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Thomas Paine

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Wednesday, March 16, 2011

16 March - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

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Water Wars

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

Afghanistan Sun

Futurismic

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

geopolitics | geoeconomics

on Government Oversight

  • Morning Smoke: Interactive Graphic Details Pro ...
    Where there's smoke, there's fire. POGO's Morning Smoke is a collection of the previous day's investigations, scoops, and opinions related to the world of government oversight. Have a story you'd like to see included? Contact POGO's blog editor. Lockheed's plan...
  • As Sunshine Week Begins, House Subcommittee Lo ...
    By Rhya Ghose Sunshine Week got an early start on Friday as a House Subcommittee held a hearing to evaluate the Obama Administration's open government initiatives. We were pleased to see that accountability and transparency issues featured prominently at the...
  • Can You Compare Federal Government vs. Private ...
    By Paul Chassy, Ph.D., J.D. The House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, U.S. Postal Service, and Labor Policy conducted a hearing on March 9 addressing whether federal workers are underpaid. Does Comparability Exist? John Berry, the Director...
  • The Big Uneasy: Natural Disaster? You Don't Kn ...
    We all know what happened in New Orleans on Aug. 29, 2005, right? Humorist and New Orleans resident Harry Shearer's documentary The Big Uneasy gets the inside story from the people who were there and what he finds might make...
  • Morning Smoke: Sunshine Week Kicks Off with Ne ...
    Where there's smoke, there's fire. POGO's Morning Smoke is a collection of the previous day's investigations, scoops, and opinions related to the world of government oversight. Have a story you'd like to see included? Contact POGO's blog editor. Barely half...

Digital Journal

  • Millions of documents released to help Irish t ...
    Some 2 million documents are being released on the internet, showing records of Irish people from the 19th century. There will also be 20,000 photographs available, assisting those of Irish descent to trace their ancestry.
  • Live: British Columbia swears in new Premier
    The new BC premier, Christy Clark, is being sworn in Victoria, capital of British Columbia. DJ readers can watch the whole ceremony live at: www.gov.bc.ca
  • Hundreds march on Toronto streets for Internat ...
    "Our City, Our Services, Our Future" was the primary focus Saturday during the annual International Women's Day march and rally in downtown Toronto. The demonstration demanded the end of cuts to city services and an end to women's violence.
  • Israel plans more West Bank construction in re ...
    After the particularly vicious murder of a Jewish settler family in the West Bank, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to expand Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank territory.
  • Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath at Somali co ...
    According to Somali-Canadian demographers, Ontario is home to over 100,000 Somalis with the Greater Toronto Area alone accounting for 70,000 Somali-Canadian residents.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Canadian-made armoured vehicles enter Bahrain
    Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates sent troops into neighbouring Bahrain on Monday in an effort to shore up the Bahraini government, which has been facing escalating demands for democratic reform. An estimated 1200 soldiers from the Saudi National Guard and 800 from the UAE entered the co ...
  • Ottawa event: Facing off for social justice in ...
    Radiation and health, physicians in conflict zones, the social determinants of health, and many other topics will be discussed at this conference in Ottawa on March 25th and 26th. Speakers will include President of the Canadian Medical Association Dr. Jeff Turnbull; Dr. Helen Caldicott; and reno ...
  • Parliamentary Budget Office reports F-35 to co ...
    Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page has reported that the price tag for the F-35 stealth fighters that the Harper government wants to buy is likely to end up much higher than the government has been suggesting. Page’s report, which echoes concerns voiced by F-35 critics, warns that the real ...
  • CCPA report: Canadian military spending highes ...
    The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has published a new report on Canada’s military spending. Canadian Military Spending 2010-11, written by Ceasefire.ca editor Bill Robinson, shows that Canadian military spending is higher now than it has been at any other time since the end of the Seco ...
  • “Regional” nuclear war would have global effects
    New research indicates that a “regional”, limited nuclear war would have even more devastating global consequences than previously expected. In addition to creating a global “nuclear haze” effect that would lead to global famine, a nuclear war involving as few as 100 Hiroshima-size nuclear bombs ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 3-15-11
    Today, Kevin explains how everything in your life, no matter how terrible at first, is always a blessing in disguise. Plus, find out how apple cider vinegar and kelp seaweed could help you from radiation exposure! Self Help: Private Dinner With KT Viral Detox Kill The Candida Get Rid Of Toxins P ...
  • HHS Warns That All Infant Formulas Are Contami ...
    March 15th, 2011 Natural News By: Jonathan Benson Piggybacking on the recent government announcement concerning overexposure to fluoride, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has now announced that all infant formulas are contaminated with fluoride, and that when mixed with the f ...
  • Eggs Have Less Cholesterol
    March 15th, 2011 OregonLive.com By: Katherine Miller If you’re an egg lover who needs that boost of protein in the morning but are worried about cholesterol, you can feel better now that a new report says eggs have less cholesterol — and more vitamin D — than they used to. We’ve also got a list ...
  • Bank Of America Anonymous Leak Alleges ‘ ...
    March 15th, 2011 Huffington Post By: Ryan McCarthy The WikiLeaks-allied hacker group Anonymous has posted a series of emails purported to be from a former Bank of America employee, which the organization says prove “corruption and fraud” at the nation’s largest bank. In a release announced with ...
  • Japan Braces For Potential Radiation Catastrophe
    March 15th, 2011 Raw Story By: Reuters Japan faced a potential catastrophe on Tuesday after a quake-crippled nuclear power plant exploded and sent low levels of radiation floating toward Tokyo, prompting some people to flee the capital and others to stock up on essential supplies. Prime Minister ...

Pambazuka News

  • Africa: Angola hosts 3rd African meeting on Cu ...
    The third African meeting on Solidarity with Cuba was held in Luanda, Angola, 11-12 September, to consolidate the friendship between the African and Cuban people and contribute to strengthening African solidarity towards the Caribbean island nation. ...
  • Global: Afro-Colombian women fight prejudice b ...
    On an improvised stage “Bombón de chocolate” (Chocolate Candy) is being performed. The play, which narrates the story of an African-Colombian girl who feels rejected because of the colour of her skin, is one of the events at a special day on drug add...
  • Global: May for the Cuban 5
    The month of May started with a great number of activities in support of the Cuban 5. On May 1st hundreds of thousands of Cubans marched on International Workers Day in Havana and other cities. They were joined by hundreds of internationalists in de...
  • Haiti: Women demand role in reconstruction
    Women's civil society groups were noticeable by their absence from the landmark Haiti donor conference on 31 March, which secured pledges of US$5.3 billion over the next two years to support the country’s post-quake recovery. Their lack of a presenc...
  • African diplomats reject anti-Cuba resolution ...
    The ambassador of the Republic of Congo to Cuba, Pascal Onguemby, rejected the lies included in an anti-Cuba resolution recently approved by the European Parliament. Addressing participants in the inauguration of the Eleventh International Conference...

War in Context

  • Libyan uprising close to collapse as Gaddafi’s ...
    The Guardian reports: Muammar Gaddafi’s effort to defeat the rebels before international support can come seems to be paying off, with the uprising close to collapse as the US ended weeks of stalling to join Britain and France in supporting a United Nations resolution to impose a no-fly zone ov ...
  • Smile sweetly and say peace for the cameras — ...
    Tahiyya Lulu writes: The international community is taking weeks to decide whether to impose a no-fly zone over Libya. Meanwhile, in the eerie quiet of a Bahraini afternoon a deployment of 1,000 soldiers from the Saudi Arabia who are part of the Pensinsula Shield Force entered the country. Bah ...
  • Nick Turse: the Pentagon and murder in Bahrain
    Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has been one busy official of late.� Last week, on a surprise visit to Afghanistan, he managed to apologize for U.S. helicopters killing nine boys collecting wood on a hillside in Kunar Province, even as he announce ...
  • The fight for Libya
    The Guardian reports: Libya’s revolutionary leadership is pressing western powers to assassinate Muammar Gaddafi and launch military strikes against his forces to protect rebel-held cities from the threat of bloody assault. Mustafa Gheriani, spokesman for the revolutionary national council in ...
  • The Arab spring is brighter than ever
    Brian Whitaker writes: “The Arab world’s much-heralded collective push toward democracy is now in jeopardy,” an article for McClatchy newspapers in the US informed its readers at the weekend. The fact that autocratic regimes in Libya, Bahrain and Yemen are fighting back with lethal force shoul ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Really? You had to ask this question?
    Click image for the story. h/t to WUWT reader “Eric”. I’m always amazed at the lack of historical perspective some people have related to natural disasters. It’s doubly amazing when reporters who work in newspapers, who have huge archive resources … Continue reading →
  • Newsbytes: Gas Burning Bright As Nuclear Renai ...
    From the Global Warming Policy Foundation Throughout the history of Japan, its cities have been destroyed again and again by war, fire and earthquake. After each catastrophe, the Japanese have rebuilt, bigger and better. One hopes and expects that they will … Continue reading →
  • My morning double take: “Arctic on the v ...
    Say what? There isn’t much that surprises me anymore in the rarefied air that is climate science today. This headline made me do a double take, and the sentence that followed, blaming “unusually low temperatures”, even more so. Here’s a … Continue reading →
  • Waxman, Markey, and Inslee’s argument
    Last week the House Energy & Power Subcommittee marked up H.R. 910, the Energy Tax Prevention Act. Today, the full House Energy & Commerce Committee will mark up the bill. Opponents, especially Reps. Waxman, Markey, and Inslee, viciously attacked the … Continue reading →
  • Which Group Is Smarter?
    Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Anthony has discussed a paywalled study in the new reality-based Nature Magazine production, Nature Climate Change magazine. Unlike Anthony, they approved my application for a free subscription … go figure. The study is called “Nonlinear … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • Kucinich Challenges Claims of Progress in Afgh ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich Washington, Mar 15, 2011 Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), author of H. Con. Res. 28, a bipartisan, privileged resolution to direct the President to end the war in Afghanistan by the end of the year, today sent fellow Membe ...
  • TN Protesters Arrested + Matewan (1987; clip) ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ UpTakeVideo on Mar 15, 2011 The fight over workers’ rights escalated in Tennessee this afternoon as protesters jammed a Senate hearing on a bill that would weaken unions. Seven were arrested as the protesters chanted and refused to leave the room. “Tennessee ...
  • Thousands of Saudi troops cross into Bahrain a ...
    by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted from Irish Times March 15, 2011 Manama used with permission photo by Darren Shanahan All rights reserved There was a defiant mood last night among Bahrain’s pro-democracy protesters who said they viewed the unprecedented interventi ...
  • Japan’s Tragedy Provides Us All an Oppor ...
    by Brian McAfee Guest Writer Dandelion Salad March 15, 2011 The severe blow from nature with which the Japanese people were struck with on Friday, March eleventh purportedly took the lives of over ten thousand people while forever altering the lives and emotional well-being of hundreds of thousa ...
  • Harvey Wasserman: Spent Nuclear Fuel – T ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ TheRealNews on Mar 15, 2011 Harvey Wasserman: In Japan and around the world problem of storing spent nuclear fuel still not solved; Could be another Chernobyl [...] WYSHAM: So, Harvey, let’s start with the latest information that we have coming out of Fukush ...

Your New Reality

  • No title
    How To Live To Be 125, Maybe According to a multi-billionaire who is aiming to live to be 125 years old, this is the diet of longevity : ...fruits and vegetables: he crams as many as 20 of them, including pulverized banana peels and the ground-up rinds of oranges, into the smoothies he drinks ...
  • No title
    When Earthquakes Come In Swarms An animation of earthquakes in Japan, primarily off the east coast, between March 9 and 14 follows. One second of animation equals one hour of real time. There is a pause, seven hours or so of seismological silence through the morning of March 11, as though the ...
  • No title
    Two Things You Never Want To See Explode In Mushroom Cloud-Like Blasts Nothing to see here, just a couple of nuclear power plants exploding, throwing wreckage and radiation across the shattered post-tsunami landscape of Northern Japan. Move along, move along. Japanese officials can play do ...
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    Japan : Destruction So Vast, So Comprehensive, Your Brain Can Barely Register What You're Seeing A shocking compilation of tsunami footage from Japan. In seconds, the lives, the dreams, the homes an entire city full of people are destroyed. Somewhere in this apocalyptic mess are thousands of pe ...
  • No title
    Bladerunner is one of the few widely recognised classic films of the 1980s, undoubtably one of the best Hollywood films of all time, and as news report carry word that there may be movie prequels, or sequels, or both, to come in the next few years, my mind was drawn back to the beautiful concept ...

Wired - Science

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

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Chris Hedges: Power concedes nothing without a ...
    "Let me give you a word of the philosophy of reforms," Frederick Douglass said in 1857. "The whole history of the progress of human history shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
  • Julian Schnabel’s Miral (video)
    Julian Schnabel's Miral - Trailer. Stars Freida Pinto, Willam Dafoe, Hiam Abbass and Vanessa Redgrave. To the displeasure of Israeli officials, the full film was shown today at the UN headquarters... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • Lia Tarachansky: Canadian military sales to Is ...
    While portraying the image of the "honest broker" Canada's military and intelligence cooperation and arms trade with Israel paint a different picture. The Real News' Lia Tarachansky interviews Yves... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • Richard Silverstein: The kidnapping of Dirar A ...
    Not for the first time, Seattle, WA-based Richard Silverstein plays a key role in revealing news stories about Israeli government activities -- whether anti-democratic acts or outright crimes, as is... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • Gilbert Achcar: First and above all, it’s a de ...
    The central slogan in the Egyptian movement is "the people want to overthrow the regime"; the equivalent that has been put forward by some forces in Palestine is: "the people want to end the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, no ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

Natural Health News

  • Man Sings Puppies to Sleep
    Sometimes your puppies just need a lullaby.
  • Theo Jansen's Strandbeests
    Take a look at Theo Jansen’s wild, wonderful creature creations.
  • Could the iPad be a Cure for Autism?
    The iPad is a much-loved device, but there may be a new reason to admire it -- an iPad could help reduce the number of violent meltdowns an autistic child experiences each day. Experts say that the iPad actually can reduce the symptoms of the disorder by helping the children deal with life's se ...
  • The Bacteria that Almost Ate the World
    Elaine Ingham has decades of experience in microbiology, botany, plant pathology, and soil and ecology research. When a scientist of her stature warns us about the catastrophic potential genetically modified organisms, it is wise to pay close attention. In a program she ran in the early 199 ...
  • Foods with Scary Surprises
    The FDA has established guidelines for a number of contaminants that it will allow in our food supply.� Mainstreet.com has assembled a list of some of the most common products for which the FDA has set contamination thresholds.� Here�s just a taste of what they found: Potato Chips The ...

Antemedius

  • War Is Illegal - Even in Libya
    It's a simple point, but an important one, and one that gets overlooked. Whether or not you think a particular war is moral and good, the fact remains that war is illegal. Actual defense by a country when attacked is legal, but that only occurs once another country has actually attacked, and it ...
  • This Week In The Dream Antilles
    What a crappy, if prolific week: A (hopefully temporary) set back in Wisconsin. Violence in Libya. An earthquake and tsunami and nuclear emergency in Japan. Bad, winter weather, flooding and power outages, in Eastern New York and New England. Your bloguero is about ready to push back from th ...
  • The Koch Brothers Own Scott Walker
    The Gilded Age of America in the late nineteenth century embodied ownership of politicians. While political bosses like Boss Tweed and Jim Fisk controlled and owned politicians, these representatives knew what their corporate sponsors expected. It was a period when the United States Senate was ...
  • Michigan Fascism Old News in DC
    Michigan governors aren't breaking entirely new ground in the ongoing U.S. collapse into fascism. Sure, they'll be able to overthrow local elected governments and install cronies and corporations to rule over Americans without the pretense of public servants mediating. But the president of the U ...
  • The New McCarthyism Starts Today
    Today we might be seeing the start of the New McCarthyism is the House of Representatives. Homeland Security Committee Chair Peter King will convene the first of what he intends to be series of investigative panels on the supposed radicalization of Muslim Americans. Rep. King, who represent ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • The New Cover
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Here it is: My thanks to all of our readers who provided me feedback on earlier covers.  Note that the dust jacket now provides a short description of Ben Shahn and the painting; particular thanks to readers who suggested the description!  I hope y ...
  • East Coast Travels
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller I don’t get to the East Coast of the U.S. very often these days, so I thought I’d mention that I will be in Boston and DC next week, in case any Opinio Juris readers want to meet up.  I will be giving a lecture on the Karadzic trial (with a [...]
  • Guatemalans Bring Class Action Against United ...
    by Roger Alford by Roger Alford A class action complaint filed this week by Guatemalans has all the ingredients for a blockbuster case not unlike the syphilis experiments of Tuskegee, Alabama. Regardless of the outcome of the case, it is a public relations nightmare for the United States. A ...
  • Does AP I Art. 75 apply to NIAC’s?
    by Michael W. Lewis by Michael W. Lewis There has been a good deal of discussion both here between Kevin Heller and Cully Stimson and over at Lawfare by Jack Goldsmith, Gabor Rona and John Bellinger on the impact of the Administration’s declaration on Additional Protocol I and it’s possible e ...
  • Does AP I Art. 75 apply to NIAC’s?
    by Michael W. Lewis by Michael W. Lewis There has been a good deal of discussion both here between Kevin Heller and Cully Stimson and over at Lawfare by Jack Goldsmith, Gabor Rona and John Bellinger on the impact of the Administration’s declaration on Additional Protocol I and it’s possible e ...

Investigate - Breaking News

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

My Care2 Picks

  • The Shocking Way US Cops Are Trained to Hate M ...
    American beat cops are exposed to virulently anti-Muslim teachings, by self-styled "terrorism experts" with no experience in national security."War on Terra"Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • JOB PARTY: because America needs 15 million jo ...
    15 million unemployed. 12 million underemployed. Unions under attack. - Record corporate profits. Banker crimes unpunished. Tea Party on the march. - It's time for change. It's time to fight back. It's time for the Job Party. JOIN US. Submitted by David Buchan to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note- ...
  • The Protest Movement in Egypt
    The Protest Movement in Egypt: "Dictators" do not Dictate, They Obey OrdersSubmitted by Paul Mcglone to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • 10 Common Misconceptions about PTSD
    Commonly associated with soldiers who�ve experienced unthinkable tragedies while at war, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) can disrupt the lives of various people from various backgrounds. Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Wise County family says drilling forced them t ...
    A Wise County family sued companies involved in natural gas drilling Tuesday, alleging that equipment and operations related to more than 50 wells around their home in recent years poisoned their blood, caused various ailments and forced them to move out.Submitted by Sylvia W. to Business �|� � ...

Angry Indian News

  • APNS - As Japan's Nuclear Crisis Deepens, Ques ...
    APNS - As Japan's Nuclear Crisis Deepens, Questions Surround Reactor Safety - ANG: "(APNS) -- ASIA/JAPAN: Reports of heightened levels of radiation seeping from a damaged nuclear reactor plant has... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Uzbekistan: Government Shuts Down Human Rights ...
    Uzbekistan: Government Shuts Down Human Rights Watch Office | Human Rights Watch: "(London) - The Uzbek government has forced Human Rights Watch to close its Uzbekistan office, Human Rights Watch... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Reggae singer Smiley Culture dies during polic ...
    Reggae singer Smiley Culture dies during police raid in Surrey, England - Wikinews, the free news source: "David Emmanuel, a British reggae singer known as Smiley Culture, has died during a police... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Is FDA Handing Out Gag Orders to Journalists N ...
    Is FDA Handing Out Gag Orders to Journalists Now? | Welcome to the Alliance for Natural Health - USA: "The current FDA administration is blocking reporters from sharing agency pre-publication... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Hamas and Fatah Supporters Overtake Gaza City ...
    APNS - Arab news services and random Twitter posts report that participants of the Palestinian people's pro-unity rally in Gaza City's 'Unknown Soldier' Square are facing aggressive opposition from... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

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

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Military Rescuers Brace for Japan Radiation in ...
    ShareThisMilitary Rescuers Brace for Japan Radiation in U.S. Aid Flights 15 Mar 2011 Low levels of radiation exposure probably will become "a fact of life" for U.S. military forces flying relief and rescue missions to aid victims of Japan’s earthquake as they near areas affected by leaks from a ...
  • Japan's neighbors monitor shipments for radiat ...
    ShareThisJapan's neighbors monitor shipments for radiation as nuclear crisis escalates 16 Mar 2011 Japan's neighbors have ordered strengthened radiation monitoring of shipments from the earthquake-stricken country amid its frantic attempts to cool overheating reactors at a damaged nuclear power ...
  • Bradley Manning's military doctors accused ove ...
    ShareThisBradley Manning's military doctors accused over treatment --WikiLeaks suspect treated cruelly, says rights group, which accuses psychiatrists of 'violating ethical duties' 15 Mar 2011 A leading group of doctors in the US concerned with the ethical treatment of patients has questioned th ...
  • 6 killed, 1,000 injured in Bahrain
    ShareThis6 killed, 1,000 injured in Bahrain 16 Mar 2011 At least six Bahrainis have been killed and more than 1,000 others injured by government security forces and Saudi troops, and thousands of Bahrainis have marched to the Saudi Embassy. At least five villages came under attack by soldiers an ...
  • Israeli planes violate Lebanon airspace
    ShareThisIsraeli planes violate Lebanon airspace 16 Mar 2011 Four Israeli fighter jets have penetrated Lebanon's airspace and flown over parts of the country in violation of a UN Security Council resolution. The Israeli aircraft crossed into Lebanese airspace over the southern border town of Alm ...

Daily Loaf

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

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

The Killing Train

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

treehugger

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

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • UN urges Turkish government to respect freedom ...
    [JURIST] A spokesperson for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) [official website] on Tuesday urged Turkish officials to respect journalists' freedom of expression [UN News Centre report]. The international concern increased after the Turkish government arrested nine ...
  • UN rights chief urges independent probe into I ...
    [JURIST] The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) [official website] called for an independent investigation into post-election violence in the Ivory Coast [JURIST news archive] on Monday as part of a report [text, PDF] to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) [official webs ...
  • Uzbekistan government closes local HRW office
    [JURIST] Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] reported Tuesday that the Uzbekistan government has ordered the closure [press release] of the advocacy group's Uzbek office. HRW learned from the Uzbekistan Supreme Court [official website, in Russian] on March 10 that, after maintaining a pr ...
  • Iraq to close controversial detention center o ...
    [JURIST] Iraq's Justice Ministry announced Monday that it will close a Green Zone detention center because of alleged human rights violations. Justice spokesperson Haidar al-Saad said this decision was made after last month's investigation [AP report] into the prison's living conditions. The pri ...
  • Proposition 8 supporters argue for standing to ...
    [JURIST] Proponents of Proposition 8 [text; JURIST news archive], California's same-sex marriage ban, on Monday urged the Supreme Court of California [official website] to allow them to defend the measure [brief, PDF] when state officials refuse to do so. Last month, the court announced that it ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • White House Standing Firm on Nuclear Energy
    One notable thing about the early reaction in Washington to the Japanese nuclear disaster is that the tenor from both parties has been cautious rather than alarmed. Before the tsunami, nuclear energy appeared to be one of the rare areas in which some sort of bipartisan action had seemed possibl ...
  • Petraeus: Gains in Afghanistan 'Fragile and Re ...
    With U.S. troops set to begin drawing down in Afghanistan this July, Gen. David Petraeus told the Senate Armed Services Committee today that U.S. and allied forces have made "fragile and reversible" gains this year, but that Afghan forces are on pace to assume control of security in select provi ...
  • Japan Quake May Stall U.S. Nuclear-Power Expan ...
    Renewable energy advocates are concerned that the unraveling nuclear crisis in Japan may prove to be a setback for U.S. clean energy policy. Efforts to stop and contain the meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station are intensifying as an attempt to pump ocean water into a crippled ...
  • In the GOP, It's Staffers Vs. Candidates on Ga ...
    While Republican candidates publicly oppose gay marriage, Huffington Post's Sam Stein points out that the staffers who work for them often support it: ... A large chunk of the GOP operative class has no problem with expanding gay rights, but those staffers nonetheless work for candidates who ar ...
  • Picture of the Day: Hard at Work, Obama Puts H ...
    As a campaigner, Barack Obama earned a reputation for ease under pressure. Part of that ease, evidently, involves reclining with his feet on tables and desks. The montage comes via Keith Koffler at White House dossier. credit: photos taken by White House photographer Pete Souza; collage compil ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • IDF Hints That Abu Seesi Connected to Seizure ...
    Israeli navy commandos finally succeeded in commandeering a ship on the high seas without killing anyone.  It was a German-owned cargo ship, the Victoria, which Israel claims contained a treasure trove of sophisticated Iranian weapons bound for Gaza.  The vessel was bound for the port of Alexa ...
  • Israeli Settler Minister: We Published Picture ...
    It’s hard to believe that any minister of any government, even Israel’s, would’ve given an interview so patently disgusting and self-serving as Yuli Edelstein did with Haaretz’s Nir Hasson.  Edelstein is the aptly named ‘minister of hasbara’ (in Hebrew–in English he’s the ‘minister for public d ...
  • Itamar: Turning Victims into National Blood Sa ...
    The victims of the Itamar massacre were buried today in Israel and most who eulogized the Fogel family shouted suitably racist slogans demanding vengeance and the like.  They called them a korban, or blood sacrifice on the altar of Greater Israel.  But there was a still small voice of sanity, an ...
  • Death in Itamar
    Today, the specter of death stalks the settlement of Itamar. A Palestinian militant penetrated the security barriers intended to protect the residents and broke into a home of the sleeping Fogel family and stabbed to death the parents and three of their children, leaving behind three young orpha ...
  • Abu Seesi’s Brother Confirms Ukrainian Securit ...
    I had a long, heartbreaking conversation this morning with Dirar Abu Seesi’s brother, Yousef, who just returned to his home in Holland from a three week stay in Ukraine.  He called his visit there “one of the worst three weeks of my life.” Yousef had traveled to that country for a reunion with ...

Ode Magazine

  • The peace of the done
    By: PeaceCorso I found this quote by Julie Woodruff in my forty-odd pages of peace quotes that I’ve been collecting for two decades. "Out of the strain of the doing, into the peace of the done." I’ve no idea who Julie Woodruff is but her words remi ...
  • A letter from Sendai
    By: Anne Thomas Things here in Sendai have been rather surreal. But I am very blessed to have wonderful friends who are helping me a lot. Since my shack is even more worthy of that name, I am now staying at a friend's home. We share supplies like water ...
  • Deploying the power of film for social change
    By: srosenzw If you’re seeking an alternative to the glitzy, glamorous, and purely entertainment-based film festivals that dominate most headlines, take a trip to the art-loving island of Bali. This year Bali's Ubud will host the Global Social Change F ...
  • A new kind of personal wealth
    It turns out money can buy happiness, after allâwhen consumers create a market for mindful consumption. A lot has changed for Rachel Aydt in the past two years. Since the magazine she worked for shut down in 2008, she’s been faced with plenty of financial uncertainty. Aydt ...
  • 200 years of remarkable development
    By: EmilyAviles In this BBC video, Swedish academic, medical doctor, public speaker and statistician Hans Rosling tells the story of of the world's development - past, present and future. Using vast quantities of public data (data from 200 countries over 200 years ...

OpEd News

  • From Celebrities To Tsunamis: "If they can get ...
    The "culture wars" serve the ruling elite. This is a technique the operatives of corporate duopoly have down. Unloose social conservative activists to kick up dirt with divisive issues e.g., the rightwing wants to roast Big Bird on a spit and legislate that every unborn fetus be declared Jesus C ...
  • Act Now to End the War in Afghanistan
    The American people are being asked to shoulder the costs for wars that undermine our national, moral and economic security and opposition is growing. We must ask ourselves whose nation we are building when we ask people here at home to give up benefits they have earned in order to nation-build ...
  • Email Scam with a Twist -- A True Story
    What happened when my daughter's email was hacked and our friend responded to the desperate plea for money...
  • Divestment from Israel Bonds: Morally Right
    MN Break the Bonds Campaign has demanded that Minnesota's State Board of Investments divest from the two Israel bonds that it holds. This demand was made on legal and moral grounds.
  • New Zealand: Experiencing a Second World Country
    Emigrating to New Zealand has both an upside and a downside. All developed and developing countries operate under the same global capitalist system. In a few areas, New Zealand has adopted some of the worst features of capitalism. However, for the most part, Kiwis retain their commitment to the ...

Switchboard

  • New Study Sheds Light on Air Quality Impacts o ...
    According to a new study, the chemicals that spewed into the Gulf of Mexico from the BP Oil Spill set off a complex chain of chemical reactions forming air pollution aerosols. Unfortunately these aerosols weren’t adequately monitored for at the time of the spill.  While this study ...
  • Imported from Detroit: "This (Fuel Economy) is ...
    There’s  a great new commercial, called “Imported from Detroit” that debuted at the Super Bowl. It’s about re-birth of one of the toughest cities in America. It’s about American innovation. It’s about American automakers leading not following. It’s an inspiring piece of advertiseme ...
  • Daley's Legacy: Re-thinking the American city
    More than two decades ago a new mayor took the reins of this great city, facing an uncertain future, a degraded environment and a declining quality of life for its citizens. Today, Richard M. Daley is still on the 5th Floor of City Hall, finishing out his term as the longest-serv ...
  • Health Advisory: Environmental Detox Programs ...
    I’ve recently been hearing a lot of worrisome stories from the Gulf.  Families are struggling and some people are reporting serious health symptoms.  I am also worried about some misguided, and potentially dangerous, “treatments” out there. Announcements are going around on listse ...
  • Rockefeller Joins Climate Change Deniers in Sn ...
    Congressional Republicans spent the day trying to legislate climate change out of existence. Not by actually doing anything to address the problem, you understand, but by overturning EPA’s scientific finding that carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases endanger public health a ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • The Whores Hustle and the Hustlers Whore
    The DLC may have closed up shop, but we still have a pompous blowhard who inherited a Senate seat, did essentially nothing of value with it, and then followed up a bunch of high-minded guff about how he left the Senate to save the world by using his tenure as a platform to enrich himself [...] ...
  • Hack Torture Apologist of the Day
    I was going to say it’s Marc Thiessen. But really, it’s Fred Hiatt for giving him a platform. Related posts:Least Surprising Apologist for Arbitrary Executive Power of the Day Hack of the Day The Sadly Inevitable At Kaplan Test Prep Daily Related posts:Least Surprising Apologist for ...
  • And the News Gets Worse
    As Lenny Briscoe said, nothing good comes from this: Japanâs nuclear crisis intensified again Wednesday, with authorities at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi plant in northeastern Japan announcing that a containment vessel surrounding another reactor may have ruptured and appeared to be releasi ...
  • Ducks Practice Indoors Whenever Possible…
    OHSA found to have anti-Irish bias! The 20-year-old Notre Dame student who was killed when the hydraulic lift he was on fell over as he filmed the football team on a windy day had expressed displeasure about practice being held outside, according to a state report released Tuesday. Declan Sulliv ...
  • Updates!
    Gentle Reader, LGM now has a mobile version for handheld devices.  It makes it easier to read posts, but we don’t yet have comment functionality.  If you prefer the desktop version of the site, there’s a toggle at the bottom of the page. Yours truly, The Management Related posts:IE Problems ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • Japanese earthquake stalls discovery in Toyota MDL
    The earthquake and tsunami in Japan delayed portions of the multidistrict litigation against Toyota Motor Corp. this week as lawyers appeared in court to move forward on critical discovery issues.
  • Web host liable for contributory infringement
    A South Carolina jury's recent $770,750 verdict against Bright Builders Inc. marks the first time a Web-hosting company has been found liable for contributory infringement without actual notice that a customer's Web site lists fake products for sale.
  • Attorneys allege co-counsel grabbed Armenian g ...
    Lawyers Mark Geragos and Brian Kabateck have filed a lawsuit against their former co-counsel in two class actions involving life insurance claims for victims of the Armenian genocide, alleging that he fraudulently funneled settlement funds to sham charities.
  • Federal Circuit erects high standard for false ...
    The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit outlined a high pleading standard for plaintiffs filing lawsuits against companies for falsely labeling their products as covered by patents.
  • Berkshire Hathaway's Munger gifts $20M to Mich ...
    Berkshire Hathaway Vice-Chairman Charlie Munger — who attended the University of Michigan as an undergraduate before graduating from Harvard Law School and founding the Los Angeles law firm Munger, Tolles & Olson — is giving Michigan Law $20 million.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • Has Your Stream Been Affected by Gas Drilling?
    How do you know? For many, it rests upon early detection -  and prevention of environmental impact. In 2010 the Alliance for Aquatic Resource Monitoring (ALLARM)  researched and tested a volunteer-based Marcellus Monitoring protocol for the early detection of flowback contamination in small Penn ...
  • Frack Water Missing and Unaccounted For
    I just received this info from the RDA: Over 54 million gallons of frack water missing & unaccounted for! The PA Department of Environmental Resources has discovered that records on recycling of gas drilling wastewater have been wildly inflated due to a reporting error. Even worse, no one seems ...
  • PRESS CONFERENCE – Moratorium on Drillin ...
    March 9 – 10 AM Moratorium on future gas leases in State Forests Representative Vitali will hold a press conference in Media Room, main Capitol. Greg will announce the introduction of a bill for 3 year moratorium on leasing in State Forests. He would like to have a stage full of representatives ...
  • Toxic Water Interactive Map
    Here is a link to the interactive map that was put out by the New York Times with their article “Toxic Contamination From Natural Gas Wells” If you have not had a chance to check it out yet, you should. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/02/27/us/natural-gas-map.html?ref=us
  • Marcellus Shale Drilling – Avenues for A ...
    See the below message from Penn Futures. Register today! Pre-registration is required. As drilling for natural gas in the Marcellus Shale continues in our region and across Pennsylvania, PennFuture, Clean Water Action, PennEnvironment, Pennsylvania Sierra Club, Responsible Drilling Alliance and ...

News Blaze

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

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 ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Lost city of Atlantis, swamped by tsunami, found?
    A U.S.-led research team may have finally located the lost city of Atlantis, the legendary metropolis believed swamped by a tsunami thousands of years ago in mud flats in southern Spain. The team of archeologists and geologists used a combination of deep-ground radar, digital mapping, and underw ...
  • British Tax Protesters Arrest Judge In Act Of ...
    For those wondering whether we can expect to see anything like the scenes witnessed in Egypt coming to America or the United Kingdom, the actions of British protesters who engaged in “lawful rebellion” by attempting to arrest a judge yesterday could herald the beginning of a new tax revolt to ri ...
  • Man Invents Machine To Convert Plastic Into Oil
    The Japanese company Blest has developed one of the smallest and safest plastic-to-oil conversion machines out on the market today. It's founder and CEO, Akinori Ito is passionate about using this machine to change the way people around the world think about their plastic trash. From solving our ...
  • Second explosion at Japanese nuclear plant - C ...
    There has been a second explosion at the Fukushima nuclear plant in northern Japan that was damaged in Friday’s earthquake and tsunami. 11 people were hurt in the blast, which sent a plume of smoke into the air. The fuel rods at the reactor are now partly exposed, raising fears of a meltdown. Of ...
  • Nuclear Expert: Radiation Could Spread To US W ...
    Nuclear expert Joe Cirincione warns that radiation from Japan’s multiple potential nuclear meltdowns could spread to the US west coast and that the threat represents an “unprecedented crisis,” as another explosion rocked the Fukushima complex and officials admitted that nuclear fuel rods at reac ...

Russia Today

  • WikiLeaks cables point to jeopardized seismic ...
    Several confidential reports disclosed by WikiLeaks suggest that the Japanese government has been underperforming in tackling the safety of the country’s nuclear facilities and their ability to withstand earthquakes.
  • Fukushima no Chernobyl but will reignite nucle ...
    The Fukushima nuclear disaster will most probably awake controversy about nuclear energy justification, shared Senior Research Fellow in the Energy and Environmental Programme Walt Patterson.
  • Soyuz spacecraft brings orbit-wanderers home
    Three intrepid explorers, who have completed their five-month space mission, have been welcomed home.
  • Japan’s nuclear record not clean
    Japanese authorities are giving assurances there is no imminent threat to Tokyo residents, with the reactors at the Fukushima nuclear power plant having gone up in smoke. But past evidence suggests they are not to be...
  • More fighting in Libya as UN eyes extra sanctions
    Government forces and rebels in Libya are giving conflicting reports on their continued clashes. The UN Security Council is gathering to consider a draft resolution on imposing a no-fly zone in the country.

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

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

Tippers News

  • DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
    DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Three men helped starve kids, court tol
    Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
    The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • The real terrorist was me - US Soldier -
    The Truth from a American Soldier who fought in an Unjust WAR in Iraq; thankfully his conscience willed him to admit that it was just a war for the rich elite few to get richer and had nothing to do with Patriosm or Security of Americans.He is a True HeroSubmitted by Mary P. to US Politics & Gov ...
  • BRUTAL TRUTH Of IRAQ WAR
    'War' on any country is a 'Terrorist Act.' How can it be anything else?? People sit in their cosy homes; happy and Falsely believing that the soldiers are in a Patriotic War; Well see for yourself and ask Whats Patriotic about Suffering of Human Beings?Submitted by Mary P. to US Politics & Gov' ...

The Freeman

  • Nuclear Renaissance Melts Down over Japan Disaster
    The Japanese disaster “will put new nuclear development on ice,” said Toronto energy consultant Tom Adams, the former executive director of Energy Probe. He said the nuclear industry was already facing challenges, noting that vast shale gas resources in North America and other parts of the world ...
  • U.S. Drones Fight Mexican Drug Trade
    The American assistance has been kept secret because of legal restrictions in Mexico and the heated political sensitivities there about sovereignty, the officials said. Before the outbreak of drug violence in Mexico that has left more than 34,000 dead in the past four years, such an agreement wo ...
  • Panel Urges TSA To Implement ‘Trusted Traveler ...
    “Travel industry analysts think the long-awaited report will continue the debate over screening procedures and add another element to it: Even a voluntary trusted-traveler approach would require passengers to provide credit information, tax returns and other personal data to verify that members ...
  • Government Borrowing Won’t Create Savings
    In New York Times columnist Paul Krugman's world, budget deficits morph into surpluses and savings.
  • FEE’s Brian Aitken on “Fox & Frien ...
    FEE’s director of new media, Brian Aitken, appeared on “Fox & Friends” yesterday to talk about his legal battle to clear his name from a wrongful conviction for illegal possession of firearms. The case stands in the way of his getting custody of his son. Watch the three-minute segment here. In a ...

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

  • Census Watch: Surprising growth in South's Lat ...
    The growth of Hispanic/Latino communities in Southern states is a story that has unfolded over two decades, but it's still managing to shatter the expectations of demographers and government officials. So far, 2010 Census data has been released for just over half of the Southern states (seven o ...
  • Problematic design of Japan's imperiled nuclea ...
    The nuclear power disaster triggered by the massive earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan on Friday is worsening by the day and raising concerns about nuclear safety in the United States. At the Fukushima 1 Nuclear Power Plant, which is one of the world's largest nuclear power stat ...
  • VOICES: Meet the scandal-plagued billionaire b ...
    By Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest The bond between David Koch and Scott Walker is not the only relationship between a reactionary billionaire and a rightwing politician contaminating the U.S. political scene. Attention also needs to be paid to what's going on between Sheldon Adelson and Ne ...
  • Fort Bragg infant death toll may climb to twelve
    By Joaquin Sapien, ProPublica and Aaron Kessler, Sarasota Herald-Tribune A 12th infant apparently has died of undetermined causes in military housing at Fort Bragg, N.C., and� investigators are now trying to determine whether the death is linked to fumes from contaminated drywall or some othe ...
  • Another citizen lawsuit against a coal company ...
    Environmental watchdogs are taking yet another coal mining company to court over massive violations of the federal Clean Water Act in Kentucky, raising questions about the state's ability to oversee the industry effectively. Nally and Hamilton Enterprises received notice [pdf] yesterd ...

Worldpress - Africa

  • Women's Modern Plight
    With all the progress that has been made to advance women's position in the world, their standing still ranges from disadvantaged in developed countries to brutalized in developing ones.
  • Improving Security in Somalia
    The United States is looking to the regions of Puntland and Somaliland for keys to protecting Somalis from extremist threats.
  • Nigeria's Delicate Presidential Election Trans ...
    Nigeria's election history is shambolic and corrupt. If the country's new national electoral body is to conduct a free and fair election in January, it has its work cut out for it.
  • Africa's Women Turn 50
    Fifty years into African independence, African women still face a much more challenging existence than men, with significant political, social and economic changes needed for gender equality.
  • The Abandoned Children of Sierra Leone
    Minors in Sierra Leone are going to jail for years for petty crimes, while corrupt public officials not only go unpunished, but mismanage the funds that could be educating these neglected youths.

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • No Free Lunch
    I haven’t had much to say about the Japanese Tsunami and the nuclear mess there, but here’s the short and to the point. First: the reactors in question were not properly built and tested.  It is very clear now that the Japanese nuclear industry, as with the American, has been cutting corners to ...
  • Burning down your house to generate heat
    Some years ago I worked for a large insurance company.  I was originally hired to help deal with a class action suit, but soon found myself working on something different, demutualizing the company.  Mutual insurance companies are owned by their customers, not by shareholders.  This has a num ...
  • Watch oil prices tomorrow
    Tomorrow’s oil markets should be interesting. The New York Times reports that the Saudi police have already opened fire on protesters in the major oil producing provinces on the Persian Gulf shore: Saudi police opened fire at a protest march in a restive, oil-rich province of the kingdom on Thur ...
  • Off to London
    for a week, in a couple weeks. This will be the first time I’ve visited England, since, oh, about 1978.  What I remember about that trip: Southampton row houses, a nice open air book market, and Trafalgar square. So, for those of you who have been to London more recently, or lived (or live) the ...
  • The kids might be all right
    My generation is doing something right: First from Josh Marshall summarizing a recent Rasmussen poll on the age breakdown of support for the unions in Wisconsin: But when you look at this poll the pro-union / anti-union division turns heavily on age too. The younger votes have a far more progres ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

  • Japanese research ship damaged by tsunami
    Posted on behalf of Nicola Jones. The Japanese research ship Chikyu – which holds the world record for being able to drill deepest into the ocean floor – was damaged by Japan's recent tsunami. It is not yet clear how severe the damage is. At the time of Friday’s earthquake, the Chikyu (who ...
  • UPDATE 7: Fukushima spent fuel threat rises/B ...
    For the time being, the spent fuel is overtaking the the reactors themselves as the big radiation threat at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station. This morning Japan time, a second fire broke out at the unit 4 reactor building. Meanwhile, a white plume of smoke or steam has been seen comin ...
  • Why did the chicken lose its neck feathers?
    Transylvanian naked neck chickens have been bred for more than 200 years, yet the biological basis of their feather-free necks is a mystery. Now, an international team of scientists has linked the trait to high levels of a protein involved in skin development. The trait helps chickens cool of ...
  • UPDATE: Worryingly quiet as Fukushima 1, 2, an ...
    As the evening sets in here in London, and dawn approaches in Japan, the situation at the nuclear reactors at Fukushima Daiichi remains extremely precarious. According to the latest update from the Japan Atomic Industrial Forum (JAIF), all three reactors still have their fuel exposed. Worryingly ...
  • Guatemalans sue US government in syphilis expe ...
    A group of Guatemalans yesterday sued the United States government, asking for civil damages arising from a 65-year-old experiment in which prisoners, prostitutes, soldiers and mental hospital patients were intentionally infected with syphilis without their consent. In this 34-page class a ...

new geography

  • Asthma: The Geography of Wheezing
    Are you familiar with the Hygiene Hypothesis? The HH — or, as some of us call it, the “pound of dirt theory” — is grabbing attention again. A minor medical press feeding frenzy followed the publication in the New England Journal of Medicine of a study based on data from Europe. The summary? ...
  • Why North Dakota Is Booming
    Living on the harsh, wind-swept northern Great Plains, North Dakotans lean towards the practical in economic development. Finding themselves sitting on prodigious pools of oil—estimated by the state's Department of Mineral Resources at least 4.3 billion barrels—they are out drilling like mad. An ...
  • Perspectives on Urban Cores and Suburbs
    Our virtually instant analysis of 2000 census trends in metropolitan areas has the generated wide interest. The principal purpose is to chronicle the change in metropolitan area population and the extent to which that change occurred in the urban core as opposed to suburban areas. From a po ...
  • What kind of Cities do we Want, Sustainable, L ...
    A critical issue from the dreadful earthquake that has severely damaged so much of central Christchurch, taken so many lives, and terrified so many residents of the whole urban area, lies in whether the Central Area should be rebuilt. Some believe it should be abandoned for some other locatio ...
  • Are Chinese Ready to Rent?
    In 2010 “House price” ranked third on the list of the top 10 most popular phrases used by Chinese netizens. It came to no one's surprise. In most Chinese cities housing prices have increased significantly over the past decade, with an especially sharp rise over the past three years. “Hous ...

GM Watch

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Cryptogon

  • China Places Largest Non Military Ship Order Ever
    Via: Dow Jones: China ordered 50 to 100 new container, tanker and dry-bulk ships Monday under a deal financed by a private-equity consortium led by Carlyle Group. Valued at between $5 billion and $10 billion, it’s the biggest private-sector shipping deal ever, analysts said. The new joint ventur ...
  • Fukushima Workers Withdraw After Radiation Spikes
    Via: BBC: A spike in radiation levels at Japan’s stricken Fukushima nuclear plant has forced workers to suspend their operation, a government spokesman says. He was speaking after smoke was seen rising from reactor three. Earlier, a blaze struck reactor four for the second time in two days. Frid ...
  • Japanese Stock Market Stabilizes, Nikkei Up Ov ...
    Monitoring…
  • Tokyo Bathed in Low Level Radiation
    In other news, Airlines, Travelers Avoid Tokyo, Fearing Radiation. Via: Reuters: Dozens of workers battling to control radiation at Japan’s stricken reactors face a far greater risk of developing cancer than normal, but Tokyo residents are within the safe range for exposure, U.S. nuclear experts ...
  • Japan’s Disastrous Nuclear Operators
    Via: 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 h ...

The Economic Collapse

  • 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 ...

Desertification

  • A Calgary man with a passion for seeds (CBC Ne ...
    Read at : http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/story/2011/03/14/calgary-seeds-for-food-africa-malawi-rasula.html A Calgary man with a passion for seeds is trying to grow his charity project. Nik Rasula has sent thousands of fruit and vegetable seeds to Africa, his own unique way of giving back ...
  • Updated list of my videos (Willem Van Cotthem)
    Here is an updated list of my videos, some of them related to desertification : SCHOOL GARDEN IN SAMBELKUNDA (THE GAMBIA) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF09axycfJ4 BEAUTY OF PHALAENOPSIS ORCHID FLOWERS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVvvZu3SyE4 PHALAENOPSIS ORCHID SYMPHONY http://www.youtube.co ...
  • Raise of global sea level by an average of 1.3 ...
    Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110308150228.htm Melting Ice Sheets Now Largest Contributor to Sea Level Rise ScienceDaily (Mar. 8, 2011) â The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are losing mass at an accelerating pace, according to a new NASA-funded satellite study. The … ...
  • Global Warming’ Vs. ‘Climate Chang ...
    Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110308173242.htm It’s All in a Name: ‘Global Warming’ Vs. ‘Climate Change’ ScienceDaily (Mar. 9, 2011) â Many Americans are skeptical about whether the world’s weather is changing, but apparently the degree of skepticism varies systematicall ...
  • Impact of local deforestation on the snowcap a ...
    Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110305112136.htm Deforestation’s Impact on Mount Kilimanjaro Calculated ScienceDaily (Mar. 9, 2011) â The impact that local deforestation might have on the snowcap and glaciers atop Mount Kilimanjaro are being calculated at The University of ...

The Paper Trail

  • Payday lenders boost spending on lobbying, cam ...
    Payday lenders more than doubled their spending on federal lobbying to $9.2 million in 2009-10, an investment that defeated Congressional attempts to cap short-term loan interest rates but failed to win a carve-out from regulation by the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
  • Congressman says 10-mile policy on iodine pill ...
    The nuclear crisis in Japan has renewed a decade-long fight over how many Americans would receive iodine pills in the aftermath of a nuclear accident here.
  • FOIA performance is getting worse
    Despite promises for more government openness, the Obama administration actually approved fewer Freedom of Information Act requests for federal documents last year.
  • Big banks can fund mortgage aid programs If go ...
    As budget-conscious House Republicans try to kill a $1 billion program to help unemployed Americans avoid foreclosure, Democrat Barney Frank today suggested another funding source: Require the big banks to pick up the tab.
  • Philadelphia Housing Authority spent millions ...
    The agency in charge of low-income housing for Philadelphia paid $30.5 million to outside law firms over a three-year period and couldn’t fully explain what the money paid for, according to a new audit.

backofthebook.ca

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

libcom

  • IWW International Solidarity Letter
    200528_10150437639485724_780715723_17721274_446624_n.jpg Appeal for solidarity from the Madison, Wisconsin Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) branch. Fellow Workers – Studen ...
  • Portugal 12th March 2011
    8168809_oAkMN.jpeg Spontanious Demo in Lisbon called on Facebook attracts half a million Following the events of Tunisia, Egypt and other Southern Med States where a popular pe ...
  • On the Occupation at the University of Wiscons ...
    strike.JPG This text was taken from here, posted yesterday. It deserves reproducing because it examines significant problems and contradictions of university occupations that have relevance elsewhere ...
  • South-east Asia: thousands strike in Burma and ...
    Burmese Strikers.jpg Shoe factory workers in Burma confront notoriously tyrannical authorities while workers at Yamaha motorcycles in strikes over pay. More than 1,500 workers ...
  • Anonymous Anarchist Action hacktivist group fo ...
    anonanarchistactionflag.png A(A)A is the first specifically libertarian communist grouping to emerge out of Anonymous, the world wide hacking network most famous for retaliation operations actions in ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • Great Videos and NUKE Radiation Q&A — PA ...
    This video below is RIGHT ON THE MONEY, in my opinion.  It touches all the bases very well – not the least of which is the gematria coding of 3-11-11 equaling 3-22 and “skull and bones”!!! Next, the “Induction Magnetometer” Readings on the HAARP Alaska installation were “off the charts” prior t ...
  • Japan Disaster Means Economic MELTDOWN for the ...
    This article was posted in May, 2010.  (Emphasis highlighted below!!!) It’s title: The Coming Economic Collapse Of Japan â And Why You Should Be Extremely Concerned About It Most Americans pay very little attention to what is going on in the economies of other nations.  But they should.  The ...
  • HAARP AND DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPONS DEPLOYED &#8 ...
    Here’s the EVENT CONTRACT scheduled for 3-11-11 that we discussed on the radio show. (Nothing to do with Planet X – only HAARP and Energy Pulse weapons causing fish kills along the fault zones). The markets are shocked and stunned this morning – and you can bet that Goldman Sachs will be ringing ...
  • Krista Branch — REMEMBER WHO WE ARE &#82 ...
    It doesn’t get much better than this — Krista Branch hits a nerve – AMERICA WAKE UP NOW!!!  
  • 3-11-11 “Battle for L.A.” Opens in ...
    The Khazarian Controllers of Hollywood have really outdone themselves this time.  Friday, March 11 – the blur between fiction and reality takes another step forward as the “Battle for L.A.” is brought to the silver screen.  Here is a brief trailer: After you watch this trailer, consider the fo ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

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

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

  • Almas Jiwani, Women's Rights Advocate
    President of National Committee of UN Women in Canada on the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day and the state of women around the world.
  • Don Tapscott
    Best-selling author Don Tapscott on the "wiki-revolutions" in the Middle East and how mass collaboration is changing our world.
  • Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian singer-songwriter
    Peter Mansbridge sits down with Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon to discuss his hits, and those songs that were never sung.
  • Fergie Jenkins, Baseball Hall of Famer (Feb 2, ...
    Canada's only Hall of Famer talks with Peter about pitching fastballs and dealing with life's curveballs.
  • Rex Murphy (Dec 18, 2010)
    We call him the wordsmith for his own amazing using of the English language - and part of that he gets from his voracious reading appetite of the works of others. Given the season, time for a visit from the one and only Rex Murphy, and his advice on the best books to give.

Scotts Contracting

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

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • براي حضور در جشن نوروز سازمان ملل به آمريكا سف ...
    به گزارش خبرنگار سياسي خبرگزاري دانشجويان ايران (ايسنا)،اسفنديار رحيم مشايي درباره سفر خود به آمريكا در 27 اسفند، با بيان اين‌كه اين سفره هنوز قطعي نشده، گفت: سال گذشته سازمان ملل نوروز را به عنوان روز جهاني اعلام كرد و ما نيز به عنوان كشوري كه نوروز جزو تاريخ ما محسوب مي‌شود و برايمان اهميت دار ...
  • بی خبری مطلق از نخبه ریاضی جهان حسن جولانی بعد ...
    سن جولانی نابغه ریاضی ایرانی در دنیا و شاگرد اول دانشكده ریاضی دانشگاه تهران كه تاكنون بیش از ١٢ مقاله معتبر بین المللی نوشته است، از روز ١١ آبان ماه امسال که توسط ماموران لباس شخصی درخیابان ١۶آذر (درب غربی دانشگاه تهران) ربوده شد، تا کنون هیچ خبری از وی و محل نگه داری اش در دست نیست. read more
  • کدخدایی: حاميان موسوی و کروبی در انتخابات رد ص ...
    سخنگوی شورای نگهبان گفت: افراد، گروه‌ها، احزاب يا جريان‏های سياسی که در فتنه ۸۸ نقش‌آفرينی کردند يا هرگونه ارتباطی با آن داشتند و از حمايت و همراهی خود با جريان نفاق دريغ نکردند نمی‌توانند در انتخابات فعاليت داشته باشند.read more
  • Christians in Iran Sentenced for "Crimes Again ...
    IRAN (ANS) -- Five Iranian Christians were sentenced on March 8 to one year's imprisonment for "Crimes against the Islamic Order." Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) www.csw.org.uk says Pastor Behrouz Sadegh-Khandjani, Mehdi Furutan, Mohammad Beliad, Parviz Khalaj and Nazly Beliad, all member ...
  • Petraeus Doesn’t Sweat Iran’s Rockets in Afgha ...
    Yes, Iran’s elite forces are providing the Taliban with dangerous rockets, overcoming Shia Iran’s longstanding antipathy for the Sunni extremists in Afghanistan. But Gen. David Petraeus, commander of NATO troops in Afghanistan, played down Iran’s interference like it was no big deal.read more

Most Revolutionary Act

  • The History of the School Privatization Movement
    The Neoliberal Goal to Privatize All Public Services Neoliberal Republicans and Tea Partiers (and now Barack Obama and Department of Education director Arne Duncan) give lip service to improving achievement levels for students in inner city schools. However instead of improving funding to these ...
  • The War on Public Education
    (As a child and adolescent psychiatrist for 30+ years – and a teacher for two years before that – I have special reason to be concerned by the recent attack on teachers unions and public education in general.) Given increasing school closures and teacher layoffs in many states, moves by Con ...
  • The CIA’s Strange Bedfellows in Pakistan
    Owing to Balochistan’s (see prior blog) strategic importance as an energy transit route, its people have long served as pawns for major world powers. The Balochi are an ethnic group belonging to the larger Iranian peoples and speak dialects distantly related to Kurdish. In the 19th century the ...
  • Redrawing the Map: the Balkanization of Pakistan
      If Pakistan is an Ally, Why Are We Trying to Break Up Their Country? After ten years of fighting unwinnable wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, many Americans recognize that the wars in the Middle East are really about oil and natural gas, rather than terrorism. Bush’s decision to invade A ...
  • Our CIA “Freedom Fighters” in Pa ...
    The CIA’s use of mercenaries to fight covert wars is an essential component of US foreign policy as old as the CIA itself. It effectively evades the Constitutional requirement that only allows Congress to declare war, as well as effectively concealing the vast majority of these “interventions” f ...

Doug's Darkworld

  • Taking Stock: Japan, Giant Earthquake, Tsunami ...
    Just when I thinks the news can’t get any worse, it does. Actually, I always know things can get worse, I’m just a bit dismayed that my predictions of doom and gloom are bearing fruit from unexpected quarters. And by that I mean the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. This is already one of the [...]
  • “The solid human waste matter intersects ...
    The post title, my old friend Ralph Johnson came up with that in high school, it never caught on. At least I think he did, memory is a fuzzy thing, it’s a story we tell ourselves more than anything. Ralph also went around for a year saying “devastating” hoping it would catch on, but alas, [...]
  • The Power of Prayer
    “When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.” Various random thoughts on God, atheism, and related topics. What can I say, I gave up my agnostic ways a few weeks back, and [...]
  • Charlie Sheen, dead hostages, protesters on a ...
    So I’m walking home from work Thursday afternoon, and there are helicopters circling downtown Berkeley. I’m like, what’s up? I turn on the TV news, and yes, protesters have chained themselves onto a ledge on a building on campus. And I suspect the typical response most people would have, is some ...
  • “How is the world ruled and led to war? ...
    The Arab Awakening continues. German tanks roll across Poland. Life goes on in America as if nothing is happening, as if the events unfolding in the Middle East are no more inconvenience than a brief rise in gas prices and a few images of demonstrators on TV. I mean, most Americans couldn’t find ...

FourWinds10

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

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

Discovery Educator Network

  • Visual Storytelling: Interview with Nancy Duar ...
    Tags: storytelling, elearning, visual, interviewby: Dean Mantz
  • Teach Science and Math
    Comments:Great advice to the integration of LiveBinders in math and science classrooms. - Dean MantzTags: science, livebinders, math, resources, education, teaching, maths, mathchatby: Dean Mantz
  • Super Teacher Tools
    Comments:Several nice options for classroom integration that is created by using Flash.  Flash makes it simple and quick in performance.  - Dean MantzTags: SMART, tools, interactive, education, smartboard, flash, resources, teacher tools, classroomby: Dean Mantz
  • Children's Stories | Free Audio Books | Online ...
    Comments:"Under a magic spell, these fairy tales, myths for children, classics for kids and funny poems are sleeping amongst the vaults of OnlineAudioStories.com." - Fred DelventhalTags: audio, books, audiobooks, children, reading, students, elementary, languagearts, literacyby: Fred Delventhal
  • Weblogg-ed » Personal Learning Networks (An Ex ...
    Tags: PLN, learning, ed, webloggby: Dean Mantz

Rodale News

  • Jillian Michaels: "I Don't Want People to Eat ...
    RODALE NEWS, ANAHEIM, CA—We all know Biggest Loser trainer and best-selling author Jillian Michaels is about as fit as they come. But did you know part of her health regimen has nothing to do with crunches, sprints, dumbbells, or push-ups? A big part of what keeps her healthy, she says, is what ...
  • Get Natural Stroke Protection with 5 Easy, Pot ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Many of us are aware of the blood pressure–controlling benefits of potassium; now, research reveals that getting a hea read more
  • How Many Congressmen Does It Take to Screw Up ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—In the ongoing debate over how much the government should interfere in our lives, the newest battle is over energy-efficient bulbs. Two new bills introduced by Republican lawmakers in the U.S. Senate and in the House of Representatives, both titled the "Better Use of Lig ...
  • Why a Fever Is Your Child's Friend
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—It can be scary when your child 's forehead feels abnormally warm to the touch. So it's only natural for parents to stress over how to treat a fever in their child. But your impulse to bring that fever down immediately with ibuprofen or acetaminophen may not be the best ...
  • More Healthy, Ecofriendly Choices On the Way
    RODALE NEWS, ANAHEIM, CA—The last few months have been a bit of a bummer for consumers who care about their health. The USDA's approval of genetically engineered alfalfa and sugar beets was a blow to consumers seeking food grown without toxic pesticides or understudied genetic manipulation. Als ...

big think

  • How to Program a Quantum Computer
    Every Wednesday, Michio Kaku will be answering reader questions about physics and futuristic science. If you have a question for Dr. Kaku, just post it in the comments section below and check back on Wednesdays to see if he answers it. Today, Dr. Kaku�addresses a question�posed by�Andrew Brund ...
  • Small World: Connecting Old and New in Japanes ...
    [Please see bottom of this post for a request and contest related to this book.] “Japan can be seen as the end of the world,” write Ivan Vartanian and Kyoko Wada in See/Saw: Connections Between Japanese Art Then and Now , “as a storehouse of all mythology that forms the origins of hum ...
  • Problems with commenting - News on Fuji as well
    It seems that the commenting system on the blog is a little haywire right now, eating comments and all, so if you're having issues commenting, please email me (eruptionsblog {at} gmail) so I can collect some information. I've contacted the powers that be about the issues I've had. UPDATE 3/15/ ...
  • Land Your Job, Launch Your Business, Lead Your ...
    Today, Big Think launches StandOut, a video-driven career curriculum for university-educated job-seekers. StandOut video segments feature actionable career insights from today’s most influential leaders and experts, as they share their knowledge on topics ranging from résumés to risk-taking. The ...
  • If I Had the Ear of the Prime Minister, I Woul ...
    The situation in Japan, as of Tuesday morning, keeps getting worse. We are getting close to the point of no return (the point where we have uncontrolled releases of radiation due to breach of containment).� News & Developments 3 reactors have suffered partial meltdowns. These three reactor ...

Information Liberation

  • 5 Ways DHS Violates the Constitution with Webs ...
    Last week, Bryan McCarthy, the 32 year old operator of ChannelSurfing.net, was arrested on charges of criminal copyright infringement. ChannelSurfing.net was one of the streaming sports sites that had its domain seized by federal authorities shortly...
  • Marc Faber on CNN 03/09/11
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  • Thank You, Bradley Manning, for Your Service
    I usually find myself overcome with nausea when some sycophant tells a uniformed soldier *Thank you for your service.** I*m perfectly willing to accept that some people joined the armed forces, in all sincerity, in the belief that the U.S. government...
  • 911 called for help after man found experienci ...
    From La Grange Patch: [...] On April 9, 2009, Lassi's roommate called 911 after finding Lassi on the floor foaming from the mouth in what records describe as a diabetic seizure. Paramedics from La Grange Park, as well as police from the village and ...
  • The Myth of Free-Market Healthcare
    [Excerpted from The Case for Legalizing Capitalism, by Kel Kelly (2010).] The AMA Monopoly While most people believe that our healthcare industry is one comprised of free markets, it is anything but. The industry is completely distorted by gove...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • The Centre Of The Universe
    A column by Boris Johnson in the UK Daily Telegraph caught my eye the other day. It shone a cold, hard light on man’s seemingly innate tendency to place himself at the centre of everything. Reflecting on the recent earthquake … Continue reading →
  • What Are Rights?
    Itâs pretty much impossible these days to switch on the TV, radio or internet without hearing someone or other speaking of rights. âI have a right!â, âItâs my right…â, âMy rights have been violated!â Typically, claims of rights take the … Continue reading →
  • The Gates Re-open…
    …and youâve all been issued with a golden ticket. The few weeksâ closure I announced last November have turned into a few months. Sorry about that. But the break, apart from allowing me to clear a very large backlog of … Continue reading →
  • Ozboy’s Bar And Grill Is Closed For Repairs
    It’s only temporary. A couple of weeks. But the recent shenanigans round here have forced me to do some thinking about how LibertyGibbert can run better in the future. I’ve spoken to a couple of you about this today, to … Continue reading →
  • The Dragon’s Dissent Part III: Naked Nat ...
    The emergence of China as the world’s new superpower has raised many questions in the international community and across the blogosphere regarding the longer-range agenda of the Middle Kingdom. In a recent discussion on this forum, the question of Chinese … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • 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 ...

RFF Library

  • Direct Climate Effects of Perennial Bioenergy ...
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences / (March 15, 2011) v108 n11 p4307-4312 / by Matei Georgescua, David B. Lobellb and Christopher B. Field http://www.pnas.org/content/108/11/4307.short?rss=1 (open access article) [Abstract] Biomass-derived energy offers the potential to increase ene ...
  • Japan Earthquake: Poster of the Great Tohoku E ...
    US Geological Survey http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqarchives/poster/2011/20110311.php [InfoDocket posting] The USGS has made a color poster available (download online) with maps and other earthquake information from Friday’s disaster in Japan. It’s a free download. Some of the things y ...
  • Drinking Water Security and Public Health Dise ...
    Johns Hopkins APL Technical Digest (2008) v27 n4 p403-11 / by Steven M. Babin, Howard S. Burkom, Zaruhi R. Mnatsakanyan, Liane C. Ramac-Thomas, Michael W. Thompson, Richard A. Wojcik, Sheri Happel Lewis, and Cynthia Yund http://www.jhuapl.edu/techdigest/TD/td2704/babinDrinkingWater.pdf [Abstract ...
  • See World Nuclear News for Technical Updates o ...
    World Nuclear Association http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/ …the pro-nuclear World Nuclear Association has been publishing a great series of detailed technical updates [on the unfolding disaster in Japan].  Bookmark their page and update it frequently; I certainly have been. [H/T: Michael Levi ...
  • Potential Impact of Gasoline Price Increases o ...
    American Public Transportation Association http://tinyurl.com/6x73tp6 [From Executive Summary] Experience over the past decade, backed by several notable research studies, shows that price increases in gasoline cause related increases in public transportation ridership. Based on that information ...

Scientific American - News

  • How Radiation Threatens Health
    The developing crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in the wake of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami has raised concerns over the health effects of radiation exposure: What is a "dangerous" level of radiation? How does radiation damage health? What are the consequences of acute ...
  • Ski Wax Chemicals Can Build Up in Blood
    BERKELEY, Calif. –A storm has dropped a big snow on Lake Tahoe resorts, and there’s a flurry of activity at the California Ski Company as hordes of skiers and snowboarders prepare to hit the slopes. In a cluttered workroom at the back of the shop, technician Bobby Panighetti is getting a pair of ...
  • Partial Meltdowns Led to Hydrogen Explosions a ...
    Just after 6 AM local time on Tuesday in Japan, a sound like an explosion was heard near the suppression pool of reactor No. 2 at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. This followed an explosion March 11 that ripped the roof off reactor No. 1 and another at reactor No. 3 on March 1 ...
  • Fast Facts about the Japan Earthquake and Tsunami
    Why was Japan's March 11 earthquake so big? One answer is the large size of the fault rupture as well as the speed at which the Pacific Plate is continuously thrusting beneath Japan, U.S. Geological Survey (U.S.G.S.) scientist Tom Brocher told KQED News. People felt shaking in cities all over ...
  • Wood Smoke Wafts Up Health Concerns
    NORDEN, Calif. - On a frosty evening in the Sierra Nevada, smoke curling from the chimney of the Clair Tappaan Lodge is a welcome sight to chilly snowshoers and cross-country skiers. Gathering by the massive stone hearth at this landmark Sierra Club mountain hostel, guests relax in the warmth an ...

First Truths

  • Workers Against the Bosses' Economy
    For the Center for a Stateless Society, I commented again on events in Wisconsin: Because the primary interventions of the state capitalist system are so deeply embedded, those interventions closer to the surface — state action like minimum wage laws, etc. — are often more easily recognized; the ...
  • To Vote Is To Choose Your Masters
    With an eye to new state voting bills, I commented for C4SS: At the same time, hand in hand with the tyranny of the majority problem, American democracy can be considered as facilitating the tyranny of the minority. Where, as in the United States, political debate and electoral politics are conf ...
  • Afghanistan and the Neoliberal Empire
    For the Center for a Stateless Society, I wrote: For the economic program of the American ruling class to function, governments amenable to its hierarchical, corporate framework are a practical imperative. Today, the Big Business economic blueprint, created by and for the state’s elites, is so u ...
  • The Greenspan Version of "Free Market"
    For the Center for a Stateless Society, I wrote: The related falsehoods — that Republicans favor anything remotely similar to a free market and that Democrats are all that standing between us and the GOP’s dog-eat-dog version of laissez faire — are belied by the fact that, as articulated by Kevi ...
  • Contaminants of the Corporate State
    For the Center for a Stateless Society, I take on Texaco as a useful example of the corporate malfeasance generated by the state: Responsibility and stewardship won't — indeed can't — result from a system where a tiny elite controlling huge hoards of resources doesn't have to literally pay for i ...

Media Co-Op

  • Unwelcome to Canada
    VANCOUVER -  No One Is Illegal members were on hand to 'welcome' federal immigration minister Jason Kenny to Vancouver this morning. Kenny was slated to speak at a new immigrant swearing in ceremony. Despite being a public event, opponents of Kenny's rascist policies were barred from entering. A ...
  • **URGENT** Montréal : vigile pour les arrêtéEs ...
    Le 12 mars, lors de la grande manifestation syndicale de Montréal, 12 personnes ont été arrêtée sur la base de leur apparence physique et leur orientation politique. En effet, les policiers sont intervenus pour retirer les gens ciblés du rassemblement, sur des bases complètement arbitraires, pou ...
  • Report from revolutionary Tunisia
    Interview with photojournalist Matthew Cassel in Tunisia Listen to an interview from revolutionary Tunisia featuring journalist and photographer Matthew Cassel, editor at Electronic Intifada. Cassel speaks about the ongoing struggle for ju ...
  • Free and Accessible Transit campaign builds it ...
    Their movement may still be in its initial stages, but organizers of the Free and Accessible Transit campaign were not short of ideas at their latest meeting. Last Thursday, nine representatives from the Greater Toronto Workers’ Assembly (GTWA) congregated in a College Street boardroom to discus ...
  • Making Waves
    Local musician plans paddling tour in honour of friend's life After the death of a close friend in 2009, Halifax-based musician Zac Crouse opted to pay tribute in a manner reflective of the life that had been lost. His upcoming Paddle to t ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Eleonore Weil's Alphabet
    David Seaton's News Links I just ran up this video of my wife's art work. I hope all you newslinkers will enjoy it. DS
  • Arab Spring is 1989? Whose 1989?
    Barack ObamachevIn the last decade, America has tried applying our individualistic narrative to the Middle East. Now, as the people in multiple countries there struggle to take greater control for themselves, we want to see our story play out in their efforts, and we worry that it won't. Sheena ...
  • What the hell is Rupert Murdoch up to?
    "Der Antisemitismus ist der Sozialismus der dummen Kerle" "Antisemitism is the socialism of fools" August Bebel David Seaton's News LinksI am coming to the conclusion that something very strange is going on.� I come to that conclusion merely starting from the simple premise ...
  • America: only one revolution to a customer
    David Seaton's News LinksWhy is it that when you study the graph above and then read the quotes below, the graph seems so real and the quotes seem some sort of political science fiction, verging from the absurd and childish to the puzzled or even hopeless?�What you are looking at in Tunisia, in ...
  • The unbearable levity of Wikileaks and the rig ...
    David Seaton's News LinksI received the following comment on my last post:So previously, you did not think that globalization and instant communication tools were radiically changing the world?� It wasn't until wikileaks that you realized this was happening? Helloooo?�� To which I am tempted t ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

  • FCC Softened Advisory on Cell Phone Radiation
    Contact: EWG public affairs 202.667.6982 or leeann@ewg.org Washington, D.C. – Documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request show that wireless industry representatives were granted a number of high-level meetings with top... [[ This is a content summary ...
  • EPA to require tap water tests for unregulated ...
    Contact: EWG public affairs 202.667.6982 The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed a nationwide plan to require water utilities to test drinking water for 28 contaminants currently unregulated by federal law, including six... [[ This is a content summary only. Vis ...
  • New Map Reveals Hot Spots in Emerging Global F ...
    Contact: Patricia Brooks, 202-351-1757, patricia@matchmapmedia.com, Donald Carr, 202-939-9141, don@ewg.org Washington, DC – Volatile food markets and food insecurity contributed to the civic unrest that recently brought down... [[ This is a content summary only. Visi ...
  • Seasoned Capitol Hill Reporter Joins EWG Publ ...
    Contact: Contact EWG Public Affairs 202-667-6982 Washington, D.C. – The Environmental Working Group is pleased to announce the arrival of Sara Sciammacco as the newest member of its public affairs team as a press secretary. She comes to... [[ This is a content summar ...
  • EWG Fans More Than One Million Strong
    Contact: EWG public affairs 202.667.6982 Washington, D.C. – Since 2006, Environmental Working Group has been building an email list of engaged consumers who sign up to get regular alerts about our latest research and practical tips to... [[ This is a content summary onl ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • The Sleeping Habit That Can Make You Hungrier, ...
    Experiments on mice have shown that throwing off their ancient circadian rhythms by artificially altering the length of their days has a substantial impact on their bodies and brains. This suggests that the modern, round-the-clock lifestyle, made possible by electric lighting, could disrupt meta ...
  • Peek into the Future at Amazing New Technologi ...
    There may come a day where glass is no longer fragile, and can be used in pretty much every area of your life.
  • New Report Shows How You Get Addicted to Diet Soda
    Surveys have found that people who drink diet beverages average more than 26 ounces per day, and some drink far more. About 3 percent of diet-soda drinkers have at least four daily. � Some may be addicted to caffeine, but that doesn't explain those who prefer caffeine-free varieties. Experts sa ...
  • Taking These Common Pills? You're Playing "Rus ...
    Drugs that include traditional non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS) as well as new generation anti-inflammatory drugs (COX-2 inhibitors) have been linked to cardiovascular risks. Researchers performed a comprehensive analysis of all randomized controlled trials that compared any NSAID ...
  • Can You Pass this Test?
    Do you have what it takes ... to relax? Click the link below to find out!

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Survival - tribal peoples

  • Back to court for Vedanta Resources’ controver ...
    Vedanta has appealed the decision of India's Environment Minister to block their mine on the Dongria Kondh's ancestral land. © Survival India’s Supreme Court is to consider a new bid to green-light FTSE 100 Vedanta Resources’ infamous bauxite mine in Orissa state, east India. The mine was ...
  • Land clearing begins for destructive Amazon dam
    Amazon Indians are calling for the Belo Monte dam to be halted © M. Cowan/ Survival Construction workers have begun to bulldoze land in the Brazilian Amazon to make way for the controversial Belo Monte mega-dam. Earlier this week, Norte Energia, the company building the dam, sent its worke ...
  • Success: Peru acts to save uncontacted tribes
    Global coverage of the newly-released photos has pushed the Peruvian government into action © Gleison Miranda/FUNAI/Survival Peruâs authorities have announced that they will work together with Brazil to stop loggers entering isolated Indiansâ territory along the two countriesâ joint border ...
  • Peru admits timber certificates faked in secre ...
    A Murunahua man. The Murunahua's reserve is occupied by illegal loggers © Chris Fagan/Upper Amazon Conservancy Peruâs government has secretly admitted that 70-90% of its mahogany exports were illegally felled, according to a US embassy cable revealed by Wikileaks. Furthermore, Peruâs gove ...
  • Amazon Indians protest in London as judge bloc ...
    The Indians are calling for three controversial dam projects in the Amazon to be halted. © M. Cowan/Survival âThese projects will force my people from their land and end our way of life.â Ruth Buendia Mestoquiari, Ashaninka leader. Three Amazon Indians protested in London today against ...

Montreal Gazette

  • Editorial: Health Canada needs to clear the ai ...
    “According to our mission and vision, Health Canada’s goal is for Canada to be among the countries with the healthiest people in the world,” the federal department says on its website.
  • Editorial: Jolting our way into spring
    Montreal drivers have learned to brace themselves for pothole season – physically and financially. Not only are they jolted as they navigate the city’s notoriously pocked roads; they also know they’re going to have to pay to fix tires, wheel rims, front ends or shocks if they’re unlucky enough t ...
  • Health Canada needs to clear the air around to ...
    "According to our mission and vision, Health Canada's goal is for Canada to be among the countries with the healthiest people in the world," the federal department says on its website. Yet it would appear that Health Canada is more concerned with protecting tobacco companies from public scrutiny ...
  • Jolting our way into spring
    Montreal drivers have learned to brace themselves for pothole season - physically and financially. Not only are they jolted as they navigate the city's notoriously pocked roads; they also know they're going to have to pay to fix tires, wheel rims, front ends or shocks if they're unlucky enough t ...
  • Health Canada needs to clear the air around to ...
    “According to our mission and vision, Health Canada’s goal is for Canada to be among the countries with the healthiest people in the world,” the federal department says on its website.

Food World Order

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

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • 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 ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Barnsley By-Election Bombshell: UKIP are the n ...
    A resounding victory for Labour in Barnsley Central was never beyond doubt - irrespective of the circumstances that led to the by-election... ..but nobody could have really foreseen the latest seismic event in British politics... UKIP come SECOND in a first-past-the-post by-election BEATING b ...
  • The ale has gone stale for the Great British Pub
    The Daily Express is reporting that: "Around 1,300 pubs closed across Britain last year, with the loss of 13,000 jobs, said the British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA)." So, the anti-smoking totalitarians who kicked all of us smokers out still refuse to go and spend money in these newly soulles ...
  • www.yetanotherruddyeureferendumcampaign.com
    It all began yesterday. There we were, discussing how to conduct a citizens arrest on Members of Parliament and prosecute them in people's courts under common law for the high crime of treason (okay, we mostly made that one up) when - bam! - from nowhere came... ...yet another 'sign up for ...
  • Bill Cash MP tips defenders of the national co ...
    Now then, fellow national constitution defenders - and you freemen who I so admire... want to see a politician standing up in the House of Commons telling you that you are RIGHT!? That the constitution DOES come first and that statutes have to - lawfully - play second fiddle? This is a gem... ...
  • Sunday Paper Review: 13th March 2011
    It will come as little surprise to anyone that the events in Japan dominate the newspapers this Sunday. As far as this blog is concerned, we avoided comment as there seems little sensible anyone can say. At least we're not sitting there saying the words 'incredible' and/or 'devestation' in ...

Facing South

  • Census Watch: Surprising growth in South's Lat ...
    The growth of Hispanic/Latino communities in Southern states is a story that has unfolded over two decades, but it's still managing to shatter the expectations of demographers and government officials. So far, 2010 Census data has been released for just over half of the Southern states (seven o ...
  • Problematic design of Japan's imperiled nuclea ...
    The nuclear power disaster triggered by the massive earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan on Friday is worsening by the day and raising concerns about nuclear safety in the United States. At the Fukushima 1 Nuclear Power Plant, which is one of the world's largest nuclear power stat ...
  • VOICES: Meet the scandal-plagued billionaire b ...
    By Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest The bond between David Koch and Scott Walker is not the only relationship between a reactionary billionaire and a rightwing politician contaminating the U.S. political scene. Attention also needs to be paid to what's going on between Sheldon Adelson and Ne ...
  • Fort Bragg infant death toll may climb to twelve
    By Joaquin Sapien, ProPublica and Aaron Kessler, Sarasota Herald-Tribune A 12th infant apparently has died of undetermined causes in military housing at Fort Bragg, N.C., and� investigators are now trying to determine whether the death is linked to fumes from contaminated drywall or some othe ...
  • Another citizen lawsuit against a coal company ...
    Environmental watchdogs are taking yet another coal mining company to court over massive violations of the federal Clean Water Act in Kentucky, raising questions about the state's ability to oversee the industry effectively. Nally and Hamilton Enterprises received notice [pdf] yesterd ...

CenterLine

  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Man Charged in UK with Funding Stockholm Suicide Bomber A 30-year-old man, identified by BBC News as Ezedden Khalid Ahmed Al Khaledi, has been charged in a Glasgow court with several terrorism offenses in connection with a December suicide bombing … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Pakistani Court Declines to Rule on Immunity in CIA Case The Lahore High Court has declined to rule on whether a CIA contractor held in Pakistan on suspicion of murder has diplomatic immunity, sending the decision to a lower trial … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Amid Criticism, Rep. King Opens Radicalization Hearings A series of congressional hearings on the radicalization of American Muslims opened Thursday, with at times emotional testimony from seven witnesses, who offered divergent claims – that the the Muslim community is ignoring … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Man Arrested in MLK Parade Bomb Case A man with past ties to a white supremacist group was arrested early Wednesday by federal agents in connection with the bomb found on January 17 along a MLK parade route in Spokane, … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Bombings Kill Scores in Pakistan A suicide bomber attacked the funeral procession for an anti-Taliban tribal elderâs wife in northwest Pakistan Wednesday. Early reports on the death toll from the attack differed, but multiple reports said at least 30 people … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • First Nintendo 3DS TV Commercial for US
    Nintendo 3DS is a portable game console by Nintendo, which can produce 3D effects without the need for any special glasses. Nintendo 3DS is among the early entrants into the market for devices with glassless 3D capabilities along with the likes of LG Optimus 3D smartphone. Following video is sup ...
  • LG Introduces World's First Glassless 3D Phone ...
    Apart from the Nokia-MeeGo fiasco, one another significant thing happened during Mobile World Congress 2011 held at Barcelona, Spain from Feb 14-17, was the introduction of world's first glassless 3D smartphone by LG called Optimus 3D. And to everyone's amazement this incredible phone features 3 ...
  • Awoken 1.9 Icon Set Brings in a Darker Version ...
    AwOken icon theme is among the most downloaded and highly rated icon themes for GNOME and we had no second thoughts while including AwOken in our listing of top 10 most popular Icon themes for Ubuntu GNOME. AwOken version 1.9 brings in a lot of changes that includes a new darker version of the t ...
  • Enable Instant in Chrome's Omnibox for Faster ...
    I am not really sure if this is a new feature on Google Chrome. It might had been there for a long time now. But I only noticed it yesterday and I was totally taken aback. Instant-inside-omnibox is a very useful and very innovative feature in my opinion.� As you can see from the screenshot abo ...
  • 15 Google Chrome Extensions to Help You Save T ...
    Google Chrome extensions have always been a great way to extend the functionality of Google Chrome in tune with the needs of each and every individual. We have featured here before incredible collection of Google Chrome extensions for enhanced security and privacy while browsing and now here is ...

Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

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

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 - ...

electric politics

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

PR News

  • Study: Middle East youth desire democracy
    NEW YORK: Almost 75% of Middle East youth say that the recent unrest, such as in Egypt and Libya, will have a positive impact on the lives of the people in their country, according to a new study released by Burson-Marsteller.
  • Starbucks in early phase of Keurig partnership ...
    SEATTLE: Starbucks is in the early phases of its promotional campaign surrounding the new single-serve partnership with Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (GMCR).
  • Adidas launches largest brand campaign to date
    PORTLAND, OR: Adidas is launching its largest marketing push in brand history this week by combining Sport Performance, Originals, and Sport Style sub-brands into one campaign.
  • Waggener Edstrom previews Social Graph tool
    PORTLAND, OR: Waggener Edstrom Worldwide will provide a preview of its new Social Graph tool at The Social Saloon event tonight at South by Southwest.
  • Dow promotes May to VP of IR
    MIDLAND, MI: Doug May, former VP of energy and climate change, was promoted to VP of investor relations at Dow Chemical.

The Story Behind the Story

  • Great Videos and NUKE Radiation Q&A — PA ...
    This video below is RIGHT ON THE MONEY, in my opinion.  It touches all the bases very well – not the least of which is the gematria coding of 3-11-11 equaling 3-22 and “skull and bones”!!! Next, the “Induction Magnetometer” Readings on the HAARP Alaska installation were “off the charts” prior t ...
  • Japan Disaster Means Economic MELTDOWN for the ...
    This article was posted in May, 2010.  (Emphasis highlighted below!!!) It’s title: The Coming Economic Collapse Of Japan â And Why You Should Be Extremely Concerned About It Most Americans pay very little attention to what is going on in the economies of other nations.  But they should.  The ...
  • HAARP AND DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPONS DEPLOYED &#8 ...
    Here’s the EVENT CONTRACT scheduled for 3-11-11 that we discussed on the radio show. (Nothing to do with Planet X – only HAARP and Energy Pulse weapons causing fish kills along the fault zones). The markets are shocked and stunned this morning – and you can bet that Goldman Sachs will be ringing ...
  • Krista Branch — REMEMBER WHO WE ARE &#82 ...
    It doesn’t get much better than this — Krista Branch hits a nerve – AMERICA WAKE UP NOW!!!  
  • 3-11-11 “Battle for L.A.” Opens in ...
    The Khazarian Controllers of Hollywood have really outdone themselves this time.  Friday, March 11 – the blur between fiction and reality takes another step forward as the “Battle for L.A.” is brought to the silver screen.  Here is a brief trailer: After you watch this trailer, consider the fo ...

k2p blog

  • Fukushima Dai-ichi situation worsening and TEP ...
    The situation at Fukushima Dai-ichi plant is worsening. Workers may have stopped work to contain the crisis due to too high levels of radiation. TEPCO seems to be unsure how to proceed.
  • Reactor #4 at Fukushima Dai-ichi still unstabl ...
    Getting fresh cooling water into the waste fuel pool of reactor #4 of the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant is now becoming very urgent and unless this is achieved the situation could become critical.
  • Does France have special information about Fuk ...
    It could be that France has access to some special information that the problems at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plants are much worse than anything being reported in Japan or by the IAEA, but the almost orchestrated negativity from French media and Agencies about Fukushima is noteworthy.
  • Offshore wind farms drive beaching of whales
    Environmentalists have blamed submarines' sonar and a ground-breaking study has confirmed that sonar does disturb the navigation of whales but it has suggested that offshore wind farms, as well as oil rigs, and even passing ships, posed an even greater threat.
  • Status at Fukishima Dai-ichi and Dai-ni nuclea ...
    1400 CET: Radiation leak risk increases as TEPCO unable to pour water into No. 4 reactor’s storage pool for spent fuel. 1300 CET: Reuters - The International Atomic Energy Agency says Japan has monitored 150 people for radiation levels and carried out decontamination measures on 23 Radiation t ...

Left Foot Forward

  • BMA’s ‘Glasgow Kiss’ for the ...
    Yesterday's series of rebukes of the proposed NHS reforms by the British Medical Association (BMA) represented grassroots members going over the heads of their leaders, who had advised caution.
  • Is Japan facing economic meltdown?
    George Irvin, retired professor of economics and currently (honorary) Professorial Research Fellow in Development Studies at SOAS, looks at the economic impact of the Japanese earthquake/tsunami on Japan and the world.
  • Ten reasons why the ‘Labour No’ ca ...
    The Labour No campaign has recently published an 8-page leaflet containing 10 reasons to say No to AV. Left Foot Forward examines each point in turn.
  • If the West doesn’t act, Gaddafi will ma ...
    The alternative to military action to take out Gaddafi is to stand aside and watch as the tyrant perpetrates a massacre of his own people and Libya risks collapsing into a failed state.
  • Tabloid claims about “181,000 migrants o ...
    Bad news about immigration once again shows itself as being just about the only news the mass circulation papers want to print, writes Migrants Rights' Network director Don Flynn.

Consumerist

  • Morning Deals
    ClothingThe Children's Place: [Kids] Extra 40% Off Sale Items + 15% Off Entire Purchase w/ Coupon D2DTGF3Z2CShop Brothers: [Kids] 30-40% Off Sitewide for Bots6pm: [Clothing & Accessories] 6pm sales: 20% to 65% off The North Face, 20% to 70% off Columbia, more6pm: [Clothing & Accessories] New 6p ...
  • Gap Wants You To Haggle Over Some Khaki Pants
    In what we can only assume is a desperate attempt to make shopping for the world's most boring item fun, the Gap is running a one-day-only promotion where you, the internet-savvy shopper, can haggle over khaki pants while potentially not even wearing any. AdAge explains: The site keeps it sim ...
  • Etsy Finally Listens To Internet, Changes Priv ...
    Whimsy emporium Etsy finally sort of listened to its sellers, customers, and the entire Internet this afternoon when they changed a controversial feature that users claimed was a privacy breach. Users' feedback history on the site is now private, and they can change those settings to become les ...
  • Too Bad Your Dad Died: Now Give Us $363
    Melissa's father passed away at the end of January. She's just now settling his estate, and most companies she has dealt with have been accommodating and understanding. The exception? Verizon Wireless, which told Melissa that it was her fault she hadn't been able to contact them until they sent ...
  • Sears Delivers New Stove, Ends Family's 6 Week ...
    Remember Ian, whose family was stuck with a series of defective Kenmore stoves and hadn't been able to cook at home for six weeks? He reports that Sears delivered a new stove to his house on Saturday, and this one seems to be actually functioning. So far. Hooray! He copied us on his thank-you ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

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

UK Progressive

  • Why Obama Isn’t Fighting the Budget Battle
    In the next week the action moves from Wisconsin to Washington, where the deadline looms for a possible government shutdown over the federal budget. President Obama has to take a more direct and personal role in that budget battle – both for the economy’s sake and for the sake of his re-election ...
  • What Have We Learned From Chernobyl & Can It H ...
    The world watched anxiously as a nuclear emergency unraveled at the Fukushima Daiichi complex, along the ravaged northeastern coast of Japan where operators dumped seawater into 2 reactors in a final cooling effort to prevent a nuclear meltdown. This was after a massive 9.0 magnitude earthquake ...
  • Can U.S. Nuclear Plants Handle a Major Natural ...
    by John Sullivan, Special to ProPublica As engineers in Japan struggle to bring quake-damaged reactors under control, attention is turning to U.S. nuclear plants and their ability to withstand natural disasters. Rep. Ed Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat who has spent years pushing the Nuclear Reg ...
  • VIDEO: Stunning Footage of Japanese Tsunami’s ...
    Of the many horrific Japanese earthquake/tsunami images on television, this clip, in a few short minutes, allows one to see the massive power of a tsunami as the water rises and an entire city is levelled in real time. A centimetre deep trickle of water races down the street and in less than :30 ...
  • The Monday Line: The Death of Video Context
    Last week there was a tempest in Washington DC’s Tea Party pot over remarks made by a senior npr (National Public Radio) fund raising executive at a luncheon purportedly with Muslim investors wishing to make a multimillion dollar contribution to the network. He was instead meeting under false pr ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

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

ReNew America

  • Breakthrough for a taboo-buster
    (Frank Gaffney) - It is not every day that Congress breaks a major taboo and, in so doing, performs a real service to the nation. Last Thursday, however, was one such day when Rep. Peter King, New York Republican, demonstrated impressive leadership in conducting a four-hour hearing on "extremism ...
  • The Obama administration is corrupt and evil
    (Marie Jon, RA analyst) - President Barack Obama exhibits very little to none of the biblical teachings of the Judeo-Christian faith. To this day, he has not become a member of any of the Christian churches in Washington, D.C....
  • Obama calls for stricter enforcement of gun laws
    (Associated Press) - President Barack Obama is calling for more stringent enforcement of existing gun laws, citing the "awful consequences" of gun violence in American society...
  • King-Bachmann pledge: vote 'no' on any CR that ...
    (CNSNews.com) - U.S. Representatives Steve King (R.-Iowa) and Michelle Bachmann (R.-Minn.), two of the leading congressional proponents of the Tea Party movement, have taken a pledge and are asking all other House members to join them in it...
  • Time for war against Democrats' fiscal sabotage
    (David Limbaugh) - It is amazing that the American people would continue to elect Democratic politicians to national office, considering Democrats' cynical disregard for the federal budget crisis. They aren't even slightly serious about becoming part of the solution. Consider the Senate Democrat ...

Truth Offering

  • Truth Offering Podcast with Matt Gordon - Jan. ...
    Here's our second Podcast, this week featuring TruthOffering.com's Matt Gordon and friend of the show/talented musician, Chris Phenom. Chris teamed up with his producer, Robert Maxwell, and created the brand-new theme song for the TruthOffering.com podcast! I think you guys will appreciate, not ...
  • Truth Offering Podcast w/ Matt Gordon - Dec. 1 ...
    Check out our first Podcast featuring TruthOffering.com's Matt Gordon. Topics range from WikiLeaks and Internet censorship, to food freedom and the Federal Reserve. Being that it's our first Podcast, it's a work-in-progress. So, please leave any and all feedback. Thanks...and enjoy: �
  • A Nation of Cowardly, Morally-Bankrupt Sheep
    Sheep are led to slaughter. They are controlled from birth to death. They are oppressed. And once they are controlled, they will never again be free. WE are a nation of SHEEP! Note: this isn't for the faint of heart. I'm frustrated! Why!? Because I care. I care deeply; about this country; about ...
  • The False Flag Cyber Attack Takedown of the In ...
    Here are some of today's top shock headlines: "Army of hackers targets the Swedish government, Sarah Palin and credit card giants in WikiLeaks 'Operation: Payback'" - The Daily Mail "Hackers Rise for WikiLeaks" - Wall Street Journal "WikiLeaks backers hit MasterCard and Visa in cyberstrike" - ...
  • S. 510: The Death of Food Freedom Act
    In the world of liberty lovers and food freedom fighters, there's been a ton of attention lately on Senate bill S.510 -- the deceitfully-named, "Food Safety Modernization Act [1]." But in the mainstream media, there's been but a whimper; a pathetic trickle of occasional, fleeting and understated ...

2012 Blog

  • New Sinkhole / John Perkins / Asteroid Satellite
    This time the sinkhole is in Germany, measuring 30 meters across, and 20 meters deep. Six houses were evacuated. Photo over at a News Corp site. Author John Perkins (Confessions of an Economic Hit Man) has posted his thoughts on 2012 at the Huffington Post. He explains how the 2012 meme has beco ...
  • Hardened Shelters Owner Interview
    This screened on Australian breakfast TV last week: Link: http://au.tv.yahoo.com/sunrise/video/-/watch/24323859/bunker-buy-up/ Related posts:december212012.com – Beautiful Site, Deluded Owner New 2012 Social Network Chinese Air Raid Shelters / LHC in 2012 / Mzora Stone Circle Related posts:dec ...
  • New Christchurch Quake Predicted
    Popular long-range weather forecaster Ken Ring is warning that a second jolt will hit the already-devastated South Island city on March 20. “If I lived in Christchurch, I’d get out for a few days over that time, go camping, visit friends, just get out and keep safe,” he said.  “And if you don’t ...
  • Migrating Pole / Wood on Iceberg / Kaku on Yel ...
    Numbers can be presented in many ways. But given that the movement of the magnetic north pole is in a singular direction, all that matters is the speed. This graph is compelling: Unlike climate change data, this is the entire available data, no selective windows here. This photo is doing the rou ...
  • Zahi Hawass Quits?
    On his blog, Dr Zahi Hawass explains why he has resigned from his position of Minister of State for Antiquities Affairs. While there are suggestions and rumours that he was asked to leave, Hawass says it is because he no longer trusts some of his colleagues in light of recent thefts/lootings: Th ...

Facing South

  • Census Watch: Surprising growth in South's Lat ...
    The growth of Hispanic/Latino communities in Southern states is a story that has unfolded over two decades, but it's still managing to shatter the expectations of demographers and government officials. So far, 2010 Census data has been released for just over half of the Southern states (seven o ...
  • Problematic design of Japan's imperiled nuclea ...
    The nuclear power disaster triggered by the massive earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan on Friday is worsening by the day and raising concerns about nuclear safety in the United States. At the Fukushima 1 Nuclear Power Plant, which is one of the world's largest nuclear power stat ...
  • VOICES: Meet the scandal-plagued billionaire b ...
    By Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest The bond between David Koch and Scott Walker is not the only relationship between a reactionary billionaire and a rightwing politician contaminating the U.S. political scene. Attention also needs to be paid to what's going on between Sheldon Adelson and Ne ...
  • Fort Bragg infant death toll may climb to twelve
    By Joaquin Sapien, ProPublica and Aaron Kessler, Sarasota Herald-Tribune A 12th infant apparently has died of undetermined causes in military housing at Fort Bragg, N.C., and� investigators are now trying to determine whether the death is linked to fumes from contaminated drywall or some othe ...
  • Another citizen lawsuit against a coal company ...
    Environmental watchdogs are taking yet another coal mining company to court over massive violations of the federal Clean Water Act in Kentucky, raising questions about the state's ability to oversee the industry effectively. Nally and Hamilton Enterprises received notice [pdf] yesterd ...

One News Page

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Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • Libya: A Counterrevolution, or a Twitter Aircr ...
    Sergei Shashkov (Russia) Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. Ernest Benn The global process initiated by the United States to protect its “national interests,” strengthen its dominant position ...
  • With Their Fists Clenched: The Protest Potenti ...
    Nil Nikandrov (Russia) It will take time to really grasp the significance of the uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, and other Arab countries, but at least one thing is already clear: the younger generation played the key role in the developments. Fairly similar discontent is brewing in the Western hem ...
  • The West’s Most Convincing Argument
    Dmitry Sedov (Russia) The statement made by NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen that the alliance is not going to launch an operation in Libya without UN blessing grabbed the headlines. Rasmussen did voice extreme concern over the situation in the country and expressed the view that the ...
  • The Last Victory of Muammar Gaddafi
    *** On March 6, 2010 it became clear that the Libyan regime has defeated the internal uprising and suspended the chaotization of the Arab world. A routine clandestine mission by a British diplomat protected by 8 SAS officers to the eastern base of Libyan opposition ended up with their detention ...
  • Geopolitical Dimension of the Rebellion in Yemen
    Vladislav Gulevich (Ukraine) A tide of extremism is sweeping across Yemen. Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the group seeking to overthrow the pro-Western regimes in Yemen and the nearby Saudi Arabia, is regarded as the number one terrorist force in the region. The group’s activity increasingl ...

BlogHer

  • Breakfast Muffins: The Classic and the Unusual
    I have a very soft spot for muffins. They are so easy to make that muffins were the very first thing I taught myself how to cook -- yet people think well of you for doing it from scratch. They make the house smell good, and you can whip them up at night, grab one in the morning and eat it on the ...
  • First Lady to Break Ground on Third Season of ...
    On Wednesday, First Lady Michelle Obama will take part in the third planting of the White House Kitchen Garden. The garden has served as a touchpoint and centerpiece for Obama's campaign to reduce childhood obesity and improve eating habits for all Americans, but particularly for America's child ...
  • Does Depression Make Dads Spank Their 1-Year-Olds?
    Most depressed dads spank their young children, and depression is the reason they do it. At least, that's what this week's headlines would have you believe. A recent study found that 41% of depressed dads spanked their one-year-old during the prior month. That's not good. I can't see a reason ...
  • Dear E-books, I Kind of Want to Quit You
    As I look at my relationship with e-books I'm starting to considering writing them a "Dear John" letter. Dear e-books, it's not me. It's you. Oh, there are still many things I love about e-books but lately my frustrations are reaching a level where I'm almost considering giving them up. There ...
  • Bloggy Guidelines for New Bloggers
    I'm not exactly sure why, but these past few weeks I've had at least five or six new bloggers email me and ask me for tips and suggestions to help them grow their blogs. I can't be sure, but I think it's because I've been doing several guest posts on other blogs, and also because of my weekly fe ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Japanese Meltdown Now Means Detrimental Health ...
    Immediately after the initial wake of the recent tragic events in Japan, reports of nuclear meltdowns surfaced but the damaging effects were downplayed by the Japanese government. Attempts to cool the reactors with seawater have ...
  • U.S. Still Using Toxic Dyes Left Out of U.K. Goods
    In a never ending pursuit for profit, American companies like Kellog, Kraft and General Mills continue to use dangerous food dyes despite reports linking the chemicals to some types of cancer and causing childhood problems ...
  • Best To Think Positive: Pessimism Can Block Th ...
    Which came first? The healing or the doctor telling you you would be healed? This information is not so much about pessimism blocking therapy as it is about the power of suggestion. Brain scans can ...
  • Food Crisis & Triumph (Part 3) Success of Alte ...
    In part three of the this Food Crisis & Triumph mini-series you will read more about what alternative markets are, what they mean for you, and what to avoid. In addition to your health and ...
  • Shameful past of medical trials prompts new US ...
    Information about disturbing past medical experimentations is just now surfacing the mainstream circuit, but might not be news to those who have fought injustices like these for decades. The government finally apologizes for the 1940′s ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • WVDEP’s Randy Huffman blasts Environment ...
    While I was talking to WVDEP Secretary Randy Huffman yesterday about a variety of issues, the conversation turned to the ruling last week in which the state Environmental Quality Board ordered Huffman’s agency to for the first time include discharge limits for conductivity in a strip-mining perm ...
  • Sen. Rockefeller continues push to block clima ...
    This just in from the office of Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va.: Senator Jay Rockefeller this evening filed an amendment that would suspend Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulation of greenhouse gases from stationary sources for two years. The amendment, which mirrors his legislation (S. ...
  • Citizens seek to reopen special reclamation fu ...
    Lawyers for the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy earlier today filed papers seeking to reopen their federal court lawsuit over our state’s troubled special reclamation fund, the program aimed at cleaning up mine sites abandoned since passage of the federal strip-mining law. I’ve posted a cop ...
  • Massey security chief pleads not guilty
    The security chief at Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch Mine has pleaded not guilty to charges that he lied to federal investigators and tried to destroy documents sought by government teams looking into the April 2010 explosion that killed 29 workers. Hughie Elbert Stover entered his plea Tuesda ...
  • Air pollution update: Emission rules due this week
    Amid the continued congressional attacks on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Clean Air Act,  the EPA is due this week  to issue its proposed new rules to reduce emissions of mercury and other toxic pollutants from coal-fired power plants. EPA agreed to propose the rules on Wedne ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Typography Deconstruction Letterpress Poster
    via typographydeconstructed.com Mmmmm….typography…I wish I could do my site in Futura. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsSan Francisco Psychological Map by Wendy MacNaughtonConan O’Brien Kinetic TypographyI must not copy what I see on the Simpsons | BanksyThis is ...
  • Quicksilver is Back
    via qsapp.com The Quicksliver project is back! Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsI must not copy what I see on the Simpsons | BanksyAnother Approach to Weightlifting | Men’s HealthTypography Deconstruction Letterpress PosterTexas BBQThis is a ProblemAnother TimeWh ...
  • Instapaper 3.0
    Instapaper 3.0 has just arrived on the App Store, bringing new social features, search, a smart rotation lock, and an improved storage engine that enables higher image quality and faster downloads. Instapaper has removed starring and replaced it with a Facebook-esque “like” feature. You can now ...
  • Conan O’Brien Kinetic Typography
    via vimeo.com Inspiration + Typography. Mmm. Message plus delivery. Content plus interface. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsDigital DJ UIDigital GraffitiPlaying With LightSpace BattlesCloud Surfing with NikonStephen Fry on Life LessonsInsane French Women
  • Google launches API Explorer
    Google today launched the Google API Explorer, a tool that lets developers explore the application programming interfaces the company has made available and even test the API functions without leaving the app. The API Explorer supports the Buzz, Custom Search, Diacritize, Moderator, Shopping, Tr ...

Fitwatch

  • Fit in trouble again
    Forward intelligence policing is once again in the media spotlight after news today that a complaint has been launched by a 20 year old student, who claims not only was he falsely, and violent arrested - he sustained a chipped tooth during the arrest- but also the arresting FIT officer colluded ...
  • Domestic extremists or domestic goddesses?
    This brilliant video was made by the Aldermaston Women's Peace Camp - the following text, is taken from their website During 2010 AWPC was under more overt surveillance than usual. From February, the women's camp was targeted with intrusive police photography. Camp made a formal complaint about ...
  • Activist reports recent encounter with Mark Ke ...
    Fitwatch has been passed the following statement relating to an encounter by an activist with the ex-undercover cop, Mark Kennedy. Mark Kennedy encountered in London Last week ex-undercover police spy Mark Kennedy was encountered by chance by an activist who was an erstwhile friend. Kennedy was ...
  • Legal Advice Drop-In for Student/Anti-Cuts Arr ...
    From LDMG: Legal Defence & Monitoring Group (LDMG) and Offmarket Infoshop in Hackney, London will now be offering a regular legal drop-in session for all those arrested on the Student Demonstrations or Anti-Cuts Actions. We will be able to offer: * Entirely free, confidential legal advice coming ...
  • Manchester demo – police use s50 powers ...
    We have received this account from an eye-witness in Manchester. Police have abused ASBO legislation to obtain the personal details of anti-cuts demonstrators. Manchester police ended a day of orderly rallies and breakout groups of protesters by abusing legislation on anti-social behaviour in or ...

Worldwide Hippies

  • This Guy Really Hates The Drug War
    Seattle Man Changes His Name To ‘Fuck The Drug War’ | Toke Of The Town A King County, Washington resident has legally changed his name to “Fuck The Drug War.” A district judge signed off on the name change petition last Friday from a man whose name was previously “Fuck Censorship,” reports Josh ...
  • America: Gun Crazy
    Americans Buy a Close to 1 Million Guns in February 2011 | Ammoland Could this be another record year for gun purchases? February NSSF-Adjusted NICS Background Checks Up 13.6% The February 2011 NSSF-adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) figure of 963,746 is an increas ...
  • Ultimate Frisbee Team: Diss-tances Hippies. &# ...
    WWH -Interesting, how Hippie bashing is used to build one’s self or group up. I read and hear it often. But this article,”You know man, is just too far out”! The writer tries to distance the sport of Ultimate Frisbee from Hippies. – “I’d have to say we’re definitely pretty un-hippie-ish…” The ...
  • Wisconsin: Vote, But Only If You’re A Re ...
    Wisconsin GOP to bar Dems from voting in senate committee meetings | Daily Kos This is insane: Fitzgerald: Dem senators won’t be allowed to vote in committees Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald wrote this afternoon in an email to his caucus that Senate Dems remain in contempt of the Senate ...
  • Stand up. Speak Out.
    WWH- There has been a lot going on in the world during the past couple of weeks. Sometimes, it’s hard to take it all in and sometimes it scares the hell out of us. I suspect our government and the powers that be like it or prefer us to be in a state of fear. [...]

reference frame

  • NASA's Richard Hoover: alien life fossils on m ...
    A few months ago, many of us got excited by claims about the arsenic-based life which began to look much less likely moments later. But that doesn't mean that we should become completely deaf towards similar big claims. A condom used by the creatures living inside meteorites, or ...
  • Radioactivity: sieverts and other units
    Unfortunately, the nuclear crisis in Japan hasn't managed to converge closer to its end on Tuesday: quite on the contrary, some people might say that it got out of control. I have only passed one course in "applied nuclear energy" - as an undergrad in Prague - but I have also studied t ...
  • The New York Times praise David Koch
    The New York Times have celebrated the philanthropy of David Koch (70): Cancer Research Before Activism, Billionaire Conservative Donor SaysThe MIT is opening the new David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research (see picture above); he has donated $100 million to it. ...
  • Tevatron: Higgs mass probably between 114 and ...
    Fermilab Today has informed us about the latest verdict of the Illinois collider center about the Higgs mass. The chart looks like this: You see that the masses below 114 GeV are excluded by direct searches by LEP, the European collider who lived in the same tunnel as the LHC bef ...
  • La Nina weakened, likely to be gone before Summer
    According to the most recent NOAA's weekly ENSO report, the NINO 3.4 index weakened from -1.3 or so a week ago (and from -1.8 in the early October 2010) to -1.0. In fact, the NOAA folks think that the ongoing La Nina episode will end and ENSO-neutral conditions will retu ...

No Frakking Consensus

  • Peer into the Heart of the IPCC, Find Greenpeace
    The mere presence of environmental activists undermines the integrity of scientific endeavours. Yet the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has long embraced Greenpeace personnel.
  • Was the Fix In Before the IPCC Existed?
    In 1970s and 80s some scientists already believed human CO2 emissions would cause global warming. How do we know the IPCC's 2007 conclusions weren't preordained?
  • Dr Nadelhoffer, I’m Not Impressed
    An expert who testified to Congress this week reached well beyond his own scientific expertise. By advocating a particular response to climate change he brings science into disrepute.
  • The EPA and the Canadian Climate Modeler
    Why did a Canadian expert fly 2,500 miles across three time zones to testify in Washington, DC this week when there are plenty of US experts? And who footed the bill?
  • Fiddling While Infants Perish
    13 times as many children die before their first birthday in Rwanda as in Canada or the UK. Most people live below the poverty line, and 3 out of 10 are illiterate. Yet a UN official says Rwanda has demonstrated "leadership" by banning plastic bags.

Tarpley

  • Behind the 2011 Orgy of Destabilizations: Pre- ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net March 15, 2011 Washington DC, March 15, 2011 – In the late winter of 2011, governments were for a few weeks falling like bowling pins all across the Middle East and far beyond. We are witnessing a massive orgy of deliberate destabilizations of previous clie ...
  • US-UK Imperialist Rampage Envelops Libya in Ci ...
    Webster G. Tarpley on The Alex Jones Show Infowars March 1, 2011 download file Coast to Coast AM tonight from 2am to 5am eastern
  • Webster Tarpley will be interviewed Tuesday ni ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net March 1, 2011 Check you local radio station for the exact time. Listen and call in! Locate Radio Stations Near You Call Number: 800-618-8255 First Time Caller: 818-501-4721 � � �
  • Wisconsin Gop Governor in Neofascist Union-Bus ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net February 20, 2011 Washington DC, Feb. 20, 2011 – After four decades of disillusionment, and demoralization, disorientation and rout of the labor movement, the mass strike is once again abroad in the land. In dozens of state capitals, reactionary Republican ...
  • Mubarak Toppled by CIA Because He Opposed US P ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net February 18, 2011 Washington DC, Feb. 18, 2011 — There never was an “Egyptian revolution,” but rather a behind-the-scenes military putsch by a junta of CIA puppet generals who evidently could not succeed in their goal of ousting Hosni Mubarak without the hel ...

Modern Survivalism

  • Ops Center Open, “Response Teams on Stan ...
    credit: NBC BAY AREA Responding to a question regarding the appropriateness of the opening of the California Joint Emergency Operations Center in response to the radiation leak in Japan, U.S. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin said today in San Francisco, “We have to be prepared”. She went on to sa ...
  • Civility During Japanese Disaster
    One thing that I have noticed throughout the terrible disaster in Japan so far, is how well behaved the Japanese people seem to have been. The images and video that I’ve seen from media outlets in Japan, including those replayed on U.S. media outlets, nowhere have I seen or heard reports of unre ...
  • Jet-Stream Animation, Japan to USA, Fallout?
    300 mb Jet-Stream, approximately 30,000 feet elevation Given the concern by some regarding possible radioactive Fallout contamination making its way from Japan across the Pacific Ocean, 4,500 miles to California and the west coast of the United States, we will keep an updated 5-day forecast loop ...
  • Fukushima Reactor No.2, THE most Vulnerable Design
    The nuclear power reactor of Unit No. 2 at the Fukushima I (Daiichi) power plant, is a General Electric Boiling Water Reactor (BWR) completed during 1974. The containment designs are referred to by the names Mark I (oldest), Mark II, and Mark III (newest). The No. 2 reactor at Fukushima Daiichi ...
  • West Coast USA Danger IF Japan Nuclear Reactor ...
    “If they can’t restore power to the plant (and cool the reactor), then there’s the possibility of some sort of core meltdown”. An alarming statement made by James Acton, a physicist who examined Japan’s Kashiwazaki nuclear plant after a 2007 earthquake, who told CNN that Japanese authorities are ...

Fast Company

  • Three Cleantech Open Alumni Startups to Watch
    Last week, Fast Company had the chance to sit in on a venture-capital pitch session featuring a number of startups that have in the past participated in the Cleantech Open, a series of competitions that provides funding and advice to cleantech startups. Below, we look at three of the companies ...
  • Google Promises to Keep Counterfeiters Out of ...
    Conscious that as leader in online advertising its systems sometimes contain ads to illicit services, Google is tightening up its policies.Just as the U.S. authorities tighten up their stance against piracy and counterfeiting online, Google has revealed that it's taking a number of steps to "tun ...
  • Netflix May Offer Original Programming: Change ...
    In what would position Netflix as an even bigger threat to the major cable players, the company might soon offer original programming, according to Deadline Hollywood. The streaming TV and movie powerhouse has reportedly outbid networks from HBO to AMC for the rights to the David Fincher and K ...
  • Internet Explorer Director: HTML5 Will Revolut ...
    Last week, Mozilla VP of products Jay Sullivan indicated that HTML5 would eventually replace Adobe Flash. Along with Mozilla Firefox, every browser maker out there seems to be jumping on the bandwagon of HTML5, a term that has become the most overused buzzword in the tech industry. But HTM ...
  • PepsiCo to Coke: Our 100% PlantBottle Is 70% P ...
    Coca-Cola made headlines in 2009 when it introduced the PlantBottle, a beverage bottle made from petroleum-based materials and 30% plant-based materials. The company's ultimate goal has been to make a 100% plant-based bottle--but now PepsiCo has beaten it to the punch.PepsiCo, who's in the mid ...

Jadaliyya

  • Darker Than Black Tuesday [Notes From the Bahr ...
    Amid an atmosphere of extreme tension a number of Asian men, mostly from Pakistan, have reportedly been attacked with swords and iron rods during the last two days. The government seems to have taken up their cause to point blame at opposition protesters although as of yet the circumstan ...
  • Solidarity and Intervention in Libya
    The Libyan uprising is entering its fourth week. The courage and persistence of the Libyan people�s efforts to overthrow al-Qaddafi have been met with ongoing regime brutality ranging from shoot-to-kill policies to the indiscriminate use of artillery against unarmed civilians. When we la ...
  • Bahraini Protesters to Obama: Foreign Troops U ...
    [This is a public letter addressed to US President Barack Obama from by protesters in Bahrain under the name �Movement of 14 February.� The letter was circulated on March 15, 2011] Mr President, You certainly know about the Saudi and other gulf troops arriving to Bahrain to aid the go ...
  • Bahraini Protestors to Obama: Foreign Troops U ...
    [This is a public letter addressed to US President Barack Obama from by protesters in Bahrain under the name �Movement of 14 February.� The letter was circulated on March 15, 2011] Mr President, You certainly know about the Saudi and other gulf troops arriving to Bahrain to aid the go ...
  • More Than a "Personal Error of Judgment": Seif ...
    �Seif is committed to resolving contentious international and domestic issues through dialogue, debate, and peaceful negotiations.� These were the words with which Professor David Held introduced a public lecture by Seif al-Islam al-Gaddafi at the London School of Economics (LSE) in 2009 ...

mediagazer

  • Reel China: Hollywood tries to stay on China's ...
    Los Angeles Times: Reel China: Hollywood tries to stay on China's good side  —  Without Beijing even uttering a critical word, MGM is changing the villains in its ‘Red Dawn’ remake from Chinese to North Korean.  It's all about maintaining access to the Asian superpower's lucrative box office.
  • Facebook Takes Another Swing At Web Video: Liv ...
    Peter Kafka / MediaMemo: Facebook Takes Another Swing At Web Video: Live Streaming Major League Baseball  —  Last week, you could rent a movie on Facebook.  Today, you can watch a live pro baseball game on the site.  —  Still think Facebook can't be a big player in Web video?  —  You can watch ...
  • Why Missouri's J-School Should Rethink Its App ...
    MediaShift: Why Missouri's J-School Should Rethink Its Approach to Twitter  —  Do you check the official Twitter feed for the Missouri School of Journalism on a regular basis?  Probably not, based on its dismal number of followers.  —  As of today, the official Twitter account of Mizzou's J-Sc ...
  • As Seventeen Goes Upscale, Can It Keep Its Rea ...
    Lucia Moses / Adweek: As Seventeen Goes Upscale, Can It Keep Its Readers?  —  Teen mag putting new emphasis on luxury fashion  —  Seventeen has been a reliably mainstream read for teen girls, but its readers will now have to dig deeper to pull off some of its looks, because the magazine is mak ...
  • Publisher Limits Shelf Life for Library E-Book ...
    Julie Bosman / New York Times: Publisher Limits Shelf Life for Library E-Books  —  Imagine the perfect library book.  Its pages don't tear.  Its spine is unbreakable.  It can be checked out from home.  And it can never get lost.  —  The value of this magically convenient library book — otherwi ...

Chemtrail News

  • Is this a chemtrail(s)?
    Discussion about Is this a chemtrail(s)? at the GodlikeProductions Conspiracy Forum. Our topics include Conspiracy Theory, Secret Societies, UFOs and more!www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1393988/pg1
  • Royal Wedding April 29th 2011 Chemtrails
    Myself and the people that understand and observe chemtrail operations on ... Weve been dragged into this jetliner contrail chemtrail facade for far too ...www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread674423/pg1
  • The difference between a CHEMTRAIL and ...
    Discussion about The difference between a CHEMTRAIL and CONTRAIL! at the GodlikeProductions Conspiracy Forum. Our topics include Conspiracy Theory, ...www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1384518/pg1
  • Chemtrail question, nothing major., page 1
    If chemtrails are real. Is there any proof of them being used to place sound buffers in the air. I read how they can be used to block certain SOL related ...www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread671093/pg1
  • Chemtrail haze over Florida | Flickr - ...
    You can see a little video I shot later in this same day of a chemtrail sunset. www.youtube.com/user/PlowedClouds?feature=mhum#p/a/u/0/E4.www.flickr.com/photos/stacyflower/5513145944/

World News - Top Stories

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

no frakking consensus

  • Peer into the Heart of the IPCC, Find Greenpeace
    The mere presence of environmental activists undermines the integrity of scientific endeavours. Yet the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has long embraced Greenpeace personnel.
  • Was the Fix In Before the IPCC Existed?
    In 1970s and 80s some scientists already believed human CO2 emissions would cause global warming. How do we know the IPCC's 2007 conclusions weren't preordained?
  • Dr Nadelhoffer, I’m Not Impressed
    An expert who testified to Congress this week reached well beyond his own scientific expertise. By advocating a particular response to climate change he brings science into disrepute.
  • The EPA and the Canadian Climate Modeler
    Why did a Canadian expert fly 2,500 miles across three time zones to testify in Washington, DC this week when there are plenty of US experts? And who footed the bill?
  • Fiddling While Infants Perish
    13 times as many children die before their first birthday in Rwanda as in Canada or the UK. Most people live below the poverty line, and 3 out of 10 are illiterate. Yet a UN official says Rwanda has demonstrated "leadership" by banning plastic bags.

Pointman's

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

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • First National Conference of Formerly Incarcer ...
    From our friends at Black Agenda Report: A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by Black Agenda Report managing editor Bruce A. Dixon In the spirit of those brave and selfless Georgia prisoners who stood up for their human rights last December, formerly incarcerated people from across the country ...
  • Questions on NOPDs Training on First Amendment
    From our friends at ACLU of Louisiana: Interference With Photographing Police Action Prompts Request for Public Records Concerned about repeated interference with the public's right to photograph police conduct, the ACLU of Louisiana has send a request to Superintendent Ronal Serpas seeking ...
  • Lawsuit Alleges Prisoner Abuse at Tangipahoa P ...
    From our friends at the ACLU of Louisiana: Roger Mason is a 52-year-old man with Schizophrenia. On August 18, 2009, Mr. Mason was arrested and placed in Tangipahoa Parish Prison. Despite clear evidence of Mr. Mason’s mental illness, the prison staff provided grossly inadequate care to him for ...
  • Alabama to Host Historic Meeting of Formerly I ...
    Reprinted From Change.org: From February 28th -- March 2nd, Alabama will play host to formerly incarcerated activists from across the country as they convene in an effort to organize what may well be our nation's next major civil rights movement. The conference, which is being organized by a ste ...
  • A “Southern” Tradition: Unmasking Issues of R ...
    Proposing a Series of Conversations on the Past, Present, and Future of Southern University at New Orleans By Tracie L. Washington, Esq On Tuesday, Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) ordered a study of the feasibility of merging Southern University at New Orleans (SUNO) and the University of New Orleans ...

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 ...

Gyrovague's Raves

  • The Sleeping Cure
    Iâd seen four shrinks in my life, and theyâd all dozed off mid-session. Was it themâor me? I went back to find out. By Stephen Metcalf Illustrations by Istvan Banyai After I was expelled from boarding school, kicked out one month shy of graduation for boozing and for a condition that might best ...
  • Can the Brain Explain Your Mind?
    Colin McGinn Is studying the brain a good way to understand the mind? Does psychology stand to brain anatomy as physiology stands to body anatomy? In the case of the body, physiological functionsâwalking, breathing, digesting, reproducing, and so onâare closely mapped onto discrete bodily organs ...
  • Half of Germany’s doctors prescribe placebos
    PRESCRIPTIONS of placebos are booming in Germany and Switzerland, reveals a report released last week by the German Medical Association (GMA). For example, 53 per cent of the doctors from the Medical University of Hannover said they would prescribe placebos such as vitamin pills and homeopathic ...
  • Antibiotics may make fighting flu harder
    Drugs hit beneficial bacteria that keep immune system alert By Tina Hesman Saey Taking antibiotics when they arenât necessary could make the flu or other viral infections worse, a new study suggests. Mice on antibiotics canât fight the flu as well as mice that havenât taken the drugs, say resear ...
  • Lower Education
    Sex toys and academic freedom at Northwestern. By JOSEPH EPSTEIN Northwestern University, the school at which I taught for 30 years, has been visited by a delicious little scandal. A tenured professor, teaching a heavily attended undergraduate course on human sexuality, decided to bring in a wom ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

Gaea Times

  • ?Neanderthals shopped at stone-age Tiffany?s? ...
    LONDON - In 1959 in the Grotte du Renne in central France, archaeologists found a wide range of ornaments and tools, indicating the existence of a stone-age Tiffany’s, but a new study has disproved that theory. University of Oxford researchers have shown that the artefacts were jumbled up with ...
  • Laser surgery for long-sightedness to make spe ...
    LONDON - Conventionally, laser surgery tackles shortsightedness, but doctors are now using laser treatment to restore 20/20 vision in those suffering from long-sightedness too. By the age of 50, most adults find they can’t read a menu, book or newspaper without holding it at arm’s length. Th ...
  • Elusive green comet Hartley 2 will be visible ...
    WASHINGTON - Hartley 2, the comet that was discovered in 1986 by Australian astronomer Malcolm Hartley, has been shrouded in mystery for a very long time, but today it will make its closest pass, offering prime viewing via binoculars and telescopes. Hartley 2 will be passing the brilliant star ...
  • New fluorescent light surface may kill MRSA
    WASHINGTON - Scientists at the University of New Mexico are working on a new type of antimicrobial surface which, equipped with fluorescent lights, would be able to fight off prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection. The new polymer-type material, “conjugated ...
  • It?s official! Booze impairs decision-making
    WASHINGTON - It is well known that alcohol alters behaviour, but surprisingly it is not well studied at the brain level. However, a new research shows that certain areas in the brain associated with error processing are significantly affected by the effects of alcohol. According to Beth Anders ...

TruthNews Australia

  • Radiation levels and their effects
    There's been alot of talk in the news lately about radiation levels, yet most people, including myself, have little idea of what these numbers really mean in terms of health risks. News reports today have indicated that radiation levels in Tokyo have been recorded at 20X the normal background ...
  • Tsunami engulfs northern Japan
    Shocking video shows a huge tsunami racing across the countryside near Sendai, Japan, sweeping away farms and houses. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHtvA-lIksU
  • Interview with Bob McIlvaine at Ground Zero
    On 12 January 2011 I met with Bob McIlvaine at 1 Liberty Plaza next to Manhattan's Ground Zero. Together we visited the Family Room, a special place dedicated to the memories of all those who died on 11 September 2001. Afterwards I spoke to Bob about his ongoing activism for 9/11 truth, ...
  • The Oklahoma bombing revisited: interview with ...
    Before 9/11 there was the Oklahoma bombing - a devastating terrorist attack which killed 168 people, including 19 children under the age of 6. The attack took place on April 19, 1995 and was quickly pinned on Gulf War veteran Timothy McVeigh who, it is said, planned and executed the attacks with ...
  • Aussies Wanna KISS!
    Tonight we welcome Rachel Emmes, author of “AUSSIES wanna KISS” (Keep It Simple Stupid), a new book which outlines problems and suggests solutions to the growing power of the "corporatocracy" and loss of true democracy in Australia. This is a very important interview which we urge you to shar ...

Beacon

  • Get Your Copy of ‘Oceana’ the Book
    Oceana board member and actor Ted Danson’s new book, “Oceana: Our Endangered Oceans and What We Can Do to Save Them,” hits the streets today. Here’s Ted on the Today Show this morning talking about the book: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
  • Chilean Congress Advances Shark Finning Ban
    Shark fins. © Oceana/LX Excellent news for sharks in Chile: Last week the Fisheries Committee of the Chilean Senate voted unanimously to advance legislation that would ban shark finning. Oceana helped promote the bill, which now heads to the Senate for a vote. Of the 30 species of sharks c ...
  • Earthquake and Tsunami Hit Japan
    The most powerful earthquake in recorded history to hit Japan struck on Friday, triggering a deadly tsunami that is destroying coastal towns and killing hundreds. The quake also caused trouble for two Japanese nuclear power plants, causing a fire at one and issues with cooling at another. Gove ...
  • International Talks Underway to Protect North ...
    Paragorgia coral, aka bubblegum coral, at the Pratt seamount. © NOAA The U.S. government is nearing the conclusion of international negotiations for the management of fisheries on the high seas of the North Pacific Ocean. These quiet talks have been ongoing since April 2006 and are likely t ...
  • Make a Bid to Save the Earth
    On March 29th, for the second year running, Oceana will benefit from Christie�s Green Auction, along with NRDC, Central Park Conservancy and Conservation International. There are some fantastic items already up for bid online, including a chance to meet Lady Gaga, an eco-vacation in the Maldive ...

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