26 March - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

Insanity Report

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

Simple Climate

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

e!Science News

• HIV integration requires use of a host DNA-rep ...
  The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the cause of AIDS, makes use of the base excision repair pathway when inserting its DNA into the host-cell genome, according to a new study led by researchers at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Ri ...
• FDA considers new rules to speed up confirmato ...
  Since 1992, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted accelerated approval to 47 new indications for 35 cancer drugs and in more than half the cases—26 indications—further trials have confirmed the benefits of the drugs. But the agency has concerns about the length of time some drugs h ...
• How well do you know your friends?
  How does your best friend feel when people act needy? Or, about people being dishonest? What do they think when others seem uncomfortable in social situations? According to an upcoming study in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, if you don't know – you ...
• University of Colorado team identifies new col ...
  A research team at the University of Colorado Cancer Center has identified an enzyme that could be used to diagnose colon cancer earlier. It is possible that this enzyme also could be a key to stopping the cancer. read more
• Antarctic icebergs play a previously unknown r ...
  In a finding that has global implications for climate research, scientists have discovered that when icebergs cool and dilute the seas through which they pass for days, they also raise chlorophyll levels in the water that may in turn increase carbon dioxide absorption in the Southern Ocean. rea ...

unEarthed

• Deregulation of Genetically Engineered Alfalfa ...
  USDAâs decision could mark the end of organic alfalfa and organic dairies Photo by Gary D. Robson. Monsanto commonly offers unsustainable solutions to the a ...
• Friday Finds: Mutually Assured Madness
  Lead gardens, oil-covered lies, hot flash chemicals Nuclear power has come under scrutiny in recent weeks. Photo courtesy of redjar. Nuclear power industry ...
• Valley Advocates Demand Environmental Justice
  Advocates and Earthjustice want more from EPA Administrator in Central Valley When Bush II’s Head of EPA came to California’s Central Valley, he tried to hold ...
• EPA Administrator Visits California's Central ...
  Lisa Jackson meets with environmental advocates in Fresno For years citizens of California's central valley have been asking for help and Wednesday, if only fo ...
• Power Plant Ordered to Stop Polluting the Mono ...
  Judgeâs decision safeguards drinking water for Pennsylvanians View of the Monogahela River in Pittsburgh. (Photo by Dave Gingrich) After 40 years without ef ...

Brave New Climate

• Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident – 26 ...
  This post provides an update to the various situation summaries at Fukushima Daiichi. Please switch to using this post for comments on the latest status reports and news to  hand (the old one is now out of date). For general comments on, use the FD Open Thread, and for analysis of the event with ...
• Preliminary lessons from Fukushima for future ...
  No strong conclusions can yet be drawn on the Fukushima Nuclear Crisis, because so much detail and hard data remains unclear or unavailable. Indeed, it will probably take years to piece the whole of this story together (as has now been done for accidents like TMI and Chernobyl [read this and thi ...
• It’s nuclear power or it’s climate ...
  I was asked to reflect very briefly (<400 words) on the implications of Fukushima Daiichi to my local city newspaper, The Adelaide Advertiser. The focus was on what it means for Australia, but the basic message resonates for any number of other countries. —————————– If you study the history of m ...
• 10+ days of crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nu ...
  Yes, it really has been that long. So what happened during those 10+ days? For a long answer, look back over the daily posts on this blog, which also has plenty of links to more off-site information. For the short-hand version, I offer you this excellent graphic produced by the Wall Street Journ ...
• Fukushima Open Discussion Thread
  The Open Threads on BraveNewClimate.com are a general discussion forum, where you can talk about whatever you like — there is nothing really ‘off topic’ here — within reason. Please use this particularly comment thread to post anything on the Fukushima Nuclear Accident that is NOT directly relat ...

Indigenist Opinion

• Where is Dan Choi when a Gay Soldier really ne ...
  By TheAngryindian These are indeed strange and dangerous times. Especially for those of us in the United States who value the principle of universal human rights. Speaking objectively as a citizen of the world, there can be little doubt that the national mythology of the United States of ...
• Charing Ball: Medical Testing on (non-White) H ...
  Medical Testing on Humans | The Atlanta Post | African-American News, Business News & Black Politics By Charing Ball-We all have those friends and/or family members who can manage to turn just about any political or social issue into a massive conspiracy. There’s that cousin who tells you not ...
• Raul A. Reyes: Brisenia Flores Was a Victim of ...
  Raul A. Reyes: Brisenia Flores Was a Victim of Border Vigilantes and Media Indifference [huffpo.com] - Compare Brisenia's tragedy to that of another nine-year-old in Arizona. When Christina Taylor Green was killed in the attack on Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, her death led to national soul- ...
• Libya, Getting it Right: A Revolutionary Pan-A ...
  Libya, Getting it Right: A Revolutionary Pan-African Perspective | Dissident Voice: "Thousands of Indians, Egyptians, Chinese, Filipinos, Turks, Germans, English, Italians, Malaysians, Koreans and a host of other nationalities are lining up at the borders and the airport to leave Libya. It begs ...
• Pinkwatching Israel - Israel’s Gay Propaganda War
  Pinkwatching Israel - Israel’s Gay Propaganda War: "One of the most remarkable features of the Brand Israel campaign is the marketing of a modern Israel as a gay-friendly Israel. Stand With US, a self-declared Zionist organisation, has been quoted in the Jerusalem Post as saying: “We decided to ...

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

+972

• Israel’s Wikileaks: Was state’s pl ...
  (updated below) In the hail of news report on the escalation on the Israel-Gaza front and the Jerusalem bombing, a key development has gone all but unnoticed by world media. On Thursday,  Haaretz reported “with regret” that the Justice Ministry decided to charge one of the paper’s star reporter ...
• Waves of arrests in weekly Nabi Saleh Demonstr ...
  A day after the violent arrest of Nabi Saleh Popular Committee leader Bassem Tamimi, one Palestinian, five Israelis and three international activists were arrested in Nabi Saleh on Friday. A Palestinian cameraman and three more Israelis were shortly detained. Only a day after the arrest of the ...
• Israeli parliamentary committee deems J Street ...
  In a hearing called by the committee for Immigration Absorption and Diaspora Affairs on Wednesday to discuss the “breaking of norms regarding the relation of Diaspora Jewish communities to Israeli governments,” the 3-year old progressive American Jewish lobby J Street was probed and vilified as ...
• Rightist Facebook group: How do we get explosives?
  “Zion Fighters” is a steadily growing ultra-rightist group that’s trying hard to become  a real organisation. Its imagery and language are extremely militant, rallying against non-Jewish MKs, left wingers and, obviously, Arabs. But last night members of their Facebook group broke a record of so ...
• Israeli minister, media perpetuate lie about G ...
  Eli Yishay, Israel’s lethally incompetent Interior Minister, is outraged that Judge Richard Goldstone, who headed the UN Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza war, has not condemned attacks on Israeli civilians. According to Ynet, Yishay sent a letter to Goldstone in which he “demanded of Goldstone t ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

• Gillard Government meet with Murray Darling B ...
  Water Minister Tony Burke has hosted the third in a series of roundtables with irrigation sector representatives from the Murray Darling Basin states.
• Ministers welcome review of Caring for our Co ...
  Australians involved in managing our natural resources have been invited to have their say on the future of Caring for our Country.
• Get involved in Clean Up Australia Day
  Federal Environment Minister, Tony Burke, today encouraged Australians across the country to join in the 21st annual Clean Up Australia Day.
• Statement on Tasmanian pulp mill
  On 5 January, 2009 the then Minister for the Environment Peter Garrett set March 3, 2011 as the final date for a decision on the three remaining modules of the environmental impact management plan submitted by Gunns for the proposed pulp mill at Bell Bay, Tasmania. Today I am extending that dea ...
• Orange City Pipeline project gets go-ahead
  The Australian Government and NSW Government today signed off on a plan to deliver the Orange Pipeline project connecting the Macquarie River to Orange.

Matt Weidner Blog

• FLORIDA- STATE OF CORRUPTION
  Just in case you’re clinging to any naive notions that there is any integrity, honesty or restraint among those in power in this state, read the article below that appears in the St. Petersburg Times….the Jackals in Tallahassee set the tone for the entire state and what they get away with is gro ...
• The Marshall Watson/Florida Attorney AG Settle ...
  A colleague shared with me a term, “outrage fatigue”.  She commented that she was just tired of being outraged by the all the outrages that are occurring across this country. There is so much wrong with this agreement.  Read carefully the “allegations” of wrongdoing recited in the settlement a ...
• THE KNOCK AT THE DOOR COMES- GET OUT OF THIS H ...
  The only problem with this story is I’ve got another terrifying example of the Jack Booted thugs (almost) kicking someone out of a home. Problem is, yet again, THE BANK HAD NO RIGHT TO THROW THESE PEOPLE INTO THE STREET! That did not stop them however, from knocking on the door and threatening t ...
• They’re Experimenting….On Us
  The two highest universal human needs are food first, then shelter.  From our position on the front lines of the Fraudclosure war, I see first hand how our government, at every level has been totally and completely corrupted, 100%.  This has been going on for decades now, but it is beyond disput ...
• Justice FOR SALE- Pay to Play! Bonus To Move T ...
  Our courts are already under serious attack….and now the Florida Legislature is in session…a wild, wild session. Saint Petersburg Times Tweet this! Share and Enjoy: Scridb filter

abelard - news

• futaba/fukushima - earthquake 10 times design ...
  Who could have imagined or predicted the size of the recent Japanese earthquake/tsunami? Now to learn from their correct choices and their mistakes.
• the sky is falling - iodine-131 in water | sci ...
  The radioactivity found in Tokyo's water is not nearly as dangerous as one might suppose (engage numeracy, objectivity and analytics modules).
• are low levels of radiation positive? | news-l ...
  Perhaps another reason to not be so scared of radiation?
• natwest bank has 14 targets for 'helpful banki ...
  Will targets for a high street bank be any more successful than they were for other parts of socialist Labourapos;s target-burdened management?
• dog rays more dangerous than nuclear rays | ec ...
  Comparative dangers from some of the much-favoured renewable energies.

The Parallel Parliament

• On Pride and Sadness
  Here’s a statement for you: Never before in the history of any Parliament in the entire Commonwealth has a sitting government been found in contempt. We all realized the importance of this as we sat in the Commons today and voted the government in contempt. Government members moaned that it was ...
• The Most Honourable Member
  On this, what looks like the final of this 40th Parliament, it’s only proper that we pay tribute to that one person who had to step to the fore to protect perhaps the greatest political institution in the land – Speaker Peter Milliken. He’s retiring after this session and there’s lot of worry ou ...
• Don’t Buy This Car
  It’s the biggest open secret in Ottawa: the government specifically designed its budget to bring about its own defeat. No sooner had it been released than Jim Flaherty was on the tube saying he would not accept any amendments. So, it wasn’t really all that serious a document anyway; it was rathe ...
• The Coalition Shuffle
  Third blog post today – a record. I listened as John Baird made a statement that silenced his own team and produced hilarity in the House – “If they’re attacking you personally, it’s because there’s no basis to attack you on substance.” The irony of it all, especially coming from the one who sai ...
• You Don’t Know Jack!
  Note: It’s not often I write two of these postings in one day, but this one needs to be said. Late Tuesday afternoon, everyone was on pins and needles. I could hardly move through the media rotunda because of the density of the crowd. Everywhere, everyone was asking the same question: “What will ...

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

• Tracking information on radiation health risks ...
  This past few days I’ve been up to my eyeballs in tracking and responding to the developing crisis in Japan, and have not had much time to think about emerging technologies or this blog.  Much of my time has been spent on brushing up on my health physics (from 25 years ago!), and providing info ...
• Nanotechnology safety – a new video blog from ...
  Back in December 2009, I rode the Acela Express up to New York from Washington DC for the day to record one of a series of nanotechnology podcasts for the ASME – the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. The podcast was to be part of a new educational outreach initiative on all aspects of na ...
• The Seven Deadly Sins of Techno-Complacency – ...
  I don’t believe it – once again I’ve let myself be talked into doing an event in Second Life.  But this time it’s even worse – I’ll be hosting a combined second life and real-life event, and in effect acting as the medium between physical and virtual realities. The only compensation is that the ...
• The art of regulating nanotechnologies
  The recently published International Handbook on Regulating Nanotechnologies has a rather unconventional cover image. But it’s one that I must confess I am rather pleased with. The image is a photo of a piece of Murano glass that I picked up several years ago while visiting Venice. At the time I ...
• Davos 2011 – Partnering with teens to build a ...
  This is not a science and technology post – which is a bit odd for a science and technology blog.  But I wanted to introduce five people who together shake up the whole idea of the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos as being an elitist and increasingly irrelevant gathering of middle aged bal ...

Reader Supported News

• Stop Taking Bachmann Seriously!
  Intro: "As Minnesota Republican Michele Bachmann flirts with the possibility of a presidential run, Eric Alterman spanks the media for paying so much attention to such a flawed candidate." Rep. Michele Bachmann speaks at the Conservative Political Action conference in Washington, DC, 02/10/11 ...
• Syrian Forces Open Fire on Protesters, Killing ...
  Intro: "Syrian security forces have opened fire on anti-government protesters in the city of Sanamin near Daraa, killing at least 20 people, according to one witness. 'There are more than 20 martyrs.... they [security forces] opened fire haphazardly,' the witness told Al Jazeera." Syrians gat ...
• Vermont House Passes Single-Payer Healthcare Bill
  Intro: "The Vermont House of Representatives passed a bill calling for a single-payer system Thursday afternoon, putting the state on a path to become the first in the nation to adopt universal access to health care. Lawmakers voted 92 to 49 after nearly two days of debate, including discussion ...
• "Kill Team" Soldier Sentenced to 24 ...
  Intro: "A soldier accused of killing Afghan civilians for sport was sentenced Wednesday to 24 years in prison after he pleaded guilty and agreed to testify against other defendants in the case." Army Specialist Jeremy Morlock pleaded guilty to the murders of Afghan civilians on Wednesday, 03/ ...
• Drug Wars Push Deeper Into Central America
  Randal C. Archibold and Damien Cave report: "Traffickers have used Central America as a stopover point since at least the 1970s. But the aggressive crackdowns on criminal organizations in Mexico and Colombia, coupled with strides in limiting smuggling across the Caribbean, have increasingly brou ...

War Resisters League

• WRL Organizers Hit the West Coast
  From February 25th to March 7th,WRL organizing coordinator Kimber Heinz and field organizer Ali Issa began a three-stop trip on the West Coast where they met with WRL locals and affiliates, as well as allied organizations working on GI resistance, civilian support for anti-war veteran organizing ...
• Iraq/Wisconson Labor Solidarity: Two Statements
  In the wake of the threat posed to what remain of labor rights in Wisconsin, and the public’s powerful response, two Iraqi labor leaders, Hassan Jum’a and Faleh Abood, penned solidarity statements in late February on behalf the 26,000 member strong Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions, and the 15,000 ...
• Stepping up the Resistance to U.S. Islamophobia
  As Peter King, the new chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, steps up the U.S. government attack against Muslims living in the U.S., saying that he will “rely on Muslims to make his case that American Muslim leaders have failed to cooperate with law enforcement officials in the effo ...
• Mubarak Ousted! Two Down, Twenty To Go . . .
  “The people have brought down the regime!” was a cry heard around the world when on Friday, February 11th, 18 days of unrelenting non-violent protest finally forced the end of Hosni Mubarak’s 30 year, US backed rule over Egypt. Ecstatic jubilation filled Cairo’s Midan al-Tahrir (Liberation Squar ...
• The Egyptian Revolution and Police Tools &#821 ...
  As of this writing, the Egyptian revolution has entered its 16th day and is gaining ground and momentum: spreading to new regions, evolving into strikes and civil disobedience and clarifying its demands. What started as an impressive series of demonstrations on January 25th’s ‘Day of Wrath’ has ...

Center for a Livable Future

• Making Health the Default
  A recent article featured in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation News Digest on Childhood Obesity highlights a simple strategy that can be implemented in restaurants and other venues to improve the food environment. The innovative new strategy is to change the offerings on children’s menus to hi ...
• How much meat do we eat, anyway?
  Reading the new federal dietary guidelines made me want to look into this question.  The guidelines, just released, say that Americans presently eat an average of 3.7 ounces daily of meat and poultry.  But, the figures I typically see are double that, or more.  So, why, in the brand-new guidelin ...
• What’s Cookin’ in Your Soil Kitchen?
  What’s Cooking in your ‘Soil Kitchen’? There is probably lots cooking but you might not like all that’s on the menu. So if you are an urban agriculturalist in the mid-Atlantic (NYC-Philadelphia-Baltimore-DC) area scratching your head about all this talk of soil contamination, grab a soil sample ...
• The Locavore debate, revisited
  How can local food systems support a resilient and sustainable future food economy in the United States? That was the question of the day at a recent conference entitled, “Reviving the American Economy-One Heirloom Tomato at a Time.”  But for some, the question isn’t so much how, but even can ...
• In Media, Big Ag Looms Large while Farmers Get ...
  In September 1965, CBS broadcast its first episode of Green Acres, a mini-series documenting a family’s transition from an urban life of prestige and luxury, to one of mud, manure, and chaos on a farm in the fictional town of Hooterville. Green Acres took off, in part capitalizing on the popula ...

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

• The FP Salon: Peter Bergen's The Longest War
  An FP round-table discussion on counterterrorism expert Peter Bergen's latest book. A decade after 9/11, is the war on terrorism a war we can win?
• Crazy Like a Fox
  In a fit of anger, Hamid Karzai axes his director of intelligence, Amrullah Saleh. But is there method to his madness?
• Addicted to Contractors
  The United States is hooked on privatized warfare in Afghanistan. And it's more costly than you think.
• How to Whip the Afghan Army Into Shape
  Much of President Barack Obama's strategy rests on the creation of a new, more competent Afghan military. Here's what he'll need to know to get the job done.
• Obama's Indecent Interval
  Despite the U.S. president's pleas to the contrary, the war in Afghanistan looks more like Vietnam than ever.

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

• Action Alert: Tell Premier Stelmach Coal Kills
  Sierra Club Prairie As the world grapples with climate change, the Alberta government is poised to grant approval to a new coal-fired power plant without even holding a public hearing.  Maxim Power Corporation’s plan to build a 500-m ...
• Our Water Is Not For Sale Network Responds to ...
  Legislations not declarations needed to ensure water is protected for ecosystems, human needs, treaty rights and future�generations Our Water Is Not For Sale Network ...
• Impact of the Agriculture Operations Practices Act
  Organization:� Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development Initiative:� Impact of the Agriculture Operations Practices Act ...
• Impact of the Agriculture Operations Practices ...
  Organization:� Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development Initiative:� Impact of the Agriculture Operations Practices Act (AOP ...
• Pembina Reacts to Lower Athabasca Water Qualit ...
  Pembina Institute 24 Mar 2011 Jennifer Grant, director of the Pembina Institute's oilsands program, made the following statement in response to the Federal Lower Athabasca Water Qu ...

Stop NATO

• Stop NATO News March 25, 2011
  ==== Libyan War And Control Of The Mediterranean Updates on Libyan war: March 25 ==== 1. The Hidden Alliance â Sweden’s Secret NATO Association 2. Germany Sends 300 Airman To Afghanistan To Help NATO In Libya 3. NATO Continues Integration Of Ukraine 4. Prompt Global Strike: U.S. Plans New Hypers ...
• Updates on Libyan war: March 25
  ==== Libyan War And Control Of The Mediterranean ==== Canadian General To Command NATO War Effort In Libya Libya: Canada Adds “Monstrous” Sub-Hunter To Warplanes, Warship U.S., NATO Could Begin Ground Operations In Libya Next Month: Russian Intelligence NATO: Libyan War To Last Three Months Or L ...
• Libyan War And Control Of The Mediterranean
  Stop NATO March 25, 2011 Libyan War And Control Of The Mediterranean Rick Rozoff A year after assuming the post of president of the French Republic in 2007, and while his nation held the rotating European Union presidency, Nicholas Sarkozy invited the heads of state of the EU’s 27 members and th ...
• Stop NATO News March 24, 2011
  ==== Updates on Libyan war: March 24 ==== stopnato-subscribe@yahoogroups.com ==== Serbia Marks Anniversary Of NATO’s Deadly Onslaught In 1999 Serbia: Anti-NATO Sentiment Strong On 12th Anniversary Of 78-Day War Attack On Libya Evokes Serbs’ Bitter Memories Of NATO Onslaught NATO Air Strike Kills ...
• Updates on Libyan war: March 24
  ==== New U.S.-NATO Strikes Kill Libyan Civilians, Including Rescue Workers Libyan Quagmire Could Drag More U.S. Forces In White House Hands Libyan War Command And Control To NATO How “Humanitarian” Is Western Intervention In Libya? AFRICOM Chief Visits 14-Nation Libyan War Air Operations Center ...

Before It's News

• Three ORB Structures Invade American Skies (4 ...
• Mediterranean Chutney: Put this in your “to ca ...
• Limbaugh: “Its Entirely Possible A Loser ...
• This Week in the Congress
• North Dakota’s Lessons for America

Intel Hub

• The Feds Finally Recognize The Anti-Cancer Pot ...
  By Paul Armentano, Deputy Director NORML Via Activist Post Scientific trials have for decades documented the anti-cancer properties of cannabis and its constituents. Yet it took until this week for the website of the National Institute of Cancer, a component of the U.S. government’s National Ins ...
• PM Steven Harper Served Summons to Answer Char ...
  ITCCS March 25th, 2011 Ottawa, Canada: The day before Steven Harper’s Conservative government was toppled by a non-confidence vote in Canada’s Parliament, the besieged politician was delivered a Public Summons to answer charges of conspiring in Crimes against Humanity before an International Tri ...
• Radiation in Seawater Off Nuclear Plant Spikes ...
  CNN March 26th, 2011 Tokyo — Tests showed a sharp spike in levels of radioactive iodine in seawater just offshore of the embattled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant are more than 1,250 times higher than normal, Japan’s nuclear and industrial safety agency said Saturday. In samples taken Friday mor ...
• Radiation: Nothing to See Here?
  Truth-Out by: Brian Moench, MD March 25th, 2011 Administration spokespeople continuously claim “no threat” from the radiation reaching the US from Japan, just as they did with oil hemorrhaging into the Gulf. Perhaps we should all whistle “Don’t worry, be happy” in unison. A thorough review of th ...
• Indiana Prosecutor Told Wisconsin Governor to ...
  The Raw Story By Eric W. Dolan March 25th, 2011 An Indiana prosecutor and Republican activist has resigned after emails show he suggested Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker stage a fake attack on himself to discredit unions protesting his budget repair bill. The Republican governor signed a bill on ...

FRS

• Opposing Gaddafi’s massacre and foreign interv ...
  Horace Campbell, Pambazuka 2011-03-24 Unless Libyans themselves own the struggle against Gaddafi, opponents to his regime may find that even if he has been removed from power, ‘Gaddafism’ will continue – but this time propped up by the West, Horace Campbell warns. The Union shall have the right ...
• NATO wary of Libyan command: hot potato
    Libya: Nato Refuses Military Ops Command UK, Thursday March 24, 2011 Nato has again refused to take over command of military operations in Libya, with objections from Turkey frustrating US efforts to hand over control. America wants to give up its lead role in the war-torn country in a “matter ...
• Yemen: Repressive regime threatens military de ...
  � Saleh threatens civil war by Shatha Al-Harazi Sana�a, Mar. 22 � President Ali Abdullah Saleh warned of bloody civil war, if the armed forces failed to unite, following the mass defection of a dozen military commanders. � On Monday, senior military leaders announced their solidarity for the pro ...
• US’ New “Abu Ghraib” in Afgh ...
  By Julius Cavendish in Kabul Tuesday, 22 March 2011 The US Army has been forced into an acutely embarrassing apology after photographs emerged of American soldiers posing with the corpses of Afghan civilians in scenes reminiscent of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal during the Iraq war. In one pictu ...
• Revolutionary Democratic Front (India) stateme ...
  Humanitarian Intervention is a euphemism for Military Invasion!� Rise! Resist! Liberate! 22 March 2011 The United Nations Security Council on 17th March approved a resolution for the United States and other major imperialist powers to conduct direct military intervention in Libya. It however has ...

Ken O'Keefe

• Response to “An Open Letter to Ken O&#82 ...
  We in the West do not even take care of our own people, multi-billionaires and deep poverty side by side, house foreclosures in concert with trillions of dollars being handed to the banksters. These bastard banksters are the ultimate rape and pillage machine, and they are salivating over Libya.
• Tahrir4Gaza – Liberation for Gaza
  As the Arab people continue to exercise unarmed yet mighty power, there is one place above all others that remains at the heart of the struggle, Palestine. Despite all the money, propaganda, weapons, false imprisonment, ethnic cleansing, torture and mass-murder wielded against them, they have e ...
• The Egyptian Blockade of Gaza – February 26, 2 ...
  Is there any sane, right-minded person who supports the blatant and brutal collective punishment of the people of Gaza? So why would it carry on? There is only one reason, because we allow it. I say we carry on with what the people of Egypt started, they got rid of the dictator, let us, people ...
• Global Revolution 2011
  I believe the time has come to unite, those of us who are sane, who can see that the masses are comprised of so many cultures and vastly different ways of life, yet we all demand essentially the same things. We demand to be treated with respect. We demand the right to a decent way of life. We ...
• Revolutions & Manipulations
  While millions of Egyptians are in the streets, in one of the most dramatic spontaneous uprisings in recent years, in an attempt to overthrow 30 years of Mubarak rule, a regime propped up by Israel and the United States, an undercurrent of opportunist plots threaten to turn this hopeful situatio ...

StillSmallVoice

• Happy spring and happy Saturday
• When it comes to art and religion and freedom ...
  ...is the answer to be equally offensive to all faiths? Jagdish Bhagwati offers�a suggestion at The New Republic. � Flickr photo
• If you're in Hartford this afternoon...
  ...there's a�commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Waist Factory fire at 4:30 today�at the Legislative Office Building. You can read more here. Or here.
• What would YOU paint on a labor mural?
  A Maine artist and a Maine historian were told their 36-foot mural was not appropriate for the lobby of that state's labor department and would be removed after hanging there three years. Maine's governor, Paul LePage, who is no fan of unions, fears the mural is one-sided. His office said he wa ...
• God's punishment and the rebuilding of Galvest ...
  I just really love this piece, by Fred Clark. And thanks, Sharon, for the link.

Associated Content

• Musicians Release Tracks for Japan Relief
  In an effort to raise money for the Japanese Red Cross Society, A-list musicians lend their famous tracks for an exclusive digital download compilation. Here are three of the best songs you might find if you download the album.Contributor: Jeanne Rose Published: Mar 25, 2011
• Can People Get Unclaimed Money?
  In a recent segment, "Good Morning America" highlighted a way that people can get a little boost in this difficult economy.Contributor: Mark Paul Published: Mar 25, 2011
• Factbox: National Cherry Blossom Festival
  The National Cherry Blossom Festival prepares to get underway in Washington, DC, this weekend.Contributor: Kelly Herdrich Published: Mar 25, 2011
• Myanmar is Left Shaking After 6.8 Earthquake
  With all of the recent coverage of the 9.0 earthquake that hit Japan on March 11, we are far too familiar with the damage and death that accompanies a disaster of this magnitude.Contributor: Jacob Willard Published: Mar 25, 2011
• Elizabeth Taylor Funeral to Face Westboro Prot ...
  As expected, the Elizabeth Taylor funeral will be held at the famed Westwood Village cemetery, where many of Hollywood's icons are buried. Also, as expected, the Westboro Church will picket the ceremony due to her support of homosexuals.Contributor: Robert Dougherty Published: Mar 24, 2011

Popsci - Science

• This Week in the Future, March 21-25, 2011
  On a dark, stormy night, somewhere in the Pacific Northwest (judging by the foliage), the man in the moon finally underwent his long-awaited full-face transplant, which was performed with an iPad. During a robot goose migration. At least, that's the message I'm getting from this week's Baarbari ...
• Warm Superconductors' Weird Behavior Could Ind ...
  While studying the weird behavior of high-temperature superconductors, scientists may have found a new phase of matter, separate from solid, liquid, gas and plasma. Electrons in a pre-superconducting state apparently form a strange, distinct order, lining up in a way that has never been seen be ...
• Turmeric Could Be Used to Detect Explosives, R ...
  Curry powder can already reduce cow burps, kill cancer cells and fight the epidemic of unflavorful food. Now it can help detect bombs. Specifically, the curry ingredient turmeric, and its molecule curcumin, can be used with fluorescence spectroscopy to sniff out explosive chemicals. Researchers ...
• Video: Magnetic Gels That Swim, Shimmy, and 'Walk'
  Miklós Zrínyi of Semmelweiss University in Budapest, Hungary, has created some gels that are anything but gellin’. In fact, these gels are moving, shaking, and otherwise getting around with a little help from magnetism. The gel “snakes”--made from a mix of polymer and metal particles--bend to m ...
• Ancient Portable Tool Kit Shows Humans Settled ...
  A prehistoric mobile toolkit buried in milky creek sediments in central Texas shows humans first settled North America 2,500 years earlier than previously thought. The finding could shatter the prevailing theory of paleo-American settlement, which holds that people left northeast Asia via a lan ...

Veterans Today

• FRANKLIN LAMB : Time for Nassrallah and Obama ...
  “Just maybe!” hints the latest National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) An experienced Washington Post columnist, David Ignatius, to his credit not among the most biased Israeli Hasbara spewers from  the Zionist daily, dropped by our Hezbollah neighborhood known as Dahiyeh the other day. During a ho ...
• PAUL BALLES : Israel, right or wrong
  A staunch defender of anything Israel does, the Washington Postâs Richard Cohen feeds Jewish paranoia, distorts Palestinian history and attacks Israelâs critics. by Paul J Balles “If I were an Israeli, I’d be worried. If I were an Arab, I’d be insulted. If I were a critic only of Israel, I’d be ...
• A Radical Conservative Perspective: America Wo ...
  The most recent example of the GOP engaging in subtle racism is when Mike Huckabee claimed that President Obama viewed the world from the perspective of the Mau Mau. Then when it became clear that he'd crossed the line, he claimed that he misspoke and didn't understand what all the uproar was ab ...
• OFFE Team Heading to DC to Protect the Rights ...
  During the first week of April of this year, a team from will be in Washington, DC on yet another attempt to protect veteran's disability compensation from the reaches of divorce courts. This will be the 6 trip to our nation's capitol for some of the OFFE members. Operation Firing For Effect has ...
• Ten tons of cement await entry into Gaza Strip ...
  RAFAH (Mar. 25) – On Thursday afternoon, a flatbed truck bearing ten tons of cement arrived at Egypt’s Rafah border crossing en route to the besieged Gaza Strip. The shipment, which was accompanied by a 15-member delegation from the Egyptian-International Coalition

War is Business

• Recent UK Arms Exports To The Middle East, Tal ...
• Sabre Defence Arms Smuggling Not Exactly A Jam ...
• You Want A No-Fly Zone? Be Careful What You Wi ...
• Crazy Private Military Drama In Alaska (Aggreg ...
• Iraqi Corruption Commission Takes Its Job Lite ...

Hudson's Weather & Climate

• Biofuels: Some have a higher carbon footprint ...
  Over the last few years there has been a huge drive towards producing more biofuels to replace some of the fossils fuels we consume, which, we've been told, produce lower carbon emissions. Slowly though there is a realisation that in some instances, the carbon footprint of certain biofuels can ...
• Nuclear power: Why the UK government may have ...
  The news and pictures from the nuclear power station in Japan that has been badly damaged from last week's earthquake and tsunami have alarmed us all. Nuclear power is seen almost universally around the world as being crucial in producing carbon free electricity, as countries start to decarbon ...
• Is Solar activity to blame for Japan's massive ...
  The massive earthquake that affected Japan this morning is one of the strongest in recorded history at 8.9 on the Richter scale. With a number of powerful earthquakes recently it once again begs the question, is there a link between seismic activity and solar activity? Recently we have witne ...
• Severe gales affect parts of Yorkshire
  It's been a wild day across Yorkshire, with a fierce westerly wind causing disruption at Leeds Bradford airport where gusts have been exceeding 60mph. The highest recorded wind speed so far has been 67 mph at Fylingdales on the North York moors. The highest wind speeds could though be affect ...
• Goodbye to the Space Shuttle Discovery
  On Monday evening with clear skies across the North of England star gazers were treated to a wonderful, and it turns out historical spectacle in the southern sky. The International Space Station was clearly visible, closely followed in the same orbit by the Space Shuttle Discovery, which had b ...

Internat'l Political Economy

• What If Greenpeace Ran China?
  Though I am very often at loggerheads with positions that Greenpeace takes, a significant part of the following makes sense to me at least. As we all know, China's rise to becoming the world's second largest economy has been accompanied by becoming the world's most polluting economy in terms of ...
• Fukushima Folly: Nuclear Power in Question (Again)
  Chernobyl, Harrisburg, Sellafield, Hiroshima Stop radioactivity - it's in the air for you and me [Radioactivity]...discovered by Madame Curie Shall we be adding Fukushima to this list? Leave it to the Germans to perform probably the most buoyantly morbid song of them all in "Radioactivity." In ...
• India Shining: Rupee Symbol Now in MS Windows
  Always one to play the foil, let me say that contrary to conventional wisdom among the self-styled digerati, I see no reason to chuck Windows 7 for OS X. Not only is the range of programmes for the former vast, but a smidgen of diligence means you can avoid catching viruses and malware. Yes, yo ...
• The Slow Road to Southeast Asian Integration
  Here is an update on something I follow quite closely from my home region: Southeast Asian economic integration. Unlike the European Union (liberal democracies) or the Gulf Cooperation Council (Islamic monarchies), Southeast Asia possesses countries with a range of political and economic systems ...
• Opiate of the Masses? Predicting Religion's Death
  Let us begin today's missive on the contemporary fate of religion with Karl Marx's famous "opiate of the masses" passage: Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion ...

Economic Collapse Blog

• How Can America Create Wealth If Our Industria ...
  Any economy that constantly consumes far more wealth than it produces is eventually going to be in for a very hard fall.  Many point to relatively stable GDP numbers as evidence that the U.S. economy is doing okay, but the truth is that we have had to borrow increasingly massive ...
• Has The Tsunami In Japan Destroyed The Japanes ...
  The entire world is in a state of mourning today as details regarding the horrific damage caused by the massive tsunami in Japan continue to trickle in.  The magnitude 8.9 earthquake that caused the tsunami was the largest earthquake that Japan has ever experienced in modern tim ...
• Should We Be Alarmed That The Biggest Bond Fun ...
  Bill Gross, the manager of the biggest bond fund in the world, has forgotten more about bonds than most of us will ever learn. That is why the big move that PIMCO has just made is so unsettling.  At one time PIMCO held more U.S. government debt than any other bond fund on the [...]
• People Of Earth: Prepare For Economic Disaster
  It is not just the United States that is headed for an economic collapse.  The truth is that the entire world is heading for a massive economic meltdown and the people of earth need to be warned about the coming economic disaster that is going to sweep the globe.  The current wo ...
• You Call This An Economic Recovery? 44 Million ...
  When Barack Obama, the Federal Reserve and the mainstream media tell us that we are in the middle of an economic recovery, is that supposed to be some kind of sick joke?  According to newly released numbers, over 44 million Americans are now on food stamps.  That is a new all-ti ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

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

E U Times

• Russia Reports France Threat Against Obama Bro ...
  A shocking report written by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the meetings held between President Medvedev and US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates this past week says that America’s war on Libya was “forced” onto it after French President Nicolas Sarkozy [photo top right with Libyan l ...
• Obama administration reviewing ways to shrink ...
  The Obama administration has begun examining whether it can make cuts to its nuclear weapons stockpiles that go beyond those outlined in a recent treaty with Russia. The classified review is not expected to be completed until late this year, but some Republicans already are worried that it will ...
• Alleged Genocide Leader Mudahinyuka Deported F ...
  A man going by the name of Thierry Rugamba reportedly immigrated to the United States in 2000, as a victim of the 1994 Rwandan genocide. He settled in Bolingbrook, Illinois, where he worked at an African grocery. But all was not as it seemed with Thierry Rugamba, according to Immigrations and Cu ...
• Military indoctrinated on gays kissing, behavior
  Four branches of the military have begun sending training material to 2.2 million active and reserve troops as a prelude to opening the ranks to gays, with instructions on, for example, what to do if an officer sees two male Marines kissing in a shopping mall. Key themes are that sexual orientat ...
• Simmons blasts Israel music boycott
  Kiss’ Israeli-born singer-musician Gene Simmons is shouting out loud at the string of musicians who refuse to perform in his homeland. “They’re fools,” the legendary bassist said in an interview on his first return to Israel since leaving the country as a child more than 50 years ago. Simmons de ...

Voiceless Victim

• Now Everyone Knows What It Takes To Get Rapist ...
  There has been so much happening in the Philadelphia diocese lately for those interested in justice and child safety to absorb. And, for once, much of it is good news for victims of Catholic Church sponsored child sexual abuse. Well, as good as it is possible to get for anyone who has survived e ...
• Defending the Indefensible is a Lot Like Football
  Battling for truth, justice and child protection against the evil empire of His Greediness can get you down sometimes. Time for a little light relief. I came across this intelligent and articulate blogger just recently. This post from the Voice from the Desert blog is screamingly funny. And trag ...
• Who’s Looking After The Children?
  “Who’s looking after the children?” In Australia this week one man dared to ask this question of the highest court in the land. The High Court of Australia replied, “We’re only interested in looking after child rapists.” As a result, this courageous crusader is likely to die in jail, while some ...
• Top 10 Catholic Excuses For Doing Absolutely N ...
  Priests at the pulpit do it. Catholic apologists do it mindlessly, understanding little. Cardinals and Bishops exploit their influence to do it to as many people as possible. The Vatican does little else. With alarming regularity and very little variation, they all trot out the same set of tired ...
• Gentle Slap on the Wrist and Comfy Retirement ...
  Details were revealed this week about the Vatican “taking action” last year against a Dutch Catholic Bishop working in Kenya, who had raped a 14-year-old Masai boy some years earlier while still a priest. So here we have an example of just exactly what the new, recently improved Vatican response ...

WL Central

• 2011-03-26 Letter to the Editor regarding #Ba ...
  TweetDear Editor: [IMAGE OF AHMAD FARHAN SEEN BELOW WITHHELD ABOVE FOLD ] People of Bahrain are asking individuals to spread the news of the massacre that happened in Bahrain last Tuesday and Wednesday 15 and 16 of March, 2011 by the Saudi army. (Everybody is suspicious of the US blessing on th ...
• 2011-03-25 'This Week in WikiLeaks' Podcast - ...
  TweetLast week, “This Week in WikiLeaks” took the week off. The host Kevin Gosztola participated in a WikiLeaks panel at the Left Forum in New York City. I appeared with Danny Schechter, who can be found at MediaChannel.org. The panel looked at what has been revealed by WikiLeaks and had extra ...
• 2011-03-25: WikiLeaks in today's media: Cableg ...
  TweetThe Telegraph: BP's German Khan sees Godfather films as 'manual for life' "German Khan, one of the central figures in oil gaint BP’s operations in Russia, told executives that The Godfather films were his “manual for life”. At the time, the reports on Mr Khan, the billionaire founder of the ...
• 2011-03-25 NYU Law School Panel on the 'Anxiet ...
  TweetA major panel discussion was recently put on by New York University Law. The panel featured various law, Internet, journalism and national security experts discussing WikiLeaks' release of State Department cables. The individuals at the panel included: Simon Chesterman, Global Professor of ...
• 2011-03-24 Does Gaddafi Have Chemical Weapons ...
  TweetWith a military intervention by Western powers underway to supposedly protect Libyan civilians from Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, one might wonder what Gaddafi’s next move might be. His behavior during speeches prior to the intervention demonstrated Gaddafi is an erratic individual. He has ...

U N News

• UN official welcomes US-Brazilian cooperation ...
  The head of the United Nations International Labour Organization (ILO) has welcomed an agreement between Brazil and the United States to promote the cooperation of all States in the global efforts to ensure that people have decent employment and that the rights of workers are respected.
• As Haitians await results of election, UN call ...
  The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti has called on all candidates in yesterday's run-off presidential and legislative elections and their followers to show patience and restraint as they wait for the results of the vote, saying the future of the impoverished country is at stake.
• UN human rights experts study more than 200 ca ...
  The United Nations human rights experts tasked with assisting families determine the fate or whereabouts of disappeared relatives examined over 200 cases during its recent session held in Mexico City, and is now conducting a mission to learn about Mexico's efforts in dealing with the issue.
• Haiti&#39s presidential poll offers &#39histor ...
  A day before Haitians head to the polls to vote for a new president, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged them to “take full advantage of this historic opportunity to shape the future of their country.”
• Haiti: UN mission urges mass voter turnout for ...
  Haiti's political stability and economic reconstruction depends in part on as large a turnout as possible during this weekend's run-off round of presidential elections, the United Nations peacekeeping mission said today as it urged citizens to go to the polls en masse.

Conspiracy Reality TV

• Mystery Missile Launch, Big Pharma Begins Micr ...
  Once activated by stomach acid, the embedded microchip begins sensing its environment and broadcasting data to a receiver worn by the patient. This receiver is also a transmitter that can send the data over the internet to a doctor.
• 7/7: Seeds of Deconstruction
  The British Government's story of what happened, how, and why is contained in three reports comprising just over 200 pages. There is virtually no forensic physical evidence in the public domain. The first two reports were published simultaneously in 2006, ten months after 7/7. One was a home off ...
• The Absurdity Of Starting A Small Business In ...
  In the 1950s only about 1 in 20 Americans needed the government blessing to do their job. Today, that number is more than 1 in 3. And government puts all kinds of requirements on would be entrepreneurs making it harder for these entrepreneurs to start and grow small businesses.
• CIA Whistleblower: “Heart Attack Gun”
  Senator: Does this pistol fire the dart? CIA Dir: Yes, it does, Mr. Chairman, and a special one was developed which potentially would be able to enter the target without perception.
• Naked Truth Behind Body Scanners
  He's abusing his relationship with the public by pretending to be a public servant and talking about how these back-scatter scanners are going to make us safer? He stands to benefit because he's getting payed by the manufacturing companies to go all over the networks saying that these scanners a ...

Rewilding Institute

• Victory in the Southern Ocean Day for the Whales
  From Captain Paul Watson It’s official – The Japanese whaling fleet has called it quits in the Southern Ocean. At least for this season. If they return next season the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society will be ready to resume our efforts to obstruct and disable Japanese whaling operations. “Th ...
• Conservation News Brief
  Captain Paul Watson to arrive in Australia for final preparations for Operation Musashi Friday Harbor, WA – Just days after reaffirming that they will head to the Southern Oceans alone to defend the whales in the Antarctic Whale Sanctuary, even after Greenpeace and the Australian government h ...
• Whaling Opponents Collide at Sea
  On board the Steve Irwin in the Ross Sea –February 6th, 2009, 0800 Hours (Sydney Time)  February 5th, 2009 1300 Hours (PST), 75 Degrees 44 Minutes South and 165 Degrees 39 Minutes West The Sea Shepherd ship Steve Irwin collided with the Yushin Maru No.2 this morning in the Ross Sea as the harpo ...
• Dave Foreman’s Recent Speech At Nebraska Wesle ...
  Here’s a great speech Dave did in Nebraska recently. Fetzer Lecture Rewilding North America THURSDAY, MARCH 26 Click Here To Listen In!
• New Website All About Mexican Gray Wolves!
  There are only 52 Mexican gray wolves in the wilds of Arizona and New Mexico. The Rewilding Institute has joined with local, regional, and national conservation, scientific, and sportsmen’s organizations, and concerned citizens in launching a new website, mexicanwolves.org, to help save this hig ...

Asia Sentinel

• Book Review: A Battling Former Prime Minister' ...
  A Doctor in the House: The Memoirs of Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad. MPH Group Publishing. RM100. Available at local bookstores.
• Hero's Burial for Marcos?
  Sentimental Filipinos would like to inter the dictator in a hallowed graveyard
• Asians March Into Africa
  China, India and Brazil target Mozambique for energy and strategic reasons
• The Roots of Fukushima
  The nuclear safety problems in Japan go back a long way to the start of the industry
• Gloria Loses an Ally In the Philippines
  Impeachment of Ombudsman demonstrates President Aquino's growing clout, Arroyo's waning power

We Know the Lies

• 10 Reasons Why You Need To Get Rid of Your Mi ...
  �From the conclusions of the Swiss, Russian and German scientific clinical studies, we can no longer ignore the microwave oven sitting in our kitchens... ~ Videos read more
• Codex Alimentarius and the Irradiation of U. ...
  I have written several articles dealing with the risk assessment methods used by Codex Alimentarius in order to water down the levels of nutrition available in vitamin and mineral supplements, as well as the potential removal of many supplements from the market entirely. All of this is of vital ...
• Japan Nuclear Disaster and Its Implications of ...
  What will the effects of the radiation that has been released on the long term? Thousands have died since Chernobyl while the government continues to cover up that disaster. ~ Christopher Everard - Video read more
• Sacrificing Privacy = Gun Registration
  �Just as the founding fathers warned, when you attempt to trade liberty for freedom, you get neither (nor do you DESERVE any � their words). ~ MadArizonan read more
• European Parliament Issues Warnings on HAARP
  “HAARP is a project of which the public is almost completely unaware, and this needs to be remedied.”read more

Tatumba 2.0

• Charlie Sheen – A WINNER – Fires Truth Torpedo ...
  This why I love Charlie Sheen. This guy can lift the veil off of the corruption that the mainstream media keeps over the fluoridated media zombie’s eyes in a verbose and oh-so-eloquent way. Here Charlie vents to David Degraw about the financial tyranny consuming our wealth, resources and freedom ...
• The Fluoride Deception: the truth about water ...
  The Fluoride Deception is the latest mini documentary from Mike Adams, executive director of the Consumer Wellness Center. Through the use of animation and motion graphics, he exposes the truth about where fluoride really comes from: The toxic byproducts of the phosphate mining industry! Do your ...
• Alex Jones On The View
  Alex Jones On The View? Who would have thunk it? Alex Jones was on The View and blasted truth at 30 million viewers. Alex Jones goes prime-time speaking to the Yentas on The View. It is nice to see Alex getting a chance to blast some truth to the 30 million or more sheep that [...] Related ...
• Site Upgrade Completed
  I am pleased to announce that I have upgraded to a faster server. The following explains what I went through / am still going through to make this happen: Please recycle. Don't throw away your peels Related posts:Site Upgrades Coming Hello This site may be offline on a temporary basis... Site Im ...
• The Charlie Sheen Test
  I want you to take a test. This is called The Charlie Sheen Test. To take this test please grab a pen and a piece of paper. Now count to 10. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Now I want you to write down the first word that comes to mind [...] Related posts:Charlie Veitch vs. McDonald’s Trying to stop p ...

Truth About Our World

• Bright Idea? Scientists Say Women Should Take ...
  An irresponsible and biased recommendation from British scientists encourages women to take the dangerous drug tamoxifen for at least five years, ironically to prevent death. Many women come to their senses and choose not to finish their course of tamoxifen treatment after experiencing unpleasan ...
• Junk Science Update: Hot Dogs and Deli Meats A ...
  The key word here is JUNK science… According to the astute researchers from Kansas State University, hot dogs, as well as pepperoni and deli meats, are relatively free of carcinogenic compounds. That’s right! No need to fret about that juicy sausage or turkey deli meat anymore because J. Scott S ...
• More than 2,000 vaccinated babies died: The co ...
  by: Neil Z. Miller Earlier this month (March 2011), Japanese authorities ordered doctors to stop using pneumococcal and Hib vaccines because four children died after receiving the shots. However, the real news was never reported: more than 2,000 babies died in the United States after receiving v ...
• Nuclear Armageddon
  by Mark Sircus � None of us could have calculated in our wildest dreams the likes of what is happening and still yet to happen in northern Japan. The 9.0-magnitude quake and tsunami laid waste to Japan�s industrial northeast on March 11 triggered a huge nuclear disaster. Many of us feared someth ...
• Blinded by Science
  Fantastic! I highly recommend you check out this link: http://www.blindedbyscience.co.uk   Dr. Carolyn Dean   When I wrote my book,Death by Modern Medicine: Seeking Safe Solutions, I listed the dozen different ways that modern medicine had betrayed the public. It’s a book that exposes all that’ ...

Bloomberg

• At Motorola, "a Hop in Everybody's Step"
  CEO Ed Zander admits he hasn't checked every box on his to-do list. But he's happy to take credit for kick-starting innovation
• S&P Keeps Hold Opinion on Autodesk
  Analyst Jonathan Rudy says the company's July-quarter results beat his forecasts. Plus: analysts' opinions on Gap, AnnTaylor, and more
• HP's New and Steady Hand
  The computer maker's latest results underscore CEO Mark Hurd's emphasis on execution -- and an apparent return to basics
• Google Buys Android for Its Mobile Arsenal
  The search giant quietly acquires the startup, netting possibly a key player in its push into wireless, "the next frontier in search"
• Merck Tumbles on Texas Verdict
  Autodesk posts strong profits, Gap lowers outlook for the year, and more of Friday's stocks in the news

Enviroblog

• Chromium-6 in Gas Drilling Wastes?
  By Nils Bruzelius, EWG Executive Editor The boom in natural gas drilling across the United States has spawned well-warranted fears that the fluids and chemicals used to free the gas from surrounding rock could pose a risk to drinking water... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my webs ...
• Labor camps? Fine. But BPA crosses the line.
  By Alex Formuzis, EWG Vice President for Media Relations China: Where anyone who speaks out against the government will likely languish for years in a prison cell; Where crackdowns on the press and Internet access happen again and again; Where... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my ...
• Hold the Applause
  By Jane Houlihan, EWG Senior Vice President for Research Two weeks ago (Feb. 17), fellow activists proclaimed the upbeat news that the European Union had banned xylene and five other toxic chemicals that pose risks to human health and the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my websi ...
• Dr. Oz Talks Toxics in Our Drinking Water
  In February, our friend Dr. Oz dedicated an entire show to the safety of the nation's drinking water. On the air, he revealed the results of the 'Dr. Oz National Tap Water Test' - a hands-on water testing experiment undertaken... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full ...
• EWG testifying on behalf of clean drinking wat ...
  By Leeann Brown, Press SecretaryEnvironmental Working Group's Senior Counsel Dusty Horwitt made his fourth appearance today (March 1, 2011) before the New York City Council's Committee on Environmental Protection to highlight the risks posed by the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visi ...

Quick Hits

• More Teachers Being Replaced By Technology
  The neoliberal wetdream coming to fruition. From Fast Company: Districts all over are experimenting with teacher-less computer labs and green-lighting entire classrooms of adult-supervised children exploring the Internet--an Android powered tablet designed specifically for students. Teachers' u ...
• Food costs at record levels, likely to go higher
  MANILA/MILAN (Reuters) - World food prices hit a record in January and recent catastrophic weather around the globe could put yet more pressure on the cost of food, an issue that has already helped spark protests across the Middle East. Up for the seventh month in a row, the closely watched Food ...
• Shell makes $2,208,480 (£1.6m) an hour, [Clue ...
  http://www.guardian.co.uk/busi...   The Guardian in Britain says calmly:Shell stoked up the heated debate about the high cost of fuel on the forecourt today after reporting it made profits of nearly £1.6m an hour over the last three months.A leading member of the road lobby said motorists would ...
• Gallup Helps Explain Egyptian/Tunisia Uprisings
  Wellbeing in Egypt and Tunisia decreased significantly over the past few years, even as GDP increased. In Egypt, where demonstrations have prompted President Hosni Mubarak to give up power after elections this fall, the percentage of people "thriving" fell by 18 percentage points since 2005. In ...
• Wallace Shawn: Are You Smarter Than Thomas Jef ...
  The Grand Nagus speaks! At Tom Dispatch.com.

Capital - NYC

• Between the 2011 Mets and the abyss: The Chris ...
  PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla.—The crowd of 6,000-odd committed Mets fans at Digital Domain Park seemed to be at war with itself, fresh-start optimism straining to overcome the disappointment of the past few seasons. Still, as the Met hits piled up, even some hardene ...
• Good deeds and resignation: Bill Forsyth and t ...
  Comfort and Joy is a comedy about a Scottish DJ who settles a dispute between warring ice cream distributors. The film, by Bill Forsyth, perfectly encapsulates his blue-collar, hubris-deflating philosophy of life, premised on the notion that random circumst ...
• What happens if you smash Katie Holmes togethe ...
  Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
• Stray observations on Elizabeth Taylor
  My father was born in 1939 and so was an aware person during most of Liz Taylor's career, whereas I was only really cognizant of her as a contemporary in her big-haired crazy days, doddering around with Michael Jackson and being an admirable champion of AID ...
• F.A.Q.: Is there such a thing as a rational de ...
  Andrew: She told me, "For me, it's first things first." There's an appeal to that argument—I can see why she's had some much success in bringing others along with her. On the other hand, is this present moment making teaching an appealing profession to ente ...

Views & News from Norway

• Bombing makes Norway a terror goal
  Norway’s participation in the bombing of Libyan targets likely will make the country a terrorist target itself if dictator Moammar Gadhafi continues as Libya’s leader, according to Libya’s former ambassador to the US. Ali Suleiman Aujali told Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) on Saturday that Gadhafi ...
• Norway’s F16s bomb Libyan targets
  Norwegian fighter jets bombed new targets in Libya during the night, as they took part in a second round of assaults that started Friday. Political support for Norway’s participation in the UN-backed international coalition trying to contain Libya’s regime remains high. Norwegian Broadcasting (N ...
• Palace confirms royal US tour
  Norway’s King Harald and Queen Sonja will set off on a 12-day official visit to the US this fall, visiting New York and the Midwest, where many Norwegian immigrants settled a century ago. Plans for the trip have been known for months, but the palace confirmed this week that it will take place Oc ...
• Statoil slammed over gas leak
  Norway’s state-owned oil and gas enterprise Statoil has come in for more withering criticism, this time over an accident on another of its North Sea platforms, Gullfaks B. Regulators and their investigators are scolding the company for its “serious shortcomings” and failure to learn from earlier ...
• Immigrants’ language lessons doubled
  The required hours of Norwegian language and social studies lessons for immigrants will be doubled from 300 to 600 hours in 2012, the Norwegian government has confirmed. As well as an increase in the length of supervision, immigrants will also have to take an obligatory test on completion of th ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

• Looking Back on the Natural Building Course in ...
  The first blocks coming out of the machine We just finished the first Natural Building workshop at the Jordan demonstration site of the Permaculture Research Institute — the Jordan Valley Permaculture Project (aka ‘Greening the Desert’, the sequel). This workshop was co-taught by Hamzah Abu-Rag ...
• The Sacred Suenos Andean Regeneration Project, ...
  Some days, says Yves, it’s like this, “dammit, the donkey just stepped on my foot and the goats ate my broccoli, but damn, look at that sunset!” Not too long ago, I had the opportunity to volunteer on Yves’ and Jen’s Sacred Suenos project. It is located on a mountainside near Vilcabamba in sout ...
• Steve Marsh Benefit Concert – Stand Up to Mons ...
  Photo credit: Marie Nirme Hello All GM-free people everywhere Stand up to Monsanto! A benefit concert for organic farmer Steve Marsh 7pm – midnight, Saturday 16th April Fly By Night, Fremantle, Western Australia An exciting event is coming up in Freemantle, Western Australia. It’s an April 16 ...
• What To Do With Nuclear Boy?
  Given recent events in Japan, I wanted to broach the somewhat controversial topic of nuclear fission power plants, and the following video (thanks Thomas) — making the Fukushima nuclear situation a little easier for even little Japanese children to comprehend — makes a good lead-in to the topi ...
• Can the United States Feed China?
  by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute In 1994, I wrote an article in World Watch magazine entitled “Who Will Feed China?” that was later expanded into a book of the same title. When the article was published in late August, the press conference generated only moderate coverage. But when i ...

Telecrap Urinal

• US Soldier Waterboards His 4-Year Old Daughter
  Can you believe this? A US soldier, upset that his 4-year old daughter could not recite the alphabet, waterboarded her. He knew that she was afraid of water and that is why he chose this form of punishment. Related posts:Cops Bust Up Frail 84-Year Old Woman With Alzheimers Local Blogger Catche ...
• Fish Hat Pope – Wake Up Soon
  Studio version of Fish Hat Pope' song 'Wake Up Soon' (altered lyrics to sunny afternoon by The Kinks!) Fish Hat Pope performed this live at the British Constitution Group meeting in London on Oct 31st 2009. Related posts:A little sniff for the dog mate? – Everything is OK Whistle Blowers W ...
• US Government: Why we let the Underwear Bomber ...
  The US Government now admits that they allowed the Underwear Bomber to board the Christmas Flight from Amsterdam to Detroit. Related posts:BREAKING NEWS: US Government Admits It Helped Underwear Bomber Board Plane Extensive Interview with Kurt Haskell – Witness to Underwear Bomber Flight 253: ...
• United Breaks Guitars – Don’t mess ...
  Well the United Airlines baggage handlers broke the guitar in to two pieces. Then Mr. Carroll complained to United and it fell on deaf ears. Because of that he vowed to write three songs about their callous disregard and uncaring attitude. Related posts:United We Fall – Canada is a figment of ...
• Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth by Ric ...
  9/11 was an inside job. Nano thermite and thermate were used to pulverize these buildings, and in the process murdered thousands of innocent people. Related posts:Nigerian Man is a Al-CIA-Duh Terrorist – USA Caught in False-Flag Terror Plot National Security Alert from the CIT Climategate Scan ...

Anna's News

• Computer Chips Wired With Nerve Cells
  This technology could pave the way for melding minds with machines.Nerve cell tendrils readily thread their way through tiny semiconductor tubes, researchers find, forming a crisscrossed network like vines twining towards the sun. Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add ...
• World mourns loveable polar bear Knut
  The only polar bear to ever be raised entirely by humans�and to have his own Vanity Fair cover photo shoot�died suddenly on Saturday in front of hundreds of his many fans. Knut was only four years old when he collapsed, leaving grieving admirers all over Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals �|� � ...
• Meet NASA's Shuttle Rocket Retrieval Ships
  On Friday, NASA released a fascinating video from one of the lesser-known components of the soon-to-retire shuttle program.Shot by high-definition cameras from the decks of NASA's two solid rocket booster (SRB) retrieval ships, the Liberty Star...........Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & Tech ...
• 40 Surprising Products That Are No Longer Made ...
  The recession helped bury the existing manufacturing industry in the United States, but corporations have been abandoning American factories for years. Many iconic American products aren't even made in this country anymore and are assembled and produced Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �Not ...
• Indian youth suicide crisis baffles
  Here on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, a spasm of youth suicides had caused alarm and confusion even before Chelle's death.The Follettes had talked with her about other local children who had killed themselves. Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Medical Marijuana

• 3/24/11 - Should gay marriage be legal?
  gaymarriage.procon.org - NEW: Should gay marriage be legal? - Read pro and con arguments from Lambda Legal, American Bar Association, Andrew Sullivan, Dick Cheney, Maggie Gallagher, Michael Steele, George W. Bush, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and 19 other scholars, politicia ...
• 3/9/11 - 34 States with Death Penalty / 41 Fed ...
  deathpenalty.procon.org - UPDATED: 34 States with Death Penalty / 41 Federal Capital Crimes - On Mar. 9, 2011, Illinois Governor Pat Quinn (D) signed legislation to repeal the state's death penalty statute. Illinois joins 15 other states and the District of Columbia that do not have capital crim ...
• 2/25/11 - NEW: History of the Individual Healt ...
  healthcarereform.procon.org - NEW: History of the Individual Health Insurance Mandate, 1989-2010: Republican Origins of Democratic Health Care Provision - Republicans oppose the Mar. 2010 health care reforms for many reasons, especially the provision creating an individual health care mandate w ...
• 2/23/11 - Vaccines ProCon.org - US Supreme Cou ...
  vaccines.procon.org - UPDATED: Vaccines ProCon.org - On Feb. 22, 2011, the US Supreme Court ruled that vaccine injury claims must continue to be filed with the US Court of Federal Claims and cannot be filed directly against physicians or vaccine manufacturers in civil court.
• 2/23/11 - Barack Obama Declares Defense of Mar ...
  gaymarriage.procon.org - Barack Obama Declares Defense of Marriage Act Unconstitutional - President Obama directed the Department of Justice today to stop defending in court the law that prevents gay marriage.

Information Underground

• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  -2 points, and you've had what 4 posts since and you still cannot answer them?? 'Evolution. Natural selection' already told you how they cannot explain them. Please try to read the posts before you go ahead and think you know the answer. -If Hogwarts had an emissary that 2000 years ago told ...
• Zionist Influence/Power • Re: Borne by the USA
  Scotty wrote: I don’t want to sound defeatist, or jinx it, so I will live in the hope that Americans are too strong, too smart and too many to allow the ‘Son’s of Belial’ to have the last say or realize their dastardly dream of global domination. It is up to this generation to wrest power from ...
• Zionist Influence/Power • Re: Jew Sarah Jessic ...
  OH MAN BARF ! you think she uses tooth-whitener ?Statistics: Posted by abduLMaria — Sat Mar 26, 2011 3:14 pm
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  This is essentially what disingenuous religious quacks do to rationalize a delusional belief. Let's say I am holding a box and I tell someone standing beside me there is a unicorn in this box. He doesn't believe me, and rightly so because I have not provided any evidence for my claim. Then the ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Upon reading our last entry, it's clear that we, too, think it's important to break through obstacles, and form a more effective movement. "Time is of the essence" is surely what we've just emphasized. This means yes: to get past the divisive factors, and network with truth seekers to get the m ...

TVNZ

• Protests and shooting in Syria as unrest spreads
  President Bashar al-Assad faced the deepest crisis of his 11 years in power today.
• West targets Libyan forces in bid to end stalemate
  Western warplanes bombed Muammar Gaddafi's tanks and artillery in eastern Libya.
• Radiation spikes in seawater by stricken Japan ...
  Radioactivity levels are soaring in seawater near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi plant.
• Japanese worker inside stricken reactor recall ...
  Hiroyuki Nishi narrowly escaped death the day the monster earthquake struck Japan two weeks ago when a 200-ton hook on a crane came crashing down a mere two meters (6 feet) from him during the convulsions
• Canadian government falls, election set for May
  The opposition has toppled Canada's Conservative government accusing it of sleaze and mismanagement, setting the scene for a May election that polls indicate the Conservatives will win

environment 360

• Low Arctic Winter Ice; Polar Region Experience ...
  The maximum extent of winter sea ice in the Arctic, reached earlier this month, tied for the lowest maximum ever measured, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado. This year, maximum sea ice extent in the Click to enlarge National Snow and Ice D ...
• Rare Pacific Kingfisher Is Focus of Restoratio ...
  Researchers at the University of Missouri are working with residents and farmers on a remote South Pacific island to save the highly endangered Tuamoto kingfisher from extinction. Only 125 of the kingfishers — which have evolved in isolation over tens of thousands of years — remain, living on th ...
• Large Expansion of Forests in Europe, North Am ...
  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 the United Kingdom — since 1990, a UN report says. In Europe alone, forested areas increased by 17 million ...
• Anatomy of a Nuclear Crisis: A Chronology of F ...
  The world’s worst nuclear reactor mishap in 25 years was caused by a massive natural calamity but compounded by what appear to be surprising mistakes by Japanese engineers. The result has been a fast-moving disaster that has left officials careening from one emergency to the next. BY DAVID BIELLO
• Examining the Missteps In Japan’s Nuclear Crisis
  A leading U.S. expert on nuclear energy discusses some of the fundamental failures that led to the intensifying nuclear drama in Japan and looks at what might lie in store for nuclear power worldwide.

oldephartte/Diigo

• Stagecraft and Statecraft
  Tags: strategic studies nuclear arms threat assessment geopolitics foreign ...
• Land Destroyer
  Tags: geopolitics nwo oligarchy war Great Game
• International Institute for Strategic Studies ...
  Tags: military deployment strategic assets
• AcademicBlogs
  Tags: wiki index academia blogs educational_initiatives
• Good Jobs First
  Tags: jobs corruption tracking payola corporate control graft scams

backofthebook

• The Conservatives’ cupcake budget
  By Montreal Simon OMG. I was watching the Evan Solomon show today, and there was Julie Fantino making a complete idiot out of himself, by dismissing this poll of CARP members: 62% say it is NOT a budget which benefits older Canadians. 58% say they do NOT agree with the budget overall. ...
• 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 ...

Daily Beast

• Minnesota: Michele Bachmann's Loony State
  As Michele Bachmann and Tim Pawlenty flirt with 2012 presidential runs, their Minnesota roots are poised to embarrass them. John Avlon on how the GOP turned a former swing state into wingnut territory. Minnesota is a swing state, and its pendulum has...
• New Orleans' Mardi Gras for Entrepreneurs
  With its third annual Entrepreneur Week, New Orleans is ready to establish itself as the nation's model of entrepreneurship and innovation. Catherine Lyons on the post-Katrina startup culture in the Big Easy. New Orleans, long a magnet for those in...
• Gay Immigrants' Same-Sex Marriage Lifeline
  With Obama no longer supporting the Defense of Marriage Act, deportation cases involving same-sex unions may have been put on hold. Mike Giglio reports exclusively on gay and lesbian immigrants' new cause for hope. Josh Vandiver, a graduate student at...
• Famous Babies: Where Are They Now?
  The Afro-sporting baby featured on Notorious B.I.G.'s 1994 debut album cover was just revealed to be a regular kid in the Bronx. From the legendary face of Gerber to Baby Jessica, see how these unforgettable infants grew up. Gallery: Famous Babies:...
• Domonique Ramirez and More Stars Fired for Bei ...
  Size-2 beauty queen Domonique Ramirez just had her crown reinstated after she lost it for being "overweight." From Ryan Gosling to Kirstie Alley and the first Ronald McDonald, see others who got pink slips over their weight. Gallery: Fired for Being...

Loonwatch

• What the Quran-bashers Don’t Want You to ...
  International Judge a Koran Day just passed...is it time now for International Judge a Bible Day? We could make it a four day holiday.
• GOP Presidential Candidate “Resents&#822 ...
  When it comes to Muslims, some Americans are just more equal than others...
• “Kill Teams” in Afghanistan Target ...
  Kill Teams targeting Afghan civilians for sport, how many more are there Afghans want to know?
• Spencer’s Radicalized Mosque Claim Gets ...
  Spencer's evidence for claiming that 80% of American mosques are radicalized gets debunked.
• US Army ‘kill team’ in Afghanistan ...
  In Afghanistan soldiers pose with dead civilians, could be worse than Abu Ghuraib.

Energy News

• Person living 170 miles from Fukushima shows & ...
  "Experts have so far been unable to explain why their radiation levels were so high as they are not believed to have been close to the stricken plant" ...Read More
• Nuclear Forecast: Radioactive particles appear ...
  Fukushima potential releases of Xe-133 from 0 to 100 meters above sea level March ...Read More
• “Definite”: Fukushima No. 3 has &# ...
  “The problem with cracks is they do not get smaller.” ...Read More
• “No end in sight for radioactive release ...
  IAEA: No end in sight for radioactive releases at Fukushima, Deutsche Presse-Agentur, March 25, ...Read More
• ALERT: “Highly radioactive water was lat ...
  Fresh coolant injected, high-radiation water leaks in nuke crisis, Kyodo, March 26, 2011 at 12:12 pm EDT ...Read More

Japan Times

• Signs of disaster were there to see
  On Feb. 23, 2005, Kobe University professor Katsuhiko Ishibashi appeared before the Lower House Budget Committee and pointed out the risks of operating nuclear power plants in earthquake-prone Japan. "An earthquake and its seismic thrust can hit multiple parts (of a nuclear plant)" and induce ...
• Iwate evacuees apply for housing
  RIKUZENTAKATA, Iwate Pref. (Kyodo) This city, one of the hardest hit on the Pacific coast by the March 11 catastrophe, on Saturday became the first municipality in the quake zone to take applications for temporary housing. Residents are pinning their hopes on a chance to get away from the awkw ...
• Level of iodine-131 in seawater off chart
  The level of radioactive iodine detected in seawater near the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant was 1,250 times above the maximum level allowable, the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said Saturday, in a development that indicates contamination from the ruined reactors is spreading. Toky ...
• Prices fell 0.3% in February but rise may be i ...
  Deflation moderated in February even before the country's worst earthquake on record and the ensuing tsunami and nuclear crisis this month push up energy and food costs. Consumer prices excluding fresh food declined 0.3 percent from a year earlier, the statistics bureau said Friday, matching t ...
• Food's safe, secure reputation at risk in Asia
  Japanese food products have long been regarded as synonymous with "safety" and "security" in other parts of Asia, but their reputation is now at stake as radioactive materials far exceeding legal limits have been found in farm produce. The detection of radioactive materials prompted the U.S. F ...

  Blacklisted News

• US Jesuits agree $166 million abuse payout
  A US Jesuit order has agreed to pay $166.1 million to compensate nearly 500 victims of decades-long "horrific" sexual and psychological abuse by priests in five US states, lawyers said Friday.
• The cockfighting raid on a small farm that re ...
  His windows were broken and his front gate was bashed in after the raid. Neighbour Debra Ross saw what happened and was so shocked that she called 911.
• Libyan rebel commander admits his fighters ha ...
  Mr al-Hasidi insisted his fighters "are patriots and good Muslims, not terrorists," but added that the "members of al-Qaeda are also good Muslims and are fighting against the invader".
• Opposition is a conglomeration of Western-bac ...
  "A prominent Syrian opposition figure says the country is "a bomb, ready to explode" as protesters demand freedom and an end to president Bashar al-Assad's "cancerous regime,"" reports Australia's ABC News. This prominent Syrian opposition figure is "human rights activist" Haitham Maleh, of the ...
• American Interventionism: Protecting the Prof ...
  Why America is really so concerned about the push for democracy in the Middle East.

The Intelligence Daily

• The Elephant in the Room – Population
  by Luke Eastwood Simply mention the word ‘population’ and some people get into an immediate state...
• IntelFilter — March 21, 2011
  Today in History March 21, 1965 – Martin Luther King Jr. leads 3,200 people on the start of the...
• Libya: Obama’s Latest, AFRICOM’s First, NATO’s ...
  By Rick Rozoff Following similar developments in neighboring Tunisia and Egypt, anti-government...
• Calculating calamity: Japan’s nuclear accident ...
  By Kurt Cobb Famed student of risk and probability and author of The Black Swan Nassim Nicholas...
• Bad to Worse in Japan
  by Stephen Lendman It bears repeating. Government, industry, and major media reports downplay and...

My AntiWar

• Obama Under Pressure to Find Exit Strategy as ...
• Iraqi Air Force Conducts First Solo Hellfire M ...
• Elderly Man Dies in ‘Day of Rage’ ...
• Pakistan: Benazir’s Killers Arrested, Wi ...
• Rep. Holt Remains Skeptical About Conclusions ...

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

• Obama fans flames of animosity in Tehran
  Summary: "Obama's paternalistic tone reminds many Iranians of the imperialist language that previous US presidents used when speaking about Iran and someone should remind Mister Obama that no one has selected him as the president of the world," said a Tehran University political science prof ...
• Russia voices regret over military interventio ...
  Summary: Russia has voiced regret over foreign military intervention in Libya and denounced “indiscriminate” use of force by Western nations in the North African country. source: Hinduread more
• Iranian arms to Syria? The Israeli media can't ...
  Summary: The Jerusalem Post ran a story about an Iranian aircraft that was commanded to land in Turkey by Turkish authorities as it was en route to Syria. The photo accompanying the story showed an Iran Air Boeing 747 ‘short’ version Jumbo jet with a collapsed nose wheel with the story cla ...
• US Struggles to Explain Difference Between Bah ...
  Summary: MullenMullen's Surprisingly Honest Answer: Bahrain a Long-Standing Ally source: AntiWar.comread more
• GEORGE GALLOWAY ON LIBYA GADDAFI AND OIL
  Summary: Galloway"We can't stand by and watch Gaddafi attack his own people," says David Cameron. But what's the difference between Libya and the Bahrain king or the Yemen president, both of whom have killed dozens of their people, as they protested for their democratic rights? The answer, s ...

The Daily Galaxy

• MIT's Search for Extra-Terrestrial Mars' Genom ...
  According to many planetary scientists, it's conceivable that all life on Earth is descended from organisms that originated on Mars and were carried here aboard meteorites. If that's the case, an instrument being developed by researchers at MIT and Harvard...
• "Solving the Mysteries of the Cosmos": Have Ev ...
  Mimicing "Deep Thought" in Douglas Adam's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, designed by hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings who wanted to know the answer to 'Life, the Universe, and Everything,' Hod Lipson, director of Cornell University's Computational Synthesis Lab and his graduate...
• 'Space-Time' -Could It Be a Mirage? New Theory ...
  Space-time - that plastic fabric whose geometry can be changed by the gravity of stars, planets and matter - may be no more than a mirage, according to Peter Horava. Horava, who is at the University of California, Berkeley, wants...
• Image of the Day: The Universe Reveals Milky W ...
  Astronomers concluded that the center of the specatacular spiral galaxy, NGC 253, the largest member of the Sculptor Group of Galaxies, the nearest group to our own Local Group of Galaxies, hosts a twin of Sagittarius A*, the bright radio...
• Get Your Daily Dose of Awe @'The Daily Galaxy' ...
  Get The Daily Galaxy in Your Facebook News Feed

Natural News

• Fukushima Reactor No. 3 suffers likely core br ...
  (NaturalNews) The Fukushima situation took a turn for the worse today as two nuclear repair workers stepped into some water at Reactor No. 3 and suffered severe radiation burns requiring immediate hospitalization. The water, it turns out, measures 10,000 times normal radiation levels, and it app ...
• Radioactive fallout from Fukushima approaching ...
  (NaturalNews) Despite all the desperate efforts by world governments to downplay the severity of the release of radioactive material from Fukushima, world radiation sensors are revealing the ugly truth about the Fukushima catastrophe that the nuclear industry doesn't want you to know: The radioa ...
• Ominous smoke plumes, contaminated water and f ...
  (NaturalNews) If you listen purely to what Japanese authorities and officials at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant are saying concerning the unfolding nuclear meltdown situation, you might come away thinking that everything is just fine and under control. But reports continue to flood in ...
• Consumer activists unite to demand labeling of ...
  (NaturalNews) Washington, DC March 14, 2011. A growing number of consumer activists are staging demonstrations all over the US, with the largest so far at the White House on March 26, 2011.They demand labeling of genetically modified foods and they're urging activists around the country to "Rall ...
• Health Ranger to host Alex Jones show this Fri ...
  (NaturalNews) Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, will be hosting the second half of the Alex Jones show this Friday, March 25th, beginning at 12:30 Central Time (1:30 New York time). The show can be heard at www.PrisonPlanet.com and a live show video feed is available to members at www.PrisonPlanet. ...

Threat Level

• WikiLeaks Associates Appeal Twitter Records Demand
  Three WikiLeaks associates entangled in a federal grand jury probe in Virginia asked a federal judge Friday to reverse a ruling that would hand over records of their Twitter use to federal prosecutors, arguing that the ruling violates a federal statute and the constitution. The 41-page filing ( ...
• Tools of Tradecraft: More Spy Gear From the CI ...
  Every good spy story needs a sequel. So in the wake of our recent popular gallery of CIA spy tools we offer Part Deux, which expands the gallery to include tradecraft tools from the former Soviet bloc, all courtesy of the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C.
• Sony Claims PlayStation 3 Hacker Sabotaged Har ...
  Sony is accusing alleged PlayStation 3 hacker George Hotz of surrendering two “nonfunctional” hard drives in violation of a court order, and then taking off to South America. But Hotz’s lawyer said Wednesday that Sony is “crying alligator tears” over the issue. Sony is suing the 21-year-old Glen ...
• Hack Obtains 9 Bogus Certificates for Prominen ...
  In a fresh blow to the fundamental integrity of the internet, a hacker last week obtained legitimate web certificates that would have allowed him to impersonate some of the top sites on the internet, including the login pages used by Google, Microsoft and Yahoo e-mail customers. The hacker, who ...
• Is Zediva’s New-Release Movie Streaming Servic ...
  Zediva — a new online movie service that gets around the need for studio licensing deals by renting users a physical disk and DVD player from afar — has proven to be a hit with users, which have stormed the startup since its launch last week. While Zediva’s popularity with public is clear, the l ...

PERRspectives : Blog

• Meet the Republican Freedom of Information Frauds
  In October 2001, President Bush's Attorney General John Ashcroft reversed 35 years of White House practice regarding Freedom of Information Act requests. For the first time since the passage of the Act, disclosure became the exception to the rule. As Dick Cheney's secret energy task force, 22 ...
• After Attacking Hillary for It, Palin to Stop ...
  On Wednesday, Sarah Palin made what history will soon record as the shortest-lived promise in American political history. Last night, Palin pledged to Fox News colleague Greta Van Susteren, "I'm through whining about a liberal press." Of course, when the half-term governor claimed, "it doesn't ...
• RIP: GOP "Repeal and Replace" of Health Care Law
  A year after President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law, comically dire Republican predictions of an "Armageddon" which will "ruin our country" and mean "a lot of people are going to die" have not come to pass. Of course, that didn't stop Mitt Romney from marking the anniversary by ...
• Take the Tax Quiz!
  And now for today's quiz. You are a member of Congress. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) tells you that as a percentage of American gross domestic product, total taxes in the U.S. are at their lowest level since 1950. The nation is fighting two wars (and now, arguably a third), conflicts ...
• Visiting Israel, Sarah Palin Has a Jewish Prob ...
  With her visit to Israel, Sarah Palin is going for a Republican twofer. Hoping to burnish her non-existent foreign policy credentials, Palin is simultaneously making what after going to Iowa and New Hampshire may be the most important pilgrimage for any aspiring GOP White House hopeful. But wh ...

Blackspot News Feed

• What to Do About Japan - And What Not
  Anyone watching the devastation in Japan must certainly wonder what we as individuals should be doing to help. For some insight, we turn to Richard Walden, a most unusual leader of a most unusual humanitarian relief group, called Operation USA. His organization’s efforts are well known to WhoWha ...
• The FANTASTIC FOUR Remake/Remodel
  So every few weeks I do a game on my message board where I set up the conditions for doing a visual revamp on an old character or title from books and comics and let artists go at it for one week. This week I said this: You are an artist/designer. You have to put [...]
• Protectionism After the Crisis: The Case of La ...
  It is accepted wisdom that protectionism is a first gut reaction in times of crisis, but there are few studies on how different countries react to get themselves over the hump. What did we see this time when the global financial crisis hit in late 2008? After six years of expanding on an annual ...
• Treason Has No Rhyme Nor Reason
  Julian Assange asks why shouldn't the Australian people consider charging Prime Minister Julia Gillard with treason? What's wrong with this picture? Nothing. Granted, one person's Benedict Arnold is another's Paul Revere. But, if betrayal and illegally passing on intelligence to the United State ...
• Manning's Appeal of Refusal to Relax Condition ...
  Bradley Manning's appeal of the refusal to relax his conditions of confinement makes a strong case that he has been a model prisoner who is being unjustly abused. His inhumane treatment violates his due process rights and is cruel and unusual punishment. After providing detailed descriptions of ...

Consortium News

• The Neocons Regroup on Libyan War
  Neocons want a robust intervention to oust Libya's Muammar Gaddafi, but ignore terror links of his enemies, reports Robert Parry. March 25, 2011
• 'Theater of the Absurd' Comes to Life
  Absurdity has come to dominate life in the modern world, from Mideast wars to nuclear crises, asserts Danny Schechter. March 26, 2011
• Torture and Bradley Manning
  The pre-trial isolation of alleged WikiLeaks leaker Bradley Manning is a form of psychological torture, says Marjorie Cohn. March 25, 2011
• How Auto Dollars Dictate Coverage
  A flap over a Detroit News car column highlights how auto companies bully news outlets, write Bianca Mugyenyi and Yves Engler. March 24, 2011
• The Race for Solar Energy from Space
  Energy disasters on Earth have spurred new competition for developing solar power from space, reports William John Cox. March 23, 2011

CounterPunch

• :
• :
• Alexander Cockburn : Autumn of the Driveler
• Carl Ginsburg : Life in the Low to Mid-Teens
• Alexander Cockburn : Loose-Lip McChrystal Did ...

Institute for Middle East Understanding

• March 15 and the roots of our struggle (Safa ...
  Despite differing ideologies, all Palestinian factions, whether Islamic, socialist or secular, were born from the collective struggle to liberate an occupied land. Returning to the ro ...
• Suspended in time, Lifta under threat (Jillia ...
  Yacoub Odeh was born in Lifta, a Palestinian village nestled in a hillside northwest of Jerusalem, in 1940. He was eight years old when he and his family were forced from their homes ...
• Palestine and the Egyptian revolution: a view ...
  When I was asked by a solidarity activist about the impact of the end of the Mubarak regime on the Gaza Strip, my immediate answer was that it would definitely mean the end of the dea ...
• Univ. of Arizona students build mock wall to b ...
  Students from the Arizona chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace at the University of Arizona (UA) collaborated with partners in the UA migrant rights group No Más Muertes/No More Deaths ( ...
• Interview: Rula Jebreal on the struggle to mak ...
  Miral, Julian Schnabel's feature film set in Palestine and based on the autobiographical novel of the same name by author and journalist Rula Jebreal, will open in cinemas in ten majo ...

Water - AlterNet

• How a Small Wyoming Town Might Be the First to ...
  Despite the testimonies of the people living by gas drilling, the companies have yet to be held accountable for damages. That might change.
• Is Water The New Oil? "Water Matters&quot ...
  A review of AlterNet's newest book about the global water crisis.
• Big Coal WikiLeaks Emergency in Bangladesh: Do ...
  Why is the Obama administration pushing for an internationally condemned open-pit mine that will displace an estimated 100,000-200,000 villagers and ravage land and water?
• What Would the World Look Like If We Relied on ...
  For the sake of argument let's consider how it might look if industrial agriculture becomes the path humanity chooses to feed itself.
• Using Less Water Is Better for San Francisco
  The U.S. has saved more than 46 billion gallons of water as a result of the millions of high-efficiency toilets.

Public Citizen in Texas

• What I learned at SXSW Interactive 2011
  I’ve just spent the past few days in a dizzying whirl of activity around SXSW Interactive (or SXSWi)- between ACT Lobby Day yesterday and Monday testifying in/monitoring 3 committees on 7 bills, it was tough to make it to everything I wanted, but over the weekend I had some really amazing experi ...
• TLR Rally, PC Activist Andy Wilson confronting ...
  Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:
• March 25th – Still the bill of the day!
  HB 2184 – BAD and moving forward by Lewis HB 2184, by Representative Tyron Lewis (R-Odessa) 512-463-0546, relates to  the disposition of  low-level radioactive waste.  This bill is moving forward and we expect it to move out of committee on Wednesday, March 30th.  At a minimum, Public Citize ...
• Japanese nuclear disaster demands a re-examina ...
  The tragic events unfolding in Japan demand a re-examination of U.S. nuclear policy.  While stocks in nuclear plummet and nuclear industry lobbyists scramble on Capitol Hill to shore up support for massive federal subsidies to kick-start the stagnate industry, concerns regarding the existing agi ...
• CPS halts negotiations with NRG
  San Antonio’s electric utility, CPS, has halted their negotiations on a power purchase agreement between CPS and STP’s expansion units 3 and 4.  CPS’s CEO, Doyle Beneby, announced that CPS and NRG have mutually agreed to terminate their PPA negotiations at this point.  It would appear that t ...

Unexplained Mysteries

• Did we all originate on Mars ?
  One theory suggests that life on Earth developed from organisms that arrived here from the planet Mars. Its not a new idea and is one backed as a poss...
• Mr Spock's ear to be auctioned
  A prosthetic ear worn by Leonard Nimoy for Star Trek: The Motion Picture is to go up for auction. Expected to fetch up to £700 ( $1100 ) the appendage...
• 'Mr Elastic' goes for Guinness world record
  A man with feet so bendy he can rotate them 120 degrees is aiming for a Guinness World Record. The 49-year-old possesses extra tissue and cartilage in...
• Expert claims El Chupacabra mystery solved
  Author Benjamin Radford believes El Chupacabra is but a left-over memory from a science fiction movie. Managing editor of the journal The Skeptical In...
• Jesus crucifixion thorn goes on display
  A thorn claimed to be from the crown Jesus wore during his crucifixion has gone on display in Britain. The relic has a long history, having been seize...

Grassroots

• Keeping the Sacred Waters Flowing
  women_in_the_narmada_valley_face_drowning_in_rising_dam_waters.jpg � Rivers are sacred in many cultures and central to the World�s early civilizations, from Mesopotamia and Egypt to India and China. Perhaps this was on his mind when Jawaha ...
• Farmer Tractorcade Supports Workers in Wisconsin
  Farmers demonstrated the strength of their solidarity with pro-union forces in Wisconsin through the creative force of a “tractorcade,” and the inspiring power of their words and actions. Grassroots International allies from the Family Farm Defenders and the National Family Farm Coalition played ...
• Solidarity and Support for the People of Japan
  Grassroots International joins with those around the world in expressing our sadness and concern for the people of Japan in the wake of the earthquake and subsequent tsunami. Thousands have died, and many more are missing or being evacuated due to ongoing health and safety threats.� While Grass ...
• Program Assistant, Part-time
  Grassroots International seeks an experienced individual to work as an active member of its Program Team. The Program Assistant will provide administrative and other support to the team.�The position is part-time (20-24 hours per week) and will be based in Boston, Massachusetts.We aim to fill th ...
• Charity Ratings: What Does It Mean to See a Fa ...
  Like many other non-profit organizations, last year Charity Navigator lowered our rating from four stars (excellent) to two stars (needs improvement). Since many donors rely on third-party rating services such as Charity Navigator to inform their giving, we would like to offer an explanation.Sin ...

Climate

• Japan Raises Possibility of Breach in Reactor ...
  Source:� New York Times Japan's effort to contain the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant suffered a setback, an official said on Friday, citing evidence that a reactor vessel may have been damaged.
• Japan Disaster Raises Questions About Backup P ...
  Source:� Greenwire The batteries that back up power at most U.S. nuclear plants are required to last about as long as the average cellphone battery -- four hours. Critics say that's not enough.
• Calif. Regulators Scramble in Wake of Court Ru ...
  Source:� Greenwire California's climate law is not in danger of outright reversal following a court decision this week that suspended it, but the cap-and-trade carbon market is in doubt, according to experts.
• Report: EPA Didn't Properly Assess Coal Ash Risks
  Source:� AP The federal government promoted some uses of coal ash, including wallboard or filler in road embankments, without properly testing the environmental risks, according to a report.
• Survey: Religious Blame Climate Change Not Sin ...
  Source:� Denver Post Half of Americans believe in a God who controls everything, yet a new survey finds that most see natural disasters as increasing in severity because of climate change rather than God's wrath.

GreenBiz

• Judge Stalls California Cap-and-Trade Program
  A ruling last week finalizes a tentative decision in lat January that concluded that the state violated the California Environmental Quality Act when it approved a Scoping Plan to carry out the state's climate change law.
• SAP Sustainability Site a Model for Innovative ...
  SAP continues to innovate an already strong reporting platform to include creative use of social media to encourage active dialog.
• Walmart Zero Waste Program a Boon for Texas Re ...
  Walmart needed to find a home for its food waste that didn't involve a landfill. No such infrastructure existed so Walmart built one, with the help of Quest Recycling Services from Frisco, Texas.�
• Teams from Six Major Leagues Form Green Sports ...
  The movement to mainstream environmentalism is looking to score a touchdown with the formation of the Green Sports Alliance. �
• Why Every Company is an Energy Company -- Or W ...
  �Why your company will be an energy company, no matter what you do.

Reuters Global

• On Taliban talks and driving out al Qaeda
  A report by The Century Foundation calling for a political settlement in Afghanistan suggests that Taliban leader Mullah Omar could break with al Qaeda by declaring the jihad over
• United States begins a new war, what happens t ...
  The United States has said the scope of its military intervention in Libya is limited, but it nevertheless raises questions about what happens to the two other wars that it is waging, especially in Afghanistan.
• The “sound and fury” of U.S.-Pakis ...
  The United States and Pakistan are narrowing their differences at a strategic level. But the very noisy row over Raymond Davis may have damaged perceptions
• Keeping Raymond Davis and Lashkar-e-Taiba in p ...
  The row over Raymond Davis is running into arguments over the role of the Lashkar-e-Taiba. But that can be misleading.
• Towards a review of Pakistan’s blasphemy ...
  After two assassinations, Pakistani politicians are finally addressing tensions over Pakistan's blasphemy laws

Booman Tribune

• Government Shutdown? Bring It On!
  With the president trying to deal with three wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya, bitching and moaning among our allies in NATO, a nuclear crisis in Japan, unrest in Bahrain, Oman, Yemen, Jordan, and Syria, an escalation of hostilities between Israel and Hamas, and a delicate situation in Egypt ...
• Attacked for Thinking
  Well, I agree with the critique of the Republicans, anyway... In his deliberative fashion, Obama ultimately saved countless lives in the short term, and will allow the rebels in Libya to own their revolution in the long term, if they can push ahead a big if, of course. In the meantime, the e ...
• Bracketing the GOP Nomination Contest
  Other than Mitt Romney and Tim Pawlenty, it doesn't really look like anyone is serious about winning the Republican nomination. Oh, sure, everyone from Rick Santorum to Donald Trump is talking about running, or, in Newt Gingrich's case, thinking about thinking about forming an exploratory commi ...
• The Stakes in Libya
  I'm not sure what the president's plan is for Libya but one thing that is already obvious is that we're not witnessing something that we're used to seeing. I think Peter Beinart is probably onto something when he says that Obama is leading us into a post-America world. Whether you want to argu ...
• Libyan News
  Things are slowly coming together in terms of figuring out some kind of command and control system for the fighting in Libya, but it's an eclectic and unmanageable mess at the moment. NATO is supposed to take over now that Turkey has won concessions that it will restrict itself to enforcing the ...

European Tribune

• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch ...
  �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europeans on this date in history:1941 - birth of...
• Friday Open Thread
  It's Friday afternoon...
• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch ...
  �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europe on this date in history:421 - birth of...
• Thursday Open Thread
  Chat away...
• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch ...
  �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europeans on this date in history:1693 - birth of...

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 ...

Therapy News

• Most Americans Unfamiliar with New Mental Heal ...
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Very few Americans are familiar with the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008, a law signed by President Bush that went into effect January 1, 2011. The law mandates equal coverage for both mental and physical health needs by group or employer ins ...
• Being Woman: A Singaporean Chinese Writes
  By Martha Lee, DHS, MA, BA Click here to contact Martha and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile For the longest time, being a woman, to me, meant being: -seen and not heard; -expected to help, serve (for instance cook, clean, iron) and please people around me, especially the men; -fertile, and be ...
• Skype Therapy: The Newest Anxiety Treatment
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Many people who suffer from anxiety issues do not receive the help they need due to lack of resources or mobility. Two forward thinking doctors recently concluded a study that uses modern technology as a delivery system for psychotherapy. Dr. James Herbert and Dr. ...
• Is a Spring Cleanse a Good Idea for those with ...
  By Ondina Nandine Hatvany, MFT, Eating & Food Issues Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Ondina and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Spring is the traditional time of year for that yearly cleanse. According to Chalita Photikoe, L.Ac., who runs the new Tamalpais Community Acupuncture ...
• Obsessive Compulsive Symptoms Collectively Inc ...
  A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Professor Francisca López Torrecillas at the Department of Personality, Psychological Assessment and Treatment of the University of Granada, and an expert on addictions, warns in a recent article that, “a very significant increase has been observed of cases where ...

Mountaintop Removal

• Analyst: Coal demand, shares up on nuclear une ...
  Analyst: Coal demand, shares up on nuclear unease BusinessWeek The coal and gas industries also have faced fears of a regulatory squeeze, including limits on mountaintop-removal mining in Appalachia. The threats facing the nuclear industry have overshadowed some of those concerns out of their s ...
• Energy provider Dominion Resources CEO Farrell ...
  Energy provider Dominion Resources CEO Farrell's compensation jumps to $14.9 ... Washington Post ... also will consider shareholder proposals, including one setting a company goal of 20 percent renewable electricity energy generation by 2024 and another asking Dominion to produce a report on it ...
• Friday roundup, March 25, 2011 - Charleston Ga ...
  Charleston Gazette (blog) Friday roundup, March 25, 2011 Charleston Gazette (blog) In January the US Environmental Protection Agency vetoed what would have been the largest mountaintop-removal coal mine ever, Arch Coal's Spruce No. 1 Mine in southern West Virginia's Logan County. At the heart o ...
• EQB issues formal order on conductivity - Char ...
  EQB issues formal order on conductivity Charleston Gazette (blog) This entry was posted on Friday, March 25, 2011 at 12:01 pm and is filed under Legal actions, Mountaintop Removal, Water pollution. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or ...
• EarthTalk: Mining and water pollution - Creati ...
  Creative Loafing Tampa (blog) EarthTalk: Mining and water pollution Creative Loafing Tampa (blog) In January 2011 the EPA got the opportunity to walk its talk when it vetoed a permit that would have allowed the largest “mountaintop removal” mining operation in the history of West Virginia coal ...

Memeorandum

• Budget Impasse Increasing Risk of U.S. Shutdow ...
  Carl Hulse / New York Times: Budget Impasse Increasing Risk of U.S. Shutdown  —  WASHINGTON — With time running short and budget negotiations this week having reached an angry impasse, Congressional leaders are growing increasingly pessimistic about reaching a bipartisan deal that would avert a ...
• Barack Obama to lawmakers: We won't kill Qadha ...
  The Politico: Barack Obama to lawmakers: We won't kill Qadhafi  —  President Barack Obama told congressional leaders there are no plans to use the U.S. military to assassinate Libyan strongman Muammar Qadhafi — despite the administration's policy of seeking regime change in the North African c ...
• Obama's Unconstitutional War (Bruce Ackerman/F ...
  Bruce Ackerman / Foreign Policy: Obama's Unconstitutional War  —  By unilaterally going to war against Libya, Obama is bringing America closer to the imperial presidency than Bush ever did.  —  In taking the country into a war with Libya, Barack Obama's administration is breaking new ground in ...
• Katie Couric Plots CBS Exit (Howard Kurtz/The ...
  Howard Kurtz / The Daily Beast: Katie Couric Plots CBS Exit  —  The CBS Evening News anchor is very likely to leave in June, and Scott Pelley is a top contender to replace her—but CBS is looking both within and outside the network, Howard Kurtz reports.  Plus, behind the CBS News shakeup.  —  ...
• Libyan rebel commander admits his fighters hav ...
  Telegraph: Libyan rebel commander admits his fighters have al-Qaeda links  —  Abdel-Hakim al-Hasidi, the Libyan rebel leader, has said jihadists who fought against allied troops in Iraq are on the front lines of the battle against Muammar Gaddafi's regime.  —  Mr al-Hasidi admitted he had earl ...

Energy & Environment News

• PG&E Offers Critics Option to Turn Off Smart M ...
  Under the proposal, customers who object to the meters must accept them but may have their wireless radio signals turned off.
• Exelon, Largest U.S. Reactor Owner, Seeks to R ...
  Exelon, the largest operator of nuclear plants in the United States, says it can handle emergencies not anticipated when the reactors were designed.
• BASF Joins Pipeline Project Led by Gazprom
  The project, South Stream, will provide Russia with access to markets in southeastern Europe, and will compete directly with a pipeline backed by the European Union.
• Uranium Processor Still Optimistic About Nucle ...
  Despite Japan’s reactor crisis, the chief of Cameco, a global leader in uranium mining and processing, said he expected building of nuclear reactors to resume within five to seven years.
• German Chancellor Calls for Tests of Europe&#x ...
  The crisis in Japan has led Angela Merkel to call for “stress tests” on the 143 power reactors operating in Europe.

5+ quakes - 7 days

• M 5.0, near the east coast of Honshu, Japan
  Saturday, March 26, 2011 10:18:33 UTCSaturday, March 26, 2011 07:18:33 PM at epicenterDepth: 32.80 km (20.38 mi)
• M 5.3, off the east coast of Honshu, Japan
  Friday, March 25, 2011 15:01:15 UTCSaturday, March 26, 2011 01:01:15 AM at epicenterDepth: 28.40 km (17.65 mi)
• M 5.4, Myanmar
  Thursday, March 24, 2011 15:54:35 UTCThursday, March 24, 2011 10:24:35 PM at epicenterDepth: 10.30 km (6.40 mi)
• M 6.8, Myanmar
  Thursday, March 24, 2011 13:55:12 UTCThursday, March 24, 2011 08:25:12 PM at epicenterDepth: 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
• M 5.3, near the east coast of Honshu, Japan
  Thursday, March 24, 2011 03:58:09 UTCThursday, March 24, 2011 12:58:09 PM at epicenterDepth: 38.20 km (23.74 mi)

China Dialogue

• Cash reserve in Sichuan
  A group of wealthy entrepreneurs are joining forces to protect a corner of south-west China. Xu Nan examines a new experiment in conservation.A group of wealthy Chinese entrepreneurs have started an experiment in private nature conservation, shaking up China’s traditional, government-led approac ...
• The view from Jaitapur
  The crisis in Japan has brought fresh scrutiny to plans for the world’s largest nuclear plant on the west coast of India. Joydeep Gupta reports.The radiation leak from Japan’s Fukushima nuclear-power plant, triggered by the powerful earthquake and tsunami on March 11, has raised fresh questions ...
• Behind China’s green goals
  China has unveiled its energy and emissions-saving targets for the next five years – but how were they chosen? Feng Jie and Yuan Duanduan explain the process.Earlier this month, after a year of debate, China finally unveiled its green goals for the next five years. On March 5, premier Wen Jiabao ...
• Water wager
  India and Pakistan are locking horns over dam projects in a race to secure priority water rights on the Indus River. Athar Parvaiz reports from Kashmir.India and Pakistan are once again at loggerheads over the issue of water-sharing. Pakistan is raising strong objections to India’s construction ...
• History's harsh lesson
  As America mulls an atomic revival, it should look not just to Japan, but also its own past. California’s radiation leak of 1959 – and the decades of friction that followed – still offer powerful lessons, writes Joan Bien.On the first night of the 1959 nuclear reactor meltdown at Santa Susana Fi ...

AlterNet Top Stories

• Will Rahm Emanuel Misunderestimate “Chic ...
  Chicago, Il Chicago mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel is known as a hardball player who is never off message. But in Chicago, his articulateness may be, well, disorientating. In the city that has had a Mayor Daley for so long people think it is the name of the office — “who’s your Mayor Daley?” they ask ...
• The Biggest Threat Facing the Country Today Is ...
  It's reached epidemic levels in government. Isn't wanton ignorance among those we trust with nuclear policies, war, famine, jobs, the national debt and more, a concern?
• GE, World's Largest Corporation, Paid Zero Dol ...
  How can that be, you ask? Actually, it's pretty simple.
• Union-Busting: Six Fired After Demanding Sick ...
  After publicly demanding paid sick days, organized workers at the fast-food sandwich chain were fired.
• Big Coal WikiLeaks Emergency in Bangladesh: Do ...
  Why is the Obama administration pushing for an internationally condemned open-pit mine that will displace an estimated 100,000-200,000 villagers and ravage land and water?

Threat Level

• WikiLeaks Associates Appeal Twitter Records Demand
  Three WikiLeaks associates entangled in a federal grand jury probe in Virginia asked a federal judge Friday to reverse a ruling that would hand over records of their Twitter use to federal prosecutors, arguing that the ruling violates a federal statute and the constitution. The 41-page filing ( ...
• Tools of Tradecraft: More Spy Gear From the CI ...
  Every good spy story needs a sequel. So in the wake of our recent popular gallery of CIA spy tools we offer Part Deux, which expands the gallery to include tradecraft tools from the former Soviet bloc, all courtesy of the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C.
• Sony Claims PlayStation 3 Hacker Sabotaged Har ...
  Sony is accusing alleged PlayStation 3 hacker George Hotz of surrendering two “nonfunctional” hard drives in violation of a court order, and then taking off to South America. But Hotz’s lawyer said Wednesday that Sony is “crying alligator tears” over the issue. Sony is suing the 21-year-old Glen ...
• Hack Obtains 9 Bogus Certificates for Prominen ...
  In a fresh blow to the fundamental integrity of the internet, a hacker last week obtained legitimate web certificates that would have allowed him to impersonate some of the top sites on the internet, including the login pages used by Google, Microsoft and Yahoo e-mail customers. The hacker, who ...
• Is Zediva’s New-Release Movie Streaming Servic ...
  Zediva — a new online movie service that gets around the need for studio licensing deals by renting users a physical disk and DVD player from afar — has proven to be a hit with users, which have stormed the startup since its launch last week. While Zediva’s popularity with public is clear, the l ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

• WRAPUP 4-Radiation spikes in seawater by stric ...
  * People in zone 20-30 km from plant encouraged to leave
• Radiation spikes in seawater by stricken Japan ...
  TOKYO (Reuters) - Radioactivity levels are soaring in seawater near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi plant, Japan's nuclear safety agency said on Saturday, two weeks after the nuclear power plant was hit by a massive earthquake and tsunami.
• Q+A-Risks at each reactor of Japan's stricken ...
  TOKYO, March 26 (Reuters) - The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant at the centre of Japan's crisis has six reactors. The plant is operated by Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO).
• Libyan rebels recapture strategic eastern town
  AJDABIYAH, Libya (Reuters) - Libyan rebels backed by allied air strikes recaptured the strategic eastern town of Ajdabiyah on Saturday, pushing out Muammar Gaddafi's forces.
• Former President Jimmy Carter to visit Cuba
  HAVANA (Reuters) - Former President Jimmy Carter and wife Rosalynn will visit Cuba next week to meet with President Raul Castro and discuss ways to improve U.S.-Cuba relations, a Carter spokeswoman said on Friday.

IntelNews

• News you may have missed #486
  Hundreds of US officials to leave Pakistan in Davis deal [unconfirmed]. Australian government unveils new spy legislation. Dutch military intelligence: closed on Sundays. Continue reading →
• CIA behind ‘illegal’ anti-drug operation in Co ...
  An espionage operation against drug trafficking by a mysterious unit within the Costa Rican intelligence service was organized and funded by the US Central Intelligence Agency, it has been alleged. Continue reading →
• News you may have missed #485
  Gaza engineer describes abduction my Mossad. Gaddafi regime fed names of jihadists to the CIA and MI6. Investigators say secret CIA files could aid Chile. Continue reading →
• New Israel intelligence unit spies on Western ...
  Israelâs Military Intelligence has set up a new unit tasked with infiltrating and monitoring Western leftwing organizations that oppose Israelâs policies on the Palestinians. Continue reading →
• West directs spies, information-warfare at Libya
  Along with airborne surveillance and the bombing of targets, Western nations in charge of imposing a no-fly-zone over Libya are directing their intelligence and information-warfare arsenals against the Libyan regime. Continue reading →

War is a Crime.org

• Suit Filed on Behalf of Spanish Judge
  By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MADRID (AP) — A human rights group has filed suit in a European court on behalf of a Spanish judge who won international fame by indicting foreign dictators but who was indicted himself on charges that he exceeded his authority by investigating Spanish Civil War atrocitie ...
• Peril of Nuclear Weapons
  New Book on the Peril of Nuclear Weapons Highlights the Archive's Nuclear Vault Ron Rosenbaum's How the End Begins Lauds "Astonishing Compilation" of Declassified Documents on the Bomb read more
• Bradley Manning Treatment Reveals Continued G ...
  From ACSLaw.org The United States and Torture Interrogation, Incarceration, and Abuse By Marjorie Cohn, editor [Available Here] By Marjorie Cohn, a professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, past president of the National Lawyers Guild, and deputy secretary general of the International ...
• Catch Bruce Fein and David Swanson on "The Imp ...
  From BookTV.org Future Airings Saturday, March 26th at 1pm (ET) Sunday, March 27th at 1am (ET) 2011 Virginia Festival of the Book Panel: "The Imperial Presidency" Bruce Fein; David Swanson About the Program David Swanson, author of "War Is A�Lie," and Bruce Fein, author of "American Emp ...
• NATO: America's Imperial Tool
  NATO: America's Imperial Tool - by Stephen Lendman In 1999, Nobel laureate Harold Pinter called America's bombing and dismemberment of Yugoslavia "barbaric (and despicable), another blatant and brutal assertion of US power using NATO as its missile (to consolidate) American domination of Europe. ...

Grist - News

• What exactly is happening with the Japanese nu ...
  by Jess Zimmerman. The Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan, currently has three boiling water reactors in danger of “meltdown.” Here are the basics on what’s happening and what that means. How does a boiling water reactor work? The nuclear core transfers energy to water by ...
• Fish consumption at all time high, says U.N. a ...
  by Agence France-Presse. ROME -- Fish consumption reached record levels in 2010 and world stocks need to be urgently rebuilt, experts at the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said in a report Monday. "The contribution of fish to global diets has reached a record of almost 17 kil ...
• Bordeaux vineyards go organic, slowly but surely
  by Agence France-Presse. BORDEAUX, France -- Two historical Bordeaux wine estates have gone green, breaking a long resistance to organic viticulture amongst the region's elite producers. "Still in 2011, there are people who do not trust in the fact that it is possible to grow organic in Bor ...
• U.N. Chief Ban Ki-moon shifts focus from clima ...
  by Agence France-Presse. LONDON -- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is shifting his focus away from involvement in international climate change talks and toward new areas in the fight against global warming. Ban is to redirect his efforts from trying to push forward the international clim ...
• New Senate bill aims to avoid next oil spill
  by Agence France-Presse. WASHINGTON -- Senators plan to introduce in the coming weeks new legislation aiming to prevent another disastrous oil spill like last year's massive gusher in the Gulf of Mexico, Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) said Wednesday. A similar bill that would revise offshore ...

Popular Bookmarks on Del.icio.us

• Page F30: Neil deGrasse Tyson on the "science ...
• Design Charts for Better Typography and Color ...
• 9 Dumbest Fads Ever to Make Money
• Introducing Amazon Simple Email Service
• Twitter,valor añadido a los eventos | Eventosfera

Technorati - What's Hot in Blogs

• Sir Bob Geldof Returns With ”How To Compose Po ...
  Bob Geldof releases new album: ”How To Compose Popular Songs That Will Sell”. But will they?
• Of COURSE He Didn't See the E-Mail Suggesting ...
  The prof said something bad about the gov! Soich his e-mails! Den, he sleeps wit da fishes! In a career sense, that is.
• Will Facebook Questions Kill Quora?
  Facebook rolling out Questions for all users, which could mean the death of Quora
• Foo Fighters "Back and Forth" Trailer
  Back and Forth in theaters soon
• The Titans Randy Moss Experiment Detailed
  Vikes headcoach talks about the Randy Moss experiment

Time - Top Stories

• A Standoff in Yemen: Can Saleh Negotiate His D ...
  As behind-the-scenes negotiations stall in Yemen, the President gives a seemingly conciliatory speech while reminding the country of the resources he can still summon
• Rising to the Challenge: Can Young People Save ...
  Can its young people save Japan? After the earthquake and tsunami, they're rolling up their sleeves -- and shaming an ossified Establishment
• The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire: A Lastin ...
  A century after the deadliest factory fire in New York City history, the lessons for reform still hold true
• Tim Pawlenty's Shari'a Law Double-Standards
  Adam Serwer writes today about a state mortgage program set up in Minnesota during Tim Pawlenty's tenure that structured loans to avoid interest payments barred under Islamic law.
• Movie Theater Owners Say No to Calorie Counts
  Would you buy a tub of popcorn at the movies if you knew you'd be munching on more than 1400 calories? Movie theaters bet you wouldn't.

Farming Pathogens

• Red River
  It is the height of hubris to think we could [destroy the planet]…God is not capricious. He’s given us a creation that is dynamically stable. We are not going to run out of anything. –Minnesota State Representative Mike Beard (R-Shakopee) Sims Reeves: Plantin’ and readin’, plantin’ and readin’. ...
• Egypt’s Food Pyramids
  A million minds momentarily magnetizing themselves along the same axis can turn a country’s deepest despair into an ecstatic sprint for freedom. What a people find revolting–a dictator decorated in American apologia–can be turned by a people’s revolt ridiculous. No wonder so much effort (and mon ...
• The Scientific American
  Science is the business right now. If the science works, the business works, and vice versa. –Craig Venter Bird flu marinates a chicken in its own juices, a satay best avoided whatever the menu special. In such short an order better for the bistro than the barn, infected birds rapidly bleed from ...
• Fearful Symmetry
  A colleague, genuinely perplexed, even outraged, asked me what the fuck was going on with all those dead birds in Arkansas. And, tongue-in-cheek, what would Mulder and Scully say? Scully: Mulder, it’s me. I got your message. Really, Beebe, Arkansas for a flock of dead birds? Does Skinner approve ...
• The Great Recession Flu
  Swine flu is so 2009. Like La Roux and v-neck t-shirts. And yet the United Kingdom is presently suffering a swine flu attack worse than anything it faced in 2009. The number of flu patients in intensive care has risen by 60 per cent in the past week to 738, four times greater than at [...]

Suzie-Q

• EPA assures us No radiation hazard on the West ...
  Risk low in Northwest for radiation contamination from Japan KVAL News Video Summary Even with the jet stream that goes over Japan, across the Pacific and often over the Northwest, state health experts say if there is a radiation leak in Japan we have nothing to worry about. That is, unless you ...
• Libyan Airspace ‘Under Control’ As ...
  Libyan Airspace ‘Under Control’ As Two Sides Meet Huffpost- First Posted: 03/25/11 08:48 AM Updated: 03/25/11 08:48 AM BENGHAZI, Libya — France declared Libya’s airspace “under control” on Friday, after NATO agreed to take command of the no-fly zone in a compromise that appeared to set up dual ...
• Iraq ~ Afghanistan ~ Libya: Haven’t we b ...
  Libya: Largest Military Undertaking since the Invasion of Iraq. Towards a Protracted Military Operation  by Michel Chossudovsky Global Research, March 20, 2011 Outright lies by the international media: Bombs and missiles are presented as an instrument  of peace and democratization… This is not a ...
• NATO To Assume Command Libya Operation
  Turkish TV: NATO To Assume Command Libya Operation HuffPost Posted: 03/24/11 04:03 PM ANKARA, Turkey — NATO appeared on Thursday to move closer to assuming command of the military operation in Libya when Turkey’s foreign minister was quoted as saying an agreement has been reached. (SCROLL DOWN F ...
• Afternoon Jukebox: Rolling In The Deep
  Adele- Rolling In The Deep

Solari

• Currency Market Rigging on A Vaster Scale Than ...
  By Peter Garnham and Lindsay Whipp The billions of dollars in yen sold by the world’s most powerful central banks have sent a strong message to speculative investors. Those daring to bet that the Japanese currency will again test Y76.25, the record high against the dollar it hit last week befor ...
• Money & Markets Charts ~ 03.24.11
  View this week’s chart comparisons of gold against fiat currencies, oil and the Dow. Stay tuned for our next Money & Markets segment of The Solari Report tonight, Thursday, March 24, 2011. Click here to view all charts as a pdf file. See previous Money & Markets Charts blog posts here. Currency ...
• Transcript of Dr. Laura Thompson’s Inter ...
  A transcript of Catherine’s March 17 Solari Report interview of Dr. Laura Thompson of the Southern California Institute of Nutrition and discussion of steps to take to mitigate the impact of radiation poisoning as well as build your immune system to better protect against environmental stress in ...
• Catherine on Mortgage Market Bubbles, “P ...
  We have had requests for a history of our warnings on the housing and mortgage markets and related privatization of government assets and outsourcing of government funds. Here are some of the most popular articles, audios and blog posts over the last decade. “The Myth of the Rule of Law”, by C ...
• Pimco Purchases Toyota Motor Credit, Sees ‘Sel ...
  By Shannon D. Harrington and Betty Liu Pacific Investment Management Co., manager of the world’s biggest bond fund, invested in the finance arm of Toyota Motor Corp. (7203) after the earthquake in Japan and is finding “select” investment opportunities in the country. “Over time, they’re going t ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

• Prosecutor Told Scott Walker to Stage Fake Att ...
  An Indiana prosecutor and Republican activist has resigned after his emails to Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker were revealed.
• Reality TV Turns Surreal as Celebrity Cop Stev ...
  The world of media-friendly "tough-guy" law enforcement sunk into self-parody this week.
• Barry Bonds’ Prosecutors: T ...
  Barry Bonds' trial took another twist when the prosecution said they would make the size of his testicles the crux of their case to prove that Bonds lied to a grand jury.
• Toward a Human Rights Approach to Sex Work Policy
  Protecting the human rights of sex workers is connected with broader efforts to ensure sexual and reproductive rights and address the problems of the U.S. criminal justice system.
• Libyan Uprising Fueling Racism Against Black A ...
  "The Senegalese would become a regular target of nationalist propaganda in sexualised and racialised imagery that fused men's gender anxieties with outrage at French domination."

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

• The hidden price America pays for it’s d ...
  Summary:  Another in a series of posts about the long-term price America pays for dark acts.  Like the condition of our prisons, and torture. A comment received to The long-term consequences to America of torturing Bradley Manning: “Being inconvenienced is not torture. Not having access to ESP ...
• What will the world’s tyrants learn from ...
  Summary:  Events in Iraq and Libya show the two-tier nature of the 21st century geopolitical system.  First tier nations are those with nuclear weapons, or are so large or powerful as to be almost immune from conventional attack.  Everybody else must either find powerful allies or bow before the ...
• Conservatives tells us not to worry about the ...
  Summary: The Constitution is dead.  Conservative attorneys explain why it’s all for the best, and produce elegant treatises justifying torture, assassination of US citizens, unlimited surveillance – anything the State desires.  But the facade still stands.  Property remains inviolate (un ...
• A war monger review, looking at the articles a ...
  Summary:  It’s astonishing to see the craziness that Americans consider geopolitical analysis.  There are sophomores in other nations that would consider these to simplistic to take seriously.  That such work forms the mainstream of US foreign policy illustrates the decline of America.  Cla ...
• Why we so often go to war (the short version)
  Summary:  We love war.  Our newspapers seldom show such exuberance except when we bomb some small nation.  From “There’s Nothing Easy About War – The Libya Version“, Michael Cohen, Democracy Arsenal, 20 March 2011: I have enormous respect for Shadi’s passion around this issue – and the passion o ...

Open Your Eyes News

• Family Blames Taser For Relative’s Death
  WSBTV – The parents of a Norcross man who died after police shocked him with Tasers have filed a wrongful death suit against DeKalb County police. âIt doesnât make sense. Itâs just what they did is wrong. Itâs plain wrong,â said Anne Davis. Davis choked back tears as she spoke with Channel 2 Act ...
• India: Govt to provide safe drinking water for ...
  TOI – The government is committed to provide safe drinking water to people in rural areas of certain districts (Patna)where ground water has iron, arsenic and fluoride content. Read article Editorial comment: Fluoride occurs naturally in deep wells in many places in India, that were drilled to s ...
• Australian MPs told to warn of climate mayhem ...
  The Australian – JULIA Gillard has told Labor MPs to warn voters that a failure to back a carbon tax will lead to more bushfires and droughts as well as coastal inundation and shorter skiing seasons. MPs have also been instructed to warn constituents that unchecked climate change would lead to p ...
• Libya rebels ‘recapture key town
  BBC – Libyan rebels backed by allied air raids say they have seized control of the frontline oil town of Ajdabiya from Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s forces. The BBC’s Ben Brown in Ajdabiya says there are scenes of jubilation among the insurgents. Gaddafi loyalists seized the town last week as they a ...
• Clashes break out at Jordan anti-government pr ...
  BBC - Reports say supporters of the king threw stones at the hundreds of protesters camped in Gamal Abdel Nasser Square, injuring a number of them. The protesters were demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Marouf al-Bakhit, reforms to parliament and for corrupt officials to stand trial. Re ...

The Progressive Realist

• After New START: Emerging into the Light
  Image: RS-24 Yars ICBM, Associated Press For more than a year, U.S. analysts responsible for monitoring Russia’s nuclear arsenal have been traveling through a long and increasingly dark tunnel. The sensitive information that had flowed out of Russia for years on strategic forces under terms of ...
• The Canadian Government Falls
  I imagine most people focused on geopolitics are currently focused on the various socio-political-humanitarian catastrophes around the world, which make for interesting if consistently horrific reading. I'll just point out, then, that the Conservative-led governing coalition in Canada lost a no- ...
• The Myth of the Bombing Induced Coup
  As a headline “Allies Are Split on Goal and Exit Strategy in Libya” seems a bit overblown to me. Any time you have a bunch of people cooperating you’ll have some disagreement. But I get worried when I read this reporting: The United States has all but called for Colonel Qaddafiâs overthrow from ...
• Air Campaign in Libya
  Even the Liberal New Republic sees fit to quote me on the utility of airpower: According to these experts, the relatively low skills of loyalists forces and the geography of the war zone should make (and, based on the available evidence, have made) air power particularly useful against Qaddafi. ...
• Japan Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Crisis F ...
  The Japanese government just posted the latest facts and figures on the damage wrought by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. Casualties: 10,035 confirmed deaths.  17,443 people are still missing. Property Damage: 18,776 totally destroyed properties.  108,397 partially destroyed. Infrastructu ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

• The Little Picture: Bob Herbert to Leave the NYT
  Bob Herbert a columnist for The New York Times for nearly 20 years, is leaving the paper.
• Scott Walker Ruins Everything
  Jess Zimmerman at Grist has the lowdown on how Gov. Scott Walker ruins things for wind energy, too. Energy developer Invenergy has twigged to the fact that Walker is a scumbag in general and an anti-environment scumbag in particular, and has pulled out of its plan to build a new large-scale win ...
• Blue North Carolina
  According to Public Policy Polling, North Carolina is definitely "in play" for Obama 2012: North Carolinians narrowly approve of the job Barack Obama is doing as President and as a result it appears he should once again be very competitive in the state in 2012. 48% of voters like the job he's d ...
• Poisonous Development in Green Cities
  On Thursday, a hearing was held in San Francisco Superior Court to challenge an environmental impact report that found it safe for mega developer Lennar Corp. to build commercial housing on a former naval shipyard. The hearing came the same week that damning e-mails emerged showing that some loc ...
• Freedom of Choice (But Not if You're Poor)
  As we've seen, it's standard operating procedure for Republican governors to balance state budgets on the backs of the poor and working class. Insofar that there's anything to distinguish one governor from another, it's in the details: Wisconsin's Scott Walker wants to break unions and cut benef ...

Buzzflash

• Putin Calls the West’s Attacks in Libya a “Med ...
  TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Unless we're using catapults To try and cause upheaval I'm not sure of the accuracy Of using the term"medieval." http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12810566
• Do the Top Forbes 20 US Companies Own White Ho ...
  Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout Want a confirmation of corporate governance, just look at the Forbes top global corporations for 2010: 1. JPMorgan Chase - United States 2. General Electric - United States 3. Bank of America - United States 4. ExxonMobil - United States 5. ICBC ...
• Utah Becomes First in the US to Have a State Gun
  MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT "Utah becomes first in US to have state gun." In case you are wondering, the winner is a Browning M1911 semiautomatic pistol. So, right up there with other state symbols of Utah - like the state tree (blue spruce) - is a gun, and a semiautomatic one ...
• Bernie Sanders Urges Obama to Declare a Nuclea ...
  BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT FOR TRUTHOUT The following is a news release from the office of Senator Bernie Sanders (Independent-Vermont): In the aftermath of the nuclear disaster in Japan, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders urged the White House to form a presidential commission on nuclear safety in the Unite ...
• Right Wing Hit Media 400: "Disabling Journalis ...
  SUE WILSON FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Case study:   James O'Keefe's "Project Veritas" Goal:  Defund National Public Radio Tactics: 1) Set up phony Muslim Organization to offer $5 million donation to NPR; 2) Secretly videotape meeting between NPR fundraiser and phony Muslim donors; 3) Cut out all ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

• Top Bush-era GITMO and Abu Ghraib psychologist ...
  Meet the newest member of a White House Task Force on military families
• Urgent leak investigation needed
  All leaks are equal, but some are more equal than others
• Miranda is Obama's latest victim
  In the name of fighting Terrorism, the DOJ severely dilutes decades-old protections
• The manipulative pro-war argument in Libya
  Accusing war opponents of indifference to suffering is a common, and ironic, tactic used to justify wars
• Court allows constitutional challenge to new F ...
  The ACLU has a major victory over the Bush/Obama tactic for shielding presidential lawbreaking from judicial review

The BiPartisan Report

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

Sciencebase

• A fix of five fresh science stories
  Free complete works of H.P. Lovecraft for Nook and Kindle (and Calibre) – You can now download the complete works of HP Lovecraft as an ebook for your Kindle (or if you haven't wasted your money on that device you can read it with the Calibre software for Windows, Mac and Linux. FYI: OMG, tinfoi ...
• 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 ...

Related articles

• HIV integration requires use of a host DNA-repair pathway (eurekalert.org)
• Antarctic icebergs play a previously unknown role in global carbon cycle, climate (physorg.com)
• Deadly heatwaves will be more frequent in coming decades, say scientists (guardian.co.uk)
• How Well Do You Know Your Friends? (scienceblog.com)
• New survey: Perceptions of climate change can be changed (dailykos.com)
• Mapping Human Vulnerability to Climate Change (via GIS and Science) (srnstrikha.wordpress.com)
• Mapping Human Vulnerability to Climate Change (via GIS and Science) (wilderside.wordpress.com)