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IPS - Inter Press Services

• Israel Grows Ever-Harsher in Treatment of Migr ...
  A new report from the Global Detention Project (GDP) on Israel's immigration detention policies reveals the tough reality behind the feel-good story offered in the Academy Award-winning "Strangers No More", an inspirational documentary about students from migrant families who attend ...
• Q&A: Fossil Fuel Lobby Following the Playbook ...
  Powerful fossil energy interests are preventing the United States from making the necessary transition to 21st century energy sources, one of the country's leading environmental economists documents in a just-published book.
• Native Women Seek Justice at U.N.
  The United States is facing international scrutiny for its apparent failure to prosecute criminals who enter indigenous territories to prey on Native women and girls.
• Vicious Cycle of Maternal Mortality
  Addressing the National Convention of the Medical Committee for Human Rights in Chicago, Illinois in 1966, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stated unequivocally that, "Of all the forms of inequality in the world, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane."
• Families Trapped in Cote d'Ivoire
  Armed men have blocked some 60 families without food or water from leaving a church in Cote d'Ivoire's commercial city, the U.N. says.

Scoop - NZ

• Guttenberg: A Double Standard - SPIEGEL
  A defense minister in Germany can apparently get away with plagiarizing his dissertation, but a bakery employee can get fired for stealing a pastry. That, says highly respected German academic Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker, is a double standard. Guttenberg's offense, he says, is unforgivable in academi ...
• .: Christchurch Earthquake Prediction on Youtu ...
  Amazing Video predicting a major earthquake on feb 21-22 uploaded to Youtube on Feb 17 2011.
• Arabic Revolutions a Setback for Al-Qaida
  Ben Ali has fled, Mubarak has been overthrown and Gadhafi is faltering, but al-Qaida is frustrated, because jihadists have played no role whatsoever in the great revolution in the Arab world. The terrorist organization has repeatedly tried to use propaganda to take credit for the revolts, but no ...
• Joschka Fischer: Middle East Awakening
  Whether the Arab and wider Islamic world’s democratic awakening will prevail, whether it will lead to a stable order or sustained chaos and a return to authoritarianism, still remains unclear. One thing, however, is already clear: should this awakening fail, the result will be radicalization th ...
• Saudis, refiners, oil crisis, and rationing | ...
  Opec oil producers look at pumping more to European refineries as Libyan rebels claim to have seized oilfields and terminals

Independent - London

• Rebels and Gaddafi forces battle over Libyan o ...
  Forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi battled government opponents for control of a key oil installation and airstrip on the Mediterranean coast in a counteroffensive today against the rebel-held eastern half of the country.
• Video: US seeks 'endangered' status for lions
  Conservation groups say thousands of African lion parts are being imported to the US every year and something needs to be done.
• Video: Gaddafi web satires go viral
  Muammar Gaddafi has become the subject for satirists and parodies across the web.
• Church leaders condemn murder of Pakistan mini ...
  The two most senior figures in the Church of England have strongly condemned the murder of a Pakistan minister.
• Gaddafi forces seize rebel held town
  Forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi have recaptured a town in Libya's mostly rebel-held east, rebel military officers said today, in an attempt to break the momentum of a popular rebellion against his 41-year-old rule.

Rogue Government.com

• QE3? Several Top Federal Reserve Officials See ...
  The end of QE2 is still several months away and yet quite a few top Federal Reserve officials are already hinting that more quantitative easing may be necessary.�
• Child brain scans to pick out future criminals
  More researchers believe that violent tendencies have a biological basis and that tests and brain imaging can pick them up in children.
• Libya no-fly zone would require bombing raids: ...
  Enforcing a no-fly zone over Libya would first require bombing the north African nation's air defense systems, top US commander General James Mattis warned on Tuesday.
• Tiny spy planes could mimic birds, insects
  The Pentagon has poured millions of dollars into the development of tiny drones inspired by biology, each equipped with video and audio equipment that can record sights and sounds.
• China's holdings of US debt larger than report ...
  China's holdings of US bonds reached $1.16 trillion at the end of December, almost $270 billion more than previously estimated, new data showed Monday.

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

• Cats Adore, Manipulate Women
  Cats attach to humans, and particularly women, as social partners, and it's not just for the sake of obtaining food. The bond between cats and their owners turns out to be far more intense than imagined, especially for cat aficionado women and their affection reciprocating felines, suggests a n ...
• Town terrorised by 250 wild horses 'abandoned ...
  A town is being overrun by a pack of 250 wild horses abandoned by gypsies who can't afford to feed them. Five of the horses have been killed when they were hit by cars and others are starving because they are not being fed. RSPCA inspectors were today on the scene at Bridgend, South Wales, aft ...
• Mysterious Florida panther deaths have officia ...
  Is it open season on Florida panthers? In the past two years, three of the endangered panthers have been killed under mysterious circumstances, prompting federal investigations that so far have not yielded an arrest. The most recent one was discovered a week ago. At least one of the three pant ...
• Swooping assassin: Pictured for the first time ...
  Swooping low over a mountainside, this magnificent but deadly golden eagle clutches a bloodied lamb in its talons. This dramatic picture provides the first photographic evidence that the powerful birds of prey have been snatching livestock from British farmers' flocks. It was taken on the Isle ...
• The mysterious case of frozen crocodile
  Olsztyn, Poland: A frozen crocodile has been found in the Mazury forest in Poland. The reptile measured 1.5 meters in length and weighed 20 kilogram.

The Galloping Beaver

• Opinions and differences
  Shorter Cons: "What we did in 2006 doesn't count because we didn't do it in 2008." "And besides, just in case, maybe, in the very off chance, we did do something illegal, it's all Elections Canada's fault for having so called 'laws' about elections." Shorter shorter Cons? "Oh fuck." Ya can't ...
• The liberation of Libya . . .
  ACCORDING TO ALJAZEERA, "Libyan police stations torched ", "Clashes reported across the country, as security forces and government supporters confront demonstrators". Maybe, just maybe, it's Libya's turn. Khaddaffy Duck's gotta be worried . . .
• This afternoon of the Sunday, I works very har ...
  ...at the vestiges of ideas left to me for two mark in essay formatting; by students of the second year. In University. Fearful do, for the furture of humanity's. as currently that misundergraduating people cannot writing. I am now of, the understanding of who Nigerian; email - spam for the sum ...
• The future that never was
  PALEO FUTURE is a site that displays the prognostication of bygone days, from 1870 to the 1990s. Below, an ad from Hughes Aircraft Co., touting the videophone in your future.
• The Glenn Beck Conspiracy Theory Generator
  Fair and Balanced Paranoia, Delivered on Demand. Really. Lots of fun. (H/T to Helmut)

Media Matters for America

• Hannity Falsely Claims Ohio Public Workers Ear ...
  Sean Hannity falsely claimed that public workers in Ohio earn more than private sector workers, parroting a discredited USA Today analysis. In fact, the Economic Policy Institute found that compensation for Ohio public employees is "slightly less than what they would receive in the private sect ...
• Glenn Beck Needs To Look Up FDR's Re ...
  Glenn Beck,�dismissing the right of workers to engage in collective bargaining,�claimed�that President Franklin Roosevelt said�"collective bargaining would destroy us."�In fact, Roosevelt passed�groundbreaking legislation protecting�collective bargaining�rights and�said that collective bargaini ...
• Fox Repeatedly Scrubs Backgrounds Of Guests Wh ...
  Fox News has failed to fully inform its viewers about the identities of guests it has hosted to criticize labor unions and the protests in Wisconsin. Fox has not disclosed guests' Republican Party activism in two instances and also hosted the CEO of a multinational company to criticize proteste ...
• Glenn Beck Demeans Protesters As "Useful Idiot ...
  Glenn Beck claims that protesters in the United States and in Egypt are being duped and "have no clue" that they are unwittingly advancing a coordinated plot by communists and Islamists to destroy Israel and "the Western way of life" and install a global caliphate or a new world order.Conservat ...
• Right-Wing Media Falsely Claim That Americans ...
  As rallies supportive of Wisconsin's public employees continue around the country, right-wing media have reacted by falsely suggesting that Americans support Wisconsin's Republican Gov. Scott Walker over the state's public employee union members. However, most public opinion polls suggest t ...

Global Research.ca

• NATO Involvement in Libya and the African Cont ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Wrong choice in Kosovo: The EU supports a Mafi ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• "Free Speech" Scandal in Vancouver
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Social Crisis in America: Should Public Worker ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• The Tide of Media Disinformation: Who is Behin ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.

TPM Cafe

• How Democrats Can Become Relevant Again (And R ...
  Republicans offered Democrats two more weeks before the doomsday shut-down. Democrats countered with four. Republicans held their ground. Democrats agreed to two.This is what passes for compromise in our nation's capital. Democrats have become irrelevant. If they want to be relevant again the ...
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• Whose 'Solidarity'?
  "Solidarity forever, Solidarity forever, Solidarity fore-e-ver, for the union makes us strong." ---- Neoliberals find the word "solidarity" distasteful. I'm not fond of it myself. Doesn't solidarity collapse easily into ...
• The Interregnum
  On October 14, 2008 I gave a speech at USC called "America 3.0 and The Interregnum". In it I argued that we were entering a global phase of extreme turbulence in which the bottom-up forces of a networked world battled the top-down hierarchies of centralized power. As the Italian philosopher Gram ...
• Libya On My Mind
  In early 2007, on two separate trips, I taught entrepreneurial business planning to an executive training program in Libya. The course was organized by Monitor Group, which I had worked for in the early 1990s, and was now consulting to the government on economic planning and "capacity building." ...

TruthOut

• Ruth Marcus | A "Where's Waldo?" Presidency
  Washington - For a man who won office talking about change we can believe in, Barack Obama can be a strangely passive president. There are a startling number of occasions in which the president has been missing in action -- unwilling, reluctant or late to weigh in on the issue of the moment. He ...
• It's A Tea Party World!
• Libyan Rebels, Invoking U.N., May Ask West for ...
  Libya — In a sign of mounting frustration among rebel leaders at Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi's diminished but unyielding grip on power, the revolutionary council here is debating whether to ask for Western airstrikes on some of the regime's most important military assets under a United Nations ba ...
• Eugene Robinson | Job Protection, 2012 Style
  Washington - For all their bluster about making Barack Obama a one-term president, Republicans are assembling what looks like a remarkably weak field of candidates for the 2012 election -- an odd assortment of the uninspiring and the unelectable. In part, this reflects a healthy respect for Oba ...
• News in Brief: GOP Wants to Keep Funding for N ...
  GOP Wants to Keep Funding for NASCARread more

Planetsave

• Limited Nuclear War Could Halt Global Warming, ...
  NASA climate scientists are playing with fire… from a nuclear war, to be precise…in a computer simulation, that is. The computer simulations are an attempt to determine the effects of a limited or regional nuclear war on the planet’s climate system. Lead researchers Luke Oman at NASA’s Goddard S ...
• Is It Easy Being Green? [Kermit Video Included ...
  You all know the popular phrase, “It’s not easy being green,” and have seen it applied to living in and environmentally-friendly way at least once or twice. But, is it really so difficult to be green? Let’s just look at three topics, which would cover the huge majority of our environmental footp ...
• Wind- AND Solar-Powered Sailing Ships the Next ...
  Sailing ships once carried much of the world’s cargo across the seas, until canvas sheets were replaced by low-grade “bunker” oil. Now it appears that wind power is about to make a comeback, in the form of rigid “sails” that double as solar panels. The patent-pending technology, called the Aquar ...
• Fake Coal Grassroots Group FACES of Coal Still ...
  Green tech has made some stunning advances in the past few years, so it’s tempting to look forward to the day when coal eases its headlock on the American power grid. Coal is an out-of-date fuel that costs an estimated $500 billion yearly in public health impacts. However, even if domestic coal ...
• Find Energy-Efficiency Rebates & Other Incenti ...
  You can find energy-efficiency rebates and other incentives easily, in seconds, on a new website from Silicon-Valley-startup Ennovations. Yes, that means, no Googling for hours (or days) trying to find what options you have in your area. Looking to retrofit your home a bit and make it more energ ...

Water Quality - WordPress

• Problems of Water Resources in Indonesia
  Condition of Natural Resources Population growth in Indonesia reached 1 % every year. This caused so
• Valves in Hydro Power
  There are different types of renewable energy sources, one of which is water. Hydropower plants, som
• Weed Control Programme 2011
  It’s been a stressful week (actually month) waiting around for the right weather conditions to
• Don’t Forget Water, Jerry
  Life imitates art at the L.A. Regional Water Board Dear Governor Brown: I understand you are facing
• Public Health: Leptospirosis epidemic growing ...
  3 February 2011: Number of leptospirosis cases reached 28 in Rio de Janeiro state. The confirmed num

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• Let's Hear it for the Gipper - Oh Really? by S ...
  by Steven Jonas, MD, MPH Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted on Buzzflash.com February 6, 20
• His Master’s Voice By William Bowles
  By William Bowles Featured Writer Dandelion Salad williambowles.info 6 February, 2011 Image by Takve
• Brother Larry Pinkney on Obama's Wars, intervi ...
  by Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbo
• Cuban Progress Never Enough in Miami by Jim Ry ...
  by Jim Ryerson Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.youtube.com/user/tmanjdrjr (jim [at] travelingman
• As things fall apart By William Bowles
  By William Bowles Featured Writer Dandelion Salad williambowles.info crossposted on Strategic Cultur

Axis of Logic

• The Enduring Mystique of the Marshall Plan - ...
  The Anti-Empire Report Amidst all the stirring political upheavals in North Africa and the Middle East the name "Marshall Plan" keeps being repeated by political figures and media around the world as the key to rebuilding the economies of those societies to complement the political advance ...
• Must Watch! John Pilger’s ‘The War You Don’t S ...
  Distinguished Australian journalist John Pilger offers a devastating critique of the news media’s slavish subservience to the military, starting — as all well-informed accounts must — with the original spinmeister of the military/industrial complex, Edward Bernays, the man who coined the ...
• The Who, Behind Blue Eyes, with Lyrics, - Musi ...
  ...
• Tunisia legalises Islamist group Ennahda! - Wo ...
  Editor's Note: Axis of Logic columnist, Arturo Rosales sent this to us for republication with a single comment: "Think positive." - LMB Tunisia's interim government has legalised Ennahda, the moderate Islamist group banned under former President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali. The move ...
• I Had Ray Davis's Job, in Laos 30 Years Ago. S ...
  The story of Raymond Allen Davis is one familiar to me and I wish our government would quit doing these things - they cost us credibility.  Davis is the American being held as a spy working under diplomatic cover out of our embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan. You can understand why...

They Gave Us a Republic

• Women in America: Slightly Less Worse Off
  This isn't so much a report on women as a collection of statistics about women. A true report on women would have as its opening and largest section a hair-on-fire description of the current rethuglican/DINO War on Women. Nevertheless, the first comprehensive statistics in half a century are imp ...
• The Nightowl Newswrap
  Chaos on Libyan border. Click for photos.The number of people fleeing violence and chaos in Libya has topped 140,000, with about half of them entering Tunisia. Aid workers warned on Tuesday that the situation at the border with Tunisia has reached a crisis point, as border guards were firing int ...
• "Agnotology" is a 50-cent word that means Repu ...
  I learned a new word today: "Agnotology." It means the study of "culturally-induced ignorance" and is typically practiced by powerful social elites with self-interested reasons for keeping the people in the dark. � A good example was the tobacco industry's attempt to protect their profits throug ...
• Taxes, Transparency, and Our Opaque Opulent
  This is one of those cool reads that you have to think about some to get its full impact. �Unfortunately, people who can think already know the score and the Teapers are not cognizant enough to figure out what it all means anyway. �Just one of those little "facts" that they don't want to be both ...
• Once And For All_Will The Real Job Killers Ple ...
  For the past month or two, we've been treated to the spectacle of the GOP, in it's continuing war on the working class, apply the term "job killing" to every piece of legislation brought up by the other side. � Apparently the irony of Republicans claiming to be great defenders of jobs and worker ...

Care 2

• GOP Governors Are Proxies In The Koch Brothers ...
  The war that is being waged on the middle-class by Americans For Prosperity and their lackeys in Republican governor�s mansions has been ongoing for some time, but their latest escalation to include public school teachers as their primary target is...Submitted by Carrie Burton to US Politics & G ...
• Gov't shutdown averted as House votes $4B cuts
  he House passed emergency short-term legislation Tuesday to cut federal spending by $4 billion and avert a government shutdown. Senate Democrats agreed to follow suit, handing Republicans an early victory in their drive to rein in government.Submitted by Carrie Burton to US Politics & Gov't �|� ...
• Saudi Arabia's Billion Dollar Question---Can O ...
  Some of the frustrations that led to the undoing of former Tunisian President Ben Ali and former Egyptian President Mubarak could have an even more drastic impact in Saudi Arabia's comparatively affluent societySubmitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Mutants - Which Can Be Eaten
  Mutants are found everywhere, even among the fruits and vegetables you ever come across such snacks?Submitted by . to Green Lifestyle �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• OUTRAGEOUS--CANADA--UBC to kill endangered sea ...
  Animals have been part of research into climate change for more than 10 years Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

• CONSIDERATIONS: Is This a Question of Need? Of ...
• Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio, et All: How Much is ...
• Weekly Audit: Police Defy Order to Clear Prote ...
• Recovery, Taxes, Government Spending and Aston ...
• The GOP Plan to Cut Social Security ... Starti ...

Paul Krugman

• Subtropical Wisconsin
  Only on Fox.
• My Congressman *Is* A Rocket Scientist
  But most of his colleagues, not.
• Trains and Freedom
  Better than the alternatives.
• Dagny Taggart Wept
  On the track to collectivism?
• The Paranoid Style
  Henpecked apparatchik, me.

No Quarter

• To Hell with Public Employee Unions
  Who the hell do these people think they are? Entitled to a job? Guaranteed lifetime employment? Top shelf healthcare? Sorry, but as someone who once worked for the Federal Government, I understand that holding a job paid for by the U.S. taxpayer is a gift, not an entitlement. But that’s a point ...
• Tiger Blood & Adonis DNA Open Thread
  This is a skinny open thread so as not to interrupt the fabulous one’s rant above on public employees! You go, Larry Johnson, you go!!! … more below … I am embarrassed to say that I’ve got the headlines all written but not all the content put together, so I will be adding content as [...]
• Nursing Qaddafi III
  Libya remains the teaching moment to the UNSC and other dignitary rich world bodies that have previously endorsed and embraced the temperish and creepy M. Qaddafi but now find him unacceptable. Lesson from the fresh printing of “Dictatorship for Dummies,” is that you best avoid making unscripted ...
• Oscar Winner Charles Ferguson Rips Wall Street ...
  “Forgive me, I must start by pointing out that three years after our horrific financial crisis caused by financial fraud, not a single financial executive has gone to jail, and that’s wrong.” With those words last evening, Charles Ferguson, the winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary fo ...
• Hoosier Goof (Open Thread)
  Hoosiers have a built-in advantage for the GOP since at least the Benjamin Harrison campaign of 1888, and I like Mitch Daniels’s chances against a field of the acceptable governors, Romney, Barber and Pawlenty. The FNC celebrities Huckabee and Palin are not candidates, just rooster and hen chara ...

Environmental Graffiti

• 10 Bizarre Human Phobias
  We all know about the fear of flying or heights but did you know about the fear of buttons? This is only one of 10 rather unusual phobias seen here. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• Amazing Snapshots of Wildlife Caught on Camera ...
  Ever wondered what wild animals get up to when no one is looking? Well now you can see them on candid camera with these amazing snapshots taken by camera traps. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
• Laos' Mysterious Plain of Jars
  Enormous stone jars weighing tons scatter the plains in Laos. Why were they placed there? read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• Hissing Cockroach Giving Birth to Hundreds of ...
  Warning: Extreme creepy crawliness. Make sure you haven't just eaten! The fascinating labor and birth of the Madagascar Hissing Cockroach in all its, er, glory. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
• 5 Common Foods that Cause Constipation
  For a healthy life, our bodies need to function properly. This includes good digestion and avoiding overconsumption of certain foods. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

• Left Bares Its Claws in Irish Vote
  The elections made it clear that the Irish want a change.
• America Blows It on Bahrain
  The non-violent pro-democracy struggle in Bahrain has failed to gain support from the Obama administration.
• WikiLeaks: "Laundered" U.S. Helicopters Wind u ...
  A tale of two helicopters.
• The Twilight of Tyranny?
  Are we seeing the last of the world's dictators?
• WikiLeaks: Local Mexican Governments Corrupted ...
  Once Latin America's safest city, Monterrey has become a central battlefield in Mexico's war drug war.

Global Elite

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

Al Jazeera

• Battle rages over Libyan oil port
  The Libyan air force has bombed Brega as fighting between pro-Gaddafi forces and opponents continued.
• Gaddafi: Libya dignity under attack
  Libyan leader says he is just a symbol and power is in the hands of the people during televised address to supporters.
• Europe to help Libya stranded
  Emergency airlifts launched as more than 140,000 refugees pour into Tunisia and Egypt.
• ICC to launch Libya probe
  The ICC probe will look into the killing of civilians by Gaddafi's forces during Libya's uprising.
• US soldiers shot dead in Germany
  Two killed and two others seriously injured after man fires inside bus at Frankfurt airport.

Green Inc. - NYT

• Eastern Cougar Is Extinct, Agency Declares
  "We recognize that many people have seen cougars in the wild within the historical range of the eastern cougar," an official says. "However, we believe those cougars are not the eastern cougar subspecies."
• On Our Radar: Attempted Homicide Charge for Dr ...
  The bicycle ride was organized by the group Critical Mass, which advocates cycling as an environmentally friendly form of transportation.
• A Big Stake in Extreme Weather Insurance
  The four-year-old Weatherbill venture runs computer simulations to predict the likelihood of extreme weather in any location at any time and charges farmers accordingly.
• Utah Activist Goes on Trial for Disrupting Oil ...
  The defendant called his bids for oil leases an act of civil disobedience motivated by concerns over climate change and the despoiling of public lands by industry.
• Protecting the Lion From U.S. Predators
  Noting that the United States is the leading importer of lions and lion parts, a coalition of groups seeks a federal listing on the endangered species list.

Dot Earth News

• Alex Steffen, a Designing Optimist
  Alex Steffen, a designing optimist, lays out a blueprint for a successful century.
• The Ultimate Invasive Species?
  Arguments for and against giving in in the face of biological invasions.
• The East Anglia Climate Snatch – Not (Ye ...
  The release of files and messages in the incident known as "Climategate," however unethical and exploited, is still not officially a crime.
• America's (and the World's) Least Wanted
  Officials and experts convene to mull weapons against ecological invaders. What's on the menu?
• Rarest of the Rare: Javan Rhinos
  Hope for a species on the brink as young rhinos are glimpsed in an Indonesian park.

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

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

Daily Censored

• America’s Political Prisoners
  http://www.blogtalkradio.com/your-world-news/2011/03/02/americas-political-prisoners� Please join us for a very important show regarding the plight of America�s political prisoners that continue to languish behind US federal prison bars. Year after year, this US government continues to feel the ...
• Steve Conn, suspended Detroit teacher activist ...
    Picture of Steve Conn in the middle from a Baltimore AFT teacher: Hi all from Alan Rebar. Let’s stand up for Steve Conn and the Defend Public Education/Save Our Students (DPESOS) caucus of the Detroit Federation of Teachers. Steve Conn and three of his colleagues have been suspended from the D ...
• The Washington Post and its criminal subsidiar ...
  The recent article I found regarding the New York Stock exchanged Washington Post Company came out of Bangalore,  the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka .  It was published on February 23rd, 2011 and was carried by Forexyard.com, the on-line trading network.  The Washington Post, as you wi ...
• Milwaukee will Rally to Expose Governor Walker ...
  Where: Americans for Prosperity, Wisconsin Headquarters, 1126 S 70th St, Milwaukee Coalition partners: Milwaukee Graduate Assistants Association (AFT Local 2169),Wisconsin Citizen Action, SEIU, AFT local 212 (MATC), Voces de la Frontera, Peace Action Wisconsin, One Wisconsin Now–Educators Networ ...
• Honoring Lumumba In The Obama Era
  By Obi   Egbuna For African people who respect the sacred tradition of remembering our fallen freedom fighters in the context of gaining inspiration to advance our liberation struggle forward,we pledge to the ancestors that Monday, January 17th 2011 will never be forgotten. At the same time Afri ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

• First Wisconsin, Now Ohio
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Institute for Policy Studies

• The Twilight of Tyranny?
  Are we seeing the last of the world's dictators?
• The Lineup: Week of February 28-March 6, 2011
  Tracy Fernandez Rysavy underscores concerns about radiation from cell phones, Donald Kaul weighs in on Wisconsin's uprising, and Mary Anne Hitt puts the GOP attack on EPA funding in context.
• Pay Up, Corporate Tax Dodgers
  We're chumps unless we force Congress to stop tax haven abuse.
• Libya and Beyond
  Following successful revolutionary uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, Libya's dictator tries to hole on to power by using force as the entire Middle East braces for more change.
• Interview with Arun Kundnani
  In our special focus on Islamophobia, British writer and activist Arun Kundnani discusses the debate on multiculturalism and extremism in the United Kingdom.

Equality Trust

• The Wrong Cure - alternatives to the cuts
  The False Economy website is an excellent and still-developing resource exploring the alternatives to cuts. False Economy includes: a discussion of why the cuts are not progressive details of campaign actions a comprehensive further reading list ... and this short film [youtube:ynUCYo ...
• Why we need a Fairness Test of the cuts
  A group of charities, including the Equality Trust, Child Poverty Action Group, Barnardo's and the TUC are asking the coalition government to commit to a Fairness Test on any tax rises or spending cuts they introduce. Full details...
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• VAT rise would hit the poorest
  Bill Wilson's VAT motion to the Scottish Parliament reads as follows: That the Parliament notes the warning issued by Save the Children in Scotland that raising VAT to 20% could mean a £31 a week bill for the poorest families in Scotland and that the poorest 10% of the population currently s ...

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

• Human breast milk ice cream seized in London?
  I should have paid attention to being blocked here in Dubai from the BBC website (I suppose it might be my search term, “breast").  Now, after reading the article (there are ways around the block) my faith is some of my fellow humans are being sorely tested. Apparently, ice cream made from hum ...
• CDC comes to Dubai to train in the art of outb ...
  Don Sharpe, director of CDC - CIFOR (a partnership with U.S. state and local health departments, the USDA, FDA, and PulseNet), Vince Radke, CDC Sanitarian and Ian Wiliams, director of CDC – OutbreakNet, were part of a very interesting discussion on how foodborne illness outbreak investigations a ...
• A Day in Dubai - Doctor, Restaurant Supervisor ...
  After giving my speech this afternoon at the 6th Annual Dubai Food Safety Conference, I was approached by a reporter or Gulf News about my thoughts that the doctor, a restaurant's cook and a supervisor had been fined Dh10,000 each (about $2,750US), and ordered to jointly pay blood money (money o ...
• Faster Response to Foodborne Outbreaks Makes " ...
  Three years after a Salmonella outbreak, first linked to United States Tomatoes and then Mexican Peppers, that sickened about 1,500 people and claimed two lives, U.S. epidemiologists have learned that speed is of the essence in identifying sources of food contamination and preventing further inf ...
• Merle's BBQ Restaurant linked to Clostridium p ...
  According to press reports, the City of Evanston said Merle’s BBQ Restaurant was the source of a recent food borne illness outbreak that caused 30 people to get sick. The Evanston restaurant was catering parent/teacher conferences at Haven Middle School on Feb. 16, and people reported falling i ...

AutoblogGreen

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

Rafe's Radar

• Add social context to your e-mail in-box
  Free tools Xobni, Rapportive, and WhoSent.it make your incoming e-mail a lot more useful.
• Rob Glaser's SocialEyes: Facebook-connected vi ...
  Glaser's latest venture is a videoconferencing company with an interesting, new social dynamic.
• E-mail innovator pitches self-deleting e-mails
  OtherInBox CEO Joshua Baer proposes a standard that would let e-mail messages carry with them the date of their own deaths.
• NeuAer lets you tag the radio signature of you ...
  CueCat inventor's new real-world tagging technology uses all the sensors in your phone.
• ShopSquad matches buyers to experts
  Service is designed to help you get questions answered about products you're thinking of buying--by people who've already bought them. ...

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

• Union Voices from Madison: "We Will Be Out Her ...
  Rank and file union members are among the thousands protesting Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s "budget repair" bill that would strip public workers of their right to collective bargaining. In this web exclusive video from the streets of Madison, Democracy Now! speaks to union members who ha ...
• Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa on Eg ...
  Secretary General Amr Moussa is widely expected to run for president of Egypt in the country’s elections scheduled to be held in six months. In a diplomatic career that has spanned more than half a century, Moussa is currently one of Egypt’s best-known politicians. From 1991 to 2001, he served ...
• Uprisings: From the Middle East to the Midwest
  As many as 80,000 people marched to the Wisconsin state Capitol in Madison on Saturday as part of an ongoing protest against newly elected Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s attempt to not just badger the state’s public employee unions, but to break them. The Madison uprising follows on the heels o ...
• Arrest of CIA Agent Sheds Light on American Co ...
  U.S. officials have admitted an American detained in Pakistan for the murder of two men was a CIA agent and a former employee of the private security firm Blackwater, now called Xe Services. Up until Monday, the Obama administration had insisted Raymond Davis was a diplomat who had acted in sel ...
• Matt Taibbi: "Why Isn't Wall Street in Jail?" ...
  Nobody goes to jail,” "writes Matt Taibbi in his the new issue of Rolling Stone magazine. “This is the mantra of the financial-crisis era, one that saw virtually every major bank and financial company on Wall Street embroiled in obscene criminal scandals that impoverished millions and collect ...

Digg Green

• Happiness improves health and lengthens l ...
  A review of more than 160 studies of human and animal subjects has found "clear and compelling evidence" that -- all else being equal -- happy people tend to live longer and experience better health than their unhappy peers.
• World's Most Powerful Optical Microscope ...
  Scientists have produced the world's most powerful optical microscope, which could help understand the causes of many viruses and diseases.
• Amazing images of the Milky Way captured ...
  Carl Jones ventured into Snowdonia National Park after dark and photographed the striking cluster of stars, which stretch in straight lines either side of a dark void.
• Study Links Marijuana Use to Psychosis ...
  Marijuana may cause schizophrenia, according to a European study.
• New batteries can be recharged using sunl ...
  A team of scientists are hoping to give those old school re-chargeable batteries a solar-powered makeover. Mention solar technology to people and it

Invisible Opportunity

• And then I Wound up in Padmasambhava’s L ...
  By Les Visible Once again it is time to write about the Toad King; the Gila Monster of international diplomacy, who likes to do the satanic foxtrot of buggery and the lash, but once again I must defer the moment. The fact is that the Ides of March are approaching and what more fitting period [.. ...
• Assassin Sirhan Sirhan says he can’t rem ...
  By Linda Deutsch More than four decades after Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated, his convicted murderer wants to go free for a crime he says he can’t remember. It is not old age or some memory-snatching disease that has erased an act Sirhan Bishara Sirhan once said he committed “with 20 ye ...
• Senior Israeli diplomat quits to protest polic ...
  He must be an anti-Semite… A senior Israeli diplomat said Wednesday he has resigned because he does not want to represent his government’s policies, particularly those of Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman. “I can’t represent the government line when Lieberman stands up at the UN – at the same p ...
• Fluoride may be causing your acne outbreaks
  By Elizabeth Walling Fluoride is in our toothpaste. It`s in our water. It`s even in our food. While fluoride is praised for saving our teeth, many alternative health experts question the validity of fluoride`s benefits. And now many realize that fluoride may also be harming our skin and causing ...
• Congressman Wu’s bizarre behavior due to ...
  By Ethan Huff In a tale that many mainstream media outlets are attempting to use as a political smear campaign, the story of US Rep. David Wu’s severe negative reaction to a common psychiatric drug speaks more about the dangers of pharmaceutical drugs than it does partisan politics. According to ...

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

• The Good, the Bad and the Terrifying Proposals ...
  We should celebrate our success curbing cigarette smoking and continue to encourage people to cut back or give up cigarettes, but let's not get carried away.
• Why This Cop Asked the President About Legaliz ...
  The president’s YouTube comments are a tremendous first step for a more open national dialogue on drug reform.
• How Does the Drug Industry Get Away with Broad ...
  The U.S. is one of only two countries in the world that allows Big Pharma to advertise directly to consumers. How did we get here?
• If the Feds Get Their Way, Big Pharma Could Se ...
  We should be very wary about the DEA allowing regulation and marketing of pharmaceutical products containing plant-derived THC.
• Birth Control for Men? 3 Promising Advances
  The joke in the male contraceptive field goes that we've always been five years away from male contraception being available.

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

• Biofuel Bentley Can Go Up To 200 MPH On Ice
  What’s even better than owning a Bentley? Owning a bio-fuel run Bentley than can go over 200 MPH on ice! Bentley will display it’s new Supersports âIce Speed Recordâ convertible at the Geneva Auto Show this week. This new model, limited to just 100 cars worldwide, is a celebration of the the wor ...
• Incredible Ice Castles Grown by a Minnesota Ma ...
  Read the rest of Incredible Ice Castles Grown by a Minnesota Man Using Geothermal Heating Systemhttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Art, art s ...
• Designer Ron Miriello Creates 100 Worlds from ...
  Inspired by his childhood fascination with globes, designer Ron Miriello has created a remarkable array of miniature worlds made almost entirely from found objects. The designer recently exhibited 50 sculptures from his “100 Worlds Project” in addition to accompanying photographs at the JETT Gal ...
• TEST DRIVE: Inhabitat Takes the Honda CR-Z Hyb ...
  Inhabitat recently had the opportunity to test drive the new 2011 Honda CR-Z Sport Coupe in all three of its modes: Eco, Normal and Sport. A Prius driver myself, I have to admit there are times when I miss the pep of a sportier model while running errands around Los Angeles. As one of the [...]
• Power Flower Wind Turbine Trees Could Domestic ...
  Read the rest of Power Flower Wind Turbine Trees Could Domesticate Wind Energyhttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "wind power", distributed ge ...

Pogue's Posts

• A Parent's Struggle With a Child's iPad Addict ...
  Is a gadget automatically bad for our kids just because it's electronic? What if it's fostering a love of music, or expertise in strategy and problem-solving?
• What Is President Obama Asking Tech Leaders?
  David Pogue's Twitter followers imagine what is being discussed among President Obama and Silicon Valley's tech leaders.
• The Ethics of Free Cellphone Calls
  There are a growing number of ways to avoid paying for calls -- some offered by carriers, others amounting to a hack.
• Page Numbers for Kindle Books an Imperfect Sol ...
  With electronic books, neither page numbers nor "location numbers" are the perfect solution.
• A Loophole in a Verizon iPhone Rule
  Because of a technical limitation, the Verizon iPhone will not let you talk and use the Internet at the same time -- unless you're on Wi-Fi.

WIRED Magazine | Science

• Hagfish May Absorb Carcasses With Their Skin, ...
  When Pacific hagfish burrow into a carcass and eat their way out, they may be feeding directly through their gills and skin as well as their guts. Lab tests suggest that hagfish actively take up nutrients through their outer tissues, says fish physiologist Chris M. Wood of McMaster Universi ...
• Sight Gets Repurposed in Brains of the Blind
  In the brains of people blind from birth, structures used in sight are still put to work — but for a very different purpose. Rather than processing visual information, they appear to handle language. Linguistic processing is a task utterly unrelated to sight, yet the visual cortex performs it ...
• Tiny Spheres Turn Regular Microscopes Into Nan ...
  Ordinary microscopes can see 8 times beyond known physical limits if miniature glass spheres are sprinkled onto samples, according to a new study. The cheapest and most common microscopes use white light to magnify objects, but the nature of light and the limitations of our eyes mean those mi ...
• NASA’s Messenger Spacecraft Zeroes In on Mercu ...
  NASA's Messenger probe will finally settle into orbit around Mercury on March 17, making it the first spacecraft ever to orbit the innermost planet.
• Banned Chemical May Interfere With Pregnancy
  PCB exposure may interfere with a womanâs ability to get pregnant, a new study of women undergoing in vitro fertilization suggests. The study of 765 women found that those whose blood contained the highest levels of a particular form of polychlorinated biphenyl — one known as PCB 153 — were ...

PakAlert

• Yemen’s President Says Unrest Serves Zionists
  Yemen's embattled president on Tuesday accused the U.S., his closest ally, of instigating the mounting protests against him, but the gambit failed to slow the momentum for his ouster. Hundreds of thousands rallied in cities across Yemen against the government of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, ...
• Gold hits record $1,432.57 an ounce
  Gold struck a new record at $1,432.57 an ounce Tuesday as worries spread that the surging price of oil could fuel inflation and dampen economic growth.
• US warship headed to Libya: officials
  A US warship with hundreds of Marines on board headed towards Libya on Tuesday, defense officials said, as US and European allies sought to pile pressure on embattled leader Moamer Khadafi.
• Who Has The Most Nukes, Mrs. Clinton?
  Of the 20,000 nuclear weapons in the world, US has 9,400 and the Russians 10,000 warheads. Reduce them first before pointing fingers at Pakistan.
• War, Martial Law, and the Economic Crisis
  A new report by the U.S. Army War College talks about the possibility of Pentagon resources and troops being used should the economic crisis lead to civil unrest, such as protests against businesses and government or runs on beleaguered banks.

Andy Worthington

• How the Abu Salim Prison Massacre in 1996 Insp ...
  Reporting from Benghazi for Channel 4 News, reporter Lindsey Hilsum has just met family members of some of the prisoners killed in the notorious Abu Salim prison massacre on June 29, 1996, when an estimated 1,200 prisoners were killed in just a few hours by Colonel Gaddafi’s forces. The massacre ...
• The Case of Lahcen Ikassrien: Torture in Kanda ...
  In a recent article, Spanish Court Gives Go-Ahead for Guantánamo Torture Investigation to Continue, I explained the significance of the recent decision by the Spanish National Court (Audiencia Nacional) to proceed with an investigation into torture at Guantánamo. The case is based on the count ...
• Spanish Court Gives Go-Ahead for Guantánamo To ...
  On Friday, the Spanish National Court (Audiencia Nacional) gave hope to those seeking to hold accountable the Bush administration officials and lawyers who authorized torture by agreeing to continue investigating allegations made by a Moroccan-born Spanish resident, Lahcen Ikassrien, that he was ...
• Two Bradford International Film Festival Scree ...
  “‘Outside the Law’ is a powerful film that has helped ensure that Guantánamo and the men unlawfully held there have not been forgotten.” Kate Allen, Director, Amnesty International UK â[T]his is a strong movie examining the imprisonment and subsequent torture of those falsely accused of anti-A ...
• The New American Revolution: Are Wisconsin&#82 ...
  As citizens of Western countries are inspired by the revolutions in the Middle East — and in particular, I think, by witnessing the unquechable determination of so many people to throw off the shackles of tyranny, no matter the cost — the first battleground to open up in the United States is Mad ...

Environment _ National Geographic

• 3 Surprising Ways Global Warming Could Make Yo ...
  Global warming may cause surprising human health problems due to microbes, bacteria, and toxic algae blooms, new research suggests.
• "Crazy Green" Algae Pools Seen in Antarctic Se ...
  Pools teeming with life found among remote Antarctic sea ice contain "the greenest water I've seen in the world," an expert says.
• Little Fish Exploding in Number, Models Show
  There are still plenty of fish in the sea—they're just the little ones, according to new models of fish decline.
• New Brunswick Seeks Natural Gas, and a Safer W ...
  The province of New Brunswick on Canada’s East Coast is a frontier for shale gas development, and for a new approach to industry oversight.
• A Cubic Foot of Tropical Forest
  NoneNational Geographic photographer David Liittschwager photographed this Metrosiderous tree and all 58 species he found crawling, flying, or taking root in it.

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

• ‘Burn a Koran Day’ Pastor Plans New Desecratio ...
  Terry Jones, the virulently Islamophobic pastor behind last fallâs barely averted âInternational Burn a Koran Day,â may have lost a battle or two, but his personal crusade is clearly still on. Having reluctantly canceled plans to burn Islamâs holy book last Sept. 11 â an idea that won him worldw ...
• Feds Push to Destroy White Supremacist Hal Tur ...
  Imprisoned neo-Nazi radio host Hal Turner, one of the most vitriolic racists in America, who routinely suggested killing his enemies, may lose a bit of his venom if federal attorneys are successful in their proposition to destroy his guns. Following his conviction in December, U.S. District Judg ...
• Racist Author Supports School Board Member Who ...
  Greeley, Colo., school board member Brett Reese doesnât understand why anyone would think him a racist just because he repeatedly broadcast a mean-spirited and one-sided text trashing the character of civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. â a presentation adored by white supremacists eve ...
• Far-Right African Americans Chosen to Testify ...
  Tomorrow, the House Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement will hold a hearing at the Rayburn House Building entitled, “Making Immigration Work for American Minorities.” On the witness list are two figures whose views of immigrants are less than charitable: Carol Swain, an African-Am ...
• Neo-Confederates March up Dexter Avenue for Se ...
  Itâs hard to say exactly what the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) remembered so fondly on Saturday during a sesquicentennial celebration of Confederate President Jefferson Davisâ inauguration: a way of life that has been dead for a century and a half, or the day when the public at large appre ...

change: org.

• Anti-Fur Protesters Target Condé Nast Magazine ...
  On the last day of the New York Fall 2011 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, a group of anti-fur protestors from the PINNACLE campaign showed up at the doors of Condé Nast, the multi-national media corporation that publishes magazines such as Vogue, Glamour, Allure, GQ, and Vanity Fair. Anti-fur prote ...
• Science Wars: Does Roundup Cause Animal Miscar ...
  As if the genetically engineered (GE) food debate weren't heated enough, a new war is brewing in the plant science community over Roundup Ready crops' potential dangers. Sustainable foodies were already bitter about the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) decision to deregulate GE alfalfa an ...
• Minnesota's Largest School District Still Fail ...
  For months, the Anoka-Hennepin School District in Minnesota has faced a bevy of criticism for a policy they keep on the books that prevents discussion about LGBT issues in the classroom. The policy has been colloquially dubbed "the neutrality policy," but make no mistake -- this policy is anythi ...
• Alabamians Form Possibly the Most Diverse Coal ...
  There's an old saying: Politics makes strange bedfellows. In Alabama, some very strange bedfellows are snuggling up to save a very successful conservation program. It's a diverse coalition called Protect Forever Wild — groups like local Sierra Club and Audubon chapters, the Nature Conservancy, a ...
• Publix Customers Pledge Boycotts Until Chain S ...
  In the lead up to a huge protest of Publix supermarkets scheduled in Florida this weekend, over 20,000 Change.org members have asked Publix to sign onto the Coalition of Immokalee Workers' Campaign for Fair Food. Among them are thousands of Publix customers, who are pledging not to shop at Publi ...

Common Dreams -News

• Untreated Radioactive Wastewater from Hydrofra ...
  Newly disclosed figures show wastewater produced from the natural gas drilling practice of hydrofracking has contained radioactivity and other contaminants at levels far exceeding federal limits. According to the New York Times, internal government documents show at least 15 wells produced waste ...
• US Supports War Crimes Tribunal for First Time ...
  UNITED NATIONS - The U.N. resolution imposing tough sanctions against Libya marked the first time that the United States has given its support to the International Criminal Court and signified a remarkable turnaround, though it includes a key exemption demanded by the Obama administration. ...
• Panic on Borders as Chaos Engulfs Libya
  The Libyans watched from an open window of the immigration post, leaning out to see the 20,000 fleeing Egyptian, Bangladeshi, Chinese and Iranian workers heaped up against the border wall. They seemed quite unconcerned, shirt-sleeves rolled up, moving to a window closer to this crowd. Already up ...
• Pro-Peace Jewish Lobby Group Urges Obama to Se ...
  WASHINGTON - J Street, the Washington-based "Pro-Israel, Pro-Peace" advocacy group, drew a large crowd to its annual conference this year despite criticism over its controversial calls for the Barack Obama administration not to veto a U.N. Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlemen ...
• Extreme Winter Weather Linked to Climate Chang ...
  WASHINGTON - This winter's heavy snowfalls and other extreme storms could well be related to increased moisture in the air due to global climate change, a panel of scientists said on Tuesday. This extra moisture is likely to bring on extraordinary flooding with the onset of spring in the Norther ...

Lifehacker

• Chomp Saves You From Android's Crappy Market S ...
  Android: Unless you know the title of an app, the Android Market's search engine isn't great. Chomp is a new Market search engine that blows Google's default out of the water, letting you search by category and filter by price. More�� ...
• Google Apps Now Offering Extra User-Controlled ...
  Google Apps users, whether running a domain or helping out on one, can now purchase individual storage plans from Google, allowing for certain users to have extras space for Docs, pictures, and other organizational data. [Google Enterprise Blog] More��
• Just a Small Nudge Can Give You the Motivation ...
  We've shared a lot of tips for forming good habits, but if you're having trouble getting off the ground, new research shows a little nudge—whether from a friend or other support system—can get you in gear pretty easily. More » ...
• MailStore Home Is the Easiest Email Backup Too ...
  Windows only: A bit of Gmail drama made us look for easy and cheap Gmail backup solutions. What we missed was MailStore, a single-purpose app that connects to your email, backs it up, and doesn't bother you otherwise. That's just about per ...
• Avoid Looking Like James Franco at Your Next B ...
  Yes, there might be, er, other reasons Oscar co-host James Franco seemed bored, out of it, and bewildered during Sunday night's Oscar telecast. But look at his feed of photos and videos, and it looks like he was having a grand old time. Th ...

Water Privatization

• Water rate hike hit
  TWO progressive party-list lawmakers yesterday asked the House Committee on Government Enterprises and Privatization to investigate the “unjust” P3 water rate hike for every cubic meter to be imposed by two water concessionaires. Bayan Muna party-list Reps. Neri Colmenares and Teodoro “Teddy” Ca ...
• Rezoning spills concerns over bottled water
  The North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) worked its way into a city council rezoning decision on a water bottling plant.
• SC approval sought to rehab Angat dam
  The Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corp. is asking the Supreme Court to allow the rehabilitation of the Angat hydro facility to ensure supply of drinking water in the National Capital Region.
• Research and Markets: United Arab Emirates Wat ...
  Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "United Arab Emirates Water Report Q1 2011" report to their offering.
• Whitehorse bottling plant bid sparks water deb ...
  Whitehorse city councillors waded into the global issue of water ownership on Monday, when they were asked to rezone a local water bottling plant's property.

Guardian

• Gaddafi speaks at rally as Libya battles conti ...
  �� Battle for oil refinery town of Brega, deaths reported �� Gaddafi forces retake towns near Tripoli �� Failed bombing attempt on arms dump in Ajdabiya �� Gaddafi gives new speech blaming al-Qaida �� Click here for a summary of key points today2.07pm - Yemen: Yemen's opposition have presented P ...
• Pakistan minister shot dead
  Shahbaz Bhatti � a Christian critic of Pakistan's blasphemy laws � killed by assassins who left leaflets signed 'Taliban al-Qaida'Self-described Taliban gunmen have shot dead Pakistan's minorities minister, Shahbaz Bhatti, an advocate of reform of the country's blasphemy laws, as he left his Isl ...
• England v Ireland – LIVE
  �� On a mobile? Follow it with our pop-up scoreboard �� Email your thoughts to rob.smyth@guardian.co.uk �� Relive the Ashes with our OBO book �� And chat away to your heart's content here17th over: Ireland 90-2 (target 328, Joyce 27, O'Brien 21) Four singles from Swann's over. "I have grandparen ...
• Theresa May warns police of pay cuts
  Home secretary points to budget deficit ahead of review expected to recommend radical pay and conditions overhaulThe home secretary, Theresa May, has set the stage for a potential spending cuts clash with the police, telling them cuts in their pay and conditions are an unavoidable alternative to ...
• Parents call for Dewani to face justice
  Vinod and Nilam Hindocha lay flowers at spot where Anni was shot and urge husband to face South African prosecutorsThe mother of Anni Hindocha, the British woman murdered on her honeymoon, has issued an impassioned plea for her daughter's husband, Shrien Dewani, to face justice in South Africa." ...

McClatchey

• Another top Pakistan politician slain over bla ...
  KABUL, Afghanistan — Pakistans religious minorities minister, the only Christian in the country's cabinet, was assassinated Wednesday by suspected Islamic militants, the second high profile killing this year as Pakistan faces a surge of extremism.
• S.C. Sen. Graham urges cautious approach on Li ...
  Sen. Lindsey Graham has traveled to war zones with Sens. John McCain and Joe Lieberman while sharing tough stances with them on Iraq, Afghanistan and the war on terror.
• California AG asks court to let gay marriages ...
  Kamala Harris asks court to let gay marriages resume jchang@sacbee.com Published Wednesday, Mar. 02, 2011
• Obama, Jeb Bush to promote education reform at ...
  MIAMI — President Barack Obama will share a political stage at a Miami high school Friday with former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, giving the presidents education initiative a bi-partisan boost.
• Libyan rebels ambivalent about U.S. military h ...
  BENGHAZI, Libya — Libyan President Moammar Gadhafi's forces have surrounded Tarek Zawis hometown of Zawiya, he suspects, to stop shipments of food and medicine from coming in. When the rebel fighter steps outside his home to defend the city _ which has been in rebel hands for more than a week - ...

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

• Discard bathwater, not baby
  More selective fishing tends to produce fewer discards Everybody wants to do it: nobody is entirely sure how that should be done. Discarding fish is, on one level, an outrageous practice; so surely stopping it is the right thing? A byproduct of measures to keep fishing within sustainable limit ...
• US climate cuts threaten isolation
  The latest flirtations of the US political right with "climate denial" look set to marginalise the country even further within the global community of nations - at least when it comes to climate change. Does the US risk isolating itself from the global community? The key to all this is the ad ...
• War and peace: Making sense of climate conflic ...
  It must have seemed a good idea at the time; to get a group of people together from "both sides of the climate debate", put them in a room for a few days, and see whether peace would spontaneously break out. It's worked with apparently thorny issues such as nuclear arms control, it's failed with ...
• Whaling: Beginning of the end?
  Is this the beginning of the end for Japanese whaling in the Antarctic? Clashes have been dramatic - enough to cause a U-turn? That is the biggest question arising from Wednesday's announcement in Tokyo that this season's whaling programme was being suspended. The Fisheries Agency (FAJ) hasn't ...
• Palm oil deal points to corporate greening
  This week's announcement of a new partnership aimed at curbing deforestation in Indonesia should give succour to anyone who thinks consumers and companies, rather than governments, hold the key to curbing environmental decline. � Essentially, the world's second biggest (and Indonesia's biggest ...

The Wonk Room

• Bad Week For Romney: Paul Ryan Joins Barbour I ...
  Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) is now the second Republican this week to criticize Mitt Romney’s Massachusetts health care reform plan…and it’s only Wednesday. Speaking at a breakfast sponsored by the American Spectator, Ryan followed up on Gov. Haley Barbour’s (R-MS) criticism yesterday and said that Ro ...
• Global Boiling Report: Every Sector Of US Econ ...
  A new scientific study finds that the climate affects every sector of the U.S. economy. In “U.S. Economic Sensitivity to Weather Variability,” Jeffrey Lazo of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, economists Megan Lawson and Donald Waldman of the University of Colorado, and Peter Larsen ...
• McMorris Rodgers Offers A More Moderate Approa ...
  While some Republican governors are still advocating transforming the current matching fund system of Medicaid funding into block grants (more on why this is such a bad idea here), Mother Jones’ Suzy Khimm is reporting that other Republican lawmakers are adopting a far less radical approach that ...
• Wisconsin Finance Director: Gov. Walker &#8216 ...
  Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI) has been claiming that his budget repair bill — which strips Wisconsin’s public employees of their collective bargaining rights, sparking weeks of protests — must be passed soon because it includes a debt restructuring provision that will save the state $165 million. Wal ...
• Marriage Trouble In Maryland: Delegate Holds B ...
  It appears that one of two Maryland delegates to walk out of House Judiciary Committee hearing yesterday as it was preparing to approve legislation extending marriage to gay and lesbian couples is now ready to vote for the measure. In a statement issued early this morning Maryland Del. Tiffany A ...

thwap's schoolyard

• Oh Those Fucking Liberals (Part Whatever)
  I started this post this morning before taking a peek at "Progressive Bloggers" and reading about Jack Layton's worrying negotiations with stephen harper. Keep reading though ... Check out this video of Hillary ("hard-workin' white woman") giving some self-righteous lecture about other countrie ...
• Working Class Shit-Headery and Current Reading
  So, as some have pointed out, Toronto's disgusting rancid blob of pork Rob Ford is now moving against unionized city garbage workers. As others have pointed out, the supposed savings and efficiencies of privatization are generally non-existent. But, no doubt, there are some working Canadians wh ...
• harper is Determined to Have the Election Whic ...
  That's the reason he's pushing forward with these asinine tax cuts. He's an incompetent. He's a liar. He's a creep. He advocates lying to Parliament. He advocates withholding from the people's representatives ANYTHING and EVERYTHING they need to do their job. All it should take is one campaign ...
• Spending $50 Billion Just to Stand Still
  My talking point for the day. Flaherty's fifty-billion dollar deficits were incurred to preserve the status-quo. Before 2008, we always heard how spending on the environment or on infrastructure for the 21st-Century was unaffordable. Supposedly, today we need a "steady hand on the tiller" whic ...
• The Opposition's Logic
  So what's going on with the Liberals and the NDP and the Bloc? Very quickly: The Bloc has the least to worry about. They don't like harper, Quebec doesn't like harper. harper might give Quebec more autonomy, along with all the other provinces, but for the most part, harper's policies are unpopu ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

• Staub wins at Supreme Court: employers are lia ...
  In a major victory for employees with any kind of discrimination or retaliation claim, the Supreme Court yesterday held that employers are liable when a supervisor is motivated by an illegal motive, then acts within the scope of authority on behalf of the employer, and succeeds in getting someon ...
• Judge says Dodd-Frank arbitration ban applies ...
  U.S. District Court Judge Douglas Woodlock issued an order yesterday that applies a ban on arbitration agreements retroactively. Congress enacted the ban as part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.� Section 922 of the Dodd-Frank Act amends the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SO ...
• Respected Accountability Blog Reviews Whistleb ...
  Reposted from the blog Government Accountability is a Citizen's Responsibility Book Review: Stephen Martin Kohn, The Whistleblower's Handbook By: Charlotte Yee The Whistleblower’s Handbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Doing What’s Right and Protecting Yourself. By Stephen Martin Kohn. Guilford, ...
• Stephen Kohn on Radio Or Not live at 10:30 am ...
  NWC Executive Director, Stephen Kohn will be on Radio Or Not at 10:30am EST today discussing his new book The Whistleblower's Handbook. You can listen live by clicking here.
• First-Ever Guide For Whistleblowers Released T ...
  Today is the official release of The Whistleblower's Handbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Doing What's Right and Protecting Yourself. This book finally answers that question: how do you blow the whistle the right way? Renowned whistleblower attorney and author Stephen M. Kohn, explains all ma ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

• IEEE Decides That Its Own Profits Are More Imp ...
  A year ago, we wrote about IEEE's somewhat ridiculous and aggressive policies towards republishing research it publishes. Apparently, it's getting even worse. An anonymous reader sent over Matt Blaze's story about how IEEE has made their policies even more draconian by forbidding authors from ...
• Could Patent Reform Actually Pass This Year?
  Every year for nearly a decade, we hear the same thing each January about how this is the year that "patent reform" will finally pass. And every year it goes nowhere. Then the following January, it comes back, and the proposal is slightly worse than it was the year before (and it was never tha ...
• Ubisoft Uses 'Copyright' Claim To Block Americ ...
  Jay points us to the news that Ubisoft is offering up a new video game for the Wii, in Europe only, called "We Dare," which appears to be a ridiculously awkwardness-inducing game designed to try to make people engage in sexually suggestive activities with one another. Since the game is only bei ...
• Can You Sue Facebook To Restore Your Falsely T ...
  Eric Goldman has the details on an interesting trademark dispute involving Facebook. It involves two separate day spas, who both go by the name "Complexions," but in different regional areas, so there was no real problem in the past. But thanks to a global internet, things get trickier. One o ...
• Woman Who Claimed Ownership Of 'Biggest Loser' ...
  It seems that every time there's a really successful book, movie or TV show that comes along, someone else comes along and claims that it was really their idea, and demands cash for it. Of course, in almost every one of these cases, they don't seem to realize that lots of people had the same id ...

VacTruth

• The 2009 Pandemic Flu “Conspiracies” Investiga ...
  Was it appropriate for WHO to take advice from experts who had declarable financial and research ties with pharmaceutical companies producing antivirals and influenza vaccines?Vactruth.com
• Baby Gets Vaccine-Associated Paralytic Poliomy ...
  Adverse reactions to the Oral Polio Vaccine in healthy infants without any apparent immunodeficiencies can occur. Conversely, those with immune deficiencies, such as hypogammaglobulinemics, "...are 10,000 times more susceptible to vaccine-induced poliomyelitis than normal persons.”Vactruth.com
• National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program a ...
  The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services HRSA division (Health Resources and Services Administration) held a public meeting of the FDA’s Advisory Committee on Childhood Vaccines (ACCV) in Rockville, Maryland, September 2-3, 2010, at which several charts were distributed. Petitioners’ Awa ...
• Doctors in UK Warned After a Catalogue of Vacc ...
  Doctors across the UK have come under immense criticism after a survey revealed a catalogue of vaccine blunders. The results revealed that family doctors had been involved in vaccination blunders affecting 98 children and 10 adults over the last five years. Vactruth.com
• Vaccines Can’t Claim What Nutritional Suppleme ...
  Healthcare choice issues are being attacked on all sides, it seems, with no let up until there probably will be no freedom of choice in taking care of your children’s or your health in the manner YOU want.Vactruth.com

BroadSnark

• Things You Might Have Missed
  A short post this week, as I just got back from a HIPS benefit production of the Vagina Monologues and I have had a bit too much to drink.  I think it was the booze-infused cunt cake that finally did me in. Please read this post on government medical experiments on people.  I knew about [...]
• On Catholicism and Reform
  I’ve been thinking a lot about how you determine whether or not something is worth saving/fixing/reforming – whatever. What got me thinking about this was a book I read called A World Without Women. David Noble, the guy who wrote the book, wanted to examine why science was so inhospitable to wom ...
• Things You Might Have Missed
  How much do I love the goth who foreclosed on Wells Fargo? (HT @womanistmusings). Did you know that there is a mountain vault full of potatoes? In Israel news – The U.S. has once again vetoed a UN resolution against Israel.  (And can I just add that I really want to smack Susan Rice in [...]
• On Jewish “Success”
  It’s hard to have a reasonable conversation about the apparent “success” of the Jewish community. For one thing, we Jews have an understandably defensive gut reaction to accusations of success.  And they are often accusations.  To quote the Illinois Holocaust Museum, Adolf Hitler and the Nazis a ...
• Things You Might Have Missed
  So these people don’t have a chance in hell of pulling off a free school at Guy Ritchie’s house, but I do love them for trying. Apparently, it is attack women’s shelters week.  In Afghanistan, the state is trying to take them over. And in Canada, the border services/gestapo are now entering she ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

• The Danish Bank, a Bank ’Too Big To Fail,’ Is ...
  EIR News Service press release.
• Repeal of Glass-Steagall Is Center-Stage in An ...
  EIR News Service press release.
• China Drought Threatens Wheat Belt, Raising In ...
  EIR News Service press release.
• Is Bernanke About To Be Dumped?
  EIR News Service press release.
• Angelides: Takedown of Glass-Steagall Allowed ...
  EIR News Service press release.

Armies of Liberation

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

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

food and water watch

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

treehugger

• Cutting Fuel Taxes Will Exacerbate Oil Crisis
  Last week I posted a link to a powerful opinion piece about the West's Faustian pact on oil. But as the oil price spikes continue, and consumers start feeling the pain, pressure is mounting on Governments to cut taxes, increase subsidies, and otherwise help people get around—invariably by ca ...
• News Corporation Announces New Sustainability ...
  Image: News Corporation News Corporation, parent company of Fox, the Wall Street Journal, and most recently of The Daily for the iPad, was the first global media company to commit to and then achieve the goal of becoming carbon neutral. Today, it announced a whole new set of targets—som ...
• San Francisco Using Facebook To Fix Potholes a ...
  Photo by stevendepolo via Flickr Creative Commons Awhile back, we heard about Fill That Hole, PotholeSnitch, and SeeClickFix, apps that allows city residents to report potholes on city streets. But of course, to report a problem you need a smart phone. San Francisco is opening up not only t ...
• 1930s Fish Market Recycled Into New Design Cen ...
  Photos: Paula Alvarado. A dark warehouse that used to function as the city's fish market from the 1930s until the early 1980s has been recycled into a new home for the Metropolitan Design Center in Buenos Aires. Although not sold as green, the building's recycled structure, wonderful na ...
• Endangered Hammerhead Sharks Tracked To Save T ...
  Photo by kiwi flickr via Flickr Creative Commons Many shark species are coming close to the point of extinction thanks to finning -- the practice of killing sharks only for their fins and dumping the usually still living shark back into the sea to drown. One such species is the Great Hammer ...

Biosingularity

• Surgical procedure urged for atrial fibrillati ...
  People with atrial fibrillation, a common type of irregular heartbeat, should be referred for a surgical treatment called catheter ablation if an oral medication is not effective, said the authors of a study released Tuesday. In a head-to-head comparison of the two forms of treatment, catheter a ...
• Skin Cells Turned into Brain Cells
  Skin cells called fibroblasts can be transformed into neurons quickly and efficiently with just a few genetic tweaks, according to new research. The surprisingly simple conversion, which doesn’t require the cells to be returned to an embryonic state, suggests that differentiated adult cells are ...
• Magnesium May Improve Memory
  New research finds that an increase in brain magnesium improves learning and memory in young and old rats. The study, published by Cell Press in the January 28th issue of the journal Neuron, suggests that increasing magnesium intake may be a valid strategy to enhance cognitive abilities and supp ...
• Scientists Discover a Controller of Brain Circ ...
  By combining a research technique that dates back 136 years with modern molecular genetics, a Johns Hopkins neuroscientist has been able to see how a mammal’s brain shrewdly revisits and reuses the same molecular cues to control the complex design of its circuits. Details of the observation in l ...
• Human Growth Hormone: Not a Life Extender Afte ...
  People profoundly deficient in human growth hormone (HGH) due to a genetic mutation appear to live just as long as people who make normal amounts of the hormone, a new study shows. The findings suggest that HGH may not be the “fountain of youth” that some researchers have suggested. “Without HGH ...

CFACT

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

Ria Novosti Online News

• Mikhail Gorbachev - a reformer with a human fa ...
• Moscow imposes entry ban on Japanese CEOs for ...
• Moscow imposes entry ban on Japanese CEOs for ...
  Moscow has imposed an entry ban on two Japanese companies' heads for anti-Russian rhetoric, a spokesman for the Russian Interior Ministry said on Wednesday.
• Medvedev congratulates Gorbachev on 80th birth ...
  Russian President Dmitry Medvedev awarded former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, who turned 80 on March 2, with Russia’s top award, the Order of St. Andrew the Apostle.
• Russian senator calls Gaddafi 'demoniac colone ...
  Senior Russian Senator and head of the State Duma's foreign relations committee Mikhail Margelov has called Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi "a demoniac colonel" whose regime is doomed.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• Russian upper house ratifies rocket technology ...
  Russia's upper house of parliament ratified on Wednesday a government agreement with Ukraine on the protection of rocket and space technology.
• Russia rejects historic photo shoot at ISS
  NASA announced on Tuesday that an historic fly-around photo session of the International Space Station will not go ahead.
• NASA astronauts complete six-hour spacewalk
  U.S. astronauts Steve Bowen and Alvin Drew completed a six-hour spacewalk, the first of the STS-133 mission.
• Russia launches Glonass-K satellite
  The Russian Space Forces have successfully launched a new Glonass-K navigation satellite from the Plesetsk space center, a Defense Ministry spokesman said Saturday.
• U.S. Discovery shuttle blasts off for ISS from ...
  U.S. shuttle Discovery has blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida for the International Space Station, NASA said on Friday.

Pruning Shears

• 'No On SB 5' activism opportunities
  The big one is tomorrow:Rally for Ohio’s Middle ClassTuesday, March 1 at 10:00 a.m.Ohio Statehouse - West Lawn1 Capitol SquareColumbus, OH 43215Buses will be arriving from around the state, and you can reserve your seat at http://ohiodems.org/action/flood_the_statehouseThe Ohio Education Associa ...
• Weekend wrapup
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many (via) Muslims. Oh, and for those ghouls who believe in doing a cost/benefit analysis on the amount of innocent life it is acceptable to snuff out ...
• Report from Columbus
  Yesterday I was in Columbus to join in the rally against SB 5, the Ohio GOP’s implementation of the assault on collective bargaining. Even before we got there it was clear Republicans were trying to discourage attendance: as the bus approached Columbus we were told the doors to the Senate build ...
• This Week In Tyranny
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postThe Raymond Davis case appears to be keeping (via) everything quiet on the drone front.A happy coda on Egypt from Mohammed Abdellah, of the former president’s National Democratic Party, on the largely peaceful resolution: “For all ...
• The Daily Jellyby
  So Freddie deBoer posts (via) a serious, well articulated plea for those on the warpath against Social Security and Medicare to think about the real world impact. Andrew Sullivan responds with majestic indifference by citing Megan McCardle, someone whose analysis is so consistently deceptive or ...

Organic Consumers.org

• A Growing Debate: How To Define 'Organic' Food
  Just over a month ago, the Department of Agriculture announced that it will allow American farmers to plant genetically engineered alfalfa, which is widely used as feed for dairy cows and horses.Click here to read this article
• Major Farm Animal Cloning Project Cancelled Du ...
  After 13 years of studying how to prevent abnormalities in cloned animals, AgResearch has ended its cloning project because too many of the animals died.Click here to read this article
• Mustard Seed Puts the Heat on Bladder Cancer
  A study with rats finds a plant compound abundant in mustard, horseradish and wasabi stopped the growth of bladder cancer by one-third and completely prevented metastasis - the cancer invasion of surrounding muscle tissue. Additionally, the food tested - in this case, a mustard seed powder that ...
• Group to Rate Environmental Impact of Clothing
  With just a few clicks on Google Maps, anyone can call up a satellite image of blue dye and other chemicals washing downriver from textile mills in Xintang, China — the world capital of blue jeans production. Click here to read this article
• Monsanto Wins Reversal of Order to Destroy Gen ...
  SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 25 (Reuters) - In a partial win for global biotech seed maker Monsanto Co (MON.N), a U.S. appeals court reversed a lower court's order that called for the destruction of young genetically modified sugar beet plants, according to a ruling released on Friday.Click here to read t ...

fotoFrontera

• Tributo a la infancia VI (fotos de niñas, flor ...
  El día de hoy, presento la sexta parte de nuestra serie titulada 'Tributo a la infancia'. En ella, pretendo reconocer -una vez más- esa hermosa etapa de nuestra vida caracterizada por la inocencia. Nada más lindo y tierno que ser niño e ir descubriendo la esencia de las cosas. Para ello, le invi ...
• Animales increíbles V (13 Fotomontajes en Phot ...
  Con esta serie de 13 fotomontajes en Photoshop de Animales Increíbles, estamos dando fin a esta colección que en total sumó 50 trabajos artísticos dignos de los mejores maestros de la fotomanipulación digital. Espero que al igual que yo, hayan disfrutado al máximo estas imágenes y no olvide uste ...
• Wallpapers de autos bonitos (10 imágenes súper ...
  En exclusiva para quienes gustan de tener en el monitor de su ordenador los mejores wallpapers de autos, el día de hoy les traigo 10 fotografías en alta resolución para decorar el fondo de su computadora, laptop, netbook o ipad. No olvide usted también hacer clic aquí para revisar todas nuestras ...
• Tormenta de polvo - Dust Storm (16 fotografías ...
  Con suma frecuencia, el Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas, presenta colecciones de fotografías absolutamente fuera de serie. Tal es el caso de esta colección sobre las tormentas de polvo alrededor del mundo. Haga usted clic aquí o sobre las miniaturas para ver de cerca esta recopilación con 16 imágene ...
• Paisajes naturales que son inolvidables I
  ¿Le ha pasado que en su mente aún perdura el recuerdo de aquéllos lindos paisajes que visitó usted en sus recientes vacaciones? En mi caso, aún conservo la imagen de las llanuras, flores, lagos, ríos, bosques, islas y bellas ciudades que visité durante mi estancia en Canadá. Para que juntos volv ...

Center for a Livable Future

• Notes from New Zealand: China’s Investment in ...
  CLF Director Robert S. Lawrence, MD, is on sabbatical in Auckland, New Zealand, where he is studying the country’s agriculture system. As we waited in the Sydney airport for our connecting flight to Auckland, I picked up a copy of The Australian, one of the major newspapers in Australia, and n ...
• A Blow to Industrial Dairy Farming in the U.K.
  Just over a week ago, I received a phone call from Katharine Mansell, the Media Relations Manager for the U.K. World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA). What she told me was without doubt excellent news for both sustainable agriculture and public health in Western Europe. The proposal ...
• Increasing global food security: The next gold ...
  What do Archer Daniels Midland, Cargill, Coca-Cola, DuPont, Monsanto, Kraft Foods, and Wal-Mart have in common? Some of the most financially successful companies in the world? Absolutely. Exploiters of workers and the environment? Some say so. The newest solution to global food insecurity and ...
• Antibacterial soap: Poses environmental health ...
  To protect yourself from harmful germs wash your hands, for at least 20 seconds, with plain old soap and water. That simple advice might be the take-away message from last week’s Food and Water Watch-sponsored congressional briefing on triclosan, an antibacterial agent found in hundreds of anti ...
• The Cristo Rey/Amazing Grace Community Garden: ...
          Where there was once a block of run-down row homes in McElderry Park in East Baltimore, Maryland, there is now a burgeoning vegetable garden. The Amazing Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church started the garden to provide green space for the community and produce for the church’s foo ...

Norwegianity

• All harvest, no planting
  Samuel A. Culbert in the NYTimes: [O]ne of the primary ways employee effectiveness is judged is the performance review. And nothing could be less fair than that. In my years studying such reviews, I’ve learned that they are subjective evaluations that measure how “comfortable” a boss is with an ...
• GOPhads and fatwads
  Do check out Crooks and Liars on Howie the Whore’s latest foray into instant revisionism and massive hypocrisy. The Daily Beast is the mainstream media’s toehold into online media, a HuffPo for even bigger whores. More: Another ultimatum from Gov. Blowhard [his poll support is cratering] [they, ...
• Waiting for the Pinkertons
  Corporate media is slowly deigning to acknowledge what’s going on in Madison. The NYTimes has an article about how the police refused to remove the Capitol protesters (but despite giving the “background” neglects to mention that Wisconsin’s budget crisis was wholly manufactured by Gov. Walker’s ...
• Madison! Madison! Madison!
  Saving as I go so yeah, more links than any sane person would ever try to click. WISCONSIN: C&L says 100,000 turned out Michele Bachmann compares Walker to Lincoln and Reagan Raw Story liveblogged the protest [WARNING: HUGE COLLECTION OF PICTURES] [MN pix] [NYC pix] WINston has pix from Saturday ...
• Crushing the middle class
  What’s it all about? If you’re a righty, Wisconsin is about your deep resentment of public sector workers whose wages and benefits haven’t yet been completely eroded by the selfish few at the top (those who seek always to make their enormous piles even more grotesquely ginormous). If you’re a le ...

Public News Service

• Will Funding Cuts Make Rural Arizona Health Ce ...
  Will Funding Cuts Make Rural Arizona Health Centers Sick? Phoenix, AZ – The U.S. House Appropriations Committee has been considering cuts of more than one billion dollars to Community Health Centers across the country. For Arizona, it would mean the loss of more than three-million dollars, poten ...
• Is Solar in the Zone? Arizonans Get to Make th ...
  Is Solar in the Zone? Arizonans Get to Make the Call Phoenix, AZ – The U.S. Department of Interior is looking for insider information when it comes to solar projects on public lands in Arizona. The agency is holding local meetings this week, starting with a session tomorrow (Tuesday) in Phoenix ...
• Fed Budget Battle Threatens Preventive Care fo ...
  Fed Budget Battle Threatens Preventive Care for AZ Women and Families Phoenix, AZ – Spending cuts contained in the U-S House budget would completely eliminate the Title Ten federal family planning program. In Arizona, the program provides preventive health care for more than 40-thousand men, wo ...
• Utility Updates Renewable Energy Commitment
  Utility Updates Renewable Energy Commitment Phoenix, AZ – Salt River Project is seeking public comments as it reviews and possibly modifies its commitment to clean, renewable energy sources. The utility currently plans to obtain 15-percent of its power through renewables and conservation by the ...
• Congress Grapples with Internet Freedom Issues
  Congress Grapples with Internet Freedom Issues Phoenix, AZ – Against the backdrop of Middle East uprisings facilitated by Facebook and Twitter, Congress this week grappled over the issue of net neutrality, or how to keep the Internet open and free for everyone. Comments from Amalia (ah-MALL-ee-a ...

Center for Food Safety

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

• John John: The View From Occupied Canada #234
  Imperialist hands off Libya! The United States and the European powers are moving towards direct military intervention in Libya. They are seeking to exploit a legitimate popular uprising against the 41-year rule of Muammar Gaddafi, preempt any possibility of a more radical regime emerging, and i ...
• SOUTH LEBANON: US neo-cons urge Libya interven ...
  SOUTH LEBANON: US neo-cons urge Libya intervention By JIM LOBE, Al Jazeera In a distinct echo of the tactics they pursued to encourage US intervention in the Balkans and Iraq, a familiar clutch of neo-conservatives appealed Friday for the United States and NATO to "immediately" prepare military ...
• The World Is Getting Crazy
  The World Is Getting Crazy: [firstperspective.ca] "There are at least 30 major wars or conflicts going on in the world today as I write this. Millions of people are being harassed, abused, starved and forced from their homes. Thousands are being wounded and killed. Most of these wars involve gre ...
• Imperial Feminism : Culture Mop
  Imperial Feminism : Culture Mop: "It is important to recognize the brutality that occurred in the streets of Cairo that day and the days that followed, as well as the ongoing harassment of women in Egypt. We should not deny the clear and disturbing reality of this problem. However, it is not fai ...
• Katherine Franke: A Gay Rights Angle on the Eg ...
  Katherine Franke: A Gay Rights Angle on the Egyptian Revolution?: "They were tried before an Egyptian Emergency State security court -- a creation of President Mubarak in 1981 after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. In November, 2001, the defendants were brought into court and were pro ...

Pensieve

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

Green Times

• Organic Breads
    Many organic food markets and bakeries offer a great variety of organic (glossary/food-drink/organic-food.html) baguettes and wholemeal breads. Wholemeal is high in fibre, which reduces your appetite for a longer time and keeps your digestive system healthy. It also keeps your blood sugar lev ...
• Rrainbow lorikeet in the city
  The Australian lorikeet truly has amazing colours. Did you know that it is meant to protect him while eating in flowering trees? This parrot feeds itself with pollen, nectar and blossoms. It possesses appendices-like hair on its tongue to better reach the inside of flowers. A rainbow l ...
• A heart in the sand
  Are you still searching for the perfect love that will be green minded like you? Join Australia’s leading green single network (directory/company/planetearthsingles%20com%20au.php)! When was the last time you expressed your loved ones how important they are to you? The Green Times directo ...
• French ochre
  Ochre is a natural iron oxide pigment that goes from shades of light yellow and orange to deep red. It was one of the first colours used by human beings. Later people painted their facades with it. Artists have been usinged it for many decades in their paintings and often enhanced the colou ...
• Giraffe in the city
  The best place to see giraffes is Serengeti in Northern Tanzania… More close to home, here at Taronga Zoo in Sydney, giraffes can be seen in front of the Sydney city skyline. Discover facts about the giraffe in Green Times’ article “The last giraffe” (wildlife/the-last-giraffe.html)and wat ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

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

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

• Eviatar: Three Dead Children
  Guest Post by Aharan Eviatar The recent ghastly events in Arizona, especially the killing of Christina Greene, gunned down by a political lunatic at age nine, lead one to think of the phenomenon of political killing of children and what it implies for society. In particular, I would like to bri ...
• Second School Year Opens at Salem’s Musi ...
  On Saturday February 19 we visited the Salem Music Center. We were accompanied by three professionals – Fuad, a music teacher from Tel Aviv-Yaffa, Ram – principal of Tel Aviv’s art high school, and Ruti – head of that school’s music department. The occasion was the opening of a second school yea ...
• 7 hours ago in Al Arakib
  By Yeela Raanan It seemed that there were “red lines” even for the police brutality against the Bedouins of the Israeli Negev – while destroying homes that had no possibility for acquiring building permits, arresting people on their village lands in order to make room for JNF trees, beating ac ...
• Please Help Rebuild 13 Water Cisterns Destroye ...
  crossposted from the Villages Group blog) The situation of the Palestinian cave-dwellers in South Hebron Hills continues to be difficult. They suffer from permanent harassment carried out by the military and settlers. This year, however, has been even more difficult, due to a severe drought. As ...
• Al Arakib update: Four consecutive days of dem ...
  From the Negev Coexistence Forum (NCF) Last week brought four consecutive days of demolitions in Al Arakib. For the first time on February 9 we witnessed bulldozers clearly marked as belonging to the Jewish National Fund (JNF-KKL), destroying tents that had been erected overnight by the resident ...

Politics in the Zeros

• Female assassins for drug cartels
  26 year old female assassin for narcos interviewed in prison (translated to English by Borderland Beat) Men, they do it for fun, because they enjoy killing, it makes them feel like big shit. Screw that. Us women, we get into this for the money. Well at least that was the way it was for me. [...]
• Bizarre Brit plan to put “programs” between pr ...
  An ITV executive told us, “Our research shows that to stop people switching over from our product placements, we need to include some sort of dramatic hook, whether thatâs a plucky poor person holding a microphone whilst being berated by a rich person, or a rich person being forced to eat someth ...
• Solowheel
  From Solowheel, yours soon for $1,500. Looks fun!
• Gunboat diplomacy coming to Libya. What if the ...
  Whether it’s a no-fly zone or something more serious, if Qadiffi loyalists shoot at our jets or troops (and they will) then we will almost certainly invade after bombing them. Because, contrary to the accepted truth that wars can be won from the air, they can’t be. Just look at the Vietnam and I ...
• Saudis may have sent tanks to Bahrain
  The rumor has sent the Saudi stock market down 7%. Update: Bahrain says tanks were theirs, and returning from Kuwait. They would have had to cross the causeway from Saudi Arabia to the island of Bahrain, as that is the only road in. Reuters: Tanks in streets of Bahrain capital

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

• Rumsfeld on Opie and Anthony – Louis CK ...
• Deadline Live – March 1 2011
  News and commentary on this 1st day of March 2011 from Our Narrator and Radio Gun, Jack Blood. Shepard Ambellas From – Intelhub.com joins Jack in the second hour.
• Memory Hole Video of the Day: Ron Paul “ ...
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The Air Vent

• Nick Stokes – TempLS
  Nick Stokes has been messing around with another regression of the Antarctic, he’s done some good stuff but I believe is seeing some of the difficulty of spatial trend containment using PCA methods.  It’s fairly interesting: Antarctic, RO10, Steig and TempLS.
• kgnd & Cross-Validation – By Ryan ODonne ...
  PART I (West Antarctica) IMPORTANT NOTE:  The code has been modified to extract station-by-station cross-validation results for TTLS.  If you are using the code, please download the new copy RO10 Code.txt and use that.  Data is here internal.cv.Rdata.
• Crystalline Silicon Ball
  Well Lucia has a post from Zeke which is experiencing a nice reception at her blog as well as Judith Curry’s.  As often is the case, my own head feels about to explode over some of the “known details”.  There are far too many otherwise smart people ready to accept them for my liking and [...]
• Josh – Summing it up
• Spectator on O10
  Nic Lewis has co-written an article with the Spectator regarding S09. They used it for the cover story – click the image below for the magazine link. I have a copy, but haven’t read it in the published form myself.

Focal Point

• Obama Admin Declines to Defend Entire "Defense ...
  Good news: Attorney General Eric Holder announced last week that the Justice Department will no longer defend Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act, the part that defines marriage as the union of one man and one woman. Holder said that the executive would continue to enforce the law until it ...
• GA Rep. Seeks to Criminalize Unauthorized Vagi ...
  A Georgia Representative has introduced a bill to investigate all unsupervised miscarriages as crime scenes. Don't believe me? Here's the relevant language from HB 1, downloadable from legislature's website: When a spontaneous fetal death required to be reported by this Code section occurs ...
• Mudcat Saunders to Wisconsin Dems: Surrender f ...
  Sam Stein asks, "Would The Democrats Have Been Better Off Letting Walker's Bill Pass?" Better off how? If Wisconsin's Democratic legislators had sat still and let the bill pass, the majority of public employees in Wisconsin would have lost their collective bargaining rights without a fight. ...
• House Votes to Defund Planned Parenthood, Titl ...
  The Party of Spite strikes again. The Republican-controlled House voted Friday to de-fund not only Planned Parenthood, but all Title X funds for clinics that perform abortions: If the resolution goes into law, the 95-year-old health care provider will lose funding from the federal governme ...
• Debunking Myths About Epidurals for Childbirh
  From a good post by Dr. Harriet Hall debunking various myths about epidural analgesia for childbirth: In my opinion, it is unconscionable to let patients suffering from severe pain go untreated unless there is compelling evidence that not treating pain results in improved health outcomes. ...

Inside Facebook

• Formspring, Profile Stats, Cars and Dating on ...
  Mixed in with games on our list of top 20 growing Facebook applications this week were apps for luck, photos, profile statistics, browser and mobile apps and for dating. Data in this post comes via AppData, our data tracking service covering traffic growth for apps on Facebook. Top Gainers This ...
• Analysis: What’s Behind Facebook’s Friendfeed- ...
  Facebook added yet another small group of talented developers and product managers to its stable today with the acquisition of Beluga. With Facebook’s focus this year on bolstering its mobile platform and offering a Messages product that seamlessly ties the web and mobile together, Beluga is a n ...
• Facebook Announces New Currencies, Payment Opt ...
  Facebook has added 15 new international currencies and 20 more alternative payment methods as ways for users to buy Facebook Credits. This will help developers monetize more effectively around the world, especially in Asia and Europe. Facebook has also announced that developers will now receive ...
• New Facebook Credits Rules Limit In-Game Offer ...
  Facebook has announced new rules governing how games on the Platform can reward users that go into effect starting July 1st when all games must use Facebook Credits as their sole payment platform. Only if they use Facebook’s approved offer partners will developers be allowed to reward users wit ...
• Top 25 Facebook Games for March 2011
  Like last month, 16 of the 25 largest Facebook games by monthly active users have experienced user declines, with seven, including CityVille, steming from social developer Zynga. Many of these games were launched a year ago or earlier, and massive new games are not emerging to take their place, ...

Truthout - Tweets

• truthout: GOP Campaign Against Birth Control O ...
  truthout: GOP Campaign Against Birth Control Officially Too Crazy for Scaife http://bit.ly/hwBGSY #p2 #p2b #p21
• truthout: How the Rich Soaked the Rest of Us h ...
  truthout: How the Rich Soaked the Rest of Us http://bit.ly/eKVpzN #p2 #p2b #p21
• truthout: Dahr Jamail | Lawsuit Filed Against ...
  truthout: Dahr Jamail | Lawsuit Filed Against BP Compensation Czar http://bit.ly/gE6lLS #p2 #p2b #p21
• truthout: Michael Moore: People Still Have the ...
  truthout: Michael Moore: People Still Have the Power (Video) http://bit.ly/fgI2Qy #p2 #p2b #p21
• truthout: Dr. King and the Tea Party http://bi ...
  truthout: Dr. King and the Tea Party http://bit.ly/f2vGbe #p2 #p2b #p21

ReDress News

• An empire of lies: why our media betrays us
  Jonathan Cook analyses the role of mainstream media in defending Western imperial elites and peddling their narrative, and assesses the impact of new media in breaking the elites' stranglehold on information. "This is an opportunity and one that we must nurture. We must demand of the corporate ...
• Julian Assange and Raymond A. Davis
  Christopher King considers the cases of two men the USA wants to extradite, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and CIA spy "Raymond A. David", on remand in Pakistan for murder. He argues that the murky case of “Davis” underlines the need for whistleblowers like Assange.
• Craven US veto costs Washington its last shred ...
  Stuart Littlewood argues that the latest US veto of a draft UN Security Council resolution condemning Israel's squatter colonies in the occupied Palestinian territories "has finally lifted the scales from the eyes of all those who unwisely invested high hopes" in President Obama.
• Israeli media "fears" the new Egypt
  Neve Gordon describes how Israel's media has been presenting Egyptian democracy as a threat, with one commentator lamenting the end of colonialism.
• The veto and the case for impeaching President ...
  Alan Hart argues that the United States’s veto on 18 February of a UN Security Council resolution condemning Israel's colonization of the occupied West Bank undermines US national interests and amounts to high treason for which President Obama ought to be impeached.

Amazon Rainforest

• Brazil judge blocks Amazon Belo Monte dam:
  Federal Brasilian judge Ronaldo Desterro has blocked plans to build a huge hydro-electric dam in the Amazon rainforest because of environmental concerns. Judge Desterro said environmental requirements to build the Belo Monte dam had not been met. He also barred the national development bank, BND ...
• 1.ooo military forces end illegal gold mining ...
  The Peruvian military has cleared-out illegal gold mining along the country’s south-eastern Amazon region in a move aiming to protect the environment. The government sent about 1,000 security forces to the region of Madre de Dios to destroy the illegal operations, the state-funded BBC reported. ...
• BREAKING: Chevron Guilty of Amazon Rainforest ...
  Amazon Watch and Rainforest Action Network just announced a major victory for the Amazon rainforest. An Ecuadorean judge today found Chevron guilty of one of the largest environmental crimes in history and ordered the company to pay a whopping $8 billion to clean up its damage in the Amazon. Che ...
• First film footage of uncontacted Amazon Tribe
  The footage was filmed by the BBC’s Human Planet series shows a Tribe known as the Panoan, who live in virtual isolation from the outside world. The team needed too get footage of the Tribe as proof of their existence so as the government could protect them from illegal logging and mining operat ...
• Second rancher sentenced for contract kill of ...
  A second rancher has been sentenced for his role in the murder of Dorothy Stang, an American nun who was gunned down in 2005 for her efforts on behalf of poor farmers in the Amazon Rainforest. Regivaldo Galvao was sentenced to 30 years in prison by a jury in the city of Pará. Last month [...]

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• Sibel Edmonds’ Boiling Frogs Post: Year Two
  We Need Your Support to Continue & Expand: Countdown Week 1 In October 2009 I launched Boiling Frogs Post  with one purpose in mind: To establish a venue for investigative articles, editorials, analyses, discussions, and interviews on issues largely censored by the media. We are entering our sec ...
• Boiling Frogs Post Status & Update
  Boiling Frogs Year Two-A Personal Note Next week I’ll be leaving for a business related trip, followed by relocation related travel where I’ll be checking housing, schooling for my daughter, work,  among tons of other ‘life related’ details in a new hometown, and finalized by a short but straigh ...
• Boiling Frogs Beltway Buzz: The Upcoming Bipar ...
  A Caucus to Combat Terrorism, Domestic Violence, Divorce & Job Dissatisfaction via ‘Happiness Pill’ According to our inside sources a new Bipartisan Congressional Caucus for Prozac will be launched before the end of the 112th Congress. The primary purpose of the Prozac Caucus will be to raise aw ...
• Hillary Clinton: Beware of the Mini Pharaoh in ...
  “Speaking Fee” is the New Name for Political Donation Laundering-Rechanneling (PDLR) Political donation laundering-rechanneling (PDLR) is a business in its own right, whether it is for pre-election donations or post-election maintenance contributions.  In most cases, PDLR requires savvy strategi ...
• Jamiol Presents

Afro Spear

• When Keeping It Real Goes Wrong, Part 13
  Earlier today, I was reading the post on “Tim Wise” from last year. Some recent new comments had shown up and I was curious; I re-read the entire post. It was very interesting and made me reflect on me, on my feelings related to the post’s contents and comments. Tim Wise doesn’t move me. In [... ...
• Bishop Noel Jones in South Africa…The Pr ...
  The great Bishop Noel Jones, discussing the intersection of business and church, the practical and the spiritual, the dialectical and the liturgical. Bishop Noel Jones is considered a profound Christian theologian and intellectual. He has a way with the Word of God that leaves no room for doubt ...
• “Revolution and the Muslim World” ...
  Artlice from STRATFOR The Muslim world, from North Africa to Iran, has experienced a wave of instability in the last few weeks. No regimes have been overthrown yet, although as of this writing, Libya was teetering on the brink. There have been moments in history where revolution spread in a regi ...
• Congrats Museveni on “Tsunami-like win&# ...
  Dear Mr President of Uganda Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni, Though I am not your voter, I come from the same background like that of your humble voters. I come from the country where voters and all hoi polloi are but sheepish beasts of burden for hoity toitty like in your country. And they l ...
• War babies, Germany and love letters explainin ...
  Cross post from the Black Women in Europe⢠Blog War babies, Germany and love letters explaining the past From Noah Sow’s Blog: Afro-German History in New Karasek Book Release The post before this one is about a book release in German(y). The story is important to me though, so Iâll try to tell ...

Expose the BNP

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

Sen4Earth

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

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

• Rally to Save the American Dream
  In Wisconsin and around our country, the American Dream is under fierce attack. Instead of creating jobs, Republicans are giving tax breaks to corporations and the very rich—and then cutting funding for education, police, emergency response, and vital human services. On Saturday, February 26, a ...
• RICK SCOTT MADE MILLIONS OFF HEALTH NOW CUTS I ...
  Whether it's a political stunt or the act of an extremist ideologue, Scott is hurting real Floridians in concrete ways, including millions of people with private health insurance or Medicare benefits. He's taking away a law that ends the worst insurance company abuses and frees families, senior ...
• CUT PENTAGON BUDGET: ACT NOW
  Their current proposal includes cuts in domestic spending, diplomacy, development, and international assistance but allows the Pentagon budget to continue to rise.
• SAY NO to Patriot EXTENSIONS!
  Together, these provisions make a mockery of our civil liberties: They let government officials spy on whomever they want, for any reason, without ever letting them know or giving them a chance to challenge the order in court.
• Secretariat the Horse, the Movie
  To be witness to history from afar is one thing, to be up close is another, and to have the wisdom to know the difference is the icing on the cake, of course, I am referring to great moments in history, of excelling in any endeavor, being human, or otherwise, of the bright spots and not of man’s ...

Unsuitable Blog

• UK Census 2011: Why I Will Be Breaking The Law ...
  On Sunday March 27, 2011 I will be breaking the law. If you live in England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland then I would also like you to break the law. We can do it together, and I know for a fact that an awful lot of people will be doing the same. The UK [...]
• Interview With Bill McKibben, Winner of Puffin ...
  Climate reality writer and activist Gregory Vickrey. (L) ( Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Founder of 350.org, writer and environmentalist Bill McKibben. (R) (Photo: Nancie Battaglia / 350.org) Bill McKibben, Schumann distinguished scholar at Middlebury College, is the author of a dozen boo ...
• An Open Letter to Journalists From Gasland Dir ...
  With the recent Oscar nomination of my documentary film GASLAND, Big Gas and their PR attack machine hit a new low in its blatant disregard for the truth. In an unprecedented move, an oil and gas industry front group sent a letter to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences saying that th ...
• 350.org say “Hello Business, Goodbye Gra ...
  For a while it wasn’t certain which side would blink first: the grassroots or the corporate loving heirarchy. Turns out that the grassroots blinked before the heirarchy had even been established. When, like 350.org you have a full time staff of just half a dozen people then you have a pretty eas ...
• Friends of the Earth, iPods and The Competitio ...
  It was a windy Thursday evening at the beginning of 2011. An office in north London buzzed with anticipation at the launch of something exciting; something that would appeal to a new breed of eco-conscious consumers who want that extra something to keep them feeling good about their fast-pased, ...

Subalternate Reality

• Praying On Qasr al-Nil
  One of the more memorable scenes of the Egyptian revolution will surely be that of ordinary Egyptian’s praying on Cairo’s Qasr al-Nil Bridge as members of Egyptian state police direct their water cannons at them. Truly a remarkable sight. via Al Jazeera Filed under: Middle East Tagged: Al-Jazeer ...
• “I Support Democratization, But…&# ...
  The Atlanticâs Jeffrey Goldberg â one of the key proponents of the disastrous invasion of Iraq â has some serious misgivings about the fledgling pro-democracy movement thatâs taken over the streets of Egypt. âI support democratization, but,â he cautions, âthe democratization we saw in Gaza (cour ...
• All That Happens In The Middle East Can’ ...
  Uncertainly rules the day in Tunisia. Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the countryâs strong-armed and authoritarian ruler since 1987, is in Saudi Arabia while the interim government struggles to restore some semblance of order.  âConfusion, fear and horror in Tunisia as old regime’s militia carries on ...
• Newt Comes Out As A Muslim-Baiter
  Early this week, disgraced former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich warned that “a commitment to religious freedom and God-given rights is being replaced by a secular oppression…”  Just hours after those words appeared on Human Events, Gingrich issued a statement forcefully opposing the constr ...
• Wealthy Far More Likely To Default On Mortgage ...
  crossposted at Political Correction For much of the past two years, Congressional Republicans have wasted few opportunities to blame poor and working class Americans for the financial meltdown and the subsequent recession. They’ve argued that through well-intentioned government initiatives, in ...

Idea Lab | Technology

• Ushahidi Takes First Steps in Evaluating Kenya ...
  This post was written by Melissa Tully and Jennifer Chan. It is the first in a series of blog posts documenting a 9-month Ushahidi evaluation project in partnership with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and supported by the Knight Foundation. A version of the post below was originally publish ...
• MIT's Civic Media Session Explores Data in Cit ...
  With a redoubled focus on the community in the civic media community, the Center for Future Civic Media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) launched a new series last week. These relaxed, informal conversations about civic media featured ground-level practitioners, activists, hack ...
• LocalWiki Tries "Open-From-The-Start" Developm ...
  It's time for another project update. We've been hard at work on the core of the software that will power LocalWiki. We've also been spending time running around meeting people passionate about local media and planning out many things to come. Basic groundwork laid Many of you know abo ...
• People of Color Must Innovate or Die in Digita ...
  In December in this space I asked about the lack of minorities at new media conferences -- both as participants and as speakers. The blog post generated a lot of comments; a Twitter discussion, and the start of a list of wonderful experts -- all persons of color -- who can help make your next ne ...
• 'Data and Cities' Conference Pushes Open Data, ...
  When I entered Stamen's offices in the Mission district of San Francisco, I saw four people gathered around a computer screen. What were they doing? Nothing less than "mapping the world" -- not as it appears in flat dimension, but how it reveals itself. And they weren't joking. Stamen, a data vi ...

Cutting Edge News

• After the Holocaust - Murdered Sephardic Jewis ...
  Annually, it is repeated in the contemporary media how �Bulgaria became the only Nazi-allied country in World War II to protect its entire Jewish population� or that �Bulgaria saved all of its Jews from the death camps.� While ultimately, members of the Bulgarian government, the Bulgarian public ...
• Oil on Edge - Regulatory Flaws, Repeated Viola ...
  One evening last April at the Tesoro Corp.’s refinery in Anacortes, Washington, Matt Gumbel and six co-workers cautiously returned to service a stack of giant, radiator-like tubes filled with volatile hydrocarbons. The tubes, known as heat exchangers, tended to leak, especially during start-up, ...
• Be Fair to University of Wisconsin Press
  As an alum of the University of Wisconsin, I think your recent letter writers who have called for drastic budget reviews at the University of Wisconsin Press should rethink their position. Knowledge is precious and sometimes its value does not make itself known immediately. The publishing track ...
• No Plan for Oil Interruption - Oil Prices Surg ...
  Global�stocks dipped again on February 23 as oil prices soared to new highs on fears that the revolt in Libya could spread.� International oil companies, such as�BP and Shell, have already cut production or evacuated staff in the troubled African country. Analysts say the impact of such unrest u ...
• The Race for Alt Fuel - Over-Fertilization is ...
  A study conducted by Rice University researchers shows how farmers can save money on fertilizer while they improve their production of feedstock for ethanol and alleviate damage to the environment.The research has implications for an industry that has grown dramatically in recent years to satisf ...

High Country News

• Defriending Joe Hill: Stegner's lesson for the ...
  Wallace Stegner struggled over the ethics of writing a “fictional biography” of labor organizer Joe Hill; today, filmmakers blithely make “fictional biographies” of living characters like Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.
• Arizona's Fossil Creek gets restored -- and lo ...
  Arizona's Fossil Creek, dramatically brought back to life, is now endangered by the hordes of people who love it.
• Jeff Rice collects nature's noises
  Jeff Rice records the natural sounds of the West.
• Western wildlife commissions on the chopping b ...
  In Washington and New Mexico, state wildlife commissions could become a thing of the past.
• How my thoughts on wolves have changed
  An Alaskan who loves wolves has come to believe that aggressive predator control is often necessary.

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

• Optimism or Pessimism on the "Arab Revolt"?
  By Barry Rubin There is a very simple answer to an apparent contradiction about evaluating the current "Arab revolt." If we look at the situation as a whole, there are reasons to think that many events of the last two months have� been positive. Clearly, the resurgence of active opp ...
• New Black Panther Case May Be Heating Up Again
  Just when you think that the Justice Department is going to avoid any impartial investigation over the alleged racial discrimination that came out of the New Black Panther case, it starts to heat up again. We last heard about the New Black Panther case in late September when Christopher Coates ...
• Hamas - From Iranian Rockets to Holocaust Deni ...
  By Israeli Girl Hamas has been quite busy lately. Last week, after 2 years of relative calm, a long range Grad rocket exploded in Beer Sheva. The rocket landed in a courtyard near a villa at about 8.45 p.m., causing extensive damage to homes in the area but luckily no casualties. ...
• GAO Identifies $100 BIL. Savings by Cutting Sp ...
  The Government Accountability Office (GAO), issued it first annual report on reducing or eliminating duplication, overlap, or fragmentation in government spending (embedded below).� This particular report identifies areas where adjustments would generate tens of billions of savings, and the GAO ...
• Newsbusted: Sequel to "The Kings Speech" Annou ...
  Every-time a movie hits blockbuster movie is made, Hollywood executives sit in a conference room trying to figure out how they can make even more money out if their new franchise, in other words--the Sequel.� Back from vacation, Jodi Miller delivers a sequel scoop about this year's big Oscar Hit ...

The Real Agenda

• An Empire of Lies: The CIA and the Western Med ...
  By Jonathan Cook Global Research February 28, 2011 Last week the Guardian, Britainâs main liberal newspaper, ran an exclusive report on the belated confessions of an Iraqi exile, Rafeed al-Janabi, codenamed âCurveballâ by the CIA. Eight years ago, Janabi played a key behind-the-scenes role — if ...
• Exposure to PCB’s May Interfere with Pre ...
  Wired.com March 2, 2011 PCB exposure may interfere with a woman’s ability to get pregnant, a new study of women undergoing in vitro fertilization suggests. The study of 765 women found that those whose blood contained the highest levels of a particular form of polychlorinated biphenyl — one know ...
• A classe média: Uma espécie em extinção
  Por Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda 1 de Março, 2011 Toda vez que você ouvir a “economia mundial”, este termo deve ser identificado como a destruição da classe média nos países desenvolvidos, e o agravamento das condições de vida nos países em desenvolvimento. Nas últimas décadas, a e ...
• Australians Get Ready to be Heavily Irradiated
  Steve Watson Infowars.com March 1, 2011 The next generation of body scanners to be rolled out in airports will literally be able to see inside the human body, as security personnel gear up to trial machines that use deep penetrating radiation, the same kind hospitals use to examine internal orga ...
• La clase media: Una especie en peligro de exti ...
  Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda Marzo 1, 2011 Cada vez que oiga el término “economía mundial”, este debe ser identificado como la destrucción de la clase media en países desarrollados, y el empeoramiento de las condiciones de vida en los países en desarrollo. Durante las últimas décadas, ...

Wind Watch

• Lowell Mountain: Expert supports Vermont&#8217 ...
  Parties concerned about noise from wind turbines in the proposed Kingdom Community Wind project scored points Thursday when Green Mountain Power�s noise expert admitted under questioning that he hadn�t read the study on which he based his main conclusion. Robert McCunney came to the Public Servi ...
• Monteregie rallies against wind turbines
  The Quebec government should only authorize wind-energy development in uninhabited regions of the province -not in busy rural regions, and especially not in the Monteregie region south of Montreal, home to Quebec’s most productive farms, a coalition of Monteregie mayors said Thursday night. That ...
• Committee suspends PSC wind siting rule
  A legislative committee voted Tuesday to suspend a wind siting rule adopted last year by the state Public Service Commission. The 5-to-2 vote along party lines by the Legislature’s joint committee that reviews administrative rules means there are now no standards in effect across the state gover ...
• Government’s promised tax cut bid to sil ...
  Rural communities that agree to wind farms in their midst have been promised council tax discounts to counter fierce opposition to the technology. Energy minister Charles Hendry yesterday said he wanted to end the “hectoring” approach over agreeing to giant turbines to encourage residents to acc ...
• Ontario abandons offshore wind power plans
  The provincial government has suddenly abandoned any plans to construct offshore wind projects. Citing environmental concerns, the Liberals made the surprising announcement Friday. While there are no renewable energy approvals for offshore wind projects anywhere in the province, the issue has be ...

Not My Tribe

• But of course.. more poop from the pope..
  Doesn’t mention that it’s the militarist police state in place then and in place now who DID do the deed.
• The Original Intent of Guns in Schools
  Since a lot of the jackass political hacks who feel that more guns in schools will actually reduce school violence ALSO believe that they have the “original intent” of the founding fathers, the mythical group of Holy Men anointed by God Himself to dictate the course of American history and laws ...
• Georgia Lawmaker Bobby Franklin: Homunculus Ig ...
  A state legislator in Georgia drafted a bill that would make every single form of contraception into Capital Murder. In the bill he not only categorized abortion as illegal, but also made it where people (Women ARE people) who have miscarriages, medical term being “spontaneous abortion” would ha ...
• Van Jones is Obama in Greenface, what our pres ...
  Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? He’s Black AND he’s Green, and like his former boss Obama, he’s a corporatist who’s pushing Cap & Trade. In Al Gore Nobel Prize circles, Van Jones is the environmental darling who was too hot –and ergo principled– for the Obama administration. In America’s post-Hope ...
• $1Million a foot… with 7 feet thrown in ...
  The agricultural minister of Equitorial Guinea, son of the president-for-life, Teodorin Obiang, has ordered the second most expensive yacht to date. Eclipsed only be the very over-the-top yacht of Russian mobster Roman Abramovich.The money comes from Exxon-Mobil, is anybody surprised? Rush Limba ...

Debunking the Debunkers

• Bentham Open Chemical Physics Journal, Gone?
  Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog recently pointed out that the Bentham Open Chemical Physics Journal has been taken down and thus the "Active Thermitic Material..." paper, in which an international group of scientists report to have found remnants of the incendiary/explosive nano-thermi ...
• VIRAL EMAIL LETTER: The Laws of Physics and th ...
  Dear People at [Insert Media Name here], I've included a link to a You Tube video that I think everyone at your [Newspaper/TV Station/Radio Station] should watch. The video explains why our troops should not be in Afghanistan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwqLu8ZXIX0 Our troops must be wi ...
• Action Alert: Send This Letter to Any Architec ...
  The latest action alert from AE911Truth asks that you "Put AE911Truth DVDs in the Hands of Every A/E in Your Community." But they point out that they, "...Are very grateful for any effort that you might wish to engage in. The important thing is that all of us do our part." So for those who canno ...
• Action! Support Professor Richard Falk
  Thanks to Fran Shure at colorado911visibility.org for passing this along. Call to Action! TO: Citizens of the World Working for Peace ACTION NEEDED: Protest the Condemnation of Professor Richard Falk, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian te ...
• The Sheen comments that matter
  While the mainstream media is having a field day over Charlie Sheen's supposedly alcohol and coke-free ramblings on AJ's show yesterday, and having fun debating whether or not him emphasizing the real name of the Jewish creator of his now cancelled TV show constitutes anti-Semitism, Paul Joesph ...

Fooducate

• Infographic: Where Does a Food Dollar Go?
  The USDA Economic Research Service recently published a report that helps shed the light on the cost of food. Take a look at the interesting statistic above. For every dollar we spend on food, less than 16 cents go to farmers. The rest is spent on marketing. This shouldn’t surprise you. Authors ...
• So What if March is National Nutrition Month
  March 1 marks the beginning of National Nutrition Month – an annual campaign that is sponsored by the American Dietetic Association (ADA). The goals are simple – raise awareness of informed food choices, good eating habits, and exercise. Another stated goal is to “promote the ADA and its members ...
• We’ve all been GMO’ed. Now What?
  GMO foods are a hotly debated topic in the past few years, and especially in the last month. We haven’t addressed this issue and thought it might be time to share some thoughts. GMO (Genetically modified organism) or GE (genetically engineered) foods were introduced into our food supply less tha ...
• When Will Fooducate be Available for Android?
  Since launching the Fooducate iPhone App, we’ve been swamped by requests for an Android version. And we will be happy to oblige. We are working on an Android app, and expect it to be available soon. How soon? A beta version should be out in several weeks. If you’d like to be notified when the [. ...
• Going Nuts? Celebrate World Pistachio Day
  Today, February 26th, is World Pistachio Day. Here are a few facts about this delicious nut. 1. The pistachio nut comes from the pistachio tree, native to western Asia – Turkey, Iran, Turkmenistan, and western Afghanistan. 2. Pistachios reached Europe from Iran at least as early as the 6th centu ...

Traffikd

• Culture Vulture: Social Strategies for Differe ...
  Social media campaigns are becoming more integrated into the overall online marketing mix. And as with anything on the Web, you need to think global to succeed in the long term. To succeed with social media marketing for different cultures, you need to familiarise yourself with what’s happening ...
• Internet Marketing and Social Media Degree Pro ...
  Guest post by Brian Jenkins Over a billion and a half people use the Internet, and this has created a plethora of opportunities for talented Internet marketers. Specialized knowledge in Internet marketing and social media is vital for many businesses. Yes, there are successful, self-taught Inte ...
• How to Find Great Communities, Forums, and Blo ...
  To market your company effectively, you need to find out where your target audience is. In this post I’ll show you how you can do this. I like using examples, so in this case, I’ll assume you sell Star Wars merchandise.
• Blogging Event Ideas to Spice Up Your Blog
  If you've ever gone to an industry conference, film festival, grand opening, or author signing, then you can appreciate the energy such events can create. Industry conferences gather together the best and brightest minds in order to share ideas and plan for the future. Film festivals celebrate g ...
• Increasing Your Blog’s Interactivity: 10 Tips ...
  Guest post by Alexis Bonari Success in attracting and retaining readers is often influenced by a blog’s level of interactivity. Many readers are more active than passive and want to feel like they have a role in affecting a blog’s content, design, structure, and overall ongoing conversation. Po ...

Survival International

• Amazon Indians protest in London as judge bloc ...
  The Indians are calling for three controversial dam projects in the Amazon to be halted. © M. Cowan/Survival âThese projects will force my people from their land and end our way of life.â Ruth Buendia Mestoquiari, Ashaninka leader. Three Amazon Indians protested in London today against ...
• Indian leader’s killers convicted of kidnappin ...
  Guarani Indian leader Marcos Veron © Joaó Ripper/Survival Three men on trial for the murder of Brazilian Indian leader Marcos Veron have been acquitted of homicide, but convicted of kidnapping, torture and criminal conspiracy in relation to his death. They were also acquitted of charges of ...
• Industry bloggers call for mine to make tribal ...
  Vedanta's aluminium refinery in Lanjigarh, Odisha, India © Survival In the footsteps of former Survival supporters, such as Peter Cook and Spike Milligen, Michael Palin recently gave a fundraising talk for the organization. He described his visit to the Dongria Kondh tribe in India where a ...
• Kenyans demonstrate against Ethiopia’s mega-da ...
  Friends of Lake Turkana demonstrate against China's involvement in building a giant hydroelectric dam, Gilgel Gibe 3. © Friends of Lake Turkana Kenyans have demonstrated against a hydroelectric mega-dam being built in neighbouring Ethiopia, over fears that it will devastate hundreds of thou ...
• Borneo court: Penan land case can go ahead
  Penan children relaxing in their rainforest home, Sarawak, Borneo. © R. Hanbury-Tenison/Survival A Malaysian court has ruled that members of the Penan tribe can sue the government and a timber company for trespassing on their land. The Court of Appeal in Sarawak, the Malaysian part of Born ...

Greg Palast

• Chevron Runs from Judgmentin Ecuador
  by Greg Palast Chevron petroleum Corporation is attempting to slither out of an $8 billion judgment rendered yesterday by a trial court in Ecuador for cancer deaths, illnesses and destruction caused by its Texaco unit. I've been there, in Ecuador. I met the victims.  They didn't lose their sh ...
• Reagan: Killer, Coward, Con-man
  The Observer London by Greg Palast You're not going to like this. You shouldn't speak ill of the dead. But in this case, someone's got to. On the 100th Anniversary of Ronald Reagan's birth, as we suffer a week of Reagan-kitcheria and pukey peons, let us remember: Reagan was a con-man. Rea ...
• Shake your head and throw something at your TV
  from MoviesOnline.ca Bush Family Fortunes is a documentary that will make you shake your head and want to throw something at your TV. If even half of what BBC investigative reporter Greg Palast reveals is true and you happen to be an American you may or may not be calling for a revolution depen ...
• Peak Oil and a Changing Climate
  from The Nation The scientific community has long agreed that our dependence on fossil fuels inflicts massive damage on the environment and our health, while warming the globe in the process. But beyond the damage these fuels cause to us now, what will happen when the world's supply of oil ru ...
• Palast ArrestedBusted by BP in Azerbaijan
  by Greg Palast BP's Azeri police arresting Palast for filming BP oil rig - Baku, Azerbaijan, December 2010"Here in Azerbaijan we believe in human rights. PLEASE GIVE US YOUR FILM." Oh, no, no, not good. The enforcers here come in three colors:  the military police still wearing their old Rus ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

• Where can I source fabric production waste pro ...
  We’ve had an email from Karen which is a bit different from our normal “how can I recycle…” questions but a good question all the same: I’m a fashion student and I am interested in doing my final project/collection using waste products! I’ve been looking for things like parachute silk with fault ...
• Fantastic stuff made from fused plastic carrie ...
  I was going to write an article on different ways to reuse & recycle plastic carrier bags but then I started seeing such great pieces made from fusing the bags that I thought they deserved their own post — some really amazing stuff. I love, love, love Emily Grace and the Yellow Suitcase jeweller ...
• How can I reuse or recycle plug-in air freshen ...
  Following on in our vaguely spring-cleaning inspired cleaning week here on Recycle This, I received this email from Helen: How do I recycle plug in air freshener? My daughter has been diagnosed with allergies and they’ve recommended no air fresheners now. I’ve got four to get rid of. We’ve not u ...
• How can I reuse or recycle plastic chopping bo ...
  We’ve had an email from Miranda: Can I recycle an old plastic chopping board? It’s stained and scarred and we don’t want to use it any more. As far as I can tell, most plastic chopping boards are made from HDPE (resin code 2), which can be recycled and is quite widely collected – but [...]
• What can I reuse or recycle to make dishcloths ...
  We’re having a cleaning-themed week here on Recycle This – yesterday, we talked about reusing or recycling bleach bottles but today I’d like to think about making and have a question for you guys: what have you reused or recycled to make reusable dishcloths or pot scrubbers? A lot of people knit ...

Age of Autism

• DC Press Conference March 3: Bruesewitz Family ...
  Vaccine Safety and Autism Advocacy Organizations To Denounce U.S. Supreme Court’s Landmark Ruling: F amily of Hannah Bruesewitz Speaks Out, First Major News Conference Post-Decision Press Conference Thursday, March 3 at 2:00 p.m. at the U.S. Supreme Court (Washington, D.C.)...
• Hormones, Autism and Seizures - A Dangerous Mi ...
  By Teresa Conrick Two years ago, I wrote about my beautiful, vaccine-injured child, Megan, turning 16. March 2nd marks her 18th birthday and boy, has she gotten some horrible gifts! The Supreme Court of our United States declared on February...
• National Autism Assocation Receives $50K Grant ...
  NIXA, Mo., March 1, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Autism Association (NAA) today announced its receipt of a $50,000 grant from the American Legion Child Welfare Foundation (CWF) to disseminate the "Big Red Safety Box" to autism families nationwide. The...
• Ugly Experiments: A New Generation
  By Anne Dachel The current AP story by Mike Stobbe, Ugly US medical experiments uncovered, (HERE) was actually talked about last fall. THIS version is being picked up all over. Stobbe sounds outraged…. “Shocking as it may seem, U.S. government...
• Continued Collaboration Between CDC and Danish ...
  By Ulla Danielsen The American health agency, CDC, seemingly continues its collaboration with Danish autism researcher Poul Thorsen, who 13 months ago was renounced publicly in a highly exceptional statement by his former employer, Aarhus University. The reason was a...

Global BDS Movement

• BNC thanks CUT Brazil for their public stateme ...
  Artur Henrique da Silva Santos - National President CUT Quintino Severo - General Secretary João Antonio Felicio - International Relations Secretary Dear comrades of the CUT Brazil,   As the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC), a wide coalition of Palestinian p ...
• French court reveals fraud committed by Carmel ...
  As a result of the French Coalition Against Agrexco's read more
• Commemorate Land Day 2011 by Joining the Globa ...
  � Commemorate Land Day 2011 by Joining the Global BDS Day of Action 30 March 2011 read more
• Adidas: Apartheid is not fair play, drop spons ...
  Occupied Palestine, 17 February 2011 – The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC), the largest coalition of Palestinian civil society organizations and unions, calls on Adidas to withdraw its sponsorship of the first Jerusalem marathon to take place on March 25, 2 ...
• The "Palestine Papers": Grave Palestinian conc ...
  The "Palestine Papers": Grave Palestinian concessions met with utter Israeli rejectionism With revolutionary change across the Arab World eroding Israel's power in the region, BDS has become a key strategy of the Palestinian people for a global struggle to hold Israel accountable and assert ou ...

Farm Wars

• Truth Squad Radio: The Truth about Gardasil!
  Laurie Dean-Smith will join us with other members of her group dedicated to stopping the forced use of Gardasil on our young girls and boys.
• National Organics Program – Testing for GMOs N ...
  Yes, it's true. There are most likely GMOs in our organic foods. Not because they are “allowed,” because they aren't, but because contamination is widespread throughout the agricultural industry, and the USDA's National Organics Program (NOP) is designed so that GMOs can enter USDA Certified Org ...
• Farm Wars Public Service Announcement: Talk to ...
  We do not domesticate animals, they domesticate us. They tell us what they require, and we comply. In return, they consent to do what we require. Most approach this relationship with critters the other way around, which is simply bass ackwards.
• Truth Squad Radio – People and Wildlife Living ...
  Join us Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2011! This Wednesday we will be speaking with guest author Joel Thomas!  People and wildlife are living closer together all the time and while problems continue to grow, many of them can be solved by simple information and techniques that can provide effective non-let ...
• Monsanto Shifts ALL Liability to Farmers
  Monsanto does not accept liability for damages from genetically modified crops, shifts liability to farmers, and creates a condition on the sale of a farmer's land requiring the purchaser to sign a Monsanto Technology Use Agreement.

Open Your Eyes News

• Rising status of women linked to more smoking
  Reuters – Millions of women in developing countries risk disease and early death in the coming decades as their rising economic and political status leads them to smoke more, researchers said on Tuesday. An analysis in 74 countries found that men are five times more likely to smoke than women in ...
• Bloodshed and Misery Prompt Ivory Coast Exodus
  NYTimes – At the Marcory market, iron shutters are pulled down tight over storefronts for block after block. In the Koumassi neighborhood, idle men drift up to a rare open vendor, cadging a lone cigarette. Fish and grain stalls on the road into another area, Abobo, are deserted, save the rats sc ...
• US Army to build a Cheetah robot that can run ...
  Mail Online - A new robot that can outrun the fastest man on Earth and a Terminator-type android that will work alongside troops is being developed for the US Army. The speedy robot – called, unsurprisingly, the Cheetah – is being developed by Boston Dynamics, which brought to the world the $18m ...
• Fighting back, Gaddafi forces seize eastern to ...
  Reuters – Forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi have recaptured a town in Libya’s mostly rebel-held east, rebel military officers said on Wednesday, in an attempt to break the momentum of a popular rebellion against his 41-year-old rule. Forces sent by the Libyan leader had seized back Marsa El Brega ...
• Wheat disease a threat to global food security
  ABC – Scientists believe stem rust, which looks like red dust on wheat, could threaten global food security. A new strain of the disease is spreading throughout eastern and southern Africa and researchers say it could arrive in Australia on high winds. Researchers are racing for ways to protect ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

• Climate change: Silicon Valley invests in extr ...
  Silicon Valley venture capitalist Vinod Khosla and Google Ventures have invested $42 million in a start-up run by former Google employees, which helps insure farmers against losses from increasingly volatile global weather. Khosla Ventures and Google Ventures join Allen &...
• Trial of eco-activist who punk'd BLM begins
  At the end of 2008, the incoming Obama administration called attempts to sell prime parcels of Bureau of Land Management land near Utah's national parks improper and told the Bush administration to stop. But the person who did the most...
• Feds halt roundup of wild mustangs in Nevada
  A day after announcing it would scale back costly roundups of wild horses across the West, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management abruptly halted a controversial gather of mustangs in northeastern Nevada. The roundup ended Friday with the removal of...
• Toxic metals: Ventura County Superfund site is ...
  Contamination is spreading from an old coastal Oxnard metal recycling plant, which is now a federal Superfund site. The Environmental Protection Agencyreported Thursday that lead, zinc and other pollutants are migrating from the 40-acre Halaco plant to the neighboring Ormond...
• GlassPoint Solar uses the sun's heat to extrac ...
  The solar industry is usually on the oil industry’s case -- sniping about dirty energy and whatnot -- but the two sides came together Thursday in an unlikely alliance. Fremont-based company GlassPoint Solar unveiled a demonstration facility that uses solar...

water.org

• You’re Invited: March 1st Conference Cal ...
  Tuesday, March 1 The 45-minute call begins at 9 p.m. ET Call in number: 978-964-0049⨠Participant code: 449749# This is your chance to hear first-hand from Water.org International Programs Manager April Davies about the water and sanitation crisis in Ghana and the impact our programs a ...
• Damons work as team for Water.org (Boston Glob ...
  Damons work as team (Boston Globe) – Kyle Damon and his famous brother make a formidable philanthropic duo. First, Matt Damon cofounded Water.org to call attention to the lack of clean drinking water around the world. Now, his big brother, an artist and ironman triathlete, has created Team Water ...
• Water.org and KAMEKO partnership bring clean w ...
  Water.org has teamed up as a charity partner with the new pop/rock/soul artist KAMEKO and his “Tired of Being Broke” Musical Stimulus Gift Package Tour, which will kick off in Liberia March 19, 2011 at ATS stadium. This partnership will raise funds from the tour’s concert ticket sales and other ...
• Rita Marley, KAMEKO partners with Water.org (M ...
  Matt Damonâs Water.org Partners With Rita Marley And KAMEKO For âTired Of Being Brokeâ Tour (Mi2N) – Water.org, a non-profit organization co-founded by Oscar winning actor Matt Damon and executive director Gary White, has teamed up alongside music legend Rita Marley to support the new pop/rock/s ...
• Water.org powering microfinance for water (CFI ...
  Whatâs Matt Damon Got to Do With Microfinance? (Center for Financial Inclusion) – Reeta Roy, the president and CEO of The MasterCard Foundation, penned the post for the foundationâs blog many weeks ago. But the storyâs still fresh: an organization called Water.org is powering a âmarket-driven an ...

Before It's News

• Dimitri Speck: The three phases of secret gold ...
• MBA Mortgage Applications Fell 6.5%
• Senegal: Senegal has cut diplomatic ties with ...
• House GOP Moves Short-Term Budget Extension, C ...
• The real deal: Nathan S Webster, Photographer ...

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

• At J Street, Eltahawy gets standing ovation wh ...
  My question to J street and to Israel, do you want to be ten days too late, do you want to be like these dictators that [Netanyahu]... loves so dearly… the people have outpaced the Obama administration…Here�s my challenge to you--"Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Co ...
• When The Dust Settles
  Animated short on the impact of depleted uranium weapons and the international campaign against them, produced by the International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons and IKV Pax Christi.Submitted by Just Carole to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Settlement leader rejects demands to fire Isra ...
  "In recent years we have been disabused of our innocence and know that to inherit the land, we must see to it that our enemies are not given a source of livelihood," wrote Komemiyut chairman Moshe Cohen. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Netanyahu's rightist policies impede Israel's ...
  In such circumstances it is understandable that the international community views Netanyahu's talk of peace as empty words meant to buy time in order to perpetuate the right's control of the government and to bolster the settlement enterprise.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! � ...
• MK Ahmed Tibi: Israeli Arab leaders who visite ...
  I say we are in favor of democratization in the Arab world - from the North African countries to the Arab Gulf. At Tahrir Square in Cairo there was something wonderful, the revolution of a young generation, the Facebook generation .Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a C ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

• 1336 Technologies Recieves $28.4 Million Inves ...
  Comprised of a team of MIT scientists, 1336 Technologies has developed a process to produce silicon solar wafers at a cost that will make photovoltaic solar energy equal in price or cheaper than coal power. read more
• Washington D.C. Can't Pay Solar Rebates to Res ...
  United States President Barack Obama has been touting the line that investment in clean and renewable energy is key to pulling the country out of recession. read more
• Utility Scale Solar Market Will Fade
  In the United States, federal, state and local governments are racing towards renewable energy targets. To reach these targets governments have offered incentives for renewable energy developers and investors to act now. read more
• PG&E Orders 15 MW Solar Farm
  Charging towards its five-year plan to own 250 MW of solar generation, California utility Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E) has signed a contract with solar developer SOLON Corporation to build a 15 MW solar power plant. read m ...
• E•BOOM CAPITAL: First Solar Disappoints Invest ...
  First Solar production line in Frankfurt, Germany. Shares of First Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq: FSLR), the world’s largest solar company by market value, fell 4.5% in overnigh ...

News Blaze

• EPA Report Underscores Clean Air Act's Success ...
  The EPA report received extensive review and input from the Council on Clean Air Compliance Analysis, an independent panel of distinguished economists, scientists and public health experts established by Congress in 1991.
• Women's College Empowers Young Girls to Excel ...
  This list of achievers does not stop with the Physics department. In 2010, Anam Shahid Momin of the Zoology department got Rs 10,000 as prize money for scoring 80 per cent plus in her M.Sc First Year. And she dreams of topping the university in her
• MMS Porn Clips Unveil The Dark Side of Technol ...
  The Internet is like a global horse. The moment you mount any content on it, it is unstoppable. The reach of the Internet is so wide that the image is circulated online in no time. Slanderous online images outlive the victim and are traumatic for bo
• Gas Prices on The Up Again in Sacramento
  Including the change in gas prices in Sacramento during the past week, prices yesterday were 77.3 cents per gallon higher than the same day one year ago and are 38.3 cents per gallon higher than a month ago.
• 'Woody's Roundup' Song Wakes Up Crew Aboard Th ...
  'Woody's Roundup' a Riders In The Sky classic written by Randy Newman, was played in dedication to Drew as it woke the crew to begin preparing for the last docking to the International Space Station. The song is famously known for its use on the

Worldnews

• Obama to sign stop-gap spending bill
  WASHINGTON -- The White House says President Barack Obama will sign a stop-gap bill that cuts billions of dollars of spending and averts a government shutdown. In a statement, Obama says he's pleased that Congress has passed the legislation that will keep the government running for two more ...
• Dollar slips ahead of Europe central bank ...
  NEW YORK -- The dollar fell to a four-month low against the euro ahead of comments from European central bank officials that may point to higher interest rates in Europe. In morning trading in New York on Wednesday, the euro rose as high as $1.3892, its strongest level since early November ...
• US STOCKS-Wall St gains pared as oil pric ...
  * Equities' advance pared by oil's sharp rise * Private employers add more jobs than expected * Chip sector gains after JPMorgan upgrade * Indexes: Dow, S&P flat, Nasdaq up 0.2 pct (Updates to midday) By Edward Krudy NEW YORK, March 2 (Reuters) - U.S. stocks cut gains on Wednesday and were ...
• With Pixel, Tata Gives the Continent Anot ...
  GENEVA — Tata Motors introduced its Pixel concept here Tuesday in an effort to show what a Europeanized Nano would look like. The Nano is the $2,500 car that has garnered attention — if not the robust sales projected by Ratan Tata, the company’s chairman — in car-starved India. The vehicle ...
• Senate Approves Two-Week Budget Extension ...
  WASHINGTON — The Senate approved and sent to President Obama on Wednesday morning a measure that would finance the government for two more weeks, until March 18, as Republicans and Democrats remained at odds over a broader spending plan for the rest of the fiscal year. Multimedia Interactiv ...

Alex in Wonderland

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

MY Daily Apple

• Women who smoke at ANY stage of their live 'ar ...
  According to a study, women are 16 per cent more likely to suffer from the disease after the menopause – when most cases are diagnosed – if they smoke.
• UMass Boston professor may have measles
  By Stephen Smith, Globe Staff A University of Massachusetts Boston professor is suspected of having measles, the fifth confirmed or suspected case of the highly contagious disease to be reported in the past two weeks, city health authorities said tonight....
• Adherent-invasive E. coli in Crohn disease: ba ...
  The role of adherent-invasive E. coli (AIEC) in Crohn disease (CD) has been in debate for decades. AIEC bacteria are found in the small intestine of patients with chronic CD, but it has remained unclear whether this infection is causal or secondary to underlying immune deficiencies in CD patient ...
• VESTALCARE SPOT FREE PSORIASIS (Calcarea Silic ...
  Updated Date: Mar 1, 2011 EST
• Parts of brain can switch functions: In people ...
  When your brain encounters sensory stimuli, such as the scent of your morning coffee or the sound of a honking car, that input gets shuttled to the appropriate brain region for analysis. The coffee aroma goes to the olfactory cortex, while sounds are processed in the auditory cortex. That divisi ...

Common Dreams

• Untreated Radioactive Wastewater from Hydrofra ...
  Newly disclosed figures show wastewater produced from the natural gas drilling practice of hydrofracking has contained radioactivity and other contaminants at levels far exceeding federal limits. According to the New York Times, internal government documents show at least 15 wells produced waste ...
• US Supports War Crimes Tribunal for First Time ...
  UNITED NATIONS - The U.N. resolution imposing tough sanctions against Libya marked the first time that the United States has given its support to the International Criminal Court and signified a remarkable turnaround, though it includes a key exemption demanded by the Obama administration. ...
• Panic on Borders as Chaos Engulfs Libya
  The Libyans watched from an open window of the immigration post, leaning out to see the 20,000 fleeing Egyptian, Bangladeshi, Chinese and Iranian workers heaped up against the border wall. They seemed quite unconcerned, shirt-sleeves rolled up, moving to a window closer to this crowd. Already up ...
• Pro-Peace Jewish Lobby Group Urges Obama to Se ...
  WASHINGTON - J Street, the Washington-based "Pro-Israel, Pro-Peace" advocacy group, drew a large crowd to its annual conference this year despite criticism over its controversial calls for the Barack Obama administration not to veto a U.N. Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlemen ...
• Extreme Winter Weather Linked to Climate Chang ...
  WASHINGTON - This winter's heavy snowfalls and other extreme storms could well be related to increased moisture in the air due to global climate change, a panel of scientists said on Tuesday. This extra moisture is likely to bring on extraordinary flooding with the onset of spring in the Norther ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

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

Examine Religion - Tweets

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Energy Collective

• Startup gets $42m to predict extreme weather f ...
  In The New York Times on Monday, I write about WeatherBill, a San Francisco startup that announced a $42 million round of financing from Google Ventures and Khosla Ventures:
• Closing the Energy Innovation Gap
  One of the many benefits of living in Silicon Valley is the proximity to innovation � game changing technologies or service models, creative people, and exciting new businesses.� Some people call it the world capital for innovation, which is an exaggeration, but not by much.� I�m an Executive in ...
• Pragmatic view of the Nuclear Renaissance from ...
  Dan Rather interviewed Dr. Ernest Moniz as part of an in-depth look at nuclear energy, its future prospects in the United States and its current technological position. Dr.
• 5 Electric Vehicles To Test Drive At The Genev ...
  Tomorrow in Geneva Palexpo, the 81st International Motor Show will not only be displaying a range of electric vehicles, but visitors will have a chance to test drive some in the Essais Verts (Green Test Drives) section. Here are five of our favorite cars on display tomorrow that we�ll be�queuing ...
• Congressmen Call for Tighter Regulation After ...
  After the New York Times recently published an expose on the environmental dangers posed by hydraulic fracturing as a result of lax government regulations on the industry, two members of the House of Representatives have written letters to the Environmental Protection Agency requesting immedia ...

Green House - USA Today

• Study: Less air pollution could add 22 months ...
  Reducing air pollution in major European cities could add 22 months to local life expectancy and save 31.5 billion euros ($43.4 billion) in health costs and work absenteeism, concludes a European Commission-funded study released Wednesday.
• Five Oscar-nominated films are environmental e ...
  In eco-conscious Hollywood, a handful of films this year that focus on environmental problems have been nominated for Academy Awards.
• NOAA climate scientists cleared in U.S. report
  Federal climate scientists whose e-mails were leaked in the debate over climate change did nothing wrong, concludes an investigation by the U.S. Commerce Department's inspector general.
• Study: Air pollution is common cause of heart ...
  Because it affects everyone, air pollution triggers about the same number of heart attacks as individual risk factors such as physical exertion, alcohol, and coffee, a new study concludes.
• Solar Decathlon relocated on National Mall
  The U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2011 will still be held this fall in Washington on the Nati0nal Mall, but it won't be in the same prominent location as in years past, U.S. officials announced Wednesday.

Prior Art

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

Peoples Voice

• As the Race to the Bottom Picks Up Speed, Are ...
  By Kevin Zeese Austerity Budgets are the Norm in State and Federal Budgets Across the Country: While the Rich Get Richer, Everyone Else Suffers The race to the bottom has picked up its pace. As state and federal governments face budget deficits, they are cutting critical programs with austeri ...
• U.S. Manufacturing “Red Hot”? Drea ...
  Ian Fletcher There is an article in the Huffington Post today which, before apparently being retitled, asserted in its headline that U.S. manufacturing is now "red hot," and whose text quotes a financial analyst (apparently approvingly) who asserts that it is. This is based on a report from t ...
• America Needs A N.A.P.
  Curt Day In fact, America needs more than 1 N.A.P. But will we take it? What kind of N.A.P. are we talking about? We are talking about National Austerity Protests. The Wisconsin protests, as valid and inspiring as they are, are shortsighted and do not address the causes of the state's deficit ...
• Major Media Promote War on Libya
  by Stephen Lendman When imperial America wants war, peace advocates are shut out by official rhetoric and hawkish media reports supporting militarism, not diplomatic efforts to achieve peace. Those for it aren't heard. Hugo Chavez's government is one. On February 28, Venezuela's Foreign Mini ...
• Is the FBI Using Spies To Investigate Aid Work ...
  Peter Chamberlin Duane R. ClarridgeIf the FBI is using Duane Clarridge’s spy network in Afghanistan and Pakistan to investigate the murder of ten aid workers which the Taliban publicly labels as CIA spies, is it a cover-up, or another “false flag” operation? Clarridge recently renamed his ne ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

• Deregulation in Canada: A disaster in the maki ...
  In Canada, regulations adopted by every level of government have historically helped to make this one of the safest, most desirable places to raise a family. But a slow, steady, and quiet erosion of regulations by our governments put Canadians' health, safety and well-being increasingly at risk. ...
• BNN launches three-part series on income inequ ...
  CTV's Business News Network (BNN) begins a three-part series today looking at the gap between the rich and the rest of us. Today's show, at 5 pm EST, features Robert Reich, former U.S. secretary of labour. Tomorrow's show, 5 pm EST, features the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives' own Senio ...
• Economist writer on the three top reasons why ...
  MIT Economist Daron Acemoglu writes in The Economist that there are three main reasons to care about worsening income inequality: Harmful effects on personal well-being, limited equality of opportunity, and more concentrated political power. On the third point, he writes: "Economic power tends t ...
• A challenge to BC’s leadership candidates: dar ...
  On our Policy Note blog, Seth Klein suggests a new approach for BC leadership hopefuls: "As a number of fundamental crises become more apparent (ecological and economic, not to mention the democratic deficit), the public is looking for bold ideas and bold leadership. Sadly, too many political ...
• CEO pay under review
  A week after we released our review of CEO pay in Canada, the Ontario Securities Commission says it's time to review how executives get paid. Read the story here.

World Wide Hippies

• The Story of Citizens United v. FEC, an animat ...
  StoryofStuff.org – Washington, D.C. â March 1, 2011 â The crisis of corporate influence over American democracy is the latest subject of award-winning Internet filmmaker, Annie Leonard, who on March 1st will release The Story of Citizens United v. FEC, an animated short. Leonard, who directs The ...
• Al-Qaida and the Taliban kill the only Christi ...
  Gunmen kill Christian Pakistan government minister | AP Assailants purportedly sent by al-Qaida and the Taliban killed the only Christian member of Pakistan’s federal Cabinet Wednesday, spraying his car with bullets outside his parents’ driveway. It was the second assassination in two months of ...
• Wikileaks Nominated For 2011 Nobel Prize
  WikiLeaks, Internet in record Nobel Peace field | Reuters Anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks, the Internet and a Russian human rights activist are among a record 241 nominations for the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize. The Norwegian Nobel Committee said on Tuesday that the 2011 field includes 53 organization ...
• Attention Unchurched Military Personnel: They& ...
  By Chris Rodda | OpEdNews - Given the current brouhaha over where the government should be making budget cuts, I decided that now would be a good time to get back to a project we began last fall at the Military Religious Freedom Foundation — finding out just how much money the Department of Defe ...
• Arab Wealth Spread Among The Royalty
  Special Report: U.S. cables detail Saudi royal welfare program | Reuters When Saudi King Abdullah arrived home last week, he came bearing gifts: handouts worth $37 billion, apparently intended to placate Saudis of modest means and insulate the world’s biggest oil exporter from the wave of protes ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

• Cairo in Wisconsin
  The call reportedly arrived from Cairo. Pizza for the protesters, the voice said. It was Saturday, February 20th, and by then Ian's Pizza on State Street in Madison, Wisconsin, was overwhelmed. One employee had been assigned the sole task of answering the phone and taking down orders. An ...
• VIDEO: Hear the Voices of Thompson
  Blair Hudson: 'This Will Have a Huge Ripple Effect' Anita Campbell: 'I Will Always Consider Thompson My Home' Craig Costello: 'High-Paying Jobs Leaving Town' Sheila Thompson: 'It Will Be Hard for Me to Start Over' Gloria Jacobs: 'It Can Happen Anywhere' Nuno Pereira: 'We All Have to Put Li ...
• "An Inco family"
  Amanda Hart Homemaker 27 years old What brought me to Thompson was Inco. That’s where my dad started working when I was five and I've been in an Inco family ever since then. It went from my dad working at Inco, to my husband working at Vale and now my brother is also working at Vale. We always ...
• "Going down with the ship"
  Terry Stoker Owner of Better Body Fitness 47 years old I was born in Thompson and I’ve been here all my life. Vale’s announcement, with the loss of that many jobs and the spinoff jobs that come with it, will have a huge impact on me. I would expect probably a thirty percent cut in my business. ...
• "The needs are here"
  Dr. Ginette Poulin Family physician in Thompson through the Burntwood Regional Health Authority Currently we have 14 family physicians in Thompson. We service a good chunk of the North, including most First Nations reserves. People with health issues are stabilized and come to us first, then i ...

 

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Washington City Paper (blog)

- Mar 02, 2011

- 31 minutes ago

On Monday, you heard about the City Council's solar grant debacle: $700000 worth of grants were cut from the renewable energy incentive program, putting 51 pre-approved homeowners who'd already contracted for solar panel installations in a pickle. ...

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Business Wire (press release)

- Mar 02, 2011

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In addition to it, following two articles are covered in detail: Turkey posses strong renewable energy potential. The country has a potential of 433000 and 160000 GWh of hydro and wind energy respectively and posses around 38000 Mega Watt (MW) of ...

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Adama Technologies Corp. Announces Final Agreement for Renewable Energy ...

PR Newswire (press release)

- Mar 02, 2011

- 7 hours ago

NEW YORK, March 2, 2011 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Adama Technologies Corporation (ADAC - OTCBB)(the "Company" or "Adama"), a company in the Clean tech sector as, is pleased to announce that it has signed a Final Agreement for renewable energy projects ...

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Clean Wind Energy Tower, Inc. Unveils Green Renewable Energy Solution At NIBA ...

Baystreet.ca

- Mar 02, 2011

- 3 hours ago

The highlight of the Company's presentation given by Ronald W. Pickett, President and CEO will be the formal unveiling of their Downdraft Tower featuring Green Dual Renewable Energy Solutions. Mr. Pickett stated: “Reliable alternative energy is very ...

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Use of steam for Hanford cleanup creates concern

TheNewsTribune.com

- Mar 02, 2011

- 10 hours ago

"We're very, very skeptical," said Jane Hedges, manager of the Nuclear Waste Program of the state Department of Ecology, which is the regulator for tank waste treatment. DOE has proposed steam reforming as one technology in a suite of technologies new ...

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Sounds seen as ecology study tool

UPI.com

- Mar 01, 2011Image via Wikipedia

- 19 hours ago

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., March 1 (UPI) -- A US researcher says a new scientific field will use sound to understand a landscape's ecology and reconnect people with the importance of natural sounds. Bryan Pijanowski, a Purdue University professor of ...

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Sharks Can Zero in on Targets 31 Miles Away

Discovery News

- Mar 02, 2011

- 4 hours ago

At least two species of sharks travel direct routes to targeted locations that are up to 31 miles away, according to a new study published in the Journal of Animal Ecology. Tiger sharks and thresher sharks have the ability, researchers found. ...

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Ecology, Kittitas County pledge to collaborate on new water options for upper ...

Access Washington

- Mar 01, 2011

- 20 hours ago

YAKIMA – The Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) and Kittitas County have pledged to work together to develop a mitigation program that would allow landowners to drill wells in upper Kittitas County for domestic water purposes. ...

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Water in California's snowpack remains above average

Sierra Sun

- Mar 02, 2011

- 11 minutes ago

Recent storms have made up for January's dry weather, keeping California's snowpack above average, state water officials reported Tuesday. Hydrologists from the state Department of Water Resources took manual and electronic readings for the third time ...

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Water receding in LaRue

Marion Star

- Mar 02, 2011

- 1 hour ago

Shirea said she waded through water to get to the van, but Newman said her husband pulled up right to her door so her feet didn't get wet. The two had snagged spots on the most comfortable furniture at the shelter, a couch and a reclining chair. ...

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Dams working to keep Coshocton County water levels down

Coshocton Tribune

- Mar 02, 2011

- 2 hours ago

The water had risen 30 feet since Saturday and 5.7 feet at the village of Walhonding. / Trevor Jones, Tribune COSHOCTON -- The water at Mohawk Dam has risen 30 feet since Saturday. Coshocton County continues to deal with flooded roadways and high water ...

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Image by Getty Images via @daylifeLow-Flush Toilets: The San Francisco Treat?

Heritage.org (blog)

- Mar 02, 2011

- 1 hour ago

San Francisco's environmentally friendly low-flush toilets are doing what they're supposed to do: save water. The toilets reduced the city's annual water use by 20 million gallons, but they have had the unintended consequence of causing sewage problems ...

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