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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Sunday, March 20, 2011

20 March - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Obama Complicity in Crimes of Muammar Gaddafi?
    Notwithstanding the attacks launched against Lybia and their leader Muammar Gaddafi, U.S. complicity in the war crimes of Mr. Gaddafi's killing of Lybian rebels may well become the most eye-opening issue facing the international community in the coming months. There is a revealing photograph of ...
  • Airstrikes on Libya Break Obama Campaign Promise?
    I agree with the strikes on Libya because they’ll pave the way for a no-fly zone…and that will cut down on Gaddafi’s ability to do a lot of damage quickly. And I would agree with air strikes on Sudan who are doing awful things. Let’s remember, many Dems were for hitting Afghanistan hard in 2001 ...
  • Hillary was key to decision to take military a ...
    Interestingly, it was three women who convinced the President to take military action - and number of the guys were against it. The change became possible, though, only after Mrs. Clinton joined Samantha Power, a senior aide at the National Security Council, and Susan Rice, Mr. Obamaâs ambassad ...
  • Sarah Palin: I Would Have Won In 2008 If I'd B ...
    Yup, she said it . Sarah Palin was in New Delhi, India March 19 for the annual India Today conclave, where she gave a speech on âMy Vision for America.â The theme for this years conclave was âThe Changing Balance of Power.â After her speech, Palin sat down for a Q and A session with India Today ...
  • Richmond is Sweet 16-bound
    Justin Harper poured in a game-high 19 points and 12th-seeded Richmond led wire-to-wire in punching its first Sweet 16 ticket since 1988, beating 13th-seeded Morehead State, 65-48, Saturday in an NCAA Third Round game in Denver, Colo. Harper did his damage on nine-of-18 shooting from the field, ...

Groklaw

  • NetApp, Oracle End ZFS Litigation
    The three-year legal battle between NetApp and Oracle has come to an end as the companies quietly dropped their dueling patent infringement lawsuits over the open source Zettabyte File System (ZFS)....NetApp and Oracle are putting their differences behind them and have pledged to work together g ...
  • Microsoft debuts on list of worlds most ethic ...
    Forbes has a good explanation of the selection process, which includes "reviewing codes of ethics and litigation and regulatory infraction histories; evaluating investment in innovation and sustainable business practices; looking at activities designed to improve corporate citizenship; and study ...
  • U.S. Calls Radiation Extremely High and Urge ...
    The chairman of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission gave a significantly bleaker appraisal of the threat posed by Japan's nuclear crisis than the Japanese government, saying on Wednesday that the damage at one crippled reactor was much more serious than Japanese officials had acknowl ...
  • Collecting Personal Information About "Faceboo ...
    Internet Unlimited Analytics Surveillance Services (IUASS) of McLean, Virginia has announced an exciting expansion of its Internet surveillance and analysis services to include a wide range of features for surveillance exploitation and information analysis related to the "One Identity" Facebook ...
  • A Blogging Hiatus
    So it's with a sense of accomplishment but some regret that that I'm putting the blog on hiatus for the foreseeable future. On February 28 I started in a new position as Content Protection Counsel at the Motion Picture Association of America, where my primary responsibility will be litigating an ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • 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. ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • Arab tragedies and role of the "west"
    Today is the eighth anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq, and today the US is preparing to once again join a military action against an Arab country, Libya. I wonder how many of Pres. Obama's advisers have ever even heard the term "Tripartite Aggression"? That is the way Arabs refer to t ...
  • Interview with R. Visser at 8th anniversary of ...
    (I first became acquainted with (and came to admire) Reidar Visser's work when he started posting comments here on JWN during and after Iraq's December 2005 election... Last fall, he was one of the four authors in Just World Books's inaugural list. So now, as the eighth anniversary of the U.S. i ...
  • Freeman, El-Haddad, Foust in Charlottesville, ...
    My publishing company's three great authors Chas Freeman, Laila El-Haddad, and josh Foust will all be in Charlottesville this Saturday, taking part in a panel discussion on developments in the (Greater) Middle East under the auspices of the Virginia Festival of the Book. The discussion will be ...
  • Two months of tumult: Pointers for the global ...
    The two months since the fall of Tunisia's Pres. Zein el-Abidine Ben Ali have been marked by tumult throughout the Arab world and now, most recently, by the mega-lethal effects that geological and oceanic activity have had in Japan: effects that remind us again how vulnerable is all human life o ...
  • Bayard Rustin understood Palestinians
    I just came across this great, short piece of writing, quoting the African-American, gay, Quaker activist Bayard Rustin: In 1968, American civil rights organizer Bayard Rustin wrote, “We would be mistaken to think that the only desires of young Negroes today are to have a job, to have a decent ...

frogblog

  • General debate, March 20, 2011
  • A balanced approach to transport funding?
    Graphs of the day.. This graph shows the  growth in traffic on state highways over the last 20 years as reported by the transport agency. The pink line is heavy traffic (trucks) and the blue is all traffic. As you can see it grew pretty steadily up to about 2005. It then plateaued, dropped a bit ...
  • Government’s dumb dirty dairying solution
    Sacking regional councils is a dumb solution to deal with dirty dairying, yet the Government seems to be considering it. Yesterday The Dairying and Clean Streams Accord Snapshot of Progress 2009/10 was released, showing that this voluntary measure to minimise the negative impact of dairying on N ...
  • Greeting the Christchurch Office, Nervously
    It is one of life’s ironies to pillage your own office. But that is what the gods of wrath have done to us. I trust we do not do time for our discretionary executive action yesterday.
  • Which motorway project(s) would you cut?
    So, the Minister of Finance has confirmed its full steam ahead with the national motorway gamble. Even the Transport Minister has made it clear that he will not consider cutting the budget for the poster-child of uneconomic motorways, the Puhoi to Wellsford ‘Holiday Highway,’ after the quake. Go ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Supermoon!
    Here it is, tonight's supermoon as seen from my backyard. How super was it for you? Comments | Post Comment����
  • Friday Cat Blogging - 18 March 2011
    The timestamp on this photo says it was taken Monday at 4:59 pm. That sounds right. This is pretty much what things look like around here between 4:30 and 5:00 every day: both cats in the living room staring greedily at us until we give in and feed them. Really, their internal clocks are ama ...
  • Understanding Paul Krugman
    Is economics a science? Do economists try to don the mantle of scientists as a way of groundlessly asserting their authority? Karl Smith thinks not, and proposes the following model of Paul Krugman as evidence: Conservatives will no doubt have noticed that one of Krugman’s major themes is ...
  • Excitement vs. Peace
    Ezra Klein endorses this sentiment from a Fast Company article on happiness: Younger people feel happiest when they are excited, while older people equate happiness with peacefulness. This only struck me because of how strongly I disagree with it. I'm quite a bit older than Ezra — thou ...
  • What's Next in Libya?
    Jon Chait reacts to the news that Muammar Qaddafi has called a cease-fire following the UN approval of a no-fly zone over Libya: A few lessons pertain here. First, the neocon model of standing up to aggression, while frequently wrong, is not always wrong. The model holds that dictators ar ...

Insanity Report

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

Simple Climate

  • 2010′s European heatwave unmatched in ce ...
    Scorcher unlikely to be repeated for decades even as heatwave probability rises 5-10 times, Erich Fischer from ETH Zurich and colleagues find in a study set to help prepare for future climate change.
  • Climate change could hit least responsible hardest
    By studying how population density is related to climate, Jason Samson of McGill University shows that those most responsible for emitting greenhouse gases are insulated from the consequences of their actions.
  • Ice age rethink puts warming into context
    Researchers challenge a fundamental principle of climate science – the effect of Earth's relationship to the sun – but underline that we are still reversing what should be a long slow cool-off for the planet.
  • Soot and methane cuts promise threefold benefits
    Called on by groups including the G8 to examine the science behind limiting emissions of short-lived substances causing climate change, the United Nations Environment Partnership finds just 16 control measures can boost climate, farming and health.
  • Evidence of humans’ role in deluges starts to flow
    Scientists find the first evidence that humans are causing extreme rainfall, while the identification that greenhouse gas emissions increased the odds of 2000’s record rainfall in the UK are set to open the flood gates for telling whether humans have influenced extreme weather events.

e!Science News

  • Scientists find candidate for new TB vaccine
    Scientists have discovered a protein secreted by tuberculosis (TB) bacteria that could be a promising new vaccine candidate, they report today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The protein could also be used to improve diagnosis of TB. read more
  • Scientists find a key to maintaining our DNA
    DNA contains all of the genetic instructions that make us who we are, and maintaining the integrity of our DNA over the course of a lifetime is a critical, yet complex part of the aging process. In an important, albeit early step forward, scientists have discovered how DNA maintenance is regulat ...
  • Japanese tsunami underscores need for elder di ...
    The oldest segment of Japan's population will likely be the hardest hit as a result of the recent earthquake and subsequent tsunami, based on data from previous catastrophic events. Approximately 23 percent of Japanese citizens currently are age 65 and above. read more
  • Fairy wrens: Accountants of the animal kingdom
    A puzzling example of altruism in nature has been debunked with researchers showing that purple-crowned fairy wrens are in reality cunningly planning for their own future when they assist in raising other birds' young by balancing the amount of assistance they give with the benefits they expect ...
  • Is space like a chessboard?
    Physicists at UCLA set out to design a better transistor and ended up discovering a new way to think about the structure of space. read more

unEarthed

Brave New Climate

  • Fukushima Nuclear Accident – Why I stay ...
    Guest Post by Axel Lieber. Axel is a German national and has been a resident of Tokyo since 1998. He runs a small executive search firm and is married to a Japanese. [BNC editor's note: This is a personal perspective, not a professional scientific one, but I can verify Axel's facts] Why I stay i ...
  • Fukushima nuclear accident: Saturday 19 March ...
    Last Saturday the the crisis level at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station was rapidly on the rise. Hydrogen explosions, cracks in the wetwell torus and fires in a shutdown unit’s building — it seemed the sequence of new problems would never end. A week later, the situation remains troubl ...
  • One Plus One – Fukushima’s legacy
    There have been some slow but positive developments in Fukushima Daiichi today (Saturday 19th March), despite the ongoing seriousness of the situation. Engineers are now on the brink of getting external AC power restored to parts of the site, and water dousing operations on the spent fuel ponds ...
  • Fukushima March 18 evening update, Barry Brook ...
    The following is not a  significant new update on the situation at Fukushima (see here for the 18 March morning update), because so little information has emerged since my last update this morning. But there is some new information. Below I summarise what news and data I’ve gathered today, and ...
  • Fukushima – 18 March morning updates, ra ...
    There have been further developments at Fukushima overnight that have, according to the IAEA, made the situation ‘reasonably stable‘ (although it is still serious). Given the state of play over the last week, I’ll take any positive sign I can get. Other points to note, as of the morning of Frida ...

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

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  • At one Cairo polling station, voting ‘be ...
    On 19 March Egyptians voted on a package of constitutional amendments. There was a sense of exuberance on the streets, with total strangers smiling and asking each other how they had voted – ‘yes’ or ‘no.’ For many, it was their first experience in participatory democracy; for others, it was the ...
  • Cairo, day 1: Referendum on constitutional ame ...
    Today, my first day in Cairo, is an historic one: Egyptians are voting on whether or not they want their constitution – which was suspended during the revolution – to be amended. People are lining up to vote in endless queues at polling stations all over Cairo, and Egyptians I follow on Twitter ...
  • Israeli liberals III: Supporters of the occupation
    Israeli liberals benefit from the occupation. Their support for withdrawal from the occupied Palestinian territories is a mirage In my previous posts, I argued that Israeli liberals are perceived by many commentators, of diverse viewpoints, as the most important target audience for those who wis ...
  • To my father
    By Yael Lavie Dedicated to my father, who was born in March 1927 and passed away in June 2004 I DON’T THINK I EVER REALLY FORGAVE MY MOTHER “Finally!!” my sister nearly shrieked when my father said that.  Noni was walking around for months in between hospitals, ICUs, recovery halls and several ...
  • How to respond to political baiting: Breaking ...
    NGO Monitor – a group specializing in haranguing Israeli human rights organizations – must be really scraping the barrel. Consider the following exchange between them and Breaking the Silence. 16 March 2011 To: Ms Dana Golan, Director Breaking The Silence RE: Your comment on a statement by Yona ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

Matt Weidner Blog

  • Daily Finance- Why The Foreclosure Mess Cannot ...
    The article that appears in today’s edition of Daily Finance is the most comprehensive and most accurate analysis of the failure of the Attorney General and their investigation of Fraudclosuregate done by any reporter yet.  Everyone is sitting, watching,  waiting for some grand solution to thi ...
  • BOMBSHELL- FANNIE MAE LAWSUIT ASKS COURT TO PR ...
    Even after all this time, I still am not able to wrap my head around all this chaos….. FORT LAUDERDALE (CN) â The Federal National Mortgage Association sued the Ben-Ezra & Katz law office, claiming the office refuses to deliver files on 15,000 foreclosure cases. Fannie Mae says it fired the law ...
  • More Chaos in the Courtroom- False Deeds and t ...
    At what point in time will this country wake up and realize just how much trouble we’re all in and hold the wrongdoers accountable? That’s just a rhetorical question from me anymore, I increasingly think we’re all too far gone to make any sense of it anymore…. People filing false deeds to take o ...
  • Let’s All Just Let Rick Scott Pick All O ...
    A plan is afoot to let Florida’s Emperor (formerly known as the Governor of Florida) to be the solve factor in determining who will serve as  a circuit court judge…these are scary, scary times in this country…I’ve just lost my capacity to be incensed anymore….. TALLAHASSEE A move to restructure ...
  • Chase Jackbooted Thug Letter To Homeowner- WE& ...
    Americans are now acutely aware of the undeniable fact that the banks and institutions control us all.  Increasingly, Americans understand that our courts and law enforcement are largely powerless to protect us from the onslaught from the banks…get in their way and they’ll just roll right over ...

abelard - news

The Parallel Parliament

  • Attendant Risks
    Following an interminable two weeks of a relentless military path that appeared to be resulting in a rout of Libyan opposition forces the international community has at last opted to act in a careful fashion – as they should. I took part in a number of media interviews yesterday in which I agree ...
  • Rick’s Rant
    Many of us, from all parties, have been writing, Facebooking, and Tweeting over our concern about changing the “Government of Canada” title to “The Harper Government.” Here’s Rick Mercer’s recent rant, which is likely far more effective in its delivery than anyone else. Give it a view. Filed und ...
  • A Little Bit of Silver
    Last week I was responding to some Facebook emails and attempted to answer one query concerning public accountability. In mentioning to a person I had never met that I was going to miss Toronto Star writer James Travers and his sage insights on politics the young man I was corresponding with rep ...
  • Before Japan there was …?
    Climatologists continue to alert us that natural disasters are destined to increase substantially as a result of our planet heating up through climate change. We can attempt to deny it but the evidence continues to pile up. And now here we are again on the outside looking in on the worst disaste ...
  • R4N – Responsibility For Neglect
    The flowering of democracy through the regions of North Africa and the Middle East didn’t quite work out as planned. Those exhilarating days of fascination witnessing old orders get swept away by citizens in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen have led to more languished days of … what? New constitutions? Acc ...

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

  • Should experts engage directly with people on ...
    A couple of days ago I posted a blog that noted the absence of direct information on the Fukushima nuclear crisis coming out of US Schools of Public Health. In it, I wrote As events at the Fukushima power plant unfolded, I assumed – rather naively as it turns out – that Schools of Public [...] ...
  • Technology innovation and human health risk – ...
    As anyone who has followed my work over the past few years will know, I have a deep interest in the potential benefits and risks associated with emerging technologies, and in particular whether we can swing the balance towards benefits by thinking more innovatively about risk and how we address ...
  • Crowdsourcing “sinful” images for a tech talk ...
    How would you illustrate the “Seven Deadly Sins of Techno-Complacency” (see below)? On March 8, I’m giving a combined Second Live/Real Life talk on emerging technologies, inspired by the Seven Deadly Sins.  This will be a rather tongue in cheek affair as you might imagine, but with some serious ...
  • Obama’s 2012 budget does not bode well for saf ...
    In one of the more bizarre yet less publicized proposed cuts in the 2012 Obama budget, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Education and Research Centers are on the chopping block.  Bizarre, because the move is directly counter to Obama’s push on innovation and education a ...
  • International Handbook on Regulating Nanotechn ...
    Here’s an offer I’m sure you won’t be able to resist: The opportunity to read the first and last chapters of the just-published International Handbook on Regulating Nanotechnologies – for free! Due to the farsightedness of my co-editors, the publishers have agreed to let authors post their chapt ...

Reader Supported News

  • Gaza Militants Fire Dozens of Mortars Into Israel
    Intro: "Palestinian militants in Gaza have fired dozens of missiles into southern Israel in what appears to be their heaviest such barrage in two years. About 50 mortars were fired - two Israelis were hurt, Israel says. Israeli tanks later shelled targets in the coastal strip, wounding at least ...
  • Radiation Reaching US, More Transparency Calle ...
    Excerpt: "The Obama administration's initial reluctance to release its own radiation information and the haphazard way that thereadings came dribbling out of Europe first - not the United States - raised questions about whether American officials were being as forthcoming as they had pressed the ...
  • Warren Christopher Dies at 85
    Intro: "Warren M. Christopher, a key figure in peace efforts in Bosnia and the Mideast as secretary of state in the Clinton administration and a champion of police reform in Los Angeles, has died, a spokeswoman for his law firm said Saturday. He was 85." Secretary of State Warren Christopher ...
  • Obama Warns Libya on Allied Action, Rules Out ...
    Intro: "President Obama ordered Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi on Friday to implement a cease-fire immediately and stop all attacks on Libyan civilians or face military action from the United States and its allies in Europe and the Arab world." President Obama, speaking about Libya from the White ...
  • Judge Temporarily Blocks Wisconsin's Anti-Unio ...
    Intro: "A judge on Friday temporarily blocked Wisconsin's controversial new law stripping public employee unions of key collective bargaining rights, though the ruling does not strike down the law itself." Thousands of demonstrators protest outside the State Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin, 03/ ...

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

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

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

  • Tories blasted for handbook on paralyzing Parl ...
    The Harper Government Canadian Press Date: Fri. May. 18 2007 5:16 PM ET OTTAWA — The Harper government is being accused of a machiavellian plot to wreak parliamentary havoc after a secret Tory handbook on obstructing and manipulating Com ...
  • Pembina reacts to new Alberta oilsands mine re ...
    Pembina Institute 17 Mar 2011 Nathan Lemphers, policy analyst with the Pembina Institute, responded to the Government of Alberta announcement of a new oilsands mine reclamation sec ...
  • Job Opportunity: Technical Analyst, Corporate ...
    Position Technical Analyst, Corporate Consulting Program Organization Pembina Institute Organization Application Deadline 3 Apr 2011 - 23:59 Location Calgary Link to Full Job Posting ...
  • 20th Annual Climb & Run for Wilderness
    16 Apr 2011 (All day) Calgary Alberta Wilderness Association 16 Apr 2011 (All day) Climb and Run for Wilderness is Alberta Wilderness Association's annual Earth Day event at the C ...
  • Braid: Tactic taps rural anger
    Former Justice Minister Alison Redford threw one of Premier Ed Stelmach's favourite new laws up in the air Tuesday. It landed with a splat in the middle of the PC leadership race. Redford pledged that if she becomes premier, she'll suspend all government activity under the Land Stewardship Act ...

Stop NATO

  • Updates on Libyan war threats
    ==== Libya: Fourth Target Of Western Military Attacks In 12 Years Following Summit, Western Attack On Libya Can Begin In Days Libya: NATO Seeks Multinational Camouflage, Mulls Ground Operations Report: Turkish F-16s To Participate In NATO Assault On Libya Spain Provides Air Bases, Submarine For ...
  • Stop NATO News March 19, 2011
    ==== stopnato-subscribe@yahoogroups.com ==== 1. U.S. Congress Backs Obama’s Long-Term Afghan War Strategy 2. NATO Says It Backs Action Against Libya 3. Azerbaijan: NATO Expands Influence In South Caucasus 4. Russia Warns Against Military Intervention In Libya 5. NATO Could Strike Libyan Military ...
  • Updates on Libyan war threat
    Eurofighter Typhoon ==== NATO Says It Backs Action Againt Libya Britain, France Ready To Bomb Libya Italy: NATO Bases To Be Used For Attack On Libya Canada To Deploy Six Warplanes For Action Against Libya Qatar, United Arab Emirates To Join Air Strikes Against Libya Egyptian Military Council Arm ...
  • Stop NATO News March 18, 2011
    ==== stopnato-subscribe@yahoogroups.com ==== 1. Britain, France Ready To Bomb Libya 2. NATO: Eastern Europe Model For North Africa And Libya Military Intervention 3. Church Groups Urge NATO To Remove Nuclear Weapons From Europe 4. NATO Chief: Not Too Late For Military Intervention In Libya 5. Re ...
  • Leonid Andreyev: The Red Laugh
    ==== Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 (Leningrad) Movement 1 (excerpt) Movement 3 ==== The Red Laugh (1904) Leonid Andreyev (1871-1919) Translator not identified I recognized it — that red laugh. I had been searching for it, and I had found it — that red laugh. Now I understood what there was ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • Breaking: Oil Spill Reported Near Deepwater Dr ...
    The Huffington Post March 19, 2011 The Coast Guard is investigating reports of a potentially large oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico not far from the Deepwater Horizon site. According to a knowledgeable source, the slick was sighted by a helicopter pilot on Friday and is about 100 miles long. A fi ...
  • U.S. Launches First Missiles Against Gadhafi F ...
    CNN March 19th, 2011 Tripoli, Libya– The U.S. military has launched its first missiles in Libya against Moammar Gadhafi’s forces, a senior Defense Department official said Saturday. Earlier, French fighter jets deployed over Libya fired at a military vehicle on Saturday, the country’s first stri ...
  • Nuclear Radiation Hit Seattle Friday?
    Note: This video contains graphic language viewer discretion is advised. SCUBACUBA
  • Austin Texas Radiation Readings/Data
    Note: If you have radiation monitoring /detection equipment contact shepard@theintelhub.com to become part of  ”The Intel Hub Radiation Detection System”. The Intel Hub Data Via: Paul Location: Austin, TX (USA) March 19, 2011 Measurements with overflowof the counter-tube (max.1000 Microsievert ...
  • U.S. Declines to Give Details on Radiation
    The Wall Street Journal By STEPHEN POWER and CAROL E. LEE March 19th, 2011 WASHINGTONâU.S. government officials, in private sessions on Capitol Hill Friday, repeatedly declined to give details of radiation measurements at the stricken Japanese nuclear complex, saying the situation is shrouded in ...

FRS

  • Agence France-Presse: “Libya suspends he ...
    Mar 20, 2011 TRIPOLI – LIBYA has decided to suspend cooperation with Europe in the fight against illegal immigration, state television reported on Sunday, quoting a security official. ‘Libya has decided not to be responsible over the illegal immigration to Europe,’ the television cited the offic ...
  • US gov’t. denies entry visa to Afghan wo ...
    http://www.afghanwomensmission.org/?p=1255 The United States has denied a travel visa to Malalai Joya, an acclaimed women’s rights activist and former member of Afghanistan’s parliament. Ms. Joya, who was named one of TIME magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world in 2010, was set to b ...
  • US: the economic crisis and the choices of the ...
    Must See Chart: This Is What Class War Looks Like, via dailykos.com via dailykos.com This chart puts the class war in simple, visual terms. On the left you have the “shared sacrifices” and “painful cuts” that the Republicans claim we must make to get our fiscal house in order. On the right, yo ...
  • India: OPPOSE THE MURDER, RAPE AND ARSON COMMI ...
    RESIST THE RENEWED ONSLAUGHT OF OPERATION GREEN HUNT ON THE ADIVASIS OF CENTRAL INDIA! FORUM AGAINST WAR ON PEOPLE, 19 March 2011–Reports have been pouring in about a large-scale campaign of murder, rape and arson in adivasi villages carried out in the last few days by the Indian Government’s ar ...
  • Selective nature of UN intervention
    A Letter to The Guardian(UK) Saturday 19 March 2011 When Israel bombed Gaza at the end of 2008 in a brutal action which killed 1,300 people and destroyed 20,000 buildings, there was no question of the US allowing the UN to impose a no-fly zone over Gaza to protect its people, 50% of which are [...]

Ken O'Keefe

  • Response to “An Open Letter to Ken O&#82 ...
    We in the West do not even take care of our own people, multi-billionaires and deep poverty side by side, house foreclosures in concert with trillions of dollars being handed to the banksters. These bastard banksters are the ultimate rape and pillage machine, and they are salivating over Libya.
  • Tahrir4Gaza – Liberation for Gaza
    As the Arab people continue to exercise unarmed yet mighty power, there is one place above all others that remains at the heart of the struggle, Palestine. Despite all the money, propaganda, weapons, false imprisonment, ethnic cleansing, torture and mass-murder wielded against them, they have e ...
  • The Egyptian Blockade of Gaza – February 26, 2 ...
    Is there any sane, right-minded person who supports the blatant and brutal collective punishment of the people of Gaza? So why would it carry on? There is only one reason, because we allow it. I say we carry on with what the people of Egypt started, they got rid of the dictator, let us, people ...
  • Global Revolution 2011
    I believe the time has come to unite, those of us who are sane, who can see that the masses are comprised of so many cultures and vastly different ways of life, yet we all demand essentially the same things. We demand to be treated with respect. We demand the right to a decent way of life. We ...
  • Revolutions & Manipulations
    While millions of Egyptians are in the streets, in one of the most dramatic spontaneous uprisings in recent years, in an attempt to overthrow 30 years of Mubarak rule, a regime propped up by Israel and the United States, an undercurrent of opportunist plots threaten to turn this hopeful situatio ...

StillSmallVoice

  • A little more reading with Sunday's column...
    To read the column, go here.To watch PBS' "Triangle Fire," go here. To read Cornell University's archival material on the fire, go here. To read the U.S. Chemical Safety Board's report on Kleen Energy, go here. To read the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's press release about the ...
  • Happy Purim
    Purim -- a�commemoration of�a time when the Jews avoided extinction -- begins at sunset today. The celebration focuses on Persian�Queen Esther, a woman of great beauty and wisdom. You can learn more here. (I have to say that I've always admired Queen Vashti, Esther's predecessor, who refused to ...
  • That priest who was observing Muslim practice ...
    The Rev. Steve Lawler has�been forced to give that up. I said it before, I'll say it again: So much for multi-faith understanding. Flickr photo
  • The in-state tuition for undocumented immigran ...
    This week, the General Assembly's higher education committee voted out of committee�a bill that would allow undocumented immigrants to pay in-state tuition at state schools, provided they attended Connecticut�high schools. As you may imagine, there's been much discussion about this in the Nutme ...
  • Rep. DeLauro: The federal rollbacks hurt women ...
    Rep. Rosa DeLauro writes about women and their government at Politico. She says: What is at stake in Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana and other states is more than a budget crisis. It is whether we as a nation will stand up for the rights of working middle-class women and men to improve their lives o ...

Associated Content

  • Mediapocalypse Now: What Happens After Convent ...
    The current technological shift is exciting, but it brings unexpected challenges like rampant online theft and the loss of connectivity between sellers and buyersContributor: Peter Hanson Published: Mar 11, 2011
  • Japan Radiation Reaches Beyond Fukushima
    Japan's radiation leak is still not lethal, according to experts, even as the radioactive material spreads into America. However, if Fukushima gets even closer to a meltdown, last ditch efforts may be needed to prevent a more serious leak.Contributor: Robert Dougherty Published: Mar 19, 2011
  • French Jets Over Benghazi as Gadhafi Pushes in ...
    As Gaddafi loyalist forces push into Benghazi, French Mirage and Rafale jets flew over the rebel capital in a show of force in order to prevent the Libyan dictator's Air Force from bombing rebel positions.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Mar 19, 2011
  • A Farewell to Knut: Famed Berlin Polar Bear Di ...
    Knut, the cuddly, white polar bear who rose to photographic fame after being hand-raised by his keepers, has died while swimming in the moat of his enclosure.Contributor: Karen W. Wyman Published: Mar 19, 2011
  • Fukushima I and the INES
    The INES rates the significance of a civilian nuclear incident or accident. How does Japan's Fukushima I disaster compare to accidents of levels 4, 5, 6 and 7?Contributor: Kristin Watt Published: Mar 18, 2011

Popsci - Science

  • This Week in the Future, March 14-18, 2011
    Four of this week's best articles are depicted in Baarbarian's newest This Week in the Future creation, combining for a work of serene violence, with a spaceship. You could win a t-shirt with the painting on it--provided you follow our (incredibly easy to follow) instructions. Here's the deal: ...
  • Spitzer Telescope Sees Busy Galactic Center In ...
    The center of the Milky Way is hard to see in visible light, because interstellar dust blocks our view. But the Spitzer Space Telescope’s infrared vision can penetrate the dust and see through to our galaxy’s jam-packed core. This is a newly updated version of the plane of the Milky Way captur ...
  • Archive Gallery: PopSci Fights Natural Disasters
    The hurricane house, the seismograph camera, the forest-fire-fighting dirigible, and more technologies developed for reducing the consequences of natural disasters In the wake of Japan's horrific earthquake and tsunami, we can at least acknowledge that if it weren't for the country's superior t ...
  • Archive Gallery: PopSci Fights Natural Disasters
  • After Messenger Spacecraft's Successful Orbita ...
    Last night, NASA’s Messenger probe fired its thrusters and became the first man-made satellite ever to orbit Mercury. It’s a major achievement for NASA and planetary researchers who hope to learn more about the formation and evolution of Earth-like rocky worlds, in this solar system and beyond. ...

Veterans Today

  • NUREDDIN SABIR : The West is doing the right t ...
    A few moments ago France, the United States, Britain and other NATO countries launched air and cruise missile strikes against Libyan dictator Mu’ammar Gaddafi’s military installations, in implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973.
  • Tripoli – Part II
    America is at war on three front’s folks. Stated goal for this second American war with the folks in Libya is to protect civilians from Brother Gadhafi and his boys. * Lots of naval vessels, airplanes, fuel of all types, armaments and munitions, other logistics items and highly trained young fol ...
  • Revealed: America’s Hidden Hand Behind T ...
    "The resolution establishes "a ban on all flights in the airspace of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya in order to help protect civilians." It also authorizes UN member states to take "all necessary measures ... to protect civilians and civilian populated areas under threat of attack in the Libyan Arab ...
  • US FORCES JAPAN: Announced Limited Staged Eva ...
    The video below, however, until we learn otherwise, will be carried for information purposes only. Any information can and should be verified through command channels.
  • GORDON DUFF: FIVE DEAD IN ISRAEL BUT AT WHOSE ...
    ISRAEL SIMPLY NOT TO BE BELIEVED By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor When children are murdered, and so many are and so many have been, it isn’t funny.  Well, that isn’t necessarily the truth.  When Palestinian children are murdered, and hundreds have been in very recent times, Israel’s ...

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • Nuclear power: Why the UK government may have ...
    The news and pictures from the nuclear power station in Japan that has been badly damaged from last week's earthquake and tsunami have alarmed us all. Nuclear power is seen almost universally around the world as being crucial in producing carbon free electricity, as countries start to decarbon ...
  • Is Solar activity to blame for Japan's massive ...
    The massive earthquake that affected Japan this morning is one of the strongest in recorded history at 8.9 on the Richter scale. With a number of powerful earthquakes recently it once again begs the question, is there a link between seismic activity and solar activity? Recently we have witne ...
  • Severe gales affect parts of Yorkshire
    It's been a wild day across Yorkshire, with a fierce westerly wind causing disruption at Leeds Bradford airport where gusts have been exceeding 60mph. The highest recorded wind speed so far has been 67 mph at Fylingdales on the North York moors. The highest wind speeds could though be affect ...
  • Goodbye to the Space Shuttle Discovery
    On Monday evening with clear skies across the North of England star gazers were treated to a wonderful, and it turns out historical spectacle in the southern sky. The International Space Station was clearly visible, closely followed in the same orbit by the Space Shuttle Discovery, which had b ...
  • What now for Global temperatures?
    Latest satellite data from the University of Alabama (UAH) shows virtually no change in global temperatures from January's levels. The -0.02C anomaly relative to the 1981-2010 average equates to approximately +0.24C above the more standard 1961-1990 average used by the Met Office and World Meteo ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • When the "Fox News Babes" Met al-Jazeera
    As a business major, I've always had a problem with the American cable network Fox News. On one hand, it's a master stroke of marketing in selling to a Middle American demographic; an odd mix of conservative righteousness combined with titillation via the omnipresent "Fox News Babes." It's alwa ...
  • Killer Apps of Western Society Meet the Middle ...
    Say what you will about self-described "punk Tory" commentator Niall Ferguson (to which my boss Michael Cox calls himself a "baroque Trotskyite"[!]), but no one can argue that self-promotion is one of his weaknesses. After attending his Tuesday night lecture at the LSE, I was struck by the histo ...
  • Deutschland Uber Alles, Even in Higher Education
    You've got to hand it to the Germans. I suppose they're a bit like a big brother who can do everything better than you--they're bound to create resentment. In a neat chronological and geographical inversion, Germany has been called the China of Europe as it beats the living daylight out of uncom ...
  • Three Cheers for UK Women Drivers, Shame on EU
    My life fades, my vision dims. All that remains are memories. I remember a time of chaos, ruined dreams; this wasted land. Most of all, I remember the man we called Max, the Road Warrior. To understand who he was we have to go back to the other time... While I am generally among the most pro-Eu ...
  • Of Repatriation and Concerted G7 Yen Intervention
    My goodness, things are happening so fast that my head is spinning. If the UN establishing a no-fly zone above Libyan airspace wasn't enough, we're now headed for a G7 currency no-speculation zone (of sorts) with regard to the Japanese yen. It certainly isn't everyday when the story on the Yahoo ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • Has The Tsunami In Japan Destroyed The Japanes ...
    The entire world is in a state of mourning today as details regarding the horrific damage caused by the massive tsunami in Japan continue to trickle in.  The magnitude 8.9 earthquake that caused the tsunami was the largest earthquake that Japan has ever experienced in modern tim ...
  • Should We Be Alarmed That The Biggest Bond Fun ...
    Bill Gross, the manager of the biggest bond fund in the world, has forgotten more about bonds than most of us will ever learn. That is why the big move that PIMCO has just made is so unsettling.  At one time PIMCO held more U.S. government debt than any other bond fund on the [...]
  • People Of Earth: Prepare For Economic Disaster
    It is not just the United States that is headed for an economic collapse.  The truth is that the entire world is heading for a massive economic meltdown and the people of earth need to be warned about the coming economic disaster that is going to sweep the globe.  The current wo ...
  • Inflation Is Here – Just Open Up Your Ey ...
    Despite what Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says, rampant inflation is officially here.  The federal government is constantly monkeying with the numbers to keep the "official" rate of inflation below 2 percent, but it is becoming very difficult to deny that the cost of al ...
  • 5 Dollar Gas? Get Ready To Pay An Arm And A Le ...
    One of the quickest ways to bring down the U.S. economy would be to dramatically increase the price of oil. Oil is the lifeblood of our economic system. Without it, our entire economy would come to a grinding halt. Almost every type of economic activity in this country depends ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

  • 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 ...

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

  • 2011-03-19 #Iran Karroubi's son meets with pa ...
    TweetWL Central will be updating news on Iran, with new items added at the top. All times are ET in USA. You can contact me on twitter @carwinb or by email at carwinb@hushmail.com. Current time and date in Tehran: * Thank you to @Green_alpha, without whom these updates and translations, woul ...
  • 2011-02-19 Daniel Ellsberg arrested at Bradley ...
    TweetWL Central will be covering the Bradley Manning protests in Quantico this weekend. Currently, protesters were warned to leave the site, 118 stayed past the final warning, arrests have begun. FireDogLake reports that the director of operations at Quantico Marine Base issued a “threat advisor ...
  • 2011-03-19 Cables debunk Gbagbo’s ‘French Cons ...
    Tweet Augustin Douoguih, a senior legal advisor to Gbagbo in the U.S. firmly insisted the president’s years-old ‘French Conspiracy’ theory against Ivory Coast in 15th March Riz Kahn show of Al Jazeera. Douoguih: The real reason we’re watching a tragedy in Ivory Coast is that president Gbagbo is ...
  • 2011-03-19 Bulgarian "Criminal Radiation" Leak ...
    TweetIn June 2003, the Bulgarian weekly Kapital published an article about the privatization of "Atomenergoremont" - the Bulgarian State-owned company, (the only one), maintaining the Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant. Under the suggestive title "Criminal Radiation," it exposed the main competing can ...
  • 2011-03-19 Eight Years of War: What WikiLeaks ...
    TweetThis date, March 19, 2011, marks the beginning of the ninth year of the US war in Iraq. The war, which began in 2003 with a bombing campaign of “shock and awe," has for years been more of an occupation than a war. Despite the fact that many believe the war is over (especially Americans), th ...

U N News

  • Haiti&#39s presidential poll offers &#39histor ...
    A day before Haitians head to the polls to vote for a new president, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged them to “take full advantage of this historic opportunity to shape the future of their country.”
  • Haiti: UN mission urges mass voter turnout for ...
    Haiti's political stability and economic reconstruction depends in part on as large a turnout as possible during this weekend's run-off round of presidential elections, the United Nations peacekeeping mission said today as it urged citizens to go to the polls en masse.
  • UN chief allocates funds to support peacebuild ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has announced a $10 million contribution from the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund to support efforts to entrench the respect of human rights and strengthen the security and justice systems in Guatemala.
  • Violent struggle over illegal mining in Colomb ...
    At least 800 ethnic Afro-Colombians have had to flee their homes in western Colombia since the start of the month because of a struggle between armed groups in the mineral-rich area to control illegal mining activities, the United Nations refugee agency reported today.
  • UN rights expert urges greater dialogue betwee ...
    Suriname's authorities need to engage in further dialogue with the country's indigenous and tribal peoples to advance those groups' land and resource rights, a United Nations human rights expert said today.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Defense Against Radioactive Fallout on Livesto ...
    � The following for farmers and ranchers, from the old USDA county defense boards, should help dispel some of the potential panic. Old fashioned from the early 1960��s, but physics and tactics of radiation and fallout protection are timeless. ~ Shane Connorread more
  • Get Out of Tokyo NOW!... Britons Told to Evacu ...
    �The UK government is urging all British nationals to leave Tokyo as soon as possible for their own safety. At least 17,000 UK citizens live in Japan, the vast majority of them in Tokyo. The order came as the crisis at the Fukushima nuclear plant in northeast Japan worsened. read more
  • Could Cloud Seeding Save the U.S. West Coast?
    �As Americans on the West Coast brace themselves for the potential nuclear fallout that will be carried their way by air and sea, there is yet a solution to the air radiation that ought to be tried � now.read more
  • Nuclear Disaster = Massive Population Culling ...
    �GCN�s Dr. Bill Deagle, host of The Nutrimedical Report, predicted months ago that there would be a nuclear meltdown of this nature somewhere in the world, and now he has a dire warning, particularly for people on the U.S. West Coast... be prepared to be irradiated! ~ Rachael Woodhouseread more
  • Is Your Partner 'Cheating'?... The Telling 'S ...
    � Next time you are talking with a potential mate, listen up and you might just hear their cheating heart. Researchers have discovered that people can tell how likely a person of the opposite sex is to be a cheater, just by listening to their voice...� read more

Tatumba 2.0

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

Truth About Our World

  • The Illusion of Democracy to Depopulate the Pl ...
    By Neil Foster � The Sovereign Independent - Isn�t it nice to know that �democracy is coming to Egypt? I wouldn�t be so sure. You see, it isn�t about giving people the right to do anything anymore than it gave those of us in the West the right to do anything. All it did was give us the �right� t ...
  • Libya, Hypocrisy and Betrayal by the United Na ...
      Felicity Arbuthnot   “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.” - 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, 20th March, in Europe. Libya too will ...
  • Israeli firm secured Japan nuclear plant &#823 ...
    ICTS —Israel owned security company. The CEO of the Israeli company that installed the security system at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant said Thursday that those workers who have elected to stay behind are “putting their lives on the line” to save Japan. Magna BSP set up the security syst ...
  • The F-35: A Weapon That Costs More Than Australia
    The U.S. will ultimately spend $1 trillion for these fighter planes. Where’s the outrage over Washington‘s culture of waste?   The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is an impressive aircraft: a fifth generation multirole fighter plane with stealth technology. It’s also a symbol of everything tha ...
  • ‘Radiation is good for you,’ says ...
    You go ahead and bathe in  nuclear radiation Ann.  Don’t forget the sunscreen, though, because although nuclear radiation is beneficial, the natural sun can kill ya… This just shows the intelligence of some journalists… no thinking… By DAVID GARDNER Conservative maverick Ann Coulter has poure ...

Bloomberg

  • The Driving Force of Dividends
    Jeffrey Kleintop of PNC Advisors sees dividend growth as a positive force for the current market -- and even some tech stocks
  • Grading Back-to-School Stocks
    Some outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential
  • Big Traits for Big Blue
    IBM recruiter Michael Riegel says it seeks MBAs who do great work and possess "that intangible mix of humility, respect, and wisdom"
  • Africa's 200 Million Empty Plates
    When the U.N. ponders the continent's ills and their tragic consequences, a sorry list of contributing factors needs to be on the table
  • Michael Graves: Beyond Kettles
    Michael Graves: Beyond Kettles. The well-known designer discusses his many creations and notes, "I stayed true to what I thought was good design no matter who it was for".

Enviroblog

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

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

  • F.A.Q.: Do Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos have ...
    With all the crap that's gone down here at the Capitol, and with the public's general impression of all of these guys so wretched, I think Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos are happy to take the carrot of a popular governor hitting the reset button. They can g ...
  • A Capital week in review: Prime 6, Bill Cunnin ...
    Here's what we wrote about this week. More
  • To make a long story ... long? Remnick, Glass ...
    Recently, New Yorker editor David Remnick was talking to one of his writers about "this three-dimensional notion" of the magazine story enabled by the iPad—a promise very much on the minds of his fellow editors in the Condé Nast tower in Times Square these ...
  • Good enough for Hitchcock: A side-by-side case ...
    Our first act, when we hear about anyone doing a remake, is to ask why. That's just how it goes most of the time. Remakes have to work harder to justify their existence than any other kind of film, harder, even, than literary adaptations. More ...
  • In Churchill's 'A Number,' a standout performa ...
    Joel de la Fuente plays a trio of young men who share the same DNA, but he infuses each with a distinct personality. He doesn’t just change sweaters to tackle each character but transforms himself completely: his voice, gestures, even his posture. More ...

Views & News from Norway

  • ‘Super moon’ illuminates Oslo
    An unusually large moon was hanging over Oslo’s rooftops on Saturday night, marking the biggest full moon since 1983 and spurring scores of people to head for a cold night out to get an undisturbed view of the unusual lunar phenomenon.  The so-called “Super Moon” appeared bigger than usual beca ...
  • Cheese to stay in Gudbrandsdalen
    The ubiquitous brown goat cheese known as Gudbrandsdalsost G-35 will continue to be produced in the valley known as Gudbrandsdalen, confirms dairy cooperative Tine. Public outcry was loud last year when Tine (pronounced “tee-nuh”) revealed it was considering moving production of the brunost (bro ...
  • Solskjær stunned by opening loss
    Ole Gunnar Solskjær’s Molde Fotballklubb (FK) suffered a shock 3-0 loss to Norwegian Premier League newcomers Sarpsborg 08 in the opening game of the new season on Friday. For Solskjær, the result wasn’t the way he wanted to launch his new coaching career. Sarpsborg 08, promoted to the top tie ...
  • Fighter jets to join Libyan assault
    Norway was preparing to send six fighter jets and support personnel to join the UN-sanctioned assault against Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi. Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg was in Paris on Saturday to meet with leaders of the European-, Arab- and North American military operation, and offer No ...
  • Skiing’s roots in the national heritage
    As thousands of skiers take part in the annual Birkebeiner ski race over the mountains of eastern Norway this weekend, thousands of others will glide over quieter trails elsewhere around the country. They’re all participating in a sport that was nurtured in a calculated, even political, effort t ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Permaculture in Public Spaces
    Lake County, California, is a rural area on the edge of the San Francisco Bay Area. Though it’s surrounded by extremely wealthy areas, Lake County is unique; it is one of the least densely populated counties in the state of California, with one of the highest rates of poverty and unemployment. ...
  • Looking Back on the Natural Building Course in ...
    A few weeks prior to the recent (end of February, 2011) 5-day Natural Building course at the Jordan Valley Permaculture Project (aka ‘Greening the Desert – the Sequel’) in Jordan, I was feeling anxious. Not only was it my first time to teach a full-on workshop, but I had been planning to have ...
  • The Great ‘Simple Living’ Survey
    Editor’s Preamble: Regular readers will know I’m fully behind any efforts to enact policy changes which would incentivise/facilitate/incubate a rapid and peaceful transition to a society that can live in harmony within the limits of Earth’s resources. The Simplicity Institute seems to be working ...
  • City Kids Move to the Country – Part V
    Pit-falls, projects and laughs from our permaculture journey – Part 5 “What’s that smell?” asks Chris. “I don’t know. It’s really familiar. It smells like… cat food,” I reply. “It smells like shit,” he says. It’s 2:30am. We’ve propped ourselves up in bed. It’s dark. The foul smell mingled w ...
  • First Earth – A Cob Building Film for Inspiration
    by Øyvind Holmstad First Earth: Uncompromising Ecological Architecture by David Sheen is meant as an inspirational film about earthen buildings, or more specifically, what they call ‘cob’. Cob is the oldest and easiest way of building from earth. You can find information and relevant literature ...

Telecrap Urinal

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

Anna's News

  • Global warming is putting Africa's vital maize ...
    A rise in temperature of just 1C during drought conditions could cut yields from three-quarters of Africa's entire maize crop by at least 20 per cent.Even with adequate rainfall, 65 per cent of the crop would suffer losses, scientists have warned. Submitted by Anna Smith to Environment �|� �No ...
  • Nuclear Contamination: What to Do
    Evacuation, temporary shelter and iodine pills are the chief weapons for protecting civilians against nuclear fallout, experts say.A blast on Saturday that wrecked the concrete shell surrounding the No. 1 reactor at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant releaseSubmitted by Anna Smith to Science & Tech ...
  • 50 Inspiring Blogs for Your Post-Pregnancy Wei ...
    As a mom, women are probably willing to give up a lot for your children. their time, their sleep, even a few grooming habits. Many moms give up a positive self image as well, but it doesn't have to be that way. One can lose weight and still enjoy their...Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Welln ...
  • Third explosion rocks Japanese nuclear plant
    Japan's nuclear crisis deepened dramatically Tuesday. As safety officials sought desperately to avert catastrophe, the government said radioactive material leaking from reactors was enough to "impact human health" and the risk of more leaks was "very highSubmitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �No ...
  • Radiation fears rise as second explosion rips ...
    Fears of a nuclear disaster in Japan were heightened today with reports of a second explosion at the stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi number one plant.Japan's chief cabinet secretary said a hydrogen explosion had occurred at Unit three of the plant, similar toSubmitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �No ...

Medical Marijuana

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

Progressives United - Russ Feingold

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

Information Underground

  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    I gauge your main point is that many of these staunch critics of Islam have some hypocrisy. That is true. Obviously when these Zionist Jew NeoCons criticize Muslims for "terrorism" and stuff like that they are bold faced hypocrites (and liars). Jews always have an ulterior motive for doing thin ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Perhaps it is a tu quoque, but when one engages in critiquing societies and cultures, it would stand to reason that the person criticizing the other culture is doing so from the vantage point of a more advanced culture. If someone is tearing down the Islamic culture, it would be assumed that th ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Timothy_Fitzpatrick wrote: As much as you can be a whining, atheistic asshole at times K bud, keep prosthelytizing Christianity. If anyone is whiny it's religious zealots who cannot take an ounce of criticism of their wonky belief system without flying off the handle and going into a psych ...
  • The Information Underground Radio Show • Re: T ...
    Timothy_Fitzpatrick wrote: What's with you Yanks? Would confessing the moon hoax landing make you feel inferior or something? I don't get it. Patriotism shouldn't be built on such trivialities anyways. Look what happened when man tried to defy God: man declared that the Titanic was unsinkable, ...
  • History and Philosophy of Zionism/Judaism/&quo ...
    There are so many damn theories on the endtimes in favour of Scofieldism, I can hardly keep up with them. All of them, and i mean all of them, are turned on their head by a correct rendering of Daniel 9:27. That one verse is what prophecy hinges on.Statistics: Posted by Timothy_Fitzpatrick — S ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Examining the Missteps In Japan’s Nuclear Crisis
    A leading U.S. expert on nuclear energy discusses some of the fundamental failures that led to the intensifying nuclear drama in Japan and looks at what might lie in store for nuclear power worldwide.
  • Sequence of Japan Quakes Depicted in Animation ...
    In a new graphic animation, German researchers illustrate a series of seismic quakes that occurred Japan from March 8 to March 16, including a magnitude 7.2 quake that occurred two days before the massive quake GFZ German Research Centre for GeosciencesCLICK TO ENLARGE: Animation of seismic act ...
  • Japan’s Once-Powerful Nuclear Industry is Unde ...
    The disaster at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant has highlighted the importance of nuclear energy to Japan and the power long wielded by the nuclear sector. But that influence now is sure to wane, to the relief of opponents who have fought for years to check nuclear's rapid growth. BY ...
  • The Birds of Brazil
    Few nations can match the biodiversity of Brazil, with its vast size and wealth of geographical regions, from the Amazon rainforest to the wetlands of the Pantanal. And nowhere is that biodiversity more strikingly on display Photo gallery WCS/John GwynneOrnate hawk eagle than in Brazil’s bi ...
  • Can Electric Vehicles Take Off? A Roadmap to F ...
    Electric cars are finally coming to market in the U.S., but what is the future potential for this much-touted technology? A good way to find out would be to launch demonstration projects in selected U.S. cities to determine if, given incentives and the proper infrastructure, the public will trul ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • Doctors healing themselves
    BENEVOLENCE By Cynthia Holz Alfred A. Knopf Canada 310 pages, $29.95 Review by Tara Hughes From its shocking opening to its moving conclusion, Cynthia Holz’s new novel, Benevolence, examines the destructive effects of fear and spiritual exhaustion on a marriage, and the rough healing th ...
  • Rebecca Black: Voice of Today’s Youth
    by Rachel Krueger Rebecca Black’s "Friday" has been making the internet rounds to guffaws and heaps of ridicule, and there’s no denying that it’s that bad.  But is it not ALSO a scathingly accurate anthem for our disaffected youth?  To wit: The opening lines of the song have taken heat for ...
  • Popping iodide pills in BC, despite the Experts
    By Frank Moher I travelled to a local health food store on Monday and bought some kelp tablets. I was actually after potassium iodide, but they were already sold out. I am not naturally a health food store habitué -- as I write this, I'm finishing up a Teen Burger meal ...
  • Xoom vs iPad 2
    By Eric Pettifor A couple of posts ago I wrote of the Motorola Xoom tablet, extolling its virtues while trying to convince myself that I don’t need one. And truly, I don’t. My little netbook is all the portable computing I really need. What I might want, and might actually get ...
  • Jason Kenney’s “very cynical&#8221 ...
    By Sandeep Chauhan Jason Kenney ought to love Charlie Sheen. Kenney and his office pulled a boner of a move with their fundraising letter targeting “very ethnic” communities, but it’s getting buffered a bit by Charlie’s shtick. I should probably be outraged, but I’m not. I should be shocke ...

Daily Beast

  • Why the SAT's Reality TV Question is Good for Kids
    Some parents are up in arms over an SAT question that demands knowledge of reality TV. But Kyle Spencer argues that keeping kids sequestered from the boob tube will hurt them later in life. A week ago, my neighbor told me she was banning TV completely...
  • Obama Woos Brazil
    Keeping an eye on Libya, the president signed a flurry of trade deals with the economic titan on the first day of his Latin American tour-but hit some stumbling blocks, too. Plus, see photos. The first family touched down in Brazil on Saturday, the...
  • Best Celebrity Twitter Pictures
    Justin Bieber meets his look-alike, Charlie Sheen and his girlfriends wear "winning" t-shirts, and Ellen gives Snuggies to the Sister Wives cast. See pictures of stars' Twitter photos. Gallery: Best Celebrity Twit Pics Plus: Check out more of the...
  • America's Most Troubled Pol
    Oregon Rep. David Wu is beset by bizarre behavior, campaign debts and an unfortunate picture in a tiger suit. Winston Ross talks to his top challenger about why Wu could still win. On one of renowned political columnist David Broder's last trips to...
  • The Big Love Series Finale
    HBO's polygamist family drama, Big Love, ends its series run tonight. WATCH VIDEO of Jace Lacob's picks for the best moments of the last five seasons. When Big Love began on HBO in 2006, the Henrickson family's problems were at first limited to the...

Loonwatch

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • USS Missouri Fires 15 Inch Guns
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  • US Navy Sends Cruise Missiles To Abate Lybian ...
    RGM 109 Cruise Missile AP reports that the US and UK warships have fired 110 Tomahawk cruise missiles in a furious display of precision munitions to knock out Ghadaffi’s anti-air defenses along the North African coastline. While this is encouraging, I still think there are three problems to keep ...
  • Viva La France! French Combat Aircraft Strike ...
  • UFO Filmed Over Fresno California 8/22/10. It ...
    Click here to view the [...]
  • The Northrup YA-9
    Northrup A-9 Prototype Northrup A-9 Diagram The Northrup A-9 was the aircraft that competed with the A-10 for the prototype attack aircraft program. This was an attempt to update the attack profile of the USAF and give it fast maneuverable CAS and anti-tank capability. It was also an attempt to ...

    Blacklisted News

  • 'Radiation is good for you,' says Ann Coulter ...
    The Media Side Show Continues.... And so does the tragedy pimping...
  • Egypt Arming Libyan Rebels
    After the corporate owned media's failed attempt in February 2011 to portray the Libyan unrest as "unarmed protesters" being brutalized by Qaddafi, reports began trickling in of what was actually a full-scale rebellion with weapons coming across the border from Egypt. These reports are now confi ...
  • Did Scientists Use Secret Tesla Tech to Make R ...
    It was rainy in the Middle East last summer. Like, super rainy, which is unusual for a desert. A company called Meteo Systems is boasting that they caused all that rain, using a secret weather control system based on technology first developed by Nikola Tesla in 1890.
  • Narco-capitalism grips North Korea
    In early March, the United States State Department made a statement that attracted surprisingly little attention worldwide, estimating that government-sponsored narcotic production in North Korea seemed to have decreased considerably. At the same time, the statement made clear that the private p ...
  • Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates so ...
    The US military is developing software that will let it secretly manipulate social media sites by using fake online personas to influence internet conversations and spread pro-American propaganda. A Californian corporation has been awarded a contract with United States Central Command (Centco ...

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • EMERGENCY PROTEST: HANDS OFF LIBYA: STOP THE ...
    Summary: Britain and the USA have bombed Libya with more than one hundred Tomahawk cruise missiles. These are not precision guided weapons but weapons of mass destruction that will create many civilian casualties in Libya. source: CASMIIread more
  • Iran is against military adventurism in th ...
    Summary: KhazaeeTehran, March 18, IRNA -- Iran's envoy to the UN Headquarters in New York, Mohammad Khazaei said on Thursday that the Islamic Republic is against any military intervention in Middle Eastern countries facing a chaotic political situation. source: IRNAread more
  • Saudis bring Iran, US closer together
    Summary: Rhetoric is one thing and Tehran will make the most of it, but it cannot be lost on the Iranian "brains" that for the fourth time in a row within the past six weeks, Iran and the US are finding themselves on the same side of the fence - on Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, and now Bahrain. ...
  • THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION ADAPTS ITS ISRAEL TAL ...
    Summary: Bahrain protestsAs Hillary Mann Leverett pointed out anew today on Al Jazeera, the way the Obama Administration is speaking about what Saudi and Bahraini security forces are doing is strikingly similar to the way in which the United States speaks about how Israel treats Palestinians ...
  • BAHRAIN AND THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION’S COURSE
    Summary: GatesWhat was U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates doing and saying—or not saying—in Bahrain about 36 hours before Saudi Arabia and other Gulf Arab states sent troops into Bahrain to repress protesters there? source: Race for Iran read more

The Daily Galaxy

  • Image of the Day: Ahab's Dream -The Whale Galaxy
    The Whale Galaxy, NGC 4631, known to have spouted a halo of hot gas glowing in x-rays, lies only 25 million light-years away in the northern constellation Canes Venatici, similar in size to our own Milky Way. The Whale Galaxy...
  • A Lesson for the Human Species? The Wisdom of ...
    We think there might be an ancient message to the human species from the example set by the wild African elephants of Amboseli National Park in Kenya which shows how elephant groups are guided by the wisdom of a female...
  • Saturn's Odd, Baffling Moon, Pan
    Strange flying-saucer-shaped moons embedded in Saturn's rings have baffled scientists studying images transmitted by the ESA's Cassini Spacecraft. New research suggests that the oddly shaped moons, Pan and Atlas, are born largely from clumps of icy particles in the rings...
  • "Good Luck, Mr Gorski" -A New Short-Film Base ...
    Allegra Huston, the youngest daughter of the legendary Hollywood film director, screenwriter and actor, John Huston (Chinatown, The Maltese Falcon, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The African Queen) has submitted her new short film based on an apocryphal event in...
  • Weekend Feature: Today's Rare "Supermoon" is t ...
    Despite one astrologer’s fears that today's rare “supermoon” will cause a natural disaster, NASA experts say there is nothing supernatural about it. This afternoon, the moon will be the closest it's been to Earth in more than 18 years. The...

Natural News

  • Food, water now radioactive in Japan; sales ha ...
    (NaturalNews) As the situation in Fukushima continues to deteriorate, radiation levels keep rising. Now the food and water near (and inside) Tokyo is becoming irradiated. Reuters reports that the water in Tokyo is now contaminated with radioactive iodine (http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/1 ...
  • Total information blackout on Fukushima Unit 4 ...
    (NaturalNews) The status of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant's Unit 4 reactor is one of the most critical aspects in determining the severity of the impending nuclear meltdown. After all, the most recent temperature readings available showed that the rods there were three times hotter than th ...
  • Its Getting Worse in Tokyo
    On March 15 Michi Okugawa wrote, "The situation in Tokyo is getting worse. The number of people who are panicking is increasing with more and more people trying to get out of Tokyo or out of the country. The nuclear plant explosion is having a large effect in our daily lives. The biggest problem ...
  • Mainstream media halts accurate reporting on J ...
    (NaturalNews) Almost as if on cue, the mainstream media today halted nearly all accurate reporting of the worsening situation in Japan, writing off the whole thing as a "non issue." This all happened in a seeming coordinate effort following President Obama's speech on Wednesday that urged Americ ...
  • Japanese mayor urges evacuation after discover ...
    (NaturalNews) Based on all available reports at this time, it appears that the Japanese government has been severely downplaying the very real radiation threat the Japanese people face in the wake of the 9.1 magnitude earthquake and massive tsunami that occurred last Friday, which has left tens ...

Threat Level

  • Leader of Hacker Gang Sentenced to 9 Years For ...
    The former leader of an anarchistic hacking group called the Electronik Tribulation Army was sentenced Thursday to 9 years and 2 months in prison for installing malware on computers at a Texas hospital. Jesse William McGraw, aka “GhostExodus,” was also ordered to pay $31,881 in restitution and ...
  • Goldman Sachs Programmer Sentenced to 8 Years ...
    A former Goldman Sachs programmer convicted of stealing the bank’s high-speed trading software was sentenced Friday to eight years in prison. Sergey Aleynikov, 41, was convicted in December of theft of trade secrets and then unsuccessfully sought to have the conviction set aside. The Russian-bo ...
  • Sunshine Week Shame: 10 Ways the Government Is ...
    As Sunshine Week sets, it’s a good time to take a quick inventory of the federal government’s ongoing failures of transparency. MapLight.org, which tracks the influence of money in politics, ran down the opacity the public confronts at every level of government — from antiquated campaign-finan ...
  • Hacker Spies Hit Security Firm RSA
    Top security firm RSA Security revealed on Thursday that it’s been the victim of an “extremely sophisticated” hack. The company said in a note posted on its website that the intruders succeeded in stealing information related to the company’s SecurID two-factor authentication products. SecurID ...
  • Hosting Firm Objects to Sony Subpoena in PS3 H ...
    The web host to a PlayStation online forum moved Thursday to quash a subpoena connected to Sony’s lawsuit against George Hotz, the man who released the first full-fledged PlayStation 3 hack. SoftLayer Technologies, which counts psx-scene.com among its hosted sites, is objecting to a records dem ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Dueling Tax Plans Show Gap Between Parties - a ...
    This week, two members of Congress offered new plans to overhaul the U.S. tax code. One proposes cutting the top tax rate for the wealthiest Americans by 10% and draining the U.S. Treasury by $2 trillion over the next decade. The other calls for higher rates for millionaires and billionaires t ...
  • Gingrich Goes After Hagee and the Armageddon Vote
    Politics makes strange bedfellows, especially when the bed contains Newt Gingrich. Despite his belief that marriage is an institution between one man and three women in rapid succession, Newt has been warmly embraced by the Republicans' family values crowd. Now, the Baptist-turned-Catholic Gin ...
  • To Cut the Deficit, Expand the IRS
    As any good free-marketeer will tell you, you've got to spend money to make money. Just not, Republicans insist, when it comes to collecting federal tax revenue. The GOP, after all, gutted the Internal Revenue Service in the late 1990's. And two weeks ago, House Republicans voted to cut $600 ...
  • GOP's Paul Ryan Accidentally Endorses Obamacare
    For Republicans, a funny thing happened on the way to privatizing Medicare. Hoping to transform the wildly popular, low-overhead government program for 46 million American seniors into a voucher system for purchasing private insurance, Paul Ryan and his GOP allies inadvertently made a strong ca ...
  • Kudlow on Enemas, Earthquakes, Bulls, Bears an ...
    CNBC host, National Review contributor and former Reagan adviser Lawrence Kudlow has long embodied the gin-and-tonic-sipping, anyone-for-tennis, let-them-eat-cake laissez faire Republican attitude towards the suffering of the American people. Even still, his jaw-dropping reaction to the devasta ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

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

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

  • Israel bombards Gaza Strip (Ma'an News Agency)
    Israel pounded the Gaza Strip Saturday, injuring at least five Palestinians and cutting power, as Gaza fighters fired dozens of shells into Israel, wounding two people. Israeli Prime ...
  • Village of Awarta faced mass arrests, violence ...
    During the five day curfew in the village of Awarta, south of Nablus, the Israeli military raided homes and detained around 300 people, the youngest 14 years old. Hundreds of soldiers ...
  • Palestinian hospitalized after settler attack ...
    A group of settlers attacked a Palestinian from Huwwara village on Friday, as settler violence escalated in the northern West Bank. Settlers threw stones at Talal Ad-Dmeidi, 35, and b ...
  • Ill youth from Gaza, who for 16 days was denie ...
    On 15 December, the family submitted a request through the Palestinian Authority for a permit to enter Israel for the youth and his mother so that he could undergo medical treatment a ...
  • Generation Oslo: Najwan Berekdar (IMEU)
    As protests rage across the Arab world challenging authoritarian regimes and bringing some to an end, it has become clear that the age group dubbed "Generation Y" or "Generation Next" ...

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Unexplained Mysteries

  • Man blames aliens for car chase
    A man caught by police after doing 120mph claimed he was attempting to save his girlfriend from aliens. Richard Donald Blanscet was apprehended by pol...
  • Workers see Virgin Mary in sandpit
    Workers at a construction site in England believe they've seen the Virgin Mary in a satellite image. Looking down at the site using Google Maps the cr...
  • Iran launches life capsule into orbit
    Iran have successfully launched a capsule capable of carrying animals as part of their space program. The move is a concern to western powers due to t...
  • Spacecraft becomes first to orbit Mercury
    NASA's Messenger spacecraft has successfully become the first ever to orbit the planet Mercury. Launched in 2004 it has taken over six years for Messe...
  • Iran builds "flying saucer"
    Iran has built an unusual new craft that has been described as "the world's first flying saucer". Named the Zohal the unmanned vehicle is designed for...

Grassroots

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

Climate

  • Japan Plant Spent Fuel Pools Down to Almost No ...
    Source:� Reuters Japan's nuclear plant operator said on Sunday the temperatures at spent fuel pools at reactors 5 and 6 in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant are down to almost normal levels, Kyodo News reported.
  • Power Cable Connected to Fukushima No. 2 React ...
    Source:� Bloomberg Workers reconnected the power cable to one reactor at the crippled Fukushima Dai-Ichi atomic plant, signaling progress in efforts to prevent Japan�s nuclear crisis from escalating.
  • Former NRC Member Says Renaissance Is Dead, fo ...
    Source:� GreenWire The birth of the "nuclear renaissance" will be crippled by the Japan crisis as regulators struggle to incorporate "lessons learned" into the country's existing nuclear fleet, a former NRC member said.
  • Undeterred by Fallout Fears, U.S. and Chile Si ...
    Source:� New York Times With fears of radiation spreading in Japan after the devastating earthquake there, Chile and the U.S. signed an accord on Friday intended to help Chile develop a nuclear energy program.
  • Singh Orders Indian Nuclear Safety Review
    Source:� Financial Times Manmohan Singh, India�s prime minister, has called for a reexamination of his country�s nuclear safety systems following the crisis at the Fukushima atomic energy plant in Japan.

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Booman Tribune

  • Lazy Establishment
    I'm tired of this maddening stupidity. The Washington Post doesn't answer its own questions. What if Mr. Gaddafi chooses to meet U.N. terms and then attempts to keep power indefinitely over the sections of Libya his forces control? Mr. Gaddafis announcement of a cease-fire Friday, swiftly ...
  • Gaddafi's Troops in Benghazi
    If the reporting from the New York Times can be believed, Gaddafi's forces are all over downtown Benghazi, including snipers atop the Foreign Ministry building. Good luck dislodging them without using any foreign ground troops. It could take months. Every day that Gaddafi remains in power is ...
  • Coulter: Radiation is a Good Thing
    Ann Coulter is attempting to revive her "career" by demonstrating she is ready for Comedy Central. Here's her audition tape with Bill O'Reilly entitled "Radiation is Good for You." And you wonder why people who watch Fox News are the most misinformed people in the world. Of course, Coult ...
  • Calling Them Rape Apologists
    I have always liked Joe Biden: The vice president, known for speaking his mind and at times putting his foot in his mouth, said that Republicans who want to cut spending while at the same time cutting taxes for the wealthy are similar to rape apologists. In setting up his comparison, the ...
  • Serious Question
    I've been trying to get a handle on what the worst-case scenario is with the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, but it's hard to get a straight answer. I found a fairly decent resource in this Mother Jones article. It says the worst-case would render uninhabitable an area of Japan the siz ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

  • Get a Better Job for Better Mental Health
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline If you are in a dissatisfying job you may be at risk for mental health issues. Additionally, if you are unemployed, gaining employment will dramatically improve your mental wellbeing. Newly released research suggests that employment is linked to improved mental an ...
  • Older Adults Successfully Tackle Depression wi ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Practicing the ancient art of tai chi lessens the symptoms of depression in older adults, according to a newly released study. Elderly clients who suffer with depression have more physical limitations than their younger counterparts. Therefore, they are often restr ...
  • Want Family Therapy? These 4 Problems Should B ...
    By Lynne Silva-Breen, MDiv, MA, LMFT, Family Therapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Lynne and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Families are amazingly resilient relationship groups. While many of us have enduring trouble with some aspect of our families, past or present, all of ...
  • How to Help a Loved One With Mental Illness
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Dr. Lloyd I Sederer, MD, a psychiatrist and public health advocate, recently published important tips for helping your loved one with mental illness. In his 35 years of practice, Dr. Sederer has met with thousands of family members who are desperate to help their l ...
  • Creative Overachievers Could Owe Success to ADHD
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary New research suggests that ADHD, at one time thought to only hinder one’s successes in life, may be responsible for creative achievement in adults. “For the same reason that ADHD might create problems, like distraction, it can also allow an openness to new ideas,” ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Earth talk: How does mining pollute water? - P ...
    Earth talk: How does mining pollute water? Poughkeepsie Journal In January the EPA got the opportunity to walk its talk when it vetoed a permit that would have allowed the largest "mountaintop removal" mining operation in the history of West Virginia coal mining to go forward. Mountaintop remov ...
  • Japan's Nuclear Crisis and America's Natural G ...
    Telegraph.co.uk Japan's Nuclear Crisis and America's Natural Gas Investing Daily First, coal power is under attack as never before, not only on the basis of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions but for increasingly environmentally destructive mining techniques such as mountaintop removal. Environme ...
  • For some a break, for others more - Acorn
    For some a break, for others more Acorn Andrew Torres ('13) went on an alternative spring break trip to Kentucky to learn about the controversial mountaintop removal in the Appalachian Mountains. He and nine other Drew students, as well as two professors, stayed in a local Catholic church ... ...
  • Protesters win a round against Massey - Charle ...
    Protesters win a round against Massey Charleston Gazette (blog) A federal magistrate judge has ruled today that anti-mountaintop removal protesters do not have to answer Massey Energy's questions about who assisted or participated in peaceful civil disobedience actions against the company. ... ...
  • 'Coal River' next up on energy series - Southw ...
    'Coal River' next up on energy series Southwest Virginia Today ... lecture and film series on �Energy and the Environment� continues Thursday, March 17, with the showing and discussion of a documentary �On Coal River,� which is about a West Virginia community's struggles with the effects of mou ...

Memeorandum

  • Michael Moore rips Obama over Libya (Jordan Fa ...
    Jordan Fabian / The Hill: Michael Moore rips Obama over Libya  —  Anti-war filmmaker Michael Moore tore into President Obama for taking military action in Libya on Saturday.  —  Moore, a frequent critic of President Bush for launching the Iraq War, unleashed a string on tweets comparing the U.S ...
  • French fighter jets deployed over Libya (CNN)
    CNN: French fighter jets deployed over Libya  —  Tripoli, Libya (CNN) — French fighters jets soared over Libya on Saturday to counter Moammar Gadhafi's military forces who were intent on destroying the opposition as they pushed into the rebel stronghold of Benghazi.
  • U.S., Coalition Attack Libya Air-Defense Syste ...
    Tony Capaccio / Bloomberg: U.S., Coalition Attack Libya Air-Defense Systems With ‘Operation Odyssey’  —  U.S. and coalition vessels and aircrafts attacked Libya's air defense systems in the opening phase of “Odyssey Dawn” the international operation to establish a no-fly zone, military official ...
  • American Official Warns That Qaddafi May Lash ...
    Eric Schmitt / New York Times: American Official Warns That Qaddafi May Lash Out With New Terrorist Attacks  —  The United States is bracing for possible Libyan-backed terrorist attacks, President Obama's top counterterrorism official said on Friday.  —  The official, John O. Brennan, said that ...
  • Low-brow: Bill Maher says Sarah Palin is a 'du ...
    Jeff Poor / The Daily Caller: Low-brow: Bill Maher says Sarah Palin is a ‘dumb twat’  —  One might think paying for HBO as a premium cable channel would entitle subscribers to high-quality entertainment selections.  But for an hour Friday night, viewers were treated to a little misogynistic loc ...

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China Dialogue

  • The ruin of Aceh
    Ravaged by a giant tsunami in 2004, war-torn Aceh went on to sign a truce with Jakarta. But the natural destruction of the province didn’t end, writes Andre Vltchek, returning after seven years.Additional reporting by Rossie Indira Anyone who visited Aceh after the devastating earthquake an ...
  • What next for Chinese nuclear?
    The world is struggling to respond to the Fukushima radiation disaster – not least in China, the linchpin of the much-hyped nuclear renaissance. Antony Froggatt reports.The earthquake and tsunami in Japan have caused unprecedented problems for the country’s nuclear industry and the Fukushima pow ...
  • Meanwhile in America
    How will Beijing’s latest green pledges affect the United States? Linden Ellis asks a roundtable of experts and business figures what they think of China’s 12th Five-Year Plan.Last week, as China set impressive targets to reduce emissions and increase investment in environmental services, politi ...
  • Splashing around in the shallows
    Just as the internet is eroding our attention spans, oceans of information may be diluting the corporate sustainability agenda, writes John Elkington. Do business leaders risk being everywhere and nowhere?I’m not particularly looking forward to 2012, now just a year away. Among other things, it ...
  • Green growth’s invisible ingredient
    Information technology has the potential to transform China’s low-carbon narrative – but the opportunities need to be grasped, writes Simon Zadek.China’s green growth is a collective imperative that can enable the country to improve the economic conditions of its 1.3 billion citizens without cre ...

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Threat Level

  • Leader of Hacker Gang Sentenced to 9 Years For ...
    The former leader of an anarchistic hacking group called the Electronik Tribulation Army was sentenced Thursday to 9 years and 2 months in prison for installing malware on computers at a Texas hospital. Jesse William McGraw, aka “GhostExodus,” was also ordered to pay $31,881 in restitution and ...
  • Goldman Sachs Programmer Sentenced to 8 Years ...
    A former Goldman Sachs programmer convicted of stealing the bank’s high-speed trading software was sentenced Friday to eight years in prison. Sergey Aleynikov, 41, was convicted in December of theft of trade secrets and then unsuccessfully sought to have the conviction set aside. The Russian-bo ...
  • Sunshine Week Shame: 10 Ways the Government Is ...
    As Sunshine Week sets, it’s a good time to take a quick inventory of the federal government’s ongoing failures of transparency. MapLight.org, which tracks the influence of money in politics, ran down the opacity the public confronts at every level of government — from antiquated campaign-finan ...
  • Hacker Spies Hit Security Firm RSA
    Top security firm RSA Security revealed on Thursday that it’s been the victim of an “extremely sophisticated” hack. The company said in a note posted on its website that the intruders succeeded in stealing information related to the company’s SecurID two-factor authentication products. SecurID ...
  • Hosting Firm Objects to Sony Subpoena in PS3 H ...
    The web host to a PlayStation online forum moved Thursday to quash a subpoena connected to Sony’s lawsuit against George Hotz, the man who released the first full-fledged PlayStation 3 hack. SoftLayer Technologies, which counts psx-scene.com among its hosted sites, is objecting to a records dem ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • Obama woos Brazil while Libya air assault unfolds
    RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will take in the sights of picturesque Rio de Janeiro on Sunday as he courts Latin America on a tour overshadowed by a U.S. and European air assault on Muammar Gaddafi's forces in Libya.
  • Factbox: Japan disaster in figures
    (Reuters) - The following is a list of the likely impact of and response to the devastating earthquake and tsunami that rocked the northeast coast of Japan on March 11, and subsequent crisis at nuclear power plants.
  • Western warplanes, missiles hit Libyan targets
    TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Western forces hit targets along the Libyan coast on Saturday, using strikes from air and sea to force Muammar Gaddafi's troops to cease fire and end attacks on civilians.
  • Obama says U.S. role limited as Libya strikes ...
    BRASILIA/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. forces led the biggest military intervention in the Arab world since the invasion of Iraq on Saturday, but President Barack Obama insisted that U.S. involvement would be limited as part of an international effort to protect Libyan civilians.
  • Japan makes progress in nuke crisis
    TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan made some progress on Sunday in its race to avert disaster at a nuclear power plant leaking radiation after an earthquake and tsunami that are estimated to have killed more than 15,000 people in one prefecture alone.

IntelNews

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

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Grist - News

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

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Farming Pathogens

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

Suzie-Q

  • Kochtopus: How The Koch Brothers Fund The Clim ...
    How the Koch Brothers Fund the Climate Change Denial Machine Triple Pundit By Gina-Marie Cheeseman | March 18th, 2011  The Koch brothers, owners of Koch Industries are major funders of organizations that create propaganda which denies the reality of climate change. David Koch expressed doubts to ...
  • Red vs. Blue: The Great Midwestern Backlash
    Red vs. blue: The great Midwestern backlash New GOP governors in Wisconsin, Ohio and Michigan are suddenly unpopular. The economy gives, and it takes away Salon- By Andrew Leonard Friday, Mar 18, 2011 08:30 ET In 2008, Barack Obama carried Michigan, Wisconsin and Ohio, three crucial Midwestern s ...
  • Afternoon Jukebox: I Love Rock N Roll
    Joan Jett & the Blackhearts – I Love Rock N Roll
  • Anonymous Leaks Indicate Widespread Insurance ...
    Anonymous Leaks Indicate Widespread Insurance Fraud — And Show How Banks Made More Money Dragging Out Foreclosures Crooks & Liars- By Susie Madrak March 17, 2011 05:00 PM Remember when I wrote last month about a Philadelphia music promoter who sued Wells Fargo — and won the right to auction off ...
  • Obama To Speak On Libya – LIVE
    Obama To Speak On Libya Friday HuffPost First Posted: 03/18/11 01:57 PM Updated: 03/18/11 02:11 PM Obama is speaking on Friday about the ongoing crisis in Libya and the decision by the U.N. to implement a no-fly zone over the country. Watch live here

Solari

  • I Think Continually Of Those Who Were Truly Great
    By Stephen Spender I think continually of those who were truly great. Who, from the womb, remembered the soul’s history Through corridors of light where the hours are suns Endless and singing. Whose lovely ambition Was that their lips, still touched with fire, Should tell of the Spirit clothed f ...
  • Brene Brown: The Power of Vulnerability
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  • Meet the Bill that Could Ruin Michigan’s ...
    By Sarah Parsons Like most parents, Michigan resident Rachael Hilliker cares very much about the kinds of foods her kids eat. Hilliker has a three-year-old daughter, Claire, and her fiance is the father of an eight-year-old and 10-year old. All three children attend Michigan’s public school sys ...
  • China Overtakes UK in Art Market League
    China has overtaken the UK as a global art market for the first time, a report suggests. The UK was knocked from second spot to third place as a global market for antiques and arts, according to The European Fine Art Foundation. The US continued to dominate the market in 2010, with a global sha ...
  • Nasa to Shoot Lasers at Space Junk Around Eart ...
    Nasa fears ‘Kessler Syndrome’, where there is too much space junk for it to be safe to fly out, leaving us trapped on Earth. By Daniel Bates Nasa is considering using lasers to deflect space junk around Earth and stop it colliding with satellites. Lasers similar to those used for welding in car ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

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Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Events in the Middle East expose the nature of ...
    Summary:   Events in the Middle East highlight the contradictions of our irrational foreign policy.  Since we have few contemporaneous sources of information about US government thinking, we can use Stratfor (among the best of the US private geopolitical analysts) as a window. In the Stratfor wo ...
  • Being a third world nation is a state of mind, ...
    Summary:  Being a Third World nation is largely a state of mind.  The distinguishing characteristic is that the people (leaders and citizens) respect their laws. That’s disappearing in America.  Here we look at one small aspect of that:  how we treat our prisoners.  Links to the vast liter ...
  • The Middle East scorecard
    Summary:  Recent events in the Middle East reveal the emptiness of US foreign policy, our inability to assess situations before we jump in, and an important trend emerging into view. The scorecard so far in the latest round of the never-ending Middle East game: Tunisia — Big changes, but minor ...
  • Watching decadal swings in global climate (pre ...
    Summary:  Effective propaganda often requires making people forget what they know, as well adding an overlay of simplistic narrative.  Looking at climate on all time frames challenges the simple “co2 drives global climate” story.  Here we look at one of the few direct and reliable sources of ...
  • To understand piracy consult a chapter from Am ...
    Summary:  The Americans that fought WWI and WWII dreamt of a better world, run by laws and not greed backed by force.  After WWII the foundations were laid for global institutions to make this a reality, beginning a project taking generations to accomplish.  The Boomers have abandoned it, each y ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • U.S. Debt Jumped $72 Billion Same Day U.S. Hou ...
    CNSNews – The national debt jumped by $72 billion on Tuesday even as the Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives passed a continuing resolution to fund the government for just three weeks that will cut $6 billion from government spending. If Congress were to cut $6 billion every three weeks ...
  • 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

The Progressive Realist

  • Why Obama Goes to South America While Europe G ...
    Some details are emerging regarding the US policy for Libya. This little detail by Laura Rozen strikes me as being very under reported. The fact that Obama privately told Congressional leaders Friday that U.S. planes would not be involved in enforcing the Libya no-fly zone went some to way expl ...
  • War Requires Thinking Through All Scenarios
    Whether it was by design or because of Senator Richard Lugar's broadside that the White House could not just roll into any conflict it wanted to without support of Congress, President Obama has kept American exposure in the growing conflict in Libya fairly minimal. This is a good thing. The Fr ...
  • Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Facts and Figures
    The latest update from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs contains new information on the casulties, destruction and international response to the earthquake and tsunami. Casualties The number of casualties continues to rise. The Government has now confirmed 5,178 people ...
  • The Bushification Of Barack Obama.
    Josh Rogin has a must-read on the internal deliberations over intervening in Libya. Though the difference in the international dynamics of what's happening from the war in Iraq can't be overstated, I found this rationale attributed the president remarkable: "This is the greatest opportunity to ...
  • Libya Process Signals Shifts in Global Order
    Pulling back for a second from the debate over whether the U.S. should intervene in Libya, the process by which the actual international response unfolded is cause for optimism. Among the big-puzzle pieces that shifted, I see the following:- The U.S. as "law-abiding" global actor. President Bara ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • It's Only a "Power Grab" if There's Actual Pow ...
    Andrew Sullivan on President Obama's speech this afternoon: To launch a war on these grounds is to set a precedent that would require a kind of global power and reach that not even the most righteous neocons have pushed for. [...] The proper response to this presidential power-grab is a Congre ...
  • Keep the IRS Out of My Uterus
    Thomas Barthold, the chief of staff of the nonpartisan Joint Tax Committee, testified on Wednesday that, if the "No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act" became law, audits would get a lot more personal for female taxpayers. Barthold said that, if a woman got audited, IRS agents would have to fig ...
  • Always a (Liberal) Internationalist
    If there's any implication to my last post, it's that Obama has always been something of an interventionist, and his decision to support one intervention over the other has more to do with political circumstances than it does with principle. As a politician in Chicago's Hyde Park, Barack Obama w ...
  • Judge Blocks Wisconsin Anti-Union Law
    A judge in Wisconsin has temporarily blocked the implementation of a law that would strip public employees of their collective-bargaining rights. Dane County Judge Maryann Sumi issued the order in response to a lawsuit filed by the local district attorney. The lawsuit alleges that a Senate con ...
  • The Affordable Care Act Contains Multitudes
    As we approach the one-year anniversary of the passage of the Affordable Care Act, public opinion hasn't really changed much, confounding the expectations of both conservatives (who thought all Americans would grow to hate it) and progressives (who thought Americans would grow to love it). As Ez ...

Buzzflash

  • Unmade in Japan
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT The end of the world Apocalypse   Is something we All hope we'll miss   But now we know It'll look like this: http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2011/03/what_a_tsunami_looks_like.php
  • If You Don't Remember Karen Silkwood, You Shou ...
    Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout If you don't remember Karen Silkwood, you should if you value your life and the lives of your loved ones. Silkwood disclosed the numerous dangers lurking at the nuclear power plant in Oklahoma where she worked. In fact, Silkwood - a member of the ...
  • Our Lives are at Stake With a Nuclear Power In ...
    Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout  In the potential catastrophic disaster brewing in Japan, there is a lesson to be learned. The corporations that determine government policy, here and abroad, put our lives and money on the line, not theirs. Nuclear plants get subsidies in the US and ...
  • A Tale of Two Americas: One America Lives on G ...
    Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout Yes, it's the tale of two Americas. To its no doubt cheering readership, The Wall Street Journal reported today that big CEO bonuses are back - and back big time: CEO bonuses at 50 major corporations jumped a median of 30.5%, the biggest gain in a ...
  • Apologies to Our Nation's Teachers
    ROBERT BARKLEY FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT First they came for your integrity.  They did it subtly and over time as they obfuscated our textbooks to reflect a narrow ideology rather than the whole truth. Next they attacked the integrity of your profession.  They did it by devising embarrassingly s ...

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The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Aspartame toxicity. Not.
    Aspartame is an artificial, non-saccharide, sweetener used as a sugar substitute in some foods and beverages usually so that they can be labelled as “lite” or “diet” products. In the European Union, it is coded as E951. Aspartame is a methyl ester of aspartic acid and phenylalanine, two natural ...
  • Mental snip
    I seem to have something of a reputation for a fertile imagination; don’t know why, although regular readers will know that I cover a lot of ground between my blog and a hard place. Anyway, Diane Richards pointed this out to me following a Facebook post about social networking for sex and about ...
  • Iodine and radiation
    The Royal Society of Chemistry is warning against panic buying of potassium iodide tablets as a protective agent against exposure to radioactive iodine. It also cautioning cautioned against scaremongering regarding the potential effect of explosions at the Fukushima nuclear plant, saying that an ...
  • Six science selections
    How Radiation Threatens Health – Why and how does exposure to radiation make you ill? What levels of exposure are dangerous and what levels are lethal? Fukushima is a triumph for nuke power – Quake + tsunami = 1 minor radiation dose so far, says El Reg. Tragic as recent events in Japan have been ...
  • Six science selections
    My bloody camouflage – Coating blood cells with an immunological camouflage could one day lead to a new type of blood product that avoids the problem of A,B,O,± blood typing currently required for transfusion patients. NMR spectroscopy underpins the analytical work. Beware the fear of nuclear….F ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Physicians for Social Responsibility Calls For ...
    Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) today called for a nationwide moratorium on new nuclear reactors in the United States and a suspension of operations at the nuclear reactors with a similar design as those involved in the disaster in Japan, as well as those on fault lines.� PSR cited th ...
  • ACTION ALERT: Four Things YOU Can Do About Mal ...
    The U.S. Embassy this week denied famed Afghan women’s rights activist Malalai Joya a visa to the United States for an extensive speaking tour that was to kick off on Saturday March 19th. Americans are being denied the right to hear from an on-the-ground activist how the war is affecting ordinar ...
  • National Organizations Ask President to Releas ...
    Several national watchdog and environmental groups* today sent President Obama a letter urging him to release information about radioactive contamination stemming from the nuclear reactor and waste catastrophe in Japan. The groups have called on the President to retroactively release data from t ...
  • 'In God We Trust' Resolution Protested by Secu ...
    The U.S. House Judiciary Committee today approved House Concurrent Resolution 13, which would unnecessarily reaffirm the divisive term “In God We Trust” as the nation’s official motto and encourage its public display in all public buildings, public schools, and government institutions. The resol ...
  • Amnesty International Urges Morocco Not to Sup ...
    Amnesty International has called on the Moroccan authorities to allow mass peaceful demonstrations planned for this Sunday to go ahead peacefully, following a crackdown on similar protests last weekend. Thousands are expected to take to the streets across the country on Sunday to demand poli ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Libya: The Wearingly Familiar Odor of Regime C ...
    Robert Fisk So we are going to take "all necessary measures" to protect the civilians of Libya, are we? Pity we didn't think of that 42 years ago. Or 41 years ago. Or... well, you know the rest. And let's not be fooled by what the UN resol ...
  • Peace is a Dirty Word
    Patrick Kennelly Three years ago in Bamiyan, a western province of Afghanistan, a multiethnic group of university students gathered for a three month workshop on peacemaking. The group of young leaders met weekly ultimately concluding that ...
  • Libya and the Familiar Patterns of War
    Glenn Greenwald The�Los�Angeles Times, March 18, 2003: U.S. Raises Terrorism Alert Amid Concerns of Retaliation Bracing for a backlash from impending war with Iraq, the Bush administration put the nation on high alert for a terrorist atta ...
  • George Carlin Knew Why They Call it 'The Ameri ...
    Ah, the week of St. Patty's Day, and maybe the luck of the Irish will lead us to the pot o' gold coins. But don't count on it. Not in Wisconsin, not in these times. Nonetheless, in honor of this hopeful holiday, when a saint evicted the snakes from the green island, we can go to that great Ameri ...
  • How Power Shapes the News
    Janine Jackson U.S. media consumers are used to magazines where ads outnumber stories, to on-air hosts who contractually consume brand-name drinks, to “consideration provided by” this and “brought to you by” that. But when it comes to the ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • Petraeus "Understands the Frustration" With Sp ...
    By Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe When testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee, General David Petraeus told senators that he understood the frustration with the Afghanistan War, conceding that "we have spent an enormous amount of money." The general has a gift for unde ...
  • Petraeus, McCain Continue Afghanistan War Spin ...
    By Derrick Crowe General David Petraeus is set to testify before Congress today, and he's expected to again try to put a positive spin on a war effort that's utterly failing to meet the goals set by its backers. While intelligence assessments show that tactical moves on the ground in Afghanistan ...
  • Karzai Asks NATO To Stop Operations
    By Steve Hynd Is Afghanistan a sovereign nation or not? I guess we'll find out. During a meeting in Kunar to discuss recent civilian deaths including those of children, President Karzai said: "On behalf of you and the Afghan people, today I would like to respectfully, and not arrogantly, ask Nat ...
  • Afghanistan's COIN and Coin Disconnect
    By Steve Hynd As Derrick Crowe reminded us yesterday, the U.S. military's own COIN manual says: "I-113. The primary objective of any COIN operation is to foster development of effective governance by a legitimate government." But today, Colin Cookman reports that the Afghan government is about t ...
  • Pentagon Assertions of “Progress” In Afghanist ...
    By Derrick Crowe The Pentagon wants you to ignore some inconvenient facts about the failure of the escalation strategy in Afghanistan. The latest Petraeus/Gates media tour is under way in preparation for the general's testimony to Congress next week, and they're trotting out the same, tired spin ...

Water Wars

  • Letters to the editor
    State budget, water wars, etc.
  • Panel to discuss water wars
    GAINESVILLE - The tri-state water wars will be the subject of a panel discussion next week in Gainesville. Sponsored by the City of Gainesville and the Brenau University Sustainability Task Force, it will be held Tuesday afternoon from 1:00-3:00 at Brenau, free and open to the public.
  • Water Wars to be Decided on Next Week
    Lawyers will soon update a federal judge on the status of attempts to resolve a lingering water dispute between Georgia and Alabama
  • Preventing water wars?
    IN addition to dire warnings about “water wars”, a former director general in the then Department of Water Affairs and Forestry, Mike Muller, was quoted in media saying that it’s time to start panicking about water supplies, otherwise we are headed for a major crisis in 2020. He singled out eThe ...
  • Water wars: National City in tussle over board ...
    City Council voted against Mayor Ron Morrison serving on the Sweetwater Authority board, but he continues to attend the meetings anyway

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Afghanistan Sun

  • Afghanistan s oppressed Hazaras dread Taliban ...
    Afghanistan: Ibrahim still has vivid nightmares about the slaughter on the morning of January 11, 2001 that he miraculously escaped.Pumped up by victory after seizing control of Ibrahim's home ...
  • Karzai to unveil first areas to come under Afg ...
    KABUL (AFP) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Monday launches the transfer of responsibility for security from coalition to Afghan forces by announcing the first provinces and cities to be handed ...
  • Pakistani, Bhutanese PMs oppose interference i ...
    The visiting Bhutanese Prime Minister and his Pakistani counterpart Saturday opposed foreign interference in the internal affairs of Afghanistan and both sides agreed that the Afghan government and ...
  • security alert ahead of new year
    KABUL, Afghanistan -; Afghanistan's Interior Ministry says police and military are on high alert for next week's new year's celebrations, when the Afghan president is announcing a ...
  • Shields and Brooks on Afghan War, March Madnes ...
    Several viewers wondered about some books behind Brooks during that interview, so we decided to ask him about it. I caught one of his book readings at the Aspen Institute this afternoon. Here is ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • CIA sued over violations of the Freedom of Inf ...
    National Security Counselors (NSC), an Arlington, Virginia-based public interest group (and legal counsel for the National Whistleblowers Center on FOIA issues), has filed three lawsuits against the CIA about how the agency handles and interprets document requests under the Freedom of Informatio ...
  • 10th Circuit allows union members to sue after ...
    On Wednesday, March 16, 2011, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in Denver, Colorado, issued a decision that reaffirms the rights of union members to sue under federal law. The issue most frequently affects the right of union members to bring claims under Title VII for discriminatio ...
  • Whistleblowers speak in The Big Uneasy
    The Big Uneasy is a new feature documentary movie by Harry Shearer. It responds to those (including President Obama) who say that New Orleans was the victim of a terrible natural disaster. That response:� No. New Orleans could have handled Hurricane Katrina if the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (U ...
  • Anonymous whistleblower gets $1.1 million IRS ...
    An anonymous Wall Street banker has received a reward of $1.1 million for reporting a massive tax fraud by Enron, Bankers Trust and others. Attorney Erika A. Kelton of Phillips and Cohen announced the reward to her client yesterday. It is one of the first rewards issued by a five-year old Whistl ...
  • Whistleblowers' Pensions Threatened By Intelli ...
    TAKE�ACTION! Tomorrow, March 15th, in a "closed" mark-up at 2:30 pm EST, the members of the Senate Intelligence Committee plan to slip into an appropriations bill a provision that will give the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and the heads of other intelligence agencies, such as the CIA ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Capitalist Lion Tamer's Favorite Techdirt Post ...
    The Capitalist Lion Tamer has only been commenting on Techdirt for a short while, but he's quickly jumped to the top of many people's "favorites" lists, and regularly has his own comments score highly on both the insightful and funny scales. We figured why not set him loose on doing his own fav ...
  • When Will We Have To Grant Artificial Intellig ...
    James Boyle has a fascinating new paper up, which will act as something of an early warning over a legal issue that will undoubtedly become a much bigger issue down the road: how we deal with the Constitutional question of "personhood" for artificial intelligence. He sets it up with two "scienc ...
  • 'My Works Are Like My Children'
    This week Mimi & Eunice address two popular copyright maxims: The works-are-like-children metaphor is very apt for art, but it's an absurd argument for copyright. And here we are "depriving the owner of potential income." Mimi & Eunice comics are Free/libre/open source, so if anyone wants to ma ...
  • Bob Woodward Blames Google For 'Killing' Newsp ...
    Famed investigative reporter Bob Woodward apparently doesn't spend much time "investigating" the state of the internet and online news before making statements. His latest is that he's not thrilled with this whole internet thing, saying that Eric Schmidt's tombstone should say "I killed newspap ...
  • DailyDirt: Greener Cars
    The debates over the best energy technologies will likely exist for a long time to come -- perhaps to the detriment of making actual progress in replacing fossil fuels with renewable or cleaner energy sources. The transportation sector makes a pretty big dent in total energy usage, so it's alwa ...

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