powered by | | |  - MADAGASCAR: Applying Local Resources to Sanitation
"We're calling on all citizens," said Riovoarilala Rakotondrabe, putting the final touches on a giant poster announcing a massive community clean-up for the coming Sunday.
- LIBERIA-COTE D'IVOIRE: Border Villages Sharing ...
This Butuo man only knows one phrase in French: Viens manger. Come eat. That's what they said to him years ago, when he was one of hundreds of thousands who fled to Côte d'Ivoire to escape the brutal 14-year civil war in Liberia.
- SOUTH AFRICA: Who Says Research Can't Be Dramatic?
In the early 1990s, a group of researchers set off for a small rural village in the eastern part of South Africa. Their intention was simple: teach the community how to rehydrate sick babies.
- TAIWAN: Opposition Urges Nuclear Phase-out By 2025
Opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Chairwoman and former Vice Premier Tsai Ing-wen has announced a proposal for a "2025 Non-Nuclear Home Plan" that will allow Taiwan to eliminate reliance on nuclear power by the end of 2025.
- Democracy Movement Spreads to Syria
The revolution contagion sweeping across the Arab countries has spread to Syria leading to rare protests challenging the grip of the ruling Baath Party on the country. The regime was quick to describe the turmoil as a foreign-inspired plot aimed at punishing the country for its support of grou ...
- Japan: Discontent grows over disaster response
Anger is mounting among ordinary people in Japan over the Democratic Party government’s inadequate response to the earthquake and tsunami disaster, and particularly its failure to provide basic services to the nearly half a million people rendered homeless. As of last night, more than 21,000 ...
- French Plans to Topple Qaddafi since last November
According to right-wing Italian journalist Franco Bechis, plans to spark the Benghazi rebellion were initiated by French intelligence services in November 2010. As Miguel Martinez from the progressive ComeDonChisciotte website observes, these revelations which have the blessing of the Italian se ...
- Yellow Rain In Tokyo? Pollen Excuse Like Chern ...
While the Japanese government continues to say that the yellow rain seen in Japan was simply "pollen," many have been reminded of a very similar occurrence after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Almost on que, the Japan Meteorological Agency has confirmed the rain to be pollen after receiving ...
- Putting a Face to a Name: The Jitter Ring on F ...
When we first launched our all-metal chatter rings in New Zealand, in 1996, the World Wide Web was barely 7 years old. So in every sense, we have grown up together. Today, we grew a little taller, and dressed up for the occasion. In 1996 word of our toy spread across the country, firstly by k ...
- Crowd-sourced realtime radiation monitoring in ...
There are now hundreds of radiation-related feeds from Japan on Pachube, monitoring conditions in realtime and underpinning more than half a dozen incredibly valuable applications built by people around the world. They combine 'official' data, 'unofficial' official data, and, most importantly to ...
- Tsunami alert as new quake hits eastern coastline
Japan woke up to panic this morning after a 6.5 magnitude earthquake on the country's eastern coast triggered a tsunami alert across the country.
- Workers flee Fukushima after radiation reading ...
Emergency workers fled from one of Fukushima's stricken nuclear reactors yesterday, after contaminated water in the cooling system was apparently found to be 10 million times more radioactive than normal, only for officials to later say that the reading might have been inaccurate.
- Time won't change, decrees Medvedev
Russians will now be permanently on daylight saving time after they set their clocks ahead one hour early yesterday under a decree from President Dmitry Medvedev.
- Israeli jets wipe out jihadist squad
Israeli aircraft struck a Palestinian rocket squad in Gaza yesterday, killing two militants.
- Taliban 'kidnaps 50 Afghan police recruits'
The Taliban claimed yesterday that it had kidnapped 50 Afghan policemen in north-eastern Afghanistan – part of its murder and intimidation campaign against anyone affiliated with the US-backed government.
- Hypocrite Alex Jones Cries Censorship Again
Alex Jones is complaining that the corporate media is censoring the Porter Stansberry End of America advertisement that he helped narrate. This complaint is entirely hypocritical on the part of Jones and this article explains why.
- Priceless Egypt artefacts still missing
Egyptian officials said on Friday that 800 priceless artefacts were still missing after armed robbers raided a warehouse near the canal city of Ismailiya in the unrest following a popular revolt.
- Artificial clouds could help cool 2022 Qatar ...
Scientists at Qatar University claim to have developed artificial clouds to provide shade for stadia and training grounds at the 2022 World Cup.
- GE's Strategies Let It Avoid Taxes Altogether
The company reported worldwide profits of $14.2 billion, and said $5.1 billion of the total came from its operations in the United States. Its American tax bill? None. In fact, G.E. claimed a tax benefit of $3.2 billion.
- Israel ready to react with 'great force': Net ...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told US Defence Secretary Robert Gates on Friday that Israel is ready to act with "great force" in response to a spate of rocket fire by Gaza militants and a deadly bus bombing in Jerusalem.
- Search for the stellar smoking gun
When big stars go boom, they are like really, really big guns — they leave behind a telltale smoke signal and a path of destruction. Understanding the forensic evidence from just a puff of smoke might sound near impossible, but for Samar Safi-Harb, it’s just another day at the office. Originally ...
- Women and science
Five Canadian women. Five accomplished scientists. Five perspectives.
- A recipe for failure
By definition, perfectionists set very high standards for themselves. As a result, they are also setting themselves up to fail. And when they do, research is now showing that many perfectionists resort to binge eating to alleviate feelings of loneliness, sadness and inadequacy. “Perfectionists o ...
- The challenging spine, the adventurous mind
- What’s love got to do with it?
Toni Tennille promised “Love Will Keep Us Together,” and while it may be true that she and Daryl “the Captain” Dragon have stayed together for 40 years, it’s unlikely love was the only glue. Lasting relationships require commitment, satisfaction and trust, says Lorne Campbell, a social psycholog ...
- US: Abercrombie criticized for selling push-up ...
No stranger to controversy, U.S. retailer Abercrombie & Fitch has come under fire for offering a push-up bikini top to young girls. Its "Ashley" bikini -- described as "padded" and a "push-up" -- was posted on the Abercrombie Kids website earlier this week. The company declined to comment Sa ...
- US: 2 dead, 8 injured as sailboat sinks off Sa ...
Ten people were thrown into the waters of San Diego Bay Sunday when their sailboat capsized, leaving two men drowned and eight people injured, authorities said. The boat flipped over for reasons that remained unclear and then sank near Shelter Island shortly after 5 p.m., San Diego Fire-Rescue ...
- 'US drops uranium bombs on Libya'
The Stop the War Coalition says the bombs and missiles that the US-led military alliance has dropped on several Libyan cities contain depleted uranium (DU). The report recently published on the Coalition's website said that in the first 24 hours of the war on Libya, dozens of bombs and crui ...
- Merkel Christian Democratic Union Routed in Ge ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives have suffered an election defeat in southwestern state of Baden-Württemberg amid public outcry over her nuclear policy. According to exit polls, the Greens and the Social Democrats (SPD) have staked out a solid lead in the state elections in Ba ...
- Radiation in seawater may be spreading in Japan
Highly radioactive iodine seeping from Japan's damaged nuclear complex may be making its way into seawater farther north of the plant than previously thought, officials said Monday, adding to radiation concerns as the crisis stretches into a third week. Mounting problems, including badly misca ...
- At the going down of the sun ...
With condolences and respect to the family and friends of Corporal Yannick Scherrer, 1er Battalion, Royal 22e Régiment. Killed due to enemy action. Je me souviens Relay via sat
- Alison
I say West End Bob, I think the Lady has reappeared!
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- you say impeachment, I say contempt of Parliament
Let's call the whole thing off! Apparently there are those who interpret Parliamentary law as saying that Stephen Harper is now barred from holding office due to having been found in contempt of Parliament. I'm not sure this is the case since the confidence vote was held before acceptance of ...
- The Crazy Years . . .
WHEREVER HE IS, Robert Heinlein must be ROTFL, because the Crazy Years must surely have arrived, as according to Gail Collins' article in the NYT, "School of Glock", there are disturbing things afoot:Well, in Florida, a state representative has introduced a bill that would impose fines of up to ...
- Brit Hume Resurrects Myths About Health Care R ...
While discussing the first anniversary of the passage of the health care reform law, Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume claimed that the legislation had been "rammed through" by the Democrats and did not incorporate "Republican ideas." In reality, Congress debated health care reform fo ...
- Who Is G. Edward Griffin, Beck's Expert On The ...
On his Fox News show, Glenn Beck presented author G. Edward Griffin as a credible authority on the Federal Reserve. But Griffin has an extensive history of promoting wild conspiracy theories, including the notions that HIV does not exist and that cancer is a dietary deficiency that can be cured ...
- Limbaugh Smears Obama Administration For ...
Rush Limbaugh mocked the Obama administration for use of the term "kinetic" to describe military action in Libya, saying that the administration had "come up with the ludicrous term." In reality,�"kinetic" is a common military�term used by military�and civilian�leaders�under both Democratic and ...
- Fox Mocks DOJ For Bringing Lawsuit To Defend R ...
Bill O'Reilly, Jeanine Pirro, Gretchen Carlson are ridiculing and attacking the Justice Department for suing a school district for discrimination on behalf of a Muslim teacher who resigned after her request for time off to make hajj, a religious pilgrimage observant Muslims must take, was denie ...
- Hemmer Cherry Picks "Unscientific Poll"&n ...
Fox News' Bill Hemmer mischaracterized public opinion as strongly opposed to union rights, citing what he himself called an "unscientific poll." In fact, actual scientific polls - including a Fox News poll - have shown widespread public opposition to restricting collective bargaining rights for ...
- The Bogus "Liz Taylor Loved Israel" Story
This story has to be read (just a paragraph or two) to be believed. It is about Elizabeth Taylor's "love" for Israel, and is the kind of nonsense that fills mediocre Jewish weeklies everywhere. ("Scarlett Johannson's Favorite Passover Memory," "James Franco Skipped Out On His Own Bar Mitzvah ...
- Miral's Rula Jebreal: The Palestinian Woman wh ...
Rula Jebreal,�whose autobiographical novel inspired Julian Schnabel's film�Miral, condemns violence by Israelis and Palestinians, quotes Yitzhak Rabin, and is dedicated to peace. So why did the Israeli Government, the American Jewish Congress and the Anti-Defamation League try to�stop�the film's ...
- Culture Shock
I had a strange experience of culture shock in the last two weeks. During the University Spring Break, I journeyed down to a tiny group of islands of the coast of Venezuela called Los Rocques. There are no cars, no motorbikes. Dogs and children roam the sand pathways between houses with complete ...
- Why Gov. LePage Can't Erase History, And Why W ...
Maine Governor Paul LePage has ordered state workers to remove from the state labor department a 36-foot mural depicting the state's labor history. Among other things the mural illustrates the 1937 shoe mill strike in Auburn and Lewiston. It also features the iconic "Rosie the Riveter," who in r ...
- Jon Stewart: The ONLY Major Media Figure Not I ...
For several years now Jon Stewart, host of The Daily Show has shown himself to be the only major media figure to fearlessly challenge the official "line" on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Repeatedly, he has slammed the occupation and has even mocked the pretensions of AIPAC which (along with ...
- Africom's General Ham Waging War From Djibouti
Army Gen. Carter F. Ham, commander of U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) arrived on the continent a couple of weeks ago just in time for the big doings. Ham, who had only taken over his new post three days earlier, conferred with local and U.S.read more
- Taking on the Teachers
Consortium News Editor’s Note: The American Right has fully embraced Ronald Reagan’s mantra that “government is the problem” – and that dogma is being applied in a wide variety of ways, including a nationwide assault on the pay and job security of public school teachers.read more
- New Yorkers Rage Against the Cuts
New York - In the shadow of towering colonial-style office buildings of the world's most powerful financial district, a crowd over 5,000-strong amassed outside Manhattan's City Hall Thursday, chanting "The people united will never be defeated!" As the contagious effects of democratic uprisings ...
- Senators Chart "Clean Energy Standard" That In ...
Washington - With love, luck and lollipops being in short supply on Capitol Hill these days, it's highly unlikely Congress will present Sen. Jeff Bingaman with the legacy of a parting gift of even a watered-down clean energy standard. Realizing that, the outgoing New Mexico Democrat — who has a ...
- An Anti-Science Mania Takes Over the GOP
You’ve got to go back to the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925 for a precedent to the anti-science mania that is currently sweeping the GOP. Then, the issue was teaching Darwin’s work on evolution in the schools. Today, the issue is global warming. Then, as now, large numbers of politicians tapped int ...
- Yucatan Peninsula Seen from Space
This fantastic image of Holbox Island and the Yalahau Lagoon on the northeast corner of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula was taken by the Korea Multi-purpose Satellite (Kompsat-2) of the Korea Aerospace Research Institute on 12 March. Source: European Space Agency on Flickr
- Can Pigs Fly?
A survey released two weeks ago in conjunction with National Butchers’ Week suggests that many British consumers think that pigs can fly.
- Icebergs Are Helping In Previously Unknown Ways
Icebergs have always been majestic objects, and just a little ill-defined, but new research is shedding more and more light on them. In a new discovery that has global implications scientists have discovered that icebergs drifting out to sea leave in their wake an increased level of chlorophyll ...
- More Jobs Created Focusing Public Transit than ...
We've covered a number of studies over the years showing that investment in bikes and public transit is better for the economy than investment in roads. Another one, created by Smart Growth America (SGA), recently came out showing that stimulus dollars spent on public transit went a lot further ...
- How Scientists Track Global Radiation Spread
The Topic: Radiation Exposure. The Question: How do scientists know what kind of (and how much) radiation exposure we do or do not face? While we follow the news and expand our vocabulary to include the terms sievert (a somewhat fuzzy, composite unit of radiation), millisieverts, microsieverts ( ...
- Afghanistan: Nato air strike kills [MORE] civi ...
Editor's Note: These tragedies - war crimes, really - are becoming an almost daily event. The BBC calls this one an accident. It is no "accident" - it's a war crime. We must not allow the corporate media to diminish the lives of Afghan or any other people and must...
- The World as a Theater of the Absurd: Interest ...
It's been a long time since I sat in a college literature class and learned about the theater of the absurd, the work of great writers like Beckett, Ionesco, Genet and Camus, among others. Their writing was their way of reacting to a world that seemed out of control and...
- Where are the Israeli poets? - Poems about Jus ...
Where are the Israeli poets? Those who would search their dreams For memories lost or Denied Those who would look inward To see the archetypes of shadows Fleeing In the night Or who would search the rocky landscape of the mind To see those whom they have chase ...
- Race to save oil slicked penguins on remote Br ...
(photos/comments added by Axis of Logic) CAPE TOWN – A race to rescue up to 20,000 endangered penguins from an oil spill in an isolated south Atlantic British island group was underway Thursday after a cargo ship ran aground. Oil-slicked Rockhopper penguins were being collected and taken o ...
- Farmers Sue USDA Over Monsanto Alfalfa - Again ...
A coalition of farmers and environmental groups filed a lawsuit against the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) on March 18 to challenge the agency's recent decision to fully deregulate Monsanto's Roundup Ready alfalfa. This is the second time the USDA has been sued over its approval of Round ...
- Vast Right Wing Conspiracy Bares Fangs in Wisc ...
The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy exists. It has a history, a paper trail, an organizational directory, even a mission statement. And the most recent evidence such a right wing conspiracy exists is the brutally transparent campaign of intimidation Wisconsin Republicans are now waging against Willia ...
- The Nightowl Newswrap
Is Gadhafi just waiting for NATO to withdraw before crushing the rebels? "Libyan rebels are moving westwards towards a possible showdown with government forces loyal to the country's embattled leader, Muammar Gaddafi. Opposition forces backed by coalition air strikes have already seized control ...
- ALEC: they say it with a straight face?
Seriously?: The mission of the American Legislative Exchange Council is... ...to advance the Jeffersonian principles of free markets, limited government, federalism, and individual liberty, through a nonpartisan public-private partnership of America's state legislators , members of the private s ...
- Well, At Least They're Using A Different Excus ...
Medicare rise could mean no Social Security COLA And we all know that "could" means "will" when it comes to saving another nickel or two for the aristocracy, so yeah, I'm braced for yet another year without a raise even though the prices for everything I buy continue to climb for me just as fast ...
- Nailing These Big Insurance Bastards Would Mak ...
I am so old I remember when Blue Cross and Blue Shield were - you better sit down - non-profit insurance companies. One of them covered doctors and prescriptions and the other covered hospital care. They merged and turned into a for-profit HMO during the Reagan crusade to corporatize America. B ...
- Nile Cruise Different Things To Explore
Many travelers have always been intrigued by the mystical land of Egypt. It is the host to one of the most stunning structures on Earth, namely the Pyramids. It is also the host to the amazing structures of the Sphinx, the temples and the obelisks. Submitted by . to Green Lifestyle �|� �Note-i ...
- Futuristic Concept Bike Designs
These are the most amazing innovative bikes, here we step into future with those who love blending style and functionality with pioneering design and technology. They are designed from scratch to inspire awe, keeping production feasibility.Submitted by Catya S. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Ad ...
- Vietnam zoo owner jailed for tiger sales
HANOI - THE owner of a private zoo in Vietnam has been jailed for three years for selling the endangered tigers that he was supposed to protect, a conservation group and officials said on Friday. Submitted by Ginger Geronimo to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Dwarf Pomegranate bonsai for unique garden
One such tree which will really fructify your bonsai is Dwarf Pomegranate bonsai .Dwarf Pomegranate can be used both as a fruiting or flowering variety bonsai.Submitted by . to Green Lifestyle �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- TEPCO Safety Management at Nuclear Plants Desc ...
Amid the heroic efforst of workers fighting the crisis at the crippled Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant, reports are emerging about the shoddy safety management of plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co.Submitted by Naoko I. to Business �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Don’t Track Me Bro! (& Open Thread)
Internet privacy? Forget it! The super-geeks have known about Zombie Cookies for a while. Only more recently are the rest of us leaning that those Web cookies we thought we killed by hand or blocked or that our security system snagged and deleted can respawn and live on and on inside our compute ...
- Obama’s Libyan State of Delusion and Confusion
* Bumped Up * At least 12 times since March 3 Barack Obama has said that Muammar Qaddafi must go. Yet he does not mean what he says and that is not U.S. policy. The following CNN video is absolutely stunning: The zombie looking character spinning the bullshit in this clip is Denis McDonough, Oba ...
- 10 Million Times
Editor’s Note: Larry Johnson joins the weekly Sunday night experts panel on John Batchelor’s Show tonight @ 9:30 or 10:30 p.m. ET. (FYI: The John Batchelor Show airs nightly, 9 p.m.-1:00 a.m. ET.) Listen via iTunes (instructions), or go to NYC’s WABC, John’s NYC anchor station, scroll down, and ...
- A Tale of Two Would-be Presidents
What can I say, the one thing Barry was supposed to have over Hillary was his eloquence. Let’s listen to the two of them talk about the Mideast…let’s see for ourselves who has the greatest command over the topic, the crowd, the situation at hand. First, I want to know who is the voice that [...]
- Bad Luck Cadet #22 – I Would Not Cry (& Open T ...
This is the 22th installment in the Bad Luck Cadet series. It’s best to start with Accidents Happen to enjoy my adventures at the police academy after turning 40. It’s all about the fun, laughter and pain. Well maybe pain, pain and pain! The following morning we lined up at the bottom of the hil ...
- 525 Million-Year-Old Fossil Discovered in China
A 525 million-year-old fossil with all its soft tissue has been discovered near Yunan in China. Find out more about this tentacled find. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- Lights Out for WWF’s Earth Hour
On Saturday 26 March 2011 the global skyline will be plunged into darkness for the world’s biggest call for action on the threats facing our planet. From London to Syd read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of ...
- The Vegetarian Saber-Toothed Dinosaur!
An amazing new dinosaur discovery in Brazil has found the fossil of a prehistoric creature with saber-toothed teeth! And it was a vegetarian, too! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- Mud Man Emerges Out of Thin Air
A spectacular photographic illusion of a man appearing out of mud, created by Alejandro Maestre Gasteazi and representing the labor of the artistic process. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
- Death at King Harbor: Millions of Sardines Bla ...
What caused a giant school of millions of sardines to end up dead on a beach? Were the fish out of oxygen, is pollution to blame, pole flipping, or an oil spill? read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
- Fear, Intimidation & Media Disinformation: U.K ...
Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, August 20, 2009 An official UK government report –quoted extensively in Britain’s tabloid media– is warning the British public that there will ...
- President European Commission Advocated World ...
Jurriaan Maessen. Infowars. July 24th, 2009 On September 7, 1992, two term President of the European Commission Jacques Delors gave a speech to the Royal Institute of International ...
- Billions of People Expected to Die Under Curre ...
Barbara Minton, Natural News, July 21st, 2009 Your right to eat healthy food and use supplements of your choice is rapidly vanishing, but every effort has been made to keep you in t ...
- Bioweapons, Dangerous Vaccines, and Threats of ...
Stephen Lendman, Global Research, July 7th, 2009 Although international law prohibits the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons, America has had an active biological warfare p ...
- Today we’re all prisoners in the USA
Papers, Please! June 2, 2009 As of today, June 1, 2009, even U.S. citizens are officially prisoners in the USA, or exiles barred from entering our own country without the government ...
- LinkDump March 27 2011 - We looked into the fi ...
The Silver Conspiracy xtranormal lolbears are back for Part V! Listening now to Lifeboat Hour with Michael Ruppert presently on ProgressiveRadioNetwork.com. Mostly about Japan so far. Lyric flagged from Ruppert's band New White Trash - "We looked into the fire and the fire looked b ...
- Git & Processing: For new HTML5 Javascript-pow ...
Need to throw a batch of links out there. I had a pretty good idea about how to apply some stuff using this kind of tech. The whole thing has just evolved since last November, from local applications into the web. Processing is a language for a lot of cool things including visualizations, but no ...
- Wisconsin gets the FreedomWorks - Yoshimi beat ...
We drove around Madison listening to the Flaming Lips -- that day, the evil robots won... Working for the city - she knows it's demanding to defeat those evil machines... ~~ Yoshimi was definitely a public employee in that song ~~ it all makes sense now ~~ Sometimes a press release sums up the a ...
- March 22 mega-link dump: ChernobyLinks & Middl ...
A ton of the latest & greatest links to throw at ya, roughly themed out! First some Lols and things to check out: CIA's 'Facebook' Program Dramatically Cut Agency's Costs | Onion News Network Bloomberg's Winkler Discusses Fed Bank Loan Data Ruling - Video - Bloomberg Granbury woman run over, kil ...
- Feds take down Liberty Dollar with Extreme Pre ...
[photo source] Mother Jones reports von NotHaus has founded the Free Marijuana Church of Honolulu – eat that, coppers! Full trial Blog @ LibertyDollarTrial. Ron Paul Coin Minter, Pot Priest, Faces 15 Years in Prison | Mother Jones A few crib notes on the late great Liberty Dollar, which worked ...
- Radiation Dectection Deception
This week, Project Censored was alerted, by a long time supporter, that the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) radiation watch site was down. On Wednesday, Dr. Peter Phillips of Project Censored contacted the EPA, inquiring about the large number of downed radiation monitoring sites, know ...
- Libyan Blood Oil:An Illegal War of Hypocrisy a ...
Libyan Blood Oil:An Illegal War of Hypocrisy and Self Interest By: Solomon Comissiong On March 20th 2011 the US and NATO forces began an aggressive aerial assault on the North African nation of Libya under the disingenuous pretext that it was a humanitarian mission to save civilians from being k ...
- Michigan: The Shock Doctrine
 Michigan Schools facing bankruptcy: The Shock Doctrine at play More than 150 school districts and charter schools in Michigan are teetering on the edge of going broke, a situation that is likely to get worse under Governor Rick Snyder’s proposed budget cuts of $470 per pupil. These are the di ...
- They said it wasn’t Chernobyl and they lied!
Michael Collins According to an international scientific group monitoring radiation around the world, the Fukushima reactors are emitting nuclear toxins at levels approaching those seen in the “aftermath” of Chernobyl. The Chernobyl disaster began with an explosion, Fukushima is a smoldering cau ...
- The War in Libya is NOT for Humanitarian Reaso ...
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/your-world-news/2011/03/25/war-in-libya-is-not-for-humanitarian-reason Please Join us this episode as we break down and crumble the rubbish and lies being fed to the world by the US and NATO for their war of imperialism on yet another brown nation! US government offi ...
- Traduction des preuves en Français
Les preuves en Français Preuves à l’appui: une introduction Preuves à l’appui: la santé physique Preuves à l’appui: la santé mentale Preuves à l’appui: la toxicomanie Preuves à l’appui: l’éducation Preuves à l’appui: la population carcérale
- Response to criticism of The Spirit Level
Find our full response to criticism of The Spirit Level here.
- The Wrong Cure - alternatives to the cuts
The False Economy website is an excellent and still-developing resource exploring the alternatives to cuts. False Economy includes: a discussion of why the cuts are not progressive details of campaign actions a comprehensive further reading list ... and this short film [youtube:ynUCYo ...
- Why we need a Fairness Test of the cuts
A group of charities, including the Equality Trust, Child Poverty Action Group, Barnardo's and the TUC are asking the coalition government to commit to a Fairness Test on any tax rises or spending cuts they introduce. Full details...
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- Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Mon ...
Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Money Out of Politics By Carmen Yarrusso There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.â–Henry David Thoreau Clearly, our government ...
- IOT: Healthcare for All Jan Call
Call – Healthcare for All IOT Date – Jan 18, 2011 Agenda: 1. IntroductionsâDr. Bill Honigman, PDA Healthcare for All IOT coordinator and California State Coordinator 2. National Single Payer MovementâKatie Robbins, Healthcare-NOW! 3. States Single Payer Movement–Chuck Pennacchio, Healthcare ...
- PDA Weekly Field Report 1/7/2011 – 1/18/2011
Little Victories! Field Site: onenationpda.org California ADEM elections: Congratulations to all our PDA California friends and allies who completed a sweep up and down at the state at the recent CA Democratic Party Delegate elections. This will put the ...
- War is a Crime: Join In For Justice
WarIsACrime.org JOIN IN FOR JUSTICE! 1/17/11 Washington, D.C., and Quantico, Va. Protest of FBI Raids and Bradley Manning Imprisonment http://www.defendingdissent.org/action/Events.htm 1/18/11 Washington, D.C. Panel with Rep. Rush Holt, Emily Berman from the Brennan Center for Justice, Sha ...
- An American Suicide Terrorist
William John Cox The shooter of Congresswoman Gifford acted as a domestic suicide terrorist on the political “battleground” of American politics. His YouTube postings and “goodby” phone messages are ominously reminiscent of the traditional farewell videos ...
- Could DeFusco's Bakery Salmonella Zeppoles in ...
Providence Journal writer W. Zachary Malinowski reported today that Rhode Island “Health officials said Sunday night that all 25 of those who have fallen ill (with salmonella) directly, or indirectly, got their Zeppoles from DeFusco’s Bakery. … Thirteen of the 25 have tested positive for salmone ...
- A Parents Guide to E. coli and Salmonella - E. ...
From the Salmonella Lawyers and Attorneys and E. coli Lawyers and Attorneys at Marler Clark. With one E. coli outbreak in at least five states and two Salmonella outbreaks in at least six states, it is a good idea for consumers – especially parents – pay attention to the recalls below and abou ...
- Rhode Island DeFusco's Bakery pastry cream use ...
The Rhode Island Department of Health (HEALTH) is investigating an outbreak of Salmonella, possibly related to yesterday’s recall of baked goods, including zeppoles. HEALTH has received reports of 19 people who are ill, with a common characteristic among many as having consumed zeppoles from DeF ...
- Del Monte Salmonella Outbreak to Expand from O ...
On March 21, I raised the question – “Are we due for a Salmonella serotype Panama Cantaloupe Outbreak?” On March 22 Del Monte Fresh Produce N.A., Inc. (“Del Monte Fresh”) of Coral Gables, Florida recalled 4,992 cartons of cantaloupes, each containing 4 plastic mesh sleeves with 3 cantaloupes pe ...
- E. coli O157:H7 Bologna Linked to BJ's Wholesa ...
It is looking like a second dance with BJ’s is in the offing. The USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service just released the list of retail establishments that may have received E. coli contaminated bologna that has been recalled by Palmyra Bologna Company. The bad bologna, which has caused a ...
- Volvo considering insanely high $2,100/month l ...
Filed under: Car Buying, Hatchback, Volvo, Electric Volvo C30 Electric - Click above for high-res image gallery A trial fleet of around 400 Volvo C30 Electrics is coming, and anyone who wants one had better have an awful big piggy bank. Speaking at a media launch near Indianapolis, IN today ...
- Smart ForSpeed concept revealed before Geneva ...
Filed under: Concept Cars, Convertible, Geneva Motor Show, Smart, Electric Smart Forspeed - Click above for high-res image gallery Not every future Smart model is in trouble of vanishing - some will never see the light of production. To wit, Daimler's minicar maker is bringing an all-electr ...
- Report: Some dealers price gouging Chevy Volt ...
Filed under: Car Buying, Hybrid, Sedan, Chevrolet, GM, Electric 2011 Chevrolet Volt - Click above for high-res image gallery Even though some Chevrolet dealers were warned not to sell the Volt above the MSRP, there is a distinct trend around the country where some dealers are trying to make ...
- Audi, Voith enter new carbon fiber partnership
Filed under: Technology, Audi Audi Aluminum A5 Coupe Prototype - Click above for high-res image Audi has put carbon fiber to good use in concept vehicles like the e-tron show cars and a special lightweight A5, which has a carbon fiber hood and rear deck, and in some parts of the R8 and RS 3. ...
- Report: $33M in EV tax credits went to buy unq ...
Filed under: Car Buying, Government/Legal Is a bicycle an electric vehicle? How about a Hummer H3? These are some of the things that Americans claimed were hybrids, alternative-powered or plug-in electric vehicles on their tax forms, reports USA Today. What's more, the false claimants managed ...
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- Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
- The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
- Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
- Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...
- Aristide’s Return to Haiti: A Long Night ...
Late at night on March 17, former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide boarded a small plane with his family in Johannesburg. The following morning, he arrived in Haiti. It was just over seven years after he was kidnapped from his home in a U.S.-backed coup d’etat. Haiti has been ravaged by ...
- Uncut Interview with Former Haitian President ...
Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and his family were flown on March 18, 2011 by the South African government back to their home in Haiti after seven years in exile in South Africa. Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman was the only reporter to join them on the journey. Here is the compl ...
- 21-Year-Old Libyan American Medical Student Mu ...
Muhannad Bensadik was a 21-year-old Libyan American medical student in Benghazi who was born in North Carolina and whose family lives in Virginia. He participated in the Libyan uprising last month and then decided to join the armed struggle against Col. Muammar Gaddafi’s forces. Muhannad ...
- Libyan Citizen Journalist Mohammed Nabbous Kil ...
Democracy Now! regrets to report that Mohammed Nabbous, a Libyan citizen journalist in Benghazi who founded Libya AlHurra TV to broadcast live online on Gaddafi violence, was shot and killed Saturday morning. Click to hear Democracy Now! correspondent Anjali Kamat’s Feb. 26 interview ...
- Aristide's First Day Back in Haiti After 7 Yea ...
After a long day of traveling, Amy Goodman reports on the historic return of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to Haiti. Click here to listen to this report. “I am Amy Goodman in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. What a remarkable day and a remarkable journey this has been. The Aristides have ...
- Advanced technology reveals activity of s ...
The first study to examine the activity of hundreds of individual human brain cells during seizures has found that seizures begin with extremely diverse neuronal activity, contrary to the classic view that they are characterized by massively synchronized activity. The investigation by Mass ...
- Weekend Feature: New Discovery About the ...
In this weekend's image, the red circle visible in the upper left is SN 1572, often called “Tycho’s Supernova”. In the center, is a star forming nebula of dust and gas about 3,500 light years away and 35 light-years across....
- Killer Whale: Biggest Badass in the Anima ...
Land sharks are funny. Until you realize that killer whales can do that.
- Hey, journalists: natural gas is not a sa ...
In the wake of Japan’s Fukushima disaster, several media outlets have speculated that the fears surrounding nuclear power may lead to a boom in the demand for natural gas. Some of these reports minimize the dangers of natural gas and ignore the role that cleantech can play in providing safe ...
- This is what it feels like to be trapped ...
An absolutely massive sandstorm rolled through Kuwait last Friday, blotting out the sun and transforming early evening into night immediately. Here's eyewitness footage from motorists enveloped by the the roiling sand. You'll want to see this.
- 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, ...
- Less Than a Week Away
We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware.George Green will be a featured speaker.September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CAClick here for Tickets & Reservations
- The Georgia Guidestones
On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
- The Creation
THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to pu ...
- The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...
In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
- About George Green
Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to fo ...
- Cartoon caption contest
Take a look at the cartoon below and enter your caption idea in the comment section (more ifo on prize, etc. below the cartoon). Eligible captions will be those posted on my site, Elephant Journal, Wend Magazine, PlanetSave, Eco-Snobbery Sucks, Ecolutionist, Ecopolitology, and Twilight Earth. Wi ...
- Exposed: Why the GOP wants to eliminate Clean ...
Whether we can believe this see-through-elephant-trunk footage or not, the possibility that elephants have a triple fitration system within their trunks has to have some credence. Otherwise, why on earth would leading Republicans try to make it easier for big polluters to further pollute the air ...
- Apples may lose trees [cartoon]
The rest of Joe Mohr’s cartoons, and cartoon updates and other green news on Twitter @GreenCartoons. Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets BeatâMay Lose Beets (cartoon) Eco-Snobbery Sucks: The Cartoon Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets BeatâMay Lose Beets (cartoon) Ec ...
- Mixed message from USDA chief Vilsack [cartoon]
US Ag Secretary, Tom Vilsack tells us to eat more natural foods a few days after fully deregulating GMO alfalfa…I’m confused. Confused as well? Read the links below and try to figure out this mess. From The New York Times: Governmentâs Dietary Advice: Eat Less From Elephant Journal: The USDA cav ...
- BREAKING: Deleted Monsanto cartoon panel, leaked!
Unlike the former Monsanto cartoon on this subject, this version shows a bit more clearly who surrendered the future of organic agriculture to Monsanto. There’s been a lot of talk from both sides (organic and biotech) about compromise. That is misleading and almost laughable (read: cryable). Dea ...
- Metropol Parasol: The World’s Largest Wooden S ...
Read the rest of Metropol Parasol: The World’s Largest Wooden Structure Opens in Sevillehttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: cultural center, J ...
- 700-Year Old Italian Farmhouse Renovated with ...
Read the rest of 700-Year Old Italian Farmhouse Renovated with Delicate Filigree Screenshttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable archi ...
- GIVEAWAY: Win $155 Worth of Organic Skincare P ...
We've teamed up with Juice Beauty to give one lucky reader a trio of organic skincare products.
- 9 Eco-Fashion Finds That Take You From Day to ...
When it comes to fashion, there’s nothing wrong with mixing business with pleasure. In fact, with our fast-paced lifestyles, it’s often a necessity! If you’ve been looking for some eco-chic pieces that take you can wear straight out of the office right to cocktails, check out our 9 green fashion ...
- Silkworms Munch Mulberries & Dye to Produce Na ...
Researchers have discovered that a special diet of mulberry leaves and dye allows silkworms to produce brightly colored silk.
- From the NASA Archive: Life on Mars
Artists’ renderings of space can be pretty impressive, and sometimes hard to distinguish from the real thing when based on hard science. But sometimes renderings based on the absence of science are far more interesting. These three illustrations were made by an artist at the Jet Propulsion Labo ...
- Flawed Diamonds Could Store Quantum Data
DALLAS — Scientists have developed a new way to manipulate atoms inside diamond crystals so that they store information long enough to function as quantum memory, which encodes information not as the 0s and 1s crunched by conventional computers but in states that are both 0 and 1 at the sam ...
- At the Edge of Invasion, Possible New Rules fo ...
Just as Galapagos finches are icons of evolution by natural selection, Australia’s cane toads may someday be icons of “spatial sorting” — a dynamic that seems to exist at the edges of invasion, altering the standard rules of evolution. Cane toads have evolved in odd ways Down Under. Adaptations ...
- Recreating the First Human Spaceflight Experience
By Mark Brown, Wired UK A collaboration between ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli and filmmaker Christopher Riley hopes to show what Russian astronaut Yuri Gagarin — the first human to go into space and orbit the planet — saw on 12 April, 1961. 50 years ago, the world’s first cosmonaut took a 108 min ...
- Sleepwalkers Replay Day’s Learning
A video of what appears to be a sleeping woman doing a modified, slow-motion funky robot dance in bed may represent the most direct evidence yet that minds replay a day's learning during slumber.
- HOW WILL ISRAEL RESPOND TO POPULAR ARAB UPRISINGS?
The reality is that dramatic political change now sweeping the Arab world would eventually facilitate the execution of Israel’s war agenda against the Arabs, as well as against Pakistan and Iran.
- Video: New, Stunning Japan Tsunami Footage
New, Stunning Japan Tsunami Footage Video
- Video: Joe Biden believes President Obama shou ...
In this interview with MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, Joe Biden clearly states his position that a President should be impeached for launching an attack on a nation that hasn’t attacked the United States. Of course, the tough-talking Biden was only a Senator when this interview took place and he was ...
- Scientist: Japan nuke “accidents” are tectonic ...
Independent scientist Leuren Moret, whose 2004 landmark article in the Japan Times unmasked lies and distortions by government and company officials that led to the construction of nuclear power plants in seismically dangerous areas, has declared in an exclusive 65-minute video interview with Al ...
- The Surprising PNAC Connection to Libya
Looks like the PNAC, or Project for A New American Century, agenda of 1997 is rolling along as planned. Just as has been outlined by other think tanks, Illuminati writers and social programmers But a blind world reels on the defensive when they could have known what was coming all along. Not ...
- “A Story About Lost and Broken Things ...
Every now and then, someone in the mainstream media cuts through the general — and shameful — indifference about Guantánamo, publishing a powerful story that should change hearts and minds. This is the case with a feature in the latest issue of GQ by Michael Paterniti about one of the more noto ...
- On the Anti-Cuts Protest in London, 500,000 Sa ...
Today was the long awaited TUC-led “March for the Alternative” in London, calling for jobs, growth and justice, in the face of the savage programme of public sector cuts imposed by the Tory-led coalition government, which I have been covering since October in a series of hard-hitting articles un ...
- Political Prisoners in Syria: An Urgent Crisis ...
On March 16, around 50 demonstrators — including human rights activists, former political prisoners and the families of curent political prisoners — were arrested in Damascus after a non-violent demonstration in which, as part of a group of about 150 protestors in total (a significant gathering ...
- Syria: Amazingly, The Next Crucible of Revolut ...
Last week I wrote an article about the unexpected awakening of popular unrest in Syria, when an unprecedented “Day of Rage” against the Ba’athist dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad was called by protestors in Damascus, and was followed the day after by another protest in which respected opposition ...
- Intimations of Mortality — And Why This ...
Recently, as I began my 49th year on this earth, I was ambushed by questions of mortality that had not troubled me for nearly 20 years, when both my grandmothers died in swift succession, and I, as a generally chaotic twenty-something, had to grapple with loss, and with questions of old age and ...
- Don't Turn Your Back on the Bankers for Even a ...
The ink on the legislation is still drying and, already, the mortgage mill industry is trying to gut the little things that might help to hold them accountable for their bit part in the complete economic collapse of this nation: Dodd-Frank requires that lenders retain five percent of every loan ...
- Sarah Palin: Mayor of New Milford?
Is this a parody or real life? You decide. Citizens of New Milford: I want you to know that I'm on the job 24/7. Twenty four hours a week, seven months a year. But even with this strict time commitment, I can't be expected to keep up with everything going on in this vast metropolis. That's why ...
- Much like the "conservative" GOP...
The conservative Blue Dogs acted as Bush's domestic poodles, helping to move a dangerous right wing agenda. They were owned by the right wing and corporations and there is no big surprise why more than half of the Blue Dog caucus (28 of 54 members) were slaughtered in the 2010 elections. So f ...
- Stop Drinking and Start Doing, Dem Dumb Dumbs
Sober up, Dems. You started sucking suds when you captured the Congress in 2006. Since 2008 you've been binge drinking with Congress and the Prez. You even nibbled on some hot wings and pub nuts. Burp! And now the bartender just cut your drunk, lazy, liberal, progressive, leftie ass off. Y ...
- The People Have Spoken. And Their Message Is ...
So. What the heck happened last night? The GOP picked up 60 seats in the House, effectively reversing their losses there from 2006 and 2008, and returning control of that body to them. The GOP picked up some 6 seats in the Senate, but the Democratic Party retains control there. The GOP picked u ...
- Amazon Often Rejects Porn But Helps White Raci ...
Fans of racist literature looking to get their hands on a copy of Kyle Bristowâs 2010 novel White Apocalypse need look no further than Amazon.com. Thanks to the online retail giantâs print-on-demand (POD) service, the bloodthirsty white nationalist fantasy â which Bristow self-published through ...
- Alleged Spokane Bomber Fantasized about Killin ...
Kevin William Harpham, the alleged Martin Luther King Day bomber who was arrested yesterday, was deeply involved in the white supremacist movement and once fantasized about killing anti-racists. The Army veteran posted his thoughts, in fact, more than 1,000 times on the racist and anti-Semitic i ...
- After Vicious Anti-Muslim Rally, a Deafening S ...
The silence from those who organized and promoted a California anti-Muslim protest that devolved into a revolting display of hatred has been deafening. A major Muslim organization released a video compilation (no longer available) earlier this week that depicted a Feb. 13 rally in Yorba Linda pr ...
- The Spokane Bomb Attempt: Who Is Kevin William ...
So who is the suspect accused of building a âweapon of mass destructionâ and planting it along the route of a Martin Luther King Jr. Day unity parade route in Spokane, Wash.? The emerging picture suggests 36-year-old Kevin William Harpham is a âlone wolfââ with a military ordnance background and ...
- American Front Founder David Lynch Shot to Death
Early this morning, a man was killed and a woman injured in a shooting in Citrus Heights, Calif., a suburb of Sacramento. Law enforcement authorities said the man, who was shot in the head and torso, was found dead inside the home. The woman, who was shot in the leg, was taken to a local hospita ...
- Go Daddy's CEO Shoots an Elephant in Video Blog
In his video blog, Hunting Problem Elephant — My 2011 Vacation, that was posted on GoDaddy.com last week, Go Daddy CEO and Founder Bob Parsons shoots and kills an elephant in Zimbabwe. Go Daddy, of course, is the web-hosting company infamous for its sleazy Super Bowl commercials featuring scant ...
- Domestic Partner Benefits Remain in Michigan . ...
It was only a few weeks ago that I wrote about the push in Michigan to eliminate domestic partner benefits in the state. But thanks to hundreds of Change.org readers, the Michigan state house could not muster enough votes to make this happen. According to Interlochen Public Radio, in order to ov ...
- Voces de la Frontera Fights Wisconsin Anti-Imm ...
In 2005, Wisconsin Republican Jim Sensenbrenner sponsored the most draconian anti-immigration bill in nearly a century. HR 4437 would have instituted jail time and increased fines for undocumented immigrants as well as punishments for people who "aided or assisted" them, potentially including te ...
- An HIV Prevention Campaign That Harms Instead ...
I've written before about the high cost of stigmas surrounding HIV and AIDS. These stigmas create misinformation and fear, leading to laws criminalizing HIV and discrimination against people with HIV. Yet, campaigns to prevent the spread of HIV sometimes latch onto fear tactics and talk abou ...
- Save NYC's Canada Geese from the Gas Chamber
Last year, New Yorkers and animal advocates were horrified when nearly 400 Canada geese and goslings were rounded up from Prospect Park and gassed to death. Over the past two years, more than 2,800 Canada geese have met this cruel fate — netted during molting season when they're unable to fly aw ...
- Wendell Berry Presses Coal Protest, Wins Honors
PORT ROYAL, Kentucky -- Wendell Berry is back in the wooden rocker in the kitchen of his central Kentucky farm house after a busy few weeks, and his mind is slowly returning to writing. "There's been a good bit going on lately," he says with a chuckle. The Amish-made chair near the window is sof ...
- Global Compact Rejects Independent Panel's Cri ...
GENEVA -- An independent U.N. body has criticized the Global Compact, the largest initiative for corporate social responsibility, for not sufficiently monitoring the human rights and environmental commitments of participating companies. The Joint Inspection Unit (JIU), an independent external ev ...
- Germany's Merkel Suffers Election Blow Over Nu ...
STUTTGART, Germany - Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives appeared set to lose power in a major regional stronghold on Sunday after early results suggested the anti-nuclear Greens were surging to their first ever state premiership. In Baden-Wuerttemberg state, where anti-nuclear sentiment ha ...
- More Obstacles Sunday Impede Crews in Japan Nu ...
TOKYO� -- Mounting problems, including badly miscalculated radiation figures and inadequate storage tanks for huge amounts of contaminated water, stymied emergency workers Sunday as they struggled to nudge Japan's stricken nuclear complex back from the edge of disaster. Workers are attempting to ...
- Morgan Spurlock Launches Assault Against Onscr ...
He took on fast-food giant McDonald's in the documentary Supersize Me. Then he targeted the "war on terror" in Where in the World is Osama bin Laden? Now hit film-maker Morgan Spurlock has a new target: the advertising industry. Spurlock, whose cin�ma-v�rit� style has made him one of the world' ...
- City council candidates prepare for upcoming e ...
Editor’s Note: The following article is the result of meetings between the Examiner-Enterprise Editorial Board and the candidates for Bartlesville City Council wards 3, 4 and 5. Both candidates for each ward were invited to speak to the board, with a reporter present, about various issues pertai ...
- Privatization Commission Board reconstituted
ISLAMABAD: The Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani has reconstituted the Board of Privatization Commission with Syed Naveed Qamar Federal Minister for Privatization, Water and Power as its chairman.
- SC asked to halt Angat Dam sale
The Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC) and five co-petitioners have asked the Supreme Court (SC) to permanently ban the privatization of a 218-megawatt hydroelectric power plant in the Angat Dam in Bulacan.
- Union of Water Employees Against Privatization ...
By Ina Alleco R. Silverio Bulatlat.com While the public is continually bombarded with reminders to save water, Malacañang is pushing for the privatization of the water industry which, critics say, will lead to higher water rates. Rodrigo Aranjuez, Water System Employees Response (WATER) national ...
- Politics plague privatization
Greece’s privatization program, which is intended to provide the country with some relief as it tries to cope with its overwhelming burden of debt, is being held up by disagreements between ministers regarding the future of profitable public enterprises.
- Cuts protest violence: 149 charged
More than 200 people arrested in connection with disorder that followed largely peaceful demonstration on SaturdayPolice have charged 149 people with various offences in connection with the disorder that followed the peaceful protest by hundreds of thousands of people against the government's sp ...
- Decline leads to UK's first genetic survey of ...
Researchers want to find out if decreasing numbers of snakes caused by urbanisation has led to inbreeding among addersWith a quick dart of the arm, snake catcher Nigel Hand snares his prey and holds the wriggling adder aloft.The bronze snake, hissing and flicking out its black forked tongue, has ...
- Turkey offers to broker early Libya ceasefire
Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan challenges western direct action and says prolonged conflict could lead to a 'second Iraq'The Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has signalled that Turkey is ready to act as a mediator to broker an early ceasefire in Libya, as he warned that a drawn-out c ...
- Syrian clashes leave at least 12 dead
�� At least 12 people killed in Latakia as unrest spreads �� State news agency blames violence on outside forcesThe Syrian army has been deployed in force in the port city of Latakia after two days of fierce anti-government protests in which at least 12 people were killed.A government source bla ...
- Cable confirms ending 50p tax rate
Business secretary in agreement with the chancellor over tax rate, but says the wealthy have to 'pay their share'The business secretary, Vince Cable, has confirmed the 50p rate on tax will be abolished � and revealed the government would consider bringing in a 'mansions tax' to ensure the wealt ...
- Trace levels of radiation from Japan found on ...
The first radioactive fallout from Japan's multi-reactor nuclear accident arrived on the East Coast late last week, Progress Energy and other nuclear plant operators reported.
- Alaska Sen. Murkowski says Planned Parenthood ...
Conservatives in Congress say they want to wipe out all federal spending for Planned Parenthood because it is a leading abortion provider. Supporters of the organization in Alaska say that will hurt women who go to its clinics for other care including cancer screenings, birth control services, a ...
- Camp Roberts, California's largest Guard facil ...
CAMP ROBERTS — Most California Army National Guard members who deploy to the killing fields of Afghanistan first train here, a sprawling landscape of barracks, assault courses and firing ranges straddling San Luis Obispo and Monterey counties.
- Cause of 12 infant deaths at Fort Bragg is unknown
FORT BRAGG — The Army's recent announcement that another infant had mysteriously died while living in post housing at Fort Bragg was especially eerie to Pearline Sculley, like a bookend to her own tragic story.
- Rush to report radiation reading underscores p ...
TOKYO For the better part of Sunday, media outlets in Japan and around the world carried scary-sounding news about radiation at the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant's No. 2 reactor. In a typical report, Japanese broadcaster NHK said: "Power company says it has detected radioactive materials 10 ...
- Reflections on a fortnight in Fukushima
Earth Watch posts have been in smaller supply than usual in recent days. For a week, your humble correspondent was virtually living inside the Fukushima nuclear power station, attempting to make sense of what we knew and what we didn't know as the situation unfolded. Now - almost two weeks after ...
- Bees: a sting in the tale
� The United Nations Environment Programme (Unep) buzzes into the ongoing discussion of bee decline this week, with a report examining the global nature of the issue and some of the reasons behind it. Their top-line conclusions are that it's becoming a widespread, if not quite global, phenomen ...
- Green tuna goes FAD-free
Environmental group Greenpeace is claiming something of a victory with the news that the UK's biggest supplier of canned tuna, Princes, is going to source its fish from more sustainable supplies than previously. Greenpeace has been spearheading a campaign to get companies to adopt sustainable t ...
- China and EU share climate vision
China and the European Union are setting out plans for changing energy use and curbing carbon emissions within a space of a few days. As one of them is the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases while the other would be third in the global list if its emissions were tallied as a single enti ...
- Refining the sixth great extinction
Are we living through the sixth mass extinction of life in Earth history? That we are is something you'll often hear asserted in conservation circles - and you'll easily find dozens of news articles taking the notion at face value. It's even acquired a posh name - the Holocene extinction. In ...
- "B-b-but THE LIBRULLSS!!!!"
Here's how pathetic the harpercons' arguments are: While this was admittedly in response to a Liberal blogger's claim that no Liberal has even been suspected of being in contempt of Parliament, "Anonymous" spoke up. In 2002 the Speaker suggested that the issue of whether Lib Defence Minister Ar ...
- There's No Reward For Hard Work In Canada
Crushing levels of taxation leave us with almost nothing left over ... Bone-headed politicians seemed determined to punish success ... Overly generous welfare systems allow others to live comfortably while refusing to work ... Remember, we're all in this together ... In all honesty, I h ...
- I Don't Think Women Should Be Allowed to Vote
It's just a bunch of "political games" anyway. Just a bunch of bull-shit, partisan crapola. Whattaya got to lose ladies? Or so stephen harper would say, were he to elaborate on the significance of his absolute contempt for Canada's political scene and the institutions it perpetuates. The reaso ...
- Bare-Knuckle Rules Following
I have often fantasized that if the opposition parties defeat harper, they treat the harpercons with the same contempt and brazen illegal bullying that the harpercons used to dish out. But it's just occurred to me that the rules of the game in Canada are such that they wouldn't have to break th ...
- Is stephen harper a hypocritical, self-pitying ...
I tend to think so.
- Air Force Colonel John Boyd's 1991 House Armed ...
By Nick Schwellenbach Nearly 20 years ago, military reformer Col. (Ret) John Boyd testified before the House Armed Services Committee on a "reform perspective on the Gulf war." C-SPAN has done the public a service by putting this and numerous...
- Did the Army Blow Off DCAA's Warnings About th ...
By Nick Schwellenbach The new issue of Rolling Stone magazine has a great inside look at how two South Florida stoners built an arms trading network—and how their illicit deals with the Defense Department delivering defective Eastern European and Chinese...
- FOIA Fridays: Army Audit Report on the Army's ...
By Nick Schwellenbach Every Friday, POGO will strive to make one document available that we or others have obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), especially documents that have not previously been posted online. Some of these documents will...
- Morning Smoke: DoD Recovery Act Spending Repor ...
Where there's smoke, there's fire. POGO's Morning Smoke is a collection of the previous day's investigations, scoops, and opinions related to the world of government oversight. Have a story you'd like to see included? Contact POGO's blog editor. IG: Pentagon’s...
- Titans of Military Reform Go on the Record
By Bryan Rahija What happens when you bring together hors d'oeuvres, ice cold Tecate, and three titans of military reform? Answer: one heck of a panel discussion. Earlier this month, Tom Christie, Franklin Spinney, and Pierre Sprey convened before a...
- Part of Toronto's Yonge subway line shutdown f ...
Tens of thousands of Toronto transit riders will have to take a Yonge Street shuttle bus if they want to get anywhere south of Bloor Street. A part of the Toronto Transit Commission’s Yonge subway line will be shut down for the weekend.
- Ontario police trying to solve missing person ...
In October 2006 a woman's body was found in a field near the South Service Road and Holt Road in the Municipality of Clarington. The woman had an Omni digital watch that was likely from the 1980's with her remains. Her identity remains unknown.
- Ontario man killed by waste recycling truck
A man going to the McDonald’s Restaurant on Iroquois Shore Road in the Town of Oakville was killed yesterday when he was hit by a private waste recycling truck.
- Interview with Vancouver musician and filmmake ...
Lincoln Thorne, a musician and filmmaker, grew up in Toronto but now calls Vancouver his home. In this interview he talks about the recently held third Black History in Film festival.
- Canada: Harper government faces non-confidence ...
On Friday a non-confidence motion tabled by Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff on Wednesday against the Conservative government may spark the fifth federal election in 10 years.
- Mississippi Launches Plan To End Child Homeles ...
Fulfilling the wishes and happiness of children is at the heart of the holiday season. So, now seems particularly timely for Mississippi to launch a new plan to end child homelessness (pdf) in the state. What better way to set the season of giving in motion than by committing to finding safe a ...
- Thanksgiving 2.0: Food, Poverty and Telling th ...
This Thanksgiving, most of us around the country shared a bountiful harvest feast with friends and family. We celebrated all that we are thankful for by gorging ourselves right into a food coma. It's the American way. Unfortunately, it's also the American way to be thankful for all that we have ...
- Homeless People Wanted: Must Be Open to Demean ...
What are they thinking? People obviously don't see the homeless as human or they wouldn't attempt to hire them to do most of the insane, demeaning and illegal jobs out there. Here's a small sampling: Rob dead bodies. The Aokigahara forest at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan is the site of 50 to 10 ...
- LA Plans to Make Homelessness Go the Way of th ...
Instead of pretending homelessness doesn't exist, creating new laws to make it illegal to sit or sleep in public, or sending homeless residents on a one-way trip out of town, Los Angeles County may attempt to actually do something about ending homelessness. And the county is setting the bar high ...
- Don't Let Violence Against the Homeless Go Unp ...
Despite its economic troubles, Detroit is not known for being kind to the homeless. That's too bad, since there are nearly 10,000 homeless people living there. In October, police say that Steven James Diponio, 54, became so enraged at Charles Duncan, 42, who was homeless and sleeping behind a sc ...
- Let’s Make the Stealth Fighters an Election Issue
Yes, I can donate $25 to stop the stealth fighters Dear peace supporter, It’s been a pitched media battle with Harper’s Conservatives and his corporate defence lobby since I last wrote you. And as you will read below, it’s about billions of dollars in military sales, deceit, corporate and govern ...
- Canadian general to lead Libya mission
Canadian Lieutenant-General Charles Bouchard has been tapped to lead the no-fly and arms-embargo elements of the Libya intervention now that NATO has agreed to run those operations (Daniel Leblanc, “Canadian general to take command of NATO mission in Libya,” Globe and Mail, 25 March 2011). Howev ...
- Now not a good time to purchase F-35s: poll
According to the latest CTV/Globe/Nanos Poll, when asked about the Harper government’s plan to purchase F-35 jet fighters, 68% of Canadians believe that now is not the right time to purchase the aircraft. Canadians identified healthcare as their number one unprompted issue of concern. 29% of r ...
- Military budget growth set to continue
The new federal budget, presented on Tuesday by Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, confirms last year’s pledge of somewhat delayed, but continued, growth in Canada’s military spending. The chart above, drawn from last year’s budget documents, depicts the continued upward path of Canadian military sp ...
- Stop arms shipments to Saudi Arabia: Rideau In ...
The Rideau Institute is calling on the Canadian government to prevent further shipments to Saudi Arabia of military vehicles made in Canada, and to institute an embargo on the export of all military goods to the region during the current political turmoil. On March 14, troops from Saudi Arabia a ...
- Download Kevin’s Daily Podcasts!
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- The Kevin Trudeau Show: 3-22-11
Today, Kevin gives you his advice on how to lower high blood pressure and what to do if you have bad body odor. Self Help: Weight Loss Cure Lose A Pound A Day! Natural Deodorant Oral Chelation Rid Your Body of Candida Get The Toxins Out Health: The Truth Behind Genetically Modified Food Garlic & ...
- US Backing For World Currency Stuns Markets
March 18th, 2011 The Telegraph By: Ambrose Evans-Pritchard The dollar plunged instantly against the euro, yen, and sterling as the comments flashed across trading screens. David Bloom, currency chief at HSBC, said the apparent policy shift amounts to an earthquake in geo-finance. “The mere fact ...
- WikiLeaks: Cables Show Japan Was Warned About ...
March 18th, 2011 AOL News By: Theunis Bates The Japanese government has said it is doing all it can to contain the crisis at Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, which was critically damaged in last week’s earthquake. But according to U.S. diplomatic papers released by WikiLeaks, that atomic ...
- Bahrain Locks Down Kingdom as Uprising Surges
March 18th, 2011 AOL News By: Barbara Burk and Reem Khalifa Soldiers and riot police in Bahrain overran a protesters’ camp, imposed a 12-hour curfew and choked off movement nationwide Wednesday. Witnesses described helicopters firing on homes in a hunt for Shiites and attacking doctors treating ...
- Haiti: Supporters in Haiti make ready for Aristide
Supporters beat drums in the slums while workers spruced up his private villa as Haitians prepared on Tuesday for the possible return of Jean-Bertrand Aristide with feverish anticipation. 'Some people are cleaning the streets, others are getting the ...
- Southern Sudan: Sowing the seeds of agricultur ...
After the sound of gunfire fell silent in Southern Sudan, marking the end of one of Africa's longest running civil wars, Pio Kowr Ding decided he would return home to the autonomous region to take up an agricultural research job with the government. ...
- Ethiopia: Ethiopians to remember martyrs of th ...
Ethiopians from various cities in the US, Canada, Europe and Australia held a conference on Saturday to discuss and coordinate plans for the upcoming 5th anniversary of the Ethiopian election massacre. The participants discussed and updated each othe...
- March on Washington scheduled for November
The Black is Back Coalition has announced a march and rally on the White House to take place November 13, 2010 beginning in Washington, DC’s historic Malcolm X Park. This will mark the second year in a row that this black coalition will be protestin...
- USA: Black community activist faces possible 1 ...
Diop Olugbala (aka Wali Rahman) will be sentenced on Wednesday, 13 October to a possible 10 years in prison for speaking out on behalf of the rights of the black community. A press conference and demonstration will be held prior to Olugbala’s sentenc...
- Juan Cole: An open letter to the Left on Libya
Juan Cole writes: As I expected, now that Qaddafi’s advantage in armor and heavy weapons is being neutralized by the UN allies’ air campaign, the liberation movement is regaining lost territory. Liberators took back Ajdabiya and Brega (Marsa al-Burayqa), key oil towns, on Saturday into Sunday m ...
- Libyan rebels take back oil towns of Brega and ...
The Guardian reports: Libyan rebels have entered the key oil town of Ras Lanuf after routing Muammar Gaddafi’s forces in Brega with help from UN-backed airstrikes that tipped the balance away from the military. Brega, the main oil export terminal in eastern Libya, fell after a skirmish late on ...
- Inside Gaddafi’s brutal prison: Ghaith Abdul-A ...
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad writes: We ran into Gaddafi’s troops on the outskirts of Zawiya, less than a mile beyond the last signs of rebel activity: a destroyed checkpoint, a bullet-ridden building and five burnt-out cars. The soldiers were blocking the main highway to the coast with pickup trucks and ...
- Gaddafi and Me
- Who is afraid of Julian Schnabel?
Jordan Elgrably writes: Miral, currently in theatres, portrays the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from an entirely Palestinian perspective. It is nothing earth-shattering (a brief filmography at the end of this article offers other films that do this far more effectively) except that it was made ...
- Bombshell conclusion – new peer reviewed ...
The paper is currently in press at the Journal of Coastal Research and is provided with open access to the full publication. The results are stunning for their contradiction to AGW theories which suggest global warming would accelerate sea level … Continue reading →
- Little oxygen hogs
Algae and bacteria hogged oxygen after ancient mass extinction, slowing recovery of marine life, say Stanford researchers After the biggest mass extinction in Earth’s history â 250 million years ago â algae and bacteria in the ocean rebounded so fast … Continue reading →
- An opportunity for online peer review
I have been asked to present this for review by readers here, and to solicit critical comments for the purpose of improving the presentation. Moderators please remove any off-topic comments and commenters please stick to the issues of review. – … Continue reading →
- Olympic sized climate control pie in the sky
From Slashdot.org “In anticipation of extreme heat during the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, scientists and engineers at Qatar University have developed a solar-powered gas-filled cloud that will shade spectators and athletes from the intense sun. The $500,000 artificial clouds … Continue reading →
- What did you do for Earth Hour? The (yawn) reality
Here’s a collection of thoughts, quotes, and of course the result of our WUWT poll on “what did you do for Earth Hour? First, my own experience: Being keenly aware of it days ahead, even I forgot about it at … Continue reading →
- Ralph Nader: Growing Up Corporate
Dandelion Salad sbusg on Mar 27, 2011 Ralph Nader live at Stony Brook University on March 22nd 2011. Sponsored by the Undergraduate Student Government at Stony Brook University. Ralph Nader at Stony Brook University 1/7 Pt 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVv7TRFH_d0 (once there find Parts 3-7) ...
- The Collapse of Globalization by Chris Hedges
by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig March 28, 2011 used with permission photo by William Bowles http://williambowles.info/ The uprisings in the Middle East, the unrest that is tearing apart nations such as the Ivory Coast, the bubbling discontent in Greece, Ireland and Brita ...
- Joe Bageant, 1946-2011
http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Sad news. Â Sympathies and condolences to Joe’s family and friends. http://www.joebageant.com March 27, 2011 After a vibrant life, Joe Bageant died yesterday following a four-month struggle with cancer. He was 64. Joe is survived by his wife, Barbara, his thr ...
- Exclusive: Is the New Testament a sexist book ...
by Rocket Kirchner Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Rocket Kirchner (blog) Rocket Kirchner (youtube channel) March 27, 2011 Often you will hear a common excuse as to why people, mainly women … refuse to accept Christ as their Savior. This excuse goes thus, “I cannot accept a book that is sexist a ...
- Dennis Kucinich: This is a New Nightmare, inte ...
by Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehanâs Soapbox Blog Cindy Sheehanâs Soapbox March 27, 2011 (SOAPBOX #92) – Cindy welcomes two notable guests. Cindy’s first guest, Thaddeus Russell, is an historian and cultural critic, author of A Renegade History of the United Stat ...
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Egyptian revolutionaries have stormed Torture HQ, the notorious office & prison cell complex of Egypt's only recently feared state security. They are seen carefully collecting paperwork and files for possible use as evidence in trials against officials in the former Mubarak regime. Later in the ...
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Ben Affleck & Matt Damon wrote the screenplay for Good Will Hunting in 1994. Talk about prescient :
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Feed Your Brain By Darryl Mason So, plenty of interesting things I come across online I would have once blogged about here, or at least included in an infrequent collection of short news bits called Feed Your Brain, but I now post them on Twitter here instead, neglecting this blog. Then again ...
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Germany's Transparent Car Factory. Brilliant, beautiful :
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"Stay Calm, Don't Panic....And God Bless America" "Women And Children First" - US Military Begins Evacuations From Japan Unprecedented : American Military Families Told To Leave Behind Pets, Pack For "3 To 5 Days" And Leave Japan "In An Orderly Fashion" By Darryl Mason The US government and ...
- From the NASA Archive: Life on Mars
Artists’ renderings of space can be pretty impressive, and sometimes hard to distinguish from the real thing when based on hard science. But sometimes renderings based on the absence of science are far more interesting. These three illustrations were made by an artist at the Jet Propulsion Labo ...
- Flawed Diamonds Could Store Quantum Data
DALLAS — Scientists have developed a new way to manipulate atoms inside diamond crystals so that they store information long enough to function as quantum memory, which encodes information not as the 0s and 1s crunched by conventional computers but in states that are both 0 and 1 at the sam ...
- At the Edge of Invasion, Possible New Rules fo ...
Just as Galapagos finches are icons of evolution by natural selection, Australia’s cane toads may someday be icons of “spatial sorting” — a dynamic that seems to exist at the edges of invasion, altering the standard rules of evolution. Cane toads have evolved in odd ways Down Under. Adaptations ...
- Recreating the First Human Spaceflight Experience
By Mark Brown, Wired UK A collaboration between ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli and filmmaker Christopher Riley hopes to show what Russian astronaut Yuri Gagarin — the first human to go into space and orbit the planet — saw on 12 April, 1961. 50 years ago, the world’s first cosmonaut took a 108 min ...
- Sleepwalkers Replay Day’s Learning
A video of what appears to be a sleeping woman doing a modified, slow-motion funky robot dance in bed may represent the most direct evidence yet that minds replay a day's learning during slumber.
- Haneen Zoabi: Right is punishing me
Israel's Supreme Court began Monday to debate a petition filed by MK Haneen Zoabi (Balad), against a Knesset decision to revoke her rights for participating in the flotilla to Gaza last May."The... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
- Richard Silverstein: I delegitimize Occupation
Let’s tell the generals, spooks, inquisitors and ideologues that we want to be first on the list to be investigated. I delegitimize Occupation. There. Now I said it. I feel better already. Now... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
- Max Blumenthal: 46% of Jewish Israelis support ...
The one-two punch of settler “price tag” attacks carried out under the watch of the army and with the encouragement of state-funded religious nationalist rabbis is common all over the West Bank. Most... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
- Mya Guarnieri: Boycotting Israel … from within
It is not just the settlements and the occupation, two sides of the same coin, which pose a serious obstacle to peace and infringe on the Palestinians' human rights. It is everything that supports... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
- Silence over Nakba Law encourages racism
[The Nakba Law is] the latest in a growing list of disgraceful legislation whose entire purpose is to discriminate against Israel's Arab citizens, intimidate them and deny them their rights... The... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
- Some Women Worry Too Much About Breast Cancer ...
Most women face only a small risk of breast cancer coming back after they complete their treatment. Yet a new study from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center finds that nearly half of Latinas who speak little English expressed a great deal of worry about recurrence.
- Surgeon Availability Tied to Survival Rate in ...
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine claim that the availability of surgeons is a critical factor in public health and suggest that surgery should become an important part of the primary health care system.
- Kids with Asthma Need More Help with Inhalers
Fewer than one in 10 children with asthma use traditional inhalers correctly, according to a new study. Researchers also found that the majority of health-care providers did not demonstrate or assess children's use of such devices during pediatric asthma visits.
- American Educational Research Association Conv ...
At a time when education is under scrutiny , more than 13,000 scholars will gather in New Orleans April 8 to 12 for the 92nd Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA).
- Will We Hear the Light? Infrared Can Activate ...
University of Utah scientists used infrared light to make heart cells contract and inner-ear cells signal the brain. The discovery might improve cochlear implants for deafness and lead to devices to restore vision, maintain balance and treat movement disorders.
- Preschool Thriller
The best-ever recreation of this classic video.
- World's Best Contact Juggler
Okotanpe, one of Japan’s most dextrous illusionists, is a man who really knows how to use his hands.
- Are New 'Healthier' Potato Chips Really Any Be ...
Frito-Lay, as part of a push to use natural ingredients in its chips, is adding beet juice, purple cabbage and carrots to the recipe. These natural vegetable dyes will replace ingredients such as FD&C Red 40. By the end of the year, Frito-Lay intends to make half its snacks sold in the U.S. wit ...
- Medical Marijuana Becoming Blockbuster Drug
Medical marijuana is now a $1.7 billion market in the U.S. This means that sales of medical marijuana rival the annual revenue generated by Viagra, a $1.9 billion business. What�s more the medical marijuana market is expected to nearly double in the next five years, and that�s just in the 15 U. ...
- Careful about Shopping at World’s Largest Store
Two recent price comparisons found that prices for many common articles at Target are lower than those at the number one retailer, Wal-Mart.� Wal-Mart has in the past typically maintained a 2 to 4 percent price advantage over Target, but they now appear to have slipped behind. According to ...
- Making Health the Default
A recent article featured in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation News Digest on Childhood Obesity highlights a simple strategy that can be implemented in restaurants and other venues to improve the food environment. The innovative new strategy is to change the offerings on children’s menus to hi ...
- How much meat do we eat, anyway?
Reading the new federal dietary guidelines made me want to look into this question. The guidelines, just released, say that Americans presently eat an average of 3.7 ounces daily of meat and poultry. But, the figures I typically see are double that, or more. So, why, in the brand-new guidelin ...
- What’s Cookin’ in Your Soil Kitchen?
What’s Cooking in your ‘Soil Kitchen’? There is probably lots cooking but you might not like all that’s on the menu. So if you are an urban agriculturalist in the mid-Atlantic (NYC-Philadelphia-Baltimore-DC) area scratching your head about all this talk of soil contamination, grab a soil sample ...
- The Locavore debate, revisited
How can local food systems support a resilient and sustainable future food economy in the United States? That was the question of the day at a recent conference entitled, “Reviving the American Economy-One Heirloom Tomato at a Time.” But for some, the question isn’t so much how, but even can ...
- In Media, Big Ag Looms Large while Farmers Get ...
In September 1965, CBS broadcast its first episode of Green Acres, a mini-series documenting a family’s transition from an urban life of prestige and luxury, to one of mud, manure, and chaos on a farm in the fictional town of Hooterville. Green Acres took off, in part capitalizing on the popula ...
- Revising my comments
So I spent part of yesterday being an asshole and questioning the story of Iman al-Obaidi, mostly because I found it incredible that even gang rapists would literally shit on one of their victims. Even among rapists that’s the kind of behavior that wins you funny looks. Then again no one makes y ...
- The boss of US
- More madness, and I’m not talking college basketball. Gov. Walker and the Fitzgeralds have resorted to extraordinary measures to implement their union crushing bill. Yes, it’s complicated, but end-arounds restraining orders usually are. From the petty to the perverse, when Republicans are in c ...
- The other white meathead (no, not that one, no ...
[Note: a little late this morning because I was enjoying myself way too much.] Carlos Lam. In an email from February 19, Indiana deputy prosecutor Carlos F. Lam told Walker the situation presented “a good opportunity for whatâs called a âfalse flagâ operation.” ….”If you could employ an associat ...
- God, the Devil and Liz
Two posts yesterday because there was a lot going on so, of course, today’s newspapers have got zip â unless you find it interesting that the L.A. Times gave Elizabeth Taylor’s passing triple the usual coverage. Online obits usually run in threes so my thought is that this isn’t a tribute, just ...
- Being in charge means you get to do whatever y ...
Another way you can tell the fake new Republicans, aka Southern Democrats, from real Republicans is that their budgets never add up. Lambert: To no one’s great surprise, the early take on the state GOP’s budget-cutting numbers … is that they don’t exactly add up. Tom Scheck of MPR files a report ...
- AZ Kids and Toddlers Keep "Backseat View"
AZ Kids and Toddlers Keep "Backseat View" Phoenix, AZ – New guidelines will change the way Arizona children ride in a car. The American Academy of Pediatrics is suggesting toddlers stay in rear-facing car seats until at least the age of two and all children remain in the backseat until age 13. ...
- Brazilian Blowout Safety Is Again Questioned
Brazilian Blowout Safety Is Again Questioned Phoenix, AZ – The cosmetics industry’s safety review board has just concluded that cosmetic products containing formaldehyde should not exceed 0.2% because of health and safety reasons. Some hair-straightening products known as the Brazilian Blowout c ...
- Concerns About Health, Economy Weigh Heavily o ...
Concerns About Health, Economy Weigh Heavily on AZ Seniors Phoenix, AZ – Older Arizonans are most concerned about health care and the economy, in a new study from AARP. The 50-plus set dreams mostly about travel and spending more time with their families. Comments from Cynthia Fagyas (FAY-gus), ...
- Las Personas de la Tercera Edad en AZ Preocupa ...
Las Personas de la Tercera Edad en AZ Preocupados por la Salud y Economía Phoenix, AZ –Lo que más les preocupa a las personas de la tercera edad es la salud y la economía, según un nuevo estudio publicado por el AARP. Lo que más sueñan poder hacer es viajar y pasar más tiempo con sus familias. ...
- Report: AZ School Spending Remains Well Under ...
Report: AZ School Spending Remains Well Under National Average Phoenix, AZ – A new report from the Auditor General puts Arizona public school spending far below the national average. The report also shows the state spends below average on school administration. Comments from Chuck Essigs, direct ...
- Join the Rally for the Right to Know!
The United States may soon be the only country in the world that does not require labeling of genetically engineered food. In Spring 2000, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that labeling of GE foods would remain voluntary, even though there was no indication that any company would ...
- Farmers and Consumer Groups File Lawsuit Chall ...
“Roundup Ready” Alfalfa Will Increase Pesticide Use and Cause Grave Harm to Environment and Organic Industry USDA Failures Guarantee Transgenic Contamination, Creation of More Superweeds Today, attorneys for the Center for Food Safety (CFS) and Earthjustice filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Depar ...
- Bi-Partisan Legislation Introduced To Ban Dang ...
Sixty-Four Organizations, Fishing Associations and Retailers Endorse Legislation; Lawmakers Cite Serious Economic, Environmental and Human Health Threats The Center for Food Safety along with 63 other groups, businesses and retailers applaud Senators Mark Begich (D-Alaska) and Lisa Murkowski (R- ...
- Nature Happens – Humans Can’t Cont ...
By Lisa J. Bunin, Liana Hoodes, Michael Sligh Last week, USDA announced its decision to allow the planting of Monsanto’s Roundup Ready (RR) GM alfalfa without any ongoing monitoring or regulation whatsoever. Despite widespread consumer, farmer, and food industry opposition and contrary scientif ...
- World’s First Genetically Engineered Biofuels ...
Impacts on Human Health, Environment, and Farmers Not Fully Assessed DESPITE RISING GLOBAL FOOD PRICES, OBAMA ADMINISTRATION CONTINUES MISGUIDED BIOFUELS AGENDA The Center for Food Safety criticized an announcement today by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) that it will approve the world ...
- Ghaddafi a hero for African rights and liberat ...
Ghaddafi a hero for African rights and liberation - English pravda.ru: "In 2005 in the basement of the United States Capitol at a meeting convened by Congressman John Conyers on the subject of the 'Downing Street Memo,' Ray McGovern uttered the following truth: he testified that 'the United Stat ...
- TheAngryindian Interviews: Pascal Uccelli
Editor's Note: While there is a lot to be desired in terms of mainstream social media, there are gems to be found for those interested in social justice and human rights. One such activist is France's Pascal Uccelli, artist and editor of the l'ecriture sans calmants blog. I asked him a few que ...
- WaPo: Same Sex Couples Lead to Marriage Licens ...
Rod 2.0:Beta #gay #news #lgbt #gaynews: WaPo: Same Sex Couples Lead to Marriage Licenses Doubling in D.C.: "The total number of applications more than doubled since the first same-sex couples lined up to get their licenses, from about 3,100 in the previous year to 6,600 during the past 12 months ...
- A Real Sharia Law Promoter for Peter King to I ...
A Real Sharia Law Promoter for Peter King to Investigate | The Nation: [FOTO: Masked Provisional IRA volunteers at a rally in August 1979. US Rep. Peter King has long supported and actively advocated the use of political violence as a means of national resistance for the Celtic peoples of Irelan ...
- LIBYA: Uprising Revives Entrenched Racism Towa ...
LIBYA: Uprising Revives Entrenched Racism Towards Black Africans: "By Simba Russeau BEIRUT, Mar 21 (IPS) – Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi’s use of African mercenaries to quell the uprising against his autocratic regime has revived a deep-rooted racism between Arabs and black Africans. Though ...
- More on Egypt
Reading that now, a few days after the military pressured Mubarak to step down, the Egyptian parliament has been dissolved, and the Constitution invalidated by the Egyptian military. This fills me with fear. The mainstream media are treating these acts as a good thing, and the Egyptians they int ...
- Update: Mubarak Not Stepping Down Tonight
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- US involved in an Egyptian “military coup”?
Photo by adaptorplug A CNN news story says that Hofni Mubarak will likely relinquish power to the Egyptian military tonight. This is what their source, âa senior Egyptian officalâ is quoted by CNN as saying: He said the process — which included dialogue between the government and opposition repr ...
- President Llorens
I’ve reconsidered my position about posting Wikileaks articles. This article not only discusses classified material disclosed by Wikileaks, but actually quotes it. I know some of my readers work for the US government, thus the warning. I am not an enemy of the United States of America. I simply ...
- Magnificent
This movie brought me to tears. It is the story of a man whose lack of limbs from birth relegated him to life as a circus side-show freak. It tells of how he was recognized by the owner of a rival circus as “magnificent”. After overcoming his bitterness, the man transformed from freak to hero. [ ...
- Salem’s Music Center Team Visits Tel Aviv And ...
Dear Friends, The last months saw the development of connections between the Music Center that opened about a year ago in the village of Salem, near Nablus, and several people from the well-stablished Alef High-School of Arts in Tel Aviv. Ram and Rutie, who are leading this initiative from th ...
- How to lift the closure of Gaza in three easy ...
From Gisha’s Gaza Gateway, what it would actually take to end just the closure of Gaza, although not the entire Occupation. Israelâs Deputy Foreign Minister said last week that the continued smuggling of weapons into the Gaza Strip threatens further implementation of the âeasingâ of the closur ...
- Abdallah Abu Rahmah is free, may all Palestini ...
Great news on the heels of the horrible killings in Itamar settlement and Netanyahu’s exploitation of them. It’s good to have a hopeful example even if its freedom for a man who should have never been imprisoned. Indeed, the protests Abdallah Abu Rahmah helped organize are still going on after h ...
- Please report any unattended human rights
I read Neve Gordon’s piece a few months back about human rights websites being banned at Ben Gurion airport, and thought what a perfect microcosm of the front Israel is trying to put up to the world. While they wouldn’t think of banning such websites to their own population, I hope, internation ...
- Israeli solidarity activist interrogated by po ...
Sara Benninga, whose speech I reposted here on the blog, was interrogated by the police after speaking at the JStreet conference I attended. She provided one of the voices for a new direction for Jewish and Israeli activists working alongside Palestinians for justice. For this she rewarded with ...
- Joe Bageant died yesterday. Damn
Joe Bageant, a Polizeros hero, is perhaps best known for his book “Deer Hunting With Jesus,” which was about his return, as a leftie journalist in his 50′s, to the redneck Virginia town he grew up in. He emailed me after I reviewed it saying I was one of the few who got what he [...]
- Angry Birds. The Movie
(Okay, it’s a satire from RoosterTeeth.com) And I am so totally NOT addicted to Angry Birds that I can stop any time. Really.
- Greens clobber Merkel in German regional election
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats will lose control of Germany’s most prosperous state to the centre-left opposition in a major upset to her centre-right government, according to TV exit polls. In Baden-Wuerttemberg state, the Greens and Social Democrats (SPD) looked set to win a co ...
- US aircraft carrier leaves Libya for Straits o ...
Wonder why the administration made such a stink of reducing the US airborne presence around Libya, and handing it off to France, Italy, Canada and Turkey? Here’s the answer: the CVN65 Enterprise which last week was within striking distance of Libya, has quietly left the Red Sea and is now virtua ...
- TEPCO knew of dangers, did not notify workers
Disgraced utility TEPCO, the operator of the nuclear plant, was forced to admit yesterday that it had known about dangerous conditions at the No 3 reactor last week, but failed to warn workers, who were affected when they stepped in radioactive water. TEPCO executives are criminals. They should ...
- Yediot’s Plocker: Thank you Mossad for r ...
On Sunday (January 9 2011), Yediot’s Itamar Eichner reported [emphasis mine; full translation here]: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is furious with outgoing Mossad Director Meir Dagan because of the briefing Dagan gave journalists last Thursday. In the course of that briefing, Dagan shared wi ...
- “Rejectionist front”: Maariv detai ...
As Israel’s diplomatic position erodes and the Palestinian Authority’s campaign for the unilateral recognition of a state in the 1967 borders gains ground, the demand for “direct negotiations” has become a central talking point of  Israeli government spokespeople. Here’s the latest example, fro ...
- New Yorker editor David Remnick to Yediot:  ...
On December 24 2010, Yediot’s Friday Political Supplement ran an interview with New Yorker editor David Remnick by Adi Gold. Most of the interview was dedicated to his new biography of Barack Obama. Gold did ask a political question on Israel and Reminck’s response was very blunt. Note that th ...
- Breaking the Silence’s landmark new book ...
Breaking the Silence has just published a landmark collection of soldier testimonies from the Occupied Territories spanning the period 2000-2010. The 432 page book can now be browsed, downloaded and embedded here. If you read nothing else, take the time to look over the first to pages of the int ...
- Following local pressure, Adidas reconsiders s ...
This Maariv article [full translation below] from Friday is particularly badly written and repetitive, so I’ll summarize. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat decides to hold the first Jerusalem International Marathon in March 2011. He gets Adidas to sponsor the event. An Israeli runner registers and the ...
- Peanuts
Recently there have been some posts on the internet which have had my attention. First, is a series of posts by Steve McIntyre at Climate Audit that have led to another vastly expanded version of hide the decline.  It turns out that Briffa’s data wasn’t only truncated in recent years but al ...
- WTF
Do you realize that America just bombed a country by authority of the president, killing people without a single US address as to the reason, intent, or expected involvement from the president? Sure there was a UN resolution – minimally discussed, but why are America and UK throwing billions ...
- In Case You Missed It
Statpad – Roman M Two and a half PC’s.
- Update on Winds paper
Copied from comments on the other thread Anastassia Makarieva Some of the readers may still be interested the fate of our draft paper “Where do winds come from?” and our condensation theory as originally highlighted on The Air Vent here. A second referee was appointed –- many thanks to all of th ...
- Saving The World, One Progressive at a Time
Josh had this awesome depiction of Romm right where I see him. At least at the elevation of its nesting habitat, it is safe from the 5 feet of sea level rise. Although, there’s good news, the emerging species may now be able to nest a little lower. Hopefully we’ll know soon what this little [...]
- Buddy, Can You Spare a Mongoose?
A deadly Egyptian cobra is AWOL from the Bronx Zoo. Anybody got a spare mongoose? [Photo credit: Pandiyan, Creative Commons.]Read More
- All My American Prospect Links in One Place
Many thanks to the American Prospect for giving me the opportunity to guest blog at TAPPED last week. Thanks also to my friends, family, colleagues, and loyal readers who helped make this a big success by linking, tweeting, commenting, and generally promoting this content to the hilt. I am in ...
- Humanist Vegan Screed is Tripe
Jason Torpy argues in the American Humanist Association e-zine that "vegan priorities are humanist priorities." His argument is a bait-and-switch--he sets you up for brie and leaves you with textured wheat gluten. Torpy argues that humanists should be concerned about animal welfare and ...Read ...
- The News Desk Says It's About Oral Sex
Rolling Stone editor Neil Strauss shares some exchanges New York Times copy editors from his days as a rock critic, several years ago: Editing an article that quotes the Courtney Love lyric, “I’m eating you / I’m overfed” . . . COPYEDITOR: We have to remove that quote. NS: What’s wr ...
- Preventing Childhood Obesity is Not Fat-Shaming
In my latest post for TAPPED, I reply to fat activist Paul Campos who argues that Michelle Obama's "Let's Move!" program is the fat-hating equivalent of "ex-gay" ministries who purport to prevent or cure homosexuality. Trying to prevent childhood obesity at the population level by encouraging al ...
- This Week’s Headlines From Across Inside Network
Here are all the latest headlines from around Inside Network. Inside Mobile Apps Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms, and virtual goods. Sunday, March 20th, 2011 Snaptu Becomes Facebook’s Thrid Mobile Acquisition This Year Monday, March 21st, 2011 Outfit7′s Lila, Chicken Ba ...
- Zuckerberg Discusses Passion for Innovation wi ...
Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg spoke to an audience of over 10,000 at Brigham Young University last night. The conversation, moderated by Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT), chair of the U.S. Senate Republican High-Tech Task Force, focused on why passion for one’s product is the defining char ...
- Highlights This Week From the Inside Network J ...
The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities in the Facebook Platform and social gaming ecosystem. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at 6waves, NaturalMotion, Games Cafe, Inside Network,RealNetwo ...
- Facebook Roundup: New Offices, Pages, Domain N ...
New Facebook Offices to Open in Israel, Amsterdam – Facebook opened an office in Amsterdam this week and reportedly plans to open one in Hertzilya, Israel that could grow to about 30 employees by the end of the year. Facebook Pursues 21 Domain Names – Facebook is fighting to own 21 domain names ...
- Facebook Hotkeys for the Home Page, Notificati ...
Facebook users can navigate several areas of the site using hotkey keyboard shortcuts rather than a mouse. As part of the recently expanded rollout of the light box photo viewing design, Facebook showed prompts announcing some hotkeys. These join the existing set that allow for rapid browsing of ...
- Israel adopts laws targeting Arab citizens and ...
Uri Avnery views three laws recently adopted by the Israeli parliament: "two obnoxious racist laws... clearly directed against Israel’s Arab citizens", and a third law that will punish "any person or association publicly calling for a boycott of Israel" or the illegal Jewish settlements.
- Israel, right or wrong
Paul J. Balles explains why Zionist scaremongering and distorting of history, as manifested in the writing of Israel apologists such as the Washington Post's Richard Cohen, only increases fear by Jews and disdain by others.
- Mossad snatches Gaza's power plant boss in Ukraine
Jonathan Cook reports on the kidnapping of Dirar Abu Sisi, operations manager of Gaza's only power plant, by Israeli Mossad agents in Ukraine amid deep suspicions of official Ukrainian complicity.
- Libya and the conspiratorial veil of Western r ...
Gordon Duff views the unholy alliance of veiled racists, cranks, naive academics and Gaddafi propagandists who have lined up in opposition to the UN-authorized military intervention to protect the Libyan people from their dictator's murderous thugs and mercenaries.
- Playing the sectarian card: the Arab dinosaurs
Yvonne Ridley argues that the desperate super-rich dinosaur rulers of Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere in the Arab world are prepared to go to any length, including fomenting sectarianism and discord, in order to maintain their grip on power.
- Earth’s Living Treasure- Celebrating Forests f ...
United Nations declared 2o11 as the International Year of Forests (Forests 2o11), and why Forests are the theme of the International Day for Biological Diversity on 22 May 2o11. In this special year, the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) are ...
- Belo Monte hydroelectric dam construction work ...
The company leading the dam project, Norte Energia, announced that infrastructure work on roads that will provide access to the region started on Monday morning. The £7bn Belo Monte dam on the Amazon’s Xingu river is scheduled to start producing energy on 31 December 2014 and would be the seco ...
- Brazil judge blocks Amazon Belo Monte dam:
Federal Brasilian judge Ronaldo Desterro has blocked plans to build a huge hydro-electric dam in the Amazon rainforest because of environmental concerns. Judge Desterro said environmental requirements to build the Belo Monte dam had not been met. He also barred the national development bank, BND ...
- 1.ooo military forces end illegal gold mining ...
The Peruvian military has cleared-out illegal gold mining along the country’s south-eastern Amazon region in a move aiming to protect the environment. The government sent about 1,000 security forces to the region of Madre de Dios to destroy the illegal operations, the state-funded BBC reported. ...
- BREAKING: Chevron Guilty of Amazon Rainforest ...
Amazon Watch and Rainforest Action Network just announced a major victory for the Amazon rainforest. An Ecuadorean judge today found Chevron guilty of one of the largest environmental crimes in history and ordered the company to pay a whopping $8 billion to clean up its damage in the Amazon. Che ...
- Boiling Frogs Post Countdown-Week 4 & Still Co ...
Updates On Our Annual Fundraising & A Few Notes on my relocation Journey Let me start with a big personal âthank youâ to all of you who have generously donated to keep this site alive – before my other brief updates, and before I run out of my pre-purchased internet minutes. As you know I [...]
- Jamiol Presents
- Boiling Frogs Post Countdown-Week 2
We Need Your Support to ‘Help Wake up the American public before the water gets too hot to climb out of the pot’ I want to thank those of you who have contributed to Boiling Frogs Post during our first week campaign. Thank You! Next, I want to briefly respond to a common inquiry I’ve received fr ...
- Sibel Edmonds’ Boiling Frogs Post: Year Two
We Need Your Support to Continue & Expand: Countdown Week 1 In October 2009 I launched Boiling Frogs Post with one purpose in mind: To establish a venue for investigative articles, editorials, analyses, discussions, and interviews on issues largely censored by the media. We are entering our sec ...
- Boiling Frogs Post Status & Update
Boiling Frogs Year Two-A Personal Note Next week I’ll be leaving for a business related trip, followed by relocation related travel where I’ll be checking housing, schooling for my daughter, work, among tons of other ‘life related’ details in a new hometown, and finalized by a short but straigh ...
- Blackout of humanitarian crisis in Cote d̵ ...
In the wake of the enormous media coverage of the uprisings and so-defined “revolutions” in North Africa and the Middle East, I am hard pressed to find any media coverage of the escalating atrocities and impending civil war in Cote d’Ivoire. The “blackout” of this media coverage I am referring t ...
- “What Can the Tea Party Do to Attract Mi ...
Op-ed submission by Project 21 As a tea party organizer and black man, I am often asked how a movement with the critical mission of saving and restoring our republic can attract minorities currently weak in numbers in tea party ranks. The mainstream media and civil rights lobbyists have perpetua ...
- “How Much Do We Need Greenhouse Gas Regu ...
Article submission from Nicholas Scott, a health, safety, and political advocate with a passion for environmental responsibility. He believes there should be a greater focus on the present risks of environmental toxins to urban communities with close proximity to dense areas of industry. With th ...
- West overzealous on Libya – Al Jazeera
West overzealous on Libya – Opinion – Al Jazeera English. Now that the United Nations Security Council resolution for a no-fly zone has been passed, how will it be implemented?The UNSC Resolution 1973 has made it legal for the international community to protect the Libyan people from Muammar Gad ...
- Libya, Hypocrisy and Betrayal by the United Na ...
By Felicity Arbuthnot “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.” George Orwell The bombing of Libya will begin on or nearly to the day, of the eighth anniversary of the beginning of the destruction of Iraq, 19th March, in Europe. Libya too will be [...]
- Expose the BNP: activists’ meeting
Over the summer we have seen the extreme right enter parliament in Sweden and racist deportations of Roma people from France. Here at home the EDL have continued to target cities with Muslim communities, while the police are bringing trumped-up charges against anti-fascists. November 6 sees a na ...
- Rotherham fascist leads secret double life
A BNP activist is living a secret double life, desperate to prevent his employers from finding out about his extremist views – despite having stood as a candidate in last month’s election. Tom Holmes (25) received 715 votes in the recent elections for Rotherham Council but has managed to keep hi ...
- Nick Griffin humiliated in Barking defeat
The British National Party have suffered a humiliating defeat in the general election when Nick Griffin failed to gain a Westminster seat for the East London ward of Barking. Labour MP Margaret Hodge secured the seat with a 16,000 majority, with Griffin trailing third after the Conservative cand ...
- Ten questions that expose Nick Griffin
On the day that the BNP launches its election manifesto, Expose the BNP has researched 10 questions for journalists to put to the BNP leader, the answers to which reveal him to be a deeply racist, anti-Semitic Holocaust denier who boasts about his criminal past. 1. In which year did you stop den ...
- Workshy Griffin left his parents penniless
On yesterdayâs Today programme, BNP leader Nick Griffin told the Radio Four audience that âLiberal economics … have utterly bankrupted this country.â The truth is that Nick Griffin was himself declared bankrupt in 1991. Over several years thereafter he destroyed his parentsâ finances as well. Gr ...
- Turtle Island: Our Earth Mother
Japan in Crisis By Sheryl Goodwin, SEN Contributor and Honorary Advisor Kway. Hello. First off let me state what an Honor it is to be asked by my brother Gregory and sister Suzanne to join the team. What a privilege to be among such fine people listed on the biography page of Sustainability Educ ...
- Memorial Tribute to Hugh MacDougall
Memorial Tribute to Hugh MacDougall “We are sending the power of love, peace and compassion, which can change the world.” â Hugh MacDougall, Australia, SEN Honorary Advisor Hugh was more to Suzanne and I than SEN’s Honorary Spiritual Advisor. He was the beloved friend we called brother, and he w ...
- No to Monsanto and GMO: Action Central
"SEN is greatly concerned that Monsanto and GMO give rise to a threat that if unchecked could eventually prove as catastrophic to mankind and the sustainability of all life on earth as global warming. We must scream bloody murder, and do so with facts." -- Gregory Hilbert, Co-Founder Sustainabil ...
- Bill Gates On Climate Change & Energy: We Must ...
Whether you know a little or a lot about Climate Change (aka Global Warming), SEN urges you to watch this one-hour video, because you will learn a great deal either way. Gates lays out a sweeping set of ideas for reducing CO2 emmissions to zero. Gates is no fool when it comes to matters of [...]
- Week 2 – Worldwide Campaign to Save the ...
The Grand Canyon is one of the world's most pristine and majestic treasures. Mother Nature needs our help to save it. We all need to act to protect the Grand Canyon. Pledge to do your part. Help us by adding your signature to the petitions and ask everyone you know and who cares for earth to do ...
- Denying Nazi-Zionist collusion: The Sacramento ...
In an inversion of journalistic ethics, the Sacramento Bee reported on opposition to an event before and after it took place, but didn't cover the event itself. It featured an entire report on accusations against a flier, but didn't include a response from the flier's authors.
- Media omissions on Itamar: Murdering babies is ...
US media widely and repeatedly reported on the horrific March 11th murder of three small Israeli children and their parents. While no one yet knows who committed this grotesque act, reports presume that the murderers were Palestinian, and for this reason the incident is receiving major attention ...
- Critical Connections: Egypt, the US, and the I ...
Minimally explored in all the coverage of the momentous Egyptian uprising taking place over the last 10 days [Jan-Feb 2011] are the Israeli connections.
- Gabrielle Giffords, Tom Hurndall and Palestini ...
Alison Weir, CounterPunch - There is something particularly horrifying when someone is shot in the head. Perhaps it's the gruesome image, the destruction of the brain, the clear intent to kill. The recent shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is made even more nightmarish by the l ...
- As Israel kills and maims, Outrage is directed ...
Whenever Israel commits yet another atrocity, its defenders are quick to redirect public attention away from the grisly crime scene. Currently, there are headlines about allegedly anti-Semitic comments made by senior White House correspondent Helen Thomas. Pundits across the land evince outrage ...
- Dennis Kucinich talks with David Gregory
Dennis was interviewed by David Gregory and again raises the question as to why do we have no money for the people and always plenty to fight wars and kill people?
- Republican Cuts Devastate interests to THE PEOPLE
Congress needs to hear from all of us right away, because the only chance we have to stop this budget is if Senate Democrats stand united against it. And the first vote could come today.1 Can you call Sen. Nelson and tell him to stand strong against Republicans‘ massive, devastating cuts? Senato ...
- Rally to Save the American Dream
In Wisconsin and around our country, the American Dream is under fierce attack. Instead of creating jobs, Republicans are giving tax breaks to corporations and the very rich—and then cutting funding for education, police, emergency response, and vital human services. On Saturday, February 26, a ...
- RICK SCOTT MADE MILLIONS OFF HEALTH NOW CUTS I ...
Whether it's a political stunt or the act of an extremist ideologue, Scott is hurting real Floridians in concrete ways, including millions of people with private health insurance or Medicare benefits. He's taking away a law that ends the worst insurance company abuses and frees families, senior ...
- CUT PENTAGON BUDGET: ACT NOW
Their current proposal includes cuts in domestic spending, diplomacy, development, and international assistance but allows the Pentagon budget to continue to rise.
- Switch Your Lights ON for Earth Hour!
Once upon a time there was just greenwash: corporations and governments went to great lengths to convince a concerned public that they were doing everything they could to help the natural environment return to its former glory. All the time they were filling their bank accounts and pumping up th ...
- International Atomic Energy Agency Spinning Li ...
In the light of the Japanese earthquake and subsequent tsumani, government and internation agencies are working like crazy to ensure no news remains good news regarding the Fukushima nuclear power plant. Yet from the BBC we hear the following: There are now problems at the number three reactor – ...
- ExxonMobil Biofuel Advert Officially Pronounce ...
ASA Adjudication on ExxonMobil UK Ltd ExxonMobil UK Ltd ExxonMobil House Ermyn Way Leatherhead Surrey KT22 8UX Date: 9 March 2011 Media: Television Sector: Utilities Number of complaints: 1 Agency: Euro RSCG London Ltd Complaint Ref: 141542 Ad A TV ad for ExxonMobil UK Ltd (ExxonMobil) featured ...
- UK Census 2011: Why I Will Be Breaking The Law ...
On Sunday March 27, 2011 I will be breaking the law. If you live in England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland then I would also like you to break the law. We can do it together, and I know for a fact that an awful lot of people will be doing the same. The UK [...]
- Interview With Bill McKibben, Winner of Puffin ...
Climate reality writer and activist Gregory Vickrey. (L) ( Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Founder of 350.org, writer and environmentalist Bill McKibben. (R) (Photo: Nancie Battaglia / 350.org) Bill McKibben, Schumann distinguished scholar at Middlebury College, is the author of a dozen boo ...
- Keith Ellison’s Tears And Epistemic Closure
Rep. Peter King’s hearings looking into the “radicalization” of the American Muslim community, and the suggestion that the community doesn’t cooperate with law enforcement, was largely a waste of time and tax dollars. The affair didn’t produce a single insight into the actual and urgent issue of ...
- Praying On Qasr al-Nil
One of the more memorable scenes of the Egyptian revolution will surely be that of ordinary Egyptian’s praying on Cairo’s Qasr al-Nil Bridge as members of Egyptian state police direct their water cannons at them. Truly a remarkable sight. via Al Jazeera Filed under: Middle East Tagged: Al-Jazeer ...
- “I Support Democratization, But…&# ...
The Atlanticâs Jeffrey Goldberg â one of the key proponents of the disastrous invasion of Iraq â has some serious misgivings about the fledgling pro-democracy movement thatâs taken over the streets of Egypt. âI support democratization, but,â he cautions, âthe democratization we saw in Gaza (cour ...
- All That Happens In The Middle East Can’ ...
Uncertainly rules the day in Tunisia. Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the countryâs strong-armed and authoritarian ruler since 1987, is in Saudi Arabia while the interim government struggles to restore some semblance of order. âConfusion, fear and horror in Tunisia as old regime’s militia carries on ...
- Newt Comes Out As A Muslim-Baiter
Early this week, disgraced former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich warned that “a commitment to religious freedom and God-given rights is being replaced by a secular oppression…” Just hours after those words appeared on Human Events, Gingrich issued a statement forcefully opposing the constr ...
- Using Technology to Aid Disaster Relief for Ja ...
The March 11 earthquake in Japan triggered a flurry of concern in the Media Lab community at MIT. The natural desire to help was amplified by the fact that the disaster had hit many of our friends close to home in a very literal sense. Most messages suggested donations to support relief organiza ...
- How Grahamstown Now Combines Mobile Content, D ...
Giving African newsrooms, particularly community media and non-profit organizations, the ability to leapfrog into the mobile era is at the core project of Iindaba Ziyafika's work in South Africa. As Anne-Ryan Heatwole reported last year on this site, our Knight-funded NIKA Content Management Sys ...
- Inside Shelbyville Multimedia's Ambitious Immi ...
Shelbyville project kicks off with a series of "Welcoming" videos Chances are you haven't yet heard of Shelbyville, a small rural community in Tennessee. If not, then you're probably also unaware of the upcoming "Welcome to Shelbyville" documentary or the online project that is forging a ...
- Fresh from SXSWi: 6 Ways to Integrate Hacking ...
Going over my notes from the South by Southwest Interactive Festival, the panel that was definitely the most valuable to my work on the Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership was Hacking the News: Applying Computer Science to Journalism. What we're doing The Knight-Mozilla Partners ...
- SeedSpeak Launches, Uses Geotags to Solve Loca ...
One of the joys of living in Phoenix, besides the winters, is the local airport. Sky Harbor bills itself as the nation's friendliest airport and, while I won't go that far, I love the fact that you can get in and out with minimal hassle. Even with construction to build a tram system linking the ...
- The Obama Edge - Problems Remain for the Colom ...
On April 7, 2008, President George W. Bush delivered the American Colombian Free Trade Agreement (FTA) to Congress with hopes that it would receive timely approval. Bush lamented that trade restrictions with Colombia were so asymmetrical that “our markets are open to Colombian products, but barr ...
- The Obama Edge - Much Ado About Nothing: The C ...
President Obama will touch down in Chile on March 21 to commence the second leg of his Latin American trip. Inevitably, this segment of Obama’s journey will suffer in relative importance by being compared to his earlier visit to Brazil, where he is scheduled to spend two full days as opposed to ...
- The Fogel Massacre - Why They Celebrate Murder ...
The commentary overflows.Since five members of the Fogel family were murdered in their Itamar home, thinkers have been trying to grapple with the implications.For this was not just a random murder. Members of the Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade, the armed wing of “moderate“ Mahmoud Abbas’s party, enter ...
- The Race for More Oil - Obama Administration A ...
The Interior Department announced on March 18 it has approved a third permit for deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico for the type of project that was subject to a months-long moratorium in response to the BP oil spill.The pace of deepwater permitting since the formal ban was lifted in Octob ...
- Palestine on Edge - Only Palestinians Are Not ...
It appears that members of the American-trained Palestinian Security Force on the West Bank abetted the Itamar terrorists, prompting outrage over the fact that American military personnel are training Palestinian Security Forces in the first place. The outrage looks through the back end of the m ...
- Counterrevolution 101
By Dave Fryett The wretched of the Earth have seen what is possible. Power has been shown to be powerless in the face of determined mass opposition. And in every corner of our world the immiserated rejoice, because they know the day of liberation draws near
- No One Curious What CIA Is Working On At The ...
By Jay Janson What does the CIA have in store for Egypt? What chores will it assign its agents both American and Egyptian? American socialists and progressives are overly cooperative with mainstream media and Congress in hardly ever asking after our secret CIA shadow government
- Lessons Learned In The Streets Of Cairo
By William A. CookIf the streets of Cairo have taught us anything, they have demonstrated that vigilance against those who would control out of arrogance, oppress with indifference, deceive with impunity, and humiliate without feeling, have abandoned all natural sympathies and become , in fact ...
- What Is True Sustainability?
By Matthew SteinIf we are to develop an effective plan and roadmap for creating a sustainable world, we must first have a clear idea of what it truly means to be sustainable
- Egypts Army Dissolves Parliament
By Al Jazeera Military rulers say they will remain in charge for six months until elections are held as some protesters vow to remain
- Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
Dear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
- Practicing Peace in the New Year
A friend, Frank Swift, that I met on my first journey has passed along some great practical steps towards peace for the new year. Frank has written a children’s book to help young people see an alternative to the competition and forcefulness that can too easily get instilled in our young people. ...
- Sharing the writing of another Stieber
My younger brother, Zack, has been fascinated by the Chinese practice of Falun Gong and is hoping that this post could be used to spark a further discussion about it. � Thoughts on Falun Gong by Zack Stieber � Most of us are aware that in China things work differently then here. The main thing o ...
- Article in FOR
The following is the rough draft for an article I wrote, reflecting on the war in Iraq, that was published in the recent edition of the Fellowship of Reconciliation’s magazine. For more info on getting the full magazine, check out:Â http://forusa.org/fall-2010-renewing-movement Rhetoric and Re ...
- Slate Interview: My Country Right or Wrong: Co ...
Interview I did with a fascinating writer for SLATE whose special interest is on transformation and how people come to admit they’re wrong: Address to article: http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/thewrongstuff/archive/2010/12/16/my-country-right-or-wrong-conscientious-objector-josh-stieber-on-bei ...
- Egypt's Revolution Plus U.S. Government Mistak ...
By Barry Rubin I'm going to make a prediction here that, unfortunately, I'm sure will come true. Any good analyst should be able to see this, yet few will until it happens within the next one or two years: The Egyptian revolution and U.S. policy mistakes make a new Israel-Hamas war in ...
- ATF's "Project Gunrunner" Something This Stup ...
"Project Gunrunner"� Was a project of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Fireworks� In late 2009, the ATF was alerted to suspicious buys at seven gun shops in the Phoenix area. Suspicious because the buyers paid cash, sometimes brought in paper bags. And they purchased classic "weapons of choice ...
- Why Moderate Arabs Are Horrified at Obama Admi ...
By Barry Rubin I've seen a lot in media expressing the views of the Gulf Arab states and officials' statements--not all of them public, and not to mention similar expressions from Turkish and Iranian oppositionists--expressing horror and shock at Obama Administration Middle East policy. Rem ...
- Senator Barack Obama in 2007, "Americans ‘Hav ...
As we complete one full week of the American action in Libya, there are still so many questions surrounding the action. President Obama has committed American forces and possible our blood to go on a mission with vague goals not understanding the unintended consequences. What is our objec ...
- Obama Does Not Have the Guts To Confront Pales ...
Wednesday's terrorist bombing outside the main bus terminal in Jerusalem was not an isolated incident, it was part of a ramp-up of terrorist acts by the Palestinians during the month of March: March 6: A sanitation worker from the Jerusalem Municipality lost his hand on Sunday when a garbag ...
- Gastrointestinal Pathology in Autism Spectrum ...
…The Venezuelan Experience By Lenny G. González, MD AutismFile.com Recent studies in the medical literature have confirmed that gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms are common in patients with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). In two prospective studies, GI symptoms were present in 80% and 70% of auti ...
- Who are the Libyan Freedom Fighters and Their ...
By Peter Dale Scott Global Research Preface The world is facing a very unpredictable and potentially dangerous situation in North Africa and the Middle East. What began as a memorable, promising, relatively nonviolent achievement of New Politics – the Revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt – has morph ...
- MOX Plutonium leaking from Japanese reactor
Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com March 25, 2011 While the mass media has all but dropped its interest in the Fukushima crisis to focus on Libya and meaningless side-issues like the death of Elizabeth Taylor, the nuclear nightmare only worsens, as Japanese authorities admit that reactor number 3, ...
- Nova Ordem Econômica e Política Mundial à Vista
George Soros tem a intenção de cooptar os países do terceiro mundo, apelando para a participação dos países em desenvolvimento como parte da solução. O controle do novo sistema, no entanto, permanecera nas mãos dos globalistas como ele e seus fantoches eleitos em cada país. Business & Media Inst ...
- Nuevo Orden Económico y Político Mundial a la ...
George Soros tiene la intención de cooptar a los países del tercer mundo, llamando a la participación de los países en desarrollo como parte de la solución. La dirección del nuevo sistema, sin embargo, seguirá en manos de los globalistas como él y sus títeres elegidos en cada país. Business & Me ...
- Woodstock wind project opponents appeal to Sup ...
Opponents of the Spruce Mountain wind project in Woodstock last week filed an appeal with the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, leaving an offer from the developer to donate money to the town’s elementary school in limbo. Attorney Rufus Brown, representing Friends of Spruce Mountain and other aggrie ...
- Huge eastern Oregon wind farm raises big quest ...
The gravel haulers start rolling down Oregon 74 before dawn, their air brakes bellowing under the heavy loads they ferry into the neighboring hills. Just over the rimrock of Willow Creek Valley, hard-hatted contractors scramble to pour the base pads and lay electrical cable for 338 wind turbines ...
- Lawmakers renew push to speed turbine construction
BOSTON � Gov. Deval Patrick and allied lawmakers are renewing a push to reduce the legal hurdles that have stalled some wind-power projects in Massachusetts. Their efforts were thwarted last session by lawmakers from wind-rich areas in the Western part of the state, who say the bill would erode ...
- Commonwealth Court upholds revocation of Butle ...
Butler Township had the right to revoke a zoning permit issued to the developer of a wind turbine project along Ashland Mountain, a three-judge Commonwealth Court panel has ruled. In an 18-page opinion and order filed Tuesday in Pottsville, the panel upheld county Judge Charles M. Miller’s rulin ...
- Hancock County towns grapple with wind turbine ...
PENOBSCOT, Maine � While plans for a major wind farm project in northern Hancock County work their way through the review and permitting process, towns in the western part of the county are developing ordinances that would locally regulate the construction of both wind turbines and communication ...
- Scott Walker, Koch-Licker Supreme, strikes again
In a measure not just skirting state constitution, but directly contravening it, the Anti-Workers Rights law was published Friday. Not even bothering anymore to hide their vicious agenda to deprive workers of freedom. The only “right” workers will have is to work. At whatever wage the Big Pig Pa ...
- So Apparently Mrs Palin really isn’t a h ...
Meaning that she LIED about being Momma Grizzly as easily as she lied about being a “fiscal conservative”. The root word in “conservative” is “conserve” and the reason her being a liar is so relevant is that she’ll be HERE next month promoting other lying-ass Republican “conservatives” who conse ...
- Fox puts $ where mouth is, admits phone whore ...
In one of their many late night commercials which seem to have a lot to do with sex products. It’s a recruiting ad for women to do “phone valet” work in the “telecommunications industry”. Other ads, not as spicy, but just as hideously depressing “Yo Name TOBY, boy!” that show your destination to ...
- Two years ago they said the dude was murdered
To silence him, of course. Now the Murdoch-owned (maybe just affiliated) tabloid The Globe reports that “Obama’s gay lover tries to commit suicide”. Call the Pope! it’s a Miracle! Man dead for two years tries to commit suicide! Other headlines in this bizarre series, “Oprah Gay!” “Obama has affa ...
- Shaken, stirred, and Fukushima’d
I’ll bet it will come to mean the same word in English as in Japanese. Although now apparently “meltdown” no longer means apocalyptic, “radiation” no longer means toxic, and exceeding safe levels no longer means posing a health risk. Curious. This is because, I suppose, you can’t cry REACTOR FIR ...
- History repeats right down to the day...
"American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm Iraq, to free its people, and to defend the world from grave danger." ~ George W. Bush, March 19, 2003 http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=9098447 "Today we are part of a broad coalition. We are an ...
- Obama on America Iran
1:28 - "For two years there has been a campaign of intimidation and abuse..." 1:50 - "The world has watched these unjust actions with alarm ..." 2:17 - "These choices do not demonstrate strength, they show fear. For it's telling when a government is so afraid of its own citizens that it won' ...
- Debunking the Debunkers
Permanent Top Post--Scroll Down for Newer Posts Comments are only open to blog contributors, but feel free to contact us here if you have a point of contention or some kind words you would like to share. Ad hominems will be ignored, but well-formed rebuttals may be addressed (and that is a sub ...
- Obama prosecutes his future self ...
"The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation." ~ Senator Barack H. Obama, December 20, 2007 [Source] More: Clinton told it like it is...
- Firehouse 911 – The 9/11 video by Firefighter ...
http://911tv.org exclusive! Your $20 donation gets you a copy and ensures 10 American Firehouses will also receive a copy! Our goal is to send this DVD to every Firehouse in America! International orders encouraged! Shipping always FREE! Go to http://911tv.org. Donate for as many copies as you ...
- FDA to Re-examine Risks of Artificial Food Dyes
The FDA is convening an advisory panel later this week for a two day “colorthon” to discuss mounting evidence that artificial food dyes are causing hyperactivity in kids. This is huge folks. What you need to know: The FDA long ago granted GRAS (generally regarded as safe) status to several artif ...
- Pitettes – Lil’ Pitas with ZERO Sodium [inside ...
Fooducate community member Amorette sent us this glowing review of a pita bread she recently discovered. I’m an avid reader of your blog and greatly enjoy the product reviews of new items. I came across this item that I greatly enjoy and seems nutritionally sound. It’s called Pitettes pita bread ...
- 4 Year Old’s Teeth Ravaged By Juice and Soda [ ...
We received this picture in an email from Veronika, a pediatric dentist from the SF Bay Area, after she read our post on the soft drink calorie commercial. Here is the accompanying text: Hi Fooducate, Attached is a picture of the mouth of a 4 year old kid !!!!!!! He used to “love” sodas and [...]
- When Will the Fooducate App be Available Outsi ...
Since launching the Fooducate iPhone App, we’ve been inundated with requests to make the app available worldwide. Our neighbors to the north in Canada are especially anxious to start using it. But right now, you can only download the app from the US iTunes Store. The reason is quite simple – we ...
- Lots of Goodies on version 1.2 of the Fooducat ...
Product Update. Yesterday afternoon we launched version 1.2 of the Fooducate iPhone app. We’ve made changes both on the iPhone side and on the server side to provide you with a better service. Here are the details. Messaging – We’ve added a messaging feature that notifies you about products requ ...
- Four Pre-Writing Exercises for Inspired Bloggers
Rebecca Chelsey's recent post on ways to spark our creativity got me thinking about the next step: how to take that creativity and turn it into meaningful sentences on the page. In other words, what we do with that spark of inspiration will determine the success or setbacks we face when we blog. ...
- 8 Simple Sources of Creative Inspiration
As a creative person, I've noticed that creativity and creative ideas tend to present themselves whenever they see fit, and rarely otherwise. This is an especially unfortunate habit for my creativity to have because I am in the field of design. Over the years I've researched and stumbled upon ei ...
- Culture Vulture: Social Strategies for Differe ...
Social media campaigns are becoming more integrated into the overall online marketing mix. And as with anything on the Web, you need to think global to succeed in the long term. To succeed with social media marketing for different cultures, you need to familiarise yourself with what’s happening ...
- Internet Marketing and Social Media Degree Pro ...
Guest post by Brian Jenkins Over a billion and a half people use the Internet, and this has created a plethora of opportunities for talented Internet marketers. Specialized knowledge in Internet marketing and social media is vital for many businesses. Yes, there are successful, self-taught Inte ...
- How to Find Great Communities, Forums, and Blo ...
To market your company effectively, you need to find out where your target audience is. In this post I’ll show you how you can do this. I like using examples, so in this case, I’ll assume you sell Star Wars merchandise.
- Amazon tribe’s unique fishing ritual could be ...
An intricate wooden dam is at the heart of the Enawene Nawe's Yãkwa ritual. © Fiona Watson/Survival The Enawene Nawe tribe of Brazil have begun their unique annual fishing ritual, amid fears that the 80 dams planned for the Juruena river basin are destroying their fish. The tribeâs extra ...
- Panama latest to sign up to tribal peoples' law
The more countries that ratify ILO 169, the more protection it offers for tribal peoples everywhere, including this Bushman woman in Botswana. © Katherine B. Topolniski/kbt photography Panama has pledged to ratify the international law for tribal peoples, ILO Convention 169, becoming the la ...
- 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 ...
- Dispatches UK TVGreg Palast Drills Deep into BP
One year after the Deepwater Horizon, Palast travels from the Gulf Coast to the Arctic Ocean to the Caspian Sea to drill deep into the heart of BP. Filth, polar bears and oil-crat police states. Catch it Monday night at 8pm GMT on Channel 4's DISPATCHES. Sorry: Only in Britain. Greg Palast ...
- No BS Info on Japan NuclearObama invites Tokyo ...
for Truthout/Buzzflash by Greg Palast What South Texas project could look like.(Image by NINA - Nuclear Innovation North America) I need to speak to you, not as a reporter, but in my former capacity as lead investigator in several government nuclear plant fraud and racketeering investigatio ...
- Chevron Runs from Judgmentin Ecuador
by Greg Palast Chevron petroleum Corporation is attempting to slither out of an $8 billion judgment rendered yesterday by a trial court in Ecuador for cancer deaths, illnesses and destruction caused by its Texaco unit. I've been there, in Ecuador. I met the victims. They didn't lose their sh ...
- Reagan: Killer, Coward, Con-man
The Observer London by Greg Palast You're not going to like this. You shouldn't speak ill of the dead. But in this case, someone's got to. On the 100th Anniversary of Ronald Reagan's birth, as we suffer a week of Reagan-kitcheria and pukey peons, let us remember: Reagan was a con-man. Rea ...
- Shake your head and throw something at your TV
from MoviesOnline.ca Bush Family Fortunes is a documentary that will make you shake your head and want to throw something at your TV. If even half of what BBC investigative reporter Greg Palast reveals is true and you happen to be an American you may or may not be calling for a revolution depen ...
- How can I reuse or recycle a room divider/screen?
At some point in the long forgotten past, I bought a room dividing screen thing. I think the idea was that we would use it to shelter off the messy desk whenever we had guests staying over in our spare room/office in our old house but to the best of my knowledge we never used [...]
- How can I reuse or recycle roofing felt?
We’ve had an email from Daniel: Can I recycle roofing felt? I have a lot of small pieces to get rid of. I’ve not heard of it being recyclable and looking into it, it seems unlikely because it’s several hard/impossible to recycle materials all squished together. The better option would be to use ...
- How can I reuse or recycle excess sterilising ...
We’ve covered a wide range of things during our cleaning themed week here on Recycle This – bleach bottles, plug-in air fresheners, making dishcloth & pot scrubbers, and yesterday’s very interesting discussion on reducing plastic waste from cleaning – so I feel it’s fine for me to go off on a bi ...
- How can I reuse or recycle a Cillit Bang spray ...
Shelagh emailed to ask: How can I reuse a Cillit Bang spray? It seems impossible to remove the nozzle to fill with a product. I’ve never used it so I don’t know what the bottle is like – but I’m going out to the shops in a few minutes so I’ll have a good look [...]
- Plastic bottle creations, recycled robot plant ...
Every now and then I realise I’ve had some great ideas & links sent to my email but not shared them with you yet – this is one of those times! First up, Vernon got into touch to tell us about his plastic bottle creations. He says he’s been making them for 15 years and [...]
- Measles, Minneapolis and Somali Kids
By Abdulkadir Khalif I am writing a response and a rebuttal to Maura Lerner’s story of 03/17/2011, (HERE) concerning Measles and unvaccinated Somali Kids in Minneapolis. This story, like so many others before it on this newspaper and others across...
- David Kirby: "My Travels with Elizabeth Taylor"
From our good friend David Kirby's blog. Read the full entry at My Travels with Elizabeth Taylor HERE. By David Kirby On a warm June afternoon in 1991, about 800 members of the international press corps were fidgeting impatiently as...
- David Kirby in Discover Magazine:
Click Made in China: Our Toxic Imported Air Pollution to read the full story in Discover by David Kirby. “There is no place called away.” It is a statement worthy of
Gertrude Stein, but University of Washington atmospheric chemist
Dan...
- Kim Stagliano Presents at Elms College with Sp ...
Please join me on Wednesday, March 30 at 4:30pm in the library theatre for a book talk, Q&A and book signing at Elms College in Chicopee, Mass. I'm excited and honored to have my friend (my very tall friend, as...
- You're a Mean One.... Mrs. M.O.M
By Cathy Jameson M.O.M = Mean Old Mom The mother of one of my oldest childhood friends told me that’s what Mom meant. I was in third grade. I could not believe that she said those words out loud! My...
- 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.
- Yemen’s President Saleh ‘negotiati ...
BBC - But hopes earlier in the day of an imminent deal to end six weeks of crisis appeared to have been dashed. Presidential spokesman Ahmed al-Sufi said opposition demands for an immediate transfer of power were unacceptable. Read article
- Household wealth down 23% in 2 years – Fed
CNN Money – The average American family’s household net worth declined 23% between 2007 and 2009, the Federal Reserve said Thursday. A rare survey of U.S. households, first performed in 2007 but repeated in 2009 in order to gauge the effects of the recession, reveals the median net worth of hous ...
- Climate Fact Of The Day – Antarctic Iceb ...
Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography Received 12 November 2010; accepted 12 November 2010. Available online 21 January 2011. John J. Hellya, c, , , Ronald S. Kaufmannb, Gordon R. Stephenson Jr.c and Maria Vernetc a San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California, S ...
- Nearly Half of U.S. EPA’s West Coast Rad ...
LA Weekly – We’ve been telling you for almost two weeks now that radiation from Japan was headed our way, but not to worry. We are your friend. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reported this week that trace amounts of the Fukushima nuclear power plant radiation was detected in Orange and ...
- High Levels of PFCs Might Bring Early Menopause
HealthDay News — Women with higher levels of certain chemicals used in many household products have lower levels of estrogen and are more likely to experience early menopause, a new study finds. Researchers looked at perfluorocarbons (PFCs), which are endocrine-disrupting chemicals found in prod ...
- California clean energy: "No on 23" is back
Former Secretary of State George Shultz and San Francisco hedge fund manager Thomas Steyer are resurrecting the successful alliance between clean-tech businesses and environmental groups that defeated Proposition 23 last November. The new non-partisan group, calling itself “Californians for Clean...
- Appeals Court upholds delta smelt protections
A federal appeals court has upheld the constitutionality of Endangered Species Act protections for the Delta smelt, rejecting claims by a conservative legal organization. In an opinion released Friday, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling...
- Ethanol will power NASCAR races in Fontana thi ...
But when the green flag drops at the sport's premier Sprint Cup Series at the Auto Club Speedway in Fontana this weekend, it will be emblazoned with a logo that says, "American ethanol" -- and every race car and truck will be fueled by a 15% ethanol blend known as Sunoco Green E-15.
- Japan's nuclear crisis: An opportunity for geo ...
Japan is sitting on enough untapped geothermal power to replace all its planned nuclear stations over the next decade. But with plans to build 13 more nuclear power stations, it has yet to consider harnessing its estimated 23.5 gigawatts in...
- A major expansion of coal mining planned in Wy ...
Vast coal reserves in Wyoming will be auctioned over the next five months, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced Tuesday, despite the Obama administration's push to transition the nation's energy supply to cleaner, renewable sources. The U.S. relies on coal, the...
- Microloans potential to bring water to million ...
Just Add Water: Simplicity of Microloans Has the Potential to Bring Clean Water to Millions in Need (Women Deliver) – During this World Water Day, I would like to celebrate the innovative and integrated approach that Water.org is using to expand access to safe drinking water, basic sanitation, a ...
- Gramalaya’s World Water Day gift (The Hindu)
Gramalaya’s World Water Day gift: technology park (The Hindu) TIRUCHI, India – A water technology park, established by Gramalaya, a voluntary organisation at its Institute of Water and Sanitation at Kolakudipatti near here, was declared open on Tuesday on the occasion of World Water Day. [Gramal ...
- 7 ways to celebrate World Water Day online (Ma ...
7 Ways To Celebrate #WorldWaterDay 2011 Online (Mashable) – World Water Day hopes to raise awareness, as well as raise some funds for issues ranging from clean drinking water, to digging new wells, to basic sanitation and hygiene. If youâre looking to get involved and show your support for water ...
- On World Water Day, ways you can help (AOL)
On World Water Day, Ways You Can Help (AOL) – On this, World Water Day, tips and suggestions about how to help the millions who can’t enjoy the luxury of a daily hot shower or a safe glass of water to drink are flowing freely. Here’s a sample of ways you can help and how [...]
- Water.org wins Hilton Foundation grant (HuffPost)
World Water Day: Conrad Hilton Foundation Pledges $50 Million To Clean Water Initiatives (Huffington Post) – In honor of World Water Day, the Conrad Hilton Foundation announced a $50 million commitment to clean water initiatives in Sub-Saharan Africa, Mexico and India. The Hilton Foundation’s $5 ...
- The Deniers on CBC Radio's 'Ideas'
The science is settled - is now the mantra of climate change activism? Those who disagree are either in denial or in the pay of an oil company. But long time environmentalist and energy activist Lawrence Solomon says no, the science is not settled on global warming. Ideas producer David Cayley b ...
- Israels racist response to Itamar murders wou ...
They arbitrarily searched and vandalized hundreds of homes, including defecating on beds, and physically attacked numerous villagers. The Jewish settlers themselves sought revenge, hurling stones at random Palestinians. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Welcome to Chernobyl!
Chernobyl 25 years later; casting a shadow over generations to come....In the early hours of 26 April 1986, one of four nuclear reactors at the Chernobyl power station exploded...Submitted by Ben Oscarsito to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- SOUTH AFRICA: STOP 'CORRECTIVE RAPE'! Please s ...
To South African President Zuma: "We call on you to publicly condemn 'corrective rape', criminalise hate crimes, and ensure immediate enforcement, public education and protection to victims. This terrible practice can only be stopped..."Submitted by Ben Oscarsito to Society & Culture �|� �Note- ...
- Kudzu Vines Spreading North from US Southeast ...
If the trend continues, these "stranglers-of-the-tropics" may suffocate equatorial forest ecosystems. Tropical forests contain more than half of Earth's terrestrial species, and contribute more than a third of global terrestrial carbon and a third --->Submitted by Kit B. to Environment �|� �Not ...
- Nuisance Or Nutrient? Kudzu Shows Promise As A ...
An excessive amount of glucose in the blood is linked to both diabetes and obesity. Wyss says puerarin seems to regulate glucose by steering it to places where it is beneficial, such as muscles, and away from fat cells and blood vessels. Submitted by Kit B. to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �| ...
- Timorese Force Fully Responsible for Maintaini ...
The PNTL started resuming policing responsibilities almost two years ago in the district of Laut�m. Since then, it has resumed command in nearly all districts and units with no increases in crime rates or public order incidents, according to a new
- Geraldine Ferraro Dies at 75
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton expressed her condolence to the bereaved family of the former leader.
- 34 Countries Join Simulated Tsunami Alert Exercise
The exercise highlighted a number of gaps in the transmission of information, UNESCO stated in a news release, noting that in several areas, the message was not received by the Global Telecommunications System (GTS).
- Navi Pillay Urges Syria to Listen to The Voice ...
The demonstrations in Syria are part of a broader protest movement that has swept the Middle East and North Africa since the start of the year, toppling long-standing regimes in Tunisia and Egypt and leading to fierce fighting in Libya.
- U.S. Commemorates The Victims of Slavery
The United States remains committed to preserving the memory of slavery within our own country's history. We must never forget the full extent of the human suffering involved and we must remain vigilant in our readiness to fight any attempt to depr
- iFive: Google's NFC Plans, Warner Movies ...
iFive: Google's NFC Plans, Warner Movies on Facebook, Samsung Fibs About Tabs Again, Obama Aide for Facebook, Nokia vs. Apple BY Kit EatonToday On this day in history: 4 AM, March 28th, 1979 marked the time of the U.S.'s worst nuclear disaster, as clouds of radioactive steam vented into the ...
- Microsoft India appoints Bhaskar Pramanik ...
Software giant Microsoft on Monday said it has appointed Bhaskar Pramanik as chairman for its India operations. The appointment, effective on Monday, comes less than two months after Ravi Venkatesan quit as Microsoft India's chairman and corporate vice-president. Prior to the current...
- Docs Warn About Facebook Use And Teen Dep ...
CHICAGO — Add "Facebook depression" to potential harms linked with social media, an influential doctors' group warns, referring to a condition it says may affect troubled teens who obsess over the online site. Researchers disagree on whether it's simply an extension of depression some kids ...
- Facebook In Talks To Hire Obama's Former ...
Henry Blodget | Mar. 28, 2011, 7:28 AM | 0 | A A A � x Email Article From To Email Sent!...
- 'Panic button' to erase mobile details in ...
LONDON: A "panic button" that erases mobile phone address books and sends emergency alerts is being developed in the US, which would be of help to pro-democracy campaigners. The special application can be activated if the smartphone is confiscated by security authorities. The US State Depar ...
- Wendell Berry Presses Coal Protest, Wins Honors
PORT ROYAL, Kentucky -- Wendell Berry is back in the wooden rocker in the kitchen of his central Kentucky farm house after a busy few weeks, and his mind is slowly returning to writing. "There's been a good bit going on lately," he says with a chuckle. The Amish-made chair near the window is sof ...
- Global Compact Rejects Independent Panel's Cri ...
GENEVA -- An independent U.N. body has criticized the Global Compact, the largest initiative for corporate social responsibility, for not sufficiently monitoring the human rights and environmental commitments of participating companies. The Joint Inspection Unit (JIU), an independent external ev ...
- Germany's Merkel Suffers Election Blow Over Nu ...
STUTTGART, Germany - Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives appeared set to lose power in a major regional stronghold on Sunday after early results suggested the anti-nuclear Greens were surging to their first ever state premiership. In Baden-Wuerttemberg state, where anti-nuclear sentiment ha ...
- More Obstacles Sunday Impede Crews in Japan Nu ...
TOKYO� -- Mounting problems, including badly miscalculated radiation figures and inadequate storage tanks for huge amounts of contaminated water, stymied emergency workers Sunday as they struggled to nudge Japan's stricken nuclear complex back from the edge of disaster. Workers are attempting to ...
- Morgan Spurlock Launches Assault Against Onscr ...
He took on fast-food giant McDonald's in the documentary Supersize Me. Then he targeted the "war on terror" in Where in the World is Osama bin Laden? Now hit film-maker Morgan Spurlock has a new target: the advertising industry. Spurlock, whose cin�ma-v�rit� style has made him one of the world' ...
- 6 Energy Questions For 2 CEOs
Looming behind the earthquake in Japan and turmoil in the Middle East is the persistent question of US energy policy, or (as Thomas Friedman so eloquently reminds us) the lack thereof. There are many ways to wade into this issue: national security, balance of payments, economic stability and of ...
- Will Range Anxiety Impact Electric Car Sales?
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- MOX Fuel in Fukshima Daiichi Adds Little Risk ...
There is a good deal of misinformation being circulated about the potential harm to people in Japan from plutonium present in mixed oxide (MOX) fuel in the unit 3 reactor at Fukushima Daiichi. �The real story comes from an independent group of scientists who make up the American Nuclear Society� ...
- Shaken, Flooded, Stressed By Power Outages, Fu ...
Two weeks ago, I wrote an article titled Nuclear plant issues in Japan are the least of their worries that attempted to provide a realistic prediction of the worst case consequences of the one-two punch from a very large earthquake and tsunami on a large nuclear power station on the coast of Jap ...
- Smaller Particle Size Could Make Solar Panels ...
Studies done by Mark Lusk and colleagues at the Colorado School of Mines could significantly improve the efficiency of solar cells. Their latest work describes how the size of light-absorbing particles--quantum dots--affects the particles' ability to transfer energy to electrons to generate elec ...
- Recent Patent Litigation Weekly Columns
Much of the patent news that was published on this blog has been moved to the IP Insider section of the Corporate Counsel website. Here's a list of the last several Patent Litigation Weekly columns— Oct. 25, 2010: Big Patent-Licensing...
- Paul Allen v. The Internet
Former Microsoft executive and billionaire Paul Allen sued several major Internet companies and three large retailers for patent infringement today, asserting that four patents originating at Interval Research, Allen's dot-com era think tank, cover basic web browsing and e-commerce technologies....
- Citing Possible Bias, ACLU Asks Rader to Recus ...
With the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit set to consider a landmark case over the validity of human gene patents, attorneys for the plaintiffs in the suit are asking the court's chief judge to recuse himself from the matter—before the panel that will hear it has even been s ...
- Law360 Calls Lawyer-Owned Shell Company a "Pub ...
seems to have a pretty flexible definition of that term. Last month, it included . Who is so concerned about such fairness? That would be , the Texas law firm that owns Americans for Fair Patent Use, which is a limited liability company set up to prosecute a false marking lawsuit filed ...
- Eben Moglen on Bilski, software patents, and b ...
Moglen's position on the subject of software patents—that they should be banned—is, to say the least, outside the mainstream in legal circles. It has, however, garnered support among software developers and other techies, especially those who work in the world of open-source and free s ...
- Planned Regime Change in Libya
by Stephen Lendman A March 25 White House press release announced Obama's planned March 28 national TV speech: "to update the American people on the situation in Libya, including the actions we've taken with allies and partners to protect the Libyan people from the brutality of Moammar ...
- Updating Japan's Nuclear Disaster
by Stephen Lendman Japan's March 11 earthquake/tsunami-caused nuclear disaster affects millions of people regionally and throughout the Northern Hemisphere. But you'd never know it from most major media reports, downplaying an unfolding catastrophe. In fact, distinguished experts like Helen ...
- INSIDE WHAT JOB? A FILM REVIEW
GILAD ATZMON “There is definitely a fear among certain Jews in this industry…And it’s because it’s spreading past Wall Street now. There’s a growing animosity towards the wealthy, and especially the wealthy that have made money on Wall Street and real estate and finance, as so many Jews have—so ...
- NATO: America's Imperial Tool
by Stephen Lendman In 1999, Nobel laureate Harold Pinter called America's bombing and dismemberment of Yugoslavia "barbaric (and despicable), another blatant and brutal assertion of US power using NATO as its missile (to consolidate) American domination of Europe." Against Iraq and Afgh ...
- 5 Reasons Why Technology Can Never Be Neutral
Mickey Z. It's repeated so often that few of us even stop to question its validity: "Technology is neutral. It's only as good or as bad as those using it." Here are 5 reasons why this is far from true: 1. Technology Devours Nature Thanks to the automobile culture, for example, in the 20t ...
- Will the middle class have to learn to do with ...
That's the question journalist and author Linda McQuaig addresses in her column about greed, the assault on middle class dreams, and the "looming conflict" between Canada's elite and the "aspirations of millions of Canadians". Read the column here.
- Living Wage 2011: how much does a family need ...
CCPA-BC has just published Working for a Living Wage 2011, which shows that the living wage for Vancouver in 2011 is $18.81 an hour, up from $18.17 last year, and far higher than the $10.25 minimum wage planned for next year. A living wage enables families to pay for necessities, support the h ...
- So you think you can budget
From corporate tax cuts to seniors benefits, everyone on Parliament Hill seems to think they know what should be in the budget. But can you do better? What if you were finance minister for a day, what would be in your budget? We've developed an interactive budget tool based on our Alternative F ...
- Canada's military spending higher now than any ...
A new CCPA study finds Canadian military spending is higher now than at any time since the end of the Second World War, thanks to twelve years of budget increases. Canada is the 13th largest military spender in the world and the 6th largest within the 26-member NATO alliance. The study points o ...
- Federal outsourcing creating a shadow public s ...
If the federal government wants to get serious about spending controls, it needs to look critically at its ballooning outsourcing costs. The Shadow Public Service, a new CCPA�study, finds that over the past five years, personnel outsourcing costs have risen 79%. While federal departments have ...
- Wake ‘N’ Bake 101 with Dr. Woody & ...
Agree? Disagree? Confused? Talk to the Dr. â Dr. Woody tells you his thoughts in a unique and entertaining voice. WWH – Dr. Woody thinks this is an example of a wrong-headed critique. It attacks the wrong folks. Sure, the people act like sheep, a lot. But they’ve been carefully taught. We “Murki ...
- WWH: Homegrown – Here is our best from last week
Diana May-Waldman Finding Gentleness in a Harsh World Phil Polizatto China: The New America? Tricia Fascism Dances with the Stars and Stripes Joe McEvoy Hippie TV News with Joe McEvoy ( Winston Smith ) Sherry Pasquarello Pittsburgh in the 60′s Ball of CONFUSION Dr. Woody Wake ‘N’ Bake 101 Willia ...
- When Illegal Doesn’t Matter: US Uncut ...
Allison Kilkenny | thenation – Today marked US Uncutâs second big nationwide protest. From coast-to-coast, more than forty cities joined in a day of action protesting the tax-dodging practices of massive corporations that they see as the real source of the countryâs deficit. âIâm tired of people ...
- Wisconsin GOP Bully Boys
Wisconsin GOP Tries to Silence UW Professor for Asking Questions | Politicususa The Wisconsin GOP, already famous for bully-boy Stormtrooper tactics and disregard of decency has gone after a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor, William Cronon, who specializes in history, geography and envi ...
- Why Do We Insist on Truth In Advertising, But ...
Truth in Advertising and the News | Daily Kos As an American living in Europe, I have to say that watching the US news is like watching your beloved Aunt Agatha slowly go insane. What’s worse is watching it with my wife. She’s French and though we have similar political views, because her backgr ...
- The Cost of One F-15E Lost in Libya Is 563 Wis ...
According to the New York Times, the U.S. fighter jet that just crashed in Libya was an F-15E Strike Eagle. The Air Force says each F-15E cost $31.1 million in 1998 dollars (not including fuel, pilot training or anything else). Adjusted for inflation, that's $42.23 million today. Wisconsin tea ...
- Rick Snyder's "Shared Sacrifice": Michigan's W ...
Michigan's tax system is already regressive -- meaning that poorer people pay a higher tax rate than the wealthy. But Governor Rick Snyder has decided that it's just not regressive enough. So in the name of "shared sacrifice," he wants to hike the tax rate on poor and working Michiganders, while ...
- VIDEO: Bus leaves Kalamazoo to protest Gov. Sn ...
People talk about why they are going to Lansing to take part in protests against Gov. Rick Snyder's proposals, including bills that would give emergency financial managers the power to terminate labor contracts, proposed cuts to education funding and tax policy changes.
- The Forbes 400 vs. Everybody Else
According to the most recent information, the Forbes 400 now have a greater net worth than the bottom 50% of U.S. households combined. In 2009, the total net worth of the Forbes 400 was $1.27 trillion. The best information now available shows that in 2009 the bottom 60% (yes, now it's 60%, n ...
- Cairo in Wisconsin
The call reportedly arrived from Cairo. Pizza for the protesters, the voice said. It was Saturday, February 20th, and by then Ian's Pizza on State Street in Madison, Wisconsin, was overwhelmed. One employee had been assigned the sole task of answering the phone and taking down orders. An ...
- Libya air raids hit Gadhafi stronghold of Sirte
International air raids targeted Moammar Gadhafi's hometown of Sirte for the first time Sunday night as rebels made a high-speed advance toward the regime stronghold, a formidable obstacle that must be overcome for the government opponents to reach the capital Tripoli.
- NATO to assume command of Libya air operations
NATO will assume command of all aerial operations -- including ground attacks -- in Libya from the U.S.-led force that has been conducting air strikes against Mormmar Gadhafi's forces.
- Cobra escapes from New York's Bronx Zoo
Officials have closed the Reptile House at New York's Bronx Zoo after a poisonous Egyptian cobra disappeared from an enclosure that's separate from the animal exhibits.
- The Week in Uppers
While most news coverage this week fixated on intervention in Libya and the dire circumstances at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi power station, there were still plenty of stories more likely to warm your heart than chill your bones.
- What's really driving the GOP's abortion war
When Republicans profited from the miserable economy to sweep up huge wins in last fall's election, most political watchers figured they knew what was coming: budget cuts, privatization of more government functions, and tax cuts for the wealthy. The push to dismantle public sector unions has ...
- Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits ...
For SMB News Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits camps PURWOBINANGUN: Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano spewed more deadly heat clouds Wednesday as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono visited some of the 50,000 evacuees in shelters. Searing gas billowed from the crater of the 2,914-metr ...
- Kasaba throws spit on the camera
\Kasaba throws spit on cameraMUMBAI: Ajmal Kasaba webcam spit on Tuesday during a hearing in the Bombay High Court for confirmation of the death penalty, which led the court strictly tell him to behave properly. Judjes a warning when they Kasaba altercation with the police and spit at the camera ...
- K’taka Speaker disqualifies 16 MLAs
For SMB News KBANGALORE: Hours ahead of the trust vote for beleaguered Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa in the Assembly, Speaker K G Bopaiah disqualified sixteen rebel MLAs, including eleven from ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), legislative sources said on Monday. Bopaiah signed the ...
- Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8
For SMB News Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8 KARACHI: Eight people including two children were killed and over 65 others suffered injuries when two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside Abdullah Shah Ghazi’s shrine in Clifton, official sources said here Thursday. Two heads, beli ...
- Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistake
For SMB News Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistakes’ LONDON: Former president Gen. (Retd.) Pervez Musharraf Friday admitted that political mistakes were committed in the twilight years of his regime and sought apology from Pakistani nation for the same. “These mistakes caused damage ...
- 6 Energy Questions For 2 CEOs
Looming behind the earthquake in Japan and turmoil in the Middle East is the persistent question of US energy policy, or (as Thomas Friedman so eloquently reminds us) the lack thereof. There are many ways to wade into this issue: national security, balance of payments, economic stability and of ...
- Will Range Anxiety Impact Electric Car Sales?
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- MOX Fuel in Fukshima Daiichi Adds Little Risk ...
There is a good deal of misinformation being circulated about the potential harm to people in Japan from plutonium present in mixed oxide (MOX) fuel in the unit 3 reactor at Fukushima Daiichi. �The real story comes from an independent group of scientists who make up the American Nuclear Society� ...
- Shaken, Flooded, Stressed By Power Outages, Fu ...
Two weeks ago, I wrote an article titled Nuclear plant issues in Japan are the least of their worries that attempted to provide a realistic prediction of the worst case consequences of the one-two punch from a very large earthquake and tsunami on a large nuclear power station on the coast of Jap ...
- Smaller Particle Size Could Make Solar Panels ...
Studies done by Mark Lusk and colleagues at the Colorado School of Mines could significantly improve the efficiency of solar cells. Their latest work describes how the size of light-absorbing particles--quantum dots--affects the particles' ability to transfer energy to electrons to generate elec ...
- Are U.S. Troops Already on the Ground in Libya?
BILL O’REILLY, HOST: In the “Impact” segment tonight: Not much new to report out of Libya other than Qaddafi’s ground forces continue to be hammered by NATO warplanes. Some Americans fear there will be boots on the ground in Libya. The Obama administration says that’s not going to happen, but wh ...
- Jacob Barnett,12, with higher IQ than Einstein ...
A 12-year-old child prodigy has astounded university professors after grappling with some of the most advanced concepts in mathematics. Jacob Barnett has an IQ of 170 – higher than Albert Einstein – and is now so far advanced in his Indiana university studies that professors are lining him up fo ...
- NASA plans manned mission to asteroid in 2025
The moon has had its day and Mars is just, well, too far away. Nasa plans to put a man on an asteroid by 2025 in a real-life version of the film Armageddon. Astronauts will embark on a six-month mission to land on a lump of rock around the size of a building and take [...]
- Arrowheads Found in Texas Dial Back Arrival of ...
For many years, scientists have thought that the first Americans came here from Asia 13,000 years ago, during the last ice age, probably by way of the Bering Strait. They were known as the Clovis people, after the town in New Mexico where their finely wrought spear points were first discovered i ...
- Radiation inside Japan nuclear plant rises sharply
Japanese officials reported a huge jump in radioactivity — levels 10 million times the norm — in water in one reactor unit at a tsunami-damaged nuclear plant Sunday, forcing workers to evacuate and again delaying efforts to control the leaking complex. Radiation in the air, meanwhile, measured 1 ...
- Normal Structure and Function of the Musculosk ...
Mr. Ghaz says: Muscular dystrophies refer to a group of more than 30 genetic diseases which are characterized by progressive weakness and degeneration of the skeletal muscles..Studies and estimation show that after sustaining a hip fracture (as a result of osteoporosis) 20% of patients die withi ...
- Reasons to Donate Blood
Have you ever donated blood? If you have why did you do it? It may have been for a loved one or a friend. It could have been for the free coupons and gift certificates blood centers provide for donations. Maybe you’re required to donate blood being that you’re in the medical field. In actua ...
- Special Education High School Transition Services
From my Factoidz page: 1414(d) and in Findings about “effective transition services to promote successful post-Students typically start transition services at the age 14 if educational services are still required as determined by the school district and the IEP team. However, Washington State’s ...
- Don't Quit Your Day Job
This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Ashworth College. All opinions are 100% mine. With approximately 4,000,000 students today, more than 20 percent of all students enrolled in higher education are taking at least one course online. Self paced online courses ...
- Breast Cancer Gene May Raise Men’s Risk, Too
Source: HealthDay News: "A faulty gene that greatly increases a woman’s risk of breast cancer also boosts a man’s risk for the disease, a new study finds. While most people think of breast cancer as a woman’s illness, in rare cases men can develop breast tumors as well. The new study found tha ...
- Anarchists To Target Royal Wedding?
Image by pixel.eight in the Londonist Flickr pool. The splinter groups who roughed up central London over the weekend could strike again during the royal wedding, warns Met Commander Bob Broadhurst. “ The concern for me is that they do what they did yesterday in central London and divert resour ...
- After An Unfortunate Delay, We Can Now Announc ...
It appeared at first that our judge, General Robert âBobâ Kurtz-Belvedere , had either reached an impasse in his decision on a winner for last weekâs March Madness Sweater Puppy Contest or he had engaged in the healthful exercise of therapeutic breast-staring to excess. My last communication wi ...
- Losing streaks have plagued other NBA champions
A large segment of Spurs Nation might be gripping after the Spurs’ third straight loss Sunday night, particularly when it’s coupled with Manu Ginobili’s thigh injury and the tough upcoming schedule. But losing streaks are a part of life in the NBA — even on championship teams. And the Spurs’ re ...
- Bridge to Japan: City Winery Hosts Earthquake ...
City Winery is partnering with New York-Tokyo to host a benefit show on March 31st to benefit those displaced by the earthquake and tsunami. Recognizing that times here are tough but one of the after-effects of this catastrophe is many of the displaced people don't have basic amenities like foo ...
- 5 Best Ways To Watch India vs Pakistan Cricket ...
Here is the mother of all the rivalries. India vs Pakistan is the biggest cricketing rivalry and you surely don’t want to miss this Cricket World Cup 2011 Semifinal. So, if in case you are away from your television and cannot watch this cricket match, we bring you with 5 best ways to watch Indi ...
- Ed Roberts, creator of early PC, dies
Ed Roberts, whose early Altair 8800 computer helped inspire Bill Gates and Paul Allen to start Microsoft, died Thursday. He was 68....In a joint statement posted on the Gates Notes Web site, Gates and Allen paid tribute to Roberts. [PJ: They may wax lyrical now, but Wikipedia includes this il ...
- Enlisting Game Hackers Instead of Fighting Them
CVG recently spoke with Christofer Sundberg, co-founder of Avalanche Studios, the company behind Just Cause and its sequel. Sundberg expressed his disdain for both DRM and poor cross-platform ports, and talked about how he sees the hacker community as more of an ally than publishers do. Quoting: ...
- Amazon.com lets you play with an Android virtu ...
When Amazon's Appstore rolled out last week, we glossed over one detail that merely seemed neat. Today, we're inclined to say that Test Drive may be the most significant part of Amazon's announcement that day. Basically, Test Drive allows US customers to take apps for a spin at Amazon.com, with ...
- Xperia X10 to get Gingerbread Update
As for the Xperia X10 mini, X10 mini pro and X8, Sony Ericsson has given a solid "No" regarding their upgradability to Google's latest mobile operating system. As for X10, this is going to be the final update that the handset will receive in its lifetime. And this time, it seems they are serious ...
- Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 to get Gingerbread
The update will be available to customers when they connect their devices to a computer, which means over-the-air updates are out. Sony Ericsson previously said that it would not update the smartphone beyond Android 2.1 Eclair. Consumer demand, however, forced the company to relent. "We have l ...
- Joe Bageant died yesterday. Damn
Joe Bageant, a Polizeros hero, is perhaps best known for his book “Deer Hunting With Jesus,” which was about his return, as a leftie journalist in his 50′s, to the redneck Virginia town he grew up in. He emailed me after I reviewed it saying I was one of the few who got what he [...]
- Angry Birds. The Movie
(Okay, it’s a satire from RoosterTeeth.com) And I am so totally NOT addicted to Angry Birds that I can stop any time. Really.
- Greens clobber Merkel in German regional election
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats will lose control of Germany’s most prosperous state to the centre-left opposition in a major upset to her centre-right government, according to TV exit polls. In Baden-Wuerttemberg state, the Greens and Social Democrats (SPD) looked set to win a co ...
- US aircraft carrier leaves Libya for Straits o ...
Wonder why the administration made such a stink of reducing the US airborne presence around Libya, and handing it off to France, Italy, Canada and Turkey? Here’s the answer: the CVN65 Enterprise which last week was within striking distance of Libya, has quietly left the Red Sea and is now virtua ...
- TEPCO knew of dangers, did not notify workers
Disgraced utility TEPCO, the operator of the nuclear plant, was forced to admit yesterday that it had known about dangerous conditions at the No 3 reactor last week, but failed to warn workers, who were affected when they stepped in radioactive water. TEPCO executives are criminals. They should ...
- War and humanitarianism: From Kosovo to Libya?
The three western governments that have, with a little help from two Arab governments, been undertaking very lethal military action against Libya in the past eight days have worked to "justify" those acts of war largely in the name of either ending an existing humanitarian crisis or preventing ...
- Israeli vice-premier, accused of war crimes, w ...
On March 9, I received the following invitation: The Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn Middle East Forum of the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson Center present (sic) A Conversation with Moshe Yaalon Vice Premier, Minister of Strategic Affairs and Likud Knesset Member Moderated by Aaron ...
- This is what good statecraft looks like
Norwegian foreign minister Jonas Gahr Store has a terrific piece titled "Why We Must Talk" in a recent issue of the NY Review of Books. In it, he makes a strong argument why "we"-- in this case, I think, western advocates of democracy-- need to start talking seriously to, among other, the Musli ...
- Tripartite attack on Libya hits geopolitical o ...
It is extremely unclear what the political outcome inside Libya of the tripartite (western) assault against the country will be. It is unclear, too, what political outcome the leaders of the three countries are aiming at in Libya. In my experience, all wars are anti-humane and anti-humanitar ...
- Arab tragedies and role of the "west"
Today is the eighth anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq, and today the US is preparing to once again join a military action against an Arab country, Libya. I wonder how many of Pres. Obama's advisers have ever even heard the term "Tripartite Aggression"? That is the way Arabs refer to t ...
- Larry Baldock and the Dickheads
No, I didn’t mistake Larry Baldock and the Dickheads for Ian Dury and the Blockheads, who were 1970s icons with songs like Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll, and Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick. Ian Dury, who was impaired by poliomyelitis, also wrote and performed a wonderful song Spasticus Autistic ...
- Leave oil before oil leaves us.
‘Auckland Unleashed’ is the catchy title of the draft discussion document that will inform the proposed Auckland Spatial plan. In an earlier blog post I indicated the political battle looming between Auckland’s elected councillors and central government, who have very different visions for the ...
- Cricket World Cup: Something for New Zealand t ...
At least New Zealanders have something to bolster our spirits at the moment. New Zealand are the only non-Asian team left in the Cricket World Cup. How about that! South Africa gone (defeated by New Zealand), Australia gone, England gone, West Indies gone! We may have a Government that is cluele ...
- General debate, March 27, 2011
- The Welfare Working Group and its distinctly u ...
At page 60 of its report the Welfare Working Group suggests: "From the modelling reported in Chapter 10, we are of the view that the evidence from welfare reform in New Zealand and overseas indicates that a reduction of around 100,000 people [in receipt of working age benefits] is very ambitious ...
- The Supreme Court, the Constitution and the Fi ...
The Supreme Court's First Amendment opinions result not from interpreting the First Amendment but from deliberately and insidiously changing its diction in ways that make the Amendment unrecognizable. The Court's arguments in these opinions are pure cant and do nothing but turn the Justice ...
- Liberty's Easy Slide into Tyranny
Huge conspiracies aren't what destroys people's freedom, the accumulation of errors, failed policies, and little and big unfairnesses do. It happens because The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men/ Gang aft agley,/ An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain. The FED, CIA, Executive Privilege, The ...
- What should be done with illegal immigrants?
That this question is even being asked reveals something about ourselves. How would you answer it if you were an illegal immigrant? Perhaps you've never heard of the Golden Rule. The rule may not be the best guide to moral behavior but asking yourself how you'd answer the question if you wer ...
- A Revolting World
Many in many lands are demonstrating against their governments. Some claim that people everywhere are revolting and that a worldwide revolution is imminent. Even both the orthodox and heterodox presses are all atwitter. But it is far easier to bring about a successful revolution than it is t ...
- Demented Democracy
An addiction to opinion, each person being entitled to his own, and the unwarranted notion that those who fight for their beliefs are "principled" is the reason that democracies teeter between antagonistic belief systems and are unable to resolve any social problems. Each party strives to re ...
- Have DC Schools Really Improved?
The DC school system under Michelle Rhee famously produced substantial gains on standardized test scores. But USA Today reports that one of the district's star performers, the Crosby S. Noyes Education Campus, may have cheated its way to success: A USA TODAY investigation, based on docume ...
- Friday Cat Blogging - 25 March 2011
On the left, we have a cat and his shadow. On the right, we have a cat and her garden. Who do you think has the better deal? Comments | Post Comment����
- The Return of John Lott
Hey, John Lott is back in the news! Remember him? Chris Brown of Media Matters catches him retroactively changing a blog post and then complaining that he was misquoted. Luckily, Chris kept a screen shot of the original, always a useful precaution when dealing with Lott. For what it's worth, L ...
- Obama's Gamble in Libya
Jonah Goldberg is dumbfounded at Barack Obama's desire for the United States to let others take the lead in the Libya operation. But that's not what really ticks him off: What’s most infuriating is that if this ends “well” — say Qaddafi is killed by one of his own men in the next couple days ...
- Can California Still Afford the Death Penalty?
The "hanging judge of Orange County" writes today that he's had a change of heart: I watch today as Gov. Brown wrestles with the massive debt that is suffocating our state and hear him say he doesn't want to "play games." But I cringe when I learn that not playing games amounts to cuts to kin ...
- IC 237: Sucker Punched
Topics: VCU fucks up everyone brackets Zack Snyder sucker punches movie watchers everywhere Why can’t people just make movies fun? The irony of social conservatives talking about morals Donald Trump is a birther Why does it take 3 attempts to ban bestiality? Chris Brown hasn’t learned a thing Sh ...
- FacePalm of the Week: Et tu, Arianna?
Arianna Huffington runs one of the most popular liberal blogs out there. I’ve always had my doubts about her though. I always question when someone starts off on one extreme of the ideological spectrum then all the sudden switches over to the other side. I mean its one thing to be a moderate ...
- IC 236: Post Sex Press Conference
Topics: Jon Jones subdues robber 2 hours before title fight Man has to pay child support after woman impregnates herself after oral sex Steve Harvey’s 12 ways to know a man is ready to commit The UN steps in to protect civilians in Libya Share with your friends:
- IC 235: The Casey Heynes Show
Topics: The Body Slam heard round the world How to deal with bullies Your kid is not a “good kid” Asians in the Library So we’re gonna pretend John Boehner’s skin is natural? Share with your friends:
- Who Thought this Interview Would Be Productive?
So you have Michele Bachmann & Anthony Weiner squaring off with Sean Hannity as the “moderator”. No really, who thought this would be anything more than a shouting match of immaturity? Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com While I feel Rep. Weiner’s pain in dealing with douches like Bach ...
- Pinning detailed climate impacts on people cou ...
Trying to establish a water-tight case proving human-caused effects on plants and animals distracts from preserving biodiversity, say Camille Parmesan and Mike Singer from University of Texas, Austin, and colleagues.
- 2010′s European heatwave unmatched in ce ...
Scorcher unlikely to be repeated for decades even as heatwave probability rises 5-10 times, Erich Fischer from ETH Zurich and colleagues find in a study set to help prepare for future climate change.
- Climate change could hit least responsible hardest
By studying how population density is related to climate, Jason Samson of McGill University shows that those most responsible for emitting greenhouse gases are insulated from the consequences of their actions.
- Ice age rethink puts warming into context
Researchers challenge a fundamental principle of climate science – the effect of Earth's relationship to the sun – but underline that we are still reversing what should be a long slow cool-off for the planet.
- Soot and methane cuts promise threefold benefits
Called on by groups including the G8 to examine the science behind limiting emissions of short-lived substances causing climate change, the United Nations Environment Partnership finds just 16 control measures can boost climate, farming and health.
- Will we hear the light?
University of Utah scientists used invisible infrared light to make rat heart cells contract and toadfish inner-ear cells send signals to the brain. The discovery someday might improve cochlear implants for deafness and lead to devices to restore vision, maintain balance and treat movement disor ...
- Surgeon availability tied to survival rate in ...
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine claim that the availability of surgeons is a critical factor in public health and suggest that surgery should become an important part of the primary health care system. read more
- 'Spicing' up your love life possible, study finds
Looking to spice up your sex life? Try adding ginseng and saffron to your diet. Both are proven performance boosters, according to a new scientific review of natural aphrodisiacs conducted by University of Guelph researchers. read more
- Study finds changes in incidence of end-stage ...
New research documenting changes in the incidence and outcomes of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) in the U.S. between 1995 and 2006, found a significant increase in incidence rates among patients 5 to 39 years of age and in African Americans. A second related study—the largest pediatric lupus nep ...
- Certain breast cancer patients worry excessive ...
A new study has found that certain types of women with early stage breast cancer are vulnerable to excessive worrying about cancer recurrence. Published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the study also indicates that worrying about cancer recurrence ...
- Fukushima Open Thread 2
The last Open Thread dedicated to the Fukushima Daiichi crisis is getting overloaded, so here is a new one. Same rules apply: The Open Threads on BraveNewClimate.com are a general discussion forum, where you can talk about whatever you like — there is nothing really ‘off topic’ here — within rea ...
- Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident – 26 ...
This post provides an update to the various situation summaries at Fukushima Daiichi. Please switch to using this post for comments on the latest status reports and news to hand (the old one is now out of date). For general comments on, use the FD Open Thread, and for analysis of the event with ...
- Preliminary lessons from Fukushima for future ...
No strong conclusions can yet be drawn on the Fukushima Nuclear Crisis, because so much detail and hard data remains unclear or unavailable. Indeed, it will probably take years to piece the whole of this story together (as has now been done for accidents like TMI and Chernobyl [read this and thi ...
- It’s nuclear power or it’s climate ...
I was asked to reflect very briefly (<400 words) on the implications of Fukushima Daiichi to my local city newspaper, The Adelaide Advertiser. The focus was on what it means for Australia, but the basic message resonates for any number of other countries. —————————– If you study the history of m ...
- 10+ days of crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nu ...
Yes, it really has been that long. So what happened during those 10+ days? For a long answer, look back over the daily posts on this blog, which also has plenty of links to more off-site information. For the short-hand version, I offer you this excellent graphic produced by the Wall Street Journ ...
- Ghaddafi a hero for African rights and liberat ...
Ghaddafi a hero for African rights and liberation - English pravda.ru: "In 2005 in the basement of the United States Capitol at a meeting convened by Congressman John Conyers on the subject of the 'Downing Street Memo,' Ray McGovern uttered the following truth: he testified that 'the United Stat ...
- TheAngryindian Interviews: Pascal Uccelli
Editor's Note: While there is a lot to be desired in terms of mainstream social media, there are gems to be found for those interested in social justice and human rights. One such activist is France's Pascal Uccelli, artist and editor of the l'ecriture sans calmants blog. I asked him a few que ...
- WaPo: Same Sex Couples Lead to Marriage Licens ...
Rod 2.0:Beta #gay #news #lgbt #gaynews: WaPo: Same Sex Couples Lead to Marriage Licenses Doubling in D.C.: "The total number of applications more than doubled since the first same-sex couples lined up to get their licenses, from about 3,100 in the previous year to 6,600 during the past 12 months ...
- A Real Sharia Law Promoter for Peter King to I ...
A Real Sharia Law Promoter for Peter King to Investigate | The Nation: [FOTO: Masked Provisional IRA volunteers at a rally in August 1979. US Rep. Peter King has long supported and actively advocated the use of political violence as a means of national resistance for the Celtic peoples of Irelan ...
- LIBYA: Uprising Revives Entrenched Racism Towa ...
LIBYA: Uprising Revives Entrenched Racism Towards Black Africans: "By Simba Russeau BEIRUT, Mar 21 (IPS) – Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi’s use of African mercenaries to quell the uprising against his autocratic regime has revived a deep-rooted racism between Arabs and black Africans. Though ...
- Shame Shame Shame
Shame shame shame shame shame
- David Koch – We Want Our Money Back
We Want Our Money Back Dear Mr. Koch. We want our money back. What money? The money you stole from AMERICA. The money you, and your friends socked away with the help of a corrupt system, bought and paid for politicians, and banksters. When you paid to put that maggot in the governor’s mansi ...
- Wake Up
Wake up and do something. The billionaires, and the corporations they control have been destroying our nation for long enough.
- Governor Walker – When Will You Have The ...
You want to jerk around state employees, and unions, all to make up for the money you refuse to collect from corporations and billionaires. They don’t pay near their fair share, and you want working families to make up the difference.
- Arrest Clarence Thomas
Many others have been prosecuted for lying on their financial disclosure forms. Why is it that Clarence Thomas can commit a crime any 3 year old could prosecute successfully, and not be charged? Are we a nation of laws? If not, I should go steal some money….
- Day of Action and Conference Vision Statements
Appalachia Rising: Day of Action September 25 – 27, 2010, Washington DC Appalachia Rising is a mass mobilization in Washington DC on September 27, 2010 calling for the abolition of mountaintop removal and surface mining. It is a culmination of the national movement against surface mining and a f ...
- Press Conference to be Held on June 15
Thousands to March in DC Calling for the Abolition of Mountaintop Removal Press Conference June 15 in Charleston, WV Announces Mass Mobilization Appalachia Rising WHEN: June 15, 10:00 AM WHERE: WV State Capitol Back Steps Near Fountain, Charleston, WV CONTACTS: West Virginia Bo Webb – 304-237-26 ...
- Press Inquiries
All media inquiries should be sent to Bo Webb webb.bo@gmail.com Set up interviews via email. Previous Press Releases and Media Public Launch Press Conference Report Back, with video Press Conference Held on June 15 Announces Appalachia Rising Video June 15 Appalachia Public Launch Press Conferen ...
- New Flier for Appalachia Rising
- Appalachia Rising Uniting Celebrities, Appalac ...
Appalachia Rising Uniting Celebrities, Appalachians, and Scientists for the Abolition of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Ashley Judd, Woody Harrelson, Gloria Reuben, Kyra Sedgewick, Kevin Bacon, Ed Begley Jr., Kathy Mattea, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, James Hansen, and Darryl Hannah rallying behind co ...
- When violence fills the leadership vacuum
As usual, when a new cycle of violence approaches, the papers are full of prophecies by this military analyst and that political pundit on how long it will last, who will blink first, is Hamas interested in escalation, can Islamic Jihad be curbed, can Israel afford this and will it do that. Aft ...
- Why is Acre afraid of old signs?
An artist placed re-designed street signs, from the Turkish period, in Acre – and Israelis think this “undermines law and order.” Why? Artist Walid Qashash took a political stand (Hebrew): He designed street signs for the Old City of Acre, as they would look under the Turkish rulers, and hanged ...
- Channel 10 suspends star sportscaster for empa ...
On Saturday night, veteran broadcaster Yoram Arbel (one of Israel top sports show hosts and longtime host of Who Wants to be a Millionaire) made the following remark during an Israel-Latvia game. “An Israeli girl who’s done something horrible, even worse than that, has been sitting locked up at ...
- Palestinians jailed because lawyer can’t ...
The text is simple and quite short, and it merits being quoted in full: “The Netanya Magistrate’s Court has decided to extend by 24 hours the detention of three Palestinians, without holding a hearing about their alleged crimes. The reason for the absence of such a hearing is that the suspects s ...
- Nakba law and nakba map produce nakba dream
It came as a surprise. I didn’t really intend to rebell against the newly legislated “Nakba” (“disaster”) law until independence day. After all, the law refers specifically to that occasion. It states that any organization that uses Independence day to commemorate the enormous loss suffered by ...
- Rick Scott- The Prince of Darkness
One of every Floridian’s basic and most important rights is the right to have access to information created by our government officials. This basic right is under attack like never before….at the very time when we need all the information about what our government is doing. Please take a momen ...
- JACK BOOTED THUGS- THE LATEST CHASE BREAK IN&# ...
I field calls all week long from people who have had their homes broken into by the banks. It’s a terrifying and disgusting that the banks do this now with impunity. The typical scenario finds the banks drill out the locks and remove whatever property they wish. If a homeowner calls the poli ...
- FINALLY- THEY’RE DOING SOMETHING ABOUT M ...
……REMEMBER HOW I TALKED ABOUT OUTRAGE FATIGUE…. well, read the following story….guaranteed to provoke outrage fatigue in you. Your government hard at work prosecuting a common man, while the fat cats live with absolute impunity. Using an attractive female FBI agent to seduce and trap their vic ...
- FLORIDA- STATE OF CORRUPTION
Just in case you’re clinging to any naive notions that there is any integrity, honesty or restraint among those in power in this state, read the article below that appears in the St. Petersburg Times….the Jackals in Tallahassee set the tone for the entire state and what they get away with is gro ...
- The Marshall Watson/Florida Attorney AG Settle ...
A colleague shared with me a term, “outrage fatigue”. She commented that she was just tired of being outraged by the all the outrages that are occurring across this country. There is so much wrong with this agreement. Read carefully the “allegations” of wrongdoing recited in the settlement a ...
- Neither Eyes To See, Nor Tongue To Speak
This is the first day of my re-election campaign and I’m dreading it. When I mentioned this fact in an interview on Saturday, the reporter asked: “Isn’t that a bit counter-intuitive? I mean, didn’t most of the House vote for an election?” I stated that I privately didn’t take to elections becaus ...
- On Pride and Sadness
Here’s a statement for you: Never before in the history of any Parliament in the entire Commonwealth has a sitting government been found in contempt. We all realized the importance of this as we sat in the Commons today and voted the government in contempt. Government members moaned that it was ...
- The Most Honourable Member
On this, what looks like the final of this 40th Parliament, it’s only proper that we pay tribute to that one person who had to step to the fore to protect perhaps the greatest political institution in the land – Speaker Peter Milliken. He’s retiring after this session and there’s lot of worry ou ...
- Don’t Buy This Car
It’s the biggest open secret in Ottawa: the government specifically designed its budget to bring about its own defeat. No sooner had it been released than Jim Flaherty was on the tube saying he would not accept any amendments. So, it wasn’t really all that serious a document anyway; it was rathe ...
- The Coalition Shuffle
Third blog post today – a record. I listened as John Baird made a statement that silenced his own team and produced hilarity in the House – “If they’re attacking you personally, it’s because there’s no basis to attack you on substance.” The irony of it all, especially coming from the one who sai ...
- No Pharma Liability? No Vaccine Mandates.
by Barbara Loe Fisher On February 22, 2011 the U.S. Supreme Court shielded drug companies from all liability for harm caused by vaccines mandated by government when companies could have made a safer vaccine. 1 From now on, drug companies selling vaccines in America will not be held accounta ...
- WA State Vaccine Law Threatens Exemptions & Vi ...
by Barbara Loe Fisher If you are a resident of Washington state, you should know that there is a bill quietly sailing through your state legislature that violates your privacy and threatens your right to make informed, voluntary decisions about vaccination. House Bill 1015 1 and Senate Bill ...
- New Vaccine Science Can Help Bridge the Divide
by Barbara Loe Fisher Fear of the unknown is what terrifies us the most, fear of being unable to have control over what the future holds. At the root of that fear is knowing that the choices we make today could have a profound impact on what happens tomorrow. 1 Fear is a strong emotion ...
- Counting Blessings, Remembering the Children
by Barbara Loe Fisher Every Christmas and New Year, when I give thanks for the people who have blessed my life, I remember the mothers and fathers of severely vaccine injured children, who have taught me the most about love and courage. I know that my son, Chris, who developed brain inflamma ...
- Thousands Of Americans Register for NVIC's New ...
by Barbara Loe Fisher Thousands of Americans living in all 50 states took action and registered for the new NVIC Advocacy Portal at www.NVICadvocacy.org during Vaccine Awareness Week (Nov. 1-6, 2010) co-sponsored by the National Vaccine Informati ...
- Tracking information on radiation health risks ...
This past few days I’ve been up to my eyeballs in tracking and responding to the developing crisis in Japan, and have not had much time to think about emerging technologies or this blog. Much of my time has been spent on brushing up on my health physics (from 25 years ago!), and providing info ...
- Nanotechnology safety – a new video blog from ...
Back in December 2009, I rode the Acela Express up to New York from Washington DC for the day to record one of a series of nanotechnology podcasts for the ASME – the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. The podcast was to be part of a new educational outreach initiative on all aspects of na ...
- The Seven Deadly Sins of Techno-Complacency – ...
I don’t believe it – once again I’ve let myself be talked into doing an event in Second Life. But this time it’s even worse – I’ll be hosting a combined second life and real-life event, and in effect acting as the medium between physical and virtual realities. The only compensation is that the ...
- The art of regulating nanotechnologies
The recently published International Handbook on Regulating Nanotechnologies has a rather unconventional cover image. But it’s one that I must confess I am rather pleased with. The image is a photo of a piece of Murano glass that I picked up several years ago while visiting Venice. At the time I ...
- Davos 2011 – Partnering with teens to build a ...
This is not a science and technology post – which is a bit odd for a science and technology blog. But I wanted to introduce five people who together shake up the whole idea of the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos as being an elitist and increasingly irrelevant gathering of middle aged bal ...
- Email to Walker Suggested Faking Violence
The report begins: "The email came to Gov. Scott Walker from the personal account of a deputy prosecutor and Republican activist in Indiana. After praise for Walker, the email - sent Feb. 19, during union demonstrations against Walker’s budget repair bill - then took a darker turn." Walker em ...
- Pentagon Spends Billions to Fight Roadside Bom ...
Excerpt: "Roadside bombs remain the single worst killer of soldiers as more US forces have been transferred out of Iraq and into Afghanistan." A Afghan IED made by tying four Russian mortars together, designed to be set off with a remote control. (photo: Dutch Defence Dept) Sorry, yo ...
- Bob Herbert to Leave New York Times
Excerpt: "Mr. Herbert did not share the details of his plans, saying only that he was leaving to focus on his book and a 'soon-to-be-announced effort to help bolster progressive journalism.' 'My years at The Times have been wonderful and I will miss working for the greatest newspaper in the worl ...
- Lobbyists Raising 'Unlimited and Undisclosed' ...
Intro: "Last year, Wisconsin Supreme Court justice and Gov. Scott Walker ally David Prosser cast the key vote in favor of a 'justice-for-sale' ethics rule written by two corporate lobbying groups. Thanks to Justice Prosser, his colleagues are not required to recuse themselves from cases involvin ...
- Japan Levels of Radioactive Materials Skyrocke ...
Intro: "The regulator overseeing Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex on Saturday announced a sharp elevation in radioactive contamination had been detected in nearby seawater, furthering signs of distress at a plant where officials had cautioned of radioactive leaks near hobbled reactors t ...
- WRL Organizers Hit the West Coast
From February 25th to March 7th,WRL organizing coordinator Kimber Heinz and field organizer Ali Issa began a three-stop trip on the West Coast where they met with WRL locals and affiliates, as well as allied organizations working on GI resistance, civilian support for anti-war veteran organizing ...
- Iraq/Wisconson Labor Solidarity: Two Statements
In the wake of the threat posed to what remain of labor rights in Wisconsin, and the public’s powerful response, two Iraqi labor leaders, Hassan Jum’a and Faleh Abood, penned solidarity statements in late February on behalf the 26,000 member strong Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions, and the 15,000 ...
- Stepping up the Resistance to U.S. Islamophobia
As Peter King, the new chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, steps up the U.S. government attack against Muslims living in the U.S., saying that he will “rely on Muslims to make his case that American Muslim leaders have failed to cooperate with law enforcement officials in the effo ...
- Mubarak Ousted! Two Down, Twenty To Go . . .
“The people have brought down the regime!” was a cry heard around the world when on Friday, February 11th, 18 days of unrelenting non-violent protest finally forced the end of Hosni Mubarak’s 30 year, US backed rule over Egypt. Ecstatic jubilation filled Cairo’s Midan al-Tahrir (Liberation Squar ...
- The Egyptian Revolution and Police Tools ̵ ...
As of this writing, the Egyptian revolution has entered its 16th day and is gaining ground and momentum: spreading to new regions, evolving into strikes and civil disobedience and clarifying its demands. What started as an impressive series of demonstrations on January 25th’s ‘Day of Wrath’ has ...
- Making Health the Default
A recent article featured in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation News Digest on Childhood Obesity highlights a simple strategy that can be implemented in restaurants and other venues to improve the food environment. The innovative new strategy is to change the offerings on children’s menus to hi ...
- How much meat do we eat, anyway?
Reading the new federal dietary guidelines made me want to look into this question. The guidelines, just released, say that Americans presently eat an average of 3.7 ounces daily of meat and poultry. But, the figures I typically see are double that, or more. So, why, in the brand-new guidelin ...
- What’s Cookin’ in Your Soil Kitchen?
What’s Cooking in your ‘Soil Kitchen’? There is probably lots cooking but you might not like all that’s on the menu. So if you are an urban agriculturalist in the mid-Atlantic (NYC-Philadelphia-Baltimore-DC) area scratching your head about all this talk of soil contamination, grab a soil sample ...
- The Locavore debate, revisited
How can local food systems support a resilient and sustainable future food economy in the United States? That was the question of the day at a recent conference entitled, “Reviving the American Economy-One Heirloom Tomato at a Time.” But for some, the question isn’t so much how, but even can ...
- In Media, Big Ag Looms Large while Farmers Get ...
In September 1965, CBS broadcast its first episode of Green Acres, a mini-series documenting a family’s transition from an urban life of prestige and luxury, to one of mud, manure, and chaos on a farm in the fictional town of Hooterville. Green Acres took off, in part capitalizing on the popula ...
- The FP Salon: Peter Bergen's The Longest War
An FP round-table discussion on counterterrorism expert Peter Bergen's latest book. A decade after 9/11, is the war on terrorism a war we can win?
- Crazy Like a Fox
In a fit of anger, Hamid Karzai axes his director of intelligence, Amrullah Saleh. But is there method to his madness?
- Addicted to Contractors
The United States is hooked on privatized warfare in Afghanistan. And it's more costly than you think.
- How to Whip the Afghan Army Into Shape
Much of President Barack Obama's strategy rests on the creation of a new, more competent Afghan military. Here's what he'll need to know to get the job done.
- Obama's Indecent Interval
Despite the U.S. president's pleas to the contrary, the war in Afghanistan looks more like Vietnam than ever.
- Updates on Libyan war: March 28
==== NATO Warplanes Launch Fresh Assault On Libyan Capital US-Led Libyan Ground Assault Planned Pentagon Chief: “No Idea” How Long Libyan Campaign Will Last “Odyssey” Nor Bringing “Dawn” To Libya Libya: NATO Terrorizing, Killing Civilians Open Letter From Russian Doctors In Libya To The Presiden ...
- Updates on Libyan War: March 27
==== Libyan War And Control Of The Mediterranean ==== Libya: U.S. And NATO Can Be Drawn Into Another Afghanistan, Iraq – Russian Envoy NATO’s Libyan War Can Last Months, Even Years: Norwegian Expert Western Military Intervention In Libyan Can Lead To Another Iraq NATO Targets Libyan Air Force, A ...
- Updates on Libyan war: March 26
==== Libyan War And Control Of The Mediterranean ==== Reports: U.S. Forces On Ground In Libya, Invasion Can Follow Next Month War For Oil And Gas: NATO Ground War In Libya Inevitable U.S. Army, CIA In Libya For 12 Years Already: Former Intelligence Officers Obama Boasts Of Lopsided Victory In Li ...
- Stop NATO News March 25, 2011
==== Libyan War And Control Of The Mediterranean Updates on Libyan war: March 25 ==== 1. The Hidden Alliance â Sweden’s Secret NATO Association 2. Germany Sends 300 Airman To Afghanistan To Help NATO In Libya 3. NATO Continues Integration Of Ukraine 4. Prompt Global Strike: U.S. Plans New Hypers ...
- Updates on Libyan war: March 25
==== Libyan War And Control Of The Mediterranean ==== Canadian General To Command NATO War Effort In Libya Libya: Canada Adds “Monstrous” Sub-Hunter To Warplanes, Warship U.S., NATO Could Begin Ground Operations In Libya Next Month: Russian Intelligence NATO: Libyan War To Last Three Months Or L ...
- Radioactive Rain Over Pacific Will Save Lives?
RIA Novosti By Olga Sobolevskaya Originally Published on March 18th, 2011 Japan’s neighbors are worried that the radioactive clouds released by explosions at the Fukushima nuclear power plant could reach their territory. In the best-case scenario, the clouds will be blown out over the Pacific Oc ...
- Edano: Nuke Fuel May Have Been Damaged at Reactor
NHK March 28th, 211 Japan’s top government spokesman says there is a possibility that various substances have leaked from the damaged nuclear fuel rods at the Number 2 reactor of the disaster-hit Fukushima Daiichi power plant. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano was responding to a report on Sun ...
- Aircrap.org: Anthony Hilder Interviews Michael ...
NotForSale2NWO March 27th, 2011
- The Japanese Crisis – New World Next Week
Corbettreport March 27th, 2011 Welcome back to http://NewWorldNextWeek.com – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in alternative news and open source intelligence. This week we focus exclusively on the unfolding tragedies in ...
- Following The Earlier TEPCO Reporting Flap, He ...
Zero Hedge March 27th, 2011 Here is a simple way to clear up the flap over the earlier “false” reporting on whether or not TEPCO screwed up by releasing the figure of 1 sievert of radiation as emanating from the water pool at Reactor 2. From the IAEA: “As previously reported, three workers at th ...
- 140 years of revolution since the Paris Commune
[The Paris Commune of 1871 was the first instance of working class rule. Though it only lasted two months before being brutally suppressed, the Commune has continued to inspire, and its lessons continue to be instructive and debated and taken as a model across the world--from Shanghai to Paris ...
- Huge turnout in London for protest against aus ...
About half a million people marched through the streets of central London to protest against government spending cuts. Michael Goldfarb March 26, 2011 LONDON, U.K. — About half a million people marched through the streets of central London today to protest against austerity measures.Protesters w ...
- Opposing Gaddafi’s massacre and foreign interv ...
Horace Campbell, Pambazuka 2011-03-24 Unless Libyans themselves own the struggle against Gaddafi, opponents to his regime may find that even if he has been removed from power, ‘Gaddafism’ will continue – but this time propped up by the West, Horace Campbell warns. The Union shall have the right ...
- NATO wary of Libyan command: hot potato
Libya: Nato Refuses Military Ops Command UK, Thursday March 24, 2011 Nato has again refused to take over command of military operations in Libya, with objections from Turkey frustrating US efforts to hand over control. America wants to give up its lead role in the war-torn country in a “matter ...
- Yemen: Repressive regime threatens military de ...
� Saleh threatens civil war by Shatha Al-Harazi Sana�a, Mar. 22 � President Ali Abdullah Saleh warned of bloody civil war, if the armed forces failed to unite, following the mass defection of a dozen military commanders. � On Monday, senior military leaders announced their solidarity for the pro ...
- Response to “An Open Letter to Ken OR ...
We in the West do not even take care of our own people, multi-billionaires and deep poverty side by side, house foreclosures in concert with trillions of dollars being handed to the banksters. These bastard banksters are the ultimate rape and pillage machine, and they are salivating over Libya.
- Tahrir4Gaza – Liberation for Gaza
As the Arab people continue to exercise unarmed yet mighty power, there is one place above all others that remains at the heart of the struggle, Palestine. Despite all the money, propaganda, weapons, false imprisonment, ethnic cleansing, torture and mass-murder wielded against them, they have e ...
- The Egyptian Blockade of Gaza – February 26, 2 ...
Is there any sane, right-minded person who supports the blatant and brutal collective punishment of the people of Gaza? So why would it carry on? There is only one reason, because we allow it. I say we carry on with what the people of Egypt started, they got rid of the dictator, let us, people ...
- Global Revolution 2011
I believe the time has come to unite, those of us who are sane, who can see that the masses are comprised of so many cultures and vastly different ways of life, yet we all demand essentially the same things. We demand to be treated with respect. We demand the right to a decent way of life. We ...
- Revolutions & Manipulations
While millions of Egyptians are in the streets, in one of the most dramatic spontaneous uprisings in recent years, in an attempt to overthrow 30 years of Mubarak rule, a regime propped up by Israel and the United States, an undercurrent of opportunist plots threaten to turn this hopeful situatio ...
- Open Records and a historian's emails
Because Wisconsin historian William Cronon wrote this, the Republican party in his state is requesting copies of: all emails in and out of [Prof. Cronon’s] state email account from January 1, 2011 to present which reference any of the following terms: Republican, Scott Walker, recall, colle ...
- RIP, Joe Bageant
(The above videotape contains naughty language. You've been warned.) I was a latecomer to Joe Bageant's fan base. I first stumbled across him after finding "Deer Hunting With Jesus: Dispatches From America's Class War." (With a title like that, of course I was going to read the book. I am a h ...
- Today's guest blogger: Clifford W. Thornton: E ...
Clifford W. Thornton is the co-chair of the Green Party of the United States. With his wife, Margaret, he runs Efficacy, a non-profit to educate the world about drug policy reform. In 2007, Thornton received the Robert C. Randall award for outstanding achievement in the field of citizen action ...
- How to be a good corporate citizen...
...without paying taxes. In 2010, G.E., according to the New York Times: ...reported worldwide profits of $14.2 billion, and said $5.1 billion of the total came from its operations in the United States. Its American tax bill? None. In fact, G.E. claimed a tax benefit of $3.2 billion ...
- Another good reason to quit the guitar
I just might go looking for a new instrument after watching this. Actually, I did try to play the guitar. And the piano. And the banjo, mandolin, and trumpet. I bombed on all those instruments. And now, it is everlastingly too late for me to be a prodigy. Or a trophy wife. Or a track star. B ...
- Biden Aides Lock Reporter in a Closet During P ...
"Handling the press" took on an entirely new meaning at a recent fund raiser when aides for Vice President Joe Biden seized upon Orlando Sentinel reporter Scott Powers and locked him in a closet to stop him from talking to guests.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Mar 27, 2011
- Michele Bachmann for President: Says She is "I ...
Where better than Iowa -- other than one's home state -- to declare that one is running for president of the United States? Although she did not quite commit, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) told a cheering and enthusiastic crowd of more than...Contributor: Saul Relative Published: Mar 27, 2011
- Leonard Nimoy Has Turned 80
Yesterday Leonard Nimoy, who created one of the most iconic characters in television history, Mr. Spock, turned 80. Spock has been both a joy and a torment to the actor ever since he first appeared on the small screen forty five years ago.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Mar 27, 2011
- Geraldine Ferraro, First Female Vice President ...
Geraldine Ferraro, a former Congresswoman and Fox News contributor, who was the first woman and Italian American to run as Vice President of the United States, has died of blood cancer at the age of 75.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Mar 26, 2011
- Report: Katie Couric Soon to Be Out as Anchor ...
Howard Kurtz, writing in The Daily Beast, is reporting that Katie Couric will be gone as the anchor for the CBS Evening News by June, likely to be replaced by veteran newsman Scott Pelley.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Mar 26, 2011
- Future Firefighters Could Fight Fire With Blas ...
In some respects, firefighting technology has come a long way over the past several decades--we now have flame suppressing foams and powders for instance, as well as new ways of delivering them to the fire. But fundamentally, we’re still fighting fires the old fashioned way: point hose/bucket/p ...
- MIT Lab Creates the World's First Feasible 'Ar ...
A practical artificial leaf that can turn sunlight and water into energy as efficiently as the real thing has long been a Holy Grail of chemistry, and researchers at MIT may have finally done it. Today at the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society researchers from MIT’s Nocera Lab, l ...
- This Week in the Future, March 21-25, 2011
On a dark, stormy night, somewhere in the Pacific Northwest (judging by the foliage), the man in the moon finally underwent his long-awaited full-face transplant, which was performed with an iPad. During a robot goose migration. At least, that's the message I'm getting from this week's Baarbari ...
- Warm Superconductors' Weird Behavior Could Ind ...
While studying the weird behavior of high-temperature superconductors, scientists may have found a new phase of matter, separate from solid, liquid, gas and plasma. Electrons in a pre-superconducting state apparently form a strange, distinct order, lining up in a way that has never been seen be ...
- Turmeric Could Be Used to Detect Explosives, R ...
Curry powder can already reduce cow burps, kill cancer cells and fight the epidemic of unflavorful food. Now it can help detect bombs. Specifically, the curry ingredient turmeric, and its molecule curcumin, can be used with fluorescence spectroscopy to sniff out explosive chemicals. Researchers ...
- Libya – Is Regime Change the End Game?
The Coalition and Gaddafi and Sons are holding their cards close to their vests. The diplomatic process of bringing everyone on board the UN resolution dragged the process out to where France had to jump the gun on the initial airstrikes because Gaddafi had launched an armored attack on Bengahzi ...
- Obama, Third Impudent War on Libya, Shrills OU ...
  Obama, Third Impudent War on Libya, Shrills OUT! “War on Humanity”  ‘War on Humanity’ moniker perpetuated and expanded by Mr. Obama, Nobel peace prize laureate, that began with every U.S. President since Woodrow Wilson c.1917. Obama masking an inexplicable zig zag and nefarious bellicose ...
- Benefit for Vietnamese Victims of Agent Orange
Although the American people have been involved in humanitarian work in Vietnam since before the American War, the last 35 years have presented great challenges to help alleviate poverty and the lasting effects of that war. Among the many successes and failures of this work, perhaps the most cr ...
- Letters Home from Vietnam – Chapter 8, M ...
Military justice in Vietnam can be swift but only if it is carried out by the victims. There is a feeling here that I can’t explain. It’s a kind of lawlessness that lends itself to a vigilante form of justice. At the same time I somehow thought we were all brothers and had each others [...]
- George Krasnow: Antiwar Protests Dog Obama’s ...
Antiwar Protests Dog Obama’s White House By Dr. George Krasnow A Russian-American Samizdat columnist As the United States escalates its serial wars around the world, the antiwar movement has sprung alive. On Saturday noon, March 19, 2011, antiwar protests, marking the 8th anniversary of the US a ...
- Biofuels: Some have a higher carbon footprint ...
Over the last few years there has been a huge drive towards producing more biofuels to replace some of the fossils fuels we consume, which, we've been told, produce lower carbon emissions. Slowly though there is a realisation that in some instances, the carbon footprint of certain biofuels can ...
- Nuclear power: Why the UK government may have ...
The news and pictures from the nuclear power station in Japan that has been badly damaged from last week's earthquake and tsunami have alarmed us all. Nuclear power is seen almost universally around the world as being crucial in producing carbon free electricity, as countries start to decarbon ...
- Is Solar activity to blame for Japan's massive ...
The massive earthquake that affected Japan this morning is one of the strongest in recorded history at 8.9 on the Richter scale. With a number of powerful earthquakes recently it once again begs the question, is there a link between seismic activity and solar activity? Recently we have witne ...
- Severe gales affect parts of Yorkshire
It's been a wild day across Yorkshire, with a fierce westerly wind causing disruption at Leeds Bradford airport where gusts have been exceeding 60mph. The highest recorded wind speed so far has been 67 mph at Fylingdales on the North York moors. The highest wind speeds could though be affect ...
- Goodbye to the Space Shuttle Discovery
On Monday evening with clear skies across the North of England star gazers were treated to a wonderful, and it turns out historical spectacle in the southern sky. The International Space Station was clearly visible, closely followed in the same orbit by the Space Shuttle Discovery, which had b ...
- The UN Should Be Anywhere But New York
Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person; the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm, or offi ...
- IMF on Expanding Special Drawing Rights' Int'l ...
In March of 2009, People's Bank of China Governor famously made his "Reform the International Monetary System" speech. Until now, we still do not have a clear reason why he made this speech. A Chinese colleague suggested it was to appease Chinese politicians who had grown tired of the export lob ...
- Meet Britain's Tiger Dad, Celeb Chef Jamie Oliver
,Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver should be familiar the world over--including the United States, even--for his series of popular cookbooks and TV shows. The Naked Chef has many fans, but as it turns out, he may not be a fan of the current generation of Britons. A few weeks ago, I offered my own take ...
- What If Greenpeace Ran China?
Though I am very often at loggerheads with positions that Greenpeace takes, a significant part of the following makes sense to me at least. As we all know, China's rise to becoming the world's second largest economy has been accompanied by becoming the world's most polluting economy in terms of ...
- Fukushima Folly: Nuclear Power in Question (Again)
Chernobyl, Harrisburg, Sellafield, Hiroshima Stop radioactivity - it's in the air for you and me [Radioactivity]...discovered by Madame Curie Shall we be adding Fukushima to this list? Leave it to the Germans to perform probably the most buoyantly morbid song of them all in "Radioactivity." In ...
- 18 Reasons Why You Can Stick A Fork In The New ...
If you make your living by building or selling new homes in the United States, you might want to consider taking up a different career for a while. New homes sales in the United States hit yet another new all-time record low in the month of February, and there are a whole lot o ...
- Rich vs Poor: 14 Funny Statistics And 14 Not S ...
Today there are two very different Americas. In one America, the stock market is soaring, huge bonuses are taken for granted, the good times are rolling and people are spending money as if they will be able to "live the dream" for the rest of their lives. In the other America, ...
- 27 Signs That The Nuclear Crisis In Japan Is M ...
How much of a threat is the nuclear crisis in Japan? That question is on the minds of millions of people around the globe tonight. Unfortunately, the Japanese government and the mainstream media have both been doing their best to downplay this crisis. Even though there have b ...
- Will The Day Of Rage In Saudi Arabia On March ...
The price of oil is shaping up to be the number one economic story of 2011, and right now the eyes of the investing world are closely watching the developing situation in Saudi Arabia. All of the other recent Middle East revolutions have been organized on the Internet, and now ...
- Wars, Rumors Of Wars, Skyrocketing Oil Prices ...
Did anyone out there anticipate that 2011 would be such a wild year? The year is barely over two months old and we have already seen multiple civil wars erupt, rumors of more wars all over the mainstream media (potentially even including the United States), riots and revolution ...
- Riot Act edited Police G20
The aggression of the police at the G20 meetings in Toronto, Canada, in June 2010, is at the center of my animation, Police G20. The unprovoked ...
- Nor'easter #11 Call for Submissions
The Nor'easter collective of the Northeast Anarchist Network is getting ready to put together Nor'easter Issue 11 and it needs help from you! ...
- New York City Anarchist Book Fair proposals de ...
The 5th Annual NYC Anarchist Book Fair will be held Saturday, April 9, 2011, at Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square South, NYC. Present...
- Eco-Anarchies Issue #1 Call For Papers
We are presently seeking submissions for a new project that aims to explore the ineluctable connections between ecology and anarchy. Since G...
- Soliciting Submissions For Zine on Anti-Police ...
Within the last eight months, Denver has seen an inspiring and growing movement against police terror. In a city with the worst brutality statis...
- Are U.S. Troops Already on the Ground in Libya?
BILL O’REILLY, HOST: In the “Impact” segment tonight: Not much new to report out of Libya other than Qaddafi’s ground forces continue to be hammered by NATO warplanes. Some Americans fear there will be boots on the ground in Libya. The Obama administration says that’s not going to happen, but wh ...
- Jacob Barnett,12, with higher IQ than Einstein ...
A 12-year-old child prodigy has astounded university professors after grappling with some of the most advanced concepts in mathematics. Jacob Barnett has an IQ of 170 – higher than Albert Einstein – and is now so far advanced in his Indiana university studies that professors are lining him up fo ...
- NASA plans manned mission to asteroid in 2025
The moon has had its day and Mars is just, well, too far away. Nasa plans to put a man on an asteroid by 2025 in a real-life version of the film Armageddon. Astronauts will embark on a six-month mission to land on a lump of rock around the size of a building and take [...]
- Arrowheads Found in Texas Dial Back Arrival of ...
For many years, scientists have thought that the first Americans came here from Asia 13,000 years ago, during the last ice age, probably by way of the Bering Strait. They were known as the Clovis people, after the town in New Mexico where their finely wrought spear points were first discovered i ...
- Radiation inside Japan nuclear plant rises sharply
Japanese officials reported a huge jump in radioactivity — levels 10 million times the norm — in water in one reactor unit at a tsunami-damaged nuclear plant Sunday, forcing workers to evacuate and again delaying efforts to control the leaking complex. Radiation in the air, meanwhile, measured 1 ...
- Now Everyone Knows What It Takes To Get Rapist ...
There has been so much happening in the Philadelphia diocese lately for those interested in justice and child safety to absorb. And, for once, much of it is good news for victims of Catholic Church sponsored child sexual abuse. Well, as good as it is possible to get for anyone who has survived e ...
- Defending the Indefensible is a Lot Like Football
Battling for truth, justice and child protection against the evil empire of His Greediness can get you down sometimes. Time for a little light relief. I came across this intelligent and articulate blogger just recently. This post from the Voice from the Desert blog is screamingly funny. And trag ...
- Who’s Looking After The Children?
“Who’s looking after the children?” In Australia this week one man dared to ask this question of the highest court in the land. The High Court of Australia replied, “We’re only interested in looking after child rapists.” As a result, this courageous crusader is likely to die in jail, while some ...
- Top 10 Catholic Excuses For Doing Absolutely N ...
Priests at the pulpit do it. Catholic apologists do it mindlessly, understanding little. Cardinals and Bishops exploit their influence to do it to as many people as possible. The Vatican does little else. With alarming regularity and very little variation, they all trot out the same set of tired ...
- Gentle Slap on the Wrist and Comfy Retirement ...
Details were revealed this week about the Vatican “taking action” last year against a Dutch Catholic Bishop working in Kenya, who had raped a 14-year-old Masai boy some years earlier while still a priest. So here we have an example of just exactly what the new, recently improved Vatican response ...
- 2011-03-27 Anti Gaddafi forces claim Sirte, ad ...
TweetThe Libyan foreign intervention will pass from the US led force to NATO command, led by Canadian General Charles Bouchard, with the transition completing "within 48 hours". The anti-Gaddafi forces are once more moving west at a rapid pace, currently claiming to control Sirte, the home of Mu ...
- 2011-03-27 #London: "No government would chang ...
TweetThe London demonstrations yesterday, where a reported 500,000 people took to the streets to protest the austerity cuts, will not change government strategy according to Liberal democrat minister Vince Cable. "No government - coalition, Labour or any other - would change its fundamental econ ...
- 2011-03-27 Secret police, special forces and n ...
TweetPresident Bashar al-Assad deployed the army in Latakia today. Until now secret police and special forces have been primarily responsible for quelling the protests this week and killing a large number of protesters, at least 61 according to Human Rights Watch. Exact numbers have been difficu ...
- 2011-03-26 #Jordan wants to choose the next ne ...
TweetThe government of Jordan has announced it will "protect freedom of expression as long as it is carried out with responsibility and respect of the law." as opposition parties, reformists and the March 24 Youth Movement (formerly the Jordanian Youth Movement) called for the resignation of the ...
- 2011-03-26 WikiLeaks Notes
TweetDebate: This House believes whistleblowers make the world a safer place On 9 April, the Frontline Club and the New Statesman will host a public debate in which Julian Assange will speak for the proposition "This House believes whistleblowers make the world a safer place." The debate will b ...
- UN-backed test shows need to improve Caribbean ...
The first full-scale test of the tsunami warning system in the Caribbean has highlighted the need to reinforce preparations as well as improve communication, evacuation plans and the role of the private sector, the United Nations said today.
- UN official welcomes US-Brazilian cooperation ...
The head of the United Nations International Labour Organization (ILO) has welcomed an agreement between Brazil and the United States to promote the cooperation of all States in the global efforts to ensure that people have decent employment and that the rights of workers are respected.
- As Haitians await results of election, UN call ...
The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti has called on all candidates in yesterday's run-off presidential and legislative elections and their followers to show patience and restraint as they wait for the results of the vote, saying the future of the impoverished country is at stake.
- UN human rights experts study more than 200 ca ...
The United Nations human rights experts tasked with assisting families determine the fate or whereabouts of disappeared relatives examined over 200 cases during its recent session held in Mexico City, and is now conducting a mission to learn about Mexico's efforts in dealing with the issue.
- Haiti's presidential poll offers 'histor ...
A day before Haitians head to the polls to vote for a new president, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged them to “take full advantage of this historic opportunity to shape the future of their country.”
- Mystery Missile Launch, Big Pharma Begins Micr ...
Once activated by stomach acid, the embedded microchip begins sensing its environment and broadcasting data to a receiver worn by the patient. This receiver is also a transmitter that can send the data over the internet to a doctor.
- 7/7: Seeds of Deconstruction
The British Government's story of what happened, how, and why is contained in three reports comprising just over 200 pages. There is virtually no forensic physical evidence in the public domain. The first two reports were published simultaneously in 2006, ten months after 7/7. One was a home off ...
- The Absurdity Of Starting A Small Business In ...
In the 1950s only about 1 in 20 Americans needed the government blessing to do their job. Today, that number is more than 1 in 3. And government puts all kinds of requirements on would be entrepreneurs making it harder for these entrepreneurs to start and grow small businesses.
- CIA Whistleblower: “Heart Attack Gun”
Senator: Does this pistol fire the dart? CIA Dir: Yes, it does, Mr. Chairman, and a special one was developed which potentially would be able to enter the target without perception.
- Naked Truth Behind Body Scanners
He's abusing his relationship with the public by pretending to be a public servant and talking about how these back-scatter scanners are going to make us safer? He stands to benefit because he's getting payed by the manufacturing companies to go all over the networks saying that these scanners a ...
- Victory in the Southern Ocean Day for the Whales
From Captain Paul Watson It’s official – The Japanese whaling fleet has called it quits in the Southern Ocean. At least for this season. If they return next season the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society will be ready to resume our efforts to obstruct and disable Japanese whaling operations. “Th ...
- Conservation News Brief
Captain Paul Watson to arrive in Australia for final preparations for Operation Musashi Friday Harbor, WA – Just days after reaffirming that they will head to the Southern Oceans alone to defend the whales in the Antarctic Whale Sanctuary, even after Greenpeace and the Australian government h ...
- Whaling Opponents Collide at Sea
On board the Steve Irwin in the Ross Sea –February 6th, 2009, 0800 Hours (Sydney Time)Â February 5th, 2009 1300 Hours (PST), 75 Degrees 44 Minutes South and 165 Degrees 39 Minutes West The Sea Shepherd ship Steve Irwin collided with the Yushin Maru No.2 this morning in the Ross Sea as the harpo ...
- Dave Foreman’s Recent Speech At Nebraska Wesle ...
Here’s a great speech Dave did in Nebraska recently. Fetzer Lecture Rewilding North America THURSDAY, MARCH 26 Click Here To Listen In!
- New Website All About Mexican Gray Wolves!
There are only 52 Mexican gray wolves in the wilds of Arizona and New Mexico. The Rewilding Institute has joined with local, regional, and national conservation, scientific, and sportsmen’s organizations, and concerned citizens in launching a new website, mexicanwolves.org, to help save this hig ...
- Potassium Iodide (KI)... Frequently Asked Ques ...
�The recommendations in the guidance address KI dosage and the projected radiation exposure at which the drug should be used. This guidance updates FDA�s 1982 recommendations. read more
- Will Third World War Begin During Winter Games ...
�On March 24, well-known Russian astrologists, shamans and parapsychologists gathered to discuss forecasts for near and distant future.read more
- 'Yellow Rain' Falls In Tokyo... Same Exact 'P ...
�While the Japanese government continues to say that the yellow rain seen in Japan was simply �pollen,� many have been reminded of a very similar occurrence after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.read more
- Very Troubling... Obama Waives Miranda Rights ...
�The Obama administration has created a new policy that allows investigators to waive Miranda warnings for domestic terror suspects, even when there is not an "immediate threat," a report said Thursday. ~ David Edwards read more
- For Your Own Good... 'Please... Shut The Hel ...
Imagine this...� It�s a dark and gloomy six in the morning. You�ve just gotten out of bed. You are fuzzy-headed, bleary-eyed, badly in need of coffee. You haven�t showered or dressed. You�re in your underwear, or pajamas... ~ Kenread more
- Charlie Sheen – A WINNER – Fires Truth Torpedo ...
This why I love Charlie Sheen. This guy can lift the veil off of the corruption that the mainstream media keeps over the fluoridated media zombie’s eyes in a verbose and oh-so-eloquent way. Here Charlie vents to David Degraw about the financial tyranny consuming our wealth, resources and freedom ...
- The Fluoride Deception: the truth about water ...
The Fluoride Deception is the latest mini documentary from Mike Adams, executive director of the Consumer Wellness Center. Through the use of animation and motion graphics, he exposes the truth about where fluoride really comes from: The toxic byproducts of the phosphate mining industry! Do your ...
- Alex Jones On The View
Alex Jones On The View? Who would have thunk it? Alex Jones was on The View and blasted truth at 30 million viewers. Alex Jones goes prime-time speaking to the Yentas on The View. It is nice to see Alex getting a chance to blast some truth to the 30 million or more sheep that [...] Related ...
- Site Upgrade Completed
I am pleased to announce that I have upgraded to a faster server. The following explains what I went through / am still going through to make this happen: Please recycle. Don't throw away your peels Related posts:Site Upgrades Coming Hello This site may be offline on a temporary basis... Site Im ...
- The Charlie Sheen Test
I want you to take a test. This is called The Charlie Sheen Test. To take this test please grab a pen and a piece of paper. Now count to 10. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Now I want you to write down the first word that comes to mind [...] Related posts:Charlie Veitch vs. McDonald’s Trying to stop p ...
- Why I Oppose the US-led Intervention in Libya
By Imam Zaid on 24 March 2011 Some days before the U.S.-led intervention in Libya began; I was forwarded a copy of an open letter directed to President Barack Obama urging him to work in concert with U.S. allies, NATO, and the United Nations to immediately impose a no-fly zone over Libya. The or ...
- Sarkozy Threatens Much of Planet With Libya-St ...
Well, if that isn’t saying “here comes WWIII”, I don’t know what is… Insists Libya Will Be a Model for Future Wars by Jason Ditz, March 25, 2011 The âno-fly zoneâ with an associated massive campaign of air strikes is coming into fashion in Paris this spring. Speaking today after an EU summit, Fr ...
- A Little History—PEARL HARBOR MOTHER OF ...
The Honolulu Advertiser dated November 30th 1941, one week before the attack on Pearl Harbor. “…everything that the Japanese were planning to do was known to the United States…” ARMY BOARD, 1944 President Roosevelt (FDR) provoked the attack, knew about it in advance and covered up his failure to ...
- European Parliament Issues Warnings on HAARP
http://news.exopoliticsinstitute.org �HAARP is a project of which the public is almost completely unaware, and this needs to be remedied.� Toronto, Canada � [ZNN] The daily lives of people seem blissfully unaffected by events about which they know little or nothing. Daily news reports unfold wit ...
- Military officer’s 9/11 case against Bush offi ...
� Center For 9/11 Justice Edited by Rady Ananda A Top Secret Military Specialist, who was injured in the Pentagon explosion on September 11, 2001 and who sued Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Air Force General Richard Myers for conspiracy, terrorism, constitutional violations, and for personal i ...
- Chromium-6 in Gas Drilling Wastes?
By Nils Bruzelius, EWG Executive Editor The boom in natural gas drilling across the United States has spawned well-warranted fears that the fluids and chemicals used to free the gas from surrounding rock could pose a risk to drinking water... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my webs ...
- Labor camps? Fine. But BPA crosses the line.
By Alex Formuzis, EWG Vice President for Media Relations China: Where anyone who speaks out against the government will likely languish for years in a prison cell; Where crackdowns on the press and Internet access happen again and again; Where... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my ...
- Hold the Applause
By Jane Houlihan, EWG Senior Vice President for Research Two weeks ago (Feb. 17), fellow activists proclaimed the upbeat news that the European Union had banned xylene and five other toxic chemicals that pose risks to human health and the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my websi ...
- Dr. Oz Talks Toxics in Our Drinking Water
In February, our friend Dr. Oz dedicated an entire show to the safety of the nation's drinking water. On the air, he revealed the results of the 'Dr. Oz National Tap Water Test' - a hands-on water testing experiment undertaken... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full ...
- EWG testifying on behalf of clean drinking wat ...
By Leeann Brown, Press SecretaryEnvironmental Working Group's Senior Counsel Dusty Horwitt made his fourth appearance today (March 1, 2011) before the New York City Council's Committee on Environmental Protection to highlight the risks posed by the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visi ...
- More Teachers Being Replaced By Technology
The neoliberal wetdream coming to fruition. From Fast Company: Districts all over are experimenting with teacher-less computer labs and green-lighting entire classrooms of adult-supervised children exploring the Internet--an Android powered tablet designed specifically for students. Teachers' u ...
- Food costs at record levels, likely to go higher
MANILA/MILAN (Reuters) - World food prices hit a record in January and recent catastrophic weather around the globe could put yet more pressure on the cost of food, an issue that has already helped spark protests across the Middle East. Up for the seventh month in a row, the closely watched Food ...
- Shell makes $2,208,480 (£1.6m) an hour, [Clue ...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/busi... The Guardian in Britain says calmly:Shell stoked up the heated debate about the high cost of fuel on the forecourt today after reporting it made profits of nearly £1.6m an hour over the last three months.A leading member of the road lobby said motorists would ...
- Gallup Helps Explain Egyptian/Tunisia Uprisings
Wellbeing in Egypt and Tunisia decreased significantly over the past few years, even as GDP increased. In Egypt, where demonstrations have prompted President Hosni Mubarak to give up power after elections this fall, the percentage of people "thriving" fell by 18 percentage points since 2005. In ...
- Wallace Shawn: Are You Smarter Than Thomas Jef ...
The Grand Nagus speaks! At Tom Dispatch.com.
- Between the 2011 Mets and the abyss: The Chris ...
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla.—The crowd of 6,000-odd committed Mets fans at Digital Domain Park seemed to be at war with itself, fresh-start optimism straining to overcome the disappointment of the past few seasons. Still, as the Met hits piled up, even some hardene ...
- Good deeds and resignation: Bill Forsyth and t ...
Comfort and Joy is a comedy about a Scottish DJ who settles a dispute between warring ice cream distributors. The film, by Bill Forsyth, perfectly encapsulates his blue-collar, hubris-deflating philosophy of life, premised on the notion that random circumst ...
- What happens if you smash Katie Holmes togethe ...
Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
- Stray observations on Elizabeth Taylor
My father was born in 1939 and so was an aware person during most of Liz Taylor's career, whereas I was only really cognizant of her as a contemporary in her big-haired crazy days, doddering around with Michael Jackson and being an admirable champion of AID ...
- F.A.Q.: Is there such a thing as a rational de ...
Andrew: She told me, "For me, it's first things first." There's an appeal to that argument—I can see why she's had some much success in bringing others along with her. On the other hand, is this present moment making teaching an appealing profession to ente ...
- Brazil grabs Norway’s attention
Top Norwegian government officials were heading back to Brazil this week, marking their third ministerial visit in recent months. They think Brazil has emerged as such an important player on the world stage that they’ve developed their own special “Brazil strategy” to guide ongoing relations. “T ...
- Progress Party leaders under fire
Criticism from within their own ranks continued to assail leaders of the Progress Party (Fremskrittspartiet, Frp) during the weekend, with some party veterans calling for both their secretary general Geir Mo and leader Siv Jensen to “evaluate their positions” with en eye to resigning them. Mo an ...
- Moose hunt best up north
The official figures are in from Norway’s annual moose hunt, and the number of the large animals shot increased the most in the country’s northern counties. Hedmark, however, continues to top the statistics. Hunters in the large eastern county of Hedmark, which runs along the Swedish border, sho ...
- Avalanche fears force evacuations
Dozens of families were evacuated in the northern county of Troms over the weekend, after more bad weather raised fears of more avalanches in the area. Most had to be taken from their homes on snowmobiles, because roads were blocked. Around 40 persons went along with local officials’ warnings th ...
- ‘Battle of the North’ ends in draw
The Norwegian national football team left it until the 82nd minute to ensure that they avoided defeat in the long-awaited ‘Battle of the North’ against Denmark on Saturday 26th March in Oslo, with the European Championship qualifying match ending 1-1 after Erik Huseklepp’s late equalizer. The D ...
- Looking Back on the Natural Building Course in ...
The first blocks coming out of the machine We just finished the first Natural Building workshop at the Jordan demonstration site of the Permaculture Research Institute — the Jordan Valley Permaculture Project (aka ‘Greening the Desert’, the sequel). This workshop was co-taught by Hamzah Abu-Rag ...
- The Sacred Suenos Andean Regeneration Project, ...
Some days, says Yves, it’s like this, “dammit, the donkey just stepped on my foot and the goats ate my broccoli, but damn, look at that sunset!” Not too long ago, I had the opportunity to volunteer on Yves’ and Jen’s Sacred Suenos project. It is located on a mountainside near Vilcabamba in sout ...
- Steve Marsh Benefit Concert – Stand Up to Mons ...
Photo credit: Marie Nirme Hello All GM-free people everywhere Stand up to Monsanto! A benefit concert for organic farmer Steve Marsh 7pm – midnight, Saturday 16th April Fly By Night, Fremantle, Western Australia An exciting event is coming up in Freemantle, Western Australia. It’s an April 16 ...
- What To Do With Nuclear Boy?
Given recent events in Japan, I wanted to broach the somewhat controversial topic of nuclear fission power plants, and the following video (thanks Thomas) — making the Fukushima nuclear situation a little easier for even little Japanese children to comprehend — makes a good lead-in to the topi ...
- Can the United States Feed China?
by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute In 1994, I wrote an article in World Watch magazine entitled “Who Will Feed China?” that was later expanded into a book of the same title. When the article was published in late August, the press conference generated only moderate coverage. But when i ...
- US Soldier Waterboards His 4-Year Old Daughter
Can you believe this? A US soldier, upset that his 4-year old daughter could not recite the alphabet, waterboarded her. He knew that she was afraid of water and that is why he chose this form of punishment. Related posts:Cops Bust Up Frail 84-Year Old Woman With Alzheimers Local Blogger Catche ...
- Fish Hat Pope – Wake Up Soon
Studio version of Fish Hat Pope' song 'Wake Up Soon' (altered lyrics to sunny afternoon by The Kinks!) Fish Hat Pope performed this live at the British Constitution Group meeting in London on Oct 31st 2009. Related posts:A little sniff for the dog mate? – Everything is OK Whistle Blowers W ...
- US Government: Why we let the Underwear Bomber ...
The US Government now admits that they allowed the Underwear Bomber to board the Christmas Flight from Amsterdam to Detroit. Related posts:BREAKING NEWS: US Government Admits It Helped Underwear Bomber Board Plane Extensive Interview with Kurt Haskell – Witness to Underwear Bomber Flight 253: ...
- United Breaks Guitars – Don’t mess ...
Well the United Airlines baggage handlers broke the guitar in to two pieces. Then Mr. Carroll complained to United and it fell on deaf ears. Because of that he vowed to write three songs about their callous disregard and uncaring attitude. Related posts:United We Fall – Canada is a figment of ...
- Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth by Ric ...
9/11 was an inside job. Nano thermite and thermate were used to pulverize these buildings, and in the process murdered thousands of innocent people. Related posts:Nigerian Man is a Al-CIA-Duh Terrorist – USA Caught in False-Flag Terror Plot National Security Alert from the CIT Climategate Scan ...
- Universal Property of Music Discovered
Researchers at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) of the University of Amsterdam have discovered a universal property of musical scales. Until now it was assumed that the only thing scales throughout the world have in common.........Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & Tech ...
- 10 Worst Cities for Allergy Sufferers
According to the Asthma and Allergies Foundation of America (AAFA) there are approximately 60 million people suffering from asthma and allergies in the United States alone. This statistic marks allergies and asthma as one of the most prevalent chronic....Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Welln ...
- Docs warn about Facebook use and teen depression
Add "Facebook depression" to potential harms linked with social media, an influential doctors' group warns, referring to a condition it says may affect troubled teens who obsess over the online site. Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- 10 Scary Things that Might be in Your Meat
While cooking may be the least of your worries as you toil through the challenges of your freshman year, it is important to educate yourself on some of the dangers cooking your own food can pose if done incorrectly. Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Radiation in seawater may be spreading in Japan
Highly radioactive iodine seeping from Japan's damaged nuclear complex may be making its way into seawater farther north of the plant than previously thought, officials said Monday, adding to radiation concerns as the crisis stretches into a third week. Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �No ...
- 3/24/11 - Should gay marriage be legal?
gaymarriage.procon.org - NEW: Should gay marriage be legal? - Read pro and con arguments from Lambda Legal, American Bar Association, Andrew Sullivan, Dick Cheney, Maggie Gallagher, Michael Steele, George W. Bush, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and 19 other scholars, politicia ...
- 3/9/11 - 34 States with Death Penalty / 41 Fed ...
deathpenalty.procon.org - UPDATED: 34 States with Death Penalty / 41 Federal Capital Crimes - On Mar. 9, 2011, Illinois Governor Pat Quinn (D) signed legislation to repeal the state's death penalty statute. Illinois joins 15 other states and the District of Columbia that do not have capital crim ...
- 2/25/11 - NEW: History of the Individual Healt ...
healthcarereform.procon.org - NEW: History of the Individual Health Insurance Mandate, 1989-2010: Republican Origins of Democratic Health Care Provision - Republicans oppose the Mar. 2010 health care reforms for many reasons, especially the provision creating an individual health care mandate w ...
- 2/23/11 - Vaccines ProCon.org - US Supreme Cou ...
vaccines.procon.org - UPDATED: Vaccines ProCon.org - On Feb. 22, 2011, the US Supreme Court ruled that vaccine injury claims must continue to be filed with the US Court of Federal Claims and cannot be filed directly against physicians or vaccine manufacturers in civil court.
- 2/23/11 - Barack Obama Declares Defense of Mar ...
gaymarriage.procon.org - Barack Obama Declares Defense of Marriage Act Unconstitutional - President Obama directed the Department of Justice today to stop defending in court the law that prevents gay marriage.
- Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
Ahmed, besides being a Taliban fanboy, and a Kosher Koranist, what have you done to oppose the "Talmudic" agenda? You really love that word don't you You haven't done anything as far as exposing this agenda, well at least I haven't seen it. And don't lie and say you got some 'real world' chops ...
- Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
The EDL are a desperately lame bunch of Israeli controlled pawns. And anyone who makes sympathetic noises in their direction, is an even bigger moron than the misguided henchmen who populate its kibbutz. The leadership of the English Defence League has distanced itself from the group's Jewish ...
- Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
Defense Minister Barak says Israel might ask for more aid March 8, 2011 JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Israel may ask the United States for $20 billion more in security aid, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak told The Wall Street Journal. The aid is needed to help manage threats arising from the recent ...
- Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
Yo Mama wrote: If you have to practice a religion, then at least practice some kind of pro-Western religion that has European origins, not some sick Middle Eastern Semitic garbage invented by Jews and Arabs. These degenerate Middle Eastern Semite cults are foreign to Western Civilization and h ...
- Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
sirbadman wrote: Bagging out other religions is straight out of the jewish play book. The biggest enemies of the Jeminiati throughout history have been those with a strong religious faith, such as Andrew Jackson. Even in the protocols the jews see the need to destroy the world's religions, ...
- After the Great Quake, Living with Earth’s Unc ...
The Japanese earthquake and tsunami remind us that we exist in geologic time and in a world where catastrophic events beyond our predicting may occur. These events — and the growing specter of climate change — show how precariously we exist on the surface of a volatile planet. BY VERLYN KLINKE ...
- New Scottish Recycling Programs Will Target Ca ...
Scotland is introducing a new recycling program targeting materials that cause the most environmental damage — including food waste, plastics, and textiles — rather than simply focusing on weight. Beginning in 2013, local communities and households will be asked to increase recycling of waste ma ...
- 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 ...
- In Aeolus Cave, A Search for the Vanishing Bat ...
When wildlife biologists ventured into a Vermont cave this month, they found disturbing evidence that white-nose syndrome was continuing to take its toll on once-abundant bat populations. But the question remains: What can be done to halt the spread of this still-mysterious ailment? BY ELIZABE ...
- New Lithium-Ion Battery Offers Quicker Chargin ...
U.S. researchers say they have developed a technology that could dramatically reduce the time it takes to recharge lithium-ion batteries used in cellphones, laptop computers, and electric vehicles (EVs). Unlike conventional lithium-ion rechargeable batteries — in which active material is placed ...
- Cons on the G20: “An unmitigated success ...
By Alison@Creekside The Public Safety Committee report on the G-20 tabled in the House on Friday calls for an independent inquiry into the decision-making by all levels of government that resulted in - the outrageous cost - the unprecedented arrests of over 1100 people, including journa ...
- 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 ...
- Who'll Be the FBI's Next Director?
With Robert Mueller finishing up as FBI director, President Obama needs to announce a successor to fill the crucial post soon for a seamless handover. From Raymond Kelly to Jane Harmon, Tara McKelvey reports on the candidates. Robert Mueller knows his...
- The Trouble With Britney Spears
Four years after Britney Spears' breakdown, she's again promoting a new album, Femme Fatale, out Tuesday, though it's far from clear she's fully recovered. But industry sources tell Jacob Bernstein that won't hurt her career. How do you market a pop...
- Prince William's Mysterious Bachelor Party
Twenty-two of the prince's closest friends gathered in the English countryside for his stag party-and everyone is dying to find out how they celebrated. Harry Cole on the rumors and Prince Harry's role as party planner in chief. Normally an event...
- Obama's Libya Speech Will Bring Belated Clarit ...
White House officials say President Obama's speech tomorrow will convincingly explain U.S. policy toward Libya. He won't say anything new-like committing to removing Gaddafi by force-but he will say it better, says Leslie H. Gelb. On Monday, President...
- 25 Smartest College Towns
With the NCAA Tournament Final Four now set, The Daily Beast widens the rivalry, crunching the numbers for the second time to find America's smartest-and dumbest-college towns. The March Madness Final Four is upon us, and it's clear which schools-for...
- Rainwater banned at water plants
The health ministry has instructed water purification plants nationwide to temporarily stop taking in rainwater to prevent tap water being contaminated from radiation leaking from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, ministry officials said Sunday. While calling on the plants to keep ta ...
- Handling of nuclear crisis hit
A survey released Sunday found that 58.2 percent of respondents do not approve of the government's handling of the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant and that 39.3 percent do. The poll found 57.9 percent approve of the way the state has supported disaster victims in northeast ...
- Radioactive water keeps workers out
Reactor turbine basements flooded with highly radioactive materials kept a desperate effort to stabilize the Fukushima No. 1 power plant at bay on Monday, as fresh data showed that nearby seawater was being contaminated further by leaks from the facility. Efforts by Tokyo Electric Power Co. to ...
- Rose makes case to win MVP against Bucks
MILWAUKEE (AP) At this point, those "M-V-P!" chants even follow Derrick Rose when he and the Chicago Bulls go on the road. The way Rose stole a game from the Milwaukee Bucks on Saturday certainly made him seem worthy.
- Butler in Final Four
NEW ORLEANS (AP) Of course Butler erased a late deficit. Of course the Bulldogs hit a clutch 3-pointer late in overtime. Of course they're going back to the Final Four. This is the Butler Way.
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