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Thomas Paine

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

Thursday, March 24, 2011

24 March - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

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Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Google Nexus S to be launched in India tomorrow?
    In our last post in February we have reviewed and disclosed the preview of Samsung Nexus S . If my reliable sources at Google and Samsung are to be believed, then India is getting it’s first Gingerbread Android 2.3 device tomorrow in India. Yes! you read it right – 25th March 2011 and that too ...
  • Eric Cantor Slams Obama on Response to Jerusal ...
    At The Hill, " After bombing, Cantor hits Obama admin. handling of Israel ." Also, at Israel Matzav, " Cantor statement on suicide bombing nails Obama ." And from the Office of Rep. Eric Cantor, " Leader Cantor's Statement on Violence in Israel ": âTodayâs bombing in Jerusalem is another chilli ...
  • F.B.I Interviews Are Tough, But They're A B*** ...
    In July 2003, the United States Army located Qusay and Uday Hussein. Upon finding the two, a 3 hour battle ensued between our troops and the two sons of the infamous Saddam Hussein, otherwise tagged by our military as the Ace of Spades. That battle would leave Qusay and Uday Hussein, the Aces o ...
  • British Conservatives promote tax cuts to resc ...
    It's an interesting strategy considering the fact that tax revenues are declining. There's little doubt that there will be even more pain due to less tax revenue in the next few years. Helping small businesses get started is fine but that's also a long term program that won't solve the immediat ...
  • Did OS X Lion Scare Off Apple's OS X Architect ...
    Apple today announced that Bertrand Serlet, its senior vice president of Mac® Software Engineering, will be leaving the company after 14 years.  Serlet says he "wants to focus less on products and more on science. He's being replaced by Craig Federighi, who's currently VP of Mac Software Engin ...

Groklaw

  • Mozilla's Firefox 4 Downloads Already Nearly 1 ...
    [PJ: Amazing figure. As NextWeb points out: "Last week, Microsoft announced that it had registered 2.35 million downloads of its newest browser in its first day on the market, an impressive figure considering the browser has been largely reviled over the past decade." But Firefox did way mor ...
  • US government opposes Microsoft in Supreme Cou ...
    "If patents are too easy to invalidate, the risk of invalidation - as well as the prospect that every infringement suit will be met with a burdensome validity challenge - may raise the cost of enforcing a patent to the point where the expected value of the patent cannot justify the outlays entva ...
  • Amnesty et al. v. Blair: Victory in FISA Amend ...
    In a huge victory for privacy and the rule of law, a federal appeals court today reinstated a landmark lawsuit challenging an unconstitutional government spying law. The American Civil Liberties Union and the New York Civil Liberties Union filed the lawsuit in July 2008 to stop the government fr ...
  • Radiation Dose Chart (xkcd)
    This is a chart of the ionizing radiation dose a person can absorb from various sources. - Randall Munroe, xkcd
  • Chrome 11, the browser you can talk to
    Google's newest browser, Chrome 11 Beta, has the ability to understand the spoken word. This isn't just a Java Plugin or Flash tool either. This is all done in HTML5 with something called the HTML5 speech input API. - Seth Weintraub, Fortune

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Solar-powered desalination in a shipping container
    It’s ideal for disaster relief. Inhabitat has the details.
  • Unemployment, Democrats vs Republicans
    But the Democrats feel our pain. That’s the difference. From Alas, A Blog
  • Putting ecology first
    I promised someone yesterday that I would address the question they raised in response to one of my tweets. Ecology loses when Greens first address creating a non-violent, just, democratic world. The question was that of why this would be true. We have a small rat terrier who is an escape artist ...
  • Quagmire accomplished, Mr. President
    Germans pull forces out of Operation Underpants Gnomes as Libya coalition falls apart. Well, that didn’t take long did it? Also: Jerusalem bombing, situation deteriorating says Israel Interior Minister. Make no mistake, Israel doesn’t screw around when it retaliates. Saudis prepare to abandon Ye ...
  • Because people aren’t stupid. Most don’t belie ...
    “Edano’s words seemingly fell on deaf ears as Tokyo residents made a dash for bottled water.”

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • Israeli vice-premier, accused of war crimes, w ...
    On March 9, I received the following invitation: The Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn Middle East Forum of the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson Center present (sic) A Conversation with Moshe Yaalon Vice Premier, Minister of Strategic Affairs and Likud Knesset Member Moderated by Aaron ...
  • This is what good statecraft looks like
    Norwegian foreign minister Jonas Gahr Store has a terrific piece titled "Why We Must Talk" in a recent issue of the NY Review of Books. In it, he makes a strong argument why "we"-- in this case, I think, western advocates of democracy-- need to start talking seriously to, among other, the Musli ...
  • Tripartite attack on Libya hits geopolitical o ...
    It is extremely unclear what the political outcome inside Libya of the tripartite (western) assault against the country will be. It is unclear, too, what political outcome the leaders of the three countries are aiming at in Libya. In my experience, all wars are anti-humane and anti-humanitar ...
  • Arab tragedies and role of the "west"
    Today is the eighth anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq, and today the US is preparing to once again join a military action against an Arab country, Libya. I wonder how many of Pres. Obama's advisers have ever even heard the term "Tripartite Aggression"? That is the way Arabs refer to t ...
  • Interview with R. Visser at 8th anniversary of ...
    (I first became acquainted with (and came to admire) Reidar Visser's work when he started posting comments here on JWN during and after Iraq's December 2005 election... Last fall, he was one of the four authors in Just World Books's inaugural list. So now, as the eighth anniversary of the U.S. i ...

frogblog

  • Children on the margins
    A report released this week (PDF) by the Childrenâs Commissioner calls for quality childcare services, especially for under two-year-olds. It will take more than a report to convince the current Government – whose cost-cutting includes undermining the goal of 100% fully qualified staff in early ...
  • Hypocrisy reigns over Libya
    Many people were conned into supporting the Western military involvement on the basis that it was just creating a “no-fly zone”. Now we find that it is a comprehensive air war against all of Gaddafi’s armed forces
  • The Welfare Working Group and the work test police
    One of the cornerstones of the recommendations of the Welfare Working Group’s report (PDF) is sanctions against beneficiaries who “fail” work tests. Their thesis is that work will set you free from “welfare dependency” and if you fail to actively seek work your benefit should be cut for your own ...
  • Swimming with the sharks
    Sharks are amazing creatures and fearsome predators, but they don’t stand a chance against our industrial fishing fleets and growing demand for shark fin soup. Shark finning − the practice of killing a shark, cutting off its fins, and discarding the carcass back to sea − is still legal in New Ze ...
  • Undercover of the earthquake
    Keith Ng at Public Address and Idiot/Savant at No Right Turn have both drawn attention today to a recent Treasury forecast (PDF) – the first since the February 22 Canterbury earthquake. They both note this chart produced by Treasury: Check out the blue line (post-earthquake) and the grey line (p ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Libya's Thousand-Man Rebellion
    The New York Times reports on what an insider says about the state of the rebellion in Libya: After the uprising, the rebels stumbled as they tried to organize. They did a poor job of defining themselves when Libyans and the outside world tried to figure out what they stood for. And now, ...
  • How Many Birds?
    OK, so how big is our bird predation problem? Did I get an answer to my question from last night? Probably. But first a few related items that multiple people pointed out in comments. First, habitat destruction is a way bigger problem than cats, so if you want to worry about the fate of Nor ...
  • The New Media Rules
    ThinkProgress has a post up today that shows Newt Gingrich unequivocally supporting a no-fly zone over Libya two weeks ago and then equally unequivocally opposing it today. The only thing that's changed in the meantime is that two weeks ago President Obama opposed a no-fly zone and today he ...
  • The Latest From Karl Rove
    David Corn reports that Karl Rove, that well-known champion of openness in government, has started up a new project called Wikicountability.org, which plans to collect documents about the Obama administration obtained via the Freedom of Information Act and offer them for crowd-sourcing in on ...
  • Nukes vs. Coal
    A couple of days ago George Monbiot wrote that the disaster at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant had changed his mind about nuclear energy: A crappy old plant with inadequate safety features was hit by a monster earthquake and a vast tsunami. The electricity supply failed, knocking out the ...

Insanity Report

  • FacePalm of the Week: Et tu, Arianna?
    Arianna Huffington runs one of the most popular liberal blogs out there.  I’ve always had my doubts about her though.  I always question when someone starts off on one extreme of the ideological spectrum then all the sudden switches over to the other side.  I mean its one thing to be a moderate ...
  • IC 236: Post Sex Press Conference
    Topics: Jon Jones subdues robber 2 hours before title fight Man has to pay child support after woman impregnates herself after oral sex Steve Harvey’s 12 ways to know a man is ready to commit The UN steps in to protect civilians in Libya Share with your friends:
  • IC 235: The Casey Heynes Show
    Topics: The Body Slam heard round the world How to deal with bullies Your kid is not a “good kid” Asians in the Library So we’re gonna pretend John Boehner’s skin is natural? Share with your friends:
  • Who Thought this Interview Would Be Productive?
    So you have Michele Bachmann & Anthony Weiner squaring off with Sean Hannity as the “moderator”.  No really, who thought this would be anything more than a shouting match of immaturity? Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com While I feel Rep. Weiner’s pain in dealing with douches like Bach ...
  • It’s 2011 and Uncle Toms Still Exist
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Simple Climate

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

e!Science News

  • Europe-wide survey reveals priorities for end- ...
    A survey of over 9,000 people in seven different countries across Europe has shown that the majority would want to improve the quality of life in the time they had left, rather than extend it. The survey reveals attitudes across Europe for dealing with serious illnesses such as cancer, and issue ...
  • Red tape for clinical trial consent can be let ...
    Current rules requiring researchers to obtain consent for patients to take part in clinical trials in emergency situations are causing life-threatening delays to treatment, experts have argued. read more
  • Lung cancer study finds mentholated cigarettes ...
    Smokers of mentholated cigarettes are no more likely to develop lung cancer than other smokers, according to a new, very large, prospective study of black and white smokers published online March 23 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. In fact, contrary to a popular hypothesis, ment ...
  • Obese and overweight women, children underesti ...
    Overweight and obese mothers and their children think they weigh less than their actual weight, according to research reported at the American Heart Association's Nutrition, Physical Activity and Metabolism/Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention 2011 Scientific Sessions. read more
  • Study finds no association between mercury exp ...
    Although research has shown that eating fish, which is rich in beneficial omega-3 fatty acids, is associated with lower risk of cardiovascular diseases, mixed evidence from prior studies has suggested that mercury exposure from fish consumption may be linked to higher risk of cardiovascular dise ...

unEarthed

Brave New Climate

  • It’s nuclear power or it’s climate ...
    I was asked to reflect very briefly (<400 words) on the implications of Fukushima Daiichi to my local city newspaper, The Adelaide Advertiser. The focus was on what it means for Australia, but the basic message resonates for any number of other countries. —————————– If you study the history of m ...
  • 10+ days of crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nu ...
    Yes, it really has been that long. So what happened during those 10+ days? For a long answer, look back over the daily posts on this blog, which also has plenty of links to more off-site information. For the short-hand version, I offer you this excellent graphic produced by the Wall Street Journ ...
  • Fukushima Open Discussion Thread
    The Open Threads on BraveNewClimate.com are a general discussion forum, where you can talk about whatever you like — there is nothing really ‘off topic’ here — within reason. Please use this particularly comment thread to post anything on the Fukushima Nuclear Accident that is NOT directly relat ...
  • Fukushima Nuclear Accident – Monday 21 M ...
    It’s not yet time for the period of reflection and introspection on the Fukushima Daiichi crisis, but we’re getting there. Even the U.S. says the worst seems to be over. The IAEA and World Nuclear News have both released new updates on the situation (the IAEA report being particularly comprehens ...
  • Fukushima Nuclear Accident – Why I stay ...
    Guest Post by Axel Lieber. Axel is a German national and has been a resident of Tokyo since 1998. He runs a small executive search firm and is married to a Japanese. [BNC editor's note: This is a personal perspective, not a professional scientific one, but I can verify Axel's facts] Why I stay i ...

Indigenist Opinion

  • Murdered Jerusalem Man Subjected To Racism Eve ...
    Murdered Jerusalem Man Subjected To Racism Even In Death - International Middle East Media Center: "'He said directly to me, 'Your son died ...'' Rwidy paused, then continued. ''Your son died, and there are two people arrested.'' Twenty-four-year-old Hussam Rwidy was killed in the early morning ...
  • In Haiti numberless abominable crimes have bee ...
    thepublicarchive.com: 1. Hanging of M. Cicéron Lacroix, execution of Léon Moricet, Téca, and other persons in October and November. 1918, by Lieut. Lang, acts denounced to the naval court of inquiry by M. Philocles Lacroix in his letter of October 20, 1920. 2. Execution of the Péralte brothers ...
  • Ban Nuclear Energy and the Bomb, Time for True ...
    March 15, 2011 - Ban Nuclear Energy and the Bomb, Time for True Renewables Only [climateark.org] Background All existing nuclear energy plants, waste and weapons are accidents waiting to happen - vile deadly toxins to be dealt with for millenium. Japan is facing the worst nuclear crisis since t ...
  • Libya, Getting it Right: A Revolutionary Pan-A ...
    Libya, Getting it Right: A Revolutionary Pan-African Perspective | Dissident Voice: "Thousands of Indians, Egyptians, Chinese, Filipinos, Turks, Germans, English, Italians, Malaysians, Koreans and a host of other nationalities are lining up at the borders and the airport to leave Libya. It begs ...
  • The facts about racism in Libya | SocialistWor ...
    The facts about racism in Libya | SocialistWorker.org: "THE UPRISING against the dictatorial regime of Col. Muammar Qaddafi, like the revolutionary upsurges in Tunisia and Egypt, has inspired people around the world who yearn for social change. If the people of Libya succeed in overthrowing a ru ...

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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  • I won’t forget you Basma: A musical pris ...
    I never really met them, only passed by. I saw them through the window of a car traveling through the beautiful Carmel forest. This was before last year’s great fire which consumed so much of it, and the view was nothing short of heavenly. Then heaven was distrubed. Through the treetops stuck th ...
  • Yedioth’s military correspondent: signs ...
    The Israeli government insists that it tries to contain the situation in Gaza, and to prevent unnecessary escalation that would cost more lives on both sides. However, Alex Fishman, the military correspondent for Yedioth Ahronoth (Israel’s leading daily paper) is not convinced, to say the least ...
  • South African university to divest from Ben Gu ...
    In a major victory for proponents of the academic boycott of Israel, the University of Johannesburg has voted to end its relationship with Ben Gurion University. This decision to boycott Ben Gurion University carries special significance given South Africa’s history of Apartheid and the ...
  • Attack in Jerusalem, civilians killed in Gaza, ...
    Is the relative calm of recent months over? 31 people were hurt when a bomb exploded near the Jerusalem Convention Center. In Gaza, Israeli attacks in recent days claimed the life of several Palestinians, while dozens rockets were launched at southern Israeli towns. Ynet reports on the attack in ...
  • The new Nakba Law: Privatizing freedom of speech
    By Hagai El-Ad | Originally published in Hebrew on NRG The creeping depreciation in the value of freedom of expression in Israel is part of a broader  erosion process of democratic principles, but even lengthy processes have their breaking moments. Amendment 39 to the Budget Foundations Law “ ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

Matt Weidner Blog

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

abelard - news

The Parallel Parliament

  • You Don’t Know Jack!
    Note: It’s not often I write two of these postings in one day, but this one needs to be said. Late Tuesday afternoon, everyone was on pins and needles. I could hardly move through the media rotunda because of the density of the crowd. Everywhere, everyone was asking the same question: “What will ...
  • Crime, Crumbs and Contempt
    By now you’re being besieged by all parties regarding their respective stands on the budget. It all reminds me of Gore Vidal’s sage observation: “As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: Words are used to confuse, so tha ...
  • On Budgets and Trampolines
    A wild budget day yesterday, as I’m sure you know. I thought I’d put in a brief video of some of the behind the scenes developments in preparation for the budget speech itself. In the process of filming I discovered a wonderful bit of trivia about one of most famous past prime minister. Filed un ...
  • Canada’s “No-fly” Zone
    Ethics and the budget. In a bygone era, these two important realities were more intricately linked. Today it’s harder to form a connection. As free trade zones continue to proliferate the agenda foreign policies worldwide, the sometimes unethical practices of some companies once again reveal how ...
  • WWJC?
    The visit of the nation’s church leaders to the halls of Parliament a couple of weeks ago wasn’t so much a celebration of faith as it was a deep and abiding concern over poverty. Even with their impressive efforts to stay non-partisan one couldn’t help but get the clear sense of worry at the pre ...

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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

Reader Supported News

  • The "Kill Team" Photographs
    Seymour M. Hersh begins: "It's the smile. In photographs released by the German weekly Der Spiegel, an American soldier is looking directly at the camera with a wide grin. His hand is on the body of an Afghan whom he and his fellow soldiers appear to have just killed, allegedly for sport." 'K ...
  • Aristide's Return to Haiti
    Amy Goodman begins: "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 from his home in a US-backed coup d'etat." For ...
  • Tsunami Was More Than 77 Feet High at Its Peak
    The report begins: "'A tsunami wave that hit a coastal city in Iwate Prefecture after the March 11 massive earthquake is estimated to have reached 23.6 meters in height, a government-commissioned field survey by the Port and Airport Research Institute showed Wednesday,' Kyodo News reports." W ...
  • Glenn Beck Contemplates Starting Own Channel
    Brian Stelter reports: "The possibility that Glenn Beck will exit the Fox News Channel at the end of the year has prompted a big question in media circles: if he leaves, how will he bring his considerable audience with him? Two of the options Mr. Beck has contemplated, according to people who ha ...
  • Koch Brother: Koch Industries an "Organiz ...
    Dave Johnson writes: "William Koch, brother of company owners David and Charles, called the company an 'organized crime' operation: Koch says that Koch Industries engaged in '(o)rganized crime. And management driven from the top down. It was - was my family company. I was out of it,' he says. 'B ...

War Resisters League

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

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    A recent post entitled “Organic Farmers: Can They Be Tech Savvy?”  by Mr. Hunter Richards serves as a reminder of why one interested in sustainable farming mustn’t instinctively cringe at the thought of new technology and agriculture. As the blog states, organic food has taken off as an indust ...

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Stop NATO

  • Updates on Libyan war: March 24
    ==== New U.S.-NATO Strikes Kill Libyan Civilians, Including Rescue Workers Libyan Quagmire Could Drag More U.S. Forces In White House Hands Libyan War Command And Control To NATO How “Humanitarian” Is Western Intervention In Libya? AFRICOM Chief Visits 14-Nation Libyan War Air Operations Center ...
  • Stop NATO News March 23, 2011
    ==== Updates on Libyan war: March 23 ==== stopnato-subscribe@yahoogroups.com ==== 1. Tbilisi: NATO Conference Discusses Georgia’s “Euro-Atlantic” Integration 2. Saakashvili: Full NATO Membership Georgia’s Main Political Goal 3. NATO Air Strike Kills Afghan Child And “Militants” On Motorcycle, Wo ...
  • Updates on Libyan war
    ==== EU’s Top Diplomat: NATO Should Take Control Of Libya Operation Bolivian President Demands Obama Be Stripped Of Nobel Peace Prize Over Libyan War Fires, Deaths: NATO Attacks Hit Tripoli Harbor, Airport “Regime Change” In Libya To Require Involvement In Ground War U.S. Marines Shoot Six Libya ...
  • Stop NATO News March 22
    ==== stopnato-subscribe@yahoogroups.com ==== 1. NATO Welcomes Georgia’s Accelerated Integration Into Military Bloc 2. Africa Partnership Station: U.S. Warship In Mauritius 3. Africa Partnership Station: U.S. Warship In Gulf Of Guinea 4. Over 14,000 Graduates: NATO Medal Parade In Iraq 5. Two NAT ...
  • Updates on Libyan war
    ==== NATO To Intervene In Libyan Conflict, Enforce Blockade Civilians Main Victims Of Military Intervention Against Sovereign States Ambassador: One Million Libyans To Resist Western Ground Invasion Warplanes Leave French Aircraft Carrier For Strikes Against Libya Spanish Warplanes In First Oper ...

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FRS

  • NATO wary of Libyan command: hot potato
      Libya: Nato Refuses Military Ops Command UK, Thursday March 24, 2011 Nato has again refused to take over command of military operations in Libya, with objections from Turkey frustrating US efforts to hand over control. America wants to give up its lead role in the war-torn country in a “matter ...
  • Yemen: Repressive regime threatens military de ...
    � Saleh threatens civil war by Shatha Al-Harazi Sana�a, Mar. 22 � President Ali Abdullah Saleh warned of bloody civil war, if the armed forces failed to unite, following the mass defection of a dozen military commanders. � On Monday, senior military leaders announced their solidarity for the pro ...
  • US’ New “Abu Ghraib” in Afgh ...
    By Julius Cavendish in Kabul Tuesday, 22 March 2011 The US Army has been forced into an acutely embarrassing apology after photographs emerged of American soldiers posing with the corpses of Afghan civilians in scenes reminiscent of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal during the Iraq war. In one pictu ...
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  • India: 27 injured in clash between Maoists and ...
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  • Today's guest blogger: Bill Howe: "Go Back to ...
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Associated Content

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    Bonds is indicted by a federal grand jury and charged with perjury and obstruction of justice regarding his alleged steroid abuse.Contributor: John Troiano Published: Mar 23, 2011
  • William Shatner Turns 80 Years Old
    William Shatner, who turns 80 today, spent the first 15 years of his career as an actor working in relative obscurity, doing Shakespeare in his native Canada and doing numerous TV guest appearances.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Mar 22, 2011

Popsci - Science

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Veterans Today

  • Talking with the Tea Party
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