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Thomas Paine

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

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

22 March - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

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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 ...
    With the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit set to consider a landmark case over the validity of human gene patents, attorneys for the plaintiffs in the suit are asking the court's chief judge to recuse himself from the matter—before the panel that will hear it has even been s ...
  • Law360 Calls Lawyer-Owned Shell Company a "Pub ...
    seems to have a pretty flexible definition of that term. Last month, it included . Who is so concerned about such fairness? That would be , the Texas law firm that owns Americans for Fair Patent Use, which is a limited liability company set up to prosecute a false marking lawsuit filed ...
  • Eben Moglen on Bilski, software patents, and b ...
    Moglen's position on the subject of software patents—that they should be banned—is, to say the least, outside the mainstream in legal circles. It has, however, garnered support among software developers and other techies, especially those who work in the world of open-source and free s ...

Peoples Voice

  • Nowruz, the feast of peace and purity
    Kourosh Ziabari Ornamented with precious values of the ancient Persian civilization, Nowruz is an Iranian festivity which marks the beginning of the new solar year on the first day of spring and vernal equinox. Today, more than 300 million people around the world celebrate Nowruz and hold fes ...
  • Lies, Damn Lies, and Humanitarian Intervention
    by Stephen Lendman Masquerading as "humanitarian intervention," Washington launched full-force barbarism on six million Libyans, all endangered by America's latest intervention. More on how below. Beginning March 19, it was visible. However, months of planning preceded it, including US a ...
  • Worldwide sanctions can erode Israel's fanatic ...
    Interview by Kourosh Ziabari Born in 1945 in Philadelphia PA, Dr. Lawrence Davidson is professor of history at West Chester University in West Chester PA. His academic work is focused on the history of American foreign relations with the Middle East. He also teaches courses in the history of sc ...
  • The Message
    by Husayn Al-Kurdi A message has been sent to the Arabs. Its contents and purpose are unambiguous and unmistakable. The message was burned into Egypt in 1956 when British, French and Israeli planes bombed the Suez Canal area and destroyed large parts of Port Said and Port Fouad and seized wh ...
  • Imperial War on Libya
    by Stephen Lendman On March 19, ironically on the eighth anniversary of "Operation Iraqi Freedom," a White House Office of the Press Secretary quoted Obama saying: "Today I authorized the Armed Forces of the United States to (attack) Libya in support of an international effort to protect Libya ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • International Day for the Elimination of Racia ...
    Despite an increasingly diverse population, a new report co-produced by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and the Wellesley Institute on Canada�s racialized income gap shows a colour code is still at work in Canada�s labour market. �We found that during the heyday of Canada�s pre-rece ...
  • Ben Parfitt on the dangers of fracking in toda ...
    The Vancouver Sun today published Ben Parfitt's op ed on the dangers of "fracking" in Northern BC. (Fracking is hydraulic fracturing: a method of extracting gas by injecting fluid and sand into cracks in rock formations to force them further open.) A group of citizens in the Peace Region — Pea ...
  • Celebrating International Women's Day
    Fun fact: Did you know 69 per cent of the staff at the CCPA are women? In the past year the CCPA has been proud to publish two major books that focus on women's knowledge and empowerment.� In Speaking Truth to Power: A reader on Canadian women's inequality, the book's authors celebrate gains m ...
  • Things about a changing Canada that 'You Ought ...
    The CCPA has launched a graphics-based series aimed at highlighting poignant facts and figures distilled from the many reports and studies that we publish every year. The series is called You Oughta Know, and uses a graphic to feature one interesting piece of information about the state of a c ...
  • Five reasons to stop the corporate tax cut
    CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan gives us five strong reasons to say no to more corporate tax cuts in this short video.

World Wide Hippies

  • Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant Stabilized
    Stabilisation at Fukushima Daiichi | WNN Workers on site have succeeded in increasing the stability of the Fukushima Daiichi reactors, with units 5 and 6 now in cold shutdown. Pressure built up within unit 3 but a more significant venting does not seem necessary now. External power has now been ...
  • The Butterfly and the Boiling Point
    by: Rebecca Solnit | Truth Out – Charting the wild winds of change in 2011. Revolution is as unpredictable as an earthquake and as beautiful as spring. Its coming is always a surprise, but its nature should not be. Revolution is a phase, a mood, like spring, and just as spring has its buds and ...
  • The Next Libya
    Here Are The 11 Countries At Risk Of Becoming The Next Libya | Business Insider The revolutions in North Africa have expanded from a tiny uprising in Tunisia, to a full blown Middle East revolt that has toppled governments and brought the west’s biggest powers to war. Now, with Tunisia finished, ...
  • Why Roseanne Barr could be the woman to take o ...
    Big Mama vs. Mama Grizzly | Slate In October 2009, Roseanne Barr invited readers of her blog to join in a ficticious “ten million bitches march” on Washington, D.C. “[T]hat stripper chick sarah palin thinks she is roguing it up?” Roseanne asked. “Well, wait till all the fat pissed off bitches sh ...
  • Trophy’ pictures show US soldiers posing ...
    Jon Boone | guardian.co.uk, – The face of Jeremy Morlock, a young US soldier, grins at the camera, his hand holding up the head of the dead and bloodied youth he and his colleagues have just killed in an act military prosecutors say was premeditated murder. Moments before the picture was taken i ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • Rick Snyder's "Shared Sacrifice": Michigan's W ...
    Michigan's tax system is already regressive -- meaning that poorer people pay a higher tax rate than the wealthy. But Governor Rick Snyder has decided that it's just not regressive enough. So in the name of "shared sacrifice," he wants to hike the tax rate on poor and working Michiganders, while ...
  • VIDEO: Bus leaves Kalamazoo to protest Gov. Sn ...
    People talk about why they are going to Lansing to take part in protests against Gov. Rick Snyder's proposals, including bills that would give emergency financial managers the power to terminate labor contracts, proposed cuts to education funding and tax policy changes.
  • The Forbes 400 vs. Everybody Else
    According to the most recent information, the Forbes 400 now have a greater net worth than the bottom 50% of U.S. households combined. In 2009, the total net worth of the Forbes 400 was $1.27 trillion. The best information now available shows that in 2009 the bottom 60% (yes, now it's 60%, n ...
  • Cairo in Wisconsin
    The call reportedly arrived from Cairo. Pizza for the protesters, the voice said. It was Saturday, February 20th, and by then Ian's Pizza on State Street in Madison, Wisconsin, was overwhelmed. One employee had been assigned the sole task of answering the phone and taking down orders. An ...
  • VIDEO: Hear the Voices of Thompson
    Blair Hudson: 'This Will Have a Huge Ripple Effect' Anita Campbell: 'I Will Always Consider Thompson My Home' Craig Costello: 'High-Paying Jobs Leaving Town' Sheila Thompson: 'It Will Be Hard for Me to Start Over' Gloria Jacobs: 'It Can Happen Anywhere' Nuno Pereira: 'We All Have to Put Li ...

Salon

  • Judge orders Jared Loughner mental exam
    An Arizona judge on Monday ordered the suspect in the January shooting rampage in Tucson to undergo a mental evaluation at a specialized facility in Missouri as soon as possible.
  • Nader, Kucinich call Libya action "impeachable"
    Outspoken critics on the left are raising hell over the Obama administration's authorization of military force in Libya, calling it "unconstitutional." Former presidential candidate Ralph Nader recently rattled off a list�of U.S. military and intelligence directives -- apparently including ac ...
  • Pawlenty announces White House exploratory com ...
    Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty pressed toward a White House campaign Monday by formally announcing an exploratory committee with a call for backers to help him "take back our government."
  • Japan nuke crisis does not warrant U.S. changes
    The nuclear crisis is Japan, while severe, does not warrant any immediate changes in the U.S, a top U.S. nuclear official said Monday.
  • The false defenders of Obama's war in Libya
    Did the U.S. Congress delegate the power to compel America to go to war to the United Nations in 1945? That is the startling claim that is being made by some who claim that President Obama's decision to launch a third American war in Libya in addition to the Iraq and Afghan wars is constituti ...

SMB News

  • Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits ...
    For SMB News Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits camps PURWOBINANGUN: Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano spewed more deadly heat clouds Wednesday as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono visited some of the 50,000 evacuees in shelters. Searing gas billowed from the crater of the 2,914-metr ...
  • Kasaba throws spit on the camera
    \Kasaba throws spit on cameraMUMBAI: Ajmal Kasaba webcam spit on Tuesday during a hearing in the Bombay High Court for confirmation of the death penalty, which led the court strictly tell him to behave properly. Judjes a warning when they Kasaba altercation with the police and spit at the camera ...
  • K’taka Speaker disqualifies 16 MLAs
    For SMB News KBANGALORE: Hours ahead of the trust vote for beleaguered Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa in the Assembly, Speaker K G Bopaiah disqualified sixteen rebel MLAs, including eleven from ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), legislative sources said on Monday. Bopaiah signed the ...
  • Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8
    For SMB News Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8 KARACHI: Eight people including two children were killed and over 65 others suffered injuries when two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside Abdullah Shah Ghazi’s shrine in Clifton, official sources said here Thursday. Two heads, beli ...
  • Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistake
    For SMB News Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistakes’ LONDON: Former president Gen. (Retd.) Pervez Musharraf Friday admitted that political mistakes were committed in the twilight years of his regime and sought apology from Pakistani nation for the same. “These mistakes caused damage ...

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • Charge it! The Challenge Facing Electric Cars
    �With all the dismal environmental news of late�from the nuclear crisis in Japan to the Republican attacks on EPA in Congress�it will be a pleasure this week to turn my attention to one of the most exciting developments on the sustainability front: the arrival of electric cars in the U.S.
  • Pawning The Chernobyl Necklace
    As the world gapes mesmerized at the nuclear disaster unfolding in Japan, those not at risk of exposure to the radiation bless their good luck and wonder what it must feel like to be the unlucky ones – the ones who can’t escape that invisible blanket of fear. Let me tell you what it feels like.
  • Critical Materials: Insights from the MIT Ener ...
    Lithium - a critical element for energy? (Courtesy of Treehugger.com)
  • Google tests out wireless electric-car charging
    I’ve written before about a company called Evatran that has developed a wireless charging system for ele
  • Louisiana: Gulf Suffers Another Oil Spill
    Fresh Louisiana crude washed into the beaches and dock areas near Grand Isle�over the weekend, creating a sickening sight for the residents of this oil battered region. The reddish brown crude and oily sheen lapped onto the sandy and rocky shores, while some people flocked to Grand Isle�s famous ...

EU Times

  • Clinton warns Iran against meddling in Gulf
    US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton warned Iran on Saturday to stop meddling in Bahrain and other Arab states in the Gulf, but also called on the kingdom’s leaders not to use force against anti-government protesters. Clinton said the United States “has an abiding commitment to Gulf secu ...
  • What would you do if rebels attacked US cities ...
    Muammar Gaddafi says the UN resolution authorising international military intervention in Libya is “invalid”. The Libyan leader says he sent a message to US President Barack Obama defending his decision to attack rebel cities: “If you found them taking over American cities by the force of arms, ...
  • Russia ‘regrets’ Libya invasion
    Russia says it regrets that the Western countries decided to take military action against Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, who has been cracking down on revolutionaries in the country. A statement by the Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Alexander Lukashevich on Saturday said, “Air force units ...
  • Obama’s Brazil visit: Violent welcome of rubbe ...
    Barack Obama’s visit to Brazil had a very unpromising start after police had to quell riots against the U.S. in Rio de Janeiro with rubber bullets and tear gas. The U.S. President landed in the capital of Brasilia with his wife and daughters, visiting the country on a mission to re-assert trade ...
  • Israel hits back after Palestinians unleash he ...
    Palestinian militants in Gaza fired more than 50 rockets into Israel today, the heaviest barrage in two years, Israeli officials said. A Hamas official was killed and four civilians were wounded when Israel hit back with tank fire and air strikes, said Gaza Health Ministry spokesman Adham Abu Sa ...

Stonecipher News

  • Normal Structure and Function of the Musculosk ...
    Mr. Ghaz says: Muscular dystrophies refer to a group of more than 30 genetic diseases which are characterized by progressive weakness and degeneration of the skeletal muscles..Studies and estimation show that after sustaining a hip fracture (as a result of osteoporosis) 20% of patients die withi ...
  • Reasons to Donate Blood
    Have you ever donated blood? If you have why did you do it? It may have been for a loved one or a friend. It could have been for the free coupons and gift certificates blood centers provide for donations. Maybe you’re required to donate blood being that you’re in the medical field. In actua ...
  • Special Education High School Transition Services
    From my Factoidz page: 1414(d) and in Findings about “effective transition services to promote successful post-Students typically start transition services at the age 14 if educational services are still required as determined by the school district and the IEP team. However, Washington State’s ...
  • Don't Quit Your Day Job
    This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Ashworth College. All opinions are 100% mine. With approximately 4,000,000 students today, more than 20 percent of all students enrolled in higher education are taking at least one course online. Self paced online courses ...
  • Breast Cancer Gene May Raise Men’s Risk, Too
    Source: HealthDay News: "A faulty gene that greatly increases a woman’s risk of breast cancer also boosts a man’s risk for the disease, a new study finds. While most people think of breast cancer as a woman’s illness, in rare cases men can develop breast tumors as well. The new study found tha ...

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Yemen president sacks entire cabinet
    Yes, because the protesters have been calling for the cabinet to resign as opposed to the president. Right. This is yet another US "friend" who is more of a problem than an actual friend. These relationships have to end . Yemen's president has fired his entire cabinet amid escalating protests d ...
  • Lockerbie bomber scum Abdel Baset Al-megrahi e ...
    The Obama regime claims that his war in Libya is not about removing Muammar Gaddafi from power, but rather a “humanitarian” mission. Only in the world of a progressive could launching 112 missiles at a country and be considered a humanitarian mission. It’s been almost two years since Obama lobb ...
  • Google’s Nexus S 4G coming to Sprint this Spring
    The Nexus S has been around for a while now, but not on CDMA networks. That is until now, the phone is making its 4G debut on Sprint. The Nexus S, manufactured by Samsung, is the “first pure Google 4G device with Android 2.3 in the U.S.”. The “pureness” of this device is not what makes it spect ...
  • China dismisses Google accusations on Gmail â ...
    Telegraph.co.uk China dismisses Google accusations on Gmail Reuters BEIJING, March 22 (Reuters) - China's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that it did not accept accusations from Google Inc that the Chinese government was making it difficult for Gmail users to use the service in the country. ..
  • Microsoft vs. Android â ZDNet (blog)
    Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog) Microsoft vs. Android ZDNet (blog) It's pretty clear that Microsoft, a many-time failure at mass-market tablets has decided that if they can't beat Apple and Android at popular tablets, they'll sue them instead. ..

Groklaw

  • ATandT Tells Free Tethering Customers Its Tim ...
    AT&T is telling users of free tethering that they have three options: 1. Stop using free tethering. 2. Contact AT&T to activate a legitimate tethering plan and start paying up. 3. Go ahead and keep tethering, and AT&T will automatically sign you up for a tethering plan and bill you. - ...
  • Bilski Applied to Invalidate Computer System C ...
    In an interesting opinion, DC District Court Judge Rosemary Collyer has ruled Alice Corp's four asserted patents invalid under 35 U.S.C. § 101 for failing to claim patentable subject matter. This case can be seen as flowing from the Supreme Court's recent decision in Bilski v. Kappos, 130 S. Ct. ...
  • The need to protect the internet from 'astrotu ...
    After I wrote about online astroturfing in December, I was contacted by a whistleblower. He was part of a commercial team employed to infest internet forums and comment threads on behalf of corporate clients, promoting their causes and arguing with anyone who opposed them. Like the other member ...
  • Google Apps Slammed by Advocacy Group for the ...
    The National Federation of the Blind claims that Google Apps lacks required features for blind people and wants the U.S. government to investigate whether schools that adopt the e-mail and collaboration suite run afoul of civil rights laws. The NFB is asking the U.S. Department of Justice's Civ ...
  • Barclays, Citigroup Said to Be Subpoenaed in L ...
    "The SEC's focus is entirely about whether the banks' disclosure to the market may have been misleading, and what impact did those disclosures have on their broader reporting," said Jacob Frenkel, an attorney at Shulman Rogers Gandal Pordy & Ecker in Potomac, Maryland, and a former SEC lawyer sp ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Bassnectar – Wildstyle Method
  • Green NIMBYs
    NY Times: Green development? Not in my (liberal) backyard But policymakers in the United States have been repeatedly frustrated by constituents who profess to worry about the climate and count themselves as environmentalists, but prove unwilling to adjust their lifestyles or change their behavio ...
  • Odyssey Dawn (apologies to Tanya Tucker)
    Odyssey Dawn, what’s that gunbelt you have on Could it be a deja vu from days gone by And did I hear you say the bombing was starting again today This time will be different, don’t you cry
  • Empire State Rebellion: An idea whose time has ...
    This video was posted by Anonymous. They are planning something major and it’s aimed directly at Wall Street. Let’s not forget when private security / gov’t spook company HBGary recently boasted they could take down Anonymous, they ended up getting disemboweled by Anonymous instead, who broke in ...
  • Odyssesy Dawn (apologies to Tanya Tucker)
    Odyssey Dawn, what’s that gunbelt you have on Could it be a deja vu from days gone by And did I hear you say the bombing was starting again today This time will be different, don’t you cry

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • Tripartite attack on Libya hits geopolitical o ...
    It is extremely unclear what the political outcome inside Libya of the tripartite (western) assault against the country will be. It is unclear, too, what political outcome the leaders of the three countries are aiming at in Libya. In my experience, all wars are anti-humane and anti-humanitar ...
  • Arab tragedies and role of the "west"
    Today is the eighth anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq, and today the US is preparing to once again join a military action against an Arab country, Libya. I wonder how many of Pres. Obama's advisers have ever even heard the term "Tripartite Aggression"? That is the way Arabs refer to t ...
  • Interview with R. Visser at 8th anniversary of ...
    (I first became acquainted with (and came to admire) Reidar Visser's work when he started posting comments here on JWN during and after Iraq's December 2005 election... Last fall, he was one of the four authors in Just World Books's inaugural list. So now, as the eighth anniversary of the U.S. i ...
  • Freeman, El-Haddad, Foust in Charlottesville, ...
    My publishing company's three great authors Chas Freeman, Laila El-Haddad, and josh Foust will all be in Charlottesville this Saturday, taking part in a panel discussion on developments in the (Greater) Middle East under the auspices of the Virginia Festival of the Book. The discussion will be ...
  • Two months of tumult: Pointers for the global ...
    The two months since the fall of Tunisia's Pres. Zein el-Abidine Ben Ali have been marked by tumult throughout the Arab world and now, most recently, by the mega-lethal effects that geological and oceanic activity have had in Japan: effects that remind us again how vulnerable is all human life o ...

frogblog

  • A couple of questions for the Welfare Working ...
    The Welfare Working Group provides us at page 43 of its report (PDF) with this graph of the proportion of the [edit: working age] population in receipt of working age benefits: The thing that strikes me is that the ups and downs in the graph seen to closely coincide with macroeconomic events, ra ...
  • Who will determine Auckland’s future?
    The cabinet papers that Rodney Hide has released relating to Auckland’s Spatial Plan make for interesting reading. It is obvious that this government will attempt to call the tune on Auckland’s development, despite the substantial mandate that Auckland voters gave to their mayor and council ju ...
  • Community-led development – good news fr ...
    I had two very positive days last week meeting with community sector groups in Porirua and in Nelson. It was great to hear some positive stories from people who are leading change in these places, and to realise how much great work is going on despite the recession, the Government and the hard t ...
  • General debate, March 20, 2011
  • A balanced approach to transport funding?
    Graphs of the day.. This graph shows the  growth in traffic on state highways over the last 20 years as reported by the transport agency. The pink line is heavy traffic (trucks) and the blue is all traffic. As you can see it grew pretty steadily up to about 2005. It then plateaued, dropped a bit ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Who You Calling Progressive?
    Greg Mankiw has a post up today linking to data from the Tax Foundation showing that the United States has a pretty progressive tax structure compared to other rich countries. Karl Smith has turned it into a chart and comments that "the US is more or less right on target." Rich people here a ...
  • Rear-Facing Car Seats: Twice As Good As You Th ...
    The American Academy of Pediatrics says children should stay in rear-facing car seats longer than we used to think: Toddlers are usually switched from rear-facing to forward-facing car seats right after their first birthday — an event many parents may celebrate as a kind of milestone. But ...
  • Chart of the Day: The Collapse of Wind Power
    Stuart Staniford points out today that the pace of new wind power installations has cratered in the United States: We need much more wind power. When wind power goes wrong, it kills the odd bird or maybe the occasional worker. Some people don't like the look of the towers. But we need ...
  • The (Lack of) Power of Congress
    I'm a longtime advocate of the position that, cases of clear self-defense aside, Congress should issue a declaration of war before the president commits combat troops overseas. At the same time, I recognize that this virtually never happens anymore. At best we get vaguely worded "authorizati ...
  • The Last Chapter Problem
    In the New York Times this weekend, David Greenberg takes on the dreaded Last Chapter problem, which curses nearly every book that analyzes a social or political problem: Practically every example of that genre, no matter how shrewd or rich its survey of the question at hand, finishes wit ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 236: Post Sex Press Conference
    Topics: Jon Jones subdues robber 2 hours before title fight Man has to pay child support after woman impregnates herself after oral sex Steve Harvey’s 12 ways to know a man is ready to commit The UN steps in to protect civilians in Libya Share with your friends:
  • IC 235: The Casey Heynes Show
    Topics: The Body Slam heard round the world How to deal with bullies Your kid is not a “good kid” Asians in the Library So we’re gonna pretend John Boehner’s skin is natural? Share with your friends:
  • Who Thought this Interview Would Be Productive?
    So you have Michele Bachmann & Anthony Weiner squaring off with Sean Hannity as the “moderator”.  No really, who thought this would be anything more than a shouting match of immaturity? Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com While I feel Rep. Weiner’s pain in dealing with douches like Bach ...
  • It’s 2011 and Uncle Toms Still Exist
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  • IC 234: For God & Country
    Topics for the show: Rep. Peter King’s hearing on the “Radicalization of the American Muslim community” The GOP’s minority problem It’s hard for white guys to understand why minorities might not trust law enforcement Why the “lesser of two evils” isn’t always bad Democrats & Liberals like showin ...

Simple Climate

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

e!Science News

  • Study suggests gastric banding associated with ...
    In a study of 82 patients who were evaluated 12 or more years after undergoing laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding for morbid obesity, a majority of patients reported that they were satisfied with the procedure, although approximately 40 percent experienced major complications and nearly hal ...
  • Study finds reports of domestic violence rise ...
    Calls to the police reporting men's assaults on their wives or intimate partners rose 10 percent in areas where the local National Football League team lost a game they were favored to win, according to an analysis of 900 regular-season NFL games reports researchers in a paper in the Quarterly J ...
  • Teenagers, parents and teachers unaware of soc ...
    A report into the legal risks associated with the use of social networking sites (eg. Facebook, myspace) has found that while 95 per cent of Victorian students in years 7 to 10 use social networking sites, nearly 30 per cent did not consider social networking held any risks. read more
  • One fish, two fish … reef fish
    Marine biologists have solved a conundrum that has stumped them for years – how to count reef fish. It may sound simple, but the task is actually complex and critical in helping to evaluate the state of our oceans, coral reefs and the marine life that populate them. read more
  • Study shows polypill to be safe and accepted b ...
    Monday, March 21, 2011 – For a patient at high risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD), keeping up with what pills to take at different times of the day can be tedious. Window sills lined with prescription bottles – a pill for cholesterol, another for blood pressure, and an aspirin to keep blood th ...

unEarthed

Brave New Climate

  • 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 Journ ...
  • Fukushima Open Discussion Thread
    The Open Threads on BraveNewClimate.com are a general discussion forum, where you can talk about whatever you like — there is nothing really ‘off topic’ here — within reason. Please use this particularly comment thread to post anything on the Fukushima Nuclear Accident that is NOT directly relat ...
  • Fukushima Nuclear Accident – Monday 21 M ...
    It’s not yet time for the period of reflection and introspection on the Fukushima Daiichi crisis, but we’re getting there. Even the U.S. says the worst seems to be over. The IAEA and World Nuclear News have both released new updates on the situation (the IAEA report being particularly comprehens ...
  • Fukushima Nuclear Accident – Why I stay ...
    Guest Post by Axel Lieber. Axel is a German national and has been a resident of Tokyo since 1998. He runs a small executive search firm and is married to a Japanese. [BNC editor's note: This is a personal perspective, not a professional scientific one, but I can verify Axel's facts] Why I stay i ...
  • Fukushima nuclear accident: Saturday 19 March ...
    Last Saturday the the crisis level at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station was rapidly on the rise. Hydrogen explosions, cracks in the wetwell torus and fires in a shutdown unit’s building — it seemed the sequence of new problems would never end. A week later, the situation remains troubl ...

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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  • Orthodox Jewish, British, Pro-Israel, Pro-peace
    Last week I met and spoke to a small group of Orthodox Jews in London, about Israeli political and social developments. I expected a challenging crowd, although the meeting’s organizer Hannah Weisfeld – who is working tirelessly to start J Street in the UK – assured me that the audience was broa ...
  • Military Intelligence monitors “de-legitimization”
    The army joins the fight against “de-legitimization”, will watch BDS groups Silently, without a shred of public debate, AMAN-Research – the research arm of military intelligence, possibly the most error-prone part of the IDF – created (Hebrew) a new department. Its office would be to proudly re ...
  • Knesset to pass “separate but equal&#822 ...
    The new law will allow Jewish communities, built on state land, to reject non-Jews who wish to purchase properties within them. Needless to say, no such settlements are built for Arabs Dr. Nimrod Luz Perceiving ourselves as true liberals and humanists is a nice image we like to see reflected in ...
  • Israeli Liberals IV: Ending the occupation ent ...
    A genuine end to the occupation will entail a vast reorganization of space and a redistribution of resources and power. Israeli liberals have a lot to lose from such radical change. If anti-occupation activists wish to target a Jewish audience, they should look at disadvantaged Jewish groups, wh ...
  • I love you terminal: two translated gems by Me ...
    It seems as though since the 1960s, nearly every culture on earth has grown its own “Bob Dylan”: a singer songwriter who draws strongly on the American folk tradition. Our own man was Meir Ariel, but he was much more than that. Ariel was never quite a protest singer. He chose instead to map the ...

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Matt Weidner Blog

  • YOU WILL NOT BELIVE THIS! A COURT MAKING CLEAR ...
    90% of what foreclosure defense are doing on a regular basis is fighting to have the courts enforce the existing rules, procedures and laws that apply to foreclosure cases.  There is so much inconsistency and flat out courts refusing to apply the existing laws and rules, but in one circuit at le ...
  • Florida Courts Facing $74 Million Dollar Shortfall
    Think things are bad in courts right now?  Just wait till the real hurt starts…. TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida’s court system has frozen hiring and is bracing for possible staff furloughs due to a $72.3 million deficit blamed on a shortfall in filing fees after mortgage foreclosure cases dra ...
  • Hurry Up With More Foreclosures…WE NEED ...
    I’ve been screaming for years now…. WHAT’S THE POINT OF ALL THESE FORECLOSURES?  WHAT’S GOING TO HAPPEN TO ALL THE FORECLOSED HOMES? And now the answer comes….THE BANKS ARE GONNA LET THEM SIT VACANT… What a great plan….they’ve really go this all figured out! READ THE FULL REPORT HERE Tweet this ...
  • The Foreclsoure Mess is Amerika’s Nuclea ...
    Abigale Field’s column in AOL Daily Finance offers the best analysis of the current state of the foreclosure catastrophe and should be required reading for every man and woman in the United States.  Read it Here One of the reasons why this column is so important is it explores the very real pos ...
  • Under Threat of Foreclosure- St. Petersburg Times
    The St. Pete Times again shows why it is one of the best newspapers in the country.  Spend time going through the entire series, watching the videos, looking at the multi-media presentations and reading the documents and stories. We will never win this fight alone, and we’ve largely lost our co ...

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The Parallel Parliament

  • Canada’s “No-fly” Zone
    Ethics and the budget. In a bygone era, these two important realities were more intricately linked. Today it’s harder to form a connection. As free trade zones continue to proliferate the agenda foreign policies worldwide, the sometimes unethical practices of some companies once again reveal how ...
  • WWJC?
    The visit of the nation’s church leaders to the halls of Parliament a couple of weeks ago wasn’t so much a celebration of faith as it was a deep and abiding concern over poverty. Even with their impressive efforts to stay non-partisan one couldn’t help but get the clear sense of worry at the pre ...
  • Attendant Risks
    Following an interminable two weeks of a relentless military path that appeared to be resulting in a rout of Libyan opposition forces the international community has at last opted to act in a careful fashion – as they should. I took part in a number of media interviews yesterday in which I agree ...
  • Rick’s Rant
    Many of us, from all parties, have been writing, Facebooking, and Tweeting over our concern about changing the “Government of Canada” title to “The Harper Government.” Here’s Rick Mercer’s recent rant, which is likely far more effective in its delivery than anyone else. Give it a view. Filed und ...
  • A Little Bit of Silver
    Last week I was responding to some Facebook emails and attempted to answer one query concerning public accountability. In mentioning to a person I had never met that I was going to miss Toronto Star writer James Travers and his sage insights on politics the young man I was corresponding with rep ...

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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

Reader Supported News

  • The Stoner Arms Dealers
    Guy Lawson reports: "Working with nothing but an Internet connection, a couple of cellphones and a steady supply of weed, the two friends - one with a few college credits, the other a high school dropout - had beaten out Fortune 500 giants like General Dynamics to score the huge arms contract. W ...
  • Chernobyl Riviera
    Intro: "When people think of Chernobyl, they conjure memories of the catastrophe that struck Ukraine's Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, wreaking havoc with the environment and killing thousands of people. Today, the sky is blue and the land lush with green. There is an odd little corner of this wa ...
  • Oil Spill Reported Near Deepwater Drilling Sit ...
    The report begins: "The Coast Guard is investigating reports of a potentially large oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico not far from the Deepwater Horizon site. According to a knowledgeable source, the slick was sighted by a helicopter pilot on Friday and is about 100 miles long. A fishing boat capt ...
  • AUDIO: Japan Relief Efforts Centered At US Mil ...
    The report begins: "As Japan struggles to deal with its crippled nuclear reactors and clean-up from the devastating March 11 earthquake and tsunami, the US military has deployed thousands of troops in the region to help. The US Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines all have a major presence in the c ...
  • Gaza Militants Fire Dozens of Mortars Into Israel
    Intro: "Palestinian militants in Gaza have fired dozens of missiles into southern Israel in what appears to be their heaviest such barrage in two years. About 50 mortars were fired - two Israelis were hurt, Israel says. Israeli tanks later shelled targets in the coastal strip, wounding at least ...

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

  • 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 ...

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • Updates on Libyan war
    ==== Video/Text: Russia, China Call Closed-Door Security Council Talks On Libya Russia, Arab League Warn Against Break-Up Of Libya, Other Arab States Pentagon: 124 Missile Strikes Against Libya, Bombing Of Airfields Repeat Of 1999: Canadian Warplanes Ready For Action Over Libya French Foreign Mi ...
  • Stop NATO News March 21, 2011
    ==== stopnato-subscribe@yahoogroups.com ==== U.S. Special Forces Given Free Rein To Operate In Central Asia Afghan War: Bulgarian Base Hit In Rocket Attack As With Afghanistan: NATO Wants Finnish, Swedish Role In Libyan War Baltic Sea: NATO Integrates Sweden Into Air Patrols U.S. Integrates Lith ...
  • Updates on Libyan war
    ==== International Law Forbids “Humanitarian Bombings”: Russian MP German Foreign Minister Warns Of Protracted War In Libya Canadian Warplanes, Warship To Join Libyan Battle In 48 Hours Czech Foreign Minister Calls For NATO Takeover Of Libyan War Pentagon Chief: Hand Over Libya Military Operatio ...
  • Libya: Obama’s Latest, AFRICOM’s F ...
    Stop NATO March 20, 2011 Libya: Obama’s Latest, AFRICOM’s First, NATO’s African War Rick Rozoff Following similar developments in neighboring Tunisia and Egypt, anti-government protests began in Libya on February 15. On March 19 the U.S., France and Britain delivered air and cruise missile attac ...
  • Updates on Libyan war
    ==== NATO, Arab Monarchy’s Warplanes Converge In Italy Qatar To Provide Pentagon, NATO Four Warplanes For Libya Assault Italy Provides Eight Warplanes, Seven Military Bases For Libyan War Six Danish F-16s Leave Sicily For Libya Spain Deploys Strike Fighters, Submarine, Warship For Libyan War Can ...

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Intel Hub

  • Radiation Levels 20km Away From Fukishima Nucl ...
    NotForSale2NWO March 21st, 2011 Radiation 1,600 times higher than normal levels has been detected in an area about 20 kilometers from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, International Atomic Energy Agency officials said Monday. http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/03/80057.html ...
  • The Surprising PNAC Connection to Libya
    Before Its News by Zen Gardner March 21st, 2011 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 co ...
  • Police Brutality Against Col. Ann Wright and D ...
    Taytaba2 March 21st, 2011 As this video notes, it is a sad day in America when masked men with no badge intimidate and arrest unarmed protesters. This is absolutely unacceptable and freedom loving Americans nationwide need to understand the implications of “secret” police.
  • China Flexes Military Muscle In Mediterranean Sea
    NotForSale2NWO March 21st, 2011 China is using the crisis in Libya to showcase its new naval might. CNN’s Fareed Zakaria reports. http://edition.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/world/2011/03/13/gps.china.flex.c…
  • U.S. Army ‘Kill Team’ in Afghanistan Posed for ...
    Source: Guardian March 21st, 2011 Commanders in Afghanistan are bracing themselves for possible riots and public fury triggered by the publication of “trophy” photographs of US soldiers posing with the dead bodies of defenceless Afghan civilians they killed. Senior officials at Nato’s Internatio ...

FRS

  • US: Arrests At WikiLeaks Suspect Base Protest
    Monday March 21, 2011 More than 30 people have been arrested outside a US marine base during a protest against the treatment of a detained army private accused of giving classified information to Wikileaks. Bradley Manning is being held in solitary confinement at the Quantico base in Virginia aw ...
  • Arab League condemns broad bombing campaign in ...
    [The Arab League, in long-term alliance with EU/US imperialist powers, actually endorsed and thereby facilitated the diplomatic push for the so-called "no fly zone" campaign against Gaddafi in Libya.  Now, the Arab League and others around the world, appear "shocked" to discover that the push fo ...
  • Aristide Returns to Haiti
    AlJazeeraEnglish on Mar 18, 2011 Haiti’s crucial presidential vote is near but preparations for the poll may be overshadowed by the return of a popular ex-president. Thousands of supporters turned out to welcome Jean-Bertrand Aristide who was in South Africa for seven years. Al Jazeera’s Sebasti ...
  • Agence France-Presse: “Libya suspends he ...
    Mar 20, 2011 TRIPOLI – LIBYA has decided to suspend cooperation with Europe in the fight against illegal immigration, state television reported on Sunday, quoting a security official. ‘Libya has decided not to be responsible over the illegal immigration to Europe,’ the television cited the offic ...
  • US gov’t. denies entry visa to Afghan wo ...
    http://www.afghanwomensmission.org/?p=1255 The United States has denied a travel visa to Malalai Joya, an acclaimed women’s rights activist and former member of Afghanistan’s parliament. Ms. Joya, who was named one of TIME magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world in 2010, was set to b ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

  • Fighting corruption with zero-rupee notes
    Imagine if this could work here: As a University of Maryland physics professor, Vijay Anand became concerned about� corruption in his home country of India, and so he founded 5th Pillar, an anti-corruption non-profit organization. He also launched the Zero Rupee. The rupee -- worth precisely n ...
  • Can we write a new national motto?
    In talking about this on Facebook and via email�last week, some wags came up with some marvelous new mottos that would be suitable for everyone -- believers/atheists/Ram Dass fans. So. If In God We Trust were replaced -- and we're not saying it will be -- what's your vote for a new national mo ...
  • Everyone? Take the day off.
    I intend to, anyway. Meanwhile, if you've nothing better to do, on March 31 I'm speaking at West Hartford's�Spiritual Life Center. You can find out more here. Sinners welcome.
  • A little more reading with Sunday's column...
    To read the column, go here.To watch PBS' "Triangle Fire," go here. To read Cornell University's archival material on the fire, go here. To read the U.S. Chemical Safety Board's report on Kleen Energy, go here. To read the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's press release about the ...
  • Happy Purim
    Purim -- a�commemoration of�a time when the Jews avoided extinction -- begins at sunset today. The celebration focuses on Persian�Queen Esther, a woman of great beauty and wisdom. You can learn more here. (I have to say that I've always admired Queen Vashti, Esther's predecessor, who refused to ...

Associated Content

  • Protests in Yemen Fueled by Facebook
    Suppressed youth are using the Internet as a means to better their lives. Through Facebook, rebellion is a matter of open public discourse, reaching a worldwide audience. Anyone can join the fight by posting a comment in support of the protesters.Contributor: John Troiano Published: Mar 21, 2011
  • Filming for 'The Hobbit' Begins; Spice Girl Me ...
    It's a mixed bag of celebrity news this manic Monday, but overall the positives outweigh the negatives, which is always a good thing.Contributor: Sarah F. Sullivan Published: Mar 21, 2011
  • Preview of the Sweet 16 - Predictions, Picks & ...
    Preview, predictions and picks for the 2011 NCAA tournament regional semifinals, including previews and analysis of Duke vs Arizona, Kansas vs Richmond, Ohio State vs Kentucky and more.Contributor: Clayton Browne Published: Mar 21, 2011
  • Circuit Judge Halts Collective Bargaining Bill ...
    Dane County Circuit Judge Maryann Sumi issued a temporary restraining order Friday stopping Wisconsin's Budget Repair Bill from becoming law. Lawmakers now must wait to see if the bill will be declared invalid.Contributor: Derek Ciapala Published: Mar 21, 2011
  • Undaunted by Tsunami, Hawaii Welcomes Spring B ...
    With spring break rapidly approaching, President of Hawai'i Tourism Authority Mike McCartney assured travelers that "the State of Hawai'i is open for business. We welcome all visitors and are ready to serve them."Contributor: Karen W. Wyman Published: Mar 14, 2011

Popsci - Science

  • Gallery: Burning Questions About the Sun
    New spacecraft are helping scientists understand our star better than ever
  • Texas Man Receives First American Full-Face Tr ...
    Dallas Wiens suffered horrific burns in a 2008 accident A 25-year-old father from Fort Worth, Texas, received a new face in a 15-hour procedure last week, Brigham and Women’s Hospital announced Monday. Dallas Wiens is the first American to receive a full facial transplant. Wiens received a nos ...
  • How We're Still Trying to Shed Light on Persis ...
    After staring at the sun for hundreds of millennia, humans still have burning questions about it Yesterday, the vernal equinox, the sun returned to the Northern Hemisphere at last. Nothing here or anywhere else in our corner of the galaxy would exist without the sun, yet a surprising number of ...
  • At Its Nearest to Earth In Almost 20 Years, Su ...
    Anyone with clear skies Saturday night saw a spectacular swollen moon, 14 percent bigger and 30 percent brighter than our satellite usually appears. Photos abound from amateur and professional photographers, but we like this picture from NASA, showing a pink-hued moon rising above the Lincoln ...
  • This Week in the Future, March 14-18, 2011
    Four of this week's best articles are depicted in Baarbarian's newest This Week in the Future creation, combining for a work of serene violence, with a spaceship. You could win a t-shirt with the painting on it--provided you follow our (incredibly easy to follow) instructions. Here's the deal: ...

Veterans Today

  • NCHV Announces Two Teleconferences on Stand Down
    March 23 (development) and March 29 (financing) Since the first Stand Down in 1988, the program has become a catalyst for homeless veterans seeking reintegration into society through improved job readiness and access to employment opportunities. In 2010, more than 160 organizations across the co ...
  • Stop Bombing Libya
    Since Saturday night, the United States, France, and Britain have been bombing Libya with cruise missiles, B-2 stealth bombers, F-16 and F-15 fighter jets, and Harrier attack jets. There is no reliable estimate of the number of civilians killed. The U.S. has taken the lead in the punishing bombi ...
  • ERIC MAY: 3/22 Radioactive Questions for Barac ...
    HOUSTON, 3/22/11 -- The Iconoclast spent the weekend trying to contact officials from an unprecedented and under-reported military exercise. So far they have ignored our interview request, which we accordingly republish:
  • Peace – Possible but difficult
    Groups and organizations that promote peace (meaning absence of warfare) between nations have been uniformly unsuccessful in their efforts. To date – not once has any organized group or organization that promotes peace prevented warfare? Please correct me if I am in error? I know some so-called ...
  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News
    Veterans!  Hereâs your Top 10 News stories of the day compiled from the latest sources We encourage you to browse our list so that you can take what you want and keep what you need⦠1. Parsons’ plight typifies angst of many families.  Review Times  Shane’s treatment is paid for by the US De ...

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

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

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Would You Stay in Libya as a Nurse for More Pay?
    The Philippines is widely recognized as one of the world's top labour exporters. Although its Department of Foreign Affairs began evacuations from Libya shortly after the troubles began like many other countries, it appears that one of its main exports have chosen to stay. Among others, Filipino ...
  • NAFTA: Game Over for US Ban on Mexican Trucks
    Here's something I hope that we can all agree is a good outcome. A sore point among many in US-Mexico relations has been the truck ban imposed on trucks making deliveries from Mexico to its ertswhile NAFTA "trade partner" the US of A. You see, trucker-protectionists were successful in convincing ...
  • Education IPE: Gadhafi Brings Down LSE Director
    Well, I hope they're happy now. They've succeeded in ousting a person of great managerial skill--a rare feat in academia. Go ask Larry Summers. The irony of it all, of course, is in academia you are often punished for sparing the tried and true of "tradition" (i.e., not doing anything much). Esp ...
  • Moammar, Italy & BRICs: The Battle for Libyan Oil
    A few days ago, we had former UNDP head Mark Malloch Brown talk impressively about global events, especially goings-on at the UN in relation to the Middle East/North Africa. One of the things he pointed out was that perhaps an even worse humanitarian disaster is occurring in Cote d'Ivoire. While ...
  • Stephen Roach on Japan Quake Consequences
    There's been something of a proliferation by the commentariat on the economic effects of Japan's crisis. Martin Wolf was among those first out of the chute with a paean to its historical resilience to such events which it both prepares for quite thoroughly and has experienced in the past. Moreov ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • Rich vs Poor: 14 Funny Statistics And 14 Not S ...
    Today there are two very different Americas.  In one America, the stock market is soaring, huge bonuses are taken for granted, the good times are rolling and people are spending money as if they will be able to "live the dream" for the rest of their lives.  In the other America, ...
  • 27 Signs That The Nuclear Crisis In Japan Is M ...
    How much of a threat is the nuclear crisis in Japan?  That question is on the minds of millions of people around the globe tonight.  Unfortunately, the Japanese government and the mainstream media have both been doing their best to downplay this crisis.  Even though there have b ...
  • You Call This An Economic Recovery? 44 Million ...
    When Barack Obama, the Federal Reserve and the mainstream media tell us that we are in the middle of an economic recovery, is that supposed to be some kind of sick joke?  According to newly released numbers, over 44 million Americans are now on food stamps.  That is a new all-ti ...
  • QE3? Several Top Federal Reserve Officials See ...
    The end of QE2 is still several months away and yet quite a few top Federal Reserve officials are already hinting that more quantitative easing may be necessary.  Apparently the U.S. economy is not moving forward as rapidly as they would like.  So it looks like "QE3" could be on ...
  • Become A Teacher? 10 Examples That Show Why Be ...
    Today budget cutters are on the rampage from coast to coast and often one of their first targets is public school teachers. What we have witnessed recently in Wisconsin is just one example of this. The truth is that you do not want to become a teacher if you want to have finan ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

  • Clinton warns Iran against meddling in Gulf
    US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton warned Iran on Saturday to stop meddling in Bahrain and other Arab states in the Gulf, but also called on the kingdom’s leaders not to use force against anti-government protesters. Clinton said the United States “has an abiding commitment to Gulf secu ...
  • What would you do if rebels attacked US cities ...
    Muammar Gaddafi says the UN resolution authorising international military intervention in Libya is “invalid”. The Libyan leader says he sent a message to US President Barack Obama defending his decision to attack rebel cities: “If you found them taking over American cities by the force of arms, ...
  • Russia ‘regrets’ Libya invasion
    Russia says it regrets that the Western countries decided to take military action against Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, who has been cracking down on revolutionaries in the country. A statement by the Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Alexander Lukashevich on Saturday said, “Air force units ...
  • Obama’s Brazil visit: Violent welcome of rubbe ...
    Barack Obama’s visit to Brazil had a very unpromising start after police had to quell riots against the U.S. in Rio de Janeiro with rubber bullets and tear gas. The U.S. President landed in the capital of Brasilia with his wife and daughters, visiting the country on a mission to re-assert trade ...
  • Israel hits back after Palestinians unleash he ...
    Palestinian militants in Gaza fired more than 50 rockets into Israel today, the heaviest barrage in two years, Israeli officials said. A Hamas official was killed and four civilians were wounded when Israel hit back with tank fire and air strikes, said Gaza Health Ministry spokesman Adham Abu Sa ...

Voiceless Victim

  • Now Everyone Knows What It Takes To Get Rapist ...
    There has been so much happening in the Philadelphia diocese lately for those interested in justice and child safety to absorb. And, for once, much of it is good news for victims of Catholic Church sponsored child sexual abuse. Well, as good as it is possible to get for anyone who has survived e ...
  • Defending the Indefensible is a Lot Like Football
    Battling for truth, justice and child protection against the evil empire of His Greediness can get you down sometimes. Time for a little light relief. I came across this intelligent and articulate blogger just recently. This post from the Voice from the Desert blog is screamingly funny. And trag ...
  • Who’s Looking After The Children?
    “Who’s looking after the children?” In Australia this week one man dared to ask this question of the highest court in the land. The High Court of Australia replied, “We’re only interested in looking after child rapists.” As a result, this courageous crusader is likely to die in jail, while some ...
  • Top 10 Catholic Excuses For Doing Absolutely N ...
    Priests at the pulpit do it. Catholic apologists do it mindlessly, understanding little. Cardinals and Bishops exploit their influence to do it to as many people as possible. The Vatican does little else. With alarming regularity and very little variation, they all trot out the same set of tired ...
  • Gentle Slap on the Wrist and Comfy Retirement ...
    Details were revealed this week about the Vatican “taking action” last year against a Dutch Catholic Bishop working in Kenya, who had raped a 14-year-old Masai boy some years earlier while still a priest. So here we have an example of just exactly what the new, recently improved Vatican response ...

WL Central

  • 2011-03-21: WikiLeaks in today's media: Cableg ...
    TweetThe Guardian: WikiLeaks cable links defecting Yemeni general to smuggling rackets "US diplomatic cables reveal powerful army chief behind moves to oust president is seen as unwelcome successor to Saleh. The Yemeni general who has thrown his weight behind moves to oust President Ali Abdullah ...
  • 2011-03-21 Greek cablegate revelations
    TweetAs WL Central reported earlier, the Greek SKAI media group has access to all of the US state cables and has begun reporting on them. These are translations of the first articles. Greek Riots of December 2008 – What happened and how they impact U.S. interests. In the cable dated December 18t ...
  • 2011-03-21 Open Letter to the US government f ...
    TweetDear Mr. President and Honorable Representatives of the United States Congress, We, the people of Bahrain, are in deep pain and have great concern for our situation. We are attempting to deliver our voices. We have long supported you, and have appreciated the help that you have given o ...
  • 2011-03-21 US military blames photos of war cr ...
    Tweet“We apologize for the distress these photos cause” On Sunday, the German weekly Der Spiegel published three photos -- from a reported trove of 4,000 videos and photos -- taken by members of a US army unit operating in Kandahar province last year. Two of the photos show soldiers in the unit ...
  • 2011-03-21 Greek SKAI media group has access ...
    TweetYesterday, the Greek newspaper "Kathimerini" started publishing US state cables relating to Greece with a six page review of the cables focused on Greek political figures and current items of interest. Tonight Greek TV station SKAI TV and web site skai.gr will also begin reporting on the ca ...

U N News

  • UN official welcomes US-Brazilian cooperation ...
    The head of the United Nations International Labour Organization (ILO) has welcomed an agreement between Brazil and the United States to promote the cooperation of all States in the global efforts to ensure that people have decent employment and that the rights of workers are respected.
  • As Haitians await results of election, UN call ...
    The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti has called on all candidates in yesterday's run-off presidential and legislative elections and their followers to show patience and restraint as they wait for the results of the vote, saying the future of the impoverished country is at stake.
  • UN human rights experts study more than 200 ca ...
    The United Nations human rights experts tasked with assisting families determine the fate or whereabouts of disappeared relatives examined over 200 cases during its recent session held in Mexico City, and is now conducting a mission to learn about Mexico's efforts in dealing with the issue.
  • Haiti&#39s presidential poll offers &#39histor ...
    A day before Haitians head to the polls to vote for a new president, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged them to “take full advantage of this historic opportunity to shape the future of their country.”
  • Haiti: UN mission urges mass voter turnout for ...
    Haiti's political stability and economic reconstruction depends in part on as large a turnout as possible during this weekend's run-off round of presidential elections, the United Nations peacekeeping mission said today as it urged citizens to go to the polls en masse.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Your Television is Watching What You Watch!
    The television is channeling you... Data-gathering firms and technology companies are aggressively matching people’s TV-viewing behavior with other personal data. read more
  • Agenda 21... The Worlds Big Cities About to Ge ...
    The world's big cities are already bursting at the seams but are set to grow even larger, with experts predicting that some 70 per cent of the world's population will be urban by 2050. (Herding the people into mega-cities... by design... it's in the Agenda 21 'plan' ~ SadInAmerica)read more
  • Your Best Defense: Man Causes Widespread Radia ...
    First of all, you'd better hope you already have some Atomic Iodine (the natural form required by the body) or Potassium Iodide (KI) in your emergency kit. If you don't already have some stashed in case of emergency, there's not much you can do besides call a friend that has some or wait for you ...
  • Defense Against Radioactive Fallout on Livesto ...
    � The following for farmers and ranchers, from the old USDA county defense boards, should help dispel some of the potential panic. Old fashioned from the early 1960��s, but physics and tactics of radiation and fallout protection are timeless. ~ Shane Connorread more
  • Get Out of Tokyo NOW!... Britons Told to Evacu ...
    �The UK government is urging all British nationals to leave Tokyo as soon as possible for their own safety. At least 17,000 UK citizens live in Japan, the vast majority of them in Tokyo. The order came as the crisis at the Fukushima nuclear plant in northeast Japan worsened. read more

Tatumba 2.0

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

Truth About Our World

  • Did HAARP hit Haiti? Evidence and motives
    There’s a mountain of info online on HAARP, but not much on other similar facilities…Maybe we’re looking in the wrong direction?  As long as we focus on HAARP, the attention is away from the real culprit?  Just thinking … Daily Paul Liberty Forum Nobody here knows whether the earthquake in Hai ...
  • Not the first time an earthquake in Japan affe ...
    May 29, 2008
  • ‘America wants full dominance over Middl ...
    � The world is finding out what a �no fly zone� means to �the coalition of the willing.� The promised minimal role by the US exploded from the start into massive continual aerial assaults against both military and illegally against civilian targets. Hospitals have been bombed in Libya by NATO. � ...
  • Muammar Gaddafi calls on Libyans to resist &#8 ...
      March 20, 2011 Ian Black in Tripoli Muammar Gaddafi has pledged to arm the Libyan people to resist what he called a “crusader colonialist” onslaught after UN-mandated forces used missiles and bombs to destroy the country’s air defences and, according to Tripoli, killed up to 64 people it calle ...
  • The Devil’s HAARP: weather weapons and recent ...
    â…HAARP is funded by the Pentagon, contracted to (and designed by) private war corporations, developed through Americaâs Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency, and owned by the US Air Force and Navy â yet we are expected to believe that it is not a weaponized military application.â   By Tim ...

Bloomberg

  • No Lull in the Airlines' Headwinds
    The industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley
  • Akimbo: From Niches to Riches?
    The Internet video startup has amassed an impressive menu of online content. Subscribers are all it needs
  • Big Traits for Big Blue
    IBM recruiter Michael Riegel says it seeks MBAs who do great work and possess "that intangible mix of humility, respect, and wisdom"
  • Africa's 200 Million Empty Plates
    When the U.N. ponders the continent's ills and their tragic consequences, a sorry list of contributing factors needs to be on the table
  • Michael Graves: Beyond Kettles
    Michael Graves: Beyond Kettles. The well-known designer discusses his many creations and notes, "I stayed true to what I thought was good design no matter who it was for".

Enviroblog

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

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

  • The noisiest, meatiest, booziest brunch in Inwood
    Cutting across the rapidly gentrifying slice of the north tip of Manhattan between Broadway and the Hudson River is the northwestern tier of Inwood's Dyckman Street, which is nestled cozily in a small vale between Inwood Hill Park to the northeast and Fort ...
  • Despite lots of bare flesh, musicians steal th ...
    The most impressive performers in Hello Again, the first New York revival of Michael John LaChiusa’s great 1993 musical about sex, never step before the audience. They’re off in a corner, discreetly dressed in black. They're the six musicians, playing a sc ...
  • The predictable pleasures of 'Priscilla' make ...
    It’s been five years since Priscilla, Queen of the Desert—a jukebox musical adaptation of the campy 1994 drag-queen road movie—premiered in Sydney. And given what it has to offer—a crowd-pleasing score of pop hits from the '70s and '80s; a gentle, sweet nar ...
  • Unsure on Tripoli: The tabloids seek their war ...
    Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
  • F.A.Q.: Do Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos have ...
    With all the crap that's gone down here at the Capitol, and with the public's general impression of all of these guys so wretched, I think Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos are happy to take the carrot of a popular governor hitting the reset button. They can g ...

Views & News from Norway

  • Party leader sad over sex charges
    A high-ranking member of Norway’s conservative Progress Party (Fremskrittspartiet, Frp) was under arrest on Tuesday, charged with sexual misconduct towards a young male member of the party. Party leader Siv Jensen said she was saddened by the charges, but relieved the suspect immediately resigne ...
  • Search underway for slide victims
    Rescue crews were finally able to start searching Tuesday afternoon for the bodies of a couple believed to have been killed when their house was hit by a snow- and rockslide in Balestrand, western Norway, Monday night. The force of the slide pushed the house completely off its foundation. Extrem ...
  • Splits emerge over Libya operation
    Just days after Norwegian politicians displayed rare, unified support for the government’s decision to back UN-approved military intervention in Libya, criticism is rising within the Socialist Left party. Defense Minister Grete Faremo, meanwhile, was keeping Norway’s F16 jets parked on Crete unt ...
  • Solskjær strikes out on new career
    Norway is most famous in sporting terms for its skiers, but the most famous Norwegian in the world is not known for his proficiency on snow – he is a footballer named Ole Gunnar Solskjær who, at 38, looks barely older than he did during his days as the “baby-faced assassin” of Manchester United ...
  • Egeland and Brende move on
    The high-profile directors for two major Norwegian organizations are moving on, and, in one case, out of the country. Jan Egeland, the former diplomat and top UN official, is joining Human Rights Watch, while Børge Brende, a former politician and head of the Red Cross in Norway, is taking over t ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Sutures in the City
    by Adrian Buckley This article’s about where, I think, the best place to invest our energy toward creating positive change lies in repairing community and the planet. We all have the power to be just as positive an influence on this planet as we are the negative element many environmentalists ma ...
  • 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 (PDF) against the U ...
  • Climate Change Training Exercise
    This is a training exercise that can be done with groups of around 20-25 people of all ages. Feel free to use, expand, or elaborate on it in anyway. Follow the activity with a discussion about climate as it relates to permaculture design. The roles: Poor Farmer Sun Summer Wind Winter Wind ...
  • April 25 Internship Program
    Photo copyright � Craig Mackintosh Due to late course withdrawals there are now two places available on our next 10-week Internship Program, beginning April 25. There are only three of these programs run each year at The Permaculture Research Institute. Our October 2011 and January 2012 Progr ...
  • Permaculture in Public Spaces
    Lake County, California, is a rural area on the edge of the San Francisco Bay Area. Though it’s surrounded by extremely wealthy areas, Lake County is unique; it is one of the least densely populated counties in the state of California, with one of the highest rates of poverty and unemployment. ...

Telecrap Urinal

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

Anna's News

  • Computer Chips Wired With Nerve Cells
    This technology could pave the way for melding minds with machines.Nerve cell tendrils readily thread their way through tiny semiconductor tubes, researchers find, forming a crisscrossed network like vines twining towards the sun. Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add ...
  • Meet NASA's Shuttle Rocket Retrieval Ships
    On Friday, NASA released a fascinating video from one of the lesser-known components of the soon-to-retire shuttle program.Shot by high-definition cameras from the decks of NASA's two solid rocket booster (SRB) retrieval ships, the Liberty Star...........Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & Tech ...
  • 40 Surprising Products That Are No Longer Made ...
    The recession helped bury the existing manufacturing industry in the United States, but corporations have been abandoning American factories for years. Many iconic American products aren't even made in this country anymore and are assembled and produced Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �Not ...
  • Indian youth suicide crisis baffles
    Here on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, a spasm of youth suicides had caused alarm and confusion even before Chelle's death.The Follettes had talked with her about other local children who had killed themselves. Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • 12 Common Scams That Target College Kids
    There's a lot of room for growing pains in college, from switching your majors to learning how to juggle work and school to living on your own. And while figuring out your personal finances is also good practice in college, certain scams threaten to turn Submitted by Anna Smith to Society & Cult ...

Medical Marijuana

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

Progressives United - Russ Feingold

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

Information Underground

  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    God and Santa Clause is essentially the same myth. We are told as youngsters by our parents that we must be on our best behavior all year long because santa clause is watching our every move through his crystal ball. If we are a good boy/girl then Santa will come and reward us with presents at ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Here's a quick list of ancient gods/goddesses. They're all fake, obviously. A - Agdistis or Angdistis Ah Puch Ahura Mazda Alberich Allah Amaterasu An Anansi Anat Andvari Anshar Anu Aphrodite Apollo Apsu Ares Artemis Asclepius Athena Athirat Athtart Atlas Top of Page - B - Baal Ba Xian Ba ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Timothy_Fitzpatrick wrote: Well, monkey boy, I'll take a shot at one. How's this for the virgin birth possibility: Shark's virgin birth: Lone female in aquarium gives birth to a pup without ever coming into contact with a male Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-512879/Shark ...
  • The Information Underground Radio Show • Re: T ...
    Whaler wrote: I love this. FOX... the maniacal Jew evil empire channel runs a special about the moon landing hoax and takes an obscure and kooky conspiracy theory dreamed by crackpots and launches it into the mainstream...yet you guys are trying to make it seem like Jews are trying to silence y ...
  • The Information Underground Radio Show • Re: T ...
    Well done, CM. You have graciously refuted them. Let's see if they can graciously come up with another angle.Statistics: Posted by Timothy_Fitzpatrick — Tue Mar 22, 2011 8:34 am

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Interview: The Destructive Power Of Pacific Oc ...
    Geophysicist Lori Dengler of Humboldt State University in California has traveled the world studying the impacts of tsunamis and working with governments to mitigate their wrath. Earlier this year, just weeks before Lori Dengler the recent Japanese earthquake and tsunami, Dengler was in Toky ...
  • Tracking the Destructive Power Of the Pacific ...
    The devastating tsunami in northeastern Japan is only one of many that have battered Japan over the eons. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, tsunami and earthquake expert Lori Dengler describes the historic and paleological record of tsunamis across the Pacific, and what it may mean in t ...
  • Anatomy of a Nuclear Crisis: A Chronology of F ...
    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. BY DAVID BIELLO
  • Examining the Missteps In Japan’s Nuclear Crisis
    A leading U.S. expert on nuclear energy discusses some of the fundamental failures that led to the intensifying nuclear drama in Japan and looks at what might lie in store for nuclear power worldwide.
  • Canada’s Boreal Forest Contains the Planet's S ...
    Canada’s 1.3 billion-acre boreal forest contains more unfrozen freshwater than any other ecosystem on the planet, according to a new report by the Pew Environmental Group. With about 25 percent of the world’s wetlands, millions of lakes, and thousands of rivers, the boreal forest contains about ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • Stephen Harper’s Libyan offensive
    By Montreal Simon I just saw some video of Canadian jets refuelling at Prestwick Airport near Glasgow. I just saw tornado fighters from Lossiemouth, the RAF base next to the Scottish village where I was born, landing in the theatre of action. I'm glad the world is taking action to stop the ...
  • Doctors healing themselves
    BENEVOLENCE By Cynthia Holz Alfred A. Knopf Canada 310 pages, $29.95 Review by Tara Hughes From its shocking opening to its moving conclusion, Cynthia Holz’s new novel, Benevolence, examines the destructive effects of fear and spiritual exhaustion on a marriage, and the rough healing th ...
  • Rebecca Black: Voice of Today’s Youth
    by Rachel Krueger Rebecca Black’s "Friday" has been making the internet rounds to guffaws and heaps of ridicule, and there’s no denying that it’s that bad.  But is it not ALSO a scathingly accurate anthem for our disaffected youth?  To wit: The opening lines of the song have taken heat for ...
  • Popping iodide pills in BC, despite the Experts
    By Frank Moher I travelled to a local health food store on Monday and bought some kelp tablets. I was actually after potassium iodide, but they were already sold out. I am not naturally a health food store habitué -- as I write this, I'm finishing up a Teen Burger meal ...
  • Xoom vs iPad 2
    By Eric Pettifor A couple of posts ago I wrote of the Motorola Xoom tablet, extolling its virtues while trying to convince myself that I don’t need one. And truly, I don’t. My little netbook is all the portable computing I really need. What I might want, and might actually get ...

Daily Beast

  • Muammar Gaddafi's Gold Fist and Other Dictator ...
    Gaddafi has posed beneath a giant gold fist in Tripoli, but he's hardly the first dictator to use art to create the illusion of victory. From Ramses II's colossal statue to a naked Napoleon, see some of history's most infamous leaders as you never...
  • Why Is the Libya War Called Operation Odyssey ...
    Desert Storm, Iraqi Freedom-those were war names that meant something! Is the Libyan assault meant to last 10 years, like Odysseus' journey? Josh Dzieza on the history of naming military operations, from Barbarossa to Blue Spoon, and what Odyssey Dawn...
  • Can the Penny Chic Fashion Blog Make Walmart Chic?
    One leopard-print dress at a time, the new fashion blog Penny Blog, made up of clothes exclusively bought at Walmart, is making the big-box giant look cool-and it might be just what the retailer needs. Fashion bloggers are everywhere. They're in the...
  • Cheap Therapy
    For Neil Strauss, the ultimate education has been interviewing rock legends like Neil Young and Chuck Berry. He shares a few of the life lessons they taught him. When combing through the more than 3,000 articles I'd written for Rolling Stone, The New...
  • U.N. Nuclear Aid Linked to Terror
    Iran, Sudan, Syria, and other countries the U.S. has named state sponsors of terrorism have received millions of dollars in U.N. nuclear technology aid-and Hillary Clinton won't stop the flow of cash. Laurel Adams of the Center for Public Integrity...

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Judge not, lest you be judged
    At this point, a week and a half after the earthquake and tsunami, and with the government and thousands of volunteers rapidly restoring power and water and municipal services to the affected area, Japan — and the world — is anxiously awaiting the resolution of the nuclear crisis in Fukushima. ...
  • The rejuvenation of Tokyo
    With April's gubernatorial election in Tokyo just around the corner, major candidates have announced their decisions to run. This political event comes amid the world's red-hot competition for intercity popularity. While advanced-nation cities such as New York, London and Paris are enhancing t ...
  • Where were you when the 3/11 quake hit?
    Shizuko ShokokuRetired, 87 (Japanese)I've never experienced such a quake in all my life. I was at day care for the afternoon when it happened. Everyone around me held onto the tables in front of them, and some people tried to leave the hall, but the caregivers instructed us to stay in our seats ...
  • Egyptians share a demand with Californians
    SINGAPORE — While Egypt has had too little democracy and is moving toward more, California has had too much democracy and is moving toward less. The common mean point they should arrive at is democracy that delivers good government — not mushy "governance." For decades, "government" has been d ...
  • The relief effort: how you can help
    A few readers have questions about donating supplies. WA writes: "I have seen the tragic earthquake and tsunami incident that happened in Japan. I would love to donate food and clothes and help out as much as I can. Please tell me where I can send supplies."

    Blacklisted News

  • The F-35: A Weapon That Costs More Than Australia
    The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is an impressive aircraft: a fifth generation multirole fighter plane with stealth technology. It's also a symbol of everything that's wrong with defense spending in America.
  • Dealing with dictators: Why the West sanctions ...
    Grassroots uprisings have gripped not just the Arab World as of late. Last December, around 15,000 demonstrators took to the streets of Minsk to challenge the manipulated presidential election that awarded long-time Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko another term in office with 80 percent ...
  • Listen: Secret Libya Psyops, Caught by Online ...
    The U.S. military has dispatched one of its secret propaganda planes to the skies around Libya. And that “Commando Solo” aircraft is telling Libyan ships to remain in port – or risk NATO retaliation. We know this, not because some Pentagon official said so, but because one Dutch radio geek is ...
  • Yemen: Armor Deployed As Army Officers Defect ...
    Tanks and other armored vehicles were deployed in Yemen’s capital, Sanna, today as a senior army commander defected to the side of demonstrators calling for the resignation of President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Dozens of Yemeni military officers followed the commander’s lead and publicly pledged t ...
  • STRATFOR: The Libyan War of 2011
    The Libyan war has now begun. It pits a coalition of European powers plus the United States, a handful of Arab states and rebels in Libya against the Libyan government. The long-term goal, unspoken but well understood, is regime change — displacing the government of Libyan leader Moammar Gad ...

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • GEORGE GALLOWAY ON LIBYA GADDAFI AND OIL
    Summary: Galloway"We can't stand by and watch Gaddafi attack his own people," says David Cameron. But what's the difference between Libya and the Bahrain king or the Yemen president, both of whom have killed dozens of their people, as they protested for their democratic rights? The answer, s ...
  • AL slams Western invasion of Libya
    Summary: Amr MoussaThe Arab League has strongly criticized the West's military air strikes on Libya, since they resulted in civilian casualties almost immediately after invasion. source: Press TVread more
  • The real reasons behind the United Nations' Li ...
    Summary: US missile attackA new war has been declared in the Middle East. With the bloody and failing occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan still in place, the USA, Britain and France are now committed to an escalating armed intervention in Libya. source: Stop the War Coalitionread more
  • EMERGENCY PROTEST: HANDS OFF LIBYA: STOP THE ...
    Summary: Britain and the USA have bombed Libya with more than one hundred Tomahawk cruise missiles. These are not precision guided weapons but weapons of mass destruction that will create many civilian casualties in Libya. source: CASMIIread more
  • Iran is against military adventurism in th ...
    Summary: KhazaeeTehran, March 18, IRNA -- Iran's envoy to the UN Headquarters in New York, Mohammad Khazaei said on Thursday that the Islamic Republic is against any military intervention in Middle Eastern countries facing a chaotic political situation. source: IRNAread more

The Daily Galaxy

  • 'White Dwarf Hypernovas' -The Cause of the "Gr ...
    New results show that the Chandra image of M31-the Andromeda galaxy implies that the merger of two white dwarfs is the main trigger for Type Ia supernovas. The object would be about 40 times brighter than observed if the type...
  • The Enigma of Ancient Galaxy Clusters -"Like f ...
    Astronomers using the South Pole Telescope reported that they discovered the most massive galaxy cluster yet seen at a distance of 7 billion light-years. The cluster (designated SPT-CL J0546-5345) weighs in at around 800 trillion Suns, and holds hundreds of...
  • Could UV-Adapted Microbial Life Exist in the A ...
    Scientists suspect that Venus's atmosphere might hide extraterrestrial lifeforms, and in the ultimate safari ever, they want to go there and capture them with a flying balloon. Interplanetary travel, extraterrestrial life, and Venusian airships - anyone doing anything other than...
  • Image of the Day: Terzan 5 -A Massive Milky Wa ...
    It's not the name of a Japanese scifi movie...Scientists have spotted stellar fossils in the center of the Milky Way, globular clusters orbiting in the central bulge which seem to have come from somewhere else. Like all fossils these are...
  • Weekend Weather for Titan: "Cloudy with Early ...
    Titan has been considered a “unique world in the solar system” since 1908 when, the Spanish astronomer, José Comas y Solá, discovered that it had an atmosphere, something non-existent on other moons. It seems perfectly appropriate that one of the...

Natural News

  • Doctors use Fukushima-like radiation to "treat ...
    (NaturalNews) Japan has been reporting for several days that much of the raw milk being produced in the Fukushima province is now radioactive. This raises today's quiz question: If the FDA were operating in Japan, what would they do about this raw, radioactive milk?Answer: They would seize it be ...
  • TSA to retest airport body scanners after repo ...
    (NaturalNews) After repeatedly refusing to publicly release safety reports for its airport X-ray machines and naked body scanners -- even after lawmakers ordered their release -- the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) now says that the same reports are flawed anyway (http://www.natu ...
  • 'Dying to Have Known' documentary features Ger ...
    (NaturalNews) The small California town of Oakhurst recently had several screenings of the 2006 film Dying to Have Known, a well-done and highly-informative documentary by esteemed filmmaker Steve Kroschel that explores the evidence and effectiveness of the infamous Gerson Therapy in treating an ...
  • Fukushima update: Emergency evacuation of work ...
    (NaturalNews) Here's the latest on the Fukushima nuclear power plant incident in Japan:• Releases of radiation from the Fukushima nuclear power plant are "now significant and continuing" said Andre-Claude Lacoste, said the head of France's Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN). (http://news.asiaone.com ...
  • Japanese government admits potassium iodide pi ...
    (NaturalNews) A Japanese nuclear safety official has now publicly admitted the Japanese government improperly withheld potassium iodide from the public for three days following the Fukushima power plant explosion. Kazuma Yokota says the Japanese government was "caught off guard" by the nuclear c ...

Threat Level

  • Appeals Court Revives Lawsuit Challenging NSA ...
    It’s easy to forget these days, but former President George W. Bush’s illegal warrantless surveillance program was never halted by Congress, nor by the Obama administration. It was merely legalized in a 2008 law called the FISA Amendments Act. That means the surveillance of Americans’ interna ...
  • Leader of Hacker Gang Sentenced to 9 Years For ...
    The former leader of an anarchistic hacking group called the Electronik Tribulation Army was sentenced Thursday to 9 years and 2 months in prison for installing malware on computers at a Texas hospital. Jesse William McGraw, aka “GhostExodus,” was also ordered to pay $31,881 in restitution and ...
  • Goldman Sachs Programmer Sentenced to 8 Years ...
    A former Goldman Sachs programmer convicted of stealing the bank’s high-speed trading software was sentenced Friday to eight years in prison. Sergey Aleynikov, 41, was convicted in December of theft of trade secrets and then unsuccessfully sought to have the conviction set aside. The Russian-bo ...
  • Sunshine Week Shame: 10 Ways the Government Is ...
    As Sunshine Week sets, it’s a good time to take a quick inventory of the federal government’s ongoing failures of transparency. MapLight.org, which tracks the influence of money in politics, ran down the opacity the public confronts at every level of government — from antiquated campaign-finan ...
  • Hacker Spies Hit Security Firm RSA
    Top security firm RSA Security revealed on Thursday that it’s been the victim of an “extremely sophisticated” hack. The company said in a note posted on its website that the intruders succeeded in stealing information related to the company’s SecurID two-factor authentication products. SecurID ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Visiting Israel, Sarah Palin Has a Jewish Prob ...
    With her visit to Israel, Sarah Palin is going for a Republican twofer. Hoping to burnish her non-existent foreign policy credentials, Palin is simultaneously making what after going to Iowa and New Hampshire may be the most important pilgrimage for any aspiring GOP White House hopeful. But wh ...
  • One Year Later, Study Shows Health Care Reform ...
    Just in the time for this week's one year anniversary of the passage of the Affordable Care Act, a new study by the Commonwealth Fund revealed that the new health care reform law's full implementation can't come soon enough. Since the start of the recession, almost 60% of Americans who lost a j ...
  • Dueling Tax Plans Show Gap Between Parties - a ...
    This week, two members of Congress offered new plans to overhaul the U.S. tax code. One proposes cutting the top tax rate for the wealthiest Americans by 10% and draining the U.S. Treasury by $2 trillion over the next decade. The other calls for higher rates for millionaires and billionaires t ...
  • Gingrich Goes After Hagee and the Armageddon Vote
    Politics makes strange bedfellows, especially when the bed contains Newt Gingrich. Despite his belief that marriage is an institution between one man and three women in rapid succession, Newt has been warmly embraced by the Republicans' family values crowd. Now, the Baptist-turned-Catholic Gin ...
  • To Cut the Deficit, Expand the IRS
    As any good free-marketeer will tell you, you've got to spend money to make money. Just not, Republicans insist, when it comes to collecting federal tax revenue. The GOP, after all, gutted the Internal Revenue Service in the late 1990's. And two weeks ago, House Republicans voted to cut $600 ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

  • Protecting Libyan Civilians, Not Others
    U.S. and allied forces say they want to save Libyan civilians, but that moral imperative has been selective, says Robert Parry. March 20, 2011
  • The Hypocrisy of the Libyan Conflict
    Western powers are off to war in Libya to "protect civilians," but this mission was missing elsewhere, notes Lawrence Davidson. March 20, 2011
  • Understating Afghan Civilian Deaths
    As the U.S. vows to save civilian lives in Libya, its record of killing Afghan civilians is questioned by Gareth Porter and Shah Noori. March 19, 2011
  • Through the US Media Lens Darkly
    In focusing on the Middle East, U.S. news outlets use a distorted lens to exaggerate evils of designated villains, says Robert Parry. March 18, 2011
  • Al Jazeera Shows the Way
    Long disparaged in the U.S., Al Jazeera has emerged as one of the world's most trusted names in news, notes Danny Schechter. March 17, 2011

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

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

Climate

GreenBiz

Reuters Global

Booman Tribune

  • Civics for Suckers
    Arizona became a state on February 14, 1912, just two years before Franz Ferdinand's assassination sparked the First World War. It shouldn't need to be said, but before Arizona was a state it wasn't a state. The territory that became Arizona was pried away from Mexico and formally annexed in pi ...
  • Wanker of the Day: Sarah Palin
    If she was in third grade, this would be cute: During a tour of the Western Wall Palin expressed support for Jews praying openly at the Temple Mount asking her Israeli tour guides, why are you apologizing all the time? The Jerusalem Post reported. The Temple Mount, a holy site to both Jews ...
  • We're Too Dumb to Function
    At least part of the premise of representative democracy is that a majority is probably right about most things. They're probably right because, hopefully, they have some passing familiarity with the most basic facts, or can learn them rather easily when it becomes necessary in a given case. W ...
  • Don't Become a Prisoner to Consistency
    I can't really disagree with the substance of Ross Douthat's argument. There are pros and cons to conducting a military intervention in the way that President Obama has chosen to conduct the operations in Libya. I think we all know the upside of getting the approval of the United Nations Secur ...
  • Idle Thoughts
    I'm not in the mood for writing. Just playing my Masters of War and brooding. Later on tonight, I'll tune into Showtime's great new show Shameless. Any of you been watching it? Our daffodils started blooming this weekend and I noticed our first hostas breaking through the soil this afternoon ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

  • Cardiac Patients Benefit from Depression Treatment
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Research released this month shows a depression intervention program proved to be highly beneficial to cardiac patients. The study, conducted by Jeff C. Huffman, MD, of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston showed that providing education and tools regarding de ...
  • The Dark Place
    By Kalila Borghini, LCSW and Ordained Yoruba Priest, Spirituality Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Kalila and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Over the years I’ve gotten distressed when I feel myself and observe in my patients a rapid descent into what I call the dark place. That ...
  • Treating Depression Can Improve Arthritic Symptoms
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary New findings show that patients who suffered with depression reported more severe arthritic knee pain than those without depressive symptoms. Tae Kyun Kim, MD, study author and director of the Division of Knee Surgery and Sports Medicine at Seoul National Universit ...
  • Multitasking Becomes More Difficult with Age
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary New research shows that older people have more difficulty multi-tasking than younger people. The results were gathered from a study that required people between the ages of 59 and 81 to talk on a cell phone while crossing a virtual street. The older participants we ...
  • Get a Better Job for Better Mental Health
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline If you are in a dissatisfying job you may be at risk for mental health issues. Additionally, if you are unemployed, gaining employment will dramatically improve your mental wellbeing. Newly released research suggests that employment is linked to improved mental an ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Editorial mistaken about stream protection pla ...
    Editorial mistaken about stream protection plan Martinsburg Journal Enforcement of the Stream Protection Rule would actually create jobs, since more of West Virginia's coal would be mined by conventional underground methods instead of the cheaper, quicker, environmentally destructive mountainto ...
  • Earth talk: How does mining pollute water? - P ...
    Earth talk: How does mining pollute water? Poughkeepsie Journal In January the EPA got the opportunity to walk its talk when it vetoed a permit that would have allowed the largest "mountaintop removal" mining operation in the history of West Virginia coal mining to go forward. Mountaintop remov ...
  • Japan's Nuclear Crisis and America's Natural G ...
    Telegraph.co.uk Japan's Nuclear Crisis and America's Natural Gas Investing Daily First, coal power is under attack as never before, not only on the basis of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions but for increasingly environmentally destructive mining techniques such as mountaintop removal. Environme ...
  • For some a break, for others more - Acorn
    For some a break, for others more Acorn Andrew Torres ('13) went on an alternative spring break trip to Kentucky to learn about the controversial mountaintop removal in the Appalachian Mountains. He and nine other Drew students, as well as two professors, stayed in a local Catholic church ... ...
  • Protesters win a round against Massey - Charle ...
    Protesters win a round against Massey Charleston Gazette (blog) A federal magistrate judge has ruled today that anti-mountaintop removal protesters do not have to answer Massey Energy's questions about who assisted or participated in peaceful civil disobedience actions against the company. ... ...

Memeorandum

  • Libya: US fighter jet crash lands in field nea ...
    Telegraph: Libya: US fighter jet crash lands in field near Benghazi  —  A US warplane has crash landed in a Libyan field in the area around Benghazi, The Telegraph can disclose.  —  The two crew members on the F-15E fighter jet ejected to safety.  One has already been recovered by US forces …
  • Dem senator breaks with his party and Obama, a ...
    Lauraklairmont / CNN: Dem senator breaks with his party and Obama, again  —  (CNN) - Saying that “we must get our fiscal house in order,” Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia says he'll vote against raising the nation's debt ceiling unless it's married to a plan that addresses the natio ...
  • A Very Liberal Intervention - In its month-lon ...
    Ross Douthat / New York Times: A Very Liberal Intervention  —  In its month-long crab walk toward a military confrontation with Libya's Muammar el-Qaddafi, the Obama administration has delivered a clinic in the liberal way of war.  —  Just a week ago, as the tide began to turn against the anti- ...
  • Fact: Bush Had 2 Times More Coalition Partners ...
    Brobinson / Fox Nation: Fact: Bush Had 2 Times More Coalition Partners in Iraq Than Obama Has in Libya  —  Coalition Forces / Iraq vs. Libya  —  Coalition Countries - Iraq - 2003  —  Afghanistan,  —  Albania  —  Australia  —  Azerbaijan  —  Bulgaria  —  Colombia  —  Czech Republic  —  Denmark  ...
  • No Country Leans on Upper-Income Households as ...
    Scott A. Hodge / Tax Foundation: No Country Leans on Upper-Income Households as Much as U.S.  —  During my recent testimony before the Senate Budget Committee ( found here), I cited an OECD statistic that the U.S. has the most progressive income tax system among industrialized nations.  [1] Th ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • China's nuclear-waste rush
    A 200-billion yuan nuclear scheme could turn a remote spot in western China into Asia’s uranium-recycling hub. But is it the right move? Yuan Ying and Wang Haotong report.Behind the local government premises in the city of Jiayuguan stands a nondescript six-storey building. A plaque on the door ...
  • The ruin of Aceh
    Ravaged by a giant tsunami in 2004, war-torn Aceh went on to sign a truce with Jakarta. But the natural destruction of the province didn’t end, writes Andre Vltchek, returning after seven years.Additional reporting by Rossie Indira Anyone who visited Aceh after the devastating earthquake an ...
  • What next for Chinese nuclear?
    The world is struggling to respond to the Fukushima radiation disaster – not least in China, the linchpin of the much-hyped nuclear renaissance. Antony Froggatt reports.The earthquake and tsunami in Japan have caused unprecedented problems for the country’s nuclear industry and the Fukushima pow ...
  • Meanwhile in America
    How will Beijing’s latest green pledges affect the United States? Linden Ellis asks a roundtable of experts and business figures what they think of China’s 12th Five-Year Plan.Last week, as China set impressive targets to reduce emissions and increase investment in environmental services, politi ...
  • Splashing around in the shallows
    Just as the internet is eroding our attention spans, oceans of information may be diluting the corporate sustainability agenda, writes John Elkington. Do business leaders risk being everywhere and nowhere?I’m not particularly looking forward to 2012, now just a year away. Among other things, it ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • Appeals Court Revives Lawsuit Challenging NSA ...
    It’s easy to forget these days, but former President George W. Bush’s illegal warrantless surveillance program was never halted by Congress, nor by the Obama administration. It was merely legalized in a 2008 law called the FISA Amendments Act. That means the surveillance of Americans’ interna ...
  • Leader of Hacker Gang Sentenced to 9 Years For ...
    The former leader of an anarchistic hacking group called the Electronik Tribulation Army was sentenced Thursday to 9 years and 2 months in prison for installing malware on computers at a Texas hospital. Jesse William McGraw, aka “GhostExodus,” was also ordered to pay $31,881 in restitution and ...
  • Goldman Sachs Programmer Sentenced to 8 Years ...
    A former Goldman Sachs programmer convicted of stealing the bank’s high-speed trading software was sentenced Friday to eight years in prison. Sergey Aleynikov, 41, was convicted in December of theft of trade secrets and then unsuccessfully sought to have the conviction set aside. The Russian-bo ...
  • Sunshine Week Shame: 10 Ways the Government Is ...
    As Sunshine Week sets, it’s a good time to take a quick inventory of the federal government’s ongoing failures of transparency. MapLight.org, which tracks the influence of money in politics, ran down the opacity the public confronts at every level of government — from antiquated campaign-finan ...
  • Hacker Spies Hit Security Firm RSA
    Top security firm RSA Security revealed on Thursday that it’s been the victim of an “extremely sophisticated” hack. The company said in a note posted on its website that the intruders succeeded in stealing information related to the company’s SecurID two-factor authentication products. SecurID ...

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  • Pakistan releases CIA operative in ‘carefully ...
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  • Wars Cannot Be Both Planned and Avoided
    Congress held an emergency meeting to defund NPR, and then did nothing as the President spent vastly more money on bombing Libya. President Obama didn't have to ask for the funding, because the Pentagon had enough lying around for just such an occasion. A fundamental lie that keeps war going is ...
  • Lies, Damn Lies, and Humanitarian Intervention
    Lies, Damn Lies, and Humanitarian Intervention - by Stephen Lendman Masquerading as "humanitarian intervention," Washington launched full-force barbarism on six million Libyans, all endangered by America's latest intervention. More on how below. Beginning March 19, it was visible. However, month ...
  • Stop Bombing Libya
    By Marjorie Cohn Since Saturday night, the United States, France, and Britain have been bombing Libya with cruise missiles, B-2 stealth bombers, F-16 and F-15 fighter jets, and Harrier attack jets. There is no reliable estimate of the number of civilians killed. The U.S. has taken the lead in th ...

Grist - News

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

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Farming Pathogens

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

Suzie-Q

  • U.S. Military Considering Mandatory Evacuation ...
    U.S. military considers mandatory evacuations in Yokosuka, Japan CNN By Chris Lawrence, CNN Pentagon Correspondent March 22, 2011 — Updated 1242 GMT (2042 HKT) Washington (CNN) — The U.S. military is considering the mandatory evacuation of thousands of American troops and their families in Japan ...
  • Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Plant: Workers Flee ...
    Workers Flee Japan Nuclear Plant As Smoke Rises AP/The Huffington Post ERIC TALMADGE and MARI YAMAGUCHI  First Posted: 03/21/11 06:20 PM Updated: 03/22/11 08:50 AM FUKUSHIMA, Japan — Officials raced Monday to restore electricity to Japan’s leaking nuclear plant, but getting the power flowing w ...
  • Bill Kristol Gets A War Boner
    Bill Kristol gets a war boner Crooks and Liars- By Brad Reed March 21, 2011 03:05 PM One of the many depressing aspects of Obama’s horrific decision to start a third simultaneous war with a Muslim-majority nation is that it’s providing endless pangs of pleasure to Bill Kristol. After all, Americ ...
  • Paper Publishes Photos Of U.S. Soldiers Posing ...
    Paper Publishes Photos Of U.S. Soldiers Posing With Dead Afghan Civilian TPMuckraker Eric Lach | March 21, 2011, 11:46AM The German newsmagazine Der Spiegel has published two photographs of U.S. Army soldiers posing with the corpse of an Afghan civilian, The Washington Post reports. The photogra ...
  • Japan: Nuclear Industry And Risk Communication
    Japan, nuclear industry and risk communication: where is the TEPCO chief? Daily Kos by DemFromCT for Daily Kos Mon Mar 21, 2011 at 09:45 AM EDT Yesterday, I wrote a Sunday essay entitled Japan, nuclear industry and risk communication: unfinished business, which was about the risk communication i ...

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Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

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Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • A war monger review, looking at the articles a ...
    Summary:  It’s astonishing to see the craziness that Americans consider geopolitical analysis.  There are sophomores in other nations that would consider these to simplistic to take seriously.  That such work forms the mainstream of US foreign policy illustrates the decline of America.  Cla ...
  • Why we so often go to war (the short version)
    Summary:  We love war.  Our newspapers seldom show such exuberance except when we bomb some small nation.  From “There’s Nothing Easy About War – The Libya Version“, Michael Cohen, Democracy Arsenal, 20 March 2011: I have enormous respect for Shadi’s passion around this issue – and the passion o ...
  • Our military attacks Libya. As usual, the con ...
    Summary:   The US has gone to war with Libya, with operations far exceeding a “no fly zone.”   As usual the banter of our geopolitical experts merely provided cover for broader military action, probably for reasons unmentionable to the public. The operations in Libya go far beyond the no fl ...
  • We’re at war, again. Another shovel of ...
    Summary:  As we start yet another war, let’s take a moment to mourn the Constitution.  A landmark from the days when we inspired other peoples by means other than our bombs. Contents A reminder of what we once were (of course you don’t care) A nostalgic note about a political regime long gone ...
  • Events in the Middle East expose the nature of ...
    Summary:   Events in the Middle East highlight the contradictions of our irrational foreign policy.  Since we have few contemporaneous sources of information about US government thinking, we can use Stratfor (among the best of the US private geopolitical analysts) as a window. In the Stratfor wo ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Vietnam Bonds Drop on Concern Inflation Will L ...
    Bloomberg – Vietnamese bonds fell on speculation quickening inflation will lead to higher interest rates. The dong declined for a second day. Consumer prices may increase 2.2 percent this month from February and gains in the first quarter are expected to be about 6 percent, Deputy Prime Minister ...
  • Strikes on Libya set to slow, stalemate feared
    Reuters – Anti-aircraft fire rang out across Tripoli for a third night as air attacks were reported in the capital and on targets in eastern Libya. But a U.S. general said allied bombing raids were likely to become less frequent as Washington holds back from being sucked into the Libyan civil wa ...
  • Steam rises from stricken Japan plant
    Reuters – Smoke and steam rose from two of the most threatening reactors at Japan’s quake-crippled nuclear plant on Tuesday, suggesting the battle to avert a disastrous meltdown and stop the spread of radiation was far from won. The world’s worst nuclear crisis in 25 years was triggered by a hug ...
  • Human Rights Watch Presses Syria to Stop Using ...
    Bloomberg – Syrian security forces have killed five people and injured dozens of others since March 18 during protests in the southern town of Daraa, Human Rights Watch said. Government forces fired on demonstrators and used tear gas to break up a public gathering in the town yesterday, HRW said ...
  • Repurposed Transplant Drug – Rapamycin & ...
    Medical News Today – A drug typically used to prevent organ rejection in transplant patients has been shown to reverse the progress of an often fatal lung disease in women, according to findings published March 16 in the online edition of The New England Journal of Medicine. The discovery marks ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Potential Unrest Over Economic Crisis Dominate ...
    For their annual statements marking the Iranian New Year (Norouz), both Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei and president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad focused more on the state of Iran’s economy than any other topic. Although rhetoric praising Arab revolutions and decrying foreign interventions pepp ...
  • Libya and Executive Power
    Grover Cleveland asks what he asked in our comments, namely what we should make about the lack of congressional involvement in the decision to attack Libya. A few points: - Obama’s argument as a senator that his actions as president would violate the Constitution is a perfectly plausible readi ...
  • Libya, Liberalism and Legitimacy
    I'll start off by saying that, like many, I view the ongoing Western intervention in Libya with a lot of ambivalence. The international track record for such actions isn't fantastic, the aims and goals of the U.N. mission seem murky and render the whole exercise extremely vulnerable to mission c ...
  • Libya and the Prospects for Success
    Something to say on behalf of the Libya operation is that I think some of the nervous writing about this I’ve read has been overstating the difficulty of achieving our war aims. If you look at a map, you’ll find that there’s literally only one road between the crossroads town of Marsa al-Burayqa ...
  • Who Are "Civilians" in Libya?
    Since the UN resolution authorizing the recent air and missile strikes on Libya ostensibly does so in the context of "protecting civilians," when what we're rather transparently trying to ensure that Libyan dictator Moammar Gaddafi does not defeat an opposing rebel force, it begs the question o ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Tremble, Ye Forces Of Darkness, Before My Expl ...
    Tim Pawlenty's media consultant continues to bring the drama: Tim Pawlenty Exploratory Committee for President of the United States Visual Announcement from Tim Pawlenty on Vimeo. Are you ready to charge up that mountain to the future? To thrust your sword into failure's gut, to stomp on doubt ...
  • The Wavelength: Your Guide to Media Policy
    Eric K. Arnold at The Media Consortium has a new biweekly feature rounding up articles on the world of media policy. It's a good roundup, and we're not just saying that because TAPPED made the cut. The post is linked above and also posted below:Welcome to the Wavelength, your bi-weekly field gui ...
  • Cutting Food Stamps and Preventing Poverty
    Tim Fernholz, whom you'll remember from his Prospect days, reported at the National Journal today that the House Agriculture Committee has endorsed a cut to the food-stamp program, known as SNAP. SNAP is dealt with within the USDA, and the committee likely wants to deflect potential cuts to dire ...
  • Oakland's Still Crawling Toward Police Reform
    It's a tense, dreary day in Oakland. Today's the second anniversary of the Lovelle Mixon shooting, in which the 26-year-old parolee shot and killed four Oakland police officers before being gunned down in an East Oakland apartment building. It's also the start of the highly publicized murder tri ...
  • Today at The Prospect
    Scott Lemieux says that the class-action lawsuit against Wal-Mart, which the Supreme Court will hear arguments on next week, writes that the court's real power lies in judicial interpretation, not in judicial review. Courtney E. Martin says that her generation has wised up about marriage.<.li> ...

Buzzflash

  • Slogan of GE, Builder of Japanese Reactor, Sho ...
    Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout It is ironic that the slogan of General Electric (GE) used to be "We Bring Good Things to Life." Jeffrey Immelt, the multimillionaire and Obama's favorite CEO, changed that brand identity to "Imagination at Work." Indeed, it would be hard to imagine ...
  • Stand in Front of Diablo Nuclear Power Plant, ...
    JACQUELINE MARCUS FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT In 1981, on the central coast of California, tens of thousands of residents from all over California protested against the opening of the Diablo Nuclear Power Plant.  The central reason for the massive demonstrations that lasted for weeks, including pe ...
  • CNBC Host Says We Should Be Grateful Japan Ear ...
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Despite Larry Kudlow's apology, what he said Appeals to conservative viewers --- As long as the financial markets aren't badly hurt, Who the hell cares who it skewers? http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/money_co/2011/03/cnbc-kudlow-japan-earthquake-human-toll-w ...
  • Republicans/Conservatives, the One-Note Party
    Body The country is locked in a conservative standoff; a legislative session that is a right-wing celebration of presumed values that aren't always in sync with what voters had in mind when they elected the current crop of congressional leaders. Republicans, Tea Partiers, conserva ...
  • The Big Banks Run the Show
    PAUL MOORE FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT   On January 21, 2010, 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 case was titled Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission and ...

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Sciencebase

  • Six science selections
    Map mashup reveals world’s top science cities – Combining citation data with Google Maps reveals the cities where science prospers, and those where it doesn't. 9 arguments for (against) herbal remedies – About 40% of pharmaceuticals have a herbal origin but that doesn't mean natural is all good. ...
  • Telepathic spam
    The following comment was left on the site today, it begins: “Telepathy is possible, it works very good…I can exchange voice and videos messages , smell and bad and good filings with people around, people can move muscles on my body from distance and much more.” Aside from the “filings” typo, it ...
  • Aspartame toxicity. Not.
    Aspartame is an artificial, non-saccharide, sweetener used as a sugar substitute in some foods and beverages usually so that they can be labelled as “lite” or “diet” products. In the European Union, it is coded as E951. Aspartame is a methyl ester of aspartic acid and phenylalanine, two natural ...
  • Mental snip
    I seem to have something of a reputation for a fertile imagination; don’t know why, although regular readers will know that I cover a lot of ground between my blog and a hard place. Anyway, Diane Richards pointed this out to me following a Facebook post about social networking for sex and about ...
  • Iodine and radiation
    The Royal Society of Chemistry is warning against panic buying of potassium iodide tablets as a protective agent against exposure to radioactive iodine. It also cautioning cautioned against scaremongering regarding the potential effect of explosions at the Fukushima nuclear plant, saying that an ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Afghans Discover Graphic Photos of US Soldiers ...
    Yesterday Afghans for Peace learned that a German news organization, Der Spiegel, released 3 of some 4,000 photographs and video footage showing gruesome images of US soldiers and corpses of innocent Afghans they murdered in Kandahar last year. The photographic evidence exposes the crimes commit ...
  • First Deepwater Drilling Plan Approved for Gul ...
    Interior Secretary Salazar today announced the approval of the first deepwater drilling exploration plan since the moratorium was lifted. The approval is for Shell Offshore to drill three exploration wells in water 2,950 feet deep, 130 miles offshore Louisiana.read more
  • Egypt: Army Still Torturing People a “Red Line”
    Dr. AIDA SEIF AL-DAWLA, Dr. MOSTAFA HUSSEIN, @moftasa Al-Dawla is with the Nadeem Center for Victims of Torture. She is a psychiatrist. Hussein is a doctor at the Task Force Against Torture, which brings together non-profits, bloggers and activists highlighting the continuation of torture i ...
  • Obama Administration Denies Protection to Knox ...
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  • Free Speech Groups Ask Secretaries Clinton and ...
    The American Civil Liberties Union, American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and PEN American Center today sent a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano expressing concern over the denial of a visa to Afghan politician, writer an ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Always Money for War, But Never for Schools
    Rosa Maria Pegueros Every day, I receive solicitations from deserving charities helping everybody from children born with cleft palates to Haitian earthquake victims to elderly impoverished Israelis to paralyzed American veterans to retire ...
  • Libya: A War We Shouldn't Believe In
    Ted Rall U.S. forces fired 110 cruise missiles at Libya on the first day of the war. Each one cost $755,000 to build; $2.8 million to transport, maintain and shoot. Austerity and budget cuts abound; there's no money for NPR or teachers or ...
  • Stop Bombing Libya
    Marjorie Cohn Since Saturday night, the United States, France, and Britain have been bombing Libya with cruise missiles, B-2 stealth bombers, F-16 and F-15 fighter jets, and Harrier attack jets. There is no reliable estimate of the number ...
  • With Aristide's Return Comes Hope
    Selma James The return of former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide and his family to Haiti ends seven long years of campaigning – the 92% of voters who elected him had never accepted his overthrow in 2004 by a US-backed military coup. They ...
  • Wars Should Be Declared by Congress, Not Merel ...
    John Nichols The grotesque extremes to which Muammar Qaddafi has gone to threaten the people of Libya—and to act on those threats—have left the self-proclaimed “king of kings” with few defenders in northern Africa, the Middle East or the i ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

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

Water Wars

  • Water wars panel discussion lets you ask the e ...
    Where: Brenau University Thurmond McRae Auditorium When: 1-3 p.m. Cost: Free More information contact Heather Gladfelter. No comments have been posted.
  • "Hydro-diplomacy" needed to avert Arab water wars
    By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent OSLO (Reuters) - The United Nations should promote "hydro-diplomacy" to defuse any tensions over water in regions like the Middle East and North Africa where scarce supplies have the potential to spark future conflicts, experts said Sunday. [More]
  • "Hydro-diplomacy" needed to avert Arab water wars
    The United Nations should promote "hydro-diplomacy" to defuse any tensions over water in regions like the Middle East and North Africa where scarce supplies have the potential to spark future conflicts experts said on Sunday.
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  • Panel to discuss water wars
    GAINESVILLE - The tri-state water wars will be the subject of a panel discussion next week in Gainesville. Sponsored by the City of Gainesville and the Brenau University Sustainability Task Force, it will be held Tuesday afternoon from 1:00-3:00 at Brenau, free and open to the public.

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Afghanistan Sun

  • US Army apologises for Afghan civilian corpses ...
    The US Army issued an apology Monday following the publication by German news magazine Der Spiegel of photographs of US soldiers posing with the corpses of Afghan civilians they are accused of killing.
  • Afghan forces to control more areas
    Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said his forces will soon take charge of security in seven areas around the country - the first step towards his goal of having Afghan police and soldiers ...
  • Some 400 'westernised' Afghan girls ...
    Tuesday 22 March 2011 There are probably some 400 girls living in the Netherlands who have to go back to Afghanistan, even though they have become totally 'westernised', immigration ...
  • Troops in Afghanistan Use Shovels, Feet to Sto ...
    LOGAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan — With a deadly bomb possibly lying just inches under their feet, any sane person would — oh, I don’t know ...
  • Afghan troops to start take over from coalitio ...
    An Afghan policeman aims his rifle gun during a patrol in Guzara district, Herat, one of the areas due to start the transition to sole Afghan control Photograph: Reza ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Bill targets intelligence whistleblowers
    An article published in the San Francisco Examiner by Barbara Hollingsworth explains why you should be concerned about the Senate Intelligence Committee's plan to include a provision in the Intelligence Authorization Bill that will "require federal employees working at intelligence agencies to s ...
  • CIA sued over violations of the Freedom of Inf ...
    National Security Counselors (NSC), an Arlington, Virginia-based public interest group (and legal counsel for the National Whistleblowers Center on FOIA issues), has filed three lawsuits against the CIA about how the agency handles and interprets document requests under the Freedom of Informatio ...
  • CIA sued over violations of the Freedom of Inf ...
    National Security Counselors (NSC), an Arlington, Virginia-based public interest group (and legal counsel for the National Whistleblowers Center on FOIA issues), has filed three lawsuits against the CIA about how the agency handles and interprets document requests under the Freedom of Informatio ...
  • 10th Circuit allows union members to sue after ...
    On Wednesday, March 16, 2011, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in Denver, Colorado, issued a decision that reaffirms the rights of union members to sue under federal law. The issue most frequently affects the right of union members to bring claims under Title VII for discriminatio ...
  • Whistleblowers speak in The Big Uneasy
    The Big Uneasy is a new feature documentary movie by Harry Shearer. It responds to those (including President Obama) who say that New Orleans was the victim of a terrible natural disaster. That response:� No. New Orleans could have handled Hurricane Katrina if the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (U ...

Science Express

  • Fermi maps an active galaxy's 'smokestack plumes'
    If our eyes could see radio waves, the nearby galaxy Centaurus A (Cen A) would be one of the biggest and brightest objects in the sky, nearly 20 times the apparent size of a full moon. What we can't see when looking at the galaxy in visible light is that it lies nestled between a pair of giant r ...
  • Pollution from Asia circles globe at stratosph ...
    The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additional evidence of the ...
  • After growth spurt, supermassive black holes s ...
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