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Thomas Paine

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

Monday, March 28, 2011

28 March - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

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Blacklisted News

  • NATO likely to expand mission
    NATO's top decision-making body is likely to expand its air mission over Libya on Sunday to take over command of U.S.-led air strikes against Moammar Gadhafi's military.
  • Carlyle fund eyes more buyout deals in Africa
    Global private equity firm Carlyle Group plans to open offices in Johannesburg and Lagos and start investing in capital growth ventures and buyouts in the fast-growing region. Washington D.C.-based Carlyle, which has $16.6 billion of assets under management in emerging markets, said it would ...
  • Madonna's African Charity Displaced Villagers ...
    It seemed like a wonderful plan. Madonna would build a $15 million academy for 400 impoverished girls in Malawi. Her charity, Raising Malawi, collected $18 million and the project had the support of elite Hollywood circles and the Jewish mysticism group Kabbalah Centre International. Unfortunat ...
  • Artificial clouds to cool Qatar for 2022 Worl ...
    Qatar have developed artificial clouds to provide shade for stadiums and training grounds at the 2022 World Cup. The extreme heat in summer months in the Middle Eastern country has led to concern about conditions at the tournament, with some suggesting it should be played in the winter. Qatar ...
  • Liberals Willing to Trade Blood and Treasure ...
    It's perplexing to see a high level of support for the unprovoked bombing of Libya on so-called "progressive" websites.

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • In Midst Of Libya Conflict, Bolton Argues For ...
    Summary: BoltonThinkProgress spoke with Bolton, who is weighing a run for the Republican presidential nomination, at the Conservative Principles Conference in Iowa. Despite current military engagements in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya, Bolton urged the United States to also keep its focus on ...
  • Neither Gadhafi nor West: Iran’s stance on Lib ...
    Summary: The Western air strikes on Libya has created a dilemma situation for Iran’s foreign policy-makers. Unlike some leftist Latin American countries, particularly Venezuela, which publicly sided with Gadhafi’s regime since public riots started in Libya and condemned the protests as the p ...
  • Obama fans flames of animosity in Tehran
    Summary: "Obama's paternalistic tone reminds many Iranians of the imperialist language that previous US presidents used when speaking about Iran and someone should remind Mister Obama that no one has selected him as the president of the world," said a Tehran University political science prof ...
  • Russia voices regret over military interventio ...
    Summary: Russia has voiced regret over foreign military intervention in Libya and denounced “indiscriminate” use of force by Western nations in the North African country. source: Hinduread more
  • Iranian arms to Syria? The Israeli media can't ...
    Summary: The Jerusalem Post ran a story about an Iranian aircraft that was commanded to land in Turkey by Turkish authorities as it was en route to Syria. The photo accompanying the story showed an Iran Air Boeing 747 ‘short’ version Jumbo jet with a collapsed nose wheel with the story cla ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Supergiant Elliptical Galaxy Found to Harbor M ...
    A stunning example of the power and effervescence of supermassive black holes is shown in this Chandra space telescope image above of the elliptical galaxy M87 in the Virgo Cluster. The features in this image imply that outbursts and deep...
  • Meteorite from the Asteroid Belt between Jupit ...
    The first geological evidence to support previous theories based on computer models and lab experiments, about how the earliest rocks were formed, has been developed by researchers from Imperial College London and other international institutions. The study concludes that the...
  • "Genomes of the Fittest" Do Not Always Win in ...
    A joint study between the Universities of Exeter and Bath in the UK, with a group from San Diego State University in the US, challenges our current understanding of evolution by showing that biodiversity may evolve where previously thought impossible....
  • Image of the Day: One Trillion Stars! Massive ...
    The detailed Spitzer Space Telescope view above features infrared light from dust (red) and old stars (blue) in Andromeda, a massive spiral galaxy a mere 2.5 million light-years away. In fact, with over twice the diameter of our own Milky...
  • Speak Memory! New Discovery Zeros in on Our Ab ...
    Scientists believe that he long-lasting increase of signals across a connection between brain cells underlies our ability to remember over time and to learn, but how that happens is a central question in neuroscience. Researchers at Duke University Medical Center...

Natural News

  • Radiation detected in Massachusetts rainwater ...
    (NaturalNews) The Fukushima crisis continues to worsen by the day, with nuclear experts around the world finally realizing and admitting we've all been lied to. "I think maybe the situation is much more serious than we were led to believe," said Najmedin Meshkati of the University of Southern Ca ...
  • Sixth study in recent months links mercury in ...
    (NaturalNews) The toxic effects of the mercury, also known in vaccines as Thimerosal, have once again been confirmed, this time by researchers from the University of Brazil. Marking the sixth major study in recent months to condemn the use of mercury in medicine, the new study reveals that mercu ...
  • Organic dairy farmer Francis Thicke promotes H ...
    (NaturalNews) Iowa is one of only 11 states that prohibits any form of raw milk sales to the public. In fact, Iowa has one of the most oppressive anti-raw milk political climates in the US. But a new bill being spearheaded by former candidate for Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Francis Thicke coul ...
  • Fukushima update: False radiation readings, ra ...
    (NaturalNews) Here's the latest on the Fukushima nuclear power plant situation as it is unfolding in Japan:• Yesterday Japanese nuclear power officials announced that radiation levels in Reactor No. 2 had risen to 10 million times the "normal" level. This was widely reported in the BBC and elsew ...
  • Deadly new 'superbug' sweeps Southern Californ ...
    (NaturalNews) Move over methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), there is a new "superbug" in town. Reports from CBS 2 in Los Angeles say that a deadly new bacteria known as CRKP is rapidly making the rounds in hospitals and care facilities throughout Southern California. According to ...

Threat Level

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

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Cain Joins Romney in Barring Muslims from Cabinet
    At an event hosted by Rep. Steve King in Iowa yesterday, the clown car of would-be Republican White House hopefuls quickly put to rest quickly any notion of a "truce" on social issues. And while Newt Gingrich seemed to question whether Islam was a "true religion," former pizza mogul Herman Cain ...
  • GOP Threatens U.S. Fiscal Suicide over Balance ...
    The national debt of the United States tripled under Ronald Reagan and doubled again under George W. Bush. Bush and the GOP Congress cut taxes during wartime, a first in modern American history. During his presidency, Republicans voted seven times to increase the debt ceiling. As Utah Senator ...
  • Meet the Republican Freedom of Information Frauds
    In October 2001, President Bush's Attorney General John Ashcroft reversed 35 years of White House practice regarding Freedom of Information Act requests. For the first time since the passage of the Act, disclosure became the exception to the rule. As Dick Cheney's secret energy task force, 22 ...
  • After Attacking Hillary for It, Palin to Stop ...
    On Wednesday, Sarah Palin made what history will soon record as the shortest-lived promise in American political history. Last night, Palin pledged to Fox News colleague Greta Van Susteren, "I'm through whining about a liberal press." Of course, when the half-term governor claimed, "it doesn't ...
  • RIP: GOP "Repeal and Replace" of Health Care Law
    A year after President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law, comically dire Republican predictions of an "Armageddon" which will "ruin our country" and mean "a lot of people are going to die" have not come to pass. Of course, that didn't stop Mitt Romney from marking the anniversary by ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

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

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

  • NRG cools development of STP 3 & 4, Public has ...
    NRG has announced that they will back off of additional development of STP reactors 3 & 4, while awaiting federal guidance regarding safety issues resulting from the nuclear disaster in Japan. The reactor site in Bay City, Texas, is 100 miles from Houston. Reactor safety has long been a concern ...
  • US House Committee to hold hearings on EPA cla ...
    The Energy and Power Subcommittee of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee plans to hold a hearing this Thursday on the clash between Texas officials and the EPA at the South Texas College of Law in Houston.  Click here for more information. A coalition called the Texas EPA Task Force, ma ...
  • TLR Rally - H _ _ L no, we want to sue you H S ...
    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:
  • TLR Rally protesters in front of state capitol ...
    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:
  • EPA’s Partial E15 Waiver: More ethanol?
    Over the past couple of years, there has been a heated debate involving the potential EPA implementation of allowing a greater percentage of ethanol in gasoline.  The current volume percentage of ethanol allowed is 10% for vehicles made between the years 2001 and 2006. Recently, the EPA has been ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • NASA cancels 3-D cameras on Mars mission
    James Cameron's plan to have 3-D cameras sent to Mars on NASA's next rover has been scrapped. NASA has stated that the reason the plan to include the ...
  • Three red lights hover over Colorado town
    Three red lights caught on film over Colorado during the weekend have generated a lot of interest online. 50-year-old Leroy Vandervegt shot the footag...
  • Dino drawing or mud stain: proof of creation?
    A controversial cave drawing has spurred debate on whether or not it constitutes proof of creationism. The drawing which is thought to be thousands of...
  • Sheep gives birth to
    In a story from China this week a sheep in Shaanxi Province has allegedly given birth to a dog. The new arrival has wool like a lamb but its other fea...
  • Scientists to drill down to Earth's mantle
    For the first time scientists will drill all the way to the Earth's mantle to retrieve valuable samples. The project is not without its complications ...

Grassroots

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

Climate

  • Japan Crisis, High Oil to Help Green Energy: PwC
    Source:� Reuters The consequence of Japan's nuclear crisis and oil prices above $100 per barrel are likely to boost the renewable energy industry in the short term, consultancy Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC) said.
  • China Industry Ordered to Cut CO2 Intensity by ...
    Source:� Reuters China's industrial firms will be forced to cut their carbon and energy intensity levels by as much as 18 percent over the next five years, according to mandatory targets announced on Monday.
  • Merkel Loses Key German State on Nuclear Fears
    Source:� New York Times The Green Party is poised to lead in the state of Baden-Württemberg, where the Christian Democrats have governed since 1953, as voters lash out at Chancellor Merkel's reaction to Japan's crisis.
  • Radiation in Mass. Rainwater Likely from Japan
    Source:� AP Health officials said Sunday that one sample of Massachusetts rainwater has registered very low concentrations of radiation, most likely from the Japanese nuclear power plant.
  • U.S. Nuclear Plant Says Shielded Against Japan ...
    Source:� Reuters A U.S. nuclear plant in Alabama similar in design to the earthquake-hit Fukushima facility in Japan has multiple defenses to prevent and tackle the same kind of emergency, its operator said.

GreenBiz

Reuters Global

  • Standing on the warfront: when sport divides I ...
    In the run-up to Wednesday's cricket match between India and Pakistan, passions are running high on both sides of the border and in the diaspora which is following their teams' progress in the game's biggest tournament
  • India-Pakistan – cricket, spooks and peace
    When the prime ministers of India and Pakistan watch their teams play in the semi-finals of the Cricket World Cup this week, "cricket diplomacy" may be in there with a fighting chance.
  • On Taliban talks and driving out al Qaeda
    A report by The Century Foundation calling for a political settlement in Afghanistan suggests that Taliban leader Mullah Omar could break with al Qaeda by declaring the jihad over
  • United States begins a new war, what happens t ...
    The United States has said the scope of its military intervention in Libya is limited, but it nevertheless raises questions about what happens to the two other wars that it is waging, especially in Afghanistan.
  • The “sound and fury” of U.S.-Pakis ...
    The United States and Pakistan are narrowing their differences at a strategic level. But the very noisy row over Raymond Davis may have damaged perceptions

Booman Tribune

  • Meanwhile, In Japan
    Here's some appalling tsunami footage. It's a little under six minutes of footage. The last minute or so appears to show a lot of humans in the water. I wonder if jishuku is consistent with creating the kind of demand that Japan's needs to create jobs and rebuild? Remember when Bush told ...
  • I Don't Recognize Juan Cole's Left
    The strange thing about Juan Cole's defense of the Libyan intervention is that he didn't touch on any of my objections at all. I'm not a pacifist; I am not an anti-imperialist absolutist, and I never said that no social problems could be solved by military force. I'm not an isolationist, eithe ...
  • I Have Been Avoiding the News
    Has the apocalypse happened yet? Oh wait, that's next year. It just seems like it came early is all. This is a free for all thread. Discuss
  • Don't Get Your History from Fred Hiatt
    Before there was terrorism, or fascism, or communism, this country was dedicated to the proposition that monarchies are illegitimate and inherently tyrannical. Since then, monarchies have mostly disappeared in the West and Far East. Where they have remained, they have turned all but ceremonial ...
  • Don't Call Them the Brat Pack
    I actually watched St. Elmo's Fire a month or so ago. I wanted to set the entire cast on fire, they were so annoying. No wonder they called them the Brat Pack. It was a truly self-indulgent godawful movie, and not in a good way. So, I think it's kind of obnoxious to refer to the DC-based new ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

  • Prima Materia: Jungian Gold
    By Mary Alice Long, PhD Jungian Psychotherapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Mary Alice and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profil … the content of the collective unconscious is made up essentially of archetypes …Carl Jung Recently there have been a number of Jungian portals opening ...
  • Courage, Acceptance, & Becoming a Domestic Dad
    By Blake Edwards, MSMFT, LMFT, Family Problems Topic Expert Click here to contact Blake and/or see his GoodTherapy.org Profile “Their screaming and whining has got to stop.” My back and shoulders feel like dead weight. It’s as if my emotions have dried up inside of me. Then, quickly, they flow i ...
  • Being Bullied Aids in Development of Anxiety I ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Bullying can have serious psychological ramifications, according to a new study involving mice. This new research suggests that bullying, along with other social stressors, can affect gene activity in the brain. The study warns that these changes may result in the ...
  • Teachers Argue the Point for Effective Arguing
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Arguing can be an art. It can also be a precursor to conflict resulting in declined productivity. Two women from Columbia University’s Teachers College recognized that there is a better way to teach our children to argue effectively. Deanna Kuhn and Amanda Crowell ...
  • Surviving Sexual Assault
    By Gail Post, Ph.D., Women’s Issues Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Gail and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile The recent sexual assault of CBS news reporter Lara Logan during her coverage of the February 2011 Egyptian uprising is a stark reminder that any woman is vulnerable to ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • EarthTalk: Does mining pollute our water suppl ...
    EarthTalk: Does mining pollute our water supplies? MiamiHerald.com In January 2011 the EPA got the opportunity to walk its talk when it vetoed a permit that would have allowed the largest "mountaintop removal" mining operation in the history of West Virginia coal mining to go forward. Mountaint ...
  • The Renewal of Religious Environmentalism - Hu ...
    The Renewal of Religious Environmentalism Huffington Post (blog) Included in the eight stories of environmental activism are steps taken to halt the devastation created by mountaintop removal in Appalachia, a search for environmental justice as a Mississippi town battles against the ravages of ...
  • Famed Ky. writer presses coal protest, wins ho ...
    Seattle Post Intelligencer Famed Ky. writer presses coal protest, wins honors Seattle Post Intelligencer But it has had little effect on Beshear's support for the industry and a controversial strip-mining method known as mountaintop removal. Berry made a less ballyhooed but more personally agon ...
  • Famed Ky. writer presses coal protest, wins ho ...
    Famed Ky. writer presses coal protest, wins honors San Jose Mercury News But it has had little effect on Beshear's support for the industry and a controversial strip-mining method known as mountaintop removal. Berry made a less ballyhooed but more personally agonizing stand against the coal ind ...
  • Analyst: Coal demand, shares up on nuclear une ...
    Analyst: Coal demand, shares up on nuclear unease BusinessWeek The coal and gas industries also have faced fears of a regulatory squeeze, including limits on mountaintop-removal mining in Appalachia. The threats facing the nuclear industry have overshadowed some of those concerns out of their s ...

Memeorandum

  • Facebook May Hire Robert Gibbs, Former Obama A ...
    Andrew Ross Sorkin / DealBook: Facebook May Hire Robert Gibbs, Former Obama Aide  —  Facebook is in talks to hire Robert Gibbs, President Obama's former White House press secretary, for a senior role in helping to manage the company's communications, people briefed on the negotiations said.
  • Japan nuclear plant data error was 'unacceptab ...
    BBC: Japan nuclear plant data error was ‘unacceptable’  —  The BBC's Mark Worthington says many people in Japan are becoming increasingly concerned about what is going to happen in the future  —  The Japanese government has attacked the operator of a crippled nuclear plant for “unacceptable” m ...
  • Ayers affirms he wrote Dreams from my Father ( ...
    Jack Cashill / American Thinker: Ayers affirms he wrote Dreams from my Father  —  Last Thursday evening at Montclair State University, with a video camera rolling, Bill Ayers volunteered that yes indeed he had written the acclaimed Barack Obama memoir, Dreams from My Father.  —  Unprompted, Ay ...
  • Billionaire self-pity and the Koch brothers (G ...
    Glenn Greenwald / Salon: Billionaire self-pity and the Koch brothers  —  Since the financial crisis of 2008, one of the most revealing spectacles has been the parade of financial elites who petulantly insist that they are the victims of societal hostility: political officials heap too much bla ...
  • The Alternative To Deflation Is Inflation (Myg ...
    Myglesias / Yglesias: The Alternative To Deflation Is Inflation  —  Tim Fernholz and Jim Tankersley have an excellent article detailing the economic research Republicans are relying on to make the case that layoffs of government workers will lead to an increase in employment.  It's all about li ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

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

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

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

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IntelNews

  • Did Jordan help Israeli Mossad abduct Gaza eng ...
    This blog has covered the case of Dirar Abu Sissi, a Jordanian-born engineer in the Gaza strip who was abducted in the Ukraine by Israeli spy agency Mossad on February 19. Now some observers now suspect that the Israelis did not act alone during the abduction operation. Continue reading →
  • News you may have missed #487 (Canada edition)
    Canadian MPs want spy services director to quit. Canada agencies still not sharing intelligence. Chinese intelligence are after us, say immigrants to Canada. Continue reading →
  • News you may have missed #486
    Hundreds of US officials to leave Pakistan in Davis deal [unconfirmed]. Australian government unveils new spy legislation. Dutch military intelligence: closed on Sundays. Continue reading →
  • CIA behind ‘illegal’ anti-drug operation in Co ...
    An espionage operation against drug trafficking by a mysterious unit within the Costa Rican intelligence service was organized and funded by the US Central Intelligence Agency, it has been alleged. Continue reading →
  • News you may have missed #485
    Gaza engineer describes abduction my Mossad. Gaddafi regime fed names of jihadists to the CIA and MI6. Investigators say secret CIA files could aid Chile. Continue reading →

War is a Crime.org

  • BBC: US and UK Imperial Tool
    BBC: Imperial US and UK Tool - by Stephen Lendman One blogger put it this way: "Let me get this straight. The US is broke, borrowing money from China, and we will be funding the BBC to broadcast in China?" On March 20, the London Guardian's Ben Dowell broke the news, headlining, "BBC World Servi ...
  • Planned Regime Change in Libya
    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 ...
  • I am Bradley Manning
    The day after the mass demonstration at Quantico in Support of Bradley Manning, some activists in Portland, Oregon held our own solidarity action. Many thanks to Joe Anybody for his videography. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yD9z4hFI2E
  • Afghanistan War Weekly: March 27, 2011
    From what we know of US decision-making in the run-up to the UN/US/NATO intervention in Libya, it is clear that the disasters of Iraq and Afghanistan have limited or shaped US options. Opinion polls showing Democrats opposing the US actions in Afghanistan by 75-25 were one likely speed bump. A ...
  • ACORN Rising Internationally
    We may have fallen rapidly behind many as to our once vibrant and envied economy, workforce, innovations, advancing forward and much more, we were envied for, but we still are leading or on par for much of the ideologies an ACORN and NGO type communities bring forth and spread to the World Commu ...

Grist - News

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

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Farming Pathogens

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Suzie-Q

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  • NATO To Assume Command Libya Operation
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Solari

  • Farmers Sue USDA Over Monsanto Alfalfa - Again
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Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

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Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Our prisons are a mirror showing the soul of A ...
    Summary:  Among the many forms of pressure the government puts on Bradley Manning while awaiting trial (he’s not confessed and we have not seen the evidence) are isolation and sleep deprivation.  The last is an frequent ingredient of systematic torture, needing no explanation.  The widespre ...
  • Who are we helping in Libya? Here are some an ...
    Summary:  This post looks at some of what little public information we have about the Libyan rebels.  It’s not encouraging, and forms a weird foundaion for our interventionists dreams about Libya. Contents Who are the rebels? –  Libyaâs Opposition Leadership Comes into Focus, Stratfor, 20 Ma ...
  • The hidden price America pays for it’s d ...
    Summary:  Another in a series of posts about the long-term price America pays for dark acts.  Like the condition of our prisons, and torture. A comment received to The long-term consequences to America of torturing Bradley Manning: “Being inconvenienced is not torture. Not having access to ESP ...
  • What will the world’s tyrants learn from ...
    Summary:  Events in Iraq and Libya show the two-tier nature of the 21st century geopolitical system.  First tier nations are those with nuclear weapons, or are so large or powerful as to be almost immune from conventional attack.  Everybody else must either find powerful allies or bow before the ...
  • Conservatives tells us not to worry about the ...
    Summary: The Constitution is dead.  Conservative attorneys explain why it’s all for the best, and produce elegant treatises justifying torture, assassination of US citizens, unlimited surveillance – anything the State desires.  But the facade still stands.  Property remains inviolate (un ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Libyan rebels stream west towards Gaddafi hometown
    Reuters – A steady stream of rebels in pick-up trucks mounted with machineguns drove toward Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte on Monday, seeking to extend their advance west. A spokesman in Benghazi said rebels based in east Libya had captured Sirte on Monday, but a Reuters corre ...
  • UK police clash with protesters from campaign ...
    Independent – Hundreds of people attempted to hijack today’s main anti-cuts demonstration to wreak havoc in London’s West End. The Met revealed 202 people were arrested for a variety of offences, including public order offences, criminal damage, aggravated trespass and violent disorder. There we ...
  • Asthma drug can help fight Alzheimer’s
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  • Yemen’s President Saleh ‘negotiating’ departure
    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 ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Tally on Libya Should Include Geopolitical Dis ...
    Juan Cole has a reasoned "Open Letter to the Left on Libya" churning through the web in which he explains why he strongly endorses the US-led intervention in Libya. In my own case, I understand why the President made the call he did because the costs -- geopolitically and morally -- of standing ...
  • Libya Update: Rebels Advance
    This is good: Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s forces retreated from this strategic city on Saturday, running for dozens of miles back along the coast in the first significant advance for Libyan rebels since American and European airstrikes began a week ago. The rebel victory was the first sign that th ...
  • The U.S. Government: Firing Missiles and Keepi ...
    Today’s Washington Post‘s describes “America on the installment plan”: Absent an agreement to fund the government until the end of the fiscal year in September, Congress has passed six short-term stopgap measures, one after another. The current one lasts until April 8. The short-term extensions ...
  • Afghanistan Weekly Reader: Taliban Cuts off Ce ...
    World attention shifted this week to Libya and coalition involvement in establishing the no-fly zone.  At a cost of $100 million per day to the U.S., it raised anew questions as to whether our ten-year involvement and $330 million per day investment in Afghanistan will once again be overshadowed ...
  • After New START: Emerging into the Light
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TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Today at the Prospect
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  • The Little Picture: Bob Herbert to Leave the NYT
    Bob Herbert a columnist for The New York Times for nearly 20 years, is leaving the paper.
  • Scott Walker Ruins Everything
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  • Blue North Carolina
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  • Poisonous Development in Green Cities
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Buzzflash

  • Bernie Sanders on The Ten Worst Corporate Tax ...
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  • The Big Banks Run the Show
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Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Kucinich on NATO Role in Libya: War on Discoun ...
    Congressman Dennis (D-OH) today wrote to fellow members of Congress that NATO’s role in the war in Libya would not shield Americans from the costs of the war. Kucinich’s letter responded to the announcement by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that NATO would take over command of the no-fly zon ...
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  • State Legislative Committee Split on Whether t ...
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  • Syria Death Toll Climbs as Protests Spread, Sa ...
    At least 55 people are believed to have been killed during a week of unrest in and around the Syrian town of Dera’a, Amnesty International said today as protests spread across the country. Security forces again opened fire on protesters in al-Sanamayn and carried out arrests in Damascus, accordi ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • "Safe" Radiation is a Lethal Three Mile Island Lie
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  • The Collapse of Globalization
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  • Unpacking for a Disaster: What You Need to Sur ...
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  • Libya, the “Responsibility to Protect,” and Do ...
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  • The Mark Inside: Joseph Beuys And Coyote meet ...
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Newshoggers - AfPak

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

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Afghanistan Sun

  • US envoy regrets civilian casualties in Pakistan
    US Special Representative for Afghanistan and Ambassador to Pakistan, Marc Grossman, has expressed regret over the civilian casualties in Pakistan, paving the way for resolving disagreements between the two allies after a drone strike in North Waziristan on March 17 killed several tribal elders.
  • 20 killed in Afghan lorry explosion
    Twenty people have been killed and 50 others injured after a team of suicide bombers shot their way into the compound of a road building company in eastern Afghanistan and detonated a lorry loaded ...
  • Taliban bomb construction depot
    Afghanistan , killing 20 people and wounding about 50, an Afghan official said.The vehicle exploded late on Sunday in the Barmal district of Paktika province, according to provincial spokesman ...
  • Suicide bomber kills 20 in Afghanistan's ...
    KHOST, Afghanistan -- Three suicide bombers killed 20 people in an attack on a construction firm in a restive province in southeastern Afghanistan, government officials said on Monday, with the ...
  • Suicide attacks kills at least 13 in Afghanistan
    Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- A suicide bombing on a school in eastern Afghanistan killed at least 13 people and wounded 56 others, NATO officials said ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

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

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week ...
    Let's jump right in. The winner of this week's most insightful is no stranger to these "winner" lists over the past few months, as it's Capitalist Lion Tamer yet again, with his comment on Kutiman's latest Youtube remix song: You can call it "piracy." You can call it "derivative." You can ca ...
  • Nick Dynice's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week
    This week's favorites post comes from Nick Dynice, a long-term, insightful member of the Techdirt community. This week Mike and fellow contributors have been on a rampage, taking NYT to task with 7 posts, as of Friday afternoon, about the ridiculousness of the pay-wall. But, my favorit ...
  • Study Shows That Piracy Has Not Resulted In A ...
    One of the key tenets of those who support stronger copyright law and stronger copyright enforcement is the idea that it is a necessary incentive for a great deal of creative output. We regularly hear claims of how creative output would drop without such strong copyright protections. However, ...
  • But... But... Piracy...
    You've probably seen those XtraNormal videos going around these days, where you type out a script and some text-to-speech software and animation software create a short video. I thought it might be fun to experiment with this to see what came of it. Here's my first attempt at a short video tha ...
  • Android, Economic Moats, And How Zero Marginal ...
    Venture capitalist Bill Gurley has another excellent economic analysis of how powerful Android is and what it really means for Google. I have one (somewhat serious) quibble with it, in that I actually think Gurley misses the key economic point that would have made his argument even more convinc ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

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

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

Armies of Liberation

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

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

food and water watch

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

treehugger

  • Cyclehoop Locks for Bicycles are Effective and ...
    Photo: cyclehoop Good looking and effective street furniture is a constant theme at TreeHugger. As are bicycles. So a hearty welcome to Cyclehoop, a small company specialising in cycle parking and locking. The Cyclehoop itself transforms poles on pavement into a secure place to lock a ...
  • You've Got The Power- 1400 Clubgoers Power Up ...
    Raw Energy: Sustainable Dancefloor Weekend from Temple Nightclub on Vimeo. Last weekend, 1400 club patrons at Temple Nightclub in San Francisco shook their booties and booted up the power of the sustainable dance floor. 480 Watts were generated continuously over the 10 hours of dancing; 30 wa ...
  • Helicopters Drop Poison on the Galapagos Islands
    Photo credit: andreavallejos, Vivatier / cc The Galapagos Islands are the model of biodiversity which inspired Charles Darwin to surmise the theory of evolution, but scientists have made arrangements to ensure that the latest round of animal deaths come about as the result of something quite ...
  • The TH Interview: Tim Brown, CEO & President o ...
    Photo Credit: Neil Chambers Tim Brown is everywhere these days - speaking at the TED Conference to appearing at the World Economic Forum in Davos to publishing his book entitled Change by Design to starting a new non-profit - he is putting his vision for a better world into action. After an ...
  • The TH Interview: Michael Murphy, Cofounder of ...
    Photo Credit: Neil Chambers Michael Murphy has been doing more than the average graduate student. For a year and half, he slept in a tent in the country of Rwanda to design and build a hospital as his classmates were stuck in design studio only talking about architecture. He was part of an ...

Biosingularity

  • New study into bladder regeneration heralds or ...
    Researchers in the United States have developed a medical model for regenerating bladders using stem cells harvested from a patient’s own bone marrow. The research, published in STEM CELLS, is especially relevant for paediatric patients suffering from abnormally developed bladders, but also repr ...
  • New Drug May Safely Boost ‘Good’ C ...
    An experimental pill that boosts levels of “good” HDL cholesterol has cleared a major safety hurdle, renewing hopes of fighting heart disease in a new way. Although the study of the drug, anacetrapib, was designed to look primarily at its safety, researchers say they were stunned by its dramatic ...
  • Wandering Mind May Lead to Unhappiness
    People are happiest when having sex, exercising, or talking to others — in large part because such activities require enough concentration to keep their minds from wandering, new research indicates. In general, people spend almost half their waking hours thinking about something other than what ...
  • A new target for cancer drugs
    Suppressing cancer cells’ ability to cope with damage to their DNA could enhance dramatically the effectiveness of chemotherapy drugs such as cisplatin, according to a new pair of papers from MIT biologists. In studies of mice, the researchers found that slowing down a specific system for tolera ...
  • Decloaking perforin, the protein assassin
    When the immune system identifies a cell that needs to be eliminated, such as a virus-infected cell or cancer cell, natural killer cells descend and puncture the offending cell, injecting toxic enzymes to spell its doom. At the centre of this immune response is a crucial protein called perforin, ...

CFACT

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Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Pruning Shears

  • Weekend wrapup
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Similarly, here are a few things that have been ignored or greatly downplayed by American media:Ray Davis sprung.Trophy photos with murdere ...
  • 'No on SB 5': Upcoming events, 26-Mar-2011
    Saturday, March 2612:00pm - 3:00pmBowling Green State UniversityOhio’s March Against MadnessIn front of the Student Union at BGSUMonday, March 2810 am - 12 pmGraftonJob(less) Ohio TourThis event is sponsored and organized by Ohioâs middle class: Making Ohio great since 1803.Where: Grafton Correc ...
  • Innovation Ohio's leaked Kasich school funding ...
    Innovation Ohio has published the Kasich Administration’s district-by-district breakdowns of school funding cuts, including the reimbursement losses districts will incur from the discontinued business taxes contained in the Governor’s budget proposal.  The PDF’s are at the link above.  I’ve c ...
  • Mobilize for a fair budget: Upcoming events, 2 ...
    Thursday, March 315:00 pmClevelandWhere: Trinity Cathedral, 2230 Euclid AvenueConfused about how the Ohio Budget cuts will affect YOU? Then we have the answer! Join us for a Town Hall Meeting about Ohio’s BudgetWe are facing budget cuts to:* Schools* Universities* Local governments* Human Servic ...
  • Falklands - Slumber Party EP
    So in last December’s Best Music of 2010 post I had Falklands at #2 with “Heal My Hand,” and talked up their album Think About It.  Which incidentally can still be bought for whatever price you name. Falklands is the real deal, a band that cranks out one great song after another and that deserve ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Big Ag Wants To Make It a Crime to Expose Anim ...
    What do Florida and Iowa have in common when it comes to animal agriculture? They've both been hot spots, past and present, for the movement to combat some of the worst abuses in industrial agribusiness. And now the factory farming industry is fighting back in both states-and their latest method ...
  • What Would the World Look Like If We Relied on ...
    The world's population will probably hit 9 billion by 2050. That's about the only thing agreed upon by partisans in a long-waged debate over how best to feed all those bellies. On March 8, Dr. Olivier De Schutter, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to food, released a report ar ...
  • ADHD: It's The Food, Stupid
    Over five million children ages four to 17 have been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in the United States and close to 3 million of those children take medication for their symptoms, according to the Centers for Disease Control. But a new study reported in The Lanc ...
  • Germany Set to Abandon Nuclear Power for Good
    BERLIN - Germany is determined to show the world how abandoning nuclear energy can be done. The world's fourth-largest economy stands alone among leading industrialized nations in its decision to stop using nuclear energy because of its inherent risks. It is betting billions on expanding the us ...
  • Maine Town Passes Local Food and Community Sel ...
    The town of Sedgwick, Maine, population 1,012 (according to the 2000 census), has become the first town in the United States to pass a Food Sovereignty ordinance. In doing so, the town declared their right to produce and sell local foods of their choosing, without the oversight of State or fed ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • The Constitution and Libya
    by Michael Ramsey by Michael Ramsey I appreciate the opportunity to guest blog on the Constitution and the Libya intervention.  In a post at Slate, Jack Goldsmith says that the Constitution’s original meaning in this area is “indeterminate.”  I respectfully disagree:  I think congressional ap ...
  • ASIL 2011
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller I’m in Los Angeles, on my way home to Melbourne.  I had not attended an ASIL conference in five years, since I was teaching at Georgia, and I’m very glad I attended this one. I met a number of interesting people, including some with whom I’ve had a vir ...
  • Welcome Guest Blogger Michael Ramsey
    by Duncan Hollis by Duncan Hollis We are pleased to welcome Michael Ramsey back to Opinio Juris, this time as a guest blogger. Mike is a Professor of Law at the University of San Diego Law School where he teaches U.S. Constitutional Law, Foreign Relations Law and International Business Transa ...
  • Can the Coalition Lawfully Target Gaddafi?
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Can the coalition forces using force in Libya under the Security Council’s authorizing resolution lawfully target Gaddafi personally?  This question has provoked some heated back and forth among political leadership of several coalition countries, inclu ...
  • ASIL 2011
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller I’m in Los Angeles, on my way home to Melbourne.  I had not attended an ASIL conference in five years, since I was teaching at Georgia, and I’m very glad I attended this one. I met a number of interesting people, including some with whom I’ve had a vir ...

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Some 200,000 in Germany protest nuclear power ...
    Some 200,000 in Germany protest nuclear powerSubmitted by Past Member to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • US Spent Nuclear Fuel Largest Concentration Of ...
    Bob Alvaraz: US has 71,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel that is not properly protected ( other stories and updates on nukes opitslinkfest.blogspot.com>Topical Index>Uranium )Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Children, Budgets Suffer from Drug Testing the ...
    Legislation is pending in over a dozen state legislatures and the U.S. Congress that would deny help with food and housing or unemployment to recipients who fail a drug test. Submitted by John Cause to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Busted for Growing Pot to Ease Suffering from ...
    A radical mastectomy, complications from chemotherapy, hemophilia and back syndrome amount to motives for this "crime," carried out by a harmless middle-aged couple. Submitted by John Cause to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Are recycled tires toxic for gardening?
    Last year was my first attempt at doing a small garden. Unfortunately, my miniature garden yielded very mini vegetables. In exploring options for this year I looked at recycled tires. They have many benefits, but I worried about toxicity. Check it outSubmitted by Doni Mason to Health & Welln ...

Angry Indian News

  • One Day Old Palestinian Baby Inspected at Chec ...
    One Day Old Palestinian Baby Inspected at Checkpoint :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dal medio oriente :: information from middle east :: [vs-1]:JENIN, March 27, 2011 (WAFA) – A Palestinian... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Syria death toll climbs as protests spread | A ...
    Syria death toll climbs as protests spread | Amnesty International: "At least 55 people are believed to have been killed during a week of unrest in and around the Syrian town of Dera’a, Amnesty... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Iraq War Crimes: Birth Defects and Miscarriage ...
    Iraq War Crimes: Birth Defects and Miscarriages in Fallujah [globalresearch.ca]Increase in time of birth defects and miscarriages in Fallujah since 2003 and its association with toxic metals load in... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • NATO to launch ground operation in Libya: Voic ...
    NATO to launch ground operation in Libya: Voice of Russia: "Coalition forces continue to strike at military facilities in Libya. In the past 24 hours they have carried out more than 150 assault... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Tell me, who is the terrorist?! :: www.uruknet ...
    Tell me, who is the terrorist?! :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dal medio oriente :: information from middle east :: [vs-1]Two days ago, on March 22nd 2011, the Israeli army attacked a populated... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

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

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • NATO tankers torched in Afghanistan
    ShareThisNATO tankers torched in Afghanistan 27 Mar 2011 Taliban Militants have destroyed at least eight oil tankers belonging to US-led forces in Afghanistan's western Farah Province, officials say. Taliban militants attacked NATO tankers in the city of Farah on Sunday. Local officials say the ...
  • Canadian soldier killed in Afghan war
    ShareThisCanadian soldier killed in Afghan war 28 Mar 2011 A US-led soldier has been killed in a roadside bombing in southern Afghanistan, bringing to 101 the number of foreign troops killed in the war-torn country so far this year. The 24-year-old Canadian soldier with the US-led International ...
  • Afghan car bomb kills 20, injuires 50
    ShareThisAfghan car bomb kills 20, injuires 50 28 Mar 2011 At least 20 people have been killed and 50 others injured after a massive bomb explosion targeted a construction company in eastern Afghanistan. "An explosive-laden car went off near a compound of a local construction company in Barmal d ...
  • 'NATO terrorizing and killing Libyans'
    ShareThis'NATO terrorizing and killing Libyans' 28 Mar 2011 Libya has accused the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) of terrorizing and killing its civilians as part of attacks against forces loyal to the embattled Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi. "The terror people live in, the fear, the te ...
  • DPH: Trace Amounts of Radiation Detected In Ra ...
    ShareThisDPH: Trace Amounts of Radiation Detected In Rainwater Samples In Massachusetts 28 Mar 2011 Trace amounts of I-131, a radioactive form of elemental iodine, resulting from Japan's nuclear radioactive fallout has been detected in a rainwater sample in Massachusetts, according to the Massac ...

Daily Loaf

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

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

The Killing Train

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

treehugger

  • Cyclehoop Locks for Bicycles are Effective and ...
    Photo: cyclehoop Good looking and effective street furniture is a constant theme at TreeHugger. As are bicycles. So a hearty welcome to Cyclehoop, a small company specialising in cycle parking and locking. The Cyclehoop itself transforms poles on pavement into a secure place to lock a ...
  • You've Got The Power- 1400 Clubgoers Power Up ...
    Raw Energy: Sustainable Dancefloor Weekend from Temple Nightclub on Vimeo. Last weekend, 1400 club patrons at Temple Nightclub in San Francisco shook their booties and booted up the power of the sustainable dance floor. 480 Watts were generated continuously over the 10 hours of dancing; 30 wa ...
  • Helicopters Drop Poison on the Galapagos Islands
    Photo credit: andreavallejos, Vivatier / cc The Galapagos Islands are the model of biodiversity which inspired Charles Darwin to surmise the theory of evolution, but scientists have made arrangements to ensure that the latest round of animal deaths come about as the result of something quite ...
  • The TH Interview: Tim Brown, CEO & President o ...
    Photo Credit: Neil Chambers Tim Brown is everywhere these days - speaking at the TED Conference to appearing at the World Economic Forum in Davos to publishing his book entitled Change by Design to starting a new non-profit - he is putting his vision for a better world into action. After an ...
  • The TH Interview: Michael Murphy, Cofounder of ...
    Photo Credit: Neil Chambers Michael Murphy has been doing more than the average graduate student. For a year and half, he slept in a tent in the country of Rwanda to design and build a hospital as his classmates were stuck in design studio only talking about architecture. He was part of an ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Egypt protest ban violates international law: HRW
    [JURIST] Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] on Friday condemned [press release] a ban on strikes and inciting protests [JURIST report] in Egypt as a violation of international law. Upon ratification by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces [NYT backgrounder], the proposed law will imp ...
  • Rights group brings FOIA suit against US agenc ...
    [JURIST] The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) [advocacy website] filed a complaint [text, PDF] on Thursday to compel the release of documents related to the 2009 Honduras coup [JURIST report]. The complaint names the US Department of Defense (DOD) and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) [off ...
  • Lawmaker proposes halt to US military action i ...
    [JURIST] US Representative Justin Amash (R-MI) [official website] on Friday announced [press release] legislation requiring an immediate halt to military action in Libya until Congress authorizes its resumption. The Restoring Essential Constitutional Constraints for Libyan Action Involving the M ...
  • WTO grants Canada request for hearing on EU se ...
    [JURIST] The dispute settlement body of the World Trade Organization (WTO) [official website] on Friday granted Canada's request to hear its dispute of the EU's [official website] ban on the import of seal products. Canada requested [filing; DOC] establishment of a panel to hear the dispute in F ...
  • UN rights chief condemns Syria for repression ...
    [JURIST] UN High Commissioner on Human Rights Navi Pilay [official profile] on Saturday urged the Syrian government [press release] to heed to the demands of protesters instead of responding with violence. Pilay warned that continued repression of the Syrian people would only lead to more anger ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • The Inside Story of Ferraro's 1984 Debate Prep
    The moment of truth for vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro was her debate against George H.W. Bush on October 11, 1984. How would she, a three-term member of Congress, stand up against the man who had been ambassador to China and the U.N, headed the CIA, and for t ...
  • Geraldine Ferraro's 1984 Debate Against George ...
    On Oct. 11, 1984, Rep. Geraldine Ferraro (D-N.Y.), the running mate of Democratic presidential candidate Walter Mondale, debated Vice President George H.W. Bush, the running mate of incumbent President Ronald Reagan. Full video of the debate is available from the C-SPAN Video Library. ...
  • Former Vice Presidential Nominee Ferraro Dies ...
    The first woman to top a major party presidential ticket died Saturday in Boston from complications of a type of blood cancer. ...
  • Rand vs. Ron? Don't Count On It.
    In epic stories about power, the son is supposed to overtake the father. Zeus killed Kronos. Luke Skywalker defeated Darth Vader, a couple times. And so it could be, in 2012, with the father and son of the libertarian cosmos: Ron and Rand Paul, the godfather of the tea party movement and one ...
  • Michele Bachmann's Experience Problem
    To the chagrin of Chris Matthews, advisers to Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) have let slip that she's likely forming a Presidential Exploratory Committee by June, if not before. A few months ago she was said to be seriously weighing the opportunity, and she's made several trips to Iowa to t ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Uri Blau: Revenge of the State
    Yet another nail in the coffin of Israeli democracy will be hammered by the nation’s attorney general, who announced that the State will prosecute one of Israel’s most distinguished investigative journalists, Uri Blau, for his reporting in Haaretz about the top-secret IDF documents leaked to him ...
  • Abusisi Case: Put Up or Shut Up Time for Shabak
    Israel Radio reported today (not sure whether this is a new ruling or goes back to last Thursday’s hearing) that the Petah Tikvah court rejected Dirar Abusisi’s appeal against the extension of his detention as requested by the Shabak and prosecutor. So this coming Thursday will bring another hea ...
  • I Delegitimize Occupation
    After the IDF’s intelligence unit, Aman, came up with the bright idea to create a special unit to investigate, monitor and spy on Diaspora groups opposed to the Occupation (enemies now known by the catchy phrase, “delegitimizers”), I thought the only proper response was to step up proudly and sa ...
  • Links for 2010-08-17 [Digg]
    Israel Wakes Up and Discovers Its Soldiers Abuse Palestinian Yesterday, a major scandal erupted in Israel over an IDF soldier, Eden Aberjil, who posted pictures on her Facebook account of her abusing bound Palestinian...
  • Links for 2010-04-03 [Digg]
    Anat Kam-Uri Blau Top Secret Israeli Leak Case The foreign media continue to open up the gagged Anat Kam-Uri Blau case with new stories in The Guardian, The Times, and The National.

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • BBC: Imperial US and UK Tool
    BBC was and remains a propaganda tool like major US media
  • Planned Regime Change in Libya
    Obama's naked aggression in Libya
  • Tsunami "Prevention"
    Novel Method "Collapses" The Largest of Ocean Waves, even Tsunamis
  • The Mark Inside: Joseph Beuys And Coyote meet ...
    In the last few days, I've noticed a marked rise in the levels of anxiety and apprehension in the minds of many of the folks with whom I have contact. Images of irradiated rains and bombing campaigns have left many riddled with dread, haunted by the uncertainty of it all"gripped by the feeling t ...
  • Housing's Double Dip
    All of the mortgage modification programs have been a total failure. The Fed purchased $1.7 trillion of garbage mortgage-backed securities (MBS) from the banks, but hasn't lifted a finger to help homeowners. All of the pain from the $8 trillion housing bubble has all been shunted onto the backs ...

Switchboard

  • Legos + Hip Hop = More Public Engagement?
    Josh Mogerman, Senior Media Associate, Chicago Pushing for change and smart public policy is not always glamorous stuff. Take public comments. Folks at NRDC sometimes engage in some pretty in-the-weeds policy issues through comments on things like ...
  • Heat and Health: Building Resilience to Climat ...
    Anjali Jaiswal, Senior Attorney, San Francisco On Monday, NRDC health scientist Dr. Kim Knowlton and I are leading a climate change workshop focused on heat stress in Ahmedabad, India – which is already experiencing 39°C (103°F) temperatures this ...
  • Bad Bill Will Mean More Pesticides in Our Water
    Mae Wu, Program Attorney, Washington, DC When I was growing up, we had a creek (pronounced “crick” where I’m from) running through our backyard that my little sister and I would play in all spring and summer long. We would be soaked head to toe by ...
  • Update: Air Board Moves Swiftly to Address Cou ...
    Alex Jackson, Sustainable Energy Fellow, San Francisco The California Air Resources Board issued a statement yesterday in response to the Superior Court’s recent decision in the AB 32 Scoping Plan lawsuit. Californians should take heart – the stat ...
  • Turns out blowout preventers may not prevent b ...
    David Pettit, Director, Southern California Air Program, Santa Monica, CA On March 23, 2001, the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy, Management and Regulation (BOEMRE) released the results of a technical study of the blowout preventer that failed to s ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • CATS!!!
    And now we’re to the end. Frankly, I was surprised that any of the 139 entries still stood a chance of victory, given the grave and disturbing events of the last two weeks. As it is, the breakdown goes as follows: If Kentucky wins, Mixing Memory wins the LGM Challenge. If UConn wins, [...] ...
  • Archaeology of the Impossible
    Given that I have all of four days to wrap up the Winter quarter and vault into the Spring, lesson-planning’s taken the bulk of my time of late.  I’m thinking, as per the tentative title of this post, of delving into meta-fictional accounts of the origin of comic “heroism” this quarter, and hav ...
  • Whoops
    Jay Bilas is now two games away from achieving Maximum Possible Predictive Error. Related posts:Whoops, I Did It Again! Whoops! What Silver Said Related posts:Whoops, I Did It Again! Whoops! What Silver Said
  • It’s For Your Own Good
    Yet more about Newt Gingrich committing adultery for the good of his country and the rule of law. A true patriot! In related but even more immoral implausible justification news, submitted without comment: A former youth pastor in Council Bluffs, Iowa, says he had sex with teenage boys becaus ...
  • Cole’s Case For Intervention In Libya
    Juan Cole has another argument in favor of Allied intervention into Libya. As an open-to-persuasion skeptic, I would like to raise a couple points. First, I’m suspicious of this characterization of the opposing arguments: 1. Absolute pacifism (the use of force is always wrong) 2. Absolute ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

  • 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

environment 360

  • 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 ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Bankrupt Jesuit Order Pays Native Americans $1 ...
    A bankrupt order of priests has agreed to pay $166.1 million to hundreds of Native American and Alaska Natives who were abused at their schools. The payout by the Society of Jesus, Oregon Province - part of an agreement to resolve its two-year-old bankruptcy case - is the third biggest settlemen ...
  • Battered Mothers Custody Conference Interviews
    Prof. Garland Waller produced "Small Justice: Little Justice in America's Family Courts" which is an independent documentary that explores the relationship between domestic violence, child sexual abuse and custody laws in America. To learn more about the stories of the women seen in this 10 minu ...
  • Ground operation in Libya could start in April ...
    The international coalition force is planning a ground operation in Libya that could start in late April, a high-ranking Russian intelligence service source said on Friday. "Information coming via different channels shows that NATO countries, with the active participation of Britain and the Unit ...
  • Japan: Radioactive levels in sea 1,250 times h ...
    Levels of radioactive iodine in the sea near the tsunami-stricken Fukushima nuclear plant are 1,250 times higher than the safety limit, officials say. The readings were taken about 300m (984ft) offshore. It is feared the radiation could be seeping into groundwater from one of the reactors. But t ...
  • Nigel Farage: "Bombings, bailouts - what on ea ...
    The UN says it's alarmed by the looming humanitarian crisis in Libya. Officials warn food supply lines have been disrupted and over three hundred thousand refugees have already fled the country. Nigel Farage, MEP and leader of the UK Independence Party, believes the whole military strategy in Li ...

Russia Today

  • Let’s give Afghans more authority – Russia’s s ...
    Military operations alone will not lead to positive results, and it is important for the international community to help Afghans create a strong and stable state, Russian President's special representative in...
  • Syria locked into a deadly spiral of protest
    In the flashpoint coastal town of Latakia, troops have been deployed after twelve people were killed and over 200 wounded there over the weekend in the latest domino effect of Arab world protesting.
  • NATO takes command in Libya, approves ‘No-fly ...
    The change in arrangements took place on Sunday. Ambassadors from the alliance unanimously approved a so-called "no-fly plus" plan that will make NATO responsible for protecting civilians as well as enforcing a no-fly...
  • Vengeance of the West on Gaddafi
    Coalition forces claim they are just enforcing the no-fly zone over Libya, but they have been engaged in widespread and heavy attacks on Colonel Gaddafi’s ground forces, as well as buildings and other targets linked to...
  • Japanese pay last respects to earthquake victims
    The destructive 9.0 magnitude earthquake and ensuing tsunami which struck the country three weeks ago and ravaged whole regions is now estimated to have killed over 10,000.

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

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

Tippers News

  • DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
    DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Three men helped starve kids, court tol
    Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
    The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • The real terrorist was me - US Soldier -
    The Truth from a American Soldier who fought in an Unjust WAR in Iraq; thankfully his conscience willed him to admit that it was just a war for the rich elite few to get richer and had nothing to do with Patriosm or Security of Americans.He is a True HeroSubmitted by Mary P. to US Politics & Gov ...
  • BRUTAL TRUTH Of IRAQ WAR
    'War' on any country is a 'Terrorist Act.' How can it be anything else?? People sit in their cosy homes; happy and Falsely believing that the soldiers are in a Patriotic War; Well see for yourself and ask Whats Patriotic about Suffering of Human Beings?Submitted by Mary P. to US Politics & Gov' ...

The Freeman

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

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

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

Worldpress - Africa

  • The Jasmine Revolution
    Tunisians proved that an oppressed Arab society can rise up against a dictatorship and demand democracy. With any luck, the statement will be heard, maybe even emulated, around the region.
  • Ivory Coast's Election Quagmire
    In resolving Ivory Coast's disputed election runoff, recognizing the rightful president is merely the first step in edifying a governance model that evenly represents the country's diverse and divided population.
  • U.S. Dual-Track Policy in Somalia
    In a country with layers of complexity, clan warfare and a broken state, the Obama administration is taking an appropriately complex approach to stabilizing Somalia, one that may or may not bear fruit.
  • Libya: Another Oily Killing Field
    While some analysts question if the United States should be intervening in Libya, the real questions are, what took so long, and who is going to be in control after Gaddafi is gone?
  • Zimbabweans Still Suffering
    On a daily basis, the people of Zimbabwe face starvation, poverty, corruption and oppression, and their government is highly unlikely to bail them out anytime soon.

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

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

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

  • Breaking news: Fukushima -- Radioactivity 10-m ...
    The Japanese TV channel NHK is reporting that radioactivity 10-million times higher than normal has been detected today in water flooding a basement of the turbine building of reactor number 2. It reported levels of "2.9-billion becquerels of iodine-134, 13-million becquerels of iodine-131, and ...
  • Shortages of scarce natural resources coming, ...
    Leading chemists from around the world have warned that scarce natural resources, such as phosphate minerals mined for fertilisers, are “dwindling at an alarming rate” and shortages could hit within a generation. (See Nature’s coverage of the phosphate crisis here and here.) Five scientifi ...
  • Fukushima reactor products could skew experime ...
    Posted on behalf of Adam Mann The growing concerns over radiation leaks at the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan – a drama playing out against the wider scale disaster unfolding in the wake of the 11 March earthquake and tsunami – is having an impact in some of the most remote ...
  • Pinning down past interactions: climate and ci ...
    Santa Fe, New Mexico - This much we know: The pueblo population at Bandelier in the Jemez Mountains of northern New Mexico reached its height around 1300 and then held on for another two and a half centuries. Residents left the canyons and highlands of the Pajarito Plateau for the Rio Grande ...
  • Stardust's final act helps other NASA missions
    NASA’s Stardust spacecraft, which visited two comets and sent back to Earth the first solid extraterrestrial samples since the moon landings of the 1970's, came to the end of its mission during the early morning hours of 25 March (GMT). A paragon of usefulness, even the satellite’s final moment ...

new geography

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

GM Watch

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Cryptogon

  • Remember Building 7
    Via: Remember Building 7:
  • In Prison for Taking a Liar Loan
    As part of my daily duties, I had to take remote control of the systems that these donkeys were using. Occasionally, (a couple of times per day, at least) I would see the credit summary screens for the loan applicants. The highest credit score I ever saw was something like 615. The lowest was 52 ...
  • Japanese Government Asks Water Treatment Plant ...
    Via: Kyodo: The health ministry has instructed the operator of water purification plants nationwide to temporarily stop taking in rainwater to prevent contamination in tap water following radiation leaks from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, ministry officials said Sunday. While cal ...
  • And Now… Al-Qaeda Has Snatched Surface-T ...
    Via: AFP: AL-QAEDA’S offshoot in North Africa has snatched surface-to-air missiles from an arsenal in Libya during the civil strife there, Chad’s President says. Idriss Deby Itno did not say how many surface-to-air missiles were stolen, but told the African weekly Jeune Afrique that he was “100 ...
  • Radiation in Water at Fukushima Daiichi Reacto ...
    Via: Los Angeles Times / AP: The radioactivity in water in one unit of a hobbled nuclear power plant in northeastern Japan has tested 10 million times higher than normal, the plant’s operator said Sunday. Leaked water in Unit 2 of the Fukushima Daiichi plant measured 10 million times higher than ...

The Economic Collapse

  • 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 ...

Desertification

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

The Paper Trail

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

backofthebook.ca

  • 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 ...

libcom

  • Philippine national glag carrier planning to stike
    Philippine Airlines Employees Association (PALEA) union is planning to strike (again!) for the nth time. This same union was asking last year for the Philippine state to intervene in the management-union conflict. Then, this same union again felt "disappoi ...
  • UK takes to the streets against cuts
    March.jpg Hundreds of thousands are set to take to the streets today against the coalition government's austerity measures, with the support of the majority of the population. ...
  • Egypt: Public Transport Workers Establish Inde ...
    jano.JPG Cairo, March 24 2011: Egypt's newest trade union was established on Thursday; the Independent Union of Public Transport Authority Workers. Hundreds of PTA workers attended the inauguration a ...
  • Croatia: What has been accomplished so far?
    zelimoraditi2.jpg An analysis of the Croatian anti-government protests by a member of MASA (Network of Anarcho-Syndicalists). Yet another anti-government protest took place in ...
  • Further disruption at Vivergo Fuels
    saltend-by-air.jpg Following on from the blockades earlier this month, wildcat blockades continue with police warning motorists to avoid the area in the mornings throughout the week. ...

Free Range International

  • Hotel California Naw Zad Addition
    Apologies.  I ended my last post with an observation about the importance of how wars end.  That was most foolish because it assumed we started bombing Libya with the intention of using the military to achieve a militarily appropriate endstate.  I’m all for killing Col Gadhafi because he kill ...
  • Rant Time
    Last December C.J. Chivers wrote a very classy piece on one of my fellow milbloggers Joshua Foust from Registan.net.  C.J. noted that Joshua has softened some of his pointed criticism while growing as a writer.  I see the same thing in his Registan posts and know that I too have tried to tone do ...
  • Crickets
    Crickets as in “I hear nothing but crickets” is the word of the day for Regimental Combat Team 1 (RCT 1) based in Camp Dwyer and controlling the southern districts of Helmand Province.  I needed to do a little district level coordination last weekend and was able to catch a ride to Marjah with ...
  • It Takes A Clue
    Nothing will sour the morale of combat troops faster then the realization that the commander at the top receives frequent visits from the Good Idea Fairy.   Which is a good start point for explaining why  General Stanley A McChrystal took to the pages of Foreign Policy last week to explain the u ...
  • Thugs, Mobs And Education
    The news this week has been dominated by the Lara Logan story.  Ms. Logan was the subject of  the most popular post in FRI history which can be found here.  Reactions to the news that Lara was subjected to “a brutal and sustained assault and beating” have cost at least one knucklehead his job ...

The Story Behind the Story

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

du la bab - Now is the Time

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

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

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

Scotts Contracting

  • Stop Fracking Now
    I bet you’re wondering what the heck "fracking" is. That’s a good question. Hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, is a controversial drilling technique used by the oil and gas industry that has injected millions of tons of highly toxic chemical fluids into the ground to break apart shale ...
  • Stop Fracking Now
    I bet you’re wondering what the heck "fracking" is. That’s a good question. Hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, is a controversial drilling technique used by the oil and gas industry that has injected millions of tons of highly toxic chemical fluids into the ground to break apart shale ...
  • Snow on Roof-Opportunity to Check Insulation Level
    This last snow we received yesterday is the perfect opportunity to see if your attic is properly insulated. Take a look at the Roof of your Home. -Lack of Snow on your Roof is a sure indication that it was melted by the Heat as it rises from the Interior of your House into the … Read more
  • Free e-booklet – ATOMIC ALCHEMY – ...
    On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 8:58 AM, FeedYourBrainMagazine wrote: FEED YOUR BRAIN MAGAZINE and THE ENIGMA CHANNEL have teamed up to publish a 40 page PDF e-booklet which is being sent to 150,000 people worldwide – To get a FREE copy visit The Enigma Channel website, submit your email addre ...
  • Compromise is key to setting energy policy
    Editorial: Compromise is key to setting energy policy Mar 16, 2011 Knox News Energy crises have been a part the American landscape on and off for the past 40 years. However, it seems we have learned little, except perhaps that politicians understand they can get a lot of mileage when they compla ...

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • Two Iranian policemen killed in Kurdistan shoo ...
    TEHRAN, March 25 (Reuters) - Two Iranian policemen were shot dead and three other people wounded in what authorities said on Friday were two "terrorist" attacks in Iran's Kurdistan province near the border with Iraq, news agencies said. read more
  • Islamist Group Is Rising Force in a New Egypt
     The read more
  • جمع آوری کلیه بیلبوردهای سخنان رهبری ازسطح شهر ...
    جرس: شهرداری تهران در اقدامی پر هزینه به نصب و سپس جمع آوری و امحای بیلبوردهایی پیرامون نام گذاری سال ۹۰ از سوی رهبر جمهوری اسلامی پرداخت. read more
  • TUC condemns post-rally violence in central London
    Violence which followed a day of anti-spending cuts protests in London has been condemned by union leaders. read more
  • شاهد285 شمشیر بُرنده سپاه
    شاهد285 بالگردی تهاجمی است که در نمونه های زمینی و دریایی ساخته شده و در خط تولید قرار دارد. به گزارش گروه دفاع و امنیت مشرق، صنایع هوایی شاهد، پس از موفقیت در ساخت بالگرد ترابری شاهد278 کار ساخت نمونه رزمی و تهاجمی سبک را با جدیت بیشتری در دستور کار قرار داد که در سال 1385 به تولید بالگرد شا ...

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Menopause: Made in the USA
    Historically 80% of Premarin and Prempro sales have occurred in the US. Even in the US, the cessation of menstruation is a non-event in 75% of women, producing no physical symptoms whatsoever. In fact, most languages and cultures have no word for menopause. In Chinese medicine, so-called menopau ...
  • Wyeth and the Multibillion Dollar Menopause In ...
    (this is the first of several posts regarding the “corporatization” of the US health care system – and its harmful effects on human health) I have blogged previously about the ingenious – and deadly – strategy by pharmaceutical companies and other corporate interests of inventing fictitious illn ...
  • I’m Okay, Thanks
    I’ve been at WOMAD for the last three days collecting signatures on a Green Party petition opposing government plans to privatize four of New Zealand’s state owned energy companies. Most people sign – well aware of the sad and embarrassing results of earlier privatization exercises (including th ...
  • Obama’s Neoliberal Stance on Charter Sc ...
    Of the last five presidents, Obama has clearly been the staunchest ally of the school privatization movement. I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised. Our first black president has already clearly established his neoliberal credentials, in expanding Bush’s war on terror into Pakistan, Yemen and Libya ...
  • The Charter School Industry – Part II
    Should We Allow Conservative Philanthropists to Run Our Schools? A final source of charter school funding is the New Schools Venture Fund created in 1998, which hosts funding by conservative-leaning mega charities, such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Walmart family foundatio ...

Doug's Darkworld

  • The Libyan Uprising, a Tactical Analysis
    OK, thought I’d have some fun with this looking at it purely from a tactical or wargaming perspective. I’ve done a lot of wargaming, too much really. And Libya is a classic battlefield so to speak for wargames. That’s because some classic battles were fought there during World War Two, Libya was ...
  • NATO and the USA Charge Into Libya With Our Al ...
    Oh my. The situation in Libya has been progressing dramatically, so on the one hand I have been loathe to write about it. Anything I write could be superseded by developments on the ground so to speak even as I type. Granted that’s always true no matter what the topic to some extent, but when [...]
  • “Oh, meltdown. It’s one of those a ...
    Sigh. Nuclear power. One can read opinion pieces all over the map about nuclear power, from Ann Coulter’s “radiation is good for you” to more sober analysis. Basically, if someone wants to believe this accident is no big deal, there’s plenty on the web to reinforce their beliefs. If one wants to ...
  • BATTLE: LOS ANGELES, WARNING, SEEING THIS MOVI ...
    A TV commercial just came on saying “Battle: Los Angeles” was the world’s number one movie. I’ve seen it. If it’s the world’s number one movie, it’s because it doesn’t have much competition. Not that it’s a bad movie. If one likes alien invasion movies, say Aliens crossed with Independence Day, ...
  • Another Day, Another War
    The USA is now at war with Libya. Not to mention in conjunction with our old buddies, France and Britain. Since this website is about war and the onrushing darkness, I guess I better comment on it, depressing as it is. And it is depressing, wars almost never work out the way people wanted, and [...]

FourWinds10

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

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

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

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

big think

  • 507 - Darkness and Cherry Pie: David Lynch’s M ...
    Where is Twin Peaks? The fictional town at the centre of the eponymous, early-Nineties TV series isn't too hard to pinpoint. The climate is rainy, the timber is abundant, and the coffee is religiously obsessed over. Surely, this can only be the Pacific Northwest.�� Twin Peaks was indeed sho ...
  • Another Setback at Reactor Creates Race Agains ...
    The reactor situation in Japan suffered yet another setback today, with water levels in Unit 2 registering 10 million times normal levels. The radiation was so high that workers fled the reactor rather than take a second reading. Radiation levels were an astonishing�1,000 msv/hour (which will ca ...
  • 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
  • Fat for Jesus
    I don't know if this is such an appropriate post for Sunday morning. A study from Northwestern�shows that people who regularly attend religious services are 50% more likely to become obese. Several years ago I�read an interesting book by a French literary figure on his recent�travels through ...
  • Proof That People Are Prejudiced Against Breas ...
    This study just out in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin claims to have found a general societal prejudice against women who breast-feed. Reports about the work concurred. But I think it works better as an example of what's wrong with our conceptions of prejudice. It's also good fodder ...

Information Liberation

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

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • A fix of five fresh science stories
    Incognito – If the conscious mind – the part you consider you – is just the tip of the iceberg, what is the rest doing? In this sparkling and provocative new book, renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman navigates the depths of the subconscious brain to illuminate surprising mysteries.  (97818476 ...
  • A fix of five fresh science stories
    Free complete works of H.P. Lovecraft for Nook and Kindle (and Calibre) – You can now download the complete works of HP Lovecraft as an ebook for your Kindle (or if you haven't wasted your money on that device you can read it with the Calibre software for Windows, Mac and Linux. FYI: OMG, tinfoi ...
  • The fraudulent invention debunkifier
    Debunking crackpot and fraudulent inventions has never been easier than now thanks to the world-shattering invention of the Crackpot Flowchart(TM) from Sciencebase. Based on the 13 unlucky-for-crackpots warning signs published some time ago on ka9q.net, this handy multicoloured flow chart lets y ...
  • Six science selections
    Map mashup reveals world’s top science cities – Combining citation data with Google Maps reveals the cities where science prospers, and those where it doesn't. 9 arguments for (against) herbal remedies – About 40% of pharmaceuticals have a herbal origin but that doesn't mean natural is all good. ...
  • Telepathic spam
    The following comment was left on the site today, it begins: “Telepathy is possible, it works very good…I can exchange voice and videos messages , smell and bad and good filings with people around, people can move muscles on my body from distance and much more.” Aside from the “filings” typo, it ...

RFF Library

  • Final Environmental Impact Statement and Final ...
    Federal Railroad Admin., Dept. of Transportation By chapter plus executive summary: http://www.fra.dot.gov/rpd/freight/1703.shtml [E&E News PM article by , sub. req'd]  A proposed high-speed rail line connecting Las Vegas to Southern California has cleared its last environmental hurdles and is n ...
  • Border 2012 Accomplishment Report for 2010
    US EPA http://www.epa.gov/usmexicoborder/ The report highlights projects taking place within border communities through the Border 2012 program that ensures the protection of peopleâs health. The bi-national program focuses on cleaning the air, providing safe drinking water, reducing the risk of ...
  • C-SPAN: Government Recorded Hearings Now Being ...
    C-SPAN http://www.c-spanarchives.org/videoLibrary/blog/?p=764 The C-SPAN Video Library now contains committee hearings produced by House and Senate committees. C-SPAN can only record a limited number of committees every day. However, a number of House and Senate committees have installed their o ...
  • Japan 2011 Earthquake/Tsunami – U.S. Governmen ...
    http://www.usa.gov/Japan2011.shtml Visit USA.gov’s new page for updates on air quality, food safety, potassium iodide, disaster preparedness in the United States; information about evacuations for Americans in Japan; ideas for donations; and much more. Filed under: New Web Tool, The Natural Worl ...
  • Family Forest Owner Trends in the Northern Uni ...
    Northern Research Station, US Forest Service http://www.treesearch.fs.fed.us/pubs/37478 Understanding forest ownership trends is critical for understanding forest trends. In the northern United States, where 55% of the forestland is controlled by families and individuals, it is imperative that w ...

Scientific American - News

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

First Truths

  • Human Life: Another Dispersed Cost
    The Empire couldn't care less about civilian deaths in Afghanistan, I argue in a commentary for C4SS: For the novel’s superpower Oceania, then, as for the United States, defeat of an enemy that is “unconquerable” by design is neither possible nor even desired. Since Afghanistan, in and of itself ...
  • No title
    For C4SS, I examine the substance of statist "meritocracy" in Bahrain: Free market anarchists regard the meritocratic credo of the state capitalism as an integral organ of that oppressive system not because we see all people as possessed of the same abilities, but because it is not through any a ...
  • The Egyptian Crisis and Libertarian Class-Conf ...
    For the Ludwig von Mises Institute, I commented on the class implications of the past few weeks in Egypt: More than any other economic approach, the Austrian School raises and provides answers to the critical inquiries of class theory, drawing the ultimate distinction between the types of intera ...
  • All of Statism is Imperialism
    Events in the Middle East and in Northern Africa have reminded of colonialism and offered an occasion to observe that we are all occupied. For the Center for a Stateless Society, I write: As Franz Oppenheimer and Albert Jay Nock so well understood, "[t]he State originated in conquest and confisc ...
  • All Aboard the Money Train
    Writing on the President's new infrastructure plan for C4SS I write: Commenting on the fact that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce ("fighting for your business") is "a big fan of Obama's push for infrastructure investment," Tanya Snyder of Streets Blog had it right when she called such investment a " ...

Media Co-Op

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

David Seaton's News Links

  • We are all Egyptians now
    The Tahrir Square uprising �has nothing to do with left or right,� said Dina Shehata, a researcher at Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies. �It is about young people rebelling against a regime that has stifled all channels for their upward mobility. They want to shape their own de ...
  • America's future role in the Middle East
    "There are forces at work in any society, and particularly one that is facing these kinds of challenges, that will try to derail or overtake the process to pursue their own specific agenda.... [That is] why I think it is important to support the transition process announced by the Egyptian gove ...
  • The Neo-Imperialism of a Future Failed State
    David Seaton's News LinksAfter World War Two, Europe's far-flung empires all collapsed within a few years. This was not because Britain, France and the Netherlands had suddenly lost their taste for their colonial possessions, far from it. Their empires collapsed because they could no longer aff ...
  • How do you say, "Tienanmen" in Arabic?
    Bring on the goonsOmar Suleiman (Arabic: عمر س��ما��; born July 2, 1936) is an Egyptian politician and military figure who was appointed Vice President of Egypt on January 29, 2011. Previously, he was Minister without Portfolio and Director of the Egyptian General Intelligence Directorate (EGID) ...
  • Egypt.... the coup ... The bill?
    Up until now, President Mubarak has enjoyed the support of the armed forces. He was, after all, a career air force officer suddenly catapulted to the presidency when Anwar Sadat was assassinated in 1981. But if these protests continue and intensify there are bound to be senior voices within the ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

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Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • The Hidden Diabetes Link No One is Telling You ...
    By Suzy Cohen, R.Ph. Coronary heart disease is a leading cause of death in the United States, killing one in five adults, and doctors are very quick to prescribe statins. In fact, statin drug sales rank in the billions each year globally. These drugs are so pervasive that they are ...
  • Mom Frightens Her Baby by Blowing Her Nose
    A baby doesn’t know what to make of it when Mommy blows her nose!
  • Mercury-Containing Medicines: Harmful to Children
    Several recent studies have linked mercury to serious harm in children. Dr. Joachim Mutter, author of one of the newest mercury studies, found evidence confirming that mercury in vaccines and other medical products could trigger autism. Another recent study observed that organic mercury is add ...
  • The Baby Syndrome More Horrific Than Falling T ...
    Dr. F. Edward Yazbak is a pioneer and advocate for child safety in an area that most people are completely unaware of, namely cases where vitamin deficiencies are mistaken for Shaken Baby Syndrome. There's tremendous legal injustice going on in this area, and it can happen to anyone. If you're ...
  • The Missing Nutrient to Blame for Heart Attack ...
    By Dr. Mercola The past decade has brought an explosion of research revealing the many beneficial roles vitamin D plays in keeping you healthy. But there's a new kid on the block that could end up being "the next vitamin D," and we are finding that some of vitamin D's benefits are greatly e ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

  • The SAQ and customer service
    The Société des alcools du Quebec is culling some of the slacking performers among its more than 400 outlets across the province with an eye to boosting its profit margin.
  • Yes, it's another election. But don't tune it out
    This will be, after all, the fourth federal election in seven years, and the past three have returned minority governments with a relatively short shelf life. Quite possibly this one will too. But then quite possibly it won't - if the electorate takes an active interest in the campaign and turns ...
  • The witness to the wedding
    It was early March 1964 when I received a phone call from Edward
  • For now, at least, the world needs nuclear power
    Hydro-Québec has wisely undertaken to reconsider a previous decision to go ahead with a refit of the province's only nuclear power plant, Gentilly 2, at Bécancour, near Trois-Rivières.
  • Nagging doubts about waterfront finances
    It would be good to know whether Montreal taxpayers are getting full value for the millions of dollars that city hall is pumping into the Société du Havre de Montreal, whose mandate is to develop a vision for the redesign of the city's waterfront. Unfortunately it's hard to tell, since available ...

Food World Order

  • 'rally for the right to know': educating the m ...
    from natural news: On March 26th 2011, social activists and other activist organizations plan to unite at "The Rally for the Right to Know" in Washington, DC. They will gather before the eyes of law makers to do what the FDA, USDA and other government food overlords refuse to do and what Congres ...
  • your healthy alternative food may be same crap ...
    from grist: Looking to lower your impact? Here's your cheat sheet. GoodGuide offers greenness and social responsibility ratings, via web or app, for tens of thousands of products, including food, clothing, toys, and cleaning supplies. Obviously, it's massively useful to be able to look up a br ...
  • 3/24 binge & purge: scares, shares, rallies, a ...
    codex alimentarius & food irradiation in US* russia bans food from 6 japanese prefectures* store-brand food eating up market share* junk-food oxymoron: frito-lay tries all-natural chips* free-range egg ban shuts prince edward island bed & breakfast* worst texas drought in 44yrs er ...
  • are worldwide food shortages being caused by i ...
    video update: grocery bills are on the rise from allgov: World food prices have continued to rise over the past five years, creating the potential for malnutrition and starvation in the developing world, and fomenting political unrest in nations like Egypt. While some economists have blamed t ...
  • major farm animal cloning project canceled due ...
    from free from harm: After 13 years of studying how to prevent abnormalities in cloned animals, AgResearch has ended its cloning project because too many of the animals died. AgResearch is a New Zealand based company that has spent more than a decade trying to perfect the cloning of animals for ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • 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 ...

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The Talking Clock

Facing South

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

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • Awoken 1.9 Icon Set Brings in a Darker Version ...
    AwOken icon theme is among the most downloaded and highly rated icon themes for GNOME and we had no second thoughts while including AwOken in our listing of top 10 most popular Icon themes for Ubuntu GNOME. AwOken version 1.9 brings in a lot of changes that includes a new darker version of the t ...
  • IE9 Day 1 - 2.3 Million Downloads, Firefox 4 - ...
    You all must aware of the fact that both IE9 and Firefox 4 was released within a span of two weeks and both of them are considered highly improved versions their predecessors. Now here are some interesting download statistics of both the browsers.� source: firefox wallpapers Firefox 4 ...
  • Mozilla F1 Firefox 4 Extension Just Got Sexier
    Mozilla F1 extension is a product of Mozilla Labs which is behind such incredible concepts like Seabird Mobile Phone.�F1 is a simple Firefox browser extension that allows you to share links fast and easy. Share links from within the browser, from any webpage, using the same services you already ...
  • Everyone's Favorite Hotot Twitter Client Now A ...
    Hotot is undoubtedly one among the very best Twitter desktop client for Linux and that was exactly why we included Hotot in our list of 18 must have applications for Ubuntu. Now, if you don't want a separate desktop client for a primary web application like Twitter, Hotot is now available in Chr ...
  • Elementary OS Beta Reviewed - Looks Very Polis ...
    I concede that I am a big fan of Elementary Project and the goodies it brought to the Linux desktop eco system. I also accept the fact that, reviewing a developer only preview of an application and calling it "not ready yet" is kind of self defeating. But the kind of expectations a project like ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • DID HAARP CAUSE THE EARTHQUAKE IN JAPAN?
    The  earthquake and tsunami in Japan was caused by HAARP and not by solar or other natural activity argues a Swedish reader in his report below. A look at the induction magnetometer charts from last year’s earthquake in Haiti as well as from the recent earthquake measuring 9.1 on the Richter ...
  • Secret files released by Austrian justice offi ...
    Justice officials in Austria yesterday took the unprecedented step of releasing files concerning their investigation into the kidnapping of Natascha Kampusch amid criticism that state prosecutors systematically ignored evidence that a paedophile ring was  involved. http://diepresse.com/home/pano ...
  • Defamation charges against me underline new po ...
     Some people may receive defamation charges from the Austrian Ministry of Justice and feel a little dejected. After all, such charges carry a jail setence. http://wakenews.net/verleumdnungJMB18.02.11.pdf However, for me, it was a moment of great pride. This is because the defamation charges unde ...
  • ÖVP nominates lobbyist to replace disgraced MEP
     Austria’s conservative People’s Party, the ÃVP, has nominated another lobbyist to replace MEP Ernst Strasser after a video caught him accepting secret payments to change draft EU laws to benefit banks. Hubert Pirkerâs consultancy company EU Triconsult brazenly stated it could influence EU leg ...
  • Germany pulls out of military action against L ...
    Who’s in charge? Germans pull forces out of NATO as Libyan coalition falls apart By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 1:32 AM on 23rd March 2011 Tensions with Britain as Gates rebukes UK government over suggestion Gaddafi could be assassinated French propose a new political ‘committee’ to over ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • It’s time to Wake up and Smell the Bodie ...
    By Les Visible A lot of things are missing from contemporary life of the moment. One of these things is manners. Oh how I miss that in the general flow of life. Another thing is ‘objective reasoning’. If you don’t possess it, you do not know how valuable it is. It’s a big help in [...]
  • More than 2,000 vaccinated babies died: The co ...
    By Neil Miller Earlier this month (March 2011), Japanese authorities ordered doctors to stop using pneumococcal and Hib vaccines because four children died after receiving the shots. However, the real news was never reported: more than 2,000 babies died in the United States after receiving vacci ...
  • ALERT!!!!! BLOODBATH PREPARED IN BAHRAIN TOMORROW
    by Finian Cunningham and Ralph Schoenman for RedactedNews | March 24, 2011 Far from being intimidated by the escalating violent rampage unleashed upon an unarmed population by Bahraini authorities and occupying troops, a large turnout is anticipated after Friday prayers tomorrow, March 25. Peopl ...
  • Israel’s Fingerprints Are All Over 9/11 (And I ...
    By Joshua Blakeney STAFF WRITER Over the last week or so I’ve engaged in some vibrant email exchanges with some of the most prominent movers and shakers in the 9/11 skeptics community, most of whom are reluctant to emphasize the Israeli dimension of 9/11. While I would not publish the private co ...
  • Was Fukushima a victim of Stuxnet?
    by jimfred As many of my readers likely know, there was an exceptionally brilliant piece of utterly evil computer code released on the world beginning in 2009. It was named Stuxnet. I urge you to read Vanity Fair’s April 2011 article about Stuxnet for a good understanding of what the virus does, ...

Veterans Today

  • 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 ...

electric politics

  • A Postcard From Paris
    In the U.S., the financiers want to bleed the country dry. In France, it's the President. (Well, the financiers there, too.) But the big difference is, in France people register their objections with significant political action while in the U.S. people go to Jon Stewart's post-modern mutual ad ...
  • The Anger Index
    You don't have to be a genius, or even highly educated, to realize that Washington is not working. As in, not working, period. We seem to be on a roller coaster to hell, or at least to the third world. And there's no exit. Public exasperation is at record levels — it should be no surprise that ...
  • In Search Of Egypt
    I worry about the fate of violent insurrections (don't kid yourselves, Egyptian mobs are not non-violent). I worry about young, educated demonstrators with an overwrought passion for U.S. government support (it seems inauthentic). I worry that without an Arab political theorist (alive or dead), ...
  • The Story of Our Lives
    We need to pay more attention to the world around us. It's not easy. We're constantly bombarded by interruptions, in large part due to the way we've organized ourselves around technology. But if we can't stay focused we lose the ability to create and follow narrative threads, especially those r ...
  • Good Sense and Nonsense
    Neoliberal economics lacks imagination. And the story it tells of greedy individuals maximizing their self-interest is — or should be — an insult to decent people everywhere. The fact that we can accept such a preposterous story so uncritically raises a big, red warning flag that society has so ...

PR News

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

The Story Behind the Story

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

k2p blog

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Think Twice Before Using Dryer Sheets In Your ...
    That crisp, fresh smell on your laundry and lack of static cling provided by dryer sheets apparently comes at a price. Many online sources, including a Snopes message board, are filled with authorities who say dryer sheets can clog your lint filter, potentially creating a fire hazard. A commen ...
  • Prepaid Debit Cards Rack Up Fees As Soon As Yo ...
    Using TurboTax to file his taxes last month, Sam chose an interesting new option for his refund: a TurboTax-branded Greendot prepaid debit card. He doesn't have a bank account at the moment, and wasn't receiving a huge refund, so this seemed like a good option. He tried to use up the card soon ...
  • iPad 1 Is On Clearance Sale At Verizon, But Wh ...
    The debut of the iPad 2 means that you can get some sweet, sweet deals on the original iPad if you know where to look. D. knew where to look, which was a local Verizon Wireless store. Not the first place most people would go for iPads. Including, from what D. observed, the store's own staff. Wh ...
  • Roger Ebert's Reasons To Avoid Hawking Amazon ...
    With dollar signs in his eyes, film critic Roger Ebert decided to try his hand at Amazon's Associates program, which lets people earn commissions off of sales they solicit by providing personalized links and other tools. On his blog, Ebert recounts how it all went wrong. Among his disappointme ...
  • Lowes Ups Stinky Drywall Settlement From $4,50 ...
    Remember those stories about the drywall sold and installed by big American chains that turned out to be contaminated by noxious sulfur smells? Well, now Lowe's has upped its max payout for affected homeowners from a max of $4,500 in cash and gift cards to $100,000. Replacing the amount of appl ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

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

UK Progressive

  • The Monday Line: Tea Party Nut Jobs Freak Out ...
    Why is it when Republicans want war, we hear nothing about cost? Indeed if one were to mention it that automatically earns an “unpatriotic” label. Yet if the black guy orders a deliberate, targeted and focused series of strikes against Libya with a huge coalition behind him and in less than one ...
  • Oil Companies That Gave ‘Bonuses’ to Libya Als ...
    by Marian Wang, ProPublica Multinational companies operating in Libya have had to deal with many obstacles, including a government rife with corruption that often asked for what amounted to bribes. Sometimes those companies balked; sometimes they paid them, New York Times reported. The Times sto ...
  • Why Governor LePage Can’t Erase History, and 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 ...
  • Don’t Use The ‘Free Market’ As An Excuse
    by Tina Dupuy This week, AT&T announced its plans to buy their competitor T-Mobile. Now it’s up to regulators to approve the merger. Politicians pandering to the Tea Party love to talk about a free market. It sounds sexy. It sounds like wealth and freedom got married and had a perfect concept. I ...
  • The Republicans’ Big Lies About Jobs (And Why ...
    “And if all others accepted the lie which the party imposed â if all records told the same tale â then the lie passed into history and became the truth.” â George Orwell, 1984 (published in 1949) House Majority Leader Eric Cantor was in town yesterday (specifically, at Stanfordâs Hoover Institu ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Lewandowsky bitten by a hoax
    Professor Stephan Lewandowsky may not understand much about the climate, but he is a professor of psychology — so satire, humor, and hoaxes ought to be right up his alley, right?  He’s realized he fell for the brilliant Alene Composta (a master satirist) replying to her and even sending her fak ...
  • 130,000 Australians say No Carbon Tax, Greens ...
    What a week downunder, just in case you missed it. We’re a nation, up in arms. With three months til G-Day (when the Greens control the Senate on July 1) and the tax-based-on-a-lie likely to become legislation, the heat is on. Protests and smears are running strong. Forces are being mobilized, a ...
  • David Evans, Carbon Accounting Modeler, Says I ...
    Dr David Evans’ address to the Anti-Carbon-Tax rally, Perth Australia, 23 March 2011. Good Morning Ladies and Gentlemen. The debate about global warming has reached ridiculous proportions and is full of micro thin half-truths and misunderstandings. I am a scientist who was on the carbon gravy tr ...
  • We are being deceived
    My speech at the Anti-tax Carbon rally, Wednesday March 23rd. I used to be a Green. I used to think Carbon dioxide mattered. I still worry about falling fish stocks, old growth forest and erosion, but wind farms won’t help the fish, and solar cells won’t keep the top soil from blowing away. Real ...
  • Thousands of angry ordinary Australians turn u ...
    In Canberra today over 3,000 people went out of their way, coming in on 30 buses from more than 1000 km away, to let Julia Gillard know that Australians do not want her Carbon Tax. The news made every major broadcast for several minutes. Protesters were referred to as “climate skeptics” (mostly) ...

ReNew America

  • Rush: Trump's birth certificate outcry is serv ...
    (NewsMax) - Rush Limbaugh entered the renewed fray over President Barack Obama's birth certificate by declaring that Donald Trump's continued public outcry over the documentation is "a valuable service," not only to the public but also to Obama personally...
  • Trump won't back off Obama's birth papers
    (NewsMax) - Donald Trump is not backing down from his demand that President Barack Obama produce his birth certificate and stepped up his criticism by questioning why he has not released other personal records, including college transcripts and legislative papers...
  • Obama's 'birth hospital' hides White House letter
    (WorldNetDaily) - Obama's alleged birth hospital has locked in a storage vault a letter President Obama purportedly wrote to the hospital on Jan. 24, 2009, declaring it his birthplace...
  • The Weiner waiver wormhole
    (Michelle Malkin) - New York Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner toasted the one-year anniversary of Obamacare this week -- and accidentally spilled his champagne glass all over the disastrous, one-size-fits-all mandate. Ostensibly one of the federal health care law's staunchest defenders, Weiner exp ...
  • Liberals: they blinded us with science
    (Ann Coulter) - In response to my column last week about hormesis -- the theory that some radiation can be beneficial to humans -- liberals reacted with their usual open-minded examination of the facts. According to Noel Sheppard at Newsbusters, MSNBC's Ed Schultz devoted an entire segment to de ...

Truth Offering

  • Truth Offering Podcast with Matt Gordon - Jan. ...
    Here's our second Podcast, this week featuring TruthOffering.com's Matt Gordon and friend of the show/talented musician, Chris Phenom. Chris teamed up with his producer, Robert Maxwell, and created the brand-new theme song for the TruthOffering.com podcast! I think you guys will appreciate, not ...
  • Truth Offering Podcast w/ Matt Gordon - Dec. 1 ...
    Check out our first Podcast featuring TruthOffering.com's Matt Gordon. Topics range from WikiLeaks and Internet censorship, to food freedom and the Federal Reserve. Being that it's our first Podcast, it's a work-in-progress. So, please leave any and all feedback. Thanks...and enjoy: �
  • A Nation of Cowardly, Morally-Bankrupt Sheep
    Sheep are led to slaughter. They are controlled from birth to death. They are oppressed. And once they are controlled, they will never again be free. WE are a nation of SHEEP! Note: this isn't for the faint of heart. I'm frustrated! Why!? Because I care. I care deeply; about this country; about ...
  • The False Flag Cyber Attack Takedown of the In ...
    Here are some of today's top shock headlines: "Army of hackers targets the Swedish government, Sarah Palin and credit card giants in WikiLeaks 'Operation: Payback'" - The Daily Mail "Hackers Rise for WikiLeaks" - Wall Street Journal "WikiLeaks backers hit MasterCard and Visa in cyberstrike" - ...
  • S. 510: The Death of Food Freedom Act
    In the world of liberty lovers and food freedom fighters, there's been a ton of attention lately on Senate bill S.510 -- the deceitfully-named, "Food Safety Modernization Act [1]." But in the mainstream media, there's been but a whimper; a pathetic trickle of occasional, fleeting and understated ...

2012 Blog

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

Facing South

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

One News Page

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • Libyan ‘Peaceful’ Opposition
    Anti-Gaddafi coalition has been bombing Libya for ten days already. Hundreds of civilians are dead or injured. Anyway the coalition is not a jot closer to the declared objective to oust Gaddafi from power. The common prejudice is that the West is protecting ‘peaceful’ democratic opposition who w ...
  • Libya and Iraq turning into “black holes ...
    Gumer Isayev (Russia) Gumer Isayev, Middle East expert and faculty professor at St. Petersburg State University, talks about causes behind the conflict in Libya, Jamahiriya, the Green Book, and Russia’s stand in regard to the Libyan conflict. West Takes Advantage of the Situation Q: Being an exp ...
  • Escalation in Libya
    Dmitry Sedov (Russia) It was supposed to come as a global surprise that NATO is ready to take part in the West’s new war, âto bring our contribution, if needed, in a clearly defined manner, to the broad international effort to protect the people of Libya from the violence of the Gaddafi regimeâ, ...
  • A Strategy Aimed at Ruining Libya
    Elena Ponomareva (Russia) A death sentence to Libya’s sovereignty was handed out long before the protests inspired by Western intelligence services shook the country and the UN Security Council responded to the situation with anti-Libyan resolutions. There are fundamental causes behind the strat ...
  • Libya to Face Airstrikes. Part Four of the Glo ...
    By Elena Pustovoitova (Russia) ORIENTAL REVIEW: This article was published by Strategic Culture Foundation few hours before the aggression. Latest reports show that the quasi-coalition forces are bombing vital infrastructure objects in Libya: oil reservoirs by Misurata, civilian and military tar ...

BlogHer

  • What Is Your Favorite Leftover Breakfast?
    I have been known to sing "Pizza for Breakfast" to the tune of "April in Paris." Pizza for breakfast Cold pepperoni And marinara Under the cheese! Pizza for breakfast This is a feeling That no one can ever Reprise. Since I prefer a savory meal like the salad-and-pita Israeli breakfast, it ...
  • When a Son Gets Married
    I have always known I was blessed in the privilege of our children - not just that they exist but in who they are and how they live. And now, our second son -- our baby, has announced that he's engaged. We are crazy about his fiance and thrilled with their decision; there's no "but..." or "exc ...
  • Change Your Style, Change Your Life
    Most people are unhappy. Have you noticed that? I�m beginning to believe that it�s just part of the human condition to feel constantly restless, dissatisfied, and envious of others. We hang so much of our self-worth on comparisons: How do we measure up to other people in our income tax brackets? ...
  • Show & Tell: NieNie Asks -- What Do You Love t ...
    What do you love to do with your children? I love taking silly photos at the photo booth. Show me your silly photos or a picture of something you love to do -- or tell me in the comments. What do you love to do with your children? (Here we are taking silly photos together at the photo booth.) ...
  • Barbara Gittings: The Grand Mother of Gay Libe ...
    It wasn't that many years ago that the average person couldn't list more than 10 great women from history. Thankfully, the world has changed and we're much more likely to know about the contributions that women have made to our world. Except... most of us still can't name more than a handful of ...

Health Freedom Alliance

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

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

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

Daniel Miessler

  • The Captain America Trailer
    via youtube.com I’m not a Captain America fan, but this looks like another excellent comic book remake. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsSwords vs. ShadowsEuler’s DiskThe GiftJan-Ove Waldner ServesAndrei Arlovski “This is Sparta” KickThe Strange Powers of the Pla ...
  • CNN and Hero Suicide Bombers
    I saw the most extraordinary thing yesterday during lunch. It was a CNN piece on a Libyan man who was fighting against Ghaddafi’s forces. He and his friends were trying to get into some government barracks and he realized they had no chance. So he, a humble oil worker, husband, and father, loade ...
  • Among the Worst Ways to Die: Upside-down Sawing
    via en.wikipedia.org Damn. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsChess Boxing | WikipediaFaith PalmBurp 1.4 Will Support MacrosQuicksilver is BackI must not copy what I see on the Simpsons | BanksyXKCD Radiation Dose ChartAnother Approach to Weightlifting | Men’s Health
  • How to Practice Your Web Application Testing S ...
      For those who are learning web application security testing (or just trying to stay sharp) it’s often difficult to find quality websites to test one’s skills. There are a few scattered around the Internet (see the link in the notes section below) but it would be nice to have a solid collection ...
  • My Ümlaut Page
    I am creating this page about the ümlaut because every single time I attempt to write the word “über” I need to go and find one. Well, no more. From now on I’ll come here. ü 97 (hex) 151 (dec) à 9A (hex) 154 (dec) via danielmiessler.com It’s a page for ümlauts. Posted via email [...]

Fitwatch

  • Serious violence by police at protest party.
    Forget what the mainstream media are saying about the black block, the most serious violence yesterday was probably the attack by police on partying crowd that was gathered in Trafalgar square. Senior police officers had warned in the run up to the March 26 protests that any occupation of Trafal ...
  • Surveillance policing and the TUC march
    On the eve of what will probably be the biggest demonstration seen in the UK for many years, it is probably a good time to give a little blog space over to looking at the role of Forward Intelligence Teams and the various intelligence gathering strategies that will operate on such massive events ...
  • Top Ten Nasty FIT cops – Nos 1&2 Discombe and ...
    Unlike many FIT cops, who only take on FIT duties at major events, these two are full time intelligence officers for CO11, the public order unit of the Metropolitan police. For this reason alone they warrant being top of the table. Discombe and Cowlin lead and direct FIT teams, making sure they ...
  • Top ten nasty FIT cops No3 Alan Palfrey
    Alan Palfrey is a regular FIT member, with a knack of being in all the wrong places. He was at the massive climate camp in Kingsnorth in 2008, where ‘intelligence gathering’ hit new heights as thousands of protesters were stopped, searched and pressurised to give their personal details. A fair p ...
  • Top ten Nasty FIT cops – 4&5 Guy Rooney ...
    These two are both regular FIT officers, often out accompanying FIT photographers. Their job is to gather intelligence. They tell the photographers which shots to get, and make audio recordings of everything they want to note. The audio recordings they make end up as CRIMINT reports, which are e ...

Worldwide Hippies

  • 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&#8 ...
    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 ...

reference frame

  • 2011 MIT feminist women's status report
    The Daily Beast has pointed out that after a decade, an MIT committee has released a brand new report on the status of women at the technological institute: A Report on the Status of Women Faculty in the Schools of Science and Engineering at MIT, 2011The key person behind similar document ...
  • Fukushima crisis is over
    The electric utility company managed to connect all six reactors in Fukushima to the grid, so they may cool the reactors under business as usual. The crisis is clearly over. Bombing of the power plant by concrete, as proposed by Michio Kaku, wasn't really needed. I don't claim that su ...
  • Hannes Alfvén Medal 2011: Syun-Ichi Akasofu
    It's a Japanese month on TRF so this blog may take notice of events that wouldn't be normally discussed. Awards are among them. You could think that the European Geosciences Union must be a totally politically correct institution, a part of the anti-scientific and anti-skeptics Inquisi ...
  • Dan Gardner: Future Babble
    Dan Gardner's latest book, Future Babble, was just released in the U.S.: click to buy via amazon.com. It's a whole book about the self-described experts who predict the future and who are almost always wrong - and about the irrationalities and biases that allow these "experts" to maint ...
  • Snowcap of Kilimanjaro refuses to die
    One of the most localized and emotional posterchildren of the global warming doom in the last decade has been the snowcap on the top of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. It's been retreating for quite some time and global warming alarmists were assuring everyone that the snowcap was ...

No Frakking Consensus

  • Message From Australia
    Australians are outraged by a Prime Minister who, prior to last summer's election, said there'd be no carbon tax - but is now implementing one. At a recent protest rally, a scientist explained why he thinks the dangerous global warming hypothesis has been proved wrong.
  • The IPCC Insider’s Club
    A small group of IPCC insiders filled as many as seven different roles each during the writing of the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report.
  • Earth Hour? I’ll Take a ‘No Naggin ...
    As a young woman I embraced feminism because I had no desire to be bossed around by men. These days it's greens who want to regulate my behaviour.
  • Our Man at the IPCC
    A Q&A with Francis Zwiers, Canada's most senior IPCC official, regarding his recent testimony in Washington, DC.
  • The Missing Questionnaires
    We've been told more than 400 people answered a questionnaire about the IPCC last year. So far, only 232 records have been made public. No one will explain why.

Tarpley

  • Italiano
    English Deutsch Français Italiano Other I ribelli libici della CIA sono gli stessi terroristi che hanno ucciso truppe statunitensi e truppe NATO in Iraq Uno studio di West Point mostra che lâarea di Bengasi, Derna e Tobruk era i leader mondiali nel reclutamento dei bombaroli kamikaze di al ...
  • The CIA’s Libya Rebels: The Same Terrorists wh ...
    2007 West Point Study Shows Benghazi-Darnah-Tobruk Area was a World Leader in Al Qaeda Suicide Bomber Recruitment “Serpents, thirst, heat, and sand … Libya alone can present a multitude of woes that it would beseem men to fly from.” Lucan, Pharsalia   Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net March ...
  • CIA’s Libya Rebels Are Younger Brothers ...
    Benghazi, Darnah Among Top Four Centers of Terrorist Recruitment; These Are Heroes of Democracy UN, NATO, US are Bombing Libya to Protect; 2007 West Point Combating Terrorism Center Study Proves the Case Webster G. Tarpley on The Alex Jones Show Infowars March 22, 2011 download file
  • Tarpley on The Alex Jones Show
    Qaddafi resistance leads Obama to shift from color revolution charade to NATO aggression in Libya to save CIA rebel militia; UN Charter a dead letter; Command and control chaos as Italy rejects French-British command, Arab puppets reject NATO command; Craven Obama seeks low profile; Goal for Lib ...
  • Obama’s Bay of Pigs in Libya: Imperialist Aggr ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net March 19, 2011 Washington DC, March 19 – Late today US and British cruise missiles joined with French and other NATO combat aircraft in Operation Odyssey Dawn/Operation Ellamy, a neo-imperialist bombing attack under fake humanitarian cover against the sovere ...

Modern Survivalism

  • 4.4 Earthquake off Oregon Coast, Foreshock?
    credit: base images: GoogleEarth, IRIS credit: overlay: MSB I found this latest earthquake to be interesting, 100 miles off the coast of California / Oregon, a magnitude 4.4. The magnitude is of no particular interest, however it’s location is, at least to me… Given the recent very large earthqu ...
  • Radiation, Japan, and the Inverse-Square Law
    When considering the potential for radiation spreading out from the severely damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, it is very important to understand the ‘inverse-square law‘, which helps to put in context the potential intensity of radioactive Fallout as it relates to distance. What is ...
  • U.S. Nuclear Power Plants, safe distance?
    Map of U.S. Nuclear Reactor Locations Given the the nuclear reactor meltdown disaster in Fukushima Japan, and the local area Fallout contamination that is now entering the food chain and water systems there, I have constructed a location map of the current (and decommissioned) nuclear power reac ...
  • To Bug-In or To Bug-Out
    During a serious threat situation or disaster, and while enacting your emergency / preparedness plan of action, you may decide to either ‘bug-in‘ or ‘bug-out‘. Bug-In: To ‘dig in’ and remain where you are (or at your normal place of residence) Bug-Out: To ‘get the heck out’ and leave your locati ...
  • Still Think the Dollar is Safe?
    Even the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Richard Fisher, said today that the U.S. is on a path towards insolvency. “I look at this as a tipping point”, “…its’ going to be very painful”, he said after a speech at the University of Frankfurt. ZeroHedge.com reports that Bank of Ame ...

Fast Company

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

Jadaliyya

  • The Egyptian Elite and the Egyptian Revolt: Vi ...
    Jadaliyya�is hereby presenting the third installment in a interactive (see below) series called "A Portrait of a Revolutionary," featuring interviews with an Egyptian journalist and activist who was at the forefront of the Egyptian protest movement. Hossam's vantage point is quite unique ...
  • ثورة يناير وتأسيس شرعية جديدة [The January Rev ...
    ب��ما ما زا�ت ب�ا�ا ا��ظام ا�ساب� تط�� ع�� ما حدث �� مصر ��ظ «حر�ة» أ� «��رة»� �جد أ� ا�إع�ام ا�رسم� �د ط�ر خطاب� ��ص��ا بأ��ا ث�رة� ���� دائما� ما �ض�� إ���ا ��ظ آخر مث� ا�شباب� ا�ا�تر�ت� أ� �ما ح�ا �بعض ا�مح���� أ� �ص���ا بث�رة ا�طب�ة ا��سط�. مع ا�ت�د�ر ا��ام� ��� �ذ� ا��ئات �ا�طب�ات ...
  • Is Bahrain Back to Normal?
    �Your remarkable and unflinching efforts have protected the lives of innocent people, restored order and maintained security and stability across Bahrain,� Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad al-Khalifa praised security forces on Friday March 25th for bringing life in Bahrain back to �normal.� ...
  • Elia Suleiman's Time
    The Time that Remains [Al-Zaman Al-Baqi]. Written and directed by Elia Suleiman. UK/Italy/Belgium/France, 2009. An early scene in The Time that Remains [Al-Zaman Al-Baqi], Elia Suleiman’s latest film, reveals a great deal. The scene begins with a shot of the harried-looking mayor of Na ...
  • Constructing the Prototypical Terrorist in Ame ...
    Center in Orange County, California to protest a charity event organized by the Islamic Circle of North America Relief USA (ICNA). ICNA aimed to raise funds for a womenâs shelter and to fight homelessness and hunger. Protest organizers included ACT! for America, Rabbi David Eliezrie of C ...

mediagazer

  • News Budgets Busted By Cost of Covering Disast ...
    The Wrap: News Budgets Busted By Cost of Covering Disasters  —  From Japan to Libya, disasters and political upheavel around the globe are wreaking havoc on the already-skeletal budgets of cable and broadcast news organizations.  —  “We've already had a year's worth of breaking news coverage …
  • Building Loyalty on Web (Jessica E. Vascellaro ...
    Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal: Building Loyalty on Web  —  Online Video Programs Remix Promotional Tactics to Draw Regular Audiences  —  Hulu's ‘Trailer Trash’ episodes are released on Mondays.  —  Companies rushing to develop original video series for the Web are scrambling to s ...
  • For $1,000, Site Lets Celebrities Say It Ain't ...
    Sarah Lyall / New York Times: For $1,000, Site Lets Celebrities Say It Ain't So  —  LONDON — Imagine you are a well-known person aggrieved by how you are portrayed on the Internet: the slapdash Wikipedia entry; the unflattering gossip item; the endlessly repeated story about how you cheated on ...
  • Tina Brown interview: remaking the news (Jane ...
    Jane Martinson / Guardian: Tina Brown interview: remaking the news  —  Tina Brown's return to print media with Newsweek surprised many.  Here, she explains her plans for the loss-making title  —  The last time Tina Brown launched a magazine - Talk in 1999 - she held a celebrity-stuffed party on ...
  • It's an Ad Within an Ad Within a TV Show for U ...
    AdAge: It's an Ad Within an Ad Within a TV Show for Univision Novela  —  Hispanic ad agency head Eva Rodriguez won GM's Buick account and created the car brand's first Spanish-language commercial.  But Eva isn't real.  She's the heroine of the telenovela “Eva Luna,” and part of her role …

Chemtrail News

  • CBS NEWS The Sinister Chemtrail Conspir ...
    Ghost32's video about CBS NEWS The Sinister Chemtrail Conspiracy documentary on Disclose.tv.www.disclose.tv/.../CBS_NEWS__The_Sinister_Chemtrail_Co...
  • Massachusetts Chemtrail Watchers | Facebook
    Welcome to a Facebook Page about Massachusetts Chemtrail Watchers. Join Facebook to start connecting with Massachusetts Chemtrail Watchers.www.facebook.com/Masschemtrailwatchers
  • chemtrail mind control. - Chemtrail< ...
    chemtrail,pwa [perception without awareness], mind conditioning is all over the media and tv and thats why people deny their existence and think they are ...chemtruth.ning.com/profiles/blogs/chemtrail-mind-control
  • Chemtrail Sky Bombardment (UK) 25th Mar ...
    From around 6.00am in north west England, a beautiful sunrise is being bombarded by these chemtrails and these trails always target the path of the sun ...theendtimesarehere.com/.../chemtrail-sky-bombardment-uk-25...
  • mega-chemtrail over norfolk-19.3.11(1)( ...
    10am,bold as brass,geo-engineering for all to see....these are NOT contrails like you have been conditioned to believe.....whatever theory you cling to as ...chemtruth.ning.com/video/megachemtrail-over

World News - Top Stories

  • 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 ...

no frakking consensus

  • Message From Australia
    Australians are outraged by a Prime Minister who, prior to last summer's election, said there'd be no carbon tax - but is now implementing one. At a recent protest rally, a scientist explained why he thinks the dangerous global warming hypothesis has been proved wrong.
  • The IPCC Insider’s Club
    A small group of IPCC insiders filled as many as seven different roles each during the writing of the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report.
  • Earth Hour? I’ll Take a ‘No Naggin ...
    As a young woman I embraced feminism because I had no desire to be bossed around by men. These days it's greens who want to regulate my behaviour.
  • Our Man at the IPCC
    A Q&A with Francis Zwiers, Canada's most senior IPCC official, regarding his recent testimony in Washington, DC.
  • The Missing Questionnaires
    We've been told more than 400 people answered a questionnaire about the IPCC last year. So far, only 232 records have been made public. No one will explain why.

Pointman's

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

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

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

Truth About Our World

  • 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 ...

Gyrovague's Raves

  • Japan needs our solidarity, not a blame game
    The earthquake confirms that a preâEnlightenment urge to blame human greed for natural disasters is making a comeback. Frank Furedi The Japanese proverb âfix the problem, not the blameâ captures an attitude towards life that has served Japan well in the post-Hiroshima era. It makes a powerful po ...
  • World’s wind and waves have been rising ...
    by Wendy Zukerman Wind speeds and wave heights over the world’s oceans have been rising for the past quarter-century. It’s unclear if this is a short-term trend, or a symptom of longer-term climatic change. Either way, more frequent hurricanes and cyclones could be on the horizon. Ian Young at t ...
  • Mosquito needle helps take sting out of injections
    by Paul Marks LOOK away now if you are afraid of needles. A motorised, harpoon-like needle sounds painful, but in fact hurts far less than a regular injection because it resembles a mosquito’s mouth parts. Seiji Aoyagi and colleagues at Kansai University in Osaka, Japan, have developed a needle ...
  • Silicene could be the new graphene
    Single-layer sheets of silicon might have electronic applications By Devin Powell ONE-ATOM LAYERSilicon atoms (bright spots) in a honeycomb pattern are a new type of material known as silicene. Guy Le Lay/Univ. of Provence The hottest celebrity in world of nanomaterials may soon face a new rival ...
  • Who felt it not, smelt it not
    People with a genetic inability to feel pain also canât detect odors By Tina Hesman Saey People who feel no pain due to a particular rare genetic defect also canât smell anything, a new study finds. The unexpected discovery shows that nerves that detect pain and odors rely on the same protein to ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

  • Now, hairbrush that reads your mind
    WASHINGTON - Who says hairbrush can only be used to comb locks? Scientists have made a hairbrush like device that would be able to monitor mental activity. One of the main techniques for measuring and monitoring mental activity, called functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), can often b ...
  • Man U?s bemused Fergie tells shifty Roo to res ...
    LONDON - Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has told key striker Wayne Rooney that he must respect the club and its traditions if he wants to stay on. Commenting on reports that suggest that the star player wants to leave Manchester United for another club - either Manchester City or ...
  • Google Street Viewers spot ?God? floating over ...
    SYDNEY - Google Street View has spotted a god-like figure floating midair above a lake in Quarten, Switzerland. Although the image, discovered by the Gawker blog, is apparently the result of some sort of light distortion or lens flare, blogger Max Read has questioned whether it might have more ...
  • Dogs reduce stress in autistic children: Study
    WASHINGTON - Dogs-apart from being man’s best friend-have a special role to play in the lives of children with special needs. A new study by the Universite de Montreal has suggested that specifically trained service dogs can help reduce the anxiety and enhance the socialization skills of child ...
  • How sex hormones influence right heart function
    WASHINGTON - A new study has revealed human sex hormones influence the structure and function of the right ventricle (RV) of the heart. The researchers found that in women receiving hormone therapy, higher estrogen levels were associated with higher RV ejection fraction and lower RV end-systol ...

TruthNews Australia

  • Susan Wolfe: truth activist and organiser of t ...
    Today I am joined by Susan Wolfe, who is organising the massive 9/11 truth gathering for We Are Change in New York, scheduled to coincide with the 10th anniversary of 9/11.� Susan is attempting to make this event a landmark in the history of the 9/11 truth movement, and she is taking all steps t ...
  • Libya: Murder and Plunder Masquerading as “Hum ...
    March 23, 2011 "Information Clearing House" --  On March 20th 2003 Western forces launched their “Shock and Awe” attack on Iraq, heavily bombarding Baghdad and elsewhere, massacring hundreds if not thousands of innocent men, women and children. On March 20th 2011 the very same forces attacked Li ...
  • Radiation levels and their effects
    There's been alot of talk in the news lately about radiation levels, yet most people, including myself, have little idea of what these numbers really mean in terms of health risks. News reports today have indicated that radiation levels in Tokyo have been recorded at 20X the normal background ...
  • Tsunami engulfs northern Japan
    Shocking video shows a huge tsunami racing across the countryside near Sendai, Japan, sweeping away farms and houses. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHtvA-lIksU
  • Interview with Bob McIlvaine at Ground Zero
    On 12 January 2011 I met with Bob McIlvaine at 1 Liberty Plaza next to Manhattan's Ground Zero. Together we visited the Family Room, a special place dedicated to the memories of all those who died on 11 September 2001. Afterwards I spoke to Bob about his ongoing activism for 9/11 truth, ...

Beacon

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

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • The 4th Sentai Ramming Unit
    B-29 Payload August 1944 US B-29 units launching from Chinese coastline airfields began runs on the Japanese steel plants at Yawata. Two B-29 pilots got a surprise that would portend the very Kama Kazi attacks in two months. One Shigeo Nobe rammed his Ki-61 into a B-29, the Gertrude C bringing i ...
  • La Glorieuse Pipe Gun
    .22 Pipe Gun .22 Cal Pipe Gun .22 Cal Pipe Gun .22 Cal Pipe Gun .22 Cal Pipe Gun The unique curiosa cartridge gun, with select briar root bowl marked: LA Glorieuse/Patent 203/Select Briar Root. .22 rimfire caliber, the cartridge inserted into front of stem, then screwed onto pipe bowl. A bu ...
  • Fabulous Photos Of Winston Churchill.
    Churchill with General Wladyslaw Sikorski, General Charles de Gaulle, General Officer Commanding French Forces, following a tank demonstration on February 14, 1941 (National Archives). A 27 Cruiser Tank In Background. Churchill as First Lord of Admirality (National Archives). Sir Winston Leonard ...
  • Rafale Shoots Down Galeb
    Dassault Rafale “ SOKO Galeb A French fighter jet enforcing the no-fly zone shot down a Libyan plane Thursday near the besieged rebel-held city of Misrata, a U.S. official said. The French fighter destroyed a Libyan G-2/Galeb, a military trainer aircraft, apparently as it was trying to land, t ...
  • Visit This Amazing Interactive Story About The ...
    Rangers At Pointe [...]

Taylor Marsh

  • Michele Bachmann, Come on Down
    After Hillary’s stellar run for the presidency, I have to admit I want a Republican female to get into the race for 2012. It’s just I sure didn’t have Michele Bachmann in mind. But the Tea Party favorite has figured out that in a year of horrific Republican hopefuls, what the hell. As per [...]
  • Rationalizing Libya, Ignoring Syria, Bored wit ...
    âIt was not — it was not a vital national interest to the United States, but it was an interest and it was an interest for all of the reasons Secretary Clinton talked about. The engagement of the Arabs, the engagement of the Europeans, the general humanitarian question that was at stakeâ… Def ...
  • Sec. Clinton: NATO Takes No-Fly, U.S. in Broad ...
    “We’ve also authorized military authorities for NATO to take on the broader military protection mission.” – Sec. Clinton Before Clinton spoke, the news coming through multiple news sources is NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen says the alliance has reached an agreement to take over no ...
  • The Sunday Early Bird News Round-Up
    Good morning early birds and welcome to Sunday! On this day in history, March 27, 1513, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon set his eyes on what is today known as Florida. I’ve rounded up some links so you don’t have to: ~Coalition airstrikes against Gaddafi on Saturday provide enough cover for ...
  • Why Isn’t Obama Targeting Syria Next?
    **UPDATED** President Bashar al-Assad made a rare public pledge to look into granting Syrians greater freedom on Thursday as anger mounted following attacks by security forces on protesters that left at least 37 dead. – Thousands chant “freedom” despite Assad reform offerYou think it’s America’ ...

James Laxer

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