23 March - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

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Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

• CIA Psychologist's Notes Reveal True Purpose B ...
  Dr. Bruce Jessen's notes reveal torture techniques that were used to "exploit" "war on terror" detainees in custody of the CIA and Department of Defense.
• The Law for Big Bankers Is Different than for ...
  The new House leadership may not have much success reopening loopholes closed by the Dodd-Frank law. So their new game is simply to leave the reforms underfunded.
• New Pressures on Egyptian Government to Assist ...
  “Egypt has a moral responsibility to address the humanitarian situation in Gaza, as well as encourage the international community to pressure Israel into lifting the siege.â€
• Glenn Greenwald: How the US Government Strikes ...
  In a recent speech, Glenn Greenwald discussed how the government and media treatment of WikiLeaks reveals a total lack of respect for the law and government transparency.
• As Democratic Uprisings Spread Through Middle ...
  Palestinian activists, isolated by Israeli military checkpoints and walls, are connecting through Facebook, Twitter and mobile phone networks.

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

• Conservatives tells us not to worry about the ...
  Summary: The Constitution is dead.  Conservative attorneys explain why it’s all for the best, and produce elegant treatises justifying torture, assassination of US citizens, unlimited surveillance – anything the State desires.  But the facade still stands.  Property remains inviolate (un ...
• A war monger review, looking at the articles a ...
  Summary:  It’s astonishing to see the craziness that Americans consider geopolitical analysis.  There are sophomores in other nations that would consider these to simplistic to take seriously.  That such work forms the mainstream of US foreign policy illustrates the decline of America.  Cla ...
• Why we so often go to war (the short version)
  Summary:  We love war.  Our newspapers seldom show such exuberance except when we bomb some small nation.  From “There’s Nothing Easy About War – The Libya Version“, Michael Cohen, Democracy Arsenal, 20 March 2011: I have enormous respect for Shadi’s passion around this issue – and the passion o ...
• Our military attacks Libya. As usual, the con ...
  Summary:   The US has gone to war with Libya, with operations far exceeding a “no fly zone.”   As usual the banter of our geopolitical experts merely provided cover for broader military action, probably for reasons unmentionable to the public. The operations in Libya go far beyond the no fl ...
• We’re at war, again. Another shovel of ...
  Summary:  As we start yet another war, let’s take a moment to mourn the Constitution.  A landmark from the days when we inspired other peoples by means other than our bombs. Contents A reminder of what we once were (of course you don’t care) A nostalgic note about a political regime long gone ...

Open Your Eyes News

• Ivory Coast: UN warns of forgotten humanitaria ...
  BBC – About 500,000 people have fled violence there – but a UN appeal for funds to help them has met with little response. Read article
• UK: ‘Hyper-injunction’ stops you talking to MP
  Telegraph - Voters are being barred from speaking to their MPs under a new generation of gagging orders known as hyper-injunctions, the House of Commons has been told. Read article
• Pakistan: ‘Xe behind Baloch insurgency, terror ...
  The Nation – Blackwater, the CIAâs deadliest sidekick, has launched a massive operation to promote insurgency in Balochistan, especially in the coastal areas, as part of its efforts to destablise the country, it is learnt. The CIA and Blackwater (now Xe Services) operating from the USA have two ...
• UK: Free schools will not teach creationism, s ...
  Guardian – The Department for Education has said Michael Gove is “crystal clear that teaching creationism is at odds with scientific fact” after a warning that the government’s new free schools could be exploited by fundamentalist churches looking to promote a literal interpretation of the Bible ...
• Freed Times Journalists Give Account of Captivity
  New Youk Times – The Libyan government freed four New York Times journalists on Monday, six days after they were captured while covering the conflict between government and rebel forces in the eastern city of Ajdabiya. They were released into the custody of Turkish diplomats and crossed safely i ...

The Progressive Realist

• Supply-Induced Demand for Military Intervention
  One of the long-simmering controversies on the Internet is whether increased US investment in counterinsurgency capabilities actually makes it more likely that the US will engage in misguided “regime change” interventions in the future. Watching the Libya debate, whatever you think of the merit ...
• Using Talks with the Taliban to Fix the Afghan ...
  Earlier today I attended an enlightening event at the Center for American Progress on transition goals for Afghanistan. Among the many insightful points that were brought up by panelists David Kilcullen, Caroline Wadhams and Anand Gopal was the urgent need for work on political reform in the cou ...
• What's Driving Obama's Latin America Trip
  The extent to which events in Libya have overshadowed President Barack Obama's Latin America tour can't be overstated. With the U.S. president in El Salvador today after previous stops in Brazil and Chile, there's a good deal of speculation about why he decided to press forward with the trip rat ...
• On Precedents and Double Standards in Libya an ...
  A few days back, Shadi Hamid made an interesting argument in favor of intervening militarily in Libya that I would like to revisit: One of the main sources of Arab antipathy toward America is our long, tragic history of supporting repressive dictatorships in the region. This five-decade-lon ...
• Obama Escalates Human Rights Focus on Iran
  Issuing his third annual Nowruz greeting to the Iranian people over the weekend, President Obama used the opportunity to tie the recent Middle East uprisings to the post-election demonstrations in Iran in 2009. “These movements for change are not unique to these last few months,” Obama said.”The ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

• Today at the Prospect
  Robert Hiltonsmithsays a few Republican lawmakers have broken ranks and acknowledged the truth: Dealing with the budget deficit will require tax increases. Monica Potts says liberal urbanites complain that politicians pay too much attention to rural America, but the truth is we hardly do at al ...
• Stephen Lerner vs. Real Economic Terrorists of ...
  For the record, Stephen Lerner is a friend of mine. The former SEIU executive, one of the brightest organizing minds in America today, spends every waking minute thinking about what he and the rest of us can do to help working class and poor people in America. And no, as Glenn Beck now correctly ...
• Journos and Ladies
  The International Women's Media Foundation released today the results of a two-year study of 500 companies, in which they found that women make up only a third of the professionals in news-gathering operations around the world. (It didn't include magazines, since staffing works different at maga ...
• The Problem With Gang Injunctions
  Several California cities recently moved forward with controversial gang injunctions. The measures, ruled constitutional by the California Supreme Court in 1997, allow city attorneys to file public nuisance lawsuits in civil court to restrict the movements of alleged gang members, often banning ...
• Back From Libya
  The four New York Times journalists who were kidnapped in Libya have now written their story. Here's an excerpt: All of us had had close calls over the years. Lynsey was kidnapped in Falluja, Iraq, in 2004; Steve in Afghanistan in 2009. Tyler had more scrapes than he could count, from Chechnya ...

Buzzflash

• Utah Becomes First in the US to Have a State Gun
  MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT "Utah becomes first in US to have state gun." In case you are wondering, the winner is a Browning M1911 semiautomatic pistol. So, right up there with other state symbols of Utah - like the state tree (blue spruce) - is a gun, and a semiautomatic one ...
• Bernie Sanders Urges Obama to Declare a Nuclea ...
  BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT FOR TRUTHOUT The following is a news release from the office of Senator Bernie Sanders (Independent-Vermont): In the aftermath of the nuclear disaster in Japan, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders urged the White House to form a presidential commission on nuclear safety in the Unite ...
• Citizen Activism Required for Nuclear Protection
  PETER BERGEL FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Oregonians can rejoice that we are no longer threatened by the kind of nuclear meltdown disaster occurring in Japan. This did not happen by chance and citizens from other states might benefit from thinking about this. Portland General Electric Company's Tro ...
• If You Don't Remember Karen Silkwood, You Shou ...
  Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout If you don't remember Karen Silkwood, you should if you value your life and the lives of your loved ones. Silkwood disclosed the numerous dangers lurking at the nuclear power plant in Oklahoma where she worked. In fact, Silkwood - a member of the ...
• A Tale of Two Americas: One America Lives on G ...
  Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout Yes, it's the tale of two Americas. To its no doubt cheering readership, The Wall Street Journal reported today that big CEO bonuses are back - and back big time: CEO bonuses at 50 major corporations jumped a median of 30.5%, the biggest gain in a ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

• The manipulative pro-war argument in Libya
  Accusing war opponents of indifference to suffering is a common, and ironic, tactic used to justify wars
• Court allows constitutional challenge to new F ...
  The ACLU has a major victory over the Bush/Obama tactic for shielding presidential lawbreaking from judicial review
• Libya and the familiar patterns of war
  There are vital differences between this action and Iraq, but some key tactics are identical
• The clarifying Manning/Crowley controversy
  Criticism from the left is particularly harsh in the wake of this growing scandal
• WH forces P.J. Crowley to resign for condemnin ...
  P.J. Crowley out after denouncing treatment of Bradley Manning as "counter-productive and stupid"

The BiPartisan Report

• Sex, lies and ‘edited’ videotape
• Nihilism 1 American People Nil
• Sheldon Whitehouse brings truth to the Senate ...
• Pesky facts spoil GOP’s mammogram arguments
• Those holier than thou Conservatives

Sciencebase

• The fraudulent invention debunkifier
  Debunking crackpot and fraudulent inventions has never been easier than now thanks to the world-shattering invention of the Crackpot Flowchart(TM) from Sciencebase. Based on the 13 unlucky-for-crackpots warning signs published some time ago on ka9q.net, this handy multicoloured flow chart lets y ...
• Six science selections
  Map mashup reveals world’s top science cities – Combining citation data with Google Maps reveals the cities where science prospers, and those where it doesn't. 9 arguments for (against) herbal remedies – About 40% of pharmaceuticals have a herbal origin but that doesn't mean natural is all good. ...
• Telepathic spam
  The following comment was left on the site today, it begins: “Telepathy is possible, it works very good…I can exchange voice and videos messages , smell and bad and good filings with people around, people can move muscles on my body from distance and much more.” Aside from the “filings” typo, it ...
• Aspartame toxicity. Not.
  Aspartame is an artificial, non-saccharide, sweetener used as a sugar substitute in some foods and beverages usually so that they can be labelled as “lite” or “diet” products. In the European Union, it is coded as E951. Aspartame is a methyl ester of aspartic acid and phenylalanine, two natural ...
• Mental snip
  I seem to have something of a reputation for a fertile imagination; don’t know why, although regular readers will know that I cover a lot of ground between my blog and a hard place. Anyway, Diane Richards pointed this out to me following a Facebook post about social networking for sex and about ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

• International Human Rights Hearing on Rape Epi ...
  This Friday, petitioners MADRE, the Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti (IJDH), the Bureau des Avocats Internationaux (BAI), the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), CUNY School of Law and Women’s Link Worldwide will testify before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) ...
• EPA Airs Plan to Unveil Secret Chemicals
  Spurred by an Environmental Working Group investigation about government and corporate secrecy that cloak the very identity of many industrial chemicals, the Environmental Protection Agency has proposed to allow unjustified secrecy claims to sunset.read more
• A "Revolution of Greens" and Innovations in Lo ...
  Food prices have soared to record highs and are projected to increase further in the coming decade, pushing millions of people into hunger and fueling political unrest around the world.read more
• Physicians for Social Responsibility Deeply Co ...
  Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) expressed concern over recent reports that radioactivity from the ongoing Fukushima accident is presentin the Japanese food supply. While all food contains radionuclides, whether from natural sources, nuclear testing or otherwise, the increased levels f ...
• ALERT: Washington Set to Make Our Food and Wat ...
  Food & Water Watch, a national consumer watchdog, today issued a nationwide public safety alert warning the nation that leaders in Washington are proposing to cut food and water safety protections which would put more Americans in jeopardy of becoming sick or even dying from foodborne illness, a ...

Common Dreams-Views

• Piven’s National ‘Teach-in’ Aims to Spread Wis ...
  Roger Bybee The pro-public union protests in Wisconsin over the past month have marked a major turning point in the American political debate over an elite-backed �austerity agenda, declares Frances Fox Piven, perhaps America's foremost au ...
• The Republican’s Big Lies About Jobs (And Why ...
  Robert Reich "And if all others accepted the lie which the party imposed – if all records told the same tale – then the lie passed into history and became the truth." – George Orwell, 1984 (published in 1949) House Majority Leader Eric C ...
• Aristide’s Return to Haiti: A Long Night’s Jou ...
  Amy Goodman Late at night on March 17, former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide boarded a small plane with his family in Johannesburg. The following morning, he arrived in Haiti. It was just over seven years after he was kidnapped f ...
• The Manipulative Pro-War Argument in Libya
  Glenn Greenwald Advocating for the U.S.'s military action in Libya, The New Republic's John Judis lays out the argument which many of his fellow war advocates are making: that those who oppose the intervention are guilty of indifference to ...
• Note To Progressives Who Back a No Fly Zone on ...
  Joe Emersberger Iraq alone should have made any progressive support for Western military intervention in Libya negligible. It is very sad to see that didn't happen. The corporate media has, again, succeeded in getting many well intentioned ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

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

Water Wars

• Worried About "Water Wars," U.N. Calls for Hyd ...
  "Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over," Mark Twain reportedly said during the early d
• Water wars panel discussion lets you ask the e ...
  Where: Brenau University Thurmond McRae Auditorium When: 1-3 p.m. Cost: Free More information contact Heather Gladfelter. No comments have been posted.
• "Hydro-diplomacy" needed to avert Arab water wars
  By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent OSLO (Reuters) - The United Nations should promote "hydro-diplomacy" to defuse any tensions over water in regions like the Middle East and North Africa where scarce supplies have the potential to spark future conflicts, experts said Sunday. [More]
• "Hydro-diplomacy" needed to avert Arab water wars
  The United Nations should promote "hydro-diplomacy" to defuse any tensions over water in regions like the Middle East and North Africa where scarce supplies have the potential to spark future conflicts experts said on Sunday.
• Letters to the editor
  State budget, water wars, etc.

WordPress | Economics

• Portugal Braces For Govt Collapse Over Debt Vote!
  The Eurozone is bust! Almost all the economies have debt to GDP over 100%. Even the best of the lot,
• Michigan's War on the Middle Class
    MAIN STREET MARCH 22, 2011 Michigan’s War on the Middle Class That battle was lost long agoâ
• Oil prices waffle on UNSC resolution, Libya's ...
  by Eric Watkins, OGJ Oil Diplomacy Editor, Oil & Gas Journal LOS ANGELES, Mar. 18 — Oil pr
• Divisions strain NATO push for Libyan airstrikes
  Agencies, 2011-03-22 – BRUSSELS – Discord erupted in Europe over whether the military op
• Jobs, Jobs, Jobs!?
  I thought the battle cry of the elephants in the November, 2010 election was about jobs, jobs, jobs.

Electronic Intifada

• Revolutionary Egyptian youth refuse Clinton me ...
  Young leaders of Egypt's revolution declined an invitation to meet with the US secretary of state, citing Washington's tepid support for anti-government protesters over ...
• On World Water Day, support the academic boyco ...
  Today on World Water Day, we call on those concerned with water rights to support the boycott, divestment and sanctions call to hold Israel responsible for its violatio ...
• Aid industry doing no harm in Palestine?
  Discourses of "aid," "development" and "reconstruction" shield Israel's ongoing occupation and colonial project. Samer Abdelnour analyzes.
• Interview: Rula Jebreal on the struggle to mak ...
  Rula Jebreal on the struggle to make and show the film based on her book Miral and the tumultuous real-life experiences behind the story.
• Palestinians urged to "Buy Gaza"
  GAZA CITY, occupied Gaza Strip (IPS) - Palestinians are calling for boycotts against Israeli products and companies. But in the Gaza Strip -- at the heart of the Israeli occupa ...

Afghanistan Sun

• General warns of Taliban fightback
  The Taliban will fight back in the coming months in an attempt to regain ground lost in Helmand Province, the top Nato commander in Afghanistan has warned.US general David Petraeus admitted that the ...
• Afghan president urges Taliban not to burn schools
  Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday again urged the Taliban to join peace negotiations and pleaded with them to stop attacking schools in the war-torn ...
• 'I Got Blown to Hell in Afghanistan'
  LOGAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan — Staff Sgt. Marcus Jimenez was pissed. On March 19, he had led a force of U.S., Afghan and Jordanian soldiers into the village of Pakhab-e’Shana, in eastern ...
• Progress in Afghanistan is fragile
  LONDON-The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan says foreign troops are on course to complete their security role by the end of 2014, but has warned progress could easily be reversed. Gen. David ...
• Soldier expected to plead guilty to Afghan murders
  JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. (AP) -- A 22-year-old soldier accused of carrying out a brutal plot to murder Afghan civilians faces a court-martial Wednesday in a case that involves some of the ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

• President Obama and the demand for universal r ...
  During this week's trip to Latin America, President Barack Obama has hit on a theme about the universal nature of human rights. Here is a paragraph from his speech on Sunday in Brazil: But we also know that there’s certain aspirations shared by every human being: We all seek to be free. We al ...
• Supreme Court says internal oral complaints ar ...
  Today the Supreme Court held that workers who make oral complaints about wage and hour violations are protected from retaliation under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The Court says that oral complaints are "filed" and that workers who make them have "filed any complaint" in the parlance of ...
• Bill targets intelligence whistleblowers
  An article published in the San Francisco Examiner by Barbara Hollingsworth explains why you should be concerned about the Senate Intelligence Committee's plan to include a provision in the Intelligence Authorization Bill that will "require federal employees working at intelligence agencies to s ...
• CIA sued over violations of the Freedom of Inf ...
  National Security Counselors (NSC), an Arlington, Virginia-based public interest group (and legal counsel for the National Whistleblowers Center on FOIA issues), has filed three lawsuits against the CIA about how the agency handles and interprets document requests under the Freedom of Informatio ...
• CIA sued over violations of the Freedom of Inf ...
  National Security Counselors (NSC), an Arlington, Virginia-based public interest group (and legal counsel for the National Whistleblowers Center on FOIA issues), has filed three lawsuits against the CIA about how the agency handles and interprets document requests under the Freedom of Informatio ...

Science Express

• Fermi maps an active galaxy's 'smokestack plumes'
  If our eyes could see radio waves, the nearby galaxy Centaurus A (Cen A) would be one of the biggest and brightest objects in the sky, nearly 20 times the apparent size of a full moon. What we can't see when looking at the galaxy in visible light is that it lies nestled between a pair of giant r ...
• Pollution from Asia circles globe at stratosph ...
  The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additional evidence of the ...
• After growth spurt, supermassive black holes s ...
  Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
• Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virus
  A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20 ...
• New approach precisely tracks evolution's foot ...
  (PhysOrg.com) -- Fossils may provide tantalizing clues to human history but they also lack some vital information, such as revealing which pieces of human DNA have been favored by evolution because they confer beneficial traits - resistance to infection or the ability to digest milk, for exampl ...

TechDirt

• Back In The Days When Skywriting Was Patented
  Eric Goldman alerts us to the news that, back in the day, skywriting was patented (see patent below) and that there were advertisements warning people not to infringe. This particular ad was published in 1924 in Aviation Magazine. If you can't read the warning, it states: Warning: The ...
• Should A Company Be Liable For What Its Affili ...
  We all know that there are bogus product reviews online. At times, it's difficult to take reviews seriously because of this. So, to some extent, it seems like a good thing that the FTC is apparently cracking down on bogus online reviews, as demonstrated by its decision to fine a company called ...
• Zappos Gives Up On Canada Due To Customs Problems
  A few years ago, when I was in Toronto, I remember being shocked when a friend there told me how difficult it was to get any sort of serious e-commerce there. Because of problems with customs and other issues, many of the big e-commerce players wouldn't ship to Canada, or made it quite difficul ...
• New Tool Seeks To Uncover Lobbying's Role In P ...
  Larry Lessig recently directed our attention to a new project, called Congressional Closeup, that seeks to uncover political narratives in "strange" voting patterns by our elected officials through automated means. For example, in a demo (covering a story from the last Congress), it looks at lo ...
• Appeals Court Agrees: Attempt To Stifle Online ...
  A couple years ago, we wrote about the Sedgwick v. Delsman case, in which a guy who was upset with Sedgwick (a company handling claims management services) created some anti-Sedgwick content online, including "Wanted" posters of its management. Sedgwick sued, pulling out a bunch of legal theori ...

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

• Things You Might Have Missed
  I didn’t make it to the Manning protest at Quantico this weekend, but I did make it to the Iraq war anniversary thingamawhosit. The first (Code Pink) hour was pretty bad. I spent most of it texting snarky comments to the bfriend, who wisely stayed in bed. But it got better. Couple of the speeche ...
• 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 ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

• European Commission, Trichet Refuse To Curb Fo ...
  EIR News Service press release.
• LaRouche Democratic Slate Issues National Stat ...
  EIR News Service press release.
• Denmark: Parliamentary Majority Wants Angelide ...
  EIR News Service press release.
• LaRouche To Hold Webcast March 10
  EIR News Service press release.
• Indonesia Fights Globalized Agro-Food Speculators
  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

• Isabella Rossellini's 'Animals Distract Me' (V ...
  Screen grabs of Animals Distract Me, Discovery Watch It on Planet Green on April 23rd at 10 PM EST Isabella Rossellini, the famous Italian actress, filmmaker, author, philanthropist, and model, has been making great (and often surreal!) films and television shows about all kinds of creatur ...
• Solar-Powered Hamster Ball Purifies Water for ...
  Images by Monash University, via Physorg We love seeing designers come up with ideas for solar powered fresh water purification and generation for underdeveloped areas. While most of them won't pan out, it keeps the spark going for figuring out ideas that will work. One such contender is th ...
• French GM Maize Ban Was Done Illegally: EU Cou ...
  It's not an official court ruling, just a legal opinion keep in mind, but in the opinion of the European Court of Justice's attorney general the 2008 French ban on genetically modified maize developed by Monsanto was done illegally. Reuters reports that the ECJ attorney general said, "[Fr ...
• Why Isn't Every Key A Keybrid? It Makes So Muc ...
  Image credit Lloyd Alter When I first saw the Keybrid in Wired Magazine I thought a) why bother? and b) how would it work, when you see a wall of blanks on every locksmith's wall? But then the designer, Scott Amron, sent me some and I realized that a) he is the really funny and clever desig ...
• 11 Ways to Take Dogs on Bikes (Slideshow)
  Photo: Monika.monika/Creative Commons. Yes, this is all about cute-overload. But if you're a regular cyclist and have a dog as your very best friend, the question will eventually hit you: How can you take your pooch along for the ride? Whether you don't want to leave Fluffy alone, are hi ...

Biosingularity

• Reprogrammed Stem Cells Are Rife with Mutations
  Adult cells that have been reprogrammed into stem cells harbor a number of genetic mutations, some of which appear in genes that have been linked to cancer. While scientists don’t yet know how this might affect the use of the cells in medicine, they say the findings show that the cells need to b ...
• The memory virus: gene boosts memories made we ...
  Memories fade with time, often to the annoyance of those who can’t recall important details. But scientists have now found a way to boost the recall of memories even after they’ve started to fade. Unfortunately, the method involves injecting an engineered virus directly into the brain, so those ...
• Bacteria on Farms May Protect Against Asthma
  New research lends support to the idea that exposure to a wide range of microbes explains why farm kids have lower asthma rates than city kids. School-aged children in the studies who lived on farms were about 30% to 50% less likely to have asthma than non-farm children who lived nearby. Farm-dw ...
• Parts of brain can switch functions
  When your brain encounters sensory stimuli, such as the scent of your morning coffee or the sound of a honking car, that input gets shuttled to the appropriate brain region for analysis. The coffee aroma goes to the olfactory cortex, while sounds are processed in the auditory cortex. That divisi ...
• Lasers ID Deadly Skin Cancer Better than Doctor
  High-resolution images from a laser-based tool developed at Duke University could help doctors better diagnose melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer. The improved diagnoses could potentially save thousands of lives and millions of dollars in unnecessary healthcare costs each year. The tool ...

CFACT

• Wind power: questionable benefits, concealed i ...
  EPA trumpets dubious shale gas risks - but ignores environmental impacts of wind turbines.
• CFACT's Morano explains on Fox News why Greens ...
  Environmentalists are getting exactly what they want.
• Battle brewing over proposed coal export port ...
  China̢۪s growing appetite for energy and America̢۪s abundance of coal are putting a small port on Washington̢۪s Pacific Coast in the middle of a clash between local officials and environmentalists.
• CBS News covers CFACT's human hamster wheel at ...
  CFACT's Collegians brought a giant human-sized hamster wheel to CPAC to highlight the follies of renewable energy policies.
• Use energy, get rich and save the planet

Ria Novosti Online News

• Putin tones down Libya rhetoric, laments use o ...
• Tony Sheridan to perform at Moscow's Beatles f ...
  British rock'n'roll guitarist Tony Sheridan, known for his tandem with the Beatles in the early 60s, will perform a live gig during the International Beatles festival on Sunday in Moscow's B2 club.
• RIA Novosti to host videoconference announcing ...
  Videoconference Moscow-Delhi announcing the International environmental forum for civil journalists “EcoBlogy” in Moscow on April 18-19, 2011.
• Hollywood's Liz Taylor dies at 79
  Renowned Hollywood actress Elizabeth Taylor has died at the age of 79, ABC television said on Wednesday.
• Hollywood's Liz Taylor dies at 79
  Renowned Hollywood actress Elizabeth Taylor has died at the age of 79, ABC television said on Wednesday.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• Global radiation spread from Japan plant 'harm ...
  Microscopic radioactive particles from Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant that may spread across the world within the next few weeks are "harmless," a Russian environmental monitoring official said on Wednesday.
• International Space Station
• 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.

Pruning Shears

• Thank God America isn't like that
  I’ve been busy with SB 5 lately, and this is more Glenn Greenwald’s turf anyway, but I wanted to highlight this segment from last Thursday’s Hardball because the obliviousness displayed in it is almost comical (all emphasis added):MATTHEWS: David, what is the situation in terms of fact versus t ...
• 'No On SB 5': Rally at Bedford Commons, 20-Mar ...
  On Sunday the Bedford/Walton Hills Democratic party held a “No on SB 5” rally, with chair Andrew Mizsak emceeing:As a show of support to those fighting to retain the right to collective bargaining elsewhere, the podium was backed with not just American and Ohio flags, but a Wisconsin one as well ...
• '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, ...

Organic Consumers.org

• Millions Against Monsanto Campaign 2011
  The Millions Against Monsanto campaign is taking action across the country, this Saturday, March 26 2011. Organize an action in your local area today! Contact the OCA for more information or visit www.millionsagainstmonsanto.comClick here to read this article
• Audubon Magazine Special Issue on Organics
  Today organic foods seem as mainstream as frozen waffles, but the United States still lags far behind Europe. It's time for Washington to give the industry a jolt.Click here to read this article
• Author Michael Pollan Explains the War on Food ...
  Ian Brown sits down with Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore's Dilemma and god of the food movementClick here to read this article
• Is the Environment Poisoning Our Children?
  When my husband and I set out to find a nursery school for our daughter, Faith, nearly ten years ago we took the decision seriously. I looked at large parent-run cooperatives and visited small home-based operations. Jeff studied the pink towers and chiming bells at the Montessori school on the h ...
• 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

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

• Caution on the Private Manning letter
  by Michael W. Lewis by Michael W. Lewis Although the publicly available information indicates that there is cause for concern about how Private Manning is being treated, and an impressive array of legal academics and others have signed the Ackerman/Benkler letter condemning that treatment, th ...
• Eric Posner Discusses ‘Executive Unbound’ at V ...
  by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson In case you weren’t aware, Eric Posner is discussing his and Adrian Vermeule’s new and highly provocative book, The Executive Unbound, in a series of posts this week at Volokh Conspiracy.  The Libyan conflict has unsurprisingly raised the stakes over t ...
• 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 ...

Investigate - Breaking News

• Just a hint of what the next Investigate HIS/H ...
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• 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.

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 �|� � ...
• Take Nuclear Giveaways Out of the Budget | Gre ...
  There�s still time to get the money out of the final budget. Tell President Obama and your members of Congress that there is no place for taxpayer giveaways to the nuclear industry in this year�s budget.Submitted by Greenpeace USA to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

• Israeli settler stabs Palestinian in At-Tuwani ...
  Israeli settler stabs Palestinian in At-Tuwani | International Solidarity Movement: "An inhabitant of At-Tuwani witnessed the incident from a close distance and immediately informed the other... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Modern Technology: The Gift and The Curse
  Modern Technology: The Gift and The Curse(FinalCall.com) - The same internet that Wikileaks used to expose government secrets is being used to steal the identities of millions of people, robbing them... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Thousands could demonstrate in support of deta ...
  West Papua Action Network: "Bintang Papua, 21 March 2011[Abridged in translation by TAPOL]Thousands could demonstrate Monday in support of the detained nursesThe promise by the chief of police to... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Video: Farrakhan warns, advises Obama on Libya
  Video: Farrakhan warns, advises Obama on Libya: "(FinalCall.com | 03-11-2011) - Min. Farrakhan blasted Pres. Obama and Secy. Clinton for their arrogance in meddling in another sovereign nation's... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Fars News Agency :: Iran Unveils Flying Saucer
  Fars News Agency :: Iran Unveils Flying Saucer: "The unmanned flying saucer, named 'Zohal', was unveiled in a ceremony attended by Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali... [[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

• Illinois National Guard Heads to Libya
  ShareThisIllinois National Guard Heads to Libya --Unit specializes in refueling aircraft in mid-air 21 Mar 2011 An Air National Guard unit based out of Illinois is heading to Libya to help fight against Muammar el-Qaddafi. The unit based out of Scott Air Force Base in southwest Illinois speciali ...
• 'US-led no-fly zone on Libya to cost $1bn'
  ShareThis'US-led no-fly zone on Libya to cost $1bn' --The first day of Operation Odyssey (*puke*) Dawn had a price tag of over $100 million for the US in missiles alone, according to estimates. 23 Mar 2011 The initial cost of a no-fly zone over Libya is likely to surpass $1 billion if the US-led ...
• Blasts heard in Tripoli
  ShareThisBlasts heard in Tripoli 23 Mar 2011 At least two blasts have been heard in the Libyan capital Tripoli before dawn, as the US-led military campaign continues with its aerial bombardment of the country. Meanwhile, no anti-aircraft fire could be heard in the city, Reuters reported. The US- ...
• Libyan Govt: 'We Would Never Kill Civilians'
  ShareThisLibyan Govt: 'We Would Never Kill Civilians' 22 Mar 2011 Moussa Ibrahim blamed coalition forces for killing 48 civilians on the first night of military action. He told Sky�News�that "many" more had been killed on the second and third nights of strikes. Britain and the international comm ...
• Fed Will Release Bank Loan Data as Top Court R ...
  ShareThisFed Will Release Bank Loan Data as Top Court Rejects Appeal 21 Mar 2011 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 l ...

Daily Loaf

• Tampa Bay food and drink events
  Plan your eating and drinking with this comprehensive list of events and weekly specials.
• Pole dancing for Jesus (video)
  These women worship God by dancing to Christian songs and shaping their bodies into rock hard temples for praising Jesus.
• Do It Today: Ybor Festival of the Moving Image ...
  A big movie fest, big movie star and cozy classical concert highlight today's offerings.
• Bolts continue to slump, fall to Isles 5-2
  The Tampa Bay Lightning took to the ice Tuesday against the New York Islanders hoping to end an ugly streak of struggling against the bottom feeders of the Eastern Conference behind them. They were also hoping to erase the memories of a rough 4-game road trip that saw them get points, but als ...
• Hope wins out over fear: It’s Buckhorn in a bl ...
  When asked about one of the biggest developments in the race, outgoing Mayor Pam Iorio's endorsement of Buckhorn about halfway between the primary and runoff election, Ferlita pulled no punches. "I'm disappointed in the mayor. I can say that. I'm surprised at her lack of integrity. We all have ...

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

• Isabella Rossellini's 'Animals Distract Me' (V ...
  Screen grabs of Animals Distract Me, Discovery Watch It on Planet Green on April 23rd at 10 PM EST Isabella Rossellini, the famous Italian actress, filmmaker, author, philanthropist, and model, has been making great (and often surreal!) films and television shows about all kinds of creatur ...
• Solar-Powered Hamster Ball Purifies Water for ...
  Images by Monash University, via Physorg We love seeing designers come up with ideas for solar powered fresh water purification and generation for underdeveloped areas. While most of them won't pan out, it keeps the spark going for figuring out ideas that will work. One such contender is th ...
• French GM Maize Ban Was Done Illegally: EU Cou ...
  It's not an official court ruling, just a legal opinion keep in mind, but in the opinion of the European Court of Justice's attorney general the 2008 French ban on genetically modified maize developed by Monsanto was done illegally. Reuters reports that the ECJ attorney general said, "[Fr ...
• Why Isn't Every Key A Keybrid? It Makes So Muc ...
  Image credit Lloyd Alter When I first saw the Keybrid in Wired Magazine I thought a) why bother? and b) how would it work, when you see a wall of blanks on every locksmith's wall? But then the designer, Scott Amron, sent me some and I realized that a) he is the really funny and clever desig ...
• 11 Ways to Take Dogs on Bikes (Slideshow)
  Photo: Monika.monika/Creative Commons. Yes, this is all about cute-overload. But if you're a regular cyclist and have a dog as your very best friend, the question will eventually hit you: How can you take your pooch along for the ride? Whether you don't want to leave Fluffy alone, are hi ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

• Suu Kyi says sanctions must remain
  Nobel laureate warns that Western policy to Burma shouldn't change until signs of progress are clear, as EU debates whether to lift sanctions
• Thousands feared missing after storm
  Local authorities compiling missing persons lists after heavy storm batters boats off the Irrawaddy coast but junta withholding information
• Shouldering China’s toxic burden
  Fears that pollution in China will stifle development could push Beijing to export destructive industries abroad, with worrying implications for its neighbours
• Refugees reject ‘insurgent, criminal’ claims
  Claims by Burmese information minister that majority of those in camps along the Thai border are not real refugees met with anger
• 800 fishermen saved off Tenasserim coast
  Many remain unaccounted for as extreme weather tips barges and boats off the coast of Burma's southeastern Tenasserim division

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

• First North Pole Ozone Hole Forming?
  "Beautiful" clouds and cold temps are destroying protective Arctic ozone—and people as far south as New York could get burned, experts say.
• 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.

Jurist - Legal Research

• UN rights office concerned over violence in Ba ...
  [JURIST] The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) [official website] on Tuesday expressed concern [UN News Centre report] over violence against protesters in Bahrain, Syria and Yemen [BBC backgrounders]. Rupert Colville, spokesperson for the OHCHR, held a press briefing [t ...
• Supreme Court hears arguments on retaliation p ...
  [JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website, JURIST news archive] heard oral arguments [day call, PDF; merit briefs] Tuesday in Borough of Duryea v. Guarnieri [oral argument transcript; JURIST report] on whether state and local government employees may sue their employers for retaliation und ...
• Germany prosecutor requests 6-year sentence fo ...
  [JURIST] Germany prosecutors called Tuesday for a six-year sentence in the trial of John Demjanjuk [NNDB profile, JURIST news archive], accused of having helped to murder 27,900 Jews at the Sobibor death camp during his time as a guard there. The Ukrainian-born Demjanjuk, now 90 years old, was a ...
• California court delays implementation of cap- ...
  [JURIST] The San Francisco Superior Court [official website] notified parties Monday of a ruling that acts to delay the implementation of a cap-and-trade program by requiring California's Air Resources Board (ARB) [official website] to further analyze alternatives. While the court's Friday decis ...
• Supreme Court rules on anti-retaliation statut ...
  [JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] on Tuesday ruled [opinion, PDF] 6-2 in Kasten v. Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corp. [Cornell LII backgrounder; JURIST report] that the language "filed any complaint" of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) [text, PDF] refe ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

• Half-Way Home on the Health-Care Lawsuits
  It's been exactly one year since the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and what a year it has been for the Commerce Clause, the Tenth Amendment, and camelia-lovin' judges everywhere! The past 365 days have witnessed crowded trial court hearings, momentous federal rulings, ...
• As He Talks Libya, Iraq Seems Fresh in Obama's ...
  When a politician expresses doubts about foreign policy and quickly follows by praising the American military, it's clear something of note has just been said, something usually about Iraq. That's what President Obama did yesterday as he explained his authorization of airstrikes against targets ...
• Why Did Sarah Palin Wear a Star of David in Is ...
  Updated 7:06 p.m.-- Over the weekend, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin arrived in Israel, where she was photographed wearing a Star of David around her neck. The Star of David or Magen David is a symbol associated with Jewish texts far back as the 11th century and has been used by Euro ...
• Obama Uses Persian New Year Message to Back I ...
  Eli Lake observes there has been a shift in the way the administration is using the occasion of Nowruz, the just-passed Persian New Year holiday, to send messages to the people of Iran: President Obama has reversed course on his administration's policy of limiting criticism of Iran's human ri ...
• Story Suggestions for Ginni One-Note
  It's never a bad idea, publicity-wise anyway, to hire someone who makes news to cover news and in that respect Tucker Carlson already has succeeded by hiring Virginia Thomas as a "special correspondent" for his website, the Daily Caller. Thomas, the Tea Party activist and wife of United States S ...

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

• Death by Soccer
  You better not be a child and play soccer if you live in Gaza.  Otherwise, the IDF will punish you with death.  A group of five members of the Abu Hilu family including Muhammad Jihad Al-Hilu, 11, Yasser Ahed Al-Hilu, 16, Muhammad Saber Harara, 20, Yasser Hamer Al-Hilu, 50 and an unidentified ...
• Israel to Charge Abusisi ‘Within Days,’ Ukrain ...
  Perhaps in reaction to the damaging report from the Palestine Center for Human Rights that revealed previously unknown facts about his kidnapping, Israeli authorities have leaked to the press that they expect to charge Dirar Abusisi “within days.”  If you’re a student of the ways of Israel’s se ...
• 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 ...

Ode Magazine

• The tango according to Pippi Longstocking
  While members of Gotan Project, the prime movers of contemporary tango innovation, are resorting to slogans like “Tango 3.0” to extol the virtues of their recorded output, a modest yet far more playful revolution is taking place in Finland, second home to the tango for ma ...
• Make your own money
  Local currencies can help create sustainable growth and healthy communities. In Detroit, cheer dollars are helping restore local economic confidence.Photo: AP Photo/The Detroit News, David Coates Communities have long needed a more sensible means to create money. To dat ...
• Management as meditation
  How meditation helps managers make better business decisionsâand why itâs good for the bottom line. Your mind is like a wild buffalo.” This comment from a Buddhist meditation leader in Sri Lanka struck a chord. When I first heard it years ago, though, it didn’t work fo ...
• Hope and reconstruction in Sendai
  By: Anne Thomas Saturday night the moon was full and very bright. Temple bells echoed through this city at 9:00 p.m. sharp, just as they always do. Saturday was the spring equinox. For Japanese people the spring and autumn equinox are times when the di ...
• The age of endarkenment
  Donât leave your shadow behind when pursuing enlightenment. It’s been commonplace in the Far East for millennia, but the search for enlightenment has been snowballing recently in the West. Since “flower power” in the 1960s and the New Age movement that followed, we’ve been ...

OpEd News

• Toxic Intervention: Are NATO Forces Poisoning ...
  It is likely the US and Britain, at least, are using depleted uranium shells in their aerial attacks on Libyan government tanks and other vehicles. Spreading such a radioactive nightmare would be an ironic way to "protect civilians" from harm.
• Be Consistent -- Invade Saudi Arabia
  In the glaring light of the democratic currents sweeping through the Mideast, the contradictions in supporting one set of dictators while toppling others may prove impossible for the U.S. and its allies to effectively manage.
• Obama and the Backbiters!
  Pesident Obama's authorization of intervention on behalf of Libyan freedom fighters and the Libyan people is well justified by precedent. While Republicans can be expected to oppose anything which our President does, Democrats should not be so fast to deny their support for regime change in Lib ...
• Manning Up!
  Opinion, Government, Human Rights
• Caught in the Crosshairs of America's War: The ...
  The extreme cruelty and brutality of war is on full display in Afghanistan and Pakistan as hardly a week goes by that we do not hear of another attack by U.S. helicopter gunships or deadly drones that involve civilians. And, in so many cases, the victims are innocent, helpless children. These ac ...

Switchboard

• USA Today: Proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipe ...
  Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, Director International Program, Washington, D.C. USA Today published an important story about the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline that would bring tar sands oil from Canada to the U.S. Gulf Coast. The article outline ...
• EPA's Mercury and Air Toxics Standards: Cleane ...
  Starla Yeh, Welch Fellow, Center for Market Innovation, New York Last week the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed Clean Air Act mercury and air toxics standards to curb harmful emissions from the nation’s fleet of aging and dirty power ...
• Warning: black helicopters on the horizon (or ...
  Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities & Smart Growth, Washington, DC   Today we have a guest post by my friend Lee Epstein, a conservationist, land use planner and attorney in the mid-Atlantic region. Watch out, the black helicopters ...
• Voting To Keep California's State Parks Open
  Damon Nagami, Staff Attorney, Santa Monica Chino Hills State Park, Chino Hills, California.  (Photo credit: NRDC) On Tuesday, supporters of California’s state parks descended on Sacramento to lobby for increased park protections as part of Park ...
• One Gulf Oil Spill Source Found But Slicks May ...
  Rocky Kistner, Communications Associate, Washington, DC The Times Picayune is reporting that a Houston based company, Anglo-Suisse Offshore Partners, has taken responsibility for leaking Louisiana crude from a non-producing well that has contamina ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• Elizabeth Taylor 1932-2011
  Affection for Taylor is a generational thing; by the time I started watching films with any seriousness, she had become less artist than icon.  For my parents and especially my grandparents, though, Liz Taylor was a major cultural figure.  I wouldn’t say that her work has aged particularly wel ...
• The Laity vs. the Leadership
  What is true of LGBT rights is also true of abortion; there’s essentially no difference between Roman Catholics and the population as a whole, church leadership notwithstanding. Related posts:Evaluating congressional leadership More On Winters The Myth Of Casey Never Dies Related posts:Eval ...
• Alas, Joe the Plumber Was Already Taken
  As Bill James said about the Hank Peters-era Cleveland Indians, Jesus Christ what a pathetic operation Tucker is running. Related posts:Yogi Berra: The Best Player Ever Not To Play In A World Series Court, Alas, To Hear Wal-Mart Discrimination Case Joe the Plumber! Related posts:Yogi Berra: ...
• Libya and the Afghan Model
  My WPR column this week: The inability of the Afghan Model to manage the post-conflict environment would be a problem even if the coalition was prepared to fully commit to destroying Gadhafi’s regime. In the absence of such a commitment, it’s very easy to imagine any number of very bad outcomes ...
• True But Irrelevant
  I see there’s some naysaying about the use of force to protect civilians in Libya. Among various refrains is the claim that “Responsibility to Protect” (R2P) doctrine lacks moral strength if applied selectively: the international community can’t legitimately go after Qaddafi if it won’t/can’t al ...

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

• LEED Platinum Sought For Healthy Workspace
• Clean Energy Fellowships Funded By Feds
• Hino Trucks Unveils New Commercial Hybrids
• Green Buddhist Monastery Rises in Nepal
• 5 GW Of Offshore Scottish Wind Power By 2020?

National Law Journal | U.S.

• Plaintiffs attempt to preserve a large class o ...
  Plaintiffs' lawyers representing shareholders of Toyota Motor Corp. are fighting to preserve claims brought under a Japanese securities law that executives failed to inform investors about the problems associated with sudden acceleration, according to court documents filed on March 21.
• Court rules for 'little guys' over corporation ...
  In a pair of business cases decided Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court by lopsided majorities ruled in favor of an employee in a wage-and-hours dispute, and in favor of plaintiffs in a securities class action. Corporations lost both cases.
• 1st Circuit supports employer's 'corrective ac ...
  A recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit provides guidance about an employer's responsibility to discipline employees when another a co-worker reports they harassed him.
• California privacy ruling may affect retailer ...
  Linda Kornfeld, a partner in the Los Angeles office of Jenner & Block, discusses the California Supreme Court's ruling last month in Pineda v. Williams-Sonoma Stores Inc.
• Tax expert appointed dean at Cleveland-Marshall
  The latest school to name a new dean is Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, which has tapped DePaul University College of Law professor Craig Boise.

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

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

environment 360

• New Lithium-Ion Battery Offers Quicker Chargin ...
  U.S. researchers say they have developed a technology that could dramatically reduce the time it takes to recharge lithium-ion batteries used in cellphones, laptop computers, and electric vehicles (EVs). Unlike conventional lithium-ion rechargeable batteries — in which active material is placed ...
• Support for Nuclear Power Drops Sharply in the ...
  In the wake of the Japanese nuclear crisis, only 43 percent of Americans say they support construction of new nuclear plants, a steep drop from the 58 percent Click to enlarge NNSARadiation spread, Japan who said they approved of new plants in 2008, a CBS News poll shows. While 7 in 10 America ...
• Rare Pacific Kingfisher Is Focus of Restoratio ...
  Researchers at the University of Missouri are working with residents and farmers on a remote South Pacific island to save the highly endangered Tuamoto kingfisher from extinction. Only 125 of the kingfishers — which have evolved in isolation over tens of thousands of years — remain, living on th ...
• Anatomy of a Nuclear Crisis: A Chronology of F ...
  The world’s worst nuclear reactor mishap in 25 years was caused by a massive natural calamity but compounded by what appear to be surprising mistakes by Japanese engineers. The result has been a fast-moving disaster that has left officials careening from one emergency to the next. BY DAVID BIELLO
• Examining the Missteps In Japan’s Nuclear Crisis
  A leading U.S. expert on nuclear energy discusses some of the fundamental failures that led to the intensifying nuclear drama in Japan and looks at what might lie in store for nuclear power worldwide.

Red Ice Creations

• Pass The Apple Cider Vinegar Please
  Vinegar is said to have been used for medical ailments in the ancient times. The Babylonians first converted wine into vinegar in 5000 BCE using date palms, grapes, and figs, and believed vinegar had exceptional healing properties. Hippocrates is said to have used vinegar as an antibiotic. Samur ...
• Putin Slams West for "Medieval Crusade"
  Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has slammed the UN resolution allowing military action on Libya as a "medieval call to crusade" and hit out at Washington for its readiness to resort to force. In one of his most virulent diatribes against the West in years, Russia’s de facto number one said ...
• IDF to track foreign anti-Israel groups
  New section in Military Intelligence Directorate to collect data, passively probe groups from overseas, Gaza, West Bank aiming to delegitimize Israel. Israel's Military Intelligence has launched a new section that will be responsible of tracking foreign organizations located overseas, in the Wes ...
• US Army ’kill team’ in Afghanistan posed for p ...
  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 Assistance Force in K ...
• Japan Death Toll Estimate Rises Over 18,000, R ...
  The toll of Japan’s triple disaster came into clearer focus Monday after police estimates showed more than 18,000 people died, the World Bank said rebuilding may cost $235 billion and more cases of radiation-tainted vegetables and tap water turned up. Japanese officials reported progress over th ...

Russia Today

• Russian inmate pleads for euthanasia to no avail
  A seriously ill inmate has addressed several organizations in Russia requesting euthanasia. Despite the man suffering from a severe form of diabetes, he has been denied release from the prison or a change of sentence.
• More deaths as violence escalates between Isra ...
  At least seven Palestinians, including three children, have been killed in Gaza after Israel launched air and artillery attacks on the territory.
• Progress in cooling Fukushima reactors interru ...
  The operation intended to check whether the pump of Fukushima’s Reactor 3 can supply fresh water to the reactor from its tank instead of spraying seawater has been interrupted by another black smoke spew.
• “Split is best choice for Belgium” – senator
  A Belgium split into two states would make politicians from both sides more responsible, according to President of the Belgian Senate, and Flemish separatist, Danny Pieters, speaking with RT.
• BBC World Service and US State Department: new ...
  One of the best-known broadcasters, the BBC World Service, has applied for a grant from the US State Department. The company says it needs the funding to develop anti-jamming technology, but some fear the US might use...

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

• Fed Pays Record Amount to Treasury
  “The Federal Reserve is paying a record $79.3 billion to U.S. Treasury after the central bank earned a record amount of money last year from programs aimed at boosting the economy.” (USA Today) More mischief money for the government. FEE Timely Classic “Easy Money: Prelude to Recession” by Brian ...
• Senators “Ask” Companies to Delete Apps
  “Four Democratic senators want to short-circuit software applications that allow drivers to identify police drunken-driving checkpoints. In a letter Tuesday, the senators asked Apple, Google and BlackBerry to either disable or quit selling downloadable applications that allow iPhone and iPad, Bl ...
• Japan’s Supposed Silver Lining
  The Japanese people are going through sheer horror. To spin this tragedy into economic triumph is not just bad economics; it's an obscenity.
• New Worker ID System on Drawing Board
  “The federal government is exploring the possibility of using a credit rating giant like Equifax to verify the identity of American workers, a move that could make it far more difficult for undocumented immigrants to get work using stolen Social Security numbers.” (Washington Post) Got to watch ...
• Congressman Works to Save Incandescent Bulb
  “The light bulb you grew up with likely won’t be the light bulb you’ll grow old with unless U.S. Rep. Joe Barton has his way. The Arlington [Texas] Republican is spearheading an effort to tell Congress to keep its hands off everyone’s light bulbs, trying to repeal a section of a 2007 energy inde ...

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

• Striking Mississippi unionists protest the eve ...
  By Mischa Gaus, Labor Notes A dozen weary Steelworkers trekked from Mississippi to Ohio last week, hoping to insert a few uncomfortable questions into the clubby confines of their company's shareholders meeting. Approaching their 10th month on strike, the workers from Omnova Solution ...
• 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 ...

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 )

• Canadian budget aims to please; fails
  The tabling of the Canadian budget today looks set to trigger a federal election in the coming weeks, as the leaders of all three opposition parties in the country’s minority government said they would vote against it. The reaction has surprised many observers, who initially thought the budget, ...
• Judge appointed following indictment in Huntsv ...
  The case of the biology-professor-turned-murderer entered a new stage this month, with the indictment of Amy Bishop and the appointment, yesterday, of a judge to oversee her capital murder trial. Alan Mann, a recently elected circuit court judge in Madison County, Alabama, will preside ove ...
• First estimates of total radioactive cesium an ...
  The amount of the long-lived radioactive isotope cesium-137, and the shorter-lived iodine-131, which have already escaped from the troubled Fukushima power plant in Japan may be significant, approaching emissions of these isotopes from the Chernobyl accident in 1986. The estimates come from Aust ...
• Reformers look to cast dubious ‘evidence’ out ...
  English law should be reformed to prevent dubious scientific evidence causing miscarriages of justice, according a government advisory group. A report from the Law Commission cites a number of incidents in which questionable evidence has been accepted by courts under the current “laissez-fair ...
• Fukushima disaster: some lessons already clear
  Events at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan have implications for nuclear power plants elsewhere in the world, including 23 in the United States that are of the same Generation 2 design, says Raymond Orbach, former Undersecretary for Science at the US Department of Energy under George W ...

new geography

• Appalatin: A Perfect Rhythm Falling Into Place
  Nesting in Louisville since 2006, slowly taking its time to form and blossom, Appalatin is six working professionals who haven't quit their day jobs -- two native Kentuckians and four immigrant Kentuckians from Latin America, who do lot of professional-quality music in their spare time. If ...
• 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 ...

GM Watch

• Australia: Premium for non-GM canola
• Sainsbury's joins misleading "responsible" soy ...
• Anti-GM scientist wins probe into food safety
• Riceland awarded $136.8M against Bayer
• Only GM can save the banana - again

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

• TOKYO TAP WATER TESTS 2.5 TIMES ABOVE RADIOACT ...
  Via: Globe and Mail: Tap water in Tokyo tested two times above the limits for radioactive iodine considered safe for infants, officials said Wednesday amid burgeoning concerns about food safety in the wake of an earthquake and tsunami that crippled a nuclear power plant. Levels of radioactive io ...
• China’s Real Time Voice Analysis Systems ...
  Flashback 2005: Narus Opens New Office in China, Signs Two Partner Agreements in Region; New Office Further Strengthens Narus Presence in Asia: MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Narus, Inc., the leading Carrier-Class IP Platform software provider, announced its opening of a new office in Beijing, China, t ...
• FUKUSHIMA: 500 MILLISIEVERTS PER HOUR [???]
  Via: Reuters: Workers at Japan’s tsunami-damaged nuclear power plant temporarily halted work on Wednesday at the complex’s reactor No.2 because of high radiation levels, the nation’s nuclear safety watchdog said. The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said the workers had withdrawn after radia ...
• Fukushima Engineer Says He Covered Up Flaw at ...
  Via: Bloomberg: One of the reactors in the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant may have been relying on flawed steel to hold the radiation in its core, according to an engineer who helped build its containment vessel four decades ago. Mitsuhiko Tanaka says he helped conceal a manufacturing defect i ...
• Libya’s Sea of Fresh Water Beneath the D ...
  We all know about the obvious oil component to what is happening in Libya, but that’s definitely not he full story. Here are some other factors to keep in mind as the U.S. leads a war in Libya for “humanitarian” reasons. Saudi Aramco, Seas Beneath the Sands: Libya is already pumping water from t ...

The Economic Collapse

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

Desertification

• Support of 850.000 visitors (Willem Van Cotthem)
  My sincere thanks go to the more than 850.000 visitors of this blog.  They showed their appreciation for my efforts to collect information on all aspects of desertification, drought and poverty. It is my profoundest wish and hope to be … Continue reading →
• Studying the effect of a soil conditioner on v ...
  Please have a look at my newest video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRuMoBcWSEY CABO VERDE – Growing vegetables 1987
• 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 ...

The Paper Trail

• Watchdog demands DOJ release records on DeLay ...
  Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics is suing the Department of Justice for refusing to release records on the federal investigation of former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay of Texas.
• 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.

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

• Liberty Coins? How about Chuck E. Cheese??
  The Federal Dof J and AG Eric Holder need to also arrest and prosecute ALL counterfeiters, not just the founder of Liberty Coins! Check it out: COUNTERFEITCHEESE The New Face Of Terror Chris Duane The world hit a whole new level of crazy today. So crazy that even I might be at a loss for [...]
• 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 ...

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

• Ed Clark, TD Bank President and CEO (Dec 11, 2010)
  It's now one of the biggest, most powerful banks anywhere -- and it's Canadian. Leading it, a former Ottawa bureaucrat, who walks into the boardrooms of Bay Street and Wall Street with a confidence reserved for the world's most influential business leaders. Ed Clark is our guest this week - and ...
• Elvis Costello, singer/songwriter (Nov 27, 2010)
  His music captures the times we live in and its been doing so for forty years. He's never been shy about issues, and Elvis Costello isn't today. He's here to talk music, politics and activism.
• Pervez Musharraf, former President of Pakistan ...
  He's been a general and a president, leading Pakistan while wearing those both hats in the tense days following 9-11. Now Pervez Musharraf is out of office and exiled from his country. But that hasn't stopped him from wading into the debate about Pakistan, Afghanistan and how countries like C ...
• Mark B. Salter, Aviation security expert (Nov ...
  The shoe bomber, the underwear bomber, the ink cartridge bomber: those incidents have changed the way we fly. But have the precautions actually worked or are they simply too much? Today we find out with aviation security expert Mark Salter.
• Tim Cook, War Historian (Nov 6, 2010)
  Another year, another Remembrance Day and another chance to remind ourselves Canada's military past. This week we look back at some of that past that is often forgotten.

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)

• Arab League Walks a Tightrope With Libya Inter ...
  At the moment, stopping the unpredictable Gaddafi is seen as the best option by Arab leaders.
• Thanks to Fukushima Light Shed on U.S. Nuclear ...
  Seismic concerns grow over U.S. national nuclear labs.
• Endgame for Gaddafi?
  Will military intervention dislodge Gaddafi or lead to yet another quagmire?
• 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."

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

• امام جمعه خرم آباد: برنامه تهاجمی دشمن به چایخ ...
  به گزارش شبكه خبری صداقت، نماینده ولی فقیه در لرستان و امام جمعه خرم آباد گفت : اینكه می بینیم امروز برنامه تهاجمی دشمن به قهوه خانه ها و چایخانه های شهر خرم آباد نیز كشیده شده بیانگر یك برنامه حساب شده و پیچیده دشمن ضد مكتب تشیع و معنویت می باشد.
• Defiant Gaddafi appears on Libyan TV (VIDEO)
  Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi has made his first public appearance since the international coalition began air-strikes on his military bases. read more
• $2.2 million fatwa on Terry Jones after Quran ...
  Terry Jones, the Florida evangelical pastor who threatened to hold a Quran burning last Sept. 11 only to back down in the face of international outrage, finally went ahead and burned one. And now there’s a 2.2-million-dollar price on his head. read more
• Iran: N-safety should not be politicized
  Iran's envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says Japan's nuclear crisis clearly shows that exchange of information on nuclear safety technology should not be politicized. “Japan's unfortunate nuclear incident and its global effects conveys a clear strong message, that nuclea ...
• ایمنی هسته ای نبایدسیاسی شود/پیشنهادبرگزاری سم ...
  سفیر ایران در آژانس بین المللی انرژی اتمی گفت: حادثه تاسف بار هسته ای ژاپن و تاثیرات فرامرزی جهانی آن یک پیام روشن قوی دارد و آن اینست که ایمنی هسته ای نباید سیاسی شود و تبادل اطلاعات در تکنولوژی ایمنی هسته ای باید بدون هیچ گونه مانعی صورت گیرد.

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

• Dangers, Properties, possible Uses and Methods ...
  Most methods and tools being recommended here on the Internet such as purification by filtration will not lead to your desired result of decontaminating “radioactive water”. a) Radioactive contamination of drinking water in Japan at this point in time can come about in only two ways: 1) The sour ...
• 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 ...

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

• Google Maps World Gazetteer | maplandia.com
  Tags: maps, google, geography, googlemaps, tools, map, web2.0, reference, maplandiaby: Dean Mantz
• Help us connect all US schools with the world ...
  Tags: connectallschools, globaleducation, collaborationby: Heather Sullivan
• 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

Rodale News

• Alicia Silverstone Says: Flirt If You Can't Go ...
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—At an evening event held earlier this month, Alicia Silverstone rivaled the supermoon in terms of glowing. Silverstone, 34, an actress who is increasingly known for her vegan lifestyle and book,
• Prevent PMS: Eat More Vegetables, Grains, and Pork
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—A new study’s findings indicate that foods rich in the B vitamins thiamin and riboflavin can be effective natural PMS remedies. And the same research found that supplements did not have the same effect. In the study, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutritio ...
• Why Radiation from Japan Shouldn't Worry You
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—As the nuclear disaster unfolds in Japan, there were some silver linings this weekend. read more
• 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 ...

big think

• While Congress Debates the EPA’s Regulation of ...
  In a guest post today, Ashley Brosius a graduate student in my "Science, Environment, and the Media" course this semester discusses the need for greater focus on adaptation policy related to climate change -- Matthew Nisbet. � � The beginning months of 2011 feature a Republican-controll ...
• More Thoughts on Liberal Education Today
  It’s no secret that most of our colleges that give lip service to “liberal education” don’t deliver it, and what they do teach exaggerates—not moderates—the undignified confusion of our time. They certainly don’t give students the impression that there’s much—if any—moral or humanistic “content” ...
• Social Media Not Just for Revolutions, Also fo ...
  When I saw Death Cab For Cutie five years ago in Fribourg, Switzerland, I had to leave before the show was over to catch the last train back to Geneva. So did a lot of the crowd. Did the band notice? And if so did they know the reason was nothing to do with their performance? Would they hav ...
• Two things regarding Yemen
  While most of the media is understandably focused on the parliament vote today in Yemen, which provided the flimsiest and likely fraudulent of cover for Salih's decision to implement emergency law, I have been thinking about two other things. First, is something I've harped on at Waq al-waq be ...
• At the AAAS Meetings, A Focus on Scientism and ...
  Last month at the meetings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a panel titled "Communicating Diversity in Science: Implications for Climate Change Denial" featured a discussion by University of Georgia communication professor Thomas Lessl.� He explained the role that ...R ...

Information Liberation

• District Attorney Who Prosecuted Paris Hilton ...
  Here's the state for you. This taxfeeder's full time job is throwing non-violent "criminals" in jail and depriving them of their life, liberty and property because they just so happen to partake in drugs which the state arbitrarily declares illegal....
• NYPD Ticket Man For Jaywalking but Jaywalk The ...
  I*ve been digging through the 8 TB of footage Pete and I have assembled and came across this incident, shot last August, while doing Uncle Sam Outreach in Times Square. Watch the video below to see what happens next. Even though this man was bei...
• The Pentagon's Pro-War Sock Puppets
  In the next years, if you find someone online defending the warfare state, it just might be a government propagandist. The web persona might be a complete fake, even the product of a computer program concocted by the US military *to influence interne...
• Why Vote?
  In my recent "How to Win an Election," I made the point that "your vote doesn't matter." Given some of the responses to this statement, I would like to provide further explanation. Consider what it means to say "your vote doesn't matter." Your vot...
• US Troops Shoot Six Libyan Civilians During 'R ...
  There was ample coverage of the loss of a US F-15 fighter jet over Libya Tuesday, and it always came with reassurances that the crew was safe. Less safe, however, were the Libyan civilians who came to the aid of one of the crew. That*s because the...

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

• The fraudulent invention debunkifier
  Debunking crackpot and fraudulent inventions has never been easier than now thanks to the world-shattering invention of the Crackpot Flowchart(TM) from Sciencebase. Based on the 13 unlucky-for-crackpots warning signs published some time ago on ka9q.net, this handy multicoloured flow chart lets y ...
• Six science selections
  Map mashup reveals world’s top science cities – Combining citation data with Google Maps reveals the cities where science prospers, and those where it doesn't. 9 arguments for (against) herbal remedies – About 40% of pharmaceuticals have a herbal origin but that doesn't mean natural is all good. ...
• Telepathic spam
  The following comment was left on the site today, it begins: “Telepathy is possible, it works very good…I can exchange voice and videos messages , smell and bad and good filings with people around, people can move muscles on my body from distance and much more.” Aside from the “filings” typo, it ...
• Aspartame toxicity. Not.
  Aspartame is an artificial, non-saccharide, sweetener used as a sugar substitute in some foods and beverages usually so that they can be labelled as “lite” or “diet” products. In the European Union, it is coded as E951. Aspartame is a methyl ester of aspartic acid and phenylalanine, two natural ...
• Mental snip
  I seem to have something of a reputation for a fertile imagination; don’t know why, although regular readers will know that I cover a lot of ground between my blog and a hard place. Anyway, Diane Richards pointed this out to me following a Facebook post about social networking for sex and about ...

RFF Library

• Meeting Energy Efficiency and Emissions Reduct ...
  US Department of Energy http://www1.eere.energy.gov/industry/steel/pdfs/steel_whitepaper.pdf [From Executive Summary] The steel industry is an important contributor to the U.S. economy and provides a vital raw material to the industrial supply chain….Reducing carbon emissions has…been a major pr ...
• United States Marine Corps Expeditionary Energ ...
  US Marine Corps http://tinyurl.com/5v9tec8 [From "Commandant's Message"] As a Corps, we have become more lethal, yet we have also become increasingly dependent on fossil fuel. Our growing demand for liquid logistics comes at a price. By tethering our operations to vulnerable supply lines, it deg ...
• US Senate: White Paper on a Clean Energy Standard
  US Senate, Comm. on Energy and Commerce Paper, questions and response form:http://tinyurl.com/6hryeya PDF of paper: http://energy.senate.gov/public/_files/CESWhitePaper.pdf The purpose of this document is to lay out some of the key questions and potential design elements of a CES, in order to so ...
• The Global Forest Resources Assessment 2010
  UN, Food and Agricultural Organization http://www.fao.org/forestry/fra/fra2010/en/ [Yale Environment 360] Forests in Europe, North America, the Caucasus, and Central Asia have expanded steadily over the last two decades, increasing by more than 25 million hectares — an area slightly larger than ...
• Historical Tsunami Database
  US NOAA http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazard/tsu_db.shtml The Historical Tsunami Database consists of two related files containing information on tsunami events from 2000 B.C. to the present in the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans; and the Mediterranean and Caribbean Seas. The Tsunami Source Even ...

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

• Socialism: The Qaddafi Version
  Like "the free market," "socialism" means different things to different people. For C4SS, I wrote: On the other hand, the Qaddafi permutation of socialism has been, by all accounts, more practical than philosophical, a variable and temperamental medley of views informed more by his personal idio ...
• Robber Baron or Red?
  Over the past few months, I’ve been both excoriated by fellow left-libertarians for, inter alia, an approving reference to George Reisman and branded a “Red” for expounding the stateless, free market socialism of Benjamin Tucker and Francis Dashwood Tandy. That I’m neither an environment-hating ...
• 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 ...

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

• Is This the World's Most Effortless Way to Sli ...
  By Dr. Mercola If you are steering away from red meat due to the negative press on saturated fats, you may be happy to hear that a very powerful fatty acid primarily found in beef and dairy products has been linked to long-term weight management and health. This potent nutrient is called co ...
• What to Know if You Ever Want to Eat Chicken A ...
  It's still standard practice on chicken AFOs (Animal Feeding Operations) to dose the birds with arsenic. Arsenic makes the birds grow faster and helps control a common intestinal disease of chickens. This means, among other problems, an ecological disaster wherever the poultry industry is conce ...
• Eisenhower 50 Years Ago Warned of Rise of Mili ...
  On January 17, 1961, President Dwight Eisenhower warned the U.S. of something he described as a threat to democratic government. He called this threat the "military-industrial complex", a union of defense contractors and the armed forces.� The term has become a rallying cry for opponents of mili ...
• 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.

JAMA

• Prep Pad Recall [Health Agencies Update]
• Discordant Results From Reverse Sequence Syphi ...
• Decrease in Smoking Prevalence--Minnesota, 199 ...
• Disparities in Diagnoses of HIV Infection Betw ...
• Vsevolod Mikhailovich Garshin [The Cover]

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 budget that paves the way for an election
  It would appear from Tuesday's federal budget that despite disclaimers leading up to it, Stephen Harper and his Conservatives are indeed keen to hit the campaign trail sooner rather than later. In the unlikely event the government agrees to substantial amendments, the opposition parties will fee ...
• 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.

Food World Order

• US to regulate rocket fuel chemical in water
  from afp: The US government said Wednesday it plans to limit the amount of perchlorate, a chemical found in rocket fuel, explosives and bleach, that is present in the drinking water of millions of Americans. Studies have shown a link between consuming perchlorate and thyroid problems in pregnant ...
• reports suggest white house pressured vilsack ...
  from grist: As I reported last week, the USDA announced late Thursday it would allow the planting of genetically modified alfalfa, the nation's fourth-largest crop, without restriction. Was the decision based on a careful weighing of the evidence by the USDA -- or on political consideratio ...
• conagra broadens campaign to feed hungry kids
  from nytimes: ConAgra Foods, whose social cause is ending child hunger, is taking a new approach to raise the issue’s visibility. The company is starting its largest campaign ever, including a television special, to spur more grass-roots involvement to make sure no child goes hungry. The Omaha-b ...
• mcdonald's launches plan to (soylent) green it ...
  world wildlife fund gets into bed with mcdonald's, gives birth to darling 'sustainability program' from grist: McDonald's is going to be less bad for the future of life on Earth, it promises. With the help of the World Wildlife Fund, the 32,000-store chain has pledged to do the following t ...
• the price of food is at the heart of this wave ...
  from independent: Revolution is breaking out all over. As Gaddafi marshals his thugs and mercenaries for a last-ditch fight in Tripoli, several died as protests grew more serious in Iraq... And it's not just the Middle East. This is an African crisis: Tunisia, where it started, is an African cou ...

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

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

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

• EU propaganda organ, the taxpayer funded BBC, ...
  'Man made global warming', 'left-wing' bias, European Union mouthpiece.... ...and now an organ of U.S. State Department propaganda? See: UKIP MEPs - BBC World Service and US State Department: new partners, new bias?
• Patsy! Al-Qaeda exposed as globalist puppets
  Okay, the genesis of this post needs to be explained before I go for the main point of it. Even on the day of the 9/11 attacks, my eyes saw the televised spectaculars and something told me that something was not quite right. The images did, for a while, make me feel all war-mongerish - I c ...
• The ale has gone stale for the Great British Pub
  The Daily Express is reporting that: "Around 1,300 pubs closed across Britain last year, with the loss of 13,000 jobs, said the British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA)." So, the anti-smoking totalitarians who kicked all of us smokers out still refuse to go and spend money in these newly soulles ...
• www.yetanotherruddyeureferendumcampaign.com
  It all began yesterday. There we were, discussing how to conduct a citizens arrest on Members of Parliament and prosecute them in people's courts under common law for the high crime of treason (okay, we mostly made that one up) when - bam! - from nowhere came... ...yet another 'sign up for ...
• Wake Up Call - David Icke: "They want to trigg ...

Facing South

• Striking Mississippi unionists protest the eve ...
  By Mischa Gaus, Labor Notes A dozen weary Steelworkers trekked from Mississippi to Ohio last week, hoping to insert a few uncomfortable questions into the clubby confines of their company's shareholders meeting. Approaching their 10th month on strike, the workers from Omnova Solution ...
• 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 ...

CenterLine

• Today’s Terrorism News
  Man Indicted in MLK Parade Bomb Plot On Tuesday, Kevin Harpham, a 36-year-old Washington state man, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Spokane on one count of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and one count … Continue reading →
• 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 →

Short Sharp Science

• How 'churkeys' keep their cool
  With a turkey-like head and a chicken body, the Transylvanian naked neck chicken keeps cool thanks to a genetic mutation and vitamin A
• Today on New Scientist: 15 March 2011
  All today's stories on NewScientist.com, including: the latest on Japan's nuclear crisis, supersymmetry, and a leggy space tarantula
• Leggy Tarantula Nebula in close-up
  This vibrant red nebula is home to the closest supernova ever glimpsed by a telescope and the heaviest star
• Milky Way's crowded heart shimmers in infrared ...
  A newly enhanced image from the Spitzer Space Telescope reveals a crush of stars at the centre of the galaxy
• Today on New Scientist: 22 March 2011
  All today's stories on NewScientist.com, including: supermoons and sparkling nebulas, tornado alley, and the first complete sauropod embryo

Tech Drive In

• Steve Jobs Introducing Macintosh 24-JAN-1984[V ...
  Now, this video is a very special one especially to those who are ardent followers of computers and technology. In this video, Apple Inc.'s co-founder Steve Jobs introduces Macintosh to the world for the very first time on 24 JAN 1984. This event in many ways marked the beginning of PC revolutio ...
• Firefox 4 Released, Downloaded 2 Million Times ...
  The much anticipated Firefox 4 was officially released earlier today. This is *the* fastest Firefox ever to be released and is also the best in terms of looks and functionality as well. When the new super fast JaegerMonkey javascript engine made web browsing so much faster, innovative�additions ...
• 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 ...

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

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

Veterans Today

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

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

• Brodeur buys back independence from Omnicom
  BOSTON: Brodeur Partners bought back a majority stake from Omnicom without the help of private equity, confirmed Brodeur CEO Andy Coville.
• Advocacy group taps Interlex to combat sugary ...
  SAN ANTONIO, TX: Washington, DC-based Center for Science in the Public Interest has appointed Interlex to create media campaigns focused on reducing the consumption of sugary drinks, and increase awareness of its negative impact on obesity, diabetes, and other health problems.
• Edelman's Dunlap dies
  CHICAGO: Gary Dunlap, SVP and a group head of the crisis, issues, and risk practice at Edelman, died March 17. He was 57.
• Volkswagen creates first CCO role for Cervone
  HERNDON, VA: Volkswagen Group of America hired Tony Cervone as CCO and EVP of communications, a newly created role at the company.
• University of Virginia hires Time Warner's Miller
  CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA: The University of Virginia hired Scott Miller as director of communications for the university's College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

The Story Behind the Story

• Liberty Coins? How about Chuck E. Cheese??
  The Federal Dof J and AG Eric Holder need to also arrest and prosecute ALL counterfeiters, not just the founder of Liberty Coins! Check it out: COUNTERFEITCHEESE The New Face Of Terror Chris Duane The world hit a whole new level of crazy today. So crazy that even I might be at a loss for [...]
• 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 ...

k2p blog

• Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant: Reactor #3 c ...
  Progress at the Fukushima Dai-ihi nuclear plant continues steadily but slowly.External power is now available to all 6 reactors.
• Another major earthquake within the next 6 days?
  A U.S. Geologist and British Astrophysicist warn the Earth is now entering a heightened period of seismic activity that may trigger earthquakes.
• Juholt, the smiling Stalin, begins the purge a ...
  The Social Democratic party in Sweden will only confirm Håkan Juholt as their party leader this week-end. But the purge of the right wing of the party has already begun and Juholt is living up to his image as a "smiling Stalin".
• 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.

Left Foot Forward

• Budget 2011 Live web chat
  Budget Live Chat
• Budget 2011: What to look out for
  Ahead of the Budget - here's what to look out for.
• Budget 2011: We need a strong Green Bank to br ...
  New research from environmental think tank the Public Interest Research Centre (PIRC) reveals the scale of the green investment challenge facing the UK, writes Guy Shrubsole.
• Budget 2011: Cutting red tape isn’t a strategy ...
  Howard Reed exposes the flaws in the argument that deregulation is a straight road to higher economic growth.
• Budget 2011: Could Osborne hand out a few good ...
  Tony Dolphin, ippr senior economist, looks ahead to today's budget - asking whether George Osborne will hand out a few goodies.

Consumerist

• Morning Deals
  ClothingChico's: [Clothing & Accessories] Save $25 Off $50 + Free Shipping with coupon code 4504.Eddie Bauer: [Apparel] [Get up to 50% off at the Spring Sale]Ross Simons: [Jewelry] [Get up to 83% Off on the Jewelry Clearance Sale] Computers and Electronics Tanga.com: [Headphones] Subjekt He ...
• Sephora Replaces Fancy Skin Care Stuff Broken ...
  Alexis ordered a few bottles of, in her words, "fancy skin care stuff" from Sephora, and one bottle arrived broken and making a huge, soapy mess. Preparing to fight for a replacement, she was pleasantly surprised when the Sephora representative told her that they'd send her a replacement: no ne ...
• Tell Us About Your "Never Again" Moments
  How far does a business need to go before you not only make the oft-spoken declaration that you'll never shop/eat/order from there again, but that you actually follow through and take away your business permanently? We want to hear about those times that you were pushed too far or were so put ...
• Comcast Is Hounding Me With Comcastic Sales Ro ...
  Parker is a reluctant Comcast customer. Comcast would like Parker, and many other companies, to upgrade their service. Unfortunately, someone at Comcast believes that the way to convince customers to do this is to robocall them daily: even if they ask to be taken off the list. I'm an unfortun ...
• Man Who Says Chase Gave Him Counterfeit Bill C ...
  Claiming Chase handed him a counterfeit $100 bill, a Utah man is camping outside of the allegedly offending branch in an effort to get the bank to acknowledge his issue. He's sporting a huge cardboard sign that says "Chase Bank Passed me A Counterfeit $100 Bill!" with the words "Come and See!!" ...

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

• Consider The Health Risks Before Buying Teflon ...
  “Industrial products developed with Teflon® fluoropolymer coatings, resins, additives, and films have exceptional resistance to high temperatures, chemical reaction, corrosion, and stress cracking. The properties of Teflon® make it the preferred solution for a host of industrial applications a ...
• 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 [...]

NewsAlert

• Sarah Palin's Speech in India "My Vision of Am ...
  Eyeblast T.V.
• Census 2010: America's Large Shrinking Cities
  Have unions helped Detroit or the cities in the table below? We are just asking if this is the definition of a growing middle class?
• The White House Guess List: How Obama Pulled a ...
  Big Government
• Even Democrats Confront Public Unions. Cook County
  Anne Leary has this amazing quote from Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle:"We're now in a position where public employees are seen as privileged in relation to the rest of the population because we have both decent salaries and very good benefits,"Privileged.
• Judge Rejects Google’s Deal to Digitize Books
  The New York Times

JoNova

• Was 2010 the hottest ever?
  Was 2010 “the hottest year ever” as the PR machine repeats ad nauseum? Yes — but only if you ignore three of the four main global datasets and those awkward questions about why nobody thought to put thermometers in better places. Run your eyes down this page to see how the GISS temperatures pan ...
• 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 ...

ReNew America

• Obama's unambiguous confusion
  (Tony Blankley) - Amidst all the confusion over our new little war in Libya, one thing is clear: Notwithstanding the bravery and professionalism of our troops in naming it Operation Odyssey Dawn, the Pentagon has invoked a haunting specter. The war's namesake Homer's epic poem "The Odyssey" is t ...
• 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...

Truth Offering

• Poll: Could Ron Paul Win the Presidency?
  This week, we wanted to know: "Do You Think Ron Paul Could Win Should He Decide to Run for President?" Dr. Paul is growing in popularity as his words of freedom ring out in an otherwise oppressive United States of America. I know that in my eyes, he's the only politician whose integrity I don't ...
• Truth Offering Podcast with Matt Gordon - Jan. ...
  Here's our second Podcast, this week featuring TruthOffering.com's Matt Gordon and friend of the show/talented musician, Chris Phenom. Chris teamed up with his producer, Robert Maxwell, and created the brand-new theme song for the TruthOffering.com podcast! I think you guys will appreciate, not ...
• Truth Offering Podcast w/ Matt Gordon - Dec. 1 ...
  Check out our first Podcast featuring TruthOffering.com's Matt Gordon. Topics range from WikiLeaks and Internet censorship, to food freedom and the Federal Reserve. Being that it's our first Podcast, it's a work-in-progress. So, please leave any and all feedback. Thanks...and enjoy: �
• A Nation of Cowardly, Morally-Bankrupt Sheep
  Sheep are led to slaughter. They are controlled from birth to death. They are oppressed. And once they are controlled, they will never again be free. WE are a nation of SHEEP! Note: this isn't for the faint of heart. I'm frustrated! Why!? Because I care. I care deeply; about this country; about ...
• The False Flag Cyber Attack Takedown of the In ...
  Here are some of today's top shock headlines: "Army of hackers targets the Swedish government, Sarah Palin and credit card giants in WikiLeaks 'Operation: Payback'" - The Daily Mail "Hackers Rise for WikiLeaks" - Wall Street Journal "WikiLeaks backers hit MasterCard and Visa in cyberstrike" - ...

2012 Blog

• Congressman Says Flee Cities / Mystery Sculpture
  In new documentary, Urban Danger, Republican Congressman Roscoe Bartlett says: “I would like everybody to have a year’s supply a food. I’d like everybody to have some plans so that they can make do if any one of these emergencies occurred. It’s going to be easier to do that and you avoid the pro ...
• 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 ...

Facing South

• Striking Mississippi unionists protest the eve ...
  By Mischa Gaus, Labor Notes A dozen weary Steelworkers trekked from Mississippi to Ohio last week, hoping to insert a few uncomfortable questions into the clubby confines of their company's shareholders meeting. Approaching their 10th month on strike, the workers from Omnova Solution ...
• 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 ...

One News Page

• Six lessons to learn from Bhagat Singh's life
  On the day of the martyr's death anniversary we look at some of the things we can learn from the life Bhagat Singh led.
• iPhone games: Tiny Wings knocks down Angry Birds
  In almost all stores worldwide, Tiny Wings is currently topping the charts in top paid apps category and has also got featured by Apple.
• Germany plans Afghan-Mediterranean AWACS shuffle
  BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's cabinet is due to approve on Wednesday sending troops to crew NATO surveillance aircraft over Afghanistan, but will withdraw AWACS staff from the Mediterrranean to avoid military involvement in Libya.
• Germany's 'Josef Fritzl' jailed for 14-and-a-h ...
• New app to delete drunken messages on Facebook ...

Global Research TV

• Police Brutality at Free Bradley Manning Protest
• Nuclear Power: Profits Before Safety
• Libya: War of Conquest, NOT Humanitarian Operation
• Wisconsin Protests: Farmers Fight Back
• Tsunami in Japan: Raw Footage

Daily Tech

• Mercedes Says No Lean Burn Engines for U.S. Th ...
  Too much sulfur in gasoline for the new MB tech
• ASUS Transformer Eee Pad Tablet to Hit Market ...
  Android-powered device will support a detachable keyboard
• 3/21/2011 Daily Hardware Reviews
  DailyTech's roundup of hardware reviews from around the web for Monday
• Locally-Grown Crops Near Fukushima Daiichi Pla ...
  Officials have noted that the levels found in the food and water are not dangerous, but need to be banned because they are above government limits
• Firefox 4 Coming Tomorrow; Brings Windows XP, ...
  Release of Firefox 4 is 4 months behind schedule, in the meantime IE 9 and Chrome 10 have landed

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

• Low-Income Soccer Snacks
  I wrote this back in 2007. At that time I was making about $1200 a month. There was no child support. There was no second income. There was just me, supporting two kids all by myself. Could you even imagine making $1200 a month, paying rent, paying utilities and gas, paying daycare cost ...
• Bakin' With Bacon for Breakfast
  Mir might say bacon's jumped the shark and TW might claim that waffles are the new bacon. But let's face it: Bacon is the new bacon -- and the old bacon. Those amazing bloggers taking part in Charcutepalooza even made their own bacon in February. But for breakfast purposes, simply frying up a sl ...
• The Ethics of Concierge Medicine
  For those of you too young to remember, Marcus Welby, M.D. was a TV show that began its seven-year run in 1969 and starred Robert Young as a family practitioner with a kind heart and superb bedside manner. The doctor epitomized the type of doctor that is now a thing of the past: The patient, unh ...
• Adventures in Low-Maintenance Health
  I went for an annual checkup recently ... three years overdue. I kept meaning and meaning to go (during my last visit, my cholesterol levels weren’t that great), but then life got in the way and it always seemed like I had a good excuse not to -— the kids, work, season premiere of Modern Fami ...
• She Says, "But They're Home With You Now"
  I have a condition. A condition called "pre-mourning." I don't call it that, my "expen$ive friend" *coughtherapistcough* does. The lovely lady that I pay a very pretty penny to sit across from me and chat tells me this is the condition I have. I lament the loss of what is to be whilst I have it ...

Health Freedom Alliance

• New Raw Milk Legislation in 9 States Could Det ...
  Last year brought a crackdown on raw milk and cheese sales in response to their increase in popularity with consumers. The FDA raids were conducted usually over small legal infractions regarding proper sales and labeling. ...
• 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 ...

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

• Breaking news: More charges in UBB probe
  We just broke the story on the Gazette’s website about criminal charges filed today in U.S.  District Court in Beckley, W.Va., against a former Massey Energy employee who faked his certification to perform mine safety examinations at the Upper Big Branch Mine. The person named in these charges ...
• UMWA endorses Thompson for W.Va. governor
  This just in from the United Mine Workers of America: The West Virginia state council of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) Coal Miners’ Political Action Committee (COMPAC) today voted to endorse W. Va. House of Delegates Speaker Rick Thompson for Governor in the upcoming May 14 special p ...
• 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 ...

Daniel Miessler

• Faith Palm
  via lolbot.net Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsQuicksilver is BackI must not copy what I see on the Simpsons | BanksySome Clarification Would Be NiceAnother Approach to Weightlifting | Men’s HealthTypography Deconstruction Letterpress PosterGoogle Ngram ViewerTe ...
• Idiot Republican from Alabama Wants to Change ...
  Roby, raised in Montgomery, Ala., is on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, and the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary and Secondary Education. “It’s no panacea, but this legislation will point us in the right direction. Looking at hard data, we know our children are str ...
• 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 ...

Fitwatch

• Top ten Nasty FIT cops – 4&5 Guy Rooney ...
  These two are both regular FIT officers, often out accompanying FIT photographers. Their job is to gather intelligence. They tell the photographers which shots to get, and make audio recordings of everything they want to note. The audio recordings they make end up as CRIMINT reports, which are e ...
• Top ten nasty FIT cops. No6 Gavin Paul
  Like numbers 8 and 9, Gavin Paul is a civilian photographer, not a cop, although he behaves like one. A long serving and experienced FIT photographer, he has shoved his camera in the faces of thousands of protesters. And he doesn’t mind using a bit of muscle. Gavin Paul was one of the FIT photog ...
• Top Ten nasty FIT cops – No7 EK68
  We don’t know the name (yet) of this cop, but believe he needs to be up there on this list, after he was snapped punching a woman outside the Egyptian embassy during a student protest. The picture doesn’t show his shoulder number clearly, but with other information we have received we have manag ...
• 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 [...]

Worldwide Hippies

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

reference frame

• Monbiot vs McKibben: nuclear civil war inside ...
  �Andrew Revkin has noticed the diametrically opposite conclusions extracted from the recent events in Fukushima. He is comparing two opinions in the Guardian: Japan's horror reveals how thin is the edge we live on by Bill McKibben Why Fukushima made me stop worrying and love nuclear pow ...
• Mr Jan Zahradil, a new boss of European conser ...
  Two weeks ago, Mr Jan Zahradil, a trained Czech researcher in chemistry who has studied water technologies, was elected the new boss of the European Conservatives and Reformists Group, a right-wing faction of the European Parliament comprising 55 deputies including the British Tories. ...
• Little Czech commie mole becomes a NASA astronaut
  The Mole and a Rocket, 1965 Czechoslovakia became the 3rd country in the world - after the Soviet Union and the U.S. - that has sent its citizen to the outer space. Mr Vladimír Remek joined the crew with Mr Alexei Gubarev of Russia in the late 1970s. Clearly, our politically ...
• Richard Muller on "Hide the Decline"
  Japan: See shocking interactive before/after pictures of the devastation in Japan... Richard Muller is a well-known physics professor at Berkeley and a key figure behind the B.E.S.T. database - the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature, an emerging possibly superior surface record that co ...
• Another blow for nuclear energy
  Remotely related: Holy cow, the president of an official EU's EESC body has declared that the earthquake was a sign from Mother Nature that we need to combat global warming. I want these crooks to be outlawed! The Japanese earthquake has led to serious problems with the cooling systems ...

No Frakking Consensus

• Our Man at the IPCC
  A Q&A with Francis Zwiers, Canada's most senior IPCC official, regarding his recent testimony in Washington, DC.
• 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?

Tarpley

• CIA’s Libya Rebels Are Younger Brothers ...
  Benghazi, Darnah Among Top Four Centers of Terrorist Recruitment; These Are Heroes of Democracy UN, NATO, US are Bombing Libya to Protect; 2007 West Point Combating Terrorism Center Study Proves the Case Webster G. Tarpley on The Alex Jones Show Infowars March 22, 2011 download file
• 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

Modern Survivalism

• Still Think the Dollar is Safe?
  Even the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Richard Fisher, said today that the U.S. is on a path towards insolvency. “I look at this as a tipping point”, “…its’ going to be very painful”, he said after a speech at the University of Frankfurt. ZeroHedge.com reports that Bank of Ame ...
• 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 ...

Fast Company

• iFive: Sprint vs. AT&T Deal, Apple Pulls "Gay ...
  1. Despite the fact that Verizon's CEO revealed his company wouldn't be appealing the union of AT&T and T-Mobile (and that he thought regulators would approve) Sprint has just revealed it will appeal to Congress to halt the telecoms deal. Its argument is that the giant company would have "tremen ...
• Captured Carbon Can Be Safely Stored Undergrou ...
  Carbon capture and storage (CCS), a technique that captures carbon emissions from industrial and coal-fired plants and buries them underground, is understandably controversial. Researchers have in the past shown that the ultra-expensive technique could leak carbon into groundwater aquifers, ...
• How Resource-Strained Cities Can Save Water
  Los Angeles, Houston, and Phoenix are three of the biggest cities in the U.S, and also the most water-constrained. In order to survive increasingly unpredictable temperatures over the next century, these cities--and others like them--will need to get creative with their water use. In honor of ...
• Samsung's Anti-iPad 2 Policy: Clone the Heck O ...
  In what may be a perfect "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" maneuver, Samsung has just revealed its answer to the iPad 2--a new set of Galaxy Tab tablets. In terms of specs, they're pretty much clones of Apple's offering.Apple's iPad created the new tablet PC market, and the company just revealed ...
• Blockbuster's Largest Shareholder Calls Blockb ...
  Finally! Admission of wrongdoing! After years as Blockbuster's largest shareholder, Carl Icahn, who at one point amassed some 17 million shares of the now-bankrupt company, has called Blockbuster "the worst investment I ever made." In a candid piece written for the Harvard Business Revi ...

Jadaliyya

• Of Principle and Peril
  Reasonable, principled people can disagree about whether, in an ideal world, Western military intervention in Libyaâs internal war would be a moral imperative. With Saddam Hussein dead and gone, there is arguably no more capricious and overbearing dictator in the Arab world than Col. Mua ...
• في الثورة; الحرية السياسية لا تكفي [In Revolu ...
  � استح�ذ ا�جد� ح�� تعد��ات ا�دست�ر �ا�است�تاء ا�ذ� جر� أمس ع�� ع�� �حر�ة ا�مصر��� خ�ا� ا�أسب�ع�� ا�ماض��� ��تراجع �� ش�ء آخر أمام ت�� ا��ض�ة ا�س�اس�ة ا�دست�ر�ة ا��امة. �مع اتخاذ ا�مصر��� �رار�م ب�ا أ� �عم �ت��� مست�ب� ا�ث�رة ع�� أ� �جسد �ذا ا�م��� ��س� �� ص�رة م��� �اضح م� با�� مطا�ب ا� ...
• في الثورة; الحرية السياسية لا تكفي [In Revolut ...
  � استح�ذ ا�جد� ح�� تعد��ات ا�دست�ر �ا�است�تاء ا�ذ� جر� أمس ع�� ع�� �حر�ة ا�مصر��� خ�ا� ا�أسب�ع�� ا�ماض��� ��تراجع �� ش�ء آخر أمام ت�� ا��ض�ة ا�س�اس�ة ا�دست�ر�ة ا��امة. �مع اتخاذ ا�مصر��� �رار�م ب�ا أ� �عم �ت��� مست�ب� ا�ث�رة ع�� أ� �جسد �ذا ا�م��� ��س� �� ص�رة م��� �اضح م� با�� مطا�ب ا� ...
• The Alternative Opposition in Jordan and the F ...
  In Jordan, no one seems to have learned from the lessons of Tunisia and Egypt. Especially not the �opposition,� which can be divided into the �official� opposition and the �alternative� opposition. The "official" opposition�comprised of the legalized opposition parties and professional ...
• 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 ...

mediagazer

• AOL's Brewing Conflict: Brand Versus Journalis ...
  Erik Sherman / BNET: AOL's Brewing Conflict: Brand Versus Journalism  —  Two weeks after AOL laid off 900 employees (and an untold count of freelance writers and editors), CEO Tim Armstrong yesterday sent an internal memo that targeted the company's media sites.  He wrote that AOL would elimin ...
• USA Today rewrites strategy to cope with Inter ...
  Michael Liedtke / Associated Press: USA Today rewrites strategy to cope with Internet  —  McLEAN, Va. - USA Today, a newspaper created nearly 30 years ago to appeal to people who grew up watching television, is revising its formula to try to counter the Internet's threat to its survival.  —  T ...
• Brand Anna - The editor of Vogue has always oc ...
  Joshua Levine / Wall Street Journal: Brand Anna  —  The editor of Vogue has always occupied the most powerful seat in the world of American fashion.  But Anna Wintour's web of influential friends and allies has helped turn her into a global brand that transcends fashion.  Photographs by Mario ...
• Pretty Flipboard Fundraising at an Even Pretti ...
  Kara Swisher / BoomTown: Pretty Flipboard Fundraising at an Even Prettier $200 Million Valuation  —  Flipboard, the high-profile and highly designed social media reading app for the Apple iPad, is out raising another round of funding at an eye-popping $200 million valuation, according to numer ...
• FT website to match pink paper (Lara O'Reilly/ ...
  Lara O'Reilly / New Media Age: FT website to match pink paper  —  The Financial Times is to extend the use of the newspaper's pink colouring in a website redesign aimed at boosting paid subscription numbers.  —  The revamped FT.com site will show articles on a pink background - currently only t ...

Chemtrail News

• Chemtrails film troubling for audience
  By Gerry Masuda, The Citizen March 23, 2011 12:00 AM The chemtrails we have been seeing over Duncan since the 1980s has now been exposed by an investigative ...
• Obama and Chemtrail: Berlin, Chemtra ...
  see HOW TO KILL CHEMTRAILS video, now showing LibranEsq channel.thecontrail.com/video/obama-and-chemtrail-berlin
• Chemtrail Testing Part 2 Video
  John302's video about chemtrails barium aluminum documentary on Disclose.tv.www.disclose.tv/action/viewvideo/.../chemtrail_testing_part_2/
• 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

World News - Top Stories

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

no frakking consensus

• Our Man at the IPCC
  A Q&A with Francis Zwiers, Canada's most senior IPCC official, regarding his recent testimony in Washington, DC.
• 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?

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

• One Big Slap: Now Let's Do Something By Tracie ...
  After Hurricane Katrina, they fired public school teachers in New Orleans, and I didn't speak up because I'm not a teacher. Then they excluded residents who wanted to work on reconstruction while exploiting migrant and immigrant workers, and I didn't speak up because I'm not a construction ...
• Reconstruction Workers Conclude 24 Hour Vigil ...
  Beginning yesterday at 1:00pm, on one of the coldest days of the year, members of New Orleans' Congress of Day Laborers and their allies began a 24-hour vigil outside the office of Sheriff Marlin Gusman to demand an end to his office's racial profiling and race-based deportation of immigrants he ...
• In Louisiana, Odds of a Death Sentence 97% Hig ...
  Reprinted from the Federal Criminal Defense Investigator blog: A recent study conducted by Professors Glenn Pierce and Michael Radelet published in the Lousiana Law Review showed that the odds of a death sentence in parts of Louisiana were 2.6 times higher for those charged with killing a wh ...
• New Paralegal Training Provides Ray of Hope fo ...
  From our friends at Bridge The Gulf: Drive down this short stretch of St. Bernard Avenue, and you will see signs of a struggling neighborhood in despair. Bars, blighted homes, metal-grated storefronts, and the still-shuttered Circle Food Store tell the story of this strip. Here in New Orlea ...
• DeSoto Parish Middle School Student Punished f ...
  From our friends at ACLU of Louisiana: Last week, student Dawn Henderson of DeSoto Middle School wore a shirt to school bearing the message “Some Kids are Gay. That's OK.” In return for her support of the gay community, the school's principal ordered her to change her shirt or go home, censor ...

Truth About Our World

• David Icke – Fork in The Road (They Want ...
  For me, what is said in this video , is very obvious.  I’ve come to these same conclusions mostly with my own research.  To have it viewed in the same way by someone else, only cements my beliefs.  It took me awhile to start connecting the dots, but now those dots are connecting in a domino e ...
• Did HAARP hit Haiti? Evidence and motives
  There’s a mountain of info online on HAARP, but not much on other similar facilities…Maybe we’re looking in the wrong direction?  As long as we focus on HAARP, the attention is away from the real culprit?  Just thinking … Daily Paul Liberty Forum Nobody here knows whether the earthquake in Hai ...
• Not the first time an earthquake in Japan affe ...
  May 29, 2008
• ‘America wants full dominance over Middl ...
  � The world is finding out what a �no fly zone� means to �the coalition of the willing.� The promised minimal role by the US exploded from the start into massive continual aerial assaults against both military and illegally against civilian targets. Hospitals have been bombed in Libya by NATO. � ...
• Muammar Gaddafi calls on Libyans to resist &#8 ...
    March 20, 2011 Ian Black in Tripoli Muammar Gaddafi has pledged to arm the Libyan people to resist what he called a “crusader colonialist” onslaught after UN-mandated forces used missiles and bombs to destroy the country’s air defences and, according to Tripoli, killed up to 64 people it calle ...

Gyrovague's Raves

• Troops in Afghanistan Use Shovels, Feet to Sto ...
  By David Axe LOGAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan â With a deadly bomb possibly lying just inches under their feet, any sane person would â oh, I donât know â run away. But these uniformed madmen have a job to do. They run toward a potential explosive, with nothing but steady hands and body armor to prot ...
• How Operation b107 decapitated the Rustock botnet
  By Peter Bright The Rustock botnet, responsible at its height for sending 30 billion spam e-mails a day, went silent last Wednesday. Its command and control servers, responsible for telling the millions of machines recruited into the network which spams to send, were taken offline. With the botn ...
• HTTPS is great
  here’s why everyone needs to use it (so we can too) By Clint Ecker, Kurt Mackey This past weekend we ran a piece from Wired that looked at the issues surrounding unencrypted HTTP traffic and wondered why all websites arenât shipped over HTTPS by default. The article puts forth an interesting pre ...
• Drones’ Suicidal Cousins Lead Libya Attack
  By Noah Shachtman When the U.S. military wanted to take out Moammar Gadhafiâs air defense systems, it unleashed a barrage of 122 Tomahawk cruise missiles. But these munitions arenât like most others in the American arsenal. Smart, maneuverable, able to see its surroundings and shift to new targe ...
• Japan earthquake has implications for Moore&#8 ...
  By Jon Stokes This past Friday, as the market struggled to get its collective head around the potential supply chain disruptions resulting from the Japanese megaquake and nuclear crisis, Nomura Securities released a report detailing the status of various Japanese tech companies’ facilities. Ars ...

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

• Very Compelling Testimony About The US Governm ...
  Click here to view the embedded video.Wow. I make a habit of looking through YouTube videos. I find it actually completely fascinating. I always have this weird feeling that sometimes, when someone posts a bigfoot film, some odd creature, a haunted family, a ufo, I get this sense that much of th ...
• 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 [...]

Taylor Marsh

• How Does Sec. Clinton’s Latest Statement Help?
  I have absolutely no idea the purpose of these remarks on ABC from Sec. Clinton, beyond covering for a commander in chief making his way home as a crisis escalates, this time politically. They make absolutely no sense to me at all at this point, but nothing the Obama administration is doing or s ...
• Hillary: No Second Term as Secretary of State
  If asked she will not serve. From the interview with Wolf Blitzer, transcript at the link: Q- If the president is reelected, do you want to serve a second term as secretary of state? No Q- Would you like to serve as secretary of defense? No Q- Would you like to be vice president of the United St ...
• Sarah Palin Still Popular with GOP Primary Voters
  The headlines out of the WashingtonPost/ABC poll are misleading at best. For the first time in Post-ABC News polling, fewer than six in 10 Republicans and GOP-leaning independents see Palin in a favorable light, down from a stratospheric 88 percent in the days after the 2008 Republican National ...
• Donald Trump Roasted… (because we all need a l ...
  âSo, you wanna run for president now? Wouldnât be first time youâve kicked a black family out of their home.â â Snoop Dog, Comedy Central Roasts Donald TrumpComedy Central Roast of Donald Trump Yesterday he was “unplugged” for Human Events. Then Seth McFarlane killed last night on Comedy Centra ...
• General Electric Mark 1 Reactor ‘Cheaper and E ...
  That’s the headline on WashingtonPost.com. Perhaps now all the people who were talking about “context” will put the continuing catastrophe in the same light, as in nuclear disaster that was foretold, sort of like BP, but this time instead of wildlife and habitat we have uninhabitable for humans ...

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