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Thomas Paine

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

Saturday, March 26, 2011

26 March - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Kucinich on NATO Role in Libya: War on Discoun ...
    Congressman Dennis (D-OH) today wrote to fellow members of Congress that NATO’s role in the war in Libya would not shield Americans from the costs of the war. Kucinich’s letter responded to the announcement by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that NATO would take over command of the no-fly zon ...
  • The Million-Dollar Weapon: Libya Tomahawk Miss ...
    In the opening days of the assault on Libya, the United States and the United Kingdom launched a barrage of at least 161 Tomahawk cruise missiles to flatten Moammar Gadhafi’s air defenses and pave the way for coalition aircraft. In fiscal terms, at a time when Congress is fighting over every dol ...
  • FCC Fines Local TV Stations for Airing Fake News
    On Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission fined a pair of television stations for airing commercials masquerading as news segments. These video news releases (VNRs) are advertisements produced to be virtually indistinguishable from news stories and distributed to television news departm ...
  • State Legislative Committee Split on Whether t ...
    Today lawmakers in the Labor, Commerce, Research and Economic Development Committee split 6-6 on whether to roll back child labor protections. One committee member was absent. The latest amendment to L.D. 516 would permit employers to schedule teen workers up to 24 hours during the school week, ...
  • Syria Death Toll Climbs as Protests Spread, Sa ...
    At least 55 people are believed to have been killed during a week of unrest in and around the Syrian town of Dera’a, Amnesty International said today as protests spread across the country. Security forces again opened fire on protesters in al-Sanamayn and carried out arrests in Damascus, accordi ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • NPR Is Not Left Wing Opposite of Right Wing Me ...
    Bill Moyers Michael Winship Like Jake LaMotta and his brother Joey in the bloody boxing classic�Raging Bull,�we are gluttons for punishment.read more
  • Is There No Other Way in Libya?
    Eric Stoner One of the arguments that is being forwarded by proponents of military intervention in Libya is that Qaddafi is literally crazy and therefore cannot be reasoned with or expected to step down without force. In an article for Tik ...
  • One Right-Wing Strategy Creates a Thousand Loc ...
    Amy Dean Michigan? Ohio? Indiana? In the wake of Republican Governor Scott Walker's over-the-top attacks on public sector workers in Wisconsin, many people are asking which will be the next state to draw the public spotlight. However, look ...
  • Want to Cut the Deficit? Restore Fair Taxes on ...
    Deborah Burger If the deficit hawks in Congress are serious about righting our economic ship and reducing deficits in the federal budget and many state capitols, it would we worth listening to the voices rising from the streets suggesting ...
  • Have You No Decency, Scott Walker?
    Mary Bottari William Cronon is a professor of history, geography and environmental studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the prize winning author of many books such as Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecolog ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

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

Water Wars

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Electronic Intifada

Afghanistan Sun

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • New interns arrive to help whistleblower cause
    Springtime in Washington means cherry blossoms and new interns. We are pleased to have the dedicated assistance of this fine group of interns for the Spring semester: Pictured here are (standing, from the left), Ryan, Milan, Christoffer, Scott, Luis, Jesse, Jonathan, Shane; and (seated, from ...
  • Oregon Lawmakers Seek to Stregthen Whistleblow ...
    The Oregon legislature is debating a bill which would protect from retaliation any hospital employee who reports misconduct that he/she believes is a violation of law, policy, or professional standards. Under current Oregon law, nurses already enjoy these protections Senate Bill 237 would extend ...
  • OIG: 25% of U.S. Nuclear Plants Fail to Report ...
    It's been two weeks since Japan was struck by a horrific earthquake, followed by a massive tsunami. Since then, workers have been struggling to prevent or contain radiation leaks, explosions, fires, and power outages at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. This tragedy has thrust the issue ...
  • Leonard I. Weinglass (1933-2011)
    Today we mourn the passing of attorney Leonard I. Weinglass who died yesterday on his 78th birthday. Weinglass defended Anthony Russo, Daniel Ellsberg's co-defendant in the Pentagon Papers case. The 1973 case ended with the dismissal of all charges on grounds of government misconduct. After grad ...
  • Rewards for whistleblowers examined
    Yesterday, the Christian Science Monitor released a story about the rewards available to corporate whistleblowers under the Dodd-Frank Act. Correspondent G. Jeffrey MacDonald writes that, "Whistle-blowing is about to get more profitable." He quotes Stephen M. Kohn, Executive Director of the Nati ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Study Shows That Piracy Has Not Resulted In A ...
    One of the key tenets of those who support stronger copyright law and stronger copyright enforcement is the idea that it is a necessary incentive for a great deal of creative output. We regularly hear claims of how creative output would drop without such strong copyright protections. However, ...
  • But... But... Piracy...
    You've probably seen those XtraNormal videos going around these days, where you type out a script and some text-to-speech software and animation software create a short video. I thought it might be fun to experiment with this to see what came of it. Here's my first attempt at a short video tha ...
  • Android, Economic Moats, And How Zero Marginal ...
    Venture capitalist Bill Gurley has another excellent economic analysis of how powerful Android is and what it really means for Google. I have one (somewhat serious) quibble with it, in that I actually think Gurley misses the key economic point that would have made his argument even more convinc ...
  • DailyDirt: Wearing Technology On Your Sleeve ( ...
    Technology gets smaller and smaller and ever more personalized as it matures. Computers used to fill entire rooms (and they still can...), but it's far more common for powerful computational devices to be able to fit in a pocket. Curiously, though, wearing gadgets seems to still be largely res ...
  • Judge Says The iPhone Didn't Violate Nokia's P ...
    Nokia, who used to absolutely dominate the mobile phone market, has definitely seen better days. The iPhone really took it by surprise and the company really hasn't done a particularly good job reacting to the rise of the smartphone market. So, like plenty of companies who once innovated, once ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

  • Things You Might Have Missed
    I didn’t make it to the Manning protest at Quantico this weekend, but I did make it to the Iraq war anniversary thingamawhosit. The first (Code Pink) hour was pretty bad. I spent most of it texting snarky comments to the bfriend, who wisely stayed in bed. But it got better. Couple of the speeche ...
  • Don’t Be Like Che
    Che Guevara is everywhere.  He is on t-shirts, sneakers, bags, bedazzled boots, and even children’s books. The bedazzled boots don’t really bother me so much.  Not likely that the person wearing those has actually read any Che and they probably won’t be mistaken for someone who is about to go ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    This art project is amazing.  At first it seemed kind of weird that they would take these silly pictures of women who had been through so much trauma.  But then when you hear the explanation.  Very cool. Police in New Orleans used licensing as an excuse to close down an anarchist bookstore/arts ...
  • Finding My Mouth In Mexico
    Not a lot of time to write this week, so instead I am going to link to an old piece I put up on Matador. There are no signs in Mexico, at least none that aren’t out of date or unintentionally funny. My personal favorite was the sign on Chacala beach that said no mascots [...]
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    This take-down of hipsters is just gorgeously hateful. It is mind boggling that there are so many obstacles to growing a few vegetables in your yard and selling them.  But the informal economy is going to win in the end. Apparently, the Catholic Church is now answering all your sex questions.  W ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

Armies of Liberation

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

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

food and water watch

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

treehugger

  • Infographic of the Day: Do Americans Pay Too L ...
    Click image to enlarge. From our friends at Fast Company, "bridging the fuzzy border between design and business." Every year without fail, as the days get longer and warmer, gas prices begin to shoot up. Throw in intense turmoil in the Middle East, and the annual price skyroc...Read the ...
  • An Office With Enough Trees and Sunlight, You' ...
    All images: © Luc Boegly, Courtesy of Christian Pottgiesser Talk about an urban jungle. In Paris' tenth arronidissement, two companies, Pons and Huot, share one of the more remarkable offices in the city. "Forest Through the Table," the work of architect Christian Pottgiesser, is the result ...
  • The Week in Pictures: The Carbon Footprint of ...
    Just what is the carbon footprint of love in a globalized world, and what can we do to reduce it? TreeHugger Sami, as a younger, idealistic activist in England, once vowed never to fly again. Then he fell in love with an American, got married, and did his part to contribute to population gro ...
  • Green London is a Handy Visitor's Guide
    Photo: enjoyengland If you are thinking of coming to visit London, (not during the Royal Wedding weekend, please) here's a handy little green guide to all the best places. Best as in environmentally-friendly hotels, restaurants and shops. It's just 2 pages and easily downloaded but it ...
  • Rare Leopard Burned Alive by Angry Crowd in India
    Original photo: quinn.anya / cc Despite the countless organizations dedicated to raising awareness and protection for the world's most endangered species, the battle between humans and wildlife, sadly, rages on. An angry mob made up of hundreds of villagers in northern India recently seized ...

Biosingularity

  • Sperm grown in a test tube
    Researchers in Japan have made fertile mammalian sperm in a culture dish, a feat long thought to be impossible. The technique, reported today in Nature1, could help to reveal the molecular steps involved in sperm formation and might even lead to treatments for male infertility. Biologists have b ...
  • Gene Therapy May Improve Parkinson’s Symptoms
    An experimental gene therapy injected into the brains of patients with Parkinson’s disease improved tremor, stiffness, and other movement symptoms and was safe with few side effects over six months of follow-up, a study shows. The small study represents the first successful clinical trial compar ...
  • New UCSF Robotic Pharmacy Aims to Improve Pati ...
    Although it won’t be obvious to UCSF Medical Center patients, behind the scenes a family of giant robots now counts and processes their medications. With a new automated hospital pharmacy, believed to be the nation’s most comprehensive, UCSF is using robotic technology and electronics to prepare ...
  • An On-Off Switch for Anxiety
    With the flick of a precisely placed light switch, mice can be induced to cower in a corner in fear or bravely explore their environment. The study highlights the power of optogenetics technology—which allows neuroscientists to control genetically engineered neurons with light—to explore the fun ...
  • Coffee May Lower Stroke Risk
    Women who drink a cup or more of coffee each day may be less likely to have a stroke, compared to women who drink less coffee, according to new research in the journal Stroke. The new findings should not be taken to mean that everyone should start drinking coffee to lower their stroke risk, as [...]

CFACT

Ria Novosti Online News

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Pruning Shears

  • Innovation Ohio's leaked Kasich school funding ...
    Innovation Ohio has published the Kasich Administration’s district-by-district breakdowns of school funding cuts, including the reimbursement losses districts will incur from the discontinued business taxes contained in the Governor’s budget proposal.  The PDF’s are at the link above.  I’ve c ...
  • Mobilize for a fair budget: Upcoming events, 2 ...
    Thursday, March 315:00 pmClevelandWhere: Trinity Cathedral, 2230 Euclid AvenueConfused about how the Ohio Budget cuts will affect YOU? Then we have the answer! Join us for a Town Hall Meeting about Ohio’s BudgetWe are facing budget cuts to:* Schools* Universities* Local governments* Human Servic ...
  • Falklands - Slumber Party EP
    So in last December’s Best Music of 2010 post I had Falklands at #2 with “Heal My Hand,” and talked up their album Think About It.  Which incidentally can still be bought for whatever price you name. Falklands is the real deal, a band that cranks out one great song after another and that deserve ...
  • 'No on SB 5': Upcoming events, 23-Mar-2011
    Thursday, March. 247:00 - 9:00 pmClevelandRep. Foley and Sen. Skindell Town HallTown hall with State Rep. Mike Foley and State Sen. Mike Skindell.Locatoin: Bethany English Lutheran Church, Corner of Lorain and Triscuit Rd. Cleveland, OHFriday, March 25th5 - 6:30 PMToledoVisibility Against SB 5Wh ...
  • Thank God America isn't like that
    I’ve been busy with SB 5 lately, and this is more Glenn Greenwald’s turf anyway, but I wanted to highlight this segment from last Thursday’s Hardball because the obliviousness displayed in it is almost comical (all emphasis added):MATTHEWS: David, what is the situation in terms of fact versus t ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Germany Set to Abandon Nuclear Power for Good
    BERLIN - Germany is determined to show the world how abandoning nuclear energy can be done. The world's fourth-largest economy stands alone among leading industrialized nations in its decision to stop using nuclear energy because of its inherent risks. It is betting billions on expanding the us ...
  • Maine Town Passes Local Food and Community Sel ...
    The town of Sedgwick, Maine, population 1,012 (according to the 2000 census), has become the first town in the United States to pass a Food Sovereignty ordinance. In doing so, the town declared their right to produce and sell local foods of their choosing, without the oversight of State or fed ...
  • Introducing ... the Vegan/Omnivore Alliance ag ...
    Every day, Americans eat more than a half pound of meat per capita -- one of the highest rates on the planet. The vast majority of it is produced with methods that abuse the environment, animals, workers, and public health as a matter of course. The handful of companies that dominate U.S. meat ...
  • The Austerity Delusion
    Portugal's government has just fallen in a dispute over austerity proposals. Irish bond yields have topped 10 percent for the first time. And the British government has just marked its economic forecast down and its deficit forecast up. Click here to read this article
  • Even BPA-Free Plastics Leach Endrocrine Disrup ...
    Plastic containers and linings often leach chemicals into the surrounding environment. And some of those chemicals, like the endocrine-disrupting bisphenol-A (BPA) and phthalates, may be harmful to your health.Click here to read this article

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Libya and the Three Modes of the Security Council
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson In my forthcoming book on US-UN relations (appearing this summer from Hoover Press), Living with the UN, I describe three different “modes” of the Security Council.  By this I mean ways in which the Security Council might function, for some given situat ...
  • DeGirolami on the ECtHR decision in Lautsi v. ...
    by Peggy McGuinness by Peggy McGuinness My St. John’s colleague Marc DeGirolami has a post up at Mirror of Justice summarizing today’s European Court of Human Rights decision in Lautsi v. Italy.  The full decision is at the ECtHR’s website here.  At issue in the case was the display of cruc ...
  • Declaring War and Libya: A Comment on Past Pra ...
    by Michael Ramsey by Michael Ramsey My previous post argued that the original meaning of the declare war clause requires the President to get Congress’ approval before beginning military conflicts (including the current conflict in Libya).   I’ll now turn to two leading counterarguments: firs ...
  • Libya No-Fly Operation: What Comes Next?
    by Peggy McGuinness by Peggy McGuinness Now that the supporters of a no-fly zone over Libya have got the legal authority they required  — both international and domestic (I agree with Peter that the president does not need additional congressional authority to vote for and contribute to a UN ...
  • Call for Papers: Inaugural ASIL Research Forum
    by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro Kal Raustiala asked that we post the following.  Sounds like an excellent initiative on ASIL’s part. Call for Scholarly Papers The Inaugural ASIL Research Forum November 4-5, 2011 The American Society of International Law calls for submissions of scholarly paper ...

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

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

Angry Indian News

  • PressTV - Pakistanis slam Qur'an desecration
    PressTV - Pakistanis slam Qur'an desecration: "The demonstrators called such an act a threat to religious harmony, and termed the burning of the holy book a conspiracy against Islam, a Press TV... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • PressTV - One killed, 130 injured in Jordan
    PressTV - One killed, 130 injured in Jordan: "A Jordanian has been killed and at least 130 others injured following the clashes between the opposition demonstrators and the government loyalists.A... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Court rules NSA surveillance suit brought by P ...
    Court rules NSA surveillance suit brought by PEN, partners can proceed - IFEX: "(PEN American Center/IFEX) - New York City, March 22, 2011 - PEN American Center today hailed an appeals court ruling... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • NATO to take control of Libyan no-fly zone
    NATO to take control of Libyan no-fly zone - Wikinews, the free news sourceNATO has agreed to take control of the no-fly zone in Libya as early as this weekend, after a unanimous vote to do so by all... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • UNDERNEWS: Post-racial society update
    UNDERNEWS: Post-racial society update: "According to the latest census, if the United States Senate reflected the ethnicity of America there would be:16 latino senators. There are two.12 black... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • Codex Alimentarius and Food Irradiation in the ...
    Essentially, the food becomes mutated by this exposure, a condition which does not occur in nature, and is the cause for many forms of cancer and genetic modification. Yet, Codex pushes irradiation as if it were a great tool of disinfection with no adverse side effects at all.
  • Homegrown terrorism: the threat of Homeland Se ...
    Any agency who is unlawfully and actively spying on, data mining, intimidating or violating your Constitutional rights should be considered a radical extremist group and domestic terrorists.
  • Big Ag Targets Exposers of Animal Abuse in CAFOs
    If this isn't proof positive that Big Ag is intent on monopolizing our food and pushing CAFOs (Concentrated animal feeding operations) on us and eliminating humane, natural methods for raising animals, then I don't know what is.
  • Truth Squad Radio: Biotechnology and Human Dis ...
    It is known that plant diseases of plants do in fact cross over and infect humans!
  • Truth Squad Radio: Monsanto’s GMO Threat!
    This Wednesday we will discuss the future of organics, the recent discovery of a huge threat from agrobacterium, and the Monsanto seed contracts which hold the farmer liable for all damages caused by the aggressive spread of GMO contaminated crops.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Canadian general leads NATO in Libya
    ShareThisCanadian general leads NATO in Libya 26 Mar 2011 The deputy commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) has taken charge of NATO's operations in Libya for enforcing a no-fly zone. Canadian Lieutenant General Charles Bouchard is also responsible for enforcing an arm ...
  • Appeal to keep Twitter data from WikiLeaks probe
    ShareThisAppeal to keep Twitter data from WikiLeaks probe 25 Mar 2011 Internet rights attorneys appealed a US judge's order that Twitter must hand over data of three users in contact with the controversial website WikiLeaks. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and American Civil Liberties U ...
  • Roadside bomb kills 2 Afghan children
    ShareThisRoadside bomb kills 2 Afghan children 26 Mar 2011 At least two children have been killed and another injured after a roadside bomb exploded in eastern Afghanistan amid a surge in violence in the war-torn country. The attack took place on Friday in the Behsood district of Nangarhar provi ...
  • US-led strike kills Afghan civilians
    ShareThisUS-led strike kills Afghan civilians 26 Mar 2011 A number of civilians have lost their lives again in the latest spate of airstrikes by the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in the southern Helmand province in Afghanistan. "Afghan civilians were accidentally killed and woun ...
  • Canadian government toppled, elections in May
    ShareThisCanadian government toppled, elections in May 26 Mar 2011 The Canadian opposition narrowly toppled the conservative government of Prime Minister [nutjob] Stephen Harper accusing it of abuse of power, and triggering the fourth elections in seven years. A motion, brought by the main oppos ...

Daily Loaf

  • Theater Review: Sex and class rule in freeFall ...
    The freeFall Theatre version of "Miss Julie" is first-class in every way: acting, directing, set and costume design, but the play itself can feel windy and overlong to contemporary audiences.
  • Comeback falls short, Lightning losing streak ...
    For the Tampa Bay Lightning, Friday was getting close to must-win territory. Unfortunately, they didn’t play like it for the first 55 minutes of the game, falling to the Carolina Hurricanes 4-3 in a game that was not nearly as close or competitive for a majority of the game as the final score ...
  • Concert review: Lauryn Hill lets it bleed, giv ...
    Not perfect by any means, but earnest and honest every step of the way.
  • This weekend at the Bay Area Renaissance Festi ...
    In addition to the traditional bag pipe performances, the Festival will also host the Bay Area Coalition of Scottish Clans, Scottish Organizations, The St. Andrew’s Society and many other local Scottish groups located in the Scottish Village.
  • Reuse-A-Palooza and Recycle Regatta at Lowry P ...
    The purpose of this event is to heighten awareness about recycling through unique and interesting outlets and to provide recycling education to Hillsborough County residents. This entertaining and educational event will include activities for all ages.

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

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

The Killing Train

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

treehugger

  • Infographic of the Day: Do Americans Pay Too L ...
    Click image to enlarge. From our friends at Fast Company, "bridging the fuzzy border between design and business." Every year without fail, as the days get longer and warmer, gas prices begin to shoot up. Throw in intense turmoil in the Middle East, and the annual price skyroc...Read the ...
  • An Office With Enough Trees and Sunlight, You' ...
    All images: © Luc Boegly, Courtesy of Christian Pottgiesser Talk about an urban jungle. In Paris' tenth arronidissement, two companies, Pons and Huot, share one of the more remarkable offices in the city. "Forest Through the Table," the work of architect Christian Pottgiesser, is the result ...
  • The Week in Pictures: The Carbon Footprint of ...
    Just what is the carbon footprint of love in a globalized world, and what can we do to reduce it? TreeHugger Sami, as a younger, idealistic activist in England, once vowed never to fly again. Then he fell in love with an American, got married, and did his part to contribute to population gro ...
  • Green London is a Handy Visitor's Guide
    Photo: enjoyengland If you are thinking of coming to visit London, (not during the Royal Wedding weekend, please) here's a handy little green guide to all the best places. Best as in environmentally-friendly hotels, restaurants and shops. It's just 2 pages and easily downloaded but it ...
  • Rare Leopard Burned Alive by Angry Crowd in India
    Original photo: quinn.anya / cc Despite the countless organizations dedicated to raising awareness and protection for the world's most endangered species, the battle between humans and wildlife, sadly, rages on. An angry mob made up of hundreds of villagers in northern India recently seized ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Spain judge Garzon petitions Europe rights cou ...
    [JURIST] Spanish National Court judge Baltasar Garzon [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] on Thursday filed a petition [press release] with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) [official website], challenging a case brought against him in Spain that alleges abuse of power in investigating cr ...
  • Colorado Senate approves same-sex civil unions ...
    [JURIST] The Colorado Senate [official website] on Thursday approved a bill [SB 172 text, PDF] that would grant same-sex couples the legal right to civil unions [JURIST news archive]. The Colorado Civil Unions Act [legislative history] says that the legal benefits, protections and responsibiliti ...
  • Thailand court fines 'yellow shirts' $17 milli ...
    [JURIST] The Civil Court of Thailand on Friday ordered the core leaders of the People's Alliance of Democracy (PAD) [party website; BBC backgrounder], or "yellow shirts," to pay 522 million baht (USD $17 million) in damages to the Airports of Thailand (AOT) [official website] in connection with ...
  • Russia court sentences Arctic Sea hijackers
    [JURIST] A Russian court has jailed six men for crimes related to their roles in the 2009 hijacking of the MV Arctic Sea [Huffington Post report], reports [BBC report] on Friday said. A court in the country's town of Arkhangelsk handed out sentences ranging from 7 to 12 years in prison. Three of ...
  • Human rights court invalidates Uruguay militar ...
    [JURIST] The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) [official website, in Spanish] on Wednesday condemned [judgment, PDF; in Spanish] the Uruguayan government for its role in the abduction and death of an Argentinean woman in the 1970s, effectively overturning the country's amnesty law. Ma ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Rand vs. Ron? Don't Count On It.
    In epic stories about power, the son is supposed to overtake the father. Zeus killed Kronos. Luke Skywalker defeated Darth Vader, a couple times. And so it could be, in 2012, with the father and son of the libertarian cosmos: Ron and Rand Paul, the godfather of the tea party movement and one ...
  • Michele Bachmann's Experience Problem
    To the chagrin of Chris Matthews, advisers to Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) have let slip that she's likely forming a Presidential Exploratory Committee by June, if not before. A few months ago she was said to be seriously weighing the opportunity, and she's made several trips to Iowa to t ...
  • Iowa Sen. Grassley: Few 2012 Candidates Are Qu ...
    Only two or three prospective GOP presidential candidates are qualified for the job, says Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley. From Ric Hanson at Radio Iowa: Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley says it's still too early for him to pick a favorite among the many possible presidential candidates making t ...
  • Haley Barbour Dismisses Racial Controversies a ...
    Philip Klein has a big profile of the Mississippi governor out in the latest American Spectator. The whole thing is worth a read, especially if you are interested in Haley Barbour's policy thinking on fixing health insurance markets. But it was Barbour's dismissal of the racial controversies his ...
  • More Heat on Boehner: Tea Partiers to Rally on ...
    Government funding is scheduled, once again, to run out in two weeks, and fiscal hawks don't want another temporary stopgap. To that end, they'll rally on Capitol Hill next week to pressure Republican leaders not to pass one. Tea Party Patriots, the nation's largest tea-party membership organiz ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • I Delegitimize Occupation
    After the IDF’s intelligence unit, Aman, came up with the bright idea to create a special unit to investigate, monitor and spy on Diaspora groups opposed to the Occupation (enemies now known by the catchy phrase, “delegitimizers”), I thought the only proper response was to step up proudly and sa ...
  • Links for 2010-08-17 [Digg]
    Israel Wakes Up and Discovers Its Soldiers Abuse Palestinian Yesterday, a major scandal erupted in Israel over an IDF soldier, Eden Aberjil, who posted pictures on her Facebook account of her abusing bound Palestinian...
  • Links for 2010-04-03 [Digg]
    Anat Kam-Uri Blau Top Secret Israeli Leak Case The foreign media continue to open up the gagged Anat Kam-Uri Blau case with new stories in The Guardian, The Times, and The National.
  • My Quarrel With Michael Lerner
    There is a wonderful story called My Quarrel With Hersh Rasseyner by Chaim Grade (he’s the Yiddish writer who should’ve won the Nobel Prize for Literature).  Whenever I have a principled dispute with a fellow Jew, I like to think of the title of that story.  This post concerns my quarrel with ...
  • Links for 2010-03-30 [Digg]
    Overseas Media Begins Reporting Kam Case An Israeli journalist disappears into the maw of the intelligence services. A gag order prevents newspapers reporting the story. Only overseas media can do so, but they hesitate since so little is known. That's why blogs exist and that's the role t ...

Ode Magazine

  • From servitude to safety
    By: PhotoPhilanthropy A photo essay on a non-profit organization dedicated rescuing children from slavery, or those at risk of being trafficked. Touch A Life Foundation (TAL) is changing the lives of children who were previously sold into slavery in the fishing indu ...
  • A new kind of personal wealth
    It turns out money can buy happiness, after allâwhen consumers create a market for mindful consumption. A lot has changed for Rachel Aydt in the past two years. Since the magazine she worked for shut down in 2008, she’s been faced with plenty of financial uncertainty. Aydt ...
  • The muse in the moment
    We all know meditation helps you relax. But can it also ease the symptoms of depression and anxiety disorders and improve quality of life for people with chronic diseases? Recent research suggests it can. For those of us who haven’t practiced it, meditation can seem like a ...
  • How to cope with grief
    By: Nazia Mallick As we go through life, we lose many things. We lose friends, relatives, parents, looks, youth, wealth, health, jobs, reputation, possibilities, opportunities, love and at the end of it all, life itself. There is just a translucent vei ...
  • Reassuring news from Sendai
    By: Anne Thomas First I would like to thank all of your for your kind emails to me. I appreciate them very much. It gives me a lot of energy and courage knowing there is so much love and support. I would also like to thank all of you who want to send m ...

OpEd News

Switchboard

  • Bad Bill Will Mean More Pesticides in Our Water
    Mae Wu, Program Attorney, Washington, DC When I was growing up, we had a creek (pronounced “crick” where I’m from) running through our backyard that my little sister and I would play in all spring and summer long. We would be soaked head to toe by ...
  • Update: Air Board Moves Swiftly to Address Cou ...
    Alex Jackson, Sustainable Energy Fellow, San Francisco The California Air Resources Board issued a statement yesterday in response to the Superior Court’s recent decision in the AB 32 Scoping Plan lawsuit. Californians should take heart – the stat ...
  • Turns out blowout preventers may not prevent b ...
    David Pettit, Director, Southern California Air Program, Santa Monica, CA On March 23, 2001, the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy, Management and Regulation (BOEMRE) released the results of a technical study of the blowout preventer that failed to s ...
  • What Canadian Conservative government falling ...
    Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, Director International Program, Washington, D.C. Prime Minister Stephen Harper's minority Conservative government fell today as a result of a non-confidence vote in Parliament. The Conservatives were defeated by a 156 to 145 ...
  • New surveys show public support strengthening ...
    Cai Steger, Energy Policy Analyst, New York, Center for Market Innovation Some interesting new survey data has been released on American public attitudes towards different energy technologies in the wake of the crisis and tragedy in Japan. (actual ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Majority-Minority Districts
    This is an area that I used to know a lot about earlier in my academic existence, but has nothing to do with the paper I’m trying to  finish today opposed by my daughter’s best efforts (the effect of EU Framework I grants on turnout to European Parliament elections).  As I haven’t examined maj ...
  • “Perfectly Congenial”
    Had I seen this earlier today, I’m sure I would have addressed the issue at great length during my own diavlog with Spencer Ackerman. Regarding consumption during a Bloggingheads diavlog, I would like to affirm that I’m usually mostly not drunk at the beginning of any given session. Here I shar ...
  • When Is Humanitarian Intervention Appropriate?
    Jon Western considers the fine line between jumping the gun and doing too little too late. Related posts:The Problem With the Libyan Intervention Humanitarian Logistics in Haiti Can This State Intervention Be Saved? Related posts:The Problem With the Libyan Intervention Humanitarian Logisti ...
  • Canadian Election Blogging!
    My understanding is that the election following the non-confidence vote that felled the Harper government is likely to produce yet another Harper minority government, so whether it will change anything is unclear. We’ll see as polling data starts to emerge… Related posts:Canadian Election Bl ...
  • Anti-Union Thugs
    Wisconsin Republicans attack free speech and academic freedom using horribly written statute. …more from Krugman. Related posts:Wisconsin Judge Halts Enforcement of Union-Busting Act The Steyn Complaint That Concept, “Free Speech,” I Do Not Think It Means… Related posts:Wisconsin Judge Ha ...

Desert Research Institute

  • Rina Schumer Named 2011 Rising Researcher
    The Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents named Dr. Rina Schumer as one of the 2011 Rising Researchers, in recognition of her early-career accomplishments and potential for future advancement. A faculty member in DHS, her current research at DR is focused on the science of s ...
  • Storm Peak Laboratory Cloud Property Validatio ...
    Scientists are busy working at DRI’s Storm Peak Lab at Steamboat Springs, Colo. gathering in-cloud measurements and also verifying the data from radars and other instrumentation that is measuring clouds at four different elevations; one site in town and three within the Steamboat Springs ...
  • Kendrick Taylor Interviewed by NPR About West ...
    By improving our understanding of how natural changes in greenhouse gas influenced climate in the past, the science community will be able to do a better job of predicting future climate changes caused by the emissions of greenhouse gases by human activity.
  • DRI is a Nevada Asset
    Nevada’s legislature was visionary in 1959 when it created DRI as the environmental research campus of the state’s university system. DRI has flourished as an entrepreneurial campus of 500 scientists, engineers and technicians who leveraged the state’s $8.2 million allocation last year into ...
  • Storm Peak Laboratory Cloud Property Validatio ...
    Scientists are busy working at DRI’s Storm Peak Lab at Steamboat Springs, Colo. gathering in-cloud measurements and also verifying the data from radars and other instrumentation that is measuring clouds at four different elevations; one site in town and three within the Steamboat Springs ...

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • Corbett names pick for Conservation and Natura ...
    Wednesday, March 23, 2011 By Laura Olson and Don Hopey, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette HARRISBURG – Gov. Tom Corbett announced his pick for one of two remaining cabinet posts this afternoon, selecting Richard J. Allan to head the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. Mr. Allan, 57, has spen ...
  • Governor’s Marcellus Commission Meeting ...
    Hi All, A notice in the PA Bulletin announced the first meeting of the Governor’s Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission. Scheduled for Friday, March 25, 2011, from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., It will be held in Room 105 of the Rachel Carson State Office Building, 400 Market Street, Harrisburg, PA. Th ...
  • Senator Casey Introduces Three Natural Gas Bills
    The following is a press release from Senator Robert Casey regarding three bills he has reintroduced. (1) S1215: Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals Act (aka: The Frac Act) (2) S S3964: Faster Action Safety Team Emergency Response Act (aka: FASTER) (3) S3720: Marcellus Shale On- ...
  • Has Your Stream Been Affected by Gas Drilling?
    How do you know? For many, it rests upon early detection -  and prevention of environmental impact. In 2010 the Alliance for Aquatic Resource Monitoring (ALLARM)  researched and tested a volunteer-based Marcellus Monitoring protocol for the early detection of flowback contamination in small Penn ...
  • Frack Water Missing and Unaccounted For
    I just received this info from the RDA: Over 54 million gallons of frack water missing & unaccounted for! The PA Department of Environmental Resources has discovered that records on recycling of gas drilling wastewater have been wildly inflated due to a reporting error. Even worse, no one seems ...

News Blaze

  • Escalating Violence Leads to Vast Displacement ...
    The agency has sent two convoys with medical supplies to the rebel-held city of Benghazi through the Egyptian Red Crescent and the Libyan Red Crescent, as well as thousands of blankets, sleeping mats and other relief items.
  • Member States Need to Step Up Legal Protection ...
    Stephen Kisambira, the President of the UN Staff Union, echoed the Secretary-General's call to Member States, adding that countries should not only 'ratify those agreements, but take determined steps to implement them.'
  • Another 'Extremely Harsh' Sentencing Handed Do ...
    Ms. Pillay also noted a 'worrying' increase in imprisonments, house arrests and other restrictions on lawyers and human rights defenders in China over the past 18 months.
  • Journalist Killed During Yemen Protests
    Mr. Al-Sharabi was covering the demonstration for the Al-Masdar independent newspaper.
  • Devastating Quake Hits Myanmar
    The quake had its epicentre in Shan state, close to the border with Laos and Thailand, and struck just before 8:30 p.m. local time yesterday. The official death toll has reached 73 and is expected to climb further.

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.

Red Ice Creations

  • First pictures emerge of the Fukushima Fifty
    These first images of inside the stricken Fukushima Dai-Ichi power plant reveal the terrifying conditions under which the brave men work to save their nation from full nuclear meltdown. The Fukushima Fifty - an anonymous band of lower and mid-level managers - have battled around the clock to coo ...
  • While Libya War Grows, Obama Team Denies It’s ...
    It’s one thing to say that the U.S. is right to take action against Moammar Gadhafi. It’s quite another to insist that it’s not even a war. And it’s simply dishonest to do so while escalating the war. But that’s the spin from the Obama White House. While the president travelled through Latin Ame ...
  • India says Monsanto covertly, illegally conduc ...
    Recent reports out of India say that multinational biotechnology giant Monsanto has once against skirted the law by clandestinely planting its genetically-modified (GM) corn without receiving approval to do so. Nitish Kumar, chief minister of the Indian state of Bihar, recently wrote a letter to ...
  • Jerusalem bus bomb victim was British
    The woman killed when a suitcase bomb exploded in Jerusalem on Wednesday was British, the Foreign Office has confirmed. The bombing, the first in the city for seven years, left the 60-year-old dead and injured dozens of others. The 1-2kg suitcase bomb detonated close to the main bus station and ...
  • NASA tests Mars space suit in Argentine Antarctica
    A NASA team has tested a space suit in a setting with extreme conditions akin to some of those found on Mars -- an Argentine base in Antarctica -- for possible use on a visit to the Red Planet. The NDX-1 space suit, designed by Argentine aerospace engineer Pablo de Leon, endured frigid temperatu ...

Russia Today

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

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

Tippers News

  • Why Did Aggie Boys Buy Sex at the Chicken Ranch?
    The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, the Texas A&M football team celebrates a win with a visit to their local brothel, the Chicken Ranch. The Aggie Boys are fSubmitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Two survivors of human trafficking share their ...
    She fiddles with her cell phone. In mid conversation, she holds it out, showing off who�s on the screen. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Trip to India inspires Everson woman to help v ...
    EVERSON - Touched by her own memories of being adopted as an orphan, Sue Ann Heutink took her first overseas venture to help victims of human trafficking. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Free Human Trafficking Victim Sara Kruzan From ...
    Sixteen-year-old human trafficking victim Sara Kruzan was sentenced to life in prison without parole when, in a desperate act to escape captivity, she shot her pimp. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Wellington pair adopt three-legged Jimmy
    Jimmy the bearded collie cross who lost a leg after a savage beating has found a new home in Wellington and his happy owners can't wait to start playing with the energetic puppy. Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • Cash-Strapped Japan Could Unload U.S. Debt
    “Some lawmakers and market analysts are expressing rising concerns that a demand for capital by earthquake-ravaged Japan could lead it to sell off some of its huge holdings of U.S.-issued debt, leaving the federal government in an even tighter financial pinch.” (Washington Post) Gosh, they may h ...
  • Air Traffic Control Incident Stokes Worry
    “Federal aviation safety investigators have worried for years that the fatiguing schedules that air-traffic controllers work could undermine safety, an issue that resurfaced dramatically this week when the tower at Washington’s Reagan National Airport fell silent in the wee hours.” (USA Today) A ...
  • A Victim of the State
    I feel safer with Bernard von NotHaus doing what he does than with Ben Bernanke doing what he does.
  • Earmarks Escape Budget Cutters
    “House Republicans who crafted two short-term spending bills made $5.3 billion in cuts by going after some of Washington’s least popular spending: those congressional pet projects known as âearmarks.â Even so, a congressional report shows they left $4.8 billion in earmarks untouched — and critic ...
  • Postal Service to Cut 7,500 Jobs
    “The U.S. Postal Service on Thursday is expected to detail how it plans to cut about 7,500 administrative positionsâ¦. Though 7,500 seems like an impressive figure, remember the Postal Service still has about 520,000 full-time workersâ¦.” (Washington Post) Get the government out of the business. ...

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

  • Top 5 reasons to be at the Institute/Facing So ...
    Lots of Facing South readers in North Carolina -- and even a crew from New York! -- have already reserved tickets for the Institute's 40th Anniversary bash in Durham this Saturday, and we can't wait to see you. Looking for something fun to do this weekend? Still on the fence? Here are five reas ...
  • VOICES: Nuclear deception
    By Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest After hearing the term "meltdown" used so often as a metaphor for the financial crisis, it is shocking to confront the prospect of a literal meltdown at some of Japan's nuclear reactors in the wake of the devastating earthquake and tsunami. There is somet ...
  • Another Gulf oil spill shows need for better o ...
    There's growing frustration along the Louisiana coast over the lack of answers about the origin of a new oil spill in the Gulf. First reported over the weekend, the oil has been washing ashore in places along a 30-mile stretch of the coast from Grand Isle south of New Orleans west to Timbalier ...
  • Gulf environmental health advocate wins human ...
    An environmental chemist whose work has helped illuminate the ongoing health impacts of BP's Deepwater Horizon oil disaster will be the recipient of a human rights award from Global Exchange, an organization that promotes social, economic and environmental justice around the world. Wi ...
  • Feds find 'systemic violations of civil rights ...
    By A.C. Thompson, ProPublica The U.S. Department of Justice released a 158-page report last week on the New Orleans Police Department, identifying a host of deep systemic problems, including a pattern of discriminatory policing, the routine use of "unnecessary and unreasonable" force, and a c ...

Worldpress - Africa

  • Libya: Another Oily Killing Field
    While some analysts question if the United States should be intervening in Libya, the real questions are, what took so long, and who is going to be in control after Gaddafi is gone?
  • Gender Mainstreaming in the Senegalese Armed F ...
    In this interview, Air Force Colonel Birame Diop talks about the Senegal military's effort to integrate women into its armed forces, the many facets of that challenge, and how Senegal is one African country that has been able to avoid a coup.
  • Gaddafi's Removal Is Not Easy
    Even though the entire Western world opposes Libya's Muammar Gaddafi and wishes to see him dethroned, the international community hesitates to intervene on the rebels' behalf.
  • The Abandoned Children of Sierra Leone
    Minors in Sierra Leone are going to jail for years for petty crimes, while corrupt public officials not only go unpunished, but mismanage the funds that could be educating these neglected youths.
  • Gender Mainstreaming in the Senegalese Armed F ...
    In this interview, Air Force Colonel Birame Diop talks about the Senegal military's effort to integrate women into its armed forces, the many facets of that challenge, and how Senegal is one African country that has been able to avoid a coup.

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • 1984 Was Not A Manual
    But the people running England, or at least London, certainly think it is.  CCTV cameras are everywhere you go, in large numbers.  On one Undergroun  platform today I counted 13.  Of course, with that many CCTV cameras there is no way they can actually effectively be monitored in real time, so t ...
  • No Free Lunch
    I haven’t had much to say about the Japanese Tsunami and the nuclear mess there, but here’s the short and to the point. First: the reactors in question were not properly built and tested.  It is very clear now that the Japanese nuclear industry, as with the American, has been cutting corners to ...
  • Burning down your house to generate heat
    Some years ago I worked for a large insurance company.  I was originally hired to help deal with a class action suit, but soon found myself working on something different, demutualizing the company.  Mutual insurance companies are owned by their customers, not by shareholders.  This has a num ...
  • Watch oil prices tomorrow
    Tomorrow’s oil markets should be interesting. The New York Times reports that the Saudi police have already opened fire on protesters in the major oil producing provinces on the Persian Gulf shore: Saudi police opened fire at a protest march in a restive, oil-rich province of the kingdom on Thur ...
  • Off to London
    for a week, in a couple weeks. This will be the first time I’ve visited England, since, oh, about 1978.  What I remember about that trip: Southampton row houses, a nice open air book market, and Trafalgar square. So, for those of you who have been to London more recently, or lived (or live) the ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

  • Pinning down past interactions: climate and ci ...
    Santa Fe, New Mexico - This much we know: The pueblo population at Bandelier in the Jemez Mountains of northern New Mexico reached its height around 1300 and then held on for another two and a half centuries. Residents left the canyons and highlands of the Pajarito Plateau for the Rio Grande ...
  • Stardust's final act helps other NASA missions
    NASA’s Stardust spacecraft, which visited two comets and sent back to Earth the first solid extraterrestrial samples since the moon landings of the 1970's, came to the end of its mission during the early morning hours of 25 March (GMT). A paragon of usefulness, even the satellite’s final moment ...
  • NIH answers petitioners, defends grant review ...
    The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has responded to a petition from thousands of unhappy extramural researchers, complaining about a two-year-old policy that prohibits researchers from resubmitting rejected grant proposals more than once. The response is not likley to satisfy the petitio ...
  • Fukushima nuclear crisis: new setbacks hit con ...
    Two weeks into the Fukushima reactor crisis - and after a week of growing optimism during which authorities seemed to be gaining the upper-hand in getting the plant under control - today brought renewed concern after a series of setbacks. Naoto Kan, the prime minister, told a press conference to ...
  • Irish ministers row over university appointmen ...
    Posted on behalf of Dick Ahlstrom Efforts are underway to settle a most unusual row between Ireland’s universities and the Higher Education Authority (HEA), which has raised tensions between cabinet colleagues in the country’s new coalition government. New powers given to the authority al ...

new geography

  • Census 2010 Offers Portrait of America in Tran ...
    The Census Bureau just finished releasing all of the state redistricting file information from the 2010 Census, giving us a now complete portrait of population change for the entire country.  Population growth continued to be heavily concentrated in suburban metropolitan counties while many r ...
  • NY Borough to Borough Commute? Fuhgeddaboudit
    As the country’s largest and densest metropolis, New York City has been able to offer a level of public transit service that most other cities can only dream about. Commuting to Downtown or Midtown Manhattan has been—and still is to a large degree—a remarkably easy affair for hundreds of thousan ...
  • The Deconstruction of Barack Obama
    The first two years of the Obama Administration have been historic and eventful. The first openly liberal president in a generation has dramatically increased government spending and intervention in the nation’s economy. The federal deficit soared to $1.65 trillion dollars and 35% of America ...
  • Pollution: An Off – Road Guide to Environment ...
    Not all pollutants are created equal, nor do they necessarily hang out in the same hot spots. Rankings of the most polluted cities — you know who you are — have become depressingly familiar. But those standings almost always represent a statistical stew of assorted toxins in the air and water, ...
  • Appalatin: A Perfect Rhythm Falling Into Place
    Nesting in Louisville since 2006, slowly taking its time to form and blossom, Appalatin is six working professionals who haven't quit their day jobs -- two native Kentuckians and four immigrant Kentuckians from Latin America, who do lot of professional-quality music in their spare time. If ...

GM Watch

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Cryptogon

  • Festo’s Smart Bird
    Research Credit: JH
  • Tata to Help Sun Catalytix Commercialize Revol ...
    Sun Catalytix Scientific Advisory Board Chairman, Dr. John M. Deutch: Dr. John M. Deutch is currently an Institute Professor at MIT, and as a faculty member since 1970, has served the MIT community as Chairman of the Department of Chemistry, Dean of Science and Provost. He has published over 140 ...
  • Radiation Beyond Legal Limit Found in Mustard ...
    Can anyone point to good information that deals with the health implications of consuming radioactive fallout, as opposed to just being exposed to ionizing radiation? Obviously, these vegetables have not been irradiated directly, so fallout particles must be coming down in the form or dust and/o ...
  • Satire: CIA’s ‘Facebook’ Pro ...
    Zuck: They “trust me” Zuck: Dumb fucks —Mark Zuckerberg, Founder and CEO of Facebook Via: The Onion: CIA’s ‘Facebook’ Program Dramatically Cut Agency’s Costs Research Credit: growltiger
  • While Libya War Grows, Obama Team Denies It&#8 ...
    Via: Wired: It’s one thing to say that the U.S. is right to take action against Moammar Gadhafi. It’s quite another to insist that it’s not even a war. And it’s simply dishonest to do so while escalating the war. But that’s the spin from the Obama White House. While the president travelled throu ...

The Economic Collapse

  • 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 ...

Desertification

  • Water to keep golfcourses green (Science Daily)
    Read at : ================================ http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110315130102.htm Golf Courses That Reuse Water Irrigate Too Much, Study Suggests ScienceDaily (Mar. 22, 2011) â Irrigation is one of the most controversial aspects in the sustainable management of golf course ...
  • Strategies in a Desert Watershed (Science Daily)
    Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110322114829.htm Developing Strategies in a Desert Watershed That Sustain Regional Water Supplies ScienceDaily (Mar. 24, 2011) â U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists are helping meet the water demands of a riparian desert region ...
  • Loss of plant biodiversity disrupts the fundam ...
    Read at : =================================================== http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110303153116.htm Loss of Plant Diversity Threatens Earth’s Life-Support Systems, Experts Say ScienceDaily (Mar. 24, 2011) â An international team of researchers including professor Emmett D ...
  • Carbon dioxide and drought (Science Daily)
    Read at : ================================================= http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110324153504.htm Cutting Carbon Dioxide Could Help Prevent Droughts, New Research Shows ScienceDaily (Mar. 25, 2011) â Recent climate modeling has shown that reducing the concentration of car ...
  • ETHIOPIA: The great land-grab debate (IRINNews)
    Read at : ==================================================== http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=92292 GAMBELLA, 25 March 2011 (IRIN) – Ethiopia has little time for critics of its large-scale land-leasing policy, insisting the millions of dollars of foreign investment will create jobs ...

The Paper Trail

  • Retailers accuse AmEx of antitrust breach as b ...
    Retailers in a long-running lawsuit against American Express Co. over charge card swipe fees are now accusing the card giant of violating antitrust law to keep them from suing as a class.
  • Weapons at root of trafficking case were subje ...
    Three Dallas-area men allegedly bent on supplying weapons to a Mexican drug cartel were dealing in a particular type of gun that was the subject of a recent Center for Public Integrity investigation.
  • Fed chief says he will take press questions ea ...
    Fed chief Ben Bernanke last month publicly faced one of his fiercest critics, Republican Rep. Ron Paul, who accused the central bank of a variety of misdeeds -- including some linked to Saddam Hussein’s purchase of weapons and the Watergate break-in.
  • Karl Rove launches government transparency sit ...
    Republican operative Karl Rove, who collected millions of dollars of secret political contributions in 2010, is promoting a new wiki that he claims will make government more transparent. Crossroads Grassroots Policy Strategies — Crossroads GPS — announced Wednesday it is starting a crowd-sourci ...
  • Watchdog demands DOJ release records on DeLay ...
    Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics is suing the Department of Justice for refusing to release records on the federal investigation of former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay of Texas.

backofthebook.ca

  • 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 ...

libcom

  • UK takes to the streets against cuts
    March.jpg Hundreds of thousands are set to take to the streets today against the coalition government's austerity measures, with the support of the majority of the population. ...
  • Egypt: Public Transport Workers Establish Inde ...
    jano.JPG Cairo, March 24 2011: Egypt's newest trade union was established on Thursday; the Independent Union of Public Transport Authority Workers. Hundreds of PTA workers attended the inauguration a ...
  • Croatia: What has been accomplished so far?
    zelimoraditi2.jpg An analysis of the Croatian anti-government protests by a member of MASA (Network of Anarcho-Syndicalists). Yet another anti-government protest took place in ...
  • Further disruption at Vivergo Fuels
    saltend-by-air.jpg Following on from the blockades earlier this month, wildcat blockades continue with police warning motorists to avoid the area in the mornings throughout the week. ...
  • Action against OTTO employment agency met with ...
    OTTOstop1.png A picket against Dutch employment agency OTTO Workforce organized by the Vrije Bond and ZSP in Venrey, where the headquarters of OTTO is began this morning. From the beginning it was me ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • Qadafi Speaks in 2008 – (No Wonder This ...
    Hosni Mubarak is history.  Qadafi’s time is limited as well.  WHY?  I submit these leaders are simply too moderate for Israel.  Israel needs change, and needs it quick.    Israel, you see, has plans.  They have long envisioned a holy war between Shia and Sunni factions – warring between t ...
  • The Danger of Passive Consent, (Blindly Follow ...
    People ask me all the time: “What do you have ‘against’ the Mormon (LDS) Church?  It is so wonderful and righteous!” That’s a fair question, especially for those who are ‘active’ members.   Perhaps one of the biggest problems I personally have with Mormonism is the fact that “good Mormons” ar ...
  • The Tiny Dot From A. True Ott
    This is an outstanding little video.  Never forget that WE THE PEOPLE have the true power – not the President, nor Congress, nor the Courts. The Tiny Dot only is empowered via our, We The People’s, CONSENT – and remember — SILENCE, APATHY, AND INACTION = CONSENT!!!
  • The TRUE Story From Japan?? This Could Well ...
    “You Get 3,500,000 the Normal Dose. You Call That Safe? And What Media Have Reported This? None!” What They’re Covering Up at Fukushima By HIROSE TAKASHI Introduced by Douglas Lummis Okinawa Hirose Takashi has written a whole shelf full of books, mostly on the nuclear power industry and the mili ...
  • China — Red Dawn Remake.
    In case you didn’t know, Hollywood is re-making the cult classic film of the cold-war era Red Dawn starring Patrick Swayze. Originally, the story showed the invasion of CHINESE troops, but this was too politically charged — it was too ACCURATE, so— they changed the invading villains to North Kor ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

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

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

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

Scotts Contracting

  • Green-e Climate Standard Comment Period Open
    On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 3:33 PM, Green-e Climate wrote: Dear Green-e Climate Stakeholder, Center for Resource Solutions (CRS) is pleased to announce the opening of an open stakeholder comment period for potential revisions to the Green-e Climate Standard. The Green-e Climate Standard l ...
  • How close is your home to a nuclear power plant?
    On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: If a crisis at a nuclear reactor happened in the U.S., could you be living in a danger zone? In a 10-mile radius, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission says the air could be unsafe to breathe in the event of a major cata ...
  • Update: Rep. EPA Chiefs Oppose Polluter Assault
    On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Sam Parry, Environmental Defense Action Fund wrote: Having trouble using links or viewing images? View the web version. Dear Scotts Contracting, You have been amazing! In the first week since the EPA proposed its tough new Mercury and Air Toxics rule ...
  • Energy Efficiency Investments Would Save Money ...
    On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 3:08 PM, ACEEE News wrote: NEWS RELEASE Contact: John A. Laitner, 202.507.4029 Media Contact: Glee Murray, 202.507.4010 TEXAS ENERGY EFFICIENCY INVESTMENTS WOULD SAVE MONEY FOR CONSUMERS AND BUSINESSES WHILE CREATING THOUSANDS OF JOBS … Continue reading →
  • St Louis Voter Registration Drive
    Dear Friends – This week, OFA Missouri is holding voter registration drives around the state, and we need you to join us to hit our ambitious goals. We’ll be getting together in St Louis this Saturday, March 26th — can … Continue reading →

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • Terex Convinces Lobbying Group It Has Stopped ...
    A lobbying group that had targeted construction crane-maker Terex Corp.  (TEX) over Iran's use of the company's cranes for public hangings said Thursday it is satisfied that Terex no longer does business in Iran. United Against Nuclear Iran said Terex demonstrated that it has received no revenue ...
  • تیراندازان بی‌تفنگ ایران در استرالیا
    تیم ملی تیراندازی ایران برای شرکت در مسابقات جام‌جهانی، بی‌تفنگ به استرالیا رسید. تیراندازان ملی پوش ایران که روز ۲۶ اسفند از طریق امارات به مقصد استرالیا پرواز کردند با ممانعت پلیس دوبی روبرو شدند و نتوانستند سلاح‌های خود را به سیدنی ببرند.
  • مگر چیزی زیر گلویم بگذارند که به تلویزیون بروم
    علی پروین، کاپیتان سابق تیم ملی فوتبال ایران که هیچگاه برای مصاحبه به رادیو و تلویزیون ایران نرفته است در مصاحبه ای نوروزی گفت مگر چیزی زیر گلویش بگذارند و مجبورش کنند که به تلویزیون برود.
  • کشته شدن یک جوان کرد ایرانی در ارتباط با 'کول‌بری'
    یک جوان ۲۱ ساله کرد، ساکن شهر نوسود استان کرمانشاه در غرب ایران، روز دوم فروردین به ضرب گلوله یک مأمور نیروی انتظامی کشته شده است.
  • دو مامور پلیس در تیراندازی افراد ناشناس در سنن ...
    در حم�� ا�راد مس�ح �اش�اس ب� مام�را� ا�تظام� در ش�ر س��دج د� ��ر کشت� � ��د ت� د�گر زخم� شد� ا�د. �

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Wyeth and the Multibillion Dollar Menopause In ...
    (this is the first of several posts regarding the “corporatization” of the US health care system – and its harmful effects on human health) I have blogged previously about the ingenious – and deadly – strategy by pharmaceutical companies and other corporate interests of inventing fictitious illn ...
  • I’m Okay, Thanks
    I’ve been at WOMAD for the last three days collecting signatures on a Green Party petition opposing government plans to privatize four of New Zealand’s state owned energy companies. Most people sign – well aware of the sad and embarrassing results of earlier privatization exercises (including th ...
  • Obama’s Neoliberal Stance on Charter Sc ...
    Of the last five presidents, Obama has clearly been the staunchest ally of the school privatization movement. I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised. Our first black president has already clearly established his neoliberal credentials, in expanding Bush’s war on terror into Pakistan, Yemen and Libya ...
  • The Charter School Industry – Part II
    Should We Allow Conservative Philanthropists to Run Our Schools? A final source of charter school funding is the New Schools Venture Fund created in 1998, which hosts funding by conservative-leaning mega charities, such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Walmart family foundatio ...
  • The Charter School Industry – Part I
    “Charter schools were a movement, but now charter schools are an industry. They have lobbyists – they walk around in thousand-dollar suits, some of them.” -  Dan Gaetz, Florida freshman senator (R) and former Okaloosa school superintendent (see http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/11/neo-liberalism-t ...

Doug's Darkworld

  • “Oh, meltdown. It’s one of those a ...
    Sigh. Nuclear power. One can read opinion pieces all over the map about nuclear power, from Ann Coulter’s “radiation is good for you” to more sober analysis. Basically, if someone wants to believe this accident is no big deal, there’s plenty on the web to reinforce their beliefs. If one wants to ...
  • BATTLE: LOS ANGELES, WARNING, SEEING THIS MOVI ...
    A TV commercial just came on saying “Battle: Los Angeles” was the world’s number one movie. I’ve seen it. If it’s the world’s number one movie, it’s because it doesn’t have much competition. Not that it’s a bad movie. If one likes alien invasion movies, say Aliens crossed with Independence Day, ...
  • Another Day, Another War
    The USA is now at war with Libya. Not to mention in conjunction with our old buddies, France and Britain. Since this website is about war and the onrushing darkness, I guess I better comment on it, depressing as it is. And it is depressing, wars almost never work out the way people wanted, and [...]
  • Libyan Rebel Jets Sink Qaddafi’s Warship ...
    And another oh so exciting day in the news. I’m getting tired of this, it’s almost scary to turn on the TV now. Well it is scary. However, I’m still here and there’s nothing really worrisome going on in Berkeley, so I will carry on and try to make sense of the rapidly changing world. [...]
  • Taking Stock: Japan, Giant Earthquake, Tsunami ...
    Just when I thinks the news can’t get any worse, it does. Actually, I always know things can get worse, I’m just a bit dismayed that my predictions of doom and gloom are bearing fruit from unexpected quarters. And by that I mean the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. This is already one of the [...]

FourWinds10

Crisis Maven

  • How I brought down the Nuclear Industry in my ...
    The nineteen-seventies were the hey-day of nuclear power. Almost every country, big or small, super-power or developing country, thought they should build as many atomic reactors as possible. And then, all of a sudden, or so it seems, most of these ambitious projects came to a screeching halt. W ...
  • Dangers, Properties, possible Uses and Methods ...
    Most methods and tools being recommended here on the Internet such as purification by filtration will not lead to your desired result of decontaminating “radioactive water”. a) Radioactive contamination of drinking water in Japan at this point in time can come about in only two ways: 1) The sour ...
  • Economic Musings VI: Modern Economies – ...
    There is a great debate in the history of economics whether there can be under-consumption in any real historic moment of the state of an economy and if so, whether it has detrimental effects and if so, what is to be done about it. And modern economists seem to have found a magic wand with [...]
  • Blogs and Web Sites you may want to follow
    The following is a list of blogs and websites that CrisisMaven has followed and observed over the last few months and that readers may want to check out from time to time. Note: neither the sequence of how the blogs are listed here nor any comments by CrisisMaven are an endorsement nor criticism ...
  • Economic Musings VII: Marketing doesn’t ...
    Have you ever wondered if marketing and advertising are the same, if not, what’s the difference and which is the more important of the two? And why should you care? The most successful economic model is without doubt the market economy. It is the consequence of the wealth effects of the division ...

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Modes of Transportation
    Join the forum discussion on this post Because of my interest in energy, I have a long-standing interest in different modes of transportation. One of the reasons that I am not overly pessimistic about a future in which I foresee even higher long-term oil prices is that I believe we can make a s ...
  • Clarifying Misconceptions on Taxpayer-Subsidiz ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post Last November, the Financial Times published an article charging that ethanol from the U.S. is collecting U.S. tax credits before being shipped to Europe, where it also qualifies for favorable tax treatment. I wrote an article about this called Taxpayer Su ...
  • Ethanol and Corrosion Follow-Up
    Join the forum discussion on this post Problem? What Problem? Following my recent post What You Aren’t Being Told About Ethanol and Corrosion, someone made a comment that gets to the root of why many ethanol proponents mistakenly see me as an enemy of ethanol (indeed, one of the Top 10). The p ...
  • How Much Are You Willing to Pay to be Nuke-Free?
    Join the forum discussion on this post A Plan to Phase Out “Dirty” Energy After the Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico, someone said to me “We have to stop all offshore drilling.” My response was that I could get behind that idea, but I wanted to know what sacrifices the person was ...
  • The Mirage of Fail Safe Engineering
    Join the forum discussion on this post Harsh Reality As I have said many times, all of our energy options require trade-offs. I can’t think of any that don’t have some negative consequences and risks associated with their production and/or use. One job of the engineer is to minimize those risk ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • Demand Truthful Food Labels This Saturday
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Genetically modified alfalfa, sugar beets, and read more
  • 4 Surprising Benefits of Gardening
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Spring's here, and though some of us are dealing with freak spring snowstorms, it's getting warm enough in most of the country to start prepping your backyard garden with peas, lettuces, and spring flowers. If the idea of digging in the dirt has never much appealed to yo ...
  • Buy-Sell-Trade Your Way into a Cheap Spring Wa ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—With the price of cotton hitting all-time highs and other fabric costs increasing, too, consumers who hope to snag brand-new spring and summer clothing are headed straight for a wallet-walloping. But that doesn't have to be the case, thanks to a growing trend in purchasi ...
  • The Nickel Pincher: Make Healthy Homemade Chee ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—If you're trying to live a plastic-free life, no place can be more frustrating that your local cheese counter. Pretty much without fail, cheese comes packed in plastic. Though many specialty cheese shops still use plain butcher paper to wrap purchases, at my local superm ...
  • Growing Strawberries with "The Most Toxic Chem ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is considering a petition submitted by public health, farmworker advocacy, and environmental groups challenging the approval of methyl iodide, a toxic fumigant that is set to become the default pesticide used in the Californ ...

big think

  • Big Idea: Technology Grows Exponentially
    What's the Big Idea? The doubling of computer processing speed every 18 months, known as Moore's Law, is just one manifestation of the greater trend that all technological change occurs at an exponential rate.� Why Is It Groundbreaking? For the vast majority of human existence, it was safe ...
  • Singularity Is a Religion Just for Digital Geeks
    Belief in�the coming Singularity�is no different than any messianic religion, argues Silicon Valley visionary�Jaron Lanier. The only difference is this new religion is "just for digital geeks."�Building off the argument he spelled out in�an�op-ed piece in The New York Times, Lanier argues that . ...
  • Mystery Volcano Photo #36 ... (sorry about MVP ...
    Well, I really messed up that Mystery Volcano Photo, eh? I had, in fact, posted that very image before of Kirishima to show the "before" of the crater [head slap - see top left for "after" image]. Yes, Eruptions reader Mike L. submitted the image, taken in 1990. We'll give Don Crain credit for . ...
  • Virginity for Sale
    A few years ago, after the Moonlight Bunny Ranch threw Natalie Dylan into the fray when they announced on the Howard Stern Show that they were auctioning off her virginity, I thought – now that’s a woman I would love to meet. Natalie and I shared some correspondence and few weeks later she kindl ...
  • Mystery Volcano Photo #35
    Thank you to all for the comments over on the "state of the blog" post - keep those comments coming. I thought I'd send you off for the weekend with a new Mystery Volcano Photo. If you remember, last time we have a real stumper from Papau New Guinea (submitted by Dr. Philipp Ruprecht). It took a ...

Information Liberation

  • The cockfighting raid on a small farm that req ...
    This Arizona sheriff was only investigating a cockfighting ring on a small farm. But Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio was joined on a search warrant by a SWAT team, a bomb robot, two armoured vehicles, an action movie star and a film crew. ...
  • Obama = Bush and Clinton at the Same Time
    I think I have figured out the new formula in presidential politics. The current president is essentially as bad as the last two combined. We might call this the "Presidential Fibonacci Sequence." Bush II was every bit as bad as his fa...
  • Cops Cover-up Murder Of Mentally Ill Man
    ORLANDO (CN) - The police chief of an Orlando suburb may be liable after his officers allegedly fired three shots into an unarmed man with the mental capacity of a 9 year old, and then tried to stage a cover-up, a Florida federal judge ruled. ...
  • SWAT team raids house after photos developed a ...
    On May 31, 2007, Sam Bellotte printed some photographs from a memory card at a self-service station in a Winchester, Virginia Wal-Mart. When he went to pay for the prints, a clerk insisted on inspecting the photos. Mr. Bellotte admitted that some con...
  • City Cracks Down on Girl Scout Cookies
    HAZELWOOD, Mo. (KMOX/AP) * The city of Hazelwood says they do support the Girl Scouts but not when they are violating the home occupancy code. They*d been warned, but the city says the Girl Scouts Abigail and Caitlin Mills continued to sell Girl S...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • It’s Just A Jump To The Left
    …followed by the inevitable step to the right. Am I the only one here to notice that electoral political sentiment has a certain uniformity across the Anglosphere? Centre-left and centre-right administrations tend to follow each other in the UK, the … Continue reading →
  • McLurg’s Law
    I wasn’t planning to comment on the Japanese earthquake, as it’s being fully covered elsewhere. But last night’s hysterical treatment of the relatively minor damage at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on the local current affairs TV program Four … Continue reading →
  • Cactoblastis
    Yet another grab for power by the state over the citizen, in ways never mentioned in the constitution. Today’s story is set here in Australia, but all readers around the world take note, because if this law succeeds here, its … Continue reading →
  • The Centre Of The Universe
    A column by Boris Johnson in the UK Daily Telegraph caught my eye the other day. It shone a cold, hard light on man’s seemingly innate tendency to place himself at the centre of everything. Reflecting on the recent earthquake … Continue reading →
  • What Are Rights?
    Itâs pretty much impossible these days to switch on the TV, radio or internet without hearing someone or other speaking of rights. âI have a right!â, âItâs my right…â, âMy rights have been violated!â Typically, claims of rights take the … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • 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 ...

RFF Library

  • Where are Global and U.S. Trade Heading in the ...
    Federal Reserve Board of Governors / by Joseph W. Gruber , Filippo di Mauro, Bernd Schnatz, and Nico Zorell http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/ifdp/2011/1017/ifdp1017.pdf [Abstract] Global and U.S. trade declined dramatically in the wake of the global financial crisis in late 2008 and early 2009 ...
  • National Water Resources Challenges Facing the ...
    National Research Council http://download.nap.edu/cart/deliver.cgi?record_id=13136 [free PDF with registration] [From Summary] The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) is responsible for construction, operations, and maintenance of much of the nation’s water resources infrastructure. This infras ...
  • Understanding and Managing Risk Security Syste ...
    National Research Council http://download.nap.edu/cart/deliver.cgi?&record_id=13108 [free PDF with registration] [From Preface] This study was requested by the Senate Appropriations Committee in response to what that committee saw as unsustainable rates of increase in the cost of security at the ...
  • Towards E-Mobility: The Challenges Ahead
    Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile, European Bureau http://www.fiabrussels.com/download/emobility/emobility_full_text_fia.pdf [From Press Release] Consumers will not automatically make the switch to electric vehicles if running costs are high, a recharging station network is not in plac ...
  • Land Use-SOER 2010 Thematic Assessment
    European Environment Agency http://www.eea.europa.eu/soer/europe/land-use/at_download/file [Abstract] Land use shapes our environment in positive and negative ways. Productive land is a critical resource for food and biomass production and land use strongly influences soil erosion and soil funct ...

Scientific American - News

  • Nuke Reboot: Physicists List Lessons to Be Lea ...
    DALLAS--It can't happen here. Or can it? [More]
  • MOX Battle: Mixed Oxide Nuclear Fuel Raises Sa ...
    The nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi power station in Japan that were crippled by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami are a lot like reactors in the U.S. They are a common, if not exactly modern, General Electric design that harnesses nuclear fission to boil water and drive steam turbin ...
  • Dimension-Cruncher: Exotic Spheres Earn Mathem ...
    John Milnor, an American mathematician best known for the discovery of exotic hyperspheres, was awarded the 2011 Abel Prize , the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters announced March 23. [More]
  • People Were Chipping Stone Tools in Texas More ...
    Some 15,500 years ago early nomadic North Americans had already set up camp near Buttermilk Creek in central Texas's hill country, where they left behind impressive array of stone tools and artifacts. [More]
  • Antimatter of Fact: Collider Generates Most Ma ...
    Most people know two things about helium. One is that it makes your voice comically high-pitched when you inhale it; the other is that it is extremely light, which is why balloons filled with the stuff float upward through the heavier air. But in particle physics terms--and especially when it co ...

First Truths

  • All of Statism is Imperialism
    Events in the Middle East and in Northern Africa have reminded of colonialism and offered an occasion to observe that we are all occupied. For the Center for a Stateless Society, I write: As Franz Oppenheimer and Albert Jay Nock so well understood, "[t]he State originated in conquest and confisc ...
  • All Aboard the Money Train
    Writing on the President's new infrastructure plan for C4SS I write: Commenting on the fact that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce ("fighting for your business") is "a big fan of Obama's push for infrastructure investment," Tanya Snyder of Streets Blog had it right when she called such investment a " ...
  • Iran and the Culture of Fear
    For C4SS, I opined: Forever in search of a new and foreboding ghost against which to leverage the permanent war economy, the ruling class must constantly defend — in the perfidious wording of Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff — "the security commitments we have made." In Ninetee ...
  • Is Life without the State Always Chaos?
    In an article for the Ludwig von Mises Institute, "the research and educational center of classical liberalism, libertarian political theory, and the Austrian School of economics," I answer, "No":If by "anarchy" we mean simply consensual agreements designed to benefit those they bind, then uncon ...
  • Guest Appearances...
    Catch me on Thinking Liberty tomorrow (2/8/2011) at 8:00 PM Eastern, and Wednesday (2/9/2011) on The Peter Mac Show at 8:00 PM Eastern.

Media Co-Op

  • No Consent? No Pipeline!
    Rally at Bank of Montreal meeting supports Yinka Dene Alliance against Enbridge pipeline Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories – Dozens of people gathered downtown on March 22nd to rally against the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway pipelin ...
  • Anarchists Cause Disturbance at Chilean Consulate
    On March 22nd, ana ...
  • Community March Against Racism 2011
    Nearly 300 people in Vancouver joined a march against racism on March 20, a day before the International Day to End Racial Discrimination. Organized by migrant justice or ...
  • Is Bigger Better?
    East Coast Credit Union considers amalgamation East Coast Credit Union members are voting this month on whether or not to amalgamate with Heritage Credit Union. East Coast Credit Union has thirteen branches, located in Margaree, Inverness, ...
  • Supporters of Reproductive Autonomy Counter An ...
    Daily pro-chioce demo @ noon, St. Joseph & St. Laurent This report features music from team rocket. Dominion Stories

David Seaton's News Links

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

EWG - Environmental Working Group

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Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • The Baby Syndrome More Horrific Than Falling T ...
    Dr. F. Edward Yazbak is a pioneer and advocate for child safety in an area that most people are completely unaware of, namely cases where vitamin deficiencies are mistaken for Shaken Baby Syndrome. There's tremendous legal injustice going on in this area, and it can happen to anyone. If you're ...
  • The Missing Nutrient to Blame for Heart Attack ...
    By Dr. Mercola The past decade has brought an explosion of research revealing the many beneficial roles vitamin D plays in keeping you healthy. But there's a new kid on the block that could end up being "the next vitamin D," and we are finding that some of vitamin D's benefits are greatly e ...
  • Health-Washing: Is 'Healthy' Fast Food for Real?
    McDonald's Fruit & Maple Oatmeal is a supposedly "healthy" breakfast item that actually contains more sugar than a Snickers bar. Fast-food joints routinely offer healthy-sounding options that aren't really health food. Time Magazine lists a few, including: McDonald's Premium Caesar Salad with ...
  • Why 95% of Japanese May Not Suffer from Radioa ...
    The nuclear power disaster unfolding in Japan, following a 9.0 earthquake and massive tsunami, has not only Japan, but also large portions of the US and even parts of Europe on edge. What could possibly be worse, however, is fear itself, according to some health experts. The Washington Post wri ...
  • Even 'BPA-Free' Plastics Leach Endrocrine-Disr ...
    Plastic containers and linings often leach chemicals into the surrounding environment. �And some of those chemicals, like the endocrine-disrupting bisphenol-A (BPA) and phthalates, may be harmful to your health. Manufacturers have even begun advertising some products as "BPA-free." But ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Guerrillas kill Colombian Indian boy, 16
    An Awá woman at a vigil for the twelve Awá massacred on 26 August 2009. © ONIC A sixteen-year-old Awá boy has been killed by left-wing guerrillas in the south-west Colombian town of Barbacoas. The death of Humberto Pai Taicus is the latest in a long line of attacks against the indigenous A ...
  • Violent protests delay destructive Amazon dams
    The small Pirahã tribe will be affected by the Madeira river dams. © Clive W. Dennis/Survival The construction of the Madeira dams in the Brazilian Amazon has been delayed, following violent protests at the Jirau dam site last week. Construction workers reportedly set fire to buildings and ...
  • Borneo tribes: 30-year regime ‘has destroyed e ...
    Under Taib's rule the Penan have mounted countless blockades to stop their forest being destroyed. © Andy Rain/Nick Rain/Survival Tribespeople in Sarawak, in the Malaysian part of Borneo, say the 30-year rule of Chief Minister Taib Mahmud has ârapedâ their land, destroyed their rainforests ...
  • World Water Day: Global outrage over Ethiopia ...
    The Kwegu are entirely dependent on the Omo river for their survival. © Survival Almost 400 organizations have signed a petition against Africa’s tallest dam, which will be delivered to Ethiopian embassies across Europe and the United States to mark World Water Day on Tuesday 22nd March. A ...
  • Obama urged to support Guarani Indians during ...
    Guarani mother and child. The sugarcane boom is threatening the lives of the Guarani. © João Ripper/Survival Survival International has appealed to US President Barack Obama to support the Guarani Indians of Brazil, whose lives are threatened by the booming sugarcane industry. Survival h ...

Montreal Gazette

  • The witness to the wedding
    It was early March 1964 when I received a phone call from Edward
  • Yes, it's another election. But don't tune it out
    This will be, after all, the fourth federal election in seven years, and the past three have returned minority governments with a relatively short shelf life. Quite possibly this one will too. But then quite possibly it won't - if the electorate takes an active interest in the campaign and turns ...
  • For now, at least, the world needs nuclear power
    Hydro-Québec has wisely undertaken to reconsider a previous decision to go ahead with a refit of the province's only nuclear power plant, Gentilly 2, at Bécancour, near Trois-Rivières.
  • Dickie gave me a grand slam!
    was one of The Gazette's most talented young reporters when he was assigned to help cover the wedding of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in Montreal in March 1964. Only 21 years old at the time, Tafler was given the mission of trying to speak to the couple on their wedding night. Tafler went ...
  • Nagging doubts about waterfront finances
    It would be good to know whether Montreal taxpayers are getting full value for the millions of dollars that city hall is pumping into the Société du Havre de Montreal, whose mandate is to develop a vision for the redesign of the city's waterfront. Unfortunately it's hard to tell, since available ...

Food World Order

  • your healthy alternative food may be same crap ...
    from grist: Looking to lower your impact? Here's your cheat sheet. GoodGuide offers greenness and social responsibility ratings, via web or app, for tens of thousands of products, including food, clothing, toys, and cleaning supplies. Obviously, it's massively useful to be able to look up a br ...
  • 3/24 binge & purge: scares, shares, rallies, a ...
    codex alimentarius & food irradiation in US* russia bans food from 6 japanese prefectures* store-brand food eating up market share* junk-food oxymoron: frito-lay tries all-natural chips* free-range egg ban shuts prince edward island bed & breakfast* worst texas drought in 44yrs er ...
  • are worldwide food shortages being caused by i ...
    video update: grocery bills are on the rise from allgov: World food prices have continued to rise over the past five years, creating the potential for malnutrition and starvation in the developing world, and fomenting political unrest in nations like Egypt. While some economists have blamed t ...
  • major farm animal cloning project canceled due ...
    from free from harm: After 13 years of studying how to prevent abnormalities in cloned animals, AgResearch has ended its cloning project because too many of the animals died. AgResearch is a New Zealand based company that has spent more than a decade trying to perfect the cloning of animals for ...
  • usda deregulates genetically engineered sugar ...
    from change.org: The USDA announced on Friday, February 4, that it would "partially deregulate" Roundup Ready sugar beets, allowing farmers to begin planting the GE crop this spring. Despite a California Supreme Court ruling six months back in August which halted the deregulation of GE sug ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • 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 ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Nigel Farage on Russia Today: Questions whethe ...
  • Will "the cuts" protestors even manage to ment ...
    So, London braces itself for the biggest protest on the streets since the Iraq War tomorrow. Those wanting detail of who is protesting about what and where would be best served by looking at this article in The Guardian. Much of what is planned is union-backed and aimed at complaining at " ...
  • Where's your no-fly zone over Ivory Coast then ...
    Where's your no fly zone over Ivory Coast, Dave? Where are the oh-so-compassionate Libyan war supporters in this one? Meanwhile, Sky News reports that: "The Arab League has criticised the military strikes on Libya, a week after urging the United Nations to slap a no-fly zone on the oil-r ...
  • Sunday Paper Review: 20th March 2011
    Naturally, the New World Order's war on Libya dominates the Sunday newspapers. I'm amazed that Britain can afford the petrol to send our aircraft out there, let alone manage to afford any of those compassionate humanitarian bombs that they're blowing things up with. But you see, I'm an evi ...
  • Water cannon and gas used on protestors at EU ...
    Russia Today carrying images and reporting that water cannon and tear gas (a chemical weapon) are being used on protestors at EU in Brussels, angry at austerity throughout the undemocratic union. Any advice, Mr. Gaddafi? No fly zone over Brussels, is it, United Nations? Hypocrites. ( ...

Facing South

  • Top 5 reasons to be at the Institute/Facing So ...
    Lots of Facing South readers in North Carolina -- and even a crew from New York! -- have already reserved tickets for the Institute's 40th Anniversary bash in Durham this Saturday, and we can't wait to see you. Looking for something fun to do this weekend? Still on the fence? Here are five reas ...
  • VOICES: Nuclear deception
    By Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest After hearing the term "meltdown" used so often as a metaphor for the financial crisis, it is shocking to confront the prospect of a literal meltdown at some of Japan's nuclear reactors in the wake of the devastating earthquake and tsunami. There is somet ...
  • Another Gulf oil spill shows need for better o ...
    There's growing frustration along the Louisiana coast over the lack of answers about the origin of a new oil spill in the Gulf. First reported over the weekend, the oil has been washing ashore in places along a 30-mile stretch of the coast from Grand Isle south of New Orleans west to Timbalier ...
  • Gulf environmental health advocate wins human ...
    An environmental chemist whose work has helped illuminate the ongoing health impacts of BP's Deepwater Horizon oil disaster will be the recipient of a human rights award from Global Exchange, an organization that promotes social, economic and environmental justice around the world. Wi ...
  • Feds find 'systemic violations of civil rights ...
    By A.C. Thompson, ProPublica The U.S. Department of Justice released a 158-page report last week on the New Orleans Police Department, identifying a host of deep systemic problems, including a pattern of discriminatory policing, the routine use of "unnecessary and unreasonable" force, and a c ...

CenterLine

  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Newburgh Four Reassert Entrapment Defense in Appeal Lawyers for four men convicted in October of plotting to bomb a synagogue and Jewish community center in the Bronx were back in court Thursday, arguing that their clientsâ convictions should be thrown … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Under New Rules, Terror Suspects Can Be Held Longer Without Miranda Warning The Wall Street Journal reports that new Justice Department rules give investigators the authority to question terror suspects for a longer period of time without giving them a … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Man Indicted in MLK Parade Bomb Plot On Tuesday, Kevin Harpham, a 36-year-old Washington state man, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Spokane on one count of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and one count … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    U.S. Appeals Court Reinstates Wiretap Lawsuit A federal appeals court revived a lawsuit by the ACLU and other groups on Monday that challenges amendments to FISA giving the government power to wiretap non-U.S. citizens overseas with less judicial oversight, according … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    BA Worker Convicted of Terror Plot in UK Receives 30-Year Sentence A British Airways IT employee convicted in the UK of plotting a terror attack and seeking out his position for terrorism purposes was given a 30-year sentence on Friday, … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • Elementary OS Beta Reviewed - Looks Very Polis ...
    I concede that I am a big fan of Elementary Project and the goodies it brought to the Linux desktop eco system. I also accept the fact that, reviewing a developer only preview of an application and calling it "not ready yet" is kind of self defeating. But the kind of expectations a project like ...
  • How About Firefox 4's Panorama Like Workspace ...
    Unity is the new improved Ubuntu interface which is all set to debut in another month or so when Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" is officially released. A lot of ideas keeps coming in from users on how to improve Unity interface even further. Tweak Center and Launchpad + Ubuntu Sowftare Center inte ...
  • Community Wallpapers for Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Re ...
    Community contributed wallpapers collection for Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" is finally released. The collection include 17 brand new wallpapers and this latest set of community contributed wallpapers for Ubuntu is definitely the best so far in my opinion. We will feature a few of the wallpapers ...
  • Integrating Software Center with Launchpad(Mockup)
    While�Tweak-Center mockup was a brilliant idea that stood out from the rest of the crowd, here is another very interesting concept that demands your attention.�USC Launchpad Concept integrates Ubuntu Software Center with Launchpad and thereby provide easy access of hundreds of awesome applicatio ...
  • AriOS Review - Yet Another Ubuntu Derived Linu ...
    Recently, the distribution AriOS made it to DistroWatch's database. I had read Dedoimedo's review of AriOS earlier, where he said that it is a user-friendly and very pleasant distribution to use, and it is much better than its predecessor mFatOS. Intrigued, I decided to try it out. AriOS Re ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • Secret files released by Austrian justice offi ...
    Justice officials in Austria yesterday took the unprecedented step of releasing files concerning their investigation into the kidnapping of Natascha Kampusch amid criticism that state prosecutors systematically ignored evidence that a paedophile ring was  involved. http://diepresse.com/home/pano ...
  • Defamation charges against me underline new po ...
     Some people may receive defamation charges from the Austrian Ministry of Justice and feel a little dejected. After all, such charges carry a jail setence. http://wakenews.net/verleumdnungJMB18.02.11.pdf However, for me, it was a moment of great pride. This is because the defamation charges unde ...
  • ÖVP nominates lobbyist to replace disgraced MEP
     Austria’s conservative People’s Party, the ÃVP, has nominated another lobbyist to replace MEP Ernst Strasser after a video caught him accepting secret payments to change draft EU laws to benefit banks. Hubert Pirkerâs consultancy company EU Triconsult brazenly stated it could influence EU leg ...
  • Germany pulls out of military action against L ...
    Who’s in charge? Germans pull forces out of NATO as Libyan coalition falls apart By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 1:32 AM on 23rd March 2011 Tensions with Britain as Gates rebukes UK government over suggestion Gaddafi could be assassinated French propose a new political ‘committee’ to over ...
  • Ron Paul and the Judge: Obama’s Illegal War in ...
     Infowars.com March 23, 2011 No difference between Republicans and Democrats — both are addicted to war. Check out the video on: http://www.infowars.com/ron-paul-and-the-judge-obamas-illegal-war/

Invisible Opportunity

  • It’s time to Wake up and Smell the Bodie ...
    By Les Visible A lot of things are missing from contemporary life of the moment. One of these things is manners. Oh how I miss that in the general flow of life. Another thing is ‘objective reasoning’. If you don’t possess it, you do not know how valuable it is. It’s a big help in [...]
  • More than 2,000 vaccinated babies died: The co ...
    By Neil 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 vacci ...
  • ALERT!!!!! BLOODBATH PREPARED IN BAHRAIN TOMORROW
    by Finian Cunningham and Ralph Schoenman for RedactedNews | March 24, 2011 Far from being intimidated by the escalating violent rampage unleashed upon an unarmed population by Bahraini authorities and occupying troops, a large turnout is anticipated after Friday prayers tomorrow, March 25. Peopl ...
  • Israel’s Fingerprints Are All Over 9/11 (And I ...
    By Joshua Blakeney STAFF WRITER Over the last week or so I’ve engaged in some vibrant email exchanges with some of the most prominent movers and shakers in the 9/11 skeptics community, most of whom are reluctant to emphasize the Israeli dimension of 9/11. While I would not publish the private co ...
  • Was Fukushima a victim of Stuxnet?
    by jimfred As many of my readers likely know, there was an exceptionally brilliant piece of utterly evil computer code released on the world beginning in 2009. It was named Stuxnet. I urge you to read Vanity Fair’s April 2011 article about Stuxnet for a good understanding of what the virus does, ...

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

electric politics

  • From Boom to Bust and Back Again
    It's no accident that the White House won't regulate the banks. In our plutocratic system the White House is their wholly owned and fully brain-washed subsidiary, the only question being how best to pretend otherwise. To discuss various matters involving American and world high finance I turned ...
  • Inflection Points
    What's the attraction of trying to remake the world so that everybody becomes like us? My answer is it's the logical extension of a terrifying, still very much alive American system of slavery but whatever your favorite explanation, the project itself is doomed. When will we ever learn? To talk ...
  • Trench Warfare
    It's not just morally unconscionable that a tiny minority of Americans have almost all the money, it's a terrible thing in policy terms, especially if what you want is democracy. A plutocracy — let's not kid ourselves about this — is basically a slave system. To talk about how we got into our p ...
  • Death and Life
    You can't put dead souls under a microscope. But, then, it's not so easy to put live ones under a microscope, either. Perhaps there's a little bit of death in every life and, I daresay, maybe in death there's a little bit of life. Where's the balance? And why should we pay attention to question ...
  • High Stakes
    The Obama administration has yet to explain, apart from vague humanitarian concerns, whether a direct U.S. national security interest is at stake in Libya's internal strife. Nevertheless, Hillary Clinton is waffling her way toward war. What this could ultimately entail remains unknown but given ...

PR News

  • Biocell Center hires GCI Health for consumer a ...
    MEDFORD, MA: Biocell Center, a technology company that operates amniotic-fluid stem-cell banks in the US and Europe, is working with GCI Health to raise awareness with mothers-to-be about amniotic fluid banking.
  • GM's Barger joins Porter Novelli's Voce
    SUNNYVALE, CA: Voce Communications, which was recently acquired by Porter Novelli, has named Christopher Barger SVP.
  • InVentiv Health taps Chandler for SVP role
    SOMERSET, NJ: InVentiv Health named Bob Chandler SVP of marketing and communications, a new role at the healthcare services company. The added responsibilities will not affect Chandler's role as principal of Chandler Chicco Companies.
  • AT&T, T-Mobile merger sparks comms efforts
    DALLAS: AT&T has secured support from several key stakeholders in its pursuit to win approval from federal antitrust regulators of its $39 billion acquisition of Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile USA.
  • Nuclear industry faces public policy challenge
    The near meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi reactors in Japan created a challenge for the nuclear industry, given it has positioned nuclear energy as a safer alternative to fossil fuels.

The Story Behind the Story

  • Qadafi Speaks in 2008 – (No Wonder This ...
    Hosni Mubarak is history.  Qadafi’s time is limited as well.  WHY?  I submit these leaders are simply too moderate for Israel.  Israel needs change, and needs it quick.    Israel, you see, has plans.  They have long envisioned a holy war between Shia and Sunni factions – warring between t ...
  • The Danger of Passive Consent, (Blindly Follow ...
    People ask me all the time: “What do you have ‘against’ the Mormon (LDS) Church?  It is so wonderful and righteous!” That’s a fair question, especially for those who are ‘active’ members.   Perhaps one of the biggest problems I personally have with Mormonism is the fact that “good Mormons” ar ...
  • The Tiny Dot From A. True Ott
    This is an outstanding little video.  Never forget that WE THE PEOPLE have the true power – not the President, nor Congress, nor the Courts. The Tiny Dot only is empowered via our, We The People’s, CONSENT – and remember — SILENCE, APATHY, AND INACTION = CONSENT!!!
  • The TRUE Story From Japan?? This Could Well ...
    “You Get 3,500,000 the Normal Dose. You Call That Safe? And What Media Have Reported This? None!” What They’re Covering Up at Fukushima By HIROSE TAKASHI Introduced by Douglas Lummis Okinawa Hirose Takashi has written a whole shelf full of books, mostly on the nuclear power industry and the mili ...
  • China — Red Dawn Remake.
    In case you didn’t know, Hollywood is re-making the cult classic film of the cold-war era Red Dawn starring Patrick Swayze. Originally, the story showed the invasion of CHINESE troops, but this was too politically charged — it was too ACCURATE, so— they changed the invading villains to North Kor ...

k2p blog

  • Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant: Reactor vess ...
    A suspected break in the core of a nuclear reactor could have been responsible for a leak of large amounts of radioactive contamination at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant.
  • Radioactive water leaks from 3 reactors &#8211 ...
    TEPCO said Friday it has begun injecting freshwater into the No. 1 and No. 3 reactor cores at the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant to enhance cooling efficiency, although highly radioactive water was found leaking possibly from both reactors as well as the No. 2 reactor.
  • Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant: Status on Ma ...
    It is 2 weeks today since the quake and Tsunami struck. The toll of dead and missing exceeds 27,000. Progress continues steadily but painfully slowly at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant. The radiation levels are fluctuating but pose no health hazard to the general public.
  • Gaddafi & family activate Plan B to save thems ...
    Members of Muammar Gaddafi's entourage are putting out feelers to seek a ceasefire or safe passage from Libya.
  • Two 7.0 quakes hit Burma — as predicted?
    In the light of the recent predictions of increased earthquake activity especially in the period 22nd - 27th March, two large 7.0 quakes - as if on cue - have rocked north east Burma (Myanmar) close to the borders with Laos and Thailand.

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Lowes Ups Stinky Drywall Settlement From $4,50 ...
    Remember those stories about the drywall sold and installed by big American chains that turned out to be contaminated by noxious sulfur smells? Well, now Lowe's has upped its max payout for affected homeowners from a max of $4,500 in cash and gift cards to $100,000. Replacing the amount of appl ...
  • Financial Documents To Have Ready In Case Of E ...
    No one ever thinks they'll wake up to a life-altering disaster, but it's wise to prepare for the worst-case scenario. Moneyning recommends keeping certain financial documents safe and close at hand in a centralized place should awful times befall you. A financial first aid kid should include: ...
  • Consumerist Friday Flickr Finds
    Here are eleven of the best photos that readers added to The Consumerist Flickr Pool this week, picked for neatness and usability in a Consumerist post. (ValeMusu) (BaboMike) (softlad - ...and put the kettle on....) (DrewP_13) (rigggsy23) (Carolinadoug) (a.r. briggs) (Faded Photograph) ...
  • NJ Man Selling 212 Phone Number For $1 Million
    212 is a coveted area code for your phone number. It says that you are in Manhattan, established, and among the set that could pop its collar if it wanted to but chooses not to. Now a New Jersey man is trying to auction off his 212 number for $1 million on eBay, hoping the proceeds will cover c ...
  • Strategies To Survive The New Economy
    An adverse economy calls for a more conservative approach aimed at getting rid of debt and building savings. Savvy financial planners used to living large in boom times have had to adjust their strategies in order to thrive. The U.S. News & World Report's Alpha Consumer blog helps put you on t ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

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

UK Progressive

  • Don’t Use The ‘Free Market’ As An Excuse
    by Tina Dupuy This week, AT&T announced its plans to buy their competitor T-Mobile. Now it’s up to regulators to approve the merger. Politicians pandering to the Tea Party love to talk about a free market. It sounds sexy. It sounds like wealth and freedom got married and had a perfect concept. I ...
  • The Republicans’ Big Lies About Jobs (And Why ...
    “And if all others accepted the lie which the party imposed â if all records told the same tale â then the lie passed into history and became the truth.” â George Orwell, 1984 (published in 1949) House Majority Leader Eric Cantor was in town yesterday (specifically, at Stanfordâs Hoover Institu ...
  • We Should All Be Concerned By Atlanta’s Water ...
    In 2007 an unprecedented drought â one that had lasted almost three years â stretched across the south-eastern United States, forcing some of the region’s largest cities to declare water emergencies. The situation became so serious that officials in Atlanta, where rainfall totals were more than ...
  • Told Ya So… 2011 UK Budget is What Happens Whe ...
    When a country’s voters pout, sit on their hands and complain â rather than head to the polling booth â because US President Obama or UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown had 19 other fires to douse and your pet cause was not one of the important issues that were keeping the economy from going all [.. ...
  • Opinion: Should Law Schools Follow the Medical ...
    The outstanding record compiled by the trial advocacy teams of the Massachusetts School of Law at Andover (MSLAW) in recent years is directly attributable to the school’s innovative teaching methods, the team’s coaches believe. Otherwise, they say how do you explain MSLAW’s moot court victories ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • David Evans, Carbon Accounting Modeler, Says I ...
    Dr David Evans’ address to the Anti-Carbon-Tax rally, Perth Australia, 23 March 2011. Good Morning Ladies and Gentlemen. The debate about global warming has reached ridiculous proportions and is full of micro thin half-truths and misunderstandings. I am a scientist who was on the carbon gravy tr ...
  • We are being deceived
    My speech at the Anti-tax Carbon rally, Wednesday March 23rd. I used to be a Green. I used to think Carbon dioxide mattered. I still worry about falling fish stocks, old growth forest and erosion, but wind farms won’t help the fish, and solar cells won’t keep the top soil from blowing away. Real ...
  • Thousands of angry ordinary Australians turn u ...
    In Canberra today over 3,000 people went out of their way, coming in on 30 buses from more than 1000 km away, to let Julia Gillard know that Australians do not want her Carbon Tax. The news made every major broadcast for several minutes. Protesters were referred to as “climate skeptics” (mostly) ...
  • Was 2010 the hottest ever?
    Was 2010 “the hottest year ever” as the PR machine repeats ad nauseum? Yes — but only if you ignore three of the four main global datasets and those awkward questions about why nobody thought to put thermometers in better places. Run your eyes down this page to see how the GISS temperatures pan ...
  • Yes, it IS about the science
    Behind-the-scenes I’ve heard the line this “isn’t about the science”. I said that myself back in 2007: it’s not about the science, it’s about power and money. But it’s a dangerous meme. In the long run, it IS about the science. While people think a carbon tax is bad, but believe that “carbon is ...

ReNew America

  • Trump won't back off Obama's birth papers
    (NewsMax) - Donald Trump is not backing down from his demand that President Barack Obama produce his birth certificate and stepped up his criticism by questioning why he has not released other personal records, including college transcripts and legislative papers...
  • Obama's 'birth hospital' hides White House letter
    (WorldNetDaily) - Obama's alleged birth hospital has locked in a storage vault a letter President Obama purportedly wrote to the hospital on Jan. 24, 2009, declaring it his birthplace...
  • The Weiner waiver wormhole
    (Michelle Malkin) - New York Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner toasted the one-year anniversary of Obamacare this week -- and accidentally spilled his champagne glass all over the disastrous, one-size-fits-all mandate. Ostensibly one of the federal health care law's staunchest defenders, Weiner exp ...
  • Liberals: they blinded us with science
    (Ann Coulter) - In response to my column last week about hormesis -- the theory that some radiation can be beneficial to humans -- liberals reacted with their usual open-minded examination of the facts. According to Noel Sheppard at Newsbusters, MSNBC's Ed Schultz devoted an entire segment to de ...
  • King warns Gadhafi may strike against U.S.
    (Newsmax) - The United States is running the risk of suffering a major terrorist attack at the hands of Libyan proxies because of its military intervention in Libya to overthrown dictator Moammar Gadhafi, according to Rep Peter King, the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee...

Truth Offering

  • The Problem of Civilization: Peak Oil, Scarcit ...
    Have you guys checked out the amazing documentary, "Blind Spot" yet? If not, here it is in full: Have you seen "Collapse" with Michael C. Ruppert? No? Here's that documentary as well: "Blind Spot" and "Collapse" explain and detail the undeniable dilemma we face as a civilization, but fail to r ...
  • US Military-Industrial Self-Destruction and it ...
    CLICK TO ENLARGEOnly powerful, prosperous nations have ever become dominant military powers. Of course, this is because you must have the means to create a strong military and complementary technology. Without those means, a nation would be incapable of becoming a dominant militaristic force. S ...
  • Poll: If a disaster happened here in the US, w ...
    In Japan, there have been no reports of looting or rioting. So this week, we asked you, "If this earthquake/tsunami disaster happened here in the US, would we be this civilized?" Here's what you thought: I happen to agree; if disaster struck here, the lack of a moral fabric underlining our soci ...
  • SoCal Fun: The Radioactive Plume and the "Big One"
    Radioactive plume heads for US west coastMan, what a week. Not that my paranoia comes anywhere close to what people are going through in Japan, I must say that all this talk about nuclear 'plumes' sweeping across the Pacific and wiping across the shores is scaring the hell out of me. I'm a healt ...
  • Heroin, the CIA in Afghanistan, 9/11 and the M ...
    Kevin Hayden -- purveyor of the amazing website, TruthIsTreason.net -- wrote this great piece that I think you should all read. One of the main points we're always trying to get across is that nothing is as we're told. There's always a deeper truth beneath the propagandized surface. And that is ...

2012 Blog

  • Bunker Business Booming
    CNN reports that bunker sales are booming in the wake of the Japanese tsunami and Middle Eastern unrest: Northwest Shelter Systems, which offers shelters ranging in price from $200,000 to $20 million, has seen sales surge 70% since the uprisings in the Middle East, with the Japanese earthquake o ...
  • Could Earthquakes Cause a Pole Shift?
    It has become a common feature when the media reports major earthquakes these days – our planet slowed down and was knocked off its axis. While it sounds dramatic, the numbers are minuscule and make no difference in the greater scheme of things: NASA geophysicist Richard Gross said that the rece ...
  • Congressman Says Flee Cities / Mystery Sculpture
    In new documentary, Urban Danger, Republican Congressman Roscoe Bartlett says: “I would like everybody to have a year’s supply a food. I’d like everybody to have some plans so that they can make do if any one of these emergencies occurred. It’s going to be easier to do that and you avoid the pro ...
  • Rapid Magnetic Changes / Houston Dome / Anothe ...
    “a new study of ancient copper mines in southern Israel found that the strength of the magnetic field could double and then fall back down in less than 20 years.” This could be local, or global, they don’t seem sure. But it is certainly something scientists previously did not believe possible. W ...
  • Lesson from Japan: Nukes are Unsafe
    In a SHTF scenario, safety features of nuclear reactors might be significantly incapable of preventing a meltdown. As we have seen in Japan, a country that gave us the word tsunami, their backup plan of diesel generators failed because the tsunami took them out. If your home or safe spot is with ...

Facing South

  • Top 5 reasons to be at the Institute/Facing So ...
    Lots of Facing South readers in North Carolina -- and even a crew from New York! -- have already reserved tickets for the Institute's 40th Anniversary bash in Durham this Saturday, and we can't wait to see you. Looking for something fun to do this weekend? Still on the fence? Here are five reas ...
  • VOICES: Nuclear deception
    By Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest After hearing the term "meltdown" used so often as a metaphor for the financial crisis, it is shocking to confront the prospect of a literal meltdown at some of Japan's nuclear reactors in the wake of the devastating earthquake and tsunami. There is somet ...
  • Another Gulf oil spill shows need for better o ...
    There's growing frustration along the Louisiana coast over the lack of answers about the origin of a new oil spill in the Gulf. First reported over the weekend, the oil has been washing ashore in places along a 30-mile stretch of the coast from Grand Isle south of New Orleans west to Timbalier ...
  • Gulf environmental health advocate wins human ...
    An environmental chemist whose work has helped illuminate the ongoing health impacts of BP's Deepwater Horizon oil disaster will be the recipient of a human rights award from Global Exchange, an organization that promotes social, economic and environmental justice around the world. Wi ...
  • Feds find 'systemic violations of civil rights ...
    By A.C. Thompson, ProPublica The U.S. Department of Justice released a 158-page report last week on the New Orleans Police Department, identifying a host of deep systemic problems, including a pattern of discriminatory policing, the routine use of "unnecessary and unreasonable" force, and a c ...

One News Page

  • Hip-hop artist Nate Dogg dies at 41
     Hip-Hop star Nate Dogg has died at the age of 41, following several years of serious health problems.
  • Nathaniel Parker joins 'Merlin' cast
    Nathaniel Parker signs up to play a key role in the next series of Merlin.
  • Snoop Dogg establishes Nate Dogg trust
    Snoop Dogg establishes a memorial trust for late hip-hop star Nate Dogg.
  • Eminem - Eminem Pays Tribute To Nate Dogg
    Eminem has paid tribute to Nate Dogg, saying his music 'will never be replaced' The singer - best known for his 1994 hit 'Regulate' featuring Warren G - died unexpectedly on Tuesday (15 03 11) and Eminem has joined the long list of people to pay tribute to him Eminem, who recorded two tracks ...
  • Snoop Dogg - Snoop Dogg Designs T-shirt For Japan
    Rapper Snoop Dogg is the latest star to design a T-shirt to raise funds for the relief efforts in Japan Linkin Park star Mike Shinoda and British rockers Iron Maiden are selling shirts for the aid appeal following the devastating earthquake and tsunami, and now Snoop has followed their lead His ...

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • Libya and Iraq turning into “black holes ...
    Gumer Isayev (Russia) Gumer Isayev, Middle East expert and faculty professor at St. Petersburg State University, talks about causes behind the conflict in Libya, Jamahiriya, the Green Book, and Russia’s stand in regard to the Libyan conflict. West Takes Advantage of the Situation Q: Being an exp ...
  • Escalation in Libya
    Dmitry Sedov (Russia) It was supposed to come as a global surprise that NATO is ready to take part in the West’s new war, âto bring our contribution, if needed, in a clearly defined manner, to the broad international effort to protect the people of Libya from the violence of the Gaddafi regimeâ, ...
  • A Strategy Aimed at Ruining Libya
    Elena Ponomareva (Russia) A death sentence to Libya’s sovereignty was handed out long before the protests inspired by Western intelligence services shook the country and the UN Security Council responded to the situation with anti-Libyan resolutions. There are fundamental causes behind the strat ...
  • Libya to Face Airstrikes. Part Four of the Glo ...
    By Elena Pustovoitova (Russia) ORIENTAL REVIEW: This article was published by Strategic Culture Foundation few hours before the aggression. Latest reports show that the quasi-coalition forces are bombing vital infrastructure objects in Libya: oil reservoirs by Misurata, civilian and military tar ...
  • UN Security Council on Libya: Killing the Inte ...
    *** Alexander Mezyaev (Russia) The UN Security Council passed Resolution 1973 on Libya slapping new sanctions on the country and reinforcing the ones it endures due to Resolution 1970 dated February 26. The truth is that the new Resolution erodes the international law to the point of virtually k ...

BlogHer

  • BlogHer Network Member News, March 25: BlogHer ...
    Laurie A. Cinotto from The Itty Bitty Kitty Committee is thrilled that after nearly two years in the works, Making Paper Flowers, her book/kit with Barnes and Noble, will be released at the end the month.���Tom Davis of Coping With Life has a book coming out September 1st titled A Legacy of Madn ...
  • Brothers Stink, Whether They Have Autism or Not
    We don't ever leave our youngest daughter Mali alone with Leo, her ten-year-old big brother. It's not safe. Leo's intense autism may complicate his understanding in some ways, but he remembers very clearly that until he was four years old, there was no Mali and he was Mommy's baby. He has no pro ...
  • Toddlers and Tiaras? I Was A Baby Beauty Queen
    Have you ever seen Toddlers and Tiaras? You know, the show that features little girls (and some babies, from what I've seen on commercials) getting all dolled up and prancing around and crying because their scalps hurt from their hair getting teased so much? Yeah. That show. And no, I've neve ...
  • No Ordinary Blog Conference: News From BlogHer ...
    There’s always something you can count on at every BlogHer conference: No matter what the subject, the energy is palpable and the women here are ready to share stories and get inspired. BlogHer|bet is where 100 women in business, entrepreneurism and tech are coming together with 50 top execut ...
  • Because She's Ignorant Is Not a Good Enough Excuse
    By nature, I am one who shies away from internet drama. I don't always weigh in on the spectacle du jour. In fact, I am usually one of the last to even hear about it and I don't even know what linkbait actually is when I see it fly by in my twitter stream. I tend to stick to my own thing over h ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • The Rice With Human Genes
    Science has taken a step further into the weird. As a chapter in the attempts to successfully clone animals comes to a close, due to unacceptable rates of animal disease and death, a new chapter in ...
  • Eco-Farming Can Double Food Production In 10 Y ...
    A new UN report offers more evidence of a need to end expansion of conventional farming practices that are decimating the earth. These practices will not fulfill the needs of a growing and currently undernourished general ...
  • Big Ag Lobbies to Make it Illegal to Secretly ...
    Following the heels of news that a bill by Sen. Jim Norman, R-Tampa would make it illegal to take photographs of farming operations in the state, agriculture committees in Iowa have approved a bill to outlaw undercover ...
  • Farmers and Consumer Groups File Lawsuit Chall ...
    The approval of Monsanto’s Roundup Ready alfalfa was the first in a USDA GM approval spree that brought with it the go ahead to plant bioengineered ethanol corn and the partial deregulation of Roundup Ready sugar ...
  • Saturday Night Live Blasts Corn Syrup Ad
    High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) ranks as one of the worst creations to have penetrated the food industry. Its overuse became so highly scrutinized, major food companies were compelled to remove it from ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Friday roundup, March 25, 2011
    Mine workers and residents gather outside a coal mine after a explosion in Sorange near Quetta, Pakistan on Sunday, March 20, 2011. A methane gas explosion in a coal mine in southwestern Pakistan killed at least 43 miners. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt) I apologize for not getting a Friday roundup done ...
  • Senate committee schedules mine safety hearing ...
    This just in: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Thursday, March 31 at 10:00 A.M., Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee Chairman Tom Harkin (D-IA) will convene a hearing to look at progress the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) has made in improving worker safety since the t ...
  • EQB issues formal order on conductivity
    The West Virginia Environmental Quality Board has issued its formal order in the case of International Coal Group’s New Hill West Mine, regarding conductivity in strip-mining water pollution permits. Here it is: DV.load('http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/74866-newhillwestruling.js', ...
  • Obama officials inflate Wyo. coal lease benefits
    The deal sounded pretty good for the federal government when the Obama administration first announced it earlier this week. According to the Casper Star-Tribune: Nearly 758 million tons of Wyoming coal will go up for sale in the coming months, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Tuesday. … The ...
  • Jury sides with Massey in Marsh Fork case
    This just in from The Associated Press: Massey Energy says it has won a lawsuit that claimed a coal-loading silo next to a southern West Virginia school had exposed hundreds of children to possible health problems. Jurors in Raleigh County Circuit Court sided with Virginia-based Massey on Frida ...

Daniel Miessler

  • CNN and Hero Suicide Bombers
    I saw the most extraordinary thing yesterday during lunch. It was a CNN piece on a Libyan man who was fighting against Ghaddafi’s forces. He and his friends were trying to get into some government barracks and he realized they had no chance. So he, a humble oil worker, husband, and father, loade ...
  • Among the Worst Ways to Die: Upside-down Sawing
    via en.wikipedia.org Damn. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsChess Boxing | WikipediaFaith PalmBurp 1.4 Will Support MacrosQuicksilver is BackI must not copy what I see on the Simpsons | BanksyXKCD Radiation Dose ChartAnother Approach to Weightlifting | Men’s Health
  • How to Practice Your Web Application Testing S ...
      For those who are learning web application security testing (or just trying to stay sharp) it’s often difficult to find quality websites to test one’s skills. There are a few scattered around the Internet (see the link in the notes section below) but it would be nice to have a solid collection ...
  • My Ümlaut Page
    I am creating this page about the ümlaut because every single time I attempt to write the word “über” I need to go and find one. Well, no more. From now on I’ll come here. ü 97 (hex) 151 (dec) à 9A (hex) 154 (dec) via danielmiessler.com It’s a page for ümlauts. Posted via email [...]
  • 5 tips on writing from Ernest Hemingway | Holy ...
    CopyBlogger put together a list of five tips gleaned from Hemingway’s classic terse style that offer a handy lesson in effective writing. Stick to short sentences. Use short opening paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Stick to the more positive-sounding word Four rules isn’t enough via holykaw.all ...

Fitwatch

  • Surveillance policing and the TUC march
    On the eve of what will probably be the biggest demonstration seen in the UK for many years, it is probably a good time to give a little blog space over to looking at the role of Forward Intelligence Teams and the various intelligence gathering strategies that will operate on such massive events ...
  • Top Ten Nasty FIT cops – Nos 1&2 Discombe and ...
    Unlike many FIT cops, who only take on FIT duties at major events, these two are full time intelligence officers for CO11, the public order unit of the Metropolitan police. For this reason alone they warrant being top of the table. Discombe and Cowlin lead and direct FIT teams, making sure they ...
  • Top ten nasty FIT cops No3 Alan Palfrey
    Alan Palfrey is a regular FIT member, with a knack of being in all the wrong places. He was at the massive climate camp in Kingsnorth in 2008, where ‘intelligence gathering’ hit new heights as thousands of protesters were stopped, searched and pressurised to give their personal details. A fair p ...
  • Top ten Nasty FIT cops – 4&5 Guy Rooney ...
    These two are both regular FIT officers, often out accompanying FIT photographers. Their job is to gather intelligence. They tell the photographers which shots to get, and make audio recordings of everything they want to note. The audio recordings they make end up as CRIMINT reports, which are e ...
  • Top ten nasty FIT cops. No6 Gavin Paul
    Like numbers 8 and 9, Gavin Paul is a civilian photographer, not a cop, although he behaves like one. A long serving and experienced FIT photographer, he has shoved his camera in the faces of thousands of protesters. And he doesn’t mind using a bit of muscle. Gavin Paul was one of the FIT photog ...

Worldwide Hippies

  • Stop giving handouts to big business
    End Corporate Welfare | Reason In America today, the biggest recipients of handouts are not poor people. They’re corporations. General Electric CEO Jeffrey R. Immelt is super-close to President Obama. The president named Immelt chairman of his Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. Before that, Im ...
  • Pledge Of Allegiance Back In School After Pare ...
    gothamist.- Last month little Brianna Fischer of Cobble Hill was watching a television program in which children recited the Pledge of Allegiance in a classroom. What was this mysterious jingoistic incantation, Brianna asked her parents, who were shocked to learn that their 8-year-old daughter w ...
  • US Uncut Plans Nationwide Protests For Tomorrow
    US Uncut Says Two-Tier America Has To Go | The Nation On March 26, US Uncut has protests planned across the country in almost forty different cities, including cosmopolitan hotspots like New York, Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco, and also smaller rural areas in Ohio, Pennsylvania ...
  • Weekly Hippie Trivia
    A new Trivia Question will be posted every Friday at 8:00 pm (EST). You can post your answer in the comments section below the question and be entered into a chance to win a WWH Bumpersticker! An American actor, film director, poet, musician, photographer and cult icon. He “Prospered” most from ...
  • Lock Up Your Daughters, Alaska
    Sex outside marriage should be illegal, says Parnell nominee | Anchorage Daily News Gov. Sean Parnell’s appointee for the panel that nominates state judges testified Wednesday that he would like to see Alaskans prosecuted for having sex outside of marriage. The candidate, Don Haase of Valdez, al ...

reference frame

  • Retired nuclear power plants: testaments to hu ...
    On Saturday, I urged the Russians to offer the Japanese some of the unpopulated Russian territories - which would also be safer places for nuclear power plants. It's a pleasure to inform you that one day later, on Sunday, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, a top Russian nationalist and an apparent TRF r ...
  • Human Achievement Hour 2011
    North Korea traditionally prefers the "Earth Hour" over the "Human Achievement Hour". On Saturday, 26th of March, 2011, the civilized people of the world who won't forget will celebrate Human Achievement Hour 2011 between 8:30 pm and 9:30 pm local time. The Reference Frame al ...
  • Michael Green: math classes are boring
    Can and should maths and physics be made much more appealing for schoolkids? According to the Telegraph, Lucasian professor of mathematics in Cambridge, string theorist Michael Green, has agreed with Barbie: Children bored by 'tedious' maths lessonsWell, I am somewhat less certain ab ...
  • Spotlight on CERN
    Prof Michal Spiro is the boss of CERN Council. We learn how the CERN is becoming a global organization. Two chaps are warning the viewers from shaking a hand of an antiperson. They're right despite their unconvincing T-shirts: one of them says "2+2=5" while the other translates "resis ...
  • Why humanoids are not used in Fukushima?
    Update II from Fukushima: Two days after I tried to invite all robots of the world to work in Fukushima, Red Moni-Robo (monitoring robot) has finally arrived to the nuclear power plant and began his or her or its monitoring job. Update I from Fukushima I: Tokyo Electric Power Co. ...

No Frakking Consensus

  • The IPCC Insider’s Club
    A small group of IPCC insiders filled as many as seven different roles each during the writing of the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report.
  • Earth Hour? I’ll Take a ‘No Naggin ...
    As a young woman I embraced feminism because I had no desire to be bossed around by men. These days it's greens who want to regulate my behaviour.
  • Our Man at the IPCC
    A Q&A with Francis Zwiers, Canada's most senior IPCC official, regarding his recent testimony in Washington, DC.
  • The Missing Questionnaires
    We've been told more than 400 people answered a questionnaire about the IPCC last year. So far, only 232 records have been made public. No one will explain why.
  • The IPCC Mythology (direct quotes)
    I've compiled a database of more than 160 quotes about the IPCC. Here are examples of journalists, government officials, and activists repeating the highly-questionable IPCC marketing message.

Tarpley

  • The CIA’s Libya Rebels: The Same Terrorists wh ...
    2007 West Point Study Shows Benghazi-Darnah-Tobruk Area was a World Leader in Al Qaeda Suicide Bomber Recruitment “Serpents, thirst, heat, and sand … Libya alone can present a multitude of woes that it would beseem men to fly from.” Lucan, Pharsalia   Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net March ...
  • CIA’s Libya Rebels Are Younger Brothers ...
    Benghazi, Darnah Among Top Four Centers of Terrorist Recruitment; These Are Heroes of Democracy UN, NATO, US are Bombing Libya to Protect; 2007 West Point Combating Terrorism Center Study Proves the Case Webster G. Tarpley on The Alex Jones Show Infowars March 22, 2011 download file
  • Tarpley on The Alex Jones Show
    Qaddafi resistance leads Obama to shift from color revolution charade to NATO aggression in Libya to save CIA rebel militia; UN Charter a dead letter; Command and control chaos as Italy rejects French-British command, Arab puppets reject NATO command; Craven Obama seeks low profile; Goal for Lib ...
  • Obama’s Bay of Pigs in Libya: Imperialist Aggr ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net March 19, 2011 Washington DC, March 19 – Late today US and British cruise missiles joined with French and other NATO combat aircraft in Operation Odyssey Dawn/Operation Ellamy, a neo-imperialist bombing attack under fake humanitarian cover against the sovere ...
  • Behind the 2011 Orgy of Destabilizations: Pre- ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net March 15, 2011 Washington DC, March 15, 2011 – In the late winter of 2011, governments were for a few weeks falling like bowling pins all across the Middle East and far beyond. We are witnessing a massive orgy of deliberate destabilizations of previous clie ...

Modern Survivalism

  • Radiation, Japan, and the Inverse-Square Law
    When considering the potential for radiation spreading out from the severely damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, it is very important to understand the ‘inverse-square law‘, which helps to put in context the potential intensity of radioactive Fallout as it relates to distance. What is ...
  • U.S. Nuclear Power Plants, safe distance?
    Map of U.S. Nuclear Reactor Locations Given the the nuclear reactor meltdown disaster in Fukushima Japan, and the local area Fallout contamination that is now entering the food chain and water systems there, I have constructed a location map of the current (and decommissioned) nuclear power reac ...
  • To Bug-In or To Bug-Out
    During a serious threat situation or disaster, and while enacting your emergency / preparedness plan of action, you may decide to either ‘bug-in‘ or ‘bug-out‘. Bug-In: To ‘dig in’ and remain where you are (or at your normal place of residence) Bug-Out: To ‘get the heck out’ and leave your locati ...
  • Still Think the Dollar is Safe?
    Even the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Richard Fisher, said today that the U.S. is on a path towards insolvency. “I look at this as a tipping point”, “…its’ going to be very painful”, he said after a speech at the University of Frankfurt. ZeroHedge.com reports that Bank of Ame ...
  • Jump Start Seedlings with Grow Light
    It is definitely that time of year when many of us are thinking about our summer garden. Getting started with seeds and seedlings indoors is something that many people do, that is, germinating your own seeds and raising the seedlings until it is safe to plant them outdoors. Given that the sunlig ...

Fast Company

  • Middle-East Activists get James Bond-like Data ...
    Software erases incriminating evidence from an activist's cellphone in a pinch.A new "panic button" program allows hunted activists to quickly erase all incriminating data from a cell phone that they collected on a corrupt government. Created in partnership with the State Department's new techno ...
  • Apple Rumor Roundup: New MobileMe, More and Be ...
    The Apple rumor mill grinds ever on, and has turned up new hints about the future of MobileMe, location apps, and that Apple TV story (again).MobileMe goes free?Apple seems to have ceased sales of MobileMe direct to customers, and a revamp is both highly anticipated and overdue. Rumors have been ...
  • YouTube Turns Off the Lights For Earth Hour
    If your YouTube viewing experience seems a little strange this weekend, don't be alarmed. YouTube is aiming to increase awareness of this year's Earth Hour by darkening its video watch page this Saturday from 8:30 PM to 9:30 PM (in your local timezone). Check out the video below for more info, a ...
  • Nintendo 3DS: Controlling Innovation
    With the launch of the Nintendo 3DS this Sunday, the company continues its history of revolutionizing how games play, and how we play with them.While I have issues with Nintendo 3DS as a gadget, there is no denying that it is a remarkable gaming machine. With the 3-D capabilities come interestin ...
  • Coast Guard Document Teaches Us How to Prepare ...
    It's not just BP that's trying to brush their mistakes from the oil spill under the rug. Soon after publishing a piece on BP's greenwashing of its first post-Deepwater Horizon CSR report, Fast Company received a tip from a reader about the Coast Guard's recently released Incident Specific Prep ...

Jadaliyya

  • What is Political Sectarianism?
    *Note: This analysis refers to political sectarianism in Lebanon, it cannot be �applied� to the workings of sectarianism in other contexts, such as Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Bahrain or Bosnia Herzigovina. There is an ongoing spasm of activism in Lebanon directed towards changing the s ...
  • Video Interview (#2) with Ali Ahmida on Libya ...
    [This interview was conducted by Jadaliyya Co-Editor, Noura Erakat, on March 24, 2011] In this second interview, Ali Ahmida (bio here) discusses the balance of power on the ground in Libya. On March 18th, the UN Security Council passed Resolution 1973 and effectively imposed a no-fly z ...
  • Is the 2011 Libyan Revolution an Exception?
    After the fall of Hosni Mubarak, the strong man of the Middle East on February 11, 2011, the Arab Spring appeared to be an unrelenting force. In the week following his downfall, three theaters of major rebellion�Libya, Yemen, Bahrain�quickly emerged, with Iran�s suppressed Green revoluti ...
  • Saleh Defiant
    [The following is a brief and modest attempt at making some sense of the Yemeni regime�s persistence in the face of continuing demonstrations and increasing defections. It is based on a number of conversations with knowledgeable observers of Yemeni politics.] In the face of popular prot ...
  • Missing: Agency and Alternative in the Anti-In ...
    The Libyan people�s revolution against Muammar al-Gaddafi has been called the February 17th revolution. It has been named � like Egypt�s January 25th revolution � after the day on which protests were called for demanding freedom and an end to a brutal and long-standing regime. In Libya, ...

mediagazer

  • Lessons for journalism from the Google Books d ...
    Tim Carmody / Nieman Journalism Lab: Lessons for journalism from the Google Books decision, across Europe and here in the US  —  On Tuesday, US Judge Denny Chin rejected a settlement agreement between Google, the Association of American Publishers, and the Authors Guild for a 2005 lawsuit over ...
  • Nielsen Numbers Reveal FOX Business Has A Very ...
    Glynnis MacNicol / The Wire: Nielsen Numbers Reveal FOX Business Has A Very Long Haul Ahead If It Wants To Compete With CNBC  —  After three-and-a-half years on the air Fox Business Network will become a full service client of Nielsen on Monday.  —  Short version: The public will finally know ...
  • Traditional News Outlets - Living Among the Gu ...
    Bill Keller / New York Times: Traditional News Outlets — Living Among the Guerrillas  —  Has anyone actually seen James O'Keefe and Julian Assange together?  Are we quite sure that the right-wing prankster who brought down the leadership of National Public Radio and the anarchic leaker aren't s ...
  • Mexico media agree drug war reporting guidelin ...
    BBC: Mexico media agree drug war reporting guidelines  —  The initiative is the first of its kind in Mexico  —  Many of Mexico's leading news organisations have agreed common guidelines on how to cover drug-related violence.  —  Newspapers and broadcasters agreed not to glorify drug trafficker ...
  • Journal Register's open advisory meeting: Bell ...
    Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab: Journal Register's open advisory meeting: Bell, Jarvis, and Rosen put those new media maxims to the test  —  We watchers of media — analysts, theorists, pundits, what you will — make assumptions about journalism that have become, along the way, tenets: Open ...

Chemtrail News

  • Who Is G. Edward Griffin, Beck's Expert On ...
    The Chemtrail/Geo-Engineering Coverup, which was co-produced by Griffin: By now everyone has seen crisscrossing streaks of white clouds trailing behind jet ...
  • Trojan Horse alert in Chemtrail/Geoengi ...
    Trojan Horse alert in Chemtrail/Geoengineering thread??? Posted in the Princeton Forum. Share. Read. 2 Comments. More Princeton Discussions ». Comments ...www.topix.com/forum/city/...wv/THV5T2A34EQACVV12
  • Not your typical Chemtrail thread page 1
    Well this is not your typical chemtrail thread I would like this thread to be dedicated to a conversation that is complete speculation Since this is the ...www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread679734/pg1
  • Chemtrails Over My House on March 18, 2 ...
    This afternoon and evening was the most chemtrails I have ever seen! I live in Westerly, Rhode Island and it was just so weird to see it all...chemtruth.ning.com/video/chemtrails-over-my-house-on
  • Horrific Nano Chemtrails Coming Our Way ...
    If you did not enjoytraditional chemtrails raining down on you you are not going to like the new version which the United States Air Force promises will ...beforeitsnews.com/.../Horrific_Nano_Chemtrails_Coming_Our...

World News - Top Stories

  • RA.One' will change the genre of films: S ...
    Mumbai, March 26: Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan says his upcoming sci-fi superhero film "RA.One" is an attempt to create something that will change the genre of Indian films. "It's an indigenously made film and it's made in VFX studios in India and is trying to create something which w ...
  • Actress Emma Roberts bags role in 'Adult ...
    Losangeles, March 26: Actress Emma Roberts is set to take the lead role in coming-of-age drama “Adult World”. Emma, who is Julia Roberts’ niece, beat off strong competition from contemporaries Carey Mulligan, Rooney Mara, Emily Browning, Juno Temple and...
  • Real estate: Respect the buyer
    The days when real estate developers used to sell each and everything are gone. Now, to earn respect and a name in the market, buyers need to be shown and given respect. Buyers are no longer ill-informed and instead do their homework before visiting project sites. They read all about the pr ...
  • Ganguly is 'The warrior Prince' in new do ...
    Former teammates such as Sachin Tendulkar and known rivals, including Australian skipper Ricky Ponting, will open up on the enigma called Sourav Ganguly in a docu-feature on the ex-India cricket captain titled 'The Warrior Prince'. ESPN/STAR Sports network, the official...
  • Jackman, Aishwarya bag top honours at FIC ...
    Hollywood star Hugh Jackman and Bollywood's international face Aishwarya Rai-Bachchan have bagged the top honours at the FICCI Frames Awards here. Jackman, known for his role as 'Wolverine' in the popular 'X Men' series, received FICCI Frames Excellence...

no frakking consensus

  • The IPCC Insider’s Club
    A small group of IPCC insiders filled as many as seven different roles each during the writing of the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report.
  • Earth Hour? I’ll Take a ‘No Naggin ...
    As a young woman I embraced feminism because I had no desire to be bossed around by men. These days it's greens who want to regulate my behaviour.
  • Our Man at the IPCC
    A Q&A with Francis Zwiers, Canada's most senior IPCC official, regarding his recent testimony in Washington, DC.
  • The Missing Questionnaires
    We've been told more than 400 people answered a questionnaire about the IPCC last year. So far, only 232 records have been made public. No one will explain why.
  • The IPCC Mythology (direct quotes)
    I've compiled a database of more than 160 quotes about the IPCC. Here are examples of journalists, government officials, and activists repeating the highly-questionable IPCC marketing message.

Pointman's

  • Words, ideas, primary sources, history and a b ...
    I write and I read books. Either of those activities will inevitable lead you to think about the nature of the written word. Up until quite recently, it was the only way your thoughts and ideas could survive your death without any sort of distortion. Nobody was half-remembering, interpreting wha ...
  • Line of Descent Chapter 23
    Chapter 23 Drayton lay prone, squeezed between the other two men at the northern post. In front of them, the lawn stretched out in the moonlight to the treeline. Nothing moved or made a noise, not even his companions whose breathing had become almost inaudible. The moonlight turned the carefully ...
  • Internet security 2 : There’s a lot more going ...
    In a previous article here, I gave some information about what basic precautions you should take in order to enjoy the web safely. Iâd like to drop down to a slightly lower level and tell you a few more simple things you can do to make surfing the web a lot safer. They wonât be technical … Read ...
  • Some thoughts on fanatics and how to fight them.
    Iâve always liked Churchillâs definition of a fanatic. âA fanatic is one who canât change his mind and wonât change the subject.â Once you get past the witty aspect of the definition, thereâs a deep truth in it too. They simply canât change their mind. Iâve seen a lot of debates in the blogosphe ...
  • The steady-state environment delusion
    Cosmologists have calculated that our particular universe is 13.7 billion years old. It came into existence with the big bang, as did space and time. Itâs big. It consists of lots of matter, especially hydrogen, which has aggregated into different objects. The ones we see in the night sky are t ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

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

Truth About Our World

  • 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’ ...

Gyrovague's Raves

  • World’s wind and waves have been rising ...
    by Wendy Zukerman Wind speeds and wave heights over the world’s oceans have been rising for the past quarter-century. It’s unclear if this is a short-term trend, or a symptom of longer-term climatic change. Either way, more frequent hurricanes and cyclones could be on the horizon. Ian Young at t ...
  • Mosquito needle helps take sting out of injections
    by Paul Marks LOOK away now if you are afraid of needles. A motorised, harpoon-like needle sounds painful, but in fact hurts far less than a regular injection because it resembles a mosquito’s mouth parts. Seiji Aoyagi and colleagues at Kansai University in Osaka, Japan, have developed a needle ...
  • Silicene could be the new graphene
    Single-layer sheets of silicon might have electronic applications By Devin Powell ONE-ATOM LAYERSilicon atoms (bright spots) in a honeycomb pattern are a new type of material known as silicene. Guy Le Lay/Univ. of Provence The hottest celebrity in world of nanomaterials may soon face a new rival ...
  • Who felt it not, smelt it not
    People with a genetic inability to feel pain also canât detect odors By Tina Hesman Saey People who feel no pain due to a particular rare genetic defect also canât smell anything, a new study finds. The unexpected discovery shows that nerves that detect pain and odors rely on the same protein to ...
  • How Much Money Do Spammers Rake In?
    By Julie Rehmeyer After deleting the 10,000th Viagra offer from your inbox, you might wonder, does anyone actually make money off this crap? Chris Kanich and his colleagues at UC San Diego and the International Computer Science Institute wondered tooâso they hijacked a botnet to find out. Kanich ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

  • Harper Cronies Intentionally Misleading Canadians
    "Now we've learned that the F-35 stealth fighter deal is connected to Harper's plan to build a security perimeter around Canada and the United States- a Fortress North America!"
  • Expanding U.S.-Mexico Economic and Security Co ...
    Obama also announced, “we finally have found a clear path to resolving the dispute over trucking between our two countries.” He added, “I look forward to consulting with Congress and moving forward in a way that strengthens the safety of cross-border trucking, lifts tariffs on billions of dollar ...
  • Canadian Swan Song
    Far too few Canadians noticed the non-sequitur of Emperor Harperius, as first he boasted loudly of how our (sovereign) banking regulations had saved us from the ravages of the global financial debacle of 2009, and then handed our banking sovereignty, and the right to keep those same regulations, ...
  • It’s Official. Stephen Harper is Privatizing O ...
    "AbitibiBowater NAFTA settlement has privatized Canadian water, trade committee hears"
  • One World Government- Does Anything Stand In T ...
    What last obstacles must they overcome in order to declare their new world order, one world government official or a success?

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

  • Libya: Murder and Plunder Masquerading as “Hum ...
    March 23, 2011 "Information Clearing House" --  On March 20th 2003 Western forces launched their “Shock and Awe” attack on Iraq, heavily bombarding Baghdad and elsewhere, massacring hundreds if not thousands of innocent men, women and children. On March 20th 2011 the very same forces attacked Li ...
  • Radiation levels and their effects
    There's been alot of talk in the news lately about radiation levels, yet most people, including myself, have little idea of what these numbers really mean in terms of health risks. News reports today have indicated that radiation levels in Tokyo have been recorded at 20X the normal background ...
  • Tsunami engulfs northern Japan
    Shocking video shows a huge tsunami racing across the countryside near Sendai, Japan, sweeping away farms and houses. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHtvA-lIksU
  • Interview with Bob McIlvaine at Ground Zero
    On 12 January 2011 I met with Bob McIlvaine at 1 Liberty Plaza next to Manhattan's Ground Zero. Together we visited the Family Room, a special place dedicated to the memories of all those who died on 11 September 2001. Afterwards I spoke to Bob about his ongoing activism for 9/11 truth, ...
  • The Oklahoma bombing revisited: interview with ...
    Before 9/11 there was the Oklahoma bombing - a devastating terrorist attack which killed 168 people, including 19 children under the age of 6. The attack took place on April 19, 1995 and was quickly pinned on Gulf War veteran Timothy McVeigh who, it is said, planned and executed the attacks with ...

Beacon

  • Rhyme (or Not) for the Oceans
    Okay, ocean lovers, it’s time to put your creativity caps on. We could win $10,000, but we need your help. Here’s the challenge, from the CTK Foundation’s Heart and Soul Grant Competition: “Write an original poem or stanza that reflects the work or mission of your non-profit.” The first ...
  • Speak Up for California’s Marine Life Today
    Humpback whale. [Image via Wikimedia Commons.] Humpback whales flock to the California coast, searching for herring, krill, and other small tasty fish. But these small fish, also known as forage fish, are dwindling in numbers due to fishing pressure, pollution, and demand for feed in the ag ...
  • Slideshow and Video: ‘Oceana’ the Book
    Today the Huffington Post has a great slideshow of images -- including one of a darling young Ted Danson -- from his new book, �Oceana: Our Endangered Oceans and What We Can Do to Save Them.� Have you gotten your copy yet? No? What are you waiting for!? �In case you need some more convincing, h ...
  • Christie’s Green Auction Approaches
    Andy Sharpless is the CEO of Oceana. I wanted to give you advance notice of Christie�s Green Auction: A Bid to Save the Earth on March 29th at New York�s Rockefeller Center.�This special event premiered last year, raising an unprecedented $2.4 million for Oceana, Conservation Internationa ...
  • U.S. Gov’t Fails to Protect Sea Turtles, Again
    A loggerhead hatchling in North Carolina. � Oceana/Cory Wilson While the U.S. government continues to dawdle, loggerhead sea turtles continue to suffer. (Yes, they need your help!) Yesterday the U.S. government failed to meet its legal deadline for issuing a final rule providing additional ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • Fabulous Photos Of Winston Churchill.
    Churchill with General Wladyslaw Sikorski, General Charles de Gaulle, General Officer Commanding French Forces, following a tank demonstration on February 14, 1941 (National Archives). A 27 Cruiser Tank In Background. Churchill as First Lord of Admirality (National Archives). Sir Winston Leonard ...
  • Rafale Shoots Down Galeb
    Dassault Rafale “ SOKO Galeb A French fighter jet enforcing the no-fly zone shot down a Libyan plane Thursday near the besieged rebel-held city of Misrata, a U.S. official said. The French fighter destroyed a Libyan G-2/Galeb, a military trainer aircraft, apparently as it was trying to land, t ...
  • Visit This Amazing Interactive Story About The ...
    Rangers At Pointe [...]
  • Very Compelling Testimony About The US Governm ...
    Click here to view the embedded video.Wow. I make a habit of looking through YouTube videos. I find it actually completely fascinating. I always have this weird feeling that sometimes, when someone posts a bigfoot film, some odd creature, a haunted family, a ufo, I get this sense that much of th ...
  • Germany In Full Retreat
    Germans Retreat From Kursk On Foot By March 1943, the tide had turned against the German Army, particularly on the Eastern Front. Now, living through their third arctic Soviet winter, the Wehrmacht faced a seemingly endless and new Red Army force. After traveling through a thousand miles of open ...

Taylor Marsh

  • My $0.02/Saturday: Women in Active Control
    Here are my Saturday offerings. Enjoy. In her interview with Diane Sawyer on Tuesday, Hillary said she’ll remain SecState through the beginning of an Obama second term, to help foster a “seamless transition” before she steps down. On Thursday, Hillary announced she will travel to London next Tu ...
  • The Finish the Job Quotient
    The fact that a trio of top Senate Democrats — who were highly critical of President George W. Bush’s conduct of the war in Iraq — felt compelled to defend a Democratic president who’s launched a new war front shows just how worried some Democrats are about the Libya military action. In fact, D ...
  • What Unemployment?
    Quote of the day is from Christina Romer, the woman who tried to get Pres. Obama to do a larger stimulus and be more aggressive about the economy from the start. From Ben Smith: “I frankly don’t understand why policy makers aren’t more worried about the suffering of real families,” former Counc ...
  • Hinderaker on Sarah Palin as she Visits Israel
    **UPDATED** [...] Israeli military officials declined to comment on why Mrs Palin may have turned back, but the country’s defence ministry confirmed that she had made no formal request to visit the occupied West Bank â standard protocol for any foreign dignitary. The oversight could prove emba ...
  • Women War Hawks Win on Libya
    The Pentagon says 114 Tomahawk cruise missiles have been launched from U.S. and British ships in the Mediterranean, hitting more than 20 Libyan targets along the Mediterranean coastline. Navy Vice Adm. William E. Gortney, director of the Pentagon’s Joint Staff, told reporters the Tomahawk cruis ...

James Laxer

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  • Aging Agitator James Laxer Enters Red Zone
    Aging Agitator James Laxer, who is constantly on the look out for a demonstration to attend, entered the red zone of the G 20 summit this morning.He rose early to be sure to make it to downtown Toronto before day’s end. Much to his surprise as he pointed his ten-year-old vehicle southward, traf ...
  • The Harper Plan for a Global Depression
    At the G8 and G20 Summits, the Harper government is touting its plan for governments around the world to cut their deficits in half by 2013 and to stabilize their debt-to-GDP ratios by 2016. In a letter sent to G20 leaders on the eve of the summit, Harper declared that “advanced countries must s ...
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