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| - Swazi Government Challenged
Thousands of protesters brought the Swazi capital of Mbabane to a standstill Friday as they took to the streets to oppose imminent salary cuts to civil service wages - and demand changes to the country's government.
- MEXICO-US: Little Spillover of "Narco-Deaths"
In the U.S. city of El Paso, Texas the media sounded the alarm: six murders committed in just two months, more than the 2010 total of five. Just across the Mexican border, in the sprawling border city of Ciudad Juárez, no one doubts that this year's homicide rate will surpass last year's recor ...
- A Moment of Silence for Dying Millions on Worl ...
When the international community commemorates World Water Day next week, perhaps it should ponder the words of U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who once remarked he does not expect people world over to stop what they are doing and observe a moment of silence, come Mar. 22.
- LIBYA: Obama Threatens Military Action if Atta ...
U.S. President Barack Obama issued an ultimatum to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi on Friday, less than 24 hours after the United Nations Security Council passed a resolution to "take all necessary measures" short of deploying an "occupation force".
- Cambodia Struggles to Stem Domestic Worker Abuse
Cambodia's fledgling domestic worker export industry continues to come under scrutiny amid allegations that women have been forcibly detained in privately run training centres.
- A Report from Japan « The Berkeley Blog
My research deals with environmental anthropology and archaeology. I was born in Japan and was raised by parents who were and remain active in the environmental and peace movements. My parents’ activism and my interest in environmental issues have meant that I have been aware of the problem of ...
- Japan: ‘Heroic’ Workers Hitting Radiation Limi ...
More workers were drafted for the frontline of Japan’s biggest nuclear disaster as radiation limits forced Tokyo Electric Power Co. to replace members of its original team trying to avert a nuclear meltdown.
- The Return of Pan-Arabism Amidst Upheaval: An ...
Regardless of the direction of these revolts and protests and the reaction of outside players, a new dynamic is taking shape. Democracy has not yet emerged, what is beginning to emerge is a new wave of pan-Arabism. This re-invigorated pan-Arabism will prove a challenge to the ongoing efforts to ...
- Jitter Ring Vs. chatter ring – what is the dif ...
All Jitter Rings are chatter rings, but not all chatter rings are Jitter Rings. The Jitter Ring is a chatter ring designed in New Zealand in 1996, although it started life as the “Lonely Dog” Wonder Ring. Around 50,000 Wonder Rings were purchased in New Zealand in 1996, with the vast majority be ...
- Christchurch is Grumpy
The thing that makes me feel particularly upset is the national memorial service in Hagley Park on Friday. Just who is this memorial service for? It's not for Christchurch. It's not for the families who lost loved ones in the February 22 quake. It's a grandiose, empty gesture starring so- ...
- Before the UN hits back, a city burns
Some of the bodies lay on floors covered in blood, others were on makeshift stretchers, shrouded in torn sheets. Their families wept, hugging each other. Outside, a steady stream of ambulances and cars continued to arrive, ferrying in more dead and injured.
- Will the no-fly zone stop Libya's dictator?
Is it a worthwhile response to the crisis in Libya?
- Hope returns to Japan as nuclear fears abate
After the bleakest nine days in its post-war history, Japan will start today with a crumb of optimism amid the first, tentative signs that it could yet avert catastrophe at its stricken nuclear plant.
- Royal Navy fires cruise missiles at key Libyan ...
A Royal Navy submarine launched Tomahawk cruise missiles at key air defences across Libya last night in the first of a wave of attacks by British forces aimed at enforcing a no-fly zone.
- Libya: The UN strikes back
French jets yesterday struck the opening blow for United Nations intervention, the Libyan rebellion – and a very uncertain future – when they fired the first shots authorised by Resolution 1973. Within hours, more than one hundred missiles were fired from US and British warships on targets aro ...
- Alex Jones Promotes Fear Of Radiation Posioni ...
Fear promoters like Jones have primarily been responsible for stirring up panic that has resulted in widespread shortages of this product around the country.
- Hawaii dismisses nuclear fears
Hawaii insists it is open for business, rejecting worries about harmful nuclear radiation reaching the tourist-friendly US island state from earthquake-hit Japan.
- Low Levels of Radioactive Material Begin to B ...
A network of international monitoring stations has begun to pick up the signatures of radioactive elements emitted by Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, a Swedish official said Thursday.
- Minuscule Fallout Reaches US
A diplomat says Japan's radioactive fallout has reached Southern California but first readings are "about a billion times beneath levels that would be health threatening."
- NY Fed confirms intervention in currency markets
The New York Federal Reserve Bank confirmed that it intervened in currency markets on Friday for the first time in more than a decade.
- Search for the stellar smoking gun
When big stars go boom, they are like really, really big guns — they leave behind a telltale smoke signal and a path of destruction. Understanding the forensic evidence from just a puff of smoke might sound near impossible, but for Samar Safi-Harb, it’s just another day at the office. Originally ...
- Women and science
Five Canadian women. Five accomplished scientists. Five perspectives.
- A recipe for failure
By definition, perfectionists set very high standards for themselves. As a result, they are also setting themselves up to fail. And when they do, research is now showing that many perfectionists resort to binge eating to alleviate feelings of loneliness, sadness and inadequacy. “Perfectionists o ...
- The challenging spine, the adventurous mind
- What’s love got to do with it?
Toni Tennille promised “Love Will Keep Us Together,” and while it may be true that she and Daryl “the Captain” Dragon have stayed together for 40 years, it’s unlikely love was the only glue. Lasting relationships require commitment, satisfaction and trust, says Lorne Campbell, a social psycholog ...
- Lava, clouds of hot ash spews from the mouth o ...
Manado, Indonesia - Residents in central Indonesia have been evacuated from the slopes of a volcano that has been spewing hot lava and clouds of searing gas high into the air for days. State volcanologist Surono says Mount Karangetang has been spilling lava and shooting clouds of gas and debr ...
- Brazil: Heavy rain may delay sugar-cane harvest
Sugar-cane harvesting in the main growing region in Brazil, the world's biggest sugar producer, may be delayed after above-average rainfall in the first weeks of March, according to ICAP Brasil. "Rains in the first half of March were almost double the average of the last 10 years," Marcos Mine, ...
- India: Rains lash Kashmir Valley, avalanche wa ...
Heavy rains lashed Kashmir and the authorities issued an warning that avalanche might strike many areas of the Vallery close to the mountain ranges. "Medium danger avalanche alert has been sounded for higher reaches of Gurez, Baruab, Chakwali, Kanzalwan, Niru, Razdan Pass, Gugladara, Keran, Mac ...
- India: J&K highway closed for traffic due to l ...
The Jammu-Srinagar National Highway, which is the only surface link between Kashmir and rest of the country, was closed for vehicular traffic today due to a landslide triggered by heavy rains in Ramban district of Jammu & Kashmir today. The 300-km-long highway was closed after landslides were t ...
- Philippines: Brace for continuous heavy rains, ...
The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) asked residents in one region and four provinces to brace for continuous heavy rains, which may trigger flash floods and landslides in these areas. According to PAGASA, the wind convergence will continue t ...
- Boogity boogity twang . . .
A 1948 Gibson guitar once played by Eric Clapton, being held by Alicia Scalera at the auction house Bonhams in New York. Piotr Redlinski for The New York Times THE NYT ASKS, "Why would someone pay $959,500 for a used guitar?" Apparently, ol' Slowhand is parting with some choice equipment at auc ...
- The Industrial Revolution:
Making you Malthusly redundant for 250 years. Paul Krugman starts to get it. Computers, it turns out, can quickly analyze millions of documents, cheaply performing a task that used to require armies of lawyers and paralegals. In this case, then, technological progress is actually reducing the d ...
- The PM, the conman, the blonde hooker and the ...
While I've been a bit distracted this week with personal matters ,�I have been paying some attention to the non-Japan related news. Really, there seems to be no depth to which Stephen Harper will not sink. With the revelation that one of his former close advisors did time for fraud and is curren ...
- No-Fly?
No foolin'.
- Duct tape and lies . . .
- Right-Wing Media Respond To Japanese Nuclear C ...
In the wake of the earthquake in Japan and the resulting threat of nuclear disaster in that country, right-wing media have attacked renewable energy sources such as wind and solar, arguing that it's a waste of time to pursue these sources as possible alternatives to fossil fuels and nuclear pow ...
- Megyn Kelly Disingenuously Calls Union-Busting ...
Fox News' Megyn Kelly deceptively called the anti-collective bargaining law recently passed in Wisconsin a "budget law." In reality, GOP lawmakers stripped out spending provisions to force a vote on the measure without Democrats present, and state lawmakers have yet to pass those spending provi ...
- Still Inventing Bias: Right-wing Media Cheer H ...
Right-wing media have been cheering the House vote to defund NPR, continuing to call the organization "liberal" and "biased." Yet�even�conservative commentators have admitted that NPR's coverage is "fair."House Votes To End All Federal Funding Of NPR House Votes To End Funding For NPR.�On Marc ...
- Right-Wing Media Livid Over Obama's Economic G ...
The right-wing media have continuously attacked President Obama for proceeding with his long-planned trip to Latin America in the�wake of the crises in Japan and Libya, often mocking his trip as a "vacation." In fact, the President's trip will be "focused on economic opportunities for the Unite ...
- Beck Rehashes Old Myths To Falsely Portray Oba ...
While painting President Obama as hostile to the Second Amendment, Glenn Beck repeated old falsehoods about Obama's record on gun issues. In reality, Obama has expressed support for the individual right to bear arms, and he has loosened gun restrictions as president.Beck: Obama Tries To Pay "Li ...
- As the Global Economy Trembles, Our Nation's C ...
Why isn't Washington responding? The world's third largest economy suffers a giant earthquake, tsunami, and radiation dangers. A civil war in Libya and tumult in the Middle East cause crude-oil prices to climb. Poor harvests around the world make food prices soar.All this means higher prices. ...
- Rohrabacher Supporting Kucinich Afghanistan Ex ...
I just hosted a media conference call for the Afghanistan Study Group with Republican California Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA-46) on his views about America's course in Afghanistan. I will be posting soon the audio clip from the short and fascinating call. One of the zingers, howev ...
- US-Japan Friendship Dolls Then & How to Help Today
In a heart-moving gesture a few years after the great Kanto earthquake of 1923 in Japan, American children made 12,000 blue-eyed dolls and sent them to Japanese children. After that, 58 highly ornate, beautifully crafted Japanese "Friendship Dolls" were sent by Japanese children to American chi ...
- The Pimco Bond Run
The deficit hawks are acting like they just got a shot of steroids. William Gross, the head of Pimco, sold off the government bond holdings of their largest investment fund at the start of this year. The deficit hawks are claiming this as evidence that the sky is now falling and that we have to ...
- Safety On The Cheap
Can we please agree that in the real world corporations exist for one purpose, and one purpose only -- to make as much money as possible, which means cutting costs as much as possible?The New York Times reports that G.E. marketed the Mark 1 boiling water reactors, used in TEPCO's Fukushima Daiic ...
- Europe, China Put Nuclear on Hold; U.S. — Full ...
In the midst of the ongoing nuclear crisis in Japan, it has been interesting to see how the world’s leading countries and politicians are responding. If I had even an ounce of hope that Republicans could come around on energy policy in the face of this catastrophe, I think I completely lost it t ...
- Mexico Backs Off Anti-GMO Stance, Approves Mon ...
After initially saying ‘NO’ to Monsanto’s pilot project, Mexico has succumbed and agreed.
- Suburban Gardens and Local Action Can Help Hea ...
There is a growing grassroots movement in suburban and urban areas where the local action of growing food is beginning to profoundly transform our neighborhoods and our world. It begins first with a simple attitude shift, when we start thinking of our lawns and backyard gardens as opportunities ...
- State & National Energy Efficiency Policies Wi ...
Energy efficiency policies can create a ton of highly-needed green jobs in the United States.
- Take a Hottie to Bed — Stay Warm & Save Energy
One of the most energy-efficient ways to stay warm on those cool nights is to take a hottie to bed. A hottie uses less energy than an electric blanket or a space heater, and a hottie can help you keep your body hot and your thermostat down.
- Japan Finds Tainted Food Up to 90 Miles From N ...
TOKYO — As Japan edged forward in its battle to contain the damage at its ravaged nuclear power plants on Saturday, the government said it had found higher than normal levels of radioactivity in spinach and milk at farms up to 90 miles away from the plants, the first confirmation...
- A Food’s Global Success Creates a Quandary at ...
Editor's Note: This is a rare article co-authored by Simon Romero, NYT's favorite counter-revolutionary writers in South America that we can "digest". It's an interesting report about& quinoa, a valuable Bolivian natural resource exploited by foreign countries. It also underscores the effect of ...
- President Hugo Chávez, backed by South America ...
"We must be prudent. We know what our political line is: We don't support invasions, or massacres, or anything like that no matter who does it. A campaign of lies is being spun together regarding Libya. The U.S. government is behind the campaign to remove Qadhafi." -President Hugo Chávez ...
- Obama trip aimed at salvaging US interests in ...
19 March 2011 President Barack Obama’s embarking on a tour of Latin America as the US and its allies prepare for war against Libya has drawn fire from some of his critics in Washington. In reality, however, the tour and the war involve common issues: oil and US imperialist interests....
- U.S. : Judge temporarily blocks Wisconsin anti ...
Madison (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Friday temporarily blocked a controversial new law in Wisconsin that strips public employee unions of key collective bargaining rights. Dane County Judge Maryann Sumi granted a restraining order stopping official publication of the bill, which was passed by ...
- Texas Young Republicans Are Retarded Liars On ...
I believe that it was the late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan who said something like, "You are entitled to your own opinion, but not to your own facts." It would seem that the Texas Young Republican Federation doesn't need facts -- it can just make them up as they go along, and then opine away. T ...
- The Nightowl Newswrap
U.S. ratchets up the lethality and "surges troops" in the stupid and counterproductive "war on drugs" "nprecedented numbers of U.S. law enforcement agents work in Mexico, and high-profile arrests occur monthly. U.S. drones spy on cartel hideouts, while U.S. tracking beacons pinpoint suspect's ca ...
- Thank a Union for Teachers Like This
The Most Aggressive Defense of Teachers You'll See This Year
- "Absolute positive necessity of collective bar ...
We know from the fuck-the-unemployed actions of this administration that it doesn't believe its own rhetoric on jobs and the middle class. But I think the Vice President is sincere in his support for unions. If only it made a difference against Obama's Wall Street Gang. Susie Madrak: Joe Biden' ...
- If We're Going to Degrade People, Let's Degrad ...
No, it's not from the Onion, though it should be: Wonkette: Minnesota's Republican lawmakers are, as expected, very angry about poor people. Why give those poor people money when we know they'll just spend it on the hip-hop and fancy sneakers and for crack smokin'. So, the Republicans had an id ...
- 40 COMMENTS "Anonymous" Hackers Release Bank ...
Anonymous, the WikiLeaks-supporting hacker-activist group, has released a batch of emails leaked by a former Bank of America employee who alleges that a division of the bank was trying to hide damning information on foreclosures.Submitted by John Cause to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Ad ...
- Save Appalachian communities from mountaintop ...
The EPA�s veto of the massive Spruce No. 1 Mine�s waste dump was a huge victory for communities across Appalachia. Now, Big Coal and its allies in Congress are attempting to override that veto and limit EPA�s power to stop other such mines in the futureSubmitted by Cher C. to Environment �|� �N ...
- Knut The Polar Bear Dies in Berlin
Very sad news to relate. Little polar bear Knut died today at the Berlin Zoo. RIP little bear, gone from here too soon. Cause of death is still unknown at this time. He was 4 yrs old with a life expectancy of 15 to 20 yrs. It certainly wasn't old age!!Submitted by Kim O. to Animals �|� �Note-it ...
- Jaguars vs. Ranchers: Livestock attacks spur p ...
Ranchers in the Brazilian Amazon are threatening to poison jaguars and pumas attacking their livestock, after the elusive big cats' habitat was destroyed by a nearby dam. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Japan:Helping animals during natural disaster
AsOne of the first members of an international animal rights group to reach the disaster area, PETA Asia-Pacific senior campaigner Ashley Fruno has been in Japan with Isabella Gallaon-Aoki of Animal Friends Niigata since the day after the devastation.Submitted by Jill Vickerman to Animals �|� � ...
- Barack Obama, MIA. Libya, Deja Vu?
Barack Obama and his minions may be feeling swell about his handling of the Libya matter, but our party boy President–who is whooping it up this weekend in Brazil–will never be considered a profile in courage by future historians. He took dithering to a new level and is now happy to join what ap ...
- Obama’s “Tower of Babble” * Open Thread [Video ...
Last night, I listened to the John Batchelor Show and was transfixed by the number of experts who Batchelor interviewed flawlessly. The experts bemoaned Obama’s failure to get off the dime and get going on Libya. One of the guests kept referring to Obama’s “tower of babble,” which made me laugh ...
- Surf’s Up!
Here I am in Santa Cruz, California, where the Japanese tsunami caused over 20 million dollars in damage to our harbor. But, are we in for something even worse? Our harbor is a mess. Watch it come in and bounce around everything in its wake. But now itâs about radiation. It’s supposed to arrive ...
- Hillary and Barack About to Speak on Libya [Up ...
UPDATE #2: Obama is set to speak to the nation sometime after 5 p.m. ET. UPDATE (Bumped Up): Fox News reports that France has 20 planes in the air, and a French plane has fired at a vehicle in Libya. Here’s the top-of-the-page big headline at the New York Times, which leads to a must-read [...]
- Check Out TNA’s Honorees for its May 18th Event!
Editor’s Note: This is The New Agenda Mentor Up! announcement from its blog. This is living proof that we can affect lives every day, especially in our contacts with young women. : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : [...]
- World Water Day: 15 Amazing Reasons Why Each D ...
This year’s Word Water Day theme is “Water for Cities: Responding to the Urban Challenge”. Enjoy these 15 images of precious water drops. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- Facts and Myths about the Japanese Nuclear Dis ...
The radiation scare stemming from exploding nuclear plants in Japan has spurred many myths. Here are the truths, and what to expect in the coming years. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- 2011 Japan Earthquake and Tsunami: Images in t ...
March 11, 2011. The largest ever earthquake of magnitude 8.9 hit off the east coast of Japan, followed by a disastrous tsunami. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- 13 Animals Recently Driven to Extinction
Do we know that our lust for natural resources often wins over the natural ecology? Every 4 hours one animal goes extinct? read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- Peering into the Amazing Underground Architect ...
Peeking into a megalopolis of ants, who are expert underground architects, it's no wonder these ubiquitous insects think they can move a rubber tree plant. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
- Fear, Intimidation & Media Disinformation: U.K ...
Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, August 20, 2009 An official UK government report –quoted extensively in Britain’s tabloid media– is warning the British public that there will ...
- President European Commission Advocated World ...
Jurriaan Maessen. Infowars. July 24th, 2009 On September 7, 1992, two term President of the European Commission Jacques Delors gave a speech to the Royal Institute of International ...
- Billions of People Expected to Die Under Curre ...
Barbara Minton, Natural News, July 21st, 2009 Your right to eat healthy food and use supplements of your choice is rapidly vanishing, but every effort has been made to keep you in t ...
- Bioweapons, Dangerous Vaccines, and Threats of ...
Stephen Lendman, Global Research, July 7th, 2009 Although international law prohibits the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons, America has had an active biological warfare p ...
- Today we’re all prisoners in the USA
Papers, Please! June 2, 2009 As of today, June 1, 2009, even U.S. citizens are officially prisoners in the USA, or exiles barred from entering our own country without the government ...
- Anonymous Bank of America docs show Insurance ...
The Chain of Crime Starts Here: #BlackMonday Ex-Bank of America Employee Can Prove Mortgage Fraud Part 1 With the tragic situation in Japan - and the lawless situation ruling the day in Wisconsin - the news about more exposure of Bank of America systems of fraud comes mostly under the radar, but ...
- Libya = Gaddafi FAIL - fights for freedom - no ...
The locals are ready to kick some ass in Libya! Straight up amazing. Things are moving fast these days! Wisconsin solidarity :-D This suddenly dawned on me just a few mins ago! Behold Gaddafi FAIL: I had to repost these videos of real significant, serious rebellion & a certain unmistakable ca ...
- #Egypt! And now... Algeria? Battle of Algiers ...
Stunning turns in Egypt - you have to hand it to the Egyptians, they filtered & neutralized all those underhanded thug provocateur tricks in a snap. Then unloaded their dictator - Old School Civilization like a boss ;-D Update - they just posted an arrest warrant in Pakistan for ex-Prime Minist ...
- House Tea Party momentarily blocks "PATRIOT" A ...
It's not all bad news out there. The slip-by-night extension of expiring Patriot Act measures got knocked down mainly by liberal Dems and some Tea Party Republicans (Bachmann of course sided with the corporatist centrist squad behind all of this)... Bi-Partisan Alliance Beats Back PATRIOT Act Sn ...
- From the Internet Archives: My 2003 Interview ...
Here's a nice find. In October 2003 I interviewed Rashid Khalidi for the Mac Weekly. It wound up on the website and eventually got deleted around 2006, but it was still in the Internet Archives Wayback Machine at http://web.archive.org/web/20060612202355/http://www.macalester.edu/week... Overall ...
- Department of Education wants principals to ce ...
Under the guise of defeating bullying, the US Department of Education has stated that it wants school principals to censor student speech, particularly in the cafeteria and at online sites, such as Facebook. School principals are being threatened by the DOE with lawsuits if they do not adhere to ...
- Censored News, Is It a Blessing?
Perhaps it is a blessing that news is censored. I am being overloaded by the news that isn’t. I was not surprised after a Republican, Billy Tauzin, pushed through a drug benefit bill, (Medicare, Part D), at great expense to the American people, that he went to work for the pharmaceutical indus ...
- Test Scores Fail Students, Teachers, But Remai ...
The news out of Washington DC offers evidence that calls for test-based teacher evaluations persist, ironically against the weight of evidence: “Sen. Joseph Lieberman is drafting a school reform bill that would tie a portion of federal education dollars to a requirement that states implement rob ...
- Michael Collins: Power Corrupts, Nuclear Powe ...
Michael Collins The Chairman of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), Gregory Jaczko, told a US House of Representatives subcommittee that: “There is no water in the spent fuel pool [at the Fukushia I plant] and we believe that radiation levels are extremely high, which could po ...
- U.S – Cuba policy for 50+ years
By Saul Landau and Nelson Valdes U.S. foreign assistance empowers those in Cuba who are working towards positive change to advocate for fundamental freedoms and free market-oriented solutions to meet the needs of Cuban citizens. – U.S. AID web page, March 2011 On March 12, after a two day trial, ...
- Reducing the Hazards from Stored Spent Power-R ...
This 2003 article underscored the dangers posed by the practice of storing spent fuel on-site at nuclear power plants in the United States. It's is very relevant today as Japanese engineers struggle to prevent a nuclear catastrophe in Fukushima, Japan.
- What about the spent fuel?
Written in 2002: Until recently, concerns about attacks on commercial nuclear power plants focused mainly on the vulnerability of reactor containment buildings. But nuclear power plants may have a weaker link: spent fuel ponds.
- UN Declares War on Libya
UN resolution goes far beyond no-fly zone to allow all necessary measures against Qaddafi.
- The Danger Posed by Fukushima's Nuclear Pile
Transcript for the Earth Beat interview of Harvey Wasserman, for the Real News Network.
- The Drained Spent-Fuel Pool at Unit 4
It's likely that the dose rates coming off that reactor are life-threatening.
- Traduction des preuves en Français
Les preuves en Français Preuves à l’appui: une introduction Preuves à l’appui: la santé physique Preuves à l’appui: la santé mentale Preuves à l’appui: la toxicomanie Preuves à l’appui: l’éducation Preuves à l’appui: la population carcérale
- Response to criticism of The Spirit Level
Find our full response to criticism of The Spirit Level here.
- The Wrong Cure - alternatives to the cuts
The False Economy website is an excellent and still-developing resource exploring the alternatives to cuts. False Economy includes: a discussion of why the cuts are not progressive details of campaign actions a comprehensive further reading list ... and this short film [youtube:ynUCYo ...
- Why we need a Fairness Test of the cuts
A group of charities, including the Equality Trust, Child Poverty Action Group, Barnardo's and the TUC are asking the coalition government to commit to a Fairness Test on any tax rises or spending cuts they introduce. Full details...
- Sign up to our email newsletter
Don't forget to sign up to our email newsletter to receive quarterly updates about our work and next week's response from Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett to questions about the Spirit Level analysis.
- Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Mon ...
Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Money Out of Politics By Carmen Yarrusso There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.â–Henry David Thoreau Clearly, our government ...
- IOT: Healthcare for All Jan Call
Call – Healthcare for All IOT Date – Jan 18, 2011 Agenda: 1. IntroductionsâDr. Bill Honigman, PDA Healthcare for All IOT coordinator and California State Coordinator 2. National Single Payer MovementâKatie Robbins, Healthcare-NOW! 3. States Single Payer Movement–Chuck Pennacchio, Healthcare ...
- PDA Weekly Field Report 1/7/2011 – 1/18/2011
Little Victories! Field Site: onenationpda.org California ADEM elections: Congratulations to all our PDA California friends and allies who completed a sweep up and down at the state at the recent CA Democratic Party Delegate elections. This will put the ...
- War is a Crime: Join In For Justice
WarIsACrime.org JOIN IN FOR JUSTICE! 1/17/11 Washington, D.C., and Quantico, Va. Protest of FBI Raids and Bradley Manning Imprisonment http://www.defendingdissent.org/action/Events.htm 1/18/11 Washington, D.C. Panel with Rep. Rush Holt, Emily Berman from the Brennan Center for Justice, Sha ...
- An American Suicide Terrorist
William John Cox The shooter of Congresswoman Gifford acted as a domestic suicide terrorist on the political “battleground” of American politics. His YouTube postings and “goodby” phone messages are ominously reminiscent of the traditional farewell videos ...
- Cheese Factory Halts Production Due to E. coli ...
The Tillamook Cheese Factory halted production and stopped serving food Friday and Saturday after fecal coliform and E. coli bacteria were found in the local water supply. The Kilchis Regional Water System, which includes the cheese factory, Bay City, Northwood, Latimer and Juno, was under a bo ...
- Radiation Impacts Spinach and Milk on Japan
According to a variety of press reports, Japan announced the first signs that contamination from its tsunami-crippled nuclear complex have seeped into the food chain, saying that radiation levels in spinach and milk from farms near the facility exceeded government safety limits. The government' ...
- 300 Cases of Serrano Peppers Recalled Due to S ...
300 cases of Serrano peppers were recalled due to Salmonella risk by World Variety Produce, Inc., of Los Angeles. The recalled peppers were sold in Walmart stores in Wisconsin, Montana, Utah and Wyoming and Jewel-Osco stores in Illinois between the dates of March 1 through March 18.
- "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas"
Perhaps that has another meaning than what occurred tonight at Green Valley High School.� Several hundred students and parents came out in support of the Rivera family in their two-year battle against E. coli O157:H7.� I was proud and honored to be a part of the celebration and to donate $100,00 ...
- FSIS Steps In to Lower Salmonella and Campylob ...
The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) published a Federal Register Notice on May 14, 2010 (75 FR 27288) in which it announced the forthcoming implementation of new performance standards for the pathogenic micro-organisms Salmonella and Campylobacter for chilled carcasses in young chicken ...
- Smart ForSpeed concept revealed before Geneva ...
Filed under: Concept Cars, Convertible, Geneva Motor Show, Smart, Electric Smart Forspeed - Click above for high-res image gallery Not every future Smart model is in trouble of vanishing - some will never see the light of production. To wit, Daimler's minicar maker is bringing an all-electr ...
- Report: Some dealers price gouging Chevy Volt ...
Filed under: Car Buying, Hybrid, Sedan, Chevrolet, GM, Electric 2011 Chevrolet Volt - Click above for high-res image gallery Even though some Chevrolet dealers were warned not to sell the Volt above the MSRP, there is a distinct trend around the country where some dealers are trying to make ...
- Audi, Voith enter new carbon fiber partnership
Filed under: Technology, Audi Audi Aluminum A5 Coupe Prototype - Click above for high-res image Audi has put carbon fiber to good use in concept vehicles like the e-tron show cars and a special lightweight A5, which has a carbon fiber hood and rear deck, and in some parts of the R8 and RS 3. ...
- Report: $33M in EV tax credits went to buy unq ...
Filed under: Car Buying, Government/Legal Is a bicycle an electric vehicle? How about a Hummer H3? These are some of the things that Americans claimed were hybrids, alternative-powered or plug-in electric vehicles on their tax forms, reports USA Today. What's more, the false claimants managed ...
- AutoblogGreen for 02.04.11
Top Gear host wants electric vehicles powered by bumper car technology Watch out! Italian designers envision amazing Solar Wind bridge It looks like the future, that's for sure. Agility Saietta electric m ...
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- Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
- The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
- Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
- Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...
- Libyan Citizen Journalist Muhammad Nabbous Kil ...
Democracy Now! regrets to report that Muhammad Nabbous, a Libyan citizen journalist in Benghazi who founded Libya Al Hurra TV to broadcast live online on Gaddafi violence, was shot and killed Saturday morning. Click to hear Democracy Now! correspondent Anjali Kamat’s Feb. 26 intervi ...
- Aristide's First Day Back in Haiti After 7 Yea ...
After a long day of traveling, Amy Goodman reports on the historic return of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to Haiti. Click here to listen to this report. âI am Amy Goodman in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. What a remarkable day and a remarkable journey this has been. The Aristides have ...
- Ralph Nader and Daniel Ellsberg: We Need to Se ...
As the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have virtually disappeared from mainstream media coverage, Democracy Now! ’s Juan Gonzalez has a wide-ranging conversation with Pentagon whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and longtime consumer advocate Ralph Nader about the ongoing U.S. military occupation of th ...
- Amy Goodman Reports: Aristide Lands in Haiti A ...
Former Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide has landed in Haiti and Amy Goodman is there to report the latest Listen to this report "here": http://traffic.libsyn.com/democracynow/msg0005_49.mp3 I’m Amy Goodman, we just landed in Port au Prince. The former president of Haiti, Jean-Ber ...
- LIVE BLOG: Democracy Now! Reports On Jean-Bert ...
Amy Goodman is aboard the South African plane that is bringing Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s back to Haiti after seven years in exile. Sharif Abdel Kouddous is on the ground in Haiti. We will be posting updates here over the coming days. Friday 2:44 a.m. EDT EXCLUSIVE: Jean-Bert ...
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- "There are Possibly Trillions of Earths O ...
Yale University astronomer Pieter van Dokkum says that the red dwarfs they have discovered are over 10 billion years old, which means they've had enough time for complex life to develop and evolve, summarizing about research recently conducted at Hawaii's...
- Current update of the eruption of Kilauea ...
A collection of images and videos from the Hawai'i Volcanoes Observatory in various parts of Kilauea National Park, Hawai'i. Sorted by most recent.
- Tonight's the BIG Night -- Here Comes Sup ...
Look! Up in the sky, it's a bird, it's a plane, it's...Supermoon! That's what you'll see when you gaze into the heavens in the east tonight right at sunset. It'll sort of be hard to miss as long as you have clear skies.
- The Postal Network: USPS Trucks Could Mon ...
A three-inch sensor box could be affixed to the bottom of postal vehicles, while an infrared signal would scan the vehicle’s surroundings. A SIM card could connect (via cellphone signal) to a central data server, where sensor information would be processed.
- Rupert Murdoch – Sunbathing on The Sunle ...
By Les Visible “May your noses always be repelled by the smell of Rupert Murdoch”. The UK probably has the biggest collection of slime rags per capita in the world and there are all sorts of players from the House of Lords; Lords Rothermere, Northcliffe, and Beaverbrook are a few and the disgrac ...
- Catch and Release in the Trout Stream of Life
By Les Visible The usual hysteria reduction is now taking place concerning Japan …and Libya has stopped bombing the freedom fighters so… the people not paying attention- and there’s more than you think- can go back to what they never stopped doing in the first place. For those who are paying att ...
- Obama tells Americans: Do NOT prepare for radi ...
By Mike Adams In a truly incredible example of the complete disregard for the health and safety of the American people, President Obama today told Americans that they should NOT prepare for radiation from the possible meltdown of the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan. His exact quote: “The ...
- U.N. Authorizes Military Strikes on Libya
By JAY SOLOMON, ADAM ENTOUS And JOE LAURIA March 17th, 2011 The United Nations Security Council authorized military force Thursday against Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi’s security forces, opening the way for airstrikes within days. The U.N. action, pushed aggressively by France and the U.K. ...
- Burjanadze: ‘We are Ready for Peaceful R ...
Nino Burjanadze, former parliamentary speaker and leader of opposition Democratic Movement-United Georgia party, told an indoor rally of People’s Assembly on March 15, that a peaceful revolution was needed and the Assembly was ready for that. âWe need a large number of people for one reason â to ...
- Less Than a Week Away
We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware.George Green will be a featured speaker.September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CAClick here for Tickets & Reservations
- The Georgia Guidestones
On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
- The Creation
THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to pu ...
- The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...
In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
- About George Green
Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to fo ...
- Cartoon caption contest
Take a look at the cartoon below and enter your caption idea in the comment section (more ifo on prize, etc. below the cartoon). Eligible captions will be those posted on my site, Elephant Journal, Wend Magazine, PlanetSave, Eco-Snobbery Sucks, Ecolutionist, Ecopolitology, and Twilight Earth. Wi ...
- Exposed: Why the GOP wants to eliminate Clean ...
Whether we can believe this see-through-elephant-trunk footage or not, the possibility that elephants have a triple fitration system within their trunks has to have some credence. Otherwise, why on earth would leading Republicans try to make it easier for big polluters to further pollute the air ...
- Apples may lose trees [cartoon]
The rest of Joe Mohr’s cartoons, and cartoon updates and other green news on Twitter @GreenCartoons. Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets BeatâMay Lose Beets (cartoon) Eco-Snobbery Sucks: The Cartoon Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets BeatâMay Lose Beets (cartoon) Ec ...
- Mixed message from USDA chief Vilsack [cartoon]
US Ag Secretary, Tom Vilsack tells us to eat more natural foods a few days after fully deregulating GMO alfalfa…I’m confused. Confused as well? Read the links below and try to figure out this mess. From The New York Times: Governmentâs Dietary Advice: Eat Less From Elephant Journal: The USDA cav ...
- BREAKING: Deleted Monsanto cartoon panel, leaked!
Unlike the former Monsanto cartoon on this subject, this version shows a bit more clearly who surrendered the future of organic agriculture to Monsanto. There’s been a lot of talk from both sides (organic and biotech) about compromise. That is misleading and almost laughable (read: cryable). Dea ...
- 5 Tips to Green Your Home From Organic Archite ...
Read the rest of 5 Tips to Green Your Home From Organic Architect Eric Corey Freedhttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "leed", 5 Tips, Coachell ...
- How to Green Your Home With Windows From Marvi ...
Over the last few weeks our exclusive Green Home Expert editorial series has brought you a bounty of tips on how to green your home with advice from the greatest green minds in architecture, interior design, and home energy. While the last four installments of the Green Home Expert Series have f ...
- MILES HIGH ULTIMA TOWER: Vertical Eco City Wor ...
We’ve seen a whole slew of gigantic, volcano shaped, city-in-a-building towers, each promising to be the largest building in the world. First it was the wacky X-Seed design for Tokyo, and then even Norman Foster got into the game with his proposal for the massive ‘Crystal Island’ development in ...
- 7 Intoxicating Green Booze Design Stories for ...
Read the rest of 7 Intoxicating Green Booze Design Stories for St. Patrick’s Dayhttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: alternative energy, beer, ...
- Alibaba Headquarters Wrapped in a Spiderweb-Li ...
Read the rest of Alibaba Headquarters Wrapped in a Spiderweb-Like Solar Shadehttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", A ...
- Possible Early Warning Sign for Market Crashes
Complexity researchers who study the behavior of stock markets may have identified a signal that precedes crashes. They say the telltale sign is a measure of co-movement, or the likelihood of stocks to move in the same direction. When a market is healthy, co-movement is low. But in the months a ...
- Understanding Japan’s Nuclear Crisis
By John Timmer, Ars Technica Following the events at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors in Japan has been challenging. At best, even those present at the site have a limited view of what’s going on inside the reactors themselves, and the situation has changed rapidly over the last severa ...
- Spacecraft Swings Into First Orbit Around Mercury
NASA’s Messenger spacecraft swung into position around Mercury Thursday night, making it the first spacecraft ever to orbit the innermost planet. Engineers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland, 96 million miles from Mercury, received the signal confirming that ...
- Seasonal Methane Rain Discovered on Titan
Spring may bring methane showers to the deserts of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft recently saw a large, dark puddle appear in the wake of a storm cloud at the moon’s dune-filled equator. “It’s the only easy way to explain the observations,” said planetary scientist Eliz ...
- Japan Quake Epicenter Was in Unexpected Location
Japan has been expecting and preparing for the âbig oneâ for more than 30 years. But the magnitude-9.0 temblor that struck March 11 — the worldâs fourth biggest quake since 1900 — wasnât the catastrophe the island nation had in mind. Â The epicenter of the quake was about 80 miles east [...]
- Urgent: Surviving Radioactive Fallout
Surviving Radioactive Fallout & Radiation Contamination from Japan, Iran or North Korea. Also, Mid-East, South Korea, Pakistan, India, China, Russia, Chernobyl, etc.
- Do Not Donate to Illuminati Charities
Over 350 years ago, the apparition of Our Lady of Good Success in Quito, Ecuador predicted that at the end of the 20th century, Satan would almost totally rule the world by means of Freemasonry. Does the Illuminati rule organizations like the Fabian Society and its offspring, the charity Oxfam, ...
- The Dangers of Nuclear War
Dr. Michel Chossudovsky on the issue of global survival and his conversations with Fidel Castro about nuclear war
- Videos: Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Caused by ...
A huge 8.9 Richter scale earthquake rocked Tokyo today resulting in a giant tsunami causing incredible amounts of damage, injuries and deaths. My first reaction was to check the University of Tokyo's HAARP induction magnetometer to see if HAARP was fired up around the time of the quake. Sure en ...
- Saudi police open fire on demonstrators – Photos
Saudi police opened fire Thursday to disperse a protest in the mainly Shiite east, leaving at least one man injured, as the government struggled to prevent a wave of unrest sweeping the Arab world from reaching the kingdom. The rare violence raised concern about a crackdown ahead of more planned ...
- Andy Worthington’s YouTube Channel Is No ...
Just to let you know that I’ve finally got my YouTube Channel up and running, featuring some of the various films, TV shows and events I’ve been involved in for the last six months, to which new material will be added as and when it happens — and original material, if I ever get round [...]
- Revolution in the Middle East: Brave Protestor ...
Yesterday, as the video below shows, hundreds of Syrians braved the retaliation of the forces of President Bashar al-Assad by marching in the streets of Damascus — and also, apparently, in Aleppo — calling on Allah, demanding peace and freedom, and asking why their fellow Syrians were not out on ...
- BMA Emergency Meeting Calls on Government to D ...
Yesterday, the British Medical Association (BMA), the union that represents 140,000 doctors in the UK, dealt a major blow to the coalition government’s plans for the biggest overhaul of the NHS since its foundation in 1948 by voting to tell the health minister Andrew Lansley to “call a halt to t ...
- Jail Without Trial Forever: Andy Worthington D ...
Last week, for our 24th Antiwar Radio interview (19 minutes, available here), the tireless Scott Horton and I discussed the latest bleak news from Guantánamo, which sets the seal on Barack Obama as the man who not only failed to close Guantánamo, but, in many crucial respects, deliberately conti ...
- Save the NHS! Will the BMA Do the Right Thing, ...
At the heart of the coalition government’s unprecedented plans to butcher the British state — under cover of the financial crisis caused by their chums in the City – and to privatize everything that has not been privatized over the last 30 years, there is so much bad news that it is hard to ke ...
- HT Gives "Thumbs Up" to NM School Budget
Here are a few snippets from the 2/4/11 editorial in The Housatonic Times. "...all those who assemble the proposed education budget went into the current process with new resolve to craft a package that met all the needs and would also be politically palatable. Better communication was establi ...
- G! E! T! S! (bud) GETS! (bud) GETS! (bud) GETS!
(Oh, was that too soon, Jets fans? Suck it up. Love, The Patriots Nation.) Forget football, it’s budget season again! And even though we paid all those pesky teachers last year, they want money again this year. So, of course, it will be controversial. There are several things in play this y ...
- A Real Public Option In Connecticut?
And so it would seem.The other day for an open thread at ePluribus Media I commented on "the intended public option that should be Sustinet in Connecticut," and it would seem that is to be the case if the Sustinet Health Partnership Board of Directors get their way according to the report they h ...
- Dan Malloy scores first in Danbury
Dan Malloy jumping off of the bench of the Danbury Whalers shortly after scoring the first goal in Whalers' history. [update] I have an interview from after the game at TK's. Let me say, in advance, that he was a bit reluctunt to give it since I am a political blogger... But as a hockey fan I ...
- Still All That I Want
Something that gets lost in the news about the unemployed is the fact that much of what used to be the backbone of this nation's economic prowess, the middle class, is now the working poor: Imagine That: Working Poor On The Rise After the Republicans crashed to economy in 2008 one thing became ...
- Feds Push to Destroy White Supremacist Hal Tur ...
Imprisoned neo-Nazi radio host Hal Turner, one of the most vitriolic racists in America, who routinely suggested killing his enemies, may lose a bit of his venom if federal attorneys are successful in their proposition to destroy his guns. Following his conviction in December, U.S. District Judg ...
- Far-Right African Americans Chosen to Testify ...
Tomorrow, the House Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement will hold a hearing at the Rayburn House Building entitled, “Making Immigration Work for American Minorities.” On the witness list are two figures whose views of immigrants are less than charitable: Carol Swain, an African-Am ...
- Spokane Bombing Arrest Details Emerge
Officials have just identified the suspect arrested in connection with the attempted Martin Luther King Jr. Day bombing in Spokane, Wash., as 36-year-old Kevin William Harpham. Harpham was charged federally with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and receiving and possessing an impro ...
- Neo-Confederates March up Dexter Avenue for Se ...
Itâs hard to say exactly what the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) remembered so fondly on Saturday during a sesquicentennial celebration of Confederate President Jefferson Davisâ inauguration: a way of life that has been dead for a century and a half, or the day when the public at large appre ...
- Arrest Reported in Spokane Terror Bombing Attempt
A significant break in the Martin Luther King Day backpack bomb investigation in Spokane occurred this morning when an FBI SWAT team executed a search warrant and reportedly made an arrest in the small northeastern Washington town of Addy. FBI officials weren’t immediately available for comment, ...
- "Freedom to Bus" for Oakland Refugee Youth?
In many "developing" countries with limited infrastructure, it's common that "free" education is in fact loaded with prohibitively costly school-related fees. We'd like to think it's different in the United States, but sometimes, it's not. In December, I wrote about the transportation-related st ...
- Bill Re-Introduced to Provide Housing Assistan ...
Advocates continue to fight for the 30 percent rent cap bill to aid New Yorkers living with HIV/AIDS. This vital piece of legislation would provide housing assistance for thousands of low-income New Yorkers living with HIV/AIDS. This same bill was vetoed last year by then Gov. Paterson after i ...
- Drugs in Animal Feed Pose Dire Human Health Risks
Last time you went to the doctor to get antibiotics, you likely received this admonition" "Finish the bottle, even if you start to feel better right away." So it stands to reason that this concept is also true for animals being given antibiotics. Just like in people, if bacteria is left behind, ...
- Former Surgeon General Calls for Funding of AI ...
Finally, some recognition from a top health official of the ADAP Crisis in America! Former Surgeon General of the U.S., Dr. David Satcher, recently wrote an opinion piece for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution declaring that US government officials "must act to preserve drugs for HIV/AIDS." AIDS ...
- Kaplan University Student: "I Don't Want To Ev ...
A growing number of students are coming forward to share their negative experiences at Kaplan University, the for-profit college owned by the Washington Post Company. To better tell their stories, Change.org is publishing one Kaplan account every day for one week. These students are part of a gr ...
- Anti-war Activists Arrested Near White House a ...
More than 100 anti-war protesters, including the man who leaked the Pentagon Papers, were arrested outside the White House on Saturday in demonstrations marking the eighth anniversary of the U.S.-led war in Iraq. read more
- US Launches 112 Tomahawk Missiles into Libya
The U.S. military attacked Moammar Gadhafi’s air defenses Saturday with strikes along the Libyan coast that were launched by Navy vessels in the Mediterranean. A senior military official said the assault would unfold in stages and target air defense installations around Tripoli, the capital, and ...
- To Right, Citizens United Just a Start
Not satisfied by the 2010 Supreme Court ruling that opened the floodgates to corporate-sponsored election ads, conservative opponents of campaign finance regulations have opened up a series of new legal fronts in their effort to eliminate the remaining laws restricting the flow of money into pol ...
- Radioactive Material Found in Tokyo Water
The Japanese government has reported that trace amounts of radioactive iodine have been detected in tap water in Tokyo and five other areas, amid concerns about leaks from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power station. The ministry says the amounts did not exceed government safety limits, but th ...
- Cruel and Usual: US Solitary Confinement
The spectre of Bradley Manning lying naked and alone in a tiny cell at the Quantico Marine Base, less than 50 miles from Washington, DC, conjures up�images of an American Guantanamo or Abu Ghraib, where isolation and deprivation have been raised to the level of torture. In fact, the accused Wiki ...
- Water Resources Management and Water Supply in ...
As the world’s population continues to grow, water resources are under siege. According to the World Bank, 1.1 billion people today do not have access to safe drinking water.
- Water meters under consideration
Council is to include water meters in the draft Annual Plan for 2011/12 in a move designed to give more certainty that water consumption and leak reduction targets will be met.
- Govt open to privatization of water
New Delhi Municipal Council has proposed a 24x7 water supply in its areas. With water in such short supply across the capital - many residents go without even a 30-minute supply daily - one would think it criminal to provide continuous water to the VIPs in central Delhi.
- Sierra Club: State Budget Destroys State Parks ...
There's plenty to hate in the budget that the Arizona Senate passed last week, with local Sens. Al Melvin and Frank Antenori voting in favor. Sandy Bahr of the Sierra Club runs down the environmental consequences, including the damage to the state parks and to managing Arizona's fragile water su ...
- Battle brewing in Franklin on proposed water-s ...
SPARTA: Blessed Kateri Church is hosting its next blood and platelet drive from 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. John Franklin, interim head of the expanded United Way of Northern New Jersey, has been named chief...
- WikiLeaks: US ambassador quits
Carlos Pascual became embroiled in row with Mexican president, Felipe Calderón, over cables criticising drug warThe US ambassador to Mexico has resigned amid a furore over a leaked diplomatic cable in which he complained about inefficiency and infighting among Mexican security forces in the camp ...
- Allied forces launch missiles into Libya
�� US announces Operation Odyssey Dawn is under way �� More than 100 Tomahawk missiles fired on Libyan targets �� British and French forces in action over Libya �� Read a summary of the latest events here �� Read our latest news story on the military action2.53am: There have been tributes around ...
- Palin fuels White House rumours
US politician refuses to rule out standing in 2012 presidential race during trip aimed at boosting foreign policy credentialsSarah Palin, the controversial conservative US politician, fuelled speculation that she is preparing for a presidential bid in 2012 by refusing to rule out her candidacy i ...
- Budget to ease pain but keep edge
Tax changes to help low earners and scrapping a fuel duty increase will make headlines, but the spectre of a double dip recession means the chancellor will still warn of austerityHundreds of thousands more low-earners will be lifted out of income tax altogether and motorists will be offered reli ...
- Lansley accused of burying NHS poll
Ministers are said to be withholding survey results that undermine health secretary's case for urgent radical reformsMinisters have been accused of "burying good news" about the NHS because it will undermine their case for sweeping reforms, after it emerged that they are withholding unpublished ...
- Discredited Army analyst built his career arou ...
WASHINGTON — The career of military lab analyst Phillip Mills started unraveling the day a colleague made a discovery that would rattle military justice.
- Army slow to act as crime-lab worker falsified ...
WASHINGTON — For nearly three years, the military held the key to Roger House's exoneration and didn't tell him: A forensics examiner had botched a crucial lab test used in the Navy lieutenant's court-martial.
- Crime-lab worker's errors cast doubt on milita ...
WASHINGTON — Life-and-death questions shadow misconduct at the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory, where investigators discovered that a lab analyst cut corners and falsified reports: Were the innocent convicted, and did the guilty go free?
- WikiLeaks dispute claims U.S. ambassador to Mexico
MEXICO CITY — U.S. ambassador to Mexico Carlos Pascual resigned Saturday following weeks of withering criticism by President Felipe Calderon, who said he'd lost trust in the envoy and demanded his removal.
- Obama, Brazil's president discuss building eco ...
BRASILIA — President Barack Obama arrived here under cloudy skies but with the hope of opening a new chapter in relations with this continent-sized country that he said has captured "the attention of the world."
- Bees: a sting in the tale
� The United Nations Environment Programme (Unep) buzzes into the ongoing discussion of bee decline this week, with a report examining the global nature of the issue and some of the reasons behind it. Their top-line conclusions are that it's becoming a widespread, if not quite global, phenomen ...
- Green tuna goes FAD-free
Environmental group Greenpeace is claiming something of a victory with the news that the UK's biggest supplier of canned tuna, Princes, is going to source its fish from more sustainable supplies than previously. Greenpeace has been spearheading a campaign to get companies to adopt sustainable t ...
- China and EU share climate vision
China and the European Union are setting out plans for changing energy use and curbing carbon emissions within a space of a few days. As one of them is the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases while the other would be third in the global list if its emissions were tallied as a single enti ...
- Refining the sixth great extinction
Are we living through the sixth mass extinction of life in Earth history? That we are is something you'll often hear asserted in conservation circles - and you'll easily find dozens of news articles taking the notion at face value. It's even acquired a posh name - the Holocene extinction. In ...
- Discard bathwater, not baby
More selective fishing tends to produce fewer discards Everybody wants to do it: nobody is entirely sure how that should be done. Discarding fish is, on one level, an outrageous practice; so surely stopping it is the right thing? A byproduct of measures to keep fishing within sustainable limit ...
- New Hampshire House Approves Tax Cut On Cancer ...
In a flurry of legislative activity this week, the New Hampshire House approved a tax cut on cigarettes even while cutting funding for education, and health care. The ten cent tax cut bucks a national trend of raising taxes on tobacco since “forever” and, according to multiple studies, could lea ...
- Gov. Scott’s Version Of ‘Fair Taxe ...
Like many Republican governors, Gov. Rick Scott (R-FL) has released a budget that lays off thousands of state workers and slashes education and Medicaid funding, but still cuts Florida’s already low corporate income tax rate by two and a half percentage points. During an interview with CNBC’s La ...
- Lessons From Darfur: Is The U.N. Setting A New ...
Our Guest Blogger is Laura Heaton, Writer/Editor for the blog, Enough Said. Just a few days ago, support appeared to be waning for imposing a no-fly zone over Libya. But last night, the U.N. Security Council authorized military intervention in Libya, passing a Chapter VII resolution that gives t ...
- Three White Supremacists Arrested In Connectio ...
Last November, two Mexican nationals were brutally beaten in San Francisco by five men who yelled “white power” and made racist comments during the attack. One of the victims was punched and kicked in the face until he blacked out. The other victim was attacked when he tried to intervene to help ...
- Les Gelb’s False Prediction That The UN ...
Yesterday evening, the UN Security Council voted 10-0 to approve a no-fly zone over Libya and “authorizing all necessary measures” to prevent Muammar Qaddafi’s forces from killing civilians. Before the vote, in an article posted on the Council on Foreign Relations website, CFR president Les Gelb ...
- Don't Keep stephen harper in Power! Put him in ...
Listen, it's very clear. Afghan peasant farmers, either fighting back against a government of rapists and thieves, or coerced into fighting for the insurgency, or completely innocent of any political or armed resistance but just trying to work their land and survive, were arrested by Canadian s ...
- If You are NDP or Liberal or Not a harpercon
Contact the Liberal or NDP MP in your riding, and tell them that you want them to take a stand against harper's destructive corporate tax cuts and his assaults on Canadian democracy. If you don't have either an NDP or Liberal MP, contact the party headquarters of the party that seems likeliest ...
- A Message For harperbot Trolls
If on the very small chance that you have the moral and intellectual ability to feel bad about taking the harpercon party of Canada's money to infest progressive blogs and defend the harpercon government's deliberate assault on Canadian democracy, ... just stop doing it. That's right. Continue ...
- Liberal - Tory - Same - Old - Story!!!
SIGH. Yesterday, I wrote some commentary about stephen harper's revolting words about the significance of the recent Japanese earthquake tragedy as reported here. Now, that's a Liberal site, but I still found it ridiculous and outrageous that part of the response to an abomination emerging fro ...
- harper's Japan Remarks: The banality of evil
So, upon witnessing (along with the rest of us) the terrible devastation of the earthquake and the tsunami, and now, the deadly explosions of ill-prepared nuclear power stations in Japan, harper furrows his brow and tries to make a "teachable moment" out of the tragedy: “All of these things shou ...
- New Podcast: An Interview with Lt. Colonel Mic ...
By Bryan Rahija What would you do if you were in the military and were given an order that you thought was illegal? If you're like Lt. Colonel Michael Holmes, you probably would've started asking questions. Lt. Colonel Holmes leads...
- Quote of the Day: One Definition of High-Value ...
By Bryan Rahija ProPublica's Jennifer LaFleur on the kind of data that the government should be releasing: Information on anything that's inspected, spent, enforced, or licensed. That's what I want, and that's what the public wants. LaFleur made the comment...
- Morning Smoke: "If FOIA Is the Yardstick for O ...
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. Administration falling...
- Chart of the Day: Joint Strike Fighter Death S ...
By Bryan Rahija A chart from a new study by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) neatly summarizes the sad trajectory of the Joint Strike Fighter program. Bottom line: taxpayers are paying more for less. Changes in Reported JSF Program Cost,...
- Updates to POGO's Federal Contractor Misconduc ...
By Bryan Rahija POGO has made the following updates to the Federal Contractor Misconduct Database (FCMD): Updated Misconduct Instance Case: Kabul Shooting Prosecutions Contractor: Blackwater USA Date: 01/06/2010 (Date of Indictment) Synopsis: Justin Cannon and Chris Drotleff were charged with...
- 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 ...
- Canada sends CF-18s for Libya intervention
The Canadian government has sent six CF-18 fighters to take part in the Libya mission authorized by the UN Security Council on Thursday (Steven Chase, “Canada commits six fighter jets to help enforce Libyan no-fly zone,” Globe and Mail, 17 March 2011): The UN Security Council voted Thursday to i ...
- Why the F-35 stealth fighter is wrong for Canada
Ploughshares Ottawa will host Steven Staples on Tuesday, 22 March 2011, at St.Thomas the Apostle Church, 2345 Alta Vista Drive (one block north of Heron Road) to discuss “Why the F-35 Stealth Fighter is Wrong for Canada”. The meeting begins at 7:30 PM. Light refreshments will be offered.
- Canadian-made armoured vehicles enter Bahrain
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates sent troops into neighbouring Bahrain on Monday in an effort to shore up the Bahraini government, which has been facing escalating demands for democratic reform. An estimated 1200 soldiers from the Saudi National Guard and 800 from the UAE entered the co ...
- Ottawa event: Facing off for social justice in ...
Radiation and health, physicians in conflict zones, the social determinants of health, and many other topics will be discussed at this conference in Ottawa on March 25th and 26th. Speakers will include President of the Canadian Medical Association Dr. Jeff Turnbull; Dr. Helen Caldicott; and reno ...
- Parliamentary Budget Office reports F-35 to co ...
Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page has reported that the price tag for the F-35 stealth fighters that the Harper government wants to buy is likely to end up much higher than the government has been suggesting. Page’s report, which echoes concerns voiced by F-35 critics, warns that the real ...
- The hCG Diet Myth: Why Would a Pregnancy Hormo ...
March 10th, 2011 Time Healthland By: Maia Szalavitz Quick quiz: does pregnancy cause weight loss or gain? It seems like a dumb question but it’s a test that the promoters of the “hCG diet” seem to have failed. Short for human chorionic gonadotrophin, hCG is the hormone secreted by the embryo tha ...
- HCG Diet on ABC News
March 10th, 2011 ABCNews.com Click here for the video from ABCNews.com
- HCG Diet on ABC News with Diane Sawyer
March 10th, 2011 ABCNews.com Click here for the full report from ABC News
- Dr. Oz’s Definition of Fact VS. Fiction
March 10th, 2011 DoctorOz.com By: Peiter Cohen Which of the below statements is true about the hCG diet? You can lose 30 pounds in one month. Many dieters swear by it. Doctors say it doesn’t work. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) calls hCG supplements illegal and fraudulent. What’s rema ...
- Schumer Pushes for Military to Report Applican ...
March 10th, 2011 FoxNews.com If someone admits to a federal official that he’s used illegal drugs, that information should be sent to the FBI so that person can be disqualified from purchasing a gun, Sen. Chuck Schumer said Sunday. Noting that the alleged shooter in the Tucson massacre had admit ...
- Haiti: Government says Aristide can come home
Haiti's government has said it was ready to issue a new passport to former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, which would allow him to return after almost seven years in exile in South Africa. 'The government will give assurances that as soon as it re...
- Cuba: Cuban organisation fights for release of ...
Enrique Roman, first vice-president of the Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), has underlined that the movement in solidarity with Cuba prioritises in 2011 the struggle for the release of the five Cuban antiterrorist heroes incarc...
- Haiti: Returned ex-dictator Duvalier charged
Haiti on Tuesday briefly detained former dictator Jean-Claude 'Baby Doc' Duvalier, back from exile in France, and charged him with corruption, theft and abuses of power allegedly committed during his 15-year rule. While a noisy crowd of his supporter...
- Break the Silence Congo week
The purpose of the Break the Silence Congo Week is to raise consciousness about the devastating situation in the Congo and mobilize support on behalf of the people of the Congo. Break the Silence Congo Week will take place from Sunday 17 October to S...
- Morocco: Expats returning home in greater numbers
Faced with the woes of the global economic crisis, an increasing number of Moroccan expatriates are coming back home. Meanwhile, the government is intensifying effort to aid the community abroad as well as help them maintain ties with their home coun...
- The fight for Libya
The Los Angeles Times reports: With his popularity at a record low and facing an election next year, French President Nicolas Sarkozy was in desperate need of a boost to his political stature. And on Saturday, he got it. The French leader, once dubbed Super Sarko by the local press for his ea ...
- Operation Odyssey Dawn
A few hours ago I had it mind to note that one of the distinctions of the attack on Libya was that even after it had begun, it had yet to receive a name. The fact that French jets were screeching across the sky above Benghazi, yet TV commentators could not with gravitas preface the [...]
- Comments on War in Context
For much of the last year, I’ve been wondering whether it’s worth me devoting time to moderating and responding to reader comments. Initially, this issue arose because my coverage of Israel/Palestine was attracting the attention of increasing numbers of Zionist trolls. In recent days it’s becom ...
- Mohammad Nabbous, face of citizen journalism i ...
NPR’s Andy Carvin described Mohammad Nabbous as “Libya’s Cronkite” and “the face of Libyan citizen journalism.” CNN’s Ben Wedeman: “Mohammed Nabbous was one of the courageous voices from Benghazi broadcasting to the world from the beginning. Smart, selfless, brave.” Andy Carvin: “One thing to ...
- Libyans disappoint the anti-war movement and t ...
The mere fact that Gaddafi has been served notice that continued military operations will bring reprisals has not been sufficient to persuade him to implement a unilateral ceasefire which he already promised. Benghazi is currently under attack. Meanwhile, as missiles are coming down on the last ...
- The reality of wind turbines in California  ...
As many know, I was on a road trip for two weeks. On my return into California, I traveled a road I had done many many times – California Highway 58 through Tehachapi pass, one of the windiest areas of … Continue reading →
- My biggest pet peeve on running this blog
I have to fix this several times a week…please read and heed. I’m hoping that if I announce this as a post, it will reduce the problem. No wordpress.com can’t fix this issue with comments, I’ve asked. PLEASE be careful … Continue reading →
- Waterspout in San Francisco
Soon to be linked to “global warming” by some MSM type no doubt. Watch the video:
- The Perigee Moon aka “Supermoon”
Perigee Moon left, Apogee Moon, right. Picture Credit: Galileo Project, NASA Thanks to WUWT regular “justthefacts” for assembling this story. – Anthony There has been a lot in the news about, “Saturday’s full moon will be a super “perigee moon” — … Continue reading →
- The minimal solar activity in 2008–2009 and it ...
This is a new paper in Geophysical Research Letters by C. J. Schrijver, W. C. Livingston, T. N. Woods, and R. A. Mewaldt. WUWT readers may recognize Livingston as the creator of one of the datasets we regularly follow graphically … Continue reading →
- Hedges: War is a Soulless Void + Nader: End th ...
with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad March 20, 2011 GoinsReport on Mar 19, 2011 (3-19-2011) Chris Hedges is a journalist and columnist for Truthdig. This took place at Lafayette Park in front of the White House. Chris Hedges @ Anti-War Rally *** Ralph Nader @ Anti-War Rally (3-19-20 ...
- Mr. President, Know Thyself by Kathleen Kirwin ...
by Kathleen Kirwin Guest Writer Dandelion Salad March 19, 2011 Postscript to an Open Letter to President Obama Mr. President, yesterday you proudly and vehemently “raised your voice against the violence of the oppressed” in Libya. You proclaimed: All attacks against civilians must stop. Gaddafi ...
- Bahrain protesters weakened by destruction of ...
by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted from Irish Times March 19, 2011 Manama used with permission photo by Darren Shanahan All rights reserved The Bahraini pro-democracy movement suffered another crushing defeat yesterday when state forces demolished the Pearl Monument ...
- To Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg: “Br ...
by Felicity Arbuthnot Featured Writer Dandelion Salad 19 March, 2011 The Rt. Hon., Nick Clegg, MP., Deputy Prime Minister, Houses of Parliament, London SW1A. (cleggn@parliament.UK) Dear Mr Clegg, Re: Libya. I refer to your letter below, which was forwarded to me. “No-fly zone” is an oxymoron, a ...
- Afghan Police Protecting Protesters! + Former ...
Hakim Guest Writer Dandelion Salad ourjourneytosmile on Mar 19, 2011 We want to live without wars! The citizens of Afghanistan say NO to war. Today we make a resolute stand for a peaceful tomorrow. Peace is a prerequisite for all progress. No to war! We don’t want any more war… We are so tired ...
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"Stay Calm, Don't Panic....And God Bless America" "Women And Children First" - US Military Begins Evacuations From Japan Unprecedented : American Military Families Told To Leave Behind Pets, Pack For "3 To 5 Days" And Leave Japan "In An Orderly Fashion" By Darryl Mason The US government and ...
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C3PO : "I Must Have Some Booze! I Demand To Have Some Booze" If you're a fan of the movie WithNail & I, you'll love this. If you're a fan of Star Wars, but you've never heard of Withnail & I, you'll be confused, but laugh anyway. If you're a huge fan of both Star Wars and Withnail & I, well, y ...
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You Know, This Street Smells Really Nice Since Those Quiet People With Blacked Out Windows Moved In Cannabis farms in apartments and units are increasingly popular in crumbling economies like the UK's because the return on investment is so high, the legal implications (compared to, say, armed r ...
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How To Fuck With Artificial Intelligence By Darryl Mason The New York Times has an example of 'self-learning' artificial intelligence where you can pit your Rock Paper Scissors skills against a novice computer, just starting out and learning as it goes based on your choices in a series of game ...
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How To Live To Be 125, Maybe According to a multi-billionaire who is aiming to live to be 125 years old, this is the diet of longevity : ...fruits and vegetables: he crams as many as 20 of them, including pulverized banana peels and the ground-up rinds of oranges, into the smoothies he drinks ...
- Possible Early Warning Sign for Market Crashes
Complexity researchers who study the behavior of stock markets may have identified a signal that precedes crashes. They say the telltale sign is a measure of co-movement, or the likelihood of stocks to move in the same direction. When a market is healthy, co-movement is low. But in the months a ...
- Understanding Japan’s Nuclear Crisis
By John Timmer, Ars Technica Following the events at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors in Japan has been challenging. At best, even those present at the site have a limited view of what’s going on inside the reactors themselves, and the situation has changed rapidly over the last severa ...
- Spacecraft Swings Into First Orbit Around Mercury
NASA’s Messenger spacecraft swung into position around Mercury Thursday night, making it the first spacecraft ever to orbit the innermost planet. Engineers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland, 96 million miles from Mercury, received the signal confirming that ...
- Seasonal Methane Rain Discovered on Titan
Spring may bring methane showers to the deserts of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft recently saw a large, dark puddle appear in the wake of a storm cloud at the moon’s dune-filled equator. “It’s the only easy way to explain the observations,” said planetary scientist Eliz ...
- Japan Quake Epicenter Was in Unexpected Location
Japan has been expecting and preparing for the âbig oneâ for more than 30 years. But the magnitude-9.0 temblor that struck March 11 — the worldâs fourth biggest quake since 1900 — wasnât the catastrophe the island nation had in mind. Â The epicenter of the quake was about 80 miles east [...]
- Hisham Matar: Why the UN resolution on Libya i ...
[T]he UN security council resolution is an extraordinary achievement. It is unrelenting in its commitment to saving lives, yet nuanced enough to take into account Libya's sensitivity to foreign... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
- Aharon Shabtai: I just wanted to look at Tanya
I just wanted to look at Tanya -- how she stood tall in her coat at the end of the hall on her department's floor as I came out of the elevator; how she lit her cigarette at the entrance archway as... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palesti ...
- Noam Chomsky on Middle East uprisings and fake ...
Noam Chomsky speaking in Amsterdam (video) 13 March 2011. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...
- Abdallah Abu Rahmah freed from jail, vows figh ...
Abdallah Abu Rahmah was given a hero's welcome in the West Bank village of Bil'in after being released from Ofer Prison on Monday. He was greeted by over a hundred and fifty townsfolk who escorted... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
- Tel Aviv University operates undercover campus ...
ecurity officials who heard of the volunteer detail said excessive motivation, weapons and the lack of an organized unit could lead to disaster in case of emergency. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to ...
- Japan Crisis Experts from the University of Ch ...
The University of Chicago has numerous experts who can comment on the scientific, social, political and cultural dimensions of the ongoing crisis in Japan. Our news officers can assist reporters looking for help with stories on nuclear science, radiation exposure, geology, as well as Japanese cu ...
- Japanese Radiation: Atmospheric Transport and ...
What happens to radioactive material released from Japan is more difficult to predict than the weather, depending on several factors, explain University of Maryland atmospheric scientists. "Projected air mass patterns vary dramatically daily, and it's these changing conditions that control radia ...
- IFT Media Update: New Energy Ingredients; More ...
The following news briefs are from the Institute of Food Technologists(r) (IFT), a nonprofit scientific society with members working in food science, food technology, and related professions in industry, academia, and government. This media update includes information on articles from the March ...
- Food Safety Tips on FoodSafety.gov: Handle Lef ...
Many busy moms and dads rely on leftovers to feed their families throughout the week. IFT has teamed up with FoodSafety.gov, an online resource for food safety information from the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Food and Drug Administra ...
- Kids' Breakfasts Around the World Lack Adequat ...
The 'Food, Medicine and Health' column in the March 2011 Food Technology magazine published by the Institute of Food Technologists suggests that assessments of kids' breakfasts worldwide are often high in sugar and saturated fat and low in dietary fiber and lack essential vitamins and minerals. ...
- African Gray Parrot Helping with the Laundry
This 8 year old African Grey loves to do laundry.
- Chinchilla Gets Dusted
The best way to clean a Chinchilla is to let it play in a bucket of dust.
- Is Vitamin D Deficiency Connected to Parkinson ...
Researchers report that there is a correlation between insufficient levels of vitamin D and the development of early Parkinson's disease. A study of more than 150 Parkinson�s patients �found that a high percentage of subjects had vitamin D insufficiency or deficiency. Almost 70 percent had vita ...
- Mediterranean Diet Improves Heart Risk Factors
Eating a �Mediterranean diet� could prevent or even reverse metabolic syndrome, a cluster of risk factors for heart disease and diabetes. Scientists believe that a Mediterranean-style diet has antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects on your body. A review of 35 clinical trials found that fait ...
- Did Vaccines INCREASE Swine Flu Risk?
Renewed controversy has struck influenza vaccines with the news that some studies show people immunized against the seasonal flu might have been at greater risk for swine flu. People who were vaccinated in 2008 with the seasonal or ordinary vaccine seemed to have twice the risk of getting s ...
- Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes XLVI
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- Las cascadas más famosas del mundo VI (11 fotos)
Explore nuestro archivo. (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6) ATENCIÓN: Para ver todas las fotos de esta serie, navegue usted hacia abajo y haga click sobre las imágenes que más le gusten para ampliar su tamaño y guardarlas en su computadora si así lo desea. AVISO IMPORTANTE: Solicito su ayuda para que más pe ...
- Vegetación - Imágenes verdes - 15 fotos de la ...
ATENCIÓN: Para ver todas las fotos de esta serie, navegue usted hacia abajo y haga click sobre las imágenes que más le gusten para ampliar su tamaño y guardarlas en su computadora si así lo desea.
- Arrecifes y corales en el mar II (10 fotos de ...
Explore nuestro archivo (1)(2) ATENCIÓN: Para ver todas las fotos de esta serie, navegue usted hacia abajo y haga click sobre las imágenes que más le gusten para ampliar su tamaño y guardarlas en su computadora si así lo desea.
- Huevos de pascua - Easter Eggs - Wallpapers
ATENCIÓN: Para ver todas las fotos de esta serie, navegue usted hacia abajo y haga click sobre las imágenes que más le gusten para ampliar su tamaño y guardarlas en su computadora si así lo desea.
- What’s Cookin’ in Your Soil Kitchen?
What’s Cooking in your ‘Soil Kitchen’? There is probably lots cooking but you might not like all that’s on the menu. So if you are an urban agriculturalist in the mid-Atlantic (NYC-Philadelphia-Baltimore-DC) area scratching your head about all this talk of soil contamination, grab a soil sample ...
- The Locavore debate, revisited
How can local food systems support a resilient and sustainable future food economy in the United States? That was the question of the day at a recent conference entitled, “Reviving the American Economy-One Heirloom Tomato at a Time.” But for some, the question isn’t so much how, but even can ...
- In Media, Big Ag Looms Large while Farmers Get ...
In September 1965, CBS broadcast its first episode of Green Acres, a mini-series documenting a family’s transition from an urban life of prestige and luxury, to one of mud, manure, and chaos on a farm in the fictional town of Hooterville. Green Acres took off, in part capitalizing on the popula ...
- Organic Farming: What is Technology’s Role?
A recent post entitled “Organic Farmers: Can They Be Tech Savvy?” Â by Mr. Hunter Richards serves as a reminder of why one interested in sustainable farming mustn’t instinctively cringe at the thought of new technology and agriculture. As the blog states, organic food has taken off as an indust ...
- Chicken, Ascendant
Between now and April 3, the USDA is inviting comment on a just-completed, major research effort to reassess how much of the food in the United States actually makes its way into our mouths. Its findings suggest that in the chicken-versus-beef rivalry, the popularity of boneless chicken is edgi ...
- 55 links, none of which will improve your day
Bob Herbert: No one thought the Interstate 35W bridge across the Mississippi River in Minneapolis would collapse. No one thought the Gulf of Mexico would be fouled to the horrible extent that it was by the BP oil spill. The awful convergence of disasters in Japan — a 9.0 earthquake followed by a ...
- Going Galt (not what you thought it meant)
Jon Talton: I call the new age the Great Disruption. It is on display in Japan, where one of the most advanced nations in the world is struggling with a devastating earthquake and an unfolding nuclear disaster. The planet is at 6.8 billion people, at or beyond its carrying capacity. This will am ...
- Foxprop
It wasn’t until I squinted and saw the “Gadhafi” inscribed on the side of the plane that I realized this wasn’t a cartoon about Afghanistan. Actually, I still think this is a cartoon about Afghanistan. I also think Obama should be very concerned about the right’s recent embrace of Bradley Mannin ...
- Debunking the lies as fascist they tell them
Out and about early today but here’s a few links to tide you over. - If you’re a teabagger, you might believe: Anonymous attacked you with porn The least well informed candidates are the best candidates The media hates you Jesus only loves certain people (and the rest of y’all can go to hell, in ...
- Overt and undercover Republicans team up to de ...
You can take away the labels but city politics are emphatically partisan just the same. Former Deputy Mayor of L.A. Alfred J.R. Villalobos is an excellent case in point. The L.A. Times is all over his case this morning for his role in recently uncovered corruption at CalPERS, the 800-lb. gorilla ...
- Plans Proceed for Northern AZ Shooting Range N ...
Plans Proceed for Northern AZ Shooting Range Next to National Monument Flagstaff, AZ – Arizona Game and Fish Commissioners are moving forward with plans for a regional shooting range within hearing distance of Walnut Canyon National Monument outside Flagstaff. Opponents say the gunfire will dist ...
- A New Way for Arizonans to Report, Research Un ...
A New Way for Arizonans to Report, Research Unsafe Products Phoenix, AZ - A new website promises open access to product safety information, including reports about potential problems and manufacturers' responses to them. It's www.SaferProducts.gov, launched last Friday (March 11) by the Consumer ...
- Arizona Receiving Toxic Strawberries from Cali ...
Arizona Receiving Toxic Strawberries from California? Phoenix, AZ – Arizona gets most of its strawberries from California. Critics of a controversial pesticide used in that state's strawberry fields want methyl iodide to be banned. A coalition of California environmental and farmworker groups h ...
- Poll Finds Strong Public Support for Endangere ...
Poll Finds Strong Public Support for Endangered Species Act…and Wolves Phoenix, AZ – A new poll on wildlife management, the Endangered Species Act and wolves shows strong public support for all three. U.S. House Republicans hope to remove ESA protections for wolves as part of a stopgap federal ...
- Debt Reduction Roadmap
Debt Reduction Roadmap Washington D.C. – A federal government shutdown has been avoided, at least for the next two weeks, with enactment of a stop-gap spending bill. But the measure leaves unresolved House-passed spending cuts of 60-billion dollars which still need to be reconciled with the Sen ...
- Farmers and Consumer Groups File Lawsuit Chall ...
“Roundup Ready” Alfalfa Will Increase Pesticide Use and Cause Grave Harm to Environment and Organic Industry USDA Failures Guarantee Transgenic Contamination, Creation of More Superweeds Today, attorneys for the Center for Food Safety (CFS) and Earthjustice filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Depar ...
- Bi-Partisan Legislation Introduced To Ban Dang ...
Sixty-Four Organizations, Fishing Associations and Retailers Endorse Legislation; Lawmakers Cite Serious Economic, Environmental and Human Health Threats The Center for Food Safety along with 63 other groups, businesses and retailers applaud Senators Mark Begich (D-Alaska) and Lisa Murkowski (R- ...
- Nature Happens – Humans Can’t Cont ...
By Lisa J. Bunin, Liana Hoodes, Michael Sligh Last week, USDA announced its decision to allow the planting of Monsanto’s Roundup Ready (RR) GM alfalfa without any ongoing monitoring or regulation whatsoever. Despite widespread consumer, farmer, and food industry opposition and contrary scientif ...
- World’s First Genetically Engineered Biofuels ...
Impacts on Human Health, Environment, and Farmers Not Fully Assessed DESPITE RISING GLOBAL FOOD PRICES, OBAMA ADMINISTRATION CONTINUES MISGUIDED BIOFUELS AGENDA The Center for Food Safety criticized an announcement today by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) that it will approve the world ...
- Farmers And Conservationists Challenge Latest ...
In defiance of earlier court ruling, USDA allows continued growing of controversial, illegally planted crop Today the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) issued a new decision to allow the U.S. sugar beet industry to continue growing Monsanto’s “Roundup Ready,” genetically ...
- Libya, Getting it Right: A Revolutionary Pan-A ...
Libya, Getting it Right: A Revolutionary Pan-African Perspective | Dissident Voice: "Thousands of Indians, Egyptians, Chinese, Filipinos, Turks, Germans, English, Italians, Malaysians, Koreans and a host of other nationalities are lining up at the borders and the airport to leave Libya. It begs ...
- The facts about racism in Libya | SocialistWor ...
The facts about racism in Libya | SocialistWorker.org: "THE UPRISING against the dictatorial regime of Col. Muammar Qaddafi, like the revolutionary upsurges in Tunisia and Egypt, has inspired people around the world who yearn for social change. If the people of Libya succeed in overthrowing a ru ...
- Hullabaloo: How to force a false confession
Hullabaloo: "I suppose we are supposed be grateful that they are only using this particular technique on an American soldier for seven hours a day instead of the weeks or days they routinely used on Al Qaeda members. Perhaps they learned through their long experience at Gitmo and Bagram that com ...
- Tom is Moving in on Libya
Even as I write here President Obama and his European allies are moving fast to invade Libya under the guise of a humanitarian mission. A "no-fly-zone" will most likely be declared soon and policed by Nato in the days ahead.� This tactic will allow Tom to essentially occupy Libya in a r ...
- UNDERNEWS: Thomas Knapp, Anti-War
UNDERNEWS: "The power to declare war — and thereby to legally categorize a group of persons (historically on, but not necessarily constrained to, the basis of their allegiance to a particular state) as 'the enemy' — is exclusively reserved, per the US Constitution, to Congress. Congress hasn’t e ...
- More on Egypt
Reading that now, a few days after the military pressured Mubarak to step down, the Egyptian parliament has been dissolved, and the Constitution invalidated by the Egyptian military. This fills me with fear. The mainstream media are treating these acts as a good thing, and the Egyptians they int ...
- Update: Mubarak Not Stepping Down Tonight
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- US involved in an Egyptian “military coup”?
Photo by adaptorplug A CNN news story says that Hofni Mubarak will likely relinquish power to the Egyptian military tonight. This is what their source, âa senior Egyptian officalâ is quoted by CNN as saying: He said the process — which included dialogue between the government and opposition repr ...
- President Llorens
I’ve reconsidered my position about posting Wikileaks articles. This article not only discusses classified material disclosed by Wikileaks, but actually quotes it. I know some of my readers work for the US government, thus the warning. I am not an enemy of the United States of America. I simply ...
- Magnificent
This movie brought me to tears. It is the story of a man whose lack of limbs from birth relegated him to life as a circus side-show freak. It tells of how he was recognized by the owner of a rival circus as “magnificent”. After overcoming his bitterness, the man transformed from freak to hero. [ ...
- Rooster
It's still possible to enjoy fresh eggs from the farm, have a look at the article "Suburban Chooks (wildlife/suburban-chooks.html)" to find out more information. Photo by: Simon Betant
- Bumblebee
As you can read in the article "Natural bug control (wildlife/ladybugs-in-action-ladybugs-soldiers-of-a-sustainable-battle.html)", the ladybug has a special role in nature, as it is for the bumblebee. They have their place in "Biodiversity (glosarry/categories/wildlife/biodiversity.html)". ...
- Better for Women, better for your health and t ...
We explore eco friendly menstrual products – better for your body, and better for the earth!
- Solar-powered parking meter
Parking meters like this one are becoming more common around Australian cities. A small solar panel on top of the device converts solar energy (glossary/categories/energy/solar-renewable-energy.html) into electricity which gets stocked in a battery, providing a running meter even on cloudy days ...
- Cloud building up
Clouds truly look beautiful but they are in most cases synonym of rain and thunderstorm... Cloud formations come from water condensation (wildlife/condensation.html) in the cool higher atmospheric (wildlife/condensation.html) layers. The water condenses and piles up until the air is oversaturat ...
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- Free Movie tickets: CONVICTION
The kind folk at 20th Century Fox have made available some double passes for our TBR, Twitter and Facebook readers to see the new movie CONVICTION, based on the true story of Betty Ann Waters who studied to become a...
- New-look Investigate magazine HIS and HERS goe ...
As of Sunday...with more exclusive revelations about the Pike River disaster and police bungles in the rescue operation...and HERS features new poll results showing support for National is wide but shallow, and that a large number of voters want Winston...
- Investigate Political Poll 2011 - No1
Investigate magazine's first big omnibus and political poll in more than five years is underway. If you want to fill in the survey form (takes less than two minutes on average) online, you'll find it here.
- BREAKING NEWS: Arizona shooter of Gabrielle Gi ...
The young gunman who shot and killed six people, and left Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in critical condition, appears to have borne a grudge against Giffords after meeting her in 2007 at the age of 19. According to reports, former...
- How to lift the closure of Gaza in three easy ...
From Gisha’s Gaza Gateway, what it would actually take to end just the closure of Gaza, although not the entire Occupation. Israelâs Deputy Foreign Minister said last week that the continued smuggling of weapons into the Gaza Strip threatens further implementation of the âeasingâ of the closur ...
- Abdallah Abu Rahmah is free, may all Palestini ...
Great news on the heels of the horrible killings in Itamar settlement and Netanyahu’s exploitation of them. It’s good to have a hopeful example even if its freedom for a man who should have never been imprisoned. Indeed, the protests Abdallah Abu Rahmah helped organize are still going on after h ...
- Please report any unattended human rights
I read Neve Gordon’s piece a few months back about human rights websites being banned at Ben Gurion airport, and thought what a perfect microcosm of the front Israel is trying to put up to the world. While they wouldn’t think of banning such websites to their own population, I hope, internation ...
- Israeli solidarity activist interrogated by po ...
Sara Benninga, whose speech I reposted here on the blog, was interrogated by the police after speaking at the JStreet conference I attended. She provided one of the voices for a new direction for Jewish and Israeli activists working alongside Palestinians for justice. For this she rewarded with ...
- Eviatar: Three Dead Children
Guest Post by Aharan Eviatar The recent ghastly events in Arizona, especially the killing of Christina Greene, gunned down by a political lunatic at age nine, lead one to think of the phenomenon of political killing of children and what it implies for society. In particular, I would like to bri ...
- Mocavo. Free genealogy search
Mocavo has just launched. The world’s largest free genealogy search engine, Mocavo.com, provides genealogists access to the best free genealogy content on the web including billions of names, dates and places worldwide. Mocavo.com seeks to index and make searchable all of the world’s free geneal ...
- The underpants gnomes bomb Libya
Step 2??? We don’t need no steenkin’ Step 2! Step 1, Bombs away. Step 3, Peace and democracy. We’ll figure out Step 2 later on.
- PTSD in Japan
From a psychologist who was in Los Angeles during the Northride quake. With every fractional increase in the Richter scale, there is an exponential increase in the violence and destruction. Surviving a 9.0 seems a miracle to me. The Japanese people are living in fear, pain, loss, grief, and cour ...
- French fighter jets enforcing no-fly zone in L ...
This from Al Jazeera and BBC.
- Disaster capitalism, a new variant emerges
Capitalism doesn’t just profit from disasters, as Naomi Klein says. It also, through greed, shortsightedness, and corruption, creates disasters. It could be a real estate bubble inflated by corruption and a deliberately asleep government, that finally popped, taking down the US economy with it. ...
- Yediot’s Plocker: Thank you Mossad for r ...
On Sunday (January 9 2011), Yediot’s Itamar Eichner reported [emphasis mine; full translation here]: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is furious with outgoing Mossad Director Meir Dagan because of the briefing Dagan gave journalists last Thursday. In the course of that briefing, Dagan shared wi ...
- “Rejectionist front”: Maariv detai ...
As Israel’s diplomatic position erodes and the Palestinian Authority’s campaign for the unilateral recognition of a state in the 1967 borders gains ground, the demand for “direct negotiations” has become a central talking point of  Israeli government spokespeople. Here’s the latest example, fro ...
- New Yorker editor David Remnick to Yediot:  ...
On December 24 2010, Yediot’s Friday Political Supplement ran an interview with New Yorker editor David Remnick by Adi Gold. Most of the interview was dedicated to his new biography of Barack Obama. Gold did ask a political question on Israel and Reminck’s response was very blunt. Note that th ...
- Breaking the Silence’s landmark new book ...
Breaking the Silence has just published a landmark collection of soldier testimonies from the Occupied Territories spanning the period 2000-2010. The 432 page book can now be browsed, downloaded and embedded here. If you read nothing else, take the time to look over the first to pages of the int ...
- Following local pressure, Adidas reconsiders s ...
This Maariv article [full translation below] from Friday is particularly badly written and repetitive, so I’ll summarize. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat decides to hold the first Jerusalem International Marathon in March 2011. He gets Adidas to sponsor the event. An Israeli runner registers and the ...
- War Front 3 – Pakistanis protest botched ...
By South Asia correspondent Sally Sara ABC News Updated Sat Mar 19, 2011 8:22am AEDT Related Story: Pakistan demands apology over drone strike Related Story: Militants killed in Pakistan drone strikes Thousands of people have protested against a US drone strike that killed up to 40 people in Pak ...
- “Who The Hell Do You Think You Are?̶ ...
Farrakhan goes on a rant on Chicago radio about Obama calling for Qaddafi to step down, this is from yesterday Louis Farrakhan with radio host Cliff Kelley on WVON-AM 1690 Chicago FARRAKHAN: “I warn my brother do you let these wicked demons move you in a direction that will absolutely ruin your ...
- Libyan War Thread (updates)
MARCH 19, 2011 OBAMA: 'Today we are part of a broad coalition. We are answering the calls of a threatened people. And we are acting in the interests of the United States and the world'... MARCH 19, 2003 BUSH: 'American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm ...
- U.S. Tomahawk Cruise Missiles Hit Targets in Libya
ABC News More than 112 Tomahawk cruise missiles struck over 20 targets inside Libya today in the opening phase of an international military operation the Pentagon said was aimed at stopping attacks led by Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and enforcing a U.N.-backed no-fly zone. President Obama, spe ...
- Deadline Live – March 18 2011
Friday’s Guests – DEADLINE LIVE RADIO (Open Mind Edition): Author & Researcher David Icke…. Also Blogger “Silver Shield” + Breaking News…
- In Case You Missed It
Statpad – Roman M Two and a half PC’s.
- Update on Winds paper
Copied from comments on the other thread Anastassia Makarieva Some of the readers may still be interested the fate of our draft paper “Where do winds come from?” and our condensation theory as originally highlighted on The Air Vent here. A second referee was appointed –- many thanks to all of th ...
- Saving The World, One Progressive at a Time
Josh had this awesome depiction of Romm right where I see him. At least at the elevation of its nesting habitat, it is safe from the 5 feet of sea level rise. Although, there’s good news, the emerging species may now be able to nest a little lower. Hopefully we’ll know soon what this little [...]
- Another brick in the Wahl
Still no time for climate blogging. In fact if anything, time is shorter. If you have any interest in climate science and why the skeptics are winning the war of reason over ‘scientists’, read this post by Steve Mosher and Charles the moderator at WUWT. The recent CA article is also worth your ...
- kgnd & Cross-Validation: PART II – Parti ...
by Ryan O’Donnell kgnd & Cross-Validation: PART II (TTLS vs. Ridge Regression and Table S3) In his O’Donnellgate post, Steig makes the following observation: Itâs perhaps also worth pointing out that the *main* criticism I had of OâDonnellâs paper was never addressed. If youâre interested in thi ...
- The News Desk Says It's About Oral Sex
Rolling Stone editor Neil Strauss shares some exchanges New York Times copy editors from his days as a rock critic, several years ago: Editing an article that quotes the Courtney Love lyric, “I’m eating you / I’m overfed” . . . COPYEDITOR: We have to remove that quote. NS: What’s wr ...
- Preventing Childhood Obesity is Not Fat-Shaming
In my latest post for TAPPED, I reply to fat activist Paul Campos who argues that Michelle Obama's "Let's Move!" program is the fat-hating equivalent of "ex-gay" ministries who purport to prevent or cure homosexuality. Trying to prevent childhood obesity at the population level by encouraging al ...
- "The Warmth of Other Suns" Wins National Book ...
Isabel Wilkerson's masterful history of the Great Migration won a National Book Critics Circle Award last week, a richly deserved honor. You can read my review of "The Warmth of Other Suns" at TAPPED. [Photo credit, image of a California sunrise: Gwyn Fisher, Creative Commons.]Read More
- Guest Blogging at The American Prospect's Blog ...
This week, I will be guest blogging at TAPPED, the group blog of the American Prospect. I've got big plans for the week ahead. Please join me. My first post is on right wing hoaxster James O'Keefe and the established media outlets who enable him. Two senior NPR executives lost their jobs befor ...
- Fly of Newt: Gingrich Blames Adultery on Patri ...
“There’s no question that at times in my life, partially driven by how passionately I felt about this country, that I worked far too hard and that things happened in my life that were not appropriate,” former House Speaker and serial adulterer Newt Gingrich told an interviewer for the Christia ...
- Highlights This Week from the Inside Network J ...
Inside Network itself is hiring for an Operations and Sales Support Coordinator, a job that will put you in the middle of the industry as we continue to build out our business operations. It’s part-time and open to entry-level applicants in the Silicon Valley area. More details here. Here are t ...
- Facebook Roundup: Netflix, Hires, Comments, Pr ...
White House Pushes Privacy Bill – The Obama Administration is seeking to create a privacy bill of rights intended to protect Internet users. This week administration officials asked Congress to pass the legislation aimed at regulating data gathering online. Itâs unclear how Facebook might be imp ...
- Facebook Introduces Batched Requests to Assist ...
Facebook now allows application developers to batch requests so they can more efficiently access the Graph API. Developers can batch up to 20 requests, batch multiple HTTP methods and FQL queries, and can order operations to specify dependencies between them. The capability should help developer ...
- Blackberry’s Facebook 2.0 App Emphasizes Photo ...
Blackberry’s new Facebook application, Facebook 2.0 in beta, is a big improvement over the previous version, which was cumbersome because it was designed with menu after menu to scroll through to do anything. The new application is much more sleek, easier to use and faster, to boot. Facebook for ...
- Facebook Users Around the World Now Gaining Ac ...
Facebook’s location checkin service Places is now available to users in Brazil, India, Singapore, the Philippines, South Africa, Egypt, Israel, other countries around the world, according to users in those countries. We’re checking with Facebook about the scope of the launch — the company has b ...
- The West is doing the right thing in Libya
Nureddin Sabir argues that opposition by the left and the anti-imperialist and anti-war movements to the NATO military action in Libya is misplaced and deeply flawed and that these movements should instead look forward to post-Gaddafi Libya and ensure that Libyans are left alone to rebuild their ...
- Possible consequences if "Arab spring" becomes ...
Alan Hart considers what might happen if repressive Arab regimes, such as Libya's Mu'ammar Gaddafi and the Saudi and Bahraini royal families, succeed in putting out the flames of freedom in their countries.
- Zionist tales of "passionate longing" for Pale ...
Stuart Littlewood analyses a recent document published by the Board of Deputies of British Jews which targets Christians and appears to be "little more than a propaganda exercise to soft-soap Christians into coming on-side for the continuing land-grab and the making of Israel’s occupation perman ...
- US military using psychological warfare on Ame ...
Paul J. Balles looks at how the US armed forces are now using psychological warfare not only to influence foreign foes, such as in Afghanistan and Iraq, but also in within the USA itself.
- Clearing up myths and misconceptions about Gad ...
Muhammad al-Arabi views some of the myths and misconceptions that are used by Libyan dictator Mu'ammar Gaddafi's backers to justify supporting his murderous regime. He argues that, far from being a progressive anti-imperialist, Gaddafi has not only played a destructive role among national liber ...
- Belo Monte hydroelectric dam construction work ...
The company leading the dam project, Norte Energia, announced that infrastructure work on roads that will provide access to the region started on Monday morning. The £7bn Belo Monte dam on the Amazon’s Xingu river is scheduled to start producing energy on 31 December 2014 and would be the seco ...
- Brazil judge blocks Amazon Belo Monte dam:
Federal Brasilian judge Ronaldo Desterro has blocked plans to build a huge hydro-electric dam in the Amazon rainforest because of environmental concerns. Judge Desterro said environmental requirements to build the Belo Monte dam had not been met. He also barred the national development bank, BND ...
- 1.ooo military forces end illegal gold mining ...
The Peruvian military has cleared-out illegal gold mining along the country’s south-eastern Amazon region in a move aiming to protect the environment. The government sent about 1,000 security forces to the region of Madre de Dios to destroy the illegal operations, the state-funded BBC reported. ...
- BREAKING: Chevron Guilty of Amazon Rainforest ...
Amazon Watch and Rainforest Action Network just announced a major victory for the Amazon rainforest. An Ecuadorean judge today found Chevron guilty of one of the largest environmental crimes in history and ordered the company to pay a whopping $8 billion to clean up its damage in the Amazon. Che ...
- First film footage of uncontacted Amazon Tribe
The footage was filmed by the BBC’s Human Planet series shows a Tribe known as the Panoan, who live in virtual isolation from the outside world. The team needed too get footage of the Tribe as proof of their existence so as the government could protect them from illegal logging and mining operat ...
- Jamiol Presents
- Boiling Frogs Post Countdown-Week 2
We Need Your Support to ‘Help Wake up the American public before the water gets too hot to climb out of the pot’ I want to thank those of you who have contributed to Boiling Frogs Post during our first week campaign. Thank You! Next, I want to briefly respond to a common inquiry I’ve received fr ...
- Sibel Edmonds’ Boiling Frogs Post: Year Two
We Need Your Support to Continue & Expand: Countdown Week 1 In October 2009 I launched Boiling Frogs Post with one purpose in mind: To establish a venue for investigative articles, editorials, analyses, discussions, and interviews on issues largely censored by the media. We are entering our sec ...
- Boiling Frogs Post Status & Update
Boiling Frogs Year Two-A Personal Note Next week I’ll be leaving for a business related trip, followed by relocation related travel where I’ll be checking housing, schooling for my daughter, work, among tons of other ‘life related’ details in a new hometown, and finalized by a short but straigh ...
- Boiling Frogs Beltway Buzz: The Upcoming Bipar ...
A Caucus to Combat Terrorism, Domestic Violence, Divorce & Job Dissatisfaction via ‘Happiness Pill’ According to our inside sources a new Bipartisan Congressional Caucus for Prozac will be launched before the end of the 112th Congress. The primary purpose of the Prozac Caucus will be to raise aw ...
- Libya, Hypocrisy and Betrayal by the United Na ...
By Felicity Arbuthnot “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.” George Orwell The bombing of Libya will begin on or nearly to the day, of the eighth anniversary of the beginning of the destruction of Iraq, 19th March, in Europe. Libya too will be [...]
- USAgain Clothing Donation Bins in Da ‘Ho ...
Here’s a sad commentary. I have noticed that there have been clothing donation bins appearing all over Oakland, overnight it seems. What’s sad is that they are appearing in all the ‘hood areas. The poorer areas in Oakland, and other cities, I’ve learned, and I’m suspicious about it. That is sad. ...
- Ted Williams: Not So Shiny & New
When things are shiny & new, everyone wants a piece. Iâm happy that Ted was “discovered” & Iâm VERY happy that he is in recovery now but it’s a shame how it all played out for him under the media pressure. Shame on Kraft, The Cavaliers & them other bitches who dropped Ted like a [...]
- White or Black Led Urban Ministries…Who ...
Recently I received my e-newsletter from UrbanFaith.com a well rounded online Christian website by parent company UMI (Urban Ministries Inc.), which reports on news, culture, world events and lifestyle to name a few. Urban Faith does this professionally, and with a uniquely Black Christian persp ...
- “If Gadaffi is right “drug addicts ...
Though it can be regarded as buffoonish, the idea that protesters in Libya are drugged young and jobless people sometimes makes sense. Even if this is not the case in Libya, there is a naked truth behind this. When Muamar Gadaffi was cornered, he employed mercenaries in duped or dumped cops from ...
- Expose the BNP: activists’ meeting
Over the summer we have seen the extreme right enter parliament in Sweden and racist deportations of Roma people from France. Here at home the EDL have continued to target cities with Muslim communities, while the police are bringing trumped-up charges against anti-fascists. November 6 sees a na ...
- Rotherham fascist leads secret double life
A BNP activist is living a secret double life, desperate to prevent his employers from finding out about his extremist views – despite having stood as a candidate in last month’s election. Tom Holmes (25) received 715 votes in the recent elections for Rotherham Council but has managed to keep hi ...
- Nick Griffin humiliated in Barking defeat
The British National Party have suffered a humiliating defeat in the general election when Nick Griffin failed to gain a Westminster seat for the East London ward of Barking. Labour MP Margaret Hodge secured the seat with a 16,000 majority, with Griffin trailing third after the Conservative cand ...
- Ten questions that expose Nick Griffin
On the day that the BNP launches its election manifesto, Expose the BNP has researched 10 questions for journalists to put to the BNP leader, the answers to which reveal him to be a deeply racist, anti-Semitic Holocaust denier who boasts about his criminal past. 1. In which year did you stop den ...
- Workshy Griffin left his parents penniless
On yesterdayâs Today programme, BNP leader Nick Griffin told the Radio Four audience that âLiberal economics … have utterly bankrupted this country.â The truth is that Nick Griffin was himself declared bankrupt in 1991. Over several years thereafter he destroyed his parentsâ finances as well. Gr ...
- Memorial Tribute to Hugh MacDougall
Memorial Tribute to Hugh MacDougall “We are sending the power of love, peace and compassion, which can change the world.” â Hugh MacDougall, Australia, SEN Honorary Advisor Hugh was more to Suzanne and I than SEN’s Honorary Spiritual Advisor. He was the beloved friend we called brother, and he w ...
- No to Monsanto and GMO: Action Central
"SEN is greatly concerned that Monsanto and GMO give rise to a threat that if unchecked could eventually prove as catastrophic to mankind and the sustainability of all life on earth as global warming. We must scream bloody murder, and do so with facts." -- Gregory Hilbert, Co-Founder Sustainabil ...
- Bill Gates On Climate Change & Energy: We Must ...
Whether you know a little or a lot about Climate Change (aka Global Warming), SEN urges you to watch this one-hour video, because you will learn a great deal either way. Gates lays out a sweeping set of ideas for reducing CO2 emmissions to zero. Gates is no fool when it comes to matters of [...]
- Week 2 – Worldwide Campaign to Save the ...
The Grand Canyon is one of the world's most pristine and majestic treasures. Mother Nature needs our help to save it. We all need to act to protect the Grand Canyon. Pledge to do your part. Help us by adding your signature to the petitions and ask everyone you know and who cares for earth to do ...
- Seize BP Demonstrations Nationwide
SEN believes these demonstrations will help awaken politicians to outrage over inadequate regulation and control of international corporations, even if they do not succeed in gaining temporary seizure of BP on the basis of national emergency and evidence of criminal neglect and fraud by BP.
- Gabrielle Giffords, Tom Hurndall and Palestini ...
Alison Weir, CounterPunch - There is something particularly horrifying when someone is shot in the head. Perhaps it's the gruesome image, the destruction of the brain, the clear intent to kill. The recent shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is made even more nightmarish by the l ...
- As Israel kills and maims, Outrage is directed ...
Whenever Israel commits yet another atrocity, its defenders are quick to redirect public attention away from the grisly crime scene. Currently, there are headlines about allegedly anti-Semitic comments made by senior White House correspondent Helen Thomas. Pundits across the land evince outrage ...
- An Open Letter to the Southern Poverty Law Cli ...
I am disturbed by an article that the Center published in the fall 2007 issue of "Intelligence Report"--the Center's magazine. The item "Navy Extremist Disciplined--But Not for Extremism" is on page 11. The article focuses on Navy officer John Sharpe Jr.
- NPR Watch: Linda Gradstein Has Done It Again o ...
NPR's reporter Linda Gradstein has done it again. She has managed to take a "must report" story on Israeli-Palestinian relations -- the new report by B'Tselem on the non-combatants, including children, killed by the Israeli military during the Israeli attack on Gaza -- and report it in a manner ...
- The invisible government: Propaganda Disguised ...
John Pilger: In a speech in Chicago, John Pilger describes how propaganda has become such a potent force in our lives and, in the words of one of its founders, represents 'an invisible government'.
- Republican Cuts Devastate interests to THE PEOPLE
Congress needs to hear from all of us right away, because the only chance we have to stop this budget is if Senate Democrats stand united against it. And the first vote could come today.1 Can you call Sen. Nelson and tell him to stand strong against Republicans‘ massive, devastating cuts? Senato ...
- Rally to Save the American Dream
In Wisconsin and around our country, the American Dream is under fierce attack. Instead of creating jobs, Republicans are giving tax breaks to corporations and the very rich—and then cutting funding for education, police, emergency response, and vital human services. On Saturday, February 26, a ...
- RICK SCOTT MADE MILLIONS OFF HEALTH NOW CUTS I ...
Whether it's a political stunt or the act of an extremist ideologue, Scott is hurting real Floridians in concrete ways, including millions of people with private health insurance or Medicare benefits. He's taking away a law that ends the worst insurance company abuses and frees families, senior ...
- CUT PENTAGON BUDGET: ACT NOW
Their current proposal includes cuts in domestic spending, diplomacy, development, and international assistance but allows the Pentagon budget to continue to rise.
- SAY NO to Patriot EXTENSIONS!
Together, these provisions make a mockery of our civil liberties: They let government officials spy on whomever they want, for any reason, without ever letting them know or giving them a chance to challenge the order in court.
- International Atomic Energy Agency Spinning Li ...
In the light of the Japanese earthquake and subsequent tsumani, government and internation agencies are working like crazy to ensure no news remains good news regarding the Fukushima nuclear power plant. Yet from the BBC we hear the following: There are now problems at the number three reactor – ...
- ExxonMobil Biofuel Advert Officially Pronounce ...
ASA Adjudication on ExxonMobil UK Ltd ExxonMobil UK Ltd ExxonMobil House Ermyn Way Leatherhead Surrey KT22 8UX Date: 9 March 2011 Media: Television Sector: Utilities Number of complaints: 1 Agency: Euro RSCG London Ltd Complaint Ref: 141542 Ad A TV ad for ExxonMobil UK Ltd (ExxonMobil) featured ...
- UK Census 2011: Why I Will Be Breaking The Law ...
On Sunday March 27, 2011 I will be breaking the law. If you live in England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland then I would also like you to break the law. We can do it together, and I know for a fact that an awful lot of people will be doing the same. The UK [...]
- Interview With Bill McKibben, Winner of Puffin ...
Climate reality writer and activist Gregory Vickrey. (L) ( Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Founder of 350.org, writer and environmentalist Bill McKibben. (R) (Photo: Nancie Battaglia / 350.org) Bill McKibben, Schumann distinguished scholar at Middlebury College, is the author of a dozen boo ...
- An Open Letter to Journalists From Gasland Dir ...
With the recent Oscar nomination of my documentary film GASLAND, Big Gas and their PR attack machine hit a new low in its blatant disregard for the truth. In an unprecedented move, an oil and gas industry front group sent a letter to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences saying that th ...
- Keith Ellison’s Tears And Epistemic Closure
Rep. Peter King’s hearings looking into the “radicalization” of the American Muslim community, and the suggestion that the community doesn’t cooperate with law enforcement, was largely a waste of time and tax dollars. The affair didn’t produce a single insight into the actual and urgent issue of ...
- Praying On Qasr al-Nil
One of the more memorable scenes of the Egyptian revolution will surely be that of ordinary Egyptian’s praying on Cairo’s Qasr al-Nil Bridge as members of Egyptian state police direct their water cannons at them. Truly a remarkable sight. via Al Jazeera Filed under: Middle East Tagged: Al-Jazeer ...
- “I Support Democratization, But…&# ...
The Atlanticâs Jeffrey Goldberg â one of the key proponents of the disastrous invasion of Iraq â has some serious misgivings about the fledgling pro-democracy movement thatâs taken over the streets of Egypt. âI support democratization, but,â he cautions, âthe democratization we saw in Gaza (cour ...
- All That Happens In The Middle East Can’ ...
Uncertainly rules the day in Tunisia. Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the countryâs strong-armed and authoritarian ruler since 1987, is in Saudi Arabia while the interim government struggles to restore some semblance of order. âConfusion, fear and horror in Tunisia as old regime’s militia carries on ...
- Newt Comes Out As A Muslim-Baiter
Early this week, disgraced former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich warned that “a commitment to religious freedom and God-given rights is being replaced by a secular oppression…” Just hours after those words appeared on Human Events, Gingrich issued a statement forcefully opposing the constr ...
- Fresh from SXSWi: 6 Ways to Integrate Hacking ...
Going over my notes from the South by Southwest Interactive Festival, the panel that was definitely the most valuable to my work on the Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership was Hacking the News: Applying Computer Science to Journalism. What we're doing The Knight-Mozilla Partners ...
- SeedSpeak Launches, Uses Geotags to Solve Loca ...
One of the joys of living in Phoenix, besides the winters, is the local airport. Sky Harbor bills itself as the nation's friendliest airport and, while I won't go that far, I love the fact that you can get in and out with minimal hassle. Even with construction to build a tram system linking the ...
- MIT Produces a String of Civic Media Success S ...
As we wind the way toward the end of our four year grant, I thought it would be nice to describe some of what we've learned at MIT's Center for Future Civic Media (C4). In the coming weeks, I will call on a few of our researchers to offer similar blog reflections on our unique blend of communiti ...
- Lost in Boston: REALTIME
For the last several months, we have been testing a system called Lost in Boston: REALTIME with a variety of community partners. This video describes a bit about the project. Rick Borovoy loves Boston, but he hates how hard it is to figure out where one is. Boston is tough to navigate, ...
- Junkyard Jumbotron
Rick Borovoy just released the Junkyard Jumbotron project, which allows laptops or phones in close proximity to be ganged together to form a large display. The Junkyard Jumbotron requires no special software; it is simply a web page that receives real-time updates from our server, allowing sc ...
- The 2012 Vote - How the GOP Can Capture the Yo ...
In the current political upheaval in the Middle East the high percentage of young people in the region is being cited as key to the overthrow of a rigid, outdated authoritarian rule.American political leaders might want to take a peek at the youth movement at home and its potential to shake up o ...
- Pakistan on Edge - A Compromised Security Deta ...
Pakistan's slain minorities affairs minister Shahbaz Bhatti was using his official residence as a smokescreen and actually lived in a rented house with his family in Sector I-8/3, where he was gunned down in a morning�ambush in Lahore on March 2.Yousuf Nishan, Bhatti�s brother-in-law, confirmed ...
- The `Obama Edge - Obama's Mis-steps in Latin A ...
"It’s time for a new alliance of the Americas.”- Barack Obama Two words dominated the rhetoric of the 2008 campaign and election of President Barack Obama: “Change” and “Hope.” From healthcare to the economy, and to America’s various conflicts abroad, Obama pledged to begin a new era in Washingt ...
- Health Care on Edge - Insurers Lobbying on the ...
One of the provisions of the health reform law that insurers hate most requires that they spend at least 80 percent of what we pay them in premiums for actual medical care. That provision alone is a major reason why insurance companies and their allies invested so heavily in Republican candidate ...
- Book Review - The Civil War: A Concise History ...
The Civil War: A Concise History. Louis Masur.�Oxford University Press.�2011.�160 pages.The Civil War is not a topic that inspires brevity. For a generation now, the standard one-volume work, James McPherson's magisterial Battle Cry of Freedom, clocks in at close to 900 pages (to McPherson's gre ...
- Counterrevolution 101
By Dave Fryett The wretched of the Earth have seen what is possible. Power has been shown to be powerless in the face of determined mass opposition. And in every corner of our world the immiserated rejoice, because they know the day of liberation draws near
- No One Curious What CIA Is Working On At The ...
By Jay Janson What does the CIA have in store for Egypt? What chores will it assign its agents both American and Egyptian? American socialists and progressives are overly cooperative with mainstream media and Congress in hardly ever asking after our secret CIA shadow government
- Lessons Learned In The Streets Of Cairo
By William A. CookIf the streets of Cairo have taught us anything, they have demonstrated that vigilance against those who would control out of arrogance, oppress with indifference, deceive with impunity, and humiliate without feeling, have abandoned all natural sympathies and become , in fact ...
- What Is True Sustainability?
By Matthew SteinIf we are to develop an effective plan and roadmap for creating a sustainable world, we must first have a clear idea of what it truly means to be sustainable
- Egypts Army Dissolves Parliament
By Al Jazeera Military rulers say they will remain in charge for six months until elections are held as some protesters vow to remain
- Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
Dear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
- Practicing Peace in the New Year
A friend, Frank Swift, that I met on my first journey has passed along some great practical steps towards peace for the new year. Frank has written a children’s book to help young people see an alternative to the competition and forcefulness that can too easily get instilled in our young people. ...
- Sharing the writing of another Stieber
My younger brother, Zack, has been fascinated by the Chinese practice of Falun Gong and is hoping that this post could be used to spark a further discussion about it. � Thoughts on Falun Gong by Zack Stieber � Most of us are aware that in China things work differently then here. The main thing o ...
- Article in FOR
The following is the rough draft for an article I wrote, reflecting on the war in Iraq, that was published in the recent edition of the Fellowship of Reconciliation’s magazine. For more info on getting the full magazine, check out:Â http://forusa.org/fall-2010-renewing-movement Rhetoric and Re ...
- Slate Interview: My Country Right or Wrong: Co ...
Interview I did with a fascinating writer for SLATE whose special interest is on transformation and how people come to admit they’re wrong: Address to article: http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/thewrongstuff/archive/2010/12/16/my-country-right-or-wrong-conscientious-objector-josh-stieber-on-bei ...
- One of the Big Flaws in Obama's Middle East Po ...
By Barry Rubin When Muhamad ElBaradei tried to vote March 19 in the�referendum on Egypt's constitutional changes, he was attacked by hundreds of Islamists with stones, at least one of which hit him,�and shoes.�"We don't want you," the mob shouted.�"He lives in the United States and wants ...
- Congress Should Not Fund Any Libyan Action Unt ...
After months of unsuccessfully trying to channel Ronald Reagan, today when announcing the Libyan no-fly zone President Obama tried to channel George Bush. He� closed his remarks today by saying, "I've taken this decision with the confidence that action is necessary, and that we will not ...
- No Wonder Hillary Clinton Announced Her Retir ...
By Barry Rubin For a comprehensive statement of current U.S. Middle East policy you can�t do better than the testimony of Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs William J. Burns at the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on March 17, 2011. It�s horrifying. Here's my summar ...
- Obama Says He Wants to Be President of CHINA
President Obama believes he could do a better job as President of China. And you can learn all about it in today's NewsBusted the twice weekly� feature from Newsbusters.org� the funniest 3 minutes on the internet. That's not all, Host Jodi Miller has the inside scoop on who is bullying Pre ...
- OMG!! Helen Thomas is in PLAYBOY!
The April Issue of Playboy which hits the newsstands today, features disgraced newswoman Helen Thomas. I know what you are thinking, suicide, volunteering to fight for the Libyan insurgents, or staring at the sun for about an hour to make yourself blind, just to ensure that you never gaze upon ...
- Obama Clearly Not Welcomed in Brazil
By Luis R. Miranda Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil March 19, 2011 People in Brazil have made it clear that U.S. president is not welcomed here. Proof of such a sentiment is the absurd ring of security created around Obama’s visit to Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia. Besides the usual number of secret s ...
- Japanese admit radiation is strong enough to k ...
Officials admit they may have to bury reactors under concrete – as happened at Chernobyl. Government says it was overwhelmed by the scale of twin disasters. By David Derbyshire Mail Online March 19, 2011 The boss of the company behind the devastated Japanese nuclear reactor today broke down in t ...
- Nuclear Lies: Japanese History of Fake Reports
By Jason Clenfield Bloomberg March 18, 2011 The unfolding disaster at the Fukushima nuclear plant follows decades of falsified safety reports, fatal accidents and underestimated earthquake risk in Japan’s atomic power industry. The destruction caused by last week’s 9.0 earthquake and tsunami com ...
- U.N. okays military action on Libya
Military action could come within hours Reuters The United Nations authorised military action to curb Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi on Thursday, hours after he threatened to storm the rebel bastion of Benghazi overnight, showing “no mercy, no pity.” “We will come, zenga, zenga. House by house, r ...
- U.S. military begins evacuations of families i ...
Examiner March 17, 2011 As officials struggle to contain leaking radiation from the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan, the US military has begun to evacuate families from the disaster-stricken island. Efforts to cool the reactors have seen little success since last Friday’s earthqua ...
- Huge eastern Oregon wind farm raises big quest ...
The gravel haulers start rolling down Oregon 74 before dawn, their air brakes bellowing under the heavy loads they ferry into the neighboring hills. Just over the rimrock of Willow Creek Valley, hard-hatted contractors scramble to pour the base pads and lay electrical cable for 338 wind turbines ...
- Lawmakers renew push to speed turbine construction
BOSTON � Gov. Deval Patrick and allied lawmakers are renewing a push to reduce the legal hurdles that have stalled some wind-power projects in Massachusetts. Their efforts were thwarted last session by lawmakers from wind-rich areas in the Western part of the state, who say the bill would erode ...
- Commonwealth Court upholds revocation of Butle ...
Butler Township had the right to revoke a zoning permit issued to the developer of a wind turbine project along Ashland Mountain, a three-judge Commonwealth Court panel has ruled. In an 18-page opinion and order filed Tuesday in Pottsville, the panel upheld county Judge Charles M. Miller’s rulin ...
- Hancock County towns grapple with wind turbine ...
PENOBSCOT, Maine � While plans for a major wind farm project in northern Hancock County work their way through the review and permitting process, towns in the western part of the county are developing ordinances that would locally regulate the construction of both wind turbines and communication ...
- Hundreds join Perrin’s walk against wind ...
More than 250 walkers followed writer and climber Jim Perrin on to a Welsh mountain to protest at plans to build 64 wind turbines. The rally was held in the foothills of Pumlumon in the heart of the Cambrian Mountains at the weekend and drew participants from as far away as Greater Manchester, w ...
- Lisa Czeladtko Kills Babies!
So do all the real estate industry Sucks who support her and her Kid Killing Komrades like the developers of that Toxic Waste Dump directly across 24W /slash/Cimarron street, where they’re building quarter-to-half million dollar McMansions on TOXIC WASTE. Which is releasing even more of the toxi ...
- Autism and Mercury
So they “laid that myth to rest”, right? Actually, no. The entire focus of Autism in re Toxic Metals got sidetracked onto vaccines with a mercury preservative. Which, some pointed out, CONTAINED FAR LESS MERCURY THAN THE AMOUNT PRESENTLY IN ENVIRONMENTAL SOURCES and that has to be emphasized bec ...
- How to make an entire country disappear
They did it to Haiti… and now, Japan. They’re still there, see… my sentence structure is starting to really fall apart but push, push, push on I must. They’ve been disappeared into the Friday News Cycle Memory Hole. Even though, now, Japan going out has the potential to take out the entire rest ...
- Petroglyph Energy, you SUCK
Petroglyph Energy, you SUCK. You’ve screwed up the aquifer under my land near La Veta. You’ve made my drinking water undrinkable. Yet you have the EPA in your back pocket. My neighbors are heartbroken and meek. I, however, am outraged that you’ve been allowed to play fast and loose with our Moth ...
- Yahoo empire blinks on Libya!
Stepping up from its covert participation in the Libyan rebellion against bogeyman Gaddafi might be the US misstep which the Arab movement has been looking for. It’s not enough that Barack Obama’s active suppression of public uprisings in Bahrain and Yemen unmasked his administration as anti-Dem ...
- You're Either in Sheen's Korner or You're With ...
My new t-shirt. :) Related Info: The Sheen comments that matter Charlie Sheen and Some Facts About 9/11 for President Obama to "Deal With" Scootle's "Twenty Minutes With The President" Contest Entry Debunking dsglop's ridiculous answers to Charlie Sheen's 20 points to Obama Charlie Sheen F ...
- Proof That Leslie Robertson Saw Molten Steel a ...
Sites like 911Myths.com and others have claimed that Leslie Robertson, one of the original WTC structural engineers, never saw molten steel at Ground Zero. However, a video clip recently released from the IC911Studies which shows a presentation given by Robertson at Stanford University shows oth ...
- U.S. Army Deploys Psy-Ops on U.S. Senators
Rolling Stone report Hey, if the U.S. Military is willing to use psy-ops on Senators, maybe they're also willing to use psy-ops on ordinary citizens... like on 9/11/2001 for example? This is in-your-face treason and fascism.
- Debunk This! 202 (ChemTrails)
ChangeDaChannel YouTube.com Feb 24, 2011 Links: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c107:H.R.2977.IH: http://www.cftc.gov/LawRegulation/FederalRegister/CommentFiles/08-004.html http://www.infowarsshop.com/What-in-the-World-Are-They-Spraying_p_370.html (A Must See) http://www.youtube.com/wat ...
- Magic, Mythology or Science?
James B. over at Screwloosechange recently commented on the debate between Richard Gage and Chris Mohr. James apparently thinks that Gage is contradicting himself by saying that explosives took down WTC7 but that thermite is an incendiary and makes no explosive sounds. From this, James concludes ...
- 1000 Blog Posts Later [How Fooducate Got Started]
I just noticed that we published Fooducate blog post #1000 this week. (It was on St. Patrick’s Day, about the “health benefits” of Guinness Beer) This is quite a milestone. So today, I’d like to celebrate by sharing a bit of the background that led to the creation of Fooducate. I’m a diehard foo ...
- Praise for Sardines
There’s a consensus among the nutrition community that people should be eating less meat and more fish. For most people, this means salmon or canned tuna. These are indeed very popular and nutritious choices. However there are several problems with tuna and salmon. Both are very large fish that ...
- The Health Benefits of Guinness Beer [Happy St ...
Guinness is Good for You. That’s what marketing claims said about the Irish stout in the 1920’s. Research was based on asking people how they felt after drinking a pint. Most answered that they felt better. Hence the campaign. No doubt, scientific rigor at its best. Guinness went on to recommend ...
- 7 Things to Know about Aspartame, Phenylalanin ...
Fooducate community member Skyler asks about a warning she saw on a pack of gum - “Phenylketonurics – contains phenylalanine” What is this? And what does it have to do with chewing gum? Or diet soda? What you need to know: 1. Phenylalanine is an amino acid. Amino acids sounds scary, but they are ...
- HFCS or Any Other Name
This is a guest blog post by Kiyah Duffey, PhD. In a petition to the FDA last September, the Corn Refiners Association urged the regulatory agency to consider an alternative name for use on product labels: allowing the use of “corn sugar”, it argued, as opposed to HFCS would help consumers under ...
- Four Pre-Writing Exercises for Inspired Bloggers
Rebecca Chelsey's recent post on ways to spark our creativity got me thinking about the next step: how to take that creativity and turn it into meaningful sentences on the page. In other words, what we do with that spark of inspiration will determine the success or setbacks we face when we blog. ...
- 8 Simple Sources of Creative Inspiration
As a creative person, I've noticed that creativity and creative ideas tend to present themselves whenever they see fit, and rarely otherwise. This is an especially unfortunate habit for my creativity to have because I am in the field of design. Over the years I've researched and stumbled upon ei ...
- Culture Vulture: Social Strategies for Differe ...
Social media campaigns are becoming more integrated into the overall online marketing mix. And as with anything on the Web, you need to think global to succeed in the long term. To succeed with social media marketing for different cultures, you need to familiarise yourself with what’s happening ...
- Internet Marketing and Social Media Degree Pro ...
Guest post by Brian Jenkins Over a billion and a half people use the Internet, and this has created a plethora of opportunities for talented Internet marketers. Specialized knowledge in Internet marketing and social media is vital for many businesses. Yes, there are successful, self-taught Inte ...
- How to Find Great Communities, Forums, and Blo ...
To market your company effectively, you need to find out where your target audience is. In this post I’ll show you how you can do this. I like using examples, so in this case, I’ll assume you sell Star Wars merchandise.
- Obama urged to support Guarani Indians during ...
Guarani mother and child. The sugarcane boom is threatening the lives of the Guarani. © João Ripper/Survival Survival International has appealed to US President Barack Obama to support the Guarani Indians of Brazil, whose lives are threatened by the booming sugarcane industry. Survival h ...
- Horrific treatment of Amazon Indians exposed 1 ...
Thousands of Indians were enslaved and killed during the rubber boom. © W Hardenburg 30,000 Amazon Indians were enslaved, tortured, raped and starved in just 12 years during the rubber boom, according to a historic report submitted by Irish investigator Roger Casement, 100 years ago today. ...
- Back to court for Vedanta Resources’ controver ...
Vedanta has appealed the decision of India's Environment Minister to block their mine on the Dongria Kondh's ancestral land. © Survival India’s Supreme Court is to consider a new bid to green-light FTSE 100 Vedanta Resources’ infamous bauxite mine in Orissa state, east India. The mine was ...
- Land clearing begins for destructive Amazon dam
Amazon Indians are calling for the Belo Monte dam to be halted © M. Cowan/ Survival Construction workers have begun to bulldoze land in the Brazilian Amazon to make way for the controversial Belo Monte mega-dam. Earlier this week, Norte Energia, the company building the dam, sent its worke ...
- Success: Peru acts to save uncontacted tribes
Global coverage of the newly-released photos has pushed the Peruvian government into action © Gleison Miranda/FUNAI/Survival Peruâs authorities have announced that they will work together with Brazil to stop loggers entering isolated Indiansâ territory along the two countriesâ joint border ...
- No BS Info on Japan NuclearObama invites Tokyo ...
for Truthout/Buzzflash by Greg Palast What South Texas project could look like.(Image by NINA - Nuclear Innovation North America) I need to speak to you, not as a reporter, but in my former capacity as lead investigator in several government nuclear plant fraud and racketeering investigatio ...
- Chevron Runs from Judgmentin Ecuador
by Greg Palast Chevron petroleum Corporation is attempting to slither out of an $8 billion judgment rendered yesterday by a trial court in Ecuador for cancer deaths, illnesses and destruction caused by its Texaco unit. I've been there, in Ecuador. I met the victims. They didn't lose their sh ...
- Reagan: Killer, Coward, Con-man
The Observer London by Greg Palast You're not going to like this. You shouldn't speak ill of the dead. But in this case, someone's got to. On the 100th Anniversary of Ronald Reagan's birth, as we suffer a week of Reagan-kitcheria and pukey peons, let us remember: Reagan was a con-man. Rea ...
- Shake your head and throw something at your TV
from MoviesOnline.ca Bush Family Fortunes is a documentary that will make you shake your head and want to throw something at your TV. If even half of what BBC investigative reporter Greg Palast reveals is true and you happen to be an American you may or may not be calling for a revolution depen ...
- Peak Oil and a Changing Climate
from The Nation The scientific community has long agreed that our dependence on fossil fuels inflicts massive damage on the environment and our health, while warming the globe in the process. But beyond the damage these fuels cause to us now, what will happen when the world's supply of oil ru ...
- What can I reuse or recycle to make seedling/p ...
It might still be February but our 2011 growing season is already off and running here. In addition to the eight fruit trees John planted a couple of weeks ago, I planted out eight fruit bushes at the weekend and I started my first batch of cauliflower, greenhouse tomatoes and lettuce the weeken ...
- How can I reuse or recycle small scraps of yarn?
We’ve had an email from Lauren: I’m a knitter but I can’t throw away the ends of yarn, not matter how small! I’ve got a carrier bag full of ball ends, some a couple of yards long, most less than a foot. Any ideas? The longer pieces could be used for the inner rings of [...]
- How can I reuse or recycle a lot of white yarn?
We’ve had another email from friend of Recycle This Petra: From my sister in law I inherited a lot of yarn, mostly small balls of the same. I know you covered the item about the short ends of yarn and what to do with it. My question is a bit related. A lot of the [...]
- How can I reuse or recycle (quilts and) pillows?
We’ve already covered old duvets before really but we’ve had an email from Gill: I have 6-8 used but still serviceable quilts and pillows and no-one seems to want them. The local homeless shelter says they donât take donations and Iâve contacted several charities who I thought might use them (ra ...
- How can I reduce electricity wastage in the ki ...
Our “how can I reduce this?” questions are often about how to reduce physical waste but it’s important to stop wasting power too – and I’ll like to hear your tips & helpful hints on this: how can I reduce electricity wastage in the kitchen? Everyone knows not to boil too much water in the [...]
- Michelle Guppy Wins Texas' Jefferson Award for ...
Please join us in congratulating Michelle Guppy, who has won the Jefferson Award for Public Service for her Autism advocacy over the last 13 years. REad her own perspective on what the award means to her at her blog Life...
- David Kirby on HuffPo: CDC to Study Vaccines a ...
Click HERE to read and comment on the full post. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention wants to study autism as a possible clinical outcome of immunization, as part of its newly adopted 5-year research agenda for vaccine safety,...
- If Autism were an Earthquake or a Tsunami ...
By Anne Dachel I've been listening to CNN covering the tragedy in Japan. Anderson Cooper and Sanjay Gupta are there giving us up-to-the-minute reports on what's going on. Gupta has been talking about the dangers of radiation exposure. Cooper has...
- Online Comments Lead to BMJ's Disclosure of "C ...
From The American Assoociation of Healthcare Journalists, a nice feather in the cap of our own John Stone. Read the full post at HERE. Mar. 15th, 2011 by Andrew Van Dam Filed under: Conflicts of interest, Health journalism In BMJ,...
- Text for a Complaint to the United Kingdom Gen ...
Age of Autism invites readers to submit a complaint to the General Medical Council regarding Dr Marcovitch. The email address for making a complaint to the GMC is practise@gmc-uk.org. Dear Sir/Madam, I would like to express concern about Dr Harvey...
- Homegrown terrorism: the threat of Homeland Se ...
Any agency who is unlawfully and actively spying on, data mining, intimidating or violating your Constitutional rights should be considered a radical extremist group and domestic terrorists.
- Big Ag Targets Exposers of Animal Abuse in CAFOs
If this isn't proof positive that Big Ag is intent on monopolizing our food and pushing CAFOs (Concentrated animal feeding operations) on us and eliminating humane, natural methods for raising animals, then I don't know what is.
- Truth Squad Radio: Biotechnology and Human Dis ...
It is known that plant diseases of plants do in fact cross over and infect humans!
- Truth Squad Radio: Monsanto’s GMO Threat!
This Wednesday we will discuss the future of organics, the recent discovery of a huge threat from agrobacterium, and the Monsanto seed contracts which hold the farmer liable for all damages caused by the aggressive spread of GMO contaminated crops.
- Foundations of Evil
Many "philanthropic" foundations have been used in America as a tax dodge to protect family fortunes, to polish tarnished images of robber barons and worst of all, to make the public fund depopulation and other detrimental policies that benefit the controlling elite.
- Civil liberties group supports B.C. polygamists
Vancouver Sun – Canada’s anti-polygamy law offends fundamental freedoms protected by the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, argues the B.C. Civil Liberties Association. The organization has filed its final arguments in the B.C. Supreme Court hearing that will determine whether Canada’s anti-polygam ...
- Iodine, Tocotrienols, Berries, and Lipoic Acid ...
NewsWithViews – The unfolding events relating to Japanâs damaged nuclear reactors is raising the concern in the U.S. of a worst-case scenario of a meltdown with a consequent cloud of radioactive particles following the jet stream over to the U.S. The prevailing jet stream winds would impact Los ...
- Indonesia issues red alert as volcano erupts
AFP â Indonesia issued a red alert Friday after Mount Karangetang on the island of Sulawesi erupted, sending lava and searing gas clouds down its slopes, a volcanologist said. “We raised the volcano’s status to the highest red alert level today at 5:45 pm (1045GMT) and ordered an evacuation in t ...
- Judge temporarily blocks Wisconsin anti-union law
Reuters – A U.S. judge on Friday temporarily blocked a controversial new law in Wisconsin that strips public employee unions of key collective bargaining rights. Read article
- Iraq bomb kills mother and newborn, wounds 33
AFP – A car bomb ripped through a crowd outside a hospital in Iraq’s restive northern city of Kirkuk on Wednesday, killing a mother and her newborn baby and wounding 33 other people, police said. “The car bombing outside the hospital killed a 35-year-old mother and her baby daughter. She had giv ...
- Report outlines problems at Diablo Canyon nucl ...
The reactor at Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant in San Luis Obispo operated for a year and a half with some emergency systems disabled, according to a 2010 safety review by the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The incident was one...
- Cosmetic industry review critiques Brazilian b ...
Hair-straightening treatments, commonly known as Brazilian Blowouts, may emit unsafe levels of formaldehyde and methylene glycol, according to a preliminary report released last week by the Cosmetic Ingredient Review Expert Panel. The first acknowledgment by the cosmetics industry that Brazilian...
- Fight continues over West Coast coal exports t ...
Plans for a major West Coast coal export facility-- the subject of an intense fight over greenhouse gases and U.S. coal supplies to Asia--took a new turn when Millennium Bulk Terminals Inc. announced it was withdrawing its permit for the...
- U.S. will do new studies on Keystone XL tar sa ...
The U.S. State Department is going to require additional environmental studies before granting a permit for the 1,660-mile Keystone XL pipeline, proposed to carry oil from the tar sands of northern Canada through the U.S. heartland and on to south...
- Flat-tailed horned lizard won't be listed as a ...
In its fourth withdrawal of a proposal to list the flat-tailed horned lizard since 1993, the federal wildlife agency determined that threats to the lizard including urban and agricultural development, off-road vehicles, military exercises, sand and gravel mining, alternative energy projects and ...
- Profile of Gary White, Co-Founder Water.org (N ...
World Water Day Profile: Co-Founder, Gary White of Water.org (Newsvine) – It’s been noted that nearly one billion people lack access to safe water and someone who has seen the affects of the water crisis firsthand is Gary White, co-founder of Water.org. Whiteâs become a leader in his own right, ...
- Water on the brain (Shanghai Daily)
Water on the brain (Shanghai Daily) – Representatives of Water.org, a nonprofit organization cofounded by Oscar-winning actor Matt Damon, arrived in Shanghai last weekend to help raise awareness. “The big problem is not an issue that awaits a remedial breakthrough or a technological breakthrough ...
- Regional winners of Hult Global Case Challenge ...
Hult International Business School announces the five regional winning teams of its 2nd Annual Hult Global Case Challenge (PR-USA.net) - Boston University School of Management, Stanford University Graduate School of Business, University of Belgrade Faculty of Organizational Sciences, SDA Bocconi ...
- April Rinne selected WEF Young Global Leader (WEF)
World Economic Forum Announces Young Global Leaders 2011 (North America) (World Economic Forum) – The World Economic Forum has announced its Young Global Leaders (YGLs) for 2011. The honour, bestowed each year by the Forum, recognizes up to 200 outstanding young leaders from around the world for ...
- WASH Advocacy Initiative calls for safe water ...
W.A.S.H. Advocacy Initiative is launched and celebrates International Women’s Day with a call for safe water, sanitation and hygiene for all (The Cypress Times) WASHINGTON, DC â On International Womenâs Day, the WASH Advocacy Initiative calls on U.S. policy makers, corporate and philanthropic le ...
- The Deniers on CBC Radio's 'Ideas'
The science is settled - is now the mantra of climate change activism? Those who disagree are either in denial or in the pay of an oil company. But long time environmentalist and energy activist Lawrence Solomon says no, the science is not settled on global warming. Ideas producer David Cayley b ...
- U.S. says five-nation coalition launching Liby ...
(Reuters) - A coalition of the United States and four other nations launched military action against Libya on Saturday, officials said, as the West tries to force Muammar Gaddafi from power. Submitted by David Buchan to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Gaddafi ..What a Moron - Online Videos
Let's face it, Gaddafi is an idiot and deserves to be killed before he kills his people? I don't approve of the death penalty but in this case I do. Do you?Submitted by David Buchan to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Gaddafi 'arming the masses' as West strikes
A defiant Moamar Gaddafi says he will arm civilians to defend Libya from "colonial, crusader" aggression and has threatened to attack military and civilian targets in the Mediterranean in retaliation for Western air and sea strikes on his country. Submitted by David Buchan to World �|� �Note ...
- War is not the solution. It is the problem.
War led to the dehumanization of humanity and has to be condemned in all its manifestations.Submitted by David Buchan to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- The Myth of Democracy
Politicians, once they've been elected, are seen preaching that they are doing the will of the people. It is this, the idea that what ends up being done is somehow what the people want, that is the MYTH! Submitted by David Buchan to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Birds will tell us when true spring arriv ...
Today marks the official start of spring, the vernal equinox. Moving forward, days get longer. As everyone knows, however, the calendar does not guarantee sunny skies and warmer temperatures. In my mind, biological spring is still several weeks away. As March gives way to April, I look to b ...
- 36 Hours in Hong Kong
IN Hong Kong, that most cosmopolitan of cities, contrasts abound. Ladies toting Gucci handbags wait two hours in dingy alleys for a coveted bowl of noodles. Incense-filled Buddhist temples fight for space with gleaming new high-rises. Cutting-edge art galleries share a block with junk shops ...
- China expresses regret over allied strike ...
BEIJING (AP) -- China on Sunday expressed "regret" over punishing airstrikes by the U.S. and European nations against Libya to enforce a U.N. no-fly zone. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said China "consistently...
- Coffee lowers stroke risk in women
Consuming more than a cup of coffee a day is linked to a 22 per cent to 25 per cent lower risk of stroke, says a new study. Low or no coffee consumption is associated with an increased risk of stroke, according to the study of 34,670 women (ages 49 to 83) followed for an average 10.4 years. ...
- Fans want to see me as a strong woman: Bi ...
Bipasha Basu tried to experiment and essayed the role of a small town, grief-stricken wife in her last film "Aakrosh". But the star is now back to playing a glam girl in her next film " Dum Maaro Dum" because fans didn't quite like her as a "weak" woman. In "Dum Maaro Dum", Bipasha is cast ...
- Anti-war Activists Arrested Near White House a ...
More than 100 anti-war protesters, including the man who leaked the Pentagon Papers, were arrested outside the White House on Saturday in demonstrations marking the eighth anniversary of the U.S.-led war in Iraq. read more
- US Launches 112 Tomahawk Missiles into Libya
The U.S. military attacked Moammar Gadhafi’s air defenses Saturday with strikes along the Libyan coast that were launched by Navy vessels in the Mediterranean. A senior military official said the assault would unfold in stages and target air defense installations around Tripoli, the capital, and ...
- To Right, Citizens United Just a Start
Not satisfied by the 2010 Supreme Court ruling that opened the floodgates to corporate-sponsored election ads, conservative opponents of campaign finance regulations have opened up a series of new legal fronts in their effort to eliminate the remaining laws restricting the flow of money into pol ...
- Radioactive Material Found in Tokyo Water
The Japanese government has reported that trace amounts of radioactive iodine have been detected in tap water in Tokyo and five other areas, amid concerns about leaks from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power station. The ministry says the amounts did not exceed government safety limits, but th ...
- Cruel and Usual: US Solitary Confinement
The spectre of Bradley Manning lying naked and alone in a tiny cell at the Quantico Marine Base, less than 50 miles from Washington, DC, conjures up�images of an American Guantanamo or Abu Ghraib, where isolation and deprivation have been raised to the level of torture. In fact, the accused Wiki ...
- Facts and Information about Radiation Exposure
Background radiation comes from outer space, the earth, natural materials (including natural foods), and even other people.� �US natural background radiation exposure is an average of 3.6 mSv/yr; Australia 2.4mSv, Ramsar (Iran) 260mSv. �
- 2 Exciting Webinars Next Week : Electric Vehic ...
Modern energy, transport and water supply networks are critically iintertwined. We're seeing this now in Fukushima, where the earthquake knocked out roads and power lines, making it impossible to pump water needed to cool nuclear reactors.
- Protect Our Soldiers With Energy Innovation
Providing soldiers with the newest, most advanced�military�systems has historically been a bipartisan issue, and provides an opportunity for cooperation on energy innovation funding in the near future.
- 12 Expert Quotes on Fukushima
In the midst of the ongoing partial meltdown at Japan�s Fukushima nuclear plant,�energy experts across the spectrum are urging caution and patience in considering the implications for nuclear energy in the United States and internationally. In particular, many energy and climate change experts n ...
- NRC Description of a "Loss of Pool Coolant" Event
- Report: Safety lapses 'high' at U.S. nuclear p ...
U.S. nuclear power plants operate even with known safety problems because of inadequate federal inspections, faulty maintenance and poor design, concludes a report Thursday by U.S. scientists.
- China, Germany pause nuclear plans amid Japan' ...
Japan's nuclear crisis is causing an increasing number of other countries, including China, France and Germany, to reconsider their use of nuclear power.
- EPA to limit mercury, other coal plant emissions
The U.S.Environmental Protection Agency proposed rules Wednesday that would -- for the first time -- limit the emissions of mercury, arsenic and other pollutants from coal-fired power plants.
- Poll: Concern over gas prices hits record level
A record number of Americans worry about gas prices and U.S. dependence on oil imports, and a majority support much higher vehicle fuel-economy standards, a new poll shows.
- House panel rejects EPA's greenhouse gas rules
With mostly GOP support, a U.S. House panel has voted to stop the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gas emissions, a central tenet of President Obama's climate agenda.
- Recent Patent Litigation Weekly Columns
Much of the patent news that was published on this blog has been moved to the IP Insider section of the Corporate Counsel website. Here's a list of the last several Patent Litigation Weekly columns— Oct. 25, 2010: Big Patent-Licensing...
- Paul Allen v. The Internet
Former Microsoft executive and billionaire Paul Allen sued several major Internet companies and three large retailers for patent infringement today, asserting that four patents originating at Interval Research, Allen's dot-com era think tank, cover basic web browsing and e-commerce technologies....
- Citing Possible Bias, ACLU Asks Rader to Recus ...
With the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit set to consider a landmark case over the validity of human gene patents, attorneys for the plaintiffs in the suit are asking the court's chief judge to recuse himself from the matter—before the panel that will hear it has even been s ...
- Law360 Calls Lawyer-Owned Shell Company a "Pub ...
seems to have a pretty flexible definition of that term. Last month, it included . Who is so concerned about such fairness? That would be , the Texas law firm that owns Americans for Fair Patent Use, which is a limited liability company set up to prosecute a false marking lawsuit filed ...
- Eben Moglen on Bilski, software patents, and b ...
Moglen's position on the subject of software patents—that they should be banned—is, to say the least, outside the mainstream in legal circles. It has, however, garnered support among software developers and other techies, especially those who work in the world of open-source and free s ...
- Bad to Worse in Japan
by Stephen Lendman It bears repeating. Government, industry, and major media reports downplay and deny Japan's unprecedented nuclear disaster, potentially able to kill millions now living and in future generations painfully. Nuclear power is a real life Andromeda Strain. If uncontrollab ...
- Another Military Adventure Based on Lies
By Timothy V. Gatto I’m completely amazed at the crap they are throwing out on the mainstream media. Not once, but a hundred times I’ve heard that the United States has entered the war against Libya (and that’s what it is…a war) reluctantly. If we were so reluctant to interfere in Libya, why th ...
- Liar, Liar! Your World's On Fire!
Larry Pinkney "Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?" -James Baldwin "The only way to live on this planet with any human dignity at the moment is to struggle." -Assata Shakur Those who choose illusion over reality, no matter how appealing it might seem, ensure the susten ...
- Truly Audacious Hope tells The Truth and All T ...
eileen fleming “Hopi” means Peaceful People, and the truest and greatest power is the strength of peace. Because Peace is the Will of the Great Spirit. But do not think that just because the True Hopi People have been told by the Great Spirit never to take up arms that the True Hopi People wi ...
- Moving Wisconsin Forward is a Shared Responsib ...
by Brian LeCloux and Beth Hutchinson At a time when the interest in politics and budgets was at a fever pitch and the weakening of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s standing with the public provided an opening to new solutions, many Wisconsin labor leaders agreed with Walker that public employe ...
- CCPA economists promote a budget that connects ...
The CCPA released its Alternative Federal Budget Tuesday, promoting a federal budget that connects with Canadians' real financial worries. Watch Alternative Federal Budget Coordinator David Macdonald on CBC's Power and Politics here. Watch CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan on CTV's Powe ...
- CCPA releases Alternative Federal Budget 2011
The CCPA released the Alternative Federal Budget for 2011 today. This year's AFB presents a comprehensive recovery plan designed to: get Canadians working in good jobs again; reduce record-high income inequality, strengthen Canada’s middle class, and improve supports for Canada’s poor and mo ...
- Deregulation in Canada: A disaster in the making
In Canada, regulations adopted by every level of government have historically helped to make this one of the safest, most desirable places to raise a family. But a slow, steady, and quiet erosion of regulations by our governments put Canadians' health, safety and well-being increasingly at risk. ...
- BNN launches three-part series on income inequ ...
CTV's Business News Network (BNN) begins a three-part series today looking at the gap between the rich and the rest of us. Today's show, at 5 pm EST, features Robert Reich, former U.S. secretary of labour. Tomorrow's show, 5 pm EST, features the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives' own Senio ...
- Economist writer on the three top reasons why ...
MIT Economist Daron Acemoglu writes in The Economist that there are three main reasons to care about worsening income inequality: Harmful effects on personal well-being, limited equality of opportunity, and more concentrated political power. On the third point, he writes: "Economic power tends t ...
- FOIA Eyes Only: How Buried Statutes Are Keepin ...
by Jennifer LaFleur | propublica - Anyone can request information from U.S. officials under the Freedom of Information Act, a law designed to allow people to know what their government is up to. When a government agency withholds information from a requester, it typically must invoke one of nine ...
- Go Outside, Right Now. Look At The Moon.
Weekend full moon the biggest in about 20 years | CNN If the moon looks a little bit bigger and brighter this weekend, there’s a reason for that. It is. Saturday’s full moon will be a super “perigee moon” — the biggest in almost 20 years. This celestial event is far rarer than the famed blue moo ...
- State of Tennessee set to pass groundbreaking bill
By Danny Rubenstein | Campus Times – It has been a long journey, but at 3:30 p.m. this past Tuesday, the most influential bill in Tennessee history was finally âtaken seriously by those assholes in the Transportation Committee,â activist Kelley Kinson said. The bill in question is the hotly deba ...
- Xenon-133? Yeah, We Got That
First West Coast radiation detection | KNDO Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland detected trace amounts of the radioisotope Xenon-133 from the nuclear incident at Fukushima. This occurred Wednesday, March 16, and was the first detection in the continental United States. Subsequent m ...
- Hippie.TV
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLAYM_kmUjA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plgKnrpvtAI
- Rick Snyder's "Shared Sacrifice": Michigan's W ...
Michigan's tax system is already regressive -- meaning that poorer people pay a higher tax rate than the wealthy. But Governor Rick Snyder has decided that it's just not regressive enough. So in the name of "shared sacrifice," he wants to hike the tax rate on poor and working Michiganders, while ...
- VIDEO: Bus leaves Kalamazoo to protest Gov. Sn ...
People talk about why they are going to Lansing to take part in protests against Gov. Rick Snyder's proposals, including bills that would give emergency financial managers the power to terminate labor contracts, proposed cuts to education funding and tax policy changes.
- The Forbes 400 vs. Everybody Else
According to the most recent information, the Forbes 400 now have a greater net worth than the bottom 50% of U.S. households combined. In 2009, the total net worth of the Forbes 400 was $1.27 trillion. The best information now available shows that in 2009 the bottom 60% (yes, now it's 60%, n ...
- Cairo in Wisconsin
The call reportedly arrived from Cairo. Pizza for the protesters, the voice said. It was Saturday, February 20th, and by then Ian's Pizza on State Street in Madison, Wisconsin, was overwhelmed. One employee had been assigned the sole task of answering the phone and taking down orders. An ...
- VIDEO: Hear the Voices of Thompson
Blair Hudson: 'This Will Have a Huge Ripple Effect' Anita Campbell: 'I Will Always Consider Thompson My Home' Craig Costello: 'High-Paying Jobs Leaving Town' Sheila Thompson: 'It Will Be Hard for Me to Start Over' Gloria Jacobs: 'It Can Happen Anywhere' Nuno Pereira: 'We All Have to Put Li ...
- Beloved polar bear Knut has died
Berlin's beloved polar bear Knut, an international star who as a cuddly, fluffy cub graced magazine covers, movies and merchandise, died Saturday. His death at the young age of four took zookeepers and animal experts by surprise.
- Libyan TV claims 48 killed in allied attacks
The U.S. and European nations pounded Moammar Gadhafi's forces and air defenses with cruise missiles and airstrikes Saturday, launching the broadest international military effort since the Iraq war in support of an uprising that had seemed on the verge of defeat. Libyan state TV claimed 48 peopl ...
- U.S. advises against sending journalists to Libya
The State Department has released an advisory recommending against news media organizations sending journalists into Libya at this time.
- Gadhafi calls U.S.-led intervention "crusader ...
Moammar Gadhafi is vowing Libya will defend itself from what he calls "crusader aggression," as U.S.-led international forces begin an attack in support of the rebel uprising against him.
- Obama links Brazil trip to U.S. job growth
Seeking to link his Latin American tour to job growth back home, President Barack Obama said the U.S. was eager to sell its goods and services to economically booming Brazil's growing middle class. The president's economic message, however, was overshadowed by events in Libya, where a western ...
- Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits ...
For SMB News Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits camps PURWOBINANGUN: Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano spewed more deadly heat clouds Wednesday as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono visited some of the 50,000 evacuees in shelters. Searing gas billowed from the crater of the 2,914-metr ...
- Kasaba throws spit on the camera
\Kasaba throws spit on cameraMUMBAI: Ajmal Kasaba webcam spit on Tuesday during a hearing in the Bombay High Court for confirmation of the death penalty, which led the court strictly tell him to behave properly. Judjes a warning when they Kasaba altercation with the police and spit at the camera ...
- K’taka Speaker disqualifies 16 MLAs
For SMB News KBANGALORE: Hours ahead of the trust vote for beleaguered Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa in the Assembly, Speaker K G Bopaiah disqualified sixteen rebel MLAs, including eleven from ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), legislative sources said on Monday. Bopaiah signed the ...
- Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8
For SMB News Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8 KARACHI: Eight people including two children were killed and over 65 others suffered injuries when two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside Abdullah Shah Ghazi’s shrine in Clifton, official sources said here Thursday. Two heads, beli ...
- Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistake
For SMB News Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistakes’ LONDON: Former president Gen. (Retd.) Pervez Musharraf Friday admitted that political mistakes were committed in the twilight years of his regime and sought apology from Pakistani nation for the same. “These mistakes caused damage ...
- Facts and Information about Radiation Exposure
Background radiation comes from outer space, the earth, natural materials (including natural foods), and even other people.� �US natural background radiation exposure is an average of 3.6 mSv/yr; Australia 2.4mSv, Ramsar (Iran) 260mSv. �
- 2 Exciting Webinars Next Week : Electric Vehic ...
Modern energy, transport and water supply networks are critically iintertwined. We're seeing this now in Fukushima, where the earthquake knocked out roads and power lines, making it impossible to pump water needed to cool nuclear reactors.
- Protect Our Soldiers With Energy Innovation
Providing soldiers with the newest, most advanced�military�systems has historically been a bipartisan issue, and provides an opportunity for cooperation on energy innovation funding in the near future.
- 12 Expert Quotes on Fukushima
In the midst of the ongoing partial meltdown at Japan�s Fukushima nuclear plant,�energy experts across the spectrum are urging caution and patience in considering the implications for nuclear energy in the United States and internationally. In particular, many energy and climate change experts n ...
- NRC Description of a "Loss of Pool Coolant" Event
- Russia’s Zhirinovsky urges Muslim world to sup ...
Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the colorful and flamboyant leader of Russia’s LDPR party, on Saturday called on the Muslim world to unite and support Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi. “LDPR turns to all the people of the Muslim countries and urges them to unite and show solidarity with Muammar Gaddafi. T ...
- U.S. launches missile strikes on Gaddafi’s air ...
The Pentagon has confirmed that that U.S. has launched missile strikes against Libya’s air defence network as a coalition of forces begin a no-fly zone over the north African nation even though a recent poll revealed that three-quarters of Americans 74% said the United States should âleave it to ...
- Shroud Of Silence Descends Upon America As End ...
As our world continues spinning out of control today due to the horrific events in Japan and the chaos of rebellion sweeping the Middle East, following a year (2010) that the global insurance giant Munich Re named as the second worst in history for natural disasters, shocking news has arrived fr ...
- Japan nuclear crisis: scientists consider bury ...
Japanese authorities are considering a “Chernobyl solution” for the stricken nuclear power plant at Fukushima that would bury it in concrete and sand. As the team of 300 workers continues to try to douse the reactors with water, engineers said they had not ruled out the drastic measure. But the ...
- The Devolving Universe
The natural tendency of matter and of all energy is toward greater disorder — not toward greater order or complexity as evolution would teach. The only way this tendency can be overcome is if there is a directing code and mechanism. For example, when a seed develops into a tree it does so only b ...
- Normal Structure and Function of the Musculosk ...
Mr. Ghaz says: Muscular dystrophies refer to a group of more than 30 genetic diseases which are characterized by progressive weakness and degeneration of the skeletal muscles..Studies and estimation show that after sustaining a hip fracture (as a result of osteoporosis) 20% of patients die withi ...
- Reasons to Donate Blood
Have you ever donated blood? If you have why did you do it? It may have been for a loved one or a friend. It could have been for the free coupons and gift certificates blood centers provide for donations. Maybe you’re required to donate blood being that you’re in the medical field. In actua ...
- Special Education High School Transition Services
From my Factoidz page: 1414(d) and in Findings about “effective transition services to promote successful post-Students typically start transition services at the age 14 if educational services are still required as determined by the school district and the IEP team. However, Washington State’s ...
- Don't Quit Your Day Job
This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Ashworth College. All opinions are 100% mine. With approximately 4,000,000 students today, more than 20 percent of all students enrolled in higher education are taking at least one course online. Self paced online courses ...
- Breast Cancer Gene May Raise Men’s Risk, Too
Source: HealthDay News: "A faulty gene that greatly increases a woman’s risk of breast cancer also boosts a man’s risk for the disease, a new study finds. While most people think of breast cancer as a woman’s illness, in rare cases men can develop breast tumors as well. The new study found tha ...
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