18 March - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

World Wide Hippies

• Dillard’s Hosts Anti-Abortion Fund Raiser
  Don’t Shop Dillard’s! | Daily Kos Oh boy, now I am royally pi**ed off. Dillard’s department store, where I USED TO SHOP BEFORE TODAY, will sponsor an anti-abortion fundraiser in Houston. According to the article, advocates will meet for “prayer”, lunch and “spring wear.” Dillard’s will be prov ...
• Malaysian police recover 700,000 stolen condom ...
  KUALA LUMPUR | businessweek – Malaysian police say they have recovered about 700,000 condoms that were stolen while being shipped to Japan two months ago. Mohamad Shukri Dahlan, police chief of Malaysia’s northern Perak state, says authorities found hundreds of boxes of condoms at a warehouse an ...
• Corporate Money
  The Corporate Stash | Counter Punch Two and a half years have passed since Lehman Brothers collapsed and US consumers are still digging out. Last Thursday, the Fed released its “flow of funds” report which showed that households had trimmed their debt to $13.3 trillion in the forth quarter (4Q). ...
• Pittsburgh in the 60’s
  Sticks and Stones… Oh I’m in a name calling frame of mind. Trouble is, I don’t call people names. Well, hardly ever and never to their face. Usually just out loud when no one is around. I dislike confrontations and I really try to never hurt anyone’s feelings. That doesn’t make me a better perso ...
• Did US Pay “Blood Money” For CIA A ...
  US denies paying blood money for CIA killer | ABC.AU American officials have denied paying any “blood money” to buy the freedom of the CIA operative at the centre of a diplomatic stalemate with Pakistan. Raymond Davis was freed from jail overnight just hours after being indicted on two murder ch ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

• Rick Snyder's "Shared Sacrifice": Michigan's W ...
  Michigan's tax system is already regressive -- meaning that poorer people pay a higher tax rate than the wealthy. But Governor Rick Snyder has decided that it's just not regressive enough. So in the name of "shared sacrifice," he wants to hike the tax rate on poor and working Michiganders, while ...
• VIDEO: Bus leaves Kalamazoo to protest Gov. Sn ...
  People talk about why they are going to Lansing to take part in protests against Gov. Rick Snyder's proposals, including bills that would give emergency financial managers the power to terminate labor contracts, proposed cuts to education funding and tax policy changes.
• The Forbes 400 vs. Everybody Else
  According to the most recent information, the Forbes 400 now have a greater net worth than the bottom 50% of U.S. households combined. In 2009, the total net worth of the Forbes 400 was $1.27 trillion. The best information now available shows that in 2009 the bottom 60% (yes, now it's 60%, n ...
• Cairo in Wisconsin
  The call reportedly arrived from Cairo. Pizza for the protesters, the voice said. It was Saturday, February 20th, and by then Ian's Pizza on State Street in Madison, Wisconsin, was overwhelmed. One employee had been assigned the sole task of answering the phone and taking down orders. An ...
• VIDEO: Hear the Voices of Thompson
  Blair Hudson: 'This Will Have a Huge Ripple Effect' Anita Campbell: 'I Will Always Consider Thompson My Home' Craig Costello: 'High-Paying Jobs Leaving Town' Sheila Thompson: 'It Will Be Hard for Me to Start Over' Gloria Jacobs: 'It Can Happen Anywhere' Nuno Pereira: 'We All Have to Put Li ...

Salon

• Ex-regulator flacking for pro-nuke lobby
  A man who spent a decade as one of the top nuclear regulators in the federal government is now helping the pro-nuclear lobby in its public-relations response to the disaster in Japan.
• Where are the robots at the Fukushima Daiichi ...
  Japan employs more robots than any other country. With high-tech robots replacing manpower in every industry from car manufacturing to sumo wrestling, life on the archipelago must seem entirely automated at times. They're even developing humanoid robots. So why are human beings manually pouri ...
• Deficit panel guys keep yelling at all of us
  The two old men who were in charge of President Obama's doomed, already long-forgotten "Deficit Panel" are currently on some sort of nationwide tour trying to get people psyched about the already rejected deficit-reduction suggestions their rigged-to-fail panel came up with. But no one is exc ...
• The knaves and fools of Washington
  This piece originally appeared on Robert Reich's blog.
• Kristol dismisses Barbour as a surrender monkey
  OK, so Bill Kristol didn't literally call Haley Barbour a "cheese-eating surrender monkey." But Kristol, the self-appointed enforcer of the neoconservative consensus in the Republican Party, came pretty close.

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

• Mayor’s cameo role: A useful distraction
  Mayor Rob Ford comes to Sodor and the engines are troubled.
• Nuclear crisis: Japan needsthe full truth
  Japanese authorities need to come clean on just how bad the situation is, how bad it may get and how they propose to address it.
• Let the bells keep ringing
  Tick tock on the clock—preservation shouldn’t stop on Old City Hall’s historic timepiece.
• Don’t make victims suffer again
  It’s high time Queen’s Park made sure that Ontario’s Criminal Injuries Compensation Board is meeting its goal of providing financial help to “victims of violent crime in a sensitive and respectful way.”
• Libya’s shattered hopes
  Moammar Gadhafi is winning his one-man war to stop the Arab Awakening dead in its tracks, literally. He has now beaten Libya’s democratic forces back to their Benghazi stronghold, where they launched a ragtag rebellion a month ago against his 4 ...

Energy Collective

• Is that a Banana in Your Pocket or Are You Rad ...
  "Banana Eq
• Fukushima Nuclear Accident – 17 March update
  As predicted yesterday, attention over the last 24 hours has focused on the critical situation with the ponds used for temporary storage of spent nuclear fuel at the individual reactor units, before it is moved to a centralised facility on site. Although this old fuel has lost much of its origin ...
• Republican Bill to Halt the EPA's Ability to R ...
  The United States Environmental Protection Agency's capacity to regulate greenhouse gas emissions may be coming to a swift end as the House Energy and Commerce Committee passed the Energy Tax Prevention Act of 2011, which looks to halt the agency's ability to govern greenhouse gas emissions.
• Canada: Committed to Nuclear Power
  The Globe and Mail yesterday reported that a num
• Fukushima's Political Fallout Now Reaches China
  In a highly significant move, the Chinese government today appeared to be following Ger

EU Times

• Libya: 11th hour bid to stop Gaddafi as US fin ...
  A military intervention against Col Muammar Gaddafi’s onslaught on Libyan rebels has been proposed at the UN in an eleventh-hour attempt to stop the dictator crushing opposition strongholds. European diplomatic sources said that military operations could be under way “within hours” of the UN vot ...
• Japan suspends work at stricken nuclear plant ...
  Japan suspends work at stricken nuke plant due to surge in radiation. Japan suspended operations to keep its stricken nuclear plant from melting down Wednesday after surging radiation made it too dangerous to stay. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said the workers dousing the reactors in a fr ...
• Islamic militants wound 7 police officers in R ...
  Police in Russia’s restive southern province of Dagestan say that seven policemen have been wounded by militants. Local police spokesman Vyacheslav Gasanov said that several gunmen drove to a police precinct in the town of Kizilyurt late Monday. They sprayed the building with automatic gunfire a ...
• Japan tsumani and earthquake: America on nucle ...
  -California ‘monitoring situation closely’ amid dramatic escalation of disaster -Japan’s nuclear crisis now appears worse than the Three Mile Island nuclear accident in 1979 – but not yet as bad as Chernobyl in 1986 -Japan PM tells people within 19 miles of plant to stay indoors as radiation rea ...
• Former PM Ehud Olmert faces indictment in Holy ...
  Prosecution announces intention to put suspects on trial for bribery, corruption, and other charges; charges against Olmert pending hearing. The Tel Aviv District’s prosecution announced Monday that it intended to indict former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert along with other suspects in the Holyland ...

Stonecipher News

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

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

• Why The Japanese Yen ETF Is Up
  The 9.0 magnitude earthquake that struck Japan on March 11th has caused widespread destruction in the northern part of the island nation, leaving thousands dead and hundreds of thousands homeless. The quake ripped through buildings and created a tsunami that reached more than 30 feet high in so ...
• Chelsea-United headlines Champions League quar ...
    Manchester United will face Chelsea in the UEFA Champions League quarterfinals, while a potential Real Madrid-Barcelona clash looks set for the semifinals, after Friday's draw was held to determine the quarterfinal match-ups. Here are the quarterfinal pairings: Real Madrid vs. Tottenham Chel ...
• Apple Claims iPhone/Android Browser Speed Stud ...
  Social Barrel Apple Claims iPhone/Android Browser Speed Study Is Flawed ITProPortal A study conducted by web optimisation firm Blaze on page loading speeds of Android and iOS browsers has been labelled 'flawed' by Apple . The Blaze study had claimed that the native web browser on Google's Andro ...
• Where does Bahrain go from here?
  Shashank Joshi is a doctoral student of international relations at the Department of Government , Harvard University , and an Associate Fellow at he Royal United Services Institute ( RUSI ) Arab states are the linchpin of this week’s diplomacy. It was therefore jarring, though not unexpected, t ...
• Nikon may relocate some production from Sendai ...
  Bloomberg reports that Nikon is currently discussing with Notion Vtec the possibility of relocating some of the production from Sendai to Malaysia. Back in January of 2010 Nikon made a major investment in Notion Vtec (Nikon acquired 10% of the company)

Groklaw

• Edward J. Naughton bio gets revised
  [PJ: Edward J. Naughton, the attorney Huffington Post just published claiming Android may be in violation of the GPL has done work for Microsoft. Surprised much? His article states this at the end: "The views expressed are my own individual views and should not be attributed to any clients." Ne ...
• Wi-Fi-only Xoom arrives in U.S. March 27 for $599
  Motorola Mobility announced today that its Wi-Fi-only Xoom tablet will hit the U.S. market on March 27 for $599 from a variety of retailers....Xoom has won critical praise as a competitor against the iPad 2, since the Xoom has two cameras, uses Honeycomb, the new Android 3.0 operating system, an ...
• Does Google's Android violate Linux's Copyright?
  Now, I am not a lawyer, but Naughton is talking largely about the Linux kernel header files, and back in the days when SCO was fighting with IBM over Linux's copyrights, the issue of header files came up. At the time, Eric Raymond, then president of the Open Source Initiative (OSI), told me ther ...
• Linux: The Era of Open Innovation
  In 2011, Linux is a fundamental component of IBM business-embedded deeply in hardware, software, services and internal development. It is present in every IBM business, geography and workload, and its use only continues to increase. IBM's success today, and in the future, is inextricably linked ...
• EFF Seeks Cooperating FOIA Reviewers
  EFF is setting up an email list to connect you to the important work we do to ensure government accountability. EFF strongly believes in government transparency and accountability and regularly files requests with federal agencies under the Freedom of Information Act to get information on how t ...

WideShut

• Cancer Stricken Peace Activist Loses In High Court
  Veteran activist Brian Haw to be evicted from his spot at Parliament Square.
• G20 Protest Murder Doctor Disgraced
  Doctor who said G20 victim died of heart disease may be struck off for another dubious case.
• 7/7 News: Government Says Don’t Criticiz ...
  Government lawyer says MI5 have done all they can and don't need to take suggestions from victim family members.
• The Doubler Edders Bogus Banker Bonus Tax
  Labour's bank bonus tax is just part of the false political paradaigm, the only solution is a complete rethink of the banking system.
• Banker Blocking Media From Calling Him A Banker
  Ex-RBS head Sir Fred Goodwin takes out injunction preventing media from calling him a Banker.

Politics in the Zeros

• Polizeros Radio. Libya. Underpants gnomes. Japan
  Tonight’s show was lively. Among the topics discussed: The Libya ‘no-fly zone’ is a full-scale attack from the air. But this is akin to the South Park underpants gnomes whose business plan was 1) collect underpants, 2) something happens, 3) make money. The invasion of Libya is 1) bomb Qadaffi, 2 ...
• Tsunami-trashed house, but her cat survived
• They’re sending in the big dogs. Benghazi cele ...
  I’m conflicted. Yes, Qaddafi is as repulsive and vicious as they come, his son is an elegant sociopath, and they are trying to exterminate their own populace. And imagine, if you will, how the beseiged rebels will feel when the first wave of fighter jets are seen streaking towards them in suppor ...
• Japan hospitals almost out of water and food
  The BBC (live coverage) just spoke with a woman in a hospital in the quake area. She and her elderly mother were trapped in their home for three days with almost no food. Finally, she carried her mother on her back to a hospital. The hospital has patients in the floor in the lobby and [...]
• Polizeros radio tonight. 8:30 PDT
  Japan and nuclear power, Petraeus’ testimony and “Why isn’t Bahrain like Libya, Interventionists?” Join us! The podcast is hosted on BlogTalkRadio. Call in to listen live at 626-414-3492 tonight at 8:30 PST, 9:30 MST, 10:30 CST, 11:30 EST. You can also download it or listen to the archive on Blo ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

• Prince William: 'Grief is the price we pay for ...
  Prince William told the earthquake-stricken people of Christchurch to "be strong", at the national memorial service attended by thousands at Hagley Park.
• Service roundly praised, despite early misgivings
  The people of Christchurch showed signs of being determined to rise up, during today's moving Memorial Service.    
• Prince William tells Christchurch: 'Be strong'
  Prince William has told the earthquake-stricken people of Christchurch to "be strong".
• UN votes for Libya no-fly zone
  The UN Security Council has agreed to take "all necessary measures" to protect civilians against leader Muammar Gaddafi's forces.
• Police say Taser saved officer from serious in ...
  Eastern Waikato police believe a Taser prevented serious injury to one of their staff confronted by a group of men in Thames overnight

Just World News

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

frogblog

• Government’s dumb dirty dairying solution
  Sacking regional councils is a dumb solution to deal with dirty dairying, yet the Government seems to be considering it. Yesterday The Dairying and Clean Streams Accord Snapshot of Progress 2009/10 was released, showing that this voluntary measure to minimise the negative impact of dairying on N ...
• Greeting the Christchurch Office, Nervously
  It is one of life’s ironies to pillage your own office. But that is what the gods of wrath have done to us. I trust we do not do time for our discretionary executive action yesterday.
• Which motorway project(s) would you cut?
  So, the Minister of Finance has confirmed its full steam ahead with the national motorway gamble. Even the Transport Minister has made it clear that he will not consider cutting the budget for the poster-child of uneconomic motorways, the Puhoi to Wellsford ‘Holiday Highway,’ after the quake. Go ...
• The Welfare Working Group and the back to the ...
  Here’s some more information to support my argument that the Welfare Working Group’s recommendations (PDF) are driven by far right ideology rather by evidence. At page 23 of its report, the Welfare Working Group recommends: …a credible work for welfare scheme be established, in order to test the ...
• Folding cycles to be encouraged on Wellington’ ...
  Greater Wellington Regional Council are about to finalise their rules for allowing bicycles on trains. They’re proposing to continue to allow bikes to ride free (where space is available) on all trains except for the new Matangi trains during peak hours. Folding bicycles, however, will be allowe ...

Patronus Analytical

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

J Kozy

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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

• One Man's Corruption Is Another Man's.....
  Over the weekend the Washington Post ran a story about a DC lawyer who enriched herself by taking advantage of a contracting program intended to help poor Alaska natives, even though she isn’t an Alaska native. She won $500 million in federal contracts and paid herself and her family hundred ...
• Obama's Accidental Success in Libya
  Here's a Twitter conversation from a few minutes ago: Now that I've got the MoJo vote locked up, I wonder what other people think about this? I should point out clearly that I'm not saying this was necessarily a deliberate strategy on President Obama's part. Still, it strikes me that if the U ...
• Yet More On Ron Schiller
  I really don't want to beat the NPR/Ron Schiller affair to death, but I guess I'm going to anyway. I continue to think that Schiller flatly did nothing wrong — at least, nothing wrong in the actionable, firing sense of the word — and I continued to be bugged by the fact that virtually nobody s ...
• Our Shiny New War in Libya
  It looks like we're going to get a no-fly zone over Libya after all. The UN Security Council plans to vote on one tonight, and the resolution is expected to pass: Ambassadors met in the early part of the day to go over the draft resolution written by Lebanon, France and Britain that aims to e ...
• No More Free Lunch at the Times
  The New York Times announced today that it will put up a paywall at the end of March. Felix Salmon points out that the pricing is kind of weird: $15 per four-week period gives you access to the website and also its smartphone app, while $20 gives you access to the website also its iPad ap ...

Insanity Report

• IC 235: The Casey Heynes Show
  Topics: The Body Slam heard round the world How to deal with bullies Your kid is not a “good kid” Asians in the Library So we’re gonna pretend John Boehner’s skin is natural? Share with your friends:
• Who Thought this Interview Would Be Productive?
  So you have Michele Bachmann & Anthony Weiner squaring off with Sean Hannity as the “moderator”.  No really, who thought this would be anything more than a shouting match of immaturity? Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com While I feel Rep. Weiner’s pain in dealing with douches like Bach ...
• It’s 2011 and Uncle Toms Still Exist
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• IC 234: For God & Country
  Topics for the show: Rep. Peter King’s hearing on the “Radicalization of the American Muslim community” The GOP’s minority problem It’s hard for white guys to understand why minorities might not trust law enforcement Why the “lesser of two evils” isn’t always bad Democrats & Liberals like showin ...
• Someone Tell Sean Penn To Sit The Fuck Down
  In a statement, Penn said: “I think [Charlie Sheen's] energies, intelligence and passion could be both of service and servicing to him, as it is to all who are touched by the struggle of the Haitian people. “Charlie is one of the very few public people who cannot be accused of using the media to ...

Simple Climate

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

e!Science News

• Life expectancy rising in UK and Europe despit ...
  Life expectancy in Europe keeps increasing despite the obesity epidemic, with people in Britain reaching an older age than those living in the US, according to an analysis of trends over the last 40 years. These striking findings counteract concerns that the rising life expectancy trend in high ...
• 'Bilingual' neurons may reveal the secrets of ...
  This press release is available in French. read more
• Intervention offers 'best chance' to save spec ...
  A University of York scientist is proposing a radical programme of 'assisted colonisation' to save species endangered by climate change. read more
• In pilot study, screening detects potentially ...
  A pilot study in healthy children and adolescents shows that it is feasible to screen for undiagnosed heart conditions that increase the risk of sudden cardiac arrest (SCA). Adding a 10-minute electrocardiogram (EKG or ECG) to a history and physical examination identified unsuspected cases of po ...
• Study finds more efficient means of creating, ...
  Carbon nanofibers hold promise for technologies ranging from medical imaging devices to precise scientific measurement tools, but the time and expense associated with uniformly creating nanofibers of the correct size has been an obstacle – until now. A new study from North Carolina State Univers ...

unEarthed

• Congress v. Endangered Species - Wolves Up For ...
  At any time, Congress could remove species from endangered list The fate of gray wolves—and of the Endangered Species Act itself—may be voted on at any time in ...
• A Chance To Do It Right On Western Coal
  BLM gives Colorado coal mine expansion a second look Drilling a methane drainage well at the Elk Creek Mine, 2008. Bureau of Land Management photo. In 2009 ...
• Some Utilities Support EPA Power Plant Clean Up
  Cleaning up the air might actually be good for business Today’s major announcement from the EPA to cut mercury and other toxic air pollution from hundreds of c ...
• Cleaning Up Biggest Polluters - Will Congress ...
  House committee passes Dirty Air Act, while the Senate debates it Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mi.) As I write this, the Senate is debating an amendment to a small bu ...
• EPA Clean Air Rules Will Create Up To 1.4 mill ...
  Great news on many fronts Today, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed a new air standard that will finally reduce mercury, arsenic and other toxic air ...

Brave New Climate

• Fukushima March 18 evening update, Barry Brook ...
  The following is not a  significant new update on the situation at Fukushima (see here for the 18 March morning update), because so little information has emerged since my last update this morning. But there is some new information. Below I summarise what news and data I’ve gathered today, and ...
• Fukushima – 18 March morning updates, ra ...
  There have been further developments at Fukushima overnight that have, according to the IAEA, made the situation ‘reasonably stable‘ (although it is still serious). Given the state of play over the last week, I’ll take any positive sign I can get. Other points to note, as of the morning of Frida ...
• Fukushima Nuclear Accident – 17 March update
  The crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station is approaching a weeks’ duration. The on-site situation remains extremely serious, with glimmers of hope being shrouded by a shadow of deep uncertainty. If you’ve not been following the situation on BraveNewClimate, and want to recap, ple ...
• Fukushima redux – design basis Godzilla?
  I am currently compiling an update for the Fukishima Nuclear Accident as of March 17. The situation is developing very quickly and commenters on this thread (March 16 updates) are doing an excellent job at posting regular updates. Meanwhile, here is a guest post from Luke Weston. ———————– Looks ...
• Fukushima Nuclear Accident – 16 March update
  This is an update of the situation as of 10 am JST Wednesday 16 March. (For background on events of 15 March and earlier, start with this post and its included links.) Note that this is a blog, not a news website, and thus the following analysis, like all others on BraveNewClimate, is a mixture ...

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

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• Israeli liberals III: Supporters of the occupation
  Israeli liberals benefit from the occupation. Their support for withdrawal from the occupied Palestinian territories is a mirage In my previous posts, I argued that Israeli liberals are perceived by many commentators, of diverse viewpoints, as the most important target audience for those who wis ...
• To my father
  By Yael Lavie Dedicated to my father, who was born in March 1927 and passed away in June 2004 I DON’T THINK I EVER REALLY FORGAVE MY MOTHER “Finally!!” my sister nearly shrieked when my father said that.  Noni was walking around for months in between hospitals, ICUs, recovery halls and several ...
• How to respond to political baiting: Breaking ...
  NGO Monitor – a group specializing in haranguing Israeli human rights organizations – must be really scraping the barrel. Consider the following exchange between them and Breaking the Silence. 16 March 2011 To: Ms Dana Golan, Director Breaking The Silence RE: Your comment on a statement by Yona ...
• Israeli Liberals II: A detached elite looking ...
  Israeli Jewish liberals are focused on social and cultural identity, look away from Israel and towards the west, do not have alliances with economically disadvantaged groups, are sympathetic towards the military, and prefer to exercise influence through non-electoral channels. In my previous pos ...
• Rebecca Vilkomerson: Boycott is both legitimat ...
  Earlier this week, an Israeli security company named Hashmira has announced it will stop supplying equipment to the West Bank. Hashmira is owned by Danish giant G4S, which was under considerable pressure due to its projects in Israel. This was another success for the boycott campaign, which seem ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

• Victorian Government told to get cattle out o ...
  Mr Burke said after considering advice from his department, he had determined cattle grazing in the Alpine National Park satisfied the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act requirement that it 'may be' a controlled action.
• Mining proposal to go through environmental a ...
  A proposal by Shree Minerals to develop a magnetite and hematite mine adjacent to the Nelson Bay River in north-western Tasmania will go through a high level of assessment under national environmental law.
• Australia's national historic sites protected
  Tony Burke, Heritage Minister, today announced that the Gillard Government will be supporting some of Australia's most special historic sites.
• Environment groups meet to discuss Murray Dar ...
  Water Minister Tony Burke has today hosted a roundtable with representatives from Australian environment and conservation groups on Murray Darling Basin reform.
• HMAS Sydney II and HSK Kormoran shipwrecks on ...
  Heritage Minister, Tony Burke today announced that the HMAS Sydney II and the HSK Kormoran shipwreck sites have been added to Australia's Commonwealth and National Heritage Lists.

Matt Weidner Blog

• Chase Jackbooted Thug Letter To Homeowner- WE& ...
  Americans are now acutely aware of the undeniable fact that the banks and institutions control us all.  Increasingly, Americans understand that our courts and law enforcement are largely powerless to protect us from the onslaught from the banks…get in their way and they’ll just roll right over ...
• Wanna See How David J. Stern Lives? Take A To ...
  While courts, judges and their staff suffer through mountains of foreclosure proceedings and while court budgets and salaries are cut to the bone, Florida’s Very Own Foreclosure Baron is living quite well, very, very well, thank you very much.  Really, thank each and every one of you, very, ver ...
• The Jack Booted Thugs Coming to Break Into a H ...
  Last week, I was a speaker at the National Bankruptcy Institute.  During my presentation, I was describing how the banks were literally driving around this country, breaking into homes and doing whatever they damn well pleased….with no consequence and no penalties whatsoever.  A woman in the f ...
• A Brilliant Little Cartoon….Scary Times ...
  More to think about….Provacateur Network Tweet this! Share and Enjoy: Scridb filter
• David J. Stern- The Man Behind The Crumbling F ...
  From the Sun Sentinel: Attorney David J. Stern has spent much of the past year in the spotlight, as reports of legal troubles plaguing Florida’s home foreclosure system continue to emerge. Stern’s Plantation-based foreclosure practice is one of eight under investigation by the Florida attorney g ...

abelard - news

• possible impacts to business from current japa ...
  Will the ghastly quake and consequent tsunami, which caused severe problems with the Fukushima Daiichi reactors, offer opportunities, or does it make nuclear something to avoid?
• containment and safety standards at fukushima/ ...
  Japanese nuclear engineering of 40 years ago may have been excellent, but their other planning and thought left much to be desired.
• fossil media in panic mode over japanese earth ...
  Panic stops clear thought. The fossil media is sowing ill-informed panic over the Japanese earthquake. Their analytic abilities are lower than their low normal.
• cosmo filthy fossil fuel fire still not exting ...
  Fossil media misreporting to real problems with fossil fuels, as usual, this time post-Japan quake.
• frederic bastiat - free markets | economics ne ...
  Frederic Bastiat was a 19th century political economist concerned with the right of an individual to life, liberty, and property, which could not be achieved by socialism.

The Parallel Parliament

• Rick’s Rant
  Many of us, from all parties, have been writing, Facebooking, and Tweeting over our concern about changing the “Government of Canada” title to “The Harper Government.” Here’s Rick Mercer’s recent rant, which is likely far more effective in its delivery than anyone else. Give it a view. Filed und ...
• A Little Bit of Silver
  Last week I was responding to some Facebook emails and attempted to answer one query concerning public accountability. In mentioning to a person I had never met that I was going to miss Toronto Star writer James Travers and his sage insights on politics the young man I was corresponding with rep ...
• Before Japan there was …?
  Climatologists continue to alert us that natural disasters are destined to increase substantially as a result of our planet heating up through climate change. We can attempt to deny it but the evidence continues to pile up. And now here we are again on the outside looking in on the worst disaste ...
• R4N – Responsibility For Neglect
  The flowering of democracy through the regions of North Africa and the Middle East didn’t quite work out as planned. Those exhilarating days of fascination witnessing old orders get swept away by citizens in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen have led to more languished days of … what? New constitutions? Acc ...
• Throwing Open the Windows
  This past week in the House has been one of the most traumatic of my brief time here, surpassed only by the drama of those few days when the PM went to the Governor General seeking the prorogation of Parliament in order to save his government. On Wednesday I encountered two media camera men atte ...

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

• Tracking information on radiation health risks ...
  This past few days I’ve been up to my eyeballs in tracking and responding to the developing crisis in Japan, and have not had much time to think about emerging technologies or this blog.  Much of my time has been spent on brushing up on my health physics (from 25 years ago!), and providing info ...
• Nanotechnology safety – a new video blog from ...
  Back in December 2009, I rode the Acela Express up to New York from Washington DC for the day to record one of a series of nanotechnology podcasts for the ASME – the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. The podcast was to be part of a new educational outreach initiative on all aspects of na ...
• The Seven Deadly Sins of Techno-Complacency – ...
  I don’t believe it – once again I’ve let myself be talked into doing an event in Second Life.  But this time it’s even worse – I’ll be hosting a combined second life and real-life event, and in effect acting as the medium between physical and virtual realities. The only compensation is that the ...
• The art of regulating nanotechnologies
  The recently published International Handbook on Regulating Nanotechnologies has a rather unconventional cover image. But it’s one that I must confess I am rather pleased with. The image is a photo of a piece of Murano glass that I picked up several years ago while visiting Venice. At the time I ...
• Davos 2011 – Partnering with teens to build a ...
  This is not a science and technology post – which is a bit odd for a science and technology blog.  But I wanted to introduce five people who together shake up the whole idea of the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos as being an elitist and increasingly irrelevant gathering of middle aged bal ...

Reader Supported News

• Aristide's Return
  Intro: "Amy Goodman reports from South Africa on Aristide's planned return trip to Haiti after seven years in exile." In Port-au-Prince, Haiti, a supporter of Jean-Bertrand Aristide displays his photograph, 03/17/11. (photo: AP) Sorry, your browser cannot display frames!
• Aristide's Return
  Intro: "Amy Goodman reports from South Africa on Aristide's planned return trip to Haiti after seven years in exile." In Port-au-Prince, Haiti, a supporter of Jean-Bertrand Aristide displays his photograph, 03/17/11. (photo: AP) Sorry, your browser cannot display frames!
• WikiLeaks: Japan Warned About Fukushima
  Keith Olbermann writes: "We are now at this stage in the life of our country and our world: WikiLeaks revealed that the Japanese Government was warned three years ago that earthquake preparedness at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant was dangerously insufficient. Naturally, the leaders of the ...
• WikiLeaks: Japan Warned About Fukushima
  Keith Olbermann writes: "We are now at this stage in the life of our country and our world: WikiLeaks revealed that the Japanese Government was warned three years ago that earthquake preparedness at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant was dangerously insufficient. Naturally, the leaders of the ...
• Fox News' Union-Busting Crusade
  Intro: "Fox News' coverage of the recent protests in Wisconsin was rife with falsehoods about unions and attacks on the pro-union protesters. This continues a long pattern of smears and fabrications that characterizes Fox News' campaign to scapegoat and vilify labor unions." Worker-protesters ...

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

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

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

• Pembina reacts to new Alberta oilsands mine re ...
  Pembina Institute 17 Mar 2011 Nathan Lemphers, policy analyst with the Pembina Institute, responded to the Government of Alberta announcement of a new oilsands mine reclamation sec ...
• Job Opportunity: Technical Analyst, Corporate ...
  Position Technical Analyst, Corporate Consulting Program Organization Pembina Institute Organization Application Deadline 3 Apr 2011 - 23:59 Location Calgary Link to Full Job Posting ...
• 20th Annual Climb & Run for Wilderness
  16 Apr 2011 (All day) Calgary Alberta Wilderness Association 16 Apr 2011 (All day) Climb and Run for Wilderness is Alberta Wilderness Association's annual Earth Day event at the C ...
• Braid: Tactic taps rural anger
  Former Justice Minister Alison Redford threw one of Premier Ed Stelmach's favourite new laws up in the air Tuesday. It landed with a splat in the middle of the PC leadership race. Redford pledged that if she becomes premier, she'll suspend all government activity under the Land Stewardship Act ...
• New report finds strong climate policies creat ...
  Upcoming federal budget should increase support for renewable energy and efficiency programs, research suggests Pembina Institute 15 Mar 2011 ...

Stop NATO

• Updates on Libyan war threat
  Eurofighter Typhoon ==== NATO Says It Backs Action Againt Libya Britain, France Ready To Bomb Libya Italy: NATO Bases To Be Used For Attack On Libya Canada To Deploy Six Warplanes For Action Against Libya Qatar, United Arab Emirates To Join Air Strikes Against Libya Egyptian Military Council Arm ...
• Stop NATO News March 18, 2011
  ==== stopnato-subscribe@yahoogroups.com ==== 1. Britain, France Ready To Bomb Libya 2. NATO: Eastern Europe Model For North Africa And Libya Military Intervention 3. Church Groups Urge NATO To Remove Nuclear Weapons From Europe 4. NATO Chief: Not Too Late For Military Intervention In Libya 5. Re ...
• Leonid Andreyev: The Red Laugh
  ==== Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 (Leningrad) Movement 1 (excerpt) Movement 3 ==== The Red Laugh (1904) Leonid Andreyev (1871-1919) Translator not identified I recognized it — that red laugh. I had been searching for it, and I had found it — that red laugh. Now I understood what there was ...
• Stop NATO News March 17, 2011
  ==== stopnato-subscribe@yahoogroups.com ===== 1. U.S. Wants UN To Authorize Libya Air Strikes 2. Scottish Air Base To Host NATO’s Largest Military Exercise 3. Georgia’s Saakashvili Meets With General Petraeus 4. Ground Military Intervention In Libya Could Trigger War: Russian President Medvedev ...
• Ambrose Bierce: An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge
  ==== Gustav Holst: Mars, the Bringer of War ==== An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge 1890 Ambrose Bierce, member of the Anti-Imperialist League A man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama, looking down into the swift water twenty feet below. The man’s hands were behind his back, the wri ...

Before It's News

• Why Do We Love to Kiss Pretty Girls?
• CALI IS FORNICATING IN CALIFORNIA MARCH 2011
• Про спільну зустрічі катехитів зі всіх єпархій ...
• Friday Funnies: The Obamapad: We offer one ten ...
• Paragon Hard Disk Manager 2010 review

Intel Hub

• Intel Hub Analysis: Mainstream Experts Predict ...
  Intel Hub Analysis On Mainstream Reports Of Radiation Exposure in the United States: Remember we are being told that we are completely safe by the very government that told us that the air was safe to breath just days AFTER 9/11. The idea that anyone knows exactly how much radiation is coming to ...
• Bahrain Police Killing People By Drive By Shoo ...
  91177info March 17th, 2011
• U.N. Authorizes Military Strikes on Libya
  The Wall Street Journal By JAY SOLOMON, ADAM ENTOUS And JOE LAURIA March 17th, 2011 The United Nations Security Council authorized military force Thursday against Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi’s security forces, opening the way for airstrikes within days. The U.N. action, pushed aggressivel ...
• Cover-up in Canada: Radioactive Leak Into Lake ...
  By Brandon Turbeville Activist Post March 17th, 2011 With all the focus placed on the Japanese radiation leak as well as the toxic plume of radioactive particles (possibly containing uranium and plutonium) heading for the United States, another potential disaster is receiving virtually no attent ...
• The Evacuation Zones Around the Fukushima Daii ...
  The New York Times March 17, 2011

FRS

• Aide says Aristide to arrive in Haiti early on ...
  JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA – Mar 17 2011 Former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide will arrive in Port-au-Prince early on Friday, ending seven years of exile in South Africa, an aide said. The planned return of Aristide (57) comes just two days ahead of Haiti’s crucial run-off presidential vote, a ...
• Around 300 Tunisians protest ahead of Clinton ...
  Reuters, March 16, 2011 TUNIS (Reuters) – Around 300 Tunisians held a protest in the capital on Wednesday against an imminent visit to their country by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, witnesses said. The demonstrators gathered in Avenue Bourguiba, the tree-lined boulevard in Tunis which was ...
• Orissa, India: Maoist prisoner demands govt. r ...
  Don’t go back on word, Maoist leader warns Naveen Indian Express, March 15 2011 Maoist ideologue Ganti Prasadam has warned Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik against going back on his word to release 700-odd tribals lodged in various jails of Orissa. In a statement from jail, Prasadam (55) said it wo ...
• Haiti: U.S. Asks South Africa to Delay Aristid ...
  [This move--the latest in many such moves--to prevent the return of Aristide to Haiti is an eloquent clarification of the US' promotion of democracy in Haiti, and throughout the world. -- Frontlines ed.] By REUTERS, March 14, 2011 The Obama administration said Monday that the former Haitian pres ...
• Bahraini opposition to Saudi Arabian and Gulf ...
  Mar 14 2011 by Jadaliyya Reports Troops from the GCC Peninsula Shield Forces, originating mostly from Saudi Arabia but also the United Arab Emirates, arrived in Bahrain today. When the Bahraini Crown Prince visited Saudi Arabia last week, he was given an ultimatum and a deadline: either the Bahr ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

• Is nuclear power like making a deal with the d ...
  Jim Rice, at Sojourner's God's Politics blog, asks. Rice writes: ...we’re seeing the magnitude — and the unpredictability — of what can happen in the unfolding crisis in Japan. Humans have a tendency to assume they can construct technological and other safeguards against catastrophe. Meanwhile ...
• If you've nothing better to do...
  I'm on The Nose portion of "The Colin McEnroe Show" on WNPR at 1 p.m. today, Friday. You can listen here.
• Nuclear Boy and the stinky level in Japan
  A cartoon is airing on Japanese national television�that seeks to explain that country's nuclear�crisis to children.
• What did you have for lunch today?
  Me? I had a corned beef sandwich, chips, and about three-quarters of a Guinness, because I'm not Irish enough to love the taste of a meal in a glass.
• Five things everyone should know about the Bible
  Whether or not you believe it, by Kristin M. Swenson, author of "Bible Babel: Making Sense of the Most Talked About Book of All Time." And thanks, Sharion, for the link. Flickr photo

Associated Content

• Facebook, Twitter Lend Hand to Japanese Survivors
  Those looking for word of relatives in Japan have found it via social networking websites. They've also used them to send help as well.Contributor: Heather Chadwick Published: Mar 17, 2011
• Will NFL Suspensions Reduce Head Injuries?
  More NFL suspensions will be happening in 2011, but will they actually decrease head and neck injuries? Studies from former players and donated brains show that this has to be a top priority.Contributor: Lee Aurelius Published: Mar 17, 2011
• How to Become an Internet Sensation -- for Bet ...
  Recent viral video stars have soared to fame for all the wrong reasons.Contributor: Lucrezia Wise Published: Mar 17, 2011
• Is Rebecca Black's 'Friday' Really a Musical A ...
  With today's music, is a 13-year-old girl's song the worst ever?Contributor: S. Maven Published: Mar 17, 2011
• Why Rebecca Black is Bad News for Pop Music
  Much has been said recently about Rebecca Black's video for new single "Friday." What does her song and video say about the state of pop music in general? Is she really so much worse than some other pop stars?Contributor: Anna Krusinski Published: Mar 17, 2011

Popsci - Science

• New Silkworm Dye Method Could Help Build Silks ...
  We pay close attention to the modifications scientists are making to goats, moths and worms so they can harvest their silk. Now researchers in Singapore are reporting a new advancement: dyed-in-the-worm silks, which look pretty and could have interesting medical applications. Researchers led by ...
• FYI: How Does Nuclear Radiation Do Its Damage?
  Or, why everyone is stocking up on iodine tablets Ionizing radiation—the kind that minerals, atom bombs and nuclear reactors emit—does one main thing to the human body: it weakens and breaks up DNA, either damaging cells enough to kill them or causing them to mutate in ways that may eventually ...
• Bats Out of Hell: Rescue Efforts for Some of t ...
  A week before last December’s massive floods in Queensland, Australia, volunteers from the Australian Bat Clinic and Wildlife Trauma Centre rescued 150 orphaned grey-headed flying foxes, these five among them. Clinic co-founder Trish Wimberley says the mothers may have left their young because ...
• Blood Simple: Improved Crime-Scene Analysis Te ...
  The aftermath of violent crimes is nothing like what we see on TV, says Stephen Morgan, a forensic analytic chemist. “Crime scenes are messy, chaotic. There’s a lot to look at.” Too much, in fact. What’s needed are methods to simplify the forensic process without damaging evidence at the scene. ...
• Experimental "Body Reboot" Drug Begins Trial A ...
  One of the toughest things about Type 1 diabetes – a chronic, incurable autoimmune disease – is that once it begins to develop, there’s no way to stop it. Slowly but surely, your immune system will kill off the cells in your pancreas that produce insulin, a crucial hormone that allows you to ab ...

Veterans Today

• AIJAZ SYED : Why war is good business
  Princess Reem Al Faisal, granddaughter of the legendary Saudi King Faisal bin Abdulaziz, may be an unknown commodity for the world beyond the Middle East. by Aijaz Zaka Syed / Arab News But her fame as an artist and photographer par excellence has traveled far beyond the borders of the Saudi kin ...
• Palestine Will Come Together and We Shall Over ...
  [The World] -- "All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed…If God, as some now say, is dead, He no doubt died of trying to find an equitable solution to the Arab-Jewish problem."- Isidor Feinstein/Izzy Stone.
• Japan’s 9.0 Earthquake Equal to One Million Ki ...
  ... The deadly 9.0 earthquake was the energy equivalent of 31,250 combined Hiroshima-Nagasaki Atomic Bombs.
• GORDON DUFF: VIEWS OF IRELAND
  “FEAR AND LOATHING IN THE EMERALD REPUBLIC” VT DOES IRELAND… Photos by Gordon and Carol Duff   DINGLE BAY, WEST COAST OF IRELAND (G DUFF)     DUN AONGHASA (IRON AGE SITE) INNISHMORE, ARAN ISLANDS, IRELAND (G DUFF)         KNOWTH TOMBS, IRELAND      
• ALLEN L ROLAND: Jarrett Plays And Roland Sings ...
    What would St Patrick’s day be without Danny Boy being sung or played while touching and awakening the Irish in all of us: Allen L Roland   Here is Keith Jarrett’s and my solo version of “Danny Boy,” which was originally an Irish folk song written in 1910. This is a song which has [...]

War is Business

• Arms Shipments Evidently Cruising Past NATO Bl ...
• Curious WMD-Smuggling Case In Malaysia—Many Mi ...
• ‘Shakedown’ Theory Of Karzai Strug ...
• Cries For Help From Bahrain (Aggregated)
• Consultant’s Brilliant Advice: ‘If ...

Hudson's Weather & Climate

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

Internat'l Political Economy

• Deutschland Uber Alles, Even in Higher Education
  You've got to hand it to the Germans. I suppose they're a bit like a big brother who can do everything better than you--they're bound to create resentment. In a neat chronological and geographical inversion, Germany has been called the China of Europe as it beats the living daylight out of uncom ...
• Three Cheers for UK Women Drivers, Shame on EU
  My life fades, my vision dims. All that remains are memories. I remember a time of chaos, ruined dreams; this wasted land. Most of all, I remember the man we called Max, the Road Warrior. To understand who he was we have to go back to the other time... While I am generally among the most pro-Eu ...
• Of Repatriation and Concerted G7 Yen Intervention
  My goodness, things are happening so fast that my head is spinning. If the UN establishing a no-fly zone above Libyan airspace wasn't enough, we're now headed for a G7 currency no-speculation zone (of sorts) with regard to the Japanese yen. It certainly isn't everyday when the story on the Yahoo ...
• USTR Ron Kirk on Moving Doha Forward
  I guess the points put forward here will not surprise many since the US trade representative is tasked with promoting trade liberalization first and foremost. For what they're worth, here is Ron Kirk on the US position regarding the aforementioned topic, all the while emphasizing the reasonablen ...
• Lord Mandy On the Libya Witch Hunt in the UK
  As one not to shy away from unpopular causes, I have never attempted to hide my admiration for a man who revels in being called the "Prince of Darkness," Lord Mandelson. Being at the centre of government for so long as a New Labour stalwart and former EU trade commissioner, the controversial pol ...

Economic Collapse Blog

• Debt Problem: Who In The World Is Going To Buy ...
  Is the U.S. government on the verge of a massive debt problem?  For years, the U.S. government has been able to borrow all the money that it has wanted to at extremely low interest rates.  But now many of the lending sources that the U.S. government has been depending on are dry ...
• 14 Reasons Why The Economic Collapse Of Japan ...
  The economic collapse of Japan has begun.  The extent of the devastation is now becoming clear and many are now projecting that this will be the most expensive natural disaster in modern human history.  The tsunami that struck Japan on March 11th swept up to 6 miles inland, dest ...
• Shocking Video Of Howard Dean Declaring That I ...
  In the shocking video you are about to watch, Howard Dean declares that it is the job of the government to redistribute our wealth.  Not only that, he says it in such a way that indicates that he believes that such a notion should be obvious to anyone with half a brain.  Well, w ...
• 59.9 Percent? Americans Are Racking Up Huge Cr ...
  Well, it was nice while it lasted.  One of the really good things that came out of the recent economic downturn was that millions of American families decided to get out of debt.  In particular, we had seen a sustained trend of reduced credit card usage in the United States.  It ...
• Pissed Off!: 67 Percent Of Americans Are Dissa ...
  The American people are becoming increasingly angry about the extraordinary amount of power and influence that corporations have in the United States today.  A new Gallup poll found that 67 percent of Americans are dissatisfied with the size and influence of major corporations i ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

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

E U Times

• Libya: 11th hour bid to stop Gaddafi as US fin ...
  A military intervention against Col Muammar Gaddafi’s onslaught on Libyan rebels has been proposed at the UN in an eleventh-hour attempt to stop the dictator crushing opposition strongholds. European diplomatic sources said that military operations could be under way “within hours” of the UN vot ...
• Japan suspends work at stricken nuclear plant ...
  Japan suspends work at stricken nuke plant due to surge in radiation. Japan suspended operations to keep its stricken nuclear plant from melting down Wednesday after surging radiation made it too dangerous to stay. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said the workers dousing the reactors in a fr ...
• Islamic militants wound 7 police officers in R ...
  Police in Russia’s restive southern province of Dagestan say that seven policemen have been wounded by militants. Local police spokesman Vyacheslav Gasanov said that several gunmen drove to a police precinct in the town of Kizilyurt late Monday. They sprayed the building with automatic gunfire a ...
• Japan tsumani and earthquake: America on nucle ...
  -California ‘monitoring situation closely’ amid dramatic escalation of disaster -Japan’s nuclear crisis now appears worse than the Three Mile Island nuclear accident in 1979 – but not yet as bad as Chernobyl in 1986 -Japan PM tells people within 19 miles of plant to stay indoors as radiation rea ...
• Former PM Ehud Olmert faces indictment in Holy ...
  Prosecution announces intention to put suspects on trial for bribery, corruption, and other charges; charges against Olmert pending hearing. The Tel Aviv District’s prosecution announced Monday that it intended to indict former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert along with other suspects in the Holyland ...

Voiceless Victim

• Defending the Indefensible is a Lot Like Football
  Battling for truth, justice and child protection against the evil empire of His Greediness can get you down sometimes. Time for a little light relief. I came across this intelligent and articulate blogger just recently. This post from the Voice from the Desert blog is screamingly funny. And trag ...
• Who’s Looking After The Children?
  “Who’s looking after the children?” In Australia this week one man dared to ask this question of the highest court in the land. The High Court of Australia replied, “We’re only interested in looking after child rapists.” As a result, this courageous crusader is likely to die in jail, while some ...
• Top 10 Catholic Excuses For Doing Absolutely N ...
  Priests at the pulpit do it. Catholic apologists do it mindlessly, understanding little. Cardinals and Bishops exploit their influence to do it to as many people as possible. The Vatican does little else. With alarming regularity and very little variation, they all trot out the same set of tired ...
• Gentle Slap on the Wrist and Comfy Retirement ...
  Details were revealed this week about the Vatican “taking action” last year against a Dutch Catholic Bishop working in Kenya, who had raped a 14-year-old Masai boy some years earlier while still a priest. So here we have an example of just exactly what the new, recently improved Vatican response ...
• The Real Role of the Media in the Catholic Chi ...
  The paedophile protecting Pope and his seriously creepy Vatican spokespersons try to paint the role of the media in the reporting of the Catholic Church child rape tsunami as a conspiracy. They can’t quite make up their minds who exactly is behind their fallacious nonsense of a persecution. The ...

WL Central

• 2011-03-17 Bradley Manning Rallies this weekend
  Tweet As Human Rights Watch joins Amnesty in calling for the US to explain or desist from the abuse of Bradley Manning, support for Manning has increased around the world. MP Ann Clywd questioned UK Foreign Secretary William Hague regarding Manning's treatment at the meeting of the House of Com ...
• 2011-03-17 New evidence further incriminates t ...
  TweetThe Department of Administrative Security (DAS) of Colombia was used as a tool for domestic spying on various occasions during the Government of Alvaro Uribe (2002-2010). For example, #09BOGOTA849 states that, “CTI investigators reportedly found evidence that since 2004, the DAS had a unit ...
• 2011-03-17 Human Rights Watch: US must explain ...
  TweetHuman Rights Watch has issued a statement demanding that the US government explain the "extremely restrictive and possibly punitive and degrading treatment" of PFC Bradley Manning in pre-trial detention at Quantico Marine base in Virginia: According to regulations governing operation of the ...
• 2011-03-17 Unredacted cable from Sofia shows t ...
  TweetThe Wikileaks site has a total of 978 diplomatic cables from the US Embassy in Sofia. There are another 66 cables with the tag Bulgaria. On December 1, 2010, The Guardian published on its site the diplomatic cable of the American Embassy in Sofia dedicated to organized crime in Bulgaria. On ...
• 2011-03-17 US Coal Giant Accused of Trade Unio ...
  TweetOn March 12, 2001, in Colombia, then-president and vice president of Sintramienergetica, were both picked up by men of the the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC), a terrorist paramilitary force in Colombia that has at this point been mostly dissolved. According to El Espectador, a ...

U N News

• Haiti: UN mission urges mass voter turnout for ...
  Haiti's political stability and economic reconstruction depends in part on as large a turnout as possible during this weekend's run-off round of presidential elections, the United Nations peacekeeping mission said today as it urged citizens to go to the polls en masse.
• UN chief allocates funds to support peacebuild ...
  Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has announced a $10 million contribution from the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund to support efforts to entrench the respect of human rights and strengthen the security and justice systems in Guatemala.
• Violent struggle over illegal mining in Colomb ...
  At least 800 ethnic Afro-Colombians have had to flee their homes in western Colombia since the start of the month because of a struggle between armed groups in the mineral-rich area to control illegal mining activities, the United Nations refugee agency reported today.
• UN rights expert urges greater dialogue betwee ...
  Suriname's authorities need to engage in further dialogue with the country's indigenous and tribal peoples to advance those groups' land and resource rights, a United Nations human rights expert said today.
• UN-backed tsunami warning exercise for Caribbe ...
  Thirty-three countries will participate next week in the Caribbean region's first full-scale tsunami warning exercise as part of United Nations-backed efforts to test and strengthen the region's defences against such disasters.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

• Micro Credit, Macro Trouble for Yunus
  Why the head of Bangladesh's Grameen Bank was sacked
• Asians March Into Africa
  To fuel its own growth, China emerges as Africa's major trade partner
• Offshoring No Longer on the US Agenda?
  Indian IT companies complain about protectionism
• Tsunami Detection Improves
  Saving lives, livelihoods and property from tsunamis
• Can we Sleep Our Troubles Away?
  World Sleep Day is upon us.

We Know the Lies

• Fukushima Burns... While 'Detached' Obama Fidd ...
  �While the World is on fire, President Obama Goes AWOL...� Again.read more
• A Sinister Partnership... Monsanto and Bill G ...
  Many have long suspected that U.S. policy on genetically modified (GM) organisms was being influenced by the multinational corporations that profit from genetic engineering and the export-oriented agribusiness. However, recently released Wikileaks cables document just how close that relation ...
• Maine... Sedgwick Passes Law Declaring Local ...
  �Maybe the citizens of tiny Sedgwick on the Maine coast were listening to the calls of Dave Milano, Ken Conrad, and others for more trust and community, and less rigid one-size-fits-all food�regulation. ~ Debra Evansread more
• Life for Chihuahua Puppies Born Without Front Legs
  �Kensi, Hetty and G were not only born disabled, but soon after their birth their owner died, leaving them homeless. ~ Video read more
• Proposed Legislation Would Make Most Gardens a ...
  This proposed legislation would make most permaculturists, farmers, gardeners and bush regenerators criminals. Many native wattles (Acacia spp), an extensive list of legumes including the Leopard tree, Honey Locust, wisteria and cattle forage plants like Desmodium, wetland plants such as the Com ...

Tatumba 2.0

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

Truth About Our World

• More Slaughter of Innocent Human Beings Coming ...
  They really want Lybia badly.  Don’t be fooled, this has nothing to do with liberating the Lybian people from Gaddafi’s claws; this has to do with taking over Lybia.  It’s illegal (not that it matters ), not to mention, inhumane,  to attack  a country that hasn’t attacked yours. Washingtonâs ...
• WikiLeaks cables show Japan warned over nuclea ...
  Two things: First, “funny” business, this wikileaks. Second, 2 years ago Japan was warned . So 2 years ago it was thought that there might be a strong earthquake there? Which  leads me to the question: was this earthquake planned?  I know , sounds crazy, but so is everything that’s happening… ...
• Middle East Chaos: What To Learn And What To E ...
  By Giordano Bruno Neithercorp Press � 2/24/2011 There are many different kinds of revolution; some more effective than others. Telling the difference between a successful revolution and a failed revolution can be tricky. Often, on the surface, they look exactly the same. The secret is to set asi ...
• Fidel Castro: The NATO Plan is to Occupy Libya
  Cuban Revolution leader Fidel Castro said that the government of the United States is not inthe least worried about peace in Libya and it will not hesitate in giving NATO the order toinvade that rich country, perhaps in a matter of hours or a few short days. Concerning al-Gaddafi he ex ...
• More on Haiti (and think Lybia, Middle East, V ...
  � A former US President becomes UN Special Envoy to earthquake-stricken Haiti. A born-again neo-conservative US business wheeler-dealer preacher claims Haitians are condemned for making a literal �pact with the Devil.� Venezuelan, Nicaraguan, Bolivian, French and Swiss rescue organizations accus ...

Bloomberg

• No Lull in the Airlines' Headwinds
  The industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley
• Akimbo: From Niches to Riches?
  The Internet video startup has amassed an impressive menu of online content. Subscribers are all it needs
• IGN Entertainment: Where the Boys Are
  The Web outfit has drawn a huge, male-dominated following and has an IPO in the works. But will a big Net player come calling?
• Emulex: A Cash Stash from Data Storage
  S&P views the storage-gear maker as a major beneficiary of a big trend in information archiving -- the move to network-based technology
• Some Fat Chances for Investors
  Megacaps have lagged of late, but a judicious mix of these giants' stocks has the potential to power a sluggish portfolio

Enviroblog

• Chromium-6 in Gas Drilling Wastes?
  By Nils Bruzelius, EWG Executive Editor The boom in natural gas drilling across the United States has spawned well-warranted fears that the fluids and chemicals used to free the gas from surrounding rock could pose a risk to drinking water... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my webs ...
• Labor camps? Fine. But BPA crosses the line.
  By Alex Formuzis, EWG Vice President for Media Relations China: Where anyone who speaks out against the government will likely languish for years in a prison cell; Where crackdowns on the press and Internet access happen again and again; Where... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my ...
• Hold the Applause
  By Jane Houlihan, EWG Senior Vice President for Research Two weeks ago (Feb. 17), fellow activists proclaimed the upbeat news that the European Union had banned xylene and five other toxic chemicals that pose risks to human health and the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my websi ...
• Dr. Oz Talks Toxics in Our Drinking Water
  In February, our friend Dr. Oz dedicated an entire show to the safety of the nation's drinking water. On the air, he revealed the results of the 'Dr. Oz National Tap Water Test' - a hands-on water testing experiment undertaken... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full ...
• EWG testifying on behalf of clean drinking wat ...
  By Leeann Brown, Press SecretaryEnvironmental Working Group's Senior Counsel Dusty Horwitt made his fourth appearance today (March 1, 2011) before the New York City Council's Committee on Environmental Protection to highlight the risks posed by the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visi ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

• Happy St. Patrick's Day?
  From Azi Paybarah, who was with the mayor at the parade today. More
• A Capital anticipation list: Auto-remakes, The ...
  Each week, Capital's editors will offer a list of the events, activities, releases and personal obsessions that we are looking forward to during the next week. Here is a list of our anticipations. More
• Today, a battle on the fundamentals: The Fukus ...
  Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
• Work blue, and remember! Joshua Foer trains 'm ...
  The freelance science journalist, youngest Foer brother and web entrepreneur, stood last night on a small, carpeted riser at the Barnes & Noble at 82nd and Broadway, doing his mental-athlete-in-training routine. He placed a pair of giant headphones (hand-pa ...
• Tales of a skirt-chaser: On the radically demo ...
  Cunningham's work falls in the territory where fashion becomes clothing, or vice versa. The fashion industry itself prefers to obfuscate how this works, how the decisions of designers, prepared seasons in advance, correspond somehow to the collective desire ...

Views & News from Norway

• Ministry sets up flights from Japan
  The Norwegian government was taking action on Friday to help its citizens who want to leave Japan, following last week’s devastating earthquake, tsunami and the resulting danger of nuclear contamination.  Foreign ministry staff arranged two special flights to bring Norwegians home. The ministry ...
• Norway backs UN attack on Libya
  Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre said the Norwegian government fully supports an historic resolution by the United Nations Security Council to attack Libya, with the goal of protecting Libyan civilians from their dictator Moammar Gadhafi. Støre said government leaders were “evaluating” how No ...
• Famed artist lands in tax trouble
  Odd Nerdrum, arguably Norway’s most acclaimed contemporary painter, is under indictment for serious tax evasion. Norwegian authorities have charged him with failing to report income on several foreign sales completed at least a decade ago. The tax authorities in Norway claim Nerdrum allegedly fa ...
• Boycott hits murder suspect’s father
  A recent boycott of Coca-Cola products in Norway, aimed at getting the huge beverage maker to sever ties with the father of a murder suspect, seems to be yielding some results. As the boycott ended this week, Coca-Cola itself reportedly was suspending its business deals with Shaher Abdulhak, a w ...
• Drama and controversy mark start of new footba ...
  Anger, disappointment, expectation, nerves – all of these (and more) before a single ball is kicked. It could only be that clear sign that the Norwegian winter is nearly at an end – and a new Norwegian football season is beginning. On Friday March 18, the Norwegian Premier League (known as Eli ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

• The Great ‘Simple Living’ Survey
  Editor’s Preamble: Regular readers will know I’m fully behind any efforts to enact policy changes which would incentivise/facilitate/incubate a rapid and peaceful transition to a society that can live in harmony within the limits of Earth’s resources. The Simplicity Institute seems to be working ...
• City Kids Move to the Country – Part V
  Pit-falls, projects and laughs from our permaculture journey – Part 5 “What’s that smell?” asks Chris. “I don’t know. It’s really familiar. It smells like… cat food,” I reply. “It smells like shit,” he says. It’s 2:30am. We’ve propped ourselves up in bed. It’s dark. The foul smell mingled w ...
• First Earth – A Cob Building Film for Inspiration
  by Øyvind Holmstad First Earth: Uncompromising Ecological Architecture by David Sheen is meant as an inspirational film about earthen buildings, or more specifically, what they call ‘cob’. Cob is the oldest and easiest way of building from earth. You can find information and relevant literature ...
• Haiti Earthship Community Design Proposal
  Michael Reynolds has been doing some great things with his Earthship Movement. One example is that after the earthquake hit Haiti, he and his colleagues went to help the people by building environmentally sound, affordable, disaster-proof dwellings. With the experience of working in Haiti they h ...
• “Debunking the Stubborn Myth that Only Industr ...
  Image courtesy of Marc Roberts Tom Philpott has been writing great articles covering issues related to agriculture & food security issues for quite some time at Grist. These two are no exception. With the recent global unrest being partially attributed to sky rocketing food costs and widespread ...

Telecrap Urinal

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

Anna's News

• Rare Andean Cat No Longer Exclusive to the Andes
  Once thought to exclusively inhabit its namesake mountain range, the threatened Andean cat -- a house cat-sized feline that resembles a small snow leopard in both appearance and habitat -- also frequents the Patagonian steppe at much lower elevations,Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals �|� �Note ...
• EMC's anti-hacking division hacked
  The world's biggest maker of data storage computers on Thursday said that its security division has been hacked, and that the intruders compromised a widely used technology for preventing computer break-ins. Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• 10 Fascinating Art Forms Youve Never Heard Of
  An art form is the specific shape or quality an artistic expression takes.The world of artistic expression is limitless � you can take nearly anything and turn it into a beautiful work. These 10 fascinating art forms are unique and exciting ways to.......Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �No ...
• NASA spacecraft now circling Mercury a first
  For the first time, Earth has a regular orbiting eye-in-the-sky spying on the solar system's smallest and strangest planet, Mercury.NASA's spacecraft called Messenger successfully veered into a pinpoint orbit Thursday night after a 6 1/2-year trip and....Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & Tech ...
• 15 Fascinating TED Talks for Econ Geeks
  Through these talks, you�ll get to hear some of the world�s foremost experts on behavior, economics, and politics discuss a wide range of issues, from inequality to consumerism� often with an interesting and unique take on the subject matter that�s.......Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �No ...

Medical Marijuana

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

Progressives United - Russ Feingold

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

Information Underground

• Historical Events • The Struma Tragedy -- Poor ...
  This story is told from a "poor emigre Jews"..point of view. An interesting name, Vehbi Koc, is mentioned... his sons today are listed on Turkey's Billionaires List. http://www.jewishtravelagency.com/Jewis ... keyJH1.htm ----------- The Struma Tragedy By Ayhan Ozer Published in The Tur ...
• The Information Underground Radio Show • Re: T ...
  When I say wires, I don't mean the antennas. I mean the long wires, that go up for several yards. I don't mean a momentary flash of light, but a long, thin, straight flash of a wire. iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23_QdAz2tfY And honestly: Doesn't Astrobrandt annoy the crap out of you? ...
• The Information Underground Radio Show • Re: T ...
  Here's a guy who seems to have gotten sick of LYING: iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfCzUuA8M4U Here are the jubilant astronauts just after their return from their exciting trip to the moon: iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVQnCVlShCw I think the reporter smelled bullsh*t and so ...
• The Information Underground Radio Show • Re: T ...
  CM, good finds.Did US media even cover the fake moon rock story that the telegraph ran?Statistics: Posted by Timothy_Fitzpatrick — Fri Mar 18, 2011 2:42 am
• History and Philosophy of Zionism/Judaism/&quo ...
  He does a far better job at exposing Jews in his books than in the docs...I spoke to him a couple of times too and was persistent on getting some cash from me for his movies which turned me off...so I searched Jewtube and there they were... If he doesn't want to make English versions because p ...

TVNZ

• Gaddafi forces attack town after UN decision
  Forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi have reportedly bombarded the rebel-held town of Misrata.
• Long battle looms at Japan nuclear reactors
  Japan is toiling frantically to avert a catastrophic release of radiation from the crippled nuclear plant.
• Bahrainis to bury dead protester amid crackdown
  Bahrainis are preparing to bury an activist killed in a crackdown on protesters.
• UN votes for Libya no-fly zone
  The UN Security Council has agreed to take "all necessary measures" to protect civilians against leader Muammar Gaddafi's forces.
• Syrian protesters charged with 'weakening morale'
  Syrian activists who mounted a silent protest have been charged with "weakening national morale".

environment 360

• Canada’s Boreal Forest Contains the Planet's S ...
  Canada’s 1.3 billion-acre boreal forest contains more unfrozen freshwater than any other ecosystem on the planet, according to a new report by the Pew Environmental Group. With about 25 percent of the world’s wetlands, millions of lakes, and thousands of rivers, the boreal forest contains about ...
• Sequence of Japan Quakes Depicted in Animation ...
  In a new graphic animation, German researchers illustrate a series of seismic quakes that occurred Japan from March 8 to March 16, including a magnitude 7.2 quake that occurred two days before the massive quake GFZ German Research Centre for GeosciencesCLICK TO ENLARGE: Animation of seismic act ...
• Japan’s Once-Powerful Nuclear Industry is Unde ...
  The disaster at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant has highlighted the importance of nuclear energy to Japan and the power long wielded by the nuclear sector. But that influence now is sure to wane, to the relief of opponents who have fought for years to check nuclear's rapid growth. BY ...
• Can Electric Vehicles Take Off? A Roadmap to F ...
  Electric cars are finally coming to market in the U.S., but what is the future potential for this much-touted technology? A good way to find out would be to launch demonstration projects in selected U.S. cities to determine if, given incentives and the proper infrastructure, the public will trul ...
• 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 ...

oldephartte/Diigo

• SaneVax General Blog
  Tags: vaccine safety need efficacy
• Science Clarified
  Tags: science resource answers teaching education web 2.0
• The First Post | News, comment, opinion, peopl ...
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• Murrmurrs
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• killing Mother
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backofthebook

• Rebecca Black: Voice of Today’s Youth
  by Rachel Krueger Rebecca Black’s "Friday" has been making the internet rounds to guffaws and heaps of ridicule, and there’s no denying that it’s that bad.  But is it not ALSO a scathingly accurate anthem for our disaffected youth?  To wit: The opening lines of the song have taken heat for ...
• Popping iodide pills in BC, despite the Experts
  By Frank Moher I travelled to a local health food store on Monday and bought some kelp tablets. I was actually after potassium iodide, but they were already sold out. I am not naturally a health food store habitué -- as I write this, I'm finishing up a Teen Burger meal ...
• 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 ...

Daily Beast

• Life Under the Nuclear Cloud
  As the plume from Japan's meltdown blows toward the U.S., residents of Alaska's Aleutian Islands are adjusting. Alexandra Gutierrez reports on the biggest local worry: the health of the fish. Plus, California's nuclear freakout and more Japan crisis...
• California's Nuclear Freakout
  Unprepared for a rush of shoppers fearing a drifting radiation plume and desperate for potassium iodide, many stores are selling out. But experts tell The Daily Beast it's "inconceivable" that dangerous radiation will reach the West Coast from...
• Everyday Radiation in Your Life
  As workers risk their lives at the Fukushima plant, The Daily Beast puts their heroic deeds in perspective by comparing their exposure to the levels of radiation you incur from everyday items. While the world watches the developments in Japan, the...
• Epic Meal Time Creators on Their Future Plans
  With insanely caloric concoctions like "Chili Four Loko," the YouTube show Epic Meal Time has become a runaway hit. The gluttonous creators chat with Marlow Stern about heading to TV. Plus, watch their craziest feasts. Like most tales of greatness,...
• Rudy Giuliani Plays 2012 Flirt
  The former New York City mayor tells Shushannah Walshe he hasn't decided whether to enter the GOP field-but he's making a key trip to a presidential bellwether state he paid the price for ignoring in 2008. Rudy Giuliani is headed up to New Hampshire..

  Blacklisted News

• Jury Nullification Activist Can't Get Arrested ...
  Feisty jury nullification activist Julian Heicklen, a 79-year-old former chemistry professor, is facing federal charges of jury tampering up in New York for the act of handing out pamphlets advocating the power and responsibility of juries to judge the law as well as the facts (that is, to acqui ...
• Roubini Calls for IMF-Led "Marshal Plan" for M ...
  In an interview posted on Al Jazeera, Nouriel Roubini Calls for "Marshal Plan" for Mideast. Please consider Global stakes of Mideast turmoil We don’t know yet whether political contagion in the Middle East will spread to other countries. The turmoil may yet be contained and recede, sending oil ...
• RIP Shadow Banking System - Long Live QEx
  We have unwittingly become trapped in the snarled net of years of bad Public Policy. Like corporations that look no further than this quarter's results, our politicos never stop campaigning to start the tough task of ruling responsibly. A winning election simply represents 'rewards' and 'spoils' ...
• U.S.-trained forces arrested in bloody slaying ...
  Two members of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' official security forces were arrested in conjunction with this past weekend's bloody massacre in which five family members were brutally stabbed to death inside their home in the Jewish village of Itamar, WND has learned.
• US Starts Evacuating Some Americans out of Japan
  The Obama administration has authorized the first evacuations of Americans out of Japan, and said it will charter aircraft to help U.S. citizens wishing to escape elevated radiation levels in the country.

The Intelligence Daily

• U.N. Reported Only a Fraction of Civilian Deat ...
  By Gareth Porter and Shah Noori The number of civilians killed in U.S. Special Operations Forces...
• Armageddon Scenario in Japan
  By Stephen Lendman Japan’s deepening disaster affects everyone. Atmospheric radiation will...
• From Celebrities To Tsunamis: “If they can get ...
  By Phil Rockstroh Even before the floodwaters of the tsunami that inundated western Japan receded...
• Saving Money? Not In This Economy – 22 Facts T ...
  By Michael T. Snyder (End of The American Dream) The 22 facts that you are about to read are all...
• Our Man in Havana
  By Stephen Lendman Against the backdrop of US – Cuban relations, the Havana Times broke the...

My AntiWar

• Drones Celebrate Raymond Release by Killing 41
• Canada Sending F-18’s to Help Enforce UN ...
• Hague Challenged Over WikiLeaks Suspect
• Swaziland: Protesters Plan to Bring Capital to ...
• 32 Protesters Held for Hurting Syria’s & ...

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

• U.S. was alarmed by growing flak for India's I ...
  Summary: NEW DELHI: One month after India voted against Iran at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna for the first time, a diplomatic cable of October 20, 2005 ( 43172: confidential) noted with alarm the fact that the barrage of criticism of the Manmohan Singh government's ...
• Saudi Intervention Likely to Bring Regional Bl ...
  Summary: Saudi Arabia’s incursion into neighboring Bahrain is a risky move that could further inflame domestic unrest in both countries and give a propaganda boost to Tehran’s campaign to cultivate the Arab street. source: IPSread more
• US liable for Bahrain invasion: Iran
  Summary: Bahrain protestsIranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has censured foreign military invasion of Bahrain in an attempt to counter people of the Persian Gulf state, holding the US accountable for the move. source: Press TVread more
• The Democracy Council's plans for Iran and the ...
  Summary: I just stumbled into my personal Wikileaks moment by inadvertently finding a document that apparently links "Green Movement" operatives to a US government propaganda operation. This is the second time such links have been exposed by me inadvertently. (They're not good at keeping s ...
• The Great Threat and Bernard Lewis’ Nightmare
  Summary: LewisBernard Lewis believes that at the root of the protests sweeping across our region is the Arab peoples’ widespread sense of injustice. But Lewis regards a dash toward Western-style elections, far from representing a solution to the region’s difficulties, as constituting “a dang ...

The Daily Galaxy

• Prehistoric Trees of Ellesmere Island's Polar ...
  While exploring Quttinirpaaq National Park in the Canadian Arctic, Ohio State University Earth scientist Joel Barker spotted some pieces of dead trees scattered on the barren ground near a glacier. Immediately, he knew he had found something akin to a...
• "Henry V111's iPad" -Is the Key to the Future ...
  As a young boy, Henry VIII's tutors included the philosopher Erasmus and Sir Thomas More. His education embraced lessons in languages (Latin, Greek, French, Italian and Spanish), grammar, theology, history, rhetoric, logic, philosophy, arithmetic, logic, literature, geometry, and music. In...
• Japan's Space Center Evacuates: Quake Halts Na ...
  In addition to the human tragedy and the ongoing nuclear crisis, news has started trickling out on how the quake has affected science facilities in Japan. Japan's Tsukuba Space Center, about 50 kilometres northeast of Tokyo, has been evacuated due...
• Get Your Daily Dose of Awe @The Daily Galaxy F ...
  Link & Share The Daily Galaxy Facebook Page
• The Mars' "Methane Mystery" -A Sign of Ancient ...
  It's NASA's Ames Research Center vs the Goddard Space Fight Center. It's methane on Mars as a potential sign of biology vs methane on Mars as an Earth' based illusion. The evidence for methane on Mars may actually be due...

Natural News

• Natural News Store acquires new supply of pota ...
  (NaturalNews) Even in the midst of global shortages of potassium iodide, the "radiation pills" that protect the thyroid gland from radiation poisoning, we have just managed to acquire a new supply of pharmaceutical-grade potassium iodide supplements. They are manufactured in the USA (in Californ ...
• Flights from Tokyo triggering radiation detect ...
  (NaturalNews) Reports have begun to surface about potentially suspicious levels of harmful radiation on airplanes, cargo, and even passengers themselves, flying into US airports from Tokyo, Japan. NBC Chicago has indicated that up to six planes from Tokyo that landed at O'Hare International Airp ...
• NaturalNews donates $12,000 to rescue efforts ...
  (NaturalNews) We have sent a $12,000 donation to the Tzu Chi Foundation to help support efforts on the ground in Japan. We sent our first check for $5,000 two days ago, and then we sent a second check for $7,000 yesterday.These are funds we acquired through the sales of our "Be Prepared, Not Sca ...
• MOX plutonium fuel used in Fukushima's Unit 3 ...
  (NaturalNews) Largely absent from most mainstream media reports on the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster is the fact that a highly-dangerous "mixed-oxide" (MOX) fuel in present in six percent of the fuel rods at the plant's Unit 3 reactor. Why is MOX a big deal? According to the Nuclear Informa ...
• Obama tells Americans: Do NOT prepare for radi ...
  (NaturalNews) In a truly incredible example of the complete disregard for the health and safety of the American people, President Obama today told Americans that they should NOT prepare for radiation from the possible meltdown of the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan. His exact quote: "The ...

Threat Level

• Hacker Spies Hit Security Firm RSA
  Top security firm RSA Security revealed on Thursday that it’s been the victim of an “extremely sophisticated” hack. The company said in a note posted on its website that the intruders succeeded in stealing information related to the company’s SecurID two-factor authentication products. SecurID ...
• Hosting Firm Objects to Sony Subpoena in PS3 H ...
  The web host to a PlayStation online forum moved Thursday to quash a subpoena connected to Sony’s lawsuit against George Hotz, the man who released the first full-fledged PlayStation 3 hack. SoftLayer Technologies, which counts psx-scene.com among its hosted sites, is objecting to a records dem ...
• Congress Asks to Review DoD and NSA Contracts ...
  Anonymous’s recent exposure of a federal contractor’s plan to take down WikiLeaks has led to a congressional probe seeking data on contracts the company and its partners hold with the U.S. military and intelligence agencies. The House Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabili ...
• Sony to Get PS3 Hacker’s PayPal Records
  A federal magistrate said Sony may subpoena the PayPal account of PlayStation 3 hacker George Hotz, as the game maker ratchets up its civil lawsuit against the man who released the first full-fledged PS3 jailbreak in the console’s 4-year history. Tuesday’s order came two weeks after Magistrate J ...
• ACLU Protests Manning’s Treatment in Letter to ...
  The American Civil Liberties Union calls the treatment of WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning unconstitutional and “gratuitously harsh.” The remarks came in a letter sent Wednesday to U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates. âThe Supreme Court has long held that the government violates the Eighth Amen ...

PERRspectives : Blog

• Gingrich Goes After Hagee and the Armageddon Vote
  Politics makes strange bedfellows, especially when the bed contains Newt Gingrich. Despite his belief that marriage is an institution between one man and three women in rapid succession, Newt has been warmly embraced by the Republicans' family values crowd. Now, the Baptist-turned-Catholic Gin ...
• To Cut the Deficit, Expand the IRS
  As any good free-marketeer will tell you, you've got to spend money to make money. Just not, Republicans insist, when it comes to collecting federal tax revenue. The GOP, after all, gutted the Internal Revenue Service in the late 1990's. And two weeks ago, House Republicans voted to cut $600 ...
• GOP's Paul Ryan Accidentally Endorses Obamacare
  For Republicans, a funny thing happened on the way to privatizing Medicare. Hoping to transform the wildly popular, low-overhead government program for 46 million American seniors into a voucher system for purchasing private insurance, Paul Ryan and his GOP allies inadvertently made a strong ca ...
• Kudlow on Enemas, Earthquakes, Bulls, Bears an ...
  CNBC host, National Review contributor and former Reagan adviser Lawrence Kudlow has long embodied the gin-and-tonic-sipping, anyone-for-tennis, let-them-eat-cake laissez faire Republican attitude towards the suffering of the American people. Even still, his jaw-dropping reaction to the devasta ...
• Bachmann Bungles American History. Again.
  In the late 1970's film Animal House, John Belushi's character Bluto famously rallies his fraternity brothers by proclaiming, "Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?" Now, a latter-day Bluto may be running for President of the United States. Pandering to Republican voters in New Ham ...

Blackspot News Feed

• What to Do About Japan - And What Not
  Anyone watching the devastation in Japan must certainly wonder what we as individuals should be doing to help. For some insight, we turn to Richard Walden, a most unusual leader of a most unusual humanitarian relief group, called Operation USA. His organization’s efforts are well known to WhoWha ...
• The FANTASTIC FOUR Remake/Remodel
  So every few weeks I do a game on my message board where I set up the conditions for doing a visual revamp on an old character or title from books and comics and let artists go at it for one week. This week I said this: You are an artist/designer. You have to put [...]
• Protectionism After the Crisis: The Case of La ...
  It is accepted wisdom that protectionism is a first gut reaction in times of crisis, but there are few studies on how different countries react to get themselves over the hump. What did we see this time when the global financial crisis hit in late 2008? After six years of expanding on an annual ...
• Treason Has No Rhyme Nor Reason
  Julian Assange asks why shouldn't the Australian people consider charging Prime Minister Julia Gillard with treason? What's wrong with this picture? Nothing. Granted, one person's Benedict Arnold is another's Paul Revere. But, if betrayal and illegally passing on intelligence to the United State ...
• Manning's Appeal of Refusal to Relax Condition ...
  Bradley Manning's appeal of the refusal to relax his conditions of confinement makes a strong case that he has been a model prisoner who is being unjustly abused. His inhumane treatment violates his due process rights and is cruel and unusual punishment. After providing detailed descriptions of ...

Consortium News

• Al Jazeera Shows the Way
  Long disparaged in the U.S., Al Jazeera has emerged as one of the world's most trusted names in news, notes Danny Schechter. March 17, 2011
• Learning Nuke Dangers the Hard Way
  Japan was at the forefront of nuclear arms control but is now learning the risks of nuclear power, too, says Lawrence S. Wittner. March 17, 2011
• Why the Jokes about Japan's Tragedy
  Rush Limbaugh and other voices in American culture find something funny about Japan's suffering, but why, asks Phil Rockstroh. March 17, 2011
• Aristide's Right to Return to Haiti
  Twice elected Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide wants to go back home, but the U.S. government objects, writes Nat Parry. March 17, 2011
• The Invasion of Bahrain
  The Saudi invasion of Bahrain, to help crush a pro-democracy movement, exposes the West's double standards, says Craig Murray. March 16, 2011

CounterPunch

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

Institute for Middle East Understanding

• Challenging the Jewish National Fund's Complic ...
• Blockade denying Gaza youth education, employm ...
  The economic blockade, imposed by Israel after the Islamist resistance movement Hamas took control of Gaza in June 2007, has obstructed the import of books, science laboratory and oth ...
• Gay Community Faces Rift Over Cancellation of ...
  "Personally, I would not want to be part of a queer community that does not support rights for every person, including Palestinians," said Hannah Mermelstein, an activist with Adalah- ...
• Army to close West Bank, Gaza over holiday (M ...
  Israel's army will implement a closure of the West Bank and Gaza Strip starting late Thursday and through Monday, the army announced. The closure will be lifted early Tuesday in accor ...
• Diary from Gaza: March 15th protests and the v ...
  Tuesday's "Unity" protests across the occupied Palestinian Territories drew thousands out to the streets. Blogger Rowan Abu-Shahla provides one account of how the protests looked and felt in Gaza as throngs of protesters were met with violence and cracked down upon by Hamas security forces.

Water - AlterNet

• Josh Fox Speaks Out on Hate Speech from PA Gov ...
  What we need is a real scientific review of the harmful effects of gas drilling on the state and a statewide moratorium, not race baiting remarks.
• Anti-Immigrant Groups Trying to Lure Support f ...
  Anti-immigration leaders have created and fostered an array of organizations designed to enlist environmentalists.
• The Health of the Gulf: Fishermen and Oilmen Clash
  With the oil industry shifting from friendly PR to legal battles, competing narratives about Gulf marine life have emerged.
• 'Fracking' Comes to Europe, Sparking Rising Co ...
  As concerns grow in the U.S. about fracking to extract natural gas from shale, companies have set their sights on Europe and its abundant reserves of this "unconventional" gas.
• Top 10 Most Toxic Cities & Top 10 Fittest ...
  Should you be concerned when you walk outside your house and guzzle a deep breath of air, or should you go out for a run like the rest of the local folks do? Find out...

Public Citizen in Texas

• New EPA rules tougher than many anticipated
  Texas coal-burning power plants – especially those fueled by lignite – could face closures under proposed national standards for coal emissions of mercury and other toxins unveiled by the Environmental Protection Agency. The standards, which are far tougher than the electric power industry had a ...
• DOE simultaneously challenges Japan’s assessme ...
  Even as the Japanese attempt increasingly frantic tactics to cool an overheated nuclear complex:   U.S. officials warned the situation is deteriorating and challenged the Japanese government’s assessment of the radiation risks telling U.S. civilians and military personnel to stay at least 50 m ...
• How much radioactive material is at the Fukush ...
  On last night’s Rachel Maddow Show, Ms. Maddow provided some interesting information about how much radioactive fuel might be on site at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant.  We’ve provided a quick overview below, but the show’s presentation and graphics are much better than what we can provid ...
• PUC Sunset bill give the agency more oversight ...
  The Public Utility Commission (PUC) sunset bill (H.B. 2134) would give the PUC the authority to approve or change the annual budget of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT),  stipulates that no member of the PUC could work for ERCOT for at least two years after he or she had stepped ...
• Local organization asks NRC’s Atomic Safety an ...
  Back in January, Texans For A Sound Energy Policy (TSEP) filed formal legal contentions with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) urging denial of Exelon’s application for an Early Site Permit (ESP) for a proposed nuclear power plant site south of Victoria, Texas. Yesterday, TSEP appeared at ...

Unexplained Mysteries

• What happened to the Roman Ninth Legion ?
  Mystery surrounds the unexplained disappearance of 5000 Roman soldiers 2000 years ago. The tale of the Ninth Legion has now become the subject of a bi...
• Japan tsunami 'could be 1000-year event'
  Seismologists discover evidence of a similar tsunami that hit Sendai in 869 AD. The devastation wraught by the disaster that hit Japan on March 11, 20...
• Highway sign displays zombie warning
  Drivers in Colorado were perplexed on Monday morning by a road sign warning them about zombies. It turned out that someone had tampered with the elect...
• Atlantis (maybe) rediscovered in Spain
  Analysis of underwater remains of a suspected ancient city leads research team to Southern Spain. Mud flats located in Southern Spain are potentially ...
• Can the LHC send messages back in time ?
  Scientists have come up with a possible method to send a hypothetical particle back in time. The theory is based on the assumption that the particle (...

Grassroots

• Farmer Tractorcade Supports Workers in Wisconsin
  Farmers demonstrated the strength of their solidarity with pro-union forces in Wisconsin through the creative force of a “tractorcade,” and the inspiring power of their words and actions. Grassroots International allies from the Family Farm Defenders and the National Family Farm Coalition played ...
• Solidarity and Support for the People of Japan
  Grassroots International joins with those around the world in expressing our sadness and concern for the people of Japan in the wake of the earthquake and subsequent tsunami. Thousands have died, and many more are missing or being evacuated due to ongoing health and safety threats.� While Grass ...
• Program Assistant, Part-time
  Grassroots International seeks an experienced individual to work as an active member of its Program Team. The Program Assistant will provide administrative and other support to the team.�The position is part-time (20-24 hours per week) and will be based in Boston, Massachusetts.We aim to fill th ...
• Charity Ratings: What Does It Mean to See a Fa ...
  Like many other non-profit organizations, last year Charity Navigator lowered our rating from four stars (excellent) to two stars (needs improvement). Since many donors rely on third-party rating services such as Charity Navigator to inform their giving, we would like to offer an explanation.Sin ...
• International Social Movements Statement of So ...
  brazil_womens_march.jpg In advance of International Women�s Day, several organizations representing various social movements around the world � many of them Grassroots International partners, grantees, and allies � co-wrote a �Letter of So ...

Climate

• Japan Weighs Need to Bury Nuclear Plant
  Source:� Reuters Japanese engineers conceded on Friday that burying a crippled nuclear plant in sand and concrete may be a last resort to prevent a catastrophic radiation release.
• U.S. Nuclear Officials Suspect Japanese Plant ...
  Source:� Los Angeles Times U.S. government nuclear experts believe a spent fuel pool at Japan's crippled Fukushima reactor complex has a breach in the wall or floor, a situation that creates a major obstacle.
• Crises in Japan, Gulf, Thwart U.S. Energy Accord
  Source:� AP With Japan's nuclear crisis still unfolding, Libya in civil war, and Americans stewing over gasoline prices, U.S. energy policy is bound to be unstable for a while.
• Rare White House Request for NRC to Review Saf ...
  Source:� AP The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will conduct a "comprehensive review" of the safety of all U.S. nuclear plants. read more
• 2 Natural Gas Companies Extend Shutdown of Ark ...
  Source:� Washington Post Two natural gas exploration companies have agreed to extend the shutdowns of Arkansas injection wells as researchers study whether the operations are linked to recent earthquake activity. read more

GreenBiz

• Tririga's Winning Tactics for Achieving Sustai ...
  What separates major companies that achieve their sustainability goals from those that fall short? A new study from sustainability software firm Tririga in collaboration with tech research firm Gartner Inc. examines the strategies and tactics that put the achievers way ahead of firms still in th ...
• Why Energy Reduction Goals Are Moving Up the C ...
  Establishing an energy reduction goal offers benefits that carbon reduction goals do not in today's business climate, such as the direct relationship to dollar savings, which may be easier to sell internally.
• Pepsi Ups Ante on Plant-Based Bottles with 100 ...
  �Pepsi plans to pour its drinks into bottles derived entirely from plants, which would give them more plant content than Coca-Cola's PlantBottles.
• LA, DC and SF Top List of Cities with Most Ene ...
  For a second consecutive year, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and San Francisco took the No. 1, 2, and 3 spots at the head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's list of 25 cities with the most Energy Star rated buildings in the country.
• McDonald's Sets Long-Term Sustainable Beef, Co ...
  �McDonald's has laid out a long-term plan to move to more sustainable meat, coffee and packaging.

Reuters Global

• The “sound and fury” of U.S.-Pakis ...
  The United States and Pakistan are narrowing their differences at a strategic level. But the very noisy row over Raymond Davis may have damaged perceptions
• Keeping Raymond Davis and Lashkar-e-Taiba in p ...
  The row over Raymond Davis is running into arguments over the role of the Lashkar-e-Taiba. But that can be misleading.
• Towards a review of Pakistan’s blasphemy ...
  After two assassinations, Pakistani politicians are finally addressing tensions over Pakistan's blasphemy laws
• Pakistan’s debate on drones, lifting the ...
  The secrecy on drones has helped fuel a poisonous debate in Pakistan. Will a rare admission by a high-ranking Pakistani military offiicer of their effectiveness change that?
• From Afghanistan to Libya; rethinking the role ...
  The U.S. military has been accused of dominating policy in Afghainstan. But what do we learn from its reluctance to intervene in Libya?

Booman Tribune

• Down in the Hole
  On Libya, I agree with Dick Lugar, but wonder where he was when it was time to invade Iraq. And now some music: I guess you have to choose your devil, and try to keep him down in the hole. Discuss
• Odds & Ends
  Only the most liberal and the most conservative members of the Senate voted against the latest continuing resolution. Interesting that Franken and Brown signed off on it. I'd prefer it if Dan Quayle would refrain from lending support to the president's golf game. The Los Angeles Times ...
• Idle Thoughts
  I can't believe that Public Policy Polling actually polled to see who people choose for president between Charlie Sheen and Sarah Palin. It's pretty funny that Sheen won with Democrats and Independents, but Sheen also beat Obama among Republicans. I guess we really hate each other in this coun ...
• What Will Hillary Do Next?
  It's interesting that Hillary Clinton simultaneously says that she has "the best job she can ever have," and that she is definitely quitting that job after the 2012 elections. I'm sure everyone can parse that out for themselves, but it does demand a certain degree of speculation. One possibili ...
• I'm Just Disgusted by This Person
  Too disgusted to come up with some catchy title for this post. Really, really disgusted: While it's a common tactic of abusers, it's something no one expected of Republican Florida state Rep. Kathleen Passidomo. During debate over a bill that would legislate a dress code for Florida stude ...

European Tribune

• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch ...
  �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europe on this date in history:1834 Six farm labourers,...
• Thursday Open Thread
  Because... Well, you know....
• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch ...
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• Another Japan News Thread
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Futurismic

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

Therapy News

• Ideal Body Images – Inspiration or Aggravation?
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline New research uncovered a correlation between people who are dissatisfied with their bodies and how they view pictures of ideal physiques. The study showed that a person with a poor self image avoided looking at photos of thin and fit bodies, except in cases where ...
• The Value of Play
  By Mary Alice Long, PhD Play Therapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Mary Alice and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Play is our human birthright and yet we see a devaluing of play in our culture. We are seeing the erosion of the value of play [http://usplaycoalition.clemson.edu ...
• Earthquakes and Tsunamis…Outer and Inner
  By Judith Barr, MS, LPC, Power: Healing to the Root Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Judith and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile The severity of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan…is real. It is truly a disaster with physical, emotional, and mental consequences. It is also a dis ...
• Beginning to Address Women’s Low Arousal
  By Moushumi Ghose, MFT Sexuality / Sex Therapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Moushumi and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Too often I hear women say, “I am just not that sexual,” and it’s generally when they compare themselves to their male partner. Unfortunately, this is oft ...
• A Failing Classroom Environment Affects Behavi ...
  A GoodTherapy.org News Summary A study released this month illustrates a clear relationship between a child’s mental state and the quality of his classroom. Children taught by teachers who felt inferior to their colleagues developed more mental health problems than kids whose teachers felt respe ...

Mountaintop Removal

• For some a break, for others more - Acorn
  For some a break, for others more Acorn Andrew Torres ('13) went on an alternative spring break trip to Kentucky to learn about the controversial mountaintop removal in the Appalachian Mountains. He and nine other Drew students, as well as two professors, stayed in a local Catholic church ... ...
• Protesters win a round against Massey - Charle ...
  Protesters win a round against Massey Charleston Gazette (blog) A federal magistrate judge has ruled today that anti-mountaintop removal protesters do not have to answer Massey Energy's questions about who assisted or participated in peaceful civil disobedience actions against the company. ... ...
• 'Coal River' next up on energy series - Southw ...
  'Coal River' next up on energy series Southwest Virginia Today ... lecture and film series on �Energy and the Environment� continues Thursday, March 17, with the showing and discussion of a documentary �On Coal River,� which is about a West Virginia community's struggles with the effects of mou ...
• Will Japanese Nuclear Meltdown Alter Public Op ...
  Los Angeles Times Will Japanese Nuclear Meltdown Alter Public Opinion on Coal? WOWK Proudly donning a "Stop Mountaintop removal button, Julian Martin is eager to point out nearby mountaintops that have been, in his words, "ravaged" by coal mining. "Its all we've got," said Martin. "Besides the ...
• Ky. candidate stands against mountaintop remov ...
  Ky. candidate stands against mountaintop removal BusinessWeek Independent Gatewood Galbraith differentiated himself Thursday from all other Kentucky gubernatorial candidates by taking a strong stand against mountaintop removal mining. Galbraith told The Associated Press that the practice has .. ...

Memeorandum

• O'Keefe's Latest NPR Bombshell Instantly Falls ...
  Simon Maloy / Media Matters for America: O'Keefe's Latest NPR Bombshell Instantly Falls Apart  —  Discredited conservative activist James O'Keefe is out with yet another NPR video, and its auteur took to Twitter to tease its SHOCKING REVELATION:  —  Yep, that's the big story, and in his narrat ...
• Day after saying no second term, a big win for ...
  Glenn Thrush / The Politico: Day after saying no second term, a big win for Hillary Clinton  —  Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's revelation that she won't be staying on if there is a second Obama term may have been news to those who don't know her, but did not surprise her friends, who say ...
• Union thuggery against Althouse and Meade: "We ...
  Ann Althouse / Althouse: Union thuggery against Althouse and Meade: “We will hang up wanted posters of you everywhere you like to go.”  —  “We will picket on public property as close to your house as we can every day.  We will harrass the ever loving s**t out of you all the time.  Campus is OCC ...
• Inside classified Hill briefing, administratio ...
  Josh Rogin / Foreign Policy: Inside classified Hill briefing, administration spells out war plan for Libya  —  Several administration officials held a classified briefing for all senators on Thursday afternoon in the bowels of the Capitol building, leaving lawmakers convinced President Barack ...
• House Budget Chairman Dismisses Social Securit ...
  Pat Garofalo / Wonk Room: House Budget Chairman Dismisses Social Security Reality: ‘That Just Boggles My Mind’  —  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) appeared on MSNBC last night, where he strongly rejected the idea that Social Security cuts should be on the table during current budget t ...

Energy & Environment News

• U.S. Calls Radiation ‘Extremely High;&# ...
  The chairman of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission gave a bleaker appraisal of the threat, but Japanese officials played down the concerns.
• U.S. Nuclear Industry Faces New Uncertainty
  A fragile bipartisan consensus on nuclear power’s promise for the United States may have dissolved.
• Room for Debate: Japan's Nuclear Crisis: Lesso ...
  An 8.9 magnitude quake and tsunami are rare events. But should the U.S. rethink its own nuclear safety plans?
• Second Explosion at Reactor as Technicians Try ...
  The new explosion underscores the difficulties Japanese authorities are having in bringing several stricken reactors under control after the earthquake.
• Indonesia to Continue Plans for Nuclear Power
  Despite the nuclear crisis touched off by the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, officials in Indonesia are intent on building the country’s first nuclear power plants.

5+ quakes - 7 days

• M 5.0, off the east coast of Honshu, Japan
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• M 5.0, near the east coast of Honshu, Japan
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• M 5.3, near the east coast of Honshu, Japan
  Friday, March 18, 2011 08:01:34 UTCFriday, March 18, 2011 05:01:34 PM at epicenterDepth: 24.20 km (15.04 mi)
• M 5.0, near the east coast of Honshu, Japan
  Thursday, March 17, 2011 19:05:44 UTCFriday, March 18, 2011 04:05:44 AM at epicenterDepth: 36.50 km (22.68 mi)
• M 5.6, off the east coast of Honshu, Japan
  Thursday, March 17, 2011 18:55:37 UTCFriday, March 18, 2011 03:55:37 AM at epicenterDepth: 29.80 km (18.52 mi)

China Dialogue

• What next for Chinese nuclear?
  The world is struggling to respond to the Fukushima radiation disaster – not least in China, the linchpin of the much-hyped nuclear renaissance. Antony Froggatt reports.The earthquake and tsunami in Japan have caused unprecedented problems for the country’s nuclear industry and the Fukushima pow ...
• Meanwhile in America
  How will Beijing’s latest green pledges affect the United States? Linden Ellis asks a roundtable of experts and business figures what they think of China’s 12th Five-Year Plan.Last week, as China set impressive targets to reduce emissions and increase investment in environmental services, politi ...
• Splashing around in the shallows
  Just as the internet is eroding our attention spans, oceans of information may be diluting the corporate sustainability agenda, writes John Elkington. Do business leaders risk being everywhere and nowhere?I’m not particularly looking forward to 2012, now just a year away. Among other things, it ...
• Green growth’s invisible ingredient
  Information technology has the potential to transform China’s low-carbon narrative – but the opportunities need to be grasped, writes Simon Zadek.China’s green growth is a collective imperative that can enable the country to improve the economic conditions of its 1.3 billion citizens without cre ...
• Fighting for China’s battery bears
  As a bear-farming firm prepares to launch on the stock market, the use of animal bile in traditional Chinese remedies is at the centre of a public row. Meng Si reports.A Chinese pharmaceutical company that uses bile extracted from the gallbladders of black bears as the key ingredient in its prod ...

AlterNet Top Stories

• Media ignores gay youth in story about Christi ...
  A recent case in Great Britain about foster parenting and lgbts have some of the right practically salivating in terms of how they can exploit the situation. And as it turns out, they got it all wrong. What’s worse is how the mainstream media pushed the story. This the scenario laid out: Owen ...
• The Men Who Cried Wolf
  Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins is the CEO of Green For All If a fire broke out in your office right now, would you know what to do? Would you know where to go? You likely would, thanks in large part to codes requiring fire exits and fire drills. Today, we accept these basic standards without even pausi ...
• Woman Arrested for Thinking About Abortion? Ho ...
  Women are being assaulted by attempts to establish fetal rights.
• Why Is Evil So Sexy, and So Profoundly Glamorous?
  Whatever happened to the notion of goodness as exciting and exhilarating, and evil as empty and banal? We seem to see things the other way round.
• “Colorblind” Herman Cain Plays the ...
  Sometimes they make it all too easy… Once more, Herman Cain proves true my observation that Black Conservatives are indeed the garbage pail kids of American politics. Like an expert at Three-card Monte or a proverbial “race pimp,” Herman Cain expertly dealt from the bottom of the “race card” dec ...

Threat Level

• Hacker Spies Hit Security Firm RSA
  Top security firm RSA Security revealed on Thursday that it’s been the victim of an “extremely sophisticated” hack. The company said in a note posted on its website that the intruders succeeded in stealing information related to the company’s SecurID two-factor authentication products. SecurID ...
• Hosting Firm Objects to Sony Subpoena in PS3 H ...
  The web host to a PlayStation online forum moved Thursday to quash a subpoena connected to Sony’s lawsuit against George Hotz, the man who released the first full-fledged PlayStation 3 hack. SoftLayer Technologies, which counts psx-scene.com among its hosted sites, is objecting to a records dem ...
• Congress Asks to Review DoD and NSA Contracts ...
  Anonymous’s recent exposure of a federal contractor’s plan to take down WikiLeaks has led to a congressional probe seeking data on contracts the company and its partners hold with the U.S. military and intelligence agencies. The House Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabili ...
• Sony to Get PS3 Hacker’s PayPal Records
  A federal magistrate said Sony may subpoena the PayPal account of PlayStation 3 hacker George Hotz, as the game maker ratchets up its civil lawsuit against the man who released the first full-fledged PS3 jailbreak in the console’s 4-year history. Tuesday’s order came two weeks after Magistrate J ...
• ACLU Protests Manning’s Treatment in Letter to ...
  The American Civil Liberties Union calls the treatment of WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning unconstitutional and “gratuitously harsh.” The remarks came in a letter sent Wednesday to U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates. âThe Supreme Court has long held that the government violates the Eighth Amen ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

• UPDATE 1-Japan nuclear operator: not impossibl ...
  TOKYO, March 18 (Reuters) - The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant said on Friday that it would not be impossible to encase the facility's reactors in concrete, though cooling them down is the priority.
• CORRECTED-IAEA chief: Japan nuclear incident " ...
  (Corrects second para to say ... scientists will head in general direction of plant ... not Amano himself)
• UPDATE 1-U.S. House votes to cut funding to pu ...
  * Democrats say move a thinly veiled ideological attack (Adds NPR statement, paragraphs 8,9) )
• Q+A: Risks at each reactor of Japan's stricken ...
  TOKYO (Reuters) - The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant at the centre of Japan's crisis has six reactors. The plant is operated by Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO).
• Big-wave surfer killed in wipeout off California
  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Big-wave surfer Sion Milosky has been killed in a wipeout off the northern California coast, stunning the close-knit big-wave surfing community.

IntelNews

• News you may have missed #484
  Analysis: CIA may face reduced role in Pakistan after murder row. Lebanese Army dismantles Israeli spying device. Exhibition commemorates Soviet spy legend. Continue reading →
• Egypt announces arrest of alleged Israeli spy ring
  Authorities in Egypt announced Wednesday that they uncovered an espionage network, which they accuse of spying on the country on behalf of Israel. Continue reading →
• Pakistan releases CIA operative in ‘carefully ...
  Pakistani groups had warned of âEgyptian-style protestsâ if CIA operative Raymond Allen Davis was released from detention, so his release earlier today, which hardly surprised intelligence observers, appears to have been arranged so as to limit its feared political spillover. Continue reading →
• News you may have missed #483
  Ex-CIA chief criticizes 'too much cybersecurity secrecy'. Renault arrests security chief over spy hoax. Analysis: Gadhafi's spies keep watch in Libyan rebel capital. Continue reading →
• UN official confirms Israel abducted Palestini ...
  A UN official has confirmed that a Palestinian engineer, who disappeared under mysterious circumstances in Ukraine on February 19, is currently in Israeli custody. Continue reading →

War is a Crime.org

• Torturing Bradley Manning
  Torturing Bradley Manning - by Stephen Lendman A previous article discussed him in detail, accessed through the following link: http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2010/08/bradley-manning-american-hero.html Another discussed torture as official US policy, institutionalized under Bush II, continued und ...
• Video: Kucinich on Ending War
• Video: Dahlia Wasfi and Ross Caputi on Iraq War
  Usually "power couple" describes two plutocrats, but here is a young engaged (to be married) (and in the struggle for justice) couple with the power to move people against war, that leaves the audience asking them to speak in their schools. Wasfi is an Iraqi American who speaks of war from the p ...
• Bush-Era War Official Stephen Hadley Speaks in ...
  On 8th anniversary of “Shock and Awe” launching U.S. war on Iraq WHAT: Protest Action, Speak-Out “HADLEY IS A WAR CRIMINAL: NO MORE WAR CRIMES!” WHEN: Saturday Mar. 19, 2011, 3:30 PM -- Rain or Shine WHERE: World Affairs Council (Conference) St. Regis Hotel, 125 3rd St. (next to Museum ...
• US government denies entry visa to Afghan wome ...
  http://unitedforpeace.org The United States has denied a travel visa to Malalai Joya, an acclaimed women’s rights activist and former member of Afghanistan’s parliament. Ms. Joya, who was named one of TIME magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world in 2010, was set to begin a three-week ...

Grist - News

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

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Technorati - What's Hot in Blogs

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Time - Top Stories

• Fleeing Continues as Japan Raises Its Nuclear ...
  As officials raise the severity rating of Japan's nuclear crisis to Level 5, people continue to evacuate their homes -- and worry for those they have left behind
• War with Libya? What the U.N. Resolution Means
  After weeks of warning from the Pentagon about the downsides of launching a no-fly zone over Libya, the U.S. and its major European allies declared war on Muammar Gaddafi and his forces.
• NPR Sting: Edited Video Makes Schiller, O'Keef ...
  A video hit piece by conservative provocateur James O'Keefe makes both NPR fundraiser Ron Schiller and O'Keefe, an enemy of public radio, look bad
• Notre Dame Fined Over Student's Death at Footb ...
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Farming Pathogens

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

Suzie-Q

• Fukushima Daiichi: Damage Done To Unit 4 React ...
  The Al Jazeera English Tumblr About an hour ago–  March 17, 2011 Screen grab from a video showing the extent of the damage done to the reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi complex. This shot shows the damage done to the unit 4 reactor, where emergency workers earlier attempted to fire water at in ...
• Wisconsin DA Files Lawsuit Against Scott Walke ...
  Scott Walker And Wisconsin Republicans Face Legal Battles Over Bill Politicususa- By Sarah Jones March 17, 2011 In the aftermath of his Draconian power grab, Governor Scott Walker has been smirking his way though celebratory dinners and being slapped on the back by national Republicans who whisp ...
• Afternoon Jukebox: Beautiful Day!
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• Rush Limbaugh Mocks Japan Quake Refugees (VIDEO)
  Rush Limbaugh Mocks Japan Quake Refugees (VIDEO) HuffPost- First Posted: 03/16/11 08:30 AM Updated: 03/16/11 08:30 AM Rush Limbaugh laughed about Japanese refugees recycling after the earthquake that struck the country on his Tuesday show. A caller asked Limbaugh, “If these are the people that ...
• Happy St. Patrick’s Day! – Afterno ...
  Happy St. Paddy’s Day! I hope you are wearing your green or I might pinch you!  Have a good one and be safe… SQ The Corrs & Bono – When the Stars Go Blue (Live 8 )

Solari

• Brene Brown: The Power of Vulnerability
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• Meet the Bill that Could Ruin Michigan’s ...
  By Sarah Parsons Like most parents, Michigan resident Rachael Hilliker cares very much about the kinds of foods her kids eat. Hilliker has a three-year-old daughter, Claire, and her fiance is the father of an eight-year-old and 10-year old. All three children attend Michigan’s public school sys ...
• China Overtakes UK in Art Market League
  China has overtaken the UK as a global art market for the first time, a report suggests. The UK was knocked from second spot to third place as a global market for antiques and arts, according to The European Fine Art Foundation. The US continued to dominate the market in 2010, with a global sha ...
• Nasa to Shoot Lasers at Space Junk Around Eart ...
  Nasa fears ‘Kessler Syndrome’, where there is too much space junk for it to be safe to fly out, leaving us trapped on Earth. By Daniel Bates Nasa is considering using lasers to deflect space junk around Earth and stop it colliding with satellites. Lasers similar to those used for welding in car ...
• Gasparino: Lloyd Blankfein Is Ready To Leave G ...
  By Courtney Comstock According to Gasparino, Lloyd Blankfein’s friends say he’s on the way out. They say this is Blankfein’s last year at Goldman Sachs, according to Charlie. What does Goldman say? “They refuse to deny it,” says Gasparino. Which means they said something like, “We don’t comment ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

• Drinking From the White Fountain: Tea Party Ca ...
  In New Hampshire, the stump speech of presidential hopeful Herman Cain revealed him as an apologist for white racism.
• New Directions: Religious and Community Leader ...
  Conference gathers this March to chart a new course in drug policy that could serve as a model for the nation.
• Building More Prisons Won't Solve Our Immigrat ...
  ICE claims that these new facilities will replace existing beds in problematic facilities, yet no commitment has been made to close a single bed in any location.
• As the Treatment of Bradley Manning Grows More ...
  If we take our heads out of the sand, we could see that what once happened to "foreign combatants" is now happening to Americans soldiers.
• Secret Experimental Prisons Subject Inmates to ...
  Inmates at secret prisons inside the U.S. are prohibited from having virtually any contact with the outside world.

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

• The Middle East scorecard
  Summary:  Recent events in the Middle East reveal the emptiness of US foreign policy, our inability to assess situations before we jump in, and an important trend emerging into view. The scorecard so far in the latest round of the never-ending Middle East game: Tunisia — Big changes, but minor ...
• Watching decadal swings in global climate (pre ...
  Summary:  Effective propaganda often requires making people forget what they know, as well adding an overlay of simplistic narrative.  Looking at climate on all time frames challenges the simple “co2 drives global climate” story.  Here we look at one of the few direct and reliable sources of ...
• To understand piracy consult a chapter from Am ...
  Summary:  The Americans that fought WWI and WWII dreamt of a better world, run by laws and not greed backed by force.  After WWII the foundations were laid for global institutions to make this a reality, beginning a project taking generations to accomplish.  The Boomers have abandoned it, each y ...
• About the atomic crisis in Japan – backg ...
  Summary:  We might be reading much about radiation during the next few days.  Most of these articles will provide little context.  Here’s some useful background.  A follow-up to News about the earthquake in northeastern Japan. Contents About radiation:  units and definitions Effects of rad ...
• The long-term consequences of torturing Bradle ...
  Summary:  What do our government officials hope to gain by torturing Bradley Manning?  There’s a reason, it’s insignificant compared to the long-term consequences — which remain unexamined by both sides. First, we have the ritual lies by Obama (never believe anything about the government unt ...

Open Your Eyes News

• UK: Hundreds ‘sue local authorities over child ...
  BBC – Hundreds of young people are trying to sue local authorities in England and Wales for failing to remove them from abusive homes, lawyers are claiming. Victims are claiming that social workers’ negligence meant they were not protected from abuse. Sarah Erwin-Jones, a solicitor who acts for ...
• US: Consumer prices turn higher, economy gains ...
  Reuters – Consumer prices increased at their fastest pace in more than 1-1/2 years in February as fresh data showed growth was accelerating, but underlying inflation pressures remained generally contained. Some economists expressed concern that the deepening crisis in Japan could hurt U.S. growt ...
• US overdue, under-prepared for huge Pacific quake
  AFP – The western United States is overdue for a huge earthquake and tsunami much like the one that devastated Japan last week, and is nowhere near ready to cope with the disaster, experts say. A volatile, horseshoe-shaped area known as the Pacific Ring of Fire has recently erupted with quakes i ...
• Gene Therapy Reverses Symptoms of Parkinson’s ...
  ScienceDaily â A gene therapy called NLX-P101 dramatically reduces movement impairment in Parkinson’s patients, according to results of a Phase 2 study published today in the journal Lancet Neurology. The approach introduces a gene into the brain to normalize chemical signaling. The study is the ...
• Gaddafi funded Sarkozy’s election bid
  PressTV – The son of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi claims Tripoli funded the election campaign of French President Nicolas Sarkozy in 2007. Saif al-Islam Gaddafi says the Libyan regime has details of the 2007 transfer. “We funded it and we have all the details and are ready to reveal everythin ...

The Progressive Realist

• The Questions Not Being Asked on Libya
  My friend and blogging mate Shadi Hamid has been passionately beating the drum in support of US military intervention in Libya for the past several weeks - and in the end I hope that his view about the efficacy of intervention ends up being correct and my skepticism is proven wrong. Having said ...
• Intervention in Libya
  Recent days have seen Moammar Qadhafi’s forces advancing steadily against Libya’s rebels and gathering for a final assault on their stronghold in Benghazi. The United Nations Security Council just voted in favor of strong action: “The United Nations Security Council approved a measure on Thursd ...
• Iraqi Government Cracks Down on Media Coverage ...
  As protests have continued throughout Iraq, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has attempted to squash the media�s ability to cover them. That has consisted of curfews being imposed to limit reporters� access to events, arresting and beating journalists, and attacks upon media rights groups and pres ...
• Iraq War Critiques: It Wasn't Just the Execution
  The New Republic has published an entertainingly savage review of the memoirs of Donald Rumsfeld, whom the reviewer calls "one of the two worst secretaries of defense ever": The book is certainly revealing, but mainly in ways that are unintentional and unflattering. It does help to answer the r ...
• War and Humanitarianism
  Isaac Chotiner responds to Ross Douthat: Douthat is surely right that no one thinks we have equal responsibility in the cases he cites above, and in that sense his point is well taken. It is worth pointing out however, that in the episodes Douthat mentions, America does have some responsibility ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

• Winning the Future. With Bombs.
  This, from Politico, is a nice headline summation of everything wrong with American political commentary: The wisdom of intervention in Libya notwithstanding, this is just a completely inappropriate way to describe the use of military force. Yes, in some narrow, superficial sense, a United Na ...
• When Deficits Don't Matter
  In the last two months, conservatives and centrists have stumbled over themselves to sound tough on the deficit. Senator Lindsay Graham threatened to vote against raising the debt ceiling unless Social Security saw cuts, and likewise, Senator Joe Lieberman has insisted on cuts to entitlements, s ...
• On Paul Ryan's Seriousness
  Lately, Rep. Paul Ryan has used this line as an attack on President Obama's deficit reduction credentials: "President Obama is going to have to decide. Is he an Erskine Bowles Democrat or a Nancy Pelosi Democrat?" Of course, between the Affordable Care Act, her opposition to the Bush tax cuts, ...
• Mocking the Birthers
  President Obama seems to have decided that the best way to deal with the question of where he was born is to joke about it: The president appears to be loving the whole Obama-wasn't-born-here myth. At a lunch on Capitol Hill on St. Patrick's Day, Obama told an audience that included plenty of ...
• Republicans Vote to Defund NPR
  In what seemed to be a GOP-led rush to capitalize on the NPR-James O'Keefe fiasco, today the House voted to block federal funds from going to National Public Radio. Sponsored by Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-CO), the measure passed the House in a 228-195 vote which fell fairly clearly in a partisan fas ...

Buzzflash

• Defend Social Security Bill Proposed by Sander ...
  NEWS ALERT FROM SEN. BERNIE SANDERS WASHINGTON, March 15 - Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today introduced legislation that would safeguard Social Security by requiring extraordinary majorities in Congress to approve any reduction in benefits. Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) introduced the same measur ...
• Madness in Madtown
  WILL DURST FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Best be vigilant for an inadvertent head butt as the eyes of the world recoil from that crazed leader, besieged in his own Capital, defying reality while obstinately holding onto a tenuous power and attacking his citizenry through a conflicted security force. ...
• The Dream Team in Madison: Unions, Progressive ...
  DAN DIMAGGIO FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT I headed to Madison from Minneapolis with a couple of friends for Saturday's massive rally against Scott Walker and the Republican legislature's move to do away with collective bargaining for public sector workers. When we arrived at 11am, there were alrea ...
• Scott Walker Will "Open the State up to a Corp ...
  MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT "Scott Walker's real agenda in Wisconsin: The Republican governor's budget plan would open the state up to a corporate asset-grab not seen since robber baron capitalism." That headline is not from BuzzFlash at Truthout; it's from The Guardian UK, a ...
• Wisconsin Defeat Galvanizes Workers Across The ...
  TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT The big problem with the union-busting plan That Governor Walker's been promoting Is he can stop his state's collective bargaining But can't stop union members from voting.   Whether in a recall or a general election Walker won't have many supporting This s ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

• Journalistic irony
  The NYT: the "cozy relationship" between Japanese reporters and government officials leads to suppression of facts
• Three-minute Cliffs Notes of U.S. foreign policy
  A former CIA operative perfectly expresses the mindset driving the U.S. government's role in the world
• The military/media attacks on the Hastings article
  WSJ, MSNBC reporters attack an expose. Plus, this just in from the NYT: "we tried our best not to be misleading"
• The DOJ's creeping war on whistle-blowers
  Federal investigators obtain the bank and phone records of a NYT journalist in order to discover his source
• Various matters: Afghanistan, Libya & Manning
  In the news: A liberal consensus arises on Obama's detention defense, while war lessons seem never to be learned

The BiPartisan Report

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

Sciencebase

• Aspartame toxicity. Not.
  Aspartame is an artificial, non-saccharide, sweetener used as a sugar substitute in some foods and beverages usually so that they can be labelled as “lite” or “diet” products. In the European Union, it is coded as E951. Aspartame is a methyl ester of aspartic acid and phenylalanine, two natural ...
• Mental snip
  I seem to have something of a reputation for a fertile imagination; don’t know why, although regular readers will know that I cover a lot of ground between my blog and a hard place. Anyway, Diane Richards pointed this out to me following a Facebook post about social networking for sex and about ...
• Iodine and radiation
  The Royal Society of Chemistry is warning against panic buying of potassium iodide tablets as a protective agent against exposure to radioactive iodine. It also cautioning cautioned against scaremongering regarding the potential effect of explosions at the Fukushima nuclear plant, saying that an ...
• 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 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

• Federal Agencies Blocking FOIA Requests with ' ...
  Despite the Obama administration having sent a clear message to agencies to open up government, many barriers still exist, including the proliferation of statutory exemptions to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), the reliance on contractors to decide what can and can't be released, and a she ...
• Obama’s Refusal to Put Brakes on Dangerous Rea ...
  As the reactor crisis in Japan escalated toward worst-case scenarios, President Obama was rebuked today for reiterating his support for dangerous reactors in the U.S. At a news conference this afternoon, President Obama asserted, “nuclear power is an important part of our own energy future,” whi ...
• International Peacemakers Gather in Kabul and ...
  In a small gesture of solidarity, Voices for Creative Nonviolence co-coordinators assembled a peace delegation of 28 individuals that began arriving in Kabul, Afghanistan this morning.� The group will spend a week with the Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers (AYPVs) to show clear and strong support fo ...
• Amnesty International Report Finds “Disturbing ...
  Bahrain’s security forces used live ammunition at close range and targeted peaceful protestor’s heads, chests and abdomens during the deadly February crackdown on protests at Pearl Roundabout, according to a new report issued today by Amnesty International. An American doctor examined wounded in ...
• U.S. Government Misses Legal Deadline for Prot ...
  The U.S. government failed to meet its legal deadline Wednesday for issuing a final rule providing additional protections for loggerhead sea turtles, whose populations have faced severe declines over the past decade.read more

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