23 March - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

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Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

• Federal budget tosses crumbs to Canadians, bre ...
  The CCPA’s leading economists find this year’s federal budget obscures the true cost of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s plan to balance the books while favouring Harper’s pet projects over Canadians’ priorities. “For every dollar the Harper budget allocates to Canadians’ priorities—such as help ...
• 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 ...

World Wide Hippies

• Radioactive iodine in capital’s water su ...
  Tokyo water unsafe for infants after high radiation levels detected | Guardian Authorities in Tokyo have warned that very young children in the Japanese capital should not drink tap water after it was found to contain twice the levels of radioactive iodine considered safe for infants. The warnin ...
• Yemen Could Be Setback for US
  Yemen president’s ouster may deal U.S. huge setbacks | LA Times President Ali Abdullah Saleh has been a key U.S. ally in a turbulent region. If he steps down, Yemen may become a terrorist haven and a proxy battleground for Saudi Arabia and Iran. Al Qaeda fighters, mercurial rebels and well-armed ...
• CIA Psychologist’s Notes Reveal True Pur ...
  by: Jason Leopold and Jeffrey Kaye, t r u t h o u t | Investigative Report- Dr. Bruce Jessen’s handwritten notes describe some of the torture techniques that were used to “exploit” “war on terror” detainees in custody of the CIA and Department of Defense. Dr. Bruce Jessen’s handwritten notes des ...
• NATO Takes Control in Libya
  Split on Libya averted as Nato given military control | Guardian International coalition including Qatar and United Arab Emirates to share oversight of UN-mandated anti-Gaddafi campaign. Bosnia, which came to symbolise Europe’s failure to prevent bloodshed on its doorstep , could provide a model ...
• There are pricks driving late model VW buses w ...
  Good morning world. I am starting my day with a beautiful cup of coffee, and the song, “Touch of Grey,” by The Grateful Dead, and, yes, I certainly will get by, and I hope that you do, too. Today, a new day, is full of so many possibilities, things to be thankful for, things that [...]

Michael Moore - Must Read

• The Cost of One F-15E Lost in Libya Is 563 Wis ...
  According to the New York Times, the U.S. fighter jet that just crashed in Libya was an F-15E Strike Eagle. The Air Force says each F-15E cost $31.1 million in 1998 dollars (not including fuel, pilot training or anything else). Adjusted for inflation, that's $42.23 million today. Wisconsin tea ...
• 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 ...

Salon

• McCain was for Gadhafi before he was against him
  I noted earlier that Sen. John McCain has taken a strange position on the Libyan conflict: He's been calling for the ouster of Moammar Gadhafi not only on humanitarian grounds, but also because Gadhafi has "American blood on his hands" from the 1988 Lockerbie bombing. However, just 18 months ...
• Write off the GOP field at your own risk
  In a story released Tuesday, the Associated Press examined the emerging Republican presidential field and concluded that it's "deeply flawed" and that "[e]ach of those weighing bids has at least one issue that looms as an obstacle to White House ambitions, and that could derail the candidate ...
• Was Obama henpecked into war?
  As the bombs began falling on Tripoli this weekend, a cry was heard on blogs and Op-Ed pages and chat shows throughout the land: President Barack Obama had been -- for want of a better phrase -- pussy-whipped into war by three women.
• Hypocrisy breaks out all over on Libya
  I'm not known to lack strong opinions, but I'm torn about U.S. intervention in Libya. You know it's complicated when Glenn Greenwald and John Judis, two people I normally agree with and whose thinking and integrity I always trust and admire, disagree almost completely.
• John McCain's Libya amnesia
  In a single interview this morning, John McCain managed to inadvertently highlight one of the potential dangers of the war against Moammar Gadhafi, while at the same time experiencing a bout of amnesia about his own record on Libya.

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

• Listening is Job One
  The TTC's customer service czar faces a hard ride ahead, but Toronto is counting on him to deliver a new attitude and restored trust.
• Budget fails nation’s needs
  A budget whose transparent political purpose is to undercut the opposition parties.
• Allies need a clear strategy
  So far, so good. Now what? The United States and its allies have moved with heartening speed to shield Libyans from Moammar Gadhafi’s savagery, impose a no-fly zone over Libya, bomb his mercenaries and pound his Tripoli command centre. Canadian ...
• Time to track jury duty scofflaws
  It would be useful to find out how many Ontarians are ignoring the law and skipping jury duty.
• Extraordinary work
  Singling out achievements closer to home — in our own newsroom.

Energy Collective

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

EU Times

• Tiny amount of radioactive particles reach Iceland
  Miniscule amounts of radioactive particles believed to have come from Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant have been detected as far away as Iceland, diplomatic sources said on Tuesday. They stressed the tiny traces of iodine — measured by a network of international monitoring stations ...
• US jet crashes into Libyan field; fighting rag ...
  An American fighter jet crashed in Libya’s rebel held east, both crew ejecting safely as the aircraft spun from the sky during the third night of the U.S. and European air campaign. Moammar Gadhafi’s forces shelled rebels regrouping in the dunes outside a key eastern city on Tuesday, and his sni ...
• China Moves To Save Libyan Leader As Russia Wa ...
  An “urgent” dispatch from Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) chief Mikhail Fradkov to President Medvedev that is circulating in the Kremlin today says that the Chinese warship Xuzhou is preparing to offer protection to Libyan leader Muammar Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi and his family to protect ...
• Putin likens U.N. Libya resolution to crusade ...
  Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin Monday likened the U.N. Security Council resolution supporting military action in Libya to medieval calls for crusades. Putin, in the first major remarks from a Russian leader since a coalition of Western countries began air strikes in Libya, said that Muamm ...
• Merkel narrowly escapes helicopter crash after ...
  The German Chancellor had a narrow escape when her police chopper fell like a stone from the sky just hours after dropping her off. The pilots managed to restart the engines just moments before it hit the ground. The Super Puma 332 had left Mrs Merkel at an election campaign event in Waldshut-Ti ...

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

• dockReader – Get Your Twitter, Facebook, and R ...
  Reviewed By Jackson S.   Price: $.99 ****½ (4.5/5) dockReader is a new iPhone application from ade-software that combines a social network status updater and a news feed reader into a single app.  It brings you updates from Facebook, Twitter, and any RSS or Atom newsfeeds that you program into ...
• Israeli Attack on Gaza Militants Kills 4 Civilians
  An Israeli attempt to hit Palestinian militants who had fired rockets at Israel went horribly wrong on Tuesday, with mortar shells killing three youths playing soccer and a 60-year-old grandfather leaving his house. Later, in an unrelated attack, the Israeli Air Force killed four militants in a ...
• Samsung Google Nexus S Price in India
  Samsung Google Nexus S The new Samsung Google Nexus S is the latest mobile phone from Samsung company having outstanding features such as Android v2.3 Gingerbread Operating system, ARM Cortex A8 1GHz processor, 4 inches capacitive touchscreen display, 5 Mega Pixel digital camera and many more a ...
• Grad rocket fired at Ashdod by Hamas
  Last night residents were sent running for bomb shelters as air raid sirens wailed through the city of Ashdod warning of the Grad level rocket fired at the city by terrorists in Gaza. The rocket hit just south of the city’s edge. Yesterday evening also, IDF troops discovered a terrorist cell pr ...
• Syrian Forces Kill 6 in Mosque Attack: Residents
  Syrian forces killed at least six people on Wednesday in an attack on a mosque in the southern city of Deraa, site of unprecedented protests challenging President Bashar al-Assad's Baathist rule, residents said. Those killed included Ali Ghassab al-Mahamid, a doctor from a prominent Deraa famil ...

Groklaw

• Linux: The GPL And Binary Modules
  Linus Torvalds, Dec. 2003: The license _IS_ the GPL. There's no issue about that. The GPL rules apply 100%. But a license only covers what it _can_ cover - derived works. The fact that Linux is under the GPL simply _cannot_matter_ to a user program, if the author can show that the user program ...
• The Threat Of Parallel Filing
  There's one other important place that software patents come from, and it's an important one. Startup companies get advised by venture capital firms and the lawyers that profit from them to gather a few software patents, "so you some valuable assets" and "so you can protect yourself". This stron ...
• ACS:Law faces county court charge over file-sh ...
  A judge is determining how much to charge the legal firm ACS:Law after officially closing a piracy case that it brought alleging file-sharing, during which it sent people letters threatening court action if they did not make "settlement" payments of up to £500 for copyright infringement....Judge ...
• Anthony Atala on growing new organs
  [PJ: I know this is off topic, but it's Sunday. And I'm goofing off. Someone sent this to me, believing it would interest me, and it really does. I couldn't help but think about Steve Jobs, if only the tech was complete and ready for humans. There is a transcript on the page, if you prefer. One ...
• Stallman on header files
  Someone recently made the claim that including a header file always makes a derivative work. That's not the FSF's view. Our view is that just using structure definitions, typedefs, enumeration constants, macros with simple bodies, etc., is NOT enough to make a derivative work. It would take a s ...

WideShut

• Corrupt UK Government Ensure Libya Offensive I ...
  It's ok folks the Government say military intervention is legal this time!
• Private Firms Getting Thousands To Remove Peop ...
  Private companies to get £14,000 for each long-term unemployed they get back in to work.
• Boycott The UK Census: What You Need To Know
  Pledge your opposition to the UK Census on March 26, and avoid it the next day with help from NoCensusTakingPart.co.uk
• Income Down Inflation Up: People Are Poor
  Bleak financial figures ahead of Saturday's mass cuts protests.
• Cancer Stricken Peace Activist Loses In High Court
  Veteran activist Brian Haw to be evicted from his spot at Parliament Square.

Politics in the Zeros

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

TVNZ - Top Stories

• New foreshore legislation set to be passed by ...
  The replacement legislation for the controversial Foreshore and Seabed Act is set to pass through parliament today
• Gaddafi's air force is 'destroyed' - British c ...
  Western warplanes have silenced Muammar Gaddafi's artillery and tanks besieging a rebel-held town.
• Screen icon Elizabeth Taylor dies
  Double Oscar-winning actress Dame Elizabeth Taylor has aged 79.
• Anger at secrecy over Lundy's medical leave
  The brother of one of Mark Lundy's victims is upset with the Corrections Department.
• Len Brown pushes govt to shift focus to public ...
  Len Brown wants the government to put more money into public transport.

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

• Undercover of the earthquake
  Keith Ng at Public Address and Idiot/Savant at No Right Turn have both drawn attention today to a recent Treasury forecast (PDF) – the first since the February 22 Canterbury earthquake. They both note this chart produced by Treasury: Check out the blue line (post-earthquake) and the grey line (p ...
• General debate, March 23, 2011
• 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 ...

Patronus Analytical

• Greek aid worker kidnapped in Pakistan
• Aid worker killed in Iraq
• Update on kidnapped Greek aid worker
• NGO worker beaten to death in Dhaka
• Canadian aid worker murdered in Honduras

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

• Reporting Healthcare Wrong
  CNN reports on the public's view of healthcare reform one year after passage: CNN Poll: Time doesn't change views on health care law Thirty-seven percent of Americans support the measure, with 59 percent opposed. That's basically unchanged from last March, when 39 percent supported the l ...
• Our National Cat Problem
  From a New York Times article passing along the startling news that cats hunt and kill birds: The American Bird Conservancy estimates that up to 500 million birds are killed each year by cats — about half by pets and half by feral felines. “I hope we can now stop minimizing and trivializi ...
• The Future of Investing
  Felix Salmon: American workers are facing a double whammy here: they’re losing access to private equity at exactly the point in time where private equity is becoming a very large and important part of the international capital markets. Meanwhile, it’s the rich foreign clients of Goldman S ...
• Teachers and Credit Cards
  I'm basically a supporter of regulations limiting the amount that credit card companies can charge merchants in interchange fees. If there were real competition in the card market, I'd probably feel differently, but in reality there's an effective duopoly, and both members of that duopoly ha ...
• The "One-Time" Trap
  Should we institute a tax holiday on foreign earnings, a one-time deal that allows U.S. companies to bring home profits from their overseas operations at a low rate? Peter Coy and Jesse Drucker argue that it's a bad idea: we did it before in 2004, and companies all figured out that if it hap ...

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

• Exposure to chemicals in environment associate ...
  A recent study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM) found that higher levels of perfluorocarbons (PFCs) in the body are associated with increased odds of having experienced menopause in women between 42 and 64 years old. Women ...
• Do all student athletes need heart screenings?
  Seemingly every year there are reports of a young, apparently healthy athlete dying on the court or playing field. read more
• Rapid etching X-rayed
  A breakthrough in the study of chemical reactions during etching and coating of materials was achieved by a research group headed by Kiel physicist, Professor Olaf Magnussen. The team from the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (CAU), Germany, in collaboration with staff from the European S ...
• 'What if?' scenario: Cyberwar between US and C ...
  As Iran's nuclear plant attack and Chinese-based hackers attacking Morgan Stanley demonstrate how the Internet can wreak havoc on business and governments, a new paper by a fellow at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy hypothesizes what an all-out cyberwar between the U.S. and Ch ...
• Ancient trash heaps gave rise to Everglades tr ...
  Garbage mounds left by prehistoric humans might have driven the formation of many of the Florida Everglades' tree islands, distinctive havens of exceptional ecological richness in the sprawling marsh that are today threatened by human development. read more

unEarthed

• Monday Reads: The Midway Atoll Tsunami Edition
  Albatross refuge braves tsunami waves Laysan albatross chick, washed over by tsunami wave. (Photo: Pete Leary / U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) Several hour ...
• New York Times Defends the Right to Breathe
  Recent editorial supports reductions in power plants' toxic air emissions Over the weekend, the editorial page of the New York Times once again defended the ri ...
• Longview Coal Export Terminal Application With ...
  Earthjustice plays a key role in thwarting the environmentally harmful project Coal train photo courtesy of Surfrider Foundation Residents of Longview, Wash ...
• Fight To Protect Gray Wolf Shifts To Capitol Hill
  Earthjustice remains committed to the cause It is with deep regret that we must announce that Earthjustice was forced to step down as the courtroom lawyer for wolves in the Northern Rockies in the two cases related to the Fish an ...
• Toxic Air's Toll: Thousands of Preventable Deaths
  New York Times blog highlights the costs of uncontrolled air pollution The New York Times Green blog has a good post today that spells out in no uncertain term ...

Brave New Climate

• It’s nuclear power or it’s climate ...
  I was asked to reflect very briefly (<400 words) on the implications of Fukushima Daiichi to my local city newspaper, The Adelaide Advertiser. The focus was on what it means for Australia, but the basic message resonates for any number of other countries. —————————– If you study the history of m ...
• 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 ...

Indigenist Opinion

• In Haiti numberless abominable crimes have bee ...
  thepublicarchive.com: 1. Hanging of M. Cicéron Lacroix, execution of Léon Moricet, Téca, and other persons in October and November. 1918, by Lieut. Lang, acts denounced to the naval court of inquiry by M. Philocles Lacroix in his letter of October 20, 1920. 2. Execution of the Péralte brothers ...
• Ban Nuclear Energy and the Bomb, Time for True ...
  March 15, 2011 - Ban Nuclear Energy and the Bomb, Time for True Renewables Only [climateark.org] Background All existing nuclear energy plants, waste and weapons are accidents waiting to happen - vile deadly toxins to be dealt with for millenium. Japan is facing the worst nuclear crisis since t ...
• Libya, Getting it Right: A Revolutionary Pan-A ...
  Libya, Getting it Right: A Revolutionary Pan-African Perspective | Dissident Voice: "Thousands of Indians, Egyptians, Chinese, Filipinos, Turks, Germans, English, Italians, Malaysians, Koreans and a host of other nationalities are lining up at the borders and the airport to leave Libya. It begs ...
• The facts about racism in Libya | SocialistWor ...
  The facts about racism in Libya | SocialistWorker.org: "THE UPRISING against the dictatorial regime of Col. Muammar Qaddafi, like the revolutionary upsurges in Tunisia and Egypt, has inspired people around the world who yearn for social change. If the people of Libya succeed in overthrowing a ru ...
• Hullabaloo: How to force a false confession
  Hullabaloo: "I suppose we are supposed be grateful that they are only using this particular technique on an American soldier for seven hours a day instead of the weeks or days they routinely used on Al Qaeda members. Perhaps they learned through their long experience at Gitmo and Bagram that com ...

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

• Empire State Rebellion: An Idea Whose Time Has ...
  "Mainstream media in the United States is the most efficient weapon of mass oppression. The propaganda system is so extensive. There is so much divide and conquer rhetoric."
• A99 Operation Empire State Rebellion – C ...
  We are a decentralized non-violent resistance movement which seeks to restore the rule of law and fight back against the organized criminal class.
• Overcoming Divide and Conquer Strategies: 99.9 ...
  The global bankers, who caused our economic crisis, are attempting to deflect blame and divide the American public by escalating attacks on public-sector workers.
• Analysis of the Global Insurrection Against Ne ...
  By David DeGraw, If you think what’s happening in Egypt won’t happen within the United States, you’ve been watching too much TV. The statistics speak for themselves.
• Welcome to the New AmpedStatus.com
  We're back with a redesigned site and three new features! Introducing the AmpedStatus Social Network and two new Amped Coverage wires.

+972

• Attack in Jerusalem, civilians killed in Gaza, ...
  Is the relative calm of recent months over? 31 people were hurt when a bomb exploded near the Jerusalem Convention Center. In Gaza, Israeli attacks in recent days claimed the life of several Palestinians, while dozens rockets were launched at southern Israeli towns. Ynet reports on the attack in ...
• The new Nakba Law: Privatizing freedom of speech
  By Hagai El-Ad | Originally published in Hebrew on NRG The creeping depreciation in the value of freedom of expression in Israel is part of a broader  erosion process of democratic principles, but even lengthy processes have their breaking moments. Amendment 39 to the Budget Foundations Law “ ...
• Knesset passes segregation law
  The Knesset passed a segregation bill today. Palestinian Israelis are not allowed to live in Jewish localities built on land confiscated from them. Government policy also makes sure they cannot build on the little private land that was left in their ownership. How long can Jewish Israelis contin ...
• Rape, occupation and racism – all a day’ ...
  Inside Katsav’s brain I got to the office minutes before the judges handed down their sentence. It was just enough time for my colleagues to gather in my office and bet how much our former President, Moshe Katsav, would get for being a serial rapist. He raped women when he was Minister of Touri ...
• In post-revolutionary Cairo, patriotism is new ...
  CAIRO — After a long and frustrating day of epic Cairo traffic jams and appointments that were either canceled at the last minute or ignored altogether, a group of us, trying to salvage the day with a good meal, drove out to a casual-but-famous restaurant in old Cairo that specialized in local m ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

• New approach to water recovery in the Murray ...
  The Gillard Government today announced a new approach to water recovery in the Murray Darling Basin that will further assist communities to plan for the future with confidence.
• Murray-Darling Basin water purchase rounds an ...
  Water Minister Tony Burke today announced a tender for water purchases in the southern-connected Murray system in Victoria and South Australia under the Gillard Government's new approach to recovering water for the environment through smaller, more consistent tenders.
• Product Stewardship Bill introduced
  The Gillard Government today introduced into Federal Parliament the landmark Product Stewardship Bill, which will help manage the environmental, health and safety impacts of products including televisions and computers.
• Victorian Government told to get cattle out o ...
  Mr Burke said after considering advice from his department, he had determined cattle grazing in the Alpine National Park satisfied the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act requirement that it 'may be' a controlled action.
• Mining proposal to go through environmental a ...
  A proposal by Shree Minerals to develop a magnetite and hematite mine adjacent to the Nelson Bay River in north-western Tasmania will go through a high level of assessment under national environmental law.

Matt Weidner Blog

• RETRACTION- “FORECLOSURE MILL” Mea ...
  I would like to apologize to all the Foreclosure Mills out there (excuse me, I mean Most Excellent Law Firms).  I, and other members of the press had been using the term in a derogatory manner, but according to a State Senator, this is not at all fair: “In most occupations, whether it’s making ...
• TWO PUBLISHED ORDERS ON VERIFICATIONS!
  It’s been more than a year now since the Florida Supreme Court passed a very simple rule. The Rule requires Plaintiffs to verify their complaint.  All that means is they must be willing to say the allegations are TRUE AND CORRECT.  That’s it folks. Nothing more.  This isn’t the moonshot.  An ...
• NEW ORDER ON VERIFICATION! This is just so cle ...
  So why do we keep spending court time to argue the point? lunt Tweet this! Share and Enjoy: Scridb filter
• How Long Could You Survive Without Publix?
  So the more time I spend with my professional hat on, slogging through the misery and madness and frustration that is the practice of law, and especially the practice of law in foreclosure court, the more I find myself reaching out into slower, simpler and more basic things. Like this little guy ...
• 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 ...

abelard - news

• are low levels of radiation positive? | news-l ...
  Perhaps another reason to not be so scared of radiation?
• natwest bank has 14 targets for 'helpful banki ...
  Will targets for a high street bank be any more successful than they were for other parts of socialist Labourapos;s target-burdened management?
• dog rays more dangerous than nuclear rays | ec ...
  Comparative dangers from some of the much-favoured renewable energies.
• the innocent faux shock of western 'reporters' ...
  The naivete of the West regarding the probity of those of Middle Eastern origin shows in the confusion of reporters as the Arab League backtracks.
• safety weaknesses at futaba/fukushima | altern ...
  Weaknesses in the Japanese nuclear safety regimes made public.

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

• Koch Brother: Koch Industries an "Organiz ...
  Dave Johnson writes: "William Koch, brother of company owners David and Charles, called the company an 'organized crime' operation: Koch says that Koch Industries engaged in '(o)rganized crime. And management driven from the top down. It was - was my family company. I was out of it,' he says. 'B ...
• Liberal Democrats in Uproar Over Libya Action
  John Bresnahan and Jonathon Allen report: "A hard-core group of liberal House Democrats is questioning the constitutionality of US missile strikes against Libya, with one lawmaker raising the prospect of impeachment during a Democratic Caucus conference call on Saturday." A man carries his so ...
• 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 ...

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

• A Chemical Reaction: Edmonton premiere screening
  17 Apr 2011 - 13:30 - 16:30 Edmonton Environmental Law Centre Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE) Ecojustice ...
• Pembina reacts to 2011 federal budget
  Budget ignores opportunities to create new jobs and compete in clean energy economy Pembina Institute 22 Mar 2011 OTTAWA, O ...
• EcoAction Community Funding Program
  Organization:� Environment Canada Deadline:� 1 Nov 2011 - 12:00 Since 1995, Environment Canada's EcoAction C ...
• How to Make Water Last - YES! Magazine
  YES! Magazine (in support of World Water Week) Only a tiny fraction of Earth’s water is available as fresh water. But even with climate change and growing populations, there’s enough for everyone if we work together to keep it clean, use ...
• White Water, Black Gold — Film Screening & Pan ...
  24 Mar 2011 - 19:00 Edmonton Sierra Club Prairie 24 Mar 2011 - 19:00 "White Water, Black Gold" trailer from David Lavallee on Vimeo. White Water, Black Gold, is a documentary ...

Stop NATO

• Updates on Libyan war
  ==== EU’s Top Diplomat: NATO Should Take Control Of Libya Operation Bolivian President Demands Obama Be Stripped Of Nobel Peace Prize Over Libyan War Fires, Deaths: NATO Attacks Hit Tripoli Harbor, Airport “Regime Change” In Libya To Require Involvement In Ground War U.S. Marines Shoot Six Libya ...
• Stop NATO News March 22
  ==== stopnato-subscribe@yahoogroups.com ==== 1. NATO Welcomes Georgia’s Accelerated Integration Into Military Bloc 2. Africa Partnership Station: U.S. Warship In Mauritius 3. Africa Partnership Station: U.S. Warship In Gulf Of Guinea 4. Over 14,000 Graduates: NATO Medal Parade In Iraq 5. Two NAT ...
• Updates on Libyan war
  ==== NATO To Intervene In Libyan Conflict, Enforce Blockade Civilians Main Victims Of Military Intervention Against Sovereign States Ambassador: One Million Libyans To Resist Western Ground Invasion Warplanes Leave French Aircraft Carrier For Strikes Against Libya Spanish Warplanes In First Oper ...
• 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 ...

Before It's News

• Elder Abuse Can Affect Anyone-- Even Mickey Rooney
• Libertarian Republican - Advertiser Feature
• Maryland court rulng allows for sloppy penmans ...
• Could Alzheimers Disease Start in the Liver
• Topics That Are Sure To Attract Lots of Comments

Intel Hub

• Lindsey Graham Uses Lie About 9/11 Hijackers T ...
  Travinyle1 March 23rd, 2011 Lindsey Graham Dennys Greenville SC 3/22/11 Rhino Hunt Meeting. Lindsey Graham openly promotes a biometric Nazi ID Card. Then lies about the 9/11 hijackers and how they entered the country. Please google: Michael Springman or Fabled Enemies to further understand the 9 ...
• Japan Nuclear Disaster: Christopher Everard On ...
  NotForSale2NWO March 23rd, 2011 The Intel Hub Radio with special guest Chris Everard. Japan Nuclear Disaster and its implications for the world in the years to come. This is an important broadcast that covers the likely long term effects on the environment from the radiation released in Japan. D ...
• 8 Out Of 18 EPA Air Radiation Monitors Under S ...
  NotForSale2NWO March 22nd, 2011 Live Intel Hub Radio Report Some Radiation-Tracking Air Monitors May Not Be Working Properly, EPA Says http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-21/some-radiation-tracking-air-monitors… Japanese Nuclear Emergency: Radiation Monitoring http://www.epa.gov/japan2011/ UC ...
• Moscow Calls For Cease-Fire In Libya As Gates ...
  CNN By Charley Keyes, CNN Senior National Security Producer March 22nd, 2011 St. Petersburg, Russia — Tensions between the United States and Russia over coalition airstrikes in Libya broke back into the open Tuesday, with Moscow calling for an immediate cease-fire to protect civilians and Washin ...
• A View of the NWO War Room
  Notice their ‘world of war’ is played on a Masonic checkerboard of ‘opposites’ Before Its News by Zen Gardner March 22nd, 2011 Nothing like a map to know where you’re going. In the case of the NWO, the world is like a chess game, where they move all the major pieces and just crush the [...]

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

• Lilly Ledbetter is coming to Central Connectic ...
  Ledbetter, who has a piece of equal pay legislation named after her, is coming to CCSU to speak at 1:40 p.m. on Wednesday, March 30, at the school's Davidson Hall Ledbetter began working for Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. in 1979, and found out years later that she'd been paid less than her male ...
• Half of America agree with Pres. Obama's decis ...
  In a new CBS News poll, 50 percent approve, 29 percent disapprove, and 21 percent didn't know what to think. Maybe I'm just war-weary, but that number seems high to me. Reuters photo
• Of all Christians, guess which group is most r ...
  Catholics. A new Public Religion Research Institute report says that Catholics are more supportive of a legalized same-sex relatonships than other Christians, and Americans as a whole. The report also says: If marriage for gay couples is defined as a civil marriage “like you get at city hall,” ...
• A little more reading with Wednesday's column...
  To read the column, go here. To read Gov. Malloy's comments on Connecticut's brain drain, go here. To read Matthew C. Klein's New York Times essay on being educated, unemployed and frustrated, go here. To read a 2008 report on preparing the next generation from the University of Connecticut ...
• Today's guest blogger: Dawn Crayco: Why do chi ...
  Dawn Crayco is deputy director of End Hunger CT! One in six. It’s an amazing and sad fact - today, one in six children are hungry in Connecticut. It’s in our cities, suburbs, and rural towns - it could be your neighbor, your cousin, your classmate. More than 127,000 children in Connecticut ...

Associated Content

• William Shatner Turns 80 Years Old
  William Shatner, who turns 80 today, spent the first 15 years of his career as an actor working in relative obscurity, doing Shakespeare in his native Canada and doing numerous TV guest appearances.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Mar 22, 2011
• Barry Bonds' Perjury Trial Begins
  Barry Bonds, whose career has long been overshadowed by allegations of steroid use, is standing trial on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice.Contributor: Heather Chadwick Published: Mar 22, 2011
• Wisconsin's Budget Bill Drama Continues
  After weeks of hard fighting, the battle over the budget bill continues.Contributor: Lucrezia Wise Published: Mar 22, 2011
• Sweet 16 Preview - March Madness 2011 Predicti ...
  Preview, predictions and picks for the 2011 NCAA tournament Sweet 16, including previews and analysis of Duke vs Arizona, Kansas vs Richmond, Ohio State vs Kentucky and more.Contributor: Clayton Browne Published: Mar 21, 2011
• Sammy Hagar and Other Celebs Reveal Their Clos ...
  When Sammy Hagar is not acting as front man for Van Halen, he promotes his new book and tells tales of alien encounters. Surprisingly, he is not the only celebrity with an out of this world experience.Contributor: Sylvia Cochran Published: Mar 22, 2011

Popsci - Science

• Silicon Chips Wired With Nerve Cells Could Ena ...
  It’s reminiscent of Cartman’s runaway Trapper Keeper notebook in that long-ago episode of South Park, but researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison may be scratching the surface of a new kind of brain/machine interface by creating computer chips that are wired together with living nerv ...
• 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 ...

Veterans Today

• AMERICAN REALITY CHECK, DR. ALAN SABROSKY ON 9/11
  “THE MILITARY KNOWS WHO DID 9/11….” Foreword by Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor A year ago, Dr. Alan Sabrosky did a podcast for The Ugly Truth, hosted by Phil Tourney and Mark Glenn.  All three are good friends, Alan is a co-editor at Veterans Today and Phil a Staff Writer. Alan and I ar ...
• On Teachers, Testing and Tenure — An Ana ...
  Arguing the Three Ts: Teachers, Testing and Tenure Americans seem caught on the horns of a dilemma with all this testing and learning business. Dr. Lawrence Davidson / Veterans Today The Florida State Senate and House of Representatives have passed Bill 736. The state’s governor, Rick Scott, has ...
• Jim W. Dean: Where is the Benghazi Brigade?
  It's March 22nd. The Benghazi Brigade defected a month ago. Initial reports were of 8000 troops, of whom 3000 were Special Forces. In the ensuing weeks there were a few reports about 'training', which one would assume to mean the volunteer rebels. We have also seen a few video clips of young tro ...
• Afghanistan Mazar-i-Sharif celebrates Nowroz
  Afghan women trooped to the Hazrat Ali Shrine, the center of today’s New Year 1389 celebration at Mazar-i-Sharif in northern Afghanistan. Afghans and residents of neighbouring countries like Iran celebrate their New Year on 21 March. Nowruz marks the beginning of the year, and the first day of s ...
• Celebrating Nauroz in Kabul
  Kabul-Throughout Afghanistan people are gathering to celebrate the Afghan new year, Nauroz. It is a chance for Afghans to celebrate the rebirth of nature after the long winter. In Kabul, today thousands of gathered in the cemetery and spent the day picnicking. Before heading home to share a meal ...

War is Business

• High-Tech Chinese Censorship Experiments Show ...
• Reactionary Indonesian ‘Generals Are Fed ...
• Japan Deploys The World’s Most Expensive ...
• Now That They’re Armed, Will Libya&#8217 ...
• US Backing For Brutality Even More Clear In Ye ...

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

• Opiate of the Masses? Predicting Religion's Death
  Let us begin today's missive on the contemporary fate of religion with Karl Marx's famous "opiate of the masses" passage: Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion ...
• 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 ...

Economic Collapse Blog

• Inflation Is Here – Just Open Up Your Ey ...
  Despite what Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says, rampant inflation is officially here.  The federal government is constantly monkeying with the numbers to keep the "official" rate of inflation below 2 percent, but it is becoming very difficult to deny that the cost of al ...
• 5 Dollar Gas? Get Ready To Pay An Arm And A Le ...
  One of the quickest ways to bring down the U.S. economy would be to dramatically increase the price of oil. Oil is the lifeblood of our economic system. Without it, our entire economy would come to a grinding halt. Almost every type of economic activity in this country depends ...
• 6 Charts Which Prove That Central Banks All Ov ...
  If the U.S. dollar is being devalued so rapidly, then why does it sometimes increase in value against other global currencies?  Well, it is because everybody is recklessly printing money now.  The 6 charts which you are about to see below prove this.  The truth is that it is not ...
• Shortages! Is The World Really Running Out Of ...
  Everywhere you look today the mainstream news is talking about shortages. Authorities all over the globe are boldly proclaiming that the world is rapidly running out of food, water and oil. So are these doomsayers right? Well, it must be noted that some of the most famous "pr ...
• What Is Wrong With The U.S. Economy? Here Are ...
  The 10 economic charts that you are about to see are completely and totally shocking.  If you know anyone that still does not believe that the United States is in the midst of a long-term economic decline, just show them these charts.  Sometimes you can quote economic statistics ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

• Riot Act edited Police G20
  The aggression of the police at the G20 meetings in Toronto, Canada, in June 2010, is at the center of my animation, Police G20. The unprovoked ...
• Nor'easter #11 Call for Submissions
  The Nor'easter collective of the Northeast Anarchist Network is getting ready to put together Nor'easter Issue 11 and it needs help from you! ...
• New York City Anarchist Book Fair proposals de ...
  The 5th Annual NYC Anarchist Book Fair will be held Saturday, April 9, 2011, at Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square South, NYC. Present...
• Eco-Anarchies Issue #1 Call For Papers
  We are presently seeking submissions for a new project that aims to explore the ineluctable connections between ecology and anarchy. Since G...
• Soliciting Submissions For Zine on Anti-Police ...
  Within the last eight months, Denver has seen an inspiring and growing movement against police terror. In a city with the worst brutality statis...

E U Times

• Tiny amount of radioactive particles reach Iceland
  Miniscule amounts of radioactive particles believed to have come from Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant have been detected as far away as Iceland, diplomatic sources said on Tuesday. They stressed the tiny traces of iodine — measured by a network of international monitoring stations ...
• US jet crashes into Libyan field; fighting rag ...
  An American fighter jet crashed in Libya’s rebel held east, both crew ejecting safely as the aircraft spun from the sky during the third night of the U.S. and European air campaign. Moammar Gadhafi’s forces shelled rebels regrouping in the dunes outside a key eastern city on Tuesday, and his sni ...
• China Moves To Save Libyan Leader As Russia Wa ...
  An “urgent” dispatch from Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) chief Mikhail Fradkov to President Medvedev that is circulating in the Kremlin today says that the Chinese warship Xuzhou is preparing to offer protection to Libyan leader Muammar Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi and his family to protect ...
• Putin likens U.N. Libya resolution to crusade ...
  Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin Monday likened the U.N. Security Council resolution supporting military action in Libya to medieval calls for crusades. Putin, in the first major remarks from a Russian leader since a coalition of Western countries began air strikes in Libya, said that Muamm ...
• Merkel narrowly escapes helicopter crash after ...
  The German Chancellor had a narrow escape when her police chopper fell like a stone from the sky just hours after dropping her off. The pilots managed to restart the engines just moments before it hit the ground. The Super Puma 332 had left Mrs Merkel at an election campaign event in Waldshut-Ti ...

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

• 2011-03-23 Syria: At least 4 more dead in 'arm ...
  TweetAs many as 10 protesters have been killed in Syrian rallies that officially began on March 15. The latest attack by Syrian security forces took place Wednesday just after midnight at the Omari mosque in Demaa. The Associated Press reports that an ambulance was attacked by an "armed gang" i ...
• 2011-03-22: WikiLeaks in today's media: Cableg ...
  TweetThe Telegraph: Qatar asked Shell and ExxonMobil for donations "Qatar wrote to major international oil companies, including Royal Dutch Shell and ExxonMobil, to demand up to $1.7bn (£1bn) in donations for a medical centre, according to leaked diplomatic cables. The Middle Eastern nation is o ...
• 2011-03-22 Ghosts of Allende & Pinochet Haunt ...
  TweetUS President Barack Obama, currently on a trip through Latin America, visited Chile yesterday to further expand trade relations and military and security cooperation between the two countries. He did not intend for his visit to be about the US’ history of interfering in Chile’s domestic aff ...
• 2011-03-22 Greek cablegate revelations
  TweetThe US ambassador on the state of Greek mainstream media. Charles Ries, the then US ambassador in Athens, comments on the “incestuous” state of Greek media and newspapers. In a cable dated July 13, 2006 he notes that although at a first glance Greek media appear orderly arranged with const ...
• 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 ...

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

• Gloria Loses an Ally In the Philippines
  Impeachment of Ombudsman demonstrates President Aquino's growing clout, Arroyo's waning power
• Anwar Handed a Court Setback
  Malaysian judge rules formerly blocked DNA evidence in sodomy trial is admissible
• Indonesia's Yudhoyono in the Cross Hairs
  Al Jazeera says SBY's former Army buddies are using Islamist attacks to oust him from power
• Bumpy Track for China's High-Speed Rail?
  Massive corruption could shunt the program onto a side track
• Quake Makes Japan a Temporary Third World
  Tokyo's runners and stay-putters

We Know the Lies

• Fukushima Burns... While 'Detached' Obama Fidd ...
  �While the World is on fire, President Obama Goes AWOL...� Again.read more
• What to do Now and for Long Term Radiation Pro ...
  It is critical for those in the U.S., especially on the West Coast, to adjust to the continuing increased radiation, potential radiation and the resulting food contamination from Japan's tragic nuclear disasters. You can check daily Geiger readings for Northern California, which extends fr ...
• Life for Chihuahua Puppies Born Without Front Legs
  �Kensi, Hetty and G were not only born disabled, but soon after their birth their owner died, leaving them homeless. ~ Video read more
• 'Jews Own the White House'... Helen Thomas Int ...
  Veteran journalist Helen Thomas sat down with Playboy to discuss her feelings about Israel and what got her fired last year. The downward spiral for Thomas began last year when she was interviewed in front of the White House and made some controversial remarks that went viral.� read more
• The 'No Child Left Behind' Act Has Been Deadly ...
  �Obama has made only cosmetic changes to George W. Bush's signature education crusade.� Over the past year, I have traveled the nation speaking to nearly 100,000 educators, parents, and school-board members. No matter the city, state, or region, those who know schools best are frightened for ...

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

• David Icke – Fork in The Road (They Want ...
  For me, what is said in this video , is very obvious.  I’ve come to these same conclusions mostly with my own research.  To have it viewed in the same way by someone else, only cements my beliefs.  It took me awhile to start connecting the dots, but now those dots are connecting in a domino e ...
• 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 ...

Bloomberg

• Can't Stop the Big Mo
  Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
• Energy to Stoke Your Portfolio
  Rising oil prices have been powering share-price increases and profits. These nine stocks are likely to keep the gains coming
• IGN Entertainment: Where the Boys Are
  The Web outfit has drawn a huge, male-dominated following and has an IPO in the works. But will a big Net player come calling?
• Emulex: A Cash Stash from Data Storage
  S&P views the storage-gear maker as a major beneficiary of a big trend in information archiving -- the move to network-based technology
• Some Fat Chances for Investors
  Megacaps have lagged of late, but a judicious mix of these giants' stocks has the potential to power a sluggish portfolio

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

• What's in a family? People, obviously; a new p ...
  In Kin, a new play by Bathsheba Doran, nuclear families have been torn apart—not obliterated completely, but damaged by death, divorce, and distance. Filling those gaps are friends, lovers and ex-lovers, even animals. Adjunct English professor Anna (Kirsten ...
• Tears of a 'Klown': On Broadway, Leguizamo's p ...
  A difficult and poor childhood, after moving from “the anus of Colombia” to “the scrotum of Queens” (you’ll never look at the subway map the same way). Parents who neglected him on the good days and abused him on the bad days. Girlfriends who dumped him, fr ...
• We have domestics: Chris Brown lashing out, Ed ...
  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
• Wilpons respond to suit, seek miracles as Mets ...
  Lost amid news of the long-expected releases Luis Castillo and Oliver Perez, Sterling Partners—a group that includes Fred Wilpon, CEO and owner of the New York Mets—formally responded to a complaint against them by Irving Picard, the appointed trustee for t ...
• Capture the flag! The war in Libya presented a ...
  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

Views & News from Norway

• Airport’s name change draws flak
  Tourism boosters keen on attracting more visitors to northern Norway pulled off a stunt over the weekend that changed the name of the airport at Bardufoss to “Snowman International Airport.” A local patriot is furious, calling the name change “tasteless” and “ridiculous.” William Engseth, a form ...
• Math pioneer Milnor wins Abel Prize
  John Milnor of Stony Brook University in New York has won Norway’s Abel Prize for “pioneering discoveries in topology, geometry and algebra.” The prestigious mathematics prize is awarded annually by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (Det Norske Videnskaps Akademi). The prize is named ...
• Radiation higher in Oslo than Tokyo
  A leading Norwegian nuclear physicist has criticized the Norwegian media’s “mild, collective psychosis” surrounding radiation since the tsunami in Japan threatened the Fukushima nuclear power station – and has added that radiation levels in Oslo were higher than Tokyo’s just last Friday, March 1 ...
• Indian surrogates for Norwegian women increase
  Indian women acting as surrogates for Norwegians are giving birth to a baby a week for Norwegian parents, as an increase in surrogacy tourism is met by a continued domestic ban on the method within Norway. Magazine Plot has revealed that the trend for Norwegians to seek foreign surrogates is on ...
• New storm batters western Norway
  Another severe storm moved in over western Norway on Wednesday, forcing road closures, halting ferry traffic and knocking out power to thousands of households and businesses. Avalanche danger was so high that the most dire of warnings were in place, after two persons were killed by a snow- and r ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

• Farm Time with Elisabeth Fekonia
  Experiencing Elisabeth Fekonia’s Permaculture Farm by Carly Gillham A few weeks ago, my partner I were invited by Elisabeth Fekonia to spend few days at her permaculture farm, in order to give her a hand with the garden and the animals. We accepted gladly as we knew that in addition to being he ...
• A Greek Island PDC With Rosemary Morrow, Paula ...
  Join internationally-renowned permaculture designer and teacher, Rosemary Morrow on the beautiful Island of Lefkas, Greece, for an internationally recognised permaculture design course. Over 15 days you will learn the basic theory of permaculture ethics, principles, design processes and implemen ...
• The End of Farming in the Fertile Crescent
  It’s heart-breaking to think that there will be farmers in the United States, harvesting produce bound for Iraq, who actually, sincerely, think they’re doing the Iraqis a favour…. For those not familiar with the mechanisms that bring about this wholesale dismantling of localised agricultura ...
• Pre-IPC10 PDC Will Rock!
  Photo copyright � Craig Mackintosh I suspect the September 3-15 Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) course, to be held immediately prior to the Tenth International Permaculture Conference (IPC10) in Amman, Jordan, will be one of the most dynamic PDCs ever taught! Check out the lineup of tea ...
• 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 ...

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

• The Information Underground Radio Show • Re: T ...
  Here's a little summary of the main points put forth in "Wagging the Moon Doggie". (Note: I think he's completely off when he uses "Nazi" stuff to refute the Moon Landings.) Summary/Key Points in McGowan’s Moon Landing Hoax Pieces This is not as fun to read as the real thing, but hopefully u ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Moe Foe wrote: From "Militant Atheists work for the Jews" to becoming a very vocal "Militant Atheist" yourself in the space of 10 months. Would the MSMD of 10 months ago have considered the MSMD of today as "working for the Jews"? If not, why not? What I was referring to there was the mil ...
• The Information Underground Radio Show • Re: T ...
  As far as I can tell, the topic dilution statements of both CM and TF spell out all they have to offer; denial and distraction. Three bodies of research now stand confounding what appear to me as dogmatic denials: 1) Extensive public record demonstrating the Moon landings happened and beyon ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  I heard him on MCP I thought this video would be more popular, only 258 views or perhaps the stats are fake, who knows. Ofcourse ladygaga gets 30,000,000 in afew days, I wonder if that is true. I have even been wondering if people infact listen pop music like lady gaga, maybe it is a scam to m ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  MonkeySeeMonkeyDo wrote: Well you're gonna have to defend your position now since you interupted this whole thing. Tardzpatrick won't answer this becuz he cannot without looking stupid, so, you must answer it now... I'll bow out after this. I've made made my point I think and I never meant t ...

TVNZ

• Mubarak charged with killing protesters
  An Egyptian committee has laid charges against the former president Hosni Mubarak.
• Quake-ravaged Japan digs mass graves
  The tsunami that wreaked havoc in Japan has forced a rethink of one of its most sacred practices: how it treats the dead.
• Radiation fears grow from Japan nuclear plant
  Radiation exceeding health limits for infants has been found in a Tokyo city water purifier.
• Syrian forces kill six in mosque attack
  Syrian forces have killed at least six people in an attack on a mosque.
• West to end in 'dustbin of history' - Gaddafi
  Muammar Gaddafi says Western powers pounding Libya's defences will wind up in the dustbin of history.

environment 360

• New Lithium-Ion Battery Offers Quicker Chargin ...
  U.S. researchers say they have developed a technology that could dramatically reduce the time it takes to recharge lithium-ion batteries used in cellphones, laptop computers, and electric vehicles (EVs). Unlike conventional lithium-ion rechargeable batteries — in which active material is placed ...
• Support for Nuclear Power Drops Sharply in the ...
  In the wake of the Japanese nuclear crisis, only 43 percent of Americans say they support construction of new nuclear plants, a steep drop from the 58 percent Click to enlarge NNSARadiation spread, Japan who said they approved of new plants in 2008, a CBS News poll shows. While 7 in 10 America ...
• Rare Pacific Kingfisher Is Focus of Restoratio ...
  Researchers at the University of Missouri are working with residents and farmers on a remote South Pacific island to save the highly endangered Tuamoto kingfisher from extinction. Only 125 of the kingfishers — which have evolved in isolation over tens of thousands of years — remain, living on th ...
• 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.

oldephartte/Diigo

• Red, Green, and Blue
  Tags: news environment politics
• The Blaster
  Tags: Military Reform Movement psyops countering of intelligence
• Wind Concerns Ontario
  Tags: wind farms green energy wind turbines health concerns bird kills
• Science and Public Policy
  Tags: climate policy science environment
• Restoring an Overwritten GRUB Boot Loader | FO ...

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

• Elizabeth Taylor Dies: Her Life in Photos
  Legendary film star Elizabeth Taylor, one of the few remaining giants of Hollywood's Golden Age, died in Los Angeles Wednesday at 79. View photos of her life and watch Paul Newman's tribute. Plus, read an excerpt from How to Be a Movie Star: Elizabeth...
• Tim Pawlenty's Obstacle Course
  With Super Tuesday less than a year away, John Avlon handicaps the first mainstream 2012 GOP candidate to officially explore a run. Can T-Paw overcome his mixed record, charisma deficit, and being everybody's second choice? Tim Pawlenty's path to the...
• 3 More Earthquakes Strike Japan
  Jolts measuring up to 6.0 magnitude rattled the country's ravaged northeast, but workers at Fukushima Daiichi are pressing on to restore electricity to all six reactors. Lennox Samuels reports. Workers trying to end the crisis at Japan's ailing...
• A Fix for Indian Point's Spent Nuclear Fuel Rods
  Forget closing nuclear plants in the wake of the Japan disaster. That won't solve the biggest problem-spent fuel rods, which caused the most damage at Fukushima. Jonathan Alter on the dry casking technology that might help at a reactor outside New York...
• 25 Deadliest Chips and Dips
  Today is National Chip and Dip Day, but not all crunching is created equal. From Chevys' 1,900-calorie nachos to the Cheesecake Factory's 1,600-calorie guacamole, these are the snack attacks. Between St. Patrick's Day and April Fools' Day, there's...

Loonwatch

• “Manufacturing the Muslim Menace”
  What some people like to call Islamophobia – I call it what it is – Anti-Muslim Bigotry – in the United States is getting out of hand.
• Pastor who gave controversial Senate prayer bo ...
  Bigotry and hate on display in Minnesota, both by a Congressman and a Pastor.
• Kamal Saleem: Fake “Ex-Terrorist” ...
  Fake ex-terrorist and self-described "Grand Wazir" of Islam, Kamal Saleem wants to get paid.
• Terry Jones Actually Burns a Qur’an and ...
  The mustachioed Yosemite Sam look alike is at it again.
• Rick Santorum: Sharia ‘is evil’
  'Jihadism is evil and we need to say what it is,' Rick Santorum said in New Hampshire.

Energy News

• Black smoke billows from No. 3 containing plut ...
  Prompting another evacuation of workers from the plant during the afternoon, Tokyo Electric officials said ...Read More
• News anchor: “I’m just a trial law ...
  Headline News, March 22, 2011 ...Read More
• NEWS ADVISORY: Repair work halted at reactor N ...
  Kyodo at 11:13 pm EDT ...Read More
• Cesium-137 released at Fukushima in first four ...
  Accident in the Japanese NPP Fukushima: Spread of Radioactivity/first source estimates from CTBTO data ...Read More
• “Abnormal” readings on 8 of 18 EPA ...
  Some Radiation-Tracking Air Monitors May Not Be Working Properly, EPA Says, Bloomberg, March 21, ...Read More

Japan Times

• Radioactive iodine exceeding limit for infants ...
  The Tokyo metropolitan government warned Wednesday that infants should not drink tap water as radioactive iodine exceeding the limit for them were detected in a water sample at a purification plant. According to the metropolitan government, 210 becquerels of radioactive iodine were detected pe ...
• Kan widens ban on contaminated food
  Prime Minister Naoto Kan instructed Fukushima Gov. Yuhei Sato on Wednesday to tell local people not to eat certain leafy vegetables, including spinach, cabbage and broccoli harvested from Fukushima Prefecture, after finding radioactive materials well beyond the legal limit. In addition, shipme ...
• Tepco puts focus on reactivating cooling pumps ...
  Work continued Wednesday to restore electricity to key equipment at the crippled nuclear reactors in the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, a day after electricity was restored to all six reactors via outside power sources. The main goal is to activate cooling pumps in reactors 3 and 4 to ci ...
• Radiation rises in Tokyo water
  Radioactive iodine exceeding the government's regulated level for infants was detected Wednesday in water in a purification plant in Katsushika Ward, Tokyo, prompting the metropolitan government to advise residents not to let babies younger than 1 year old drink tap water or powdered milk made w ...
• Sake brewer vows to rebuild after tsunami
  RIKUZENTAKATA, Iwate Pref. — Yasuhiko Konno stands next to a pile of debris that reaches over two stories high. He bows his head for a moment and takes a deep breath. This was his sake brewery, one of the best in Japan, with a history that goes back hundreds of years. A week after he barely e ...

  Blacklisted News

• Tanks Gather Outside Of Cairo Stock Exchange, ...
  In its first trading since late January, the Egyptian market crashed. about 10%. That’s apparently limit down, so trading is already over.
• Portugal braces for govt collapse over debt vote
  Portugal's government is on the verge of collapse after opposition parties withdrew their support for another round of austerity policies aimed at averting a financial bailout.
• Second ATF Agent Talks About Sanctioned Gun Tr ...
• Obama’s Bay of Pigs in Libya: Imperialist Aggr ...
• Federal Reserve: US Approaching Insolvency
  The United States is on a fiscal path towards insolvency and policymakers are at a "tipping point," a Federal Reserve official said on Tuesday.

The Intelligence Daily

• IntelFilter — March 23, 2011
  Today’s Top Headlines I’ve Got a Funny Feeling About the Stock Market U.S. New-Home...
• From Celebrities To Tsunamis: “If they can get ...
  By Phil Rockstroh Even before the floodwaters of the tsunami that inundated western Japan receded...
• Saving Money? Not In This Economy – 22 Facts T ...
  By Michael T. Snyder (End of The American Dream) The 22 facts that you are about to read are all...
• Western Aggression on Libya
  By Stephen Lendman Make no mistake. Another Washington-led resource war targets Libya’s...
• India Looks East in Search of New Partners
  At a time of great turmoil on the Asian strategic landscape, India is ‘looking east’ â...

My AntiWar

• As Mideast Roils, Al Jazeera Finds Its ‘ ...
• Gadhafi Appears on Libyan TV Denouncing &#8216 ...
• Dutch Contribute F-16s to Libya War
• Captured Gazan ‘Suffering in Custody’
• 8 Palestinians Killed in IDF Strikes on Gaza

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

• Russia voices regret over military interventio ...
  Summary: Russia has voiced regret over foreign military intervention in Libya and denounced “indiscriminate” use of force by Western nations in the North African country. source: Hinduread more
• Iranian arms to Syria? The Israeli media can't ...
  Summary: The Jerusalem Post ran a story about an Iranian aircraft that was commanded to land in Turkey by Turkish authorities as it was en route to Syria. The photo accompanying the story showed an Iran Air Boeing 747 ‘short’ version Jumbo jet with a collapsed nose wheel with the story cla ...
• US Struggles to Explain Difference Between Bah ...
  Summary: MullenMullen's Surprisingly Honest Answer: Bahrain a Long-Standing Ally source: AntiWar.comread more
• 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 Daily Galaxy

• Weekend Feature: Today's Rare "Supermoon" is t ...
  Despite one astrologer’s fears that today's rare “Supermoon” will cause a natural disaster, NASA experts say there is nothing supernatural about it. This afternoon, the moon will be the closest it's been to Earth in more than 18 years. The...
• Weekend Feature Image: Yesterday's Supermoon O ...
  Image credit: Gordon Gillet, ESO.
• What Lies Beyond the Observable Hubble Univers ...
  Few theories qualify for Nobel laureate Niels Bohr's famous question more than the current Big Bang Theory of the origin of the Universe: "We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question that divides us is whether it...
• The EXTREME Planet: MESSENGER Spacecraft Swing ...
  The MESSENGER spacecraft will orbit Mercury today starting at 8:45 pm Eastern Daylight Time culminating a six-and-a-half year journey to the innermost planet of our solar system to study the geologic history, the mysterious magnetic field, surface composition and other...
• "We Can See Through the Big Bang to the Univer ...
  The circular patterns within the cosmic microwave background suggest that space and time did not come into being at the Big Bang but that our universe in fact continually cycles through a series of "aeons," according to University of Oxford...

Natural News

• India says Monsanto covertly, illegally conduc ...
  (NaturalNews) Recent reports out of India say that multinational biotechnology giant Monsanto has once against skirted the law by clandestinely planting its genetically-modified (GM) corn without receiving approval to do so. Nitish Kumar, chief minister of the Indian state of Bihar, recently wro ...
• USDA refuses to enforce organic standards, all ...
  (NaturalNews) The US Department of Agriculture is once again deliberately shirking its responsibility to properly oversee the integrity of the certified organic program. After admitting in a recent letter that a chemically-derived, synthetic omega-3 fatty acid additive produced by Martek Bioscie ...
• Sprouts: An ideal emergency preparedness food
  (NaturalNews) Given the rapidity with which critical global events are unfolding, preparedness just makes good sense. The question isn't whether or not to be prepared - it's what to be prepared for? Earthquakes, nuclear accidents, tsunamis, power outages and gasoline shortages have been on this ...
• 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 ...

Threat Level

• Attack Code for SCADA Vulnerabilities Released ...
  The security of critical infrastructure is in the spotlight again this week after a researcher released attack code that can exploit several vulnerabilities found in systems used at oil-, gas- and water-management facilities, as well as factories, around the world. The 34 exploits were publishe ...
• Judge Rejects Google Books Settlement
  Saying the deal went “too far,” a federal judge Tuesday rejected Google’s proposed legal settlement with book publishers, an accord that would have paved a path toward digitizing the world’s books. “While the digitization of books and the creation of a universal digital library would benefit man ...
• 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 ...

PERRspectives : Blog

• Take the Tax Quiz!
  And now for today's quiz. You are a member of Congress. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) tells you that as a percentage of American gross domestic product, total taxes in the U.S. are at their lowest level since 1950. The nation is fighting two wars (and now, arguably a third), conflicts ...
• 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 ...

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

• :
• Alexander Cockburn : Autumn of the Driveler
• Carl Ginsburg : Life in the Low to Mid-Teens
• Alexander Cockburn : Loose-Lip McChrystal Did ...
• Alexander Cockburn : He Should Have Kept His M ...

Institute for Middle East Understanding

• Israel admits kidnapping operations manager of ...
  Israel admitted this week that it was behind the abduction of the operations manager of Gaza's only power plant, who disappeared more than a month ago while travelling on a train in U ...
• Palestinian leaders targeted (aic)
• Knesset passes 'Nakba bill' (Roni Sofer, Ynet ...
  The Knesset passed two controversial bills late Tuesday night, infuriating many MKs from Arab and left-wing parties, who claim the bills are racist and run counter to democratic value ...
• UN's Serry condemns killing of civilians in Ga ...
  The UN's envoy to the Middle East Robert Serry on Tuesday condemned Israel's killing of civilians in Gaza. On Tuesday afternoon, an Israeli tank fired at a family playing football out ...
• Israel kills 9 Gazans in day of strikes (Ma'a ...
  Israeli warplanes killed four Palestinians in an air strike on Az-Zaitoun neighborhood south of Gaza City on Tuesday evening, medics said. The attack came hours after Israeli artiller ...

Water - AlterNet

• Maude Barlow: On World Water Day We Should Be ...
  Maude Barlow: "Water can teach us how to live in harmony with one another and more lightly on this earth if we have eyes to see and ears to hear."
• PA Government Official Compares Oscar-nominate ...
  What we need is a real scientific review of the harmful effects of gas drilling on the state and a statewide moratorium, not race baiting remarks.
• Anti-Immigrant Groups Trying to Lure Support f ...
  Anti-immigration leaders have created and fostered an array of organizations designed to enlist environmentalists.
• Josh Fox Speaks Out on Hate Speech from PA Gov ...
  What we need is a real scientific review of the harmful effects of gas drilling on the state and a statewide moratorium, not race baiting remarks.
• Anti-Immigrant Groups Trying to Lure Support f ...
  Anti-immigration leaders have created and fostered an array of organizations designed to enlist environmentalists.

Public Citizen in Texas

• Nikkei down, nuclear industry hit hard. Will S ...
  Investors dumped Japanese shares Monday, sending the Nikkei down 6.2% amid concerns about a nuclear emergency in the country following Friday’s devastating earthquake and tsunami, with stocks of exporters and plant operators hardest hit. Analysts say stocks were being largely driven by the quak ...
• NRG cools development of STP 3 & 4, Public has ...
  NRG has announced that they will back off of additional development of STP reactors 3 & 4, while awaiting federal guidance regarding safety issues resulting from the nuclear disaster in Japan. The reactor site in Bay City, Texas, is 100 miles from Houston. Reactor safety has long been a concern ...
• US House Committee to hold hearings on EPA cla ...
  The Energy and Power Subcommittee of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee plans to hold a hearing this Thursday on the clash between Texas officials and the EPA at the South Texas College of Law in Houston. A coalition called the Texas EPA Task Force, made up of federal and state Republi ...
• TLR Rally - H _ _ L no, we want to sue you H S ...
  Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:
• TLR Rally protesters in front of state capitol ...
  Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:

Unexplained Mysteries

• NASA announces manned asteroid mission plans
  NASA have held a press conference to reveal details of their mission to send astronauts to an asteroid. Planned to take place by 2025 the mission woul...
• Russian ice water baptisms raise eyebrows
  During the Russian Orthodox festival of Epiphany children have been baptised in freezing water. The highly controversial ritual has attracted much cri...
• Peter the Wild Boy's condition revealed
  A feral child found in Germany and kept at George I's court suffered from Pitt-Hopkins syndrome. Peter the Wild Boy was found abandoned in a German fo...
• Sammy Hagar claims alien abduction
  The former Van Halen lead singer recounts his past experiences with UFOs. Hagar was speaking to a reporter in an interview about his new book and deta...
• What the Romans didn't do for Britons
  An ancient road uncovered in Shropshire has led archaeologists to believe that not all roads led to Rome. For hundreds of years most of the long, anci...

Grassroots

• Keeping the Sacred Waters Flowing
  women_in_the_narmada_valley_face_drowning_in_rising_dam_waters.jpg � Rivers are sacred in many cultures and central to the World�s early civilizations, from Mesopotamia and Egypt to India and China. Perhaps this was on his mind when Jawaha ...
• 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
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  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 ...

Climate

• Interior Touts Support for Coal, Oil Amid GOP ...
  Source:� The Hill The Interior Department rolled out plans to allow expanded coal production on federal lands in Wyoming�s Powder River Basin. �
• Nuclear Power Loses Support in New Poll
  Source:� New York Times What had been growing acceptance of nuclear power in the United States has eroded sharply in the wake of Japan�s crisis.
• Nuclear Agency Expects to Restore Cooling Soon
  Source:� Wall Street Journal Cooling systems are expected to be restored in the next few days at some reactors of a Japanese nuclear plant, as the impact from radiation leaks begins to spread to food and water.
• New York Nuke Plant Seismic Review Gets Top Pr ...
  Source:� Reuters U.S. regulators have promised to make the Indian Point nuclear power plant near New York City their top priority in a review of seismic risk at U.S. nuclear plants. �
• NRG Energy Casts Doubt on Reactor Plans
  Source:� Wall Street Journal NRG Energy's CEO said the power company's plans to build two big reactors at its South Texas nuclear plant could be delayed, or even canceled, in light of the Japan crisis.

GreenBiz

• Why Every Company is an Energy Company -- Or W ...
  �Why your company will be an energy company, no matter what you do.
• Every Company Is an Energy Company
  Deloitte explains how all companies, no matter what they do or make, need energy strategies.
• Canal-Based Turbines, Energy from Wastewater W ...
  The second annual awards from Imagine H2O recognize companies that are applying technology not just to increasing water efficiency, but that are saving significant amounts of energy in the process.
• GEMI Expands Sustainability Efforts with New G ...
  The Global Environmental Management Initiative today unveiled the addition of a new tool to its roster of sustainability tools that will help companies understand water challenges wherever they operate.
• Walmart Cuts Landfill Waste 80 Percent in Cali ...
  Food donation, recycling, and converting organic waste into compost, animal feed or energy all play a role in the cost-neutral program.

Reuters Global

• United States begins a new war, what happens t ...
  The United States has said the scope of its military intervention in Libya is limited, but it nevertheless raises questions about what happens to the two other wars that it is waging, especially in Afghanistan.
• The “sound and fury” of U.S.-Pakis ...
  The United States and Pakistan are narrowing their differences at a strategic level. But the very noisy row over Raymond Davis may have damaged perceptions
• Keeping Raymond Davis and Lashkar-e-Taiba in p ...
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• Towards a review of Pakistan’s blasphemy ...
  After two assassinations, Pakistani politicians are finally addressing tensions over Pakistan's blasphemy laws
• Pakistan’s debate on drones, lifting the ...
  The secrecy on drones has helped fuel a poisonous debate in Pakistan. Will a rare admission by a high-ranking Pakistani military offiicer of their effectiveness change that?

Booman Tribune

• Religious Extinction
  We know that languages die out. We also know that religions die out. How many people believe in Zeus or Poseidon or Apollo? But could we see religions as a whole die out in modern societies? A new study predicts that that is exactly what is going to happen in Australia, Austria, Canada, the ...
• Huckabee and Teh Evil Gay Soldiers
  Republicans are very predictable. They have easy answers to every question. However the economy is doing, cut taxes for rich people, and everything will turn out hunky dory. Cut deficits but only by cutting spending on a small sliver of social programs and never touch the military's budge ...
• "Cop on the Beat" Elizabeth Warren
  Whose afraid of Elizabeth Warren? Oh, the usual suspects: Wall Street Banksters and the politicians who they own (and I include Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner in that company, just so no one thinks this is solely an attack on Republicans). Take a peak at Dana Milbank's column to s ...
• How To Write a Column and Say Nothing
  There is such a widespread impulse on the right to use Obama's decision to intervene in Libya as some kind of vindication of George W. Bush's decision to invade Iraq. David Brooks joins the party by penning a long essay that looks at the shortcomings of multilateral military efforts. The idea, ...
• Answering 7 Questions for Liberals
  Republicans are so stupid that even when they are trying to be funny they just come off as jerks. John Hawkins wants liberals to answer seven questions about President Obama's decision to use military force in Libya. He tries to highlight areas of hypocrisy and double-standards, but he does so ...

European Tribune

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Futurismic

• Personal Information: episode 24
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• 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

• Parental Values Clarification Delay Treating C ...
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline A series of workshops resulted in a report showing that many children with mood issues do not receive the proper treatment regimen. Parents who often succumb to social pressures and differences of opinion usually end up delaying or ceasing a professional recommend ...
• Young Adults In Need of More Support than Prev ...
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline New information shows that providing support to adult children, whether financial or emotional, is more important today as young adults face many more challenges than their parents did. Lead author of the study, Teresa Swartz, says that parents tend to support the ...
• Treatment for Depressed Moms Helps Kids
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline A recent study shows that children of depressed mothers can benefit greatly if the mothers receive proper treatment. Because these children are at a higher risk of developing depression themselves, this research provides important data for the well being of both m ...
• Want Family Therapy? These 4 Problems Should B ...
  By Lynne Silva-Breen, MDiv, MA, LMFT, Family Therapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Lynne and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Families are amazingly resilient relationship groups. While many of us have enduring trouble with some aspect of our families, past or present, all of ...
• How to Help a Loved One With Mental Illness
  A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Dr. Lloyd I Sederer, MD, a psychiatrist and public health advocate, recently published important tips for helping your loved one with mental illness. In his 35 years of practice, Dr. Sederer has met with thousands of family members who are desperate to help their l ...

Mountaintop Removal

• Controversial fuel-extracting projects are eve ...
  Controversial fuel-extracting projects are everywhere The Daily Collegian Online Mountaintop removal is an incredibly efficient, albeit controversial, method of mining coal. This devastating practice is currently underway a mere three hours from State College, in West Virginia, and we must turn ...
• Activist to discuss environmental impact of co ...
  Activist to discuss environmental impact of coal mining The Independent Florida Alligator Gainesville Mayor Craig Lowe shakes the hand of Larry Gibson, environmental activist against mountaintop removal via coal mining, after screening the movie “Low Coal” at The Venue on Tuesday night. The scr ...
• 'March on Blair Mountain: Appalachia is Rising ...
  'March on Blair Mountain: Appalachia is Rising' slated for June Examiner.com The Friends of Blair Mountain consist of a coalition of leaders from Appalachian labor and environmental movements who are for the preservation of the site and against mountaintop removal destroying the site. Friends o ...
• Galbraith Speaks Out On Mountaintop Removal - WFPL
  Galbraith Speaks Out On Mountaintop Removal WFPL Perennial independent gubernatorial candidate Gatewood Galbraith has taken a stance against the surface coal mining method commonly called mountaintop removal. The Associated Press reports that Galbraith says the practice has caused �unsurpassed ...
• 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 ...

Memeorandum

• Obama Tests Well at Start of Reelection Run (P ...
  People-Press.org: Obama Tests Well at Start of Reelection Run  —  No Frontrunner in Slow-Starting GOP Race  —  Barack Obama currently fares as well against a generic opponent in the upcoming presidential election as George W. Bush did in April 2003, a time when Bush's job approval rating was m ...
• Abbas to Russia: Pressure Israel to halt Gaza ...
  Jerusalem Post: Abbas to Russia: Pressure Israel to halt Gaza escalation  —  Magen David Adom relayed that there were 25 people injured.  Three people were seriously injured.  Israeli media reported that two of those were in critical condition.  —  Five people were moderately injured and the re ...
• CNN Poll: Time doesn't change views on health ...
  Gschwarzcnn / CNN: CNN Poll: Time doesn't change views on health care law  —  (CNN) - One year after President Barack Obama signed the health care reform bill into law, a new national poll indicates that attitudes toward the plan have not budged.  —  According to a CNN/Opinion Research Corporat ...
• Who's in charge? Germans pull forces out of NA ...
  Daily Mail: Who's in charge?  Germans pull forces out of NATO as Libyan coalition falls apart  — Tensions with Britain as Gates rebukes UK government over suggestion Gaddafi could be assassinated  — No-fly zone called into question after first wave of strikes ‘neutralises’ Libyan military machine
• The damning contradictions of Obama's attack o ...
  Michael Barone / Washington Examiner: The damning contradictions of Obama's attack on Libya  —  Senior Political Analyst Follow Him @MichaelBarone  —  Let's imagine that all goes well in Libya.  The rebels, protected by airstrikes, recapture lost territory and sweep into Tripoli.  Moammar Gadha ...

Energy & Environment News

• German Energy Company Hits Headwinds in India
  Enercon, a wind turbine maker, says it has lost its Indian subsidiary after a dispute with a local partner and a run-in with the Mumbai law enforcement authorities.
• New Repairs Delay Work at Nuclear Plant in Japan
  Crucial machinery at one nuclear reactor requires a process that will take two to three days, officials said.
• I.H.T. Special Report: Business of Green: An O ...
  A new deal with China will allow Scotland to greatly increase its salmon exports. But conservationists warn that levels of salmon farming are already harming wild stocks.
• I.H.T. Special Report: Business of Green: New ...
  A Singapore company's process can be package in modular units suitable for use in disaster zones and remote communities, and can run on solar power.
• Dot Earth: The 'Dread to Risk' Ratio on Radiat ...
  There is a wide gap between dread and risk on many radiation questions, and lots of evidence that more information doesn't matter much.

5+ quakes - 7 days

• M 5.2, Fiji region
  Wednesday, March 23, 2011 14:14:39 UTCThursday, March 24, 2011 02:14:39 AM at epicenterDepth: 577.70 km (358.97 mi)
• M 5.1, off the east coast of Honshu, Japan
  Wednesday, March 23, 2011 13:56:28 UTCWednesday, March 23, 2011 11:56:28 PM at epicenterDepth: 36.40 km (22.62 mi)
• M 5.1, near the east coast of Honshu, Japan
  Wednesday, March 23, 2011 10:43:35 UTCWednesday, March 23, 2011 07:43:35 PM at epicenterDepth: 28.20 km (17.52 mi)
• M 5.0, off the east coast of Honshu, Japan
  Wednesday, March 23, 2011 09:35:56 UTCWednesday, March 23, 2011 07:35:56 PM at epicenterDepth: 23.80 km (14.79 mi)
• M 5.1, Kashmir-Xinjiang border region
  Wednesday, March 23, 2011 05:55:54 UTCWednesday, March 23, 2011 01:55:54 PM at epicenterDepth: 79.20 km (49.21 mi)

China Dialogue

• History's harsh lesson
  As America mulls an atomic revival, it should look not just to Japan, but also its own past. California’s radiation leak of 1959 – and the decades of friction that followed – still offer powerful lessons, writes Joan Bien.On the first night of the 1959 nuclear reactor meltdown at Santa Susana Fi ...
• At fault on the Nu River
  As China gears up for a hydropower push in its earthquake-prone south-west, it should pause to consider events in Japan, two geologists tell Liu Jianqiang on World Water Day.With the ongoing crisis at its earthquake-damaged Fukushima nuclear plant, Japan is paying a heavy price for ignoring “lar ...
• 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 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

• The Progress that is Black Mediocrity and True ...
  There is an old joke that goes as follows: What does a white man with a penny hate more than anything else? A black man with a nickel. The Herman Cains of the world would give that white man their last five cents just to make him happy. Like Sarah Palin, Herman Cain is the gift that [...] ...
• Obama in El Salvador -- 'Trapped by History' o ...
  Hours before President Obama was set to land in their country, Salvadorans were listening and reading -- and weighing – each statement he made before his historic arrival.
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  The Tea Party and its allies had made it unacceptable to the GOP base to be anywhere except pandering to the anti-science crowd.
• Kochs Profit from Canadian Eco-Nightmare
  Koch Industries processes one in four barrels of U.S.-bound Alberta tar sand, while pumping millions of dollars into highly conservative, anti-green causes.
• CIA Psychologist's Notes Reveal True Purpose B ...
  Dr. Bruce Jessen's notes reveal torture techniques that were used to "exploit" "war on terror" detainees in custody of the CIA and Department of Defense.

Threat Level

• Attack Code for SCADA Vulnerabilities Released ...
  The security of critical infrastructure is in the spotlight again this week after a researcher released attack code that can exploit several vulnerabilities found in systems used at oil-, gas- and water-management facilities, as well as factories, around the world. The 34 exploits were publishe ...
• Judge Rejects Google Books Settlement
  Saying the deal went “too far,” a federal judge Tuesday rejected Google’s proposed legal settlement with book publishers, an accord that would have paved a path toward digitizing the world’s books. “While the digitization of books and the creation of a universal digital library would benefit man ...
• 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 ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

• Actress Elizabeth Taylor dead at 79
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hollywood legend Elizabeth Taylor, who rose from child actor to become one of Hollywood's most talented actresses with a tumultuous life, died on Wednesday at age 79, her publicist said.
• Barry Bonds lured players to drug lab: prosecutors
  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Baseball home run king Barry Bonds used steroids from a lab that was able to attract other athletes because of his involvement, a federal prosecutor charged on Tuesday as Bonds' perjury trial began.
• Sprint cries foul over rivals' mega-merger
  ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - Sprint Nextel Corp cried foul over a planned merger between AT&T Inc and T-Mobile USA, saying the deal would stifle competition and potentially hurt its profitability.
• Syrian forces kill 6 in mosque attack: residents
  DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Syrian forces killed at least six people on Wednesday in an attack on a mosque in the southern city of Deraa, site of unprecedented protests challenging President Bashar al-Assad's Baathist rule, residents said.
• Portugal government may collapse before EU summit
  LISBON (Reuters) - Portugal's parliament is expected to reject government austerity measures on Wednesday, setting the stage for the possible collapse of the minority Socialist administration a day before a European summit.

IntelNews

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  Israelâs Military Intelligence has set up a new unit tasked with infiltrating and monitoring Western leftwing organizations that oppose Israelâs policies on the Palestinians. Continue reading →
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  Along with airborne surveillance and the bombing of targets, Western nations in charge of imposing a no-fly-zone over Libya are directing their intelligence and information-warfare arsenals against the Libyan regime. Continue reading →
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War is a Crime.org

• Western Aggression on Libya
  Western Aggression on Libya - by Stephen Lendman Make no mistake. Another Washington-led resource war targets Libya's riches, besides wanting new US base locations for greater regional dominance. America doesn't covet regional sun, sand and sea. "Humanitarian intervention" is a lie. So are noti ...
• On Firing Teachers and Tomahawk Missiles
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• We Got Us A Neo-Nazi Merc Working in Afghanistan
  And I'm goin to hazard a guess probably not the only one. Who in the hell does the screening for these so called 'private contractors' that are then sent into these occupation theaters? I just caught this, and an update to the 'kill team' of U.S. soldiers. This goes Way Beyond Disgusting!! Espe ...
• Report Underscores Ticking Time Bomb Of US Nuk ...
  By Linn Washington, Jr. A timely report from the Union of Concerned Scientists, based on data from the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), contains troubling news about the state of America’s vast network of nuclear power plants. The report, which examined serious incidents at 14 U.S. n ...
• Celebrating Nauroz in Kabul
  By Patrick Kennelly Kabul-Throughout Afghanistan people are gathering to celebrate the Afghan new year, Nauroz. It is a chance for Afghans to celebrate the rebirth of nature after the long winter. In Kabul, today thousands of gathered in the cemetery and spent the day picnicking. Before headi ...

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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• Elizabeth Taylor, 1932-2011: A Dazzling Life i ...
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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
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Suzie-Q

• Jerusalem Explosion: Dozens Of Casualties
  Dozens of casualties in Jerusalem explosion: police REUTERS (Writing by Jeffrey Heller, Editing by Crispian Balmer) JERUSALEM | Wed Mar 23, 2011 9:46am EDT JERUSALEM (Reuters) – An explosion on or near a bus in Jerusalem on Wednesday caused dozens of casualties, police said. Scores of ambulances ...
• Lawrence O’Donnell: “On A Daily Ba ...
  Lawrence O’Donnell: “On A Daily Basis, Glenn Beck Says To His Audience, ‘I Don’t Know If It’s The End Of The World’ “ Via:  Media Matters March 22, 2011 11:39 pm ET From the March 22 edition of MSNBC’s The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell: Previously: Beck: Islam’s 12th Imam “Really Is The Bib ...
• F-15 Crash In Libya
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• Hezbollah Leader Nasrallah Speaks In Solidarit ...
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• U.S. Military Considering Mandatory Evacuation ...
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Solari

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  By Jack Farchy and Roula Khalaf The international community has hit Mommar Gadhafi with a raft of sanctions and asset freezes aimed at cutting off his funding. But the embattled Libyan leader is sitting on a pot of gold. The Libyan central bank — which is under Colonel Gadhafi’s control — holds ...
• Quote du Jour
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• Japan Prays For Success of Fukushima 50 in Fig ...
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