20 March - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

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BroadSnark

• Don’t Be Like Che
  Che Guevara is everywhere.  He is on t-shirts, sneakers, bags, bedazzled boots, and even children’s books. The bedazzled boots don’t really bother me so much.  Not likely that the person wearing those has actually read any Che and they probably won’t be mistaken for someone who is about to go ...
• Things You Might Have Missed
  This art project is amazing.  At first it seemed kind of weird that they would take these silly pictures of women who had been through so much trauma.  But then when you hear the explanation.  Very cool. Police in New Orleans used licensing as an excuse to close down an anarchist bookstore/arts ...
• Finding My Mouth In Mexico
  Not a lot of time to write this week, so instead I am going to link to an old piece I put up on Matador. There are no signs in Mexico, at least none that aren’t out of date or unintentionally funny. My personal favorite was the sign on Chacala beach that said no mascots [...]
• Things You Might Have Missed
  This take-down of hipsters is just gorgeously hateful. It is mind boggling that there are so many obstacles to growing a few vegetables in your yard and selling them.  But the informal economy is going to win in the end. Apparently, the Catholic Church is now answering all your sex questions.  W ...
• To All the Marriage Pushers
  If I have to read one more article on how a group of people must somehow be damaged because they aren’t in a 1950s nuclear family, I am going to spit nails. Kay S. Hymowitz has a piece in the Wall Street Journal where she complains that men in their twenties “hang out in…a hybrid state [...]

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

• Denmark: Parliamentary Majority Wants Angelide ...
  EIR News Service press release.
• LaRouche To Hold Webcast March 10
  EIR News Service press release.
• Indonesia Fights Globalized Agro-Food Speculators
  EIR News Service press release.
• Cairo Comes to the United States
  EIR News Service press release.
• EIR’s Hoefle: It’s the Deivatives, Stupid!
  EIR News Service press release.

Armies of Liberation

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

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

food and water watch

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

treehugger

• Eco-Fashion Label Dress Reform Channels Nineti ...
  Dress Reform Fall/Winter 2011 Collection. Photo: Dress Reform Designer Krystal Hoffacker takes a style tip from 90s grunge with Dress Reform's Fall 2011 collection, presented at a fitting underground location, Home Sweet Home, in New York City's Lower East Side on February 25. Comprised ...
• Sprouting Without Electricity - A Seed Gamble
  Playing the hand. Image credits: all images in this post J Laumer originals. My electricity billing rate went way up this year; and, it had become tiresome to set up fluorescent lights and heat tape in a hot box to raise my vegetables from seed. This year I decided to try gardening w ...
• Google Recruits Scientists to Use New Media to ...
  Photo: dannysullivan, CC 2.0 In an effort to help improve communication regarding global warming issues and to counter the rampant 'noise' made by fossil fuel industry-funded climate skepticism, Google's philanthropy arm has launched a new program focused on bringing together scientists, co ...
• Maybe We Really do Need to Pick Either Nuclear ...
  Grist's David Roberts tackles what's sure to be an unpopular question: What if the conventional wisdom, the one currently guiding the national political conversation about our energy future, is wrong? What if it's indeed not the case that we're going to need a "mix" of natural gas, nuclear, ...
• Bid to Save the Earth Auction Now Open, Celebr ...
  Image: A Bid to Save the Earth For the second year in a row, environmental organizations and sustainably minded celebrities are joining forces for Bid to Save the Earth, which includes a green auction at Christie's, an online auction at charitybuzz.com, and a Runway to Green fashion show fr ...

Biosingularity

• Woman’s voice restored after larynx tran ...
  A woman in the US is able to speak for the first time in 11 years after a pioneering voicebox transplant.Brenda Jensen said the operation, which took place in California, was a miracle which had restored her life.Thirteen days after the surgery she said her first words: “Good morning, I want to ...
• Shingles Vaccine Cuts Disease Risk 55%
  The herpes zoster vaccine, better known as the shingles vaccine and recommended for adults 60 and older, cuts the risk of getting the painful disease by 55%, new research finds. “Compared to childhood vaccines, people would [probably] think 55% is not too impressive, because many childhood vacci ...
• Delivering a potent cancer drug with nanoparti ...
  Researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have shown that they can deliver the cancer drug cisplatin much more effectively and safely in a form that has been encapsulated in a nanoparticle targeted to prostate tumor cells and is activated once it reaches its target. Using the new parti ...
• The Deadliest Diets
  Two specific eating patterns increase the risk of death for older adults, a 10-year study finds. Compared to people who ate healthy foods, men and women in their 70s had a 40% higher risk of death if they got most of their calories from high-fat dairy foods or from sweets and desserts. Universit ...
• Eliminating dopamine turns fruit flies into ma ...
  Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that seems to have been around from about the time of the very first nerves. Every animal we’ve looked at, including some that branched off prior to the Cambrian, seems to express the dopamine signaling machinery in its nerves. So you might expect that eliminating ...

CFACT

• Send a Search and Rescue team to Japan
  Please help CFACT send a Caritas Search and Rescue team to Japan!
• Japanese Emergency Resources
• Let's help Japan today
  Today, we are all Japanese. Many of our readers have asked how they can help ease the suffering in Japan today and help our friends there rebuild. They want to ensure their funds are put to good use.
• A nuclear engineer's briefing on the emergency ...
  This Q&A briefing provides a concise overview of much of what you need to know on the nuclear emergency in Japan. Nuclear engineer Mark Mervine gave this interview to his daughter Evelyn Mervine.
• Virginia's governor is blind to renewable ener ...
  Despite the unreliability and costliness of renewable energy, Governor McDonnell is promoting them in Virginia.

Ria Novosti Online News

• China says regrets military strike against Libya
  China regrets the multinational military strike launched against Libya, a spokeswoman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Sunday.
• Japan earthquake death toll tops 8,000
  The confirmed death toll from last week's 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan has risen to 8,133, police told Kyodo news agency on Sunday.
• Russian rescuers begin work in Japan's quake-h ...
  Russian rescuers completed work in Japan's quake-ravaged Sendai and moved for search of people to another disaster-hit city, Niigata.
• Libya says UN Security Council resolution on n ...
  Libya has called the UN Security Council resolution imposing a no-fly zone over the country as invalid, JANA news agency reported on Sunday citing a statement from the Libyan Foreign Ministry.
• 'Dr. Ironfist' Klitschko defends his WBC title ...
  WBC Heavyweight World Champion Vitali Klitschko of Ukraine has defended his title for the sixth time after defeating Cuba's Odlanier Solis on Saturday in Germany.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• Only Siberia to glimpse 'supermoon' in Russia
  The moon will reach its closest point to the Earth in almost 20 years on Saturday, but clouds and snow are likely to conceal the "supermoon" for most Russians, meteorologists say.
• Russia, U.S. agree to share data on Japan
  Russia and the United States agreed on Friday to share information on developments at Japan's troubled Fukushima nuclear plant, Russian state-controlled nuclear corporation Rosatom said.
• NASA's Messenger spacecraft enters Mercury orbit
  NASA's Messenger spacecraft has become the first to enter orbit of Mercury, the space agency said on its website on Friday.
• U.S. develops software to manipulate social ne ...
  The U.S. military are developing software to spread pro-U.S. propaganda via fake accounts on popular social networking websites such as Facebook and Twitter.
• Launch of new ISS mission slated for April 5
  The launch of the Soyuz TMA-21 spacecraft carrying members of a new crew to the International Space Station has been tentatively scheduled for April 5, a source at the Baikonur Space Center said on Thursday.

Pruning Shears

• Mobilize for a fair budget: Join Senior Voice ...
  John Kasich’s state budget has started to sink in, and even his detractors seem surprised by its callousness, shortsightedness and sharp partisanship. Local governments and schools take it on the chin and townships get hung out to dry. It has lots of one-time income from privatization schemes, ...
• 'No on SB 5': Upcoming events, 18-Mar-2011
  Sunday, March 20, 20112:00 PM Town Hall (RSVP w/ Protect Ohio Families here)Please join state Representative Mike Foley & state Senator Mike Skindell. If you have any questions please contact the organizer, Fred Crow, at 440-346-3754.Flyers Bar & Grill6298 Pearl RoadParma Heights3:00 PM Rally A ...
• 'No On SB 5': Rally at the Kent Stage, 15-Mar- ...
  On Tuesday Ohio governor John Kasich unveiled his 2011 Fiscal Year budget. It was chock full of terrible ideas that administration officials didn’t even bother pretending was about the state’s finances. One item in it - selling five state prison facilities - is virtually guaranteed to produce ...
• Calling BS on Freedom Works' Top 10 (Part 3)
  Part 1 and Part 2   It has been a long week and an even longer weekend.  My thoughts are constantly on Japan and it sometimes makes it difficult to focus on the things going on here.  It’s that goldfish attention span of the Twitter generation.  8. A clear conflict of interest exists between pol ...
• Weekend wrapup
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Thoughts and prayers to the victims in Japan. Don’t even know if a donation would be helpful at the moment.The president has his head comp ...

Organic Consumers.org

• Feedlot Meat Has Spurred a Soy Boom That Has a ...
  Much of South America is rapidly coming to resemble Iowa. Where one might expect to see virgin Amazon rainforest, lush grasslands or Patagonian steppe, there are now often monocultures of soybeans, extending for miles and miles. PeopleClick here to read this article
• Wendell Berry: Finding Examples Of Good Work
  Wendell Berry occupies a unique place in American literary culture. Born in Kentucky in 1934, he has stayed close to his roots in caring for the land that his ancestors settled almost 200 years ago.Click here to read this article
• Localism Index: How Americans Are Beginning to ...
  Number of new independent bookstores that have opened since 2005: 437 Increase since 2002 in the number of small specialty food stores: 1,414Click here to read this article
• New Ways of Living and Organizing Our Economy ...
  The last couple of days have been gloomy ones. I kept checking in with the vague and dire reports from the nuclear-power bleeding edge in Japan. For part of the time I was also immersed in a post about truly awful things going on in the U.S. poultry industry. While digging into the industry's ...
• The "Green" Nuclear Cabal
  Striding into Kyoto in December of 1997 claiming to be a mighty warrior in the battle against global warming was a familiar beast, the nuclear power industry. Some of the industry's biggest lobbyists, men such as James Curtis (a former deputy secretary of energy during the Reagan years), prowled ...

Climategate

• Dean of science…suggesting rising seas t…
  Dean of science…suggesting rising seas this next century of up to 100 metres, or Al Gore six metres. When I see things like that I know these are false. You mentioned the IPCC report; that suggests, at worst on best scenarios, 59 centimetres. http://www.google.com
• ABC science presenter Robyn Williams seeks mor ...
  ABC science presenter Robyn Williams who in 2007 believed seas could rise 100 meters, seeks more truth from scientists after Climategate.
• How to avoid your own Climategate scandal
  What are the lessons of Climategate? More honesty and transparency in science? Not according to attorney Alan Nelson in the Guardian UK today.  To him, the lesson is how not to get caught next time. So how do universities and academics ensure that their correspondence does not become the “smoki ...
• What is the “likelihood” that the 2007 IPCC Re ...
  A very interesting analysis of the IPPC Assessment and has some important questions that invite others to help him answer. Please read his article and let him know what conclusions you draw.
• Schools call for a “balanced teaching of globa ...
  USA Today reports that US schools are finally calling for both sides of global warming to be taught, because it is after all, a theory -- not a fact:

Opinio Juris

• Libya and the Three Modes of the Security Council
  by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson In my forthcoming book on US-UN relations (appearing this summer from Hoover Press), Living with the UN, I describe three different “modes” of the Security Council.  By this I mean ways in which the Security Council might function, for some given situat ...
• DeGirolami on the ECtHR decision in Lautsi v. ...
  by Peggy McGuinness by Peggy McGuinness My St. John’s colleague Marc DeGirolami has a post up at Mirror of Justice summarizing today’s European Court of Human Rights decision in Lautsi v. Italy.  The full decision is at the ECtHR’s website here.  At issue in the case was the display of cruc ...
• Libya No-Fly Operation: What Comes Next?
  by Peggy McGuinness by Peggy McGuinness Now that the supporters of a no-fly zone over Libya have got the legal authority they required  — both international and domestic (I agree with Peter that the president does not need additional congressional authority to vote for and contribute to a UN ...
• Call for Papers: Inaugural ASIL Research Forum
  by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro Kal Raustiala asked that we post the following.  Sounds like an excellent initiative on ASIL’s part. Call for Scholarly Papers The Inaugural ASIL Research Forum November 4-5, 2011 The American Society of International Law calls for submissions of scholarly paper ...
• Let Slip the Coasean Bribes of War
  by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson I am in transit and can’t comment on this now, but Ian Ayres offers this post via Freakonomics blog and Balkinization on war-time bribes to officers on the other side to switch sides or not fight.  Thoughts?  (Update:  I hope these links work now to the ...

Investigate - Breaking News

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

My Care2 Picks

• Taking the War Out of Air War: What US Air Pow ...
  American �air superiority� in any war the U.S. now fights is total. In fact, the last time American jets met enemy planes of any sort in any skies was in the First Gulf War in 1991Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Japan's Media Blackout - How much danger am I ...
  This video is no longer available on YouTube. It has been banned but why? This man simply wants to know what is going on. Please help him. (Contains a little swearing, understandably). Watch and pass on, let�s get it viral.Submitted by Scott Freewheeler to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a ...
• 2011: A Brave New Dystopia, By Chris Hedges
  Would we be dominated by a repressive surveillance and security state that used crude and violent forms of control? Or entranced by entertainment and spectacle, captivated by technology and seduced by profligate consumption to embrace our own oppression? Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� � ...
• James Burke's Web
  Science,history,knowledge webSubmitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• GORDON DUFF: ASSANGE ADMITS WIKILEAKS A FRAUD ...
  Julian Assange admitted that Wikileak material had been chosen by the press, not an independent organization after all. Wikileaks, in effect, admitted that it has always been a front for what Helen Thomas refers to as the Zionist controlled media. Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture ...

Angry Indian News

• Cem Ertür: Obama to Qaddafi: 'Comply with UN r ...
  [FOTO:The Times, 18 March 2011] http://911blogger.com/news/2011-03-18/obama-qaddafi-comply-un-resolution-or-face-military-action Obama to Qaddafi: Comply with UN resolution or face military... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• 'Operation Odyssey Dawn' in Libya Brings Back ...
  (APNS) AFRICA/LIBYA -- The continent and people of Africa have entered into a new era of European military intervention and ground invasion with NATO forces attacking civilian targets today in Libya.... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Deposed Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristi ...
  Deposed Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide Returns to Haiti (APNS) AMERICAS/HAITI -- Deposed former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide has made an emotional return to his besieged... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Benetton vs Mapuche: Colours at the end of the ...
  Benetton vs Mapuche: Colours at the end of the World: [intercontinentalcry.org] "The high-profile campaign against the Italian Group Benetton, as examined in the documentary, Colours at the end of... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• WILL HAWAI`I SECEDE FROM THE US?
  Free Hawai`i: Hawai`i is not, and has never been in or a part of the United States.So you cannot secede from something you've never been legally part of.You cannot quit something you didn’t join. You... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

• Homegrown terrorism: the threat of Homeland Se ...
  Any agency who is unlawfully and actively spying on, data mining, intimidating or violating your Constitutional rights should be considered a radical extremist group and domestic terrorists.
• Big Ag Targets Exposers of Animal Abuse in CAFOs
  If this isn't proof positive that Big Ag is intent on monopolizing our food and pushing CAFOs (Concentrated animal feeding operations) on us and eliminating humane, natural methods for raising animals, then I don't know what is.
• Truth Squad Radio: Biotechnology and Human Dis ...
  It is known that plant diseases of plants do in fact cross over and infect humans!
• Truth Squad Radio: Monsanto’s GMO Threat!
  This Wednesday we will discuss the future of organics, the recent discovery of a huge threat from agrobacterium, and the Monsanto seed contracts which hold the farmer liable for all damages caused by the aggressive spread of GMO contaminated crops.
• Foundations of Evil
  Many "philanthropic" foundations have been used in America as a tax dodge to protect family fortunes, to polish tarnished images of robber barons and worst of all, to make the public fund depopulation and other detrimental policies that benefit the controlling elite.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

• The stupidity of crowds helps kill a planet - ...
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• Sex, death, and the noble American toad - Scot ...
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• How to save a fishery: owning, renting, and ex ...
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• ‘Gossip Girl’ unethical because of threesome? ...
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Citizens for Legitimate Government

• Royal Navy fires cruise missiles at key Libyan ...
  ShareThisRoyal Navy fires cruise missiles at key Libyan targets --UK ships and aircraft spearhead Operation Odyssey Dawn�20 Mar 2011 A Royal Navy submarine launched Tomahawk cruise missiles at key air defences across Libya last night in the first of a wave of attacks by British forces aimed at e ...
• Japan death toll exceeds 8,000
  ShareThisJapan death toll exceeds 8,000 20 Mar 2011 Japan's police agency says more than 8,000 people are dead and more than 12,000 are listed as missing after last week's earthquake and tsunami. A week after the disasters devastated the northeast coast, the National Police Agency said Sunday th ...
• Pressure rising in one reactor at troubled nuc ...
  ShareThisPressure rising in one reactor at troubled nuclear plant --'Air containing radioactive substances will be emitted into the atmosphere.' 20 Mar 2011 Japanese officials said Sunday that they would have to release some radioactive gas into the air at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Th ...
• Police issued with Tasers as security is stepp ...
  ShareThisPolice issued with Tasers as security is stepped in preparation for Royal Wedding 20 Mar 2011 Royal protection officers have started carrying Tasers as standard issue after the attack on Prince Charles and Camilla in their car during the student-fees riot. And the non-lethal electric-sh ...
• Unemployment rises in nearly all metro areas
  ShareThisUnemployment rises in nearly all metro areas --Unemployment rose in nearly all of the 372 largest U.S. cities in January compared to the previous month 18 Mar 2011 Unemployment rose in nearly all of the 372 largest U.S. cities in January compared to the previous month, mostly because of ...

Daily Loaf

• Lightning fall to Senators in OT
  The Tampa Bay Lightning only had to dig into their short-term memories for motivation for Saturday night’s game against the Ottawa Senators. It was just over a week ago that the Lightning lost to this same Senators team after starting the game flat. This time around, the start was not the iss ...
• Childhood and adolescence: They start tragic a ...
  Last time we heard from Andre Dubus III, he was taking the tawdriness of a Sarasota strip club and turning it into great art. That was The Garden of Last Days, a novel by Dubus (rhymes with caboose) speculating on what the 9-11 hijackers did in the last days before flying their planes into t ...
• This weekend at the Bay Area Renaissance Festi ...
  This weekend at the Bay Area Renaissance Festival it’s the Wine, Chocolate, and Romance Festival taking place on the fairgrounds in Piper’s Valley. Chocolate shops and wineries from around Florida will be serving free samples and taking orders for future delivery. Other activities will inc ...
• Bob Buckhorn raises more money in last 3 weeks ...
  Host Rob Lorei faced a formidable challenge: try to ask the candidates something that they haven't discussed in depth over the past 3 months.
• Sheen is coming to Tampa Bay in a “Violent Tor ...
  Sheen's traveling road show, "Violent Torpedo of Truth/Defeat is Not an Option" right here at the St. Pete Times Forum on April 22.

Vaccine Resistance Movement

• VRM: L-Histidine, Squaline, & Human Chorionic ...
  “Vaccination is a monstrosity, a misbegotten offspring of error and ignorance; it should have no place in either hygiene or medicine. Believe not in vaccination, it is a world wide delusion, an unscientific practice, a fatal superstition with consequences measured today by tears and sorrow ...
• VRM: Gardasil/Cervarix – A Legacy Of Shame
  The headlines alone tell the whole story. ‘Teenage girl left brain-damaged  after receiving cervical cancer jab‘, ‘Thousands of UK schoolgirls have suffered adverse reactions…several reported multiple reactions’, ‘20,575 adverse reactions, 352 reports of abnormal pap smears post vaccinati ...
• VRM: Dr. Wakefield’s Imminent Vindicatio ...
  Dr. Andrew Wakefield’s 1998 Study demonstrated “anti-myelin antibodies and digestive tract pathologies in children with autism after being given the Urabi strain triple live virus MMR vaccine. All 12 children in the Study had intestinal abnormalities (known as Inflammatory Bowel Disease), with c ...
• VRM: A Concise Compendium The Problem With Vac ...
  The advent of cloned DNA vaccines & Synthetic Genomics, backed by proponents of the Trans-humanist & Bioethics movements (this is a post-Darwinian view, in which the species has the power to direct its own evolution), has opened a Pandora’s Box spelling the inevitable death of natural immunity. ...
• VRM: Medical Industry Data Proves Influenza Va ...
  The Influenza virus itself is constantly mutating from year to year. While mainstream doctors are traditionally divided, several prominent Studies have come forward in recent years challenging the Status Quo on the efficacy of the sacrosanct Flu shot & awakened an increasingly distrustf ...

B.C. Preppers Network

• You Know You're Getting Old When...
  A few weeks back we received our new high-efficiency front loading LG washer and dryer set and I have to say, I'm pretty impressed by them. The set was only around $1000 (on sale) but I felt like I'd gone from a Chevette to a Cadillac when compared to our old set.� A cute little luxury fe ...
• Control Your Home Thermostat On the Internet!
  Today a fellow from our natural gas company came by to install a new thermostat as part of the Peaksaver program that we signed up for.�If you haven't heard of Peaksaver, basically what it does is allow the Ontario government electricity provider to turn off your central air conditioner ...
• Happy Day!: The Water Bill Arrived!
  After being shocked a few months ago with a water bill of over $240 I decided to do a few things to cut down on our water use We converted our main toilet to a dual-flush and installed a water saving device on the second (haven't switched it over to a dual yet). We also installed a new ...
• Strawberry Picking
  Our family went strawberry picking this morning, it's a fun thing to do once in a while and I think it's a good way to help our 3-year old daughter realize where food comes from. While my wife picked berries with our oldest I went for a walk around the farm with our youngest in the stroller ...
• Pioneer Solar: PV System For Free?
  I received a flyer from Pioneer Solar in the mail the other day which claims to help people get a solar system installed on their house, farm, or business for free. Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, like most things there's good and bad points about it and what might be a good deal f ...

Michael Yon

• 101st Airborne
  04 March 2011 Plans are afoot to embed with the 2-506 Infantry in Paktika Province.� If all goes well, the hard work will begin several weeks from now.� The Battalion Commander is Lieutenant Colonel Don Hill. Please see their latest newsletter: Please Click to view the entire newsletter. ...
• War Stories & Rumors
  Russian Tank near Tarin Kot 02 March 2011 There are always the stories.� Some true, some not, most are hybrids.� There was the story in Iraq of the farmer who found a crashed UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle).� The farmer thought it might try to fly away so he tied it to a tree.�� There was the ru ...
• Scorch & Puddle
  The Puddle 28 February 2011 Urozgan Province, Afghanistan This morning, we drove a dangerous unpaved road from Tarin Kot to Dehrawud, passing recent bomb craters and ancient wrecks of two Soviet tanks.� The muddy road often splashed brown soup across the windshield while grey skies threatened ...
• Dead Taliban in Chora
  (A raw, unedited note from war.) Men lining up to pay respects to killed Taliban 27 February 2011 The places have names like Sangin, Arghandab, Panjwai, Now Zad, Musa Qala, Korengal Valley, Pech Valley, Tarin Kot, or Chora.� Names that mean almost nothing to most people, but everything to oth ...
• Panjwai: Spanish Translation
  El peligrosísimo distrito de Panjwai, en la provincia de Kandahar 27 de febrero de 2011 Desde Tarin Kot, provincia de Uruzgán Panjwai viene siendo una de las zonas más peligrosas de Afganistán. En su suelo se ha derramado mucha sangre canadiense, estadounidense y afgana. Según el diario The ...

The Killing Train

• Aristide's speech upon return
• Aristide's return
  For the seven years since he was overthrown in a coup in February 2004 there have been many different speculations about why Aristide never returned to Haiti. People argued that his exile in South Africa was comfortable, that he had fled in 2004 out of fear for his life and didn't return because ...
• Wikileaks and the Future of Information
  Wikileaks and the future of information from Justin Podur on Vimeo. read more
• Settle in and wait for the coup in Egypt
  Most people are interested in something that no one knows or can know: what is going to happen in Egypt? It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future (that's from Keynes). There are lessons from past revolutions that might help us understand what is happening, but from where ...
• More such philanthrocapitalism we shall be utt ...
  Philanthrocapitalism, a book by Bishop and Edwards, argues that philanthropy will help the public accept a new age of plutocracy (the rule by wealth). The rich are giving their money away so effectively, they say, that the public won't mind increasing inequality. read more

treehugger

• Eco-Fashion Label Dress Reform Channels Nineti ...
  Dress Reform Fall/Winter 2011 Collection. Photo: Dress Reform Designer Krystal Hoffacker takes a style tip from 90s grunge with Dress Reform's Fall 2011 collection, presented at a fitting underground location, Home Sweet Home, in New York City's Lower East Side on February 25. Comprised ...
• Sprouting Without Electricity - A Seed Gamble
  Playing the hand. Image credits: all images in this post J Laumer originals. My electricity billing rate went way up this year; and, it had become tiresome to set up fluorescent lights and heat tape in a hot box to raise my vegetables from seed. This year I decided to try gardening w ...
• Google Recruits Scientists to Use New Media to ...
  Photo: dannysullivan, CC 2.0 In an effort to help improve communication regarding global warming issues and to counter the rampant 'noise' made by fossil fuel industry-funded climate skepticism, Google's philanthropy arm has launched a new program focused on bringing together scientists, co ...
• Maybe We Really do Need to Pick Either Nuclear ...
  Grist's David Roberts tackles what's sure to be an unpopular question: What if the conventional wisdom, the one currently guiding the national political conversation about our energy future, is wrong? What if it's indeed not the case that we're going to need a "mix" of natural gas, nuclear, ...
• Bid to Save the Earth Auction Now Open, Celebr ...
  Image: A Bid to Save the Earth For the second year in a row, environmental organizations and sustainably minded celebrities are joining forces for Bid to Save the Earth, which includes a green auction at Christie's, an online auction at charitybuzz.com, and a Runway to Green fashion show fr ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

• Social media is fuelling resistance
  The Burmese regime is growing alarmed as more and more web-savvy youths evade restrictions to harness the power of the internet
• Burmese army in ‘heinous’ Shan assault
  Ethnic alliance condemns premature offensives on Shan State Army-North base which came a week before the set deadline for withdrawal
• Burma ‘radiation free’, junta offe ...
  Foreign ministry quells fears of acid rain as $100,000 is offered to victims of the Japanese earthquake, with the death toll nearing 7,000
• Psych. warfare unit to launch newspaper
  The Myawaddy becomes the first military intelligence-run daily in Burma as the growing power of the internet unnerves the junta
• Dunkley denied bail again
  Australian national and former Myanmar Times editor Ross Dunkley denied bail for second time and is due back in court on 23 March

Telegraph - Climate Change

• Bob Ward boobs again over rainfall records
  The Grantham Institute's attack dog, Bob Ward, came back for another bite, but missed again, says Christopher Booker.
• How my family and I hatched a plan to keep lob ...
  A charity is working to reverse the effects of overfishing on one of Cornwall's premium 'common resources', writes Roger Highfield.
• Met Office climate survey: why our obsession w ...
  Arctic winters, red-hot summers and melting snow caps. Climate change is one of the most talked about issues today. But how much do we really know about the climate on our very own doorstep? And what can we really do about it?
• Met Office climate survey: how to get involved
  The Met Office is urging people to blow bubbles and spot vapour trails as part of a national survey of Britain's climate.
• Met Office urges public to blow bubbles and co ...
  The Met Office is urging people to blow bubbles and spot vapour trails as part of a national survey of Britain's climate.

National Geographic | Environment

• Fish "Walks" on Beach to Spawn
  Every spring on California's beaches, thousands of tiny fish come ashore to lay their eggs—though their sandy habitat is in decline, experts say. Video.
• Japan Reactor Crisis: Satellite Pictures Revea ...
  NoneNew and old satellite pictures reveal just how much damage Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has sustained.
• Is Japan Reactor Crew on Fatal Mission?
  The workers at Japan's stricken nuclear plant are "suicide fighters," an expert says. What radiation risk are they—and others—facing?
• How Is Japan's Nuclear Disaster Different?
  Learn how the ongoing crisis at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant compares to previous disasters at Chernobyl and Three Mile Island.
• Japan Tsunami, Before & After: Zoomable Satell ...
  See satellite pictures of Japan before and after a magnitude 9.0 earthquake spawned a deadly tsunami.

Jurist - Legal Research

• Missouri House passes bill restricting late-te ...
  [JURIST] The Missouri House of Representatives [official website] on Thursday voted 119-38 in favor of legislation [HB 213, PDF] restricting late-term abortions [JURIST news archive] and imposing penalties on doctors who fail to comply with the new restrictions. The legislation, which is slated ...
• UN rights council adopts outcome of US review
  [JURIST] The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) [official website] on Friday held a debate and adopted the outcomes [press release] from its Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the US. The review provided the US with 228 recommendations in 10 different areas regarding human rights policies and pract ...
• Yemen president declares state of emergency
  [JURIST] Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh [official website, in Arabic] declared a state of emergency [text, in Arabic] throughout the country on Friday. The state of emergency will last 30 days and gives security forces greater powers to maintain order and also includes a ban on citizens car ...
• UN warns Ivory Coast shelling may be war crime
  [JURIST] The UN peacekeeping operation (UNOCI) [official website] in the Ivory Coast [BBC country profile; JURIST news archive] on Thursday denounced the shelling of a market [press release, in French] in the capital Abidjan which killed 25 to 30 civilians and injured scores more, calling it a p ...
• Wisconsin judge temporarily blocks union barga ...
  [JURIST] A judge for Wisconsin's Dane County Circuit Court [official website] on Friday issued a temporary restraining order blocking the state's new Budget Repair Bill [Senate Bill 11 text, PDF]. Judge Maryann Sumi's order blocked the law from being published [NYT report], one of the procedural ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

• Obama Stresses Multilateralism in Announcing L ...
  As U.S. and European missiles struck sites in Libya Saturday afternoon, President Obama stressed that the U.S. was acting in partnership with the international community. American, French, and British forces are seeking to enforce a no-fly zone over Libya and uphold a U.N. resolution demanding t ...
• The GOP Spending Schism
  Republicans are gaining significant ground in the fight over federal spending, but a dispute has been simmering within the GOP's ranks over just how aggressively to confront the White House and the Democratic Senate. As one might expect, the tea partiers are clamoring for confrontation, while S ...
• Netflix Bets on a Political Thriller
  I'd heard the news earlier that Netflix was jumping into the TV business by producing and airing its own show. But only just now, when I read the Times write-up, did I learn that the show they're producing (in 26 episodes) is the terrific political thriller, "House of Cards," based on the novel ...
• Andrew Breitbart: 'Presidency Is Beneath' Sara ...
  Andrew Breitbart says Sarah Palin is above being president of the United States. From Lisa DePaulo's GQ interview with the conservative media guru: I think the presidency is beneath her. There's more power in being Oprah Winfrey than in being Barack Obama. It would be my goal for Palin to become ...
• Biden's New Communications Director: The Washi ...
  Vice President Biden has tapped a second journalist to be his communications director, announcing that Shailagh Murray of The Washington Post would lay aside her notepad to join the Obama White House. Murray will succeed former Time Washington bureau chief Jay Carney, who left journalism for ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

• [COAT] ***SPAM*** Libya's Qaddafi stars in U.S ...
• [COAT] Watch my antiWAR music video (Dylan/See ...
• [COAT] Peace Surge NOW! Save Ottawa Ban on War ...
• [COAT] Afghan MP tells Ottawa to Stop Arms Sho ...
• [COAT] Ottawa's Mayor & War Bazaars! Democracy ...

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

• US and Vietnam sign nuclear energy agreement | ...
• SKorea on alert after ship hit by mysterious b ...
• Obama administration may send U.S.-Russia arms ...
• Energy Secretary Steven Chu on the nation's en ...
• More tritium found at Vt. Yankee, NRC plans cl ...

Tikun Olam

• Ukraine: Not Ready for Prime Time or 2012 Euro Cup
  Ukraine will be co-hosting the next European Cup soccer championship in 2012.  As part of the build-up to this momentous event, it is organizing a mega-million advertising campaign promoting Ukrainian tourism throughout the world.  I’ve even heard of “Ukraine–All About U” promotions as far awa ...
• Eden Abergil: ‘I’m B-A-C-K’
  Just like a bad penny or Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Terminator, Eden Abergil is back to wreak havoc once more. Several months ago she found notoriety by proudly uploading to her Facebook account pictures of her simpering as an IDF soldier next to blindfolded Palestinian prisoners. She clearly was p ...
• Links for 2010-06-05 [Digg]
  MV Rachel Corrie Forcibly Seized by Israeli Navy, Towed to A Malaysian NGO funding Rachel Corrie trip to Gaza reports she was seized a few mintues ago by Israeli navy and is being towed to Ashdod.
• Tikkun Magazine Celebrates 25th Anniversary, H ...
  Rabbi Michael Lerner’s Tikkun Magazine held a gala celebration of its 25th anniversary and honored Judge Richard Goldstone, author of the UN’s Gaza human rights report, on March 14th at UC Berkeley.  Tikkun bestowed the the award on Goldstone and other distinguished Muslim, Hispanic and Jewish ...
• Ukraine-Israel Quid Pro Quo: Abusisi Extraordi ...
  The Ukrainian government has tipped its hand regarding what may’ve bought its cooperation in the extraordinary rendition of Dirar Abusisi from its territory last month to a Shabak dungeon inside Israel.  During a meeting with Avigdor Lieberman, Nicolai Azarov, Ukraine’s prime minister said: The ...

Ode Magazine

• Deciding to stay in Sendai
  By: Anne Thomas This letter is different from others I have been sending recently. It is more about me than about the remarkable Japanese people. Please forgive this side tracking and indulgence. Yesterday I was given the chance to leave Sendai via ...
• A spirit of endurance in Japan
  By: Anne Thomas I am writing this as I make the decision whether to leave Sendai or not. I have just heard that a bus will be available to evacuate American citizens from Sendai tomorrow morning. I have not yet made up my mind what I will do. I have be ...
• Signs of hope in Sendai
  By: Anne Thomas Once again I want to write to you about what is happening here. The TV news is frightening beyond belief. In fact, this entire phenomenon seems totally surreal. Beyond the edges of one’s wildest imagination. But I continue picking throu ...
• The peace of the done
  By: PeaceCorso I found this quote by Julie Woodruff in my forty-odd pages of peace quotes that I’ve been collecting for two decades. "Out of the strain of the doing, into the peace of the done." I’ve no idea who Julie Woodruff is but her words remi ...
• A letter from Sendai
  By: Anne Thomas Things here in Sendai have been rather surreal. But I am very blessed to have wonderful friends who are helping me a lot. Since my shack is even more worthy of that name, I am now staying at a friend's home. We share supplies like water ...

OpEd News

• TEN YEARS LATER IN THE MIDDLE EAST--THE BOMB P ...
  When will we ever learn? Still in Iraq wanting to stay, still in Afghnistan, more furtively in Pakistan, our bomb plays on. Has the strikeback shifted to peaceful time bombs in Japan?
• Power Corrupts, Nuclear Power Corrupts Absolutely
  Is nuclear technology safe? Is it acceptable? Can we trust those in charge to tell us the truth? The answer to each of those questions looks more like no every day.
• Bad to Worse in Japan
  Japan nuclear disaster downplayed and denied.
• Intermezzo In Style Or Why I Support ...
  Let's be a big bad Wolf.
• Limbaugh and Right Trivialize Scientific Debate
  Rush Limbaugh and others on the right use emotion and buzz words to fuzz up scientific debate.

Switchboard

• Oil Spill Reported Near Deepwater Drilling Sit ...
  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 fishing boat captain sa ...
• On the ground in Rio with a diverse set of opi ...
  I'm in Rio De Janerio today on my first full day of a 9 day trip to explore the impacts on biofuels policy here in Brazil and back home in the US on land-use change here. As I wrote about earlier this week, the trip was organized by IATP and includes a mix of farmers, ethanol produ ...
• Media scan 3/18: Nuclear risks, fighting for E ...
  An op-ed by Joel Reynolds ran in the Los Angeles Times detailing the inherent risks associated with nuclear facilities located along US coasts; in the piece Joel recounted his own work 25 years ago to fight against a California nuclear plant that is particularly vulnerable to earth ...
• Latin America Climate, Energy and Environment ...
  Latin America President Obama is preparing for his trip to Brazil, Chile and El Salvador on March 19-23, and highlighting the benefits that this trip will bring to the US economy.  (USA Today, 3/18/2011) Mexico The head of the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (Semar ...
• Proposed JFK Expansion Would Harm Jamaica Bay
  Today, NRDC and nineteen other environmental and civic groups sent a letter to New York officials opposing a recent proposal to expand John F. Kennedy airport into Jamaica Bay.  Such development would have unacceptable impacts on what’s widely considered New York City’s ecological ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• Choketacular!
  I figured Pitt had drawn such a feeble bracket even they couldn’t choke it up. Predictably, I was very mistaken. (Also, the refs might be accused of “not letting the players decide it,” but both calls were right.) I remained underwhelmed by the allegedly great Big East… …Silver: “3 biggest un ...
• On Libya
  Posted these basic thoughts on twitter a few hours ago, but they deserve a little development. I really hope that things go super awesome in the new war in Libya. I hope that the rebels win, and I really hope that a democratic state emerges. I really hope that if they win, the rebels don’t start ...
• Time to Read Fever Pitch Again
  And remember what it was like when Arsenal had no hopes, dreams, or aspirations.  West Brom 2 – 2 Arsenal.  WTH? Related posts:Morbidly Comic Soccer Nationalism at Fever Pitch Oddly Enough, We Play Better With 11 Men on the Pitch The single dumbest independent clause you’ll read all day R ...
• The “LUG” Trend
  …was apparently bascially made up. Huh. It’s almost enough to make be think that Caitlan Flanagan’s “draw broad generalizations from apocryphal anecdotes” method lacks validity. Related posts:Caitlin Flanagan Who Knew? Hey Matt, Bill O’Reilly Called; He Wants His Brain Back Related p ...
• How many wars in Islamic countries can the US ...
  Apparently, the answer is “at least three.” Related posts:“Islamic Niketown?” Clay Fight! Who Would Win in a Fight? Related posts:“Islamic Niketown?” Clay Fight! Who Would Win in a Fight?

Desert Research Institute

• Storm Peak Laboratory Cloud Property Validatio ...
  Scientists are busy working at DRI’s Storm Peak Lab at Steamboat Springs, Colo. gathering in-cloud measurements and also verifying the data from radars and other instrumentation that is measuring clouds at four different elevations; one site in town and three within the Steamboat Springs ...
• Kendrick Taylor Interviewed by NPR About West ...
  By improving our understanding of how natural changes in greenhouse gas influenced climate in the past, the science community will be able to do a better job of predicting future climate changes caused by the emissions of greenhouse gases by human activity.
• DRI is a Nevada Asset
  Nevada’s legislature was visionary in 1959 when it created DRI as the environmental research campus of the state’s university system. DRI has flourished as an entrepreneurial campus of 500 scientists, engineers and technicians who leveraged the state’s $8.2 million allocation last year into ...
• Storm Peak Laboratory Cloud Property Validatio ...
  Scientists are busy working at DRI’s Storm Peak Lab at Steamboat Springs, Colo. gathering in-cloud measurements and also verifying the data from radars and other instrumentation that is measuring clouds at four different elevations; one site in town and three within the Steamboat Springs ...
• Fighting an Infestation
  Kumud Acharya, Ph.D. has worked in Southern Nevada for the last four years studying the changing climate and its effect on the state’s water. Since coming to Las Vegas his focus has shifted to another problem, invasive species specially those living in Lake Mead.

Earth Techling

• Florida High Speed Rail Chances Dead…Again
• Voltitude E-Bike Rides Big, Folds Small
• Canada’s Largest Wind Farm Approved
• Energy Upgrade California Goes To LA
• Energy Star TV Requirements Get Tighter

National Law Journal | U.S.

• LEGAL AID: A SPECIAL REPORT: The Power of Hope
  As Congress considers deep cuts in legal assistance to the poor, The National Law Journal presents an in-depth report examining the impact of legal aid programs on clients and the politics surrounding funding.
• The Citizens United effect
  After taking a shellacking last year in the blockbuster Citizens United decision, campaign finance reformers are steeling themselves for imminent challenges in the U.S. Supreme Court, Congress and the states.
• New battle for Boies, Olson
  David Boies and Theodore Olson, the two litigators who surprised the legal world in 2009 by teaming up to challenge California's ban on same-sex marriage, are leading a new push to add money back into struggling court systems around the country.
• Voir dire as contact sport
  Lawyers across the country have noticed a marked difference during the jury selection process, as more prospective jurors ask to be excused for financial hardships. Many jurors have expressed worry about losing their jobs while out on jury service.
• 7th Circuit leaves door open a crack for suit ...
  A man denied insurance coverage for gastric bypass surgery isn't entitled to money from or an injunction against his claims administration company, a federal appeal court has ruled.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

• Senator Casey Introduces Three Natural Gas Bills
  The following is a press release from Senator Robert Casey regarding three bills he has reintroduced. (1) S1215: Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals Act (aka: The Frac Act) (2) S S3964: Faster Action Safety Team Emergency Response Act (aka: FASTER) (3) S3720: Marcellus Shale On- ...
• Has Your Stream Been Affected by Gas Drilling?
  How do you know? For many, it rests upon early detection -  and prevention of environmental impact. In 2010 the Alliance for Aquatic Resource Monitoring (ALLARM)  researched and tested a volunteer-based Marcellus Monitoring protocol for the early detection of flowback contamination in small Penn ...
• Frack Water Missing and Unaccounted For
  I just received this info from the RDA: Over 54 million gallons of frack water missing & unaccounted for! The PA Department of Environmental Resources has discovered that records on recycling of gas drilling wastewater have been wildly inflated due to a reporting error. Even worse, no one seems ...
• PRESS CONFERENCE – Moratorium on Drillin ...
  March 9 – 10 AM Moratorium on future gas leases in State Forests Representative Vitali will hold a press conference in Media Room, main Capitol. Greg will announce the introduction of a bill for 3 year moratorium on leasing in State Forests. He would like to have a stage full of representatives ...
• Toxic Water Interactive Map
  Here is a link to the interactive map that was put out by the New York Times with their article “Toxic Contamination From Natural Gas Wells” If you have not had a chance to check it out yet, you should. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/02/27/us/natural-gas-map.html?ref=us

News Blaze

• Japan -Are Fatalities Massively Higher Than St ...
  Why is the Japanese government distrusted by its' own citizens? Perhaps the death toll estimates are a clue - they are consistently divorced from reality.
• NASA's Summit to Provide The Latest Perspectiv ...
  Approximately 2,000 participants from NASA mission directorates and support organizations, private industry, academic institutions, other federal agencies and IT groups are expected to attend. The event will feature more than 100 speakers and panel
• USAID Food For Peace Contributes $4.5M to Worl ...
  The World Food Programme will provide food assistance to people impacted by the current crisis in Cote d'Ivoire.
• First-Ever HD Footage of SRB Recovery Ship Mis ...
  The footage was captured with a Panasonic HPX 3700 high-definition, cinema-style camera with 1080 progressive scanning at 24 frames per second.
• Secretary Clinton to Sign MOU With The World B ...
  Before the MOU signing ceremony, non-government organizations (NGO) will highlight new commitments by NGOs and the private sector to address water and sanitation challenges in developing countries.

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 ...

Red Ice Creations

• Lost city of Atlantis, swamped by tsunami, found?
  A U.S.-led research team may have finally located the lost city of Atlantis, the legendary metropolis believed swamped by a tsunami thousands of years ago in mud flats in southern Spain. The team of archeologists and geologists used a combination of deep-ground radar, digital mapping, and underw ...
• British Tax Protesters Arrest Judge In Act Of ...
  For those wondering whether we can expect to see anything like the scenes witnessed in Egypt coming to America or the United Kingdom, the actions of British protesters who engaged in “lawful rebellion” by attempting to arrest a judge yesterday could herald the beginning of a new tax revolt to ri ...
• Man Invents Machine To Convert Plastic Into Oil
  The Japanese company Blest has developed one of the smallest and safest plastic-to-oil conversion machines out on the market today. It's founder and CEO, Akinori Ito is passionate about using this machine to change the way people around the world think about their plastic trash. From solving our ...
• Second explosion at Japanese nuclear plant - C ...
  There has been a second explosion at the Fukushima nuclear plant in northern Japan that was damaged in Friday’s earthquake and tsunami. 11 people were hurt in the blast, which sent a plume of smoke into the air. The fuel rods at the reactor are now partly exposed, raising fears of a meltdown. Of ...
• Nuclear Expert: Radiation Could Spread To US W ...
  Nuclear expert Joe Cirincione warns that radiation from Japan’s multiple potential nuclear meltdowns could spread to the US west coast and that the threat represents an “unprecedented crisis,” as another explosion rocked the Fukushima complex and officials admitted that nuclear fuel rods at reac ...

Russia Today

• High seismic activity will last 10 years – sei ...
  The magnitude-9.0 earthquake in Japan was one of the major events in the natural cycle of the planet's seismic activity, Evgeny Rogozhin, deputy director of the Institute of Physics of the Earth of the Russian Academy...
• Opinion split over Libya attack
  Military action in Libya has prompted a spate of comments from world leaders and experts with many calling the attack a sham for the West’s self-seeking strategies and others backing the effort to protect Libyan...
• West and Arab world unanimously back assault o ...
  EU powers are now falling into line confirming their commitment to the operation against pro-Gaddafi forces in Libya.
• Russia “regrets” military action, calls for ce ...
  The Russian Foreign Ministry is urging the international forces and the Gaddafi regime to do everything they can to stop civilian suffering, and agree an immediate ceasefire, describing the military action in Libya as...
• Libya no longer recognizes UN resolution
  The Libyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that it no longer recognizes the UN resolution urging a cease-fire and establishing a no-fly zone over the country.

Dad2059′s Webzine of Science Fiction, Science Fact and Esoterica

• WikiLeaks, Allnewsweb and the TEA Party
  When one looks at the above title, the individual has to ask, WTF? What could these three things have in common? Well, according to ‘Mirage Men‘ author, Mark Pilkington, not really a whole hell of a lot, just rampant opportunism: When the first mention of UFOs in the tranche of diplomatic paper ...
• Even Gary Bekkum is skeptical
  Gary Bekkum’s  STARpod.org’s site is usually replete with government conspiracies, psychic spies, hamsters, Bigelow’s Skinwalker Ranch, Laura Eisenhower’s Mars Colony and other wondrous esoteric oddities that it’s hard to believe that Gary could be skeptical of anything. But he is. He is very s ...
• More Paracast: George Filer
  Yeah I know I’ve been lazy lately (or so it seems), but trust me on this one. You won’t be disappointed with this interview Gene Steinberg and co-host Chris O’Brien of the Paracast had with Eastern MUFON Director George Filer, who also has the website Filer’s Files (which caters to guess what? Y ...
• The Paracast: Clifford Clift of MUFON
  This week’s Paracast with Gene Steinberg and Chris O’Brien is a conversation with MUFON International’s Clifford Clift. Subjects range from the nuts and bolts aspects of UFOs to the possible paranormal links with ghosts, angels, demons and Sasquatch. This was a down to earth and civil interview, ...
• Bizarre Beachcoming: Review of the Codex Serap ...
  Dr. Beachcoming, that eccentric collector of all things of an exotic historical nature, reviews The Codex Seraphinianus,  a book written by Luigi Serafini that is purportedly about an alien world complete with language, customs, architecture, flora and fauna. Luigi Serafini, Codex Seraphinianus ...

Tippers News

• DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
  DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Three men helped starve kids, court tol
  Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
  The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• The real terrorist was me - US Soldier -
  The Truth from a American Soldier who fought in an Unjust WAR in Iraq; thankfully his conscience willed him to admit that it was just a war for the rich elite few to get richer and had nothing to do with Patriosm or Security of Americans.He is a True HeroSubmitted by Mary P. to US Politics & Gov ...
• BRUTAL TRUTH Of IRAQ WAR
  'War' on any country is a 'Terrorist Act.' How can it be anything else?? People sit in their cosy homes; happy and Falsely believing that the soldiers are in a Patriotic War; Well see for yourself and ask Whats Patriotic about Suffering of Human Beings?Submitted by Mary P. to US Politics & Gov' ...

The Freeman

• U.N. Authorizes ‘All Necessary Measures’ To Pr ...
  Among the five governments that abstained in the vote, Brazilâs U.N. ambassador, Maria Luiza Riberio Viotti, voiced concern that military action in Libya would âexacerbate tensions on the ground and cause more harm than good to the same civilians we are committed to protect.â (Washington Post) W ...
• Arizona Senate Rejects 5 Migrant Bills
  “The state Senate voted down a package of birthright-citizenship bills, with Republicans split over the measures and Democrats opposed. Four other significant Senate immigration measures also failed. Those bills would have banned illegal immigrants from state universities, made it a crime for il ...
• The House Swings at NPR, Hits Every Radio Prog ...
  “. . . that’s why the most likely effect would be on the little guys. “Many, many public broadcasting stations are small stations that only have a couple of staff and volunteers,” Yager said. Those are the outlets that are most dependent on federal dollars to fill their airwaves with programming ...
• No One Can Run the Country
  When we hear pundits pleading with Obama to exert leadership, we are hearing an invocation of the democratic version of the Führerprinzip.
• Cheap Food May Be a Thing of the Past in U.S.
  “Increased demand from China, India and other developing nations is also driving up prices, as a growing middle class is consuming more protein. . . . Now, as fears mount of a repeat of the food riots around the world in 2007 and 2008, developing new ways to feed the world has become more pressi ...

Teaching Online Journalism

• Teaching about storytelling
  As a follow-up to Tuesday’s post about getting a story (and teaching students about stories), I’m going to refer to three earlier posts here: The elements of storytelling RGMP 11: Tell a good story with images and sound Storytelling 101 with âThe Annoying Orangeâ What I learned from Ken ...
• Is your story actually a story?
  “The problem with many news stories is that theyâre not really stories at all.” (Source: Advancing the Story, an excellent blog about broadcast journalism and multimedia.) This is true not only in TV news but across the board — and not only for student work! Sometimes the material is new (or at ...
• Web literacy: Should be required
  A student calls me on the phone. “Professor McAdams, I wonder if you could help me. I’ve never taken a class with you, but …” “Yes, what can I do for you?” I reply. “I bought my own website, but I’m not sure how to get my Web pages there.” From past experience, I know what I need to ask now. ...
• Can journalism education rise to the challenge?
  Most journalism programs face the same challenges: How to find, employ and retain faculty who are comfortable teaching new skills and techniques. How to provide equipment and software to students (especially with shrinking budgets). How to keep up with a rapidly changing field. Perhaps mos ...
• HTML and CSS Resources for Teaching
  Every year around this time, I update the resources I use in teaching my advanced online design class. I know there are a million lists like these online. I try to keep mine short, simple and current. Also, I’m not teaching programmers or graphic design majors. My students are journalists. C ...

Facing South

• INSTITUTE INDEX: Nuclear-powered politics
  Amount the nuclear power industry spent on lobbying from 2000 to 2010: $600 million Amount the industry spent during that same period on campaign contributions: nearly $63 million Amount the Nuclear Energy Institute -- an industry trade group whose members include the company that owns th ...
• Congressman: U.S. may not be prepared to respo ...
  By Sasha Chavkin, ProPublica As Japan struggles to contain its growing nuclear crisis, a congressman and a disaster-preparedness expert raised concerns that the United States is not prepared to respond to a nuclear disaster. Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., wrote a letter to President Obama on M ...
• VOICES: Protests in Tennessee as workers' righ ...
  By Joe Atkins, Labor South I'm thousands of miles away in Taipei, but I'm heartened to see brave young students join union members in taking a stand against anti-union bills before Tennessee's state legislature in Nashville. Seven protesters were arrested Tuesday and accused of resisting a ...
• Duke Energy's nuclear ambitions face fallout f ...
  With the nuclear crisis in Japan growing more alarming by the hour, Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers appeared before the North Carolina Utilities Commission yesterday to ask for permission to spend an additional $267 million for the planning of two new reactors at its Lee plant in South Carolina. If a ...
• Institute challenges NC lawmakers on cost of v ...
  Yesterday, the North Carolina House Elections Committee listened to over two hours of public comment on a bill introduced by the Republican leadership that, among other election changes, would require voters to present a photo ID at the polls. The Institute was encouraged to comment on the bil ...

Worldpress - Africa

• Gaddafi's Removal Is Not Easy
  Even though the entire Western world opposes Libya's Muammar Gaddafi and wishes to see him dethroned, the international community hesitates to intervene on the rebels' behalf.
• Women's Modern Plight
  With all the progress that has been made to advance women's position in the world, their standing still ranges from disadvantaged in developed countries to brutalized in developing ones.
• Improving Security in Somalia
  The United States is looking to the regions of Puntland and Somaliland for keys to protecting Somalis from extremist threats.
• Nigeria's Delicate Presidential Election Trans ...
  Nigeria's election history is shambolic and corrupt. If the country's new national electoral body is to conduct a free and fair election in January, it has its work cut out for it.
• Africa's Women Turn 50
  Fifty years into African independence, African women still face a much more challenging existence than men, with significant political, social and economic changes needed for gender equality.

Telegraph UK - oil

• Britain should not be afraid of nuclear power
  Energy generation is never risk free, but the industry has a strong safety record, says John Hutton.
• Britain should not be afraid of nuclear power
  Energy generation is never risk free, but the industry has a strong safety record, says John Hutton.
• We don't have the luxury of an interventionist ...
  We must work out what our national interest is, and then we must act upon it, writes Simon Heffer.
• We need nuclear power
  Telegraph View: The earthquake in Japan must not divert Britain from its nuclear energy programme
• We need nuclear power
  Telegraph View: The earthquake in Japan must not divert Britain from its nuclear energy programme

Ian Welsh

• No Free Lunch
  I haven’t had much to say about the Japanese Tsunami and the nuclear mess there, but here’s the short and to the point. First: the reactors in question were not properly built and tested.  It is very clear now that the Japanese nuclear industry, as with the American, has been cutting corners to ...
• Burning down your house to generate heat
  Some years ago I worked for a large insurance company.  I was originally hired to help deal with a class action suit, but soon found myself working on something different, demutualizing the company.  Mutual insurance companies are owned by their customers, not by shareholders.  This has a num ...
• Watch oil prices tomorrow
  Tomorrow’s oil markets should be interesting. The New York Times reports that the Saudi police have already opened fire on protesters in the major oil producing provinces on the Persian Gulf shore: Saudi police opened fire at a protest march in a restive, oil-rich province of the kingdom on Thur ...
• Off to London
  for a week, in a couple weeks. This will be the first time I’ve visited England, since, oh, about 1978.  What I remember about that trip: Southampton row houses, a nice open air book market, and Trafalgar square. So, for those of you who have been to London more recently, or lived (or live) the ...
• The kids might be all right
  My generation is doing something right: First from Josh Marshall summarizing a recent Rasmussen poll on the age breakdown of support for the unions in Wisconsin: But when you look at this poll the pro-union / anti-union division turns heavily on age too. The younger votes have a far more progres ...

Media Consortium

• Top 6 Mistakes to Avoid in Mobile Usability | ...
  Mobile applications are important for providing users with an alternate means of accessing your web page, as well as keeping connected anywhere and at any time. The programs are an integral part of staying competitive within your market, so they should be created wisely.
• 1.4 million fans can’t be wrong: NPR’s Faceboo ...
  But Carvin also emphasized the importance of audience expectations. “They still see our site as mainly dedicated to consuming news,” he said. Facebook, on the other hand, is a web venue in which people are used to chatting with their family and friends. ..NPR’s Facebook page is a complement to, ...
• The Newsonomics of 2011 news metrics to watch ...
• Gallery: 15 iPad news apps
  Thinking about creating an iPad app for your newsroom? Want to see what other news media have come up with? Below are screengrabs of several news apps from newspapers, magazines radio, television, and online-only news websites.
• Five Months on Tumblr as Seen Through Pummelvi ...

Reality Asserts Itself

• Drug Wars in Juarez Fuels Boom in El Paso
  My colleague Malak Behrouznami recently returned from Juarez Mexico where she grew up as a child. She as a wonderful heritage - her father is Iranian and her Mother is Mexican. She went Juarez for family and journalistic reasons. One of her objectives was to find out why Juarez has become a terr ...
• PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI NEGOTIATIONS TO NOWHERE NO ...
  A few months ago when shooting a documentary in the Middle East, we met Zeina, a 13-year-old Palestinian living in a Beirut refugee camp. She was traumatized as she watched the Israeli Gaza war on television. It changed her life. She now thinks of revenge and cannot understand the Israeli childr ...
• FROM JOE McCARTHY TO GLEN BECK – TIME TO END F ...
  I listened to Glen Becks "Restoring Honor" speech today hoping to find something of substance to write about. I found a stringing together of such empty phrases it does not bear discussion.  The more important issue is why a man whose megalomania seems to have no bounds can become such a phenome ...
• PAKISTAN FLOODS AND A FAILED POLICY - UN Sec. ...
  Ban Ki Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, says of the flooding in Pakistan "The world has never seen such a disaster. It's much beyond anybody's imagination". At least 20 million people have lost their homes, more than 1600 have died, and disease and hunger will claim many, many mo ...
• China and the end of the end of history
  Many economists and political analysts think the current recovery, as it's being called, is a rather temporary phenomenon. Many expect the recession to kick back in, and perhaps within a few years get much more serious. What does that mean in terms of the future of the world economy and world po ...

Great Beyond ( Nature )

• Wolf war truce
  Wolves have been a problem out west for some years. First there were wolves, then there were none. In 1996, wolves were reintroduced to the Rocky Mountains (see photo). They did remarkably well. In states like Idaho, Montana and Wyoming, there have seemed, of late, to be plenty of wolves. En ...
• Budget limbo continues for US science
  The US budget limbo continues, as US President Barack Obama this morning signed a short-term continuing resolution (CR) that funds the government until April 8. It buys legislators three more weeks to thrash out the differences between the Republican-majority House of Representatives and the Dem ...
• Fukushima Crisis: Latest maps of spread of rad ...
  Wind directions in Japan are currently blowing radiation from the troubled Fukushima nuclear power plant eastwards out to the Pacific Ocean (see Figure 1), but a shift in directions Sunday risks sending the radiation plume towards Tokyo (see Figure 2). These models have just been published in a ...
• MESSENGER arrives at Mercury
  NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft has become the first ever to orbit the planet Mercury. MESSENGER, which stands for MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging spacecraft, has been en route since its launch on 3 August, 2004. The long cruise came to a successful end today at 0:45 p ...
• European Space Agency to go it alone on next g ...
  The European Space Agency has postponed its selection of a large space mission to launch in the 2020-2021 timeframe, following advice from NASA that the US is unlikely to be able to contribute its share of funding to the winning selection. The selection of the so-called L-class mission had been ...

new geography

• Actually, Cities are Part of the Economy
  �The prosperity of our economy and communities is dependent on the political structures and mechanisms used to manage and coordinate our economic systems.� No politician expecting to be taken seriously would say that today. State intervention was discredited long before it collapsed in the ...
• Energy Policy Reset: Forget Nuclear Reactors a ...
  The two largest crises today — the Japanese nuclear disaster and the widening unrest in the Middle East — prove it’s time to de-fetishize energy policy. These serious problems also demonstrate why we must expand the nation’s ample oil and gas supplies — urgently. The worsening Japanese nuclear ...
• Why We Can’t Shun Manufacturing for the Servic ...
  There�s been a lot of talk lately about the shift in the US economy away from production and increasingly into services. Consider the employment data from the US: In 1950, 30% of all US jobs were in manufacturing while 63% were in services. In 2011, 9% of total employment remains in manufact ...
• Asthma: The Geography of Wheezing
  Are you familiar with the Hygiene Hypothesis? The HH — or, as some of us call it, the “pound of dirt theory” — is grabbing attention again. A minor medical press feeding frenzy followed the publication in the New England Journal of Medicine of a study based on data from Europe. The summary? ...
• Why North Dakota Is Booming
  Living on the harsh, wind-swept northern Great Plains, North Dakotans lean towards the practical in economic development. Finding themselves sitting on prodigious pools of oil—estimated by the state's Department of Mineral Resources at least 4.3 billion barrels—they are out drilling like mad. An ...

GM Watch

• Riceland awarded $136.8 Million against Bayer
• Only GM can save the banana - again
• Lawsuit filed against GM alfalfa approval
• Riceland awarded $136.8 Million against Bayer
• Only GM can save the banana - again

spiked

• Why a no-fly zone means no freedom for Libyans
  Those looking to the West to intervene against Gaddafi degrade the name of internationalism and deny Libyans the right to control their fate.
• How the war on obesity went pear-shaped
  With increasing evidence that a big belly probably won’t lead to an early death, it’s time to call a ceasefire.
• The court where the West judges the Rest
  The ICC metes out ‘justice’ to poor countries while denying them any say in their own affairs.
• Japan: a catastrophe, not a disaster movie
  Forget the Hollywood-style finger-pointing about human ‘arrogance’ and ‘powerlessness’ – we can overcome and learn from the worst disasters.
• Making mountains out of meltdowns
  Despite the scaremongering of the media and green groups, the real lesson of Fukushima is that nuclear power is safe.

Cryptogon

• Oil Spill Reported Near Deepwater Drilling Sit ...
  Via: Huffington Post: 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 fishing boat ca ...
• Attempts to Replace Confetti Currency Federal ...
  The source for all the quotes in this post is a U.S. Department of Justice Press Release that appears on the web site of the Charlotte field office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. http://charlotte.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel11/ce031811.htm I didn’t link directly to this because my guess ...
• War Du Jour: Libya
  Via: CNN: Hours after French, British and American military forces unleashed cruise missiles and fighter jets, a defiant Moammar Gadhafi said Libya will fight back against undeserved “naked aggression.” A coalition that includes Canada and Italy made good Saturday on international warnings to Ga ...
• Gaddafi Defies West and Pushes Forces Into Ben ...
  Via: Reuters: Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s forces pushed into the rebel-held city of Benghazi on Saturday, defying world demands for an immediate ceasefire and forcing rebels to retreat. The advance into Libya’s second city of 670,000 people appeared to be an attempt to pre-empt Western milit ...
• Automakers Feel Worsening Effects of Japan Crisis
  Just in time… Your what hurts? Via: AP: A week after the disaster in Japan erupted, its impact on automakers around the world is worsening. Most of Japan’s auto industry is shut down. Factories from Louisiana to Thailand are low on Japanese-made parts. Idled plants are costing companies hundreds ...

The Economic Collapse

• 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 ...

Desertification

• A Calgary man with a passion for seeds (CBC Ne ...
  Read at : http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/story/2011/03/14/calgary-seeds-for-food-africa-malawi-rasula.html A Calgary man with a passion for seeds is trying to grow his charity project. Nik Rasula has sent thousands of fruit and vegetable seeds to Africa, his own unique way of giving back ...
• Updated list of my videos (Willem Van Cotthem)
  Here is an updated list of my videos, some of them related to desertification : SCHOOL GARDEN IN SAMBELKUNDA (THE GAMBIA) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF09axycfJ4 BEAUTY OF PHALAENOPSIS ORCHID FLOWERS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVvvZu3SyE4 PHALAENOPSIS ORCHID SYMPHONY http://www.youtube.co ...
• Raise of global sea level by an average of 1.3 ...
  Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110308150228.htm Melting Ice Sheets Now Largest Contributor to Sea Level Rise ScienceDaily (Mar. 8, 2011) â The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are losing mass at an accelerating pace, according to a new NASA-funded satellite study. The … ...
• Global Warming’ Vs. ‘Climate Chang ...
  Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110308173242.htm It’s All in a Name: ‘Global Warming’ Vs. ‘Climate Change’ ScienceDaily (Mar. 9, 2011) â Many Americans are skeptical about whether the world’s weather is changing, but apparently the degree of skepticism varies systematicall ...
• Impact of local deforestation on the snowcap a ...
  Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110305112136.htm Deforestation’s Impact on Mount Kilimanjaro Calculated ScienceDaily (Mar. 9, 2011) â The impact that local deforestation might have on the snowcap and glaciers atop Mount Kilimanjaro are being calculated at The University of ...

The Paper Trail

• Quake concern delays nuclear plant extension
  A California utility, waiting for "safety lessons" arising from the crisis in Japan, has asked to delay a hearing on extending the operation of one of its nuclear plants by 20 years. The plant lies near a fault that could trigger an earthquake.
• Chemical that killed in Bhopal finally abandon ...
  Sooner than expected, the last major U.S. producer of the chemical that killed thousands in Bhopal, India, 26 years ago and was nearly released in a 2008 explosion in West Virginia is ceasing production of the compound.
• FOIA requests still hit with delays, denials d ...
  WASHINGTON - One government agency is still trying to find correspondence for a political reporter between federal officials there and prospective presidential candidates - from the 2008 election. Another censored 194 pages of internal e-mails about President Barack Obama's new rules on open gov ...
• FDIC sues ex-WaMu execs, wives for $900 million
  WASHINGTON — Federal bank regulators have sued three former top executives of Washington Mutual, the biggest U.S. bank ever to fail, accusing them of negligence in allowing risky mortgage lending and seeking $900 million in damages.
• Jury:  Quicken Loans doesn’t owe ov ...
  A federal jury said today that online mortgage giant Quicken Loans doesn’t owe overtime pay to hundreds of former loan officers.

backofthebook.ca

• 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 ...

libcom

• In Warsaw Nurses Occupy Sejm, Tenants Disrupt ...
  sesja4.png Politicians targets of protests as tensions rise in labour and other social movements. A group of nurses have occupied the gallery of the Polish Parliament (the Sejm ...
• "Let's organize relief activities for the affe ...
  Earthquake.jpeg A statement by the independent Doro-Chiba railway workers union about the recent earthquake in Japan and the government's response to it. Let’s Organize Relief ...
• Riot at asylum seekers detention centre, Chris ...
  Buildings and tents at the Christmas Island detention centre have been destroyed in fires deliberately lit by asylum seekers overnight. Tents used to house asylum seekers were razed, after Australian Federal Police (AFP) used tear ga ...
• The Libyan People's Committees should be the f ...
  An interview with Mazen Kamalmaz by José Antonio Gutiérrez D. The struggle of the Libyan people, as part of the wave of popular rebellions spreading like fire in all of the Arab world, is taking a really dramatic turn, with the peopl ...
• Brief report from a brief visit to Madison - L ...
  IMG0699A.jpg A piece by Loren Goldner about his trip to Madison, Wisconsin to join the protests around collective bargaining law. Loren Goldner March 16, 2011 read more

Free Range International

• Crickets
  Crickets as in “I hear nothing but crickets” is the word of the day for Regimental Combat Team 1 (RCT 1) based in Camp Dwyer and controlling the southern districts of Helmand Province.  I needed to do a little district level coordination last weekend and was able to catch a ride to Marjah with ...
• It Takes A Clue
  Nothing will sour the morale of combat troops faster then the realization that the commander at the top receives frequent visits from the Good Idea Fairy.   Which is a good start point for explaining why  General Stanley A McChrystal took to the pages of Foreign Policy last week to explain the u ...
• Thugs, Mobs And Education
  The news this week has been dominated by the Lara Logan story.  Ms. Logan was the subject of  the most popular post in FRI history which can be found here.  Reactions to the news that Lara was subjected to “a brutal and sustained assault and beating” have cost at least one knucklehead his job ...
• Naw Zad
  I just did something which would have been suicidal 10 months ago.  My colleague Little Mac and I, in the company of a Marine tank officer and Naval surface warfare officer (he’s a fires guy by trade) just strolled around the town of Naw Zad with no body armor, no helmets, no riflemen escorting ...
• Ride For The Brand
  When I first started this blog I used to hammer away on a couple of themes which really bothered me.  The first was Provincial Reconstruction Teams which I maintain are, by design, unable to accomplish their assigned mission. The second theme had to do with the reason we remain in Afghanistan. O ...

The Story Behind the Story

• Liberty Coins Founder Convicted of Counterfeiting
  Let’s make sure we get this straight.   If a person mints his own pure silver and gold coins for use in a private enterprise with like-minded individuals – this is a crime. But if a Private International Bank guts the 1792 Coinage Act and willfully debases the coinage – and replaces 90% silver ...
• This Weekend – the Festival of Purim Beg ...
  This could well be THE MOST IMPORTANT POST that I, A. True Ott, PhD, have ever issued to my friends in cyberspace.  I submit the Christian world is in for a veritable “perfect storm” of evil and chaos very soon – and thereby America’s spirituality and charity will be tried and tested as never b ...
• REVEALED: How “Facebook” and &#82 ...
  We know the “rebellion” in Egypt and Libya was fueled via “Facebook Groups” which formed the “APRIL 6 MOVEMENT”.  These are part of “Operation Sock Puppet”. Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media Exclusive: Military’s ‘sock puppet’ software creates fake online identities to sp ...
• More on CIA/Blackwater “Global Mission C ...
  VETERANS TODAY EXCLUSIVE: RAYMOND DAVIS RELEASE – IMRAN KHAN & IJAZUL HAQ INTERVIEWS – THE INSIDE STORY (video) March 16, 2011 posted by Gordon Duff “FAMILY KIDNAPPED, FORCED TO SIGN ‘PARDON LETTER’” – PAKISTAN IN SHOCK “PAKISTAN’S GOVERNMENT HAS SOLD OUT THE PRIDE OF THE NATION”  Imran Khan “AB ...
• Raymond Davis Walks
  From Al Jazeera: http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/03/2011317131348571552.html The case of Raymond Davis has all the trappings of a 21st century spy novel. It is a story of murder, prison and clandestine payments, starring a burly former US Special Forces soldier tangled in a mu ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

• Downsizing – downscaling? See these tiny ...
  Here’s a great company doing inspiring work www.tumbleweedhouses.com The company creator, Jay Shafer started off making a super small mobile home for himself measuring  just 89 square feet! Their video is a testament to less being more – they’re now selling ready made mobile cabins and the plan ...
• Air powered environmentally friendly car being ...
  Sounds a little strange right – an air powered car – why isn’t this big news I wonder… There’s a great company in France operated by a former Formula 1 engineer now producing cars running on compressed air. They’re not great to look at, super fast, or I’m guessing really comfortable, but they’re ...
• Deforestation – environmental & human ef ...
  There are many types of forest in the world from Temperate Forest to Tropical forest. The one thing all forests have in common is that the trees in them act as the lungs to our planet converting CO2 to Oxygen.  In addition, forests provide a canopy or shading of the earth which helps maintain te ...
• Could cancer be Fungus? If so, maybe here&#821 ...
  Recently I visited a dear friend who has been dealing with breast cancer for over ten years. After a long attempt to avoid surgery and medication, she was forced to have a double mastectomy. She has chosen to avoid the chemo treatments. This takes a lot of courage given that the standard thing t ...
• Doctors Warn about GM Food Risks
  It’s barely been a week since I wrote about the dangers of genetically modified (GM) foods and now the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) has released a strongly-worded warning about the health dangers associated with Frankenfoods. Calling for a moratorium on GM foods, the AAEM sa ...

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

• Ed Clark, TD Bank President and CEO (Dec 11, 2010)
  It's now one of the biggest, most powerful banks anywhere -- and it's Canadian. Leading it, a former Ottawa bureaucrat, who walks into the boardrooms of Bay Street and Wall Street with a confidence reserved for the world's most influential business leaders. Ed Clark is our guest this week - and ...
• Elvis Costello, singer/songwriter (Nov 27, 2010)
  His music captures the times we live in and its been doing so for forty years. He's never been shy about issues, and Elvis Costello isn't today. He's here to talk music, politics and activism.
• Pervez Musharraf, former President of Pakistan ...
  He's been a general and a president, leading Pakistan while wearing those both hats in the tense days following 9-11. Now Pervez Musharraf is out of office and exiled from his country. But that hasn't stopped him from wading into the debate about Pakistan, Afghanistan and how countries like C ...
• Mark B. Salter, Aviation security expert (Nov ...
  The shoe bomber, the underwear bomber, the ink cartridge bomber: those incidents have changed the way we fly. But have the precautions actually worked or are they simply too much? Today we find out with aviation security expert Mark Salter.
• Tim Cook, War Historian (Nov 6, 2010)
  Another year, another Remembrance Day and another chance to remind ourselves Canada's military past. This week we look back at some of that past that is often forgotten.

Scotts Contracting

• House Coat
• Prop C – Missouri Renewable Energy Stand ...
  On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Erin Noble wrote: Prop C – Missouri Renewable Energy Standard Update and Next Steps Thank you for signing the letter urging Governor Nixon calling on him to veto SCR1 which undercut … Continue reading →
• One Week Until the Introduction to FREE Green- ...
  On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 5:04 PM, CRS Events wrote: One Week Left Until the "Introduction to Green-e" Webinar Series Join us for three upcoming webinars that give an overview of the Green-e programs and how they work … Continue reading →
• Selecting sustainable cabinetry requires caref ...
  A product is only as sustainable as the sum of its parts. In the case of cabinetry, there are quite a few parts–from raw materials to resins to finishes–to add up. Here’s what to look for when selecting cabinetry for … Continue reading →
• Nuclear is not the Answer Dan Rathers
  For everyone who says nuclear waste is not harmful– Lets put some in your Back Yard. ­ [1]As for the Costs Graphs Show- Nuclear Energy is not needed for Clean Energy Production­-Renewable Energy Head-to-He­ad with Nuclear for Clean Energy Production­.[Last … Continue reading →

The View From Abroad

• Abraham Lincoln: Biggest Fraud in American Hi ...
  The 150th anniversary of Lincoln's first inaugural is a good time to re-evaluate the Great Emancipator's record.
• What’s Good for the Goose is Good for the Gander
  If Obama can nullify an act of Congress, why can't juries and states?
• Drastic Cuts in Spending are Needed Now
  To avoid food riots spreading to the U.S., Washington must fix its fiscal and monetary problems.
• Hypocrisy of U.S. Foreign Policy Produces Terr ...
  U.S. support of tyrants betrays our principles and contributes to terrorism.
• Putting Things in Perspective
  The shooting in Tucson should make all Americans rethink our tragic War on Terror policies.

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

• Commentary Urges Congress to Investigate PBS f ...
  The American Enterprise Institute's Michael Rubin writes that "Right Web is among the worst Google manipulators in the political realm."
• U.S. Military Spending Marches On
  How on earth do you get a bipartisan consensus against cuts and for stimulus? Call it the defense
  

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  budget.
• Libya Needs Cancer of Gaddafi Removed, But U.S ...
  Libya is in better hands with the UN Security Council.
• Strategic Dialogue: Intervene or Not in Libya?
  Muammar Gaddafi is gaining ground against the opposition in Libya. What should the international community do?
• Nowhere to be Home
  These excerpts from narratives of three survivors of Burma's military regime are a powerful evocation of life during wartime.

Law.com

• Latest Chevron Outtake: 'They're All Corrupt!'
  Donziger muses 'The judicial system is so utterly weak' in Corporate Counsel's latest release of outtakes from the documentary Crude.
• Minus Kagan, Supreme Court Lets 'Don't Ask' Po ...
  In an order Friday, the Supreme Court denied a motion aimed at allowing a worldwide ban on enforcement of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays in the military to take effect.
• MGA Loses Effort to Stall Trial in Fee Fight W ...
  A Los Angeles judge issued a tentative ruling Friday denying toymaker MGA Entertainment's efforts to stay a lawsuit that was filed by its former lawyers at O'Melveny & Myers.
• Proskauer and English Firm End Their Merger Di ...
  Proskauer Rose and SJ Berwin said Friday they had decided against merging, putting to an end months of speculation about a possible trans-Atlantic tie-up between the two law firms. The firms in a joint statement said "we recognized that the timetable necessary to reach the agreements that would ...
• IRS Throws In Towel on Closely Watched Interna ...

Iranian.com

• حسین درخشان درزندان مذهبی شده وهمچنان طرفدار ا ...
  علی شکوری راد دروبلاگش نوشته حسین درخشان در زندان رفتاری مذهبی داشته و در بحث با اصلاح طلبان از دولت احمدی‌نژاد و سیاست‌های او حمایت می‌کرده است. به گفته وی، درخشان از اینکه در زندان نمی‌تواند به دولت احمدی نژاد و نظام جمهوری اسلامی خدمت کند در رنج بوده و زندانی بودن خود را امری احمقانه تلقی می ...
• با صبر و استقامت و با راهکارهای متنوع مبارزه م ...
  شورای هماهنگی راه سبز امید در پیامی به مناسبت آغاز سال ۱۳۹۰ و عید نوروز با یاد آوری جوانان برومند و زنان و مردانی که به جرم درخواست اجرای کامل قانون اساسی و حقوق مسلم شهروندی به شهادت رسیده و یا دربند قانون شکنان گرفتار آمده اند، آورده است: درپای سفره های سبز هفت سین می نشینیم وread more
• Post-Election Prison Torture Victim Attacked B ...
  Ebrahim Mehtari, a young political activist who was arrested and physically abused in prison during the post-election events of 2009, sustained several knife wounds last night in Paris when he was attacked by two men, one of whom was Iranian. An hour ago, Mehtari told the International Campaign ...
• Quake jolts southeast Iran
  An earthquake measuring 4.4 on the Richter scale hit the vicinity of Farghan in the joint border area of Kerman and Hormuzgan provinces, southeast Iran, ...
• Iran cleric tells Bahraini Shiites to protest on
  In Tehran, Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati spoke to worshippers after Friday prayers and called on "brothers and sisters" in Bahrain to "resist against the enemy until you die or win."

Most Revolutionary Act

• The Charter School Industry – Part II
  Should We Allow Conservative Philanthropists to Run Our Schools? A final source of charter school funding is the New Schools Venture Fund created in 1998, which hosts funding by conservative-leaning mega charities, such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Walmart family foundatio ...
• The Charter School Industry – Part I
  “Charter schools were a movement, but now charter schools are an industry. They have lobbyists – they walk around in thousand-dollar suits, some of them.” -  Dan Gaetz, Florida freshman senator (R) and former Okaloosa school superintendent (see http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/11/neo-liberalism-t ...
• The History of the School Privatization Movement
  The Neoliberal Goal to Privatize All Public Services Neoliberal Republicans and Tea Partiers (and now Barack Obama and Department of Education director Arne Duncan) give lip service to improving achievement levels for students in inner city schools. However instead of improving funding to these ...
• The War on Public Education
  (As a child and adolescent psychiatrist for 30+ years – and a teacher for two years before that – I have special reason to be concerned by the recent attack on teachers unions and public education in general.) Given increasing school closures and teacher layoffs in many states, moves by Con ...
• The CIA’s Strange Bedfellows in Pakistan
  Owing to Balochistan’s (see prior blog) strategic importance as an energy transit route, its people have long served as pawns for major world powers. The Balochi are an ethnic group belonging to the larger Iranian peoples and speak dialects distantly related to Kurdish. In the 19th century the ...

Doug's Darkworld

• Another Day, Another War
  The USA is now at war with Libya. Not to mention in conjunction with our old buddies, France and Britain. Since this website is about war and the onrushing darkness, I guess I better comment on it, depressing as it is. And it is depressing, wars almost never work out the way people wanted, and [...]
• Libyan Rebel Jets Sink Qaddafi’s Warship ...
  And another oh so exciting day in the news. I’m getting tired of this, it’s almost scary to turn on the TV now. Well it is scary. However, I’m still here and there’s nothing really worrisome going on in Berkeley, so I will carry on and try to make sense of the rapidly changing world. [...]
• Taking Stock: Japan, Giant Earthquake, Tsunami ...
  Just when I thinks the news can’t get any worse, it does. Actually, I always know things can get worse, I’m just a bit dismayed that my predictions of doom and gloom are bearing fruit from unexpected quarters. And by that I mean the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. This is already one of the [...]
• “The solid human waste matter intersects ...
  The post title, my old friend Ralph Johnson came up with that in high school, it never caught on. At least I think he did, memory is a fuzzy thing, it’s a story we tell ourselves more than anything. Ralph also went around for a year saying “devastating” hoping it would catch on, but alas, [...]
• The Power of Prayer
  “When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.” Various random thoughts on God, atheism, and related topics. What can I say, I gave up my agnostic ways a few weeks back, and [...]

FourWinds10

• New photo of 'English Nessie' hailed as best yet
• NEW MADRID EARTHQUAKE AND MORE
• Naomi Klein: Addicted to risk
• Natural gas drilling responsible for causing f ...
  (NaturalNews) Natural gas drilling operations are springing up both in the U.S. and the U.K., but opponents say that the industry is destroying groundwater and very seriously polluting the environment.
• THE GULF OF MEXICO IS DYING: A SPECIAL REPORT ...

Crisis Maven

• Economic Musings VI: Modern Economies – ...
  There is a great debate in the history of economics whether there can be under-consumption in any real historic moment of the state of an economy and if so, whether it has detrimental effects and if so, what is to be done about it. And modern economists seem to have found a magic wand with [...]
• Blogs and Web Sites you may want to follow
  The following is a list of blogs and websites that CrisisMaven has followed and observed over the last few months and that readers may want to check out from time to time. Note: neither the sequence of how the blogs are listed here nor any comments by CrisisMaven are an endorsement nor criticism ...
• Economic Musings VII: Marketing doesn’t ...
  Have you ever wondered if marketing and advertising are the same, if not, what’s the difference and which is the more important of the two? And why should you care? The most successful economic model is without doubt the market economy. It is the consequence of the wealth effects of the division ...
• CrisisMaven’s Blog News 2010-03-07: Over 25,00 ...
  Yesterday around 16:37 GMT we passed the 25,000 threshold … - next report will probably be posted when we’re past the 50,000 mark. Thanks to all avid readers: on 2010-03-18 at around 19:25 GMT we went past our first 20,000 views on our blog in about eight weeks since we began publishing! After t ...
• Economic Musings VIII: Is there a limit to eco ...
  Something which puzzles many thinkers and frightens many young people concerned about waste or the pillaging of our natural resources is the question: can “an economy” (whatever that is – we’ll come to that in a minute) grow indefinitely? How can there be unlimited economic growth if we’ve never ...

Capital Flow Analysis

• Stock buybacks are bad for investors: Further ...
  In the working paper “The Buyback Monitor - July 2009: Corporate Stock Buyback Profits of 273 Firms from 2000 into 2009“, published on the Social Sciences Research Network, M.A. Gumport, CFA, provides further evidence that stock buybacks are not as good for investors as often touted. The follo ...
• Why Obama’s healthcare scheme portends stagfl ...
  The trillion-dollar Obama health care plan increases the odds that US economic recover will be delayed, and that unemployment and inflation will increase. The main thrust of the Obama plan is to increase taxes on individuals earning more than $250,000 a year, while forcing all but the tiniest ...
• How long would it take to work off the US trad ...
  The rest of the world holds $16.8 trillion in US financial assets, according to Federal Reserve release Z.1, as of Q1 2009. [...]
• Why Bernanke’s flawed “exit strategy” policy p ...
  In a lead op-ed editorial in the Wall Street Journal on July 21, 2009, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke revealed the Fed’s exit strategy with regards to the inflationary effects of the Obama “spending is stimulus” packages and other government measure to contain the current crisis. This ar ...
• Stocks surge on spurious earnings reports: Q2 2009
  No one knows for sure the real earnings of American corporations. In Q1 2009, according to the Federal Reserve flow of funds table F.102, after-tax profits of US non-financial, non-farm corporations, on an annual basis, were about $589.9 billion. However, about 50% of these after-tax earnings ...

R-Squared Energy Blog

• Ethanol and Corrosion Follow-Up
  Join the forum discussion on this post Problem? What Problem? Following my recent post What You Aren’t Being Told About Ethanol and Corrosion, someone made a comment that gets to the root of why many ethanol proponents mistakenly see me as an enemy of ethanol (indeed, one of the Top 10). The p ...
• How Much Are You Willing to Pay to be Nuke-Free?
  Join the forum discussion on this post A Plan to Phase Out “Dirty” Energy After the Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico, someone said to me “We have to stop all offshore drilling.” My response was that I could get behind that idea, but I wanted to know what sacrifices the person was ...
• The Mirage of Fail Safe Engineering
  Join the forum discussion on this post Harsh Reality As I have said many times, all of our energy options require trade-offs. I can’t think of any that don’t have some negative consequences and risks associated with their production and/or use. One job of the engineer is to minimize those risk ...
• What You Aren’t Being Told About Ethanol and C ...
  Join the forum discussion on this post Good Ideas Gone Bad History is littered with examples of ideas that seemed to be good for a while, but were later discovered to have unpleasant consequences. The pharmaceutical industry is full of cases of promising drugs that went through testing, receiv ...
• Electric Aviation is the Future of Transport
  Join the forum discussion on this post During an average week, I will see a few ideas that at first glance appear to be a little crazy. On second glance, some of them still seem crazy, but then some of the seemingly crazy ideas are not as crazy as I initially thought. This essay is [...]

Discovery Educator Network

• Social media in education: A primer | Think Social
  Comments:"@mbteach." - Jackie GersteinTags: socialmedia, social media, education, tools, social_networkingby: Jackie Gerstein
• Paper Slide Videos - Guidelines
  Tags: videos, paper, slide, wiki, MaryFrazier, web2.0, technologyby: Dean Mantz
• Tech Learning TL Advisor Blog and Ed Tech Tick ...
  Comments:Collection of 10 highly recommended resource sites on using iPads in education.  - Dean MantzTags: iPad, learning, resources, tech, education, ipadsby: Dean Mantz
• The 2011 Japan Tsunami: text, images, music, v ...
  Comments:Student created Glogster with great resources on earthquake and tsunami crisis in Japan. - Dean MantzTags: text, images, 2011, japan, Glogsterby: Dean Mantz
• Paste the text you want to speed read
  Tags: reading, speed, productivity, text, tutorials, read, toolby: Dean Mantz

Rodale News

• Michelle Obama Wants Your Family to Try These ...
  RODALE NEWS, WASHINGTON, DC—Unbeknownst to any of the reporters covering first lady Michelle Obama as she and local schoolchildren were digging holes for the White House kitchen garden Tuesday—marking the garden's third anniversary—there were far more interesting garden-related activities takin ...
• Welcome the Saturday Supermoon with a Thai-Ins ...
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—The supermoon is coming! This Saturday, the moon will appear bigger and brighter in the sky than usual as it makes its closest approach to earth in nearly 20 years. Since the approach coincides with a full moon, it's a great excuse to spend some time outdoors (nature is ...
• In Three Years, You'll Be Breathing Cleaner Ai ...
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Asthma affects roughly 10 percent of the U.S. population, and one in six deaths in this country are caused by coronary heart disease and heart attacks. As a growing body of research indicates, all three conditions are either caused by or exacerbated by particulate pollut ...
• Top New Nontoxic Products to Protect Your Fami ...
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Despite the fact that food, clothing, and gas prices continue to climb, there's a growing segment of the population who are willing to spend a bit extra to buy organic and nontoxic products for their families. Nowhere was the health of the organic market more visible in ...
• Mom's Low Iron Levels Can Affect Her Baby's Lungs
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Anemia caused by iron deficiency is one of the most common complications of pregnancy, with 9.3 percent of moms suffering from the disorder. But it's not just the mother who's affected by it. According to a new study published in the Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunol ...

big think

• Updated list of Resignations in Yemen
  Update: Following Friday's shooting in Sanaa a number of officials in the ruling GPC party have submitted their resignations.� Below is an up-dated list that continues from this earlier post. I will add more updates as they become available. Waq al-waq has decided, in keeping with protests ...
• The News Desk Says It's About Oral Sex
  Rolling Stone editor Neil Strauss shares some exchanges New York Times copy editors from his days as a rock critic, several years ago: Editing an article that quotes the Courtney Love lyric, “I’m eating you / I’m overfed” . . . COPYEDITOR: We have to remove that quote. NS: What’s wr ...
• The Dark Road in Yemen
  For hours yesterday I watched transfixed as body after body was carried into a mosque masquerading as a triage center near the Square of Change in Sanaa.� The footage on al-Jazeera Arabic was horrific (al-Jazeera English sanitized the images they showed).� The vast majority of corpses I saw on . ...
• The Turning Point for Marriage Equality
  For the first time, a Washington Post/ABC News poll has found that by a margin of 53-44 a majority of Americans think same-sex marriage should be legal. It won’t be the last poll to find support for marriage equality. It’s just one poll. With a 3.5 point margin of error, the finding that a maj ...
• Circle of Friends: Marc Chagall and Company
  “n La Ruche you either came out dead or famous,” Marc Chagall said of the Parisian refuge of bohemian artists from Eastern Europe that he called home during his first Paris period. French for “the beehive,” La Ruche buzzed both with creativity and camaraderie during Chagall’s time there. The ... ...

Information Liberation

• Image via Wikipedia
  Let the Killings Commence...
  Obama: US launches military action against Libya BRASILIA, Brazil * President Barack Obama authorized limited military action against Libya Saturday, saying Moammar Gadhafi's continued assault on his own people left the U.S. and its internation...
• Sound Familiar?: LBJ Speech on the Gulf of Ton ...
  The Gulf of Tonkin, of course, never happened....
• Obama Speech on Libya Taken From Bush Afghanistan
  Bush on Afghanisan, Obama on Libya...
• Say No to Libyan Intervention
  Following the US-lobbied UN authorization of military death dealing in Libya, the murderous regime of Colonel Gaddafi said immediately that it would stop all killing. That put Obama's war on hold, for now. It seems that the crazy colonel has learned...
• American Dictatorship
  Would someone please tell me what limits constrain President Obama in foreign affairs? A dictator is a government ruler with omnipotent powers, one who has no constitutional or legislative constraints on his powers. Operating through his milita...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

• Cactoblastis
  Yet another grab for power by the state over the citizen, in ways never mentioned in the constitution. Today’s story is set here in Australia, but all readers around the world take note, because if this law succeeds here, its … Continue reading →
• The Centre Of The Universe
  A column by Boris Johnson in the UK Daily Telegraph caught my eye the other day. It shone a cold, hard light on man’s seemingly innate tendency to place himself at the centre of everything. Reflecting on the recent earthquake … Continue reading →
• What Are Rights?
  Itâs pretty much impossible these days to switch on the TV, radio or internet without hearing someone or other speaking of rights. âI have a right!â, âItâs my right…â, âMy rights have been violated!â Typically, claims of rights take the … Continue reading →
• The Gates Re-open…
  …and youâve all been issued with a golden ticket. The few weeksâ closure I announced last November have turned into a few months. Sorry about that. But the break, apart from allowing me to clear a very large backlog of … Continue reading →
• Ozboy’s Bar And Grill Is Closed For Repairs
  It’s only temporary. A couple of weeks. But the recent shenanigans round here have forced me to do some thinking about how LibertyGibbert can run better in the future. I’ve spoken to a couple of you about this today, to … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

• 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 ...

RFF Library

• Oil and Gas Leasing: Past Work Identifies Nume ...
  Government Accountability Office http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-11-487T?source=ra For onshore leases, Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has oversight responsibilities. For offshore leases, the newly created Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation, and Enforcement (BOEMRE), has ov ...
• Climate Change Issues: Options for Addressing ...
  Government Accountability Office http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-11-345?source=ra Carbon offsets are reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in one place to compensate for emissions elsewhere…A number of voluntary offset programs also exist…Prior GAO work found that it can be difficult to ensure ...
• Measuring Disaster Preparedness: FEMA Has Made ...
  US Government Accountability Office http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-11-260T?source=ra This testimony discusses the efforts of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)–a component of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)–to measure and assess national capabilities to respond to a major ...
• U.S. Fossil Fuel Resources: Terminology, Repor ...
  Congressional Research Service http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R40872.pdf Current discussions of U.S. and global energy supply refer to oil, natural gas, and coal using several terms that may be unfamiliar to some. The terms used to describe different types of fossil fuels have technically preci ...
• H.R. 1084: Fracturing Responsibility and Aware ...
  US House http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/thomas FRAC Act Hydraulic fracturing – also known as “fracking”, which is used in almost all oil and gas wells, is a process whereby fluids are injected at high pressure into underground rock formations to blast them open and increase the flow of fossil fue ...

Scientific American - News

• Fate of Nuclear Plant in Japan Hangs in the Ba ...
  As night fell on Friday in Japan, workers and soldiers continued heroic efforts to douse the potential meltdown underway at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The covering darkness is not the only reason for confusion: vital systems monitors have lost power, making the status of critical ...
• Day-to-Day Satellite Photos Reveal the Unfoldi ...
  In the days following Japan's March 11 earthquake, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant there suffered increasing damage as its cooling systems failed, probably causing a build-up of hydrogen gas that led to explosions at three of its reactor units. [More]
• Taking Waves: Nation's First Tsunami-Resistant ...
  Plans to build the nation's first tsunami-resistant building are unfolding in Cannon Beach, Ore., in a region that is almost identical, seismically, to the subduction zone that triggered the earthquake and tsunami in Japan last week. Elevated 4.5 meters off the ground, the building would pro ...
• Health Risk Fears Escalate as Japan Nuclear Pl ...
  Infinitesimal radioactive isotopes can be carried along on the breeze, landing unseen on the ground, clothes and skin. These tiny products of nuclear reactions are capable of causing large-scale damage in the body if they make it inside through inhalation, ingestion or even a cut. And many fear ...
• How Far from Fukushima Will Fallout Pose a Hea ...
  As the condition of the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station in Japan continues to deteriorate, nuclear safety experts, government regulators and health physicists are keeping close watch on the situation to determine the danger--both real and hypothetical--that the incident poses to ...

First Truths

• The Fanciful Idea of Statist "Efficiency"
  In my latest for C4SS, I wrote: By drawing on coercion to (directly or indirectly) compel individuals to pay for things that they would never pay for in a society without those constraints, the state functions on a principle quite opposite to statists’ cherished "efficiency." Its whole system i ...
• Workers Against the Bosses' Economy
  For the Center for a Stateless Society, I commented again on events in Wisconsin: Because the primary interventions of the state capitalist system are so deeply embedded, those interventions closer to the surface — state action like minimum wage laws, etc. — are often more easily recognized; the ...
• To Vote Is To Choose Your Masters
  With an eye to new state voting bills, I commented for C4SS: At the same time, hand in hand with the tyranny of the majority problem, American democracy can be considered as facilitating the tyranny of the minority. Where, as in the United States, political debate and electoral politics are conf ...
• Afghanistan and the Neoliberal Empire
  For the Center for a Stateless Society, I wrote: For the economic program of the American ruling class to function, governments amenable to its hierarchical, corporate framework are a practical imperative. Today, the Big Business economic blueprint, created by and for the state’s elites, is so u ...
• The Greenspan Version of "Free Market"
  For the Center for a Stateless Society, I wrote: The related falsehoods — that Republicans favor anything remotely similar to a free market and that Democrats are all that standing between us and the GOP’s dog-eat-dog version of laissez faire — are belied by the fact that, as articulated by Kevi ...

Media Co-Op

• Want A UN Invasion? Byers Beware!
  Want A UN Invasion? Byers Beware! March 19, 2011 It's amazing how short the memory can be, all the more so when one is motivated by ambitions that need to forget. After watching civilians exterminated in the air from Iraq to Yugoslavia to Afghanistan and elsewhere, we today are being treated to ...
• Colombian Activist Sandra Cuellar: Still Missing
  Sandra Cuellar, a teacher and environmental activist, went missing on February 17th on her way to Palmira, ...
• DNC Chinatown Towers Battle
    Low-income Chinatown residents unite against the towers News Release For Immediate Release March 14, 2011 Low income community unites against condo towers in Chinat ...
• Sidewalk Salon for Oil Boom
  VANCOUVER  – Enivonmentalists followed up on a hair hoax today outside the Enbridge offices in downtown Vancouver. The event followed major media picking up on a story that the pipeline company would use human hair to mop up oil spills. The hoax pledged human hair from 1,000 salons to be made in ...
• Mapuche Indigenous Political Prisoners Back on ...
  International Solidarity with Mapuche Hunger Strikers (Chile) PUBLIC COMMUNIQUE The Mapuche Political Prisoners undersigned, members of the CAM [Arauco Malleco Coordinator], held in Lebu prison, communicate the following to our Mapuche Nat ...

David Seaton's News Links

• The "Sputnik Moment": One nation with paranoia ...
  � David Seaton's News Links I remember once reading an Indian guru, who said that if the water buffalo had a god, it would probably look like a very large water buffalo. He believed that there is only one god, formless and all pervading, but that he/she/it responds to intense worship by taking ...
• Er, President Obama sir.... is anybody home?
  Jeez, what a month!!!... The only thing that hasn't happened yet is...Forges - El País In short, for the first time since the end of World War II, no country or strong alliance of countries has the political will and economic leverage to secure its goals on the global stage.� Nouriel Roubini Dav ...
• Eleonore Weil's Alphabet
  David Seaton's News Links I just ran up this video of my wife's art work. I hope all you newslinkers will enjoy it. DS
• Arab Spring is 1989? Whose 1989?
  Barack ObamachevIn the last decade, America has tried applying our individualistic narrative to the Middle East. Now, as the people in multiple countries there struggle to take greater control for themselves, we want to see our story play out in their efforts, and we worry that it won't. Sheena ...
• What the hell is Rupert Murdoch up to?
  "Der Antisemitismus ist der Sozialismus der dummen Kerle" "Antisemitism is the socialism of fools" August Bebel David Seaton's News LinksI am coming to the conclusion that something very strange is going on.� I come to that conclusion merely starting from the simple premise ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

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Dr. Mercola Natural Health

• This Part of Your Mouth Accurately Reflects Yo ...
  Here, Dr. Bill Osmunson—a practicing dentist for 33 years, and a staunch advocate against fluoride—discusses the importance of proper dental hygiene for optimal health.
• Are the OTC Drugs You are Taking a Hidden Caus ...
  Many over-the-counter and prescription drugs can cause memory loss and cognitive impairment.� Numerous drugs have been shown to cause mild cognitive impairment, or MCI, a common condition that is often an early sign of Alzheimer's disease. These drugs may create or aggravate Alzheimer's-type sym ...
• Supplementing With THIS Hormone Can Lead to Tu ...
  By Dr. Mercola Before I begin this article I want to state very clearly that hormones are not my primary specialty. I have used them clinically but I found the science quite controversial, so this is a summary as I best understand it. If you are a clinician with considerable experience in th ...
• Feds Tell Big Tobacco to Run Ad Campaigns Sayi ...
  The U.S. Justice Department wants big cigarette manufacturers to admit they lied about the dangers of smoking. This would force the industry to set up and pay for an advertising campaign apologizing for their past behavior, or face charges for contempt of court. The move comes as part of a 12-y ...
• NEW Studies Reveal Alarming Hidden Cause of Br ...
  By Russell L. Blaylock, MD, CCN Breast cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer death in women worldwide and breast cancer rates are increasing rapidly. A compelling number of studies, though not all, have shown that free iron concentrations in breast tissue, especially the ductal tiss ...

JAMA

• A National Registry for Healthy Volunteers in ...
• This Week in JAMA [This Week in JAMA]
• Performance of Immunochemical Fecal Occult Blo ...
• Leukemic Stem Cell Gene Expression Signature a ...
• Leukemic Stem Cell Gene Expression Signature a ...

Survival - tribal peoples

• Obama urged to support Guarani Indians during ...
  Guarani mother and child. The sugarcane boom is threatening the lives of the Guarani. © João Ripper/Survival Survival International has appealed to US President Barack Obama to support the Guarani Indians of Brazil, whose lives are threatened by the booming sugarcane industry. Survival h ...
• Horrific treatment of Amazon Indians exposed 1 ...
  Thousands of Indians were enslaved and killed during the rubber boom. © W Hardenburg 30,000 Amazon Indians were enslaved, tortured, raped and starved in just 12 years during the rubber boom, according to a historic report submitted by Irish investigator Roger Casement, 100 years ago today. ...
• Back to court for Vedanta Resources’ controver ...
  Vedanta has appealed the decision of India's Environment Minister to block their mine on the Dongria Kondh's ancestral land. © Survival India’s Supreme Court is to consider a new bid to green-light FTSE 100 Vedanta Resources’ infamous bauxite mine in Orissa state, east India. The mine was ...
• Land clearing begins for destructive Amazon dam
  Amazon Indians are calling for the Belo Monte dam to be halted © M. Cowan/ Survival Construction workers have begun to bulldoze land in the Brazilian Amazon to make way for the controversial Belo Monte mega-dam. Earlier this week, Norte Energia, the company building the dam, sent its worke ...
• Success: Peru acts to save uncontacted tribes
  Global coverage of the newly-released photos has pushed the Peruvian government into action © Gleison Miranda/FUNAI/Survival Peruâs authorities have announced that they will work together with Brazil to stop loggers entering isolated Indiansâ territory along the two countriesâ joint border ...

Montreal Gazette

• Revisiting Cohen: Ode to spring
  In this excerpt from his 1966 novel Beautiful Losers, Montreal-born cultural icon Leonard Cohen describes the peculiar way that spring arrives in Quebec. To help mark the first official day of spring on Sunday, The Gazette's communities editor, David Johnston, took Cohen's descriptive passage in ...
• We need a new Champlain Bridge
  There probably isn't a Montreal motorist who at some time or other hasn't cursed the Champlain Bridge. Frequency of cursing rises exponentially among those who have to use it regularly at rush hour.
• The Quebec budget: by and large, it does what ...
  For the most part, Finance Minister Raymond Bachand did what he had to do and the best he could do with his provincial budget for the coming fiscal year.
• When will they ever learn?
  You'd think they'd learn and get this right, but no.
• The ADQ and the anglo vote
  It's good to see Quebec's third provincial party, Action démocratique du Québec, taking a stab, however tentative, at courting the anglo vote. To that end party leader Gérard Deltell has taken on a new special adviser for Montreal and the Englishspeaking community in the person of Montreal West ...

Food World Order

• worst freeze in 60yrs wipes out crops across U ...
  from end of the american dream: Get ready to pay a lot more for produce at the supermarket. In early February the worst freeze in 60 years wiped out entire crops all across the southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico. Already, it has been reported that some U.S. supermarkets have doubled or even t ...
• as oil and food prices rise, arab states buy u ...
  from green prophet: In response to the recent food riots in Algeria and Tunisia, and to rising oil prices (the price/barrel of crude is, once again, nearing $100) some Arab states (including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates) have been buying-up farm land in parts of Africa. In late 201 ...
• wholesale prices rise due to biggest jump in f ...
  from ap: Wholesale prices jumped last month by the most in nearly two years due to higher energy costs and the steepest rise in food prices in 36 years. Excluding those volatile categories, inflation was tame. The Labor Department said Wednesday that the Producer Price Index rose a seasonal ...
• 2/10 binge & purge: seeders, makers, actions
  secret seeders plant edible veggies for inner-city poor* raw milk cheesemakers fret over possible new rules* military steps in to buy up gulf seafood* high sugar prices stimulate neotame/nutrasweet take up* action: ask hhs to end US water fluoridation program* natural news launche ...
• 1/27 binge & purge: fake food future
  yo quiero weird ingredients: lawsuit vs taco bell's fake beef* fox covers fake blueberries story uncovered by natural news* the naked truth about kids' food advertising* 'bug mac' & lovely 'grub': food of the future* US makes record soybean sale to china* pick your poison: the ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

• Lawfull Rebellion - Roger Hayes challenges Liv ...
  “Wirral Council is taking Roger Hayes to Birkenhead county court for non-payment of council tax. Mr Hayes, chairman of The British Constitution Group, claims the council tax is illegal and imposed without his consent. His stand has won support from all over the country, and demonstrators travel ...
• Mary Rodwell The New Human Vers. 02
• Robert Green, Hollie and Ann Greig at The &#82 ...
  Robert Green, Hollie and Anne Greig have confirmed they will be appearing at the Child Snatching By The State conference being held on April 10th in Stafford, UK. In recent years, there has been a steady increase in media reports concerning Mothers and Fathers, Grandparents and Families reporti ...
• COTO Report British Edition: An Interview with ...
  COTO Report British Edition goes to the Isle of Wight to bring you an almost three hour long interview with Mr. David Icke by Megan ‘Verb’ Kargher.  In this interview we discuss his new book entitled Human Race Get Off Your Knees, the Lion Sleeps No More, the nature of reality and politics. link ...
• A Warm Embrace - The Great Bell Chant
  A Warm Embrace - The Great Bell Chant from R Smittenaar on Vimeo. Watch in Full Screen, believe me it’s worth it!

The Economic Collapse

• 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 ...

CASSE

• The Green Transition Scoreboard: How to Invest ...
  The Green Transition Scoreboard is a useful tool to direct investment decisions in the 21st century economy.
• The Great Energy Rethink: Lessons from Japan a ...
  Misplaced confidence is preventing us from making decent decisions about our energy supplies.
• The Full Seas Act and the College of the 21st ...
  by Brian Czech If we aren’t living in an “educable moment,” then we must be dumber than a doggone boot.  Financial collapse, fiscal crisis, skyrocketing gas prices, global warming, revolutions in crowded countries, unemployment all around… let’s graduate from the College of the 21st Century and ...
• Growth of GDP and Discontent in Egypt and Tunisia
  Egypt and Tunisia have a lesson: GDP is a measure of the commotion of money in an economy, not a measure of delivered well-being.
• A Liberating (but Damned Uncomfortable) Conversion
  Herman Daly entreats economists not to eschew the wonderful wisdom of Wendell Berry.

The Talking Clock

• Sunday Paper Review: 20th March 2011
  Naturally, the New World Order's war on Libya dominates the Sunday newspapers. I'm amazed that Britain can afford the petrol to send our aircraft out there, let alone manage to afford any of those compassionate humanitarian bombs that they're blowing things up with. But you see, I'm an evi ...
• To census or not to census, that is the questi ...
  So, the dreaded census form arrived on the doormat today. I'm not sure that I want to fill in a form that is so intrusive. The census is fair enough in theory. Those of us whose families have lived on this island for hundreds of years will have found out a great amount of fascinating infor ...
• Bilderberg Group, Trilateral Commission and Co ...
  So, the Bilderberg Group, Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations have begun their war on Libya - being fought in the name of democracy seeking rebels who may or may not be linked with Al-Qaeda; a terror group who may or may not have been created on behalf of the Bilderberg Gr ...
• 100 years after the Suffragettes: The British ...
  We have, throughout our history on this island, a long tradition of fighting injustice. A long and colourful patchwork story of quirky characters who have, against the odds, stood up for what they believed in and effected great change. One wonders how history will record the events in the Wir ...
• Quote of the Day: 7th March 2011
  "We [Ireland] have been financially vaporised because the out-going Finance Minister was obedient to Jean Claude Trichet, the head of the European Central Bank. Mr Trichet told the Minister to guarantee all the bank debt and the Minister obeyed. This debt was in great billions owed to German ban ...

Facing South

• INSTITUTE INDEX: Nuclear-powered politics
  Amount the nuclear power industry spent on lobbying from 2000 to 2010: $600 million Amount the industry spent during that same period on campaign contributions: nearly $63 million Amount the Nuclear Energy Institute -- an industry trade group whose members include the company that owns th ...
• Congressman: U.S. may not be prepared to respo ...
  By Sasha Chavkin, ProPublica As Japan struggles to contain its growing nuclear crisis, a congressman and a disaster-preparedness expert raised concerns that the United States is not prepared to respond to a nuclear disaster. Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., wrote a letter to President Obama on M ...
• VOICES: Protests in Tennessee as workers' righ ...
  By Joe Atkins, Labor South I'm thousands of miles away in Taipei, but I'm heartened to see brave young students join union members in taking a stand against anti-union bills before Tennessee's state legislature in Nashville. Seven protesters were arrested Tuesday and accused of resisting a ...
• Duke Energy's nuclear ambitions face fallout f ...
  With the nuclear crisis in Japan growing more alarming by the hour, Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers appeared before the North Carolina Utilities Commission yesterday to ask for permission to spend an additional $267 million for the planning of two new reactors at its Lee plant in South Carolina. If a ...
• Institute challenges NC lawmakers on cost of v ...
  Yesterday, the North Carolina House Elections Committee listened to over two hours of public comment on a bill introduced by the Republican leadership that, among other election changes, would require voters to present a photo ID at the polls. The Institute was encouraged to comment on the bil ...

CenterLine

• Today’s Terrorism News
  Pakistan Condemns Drone Strikes, Demands U.S. Apology Just days after a CIA contractor at the center of a diplomatic spat was freed in Pakistan, the U.S.-Pakistan relationship looked headed for further strain when the head of Pakistanâs army issued a … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  CIA Contractor Freed in Pakistan After Payment to Victims’ Families Raymond Davis, a CIA contractor detained in Pakistan on suspicion of murder, was released Wednesday afternoon and flown out of Pakistan after victimsâ families received as much as $2 million … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  U.S., Canada Charge Canadian Fugitive with Training NYC Subway Bomb Plotters The United States and Canada announced charges Tuesday against 30-year-old Ferid Ahmed Imam, who is accused of helping to provide training for three men accused of plotting to bomb … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Man Charged in UK with Funding Stockholm Suicide Bomber A 30-year-old man, identified by BBC News as Ezedden Khalid Ahmed Al Khaledi, has been charged in a Glasgow court with several terrorism offenses in connection with a December suicide bombing … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Pakistani Court Declines to Rule on Immunity in CIA Case The Lahore High Court has declined to rule on whether a CIA contractor held in Pakistan on suspicion of murder has diplomatic immunity, sending the decision to a lower trial … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

• Fukushima latest: Radiation around plant falls
  Radiation levels at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant have reportedly fallen back since a fire earlier today, but the situation remains unclear
• Aftermath of a megaquake
  A woman sits and cries amid the devastation of Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, in northern Japan in the aftermath of a 9.0-scale earthquake and tsunami
• Today on New Scientist: 14 March 2011
  All today's stories on NewScientist.com, including: the latest on the Japanese megaquake, your brain on dreams, and a big slice of pi
• 'Green rust' counteracts radioactive waste
  A highly reactive form of rust could be used to protect waterways from radioactive waste from uranium reactors
• Where are the world's nuclear reactors?
  New Scientist takes stock of the nuclear power plants around the world – use our interactive maps to find and sort them by type

Tech Drive In

• Top 5 Media Center Applications for Linux
  We have discussed a lot about multimedia applications available for Linux, but never really about media center applications specifically. Unlike many other niches where Linux lags behind other proprietary OS's in terms of good applications available, Linux have a clear upper hand when you consid ...
• 5 Incredible Android Tablets Showcased at Mobi ...
  Mobile World Congress 2011 was quite literally overwhelmed by the sheer number of new Android OS based devices. Among the devices, the ones who completely stole the limelight were the Tablets. Almost all major hardware manufacturer has a Tablet in the pipeline and most of them are running open s ...
• Beautiful Looking LibreOffice Splash Screen, A ...
  As you all should know by now, LibreOffice is already the new default office suite for Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal. You can even install latest LibreOffice in Ubuntu Maverick, Lucid easily via LibreOffice PPA by following the instructions here. Now, here is a very good looking and very creative L ...
• Top 10 Most Popular Posts for Feb 2011
  Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal Alpha 2 Review, Screenshots Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" alpha 2 was released a day ago. A lot has changed with Ubuntu since we reviewed the first alpha release of Ubuntu Natty some weeks ago. Here is a quick review of the latest release of Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal ...
• Faenza 0.9 Released - Brings More Polish, New ...
  Faenza icon theme is arguably *the* most beautiful icon theme for GNOME and also has support for the widest range of applications in Ubuntu GNOME. Faenza 0.9 was released a day ago and it brings in a number of major upgrades including a new "darkest" theme and many other openly visible as well a ...

Case About Bird Flu

• AUSTRIAN JUSTICE MINISTRY TRIED TO BRING DEFAM ...
  - THE AUSTRIAN MINISTRY OF JUSTICE ASKED STATE PROSECUTORS TO BRING CHARGES OF DEFAMATION AGAINST ME IN DECEMBER 2010 - THE CASE HAD TO BE DROPPED IN FEBRUARY BECAUSE I HAD GIVEN SO MUCH PROOF OF THE CORRUPTION OF  JUDGE MICHAELA LAUER AND OTHER JUSTICE OFFICIALS - OFFICIAL VIKTOR EGGERT ADMITTE ...
• Is Austria worse than Sudan? My experience wit ...
  When I filed charges against Baxter in April 2009 for contaminating 72 kilos of seasonal flu vaccine with the deadly bird flu virus, I had no idea Austrian justice officials were going to turn out to be the extended arm of a criminal network and that I was going to be in danger of losing [...]
• Data shows flu vaccines double risk of getting ...
  Vaccines may have increased swine flu risk By Annie Guest From: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/03/04/3155750.htm Updated Fri Mar 4, 2011 7:37pm AEDT There is renewed controversy surrounding influenza vaccines, with some studies showing people immunised against the seasonal flu might hav ...
• German defence minister Guttenberg to face cri ...
  Prosecutors to investigate plagiarism charges against ex-minister Mar 3, 2011, 15:28 GMT Berlin – German prosecutors are to conduct a formal investigation into plagiarism allegations against former defence minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, they announced Thursday. Earlier in the day, Guttenbe ...
• New Irish government betrays every election pr ...
  Voter betrayal: FG/Labour to ditch pledges on economy They will brazenly follow Fianna Fail’s four-year austerity plan as Labour protects public sector By JODY CORCORAN Sunday March 06 2011 The Fine Gael/Labour coalition Government is to implement in detail the outgoing Government’s four-year au ...

Invisible Opportunity

• Rupert Murdoch – Sunbathing on The Sunle ...
  By Les Visible “May your noses always be repelled by the smell of Rupert Murdoch”. The UK probably has the biggest collection of slime rags per capita in the world and there are all sorts of players from the House of Lords; Lords Rothermere, Northcliffe, and Beaverbrook are a few and the disgrac ...
• Catch and Release in the Trout Stream of Life
  By Les Visible The usual hysteria reduction is now taking place concerning Japan …and Libya has stopped bombing the freedom fighters so… the people not paying attention- and there’s more than you think- can go back to what they never stopped doing in the first place. For those who are paying att ...
• Obama tells Americans: Do NOT prepare for radi ...
  By Mike Adams In a truly incredible example of the complete disregard for the health and safety of the American people, President Obama today told Americans that they should NOT prepare for radiation from the possible meltdown of the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan. His exact quote: “The ...
• U.N. Authorizes Military Strikes on Libya
  By JAY SOLOMON, ADAM ENTOUS And JOE LAURIA March 17th, 2011 The United Nations Security Council authorized military force Thursday against Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi’s security forces, opening the way for airstrikes within days. The U.N. action, pushed aggressively by France and the U.K. ...
• Burjanadze: ‘We are Ready for Peaceful R ...
  Nino Burjanadze, former parliamentary speaker and leader of opposition Democratic Movement-United Georgia party, told an indoor rally of People’s Assembly on March 15, that a peaceful revolution was needed and the Assembly was ready for that. âWe need a large number of people for one reason â to ...

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 ...

electric politics

• High Stakes
  The Obama administration has yet to explain, apart from vague humanitarian concerns, whether a direct U.S. national security interest is at stake in Libya's internal strife. Nevertheless, Hillary Clinton is waffling her way toward war. What this could ultimately entail remains unknown but given ...
• A Sweet Voice of Reason
  There's nobody I would rather have on my side in a meeting than Dr. Alton Frye, a former president of Council on Foreign Relations. Even if you disagree with him — and even if he's wrong — Alton is so pleasant, reasonable, and diplomatic that he finds the critical points of accommodation. Where ...
• The Anthrax Letters
  Without the anthrax letter attacks in September-October 2001 it's quite possible — indeed, likely — that the Patriot Act would not have become law. Coincidence, or conspiracy? I've always been skeptical of the "lone nut" theory because, it seems to me, once an individual had started sending ant ...
• A Dialectical Moment in Madison?
  The U.S. plutocracy won't feel safe until it's crushed all resistance. Case in point, the organized way the plutocrats set their sights on Wisconsin — the birthplace of public sector unions — hoping that Scott Walker, the newly elected Republican Governor, would show the rest of the country how ...
• The Truth About Taxes
  In the economics profession, a "Harberger's triangle" shows the "deadweight loss" to society from taxes, the net loss, that is, from the optimum "free-market" equilibrium. It's a great, great theory if you're a math whiz. And virtually all neoclassical and neoliberal economists believe it's tru ...

PR News

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• Kimberly-Clark retains Ketchum for Family Care
  NEW YORK: Following a competitive pitch, Kimberly-Clark has retained incumbent Ketchum for its Family Care brands, which include Cottonelle and Kleenex tissues, Scott tissue and towels, and Viva paper towels.
• Commodities broker launches press release Twit ...
  ALISO VIEJO, CA: Commodities broker Patrick Kerr launched a new service to share press releases via Twitter two weeks ago after he realized the need for it in the marketplace.
• Outcast's Marooney to join Facebook
  SAN FRANCISCO: Caryn Marooney, cofounder of The OutCast Agency, is leaving at the end of April to join Facebook in the newly created position of director of technology communications.
• Nuclear industry faces public policy challenge
  The near meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi reactors in Japan created a challenge for the nuclear industry, given it has positioned nuclear energy as a safer alternative to fossil fuels.
• Agencies look for new ways to recruit top talent
  With an improving economy fuelling an increased demand for staffing, PR agencies are deploying new strategies to find potential hires.

The Story Behind the Story

• Liberty Coins Founder Convicted of Counterfeiting
  Let’s make sure we get this straight.   If a person mints his own pure silver and gold coins for use in a private enterprise with like-minded individuals – this is a crime. But if a Private International Bank guts the 1792 Coinage Act and willfully debases the coinage – and replaces 90% silver ...
• This Weekend – the Festival of Purim Beg ...
  This could well be THE MOST IMPORTANT POST that I, A. True Ott, PhD, have ever issued to my friends in cyberspace.  I submit the Christian world is in for a veritable “perfect storm” of evil and chaos very soon – and thereby America’s spirituality and charity will be tried and tested as never b ...
• REVEALED: How “Facebook” and &#82 ...
  We know the “rebellion” in Egypt and Libya was fueled via “Facebook Groups” which formed the “APRIL 6 MOVEMENT”.  These are part of “Operation Sock Puppet”. Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media Exclusive: Military’s ‘sock puppet’ software creates fake online identities to sp ...
• More on CIA/Blackwater “Global Mission C ...
  VETERANS TODAY EXCLUSIVE: RAYMOND DAVIS RELEASE – IMRAN KHAN & IJAZUL HAQ INTERVIEWS – THE INSIDE STORY (video) March 16, 2011 posted by Gordon Duff “FAMILY KIDNAPPED, FORCED TO SIGN ‘PARDON LETTER’” – PAKISTAN IN SHOCK “PAKISTAN’S GOVERNMENT HAS SOLD OUT THE PRIDE OF THE NATION”  Imran Khan “AB ...
• Raymond Davis Walks
  From Al Jazeera: http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/03/2011317131348571552.html The case of Raymond Davis has all the trappings of a 21st century spy novel. It is a story of murder, prison and clandestine payments, starring a burly former US Special Forces soldier tangled in a mu ...

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• Fukushima Dai-ichi Sunday 20th March: Some sta ...
  Saturdays operations produced some stability and there was no further deterioration. The next step of restoring power and cooling at the plant could be decisive.
• Fukushima Dai-ichi 19th March: Power line conn ...
  Work continues at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant and while only small improvement can be seen there has been no worsening since Thursday.
• TEPCO was ready to give up and abdicate on 14t ...
  While it is understandable that some TEPCO employees wished to quit the plant after the accident is understandable but that TEPCO as a Corporation was ready to give up on March 14th does not say very much for their corporate values.
• Gaddafi bombs Misrata while France tries to hu ...
  France could launch a military action against Libya within hours after the UN had authorized operation.
• Spring is here and so is the snow!
  Spring was declared here in Finspång on 14th March and our Spring snow has arrived.

Left Foot Forward

• We need a holistic approach to the climate, fo ...
  Ahead of the Budget on Wednesday, David Hilferty calls for a holistic approach to the climate, food and economic crises.
• Women’s History Month profiles: Margaret Thatcher
  Continuing our series on historic women as part of Women's History Month, Oona King profiles her fellow peer and Britain's only female prime minister - Baroness Thatcher.
• Wave of unrest spreads to Syria
  As the world comes to terms with intervention in Libya, and while Yemen and Bahrain once again resort to violence to quell popular uprisings, another Arab state has begun to feel the familiar rumbling of unrest, reports Seph Brown.
• Cameron’s rush to outsource threatens ou ...
  The Conservative-led government's 'Open public services' white paper is expected any day; it is a rush to outsource our public services on a scale that threatens the very notion of what is ‘public’, writes Unite's John Earls.
• Look Left – World finally decides to take acti ...
  The United Nations finally voted to take action against Colonel Gaddafi last night, authorising the imposition of a no fly zone and supporting military action in defence of the Libyan people.

Consumerist

• Radiation Detected In Tap Water And Food From ...
  Cause for more worry in Japan, as the latest news about the damaged nuclear reactor isn't good -- traces of radioactive iodine have been detected in Tokyo tap water, officials said Saturday. Radation was also detected at spinach and milk farms near the Fukushima Dai-ichi complex. The New York ...
• Even Best Buy Employees Hate Best Buy Employees
  Turns out that even some Best Buy employees can't put up with other blue and black shirts at their store. Recently my wife and I were in a Best Buy to procure a last-minute rechargeable battery for my wife's Flip camera. It was suitably impromptu as it was to tape an improv show. Anywho, we wan ...
• Big Box Stores Pushing To Tax Amazon Sales In ...
  In recent years, retailers have been successful in getting a handful of states, including Illinois and New York, to pass laws requiring Amazon.com and similar e-tailers to collect sales tax on products shipped to those states. Now, with the backing of super-sized chains, there is a full-on push ...
• Day 7 With No Heat Or Hot Water: Thanks, Sears
  Jim's boiler from Sears broke, and he's been without heat or hot water since. It's not the middle of winter, but he lives in New England, where it still gets friggin' wicked cold at night. How long ago did the boiler break down? It's been more than a week. Thursday night [March 10] my less th ...
• EECB Gets Microsoft To Stop Dillydallying And ...
  George was able to get Microsoft to pick up the pace and ship him a laptop he'd been waiting for for almost a month thanks to a well-crafted EECB. What I like about his is the little personal story he puts at the beginning that's very much in line with the "praise with faint damn" approach we'v ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

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

UK Progressive

• For God’s Sake: The Girl in My Mirror
  Last summer as I traveled a country road, I passed an intersection where a red and white 1970s Dodge Ram was waiting to pull out – “great truck!” The Ram entered the highway and pulled close behind me. I look to see this collector’s item only to catch a glimpse of its driver in my [...]
• Pentagon Torture of Manning Recalls Soviets Un ...
  by Sherwood Ross The United States of America is in the process of slowly and deliberately destroying a human being before the eyes of the world. All of President Obama’s posturing about the conduct of dictator Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi of Libya will not expunge his own calculated cruelty in al ...
• US Blocks Visit from Malalai Joya
  Just nine days after International Womenâs Day internationally acclaimed Afghan human rights activist Malalai Joya has been refused entry to the United States â allegedly because she is âunemployed and living undergroundâ. Joya –  an author, former member of the Afghan parliament and one of TIM ...
• Safety on the Cheap
  by Robert Reich Can we please agree that in the real world corporations exist for one purpose, and one purpose only — to make as much money as possible, which means cutting costs as much as possible? The New York Times reports that G.E. marketed the Mark 1 boiling water reactors, used in TEPCO’s ...
• Wisconsin Going Forward
  by Tina Dupuy Wisconsin adopted “Forward” as their state motto in 1851. Sculptor Jean Pond Miner was commissioned to create a representation of her home state and in 1893 created a seven-foot tall bronze statue of a female figure bearing the state’s maxim. The Wisconsin Historical Society notes, ...

NewsAlert

• Trade Unions in NYC Confront a Rise in Nonunio ...
  The New York Times reports:All are signs that New York City’s real estate industry is clawing out of the recession. But they are noteworthy for another reason: they are being constructed without any union labor. For most of the last century, the city’s construction unions were a symbol of labo ...
• Shaken Miami-Dade Sets Deal
  The Bond Buyer reports:As Miami-Dade County prepares for a $361 million general obligation bond sale near the end of the month, Florida’s largest county is undergoing a top-down shake-up of government. About 88% of voters, unhappy about budget decisions that led to property tax increases, ouste ...
• A Boom Behind Bars
  Bloomberg Businessweek reports:Private jail operators like the Corrections Corporation of America are making millions off the crackdown on illegal aliens
• Tiger Woods has a new girlfriend... a 22-year- ...
  The Daily Mail
• SEIU Invades Bank Offices to Harass and Intimi ...
  Breitbart T.V.

JoNova

• Yes, it IS about the science
  Behind-the-scenes I’ve heard the line this “isn’t about the science”. I said that myself back in 2007: it’s not about the science, it’s about power and money. But it’s a dangerous meme. In the long run, it IS about the science. While people think a carbon tax is bad, but believe that “carbon is ...
• Yes, it IS about the science
  Behind-the-scenes I’ve heard the line this “isn’t about the science”. I said that myself back in 2007: it’s not about the science, it’s about power and money. But it’s a dangerous meme. In the long run, it IS about the science. While people think a carbon tax is bad, but believe that “carbon is ...
• Way back when climate scientists were scientis ...
  You’ll find this hard to believe but I get excited about the 1990 First Assessment Report (FAR). It’s very different from wading through the later ones, because it’s remarkably honest, and things are not hidden in double-speak (well, not so much). Scientists behave like scientists and talk of nu ...
• Way back when climate scientists were scientis ...
  You’ll find this hard to believe but I get excited about the 1990 First Assessment Report (FAR). It’s very different from wading through the later ones, because it’s remarkably honest, and things are not hidden in double-speak (well, not so much). Scientists behave like scientists and talk of nu ...
• Australian Anti-Carbon Tax Protests
  We all have better things to do, but when the people who represent us call the greatest plant nutrient “pollution”, and label the volunteers “stooges” while calling their paid hacks “independent”; when they look at a color chart and say yellow is really red (and they call us “deniers”); we know ...

ReNew America

• Obamacare on life support
  (Washington Times) - The Obama administration this week tried to buy time for its legal defense of its health care takeover legislation. This move merely delays the inevitable, as everyone knows the Supreme Court will decide the ultimate fate of Obamacare. Virginia Attorney General Kenneth T. Cu ...
• Donald Trump questions Obama eligibility
  (WorldNetDaily) - Now flamboyant billionaire Donald Trump, whose name has been surging past lesser-knowns among rumored candidates for the GOP's 2012 presidential nomination, says he has reason to wonder about Barack Obama's eligibility to be president...
• House votes to end NPR funding
  (NewsMax) - The House voted to block all federal funding for NPR, a week after the embattled public radio station found itself the subject of a conservative activist's undercover video recording that led to the ouster of its chief executive, ABC News reported...
• The problem with primaries
  (Michael Barone) - The weakest part of our political system is the presidential-nomination process. And it's not coincidental that it's the part of the federal system that finds least guidance in the Constitution. There is no provision in the Constitution that says that Iowa and New Hampshire vo ...
• House Republicans to hold 'emergency' meeting ...
  (New York Daily News) - House Republicans are escalating their war against National Public Radio, calling for an "emergency" meeting Wednesday to consider a bill that would strip the organization of federal funds...

Truth Offering

• Quick Rant: Why I Hate Politicians
  Am I the only one who absolutely despises our politicians right now more than ever? Wait, let me put that comment into context real quick: I love our country. I know what kind of potential we have as a nation, and it makes me sick that we're squandering our liberty and prosperity due to our igno ...
• Truth Offering Podcast with Matt Gordon - Feb. ...
  Good friend of TruthOffering.com and �ber (yeah, I said "�ber!) talented musician, Chris Phenom, is back to chat with Matt Gordon. �This week's topics range from WikiLeaks, peak oil, and Agenda 21, to genetically modified foods, geoengineering (chemtrails), Libertarianism, and the question of th ...
• Original Music Created for TruthOffering.com b ...
  Talented singer and musician Chris Phenom has created two tracks for TruthOffering.com, and we want to share them with you. Chris's tracks feature some amazing lyrics that relate directly to what we're trying to get at here at TruthOffering.com: the Truth! Listen to what he has to say, and check ...
• Levi's: All-American or Neo-Communist
  It seems that everywhere I go recently, I see these massive Levi's billboards along the side of the road. At first, I thought nothing of them. After all, they're just billboards, right? Plus Levi's is an all-American company, right? Visually, these ads are quite striking; mostly black and white, ...
• US Falls In Level of Overall Economic Freedom ...
  The Heritage Foundation just released its annual Economic Freedom List. The list "measures ten components of economic freedom, assigning a grade in each using a scale from 0 to 100, where 100 represents the maximum freedom. The ten component scores are then averaged to give an overall economic f ...

2012 Blog

• Lesson from Japan: Nukes are Unsafe
  In a SHTF scenario, safety features of nuclear reactors might be significantly incapable of preventing a meltdown. As we have seen in Japan, a country that gave us the word tsunami, their backup plan of diesel generators failed because the tsunami took them out. If your home or safe spot is with ...
• How Safe is Auckland, Really?
  I grew up in and around Auckland, New Zealand, and for me the “extinct” volcanoes were just a curiosity, and certainly not something to lose sleep over. I figure this is typical of Aucklanders. My view has definitely changed since I began researching 2012 – and I would like everyone in that city ...
• Freak Thoughts Making Mainstream
  Yesterday I was watching ABC News in Australia. It is closely similar to the BBC in Britain, and consequently the standards are very high. During the financial update, an expert was asked about where the market was headed. And to my surprise he mentioned the shift of the magnetic poles (not new ...
• Regarding Current Upheavals…
  The famously predicted “earth changes” could finally be in effect. As of now the various natural disasters could just be a statistical blip, but give us a few more (watch this week, and June 1 through July 1) and not only will many prophets appear spot on, but the world will start to panic – [.. ...
• California Fault Map & New Madrid Fault
  I am currently researching the safest places in California (not that I plan on being there…) and this map has really helped. If you are in California, acquaint yourself with the fault-lines and perhaps plan an escape route. It is called the Alquist-Priolo Earthquake Fault Zone Maps and it utiliz ...

Facing South

• INSTITUTE INDEX: Nuclear-powered politics
  Amount the nuclear power industry spent on lobbying from 2000 to 2010: $600 million Amount the industry spent during that same period on campaign contributions: nearly $63 million Amount the Nuclear Energy Institute -- an industry trade group whose members include the company that owns th ...
• Congressman: U.S. may not be prepared to respo ...
  By Sasha Chavkin, ProPublica As Japan struggles to contain its growing nuclear crisis, a congressman and a disaster-preparedness expert raised concerns that the United States is not prepared to respond to a nuclear disaster. Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., wrote a letter to President Obama on M ...
• VOICES: Protests in Tennessee as workers' righ ...
  By Joe Atkins, Labor South I'm thousands of miles away in Taipei, but I'm heartened to see brave young students join union members in taking a stand against anti-union bills before Tennessee's state legislature in Nashville. Seven protesters were arrested Tuesday and accused of resisting a ...
• Duke Energy's nuclear ambitions face fallout f ...
  With the nuclear crisis in Japan growing more alarming by the hour, Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers appeared before the North Carolina Utilities Commission yesterday to ask for permission to spend an additional $267 million for the planning of two new reactors at its Lee plant in South Carolina. If a ...
• Institute challenges NC lawmakers on cost of v ...
  Yesterday, the North Carolina House Elections Committee listened to over two hours of public comment on a bill introduced by the Republican leadership that, among other election changes, would require voters to present a photo ID at the polls. The Institute was encouraged to comment on the bil ...

One News Page

• Tiger Woods: 'Fatherhood is tough'
  Tiger Woods says that he finds fatherhood 'tough but enjoyable'.
• Billy Ray Cyrus Drop Divorce
  Finally Miley Cyrus's prayer have been answered and Billy Ray Cyrus have decided to drop the divorce with wife Tish. Billy Ray Cyrus has confessed his plans of dropping the divorce with Tish in New York in an interview with 'The
• 10,000 people will take part in Kolkata half-m ...
• Korean Air orders two new Boeing 747-8 Freight ...
• Bulgarians take to streets over petrol prices

Global Research TV

• Tsunami in Japan: Raw Footage
• The Shock Doctrine [Full Documentary]
• Nuclear Expert: Situation in Japan Is Dire
• Resolution Proposed to End Illegal Afghan War
• CCTV: When Criminals Control the Cameras

Daily Tech

• Adobe Discovers "Critical" Security Flaw in Fl ...
  Vulnerability is being actively exploited
• Netflix Dominates Digital Movies Streaming
  The NPD Group found that six out of 10 digital movies are streamed through Netflix
• HTC's ThunderBolt Smartphone Ready to Light Up ...
  The new handset launches March 17 on Verizon
• NuclearGate: U.S. NRC Confirms MSNBC.com Repor ...
  Nuclear fear-mongering for profit -- government provides our strongest evidence in stunning tale of deceit
• Canadian Researchers Develop First Remote-Cont ...
  Could improve chemoembolization, which is the current liver cancer treatment used

Oriental Review

• Libya to Face Airstrikes. Part Four of the Glo ...
  By Elena Pustovoitova (Russia) ORIENTAL REVIEW: This article was published by Strategic Culture Foundation few hours before the aggression. Latest reports show that the quasi-coalition forces are bombing vital infrastructure objects in Libya: oil reservoirs by Misurata, civilian and military tar ...
• UN Security Council on Libya: Killing the Inte ...
  *** Alexander Mezyaev (Russia) The UN Security Council passed Resolution 1973 on Libya slapping new sanctions on the country and reinforcing the ones it endures due to Resolution 1970 dated February 26. The truth is that the new Resolution erodes the international law to the point of virtually k ...
• Afterword For Biden’s Visit To Moscow
  By Gregory Tinsky (Russia) Are we about to part with Jacson-Vanik amendment? There’s a saying in American political folklore: «Vice President is a guy, who sits at the White House porch, waiting for President to be shot». This capacious wording perfectly describes the U.S. Vice President Joseph ...
• ‘Caveated optimism’ about Afghan war
  BHADRAKUMAR Melkulangara (India) The testimony before the Congress on Tuesday in Washington by the commander of the United States and North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] in Afghanistan, General David Petraeus gave significant clues to the current phase of American thinking towards the war ...
• Libya: A Counterrevolution, or a Twitter Aircr ...
  Sergei Shashkov (Russia) Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. Ernest Benn The global process initiated by the United States to protect its “national interests,” strengthen its dominant position ...

BlogHer

• A Tribute to Tonight's Super Moon
  Tonight the moon is at its closest point to Earth -- and also rises full, a coincidence that makes it the largest-looking moon since March of 1983 and gives it the title of super moon. It's a catchy phrase, though I personally prefer the term perigee-syzygy. There are some think a super moon ca ...
• Did You Give Up Social Media for Lent?
  Ash Wednesday has come and gone, and if you're giving up something for Lent, chances are you're currently in the still-struggling phase of that sacrifice. (The first week is usually the hardest.) This year there seems to be a big trend toward giving up social media -- so much so that mainstream ...
• Exhaustion and Green Backlash: Capitalizing on ...
  Lately I've realized something. After I'm done reading the many articles on Facebook or the news about organics, new studies on genetically modified food, chemical laden everything, and how pregnant women are passing toxins onto their unborn children -- I feel worse about myself. Some of the tim ...
• Ten Reasons Why I (Still) Love Glee
  The honeymoon is over. Gone are the days of toe deep story lines and nonsensical Madonna tributes. Things have gotten heavy on Glee this season, and it's easy to see why some people are jumping ship. But, I'm going to give you 10 Gleektastic reasons I'm sticking it out for the long haul. 10. ...
• Feminist Extraordinaire Eleanor Smeal
  One of the most inspirational women I’ve ever met is Eleanor Smeal. She has arguably done more to advance the status of women in the United States than any other single individual in the last 50 years. The former president of the National Organization for Women and the founder of The Feminist Ma ...

Health Freedom Alliance

• Quiet The Cough: Could a simple Vitamin defici ...
  No one can feel at their best when they have a persistent cough. You may feel you have energy and are eating a healthy diet, but for some reason you can’t escape that unidentifiable tickle ...
• Florida Lawmaker Wants To make farm photos illegal
  Out of sight, out of mind- right? Well that’s what Big Ag companies in Florida are hoping for. SB 1246 introduced on the 8th by Sen. Jim Norman, R-Tampa would make it a first-degree ...
• Japanese Meltdown Now Means Detrimental Health ...
  Immediately after the initial wake of the recent tragic events in Japan, reports of nuclear meltdowns surfaced but the damaging effects were downplayed by the Japanese government. Attempts to cool the reactors with seawater have ...
• U.S. Still Using Toxic Dyes Left Out of U.K. Goods
  In a never ending pursuit for profit, American companies like Kellog, Kraft and General Mills continue to use dangerous food dyes despite reports linking the chemicals to some types of cancer and causing childhood problems ...
• Best To Think Positive: Pessimism Can Block Th ...
  Which came first? The healing or the doctor telling you you would be healed? This information is not so much about pessimism blocking therapy as it is about the power of suggestion. Brain scans can ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

• Slurry cases set for trial Aug. 1
  Shayne Fields, 19, left, and Kayla Farley, 18, both of Williamson, W.Va., drop off bottles filled with well water from their home they say was contaminated with coal slurry by Massey Energy and subsidiary Rawl Sales & Processing, prior to court hearing Monday, Nov. 15, 2010, in Charleston, W.Va ...
• Protesters win a round against Massey
  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. The ruling by U.S. Magistrate Judge R. Clarke VanDervort is posted he ...
• Judge delays hearing on Massey permit
  U.S. District Judge Robert C. Chambers has extended his temporary restraining order blocking a Massey Energy mining permit for more than two months, and rescheduled a hearing on whether to grant an even longer-term injunction. The case concerns a new permit for Massey subsidiary Highland Mining’ ...
• Waiting for the backlash: More on EPA’s ...
  Piles of coal are shown at NRG Energy’s W.A. Parish Electric Generating Station Wednesday, March 16, 2011, in Thompsons, Texas. The plant, which operates natural gas and coal-fired units, is one of the largest power plants in the United States. (AP Photo) Am I the only one who was surprised to ...
• Washington Post’s ‘Federal Eye&#82 ...
  At The Washington Post, Ed O’Keefe’s job is “Keeping Tabs on the Government.” I often enjoy his blog, and it’s great that the Post — a paper that does many great things — has such a feature. But gosh, his recent effort, headlined Obama administration defending its FOIA progress didn’t much rese ...

Daniel Miessler

• Careless is a Type of Insecure
  There is a post on Hacker News about a possible security issue with Tumblr. Basically a lot of confidential information, including server IPS, API keys, passwords, etc were leaked. Here is some of the stuff that was disclosed: Database::set_defaults(array( ‘user’ => ‘tumblr3′, ‘password’ => ‘m3M ...
• The China Question
  via youtube.com Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsSwords vs. ShadowsJan-Ove Waldner ServesAnd Now I Give You TechnovikingEuler’s DiskThe Parrot AR.DroneThe GiftThe Noisebridge Hackerspace in SF
• Strong Vim Fu
  via vimeo.com The force is strong with this one. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsDigital DJ UIDigital GraffitiPlaying With LightSpace BattlesCloud Surfing with NikonStephen Fry on Life LessonsInsane French Women
• Typography Deconstruction Letterpress Poster
  via typographydeconstructed.com Mmmmm….typography…I wish I could do my site in Futura. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsSan Francisco Psychological Map by Wendy MacNaughtonConan O’Brien Kinetic TypographyI must not copy what I see on the Simpsons | BanksyThis is ...
• Quicksilver is Back
  via qsapp.com The Quicksliver project is back! Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsI must not copy what I see on the Simpsons | BanksyAnother Approach to Weightlifting | Men’s HealthTypography Deconstruction Letterpress PosterTexas BBQThis is a ProblemAnother TimeWh ...

Fitwatch

• Top Ten Nasty FIT cops
  In the run up to the TUC march on the 26th March, we thought we’d run a series of top ten nasty FIT cops for you to look out for. Number One in the series is the now notorious Delroy Smellie. Smellie is a FIT cop of days long gone, before he went to join [...]
• Activists to deal with troublemakers on 26 Mar ...
  Fitwatch will be deploying activists on 26 March in case of trouble from Forward Intelligence Teams, specialist police units who hijack demonstrations and violate human rights legislation. This is a family event and it is our absolute hope police officers will come peacefully, but there is a pub ...
• Police exert control on 26 March protest
  It was, of course, expected that the TUC would work with the police in the planning of their protest on the 26th March. But the TUC has not stopped at discussing logistics and route planning. For this demonstration the TUC has been co-opted into the entire policing operation, bringing about a wh ...
• Fit in trouble again
  Forward intelligence policing is once again in the media spotlight after news today that a complaint has been launched by a 20 year old student, who claims not only was he falsely, and violent arrested - he sustained a chipped tooth during the arrest- but also the arresting FIT officer colluded ...
• Domestic extremists or domestic goddesses?
  This brilliant video was made by the Aldermaston Women's Peace Camp - the following text, is taken from their website During 2010 AWPC was under more overt surveillance than usual. From February, the women's camp was targeted with intrusive police photography. Camp made a formal complaint about ...

Worldwide Hippies

• FOIA Eyes Only: How Buried Statutes Are Keepin ...
  by Jennifer LaFleur | propublica - Anyone can request information from U.S. officials under the Freedom of Information Act, a law designed to allow people to know what their government is up to. When a government agency withholds information from a requester, it typically must invoke one of nine ...
• Go Outside, Right Now. Look At The Moon.
  Weekend full moon the biggest in about 20 years | CNN If the moon looks a little bit bigger and brighter this weekend, there’s a reason for that. It is. Saturday’s full moon will be a super “perigee moon” — the biggest in almost 20 years. This celestial event is far rarer than the famed blue moo ...
• State of Tennessee set to pass groundbreaking bill
  By Danny Rubenstein | Campus Times – It has been a long journey, but at 3:30 p.m. this past Tuesday, the most influential bill in Tennessee history was finally âtaken seriously by those assholes in the Transportation Committee,â activist Kelley Kinson said. The bill in question is the hotly deba ...
• Xenon-133? Yeah, We Got That
  First West Coast radiation detection | KNDO Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland detected trace amounts of the radioisotope Xenon-133 from the nuclear incident at Fukushima. This occurred Wednesday, March 16, and was the first detection in the continental United States. Subsequent m ...
• Hippie.TV
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLAYM_kmUjA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plgKnrpvtAI

reference frame

• Sidney Coleman's QFT lectures: TeX, PDF
  E-mail from Bryan Chen Dear Lubos, It's been a few years since I wrote you. I thought you might be interested that the LaTeXing of Coleman's notes has had quite a bit of recent progress. �Indeed, the project was more or less stalled in 2008, until last year, when Ting Yuan Sen (a ...
• Are earthquakes caused by man-made carbon dioxide?
  Clean Technica, a green lobby's astroturf website whose traffic exceeds that of TRF by a factor of five, became the most recent champion of the idea that the earthquakes are caused by the evil American SUVs: More Mega Earthquakes in a Climate Changed World Say ScientistsIn her spectacular ...
• Japan, physics, string theory, and me
  Fundamental physics has traditionally been a part of the Euro-Atlantic culture. So the Japanese physicists may be viewed as relative newbies but they have already imprinted their skills onto our collective body of knowledge. Hideki Yukawa became the first Japanese Nobel prize winner an ...
• Radiation: Geiger-Müller counter in Tokyo
  Many people are worried that the radiation in Tokyo has to be elevated. Well, here you have a most up-to-date Geiger-Müller counter (wiki) from Hino, Central Tokyo: Click to zoom in The y-axis shows "clicks per minute", between 0 and 100 CPM (divided to five intervals with a ...
• Vít Klemeš (1932-2010)
  Guest post by Demetris Koutsoyiannis It is a year since Vít Klemeš is no longer with us. He took “residence on cloud no. 17” as he used to say. Vít Klemeš (left), laurelled by local admirers in the Greek island of Cephalonia in June 2005, with the humble writer of this guest ...

No Frakking Consensus

• Earth to Scientists
  Half a century ago, a science journalist discovered that anything less than reverential reporting was interpreted by scientists as hostility. Climate scientists who label critics 'anti-science' therefore come from a long tradition.
• The Strange Case of Sari Kovats
  How does someone who hasn't yet earned their doctorate get nominated by their own government for IPCC duty multiple times? How does the IPCC, which claims to be comprised of the world's top scientists, repeatedly select this person to fill senior roles?
• Peer into the Heart of the IPCC, Find Greenpeace
  The mere presence of environmental activists undermines the integrity of scientific endeavours. Yet the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has long embraced Greenpeace personnel.
• Was the Fix In Before the IPCC Existed?
  In 1970s and 80s some scientists already believed human CO2 emissions would cause global warming. How do we know the IPCC's 2007 conclusions weren't preordained?
• Dr Nadelhoffer, I’m Not Impressed
  An expert who testified to Congress this week reached well beyond his own scientific expertise. By advocating a particular response to climate change he brings science into disrepute.

Tarpley

• Obama’s Bay of Pigs in Libya: Imperialist Aggr ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net March 19, 2011 Washington DC, March 19 – Late today US and British cruise missiles joined with French and other NATO combat aircraft in Operation Odyssey Dawn/Operation Ellamy, a neo-imperialist bombing attack under fake humanitarian cover against the sovere ...
• Behind the 2011 Orgy of Destabilizations: Pre- ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net March 15, 2011 Washington DC, March 15, 2011 – In the late winter of 2011, governments were for a few weeks falling like bowling pins all across the Middle East and far beyond. We are witnessing a massive orgy of deliberate destabilizations of previous clie ...
• US-UK Imperialist Rampage Envelops Libya in Ci ...
  Webster G. Tarpley on The Alex Jones Show Infowars March 1, 2011 download file Coast to Coast AM tonight from 2am to 5am eastern
• Webster Tarpley will be interviewed Tuesday ni ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net March 1, 2011 Check you local radio station for the exact time. Listen and call in! Locate Radio Stations Near You Call Number: 800-618-8255 First Time Caller: 818-501-4721 � � �
• Wisconsin Gop Governor in Neofascist Union-Bus ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net February 20, 2011 Washington DC, Feb. 20, 2011 – After four decades of disillusionment, and demoralization, disorientation and rout of the labor movement, the mass strike is once again abroad in the land. In dozens of state capitals, reactionary Republican ...

Modern Survivalism

• Recent World Events to Impact Economy?
  The events taking place in the world right now have lots of folks anxious, nervous, and some are getting the feeling that we are a lot closer to a possible economic collapse since 2008. Japan Japan, the world’s third largest economy has just suffered a tremendous blow, the total fallout of which ...
• Geiger Counter Numbers, How Bad is Bad?
  Given the recent events in Japan and the nuclear reactor damage and radiation entering the atmosphere there, the following information may help to understand the units of measurement being discussed, and how it may correlate to Geiger Counter readings such as those being displayed around the cou ...
• The Main Stream and Potassium Iodide
  The only single government official (U.S. government -that is) that seems to ‘get it’ regarding sensible preparedness in general, including having Potassium Iodide in your medicine cabinet, seems to be the Surgeon General Regina Benjamin, although even she probably got a slap on the wrist for ma ...
• Ops Center Open, “Response Teams on Stan ...
  credit: NBC BAY AREA Responding to a question regarding the appropriateness of the opening of the California Joint Emergency Operations Center in response to the radiation leak in Japan, U.S. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin said today in San Francisco, “We have to be prepared”. She went on to sa ...
• Civility During Japanese Disaster
  One thing that I have noticed throughout the terrible disaster in Japan so far, is how well behaved the Japanese people seem to have been. The images and video that I’ve seen from media outlets in Japan, including those replayed on U.S. media outlets, nowhere have I seen or heard reports of unre ...

Fast Company

• AAA for EVs: Renault Will Save Drivers From Ba ...
  For most electric vehicle drivers, so-called "range anxiety" shouldn't be an issue--drivers usually have enough foresight to stop at a gas station before gasoline runs out, so why wouldn't the same be true for EVs? Granted, there are fewer charging stations than gas stations currently on the s ...
• Nokia Leads Ride Pimping Initiative With Apps, ...
  Nokia and a long list of car and consumer electronics firms just agreed to form the Car Connectivity Consortium--a global effort to harmonize the electronic magic that will power your future car, and which would fill K.I.T.T. with envy. [Ed: And Kit]According to the press release, the newly mint ...
• Google Cash Powers Up CoolPlanet Biofuels
  CoolPlanet Biofuels, a startup that churns out biofuel from cellulosic waste (think plant waste and woodchips) just snagged an undisclosed amount of cash from Google Ventures in its Series B round of funding. This comes after an $8 million funding round last year, which included GE and North B ...
• SXSW 2011 Highlight Reel: Groupon Client Airs ...
  Frank Gruber, CEO and Co-founder of Tech Cocktail, and Travis Kalanick, a longtime Silicon Valley entrepreneur who runs online car service Uber--and is a Groupon client--responds to the company's presentation at SXSW, taking the opportunity to call them out for shoddy service. When Groupon's SVP ...
• GroupMe the Winner at SXSW
  After spending a couple days at South by Southwest Interactive (SXSW or "South by," as the hipsters call it), my theory that there's a social app for everything is confirmed. While 99% of these social apps seem to add to the chaos of online living, one stood out as simplifying things: GroupMe. T ...

Jadaliyya

• الذين غيروا كل شيء ومع ذلك لا نثق بهم [Those W ...
  � "ا�شعب ا�مصر� غ�ر �اضج بعد ��د�م�راط�ة". �بد� أ� �ذا ا�تص�ر ا�مث�ر ��جد� �رئ�س ا��زراء ا�ساب� أحمد �ظ�� �� 2005� �ا�ذ� عاد ع�� �سا� �ائب ا�رئ�س ا�ساب� عمر س��ما� خ�ا� ث�رة ��ا�ر �� ح�ار مع شب�ة إ�� ب� س� ا�أمر���ة� �مث� ��رة متجذرة بعم� �د� ا��خبة ا�مصر�ة.��� ا�مرت��� أثارت ا�تصر�حات ...
• NYT Reporter Anthony Shadid Missing in Libya
  �Weeks before the war started, I had promised myself that I would stay in Baghdad through the conflict, whatever the circumstances,� wrote NYT reporter Anthony Shadid in July 2010. One of the few unembedded American journalists fluent in Arabic covering Iraq, Shadid shed light on the hum ...
• The Exchange: The Word for the Deed
  When Bahrain's uprising began on February 14th, hundreds of people went into the streets to demand reforms - including reform of the constitution, investigation into stolen public land costing billions of dollars, and an end to systematic discrimination. The government immediately unleas ...
• French Wildflowers and Algerian Gangsters: Hum ...
  Des hommes et des dieux (Of Gods and Men). Written and directed by Xavier Beauvois. France, 2010. Hors la loi (Outside the Law). Written and directed by Rachid Bouchareb. Algeria/Belgium/France, 2010. Recently, two movies have offered Algeria a starring role at the post-colonial box-of ...
• It's Official: In 2006, The Lebanese Governmen ...
  So now we know. In 2006, as Israel was bombing Lebanese highways, power supplies, the airport, and oil reservoirs, the Lebanese Prime Minister was hoping that Israel would finish “the job” quickly and successfully. Now we know. As over a quarter of the population was displaced from their ...

mediagazer

• Paywall or no paywall, print is still what pay ...
  Peter Preston / Guardian: Paywall or no paywall, print is still what pays  —  The New York Times's model for online charging will no doubt be widely copied.  But according to one analyst, print will still be providing 86% of UK newspapers' revenues even in 2017  —  So, at long, long last, we ha ...
• Why I Won't Pay For "The Daily" and I Will Pay ...
  Larry Kramer / C-Scape: Why I Won't Pay For “The Daily” and I Will Pay For The Digital New York Times  —  I wanted to love The Daily, the first news source from a mainstream media company designed purely for the IPad, a platform I love.  I couldn't wait for it to get launched.  I told everyone ...
• Libya: Mohammed "Mo" Al Nabbous, founder of Be ...
  Xeni Jardin / Boing Boing: Libya: Mohammed “Mo” Al Nabbous, founder of Benghazi webcast “Libya Alhurra TV,” killed in firefight  —  Watch live streaming video from libya17feb at livestream.com  —  Via LibyaFeb17.com and via the Twitter updates from NPR's Andy Carvin, terrible news that the bra ...
• Met must hand over phone-hacking evidence (Jam ...
  James Robinson / Guardian: Met must hand over phone-hacking evidence  —  Police must pass documents seized from Glenn Mulcaire to lawyers representing growing number of people suing paper  —  The growing number of public figures suing the News of the World won a major high court victory when a ...
• The Groupon phenomenon: beautiful deconstructi ...
  Gordon Borrell / INMA: The Groupon phenomenon: beautiful deconstruction of an old media model  —  Groupon — and all it means — is here to stay.  How did the newsmedia industry not see it coming?  And what do we do about it now?  —  TAGS  —  In case you haven't noticed, media companies have cha ...

Chemtrail News

• Chemtrail: MajorNikon: Galleries: Digit ...
  Chemtrail. This photo is marked as: Safe. If you feel that this is inappropriate , please send us a feedback. Camera: Nikon D70. Camera specifications ...www.dpreview.com/galleries/4889503380/photos/.../chemtrail
• Chemtrails The Video CRASH COURSE Geoen ...
  Have you wondered recently "What's Up with this FREAKY WEIRD WEATHER that we've been having lately? Have you noticed that you are seeing unusual cloud ...hubpages.com/hub/Chemtrails-The-Video-Crash-Course
• Chemtrail Research Network - Mythclues.com
  Of coarse I'm still trying to figure out the many different aspects of this weather radicalization program, so this is what I've surmised so far.www.mythclues.com/.../chemtrail-research-network-atomicbo...
• OUR NEW NATIONAL EMBLEM?
  OK keep on believing that, remember a year ago there was no such thing as a chem trail.. Now they are useful in saving our earth... HAARP is good.. it will ...
• Chemtrail Debunkers Misinformation Cons ...
  I have seen many topics concerning chemtrails and contrails but never the chemtrail debunkers themselves. I would like to propose that chemtrail debunkers ...www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread676037/pg1

World News - Top Stories

• Birds will tell us when true spring arriv ...
  Today marks the official start of spring, the vernal equinox. Moving forward, days get longer. As everyone knows, however, the calendar does not guarantee sunny skies and warmer temperatures. In my mind, biological spring is still several weeks away. As March gives way to April, I look to b ...
• 36 Hours in Hong Kong
  IN Hong Kong, that most cosmopolitan of cities, contrasts abound. Ladies toting Gucci handbags wait two hours in dingy alleys for a coveted bowl of noodles. Incense-filled Buddhist temples fight for space with gleaming new high-rises. Cutting-edge art galleries share a block with junk shops ...
• China expresses regret over allied strike ...
  BEIJING (AP) -- China on Sunday expressed "regret" over punishing airstrikes by the U.S. and European nations against Libya to enforce a U.N. no-fly zone. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said China "consistently...
• Coffee lowers stroke risk in women
  Consuming more than a cup of coffee a day is linked to a 22 per cent to 25 per cent lower risk of stroke, says a new study. Low or no coffee consumption is associated with an increased risk of stroke, according to the study of 34,670 women (ages 49 to 83) followed for an average 10.4 years. ...
• Fans want to see me as a strong woman: Bi ...
  Bipasha Basu tried to experiment and essayed the role of a small town, grief-stricken wife in her last film "Aakrosh". But the star is now back to playing a glam girl in her next film " Dum Maaro Dum" because fans didn't quite like her as a "weak" woman. In "Dum Maaro Dum", Bipasha is cast ...

no frakking consensus

• Earth to Scientists
  Half a century ago, a science journalist discovered that anything less than reverential reporting was interpreted by scientists as hostility. Climate scientists who label critics 'anti-science' therefore come from a long tradition.
• The Strange Case of Sari Kovats
  How does someone who hasn't yet earned their doctorate get nominated by their own government for IPCC duty multiple times? How does the IPCC, which claims to be comprised of the world's top scientists, repeatedly select this person to fill senior roles?
• Peer into the Heart of the IPCC, Find Greenpeace
  The mere presence of environmental activists undermines the integrity of scientific endeavours. Yet the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has long embraced Greenpeace personnel.
• Was the Fix In Before the IPCC Existed?
  In 1970s and 80s some scientists already believed human CO2 emissions would cause global warming. How do we know the IPCC's 2007 conclusions weren't preordained?
• Dr Nadelhoffer, I’m Not Impressed
  An expert who testified to Congress this week reached well beyond his own scientific expertise. By advocating a particular response to climate change he brings science into disrepute.

Pointman's

• Line of Descent Chapter 23
  Chapter 23 Drayton lay prone, squeezed between the other two men at the northern post. In front of them, the lawn stretched out in the moonlight to the treeline. Nothing moved or made a noise, not even his companions whose breathing had become almost inaudible. The moonlight turned the carefully ...
• Internet security 2 : There’s a lot more going ...
  In a previous article here, I gave some information about what basic precautions you should take in order to enjoy the web safely. Iâd like to drop down to a slightly lower level and tell you a few more simple things you can do to make surfing the web a lot safer. They wonât be technical … Read ...
• Some thoughts on fanatics and how to fight them.
  Iâve always liked Churchillâs definition of a fanatic. âA fanatic is one who canât change his mind and wonât change the subject.â Once you get past the witty aspect of the definition, thereâs a deep truth in it too. They simply canât change their mind. Iâve seen a lot of debates in the blogosphe ...
• The steady-state environment delusion
  Cosmologists have calculated that our particular universe is 13.7 billion years old. It came into existence with the big bang, as did space and time. Itâs big. It consists of lots of matter, especially hydrogen, which has aggregated into different objects. The ones we see in the night sky are t ...
• Line of Descent Chapter 22
  Chapter 22 He lay full length on the ground, concealed within a clump of vegetation through which he studied the house and the hastily built positions in front of it. He held a rifle which poked out in front of him, stopping two feet short of the end of the cover. It had been in … Read more

Journalists' Toolkit

• The best video export options
  How do you choose the best settings for exporting your video, after you have edited it? I remember how confusing this was for me when I started working with Web video several years ago. With the slower computers we had back then, I would wait for what seemed like forever while exporting a small ...
• Video Resources updated
  The new Video Resources page has been added to this site. This is a carefully curated page with links to good tutorials for video editing software, video shooting tips, and the like. It’s intended for beginners, particularly journalism students and journalism educators who are teaching video in ...
• Flash Journalism updates
  I have been hard at work updating the Flash Journalism website. New tutorials for ActionScript 3.0 and for working on the Timeline in CS4 and CS5 have been added. The old pages from the original site (created to support the book I wrote about Flash journalism in 2004) are still online, and all t ...
• New tutorial: Windows Live Movie Maker
  As an aid to a journalism training session I agreed to give, I created a short PowerPoint that is aimed at journalism students. Windows Live Movie Maker Tutorial Windows Live Movie Maker is quite different from its predecessor — Windows Movie Maker (not “live”). It is less versatile in several w ...
• Convert WMA files with Switch
  Switch Sound File Converter is a free program from NCH Software. You can download it here (Mac or Windows). I have been using this program and recommending it widely for about two years. It’s easy to use, and it’s especially useful for converting WMA format files to WAV so that we can edit them ...

Justice Roars - Louisiana

• Mississippi Activists Plan Rally Against Polic ...
  The announcement below is adapted from information from our friends at Justice For Billey Joe Johnson, Jr., and Color Of Change: This weekend, activists in George County, Mississippi, will be hosting two days of action to demand justice for Billey Joe Johnson, Jr. and all other victims of polic ...
• Groups to Challenge Disparate Punishment Under ...
  From our friends at Women With A Vision and Center for Constitutional Rights: Attorneys, Advocates Say Antiquated Law Unfairly Brands Poor Women and LGBT People with Scarlet Letter, Disproportionately Affects African Americans The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), Andrea J. Ritchie ...
• New Orleans Police Attack Mardi Gras Parade
  On Sunday night, at least 20 officers descended on a Mardi Gras parade, arresting twelve costumed marchers, and repeatedly deploying tasers, pepper spray, and physical violence. The parade, which consisted of local artists and other neighborhood residents, as well as quite a few tourists, began ...
• Tom Joyner Doesn't Understand New Orleans Soci ...
  2-Cent Entertainment is a remarkable New Orleans-based arts and activist collective who have built a national reputation for creating videos that are both informative and entertaining. They have received major national awards and rave reviews in the media. Their videos regularly get thousands of ...
• Lawsuit Puts Hold on Closing of SUNO
  Last week, advocates took legal action in an attempt to stop Governor Jindal's actions to dissolve SUNO. LJI has posted the legal documents on our NOLA Public Records website. Below is an excerpt from a summary of the status of the legal claims, from BayouBuzz News: Seven Southern University Sys ...

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 ...

Gyrovague's Raves

• Law of Averages
  Why the law-school bubble is bursting. By Annie Lowrey A nattily attired law studentThe law-school bubble may have just burst. According to data from the Law School Admission Council, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, the number of applicants to law school has dropped a whopping 11.5 pe ...
• Courage Under Fire
  It was a quiet day in Afghanistan ⦠until the explosion. By Alex Berenson In February 2011, novelist and former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson embedded with the 1st Battalion, 502nd Regiment, of the Army’s 101st Airborne Division. He spent much of his time with Alpha Company, nicknamed t ...
• Bill Cunningham
  by Ian Buckwalter Zeitgeist Films Snap and go: For more than 50 years, Bill Cunningham has navigated New York on his bicycle â he’s had 27 stolen â chronicling the fashion spectrum from sidewalk to catwalk. Every morning, Bill Cunningham takes his bike out of a closet down the hall from his tiny ...
• The Camera Obscura
  By Melor Sturua Translated By Natalia Dresner Edited by Gheanna Emelia Russia – Izvestiya – Original Article (Russian) Jaron Lanier â the author of the book âDigital Maoismâ â in referring to Fox News, the main diamond in the crown of a media ruler Rupert Murdoch, once noticed: âWe have created ...
• China Does Not Challenge U.S. Dominance but On ...
  By Wen Ming Translated By Peixin Lin Edited by Mark DeLucas Singapore – Zaobao – Original Article (Chinese) The article ["China's Military Space Surge", Aerospace America, March 2011] points out that, between 2006 and 2009, China launched between three and five military missions per year. Since ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

• The legacy of Phineas Gage
  FROM SARAH MEE, POLICY ADVISER This rather macabre illustration is of the skull of Phineas Gage, an American railroad construction foreman. In 1845 he was the victim of an explosion that caused a three foot long iron rod to pass through his left cheek and out of the top of his skull. Remarkably, ...
• An Agrarian Renaissance?
  FROM DINO MCMAHON IN THE SCIENCE POLICY CENTRE On Tuesday 15 February, I went along to the launch of the all-party parliamentary group on Agroecology.  Agroecology is the science of sustainable agriculture.  It studies the interaction between plants, animals, humans and the environment.  an incr ...
• Human Embryology: a different kind of policy p ...
  The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) was a policy first –the first executive, non-departmental public body in the world. It has sole authority and responsibility for research and routine practice for IVF and stored gametes.  Created in 1991, HFEA had a clear role at a time whe ...
• A little less conversation…
  FROM SARAH  ‘SMEE’ MEE, POLICY ADVISER In the realm of global food security, little is spared intense debate. However, few would disagree that the global food system as it stands is failing. At the stakeholder launch of the Governmentâs Foresight report on Global Food and Farming Futures on Tue ...
• America’s “Sputnik moment”
  FROM MICHAEL ASHCROFT IN THE SCIENCE POLICY CENTRE… In 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik into orbit, shattering the established belief that the US led the world in space technology. This shock led to the space race and the many benefits â technology, innovation and education – associated w ...

NAU Resistance

• It’s Official. Stephen Harper is Privatizing O ...
  "AbitibiBowater NAFTA settlement has privatized Canadian water, trade committee hears"
• One World Government- Does Anything Stand In T ...
  What last obstacles must they overcome in order to declare their new world order, one world government official or a success?
• The North American Union Conspiracy
  They Have Called For The Real Time Tracking Via Biometric And RFID Technology Of All Travelers In North America, The Full Integration Of Our Law Enforcement Teams, Harmonizing Our Laws And Standards And The Thinning And Eventual Removal Of The Internal, Physical Borders- The Consolidation Of Nor ...
• A North American Security Perimeter Threatens ...
  “I have great confidence that Prime Minister Harper is going to be very protective of certain core values of Canada, just as I would be very protective of the core values of the United States, and those won’t always match up perfectly.”- Obama
• Stop Fortress North America Campaign
  Canadians Urged To Take Action NOW On Canada-U.S. Border & Trade Scam!

Gaea Times

• New fluorescent light surface may kill MRSA
  WASHINGTON - Scientists at the University of New Mexico are working on a new type of antimicrobial surface which, equipped with fluorescent lights, would be able to fight off prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection. The new polymer-type material, “conjugated ...
• It?s official! Booze impairs decision-making
  WASHINGTON - It is well known that alcohol alters behaviour, but surprisingly it is not well studied at the brain level. However, a new research shows that certain areas in the brain associated with error processing are significantly affected by the effects of alcohol. According to Beth Anders ...
• Kanye West ?contemplated suicide?
  LONDON - American rap star Kanye West has confessed that there were times when he considered killing himself.There were times that I contemplated suicide,” the Sun quoted him as saying. However, soon he vowed that he would not give up on life again. “There are so many people that will never g ...
• Anorexia nervosa ?causes potentially serious e ...
  WASHINGTON - A new study has suggested that anorexia nervosa, an eating disorder, causes potentially serious eye damage. In developed countries, anorexia nervosa affects up to 3% of affluent women. Although the condition also increasingly affects men, around 10 women will be affected for every ...
• Kristen Stewart ?offered stripper job?
  LONDON - ‘Twilight’ star Kristen Stewart has revealed that she was offered a job as a stripper while she was trying to get accustomed to her role in a new movie. The 20-year-old star made a trip to a strip club accompanied by the director of her latest film ‘Welcome to the Riley’s’. Stewart, ...

TruthNews Australia

• Radiation levels and their effects
  There's been alot of talk in the news lately about radiation levels, yet most people, including myself, have little idea of what these numbers really mean in terms of health risks. News reports today have indicated that radiation levels in Tokyo have been recorded at 20X the normal background ...
• Tsunami engulfs northern Japan
  Shocking video shows a huge tsunami racing across the countryside near Sendai, Japan, sweeping away farms and houses. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHtvA-lIksU
• Interview with Bob McIlvaine at Ground Zero
  On 12 January 2011 I met with Bob McIlvaine at 1 Liberty Plaza next to Manhattan's Ground Zero. Together we visited the Family Room, a special place dedicated to the memories of all those who died on 11 September 2001. Afterwards I spoke to Bob about his ongoing activism for 9/11 truth, ...
• The Oklahoma bombing revisited: interview with ...
  Before 9/11 there was the Oklahoma bombing - a devastating terrorist attack which killed 168 people, including 19 children under the age of 6. The attack took place on April 19, 1995 and was quickly pinned on Gulf War veteran Timothy McVeigh who, it is said, planned and executed the attacks with ...
• Aussies Wanna KISS!
  Tonight we welcome Rachel Emmes, author of “AUSSIES wanna KISS” (Keep It Simple Stupid), a new book which outlines problems and suggests solutions to the growing power of the "corporatocracy" and loss of true democracy in Australia. This is a very important interview which we urge you to shar ...

Beacon

• Slideshow and Video: ‘Oceana’ the Book
  Today the Huffington Post has a great slideshow of images -- including one of a darling young Ted Danson -- from his new book, �Oceana: Our Endangered Oceans and What We Can Do to Save Them.� Have you gotten your copy yet? No? What are you waiting for!? �In case you need some more convincing, h ...
• Christie’s Green Auction Approaches
  Andy Sharpless is the CEO of Oceana. I wanted to give you advance notice of Christie�s Green Auction: A Bid to Save the Earth on March 29th at New York�s Rockefeller Center.�This special event premiered last year, raising an unprecedented $2.4 million for Oceana, Conservation Internationa ...
• U.S. Gov’t Fails to Protect Sea Turtles, Again
  A loggerhead hatchling in North Carolina. � Oceana/Cory Wilson While the U.S. government continues to dawdle, loggerhead sea turtles continue to suffer. (Yes, they need your help!) Yesterday the U.S. government failed to meet its legal deadline for issuing a final rule providing additional ...
• Protecting Costa Rica’s Biodiversity
  A collared aracari on Costa Rica's Nicoya Peninsula. Image via Wikimedia Commons. Sometimes our supporters point out organizations that are doing inspiring work for the oceans around the world. Thanks to supporter Joanna Adler for alerting us to the great work of an organization in Costa Ri ...
• Ted Enlightens Jimmy Fallon about 'Oceana'
  Our pal Ted Danson was on Jimmy Fallon last night to talk about his new book, “Oceana: Our Endangered Oceans and What We Can Do to Save Them.” I’m not sure why Fallon decided to turn the lights off, but it makes for quite a dramatic effect when Ted is talking about the book. Check it out:

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