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Thursday, March 24, 2011

24 March - Rss SnapShot! Pt III

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TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • The Little Picture: More Military Interventions
    U.S. troops parachute out of a C-17 plane flying over Maniago, near the NATO airbase of Aviano, Italy, during an exercise, Wednesday, March 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)
  • The Conservative Health-Insurance Fantasyland
    In today's installment of Questions Reporters Should Ask Republicans, we begin with Sen. Ron Johnson's inane op-ed in The Wall Street Journal, in which he argues that because his daughter got life-saving heart surgery 27 years ago, we should repeal the Affordable Care Act. As Ezra Klein points o ...
  • Perspective
    Yes, it's standard operating procedure for politiciams to play up favorable events in the most expansive way possible. Still, it's fair to call this completely ridiculous: Mississippi governor potential Republican presidential candidate, Haley Barbour, said today in Nevada it would take a “cam ...
  • 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 ...

Buzzflash

  • Tensions Across the Globe Cause Gas Prices to ...
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Forget filling up your tank; The current situation Is many can't even afford to Drive to the gas station. http://money.cnn.com/2011/03/23/markets/oil_prices/index.htm
  • Starved Rock
    ROBERT KOEHLER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT As thousands of gulls wheel in a cacophonous spiral above the open water where the Illinois River rushes over the dam just beyond Starved Rock, a bald eagle sweeps magnificently from its perch on a bare cottonwood and glides across the brown water, cutti ...
  • Franklin Graham’s Nascent McCarthyism
    The head of Samaritan's Purse is collecting aid for the people of Japan devastated by the earthquake and tsunami, while at the same time hurling McCarthyist charges accusing the Obama administration of being in league with the Muslim Brotherhood. BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT He's the ...
  • The Big Banks Run the Show
    PAUL MOORE FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT   On January 21, 2010, the US Supreme Court handed over what little was left of this nation's pretensions to democracy on a silver platter to the Big Banks and the US Chamber of Commerce. The case was titled Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission and ...
  • Beyond Fukushima: A World in Denial About Nucl ...
    DANNY SCHECHTER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT What will it take for our world to recognize the dangers that nuclear scientists and even Albert Einstein were warning about at the "dawn" of the nuclear age? Amy Goodman reminds us of the prophetic statement by Australian journalist Wilfred Burchett wh ...

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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

  • Yemen: Emergency Law Does Not Trump Basic Rights
    Yemen's new emergency law does not override the government's obligation to respect fundamental human rights under international law, Human Rights Watch said today. Yemen's parliament on March 23, 2011, approved sweeping emergency legislation authorizing 30 days of expanded powers of arrest, dete ...
  • In El Salvador, President Obama Calls for an I ...
    In El Salvador yesterday, President Barack Obama called for bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform.  He also said: “America is a nation of laws, and it is a nation of immigrants.  And so our job is to create secure borders, to make sure that we've got a legal immigration system that is effe ...
  • Chernobyl Experts: Fukushima Could be Worse
    Several experts on the Chernobyl nuclear disaster (which took place 25 years ago on April 26) are in the U.S. and currently available for a limited number of interviews.read more
  • Equality California Profoundly Disappointed in ...
    Today the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals denied a motion from the American Foundation for Equal Rights to lift the temporary stay in the federal court challenge to Proposition 8. Equality California, the National Center for Lesbian Rights, American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, a ...
  • 142 Groups/Businesses Call for End to U.S. Nuc ...
    In a group letter sent to President Obama, members of his Administration, and all the Members of the U.S. Congress, 142 organizations and businesses wrote that the Japanese nuclear accident is a tragic reminder that it is long past the time to end U.S. reliance on nuclear power. The groups argue ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Latest LePage Order a Piece of Work
    Bill Nemitz Back in November, long before he decided to hide from the media behind his own weekly television show, Gov. Paul LePage sat down along with his wife, Ann, to chat with WCSH-TV's Bill Green.Mural panels 1 through 4. (Imbrogno P ...
  • Why Governor LePage Can’t Erase History, and W ...
    Robert Reich Maine Governor Paul LePage has ordered state workers to remove from the state labor department a 36-foot mural depicting the state’s labor history. Among other things the mural illustrates the 1937 shoe mill strike in Auburn ...
  • Killing Civilians in Afghanistan is Terrorism
    Patrick Kennelly In Kabul, on the same day that Der Spiegel released photos documenting American soldiers posing with the bodies of civilians they murdered, the Transitional Justice Coordinating Group (TJCG), the umbrella organization for ...
  • Starved Rock: On the Nature of Growing Up
    Robert C. Koehler As thousands of gulls wheel in a cacophonous spiral above the open water where the Illinois Rread more
  • Fukushima Radiation: Some Difficult Truths
    Ritt Goldstein As radiation counts elevate in Japan, news of nuclear contamination spreading across a widening spectrread more

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

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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

  • Nielsen Sues Comscore With Patent It Once Was ...
    Why bother competing if you can just get a patent instead? Nielsen, who was once sued for violating a patent ("5675510") for the invention of a "computer use meter and analyzer," has now sued competitor Comscore over the same patent, which it eventually came into possession of after settling th ...
  • South Korea Wants To Mandate Everyone Must Ins ...
    Amelia Andersdotter alerted us to a story coming out of South Korea, where there's an ongoing effort to pass a "Zombie PC Prevention Act," which would require every citizen to install special "security software," on their computers. But, some are worried about the unintended (or secretly intend ...
  • NYT: You Can Access Our Site For Free From Twi ...
    It's becoming more obvious every day that the NY Times itself doesn't know quite what to make of its own paywall. It's letting people view articles for free if they come from other sites, especially Twitter. The idea, of course, is that they want to encourage people to share stories and visit ...
  • DailyDirt: To Serve Mankind
    Robots are becoming more and more advanced every day. And as their software improves, they're also becoming more useful for tasks that humans can't do. They can seal off deep sea oil wells at extreme depths. They'll fight dangerous fires. And someday, in the distant future, we might have to ...
  • Dear Google: Stand Up For Fair Use In The Goog ...
    Now that a judge has rejected the "settlement" between Google and the Authors Guild, many people are asking what will happen next. There may be appeals or alternative settlements proposed, but given my previous statements on the settlement, it'll probably come as little surprise to people that ...

VacTruth

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

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

  • Monkeys and Gorillas with Startling, Human-Lik ...
    Photo credit: Michael Nichols In this photo, a mandrill that has been orphaned by a shotgun blast grabs for the camera. For human onlookers, photographs like this are symbolically powerful—who, after all, can look away from an animal reaching out for help? "Extreme Exposure," on view at ...
  • Animal Stamps Issued in Honour of WWF's 50th
    Photo: royalmail.com It's the World Wildlife Fund's 50'th anniversary and in its honour the Royal Mail has issued a series of ten stamps. The animals featured are species from around the world which have benefited from the work of the conservation charity. The ten selected were African ...
  • Say it with Butterflies - Green Start-Up Grows ...
    Image Credit: Mariposeando Here is an interesting buisness idea; grow butterflies to let fly at special ocasions and at the same time help the enviornment as well as people with special needs. The project is called Mariposeando (Spanish for something like 'butterflying') and has just hatche ...
  • Is Food in America "Too Cheap"?
    Image credit: Paul Swansen, used under Creative Commons license. When I wrote a post about what vegan or veganic farming might look like, commenter Junico took issue with the farmers' statement that "food in America is too cheap." This, said Junico, was deeply offensive to the many folks ex ...
  • What Killed Knut? Autopsy Results Released
    Image: Knut and Gianna playing in the snow, by Martin Teschner, Flickr/CC By-ND After the sudden death of polar bear favorite Knut on Saturday, the Berlin Zoo has come under accusations that stress killed Knut -- stress due to a broken heart, mobbing by zoomates, or simply from captivity. T ...

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

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Pruning Shears

  • 'No on SB 5': Upcoming events, 23-Mar-2011
    Thursday, March. 247:00 - 9:00 pmClevelandRep. Foley and Sen. Skindell Town HallTown hall with State Rep. Mike Foley and State Sen. Mike Skindell.Locatoin: Bethany English Lutheran Church, Corner of Lorain and Triscuit Rd. Cleveland, OHFriday, March 25th5 - 6:30 PMToledoVisibility Against SB 5Wh ...
  • 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 ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Urban Gardeners, Test Your Soil!
    With remnants of once-legal lead paint, leaded gasoline and other pollutants from the nation's industrial past tainting land in U.S. cities, soil researchers warn that the growing number of urban farmers and community gardeners need to test their dirt and take steps to make sure it's safe. Clic ...
  • FDA Halts Imports of Dairy, Produce from Japan
    The Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday it will halt imports of dairy products and produce from the area of Japan where a nuclear reactor is leaking radiation.Click here to read this article
  • A Shoppers Guide To Pesticides
    The Shopper's Guide to Pesticides is a key resource for consumers looking for healthier low toxin diets. Since many shoppers can't always find or afford organic produce, they can use the Shopper's Guide to avoid those conventional fruits and vegetables found to be highest in pesticides - the Dir ...
  • USDA Refuses to Enforce Organic Standards, All ...
    The US Department of Agriculture is once again deliberately shirking its responsibility to properly oversee the integrity of the certified organic program. After admitting in a recent letter that a chemically-derived, synthetic omega-3 fatty acid additive produced by Martek Biosciences Corporat ...
  • Organic Poultry Far Less Prone to Salmonella t ...
    What chickens eat and how they are raised makes all the difference in determining their overall health and susceptibility to salmonella, according to a new study published in the journal Foodborne Pathogens and Disease. Researchers from the University of Georgia's Center for Food Safety (UGCFS) ...

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

  • The Constitution and Libya
    by Michael Ramsey by Michael Ramsey I appreciate the opportunity to guest blog on the Constitution and the Libya intervention.  In a post at Slate, Jack Goldsmith says that the Constitution’s original meaning in this area is “indeterminate.”  I respectfully disagree:  I think congressional ap ...
  • Welcome Guest Blogger Michael Ramsey
    by Duncan Hollis by Duncan Hollis We are pleased to welcome Michael Ramsey back to Opinio Juris, this time as a guest blogger. Mike is a Professor of Law at the University of San Diego Law School where he teaches U.S. Constitutional Law, Foreign Relations Law and International Business Transa ...
  • Can the Coalition Lawfully Target Gaddafi?
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Can the coalition forces using force in Libya under the Security Council’s authorizing resolution lawfully target Gaddafi personally?  This question has provoked some heated back and forth among political leadership of several coalition countries, inclu ...
  • Max Boot’s Curious Understanding of the Taylor ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller In a post today at Commentary, Boot argues that Taylor’s arrest after going into exile makes it more likely that Gaddafi will fight to the death instead of negotiating a gracious exit from power: Once upon a time, an autocrat could step down and live ou ...
  • 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 ...

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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 �|� � ...
  • Mercury and coal
    Coal-fired power plants are the largest source of mercury in the United States, accounting for about 41 percent (48 tons in 1999) of industrial releases.Microorganisms convert part of it to toxins affecting fertility and growthSubmitted by John Farnham to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Co ...

Angry Indian News

  • PressTV - Palestinian rockets hit Israeli cities
    PressTV - Palestinian rockets hit Israeli cities: "The rockets struck the southern city of Beersheba and Ashdod in the west on Wednesday. One Israeli was slightly injured in the rocket attacks.The... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • India says Monsanto covertly, illegally conduc ...
    India says Monsanto covertly, illegally conducted GM corn trials without approval by: Jonathan Benson, staff writer - (NaturalNews) Recent reports out of India say that multinational biotechnology... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • pacific media centre | articles: VIDEO: John Pi ...
    pacific media centre | articles: VIDEO: John Pilger - breaking the silence on Wikileaks and freedom (2011-03-23)Independent journalist John Pilger spoke on "Breaking Australia's silence: WikiLeaks and... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Egyptian women protesters forced to take ‘virg ...
    Egyptian women protesters forced to take ‘virginity tests’ | Amnesty International: "After army officers violently cleared the square of protesters on 9 March, at least 18 women were held in military... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • SOUTH LEBANON: Knesset Passes Bill Prohibiting ...
    SOUTH LEBANON: Knesset Passes Bill Prohibiting Nakba Commemoration: Jerusalem - PNN - The Israeli legislature has passed a bill that will require the state to fine local authorities or state funded... [[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

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • 3 nuclear workers hospitalized in Japan
    ShareThis3 nuclear workers hospitalized in Japan 24 Mar 2011 Three workers at reactor 3 of Japan's Fukushima Prefecture have been taken to hospital for radiation, while the nuclear crisis keeps high the life-threatening concerns of the disaster. Japan's nuclear safety agency said the workers of ...
  • Special Forces may have role in Libya
    ShareThisSpecial Forces may have role in Libya --N.C. troops could see action 24 Mar 2011 While U.S. military involvement in Libya has been limited to strikes from the air and sea, analysts say it's possible that U.S. Special Forces soldiers could become involved in the conflict. Retired Gen. Da ...
  • Fire breaks out at Miami airport fuel tank farm
    ShareThisFire breaks out at Miami airport fuel tank farm 24 Mar 2011 A fire has broken out in an area where fuel is kept at the Miami International Airport. Miami Dade fire rescue dispatch supervisor Eric Dellacatena says no one has been injured in the fire that broke out late Wednesday night at ...
  • US Soldier Jailed For Killing Afghan Civilians
    ShareThisUS Soldier Jailed For Killing Afghan Civilians 24 Mar 2011 A U.S. soldier was sentenced to 24 years in prison on Wednesday after he pleaded guilty at his court martial to killing three unarmed civilians in Afghanistan's Kandahar province between January and May last year. Specialist Jer ...
  • Large fuel fire breaks out at Miami Internatio ...
    ShareThisLarge fuel fire breaks out at Miami International Airport 24 Mar 2011 Miami-Dade firefighters were battling a major fire at Miami International Airport late Wednesday night. An airport spokeswoman said the fire was near a fuel storage area. Late Wednesday, firefighters rushed to the air ...

Daily Loaf

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

  • Monkeys and Gorillas with Startling, Human-Lik ...
    Photo credit: Michael Nichols In this photo, a mandrill that has been orphaned by a shotgun blast grabs for the camera. For human onlookers, photographs like this are symbolically powerful—who, after all, can look away from an animal reaching out for help? "Extreme Exposure," on view at ...
  • Animal Stamps Issued in Honour of WWF's 50th
    Photo: royalmail.com It's the World Wildlife Fund's 50'th anniversary and in its honour the Royal Mail has issued a series of ten stamps. The animals featured are species from around the world which have benefited from the work of the conservation charity. The ten selected were African ...
  • Say it with Butterflies - Green Start-Up Grows ...
    Image Credit: Mariposeando Here is an interesting buisness idea; grow butterflies to let fly at special ocasions and at the same time help the enviornment as well as people with special needs. The project is called Mariposeando (Spanish for something like 'butterflying') and has just hatche ...
  • Is Food in America "Too Cheap"?
    Image credit: Paul Swansen, used under Creative Commons license. When I wrote a post about what vegan or veganic farming might look like, commenter Junico took issue with the farmers' statement that "food in America is too cheap." This, said Junico, was deeply offensive to the many folks ex ...
  • What Killed Knut? Autopsy Results Released
    Image: Knut and Gianna playing in the snow, by Martin Teschner, Flickr/CC By-ND After the sudden death of polar bear favorite Knut on Saturday, the Berlin Zoo has come under accusations that stress killed Knut -- stress due to a broken heart, mobbing by zoomates, or simply from captivity. T ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Supreme Court hears argument in Miranda, right ...
    [JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] heard oral arguments [day call, PDF; merit briefs] Wednesday in JDB v. North Carolina [oral arguments transcript, PDF; JURIST report] on whether a court should consider a juvenile's age when determining whether the individual ...
  • Uganda police increasingly using torture, kill ...
    [JURIST] The Ugandan government is responsible for an increase in torture, illegal detention and extrajudicial killing of its citizens, according to a report [text] released Wednesday by Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website]. An agency known as the Rapid Response Unit (RRU), which serves a ...
  • ECJ legal adviser finds ban on genetically mod ...
    [JURIST] European Court of Justice (ECJ) [official website] Advocate General Paolo Mengozzi on Tuesday issued an opinion [text, in French] declaring that a French ban on cultivating genetically modified (GM) crops is illegal. In 2008, France sought to prohibit production within its borders of MO ...
  • Federal judge rejects Google Books settlement
    [JURIST] The US District Court for the Southern District of New York [official website] on Tuesday rejected [opinion, PDF] the amended class action settlement agreement [text, PDF] between Google [corporate website] and groups of authors and publishers who brought a copyright suit [case material ...
  • Yemen parliament approves emergency laws
    [JURIST] The Yemeni Parliament enacted several emergency measures Wednesday at the request of President Ali Abdullah Saleh [official website, in Arabic] in an effort to end anti-government protests. The new laws give the government greater power [AP report] to arrest and detain protesters and to ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Picture of the Day: Abraham Lincoln Riding a G ...
    Because you can't win the Civil War, end slavery, and heal the nation without a grizzly bear and an M-16. Artist Jason Heuser, who goes by SharpWriter at the art website deviantART (and signs his illustrations as such), wants you to buy this and other prints, including George Washington Zombie ...
  • How the Filibuster Wrecked the Roman Senate—an ...
    Have we just seen a simultaneous, mutual flip-flop on the filibuster? Democrats, many of whom spent the last two years railing against obstruction in the U.S. Senate, this winter cheered the "Wisconsin 14" for walking out on Gov. Scott Walker's anti-union bill, using quorum rules to stage a ...
  • Obama Administration: Soft on Bullying, Hard o ...
    Kevin Jennings, head of the federal Safe and Drug Free Schools office, addresses the problem of bullying with the authority of experience, having been bullied by his peers as a schoolboy and, years later (in 2009) by social conservatives who tried to derail his appointment to the Departm ...
  • Bart Stupak, A Year After Health Care: Getting ...
    Former congressman Bart Stupak was the lynchpin of health reform's passage, and he paid a price for it in the end. The pro-life, Michigan Democrat led a small but powerful bloc of Democratic lawmakers to oppose the bill because of its language on federal funding of abortions. Seemingly at the l ...
  • AP: Anti-Abortion Bills Advance In Statehouses ...
    David Crary of the Associated Press details the state by state results of a successful winter of anti-abortion legislating by newly GOP-dominated state legislatures and those with strengthened GOP majorities: NEW YORK -- Dozens of bills are advancing through statehouses nationwide that would ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Is It War?
    A report ten hours ago from Assaf Kinzer which I just read on Facebook: ‎| ***** BREAKING NEWS ***** Israeli troops have now invaded northern Gaza, and are currently going from house to house. The sky is buzzing with armed Drones who have been in the air for hours, accompanied by Apache helicopt ...
  • IDF vs. the Delegitimizers
    Let me get this out of the way: I’m a proud delegitimizer of the Occupation.  And I expect, nay demand to be included among those investigated by the new IDF military intelligence unit created to monitor the evil deeds of Diaspora delegitimizers (like you and I). Aman, IDF’s military intelligen ...
  • Links for 2010-05-04 [Digg]
    Dershowitz Incites Hate Against Michael Lerner It is absolutely no accident that Alan Dershowitz singled Rabbi Michael Lerner out for special opprobrium in his most recent Jerusalem Post and Huffington Post column...
  • Links for 2010-03-21 [Digg]
    Happy Passover: Settlers, Immigrants, and Jewish Values "You shall not oppress the stranger because you know the soul of the stranger for you yourselves were immigrants in the land of Egypt (Exodus 23:9)"
  • 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 ...

Ode Magazine

  • A new food manifesto
    Itâs time to take back control of what and how we eat. Hereâs why. Food isn’t just something we need to shovel down our gullets each day to survive. It’s far more potent: the means, more than any other, by which we humans shape our planet and ourselves.Photo by Marko Matas ...
  • Giving pain a purpose
    By: fateh The expression "everything happens for a reason" has always rubbed me the wrong way. Even though I sensedthe seed of truth, its hard shell seemed impenetrable. What reason? It seemed like just another "G-O-D is on the outside" statement that ...
  • A business in a box
    Teenagers in a rural village in Madagascar show off ToughStuff products: a radio charger, an LED lamp and a solar panel.Photo: ToughStuff After spending decades working in some of the world’s poorest economies, Andrew Tanswell, a British management consultant and Medai ...
  • From dirt to shirt
    When he answers his phone, Eric Henry, president and co-owner of TS Designs in Burlington, North Carolina, is outside fretting about grasshoppers chomping their way through the employee vegetable garden. “We’ve tried screen mesh and now we’re thinking of getting guineas b ...
  • 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 ...

OpEd News

  • On the Trail to Mission Lake
    For Emmet, an elegy for my brother.
  • Three strikes - we're out.
    A personal perspective on the odds opposing a saner safer world - global problems with the military, the economy, and the environment are a part of the overall problem of too many people chasing after too many things.
  • U.S. Dictatorship? Propaganda and Hope
    Review of Obama's last two years in office as reflected in a new documentary by Canadian Scott Noble, Lifting the Veil.
  • Life After St. Liz
    Of all the film stars who deserved to be canonized as a saint, Elizabeth Taylor would certainly be one of them. That might sound blasphemous to some, but that's the way I see it.
  • Elizabeth Taylor was also just one in three women
    The media remains focused on her legendary life, but Elizabeth Taylor was also just 1 out of 3 women who was hysterectomized, and 1 out of 3 women who died from heart disease.

Switchboard

  • The Next Five Years of Clean Energy and Climat ...
    Barbara Finamore, China Program Director, Beijing With the adoption of its Twelfth Five-Year Plan, the Chinese government has cemented key long-term strategies for greening GDP, controlling energy use, greenhouse gas emissions and key pollutants, ...
  • New Report Shows Latinos Will Pay High Price f ...
    Adrianna Quintero, Senior Attorney, Director, La Onda Verde de NRDC, San Francisco This morning I participated in a press telebriefing about the impacts of air pollution on Latino communities and just how serious proposals to weaken EPA will be to ...
  • Media scan 3/22: Yellowstone's decline, clean ...
    NRDC News, NRDC News Team, NRDC Offices Worldwide Men’s Journal ran an extensive feature article on the collapse of Yellowstone National Park’s whitebark pine ecosystem due to climate change; NRDC’s Matt Skoglund helped with the story pitch, serve ...
  • India Climate Change and Energy News - March 6 ...
    Anubhav Gupta, Program Assistant, Water, San Francisco Climate Change India Expected to be Water Stressed by 2020: Blake “While nearly two-thirds of the world's countries will be water-stressed by 2025, the problem is going to be more acute in ...
  • Chairman Fred Gets an Earful
    Pete Altman, Climate Campaign Director, Washington, D.C. It might be Representative Fred Upton’s (R-MI) week off but he’s not slowing down, especially when trying to turn back the clock on clean air. Last week a key U.S. House subcommittee voted ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Ragtag
    This leaves me feeling skeptical about the rebels chances: 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, as they try to defeat Col. Muammar el-Qadd ...
  • Workers of the World Unite!
    Or, at least, “tens of thousands” of middle-class ivory tower academics across the United Kingdom.  Judging by the comments to this BBC article about the one-day walkout, it’s not a universally popular position. For what it’s worth, I didn’t support the strike action, but would find it abhorre ...
  • Can’t Win ‘Em All
    Baseball Prospectus 2006, on Joey Votto: Another marginal prospect who gets more attention than he deserves because he`s among the best of the sorry lot in the Reds organization. Votto has ball-crushing power, but, it`s of the classic long swing/slow bat variety that will get nullified by pitchi ...
  • Lucinda
    See Loomis on Lucinda Williams.  I saw Williams a couple years ago in Louisville, on the West tour.  It was probably the worst show I’ve ever paid to see.  I wasn’t even able to really grapple with how bad it was until I was driving home. I seem to recall saying “pretty good” when somebody [. ...
  • I don’t even know what you are, anymore.
    So, while I was occupied with my day job, it appears you folk 1) concluded the blog-feud with a certain numskull and his Internet bride that I had no part in starting, honest, and 2) broke the Internet, possibly permanently, because I agree with these sentiments almost in their entirety: I fail ...

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

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • LAW SCHOOLS REPORT
    The National Law Journal's annual survey of the law schools that NLJ 250 law firms relied on the most to fill their first-year associate classes.
  • Calif. solo practitioner pleads guilty to fede ...
    A California attorney has pleaded guilty to federal charges of structuring cash transactions at banks in certain amounts so as to avoid reporting requirements and the payment of federal income taxes.
  • Boston criminal defense lawyer charged with mo ...
    Prominent Boston criminal defense lawyer Robert George has been charged in federal court with drug-related money laundering and a money laundering conspiracy.
  • 1st Circuit vacates firearms conviction, findi ...
    In a split decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit has overturned a 15-year prison sentence for firearms charges because officers who frisked the defendant had an arrest warrant for one of his housemates, not a search warrant.
  • 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.

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

  • Global Wheat Production Expected to Increase T ...
    Global wheat production rose by 3.4 per cent this year to 676 million tons, but the increase is still below the bumper harvests in 2008 and 2009.
  • Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Still a Threat to ...
    Leaving MDR-TB - a form of TB that fails to respond to standard first-line drugs - untreated increases the risk of spread of drug-resistant strains of TB, according to a joint news release issued by WHO, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis a
  • Terrorist Attack in Jerusalem Kills One, Injur ...
    A two to four pound bomb, that contained steel pellets, exploded in a Jerusalem bus station today. The bomb, hidden inside a bag, was placed next to a telephone kiosk. A 59-year-old woman was killed and approximately 35 others were injured.
  • Systemic Corruption in Russia Subverts Reforms
    Among other examples of recent abuses in Russia, the report cites the cases of Sergei Magnitsky, a 37-year-old lawyer who died in pretrial detention in November 2009 after exposing a multimillion-dollar fraud against Russian taxpayers, and Mikhail K
  • Secretary Clinton Pledges to Support The Japan ...
    Secretary Clinton also expressed her deep sympathy to all who have lost their family members, loved ones, friends and colleagues.

environment 360

  • In Aeolus Cave, A Search for the Vanishing Bat ...
    When wildlife biologists ventured into a Vermont cave this month, they found disturbing evidence that white-nose syndrome was continuing to take its toll on once-abundant bat populations. But the question remains: What can be done to halt the spread of this still-mysterious ailment? BY ELIZABE ...
  • 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 ...
  • Interview: The Destructive Power Of Pacific Oc ...
    Geophysicist Lori Dengler of Humboldt State University in California has traveled the world studying the impacts of tsunamis and working with governments to mitigate their wrath. Earlier this year, just weeks before Lori Dengler the recent Japanese earthquake and tsunami, Dengler was in Toky ...
  • Tracking the Destructive Power Of the Pacific ...
    The devastating tsunami in northeastern Japan is only one of many that have battered Japan over the eons. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, tsunami and earthquake expert Lori Dengler describes the historic and paleological record of tsunamis across the Pacific, and what it may mean in t ...
  • King Crabs Migrating into Antarctic Waters, Re ...
    U.S. and Swedish researchers say king crabs are moving south into the warming waters of the Antarctic, a habitat that until recent years had been too cold for them to survive. Using underwater cameras, scientists Florida TechA crab in the Bellingshausen Sea aboard the Swedish icebreaker Oden h ...

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

  • Israeli Prime Minister in Moscow to talk Middl ...
    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is due to arrive in Moscow on Thursday to hold talks with President Dmitry Medvedev. Settling Middle East conflicts and the situation in Libya are on agenda.
  • Efforts to avert total meltdown at Fukushima r ...
    While Japan is slowly recovering from a mighty earthquake followed by tsunami, apprehension has started emerging over reactor 1 at Japan’s Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant. The overheating of the reactor might have...
  • Greece flooded by migrants fleeing for safety
    Exploding Egypt, Tunisia, and a full-out civil war in Libya; as Northern Africa is set afire with unrest, people flee the region, looking to escape the chaos in their home countries. Many end up in Greece, where their...
  • Fears of regression in Egypt’s brave new world
    Nearly 80 percent of voters have supported the changes in Egypt in a constitutional referendum that was seen as one of the main aims of the recent uprising. But several weeks after it, the wheels of the old political...
  • Neglecting public opinion is privilege of the West
    London is bracing itself for a wave of public anger this weekend as protesters are planning to take to the streets to demonstrate against the West’s military intervention in Libya.

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

  • Staying Out of the Corner
    In a world of pervasive scarcity, every choice has a cost. Recognizing this fact about the human condition should lead us to see the world in terms of marginal benefits and costs.
  • Prohibitionists: Leave Us Alone!
    Sometimes I drink Scotch and then, to wake myself up, I drink coffee. So what? Many people consume mixtures of caffeine and alcohol in drinks like rum and Coke. But recently some college kids started drinking pre-mixed combos of alcohol and caffeine with names like Four Loko and Moonshot ’69. Mo ...
  • The Importance of Subjectivism in Economics
    After many years, Frédéric Bastiat remains a hero to libertarians. No mystery there. He made the case for freedom and punctured the arguments for state socialism with clarity and imagination. He spoke to lay readers with great effect. Bastiat loved the market economy, and badly wanted it to blos ...
  • The Economic Costs of the Civil War
    Even after 150 years, the Civil War evokes memories of great men and great battles. Certainly that war was a milestone in U.S. history, and on the plus side it reunited the nation and freed the slaves. Few historians, however, describe the costs of the war. Not just the 620,000 individuals who d ...
  • Civil War and the American Political Economy
    The task before us is to assess in largely material terms the political-economic system arising during and after the American Civil War. Ideological issues existed, certainly, but much evidence suggests that pure idealism had a rather limited run. Antislavery was one of many themes generally ser ...

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

  • Gulf environmental health advocate wins human ...
    An environmental chemist whose work has helped illuminate the ongoing health impacts of BP's Deepwater Horizon oil disaster will be the recipient of a human rights award from Global Exchange, an organization that promotes social, economic and environmental justice around the world. Wi ...
  • Feds find 'systemic violations of civil rights ...
    By A.C. Thompson, ProPublica The U.S. Department of Justice released a 158-page report last week on the New Orleans Police Department, identifying a host of deep systemic problems, including a pattern of discriminatory policing, the routine use of "unnecessary and unreasonable" force, and a c ...
  • 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 ...

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

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

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 )

  • Dark matter signal sparks interest – but falls ...
    An underground experiment in France has announced the possible detection of dark matter, the mysterious substance that is hypothesized to make up four-fifths of the matter in the universe and that has yet to be definitively detected. But the strength of the signal seen falls short of the statist ...
  • US Supreme Court: statistical significance not ...
    In a unanimous decision, the US Supreme Court ruled yesterday that a pharmaceutical company may be required to notify investors of safety reports regarding its products, even if those reports do not rise to the level of statistical significance. The ruling allows a case against over-the-coun ...
  • Picture post: workers toil inside Fukushima's ...
    Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency is releasing the first images of workers for Tokyo Electric Power Company, currently collecting data in the control room for Unit 1 and Unit 2 at the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant. More here. The Tokyo fire department has als ...
  • Row over kin selection continues
    More than 130 scientists have between them penned five letters attacking a recent Nature paper on the evolution of social behaviour. That paper, published in August 2010, questioned a theory called kin selection, which posits that some individuals, such as worker bees, behave unselfishly ...
  • New record for heaviest antimatter
    Physicists at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) on Long Island, New York, say they have made the heaviest antimatter nucleus yet: antihelium-4. Antimatter particles carry the same mass as normal matter, but the opposite charge. When matter and antimatter collide, they annihilate in a ...

new geography

  • Pollution: An Off – Road Guide to Environment ...
    Not all pollutants are created equal, nor do they necessarily hang out in the same hot spots. Rankings of the most polluted cities — you know who you are — have become depressingly familiar. But those standings almost always represent a statistical stew of assorted toxins in the air and water, ...
  • 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 ...

GM Watch

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Cryptogon

  • Pump Truck with Long Boom Headed to Fukushima ...
    …usually used for concrete pouring… Via: Xinhua: A Chinese-made pump truck with a long boom will leave Shanghai for Japan Tuesday after the owner of the troubled Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant requested it, according the vehicle’s manufacturer. The vehicle with a 62-meter boom is schedul ...
  • 15 Dead in New Clashes in Southern Syria
    Via: AP: Syrian police launched a relentless assault Wednesday on a neighborhood sheltering anti-government protesters, fatally shooting at least 15 in an operation that lasted nearly 24 hours, witnesses said. At least six were killed in a predawn attack on the al-Omari mosque in the southern ag ...
  • Trading Note: Natural Gas
    WARNING: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. Just in case anyone was wondering what I was doing on that UNG trade: I have a 1% trailing stop following this thing up now. This feels a bit like public participation to me, but who knows… If it keeps running, ...
  • U.S. New-Home Sales Unexpectedly Fall to Lowes ...
    Via: Bloomberg: Purchases of new U.S. homes unexpectedly declined in February to the slowest pace on record and prices dropped to the lowest level since December 2003, adding to evidence the industry is floundering.
  • 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 ...

The Economic Collapse

  • The G-7 Forex Intervention Is A Perfect Exampl ...
    What do governments and central banks do when they don't like what is happening in the financial markets?  They directly intervene and they manipulate the financial markets of course.  On Friday, the central banks of the G-7 acted in concert to drive down the value of the surgin ...
  • Debt Problem: Who In The World Is Going To Buy ...
    Is the U.S. government on the verge of a massive debt problem?  For years, the U.S. government has been able to borrow all the money that it has wanted to at extremely low interest rates.  But now many of the lending sources that the U.S. government has been depending on are dry ...
  • Global Financial Markets Plunge As The World W ...
    Global financial markets are in turmoil as the situation in Japan continues to deteriorate.  Stock markets are plunging all over the world as investors flock to investments that are considered to be safer.  The 9.0 earthquake and the unprecedented tsunami in Japan would have bee ...
  • 14 Reasons Why The Economic Collapse Of Japan ...
    The economic collapse of Japan has begun.  The extent of the devastation is now becoming clear and many are now projecting that this will be the most expensive natural disaster in modern human history.  The tsunami that struck Japan on March 11th swept up to 6 miles inland, dest ...
  • Federal Bureaucrats: Get Your Dirty Hands Off ...
    In the United States today, thousands upon thousands of ridiculous federal regulations tightly control almost every area of our lives.  One example of this is that starting on January 1st, we are no longer going to be able to buy certain kinds of light bulbs in the United States ...

Desertification

  • Growing ornamental plants with a minimum of wa ...
    Please have a look at my newest video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxIDMAcVo6o CABO VERDE – Growing ornamentals on Sal 2002-2003
  • Putting the brakes on a rush to establish plan ...
    Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=92267 CLIMATE CHANGE: Jatropha – not really green JOHANNESBURG, 23 March 2011 (IRIN) – A new study has put the brakes on a rush by some countries and companies to establish plantations of jatropha, an oil-bearing shrub … Continue reading →
  • 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 ...

The Paper Trail

  • Karl Rove launches government transparency sit ...
    Republican operative Karl Rove, who collected millions of dollars of secret political contributions in 2010, is promoting a new wiki that he claims will make government more transparent. Crossroads Grassroots Policy Strategies — Crossroads GPS — announced Wednesday it is starting a crowd-sourci ...
  • 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.

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

  • Further disruption at Vivergo Fuels
    saltend-by-air.jpg Following on from the blockades earlier this month, wildcat blockades continue with police warning motorists to avoid the area in the mornings throughout the week. ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • The Tiny Dot From A. True Ott
    This is an outstanding little video.  Never forget that WE THE PEOPLE have the true power – not the President, nor Congress, nor the Courts. The Tiny Dot only is empowered via our, We The People’s, CONSENT – and remember — SILENCE, APATHY, AND INACTION = CONSENT!!!
  • The TRUE Story From Japan?? This Could Well ...
    “You Get 3,500,000 the Normal Dose. You Call That Safe? And What Media Have Reported This? None!” What They’re Covering Up at Fukushima By HIROSE TAKASHI Introduced by Douglas Lummis Okinawa Hirose Takashi has written a whole shelf full of books, mostly on the nuclear power industry and the mili ...
  • China — Red Dawn Remake.
    In case you didn’t know, Hollywood is re-making the cult classic film of the cold-war era Red Dawn starring Patrick Swayze. Originally, the story showed the invasion of CHINESE troops, but this was too politically charged — it was too ACCURATE, so— they changed the invading villains to North Kor ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Roberta Jamieson
    Roberta Jamieson, head of the National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation talks about her commitment to the education and success of aboriginal youth.
  • Prime Minister Stephen Harper (Jan 22, 2011)
    Highlights of the conversation with Peter originally broadcast Jan 17 and 18, 2011.
  • Malalai Joya, Afghan activist (October 30, 2010)
    She is a hard core activist in Afghanistan and has paid the price for it. Her life constantly threatened, banished from her seat in the Afghan parliament, Malalai Joya never stops. She wants foreign troops, including Canada's, out of her country and warlords out of government. This week she's ...
  • Naheed Nenshi, Calgary Mayor (October 23, 2010)
    He's made the news in countries around the world - the main reason? He's Canada's first major city Muslim mayor. Does that matter? We'll ask Calgary's new mayor himself.
  • Lyndsay Greene, Author -- encore (Oct 19, 2010)
    Peter talks about planning and preparation for the retirement years with the author of "You Could Live a Long Time: Are You Ready?"

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

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

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

  • I’m Okay, Thanks
    I’ve been at WOMAD for the last three days collecting signatures on a Green Party petition opposing government plans to privatize four of New Zealand’s state owned energy companies. Most people sign – well aware of the sad and embarrassing results of earlier privatization exercises (including th ...
  • 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 ...

Doug's Darkworld

  • “Oh, meltdown. It’s one of those a ...
    Sigh. Nuclear power. One can read opinion pieces all over the map about nuclear power, from Ann Coulter’s “radiation is good for you” to more sober analysis. Basically, if someone wants to believe this accident is no big deal, there’s plenty on the web to reinforce their beliefs. If one wants to ...
  • 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 [...]

FourWinds10

Crisis Maven

  • How I brought down the Nuclear Industry in my ...
    The nineteen-seventies were the hey-day of nuclear power. Almost every country, big or small, super-power or developing country, thought they should build as many atomic reactors as possible. And then, all of a sudden, or so it seems, most of these ambitious projects came to a screeching halt. W ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Modes of Transportation
    Join the forum discussion on this post Because of my interest in energy, I have a long-standing interest in different modes of transportation. One of the reasons that I am not overly pessimistic about a future in which I foresee even higher long-term oil prices is that I believe we can make a s ...
  • 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 ...

Discovery Educator Network

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

  • Is Silicon Valley Ready for the Post-Silicon Era?
    Is it ever possible that Silicon Valley could become another Detroit? To those who associate Silicon Valley with innovative startups, an endless supply of capital and the world's most brilliant thinkers, this scenario might seems preposterous at best, and downright un-American at worst. Howe ...
  • Yemen Links Edition
    Yesterday, I posted links to article by myself and Ginny Hill on Yemen.� Today, I'll add a number of other interviews by commentators on what is happening in Yemen.� Stacey Philbrick Yadav to Free Speech Radio (some very smart points here.) Abd al-Ghani al-Iryani to NPR on the defection of A ...
  • Remembering Labor's History
    As I’ve written before, labor unions play a vital role in our economy. Whatever mixed feelings they have toward labor unions, Americans generally understand this. While they may not want to give unions everything they want, they don’t want to strip away unions’ rights to negotiate for workers .. ...
  • The Labour Party Must Get Back in Touch
    I have a photograph back home in England taken in 1978. It is of a demonstration organised by local trade unions in the small town of Trowbridge in Wiltshire, South West England. I was barely seventeen years old at the time, but had just been introduced to Tony Benn, then a former Labour Cabinet ...
  • 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 ...

Information Liberation

  • Police-Administered Homicide as a Diabetes Cure
    Salt Lake City resident Christopher *Joey* Tucker *was kind of groggy* when his parents last spoke to him in August 2009. He was also agitated as a result of arguments with his girlfriend, with whom he had a 19-month-old daughter. His father Perry Tu...
  • Do Your Local Police Need an Armored Vehicle?
    MSNBC asked in a recent article *Why do America*s Police Need an Armored Tank?* The answer to that question is they don*t, but when someone else is footing the bill, why not. The fact is that most fatal shootings of police officers occur while res...
  • Ex-Streamwood cop found guilty in unprovoked b ...
    In the end, it was the camera in a former Streamwood officer*s own squad car that sealed his conviction for beating an unarmed motorist at a traffic stop. James Mandarino, described in court as an exemplary officer during his 15 years with the S...
  • Ditch the Planners
    What is the law of the land? Many Americans are under the impression that it is the US Constitution, distorted by time perhaps and the plain meaning changed by bad (or good, depending on your point of view) amendment, court decision, or indifference....
  • It Doesn't Matter What "the Law" Is
    In one of the more memorable passages in Orwell*s 1984, Winston Smith contemplates the inevitable doom that will follow from the first entry which he is preparing to make in his diary. The act was not illegal, he reflected * there were no laws in Oce...

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

  • Energy Efficiency Investments as an Economic P ...
    American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy / by John A. “Skip” Laitner http://www.aceee.org/research-report/e112 Texas, among the fastest growing states in the country, has a significant opportunity to improve its productivity by quadrupling its investments in energy efficiency over the ne ...
  • 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 ...

Scientific American - News

  • Antimatter of Fact: Collider Generates Most Ma ...
    Most people know two things about helium. One is that it makes your voice comically high-pitched when you inhale it; the other is that it is extremely light, which is why balloons filled with the stuff float upward through the heavier air. But in particle physics terms--and especially when it co ...
  • Robots Arrive at Fukushima Nuclear Site with U ...
    As workers race to stave off further melting at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors in Japan , several robots there are waiting on the sidelines for an opportunity to help. Questions remain, however, regarding how these units might assist in an ongoing emergency at a site contaminated with r ...
  • Designs for Newest U.S. Nuclear Plants Aim to ...
    The first new nuclear reactor ordered in the U.S. in roughly three decades is beginning to take shape near Augusta, Ga. Southern Company and its partners have dug 27.5 meters down to reach bedrock and are now refilling the hole to provide a stable, anchored foundation for what is likely to be ...
  • 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 ...

First Truths

  • Revolution Not Replication
    I commented for C4SS on the similarities between Egypt and Yemen: A market anarchist revolution, evolving through commercial interchange and voluntary synergy rather than violence, would not subject society to a new ruling class. It would desert forever the idea that there need be or ought to be ...
  • 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 ...

Media Co-Op

  • Is Bigger Better?
    East Coast Credit Union considers amalgamation East Coast Credit Union members are voting this month on whether or not to amalgamate with Heritage Credit Union. East Coast Credit Union has thirteen branches, located in Margaree, Inverness, ...
  • Supporters of Reproductive Autonomy Counter An ...
    Daily pro-chioce demo @ noon, St. Joseph & St. Laurent This report features music from team rocket. Dominion Stories
  • BC Housing Exits Blocked; Women's March Demand ...
    A vibrant march demanding 'No More Stolen Sisters: Safe Shelters, Safe Housing, Safe Services!' left the intersection of Main and Hastings earlier this afternoon. Organizers denounced the inaction of all levels of government in the face of male sexual violence against women in Downtown Eastside ...
  • March against racism photos
    Nearly 500 people in Vancouver joined a march against racism Sunday, marking the International Day to End Racial Discrimination. Organized by migrant justice organization No One Is Illegal, speakers addressed a variety of faces of racism, including colonialism and indigenous sovereignty, state r ...
  • North Atlantic Right Whales
    The case of the disappearing whale There are only a few North Atlantic Right Whales (Eubalaena glacialis) left on the planet and their struggle to survive is being watched closely by Dr. Tim Frasier from St. Mary's University. The obstacle ...

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

  • Omega-3 Builds Muscle Mass in Cancer Patients
    For cancer patients, supplementation with omega-3 fats could help them maintain and even regain lost muscle mass, according to a new study. Most patients who took a daily supplement for 10 weeks either maintained or gained muscle mass. Patients who didn't take anything either maintained or lost ...
  • Give Your Child a Dose of This Popular Remedy ...
    In many countries, government officials and drug companies aggressively resist conducting studies that compare the health of vaccinated and unvaccinated children. But such studies have been conducted in Africa. One such study, from Guinea-Bissau, shows a doubling of the mortality rate among inf ...
  • 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 ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Borneo tribes: 30-year regime ‘has destroyed e ...
    Under Taib's rule the Penan have mounted countless blockades to stop their forest being destroyed. © Andy Rain/Nick Rain/Survival Tribespeople in Sarawak, in the Malaysian part of Borneo, say the 30-year rule of Chief Minister Taib Mahmud has ârapedâ their land, destroyed their rainforests ...
  • 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

  • Dickie gave me a grand slam!
    was one of The Gazette's most talented young reporters when he was assigned to help cover the wedding of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in Montreal in March 1964. Only 21 years old at the time, Tafler was given the mission of trying to speak to the couple on their wedding night. Tafler went ...
  • Nagging doubts about waterfront finances
    It would be good to know whether Montreal taxpayers are getting full value for the millions of dollars that city hall is pumping into the Société du Havre de Montreal, whose mandate is to develop a vision for the redesign of the city's waterfront. Unfortunately it's hard to tell, since available ...
  • 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.

Food World Order

  • are worldwide food shortages being caused by i ...
    video update: grocery bills are on the rise from allgov: World food prices have continued to rise over the past five years, creating the potential for malnutrition and starvation in the developing world, and fomenting political unrest in nations like Egypt. While some economists have blamed t ...
  • major farm animal cloning project canceled due ...
    from free from harm: After 13 years of studying how to prevent abnormalities in cloned animals, AgResearch has ended its cloning project because too many of the animals died. AgResearch is a New Zealand based company that has spent more than a decade trying to perfect the cloning of animals for ...
  • usda deregulates genetically engineered sugar ...
    from change.org: The USDA announced on Friday, February 4, that it would "partially deregulate" Roundup Ready sugar beets, allowing farmers to begin planting the GE crop this spring. Despite a California Supreme Court ruling six months back in August which halted the deregulation of GE sug ...
  • study finds oysters are disappearing worldwide
    A new study finds oysters are disappearing worldwide. A study published in Bioscience, the journal of the American Institute of Biological Sciences, found that the oysters are rapidly disappearing, and that 85 percent of their reefs have been lost a result of disease and over-harvesting of the ...
  • 2/3 binge & purge: federal farm & volatility v ...
    global food prices hit new record high* world entering era of food price volatility* bernanke: federal reserve not to blame for food price inflation* US foolishly looks to monsanto to feed the world* new report says calif. passing up food stamps* "thank you for suing us': taco bel ...

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

  • The G-7 Forex Intervention Is A Perfect Exampl ...
    What do governments and central banks do when they don't like what is happening in the financial markets?  They directly intervene and they manipulate the financial markets of course.  On Friday, the central banks of the G-7 acted in concert to drive down the value of the surgin ...
  • Debt Problem: Who In The World Is Going To Buy ...
    Is the U.S. government on the verge of a massive debt problem?  For years, the U.S. government has been able to borrow all the money that it has wanted to at extremely low interest rates.  But now many of the lending sources that the U.S. government has been depending on are dry ...
  • Global Financial Markets Plunge As The World W ...
    Global financial markets are in turmoil as the situation in Japan continues to deteriorate.  Stock markets are plunging all over the world as investors flock to investments that are considered to be safer.  The 9.0 earthquake and the unprecedented tsunami in Japan would have bee ...
  • 14 Reasons Why The Economic Collapse Of Japan ...
    The economic collapse of Japan has begun.  The extent of the devastation is now becoming clear and many are now projecting that this will be the most expensive natural disaster in modern human history.  The tsunami that struck Japan on March 11th swept up to 6 miles inland, dest ...
  • Federal Bureaucrats: Get Your Dirty Hands Off ...
    In the United States today, thousands upon thousands of ridiculous federal regulations tightly control almost every area of our lives.  One example of this is that starting on January 1st, we are no longer going to be able to buy certain kinds of light bulbs in the United States ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Chinese style censorship in Britain, the democ ...
    So, Dopey Dave and Numbskull Nick's excursion into spreading democracy and liberating the will of the people in Libya - under the Captaincy of Hague the Vague - is already paying dividends. Having decided to fight a war on the same side as Al-Qaeda in Libya, they - or more to the point we, th ...
  • Steps to Lawful Rebellion: Part II
    Oh dear. After contacting the Privy Council with a complaint of treason, I have just received a reply. They tell me to write to my MP. And we know how pointless that is. Very well. They leave me no option. I must now inform Her Majesty of the traitors in her midst - as is my constitu ...
  • Heigh-ho, heigh-ho, it's off to war we go...
    So, the idiots are at it again. Libya. Yet more war. Not in my name. Apparently, the unelected dictator of the European Empire - Herman von Rumpy-Pumpy - and the unelected EU Foreign Secretary (haha!!) 'Baroness' Never Elected to Anything Ever Cathy Ashton (former CND peace campaigner) hav ...
  • Budget: £1 for you and £3,000,000,000 for Port ...
    This blog didn't bother looking at Georgie Boy's boring budget. What's the point? The country teeters on the brink of bankruptcy and the public is being squeezed left, right and centre. So he's bunged another 40p on a packet of ciggies... like we didn't see that attack on freedom of choice comin ...
  • Meet my MP, the crappest MP in Britain (who ha ...
    I would like to introduce you to my Member Of Parliament who I have long been extremely frustrated by for she is, in my opinion, the crappest MP in Britain. I have never disagreed with a politician so constantly, ever.... and the fact that I never agree with her bothers me not one jot. Esp ...

Facing South

  • Gulf environmental health advocate wins human ...
    An environmental chemist whose work has helped illuminate the ongoing health impacts of BP's Deepwater Horizon oil disaster will be the recipient of a human rights award from Global Exchange, an organization that promotes social, economic and environmental justice around the world. Wi ...
  • Feds find 'systemic violations of civil rights ...
    By A.C. Thompson, ProPublica The U.S. Department of Justice released a 158-page report last week on the New Orleans Police Department, identifying a host of deep systemic problems, including a pattern of discriminatory policing, the routine use of "unnecessary and unreasonable" force, and a c ...
  • 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 ...

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

Tech Drive In

  • Integrating Software Center with Launchpad(Mockup)
    While�Tweak-Center mockup was a brilliant idea that stood out from the rest of the crowd, here is another very interesting concept that demands your attention.�USC Launchpad Concept integrates Ubuntu Software Center with Launchpad and thereby provide easy access of hundreds of awesome applicatio ...
  • AriOS Review - Yet Another Ubuntu Derived Linu ...
    Recently, the distribution AriOS made it to DistroWatch's database. I had read Dedoimedo's review of AriOS earlier, where he said that it is a user-friendly and very pleasant distribution to use, and it is much better than its predecessor mFatOS. Intrigued, I decided to try it out. AriOS Re ...
  • Nautilus Elementary is Back! PPAs for Ubuntu 1 ...
    Nautilus Elementary is perhaps one of the most talked about projects in the Linux world last year. Later in the year 2010 though, Nautilus Elementary project was discontinued and the developers decided to concentrate on an entirely new file browser project called Marlin, which will eventually fi ...
  • 15 Very New and Unique Ubuntu Wallpapers
    It has been really long since we featured any new collection of wallpapers for Ubuntu or Linux. Article featuring�Ubuntu/Linux wallpaper packs was the last in this particular category and even that was several months ago. So here is it once again, a nice and simple collection of 15 Ubuntu brande ...
  • 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 ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • Defamation charges against me underline new po ...
     Some people may receive defamation charges from the Austrian Ministry of Justice and feel a little dejected. After all, such charges carry a jail setence. http://wakenews.net/verleumdnungJMB18.02.11.pdf However, for me, it was a moment of great pride. This is because the defamation charges unde ...
  • ÖVP nominates lobbyist to replace disgraced MEP
     Austria’s conservative People’s Party, the ÃVP, has nominated another lobbyist to replace MEP Ernst Strasser after a video caught him accepting secret payments to change draft EU laws to benefit banks. Hubert Pirkerâs consultancy company EU Triconsult brazenly stated it could influence EU leg ...
  • Germany pulls out of military action against L ...
    Who’s in charge? Germans pull forces out of NATO as Libyan coalition falls apart By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 1:32 AM on 23rd March 2011 Tensions with Britain as Gates rebukes UK government over suggestion Gaddafi could be assassinated French propose a new political ‘committee’ to over ...
  • Ron Paul and the Judge: Obama’s Illegal War in ...
     Infowars.com March 23, 2011 No difference between Republicans and Democrats — both are addicted to war. Check out the video on: http://www.infowars.com/ron-paul-and-the-judge-obamas-illegal-war/
  • Taxpayers to stump up 700 billion euros for ne ...
    Europe agrees on how to cobble together 700-billion euro safety net Deutsche Welle Germany will contribute over one quarter of the European Union’s new permanent fund set aside to rescue floundering economies. Europe is trying to establish a long-term shield against debt-related meltdown. Europe ...

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

  • Talking with the Tea Party
    Right now, there is still an overwhelming consensus inside the U.S. foreign-policy establishment for continuing to run the world, a consensus that includes liberal interventionists of the Madeleine (“Indispensable Nation”) Albright variety and virtually all neoconservatives. By Stephen M. Walt / ...
  • SAMI JADALLAH : Israel and Facilitating Palest ...
    Too bad the US and the West only condemn the killing and murder of Israelis killed at the hands of Palestinians but never condemn the cold blooded murder of Palestinians committed by Israel, its army and its armed thugs the settlers. by Sami Jamil Jadallah One has to ask and wonder why the sudde ...
  • Private Corporation Official Admits Impending ...
                      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNk6hEvmeps Private Corporation Official Admits Impending U.S. Bankruptcy A complete anomaly by an individual that heads the monolithic private puppeteer organization that controls the entire wealth values assets and labor of ‘We the Peop ...
  • Further Evidence of Why Blacks Reject the Cons ...
    [Only] 14% of blacks marry. [Seventy-four percent]74% don't know who their fathers are. Their contribution to the arts is gangsta rap, nasty, foul chattering, that passes as music. [Ninety-six percent] 96% voted for Barack Obama, who is the worst fraud and fake ever to set foot in the US. Per ca ...
  • Development of FATA to control extremism
    Like all the isms (communism, socialism, extremism, terrorism), Talibanization is also a phenomenon that didn’t occur in a vacuum and without causation. Talibanization came with a big bang in Afghanistan in 1994 because of internecine war, infighting, war lordism, corruption and other social vic ...

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • The Tiny Dot From A. True Ott
    This is an outstanding little video.  Never forget that WE THE PEOPLE have the true power – not the President, nor Congress, nor the Courts. The Tiny Dot only is empowered via our, We The People’s, CONSENT – and remember — SILENCE, APATHY, AND INACTION = CONSENT!!!
  • The TRUE Story From Japan?? This Could Well ...
    “You Get 3,500,000 the Normal Dose. You Call That Safe? And What Media Have Reported This? None!” What They’re Covering Up at Fukushima By HIROSE TAKASHI Introduced by Douglas Lummis Okinawa Hirose Takashi has written a whole shelf full of books, mostly on the nuclear power industry and the mili ...
  • China — Red Dawn Remake.
    In case you didn’t know, Hollywood is re-making the cult classic film of the cold-war era Red Dawn starring Patrick Swayze. Originally, the story showed the invasion of CHINESE troops, but this was too politically charged — it was too ACCURATE, so— they changed the invading villains to North Kor ...
  • 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 ...

k2p blog

  • WordPress blogging hiccups
    For the last 24 hours I have been having difficulties and saving and publishing posts has been a little haphazard. Presumably this is because of the massive attacks WordPress.com has been subjected to though it is not clear to me why such attacks would be motivated. After having lost a couple of ...
  • 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.

Left Foot Forward

  • Cameron doesn’t get it on disability ref ...
    The prime minister and the leader of the opposition have debated whether a cut to a vital support for some of the most vulnerable in our society was indeed, a cut. Ed Miliband asked whether the coalition would consider reversing the decision to axe the Disability Living Allowance Mobility Paymen ...
  • Libya: Early jitters grow around intervention
    International intervention in Libya has suffered an early setback with the public, politicians and analysts displaying serious misgivings regarding the scope, timescale and goals of the military campaign, writes Seph Brown.
  • Budget 2011: Distributional analysis of coalit ...
    In the wake of yesterday's Budget, Tim Horton and Howard Reed present an updated distributional analysis of the effects of the coalition’s major direct and indirect tax changes.
  • Budget 2011: Planning changes: A hidden job ki ...
    Ed Turner, lecturer in politics at the Aston Centre for Europe, and deputy leader of Oxford City Council, looks at the impact of the changes to planning announced in yesterday's budget.
  • Budget 2011: Reaction across the nations
    Left Foot Forward's Devolution Correspondent Ed Jacobs assesses reaction to the budget in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Consumerist

  • Comcast Begs Employees To Vote For Charter In ...
    We know that none of the companies in this year's Worst Company In America tournament want to be on the list. But reigning Golden Poo holder Comcast has decided that, rather than actually do anything about the problems that make it a perennial favorite, it will just beg its employees to vote - ...
  • How To Confuse PayPal: When Chargebacks Attack
    Debbie found a seamstress online to make her a custom wedding dress and sent payment using PayPal. She fell out of contact with the seamstress, became nervous, and filed a chargeback with her credit card company. After the chargeback, she heard from the seamstress again, and sent a new payment ...
  • Bank Of America Donating 10 Homes To Detroit T ...
    If there's one thing -- aside from general ineptitude -- that Bank of America's mortgage division has a surplus of, it's abandoned and foreclosed properties. Meanwhile, the city of Detroit has a lack of police officers living within city limits. Now the city will have 10 more houses for cops to ...
  • Theater Owners Don't Want You To Know A Large ...
    The FDA is reportedly set to announce a decision that would force movie theater operators to post calorie counts next to their items in the same way that restaurant chains must. Not surprisingly, the theater owners are popping mad about this possibility. According to a piece in today's L.A. Ti ...
  • Allegra Is Now Non-Prescription, So It Costs M ...
    Good news if you prefer the allergy medication Allegra: it's now available over-the-counter. Bad news, if you're reader Cynthia: it'll cost more for you out of pocket, and you can't get it from the Kaiser mail-order pharmacy anymore. She writes; Now that the allergy medicine Allegra is avail ...

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

  • Opinion: Should Law Schools Follow the Medical ...
    The outstanding record compiled by the trial advocacy teams of the Massachusetts School of Law at Andover (MSLAW) in recent years is directly attributable to the school’s innovative teaching methods, the team’s coaches believe. Otherwise, they say how do you explain MSLAW’s moot court victories ...
  • A Disengaged Presidency
    by Brent Budowsky Let’s begin a thoughtful discussion about the about the dangers of a disengaged presidency while the nation is challenged by multiple wars, punishing unemployment and a festering fiscal crisis that will someday explode, unless it is addressed credibly. The governing style and p ...
  • 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 ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Thousands of angry ordinary Australians turn u ...
    In Canberra today over 3,000 people went out of their way, coming in on 30 buses from more than 1000 km away, to let Julia Gillard know that Australians do not want her Carbon Tax. The news made every major broadcast for several minutes. Protesters were referred to as “climate skeptics” (mostly) ...
  • 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 ...

ReNew America

  • Oklahoma City Bombing -- the return of 'the th ...
    (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - So it's really no big deal when a guy is arrested for slugging another guy with a beer bottle, right? In this case, wrong! Police in Quincy, Massachusetts (a part of the Boston metro area), earlier this month jailed a beer bottle brawler who turns out to be a credibly ...
  • Look who's in line to replace Gadhafi
    (WorldNetDaily) - British cleric Anjem Choudary says al-Qaida and the Muslim Brotherhood have assets on the ground in Libya and are ready to take control if Moammar Gadhafi is removed from power. The top Muslim cleric accuses the U. S. and French-led coalition trying to topple Gadhafi of working ...
  • Soft Shariah in America
    (Joseph Farah) - Last week FBI Director Robert Mueller finally explained why the bureau cut off all relations with the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Muslim Brotherhood offshoot the jihad media euphemistically characterizes as "a Muslim civil rights group"...
  • Gaffney slams Florida judge as 'unfit' for dec ...
    (NewsMax) - Frank J. Gaffney Jr., president of the Center for Security Policy, castigated a Florida judge as unfit to serve for his decision to follow Islamic law instead of state or federal statutes in a case against a Tampa mosque that ultimately could decide who controls $2.2 million in state ...
  • Corporate welfare
    (John Stossel) - In America today, the biggest recipients of handouts are not poor people. They're corporations. General Electric CEO Jeffrey R. Immelt is super-close to President Obama. The president named Immelt chairman of his Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. Before that, Immelt was on Ob ...

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

  • Could Earthquakes Cause a Pole Shift?
    It has become a common feature when the media reports major earthquakes these days – our planet slowed down and was knocked off its axis. While it sounds dramatic, the numbers are minuscule and make no difference in the greater scheme of things: NASA geophysicist Richard Gross said that the rece ...
  • 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 ...

Facing South

  • Gulf environmental health advocate wins human ...
    An environmental chemist whose work has helped illuminate the ongoing health impacts of BP's Deepwater Horizon oil disaster will be the recipient of a human rights award from Global Exchange, an organization that promotes social, economic and environmental justice around the world. Wi ...
  • Feds find 'systemic violations of civil rights ...
    By A.C. Thompson, ProPublica The U.S. Department of Justice released a 158-page report last week on the New Orleans Police Department, identifying a host of deep systemic problems, including a pattern of discriminatory policing, the routine use of "unnecessary and unreasonable" force, and a c ...
  • 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 ...

One News Page

  • Tiger Woods will get back on top, says Aussie ...
    Melbourne, Mar 24(ANI): Steve Bann, a leading Australian golf coach, thinks that Tiger Woods is close to returning to his former greatness with just a few weeks to go before the US Masters. At Doral, he was warming up before the last round and it just caught my eye that it looked like it had ...
  • 'Plummeting' Sarah Palin loses another long-ti ...
  • Land of Kama Sutra to block adult .xxx websites
    New Delhi, Mar 23: Number '0' is India's one of the best contributions to the world, but many of us consider a book as India's prime discovery. It's none other than the Kama Sutra, the Bible of human sexual behavior. But,
  • Allies target Libyan ground forces after decim ...
    U.S. and allied forces today shifted focus on hitting Libyan ground forces, targeting tanks and artillery to obliterate Muammar Qaddafi’s war waging machine, as French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe warned that the campaign may go on for weeks.
  • Chris Brown Banned From ABC?
    CHRIS Brown has really gone and done it this time! The singer has apparently been banned from appearing on Dancing With the Stars following his meltdown at this morning at ABC’s Good Morning America. Sources say the ban could even extend to every ABC show. “Chris was so dangerous backstage ...

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

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

  • BlogHer Network Member News, March 23: Member ...
    Novita Estiti from Very Purple Person lives in Japan and reports they are OK after the earthquake. Micah Geary of Micah C Micah Do also lives in Japan, and says they were mostly unaffected by the earthquake and resulting tsunami because they live in Okinawa. Summaiyah Hyder of From My Perspe ...
  • Don't Say You're Sorry. Just Own It.
    Women are emotional beings. We feel a lot of things: passion, ambition, desire, desire to be desired. But I�ve noticed that more than anything, we just seem to feel guilty. Guilty for being passionate. Guilty for being ambitious. Guilty for wanting more. Guilty for wanting to be wanted. I us ...
  • Change Up Your Breakfast With Not-So-Sweet Oat ...
    When I was a kid, oatmeal meant one of two things: Either homemade oatmeal that I doctored with as much brown sugar and as many raisins as it would bear, or envelopes of instant Quaker Oatmeal from the assorted flavor pack, which I mixed before school. Regardless, the oatmeal I ate was always fl ...
  • Alice Paul's Equal Rights Amendment Back at th ...
    “I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.” - Alice Paul, suffragist and author of the still-not-ratified Equal Rights Amendment Yesterday, March 22, was World Water ...
  • "Dancing with the Stars" Recap: Season Premiere
    It's high-season for me and my reality TV talent show-loving self, as Dancing with the Stars kicks off while American Idol is still early days. Led by the ever-droll Tom Bergeron, and the interchangeable hot brunette co-host, Dancing with the Stars rivals AI for size of viewership, and in my h ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Update – Morningland Cheese Destruction ...
    Health Freedoms has brought you updates on this case involving $250,000 worth of raw cheese and a court battle that has put Morningland Dairy, a farm with a 30 year perfect safety record, out of ...
  • Men’s Sperm Counts Drop Over 27% in 8 Ye ...
    The toll of living in polluted environments and consuming foods spiked with chemicals has lead to a dramatic drop in male fertility. The problem can be linked largely to estrogen imitators that can be found ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • XKCD Radiation Dose Chart
    via xkcd.com I’m not sure how accurate this is, but I’d bet, knowing Randall, that it’s spot on. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsThe Economic Argument | XKCDUpdated Subnetting PostI must not copy what I see on the Simpsons | BanksyTypography Deconstruction Lette ...
  • How to Connect to an Astaro SSL VPN using OS X
    I’ve been stupid for Astaro since the early 00′s and I remain so today. Today I run it in a virtual machine on an ESXi server instead of on a dedicated box, but it remains my favorite firewall of all time. Checkpoint comes close, but doesn’t quite make it. Anyway, here’s how to use your [...]
  • The Overpopulation Problem | David Attenborough
    via youtube.com This is the seed of problems–it’s what creates competition for resources, which causes many of the other issues humanity faces. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsSwords vs. ShadowsJan-Ove Waldner ServesDebate: Does Atheism Poison Everything? Christ ...
  • Happy Thoughts
    Post a happy thought. [ Thanks to Stephen for the link. ] Related PostsIs it becoming cool to not capitalize story titles?How to Connect to an Astaro SSL VPN using OS XGreat vs. Better: The Eternal Quest For EnoughFacebook HTTP Headers: No P3P AquiHappiness: Creation vs. Collection[happy.reddit. ...
  • A.Word.A.Day | effulgent
    effulgent PRONUNCIATION: (i-FUHL-juhnt, i-fool-) MEANING: adjective: Shining brilliantly; radiant. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin effulgere (to shine out), from ex- (out) + fulgere (to shine). Ultimately from the Indo-European root bhel- (to shine or burn), which is also the source of blaze, blank, blond ...

Fitwatch

  • Top ten nasty FIT cops No3 Alan Palfrey
    Alan Palfrey is a regular FIT member, with a knack of being in all the wrong places. He was at the massive climate camp in Kingsnorth in 2008, where ‘intelligence gathering’ hit new heights as thousands of protesters were stopped, searched and pressurised to give their personal details. A fair p ...
  • 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 ...

Worldwide Hippies

  • Finding Gentleness in a Harsh World
    WWH-I tossed and turned last night. I was thinking about my father. For the most part, I am estranged from him. By choice, of course. He was a violent alcoholic, when I was growing up. As a child, I couldn’t escape him or his unpredictable behavior. As an adult I could. Nevertheless, I lay in be ...
  • Medical Marijuana is Big Business
    Medical marijuana now a $1.7 billion market | Raw Story The first ever investor-grade analysis report of the medical marijuana market in the United States found that it will soon rival the market for Viagra. The report, released Wednesday by the independent financial analysis firm See Change Str ...
  • Airport Fire Causes Delays
    Fire at Miami airport could cause delays | CNN An enormous blaze sent fire crews to Miami International Airport overnight and may delay flights Thursday, officials said. The fire started Wednesday night in an area where fuel is kept after a tank caught fire, Miami-Dade fire officials said. It se ...
  • Support Elizabeth Warren
    Barney Frank: Obama might not have stomach for fight over Elizabeth Warren | The Hill President Obama may not be willing to endure the ideological battle that would result from nominating Elizabeth Warren to head the new consumer protection agency, a top Democrat said Monday. Rep. Barney Frank ( ...
  • Centuries old Nepal banishment ritual endanger ...
    By Nilima Raut with Shubhi Tandon | WWN – The centuries old practice of chhaupadi in Nepal can cause prolonged depression in girls and women. In extreme cases it can also cause death. Chhaupadi pratha, or ritual practice, places Nepali women and girls in a limbo of isolation. In history it is a ...

reference frame

  • Václav Havel, the film director
    Václav Havel (74), a playwright, a famous Czech dissident, and a former president of Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic, has become a film director, too. I have only seen the theater version of "Leaving" so far - but the Czech movie theaters are presenting the first movie dire ...
  • Tevatron: Higgs mass probably between 114 and ...
    Fermilab Today has informed us about the latest verdict of the Illinois collider center about the Higgs mass. The chart looks like this: You see that the masses below 114 GeV are excluded by direct searches by LEP, the European collider who lived in the same tunnel as the LHC bef ...
  • Australian carbon tax
    Australian prime minister Ms Julia Gillard suffers from a Messiah complex. She decided to impose an insane carbon tax on the economy of the most compact continent. Fortunately, today, she suffered a serious setback when the PC turned against her. About 3,000 nice but alarmed prot ...
  • La Nina weakened, likely to be gone before Summer
    According to the most recent NOAA's weekly ENSO report, the NINO 3.4 index weakened from -1.3 or so a week ago (and from -1.8 in the early October 2010) to -1.0. In fact, the NOAA folks think that the ongoing La Nina episode will end and ENSO-neutral conditions will retu ...
  • 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 ...

No Frakking Consensus

  • Earth Hour? I’ll Take a ‘No Naggin ...
    As a young woman I embraced feminism because I had no desire to be bossed around by men. These days it's greens who want to regulate my behaviour.
  • 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.

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

  • To Bug-In or To Bug-Out
    During a serious threat situation or disaster, and while enacting your emergency / preparedness plan of action, you may decide to either ‘bug-in‘ or ‘bug-out‘. Bug-In: To ‘dig in’ and remain where you are (or at your normal place of residence) Bug-Out: To ‘get the heck out’ and leave your locati ...
  • 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 ...

Fast Company

  • Perhaps African Leaders Should Avoid Facebook
    A new statistical analysis indicates that the more Facebook fans an African politician has, the more likely they are to be forced from power.Statistics can be used to prove anything. In the realm of social media, for instance, they can even be used to predict the career longevity of African lead ...
  • The Top 16 Schools for Green MBAs, Revealed
    Looking to capitalize on the growing wave of excitement over all things green? Consider attending a green MBA program. Princeton Review and Entrepreneur Magazine just released their first rankings of the top 16 green MBA programs in the U.S.--a list that includes perennial favorites like Colum ...
  • Why Purdue University Students Invented Corn-B ...
    Drive through the Midwest and it's only a matter of time before you hit corn and soy fields that stretch as far as the eye can see. It's no surprise, really--the U.S. government lavishes the two industries with cash, spending $15.4 billion in subsidies for corn, cotton, rice, wheat, and soybe ...
  • Foursquare Gaming Techniques, Nike Running Hel ...
    Over two thirds of students in U.S. high schools are below a proficient reading level. What better way to bring them up to speed than with the Foursquare and Nike Running-style gaming incentives that captivate adults? The latest version of Read 180, a Scholastic reading intervention program th ...
  • Morgan Spurlock: I'm With the Brand
    Photograph by Erin Patrice O'BrienPhotograph by Erin Patrice O'BrienInspired by Super Size Me director Morgan Spurlock's bold new documentary about the ubiquity of branding messages in our daily lives, we embark on our own no-holds-barred exploration of the relationship between content and adver ...

Jadaliyya

  • 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 ...
  • When Petro-Dictators Unite: The Bahraini Oppos ...
    For at least several decades, geopolitical, economic, territorial and ideological considerations have led to serious tensions, if not outright feuds, between the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states. In recent weeks, however, the regimes of GCC states have shown their citizens th ...
  • 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 ...

mediagazer

  • Sulia Helps Twitter Sort The Tweet From The Ch ...
    Peter Kafka / MediaMemo: Sulia Helps Twitter Sort The Tweet From The Chaff  —  There's a lot of great stuff on Twitter.  And there's a lot more lousy stuff.  —  Sorting out the good from the lousy - or at least the OK from the spam — is an important task Twitter hasn't figured out how to do o ...
  • Breaking: Brill, Crovitz & Co. Sell Journalism ...
    Staci D. Kramer / paidContent: Breaking: Brill, Crovitz & Co. Sell Journalism Online To RR Donnelly  —  That was fast.  Just shy of two years after launch, Steve Brill, Gordon Crovitz and Leo Hindery Jr. have sold their “make journalism pay” business to someone who already makes money from pub ...
  • The Half-Lives of Media Alarmism (Jessica Oche ...
    Jessica Ocheltree / splicetoday.com: The Half-Lives of Media Alarmism  —  The radiation levels in Japan have been greatly exaggerated.  —  oisa  —  I've just discovered that I was exposed to radioactive potassium-40 this morning.  I even ingested it, and now there is no way to stop it from inc ...
  • Google listens... if you shout loudly enough ( ...
    Lance Knobel / Davos Newbies: Google listens... if you shout loudly enough  —  Yesterday evening I wrote about the bizarre disappearance from Google News of my news site, Berkeleyside.  What happens next is either an illustration of the power of digital democracy or an example of the value of f ...
  • Ongo looks to capture US news online (Yahoo! News)
    Yahoo! News: Ongo looks to capture US news online  —  Online news service Ongo is hoping to provide its subscribers with full access to The New York Times and expanding its line-up of contributors, Ongo chief executive Alex Kazim said overnight.  —  Kazim, in an interview with AFP, said Ongo …

Chemtrail News

  • Horrific Nano Chemtrails Coming Our Way ...
    If you did not enjoytraditional chemtrails raining down on you you are not going to like the new version which the United States Air Force promises will ...beforeitsnews.com/.../Horrific_Nano_Chemtrails_Coming_Our...
  • Mythcluescom – Free Access To World Class Cons ...
    No it is not a joke They have been spraying chemtrails in my area for 29 months ... dont you see the level of chemtrail activity in relation to the weather ...www.mythclues.com/2011/03/23/chemtrail-dis-info-agents/
  • Chemtrails film troubling for audience
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  • Obama and Chemtrail: Berlin, Chemtra ...
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  • 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/

World News - Top Stories

  • Elton John shakes the walls, offers tribu ...
    When word came Wednesday morning that Hollywood icon Elizabeth Taylor had died, those holding tickets for the show at Consol Energy Center were likely thinking two things: "That's really sad" and "Uh-oh, what's this going to do to Elton?!" Those concerns were put to rest when he arrived on ...
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  • What's next for nuclear power?
    The disaster at Fukushima is raising antinuclear sentiment around the world. But can society afford to live without this carbon-free energy source? Six experts weigh in. The human suffering in the Japanese disaster is obviously the overwhelming fact in the situation. Longer term, its effect ...
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no frakking consensus

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Pointman's

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  • 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 ...

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 ...
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  • ‘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

  • Diamond could store quantum information
    Technique makes use of flaws in crystal structure By Devin Powell Could be that diamonds are a geekâs best friend. Scientists have developed a new way to manipulate atoms inside diamond crystals so that they store information long enough to function as quantum memory, which encodes information n ...
  • Fruit-eating fish does far-flung forestry
    Speciesâ seed-dispersal skills go the distance By Susan Milius TREE PLANTERA tambaqui, a kind of fruit-eating fish, turns out to carry seeds a respectable distance from their mother plants as the fish feasts in flooded Amazonian forests.Tino Strauss/Wikimedia Commons In the Amazon, Johnny Apples ...
  • Only 9% (and falling) of US Internet users are ...
    By Nate Anderson In its 2010 annual report (PDF), recorded music’s global trade body said that the industry would "struggle to survive unless we address the fundamental problem of piracy." Just how "fundamental" a problem is that piracy? Not very, as new research suggests that only 9 percent of ...
  • Serotonin-lacking male mice not picky about se ...
    By John Timmer Courtship rituals within the animal kingdom can get rather elaborate. Even fruit flies use sex-specific pheromones and have a courtship maneuver that includes the male buzzing its wings alluringly. But the genetic control behind performing these mating rituals seems, at least in t ...
  • Everglades tree islands are prehistoric trash ...
    by Michael Marshall The Florida Everglades are dotted with hundreds of tree islands â elevated tree-covered mounds that offer refuge to animals like birds and panthers. Long thought to be geological features, the tree islands may have a more prosaic origin: prehistoric garbage heaps. Typically a ...

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

Gaea Times

  • New fluorescent light surface may kill MRSA
    WASHINGTON - Scientists at the University of New Mexico are working on a new type of antimicrobial surface which, equipped with fluorescent lights, would be able to fight off prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection. The new polymer-type material, “conjugated ...
  • It?s official! Booze impairs decision-making
    WASHINGTON - It is well known that alcohol alters behaviour, but surprisingly it is not well studied at the brain level. However, a new research shows that certain areas in the brain associated with error processing are significantly affected by the effects of alcohol. According to Beth Anders ...
  • Kanye West ?contemplated suicide?
    LONDON - American rap star Kanye West has confessed that there were times when he considered killing himself.There were times that I contemplated suicide,” the Sun quoted him as saying. However, soon he vowed that he would not give up on life again. “There are so many people that will never g ...
  • Anorexia nervosa ?causes potentially serious e ...
    WASHINGTON - A new study has suggested that anorexia nervosa, an eating disorder, causes potentially serious eye damage. In developed countries, anorexia nervosa affects up to 3% of affluent women. Although the condition also increasingly affects men, around 10 women will be affected for every ...
  • Kristen Stewart ?offered stripper job?
    LONDON - ‘Twilight’ star Kristen Stewart has revealed that she was offered a job as a stripper while she was trying to get accustomed to her role in a new movie. The 20-year-old star made a trip to a strip club accompanied by the director of her latest film ‘Welcome to the Riley’s’. Stewart, ...

TruthNews Australia

  • Libya: Murder and Plunder Masquerading as “Hum ...
    March 23, 2011 "Information Clearing House" --  On March 20th 2003 Western forces launched their “Shock and Awe” attack on Iraq, heavily bombarding Baghdad and elsewhere, massacring hundreds if not thousands of innocent men, women and children. On March 20th 2011 the very same forces attacked Li ...
  • 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 ...

Beacon

  • Rhyme (or Not) for the Oceans
    Okay, ocean lovers, it’s time to put your creativity caps on. We could win $10,000, but we need your help. Here’s the challenge, from the CTK Foundation’s Heart and Soul Grant Competition: “Write an original poem or stanza that reflects the work or mission of your non-profit.” The first ...
  • 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 ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

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  • 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 ...

Taylor Marsh

  • Well, That Worked Out Well
    It’s hard to find a precedent for a president ordering U.S. military forces into action, then heading off for a five-day tour of Latin America, but that’s just what President Barack Obama did when he approved the deployment of air and naval assets to establish a no-fly zone over Libya. His homec ...
  • Obama is No Patsy
    [...] The same kind of difficulties are already bedeviling our Libyan war. Our coalition’s aims are uncertain: President Obama is rhetorically committed to the idea that Qaddafi needs to go, but Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, allowed on Sunday that the dictator mig ...
  • Suckas
    Adm Mike Mullen, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the outcome of military action from the air was “very uncertain” and made it clear that Washington did not see the goal of Operation Odyssey Dawn as removing the Libyan leader from power. Opening up the possibility of a rift betwee ...
  • Women War Hawks Win on Libya
    The Pentagon says 114 Tomahawk cruise missiles have been launched from U.S. and British ships in the Mediterranean, hitting more than 20 Libyan targets along the Mediterranean coastline. Navy Vice Adm. William E. Gortney, director of the Pentagon’s Joint Staff, told reporters the Tomahawk cruis ...
  • Progressive Notes: Protestors Bring Cheer, San ...
    Texan4Hillary offers his perspective as a movement progressive activist. I think it is good to every now and then look at what good progressives are doing for America. In such dark days progressives are finally in the streets fighting for labor rights, against the banks, Wall St. It is finally ...

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