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Wednesday, March 23, 2011

23 March - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

 

IPS - Inter Press Services

  • WIKILEAKS: Australians Call For Legislation to ...
    Some Australians are convinced their government is sharing intelligence information with foreign powers about citizens implicated by documents released by Wikileaks.
  • Who Controls the Nuclear Control Agencies?
    As Japan struggles to confront a nuclear disaster that could be the worst in history, it seems clear that any discussion about the safety of nuclear energy should address the independence of regulatory agencies.
  • VENEZUELA: Long on Weapons, Short on Accountab ...
    Venezuela has been a major arms purchaser from Russia, China and other suppliers in the last five years, but has failed to acquire the necessary competence to deal with hypothetical conflicts, says a non-governmental organisation specialised in security and defence.
  • Libyan Rebels Form "Interim Government"
    Libya's pro-democracy fighters have formed an "interim government" even as forces backing the country's leader, Muammar Gaddafi, press ahead with attacks against them.
  • MOZAMBIQUE: Linette Olofsson - A Life Spent in ...
    There is no way one can have a conversation with Linette Olofsson without being dragged into her collection of images about her community agricultural project in central Mozambican Province of Zambezia.

Scoop - NZ

  • Fisk: Remember the victims of past 'Allied' bo ...
    How life past catches up with life present. The Americans killed Raafat al-Ghosain, pictured above, just after 2am on 15 April 1986. In the days that followed her death, United States officials claimed that Libyan anti-aircraft fire might have hit her home – watch out for similar American claim ...
  • Japan: Nuclear privatisation condemned
    In light of the crisis at Japan’s Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant, the privatization of nuclear energy in the country has come under fire. Some question whether the accident could have been averted if the plant had been run by the state.
  • Yemen in Crisis | STRATFOR
    A standoff centered on the presidential palace is taking place between security forces in the capital city of Sanaa while embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh continues to resist stepping down, claiming that the “majority of Yemeni people” support him. While a Western-led military intervention ...
  • US Reps Cut Tsunami Watch Budget « Climate Pr ...
    .. the 2011 budget proposed by House Republicans — as well as the three-week continuing resolution they just passed — eliminates critical funding to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that will hamper the agency’s ability to track and respond to tsunamis. The agency said the cu ...
  • Anatomy of a Nuclear Crisis: Fukushima
    The world’s worst nuclear reactor mishap in 25 years was caused by a massive natural calamity but compounded by what appear to be surprising mistakes by Japanese engineers. The result has been a fast-moving disaster that has left officials careening from one emergency to the next.

Independent - London

Rogue Government.com

Innovation Canada

  • 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 ...

Signs of the times

  • Japan: Neutron beam observed 13 times at cripp ...
    Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Wednesday it has observed a neutron beam, a kind of radioactive ray, 13 times on the premises of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant after it was crippled by the massive March 11 quake-tsunami disaster. TEPCO, the operator of the nuclear plant, said the neutron bea ...
  • Soldier faces trial in 'sport killing' case
    * Spc. Jeremy Morlock faces a maximum sentence of life in prison * He is part of a larger case involving several soldiers * They are accused of a conspiracy to kill and cover up, prosecutors say * Photos were published of what appears to be Morlock posing over dead Afghan civi ...
  • Study examines how brain corrects perceptual e ...
    New research provides the first evidence that sensory recalibration - the brain's automatic correcting of errors in our sensory or perceptual systems - can occur instantly. "Until recently, neuroscientists thought of sensory recalibration as a mechanism that is primarily used for coping wit ...
  • US: 13 Illegal Immigrants Arrested in Californ ...
    Border Patrol agents recently arrested 13 illegal immigrants disguised as U.S. Marines and riding in a fake military van, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Tuesday. The illegal immigrants were clad in Marine uniforms when they were apprehended at the Campo Border Patrol Westbound I-8 ch ...
  • Cuba's Castro: I Quit as Party Chief 5 years Ago
    Fidel Castro's surprise announcement that he stepped down as head of the Communist Party five years ago - despite widespread belief he remained in charge - marks the bizarre end of an era for a nation, and a man, whose fates have been intertwined for more than half a century. The 84-year-o ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Considering Libya
    Some things that come to mind when considering Libya. First, nothing is carved in stone, and despite narratives about moral obligations and the clearly detestable foe, Libya is in civil war. Gaddafi does have his supporters and some of them are clearly willing to die for the cause. As we've see ...
  • 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 ...

Media Matters for America

  • Breitbart Website Warns Of "National Security ...
    Following the release of a dubious report on "birth tourism" by the Center For Immigration Studies, Andrew Breitbart's website Big Peace highlighted the study's conclusions that hundreds of thousands of women visiting the United States give birth to babies here each year and that some of them a ...
  • Fox Hypes False Story That Journalists, But No ...
    On March 21, Fox News repeatedly claimed that reporters from other U.S. outlets, but not from Fox News, were lured to Muamar Gadhafi's compound in Tripoli and successfully used as human shields. But Fox had to "clarify" the story late that evening when it turned out that someone from Fox News w ...
  • Right-Wing's Libya Kitchen-Sink Attack
    The right-wing media is grasping for coherence in its attempts to portray military action in Libya as "Obama's Iraq." Obama Is "Feeble" And ""Dithering" Now, If I Were President ... But Obama Is Just Doing It Wrong It's Too Late Anyway And Obama Did It For The Wrong Reasons He Doesn't R ...
  • Right-Wing Media Absurdly Claim Obama Is ...
    Following President Obama's announcement that he has�authorized "a limited military action in Libya" to "protect Libyan civilians," the right-wing media has absurdly declared that Obama is "essentially backing Al-Qaeda" and is "making the world safe for jihad."Right-Wing Media Claim Obama's Lib ...
  • Fox Civil War: Beck Reportedly Set To Hire "No ...
    According to reports, Fox News senior vice president Joel Cheatwood may leave Fox and join Glenn Beck's production company. Cheatwood reportedly has a close relationship with Beck, who he has repeatedly defended publicly. Cheatwood is also considered one of the "most notorious TV execs in the c ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Jon Stewart: The ONLY Major Media Figure Not I ...
    For several years now Jon Stewart, host of The Daily Show has shown himself to be the only major media figure to fearlessly challenge the official "line" on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Repeatedly, he has slammed the occupation and has even mocked the pretensions of AIPAC which (along with ...
  • The Bullets of Bahrain
    In a piece that ran last week on TomDispatch, Nick Turse has documented the extensive military ties that have developed between the U.S. and Bahrain over the past several decades. Washington has supplied everything from bullets to shoulder-fired missiles to fighter planes to Bahrain's armed ...
  • Japan's Earthquake May Shake World Economy
    The world is witnessing a horrible tragedy in northern Japan, an earthquake followed by a tsunami and now the risk of a nuclear catastrophe. Even if the nuclear threat can be contained we will still see a humanitarian disaster, with more than 10,000 deaths and many more sick and injured. Many ...
  • Rushed Phone Deregulation Bill Delayed by Advo ...
    Even as broadband has rolled out for many customers around the country, lower-income families still dependent on traditional phone service have faced the quiet threat of "deregulation" bills pushed around the country to raise landline rates and cut consumer protections. The latest round ...
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TruthOut

  • Japan's Nuclear Kamikazes: A Morality Tale of ...
    In the final stages of World War II, Japan found young men willing to give their lives in suicidal missions against Allied warships. Scarves tucked around their necks blowing in the wind identified them as men willing to die for their country. The modern day kamikazes are the men who have been ...
  • Commodities and Inflation, a Misunderstood Pair
    Whenever I write about inflation (or the lack thereof), I get a lot of remarkably angry mail from people who are focused on commodity prices. They just can’t imagine why economists and officials like myself and Ben S. Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, appear to be relaxed about othe ...
  • "Figures of Speech": Yetta Stromberg
    Yetta Stromberg was 19 years old when she was a counselor at a summer camp for young Communists. It was 1929. The camp was in the mountains near San Bernardino, California. The campers came from working-class Communist families from Los Angeles. The 40 or so boys and girls ranged in age from 6 t ...
  • News in Brief: Tim Pawlenty Enters Presidentia ...
    Tim Pawlenty Enters Presidential Raceread more
  • Time Lapse Mapping the Global Protests and Upr ...
    John Caelan from the website The Swamp Post has created a couple of time-lapse videos that map protests from December 18 to March 7, 2011, where the protests and uprisings can be seen spreading out into different countries.read more

Planetsave

  • Food Prices on the Rise — Expect that to Stay ...
    Worldwide, high crude oil prices, increasing extreme weather events, population growth and economic development of poorer countries, crop-based biofuels, political conflict and unrest in the Middle East, and slowing crop yield growth are all factors contributing to rising food prices.
  • Climate Change Action Ad
    I recently ran across this on Skeptical Science, and then actually saw it somewhere else a few days later. Great ad, so though it'd be worth sharing with you.
  • Solar Power in a Carrying Case
    OS – a Japanese company that makes retractable screens for projectors – has invented this very handy portable solar power-on-the-go device, that sells for ¥60,000 - or about $730.
  • Public Distrusts Climate Science due to Lack o ...
    Despite a large majority of scientists with intimate knowledge of the planet’s climate agree that climate change is real, the public still persists in distrusting the majority at the hands of those few sceptics. This is not surprising, but a new study conducted by Caren Cooper, a research associ ...
  • Start a Mini-Garden — Join “Grow Your Own Food ...
    Becky Striepe, editor of one of our sister sites, Eat Drink Better, is giving home gardening a "whirl" and inviting others to join her in the process. Interested?

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • Nuclear Energy Isn't Needed - Energy
    Twelve days are not nearly enough to comprehend the magnitude of the catastrophes that hit Japan starting March 11. From the children who lost parents in the crush of the earthquake, to those whose loved ones are still missing after the tsunami, to the scores of workers risking their hea ...
  • Obama in Chile: No apology for 1973 coup - Wor ...
    23 March 2011 During his visit to Chile, President Barack Obama rejected a direct appeal for an apology for Washington’s role in fomenting a fascist-military coup that plunged the country into 17 years of dictatorship and entailed the murder, torture, imprisonment and exile of hundreds of th ...
  • Samba Pa Ti - Santana (Live in Mexico) - Musi ...
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  • Egyptian constitutional referendum passes amid ...
    Editor's Note: The working class and youth continue to fight back against the old regime with a new face - this time by abstinence in the reform referendum, denying it's democratic tag and legitimacy. Our sources in Cairo tell us that this revolutionary battle is not over - not by...
  • Minnesota Republicans Want to Ban Poor People ...
    Editor's Note: This news report on more insanity in U.S. politics contains one of the oldest strategy used by the political establishment which may pass under the radar of some. It's another attempt to portray the Republicans as the bad guys with an argument of silence that suggests that the...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The Real Price of Slashonomics
    Let's play Slashonomics! The latest rage sweeping the country is a rethuglican budget game for the whole family. It's easy: find federal programs that provide real-world benefits greater than their cost. When you cut them from the budget, you actually lose more money that you save. The player wh ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    Funny how as soon as the U.S. commits treasure and lives, the cheerleaders find reasons to disappear. "France has proposed that a new political steering committee outside of NATO be responsible for overseeing military operations over Libya to enforce a UN-backed no-fly zone. The announcement cam ...
  • Forget Nukes; Let's Drill for ... oops
    Yeah, nobody could have predicted this. Nobody except, you know, everybody with a lick of sense. Nicole Belle at Crooks and Liars: While the media is busy assuring their audiences that we still need nuclear energy despite catastrophic accidents potential, environmentalists would like you to rem ...
  • Right Wing Targets Nation-state, Not Just "Big ...
    The Friday quiz that Michael Tomasky gave to his Guardian of London readers last week about the USSR, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and other countries which no longer exist got me thinking about the cracks now discernible in our own American Republic. Tomasky's question was inspired by the recent ...
  • Of immovable objects and irresistible forces
    It's a ludicrous proposition, but one that is being pushed anyway by the douchebags, morons, idiots and other assorted right-wing nutjobs masquerading as republicans. They insist that we have to cut spending -- and only cut spending -- to get our financial house in order. The deficit that Bush m ...

Care 2

  • Tokyo says radiation in tap water above limit
    Tokyo Water Bureau officials say levels of radioactive iodine in some city tap water is two times the recommended limit for infants.The officials told reporters Wednesday that a water treatment center in downtown Tokyo that supplies much of the city's tapSubmitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �No ...
  • 'Mideast is worlds riskiest region for water ...
    Study says growing shortages heighten political risk, may raise oil prices; "water isn�t going to be sole cause for civil unrest," analyst says. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Save The Lar Gibbon Monkey... Take Action....
    These animals are still over-hunted for their meat. They are also captured in large numbers for the pet trade, even in protected areas. Gibbons are unlike other monkeys....Submitted by James Howie to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • The 80 Greatest Science Fiction Books for Kids
    Science-fiction is an ideal genre for kids of all ages � not the sole domain of ponderous, provocative philosophical tomes using space as a metaphor for the human condition and psyche. Although rooted in astronomy, robots and other scientific truths.....Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �Not ...
  • Enjoying the Natural Feast of Peterhof Garden, ...
    Peterhof garden or the Peterhof Palace has another name that is Petrodvorets and is commonly known throughout Russia by it. If you are visiting Saint Petersburg then this fascinating sight cannot be missed at any cost; it surely counts as the one of ..Submitted by . to Green Lifestyle �|� �Not ...

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Why Obama is Fumbling Libya
    Before you do anything, please read in its entirety the UN Security Council Resolution passed last week authorizing the No Fly Zone, among other things, over Libya. (You can read it here.) Let’s start by exploding one myth. The resolution does not REPEAT not prohibit ground troops in Libya. The ...
  • Barack Obama Shreds His Credibility [Updated w ...
    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 ...
  • Evening Open Thread
    As if Obama weren’t gutless enough already, the withering attacks from across the world, and most particularly in his own Washington, D.C., must have him shaking in dread as I did when I was a small child, leaping from as far away as I could into my bed so that the monsters couldn’t snatch me, [...]
  • News That Sounds Like It’s From “The Onion,” B ...
    There have been a few items in the News recently that really do sound like they are straight from The Onion, but are, in fact, true. Chalk it up to the “truth is stranger than fiction” meme. Hopefully, this will provide a bit of a respite from our undeclared war on Libya, which cost us [...]
  • Bad Luck Cadet #21 – Failure Is Not An Option
    This is the 21th installment in the Bad Luck Cadet series. It’s best to start with Accidents Happen to enjoy my adventures at the police academy after turning 40. It’s all about the fun, laughter and pain. Well maybe pain, pain and pain! After what seemed like a short weekend, Monday came around ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • The 2011 Japan Earthquake & Tsunami: How to Su ...
    Evacuees in Japan suffer because of a shortage of food, fuel, clothes and a safe place to stay. Here are 7 organizations that assist relief efforts. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 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

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • 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 ...

Daily Censored

  • Here’s a thought…
    If we were not fighting three wars, perhaps we could offer significant tax rebates and/or other subsidies to assist people  buying fuel efficient hybrid automobiles.  Setting a goal for mileage would encourage efficiency, stimulate employment, and reduce our carbon footprint.  What we do not nee ...
  • No-Fly Zone Fallacy
    � This past weekend, under U.N. Security Council Resolution 1973, the United States and its allies began enforcing a �no fly zone� over much of Libya. One of the most frequent comparisons used to justify our actions has been that of the Bosnia-Herzegovia war.  Recently, Mo Sacribey of the Europe ...
  • Can we ever trust anything the US government s ...
    Source: Carl Herman, Examiner.com The 5-minute video on the left, along with the re-posted information from “AntiCorruption Society,” presents important considerations in understanding the oligarchies who have hijacked the US government. The presenter is Benjamin Fulford. What we know from the f ...
  • Citizens United: Corporate free speech and wo ...
    The following is by Paul Moore:   A few days over a year ago, or to be more precise on January 21, 20 Citizens United:10, the US Supreme Court handed over what little was left of this nation’s pretensions to democracy on a silver platter to the Big Banks and the US Chamber of Commerce. The ...
  • 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 ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

Institute for Policy Studies

  • Unsafe at Any Reactor
    U.S. nuclear plants are storing increasing amounts of highly radioactive spent fuel in pools that are vulnerable to accident or attack. New safety policies are needed.
  • Libya Intervention Threatens The Arab Spring
    Despite its official UN-granted legality, the credibility of Western military action in Libya is rapidly dwindling.
  • Endgame for Gaddafi?
    Will military intervention dislodge Gaddafi or lead to yet another quagmire?
  • 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.

Equality Trust

  • 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...
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    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.

PDA AMERICA

  • 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 ...

Marler Blog

  • Del Monte Has Recalled Salmonella Cantaloupe B ...
    In 2009 the California state department of public health warned consumers not to eat Del Monte brand whole cantaloupe sold between Oct. 5 and 16 at Northern California and Nevada Raley's, Bel Air, Nob Hill Foods and Food Sources stores. Dr. Mark Horton, the department's director, said these sto ...
  • Del Monte Fresh Recalls Cantaloupes after a Do ...
    Del Monte Fresh Produce N.A., Inc. (“Del Monte Fresh”) of Coral Gables, Florida is voluntarily recalling 4,992 cartons of cantaloupes, each containing 4 plastic mesh sleeves with 3 cantaloupes per sleeve, because they have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella Panama, an organism whic ...
  • Oops - The Palmyra Bologna Co., Lebanon Bologn ...
    I love, and you will too will love www.outbreakdatabase.com: An outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium occurred in south central Pennsylvania and was linked to the consumption of Lebanon bologna. The Lebanon bologna was produced by The Palmyra Bologna Co. and had been distributed nationwide. Lebano ...
  • Four with E. coli O157:H7 linked to Palmyra Bo ...
    Palmyra Bologna Company, Inc., a Palmyra, Penn., establishment, is recalling approximately 23,000 pounds of Lebanon bologna products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. Lebanon bologna is a ...
  • 2010-2011 Legislative Session: Raw Milk Bills ...
    2010 to 2011 raw milk bills.pdf

AutoblogGreen

  • 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 ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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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 ...

Democracy Now!

  • Uncut Interview with Former Haitian President ...
    Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and his family were flown on March 18, 2011 by the South African government back to their home in Haiti after seven years in exile in South Africa. Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman was the only reporter to join them on the journey. Here is the compl ...
  • 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. Muhannad ...
  • Libyan Citizen Journalist Mohammed Nabbous Kil ...
    Democracy Now! regrets to report that Mohammed Nabbous, a Libyan citizen journalist in Benghazi who founded Libya AlHurra 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 interview ...
  • 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. “I am Amy Goodman in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. What a remarkable day and a remarkable journey this has been. The Aristides have ...
  • 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 I’m Amy Goodman, we just landed in Port au Prince. The former president of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide has landed. We made it through a mad cru ...

Digg Green

  • Are we from Mars?
    We all could be, scientists say — and an MIT-developed instrument might someday provide the proof.
  • Scientists Look Inside The San Andreas Fa ...
    Earthquake specialists work night and day to create an underground image of one of the most seismically active and geologically complex regions of the country, the Salton Trough, where the San Andreas fault begins.
  • NASA: Image of the Day 'Disappearing Act'
    This swirling landscape of stars is known as the North America Nebula. In visible light, the region resembles North America, but in this new infrared view from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, the continent disappears.
  • Religion to become extinct, says model of ...
    Decades of census data, alongside a mathematical model borrowed from physics, suggest religion is being driven to extinction, researchers say.
  • Ancestor to the Easter Bunny Was 6-Times ...
    Scientists say a really big bunny once roamed the island of Minorca 3 to 5 million years ago. It weighed in at 26 pounds — six times the size of rabbits today — had small ears and tiny eyes, and didn’t hop.

Invisible Opportunity

  • Israel; the Ace of Spades of Evil
    By Les Visible Well, I do take requests. It’s nice to warm up because it’s been a while since I did any performing but that’s on the docket, coming up, so I hear. Speaking of requests, someone asked me to do a Profile of Evil on Monsanto (My Satan), which happens to be (don’t act [...]
  • Bravo, Angela! Germany Pulls Out of NATO Opera ...
    Breaking: Germany has pulled out of NATO operations due to disagreements over the mission in Libya. To add to that, Germany did the unthinkable: it voted in favor of a UN Security Council resolution calling the Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territory illegal and demanding the immed ...
  • Libya war: Germans pull forces out of NATO as ...
    Deep divisions between allied forces currently bombing Libya worsened today as the German military announced it was pulling forces out of NATO over continued disagreement on who will lead the campaign. A German military spokesman said it was recalling two frigates and AWACS surveillance plane cr ...
  • A View of the NWO War Room
    by Zen Gardner March 22nd, 2011 Nothing like a map to know where you’re going. In the case of the NWO, the world is like a chess game, where they move all the major pieces and just crush the pawns that get in the way. But if you want to know what’s coming, look how [...]
  • Phytoremediation: Using Plants to Clean Soil
    On the morning of April 26, 1986, a small town in the former Soviet Union was the site of a nuclear explosion that literally shook the earth. The historic accident at Chernobyl Nuclear Plant Reactor 4 in the Ukraine caused severe radioactive contamination. Families within a 30-km zone of the pow ...

Global Insights

  • Less Than a Week Away
    We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware.George Green will be a featured speaker.September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CAClick here for Tickets & Reservations 
  • The Georgia Guidestones
    On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
  • The Creation
    THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to pu ...
  • The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...
    In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
  • About George Green
    Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to fo ...

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

  • 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 ...

Inhabitat

  • Packaging the Future: Micromidas Makes Biodegr ...
    Right now, 8% of the world’s oil is used to make plastics — and oil has to be extracted from the belly of the earth using extremely energy and cost-intensive processes. At the same time, the world’s cities are constantly growing and producing more waste, which is usually dehydrated and trucked o ...
  • Arch Group Unveils Kremlin-Esque Green Orthodo ...
    Read the rest of Arch Group Unveils Kremlin-Esque Green Orthodox Church In The Shadow Of The Eiffel Towerhttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: A ...
  • House of Representatives Votes to Cut 93% of F ...
    Photo ©hberends via sxc Now this is a story that has us scratching our heads for sure. Last Saturday, the House of Representatives voted to cut $27.3 million (about 93%) of federal funding for poison control centers across the U.S. – a move that puts us (especially children, who are prone to in ...
  • MVRDV’s Shenzhen Guosen Tower Is A Giant Energ ...
    Read the rest of MVRDV’s Shenzhen Guosen Tower Is A Giant Energy Efficient Chinese Lanternhttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: china, Daylighti ...
  • Pixelated Birdhouses Sprout on City Trees in L ...
    Read the rest of Pixelated Birdhouses Sprout on City Trees in Londonhttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: 2010, Bio diversity, Biodiversity, Bir ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Pictured: One Sea Turtle’s Worth of Plastic
    Joining the Laysan albatross as icons of ocean plastic pollution are sea turtles, which consume bellyfuls of debris while swimming through Earth’s five great ocean garbage patches. Pictured above are the stomach contents of a juvenile sea turtle accidentally captured off the coast of Argentina. ...
  • The Physics of The Flower’s Bloom
    While wandering lonely as a cloud, William Wordsworth should have stopped to wonder how those daffodils bloomed. Not content to just watch flowers dance in the breeze, Harvard physicists have described for the first time how flowers generate the forces needed to curl open come springtime. In th ...
  • Help Make Better Map of Global Light Pollution
    You can help build the best global map of light pollution, the uniquely modern problem that has stolen starlight from most of the urbanized world. From Mar. 22 through Apr. 6, the GLOBE at Night website will collect the public’s measurements of the night sky. Anyone can participate by compari ...
  • Laser Space Telescope Could Test for Vanishing ...
    The universe may have started out with fewer dimensions than the three we live in, and could still collapse down to one dimension at extremely high energies. The idea could solve some of the thorniest problems in particle physics and, unlike more popular models like string theory, can be tested ...
  • 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 ...

PakAlert

  • Scientist: Japan nuke “accidents” are tectonic ...
    Independent scientist Leuren Moret, whose 2004 landmark article in the Japan Times unmasked lies and distortions by government and company officials that led to the construction of nuclear power plants in seismically dangerous areas, has declared in an exclusive 65-minute video interview with Al ...
  • The Surprising PNAC Connection to Libya
    Looks like the PNAC, or Project for A New American Century, agenda of 1997 is rolling along as planned. Just as has been outlined by other think tanks, Illuminati writers and social programmers But a blind world reels on the defensive when they could have known what was coming all along. Not ...
  • A Gallery of Smirking NeoCons and NeoLibs
    Ever notice the smug, smirky look of the Neocons, as well as the leading Neolibs? Cocky bunch. When I saw Bill Kristol on Fox calling for a troop invasion of Libya and spewing the same old Neocon Zionist propaganda, it just all came together. And don’t forget, they’re all on the same team, ri ...
  • Occult Symbolism: Photos from 1972 Rothschild ...
    These elite figures truly enjoy walking around with serious faces wearing creepy costumes. You think Gaga is “original”? Nope, she’s making trendy what her masters have been doing for centuries.
  • 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 ...

Andy Worthington

  • 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 ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • Much like the "conservative" GOP...
    The conservative Blue Dogs acted as Bush's domestic poodles, helping to move a dangerous right wing agenda. They were owned by the right wing and corporations and there is no big surprise why more than half of the Blue Dog caucus (28 of 54 members) were slaughtered in the 2010 elections. So f ...
  • Stop Drinking and Start Doing, Dem Dumb Dumbs
    Sober up, Dems. You started sucking suds when you captured the Congress in 2006. Since 2008 you've been binge drinking with Congress and the Prez. You even nibbled on some hot wings and pub nuts. Burp! And now the bartender just cut your drunk, lazy, liberal, progressive, leftie ass off. Y ...
  • The People Have Spoken. And Their Message Is ...
    So. What the heck happened last night? The GOP picked up 60 seats in the House, effectively reversing their losses there from 2006 and 2008, and returning control of that body to them. The GOP picked up some 6 seats in the Senate, but the Democratic Party retains control there. The GOP picked u ...
  • 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 ...

SPL Center

  • Pamela Geller’s New Film: The Next Wave of Ant ...
    Anti-Muslim zealot Pamela Geller’s new film starts with a thud – literally. It’s the sound of a body striking a ground-level roof after plunging from lower Manhattan’s World Trade Center towers shortly after Islamic terrorists flew two jetliners into them in 2001. Just in case that gratuitously ...
  • Anti-Immigrant Oklahoma State Rep Accused of T ...
    Oklahoma State Rep. Randy Terrill is in the press again, this time for reportedly cursing and threatening Oklahoma House Speaker Kris Steele, a fellow Republican. Terrill, who is rabidly anti-immigrant and a prominent member of State Legislators for Legal Immigration (SLLI), the main organizatio ...
  • Alaska Congressman Seeks Distance From Accused ...
    A Republican congressman from Alaska, who also is on the board of directors of the National Rifle Association, now is attempting to distance himself from a Fairbanks militia leader accused in a high-profile firearms, murder and kidnapping plot. In April 2009, with a video camera rolling, Rep. Do ...
  • SPLC Hate Group Count Tops 1,000 as Radical Ri ...
    Editor’s Note: The Southern Poverty Law Center is today releasing its annual count of groups on the American radical right and analysis. What follows is the main essay from the new issue of the Intelligence Report, the SPLC’s investigative magazine. In the story, you’ll find links to our new hat ...
  • 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 ...

change: org.

  • DEVELOPING: Has Apple Pulled the "Gay Cure" Ap ...
    UPDATE: The President of Exodus International, Alan Chambers, tweets that their "gay cure" app has been removed from the App Store. Apple has been under fire for more than a week now for carrying a "gay cure" app on its platform from Exodus International. But if you try to access the controversi ...
  • Deja Vu? GE Alfalfa Headed to Court Again
    Monsanto's genetically engineered (GE) alfalfa is going to Washington. Again. Attorneys with the Center for Food Safety and Earthjustice recently filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). They contend that if fully deregulted, GE alfalfa, which is engineered to live thr ...
  • Rabbi Says Apple Has Moral Responsibility to P ...
    Apple continues to face heat from consumers around the world, over the company's decision to host a "gay cure" app on the iTunes platform. More than 140,000 people have signed a petition urging Apple to drop this app, garnering press coverage all over the place, from Fox News to ABC, to the Wall ...
  • Florida Governor Chomps Down On Alligator Skin ...
    Florida's alligator industry is made up of about 30 gator farms, plus hundreds of trappers and leather makers, and they're all snapping mad at their state's governor. Florida's current budget includes about $100,000 used to market alligator products, but Gov. Rick Scott intends to ax that money ...
  • Governor Cuomo Set to Abandon Homeless Kids in ...
    Here's a startling statistic: each night in New York City, there are about 3,000 kids and young adults who are homeless on the streets. Now here's a statistic that's even more startling: there are roughly about 108 beds available for these youth on any given night. It doesn't take a rocket scien ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Peak Water Has Already Come and Gone
    UXBRIDGE, Canada - Canadian Kevin Freedman is celebrating World Water Day Tuesday by living on 25 litres of water a day, instead of the North American average of 330 litres per day. And he has enlisted 31 others in his "Water Conservation Challenge" to go water - lean, using just 25 litres per d ...
  • Tokyo Water Unsafe for Babies, Food Bans Imposed
    Tokyo on Wednesday warned that radioactive iodine over twice the safe level for infants had been detected in its tap water due to the disaster at a quake-hit nuclear plant northeast of Japan's capital. The revelation came after the United States barred imports of dairy and other produce from are ...
  • Explosion at Bus Stop in Central Jerusalem; 25 ...
    An bomb tied to a telephone pole exploded Wednesday at a crowded bus stop outside the International Convention Center in Jerusalem, just opposite the central station. At least 25 people were wounded in the incident, four of them seriously. All of the casualties have been evacuated to the Hadassa ...
  • Radiation in the Homeland: Honeywell’s Guilty ...
    Attention is now turned to the radiation being released in Japan following the massive earthquake there this month. Unfortunately, Americans don't have to look abroad to discover this kind of frightening scenario: This month, defense contractor Honeywell pleaded guilty to releasing radioactive m ...
  • Snipers, Shells, Tanks Terrorize Key Libyan City
    TRIPOLI, LIBYA—Moammar Gadhafi’s snipers and tanks are terrorizing civilians in Libya’s third-largest city, and the U.S. military said Tuesday it was “considering all options” in response to dire conditions that have left people cowering in darkened homes and scrounging for food and rainwater. ...

Lifehacker

  • Set Bookmarks to Open in a New Tab in Chrome [ ...
    Chrome: If you have a few sites that you visit particularly often but you want them to open up in a new tab every time you visit them, reader Java-Princess shows us how to make them do so. More��
  • Chrome 11 Arrives in Beta with Speech Input an ...
    Windows/Mac/Linux: Chrome 11 has made its way to the Beta release of Chrome, bringing with it an HTML5-powered speech input ability (which you can test out here), GPU-powered 3D CSS rendering, and, most immediately noticeable, the new, fla ...
  • Browser Speed Tests: Firefox 4, Internet Explo ...
    It's been quite a month for browsers, with Internet Explorer and Firefox both dropping big new versions, and Chrome and Opera continuing their regular improvements. We tested all these browsers' startup and tab-loading times, JavaScript po ...
  • Dispose of Sensitive Documents with a Ziploc B ...
    If you don't have a shredder but find you have one or two documents you want securely disposed of, reader motoxer4533 shares a great alternative: Just turn them into unreadable pulp with a bit of water. More��
  • Springpad for Android Updates, Adds Integratio ...
    Android: Springpad, the cross platform, life-organizing notes app, has just updated its Android offering. The new version includes a more universal capture system, customizable widgets, and more ways to sort view, and navigate your notes. ...

Water Privatization

  • Special Report: Water mismanagement in PH enda ...
    ANTIPOLO City, March 23, 2011—Water is for the people, not for profit. This was the statement of the environmental advocate group, Kalikasan People’s Network for the Environment (KPNE) during the global celebration of World Water Day on March 22. read more
  • Thousands Mark Canada's Second Bottled Water F ...
    OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - March 10, 2011) - Today, people across Canada and around the world are marking the second Bottled Water Free Day.
  • World Water Day Highlights Need For Water Mana ...
    World Water Day has highlighted the need for water management, with delegates at a commemorative three-day event in Cape Town bringing their ideas to the table. Forbes reports that over a thousand representatives from more than 30 organizations gathered in South Africa to discuss the global urba ...
  • Growing cities heighten clean water, sanitatio ...
    Securing a safe water supply in urban areas is an increasing problem in 2011. The UN recognizes access to clean drinking water as a human right, but it remains out of reach for millions of people around the world.
  • Pfeifer: Water is lifeblood for Earth
    Tuesday, March 22,2011, is World Water Day. The United Nations first declared this day in 1993 as a way to focus public attention on critical water issues around the world. World Water Day calls attention to how water crosses borders and links us...

Guardian

  • George Osborne delivers budget to MPs
    As George Osborne prepares for his second budget speech, join Andrew Sparrow for all today's news and analysis and minute-by-minute coverage of PMQs, the chancellor's statement, the Commons debate and reaction12.36pm: Osborne says the last government "gambled on a debt-fuelled model of growth th ...
  • Tokyo water unsafe for infants
    Japanese capital's water supply contains twice the safe level of radioactive iodine for young children, say the authoritiesAuthorities in Tokyo have warned that very young children in the Japanese capital should not drink tap water after it was found to contain twice the levels of radioactive io ...
  • Tripoli muted in its defiance
    Nightly explosions now part of the routine for residents in Libyan capital, with coalition attacks on Bousseta naval base under wayJust east of the centre of Tripoli, not far from the now-deserted British embassy and the old Marriott hotel, curious crowds of Libyans are gathering to see first-ha ...
  • Yemen MPs pass emergency laws
    Ruling party in Sana'a assembly backs President Saleh's bid to suspend constitution, ban protests and allow tougher powers of arrestYemen's parliament has enacted sweeping emergency laws after the embattled president asked for new powers of arrest, detention and censorship to quash a popular upr ...
  • Chaytor loses bid to reduce sentence
    Senior judges rule the former Labour MP damaged the 'priceless democratic system' and could have been jailed for longerFormer Labour MP David Chaytor has lost an appeal to reduce his prison sentence for fiddling parliamentary expenses as senior judges ruled he had inflicted "serious damage" to o ...

McClatchey

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • 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 ...

The Wonk Room

thwap's schoolyard

  • The Arabs Need Us
    That's supposed to be a deliberately provocative title. But I do mean it a little bit. The revolutions in the Middle East have shown (to all the nit-wits out there who deny the reality that the democratic impulse is common to all people) that the Arabs don't need us to teach them how to be democ ...
  • Contempt for Parliament = Contempt for US
    This is the problem with becoming inured to the revolting nature of Canada's political culture. 30% of the electorate is so ignorant, or so stupid, or so greedy, or so debased, that they think voting for stephen harper's party is a sane political option. And then pretty much everybody who matte ...
  • Federal Election Talk and War in Libya
    Some random thoughts for this morning: Obviously there has to be an election. I've long held to the idea that harper is unfit to govern due to his demonstrated contempt for our entire political system. He is by far the most undemocratic prime minister we've ever had. They're a disgrace, they're ...
  • 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 ...

on Government Oversight

  • Morning Smoke: Issa Steps Up Probe of Office o ...
    Where there's smoke, there's fire. POGO's Morning Smoke is a collection of the previous day's investigations, scoops, and opinions related to the world of government oversight. Have a story you'd like to see included? Contact POGO's blog editor. Issa threatens...
  • Investigation Raises Questions about Governmen ...
    By Nick Schwellenbach The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS’s) only witness in a high-profile whistleblower retaliation case has been demoted twice within the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), according to a government spokesman who answered recent queries by POGO. The double...
  • Morning Smoke: Fed to Release Emergency Loan Data
    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. Fed Will...
  • 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...

Digital Journal

  • Russia demands ceasefire in Libya, allies diso ...
    As the US-led coalition continued to strike targets across Libya, and the future allied leadership of the military operation did not appear clear, Russia stepped up its demands for an immediate ceasefire.
  • Clean water, a human right many will never exp ...
    March 22, 2011. World Water Day, a day of awareness for water and water issues around the globe. Climate change, pollution and misuse, are contaminating and depleting the worlds fresh water supplies.
  • Conservative Budget Nixed by Opposition, Gover ...
    The Conservative Government's attempt at a 2011 budget for Canada failed to pass the House of Commons today. This leaves the Government open to motions of non-confidence which may take place in the next few days, resulting in a spring election.
  • Death rates from accidental death higher in No ...
    When it comes to accidental death the odds are stacked higher for Northern Canadians than for their neighbours in the southern area of the nation. The types of accidents are the same in Canada but those in the north tend to die more often from them.
  • 'Yonge Street: Toronto Rock and Roll Stories' ...
    From hipsters to historians, all eyes will be focused on the television over the next three nights, just as if it were the pre-internet 1950’s and 60’s again, as Yonge Street: Toronto Rock and Roll Stories premieres on Bravo this evening.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • 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 ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 3-22-11
    Today, Kevin gives you his advice on how to lower high blood pressure and what to do if you have bad body odor. Self Help: Weight Loss Cure Lose A Pound A Day! Natural Deodorant Oral Chelation Rid Your Body of Candida Get The Toxins Out Health: The Truth Behind Genetically Modified Food Garlic & ...
  • US Backing For World Currency Stuns Markets
    March 18th, 2011 The Telegraph By: Ambrose Evans-Pritchard The dollar plunged instantly against the euro, yen, and sterling as the comments flashed across trading screens. David Bloom, currency chief at HSBC, said the apparent policy shift amounts to an earthquake in geo-finance. “The mere fact ...
  • WikiLeaks: Cables Show Japan Was Warned About ...
    March 18th, 2011 AOL News By: Theunis Bates The Japanese government has said it is doing all it can to contain the crisis at Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, which was critically damaged in last week’s earthquake. But according to U.S. diplomatic papers released by WikiLeaks, that atomic ...
  • Bahrain Locks Down Kingdom as Uprising Surges
    March 18th, 2011 AOL News By: Barbara Burk and Reem Khalifa Soldiers and riot police in Bahrain overran a protesters’ camp, imposed a 12-hour curfew and choked off movement nationwide Wednesday. Witnesses described helicopters firing on homes in a hunt for Shiites and attacking doctors treating ...
  • Washington Post Apologizes for ‘Substant ...
    March 18th, 2011 The Huffington Post By: Jack Mirkinson The Washington Post suspended Sari Horwitz—who has been with the paper for 27 years and won two Pulitzer Prizes—for three months as punishment for her plagiarism of two stories from the Arizona Republic, the Post announced Wednesday night. ...

Pambazuka News

  • Africa: Angola hosts 3rd African meeting on Cu ...
    The third African meeting on Solidarity with Cuba was held in Luanda, Angola, 11-12 September, to consolidate the friendship between the African and Cuban people and contribute to strengthening African solidarity towards the Caribbean island nation. ...
  • Global: Afro-Colombian women fight prejudice b ...
    On an improvised stage “Bombón de chocolate” (Chocolate Candy) is being performed. The play, which narrates the story of an African-Colombian girl who feels rejected because of the colour of her skin, is one of the events at a special day on drug add...
  • Global: May for the Cuban 5
    The month of May started with a great number of activities in support of the Cuban 5. On May 1st hundreds of thousands of Cubans marched on International Workers Day in Havana and other cities. They were joined by hundreds of internationalists in de...
  • Haiti: Women demand role in reconstruction
    Women's civil society groups were noticeable by their absence from the landmark Haiti donor conference on 31 March, which secured pledges of US$5.3 billion over the next two years to support the country’s post-quake recovery. Their lack of a presenc...
  • African diplomats reject anti-Cuba resolution ...
    The ambassador of the Republic of Congo to Cuba, Pascal Onguemby, rejected the lies included in an anti-Cuba resolution recently approved by the European Parliament. Addressing participants in the inauguration of the Eleventh International Conference...

War in Context

  • The fight for Libya
    The Guardian reports: Britain, France and the United States have agreed that Nato will take over the military command of the no-fly zone over Libya in a move which represents a setback for Nicolas Sarkozy, who had hoped to diminish the role of the alliance. Barack Obama agreed in separate phon ...
  • The danger of binary thought around the issue ...
    Rory Stewart writes: If the crises of Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan, which have consumed more than 100,000 lives, four trillion dollars and absorbed a million foreign soldiers from 60 countries, have not made us more prudent, they should at least have made us wiser. For two decades our p ...
  • For or against the war in Libya? Neither
    The war in Libya did not begin on March 19. That should not be forgotten because after 112 cruise missiles slammed into Libya’s air defense sites that day and the phrase “shock and awe” started getting tossed around once again, the implication for many observers was that Western intervention in ...
  • 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 ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Not Whether, but How to Do The Math
    Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach The Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) team is making a new global climate temperature record. Hopefully this will give us a better handle on what’s going on with the temperature. BEST has put out a … Continue reading →
  • Photos: No Carbon Tax rally in Australia
    From the Facebook account of Ruth Bonnett, these photos taken March 23rd in Brisbane, QLD Link to interactive album below: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=307296&id=633636676&l=355ec5b242
  • ABC news asks: Is the phrase “climate ch ...
      If you were to ask Joe Romm, Jim Hansen, Bill McKibben, Al Gore, and some of the other hard core angry people who use this word daily, they’d probably say “no”. They think nothing of it, they’ve desensitized themselves … Continue reading →
  • A blog status note
    Some news about what went down today. About noon PST, wordpress.com started having trouble globally, and I could not access the administration system. I was completely locked out as were thousands of other wordpress.com users. I also don’t know if … Continue reading →
  • The gases of the early atmosphere and the prim ...
    I find this very interesting, partly because I recreated Stanley Miller’s famous experiment for my high school science fair. It brings back fond memories of basement science projects. – Anthony Primordial soup gets spicier ‘Lost’ samples from famous origin of … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • Michael Parenti regarding U.S. bombing other c ...
    with Michael Parenti Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.michaelparenti.org March 23, 2011 charuga51 on Mar 21, 2011 Michael Parenti’s excellent comment regarding USA’s selective foreign policy towards different countries, depending on their interest. An excerpt from “The US War on Yugoslavia” ...
  • Noam Chomsky: The Fate of the Human Species
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Pierhead Sessions TV http://vimeo.com The Pierhead Sessions was proud to welcome the renowned linguist, scholar and political analyst Noam Chomsky during a rare visit to Wales. During an intimate question and answer session with Jane Davidson AM (Minister ...
  • Joe Bageant: “Who are we as a people?&#8 ...
    By Gary Corseri Featured Writer Dandelion Salad March 23, 2011 RAINBOW PIE: A Redneck Memoir, by Joe Bageant Scribe Publications, Melbourne, 2010  (U.S. edition, 2011).  310 pp. Reviewed by Gary Corseri Lose all your troubles, kick up some sand And follow me, buddy, to the Promised Land. I’m her ...
  • Historically Accurate Pledge of Allegiance By ...
    by Ed Ciaccio Dandelion Salad Featured Writer March 23, 2011 Note: the following Pledge of Allegiance is based on history and fact, not on mythology, delusion, and propaganda. I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag Of the Corporate States of Amerika: One Nation, under Consumerism and Surveillance, Foun ...
  • Paying the Price by Felicity Arbuthnot
    by Felicity Arbuthnot Featured Writer Dandelion Salad 23 March, 2011 Now Libya’s people are “paying the price”, for being, well, Libyan, I am reminded of another people that, to use the words of the appalling Madeleine Albright, then U.S. Ambassador for the UN., were : ” … a price worth paying. ...

Your New Reality

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    Germany's Transparent Car Factory. Brilliant, beautiful :
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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 ...

Wired - Science

  • Pictured: One Sea Turtle’s Worth of Plastic
    Joining the Laysan albatross as icons of ocean plastic pollution are sea turtles, which consume bellyfuls of debris while swimming through Earth’s five great ocean garbage patches. Pictured above are the stomach contents of a juvenile sea turtle accidentally captured off the coast of Argentina. ...
  • The Physics of The Flower’s Bloom
    While wandering lonely as a cloud, William Wordsworth should have stopped to wonder how those daffodils bloomed. Not content to just watch flowers dance in the breeze, Harvard physicists have described for the first time how flowers generate the forces needed to curl open come springtime. In th ...
  • Help Make Better Map of Global Light Pollution
    You can help build the best global map of light pollution, the uniquely modern problem that has stolen starlight from most of the urbanized world. From Mar. 22 through Apr. 6, the GLOBE at Night website will collect the public’s measurements of the night sky. Anyone can participate by compari ...
  • Laser Space Telescope Could Test for Vanishing ...
    The universe may have started out with fewer dimensions than the three we live in, and could still collapse down to one dimension at extremely high energies. The idea could solve some of the thorniest problems in particle physics and, unlike more popular models like string theory, can be tested ...
  • 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 ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Jerusalem bookseller to the stars facing depor ...
    Like most Arab residents of East Jerusalem who chose not to apply for Israeli citizenship, Fahmi had Israeli residency, but not citizenship. Residency is automatically revoked in the event of an... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • 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 ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • New Nationwide Survey Identifies Need for Incr ...
    According to findings from the new nationwide DISCUSS Survey, many people surveyed report that their gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and/or persistent heartburn symptoms significantly disrupt their lives.
  • Background to U.S. Census: Expert on African-A ...
    As figures from the 2010 census are released, political scientist Pearl Ford Dowe of the University of Arkansas is available to discuss opinions of African-Americans on politics and social issues, both in the South and nationally. She draws on findings from the 2010 Blair-Rockefeller Poll.
  • Surviving Sepsis May Be in the Genes
    New research in the April issue of Anesthesiology shows for the first time a genetic marker in patients who have a greater likelihood of surviving sepsis.
  • Willem J. Kop Appointed Editor of Psychosomati ...
    The Council of the American Psychosomatic Society (APS) is pleased to announce that Willem Kop, Ph.D., has been named Editor-in-Chief of Psychosomatic Medicine, Journal of Biobehavioral Medicine, the official journal of the American Psychosomatic Society. The journal is published by Lippincott W ...
  • B-Type Natriuretic Peptide Levels Predict Outc ...
    New research in the April issue of Anesthesiology examines whether the hormone plasma B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) helps indicate which patients are at risk of adverse cardiac events after CABG surgery.

Natural Health News

  • Bird Rides a Tortoise, and a Jeep
    This bird knows how to get around.
  • Laughing Baby
    Luke laughs as his mother imitates him crawling around the house in the morning.
  • American Cancer Society -- More Interested in ...
    The 130-page document linked below explains in detail why the American Cancer Society may be far more interested in accumulating cash than curing any disease.� The ACS has close ties to the mammography industry, the cancer drug industry, and the pesticide industry.� It is riddled with conflict o ...
  • Men Report Persistent Sexual Impairment After ...
    A new study seems to indicate that men who take the drug finasteride (sold as Propecia and Proscar) may report an on-going reduction in sex drive. �In some cases, they may experience prolonged periods of erectile dysfunction even after they stop using the drugs. Researchers conducted standardiz ...
  • Apple or Pear? Maybe Body Shape Doesn't Matter
    People with an “apple” shape, characterized by thickness around their middles, have for many years been told that they are at a higher risk for heart problems than “pear shaped” people, who gain weight on their hips and buttocks. However, a new study concludes that body shape may not matter for ...

fotoFrontera

  • 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 ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • 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?”  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 ...

Norwegianity

  • Springtime in MN, cont.
    Yes, it rained/sleeted/snowed last night. Life is good. And then you have to chisel the car doors open. - Libya: Libyan civilians immediately rushed to our downed plane to save the pilots . . . and our support aircraft strafed and bombed them WINston (and more on the developing Medvedev-Putin sp ...
  • Libyaconsin
    Whoops there goes another $31 million F15e…. In other news: WTF do Republicans really want? Bill Kristol gets a war boner Crossdresser calls out post-op transgender clothes horse Mossad goes fishing in Ukraine MN’s top libertard advocates for federal aid and Detective Spotty figures out why (lib ...
  • 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 ...

Public News Service

  • Budget Showdown Shaping Up Between Governor an ...
    Budget Showdown Shaping Up Between Governor and Senate Phoenix, AZ – Governor Jan Brewer says spending cuts contained in the budget passed by the state senate are “not in the best interest of Arizona.” Brewer specifically mentions cuts to education and assistance for the most needy. Comments fro ...
  • State Board is All Aboard for AZ Trains Plan
    State Board is All Aboard for AZ Trains Plan Phoenix, AZ – Arizona’s passenger and freight rail system would be expanded and upgraded under a 20-year plan adopted by the State Transportation Board. The plan’s initial goals are the return of Amtrak passenger service to Phoenix, and trains between ...
  • Cancer Survivor: Get Tested, for Your Family's ...
    Cancer Survivor: Get Tested, for Your Family's Sake Phoenix, AZ – March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. The American Cancer Society is reporting some good news – colorectal cancer incidence and mortality rates have declined significantly over the past decade, because of early detection and ...
  • Lawmakers Assert AZ Authority to Regulate Clea ...
    Lawmakers Assert AZ Authority to Regulate Clean Air Phoenix, AZ – A bill awaiting action in the Arizona House would give the state the authority to regulate greenhouse gases and particulates. It’s titled the “Freedom to Breathe Act,” but opponents say it’s nothing but a license to pollute. Comme ...
  • Implosion Set for Coal Stack on AZ-NV Border Today
    Implosion Set for Coal Stack on AZ-NV Border Today Phoenix, AZ – It’s seen as a sign of the times, as well as Arizona's shift toward renewable energy – the 500-foot Mohave Generating Station smokestack is set to come down today (Friday). Green advocates say the Arizona's air is a lot healthier s ...

Center for Food Safety

  • 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 ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • In Haiti numberless abominable crimes have bee ...
    thepublicarchive.com: 1. Hanging of M. Cicéron Lacroix, execution of Léon Moricet, Téca, and other persons in October and November. 1918, by Lieut. Lang, acts denounced to the naval court of inquiry by M. Philocles Lacroix in his letter of October 20, 1920. 2. Execution of the Péralte brothers ...
  • Ban Nuclear Energy and the Bomb, Time for True ...
    March 15, 2011 - Ban Nuclear Energy and the Bomb, Time for True Renewables Only [climateark.org] Background All existing nuclear energy plants, waste and weapons are accidents waiting to happen - vile deadly toxins to be dealt with for millenium. Japan is facing the worst nuclear crisis since t ...
  • 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 ...

Pensieve

  • 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
    Related posts:Celestial Show Tonight Update on March Update, Perverse Justice
  • 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. [ ...

Green Times

  • Earth Hour Awards 2011
    Here comes another Earth Hour, but with a new twist! The inaugural Earth Hour Awards will celebrate those who go beyond the hour…
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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 ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • 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 ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Fukushima follies
    Fukushima engineer says he helped cover up flaw at Reactor 4. Smoke from plant forces evacuation, again, it’s black smole so something is burning. Tokyo tap water too radioactive for infants. But adults can drink away says their ever perky government. The vultures have arrived. JP Morgan CEO Jam ...
  • Decentralized renewable energy is goal of Bay ...
    The Local Clean Energy Alliance, a Bay Area coalition focused on climate protection and green job creation, has released Community Power. Decentralized Renewable Energy in California, a comprehensive 64 page report (PDF) by Al Weinrub which advocates using small-scale, locally-based, decentraliz ...
  • Utah offers residency to undocumented workers
    A state effort to offer legal residency to many illegal immigrants is driven in part by the influence of the Mormon Church. You read that right.
  • Tango electric vehicle commuter car. 39 inches ...
    Yet the Tango does 0-60 mph in less than 4 seconds and has “FIA-certified roll-cage and reinforced doors,” and is built to NASCAR specs.
  • Most Americans favor troop withdrawal from Afg ...
    I’d like to unpack a little American zeitgeist for you on the Afghan war. A recent Washington Post-ABC News poll found that 64% of Americans now think the war in Afghanistan has not been worth fighting; and an even more overwhelming 73% want a “substantial number of U.S. combat forces” to withdr ...

Coteret

  • 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: &#8 ...
    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 ...

Deadline Live

  • CNN rips Fox for ‘outrageous’ Liby ...
    LOS ANGELES – CNNâs senior international correspondent Nic Robertson angrily criticized Fox Newsâ defense correspondent Jennifer Griffin and foreign correspondent Steve Harrigan live on air Monday. Griffin reported she instructed Harrigan to skip a press tour of Moammar Gadhafiâs Libyan compound ...
  • David Icke – Fork in The Road (They Want ...
  • Deadline Live – March 22 2011
    Tuesday – DEADLINE LIVE RADIO: Your calls!….. And… Breaking News…
  • This Day In History – March 23
    1775 â American Revolutionary War: Patrick Henry delivers his speech â “Give me Liberty, or give me Death!” â at St. John’s Church in Richmond, Virginia. 1806 â After traveling through the Louisiana Purchase and reaching the Pacific Ocean, explorers Lewis and Clark and their “Corps of Discovery” ...
  • What’s the Constitution? Don’t bot ...
    First Christina Aguilera forgot the words to the national anthem. Now it has emerged that 70 per cent of Americans do not know what the Constitution is, and six per cent don’t even know when Independence Day falls. Newsweek recently gave 1,000 Americans the U.S. Citizenship test and found that t ...

The Air Vent

  • 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 ...

Focal Point

  • 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

Inside Facebook

  • Horoscopes, Phrases, Video, Basketball and iPa ...
    Horoscopes, phrases, videos and basketball made up the majority of our list of top 20 Facebook apps by daily active user this week. Dating, music, photos and security apps were also popular. Our list is compiled using AppData, our data tracking service covering traffic growth for apps on Faceboo ...
  • The Like Button Style Guide: How to Pick the D ...
    The following is an excerpt from the Facebook Marketing Bible, the comprehensive guide to marketing your company, app, brand, or website using Facebook. The full version of this article, available through a Facebook Marketing Bible subscription, includes a guide to choosing whether to use the v ...
  • Facebook Tests “Related Adverts” That Target B ...
    Facebook is testing a new type of ad unit called “Related Adverts” that that targets users based on the words they use in their status updates and wall posts, the company has confirmed with us. Though currently only appearing to a very small audience, if this service became publicly available it ...
  • Last Week to Pre-Order Inside Virtual Goods: P ...
    Games on social networks became a billion dollar business in 2010, enabling the market’s big developers to secure significant investments and pursue sizable exits. Now that Zynga has clearly established itself as the 800 pound gorilla, EA/Playfish are bringing more IP to market, and Playdom is b ...
  • Facebook Ecommerce Storefront Provider 8thBrid ...
    Social commerce platform 8thBridge has taken $10 million in a second round of funding led by Trident Capital. The money will go towards developing an interest-based product recommendation engine and a brand evangelist rewards program within its StoreCast Facebook ecommerce app. 8thBridge, former ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Libya and the conspiratorial veil of Western r ...
    Gordon Duff views the unholy alliance of veiled racists, cranks, naive academics and Gaddafi propagandists who have lined up in opposition to the UN-authorized military intervention to protect the Libyan people from their dictator's murderous thugs and mercenaries.
  • 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 ...

Amazon Rainforest

  • Earth’s Living Treasure- Celebrating Forests f ...
    United Nations declared 2o11 as the International Year of Forests (Forests 2o11), and why Forests are the theme of the International Day for Biological Diversity on 22 May 2o11. In this special year, the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) are ...
  • 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 ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • 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 ...

Afro Spear

  • West overzealous on Libya – Al Jazeera
    West overzealous on Libya – Opinion – Al Jazeera English. Now that the United Nations Security Council resolution for a no-fly zone has been passed, how will it be implemented?The UNSC Resolution 1973 has made it legal for the international community to protect the Libyan people from Muammar Gad ...
  • 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 ...

Expose the BNP

  • 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 ...

Sen4Earth

  • 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.

If Americans Knew

  • 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'.

David J. Gregory

  • 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.

Unsuitable Blog

  • 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 ...

Subalternate Reality

  • 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 ...

Idea Lab | Technology

  • How Grahamstown Now Combines Mobile Content, D ...
    Giving African newsrooms, particularly community media and non-profit organizations, the ability to leapfrog into the mobile era is at the core project of Iindaba Ziyafika's work in South Africa. As Anne-Ryan Heatwole reported last year on this site, our Knight-funded NIKA Content Management Sys ...
  • 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 ...

Cutting Edge News

  • 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 ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • 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

Contagious Love Experiment

  • 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: 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 ...

Yid With Lid

  • Claire McCaskill Urges: "Don't Ever Vote For M ...
    Before here recent "airplane issues" Senator Claire McCaskill (D-Mo) was facing an uphill battle for reelection. But her flying problems are getting worse.� Earlier this month, Politico reported that the senator spent nearly $76,000 of taxpayer money to fly a charter plane which she owns with h ...
  • Follow-up:Itamar Terrorism Butchered an Israe ...
    Transcript of Phone Interview with Sergeant Edi (Edward) Itelman who was part of the first responder team called to the Fogel house in Itamar at 1AM very early Saturday morning 3/12 Edi: I'm a paramedic in the army. My base is located 10 minutes from Itamar. So, Friday night, approx. 1:0 ...
  • Revolution And Antisemitism In The Arab World ...
    It seems that where ever you look in the Arab world you see a revolution these days. The Middle East is changing in front of our eyes. History is in the making. Often in times of change antisemitism raises its ugly head. Where is this going who'll be the new leaders of the Arab world and ...
  • The War in Libya: Unprecedented Strangeness
    By Barry Rubin Should the United States and Europe want Libyan dictator Muammar Qadhafi out of power? Sure. But the real question is how U.S. policy is dealing with this crisis. 1. Nothing could be more obvious than the fact that all of these people talking about how evil Qadha ...
  • Is The "Obama Doctrine" a Threat to Israel?
    With the beginning of the attacks on Libya we see the beginning of an "Obama Doctrine:"� It hasn't really been identified as such, but the outline has been formed. Based on what our President has done over the past few weeks we now know the United States will now intervene to protect citizens fr ...

The Real Agenda

  • BP Disaster Oil still washing on shore
    WSJ The oil that has washed onto nearby beaches in recent days is Louisiana sweet crude, which rules out refineries or tankers carrying foreign oil as culprits but leaves the spill’s precise origins very much a mystery, U.S. officials said Tuesday. “This is definitely crude from the Gulf of Mexi ...
  • Russia didn’t veto attack on Libya and n ...
    NationalJournal.com March 22, 2011 In a stinging rebuke of U.S. policy in Libya, the Russian defense minister accused the U.S.-led coalition of killing Libyan civilians through errant air strikes and called for an immediate cease-fire on Tuesday. The comments drew a quick rebuke from visiting De ...
  • 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 ...

Wind Watch

  • 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 ...

Not My Tribe

  • ‘call us when WE behead somebody’ ...
    So, what happens when we do WORSE than behead somebody? Say, for instance,Gut-shoot a third-world person knowing full well that the only place in town which can treat an abdominal wound is a hospital associated with whatever torture regime we’re propping up, or a US Military Hospital who will pa ...
  • King Hamad effaces Pearl Roundabout monument t ...
    The prevailing talking point on Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa is that he’s a “good man.” So is his son the Crown Prince, apparently both “good men,” which stands at odds with the ongoing murderous repression of their fiefdom’s pro-Democracy demonstrators and the doctors trying to save ...
  • 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 & ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Obama on America Iran
    1:28 - "For two years there has been a campaign of intimidation and abuse..." 1:50 - "The world has watched these unjust actions with alarm ..." 2:17 - "These choices do not demonstrate strength, they show fear. For it's telling when a government is so afraid of its own citizens that it won' ...
  • 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 Firefighte​r ...
    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 ...

Fooducate

  • The Beverage Industry is “Clear on Calories” – ...
    Have you seen the ridiculous commercial sponsored by the beverage industry? The one where Dr. Pepper, Coke, Pepsi, and SunnyD pat themselves on the back for having stopped deceptive labeling after 20 years? For years, you’d buy a 20 fl oz bottle from a vending machine and guzzle it down thinking ...
  • 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: 4      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 ...

Traffikd

  • 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.

Survival International

  • 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 ...

Greg Palast

  • 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 ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle expired sunscreen/s ...
    We’ve had an email from Karen: I am new to your site and I really love it! I do have a suggestion though, I had been cleaning up the bathroom and found old sunscreen lotion bottles, still full. I heard you can’t use them more than a year, because they go bad and won’t work [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle plug-in air fresheners?
    Following on in our vaguely spring-cleaning inspired cleaning week here on Recycle This, I received this email from Helen: How do I recycle plug in air freshener? My daughter has been diagnosed with allergies and they’ve recommended no air fresheners now. I’ve got four to get rid of. We’ve not u ...
  • What can I reuse or recycle to make dishcloths ...
    We’re having a cleaning-themed week here on Recycle This – yesterday, we talked about reusing or recycling bleach bottles but today I’d like to think about making and have a question for you guys: what have you reused or recycled to make reusable dishcloths or pot scrubbers? A lot of people knit ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle pruned Catalpa wood?
    We’ve had another email from friend of Recycle This, Petra: I need your help again. I hope I can explain the topic well, because I’m not used to discuss garden items in English. We have a Catalpa tree in our garden, which produces every year a lot of new branches. The year after, in March, [...]
  • 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 [...]

Age of Autism

  • What Bruesewitz v. Wyeth Means for American Fa ...
    By Louise Kuo Habakus and Mary Holland, JD Imagine your child was hit by a reckless driver and catastrophically injured. Cognitive impairments, seizures, problems with walking, eating, talking – you name it. You find out who the driver was, and...
  • 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...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

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

Open Your Eyes News

  • Tokyo water unsafe for infants after high radi ...
    The Guardian – Authorities in Tokyo have warned that very young children in the Japanese capital should not drink tap water after it was found to contain twice the levels of radioactive iodine considered safe for infants. The warning came as the spread of radioactivity continued through the food ...
  • ‘Portugal on brink of demanding bailout& ...
    PressTV – Portugal Finance Minister Fernando Teixeira dos Santos says the country’s political crisis looks increasingly likely to give it a “big push” towards an international bailout. Santos, who was attending a European Union finance ministers’ meeting on euro bailout plans in Brussels on Mond ...
  • Surveillance robots know when to hide
    New Scientist – The creation of robots that can hide from humans while spying on them brings autonomous spy machines one step closer. The spy approaches the target building under cover of darkness, taking a zigzag path to avoid well-lit areas and sentries. He selects a handy vantage point next t ...
  • Syrians shout ‘No more fear!’ duri ...
    Independent – Syrians chanting “No more fear!” held a defiant march after a deadly government crackdown failed to quash three days of massive protests in a southern city â an extraordinary outpouring in a country that brutally suppresses dissent. Read article
  • At Least 7 Killed In Iraq Violence
    RTT- At least seven people have been killed in separate incidents across war-torn Iraq on Monday, reports said on Monday. An Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blast in the northern city of Mosul left three people dead and two wounded. Elsewhere in the city, one person was killed in clashes betwe ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Mistakes made, but no criminal or scientific m ...
    A federal review has cleared National Park Service employees of criminal violations or scientific misconduct regarding a commercial oyster operation at Point Reyes National Seashore, but concluded that park officials and scientists made mistakes that “may have contributed to an...
  • 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...

water.org

  • Gramalaya’s World Water Day gift (The Hindu)
    Gramalaya’s World Water Day gift: technology park (The Hindu) TIRUCHI, India – A water technology park, established by Gramalaya, a voluntary organisation at its Institute of Water and Sanitation at Kolakudipatti near here, was declared open on Tuesday on the occasion of World Water Day. [Gramal ...
  • 7 ways to celebrate World Water Day online (Ma ...
    7 Ways To Celebrate #WorldWaterDay 2011 Online (Mashable) – World Water Day hopes to raise awareness, as well as raise some funds for issues ranging from clean drinking water, to digging new wells, to basic sanitation and hygiene. If youâre looking to get involved and show your support for water ...
  • On World Water Day, ways you can help (AOL)
    On World Water Day, Ways You Can Help (AOL) – On this, World Water Day, tips and suggestions about how to help the millions who can’t enjoy the luxury of a daily hot shower or a safe glass of water to drink are flowing freely. Here’s a sample of ways you can help and how [...]
  • Water.org wins Hilton Foundation grant (HuffPost)
    World Water Day: Conrad Hilton Foundation Pledges $50 Million To Clean Water Initiatives (Huffington Post) – In honor of World Water Day, the Conrad Hilton Foundation announced a $50 million commitment to clean water initiatives in Sub-Saharan Africa, Mexico and India. The Hilton Foundation’s $5 ...
  • Levi’s® Brand Teams Up with Water.org (P ...
    The Levi’s® Brand Teams Up with Water.org to ‘Unlock’ 200 Million Liters of Clean Water Worldwide (PR Newswire) – In celebration of World Water Day today, the Levi’s® brand and Water.org are partnering to raise awareness about vital water issues and bring clean drinking water to people around ...

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

  • 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 ...

Margaret's News

  • 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
  • UN Investigator: Israel Engaged in Ethnic Clea ...
    ARTICLESubmitted by joan rodriguez to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Boycott roundup: Canada campuses mobilize to d ...
    Campus activists are demanding that their universities divest pension, endowment and investment funds currently allocated to four companies that create military technologies used by the Israeli military. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • US promoting arms trade mission organized by s ...
    Airlift's website states that its "offices are located in the heart of Jerusalem" but the address given puts them in occupied East Jerusalem. Airlift's Spanish subsidiary, Airlift Iberia, was established in September 2010.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

  • Google's Digital Library Rejected
    The project is that of Larry Page, the Google co-founder who is to become its chief executive next month. It has lots of support inside the company, whose corporate mission is to organize all of the world's information.
  • NASA Encourages NYC Students to Aim High and R ...
    New York middle school and high school students from the Women's Academy of Excellence; the Promise Academy; the New York City Housing Authority; and the General D. Chappie James Middle School of Science attended the event at the Stephen Weiss Stud
  • Violence in Yemen, Bahrain and Syria Alarm The ...
    The United Nations human rights office today voiced its deep concern and called for the Governments to uphold basic freedoms, even in times of instability.
  • Women's Movements Undergo Different Kind of Re ...
    The conference was vibrant, colourful, exhausting, and attended in large numbers by young people, including those in social movements. Pre-conference planning, of the themes, plenaries and sessions, bore fruition in the wide ranging and exciting dis
  • Palestinians Oppose Holocaust Education
    'The Jewish Holocaust is a story about which there is great controversy... a subject that for more than 60 years has aroused a great amount of controversy and fabrication.'

Worldnews

  • Tiger Woods cancels Japan visit
    TOKYO (AFP) – Golf star Tiger Woods cancelled his visit to Japan next month, following the quake-tsunami tragedy, his...
  • Contador wins 3rd stage of Tour of Catalo ...
    Spanish cyclist Alberto Contador of Team Saxo Bank gestures before the star......
  • Japan PM expresses gratiude to Manmohan
    New Delhi, Mar 23 (PTI) Wednesday, March 23, 2011 --> Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan has written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh expressing his gratitude for the assistance provided by India and said he ''strongly felt'' the solidarity expressed by the...
  • AirTran Stockholders Approve Southwest Me ...
    ORLANDO, Fla., March 23, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- AirTran Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: AAI), the parent company of AirTran Airways, announced today that its stockholders voted overwhelmingly to approve the merger of a wholly-owned subsidiary of Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE: LUV) with and into AirTran ...
  • Gas Prices Could Bring Economic Recovery ...
    Just when it looked like people were more willing to spend money again on non-essential items—and on more essential (but deferrable) purchases like new cars—rising prices at the pump could grind some aspects of economic recovery to a halt. After a major price spike in...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • Peak Water Has Already Come and Gone
    UXBRIDGE, Canada - Canadian Kevin Freedman is celebrating World Water Day Tuesday by living on 25 litres of water a day, instead of the North American average of 330 litres per day. And he has enlisted 31 others in his "Water Conservation Challenge" to go water - lean, using just 25 litres per d ...
  • Tokyo Water Unsafe for Babies, Food Bans Imposed
    Tokyo on Wednesday warned that radioactive iodine over twice the safe level for infants had been detected in its tap water due to the disaster at a quake-hit nuclear plant northeast of Japan's capital. The revelation came after the United States barred imports of dairy and other produce from are ...
  • Explosion at Bus Stop in Central Jerusalem; 25 ...
    An bomb tied to a telephone pole exploded Wednesday at a crowded bus stop outside the International Convention Center in Jerusalem, just opposite the central station. At least 25 people were wounded in the incident, four of them seriously. All of the casualties have been evacuated to the Hadassa ...
  • Radiation in the Homeland: Honeywell’s Guilty ...
    Attention is now turned to the radiation being released in Japan following the massive earthquake there this month. Unfortunately, Americans don't have to look abroad to discover this kind of frightening scenario: This month, defense contractor Honeywell pleaded guilty to releasing radioactive m ...
  • Snipers, Shells, Tanks Terrorize Key Libyan City
    TRIPOLI, LIBYA—Moammar Gadhafi’s snipers and tanks are terrorizing civilians in Libya’s third-largest city, and the U.S. military said Tuesday it was “considering all options” in response to dire conditions that have left people cowering in darkened homes and scrounging for food and rainwater. ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • Social Media, Old Media and Fukushima
    As expected it ignored reality to provide its own version of events
  • Uber-batteries: Storage Technology Advancing S ...
    There’s been an intriguing, and possibly even useful, advancement in batteries thanks to researchers at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign:
  • New Ideas For small hydropower plants
    �In the next 20 years the installed capacity of hydropower in Europe will increase by around 86�700 MW. This is one result of a recent study by Trend Research, a German market research firm that assessed the hydropower potential of 18 European countries. While only limited development of hydropo ...
  • NY Gov. Cuomo Reacts to Flawed Report on Earth ...
    Bloomberg.com and other news outlets reported yesterday that NY Governor Andrew Cuomo is meeting with the NRC today in Washington DC to discuss the risk of earthquake damage at the Indian Point Nuclear Plant.� According to Bloomberg, the Governor�s concern was sparked by an MSNBC.com report that ...
  • 10+ Days of Crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi Nu ...
    Yes, it really has been that long. So what happened during those 10+ days? For a long answer, look back over the daily posts on this blog, which also has plenty of links to more off-site information. For the short-hand version, I offer you this excellent graphic produced by the Wall Street Journal:

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

  • Recent Patent Litigation Weekly Columns
    Much of the patent news that was published on this blog has been moved to the IP Insider section of the Corporate Counsel website. Here's a list of the last several Patent Litigation Weekly columns— Oct. 25, 2010: Big Patent-Licensing...
  • Paul Allen v. The Internet
    Former Microsoft executive and billionaire Paul Allen sued several major Internet companies and three large retailers for patent infringement today, asserting that four patents originating at Interval Research, Allen's dot-com era think tank, cover basic web browsing and e-commerce technologies....
  • Citing Possible Bias, ACLU Asks Rader to Recus ...
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Villages to lead renewable energy development initiatives
Business Standard
- Mar 23, 2011
- 7 hours ago
PTI / Singapore March 23, 2011, 15:04 IST Villages, industries and shopping centres will lead the development of renewable energy in India in the coming years, a senior official from the New and Renewable Energy Ministry told a seminar in Singapore ...
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Survey: Americans Want National Focus On Renewable Energy, Not Nuclear
Solar Industry
- Mar 23, 2011
- 2 hours ago
Over half (53%) of Americans would now support "a moratorium on new nuclear reactor construction in the United States," if "increased energy efficiency and off-the-shelf renewable technologies such as wind and solar could meet our energy demands for ...
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Revisions a 'blow' to renewable energy
Independent Online
- Mar 23, 2011
- 7 hours ago
The National Energy Regulator of SA (Nersa) on Tuesday published a review of its Renewable Energy Feed-In Tariff (REFIT) proposing a 25% decrease in the tariff for wind power projects. In addition, the tariffs were no longer fully indexed to inflation, ...
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Atomic crisis puts focus on renewable energy
The Local.de
- Mar 23, 2011
- 6 hours ago
Alexander Bakst reports on how phasing out atomic power could accelerate the country's transition to renewables. Japan might be the country facing a potentially horrific nuclear catastrophe, but it's Germany's energy policy that has experienced a ...
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City tells Ecology Center plans
Evanston Review
- Mar 23, 2011
- 55 minutes ago
City recreation officials briefed residents Monday night at a meeting at the Ecology Center on plans to renovate the greenhouse and classroom spaced housed in the building, at 2024 McCormick Blvd. The current greenhouse addition is "really at a point ...
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US Ecology Inc. (ECOL) Upgraded by Zacks Investment Research to "Outperform"
American Banking News
- Mar 23, 2011
- 2 hours ago
Equities research analysts at Zacks Investment Research upgraded shares of US Ecology Inc. (NASDAQ: ECOL) from a “neutral” rating to an “outperform” rating in a research note to investors on Monday. Separately, analysts at Wunderlich reiterated a “buy” ...
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Arc Ecology: E-Mails Between City and Lennar Aren't So Scandalous
SF Weekly (blog)
- Mar 22, 2011
- 16 hours ago
But the city didn't always like what Arc Ecology had to say: Last year, the city awarded the contract to another agency after Arc Ecology had contested a plan to put a bridge over Yosemite Slough in Candlestick Point State Recreational Area. ...
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Ecology responding to Blair Waterway diesel spill
Access Washington
- Mar 22, 2011
- 17 hours ago
OLYMPIA – The Washington Department of Ecology is responding to a diesel fuel spill into Commencement Bay's Blair Waterway in Tacoma. An environmental contractor is already on scene and cleanup is under way. Early reports are that the saddle tank on a ...
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Elevated Radioactive Iodine Found in Tokyo Tap Water
New York Magazine
- Mar 23, 2011
- 1 hour ago
Japanese officials said tap water tests in Tokyo found more than twice the limit for radioactive iodine considered safe for infants. Although the level is not an immediate health risk for adults, officials said babies should not be given tap water. ...
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Zambia: Access to Safe Water At 60 Percent
AllAfrica.com
- Mar 23, 2011
- 4 hours ago
Energy and Water Development Minister Kenneth Konga has said national access to safe water supply currently stands at 60.1 per cent, a situation he attributed to Government's implementation of sound and innovative policies in the water sector. ...
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TRC: Gas wells not contaminating
Weatherford Democrat
- Mar 23, 2011
- 3 hours ago
On Tuesday, the Texas Railroad Commission released a statement that its commissioners had found a Fort Worth-based natural gas company was not at fault for contaminated water in southeastern Parker County. Range Resources will “be allowed to continue ...
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Kicking the bottle: Vermont state offices to reduce use of bottled water
CanadianBusiness.com
- Mar 23, 2011
- 2 hours ago
By John Curran MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - Calling the purchasing of bottled water a waste of taxpayer money, the state of Vermont will join other states in phasing out its use in state buildings, in favor of tap water, officials said Tuesday. ...
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