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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.

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

30 March - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

The Santa Fe Depot in Shawnee, Oklahoma.Image via Wikipedia

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Kwick Stop in Shawnee, Oklahoma, settles retal ...
    The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has announced a settlement with Modern Oil Company, the operator of the Kwick Stop convenience store in Shawnee, Oklahoma. The lawsuit alleged that after OSHA investigated a workplace safety complaint a store in Shawnee, Oklahoma, management grilled the three ...
  • 4th Circuit upholds the FCA's seal, 2-1; Urge ...
    Today the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, issued a long-awaited decision upholding the seal provision of the False Claims Act (FCA), 31 U.S.C. § 3730(b)(2). The decision is a victory for whistleblowers who depend on the seal provisions to protect themselves from retal ...
  • Supreme Court considers whistleblower protecti ...
    The U.S. Supreme Court is considering whether to review a Michigan decision that allows a church to fire a middle school math teacher after she reported suspected sexual abuse to government authorities. According to the Court's docket, this case has been distributed for consideration at all thre ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • India's Plan To Block .xxx Shows The Pointless ...
    For many years, we've wondered about the wisdom of ICANN slowly doling out totally pointless new top level domains (TLDs) -- like .jobs and .mobi -- that seemed much more focused on getting companies to pay up for domains they didn't need, rather than serving any useful purpose. With the recen ...
  • Carla Bruni Sues French Newspaper For 'Counter ...
    Eriq Gardner points our attention to the news that French first lady and singer Carla Bruni is suing a French newspaper claiming "counterfeiting," after it posted a 50-second clip of her singing Douce France, a 68-year-old song by Charles Trenet. As Gardner notes, in the US, this would almost c ...
  • Righthaven Dismisses Lawsuit Against Reporter; ...
    A few hours ago, we wrote about Righthaven's painfully stupid lawsuit against Eriq Gardner claiming copyright infringement for an article he wrote about a previous Righthaven lawsuit, that included an image from Righthaven's own legal filing. After widespread mocking, it appears that Righthaven ...
  • DailyDirt: Playing With Technological Fire...
    Sometimes people really leap before looking -- and that can be especially dangerous when it comes to technologies that we don't fully understand. Not too long ago, we created rivers so polluted that they'd actually catch on fire. We seem to be tuning in to the environmental repercussions of th ...
  • Canadian ISP's Hamfisted Attempts To Throttle ...
    It's really amazing the sort of propaganda that gets thrown around by the entertainment industry about how pretty much all uses of BitTorrent are evil and about infringing. It leads to ridiculous situations like Rogers Communications, up in Canada, throttling World of Warcraft players' connecti ...

VacTruth

  • Is There A Paradox About Vaccines?
    There are many paradoxes in life but none so ludicrous [preposterous, ridiculous, absurd] as those that exist within the fields of health, healing, medicine, and, most of all, pharmaceuticals.Vactruth.com
  • News of Smallpox Outbreak in India Raises Fear
    Early this week news began to break of an outbreak of smallpox in Jharkhand India. Three people in Gumla were reported to have died of the infectious disease and another five people were reported to be ill. Vactruth.com
  • The Importance of Getting Factual Information ...
    Corporate interests come before human interests, regardless of the industry involved. Nothing is more important to Big Pharma corporate governance than all their moneymaking vaccines with neurotoxins and other poisons.Vactruth.com
  • Government Documents Show DDT Contaminated Milk
    Initially heralded as a scientific miracle, the pesticide DDT is shown by congressional reports to contaminate milk.Vactruth.com
  • Children Die Minutes After Measles Vaccine in ...
    Reports are coming in of four infants under the age of one dying minutes after the measles vaccine. The vaccination programme has been suspended and the batch has been sent for testing.Vactruth.com

BroadSnark

  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Sorry for skipping my usual Thursday post last week. My social life seems to be getting in the way of writing and the next couple weeks are busy. Guess I’ll have to skip work or something. Thanks to @db0 for the heads up on this post about the men’s rights people. You have probably already [...]
  • 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 [...]

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

  • "The Killing" Sweater is an Organic and Faroe ...
    Photo: suite101 Now you've seen the sweater but have you seen the t.v show yet? The Killing is a huge sensation in Europe and Denmark and it is about to hit the USA. A 20 part thriller from the old scary school, the lead detective, an enigmatic woman, wears this hand-knit Faroe Island ...
  • Lipstick On A Pig Dept: KB Homes Slapping Sola ...
    Image credit KB Homes How could a TreeHugger not click onto a post title like KB Home proves that solar power isn't just for treehuggers. The monster builder is putting 1.4 kilowatt solar panels as a standard feature on every house in a California subdivision. KB's solar partner Sunpower sa ...
  • When I Die, Dissolve Me in Lye: The Liquid Cre ...
    Image credit: Katrina Wiese, used under Creative Commons license. From composting your corpse to greening your funeral, we've looked at plenty of options for more sustainable disposal of human remains. Perhaps the most controversial is chemical hydrolisis, in which bodies are dissolved in l ...
  • Alternate Wedding Gifts for the Royal Couple
    Photo: kikkerland It seems that the upcoming Royal Wedding is being taken more seriously abroad than it is at home in the UK. Ticket sales for flights out of the country during the royal weekend have skyrocketed and spoofs abound. Here is a choice selection of some of the better class ...
  • When Food Is High, Corn Gets Political & The C ...
    Those green states are where all the crazy food politics will be centered. Image credit:USDA In what may be one of my favorite news stories of the year, Green Fields: Expected acreage of corn isn't enough, survey shows, published in the Des Moines Register., the wacky Wall Street farmers at ...

Biosingularity

  • Scientists build Parkinson’s disease in ...
    Until now, there have been no witnesses to the death of brain cells in people with Parkinson’s disease. And like any murder mystery, this has slowed the search for the killer. In a big break in the case, Stanford University scientists say they have re-enacted this tragedy in a petri dish — growi ...
  • ‘Can you hear me now?’ Researchers ...
    There are billions of neurons in the brain and at any given time tens of thousands of these neurons might be trying to send signals to one another. Much like a person trying to be heard by his friend across a crowded room, neurons must figure out the best way to get their message heard [...]
  • Making Cells on an Assembly Line
    Researchers have developed a way to create uniformly sized cell membranes, small cellular packages that can be used like tiny terrariums to study the inner workings of the cell and even create new molecules. Sandro Matosevic and Brian Paegel of the Scripps Research Institute in Jupiter, Florida, ...
  • Pulling an all-nighter can bring on euphoria a ...
    A sleepless night can make us cranky and moody. But a lesser known side effect of sleep deprivation is short-term euphoria, which can potentially lead to poor judgment and addictive behavior, according to new research from the University of California, Berkeley. Researchers at UC Berkeley and Ha ...
  • Re-creating autism, in mice
    By mutating a single gene, researchers at MIT and Duke have produced mice with two of the most common traits of autism — compulsive, repetitive behavior and avoidance of social interaction. They further showed that this gene, which is also implicated in many cases of human autism, appears to pro ...

CFACT

  • Nuclear safety: Reactors that can't meltdown
    Nuclear power remains a vital power source for the future. The crisis in Japan underscores the needs to make these reactors as safe as possible. New technology shows us the way to reactors that remain stable even under a scenario as extreme as Japan's.
  • Welcome to the Third World
    Develop American energy - or say good-bye to jobs, revenue and modern living standards.
  • Fearing EPA's carbon tax
    The EPA is moving to impose tough limits on carbon emissions from the big power plants across the country - and then plans to screw the new carbon limits down tighter and tighter. Farmers̢۪ fuel and electricity costs would go through the roof, along with everybody else̢۪s.
  • More biofuels, more greenhouse gases
    A new study estimates that the world has more than 702 million hectares of marginal land suitable for growing biofuels, while another finds that plowing would release massive amounts of soil carbon - mostly as nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas 300 times as powerful as CO2.
  • Krugman flunks food and history
    Krugman is trying to frighten us about what̢۪s very likely the finest weather humanity has ever seen. We̢۪re still getting heat waves, blizzards and some hurricanes, but fewer of them. Still, you are three times as likely to read about the severe weather we do get because the media is seekin ...

Ria Novosti Online News

  • Libyan opposition launches TV channel with Qatar
    The Libyan opposition is launching a satellite television channel, Ahrar TV, on Wednesday with the help of the Qatari government in counterbalance to state-controlled media.
  • Voronezh scientist takes in five-eared cat
    Vladimir Obryvkov, an associate professor at Voronezh State Agricultural University, has taken in Luntya, a cat with five ears. Obryvkov has been studying animals with physical anomalies for many years. His students have brought him a number of unusual animals, such as a calf with two heads and ...
  • Indonesian students create new eco-friendly cars
    A group of enterprising students in Indonesia has developed a new eco-friendly car. It might not travel at the speed of a bullet, but this slim three-wheeler does have aerodynamic appeal.
  • Inside the world’s tallest hotel
    The 490-meter Ritz-Carlton Hong Kong opened its doors on March 29 as the world's tallest hotel. Floors 102-118 house 312 guest rooms, all providing panoramic views of the city and Victoria Harbor.
  • Moscow eco-forum blogger contest begins
    A competition to choose 10 of the best eco-bloggers to participate in an eco-forum in Moscow next month officially kicked off on Wednesday.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Pruning Shears

  • 'No On SB 5': What's next if it passes
    Below is from an email sent by the state Democratic party.More news is developing by the minute on Senate Bill 5. After the Republicans shut down public hearings and hashed out backroom deals all last week, the House Commerce and Labor Committee meets at 9:00 a.m. this morning to vote this bill ...
  • 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 ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • March 26th Anti-GMO Rallies for the Right to K ...
    OCA is currently compiling information on the details of the March 26th grassroots Rallies for the Right to Know. We know there were more than 20 actions across the U.S. and from all reports each went very well in its own way. More info coming soon.Click here to read this article
  • Study: Organic Chicken Carries Significantly L ...
    This study from the University of Georgia's Center for Food Safety came out in November and has bounced around the internet, but for some reason I'm just now noticing it. It's worth a look. Click here to read this article
  • How Can States Raise Revenue?
    The traditional union approach to budget politics is to accept the limits of what's possible-typically defined by politicians and lobbyists-and push for the best deal we can within those fiscal constraints.Click here to read this article
  • Organic Farming Just as Productive as Conventi ...
    Organic agriculture is a fine luxury for the rich, but it could never feed the world as global population moves to 9 billion. That's what a lot of powerful people -- including the editors of The Economist -- insist. But the truth could well be the opposite: It might be chemical-intensive agricu ...
  • Interview with Renowned Scientist David Suzuki ...
    Joseph Roberts: How did it all begin? David Suzuki: We started when the Worldwatch Institute said it's the turnaround decade. We thought we were only going to be here for 10 years. So we said every dollar we raise we're going to spend because we don't have time. Who would've imagined that 20 ye ...

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

  • Michael Glennon on Chapter VII and Congression ...
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson I don’t have anything of my own to add to the very instructive debate underway over Congressional authority and war powers, and actions authorized by the Security Council under Chapter VII.  However, to go with the terrific interventions by Michael Ram ...
  • Michael Glennon on Chapter VII and Congression ...
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson I don’t have anything of my own to add to the very instructive debate underway over Congressional authority and war powers, and actions authorized by the Security Council under Chapter VII.  However, to go with the terrific interventions by Michael Ram ...
  • United Nations Releases Guiding Principles for ...
    by Rachel Davis [Rachel Davis is Legal Advisor to the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Business and Human Rights] On March 24, the UN released a much-anticipated set of Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights. The Guiding Principles seek to provide for the fi ...
  • Declaring War and the Security Council
    by Michael Ramsey by Michael Ramsey In previous posts I’ve argued that the U.S. intervention in Libya requires congressional approval under the Constitution’s original meaning and that there’s no longstanding uncontested precedent that would warrant departure from that meaning.  Here I’ll con ...
  • Libya and the Three Modes of the Security Council
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson In my forthcoming book on US-UN relations (appearing this summer from Hoover Press), Living with the UN, I describe three different “modes” of the Security Council.  By this I mean ways in which the Security Council might function, for some given situat ...

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Opinion Piece Illustrates Mining Concerns
    North Dakota mine coal near South Heart. Citizens should be concerned about erionite, uranium, mercury and other potential contaminants which are prevalent in the South Heart area.Will mining companies forfeit their insufficient bonds for reclamation?Submitted by John Farnham to Environment � ...
  • BEYOND NUCLEAR
    Working for a world free from nuclear power and nuclear weapons. This is a great website with lots of updated information. With what we are seeing that is unfolding in Japan we need to pressure our Governments around the world to stop the insanity. Submitted by Dandelion G. to World �|� �Note- ...
  • Half a Million People Descended on London to P ...
    As many as 500,000 protesters marched in London on Saturday to protest Britain�s deepest cuts to public spending since World War II. Submitted by David Buchan to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Families grateful for ShelterBox Solution in Japan
    The ShelterBox Response Team (SRT) have been working with the local authorities to bring emergency shelter to families who lost their homes in the tsunamiSubmitted by EarthSpirit Angel to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • False Promise of Nuclear Energy
    At 16-17% total generation 1986-2005 nuclear power globally dropped to 14% with high up-front capital costs, long lead times for construction and commissioning, and drawn-out amortization periods that put off private investors.Submitted by John Farnham to Business �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

  • Cem Ertür: UK minister: Britain at risk of a n ...
    The Guardian, 26 March 2011 [propaganda alert] compiled by Cem Ertür 26 March 2011 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/25/kenneth-clarke-fears-new-lockerbie excerpts from: Clarke: UK at risk... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Puerto Rico: U.S. Census Shows Increase In Bor ...
    Puerto Rico: U.S. Census Shows Increase In Borikén’s Indigenous Population - Indigenous Peoples Issues and ResourcesThe 2010 U.S. Census count for Borikén (Puerto Rico) had some significant... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Black GOPer Cain: "I Will Not Appoint a Muslim ...
    Rod 2.0:Beta #gay #news #lgbt #gaynews: Black GOPer Cain: "I Will Not Appoint a Muslim Federal Judge": "Former Godfather's Pizza CEO Herman Cain and Atlanta radio talk show host Herman Cain is one of... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • ‘COINTELPRO 101’: an interview wit’ filmmaker ...
    ‘COINTELPRO 101’: an interview wit’ filmmaker Claude Marks | San Francisco Bay View: "“COINTELPRO 101” is a recently released documentary that takes a long hard look at the deeds of the U.S.... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Settler Receives 18 Months Sentence For Attack ...
    Settler Receives 18 Months Sentence For Attacking , Kidnapping A Palestinian Teen - International Middle East Media Center: "Israeli daily, Haaretz, reported that the verdict concluded that the... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • The BioPirates of Science: Genetic Engineering ...
    Only in America can a beleaguered company with a checker past such as Monsanto's, which includes a nasty little habit of poisoning entire towns with toxic waste, battle it's way to the top of the dung heap to deliver a fatal blow to the people and planet with a deadly and insidious type of chemi ...
  • EPA to Help Mainstream Media Obscure The Truth ...
    As Americans focus on March Madness and Dancing With the Stars instead of the radioactive plume spreading all across the country, the US EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) is attempting to make the mainstream media cover up of the Fukushima cloud a bit easier.
  • The Codex Alimentarius Irradiated Food Cover-up
    This proposal is merely another cover mechanism for the pretense of protecting the consumer with strong regulation, while allowing industry to do just what it wants, i.e. produce high levels of irradiated food to cover up unsanitary manufacturing practices.
  • 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.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • South Korea holds drills in Yellow Sea
    ShareThisSouth Korea holds drills in Yellow Sea 30 Mar 2011 Amid tensions between South Korea and the North, Seoul has staged a live-fire artillery exercise near an island where the two Koreas exchanged fire in November 2010. The exercise on Yeonpyeong Island near the tense Yellow Sea border beg ...
  • 6.0-magnitude quake hits Japan
    ShareThis6.0-magnitude quake hits Japan 30 Mar 2011 An earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale has shaken off the east coast of Japan's Honshu amid a nuclear crisis, the US Geological Survey says. The earthquake occurred at at 13:29 p.m. Beijing Time (05:29 GMT) on Wednesday as the nuclear ...
  • Longer jump for the polar bear
    ShareThisLonger jump for the polar bear --The maximum extent of Arctic sea ice before melting season starts is at its lowest ever measured by satellites. Without ice the polar bear hardly survives. 29 Mar 2011 Scientists at the University of Colorado have followed the extent of the Arctic ice ca ...
  • Obama not ruling out Libya arms
    ShareThisObama not ruling out Libya arms 29 Mar 2011 US President Barack Obama has said he does not rule out arming the rebels seeking to overthrow Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. He said in an interview that Col Gaddafi had been greatly weakened and would ultimately step down. Asked by U ...
  • Low-level radiation in three Southern states' air
    ShareThisLow-level radiation in three Southern states' air 28 Mar 2011 Low levels of radioactive iodine believed to be from Japan's disaster-stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have been detected in the atmosphere in South Carolina, North Carolina and Florida, officials said on Monday ...

Daily Loaf

  • Do It Today: the highly anticipated NCECA begi ...
    Hold onto your clay pots, NCECA is finally here! Click here for opening parties, online links and shuttle info. Also: Sickly Sweet in West Tampa; the Good, the Bad and Filthy at Fubar, and a mystery dinner at Spaghetti Warehouse.
  • Bolts crush Sens, inch closer to playoff berth
    The Tampa Bay Lightning had three goals on Tuesday night. First, beat an Ottawa team that had gotten the best of them in their last two games. Second, find a way to score on Ottawa goaltender Curtis McElhinney, and finally, with a bit of help, punch their ticket to the postseason for the firs ...
  • Must-click links: Gov. Rick Scott violates the ...
    Must-click links is a collection of (mostly random) movie and news links we hope will peak your interest and spark discussion. Send your suggestions for the next day’s post to anthonynicholas2@gmail.com.
  • Freebies of the month: events to ease the pain ...
    Free festivals, yoga and movies. Plus, did you know if you're an account holder with Bank of America, you can go to a few major museums for free this weekend? Or that you can visit Lowry Park Zoo gratis on your birthday?
  • CD review: Sam Friend, Lady Madly (with Q&A an ...
    Violin and mandolin play mixed with folksy guitar strums and harmonica hums create a debonair air that dances behind the melancholy falsetto of Miami singer-songwriter Sam Friend on his 2010 release, Lady Madly.

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

  • Calling BULLSHIT on Rolling Stone
    29 March 2011 Seldom do I waste time with rebutting articles, and especially not from publications like Rolling Stone.� Today, numerous people sent links to the latest Rolling Stone tripe.� The story is titled �THE KILL TEAM, THE FULL STORY.�� It should be titled: �BULLSHIT, from Rolling Stone. ...
  • Statement regarding Today's Attacks in Afghanistan
    28 March 2011
  • 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 ...

The Killing Train

  • Fukushima and low-probability events
    A friend from the movement asked me my thoughts on George Monbiot's article in the UK Guardian about how Fukushima actually converted him to nuclear power. George summarizes the Fukushima incident as follows: read more
  • 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 ...

treehugger

  • "The Killing" Sweater is an Organic and Faroe ...
    Photo: suite101 Now you've seen the sweater but have you seen the t.v show yet? The Killing is a huge sensation in Europe and Denmark and it is about to hit the USA. A 20 part thriller from the old scary school, the lead detective, an enigmatic woman, wears this hand-knit Faroe Island ...
  • Lipstick On A Pig Dept: KB Homes Slapping Sola ...
    Image credit KB Homes How could a TreeHugger not click onto a post title like KB Home proves that solar power isn't just for treehuggers. The monster builder is putting 1.4 kilowatt solar panels as a standard feature on every house in a California subdivision. KB's solar partner Sunpower sa ...
  • When I Die, Dissolve Me in Lye: The Liquid Cre ...
    Image credit: Katrina Wiese, used under Creative Commons license. From composting your corpse to greening your funeral, we've looked at plenty of options for more sustainable disposal of human remains. Perhaps the most controversial is chemical hydrolisis, in which bodies are dissolved in l ...
  • Alternate Wedding Gifts for the Royal Couple
    Photo: kikkerland It seems that the upcoming Royal Wedding is being taken more seriously abroad than it is at home in the UK. Ticket sales for flights out of the country during the royal weekend have skyrocketed and spoofs abound. Here is a choice selection of some of the better class ...
  • When Food Is High, Corn Gets Political & The C ...
    Those green states are where all the crazy food politics will be centered. Image credit:USDA In what may be one of my favorite news stories of the year, Green Fields: Expected acreage of corn isn't enough, survey shows, published in the Des Moines Register., the wacky Wall Street farmers at ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Supreme Court hears arguments on Wal-Mart clas ...
    [JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] heard oral arguments [day call, PDF; merit briefs] in Wal-Mart v. Dukes [oral argument transcript, PDF], a gender discrimination class action lawsuit estimated to include more than 1.5 million womenthe largest class action law ...
  • Nokia files new round of patent suits against ...
    [JURIST] Finnish telecommunications company Nokia [corporate website] announced Tuesday that it filed another complaint [press release] against Apple [corporate website] with the US International Trade Commission (ITC) [official website] in addition to a lawsuit filed in Delaware. Nokia's newest ...
  • UN prosecutors demand life sentence for ex-Yug ...
    [JURIST] UN prosecutors on Tuesday demanded that ex-Yugoslav army chief Momcilo Perisic [ICTY profile, PDF] receive a life sentence for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Perisic is on trial before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [official website], char ...
  • Supreme Court rules against health care provid ...
    [JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] on Tuesday ruled [opinion, PDF] unanimously in Astra USA v. Santa Clara County, CA [Cornell LII backgrounder] that health care providers that are third-party beneficiaries of a government contract may not sue drug companies fo ...
  • Supreme Court rejects failure-to-train claim o ...
    [JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] on Tuesday ruled [opinion, PDF] 5-4 in Connick v. Thompson [Cornell LII backgrounder; JURIST report] that a district attorney cannot be held liable under § 1983 [text] for a failure to train subordinates, reversing a jury awar ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • In the Event of a Shutdown, Who Wins?
    Aside from anarchists, Russia, China, and other sundry enemies of/competitors with the U.S. federal government, there will have to be a winner--a major U.S. political party--if the federal government shuts down amid a spending stalemate between Republicans and Democrats. Who will it be? Let's ...
  • A Justice Department Attorney on Anti-Muslim D ...
    Three weeks after Rep. Peter King's (R) widely publicized hearing on American Muslim radicalization, Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) held his own, converse hearing today examining the civil rights of Muslims in America. Durbin's was a smaller affair--a subcommittee, rather than full committee gath ...
  • Gallup: Pawlenty Gains Little Visibility After ...
    Even after he announced an exploratory committee and made his run for president all but official last week, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty's main problem remains the same: People don't know who he is. Gallup reports today: Despite the flurry of publicity that surrounded Pawlenty's announce ...
  • Pawlenty's Video Guy Used to Support Clinton
    The maker of Tim Pawlenty's slick presidential-exploratory announcement video is Lucas Baiano, a 22-year-old up-and-comer in the political-video ranks, according to marketing news site ClickZ. He also used to support Hillary Clinton: When Clinton dropped out of the race, Baiano dropped his supp ...
  • Unaware Reporters Are Listening, Schumer Revea ...
    When multiple senators hold a conference call to make a political point, it's usually not hard to pick out the talking points. They repeat the same words and phrases. It's typically obvious. But at a telephone press conference today, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and some of his colleagues didn't ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Maria Abusisi: ‘Ask Daddy to Buy Me a Barbie W ...
    In the midst of all the spookery and legal maneuverings of the Israeli security apparatus as it lumbers into action against Dirar Abusisi, we should remember the very real human beings in this case and the very real suffering that this is inflicting on them. Dirar’s brother, Yousef, told me he t ...
  • Josh Block ‘Discovers’ Iranian Democracy
    Josh Block, Aipac’s former PR flack and media enforcer, has a new perch at the rather inaptly named Progressive Policy Institute, the place where hawkish Democrats go to die politically.  Apparently, the PPI hired Josh because they didn’t have enough street cred with the pro-Israel crowd.  Jos ...
  • Bibi Names New Shin Bet Director, New Israeli ...
    Now, the other shoe has dropped.  Bibi Netanyahu has surprised everyone by naming as the new Shabak chief, Yoram Cohen (and in English), an Orthodox Jewish candidate for the job who was championed by the ultra-Orthodox, extremist settler community.  Bibi had long-planned to nominate Yitzhak Il ...
  • David Yerushalmi Threatens Defamation Lawsuit
    A short time ago I published a post about David Yerushalmi’s leadership of various state campaigns to ban Sharia law.  If you’ve been reading this blog for a few years you’ll remember back to 2007 when I wrote several posts about Yerushalmi’s leadership role in the campaign against New York’s K ...
  • 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 ...

Ode Magazine

  • Every little Dripp counts
    These days, instead of gushing jets of water, what comes out of the bathroom faucets at the Ben & Jerry’s ice cream factory in Hellendoorn, a small town in the eastern part of the Netherlands, are showers of tiny drops. That’s because the firm has installed 26 Dripps. Inv ...
  • A Japanese perspective
    By: Anne Thomas All of the letters I have sent so far have been my own. Recently I received the following email from a former student, who is now an adult and friend. She give things from a Japanese perspective, so I would like to share her words with ...
  • How everything fits together
    By: Anne Thomas Monday morning on TV we watched a baby being born. The mother was an evacuee in a shelter, but miraculously had been able to get to a hospital when labor began. It was so joyous to watch this teeny girl emerging into the world and to he ...
  • 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 ...

OpEd News

  • Prediction: 20 Years of War in Libya
    If, however, NATO and the opposition were to kill Gadaffi, he said, the fighting could go on for more than 20 years.
  • Obama on Libya: Defending the Indefensible
    Naked aggression in Libya
  • Veterans Respond Positively To Heart Centered ...
    The clinical documentation of the healing The Wounded Heart Workshop for combat veterans with PTSD has been completed for Band Of Brothers #5 and the average improvement for PTSD symptoms before and after the workshop was 58% ~ with a 70% improvement in dealing with anger issues and feelings of ...
  • The Deficit Hawks Target Nurses and Firefighters
    When Pozen talks about cutting benefits for higher-income earners he is not thinking of people like Peter Peterson or Robert Rubin. He has his gun sights on people earning $40,000 to $80,000 a year. In other words, Pozen wants to cut benefits for workers like schoolteachers, firefighters and nurses.
  • Long-term Afghan Presence Likely to Derail Pea ...
    The announcement by U.S. Deputy Undersecretary of Defence Michele Flournoy in Congressional testimony Mar. 15 that the United States would continue to carry out "counter-terrorism operations" from "joint bases" in Afghanistan well beyond 2014 signaled that President Barack Obama has given up the ...

Switchboard

  • Wall Street Journal's Baloney on EPA and Carbon
    David Doniger, Policy Director, NRDC Climate Center, Washington, D.C. They say passing legislation is like making sausage.  Well, at the Wall Street Journal, writing editorials is like making baloney.  On Monday the Journal unsurprisingly put its ...
  • International Conference Builds Momentum for R ...
    Leila Monroe, Staff Attorney, Oceans Program, San Francisco I’ve just returned from a week in paradise where I was immersed in the problem of plastic trash in the ocean.  The 5th International Marine Debris Conference (5IMDC) in Honolulu brought t ...
  • Men's Journal Highlights Climate Change in Yel ...
    Matt Skoglund, Wildlife Advocate, Livingston, Montana Dead whitebark pine trees in a high alpine basin in the Madison Mountains in Montana. The April issue of Men’s Journal features a lengthy article on climate change in Yellowstone. It’s a ...
  • 60 mpg is our best Energy Policy
    Roland Hwang, Transportation Program Director, San Francisco Tomorrow, President Obama is expected to deliver a speech to rebut efforts by Republican in Congress to roll back pollution protections and increase drilling.  According to the New York ...
  • Bayshore's "Fish-Killing Machine" Is A Poster ...
    Thom Cmar, Attorney, Chicago It isn’t fourth down, but U.S. EPA has sent its punt team on the field. Yesterday, U.S. EPA released a proposal for reducing fish kills from power plants’ cooling water intakes, as has been required by the Clean Water ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Saudis in Idaho
    Interesting article on the politics of training Saudi Air Force pilots in Idaho. Long story short, politicians happy to take part in rancorous anti-Muslim diatribes on the “Ground Zero Mosque” are also happy to have Saudi pilots stationed locally if it means a cash windfall. I suspect that the ...
  • Submitted for your approval
    Assume you’re a coach of a basketball team that features a great offensive player who is awful on defense — an undersized point guard who is a brilliant play maker but whose relative lack of size and strength makes him mostly a liability on D (Steve Nash), or a small forward who can light it [. ...
  • Kennedy and the First Amendment
    Depressingly, it looks as if Kennedy will vote to strike down the Arizona campaign finance law. Should he vote the way he seemed to be leaning at oral argument, a case worth pondering is Rust v. Sullivan. In that case, the Supreme Court upheld the first Bush administration’s reproductive fre ...
  • Random Airport Blogging, LHR Edition
    I’m sitting in the Star Alliance lounge in Terminal 1, awaiting the beginning of my LHR-SFO-PDX journey, having been awake since 0400 (to catch the 4.5 hour bus journey from Plymouth* to Heathrow), drinking for free.  At least the last part is a good thing. British academics, specifically those ...
  • So We Averted Another Srebrenica.
    Dan Drezner thinks the problem is Obama’s PR team. But Tom Malinowski of Human Rights Watch provided a different explanation yesterday for why Obama is not getting more credit, having stopped a massive atrocity, and all. Precisely because the international community acted in timeâbefore Qaddafi ...

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.

  • Study: Job discrimination hits low-income wome ...
    Discrimination lawsuits brought by working professionals tend to draw public attention, but it's low-wage workers who suffer the harshest consequences in those circumstances, according to a new report.
  • Court upholds closed-captioning for deaf fans ...
    Music blasted over the public address system during Washington Redskins games is part of the entertainment experience, and deaf fans should have access to the lyrics of those songs, a federal appeals court has ruled.
  • Evidence suppressed in FCPA prosecution
    A federal judge has suppressed statements by a key defendant in a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act prosecution who wasn't warned of his Miranda rights during an FBI raid, but denied motions to dismiss the charges on ground of prosecutorial misconduct.
  • Tough sale for plaintiffs in Wal-Mart case
    The massive gender discrimination class action against retail giant Wal-Mart ran into strong resistance at the Supreme Court on Tuesday, after surviving lower court challenges ever since it was launched 10 years ago.
  • Doctor sues Mass General over its claim to her ...
    A Massachusetts General Hospital doctor has sued the hospital and its parent company in Massachusetts state court because it claimed intellectual property rights to an invention she says she created on her own time using her own resources.

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

environment 360

  • Malaysian Forestry Claims Refuted by Google Ea ...
    While officials in the state of Sarawak in Malaysian Borneo have insisted that 70 percent of the region’s forest cover is intact, satellite images indicate that far more widespread deforestation is taking place. A review Click to enlarge Google EarthForest loss in Sarawak of Google Earth ima ...
  • Solar ‘Artificial Leaf’ Is Unveiled by MIT Re ...
    MIT chemist Daniel Nocera has unveiled details about his long-awaited “artificial leaf” invention, a small solar cell that mimics photosynthesis and has the potential to produce low-cost electricity for individual homes — an advance that could be particularly valuable in the developing world, wh ...
  • 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 ...
  • Wind Speeds Increasing On World’s Oceans, Stud ...
    Average wind speeds and wave heights have been rising on the world’s oceans over the last quarter century, a trend that could portend more intense storms, hurricanes, and cyclones, according to a new study. Using satellite altimeter data from 1985 to 2008, Australian researchers calculated that ...
  • Important Vegetation Shift Documented in Siber ...
    As Russia’s enormous boreal forest undergoes rapid warming, a significant shift in tree species is occurring, with evergreen trees such as spruce and fir creeping poleward as the iconic tree of Russia’s far north, the larch, is in decline, according to a new study. Wikimedia Commons Researchers ...

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

  • Russia’s most-wanted terrorist reportedly kill ...
    Doku Umarov, who is listed alongside the world’s most dangerous terrorists by the UN Security Council’s Sanctions Committee, has allegedly been killed in the Republic of Ingushetia. Russian Air Forces bombed a militant...
  • Al-Qaeda may strike in coalition countries ove ...
    The UK's Secret Service MI5 has growing concerns that Libyan expats are plotting terrorist attacks in Britain, according to reports. It would be seen as revenge for bombing raids by European countries on Colonel...
  • NATO takes command in Libya, approves ‘No-fly ...
    NATO ambassadors have unanimously approved a so-called "no-fly plus" plan that will make the alliance responsible for protecting civilians as well as enforcing a no-fly zone and an arms embargo.
  • 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 11,000.

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

  • Domestic violence
    The statistics are startling: It's estimated that every 18 minutes a woman in the United States is beaten. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Yes, trafficking happens right here
    A common misconception about human trafficking and modern slavery is that it does not happen here. But it does. It's a documented fact. Take the case of two girls, ages 15 and 16, who ran away from a juvenile home in Fremont in 2007.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a ...
  • Human smuggling
    THERE is no doubt that rampant poverty, unemployment and a bleak future stare young Pakistanis in the face. The situation invariably provides a breeding ground Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • GM Food: Facts Not Crops. Take Action!
    To the President of the European Commission J.M. Barroso: We call on you to put a moratorium on the introduction of GM crops into Europe and set up an independent, ethical, scientific body to research the impact of GM crops .. Sign the petition!Submitted by Graeme that's Graeme to Green Life ...
  • Public opinion stopped GM, says campaigner + T ...
    Interesting article in The Independent in which Lord Melchett, the former director of Greenpeace, speaks out. Also, have you signed this Avaaz petition yet? http://www.avaaz.org/en/eu_gmo/?cl=743766348&v=7138 (You'll have to copy + paste the link!)Submitted by Graeme that's Graeme to Enviro ...

The Freeman

  • New Mortgage Security Rules in the Offing
    “Banks will be forced to retain some risk when they securitize all but the most conservative mortgages under rules that regulators are expected to vote on Tuesday. But the banks are likely to be given wide leeway in determining what risks to keep.” (New York Times) Once again the government prom ...
  • Energy Dept. Promises Smoother Path for Entrep ...
    “U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu is making it easier for start-up companies to license groundbreaking technologies developed by the National Laboratories. Chu announced Tuesday the department will reduce the total upfront cost of licensing patents in a specific technology to a $1,000 fee for po ...
  • When Police Interrogate Children
    The Supreme Court will now consider what it means both to be a “reasonable person” and to be “in custody.” Whatever the ruling, it will almost certainly impact the authority police exert over public-school students, perhaps dramatically so.
  • D.C. School Success Comes under Suspicion
    “In just two years, Crosby S. Noyes Education Campus went from a school deemed in need of improvement to a place that the District of Columbia Public Schools called one of its âshining stars.â⦠A closer look at Noyes, however, raises questions about its test scores from 2006 to 2010â¦. A USA TO ...
  • Walmart Challenge to Class-Action Suit Hits Hi ...
    “Like the retail behemoth at its center, everything about the Supreme Court extravaganza known as Wal-Mart v. Dukes is super-sized. The number of women who could be included in the sex discrimination class-action suit is measured in millions. The amount of damages for which the nationâs largest ...

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

  • Watchdog analysis suggests recent Gulf oil spi ...
    The same watchdog group that showed the federal government was low-balling the estimate of last year's BP oil spill rate is now saying that the size of the latest oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was also underestimated. SkyTruth, a West Virginia-based nonprofit, analyzed recent satellite imager ...
  • On anniversary of Three Mile Island disaster, ...
    Greenpeace is holding more than 160 candlelight vigils across the United States today to show support for the people of Japan as they continue to deal with the impacts of the March 11 earthquake, tsunami and still-unfolding crisis at the Fukushima nuclear plant. The actions come on th ...
  • Lawsuit against New Orleans hospital settles s ...
    By Sheri Fink, ProPublica Tenet Healthcare has settled the class-action lawsuit brought on behalf of people trapped in Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. The amount was not immediately announced. The agreement came days after jury selection began and averts a ...
  • 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 ...

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 )

  • FDA chemist charged with insider trading
    Few are better placed to beat the market - illegally - than employees intimately involved with new drug marketing approvals at the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The temptation was apparently too much for Cheng Yi Liang, a 57-year-old chemist in FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Resea ...
  • Mercury, as seen from orbit
    Posted on behalf of Adam Mann. Mercury, the solar system’s smallest planet and a font of geophysical enigmas, is now squarely in researcher’s sights. On 29 March, NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft radioed back the first ever images taken from orbit around Mercury, including never-before-seen portio ...
  • Counting corpses underestimates Deepwater Hori ...
    Posted on behalf of Melissa Gaskill. A paper published today in Conservation Letters suggests that the number of whales and dolphins killed during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill could be as much as 50 times that originally reported. During the disaster, the US government compiled figur ...
  • Digitizing Jane Goodall's legacy at Duke
    Cross posted on behalf of Jason Goldman from Scientific American. Fifty years ago, in the summer of 1960--the same year that a U.S. satellite snapped the first photo of the Earth from space, the same year that the CERN particle accelerator became operational, the same year that the Beatles go ...
  • Ants and termites increase crop yields
    Coming soon to a farm near you?Ants and termites can massively increase crop yields on arid farms, according to an Australian research team. Humans could use the insects as ‘ecosystem engineers’, as they do for dry places what earthworms do in damper climes, says Theodore Evans, of Australi ...

new geography

  • Hanoi’s Underground Capitalism
    Along the pitted elegance of Pho Ngo Quyen, a bustling street in Hanoi, Vietnam, you will, predictably, find uniformed men in Soviet-style uniforms, banners with Communist Party slogans, and grandfatherly pictures of Ho Chi Minh. Yet, capitalism thrives everywhere else in this community ...
  • The Accelerating Suburbanization of New York
    Some of the best evidence that the tide has not turned against dispersion and suburbanization comes from an unlikely source:  New York�s 2010 census results. If dense urbanism works anywhere in America, it does within this greatest of US traditional urban areas. Before the actual count, the ...
  • Vietnam, No Longer an Underdeveloped Country
    The most recent estimates for 2010 indicate that Vietnam is no longer among the underdeveloped countries of the world and has moved onto the ranks of middle-income countries.  Financial remittances – better known as money being sent back to the home country – have lent a critical hand in acc ...
  • 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 ...

GM Watch

spiked

Cryptogon

  • Food Inflation Kept Hidden in Tinier Bags
    Via: New York Times: Chips are disappearing from bags, candy from boxes and vegetables from cans. Nabisco’s Fresh Stacks package of saltines, top, contains about 15 percent fewer crackers than the old package. As an expected increase in the cost of raw materials looms for late summer, consumers ...
  • Cost of War in Libya: $600 Million for First Week
    Via: ABC News: One week after an international military coalition intervened in Libya, the cost to U.S. taxpayers has reached at least $600 million, according figures provided by the Pentagon.
  • Spanish Ghost Towns
    Via: Guardian: Sightseers come to Spain for the Alhambra, the Gaudis, the beaches. But Spaniards talk about a new set of landmarks, a kind of tourist anti-attraction. You can find them clustered on the outskirts of big cities and around holiday resorts, in Madrid and Valencia. They are half-comp ...
  • Secret X-37B Space Plane Spotted Again by Amat ...
    Via: Space: After an intense search, a crew of amateur satellite sleuths has spotted the U.S. Air Force’s second X-37B space plane â a robotic spacecraft that launched into orbit March 5. The mission of the unmanned X-37B space plane, which is known officially as the Orbital Test Vehicle 2 (OTV- ...
  • U.S. Says Libyan Rebels May Sell Oil
    Via: Reuters: The United States on Monday gave a green light to sales of Libyan crude oil from rebel-held territory, giving a potential boost to forces battling Muammar Gaddafi. A U.S. Treasury Department official said Libyan rebels would not be subject to U.S. sanctions if they avoid entities l ...

The Economic Collapse

  • Wow That Was Fast! Libyan Rebels Have Already ...
    The rebels in Libya are in the middle of a life or death civil war and Moammar Gadhafi is still in power and yet somehow the Libyan rebels have had enough time to establish a new Central Bank of Libya and form a new national oil company.  Perhaps when this conflict is over those ...
  • Will Financial Problems In Portugal Cause The ...
    Most Americans have no idea just how bad the financial problems over in Europe are right now.  The truth is that the entire European financial system is teetering on the brink of disaster.  Ireland and Greece have already received bailouts and Portugal, Spain, Italy, France and ...
  • How Is The Central Economic Planning That The ...
    Most Americans believe that we still live in a capitalist system and that free markets primarily determine the growth and development of our economy.  But is that really the case?  No, sadly it is not.  The truth is that the U.S. Federal Reserve does a tremendous amount of centr ...
  • Shaken: 10 Economic Disasters Which Threaten T ...
    2011 has already been the most memorable year in ages and we haven't even reached April yet.  Revolutions have swept the Middle East, an unprecedented earthquake and tsunami have hit Japan, civil war has erupted in Libya, the price of oil has been soaring and the entire globe is ...
  • Inflation Is Here – Just Open Up Your Ey ...
    Despite what Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says, rampant inflation is officially here.  The federal government is constantly monkeying with the numbers to keep the "official" rate of inflation below 2 percent, but it is becoming very difficult to deny that the cost of al ...

Desertification

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    Read at the fantastic website of Marty WARE : http://www.pottedvegetablegarden.com/ The Potted Vegetable Garden The beautiful thing about a Potted Vegetable Garden is anyone can do it, even someone with limited space. Just about any type of vegetable, herb or … Continue reading →
  • Growing and Eating More Using Less (Never Endi ...
    ===================== Read at : http://www.neverendingfood.org/h-low-input-manual/ Low Input Manual In 2005, Stacia was contacted by the World Food Programme (WFP) in Malawi to consult on a project that would begin to assist relief and donor agencies to look beyond food aid … Continue reading →
  • Never Ending Food’s Permaculture Manager in Ma ...
      ================ Read at : http://www.neverendingfood.org/ Meet Never Ending Foodâs New Full-Time Permaculture Manager (Feb. 2011) Never Ending Food has recently hired a full-time Permaculture Manager.  His name is Luwayo Biswick and he is literally âone in a million!â  Luwayo … Continue rea ...
  • Desertification in Northern China (Google / St ...
        ================= Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/ssd/2011/Presentations/112/ The Increase in Recent Years of Desertification in Northern China: Local and Global Impacts Nathan Krings, Grand Valley State University2 Mentor Information Kin Ma, makin@gvsu. ...
  • Food Security in China (Google / ISN)
      ==================== Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.isn.ethz.ch/isn/Current-Affairs/ISN-Insights/Detail?lng=en&id=128073&contextid734=128073&contextid735=127105&tabid=127105 Feeding Billions: Food Security in China China is approaching a turning point in its food security ...

The Paper Trail

  • New York City pension fund to post stock picks ...
    NEW YORK — The city's comptroller announced Monday that he plans to make public the inner workings of one of the nation's largest public pension fund systems, letting residents see which companies' stocks are being bought with their tax dollars and monitor the performance of more than $113 billi ...
  • Fact Check: Do Obama’s Libya claims fit ...
    There may be less than meets the eye to President Obama's statements Monday night that NATO is taking over from the U.S. in Libya and that U.S. action is limited to defending people under attack there by Moammar Gadhafi's forces.
  • Supreme Court may strike another blow to campa ...
    The Supreme Court appeared poised Monday to strike down a provision of a campaign financing system in Arizona that gives extra cash to publicly funded candidates who face privately funded rivals and independent groups.
  • New oil refinery in South Dakota says it will ...
    The company planning to build the nation’s first new major oil refinery in 35 years will use a safer technology as a substitute for a highly toxic acid that can travel great distances and threaten nearby communities.
  • 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.

backofthebook.ca

  • The Pacioretty effect
    By David Bitonti Hockey has been a huge part of my family for generations. When I was a kid, back in the ‘80s, every Saturday evening after my brother and I played our own minor league game, we'd all pile up in the living room to watch the Montreal Canadiens on ...
  • 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 ...

libcom

  • Walk-Out and March in Ithaca NY
    Crossing the street.jpg Students from the Lehman Alternative Community School walked out in solidarity with Wisconsin and democracy. Students from the Lehman Alternative Commun ...
  • European Court of Human Rights absolves Italy ...
    CarloGiuliani5.jpg On March 24 the European Court of Human Rights fully absolved Italy of the death of Carlo Giuliani during the anti-G8 protests of 2001 in Genoa. With 13 vote ...
  • Locked out Vivergo Fuels workers march on Hull
    HUKW20110328A-025_C.jpg A reported 500 march from the new BP site at Saltend to the Hull city centre over job losses There was support shown by workers of North Lincolnshire re ...
  • 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. ...

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

  • “Greater Israel” — Great Art ...
    The Ongoing Plot To Create “Greater Israel” Wednesday, March 23, 2011 7:29 “Greater Israel”–from the Nile to the Euphrates–from the Bible, of course.. “Our task consists of preparing the Israeli army for the new war approaching in order to achieve our ultimate goal, the creation of an Israeli em ...
  • Scalar Weapons — All You Need to Know.
    Recently, my friend and colleague Jeff Rense absolutely pooh-poohed even the THOUGHT that the Japanese earthquake was man-made. How sad.  I submit that any talk show hosts that subscribe to this line of thinking are either: a) misinformed, b) ignorant of the science, or c) are willfully engaging ...
  • 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!!!

du la bab - Now is the Time

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

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

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

Scotts Contracting

  • RELEASE: United States Slipped to Third in Cle ...
    United States Slipped to Third in Clean Energy Race Global Investment in Sector Reached Record $243 Billion in 2010 For immediate release Tuesday, March 29, 2011 WASHINGTON â The U.S. competitive position in the clean energy sector is deteriorating, as the country slipped to third place in terms ...
  • 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 ...

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • بررسی وضعیت تحصیلی مهدی هاشمی در دانشگاه آکسفورد
    در پی انتشار گزارشی در روزنامه گاردین، مهدی هاشمی، پسر اکبر هاشمی رفسنجانی، این اتهام را که برای تحصیل در مقطع دکترا در دانشگاه آکسفورد بریتانیا از امتیازات تبعیض آمیز برخوردار شده است رد کرد.read more
  • پلیس سنندج بار دیگر هدف حمله مسلحانه قرار گرفت
    افراد نیروی انتظامی در شهر سنندج بار دیگر هدف حمله مسلحانه قرار گرفته اند. خبرگزاری مهر گزارش کرده است که افراد مسلح ناشناس در شامگاه یکشنبه این هفته به سوی یک دستگاه خودرو متعلق به گشت پلیس راهنمایی و رانندگی شهر سنندج، مرکز استان کردستان، تیراندازی کردند.
  • Hacker in Iran Claims Responsibility for Attack
    An individual identifying himself as a 21-year-old software engineering student in Iran has claimed responsibility for the recent computer attack of a U.S. security company that could have lured Iranian users to fake versions of major websites and compromised their online communications. read more
  • Iran is top of the world in science growth
    Which country's scientific output rose 18-fold between 1996 and 2008, from 736 published papers to 13,238? The answer – Iran – might surprise many people, especially in the western nations used to leading science. Iran has the fastest rate of increase in scientific publication in the world. rea ...
  • قتل یک زندانی سیاسی توسط ماموران امنیتی رژیم
    ازم به ذکر است طی چند روز اخیر حدود ۲٣۴ نفر از فعالان فرهنگی و اجتماعی در شهرهای مختلف استان خوزستان دستگیر شده اند که سی و پنج نفر از آنان به مکان های نامعلوم منتقل شده اند.

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Wyeth Stocks Soar While Women Die
    Six Decades of False and Misleading Marketing Estrogen, a hormone regulating the development and function of the female reproductive system, was first discovered in 1925. In the 1930s, the drug company Wyeth developed a process (viewed as barbaric by animal rights activists) to extract conjugate ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • To our good and loyal subjects: After ponderin ...
    … We have understood that to effect a settlement of the present situation We need to resort to an extraordinary measure. We should have ordered Our Government long ago to communicate to the people of Japan and to the world that Our Empire should not embark on a scheme of using nuclear energy for ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Debunking Five Myths about Gas Prices
    Join the forum discussion on this post An Expanded Look at Five Myths about Gas Prices This past week I had an article published in the Washington Post called Five Myths about Gas Prices. I will discuss each particular myth in detail below, but the five myths I addressed were: Fighting in ...
  • Will Range Anxiety Impact Electric Car Sales?
    Join the forum discussion on this post I have always liked the concept of electric cars. I could imagine a future in which fleets of electric cars are being charged by electricity from clean sources, and where the impact of peak oil won’t be especially burdensome. In a story I did last year cov ...
  • 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 ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • Concerned Consumers Nationwide Demand GMO Labeling
    RODALE NEWS, NEW YORK CITY, NY—According to official surveys, 90 percent of Americans want to know if they're eating genetically modified (GMO) foods read more
  • Organic Eggs to Get New Regs
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Lots of people buy organic eggs because they don't want to support inhumane, environmentally unsound factory farms. And federal regulations for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) organic certification are intended to foster the most natural behavior possible for the a ...
  • 6 Tasty Vegetarian Sources of Protein
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—We all need protein to survive. But there's a common misconception that we need all our protein from meat, milk, and other animal-based sources. Past studies have shown that relying too heavily on red meat as a source of protein can impair your vision and shorten your li ...
  • 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 ...

big think

  • One day only: A sneak peak at Erta Ale
    Today only, we get a limited engagement preview of new show on Erta Ale (top left) made by one of�Eruptions�reader�Michael�Dalton. As a thank you for all the news and discussion on the website, Michael is allowing me to link to a rough version of the first episode (mind you, it does have some .. ...
  • The Universe Is a Symphony of Vibrating Strings
    Every Wednesday, Michio Kaku will be answering reader questions about physics and futuristic science. If you have a question for Dr. Kaku, just post it in the comments section below and check back on Wednesdays to see if he answers it. Today, Dr. Kaku�addresses a question�posed by�John Menon:� ...
  • Write Like The New Yorker’s Rick Hertzberg
    Hertzberg wrote one of the simplest, and most elegant, blog posts (this form truly needs a new descriptive terminology) in response to President Obama’s speech on Libya. It was concise. It was humble. It was careful not to say too many things and so left readers remembering one thing clearly: th ...
  • Members Only: Relics of the Age of Relics and ...
    Those of us who lived through the 1980s remember well the phenomenon of the Members Only jacket. Whether you’ve found one in the back of your closet or not, you can’t help but look back and wonder what we “members” were thinking. A similar phenomenon surrounds the modern perception of the mediev ...
  • Why didn’t Jane Austen Write “Pride and Polygyny”?
    IT is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. So wrote Jane Austen in the opening line of her novel Pride and Prejudice. With his fortune of �100,000 (which today would be worth about �4,950,000 or almost $8,000,000), one ...

Information Liberation

  • Police Leave Teens Locked in Freezing Cold Van ...
    Police who busted a Fort Lee, N.J., high school house party over the weekend left a van full of teens locked up and parked outside in the freezing cold for 14 hours without food, water or access to a bathroom. Officials only realized what had happ...
  • Radley Balko on the 3 Worst Cases of Police Ab ...
    Due to the violence depicted and discussed in this video, viewer discretion is advised. The 1991 beating of Rodney King by the Los Angeles Police Department, which came to light after being caught on video by a citizen trying out a video camera,...
  • Pushing Buttons Like the Jetsons
    In the classic and futuristic television series from 1962 to 1963 * I admit that I adore this show and could watch every episode 100 times * people work only a few hours a day, travel at 500 miles per hour in flying cars that go as fast as 2,500 mile...
  • Can We Live Free in an Unfree World
    This presentation was given at the Agora Unconference, on March 27, 2011 Stefan Molyneux, a well-known anarchist, gave a great talk last year where he pointed out that, "The enforcement of the state does not come from the state. It comes ...
  • The Return of the Return of Anarchism
    *[A]n ideological philosophy and political movement that had been thought of as a dusty oddity, a relic of the late 19th century, has returned to the fore,* writes Abe Greenwald in Commentary. Worse yet, opines Greenwald, this return is fraught with ...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • What Is Libertarianism Part II
    Since I published my original short article on this subject, a number of you have asked me to make some clarifications and extensions. I thought it appropriate to deal with some of those today. Last August on this site, Dr … Continue reading →
  • 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 →

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

  • Problem Formulation for Human Health Risk Asse ...
    National Center for Environmental Assessment, US EPA http://cfpub.epa.gov/ncea/cfm/recordisplay.cfm?deid=231964 Millions of tons of treated sewage sludges or “biosolids” are applied annually to farms, forests, rangelands, mine lands and other types of land in the United States. Biosolids are def ...
  • The Myth of Green Energy Jobs: The European Ex ...
    American Enterprise Institute / by Kenneth P. Green http://www.aei.org/outlook/101026 With $2.3 billion in Recovery Act tax credits allocated for green manufacturers, President Barack Obama and other Democratic politicians have high hopes for green technology. But their expectations clash with b ...
  • Rescuing the Clean Air Act from Obsolescence
    American Enterprise Institute / by David Schoenbrod and Melissa Witte (AEI Outlook Series) http://www.aei.org/outlook/101029 Key points in this Outlook: • The Clean Air Act created a strict regulatory track for dealing with the most important pollutants, but the EPA has decided not to apply it t ...
  • Your New Electric Car Emits 75 gCO2/km (at the ...
    Ecometrica / by Gary Davis http://d3u3pjcknor73l.cloudfront.net/assets/media/pdf/electric_car_emits_75_gCO2_per_km.pdf [From Press Release]  With no tailpipe emissions, electric cars are being hailed as the future of motoring. However, some argue that generating the electricity required to power ...
  • Roadmap to a Single European Transport Area &# ...
    European Commission http://ec.europa.eu/transport/strategies/2011_white_paper_en.htm The European Commission adopted a roadmap of 40 concrete initiatives for the next decade to build a competitive transport system that will increase mobility, remove major barriers in key areas and fuel growth an ...

Scientific American - News

  • The Anti-Predictor: A Chat with Mathematical S ...
    Early in his new book, Everything Is Obvious: *Once You Know the Answer (Crown Business, 2011), Duncan Watts tells a story about the late sociologist Paul Lazarsfeld, who once described an intriguing research result: Soldiers from a rural background were happier during World War II than thei ...
  • Lost in Triangulation: Leonardo da Vinci's Mat ...
    Artist, inventor and philosopher Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) was without a doubt a genius. Yet, there is some criticism. In his book 1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance (William Morrow, 2008) British author and retired submarine commander ...
  • Shift in Northern Forests Could Increase Globa ...
    Boreal forests across the Northern hemisphere are undergoing rapid, transformative shifts as a result of a warming climate that, in some cases, is triggering feedback loops producing even more regional warming, according to several new studies.Russia's boreal forest - the largest continuous expa ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Part 4 (Audrey Redman): Decolonization Begins ...
    Closing panel for Israeli Apartheid Week 2011 in Montreal Much as indigenous Palestinians have been resisting displacement from their lands since 1948 and even before, the original peoples of Turtle Island (“North America”) have been strug ...
  • Part 3 (Ben Powless): Decolonization Begins At ...
    Closing panel for Israeli Apartheid Week 2011 in Montreal Much as indigenous Palestinians have been resisting displacement from their lands since 1948 and even before, the original peoples of Turtle Island (“North America”) have been strug ...
  • Part 2 (Clifton Nicholas): Decolonization Begi ...
    Closing panel for Israeli Apartheid Week 2011 in Montreal Much as indigenous Palestinians have been resisting displacement from their lands since 1948 and even before, the original peoples of Turtle Island (“North America”) have been strug ...
  • Introduction: Decolonization Begins At Home
    Closing panel for Israeli Apartheid Week 2011 in Montreal Much as indigenous Palestinians have been resisting displacement from their lands since 1948 and even before, the original peoples of Turtle Island (“North America”) have been strug ...
  • GroundWire, Mar. 27
    Mass Arrest in Montreal | Ramping Up Mandatory Minimums for Marijuana | Nuclear Nightmare Impacts Ontario | Ability from All Angles | Vancouver Island Faculty Striking For more info:�http://groundwire.ncra.ca Headlines: Obama's Special Adv ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Without a "Golden Voice" or a "Golden Kidney". ...
    David Seaton's News LinksThe story of a homeless beggar with a "golden voice" has caught the world's imagination. The man in question, Ted Williams, is charming and witty, with suffering written all over him, and it is impossible not to wish him well.� From one moment to the next, this poor m ...
  • Poor United States, so far from God and so clo ...
    The lesson of the past few years: Watch out for things that can go massively wrong. What could go massively wrong in 2011? Let's start next door, with Mexico.� Mexico drug war a nightmare scenario - CNNDavid Seaton's News LinksI put the quote above, one that I have taken at random from CNN, to a ...
  • A Valentine story
    David Seaton's News LinksI thought something romantic and sad was required for Valentine's day and thinking about it, up popped the saddest love story I remember. A story that if it wasn't true would be pure schmaltz. This all happened when I was a little kid.� My stepfather was a doctor of musi ...
  • Ending the First Decade of the 21rst Century
    David Seaton's News LinksSometimes after writing a long, rather ponderous piece like my last one, I like to follow it with a shorter and lighter version of more or less the same thing. This is some sort of a parallel text that grows out of its predecessor. We are at the end of the first decad ...
  • New Year's 2011... singing in Grover Norquist' ...
    Singing in the bathtub Happy once again Watching all my troubles Go swinging down the drain Singing through the soap suds Life is full of hope You can sing with feeling While feeling for the soap. "Singing in the Bathtub" David Seaton's News Links It's New Year's; this is when we are supposed t ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

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Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • The Root Cause of Cancer Almost Universally Ig ...
    In 1971 President Nixon and Congress declared war on cancer. So what's happened in the 40 years since? After weeding out the hype and filling in the actual statistics, it turns out, not much. "These summary statistics show that the war on cancer has not gone well," says the article's author, ...
  • What are the 10 Things that Can Pack on Pounds?
    By Dr. Mercola In today's world it's harder than ever to keep your weight under control, as evidenced by the fact that over 2/3 of all American adults are now overweight or obese. In fact, an alarming bit of information came to my attention in 2009, when CDC statistics revealed that in the ...
  • These 7 Foods are a MASSIVE Waste of Your Money...
    Did you know that even the lowest-priced supermarket is brimming with complete rip-offs? From health foods that aren't healthy to gourmet foods that aren't gourmet, every store is chock-full of items that can be a big wallop to your pocketbook, unless you know the secrets to shopping wisely. A ...
  • Breakfast is Not So G-r-r-reat When Your Only ...
    But while this sounds philanthropic, feeding children highly-processed junk foods is not the answer. As part of this project, Kellogg is promoting foods such as Frosted Flakes, which contains 11 grams of sugar per three-fourths cup serving, and Nutri-Grain bars, which contain high-fructose-corn ...
  • 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 ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • British parliamentarians discuss CKGR issue
    Xoroxloo Duxee died of dehydration after the Bushmen's water borehole was disabled. © Survival The future of the Bushmen of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve has been raised in the British House of Lords this month. Longstanding supporters of the Bushmen, Lord Avebury and Lord Pearson of Ra ...
  • Indians take on Amazon loggers
    Ceramic pots found in the Isconahua reserve are evidence of the presence of these isolated Indians. © Pepe Villacorta / ProNaturaleza Peruvian Indians have been forced to set up a guard post to protect an uncontacted Indians’ reserve, after the authorities ignored their repeated pleas for ...
  • 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

  • Potholes strike again
    On March 21, you published my letter regarding pothole damage ("One pothole story"). A week later, my husband Ed was driving on Décarie Blvd. and had a blowout on the opposite tire because of the numerous potholes on that road.
  • Tabachnick's resignation is a loss for community
    With the resignation of Marcus Tabachnick as chairman of the Lester B. Pearson School Board, anglophone Quebec is losing one of its most forceful advocates.
  • Quebecers want in? Don't vote for the Bloc
    With a federal election in the offing, there's been an outbreak of late here in Quebec of griping by political personalities and commentators that the province's interests and preoccupations are getting precious little attention from the national political parties and the rest-of-Canada populati ...
  • Why not ferries?
    The letter urges a new bridge. I have a much cheaper solution. Start a ferry service on two locations until the bridges are repaired. You cannot repair a bridge properly while using it. The ferries would cost a fraction of the cost of a new bridge.
  • Enough!
    Yet another Canadian soldier (the 155th) becomes a victim of a roadside bomb in Kandahar.

Food World Order

  • 'toxic waste bubble gum' recalled for lead con ...
    from food freedom: Believe it or not, there is actually a product on the market called “Toxic Waste Short Circuits Bubble Gum.” How’s that for subliminally mind-warping your children into thinking toxic waste is fun and tastes good, too! Ironically, the Pakistani product has been recalled for ...
  • '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 ...

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

  • Wow That Was Fast! Libyan Rebels Have Already ...
    The rebels in Libya are in the middle of a life or death civil war and Moammar Gadhafi is still in power and yet somehow the Libyan rebels have had enough time to establish a new Central Bank of Libya and form a new national oil company.  Perhaps when this conflict is over those ...
  • Will Financial Problems In Portugal Cause The ...
    Most Americans have no idea just how bad the financial problems over in Europe are right now.  The truth is that the entire European financial system is teetering on the brink of disaster.  Ireland and Greece have already received bailouts and Portugal, Spain, Italy, France and ...
  • How Is The Central Economic Planning That The ...
    Most Americans believe that we still live in a capitalist system and that free markets primarily determine the growth and development of our economy.  But is that really the case?  No, sadly it is not.  The truth is that the U.S. Federal Reserve does a tremendous amount of centr ...
  • Shaken: 10 Economic Disasters Which Threaten T ...
    2011 has already been the most memorable year in ages and we haven't even reached April yet.  Revolutions have swept the Middle East, an unprecedented earthquake and tsunami have hit Japan, civil war has erupted in Libya, the price of oil has been soaring and the entire globe is ...
  • Inflation Is Here – Just Open Up Your Ey ...
    Despite what Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says, rampant inflation is officially here.  The federal government is constantly monkeying with the numbers to keep the "official" rate of inflation below 2 percent, but it is becoming very difficult to deny that the cost of al ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Caught Out! You Can't Trust The Tories on Nati ...
    A silent assassination took place at Westminster yesterday. While the ridiculous loon that is Ed Miliband humiliated himself and the Labour cause at Hyde Park on Saturday, a much quieter and more dignified politician delicately placed the poisoned dagger into the heart of the Conservative Par ...
  • EU propaganda organ, the taxpayer funded BBC, ...
    'Man made global warming', 'left-wing' bias, European Union mouthpiece.... ...and now an organ of U.S. State Department propaganda? See: UKIP MEPs - BBC World Service and US State Department: new partners, new bias?
  • Patsy! Al-Qaeda exposed as globalist puppets
    Okay, the genesis of this post needs to be explained before I go for the main point of it. Even on the day of the 9/11 attacks, my eyes saw the televised spectaculars and something told me that something was not quite right. The images did, for a while, make me feel all war-mongerish - I c ...
  • Spotted! Gordon Brown is plotting the next ste ...
    You wondered where Gordon Brown had vanished to, huh? While we're paying him to be a Member of Parliament, he doesn't turn up. He is never seen in Westminster. Here is the European Union traitor, talking of his 'New World Order': Think he's toddled off into obscure retirement? Thin ...
  • The coming end of Belgium - the re-birth of En ...

Facing South

  • Watchdog analysis suggests recent Gulf oil spi ...
    The same watchdog group that showed the federal government was low-balling the estimate of last year's BP oil spill rate is now saying that the size of the latest oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was also underestimated. SkyTruth, a West Virginia-based nonprofit, analyzed recent satellite imager ...
  • On anniversary of Three Mile Island disaster, ...
    Greenpeace is holding more than 160 candlelight vigils across the United States today to show support for the people of Japan as they continue to deal with the impacts of the March 11 earthquake, tsunami and still-unfolding crisis at the Fukushima nuclear plant. The actions come on th ...
  • Lawsuit against New Orleans hospital settles s ...
    By Sheri Fink, ProPublica Tenet Healthcare has settled the class-action lawsuit brought on behalf of people trapped in Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. The amount was not immediately announced. The agreement came days after jury selection began and averts a ...
  • 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 ...

CenterLine

  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Saudi Accused of U.S. Bomb Plot Pleads Not Guilty A Saudi student accused of attempting to assemble a bomb to be used against U.S. targets pleaded not guilty in federal court in Lubbock, Texas, Monday. Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari, 20, was … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    NYT: FBI Data Show Thousands Are Assessed for Terror Links Under Relaxed Rules The New York Times reported this weekend that FBI data it has obtained indicate that thousands of people have been assessed for criminal or terror links under … Continue reading →
  • 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 →

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • First Nintendo 3DS TV Commercial for US
    Nintendo 3DS is a portable game console by Nintendo, which can produce 3D effects without the need for any special glasses. Nintendo 3DS is among the early entrants into the market for devices with glassless 3D capabilities along with the likes of LG Optimus 3D smartphone. Following video is sup ...
  • 9 Good CD and DVD Burning Tools for Ubuntu/Linux
    There is no dearth of good CD/DVD burning tools for Ubuntu. Brasero Disc Burner comes as default in Ubuntu and it is a good enough tool with almost all functionalities you expect from a basic CD/DVD burning application. But what really are the alternatives. Here is a quick listing of very good C ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Monsanto, by any other Name, would be Murder M ...
    By Les Visible There are few entities more richly deserving of a placement in Profiles of Evil than Monsanto; The Rothschilds, the pharmaceutical industry, the international arms industry, Goldman Sachs, Monsanto is right up there with them. It should come as no surprise that Mon-Santo- My Satan ...
  • The Legacy of Agent Orange
    You ask what we were doing over there all those years: what it was all about? I’ll tell you pure and simple: it was a noble cause. — Ronald Reagan Occasionally I saw these [genetically deformed] children in contaminated villages in the Mekong Delta; and whenever I asked about them, people pointe ...
  • Exposing Monsanto
    By justmytruth None of this is new information. It has been posted in numerous places on the web. However, since I report on abuses in Government, this piece fit in well. From Organic Consumers Association, we have this news. Monsanto is a company of questionable methodology and faulty science. ...
  • Sixth study in recent months links mercury in ...
    By Ethan Huff 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 ...
  • Amidst Growing World Doubts About 9/11
    A December 2010 poll conducted by the prestigious Emnid Institute, and reported in the German magazine “Welt der Wunder,” revealed that 89.5% of German respondents do not believe the official story of 9/11. The issue is heating up in America as well, and will soon be heard in court. Top Secret M ...

Veterans Today

  • ALLEN L ROLAND: Veterans Respond Positively to ...
    The Clinical documentation of the healing The Wounded Heart Workshop for combat veterans with PTSD has been completed for Band Of Brothers #5 and the average improvement for PTSD symptoms before and after the workshop was 58% ~ with a 70% improvement in dealing with anger issues and feelings of ...
  • Holocaust, Hate Speech & Were the Germans so S ...
    ANTHONY LAWSON’S SUPPRESED VIDEO Editor’s note:  This video was removed from Youtube without cause, an act of censorship and quite illegal suppression of, not only free speech but human rights as well.  VT   [There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed. Visit the blog entry to see t ...
  • USAA Deepens Relationship with Air Force Serge ...
    SAN ANTONIO – One of USAA’s first military alliance relationships is growing stronger as USAA becomes the Air Force Sergeants Association’s (AFSA) preferred provider of USAA Bank and investment products and services the organizations announced today.
  • JB Campbell: DAJA
    Are you aware that it is against the law in this country (America) for an American to ask if a product comes from Israel? That it is against the law for an American to answer that question, yea or nay? That it is against the law for anyone asked that question not to report the [...]
  • GORDON DUFF: DICTATORSHIP COMING SOON TO YOUR ...
    ECONOMIC SABOTAGE, FALSE FLAG TERROR AND RULE BY DECREE CONSTITUTION SUSPENDED, PRESIDENT AND SUPREME COURT FAIL TO ACT By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor A plot is currently in motion to overthrow the government of the United States.  It has already begun and has moved forward in Michiga ...

electric politics

  • The Criminal Indictment of George W. Bush
    It should go without saying that the President of the United States of America cannot lawfully authorize the torture of anybody. Given George W. Bush's statements in his recently published memoir that he had, indeed, authorized waterboarding, I turned to Manfred Nowak for an explanation of what ...
  • A Once and Future Country
    How strange that we Americans refuse to take responsibility for our future. Instead of recognizing our political system for the broken shambles that it is, and trying to fix it, we're waiting, seemingly paralyzed, for some kind of savior or external intervention. Good luck with that! To talk ab ...
  • American Presidential Dictatorship
    When a distinguished constitutional scholar from Yale Law School warns that within the next few decades we have a 20-25% chance of a presidential dictatorship in America unless we adopt important structural reforms, well, we should pay attention. Bruce Ackerman's suggestions for reform in his l ...
  • Our Unsecure Border
    There's big trouble brewing along our southern border. It's not just the millions of illegal aliens pouring into the U.S., and it's not just the tens of millions of their Mexican brothers and sisters who'd like to join them, but a question of how to cope with a neighboring, semi-failed narco-st ...
  • 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 ...

PR News

The Story Behind the Story

  • “Greater Israel” — Great Art ...
    The Ongoing Plot To Create “Greater Israel” Wednesday, March 23, 2011 7:29 “Greater Israel”–from the Nile to the Euphrates–from the Bible, of course.. “Our task consists of preparing the Israeli army for the new war approaching in order to achieve our ultimate goal, the creation of an Israeli em ...
  • Scalar Weapons — All You Need to Know.
    Recently, my friend and colleague Jeff Rense absolutely pooh-poohed even the THOUGHT that the Japanese earthquake was man-made. How sad.  I submit that any talk show hosts that subscribe to this line of thinking are either: a) misinformed, b) ignorant of the science, or c) are willfully engaging ...
  • 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!!!

k2p blog

  • TEPCO stocks are on their way to losing all value
    TEPCO shares lost another 18% as they struggle through the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant troubles and a leadership vacuum. It is likely that they will lose all their value. Tsunehisa Katsumata the Chairman has taken over operations from the embattled President Masataka Shimizu who has been hospitalised.
  • Class and Diamonds from “Essence of a Ma ...
    Class is not appearance and it is not personality or charisma; it is a style and elegance of behaviour and a consistency of actions.
  • Is SAAB Automobile nearing a bankruptcy?
    Saab Automobiles may be going through an acute liquidity crisis which could be part of the vicious circle leading to bankruptcy.
  • TEPCO leadership in disarray as share price dr ...
    Speculation is growing that the Japanese government may start talks to nationalise Tokyo Electric Power, which owns the Fukushima nuclear plant. TEPCO shares have dropped to 566 Yen from a 52 week high of 2,500 Yen.
  • “Essence of a Manager” released
    Essence of a manager by Krishna Pillai is a book by a manager about managers but is not just for managers....

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Stupid Shipping Gang Underpackages Glass Jar, ...
    We like to post pictures of items comically overpackaged by the Stupid Shipping Gang, in order to point, laugh, and call attention to the wastefulness. Nicole's experience shows what can happen to consumers when an item is stupidly packaged: Amazon sent her a woefully underpackaged glass bottl ...
  • Federal Courts Fear Bombs Disguised As Smartphones
    If you've ever wondered why some federal court jurisdictions refused to allow cell phones on the premises, the answer lies partially in the potential threat of your technological doohickies. Wired reports a memo (.pdf) released by the Administrative Office of the Courts says phones could be di ...
  • Valve Disables Steam Account, Won't Explain Why
    Jeff's account for the gaming platform Steam has been disabled, locking him out of Team Fortress 2 and other games he's purchased. When he asked why, Steam support was tight-lipped, saying only that he was accused of "scamming or hijacking another user's account," refusing to elaborate or let J ...
  • Sonic Testing Online & Mobile Ordering System
    A handful of Sonic Drive-In restaurants are taking part in test program called Sonic On the Go that allows customers to order remotely online or using their smartphones and have the food ready for pick-up at the eatery. The program is being tested by a the largest Sonic franchisee group, made ...
  • FedEx Routes Document To Wrong City, Annoys La ...
    Fedex Office, the entity formerly known as Kinko's, offers a service where you can upload a document, have it printed at a store near you, and pick it up. How wonderful! Unless the system, in its infinite wisdom, sends your document to a store that is a 4-hour drive away. That's what happened t ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

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

UK Progressive

  • More Black Men Now in Prison System than Were ...
    “More African American men are in prison or jail, on probation or parole than were enslaved in 1850, before the Civil War began,” Michelle Alexander told a standing room only house at the Pasadena Main Library this past Wednesday, the first of many jarring points she made in a riveting presentat ...
  • US Sets up Special Prisons for Muslim/Arab Inmates
    If you think the US Bureau of Prisons (BOP) couldn’t possibly make its prisons more inhumane no matter how hard it tried, you are wrong. It has created CMUs, or Communications Management Units, where the ‘management’ part consists of denying inmates virtually all communication with their familie ...
  • Full Text of President Obama’s Speech
    Good evening. Tonight, I’d like to update the American people on the international effort that we have led in Libya – what we have done, what we plan to do, and why this matters to us. I want to begin by paying tribute to our men and women in uniform who, once again, have acted [...]
  • Don’t Know If You’re Eating GMOs? Then You Pro ...
    If you think that genetically modified organisms (GMOs) don’t affect you, then consider this. Up to 90% of all major US grown crops are grown with genetically engineered seed, and can be used in human and animal foods without any safety testing or labeling to let us know what’s been used. This i ...
  • Behind the Battle Over Hidden Debit Card Fees
    by Marian Wang, ProPublica A provision within the US Financial Reform Bill that would regulate debit card transaction fees could be postponed by a year or two following fierce objections from banks. Specifically, banks large and small are objecting to a Federal Reserve proposal to limit what a ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • The Tyranny grinds on: Update on the Thompsons
    Background: Can a Western Government wipe out an honest business with red tape? (What a naive question…) Matt and Janet spoke out as skeptics in May 2007 and their life savings and business are now at grave risk as they fight off bankruptcy. What has undone them is not the financial crisis, or a ...
  • 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 ...

ReNew America

  • Book review: President Obama's destructive agenda
    (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - What we have here is a part-tutorial on the Constitution, part-legal brief for making Barack Obama a one-term president and (some would argue) a credible case of grounds for impeachment of the president, though that option is not emphasized by the authors...
  • Defense Secretary: Libya did not pose threat t ...
    (ABC News) - Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said that Libya did not pose a threat to the United States before the U.S. began its military campaign against the North African country. On "This Week," ABC News' Senior White House Correspondent Jake Tapper asked Gates, "Do you think Libya posed a ...
  • Amnesty by degrees: The in-state tuition fraud
    (Tom Tancredo) - The Colorado General Assembly is debating a bill to allow illegal alien students to attend the state's colleges and universities by paying regular in-state tuition. Such proposals are not only a fraud on the taxpayer, they are a fraud on the students as well...
  • Clash for America's soul
    (Robert Knight) - Underneath headlines about Libya, the Japanese disaster and the Republicans' dainty attempts to nip around the edges of our massive federal debt, the culture war is raging. The left is lobbing nukes into the institution of marriage and the military. Obamacare is going forward, ...
  • Exclusive: Will Congress (at last, officially) ...
    (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - The chairman of the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations may soon hold new hearings on the credible allegations that a third man -- this one from the Middle East -- collaborated with Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing...

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

  • 19 August 2011: Last Chance for a Temple?
    I find it terribly confusing, but for some Christians, the rebuilding of the temple is everything. And some of those folk have the power to make it happen. Here’s the raw text from the King James Bible: 24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgr ...
  • 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 ...

Facing South

  • Watchdog analysis suggests recent Gulf oil spi ...
    The same watchdog group that showed the federal government was low-balling the estimate of last year's BP oil spill rate is now saying that the size of the latest oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was also underestimated. SkyTruth, a West Virginia-based nonprofit, analyzed recent satellite imager ...
  • On anniversary of Three Mile Island disaster, ...
    Greenpeace is holding more than 160 candlelight vigils across the United States today to show support for the people of Japan as they continue to deal with the impacts of the March 11 earthquake, tsunami and still-unfolding crisis at the Fukushima nuclear plant. The actions come on th ...
  • Lawsuit against New Orleans hospital settles s ...
    By Sheri Fink, ProPublica Tenet Healthcare has settled the class-action lawsuit brought on behalf of people trapped in Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. The amount was not immediately announced. The agreement came days after jury selection began and averts a ...
  • 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 ...

One News Page

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • Post-Gaddafian Africa (I)
    By Gregory Tinsky (Russia) Libya has been carrying out utmost active policy in Sahel (part of African continent, lying to the south from Sahara desert) long since. Libyan presence in the region is perceivable in the military, economic, cultural and propagandistic spheres. Numerous countries of t ...
  • Libya: Time to Say What is Really Happening (I)
    Irina Lebedeva (USA) Global media are beaming with enthusiasm over the advancement of the ârebelsâ in Libya. The Independent, for example, ran a nearly sadistic weekend account of the coalition’s raid which caught the forces of the regime amidst open space, with nowhere to hide, and left scores ...
  • Sowing the Wind
    Konstantin Penzev (Russia) The radioactive dust had not yet settled after the explosion at the Fukushima nuclear power plant when Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan gave a speech saying it was inappropriate to compare the crisis at Fukushima-1 with the accident at Chernobyl in 1986. He said the a ...
  • 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 ...

BlogHer

  • Dancing with the Stars Recap: The Premiere, Pa ...
    Some people really shine on second try...some don't make that leap. We're back for part two of the two-week season premiere of Dancing With The Stars, and one celebrity will be going home tonight. Who will it be? Well, let's dig in to my recap and you'll find my prediction at the end! Image co ...
  • Report Warns of Possible Link Between Fertilit ...
    Our local organic market sells a t-shirt that reads: there is no such thing as Mad Tofu Disease. And while I'll admit that I snickered when I first saw it, it's also obnoxious. It's smug. And yet, I have to admit that one of the benefits of being a vegetarian is that I always had this peace ...
  • Pearl Bailey: Ambassador of Love
    Pearl Bailey, born on March 29, 1918. She won a Tony Award, in 1968, for her performance in an all-black production of Hello, Dolly! and a Daytime Emmy, in 1986, for her performance in an Afterschool Special, Cindy Eller: A Modern Fairytale. I never saw her in Hello, Dolly! and I never saw Cindy ...
  • Why You Need To Be Active On StumbleUpon
    If you have a blog, you should be active on StumbleUpon. You should also encourage your friends and readers to be active on StumbleUpon as well. What is StumbleUpon? Well, I recommend reading their very informative "About Us" page first, because my explanation would not do it justice. (Or you c ...
  • Spoiler Alert! The Wakefield Twins Are Back in ...
    When it was announced that Francine Pascal was releasing an update to the Sweet Valley story, Sweet Valley Confidential, we squeed and started the countdown to release day. Just what are those twins up to in their twenties? The book release day has come -- I've read the it and I'm here with the ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Ann Coulter Complains of TSA Radiological Dama ...
    Ann Coulter must enjoy causing dissension by claiming that “radiation is good for you. No disrespect aimed to Coulter and fans, but read on to bask in her distorted view on the topic . ...
  • Industry-Wide Use of Meat Glue Sticks Together ...
    Did you know your meats contain this meat glue? Just one more way food producers can sell more, while lowering the quality of what you consume. If it’s so harmless and miraculous, ...
  • Study Demonstrates Why Fiber Is So Important B ...
    Old school friends use to complain, “I’m fat,” and slap their hands over their distended bellies. I explained to them how fiber could help them lose weight, lose the belly, and have tons ...
  • Your Guide to the Illegal Farm Photos Bill
    New developments are underway with the story we recently brought you about a new Florida bill to make any farm photography punishable with prison. Read on and you will see some interesting developments ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • MSHA sets briefing on Upper Big Branch Mine Di ...
    This just in from the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration: The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration today announced that it will hold a briefing on June 29 to share with the public information gathered during the investigation of the explosion at the Upper Big ...
  • Rockefeller, Manchin to screen ‘Coal&#82 ...
    U.S. Sens. Jay Rockefeller and Joe Manchin just announced that they’re going to present a showing of the reality TV show “Coal” later today at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. In this press release, they said that the show “has been praised as an accurate and moving portrayal of what life workin ...
  • Rep. Rahall continues to try to block EPA effo ...
    With Friday’s target date approaching for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to issue its final water quality guidance for Appalachian surface coal mines, our old friend Rep. Nick J. Rahall is at it again … The West Virginia Democrat issued this press release, to let us know he’s again as ...
  • Board requires changes in Mingo liquid coal permit
    Word just in this afternoon that the West Virginia Air Quality Board has rejected key portions of an air pollution permit for the TransGas Development coal-to-liquids plant proposed for Mingo County. I’ve posted a copy of the ruling here. Recall that the state Department of Environmental Protec ...
  • MSHA continues ‘impact inspections’
    Here’s the latest from the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration: The U.S. Department of Laborâs Mine Safety and Health Administration today announced that federal inspectors issued 166 citations and orders during special impact inspections conducted at seven coal mines and one dimension st ...

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

  • Violence at TUC demo – EK 148
    The following text is taken from Freedom VIOLENCE AT TUC DEMO Published March 27, 2011 Violent thug who seriously injured a girl at yesterday’s protest Freedom exposes one of the known hardcore troublemakers intent on violence at the March 26th demo. Police went on the rampage yesterday as they ...
  • 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 ...

Worldwide Hippies

  • No Worries, Just A Tiny Handful of Safety Viol ...
    Records Show 56 Safety Violations at U.S. Nuclear Power Plants in Past 4 Years | ABC Among the litany of violations at U.S. nuclear power plants are missing or mishandled nuclear material, inadequate emergency plans, faulty backup power generators, corroded cooling pipes and even marijuana use i ...
  • Judge Tells Walker Administration: “Oh N ...
    Judge again blocks Wisconsin’s anti-union law | Reuters A Wisconsin judge issued a revised order on Tuesday blocking implementation of a controversial state law curbing collective bargaining by public unions while she hears a legal challenge to the proposed law. Dane County Circuit Court Judge M ...
  • Phil Lesh and Bob Weir take things even Furthu ...
    by Stratton Lawrence | charlestoncitypaper. – ohn Kadlecik was the quintessential Deadhead. In fact, shortly after a friend turned him on to the Grateful Dead, he fell in love with the band and dropped out of college. Years later, Kadlecik became a member of the Dark Star Orchestra. He got to be ...
  • Dolphin Die-off Cover Up
    Obama administration restricts findings on Gulf’s dead dolphins | Digital Journal The Obama administration has issued a gag order on data over the recent spike of dead dolphins, including many stillborn infants, washing up on Mississippi and Alabama shorelines, and scientists say the restriction ...
  • CIA Profiling Delves Into The Minds of Dictators
    Teasing Out Policy Insight From a Character Profile | New York Times He is a delusional narcissist who will fight until his last breath. Or an impulsive showman who will hop the next flight out of town when cornered. Or maybe he’s a psychopath, a coldly calculating strategist — crazy, like a des ...

reference frame

  • Shimon Peres visits LHC
    Haaretz, an Israeli left-wing daily, informs about the visit of Israeli President Shimon Peres to CERN. Shimon Peres is talking to Fabiola Gianotti, the ATLAS experiment's head, and is observed by CERN director general Rolf Heuer. Amusingly enough, the official caption by Haaretz ...
  • The Jewish Community of Prague
    I have just returned from the Jewish Community Prague where I gave a talk show, or participated in a discussion with the members. It was a pleasant experience. The audience had a genuine interest in physics or at least philosophy etc. And I was happily surprised that the community was ...
  • 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 ...

No Frakking Consensus

  • The Horse Manure Problem
    In the late 1800s cities were drowning in smelly, dirty, disease-spreading horse manure. The private automobile was a huge step forward, environmentally-speaking.
  • 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.

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

  • Fukushima Japan, Meltdown Update
    Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Associate Inc., has provided several video-opinion updates regarding the Fukushima-Japan nuclear power plant disaster. Given his credentials (listed below), his practical and straight-forward demeanor, I find it beneficial to hear what he has to say. So much so that ...
  • Plutonium and Nuclear Meltdown, Japan
    Japan Nuclear Meltdown, Uranium – Plutonium, MOX fuel There has now been wide reporting of the fact that there is plutonium in the fuel rod mix at Fukushima’s Reactor No. 3, which uses MOX fuel, or, mixed oxide fuel. Recent tests around the Fukushima facility has confirmed that some amount of pl ...
  • Radon Gas Radiation in America
    While so many are worried about radiation levels in the U.S. lately, as a result from the Fukushima nuclear power plant meltdown disaster, the U.S. EPA says exposure to Radon in the home is responsible for an estimated 21,000 lung cancer deaths each year, and radon is the number one cause of lun ...
  • A Better home-made Wheat Bread
    Knowing how to make your own bread is (should be) a staple requirement survival skill for prepper’s -or preparedness minded folks. In fact, no electricity is necessary with the right equipment (a hand mill and a solar oven, for example). We have been making our own wheat bread for some time now, ...
  • 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 ...

Fast Company

  • Microsoft to Apple: "App Store" as Generic as ...
    The two tech behemoths go toe-to-toe over trademark issues, with dueling language experts and claims bordering on absurdity.Microsoft fired back at Apple this week in the on-going dispute over the trademark of the coveted compound term, "App Store." The dueling legal briefs shows the depth of th ...
  • Apple, Google, Twitter Execs Part of Palindrom ...
    A sort of Match.com for philanthropy pairs up industry executives who want to give back with non-profits who need their skills.People who reach a certain level of success often decide they want to give back. For many, writing checks is enough. But some want to do more; they want get hands with w ...
  • iFive: Amazon Cloud Music Woes, Windows 8 Hint ...
    1. Amazon has just pulled the veil from its music locker-in-the-cloud system only to run into organizational and potential legal trouble. It's Sony Music this time, angry that Amazon's use of cloud streaming to clients is denying it potential royalty income. Amazon says "meh!" and alleges all it ...
  • Obama's Lessons for Leadership in a Time of Change
    The President works on his Libya speech with National Security Advisor Tom Donilon during a conference call on Air Force One, via The White House on FlickrThe President's speech last night was primarily billed as his chance to plead his case to the nation for the ongoing military intervention in ...
  • Battle of the Eco-Labels: Controversial Forest ...
    Forest certification is a program that ensures that the trees responsible for your paper are treated responsibly. Buy some certified paper and you can rest assured that the trees it came from weren't clear cut and that there are responsible plans for continuing the growth of the forest. But co ...

Jadaliyya

  • Why Secularism is Not the Answer; Gays in the ...
    In the past 48 hours, a debate has erupted on the facebook page of the movement to �overthrow the political sectarian regime in Lebanon.� This debate was not about how to accomplish this lofty goal, or how to better strategize for more effective and powerful street demonstrations, or eve ...
  • Interview with Toby Jones on the Situation in ...
    [See Toby Jones on �Bahrain in Jadaliyya here] AUDIO PLAYER�BELOW� � On March 15th, Bahrain�s king, Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa declared a three-month emergency rule and invited armed forces of Saudi Arabia and other Arab states of Persian Gulf the to help quash two months of growing a ...
  • Narrating the Past, Confronting the Present
    The Kingdom of Women: Ein El Hilweh. Directed by Dahna Abourahme. Lebanon, 2010 Could I do today what I was able to do then, questions Nadia, one of the women in Dahna Abourahme’s latest documentary film The Kingdom of Women: Ein El Hilweh. Based on stories of the women of Ein El Hilweh ...
  • Democracy Now! Interview with Jadaliyya Co-Edi ...
    Scores of protesters have been killed in Syria during 10 days of protests against the rule of President Bashar al-Assad. In an attempt to appease protesters, Assad�s administration has reportedly vowed to lift the emergency law, which for nearly 50 years has allowed the government to det ...
  • 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 ...

mediagazer

  • Twelve-Stepper: How Cary Goldstein Went From P ...
    Emily Witt / New York Observer: Twelve-Stepper: How Cary Goldstein Went From Publicist to Publisher  —  Last November, the boutique imprint Twelve had a party at La Fonda del Sol restaurant.  The venue is just above Grand Central Station and down the street from Grand Central Publishing, the H ...
  • First Shot Fired in The Great Media War (Larry ...
    Larry Kramer / C-Scape: First Shot Fired in The Great Media War  —  Make no mistake about it.  There have been skirmishes in the past, but this week in the hallowed halls of big media, war broke out.  —  Just as the “The shot heard round the world,” launched the American Revolutionary War in C ...
  • How To Start Your Own Local News Site: Tips Fr ...
    Lauren Rabaino / mediabistro.com: How To Start Your Own Local News Site: Tips From a Berkeleyside Co-Founder  —  The prospect of starting your own news site is more viable an option than ever in the current media climate.  Traditional news organizations are plunging left and right, the tools f ...
  • UX Evolutions: News on iPad (Richard MacManus/ ...
    Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb: UX Evolutions: News on iPad  —  When the iPad launched in April last year, news media companies were among the first to create applications for the new tablet device.  We're now a year into the iPad era and some of those news apps have dramatically changed how ...
  • Mediabrands Moves Toward Performance Comp, Cit ...
    David Goetzl / MediaPost: Mediabrands Moves Toward Performance Comp, Cites Nielsen Deal  —  Mediabrands CFO Jeff Lupinacci said an exclusive deal with Nielsen will allow the group to continue moving in the direction of performance-based compensation.  The two-year arrangement gives Mediabrands ...

Chemtrail News

  • YouTube - Chemtrail Zagreb 24.3.2011 13.10h
    Added to queue Hrvatska / Zagreb - Chemtrail 2009by Sarah0sweet0girl318 ... Added to queue chemtrail Zagreb 28.12.2010by andrej150937 views · Thumbnail 2:51 ...www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFHReRbXzBU&feature...
  • The Cato Institute Should Apologize For Legiti ...
    The Chemtrail/Geo-Engineering Coverup, which claims that we are "being sprayed with toxic substances without our consent" and that "they are lying to us ...
  • Florida Gulf Skywatch: Chemtrail Commen ...
    The third troubling aspect is the purpose of the chemtrail project. The stated reason is to try to cool the climate to avoid global warming. ...floridagulfskywatch.blogspot.com/.../chemtrail-commentary-fr...
  • Chemtrails film troubling for audience
    The chemtrails we have been seeing over Duncan since the 1980s has now been exposed by an investigative.www.canada.com/Chemtrails+film+troubling.../story.html
  • YouTube - What the entire world must see!! Bel ...
    Keep watching! Watch in full screen high resolution! SEND THIS TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS! THIS IS A WORLDWIDE PROBLEM!! Friends I dont ask much from you friends ...www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp-xpG3ymE0

World News - Top Stories

  • More great garden books
    Are you looking for an outstanding garden book, one that's a keeper and you refer to over and over? Enlarge Recent posts 03.30.11 More great garden books 03.29.11 Great garden books, part 1 03.28.11 The first native woodland plants of spring 03.27.11 Would thick-skinned tomatoes deter stink ...
  • Worst of Japan nuke accident over for PH, ...
    MANILA, Philippines(UPDATE) As far as the Japan nuclear power crisis is concerned, the worst is over for the Philippines, an official of the Philippine Nuclear Research Institute said Wednesday. Even the country's seas are free of any harmful level of radioactivity, which is why there is no ...
  • NATO admits killing four Afghan civilians ...
    Kabul - A NATO airstrike killed four Afghan civilians in an operation last week in southern province of Helmand, the military alliance said Wednesday. The operation was targeting a known Taliban commander and associates who were believed, based on video surveillance, to be traveling in two ...
  • Beat the heat this summer by changing you ...
    THE TREES shed their leaves, people feel sleepy in the afternoon and appetite decreases - sure signs that the summer season has begun. The season of live and happening evenings has arrived but as other seasons have their own limitations, the summer too has some dos and don’ts. In the Indian ...
  • Beyoncé drops father as manager
    R&B singer ends long-term management arrangement with father Mathew Knowles Independent woman ... Beyoncé breaks with her manager, father Mathew Knowles. Photograph: Mark J Terrill/AP...

no frakking consensus

  • The Horse Manure Problem
    In the late 1800s cities were drowning in smelly, dirty, disease-spreading horse manure. The private automobile was a huge step forward, environmentally-speaking.
  • 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.

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

  • LJI Co-Director Tracie Washington Named One of ...
    The Root, a daily online magazine published by Washington Post/Newsweek Interactive, has named Louisiana Justice Institute Co-Director Tracie Washington as one of it's twenty Leading Black Women Advocating Change. The list, published this week in commemoration of Women's History Month, aims to " ...
  • Two Grandmothers, Two Priests and a Nun go ont ...
    By Bill Quigley Two grandmothers, two priests and a nun were sentenced in federal court in Tacoma, WA Monday March 28, 2011, for confronting hundreds of US nuclear weapons stockpiled for use by the deadly Trident submarines. Sentenced were: Sr. Anne Montgomery, 83, a Sacred Heart sister f ...
  • New Trial Begins Today in Jena, Louisiana
    Jury selection began today in the trial of Catrina Wallace, sister of Robert Bailey, one of the Jena Six. Wallace was one of the main leaders of the struggle to free the Jena Six. The charges against her, based on testimony from a confidential informant, are seen by many as revenge for her acti ...
  • Long History of Targeting Black Elected Officials
    In the aftermath of our coverage of Waterproof Louisiana, we've gotten many comments from around the US. One longtime New Orleans activist wrote that Waterproof reminds her of a 30-year old case from rural Mississippi. She sent us the following excerpt from an article about the struggle. From 1 ...
  • Race and Politics in a Rural Louisiana Town At ...
    A legal dispute in the rural Louisiana town of Waterproof has attracted the attention of national civil rights organizations and activists. Color Of Change, an online activist group that helped garner national attention for the Jena Six Case, and recently rallied their members in support of Wate ...

Truth About Our World

  • Kucinich: Libya war unconstitutional
  • Globalist Bid To Ban Cars Is Part Of “Planned- ...
    Paul Joseph Watson March 29, 2011 Image: Wikimedia Commons The controversy generated by the European Commission�s announcement that it intends to ban all cars from city centers by 2050 only scratches the surface of the true tyranny that the globalists have in store for us as part of their �plann ...
  • In 2009 Gaddafi Proposed Nationalizing Libya’s Oil
    Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com March 29, 2011 The Coalition of Globalists are not interested in sheltering the Libyan people from Muammar al- Gaddafi. The no-fly zone and attacks on the Libyan military by NATO and U.S. have nothing to do with democracy and free elections. It�s about oil � and who owns ...
  • Obama Raises American Hypocrisy To A Higher Level
    � The Bush/ Cheney/ Obama Wars of Naked Aggression by Paul Craig Roberts Obama�s speech showed a person more capable of DoubleSpeak and DoubleThink than Big Brother and the denizens of George Orwell�s 1984. How does a person as totally absurd as Obama expect to be taken seriously? What does the ...
  • The Anti-Empire Report Libya and The Holy Triu ...
    by William Blum March 28, 2011 The words they find it very difficult to say â “civil war”. Libya is engaged in a civil war. The United States and the European Union and NATO â The Holy Triumvirate â are intervening, bloodily, in a civil war. To overthrow Moammar Gaddafi. First The Holy Triumvira ...

Gyrovague's Raves

  • Polio Eradication?
    by Debora MacKenzie After years of frustration, polio is on the ropes. But we could still miss the historic opportunity to wipe it out for good IT IS the disease that’s always down, but never quite out. In 1998 the World Health Organization claimed it was going to eradicate by 2000. In 2000 it r ...
  • Contrails warm the world more than aviation em ...
    by Michael Marshall The innocuous white vapour trails that criss-cross the sky may not be as harmless as they look. In fact, they might have contributed to more global warming so far than all aircraft greenhouse gas emissions put together. High-altitude clouds like cirrus warm the planet by trap ...
  • Leonardo da Vinci’s Mathematical Slip-Up
    A geometric drawing by da Vinci contains an error, as revealed by Dutch mathematician and sculptor Rinus Roelofs By Dirk Huylebrouk  Image: Courtesy of Eos Artist, inventor and philosopher Leonardo da Vinci (1452â1519) was without a doubt a genius. Yet, there is some criticism. In his book 1434: ...
  • What you need to know about allergies.
    By Kiyomi Deards  Spring has sprung, the sun is shining, flowers are beginning to bloom, and pollen is in the air. Often thought of as a bright and cheerful season, for many people spring is a season where their heads feel like over-ripe melons, their eyes water, and the tissue industry is kept ...
  • WHEN WE CANNOT PREDICT
    John Brockman Introduction About a year ago, on Wednesday April 14th, I was on the way to London from JFK, when the pilot announced a slight delay into Heathrow in order to avoid the ash cloud coming out of the Icelandic volcano eruption. This was the first time I paid any attention to the subje ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

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    FROM SIR CHRIS LLEWELLYN SMITH FRS, CHAIR OF THE GLOBAL SCIENCE REPORT ADVISORY GROUP Global issues such as climate change, potential pandemics, bio-diversity, and food, water and energy security need global approaches.  Science has a crucial role to play in measuring and predicting impacts, ide ...
  • Diversity, Distribution and Development throug ...
    Professor Melissa Leach, ESRC STEPS Centre The Royal Society’s new report ‘Knowledge, Networks and Nations: Global scientific collaboration in the 21st Century’ shows how much and how fast patterns of science and knowledge production are changing. New players, both expected and unexpected, are e ...
  • Gr8 expectations
    FROM TRACEY ELLIOT, HEAD OF INTERNATIONAL I am just back from the annual meeting of the G8+5 science academies, hosted spectacularly this year by the Académie des Sciences in Paris. We meet with our G8 counterparts as well as China, India, Brazil, South Africa and Mexico every year to collective ...
  • 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 ...

NAU Resistance

  • Canada-U.S. Deep Integration Agenda Continues ...
    "The Conservative government has maintained that a security perimeter with the U.S. will not impact on sovereignty"
  • 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"

Gaea Times

  • Ava Sambora Walks The Runway
    more images LOS ANGELES (GaeaTimes.com)- It seems that the celebrity children are making headlines now a days. Just few days back Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith’s daughter Willow Smith’s “Whip My Hair” went viral online, its time for Ava Sambora, the 13 year old daughter of Heather Locklear ...
  • Tylenol Recall Ghost Haunts Johnson & Johnson
    more images FORT WASHINGTON (GaeaTimes.com)- Johnson & Johnson the diversified pharmaceutical and health care company is back in news though for the wrong reasons. Tylenol is a product made by the company that is being recalled now in USA and Puerto Rico. This is not the first time that the co ...
  • VHP seers meet in Ayodhya to decide on road ahead
    AYODHYA - The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) has convened a meeting of leading seers here Wednesday to decide on the road ahead after the verdict on the Ramjanmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute. The 41-member central committee of seers will assemble at the Karsewak Puram camp. Amongst those participat ...
  • Indian?s fight against child marriage in focus ...
    ABU DHABI - The spotlight was once again on India at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival, courtesy a British filmmaker. Kim Longinotto in “Pink Saris” depicted the evils of child marriage and the caste conflict in the interiors of northern India - and a woman’s fight to bring about change. In her doc ...
  • Rebel JD-U MP warns against Nitish?s return to ...
    PATNA - A day ahead of the first round of the six-phase Bihar assembly elections, a rebel leader of the ruling Janata Dal-United (JD-U) Wednesday appealed to farmers not to vote for Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. In an appeal published in local Hindi dailies, Rajeev Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Sin ...

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

  • Video: Lewis Pugh on Hydrofracking
    Lewis Pugh is a British environmentalist, maritime lawyer and Oceana ally. He was the first person to complete a long distance swim in every ocean, and is probably best known for two impressive feats: his 2007 swim across the North Pole to highlight the melting of Arctic sea ice, and a swim acro ...
  • Victory! 2nd Coal-Fired Power Plant Defeated i ...
    Sea lions in the waters off northern Chile. © Oceana/Eduardo Sorensen For the second time in less than a year, Oceana has helped to defeat a coal-fired power plant on the coast of northern Chile. The CAP company announced last week that it was withdrawing its plans to construct the Cruz Gra ...
  • 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 ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

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  • Berserkers.
    Viking Berserker, from kaisercrowbar.blogspot.com The Vikings were warriors who raided and made war in a paroxysm of expansion throughout Europe and the north atlantic countrues for almost 300 years from. From the 8th century to the 11th century their reputation as warriors who fought with mad u ...
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  • 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 ...

Taylor Marsh

  • Lewis Black Endorses Donald Trump
    **UPDATED**The Daily Show – Back in Black – Trump 2012Tags: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook Lewis Black outdid himself this week. Talk about getting roasted. As for Donald Trump running for president in 2012, maybe. But he’s already staked out ...
  • Progressive Notes: Ferraro, VT House Passes Si ...
    Texan4Hillary offers his perspective as a movement progressive activist. With the news of the death of trailblazer Gerladine Ferraro we remember one of her most famous moments in the 1984 campaign. It was during the debate between her and Vice President Bush when this famous flashpoint broke ou ...
  • 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’ ...
  • Can Anyone Replace Charlie Sheen?
    âNo one connected in any way with Jeremy knows anything about this and that would include Jeremy.â – Perez Hilton Don’t panic, you’ve got the right place. Culture, TV and entertainment used to be a big part of my life, a huge part actually, with movies something I occasionally review when I’m m ...
  • Well, That Worked Out Well
    The original intent of the no-fly zone was to prevent carnage in Benghazi. It did. Now fears are growing that a humanitarian crisis is coming across Libya. Who could have predicted that? After all, war never causes these types of secondary issues– Oh, strike that. Pres. Obama and his administ ...

James Laxer

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