2 March - RSS SnapShot! Pt 2

Salon

• Newt Gingrich launching presidential explorato ...
  Disgraced former speaker of the House Newt Gingrich will officially launch a presidential exploratory committee, according to ABC and the National Journal. In the elaborate game of chicken that Gingrich plays with a presidential run every couple years, this is the closest he's ever come to a ...
• "Damn government workers!"
  "Damn government workers," were the words I would hear, barely audible but deliberate, when I walked through the door after work at the South Philly shipyard. The disdain for my employer was so strong I'd struggle to understand its origin. The waterfront was the most dangerous work environmen ...
• Q&A: The congressman who beat "Watson" on "Jeo ...
  John Connor lives, and he's a congressman from New Jersey.
• Nobel committee receives record nominations fo ...
  A record 241 nominations were submitted for the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize and the Norwegian jury has now begun the secretive process to select a winner, the panel's spokesman said Tuesday.
• Government shutdown averted as House approves ...
  The 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.

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

• School fundraising: Don’t leave poorer student ...
  Let’s find ways to share the advantages school fundraising brings with the greatest number of students.
• Libyan Crisis: Pressing Gadhafi to go
  Libya’s reform leaders want political recognition, aid and support, but they don’t want foreign troops in their country.
• Editorial: TCHC scandal demands a housecleanin ...
  Toronto’s public housing board has failed in its fundamental task of supervising management. It’s members should resign.
• G20 Abuses: Where’s the inquiry?
  Stephen Harper and Dalton McGuinty are still refusing to hold a public inquiry into the security excesses at the G20 summit.
• Toronto Community Housing: Scandal demands a h ...
  Toronto’s public housing board has failed in its fundamental task of supervising management. Its members should resign.

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 ...

EU Times

• With Russia’s $650 billion rearmament plan, th ...
  The graying bear is getting a make-over. Russia’s military is launching its biggest rearmament effort since Soviet times, including a $650 billion program to procure 1,000 new helicopters, 600 combat planes, 100 warships, and 8 nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines. Analysts say Russia, w ...
• 11 suspects charged with Pre-Teen sexual assau ...
  Police have arrested seven more suspects in connection to the sexual assault of a pre-teen girl in Cleveland, Texas. The following individuals, all from Cleveland, have been charged with Aggravated Sexual Assault of a Child under 14: – Jared Glenn McPherson, 18 – Kelvin Rashad King, 21 – Marcus ...
• HPV Affects Half Of U.S. Men
  A study out yesterday in The Lancet by Moffitt Cancer Center researcher Anna Giuliano, Ph.D., and her colleagues finds that 50 percent of men ages 18 to 70 in Brazil, Mexico, and the U.S. have genital infection with human papillomavirus, or HPV. HPV is the virus that causes cervical cancer in wo ...
• Gaddafi’s media strategy backfires
  Libya has never been a friendly place for foreign journalists. A media ban kept reporters away as the uprising against strongman Muammar Gaddafi began on Feb. 17, and officials of the Gaddafi regime blasted journalists entering opposition-controlled areas last week as “outlaws” and al-Qaeda symp ...
• Russian Warning Issued Over “Controlled” Comet ...
  A chilling report prepared for President Medvedev by Minister Serdyukov of the Russian Defense Ministry on the building of an additional 5,000 underground ‘bomb’ shelters in Moscow warns that even though progress is being made, the appearance of the new Comet Elenin [photo right] in our Solar Sy ...

Stonecipher News

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

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

• New Battlefield 3 gameplay video
  "I'm up, I'm f**ked up, but I'm up!" Click to enlarge Ladies and gentlemen killers, after the jump we have the latest video from D.I.C.E. and Electronic Arts showing off single-player gaming in Battlefield 3. Coming straight from GDC in San Francisco more and more is coming out about this hotly ...
• Shahbaz Bhatti – Martyr
  Shabaz Bhatti – Martyred earlier today As a Christian, I believe Jesus is my strength. He has given me a power and wisdom and motivation to serve suffering humanity. I follow the principles of my conscience, and I am ready to die and sacrifice my life for the principles I believe. Shabaz Bhatti ...
• iPad 2 details leaked thanks to Amazon slip-up ...
  We’re just a few short hours away from the iPad 2 event in San Francisco , and it looks like Amazon Germany might have let a few juicy details slip. One feature that the new tablet might have is Apple’s new Thunderbolt technology which allows several high-performance devices to connect via a si ...
• We Can't Wait To Hear How The Ex-Goldman Board ...
  We have a huge amount of respect for the concept of "innocent until proven guilty," and we try to give anyone accused of anything the benefit of the doubt. But having now read the SEC's insider trading charges against Rajat Gupta , the former Goldman Sachs board member who stands accused of pas ...
• Egypt roundup: Life after Mubarak
  Transition should put mechanisms and measures before personalities : Egyptians should focus on what kind of government to establish, whether a new constitution is needed, the role of the military, and how to manage and expand the national dialogue about the transitional and democratic stage, am ...

Groklaw

• Complaint Accuses Hunton and Williams of Dirty ...
  The organization Stop the Chamber says it filed the complaint on Wednesday. Stop the Chamber, a critic of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, was among the groups targeted by the security companies that Hunton & Williams worked with, according to e-mails. The 14-page complaint (PDF) accuses the three ...
• Document: What a Microsoft employment contract ...
  Sitting in court this week for a hearing in Microsoft's lawsuit against a former general manager hired by Salesforce.com, I listened to lawyers and the judge quoting from a standard Microsoft employment agreement. And suddenly it dawned on me that, in all my years covering the company, I had nev ...
• How Apple Dodged a Sun Buyout: Former CEOs McN ...
  "It was OK that we closed SunOS in the deal with AT&T and made it non-proprietary. But the problem we raised was we didn't metal-wrap Solaris x86. We canceled it about 12 times in the press. My big mistake was, I thought that if we did software only that people would adopt it. What I didn't real ...
• STUDIO SHAME! Even Harry Potter Pic Loses Mone ...
  I was slipped a net profit statement (below) for Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix, the 2007 Warner Bros sequel. Though the film grossed $938.2 million worldwide, the accounting statement below conveys that the film is still over $167 million in the red. - Deadline
• Scientists Are Cleared of Misuse of Data
  An inquiry by a federal watchdog agency found no evidence that scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration manipulated climate data to buttress the evidence in support of global warming, officials said on Thursday. - Leslie Kaufman, NY Times

WideShut

• Venus Project Linked To The United Nations?
  Keelan talks to Axis4Peace about the Venus Project's ties to the UN, and Peter Joseph's dismissal of the New World Order.
• What Is Money and What Caused The Collapse?
  Why the people aren't to blame for the collapse, why cuts are futile, and why we need a new system.
• Quiet Martial Law Coming To UK?
  Disgraced anti-terror head wants SAS on UK streets to help with trumped up terror threat, the olympics and protests.
• Climate Alarmists Look To Hollywood For Brainw ...
  UN's Ban Ki-moon and discredited climate heads hit the Oscars to try and recruit Hollywood Celebs as Global Warming mascots.
• February 22, 2011, WideShut Radio
  On this week's WideShut Radio Keelan discusses David Cameron's corrupt welfare reforms and aspartame.

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

TVNZ - Top Stories

• Timeball Station intact despite winds, some US ...
  Strong winds caused some rescue teams to withdraw last night, but fears the harsh weather could topple Lyttelton's historic Timeball Station did not eventuate
• Family members of Christchurch missing visit C ...
  Family members of those missing in Christchurch were taken into the city's CBD by police today.
• Recovery teams struggle with high winds in Chr ...
  The death toll in Christchurch rose to 160 as rescuers struggled to work against strong winds.
• Red Cross announces hardship and bereavement g ...
  The Red Cross says it is ready to distribute the first of its emergency grants.
• More Chch quake victims' names released at med ...
  Police have released the names of three more victims of the Christchurch earthquake.

Just World News

• Pro-democracy activism arriving in Saudi Arabi ...
  So this 'popular movement' thing is finally making its mark in Saudi Arabia-- the only country in the world that is named for one (still-ruling) family. Today, worldwide oil prices spiked after the markets absorbed news in an Egyptian newspaper yesterday that the Saudi authorities yesterday arr ...
• Pete Seeger joins BDS campaign!
  Great news from Max Blumenthal about this. I like his post particularly, because of the sound-track on the video there! Seeger had been inveigled by something called the "Arava Institute" into taking part on an event that claimed to be only about the environment... But later, he found out abou ...
• Libya: What can and should outsiders do?
  I've been following the news of the carnage in Libya with huge sorrow, and there seems little hope it can be ended soon. Anti-Qadhafi forces seem to have taken control of large portions of the east of the country, while the country's dangerous and possibly deranged long-time leader has been rein ...
• Humor hour with "Tzipi" Livni
  That well-known democrat (irony alert), the head of Israel's Kadima Party "Tzipi" Livni, afforded me a good chuckle over my corn flakes this morning with this proposal for how democratization efforts should be run at the global level: Current events in the Middle East highlight the urgency of a ...
• Al-Jazeera: Big like Gutenberg??
  Nir Rosen* has a great piece on his new blog, detailing some of the ways Al-Jazeera has contributed to the speedy eruption of the current Arab Awakening. It's all thoughtful and worth reading. The money quote was this: "Jazeera is the new Gamal Abdel Nasr, the nationalist force uniting the regi ...

First Truths

• Managing the Unmanageable
  The Fed's huge profits would seem to contradict the constant bad news we hear about the economy, but only if the story behind the story is ignored. My comment for C4SS is here.
• Socialism: The Qaddafi Version
  Like "the free market," "socialism" means different things to different people. For C4SS, I wrote: On the other hand, the Qaddafi permutation of socialism has been, by all accounts, more practical than philosophical, a variable and temperamental medley of views informed more by his personal idio ...
• Robber Baron or Red?
  Over the past few months, I’ve been both excoriated by fellow left-libertarians for, inter alia, an approving reference to George Reisman and branded a “Red” for expounding the stateless, free market socialism of Benjamin Tucker and Francis Dashwood Tandy. That I’m neither an environment-hating ...
• Getting the Raw End in Wisconsin, Part II
  Center for a Stateless SocietyContinuing my commentary on events unfolding in Wisconsin, I write: The meaningful division is between those who use coercive manipulation of the bounds within which economic activities take place, and those who rely on voluntary, cooperative courses of action. Any ...
• No Work for the Weary
  The state, despite its constant insistence, cannot create jobs, but it can destroy them. I comment at the Center for a Stateless Society.

Media Co-Op

• Darren Thurston: FBI informant in Vancouver?
  Movement Lawyer explains the importance of non-cooperation with law enforcement There has been some controversy in Vancouver, regarding the presence of animal rights advocate Darren Thurston in the activist community. The VMC caught up wit ...
• Women Respond to Comments by Reverend Ric Matt ...
  For immediate release Women Respond to Comments by Reverend Ric Matthews of First United Church; Reiterate Calls for 24-hour Women’s Shelter and Safe Housing in DTES March 1, 2011 - Vancouver, BC: A coalition of women and women’s organizations are outraged by First United Church Revered Ric Matt ...
• Urgent concern for safety of human rights defe ...
  Conflict near Goldcorp's Marlin Mine We denounce the human rights violations and abuses committed today against peaceful protesters in San Miguel Ixtahuacán, Guatemala.  The protest, demanding compliance with precautionary measures ordere ...
• Press Conference: Women Respond to Sexual Assa ...
  A coalition of women and women's organizations held a press conference today on the issue of sexual assaults against women (as well as a man) in a DTES shelter. According ...
• Working in Immanence
  A personal recollection of Saturday's Tent City arrest On Saturday February 26th myself and 10 others were arrested for political actions at 6 pm. We occupied a space in the Olympic Village which was designated to be an Urban Fare before ...

David Seaton's News Links

• America: only one revolution to a customer
  David Seaton's News LinksWhy is it that when you study the graph above and then read the quotes below, the graph seems so real and the quotes seem some sort of political science fiction, verging from the absurd and childish to the puzzled or even hopeless?�What you are looking at in Tunisia, in ...
• The unbearable levity of Wikileaks and the rig ...
  David Seaton's News LinksI received the following comment on my last post:So previously, you did not think that globalization and instant communication tools were radiically changing the world?� It wasn't until wikileaks that you realized this was happening? Helloooo?�� To which I am tempted t ...
• Globalization and its discontents: a new parad ...
  I have an "impossibility theorem" for the global economy (...). It says that democracy, national sovereignty and global economic integration are mutually incompatible: we can combine any two of the three, but never have all three simultaneously and in full.� Dani Rodrik - Kennedy School Harv ...
• The Wikileaks cables: the portrait of an empir ...
  Not really the image that America would like to project at this moment David Seaton's News LinksThere are Wikileaks cables from almost every imaginable part of the world, but since I live in Spain, I'll fill you in on some of the dump's specific effects on Spanish pol ...
• Too bad Obama can't talk like Ricky Gervais
  David Seaton's News LinksI wasn't really paying attention, but I read that there was this big hoohah about Ricky Gervais presentation of the 2011 Golden Globe awards, so out of idle curiosity I dialed it up on YouTube. I was ravished. It was wonderful. All these fat egos of today's overbloated ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

• EWG Fans More Than One Million Strong
  Contact: EWG public affairs 202.667.6982 Washington, D.C. – Since 2006, Environmental Working Group has been building an email list of engaged consumers who sign up to get regular alerts about our latest research and practical tips to... [[ This is a content summary onl ...
• EWG Comments to Dioxin Review Panel
  February 24th, 2011 February 23, 2010 Dr. Timothy Buckley, Chair Dioxin Review Panel of the Science Advisory Board Environmental Protection Agency 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W. Washington, DC 20460 Dear Dr. Buckley, These comments are... [[ This is a cont ...
• Cell phone radiation affects brain function ...
  Contact: EWG public affairs 202.667.6982 or alex@ewg.org Washington, D.C. – A study led by Dr. Nora D. Volkow, a pioneering brain imaging scientist who heads the National Institute on Drug Abuse, reports today that cell phone... [[ This is a content summary only. Vis ...
• EWG backs strict California chromium-6 goal
  February 16th, 2011 February 14, 2011 Michael Baes Pesticide and Environmental Toxicology Branch Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment California Environmental Protection Agency 1515 Clay St., 16th floor Oakland, California... [[ This is a conten ...
• EWG backs strict California chrome-6 goal
  February 16th, 2011 February 14, 2011 Michael Baes Pesticide and Environmental Toxicology Branch Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment California Environmental Protection Agency 1515 Clay St., 16th floor Oakland, California... [[ This is a conten ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

• The Spice that Helps Prevent Cancer - Now Bein ...
  Scientists have created a new molecule from curcumin, the key chemical component of the spice turmeric. In laboratory experiments, the molecule was shown to affect the mechanisms that protect and regenerate brain cells after a stroke. The new curcumin compound, called CNB-001, actually repairs ...
• Is Your Supermarket Chicken Poisoning You?
  Microbiological tests carried out by an independent laboratory found Campylobacter contamination on the packaging of fresh chicken purchased at many of Britain's leading supermarkets. Experts say the problem is bad enough that shoppers handling packaged chicken should take the same precautions a ...
• How Your Eyes Can Predict Disease
  Your eyes are a unique window into health. Yahoo Health has assembled a list of 14 things your eyes can tell you about your entire body. Here are some of them: Disappearing eyebrows When the outer third of your eyebrow starts to disappear on its own, this is a common sign of thyroid disease ...
• U.S. Study Links Pesticides to Parkinson's Dis ...
  U.S. researchers have found that people who used two types of pesticides were 2.5 times as likely to develop Parkinson's disease. The pesticides in question are paraquat and rotenone, which are not approved for house and garden use. Research on animals had already linked paraquat to Parkinson's. ...
• Startling NEW Evidence: This Drink Causes Your ...
  Glucose and fructose are both simple sugars, but scientists have long suspected there are differences in the way your body processes them. In a new study, researchers scanned the brains�of nine subjects after�they got an infusion of equal volumes of glucose, fructose or saline. The brain scans ...

JAMA

• Informed Consent for Radiologic Procedures [Le ...
• Informed Consent for Radiologic Procedures--Re ...
• Mediastinal Staging Procedures in Non-Small Ce ...
• Mediastinal Staging Procedures in Non-Small Ce ...
• Aerobic and Resistance Training for Patients W ...

Survival - tribal peoples

• 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

• Quebec, McGill's MBA and too-low tuition fees
  The confrontation between McGill University and the government of Quebec over the $29,500 in tuition fees McGill is charging for its MBA program is not going to end well. Both sides are rejecting compromise. McGill says that in the real world $29,500 is a rock-bottom price for an MBA. The govern ...
• Interculturalism: a model for integration
  Three years after the Bouchard-Taylor Commission, it is time that we go further in knowledge of and debates on interculturalism. Like any other society, Quebec must reflect on the basic guidelines upon which it expects integration to be built. In its report, the commission rejected both multicul ...
• Quebec, McGill's MBA and too-low tuition fees
  The confrontation between Mc-Gill University and the government of Quebec over the $29,500 in tuition fees McGill is charging for its MBA program is not going to end well. Both sides are rejecting compromise. McGill says that in the real world $29,500 is a rock-bottom price for an MBA. The gover ...
• A Montreal to be proud of
  February is Black History Month, and this year's edition wrapped up with a splendid flourish. In a moving ceremony in Villeray, an enduring tribute to baseball legend Jackie Robinson, who momentously broke Major League Baseball's colour barrier, was unveiled. Montreal has the honour of having pl ...
• The new CHUM: let's get it built
  While Premier Jean Charest is the author of much of his own misfortune, there are times when you have to feel sorry for him. Times when he gets it coming and going. Times like this, when he's catching heat for awarding the contract to build the longdelayed Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de M ...

Food World Order

• study finds oysters are disappearing worldwide
  A new study finds oysters are disappearing worldwide. A study published in Bioscience, the journal of the American Institute of Biological Sciences, found that the oysters are rapidly disappearing, and that 85 percent of their reefs have been lost a result of disease and over-harvesting of the ...
• 2/3 binge & purge: federal farm & volatility v ...
  global food prices hit new record high* world entering era of food price volatility* bernanke: federal reserve not to blame for food price inflation* US foolishly looks to monsanto to feed the world* new report says calif. passing up food stamps* "thank you for suing us': taco bel ...
• US to regulate rocket fuel chemical in water
  from afp: The US government said Wednesday it plans to limit the amount of perchlorate, a chemical found in rocket fuel, explosives and bleach, that is present in the drinking water of millions of Americans. Studies have shown a link between consuming perchlorate and thyroid problems in pregnant ...
• reports suggest white house pressured vilsack ...
  from grist: As I reported last week, the USDA announced late Thursday it would allow the planting of genetically modified alfalfa, the nation's fourth-largest crop, without restriction. Was the decision based on a careful weighing of the evidence by the USDA -- or on political consideratio ...
• food skyrockets to highest prices ever
  from natural news: Figures recently released by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) index of 55 food commodities indicates that worldwide food prices hit a record high in December. Though the costs of some food commodities like rice, corn and soy actually decreased, oil seeds and sugar j ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

• The Dregs of the Cesspit Target Loving Mother
  A wonderful lady called Cheryl Stannard was charged with child abduction last night by the disgraceful and pathetic Portsmouth police in Hampshire, England.   It was the latest stage in a gross persecution of this woman by the British establishment. I can’t even talk about the other stages bec ...
• URGENT: Loving Mother Arrested By Portsmouth P ...
  Her name is Cheryl Stannard and she is being persecuted - she is now in a cell at Portsmouth Central Police Station while they decide what to do with her after she was arrested this afternoon.   This is the number if you wish to call the station and ask about her welfare: 0845 045 45 45   This [ ...
• COTO Report City of Angels an Interview with J ...
  COTO Report is proud to present to you an interview with legendary occult symbolism specialist Jordan Maxwell by Megan ‘Verb’ Kargher. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-rPMOxJelc
• In an outrageous and all too predictable decis ...
  In an appalling yet sadly not unexpected decision, Keir Starmer the Director for Public Prosecutions, announced yesterday that no one would face charges over the death of Ian Tomlinson. Tomlinson, a newspaper vendor, was on his way home on 1st April last year, when he fell foul of what can only ...
• Saturday 20th November 2010 - Wake Up Call Con ...
  Wake Up Call Edinburgh - Saturday 20th November 2010 The Wake Up Call has been developed as a platform to support those seeking to ascertain Scientific, Political and Spiritual Truth, by providing an information gateway to the Knowledge and Wisdom of the many researchers who have previously exp ...

The Economic Collapse

• 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.  Apparently the U.S. economy is not moving forward as rapidly as they would like.  So it looks like "QE3" could be on ...
• Become A Teacher? 10 Examples That Show Why Be ...
  Today budget cutters are on the rampage from coast to coast and often one of their first targets is public school teachers. What we have witnessed recently in Wisconsin is just one example of this. The truth is that you do not want to become a teacher if you want to have finan ...
• As The Obamas And The Ultra-Wealthy Live The H ...
  Barack Obama recently made the following statement to American families that are struggling to survive in this economy: "If you’re a family trying to cut back, you might skip going out to dinner, or you might put off a vacation." A few days after making that statement Obama sen ...
• Ashley’s Tragic Story: A Heartbreaking E ...
  What you are about to read is perhaps the most heartbreaking story that I have ever come across. It is so tragic that I am not even quite sure how to introduce it. Some time ago, a reader named Ashley sent me an email that described the nightmare that she has been living [...]
• Find A Job? Good Luck In This Economy – ...
  The U.S. government is telling us that the unemployment rate fell all the way down to 9.0% in January.  Should we all cheer?  Is it now going to be a lot easier to find a job?  Has the economy finally turned around?  Are happy days here again?  Well, it is a good thing to have [ ...

CASSE

• A Liberating (but Damned Uncomfortable) Conver ...
  Herman Daly entreats economists not to eschew the wonderful wisdom of Wendell Berry.
• Economic and Environmental Perspective on Pres ...
  Brent Blackwelder remembers Ronald Reagan's ruinous results for the environment and the economy.
• How to Fix a Household Crisis
  Why are the fields of economics and ecology in crisis, and how can we work toward a solution?
• Enough Childish Name Calling
  Sharon Ede sets the record straight on exactly who's acting like a misanthrope, and she pokes a little fun along the way!
• Obama Steps onto Slippery Slope
  Brian Czech offers a vision of Obamanomics that values people and planet over profit and production.

The Talking Clock

• Airstrikes in Libya did not take place - Russi ...
  See also: Prison Planet.com - Russian Military Claims Libya Air Strikes Did Not Happen
• Not Today's Prime Minister's Questions
  Today's session of Prime Minister's Questions has been cancelled. This is because of half-term, in which many Members of Parliament enjoy jollies either at the expense of the taxpayer through their illegally obtained, fraudulent expenses or through back handers that they have received from co ...
• A salute to Harry Beckhough, a real British he ...
  In a country awash with the corrupt, we thought we would take a moment to introduce you to a real patriot, a real national hero; a thoroughly clued up man who knows what is going on and - if you will listen - will enlighten you. Harry, if you were to read this, you are England. We salute you, ...
• CAAT criticises David Cameron, arms dealer
  I know that Britain needs to make and export things, including ghastly weapons, but it appears that we've learned nothing from the (convenient to some) death of Diana: Diana, I hear you ask? What has she got to do with this? At the time of her death, she planned to expose those who were ...
• 'Humanitarian' war in Libya: Not in my Name
  As the Middle East and North Africa underwent wave after wave of popular uprisings a couple of weeks ago, I watched events unfolding with a healthy dose of cynicism. Problem. Reaction. Solution. Now, I have to confess, that I was not as anti-war on Iraq as - in hindsight - I should have be ...

Facing South

• Gulf Coast restoration task force hearing show ...
  The president's Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Force met yesterday in New Orleans to gather public comments for the plan it's working on to restore the region's ecology in the wake of last year's BP catastrophe. A major theme of those comments was the deep distrust that many of the regio ...
• INSTITUTE INDEX: Oil and death after BP
  Ten months after BP's massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, scientists are still uncovering evidence of the disaster's long-term repercussions. Number of aborted or stillborn baby dolphins that have washed ashore so far this week along Mississippi's coast: 4 Number of dead baby dolphins t ...
• Southern public workers: 'Welcome to our world ...
  In 1959, the state of Wisconsin, a hotbed of labor activism and progressive politics, became the first state in the nation to give public workers the right to bargain collectively. That same year, 1,000 miles away in North Carolina, state lawmakers -- stoked by Cold War anti-unionism and Jim ...
• Tennesseans rally for safer gas drilling
  Environmental groups are pressing the state of Tennessee to regulate "fracking," a controversial method of fracturing underground rock formations to release natural gas for drilling. The practice has been blamed for numerous cases of drinking water contamination nationwide. The Tennessee Oil an ...
• Aftershock: The disaster of hurricane recovery ...
  No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of continent, a part of the main. -John Donne Don't dare tell the people of Bolivar they live on an island. "It's a peninsula, not an island," they will say. Geographically, they're right. The 34-mile spit of low-lying marsh and ...

CenterLine

• Today’s Terrorism News
  Holder: ‘I Don’t Know’ If Gitmo Will Be Closed By 2012 Testifying before a House budget subcommittee hearing Tuesday, Attorney General Eric Holder said that he doesnât know if Guantanamo will be closed by the end of President Obamaâs first … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Former British Airways Employee Convicted of Terror Plot Rajib Karim, a former British Airways IT employee, was found guilty Monday by a jury in the United Kingdom of plotting a terror attack and seeking out his position for terrorism purposes, … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Saudi Man Accused of U.S. Bomb Plot Appears in Court Khalid Aldawsari, a 20-year-old Saudi student who was arrested last week in Texas and accused of plotting to make a bomb, appeared in federal court in Lubbock, Texas, Friday. His … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Saudi Man Arrested in Texas on WMD Charge A Saudi man studying chemical engineering at a college in Texas was arrested Wednesday night and charged yesterday with attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction, according to reports. Khalid Ali-M … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Judge: Holder’s Comments About Portland Bomb Plot Case Violated DOJ Policy A federal judge ruled Wednesday that comments made by Attorney General Eric Holder about the case of a Portland teen accused of plotting to bomb a tree-lighting ceremony last … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

• LHC releases first Higgs search results
  The results can't yet compete with the Tevatron's in hunting for a standard model Higgs, but there's now a second player in what was an exclusive club
• Shuttle launches humanoid robot into space
  The shuttle Discovery has launched into space on its final mission, carrying a crew of six people and one humanoid robot
• Today on New Scientist: 24 February 2011
  All today's stories on NewScientist.com, including: coral "whisperers" to diagnose pollution, a pioneering diabetes treatment and a psychedelic mouse
• LHC not yet a supersymmetry killer
  The world's largest particle smasher has seen no sign of supersymmetry yet. But it's too soon to give up on one of physicists' favourite theories
• Ribbons of sea ice enrobe volcanic island
  Sea ice swirls around the Pacific island of Shikotan in a new image from NASA's Earth Observing-1 satellite

Tech Drive In

• 5 Incredible Android Tablets Showcased at Mobi ...
  Mobile World Congress 2011 was quite literally overwhelmed by the sheer number of new Android OS based devices. Among the devices, the ones who completely stole the limelight were the Tablets. Almost all major hardware manufacturer has a Tablet in the pipeline and most of them are running open s ...
• Snow Sabre, Uni - Two Elegant Mac Icon Themes ...
  Here are two new Mac themes inspired icon themes for GNOME that demands your attention. Snow Sabre icon theme has a light and black variant and both of them looks very neat and simple while Uni icon theme for GNOME looks quiet good too. I think its time to give Faenza icon theme�some rest, at le ...
• Top 10 Most Popular Posts for Feb 2011
  Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal Alpha 2 Review, Screenshots Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" alpha 2 was released a day ago. A lot has changed with Ubuntu since we reviewed the first alpha release of Ubuntu Natty some weeks ago. Here is a quick review of the latest release of Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal ...
• Intel Shows Off MeeGo Tablet UI Experience[Scr ...
  MeeGo is in the news again, this time for all the right reasons. Few days ago, Nokia announced that they are going to partner with Microsoft and use Windows Phone 7 as its primary OS instead of MeeGo. Intel on the other hand is all set to go ahead with MeeGo platform without Nokia. Intel has rei ...
• Microsoft's Radical New UI Experiment, Might b ...
  This is not the kind of videos we usually feature here simply because of the fact that it screams "Microsoft" on top of it. But I think this one deserves it. DailyTech reports that, in the three and a half minute video featured below, Microsoft may have shown the world what it has in store for t ...

Case About Bird Flu

• Ireland faces impossible debt load, but so doe ...
  “A depressed and deeply indebted economy with just 1.8 million people at work cannot underwrite private banking liabilities of €200bn (135% of GDP),” says the Observer. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/feb/27/editrial-ireland-eu-election-debt But the people of Ireland are not the onl ...
• German defence minister Guttenberg resigns ove ...
  Germany’s defence minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg  resigned on Tuesday following public anger over the way he plagiarised his doctoral thesis. Guttenberg said at a press conference today his plans to radically reform the military are still on track. But his exit is a big blow to plans to sto ...
• How to make a fast buck: the Hypo Alpe Adria b ...
  Imagine this situation: you borrow ten cigarettes from your friend and promise to give back the ten cigarattes and one extra. Then you go and lend the ten cigarettes to someone else – and they commit to giving you back three extra cigarettes. Hey presto! You end up with two cigarettes. Though yo ...
• Pilotsendung Wake News Radio © startet mit eig ...
  Radio show from Wake News: “Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, liebe Freunde und Unterstützer 27.02.2011 Pilotsendung Wake News Radio © startet mit eigener deutschsprachigen Sendung am 01. März 2011, heisses Thema: Bevorstehende Katastrophe durch Polsprung? http://mywakenews.wordpress.com/2011/02 ...
• IRELAND FACES BIGGEST TEST IN MODERN HISTORY A ...
  - Ireland’s election called a “transformative moment” in nation’s history: a “pencil revolution” at the ballot box - The Fianna Fail party has been  annihilated at the polls: the party locked Ireland into an 85 billion euro loan from the EU/IMF at an interest rate of  6% and relinquished sove ...

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 ...

Veterans Today

• Smoke screen budget battles
  It has been nearly impossible to comprehend where these sudden concerns about the deficit came from. Why? Because the people doing the most complaining were in charge when it all happened. February 3, 2008 Updated: February 11, 2008 Q: During the Clinton administration was the federal budget bal ...
• GORDON DUFF: 9/11, “HOW” or &#8220 ...
  Questions on the destruction of the World Trade Center By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor The original report by the National Institute of Standards, describing the destruction of the World Trade Center as resulting from heat from jet fuel fires, a relatively low temperature source of sho ...
• Bobby Hanafin: Ivy League Colleges Debate Mili ...
  What the little media coverage the heckling of a Wounded Iraq Vet who advocated bring ROTC back to the campus of Columbia University got from a few anti-ROTC protesters. Press coverage has been political and ideological in view points. This article strives to give a balanced two sided view.
• BAHRAIN AND THE POPCORN REVOLUTION
  WHY THIS KINGDOM MATTERS TO THE WEST BY DR. ROBIN MCFEE As I finish this article, a sequel to my earlier one, it is late Monday, February 21st, and I am heading out of Bahrain. By the time I arrive in the West, the impact of the Tuesday deadline – the demands of the protestors [...]
• The crusade of Western media against Islam
  As the Western governments add fuel to the fire of Islamophobic sentiments in their societies with inflammatory and rabble-rousing actions and statements, the Western media mischievously try their best to portray a lopsided, biased and prejudiced image of Muslims in an attempt which should be in ...

electric politics

• A Dialectical Moment in Madison?
  The U.S. plutocracy won't feel safe until it's crushed all resistance. Case in point, the organized way the plutocrats set their sights on Wisconsin — the birthplace of public sector unions — hoping that Scott Walker, the newly elected Republican Governor, would show the rest of the country how ...
• The Truth About Taxes
  In the economics profession, a "Harberger's triangle" shows the "deadweight loss" to society from taxes, the net loss, that is, from the optimum "free-market" equilibrium. It's a great, great theory if you're a math whiz. And virtually all neoclassical and neoliberal economists believe it's tru ...
• Chili's Campaign in the Buckeye State
  Voters in Ohio's second congressional district have a real choice: the Democrat, Surya "Chili" Yalamanchili, wants to create jobs and is on the side of the workers, while his opponent, incumbent Republican Jean Schmidt, apparently has no policy views whatsoever except unconditional support for ...
• Plato's Secret
  The Gods on Mount Olympus don't rule the world. Science does. But Plato couldn't say that in ancient Greece without a good chance of being put to death. So Plato did a sensible thing: he hid his secret, using musical codes, inside his already magnificent philosophical construction, a philosophy ...
• Keeping the Present Inevitable
  Republocrats. Demicans. It adds up to Oligarchy. The wealthy have overtly seized control of the U.S. They're not of a mind to share the spoils. What to do? Nobody seems to know... Nevertheless, it helps to talk about the problem. And the more people who rattle their chains the better. Rick MacA ...

PR News

• FDA undergoes staffing changes in external aff ...
  SILVER SPRING, MD: The Food and Drug Administration's office of external affairs is undergoing a number of leadership changes, including the departures of the agency's public affairs and Web chiefs.
• Bolthouse formalizes HL Group relationship
  BAKERSFIELD, CA: Carrot grower and processor Bolthouse Farms named HL Group its AOR, following the agency's work on a campaign to reposition baby carrots as junk food.
• Senators question government PR contract
  KANSAS CITY: Senator Claire McCaskill routinely criticized the manner in which the General Services Administration hired and managed a PR firm during a Senate subcommittee hearing on March 1.
• MWW hires Desai in DC
  WASHINGTON: MWW Group hired Ankit Desai as SVP in the agency's Washington office.
• Crowdtap opens its platform to marketers
  NEW YORK: Social media consumer participation tool Crowdtap has opened its platform to marketers. The service has been in beta up until now, with Weber Shandwick and GolinHarris among the agencies that have partnered with service.

The Story Behind the Story

• H1N1 and bird flu virus produce dangerous hybr ...
  By Tan Ee Lyn HONG KONG | Mon Feb 28, 2011 4:18pm EST HONG KONG (Reuters) – The H1N1 swine flu virus is compatible with a bird flu virus that is endemic in poultry in Asia and they can produce hybrid viruses packed with greater killing power, Chinese researchers warned on Monday. The scientists ...
• NEW-GENERATION FLU VACCINES APPROVED!!
  Feds awards $215 million pacts for flu vaccines WASHINGTON Drug makers Novavax Inc. and VaxInnate Inc. have won contracts worth a combined $215 million to develop flu vaccines for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The news sent shares of Novavax up 68 cents, or nearly 26 percent, ...
• Oba-Mao — SING ALONG (Thanks Alex Studer ...
  OBA-MAO http://64.4.56.87/att/GetAttachment.aspx?file=4a24a77c-3e7b-4f9f-ba97-6ad12c5446e6.mp3&ct=YXVkaW8vbXBlZw_3d_3d&name=T2JhLU1hbyBWMS5tcDM_3d&inline=0&rfc=0&empty=False&imgsrc=&entryPt=download&hm__login=atrueott&hm__domain=msn.com&ip=10.25.152.8&d=d4354&mf=32&hm__ts=Tue%2c%2001%20Mar%20201 ...
• Lincoln’s Monetary Policy for America (T ...
  ~ MONETARY POLICY (1865) ~ Money is the creature of law, and the creation of the original issue of money should be maintained as the exclusive monopoly of national government. Money possesses no value to the state other than that given to it by circulation.  Capital has its proper place and is e ...
• Expose Written February 2009 Now Circulating G ...
  This was written back in 2009 — Beyond High Treason… US Gives China Eminent Domain Over US Property THIS IS AS REAL AND AS UGLY AS IT CAN GET! Connecting the dots… Dot #1 China begins its covert war on the FREE American republic in the 1950′s by taking over much of the PHARMACEUTICAL DRUG [...]

k2p blog

• Swedish officers were killed by “friendl ...
  Two Swedish officers and their interpreter killed last year Afghanistan were the victims of "friendly fire".
• Libyans must be allowed to get rid of Gaddafi ...
  The Libyans need to get rid of Gaddafi themselves and their efforts and their scarifices should not be disparaged and mocked by an Iraq-like military intervention.
• Swedish GDP at “tiger” levels
  Sweden's gross domestic product (GDP) grew by "tiger" levels of 7.3 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2010 and 5.5% for the whole of 2010.
• Guttenberg is toast – a tribute to the p ...
  Guttenberg is toast and destined to be zu Googleberg for ever.
• Belarus – not Venezuela – maybe Ga ...
  Belarus may be supplying weapons to Gaddafi and may be a sanctuary for Gaddafi or his family members.

Left Foot Forward

• Tory MP calls for DfID budget to be raided to ...
  Tory MP Andrew Tyrie has written to William Hague demanding the Department for International Development foots the bill for the BBC World Service - and slammed his own party's ring-fencing of the aid budget.
• Wales Referendum 2011: The case for more power ...
  There has been a lot of confusion regarding the referendum that will be held in Wales tomorrow, Thursday, March the 3rd, writes Plaid Cymru's Director of Policy Nerys Evans.
• No frontline cuts? Now 11,000 troops face the ...
  The Ministry of Defence announced yesterday that 11,000 armed forces personnel would be made redundant - with some soldiers losing their jobs just six months after returning from Afghanistan.
• Small companies pay most corporation tax as Br ...
  New research from Oxford University shows the 30-year race to the bottom on corporation tax. Large companies get away with paying less tax than small companies.
• Lazy journalism surrounds the latest foster pa ...
  Inaccurate reports portray religion and human rights as natural enemies, but they do nothing to protect people's rights or to promote understanding between people who disagree.

Consumerist

• Doctor: 5-Second Rule Should Become 0-Second R ...
  We've written many times about science's ongoing war on the 5-second rule. Despite evidence that you really shouldn't eat food you drop on the ground, only 20 percent of voters in our poll last year said they trash food that's taken the plunge. Now comes The New York Times with a new warning f ...
• Congressman Beats Smartypants Jeopardy-Dominat ...
  In a match that must have played like Rocky's takedown of Ivan Drago, New Jersey congressman Rush Holt managed to stifle Watson, the Jeopardy-juggernaut computer, at his own game. The Los Angeles Times reports Holt, a physicist who won Jeopardy five times back in the 70s, managed to beat Watso ...
• Morning Deals
  ClothingKohl's: [Sleepwear] The Simpsons Wrappie Sleeved Blanket for $4.32 w/ Coupon NEW8360 + $0.99 ShippingJustice: [Kids] 40% Off Entire Purchase w/ Coupon 738 + PrintableNew York & Company: [Apparel] $30 Off $75 or $70 Off $150 Purchase w/ Coupon 4509 and 4512Zappos: [Clothing] Zappos VIP M ...
• Making The Case For Elizabeth Warren & The Con ...
  The new U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau isn't even up and running yet, and already it seems its funding could be in trouble. Prof. Elizabeth Warren, the champion of the bureau, is trying to protect her project in the face of a conservative House majority. The organization, birthed la ...
• Amazing Deals Available At Borders And Ultimat ...
  Two big-box retailers are currently liquidating: Ultimate Electronics is closing all of its stores, and almost a third of Borders locations are closing. Surely this presents some excellent savings opportunities for consumers. Let's be vultures and check in on the progress of the sales. Our ow ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

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

UK Progressive

• We’re Back and Grateful for the Break
  See you shortly with lots of news about Wisconsin, Libya and 2012 Olympics. See you in the coming days and weeks. It was a great week and standing along the 90-miles of shore along California’s Big Sur. Watching several sunsets, I was able to feel the same awe as these Dream Rangers.
• Reprise: Psst! Wanna Make a Movie – UK Tax Avo ...
  The headline read ‘Investment in new film production hit £1.16 billion pounds in 2010, a record for the British film industry.’ It makes you wonder how much came out of HMRC coffers as lost tax income. By investing in ‘structured investment opportunities,’ UK companies can avoid paying taxes on ...
• Reprise: Frankenstein Foods Fear? UK Public To ...
  By Theodora Filis, Contributing Editor Monday, a UK government-commissioned study into food security called for urgent action to avert global hunger. The report suggested the British public overcome its fear of “Frankenstein foods” and accept that genetically modified crops are necessary to feed ...
• Reprise: The Monday Line: Egypt Gets ‘It’ – Wh ...
  Like the colony of ants from the penultimate scene of the Disney/Pixar film “A Bug’s Life,” the people of Egypt got ‘it’ and realised that, like the film’s grasshoppers, the bullying tyrants of Mubarak’s police apparatus had to brutally keep everyone under the heel of his boot to rule. In the fi ...
• Reprise: Finally, Black Civil Rights Movement ...
  Last week, Martin Luther King tributes were taking place across the nation. And the spirit of MLK and the courageous acts of our foremothers and forefathers of the civil rights movement are etched indelibly in many of our hearts. But the civil rights movement of Martin Luther King’s era of the 1 ...

NewsAlert

• Blago gets immunity in horseracing civil case
  The Chicago Sun-Times
• The New Geometry and the New Math of Questioni ...
  Professor Butler Shaffer
• Corrupt Government-Hollywood Complex Worsens W ...
  Big Government
• GOP study: Medicaid expansion will cost states ...
  Fierce Healthcare
• Can Exercise Keep You Young?
  The New York Times reports:We all know that physical activity is beneficial in countless ways, but even so, Dr. Mark Tarnopolsky, a professor of pediatrics at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, was startled to discover that exercise kept a strain of mice from becoming gray prematurely. Ge ...

JoNova

• Shut down Australia and save 0.01 degrees
  The key question — with all the billions spent on cutting Australia’s carbon production, the trade and income lost, the jobs cut, the pain of living near a wind farm, the foreign holidays avoided and paying more for petrol and electricity than we have too, how many degrees will our actions cool ...
• How well have the media and PR groups informed ...
  Given the multimillion dollar budgets and advertising campaigns about climate change, it would be safe to assume there was a high public awareness of the most basic facts about CO2 right?  But reader Gregg has taken the initiative and gone out and done a survey of 100 people and asked them a few ...
• Galvanising against Gillard
  Welcome to another day in the lost democracy. The place where an elected government thinks that cheating is the answer. What was Julia Gillard thinking? This turnaround is happening so fast. She announced the Carbon Tax only last Thursday, and already former members of her own party are discussi ...
• Does the lie matter? Only if you think Democra ...
  Thank you Julia Gillard. Nothing could have put the fire back into the carbon debate like promising not to tax us during an election, then barely scraping in by the thinnest of “wins”* (with hang-nail support of two men in some of the most conservative seats in the country) and then doing what y ...
• New Poll. More skeptics than ever and yet the ...
  The good news is that skeptics are the majority, the bad news is that we’ll all have to pay the tax anyway. The IPA commissioned a Galaxy Poll in Australia and only one third of Australians believe that man-made global warming is real. Despite the advertising, the propaganda, the Nobel Prizes, t ...

ReNew America

• Eradicating minorities
  (Barbara Kralis, RA analyst) - Abortion providers -- such as Planned Parenthood (PP), with their 850 U.S. abortion mills -- certainly know of the power of a single, truthful graphic photograph to change a person's conscience and heart...
• Wrestling with morality: boys vs. girls on the ...
  (Selwyn Duke) - Imagine that you're a young adolescent boy. Like many your age, you're shy around girls, perhaps to the point at which even talking to one might make your heart race. You also like sports, so you go out for your school's wrestling team. Then, lo and behold, you're at a meet, and ...
• State compacts on health care eyed as end run ...
  (Washington Times) - With efforts to repeal the health care law stalling on Capitol Hill, Republican lawmakers in states across the country are turning to another tool in the Constitution to try to limit the law's reach -- interstate compacts...
• Tea Party Patriots rally to hold Congress' fee ...
  (WorldNetDaily) - Tea Party Patriots are meeting in Phoenix this weekend and hundreds of local chapter leaders are listening to speeches and discussing whether the newly elected Congressional members are sticking with their campaign priorities to cut spending and lower the deficit...
• What you need to know about our murderous enem ...
  (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - A highly interesting flow of information is making its way over the airwaves right under the noses of Washington's "political correctness" establishment. Are similar conversations going on with talk shows in your community? At the end of this column, we will ask you ab ...

Truth Offering

• Poll - Week Ending February 13, 2011
  Without question, there's plenty of turmoil in the political spectrum these days. A growing number of people seem to align themselves with Libertarian ideals, some calling themselves "The Tea Party." We wanted to know what you would label yourself, if anything. Here are the results from this wee ...
• 1984 in 2011
  In the Orwell classic "1984," Big Brother has such a grip on its citizenry, that kids will rat on their own parents. Spouses turn on one another. In all such cases, people are ripped from their lives and either tortured into complacency or killed. All in the name of staying safe. But of course, ...
• Truth Offering Podcast with Matt Gordon - Feb. ...
  Good friend of TruthOffering.com and �ber (yeah, I said "�ber!) talented musician, Chris Phenom, is back to chat with Matt Gordon. �This week's topics range from WikiLeaks, peak oil, and Agenda 21, to genetically modified foods, geoengineering (chemtrails), Libertarianism, and the question of th ...
• Truth Offering Podcast with Matt Gordon - Feb. ...
  Good friend of TruthOffering.com and �ber (yeah, I said "�ber!) talented musician, Chris Phenom, is back to chat with Matt Gordon. �This week's topics range from WikiLeaks, peak oil, and Agenda 21, to genetically modified foods, geoengineering (chemtrails), Libertarianism, and the question of th ...
• Is There a Gold Bubble? Or Is It Really a Fiat ...
  This question has been plaguing most people for a while; at least, those of us who see the folly of fiat currency. Let's face it, by definition, a fiat currency is only valid as long as people continue to have faith in its value. And as Ben Bernanke, the Fed and our government continue to create ...

2012 Blog

• 35377 People Have Voted… Nothing Wins
  Since October 2006 I have been running a poll at Survive 2012, and with 35377 votes I think we have an accurate reflection of what visitors to my site think will happen in 2012: Nothing wins, with just over 56% of the vote. I was surprised that TEOTWAWKI came in second, and that aliens beat [... ...
• 10 LHC Consequences / NASA Budget / Planet (X) ...
  I was quite OK with the LHC when experts explained that cosmic rays cause the creation of harmless mini-black holes in our atmosphere all the time. Now I don’t know what to think! Otto Rössler is the professor who sued and failed in his attempt to halt the Large Hadron Collidor. Over at Lifeboa ...
• Deadly 6.3 Quake in ChristChurch NZ
  Looks like dozens of people have died during an earthquake that struck Christchurch during their lunch hour. Several large office buildings have collapsed, as well as the cathedral. Another deadly earthquake occurring within 3 days of the full moon. I have written recently of the new pattern eme ...
• Noah’s Ark Finally Discovered?
  If you follow my line of thinking, you might just agree with my hypothesis. It starts out by looking at the Bible as a historical record that has been exaggerated for religious purposes, and ends with an amazing find in Iran. Ask any Biblical skeptic and they will supply you with many apparent c ...
• Solar Flare Update
  The biggest solar flare in four years has sent charged particles hurtling towards Earth. ABC News says: The radiation from Monday’s flare, known as a Coronal Mass Ejection, should pass the Earth today, Friday and Saturday. The charged particles will speed by at some 560 miles per second. …What ...

Facing South

• Gulf Coast restoration task force hearing show ...
  The president's Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Force met yesterday in New Orleans to gather public comments for the plan it's working on to restore the region's ecology in the wake of last year's BP catastrophe. A major theme of those comments was the deep distrust that many of the regio ...
• INSTITUTE INDEX: Oil and death after BP
  Ten months after BP's massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, scientists are still uncovering evidence of the disaster's long-term repercussions. Number of aborted or stillborn baby dolphins that have washed ashore so far this week along Mississippi's coast: 4 Number of dead baby dolphins t ...
• Southern public workers: 'Welcome to our world ...
  In 1959, the state of Wisconsin, a hotbed of labor activism and progressive politics, became the first state in the nation to give public workers the right to bargain collectively. That same year, 1,000 miles away in North Carolina, state lawmakers -- stoked by Cold War anti-unionism and Jim ...
• Tennesseans rally for safer gas drilling
  Environmental groups are pressing the state of Tennessee to regulate "fracking," a controversial method of fracturing underground rock formations to release natural gas for drilling. The practice has been blamed for numerous cases of drinking water contamination nationwide. The Tennessee Oil an ...
• Aftershock: The disaster of hurricane recovery ...
  No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of continent, a part of the main. -John Donne Don't dare tell the people of Bolivar they live on an island. "It's a peninsula, not an island," they will say. Geographically, they're right. The 34-mile spit of low-lying marsh and ...

One News Page

• Matthew Followill - Matthew Followill To Becom ...
  Matthew Followill is to become a father The Kings of Leon guitarist's wife Johanna Bennett is more than six months pregnant with their first child, friends have confirmed A source told The Sun newspaper 'Although Jo and Matt haven't made any announcement it's well known among her friends that .. ...
• Fourth spacewalk to repair solar array
  Astronauts on board the International Space Station are preparing for a spacewalk to repair one of the Station's solar arrays. The fourth spacewalk of the STS-120 mission is scheduled to take place on Saturday.
• Analyst: iPad 2 launch crucial for Apple
  Analysts will be watching how Apple handles the pressure of unveiling the iPad's successor without Steve Jobs, who is out on medical leave.
• Scarlett Johansson, Sean Penn's cozy lunch dat ...
  Washington, March 2 (ANI): Actors Scarlett Johansson and Sean Penn were recently spotted getting cozy at Cuban restaurant Versailles in L. A.  With her foot in his lap during the lunch, the 26-year-old actress got friendly with the 50-year-old star, reports the TMZ.
• Liam Hemsworth caught leaving Oscar party with ...
  Melbourne, March 2 (ANI): Actor Liam Hemsworth was spotted leaving an Oscars after-party with Ashely Tisdale, a former Disney star.  According to MailOnline, the 21-year-old Aussie and Tisdale, who rose to fame as Sharpay Evans in the 'High School Musical' franchise, went to the InStyle Oscar .. ...

Global Research TV

• Fruits of Revolt Won't be Felt Until Power Out ...
• The Story of Citizens United v. FEC
• 9 Trillion Dollars Missing from Federal Reserv ...
• "The Weight Of Chains" Deleted Scene: Sarajevo
• Fall of the Republic

Daily Tech

• 3/02/2011 Daily Hardware Reviews
  DailyTech's roundup of hardware reviews from around the web for Wednesday
• Apple Announces iPad 2
  Steve Jobs announces the iPad 2 in San Francisco
• Rolls-Royce Unveils Phantom Experimental Elect ...
  Car is pure test bed and has largest battery pack ever put in a car
• As Many as 200,000 Android Users Have Data Sto ...
  The bad news is that many users may have been exploited; the good news is the apps were quickly pulled when reported
• Apple Defends App Store Trademark, Argues "Win ...
  Cupertino's top tech firm fires back in Microsoft's trademark suit

Oriental Review

• The Theory of ‘Manageable Chaos’ P ...
  Sergey Shashkov (Russia) An act of self-immolation by a Tunisian street vendor in protest of the confiscation of his wares by municipal officials in December was covered in the media as the catalyst for mass riots in Tunisia, which later spread to Egypt, Yemen, Iran, Algeria, Bahrain, Jordan, Ku ...
• Reagan’s Secret Legacy
  Peter Chamberlin (USA) On this, the one-hundredth birthday of Ronald Reagan, the Reagan worshippers are coming out of the woodwork. It seems that the self-appointed leaders of the “Tempest in the Teapot” party (or whatever they call themselves), even Obama himself, are trying to ride Reagan’s fa ...
• The United States Must Take Russia’s Interests ...
  Andrei Pravov (Russia) A recent interview with the American political scientist Ariel Cohen produced a feeling more of déjà vu than anything else. We have seen these arguments before. In the early 1990s, Russian newspapers loved to publish the opinions of numerous Western politicians and politic ...
• Egypt Leaving an Epoch Behind
  Dmitry Sedov (Russia) The Anglo-Saxon globalization ran into a major roadblock: at the moment the Egyptian regime which the West has propped up for decades is on the verge of collapse. Even if Mubarak’s nominee Omar Suleiman manages to cling on, the global centers of power will have to face a di ...
• Tragedy at Domodedovo Airport and Bias of the ...
  Stanislav Ivanov (Russia) The new terrorist attack in Russia on January 24, 2011 justifiably angered Russians and the entire world community. About 200 people suffered (35 of whom were killed) an attack by a suicide bomber in the passenger arrival lounge at Domodedovo airport. Hardly anyone coul ...

BlogHer

• Clinton Kelly Interview: TLC's "What Not To We ...
  Heading into The District, I felt a rush of excitement. I had been part of a conspiracy for a couple of weeks. Secret emails had been sent and received. Swearing to silence had been required. A nationally recognized DC zeitgeist was oblivious to the plan in progress and all was going to be rev ...
• This is What Postpartum Depression Feels Like
  There is no way I could have written this post a year ago. Because I didn’t know how to describe it. I couldn’t find the words. But last night was a rough night. It was like the rug of calm-loving-life-pleasant-happiness got pulled out from under me. Cody asked a friend, who is the mother ...
• Piercing My Nose. Or Not.
  This was going to be a story of feminism and self-ownership: The search for my nose began as a child. Mine was round and very unlike my mother's regal Roman nose. My birth father was long gone, but old photographs bore evidence of a nose bent and flattened from repeated breaking, a hazard of ...
• Bloggers Remember Jane Russell (1921-2011)
  Sex sells, and so that concept started with the career of Jane Russell, who died on Monday at the age of 89. During a time period when women were to be demure and wholesome, Russell's director extenuated her breasts, had her pose for stills with come-hither pouty lips, and put the idea of wanti ...
• Best Ways to Deal With Wrinkles: The Sane Woma ...
  Before you spend another cent on some fancy schmancy anti-aging cream, read this and quit worrying once and for all about wrinkles, fine lines and not-so-fine ones. Because worrying causes wrinkles. Become a parent. Get so insanely busy and exhausted that you have zero time to ponder your wr ...

Health Freedom Alliance

• Mainstream Media & Public Health Turn On Big P ...
  Pharmaceutical companies will try to profit any way possible, and the recent push to place millions on statin drugs in the name of high cholesterol has been the latest goal to peddle drugs to healthy ...
• Vaccine Makers “Immunized” Against ...
  Pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer and Wyeth are happy, no doubt, with the recent Supreme Court decision protecting them from liability in vaccine-injury claims. The ruling was a blow to the Bruesewitz family who ...
• Vitamin D Conspiracy Leads Straight to Big Pha ...
  Why do we listen to manufactured, trumped-up, faux-authorities on health? WHO, the AMA, countless front groups, and now the self-proclaimed Institute of Medicine? Do you notice the trend in vitamin bashing? The bent towards programming ...
• Energy Drinks Pose Serious Health Risks To You ...
  Energy drinks are still a relatively new trend, so the health risks do not become apparent until chronic use (or abuse) manifests itself with dangerous side effects and in some cases death. The ...
• Veterans Finding New Life In Organic Farming
  “The military is not for the faint of heart, and farming isn’t either,” said Michael O’Gorman, an organic farmer who founded the nonprofit Farmer-Veteran Coalition, which supports sustainable-agriculture training. “There are eight times as many ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

• CONSOL makes deal, gets EPA permit approval
  SNL Financial appears to be the first to report the news that CONSOL Energy has reached a deal with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for a Clean Water Act permit covering the company’s proposed Spring Branch No. 3 Deep Mine in Mingo County, W.Va. According to the report: After winning co ...
• EPA: Arch Coal to pay $4 million for water vio ...
  This just in from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Justice Department announced today that Arch Coal Inc., the second largest supplier of coal in the United States, has agreed to pay a $4 million dollar penalty for alleged viol ...
• Upper Big Branch indictment: Just the beginnin ...
  If you missed the news yesterday, federal prosecutors have announced the first criminal charges from their broad investigation of the April 2010 disaster at Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch Mine in Raleigh County, W.Va. To be perfectly clear, the indictment of Performance Coal Coal Co. security ...
• Massey security chief indicted in UBB probe
  U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin here in Southern West Virginia just announced: Hughie Elbert Stover, 60, of Clear Fork, Raleigh County, West Virginia, has been charged with two felonies in connection with the federal investigation of events at Massey Energy Company’s Upper Big Branch Mine (UBB). S ...
• Breaking news: PJM puts PATH on hold
  Here’s the announcement just in from PJM Interconnection: The outlook for a slower economic recovery has led the Board of PJM Interconnection to direct transmission owners to suspend efforts on the Potomac-Appalachian Transmission Highline (PATH). The news release doesn’t appear to be on PJM’s ...

Daniel Miessler

• Shuttle Launch from Airplane
  Daniel Miessler 415 937 0063 | Mobile Sent via mobile device: Please forgive any brevity. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsKucinich Schools Congress on the WarSun Melts RockSwords vs. ShadowsJan-Ove Waldner ServesAnd Now I Give You TechnovikingA Thoroughly Gratef ...
• On American Jobs
  I maintain the problem in this country is lack of regulation, a government which pimps out its people to runaway corporate monstrosities. Corporations have all the control and they use and dispose of human beings as they see fit. We have been told the only way is a global economy, it’s really to ...
• Are All Drug Reps Hot? | The Last Psychiatrist
  There are some jobs where appearance is a bona fide occupational qualification (BFOQ– see, there’s even an acronym for it) and if you have to ask if your job is one of those, it doesn’t. Elite Modeling can hire based on looks, but Abercrombie & Fitch can’t.  I leaave you to tease out the details ...
• BSQLHacker
  BSQL Hacker For Feature Requests, Feedback and Bug Reports use: http://bsql.uservoice.com/ See SQLIBench project to compare BSQLHacker with other SQL Injection tools. BSQL Hacker is an automated SQL Injection Framework / Tool designed to exploit SQL injection vulnerabilities virtually in any dat ...
• MIT OpenCourseWare vs. KhanAcademy: Winner? Yo ...
  via ocw.mit.edu I am thrilled to see everyone jumping so forcefully into the self-education space. With schools like MIT doing this, combined with homegrown efforts like KhanAcademy, the look and feel of education is going to be far different in 10 years. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com ...

Fitwatch

• Domestic extremists or domestic goddesses?
  This brilliant video was made by the Aldermaston Women's Peace Camp - the following text, is taken from their website During 2010 AWPC was under more overt surveillance than usual. From February, the women's camp was targeted with intrusive police photography. Camp made a formal complaint about ...
• Activist reports recent encounter with Mark Ke ...
  Fitwatch has been passed the following statement relating to an encounter by an activist with the ex-undercover cop, Mark Kennedy. Mark Kennedy encountered in London Last week ex-undercover police spy Mark Kennedy was encountered by chance by an activist who was an erstwhile friend. Kennedy was ...
• Legal Advice Drop-In for Student/Anti-Cuts Arr ...
  From LDMG: Legal Defence & Monitoring Group (LDMG) and Offmarket Infoshop in Hackney, London will now be offering a regular legal drop-in session for all those arrested on the Student Demonstrations or Anti-Cuts Actions. We will be able to offer: * Entirely free, confidential legal advice coming ...
• Manchester demo – police use s50 powers ...
  We have received this account from an eye-witness in Manchester. Police have abused ASBO legislation to obtain the personal details of anti-cuts demonstrators. Manchester police ended a day of orderly rallies and breakout groups of protesters by abusing legislation on anti-social behaviour in or ...
• Protesters sprayed as Hugh Orde advocates extr ...
  Three days after head of ACPO, Hugh Orde, promised the use of more extreme tactics on protesters, ten people have been cs/pepper sprayed at a London UKUncut protest outside Boots, with three needing hospital treatment. During the protest on Oxford Street, an activist tried to post a leaflet thro ...

Worldwide 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 ...

reference frame

• Natalie Portman, the scientist
  Natalie Angier of the New York Times studied the overlap between the movie industry and science: Natalie Portman, Oscar Winner, Was Also a Precocious ScientistThe intersection is almost non-existent. Both fields require an ego but the movie industry is all about the ephemeral values such ...
• Beware the global warming fascists
  Even mild-mannered chaps such as Johnny Ball get angry when they meet children at schools who have been brainwashed by the AGW crackpottery and who are scared of the future instead of being excited by the future - and by science. As he says, unimaginable amounts of money are effectively bei ...
• LIGO: no waves seen so far
  The world's 700 best LIGO scientists ;-) have gathered and published new upper bounds: Search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspiral, merger and ringdown (PDF)No gravitational waves have been seen so far. However, this particular analysis has de facto looked at pair ...
• CMS: Higgs not between 144 and 207 GeV if...
  ...a heavy fourth generation of fermions exists The subtitle obviously makes the finding much less spectacular - because the fourth generation of fermions is unlikely to exist - and because the Higgs mass is probably below 144 GeV, anyway. Nevertheless, it is impressive to w ...
• Iranium
  I recommend the U.S. and other readers who are interested in the Middle East to watch Iranium, a 60-minute movie by pro-democratic Persian folks and conservative pundits: Full movie at YouTube It presents a rather convincing case for the opinion that as a potential owner of the nuclear ...

No Frakking Consensus

• Not Your Grandfather’s Greenpeace
  Environmental activist organizations are all grown up now. We need to adjust our thinking accordingly.
• Environmentalism Runs Amok
  Nearly half a century after the first Earth Day, the chessboard has changed dramatically. The players with the power, the war chests, and the influence are different now.
• You Doubt Monger, You
  When environmentalists organize themselves, fund-raise, and try to spread their message this is considered legitimate democratic activity. Yet the minute climate skeptics do the same we're accused of being doubt-mongers who manufacture uncertainty in order to mislead the public.
• Flying Cars and Sewing Machines
  People who look into the future and see only environmental devastation have lost their sense of wonder.
• The Never-Policy-Prescriptive Pachauri
  The chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on climate change thinks you and your children should feel chilly in the winter and too hot in the summer. He also thinks it's his business to decide what amount of meat consumption is healthy and desirable.

Tarpley

• US-UK Imperialist Rampage Envelops Libya in Ci ...
  Webster G. Tarpley on The Alex Jones Show Infowars March 1, 2011 download file Coast to Coast AM tonight from 2am to 5am eastern
• Webster Tarpley will be interviewed Tuesday ni ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net March 1, 2011 Check you local radio station for the exact time. Listen and call in! Locate Radio Stations Near You Call Number: 800-618-8255 First Time Caller: 818-501-4721 � � �
• Wisconsin Gop Governor in Neofascist Union-Bus ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net February 20, 2011 Washington DC, Feb. 20, 2011 – After four decades of disillusionment, and demoralization, disorientation and rout of the labor movement, the mass strike is once again abroad in the land. In dozens of state capitals, reactionary Republican ...
• Mubarak Toppled by CIA Because He Opposed US P ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net February 18, 2011 Washington DC, Feb. 18, 2011 — There never was an “Egyptian revolution,” but rather a behind-the-scenes military putsch by a junta of CIA puppet generals who evidently could not succeed in their goal of ousting Hosni Mubarak without the hel ...
• Hillary Announces Expanded US Cyber-Coup Campa ...
  Webster G. Tarpley TARPLEY.net February 16, 2011

Modern Survivalism

• The Elitist Globalist Take-Down of America
  Lindsey Williams, who recently interviewed with Alex Jones on infowars.com, revealed startling revelations from insider knowledge regarding the current and building crisis in the Middle East, the plan to take down the dollar while double-crossing the Arabs, and the bringing up of China to top st ...
• $12,000 in Prizes for Guest Article / Video
  The Safecastle Freedom Awards program – the Survivalist/Preparedness New-Media competition, is an opportunity for you to win from a group of prizes valued at $12,000! Vic Rantala, owner of Safecastle LLC and www.prepared.pro says, “What we aim to do is find and recognize the best, original, web- ...
• Home Remedies for Stress, Anxiety
  In today’s modern world, nearly everyone seems to be stressed out in their daily lives. Both spouses working to make ends meet, often long days – particularly in today’s environment where employers have the upper hand. With the remaining hours of the day there are endless chores, duties, activit ...
• Magnitude 4.7 Earthquake in Arkansas?!
  The situation is getting downright crazy in Arkansas where hundreds of earthquakes have swarmed and rattled parts of the state. The latest earthquake, a magnitude 4.7, at a very shallow depth of 3.8 km, would be making main-stream news if it had occurred in San Francisco or Los Angeles. The regi ...
• Major Quake Swarm, Krisuvik Volcano, Iceland
  Credit: base image – Icelandic Met Office, overlay – MSB Modern Survival for local Icelanders may be presented some challenges in the days ahead IF the trembling Krisuvik volcano decides to erupt. A sudden and major earthquake swarm has struck on the Reykjanes peninsula at the southwest of Icela ...

Fast Company

• iFive: Google Tweak Hits Mahalo, Malware Andro ...
  On this day 42 years ago Concorde took its first flight in Toulouse, France. Back in 1923 Time magazine debuted, and in 1807 Congress outlawed the importing of slaves--each of these facts, and a trillion others, contributed to today's world. So what's today's early news?�1. Google adjusted its s ...
• Texas Independence Day
  �One hundred seventy-five years after the state's Declaration of Independence was signed, the Lone Star State continues to assert its autonomy. When Texas voted last year against nationalizing school curriculum standards, the State Board of Educa-tion quickly approved curriculum guidelines with ...
• Annie Leonard Derides Corporate Influences on ...
  Annie Leonard is a whiz at tackling tough topics (bottled water, the cosmetics industry) in viral video-sized spans of time. Her latest, The Story of Citizens United v. FEC, is no different. The video explores "the inordinate power that corporations exercise in our democracy," according to Leo ...
• Kaiser's Design Challenge: Create a Small, Eff ...
  Health care provider Kaiser Permanante usually builds sprawling, massive hospital campuses, but that's not necessary in small towns and other communities where Kaiser hopes to expand. So this week, the company launched the "Small Hospital, Big Idea" competition, which challenges entrants--incl ...
• Fruit Tree Biomass Waste Turns Into Energy Sou ...
  The country's leading sustainable players in the palm oil industry are now turning to their own waste for power. Malaysia has a plan to turn waste from its palm oil production into energy. A new joint venture, FTJ Bio Power Sdn Bhd, announced plans for a plant that could generate 12.5 million ...

Jadaliyya

• Oil Supply Disruption Poses a Threat to Asian ...
  [Rana Khoury &�Mary E. Stonaker co-authored this post] Why should Singapore � and Asia, more broadly � care about the astonishing upheavals rippling across the Middle East and northern Africa?� While seemingly far away, there is much at stake in this troubled region. The current turmoi ...
• The Arabs in Africa
  As Libyans rise up against the 41-year-old dictatorship of Muammar al-Qaddafi, one of the most striking claims of state violence has been the hiring of “African mercenaries” to crush the revolt. Like Hosni Mubarak’s “thugs” (or baltagiya in Arabic, terms that gained widespread currency a ...
• Emergencies and Economics: Algeria and the Pol ...
  On February 24th the Algerian government lifted the state of emergency that has been operative in Algeria for almost two decades.�Undoubtedly, this was a response to the changing political tides in the Middle East, as well as popular unrest in Algeria itself. While localized riots have b ...
• A Letter to the Omani Sultan Qaboos
  [The following translation from Arabic is provided by Khuloud] A Statement Regarding the Sultanic Decrees   Sunday, February 27, 2011 Your Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Saeed- Sultan of Oman In reference to each of the following: First: The Sultanic Decrees issued on ...
• The Counter-Revolution
  Many groups in Egypt are working for political change � progressive and regressive, transparent and dubious � and the stakes are high because the power of the Mubarak regime was not been relinquished in substance. While the army has benefitted most from the revolution�its image has been ...

mediagazer

• Fading Away - Despite occasional flurries of i ...
  Greg Masters / American Journalism Review: Fading Away  —  Despite occasional flurries of interest in the concept over the years, the roster of U.S. news councils hearing complaints against the media has dwindled to one.  Posted: Wed, March 2, 2011  —  Greg Masters (gmasters@ajr.umd.edu) is an ...
• BBC's International iPad iPlayer Will Cost Und ...
  Tara Conlan / paidContent:UK: BBC's International iPad iPlayer Will Cost Under $10 A Month  —  The BBC's international iPlayer iPad app will cost less than $10 (£6.13) a month when it launches later this year, according to director general Mark Thompson.  —  He said the global version of the c ...
• Texas Tribune databases drive majority of site ...
  Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter: Texas Tribune databases drive majority of site's traffic, help citizens make sense of government data  —  When The Texas Tribune launched, Matt Stiles said the site was the .10 version of what it would be six months out.  Sixteen months later, the site's traffic a ...
• Fox News announces temporary suspension of New ...
  Chris Ariens / mediabistro.com: Fox News announces temporary suspension of Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum as Contributors  —  Fox News' Bret Baier just announced that the network has put a 60-day suspension on the paid contributor deals with both Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum — who are both ...
• WaPo's Steven King: Integrated Sponsorships Es ...
  David Cohen / WebNewser: WaPo's Steven King: Integrated Sponsorships Essential for Original Web Video  —  The Washington Post editor of video Steven King pinned the success of original news on the Web to securing integrated sponsorships during a panel at the Beet.TV Video Journalism Summit, mod ...

Chemtrail News

• Former FBI Chief Ted Gunderson Says Chemtra ...
  Former FBI Chief, Ted L. Gunderson, makes a statement regarding the chemtrail " death dumps", otherwise know as air crap, on January 12, 2011. ...dailypaul.com/.../former-fbi-chief-ted-gunderson-says-chemtr...
• Massive Las Vegas chemtrails today...
  Discussion about Massive Las Vegas chemtrails today... at the GodlikeProductions Conspiracy Forum. Our topics include Conspiracy Theory, Secret Societies, ...www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1377247/pg1
• How to prove chemtrails., page 1
  What I've learned so far from the “experts” on ATS about chemtrails and how to prove or disprove their existence in photographs. ...www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread667534/pg1
• YouTube Obama+CIA STOP Chemtrail Death ...
  credits video: http://aircrap.org & http://youtube.com/aircraporg & http://youtube.com/aircraporg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Gunderson Anthony ...www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO2MnnaJ4uc
• Chemtrails explained. (with visual aid) ...
  My question to those who believe in chemtrails is why don't planes leave contrails while near the ground? Is every pilot in on the chemtrail conspiracy? ...www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread668280/pg1

World News - Top Stories

• 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 ...

no frakking consensus

• Not Your Grandfather’s Greenpeace
  Environmental activist organizations are all grown up now. We need to adjust our thinking accordingly.
• Environmentalism Runs Amok
  Nearly half a century after the first Earth Day, the chessboard has changed dramatically. The players with the power, the war chests, and the influence are different now.
• You Doubt Monger, You
  When environmentalists organize themselves, fund-raise, and try to spread their message this is considered legitimate democratic activity. Yet the minute climate skeptics do the same we're accused of being doubt-mongers who manufacture uncertainty in order to mislead the public.
• Flying Cars and Sewing Machines
  People who look into the future and see only environmental devastation have lost their sense of wonder.
• The Never-Policy-Prescriptive Pachauri
  The chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on climate change thinks you and your children should feel chilly in the winter and too hot in the summer. He also thinks it's his business to decide what amount of meat consumption is healthy and desirable.

Pointman's

• The steady-state environment delusion
  Cosmologists have calculated that our particular universe is 13.7 billion years old. It came into existence with the big bang, as did space and time. Itâs big. It consists of lots of matter, especially hydrogen, which has aggregated into different objects. The ones we see in the night sky are t ...
• Line of Descent Chapter 22
  Chapter 22 He lay full length on the ground, concealed within a clump of vegetation through which he studied the house and the hastily built positions in front of it. He held a rifle which poked out in front of him, stopping two feet short of the end of the cover. It had been in … Read more
• Don’t just sit on your butt blogging, do somet ...
  Iâm a blogger and commenter and enjoy reading and contributing to a variety of blogs but thereâs one attitude in the blogosphere that really bugs me big time; the whinge and dump mentality of a lot of bloggers and contributors. Whatâs whinge and dump? Itâs the idea that once youâve spotted and c ...
• Moderating, trolls, soup ladles and Ethics.
  If youâre running a blog, one of the chores that has to be done on an ongoing basis is moderating comments. I operate the common system where a contributorâs first comment is held for moderation. If I approve it, then they can comment freely thereafter. If I donât, then theyâre effectively shut ...
• Immoderate moderation at the DT
  My friend Locusts has just put up a piece at his place about the decline of debate at the Daily Telegraph to “just above the level of public toilet graffiti.” I left it shortly after Disqus was rushed into service and a bizarre censorship regime imposed, leaving the comment below. Sadly, occasio ...

Journalists' Toolkit

• New tutorial: Windows Live Movie Maker
  As an aid to a journalism training session I agreed to give, I created a short PowerPoint that is aimed at journalism students. Windows Live Movie Maker Tutorial Windows Live Movie Maker is quite different from its predecessor — Windows Movie Maker (not “live”). It is less versatile in several w ...
• Convert WMA files with Switch
  Switch Sound File Converter is a free program from NCH Software. You can download it here (Mac or Windows). I have been using this program and recommending it widely for about two years. It’s easy to use, and it’s especially useful for converting WMA format files to WAV so that we can edit them ...
• Use Kuler, Photoshop to make a quick palette
  What’s the quickest way to whip up a beautiful color palette for a new website? 1. Start with Kuler, a free online tool from Adobe. 2. Register and sign in so you can download a color swatch for your chosen palette(s). Not signed in? Then you can’t download. (Pay attention to WHERE you save the ...
• New resource: Page Design Basics
  This resource — Page Design Basics — provides a very simple overview of how to lay out a Web page. Students new to using CSS often make a mess of it because they do not grasp the utility of DIVs. By introducing these four regions of a Web page, an instructor can help students understand [...]
• iMovie 09 tutorials for journalism students
  For journalism students just starting to learn video, I created two compact, illustrated handouts in fall 2010: Basic iMovie 09 Tutorial — PDF, 9 pages, 1 MB More iMovie 09 Tips (Part 2) — PDF, 6 pages, 552 KB The reason I made two handouts instead of one: In the first video editing class, I [.. ...

Justice Roars - Louisiana

• Tom Joyner Doesn't Understand New Orleans Soci ...
  2-Cent is a remarkable New Orleans-based arts and activist group who have built a national reputation for creating videos that are both informative and entertaining. They have received major national awards and rave reviews in the media. Their videos regularly get thousands of views, and the mos ...
• Louisiana Unions Organize “We Stand with Wisco ...
  From a press release by SEIU Local 21LA: “We Stand with Wisconsin,” a solidarity rally, will be held at 5:00pm on Wednesday outside of the Baton Rouge City Hall (the Governmental Building) located at 222 St. Louis Street. The event is being organized by Service Employees International Union (S ...
• Blind Human Rights Lawyer Beaten and Isolated ...
  By Bill Quigley Chen Guangcheng, a blind, 39 year old, self-taught, human rights lawyer in China who was recently released after years in prison has been put in home detention, isolated and beaten by authorities. Winner of numerous human rights awards, Mr. Chen was imprisoned for investigating ...
• Wheelchair-Bound Man Denied Basic Medical Care ...
  From our friends at ACLU of Louisiana: Seeking immediate help for a disabled man held since April in inhumane conditions at the Iberia Parish Correctional Center (“ICC”), the ACLU of Louisiana today submitted an emergency second request for relief on his behalf. Reginald Peters, who requires ...
• Disaster Profiteers Continue to Seek Wealth in ...
  As Haiti approaches the one-year anniversary of their massive earthquake, the country is still in crisis. It’s clear that – as with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina - much of the promised relief and reconstruction aid has not reached those affected by the disaster. The details of a recent ...

Truth About Our World

• The Complete Idiot’s Guide to the New Wo ...
• Government Promises to Cut Social Security in ...
  Activist Post It’s official, national austerity measures are here!  As Wisconsin protesters fill the streets because of lost rights and benefits to workers, the nation is gearing up to face similar losses with social security being cut.  Comedian George Carlin warned us that this day would co ...
• The Security Budget vs. the Necessities of Ame ...
  How does military spending impact Americans? by Kevin Zeese President Obama and the Congress have taken 66% of discretionary spending in the federal budget off the table –the SecurityBudget – while proposing a freeze to the rest of the budget and deep cuts to some programs that provide necessiti ...
• No seeds, no independent research
  Companies that genetically engineer crops have a lock on what we know about their safety and benefits. By Doug Gurian-Sherman Soybeans, corn, cotton and canola — most of the acres planted in these crops in the United States are genetically altered. “Transgenic” seeds reduce the use of some insec ...
• Media Demonizes Gaddafi as Pentagon Prepares A ...
  Kurt Nimmo Prison Planet.com Thursday, February 24, 2011 As we reported yesterday, the United States has specific instructions to intervene militarily in Libya under the cover of providing humanitarian assistance. Less than 24 hours after our report, the Pentagon has announced it is looking at “ ...

Blacklisted News

• Russian Military Claims Libya Air Strikes Did ...
  The Russian military claims that the supposed air strikes launched by Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi against protesters last week did not happen, suggesting that the key event seized upon by the global media as a justification for a “humanitarian” military intervention was a contrived hoax.
• 14 Potential Justifications For An Invasion Of ...
• Libya’s Bankers Exposed: Goldman, JP Morgan An ...
  Ten days ago, when we first looked at the Libyan investment authority (its sovereign wealth fund), we asked “Which US Banks Are Managing Billions For The $32 Billion Libyan Sovereign Wealth Fund?”
• Iran Arrests Opposition Leaders
  Crude Oil Climbs From One-Week Low as Iran Protests Add to Supply Concern
• Surveillance Blimp Launches In Utah
  Attempting a police omniscience seen in only about 20 U.S. cities, the Ogden Police Department is gearing up for a "real time crime center" to be operational soon after its Crime Blimp launches.

The Intelligence Daily

• U.S. And NATO Escalate World’s Deadliest War O ...
  By Rick Rozoff The United States and its military allies in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization...
• IntelFilter — March 2, 2011
  Today in History: March 2, 2002: U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins. Economy...
• Major Media Promote War on Libya
  By Stephen Lendman Related: Unverified Misreporting on Libya; World Oil Production Peaked in 2008...
• QE3? Several Top Federal Reserve Officials See ...
  By Michael T. Snyder (The Economic Collapse Blog) The end of QE2 is still several months away and...
• How much oil will be recoverable?
  By Gail Tverberg The world holds a huge amount of oil resources. Besides liquid oil, there is very...

My AntiWar

• IRAN PREDICTED TO BE WINNER FROM UPRISINGS
  Summary: “The Islamic Republic is very, very confident in the proposition that any government in the Arab world which becomes at all more representative of its people?s values, beliefs, concerns, preferences, interests; any government in the Arab world that becomes more representative of its ow ...
• Iran slams West military option on Libya
  Summary: Iran has warned the West against any military intervention in Libya, saying Western countries should not take advantage of the popular movement in Libya to turn the country into a military base. source: Press TVread more
• Tuesday: 6 Iraqis Killed; 7 Iraqis, 1 Pakistan ...
• Gadhafi Trying to Replace UN Ambassadors
• Israel: New Weapon Downed Gaza Anti-Tank Rocke ...

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

• IRAN PREDICTED TO BE WINNER FROM UPRISINGS
  Summary: "The Islamic Republic is very, very confident in the proposition that any government in the Arab world which becomes at all more representative of its people’s values, beliefs, concerns, preferences, interests; any government in the Arab world that becomes more representative of its ...
• Iran slams West military option on Libya
  Summary: Iran has warned the West against any military intervention in Libya, saying Western countries should not take advantage of the popular movement in Libya to turn the country into a military base. source: Press TVread more
• Iran’s Nuclear Crisis and the Way Out
  Summary: The issue of Iran’s nuclear program has been on the top of international issues, at least, for the past six years. It has been also a high priority for Europe and the U.S. Despite recent deadlock in diplomacy and pessimism about a possible peaceful settlement between Iran and 5+1, t ...
• 'Stability, A Cold Code Word With US'
  Summary: Noam ChomskyYou have to remember that stability is a cold code word. Stability doesn't mean stability; it means obedience to US domination. So let's go back to Kissinger again. He was the primary agent in, among other things, undermining the democratic regime in Chile. He later comm ...
• Iran naval mission 'not aggressive': admiral
  Summary: Iran's navy chief, Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayari, said on Monday that Iran's dispatch of two warships to the Mediterranean last week was not aggressive in aim. Sayari also said that the two ships, on their way to Syria, had come to the aid of a Hong Kong boat that had fallen to pi ...

The Daily Galaxy

• 'The Daily Galaxy' March Contest -Win a Free $ ...
  Use it towards a purchase of an iPhone, iPad, Apple TV or Hundreds of Other Apple Products and Accessories. Users of Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Reddit, and StumbleUpon are invited to discover, review and share Daily Galaxy posts you love on...
• White Dwarf Ripped Apart by a Supermassive Bla ...
  "We think these unusual signatures can be explained by a white dwarf that strayed too close to a black hole and was torn apart by the extreme tidal forces." Joel Bregman of the University of Michigan. Results from NASA's Chandra...
• "Giant Underground Chamber" Found on Moon By I ...
  The Indian Space Research Organization has discovered a "giant underground chamber" near the Moon's equator, in the Oceanus Procellarum area discovered by the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft—more than one mile long (1.7 kilometers) and 393 feet wide (120 meters)-big enough to contain...
• Rocky Mountain High: Mystery of the Origins o ...
  The formation of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado has puzzled scientists for decades. Some 600 miles inland and far removed from the nearest tectonic plate, the only comparable inland mountain range is the Himalaya, which were formed by the collision...
• Image of the Day: Mountains of Titan
  Zooming in through the orange, hazy atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon, an infrared camera onboard the Cassini spacecraft recorded this view of the tallest mountains ever seen on Titan. The high resolution, false-color mosaic shows a mountain range about 150...

Natural News

• Congressman Wu's bizarre behavior due to psych ...
  (NaturalNews) 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 ...
• Scientists say higher vitamin D intake will sl ...
  (NaturalNews) In findings just published in the journal Anticancer Research, scientists at the University of California (UC) San Diego School of Medicine and Creighton University School of Medicine in Omaha have reported that most people need a much higher intake of vitamin D. And that simple st ...
• Droves of bald eagles dropping from skies in C ...
  (NaturalNews) Bald eagles in the Comox Valley of British Columbia, Can., are having a difficult time finding food these days. A recent report in The Province explains that the birds are literally starving and falling from the sky, adding to the string of strange animal events that has occurred i ...
• Financial preparedness webcast event announced ...
  (NaturalNews) NaturalNews editor Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, is collaborating with radio host Robert Scott Bell to host a live webcast event on Sunday, March 20, to bring NaturalNews readers a collection of economic preparedness strategies. "The global economic storm is approaching," explaine ...
• New mini documentary exposes the truth about f ...
  (NaturalNews) Water fluoridation around the world is achieved through the purchase of chemically contaminated toxic waste chemicals from China which are then labeled "fluoride" and dumped into public water supplies in local cities and towns. That's the conclusion of a shocking new mini documenta ...

Threat Level

• ‘Nude’ Airport Scanners: Are They Safe?
  Part 1: Are They Constitutional? Part 2: Are They Safe? Part 3: Do They Work? March 8 John Sedat, a biochemistry and biophysics professor, says he’s not going to get on an airplane again — at least not until the TSA rethinks its deployment of hundreds of body scanners that hit travelers ...
• Supreme Court Says AT&T Not Exempt From FOIA
  Corporations don’t reap the same privacy protections as do people, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously Tuesday. The court, with Justice Elena Kagan recused, said AT&T did not enjoy the “personal privacy” provision of the Freedom of Information Act as the telecom had claimed. The act exempts the ...
• Former Senator Chris Dodd Named MPAA Chief
  Christopher Dodd, the former five-term Democratic senator from Connecticut, was named Tuesday to head the Motion Picture Association of America. Dodd, who just retired after declining to run for a sixth Senate term, replaces Bob Pisano, the lobbying group’s interim chief. In April, Pisano filled ...
• Defining Internet ‘Freedom’: Ars Interviews Se ...
  Since winning election to the U.S. Senate in 2008, Al Franken (D-Minnesota) has become one of that chamber’s top net neutrality defenders. With the House uninterested in compromise on the issue, the real push to gut the FCC’s existing net neutrality order will take place this year in the Senate ...
• Court Likely to Uphold Constitutionality of ‘N ...
  Part 1:Are They Constitutional? Part 2:Are They Safe? March 2 Part 3:Do They Work? March 8 Airline passengers in the United States understand they will be treated as suspected terrorists when going through airport security checkpoints. Yet nearly a decade after the Sept. 11, 2001 ...

PERRspectives : Blog

• Republicans Push National Race to the Bottom
  Just days after his sneering "so be it" at the prospect of massive job losses which could result from GOP budget policies, House Speaker John Boehner declared public employees have a "machine gun" pointed "at the heads of local officials." That makes Boehner just the latest Republican leader re ...
• McCain Adviser: GOP Spending Plan Could Kill 7 ...
  Last summer, Moody's economist and former adviser to Republican presidential candidate John McCain Mark Zandi authored a study which concluded that combined federal interventions beginning in the fall of 2008 prevented the Great Recession from becoming Depression 2.0. Now in a new report, Zandi ...
• A Modest Proposal to Rescue the States
  During the debate over the stimulus program in early 2009, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell proposed, "If the money were lent rather than just granted, states would, I think, spend it wisely and the states that didn't need it at all wouldn't take any." Now would be a good time to take him ...
• State Budget Cuts Imperil U.S. Economic Recove ...
  As all eyes remained focused on the union-busting face-off in Wisconsin, the Commerce Department on Friday released a revised estimate of U.S. economic growth for the last quarter of 2010. And that downward GDP revision not only shatters prevailing myths about supposedly bloated government spen ...
• Republicans Push to Legalize Anti-Abortion Ter ...
  During his 2004 campaign, Oklahoma Republican Senator Tom Coburn declared, "I favor the death penalty for abortionists." Four years later, vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin famously refused to condemn an abortion clinic bomber as a "terrorist." Last week, a GOP mayoral candidate in Jacks ...

Blackspot News Feed

• Madison Protests May Spark a New Era of Protes ...
  by Billy Wharton Guest Writer Dandelion Salad Examiner.com February 17, 2011 February 18, 2011 Protests are erupting across Wisconsin in response to Governor Scott Walker’s proposal to strip public employees of the right to collectively bargain in order to impose a severe austerity package. The ...
• Night Music: Talvihorros
• Democratic Senators Leave State to Stall Bill ...
  Madison, Wisconsin - In a continuing attempt to stall a vote on the anti-union bill proposed by Gov. Scott Walker, the 14 Democratic senators have left the state with state troopers dispatched by Republican Senate leaders on their heels. Without at least one additional senator in the chamber, th ...
• House Votes to Defund Planned Parenthood, Jack ...
  Editors Note: Update, the house voted to defund Planned Parenthood.  Since gaining the upper-hand in the House, Republicans have led what Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) called “the most comprehensive and radical assault on women’s health in our lifetime.” read more
• Security Forces in Bahrain Open Fire on Mourne ...
  Manama, Bahrain - Government forces opened fire on hundreds of mourners marching toward Pearl Square Friday, sending people running away in panic amid the boom of concussion grenades. But even as the people fled, at least one helicopter sprayed fire on them and a witness reported seeing mourners ...

Consortium News

• Kicking the Vietnam Syndrome
  Two decades ago, Bush-41 revealed a secret aim of the Gulf War ground attack: the Vietnam Syndrome, reports Robert Parry. February 28, 2011
• Ten Reasons Why Wall Street Skated
  Wall Street pulled off a massive financial heist and then made a getaway with nary a legal scratch, notes Danny Schechter. February 28, 2011
• Gates Agrees, Bush's Wars Were Nuts
  Defense Secretary Robert Gates's repudiation of Iraq- and Afghan-type wars demands more accountability, says Robert Parry. February 27, 2011
• America's Radical 'Conservatism'
  The modern American Right has turned "conservatism" into a radical movement of risky ideas, warns Lawrence Davidson. February 26, 2011
• America, a Land of No Prophets
  Biblical prophets chastised the powerful and spoke for the poor, but America lacks such a voice, laments Rev. Howard Bess. February 26, 2011

CounterPunch

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

Institute for Middle East Understanding

• Gaza woman confronts MK Nachman Shai over the ...
• Netanyahu's promise to dismantle settlements i ...
  The prime minister said yesterday, "We need to do things that will placate the international community so that we can protect the settlements." That is exactly what he is doing. By d ...
• Report: Israel to legalize tens of outposts ( ...
  Israel is moving to "immediately dismantle all illegal settlement outposts built on privately-owned Palestinian land," Israeli media reported Tuesday citing army officials. The Israel ...
• Israeli settlers burn Palestinian home, cars ...
  Israeli settlers damaged cars and tried to burn down a house in Palestinian villages in the West Bank Monday night and Tuesday, police told CNN. The actions followed removal of three ...
• Pete Seeger endorses BDS, shuns Jewish Nationa ...
  Legendary folklorist, singer, songwriter and long time political activist Pete Seeger has officially announced his support for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel, a pres ...

Water - AlterNet

• What Does the Right to Water Entail?
  The U.N. Independent Expert on human rights obligations related to access to safe drinking water and sanitation is visiting the US right now.
• 4 Ocean Wonders You've Never Heard Of That Des ...
  Sadly, many of these wonders are threatened by unbridled fishing pressure, deluges of castaway plastics and rising seas.
• Get Ready: The GOP Has Declared War on the Env ...
  Republicans are trying to take down the EPA and with it environmental regulation that seeks to protect our air, water, food and health.
• Legislators Are Going to Unbelievable Lengths ...
  'As an air-breather and a water-drinker, I take offense to the notion that coal company profits are more important than my children's lives.'
• Don't Buy the False Promise of Industrial Agri ...
  Genetically engineered food and industrial agriculture won't save us from climate change, droughts and food insecurity -- in fact, it's just the opposite.

Public Citizen in Texas

• Republican’s reluctantly agree to hear testimo ...
  Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-Ky.), chairman of the panel’s Energy and Power subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, agreed to schedule a hearing next Tuesday on two new studies that link climate change to severe weather at the request of Democrats. Full committee ranking Democrat Henry ...
• Formula One: Economic Fantasy and Fiscal Myth
  The following post is a guest contribution by Citizen Richard of Audits in the Public Interest. In late spring of 2010, Austin residents woke to the grand news their city had been selected as the host city for Formula One racing in the United States.  Amidst the hype, and not immediately noticed ...
• WCS press conferance 102 [Flickr]
  Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:
• WCS press conferance 101 [Flickr]
  Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:
• WCS press conferance 100 [Flickr]
  Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:

Unexplained Mysteries

• Serbian flight controllers "contact UFO"
  Air traffic controllers in Yakutsk claim to have been buzzed by a UFO and contacted by its occupants. The object was spotted moving at high speed at a...
• LHC 'has two years to find Higgs'
  Scientists expect to find the Higgs boson particle via the Large Hadron Collider by the end of 2012. It is thought that if the particle is not found w...
• Bangkok girl Named world's hairiest
  An eleven-year-old from Bangkok has received the coveted title of "world's hairiest girl". Most eleven year old girls are proud of full heads of hair....
• Mysterious 3km crack appears in Peru
  The crack which measures up to 100m across is believed not to have been caused by an earthquake. USGS data for Peru confirms that there was no activit...
• Town overrun by abandoned wild horses
  Horses believed to have been left behind by gypsies terrorize South Wales town. Some are dying of starvation, others have been hit by cars. All 250 ho...

Grassroots

• We Are the Solution: Celebrating African Famil ...
  ayesha_-_woman_farmer_griot_from_senegal_-_we_are_the_solution_4.jpg � According to Grassroots International ally Fahamu, �Agriculture�� remains the main source of income of a rural population generally estimated at 70% of the total popula ...
• "Pourquoi la campagne": Via Campesina Africa l ...
  fatimatou_hima_plateforme_paysanne_du_niger.jpg In 2008, I was privileged to attend the 5th international conference of Grassroots International partner the Via Campesina, in Matola, Mozambique. The Via, a global movement representing over ...
• Anti-violence campaign spreads through Central ...
  guate-women.jpg In Central America, a new campaign to stop violence against women is gaining momentum. Launched by the Via Campesina International (the Via), the campaign is aimed at changing not only the attitudes of men towards women, bu ...
• Final Declaration from the World Assembly of S ...
  wsf-dakar4.jpg From to Tunisia to Egypt to Senegal, African social movements are reclaiming their political space. As people demonstrated – and celebrated – in the streets of Cairo, thousands of participants gathered for the World Social F ...
• New Scramble for Africa
  mozambique200811-small.jpg It is the tradition at World Social Forums (WSF) to focus a considerable amount of time, energy, resources and attention on issues faced by people in the host region and country. The 2011 World Social Forum in ...

Climate

• House Republicans Expect Dem Backing for Plan ...
  Source:� The Hill Key House Republicans expect to officially introduce a bill in the next week that would permanently block the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gas emissions.
• Global Warming Means More Snowstorms: Scientis ...
  Source:� AFP Climate change is not only making the planet warmer, it is also making snowstorms stronger and more frequent, US scientists said on Tuesday.
• Ethanol Law Reform Could Save $5.7 Billion Per ...
  Source:� Reuters Reform of U.S. ethanol incentives could save up to $5.7 billion a year, a congressional watchdog said on Tuesday as ethanol critics called on Congress to let the tax breaks expire.
• Survey: Pollution Down Because of Cap and Trad ...
  Source:� AP The European system for putting a price on carbon emissions is making a small dent in the amount big energy companies are polluting, according to a survey of more than 2,500 companies.
• SolarReserve Projects Hinge on DOE Loan Guaran ...
  Source:� Reuters The success of SolarReserve's first two U.S. solar power projects hinges on the survival of the Department of Energy loan guarantee program, the company's chief executive said on Tuesday.

GreenBiz

• Dow Puts $100M Towards Employee Energy Efficie ...
  �Dow Chemical Company is asking its employees for the best ideas that can improve energy efficiency, setting aside $100 million for improvement projects.
• IBM Unveils Software to Virtualize a Data Cent ...
  At the annual IBM Pulse conference, the computing giant has released a slew of new products and services, including a virtual deployment software that make energy-saving virtualization projects a near-instant process.
• IBM Steps Up Pace and Power of Software for Sm ...
  More than 7,000 IT, building, infrastructure and other professionals flocked to IBM's annual Pulse conference in Las Vegas to hear about the company's latest solutions for making the built environment smarter, more efficient and better connected.
• News Corp. Meets Carbon Neutral Goal, Looks fo ...
  Rupert Murdoch revealed today that his media empire achieved carbon neutral status in late 2010. News Corp., home to a range of properties such as the Fox News Channel and MySpace, also unveiled a mix of short-term and aspirational long-term goals to guide its environmental efforts moving forw ...
• Safeguarding Water Supplies Starts by Protecti ...
  When it comes to clean water, investing in green infrastructure can be cheaper than gray

Reuters Global

• Tweet like an Egyptian — Hillary Clinton ...
  Young Egyptians, who famously used Internet services like Facebook and Twitter to launch their recent revolution, turned the focus on Hillary Clinton on Wednesday and peppered the top U.S. diplomat with skeptical questions about longtime U.S. support for former President Hosni Mubarak and what ...
• Could revolt spread in Africa?
  So far there hasn’t been much political fallout in the rest of Africa from the revolts in the northernmost states. Could the revolt in Libya change the dynamic?
• On U.S.-Taliban talks, look at 2014 and work b ...
  Any talks between the U.S. and the Taliban will be a long haul. Consider what might be possible in 2014 and work back."
• ElBaradei: From nuclear diplomat to Cairo poli ...
  Egyptians have hardly embraced him since his return to the country, and Washington is deeply suspicious of the Nobel Prize winner, but don't write off Mohamed ElBaradei yet.
• Afghanistan: Petraeus, personalities and polic ...
  The Washington Post quotes officials saying Petraeus will leave Afghanistan this year. If confirmed, it could herald a policy shift.

Booman Tribune

• Humpday Odds & Ends
  Christine O'Donnell has declined an invitation to appear on Dancing With the Stars, proving that she isn't as low class as the Palin family. If Jane Harman has a preference on who will replace her in Congress, you can be sure that I'll support the opponent in the primaries. Can we get a pr ...
• So, What's Next?
  So, we'll have a two-week extension (roll call), but then what?: While the freshmen members disagree within their own caucus over which specific programs need to be cut, they agree that the government should reduce its role substantially in areas ranging from environmental regulations and edu ...
• The Stupidest Thing I've Ever Read
  There is a scene in the movie Office Space where the main character tells his therapist that his life sucks and every day is worse than the last. His therapist thinks about this and responds, "That would mean that every day is the worst day of your life." I bring this up because I feel lik ...
• Incipit Newt 2.0
  I eagerly await Newt Gingrich's announcement that he is forming an exploratory committee to run for president. His timing is perfect. As we approach a government shutdown orchestrated by uncompromising Republican radicals, the time is ripe for Newt 2.0. And, the best part is that we c ...
• Wanker of the Day: George Will
  George Will is a good looking man but he isn't very smart. He wants to explain to us why liberals and progressives like trains: Forever seeking Archimedean levers for prying the world in directions they prefer, progressives say they embrace high-speed rail for many reasonsto improve the clim ...

European Tribune

• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch ...
  �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europeans on this date in history:1797 The Bank of...
• Tuesday Open Thread
  Time for some open space...
• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch ...
  �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europe on this date in history:1700 - Sweden adopts...
• Europe 2020 Project Bonds Consultation
  Another European Commission consultation for us to take a stab at: EUROPA - Press Releases:...
• Monday Open Thread
  Avoid any specific discussion of public policy at public meetings. Cicero...

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

• Mental Health Prescription: A Good Life
  A GoodTherapy.org News Summary The burden of life unfolding not according to plan can be the trigger that sets a mental health problem in motion, such as falling into depression after divorce or suffering PTSD after experiencing a trauma. Other times, life’s situations exacerbate problems we wer ...
• How is Depression Detected?
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline There’s no blood test, eye chart, brain scan, or any other quick way to tell if someone is depressed. Detecting depression is nuanced and difficult. Some people are screened when they visit their doctor, but even the most commonly-used scales for screening have th ...
• Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up
  A GoodTherapy.org Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up Enjoy this week’s top psychotherapy and psychology news and let us know what you think :-) Meditation Beats Dance for Harmonizing Body and Mind The Need for Culturally Responsive Mental Health Outreach Low Self-Esteem Increases Prejudice Plann ...
• Part II: Notes from a Men’s Group – Anger, Sar ...
  By Richard J. Loebl, LSCW, PA, Men’s Issues Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Richard and/or see his GoodTherapy.org Profile This is the second entry in a series of blog articles about a menâs therapy group that I conduct on a weekly basis. For background information on the group se ...
• Can Depression Be Treated Effectively Without ...
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline To date, psychotherapy (or psychotherapy combined with carefully-monitored prescriptions, sometimes temporarily) is recognized as the most effective way to treat depression. Unfortunately, Britain is experiencing a shortage in qualified therapists and counselors, ...

Mountaintop Removal

• For the Sake of 24 Jobs The Biggest Environmen ...
  Coal Geology For the Sake of 24 Jobs The Biggest Environmental Crime in America CounterPunch 1 Mine would have been the largest mountaintop removal (MTR) mine in US history. Predictably, the coal industry decried the loss of the 250 jobs the mine would have provided over its 15-year lifespan. T ...
• Consol gets permit in deal with EPA - Charlest ...
  Consol gets permit in deal with EPA Charleston Gazette The Consol deep mine permit was among 15 mining projects still under review as part of more detailed permit studies by the EPA, initiated by the agency in large part to crack down on the impacts of mountaintop removal coal mining. ... and ...
• One Week After Protest, Fights Against Mountai ...
  One Week After Protest, Fights Against Mountaintop Removal, EPA Continue WFPL A group of 14 protesters spent the weekend in Beshear's office protesting the surface mining technique commonly called Mountaintop Removal. The sit-in ended with the annual I Love Mountains Day rally in Frankfort on t ...
• Congressional Heroes Say No to Mountaintop Rem ...
  Congressional Heroes Say No to Mountaintop Removal Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) EPA's authority to curb mountaintop removal mining was no exception. As my colleague Jon Devine noted a few days ago, coal industry allies in Congress offered multiple amendments striking at EPA's abilit ...
• Bank of America and Citi: Closed for the Clima ...
  Bank of America and Citi: Closed for the Climate's Sake It's Getting Hot In Here Bank of America and Citi have gotten a lot of flack for their past investments in activities like rainforest destruction and mountaintop removal. Thanks to years of pressure from groups like the Rainforest Action N ...

Memeorandum

• Biden to lead budget negotiations (David Roger ...
  David Rogers / The Politico: Biden to lead budget negotiations  —  With a stopgap measure in place, Senate Democrats said Wednesday that they will forestall any spending debate on the floor in favor of what they hope will be immediate budget negotiations between themselves, Republicans and a W ...
• Fox News pulls Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum of ...
  Matea Gold / Los Angeles Times: Fox News pulls Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum off the air because of their interest in running for president  —  Fox News suspends the contracts of political contributors Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum because both have demonstrated that they are seriously conside ...
• Frankfurt airport shooting: Two dead and two i ...
  BBC: Frankfurt airport shooting: Two dead and two injured  —  Police told German media the shooting took place inside the bus  —  Two people have died after a gunman opened fire on a bus carrying American soldiers at Frankfurt airport, police say.  —  The driver of the bus and a US soldier …
• Fox News suspends Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum ...
  Jennifer Epstein / The Politico: Fox News suspends Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum  —  Fox News has suspended contributors Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum effective immediately until they decide whether to run for president.  —  Anchor Bret Baier announced on air late Wednesday morning that the n ...
• Supreme Court rules First Amendment protects c ...
  Robert Barnes / Washington Post: Supreme Court rules First Amendment protects church's right to picket funerals  —  A nearly unanimous Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the First Amendment protects even hurtful speech about public issues and upheld the right of a fringe church to protest near ...

Energy & Environment News

• Green: Eastern Cougar Is Extinct, Agency Decla ...
  "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."
• Green: On Our Radar: Attempted Homicide Charge ...
  The bicycle ride was organized by the group Critical Mass, which advocates cycling as an environmentally friendly form of transportation.
• Dot Earth: Alex Steffen, a Designing Optimist
  Alex Steffen, a designing optimist, lays out a blueprint for a successful century.
• Uncertainty Drives Up Oil Prices
  Any interruptions from countries like Iran, Oman and Iraq would further tighten oil supplies.
• News Analysis: Tremors from Libya Contribute t ...
  A spike in the price of oil has many wondering how high it will go and what the fallout could be to recovery in the United States.

5+ quakes - 7 days

• M 5.2, eastern Honshu, Japan
  Saturday, February 26, 2011 20:38:02 UTCSunday, February 27, 2011 05:38:02 AM at epicenterDepth: 3.30 km (2.05 mi)
• M 5.2, central East Pacific Rise
  Saturday, February 26, 2011 17:17:52 UTCSaturday, February 26, 2011 10:17:52 AM at epicenterDepth: 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
• M 5.6, east of the South Sandwich Islands
  Monday, February 28, 2011 11:04:13 UTCMonday, February 28, 2011 10:04:13 AM at epicenterDepth: 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
• M 5.4, southern East Pacific Rise
  Saturday, February 26, 2011 19:24:21 UTCSaturday, February 26, 2011 11:24:21 AM at epicenterDepth: 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
• M 5.2, near the east coast of Honshu, Japan
  Saturday, February 26, 2011 15:38:42 UTCSunday, February 27, 2011 12:38:42 AM at epicenterDepth: 21.30 km (13.24 mi)

China Dialogue

• America’s coal war
  As the US row over mountaintop mining rages on, Cathy Kunkel urges politicians in West Virginia to embrace a more sustainable future.In January 2011, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) provoked an outcry in West Virginia, America's second-largest coal-producing state, by denying a vall ...
• Beijing’s blue-sky diary
  China’s capital has just endured a week of particularly hazardous pollution. In one year, how many good-air-quality days does the city see? Chen Zifan spoke with two residents who captured the visual evidence.Over the last year, two young Beijingers have roamed the streets and lanes of the city, ...
• “We’re moving too slowly”
  Gro Harlem Brundtland – high priestess of sustainable development – tells Joydeep Gupta why progress towards a healthier, happier planet is still too slow, wrapping up our special series on well-being economics.Gro Harlem Brundtland is the high priestess of sustainable development. The former he ...
• Bhutan’s experiment with happiness
  By giving well-being a central role in policymaking, the tiny Kingdom of Bhutan has staged a trial that has gripped the world. Dipika Chhetri reports on the environmental impacts.In global discussions about climate change and environment, the word “happiness” is surprisingly rare. But in Bhutan, ...
• “China must measure happiness”
  To sustain the benefits of China’s rapid ascension, politicians should broaden their policy goals, writes leading economist Hu Angang, setting out his prescription for a national happiness index.In the years after the Second World War, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) established itself as the main ...

AlterNet Top Stories

• Rethink the Cost of War With Us on March 12
  The movement to end the Afghanistan War is gaining momentum, and on March 12, it will gain some more. In a little less than two weeks, supporters of Rethink Afghanistan (”Rethinkers”) will get together with their neighbors in hundreds of communities to talk about what can be done locally to get ...
• Note to GOP: Jesus Wouldn't Have Destroyed the ...
  Our everyday choices are fraught with moral complications. We can do the right thing or find a scapegoat to blame and make the immoral decision.
• Facebook Will Share Users' Contact Info With T ...
• Rachel’s Sabbath and the Far Right&#8217 ...
  Written by Sandy Eisenberg Sasso, and posted on RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice.This article was originally published by the IndyStar.com.In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day, congregations across the coun ...
• Arizona: Anti-Immigrant Legislation Gets Worse
  This post originally appeared on the Ms. Foundation for Women’s Igniting Change blog. While Republican statehouses in Wisconsin, Indiana and Ohio are trying to push through sweeping anti-worker legislation, the virulent anti-immigrant bills just keep coming: in a move that could leave million ...

Threat Level

• ‘Nude’ Airport Scanners: Are They Safe?
  Part 1: Are They Constitutional? Part 2: Are They Safe? Part 3: Do They Work? March 8 John Sedat, a biochemistry and biophysics professor, says he’s not going to get on an airplane again — at least not until the TSA rethinks its deployment of hundreds of body scanners that hit travelers ...
• Supreme Court Says AT&T Not Exempt From FOIA
  Corporations don’t reap the same privacy protections as do people, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously Tuesday. The court, with Justice Elena Kagan recused, said AT&T did not enjoy the “personal privacy” provision of the Freedom of Information Act as the telecom had claimed. The act exempts the ...
• Former Senator Chris Dodd Named MPAA Chief
  Christopher Dodd, the former five-term Democratic senator from Connecticut, was named Tuesday to head the Motion Picture Association of America. Dodd, who just retired after declining to run for a sixth Senate term, replaces Bob Pisano, the lobbying group’s interim chief. In April, Pisano filled ...
• Defining Internet ‘Freedom’: Ars Interviews Se ...
  Since winning election to the U.S. Senate in 2008, Al Franken (D-Minnesota) has become one of that chamber’s top net neutrality defenders. With the House uninterested in compromise on the issue, the real push to gut the FCC’s existing net neutrality order will take place this year in the Senate ...
• Court Likely to Uphold Constitutionality of ‘N ...
  Part 1:Are They Constitutional? Part 2:Are They Safe? March 2 Part 3:Do They Work? March 8 Airline passengers in the United States understand they will be treated as suspected terrorists when going through airport security checkpoints. Yet nearly a decade after the Sept. 11, 2001 ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

• Supreme Court allows military funeral anti-gay ...
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that a church has the legal right to stage anti-gay protests at military funerals to promote its claim that God is angry at America for its tolerance of homosexuality.
• Robert Kennedy assassin to face parole board
  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Sirhan Sirhan, the convicted assassin of Senator Robert Kennedy serving a life sentence for the 1968 murder, will face a parole board on Wednesday for the 14th time.
• Wall St gains as jobs report offsets high oil
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks were slightly higher on Wednesday as strong labor market data offset the impact of continued high oil prices.
• UPDATE 2-Apple set to unveil new iPad, with or ...
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• Oil, gold gain on Middle East tension
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Brent crude oil futures finished Tuesday at their highest level in 2-1/2 years, U.S. crude rose over 2 percent, and investors quest for safety sent gold to an all-time high, on fears political turmoil in Libya would spread to other oil producing countries.

IntelNews

• Cold War KGB agent Judith Coplon dies in Manha ...
  Judith Coplon, an American Justice Department analyst who spied for the Soviet Union, and whose 1949 espionage trial became an international sensation, died last weekend in New York. Continue reading →
• News you may have missed #480 (Libya edition)
  Unconfirmed: Gadaffi fires spy chief. Libya's poison gas stockpiles reportedly unaffected by turmoil. Libya replaces ambassador to US who defected. Continue reading →
• US reducing spy presence in Pakistan, say pape ...
  Several Pakistani publications report that the United States has suspended some of its intelligence operations in Pakistan and is pulling some of its operatives out of the country. Continue reading →
• News you may have missed #479 (Iran edition)
  Iran arrests alleged CIA agent. Yemen charges family with spying for Iran. Leaked intelligence report claims Iran intensifies uranium hunt. Continue reading →
• Media concealed agent’s CIA capacity at US req ...
  Several American news outlets withheld information about the CIA capacity of a US citizen who was arrested in Pakistan last month after killing two men. Continue reading →

War is a Crime.org

• Scott Horton to Obama Butt Out of Libya!
• Madison, Wisconsin--Which Side Are You On?
  A unionized public employee, an ill-informed citizen, and a CEO are sitting at a table. In the middle of the table is a plate with a dozen cookies on it. The CEO reaches across and takes 11 cookies, looks at the ill-informed citizen and says, "Watch out for that union guy. He wants a piece of ...
• HEBRON: Israeli soldiers attack nonviolent dem ...
  From CPT by Samuel Nichols �[Note, Nichols� original piece is available on Waging Nonviolence.] �An estimated one thousand Palestinians, joined by Israeli and international activists, took to the streets on Friday, 25 February, to demand the opening of Shuhada Street, a former thoroughfare in th ...
• What's Wrong With This picture!
  China has set an annual growth target of 7% to ensure sustainable development during its new five-year plan A power plant in Pinghu. To fuel the growth in GDP, China’s energy demand has surged by 220%. Photograph: Philippe Lopez/AFP/Getty Images 28 February 2011 - China will try to slow GDP gro ...
• ‘I wish to live without wars’
  Dear friends of all People, Day of the People’s Peace Afghan News Year’s Day on 21st of March 2011 Abdulai, 15 year old Afghan student and farmer, says : Please watch I see the unchanging System of the Rich and Powerful in which my world is Violently collapsing, and human hope for a decent ...

Grist - News

• Fish consumption at all time high, says U.N. a ...
  by Agence France-Presse. ROME -- Fish consumption reached record levels in 2010 and world stocks need to be urgently rebuilt, experts at the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said in a report Monday. "The contribution of fish to global diets has reached a record of almost 17 kil ...
• Bordeaux vineyards go organic, slowly but sure ...
  by Agence France-Presse. BORDEAUX, France -- Two historical Bordeaux wine estates have gone green, breaking a long resistance to organic viticulture amongst the region's elite producers. "Still in 2011, there are people who do not trust in the fact that it is possible to grow organic in Bor ...
• U.N. Chief Ban Ki-moon shifts focus from clima ...
  by Agence France-Presse. LONDON -- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is shifting his focus away from involvement in international climate change talks and toward new areas in the fight against global warming. Ban is to redirect his efforts from trying to push forward the international clim ...
• New Senate bill aims to avoid next oil spill
  by Agence France-Presse. WASHINGTON -- Senators plan to introduce in the coming weeks new legislation aiming to prevent another disastrous oil spill like last year's massive gusher in the Gulf of Mexico, Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) said Wednesday. A similar bill that would revise offshore ...
• Big cities are not always the biggest polluter ...
  by Agence France-Presse. WASHINGTON -- Big cities like New York, London, and Shanghai send less pollution into the atmosphere per capita than places like Denver and Rotterdam, said a study released Tuesday. Researchers examined data from 100 cities in 33 nations for clues about which were ...

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Time - Top Stories

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• After the iPad 2, the Far Superior iPad 3?
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Farming Pathogens

• Egypt’s Food Pyramids
  A million minds momentarily magnetizing themselves along the same axis can turn a country’s deepest despair into an ecstatic sprint for freedom. What a people find revolting–a dictator decorated in American apologia–can be turned by a people’s revolt ridiculous. No wonder so much effort (and mon ...
• The Scientific American
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• Fearful Symmetry
  A colleague, genuinely perplexed, even outraged, asked me what the fuck was going on with all those dead birds in Arkansas. And, tongue-in-cheek, what would Mulder and Scully say? Scully: Mulder, it’s me. I got your message. Really, Beebe, Arkansas for a flock of dead birds? Does Skinner approve ...
• The Great Recession Flu
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• Alien vs. Predator
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Suzie-Q

• Clinton: Libya no-fly zone under active consid ...
  Foreign Policy Posted By Josh Rogin Tuesday, March 1, 2011 – 12:41 P Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Tuesday that the administration is actively considering implementing a no-fly zone over Libya and gave a full-throated defense of robust State Department funding. Clinton testified on ...
• Koch Industries Makes Billions Corrupting Gove ...
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• Koch Industries Makes Billions By Demanding Ba ...
  REPORT: How Koch Industries Makes Billions By Demanding Bailouts And Taxpayer Subsidies (Part 1) Think Progress- By Lee Fang on Mar 1st, 2011 at 1:00 pm Koch Industries, the international conglomerate owned by Charles and David Koch, is not only the second largest private company in America, it ...
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Solari

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• Robyn O’Brien: The Real Price of Food
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• Quote du Jour
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• Inside Job - Oscar Winner Acceptance Speech
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• The King’s Speech Charms The Oscars
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Insurgency Watch - Newswire

• Times Scare
  ISLAMABAD–The apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job ...
• Stepping up - University at Buffalo The Spectr ...
  Stepping up University at Buffalo The Spectrum The president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, recognized the direness of the situation and began to mobilize military forces to combat the Taliban. ... and more��
• Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of ...
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• Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United P ...
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• Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA ...
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AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

• 5 Ways You Can Fight 'Citizens United' and Rec ...
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• What Does the Right to Water Entail?
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• How You Can Boycott the Kochs
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Sideways News

• Could you be a 10:10 community champion?
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• Brit mums strict about eco-chores
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• UK venue offers rainforest weddings
  Getting married in a luscious rainforest has never been easier or more eco-friendly, according to the Eden Project.
• Battery recycling 'too difficult'
  The European Recycling Platform (ERP) reports that while only a third of households at present recycle batteries, four out of five said they would do so if it was made easier.
• 10 green resolutions to save you money
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Fabius Maximus

• An educational toy for your children (from the ...
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• Off to invade, again! Another nation’s ...
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• Inciting fear of inflation in our minds for po ...
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• An explanation of the US and Pak governments&# ...
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• America’s broken OODA loop in action: a ...
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Open Your Eyes News

• Libya’s rulers must know crimes against humani ...
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• 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 ...
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• Fighting back, Gaddafi forces seize eastern to ...
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The Progressive Realist

• Charlie Sheen, U.S. Power and Libya
  There's so much to love about Charlie Sheen's diatribes that about the only improvement I can think of would be to have Jean-Claude Van Damme be the one interviewing him. Obscured by the spectacle of Sheen's crash-and-burn party are some very serious critiques of the consensus drug treatment par ...
• Democracy and Human Rights: Rethinking US Fore ...
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• Clashes Erupt in Cities Across Iran
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• “Never Get Involved in a Land War in Asia”: Ga ...
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TAPPED - The American Prospect

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• Court Protects First Amendment Rights of Fred ...
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• Race and the Political Economy of the South
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  In the last year or so, Republicans have fallen in love with "uncertainty." It started with the debate over whether to extend the Bush tax cuts, which, they argued, was necessary to end uncertainty so businesses could start hiring. Very quickly, the uncertainty cloud fell down on all kinds of is ...

Buzzflash

• Dear Tea Party: You've Been Had
  JONATHAN MCHENRY FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT   Letter to all the Tea Party patriots of America,   Like a modern day Paul Revere I travel across our country calling the British are coming, the British are coming, although this time it is a much more sinister enemy that is coming to take our countr ...
• Gingrich Is a Whale of a Candidate If You're I ...
  While Newt Gingrich is going around the country courting conservative Christians and complaining that America is "too secular a society," its "religious belief ... [is being] challenged by a cultural elite," and "God is [being] driven out of public life," his 527, American Solutions for Winning ...
• When Puppets Reveal Their Puppeteers
  TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Right wingers often foam at the mouth over claims that George Soros manipulates untold masses But when Scott Walker sucks up to "David Koch" on tape It's dismissed as how the left wing harasses. http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/02/wis-afl-cio-ad-featu ...
• If the Buck Stops at the Top, Scott Walker is ...
  MARK KARLIN, BUZZFLASH EDITOR FOR TRUTHOUT It was June of 2010 and Jerald Kellner, 15-years-old, was on his way to Miwaukee's "Summerfest" when he was killed by a slab of falling concrete in a parking garage poorly maintained by Milwaukee County. Scott Walker, then the long-term chief executive ...
• Governor Walker and the "Outside Agitators"
  Body The hypocrisy fairly reeks in discussions about how to heal our debt-ridden economy. Over and over again we are told the government must put its financial house in order the way ordinary Americans do by not spending more than it takes in. But in our society credit-card debt i ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

• Shifting editorial standards
  The NYT accuses Julian Assange of anti-Semitic comments even though it has no idea if it's true
• The nationalism bias of journalists
  Jack Goldsmith believes U.S. journalists are guided by allegiance to American interests, and that this is good
• U.S. shields foreign mercenaries in Libya to p ...
  A U.N. resolution bars war crimes prosecutions for Libya's foreign fighters because Obama officials demanded it
• The military/media attacks on the Hastings art ...
  WSJ, MSNBC reporters attack an expose. Plus, this just in from the NYT: "we tried our best not to be misleading"
• The DOJ's creeping war on whistle-blowers
  Federal investigators obtain the bank and phone records of a NYT journalist in order to discover his source

The BiPartisan Report

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

Sciencebase

• Spectral science selection
  Aussie rock rolls The oldest fossils of bacteria ever found were discovered in a rock formation in Western Australia, the discovery led to great excitement that has not abated for more than two decades. Until now. Raman spectroscopy shows that what palaeontologists thought were pristine microbia ...
• Three touches of science
  Backstage Science – Find out what's going on backstage at some of the biggest science labs.  - Videos for the Science and Technology Facilities Council by Brady Haran. The Alchemist Newsletter: February 25, 2011 – Van Gogh was apparently no chemical genius, The Alchemist learns this week, but mo ...
• Six slick science picks
  Science video widget – Shortform offered me a sneak preview of their video widget, which allows users to embed a video channel into their blog. Contraceptive pill not to blame for feminized fish – Despite claims that excreted contraceptive hormones are causing endocrine disruption in aquatic ani ...
• Five picks from the science news
  Fix your H, increase citations and get more grant money – Citations have become the currency of science, which is used to reward scientists and scientific institutions. Small variations in citation scores can make millions of pounds difference in the financial outcomes of national Research Asses ...
• Can we count on journal metrics?
  How do you rank science, how do you rate scientists, what kudos do you give their papers and what metrics do you attach to the impact of a paper? They’re questions as old as the scientific literature itself. But, no one has resolved them. Independent organisations and publishers have attempted w ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

• More Cuts — Or Make Rich, Corporations Pay Up
  RICHARD WOLFFread more
• ACLU In Supreme Court Today Arguing Former A.G ...
  The American Civil Liberties Union argued before the United States Supreme Court today that former Attorney General John Ashcroft should be held responsible for the wrongful arrest and detention of a U.S. citizen under the material witness law. The ACLU brought the case against Ashcroft in 2005 ...
• Libya: Stranded Foreign Workers Need Urgent Ev ...
  Thousands of foreign workers from Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Europe have been left homeless and penniless by the recent fighting in Libya and remain stranded in the coastal city of Benghazi and on the border with Tunisia, Human Rights Watch said today. Evacuation efforts have not adequat ...
• ACLU Tells Supreme Court That Class Action Law ...
  The American Civil Liberties Union and the National Women’s Law Center filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the U.S. Supreme Court today, along with 32 other organizations, supporting a class action lawsuit filed against Wal-Mart for systemic discrimination against the company’s female employees ...
• US “Hypocrisy” on Libya and International Crim ...
  Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has called for the ouster of Muammar Qaddafi, citing “universal principles.” MICHAEL RATNER President of the Center for Constitutional Rights, Ratner said today: “While it appears that serious crimes against humanity are being committed by the Libyan governmen ...

Common Dreams-Views

• Egypt's Revolution Has Been 10 Years in the Ma ...
  Hossam el-Hamalawy In the 1990s, one could only whisper Hosni Mubarak's name. Political talk or jokes were avoided in phone calls.read more
• Iraqis Get the Tahrir Spirit
  Sami Ramadani As the walls of fear are being knocked down in one Arab country after another, the ugly concrete walls "of separation and intimidation" erected by the US-led forces in Iraqi cities have become a target of protesters.read more
• Why a Wisconsin Sheriff Refuses to Serve as Go ...
  John Nichols No one has worked harder – and smarter – to keep the peace in Madison during the dispute over Governor Scott Walker’s attempt to crush public employee unions than Dane County Sheriff Dave Mahoney.read more
• Did Scott Walker Confess to a Crime in Koch Pr ...
  Matthew Rothschild In the now-infamous phony phone call to Scott Walker, the reporter impersonating the billionaire David Koch asked the Wisconsin governor about “planting some troublemakers” in the crowd of protesters.read more
• Republicans and Democrats Agree: Cut Aid for P ...
  Medea Benjamin Charles Davis With the U.S. economy in the tank and governments at all levels facing massive budget shortfalls, politicians left and right are seeking ways to curb spending. Wiscons ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

• Rethink the Cost of War With Us on March 12
  By Derrick Crowe The movement to end the Afghanistan War is gaining momentum, and on March 12, it will gain some more. In a little less than two weeks, supporters of Rethink Afghanistan (�Rethinkers�) will get together with their neighbors in hundreds of communities to talk about what can ...
• Fire Lt. General Caldwell
  By Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe The latest general to find himself excoriated in the pages of Rolling Stone, Lt. Gen. William Caldwell, should resign immediately for using psychological operations, commonly known as "psy-ops" against U.S. lawmakers visiting Afghanistan. If he will not resi ...
• Damn those foreign fighters
  By Dave Anderson: Most people don't like heavily armed foreigners who have at best a minimal clue of the local cultural norms and power arrangements. This localized resentment creates accidental guerrillas and a quagmire where the foreigners won't leave until everyone who dislikes the foreigners ...
• Not so much a "Runaway General" as S.O.P.
  A report that Lt. General William B. Caldwell unleashed his PSYOP team on visiting U.S. politicians in Afghanistan, from Rolling Stone reporter Michael Hastings, is being considered a bit of a bombshell. Here's the meat of the piece: Under duress, Holmes and his team provided Caldwell with backg ...
• General Petraeus and ISAF, Blaming the Victims ...
  By Derrick Crowe General Petraeus and his public relations team reportedly engaged in a scummy attempt to deflect blame for an alleged civilian casualty event on Sunday, suggesting that Afghan parents caught in the crossfire of a coalition raid burned their own children to incriminate inter ...

Water Wars

• 10 News investigates contaminated bottled "pre ...
  A new entrant into the premium water wars promises a more effective way of delivering nutrients to your body.  But it could be delivering more bacteria than vitamins or minerals.
• Search This Blog
  The Committee on Foreign Relations of the U.S. Senate has produced a report (pdf) on water conflicts in South and Central Asia, recommending that the U.S. do more to help prevent them.
• Settlement may temporarily ease conflict over ...
  A four-month truce was called on one front in the Delta water wars Thursday when all sides agreed to settle a major lawsuit pitting water supplies against protections for Delta smelt.
• India rejects Pak view on violation of Indus W ...
  "Avoiding water wars: Water Scarcity and Central Asia's Growing importance for stability in Afghanistan and Pakistan".
• Water Wars
  Georgia's environmental regulators have adopted rules requiring a broader review before allowing water to be taken from one basin and sent to another.

WordPress | Economics

• Are Low Tax Rates and Government Deregulation ...
  A prevailing monetarist theory driving neo-conservative economic thinking is that low tax rates, in
• 14 Trillion Dollars
  The United States national debt has just passed 14 trillion dollars. We passed 13 trillion just over
• Stossel's Battle for the Future
  John Stossel did some nice work on his Fox Show The Battle for the Future.  You can watch all six se
• GAO Details Billions in Federal Waste
  Forgive me, but I feel like shoving this in front of everyone who chants the liberal “Faux New
• Economics Week: The Biggest Dumbass Theory
  Hey! The real estate market is booming, the price will only go up and up right? The key point made i

Electronic Intifada

• In whose name does Dutch FM Rosenthal speak?
  Dutch Foreign Minister Uri Rosenthal claims to oppose decisions taken by governments without balanced, negotiated political processes. But if this were really true, he ...
• Palestinians call for unity protest on 15 Marc ...
  GAZA CITY, occupied Gaza Strip (IPS) - A look at the Tunisian and Egyptian uprisings that succeeded in ousting long-entrenched dictators confirms a universal truth: it is the y ...
• Arab pride reborn through revolution
  The "Jasmine Revolution" in Tunis, "January 25 Revolution" in Egypt and the ongoing uprisings in Libya, Yemen and Bahrain are the true Arab awakening, for they are bein ...
• Interview: Jordan revoking citizenship from Pa ...
  Palestinians in Jordan constitute both the majority of the kingdom's population, and the largest Palestinian refugee community in the world. EI contributor Hazem Jamjoum spoke ...
• Boycott roundup: Palestinians protest Canada's ...
  This week, a campaign was expanded in Europe against grocery items made in Israeli settlements; the Israel Philharmonic's tour in the US is dogged by protests; and Pale ...

Afghanistan Sun

• US helped give birth to terror groups in Pakis ...
  A top US commander has acknowledged that some rebel groups it helped give birth to in the fight against the Soviets in Afghanistan had joined Pakistani terrorist groups active in South ...
• Pak cracks down on illegal Afghan refugees
  The Pakistan Government has launched a nationwide crackdown on Afghan refugees residing illegally in the country. A deadline was given to them to submit their data to the Office of Afghan refugees, ...
• Former Pentagon Adviser Says U.S. Should Cut A ...
  - By pumping more than $100 million into a hydropower plant, the United States sought to improve the lives of Afghans and win the hearts and minds of tribesmen and farmers who might otherwise turn ...
• NATO apologizes for killing 9 Afghan civilians
  NATO's top commander in Afghanistan apologized Wednesday for the accidental killing of nine Afghan boys and ordered attack helicopter crews to be briefed again on his directive for preventing ...
• Taliban guns down Pakistan MP
  TALIBAN extremists claimed responsibility for the brutal murder of Pakistan's Minority Affairs Minister Shahbaz Bhatti yesterday morning, in the second political assassination linked to ...

Futurismic

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

geopolitics | geoeconomics

• Geithner's Dirty Little Secret
• Swine Flu
• Putin and the Geopolitics of the New Cold War: ...
• The Fake Oil Crisis of 1973
• Fossiles Erdöl
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on Government Oversight

• Navigating the Pentagon Labyrinth: Six Questio ...
  By Bryan Rahija Winslow Wheeler is the Director of the Straus Military Reform Project at the Center for Defense Information. Wheeler is also the mastermind behind a new handbook on national defense issues entitled The Pentagon Labyrinth: 10 Short Essays...
• Does the Federal Government Have Performance A ...
  By Neil Gordon The proponents of outsourcing are at it again. Federal Computer Week has published another pro-outsourcing commentary, “How Outsourcing Keeps America On Top.” It was written by Stanton Sloane, president and CEO of Fairfax, Virginia-based IT firm SRA...
• Supreme Court Rejects Corporate "Personal Priv ...
  By Scott Amey Today, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously rejected AT&T’s claim that the personal privacy exemption under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) applies to companies. The Court’s ruling was limited to the FOIA 7(c) exemption, which prevents the...
• The National Institutes of Health NOT Friendly ...
  By Paul D. Thacker Late last year, POGO sent a letter to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) apprising them of four examples of academics who used the ghostwriting firm Scientific Therapeutics Information to publish studies, letters, and a book....
• Morning Smoke: Taxpayers Getting Burned By Dup ...
  Where there's smoke, there's fire. POGO's Morning Smoke is a collection of the previous day's investigations, scoops, and opinions related to the world of government oversight. Have a story you'd like to see included? Contact POGO's blog editor. Billions in...

Digital Journal

• Mattress Mattress exchange program discontinue ...
  Canada's Mattress Mattress, a western Canada mattress company has discontinued their "Comfort Exchange" program. The lack of rules governing mattresses had to be addressed in the company's eyes.
• World War II cemetery in Germany damaged by wi ...
  Wild boar have caused severe damage to a cemetery in Germany which contains the graves of British and Commonwealth soldiers.
• Libya uprising prompts rallies across Canada; ...
  Hundreds of people gathered at the Yonge-Dundas Square in downtown Toronto in support of those in Libya who are calling for the end of Moammar Gaddafi and more freedoms in the country. Demonstrations were held in various cities across the globe.
• Man in custody after three Toronto schools put ...
  Three Toronto schools were in lockdown Thursday morning for a non-school related gun call. By 12:30 the schools were back in session an operator at 55 Division said.
• Bangladeshi student faces removal order from C ...
  A Wolfville, Nova Scotia group calling themselves the "Friends of Jane" have launched a letter writing campaign in hopes of keeping a 24-year-old Bangladeshi student from being removed from Canada.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

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