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- Obama Leaves Door Open to Regime Change in Libya
The fate of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi remains up in the air after the United States and its allied partners began missile strikes over the weekend to impose a no-fly zone (NFZ) in the North African country.
- LIBYA: Conflicting Interests Cloud Military In ...
Conflicting national and electoral interests as well as clashing military and political objectives and potential are jeopardising the U.S.-Europe led military mission to implement the no-fly zone over Libyan territory, as stipulated by last Thursday's U.N. Security Council resolution 1973.
- BRAZIL-US: Libya Attack Order Sours Obama-Rous ...
The first black president of the United States visited the first woman president of Brazil: their meeting resulted in modest progress in bilateral relations, but a bitter taste could not be avoided over the announcement, in Brazil, of the U.S.-led air attack on Libya.
- Regional Support Erodes for Air War on Libya
When the United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) imposing a no-fly zone in the airspace of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya passed Thursday by a predicted 10-0, no one stopped to ask what ends the means of military force hoped to achieve.
- LATIN AMERICA: Wave of Water Privatisation Ove ...
Now that the wave of water privatisation of the 1980s and 1990s has let up, the main challenge facing water utilities in Latin America is expanding coverage of high-quality water services.
- US will fund BBC World Service
The BBC World Service will receive funds from the U.S. State Department to combat the blocking of TV and Internet in countries with state censorship. According to The Guardian: In what the BBC said is the first deal of its kind, an agreement is expected to be signed later this month that wil ...
- BP to start drilling off Libyan coast - The In ...
The tortuous saga of BP, the Gulf of Mexico, the Lockerbie bombing and an America which feels itself badly wronged took another turn yesterday when it emerged that the oil company is about to start drilling at an even greater depth in, of all places, Libyan waters.
- Nuclear Apocalypse in Japan
The widespread distortion and cover-ups to protect private profits, national and corporate interests, to fool and betray the people, are unacceptable. Here are some of the deeper whats and whys and hows -- some technical issues and the kinds of questions people need to ask -- about the nuclear a ...
- Fisk: Gaddafi as bonkers as Lieberman
It is all wearingly familiar. And now we are back at it again, banging our desks in spiritual unity. We don't have many options, do we, unless we want to see another Srebrenica? But hold on. Didn't that happen long after we had imposed our "no-fly" zone over Bosnia?
- Japan faces era of economic, socio-political t ...
A week after a magnitude 9.0 earthquake battered northeastern Japan and ensuing tsunami claimed the lives of tens of thousands in the region, the gravity of the task now facing Prime Minister Naoto Kan and the ruling Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) is escalating by the hour. As a nuclear cris ...
- Repairs continue at stricken Japan nuclear plant
Officials are racing to restore electricity to Japan's leaking nuclear plant, but getting the power flowing will hardly be the end of their battle: with its mangled machinery and partly melted reactor cores, bringing the complex under control is a monstrous job.
- Afghan forces to control more areas
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said his security forces will soon take charge of security in seven areas around the country - the first step towards his goal of having Afghan police and soldiers protecting the entire nation by the end of 2014.
- More raids as MPs back Libya action
Coalition military forces were in action for a third consecutive night with reports of fierce anti-aircraft fire followed by explosions near Muammar Gaddafi's compound in Tripoli.
- Libya: No water, food or power – and still the ...
A city besieged and battered, those of its people who remain living without food, water or power for days and facing daily attacks: that was Ajdabiya yesterday as Muammar Gaddafi's forces fought to retain their hold on this strategic gateway to the east of Libya.
- Guarded by Gaddafi's men, we only glimpse the ...
In any other context the children at Meethaq School would have been easily the best part: bright, friendly and interested in their visitors.
- Bill Kristol calls for U.S. ground forces in ...
The operation to create a no-fly zone in Libya has just begun, but already conservative Fox News pundit Bill Kristol is wishing the U.S. would send in ground troops "sooner rather than later."
- In The Race For More Spectrum, AT&T Is Ac ...
Here’s the release with the details of the deal. AT&T will pay roughly $39 billion to Deutsche Telekom for T-Mobile USA. Deutsche Telekom will also get a roughly 8 percent ownership stake in AT&T as a result of the deal.
- U.S. army apologizes over "repugnant" Afghan ...
Germany's Der Spiegel magazine published pictures Monday of American troops posing over the bloodied body of a man it said had been killed illegally in Afghanistan, drawing an apology from the U.S. army.
- Wave of Unrest Shakes Syria, Crowds Torch Par ...
Crowds set fire to a headquarters of the ruling Baath Party in the Syrian city of Deraa on Sunday, residents said, as the wave of unrest in the Arab world shook even one of its most authoritarian states.
- Rocker Sammy Hagar says he was abducted by al ...
No doubt Sammy Hagar, a former lead singer for Van Halen, has enjoyed a lot of far out experiences in life, but on Monday, the rocker told perhaps his farthest out tale to MTV. He was abducted by aliens.
- Search for the stellar smoking gun
When big stars go boom, they are like really, really big guns — they leave behind a telltale smoke signal and a path of destruction. Understanding the forensic evidence from just a puff of smoke might sound near impossible, but for Samar Safi-Harb, it’s just another day at the office. Originally ...
- Women and science
Five Canadian women. Five accomplished scientists. Five perspectives.
- A recipe for failure
By definition, perfectionists set very high standards for themselves. As a result, they are also setting themselves up to fail. And when they do, research is now showing that many perfectionists resort to binge eating to alleviate feelings of loneliness, sadness and inadequacy. “Perfectionists o ...
- The challenging spine, the adventurous mind
- What’s love got to do with it?
Toni Tennille promised “Love Will Keep Us Together,” and while it may be true that she and Daryl “the Captain” Dragon have stayed together for 40 years, it’s unlikely love was the only glue. Lasting relationships require commitment, satisfaction and trust, says Lorne Campbell, a social psycholog ...
- Obama: 'President Does Not Have Power Under Co ...
As a presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama (D.-Ill.) emphatically stated that the Constitution does not give the president the authority to unilaterally authorize a military attack unless it is needed to stop an actual or imminent attack on the United States. Obama made the assertion in a ...
- Obama: Drill, Brazil, Drill!
Energy Policy: While leaving U.S. oil and jobs in the ground, our itinerant president tells a South American neighbor that we'll help it develop its offshore resources so we can one day import its oil. WHAT?!? With Japan staggered by a natural disaster and a nuclear crisis, cruise missiles lau ...
- Raymond Davis: Trap for Kiyani and Obama
Radiating Raymond Davis was a 'cluster bomb' which not only hit Pakistanis killing three people as well President Obama and his administration. There is no doubt that some elements in the US establishment could not stand and have not accepted a 'Blackman' in a 'White House'. The Clinton camp wi ...
- Five-mile wide suspected oil slick spotted jus ...
A suspected oil slick has been spotted around 20 miles north from the site of the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion. Several people reported seeing a rainbow sheen on the surface of the water several miles long just off the coast of Louisiana, to the National Response Center. Officials have conf ...
- Ron Paul: Libya Reaction: Where's the Authority?
In this C4L update, Congressman Ron Paul comments on how President Obama's actions on Libya are violating the Constitution, ceding authority and sovereignty to the United Nations, and weakening the United States. Action by the American people to return government to its constitutional limits is ...
- After all, they might spend the cash on pitchf ...
via Susie Madrak at Crooks and Liars we learn that the northern wingnuts of Minnesota will not be outdone by the dairyland wingnuts of Wisconsin. Wis. Gov. Scott Walker is trying to crush unions and take away the constitutional right of working people to freely associate - hah! what a piker! a m ...
- Airshow's moral duty
Airshow comes out with a stunner today. "We are compelled to intervene," MacKay said, both by a moral duty and a duty to the United Nations. "Canada's very fortunate to be in a position to respond."We're bombing Libya because we can. It is as about a clear cut case for immediate intervention ...
- Wisconsin
Governor Walker and our Cons are the same species.� More after the live stream. Watch live streaming video from theuptake at livestream.com Sometimes I think the best description of 'capital' is that of a pathogen. It afflicts the compassion and empathy centres of the brain like an encephaliti ...
- Stephen Harperreality
You know, I was thinking earlier today that Stephen Harper might be the Canadian prime minister to leave a legacy of election fraud and contempt motions. The contrast between the Stephen Harper in the video voice-over above, and the Stephen Harper, master of a den of liars, theives and chara ...
- Keep calm and carry on
When my smart phone chimed at 3 a.m. a week ago Friday in Ontario, bringing news of a massive eathquake in Japan, I woke Hiromi. She muttered something about calling her parents in Miyagi in the morning, and went back to sleep. We’d spoken to her dad via video Skype only a few hours ago. It coul ...
- By O'Reilly's Standard, Fox Is A Major Player ...
On his Fox News show, Bill O'Reilly dismissed criticisms of President Obama for filling out an NCAA tournament bracket as "Obama-bashing" and went on to say that there is an "industry of Obama-bashers." Minutes later, Sean Hannity repeatedly attacked Obama over his NCAA bracket, and a processio ...
- Beck Dismisses The Fact That MLK Died While Fi ...
Glenn Beck mocked AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka for saying that Dr. Martin Luther King lost his life while fighting for the rights of public union workers. In fact, King was shot while in Memphis to support striking municipal workers, and in his eulogy honoring King, Benjamin Mays -- King's ...
- Beck, Limbaugh Renew Smear That Obama Is& ...
Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh�are�accusing�the Obama administration of subverting American interests by allowing a Brazilian company to drill in the Gulf of Mexico. But the�Bush administration granted the initial permit, and Obama has granted deepwater drilling permits to American companies sinc ...
- Fox & Friends Continues To&n ...
Fox & Friends�hosted Wisconsin Lieutenant Governor Rebecca Kleefisch to discuss�a�recent court ruling finding that GOP lawmakers may have violated Wisconsin's open meetings law when they pushed through a bill ending most public union collective bargaining rights. During the segment, the co-host ...
- Right-Wing Media Respond To Japanese Nuclear C ...
In the wake of the earthquake in Japan and the resulting threat of nuclear disaster in that country, right-wing media have attacked renewable energy sources such as wind and solar, arguing that it's a waste of time to pursue these sources as possible alternatives to fossil fuels and nuclear pow ...
- Person Of The Book
Munther M. Fahmi, better known as Munzer to every visitor to the American Colony Hotel's bookshop, is a Jerusalem institution. You don't just go to his shop to buy; you go to talk about writing, writers and, of course, Middle East history, literature and politics. Munzer's read what he recomm ...
- As the Global Economy Trembles, Our Nation's C ...
Why isn't Washington responding? The world's third largest economy suffers a giant earthquake, tsunami, and radiation dangers. A civil war in Libya and tumult in the Middle East cause crude-oil prices to climb. Poor harvests around the world make food prices soar.All this means higher prices. ...
- Rohrabacher Supporting Kucinich Afghanistan Ex ...
I just hosted a media conference call for the Afghanistan Study Group with Republican California Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA-46) on his views about America's course in Afghanistan. I will be posting soon the audio clip from the short and fascinating call. One of the zingers, howev ...
- US-Japan Friendship Dolls Then & How to Help Today
In a heart-moving gesture a few years after the great Kanto earthquake of 1923 in Japan, American children made 12,000 blue-eyed dolls and sent them to Japanese children. After that, 58 highly ornate, beautifully crafted Japanese "Friendship Dolls" were sent by Japanese children to American chi ...
- The Pimco Bond Run
The deficit hawks are acting like they just got a shot of steroids. William Gross, the head of Pimco, sold off the government bond holdings of their largest investment fund at the start of this year. The deficit hawks are claiming this as evidence that the sky is now falling and that we have to ...
- A Terrible Race Against the Clock
Translated and reviewed by Henry Crapo. Workers at the Nuclear power plant in Fukushima attempt, surely at the peril of their own lives, to prevent the situation from getting worse. Some quantities of water have been successfully dropped on the reactors and fuel rod storage basins. read more
- Congress Must Debate the Libya War
The US is now at war in a third Muslim country, according to the "official tally" (that is, counting Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, but not Pakistan or Yemen, for example.) But Congress has never authorized or debated the US military intervention in Libya. (A sharply disputed claim holds that the ...
- Kill Public-Employee Unions; Erase the Middle ...
It's not like we didn't see it coming. At the very start of this year, January 2, The New York Times warned us of the coming battle with a front-page story, "Public Workers Facing Outrage in Budget Crisis." The Economist, in its January 8 issue, gave us, "The battle ahead: confronting the publi ...
- News in Brief: Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wrigh ...
Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wright Among 30 Arrested for Protesting Against Abuse of Bradley Manningread more
- In This Nuclear World, What Is the Meaning of ...
In a nuclear crisis, life becomes a nightmare for those people trying to make sense of the uncertainties. Imaginably, the questions are endless. Radiation is invisible, how do you know when you are in danger? How long will this danger persist? How can you reduce the hazard to yourself and famil ...
- Ancient Hyperthermals Guide to Climate Changes ...
Another study which looks at what conditions in our future might be like by comparing them to conditions in our planets history has shown that if global warming continues apace, we could set in a motion a change of events that could take tens of thousands of years to dissipate.
- Scotland Plans World’s Largest Underwater Tida ...
Iberdrola subsidiary ScottishPower Renewables plans to install a tidal power project between two islands, Islay and Jura, in the inner Hebrides off the west coast of Scotland. The expected power output of the £40million project will be 10 MW, enough to power twice the number of homes on nearby ...
- Ireland from Space Under Cloud and Snow
St. Patrick's Day might have been last week, but it's never too late to showcase some beautiful imagery taken of the Emerald Isle.
- Two Tropical Cyclone Names Retired from List o ...
The World Meteorological Organization’s hurricane committee have retired two cyclone names from the official rotation of Atlantic storms, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The names - Igor and Tomas - were removed due to the deaths and damage caused during their 2 ...
- Pork Industry Leader Launches New PR Campaign ...
Smithfield puts a positive spin on pork production in a new multimedia campaign that it claims “takes the mystery” out of how they use pigs to make pork products... but it doesn't work.
- COMMENT: The Raymond Davis affair - Pakistan
Patriotism, nationalism and self-sufficiency are myths created to confuse and distract the deprived and the oppressed. National interests in the last analysis are the interests of the ruling classes. In every nation there are two nations, the exploiters and the exploited The episode o ...
- The Libyan Rebellion: The West's Cloak over th ...
Fidel Castro was right. The West was planning an attack on a sovereign third world nation imminently: Libya. Nothing like a good old war against brown and black people in Libya by the West to remind oneself of what Western civilisation is all about. Many of us who have been...
- Are paywalls the future? New York Times reader ...
The New York Times is putting its website behind a paywall. But is this the future of online journalism? Emily Bell, the mastermind behind Guardian online, isn't so sure. Earlier today, the New York Times made the long-awaited announcement that it is launching digital subscriptions ...
- Japan Finds Tainted Food Up to 90 Miles From N ...
TOKYO — As Japan edged forward in its battle to contain the damage at its ravaged nuclear power plants on Saturday, the government said it had found higher than normal levels of radioactivity in spinach and milk at farms up to 90 miles away from the plants, the first confirmation...
- A Food’s Global Success Creates a Quandary at ...
Editor's Note: This is a rare article co-authored by Simon Romero, NYT's favorite counter-revolutionary writers in South America that we can "digest". It's an interesting report about& quinoa, a valuable Bolivian natural resource exploited by foreign countries. It also underscores the effect of ...
- The Nightowl Newswrap
Yemeni protesters may have the establishment support Libyan rebels lacked. "Military leaders, ambassadors and tribal chiefs in Yemen have made clear their support for pro-democracy protesters, ramping up pressure on Ali Abdullah Saleh, Yemen's president, to step down. Following a wave of defecti ...
- Senator Claire McCaskill (D): media conference ...
Previously: Senator Claire McCaskill (D): media conference call on plane issues "...I'm disappointed in myself that this mistake was made. But I have done an awful lot on accountability and transparency and ultimately the reason this happened was not because of the Republicans. It was because t ...
- Plutocracy of the Rich, by the Rich, for the Rich
Masocchio at Firedoglake explains that our government is incompetent because it does everything for the rich: The people who run our political economy, the rich and their tools in Congress, have adopted utterly incoherent policies: spending money on things they like and demanding cuts in everyth ...
- Re-Learning the Lessons of the Triangle
If you're ever tempted to cut the union-busters the tiniest bit of slack, remember that not one of them would have hesitated to lock those girls in that firetrap and shrug when they leaped to their deaths rather than burn alive. Heather at Crooks and Liars: If you've got HBO, set your recording ...
- Our Version Of Bread And Circuses
I've spoken from time to time about America's fascination with bright shiny objects... I think the most recent example is Charlie Sheen if I'm not mistaken... �even while the world was off to hell in a huge hand basket. �If your honor would please, I'd like to have this marked Exhibit #45746 and ...
- Computer Chips Wired With Nerve Cells
This technology could pave the way for melding minds with machines.Nerve cell tendrils readily thread their way through tiny semiconductor tubes, researchers find, forming a crisscrossed network like vines twining towards the sun. Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add ...
- Reminder, to call Congress to Save The Wolves
Our Wolves are endanger of disappearing, please help, watch this video.Submitted by Penelope Ryan to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Stop the Live Animal Skinning in China
HORROR ALERT!! Please skip the video if you're even slightly squeamish!! Truly hell on earth for these animals!! Please sign and help put an end to this now!! I'd REALLY appreciate it! This is my #1 mission until this is stopped!! Huge thanks from me!Submitted by Kim O. to Animals �|� �Note-it! ...
- Ways to bring off migraines (without consuming ...
DRINK MORE WATER Dehydration is an mutual trigger. EAT MAGNESIUM-RICH FOODS Insufficient magnesium is believed to lead to a abbreviated blood flow to the brain and low blood line suga...Read More...Submitted by Plexux D. to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Uganda opts for solar cookers to boost energy ...
Uganda is set to start manufacturing solar-powered cookers, to be marketed across East Africa, as the country seeks to boost its energy capacity and reduce over reliance on timber and charcoal.Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Green Lifestyle �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Barack Obama Shreds His Credibility
Barack Obama and his handlers (although based on their performance of late they should be labeled “mishandlers”) just do not understand that words matter. When you put the President out in front of the cameras to declare, “Qaddafi must go,” then you better know ahead of time that you are committ ...
- Fears About Early Voting In Egypt Confirmed
After forcing out Mubarrak as leader of Egypt, Egyptians held a vote on Sunday on a number of different amendments and changes. One of the issues on which the people voted was whether or not to have speedy elections. The people have spoken, and the answer is: yes. Yes, they do want speedy electi ...
- Green Boots (& Open Thread)
> � Richard Engel, NBC, struggles mightily to convey the fact that the rebels in Benghazi are not a democratic front, not even a coherent political front, but rather a rag-tag collection of second rate thugs with a handful of ambitious lawyers and other Francophone self-elected celebrities. The ...
- President Obama, Speeching It In
Barack Obama may have been elected to the Office of President, but his conduct during the past week provides clear and compelling evidence that he is unfit and unqualified to hold that office. He ordered U.S. forces to commit an act of war in Libya but, rather than stay in Washington to address ...
- What IS the U.S. Policy?
If Colonel Qaddafi manages to remain in power, that will leave the United States and the United Nations-backed mission looking like a failure, foreign policy experts from all sides of the political spectrum said. “Barack Obama told Qaddafi to go; if Qaddafi doesn’t go, America will look diminish ...
- The Amazing Floating Buoy Barnacle
The amazing buoy barnacle, the only one of its kind that's able to make its own float. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- The Artist Who Lived Naked with Hundreds of Pigs
Hauntingly beautiful images of artist Miru Kim naked in the company of industrially grown pigs. Food for thought about the relationship between animals and human. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the articl ...
- World Water Day: 15 Amazing Reasons Why Each D ...
This year’s Word Water Day theme is “Water for Cities: Responding to the Urban Challenge”. Enjoy these 15 images of precious water drops. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- Facts and Myths about the Japanese Nuclear Dis ...
The radiation scare stemming from exploding nuclear plants in Japan has spurred many myths. Here are the truths, and what to expect in the coming years. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- 2011 Japan Earthquake and Tsunami: Images in t ...
March 11, 2011. The largest ever earthquake of magnitude 8.9 hit off the east coast of Japan, followed by a disastrous tsunami. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- Fear, Intimidation & Media Disinformation: U.K ...
Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, August 20, 2009 An official UK government report –quoted extensively in Britain’s tabloid media– is warning the British public that there will ...
- President European Commission Advocated World ...
Jurriaan Maessen. Infowars. July 24th, 2009 On September 7, 1992, two term President of the European Commission Jacques Delors gave a speech to the Royal Institute of International ...
- Billions of People Expected to Die Under Curre ...
Barbara Minton, Natural News, July 21st, 2009 Your right to eat healthy food and use supplements of your choice is rapidly vanishing, but every effort has been made to keep you in t ...
- Bioweapons, Dangerous Vaccines, and Threats of ...
Stephen Lendman, Global Research, July 7th, 2009 Although international law prohibits the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons, America has had an active biological warfare p ...
- Today we’re all prisoners in the USA
Papers, Please! June 2, 2009 As of today, June 1, 2009, even U.S. citizens are officially prisoners in the USA, or exiles barred from entering our own country without the government ...
- March 22 mega-link dump: ChernobyLinks & Middl ...
A ton of the latest & greatest links to throw at ya, roughly themed out! First some Lols and things to check out: CIA's 'Facebook' Program Dramatically Cut Agency's Costs | Onion News Network Bloomberg's Winkler Discusses Fed Bank Loan Data Ruling - Video - Bloomberg Granbury woman run over, kil ...
- Feds take down Liberty Dollar with Extreme Pre ...
[photo source] Mother Jones reports von NotHaus has founded the Free Marijuana Church of Honolulu – eat that, coppers! Full trial Blog @ LibertyDollarTrial. Ron Paul Coin Minter, Pot Priest, Faces 15 Years in Prison | Mother Jones A few crib notes on the late great Liberty Dollar, which worked ...
- Structural deterioration as Franklin Avenue br ...
Took these pics over the weekend. Please feel free to reuse as you like // Creative Commons with Attribution if pozzible. The MN GOP is slashing transportation money while this is the state of infrastructure on the Mississippi -- and of course things and people blow up in Africa. Pass these phot ...
- Libyan Internet reporter Mohammed Nabbous kill ...
Mohammad Nabbous, face of citizen journalism in Libya, is killed | World news | guardian.co.uk Mohamed Nabbous somehow got around every Internet blockade and dragged the news out of Benghazi, Libya, at great risk. His fear and determination to overcome it was unmistakeable when I first saw ...
- Anonymous Bank of America docs show Insurance ...
The Chain of Crime Starts Here: #BlackMonday Ex-Bank of America Employee Can Prove Mortgage Fraud Part 1 With the tragic situation in Japan - and the lawless situation ruling the day in Wisconsin - the news about more exposure of Bank of America systems of fraud comes mostly under the radar, but ...
- Michael Collins: Reuters Pulls Story on Nuke ...
Michael Collins What happened to this story? Did the corporate media get their storyline out of order? Reuters ran a story yesterday with a lede indicating that Tokyo Electric may have to bury their Fukushima I nuclear plant. This was remarkable news. The battle was about to be lost. The p ...
- Investment bankers salivate over North Africa
Chaos and strife create the revolutionary atmosphere in which opportunity abounds Written by Atheo | Aletho News | March 8, 2011 Investment banking is usually thought of as a field that values stability. Yet the greatest rewards are often attained through destabilization. North African regimes a ...
- Department of Education wants principals to ce ...
Under the guise of defeating bullying, the US Department of Education has stated that it wants school principals to censor student speech, particularly in the cafeteria and at online sites, such as Facebook. School principals are being threatened by the DOE with lawsuits if they do not adhere to ...
- Censored News, Is It a Blessing?
Perhaps it is a blessing that news is censored. I am being overloaded by the news that isn’t. I was not surprised after a Republican, Billy Tauzin, pushed through a drug benefit bill, (Medicare, Part D), at great expense to the American people, that he went to work for the pharmaceutical indus ...
- Test Scores Fail Students, Teachers, But Remai ...
The news out of Washington DC offers evidence that calls for test-based teacher evaluations persist, ironically against the weight of evidence: “Sen. Joseph Lieberman is drafting a school reform bill that would tie a portion of federal education dollars to a requirement that states implement rob ...
- Interview with Farid Panjwani
In our special focus on Islamophobia, Farid Panjwani talks about the relationship between religion and citizenship, the impact of Sharia law, and the role of Muslim faith schools.
- The Lineup: Week of March 21-27, 2011
An op-ed by Alice Slater, a column by Donald Kaul, and a cartoon by Khalil Bendib put Japan's nuclear emergency into context.
- Safeguarding Spent Fuel Pools in the United States
A drained spent fuel pool in the U.S. could lead to a catastrophic fire that would result in long-term land contamination substantially worse than what the Chernobyl accident unleashed.
- CEO Pay Bashing, Tea Party Style
Has Jim DeMint, the right-wing senator leading the assault on federal domestic spending, finally gone too far? His corporate executive benefactors may soon come to think so.
- Reducing the Hazards from Stored Spent Power-R ...
This 2003 article underscored the dangers posed by the practice of storing spent fuel on-site at nuclear power plants in the United States. It's is very relevant today as Japanese engineers struggle to prevent a nuclear catastrophe in Fukushima, Japan.
- Traduction des preuves en Français
Les preuves en Français Preuves à l’appui: une introduction Preuves à l’appui: la santé physique Preuves à l’appui: la santé mentale Preuves à l’appui: la toxicomanie Preuves à l’appui: l’éducation Preuves à l’appui: la population carcérale
- Response to criticism of The Spirit Level
Find our full response to criticism of The Spirit Level here.
- The Wrong Cure - alternatives to the cuts
The False Economy website is an excellent and still-developing resource exploring the alternatives to cuts. False Economy includes: a discussion of why the cuts are not progressive details of campaign actions a comprehensive further reading list ... and this short film [youtube:ynUCYo ...
- Why we need a Fairness Test of the cuts
A group of charities, including the Equality Trust, Child Poverty Action Group, Barnardo's and the TUC are asking the coalition government to commit to a Fairness Test on any tax rises or spending cuts they introduce. Full details...
- Sign up to our email newsletter
Don't forget to sign up to our email newsletter to receive quarterly updates about our work and next week's response from Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett to questions about the Spirit Level analysis.
- Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Mon ...
Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Money Out of Politics By Carmen Yarrusso There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.â–Henry David Thoreau Clearly, our government ...
- IOT: Healthcare for All Jan Call
Call – Healthcare for All IOT Date – Jan 18, 2011 Agenda: 1. IntroductionsâDr. Bill Honigman, PDA Healthcare for All IOT coordinator and California State Coordinator 2. National Single Payer MovementâKatie Robbins, Healthcare-NOW! 3. States Single Payer Movement–Chuck Pennacchio, Healthcare ...
- PDA Weekly Field Report 1/7/2011 – 1/18/2011
Little Victories! Field Site: onenationpda.org California ADEM elections: Congratulations to all our PDA California friends and allies who completed a sweep up and down at the state at the recent CA Democratic Party Delegate elections. This will put the ...
- War is a Crime: Join In For Justice
WarIsACrime.org JOIN IN FOR JUSTICE! 1/17/11 Washington, D.C., and Quantico, Va. Protest of FBI Raids and Bradley Manning Imprisonment http://www.defendingdissent.org/action/Events.htm 1/18/11 Washington, D.C. Panel with Rep. Rush Holt, Emily Berman from the Brennan Center for Justice, Sha ...
- An American Suicide Terrorist
William John Cox The shooter of Congresswoman Gifford acted as a domestic suicide terrorist on the political “battleground” of American politics. His YouTube postings and “goodby” phone messages are ominously reminiscent of the traditional farewell videos ...
- 2010-2011 Legislative Session: Raw Milk Bills ...
State Bill Description Status Link California (Humbolt County) O 512.4 Citizen request to rescind County Ordinance banning raw milk sales Request denied by Board of Supervisors (5-0) http://co.humboldt.ca.us/board/agenda/questys/mg210103 ...
- Are we due for a Salmonella serotype Panama Ca ...
S. Panama is relatively rare – ranked 20th out of 100 in 1968-1998 data. Thanks to www.outbreakdatabase.com, I can search for Cantaloupe and Salmonella outbreaks. Here are a few: Multistate Unknown Location Cantaloupe, November 2008, 10 ill persons - A confirmed outbreak of Salmonella Javiana ...
- Avvo Gives Marler Clark a 10.0 Superb Rating
Avvo, a recent entry into the attorney rating market was kind enough to give William Marler a: Could not do it without the staff.
- Dead Lawyers Have No Enemies
From Scott Greenfield over at Simple Justice - A New York Criminal Defense Blog: In a recent post, products liability lawyer Bill Marler wrote about his adversary in a case making a presentation to an industry group that used him, his face, his name, an image of a pile of money and a lawyer cha ...
- Cheese Factory Halts Production Due to E. coli ...
The Tillamook Cheese Factory halted production and stopped serving food Friday and Saturday after fecal coliform and E. coli bacteria were found in the local water supply. The Kilchis Regional Water System, which includes the cheese factory, Bay City, Northwood, Latimer and Juno, was under a bo ...
- Smart ForSpeed concept revealed before Geneva ...
Filed under: Concept Cars, Convertible, Geneva Motor Show, Smart, Electric Smart Forspeed - Click above for high-res image gallery Not every future Smart model is in trouble of vanishing - some will never see the light of production. To wit, Daimler's minicar maker is bringing an all-electr ...
- Report: Some dealers price gouging Chevy Volt ...
Filed under: Car Buying, Hybrid, Sedan, Chevrolet, GM, Electric 2011 Chevrolet Volt - Click above for high-res image gallery Even though some Chevrolet dealers were warned not to sell the Volt above the MSRP, there is a distinct trend around the country where some dealers are trying to make ...
- Audi, Voith enter new carbon fiber partnership
Filed under: Technology, Audi Audi Aluminum A5 Coupe Prototype - Click above for high-res image Audi has put carbon fiber to good use in concept vehicles like the e-tron show cars and a special lightweight A5, which has a carbon fiber hood and rear deck, and in some parts of the R8 and RS 3. ...
- Report: $33M in EV tax credits went to buy unq ...
Filed under: Car Buying, Government/Legal Is a bicycle an electric vehicle? How about a Hummer H3? These are some of the things that Americans claimed were hybrids, alternative-powered or plug-in electric vehicles on their tax forms, reports USA Today. What's more, the false claimants managed ...
- AutoblogGreen for 02.04.11
Top Gear host wants electric vehicles powered by bumper car technology Watch out! Italian designers envision amazing Solar Wind bridge It looks like the future, that's for sure. Agility Saietta electric m ...
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- Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
- The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
- Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
- Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...
- 21-year-old Libyan-American Medical Student Mu ...
Muhannad Bensadik was a 21-year-old Libyan-American medical student in Benghazi who was born in North Carolina and whose family lives in Virginia. He participated in the Libyan uprising last month and then decided to join the armed struggle against Col. Muammar Gaddafi’s forces. Muhanna ...
- Libyan Citizen Journalist Muhammad Nabbous Kil ...
Democracy Now! regrets to report that Muhammad Nabbous, a Libyan citizen journalist in Benghazi who founded Libya Al Hurra TV to broadcast live online on Gaddafi violence, was shot and killed Saturday morning. Click to hear Democracy Now! correspondent Anjali Kamat’s Feb. 26 intervi ...
- Aristide's First Day Back in Haiti After 7 Yea ...
After a long day of traveling, Amy Goodman reports on the historic return of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to Haiti. Click here to listen to this report. âI am Amy Goodman in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. What a remarkable day and a remarkable journey this has been. The Aristides have ...
- Ralph Nader and Daniel Ellsberg: We Need to Se ...
As the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have virtually disappeared from mainstream media coverage, Democracy Now! ’s Juan Gonzalez has a wide-ranging conversation with Pentagon whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and longtime consumer advocate Ralph Nader about the ongoing U.S. military occupation of th ...
- Amy Goodman Reports: Aristide Lands in Haiti A ...
Former Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide has landed in Haiti and Amy Goodman is there to report the latest Listen to this report "here": http://traffic.libsyn.com/democracynow/msg0005_49.mp3 I’m Amy Goodman, we just landed in Port au Prince. The former president of Haiti, Jean-Ber ...
- Malaria Drug Breakthrough Made
Researchers in Canada and the United States say they have developed a new process to more quickly and cheaply produce a drug known to be an effective treatment for malaria, a disease that kills nearly one million people each year.
- Banana peels may help filter pollutants o ...
Banana peels are famous for causing slips, but now scientists find they could keep pollutants from slipping into your water.
- Monster Black Holes Beyond Comprehension ...
Monster black holes in the early universe could have formed deep within giant star-like objects. The most detailed models yet of this scenario could help explain how black holes with a mass of a billion or more suns were created...
- Brain–Computer Interface Allows Paralyzed ...
The device, developed by composer and computer-music specialist Eduardo Miranda of the University of Plymouth, UK, working with computer scientists at the University of Essex, should eventually help people with severe physical disabilities to make music for recreational or therapeutic purpo ...
- Shar-pei Wrinkle Study Could Help Humans, ...
The characteristic wrinkles and folds of Chinese shar-peis are what makes these purebred dogs so cute, but the wrinkles may also be making them sick. Swedish researchers have linked the gene that causes the wrinkles to frequent bouts of fever in the dogs and, it turns out, some humans have ...
- If It Walks like a Werewolf and So on and So Forth
By Les Visible Anyway, this Stuxnet virus, as I understand it, is supposed to make it possible for an outside controller to take over the system. I’ve seen it phrased where Stuxnet ‘escaped’. Does it do stuff like that? Does it come with a suitcase and travel cosmetics and clothes? Doesn’t it ha ...
- One of The Darkest Evils the World has ever Known
By Les Visible Someone please correct me if I’m wrong. Wasn’t it Israel that sent 50,000 African mercenaries into Libya? So… arenât the NATO coalition now bombing, strafing and tomahawking Israelâs mercenaries? Meanwhile, isnât the reason that the assaults didn’t stop (possibly Gadhafi doesn’t h ...
- Israeli Security Firm in Charge at Japanese Nu ...
This puts new light on the failures at Japanese nuclear power plants. Israeli security firms are in place at most major terrorist attacks. Are the disasters at Fukushima the result of an earthquake or is there another sinister plot in operation… The CEO of the Israeli company that installed ...
- Mainstream media halts accurate reporting on J ...
By Mike Adams Almost as if on cue, the mainstream media today halted nearly all accurate reporting of the worsening situation in Japan, writing off the whole thing as a “non issue.” This all happened in a seeming coordinate effort following President Obama’s speech on Wednesday that urged Americ ...
- New cybervirus found in Japan / Stuxnet design ...
Is there be a connection between an Isreali security company, Mossad, Stuxnet and the failures of safety systems at the Japanese nuclear power plant???? The Yomiuri Shimbun Stuxnet, a computer virus designed to attack servers isolated from the Internet, such as at power plants, has been confirme ...
- Less Than a Week Away
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- The Georgia Guidestones
On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
- The Creation
THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to pu ...
- The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...
In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
- About George Green
Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to fo ...
- Cartoon caption contest
Take a look at the cartoon below and enter your caption idea in the comment section (more ifo on prize, etc. below the cartoon). Eligible captions will be those posted on my site, Elephant Journal, Wend Magazine, PlanetSave, Eco-Snobbery Sucks, Ecolutionist, Ecopolitology, and Twilight Earth. Wi ...
- Exposed: Why the GOP wants to eliminate Clean ...
Whether we can believe this see-through-elephant-trunk footage or not, the possibility that elephants have a triple fitration system within their trunks has to have some credence. Otherwise, why on earth would leading Republicans try to make it easier for big polluters to further pollute the air ...
- Apples may lose trees [cartoon]
The rest of Joe Mohr’s cartoons, and cartoon updates and other green news on Twitter @GreenCartoons. Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets BeatâMay Lose Beets (cartoon) Eco-Snobbery Sucks: The Cartoon Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets BeatâMay Lose Beets (cartoon) Ec ...
- Mixed message from USDA chief Vilsack [cartoon]
US Ag Secretary, Tom Vilsack tells us to eat more natural foods a few days after fully deregulating GMO alfalfa…I’m confused. Confused as well? Read the links below and try to figure out this mess. From The New York Times: Governmentâs Dietary Advice: Eat Less From Elephant Journal: The USDA cav ...
- BREAKING: Deleted Monsanto cartoon panel, leaked!
Unlike the former Monsanto cartoon on this subject, this version shows a bit more clearly who surrendered the future of organic agriculture to Monsanto. There’s been a lot of talk from both sides (organic and biotech) about compromise. That is misleading and almost laughable (read: cryable). Dea ...
- Google Headquarters Gets The World’s First Eva ...
Select Google employees at the company’s headquarters in California will be able to juice up their electric vehicles using a new Plugless Power⢠charging station. Installed recently by the cleantech startup Evatran, this new unit uses electrical induction instead of wires to deliver a snappy ch ...
- Chicago’s Willis Tower to Become a Vertical So ...
Chicago’s iconic Willis Tower (formally the Sears Tower) is set to become a massive solar electric plant with the installation of a pilot solar electric glass project. The high-profile project on the south side of the 56th floor will replace the windows with a new type of photovoltaic glass deve ...
- Bill Gates Fights Spam and Gives 13 TWh of Ene ...
Bill Gates is one of the richest men in the world and is known for his social philanthropy — however his latest victory bears a welcome boon for energy and the environment. Working with federal law enforcement agencies, the Digital Crime Unit of Microsoft has smashed the world’s largest spamming ...
- Buddha 1.0 by Nikkuu Design is a Lamp and a Ch ...
Nikkuu Design‘s Buddha 1.0 is a clever multifunctional furnishing that transcends the distinctions between different furniture forms by integrating lighting and seating all-in-one. The hybrid piece was created using re-purposed wooden pallets that were then dressed up with a handcrafted acrylic ...
- Brilliant Salt Crystal Lamp is Grown in a Bucket
Swedish designers Apokalyps Labotek mixed chemistry with innovation to create a crystalline lamp made almost entirely from salt. The brilliant lighting fixture emulates the glimmering look of a glass chandelier, and it took virtually no energy or labor to make – the Malmo-based designers simply ...
- Piggyback Virus Could Curb HIV Pandemic
Rather than destroying HIV, a proposed treatment would embrace its infectious abilities, sending the virus into competition with a harmless, stripped-down version of itself. Dubbed therapeutic interfering particles, or TIPs, these engineered viral scraps would ride with HIV as it spreads from p ...
- Nerve-Electronic Hybrid Could Meld Mind and Ma ...
Nerve-cell tendrils readily thread their way through tiny semiconductor tubes, researchers find, forming a crisscrossed network like vines twining toward the sun. The discovery that offshoots from nascent mouse nerve cells explore the specially designed tubes could lead to tricks for studying n ...
- Primordial Soup’s Missing Ingredient May Be Sulfur
A fresh look at forgotten vials from Stanley Miller’s primordial-soup-in-a-bottle experiments implies that volcanoes seeping hydrogen sulfide helped form some of life’s earliest ingredients. Sulfur’s presence makes it possible to synthesize a greater variety of amino acids — the molecules that ...
- Robot Swarms Could Help Search for Life in Mar ...
Autonomous swarming robots, programmed to search like honeybees, could be the best strategy to explore caves on Mars that may harbor life. Methane traces in the Martian atmosphere point to undiscovered activity — whether geological or biological — lurking beneath the surface. ”Something intere ...
- I See Rock People: Mimetoliths of the World
- World War 3: One Nation at a Time
The globalists are infiltrating, corrupting, and turning the entire planet, one nation at a time in a combined scientific-geopolitical dictatorship that will be effectively impossible to reverse once it is completed. The latest Western-fueled conflagration in the Arab world indicates an accelera ...
- The Libya Blitzkrieg and the Coming Iran War
If you’re following the news on the Libya developments, it’s a master stroke of NWO control. The speed with which they’ve managed to supposedly get international concensus not just to create a so-called “no fly” zone, but to pound whatever targets they want, has been a diplomatic blitzkrieg. ...
- At least 110 Tomahawk missiles fired at Libya:US
US and British forces have fired at least 110 Tomahawk cruise missiles into Libya against Moamer Kadhafi's air defense sites, a top US military officer said Saturday. Vice Admiral William Gortney told reporters that "earlier this afternoon over 110 Tomahawk cruise missiles fired from both US and ...
- 6 Reasons To Start World War III If You Are A ...
The average person can barely imagine why World War III would be anything but a civilization-ending event. And, yet, we have heard Neocons ramping up rhetoric that suggests a new world war would be a viable option to correct a dying dollar and economy. Or, perhaps it is simply a sound investme ...
- Egypt-Style Revolt For the UK?
We are inundated with more than enough information and proof about our oppressors than we know what to do with, and that Truth should make clear that we have the information we need, and it is now time for direct action. Those in support of Roger Hayes, Brian Gerrish, the BCG group, and all thos ...
- Guantánamo in America (Part Two): The Nation R ...
Following a major feature on NPR, covering the little-known Communications Management Units (CMUs), located in Terre Haute, Indiana, and Marion, Illinois, where the inmates are mostly Muslims, who are subjected to surveillance 24 hours a day, have their mail monitored, and are prevented from hav ...
- Guantánamo in America (Part One): NPR Explains ...
It has long been a regret of mine that I don’t have enough time to write about the domestic prison system in the US, because of the distressing scale of incarceration in the US (the highest per capita rate in the world, by far) and also because of the violence and brutality, and the use [...]
- Andy Worthington’s YouTube Channel Is No ...
Just to let you know that I’ve finally got my YouTube Channel up and running, featuring some of the various films, TV shows and events I’ve been involved in for the last six months, to which new material will be added as and when it happens — and original material, if I ever get round [...]
- Revolution in the Middle East: Brave Protestor ...
Yesterday, as the video below shows, hundreds of Syrians braved the retaliation of the forces of President Bashar al-Assad by marching in the streets of Damascus — and also, apparently, in Aleppo — calling on Allah, demanding peace and freedom, and asking why their fellow Syrians were not out on ...
- BMA Emergency Meeting Calls on Government to D ...
Yesterday, the British Medical Association (BMA), the union that represents 140,000 doctors in the UK, dealt a major blow to the coalition government’s plans for the biggest overhaul of the NHS since its foundation in 1948 by voting to tell the health minister Andrew Lansley to “call a halt to t ...
- Veni, Vidi, Voting
Hey all! Gimlet Eyes just got back from the Rally To Restore Sanity in Washington, DC (did you see me? I was right in the middle! With a sign!) and now I’m fired up and ready to go. First things first. The rally was incredible. No, it wasn’t partisan. In fact, it really wasn’t political: Ste ...
- Warren FTW
I have been geeking out over yesterday’s big primaries, and the ensuing act of Republican cannibalism that really, really belongs in one of Linda McMahon’s WWE Smackdowns. (I mean seriously: who doesn’t want to see Sarah Palin kick Karl Rove in the crotch, followed up by Rush Limbaugh taking a ...
- Overtaxation with No Oversight: The Internal S ...
Since Mayor Murphy took office, the citizens of New Milford have been overtaxed to create discrete government piggy bank. The over-taxation has led to the bloating of the Internal Service Fund (ISF) by a whopping 170%. The ISF has grown 2.5 times higher than the town’s healthcare premiums. This ...
- HT Gives "Thumbs Up" to NM School Budget
Here are a few snippets from the 2/4/11 editorial in The Housatonic Times. "...all those who assemble the proposed education budget went into the current process with new resolve to craft a package that met all the needs and would also be politically palatable. Better communication was establi ...
- G! E! T! S! (bud) GETS! (bud) GETS! (bud) GETS!
(Oh, was that too soon, Jets fans? Suck it up. Love, The Patriots Nation.) Forget football, it’s budget season again! And even though we paid all those pesky teachers last year, they want money again this year. So, of course, it will be controversial. There are several things in play this y ...
- FBI: Confessed California Planned Parenthood B ...
The FBI on Thursday said Donny Eugene Mower, 37, has confessed to the September firebombing of a Planned Parenthood center in Madera, Calif. The FBI said Mower also was responsible for posting hostile signs at a Madera Islamic Center in late August. The FBI was already investigating the Islamic ...
- Arizona Jury Hands Nativist Murderer Shawna Fo ...
Shawna Forde, the anti-immigrant vigilante leader who orchestrated the murder of a Latino man and his 9-year-old daughter, will receive the death penalty, a Pima County, Ariz., jury decided today. The decision is binding on the judge hearing the case. The case of Forde, a one-time member of the ...
- Amazon Often Rejects Porn But Helps White Raci ...
Fans of racist literature looking to get their hands on a copy of Kyle Bristowâs 2010 novel White Apocalypse need look no further than Amazon.com. Thanks to the online retail giantâs print-on-demand (POD) service, the bloodthirsty white nationalist fantasy â which Bristow self-published through ...
- Militia Figure Shawna Forde Found Guilty of Ar ...
Concluding a three-week trial that exposed the most unsavory side of Arizonaâs militant border vigilante movement, a jury on Monday found Shawna Forde guilty of two counts of first-degree murder for the May 2009 killings of Raul Flores, 29, and his 9-year-old daughter in the border town of Ariva ...
- Alleged Spokane Bomber Fantasized about Killin ...
Kevin William Harpham, the alleged Martin Luther King Day bomber who was arrested yesterday, was deeply involved in the white supremacist movement and once fantasized about killing anti-racists. The Army veteran posted his thoughts, in fact, more than 1,000 times on the racist and anti-Semitic i ...
- Denver Fails to Fix Pit Bull Ban for Departmen ...
If you're looking for the poster children for bad and bullheaded breed-specific legislation, it's hard to find better examples than Denver and Aurora, Colorado. Both cities passed pit bull bans years ago, drawing the ire of pit bull owners (as well as a handful of other breeds selected for the s ...
- Civil Rights Suit Tackles Law Dubbing Oral Sex ...
Over a year ago, I wrote about a law in Louisiana that treats oral and anal sex as felony "crimes against nature." It's a vestige of extreme homophobia that has been mainly struck down by the Supreme Court, but the law remained on the books and serves a new purpose: putting sex workers behind ba ...
- Marylanders Fight To Pass Critical Anti-Traffi ...
Currently, human trafficking victims in Maryland don't have access to critical resources to help them recover from their horrific experiences. But there are two bills before the state House and Senate that could fill these gaps. The 2011 Maryland Legislative Session ends on April 11, and hundred ...
- Maryland Bill to Ban Arsenic in Chicken May Di ...
"This is an issue that makes sense to ten out of ten people," Maryland's Del. Tom Hucker recently told the Baltimore Sun. Hucker was referring to legislation that would ban the state's poultry farmers from feeding their birds roxarsone, an arsenic-based feed additive that reportedly can cause hu ...
- PA Transit Company SEPTA Silences Debate on Ge ...
Want to ride the bus in Philadelphia without coming out to your fellow commuters? Good luck with that. In January, Southeastern Pennsylvania Transit Authority (SEPTA) greeted the New Year with a special resolution. The company will continue its discrimination against transgender and gender non-c ...
- Is Muammar Gaddafi a Target? PM and Military S ...
A breach within Britain's political and military leadership has opened up as David Cameron argued the Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi, may be a legitimate target while the Chief of the Defence Staff, Sir David Richards, said he was "absolutely not". ...
- Haitians Go to Polls Amid Violence and Ballot ...
Haitians went to the polls yesterday to elect a new president amid the ruins of an earthquake that has left 800,000 people homeless, fears of a cholera outbreak and reports of campaign violence and ballot station chaos. Early indications suggested slow voting, as Brazilian UN troops guarded poll ...
- Japan Quake Death Toll Passes 18,000
The human and financial cost of the tsunami continues to rise, after police estimates showed more than 18,000 people have died in the disaster and the World Bank said it may cost Japan as much as �145bn to repair the damage. read more
- UN Investigator: Israel Engaged in Ethnic Clea ...
Israel's expansion of settlements in East Jerusalem and eviction of Palestinians from their homes there is a form of ethnic cleansing, a United Nations investigator said on Monday. United States academic Richard Falk was speaking to the UN Human Rights Council as it prepared to pass resolutions ...
- Revolutionary Youth Gives Clinton the Cold Sho ...
CAIRO - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last week paid a highly-publicised visit to Cairo's Tahrir Square, the epicentre of Egypt's recent popular uprising. But young leaders of the revolution declined an invitation to meet with her, citing Washington's tepid support for anti-government ...
- The Basics of Video Editing Part I: Getting to ...
If you've edited a few videos but have always wanted to step up your game and learn to edit with professional software, now's your chance. We'll be taking a dive into the basics of professional video editing software all week. First up: ...
- From the Tips Box: Automatic Bill Paying, Back ...
Readers offer their best tips for getting discounts on your monthly bills, searching for small items in your backpack, and avoiding wasting time in the shower. More��
- Remains of the Day: Amazon App Store to Launch ...
Twitter celebrates its fifth birthday, Microsoft takes down the world's largest spam network, and the launch of Amazon's app store may be less than a day away. More��
- Xobni Adds Context to Your Contacts in Gmail, ...
Firefox/Chrome: Gmail's address book is nice, but isn't mind-blowing. Free extension Xobni automatically grabs info about your contacts from the web and puts tons of information right in Gmail's sidebar, including relationship history, mut ...
- Download OS X 10.6.7... Right Now [Blip]
The freshest OS X update is out and ready for your computer to swallow up. Aimed at 2011 MBPs, the update brings less-buggy Back to My Mac, Mac App Store fixes, FaceTime performance tweaks, and improved graphics stability. Start yer Software Update engines. More�� ...
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- Water Resources Management and Water Supply in ...
As the world’s population continues to grow, water resources are under siege. According to the World Bank, 1.1 billion people today do not have access to safe drinking water.
- Water meters under consideration
Council is to include water meters in the draft Annual Plan for 2011/12 in a move designed to give more certainty that water consumption and leak reduction targets will be met.
- Govt open to privatization of water
New Delhi Municipal Council has proposed a 24x7 water supply in its areas. With water in such short supply across the capital - many residents go without even a 30-minute supply daily - one would think it criminal to provide continuous water to the VIPs in central Delhi.
- Sierra Club: State Budget Destroys State Parks ...
There's plenty to hate in the budget that the Arizona Senate passed last week, with local Sens. Al Melvin and Frank Antenori voting in favor. Sandy Bahr of the Sierra Club runs down the environmental consequences, including the damage to the state parks and to managing Arizona's fragile water su ...
- Third night of air strikes over Libya
�� Air strikes in Libya continued for a third night �� Libyan government claims more civilians killed �� Disputes over whether Gaddafi legitimate target �� Fighting continues on the ground Follow live updates here8.43am: I've just been speaking to the Guardian's Middle East editor Ian Black, who ...
- Japan fears food contamination
Abnormal radiation levels reported in tap water, vegetables and milk with concerns that fish may also be affectedThe operation to cool the reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has suffered a minor setback after smoke and vapour was seen rising from two reactors, as anxiety grew ...
- Osborne to unveil private jet tax
Crackdown on the better-off will be announced as government seeks higher tax revenue to close budget deficitA £4bn crackdown on tax avoidance by the better-off will be announced by George Osborne on Wednesday as the government seeks higher tax revenue to close the UK's budget deficit.The chancel ...
- Call for 'Tahrir Square' in London
Student activists draw inspiration from Egypt protests and call for 24-hour occupation of London landmarkCampaigners against public service cuts are calling for a 24-hour occupation of Trafalgar Square � drawing inspiration from revolts in the Middle East � to coincide with Saturday's trade unio ...
- Ofcom cues up 4G mobile auction
Regulator aims to enable high-speed internet connectivity around UK while also guaranteeing competitionThe communications regulator Ofcom is planning its largest-ever auction of mobile phone spectrum in 2012 with the aim of enabling high-speed internet connectivity around the UK while also guara ...
- A new uncertainty in Libya operation: Who's in ...
WASHINGTON — The fragile international coalition supporting military action in Libya showed fresh signs of strain Monday, as the U.S., Europe and Arab nations wrestled with the issue of who will take charge of military operations if the U.S. gives up control in the days ahead.
- Allied airstrikes boost confidence of Libyan r ...
BENGHAZI, Libya — Two days after U.S. and coalition forces imposed a no-fly zone over Libya, rebels moved Monday to retake the city of Ajdabiya, a critical crossroads in their fight to regain the territory they lost week.
- Libya looms over next stop on Obama's tour, Chile
SANTIAGO, Chile — Amid the ghosts of Chile's past and an escalating confrontation in Libya, President Barack Obama used the mid-point of his first extended Latin American tour to address the region, saying no other part of the world shared so many of the United States' values and interests.
- In Japan, the rites of Spring are laced with s ...
TOKYO This year in Japan, the rites of spring have transformed themselves into the rituals of sorrow.
- Gaza protests stretch into a seventh day
RAMALLAH, West Bank — Inspired by the "Arab Spring" revolutions across the Arab World, Palestinians protested for a seventh straight day Monday in both the West Bank and Gaza in an effort to force their divided leaders into reconciling with one another.
- Bees: a sting in the tale
� The United Nations Environment Programme (Unep) buzzes into the ongoing discussion of bee decline this week, with a report examining the global nature of the issue and some of the reasons behind it. Their top-line conclusions are that it's becoming a widespread, if not quite global, phenomen ...
- Green tuna goes FAD-free
Environmental group Greenpeace is claiming something of a victory with the news that the UK's biggest supplier of canned tuna, Princes, is going to source its fish from more sustainable supplies than previously. Greenpeace has been spearheading a campaign to get companies to adopt sustainable t ...
- China and EU share climate vision
China and the European Union are setting out plans for changing energy use and curbing carbon emissions within a space of a few days. As one of them is the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases while the other would be third in the global list if its emissions were tallied as a single enti ...
- Refining the sixth great extinction
Are we living through the sixth mass extinction of life in Earth history? That we are is something you'll often hear asserted in conservation circles - and you'll easily find dozens of news articles taking the notion at face value. It's even acquired a posh name - the Holocene extinction. In ...
- Discard bathwater, not baby
More selective fishing tends to produce fewer discards Everybody wants to do it: nobody is entirely sure how that should be done. Discarding fish is, on one level, an outrageous practice; so surely stopping it is the right thing? A byproduct of measures to keep fishing within sustainable limit ...
- Paul Carson and the harpercons
There's something about this Paul Carson guy that seems to typify the entire harpercon culture. Paul Carson is 66 years old. He was a lawyer who lost his license for some (apparently small scale more like stealing $20,000 from his clients!) criminal behaviour. He became an adviser and political ...
- Don't Keep stephen harper in Power! Put him in ...
Listen, it's very clear. Afghan peasant farmers, either fighting back against a government of rapists and thieves, or coerced into fighting for the insurgency, or completely innocent of any political or armed resistance but just trying to work their land and survive, were arrested by Canadian s ...
- If You are NDP or Liberal or Not a harpercon
Contact the Liberal or NDP MP in your riding, and tell them that you want them to take a stand against harper's destructive corporate tax cuts and his assaults on Canadian democracy. If you don't have either an NDP or Liberal MP, contact the party headquarters of the party that seems likeliest ...
- A Message For harperbot Trolls
If on the very small chance that you have the moral and intellectual ability to feel bad about taking the harpercon party of Canada's money to infest progressive blogs and defend the harpercon government's deliberate assault on Canadian democracy, ... just stop doing it. That's right. Continue ...
- Liberal - Tory - Same - Old - Story!!!
SIGH. Yesterday, I wrote some commentary about stephen harper's revolting words about the significance of the recent Japanese earthquake tragedy as reported here. Now, that's a Liberal site, but I still found it ridiculous and outrageous that part of the response to an abomination emerging fro ...
- Number of the Day: Taxpayers' Return on Invest ...
By Bryan Rahija Your number of the day: $87, as in the financial benefit to the government for every $1 invested in the Government Accountability Office (GAO), according to, well, the GAO. From Thursday's testimony before the House Subcommittee on...
- POGO at Sunshine Week Hearing: Bring FOIA Out ...
By Bryan Rahija In case you missed it amid all the other open gov hullabaloo, late last week POGO Director of Public Policy Angela Canterbury shared POGO's views on the state of government openness as a panelist on a House...
- Morning Smoke: Pentagon IG Awards Failing Grad ...
Where there's smoke, there's fire. POGO's Morning Smoke is a collection of the previous day's investigations, scoops, and opinions related to the world of government oversight. Have a story you'd like to see included? Contact POGO's blog editor. Report criticizes...
- New Podcast: An Interview with Lt. Colonel Mic ...
By Bryan Rahija What would you do if you were in the military and were given an order that you thought was illegal? If you're like Lt. Colonel Michael Holmes, you probably would've started asking questions. Lt. Colonel Holmes leads...
- Quote of the Day: One Definition of High-Value ...
By Bryan Rahija ProPublica's Jennifer LaFleur on the kind of data that the government should be releasing: Information on anything that's inspected, spent, enforced, or licensed. That's what I want, and that's what the public wants. LaFleur made the comment...
- Russia opposed to 'indiscriminate use of force ...
As the US-led Western coalition continued its bombardment of military targets across LIbya throughout the weekend, Russia announced its displeasure with the overwhelming use of military force.
- BC: Academics comment on Clark minimum wage in ...
A few days ago, Christy Clark, British Columbia's new Premier, announced the province's hourly minimum wage rate will rise to $ 10.25 in 2012 to match that of Ontario. Several experts weight in on the decision.
- 'Supermoon' provides rare spectacle for 7 bill ...
Professional and amateur stargazers gathered in empty spaces around the globe to watch the moon light up the sky Saturday night. The Earth's guardian appeared approximately 14 percent bigger and more than 30 percent brighter.
- Celtic spirit combines Irish and African music
After a year's gap in St. Patrick's Day celebrations last year, the Irish community comes back to celebrate their spirit on the streets and different venues in Vancouver under the theme Celtic Roots Rock!.
- Two volunteer firefighters killed in Listowel, ...
The town's volunteer fire department and the OPP responded to the call for help when flames raced through a dollar store in Listowel, Ontario Thursday afternoon.
- Mississippi Launches Plan To End Child Homeles ...
Fulfilling the wishes and happiness of children is at the heart of the holiday season. So, now seems particularly timely for Mississippi to launch a new plan to end child homelessness (pdf) in the state. What better way to set the season of giving in motion than by committing to finding safe a ...
- Thanksgiving 2.0: Food, Poverty and Telling th ...
This Thanksgiving, most of us around the country shared a bountiful harvest feast with friends and family. We celebrated all that we are thankful for by gorging ourselves right into a food coma. It's the American way. Unfortunately, it's also the American way to be thankful for all that we have ...
- Homeless People Wanted: Must Be Open to Demean ...
What are they thinking? People obviously don't see the homeless as human or they wouldn't attempt to hire them to do most of the insane, demeaning and illegal jobs out there. Here's a small sampling: Rob dead bodies. The Aokigahara forest at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan is the site of 50 to 10 ...
- LA Plans to Make Homelessness Go the Way of th ...
Instead of pretending homelessness doesn't exist, creating new laws to make it illegal to sit or sleep in public, or sending homeless residents on a one-way trip out of town, Los Angeles County may attempt to actually do something about ending homelessness. And the county is setting the bar high ...
- Don't Let Violence Against the Homeless Go Unp ...
Despite its economic troubles, Detroit is not known for being kind to the homeless. That's too bad, since there are nearly 10,000 homeless people living there. In October, police say that Steven James Diponio, 54, became so enraged at Charles Duncan, 42, who was homeless and sleeping behind a sc ...
- Stop arms shipments to Saudi Arabia: Rideau In ...
The Rideau Institute is calling on the Canadian government to prevent further shipments to Saudi Arabia of military vehicles made in Canada, and to institute an embargo on the export of all military goods to the region during the current political turmoil. On March 14, troops from Saudi Arabia a ...
- Canada sends CF-18s for Libya intervention
The Canadian government has sent six CF-18 fighters to take part in the Libya mission authorized by the UN Security Council on Thursday (Steven Chase, “Canada commits six fighter jets to help enforce Libyan no-fly zone,” Globe and Mail, 17 March 2011): The UN Security Council voted Thursday to i ...
- Why the F-35 stealth fighter is wrong for Canada
Ploughshares Ottawa will host Steven Staples on Tuesday, 22 March 2011, at St.Thomas the Apostle Church, 2345 Alta Vista Drive (one block north of Heron Road) to discuss “Why the F-35 Stealth Fighter is Wrong for Canada”. The meeting begins at 7:30 PM. Light refreshments will be offered.
- Canadian-made armoured vehicles enter Bahrain
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates sent troops into neighbouring Bahrain on Monday in an effort to shore up the Bahraini government, which has been facing escalating demands for democratic reform. An estimated 1200 soldiers from the Saudi National Guard and 800 from the UAE entered the co ...
- Ottawa event: Facing off for social justice in ...
Radiation and health, physicians in conflict zones, the social determinants of health, and many other topics will be discussed at this conference in Ottawa on March 25th and 26th. Speakers will include President of the Canadian Medical Association Dr. Jeff Turnbull; Dr. Helen Caldicott; and reno ...
- The Kevin Trudeau Show: 3-21-11
Today, Kevin contemplates the idea of running for office. What do you think? Help Kevin make the decision that could change America! Self Help: Where’s Your Vote? Boost Your Immune System Cleanses & Detoxes: Mineral Detox One Minute Cure Protocol Miracle Mineral Solution BePure Cleanse Candida ...
- Diagnosing Rheumatoid Arthritis
March 21st, 2011 AOL Health By: Health.com Rheumatoid arthritis is a serious autoimmune disease that attacks the joints and other body parts. But RA can be tough to diagnose. Symptoms can mimic other illnesses, or they may flare, then fade, only to flare again somewhere else. Lab tests aren’t pe ...
- 11 Outrageous Taxes
March 21st, 2011 WalletPop.com By: Ken and Daria Dolan If you needed any more proof that our state, local and federal budget spending is out of control, here it is. In an effort to get out from under record deficits and support their spending habits, politicians from Seattle to New York and ever ...
- Where Have The Good Men Gone?
March 21st, 2011 Wall Street Journal By: Kay S. Hymowitz Not so long ago, the average American man in his 20s had achieved most of the milestones of adulthood: a high-school diploma, financial independence, marriage and children. Today, most men in their 20s hang out in a novel sort of limbo, a ...
- Men Report Sexual Impairment After Using Commo ...
March 21st, 2011 AOL Health By: Catherine Donaldson-Evans Men who have taken a popular pill for baldness say they’ve experienced persistent sexual dysfunction for months, or even years, after stopping the drug. The new study, published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine, found that men who take f ...
- Haiti: Government says Aristide can come home
Haiti's government has said it was ready to issue a new passport to former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, which would allow him to return after almost seven years in exile in South Africa. 'The government will give assurances that as soon as it re...
- Cuba: Cuban organisation fights for release of ...
Enrique Roman, first vice-president of the Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), has underlined that the movement in solidarity with Cuba prioritises in 2011 the struggle for the release of the five Cuban antiterrorist heroes incarc...
- Haiti: Returned ex-dictator Duvalier charged
Haiti on Tuesday briefly detained former dictator Jean-Claude 'Baby Doc' Duvalier, back from exile in France, and charged him with corruption, theft and abuses of power allegedly committed during his 15-year rule. While a noisy crowd of his supporter...
- Break the Silence Congo week
The purpose of the Break the Silence Congo Week is to raise consciousness about the devastating situation in the Congo and mobilize support on behalf of the people of the Congo. Break the Silence Congo Week will take place from Sunday 17 October to S...
- Morocco: Expats returning home in greater numbers
Faced with the woes of the global economic crisis, an increasing number of Moroccan expatriates are coming back home. Meanwhile, the government is intensifying effort to aid the community abroad as well as help them maintain ties with their home coun...
- BBC Panorama: Fighting Gaddafi
Marwan Bishara writes: Make no mistake about it, the battle over Libya did take a turn for the worse with the international intervention to protect the Libyan people and impose no-fly zone among other measures. The ongoing bombardment is and will remain a controversial subject that has already ...
- The fight for Libya
The New York Times reports: As the military operation continued over Libya on Monday, there was some confusion about which country or organization is actually leading it, and for how long. France, Britain and the United States are in charge of their own operations, which each have different cod ...
- Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah declaration of solidar ...
- Gilbert Achcar on the Western intervention in ...
The Washington Post reports: Buoyed by U.S. and allied airstrikes that relieved a siege of Benghazi, Libyan rebels launched an offensive early Monday aimed at retaking the strategic city of Ajdabiya, as Western warplanes continued pounding forces loyal to longtime leader Moammar Gaddafi. Explo ...
- Gaddafi cannot hold out. But who will replace him?
Patrick Cockburn writes: In the next few weeks Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is likely to lose power. The forces arrayed against him are too strong. His own political and military support is too weak. The US, Britain and France are scarcely going to permit a stalemate to develop whereby he clings on ...
- The “Not Evil, Just Romm”, 2% solution
Last week Willis told you about how Joe Romm at Climate Progress botched a blog post so bad, Joe had not only to fix his own post by removing false claims about population trends, so did the paper authors. Then, … Continue reading →
- Canadian Harp Seals In New England (“pre ...
Canadian Harp Seals may have “read” the predictions of the coming decades of stabilization of global temperatures and perhaps some cooling. Animals like the Harp Seal have experienced many millions of years of climatic change and, through the complex processes … Continue reading →
- Ten Major Failures of So-called Consensus Clim ...
By Joseph DâAleo, CCM, AMS Fellow INTRODUCTION The US congress sub-committee on Energy and Commerce Committee held hearings on whether to restrict in some way the EPAâs regulatory authority relative to greenhouse gas emissions. There were 7 scientists invited to … Continue reading →
- Non-quote of the week
Usually I have “Quote of the week, but in this case, the silence says far more than any words the Goreacle might utter. At least somebody outside of the blogosphere noticed. From masslive.com where they say: “Snows of Kilimanjaro defy … Continue reading →
- “…there is no greater truth than g ...
Guest post by Russ Steele I am sure that you all remember this article in the San Francisco Chronicle in October of 2006. (10-27-2006) 04:00 PDT Norden, Nevada County — For the ski industry, both in California and rest of … Continue reading →
- Drawing the color line by Howard Zinn
by Howard Zinn Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted at www.greanvillepost.com March 21, 2011 Chapter 2 from A People’s History of the United States. A black American writer, J. Saunders Redding, describes the arrival of a ship in North America in the year 1619: Sails furled, flag drooping ...
- Haiti Earthship Project: Overview
http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ earthship on Mar 21, 2011 An overview of the Haiti Earthship Project: Disaster Relief efforts by Earthship Biotecture. Funded by small donations from people all over the world. People’s lives were affected in very positive, uplifting ways. Knowledge of susta ...
- Daniel Ellsberg, Ann Wright and others arreste ...
Dandelion Salad Taytaba2 on Mar 20, 2011 Police brutality at Free Bradley Manning protest as Colonel (Ret.) Ann Wright and Daniel Ellsberg become victims of targeted assault Police brutality against Col. Ann Wright and Daniel Ellsberg at Free Bradley Manning Protest *** Longer video police bruta ...
- Ralph Nader: ObamaBush, a seamless transition
http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ AlJazeeraEnglish on Mar 21, 2011 17 Mar 2011 In Wisconsin, hundreds of thousands of people are protesting against a controversial bill that would take away state workers” rights to collectively bargain for better wages and working conditions. Supporters of ...
- Libya: Obama’s Latest, AFRICOM’s First, NATO’s ...
by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism March 21, 2011 Following similar developments in neighboring Tunisia and Egypt, anti-government protests began in Libya on February 15. On March 19 the U.S., France and Britain delivered air and cr ...
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"Stay Calm, Don't Panic....And God Bless America" "Women And Children First" - US Military Begins Evacuations From Japan Unprecedented : American Military Families Told To Leave Behind Pets, Pack For "3 To 5 Days" And Leave Japan "In An Orderly Fashion" By Darryl Mason The US government and ...
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C3PO : "I Must Have Some Booze! I Demand To Have Some Booze" If you're a fan of the movie WithNail & I, you'll love this. If you're a fan of Star Wars, but you've never heard of Withnail & I, you'll be confused, but laugh anyway. If you're a huge fan of both Star Wars and Withnail & I, well, y ...
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You Know, This Street Smells Really Nice Since Those Quiet People With Blacked Out Windows Moved In Cannabis farms in apartments and units are increasingly popular in crumbling economies like the UK's because the return on investment is so high, the legal implications (compared to, say, armed r ...
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How To Fuck With Artificial Intelligence By Darryl Mason The New York Times has an example of 'self-learning' artificial intelligence where you can pit your Rock Paper Scissors skills against a novice computer, just starting out and learning as it goes based on your choices in a series of game ...
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How To Live To Be 125, Maybe According to a multi-billionaire who is aiming to live to be 125 years old, this is the diet of longevity : ...fruits and vegetables: he crams as many as 20 of them, including pulverized banana peels and the ground-up rinds of oranges, into the smoothies he drinks ...
- Piggyback Virus Could Curb HIV Pandemic
Rather than destroying HIV, a proposed treatment would embrace its infectious abilities, sending the virus into competition with a harmless, stripped-down version of itself. Dubbed therapeutic interfering particles, or TIPs, these engineered viral scraps would ride with HIV as it spreads from p ...
- Nerve-Electronic Hybrid Could Meld Mind and Ma ...
Nerve-cell tendrils readily thread their way through tiny semiconductor tubes, researchers find, forming a crisscrossed network like vines twining toward the sun. The discovery that offshoots from nascent mouse nerve cells explore the specially designed tubes could lead to tricks for studying n ...
- Primordial Soup’s Missing Ingredient May Be Sulfur
A fresh look at forgotten vials from Stanley Miller’s primordial-soup-in-a-bottle experiments implies that volcanoes seeping hydrogen sulfide helped form some of life’s earliest ingredients. Sulfur’s presence makes it possible to synthesize a greater variety of amino acids — the molecules that ...
- Robot Swarms Could Help Search for Life in Mar ...
Autonomous swarming robots, programmed to search like honeybees, could be the best strategy to explore caves on Mars that may harbor life. Methane traces in the Martian atmosphere point to undiscovered activity — whether geological or biological — lurking beneath the surface. ”Something intere ...
- I See Rock People: Mimetoliths of the World
- Israel’s Military Intelligence monitoring fore ...
Israel's Military Intelligence is collecting information about left-wing organizations abroad that the army sees as aiming to delegitimize Israel, according to senior Israeli officials and Israel... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
- Noam Chomsky interview with Frank Barat – Marc ...
Frank Barat asks Noam Chomsky six questions sent to him by Alice Walker, John Berger, Ken Loach, Paul Laverty, Amira Hass and Chris Hedges. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much ...
- Noam Chomsky interview: London, March 2011
Frank Barat asks Noam Chomsky six questions sent to him by Alice Walker, John Berger, Ken Loach, Paul Laverty, Amira Hass and Chris Hedges. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much ...
- Village of Awarta faced mass arrests, violence ...
During the five day curfew in the village of Awarta, south of Nablus, the Israeli military raided homes and detained around 300 people, the youngest 14 years old. Some of the men were taken to the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
- UN resolution on Libya allows invasion
Francis Boyle: Basically, the resolution as currently drafted authorizes a war across the board against Libya -- air-strikes, naval blockade, even a land invasion. The only exception in there is... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
- Historian Edits Book Detailing First Human Spa ...
April 12 will be the 50th anniversary of Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becoming the first human to journey to space and an Iowa State University historian has become a noted author and scholar on Soviet space exploration.
- Scientists Crack Molecular Code Regulating Neu ...
A key question in protein biochemistry is how proteins recognize "correct" interaction partners in a sea of cellular factors. Nowhere is that more critical to know than in the brain, where interactions governing channel protein activity can alter an organism's behavior. A team of biologists at t ...
- Stem Cells May Show Promise for People with Ra ...
A long term study reports about the effectiveness of replacing bone marrow, purposely destroyed by chemotherapy, with autologous (self) stem cell rescue for people with aggressive forms of multiple sclerosis (MS). The study is published in the March 22, 2011, print issue of Neurology(r), the med ...
- American University Files Campus Plan for Next ...
2011 Campus Plan reflects American University's desire to further strengthen its growing academic prestige
- Study Shows Polypill to be Safe and Accepted b ...
A new study done by researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center provides evidence that a CVD polypill may be a viable option for developing countries, where CVD is strongly emerging and the demand for cost-effective, low maintenance treatment is high.
- Kitty is an Amazing Goalie
No scoring point gets past this cat.
- Balu the Cat Opens a Sliding Door
Persistence pays off for the hardworking cat.
- Feedlot Meat has Spurred a Soy Boom That has a ...
South America is starting to resemble Iowa. Instead of rainforest, there are now huge swathes of soybeans. The change has occurred only in the last few decades. The soy is typically crushed into meal, which is fed to animals on feedlots, or else made into oil for biofuels or food products. The ...
- How Does the Drug Industry Get Away with Decep ...
Americans are being bombarded with an endless barrage of direct-to-consumer (DTC) drug ads, designed to convince consumers to ask their doctor for a specific prescription drug.� Such ads are only legal in the U.S. and New Zealand. DTC drug ads undermine the real knowledge that doctors should hav ...
- Are You Taking Counterfeit Drugs?
60 Minutes presents the results of a nine-month investigation of counterfeit prescription drugs.� Dangerous and sometimes deadly fakes are getting into the drug pipeline, and could wind up in your medicine cabinet.
- 10 postales para Facebook de Amor y Amistad I
Nuestra comunidad en Facebook, tiene actualmente más de 4,500 miembros en varios países. Desde hace algunos días, muchos de ellos no han solicitado imágenes especiales y bonitas para compartirlas precisamente en sus muros de esta red social. En el Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas, nuestra priori ...
- 11 wallpapers de 1280x800px de resolución (flores)
ATENCIÓN: No olvide usted hacer clic sobre las imágenes que más le gusten para ampliar su tamaño y guardarlas en su computadora, laptop, netbook o iPad si así lo desea.
- Flores y Arreglos florales para el Día de las ...
Claro, ya se que faltan muchos días para el 10 de mayo en México y fechas similares en otros países para festejar el Día de las Madres, sin embargo, queremos que cuando llegue esa fecha, usted tenga en su ordenador las mejores fotografías de flores, arreglos florales, postales y mensajes ...
- Fotografías de mujeres muy hermosas II (14 fotos)
Ya son más de mil los caballeros que amablemente no han solicitado fotografías de mujeres hermosas. Para ellos y para usted también, hemos seleccionado 14 bonitas imágenes de chicas súper lindas que sin caer en lo vulgar, nos muestran sus rostros, belleza y sensualidad. Un estilo único que ...
- 12 Fondos y wallpapers abstractos para iPad y ...
- How much meat do we eat, anyway?
Reading the new federal dietary guidelines made me want to look into this question. The guidelines, just released, say that Americans presently eat an average of 3.7 ounces daily of meat and poultry. But, the figures I typically see are double that, or more. So, why, in the brand-new guidelin ...
- What’s Cookin’ in Your Soil Kitchen?
What’s Cooking in your ‘Soil Kitchen’? There is probably lots cooking but you might not like all that’s on the menu. So if you are an urban agriculturalist in the mid-Atlantic (NYC-Philadelphia-Baltimore-DC) area scratching your head about all this talk of soil contamination, grab a soil sample ...
- The Locavore debate, revisited
How can local food systems support a resilient and sustainable future food economy in the United States? That was the question of the day at a recent conference entitled, “Reviving the American Economy-One Heirloom Tomato at a Time.” But for some, the question isn’t so much how, but even can ...
- In Media, Big Ag Looms Large while Farmers Get ...
In September 1965, CBS broadcast its first episode of Green Acres, a mini-series documenting a family’s transition from an urban life of prestige and luxury, to one of mud, manure, and chaos on a farm in the fictional town of Hooterville. Green Acres took off, in part capitalizing on the popula ...
- Organic Farming: What is Technology’s Role?
A recent post entitled “Organic Farmers: Can They Be Tech Savvy?” Â by Mr. Hunter Richards serves as a reminder of why one interested in sustainable farming mustn’t instinctively cringe at the thought of new technology and agriculture. As the blog states, organic food has taken off as an indust ...
- When the truth isn’t on your side, lie
Paul Krugman writes this morning about Elizabeth Warren and the politics of bearing false witness. You can use religious fervor to justify damned near anything but lying about others. There are loopholes for murder but not for fibbing. Why won’t our religious leaders condemn the serial lies told ...
- Counting teeth
If it wasn’t for hypocrisy, Republicans wouldn’t have any values at all. Which doesn’t mean that Democrats can’t be total douchebags as well. I look forward to seeing the Powerwhiners explain how it came to pass that white supremacists from the National Socialist Movement were “invited” to march ...
- 55 links, none of which will improve your day
Bob Herbert: No one thought the Interstate 35W bridge across the Mississippi River in Minneapolis would collapse. No one thought the Gulf of Mexico would be fouled to the horrible extent that it was by the BP oil spill. The awful convergence of disasters in Japan — a 9.0 earthquake followed by a ...
- Going Galt (not what you thought it meant)
Jon Talton: I call the new age the Great Disruption. It is on display in Japan, where one of the most advanced nations in the world is struggling with a devastating earthquake and an unfolding nuclear disaster. The planet is at 6.8 billion people, at or beyond its carrying capacity. This will am ...
- Foxprop
It wasn’t until I squinted and saw the “Gadhafi” inscribed on the side of the plane that I realized this wasn’t a cartoon about Afghanistan. Actually, I still think this is a cartoon about Afghanistan. I also think Obama should be very concerned about the right’s recent embrace of Bradley Mannin ...
- Brazilian Blowout Safety Is Again Questioned
Brazilian Blowout Safety Is Again Questioned Phoenix, AZ – The cosmetics industry’s safety review board has just concluded that cosmetic products containing formaldehyde should not exceed 0.2% because of health and safety reasons. Some hair-straightening products known as the Brazilian Blowout c ...
- Concerns About Health, Economy Weigh Heavily o ...
Concerns About Health, Economy Weigh Heavily on AZ Seniors Phoenix, AZ – Older Arizonans are most concerned about health care and the economy, in a new study from AARP. The 50-plus set dreams mostly about travel and spending more time with their families. Comments from Cynthia Fagyas (FAY-gus), ...
- Las Personas de la Tercera Edad en AZ Preocupa ...
Las Personas de la Tercera Edad en AZ Preocupados por la Salud y Economía Phoenix, AZ –Lo que más les preocupa a las personas de la tercera edad es la salud y la economía, según un nuevo estudio publicado por el AARP. Lo que más sueñan poder hacer es viajar y pasar más tiempo con sus familias. ...
- Report: AZ School Spending Remains Well Under ...
Report: AZ School Spending Remains Well Under National Average Phoenix, AZ – A new report from the Auditor General puts Arizona public school spending far below the national average. The report also shows the state spends below average on school administration. Comments from Chuck Essigs, direct ...
- Will Funding Cuts Make Rural Arizona Health Ce ...
Will Funding Cuts Make Rural Arizona Health Centers Sick? Phoenix, AZ – The U.S. House Appropriations Committee has been considering cuts of more than one billion dollars to Community Health Centers across the country. For Arizona, it would mean the loss of more than three-million dollars, poten ...
- Farmers and Consumer Groups File Lawsuit Chall ...
“Roundup Ready” Alfalfa Will Increase Pesticide Use and Cause Grave Harm to Environment and Organic Industry USDA Failures Guarantee Transgenic Contamination, Creation of More Superweeds Today, attorneys for the Center for Food Safety (CFS) and Earthjustice filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Depar ...
- Bi-Partisan Legislation Introduced To Ban Dang ...
Sixty-Four Organizations, Fishing Associations and Retailers Endorse Legislation; Lawmakers Cite Serious Economic, Environmental and Human Health Threats The Center for Food Safety along with 63 other groups, businesses and retailers applaud Senators Mark Begich (D-Alaska) and Lisa Murkowski (R- ...
- Nature Happens – Humans Can’t Cont ...
By Lisa J. Bunin, Liana Hoodes, Michael Sligh Last week, USDA announced its decision to allow the planting of Monsanto’s Roundup Ready (RR) GM alfalfa without any ongoing monitoring or regulation whatsoever. Despite widespread consumer, farmer, and food industry opposition and contrary scientif ...
- World’s First Genetically Engineered Biofuels ...
Impacts on Human Health, Environment, and Farmers Not Fully Assessed DESPITE RISING GLOBAL FOOD PRICES, OBAMA ADMINISTRATION CONTINUES MISGUIDED BIOFUELS AGENDA The Center for Food Safety criticized an announcement today by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) that it will approve the world ...
- Farmers And Conservationists Challenge Latest ...
In defiance of earlier court ruling, USDA allows continued growing of controversial, illegally planted crop Today the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) issued a new decision to allow the U.S. sugar beet industry to continue growing Monsanto’s “Roundup Ready,” genetically ...
- Libya, Getting it Right: A Revolutionary Pan-A ...
Libya, Getting it Right: A Revolutionary Pan-African Perspective | Dissident Voice: "Thousands of Indians, Egyptians, Chinese, Filipinos, Turks, Germans, English, Italians, Malaysians, Koreans and a host of other nationalities are lining up at the borders and the airport to leave Libya. It begs ...
- The facts about racism in Libya | SocialistWor ...
The facts about racism in Libya | SocialistWorker.org: "THE UPRISING against the dictatorial regime of Col. Muammar Qaddafi, like the revolutionary upsurges in Tunisia and Egypt, has inspired people around the world who yearn for social change. If the people of Libya succeed in overthrowing a ru ...
- Hullabaloo: How to force a false confession
Hullabaloo: "I suppose we are supposed be grateful that they are only using this particular technique on an American soldier for seven hours a day instead of the weeks or days they routinely used on Al Qaeda members. Perhaps they learned through their long experience at Gitmo and Bagram that com ...
- Tom is Moving in on Libya
Even as I write here President Obama and his European allies are moving fast to invade Libya under the guise of a humanitarian mission. A "no-fly-zone" will most likely be declared soon and policed by Nato in the days ahead.� This tactic will allow Tom to essentially occupy Libya in a r ...
- UNDERNEWS: Thomas Knapp, Anti-War
UNDERNEWS: "The power to declare war — and thereby to legally categorize a group of persons (historically on, but not necessarily constrained to, the basis of their allegiance to a particular state) as 'the enemy' — is exclusively reserved, per the US Constitution, to Congress. Congress hasn’t e ...
- More on Egypt
Reading that now, a few days after the military pressured Mubarak to step down, the Egyptian parliament has been dissolved, and the Constitution invalidated by the Egyptian military. This fills me with fear. The mainstream media are treating these acts as a good thing, and the Egyptians they int ...
- Update: Mubarak Not Stepping Down Tonight
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- US involved in an Egyptian “military coup”?
Photo by adaptorplug A CNN news story says that Hofni Mubarak will likely relinquish power to the Egyptian military tonight. This is what their source, âa senior Egyptian officalâ is quoted by CNN as saying: He said the process — which included dialogue between the government and opposition repr ...
- President Llorens
I’ve reconsidered my position about posting Wikileaks articles. This article not only discusses classified material disclosed by Wikileaks, but actually quotes it. I know some of my readers work for the US government, thus the warning. I am not an enemy of the United States of America. I simply ...
- Magnificent
This movie brought me to tears. It is the story of a man whose lack of limbs from birth relegated him to life as a circus side-show freak. It tells of how he was recognized by the owner of a rival circus as “magnificent”. After overcoming his bitterness, the man transformed from freak to hero. [ ...
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- Zebra eating hay
The zebra's crazy stripes are one of the most fascinating skin colouration and patterns amongst all the African fauna (wildlife/fauna.html). Bicolour stripes help break up the outline of a zebra’s body, making them especially difficult to identify at twilight which is the preferred hunting ti ...
- Colourful tuned car
Many people are passionate about fast cars and car tuning. Loving the speed and style of those vehicles they often forget about the massive CO2 (glossary/categories/climate-change/carbon-dioxide.html) emissions linked to operating them and the terrible impact they have on the environment. Rea ...
- 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...
- How to lift the closure of Gaza in three easy ...
From Gisha’s Gaza Gateway, what it would actually take to end just the closure of Gaza, although not the entire Occupation. Israelâs Deputy Foreign Minister said last week that the continued smuggling of weapons into the Gaza Strip threatens further implementation of the âeasingâ of the closur ...
- Abdallah Abu Rahmah is free, may all Palestini ...
Great news on the heels of the horrible killings in Itamar settlement and Netanyahu’s exploitation of them. It’s good to have a hopeful example even if its freedom for a man who should have never been imprisoned. Indeed, the protests Abdallah Abu Rahmah helped organize are still going on after h ...
- Please report any unattended human rights
I read Neve Gordon’s piece a few months back about human rights websites being banned at Ben Gurion airport, and thought what a perfect microcosm of the front Israel is trying to put up to the world. While they wouldn’t think of banning such websites to their own population, I hope, internation ...
- Israeli solidarity activist interrogated by po ...
Sara Benninga, whose speech I reposted here on the blog, was interrogated by the police after speaking at the JStreet conference I attended. She provided one of the voices for a new direction for Jewish and Israeli activists working alongside Palestinians for justice. For this she rewarded with ...
- Eviatar: Three Dead Children
Guest Post by Aharan Eviatar The recent ghastly events in Arizona, especially the killing of Christina Greene, gunned down by a political lunatic at age nine, lead one to think of the phenomenon of political killing of children and what it implies for society. In particular, I would like to bri ...
- Bassnectar – Wildstyle Method
- Green NIMBYs
NY Times: Green development? Not in my (liberal) backyard But policymakers in the United States have been repeatedly frustrated by constituents who profess to worry about the climate and count themselves as environmentalists, but prove unwilling to adjust their lifestyles or change their behavio ...
- Odyssey Dawn (apologies to Tanya Tucker)
Odyssey Dawn, what’s that gunbelt you have on Could it be a deja vu from days gone by And did I hear you say the bombing was starting again today This time will be different, don’t you cry
- Empire State Rebellion: An idea whose time has ...
This video was posted by Anonymous. They are planning something major and it’s aimed directly at Wall Street. Let’s not forget when private security / gov’t spook company HBGary recently boasted they could take down Anonymous, they ended up getting disemboweled by Anonymous instead, who broke in ...
- Odyssesy Dawn (apologies to Tanya Tucker)
Odyssey Dawn, what’s that gunbelt you have on Could it be a deja vu from days gone by And did I hear you say the bombing was starting again today This time will be different, don’t you cry
- Yediot’s Plocker: Thank you Mossad for r ...
On Sunday (January 9 2011), Yediot’s Itamar Eichner reported [emphasis mine; full translation here]: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is furious with outgoing Mossad Director Meir Dagan because of the briefing Dagan gave journalists last Thursday. In the course of that briefing, Dagan shared wi ...
- “Rejectionist front”: Maariv detai ...
As Israel’s diplomatic position erodes and the Palestinian Authority’s campaign for the unilateral recognition of a state in the 1967 borders gains ground, the demand for “direct negotiations” has become a central talking point of  Israeli government spokespeople. Here’s the latest example, fro ...
- New Yorker editor David Remnick to Yediot:  ...
On December 24 2010, Yediot’s Friday Political Supplement ran an interview with New Yorker editor David Remnick by Adi Gold. Most of the interview was dedicated to his new biography of Barack Obama. Gold did ask a political question on Israel and Reminck’s response was very blunt. Note that th ...
- Breaking the Silence’s landmark new book ...
Breaking the Silence has just published a landmark collection of soldier testimonies from the Occupied Territories spanning the period 2000-2010. The 432 page book can now be browsed, downloaded and embedded here. If you read nothing else, take the time to look over the first to pages of the int ...
- Following local pressure, Adidas reconsiders s ...
This Maariv article [full translation below] from Friday is particularly badly written and repetitive, so I’ll summarize. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat decides to hold the first Jerusalem International Marathon in March 2011. He gets Adidas to sponsor the event. An Israeli runner registers and the ...
- Psychologists seek authority to prescribe psyc ...
In any given year, more than a quarter of U.S. adults have a diagnosable mental health problem — from depression to bipolar disorder — yet fewer than half get any kind of treatment for it. The figures are similar for children. Many who do receive care get it through their primary-care physician ...
- G20 protesters challenge police kettling tacti ...
Police officers used punches to the face, slaps and shields against demonstrators whom police chiefs accept had nothing to do with violence, the high court will hear today. The case relates to the G20 protests in London on 1 April 2009 during which Ian Tomlinson, a bystander, died after being st ...
- This Day In History – March 22
1621 â The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony sign a peace treaty with Massasoit of the Wampanoags. 1622 â Algonquian Indians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia, a third of the colony’s population. 1630 â The Massachusetts Bay Colony outlaws the possession of cards, dice, and gaming t ...
- Deadline Live – March 21 2011
Monday’s Guest – DEADLINE LIVE RADIO: Stephen Sheehi, author of Islamophobia: The Ideological Campaign Against Muslims ….. And… Breaking News…
- Undercover Quebec cop violates code of conduct
OTTAWA â An undercover Quebec cop who shoved and swore at demonstrators while armed with a rock at an infamous 2007 protest in Montebello, Que., was convicted of violating the province’s police code of conduct in a French language decision dated March 14. But the Surete du Quebec’s Sgt. Jean-Fra ...
- WTF
Do you realize that America just bombed a country by authority of the president, killing people without a single US address as to the reason, intent, or expected involvement from the president? Sure there was a UN resolution – minimally discussed, but why are America and UK throwing billions ...
- In Case You Missed It
Statpad – Roman M Two and a half PC’s.
- Update on Winds paper
Copied from comments on the other thread Anastassia Makarieva Some of the readers may still be interested the fate of our draft paper “Where do winds come from?” and our condensation theory as originally highlighted on The Air Vent here. A second referee was appointed –- many thanks to all of th ...
- Saving The World, One Progressive at a Time
Josh had this awesome depiction of Romm right where I see him. At least at the elevation of its nesting habitat, it is safe from the 5 feet of sea level rise. Although, there’s good news, the emerging species may now be able to nest a little lower. Hopefully we’ll know soon what this little [...]
- Another brick in the Wahl
Still no time for climate blogging. In fact if anything, time is shorter. If you have any interest in climate science and why the skeptics are winning the war of reason over ‘scientists’, read this post by Steve Mosher and Charles the moderator at WUWT. The recent CA article is also worth your ...
- All My American Prospect Links in One Place
Many thanks to the American Prospect for giving me the opportunity to guest blog at TAPPED last week. Thanks also to my friends, family, colleagues, and loyal readers who helped make this a big success by linking, tweeting, commenting, and generally promoting this content to the hilt. I am in ...
- Humanist Vegan Screed is Tripe
Jason Torpy argues in the American Humanist Association e-zine that "vegan priorities are humanist priorities." His argument is a bait-and-switch--he sets you up for brie and leaves you with textured wheat gluten. Torpy argues that humanists should be concerned about animal welfare and ...Read ...
- The News Desk Says It's About Oral Sex
Rolling Stone editor Neil Strauss shares some exchanges New York Times copy editors from his days as a rock critic, several years ago: Editing an article that quotes the Courtney Love lyric, “I’m eating you / I’m overfed” . . . COPYEDITOR: We have to remove that quote. NS: What’s wr ...
- Preventing Childhood Obesity is Not Fat-Shaming
In my latest post for TAPPED, I reply to fat activist Paul Campos who argues that Michelle Obama's "Let's Move!" program is the fat-hating equivalent of "ex-gay" ministries who purport to prevent or cure homosexuality. Trying to prevent childhood obesity at the population level by encouraging al ...
- "The Warmth of Other Suns" Wins National Book ...
Isabel Wilkerson's masterful history of the Great Migration won a National Book Critics Circle Award last week, a richly deserved honor. You can read my review of "The Warmth of Other Suns" at TAPPED. [Photo credit, image of a California sunrise: Gwyn Fisher, Creative Commons.]Read More
- Platform Updates: Platform Policy Checklist, A ...
Facebook’s latest updates to the Developers Blog announced a new policy checklist for app developers, that users are now directed straight to an app when they click through notifications from app requests, the need for developers to fill in their HTTPS URL for their iframe apps, several Facebo ...
- Beetailer Lets Ecommerce Web Stores Easily Imp ...
Beetailer is a new service that allows ecommerce merchants to import their website’s store to a tab on their Facebook Page. Users can add items to a shopping cart, and are directed back to the merchant’s site for checkout. Backed by Y Combinator, Beetailer includes advanced functionality such as ...
- Facebook Lets Users Check In to Events via the ...
Facebook users can now check in to Facebook Events they’re currently attending through the touch.facebook.com site and soon through the Facebook for iPhone app. When users are in geographic proximity to the address of an Event during its run-time, they’ll see a “Check In” button that publishes a ...
- Featured Facebook Campaigns: L’Oréal, Buick, E ...
Platform partnerships, photo tagging, virtual gifting and March Madness were among the methods used in the Facebook campaigns we’ve highlighted this week. Buddy Media and L’Oréal salons have partnered to promote hair care products on Facebook with Buddy Media’s Platform. Then Electronic Arts par ...
- Dating, Horoscopes, Video and Basketball on Th ...
Several dating, horoscopes, video and basketball-related applications were on the list of top 20 apps growing by monthly active users this week. Our list is compiled using AppData, our data tracking service covering traffic growth for apps on Facebook, and covers those that gained the most users ...
- Playing the sectarian card: the Arab dinosaurs
Yvonne Ridley argues that the desperate super-rich dinosaur rulers of Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere in the Arab world are prepared to go to any length, including fomenting sectarianism and discord, in order to maintain their grip on power.
- Playing politics at Gaza's Rafah Crossing
Richard Lightbown explains what controls the opening of the Rafah Crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip and briefly considers if this might change in the future.
- Congressman Peter King and the new McCarthyism
Paul J. Balles considers US Congressman Peter King's McCarthyist witch hunt against America's Muslim community in the context of the primitive need for scapegoating and witch hunting.
- The West is doing the right thing in Libya
Nureddin Sabir argues that opposition by the left and the anti-imperialist and anti-war movements to the NATO military action in Libya is misplaced and deeply flawed and that these movements should instead look forward to post-Gaddafi Libya and ensure that Libyans are left alone to rebuild their ...
- Possible consequences if "Arab spring" becomes ...
Alan Hart considers what might happen if repressive Arab regimes, such as Libya's Mu'ammar Gaddafi and the Saudi and Bahraini royal families, succeed in putting out the flames of freedom in their countries.
- Belo Monte hydroelectric dam construction work ...
The company leading the dam project, Norte Energia, announced that infrastructure work on roads that will provide access to the region started on Monday morning. The £7bn Belo Monte dam on the Amazon’s Xingu river is scheduled to start producing energy on 31 December 2014 and would be the seco ...
- Brazil judge blocks Amazon Belo Monte dam:
Federal Brasilian judge Ronaldo Desterro has blocked plans to build a huge hydro-electric dam in the Amazon rainforest because of environmental concerns. Judge Desterro said environmental requirements to build the Belo Monte dam had not been met. He also barred the national development bank, BND ...
- 1.ooo military forces end illegal gold mining ...
The Peruvian military has cleared-out illegal gold mining along the country’s south-eastern Amazon region in a move aiming to protect the environment. The government sent about 1,000 security forces to the region of Madre de Dios to destroy the illegal operations, the state-funded BBC reported. ...
- BREAKING: Chevron Guilty of Amazon Rainforest ...
Amazon Watch and Rainforest Action Network just announced a major victory for the Amazon rainforest. An Ecuadorean judge today found Chevron guilty of one of the largest environmental crimes in history and ordered the company to pay a whopping $8 billion to clean up its damage in the Amazon. Che ...
- First film footage of uncontacted Amazon Tribe
The footage was filmed by the BBC’s Human Planet series shows a Tribe known as the Panoan, who live in virtual isolation from the outside world. The team needed too get footage of the Tribe as proof of their existence so as the government could protect them from illegal logging and mining operat ...
- Jamiol Presents
- Boiling Frogs Post Countdown-Week 2
We Need Your Support to ‘Help Wake up the American public before the water gets too hot to climb out of the pot’ I want to thank those of you who have contributed to Boiling Frogs Post during our first week campaign. Thank You! Next, I want to briefly respond to a common inquiry I’ve received fr ...
- Sibel Edmonds’ Boiling Frogs Post: Year Two
We Need Your Support to Continue & Expand: Countdown Week 1 In October 2009 I launched Boiling Frogs Post with one purpose in mind: To establish a venue for investigative articles, editorials, analyses, discussions, and interviews on issues largely censored by the media. We are entering our sec ...
- Boiling Frogs Post Status & Update
Boiling Frogs Year Two-A Personal Note Next week I’ll be leaving for a business related trip, followed by relocation related travel where I’ll be checking housing, schooling for my daughter, work, among tons of other ‘life related’ details in a new hometown, and finalized by a short but straigh ...
- Boiling Frogs Beltway Buzz: The Upcoming Bipar ...
A Caucus to Combat Terrorism, Domestic Violence, Divorce & Job Dissatisfaction via ‘Happiness Pill’ According to our inside sources a new Bipartisan Congressional Caucus for Prozac will be launched before the end of the 112th Congress. The primary purpose of the Prozac Caucus will be to raise aw ...
- Libya, Hypocrisy and Betrayal by the United Na ...
By Felicity Arbuthnot “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.” George Orwell The bombing of Libya will begin on or nearly to the day, of the eighth anniversary of the beginning of the destruction of Iraq, 19th March, in Europe. Libya too will be [...]
- USAgain Clothing Donation Bins in Da ‘Ho ...
Here’s a sad commentary. I have noticed that there have been clothing donation bins appearing all over Oakland, overnight it seems. What’s sad is that they are appearing in all the ‘hood areas. The poorer areas in Oakland, and other cities, I’ve learned, and I’m suspicious about it. That is sad. ...
- Ted Williams: Not So Shiny & New
When things are shiny & new, everyone wants a piece. Iâm happy that Ted was “discovered” & Iâm VERY happy that he is in recovery now but it’s a shame how it all played out for him under the media pressure. Shame on Kraft, The Cavaliers & them other bitches who dropped Ted like a [...]
- White or Black Led Urban Ministries…Who ...
Recently I received my e-newsletter from UrbanFaith.com a well rounded online Christian website by parent company UMI (Urban Ministries Inc.), which reports on news, culture, world events and lifestyle to name a few. Urban Faith does this professionally, and with a uniquely Black Christian persp ...
- “If Gadaffi is right “drug addicts ...
Though it can be regarded as buffoonish, the idea that protesters in Libya are drugged young and jobless people sometimes makes sense. Even if this is not the case in Libya, there is a naked truth behind this. When Muamar Gadaffi was cornered, he employed mercenaries in duped or dumped cops from ...
- Expose the BNP: activists’ meeting
Over the summer we have seen the extreme right enter parliament in Sweden and racist deportations of Roma people from France. Here at home the EDL have continued to target cities with Muslim communities, while the police are bringing trumped-up charges against anti-fascists. November 6 sees a na ...
- Rotherham fascist leads secret double life
A BNP activist is living a secret double life, desperate to prevent his employers from finding out about his extremist views – despite having stood as a candidate in last month’s election. Tom Holmes (25) received 715 votes in the recent elections for Rotherham Council but has managed to keep hi ...
- Nick Griffin humiliated in Barking defeat
The British National Party have suffered a humiliating defeat in the general election when Nick Griffin failed to gain a Westminster seat for the East London ward of Barking. Labour MP Margaret Hodge secured the seat with a 16,000 majority, with Griffin trailing third after the Conservative cand ...
- Ten questions that expose Nick Griffin
On the day that the BNP launches its election manifesto, Expose the BNP has researched 10 questions for journalists to put to the BNP leader, the answers to which reveal him to be a deeply racist, anti-Semitic Holocaust denier who boasts about his criminal past. 1. In which year did you stop den ...
- Workshy Griffin left his parents penniless
On yesterdayâs Today programme, BNP leader Nick Griffin told the Radio Four audience that âLiberal economics … have utterly bankrupted this country.â The truth is that Nick Griffin was himself declared bankrupt in 1991. Over several years thereafter he destroyed his parentsâ finances as well. Gr ...
- Memorial Tribute to Hugh MacDougall
Memorial Tribute to Hugh MacDougall “We are sending the power of love, peace and compassion, which can change the world.” â Hugh MacDougall, Australia, SEN Honorary Advisor Hugh was more to Suzanne and I than SEN’s Honorary Spiritual Advisor. He was the beloved friend we called brother, and he w ...
- No to Monsanto and GMO: Action Central
"SEN is greatly concerned that Monsanto and GMO give rise to a threat that if unchecked could eventually prove as catastrophic to mankind and the sustainability of all life on earth as global warming. We must scream bloody murder, and do so with facts." -- Gregory Hilbert, Co-Founder Sustainabil ...
- Bill Gates On Climate Change & Energy: We Must ...
Whether you know a little or a lot about Climate Change (aka Global Warming), SEN urges you to watch this one-hour video, because you will learn a great deal either way. Gates lays out a sweeping set of ideas for reducing CO2 emmissions to zero. Gates is no fool when it comes to matters of [...]
- Week 2 – Worldwide Campaign to Save the ...
The Grand Canyon is one of the world's most pristine and majestic treasures. Mother Nature needs our help to save it. We all need to act to protect the Grand Canyon. Pledge to do your part. Help us by adding your signature to the petitions and ask everyone you know and who cares for earth to do ...
- Seize BP Demonstrations Nationwide
SEN believes these demonstrations will help awaken politicians to outrage over inadequate regulation and control of international corporations, even if they do not succeed in gaining temporary seizure of BP on the basis of national emergency and evidence of criminal neglect and fraud by BP.
- Gabrielle Giffords, Tom Hurndall and Palestini ...
Alison Weir, CounterPunch - There is something particularly horrifying when someone is shot in the head. Perhaps it's the gruesome image, the destruction of the brain, the clear intent to kill. The recent shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is made even more nightmarish by the l ...
- As Israel kills and maims, Outrage is directed ...
Whenever Israel commits yet another atrocity, its defenders are quick to redirect public attention away from the grisly crime scene. Currently, there are headlines about allegedly anti-Semitic comments made by senior White House correspondent Helen Thomas. Pundits across the land evince outrage ...
- An Open Letter to the Southern Poverty Law Cli ...
I am disturbed by an article that the Center published in the fall 2007 issue of "Intelligence Report"--the Center's magazine. The item "Navy Extremist Disciplined--But Not for Extremism" is on page 11. The article focuses on Navy officer John Sharpe Jr.
- NPR Watch: Linda Gradstein Has Done It Again o ...
NPR's reporter Linda Gradstein has done it again. She has managed to take a "must report" story on Israeli-Palestinian relations -- the new report by B'Tselem on the non-combatants, including children, killed by the Israeli military during the Israeli attack on Gaza -- and report it in a manner ...
- The invisible government: Propaganda Disguised ...
John Pilger: In a speech in Chicago, John Pilger describes how propaganda has become such a potent force in our lives and, in the words of one of its founders, represents 'an invisible government'.
- Republican Cuts Devastate interests to THE PEOPLE
Congress needs to hear from all of us right away, because the only chance we have to stop this budget is if Senate Democrats stand united against it. And the first vote could come today.1 Can you call Sen. Nelson and tell him to stand strong against Republicans‘ massive, devastating cuts? Senato ...
- Rally to Save the American Dream
In Wisconsin and around our country, the American Dream is under fierce attack. Instead of creating jobs, Republicans are giving tax breaks to corporations and the very rich—and then cutting funding for education, police, emergency response, and vital human services. On Saturday, February 26, a ...
- RICK SCOTT MADE MILLIONS OFF HEALTH NOW CUTS I ...
Whether it's a political stunt or the act of an extremist ideologue, Scott is hurting real Floridians in concrete ways, including millions of people with private health insurance or Medicare benefits. He's taking away a law that ends the worst insurance company abuses and frees families, senior ...
- CUT PENTAGON BUDGET: ACT NOW
Their current proposal includes cuts in domestic spending, diplomacy, development, and international assistance but allows the Pentagon budget to continue to rise.
- SAY NO to Patriot EXTENSIONS!
Together, these provisions make a mockery of our civil liberties: They let government officials spy on whomever they want, for any reason, without ever letting them know or giving them a chance to challenge the order in court.
- International Atomic Energy Agency Spinning Li ...
In the light of the Japanese earthquake and subsequent tsumani, government and internation agencies are working like crazy to ensure no news remains good news regarding the Fukushima nuclear power plant. Yet from the BBC we hear the following: There are now problems at the number three reactor – ...
- ExxonMobil Biofuel Advert Officially Pronounce ...
ASA Adjudication on ExxonMobil UK Ltd ExxonMobil UK Ltd ExxonMobil House Ermyn Way Leatherhead Surrey KT22 8UX Date: 9 March 2011 Media: Television Sector: Utilities Number of complaints: 1 Agency: Euro RSCG London Ltd Complaint Ref: 141542 Ad A TV ad for ExxonMobil UK Ltd (ExxonMobil) featured ...
- UK Census 2011: Why I Will Be Breaking The Law ...
On Sunday March 27, 2011 I will be breaking the law. If you live in England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland then I would also like you to break the law. We can do it together, and I know for a fact that an awful lot of people will be doing the same. The UK [...]
- Interview With Bill McKibben, Winner of Puffin ...
Climate reality writer and activist Gregory Vickrey. (L) ( Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Founder of 350.org, writer and environmentalist Bill McKibben. (R) (Photo: Nancie Battaglia / 350.org) Bill McKibben, Schumann distinguished scholar at Middlebury College, is the author of a dozen boo ...
- An Open Letter to Journalists From Gasland Dir ...
With the recent Oscar nomination of my documentary film GASLAND, Big Gas and their PR attack machine hit a new low in its blatant disregard for the truth. In an unprecedented move, an oil and gas industry front group sent a letter to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences saying that th ...
- Keith Ellison’s Tears And Epistemic Closure
Rep. Peter King’s hearings looking into the “radicalization” of the American Muslim community, and the suggestion that the community doesn’t cooperate with law enforcement, was largely a waste of time and tax dollars. The affair didn’t produce a single insight into the actual and urgent issue of ...
- Praying On Qasr al-Nil
One of the more memorable scenes of the Egyptian revolution will surely be that of ordinary Egyptian’s praying on Cairo’s Qasr al-Nil Bridge as members of Egyptian state police direct their water cannons at them. Truly a remarkable sight. via Al Jazeera Filed under: Middle East Tagged: Al-Jazeer ...
- “I Support Democratization, But…&# ...
The Atlanticâs Jeffrey Goldberg â one of the key proponents of the disastrous invasion of Iraq â has some serious misgivings about the fledgling pro-democracy movement thatâs taken over the streets of Egypt. âI support democratization, but,â he cautions, âthe democratization we saw in Gaza (cour ...
- All That Happens In The Middle East Can’ ...
Uncertainly rules the day in Tunisia. Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the countryâs strong-armed and authoritarian ruler since 1987, is in Saudi Arabia while the interim government struggles to restore some semblance of order. âConfusion, fear and horror in Tunisia as old regime’s militia carries on ...
- Newt Comes Out As A Muslim-Baiter
Early this week, disgraced former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich warned that “a commitment to religious freedom and God-given rights is being replaced by a secular oppression…” Just hours after those words appeared on Human Events, Gingrich issued a statement forcefully opposing the constr ...
- Inside Shelbyville Multimedia's Ambitious Immi ...
Shelbyville project kicks off with a series of "Welcoming" videos Chances are you haven't yet heard of Shelbyville, a small rural community in Tennessee. If not, then you're probably also unaware of the upcoming "Welcome to Shelbyville" documentary or the online project that is forging a ...
- Fresh from SXSWi: 6 Ways to Integrate Hacking ...
Going over my notes from the South by Southwest Interactive Festival, the panel that was definitely the most valuable to my work on the Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership was Hacking the News: Applying Computer Science to Journalism. What we're doing The Knight-Mozilla Partners ...
- SeedSpeak Launches, Uses Geotags to Solve Loca ...
One of the joys of living in Phoenix, besides the winters, is the local airport. Sky Harbor bills itself as the nation's friendliest airport and, while I won't go that far, I love the fact that you can get in and out with minimal hassle. Even with construction to build a tram system linking the ...
- MIT Produces a String of Civic Media Success S ...
As we wind the way toward the end of our four year grant, I thought it would be nice to describe some of what we've learned at MIT's Center for Future Civic Media (C4). In the coming weeks, I will call on a few of our researchers to offer similar blog reflections on our unique blend of communiti ...
- Lost in Boston: REALTIME
For the last several months, we have been testing a system called Lost in Boston: REALTIME with a variety of community partners. This video describes a bit about the project. Rick Borovoy loves Boston, but he hates how hard it is to figure out where one is. Boston is tough to navigate, ...
- Global Financial Meltdown - When’s Crossing th ...
Learning to cross the street safely is one of the first things a child is taught after he or she learns to walk. The first lesson: Cross at the cross walk. Second, only cross when the pedestrian light is on. And, the cardinal rule: Always look both ways before crossing.The financial markets have ...
- The Edge of Terror - Examining Muslim Student ...
The Muslim Students Association (MSA) is one of the largest Islamic organizations in America, with chapters on hundreds of college campuses. Its alumni include doctors, lawyers, and engineers.But the group has another track record that it doesn't advertise: several of its leaders have been convi ...
- Japan after the Quake - US Government Offers P ...
The State Department — citing an “abundance of caution” amid the nuclear crisis in Japan — is offering pills to protect the thyroid gland against radiation to U.S. personnel and dependents in various areas of that country.But the updated travel warning issued early Monday says the potassium iodi ...
- The Mind's Edge - Scientists Discover Major Cl ...
You may remember the color of your loved one's eyes for years. But how?Scientists believe that long-term potentiation (LTP) – the long-lasting increase of signals across a connection between brain cells -- underlies our ability to remember over time and to learn, but how that happens is a centra ...
- The Obama Edge - Problems Remain for the Colom ...
On April 7, 2008, President George W. Bush delivered the American Colombian Free Trade Agreement (FTA) to Congress with hopes that it would receive timely approval. Bush lamented that trade restrictions with Colombia were so asymmetrical that “our markets are open to Colombian products, but barr ...
- Counterrevolution 101
By Dave Fryett The wretched of the Earth have seen what is possible. Power has been shown to be powerless in the face of determined mass opposition. And in every corner of our world the immiserated rejoice, because they know the day of liberation draws near
- No One Curious What CIA Is Working On At The ...
By Jay Janson What does the CIA have in store for Egypt? What chores will it assign its agents both American and Egyptian? American socialists and progressives are overly cooperative with mainstream media and Congress in hardly ever asking after our secret CIA shadow government
- Lessons Learned In The Streets Of Cairo
By William A. CookIf the streets of Cairo have taught us anything, they have demonstrated that vigilance against those who would control out of arrogance, oppress with indifference, deceive with impunity, and humiliate without feeling, have abandoned all natural sympathies and become , in fact ...
- What Is True Sustainability?
By Matthew SteinIf we are to develop an effective plan and roadmap for creating a sustainable world, we must first have a clear idea of what it truly means to be sustainable
- Egypts Army Dissolves Parliament
By Al Jazeera Military rulers say they will remain in charge for six months until elections are held as some protesters vow to remain
- Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
Dear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
- Practicing Peace in the New Year
A friend, Frank Swift, that I met on my first journey has passed along some great practical steps towards peace for the new year. Frank has written a children’s book to help young people see an alternative to the competition and forcefulness that can too easily get instilled in our young people. ...
- Sharing the writing of another Stieber
My younger brother, Zack, has been fascinated by the Chinese practice of Falun Gong and is hoping that this post could be used to spark a further discussion about it. � Thoughts on Falun Gong by Zack Stieber � Most of us are aware that in China things work differently then here. The main thing o ...
- Article in FOR
The following is the rough draft for an article I wrote, reflecting on the war in Iraq, that was published in the recent edition of the Fellowship of Reconciliation’s magazine. For more info on getting the full magazine, check out:Â http://forusa.org/fall-2010-renewing-movement Rhetoric and Re ...
- Slate Interview: My Country Right or Wrong: Co ...
Interview I did with a fascinating writer for SLATE whose special interest is on transformation and how people come to admit they’re wrong: Address to article: http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/thewrongstuff/archive/2010/12/16/my-country-right-or-wrong-conscientious-objector-josh-stieber-on-bei ...
- Beyond Libya --The Middle East on Fire
By Barry Rubin Events are happening so fast that I can only summarize, trying to add some analytical depth to each development. So here goes��. Egypt The referendum resulted in a 77 percent �yes� vote on constitutional amendments to reduce the powers of the president and ensure f ...
- AUDIO PROOF! UN Human Rights Council Special ...
In the twisted world of the United Nations, where fair is foul and foul is fair, Richard Falk is the perfect UN employee. As I pointed out when he was appointed to his position, as United Nations Special Rapporteur on Palestinian Human Rights (the official Israel basher) Falk is a believer o ...
- Howard Kurtz Calls Out The Mainstream Media "W ...
In examining the ramp up to the war in Iraq many in the mainstream media have been say critical of their own coverage saying that they left President Bush "off the hook," without asking the tough questions about the upcoming war. Yesterday, on his show Reliable Sources, CNN's Howard Kurtz q ...
- Sarah Palin Visits The Kotel (Western Wall) Video
Sarah Palin visited Israel for the first time and immediately headed for the Kotel, the "Western Wall" of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Despite the common descriptions, the Kotel is not the most holy site in Judaism, it is the retaining wall for the Temple Mount which housed the two Temples to ...
- Louis Farrakhan Calls Out To Obama From His S ...
There must have been a lot of rain in Chicago, because the slug who imitates a human being, the hate-monger Louis Farrakhan has crawled out from the sewer of venom he resides in to disgorge new sewage upon the American people. This time he blasts Obama for his pressure on Qaddafi, according to t ...
- U.S. Supreme Court: Bailout Records Must Be Re ...
Reuters March 21, 2011 The Supreme Court let stand a ruling that the U.S. Federal Reserve must disclose details about its emergency lending programs to banks during the financial crisis in 2008. A group representing major commercial banks had asked the high court to reverse a ruling by a federal ...
- U.S. State Department will Fund BBC
Six-figure ‘investment’ will be used to combat censorship of TV and internet services, ‘educate’ Chinese and Iranians. Guardian March 20, 2011 The BBC World Service is to receive a “significant” sum of money from the US government to help combat the blocking of TV and internet services in countr ...
- Obama Clearly Not Welcomed in Brazil
By Luis R. Miranda Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil March 19, 2011 People in Brazil have made it clear that U.S. president is not welcomed here. Proof of such a sentiment is the absurd ring of security created around Obama’s visit to Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia. Besides the usual number of secret s ...
- Japanese admit radiation is strong enough to k ...
Officials admit they may have to bury reactors under concrete – as happened at Chernobyl. Government says it was overwhelmed by the scale of twin disasters. By David Derbyshire Mail Online March 19, 2011 The boss of the company behind the devastated Japanese nuclear reactor today broke down in t ...
- Nuclear Lies: Japanese History of Fake Reports
By Jason Clenfield Bloomberg March 18, 2011 The unfolding disaster at the Fukushima nuclear plant follows decades of falsified safety reports, fatal accidents and underestimated earthquake risk in Japan’s atomic power industry. The destruction caused by last week’s 9.0 earthquake and tsunami com ...
- Doubt over green energy’s clean bill of ...
Wind turbines are closing in on four generations of the Quinn family who still live at Mt Bryan in South Australia’s picturesque and productive Mt Lofty Ranges. Rosemary Quinn, 74, says she spends her nights locked inside the 1900s stone house she has occupied for 55 years. She shuts the windows ...
- Wind farm plan nixed in Brimfield
BRIMFIELD – Boston-based First Wind has withdrawn a proposal to build a wind farm on top of West Mountain, a move that has pleased its opponents. “West Mountain was not the place for eight to 10 wind turbines, and I’m happy that they’re leaving. I’m calling everybody that I can think of,” Select ...
- Questions of costs, jobs and influence surroun ...
Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley on Thursday will ask lawmakers to support a proposal to raise almost every state resident’s electric bill for the next 20 years to underwrite a plan for Maryland to generate some of the nation’s first offshore wind power. O’Malley’s legislation runs counter to a cam ...
- Wind farm falls flat
ST. HENRY – NextEra Energy Resources announced Tuesday it is pulling the plug on a locally-proposed wind farm project out of respect for the area’s rich religious history. Representatives of the Florida-based wind development company told The Daily Standard they changed their minds about constru ...
- Wind energy moratorium one step closer to reality
HARTFORD � Proposed wind turbine projects in Colebrook moved one step closer � to being halted in their tracks. The Joint Energy and Technology Committee of the Connecticut General Assembly issued a favorable report on HB 6249, which would enact an immediate moratorium on wind energy projects un ...
- In the struggle for Middle East land, Palestin ...
Israel can build all the new settlement condominiums it wants, it only takes one horrific Tate-Labianca-like crime scene to curb the Zionist homecoming charade. Israel can terrorize Gaza to smithereens, Palestinians don’t have anywhere to flee. American Jews on the other hand, are not going to l ...
- Afghans mutilated by US kill teams are then di ...
You’re shot up at random by a US kill team eager to engage Call Of Duty in the full-gore mode, who pose with you for a trophy pic, then when it sees the light of day, photo editors decide it best to shield your identity, they say to not dishonor your survivors, but likely to [...]
- The US-UN no-fly no-flee free-fire zone
Forbidding flight is not a pun, but a cruel misnomer –a war crime too by the way– international law forbids shooting a fleeing adversary. Or does aerial flight apply to ground forces and naval vessels? So far enforcement of the Libyan No-Fly Zone extends to flight by tanks, ships, and Command & ...
- New VIP consular services in Pakistan
The next time you need consular help oversees and you’re made to take a number, you know the US of A can do better than that. I’m fairly enthused about the US consular services plan unveiled to spring undiplomat Raymond Davis from Pakistani jail. If a plea for diplomatic immunity fails, because ...
- Right Wing “lone wolf” murderers
Their Whoremasters like Sarah Palin and the rest of the DumFox crew still refuse to admit that they urge people to KILL (they have to have other people do it because they’re too frightened to murder people themselves). Usually it’s male wannabee hitmen like Jared Loughner, Jim Adkisson, von Brun ...
- Debunking the Debunkers
Permanent Top Post--Scroll Down for Newer Posts Comments are only open to blog contributors, but feel free to contact us here if you have a point of contention or some kind words you would like to share. Ad hominems will be ignored, but well-formed rebuttals may be addressed (and that is a sub ...
- Obama prosecutes his future self ...
"The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation." ~ Senator Barack H. Obama, December 20, 2007 [Source] More: Clinton told it like it is...
- Firehouse 911 – The 9/11 video by Firefighter ...
http://911tv.org exclusive! Your $20 donation gets you a copy and ensures 10 American Firehouses will also receive a copy! Our goal is to send this DVD to every Firehouse in America! International orders encouraged! Shipping always FREE! Go to http://911tv.org. Donate for as many copies as you ...
- Insanity is the Norm at the Screw Loose Change ...
The Screw Loose Change blog recently posted "criticism" of an emotive appeal that appeared on this blog that is entitled "Re-Investigation of 911" on You Tube. Their attack consisted only of ad hominem ridicule; "Can you imagine anything more insane?", whilst the comments made by the online vid ...
- Email from an Engineer in Phoenix
Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog often tries to downplay the credentials of the members of Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth and other individuals in the truth movement. This email I received shows that even electrical engineers take classes relevant to the issues. I've read the NIS ...
- Health 2.0 Starts with Food
We’re posting today from San Diego, where Fooducate has been invited to demo our iPhone app at the Health 2.0 Conference. Borrowing the “2.0″ from “Web 2.0″, this conference and organization is all about web and mobile technologies empowering people to take charge of their health. The themes for ...
- Why 20 McNuggets for $4.99 is Actually a Bad D ...
McDonald’s is aggressively pushing its Chicken McNuggets with a deal that prices each nugget at just one quarter. Sound good? What you need to know: A serving is 4 McNuggets, according to McDonalds. So this deal is supposed to feed 5 people. Yeah, right… Each “serving” is 190 calories, 10 gram ...
- How to Enjoy Sardines? In a Salad [Professiona ...
There was a lot of talk on the in the comment forum about Friday’s post on sardines. One of the comments came from Chef Dave Schy, who offered the following recipe for Sardine Salad. The following recipe, with more photos, originally appeared on his website Newtaste. Ingredients: 4Â Â Â Â Â Yuk ...
- 1000 Blog Posts Later [How Fooducate Got Started]
I just noticed that we published Fooducate blog post #1000 this week. (It was on St. Patrick’s Day, about the “health benefits” of Guinness Beer) This is quite a milestone. So today, I’d like to celebrate by sharing a bit of the background that led to the creation of Fooducate. I’m a diehard foo ...
- Praise for Sardines
There’s a consensus among the nutrition community that people should be eating less meat and more fish. For most people, this means salmon or canned tuna. These are indeed very popular and nutritious choices. However there are several problems with tuna and salmon. Both are very large fish that ...
- Four Pre-Writing Exercises for Inspired Bloggers
Rebecca Chelsey's recent post on ways to spark our creativity got me thinking about the next step: how to take that creativity and turn it into meaningful sentences on the page. In other words, what we do with that spark of inspiration will determine the success or setbacks we face when we blog. ...
- 8 Simple Sources of Creative Inspiration
As a creative person, I've noticed that creativity and creative ideas tend to present themselves whenever they see fit, and rarely otherwise. This is an especially unfortunate habit for my creativity to have because I am in the field of design. Over the years I've researched and stumbled upon ei ...
- Culture Vulture: Social Strategies for Differe ...
Social media campaigns are becoming more integrated into the overall online marketing mix. And as with anything on the Web, you need to think global to succeed in the long term. To succeed with social media marketing for different cultures, you need to familiarise yourself with what’s happening ...
- Internet Marketing and Social Media Degree Pro ...
Guest post by Brian Jenkins Over a billion and a half people use the Internet, and this has created a plethora of opportunities for talented Internet marketers. Specialized knowledge in Internet marketing and social media is vital for many businesses. Yes, there are successful, self-taught Inte ...
- How to Find Great Communities, Forums, and Blo ...
To market your company effectively, you need to find out where your target audience is. In this post I’ll show you how you can do this. I like using examples, so in this case, I’ll assume you sell Star Wars merchandise.
- World Water Day: Global outrage over Ethiopia ...
The Kwegu are entirely dependent on the Omo river for their survival. © Survival Almost 400 organizations have signed a petition against Africa’s tallest dam, which will be delivered to Ethiopian embassies across Europe and the United States to mark World Water Day on Tuesday 22nd March. A ...
- 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 ...
- No BS Info on Japan NuclearObama invites Tokyo ...
for Truthout/Buzzflash by Greg Palast What South Texas project could look like.(Image by NINA - Nuclear Innovation North America) I need to speak to you, not as a reporter, but in my former capacity as lead investigator in several government nuclear plant fraud and racketeering investigatio ...
- Chevron Runs from Judgmentin Ecuador
by Greg Palast Chevron petroleum Corporation is attempting to slither out of an $8 billion judgment rendered yesterday by a trial court in Ecuador for cancer deaths, illnesses and destruction caused by its Texaco unit. I've been there, in Ecuador. I met the victims. They didn't lose their sh ...
- Reagan: Killer, Coward, Con-man
The Observer London by Greg Palast You're not going to like this. You shouldn't speak ill of the dead. But in this case, someone's got to. On the 100th Anniversary of Ronald Reagan's birth, as we suffer a week of Reagan-kitcheria and pukey peons, let us remember: Reagan was a con-man. Rea ...
- Shake your head and throw something at your TV
from MoviesOnline.ca Bush Family Fortunes is a documentary that will make you shake your head and want to throw something at your TV. If even half of what BBC investigative reporter Greg Palast reveals is true and you happen to be an American you may or may not be calling for a revolution depen ...
- Peak Oil and a Changing Climate
from The Nation The scientific community has long agreed that our dependence on fossil fuels inflicts massive damage on the environment and our health, while warming the globe in the process. But beyond the damage these fuels cause to us now, what will happen when the world's supply of oil ru ...
- What can I reuse or recycle to make a large wi ...
Long-time Recycle This friend Alice has emailed to ask about making a large wine rack: I make loads of home brew wine and beer, and I could really do with a very big wine rack. Any ideas on how I could make one out of recycled stuff? It’d need to hold at least 36 wine [...]
- How can I reuse or recycle bleach bottles?
Inspired by clearing out of bathroom cupboards this morning, I thought we’d have a cleaning themed week here on Recycle This. We’ve covered various cleaning related things in the past – pump action spray bottles, washing powder packaging, “freshener” shakers and reducing the amount of cleaning p ...
- How can I reuse or recycle baby sleeper suits/ ...
We’ve already talked about baby clothes in general but CD, who writes the Canadian Doomer blog, has sent over such an excellent reuse idea for worn out baby sleepers/romper suits that I thought it was worth featuring these in particular: I just posted this on my blog, and one of my readers thoug ...
- How can I reuse or recycle old glazed doors?
We’ve had an email from Sandra: We’ve replaced some old fashioned doors with glass in them. What can we do with them now? I’ve got an eBay saved search which looks for cheap big used home/garden stuff in my local area – and there are always doors on there. Most don’t sell for a lot [...]
- How can I reuse or recycle a mattress frame
On the Suggest an Item page, Wendy recently explained: We recently bought a new mattress after our Sleep Number bed (piece of junk, don’t get one) malfunctioned. We’ve saved the frame, which is made of black plastic and a lot of the cloth-like stuff that went around the air part. I was wondering ...
- The Bruising Reality of Autism and Lack of Pre ...
Managing Editor's Note: We learned that Billy is back in the hospital, hobbled by his agonizing GI pain. Share your own story in the comments please. Or send us your submission to KimStagliano@gmail.com for review. By Julie Obradovic Over the...
- Seth Mnookin, Bob's Your Uncle!
By Jake Crosby How did Seth Mnookin go from writing about baseball and rock n’ roll to defending the vaccine industry? He has become pharma’s media darling, parroting all the standard corporate fringe talking points in his widely publicized but...
- List of US Government Support for Vaccine-Auti ...
Despite the hutesium et clamor from the media and industry, the autism vaccine scientific debate is not closed. FEDERAL SUPPORT FOR VACCINE-AUTISM STUDIES Office of Immunization Safety (OSI) US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ● Will study autism...
- We Need Formalized Autism Wandering Code: Chil ...
Managing Editor's note: After I created this post I got another alert of a female with autism who had wandered in New York. Silver Alert Issued for Long Island Teen. Ms. Ramirez was found safe, thank God. As mom to...
- Minneapolis 5K Supports "Children With Autism ...
For full details on the May 21st 5K run/walk for C.A.D.E. click Autism5K HERE. Whether you’re a serious runner, a casual jogger or a walker, you’ll enjoy the Autism 5K. Last year we had nearly 2000 participants, evenly split between...
- 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.
- Steam rises from stricken Japan plant
Reuters – Smoke and steam rose from two of the most threatening reactors at Japan’s quake-crippled nuclear plant on Tuesday, suggesting the battle to avert a disastrous meltdown and stop the spread of radiation was far from won. The world’s worst nuclear crisis in 25 years was triggered by a hug ...
- Human Rights Watch Presses Syria to Stop Using ...
Bloomberg – Syrian security forces have killed five people and injured dozens of others since March 18 during protests in the southern town of Daraa, Human Rights Watch said. Government forces fired on demonstrators and used tear gas to break up a public gathering in the town yesterday, HRW said ...
- Repurposed Transplant Drug – Rapamycin & ...
Medical News Today – A drug typically used to prevent organ rejection in transplant patients has been shown to reverse the progress of an often fatal lung disease in women, according to findings published March 16 in the online edition of The New England Journal of Medicine. The discovery marks ...
- The Tiny Parasite That’s Decimating Bee ...
FOX News – First they were fungi, then protists â and now they are fungi again. Once thought to be primitive, it now seems they have evolved backward, becoming simpler rather than more complex. Microsporidia â single-celled parasites that include bugs implicated in the disappearance of honey bee ...
- Wave of unrest shakes Syria, crowds torch party HQ
Reuters – Crowds set fire to a headquarters of the ruling Baath Party in the Syrian city of Deraa on Sunday, residents said, as the wave of unrest in the Arab world shook even one of its most authoritarian states. Read article
- Judge places California's global warming progr ...
A San Francisco superior court judge has put California's sweeping plan to curb greenhouse gas pollution on hold, saying the state did not adequately evaluate alternatives to its cap-and-trade program. In a 35-page decision, Judge Ernest H. Goldsmith said the...
- Shell is on track to start new deepwater drill ...
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Monday announced a step toward approval of the first new deepwater oil and gas exploratory drilling plan in the Gulf of Mexico since the April 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster. The plan, submitted by Shell Offshore...
- Report outlines problems at Diablo Canyon nucl ...
The reactor at Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant in San Luis Obispo operated for a year and a half with some emergency systems disabled, according to a 2010 safety review by the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The incident was one...
- Cosmetic industry review critiques Brazilian b ...
Hair-straightening treatments, commonly known as Brazilian Blowouts, may emit unsafe levels of formaldehyde and methylene glycol, according to a preliminary report released last week by the Cosmetic Ingredient Review Expert Panel. The first acknowledgment by the cosmetics industry that Brazilian...
- Fight continues over West Coast coal exports t ...
Plans for a major West Coast coal export facility-- the subject of an intense fight over greenhouse gases and U.S. coal supplies to Asia--took a new turn when Millennium Bulk Terminals Inc. announced it was withdrawing its permit for the...
- Profile of Gary White, Co-Founder Water.org (N ...
World Water Day Profile: Co-Founder, Gary White of Water.org (Newsvine) – It’s been noted that nearly one billion people lack access to safe water and someone who has seen the affects of the water crisis firsthand is Gary White, co-founder of Water.org. Whiteâs become a leader in his own right, ...
- Water on the brain (Shanghai Daily)
Water on the brain (Shanghai Daily) – Representatives of Water.org, a nonprofit organization cofounded by Oscar-winning actor Matt Damon, arrived in Shanghai last weekend to help raise awareness. “The big problem is not an issue that awaits a remedial breakthrough or a technological breakthrough ...
- Regional winners of Hult Global Case Challenge ...
Hult International Business School announces the five regional winning teams of its 2nd Annual Hult Global Case Challenge (PR-USA.net) - Boston University School of Management, Stanford University Graduate School of Business, University of Belgrade Faculty of Organizational Sciences, SDA Bocconi ...
- April Rinne selected WEF Young Global Leader (WEF)
World Economic Forum Announces Young Global Leaders 2011 (North America) (World Economic Forum) – The World Economic Forum has announced its Young Global Leaders (YGLs) for 2011. The honour, bestowed each year by the Forum, recognizes up to 200 outstanding young leaders from around the world for ...
- WASH Advocacy Initiative calls for safe water ...
W.A.S.H. Advocacy Initiative is launched and celebrates International Women’s Day with a call for safe water, sanitation and hygiene for all (The Cypress Times) WASHINGTON, DC â On International Womenâs Day, the WASH Advocacy Initiative calls on U.S. policy makers, corporate and philanthropic le ...
- The Deniers on CBC Radio's 'Ideas'
The science is settled - is now the mantra of climate change activism? Those who disagree are either in denial or in the pay of an oil company. But long time environmentalist and energy activist Lawrence Solomon says no, the science is not settled on global warming. Ideas producer David Cayley b ...
- Why are we bombing Libya, when weâre nearly ...
Why are we bombing Libya, when we�re nearly broke and already fighting elsewhere? Peter Beinart on Obama�s endgame in Libya�and how the difficult lessons of Bosnia shape the campaign against Gaddafi.Submitted by Joseph M. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Photos show GIs posing with dead Afghans
Graphic photos showing U.S. troops posing with dead Afghans were published by a German news organization Monday, with one showing a soldier smiling as he held a bloodied and partially clothed corpse. Submitted by Judy C. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Israel admitted that they indeed arrested the ...
Israel admitted that they indeed arrested the Gazan engineer, Dirar Abu Sisi, who was reported to have gone missing from the Ukraine almost two weeks ago, the partial lifting of a gag order revealed. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Unrest in the Middle East and North Africa, co ...
(CNN) -- Demonstrations have spread across parts of the Middle East and North Africa. Here is the latest from each country and the roots of the unrest. Another excellent interactive resource.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Elon Musk on the 3 inventions that will change ...
Elon Musk is a 39-year-old engineer and serial entrepreneur. At 28, he co-founded popular e-payment company Paypal. He then went on to start SpaceX, the first private company to launch a rocket into space, and Tesla Motors, which builds electric cars.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �No ...
- Twin Falls Walt Disney World
Disneyland and Walt Disney World generally do a good job in creating its lines for rides and...Debra PetersonDisney Travel ExaminerMarch 21, 2011 A visit to Walt Disney World through pictures - Day One: Magic Kingdom Danny CoxMarch 20, 2011 At the beginning of March 2011, I traveled over to ...
- In Central America, Obama's worries close ...
Quick ReadPivoting to Central America, Obama will find disputes that hit closer to home Photos (AP) -- After days of promoting the international ties that bind, President Barack Obama shifts his Latin American tour to a closer neighbor and the more sensitive U.S. policy interests of immigra ...
- Examining Obama's Nobel Peace Prize and t ...
On December 10th, 2009, President Barack Obama was presented with the Nobel Peace Prize by the Norwegian Nobel Committee. Of course, to anyone with Common Sense, any division of the Nobel Prize holds as much water as the winner of the NIT. However, much controversy broke out about its recip ...
- Michel Platini gets 4 more years as UEFA ...
PARIS - Michel Platini will be the president of the European soccer governing body for another four-year term. The former France captain was unopposed at the UEFA Congress after proving popular among Europe's 53 soccer nations. Platini has opened up UEFA's marquee European Championship and ...
- Spain wins will assure Euro 2012 entry - ...
MADRID (AFP) – Spain will have one foot in the Euro 2012 finals if they win their Group I qualifiers against the Czech Republic and Lithuania this month, Barcelona striker David Villa said...
- In Minnesota, Melting Snow Means Major Floods
Melting snow might be a welcome sign of spring for many of us. But in Minnesota, a heavy snow melt feeds into its rivers and can mean record flooding. Robert Siegel talks with Mark Voxland, mayor of Moorhead, Minnesota, about what they're doing to prepare.» E-Mail This���� » Add to Del.icio.us ( ...
- Antarctica In Color, 1914
Early photographs tell the colorful story of Sir Ernest Shackleton's ill-fated voyage to Antarctica.» E-Mail This���� » Add to Del.icio.us (Source: NPR Health and Science)
- Reactor Engineers Struggle To Maintain Progress
In Japan, engineers are still trying to reduce the hazards at the damaged nuclear reactor complex. Over the weekend, they made some progress but there were setbacks on Monday.
- Bits: Making Mobile Payments a Reality
Mobile phones could replace credit cards in the near future as mobile phone makers look to add technology that will enable payments through the mobile phone.
- Ask Slashdot: Online Science For 8th Grade Stu ...
Peterus7 writes "I'm a student teacher in an 8th grade science classroom, and have noticed that students are very motivated by anything online. After realizing that, I've been looking for ways to incorporate internet resources into my teaching, and trying to find cool citizen science projects, a ...
- Is Muammar Gaddafi a Target? PM and Military S ...
A breach within Britain's political and military leadership has opened up as David Cameron argued the Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi, may be a legitimate target while the Chief of the Defence Staff, Sir David Richards, said he was "absolutely not". ...
- Haitians Go to Polls Amid Violence and Ballot ...
Haitians went to the polls yesterday to elect a new president amid the ruins of an earthquake that has left 800,000 people homeless, fears of a cholera outbreak and reports of campaign violence and ballot station chaos. Early indications suggested slow voting, as Brazilian UN troops guarded poll ...
- Japan Quake Death Toll Passes 18,000
The human and financial cost of the tsunami continues to rise, after police estimates showed more than 18,000 people have died in the disaster and the World Bank said it may cost Japan as much as �145bn to repair the damage. read more
- UN Investigator: Israel Engaged in Ethnic Clea ...
Israel's expansion of settlements in East Jerusalem and eviction of Palestinians from their homes there is a form of ethnic cleansing, a United Nations investigator said on Monday. United States academic Richard Falk was speaking to the UN Human Rights Council as it prepared to pass resolutions ...
- Revolutionary Youth Gives Clinton the Cold Sho ...
CAIRO - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last week paid a highly-publicised visit to Cairo's Tahrir Square, the epicentre of Egypt's recent popular uprising. But young leaders of the revolution declined an invitation to meet with her, citing Washington's tepid support for anti-government ...
- Charge it! The Challenge Facing Electric Cars
�With all the dismal environmental news of late�from the nuclear crisis in Japan to the Republican attacks on EPA in Congress�it will be a pleasure this week to turn my attention to one of the most exciting developments on the sustainability front: the arrival of electric cars in the U.S.
- Pawning The Chernobyl Necklace
As the world gapes mesmerized at the nuclear disaster unfolding in Japan, those not at risk of exposure to the radiation bless their good luck and wonder what it must feel like to be the unlucky ones – the ones who can’t escape that invisible blanket of fear. Let me tell you what it feels like.
- Critical Materials: Insights from the MIT Ener ...
Lithium - a critical element for energy? (Courtesy of Treehugger.com)
- Google tests out wireless electric-car charging
I’ve written before about a company called Evatran that has developed a wireless charging system for ele
- Louisiana: Gulf Suffers Another Oil Spill
Fresh Louisiana crude washed into the beaches and dock areas near Grand Isle�over the weekend, creating a sickening sight for the residents of this oil battered region. The reddish brown crude and oily sheen lapped onto the sandy and rocky shores, while some people flocked to Grand Isle�s famous ...
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