadhafi Tells Rebels: ‘Sur ...

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

• The Democracy Council's plans for Iran and the ...
  Summary: I just stumbled into my personal Wikileaks moment by inadvertently finding a document that apparently links "Green Movement" operatives to a US government propaganda operation. This is the second time such links have been exposed by me inadvertently. (They're not good at keeping s ...
• The Great Threat and Bernard Lewis’ Nightmare
  Summary: LewisBernard Lewis believes that at the root of the protests sweeping across our region is the Arab peoples’ widespread sense of injustice. But Lewis regards a dash toward Western-style elections, far from representing a solution to the region’s difficulties, as constituting “a dang ...
• THE “ARAB AWAKENING”, AMERICA, THE ISLAMIC REP ...
  Summary: When Obama became President, in January 2009, he pledged to change how America dealt with the Middle East and to put our Middle East policies on a more effective, sustainable trajectory—in Iraq, Afghan, on Arab/Israeli peace, and to pursue “engagement” with the Islamic Republic. Bu ...
• Russian FM's spokesman: US sanction on Russian ...
  Summary: Medvedev denounced unilateral sanctions against Tehran over its peaceful domestic nuclear program as "illegitimate" and" unacceptable." source: Trendread more
• NAM: Respect Iran's nuclear rights
  Summary: member states of NAMThe Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) urges respect for Iran's right to develop its civilian nuclear program within the framework of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). source: Press TVread more

The Daily Galaxy

• Many 'Super-Earth' Exo Planets May Exist as De ...
  Rocky planets a few times heavier than Earth that were thought might be life-friendly may lack a protective magnetic field that originates from an iron core that is at least partly molten. A simulation of super-Earths between a few times...
• 'Angels & Demons' Revisited: Will CERN's LHC C ...
  CERN's Large Hadron Collider – the world's largest atom smasher that started regular operation last year – could be the first machine capable causing matter to travel backwards in time. According to the new theory, elusive Higgs singlets created by...
• The Growing Threat of a Major Space Debris Col ...
  In January, 2011, the European Space Agency’s huge Envisat Earth remote-sensing space satellite was nearly on the receiving end of a spent Chinese rocket stage. Space junk tracking information supplied by the U.S. military, as well as confirming German radar...
• Image of the Day: Spectacular Tarantula Nebula ...
  The wispy arms of the Tarantula Nebula were originally thought to resemble spindly spider legs, giving the nebula its unusual name. The part of the nebula visible in this image from Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys is criss-crossed with tendrils...
• Get Your Daily Dose of Awe @The Daily Galaxy ...
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Natural News

• Underground information on what's happening at ...
  (NaturalNews) NaturalNews has received information directly from an American who happened to be in Tokyo at the time of the nuclear incident and who also happens to have a background in atomic energy and nuclear reactors. He has sent us some extremely disturbing information that seems to indicat ...
• Iodine supplement supplies wiped out by nuclea ...
  (NaturalNews) It's happening everywhere now: Potassium Iodide supplements are getting wiped out as people concerned about the possibility of radiation fallout are purchasing them for their own protection. Yesterday evening, we posted a story about an alternative source of iodine -- Nascent Iodin ...
• Vendors caught price gouging for potassium iod ...
  (NaturalNews) Those looking for potassium iodide to help offset the health-devastating effects of a potentially widespread nuclear fallout may be shocked to discover that many vendors of the product have significantly raised their prices since March 11, the day of the massive 9.0+ Japanese earth ...
• Iodine protects thyroid and glandular system f ...
  (NaturalNews) In the aftermath of Japan's nuclear catastrophe and the fear that winds could blow radiation into the west coast of North America, there has been a sudden rush on potassium iodide, which helps protect your glandular system from radiation poisoning if you're exposed. The Japanese go ...
• Epilepsy, migraine drug linked to 2000 percent ...
  (NaturalNews) New data released by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) shows that mothers taking Johnson and Johnson's (J&J) Topamax, as well as its generic version topiramate, during pregnancy are 2000 percent more likely to bear children with oral defects like cleft lips or cleft palate ...

Threat Level

• TSA Admits Bungling of Airport Body-Scanner Ra ...
  The Transportation Security Administration is re-analyzing the radiation levels of X-ray body scanners installed in airports nationwide, after testing produced dramatically higher-than-expected results. The TSA, which has deployed at least 500 body scanners to at least 78 airports, said Tuesday ...
• Former NSA, CIA Chief: Declassify Cyber Vulner ...
  The former head of America’s most powerful and secretive intelligence agencies thinks the U.S. government classifies too much information on cybersecurity vulnerabilities. “Let me be clear: This stuff is overprotected,” writes retired four-star Gen. Michael Hayden, in the new issue of the Air Fo ...
• Man With 4th Amendment Written on Chest Sues O ...
  A 21-year-old Virginia man who wrote an abbreviated version of the Fourth Amendment on his body and stripped to his shorts at an airport security screening area is demanding $250,000 in damages for being detained on a disorderly conduct charge. Aaron Tobey claims in a civil rights lawsuit (.pdf) ...
• It’s Sunshine Week, But Obama’s Transparency R ...
  The federal bureaucracy is failing to abide by President Barack Obama’s inaugural decree that agencies “usher in a new era of open government,” according to a Monday survey by the National Security Archive. Honoring the kickoff of Sunshine Week, the private archive located at George Washington ...
• Judge Denies Request to Throw Out Order Seekin ...
  A judge presiding over the U.S. government’s request for Twitter records relating to associates of Wikileaks has denied a motion to throw out the request, ruling that the associates don’t have standing to challenge it. The judge also denied a request to unseal the government’s application for th ...

PERRspectives : Blog

• GOP's Paul Ryan Accidentally Endorses Obamacare
  For Republicans, a funny thing happened on the way to privatizing Medicare. Hoping to transform the wildly popular, low-overhead government program for 46 million American seniors into a voucher system for purchasing private insurance, Paul Ryan and his GOP allies inadvertently made a strong ca ...
• Kudlow on Enemas, Earthquakes, Bulls, Bears an ...
  CNBC host, National Review contributor and former Reagan adviser Lawrence Kudlow has long embodied the gin-and-tonic-sipping, anyone-for-tennis, let-them-eat-cake laissez faire Republican attitude towards the suffering of the American people. Even still, his jaw-dropping reaction to the devasta ...
• Bachmann Bungles American History. Again.
  In the late 1970's film Animal House, John Belushi's character Bluto famously rallies his fraternity brothers by proclaiming, "Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?" Now, a latter-day Bluto may be running for President of the United States. Pandering to Republican voters in New Ham ...
• Republicans Double-Cross the Elderly
  Terrified by bogus Republican claims of draconian Democratic cuts to Medicare, elderly voters propelled the GOP to an overwhelming victory last November. Voters 65 and over, the only age group to support John McCain in 2008, boosted their share of the turnout to 21% from 16% two years earlier. ...
• Right Fumes over "President of China," Forgets ...
  The conservative commentariat is predictably apoplectic this morning about a New York Times story on the Middle East which claimed "Mr. Obama has told people that it would be so much easier to be the president of China." While the Weekly Standard's Bill Kristol protested, "Unfortunately for him ...

Blackspot News Feed

• Peace is not yours to give, Mr. President by K ...
  by Kathleen Kirwin Guest Writer Dandelion Salad March 13, 2011 AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA Peace is not yours to give, Mr. President. But hope is certainly yours to take away. As I listened to a friend and colleague in Afghanistan a few days ago, the difference I discerned in his voice fro ...
• Untitled
  .bbpBox{background:url(http://a3.twimg.com/profile_background_images/52593187/Fremont_Peak.JPG) #9ae4e8;padding:20px;} Augustus Owsley Stanley III, Acid King, Annealer of the Grateful Dead, & Master Crank, dies with his boots on at 76.Sun Mar 13 19:46:57 via TwittelatorJohn Perry BarlowJPBarlow
• Madison Rally Bigger Than Biggest Tea Party Rally
  Police estimated up to 100,000 people turned out in Madison, WI yesterday to protest Gov. Scott Walker's (R) assault on unions, making it bigger than any protests the city has witnessed, even those during the Vietnam War. read more
• One Night In Galway
• Humanitarian Pays With Life for Feeding the Ch ...
  February 26, 2011, marks the eighth anniversary of the imprisonment of Dr. Rafil Dhafir. Dhafir continues to pay the price for feeding the children of Iraq during the US- and UK-sponsored UN sanctions against that country. read more

Consortium News

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

CounterPunch

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

Institute for Middle East Understanding

• Khirbet Tana - Before and After Demolitions st ...
• The UNSC Veto and "The Israel Lobby" (Mitchel ...
  This veto was about the Lobby and about Obama's inability to stand up to it. Yes, the Israel Lobby's power is often overstated, and it's a convenient scapegoat for wrong-headed and unjust US foreign policies in many cases. But no one who has even a passing familiarity with Washington would ever ...
• AIPAC's newest strategy (MJ Rosenberg, Al Jaz ...
  Reports from Israel indicate that Netanyahu's plan rules out any withdrawal to the '67 lines, offering instead a Palestinian state within temporary borders and only a very partial set ...
• Uruguay joins South American nations in recogn ...
  Uruguay has joined a string of South American nations in recognizing an independent Palestinian state. A Foreign Ministry statement says Uruguay has communicated its decision to the P ...
• March 15th Protests in Pictures & Video (IMEU)
  On March 15th a Palestinian youth movement, in line with movements the world has seen in the rest of the Middle East & North Africa, took to the streets protesting divisions among Pal ...

Water - AlterNet

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

Public Citizen in Texas

• CPS halts negotiations with NRG
  San Antonio’s electric utility, CPS, has halted their negotiations on a power purchase agreement between CPS and STP’s expansion units 3 and 4.  CPS’s CEO, Doyle Beneby, announced that CPS and NRG have mutually agreed to terminate their PPA negotiations at this point.  It would appear that t ...
• U.S. Nuclear plants on alert for tsunami
  This morning’s quake on the other side of the world has implications for nuclear plants here in the U.S.   The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), through its regional office in Arlington, TX, announced they are closely monitoring this situation - the Japanese earthquake and subsequent tsu ...
• State of emergency declared at two Japanese nu ...
  In the wake of the massive 8.9-magnitude earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan earlier today, the government has issued an evacuation order to thousands of residents near Fukushima No. 1 power plant in Onahama city, about 170 miles northeast of Tokyo, after its primary and emergency cooling syst ...
• New explosion at beleagured Japanese nuclear p ...
  Major US news agencies reporting a hydrogen explosion at Fukushima Dai-ichi No. 2 may have breached the containment vessel. Tepco, the Japanese company that owns this plant has evacuated operators from the area.  There are reports of elevated radiation levels in the area near the plant.  This pl ...
• Time for a moratorium on new nuclear reactors, ...
  Robert Singleton, an anti-nuclear activist and writer, is calling for a moratorium on new nuclear reactors, license extensions.  Robert  is a member of Solar Si Nuclear No in Austin, Texas.  Click here to read Robert’s blog. As of today, several countries have announced intentions to revie ...

Unexplained Mysteries

• Atlantis (maybe) rediscovered in Spain
  Analysis of underwater remains of a suspected ancient city leads research team to Southern Spain. Mud flats located in Southern Spain are potentially ...
• Can the LHC send messages back in time ?
  Scientists have come up with a possible method to send a hypothetical particle back in time. The theory is based on the assumption that the particle (...
• Ancient traditions give Japanese strength
  Japanese turn to Buddhist and Shinto traditions for strength after the earthquake and tsunami. At a time of unbelievable devastation to the world's th...
• In search of the Orang-Pendek
  Nick Redfern takes a look at Adam Davies' expedition to Sumatra in search for the Orang-Pendek. Davies will be leading a team from Britains Center fo...
• Soviet surgeon removed own appendix
  In an incredible feat of courage and skill a surgeon in the 1960s removed his own appendix in Antarctica. Leonid Rogozov was stationed in 1961 at a Ru...

Grassroots

• Program Assistant, Part-time
  Grassroots International seeks an experienced individual to work as an active member of its Program Team. The Program Assistant will provide administrative and other support to the team.�The position is part-time (20-24 hours per week) and will be based in Boston, Massachusetts.We aim to fill th ...
• Charity Ratings: What Does It Mean to See a Fa ...
  Like many other non-profit organizations, last year Charity Navigator lowered our rating from four stars (excellent) to two stars (needs improvement). Since many donors rely on third-party rating services such as Charity Navigator to inform their giving, we would like to offer an explanation.Sin ...
• International Social Movements Statement of So ...
  brazil_womens_march.jpg In advance of International Women�s Day, several organizations representing various social movements around the world � many of them Grassroots International partners, grantees, and allies � co-wrote a �Letter of So ...
• Celebrating Women’s Struggles and Victories
  lvc_ca_women.jpg Every year on March 8th � International Women�s Day � thousands of events are held throughout the world to inspire women and celebrate their achievements.� As I review Grassroots International�s past year in grant making, ...
• We Are the Solution: Celebrating African Famil ...
  ayesha_-_woman_farmer_griot_from_senegal_-_we_are_the_solution_4.jpg � According to Grassroots International ally Fahamu, �Agriculture�� remains the main source of income of a rural population generally estimated at 70% of the total popula ...

Climate

• Radiation Fears Spark Panic Buying, Evacuation ...
  Source:� Reuters Panic swept Tokyo on Tuesday after a rise in radioactive levels around a nuclear power plant north of the city, causing some to leave the capital and others to stock up on food and supplies.
• Nuclear Sector Takes Beating But U.S. Offers S ...
  Source:� Reuters The nuclear power industry took a beating as governments addressed its safety and investors bailed out of stocks because of the crisis in Japan, but the U.S. offered some support.
• House Dems Call for Hearings on U.S. Nuclear S ...
  Source:� The Hill Top Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee are calling on Republicans to hold hearings on U.S. nuclear power plant safety in light of the nuclear crisis in Japan.
• Italy's Enel to Press Ahead with Nuclear Plans
  Source:� Reuters Enel SpA will press ahead to launch nuclear power in Italy as part of $43.22 billion spending budget in the next five years, the Italian utility said.
• Turkey Debates Nuclear Plans
  Source:� Wall Street Journal Japan's massive quake is triggering debate in Turkey over plans to build the country's first nuclear power plants, and reviving fears over the earthquake risk to Istanbul.

GreenBiz

• Why Energy Reduction Goals Are Moving Up the C ...
  Establishing an energy reduction goal offers benefits that carbon reduction goals do not in today's business climate, such as the direct relationship to dollar savings, which may be easier to sell internally.
• Pepsi Ups Ante on Plant-Based Bottles with 100 ...
  �Pepsi plans to pour its drinks into bottles derived entirely from plants, which would give them more plant content than Coca-Cola's PlantBottles.
• LA, DC and SF Top List of Cities with Most Ene ...
  For a second consecutive year, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and San Francisco took the No. 1, 2, and 3 spots at the head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's list of 25 cities with the most Energy Star rated buildings in the country.
• McDonald's Sets Long-Term Sustainable Beef, Co ...
  �McDonald's has laid out a long-term plan to move to more sustainable meat, coffee and packaging.
• Rare Earth Mining Becomes an Acceptable Risk O ...
  With a massive new mining facility in Malaysia under construction, it appears that more of the world is waking up to the potential risks of leaving the materials crucial to technology in China's hands.

Reuters Global

• Keeping Raymond Davis and Lashkar-e-Taiba in p ...
  The row over Raymond Davis is running into arguments over the role of the Lashkar-e-Taiba. But that can be misleading.
• Towards a review of Pakistan’s blasphemy ...
  After two assassinations, Pakistani politicians are finally addressing tensions over Pakistan's blasphemy laws
• Pakistan’s debate on drones, lifting the ...
  The secrecy on drones has helped fuel a poisonous debate in Pakistan. Will a rare admission by a high-ranking Pakistani military offiicer of their effectiveness change that?
• From Afghanistan to Libya; rethinking the role ...
  The U.S. military has been accused of dominating policy in Afghainstan. But what do we learn from its reluctance to intervene in Libya?
• In Pakistan, an assassination and the death of ...
  With the second high-profile assassination in a year, some Pakistanis are trying to resist the temptation to lapse into shocked silence

Booman Tribune

• Shock and Awe Strategies
  DeWayne Wickam has the right idea. The Republicans are engaged in a variation of the shock and awe campaign used against Saddam Hussein. It's not meant to make Obama's troops lose the will to fight, but to weaken them up so that they can't fight at all. That's why the bombs are being thrown a ...
• Eppur Si Muove
  This is so ridiculous: House Republicans rejected amendments offered Tuesday by Democrats that called on Congress to accept the scientific consensus that climate change is occurring, that it is caused in large part by human activity and it is a threat to human health. The amendments, offer ...
• We Can't Always Be Good Guys
  While this New York Times article is mainly about U.S-Saudi relations being strained by, among other things, Saudi Arabia's decision to send troops into Bahrain, it fails to mention that the Fifth Fleet of the U.S. Navy is docked in Manama, Bahrain. And the Fifth Fleet is kind of important. It p ...
• Unhappy Thoughts
  It's too bad our government is paralyzed by ideologues or we might be able to take advantage of the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl to get serious about alternative energy. It's hard not to get depressed about things these days. I feel very badly for the Japanese people, but I am also an ...
• Grover Norquist is Now a Centrist
  We've reached a point in Republican politics in this country where Grover "Drown the Federal Government in a bathtub" Norquist is representing the moderate, Establishment-wing of the party. Norquist supports the newest continuing resolution (now rebranded as a stopgap measure) while pretty much ...

European Tribune

• Continuing Japanese Disaster Open Thread
  After the last diary reached 300, time for a new diary Migueru came upon a...
• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch ...
  �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europeans on this date in history:1978 Amoco Cadiz, Supertanker...
• Tuesday Open Thread
  For any other subjects...
• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch ...
  �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europeans on this date (the Ides of March) in...
• Monday Open Thread
  This thread is free of radiation...

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

• You Could Lose More Than Time with Daylight Sa ...
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline For many people, losing an hour of sleep creates a minor inconvenience. Others actually enjoy the idea of having an additional hour of sunlight every day. But for some, the sudden shift in time can create severe mood swings and result in decreased productivity and ...
• Authority: It’s an Inside Job!
  By Judith Barr, MS, LPC, Power: Healing to the Root Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Judith and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile What is happening in the Middle East right now is a very complex subject. It’s very difficult to look at more than one perspective at a time, much like ...
• Text Messaging May Aid in Smoking Cessation Th ...
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline A study released this month shows that text messages may aid in smoking cessation. Smokers involved in the study were required to perform certain self control tasks while the impulse regions of their brains were monitored. The results confirmed that interval monit ...
• Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up
  A GoodTherapy.org Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up Happy last official weekend of Winter! This week’s news covered a variety of youth topics, the psychology of Ash Wednesday, social psychology, and mental health trends around the country. We hope this week’s psychotherapy news can keep your mi ...
• Life’s Cafe
  By Lynn Somerstein, PhD, RYT, Object Relations Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Lynn and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Release This past month was filled with the normal spectacular events of life- birth, death, and the spaces in between. My mother-in-law died at the age of al ...

Mountaintop Removal

• Assessing and Reducing the Risks of Energy - H ...
  Assessing and Reducing the Risks of Energy Huffington Post (blog) I think that is also true of deep sea drilling for oil, mountain top removal for coal and hydrofracking for natural gas. The issue is not the probability of risk, which is quite low, but the intensity of risk and the relative irr ...
• Columbia Riverkeeper to host film and dance - ...
  Columbia Riverkeeper to host film and dance Daily Astorian ... 20 Basin St. Similar to the Columbia Estuary's own fight to stop proposed liquefied natural gas terminals, �Deep Down� is a film showcasing a community's battle to overcome a proposed mountaintop-removal coal mine in the heart of Ap ...
• Assessing the Human Impacts of Mountaintop Rem ...
  Assessing the Human Impacts of Mountaintop Removal Mining Gant Daily Mountaintop removal mining, a particularly destructive form of surface mining which involves literally blasting away the tops of mountains to get at the coal reserves below, has become the dominant land-use issue ... Jeff Bigg ...
• Readers blast, embrace mountaintop removal col ...
  Readers blast, embrace mountaintop removal column Roanoke Times You can't say much about the coal mining process known as mountaintop removal without inflaming passions on both sides of the debate. That was clear in the wake of my Feb. 17 column, which cheekily extolled the controversial practi ...
• Editorial: Feds must look at big picture on mi ...
  Editorial: Feds must look at big picture on mining ban Knoxville News Sentinel Underground and surface mining would still be allowed on the slopes of the mountains, meaning those who possess the mineral rights won't be deprived of the resource, but mountaintop removal and cross-ridge mining wou ...

Memeorandum

• Last Defense at Troubled Reactors: 50 Japanese ...
  New York Times: Last Defense at Troubled Reactors: 50 Japanese Workers  —  A small crew of technicians, braving radiation and fire, became the only people remaining at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station on Tuesday — and perhaps Japan's last chance of preventing a broader nuclear catas ...
• Experts Had Long Criticized Potential Weakness ...
  Tom Zeller Jr / New York Times: Experts Had Long Criticized Potential Weakness in Design of Stricken Reactor  —  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 re ...
• Unions vs. the little guy in Wisconsin recall ...
  Byron York / Washington Examiner: Unions vs. the little guy in Wisconsin recall fight  —  Chief Political Correspondent Follow Him @ByronYork  —  If you're a Republican, it's a scenario straight out of “Alice in Wonderland.”  Fourteen Wisconsin state senators, all Democrats, flee the state for ...
• House passes three-week government spending ex ...
  CNN: House passes three-week government spending extension  —  From Deirdre Walsh, CNN Congressional Producer  —  Washington (CNN) — A three-week extension of government funding won approval Tuesday from the U.S. House, with Democratic support overcoming opposition by some conservative Republic ...
• Clinton: No U.S. support for Libya no-fly zone ...
  Carrie Dann / msnbc.com: Clinton: No U.S. support for Libya no-fly zone  —  From Cairo, NBC's Andrea Mitchell reports on the ongoing negotiations over a no-fly zone in Libya.  —  Carrie Dann writes:We wrote this morning that lawmakers - and the public - are split about whether the United States ...

Energy & Environment News

• Second Explosion at Reactor as Technicians Try ...
  The new explosion underscores the difficulties Japanese authorities are having in bringing several stricken reactors under control after the earthquake.
• Green Column: A Solar and Wind Revolution From ...
  Political instability is major concern in ambitious plans to supply the European Union with electricity generated by solar and wind power from North Africa and the Middle East.
• Japan's Nuclear Crisis Stokes Fear in Europe
  As Japan struggled to bring its escalating nuclear crisis under control, debate about the merits and dangers of nuclear power flared anew in Europe.
• Green: 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.
• Green: Reactor Containment Design Has Long Bee ...
  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.

5+ quakes - 7 days

• M 5.8, near the east coast of Honshu, Japan
  Wednesday, March 16, 2011 06:29:03 UTCWednesday, March 16, 2011 03:29:03 PM at epicenterDepth: 31.10 km (19.32 mi)
• M 5.3, near the east coast of Honshu, Japan
  Wednesday, March 16, 2011 04:14:32 UTCWednesday, March 16, 2011 01:14:32 PM at epicenterDepth: 24.70 km (15.35 mi)
• M 6.0, near the east coast of Honshu, Japan
  Wednesday, March 16, 2011 03:52:05 UTCWednesday, March 16, 2011 12:52:05 PM at epicenterDepth: 25.00 km (15.53 mi)
• M 6.1, off the east coast of Honshu, Japan
  Tuesday, March 15, 2011 15:23:54 UTCWednesday, March 16, 2011 01:23:54 AM at epicenterDepth: 19.40 km (12.05 mi)
• M 5.1, near the east coast of Honshu, Japan
  Tuesday, March 15, 2011 13:37:56 UTCTuesday, March 15, 2011 10:37:56 PM at epicenterDepth: 37.90 km (23.55 mi)

China Dialogue

• Splashing around in the shallows
  Just as the internet is eroding our attention spans, oceans of information may be diluting the corporate sustainability agenda, writes John Elkington. Do business leaders risk being everywhere and nowhere?I’m not particularly looking forward to 2012, now just a year away. Among other things, it ...
• Green growth’s invisible ingredient
  Information technology has the potential to transform China’s low-carbon narrative – but the opportunities need to be grasped, writes Simon Zadek.China’s green growth is a collective imperative that can enable the country to improve the economic conditions of its 1.3 billion citizens without cre ...
• Fighting for China’s battery bears
  As a bear-farming firm prepares to launch on the stock market, the use of animal bile in traditional Chinese remedies is at the centre of a public row. Meng Si reports.A Chinese pharmaceutical company that uses bile extracted from the gallbladders of black bears as the key ingredient in its prod ...
• Lessons from the flood (2)
  Pakistan’s engineering system has left the poorest most vulnerable to inundation. Continuing their exploration of the Indus basin, Daanish Mustafa and David Wrathall look at past failures of flood control.Pakistan benefits from an extraordinary water supply, sourced mainly from swift-flowing gla ...
• Lessons from the flood (3)
  In the wake of its destructive floods, Pakistan has an opportunity to address the social and physical problems that caused the disaster in the first place, argue Daanish Mustafa and David Wrathall, concluding their three-part article.So what can we expect to change in the aftermath of this mega- ...

AlterNet Top Stories

• Nuclear Experts: Japan Nuclear Disaster Unprec ...
  Events taking place in the Fukushima No. 1 power plant are simply unprecedented and the situation appears to be deteriorating.

• Assange: The Internet Could Create a "Tot ...
  Assange said the web could allow greater government transparency, but also gave authorities their best ever opportunity to monitor and catch dissidents.
• Michael Moore: Michigan Governor Pushing Unbel ...
  Michael Moore: "You must stand up against these Draconian measures and this outrageous attempt to rip our democratic rights from us."
• Woman Arrested for Thinking About Abortion? Ho ...
  Women are being assaulted by attempts to establish fetal rights.
• Is the Pentagon Strong-Arming the White House ...
  The Pentagon and oil-rich nations have pressured the White House to help subvert the popular democratic will sweeping across the greater Middle East.

Threat Level

• TSA Admits Bungling of Airport Body-Scanner Ra ...
  The Transportation Security Administration is re-analyzing the radiation levels of X-ray body scanners installed in airports nationwide, after testing produced dramatically higher-than-expected results. The TSA, which has deployed at least 500 body scanners to at least 78 airports, said Tuesday ...
• Former NSA, CIA Chief: Declassify Cyber Vulner ...
  The former head of America’s most powerful and secretive intelligence agencies thinks the U.S. government classifies too much information on cybersecurity vulnerabilities. “Let me be clear: This stuff is overprotected,” writes retired four-star Gen. Michael Hayden, in the new issue of the Air Fo ...
• Man With 4th Amendment Written on Chest Sues O ...
  A 21-year-old Virginia man who wrote an abbreviated version of the Fourth Amendment on his body and stripped to his shorts at an airport security screening area is demanding $250,000 in damages for being detained on a disorderly conduct charge. Aaron Tobey claims in a civil rights lawsuit (.pdf) ...
• It’s Sunshine Week, But Obama’s Transparency R ...
  The federal bureaucracy is failing to abide by President Barack Obama’s inaugural decree that agencies “usher in a new era of open government,” according to a Monday survey by the National Security Archive. Honoring the kickoff of Sunshine Week, the private archive located at George Washington ...
• Judge Denies Request to Throw Out Order Seekin ...
  A judge presiding over the U.S. government’s request for Twitter records relating to associates of Wikileaks has denied a motion to throw out the request, ruling that the associates don’t have standing to challenge it. The judge also denied a request to unseal the government’s application for th ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

• Analysis: Japan accident shows dilemma over at ...
  OSLO (Reuters) - Japan's nuclear accident exposes the dilemma of whether to build power plants on tsunami-prone coasts or inland sites where water supplies are unreliable, a problem likely to be aggravated by climate change, experts say.
• Workers briefly abandon Japan nuclear plant as ...
  TOKYO (Reuters) - Workers were ordered to withdraw briefly from a stricken Japanese nuclear power plant on Wednesday after radiation levels surged, Kyodo news reported, a development that suggested the crisis was spiraling out of control.
• Angry voters oust Miami-Dade mayor in special vote
  MIAMI (Reuters) - Voters in Miami-Dade, one of the most populous U.S. counties, removed Mayor Carlos Alvarez from office in a special vote on Tuesday triggered by popular anger over a hike in property taxes.
• Strong quake hits eastern Japan, Tokyo buildin ...
  TOKYO (Reuters) - A 6.0 magnitude quake hit eastern Japan on Wednesday, NHK said, and buildings shook in the capital, Tokyo.
• Timeline: Japan's unfolding nuclear crisis
  (Reuters)- Japan is under global scrutiny over the handling of its nuclear crisis after a huge earthquake crippled several reactors at a nuclear power complex, raising fears of an uncontrolled radiation leak.

IntelNews

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  Ex-CIA chief criticizes 'too much cybersecurity secrecy'. Renault arrests security chief over spy hoax. Analysis: Gadhafi's spies keep watch in Libyan rebel capital. Continue reading →
• UN official confirms Israel abducted Palestini ...
  A UN official has confirmed that a Palestinian engineer, who disappeared under mysterious circumstances in Ukraine on February 19, is currently in Israeli custody. Continue reading →
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  Kissinger wants US spy for Israel freed. MI5 short of surveillance officers says minister. US spy agencies lack fluent bilingual speakers. Continue reading →
• Russia may swap convicted spy for ‘merchant of ...
  Moscow and Washington may swap a Russian former defense official, convicted for spying for the United States, with notorious Russian weapons dealer Viktor Bout, who is being held in a US prison. Continue reading →
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  Who brought down the CIA website last Thursday? Israeli cabinet minister to visit jailed spy in US. Egypt's spies dragged from shadows. Continue reading →

War is a Crime.org

• Red Alert in Japan: An Unfolding Nuclear Catas ...
  Red Alert in Japan: An Unfolding Nuclear Catastrophe - 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, Reuter ...
• Listening to the Victims of US Wars
  by Debra Sweet, National Director of World Can't Wait I find a number of perplexing contrasts between the US war from 1961 to 1975 (to the Vietnamese people it was the “American” war, and to us the “Vietnam war”) and the wars the U.S. is fighting now in the Middle East. One is the quality of new ...
• Are Non-Americans Human?
  From a statement by Congressman Bruce Braley: "The bipartisan True Cost of War Act, co-sponsored by Republican Congressman Walter Jones (NC-03), requires the President to work with the Secretaries of Defense, State and Veterans Affairs to submit a written report to Congress on the long-term huma ...
• Pull the Plug on HBGary Robo-Trolls: Subpoena ...
  You've got to wonder who they are. �Even my friends on the right wing of the spectrum, in discussing Bradley Manning, grudgingly admit that he has yet to be convicted of anything and cannot be punished before he is tried. �"So try him then put him away, but yea, you are still innocent before fo ...
• Bill Hughes’ Slideshow of 22 photos from the C ...
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Grist - News

• What exactly is happening with the Japanese nu ...
  by Jess Zimmerman. The Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan, currently has three boiling water reactors in danger of “meltdown.” Here are the basics on what’s happening and what that means. How does a boiling water reactor work? The nuclear core transfers energy to water by ...
• Fish consumption at all time high, says U.N. a ...
  by Agence France-Presse. ROME -- Fish consumption reached record levels in 2010 and world stocks need to be urgently rebuilt, experts at the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said in a report Monday. "The contribution of fish to global diets has reached a record of almost 17 kil ...
• Bordeaux vineyards go organic, slowly but surely
  by Agence France-Presse. BORDEAUX, France -- Two historical Bordeaux wine estates have gone green, breaking a long resistance to organic viticulture amongst the region's elite producers. "Still in 2011, there are people who do not trust in the fact that it is possible to grow organic in Bor ...
• U.N. Chief Ban Ki-moon shifts focus from clima ...
  by Agence France-Presse. LONDON -- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is shifting his focus away from involvement in international climate change talks and toward new areas in the fight against global warming. Ban is to redirect his efforts from trying to push forward the international clim ...
• New Senate bill aims to avoid next oil spill
  by Agence France-Presse. WASHINGTON -- Senators plan to introduce in the coming weeks new legislation aiming to prevent another disastrous oil spill like last year's massive gusher in the Gulf of Mexico, Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) said Wednesday. A similar bill that would revise offshore ...

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Technorati - What's Hot in Blogs

• Too Few Women Could Lead to Big Trouble in China
  Sex-selective abortions causing gender imbalance in Asian countries.
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  The last fifty workers leave the power plant.
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  To focus within, is to develop the true ability to do yoga--to become yoked with body and mind.
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Time - Top Stories

• Bahrain: Why a Saudi Intervention Won't End Pr ...
  The momentum of the movements sweeping the Middle East caught the imagination of young Bahrainis who seized the opportunity to push for their own democratic reforms.
• Zero Tolerance, Zero Sense
  What's the lesson learned when rules don't allow for mistakes?
• Wisconsin: Gov. Walker Wins, but Protest Anger ...
  The anger of the Wisconsin protesters could be channeled into political contributions and recall petitions that may doom many Republicans and stymie the ambitions of Governor Scott Walker
• Fire at Fourth Reactor: Is Worse Yet to Come i ...
  An engineer who helped contain the Chernobyl fallout tells TIME that the nuclear fuel at Japan's stricken plant could cause another explosion.
• Quake Zone: Shadows of Hiroshima
  TIME joins a rescue team from Hiroshima, a city leveled by the atomic bomb, on a mission complicated by radiation from the Fukushima nuclear plant.

Farming Pathogens

• Red River
  It is the height of hubris to think we could [destroy the planet]…God is not capricious. He’s given us a creation that is dynamically stable. We are not going to run out of anything. –Minnesota State Representative Mike Beard (R-Shakopee) Sims Reeves: Plantin’ and readin’, plantin’ and readin’. ...
• Egypt’s Food Pyramids
  A million minds momentarily magnetizing themselves along the same axis can turn a country’s deepest despair into an ecstatic sprint for freedom. What a people find revolting–a dictator decorated in American apologia–can be turned by a people’s revolt ridiculous. No wonder so much effort (and mon ...
• The Scientific American
  Science is the business right now. If the science works, the business works, and vice versa. –Craig Venter Bird flu marinates a chicken in its own juices, a satay best avoided whatever the menu special. In such short an order better for the bistro than the barn, infected birds rapidly bleed from ...
• Fearful Symmetry
  A colleague, genuinely perplexed, even outraged, asked me what the fuck was going on with all those dead birds in Arkansas. And, tongue-in-cheek, what would Mulder and Scully say? Scully: Mulder, it’s me. I got your message. Really, Beebe, Arkansas for a flock of dead birds? Does Skinner approve ...
• The Great Recession Flu
  Swine flu is so 2009. Like La Roux and v-neck t-shirts. And yet the United Kingdom is presently suffering a swine flu attack worse than anything it faced in 2009. The number of flu patients in intensive care has risen by 60 per cent in the past week to 738, four times greater than at [...]

Suzie-Q

• Rep. Virgil Peck, R-Kansas: Jokes About Contro ...
  Kansas Republican jokes about controlling illegal immigration by using the gunmen who shoot feral pigs from helicopters Crooks & Liars- By John Amato March 15, 2011 10:37 AM Arizona is having an immediate impact on the sanity of local politicians all over the country. The latest loony-bin candid ...
• Unequal Protection: Part I: Corporations Take Over
  Unequal Protection: Part I: Corporations Take Over Truthout Tuesday 15 March 2011 by: Thom Hartmann, Berrett-Kohler Publishers | Serialized Book Chapter 1: The Deciding Moment? The first thing to understand is the difference between the natural person and the fictitious person called a corporati ...
• Banker plows through critical mass bikers
    Suzie-Q’s post about the banksters and A99 led me to   the world of finance and… Freedom On Sale March 15th, 2011 by maxkeiser MK: Suicidal bankers are buying US dollars and shorting paper Silver. We know who they are and weâre coming for them. This is a clip taken from a RT video of an i ...
• Rush Limbaugh: YOU CALL ME A NAZI! (VIDEO)
  A caller who claims to be a Republican calls Rush a Nazi!!!!
• Fukushima: Doomsday Scenario
  Doomsday Scenario at Fukushima Marvin Resnikoff- HuffPost Senior Associate, Radioactive Waste Management Associates Posted: March 15, 2011 11:03 AM The slow motion events occurring at Japan’s (or GE’s) Fukushima reactor cannot be sugar-coated. It is a doomsday scenario unfolding. Nuclear reactor ...

Solari

• Toyota Production Loss May Top 40,000 Vehicles ...
  [click on the image for a larger version] By Terje Langeland Toyota Motor Corp. (7203), the world’s largest carmaker, may lose output of at least 40,000 vehicles after Japan’s strongest earthquake damaged factories and crippled nuclear power plants, causing electricity shortages. Toyota closed ...
• Rush to Fix Quake-Damaged Undersea Cables
  By Owen Fletcher and Juro Osawa BeijingâAsia’s major telecom operators scrambled Monday to eliminate the impact on their operations from damage to several submarine cables following the massive earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Many operators were reporting some disruptions in Internet access, t ...
• Tokyo Electric to Build US Nuclear Plants: The ...
  By: Greg Palast 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 Electric Power Co (TEPCO) can plead insanity to the ho ...
• Fukushima Nuclear Accident – A Simple And Accu ...
  By Barry Brook Along with reliable sources such as the IAEA and WNN updates, there is an incredible amount of misinformation and hyperbole flying around the internet and media right now about the Fukushima nuclear reactor situation. In the BNC post Discussion Thread – Japanese nuclear reactors ...
• Dr. Laura Thompson: Mitigating Against Radiati ...
  Following this week’s Solari Report, we are adding a special report in response to recent events in Japan. Dr. Laura Thompson of the Southern California Institute of Nutrition joins us to talk about steps you can take to mitigate the impact of radiation poisoning as well as build your immune sys ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

• Arizona Immigration Bills Spark High-School Pr ...
  Two pieces of legislation recently introduced in the Legislature could keep students from enrolling in kindergarten through 12th grade and ban their access to higher education.
• Activists Stand Up for Bradley Manning -- and ...
  How outrageous that PJ Crowley was punished for simply telling the truth about Bradley Manning's imprisonment while the war criminals go free.
• Naomi Klein: "Shock Doctrine" Unleas ...
  For decades right-wing ideologues have exploited crises to push through an agenda that has nothing to do with resolving those crises. Wisconsin is no different.
• Immigration: States Moving Away from Futility ...
  While some state legislatures keep pushing 'get-tough' policies, others are approaching the issue in more comprehensive ways.
• The Shocking Way US Cops Are Trained to Hate M ...
  Increasingly, American beat cops are exposed to virulently anti-Muslim teachings, by self-styled "terrorism experts" with no experience in national security.

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

• To understand piracy consult a chapter from Am ...
  Summary:  The Americans that fought WWI and WWII dreamt of a better world, run by laws and not greed backed by force.  After WWII the foundations were laid for global institutions to make this a reality, beginning a project taking generations to accomplish.  The Boomers have abandoned it, each y ...
• About the atomic crisis in Japan – backg ...
  Summary:  We might be reading much about radiation during the next few days.  Most of these articles will provide little context.  Here’s some useful background.  A follow-up to News about the earthquake in northeastern Japan. Contents About radiation:  units and definitions Effects of rad ...
• The long-term consequences of torturing Bradle ...
  Summary:  What do our government officials hope to gain by torturing Bradley Manning?  There’s a reason, it’s insignificant compared to the long-term consequences — which remain unexamined by both sides. First, we have the ritual lies by Obama (never believe anything about the government unt ...
• Our geopolitical experts see the world with th ...
  Summary:  A child-like simplicity and innocence is the common element of the articles by our geopolitical experts advocating US military intervention in Libya.  Here we examine them, and contrast them with detailed reports from Libya.  This is the fourth in the series about Libya; links to previ ...
• News about the earthquake in northeastern Japan
  Summary:  Here is information on some aspects of  the world’s latest natural disaster.  Was the 20th century usually calm, geologically?  Links to other posts about earthquakes and volcanoes appear at the end.  Updates will be posted below. Contents Watch this story:  “Japanese Governme ...

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 “Completely Out Of C ...
  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 – ...

The Progressive Realist

• “What Is America Waiting For?” in Libya
  The question cited in the title is a quote from Sunday's Washington Post attributed to a civilian in one of the Libyan cities now anticipating an attack by the forces of Colonel Gaddafi. It is a plaintive plea for help in a situation that may be starting to unravel, as forces loyal to (or bought ...
• The "Vindication" of Iraq
  Marc Lynch says folks outside the U.S. haven't gotten the memo yet: The deep concern for Libya is real, intense, and passionate. Arab activists and opinion leaders repeatedly warned that if Qaddafi survives it could mean the death of the Arab revolutionary moment. This is part of the wider ident ...
• USA’s Bahrain Blunder
  As expected, the foreign intervention in Bahrain has turned deadly. Apparently, two protesters have already been killed since Bahrain’s monarch invited a Saudi-led multi-national force into its country to suppress a popular rebellion. It is worth noting here just how bad the United States must l ...
• Are Reforms in Egypt Moving Too Fast?
  The swiftness with which the global media spotlight withdrew from Egypt's Tahrir Square has been rivaled by the break-neck pace at which Egypt is implementing reforms.�In what today's Washington Post called a "crash course in constitutional confusion," 40 million Egyptians are expected to vote S ...
• Libyan Navy Attacked by Fighter Jets
  The Libyan opposition website Libya al-Youm is reporting fighter jets from what is being called the "Free Libyan Air Force" (never heard of it before today) has attacked the Libyan Navy off Ajdabiya, and 2 Libyan warships are on fire - sinking, while a third warship is said to have been damaged. ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

• Decreasing Support for Temporary Fixes
  Andrew Stiles at The Corner notes that the newly passed continuing resolution -- which will fund the federal government through April -- passed by a slimmer margin than previous short-term spending measures. It cuts $6 billion from the budget. Of course, Republicans see these cuts as savings, an ...
• Beck -- Oddly Reputable, for the Moment?
  If Glenn Beck had only sprung into action a little sooner, perhaps he could have saved the day for NPR. It seems a strange thing to say, but it’s only the latest surprise out of perhaps the most unpredictable of cable news channel hosts. The man who, until recently, has routinely insisted he’s ...
• Sustaining a Labor Revival
  Here at the Prospect, we've been wondering whether the surge organized labor saw in Wisconsin could be sustained and even spread across the country. Now, Chris Good at The Atlantic says unions are trying to organize rallies on the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination in Memp ...
• Sustaining a Labor Revival
  Here at The Prospect, we've been wondering whether the surge organized labor saw in Wisconsin could be sustained and even spread across the country. Now, Chris Good at The Atlantic says unions are trying to organize rallies on the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination in Memp ...
• Where the Cash At
  The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has a nifty chart showing the huge impact of tax expenditures -- credits, loop holes, write-offs, etc. -- on the federal budget. Short story: In terms of overall spending, tax expenditures dwarf virtually everything else, including major entitlement pro ...

Buzzflash

• Madness in Madtown
  WILL DURST FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Best be vigilant for an inadvertent head butt as the eyes of the world recoil from that crazed leader, besieged in his own Capital, defying reality while obstinately holding onto a tenuous power and attacking his citizenry through a conflicted security force. ...
• The Dream Team in Madison: Unions, Progressive ...
  DAN DIMAGGIO FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT I headed to Madison from Minneapolis with a couple of friends for Saturday's massive rally against Scott Walker and the Republican legislature's move to do away with collective bargaining for public sector workers. When we arrived at 11am, there were alrea ...
• Scott Walker Will "Open the State up to a Corp ...
  MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT "Scott Walker's real agenda in Wisconsin: The Republican governor's budget plan would open the state up to a corporate asset-grab not seen since robber baron capitalism." That headline is not from BuzzFlash at Truthout; it's from The Guardian UK, a ...
• Wisconsin Defeat Galvanizes Workers Across The ...
  TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT The big problem with the union-busting plan That Governor Walker's been promoting Is he can stop his state's collective bargaining But can't stop union members from voting.   Whether in a recall or a general election Walker won't have many supporting This s ...
• Are Right-Wingers Simply Stuck in Adolescence?
  PETER MICHAELSON FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Not every modern conservative had a grandpa who made moonshine whiskey. With no family history of being pursued by federal revenuers, where does their extreme dislike of government come from? The mentality is expressed succinctly in a reader's comment a ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

• The clarifying Manning/Crowley controversy
  Denunciations from the president's supporters are particularly harsh in the wake of this growing scandal
• WH forces P.J. Crowley to resign for condemnin ...
  P.J. Crowley out after denouncing treatment of Bradley Manning as "counter-productive and stupid"
• Amnesty calls for protests over Bradley Mannin ...
  The international human rights group denounces the Obama administration for its "inhumane treatment"
• The "Bush-tortured" excuse for indefinite dete ...
  There are profound moral and empirical flaws in justifying Obama's new policy by blaming Bush's torture regime
• NYT and "torture": Searching for a justification
  The paper of record refuses to call waterboarding "torture" -- unless it's done by others

The BiPartisan Report

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

Sciencebase

• Six science selections
  How Radiation Threatens Health – Why and how does exposure to radiation make you ill? What levels of exposure are dangerous and what levels are lethal? Fukushima is a triumph for nuke power – Quake + tsunami = 1 minor radiation dose so far, says El Reg. Tragic as recent events in Japan have been ...
• Six science selections
  My bloody camouflage – Coating blood cells with an immunological camouflage could one day lead to a new type of blood product that avoids the problem of A,B,O,± blood typing currently required for transfusion patients. NMR spectroscopy underpins the analytical work. Beware the fear of nuclear….F ...
• Nuclear reactor explosion, not nuclear explosion
  It is not skilful engineering or clever reactor design that precludes a nuclear explosion at a nuclear power plant, it is the laws of physics. The materials in a nuclear reactor core and the uranium enrichment level make impossible a nuclear explosion of the type for which nuclear weapons are de ...
• A periodic table of periodic table songs
  I’ve created an unusual Periodic Table. In this rendering of the classic PT, each element represents, not a chemical element, but a version of the classic Tom Lehrer song, The Elements; it’s every chemist’s favourite song, so why not? There are also a few ringers, see if you can spot them. But, ...
• Six science selections
  Astrologer Richard Nolle says the March 19 Supermoon will cause major earthquakes or other disasters. Scientists are not expecting any major disasters from the supermoon. | Space.com – On March 19, the moon will swing around Earth more closely than it has in the past 18 years, lighting up the ni ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

• Violent Crackdown in Bahrain Condemned
  Amnesty International has called on the governments of Bahrain and Saudi Arabia to immediately restrain their security forces after an anti-government protester was shot dead in Bahrain today and many others sustained gunshot injuries. Eye-witnesses told Amnesty International that Bahraini riot ...
• Commerce Group CAFTA Ruling Highlights Threat ...
  That El Salvador must pay more than $800,000 in legal fees to defend itself against a frivolous corporate challenge of its environmental laws under the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) provides a glaring example of why having the same provisions in the Korea trade pact now before Con ...
• Reform Groups Call on President Obama to Move ...
  In a letter sent to President Barack Obama today, eight reform organizations expressed "our grave concern about the dysfunctional Federal Election Commission which is spectacularly failing to meet its statutory responsibilities to administer and enforce the nation's campaign finance laws." The r ...
• The US. and Egyptian Army Are One?
  Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is in Cairo. RASHA AZAB Azab is spokesperson for the Liberties Committee at the Press Syndicate in Cairo, which is holding a news conference tomorrow on the “hundreds of Egyptians protesting in Tahrir Square who have been subject to detention and torture by me ...
• Wednesday Vigils Planned at Congressional Offi ...
  Progressive Democrats of America and allies have planned vigils at congress members' offices in districts all over the United States for midday Wednesday. They will be demanding an end to the war in Afghanistan the same day General David Petraeus is questioned by the House Armed Services Committ ...

Common Dreams-Views

• Washington Smackdown: Petraeus vs. "Substantia ...
  Robert Naiman Gen. David Petraeus spoke today before the Senate Armed Services Committee, and is speaking tomorrow before the House Armed Services Committee, selling Congress a "progress" story about the war in Afghanistan that isn't belie ...
• Fukushima's Spent Fuel Rods Pose Grave Danger
  Christian Parenti Four atomic reactors in Fukushima, Japan, seem to be in partial meltdown. One of them, reactor No. 2, seems to have ruptured. The situation is spinning out of control as radiation levels spike.read more
• Bahrain's Regime Talks Softly While Bringing t ...
  The international community is taking weeks to decide whether to impose a no-fly zone over Libya.read more
• The Arab Lobby: How the Tiny Kingdom of Bahrai ...
  Nick Turse 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 ...
• French Government Advises its Citizens to Stay ...
  Daphne Wysham In the aftermath of the 9.0 earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan on March 11, and in light of the possible radioactive fallout from the nuclear power plants in partial meltdown in Fukushima, Japan, on March 13 the French ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

• Petraeus, McCain Continue Afghanistan War Spin ...
  By Derrick Crowe General David Petraeus is set to testify before Congress today, and he's expected to again try to put a positive spin on a war effort that's utterly failing to meet the goals set by its backers. While intelligence assessments show that tactical moves on the ground in Afghanistan ...
• Karzai Asks NATO To Stop Operations
  By Steve Hynd Is Afghanistan a sovereign nation or not? I guess we'll find out. During a meeting in Kunar to discuss recent civilian deaths including those of children, President Karzai said: "On behalf of you and the Afghan people, today I would like to respectfully, and not arrogantly, ask Nat ...
• Afghanistan's COIN and Coin Disconnect
  By Steve Hynd As Derrick Crowe reminded us yesterday, the U.S. military's own COIN manual says: "I-113. The primary objective of any COIN operation is to foster development of effective governance by a legitimate government." But today, Colin Cookman reports that the Afghan government is about t ...
• Pentagon Assertions of “Progress” In Afghanist ...
  By Derrick Crowe The Pentagon wants you to ignore some inconvenient facts about the failure of the escalation strategy in Afghanistan. The latest Petraeus/Gates media tour is under way in preparation for the general's testimony to Congress next week, and they're trotting out the same, tired spin ...
• An Iraq Lesson Learned!
  By Steve Hynd This from the AP: The United States is beginning to decide what its responsibilities will be in Afghanistan after U.S. combat troops leave, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Monday, but he ruled out permanent military bases in the strategically important country. ...Gates said th ...
  
  
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   This tune was played in Iraq. Analysis of that 'decommissioning' was as spotty as reporting on the bases themselves. Targeting concerns were cited as reasons for secrecy.. Presumably that means Iraqis didn't know where they were.

  The 521st inactivates, Iraqi air force squadron achieves autonomy

  13 Jan 2010 ... KIRKUK REGIONAL AIR BASE, Iraq – The 521st Air Expeditionary Advisory Squadron holds a decommissioning ceremony as they hand the reigns over ...
  www.kirkuk.afcent.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123185271

  Iraq Banks on Peer Review to Rebuild Its Research Base | Science/AAAS

  by Y Bhattacharjee - 2010
  22 Oct 2010 ... Iraq Banks on Peer Review to Rebuild Its Research Base ... We have started decommissioning of nuclear facilities, and we are leading an ...
  www.sciencemag.org/content/330/6003/438.full
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  ICEM07-7280

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  International abandonment and decommissioning leader consolidates ...

  19 Jan 2009 ... International abandonment and decommissioning leader consolidates its global base in UK. Proserv Abandonment and Decommissioning, ...
  www.prlog.org/10169491-international-abandonment-and-decommissioning-leader-consolidates-its-global-base-in-uk.html
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  DECOMMISSIONING CHALLENGES: AN INDUSTRIAL REALITY? DECOMMISSIONING ...

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  Media Spin on Iraq

  
  

  26 Jul 2007 ... Further, the bill says nothing about the need to decommission the existing U.S. bases already built in Iraq; it only prohibits ...
  www.fair.org/index.php?page=3145&printer_friendly=1

  Air Force Times Letters - Air Force Community - Air Force Times

  
  

  26 posts - Last post: 12 Feb 2007

  Or should the United Nations decommission Iraq as a nation and parcel its ... Iraq should be required to relinquish its statehood, submitting to the ... Most bases are lucky to have at least 30 members to perform honors. ...
  www.airforcetimes.com/.../airforce_opinion_letters070212/

  Decommissioning cluster bombs is barking mad | LabourList.org 2.0 ...

  
  

  2 Jul 2009 ... Decommissioning cluster bombs is barking mad. Cluster ... knew we did that they would keep further away from our bases. .... We have destroyed Iraq and are now bogged down in Afghanistan like the Russians were for years. ...
  www.labourlist.org/decommissioning-cluster-bombs-is-barking-mad,2009-07-02 - United Kingdom

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  Safety of Decommissioning: International Cooperation under the ...

  
  

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  Evaluation and Decommissioning of Former Facilities that Used. Radioactive Material in Iraq. • Co-ordinated Research Project on Innovative and Adaptive ...
  www.wmsym.org/archives/2009/panels/68A-4.pdf

  Decommissioning The IMF, World Bank and WTO - STWR - Share The ...

  
  

  Unsurprisingly then, corporate interests form the basis of WTO agreements. ... Since the occupation began, Iraq's entire economy has been fashioned by the ...
  www.stwr.org/.../decommissioning-the-imf-world-bank-and-wto.html

  permanent iraq bases

  
  

  3 Aug 2008 ... War in Iraq permanent iraq bases; Originally Posted by Gladiator .... the Air Conditioners and the Generators from the decommissioned bases. ...
  www.debatepolitics.com/...iraq/32490-permanent-iraq-bases-10.html

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  A Map of International Activities on Decommissioning and ...

  
  

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  The objective of the project is to assist the Government of Iraq with the evaluation and decommissioning of the existing facilities that have used ...
  www.oecd-nea.org/rwm/docs/2009/rwm-wpdd2009-9.pdf

  Iraq littered with high levels of nuclear and dioxin contamination ...

  
  

  More than 40 sites across Iraq are contaminated with high levels or radiation and ... away ever since fierce fighting between militants and US forces in 2004. ... The head of the decommissioning body, Adnan Jarjies, said that when ...
  www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/environment/.../news.php?q...

  ZCommunications | 737 U.S. Military Bases = Global Empire by ...

  
  

  22 Feb 2007 ... The report similarly omits bases in Afghanistan, Iraq (106 ... In 1991, the first Bush administration should have begun decommissioning or ...
  www.zcommunications.org/737-u-s-military-bases-global-empire-by-chalmers-johnson - 

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  Status of the Decommissioning Program

  
  

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  information needs and clarifications, including the bases for the ...... Hosting two staff from Iraq for training on decommissioning, decontamination, and ...
  www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/commission/.../enclosure.pdf

  Commentary: Decommission Recommendations on Iran | The National ...

  
  

  7 Dec 2006 ... If Iraq and Afghanistan fall apart, America may be forced to depart from the entire region, leaving it with no bases in the Persian Gulf. ...
  nationalinterest.org/.../decommission-recommendations-on-iran-1325 -

  National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011 - News ...

  
  

  27 May 2010 ... Decommissioning of Naval Vessels: The Administration strongly ... the Government of Iraq and is working to ensure Iraq's overall cost share requirement. ... (both on base and off) to allow for the realignment of Marines ...
  www.militaryspot.com/.../national_defense_authorization_act_for_fiscal_year_2011/

  Nuclear Decommissioning Authority describes background emergence ...

  
  

   Review by Angelo Hayden - 22 Nov, 2008

  22 Nov 2008 ... This was - Nuclear Decommissioning Authority describes the background to the ... possible for each site to have a base line and to function ...
  www.mightystudents.com/.../Nuclear.Decommissioning.Authority.77863?... - United States - 

  Guardian says Blair faces questions over new evidence » Iraq ...

  
  

  8 Dec 2010 ... And agreed Decommissioning terms for only TWO of the FIVE ... from the activity of Deal Barracks based civilian James SHORTT at a USAF base. ...
  www.iraqinquirydigest.org/?p=10283

  Serco, the detention centre operator in focus

  
  

  25 Sep 2010 ... Serco people were building military hospitals in Germany and helping to decommission US military bases in Iraq. ...
  www.smh.com.au/.../firm-that-does-the-dirty-work-for-government-on-the-cheap-20100924-15ql1.html

  Secret Bases Part 3 • WWW.SECRET-BASES.CO.UK © 2011

  
  

  12 Jan 2011 ... SECRET-BASES.CO.UK Part 3 - UK Government's MoD facilities and ... in decommissioning and converting old MoD related sites, ...... It was constructed as part of a rather shady UK-Iraq defence contract back in 1985. ...
  www.secret-bases.co.uk/secret3.htm

  WAR ON TERROR: BASES DISMANTLED: ERA ENDS BIT BY BIT; Troops start ...

  
  

  Free Online Library: WAR ON TERROR: BASES DISMANTLED: ERA ENDS BIT BY BIT; ... IRA. decommissioning Decommissioning is a general term for a formal process ...
  www.thefreelibrary.com/WAR+ON+TERROR%3A+BASES+DISMANTLED%3A+ERA+ENDS+BIT+BY+BIT%3B+Troops+start..

  wagr decommissioning project: Topics by WorldWideScience.org

  
  

  Appendix A contains the actual data base developed during the project. Science.gov (United States) .... Decommissioning of the Iraq former nuclear complex ...
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  tehran times : Legacy of War: Iraq littered with high levels of ...

  
  

  25 Jan 2010 ... Areas in and near Iraq's largest towns and cities, including Najaf, ... kept scientists away ever since fierce fighting between militants and U.S. forces in 2004. ... The head of the decommissioning body, Adnan Jarjies, ...
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  Legacy of  War

  Areas in and near Iraq's largest towns and cities, including Najaf, Basra and ­Falluja, account for around 25% of the contaminated sites, which appear to coincide with communities that have seen increased rates of cancer and birth defects over the past five years. The joint study by the environment, health and science ministries found that scrap metal yards in and around Baghdad and Basra contain high levels of ionizing radiation, which is thought to be a legacy of depleted uranium used in munitions during the first Persian Gulf war and since the 2003 invasion.
  
  The environment minister, Narmin Othman, said high levels of dioxins on agricultural lands in southern Iraq, in particular, were increasingly thought to be a key factor in a general decline in the health of people living in the poorest parts of the country. 
  

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