22 March - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

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TechDirt

• Apple Sues Amazon Over App Store Name
  While Apple has been making noises about how no one else can use the "App Store" name and even complaining to the Trademark board, it's finally gone legal, and has picked a big target. Apple is now suing Amazon.com for using the App Store name, claiming trademark violation. This seems pretty p ...
• How Copyright Filters Present A Serious Challe ...
  A few months ago, we wrote about how the super popular (and very useful) SoundCloud service implemented a copyright filter, which resulted in a bunch of DJs (who are some of the biggest users of SoundCloud) to have their work go missing. It's not hard to figure out why SoundCloud put in place a ...
• New Movie, Zenith, Distributed In Segments Via ...
  Last week at SXSW Film, I moderated a panel looking at the role of P2P distribution for filmmakers. It really was a case study session, where we tried to look at different things that fillmmakers have done in embracing file sharing, including some things that worked, and some that didn't. You ...
• DailyDirt: If Only We Had A 'Mr. Fusion' Gener ...
  Nuclear power seems to have gotten more intense scrutiny recently, so taking a look at other alternative energy technologies makes sense. There's no silver bullet to solve the world's energy problems, but exploring the diversity of ways to generate electricity and fuels is probably a good strat ...
• Appeals Court Says It's Possible To Challenge ...
  Here's some big news. You may recall a few years ago that the courts more or less said that the ACLU had no standing to file a lawsuit over the government's warrantless wiretapping program, because they weren't the people being spied on. Of course, that left people in quite the catch-22 situat ...

VacTruth

• Children Die Minutes After Measles Vaccine in ...
  Reports are coming in of four infants under the age of one dying minutes after the measles vaccine. The vaccination programme has been suspended and the batch has been sent for testing.Vactruth.com
• Are Vaccines Destroying Infant Nursing Pattern ...
  Are multiple and repeated vaccines disrupting the intimate bond between mother and child?Vactruth.com
• Too Little, Too Late
  Can we afford to keep spend billions of dollars on false pandemics and on vaccines production without much oversight and testing?Vactruth.com
• FLUORIDE: How WRONG Can Health Agencies Be?
  Does fluoride in our drinking water prove that government agencies make mistakes?Vactruth.com
• 3 Easy Steps Parents Can Use to Form an Opinio ...
  Parents can use these 3 easy steps to form an opinion about vaccines.Vactruth.com

BroadSnark

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

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

• The Issue Is the Rim of Fire
  EIR Editorial Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, March 18, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 11
• There Is No ‘Defeat’ in the Face of the Global ...
  By Nancy Spannaus Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, March 18, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 11
• Financial Tsunami Ahead: About-Face Before It’ ...
  By Helga Zepp-LaRouche Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, March 18, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 11
• LaRouche Webcast: Ireland & America
  Transcript of Lyndon LaRouche March 10 Webcast Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, March 18, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 11
• LPAC Weekly Report: Defeat the Green Fascist—Y ...
  EIR News Service press release.

Armies of Liberation

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

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

food and water watch

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

treehugger

• Christie's Green Auction Boasts Star-Studded L ...
  Lady Gaga. Photo: A Bid to Save the Earth The first part of Christie's green auction, "A Bid to Save the Earth," is live on CharityBuzz.com, featuring a slew of star-studded opportunities to get something in return for putting big bucks toward the environment. Proceeds will benefit four lea ...
• 11 Steps For Starving Students That Will Make ...
  Image Credit Lloyd Alter When asked a few years ago what the single most important thing one could do to reduce their carbon footprint, a so-called expert (not on this site) responded "get rid of vampire power." Since then we have, I think, all become a little more sophisticated. I recently ...
• Eco-Driving, Like Hypermiling, Saves Real Bucks
  Photo courtesy Fiat ecoDrive. Fiat is a big proponent of eco-driving, claiming it could be a great and inexpensive way to reduce carbon emissions from transport. Riding a bike would be an even better way, but while we wait for more people to decide cars aren't so sexy when gas costs 5 bucks ...
• 10 Wacky and Unexpected Things Using Solar Pow ...
  Photo: Facebook/The Sol Cinema Solar power has lots of potential as an alternative to fossil fuels, but some of the things we use it for make more sense than others: From solar-powered food carts, airplanes, and vending machines to solar-powered dog sweaters and beehives, read on to see whi ...
• Stand And Deliver Yourself Better Health
  Photo Credits. Er-T-Go standing desk , via InDesignLive and Better Workplace Standing Desks are a particular hobby horse of our Design and Architecture editor, Lloyd. So we imagine he'll be pleased to learn that the National Heart Foundation in Australia has been spruiking their benefits to ...

Biosingularity

• Gene Therapy May Improve Parkinson’s Symptoms
  An experimental gene therapy injected into the brains of patients with Parkinson’s disease improved tremor, stiffness, and other movement symptoms and was safe with few side effects over six months of follow-up, a study shows. The small study represents the first successful clinical trial compar ...
• New UCSF Robotic Pharmacy Aims to Improve Pati ...
  Although it won’t be obvious to UCSF Medical Center patients, behind the scenes a family of giant robots now counts and processes their medications. With a new automated hospital pharmacy, believed to be the nation’s most comprehensive, UCSF is using robotic technology and electronics to prepare ...
• An On-Off Switch for Anxiety
  With the flick of a precisely placed light switch, mice can be induced to cower in a corner in fear or bravely explore their environment. The study highlights the power of optogenetics technology—which allows neuroscientists to control genetically engineered neurons with light—to explore the fun ...
• Coffee May Lower Stroke Risk
  Women who drink a cup or more of coffee each day may be less likely to have a stroke, compared to women who drink less coffee, according to new research in the journal Stroke. The new findings should not be taken to mean that everyone should start drinking coffee to lower their stroke risk, as [...]
• Fatty Fish May Cut Risk of Macular Degeneration
  Eating fatty fish one or more times a week may reduce your risk for developing age-related macular degeneration, a leading cause of vision loss in people aged 60 and older. The new findings appear online in the Archives of Opthalmology.About 9 million Americans aged 40 and older show signs of ag ...

CFACT

• Nuclear safety: Reactors that can't meltdown
  Nuclear power remains a vital power source for the future. The crisis in Japan underscores the needs to make these reactors as safe as possible. New technology shows us the way to reactors that remain stable even under a scenario as extreme as Japan's.
• Welcome to the Third World
  Develop American energy - or say good-bye to jobs, revenue and modern living standards.
• Fearing EPA's carbon tax
  The EPA is moving to impose tough limits on carbon emissions from the big power plants across the country - and then plans to screw the new carbon limits down tighter and tighter. Farmers̢۪ fuel and electricity costs would go through the roof, along with everybody else̢۪s.
• More biofuels, more greenhouse gases
  A new study estimates that the world has more than 702 million hectares of marginal land suitable for growing biofuels, while another finds that plowing would release massive amounts of soil carbon - mostly as nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas 300 times as powerful as CO2.
• Krugman flunks food and history
  Krugman is trying to frighten us about what̢۪s very likely the finest weather humanity has ever seen. We̢۪re still getting heat waves, blizzards and some hurricanes, but fewer of them. Still, you are three times as likely to read about the severe weather we do get because the media is seekin ...

Ria Novosti Online News

• Radical Russian art group donates Banksy money ...
• Russia supports NATO success in Afghanistan - ...
  Russia welcomes the success of NATO-led coalition forces and the stabilization of the situation in Afghanistan, Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov said on Tuesday.
• Grizzly cubs at a Canadian zoo
  Three grizzly cubs were born at Northwood Zoo in Seagrave, Ontario. The grizzly bear is a brown bear subspecies and can be found mainly in Alaska and western Canada.
• Putin says Russia ready to host 2011 Figure Sk ...
  Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has backed the Sports Ministry's bid to host the 2011 Figure Skating World Championship saying Russia will take care of all expenses.
• Central Moscow opposition protest given go-ahead
  Moscow authorities have given the green light for an anti-government protest on March 31, a senior human rights activist said on Tuesday.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• Russian investigators probe Roscosmos workers ...
  The Russian Investigative Committee said on Tuesday it is probing workers at Russia's Federal Space Agency, Roscosmos, for negligence that may have caused the loss of three Glonass-M satellites in December.
• Only Siberia to glimpse 'supermoon' in Russia
  The moon will reach its closest point to the Earth in almost 20 years on Saturday, but clouds and snow are likely to conceal the "supermoon" for most Russians, meteorologists say.
• Russia, U.S. agree to share data on Japan
  Russia and the United States agreed on Friday to share information on developments at Japan's troubled Fukushima nuclear plant, Russian state-controlled nuclear corporation Rosatom said.
• NASA's Messenger spacecraft enters Mercury orbit
  NASA's Messenger spacecraft has become the first to enter orbit of Mercury, the space agency said on its website on Friday.
• U.S. develops software to manipulate social ne ...
  The U.S. military are developing software to spread pro-U.S. propaganda via fake accounts on popular social networking websites such as Facebook and Twitter.

Pruning Shears

• 'No on SB5:' Canton Funeral March for Kasich's ...
  When: Tuesday, March 22nd 2011, at 2:00 PM - 4:00 PMWhere: Koch Knight5385 Orchardview Drive SECanton, OHHost: FightForAFairEconomyInfo: Governor Kasich is trying to drive nails into the coffin of the middle class. It’s time to fight back. His budget is a disaster for the hard-working, middl ...
• Weekend wrapup
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Combat operations have concluded for:Air Force Senior Airman Nicholas J. AldenCpl. Loren M. BuffaloPfc. Andrew M. HarperPfc. Arturo E. Rodr ...
• Mobilize for a fair budget: Join Senior Voice ...
  John Kasich’s state budget has started to sink in, and even his detractors seem surprised by its callousness, shortsightedness and sharp partisanship. Local governments and schools take it on the chin and townships get hung out to dry. It has lots of one-time income from privatization schemes, ...
• 'No on SB 5': Upcoming events, 18-Mar-2011
  Sunday, March 20, 20112:00 PM Town Hall (RSVP w/ Protect Ohio Families here)Please join state Representative Mike Foley & state Senator Mike Skindell. If you have any questions please contact the organizer, Fred Crow, at 440-346-3754.Flyers Bar & Grill6298 Pearl RoadParma Heights3:00 PM Rally A ...
• 'No On SB 5': Rally at the Kent Stage, 15-Mar- ...
  On Tuesday Ohio governor John Kasich unveiled his 2011 Fiscal Year budget. It was chock full of terrible ideas that administration officials didn’t even bother pretending was about the state’s finances. One item in it - selling five state prison facilities - is virtually guaranteed to produce ...

Organic Consumers.org

• American Cancer Society: More Interested In Ac ...
  This is a 130 page PDF document from Dr. Samuel Epstein of the Cancer Prevention Coalition.Click here to read this article
• Interview with Ronnie Cummins on KBOO Radio
  When the USDA deregulated the growing of Roundup Ready (GMO) alfalfa last month, Ronnie Cummins with the Organic Consumers Association wrote a dispatch revealing collusion between three big time organic food companies and the forces (i.e. Monsanto) that shaped the USDA's decision. Whole Foods, S ...
• Forget Farmers Markets - I Want to Sell My Pas ...
  It is time to make local passe. It is time to make regional the new local. Enough of farmers markets, CSAs, and direct on-farm sales. Yes, they are exciting -- they feel like they are getting us somewhere. Click here to read this article
• Think Tainted Chinese Pork is Scary? Check Out ...
  Over in China, the nation's burgeoning pork industry has been been busted for churning out meat tainted with an illegal and quite dodgy growth-enhancing chemical, The Washington Post reports. The banned chemical, clenbuterol, is said to "reduce a pig's body fat to a very thin layer and makes but ...
• Lawyer Estimates $400M a Year is Spent Removin ...
  EDWARDSVILLE -- Seven years after water districts filed suit against the makers of a farm herbicide, the class-action lawsuit is still mired in legal machinations in Madison County.Click here to read this article

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

• Does AP I Art. 75 apply to NIAC’s?
  by Michael W. Lewis by Michael W. Lewis There has been a good deal of discussion both here between Kevin Heller and Cully Stimson and over at Lawfare by Jack Goldsmith, Gabor Rona and John Bellinger on the impact of the Administration’s declaration on Additional Protocol I and it’s possible e ...
• Strategic Ambiguity and Libya
  by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Many commentators have discussed the “strategic ambiguity” — undoubtably purposeful — of the Security Council’s resolution authorizing the use of force in Libya.  The resolution speaks of protection of civilians, but nowhere nails down the following, am ...
• Warren Christopher
  by Peggy McGuinness by Peggy McGuinness I was deeply saddened to hear of Warren Christopher’s passing this weekend. He was one of the last lawyer-statesmen of his generation within the Democratic party establishment – a veteran of World War II, with service in the Johnson and Carter administr ...
• Egyptian Constitutional Reform: Presidential E ...
  by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro This from Gianluca Parolin in EUI’s excellent EU Democracy Observatory on Citizenship on proposed changes to Egypt’s constitution regarding presidential eligibility: The current text (albeit suspended) requires the candidate to be an Egyptian citizen born of Egy ...
• Libya and the Three Modes of the Security Council
  by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson In my forthcoming book on US-UN relations (appearing this summer from Hoover Press), Living with the UN, I describe three different “modes” of the Security Council.  By this I mean ways in which the Security Council might function, for some given situat ...

Investigate - Breaking News

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

My Care2 Picks

• LIBYA, A WAR OF LIES
  Gaddafi�s claimed victims of UN bombing campaign included victims of traffic accidents and recently dead. Few currently involved in endless debate over intervention in Libya understand the real implications: mosaic of CIA failures victimizing IslamistsSubmitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Not ...
• Taking the War Out of Air War: What US Air Pow ...
  American �air superiority� in any war the U.S. now fights is total. In fact, the last time American jets met enemy planes of any sort in any skies was in the First Gulf War in 1991Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Japan's Media Blackout - How much danger am I ...
  This video is no longer available on YouTube. It has been banned but why? This man simply wants to know what is going on. Please help him. (Contains a little swearing, understandably). Watch and pass on, let�s get it viral.Submitted by Scott Freewheeler to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a ...
• 2011: A Brave New Dystopia, By Chris Hedges
  Would we be dominated by a repressive surveillance and security state that used crude and violent forms of control? Or entranced by entertainment and spectacle, captivated by technology and seduced by profligate consumption to embrace our own oppression? Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� � ...
• Environmental Reviews
  I had a reminder it's CowBoss' birthday and thought I'd have 'a look around'...and tripped on a uranium mining storySubmitted by John Farnham to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

• 17 Palestinians Injured In A Series Of Air Str ...
  17 Palestinians Injured In A Series Of Air Strikes In Gaza - International Middle East Media Center: "The sources said that ten wounded residents were moved to Al Shifa hospital in Gaza City, and... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Right-wing vigilantes take over Roma neighbour ...
  Independent Media Center | www.indymedia.org | ((( i ))): The European Roma Rights Centre, Amnesty International and Human Rights First sent a letter [PDF] urging Hungarian authorities to intervene... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• A casi 5 años de la masacre en Viejo Velasco, ...
  Centro de Medios Independientes: On November 13, 2006, there was a brutal attack on the community of Viejo Velasco, Ocosingo, Chiapas, perpetrated by 40 people of neighboring New Palestine,... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Cem Ertür: Obama to Qaddafi: 'Comply with UN r ...
  [FOTO:The Times, 18 March 2011] http://911blogger.com/news/2011-03-18/obama-qaddafi-comply-un-resolution-or-face-military-action Obama to Qaddafi: Comply with UN resolution or face military... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• 'Operation Odyssey Dawn' in Libya Brings Back ...
  (APNS) AFRICA/LIBYA -- The continent and people of Africa have entered into a new era of European military intervention and ground invasion with NATO forces attacking civilian targets today in Libya.... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

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

True/Slant Headline Grabs

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

• Former Israeli President Jailed For Rape, Obst ...
  ShareThisFormer Israeli President Jailed For Rape, Obstructing Justice 22 Mar 2011 Ex-Israeli president Moshe Katsav has been jailed for seven years after being convicted of rape and other sexual offences against three female former employees. Katsav was charged with twice raping an aide when he ...
• Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Skipped Inspections
  ShareThisFukushima Nuclear Power Plant Skipped Inspections -- The plant had, in fact, been scheduled to be retired in February, but received a new 10 year additional lease on life 21 Mar 2011 The Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant skipped a set of safety inspections, the operator of the nuclear power ...
• Reactor repairs stall work to avert meltdown
  ShareThisReactor repairs stall work to avert meltdown --Trace levels of radiation in water, over US 22 Mar 2011 Efforts to stabilize the crippled nuclear power plant in Fukushima stalled yesterday when engineers found that crucial machinery at one reactor required repair, a process that will tak ...
• Japan fears food contamination as battle to co ...
  ShareThisJapan fears food contamination as battle to cool nuclear plant continues --Abnormal radiation levels reported in tap water, vegetables and milk with concerns that fish may also be affected 22 Mar 2011 The operation to cool the reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has su ...
• Japan quake death toll passes 18,000
  ShareThisJapan quake death toll passes 18,000 22 Mar 2011 The human and financial cost of the tsunami continues to rise, after police estimates showed more than 18,000 people have died in the disaster and the World Bank said it may cost Japan as much as £145bn to repair the damage. The figures c ...

Daily Loaf

• Community 5% for WMNF Day at Whole Foods Marke ...
  5% of WFM Tampa's net sales on this day will be donated to WMNF 88.5 FM Community Radio. As an extra incentive to stop by the store, WMNF DJs will be spinning tunes in the store while you shop!
• Because tequila isn’t just for shooters and ma ...
  Two specialty cocktail recipes that should please almost any palate and are a breeze to make; one is sweet and tangy, and the other is a little spicy.
• Theater Review: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf ...
  If Virginia Woolf is a great play – and I think it is – then its greatness comes from its pitiless illumination of the evil beneath our best intentions, an evil which doesn’t cease to hunger for its moment.
• #MusicMonday, Vol. 32: Lupe Fiasco, Oh Land, D ...
  The CL Music Team kicks off the week with some new jams (and old) to launch us into a new work week! Hereâs what weâre spinning now; to check out previous entries, click here. Infinite Skillz â Lupe Fiasco, Lasers (2011) “State Run Radio” (track 10) is the scene stealing sleeper of a [...]
• O’Shy’s Irish Tap House in Largo: One woman’s ...
  The opening of O'Shy's Irish Tap House in Largo, Florida, didn't just appear at the end of some rainbow, but through hard work and her dedication to having a place where people could just, "come and hang out" at a place, "like a coffee shop but with beer".

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

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

The Killing Train

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

treehugger

• Christie's Green Auction Boasts Star-Studded L ...
  Lady Gaga. Photo: A Bid to Save the Earth The first part of Christie's green auction, "A Bid to Save the Earth," is live on CharityBuzz.com, featuring a slew of star-studded opportunities to get something in return for putting big bucks toward the environment. Proceeds will benefit four lea ...
• 11 Steps For Starving Students That Will Make ...
  Image Credit Lloyd Alter When asked a few years ago what the single most important thing one could do to reduce their carbon footprint, a so-called expert (not on this site) responded "get rid of vampire power." Since then we have, I think, all become a little more sophisticated. I recently ...
• Eco-Driving, Like Hypermiling, Saves Real Bucks
  Photo courtesy Fiat ecoDrive. Fiat is a big proponent of eco-driving, claiming it could be a great and inexpensive way to reduce carbon emissions from transport. Riding a bike would be an even better way, but while we wait for more people to decide cars aren't so sexy when gas costs 5 bucks ...
• 10 Wacky and Unexpected Things Using Solar Pow ...
  Photo: Facebook/The Sol Cinema Solar power has lots of potential as an alternative to fossil fuels, but some of the things we use it for make more sense than others: From solar-powered food carts, airplanes, and vending machines to solar-powered dog sweaters and beehives, read on to see whi ...
• Stand And Deliver Yourself Better Health
  Photo Credits. Er-T-Go standing desk , via InDesignLive and Better Workplace Standing Desks are a particular hobby horse of our Design and Architecture editor, Lloyd. So we imagine he'll be pleased to learn that the National Heart Foundation in Australia has been spruiking their benefits to ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

• Funeral charity marks 100,000 cremations
  Celebrated group Free Funeral Service Society shirks opposition from the ruling junta to carry out landmark ceremony in Rangoon
• Monks condemn Germany’s sanctions line
  Silent protest by Burmese monks reflects growing disquiet about Germany's lobbying of EU countries to end sanctions on the ruling regime
• Sanctuary eludes ex-political prisoners
  Exiled group of former Burmese political prisoners tells European Commission that life in Thailand is 'like another prison'
• Saudi oil to traverse Burma
  Some $20m worth of Saudi oil likely to be pumped across Burma via the Shwe pipeline to feed China's energy-hungry southwestern province
• Anxiety pervades Burmese border town
  Democratic Karen Buddhist Army says planning 'urban warfare' campaign on govt property in Myawaddy as streets quieten and shops close

Telegraph - Climate Change

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

National Geographic | Environment

• Photos: Preserving Beauty, Providing Hydropowe ...
  NoneScotland harnessed power from water in the Highlands 60 years ago, amid conflicts that echo with relevance for a world still struggling to find clean and safe energy.
• First Day of Spring: Myths, Facts, and Equinox ...
  Were day and night equally long on Sunday, the 2011 vernal equinox (or spring equinox)? Get the answer—and other first-day-of-spring facts and oddities.
• Vernal Equinox 2011: First-Day-of-Spring Myths ...
  Will day and night really be equally long on Sunday, the 2011 vernal equinox (or spring equinox)? Get the answer—and other first-day-of-spring facts and oddities.
• Fish "Walks" on Beach to Spawn
  Every spring on California's beaches, thousands of tiny fish come ashore to lay their eggs—though their sandy habitat is in decline, experts say. Video.
• Japan Reactor Crisis: Satellite Pictures Revea ...
  NoneNew and old satellite pictures reveal just how much damage Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has sustained.

Jurist - Legal Research

• Federal appeals court reinstates wiretapping suit
  [JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit [official website] ruled [decision, PDF] Monday that the plaintiffs in Amnesty v. Blai [ACLU materials] have standing to sue the US government over the constitutionality of a federal eavesdropping law, reinstating their lawsuit. The plainti ...
• Wisconsin AG asks court to block order halting ...
  [JURIST] Wisconsin Attorney General JB Van Hollen (R) [official website] asked the state's Court of Appeals [official website] on Monday to block [motion, PDF] an order issued last week temporarily halting a legislative measure designed to curb the collective bargaining power of unions. Van Holl ...
• Federal judge declines to rule on Blagojevich ...
  [JURIST] A federal judge on Monday declined to formally rule on the request by former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich [JURIST news archive] to cancel his retrial [JURIST report], claiming that the motion was neither serious, nor did it raise a legal question. Earlier this month, Blagojevich's ...
• Supreme Court allows Federal Reserve data rele ...
  [JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] on Monday denied certiorari [order list, PDF] in Clearing House Association LLC v. Bloomberg LP [docket], leaving in place a ruling [JURIST report] requiring the Federal Reserve [official website] to release information regard ...
• France commission fines Google for violating d ...
  [JURIST] The French National Commission of Information Technology and Liberty (CNIL) [official website, in French] fined Google [corporate website] 100,000 euros (USD $141,300) on Monday for violating French data privacy laws [press release, in French] by capturing personal data through Google S ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

• Stock Footage of Minorities in Tim Pawlenty's ...
  Few minorities are featured in Tim Pawlenty's presidential announcement video, and, as it turns out, most of them were taken from Getty stock footage. Pawlenty, who served as governor of Minnesota until January, took the first step toward a 2012 presidential bid by announcing the formation of a ...
• Obama's Answer to the Question, 'Why Libya?'
  After a week of buzz about Obama's hesitancy to take action against Col. Muammar Qaddafi, many people weren't happy when Obama finally did so this weekend. Among the questions that arose: Why strike only Libya, when other regimes murder their citizens too? Why do so without a congressional vote ...
• 'Likely U.S. Presidential Candidate' Sarah Palin
  So says the Jerusalem Post, writing about Palin's two-day visit to Israel and dinner with Benjamin Netanyahu. Also surprising from the same article: Palin prayed at the point closest to the Holy of Holies and left a note with a personal prayer. Unlike the incident that occurred when then-preside ...
• Palin: Israel Should Stop Apologizing
  Sarah Palin is on a two-day trip to Israel, and she told her hosts there that Israel is too apologetic. From the Jerusalem Post: World Likud chairman and Likud MK Danny Danon and Western Wall Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz served as Palin's tour guides on Sunday night. Palin was told that Jews were no ...
• The Cost of Striking Libya
  An F-16 takes off from northern Italy on March 20. credit: Alessandro Garofalo/Reuters With U.S. and coalition forces bombarding Libya leader Muammer al-Qaddafi's forces from the sea and air, the cost for the first day alone of the operation was well over $100 million with the total ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

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

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

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

Tikun Olam

• Sarah Palin: Meet the Occupation
  Going back a few decades there used to be a hilarious parody of the Maine downeaster culture offered by a character named Bert (properly pronounced “Buht”), whose chief response to outliers lost in Maine was: “Ya can’t get there from heya.” Well, when Sarah Palin asked how to get to Bethlehem, t ...
• Abusisi’s Arrest in Own Words
  A lawyer for the Palestine Center for Human Rights visited Dirar Abu Sisi in his cell in Shikma Prison outside Ashkelon and received the most detailed account yet of his kidnapping in Ukraine and rendition to Israel.  The particulars as he recounts them are almost precisely as I portrayed them ...
• Israeli NGO Wins Partial Lifting of Abusisi Gag
  A few days ago the Association for Civil Rights in Israel appealed the gag order on the Dirar Abusisi case and the Petah Tikvah judge ruled in their favor partially.  But it’s a very small victory since the main part of the gag stays in place.  Israeli media cannot report on those aspects o ...
• Ukraine: Not Ready for Prime Time or 2012 Euro Cup
  Ukraine will be co-hosting the next European Cup soccer championship in 2012.  As part of the build-up to this momentous event, it is organizing a mega-million advertising campaign promoting Ukrainian tourism throughout the world.  I’ve even heard of “Ukraine–All About U” promotions as far awa ...
• Eden Abergil: ‘I’m B-A-C-K’
  Just like a bad penny or Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Terminator, Eden Abergil is back to wreak havoc once more. Several months ago she found notoriety by proudly uploading to her Facebook account pictures of her simpering as an IDF soldier next to blindfolded Palestinian prisoners. She clearly was p ...

Ode Magazine

• Q&A: Philipp Blom
  During the 18th century, intellectuals laid the foundation for modern Western society, in which reason and social progress rule. Many of the thinkers came together in a Parisian salon that is the décor of German historian Philipp Blomâs new book, A Wicked Company: The Forgotten ...
• In praise of pessimism
  What’s an intelligent optimist to do with a book that glorifies pessimism, a book by a philosopher known for his ultra-conservative views? Certainly, reading The Uses of Pessimism: And the Danger of False Hope is enough to raise your hackles. But Roger Scruton deserves to ...
• The look (and smell) of love
  Listen to your basic instincts when you think youâre falling for someone. Michael is a well-known New York psychotherapist. He’s 45 and recently divorced. Since he’s a therapist and understands the importance of positive thinking, he describes himself as “in between re ...
• Stir it up with organic yogurt
  By: Sam_Rosenzweig What’s the connection between organic yogurt, socially responsible business, and educational music videos? One guy: president and CE-Yo of Stonyfield Farm, Gary Hirshberg. Hirshberg founded Stonyfield Farm as a seven-cow organic farming school in th ...
• Voss’ ark
  At his Florida farm, Jeff Voss provides a home to the Watusi (pictured here) and many other exotic animal species.Photo: Jeff Voss By day, Jeff Voss manages portfolios and analyzes cash flows; by night, he tends exotic animal species at Briley Farm, a private 60-acre p ...

OpEd News

• Wars Cannot Be Both Planned and Avoided
  Congress held an emergency meeting to defund NPR, and then did nothing as the President spent vastly more money on bombing Libya.
• Lies, Damn Lies, and Humanitarian Intervention
  US led naked aggression targets Libya
• US, France and Britain launch war of aggressio ...
  What lies behind the war against Libya is not the common front of "civilization" against "barbarism," as Obama administration spokesmen claim, but the struggle of rival imperialist powers to dominate one of the world's major sources of oil and gain control of a key strategic location and base of ...
• Pro-Democracy Forces on the Up-Swing in Yemen ...
  The regional pro-Democracy uprising as it has manifested in Yemen has suddenly found new life as key members of the military throw their support behind it.
• The Body Baggers of Iraq
  "War is disgusting and horrific," she said. "It never leaves the people who were involved in it. The damage is far greater than the lists of casualties or cost in dollars. It permeates lifestyles. It infects cultures and people and worldviews. The war is never over for us. The fighting stops. Th ...

Switchboard

• Feds Issue First New Deepwater Drilling Permit ...
  David Pettit, Director, Southern California Air Program, Santa Monica, CA Today, 11 months after the BP Deepwater Horizon blowout, the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) issued the first new deepwater ex ...
• Look to the U.K. for Proof We Can't Drill Our ...
  Deron Lovaas, Federal Transportation Policy Director, Washington, D.C. I�just wrote�about Canada's�prices at the pump�that have mirrored ours for years in spite of their status as a net oil-exporter. A friend of mine mentioned another, similar ex ...
• Congress' Starvation Diet of BOEMRE
  Regan Nelson, Senior Oceans Advocate, Washington, DC As part of my blog series examining the status of offshore oil and gas management nearly one-year after the Gulf oil disaster - and paying homage to the spirited budget debates that are occurrin ...
• Congress Is Home. Will The Members Be Held Acc ...
  Scott Slesinger, Legislative Director, Washington, DC Congress is required to do a budget every year; preferably before the beginning of the fiscal year that begins on October 1.  This fiscal year Congress has failed to fund the government and has ...
• Fresh Oil Continues to Wash Ashore in the Bayou
  Rocky Kistner, Communications Associate, Washington, DC Fresh Louisiana crude washed into the beaches and dock areas near Grand Isle over the weekend, creating a sickening sight for the residents of this oil battered region. The reddish brown crud ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• “Don’t Seem to Have a Theory of Su ...
  Robert Haddick has predictions: From a military perspective, the coalition air campaign looks to be ahead of plan â the burning tanks near Benghazi show that. But without a quick collapse of the Qaddafi regime, coalition policymakers havenât defined a proper end-state and donât seem to have a th ...
• Your Moment of Bobo
  Seriously, in the wake of Iraq, we’re going to claim that unilateralism produces transparent decision-making, clear objectives, and considered decision-making? Right. This is so silly I’m reminded of Brooks’s assertion that Iraq War was really a Burkean endeavor… Related posts:Your Moment o ...
• Violence and the Most Reprehensible Teams Ever
  Andrew Cohen makes a lot of good points here, although I think that the Chara hit (which was more about rink safety than anything) isn’t the best example.   But I’m dismayed that an actual NHL fan would go along with the prevailing media double standard that gives the far, far more brutal NFL ...
• Confusion All the Way Down
  Well, this doesn’t seem very bloody impressive: As the military operation continued over Libya on Monday, there was some confusion about which country or organization is actually leading it, and for how long. France, Britain and the United States are in charge of their own operations, which each ...
• The Problem With the Libyan Intervention
  In dialectic form. Related posts:Libyan Uranium Can This State Intervention Be Saved? Related posts:Libyan Uranium Can This State Intervention Be Saved?

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

• New Hampshire Brewery Brews Via Solar
• Clean Energy $188.1 Billion Industry In 2010
• Camp Pendleton Marines Get Solar Power
• Isuzu Debuts Biofuel Commercial Van
• HL23 Green Building Has Slim Design

National Law Journal | U.S.

• Cuban prisoner released, with pro bono help fr ...
  Six years of "back channel work" by lawyers from Sidley Austin and Hogan Lovells finally paid off earlier this month, when the Cuban government released a human rights activist from prison after more than eight years behind bars, often in solitary confinement.
• Baristas' suit against Starbucks may proceed a ...
  A Boston federal judge has certified a Massachusetts class action against Starbucks Corp. over its tip policy on the same day plaintiffs appealed a New York federal court's judgment on the same policy to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2d Circuit.
• A D.C. Circuit nominee's nimble appearance at ...
  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday debated a case testing the scope of the exclusionary rule in oral arguments that featured a lawyer who also is a nominee to a federal appeals court.
• Ice Miller sued over alleged disability insura ...
  A former attorney at Ice Miller who was severely injured in a motorcycle crash has sued the law firm for allegedly botching the administration of his long-term disability payments.
• ICE attorney gets 17-year sentence for taking ...
  A former attorney with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was sentenced on March 21 to 17 years and eight months in federal prison for taking bribes from immigrants.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

• Governor’s Marcellus Commission Meeting ...
  Hi All, A notice in the PA Bulletin announced the first meeting of the Governor’s Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission. Scheduled for Friday, March 25, 2011, from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., It will be held in Room 105 of the Rachel Carson State Office Building, 400 Market Street, Harrisburg, PA. Th ...
• Senator Casey Introduces Three Natural Gas Bills
  The following is a press release from Senator Robert Casey regarding three bills he has reintroduced. (1) S1215: Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals Act (aka: The Frac Act) (2) S S3964: Faster Action Safety Team Emergency Response Act (aka: FASTER) (3) S3720: Marcellus Shale On- ...
• Has Your Stream Been Affected by Gas Drilling?
  How do you know? For many, it rests upon early detection -  and prevention of environmental impact. In 2010 the Alliance for Aquatic Resource Monitoring (ALLARM)  researched and tested a volunteer-based Marcellus Monitoring protocol for the early detection of flowback contamination in small Penn ...
• Frack Water Missing and Unaccounted For
  I just received this info from the RDA: Over 54 million gallons of frack water missing & unaccounted for! The PA Department of Environmental Resources has discovered that records on recycling of gas drilling wastewater have been wildly inflated due to a reporting error. Even worse, no one seems ...
• PRESS CONFERENCE – Moratorium on Drillin ...
  March 9 – 10 AM Moratorium on future gas leases in State Forests Representative Vitali will hold a press conference in Media Room, main Capitol. Greg will announce the introduction of a bill for 3 year moratorium on leasing in State Forests. He would like to have a stage full of representatives ...

News Blaze

• UN Nuclear Expert: Current Emergency Response ...
  Mr. Amano coordinates for global nuclear safety. He has just returned from a flying visit to Japan, said the current emergency response framework was designed largely in the wake of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in the then Soviet Union, the worst eve
• People of African Descent Still Endure Discrim ...
  Ban deplores the discrimination and social exclusion by the people of African descent for their historical contributions in all fields of human endeavour are often ignored.
• 2 Two Environmental Activists Arrested and Jailed
  The two environmental activists, Brandon Block and Courtney Claar, both FAU alumni, have been charged with trespassing and are awaiting release.
• Ban: 'Let The Spirit of Nowruz Prevail'
  The traditions and rituals are particularly dominant in the Balkans, the Black Sea and Caspian Sea regions, the Caucasus, Central and South Asia, and the Middle East.
• More Than 200 Cases of Forced Disappearances R ...
  The UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances is now conducting a mission to learn about Mexico's efforts in dealing with the issue.

environment 360

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

Red Ice Creations

• Libya - Minerva & Purim
  Regarding the post on your site about the action against Libya starting on Minerva's birthday, it may be more, er, "illuminating," to recall that March 19 is also the Jewish holiday Purim. The United States invaded Iraq on March 19, 2003, which that year was the holy "Day of Purim" in the Jewish ...
• Libya: Another War, Another Pack of Lies
  The corporate-financiers are dangerously flirting with their entire official narrative collapsing, as their progressive, Peace-Prize wearing puppet President Obama and the "radical reformer" David Cameron lead yet another war based on an Iraq-style pack of lies. After weeks of peddling a litany ...
• Libya another Kosovo - NATO and Coalition Bomb ...
  Is Libya another Kosovo all over again, another NATO Intervention? Less than a dozen years after NATO bombed Yugoslavia into pieces, detaching the province of Kosovo from Serbia, there are signs that the military alliance is gearing up for another victorious little "humanitarian war", this time ...
• Britain to launch strike to assassinate Gaddafi
  Britain is ready to launch a surgical strike to assassinate Colonel Gaddafi. Defence Secretary Liam Fox said yesterday he would sanction a ‘bunker buster’ attack on the Libyan dictator’s lair as long as civilian casualties could be avoided. Dr Fox vowed to destroy the Libyan dictator’s entire mi ...
• As five are reported dead, will nuclear offici ...
  They are an anonymous band of lower and mid-level managers who are risking their lives at the very heart of Japan’s nuclear crisis. But as the stricken reactors at the Fukushima nuclear plant appears to stabilise, plant owners are still remaining tight-lipped about the so-called 'Fukushima Fifty ...

Russia Today

• Radiation level at Fukushima exceeds norm 1,60 ...
  Work has resumed at the Fukushima power plant after it was interrupted for the second time in 24 hours. Restoration work has been underway at the facility to deal with damage caused by the tsunami.
• Nuclear power is safe - UK's ex-chief nuclear ...
  The big challenge for the nuclear industry is getting the message across to the public that nuclear power is safe, says Professor Laurence Williams, who headed the NII – Britain’s watchdog for nuclear installations –...
• Libya torn to pieces by rebels, Gaddafi and co ...
  Latest coalition air-strikes hit two Libyan naval bases and two airports, including a civilian airport in the city of Sert. As the operation unfolds, rebels have reinforced their efforts to recover the territory they...
• Bombardment with social expenditures
  The majority of Americans definitely do not cheer to the Libyan drums of war stripping the budget with every stroke, but some in US can actually benefit from a longstanding campaign.
• Libyans are expendables on oil-rich battlefield
  Political analysts say that protecting civilians in Libya is actually the allied coalition’s secondary priority. The primary one is eliminating the country’s defenses and gaining control over Libya’s oil-rich regions...

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

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

Tippers News

• Domestic violence
  The statistics are startling: It's estimated that every 18 minutes a woman in the United States is beaten. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Yes, trafficking happens right here
  A common misconception about human trafficking and modern slavery is that it does not happen here. But it does. It's a documented fact. Take the case of two girls, ages 15 and 16, who ran away from a juvenile home in Fremont in 2007.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a ...
• Human smuggling
  THERE is no doubt that rampant poverty, unemployment and a bleak future stare young Pakistanis in the face. The situation invariably provides a breeding ground Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• GM Food: Facts Not Crops. Take Action!
  To the President of the European Commission J.M. Barroso: We call on you to put a moratorium on the introduction of GM crops into Europe and set up an independent, ethical, scientific body to research the impact of GM crops .. Sign the petition!Submitted by Graeme that's Graeme to Green Life ...
• Public opinion stopped GM, says campaigner + T ...
  Interesting article in The Independent in which Lord Melchett, the former director of Greenpeace, speaks out. Also, have you signed this Avaaz petition yet? http://www.avaaz.org/en/eu_gmo/?cl=743766348&v=7138 (You'll have to copy + paste the link!)Submitted by Graeme that's Graeme to Enviro ...

The Freeman

• Nature Itches
  If you want to live closer to nature, be prepared to die closer to nature.
• Treasury Secretary to Flex New Regulatory Muscles
  “Timothy F. Geithner soon will announce a decision that underscores just how much power last yearâs far-reaching financial overhaul legislation ceded to the Treasury secretary. The Dodd-Frank bill signed into law in July allows Geithner to decide whether the vast market in foreign-exchange swaps ...
• Housing Bust Exposes Real-Estate Hype
  “Tax breaks, equity growth and the sanctity of the American dream — the real estate community has made a pretty compelling case over the years for the merits of purchasing property versus throwing your money away on rent. But as the housing market redefines itself in the wake of the subprime mor ...
• The Militarization of Compassion
  We must not ignore the decentralized coordinating processes behind rescue efforts and humanitarian assistance.
• U.N. Authorizes ‘All Necessary Measures’ To Pr ...
  Among the five governments that abstained in the vote, Brazilâs U.N. ambassador, Maria Luiza Riberio Viotti, voiced concern that military action in Libya would âexacerbate tensions on the ground and cause more harm than good to the same civilians we are committed to protect.â (Washington Post) W ...

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

• Large new oil spill under investigation off Lo ...
  The U.S. Coast Guard is investigating a large oil sheen off the Louisiana coast about 20 miles north of the site where the Deepwater Horizon oil rig blew up last April. Hurricane Creekkeeper John Wathen of the Waterkeeper Alliance first heard reports about the slick on Saturday and fl ...
• Controversial immigration enforcement program ...
  By Rebekah L. Cowell, special to Facing South U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced last week that all 100 counties in North Carolina have been connected to the Secure Communities program. That makes North Carolina the 10th state to implement the program statewide, along with ...
• Trial to open in lawsuit connected to hospital ...
  By Sheri Fink, ProPublica, co-published with the New York Times A jury trial set to open today will weigh whether one of America's largest health care corporations should be held accountable for deaths and injuries at a New Orleans hospital marooned by floodwaters after Hurricane Katrina. ...
• INSTITUTE INDEX: Nuclear-powered politics
  Amount the nuclear power industry spent on lobbying from 2000 to 2010: $600 million Amount the industry spent during that same period on campaign contributions: nearly $63 million Amount the Nuclear Energy Institute -- an industry trade group whose members include the company that owns th ...
• Congressman: U.S. may not be prepared to respo ...
  By Sasha Chavkin, ProPublica As Japan struggles to contain its growing nuclear crisis, a congressman and a disaster-preparedness expert raised concerns that the United States is not prepared to respond to a nuclear disaster. Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., wrote a letter to President Obama on M ...

Worldpress - Africa

• Gender Mainstreaming in the Senegalese Armed F ...
  In this interview, Air Force Colonel Birame Diop talks about the Senegal military's effort to integrate women into its armed forces, the many facets of that challenge, and how Senegal is one African country that has been able to avoid a coup.
• Gaddafi's Removal Is Not Easy
  Even though the entire Western world opposes Libya's Muammar Gaddafi and wishes to see him dethroned, the international community hesitates to intervene on the rebels' behalf.
• Women's Modern Plight
  With all the progress that has been made to advance women's position in the world, their standing still ranges from disadvantaged in developed countries to brutalized in developing ones.
• Improving Security in Somalia
  The United States is looking to the regions of Puntland and Somaliland for keys to protecting Somalis from extremist threats.
• Nigeria's Delicate Presidential Election Trans ...
  Nigeria's election history is shambolic and corrupt. If the country's new national electoral body is to conduct a free and fair election in January, it has its work cut out for it.

Telegraph UK - oil

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

Ian Welsh

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

Media Consortium

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

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

• Experiments suspended following underground fire
  Physics experiments in a major US underground laboratory remain suspended today as crews work to restart pumps shut down following a fire. The fire at the Soudan Mine in Minnesota broke out on the evening of March 17 in timbers in an elevator shaft serving the Soudan Underground Laboratory, whic ...
• A neat trick for strengthening carbon nanotube ...
  The next generation of carbon fiber composites could be ten times stronger and stiffer than present materials, thanks to a neat trick to reinforce bundles of carbon nanotubes reported at the American Physical Society (APS) meeting in Dallas today. The work is funded by the US military, which is ...
• Penguins in peril after South Atlantic oil leak
  Conservationists are warning of an ecological disaster in the South Atlantic after a cargo vessel broke up on Nightingale Island, home to a sizeable chunk of the world’s population of endangered Northern Rockhopper Penguins. The MS Oliva was carrying some 1,400 tonnes of heavy crude when it r ...
• Fukushima fall-out for reactors around the world
  The Fukushima disaster has shaken public confidence worldwide in the safety of nuclear power stations. Most governments have proven reluctant to pull the plug on their nuclear power stations entirely, promising instead to rethink strategies and undertake safety checks. On March 15th, the Euro ...
• Wolf war truce
  Wolves have been a problem out west for some years. First there were wolves, then there were none. In 1996, wolves were reintroduced to the Rocky Mountains (see photo). They did remarkably well. In states like Idaho, Montana and Wyoming, there have seemed, of late, to be plenty of wolves. En ...

new geography

• The High Speed Rail Battle of Britain
  A high speed rail battle is brewing in Great Britain, not unlike the controversies that have lit up the political switchboard in the United States over the past six months. The Department for Transport has announced a plan to build a "Y" shaped high speed rail route that would connect Leeds ...
• Actually, Cities are Part of the Economy
  �The prosperity of our economy and communities is dependent on the political structures and mechanisms used to manage and coordinate our economic systems.� No politician expecting to be taken seriously would say that today. State intervention was discredited long before it collapsed in the ...
• Energy Policy Reset: Forget Nuclear Reactors a ...
  The two largest crises today — the Japanese nuclear disaster and the widening unrest in the Middle East — prove it’s time to de-fetishize energy policy. These serious problems also demonstrate why we must expand the nation’s ample oil and gas supplies — urgently. The worsening Japanese nuclear ...
• Why We Can’t Shun Manufacturing for the Servic ...
  There�s been a lot of talk lately about the shift in the US economy away from production and increasingly into services. Consider the employment data from the US: In 1950, 30% of all US jobs were in manufacturing while 63% were in services. In 2011, 9% of total employment remains in manufact ...
• Asthma: The Geography of Wheezing
  Are you familiar with the Hygiene Hypothesis? The HH — or, as some of us call it, the “pound of dirt theory” — is grabbing attention again. A minor medical press feeding frenzy followed the publication in the New England Journal of Medicine of a study based on data from Europe. The summary? ...

GM Watch

• Important court victory on Roundup / pesticide ...
• EU urged to carry out "complete overhaul" of f ...
• Decline of GM with no-till farming
• New published studies call for reform in EU ri ...
• Shoppers kept in dark over GM ingredients

spiked

• Libya: war without ends, yet without oppositio ...
  Cynics and half-hearted critics are no match for the half-cocked war on Libya. Time to invoke the principle of anti-intervention.
• The most shortlived alliance in human history
  Normally when governments launch a war they ask: ‘What's Plan B?’ In relation to Libya they're asking, ‘What’s Plan A?’
• It’s mostly anti-racists keeping racism ...
  While race-relations experts fret about managing people, young people are embracing ‘superdiversity’.
• Life expectancy: and now for the good news…
  We’re living longer. So why do campaigners and public-health workers keep trying to scare us to death?
• Attack on Libya: the barbarism of buffoons
  The bombings confirm that there is now an utter disconnect between the West’s geopolitical interests and its geopolitical behaviour.

Cryptogon

• Fed Must Release Loan Data as High Court Rejec ...
  Via: Bloomberg: The Federal Reserve will disclose details of emergency loans it made to banks in 2008, after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected an industry appeal that aimed to shield the records from public view. The justices today left intact a court order that gives the Fed five days to release ...
• Home Sales Dive, Prices Near 9-Year Low
  Via: Reuters: Sales of previously owned U.S. homes plunged in February and prices hit their lowest level in nearly nine years, implying a housing market recovery was still a long way off. The National Association of Realtors said on Monday sales fell 9.6 percent month over month to an annual rat ...
• Japan: Monitoring Radiation Levels
  A reader asked if I had any suggestions for monitoring radiation levels in Japan. I have no idea how accurate any of this is, but here are the sites I’ve been watching: http://www.bousai.ne.jp/eng/ http://www.stubbytour.com/nuc/index_en.asp Tokyo only: http://park30.wakwak.com/~weather/geiger_in ...
• Obama Creates Indefinite Detention System for ...
  From March 8. Via: Washington Post: President Obama signed an executive order Monday that will create a formal system of indefinite detention for those held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who continue to pose a significant threat to national security. The administration als ...
• U.S. Army ‘Kill Team’ in Afghanist ...
  Via: Guardian: Commanders in Afghanistan are bracing themselves for possible riots and public fury triggered by the publication of “trophy” photographs of US soldiers posing with the dead bodies of defenceless Afghan civilians they killed. Senior officials at Nato’s International Security Assist ...

The Economic Collapse

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

Desertification

• Land degradation and desertification (GOOGLE / ...
  Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.scribd.com/doc/51054810/95/Land-degradation-and-deserti%EF%AC%81cation Climate Change – The Science, Impacts and Solutions (2010) A. Barrie PITTOCK Desertiï¬cation is the subject of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertiï¬cation, … des ...
• Conserve forests to mitigate rising water scar ...
  Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://news.mongabay.com/2011/0320-hance_water_forests.html Want water? save forests Jeremy Hance mongabay.com March 21, 2011 The UN-backed Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF) is urging nations to conserve their forests in a bid to mitigate rising ...
• Local people find successful solutions to comb ...
  See this nice video : Google Alert – desertification http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a49FRUxLSrg Brazil: Desertification United Nations, February 2011 – It’s a phenomenon unknown to many, yet it threatens almost half of the world’s land. It’s called desertification and if left unchecked, its … Co ...
• Forests capture and store water (Google / PR N ...
  (continued)Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.environmental-expert.com/resultEachPressRelease.aspx?cid=36822&codi=229678 Forests are key for high quality water supply / Better forest management needed to maximize water-related benefits from forests Source: PR Newswire ROME, Marc ...
• UNCCD News Alert Nº 05/03/2011
  Read at : Land Degradation Announcement List COP 9 Follow-up CST S-2: The advance copy of the Report of the Committee on Science and Technology on its second special session held in Bonn from 16 to 18 February 2011 … Continue reading →

The Paper Trail

• U.S. nuclear aid may be going to countries lik ...
  The State Department is refusing to block United Nations nuclear technology aid to countries that are on the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism because it does not want to set back other countries in the program.
• Maryland challenges online payday lender owned ...
  Western Sky Financial’s website features a logo with three teepees and a toll-free number for customers to apply for an overnight loan. A notice at the bottom of the page says that the company is “owned wholly by an individual Tribal Member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe.”
• Quake concern delays nuclear plant extension
  A California utility, waiting for "safety lessons" arising from the crisis in Japan, has asked to delay a hearing on extending the operation of one of its nuclear plants by 20 years. The plant lies near a fault that could trigger an earthquake.
• Chemical that killed in Bhopal finally abandon ...
  Sooner than expected, the last major U.S. producer of the chemical that killed thousands in Bhopal, India, 26 years ago and was nearly released in a 2008 explosion in West Virginia is ceasing production of the compound.
• FOIA requests still hit with delays, denials d ...
  WASHINGTON - One government agency is still trying to find correspondence for a political reporter between federal officials there and prospective presidential candidates - from the 2008 election. Another censored 194 pages of internal e-mails about President Barack Obama's new rules on open gov ...

backofthebook.ca

• 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 ...

libcom

• Action against OTTO employment agency met with ...
  OTTOstop1.png A picket against Dutch employment agency OTTO Workforce organized by the Vrije Bond and ZSP in Venrey, where the headquarters of OTTO is began this morning. From the beginning it was me ...
• Brazil's Socialist President Rousseff sends Se ...
  dam.jpg Taken from here, this seems like a small but interesting development, parallel to the opposition by the victims of this barrage - the tribes in the photo here. And worth giving it more public ...
• In Warsaw Nurses Occupy Sejm, Tenants Disrupt ...
  sesja4.png Politicians targets of protests as tensions rise in labour and other social movements. A group of nurses have occupied the gallery of the Polish Parliament (the Sejm ...
• "Let's organize relief activities for the affe ...
  Earthquake.jpeg A statement by the independent Doro-Chiba railway workers union about the recent earthquake in Japan and the government's response to it. Let’s Organize Relief ...
• Riot at asylum seekers detention centre, Chris ...
  Buildings and tents at the Christmas Island detention centre have been destroyed in fires deliberately lit by asylum seekers overnight. Tents used to house asylum seekers were razed, after Australian Federal Police (AFP) used tear ga ...

Free Range International

• Rant Time
  Last December C.J. Chivers wrote a very classy piece on one of my fellow milbloggers Joshua Foust from Registan.net.  C.J. noted that Joshua has softened some of his pointed criticism while growing as a writer.  I see the same thing in his Registan posts and know that I too have tried to tone do ...
• Crickets
  Crickets as in “I hear nothing but crickets” is the word of the day for Regimental Combat Team 1 (RCT 1) based in Camp Dwyer and controlling the southern districts of Helmand Province.  I needed to do a little district level coordination last weekend and was able to catch a ride to Marjah with ...
• It Takes A Clue
  Nothing will sour the morale of combat troops faster then the realization that the commander at the top receives frequent visits from the Good Idea Fairy.   Which is a good start point for explaining why  General Stanley A McChrystal took to the pages of Foreign Policy last week to explain the u ...
• Thugs, Mobs And Education
  The news this week has been dominated by the Lara Logan story.  Ms. Logan was the subject of  the most popular post in FRI history which can be found here.  Reactions to the news that Lara was subjected to “a brutal and sustained assault and beating” have cost at least one knucklehead his job ...
• Naw Zad
  I just did something which would have been suicidal 10 months ago.  My colleague Little Mac and I, in the company of a Marine tank officer and Naval surface warfare officer (he’s a fires guy by trade) just strolled around the town of Naw Zad with no body armor, no helmets, no riflemen escorting ...

The Story Behind the Story

• EXPOSED — The “Unwarranted Power&# ...
  For those who doubt that Earthquakes and Weather Modification technology is solely the domain of the “lunatic fringe” conspiracy nuts, this post is for you!! The date was January 17, 1961.  John F. Kennedy had just won the election in November, and was soon to take his oath of office as the Pre ...
• Liberty Coins Founder Convicted of Counterfeiting
  Let’s make sure we get this straight.   If a person mints his own pure silver and gold coins for use in a private enterprise with like-minded individuals – this is a crime. But if a Private International Bank guts the 1792 Coinage Act and willfully debases the coinage – and replaces 90% silver ...
• This Weekend – the Festival of Purim Beg ...
  This could well be THE MOST IMPORTANT POST that I, A. True Ott, PhD, have ever issued to my friends in cyberspace.  I submit the Christian world is in for a veritable “perfect storm” of evil and chaos very soon – and thereby America’s spirituality and charity will be tried and tested as never b ...
• REVEALED: How “Facebook” and &#82 ...
  We know the “rebellion” in Egypt and Libya was fueled via “Facebook Groups” which formed the “APRIL 6 MOVEMENT”.  These are part of “Operation Sock Puppet”. Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media Exclusive: Military’s ‘sock puppet’ software creates fake online identities to sp ...
• More on CIA/Blackwater “Global Mission C ...
  VETERANS TODAY EXCLUSIVE: RAYMOND DAVIS RELEASE – IMRAN KHAN & IJAZUL HAQ INTERVIEWS – THE INSIDE STORY (video) March 16, 2011 posted by Gordon Duff “FAMILY KIDNAPPED, FORCED TO SIGN ‘PARDON LETTER’” – PAKISTAN IN SHOCK “PAKISTAN’S GOVERNMENT HAS SOLD OUT THE PRIDE OF THE NATION”  Imran Khan “AB ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

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

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

• Almas Jiwani, Women's Rights Advocate
  President of National Committee of UN Women in Canada on the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day and the state of women around the world.
• Don Tapscott
  Best-selling author Don Tapscott on the "wiki-revolutions" in the Middle East and how mass collaboration is changing our world.
• Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian singer-songwriter
  Peter Mansbridge sits down with Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon to discuss his hits, and those songs that were never sung.
• Fergie Jenkins, Baseball Hall of Famer (Feb 2, ...
  Canada's only Hall of Famer talks with Peter about pitching fastballs and dealing with life's curveballs.
• Rex Murphy (Dec 18, 2010)
  We call him the wordsmith for his own amazing using of the English language - and part of that he gets from his voracious reading appetite of the works of others. Given the season, time for a visit from the one and only Rex Murphy, and his advice on the best books to give.

Scotts Contracting

• Scotts Contracting House Coat Experience
  When I first read about the House Coat Project sponsored by Cosign Projects and the Artist’s vision.  I thought this could be the next great innovative Green Building product that could possibly spark the Housing Industry and Create Jobs for American … Continue reading →
• House Coat
• Prop C – Missouri Renewable Energy Stand ...
  On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Erin Noble wrote: Prop C – Missouri Renewable Energy Standard Update and Next Steps Thank you for signing the letter urging Governor Nixon calling on him to veto SCR1 which undercut … Continue reading →
• One Week Until the Introduction to FREE Green- ...
  On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 5:04 PM, CRS Events wrote: One Week Left Until the "Introduction to Green-e" Webinar Series Join us for three upcoming webinars that give an overview of the Green-e programs and how they work … Continue reading →
• Selecting sustainable cabinetry requires caref ...
  A product is only as sustainable as the sum of its parts. In the case of cabinetry, there are quite a few parts–from raw materials to resins to finishes–to add up. Here’s what to look for when selecting cabinetry for … Continue reading →

The View From Abroad

• Dangers are Inherent in the War with Qaddafi
  Libya could become the next quagmire for American forces.
• Abraham Lincoln: Biggest Fraud in American Hi ...
  The 150th anniversary of Lincoln's first inaugural is a good time to re-evaluate the Great Emancipator's record.
• What’s Good for the Goose is Good for the Gander
  If Obama can nullify an act of Congress, why can't juries and states?
• Drastic Cuts in Spending are Needed Now
  To avoid food riots spreading to the U.S., Washington must fix its fiscal and monetary problems.
• Hypocrisy of U.S. Foreign Policy Produces Terr ...
  U.S. support of tyrants betrays our principles and contributes to terrorism.

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

• Libya: Where Are the BRICs?
  Brazil, Russia, India, and China did not support the UN resolution on the use of force against the Libyan government. What does this mean for the new world order?
• Commentary Urges Congress to Investigate PBS f ...
  The American Enterprise Institute's Michael Rubin writes that "Right Web is among the worst Google manipulators in the political realm."
• U.S. Military Spending Marches On
  How on earth do you get a bipartisan consensus against cuts and for stimulus? Call it the defense budget.
• Libya Needs Cancer of Gaddafi Removed, But U.S ...
  Libya is in better hands with the UN Security Council.
• Strategic Dialogue: Intervene or Not in Libya?
  Muammar Gaddafi is gaining ground against the opposition in Libya. What should the international community do?

Law.com

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

Iranian.com

• Video: Congressional criticism on Libya
  CNN's Dana Bash reports many in Congress are responding with criticism and concern to U.S. action in Libya this weekend
• سوریه: حکومت بشار اسد در سراشیب
  اوضاع سوریه ظاهرا آرام شدنی نیست. شهر "درعا" امروز صحنه تظاهرات ده‌ها هزار نفر بود. تظاهرکنندگان، ضمن تشییع جنازه قربانیان درگیری‌های روز جمعه شعار می‌دادند "انقلاب، انقلاب" و "خدا، سوریه، آزادی".read more
• Iran's IRGC attacks anti-Assad protesters in Syria
  Opposition sources said Iran has sent units of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to attack thousands of anti-Assad protesters in the city of Dera. They said IRGC transported hundreds of commandos via helicopter in what could mark the prelude to massive bloodshed. "The IRGC landed before the ...
• Shiraz 21 March"Mubarak Ben-Ali now time for S ...
  Iran Shiraz 21 March 2011 "Mubarak Ben-Ali now time for Seyed Ali" "Death to dictator" SHIRAZ: Khandane Sorude Ey Iran Hengame Tahvile Sal! March 21, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGGxW48MZM0&feature=player_embedded
• واکنش رهبر جمهوری اسلامی به پيام نوروزی باراک ...
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Most Revolutionary Act

• Obama’s Neoliberal Stance on Charter Sc ...
  Of the last five presidents, Obama has clearly been the staunchest ally of the school privatization movement. I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised. Our first black president has already clearly established his neoliberal credentials, in expanding Bush’s war on terror into Pakistan, Yemen and Libya ...
• The Charter School Industry – Part II
  Should We Allow Conservative Philanthropists to Run Our Schools? A final source of charter school funding is the New Schools Venture Fund created in 1998, which hosts funding by conservative-leaning mega charities, such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Walmart family foundatio ...
• The Charter School Industry – Part I
  “Charter schools were a movement, but now charter schools are an industry. They have lobbyists – they walk around in thousand-dollar suits, some of them.” -  Dan Gaetz, Florida freshman senator (R) and former Okaloosa school superintendent (see http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/11/neo-liberalism-t ...
• The History of the School Privatization Movement
  The Neoliberal Goal to Privatize All Public Services Neoliberal Republicans and Tea Partiers (and now Barack Obama and Department of Education director Arne Duncan) give lip service to improving achievement levels for students in inner city schools. However instead of improving funding to these ...
• The War on Public Education
  (As a child and adolescent psychiatrist for 30+ years – and a teacher for two years before that – I have special reason to be concerned by the recent attack on teachers unions and public education in general.) Given increasing school closures and teacher layoffs in many states, moves by Con ...

Doug's Darkworld

• BATTLE: LOS ANGELES, WARNING, SEEING THIS MOVI ...
  A TV commercial just came on saying “Battle: Los Angeles” was the world’s number one movie. I’ve seen it. If it’s the world’s number one movie, it’s because it doesn’t have much competition. Not that it’s a bad movie. If one likes alien invasion movies, say Aliens crossed with Independence Day, ...
• Another Day, Another War
  The USA is now at war with Libya. Not to mention in conjunction with our old buddies, France and Britain. Since this website is about war and the onrushing darkness, I guess I better comment on it, depressing as it is. And it is depressing, wars almost never work out the way people wanted, and [...]
• Libyan Rebel Jets Sink Qaddafi’s Warship ...
  And another oh so exciting day in the news. I’m getting tired of this, it’s almost scary to turn on the TV now. Well it is scary. However, I’m still here and there’s nothing really worrisome going on in Berkeley, so I will carry on and try to make sense of the rapidly changing world. [...]
• Taking Stock: Japan, Giant Earthquake, Tsunami ...
  Just when I thinks the news can’t get any worse, it does. Actually, I always know things can get worse, I’m just a bit dismayed that my predictions of doom and gloom are bearing fruit from unexpected quarters. And by that I mean the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. This is already one of the [...]
• “The solid human waste matter intersects ...
  The post title, my old friend Ralph Johnson came up with that in high school, it never caught on. At least I think he did, memory is a fuzzy thing, it’s a story we tell ourselves more than anything. Ralph also went around for a year saying “devastating” hoping it would catch on, but alas, [...]

FourWinds10

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

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

• Clarifying Misconceptions on Taxpayer-Subsidiz ...
  Join the forum discussion on this post Last November, the Financial Times published an article charging that ethanol from the U.S. is collecting U.S. tax credits before being shipped to Europe, where it also qualifies for favorable tax treatment. I wrote an article about this called Taxpayer Su ...
• Ethanol and Corrosion Follow-Up
  Join the forum discussion on this post Problem? What Problem? Following my recent post What You Aren’t Being Told About Ethanol and Corrosion, someone made a comment that gets to the root of why many ethanol proponents mistakenly see me as an enemy of ethanol (indeed, one of the Top 10). The p ...
• How Much Are You Willing to Pay to be Nuke-Free?
  Join the forum discussion on this post A Plan to Phase Out “Dirty” Energy After the Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico, someone said to me “We have to stop all offshore drilling.” My response was that I could get behind that idea, but I wanted to know what sacrifices the person was ...
• The Mirage of Fail Safe Engineering
  Join the forum discussion on this post Harsh Reality As I have said many times, all of our energy options require trade-offs. I can’t think of any that don’t have some negative consequences and risks associated with their production and/or use. One job of the engineer is to minimize those risk ...
• What You Aren’t Being Told About Ethanol and C ...
  Join the forum discussion on this post Good Ideas Gone Bad History is littered with examples of ideas that seemed to be good for a while, but were later discovered to have unpleasant consequences. The pharmaceutical industry is full of cases of promising drugs that went through testing, receiv ...

Discovery Educator Network

• Noteleaf - Know What's Next
  Comments:You schedule meetings in Google Calendar, Noteleaf gives you information about who you're meeting on your phone.  (only for U.S. and Canada mobile phones)  - Jennifer DormanTags: noteleaf, meeting, calendar, education, business, organizationby: Jennifer Dorman
• BLOGGING USING WEB 2.0 AND SOCIAL MEDIA IN EDU ...
  Comments:Building a powerful #PLN #edchat #iste using gr8 #edtech20 #edtools in XXI Century Education Part 2 #aplanet . Pls add comments , share and retweet  - LUCIAN DUMATags: #edtech20, project, #aplanet, media, social, #edtools, PLNby: LUCIAN DUMA
• Teacher Training Videos created by Russell Sta ...
  Tags: conference, Tools, presentation, education, backchannel, Collaboration, software, conferences, tutorial, technology, teaching, web2.0, tutorials, edtech, multimedia, web_2.0by: Doug Mann
• Flubaroo Overview - Welcome to Flubaroo
  Comments:Follow this process to create self-grading Google quizzes.  - Dean MantzTags: flubaroo, googledocs, gradingby: Dean Mantz
• Project-Based Learning | Scoop.it
  Tags: learning, project, PBL, basedby: Jackie Gerstein

Rodale News

• Save Your Brain: Grind Your Own Organic Grass- ...
  RODALE NEWS, WASHINGTON, DC—E-mails warning about food safety make almost daily appearances in my inbox, and the inboxes of hundreds of other reporters. Much of the information never makes it out to the public, just the big stuff like the 2009 peanut butter recall. If it did, people would be ev ...
• Cleaner Air Could Reduce Asthma, IBS, Diabetes ...
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—On Wednesday, the Environmental Protection Agency announced new rules that will require coal-burning power plants to limit emissions of toxic air pollutants that are known to exacerbate asthma. That's great news for the 8 percent of Americans who suffer from the breathin ...
• Michelle Obama Wants Your Family to Try These ...
  RODALE NEWS, WASHINGTON, DC—Unbeknownst to any of the reporters covering first lady Michelle Obama as she and local schoolchildren were digging holes for the White House kitchen garden Tuesday—marking the garden's third anniversary—there were far more interesting garden-related activities takin ...
• Welcome the Saturday Supermoon with a Thai-Ins ...
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—The supermoon is coming! This Saturday, the moon will appear bigger and brighter in the sky than usual as it makes its closest approach to earth in nearly 20 years. Since the approach coincides with a full moon, it's a great excuse to spend some time outdoors (nature is ...
• In Three Years, You'll Be Breathing Cleaner Ai ...
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Asthma affects roughly 10 percent of the U.S. population, and one in six deaths in this country are caused by coronary heart disease and heart attacks. As a growing body of research indicates, all three conditions are either caused by or exacerbated by particulate pollut ...

big think

• One year anniversary of the Fimmvörðuháls fiss ...
  I almost let it slip by, but Jon Frimann reminded me that this week marks the one-year anniversary of the start of what came to be the biggest volcanic event of 2010: the eruption of�Eyjafjallaj�kull�in Iceland. The eruption started off relatively inauspiciously, with a fissure vent eruption at� ...
• Baby Boomers: Tweet Like Your Jobs Depends on ...
  "Ageism exists in this country," says TheLadders.com founder Mark Cenedella. "It’s absolutely clear, you’re not going to change it, and you’re not going to change people’s perceptions." That's the bad news.  But the good news is there are ways that you can overcome with this bias, says Cenedel ...
• The Era of Conspicuous Web Consumption
  We've entered a new era of conspicuous Web consumption, where people are encouraged to demonstrate their social status online by contributing to an increasingly unwieldy number of social media, social networking and location-based services. It's hard to pinpoint the exact date, but the Web h ...
• Wishful Thinking: What to do with Gadhafi
  The New York Times headline this morning said it all with regard to the bombardment of Libya: "Target in Libya Is Clear; Intent is Not." On one level the multi-lateral action directed at the Gadhafi regime has clear backing from the United Nations Security Council; it is aimed at protecting ordi ...
• READING: Julian Barnes, Loss, and Literary Cliche
  Thinking about revolutions is inextricable from thinking about grief. We cannot know how many lives will be lost, but we know that those left behind will engage in personal and communal, grief. The “memoir of loss” is a popular genre, but what teaches us more: personal experiences of others, or ...

Information Liberation

• The Real Meaning of "Defense"
  The horror of Muammar Gaddafi's approach to keeping power in Libya boggles the mind and shocks the moral conscience. But how different is his approach from the way most all governments behave in the face of citizen revolt? There are differences among...
• Protect and Serve: Recent Sex Crimes Committed ...
  Earlier this month, San Diego news sources reported that Officer Art Perea, a veteran San Diego Police Officer, was subject to a rape*investigation. He was on unpaid leave after a Point Loma Nazarene University student alleged she was raped by Perea ...
• Woman video tapes police abusing young man, co ...
  A Harlem woman and her boyfriend are suing the NYPD for $24 million, claiming that officers beat her with billy clubs, broke her nose and arrested the pair after she tried to film cops busting a man. [...] "They said that I was resisting arrest a...
• Shot to Death for Nothing, Family Says
  SALT LAKE CITY (CN) - Police officers responded to a family's complaint that their diabetic son may have been in danger from driving without taking his medicine by running him off the road into an interstate highway median and shooting him to death, ...
• The U.N. Goes to War
  The civil war in Libya is now a new war: the Libyan War. This new war began when the West and/or the U.N. joined the war and escalated it. NATO may be coming aboard too. The U.N., that supposed instrument of international peace and securi...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

• McLurg’s Law
  I wasn’t planning to comment on the Japanese earthquake, as it’s being fully covered elsewhere. But last night’s hysterical treatment of the relatively minor damage at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on the local current affairs TV program Four … Continue reading →
• Cactoblastis
  Yet another grab for power by the state over the citizen, in ways never mentioned in the constitution. Today’s story is set here in Australia, but all readers around the world take note, because if this law succeeds here, its … Continue reading →
• The Centre Of The Universe
  A column by Boris Johnson in the UK Daily Telegraph caught my eye the other day. It shone a cold, hard light on man’s seemingly innate tendency to place himself at the centre of everything. Reflecting on the recent earthquake … Continue reading →
• What Are Rights?
  Itâs pretty much impossible these days to switch on the TV, radio or internet without hearing someone or other speaking of rights. âI have a right!â, âItâs my right…â, âMy rights have been violated!â Typically, claims of rights take the … Continue reading →
• The Gates Re-open…
  …and youâve all been issued with a golden ticket. The few weeksâ closure I announced last November have turned into a few months. Sorry about that. But the break, apart from allowing me to clear a very large backlog of … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

• Telepathic spam
  The following comment was left on the site today, it begins: “Telepathy is possible, it works very good…I can exchange voice and videos messages , smell and bad and good filings with people around, people can move muscles on my body from distance and much more.” Aside from the “filings” typo, it ...
• Aspartame toxicity. Not.
  Aspartame is an artificial, non-saccharide, sweetener used as a sugar substitute in some foods and beverages usually so that they can be labelled as “lite” or “diet” products. In the European Union, it is coded as E951. Aspartame is a methyl ester of aspartic acid and phenylalanine, two natural ...
• Mental snip
  I seem to have something of a reputation for a fertile imagination; don’t know why, although regular readers will know that I cover a lot of ground between my blog and a hard place. Anyway, Diane Richards pointed this out to me following a Facebook post about social networking for sex and about ...
• Iodine and radiation
  The Royal Society of Chemistry is warning against panic buying of potassium iodide tablets as a protective agent against exposure to radioactive iodine. It also cautioning cautioned against scaremongering regarding the potential effect of explosions at the Fukushima nuclear plant, saying that an ...
• Six science selections
  How Radiation Threatens Health – Why and how does exposure to radiation make you ill? What levels of exposure are dangerous and what levels are lethal? Fukushima is a triumph for nuke power – Quake + tsunami = 1 minor radiation dose so far, says El Reg. Tragic as recent events in Japan have been ...

RFF Library

• Where are the Best Opportunities for Reducing ...
  Food Policy (March 17, 2011) article in press / by Tara Garnett http://tinyurl.com/4c2vuuv This paper reviews estimates of food related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions at the global, regional and national levels, highlighting both GHG-intensive stages in the food chain, and GHG-intensive food typ ...
• Weighing the Costs of Disaster: Consequences, ...
  Psychological Science in the Public Interest (2010) v11 n1 p1–49 / by George A. Bonanno, Chris R. Brewin, Krzysztof Kaniasty3,4, and Annette M. La Greca http://www.psychologicalscience.org/journals/pspi/pspi_10_4.pdf Disasters typically strike quickly and cause great harm. Unfortunately, because ...
• Measuring Energy Security: Trends in the Diver ...
  International Monetary Fund http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.aspx?sk=24662.0 We present evidence on one facet of energy security in OECD economies – the extent of diversification in sources of oil and natural gas supplies. Viewed from the perspective of the energy-importing countries ...
• A Forest of Blue: Canada’s Boreal Forest, the ...
  Pew Environmental Group http://tinyurl.com/4pedjq7 [Yale Environment 360]  Canada’s 1.3 billion-acre boreal forest contains more unfrozen freshwater than any other ecosystem on the planet, according to a new report by the Pew Environmental Group. With about 25 percent of the world’s wetlands, mi ...
• Improving Energy Market Regulation: Domestic a ...
  Council on Foreign Relations / by Daniel P. Ahn (CGS/IIGG Working Paper) http://tinyurl.com/4qpjut7 [Michael Levi] …The simplest instance in the traditional energy world involves financial speculation. Too  many people have knee jerk reactions against any type of meaningful regulation of financ ...

Scientific American - News

• Could the Recent Pacific Megaquakes Trigger a ...
  In the past 15 months several devastating earthquakes have rumbled beneath the Pacific. In February 2010 a magnitude 8.8 temblor slammed central Chile; this past September a magnitude 7 quake walloped Christchurch, New Zealand, leading to a magnitude 6.3 aftershock this past February. The magnit ...
• Fate of Nuclear Plant in Japan Hangs in the Ba ...
  As night fell on Friday in Japan, workers and soldiers continued heroic efforts to douse the potential meltdown underway at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The covering darkness is not the only reason for confusion: vital systems monitors have lost power, making the status of critical ...
• Day-to-Day Satellite Photos Reveal the Unfoldi ...
  In the days following Japan's March 11 earthquake, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant there suffered increasing damage as its cooling systems failed, probably causing a build-up of hydrogen gas that led to explosions at three of its reactor units. [More]
• Taking Waves: Nation's First Tsunami-Resistant ...
  Plans to build the nation's first tsunami-resistant building are unfolding in Cannon Beach, Ore., in a region that is almost identical, seismically, to the subduction zone that triggered the earthquake and tsunami in Japan last week. Elevated 4.5 meters off the ground, the building would pro ...
• Health Risk Fears Escalate as Japan Nuclear Pl ...
  Infinitesimal radioactive isotopes can be carried along on the breeze, landing unseen on the ground, clothes and skin. These tiny products of nuclear reactions are capable of causing large-scale damage in the body if they make it inside through inhalation, ingestion or even a cut. And many fear ...

First Truths

• Getting the Raw End in Wisconsin, Part II
  Center for a Stateless SocietyContinuing my commentary on events unfolding in Wisconsin, I write: The meaningful division is between those who use coercive manipulation of the bounds within which economic activities take place, and those who rely on voluntary, cooperative courses of action. Any ...
• In Libya and Elsewhere, the State Depends on S ...
  I commented on events in the Middle East and Northern Africa: These countries' productive majorities are no longer content to prop up and underwrite the dissolute culture of their "leaders," to work their fingers to the bone while palace parties rage in their capital cities. The truth that stati ...
• Getting the Raw End in Wisconsin
  My latest for the Center for a Stateless Society: But the anti-union turgidity of the Republican variant of the "free market" obscures what are the actual � as against the imagined �� effects of the state's pervasive interventions in the economy. When the state creates monopoly or oligopoly cond ...
• Bahrain's Blame Game
  From my comment for the Center for a Stateless Society on events in Bahrain: The Bahraini’s state’s obsession with intricately-conceived “subversive designs” therefore looks to be a phantasmal danger suited to rationalize the brutality of riot police and military personnel. The state’s golden ca ...
• The False Menace of Socialism
  From my latest for C4SS: By itself, the word socialism requires no statism whatsoever; instead it denotes a set of outcomes as an answer to the “Social Question” raised by disparities of wealth and economic power in society caused by statist intervention. On that account, it’s very possible to ...

Media Co-Op

• How "Revitalization" Demolished Chinatown Hous ...
  Legacy of Massive, Unused Parking Structures Three massive Chinatown parkades, built in the 1990's to "revitalize" the historic neighbourhood by attracting more shoppers, have been mostly empty for years. Worse, building the parkades mean ...
• Marching against racism
  VANCOUVER -� Hundreds took to the streets today to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Racism. See Claudio Storelli story for more details.
• U.S. War Resister Chuck Wiley
  � 19 March 2011 in Halifax, Nova Scotia.� About Chuck Wiley:� Chuck Wiley is a member of a family with deep military roots: one of his ancestors was a Revolutionary War soldier, and every generation since has had a member who has b ...
• GEORGE GALLOWAY: REVOLUTION IN THE ARAB WORLD
  George Galloway speaks on revolution in the Arab world and�the situation in Libya, quote "the People will be back, because the burning desire for freedom" on�Monday, Marc ...
• Group calls for boycott of MEC products
  Shoppers urged to join the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions movement Jackie Barkley is asking Mountain Equipment Co-op (MEC) shoppers not to buy water bottles made in Israel for their next camping trip.   Barkley, a member of Canadians, Ar ...

David Seaton's News Links

• How do you say, "Tienanmen" in Arabic?
  Bring on the goonsOmar Suleiman (Arabic: عمر س��ما��; born July 2, 1936) is an Egyptian politician and military figure who was appointed Vice President of Egypt on January 29, 2011. Previously, he was Minister without Portfolio and Director of the Egyptian General Intelligence Directorate (EGID) ...
• Egypt.... the coup ... The bill?
  Up until now, President Mubarak has enjoyed the support of the armed forces. He was, after all, a career air force officer suddenly catapulted to the presidency when Anwar Sadat was assassinated in 1981. But if these protests continue and intensify there are bound to be senior voices within the ...
• Iraq to Libya, from tragedy to farce?
  MARCH 19, 2011 OBAMA: 'Today we are part of a broad coalition. We are answering the calls of a threatened people. And we are acting in the interests of the United States and the world'... MARCH 19, 2003 BUSH: 'American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disa ...
• The "Sputnik Moment": One nation with paranoia ...
  � David Seaton's News Links I remember once reading an Indian guru, who said that if the water buffalo had a god, it would probably look like a very large water buffalo. He believed that there is only one god, formless and all pervading, but that he/she/it responds to intense worship by taking ...
• Er, President Obama sir.... is anybody home?
  Jeez, what a month!!!... The only thing that hasn't happened yet is...Forges - El País In short, for the first time since the end of World War II, no country or strong alliance of countries has the political will and economic leverage to secure its goals on the global stage.� Nouriel Roubini Dav ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

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Dr. Mercola Natural Health

• The Latest in Atrocious Supreme Court Decision ...
  A U.S. Supreme Court decision has just given drug companies total liability protection for injuries and deaths caused by government mandated vaccines. The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) called the decision a "betrayal" of the American consumer. In a 6-2 decision, the Court majorit ...
• Theo Jansen's Strandbeests
  Take a look at Theo Jansen’s wild, wonderful creature creations.
• These 150 Calories Go Straight to Your Bulging ...
  Yunji DeNies goes to the lab to see what soda does in your body.
• Using Lasers to Kill Mosquitos that Cause Malaria
  Nathan Myhrvold presents a live demo of a new mosquito-zapping device that you have to see to believe.
• This Part of Your Mouth Accurately Reflects Yo ...
  Here, Dr. Bill Osmunson—a practicing dentist for 33 years, and a staunch advocate against fluoride—discusses the importance of proper dental hygiene for optimal health.

JAMA

• A 61-Year-Old Woman With Unprovoked Venous Thr ...
• An Initial Experiment With Personalized Antipl ...
• Mineral Metabolism Disorders in Chronic Kidney ...
• Performance of Immunochemical Fecal Occult Blo ...
• Air Pollution in China [The World in Medicine]

Survival - tribal peoples

• World Water Day: Global outrage over Ethiopia ...
  The Kwegu are entirely dependent on the Omo river for their survival. © Survival Almost 400 organizations have signed a petition against Africa’s tallest dam, which will be delivered to Ethiopian embassies across Europe and the United States to mark World Water Day on Tuesday 22nd March. A ...
• Obama urged to support Guarani Indians during ...
  Guarani mother and child. The sugarcane boom is threatening the lives of the Guarani. © João Ripper/Survival Survival International has appealed to US President Barack Obama to support the Guarani Indians of Brazil, whose lives are threatened by the booming sugarcane industry. Survival h ...
• Horrific treatment of Amazon Indians exposed 1 ...
  Thousands of Indians were enslaved and killed during the rubber boom. © W Hardenburg 30,000 Amazon Indians were enslaved, tortured, raped and starved in just 12 years during the rubber boom, according to a historic report submitted by Irish investigator Roger Casement, 100 years ago today. ...
• Back to court for Vedanta Resources’ controver ...
  Vedanta has appealed the decision of India's Environment Minister to block their mine on the Dongria Kondh's ancestral land. © Survival India’s Supreme Court is to consider a new bid to green-light FTSE 100 Vedanta Resources’ infamous bauxite mine in Orissa state, east India. The mine was ...
• Land clearing begins for destructive Amazon dam
  Amazon Indians are calling for the Belo Monte dam to be halted © M. Cowan/ Survival Construction workers have begun to bulldoze land in the Brazilian Amazon to make way for the controversial Belo Monte mega-dam. Earlier this week, Norte Energia, the company building the dam, sent its worke ...

Montreal Gazette

• A welcome outreach by Montreal police
  Montreal police have taken a lot of heat for relying on racial profiling in their efforts to curb criminal activity in the city. More lately, however, they are deserving of kudos for trying to do something about it.
• The boreal forest: ours to preserve
  Until very recently, forests, freshwater lakes and plant and animal life were rarely thought of in terms of their worth to the world's well-being, or even survival. Nature, it was grandly and wrongly assumed, could take anything we threw at it: pollution, garbage, even global warming.
• Revisiting Cohen: Ode to spring
  In this excerpt from his 1966 novel Beautiful Losers, Montreal-born cultural icon Leonard Cohen describes the peculiar way that spring arrives in Quebec. To help mark the first official day of spring on Sunday, The Gazette's communities editor, David Johnston, took Cohen's descriptive passage in ...
• We need a new Champlain Bridge
  There probably isn't a Montreal motorist who at some time or other hasn't cursed the Champlain Bridge. Frequency of cursing rises exponentially among those who have to use it regularly at rush hour.
• The Quebec budget: by and large, it does what ...
  For the most part, Finance Minister Raymond Bachand did what he had to do and the best he could do with his provincial budget for the coming fiscal year.

Food World Order

• peace cereal illegally misleading consumers?
  from cornucopia: The Cornucopia Institute filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission, alleging that Hearthside Food Solutions, which manufactures Peace Cereal, is misleading consumers by suggesting that its “natural” breakfast cereals are grown and processed without pesticides. The Peac ...
• 2/17 binge & purge: cola wars, polar bears & d ...
  video: coca-cola's secret recipe finally spills out into public* cancer causing chemicals found in cola coloring ingredient* docs are wondering if diet soda & strokes are linked* farmers rushing to deposit seeds in arctic doomsday vault where it's -4°f & patrolled by polar bears* bil ...
• world health org understatement: japan food sa ...
  from reuters: The World Health Organization said on Monday that the detection of radiation in food after an earthquake damaged a Japanese nuclear plant was a more serious problem than it had first expected. "Quite clearly it's a serious situation," Peter Cordingley, Manila-based spokesman for WH ...
• worst freeze in 60yrs wipes out crops across U ...
  from end of the american dream: Get ready to pay a lot more for produce at the supermarket. In early February the worst freeze in 60 years wiped out entire crops all across the southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico. Already, it has been reported that some U.S. supermarkets have doubled or even t ...
• as oil and food prices rise, arab states buy u ...
  from green prophet: In response to the recent food riots in Algeria and Tunisia, and to rising oil prices (the price/barrel of crude is, once again, nearing $100) some Arab states (including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates) have been buying-up farm land in parts of Africa. In late 201 ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

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

CASSE

• Surely We Can Do Better than Nuclear Socialism
  Brent Blackwelder suggests that you don't have to worry about a solar or wind "spill" contaminating the air, land and water.
• The Green Transition Scoreboard: How to Invest ...
  The Green Transition Scoreboard is a useful tool to direct investment decisions in the 21st century economy.
• The Great Energy Rethink: Lessons from Japan a ...
  Misplaced confidence is preventing us from making decent decisions about our energy supplies.
• The Full Seas Act and the College of the 21st ...
  by Brian Czech If we aren’t living in an “educable moment,” then we must be dumber than a doggone boot.  Financial collapse, fiscal crisis, skyrocketing gas prices, global warming, revolutions in crowded countries, unemployment all around… let’s graduate from the College of the 21st Century and ...
• Growth of GDP and Discontent in Egypt and Tunisia
  Egypt and Tunisia have a lesson: GDP is a measure of the commotion of money in an economy, not a measure of delivered well-being.

The Talking Clock

• 'Tainted Source' author on Libya; Putin invoke ...
  This blog has made more than a few references over time to a book called 'Tainted Source: The Undemocratic Origins of the European Ideal' by John Laughland. We're now accustomed to watching Russia Today for wider debate than the one sided views we're given in our corporate media so, flicking ...
• Hurrah! UKIP's David Campbell Bannerman hears ...
  Hot on the heels of our urging readers to report Andrew Duff MEP for treason comes political support - in spirit - from UKIP's David Campbell Bannerman. Speaking of Duff's plotting to have EU dictats imposed on us, irrespective of the people's wishes or the will of Her Majesty's Government, D ...
• House of Commons finally gives permission for ...
  One of the interesting things about the military action in Libya is that many of my blogging colleagues in the anti-EU/patriotic community seem to be, at least, deeply cynical and suspicious - if not, like The Talking Clock, openly opposed. It puts us 'evil right wing bloggers' on the same si ...
• I want to speak to Nick! (Report treason and p ...
  That's it. Instead of just blogging, I have taken action. I urge all of my readers to copy and paste the appropriate parts of this and to join me in this action - and I urge all fellow bloggers to swipe this and get their readers to do the same. ---------- FAO Nick Clegg, Deputy Prime Minist ...
• Do your job: Stop turning a blind eye to treason
  Liberal Democrat MEP Andrew Duff sparked controversy yesterday when it emerged that he had written to Jerzy Buzek, outlining how the European Union should change it's treaties so that - no matter the will of the British people or their representatives - the imposition of new EU dictats could con ...

Facing South

• Large new oil spill under investigation off Lo ...
  The U.S. Coast Guard is investigating a large oil sheen off the Louisiana coast about 20 miles north of the site where the Deepwater Horizon oil rig blew up last April. Hurricane Creekkeeper John Wathen of the Waterkeeper Alliance first heard reports about the slick on Saturday and fl ...
• Controversial immigration enforcement program ...
  By Rebekah L. Cowell, special to Facing South U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced last week that all 100 counties in North Carolina have been connected to the Secure Communities program. That makes North Carolina the 10th state to implement the program statewide, along with ...
• Trial to open in lawsuit connected to hospital ...
  By Sheri Fink, ProPublica, co-published with the New York Times A jury trial set to open today will weigh whether one of America's largest health care corporations should be held accountable for deaths and injuries at a New Orleans hospital marooned by floodwaters after Hurricane Katrina. ...
• INSTITUTE INDEX: Nuclear-powered politics
  Amount the nuclear power industry spent on lobbying from 2000 to 2010: $600 million Amount the industry spent during that same period on campaign contributions: nearly $63 million Amount the Nuclear Energy Institute -- an industry trade group whose members include the company that owns th ...
• Congressman: U.S. may not be prepared to respo ...
  By Sasha Chavkin, ProPublica As Japan struggles to contain its growing nuclear crisis, a congressman and a disaster-preparedness expert raised concerns that the United States is not prepared to respond to a nuclear disaster. Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., wrote a letter to President Obama on M ...

CenterLine

• Today’s Terrorism News
  U.S. Appeals Court Reinstates Wiretap Lawsuit A federal appeals court revived a lawsuit by the ACLU and other groups on Monday that challenges amendments to FISA giving the government power to wiretap non-U.S. citizens overseas with less judicial oversight, according … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  BA Worker Convicted of Terror Plot in UK Receives 30-Year Sentence A British Airways IT employee convicted in the UK of plotting a terror attack and seeking out his position for terrorism purposes was given a 30-year sentence on Friday, … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Pakistan Condemns Drone Strikes, Demands U.S. Apology Just days after a CIA contractor at the center of a diplomatic spat was freed in Pakistan, the U.S.-Pakistan relationship looked headed for further strain when the head of Pakistanâs army issued a … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  CIA Contractor Freed in Pakistan After Payment to Victims’ Families Raymond Davis, a CIA contractor detained in Pakistan on suspicion of murder, was released Wednesday afternoon and flown out of Pakistan after victimsâ families received as much as $2 million … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  U.S., Canada Charge Canadian Fugitive with Training NYC Subway Bomb Plotters The United States and Canada announced charges Tuesday against 30-year-old Ferid Ahmed Imam, who is accused of helping to provide training for three men accused of plotting to bomb … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

• Japan's failed attempt to hold back the sea
  Did the country's extensive network of tsunami defenses lure its citizens into a false sense of security?
• Japan quake halts physics and space experiments
  The control centre for a Japanese lab module on the International Space Station has been evacuated, and a major physics centre has shut down
• NASA and ESA 'divorce' over money
  Tight budgets at NASA have put ambitious joint space missions on the chopping block
• Today on New Scientist: 21 March 2011
  All today's stories on NewScientist.com, including: the latest on Japan's earthquake crisis, a robot opera, and the mathematics of being nice
• Satellite snaps extent of Japan's post-quake b ...
  Japan might appear to be glowing with light but this new image shows the extent of power-outage in the quake- and tsunami-hit country

Tech Drive In

• Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal Alpha 3 Review, Scr ...
  It hasn't been long since we last reviewed Ubuntu Natty Alpha 2 and now, Ubuntu Natty Alpha 3 is already here. This is yet another milestone in this major build up towards the much anticipated release of Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal final on April 28, 2011. As is expected, latest Ubuntu 11.04 Natt ...
• Top 5 Media Center Applications for Linux
  We have discussed a lot about multimedia applications available for Linux, but never really about media center applications specifically. Unlike many other niches where Linux lags behind other proprietary OS's in terms of good applications available, Linux have a clear upper hand when you consid ...
• 5 Incredible Android Tablets Showcased at Mobi ...
  Mobile World Congress 2011 was quite literally overwhelmed by the sheer number of new Android OS based devices. Among the devices, the ones who completely stole the limelight were the Tablets. Almost all major hardware manufacturer has a Tablet in the pipeline and most of them are running open s ...
• Beautiful Looking LibreOffice Splash Screen, A ...
  As you all should know by now, LibreOffice is already the new default office suite for Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal. You can even install latest LibreOffice in Ubuntu Maverick, Lucid easily via LibreOffice PPA by following the instructions here. Now, here is a very good looking and very creative L ...
• Top 10 Most Popular Posts for Feb 2011
  Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal Alpha 2 Review, Screenshots Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" alpha 2 was released a day ago. A lot has changed with Ubuntu since we reviewed the first alpha release of Ubuntu Natty some weeks ago. Here is a quick review of the latest release of Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal ...

Case About Bird Flu

• OUTSIDE WORLD GETS A GLIMPSE OF CORRUPTION IN ...
  Austrian MEP and former interior minister Ernst Strasser was forced to resign yesterday after Sunday Times journalists filmed him agreeing to take cash in return for trying to alter draft European Union laws in the interest of banks. In videos posted on youtube, Strasser makes it clear that he i ...
• AUSTRIAN JUSTICE MINISTRY TRIED TO BRING DEFAM ...
  - THE AUSTRIAN MINISTRY OF JUSTICE ASKED STATE PROSECUTORS TO BRING CHARGES OF DEFAMATION AGAINST ME IN DECEMBER 2010 - THE CASE HAD TO BE DROPPED IN FEBRUARY BECAUSE I HAD GIVEN SO MUCH PROOF OF THE CORRUPTION OF  JUDGE MICHAELA LAUER AND OTHER JUSTICE OFFICIALS - OFFICIAL VIKTOR EGGERT ADMITTE ...
• Is Austria worse than Sudan? My experience wit ...
  When I filed charges against Baxter in April 2009 for contaminating 72 kilos of seasonal flu vaccine with the deadly bird flu virus, I had no idea Austrian justice officials were going to turn out to be the extended arm of a criminal network and that I was going to be in danger of losing [...]
• Data shows flu vaccines double risk of getting ...
  Vaccines may have increased swine flu risk By Annie Guest From: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/03/04/3155750.htm Updated Fri Mar 4, 2011 7:37pm AEDT There is renewed controversy surrounding influenza vaccines, with some studies showing people immunised against the seasonal flu might hav ...
• German defence minister Guttenberg to face cri ...
  Prosecutors to investigate plagiarism charges against ex-minister Mar 3, 2011, 15:28 GMT Berlin – German prosecutors are to conduct a formal investigation into plagiarism allegations against former defence minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, they announced Thursday. Earlier in the day, Guttenbe ...

Invisible Opportunity

• If It Walks like a Werewolf and So on and So Forth
  By Les Visible Anyway, this Stuxnet virus, as I understand it, is supposed to make it possible for an outside controller to take over the system. I’ve seen it phrased where Stuxnet ‘escaped’. Does it do stuff like that? Does it come with a suitcase and travel cosmetics and clothes? Doesn’t it ha ...
• One of The Darkest Evils the World has ever Known
  By Les Visible Someone please correct me if I’m wrong. Wasn’t it Israel that sent 50,000 African mercenaries into Libya? So… arenât the NATO coalition now bombing, strafing and tomahawking Israelâs mercenaries? Meanwhile, isnât the reason that the assaults didn’t stop (possibly Gadhafi doesn’t h ...
• Israeli Security Firm in Charge at Japanese Nu ...
  This puts new light on the failures at Japanese nuclear power plants.  Israeli security firms are in place at most major terrorist attacks.  Are the disasters at Fukushima the result of an earthquake or is there another sinister plot in operation… The CEO of the Israeli company that installed ...
• Mainstream media halts accurate reporting on J ...
  By Mike Adams Almost as if on cue, the mainstream media today halted nearly all accurate reporting of the worsening situation in Japan, writing off the whole thing as a “non issue.” This all happened in a seeming coordinate effort following President Obama’s speech on Wednesday that urged Americ ...
• New cybervirus found in Japan / Stuxnet design ...
  Is there be a connection between an Isreali security company, Mossad, Stuxnet and the failures of safety systems at the Japanese nuclear power plant???? The Yomiuri Shimbun Stuxnet, a computer virus designed to attack servers isolated from the Internet, such as at power plants, has been confirme ...

Veterans Today

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

electric politics

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

PR News

• Carmichael Lynch Spong hires H&K's Robinson fo ...
  NEW YORK: Carmichael Lynch Spong appointed Hill & Knowlton's Lori Robinson head of its New York office, a newly created role as the firm prepares for continued national growth.
• Chamber of Commerce to hire firm to assess brand
  WASHINGTON: The US Chamber of Commerce issued an RFP to five firms as the business group seeks to evaluate public perception of its brand in advance of its 100-year anniversary.
• Kimberly-Clark retains Ketchum for Family Care
  NEW YORK: Following a competitive pitch, Kimberly-Clark has retained incumbent Ketchum for its Family Care brands, which include Cottonelle and Kleenex tissues, Scott tissue and towels, and Viva paper towels.
• Commodities broker launches press release Twit ...
  ALISO VIEJO, CA: Commodities broker Patrick Kerr launched a new service to share press releases via Twitter two weeks ago after he realized the need for it in the marketplace.
• Outcast's Marooney to join Facebook
  SAN FRANCISCO: Caryn Marooney, cofounder of The OutCast Agency, is leaving at the end of April to join Facebook in the newly created position of director of technology communications.

The Story Behind the Story

• EXPOSED — The “Unwarranted Power&# ...
  For those who doubt that Earthquakes and Weather Modification technology is solely the domain of the “lunatic fringe” conspiracy nuts, this post is for you!! The date was January 17, 1961.  John F. Kennedy had just won the election in November, and was soon to take his oath of office as the Pre ...
• Liberty Coins Founder Convicted of Counterfeiting
  Let’s make sure we get this straight.   If a person mints his own pure silver and gold coins for use in a private enterprise with like-minded individuals – this is a crime. But if a Private International Bank guts the 1792 Coinage Act and willfully debases the coinage – and replaces 90% silver ...
• This Weekend – the Festival of Purim Beg ...
  This could well be THE MOST IMPORTANT POST that I, A. True Ott, PhD, have ever issued to my friends in cyberspace.  I submit the Christian world is in for a veritable “perfect storm” of evil and chaos very soon – and thereby America’s spirituality and charity will be tried and tested as never b ...
• REVEALED: How “Facebook” and &#82 ...
  We know the “rebellion” in Egypt and Libya was fueled via “Facebook Groups” which formed the “APRIL 6 MOVEMENT”.  These are part of “Operation Sock Puppet”. Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media Exclusive: Military’s ‘sock puppet’ software creates fake online identities to sp ...
• More on CIA/Blackwater “Global Mission C ...
  VETERANS TODAY EXCLUSIVE: RAYMOND DAVIS RELEASE – IMRAN KHAN & IJAZUL HAQ INTERVIEWS – THE INSIDE STORY (video) March 16, 2011 posted by Gordon Duff “FAMILY KIDNAPPED, FORCED TO SIGN ‘PARDON LETTER’” – PAKISTAN IN SHOCK “PAKISTAN’S GOVERNMENT HAS SOLD OUT THE PRIDE OF THE NATION”  Imran Khan “AB ...

k2p blog

• Media coverage dies as work resumes at Fukushi ...
  Work has resumed at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant and is making progress but slowly.
• Fukushima Dai-ichi plant: Work stopped as stea ...
  Work to connect power cables to the No. 3 and No. 4 reactors was halted Monday after smoke rose from the buildings housing the No. 2 and No. 3 reactors but there have been no major changes in the radiation levels at the site.
• Andrew – Prince of beggars
  Prince Andrew, Duke of York has been quite successful in soliciting money from dubious sources to help repay the debts of his profligate ex-wife.
• Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant: Status as of ...
  Cooling continues and power is gradually being brought to all reactors. Systems and equipment are being checked. All units now have surface temperatures of less than 100 °C. Reactors # 5 and 6 have acieved "cold shutdown".
• Could the disaster in Japan power a wave of su ...
  Natural disasters and wars can never be a course of ethical choice. But in a time of economic and political stagnation they can provide the stimulus to change paths and can power economic growth.

Left Foot Forward

• Could childcare cuts be the Coalition’s ...
  The Times urges the Coalition to reconsider the proposed cuts of £1500 for the low income families' childcare costs. The Government would be wise to heed their advice.
• Budget 2011: Three key climate change tests
  Shadow Minister for Climate Change Luciana Berger outlines three key climate change tests for the government to prove its green credentials in the Budget tomorrow.
• Libya: Peace through war?
  It will not take long for the coalition’s Libyan operation to be seen across the Middle East as hypocritical and self-serving, and resisted as such, says George Irvin.
• Boris’s scaremongering over ‘banke ...
  Boris Johnson and other Tory and right wing scaremongering over 'banking bashing' are not backed up by evidence, reports Dominic Browne.
• Why Guido Fawkes and Tim Worstall are wrong on ...
  Guido Fawkes and Tim Worstall claim that Keynesianism doesn't work. But the academic they cite says that there's no compelling reason for the Government's "extreme austerity measures".

Consumerist

• Top 5 Mistakes Tourists Make In Lisbon
  Before you hit Lisbon, the beautiful capital of Portugal, on your next tourist jaunt, be sure to apprise yourself of these 5 common mistakes tourists make, says the Go Lisbon Blog. Besides "Spanish is not the official language, Portuguese is," I think my favorite tip is that you should respect ...
• MySpace Made It Really, Really Difficult To Ca ...
  If MySpace were a scorned lover, we imagine it would be the kind that would hold onto your foot as you tried to walk away, crying desperately and clinging as you unwillingly dragged it along. Justin B. was done with MySpace, but instead of just accepting the breakup and letting him cancel the a ...
• Woman Sues Starbucks For Allegedly Throwing Te ...
  Starbucks is accusing a woman of fraud after she sued them for allegedly sliding a cup of hot tea across the counter that burnt her belly, reports the New York Post. They say they have a doc who says she had a rash and skin infection, and that's what caused the marks. According to her complaint ...
• No NFL Season Could Clip The Chicken Wing Industry
  Don't buy that 780-count of wet naps just yet: If the NFL lockout drags on and results in no season this year, the chicken wing industry could suffer massively, a producer of the game-day snack favorite says. Those in the industry have already seen a big drop in prices, and Joe Sanderson of S ...
• Worst Company In America Round One: Time Warne ...
  Only one of this afternoon's combatants has been the subject of an Oscar-nominated movie. Apparently, two hours of customers sitting on the phone not being helped by Time Warner Cable customer service isn't as thrilling as the story of a site that lets 500 million users share baby photos with f ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

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

UK Progressive

• Even In Worst Case, Japan’s Nuclear Disaster W ...
  by Abrahm Lustgarten ProPublica For more than a week the world has watched the escalating crisis at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant slide from one catastrophic episode to a seemingly graver one, often upending assurances from the Japanese and adding to the fear and confusion about ...
• President Obama Bullies PFC Manning
  “If there’s one goal of this conference (on bullying),” President Obama told those gathered recently at the White House, “it’s to dispel the myth that bullying is just a harmless rite of passage or an inevitable part of growing up. It’s not.” In fact, he added, bullying is “not something we have ...
• The Monday Line: HBO’s Bill Maher Insults Meth ...
  On Friday nights Bill Maher brings his mixture of logic, humour, politics and debate to US television. He compared governing with Republicans to rooming with a meth addict. In defence of methamphetamine addicts, even they were highly insulted to be compared to the Republican Tea Party. Simply, t ...
• The Right to Rule : Wales and Power
  I’m reprinting a lengthy article by Gerry Hassan entitled ‘The divine right to rule : Power and the Scots, my main reason is change a few place names and individuals and it applies equally if not more so in Wales where not rocking the boat is essential to get on. The piece also focuses on [...]
• For God’s Sake: The Girl in My Mirror
  Last summer as I traveled a country road, I passed an intersection where a red and white 1970s Dodge Ram was waiting to pull out – “great truck!” The Ram entered the highway and pulled close behind me. I look to see this collector’s item only to catch a glimpse of its driver in my [...]

NewsAlert

• Reason TV: Who Wants to Live Forever? Dr. Step ...
• New Blog From New York Federal Reserve Bank: L ...
  New York Fed reports:On behalf of the Research and Statistics Group of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, we welcome you to our new blog, Liberty Street Economics, named after the street where the New York Fed is located. We have created this blog to augment our existing publications by provi ...
• Will the 2012 election be close?
  The Washington Post
• UNIVERSITY DOWNPLAYS STUDENT’S JIHAD THREAT
  Fox News
• Blago judge refuses to call off retrial
  Crain's Chicago Business

JoNova

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

ReNew America

• Obamacare one year later: creeping 'death pane ...
  (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - As Obamacare marks its first anniversary, signs of changes in the insurance and healthcare industries are gradually becoming apparent -- even though the worst and most intrusive moves will not kick in until 2014 -- well after the next presidential election...
• House Republicans can freeze borrowing now
  (Joseph Farah) - Would you like to eliminate Obamacare? Would you like to see as much as $1 trillion cut in spending by the federal government? Would you like to see NPR and PBS defunded -- along with Planned Parenthood and maybe even the departments of Education and Energy?...
• Judge temporarily blocks Wisconsin's public un ...
  (Journal-Sentinel) - Public employees won a reprieve Friday as a judge issued a temporary restraining order to halt Gov. Scott Walker's law to sharply limit collective bargaining for government employees...
• U.S. Tomahawk cruise missiles hit targets in Libya
  (ABC News) - More than 112 Tomahawk cruise missiles struck over 20 targets inside Libya today in the opening phase of an international military operation the Pentagon said was aimed at stopping attacks led by Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and enforcing a U.N.-backed no-fly zone...
• Author: Romney's promises to homosexuals still ...
  (WorldNetDaily) - The Conservative Political Action Conference gushed over Mitt Romney, giving him standing ovations when he said America needs a new president and that the country is experiencing a "moral tragedy of epic proportion"...

Truth Offering

• Truth Offering Podcast with Matt Gordon - Feb. ...
  Good friend of TruthOffering.com and �ber (yeah, I said "�ber!) talented musician, Chris Phenom, is back to chat with Matt Gordon. �This week's topics range from WikiLeaks, peak oil, and Agenda 21, to genetically modified foods, geoengineering (chemtrails), Libertarianism, and the question of th ...
• Original Music Created for TruthOffering.com b ...
  Talented singer and musician Chris Phenom has created two tracks for TruthOffering.com, and we want to share them with you. Chris's tracks feature some amazing lyrics that relate directly to what we're trying to get at here at TruthOffering.com: the Truth! Listen to what he has to say, and check ...
• Levi's: All-American or Neo-Communist
  It seems that everywhere I go recently, I see these massive Levi's billboards along the side of the road. At first, I thought nothing of them. After all, they're just billboards, right? Plus Levi's is an all-American company, right? Visually, these ads are quite striking; mostly black and white, ...
• US Falls In Level of Overall Economic Freedom ...
  The Heritage Foundation just released its annual Economic Freedom List. The list "measures ten components of economic freedom, assigning a grade in each using a scale from 0 to 100, where 100 represents the maximum freedom. The ten component scores are then averaged to give an overall economic f ...
• Did J.P. Morgan Sink the Titanic!?
  1st Row: JP Morgan, Joseph Bruce Ismay, John Jacob Astor and Benjamin Guggenheim. 2nd Row: The Federal Reserve and the TitanicAs youngsters, we're all told the infamous story of the Titanic, the supposedly indestructible ship that sunk on its maiden voyage. We're all familiar with the story: the ...

2012 Blog

• Rapid Magnetic Changes / Houston Dome / Anothe ...
  “a new study of ancient copper mines in southern Israel found that the strength of the magnetic field could double and then fall back down in less than 20 years.” This could be local, or global, they don’t seem sure. But it is certainly something scientists previously did not believe possible. W ...
• Lesson from Japan: Nukes are Unsafe
  In a SHTF scenario, safety features of nuclear reactors might be significantly incapable of preventing a meltdown. As we have seen in Japan, a country that gave us the word tsunami, their backup plan of diesel generators failed because the tsunami took them out. If your home or safe spot is with ...
• How Safe is Auckland, Really?
  I grew up in and around Auckland, New Zealand, and for me the “extinct” volcanoes were just a curiosity, and certainly not something to lose sleep over. I figure this is typical of Aucklanders. My view has definitely changed since I began researching 2012 – and I would like everyone in that city ...
• Freak Thoughts Making Mainstream
  Yesterday I was watching ABC News in Australia. It is closely similar to the BBC in Britain, and consequently the standards are very high. During the financial update, an expert was asked about where the market was headed. And to my surprise he mentioned the shift of the magnetic poles (not new ...
• Regarding Current Upheavals…
  The famously predicted “earth changes” could finally be in effect. As of now the various natural disasters could just be a statistical blip, but give us a few more (watch this week, and June 1 through July 1) and not only will many prophets appear spot on, but the world will start to panic – [.. ...

Facing South

• Large new oil spill under investigation off Lo ...
  The U.S. Coast Guard is investigating a large oil sheen off the Louisiana coast about 20 miles north of the site where the Deepwater Horizon oil rig blew up last April. Hurricane Creekkeeper John Wathen of the Waterkeeper Alliance first heard reports about the slick on Saturday and fl ...
• Controversial immigration enforcement program ...
  By Rebekah L. Cowell, special to Facing South U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced last week that all 100 counties in North Carolina have been connected to the Secure Communities program. That makes North Carolina the 10th state to implement the program statewide, along with ...
• Trial to open in lawsuit connected to hospital ...
  By Sheri Fink, ProPublica, co-published with the New York Times A jury trial set to open today will weigh whether one of America's largest health care corporations should be held accountable for deaths and injuries at a New Orleans hospital marooned by floodwaters after Hurricane Katrina. ...
• INSTITUTE INDEX: Nuclear-powered politics
  Amount the nuclear power industry spent on lobbying from 2000 to 2010: $600 million Amount the industry spent during that same period on campaign contributions: nearly $63 million Amount the Nuclear Energy Institute -- an industry trade group whose members include the company that owns th ...
• Congressman: U.S. may not be prepared to respo ...
  By Sasha Chavkin, ProPublica As Japan struggles to contain its growing nuclear crisis, a congressman and a disaster-preparedness expert raised concerns that the United States is not prepared to respond to a nuclear disaster. Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., wrote a letter to President Obama on M ...

One News Page

• RENEE ZELLWEGER HITS NEW YORK — ON HER OWN — F ...
  RENEE Zellweger isn’t hiding away. The actress was seen enjoying a quiet lunch alone Saturday at Le Pain Quotidien in New York City. Renee — who just split from boyfriend Bradley Cooper — was accompanied by her iPhone, and an iPad, according to TMZ. Zellweger recently insisted she only ...
• Bradley Cooper - Bradley Cooper Tops Box Offic ...
  Sci-fi thriller 'Limitless' starring Bradley Cooper topped the US box office this weekend The movie, which also stars Robert Di Nero, and tells the story of a man who finds a pill that can accelerate brain function, took in a total of $19 million, putting it ahead of 'Rango' The animated ...
• Renee Zellweger says she never planned to be f ...
  Oscar-winning actress Renee Zellweger has revealed that she never planned to become famous.
• Bradley Cooper says marriage with Esposito was ...
• Renee Zellweger -- Table for One
  Filed under: Renee Zellweger, Bradley Cooper, Break-ups Renee Zellweger enjoyed a quiet lunch alone today at Le Pain Quotidien in New York City -- just a woman, an iPhone, an iPad, and her thoughts. Hey Apple geeks, she's single! Read more

Global Research TV

• Wisconsin Protests: Farmers Fight Back
• Tsunami in Japan: Raw Footage
• The Shock Doctrine [Full Documentary]
• Nuclear Expert: Situation in Japan Is Dire
• Resolution Proposed to End Illegal Afghan War

Daily Tech

• 3/18/2011 Daily Hardware Reviews
  DailyTech's roundup of hardware reviews from around the web for Friday
• Halted Japanese Production Causes Worldwide Co ...
  While threat of radiation to U.S. might be exaggerated, global supply chains are in danger
• RSA -- the Firm Founded by Encryption Standard ...
  Apparently even the security experts can't stay secure
• UPDATED: NC Republicans Fight to Ban Municipal ...
  If they get in the way of business, take away power from local governments, say top state Republicans
• Wind Power from Hawaiian Islands Could Meet Oa ...
  If the Interisland Wind Project brought 400 megawatts of wind power from Lanai and Molokai to Oahu as planned, this would bring the island's total wind power to 500 megawatts, meeting increasing energy needs

Oriental Review

• A Strategy Aimed at Ruining Libya
  Elena Ponomareva (Russia) A death sentence to Libya’s sovereignty was handed out long before the protests inspired by Western intelligence services shook the country and the UN Security Council responded to the situation with anti-Libyan resolutions. There are fundamental causes behind the strat ...
• Libya to Face Airstrikes. Part Four of the Glo ...
  By Elena Pustovoitova (Russia) ORIENTAL REVIEW: This article was published by Strategic Culture Foundation few hours before the aggression. Latest reports show that the quasi-coalition forces are bombing vital infrastructure objects in Libya: oil reservoirs by Misurata, civilian and military tar ...
• UN Security Council on Libya: Killing the Inte ...
  *** Alexander Mezyaev (Russia) The UN Security Council passed Resolution 1973 on Libya slapping new sanctions on the country and reinforcing the ones it endures due to Resolution 1970 dated February 26. The truth is that the new Resolution erodes the international law to the point of virtually k ...
• Afterword For Biden’s Visit To Moscow
  By Gregory Tinsky (Russia) Are we about to part with Jacson-Vanik amendment? There’s a saying in American political folklore: «Vice President is a guy, who sits at the White House porch, waiting for President to be shot». This capacious wording perfectly describes the U.S. Vice President Joseph ...
• ‘Caveated optimism’ about Afghan war
  BHADRAKUMAR Melkulangara (India) The testimony before the Congress on Tuesday in Washington by the commander of the United States and North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] in Afghanistan, General David Petraeus gave significant clues to the current phase of American thinking towards the war ...

BlogHer

• How the World Has Changed in the 5 Years Since ...
  Twitter turns 5 today. In its short but eventful history it has changed the way we communicate, brand, promote/advertise, network, share, organize, and take action. According to CNN, the first tweet went out from Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey on March 21, 2006. The message was "inviting cowork ...
• Try French Toast Baked or Stuffed
  When I'm in the rare mood for a big sweet breakfast, it's almost always basic French toast for me (rather than pancakes or waffles). I'll make it with stale challah or brioche soaked in a vanilla-egg-milk mixture and griddled, and serve it with grade B maple syrup. But frankly, I'm almost never ...
• BlogHer|bet is This Week: Two Spots and the Li ...
  This week, the inaugural BlogHer|bet Conference is happening. The "bet" stands for "Business, Entrepreneurism, Technology," and the conference targets women who have a big idea in tech or media and want to take it to the next level. For some women, that means going out on their own and starting ...
• Am I Really Socially Promiscuous Because of Fa ...
  Recently, an article ran in the LA Times about how women who post lots of photos of themselves on facebook value appearance and need lots of attention. The article goes on to say that women who spent a lot of time managing their profiles, the number of photos they shared, the size of their onlin ...
• BlogHer Network Member News, March 21: Jeanett ...
  Jeanette Chen from Jeanette's Healthy Living was recently featured in her local news for a series of soup classes she taught at her local senior community center. The idea for this soup series came from an article she came across last summer called The Kids Are All Right, But What About The Elde ...

Health Freedom Alliance

• Schizophrenia Does Not Shrink Brains- Antipsyc ...
  Schizophrenia is not to be taken lightly and sufferers often lead difficult lives ruled by the the ongoing battles in their minds. Psychiatrists have labeled schizophrenia as a “brain disease” capable of shrinking the mass ...
• Triclosan Worse Than Anti-Bacterial Benefits
  Before you stop at every hand sanitizer station from here to St. Louis and mouth wash before some romantic encounter, find out what Triclosan is and what products to avoid so that you ...
• Animal Death Toll Ends Cloning Trials
  I’ll never forget my seventh grade teacher ecstatically telling us that Dolly the sheep had been cloned and Oh! what a great scientific and medical breakthrough it was. It didn’t ...
• Mouse-Pig & Super-Fish Seek Approval for Human ...
  “Here I come to save the daaaay! I’m not very mighty, I don’t fly (yet), but my DNA has been spliced with mouse DNA which means that my poop now has less environment-harming ...
• 8 Conspiracy Theories About Health That The Ma ...
  On which side do you stand when it comes to health information? The alternative arena or the mainstream “reader’s pre-digest” version? But which side is telling the truth with your best interest ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

• 52 feared dead in Pakistan mine explosion
  Pakistani mine workers carry a dead body of their colleague at a coal mine in Sorange near Quetta, Pakistan on Monday, March 21, 2011. Rescue workers used shovels and bare hands to dig out victims buried by explosions in the coal mine but officials said they feared all 52 miners underground at ...
• Slurry cases set for trial Aug. 1
  Shayne Fields, 19, left, and Kayla Farley, 18, both of Williamson, W.Va., drop off bottles filled with well water from their home they say was contaminated with coal slurry by Massey Energy and subsidiary Rawl Sales & Processing, prior to court hearing Monday, Nov. 15, 2010, in Charleston, W.Va ...
• Protesters win a round against Massey
  A federal magistrate judge has ruled today that anti-mountaintop removal protesters do not have to answer Massey Energy’s questions about who assisted or participated in peaceful civil disobedience actions against the company. The ruling by U.S. Magistrate Judge R. Clarke VanDervort is posted he ...
• Judge delays hearing on Massey permit
  U.S. District Judge Robert C. Chambers has extended his temporary restraining order blocking a Massey Energy mining permit for more than two months, and rescheduled a hearing on whether to grant an even longer-term injunction. The case concerns a new permit for Massey subsidiary Highland Mining’ ...
• Waiting for the backlash: More on EPA’s ...
  Piles of coal are shown at NRG Energy’s W.A. Parish Electric Generating Station Wednesday, March 16, 2011, in Thompsons, Texas. The plant, which operates natural gas and coal-fired units, is one of the largest power plants in the United States. (AP Photo) Am I the only one who was surprised to ...

Daniel Miessler

• Burp v1.4 Preview – Comparing Site Maps
  One exciting new feature to help with access control testing is the facility to compare two site maps and highlight differences. This feature can be used in various ways to help find different types of access control vulnerabilities, and identify which areas of a large application warrant close ...
• Snort IDS Sensor with Sguil Framework ISO | SA ...
  I have just released an updated CD of a hardened OS that includes Snort IDS sensor (version 2.9.0.4) with all the Sguil components ready to use. It is available in two versions, 32-bit and 64-bit. The CD has 3 options: sensor only, database only or all components on the same system. via isc.sans ...
• Analyzing HTTP Packet Captures | SANS ISC
  There are plenty of tools to extract files that are transmitted via HTTP. For example Jim Clausing’s brilliant perl script [1], or the Wireshark “export features among many others (chaosreader, xplico, network miner …). However, I am sometimes faced with a different problem: You do have a networ ...
• Programming: Decompiler vs. Disassembler
  Many are confused by the terms decompiler and disassembler. As with most confusion of this type, most just use the words interchangeably. Don’t do that; they are not the same. A decompiler takes one from a binary to source code–or something similarly high-level that can easily be read by humans. ...
• A-Week on Facebook
  [ The image above is for the 2010 campaign, but this is active for 2011 as well... ] This week is A-Week on Facebook–meaning some people have created a campaign that starts this week to promote it “being ok to be without God”, or, being able to be “Good without God”. As a rule I’m [...]

Fitwatch

• Top Ten nasty FIT cops Nos 8 and 9
  Ok, these are our number eight and nine. Admittedly, they are not proper cops, because the Met employs professional photographers to take their pics. (unlike other forces, who simply hand a cop a camera...). But we think they qualify for inclusion here anyway. These two have been in the game a l ...
• Top Ten Nasty FIT cops
  In the run up to the TUC march on the 26th March, we thought we’d run a series of top ten nasty FIT cops for you to look out for. Number One in the series is the now notorious Delroy Smellie. Smellie is a FIT cop of days long gone, before he went to join [...]
• Activists to deal with troublemakers on 26 Mar ...
  Fitwatch will be deploying activists on 26 March in case of trouble from Forward Intelligence Teams, specialist police units who hijack demonstrations and violate human rights legislation. This is a family event and it is our absolute hope police officers will come peacefully, but there is a pub ...
• Police exert control on 26 March protest
  It was, of course, expected that the TUC would work with the police in the planning of their protest on the 26th March. But the TUC has not stopped at discussing logistics and route planning. For this demonstration the TUC has been co-opted into the entire policing operation, bringing about a wh ...
• Fit in trouble again
  Forward intelligence policing is once again in the media spotlight after news today that a complaint has been launched by a 20 year old student, who claims not only was he falsely, and violent arrested - he sustained a chipped tooth during the arrest- but also the arresting FIT officer colluded ...

Worldwide Hippies

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

reference frame

• Skeptics, TRF stigmatized in a PSU course
  The left-wing indoctrination that has overtaken a significant portion of the Western college education is often being discussed but every new example of this phenomenon disappoints us again. It's really bad. Penn State University is the place that openly harbors the father of the infam ...
• Did the Supermoon cause the Japanese earthquake?
  Yesterday, during a fun trip to Northern Bohemia, I was also exposed to the kind of science that is hot among those who are not exactly physicists. What's shaking? Here it is: Last Saturday, i.e. three days ago, we experienced the best Supermoon in 18 years. I hadn't heard about ...
• Fifth greatest earthquake since 1900
  Japan has experienced a magnitude 8.9 earthquake several hours ago. Later, the magnitude was upgraded to 9.0. According to USGS, it was the fifth greatest earthquake since 1900. Only O(2000) people have died after the largest Japanese earthquake in 140 years (temporary figure); the num ...
• Sidney Coleman: anniversary
  The late physicist of physicists, Sidney Coleman, was born in Chicago 74 years ago, on March 7th, 1937. I will leave the memorial minute to N. Arkani-Hamed, A. Jaffe, and H. Georgi who just wrote a text for some Harvard newspapers: Sidney R. Coleman (Harvard Gazette)Thanks to Willie ...
• EU climate tax czar's faux pas in Australia
  James Delingpole has pointed out the following interview, Aussie sceptics destroy EU carbon commissionerRadio host Steve Price and climate blogger Andrew Bolt interviewed an important EU official, Ms Jill Hoggan of the U.K., which I found stunning: Jill Duggan appears around 48 ...

No Frakking Consensus

• The Missing Questionnaires
  We've been told more than 400 people answered a questionnaire about the IPCC last year. So far, only 232 records have been made public. No one will explain why.
• The IPCC Mythology (direct quotes)
  I've compiled a database of more than 160 quotes about the IPCC. Here are examples of journalists, government officials, and activists repeating the highly-questionable IPCC marketing message.
• Earth to Scientists
  Half a century ago, a science journalist discovered that anything less than reverential reporting was interpreted by scientists as hostility. Climate scientists who label critics 'anti-science' therefore come from a long tradition.
• The Strange Case of Sari Kovats
  How does someone who hasn't yet earned their doctorate get nominated by their own government for IPCC duty multiple times? How does the IPCC, which claims to be comprised of the world's top scientists, repeatedly select this person to fill senior roles?
• Peer into the Heart of the IPCC, Find Greenpeace
  The mere presence of environmental activists undermines the integrity of scientific endeavours. Yet the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has long embraced Greenpeace personnel.

Tarpley

• Tarpley on The Alex Jones Show
  Qaddafi resistance leads Obama to shift from color revolution charade to NATO aggression in Libya to save CIA rebel militia; UN Charter a dead letter; Command and control chaos as Italy rejects French-British command, Arab puppets reject NATO command; Craven Obama seeks low profile; Goal for Lib ...
• Obama’s Bay of Pigs in Libya: Imperialist Aggr ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net March 19, 2011 Washington DC, March 19 – Late today US and British cruise missiles joined with French and other NATO combat aircraft in Operation Odyssey Dawn/Operation Ellamy, a neo-imperialist bombing attack under fake humanitarian cover against the sovere ...
• Behind the 2011 Orgy of Destabilizations: Pre- ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net March 15, 2011 Washington DC, March 15, 2011 – In the late winter of 2011, governments were for a few weeks falling like bowling pins all across the Middle East and far beyond. We are witnessing a massive orgy of deliberate destabilizations of previous clie ...
• US-UK Imperialist Rampage Envelops Libya in Ci ...
  Webster G. Tarpley on The Alex Jones Show Infowars March 1, 2011 download file Coast to Coast AM tonight from 2am to 5am eastern
• Webster Tarpley will be interviewed Tuesday ni ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net March 1, 2011 Check you local radio station for the exact time. Listen and call in! Locate Radio Stations Near You Call Number: 800-618-8255 First Time Caller: 818-501-4721 � � �

Modern Survivalism

• Jump Start Seedlings with Grow Light
  It is definitely that time of year when many of us are thinking about our summer garden. Getting started with seeds and seedlings indoors is something that many people do, that is, germinating your own seeds and raising the seedlings until it is safe to plant them outdoors. Given that the sunlig ...
• Be Prepared… for a Tree Crashing through ...
  � Although the following event was a local event, there are lessons to be learned from two homes that were destroyed last night, located only about 100 feet from our location here at Modern Survival Blog. Actually one was completely ruined while the other was partially, but severely damaged. Man ...
• Emergency Essentials
  msb-note MSB welcomes Emergency Essentials as a new sponsor of Modern Survival Blog. You are probably aware of them, having seen them advertise on other related sites, and we are happy to have them on board along with our other quality sponsors. What do they have? A nice selection of food storag ...
• Recent World Events to Impact Economy?
  The events taking place in the world right now have lots of folks anxious, nervous, and some are getting the feeling that we are a lot closer to a possible economic collapse since 2008. Japan Japan, the world’s third largest economy has just suffered a tremendous blow, the total fallout of which ...
• Geiger Counter Numbers, How Bad is Bad?
  Given the recent events in Japan and the nuclear reactor damage and radiation entering the atmosphere there, the following information may help to understand the units of measurement being discussed, and how it may correlate to Geiger Counter readings such as those being displayed around the cou ...

Fast Company

• RDTN: A Crowdsourced Radiation Level Repository
  Japan's ongoing nuclear crisis has triggered radiation hysteria all over the world--thyroid-protecting potassium iodine pills are flying off the shelves in the U.S, Geiger counters are selling out in Paris, and all of a sudden, everyone seems to care how close they are to a nuclear plant. Ente ...
• Porsche Taking Preorders for the 918 Spyder Hy ...
  In the market for a hybrid supercar? Porsche is taking preorders for the 918 Spyder hybrid, a supercar first announced at the 2010 Geneva Motor Show. The vehicle was intended to remain a concept, but Porsche received such a positive response that it decided to put the supercar into production. ...
• U.S. State Department to Pay for BBC's Anti-Ja ...
  The U.S. State Department will be funding an anti-jamming program for the BBC World Service in repressive regimes. But statements given before Parliament show that the real target is China's "Great Firewall." The cash-strapped BBC World Service has a new patron: The United States State Departmen ...
• Microsoft Files Suit Against Nook E-Reader Mak ...
  Microsoft today sued Barnes & Noble, Foxconn, and Invantec over patent infringement stemming from their use of Android-based e-reader and tablet devices. In the suit, Microsoft alleges Barnes & Noble and its device manufacturers, Foxconn and Invantec, have violated patents related to functionali ...
• Google Headquarters Tests Wireless Electric Ve ...
  As if you needed another reason to check out Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, electric vehicle technology startup Evatran announced this week that it has installed a Plugless Power charging station at Google HQ. This is the first public installation of Evatran's wireless EV c ...

Jadaliyya

• Preliminary Historical Observations on the Ara ...
  Towards the end of his long, eventful life, in 1402, the renowned Arab historian Ibn Khaldun was in Damascus. He left us a description of Taymur�s siege of the city and of his meeting with the world conqueror. None of us is Ibn Khaldun, but any Arab historian today watching the Arab revo ...
• When Petro-Dictators Unite: The Bahraini Oppos ...
  For at least several decades, geopolitical, economic, territorial and ideological considerations have led to serious tensions, if not outright feuds, between the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states. In recent weeks, however, the regimes of GCC states have shown their citizens th ...
• Regional 'contagion' in the Middle East: For ' ...
  Although predicted by few, the current upheavals in several Arab countries reinvigorate commonplace perceptions of the countries and peoples in the Arab world and the Middle East at large as constituting a densely intertwined, interconnected and bounded region. When Tunisian protestors e ...
• How it Started in Yemen: From Tahrir to Taghyir
  On February 11 after the Friday noon prayers Yemeni students and activists organized a demonstration in the capital city of Sanaa in solidarity with Egyptian demonstrators frustrated with Mubarak�s refusal to resign. At about 1 PM they met in front of the small roundabout by the new camp ...
• Saudi Arabia's Week of Shame
  Since King Abdullah returned to Riyadh last month, members of his ruling family have resorted to myriad political, economic, and personal measures to prevent public expressions of dissent against the Al Saud. The Ministry of Interior issued a statement warning that any act of public prot ...

mediagazer

• Jennifer 8. Lee, Matt Thompson join CPI Board ...
  Jim Romenesko / Poynter: Jennifer 8.  Lee, Matt Thompson join CPI Board  —  Romenesko Misc.  —  Former New York Times reporter Jennifer 8.  Lee “thinks and works at the cutting edge of our digital 21st century journalism,” says Center for Public Integrity executive director William E. Buzenberg.
• EveryBlock's first major redesign (Adrian Holo ...
  Adrian Holovaty / The EveryBlock Blog: EveryBlock's first major redesign  —  We've just launched the first major redesign of EveryBlock.  —  Driven by the feedback we've been getting over the past year, we've not only changed the way the site looks, we've also changed the site's focus.  In shor ...
• INM discovers the digital world... (Roy Greens ...
  Roy Greenslade / Guardian: INM discovers the digital world...  Independent News & Media (INM), the Irish-based company that once owned The Independent and seemed less than enamoured with the interweb, is certainly going digital now.  —  The company has announced what it calls “four significant ...
• Tiny Channel's Big Gamble (Lauren A. E. Schuke ...
  Lauren A. E. Schuker / Wall Street Journal: Tiny Channel's Big Gamble  —  For one struggling cable channel, the controversial miniseries “The Kennedys” is a high-stakes bet to put itself on the map—a playbook that's increasingly common among fledging cable networks.  —  In February, the low-ra ...
• A Dangerous Pursuit - In a world where most pe ...
  New York Times: A Dangerous Pursuit  —  In a world where most people consume their news safely, perhaps in a comfortable chair on some electronic device, it is worth remembering how dangerous news-gathering has become.  Monday's release of four New York Times staff members in Libya was a powerf ...

Chemtrail News

• Reply From Missouri Senator on Chemtrail
  I sent pictures to State Senator Brian Nieves, he told me to call his office that his staff had done some research and had some answers to I called Dave ...chemtruth.ning.com/profiles/.../reply-from-missouri-senator-o...
• Nibiru hidden by chemtrails?
  Discussion about Nibiru hidden by chemtrails? at the GodlikeProductions Conspiracy Forum. Our topics include Conspiracy Theory, Secret Societies, ...www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1406450/pg1
• Chemtrail: MajorNikon: Galleries: Digit ...
  Chemtrail. This photo is marked as: Safe. If you feel that this is inappropriate , please send us a feedback. Camera: Nikon D70. Camera specifications ...www.dpreview.com/galleries/4889503380/photos/.../chemtrail
• Chemtrails The Video CRASH COURSE Geoen ...
  Have you wondered recently "What's Up with this FREAKY WEIRD WEATHER that we've been having lately? Have you noticed that you are seeing unusual cloud ...hubpages.com/hub/Chemtrails-The-Video-Crash-Course
• Chemtrail Research Network - Mythclues.com
  Of coarse I'm still trying to figure out the many different aspects of this weather radicalization program, so this is what I've surmised so far.www.mythclues.com/.../chemtrail-research-network-atomicbo...

World News - Top Stories

• Twin Falls Walt Disney World
  Disneyland and Walt Disney World generally do a good job in creating its lines for rides and...Debra PetersonDisney Travel ExaminerMarch 21, 2011 A visit to Walt Disney World through pictures - Day One: Magic Kingdom Danny CoxMarch 20, 2011 At the beginning of March 2011, I traveled over to ...
• In Central America, Obama's worries close ...
  Quick ReadPivoting to Central America, Obama will find disputes that hit closer to home Photos (AP) -- After days of promoting the international ties that bind, President Barack Obama shifts his Latin American tour to a closer neighbor and the more sensitive U.S. policy interests of immigra ...
• Examining Obama's Nobel Peace Prize and t ...
  On December 10th, 2009, President Barack Obama was presented with the Nobel Peace Prize by the Norwegian Nobel Committee. Of course, to anyone with Common Sense, any division of the Nobel Prize holds as much water as the winner of the NIT. However, much controversy broke out about its recip ...
• Michel Platini gets 4 more years as UEFA ...
  PARIS - Michel Platini will be the president of the European soccer governing body for another four-year term. The former France captain was unopposed at the UEFA Congress after proving popular among Europe's 53 soccer nations. Platini has opened up UEFA's marquee European Championship and ...
• Spain wins will assure Euro 2012 entry - ...
  MADRID (AFP) – Spain will have one foot in the Euro 2012 finals if they win their Group I qualifiers against the Czech Republic and Lithuania this month, Barcelona striker David Villa said...

no frakking consensus

• The Missing Questionnaires
  We've been told more than 400 people answered a questionnaire about the IPCC last year. So far, only 232 records have been made public. No one will explain why.
• The IPCC Mythology (direct quotes)
  I've compiled a database of more than 160 quotes about the IPCC. Here are examples of journalists, government officials, and activists repeating the highly-questionable IPCC marketing message.
• Earth to Scientists
  Half a century ago, a science journalist discovered that anything less than reverential reporting was interpreted by scientists as hostility. Climate scientists who label critics 'anti-science' therefore come from a long tradition.
• The Strange Case of Sari Kovats
  How does someone who hasn't yet earned their doctorate get nominated by their own government for IPCC duty multiple times? How does the IPCC, which claims to be comprised of the world's top scientists, repeatedly select this person to fill senior roles?
• Peer into the Heart of the IPCC, Find Greenpeace
  The mere presence of environmental activists undermines the integrity of scientific endeavours. Yet the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has long embraced Greenpeace personnel.

Pointman's

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

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

• LJI Co-Director Tracie Washington Named 2011 H ...
  The Grio website, an African-American-oriented news and opinion website owned by NBC news, has just named Louisiana Justice Institute co-director Tracie Washington as one of 2011's "100 History Makers in the Making." Among those honored are leaders in the fields of politics, science, education, ...
• Family, Supporters, Rally to Bring Justice for ...
  By Ada McMahonReposted from Bridge The Gulf Last Saturday in Lucedale, Mississippi, supporters and family of Billey Joe Johnson Jr. called for an end to the “Jim Crow ‘justice’” that left this young black man dead in the hands of the local police department. One December morning in ...
• An Open Letter to Louisiana's LGBt Organizatio ...
  Reposted from the Bilerico Blog: Dear Forum for Equality, I was greatly saddened today to read an op-ed in the Baton Rouge paper, The Advocate, called "Not Enough, But a Start." The article referenced a proposed resolution that would "promote tolerance in the social and economic life of Lou ...
• Activists Harassed During Vigil at OPP
  From our friends at the New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice: Community Condemns Intimidation of Community Leaders During Prayer Vigil Demand to Gusman: Guarantee Sheriff’s officers will not retaliate against Day Laborers Exercising their First Amendment Rights. Today, members of the ...
• Critics Say Times-Picayune Website Amplifies D ...
  New Orleans-based writer and attorney Billy Sothern started a blog last month called NO Comment that highlights the often offensive comments found on nola.com, the online home of the Times-Picayune. NO Comment's mission says, This is a blog to highlight and discuss offensive, irresponsible, and ...

Truth About Our World

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

Gyrovague's Raves

• From “Outsiders” to Model Americans
  Lianhe Zaobao, Singapore By Zhou Min Translated By Edward Seah 14 March 2011 Edited by Heidi Kaufmann Singapore – Lianhe Zaobao – Original Article (Chinese) On March 9, American President Barack Obama officially nominated the current secretary of commerce, Gary Locke, as the United States ambass ...
• Soul-Searching Necessary for U.S. and Japanese ...
  Minami-Nippon Shimbun, Japan Translated By Andrew Gonzalez 10 March 2011 Edited by Rica Asuncion-Reed Japan – Minami-Nippon Shimbun – Original Article (Japanese) The director of the U.S. State Departmentâs Office of Japan Affairs, Kevin Maher, made a string of derogatory remarks about the people ...
• Mission Creep over Tripoli
  Dov S. Zakheim Even as U.S. aircraft fire on Libyan air defenses and ground forces, it is difficult, indeed almost impossible, to make sense of just what exactly are American objectives in its latest round of conflict with elements of the Arab world. For two weeks the Obama administration resist ...
• Cyber War
  Fukushima meeting Stuxnet threat By David Rothkopf The Japanese nuclear crisis, though still unfolding, may, in a way, already be yesterday’s news. For a peek at tomorrow’s, review the testimony of General Keith Alexander, head of U.S. Cyber Command. Testifying before Congress this week and seek ...
• What Happens During a Nuclear Meltdown?
  Not what’s happening in Japan. BY JOSHUA E. KEATING Technicians are scrambling to contain the damage after March 11′s devastating earthquake and tsunami knocked out power at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Seawater is being flooded into the reactor core to prevent overheating, and ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

• Now, hairbrush that reads your mind
  WASHINGTON - Who says hairbrush can only be used to comb locks? Scientists have made a hairbrush like device that would be able to monitor mental activity. One of the main techniques for measuring and monitoring mental activity, called functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), can often b ...
• Man U?s bemused Fergie tells shifty Roo to res ...
  LONDON - Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has told key striker Wayne Rooney that he must respect the club and its traditions if he wants to stay on. Commenting on reports that suggest that the star player wants to leave Manchester United for another club - either Manchester City or ...
• Google Street Viewers spot ?God? floating over ...
  SYDNEY - Google Street View has spotted a god-like figure floating midair above a lake in Quarten, Switzerland. Although the image, discovered by the Gawker blog, is apparently the result of some sort of light distortion or lens flare, blogger Max Read has questioned whether it might have more ...
• Dogs reduce stress in autistic children: Study
  WASHINGTON - Dogs-apart from being man’s best friend-have a special role to play in the lives of children with special needs. A new study by the Universite de Montreal has suggested that specifically trained service dogs can help reduce the anxiety and enhance the socialization skills of child ...
• How sex hormones influence right heart function
  WASHINGTON - A new study has revealed human sex hormones influence the structure and function of the right ventricle (RV) of the heart. The researchers found that in women receiving hormone therapy, higher estrogen levels were associated with higher RV ejection fraction and lower RV end-systol ...

TruthNews Australia

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

Beacon

• Speak Up for California’s Marine Life Today
  Humpback whale. [Image via Wikimedia Commons.] Humpback whales flock to the California coast, searching for herring, krill, and other small tasty fish. But these small fish, also known as forage fish, are dwindling in numbers due to fishing pressure, pollution, and demand for feed in the ag ...
• Slideshow and Video: ‘Oceana’ the Book
  Today the Huffington Post has a great slideshow of images -- including one of a darling young Ted Danson -- from his new book, �Oceana: Our Endangered Oceans and What We Can Do to Save Them.� Have you gotten your copy yet? No? What are you waiting for!? �In case you need some more convincing, h ...
• Christie’s Green Auction Approaches
  Andy Sharpless is the CEO of Oceana. I wanted to give you advance notice of Christie�s Green Auction: A Bid to Save the Earth on March 29th at New York�s Rockefeller Center.�This special event premiered last year, raising an unprecedented $2.4 million for Oceana, Conservation Internationa ...
• U.S. Gov’t Fails to Protect Sea Turtles, Again
  A loggerhead hatchling in North Carolina. � Oceana/Cory Wilson While the U.S. government continues to dawdle, loggerhead sea turtles continue to suffer. (Yes, they need your help!) Yesterday the U.S. government failed to meet its legal deadline for issuing a final rule providing additional ...
• Protecting Costa Rica’s Biodiversity
  A collared aracari on Costa Rica's Nicoya Peninsula. Image via Wikimedia Commons. Sometimes our supporters point out organizations that are doing inspiring work for the oceans around the world. Thanks to supporter Joanna Adler for alerting us to the great work of an organization in Costa Ri ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

• Germany In Full Retreat
  Germans Retreat From Kursk On Foot By March 1943, the tide had turned against the German Army, particularly on the Eastern Front. Now, living through their third arctic Soviet winter, the Wehrmacht faced a seemingly endless and new Red Army force. After traveling through a thousand miles of open ...
• Please Donate
  Friends, first thank you all for visiting this site. You’ll notice that on the right sidebar there is a Paypal tab. If you find it in your heart to contribute, we sure would appreciate it. I guarantee you will have great karma for months to come and will find unexpectedly great [...]
• A Letter From A Roman Soldier To His Father.
  Letter From A Roman Soldier To His Father. A Roman soldier named Apion from a small town in Egypt, raveled to Alexandria and enlisted in the Roman army. He boarded a troop transport and travelled to Italy where he was deployed for duty. He writes this letter home. Apion to  his father and lord E ...
• USS Missouri Fires 15 Inch Guns
  Click here to view the [...]
• US Navy Sends Cruise Missiles To Abate Lybian ...
  RGM 109 Cruise Missile AP reports that the US and UK warships have fired 110 Tomahawk cruise missiles in a furious display of precision munitions to knock out Ghadaffi’s anti-air defenses along the North African coastline. While this is encouraging, I still think there are three problems to keep ...

Taylor Marsh

• Queer Talk: Homophobes Disrobe
  Anyone aware of Romanovsky & Phillips’ classic, Homophobes in Robes, (1994) will recognize my take-off on that song with “Homophobes Disrobe.” In their song, the “homophobes in robes” are 1) the Pope; 2) the KKK; and 3) the U.S. Supreme Court. More broadly, “homophobes” have a tendency to “disr ...
• My $0.02/Saturday Reads and a few words from D ...
  Morning, everyone. As I drafted this post on Friday, news broke that a Wisconsin county judge has blocked Walker’s collective-bargaining law. Other than that, not much happy news to report, so I’ve included some uplifting words from Seuss at the end of my Saturday picks below. Also, see photo t ...
• The Helen Thomas Playboy Interview
  **BUMPED – TM NOTE BELOW** Well, this is going to make heads explode. Not sure if Gateway Pundit and Weasel Zippers went off simultaneously or in contagion fashion with Pajamas Media. The interview with 90 year-old Thomas is out in April, but snippets are available, with much more at the link. ...
• Headline of the Week
  or… The Daily Mail story is deeply depressing. David Sanger has been a must read during this unfolding nightmare. The decision to raise the level came two days after the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission warned publicly that the situation at the crippled plant was much bleaker than Jap ...
• Wisconsin Judge Issues Temporary Restraining O ...
  **UPDATED** The union-busters get blocked, at least for the moment. Via JSonline, with the tweet below CNN’s Erick Erickson’s response.Dane County Circuit Judge Maryann Sumi issued a temporary restraining order Friday, barring the publication of a controversial new law that would sharply curtai

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