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IPS - Inter Press Services

• Protesters Conversge on Iraq Capital
  Hundreds of people have converged on Baghdad's Tahrir, or Liberation, Square for an anti-government demonstration despite a vehicle ban that forced many to walk for hours to the heart of the Iraqi capital.
• BANGLADESH: Govt Under Pressure After Sacking ...
  The Bangladesh government is drawing flak from the international community for removing microcredit pioneer and Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus from the Grameen Bank that he founded and led.
• Ivorian Women Fatally Shot at Rally
  Security forces loyal to Laurent Gbagbo, Cote d'Ivoire's disputed president, have shot dead at least six women at a demonstration in support of his rival, Alassane Ouattara, witnesses said.
• Q&A: "We Denounce the Militarisation of Our Lives"
  Paramilitary groups in Colombia continue to threaten, harass and violently attack women's rights activists, says Patricia Guerrero, founder of a leading human rights group.
• BRAZIL: Rural Women Protest Use of Toxic Agroc ...
  Thousands of women farmers in Brazil demonstrated this week against the use of toxic weedkillers and pesticides on crops and in favour of agricultural techniques that protect their families' health.

Scoop - NZ

• Sea Turtle Navigation Explained | Wired Science
  For centuries, determining longitude was an extremely difficult task for sailors, so difficult that it’s been thought improbable — if not impossible — for animals to do it. But migratory sea turtles have now proved capable of sensing longitude, using almost imperceptible gradients in Earth’s ...
• Nomura: Oil could hit $220 a barrel on Libya/ ...
  Libya's descent into civil war has led to drastic cuts in oil shipments and prompted warnings that an escalation of the crisis could see Brent crude prices double to $220 a barrel.
• "The Battle For Marjah" reviewed.
  Marine: "We'd like to rent your house for the night." Interpreter (in Pashto): "You should leave this place. There is fighting and it is not safe." Afghan (in Pashto): "Where can we go? We're afraid to leave because if we go out you'll bomb us." This isn't as simple as having a ...
• Jihadism in Libya | STRATFOR
  As we watch the situation unfold in Libya, there are concerns that unlike Tunisia and Egypt, the uprising in Libya might result not only in a change of ruler but also in a change of regime and perhaps even a collapse of the state.
• Mass protests continue in Bahrain
  Tens of thousands of anti-government demonstrators took to the streets of Bahrain’s capital, Manama, this week. Defying government demands to end protests, amid vicious police attacks on crowds last week that left an estimated eight people dead and hundreds more wounded, crowds called for the fa ...

Independent - London

• Sacked workers burn boss to death
  Indian police have detained two people after an angry mob of sacked steel workers burned to death a senior executive.
• 'Berlusconi girl' stuns Austrian ball
  The TV cameras were told to ignore her and Austria's rich and powerful sought to avoid her.
• Video: 11-year-old fights in Libya's revolution
  Young boys are working as traffic controllers in Libya while the wardens are busy protesting.
• US names murdered Frankfurt airmen
  The US Air Force has named a British-based airman who was one of two servicemen murdered as they arrived at a German airport.
• Death of customs agent hangs over US meeting o ...
  As mexicos' President, Felipe Calderon, prepared for an official visit to Washington yesterday to meet Barack Obama, frustrations came out into the open with some of the rhetoric regressing to the 1980s, when the two governments routinely traded barbs about drugs, money laundering, trade and inv ...

Rogue Government.com

• Tea party leader says Charlie Sheen is now ma ...
  The leader of Tea Party Nation declared Wednesday that House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) looks "like a fool" and should be defeated in a primary, tearing into him for not pushing larger budget cuts more aggressively.
• Fuel Prices Soaring
  Gas prices have recorded their biggest one week increase since Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
• $1.2 Trillion The Real U.S. National Security ...
  If Americans were ever presented with the real bill for the total U.S. national security budget, it would actually add up to more than $1.2 trillion a year.
• NASA Global Warming Rocket Fails To Reach Orbit
  During a news conference Friday officials explained that a protective shell or fairing atop the rocket did not separate from the satellite as it should have about three minutes after the launch. That left the Glory spacecraft without the velocity to reach orbit.
• Egypt's top archaeologist warns of looting
  Egypt's top archaeologist, Zahi Hawass, warned that the country's antiquity sites were being looted by criminals amid the country's political upheaval as he announced he would no longer serve in his ministerial post in the government.

Innovation Canada

• Women and science
  Five Canadian women. Five accomplished scientists. Five perspectives.
• A recipe for failure
  By definition, perfectionists set very high standards for themselves. As a result, they are also setting themselves up to fail. And when they do, research is now showing that many perfectionists resort to binge eating to alleviate feelings of loneliness, sadness and inadequacy. “Perfectionists o ...
• The challenging spine, the adventurous mind
• What’s love got to do with it?
  Toni Tennille promised “Love Will Keep Us Together,” and while it may be true that she and Daryl “the Captain” Dragon have stayed together for 40 years, it’s unlikely love was the only glue. Lasting relationships require commitment, satisfaction and trust, says Lorne Campbell, a social psycholog ...
• Tackling the cancer conundrum
  Carol Cass has seen cancer from all sides. The internationally renowned cancer researcher has spent four decades pioneering the study of special proteins called nucleoside transporters that help cancer-fighting drugs work their way inside cancer cells. She has also been an administrator at resea ...

Signs of the times

• Reading Earth's Magnetic History
  In order to date environmental events from Earth's history - such as meteorite impacts or climate change - geologists have long studied variations in slow-growing seafloor sedimentary rocks called ferromanganese crusts that build up in layers over the eons. The layers can be dated by vario ...
• They Came From Mars
  Christopher Carr thinks Martians invaded Earth a few billion years ago. If the research scientist from Massachusetts Institute of Technology is right, these Martians were tiny, and they came on rocks instead of spaceships. Their journey would have begun with the explosive BANG! of a meteorite ...
• Is Eating Too Much Protein Going to Harm My Ki ...
  Dear Mark, I am studying to become a nurse and am taking my first nutrition class at a local college. As one of our assignments we had to record everything we ate for an entire week. After looking at my results my teacher was dumbfounded. To make a long story short, my teacher told me that I sh ...
• Dead dolphins hit Panhandle shores
  A premature bottlenose dolphin was found dead on the beach at Perdido Key State Park this week, the third young dolphin found on local beaches since Jan. 1. Scientists are trying to figure out what killed 83 bottlenose dolphins - 44 of them babies - found so far this year from the Panhand ...
• Rare earthquake hits Arkansas
  A rare earthquake measuring 4.7 hit the southern US state of Arkansas late Sunday, the US government reported. The epicenter of the tremor, which occurred at 11:00 pm local time (0500 GMT Monday), was located six kilometers (four miles) northeast from the town of Greenbrier, according to the US ...

The Galloping Beaver

• Perspectives . . .
• Starring someone I know very well
  Tune in via Blogtalk Radio or join the live virtual audience in Second Life THURSDAY Feb 17 - 6pm pacific |9 pm eastern DAHLIA LITHWICK @ VIRTUALLY SPEAKING w/ Jay Ackroyd Interviews with scholars, authors, pundits and public officials: an eclectic sampling of established and emerging voi ...
• Bringing Out the Vote
  In the land of hard calls and second worst options these are the choices we're offered. A lot of months have passed since I started saying the LPC needed to reset, retool and rebrand. They couldn't wait to undo Dion, who in retrospect looks like four times the leader for all his many failings. ...
• On maximum leaders...
  In the theme of recent events, a study of a familiar brand of madness run wild:
• Bullshit, Pierre
  Whoopsie. Immigration Minister Jason Kenney is being called on to resign after his office sent out a letter to Conservative MPs asking for fundraising help to mount an ad campaign aimed at bolstering Conservative support among ethnic communities. According to documents obtained by the NDP T ...

Media Matters for America

• Beck Attacks Van Jones For Opposing Police Bru ...
  Glenn Beck attacked Van Jones for contributing a section�to a human rights curriculum for New York State schools�focused on raising awareness of police brutality. Beck falsely suggested that Jones�accused all New York police of being violent.Beck�Lashes Out At Van Jones For Raising Awareness Of ...
• Fox Completely Fabricates Report That TSA Will ...
  A Fox & Friends segment reported that the Transportation Security Administration will begin testing airline passengers' DNA at airports. In reality, the Department of Homeland Security is planning to test a portable DNA screener for use in certain immigration cases; the TSA is not testing the d ...
• Conservative Media Go Ballistic Over Holder's ...
  The right-wing media have repeatedly mischaracterized Attorney General Eric Holder's recent reference to "my people" to claim that he is a "black nationalist" or that the Obama Justice Department is motivated by "racial bias." In his statement, Holder actually took issue with the suggestion tha ...
• Fox & Friends Falsely Portray WI ...
  Fox & Friends�used a video of Wisconsin protesters confronting a GOP state senator to attempt to portray the protesters as a "violent" "mob", while also advancing the falsehood that Gov. Walker "campaigned on" ending collective bargaining. In fact, the video shows no evidence that violence ...
• No, Glenn Beck, A "Pentagon Report" Does Not B ...
  Glenn Beck mischaracterized a study assessing the vulnerability of the United States to economic warfare to falsely suggest that a "Pentagon report" backed up his theory of a "perfect storm" involving "all of the forces in the world that want to take America down." In fact, the report's disclai ...

Global Research.ca

• Petroleum and Empire in North Africa. NATO Inv ...
  US forces have already moved ashore in Libya, joining the 'opposition ' and 'rebel' forces in 'rebel' controlled territories.
• BP Oil Spill: Lawsuit Filed Against BP Compens ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Yemeni President Accuses US and Israel
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• The World Cheers as the CIA Plunges Libya Into ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• US Interventionism : The Enduring Mystique of ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.

TPM Cafe

• Why Is Israel Aid Exempt From Cuts?
  Once upon a time, Social Security was considered the "third rail" of American politics. The "third rail" is the train track that carries the high-voltage power; touching it means instant death. The "third rail" metaphor has for decades been applied to Social Security, a government program so ...
• How Democrats Can Become Relevant Again (And R ...
  Republicans offered Democrats two more weeks before the doomsday shut-down. Democrats countered with four. Republicans held their ground. Democrats agreed to two.This is what passes for compromise in our nation's capital. Democrats have become irrelevant. If they want to be relevant again the ...
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• Whose 'Solidarity'?
  "Solidarity forever, Solidarity forever, Solidarity fore-e-ver, for the union makes us strong." ---- Neoliberals find the word "solidarity" distasteful. I'm not fond of it myself. Doesn't solidarity collapse easily into ...
• The Interregnum
  On October 14, 2008 I gave a speech at USC called "America 3.0 and The Interregnum". In it I argued that we were entering a global phase of extreme turbulence in which the bottom-up forces of a networked world battled the top-down hierarchies of centralized power. As the Italian philosopher Gram ...

TruthOut

• Three Dead Bodies
  On January 11, 2011, Kuwaiti citizen Mohammad Ghazzai al-Mutairi was reportedly beaten and tortured to death by members of the Kuwaiti police force (part of Kuwait's Ministry of Interior). Of course, in the interest of "security," what actually transpired will never truly be known. read more
• Julian Assange: At the Forefront of Twenty-Fir ...
  If there were ever a doubt about whether the editor in chief of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, is a journalist, recent events erase all those doubts and put him at the forefront of a movement to democratize journalism and empower people. The US Department of Justice is still trying to find a way to ...
• To Solve State Budget Woes, Chop From the Top
  If there is a silver lining in California Gov. Jerry Brown's latest budget proposal, it is the recognition that we cannot realign state services down to county and local governments or bridge the state's almost $26 billion budget deficit without sufficient revenues. read more
• GOP Racers
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• The Health Economy - The Alternative to Federa ...
  Editor's Note: the author's book The Health Economy was introduced to Culture Change readers on Nov. 17, 2010, but it is now in a new e-book edition. The Health Economy concept's most prestigious endorsement was when Dr. read more

Planetsave

• Charlie Sheen Cartoon, Climate Change, and the ...
  We’ve got a lot of crazy stuff going on these days. It makes you wonder if society isn’t just increasingly obsessed with craziness and subconsciously determined to do crazy, self-destructive things… what else would explain our obsession with Charlie Sheen, our ignorance of and inaction on catast ...
• Los Angeles Approves Massive Bike Path Plan
  The Los Angeles City Council has approved a plan to add 1,302 miles of bike path to the 378 currently laid, over the next 35 years. The plan will add about 200 miles per-year as well as direct money towards advertising and safety campaigns. I don’t know how California drivers can deal with that ...
• A special thanks to Tim DeChristopher
  Pollute our air and water, leave SuperFund sites uncleaned, leave brownfields scattered around the country, and greatly contribute to climate change and you’re a billionaire. Try to prevent any of this and it’s 10 years in prison… Thank you, Tim. More on Tim DeChristopher From Planetsave: Tim De ...
• Tim DeChristopher’s Speech Following Guilty Ve ...
  Here’s Tim DeChristopher’s speech outside the courthouse following the guilty verdict he just received that could put him in prison for up to 10 years (though, the prosecution says it won’t seek that penalty):. Tell me, does he not remind you of Martin Luther King, Jr.? What the world wanted to ...
• Talking Bird Torturing Sleeping Cat (Funny Fri ...
  Hilarious

Water Quality - WordPress

• A LOOK BACK-Conclusions After 12 Years
  I recently prepared a presentation for 2 scientists involved with land preservation. This gave me an
• Pharmaceutical pollutants turning up in Yucata ...
  Sinkholes (or "cenotes") provide a potential route for contamination of the flooded underg
• Too much snow!
  This article was recently brought to my attention and I found it interesting and relevant to hydrolo
• Conservation Innovation Grants, Deadline March 4
  The Michigan Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), an agency under the United States Depart
• New Study Warns on Effects of BP Oil Spill
  How about “ADDITIONAL Study”.  New, hardly.  Thousands have been warning of this for mon

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• US Double Standards Over Diplomat Killing in P ...
  by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad 9 February, 2011 The US has threatened to cut o
• House Blocks Parts Of Patriot Act Extension by ...
  by Bruce Gagnon featured writer Dandelion Salad Organizing Notes February 9, 2011 The House GOP lead
• Speak Up, Before Our Cities Totally Collapse!! ...
  by Philip A. Farruggio Featured Writer Dandelion Salad February 8, 2011 I drive up and down the main
• Let It Cut Both Ways: US Foreign Aid and State ...
  by Sibel Edmonds Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Originally published by Boiling Frogs Post February
• US Warships Signal Washington’s Intervention t ...
  Image by robertxcadena via Flickr by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad 7 February, 2

Axis of Logic

• Dylcia and Cisco on Panthers and Independistas ...
  This February 26, 2011 episode of Freedom is a Constant Struggle features Dylcia Pagan and Francisco Torres. Dylcia Pagan is a Puerto Rican freedom fighter and Independista, who spent nearly 20 years in Federal prisons on charges of seditious conspiracy for her role in the underground wing of ...
• Canada signs on for imperialist campaign again ...
  4 March 2011 Canada’s Conservative government has dispatched a navy frigate to Libya’s shores and special forces to Malta in preparation for military intervention in the oil-rich North African country. According to CTV news reports and an article in Tuesday’s Globe and Mail, some ...
• Egyptian prime minister resigns on eve of mass ...
  "Any attempt to create the best possible conditions for the market’s re-opening (Egypt's Stock Exchange) —i.e., to create the best possible conditions for the exploitation of the workers—will bring Sharaf’s government into headlong confrontation with the revolutionary demands of the Egyptian mas ...
• Libya: Russian Eyewitnesses Say Media Whipping ...
  The last group of Russians and citizens of former Soviet republics has been evacuated from conflict-torn Libya. According to some witnesses to the events in the country, the situation is not exactly as bad as it appears in media reports. On Wednesday, an Emergencies Ministry Il-62 plane touc ...
• For Gaddafi, Against Imperialism - Libya
  People who do not learn from the lessons of past human tragedies are bound to witness their repetition and ultimately learn those lessons the hard way. Mesmerized by the media monopoly mouthpieces, bamboozled by politician and policy-wonk doubletalk and led astray by their own conditioned foolis ...

They Gave Us a Republic

• Your Repug Congress Critters At Work
  It's gotten to the point that you don't even have to check the roll call - if the bill adds to the deficit, kills jobs, hurts the middle class, handicaps the military, damages education, poisons the water and air or just generally makes life worse for everyone who is not obscenely wealthy, House ...
• The Nightowl Newswrap
  Why should they negotiate? They're winning. But at a terrible cost. "Rebels in eastern Libya have said they will not negotiate unless Col Muammar Gaddafi quits and goes into exile. The National Libyan Council in the city of Benghazi also called again for foreign intervention to stop government a ...
• Missouri SJR 22/HJR 33: "Yes, but how does it ...
  Because posturing about something going on in Wisconsin and Illinois is more important than dealing with Missouri's budget and job creation initiatives in the state: @anonMOlib Anonymous MO Liberal Seems unconstitutional RT @KOMUnews SJR 22/HJR 33 would vacate the office of lawmakers if they le ...
• Republicans are a "Wrecking Crew" in office
  To the victors go the spoils. And to the victorious Republicans went the prize, so they say, of throwing the federal budget on the bonfire in exchange for more jobs for out-of-work Americans down on their luck. Two months after taking power, let's see how the Republican's slash-and-burn, Sherman ...
• Quote of the Day
  "It may be hard to understand why a person might jump off a cliff, unless you understand they're being chased by a tiger. That tiger is the Tea Party." -- Republican Pollster Bill McInturf Every time a republican is within a quarter-mile of a live mic or a teevee camera, they are yammering about ...

Care 2

• Africa: World Bank's New Strategy for Africa
  The goal is to make sure that the bank's interventions complement what others including African governments, the private sector and other agencies are doing, it saidSubmitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Business �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• POLITICAL CORRUPTION: Peru admits timber cert ...
  Peru�s government has secretly admitted that 70-90% of its mahogany exports were illegally felled, according to a US embassy cable revealed by Wikileaks.Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Business �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Release Mike The Tiger From Louisiana State Un ...
  Mike the Tiger is a live mascot who is currently imprisoned at Louisiana State University's campus in Baton Rouge. Tell LSU that tigers are NOT mascots and do NOT belong imprisoned in Universities.Submitted by Sheryl N. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Activists fight plan to deport Moscow's stray dogs
  Scroungy and street smart, Moscow's 26,000 stray dogs roam the Russian capital, bedding down in subway stations and even learning to ride the trains. But some are aggressive, traveling in packs and attacking people.Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• TAKE ACTION! Tell Gov. Cuomo to protect New Y ...
  Give the DEC adequate time and resources to assess fracking risks--New York State's future water quality depends on it!Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

• The Phony Budget Crisis
• The Latest, Greatest GOP Bag of Tricks - Words ...
• Courting birther nuts, Huckabee plays the Keny ...
• Madison a Foretaste of Things to Come: The Nex ...
• Corporate union busters draw first blood in Ohio

Paul Krugman

• Datapoint Me
  Creepy but interesting.
• The Mandate Thing
  Remember Bush and Social Security.
• In Search of the Confidence Fairy
  Not visible in Britain.
• Trains, Planes, and Automobiles
  All have a place.
• Subtropical Wisconsin
  Only on Fox.

No Quarter

• Hump Day Evening Open Thread
  Oh joy. While looking for something else altogether, I ran across this story. The headline alone made my blood run cold: “Is Pakistan Next In Line?“ I hope that this is just fancifal prattling of an overheated imagination, but … yes, right. Oh dear. Here’s a snippet: March 03, 2011 “Boston Globe ...
• Somalia With Oil
  Bronwyn’s Note: Do not miss the last paragraph below. I’ve bold-faced the first sentence. The story comes from the show’s blog. Spoke John Bolton, AEI; Mark Landler and Alan Cowell, NYT, re the Tripoli stand-off and the increasingly anarchic Libya from the Benghazi free town in the east to the f ...
• Why Public Employee Unions (aka PEU) Stink
  It is bad enough that tax payer dollars are funneled by the millions into the coffers of Democrat fatcats, but public unions, like teachers for example, are taking money and producing a shitty product. Iowa Hawk has an excellent piece exploding the myth that Wisconsin’s largely white unionized t ...
• Weiner is a Weiner and the Strategy is in Effect
  It’s now clear why the DOJ and Obama didn’t immediately file suit to appeal the ruling of Judge Roger Vinson of Florida. When it was said that Obamacare was unconstitutional, in its entirety, everyone wondered why Obama didn’t appeal. Apparently, the reason is because they needed time to argue f ...
• Libyan Exile on the Looming Civil War * Open T ...
  Beginning somewhere in Liby,a we meander a la Gregalogue style to Obama’s remarks on health care, all of which is thematically stitched together by the underlying thread of the Obama presidency’s ignorant inertia … Mansour El-Kikhia, a Libyan exile seen in the fascinating video below, left his h ...

Environmental Graffiti

• Weight Loss with Slimming Tea: Does it Really ...
  Slimming tea contains plants and herbs, best for weight-loss and beautiful skin. But in reality, does it work? read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• What Wiped Out the Ice Age Giants?
  Human over-hunting or climate change? What wiped out the Ice Age giants? read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• Wolverines Threatened by Climate Change
  Wolverines may not survive due to changes in their habitat caused by climate change. Find out how and why... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• Fire Shrimps: The Ocean's Crustacean Cleaners
  This bright red colored shrimp often tries its best to keep the oceanic environment clean. We should take a lesson from him. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• 5 Miraculous Animal Births
  The miracle of birth as represented by five different members from the animal kingdom - from the tiny aphid to the towering giraffe! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

• Gaddafi's Ace In The Hole? Algeria (Part 2)
  Gaddafi's survival is due, in part, to Algeria's military and diplomatic backing.
• Neo-Con Hawks Take Flight over Libya
  On Wednesday, Obama said his staff was preparing a "full range of options" for action.
• What Does it Mean to be Gay in Uganda?
  Being gay in Uganda is tough. Being a gay activist in Uganda is much tougher.
• All-American Decline in a New World
  Seeing Arabs demanding something we were convinced was the birthright and property of the West, of the United States in particular, has to send a shiver down anyone's spine.
• Waterboarding Next for Bradley Manning?
  He's seems to be suffering trickle-down effects from Abu Ghraib and Guanatamo.

Global Elite

• Fear, Intimidation & Media Disinformation: U.K ...
  Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, August 20, 2009 An official UK government report –quoted extensively in Britain’s tabloid media– is warning the British public that there will ...
• President European Commission Advocated World ...
  Jurriaan Maessen. Infowars. July 24th, 2009 On September 7, 1992, two term President of the European Commission Jacques Delors gave a speech to the Royal Institute of International ...
• Billions of People Expected to Die Under Curre ...
  Barbara Minton, Natural News, July 21st, 2009 Your right to eat healthy food and use supplements of your choice is rapidly vanishing, but every effort has been made to keep you in t ...
• Bioweapons, Dangerous Vaccines, and Threats of ...
  Stephen Lendman, Global Research, July 7th, 2009 Although international law prohibits the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons, America has had an active biological warfare p ...
• Today we’re all prisoners in the USA
  Papers, Please! June 2, 2009 As of today, June 1, 2009, even U.S. citizens are officially prisoners in the USA, or exiles barred from entering our own country without the government ...

Al Jazeera

• Libya braced for Friday protests
  Security forces set up checkpoints in Tripoli as opposition groups plan anti-Gaddafi rallies following noon prayers.
• New Egypt PM at Tahrir rally
  Essam Sharaf addresses thousands of pro-democracy campaigners who have gathered in centre of Cairo after Friday prayers.
• Protesters converge on Iraq capital
  Thousands of Iraqis walk long distances for second week of protests against the government, despite restrictions.
• Yemeni army 'fires on protesters'
  Soldiers fire rockets at anti-government demonstrators in the country's north, killing two people, rebels say.
• Tunisia PM: New cabinet in two days
  Beji Caid Essebsi speaks for the first time since joining interim authority that is to stay in power until elections.

Green Inc. - NYT

• Federal Officials Say They'll Examine Fracking ...
  The E.P.A. chief testifies that she will order testing for radioactivity at water treatment plants that receive drilling wastewater as well as at intake sites for public drinking water downstream from such plants.
• Inhofe and Upton: Just Say No to the E.P.A.
  Two senators introduce a revised bill that would prevent the agency from policing greenhouse gas emissions from stationary sources like refineries.
• Costco Pulls Threatened Fish from Stores
  The retailer says it will not sell Atlantic cod, Atlantic halibut, Chilean sea bass, grouper, monkfish, redfish, swordfish, bluefin tuna or other at-risk species until a sustainable source can be identified.
• A Big Surprise Beneath the Ice
  A new study shows that ice melts far more extensively at the base of the Antarctic ice sheet, miles below the surface, than scientists had thought. The findings raise the possibility that melt water may even help govern the behavior of glaciers.
• When Psychology Trumps Logic
  Gut instincts and personal associations and biases can be more influential than concrete facts in influencing people to change their energy habits, some experts suggest.

Dot Earth News

• Play and Progress
  On having fun while cleaning up.
• A Hybrid Path to Feeding 9 Billion on a Still- ...
  An environmental scientist and an environmental campaigner make the "green" case for intensified agriculture.
• Alex Steffen, a Designing Optimist
  Alex Steffen, a designing optimist, lays out a blueprint for a successful century.
• The Ultimate Invasive Species?
  Arguments for and against giving in in the face of biological invasions.
• The East Anglia Climate Snatch – Not (Ye ...
  The release of files and messages in the incident known as "Climategate," however unethical and exploited, is still not officially a crime.

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

• Libya = Gaddafi FAIL - fights for freedom - no ...
  The locals are ready to kick some ass in Libya! Straight up amazing. Things are moving fast these days! Wisconsin solidarity :-D This suddenly dawned on me just a few mins ago! Behold Gaddafi FAIL: I had to repost these videos of real significant, serious rebellion & a certain unmistakable ca ...
• #Egypt! And now... Algeria? Battle of Algiers ...
  Stunning turns in Egypt - you have to hand it to the Egyptians, they filtered & neutralized all those underhanded thug provocateur tricks in a snap. Then unloaded their dictator - Old School Civilization like a boss ;-D Update - they just posted an arrest warrant in Pakistan for ex-Prime Minist ...
• House Tea Party momentarily blocks "PATRIOT" A ...
  It's not all bad news out there. The slip-by-night extension of expiring Patriot Act measures got knocked down mainly by liberal Dems and some Tea Party Republicans (Bachmann of course sided with the corporatist centrist squad behind all of this)... Bi-Partisan Alliance Beats Back PATRIOT Act Sn ...
• From the Internet Archives: My 2003 Interview ...
  Here's a nice find. In October 2003 I interviewed Rashid Khalidi for the Mac Weekly. It wound up on the website and eventually got deleted around 2006, but it was still in the Internet Archives Wayback Machine at http://web.archive.org/web/20060612202355/http://www.macalester.edu/week... Overall ...
• 9/11 FBI warning from key informant of "Kamika ...
  Caught an interesting item on Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs Post about a team of FBI agents who had key clues into the 9/11 conspiracy, serious and specific prior warnings from an Iranian informant and ex-SAVAK officer who was himself a major handler with a deep network of informants around the P ...

Daily Censored

• On Child Abuse, Therapy, and “Blood to a ...
  On Child Abuse, Therapy, and âBlood to a Vampire.â The Business of Child Abuse By Joshua Allen   To misquote WC Fields; “Therapy to a Social Worker is like Blood to a Vampire.” Therapy is the number one tool that Social Workers use to assist Abused and Neglected children through the continuing c ...
• First there was Dumb and Dumber…
  Now we have greed and greedier.   I remember when movies were ridiculously inexpensive.  In high school, one could take his girlfriend out for movie and a pizza for around twenty dollars.  Baseball and football games were more expensive, but were not cost prohibitive.   Today, if you are a fan, ...
• Harvard Law Reviews WikiLeaks Censorship
  Harvard Law Professor Yochai Benkler is about to release a comprehensive study on the U.S. government and media’s role in censoring WikiLeaks. The forthcoming report, to appear in the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, titled “A Free Irresponsible Press: WikiLeaks and the Batter ov ...
• Canada Harper Tries to Abolish Anti-lying Laws ...
  Robert F. Kennedy Jr., tells readers that there has been an attempt by Canada’s right-wing Prime Minister Steven Harper to repeal a law that forbids lying on radio or television news. Canadian law requires that broadcasters may not air false or misleading news. When Harper went on the attack to ...
• Jeb Bush and Obama plan joint appearance to su ...
  Yes, believe it! MIAMI – When President Barack Obama and former Florida Gov. JebBush stand side by side at a Miami high school, it will be an opportunity for the Democrat to show a bipartisan approach to education reform while allowing the Republican to push his own nationwide message on the iss ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

• Former Planned Parenthood director challenges ...
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Institute for Policy Studies

• Interview with Raed Jarrar and Niki Akhavan
  In our special focus on Islamophobia, analysts Raed Jarrar and Niki Akhavan look at the roots of Islamophobia, how anti-Islamic sentiment has shaped U.S. foreign policy, and the relationship between faith and violence.
• Mexico's Hot Money Challenge
  NAFTA undercuts Mexico's ability to control a sudden influx of volatile financial investment.
• The Twilight of Tyranny?
  Are we seeing the last of the world's dictators?
• The Lineup: Week of February 28-March 6, 2011
  Tracy Fernandez Rysavy underscores concerns about radiation from cell phones, Donald Kaul weighs in on Wisconsin's uprising, and Mary Anne Hitt puts the GOP attack on EPA funding in context.
• Pay Up, Corporate Tax Dodgers
  We're chumps unless we force Congress to stop tax haven abuse.

Equality Trust

• The Wrong Cure - alternatives to the cuts
  The False Economy website is an excellent and still-developing resource exploring the alternatives to cuts. False Economy includes: a discussion of why the cuts are not progressive details of campaign actions a comprehensive further reading list ... and this short film [youtube:ynUCYo ...
• Why we need a Fairness Test of the cuts
  A group of charities, including the Equality Trust, Child Poverty Action Group, Barnardo's and the TUC are asking the coalition government to commit to a Fairness Test on any tax rises or spending cuts they introduce. Full details...
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  Please visit our new Media section for the latest details.
• VAT rise would hit the poorest
  Bill Wilson's VAT motion to the Scottish Parliament reads as follows: That the Parliament notes the warning issued by Save the Children in Scotland that raising VAT to 20% could mean a £31 a week bill for the poorest families in Scotland and that the poorest 10% of the population currently s ...

PDA AMERICA

• Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Mon ...
  Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Money Out of Politics By Carmen Yarrusso There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.â–Henry David Thoreau Clearly, our government ...
• IOT: Healthcare for All Jan Call
  Call – Healthcare for All IOT Date – Jan 18, 2011 Agenda: 1. IntroductionsâDr. Bill Honigman, PDA Healthcare for All IOT coordinator and California State Coordinator 2. National Single Payer MovementâKatie Robbins, Healthcare-NOW! 3. States Single Payer Movement–Chuck Pennacchio, Healthcare ...
• PDA Weekly Field Report 1/7/2011 – 1/18/2011
  Little Victories! Field Site: onenationpda.org California ADEM elections: Congratulations to all our PDA California friends and allies who completed a sweep up and down at the state at the recent CA Democratic Party Delegate elections. This will put the ...
• War is a Crime: Join In For Justice
  WarIsACrime.org JOIN IN FOR JUSTICE! 1/17/11 Washington, D.C., and Quantico, Va. Protest of FBI Raids and Bradley Manning Imprisonment http://www.defendingdissent.org/action/Events.htm 1/18/11 Washington, D.C. Panel with Rep. Rush Holt, Emily Berman from the Brennan Center for Justice, Sha ...
• An American Suicide Terrorist
  William John Cox The shooter of Congresswoman Gifford acted as a domestic suicide terrorist on the political “battleground” of American politics. His YouTube postings and “goodby” phone messages are ominously reminiscent of the traditional farewell videos ...

Marler Blog

• "A room with a view" in Istanbul
  Aya Sofya, built by Emperor Justinian, is a former Orthodox patriarchal basilica, later a mosque, and now a museum in Istanbul, and right outside my window on the Europe side of the Bosphorus. From the date of its dedication in 360 A.D. until 1453, it served as the cathedral of Constantinople, ...
• Traceability after Spinach
  Sara Rubin of the Monterey County Weekly wrote a thought-provoking story on traceability in the produce industry – “From the Field to the Fork, Tracing the Traceability Issue.” The piece is worth a read – especially some of the quotes: The flipside of protection is increased exposure for the cu ...
• Inspector General Fong questions FSIS sampling ...
  According to press reports, in a testimony before the food agency subcommittee of the House Committee on Appropriations Phyllis K. Fong, Inspector General of the Office of Inspector General’s (OIG) discussed its budget request and recent audit and investigative activities. In a focus on USDA, Fo ...
• Human breast milk ice cream seized in London?
  I should have paid attention to being blocked here in Dubai from the BBC website (I suppose it might be my search term, “breast").  Now, after reading the article (there are ways around the block) my faith is some of my fellow humans are being sorely tested. Apparently, ice cream made from hum ...
• CDC comes to Dubai to train in the art of outb ...
  Don Sharpe, director of CDC - CIFOR (a partnership with U.S. state and local health departments, the USDA, FDA, and PulseNet), Vince Radke, CDC Sanitarian and Ian Wiliams, director of CDC – OutbreakNet, were part of a very interesting discussion on how foodborne illness outbreak investigations a ...

AutoblogGreen

• Smart ForSpeed concept revealed before Geneva ...
  Filed under: Concept Cars, Convertible, Geneva Motor Show, Smart, Electric Smart Forspeed - Click above for high-res image gallery Not every future Smart model is in trouble of vanishing - some will never see the light of production. To wit, Daimler's minicar maker is bringing an all-electr ...
• Report: Some dealers price gouging Chevy Volt ...
  Filed under: Car Buying, Hybrid, Sedan, Chevrolet, GM, Electric 2011 Chevrolet Volt - Click above for high-res image gallery Even though some Chevrolet dealers were warned not to sell the Volt above the MSRP, there is a distinct trend around the country where some dealers are trying to make ...
• Audi, Voith enter new carbon fiber partnership
  Filed under: Technology, Audi Audi Aluminum A5 Coupe Prototype - Click above for high-res image Audi has put carbon fiber to good use in concept vehicles like the e-tron show cars and a special lightweight A5, which has a carbon fiber hood and rear deck, and in some parts of the R8 and RS 3. ...
• Report: $33M in EV tax credits went to buy unq ...
  Filed under: Car Buying, Government/Legal Is a bicycle an electric vehicle? How about a Hummer H3? These are some of the things that Americans claimed were hybrids, alternative-powered or plug-in electric vehicles on their tax forms, reports USA Today. What's more, the false claimants managed ...
• AutoblogGreen for 02.04.11
  Top Gear host wants electric vehicles powered by bumper car technology Watch out! Italian designers envision amazing Solar Wind bridge It looks like the future, that's for sure. Agility Saietta electric m ...

Rafe's Radar

• Add social context to your e-mail in-box
  Free tools Xobni, Rapportive, and WhoSent.it make your incoming e-mail a lot more useful.
• Rob Glaser's SocialEyes: Facebook-connected vi ...
  Glaser's latest venture is a videoconferencing company with an interesting, new social dynamic.
• E-mail innovator pitches self-deleting e-mails
  OtherInBox CEO Joshua Baer proposes a standard that would let e-mail messages carry with them the date of their own deaths.
• NeuAer lets you tag the radio signature of your ex
  CueCat inventor's new real-world tagging technology uses all the sensors in your phone.
• ShopSquad matches buyers to experts
  Service is designed to help you get questions answered about products you're thinking of buying--by people who've already bought them. ...

Camera Obscura

• No title
• Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
• The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
• Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
• Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...

Democracy Now!

• Social Media and Online Outreach Internship (S ...
  Democracy Now! is now taking applications for our Spring and Summer Social Media and Online Outreach Internship Program. Spring intern positions available immediately. Social Media and Online Outreach Intern Position Overview: Democracy Now!’s Social Media and Online Outreach Intern work ...
• Arab Hip-Hop and Revolution: The Narcicyst on ...
  Yassin Salman AKA Hip-Hop Artist "The Narcicyst", sits down with Democracy Now! senior producer Sharif Abdel Koudous.
• The Battle of the Budgets: New Fronts in the A ...
  Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio, Idaho ... these are the latest fronts in the battle of budgets, with the larger fight over a potential shutdown of the U.S. government looming. These fights, radiating out from the occupation of the Wisconsin Capitol building, are occurring against the backdrop of the ...
• Union Voices from Madison: "We Will Be Out Her ...
  Rank and file union members are among the thousands protesting Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s "budget repair" bill that would strip public workers of their right to collective bargaining. In this web exclusive video from the streets of Madison, Democracy Now! speaks to union members who ha ...
• Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa on Eg ...
  Secretary General Amr Moussa is widely expected to run for president of Egypt in the country’s elections scheduled to be held in six months. In a diplomatic career that has spanned more than half a century, Moussa is currently one of Egypt’s best-known politicians. From 1991 to 2001, he served ...

Digg Green

• I Sniff, Therefore I Am. Are Dogs Self-Co ...
  Recognizing yourself in the mirror isn't something to take for granted - not all animals can do it. We know that humans, dolphins, and even some birds can, but what about man's best friend?
• Image of the Day: 2 Billion-Year-Old Nucl ...
  The remnants of nuclear reactors nearly two billion years old were found in the 1970s in Gabon, Africa. These reactors are thought to have occurred naturally. No natural reactors exist today, as the relative density of fissile uranium has now...
• Epic Voyage Through the Universe [video]
  The Best Universe Paradigm I've Ever Seen Created. Take A Trip Through The Universe & See Everything Mankind Understands About The It. No Words, Just Visuals.
• Is Banana Spider Venom the New Viagra?
  A bite from the banana spider can lead to loss of muscle control or even death. But it also leads to something else... uncontrollable erections.
• Should Earth get demoted from planet stat ...
  There were many reasons why Pluto got demoted to dwarf planet status, one of which was that it couldn't clear its orbit of asteroids and other debris. But Earth's orbit is also crowded...too crowded for Earth to be a planet?

Invisible Opportunity

• The Weirder it Gets, the Stranger it Looks
  By Les Visible Humanity has a very serious enemy and that is whoever is behind the violent superimposition of the false country of Israel, over the former land of Palestine. This enemy has been behind all sorts of horrible events through history, including the World Wars, the slave trade, the mi ...
• Deep penetrating X-ray body scanners to be ins ...
  By Jonathan Benson If you think the current backscatter and millimeter-wave naked body scanners found at airports are bad, wait until you see what authorities have in store for phase two of their privacy molestation agenda. A new generation of full-body scanners that use full-strength radiation ...
• Dr. Jonas Salk, inventor of polio vaccine, exp ...
  By Mike Adams Dr. Jonas Salk, one of the “gods” in the cult of pharmacology — a man who is credited with inventing the polio vaccine — has now been exposed as a medical criminal who conducted illegal medical experiments on mental patients. This fact has come to light courtesy of the Associated P ...
• £250bn wind power industry could be the greate ...
  By Christopher Booker Scarcely a day goes by without more evidence to show why the Government’s obsession with wind turbines, now at the centre of our national energy policy, is one of the greatest political blunders of our time. Under a target agreed with the EU, Britain is committed within ten ...
• Protests Spread To Saudi Arabia
  By Tyler Durden While the biggest threat to the Middle East region is the possibility that the population of Saudi Arabia may try to imitate what has been happening in the area, thereby bringing total chaos to the established regional geopolitical and more importantly, energy, structure, the fir ...

Global Insights

• Less Than a Week Away
  We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware.George Green will be a featured speaker.September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CAClick here for Tickets & Reservations 
• The Georgia Guidestones
  On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
• The Creation
  THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to pu ...
• The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...
  In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
• About George Green
  Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to fo ...

AlterNet - DrugReporter

• The Good, the Bad and the Terrifying Proposals ...
  We should celebrate our success curbing cigarette smoking and continue to encourage people to cut back or give up cigarettes, but let's not get carried away.
• Why This Cop Asked the President About Legaliz ...
  The president’s YouTube comments are a tremendous first step for a more open national dialogue on drug reform.
• How Does the Drug Industry Get Away with Broad ...
  The U.S. is one of only two countries in the world that allows Big Pharma to advertise directly to consumers. How did we get here?
• If the Feds Get Their Way, Big Pharma Could Se ...
  We should be very wary about the DEA allowing regulation and marketing of pharmaceutical products containing plant-derived THC.
• Birth Control for Men? 3 Promising Advances
  The joke in the male contraceptive field goes that we've always been five years away from male contraception being available.

Twilight Earth

• Cartoon caption contest
  Take a look at the cartoon below and enter your caption idea in the comment section (more ifo on prize, etc. below the cartoon). Eligible captions will be those posted on my site, Elephant Journal, Wend Magazine, PlanetSave, Eco-Snobbery Sucks, Ecolutionist, Ecopolitology, and Twilight Earth. Wi ...
• Exposed: Why the GOP wants to eliminate Clean ...
  Whether we can believe this see-through-elephant-trunk footage or not, the possibility that elephants have a triple fitration system within their trunks has to have some credence. Otherwise, why on earth would leading Republicans try to make it easier for big polluters to further pollute the air ...
• Apples may lose trees [cartoon]
  The rest of Joe Mohr’s cartoons, and cartoon updates and other green news on Twitter @GreenCartoons. Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets BeatâMay Lose Beets (cartoon) Eco-Snobbery Sucks: The Cartoon Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets BeatâMay Lose Beets (cartoon) Ec ...
• Mixed message from USDA chief Vilsack [cartoon]
  US Ag Secretary, Tom Vilsack tells us to eat more natural foods a few days after fully deregulating GMO alfalfa…I’m confused. Confused as well? Read the links below and try to figure out this mess. From The New York Times: Governmentâs Dietary Advice: Eat Less From Elephant Journal: The USDA cav ...
• BREAKING: Deleted Monsanto cartoon panel, leaked!
  Unlike the former Monsanto cartoon on this subject, this version shows a bit more clearly who surrendered the future of organic agriculture to Monsanto. There’s been a lot of talk from both sides (organic and biotech) about compromise. That is misleading and almost laughable (read: cryable). Dea ...

Inhabitat

• Swiss Chalet is World’s First Apartment Heated ...
  This apartment building in Upper Castle, Switzerland is the world’s first to be heated exclusively by solar thermal energy. The building borrows heavily from traditional Swiss chalet architecture with its steep roof and simple, boxy enclosure — except it is completely heated by the sun. In fact, ...
• Bolefloor Creates Eco-Friendly Floors by Follo ...
  Using specially designed technology, Bolefloor creates eco-friendly flooring by following trees' natural curves and optimizing the wood produced.
• Renault’s Twizy To Be Cheapest Electric Vehicl ...
  The problem with electric vehicles is that the technology is still quite pricey, however Renault are aiming to change that with the Twizy, which will become the cheapest electric vehicle on the market. At a ‘mere’ $9,700, the Renault Twizy will allow urbanites to travel around cities as economi ...
• High-Speed Rail Goes To Florida’s Supreme Court
  The high-speed rail is now making its way high up into the courts. The Florida Supreme Court will hear oral arguments later today in a lawsuit filed against Governor Rick Scott, for refusing to take $2.4 billion in federal money for the proposed Tampa-Orlando high speed rail line. On March 1, tw ...
• Artists Cardamatis and Saad Create Art With De ...
  You could say Australian artists Scott Cardamatis and Joseph Saad are like two peas in a pod. Each share a love of nature, and it is this mutual passion that has led them to take a literal approach to landscape art.  Instead of picking up a paint brush, they create contemporary eco artworks made ...

Pogue's Posts

• The Fading Sounds of Analog Technology
  As digital technology takes over, we're losing the sounds of analog technologies. And sometimes that's a real loss. A dial tone can serve a useful purpose, at least on TV.
• A Parent's Struggle With a Child's iPad Addiction
  Is a gadget automatically bad for our kids just because it's electronic? What if it's fostering a love of music, or expertise in strategy and problem-solving?
• What Is President Obama Asking Tech Leaders?
  David Pogue's Twitter followers imagine what is being discussed among President Obama and Silicon Valley's tech leaders.
• The Ethics of Free Cellphone Calls
  There are a growing number of ways to avoid paying for calls -- some offered by carriers, others amounting to a hack.
• Page Numbers for Kindle Books an Imperfect Sol ...
  With electronic books, neither page numbers nor "location numbers" are the perfect solution.

WIRED Magazine | Science

• iPad Lets Scientists Drag, Pinch and Swipe Rea ...
                      runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience812702389001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences();   Using laser beams to control individual molecules is a precise, difficult operation rendered nearly impossible by the limitations of the computer mouse. Unless you ...
• Deepwater Horizon’s Impacts Found in Bacteria
  Nobody’s going to shed a tear for an oiled microbe, but the Deepwater Horizon’s impacts include bacteria, underscoring just how subtle and fundamental the blowout’s ecological consequences may be. The findings, based on comparisons of microbial flux before and after oil washed ashore, are not a ...
• Engineered Viruses Boost Memory Recall in Mice
  By John Timmer, Ars Technica Memories fade with time, often to the annoyance of those who can’t recall important details. But scientists have now found a way to boost the recall of memories even after they’ve started to fade. Unfortunately, the method involves injecting an engineered virus ...
• 4 New Species of Zombifying Ant Fungus Found
  All images: David Hughes, Pennsylvania State University See Also: Funky Worms Cause Ants to Mimic Fruit Clones of Crazy Ant Queens Fuel Global Invasion Mosquito-Attacking Fungus Engineered to Block Malaria Citation: “Hidden diversity behind the Zombie-Ant fungus Ophiocordyceps unilateralis: Fo ...
• An Unknown Ocean: The Other Rhythms of Life
  Circadian rhythms are well known to biologists, with hundreds of studies analyzing fundamental links between sunlight, cellular clocks, hormones and metabolism function. But for the first few billion years of Earthly life, it wasn’t just solar cycles that mattered. Lunar and tidal cycles were j ...

PakAlert

• Arrest of CIA’s Davis in Pakistan Confirms Ill ...
  In the Western context, false flag terror is used as a pretext by the Illuminati bankers to wage war against the general populace. They must translate their monopoly over government credit into a monopoly over everything. In other words, "terror" is an excuse to enslave us. Mankind has been ...
• Yemen’s President Says Unrest Serves Zionists
  Yemen's embattled president on Tuesday accused the U.S., his closest ally, of instigating the mounting protests against him, but the gambit failed to slow the momentum for his ouster. Hundreds of thousands rallied in cities across Yemen against the government of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, ...
• Gold hits record $1,432.57 an ounce
  Gold struck a new record at $1,432.57 an ounce Tuesday as worries spread that the surging price of oil could fuel inflation and dampen economic growth.
• US warship headed to Libya: officials
  A US warship with hundreds of Marines on board headed towards Libya on Tuesday, defense officials said, as US and European allies sought to pile pressure on embattled leader Moamer Khadafi.
• Who Has The Most Nukes, Mrs. Clinton?
  Of the 20,000 nuclear weapons in the world, US has 9,400 and the Russians 10,000 warheads. Reduce them first before pointing fingers at Pakistan.

Andy Worthington

• Deranged Gaddafi Blames Ex-Guantánamo Prisoner ...
  Colonel Gaddafi has long demonstrated a fundamental disregard for the life of the Libyan people, Not content with murdering 1,200 prisoners in the Abu Salim prison massacre in June 1996, he then allowed men like Fouad Assad ben Omran, who recently spoke to Lindsey Hilsum of Channel 4 News, to ma ...
• Libyan Blogger Tells the Truth About Life and ...
  The news — mostly bad, occasionally uplifting — is so relentless on so many fronts at present that I missed this extraordinary article on the Guardian’s Comment is free on Tuesday by a Libyan blogger, writing under the pseudonym Muhammad min Libya, who not only urged foreign forces not to interv ...
• US Rendition and Torture: A New Front for Acco ...
  The mainstream media in the US may not care about the significance of the Spanish National Court’s recent decision to allow an investigation into torture at Guantánamo to proceed (the story was ignored by both the New York Times and the Washington Post, even though the Center for Constitutional ...
• Death Penalty for Bradley Manning, the Alleged ...
  Alleged WikiLeaks source Pfc. Bradley Manning, who has been in US custody since last May, after he reportedly told a former hacker that he had passed thousands of classified US military documents and diplomatic cables to WikiLeaks, had 22 new charges filed against him on Tuesday by the US Army, ...
• Carol Rosenberg on the “Prison within a ...
  Since Guantánamo opened on January 11, 2002, Carol Rosenberg of the Miami Herald has made it her beat. I may have built up a comprehenive knowledge of who is in Guantánamo by studying all the available documents and talking to ex-prisoners, gaining my greatest accolade from former prisoner Omar ...

Environment _ National Geographic

• Bolivia Landslide Photos: Neighborhoods, Cemet ...
  NoneDuring this week's Bolivian landslide, whole neighborhoods and even a cemetery split, with land falling multiple stories downhill.
• Dolphin-Baby Die-Off in Gulf Puzzles Scientists
  An unusual number of dead young dolphins are washing up on the Gulf Coast. Puzzled scientists warn it's too soon to blame the BP oil spill.
• Rarest Rhino Filmed
  Critically endangered and rarely seen rhinos with their calves were filmed by WWF in Indonesia with motion-activated cameras. Video.
• 3 Surprising Ways Global Warming Could Make Yo ...
  Global warming may cause surprising human health problems due to microbes, bacteria, and toxic algae blooms, new research suggests.
• "Crazy Green" Algae Pools Seen in Antarctic Sea
  Pools teeming with life found among remote Antarctic sea ice contain "the greenest water I've seen in the world," an expert says.

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

• HT Gives "Thumbs Up" to NM School Budget
  Here are a few snippets from the 2/4/11 editorial in The Housatonic Times. "...all those who assemble the proposed education budget went into the current process with new resolve to craft a package that met all the needs and would also be politically palatable. Better communication was establi ...
• G! E! T! S! (bud) GETS! (bud) GETS! (bud) GETS!
  (Oh, was that too soon, Jets fans? Suck it up. Love, The Patriots Nation.) Forget football, it’s budget season again! And even though we paid all those pesky teachers last year, they want money again this year. So, of course, it will be controversial. There are several things in play this y ...
• A Real Public Option In Connecticut?
  And so it would seem.The other day for an open thread at ePluribus Media I commented on "the intended public option that should be Sustinet in Connecticut," and it would seem that is to be the case if the Sustinet Health Partnership Board of Directors get their way according to the report they h ...
• Dan Malloy scores first in Danbury
  Dan Malloy jumping off of the bench of the Danbury Whalers shortly after scoring the first goal in Whalers' history. [update] I have an interview from after the game at TK's. Let me say, in advance, that he was a bit reluctunt to give it since I am a political blogger... But as a hockey fan I ...
• Still All That I Want
  Something that gets lost in the news about the unemployed is the fact that much of what used to be the backbone of this nation's economic prowess, the middle class, is now the working poor: Imagine That: Working Poor On The Rise After the Republicans crashed to economy in 2008 one thing became ...

SPL Center

• American Front Founder David Lynch Shot to Death
  Early this morning, a man was killed and a woman injured in a shooting in Citrus Heights, Calif., a suburb of Sacramento. Law enforcement authorities said the man, who was shot in the head and torso, was found dead inside the home. The woman, who was shot in the leg, was taken to a local hospita ...
• ‘Burn a Koran Day’ Pastor Plans New Desecratio ...
  Terry Jones, the virulently Islamophobic pastor behind last fallâs barely averted âInternational Burn a Koran Day,â may have lost a battle or two, but his personal crusade is clearly still on. Having reluctantly canceled plans to burn Islamâs holy book last Sept. 11 â an idea that won him worldw ...
• Feds Push to Destroy White Supremacist Hal Tur ...
  Imprisoned neo-Nazi radio host Hal Turner, one of the most vitriolic racists in America, who routinely suggested killing his enemies, may lose a bit of his venom if federal attorneys are successful in their proposition to destroy his guns. Following his conviction in December, U.S. District Judg ...
• Racist Author Supports School Board Member Who ...
  Greeley, Colo., school board member Brett Reese doesnât understand why anyone would think him a racist just because he repeatedly broadcast a mean-spirited and one-sided text trashing the character of civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. â a presentation adored by white supremacists eve ...
• Far-Right African Americans Chosen to Testify ...
  Tomorrow, the House Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement will hold a hearing at the Rayburn House Building entitled, “Making Immigration Work for American Minorities.” On the witness list are two figures whose views of immigrants are less than charitable: Carol Swain, an African-Am ...

change: org.

• Harding University President: Gays = Offensive ...
  Earlier this week we mentioned how Harding University, a Christian university in Searcy, Arkansas, had decided to block a web site on campus that featured an online magazine written and put together by LGBT students. The site, HUQueerPress.com, includes the first issue of The State of the Gay, a ...
• Sled Dogs Killed on Target's Dime
  Saturday, March 5th, is the start of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Race organizers describe it as a "race over 1150 miles of the roughest, most beautiful terrain Mother Nature has to offer." I describe as a way to exploit dogs and get them killed in the name of humanity's obsession with spor ...
• Pig Business Digs Up Dirt on Factory P ...
  There's no business like pig business, and thanks goodness because it's an ugly one. The new documentary, Pig Business, aims to uncover the horrendous impact that factory pig farming imposes on human health, the environment, small farmers, and of course, the animals themselves. To help spread th ...
• Libyan Activists: Why We Are Calling on Malta ...
  Earlier this week a group of Libyan activists launched a petiton calling for Malta to grant asylum to two Libyan pilots who defected to the small island nation last Monday. Within 24 hours they had tens of thousands of signatures, more than 1,000 signatures an hour! Who are these folks? ENOUG ...
• Victory for Sharks in Guam, Anti-Finning Campa ...
  As many as 100 million sharks or more are killed every year for their fins. But to island nations who rely on healthy ocean ecosystems and tourism dollars from divers, sharks are worth more alive than dead. Recently, Guam became the third place in the world to realize that, with an unanimous vot ...

Common Dreams -News

• Next Mass Extinction an Eyeblink Away: Scientists
  Life on Earth is hurtling towards extinction levels comparable to those following the dinosaur-erasing asteroid impact of 65 million years ago, propelled forward by human activities, say scientists. This week, scientists from the University of California, Berkeley, announced that if current exti ...
• Pennsylvania Cuts 40,000 From Low-Income Insur ...
  Efforts to slash social spending in the name of budget deficits continue across the country. In Pennsylvania, more than 40,000 people have been dropped from a state-subsidized insurance program for the working poor. Newly elected Republican Gov. Tom Corbett cut the program adultBasic, citing a $ ...
• Texas Activists Ready to Fight Over $7bn Oil P ...
  In an earlier life, David Daniel jumped through fire and performed a motorcycle stunt called the Wheel of Death. For his second act, he picked a fight with a $7bn oil pipeline set to run through Texas. read more
• World Food Prices Hit Record Highs Amid Oil Ji ...
  ROME (AFP) - – World food prices have hit record highs and oil price spikes could push them even higher, the UN food agency warned on Thursday, as increasing violence in Libya sent jitters through commodity markets. The Food Price Index, which monitors average monthly price changes for a variety ...
• Colonel Gaddafi: 'To the Last Man'
  Ferocious street fighting, air strikes in a heavily populated city and a siege with terrified families held hostage: these were the violent and chaotic scenes yesterday as Colonel Gaddafi's regime began its offensive to claw back the land lost to Libya's revolution. ...

Lifehacker

• DIY Fake Recycling Box Makes Your Car Less Sus ...
  The best way to make your car less tempting to would-be thieves is to avoid storing your valuables in it. If you absolutely have to, though, this little DIY trick will help you hide them in plain sight. More��
• Make Your Clock Widget Creates Custom Home Wid ...
  Android: There are some pretty neat clock widgets to be had out there, but if you don't like what you find, free app Make Your Clock Widget lets you make your own—either from scratch or from a number of templates. More » ...
• Keep Glass from Fogging Up with a Bit of Shavi ...
  If you're tired of your glasses, bathroom mirror, or even car windshield fogging up, reader CraXyOW3 shares a quick tip on how to prevent it using something you probably already have in your bathroom. More��
• Console Gaming Is Probably Costing You More Th ...
  We all know gaming consoles aren't exactly cheap, but the money you spend on the console itself is merely the tip of the iceberg. GameInformer breaks down the sometimes-unforeseen costs behind the Nintendo Wii, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. ...
• Quick Enable and Disable Toggle Extensions On ...
  Chrome: Chrome has some nice quick-access icons on its extension bar, but it only works if extensions put icons there. If you want to toggle other extensions on or off, these Chrome add-ons will help you do it from the address bar. More ...

Water Privatization

• Battle brewing in Franklin on proposed water-s ...
  A battle is brewing over the most basic of commodities, the water flowing from the taps of township... - 12:23 am Two township brothers have been charged with drug offenses following an investigation by township...
• USF Highlights Global Water Shortage at Film E ...
  The films showcase the importance of water and the growing crisis around the globe.
• Battle brewing in Franklin on proposed water-s ...
  A battle is brewing over the most basic of commodities, the water flowing from the taps of township... - 12:23 am Two township brothers have been charged with drug offenses following an investigation by township...
• Co-treatment debate heats up
  A public meeting about liquid waste management attracted a standing-room only crowd and triggered a heated debate about a private business treating sewage.
• Co-treatment debate heats up
  A public meeting about liquid waste management attracted a standing-room only crowd and triggered a heated debate about a private business treating sewage.

Guardian

• Libyan forces crack down on protest in Tripoli
  Gaddafi forces put on show of strength as demonstrators gather in Tajura area of TripoliSecurity forces have used teargas and live ammunition to disperse hundreds of anti-government protesters who marched in Tripoli after prayers.Several hundred demonstrators gathered in Tajura, an area east of ...
• Clegg: Barnsley loss won't deflect us
  Leader warns critics not to 'write off' his party after it finished sixth after Ukip and a local independent in northern byelectionNick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat leader, has insisted he will not be knocked off course by a "kicking" in the Barnsley Central byelection, which saw his party finish ...
• German minister reopens Islam row
  Hans-Peter Friedrich under fire after claiming Islam 'does not belong' in GermanyGermany's new interior minister has said Islam does not "belong" in the country, reopening a bitter debate over the integration of Germany's 4 million Muslims.Hans-Peter Friedrich, who took office on Wednesday, was ...
• Early yes in Welsh referendum
  A yes vote would give the National Assembly for Wales direct law-making powers, bringing country closer to independenceCounting has begun at the Welsh assembly following a referendum to decide if it should gain direct law-making powers without having to consult Westminster and Whitehall first � ...
• Mugabe-Gbagbo link investigated
  Officials fear Robert Mugabe is secretly sending arms to Ivorian election loser Laurent Gbabgo for use against civiliansThe United Nations is investigating evidence that Zimbabwe's president, Robert Mugabe, secretly sent weapons to Ivory Coast for possible use against civilians.A confidential re ...

McClatchey

• Commentary: A no-fly zone in Libya is a war cry
  It didn't take long for well-meaning members of Congress this week to come up with an easy sounding proposal to help the Libyan opposition topple Moammar Gadhafi: Just impose a no-fly zone.
• Ouch at the pump as gasoline cost rises
  Gasoline prices soared again Thursday in Charlotte and across the country, and motorists were grumbling again at the pumps.
• Unemployment falls to 8.9 percent
  WASHINGTON — Employers added a robust 192,000 jobs in February and the unemployment rate fell to 8.9 percent, the Labor Department said Friday in a long-awaited positive report that confirms the economic recovery is gaining steam.
• Sonogram before abortion bill moves ahead in T ...
  AUSTIN — In the first substantive display of their two-thirds majority, House Republicans on Thursday gave preliminary approval to a bill requiring sonograms before abortions.
• N.C. lawmakers consider loosening gun laws
  RALEIGH, N.C. — There could be more guns in parks, restaurants and workplaces under a pair of bills state legislators are considering.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

• Refining the sixth great extinction
  Are we living through the sixth mass extinction of life in Earth history? That we are is something you'll often hear asserted in conservation circles - and you'll easily find dozens of news articles taking the notion at face value. It's even acquired a posh name - the Holocene extinction.   In ...
• Discard bathwater, not baby
  More selective fishing tends to produce fewer discards Everybody wants to do it: nobody is entirely sure how that should be done. Discarding fish is, on one level, an outrageous practice; so surely stopping it is the right thing? A byproduct of measures to keep fishing within sustainable limit ...
• US climate cuts threaten isolation
  The latest flirtations of the US political right with "climate denial" look set to marginalise the country even further within the global community of nations - at least when it comes to climate change. Does the US risk isolating itself from the global community? The key to all this is the ad ...
• War and peace: Making sense of climate conflict
  It must have seemed a good idea at the time; to get a group of people together from "both sides of the climate debate", put them in a room for a few days, and see whether peace would spontaneously break out. It's worked with apparently thorny issues such as nuclear arms control, it's failed with ...
• Whaling: Beginning of the end?
  Is this the beginning of the end for Japanese whaling in the Antarctic? Clashes have been dramatic - enough to cause a U-turn? That is the biggest question arising from Wednesday's announcement in Tokyo that this season's whaling programme was being suspended. The Fisheries Agency (FAJ) hasn't ...

The Wonk Room

• The WonkLine: March 4, 2011
• Republicans Routinely Cut Off, Speak Over Sebe ...
• Ignoring America’s Doctors, Upton Calls ...
• Maryland Delegate Considering Dropping Support ...
• REPORT: Six Ways Conservatives Encourage And A ...

thwap's schoolyard

• The Egyptians' Victory
  There's no reason to listen to me about Egypt. I don't have any inside dope and I'm too busy trying to survive to change things. But for what it's worth, here's a couple of thoughts: 1. Getting rid of a dictator who abuses you is one thing. Dealing with anti-democratic politicians, the IMF, the ...
• We Are At War
  Read this and try to convince yourselves otherwise.
• Nice Little Look at the Impact of a Minimum Wage
  Here. "terrorists and bankers kill jobs minimum wages do not."Bye.
• What am I smoking?
  In the comments to this post from "The Galloping Beaver" about the Federal Court of Appeals decision against the harpercons on the "In-and-out" scandal, wherein I say that this is just one more nail in harper's political coffin and that he's toast, commentator Dana asks: Man alive, thwap, haven' ...
• Oh Those Fucking Liberals (Part Whatever)
  I started this post this morning before taking a peek at "Progressive Bloggers" and reading about Jack Layton's worrying negotiations with stephen harper. Keep reading though ... Check out this video of Hillary ("hard-workin' white woman") giving some self-righteous lecture about other countrie ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

• Solution Zone will discuss the Handbook today ...
  NWC Executive Director Stephen M. Kohn will be Christiane Brown’s guest on The Solution Zone today from 3:00 to 4:00 pm EST. They will be discussing The Whistleblower’s Handbook. We encourage you to listen and call in with your questions for Mr. Kohn. You can listen live on the Progressive Radi ...
• Standing Room Only at Whistleblower's Handbook ...
  Last night, leading whistleblower attorney and Executive Director of the National Whistleblowers Center, Stephen M. Kohn, held an author talk and book signing for his new book The Whistleblower’s Handbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Doing What's Right and Protecting Yourself, also released that day ...
• Washington Times and FSN discuss importance of ...
  Why is Bradley Birkenfeld serving a forty-month prison sentence for giving up his career in private banking and netting billions of dollars in lost tax revenue for American taxpayers? The answer was simple, according to Birkenfeld’s lawyer and the Executive Director at the National Whistleblowe ...
• Staub wins at Supreme Court: employers are lia ...
  In a major victory for employees with any kind of discrimination or retaliation claim, the Supreme Court yesterday held that employers are liable when a supervisor is motivated by an illegal motive, then acts within the scope of authority on behalf of the employer, and succeeds in getting someon ...
• Judge says Dodd-Frank arbitration ban applies ...
  U.S. District Court Judge Douglas Woodlock issued an order yesterday that applies a ban on arbitration agreements retroactively. Congress enacted the ban as part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.� Section 922 of the Dodd-Frank Act amends the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SO ...

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

• ICE Arrests Operator Of Seized Domain; Charges ...
  While Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) group has been seizing lots of domains under questionable legal theories, it has been slow to follow through on any sort of actual lawsuits. However, with one of the domains seized a month ago, channelsurfing.net, ICE has now a ...
• IFPI, UK Police, Credit Card Companies Push Pe ...
  Bizarre move out of the IFPI. It's gleefully announced a new deal, in conjunction with the London Police and Visa and MasterCard to cut off credit card services to online music stores who the IFPI accuses of selling infringing MP3s. This is really targeting sites like MP3Fiesta, which is sort ...
• Courtney Love Settles Twitter Defamation Lawsu ...
  Two years ago, we wrote about the first big Twitter defamation lawsuit, involving Courtney Love complaining, rather emphatically, about a fashion designer, Dawn Simorangkir, with whom she'd had a falling out. Of course, we noted that the legal filing against Love seemed to make statements that ...
• Music Companies In Korea Guilty Of Price Fixin ...
  For many years, we've wondered why there hasn't been a serious lawsuit brought against various companies in the music industry (and possibly the tech industry) for price fixing around digital music. The fact that the labels are dictating prices to retailers as well as all agreeing on identical ...
• Why Is A Treaty For Letting The Blind Have Acc ...
  We've pointed out the hypocrisy of the industry folks who are eagerly supporting the expansion of copyright via ACTA, but who are against a few very limited simple exceptions to copyright for the blind in a new WIPO treaty. However, in defending this position, a European Union Commissioner, Mic ...

VacTruth

• The Press Conference About the U.S. Supreme Co ...
  Numerous vaccine safety advocates assembled on the apron of the massive front steps to the U.S. Supreme Court on First Street, NE, in Washington, DC, to let the court—and the world—know that the highest court in the land got it wrong and did not act to protect an individual’s right to be compens ...
• The 2009 Pandemic Flu “Conspiracies” Investigation
  Was it appropriate for WHO to take advice from experts who had declarable financial and research ties with pharmaceutical companies producing antivirals and influenza vaccines?Vactruth.com
• Baby Gets Vaccine-Associated Paralytic Poliomy ...
  Adverse reactions to the Oral Polio Vaccine in healthy infants without any apparent immunodeficiencies can occur. Conversely, those with immune deficiencies, such as hypogammaglobulinemics, "...are 10,000 times more susceptible to vaccine-induced poliomyelitis than normal persons.”Vactruth.com
• National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program a ...
  The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services HRSA division (Health Resources and Services Administration) held a public meeting of the FDA’s Advisory Committee on Childhood Vaccines (ACCV) in Rockville, Maryland, September 2-3, 2010, at which several charts were distributed. Petitioners’ Awa ...
• Doctors in UK Warned After a Catalogue of Vacc ...
  Doctors across the UK have come under immense criticism after a survey revealed a catalogue of vaccine blunders. The results revealed that family doctors had been involved in vaccination blunders affecting 98 children and 10 adults over the last five years. Vactruth.com

BroadSnark

• Things You Might Have Missed
  A short post this week, as I just got back from a HIPS benefit production of the Vagina Monologues and I have had a bit too much to drink.  I think it was the booze-infused cunt cake that finally did me in. Please read this post on government medical experiments on people.  I knew about [...]
• On Catholicism and Reform
  I’ve been thinking a lot about how you determine whether or not something is worth saving/fixing/reforming – whatever. What got me thinking about this was a book I read called A World Without Women. David Noble, the guy who wrote the book, wanted to examine why science was so inhospitable to wom ...
• Things You Might Have Missed
  How much do I love the goth who foreclosed on Wells Fargo? (HT @womanistmusings). Did you know that there is a mountain vault full of potatoes? In Israel news – The U.S. has once again vetoed a UN resolution against Israel.  (And can I just add that I really want to smack Susan Rice in [...]
• On Jewish “Success”
  It’s hard to have a reasonable conversation about the apparent “success” of the Jewish community. For one thing, we Jews have an understandably defensive gut reaction to accusations of success.  And they are often accusations.  To quote the Illinois Holocaust Museum, Adolf Hitler and the Nazis a ...
• Things You Might Have Missed
  So these people don’t have a chance in hell of pulling off a free school at Guy Ritchie’s house, but I do love them for trying. Apparently, it is attack women’s shelters week.  In Afghanistan, the state is trying to take them over. And in Canada, the border services/gestapo are now entering she ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

• Indonesia Fights Globalized Agro-Food Speculators
  EIR News Service press release.
• Cairo Comes to the United States
  EIR News Service press release.
• EIR’s Hoefle: It’s the Deivatives, Stupid!
  EIR News Service press release.
• Freeze Food Prices Now!
  Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, February 18, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 7
• BüSo Party Congress in Berlin: We Are Paying ...
  By Helga Zepp-LaRouche Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, February 18, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 7

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

• Chairs Looking Like Corpses by Karen Ryan
  Photo: with permission of flickr/karenryan Karen Ryan is an English artist and furniture maker whose work hasn't been seen in a while. Last noted at the London Design Festival in 2007, she is back now with a series of chairs pieced together from...other chairs. Throughout the city of Po ...
• Remembering a Turkish Environmental Pioneer
  Buğday founder Victor Ananias and a scene from one of the organic markets he helped set up in Istanbul. Photos: Jennifer Hattam (L) / Buğday (R). When Victor Ananias started talking about organic agriculture in the early 1990s, the idea was largely a foreign one in Turkey. Today, the organi ...
• Stunning Kite Aerial Photography Means No Airp ...
  Photo credit: attawayjl/Creative Commons Earthbound photographers are capable of capturing incredible images—and digital technology allows even hobby photographers to create images that transcend human perception—b...Read the full story on TreeHugger
• London Department Store Features Eco Jewellery ...
  Photo: jessica dance Selfridge's department store in downtown London is turning its huge windows over to twenty up-and-coming designers. The lucky chosen few will design the shop window and their work will be sold in store. Little Glass Clementine and Jessica Dance represent the eco co ...
• The Hub, a Shared Work Space for People Who Ca ...
  Image credit: CH+QS arquitectos Working in shared office spaces is an attractive solution for creative start-ups, and has become more and more sought-after in many of the bigger cities. Green Spaces in Manhattan has turned into a well-working community, and then there is The Hub in over 25 ...

Biosingularity

• Parts of brain can switch functions
  When your brain encounters sensory stimuli, such as the scent of your morning coffee or the sound of a honking car, that input gets shuttled to the appropriate brain region for analysis. The coffee aroma goes to the olfactory cortex, while sounds are processed in the auditory cortex. That divisi ...
• A clearer picture of vision
  The human retina — the part of the eye that converts incoming light into electrochemical signals — has about 100 million light-sensitive cells. So retinal images contain a huge amount of data. High-level visual-processing tasks — like object recognition, gauging size and distance, or calculating ...
• Diets Low In Omega-3 Linked to Depressive Beha ...
  Although most people in developed countries get plenty of calories each day, their diets are often lacking in key nutrients that their bodies have evolved to expect. Omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids, such as those found in fish and walnuts, are one category of crucial ingredients that the bod ...
• Melanoma Drug Prolonged Patients’ Lives in Cli ...
  Advanced melanoma patients taking an experimental drug aimed at a particular mutation in their tumors lived longer than patients who did not receive the drug in a decisive clinical trial, the drugâs manufacturer, Roche, said Wednesday. via Melanoma Drug Prolonged Patientsâ Lives in Clinical Tria ...
• Anders Ynnerman: Visualizing the medical data ...
  � Anders Ynnerman: Visualizing the medical data explosion | Video on TED.com.

CFACT

• 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 ...
• New report casts more doubt on temperature data
• Capitol Hill eyes cuts to federal land purchases
  Facing ballooning federal deficits, the House of Representatives is preparing to take the knife to a variety of programs, including those aimed at bringing more land under Washington̢۪s ownership.
• Life goes on without cars in German suburb

Ria Novosti Online News

• Twenty-meter bridal veil launched into the sky
  The anniversary of the bridal headdress was celebrated on the Newlywed’s Bridge. This RIA Novosti video shows how a 20-meter long veil with pledges of love and happiness is launched into the sky over Moscow.
• Twenty-meter bridal veil launched into the sky
  The anniversary of the bridal headdress was celebrated on the Newlywed’s Bridge. This RIA Novosti video shows how a 20-meter long veil with pledges of love and happiness is launched into the sky over Moscow.
• Russian Press - Behind the Headlines, March 4
  Voina artists may face psychiatric tests / Mirax Group head says good-bye
• Russians want a strong ruler to protect them f ...
  Russians are highly individualized: they owe allegiance to their families and friends and localities in which they live, not to the nation as a whole. In fact, they believe themselves to be surrounded by enemies, both at home and abroad. They want a strong ruler to protect them from these (imagi ...
• Transmissions from a Lone Planet: Let a thousa ...
  Strange things happen to your mind when it’s transplanted to a foreign culture. Events and ideas that would have once appeared outrageous become very normal, and before long you accept them without batting an eyelid. It takes a serious jolt for you to realize how normal the hitherto abnormal has ...

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• WWF demands probe into arrest of south Russia ...
  World Wildlife Fund (WWF) officials have issued a statement to the Russian Interior Ministry demanding an investigation into the arrest of four environmentalists during a "picnic protest" in a south Russian forest.
• NASA extends Discovery shuttle's last mission
  The Discovery shuttle will undock from the International Space Station (ISS) one day later than previously planned, the space agency said on its website.
• Russian upper house ratifies rocket technology ...
  Russia's upper house of parliament ratified on Wednesday a government agreement with Ukraine on the protection of rocket and space technology.
• Russia rejects historic photo shoot at ISS
  NASA announced on Tuesday that an historic fly-around photo session of the International Space Station will not go ahead.
• NASA astronauts complete six-hour spacewalk
  U.S. astronauts Steve Bowen and Alvin Drew completed a six-hour spacewalk, the first of the STS-133 mission.

Pruning Shears

• 'No On SB 5' activism opportunities
  The big one is tomorrow:Rally for Ohio’s Middle ClassTuesday, March 1 at 10:00 a.m.Ohio Statehouse - West Lawn1 Capitol SquareColumbus, OH 43215Buses will be arriving from around the state, and you can reserve your seat at http://ohiodems.org/action/flood_the_statehouseThe Ohio Education Associa ...
• 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 (via) Muslims. Oh, and for those ghouls who believe in doing a cost/benefit analysis on the amount of innocent life it is acceptable to snuff out ...
• Report from Columbus
  Yesterday I was in Columbus to join in the rally against SB 5, the Ohio GOP’s implementation of the assault on collective bargaining. Even before we got there it was clear Republicans were trying to discourage attendance: as the bus approached Columbus we were told the doors to the Senate build ...
• This Week In Tyranny
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postThe Raymond Davis case appears to be keeping (via) everything quiet on the drone front.A happy coda on Egypt from Mohammed Abdellah, of the former president’s National Democratic Party, on the largely peaceful resolution: “For all ...
• The Daily Jellyby
  So Freddie deBoer posts (via) a serious, well articulated plea for those on the warpath against Social Security and Medicare to think about the real world impact. Andrew Sullivan responds with majestic indifference by citing Megan McCardle, someone whose analysis is so consistently deceptive or ...

Organic Consumers.org

• Find Out Who Owns Your Favorite Brands
  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.Click here to read this article
• If You Missed the Millions Against Monsanto We ...
  Thanks to everyone that registered and attended the first Millions Against Monsanto Webinar: Why We Need Truth-in-Labeling for GMOs and Factory-Farmed Foods. The event was filled to capacity, with 1000 people registered. If you missed the webinar, you can download a pdf of the PowerPoint present ...
• Stop Toxic Sewage Sludge from Being Dumped on ...
  Ask your Member of Congress to cosponsor H.R.254 - The Sewage Sludge in Food Production Consumer Notification ActClick here to read this article
• The Story of Citizens United v. FEC: Why Democ ...
  How could a chemical company like Monsanto, notorious for producing Agent Orange and dioxin during the Vietnam War, end up with so much power over our food and farming system? Why are U.S. tax dollars subsidizing Monsanto and the biotech industry's 165 million acres of GMO crops, factory farms, ...
• 96% of Americans Want Genetically Modified Foo ...
  MSNBC is doing a poll on whether or not you believe genetically modified foods should be labeled, lets spread the awareness of GMO's, check it out now!Click here to read this article

fotoFrontera

• Flores para todas las mujeres del mundo I
  En especial para todas las mujeres del mundo, el Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas se congratula al poder iniciar esta maravillosa colección de fotografías de flores y arreglos florales. De igual forma para quienes acostumbran enviar imágenes, fotos y postales de flores, esta será sin duda una excelen ...
• Wallpapers para tu iPad2, PC, Tablet, Laptop y ...
  Nuestra red de blogs, cuenta con dos sitios especializados en ofrecerle a usted los mejores wallpapers para su ordenador. Ellos son, www.FotoFrontera.com y www.FreeAmazingPictures.com. Sin embargo, aquí en el Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas también le hacemos llegar de vez en vez series que contiene ...
• Fotografías de árboles en todas las estacione ...
  Continuando con nuestra serie 'Fotografías de árboles en todas las estaciones del año', el día de hoy quiero ofrecerles la segunda parte de esta exitosa colección. En ella y a través de 12 hermosas imágenes, podrán apreciar la belleza de nuestra naturaleza que combina miles de colores al paso de ...
• Volcanes, montañas y nevados VII (10 fotos iné ...
  La majestuosidad de nuestro planeta, la podemos apreciar de una y mil maneras. Una de ellas, es disfrutando los maravillosos paisajes naturales que aún conservamos en la tierra. Qué le parece si en esta ocasión y a propósito del tema, le invito a ver 10 postales inéditas sobre escenarios cubier ...
• Tributo a la infancia VI (fotos de niñas, flor ...
  El día de hoy, presento la sexta parte de nuestra serie titulada 'Tributo a la infancia'. En ella, pretendo reconocer -una vez más- esa hermosa etapa de nuestra vida caracterizada por la inocencia. Nada más lindo y tierno que ser niño e ir descubriendo la esencia de las cosas. Para ello, le invi ...

Center for a Livable Future

• Pesticide use reporting bill discussed in the ...
  The Maryland Department of Agriculture has surveyed MD farmers about their pesticide use just four times since 1988—most recently in 2004 when an estimated 10.7 million pounds was applied (full report). A bill heard yesterday in the Maryland General Assembly Environmental Matters Committee (Hous ...
• Health experts worldwide agree, people who eat ...
  As physicians we recognize that lean meats may be a healthy part of almost anyone’s diet. However, based on the preponderance of evidence compiled by scientists and health experts across the globe, there is little doubt that a diet high in red and processed meats is linked to serious health risk ...
• Notes from New Zealand: China’s Investment in ...
  CLF Director Robert S. Lawrence, MD, is on sabbatical in Auckland, New Zealand, where he is studying the country’s agriculture system. As we waited in the Sydney airport for our connecting flight to Auckland, I picked up a copy of The Australian, one of the major newspapers in Australia, and n ...
• A Blow to Industrial Dairy Farming in the U.K.
  Just over a week ago, I received a phone call from Katharine Mansell, the Media Relations Manager for the U.K. World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA). What she told me was without doubt excellent news for both sustainable agriculture and public health in Western Europe. The proposal ...
• Increasing global food security: The next gold ...
  What do Archer Daniels Midland, Cargill, Coca-Cola, DuPont, Monsanto, Kraft Foods, and Wal-Mart have in common? Some of the most financially successful companies in the world? Absolutely. Exploiters of workers and the environment? Some say so. The newest solution to global food insecurity and ...

Norwegianity

• In which I waste my morning trying to salvage ...
  Not surprisingly, I got a “game, set, match” comment from K-Rod this morning (deleted as I had told him I would do with any comments he made for the next 24 hours, his having successfully made a complete nuisance of himself). Whatever. I’m assuming, perhaps wrongly, that he’s still in high schoo ...
• All harvest, no planting
  Samuel A. Culbert in the NYTimes: [O]ne of the primary ways employee effectiveness is judged is the performance review. And nothing could be less fair than that. In my years studying such reviews, I’ve learned that they are subjective evaluations that measure how “comfortable” a boss is with an ...
• GOPhads and fatwads
  Do check out Crooks and Liars on Howie the Whore’s latest foray into instant revisionism and massive hypocrisy. The Daily Beast is the mainstream media’s toehold into online media, a HuffPo for even bigger whores. More: Another ultimatum from Gov. Blowhard [his poll support is cratering] [they, ...
• Waiting for the Pinkertons
  Corporate media is slowly deigning to acknowledge what’s going on in Madison. The NYTimes has an article about how the police refused to remove the Capitol protesters (but despite giving the “background” neglects to mention that Wisconsin’s budget crisis was wholly manufactured by Gov. Walker’s ...
• Madison! Madison! Madison!
  Saving as I go so yeah, more links than any sane person would ever try to click. WISCONSIN: C&L says 100,000 turned out Michele Bachmann compares Walker to Lincoln and Reagan Raw Story liveblogged the protest [WARNING: HUGE COLLECTION OF PICTURES] [MN pix] [NYC pix] WINston has pix from Saturday ...

Public News Service

• Report: AZ School Spending Remains Well Under ...
  Report: AZ School Spending Remains Well Under National Average Phoenix, AZ – A new report from the Auditor General puts Arizona public school spending far below the national average. The report also shows the state spends below average on school administration. Comments from Chuck Essigs, direct ...
• Will Funding Cuts Make Rural Arizona Health Ce ...
  Will Funding Cuts Make Rural Arizona Health Centers Sick? Phoenix, AZ – The U.S. House Appropriations Committee has been considering cuts of more than one billion dollars to Community Health Centers across the country. For Arizona, it would mean the loss of more than three-million dollars, poten ...
• Is Solar in the Zone? Arizonans Get to Make th ...
  Is Solar in the Zone? Arizonans Get to Make the Call Phoenix, AZ – The U.S. Department of Interior is looking for insider information when it comes to solar projects on public lands in Arizona. The agency is holding local meetings this week, starting with a session tomorrow (Tuesday) in Phoenix ...
• Fed Budget Battle Threatens Preventive Care fo ...
  Fed Budget Battle Threatens Preventive Care for AZ Women and Families Phoenix, AZ – Spending cuts contained in the U-S House budget would completely eliminate the Title Ten federal family planning program. In Arizona, the program provides preventive health care for more than 40-thousand men, wo ...
• Utility Updates Renewable Energy Commitment
  Utility Updates Renewable Energy Commitment Phoenix, AZ – Salt River Project is seeking public comments as it reviews and possibly modifies its commitment to clean, renewable energy sources. The utility currently plans to obtain 15-percent of its power through renewables and conservation by the ...

Center for Food Safety

• Bi-Partisan Legislation Introduced To Ban Dang ...
  Sixty-Four Organizations, Fishing Associations and Retailers Endorse Legislation; Lawmakers Cite Serious Economic, Environmental and Human Health Threats The Center for Food Safety along with 63 other groups, businesses and retailers applaud Senators Mark Begich (D-Alaska) and Lisa Murkowski (R- ...
• Nature Happens – Humans Can’t Cont ...
  By Lisa J. Bunin, Liana Hoodes, Michael Sligh Last week, USDA announced its decision to allow the planting of Monsanto’s Roundup Ready (RR) GM alfalfa without any ongoing monitoring or regulation whatsoever.  Despite widespread consumer, farmer, and food industry opposition and contrary scientif ...
• World’s First Genetically Engineered Biofuels ...
  Impacts on Human Health, Environment, and Farmers Not Fully Assessed DESPITE RISING GLOBAL FOOD PRICES, OBAMA ADMINISTRATION CONTINUES MISGUIDED BIOFUELS AGENDA The Center for Food Safety criticized an announcement today by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) that it will approve the world ...
• Farmers And Conservationists Challenge Latest ...
  In defiance of earlier court ruling, USDA allows continued growing of controversial, illegally planted crop Today the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) issued a new decision to allow the U.S. sugar beet industry to continue growing Monsanto’s “Roundup Ready,” genetically ...
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Angry Indian Op-Eds

• Guest Editorial: Garvey's Ghost: Black Talk: W ...
  Garvey's Ghost: Black Talk: Who is "The Enemy"? Long ago when Bush II was in office I made a note that it was very dangerous to give the executive the power to decide who is and is not "an enemy" and that such a power was ripe for abuse. Anyone who reads the above quote ought to see why Assange ...
• ei: Facing up to Jewish nationalism and racist ...
  ei: Facing up to Jewish nationalism and racist violence: "When we released the now famous and censored video Feeling the Hate in Jerusalem, we were widely attacked and dismissed for daring to publicize footage of college-age Jewish kids behaving like racist fanatics while intoxicated. We argued ...
• field negro: The FOX NEWS Panthers, and more o ...
  field negro: The FOX NEWS Panthers, and more on Beyonce and Mike. So Mike, what about your statement about his father and grandfather, and the whole Mau Mau thing? "Anti British"? OK, so even if you meant to say he grew up in Indonesia and not Kenya, how do you square that with all the other cra ...
• David Rothscum: The World Cheers as the CIA Pl ...
  The World Cheers as the CIA Plunges Libya Into Chaos How was Libya doing under the rule of Gadaffi? How bad did the people have it? Were they oppressed as we now commonly accept as fact? Let us look at the facts for a moment. Before the chaos erupted, Libya had a lower incarceration rate than t ...
• John John: The View From Occupied Canada #234
  Imperialist hands off Libya! The United States and the European powers are moving towards direct military intervention in Libya. They are seeking to exploit a legitimate popular uprising against the 41-year rule of Muammar Gaddafi, preempt any possibility of a more radical regime emerging, and i ...

Pensieve

• More on Egypt
  Reading that now, a few days after the military pressured Mubarak to step down, the Egyptian parliament has been dissolved, and the Constitution invalidated by the Egyptian military. This fills me with fear. The mainstream media are treating these acts as a good thing, and the Egyptians they int ...
• Update: Mubarak Not Stepping Down Tonight
  Related posts:Celestial Show Tonight Update on March Update, Perverse Justice
• US involved in an Egyptian “military coup”?
  Photo by adaptorplug A CNN news story says that Hofni Mubarak will likely relinquish power to the Egyptian military tonight. This is what their source, âa senior Egyptian officalâ is quoted by CNN as saying: He said the process — which included dialogue between the government and opposition repr ...
• President Llorens
  I’ve reconsidered my position about posting Wikileaks articles. This article not only discusses classified material disclosed by Wikileaks, but actually quotes it. I know some of my readers work for the US government, thus the warning. I am not an enemy of the United States of America. I simply ...
• Magnificent
  This movie brought me to tears. It is the story of a man whose lack of limbs from birth relegated him to life as a circus side-show freak. It tells of how he was recognized by the owner of a rival circus as “magnificent”. After overcoming his bitterness, the man transformed from freak to hero. [ ...

Green Times

• Traffic pollution around the city
  Our cities are growing bigger and bigger. With this development megacities are facing huge environmental issues. Many urban areas have significant problems with smog, a type of air pollution derived from the traffic on the streets or from industrial buildings. Trying to reduce your CO2 e ...
• Environmental News 04/03/2011
  Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
• Environmental News 01/03/2011
  Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
• Catamaran in the harbour
  Boat trips can be really nice and relaxing... in particular when sailing! Engine ran water vehicles need a lot of fuel and are far from eco friendly. Sailing boats on the other hand, especially the light and fast sailing catamarans, make use of wind energy (glossary/categories/energy/wind-energ ...
• Plastic state of mind parody
      This music clip, made by passionate volunteers on a super tiny budget, parodies a serious issue of our today’s consumer society. It was created on behalf of Green Sanga (http://greensangha.org/plastics-campaign/), a non profit organisation who is dedicated to saving our earth by awakening ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

• Latest Investigate HIS HERS onsale
• Free Movie tickets: CONVICTION
  The kind folk at 20th Century Fox have made available some double passes for our TBR, Twitter and Facebook readers to see the new movie CONVICTION, based on the true story of Betty Ann Waters who studied to become a...
• New-look Investigate magazine HIS and HERS goe ...
  As of Sunday...with more exclusive revelations about the Pike River disaster and police bungles in the rescue operation...and HERS features new poll results showing support for National is wide but shallow, and that a large number of voters want Winston...
• Investigate Political Poll 2011 - No1
  Investigate magazine's first big omnibus and political poll in more than five years is underway. If you want to fill in the survey form (takes less than two minutes on average) online, you'll find it here.
• BREAKING NEWS: Arizona shooter of Gabrielle Gi ...
  The young gunman who shot and killed six people, and left Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in critical condition, appears to have borne a grudge against Giffords after meeting her in 2007 at the age of 19. According to reports, former...

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

• Eviatar: Three Dead Children
  Guest Post by Aharan Eviatar The recent ghastly events in Arizona, especially the killing of Christina Greene, gunned down by a political lunatic at age nine, lead one to think of the phenomenon of political killing of children and what it implies for society. In particular, I would like to bri ...
• Second School Year Opens at Salem’s Musi ...
  On Saturday February 19 we visited the Salem Music Center. We were accompanied by three professionals – Fuad, a music teacher from Tel Aviv-Yaffa, Ram – principal of Tel Aviv’s art high school, and Ruti – head of that school’s music department. The occasion was the opening of a second school yea ...
• 7 hours ago in Al Arakib
  By Yeela Raanan It seemed that there were “red lines” even for the police brutality against the Bedouins of the Israeli Negev – while destroying homes that had no possibility for acquiring building permits, arresting people on their village lands in order to make room for JNF trees, beating ac ...
• Please Help Rebuild 13 Water Cisterns Destroye ...
  crossposted from the Villages Group blog) The situation of the Palestinian cave-dwellers in South Hebron Hills continues to be difficult. They suffer from permanent harassment carried out by the military and settlers. This year, however, has been even more difficult, due to a severe drought. As ...
• Al Arakib update: Four consecutive days of dem ...
  From the Negev Coexistence Forum (NCF) Last week brought four consecutive days of demolitions in Al Arakib. For the first time on February 9 we witnessed bulldozers clearly marked as belonging to the Jewish National Fund (JNF-KKL), destroying tents that had been erected overnight by the resident ...

Politics in the Zeros

• Polizeros Radio. No fly zone? 2012 elections, ...
  What are the ramifications of a no fly zone? What happens if they shoot back? Because they will. And why does the Afghanistan War continue when the public clearly opposes it? In the 2012 elections, the challenges from the right will be stronger than from the left. The Tea Party is furious at bet ...
• San Jose marijuana stores on horns of dilemma
  Should they pay the city’s new marijuana business tax and risk being arrested by state or feds? If they don’t, the city might shut them down.
• SEC sues Rajat Gupta, a very big fish, for ins ...
  Gupta is a Goldman board member and former CEO of major corporate consulting firm McKinsey. By all accounts, they have him nailed. In September 2008, Gupta disconnected from a Board conference call, in which he learned about the Buffet deal [to invest in Goldman], at 3:56 p.m. By 3:57, he was on ...
• California dominates global cleantech company list
  The Guardian and the Cleantech Group have chosen 100 cleantech companies from around the world as most likely to make a major market impact over the next 5-10 years. The companies must be cleantech-oriented, for-profit, and not listed on stock exchanges. 33 of the companies are in California whi ...
• Hooray for Hollywood
  My friend John Wight on his days in Hollywood, coping with the rigid class system and its systematized abuse, while scuffling as an extra and writing screenplays. In my time I witnessed extras being escorted from the soundstage of the sitcom Friends by set security for the crime of arriving for ...

Coteret

• Yediot’s Plocker: Thank you Mossad for r ...
  On Sunday (January 9 2011), Yediot’s Itamar Eichner reported [emphasis mine; full translation here]: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is furious with outgoing Mossad Director Meir Dagan because of the briefing Dagan gave journalists last Thursday. In the course of that briefing, Dagan shared wi ...
• “Rejectionist front”: Maariv detai ...
  As Israel’s diplomatic position erodes and the Palestinian Authority’s campaign for the unilateral recognition of a state in the 1967 borders gains ground, the demand for “direct negotiations” has become a central talking point of  Israeli government spokespeople. Here’s the latest example, fro ...
• New Yorker editor David Remnick to Yediot: &#8 ...
  On December 24 2010, Yediot’s Friday Political Supplement ran an interview with New Yorker editor David Remnick by Adi Gold. Most of the interview was dedicated to his new biography of Barack Obama. Gold did ask a political question on Israel and Reminck’s response was very blunt. Note that th ...
• Breaking the Silence’s landmark new book ...
  Breaking the Silence has just published a landmark collection of soldier testimonies from the Occupied Territories spanning the period 2000-2010. The 432 page book can now be browsed, downloaded and embedded here. If you read nothing else, take the time to look over the first to pages of the int ...
• Following local pressure, Adidas reconsiders s ...
  This Maariv article [full translation below] from Friday is particularly badly written and repetitive, so I’ll summarize. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat decides to hold the first Jerusalem International Marathon in March 2011. He gets Adidas to sponsor the event. An Israeli runner registers and the ...

Deadline Live

• Memory Hole Video of the day: US Army Tests Bi ...
• Tories rebrand ‘Government of Canada’ as ‘Harp ...
  OTTAWA—It’s official: Stephen Harper rules. And lest anyone forgets, a directive went out to public servants late last year that “Government of Canada” in federal communications should be replaced by “Harper Government.” Public servants from four different line departments told The Canadian Pres ...
• Deadline Live – March 3 2011
  Today’s Guest: Tim Cox – Exec Director of www.goooh.com ( Get Out Of Our House ) The non partisan Plan to replace Career Politicians in Congress … Also Breaking News, and your Calls
• Bernanke Threats to Congress Fail, Enter Alan ...
  Greenspan Says Surge in Government `Activism’ Is Hampering U.S. Recovery Bloomberg.com Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said a surge in U.S. government âactivism,â including fiscal stimulus, housing subsidies and new regulations, is holding back the economic recovery. Increased bon ...
• This Day in History – March 4
  1215 – King John of England makes an oath to Pope Innocent III as a crusader to gain his support. 1493 – Explorer Christopher Columbus arrives back in Lisbon, Portugal, aboard his ship Niña from his voyage to what is now The Bahamas and other islands in the Caribbean. 1519 – Hernan Cortes arrive ...

The Air Vent

• kgnd & Cross-Validation: PART II – Parti ...
  by Ryan O’Donnell kgnd & Cross-Validation: PART II (TTLS vs. Ridge Regression and Table S3) In his O’Donnellgate post, Steig makes the following observation: Itâs perhaps also worth pointing out that the *main* criticism I had of OâDonnellâs paper was never addressed. If youâre interested in thi ...
• Nick Stokes – TempLS
  Nick Stokes has been messing around with another regression of the Antarctic, he’s done some good stuff but I believe is seeing some of the difficulty of spatial trend containment using PCA methods.  It’s fairly interesting: Antarctic, RO10, Steig and TempLS.
• kgnd & Cross-Validation – By Ryan ODonnell
  PART I (West Antarctica) IMPORTANT NOTE:  The code has been modified to extract station-by-station cross-validation results for TTLS.  If you are using the code, please download the new copy RO10 Code.txt and use that.  Data is here internal.cv.Rdata.
• Crystalline Silicon Ball
  Well Lucia has a post from Zeke which is experiencing a nice reception at her blog as well as Judith Curry’s.  As often is the case, my own head feels about to explode over some of the “known details”.  There are far too many otherwise smart people ready to accept them for my liking and [...]
• Josh – Summing it up

Focal Point

• Scott Walker Snuck Ringers Into Budget Speech
  Wisconsin governor Scott Walker defied a court order to ban citizens from the capitol building during his budget address. Citizens were left out in the cold while Walker's allies were smuggled in, possibly through hidden civil defense tunnels, Abe Sauer reports in the Awl: Walker entered to ...
• Obama Admin Declines to Defend Entire "Defense ...
  Good news: Attorney General Eric Holder announced last week that the Justice Department will no longer defend Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act, the part that defines marriage as the union of one man and one woman. Holder said that the executive would continue to enforce the law until it ...
• GA Rep. Seeks to Criminalize Unauthorized Vagi ...
  A Georgia Representative has introduced a bill to investigate all unsupervised miscarriages as crime scenes. Don't believe me? Here's the relevant language from HB 1, downloadable from legislature's website: When a spontaneous fetal death required to be reported by this Code section occurs ...
• Mudcat Saunders to Wisconsin Dems: Surrender f ...
  Sam Stein asks, "Would The Democrats Have Been Better Off Letting Walker's Bill Pass?" Better off how? If Wisconsin's Democratic legislators had sat still and let the bill pass, the majority of public employees in Wisconsin would have lost their collective bargaining rights without a fight. ...
• House Votes to Defund Planned Parenthood, Title X
  The Party of Spite strikes again. The Republican-controlled House voted Friday to de-fund not only Planned Parenthood, but all Title X funds for clinics that perform abortions: If the resolution goes into law, the 95-year-old health care provider will lose funding from the federal governme ...

Inside Facebook

• Facebook Allows Users to Suggest Edits to Plac ...
  Facebook users will now see a “Suggest Edits” link in the top right of the info tab for Places pages. When clicked, it reveals a content editor allowing them to add and edit information such as the website or email address of a business. The edits do not immediately go live. Instead, Facebook te ...
• As Facebook Begins Enforcing Ad Provider Compl ...
  Facebook has been busy adding more companies to the list of ad providers that it has approved to work on its platform. There are now 24 by our count since the middle of last month, in addition to the 43 companies that were previously added after Facebook introduced the list last December. New na ...
• Ifeelgoods Lets Brands Give Away Facebook Cred ...
  Ifeelgoods, a marketing service provider that allows brands to reward users with virtual currency for their actions, has released a new tool that helps brands offer Facebook Credits to users who follow their Twitter account and retweet a specific message. Currently available through a managed pa ...
• Facebook Hires and Departures: Engineering, Mo ...
  There was quite a variety of hires and departures in our roundup of employment at Facebook per the company’s Careers Page and LinkedIn. Software engineers were hired, as well as recruiting and online sales. Many positions were also removed from the Careers Page, hinting at further hires. These p ...
• Facebook Careers Postings: Developer and Sales ...
  For the most part, Facebook is hiring to fill out out a range of entry and midlevel positions in the US and around the world, judging by the latest postings it has made to its Careers Page and on LinkedIn. But there were a few more senior openings as well. The Global Product Marketing Manager Fa ...

Truthout - Tweets

• truthout: In Libya, Diplomacy Could Save Lives ...
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• truthout: The Health Economy - The Alternative ...
  truthout: The Health Economy - The Alternative to Federal Government Shutdown http://bit.ly/i0JWDN #p2 #p2b #p21
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  truthout: What Happens When Pretending to Be Crazy Is a Career Strategy http://bit.ly/em8lhq #p2 #p2b #p21
• truthout: Revolutions in the Information Age h ...
  truthout: Revolutions in the Information Age http://bit.ly/i9W3hZ #p2 #p2b #p21
• truthout: The 2012 Budget and Our Unsecured Bo ...
  truthout: The 2012 Budget and Our Unsecured Border http://bit.ly/hNIKbE #p2 #p2b #p21

ReDress News

• More blood for oil? Libya and the UK
  Amid the talk in Washington and London of military intervention in Libya, Tim Coles considers how the Anglo-American portrayal of Mu'ammar Gaddafi changed from bogeyman to friend when it became apparent that he would grant oil contracts to various Western companies.
• Bahrain bleeds for liberty
  Mamoon Alabbasi views the hypocrisy and double standards displayed by Western politicians and media towards the pro-democracy movement in Bahrain.
• Rebranding Egypt's revolution
  Mamoon Alabbasi warns Egyptians against attempts by outsiders to abort their revolution by sowing the seeds of religious division. "Those who have failed to suppress the Egyptian revolution now seek to derail it or rebrand it [as either Islamist or other] in order to keep the status quo of divis ...
• 9/11 revisited
  Paul J. Balles summarizes author David Ray Griffin's "21 reasons to question the official story about 9/11", published in his book The New Pearl Harbor Revisited and other studies.
• An empire of lies: why our media betrays us
  Jonathan Cook analyses the role of mainstream media in defending Western imperial elites and peddling their narrative, and assesses the impact of new media in breaking the elites' stranglehold on information. "This is an opportunity and one that we must nurture. We must demand of the corporate ...

Amazon Rainforest

• Brazil judge blocks Amazon Belo Monte dam:
  Federal Brasilian judge Ronaldo Desterro has blocked plans to build a huge hydro-electric dam in the Amazon rainforest because of environmental concerns. Judge Desterro said environmental requirements to build the Belo Monte dam had not been met. He also barred the national development bank, BND ...
• 1.ooo military forces end illegal gold mining ...
  The Peruvian military has cleared-out illegal gold mining along the country’s south-eastern Amazon region in a move aiming to protect the environment. The government sent about 1,000 security forces to the region of Madre de Dios to destroy the illegal operations, the state-funded BBC reported. ...
• BREAKING: Chevron Guilty of Amazon Rainforest ...
  Amazon Watch and Rainforest Action Network just announced a major victory for the Amazon rainforest. An Ecuadorean judge today found Chevron guilty of one of the largest environmental crimes in history and ordered the company to pay a whopping $8 billion to clean up its damage in the Amazon. Che ...
• First film footage of uncontacted Amazon Tribe
  The footage was filmed by the BBC’s Human Planet series shows a Tribe known as the Panoan, who live in virtual isolation from the outside world. The team needed too get footage of the Tribe as proof of their existence so as the government could protect them from illegal logging and mining operat ...
• Second rancher sentenced for contract kill of ...
  A second rancher has been sentenced for his role in the murder of Dorothy Stang, an American nun who was gunned down in 2005 for her efforts on behalf of poor farmers in the Amazon Rainforest. Regivaldo Galvao was sentenced to 30 years in prison by a jury in the city of Pará. Last month [...]

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• Sibel Edmonds’ Boiling Frogs Post: Year Two
  We Need Your Support to Continue & Expand: Countdown Week 1 In October 2009 I launched Boiling Frogs Post  with one purpose in mind: To establish a venue for investigative articles, editorials, analyses, discussions, and interviews on issues largely censored by the media. We are entering our sec ...
• Boiling Frogs Post Status & Update
  Boiling Frogs Year Two-A Personal Note Next week I’ll be leaving for a business related trip, followed by relocation related travel where I’ll be checking housing, schooling for my daughter, work,  among tons of other ‘life related’ details in a new hometown, and finalized by a short but straigh ...
• Boiling Frogs Beltway Buzz: The Upcoming Bipar ...
  A Caucus to Combat Terrorism, Domestic Violence, Divorce & Job Dissatisfaction via ‘Happiness Pill’ According to our inside sources a new Bipartisan Congressional Caucus for Prozac will be launched before the end of the 112th Congress. The primary purpose of the Prozac Caucus will be to raise aw ...
• Hillary Clinton: Beware of the Mini Pharaoh in ...
  “Speaking Fee” is the New Name for Political Donation Laundering-Rechanneling (PDLR) Political donation laundering-rechanneling (PDLR) is a business in its own right, whether it is for pre-election donations or post-election maintenance contributions.  In most cases, PDLR requires savvy strategi ...
• Jamiol Presents

Afro Spear

• When Keeping It Real Goes Wrong, Part 13
  Earlier today, I was reading the post on “Tim Wise” from last year. Some recent new comments had shown up and I was curious; I re-read the entire post. It was very interesting and made me reflect on me, on my feelings related to the post’s contents and comments. Tim Wise doesn’t move me. In [...]
• Bishop Noel Jones in South Africa…The Pr ...
  The great Bishop Noel Jones, discussing the intersection of business and church, the practical and the spiritual, the dialectical and the liturgical. Bishop Noel Jones is considered a profound Christian theologian and intellectual. He has a way with the Word of God that leaves no room for doubt ...
• “Revolution and the Muslim World” ...
  Artlice from STRATFOR The Muslim world, from North Africa to Iran, has experienced a wave of instability in the last few weeks. No regimes have been overthrown yet, although as of this writing, Libya was teetering on the brink. There have been moments in history where revolution spread in a regi ...
• Congrats Museveni on “Tsunami-like win&# ...
  Dear Mr President of Uganda Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni, Though I am not your voter, I come from the same background like that of your humble voters. I come from the country where voters and all hoi polloi are but sheepish beasts of burden for hoity toitty like in your country. And they l ...
• War babies, Germany and love letters explainin ...
  Cross post from the Black Women in Europe⢠Blog War babies, Germany and love letters explaining the past From Noah Sow’s Blog: Afro-German History in New Karasek Book Release The post before this one is about a book release in German(y). The story is important to me though, so Iâll try to tell ...

Expose the BNP

• Expose the BNP: activists’ meeting
  Over the summer we have seen the extreme right enter parliament in Sweden and racist deportations of Roma people from France. Here at home the EDL have continued to target cities with Muslim communities, while the police are bringing trumped-up charges against anti-fascists. November 6 sees a na ...
• Rotherham fascist leads secret double life
  A BNP activist is living a secret double life, desperate to prevent his employers from finding out about his extremist views – despite having stood as a candidate in last month’s election. Tom Holmes (25) received 715 votes in the recent elections for Rotherham Council but has managed to keep hi ...
• Nick Griffin humiliated in Barking defeat
  The British National Party have suffered a humiliating defeat in the general election when Nick Griffin failed to gain a Westminster seat for the East London ward of Barking. Labour MP Margaret Hodge secured the seat with a 16,000 majority, with Griffin trailing third after the Conservative cand ...
• Ten questions that expose Nick Griffin
  On the day that the BNP launches its election manifesto, Expose the BNP has researched 10 questions for journalists to put to the BNP leader, the answers to which reveal him to be a deeply racist, anti-Semitic Holocaust denier who boasts about his criminal past. 1. In which year did you stop den ...
• Workshy Griffin left his parents penniless
  On yesterdayâs Today programme, BNP leader Nick Griffin told the Radio Four audience that âLiberal economics … have utterly bankrupted this country.â The truth is that Nick Griffin was himself declared bankrupt in 1991. Over several years thereafter he destroyed his parentsâ finances as well. Gr ...

Sen4Earth

• Memorial Tribute to Hugh MacDougall
  Memorial Tribute to Hugh MacDougall “We are sending the power of love, peace and compassion, which can change the world.” â Hugh MacDougall, Australia, SEN Honorary Advisor Hugh was more to Suzanne and I than SEN’s Honorary Spiritual Advisor. He was the beloved friend we called brother, and he w ...
• No to Monsanto and GMO: Action Central
  "SEN is greatly concerned that Monsanto and GMO give rise to a threat that if unchecked could eventually prove as catastrophic to mankind and the sustainability of all life on earth as global warming. We must scream bloody murder, and do so with facts." -- Gregory Hilbert, Co-Founder Sustainabil ...
• Bill Gates On Climate Change & Energy: We Must ...
  Whether you know a little or a lot about Climate Change (aka Global Warming), SEN urges you to watch this one-hour video, because you will learn a great deal either way. Gates lays out a sweeping set of ideas for reducing CO2 emmissions to zero. Gates is no fool when it comes to matters of [...]
• Week 2 – Worldwide Campaign to Save the ...
  The Grand Canyon is one of the world's most pristine and majestic treasures. Mother Nature needs our help to save it. We all need to act to protect the Grand Canyon. Pledge to do your part. Help us by adding your signature to the petitions and ask everyone you know and who cares for earth to do ...
• Seize BP Demonstrations Nationwide
  SEN believes these demonstrations will help awaken politicians to outrage over inadequate regulation and control of international corporations, even if they do not succeed in gaining temporary seizure of BP on the basis of national emergency and evidence of criminal neglect and fraud by BP.

If Americans Knew

• Gabrielle Giffords, Tom Hurndall and Palestini ...
  Alison Weir, CounterPunch - There is something particularly horrifying when someone is shot in the head. Perhaps it's the gruesome image, the destruction of the brain, the clear intent to kill. The recent shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is made even more nightmarish by the l ...
• As Israel kills and maims, Outrage is directed ...
  Whenever Israel commits yet another atrocity, its defenders are quick to redirect public attention away from the grisly crime scene. Currently, there are headlines about allegedly anti-Semitic comments made by senior White House correspondent Helen Thomas. Pundits across the land evince outrage ...
• An Open Letter to the Southern Poverty Law Cli ...
  I am disturbed by an article that the Center published in the fall 2007 issue of "Intelligence Report"--the Center's magazine. The item "Navy Extremist Disciplined--But Not for Extremism" is on page 11. The article focuses on Navy officer John Sharpe Jr.
• NPR Watch: Linda Gradstein Has Done It Again o ...
  NPR's reporter Linda Gradstein has done it again. She has managed to take a "must report" story on Israeli-Palestinian relations -- the new report by B'Tselem on the non-combatants, including children, killed by the Israeli military during the Israeli attack on Gaza -- and report it in a manner ...
• The invisible government: Propaganda Disguised ...
  John Pilger: In a speech in Chicago, John Pilger describes how propaganda has become such a potent force in our lives and, in the words of one of its founders, represents 'an invisible government'.

David J. Gregory

• Rally to Save the American Dream
  In Wisconsin and around our country, the American Dream is under fierce attack. Instead of creating jobs, Republicans are giving tax breaks to corporations and the very rich—and then cutting funding for education, police, emergency response, and vital human services. On Saturday, February 26, a ...
• RICK SCOTT MADE MILLIONS OFF HEALTH NOW CUTS I ...
  Whether it's a political stunt or the act of an extremist ideologue, Scott is hurting real Floridians in concrete ways, including millions of people with private health insurance or Medicare benefits. He's taking away a law that ends the worst insurance company abuses and frees families, senior ...
• CUT PENTAGON BUDGET: ACT NOW
  Their current proposal includes cuts in domestic spending, diplomacy, development, and international assistance but allows the Pentagon budget to continue to rise.
• SAY NO to Patriot EXTENSIONS!
  Together, these provisions make a mockery of our civil liberties: They let government officials spy on whomever they want, for any reason, without ever letting them know or giving them a chance to challenge the order in court.
• Secretariat the Horse, the Movie
  To be witness to history from afar is one thing, to be up close is another, and to have the wisdom to know the difference is the icing on the cake, of course, I am referring to great moments in history, of excelling in any endeavor, being human, or otherwise, of the bright spots and not of man’s ...

Unsuitable Blog

• UK Census 2011: Why I Will Be Breaking The Law ...
  On Sunday March 27, 2011 I will be breaking the law. If you live in England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland then I would also like you to break the law. We can do it together, and I know for a fact that an awful lot of people will be doing the same. The UK [...]
• Interview With Bill McKibben, Winner of Puffin ...
  Climate reality writer and activist Gregory Vickrey. (L) ( Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Founder of 350.org, writer and environmentalist Bill McKibben. (R) (Photo: Nancie Battaglia / 350.org) Bill McKibben, Schumann distinguished scholar at Middlebury College, is the author of a dozen boo ...
• An Open Letter to Journalists From Gasland Dir ...
  With the recent Oscar nomination of my documentary film GASLAND, Big Gas and their PR attack machine hit a new low in its blatant disregard for the truth. In an unprecedented move, an oil and gas industry front group sent a letter to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences saying that th ...
• 350.org say “Hello Business, Goodbye Gra ...
  For a while it wasn’t certain which side would blink first: the grassroots or the corporate loving heirarchy. Turns out that the grassroots blinked before the heirarchy had even been established. When, like 350.org you have a full time staff of just half a dozen people then you have a pretty eas ...
• Friends of the Earth, iPods and The Competitio ...
  It was a windy Thursday evening at the beginning of 2011. An office in north London buzzed with anticipation at the launch of something exciting; something that would appeal to a new breed of eco-conscious consumers who want that extra something to keep them feeling good about their fast-pased, ...

Subalternate Reality

• Praying On Qasr al-Nil
  One of the more memorable scenes of the Egyptian revolution will surely be that of ordinary Egyptian’s praying on Cairo’s Qasr al-Nil Bridge as members of Egyptian state police direct their water cannons at them. Truly a remarkable sight. via Al Jazeera Filed under: Middle East Tagged: Al-Jazeer ...
• “I Support Democratization, But…&# ...
  The Atlanticâs Jeffrey Goldberg â one of the key proponents of the disastrous invasion of Iraq â has some serious misgivings about the fledgling pro-democracy movement thatâs taken over the streets of Egypt. âI support democratization, but,â he cautions, âthe democratization we saw in Gaza (cour ...
• All That Happens In The Middle East Can’ ...
  Uncertainly rules the day in Tunisia. Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the countryâs strong-armed and authoritarian ruler since 1987, is in Saudi Arabia while the interim government struggles to restore some semblance of order.  âConfusion, fear and horror in Tunisia as old regime’s militia carries on ...
• Newt Comes Out As A Muslim-Baiter
  Early this week, disgraced former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich warned that “a commitment to religious freedom and God-given rights is being replaced by a secular oppression…”  Just hours after those words appeared on Human Events, Gingrich issued a statement forcefully opposing the constr ...
• Wealthy Far More Likely To Default On Mortgages
  crossposted at Political Correction For much of the past two years, Congressional Republicans have wasted few opportunities to blame poor and working class Americans for the financial meltdown and the subsequent recession. They’ve argued that through well-intentioned government initiatives, in ...

Idea Lab | Technology

• Open Media Project's User-Driven, New Media Ne ...
  Last week, the Open Media Foundation and the Internet Archive announced a significant development in the Open Media Project, the open-source effort designed to enable more community participation and control over community media organizations. The Internet Archive Drupal Module, which was the fi ...
• Telling Better Stories by Designing Custom Map ...
  Plotting information -- say survey data in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas or election results in Afghanistan -- on any kind of map adds critical geo-context to the data. These maps quickly become move powerful when you start adding more custom overlays, showing data like where di ...
• Ushahidi Takes First Steps in Evaluating Kenya ...
  This post was written by Melissa Tully and Jennifer Chan. It is the first in a series of blog posts documenting a 9-month Ushahidi evaluation project in partnership with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and supported by the Knight Foundation. A version of the post below was originally publish ...
• MIT's Civic Media Session Explores Data in Cities
  With a redoubled focus on the community in the civic media community, the Center for Future Civic Media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) launched a new series last week. These relaxed, informal conversations about civic media featured ground-level practitioners, activists, hack ...
• LocalWiki Tries "Open-From-The-Start" Developm ...
  It's time for another project update. We've been hard at work on the core of the software that will power LocalWiki. We've also been spending time running around meeting people passionate about local media and planning out many things to come. Basic groundwork laid Many of you know abo ...

Cutting Edge News

• Border War - Mexico Criticizes U.S. Coordinati ...
  Mexican President Felipe Calderon�rejected accusations that a lack of coordination in Mexico is undermining the fight against drug cartels, saying rivalry within U.S. intelligence agencies is to blame. He�made the comments in an interview published on February 22 in Mexico's El Universal newspap ...
• The Battle for Libya - Jihadist Opportunities ...
  Militant Islamists, and specifically the subset of militant Islamists we refer to as jihadists, have long sought to overthrow regimes in the Muslim world. With the sole exception of Afghanistan, they have failed, and even the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan was really more a matter of establi ...
• Islam on Edge - The Future Role of Islam in Na ...
  All across North Africa and the Middle East, ordinary citizens have staged massive protests in recent weeks calling for the end to autocratic rule. They want better government, less corruption and greater economic opportunity. They come from all walks of life, including once-banned Islamic group ...
• No Plan for Oil Interruption - Libyan Turmoil, ...
  The Libyan uprising and triple-digit oil prices are reinvigorating GOP-led attacks on White House offshore drilling policies—a collision that will burst into public view next week on Capitol Hill.Republicans will press Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on offshore drilling restrictions when he appe ...
• Labor on Edge - Wisconsin: The Question
  Two points jump out at me as I watch the union protests in Wisconsin.First, the “new era of civility” is over, and second, that union myrmidons continue to put their own self-interests above the rest of the taxpayers and nation.If you recall after Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, Arizona Democrat, was s ...

High Country News

• A fish tale in the land of Oz
  If federal Judge James Redden does the right thing, the Pacific Northwest’s salmon may finally get the cold, free-flowing water they need to survive.
• An Unusual Miss Navajo
  Radmilla Cody, who made history as the first biracial Miss Navajo and later served time in prison, now uses her singing to fight racism and domestic violence.
• Oregon's ranchers vote for survival
  A contrast between two attempts at consensus shows Oregon ranchers willing to work at compromise while their New Mexican counterparts "just say no" to any change.
• A uranium mill makes no sense in western Colorado
  The uranium mill proposed for western Colorado will have harmful effects on the health and environment of the entire region.
• Defriending Joe Hill: Stegner's lesson for the ...
  Wallace Stegner struggled over the ethics of writing a “fictional biography” of labor organizer Joe Hill; today, filmmakers blithely make “fictional biographies” of living characters like Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.

CounterCurrents

• Counterrevolution 101
  By Dave Fryett The wretched of the Earth have seen what is possible. Power has been shown to be powerless in the face of determined mass opposition. And in every corner of our world the immiserated rejoice, because they know the day of liberation draws near
• No One Curious What CIA Is Working On At The ...
  By Jay Janson What does the CIA have in store for Egypt? What chores will it assign its agents both American and Egyptian? American socialists and progressives are overly cooperative with mainstream media and Congress in hardly ever asking after our secret CIA shadow government
• Lessons Learned In The Streets Of Cairo
  By William A. CookIf the streets of Cairo have taught us anything, they have demonstrated that vigilance against those who would control out of arrogance, oppress with indifference, deceive with impunity, and humiliate without feeling, have abandoned all natural sympathies and become , in fact ...
• What Is True Sustainability?
  By Matthew SteinIf we are to develop an effective plan and roadmap for creating a sustainable world, we must first have a clear idea of what it truly means to be sustainable
• Egypts Army Dissolves Parliament
  By Al Jazeera Military rulers say they will remain in charge for six months until elections are held as some protesters vow to remain

Contagious Love Experiment

• Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
  Dear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
• Practicing Peace in the New Year
  A friend, Frank Swift, that I met on my first journey has passed along some great practical steps towards peace for the new year. Frank has written a children’s book to help young people see an alternative to the competition and forcefulness that can too easily get instilled in our young people. ...
• Sharing the writing of another Stieber
  My younger brother, Zack, has been fascinated by the Chinese practice of Falun Gong and is hoping that this post could be used to spark a further discussion about it. � Thoughts on Falun Gong by Zack Stieber � Most of us are aware that in China things work differently then here. The main thing o ...
• Article in FOR
  The following is the rough draft for an article I wrote, reflecting on the war in Iraq, that was published in the recent edition of the Fellowship of Reconciliation’s magazine. For more info on getting the full magazine, check out: http://forusa.org/fall-2010-renewing-movement   Rhetoric and Re ...
• Slate Interview: My Country Right or Wrong: Co ...
  Interview I did with a fascinating writer for SLATE whose special interest is on transformation and how people come to admit they’re wrong:   Address to article: http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/thewrongstuff/archive/2010/12/16/my-country-right-or-wrong-conscientious-objector-josh-stieber-on-bei ...

Yid With Lid

• Muslim Brotherhood's New Effort: Seize Control ...
  By Barry Rubin This is of gigantic importance (see if anyone else covers it). MEMRI has pointed out the opening of a Muslim Brotherhood campaign to replace Egypt's current clerical hierarchy with its own people. If that happens...you can imagine. Once Islamists are in place making the ...
• BREAKING NEWS! Judge Vinson to Obama "S**T or ...
  File this under "be careful of what you wish for." On Jan 31 Judge Roger Vinson threw out the entire Obamacare bill, based on the unconstitutionality of the mandate to purchase insurance.� The government's reaction to the ruling was to stall by asking the Judge to clarify his ruling. Today they ...
• Why Does MJ Rosenberg Use Anti-Semitic Buzzwor ...
  Perhaps when he was a child, MJ Rosenberg's parents beat him with an Israeli flag, or maybe the first time he visited the Holy Land he tripped and got a "boo-boo" on his knee or maybe an Israeli doctor unnecessarily removed his tonsils, just like President Obama said doctors do it all the time . ...
• New Revelation: Sheila Jackson Lee Isn't Just ...
  A former boss of mine used to describe her philosophy on interpersonal relationships this way, "I can handle people who are nasty, and I can handle people who are stupid, but I just can't handle people who are stupid and nasty." Well, looking at the latest revelations about Congresswoman Sheila ...
• U.S. Government Discovers That They're Competi ...
  By Barry Rubin In testimony to the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said, "We are in a competition. I just stress over and over again, we�ve got to be there. We�ve got to fight back.� A competition with who? With Iran, though she didn't mention its long ...

The Real Agenda

• A Revolução que os Globalistas Desejavam
  Como a mídia tradicional publica mentiras, as pessoas são cooptadas e os globalistas afirmam seu poder Por Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda Março 4, 2011 Deixe-me ir direto ao ponto. Glenn Beck não é um patriota ou nada parecido. Beck é uma máquina de relações públicas usada para vender publicida ...
• U.S. and France say No to no-fly Zones in Libya
  Since United States Special Forces are already on the ground -have been there for a while-, why would it be necessary to arm rebel groups to overthrow the U.S. puppet dictator? Guardian.co.uk March 2, 2011 Britain has backtracked from its belligerent military stance over Libya after the Obama ad ...
• An Empire of Lies: The CIA and the Western Media
  By Jonathan Cook Global Research February 28, 2011 Last week the Guardian, Britainâs main liberal newspaper, ran an exclusive report on the belated confessions of an Iraqi exile, Rafeed al-Janabi, codenamed âCurveballâ by the CIA. Eight years ago, Janabi played a key behind-the-scenes role — if ...
• Exposure to PCB’s May Interfere with Pre ...
  Wired.com March 2, 2011 PCB exposure may interfere with a woman’s ability to get pregnant, a new study of women undergoing in vitro fertilization suggests. The study of 765 women found that those whose blood contained the highest levels of a particular form of polychlorinated biphenyl — one know ...
• A classe média: Uma espécie em extinção
  Por Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda 1 de Março, 2011 Toda vez que você ouvir a “economia mundial”, este termo deve ser identificado como a destruição da classe média nos países desenvolvidos, e o agravamento das condições de vida nos países em desenvolvimento. Nas últimas décadas, a e ...

Wind Watch

• Doubt over green energy’s clean bill of ...
  Wind turbines are closing in on four generations of the Quinn family who still live at Mt Bryan in South Australia’s picturesque and productive Mt Lofty Ranges. Rosemary Quinn, 74, says she spends her nights locked inside the 1900s stone house she has occupied for 55 years. She shuts the windows ...
• Wind farm plan nixed in Brimfield
  BRIMFIELD – Boston-based First Wind has withdrawn a proposal to build a wind farm on top of West Mountain, a move that has pleased its opponents. “West Mountain was not the place for eight to 10 wind turbines, and I’m happy that they’re leaving. I’m calling everybody that I can think of,” Select ...
• Questions of costs, jobs and influence surroun ...
  Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley on Thursday will ask lawmakers to support a proposal to raise almost every state resident’s electric bill for the next 20 years to underwrite a plan for Maryland to generate some of the nation’s first offshore wind power. O’Malley’s legislation runs counter to a cam ...
• Wind farm falls flat
  ST. HENRY – NextEra Energy Resources announced Tuesday it is pulling the plug on a locally-proposed wind farm project out of respect for the area’s rich religious history. Representatives of the Florida-based wind development company told The Daily Standard they changed their minds about constru ...
• Wind energy moratorium one step closer to reality
  HARTFORD � Proposed wind turbine projects in Colebrook moved one step closer � to being halted in their tracks. The Joint Energy and Technology Committee of the Connecticut General Assembly issued a favorable report on HB 6249, which would enact an immediate moratorium on wind energy projects un ...

Not My Tribe

• Labor Rally In Austin commemorated Fallen Workers
  For those who think Disabled Workers complain too much about how we’re cast out by society, these are mock coffins carried to commemorate the ones who are now forever silent and can no longer complain about how deregulated workplaces, Union Busting TeaParty “heroes” like Don Blankenship and Scot ...
• But of course.. more poop from the pope..
  Doesn’t mention that it’s the militarist police state in place then and in place now who DID do the deed.
• The Original Intent of Guns in Schools
  Since a lot of the jackass political hacks who feel that more guns in schools will actually reduce school violence ALSO believe that they have the “original intent” of the founding fathers, the mythical group of Holy Men anointed by God Himself to dictate the course of American history and laws ...
• Georgia Lawmaker Bobby Franklin: Homunculus Ig ...
  A state legislator in Georgia drafted a bill that would make every single form of contraception into Capital Murder. In the bill he not only categorized abortion as illegal, but also made it where people (Women ARE people) who have miscarriages, medical term being “spontaneous abortion” would ha ...
• Van Jones is Obama in Greenface, what our pres ...
  Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? He’s Black AND he’s Green, and like his former boss Obama, he’s a corporatist who’s pushing Cap & Trade. In Al Gore Nobel Prize circles, Van Jones is the environmental darling who was too hot –and ergo principled– for the Obama administration. In America’s post-Hope ...

Debunking the Debunkers

• O Hai, Bentham Open Chemical Physics Journal!
  It's back... http://www.bentham.org/open/tocpj/openaccess2.htm
• Bentham Open Chemical Physics Journal, Gone?
  Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog recently pointed out that the Bentham Open Chemical Physics Journal has been taken down and thus the "Active Thermitic Material..." paper, in which an international group of scientists report to have found remnants of the incendiary/explosive nano-thermi ...
• VIRAL EMAIL LETTER: The Laws of Physics and th ...
  Dear People at [Insert Media Name here], I've included a link to a You Tube video that I think everyone at your [Newspaper/TV Station/Radio Station] should watch. The video explains why our troops should not be in Afghanistan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwqLu8ZXIX0 Our troops must be wi ...
• Action Alert: Send This Letter to Any Architec ...
  The latest action alert from AE911Truth asks that you "Put AE911Truth DVDs in the Hands of Every A/E in Your Community." But they point out that they, "...Are very grateful for any effort that you might wish to engage in. The important thing is that all of us do our part." So for those who canno ...
• Action! Support Professor Richard Falk
  Thanks to Fran Shure at colorado911visibility.org for passing this along. Call to Action! TO: Citizens of the World Working for Peace ACTION NEEDED: Protest the Condemnation of Professor Richard Falk, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian te ...

Fooducate

• Parents Beware: Those Teddy Bear Cookies Are F ...
  CVS, the mega-pharmacy chain, has introduced a new line of store brand products called “Just the Basics”. Just the Basics offers shoppers a large selection of practical items from a variety of categories throughout the store, including household, beauty, baby and personal care. The products star ...
• Kraft Foods Wants to Grow, But is THIS the Rig ...
  Kraft, one of the largest food companies in the world, is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange. It is worth over $55 Billion. Every year we get to glimpse into the company’s financials, and to hear about plans for continued growth and success. In 2010, Kraft’s revenues were close to $5 ...
• Infographic: Where Does a Food Dollar Go?
  The USDA Economic Research Service recently published a report that helps shed the light on the cost of food. Take a look at the interesting statistic above. For every dollar we spend on food, less than 16 cents go to farmers. The rest is spent on marketing. This shouldn’t surprise you. Authors ...
• So What if March is National Nutrition Month
  March 1 marks the beginning of National Nutrition Month – an annual campaign that is sponsored by the American Dietetic Association (ADA). The goals are simple – raise awareness of informed food choices, good eating habits, and exercise. Another stated goal is to “promote the ADA and its members ...
• We’ve all been GMO’ed. Now What?
  GMO foods are a hotly debated topic in the past few years, and especially in the last month. We haven’t addressed this issue and thought it might be time to share some thoughts. GMO (Genetically modified organism) or GE (genetically engineered) foods were introduced into our food supply less tha ...

Traffikd

• Culture Vulture: Social Strategies for Differe ...
  Social media campaigns are becoming more integrated into the overall online marketing mix. And as with anything on the Web, you need to think global to succeed in the long term. To succeed with social media marketing for different cultures, you need to familiarise yourself with what’s happening ...
• Internet Marketing and Social Media Degree Pro ...
  Guest post by Brian Jenkins Over a billion and a half people use the Internet, and this has created a plethora of opportunities for talented Internet marketers. Specialized knowledge in Internet marketing and social media is vital for many businesses. Yes, there are successful, self-taught Inte ...
• How to Find Great Communities, Forums, and Blo ...
  To market your company effectively, you need to find out where your target audience is. In this post I’ll show you how you can do this. I like using examples, so in this case, I’ll assume you sell Star Wars merchandise.
• Blogging Event Ideas to Spice Up Your Blog
  If you've ever gone to an industry conference, film festival, grand opening, or author signing, then you can appreciate the energy such events can create. Industry conferences gather together the best and brightest minds in order to share ideas and plan for the future. Film festivals celebrate g ...
• Increasing Your Blog’s Interactivity: 10 Tips ...
  Guest post by Alexis Bonari Success in attracting and retaining readers is often influenced by a blog’s level of interactivity. Many readers are more active than passive and want to feel like they have a role in affecting a blog’s content, design, structure, and overall ongoing conversation. Po ...

Survival International

• Peru admits timber certificates faked in secre ...
  A Murunahua man. The Murunahua's reserve is occupied by illegal loggers © Chris Fagan/Upper Amazon Conservancy Peruâs government has secretly admitted that 70-90% of its mahogany exports were illegally felled, according to a US embassy cable revealed by Wikileaks. Furthermore, Peruâs gove ...
• Amazon Indians protest in London as judge bloc ...
  The Indians are calling for three controversial dam projects in the Amazon to be halted. © M. Cowan/Survival âThese projects will force my people from their land and end our way of life.â Ruth Buendia Mestoquiari, Ashaninka leader. Three Amazon Indians protested in London today against ...
• Indian leader’s killers convicted of kidnappin ...
  Guarani Indian leader Marcos Veron © Joaó Ripper/Survival Three men on trial for the murder of Brazilian Indian leader Marcos Veron have been acquitted of homicide, but convicted of kidnapping, torture and criminal conspiracy in relation to his death. They were also acquitted of charges of ...
• Industry bloggers call for mine to make tribal ...
  Vedanta's aluminium refinery in Lanjigarh, Odisha, India © Survival In the footsteps of former Survival supporters, such as Peter Cook and Spike Milligen, Michael Palin recently gave a fundraising talk for the organization. He described his visit to the Dongria Kondh tribe in India where a ...
• Kenyans demonstrate against Ethiopia’s mega-dam
  Friends of Lake Turkana demonstrate against China's involvement in building a giant hydroelectric dam, Gilgel Gibe 3. © Friends of Lake Turkana Kenyans have demonstrated against a hydroelectric mega-dam being built in neighbouring Ethiopia, over fears that it will devastate hundreds of thou ...

Greg Palast

• Chevron Runs from Judgmentin Ecuador
  by Greg Palast Chevron petroleum Corporation is attempting to slither out of an $8 billion judgment rendered yesterday by a trial court in Ecuador for cancer deaths, illnesses and destruction caused by its Texaco unit. I've been there, in Ecuador. I met the victims.  They didn't lose their sh ...
• Reagan: Killer, Coward, Con-man
  The Observer London by Greg Palast You're not going to like this. You shouldn't speak ill of the dead. But in this case, someone's got to. On the 100th Anniversary of Ronald Reagan's birth, as we suffer a week of Reagan-kitcheria and pukey peons, let us remember: Reagan was a con-man. Rea ...
• Shake your head and throw something at your TV
  from MoviesOnline.ca Bush Family Fortunes is a documentary that will make you shake your head and want to throw something at your TV. If even half of what BBC investigative reporter Greg Palast reveals is true and you happen to be an American you may or may not be calling for a revolution depen ...
• Peak Oil and a Changing Climate
  from The Nation The scientific community has long agreed that our dependence on fossil fuels inflicts massive damage on the environment and our health, while warming the globe in the process. But beyond the damage these fuels cause to us now, what will happen when the world's supply of oil ru ...
• Palast ArrestedBusted by BP in Azerbaijan
  by Greg Palast BP's Azeri police arresting Palast for filming BP oil rig - Baku, Azerbaijan, December 2010"Here in Azerbaijan we believe in human rights. PLEASE GIVE US YOUR FILM." Oh, no, no, not good. The enforcers here come in three colors:  the military police still wearing their old Rus ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

• How can I reuse or recycle excess sterilising ...
  We’ve covered a wide range of things during our cleaning themed week here on Recycle This – bleach bottles, plug-in air fresheners, making dishcloth & pot scrubbers, and yesterday’s very interesting discussion on reducing plastic waste from cleaning – so I feel it’s fine for me to go off on a bi ...
• How can I reuse or recycle a Cillit Bang spray ...
  Shelagh emailed to ask: How can I reuse a Cillit Bang spray? It seems impossible to remove the nozzle to fill with a product. I’ve never used it so I don’t know what the bottle is like – but I’m going out to the shops in a few minutes so I’ll have a good look [...]
• How can I repair a silicone baking mat?
  We’ve had another email from our good friend Petra: I’ve got a question about a silicone baking mat. I have two of them, but accidentally in both of them there is a cut from a knife or pizza slicer. Does anyone know of a method to repair these cuts? I can’t think of something myself [...]
• Plastic bottle creations, recycled robot plant ...
  Every now and then I realise I’ve had some great ideas & links sent to my email but not shared them with you yet – this is one of those times! First up, Vernon got into touch to tell us about his plastic bottle creations. He says he’s been making them for 15 years and [...]
• Upcycled & recycled Valentine’s Day gift ...
  Since it’s coming up to Valentine’s Day, I thought it might be nice to have a round up of fun recycling/upcycling Valentine’s Day crafts – for inspiration or purchase! Andrea Cook has been making cute Valentine’s Day cards out of recycled handmade paper and fabric scraps. Coupled-up kitties! Sar ...

Age of Autism

• Katie Wright: Doonesbury's Misogynistic Cheap ...
  Managing Editor's Note: It's a sad irony that Gary Trudeau's wife Jane Pauley worked for NBC for many years. Would Trudeau have taken such a cheap misogynistic shot at Katie? And Jenny was in the hospital tending to Evan during...
• Watch the SCOTUS Bruesewitz v. Wyeth Decision ...
  Here's the press conference on Bruesewitvz V. Wywth from yesterday.
• Bruesewitz Family SCOTUS Press Conference Toda ...
  Here's the LiveStream http://www.ustream.tv/channel/vaccinejustice for the press conference. Streaming .TV shows by Ustream Social Stream: Chat:
• Seth Mnookin and the Error Virus
  By Dan Olmsted Seth Mnookin is a stickler for accuracy. In his new book “The Panic Virus – A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear,” Mnookin discusses Robert F. Kennedy Jr., “the eldest son and namesake of the former...
• Watch Livestreamed DC Press Conference on Brue ...
  Tomorrow (Thurs, March 3) at 2pm Eastern, the Bruesewitz press conference will be streaming live at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/vaccinejustice. We need your help to promote on FB, Twitter, blogs, and email threads. Click on link to grab embed code or copy below!...

Global BDS Movement

• BNC thanks CUT Brazil for their public stateme ...
  Artur Henrique da Silva Santos - National President CUT Quintino Severo - General Secretary João Antonio Felicio - International Relations Secretary Dear comrades of the CUT Brazil,   As the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC), a wide coalition of Palestinian p ...
• French court reveals fraud committed by Carmel ...
  As a result of the French Coalition Against Agrexco's read more
• Commemorate Land Day 2011 by Joining the Globa ...
  � Commemorate Land Day 2011 by Joining the Global BDS Day of Action 30 March 2011 read more
• Adidas: Apartheid is not fair play, drop spons ...
  Occupied Palestine, 17 February 2011 – The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC), the largest coalition of Palestinian civil society organizations and unions, calls on Adidas to withdraw its sponsorship of the first Jerusalem marathon to take place on March 25, 2 ...
• The "Palestine Papers": Grave Palestinian conc ...
  The "Palestine Papers": Grave Palestinian concessions met with utter Israeli rejectionism With revolutionary change across the Arab World eroding Israel's power in the region, BDS has become a key strategy of the Palestinian people for a global struggle to hold Israel accountable and assert ou ...

Farm Wars

• Cloned animals – Consumers shall have no choice
  EU Commissioner for Trade: Products from offspring of cloned animals already on the market.
• Dangerous New Organism Found and Linked to GMOs!
  Agrobacterium could multiply and transfer transgenic DNA to other bacteria, as well as to the next crop to be planted. The discovery by the Bristol University researchers barely scratches the surface of the hidden hazards of GMOs from horizontal gene transfer. It is high time for a global ban to ...
• USDA’s National Organics Program In the Crossh ...
  The USDA’s National Organics Program (NOP) is designed so that GMOs can enter USDA Certified Organics.
• Truth Squad Radio: The Truth about Gardasil!
  Laurie Dean-Smith will join us with other members of her group dedicated to stopping the forced use of Gardasil on our young girls and boys.
• National Organics Program – Testing for GMOs N ...
  Yes, it's true. There are most likely GMOs in our organic foods. Not because they are “allowed,” because they aren't, but because contamination is widespread throughout the agricultural industry, and the USDA's National Organics Program (NOP) is designed so that GMOs can enter USDA Certified Org ...

Open Your Eyes News

• UK: Roadblocks set up to catch drivers smoking
  Telegraph – Council wardens and Essex Police will carry out random inspections across the county to look for evidence of illicit cigarette use. They will even hunt for cigarette butts in the ashtrays and smell the air inside the vehicles in order to clamp down on the outlawed practice. Workers w ...
• Documents Reveal TSA Research Proposal To Body ...
  Forbes – Giving Transportation Security Administration agents a peek under your clothes may soon be a practice that goes well beyond airport checkpoints. Newly uncovered documents show that as early as 2006, the Department of Homeland Security has been planning pilot programs to deploy mobile sc ...
• Canada: Fluoride debate to continue in CBRM
  CBC News -The debate about fluoride in the drinking water will continue in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality. On Tuesday, councillors put off a decision for 60 days so they can hear from people who support the practice. Read article
• Sectarian clashes flare up in Bahrain
  Sify - Swords, wooden sticks and rocks were used in the street battle, leaving at least eight people injured. At least one man suffered severe injuries to his hand after being hit with a sword. A Reuter’s press agency photographer was repeatedly beaten by a mob and his camera taken away before ...
• House Republicans attempt to revive Real ID
  Cnet – If you’re a resident of one of at least 24 states including Arizona, Georgia, and Washington, your driver’s license may no longer be valid for boarding an airplane or entering federal buildings as of May 11, 2011. That’s the deadline that senior House Republicans are calling on the Obama ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

• Brown administration pushing ahead with Sacram ...
  The future of a multibillion-dollar project to reroute water shipments from Northern California and salvage the battered ecosytem of the Sacramento-San Joaquin delta started looking shaky late last year. Irked that the project may not give them all the water...
• Eco-activist who blocked BLM auction in Utah i ...
  A federal jury in Salt Lake City on Thursday convicted environmental activist Tim DeChristopher of two felony counts for using bogus bids to block the auction of 22,000 of federal land near national parks in southern Utah. The jury deliberated...
• Lake Tahoe Restoration Act would improve water ...
  The ongoing effort to maintain Lake Tahoe got a bipartisan push Wednesday, as Sen. Barbara Boxer joined Nevada's two senators in introducing the proposed Lake Tahoe Restoration Act, which would authorize $415 million over 10 years to improve the lake's...
• Top green-building states: California lags beh ...
  California may have plenty of eco-friendly construction, but according to the U.S. Green Building Council, it’s not among the top 10 states with so-called green commercial and institutional structures. The council developed the Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design certification...
• Climate change: Silicon Valley invests in extr ...
  Silicon Valley venture capitalist Vinod Khosla and Google Ventures have invested $42 million in a start-up run by former Google employees, which helps insure farmers against losses from increasingly volatile global weather. Khosla Ventures and Google Ventures join Allen &...

water.org

• Matt Damon speaks out on Water (Huffington Post)
  Matt Damon, Co-Founder Of Water.org, Speaks Out About Global Water Crisis (Huffington Post) – Matt Damon chose to focus his efforts on the global water crisis for two reasons: “One was the enormity of the problem and two was the availability of solutions.” He co-founded Water.org to find those s ...
• Matt Damon talks Water on Ellen (Ellen)
  Matt Damon – Wednesday, March 2, 2011 (Ellen) After eight seasons, the biggest superstar is finally stopping by for the very first time — the sexy MATT DAMON! Not only has the Oscar-winning actor been in some of the best films ever, he’s an incredible humanitarian. He’s also quite the funny guy ...
• The most important video (Ecorazzi)
  Most Important Video Of The Day: Matt Damon On The Water Crisis (Ecorazzi) – Back in early January, Water.org quietly released a six-part interview with co-founder Matt Damon on his activism for clean water and why the topic is so important to him. The almost 9-minute interview is refreshing in ...
• Bringing clean water to those in need (Milkshake)
  Water, Water, Everywhere, Nor Any Drop to Drink (Milkshake) – Co-founded by Matt Damon and Gary White, Water.org is a nonprofit organization that works to bring clean water to communities in Africa, South Asia, and Central America. They use a multi-pronged approach to ensure every penny donated ...
• You’re Invited: March 1st Conference Call
  Tuesday, March 1 The 45-minute call begins at 9 p.m. ET Call in number: 978-964-0049⨠Participant code: 449749# This is your chance to hear first-hand from Water.org International Programs Manager April Davies about the water and sanitation crisis in Ghana and the impact our programs a ...

Before It's News

• Princeton's Perimeter Plan
• Wanted: A sense of humor for climateers [Class M]
• Why Tim Pawlenty would make a great Tea Party ...
• Waldman on Judicial Elections [Dispatches from ...
• China Sun Group to double lithium iron capacit ...

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

• The Deniers on CBC Radio's 'Ideas'
  The science is settled - is now the mantra of climate change activism? Those who disagree are either in denial or in the pay of an oil company. But long time environmentalist and energy activist Lawrence Solomon says no, the science is not settled on global warming. Ideas producer David Cayley b ...

Margaret's News

• Scientists: Global warming to blame for big U. ...
  What caused the colossal snowfalls that buried much of the USA this winter, setting snow records in New York City and Chicago? One group of scientists blames. .. global warming.Submitted by Carrie Burton to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Light a Candle for Gaza the rabbis piece t ...
  Many of us will invariably retreat behind a veil of defensiveness, claiming Israel�s action was an appropriate, commensurate response to the threat posed by Hamas. Some of us might be troubled, but choose to look away from the hard and painful reality...Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� ...
• What if Israeli forces treated West Bank settl ...
  "This was unprecedented and disproportionate use of means to disburse demonstrations," outpost spokesman Yehuda Shimon was quoted as saying of the police action. "There was massive rubber bullet, percussion grenade and tear gas grenade fire," Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! � ...
• Police clash with rightists protesting in Jeru ...
  Police were also investigating an incident in which settlers were suspected of throwing a petrol bomb at a house in the Palestinian village of Hawara in the northern West Bank, causing some damage but no injuries.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Netanyahu: Israel can't ignore world pressure ...
  Premier tells Likud faction that government is making efforts to maintain existing activity in West Bank, but can't keep 'banging [its] head into the wall' in the face of the existing international reality.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

• Los Angeles Continues to Build Renewable Energ ...
  On the heels of announcing that it had met a 2010 target to source 20 percent of its power demand from renewable sources, the city of Los Angeles, California has announced plans to build an 11.6 MW� a solar power plant. read more
• E•BOOM CAPITAL: ReneSolar Scares Investors wit ...
  ReneSola quality assurance at Chinese factory American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) of Chinese solar wafer and module manufacturer ReneSola Ltd. (NYSE: SOL) (market cap ...
• 1336 Technologies Recieves $28.4 Million Inves ...
  Comprised of a team of MIT scientists, 1336 Technologies has developed a process to produce silicon solar wafers at a cost that will make photovoltaic solar energy equal in price or cheaper than coal power. read more
• Washington D.C. Can't Pay Solar Rebates to Res ...
  United States President Barack Obama has been touting the line that investment in clean and renewable energy is key to pulling the country out of recession. read more
• Utility Scale Solar Market Will Fade
  In the United States, federal, state and local governments are racing towards renewable energy targets. To reach these targets governments have offered incentives for renewable energy developers and investors to act now. read more

News Blaze

• U.S. Urges Iran to Undertake Effort for The Sa ...
  We would appreciate the Iranian government's efforts in this matter.
• NASA Awards Space Network Expansion-East Option
  The Space Network Ground Segment is part of NASA's Space Network. The agency's Tracking and Data Relay Satellites (TDRS) comprise the space segment. The network provides the resources for global space-to-ground telecommunications and tracking cove
• EPA Proposes 30 Unregulated Contaminants for M ...
  Under the authority of the Safe Drinking Water Act, EPA currently regulates more than 90 contaminants in drinking water. To keep drinking water standards up-to-date with emerging science, the Safe Drinking Water Act requires that EPA identify up to
• U.S. and Poland Committed for Europe's Recovery
  Our goal is that our tenure make Europe stronger. Poland weathered the economic crisis better than any of our European neighbors and counterparts. We are committed to making Europe's recovery both timely and successful. Cooperation with the United
• ICC Investigates Libya Violence in Response to ...
  The announcement comes just days after the Security Council asked the Court to look into the violent repression of protesters, in which more than 1,000 people are reported to have been killed and many more injured as Mr. Qadhafi's loyalists opened

Worldnews

• Apple's Jobs wants iPhone for China Mobil ...
  BEIJING (Reuters) - Apple chief executive Steve Jobs has expressed interest in developing an iPhone based on China Mobile's fourth-generation telecoms standard, the chairman of the Chinese telecoms operator said on Friday. "Jobs has said he's very interested in developing an iPhone that wil ...
• Better Than Coke, Pepsi: No-Name Soda
  The pint-sized company, with a market value of only $579 million, offers impressive fundamentals. But, unlike many smaller firms, it's committed to shareholder returns. In December, National Beverage declared a $2.30 cash dividend to ensure that its stockholders would benefit from preferent ...
• Mike Myers secretly weds girlfriend
  Mike Myers. (QMI Agency file photo) Mike Myers has married his longtime girlfriend in a secret ceremony in New York City. The Canadian funnyman exchanged vows with Kelly Tisdale five months ago at a "beautiful" wedding in the Big Apple, the actor's representative confirms to New York Post g ...
• Too much make-up makes me look old: Gemma
  Gemma Arterton says she feels old if she wears too much make-up. The stunning...
• Denzel on jol in City
  Hollywood movie giant Denzel Washington got a taste of Mother City nightlife when he partied the night away at a local city hotspot. The actor, who is shooting his new film...

Alex in Wonderland

• Report: Active-Duty Army PSYOPS Soldiers Embed ...
  To better manufacture consent, U.S. Army soldiers are embedded as intern and fellows at local TV affiliates, along with previously reported newspapers and national outlets.
• Daily Briefing—15th-16th Sept 2010
  News and views from around the web posted to the Wonderland Wire
• Report: U.S. Troops ‘Still Killing Civilians’ ...
  A U.S.-Iraqi night raid results in the deaths of eight civilians weeks after U.S. combat operations were announced as over.
• Military Welfare Budget Won’t Thin Any T ...
  Ivan Eland sat with RT to discuss the astronomical political clout held by the welfare queens of the military-industrial complex that will thwart any translation of the Pentagon's rhetoric into actual policy
• Because the System’s Not Rigged Enough for Cop ...
  Kevin Carson on the criminal injustice system 'shrills' pushing the narrative that the letter of the law aides criminals against so-called 'crime fighters'.

MY Daily Apple

• New Alternative to BMI for Measuring Body Fat
  A new way to measure body fat that relies only on measurements of your height and your hip circumference is an improvement on the commonly used measure known as body mass index (BMI), according to the developers of the new method.
• New Growth Inhibitors More Effective In Plants ...
  A Purdue University scientist and researchers in Japan have produced a new class of improved plant growth regulators that are expected to be less toxic to humans. Angus Murphy, a professor of horticulture, said the growth inhibitors block the transport of auxin, a plant hormone that, when transp ...
• New Model Predicts Patient's Chances Of Walkin ...
  The combination of a person's age and the results of four neurological tests accurately predicts the chances of that person walking again after a serious spinal cord injury. The findings are reported in an Article Online First and in an upcoming Lancet, written by Dr Joost J van Middendorp, Spin ...
• Editor's Eye on New York: The Great New York S ...
  Editor's Eye on New York: The Great New York Stock Sale - C-Level Execs at IAC, Priceline, Starwood, WebMD, Leucadia Unload Shares Citybizlist - 39 minutes ago By Richard Rabicoff Readers of today's citybizlist New York e-mail will find that Barry Diller, famed entertainment executive and ...
• ADAPALENEgel [Glenmark Generics Inc., USA]
  Updated Date: Mar 2, 2011 EST

Common Dreams

• Next Mass Extinction an Eyeblink Away: Scientists
  Life on Earth is hurtling towards extinction levels comparable to those following the dinosaur-erasing asteroid impact of 65 million years ago, propelled forward by human activities, say scientists. This week, scientists from the University of California, Berkeley, announced that if current exti ...
• Pennsylvania Cuts 40,000 From Low-Income Insur ...
  Efforts to slash social spending in the name of budget deficits continue across the country. In Pennsylvania, more than 40,000 people have been dropped from a state-subsidized insurance program for the working poor. Newly elected Republican Gov. Tom Corbett cut the program adultBasic, citing a $ ...
• Texas Activists Ready to Fight Over $7bn Oil P ...
  In an earlier life, David Daniel jumped through fire and performed a motorcycle stunt called the Wheel of Death. For his second act, he picked a fight with a $7bn oil pipeline set to run through Texas. read more
• World Food Prices Hit Record Highs Amid Oil Ji ...
  ROME (AFP) - – World food prices have hit record highs and oil price spikes could push them even higher, the UN food agency warned on Thursday, as increasing violence in Libya sent jitters through commodity markets. The Food Price Index, which monitors average monthly price changes for a variety ...
• Colonel Gaddafi: 'To the Last Man'
  Ferocious street fighting, air strikes in a heavily populated city and a siege with terrified families held hostage: these were the violent and chaotic scenes yesterday as Colonel Gaddafi's regime began its offensive to claw back the land lost to Libya's revolution. ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

• James Moore
• Neill Blomkamp
• Sarah Polley
• Jay Baruchel
• David Suzuki

Examine Religion - Tweets

• ExamineReligion: How to fill your church with ...
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• ExamineReligion: Glenn Kaiser at Calvary Chape ...
  ExamineReligion: Glenn Kaiser at Calvary Chapel Sacramento Friday, March 4th at 7pm http://exm.nr/fAPgel

Energy Collective

• Rethinking Energy Efficiency Portfolio Standards
  EEPS schemes that focus on efficiency must first define what efficiency really means in the context of electricity. It does not mean simply using less. Efficiency means generating electrons more cleanly and transmitting them more evenly throughout the course of the day, in order to reduce the ...
• Portlandia to help wean Los Angeles from coal
  Portlandia may not be the sunniest of places, but it’s exporting solar energy in the form of photovoltaic panels used to build carbon-free power plants.
• Why Phasing Out Subsidies for Fossil Fuels Won ...
  A while back, I posted some quick math reminding readers that while pushing to end subsidies for mature, centuries-old fossil fuel technologies is a pretty smart policy, it on it's own will be far from sufficient to make clean energy cost competitive.
• U.S. new reactor plans snap, crackle, & pop
  Progress noted in Texas and Virginia The nuclear renaissance in the U.S. had some tough going in 2010. The low point of the year was Constellation's decision to walk away from the Calvert Cliffs III reactor project over a dispute with the federal government about loan guarantees. The project may ...
• The Fierce Urgency of Now: Notes from the ARPA ...
  There are times when the nation’s political leadership in Washington is perfectly in sync with the realities of the day, and there are times when much of that leadership is out to lunch. Exhibit A: the current energy debate. Even as global demand and instability threatens to challenge affordable ...

Green House - USA Today

• Greenest homes are those near public transit
  Location, location, location -- it's a well-worn mantra in real estate. New research shows yet another reason why it's important: it decides how green a home really is. Housing near public transportation uses less energy than homes in the suburbs, even Energy Star-rated ones.
• Study: Americans have twice as much BPA as Can ...
  Americans have twice as much of the estrogen-like chemical BPA in their bodies as do Canadians, but the reasons for the disparity remain a mystery, a new study concludes.
• What are America's 10 dirtiest cities?
  Philadelphia, a U.S. capital during the Revolutionary Way, is often known as the City of Brotherly Love. Yet it gets another, much less flattering moniker in a new scorecard of U.S. cities -- the "capital of toxicity."
• Study: Less air pollution could add 22 months ...
  Reducing air pollution in major European cities could add 22 months to local life expectancy and save 31.5 billion euros ($43.4 billion) in health costs and work absenteeism, concludes a European Commission-funded study released Wednesday.
• Five Oscar-nominated films are environmental e ...
  In eco-conscious Hollywood, a handful of films this year that focus on environmental problems have been nominated for Academy Awards.

Prior Art

• Recent Patent Litigation Weekly Columns
  Much of the patent news that was published on this blog has been moved to the IP Insider section of the Corporate Counsel website. Here's a list of the last several Patent Litigation Weekly columns— Oct. 25, 2010: Big Patent-Licensing...
• Paul Allen v. The Internet
  Former Microsoft executive and billionaire Paul Allen sued several major Internet companies and three large retailers for patent infringement today, asserting that four patents originating at Interval Research, Allen's dot-com era think tank, cover basic web browsing and e-commerce technologies....
• Citing Possible Bias, ACLU Asks Rader to Recus ...
  With the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit set to consider a landmark case over the validity of human gene patents, attorneys for the plaintiffs in the suit are asking the court's chief judge to recuse himself from the matter—before the panel that will hear it has even been s ...
• Law360 Calls Lawyer-Owned Shell Company a "Pub ...
  seems to have a pretty flexible definition of that term. Last month, it included . Who is so concerned about such fairness? That would be , the Texas law firm that owns Americans for Fair Patent Use, which is a limited liability company set up to prosecute a false marking lawsuit filed ...
• Eben Moglen on Bilski, software patents, and b ...
  Moglen's position on the subject of software patents—that they should be banned—is, to say the least, outside the mainstream in legal circles. It has, however, garnered support among software developers and other techies, especially those who work in the world of open-source and free s ...

Peoples Voice

• Reactionary Extremism in Wisconsin and Ohio
  by Stephen Lendman It's spreading nationally under Republican and Democrat administrations, but Wisconsin and Ohio are key battleground states. Wisconsin especially - ground zero to save organized labor, on the chopping block to be weakened ahead of eliminating it altogether, returning Ameri ...
• Class Struggle: Don’t Get Fooled Again!
  By Larry Pinkney “History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat...Marxism is a revolutionary worldview that must always struggle for new revelations.” -Rosa Luxemburg “Industry required ever greater skills, thus closing their doors to the poor. Union ...
• Currency Revaluation Won’t Fix America&# ...
  Ian Fletcher It is sometimes suggested that our trade problems (job losses, international indebtedness) will go away on their own once currency values adjust. Bottom line? A declining dollar will eventually solve everything. In the short and medium term, of course, foreign currency manipulati ...
• Egypt/Serbia/Georgia: Learning from others&#82 ...
  Eric Walberg There is a Russian proverb: only a fool learns from his own mistakes. As Georgia's foreign minister visits his Egyptian counterpart, there are lessons for Egypt in similar revolutions in eastern Europe and the ex-Soviet Union, notes Eric Walberg Central to Egypt’s revolution was ...
• IMF Rates Up Dictatorships Just Before Revolutions
  By Michael Collins The International Monetary Fund (IMF) made an embarrassing error just two days before the start of the Libyan people's revolution on February 17. This quote from an IMF country study appeared in a previous article: "The outlook for Libya’s economy remains favorable." IMF Fe ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

• Five reasons to stop the corporate tax cut
  CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan gives us five strong reasons to say no to more corporate tax cuts in this short video.
• Carbon pricing explained, in words and images
  Today the CCPA-BC published a new study on carbon pricing, and we created a "zooming presentation" to go with it, using a web-based software called Prezi. Watch the presentation below and share the link with your contacts. And download the report or summary here: Fair and Effective Carbon Pricin ...
• Inequality: A pressing issue
  The problem of worsening income inequality is quickly gathering steam. At the World Economic Forum in Davos, leading experts named inequality, the concentration of wealth into the hands of a few, as a pressing problem. ��The increase in inequality is the most serious challenge for the world, ...
• Canada’s immigration policy: Who is on the gue ...
  Immigrants are Canada’s ticket to economic growth in the coming years, as the Minister of Immigration and Citizenship rightly stated this week. But CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan lays out the untold story of the troubling shift in immigration policy towards “guest” workers in this Globe ...
• Get the facts: Child care isn't there to force ...
  In spring 2009 we dedicated an entire issue of�Our Schools / Our Selves�to the topic of child care in Canada, and over a year later�Beyond Child�s Play: Caring for and educating young children in Canada�remains one of the most detailed, up-to-date and thorough publications on the subject. It bri ...

World Wide Hippies

• You like apples, Obama? Well how do you like t ...
  Matt Damon disappointed in Obama: “I no longer hope for audacity” | Salon In an interview airing tonight on Piers Morgan’s CNN show, Matt Damon says he is disappointed in President Obama. “I really think he misinterpreted his mandate,” the actor says. Damon, one of the president’s most prominent ...
• President Agrees To More Budget Cuts
  White House agrees to $6.5B more in budget cuts | AP The White House called for $6.5 billion in immediate spending cuts Thursday as negotiations opened with tea party-backed Republicans in Congress seeking reductions nearly 10 times as large in their drive to reduce the size of federal governmen ...
• Scanners Coming To A City Street Near You?
  Could Backscatter Scanners Be Coming To City Streets? | The Consumerist The TSA’s rollout of full-body backscatter scanners at airports hasn’t pleased too many people (other than the manufacturers of said scanners). Now a handful of newly uncovered documents show that the Dept. of Homeland Secur ...
• Iditarod suffering begins even before the star ...
  By People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals | OpEdNews – People everywhere were rightfully outraged by a recent report that 100 dogs were shot or had their throats cut when business waned at a British Columbia, Canada, sledding operation. But this was no isolated incident. Dogs who are used t ...
• Civilian Deaths in Afghanistan
  NATO Apologizes For Killing 9 Afghan Civilians | Huffington Post NATO’s top commander in Afghanistan apologized Wednesday for the accidental killing of nine Afghan boys and ordered attack helicopter crews to be briefed again on his directive for preventing civilian deaths. Civilian casualties ha ...

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Wind, Solar Investments Supporting Nearly 60000 Jobs

SustainableBusiness.com

- Mar 04, 2011

- 1 hour ago

As the US Bureau of Labor Statistics releases monthly unemployment statistics today, Environment America released an estimate of the clean energy jobs supported in the solar and wind industries last year by a federal renewable energy grant program. ...

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DP&L, Duke get top grades for renewable power, group says

Dayton Daily News

- Mar 04, 2011

- 2 hours ago

COLUMBUS — A statewide environmental group is giving Dayton Power & Light and Duke Energy the top grades in its report card that highlights efforts by Ohio's utilities to meet wind, solar and energy efficiency standards. The report by Environment Ohio ...

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Wind Works to sell five energy projects in Ontario

Energy Business Review

- Mar 04, 2011

- 7 hours ago

Wind Works Power has signed an agreement with Premier Renewable Energy to sell five wind energy projects with a total generating capacity of 50MW in Ontario, Canada. The power projects, each with a capacity of 10MW, are Clean Breeze, Cloudy Ridge, ...

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Supportive Government Policies Fuel China's Renewable-Energy Boom

Wall Street Journal

- Mar 03, 2011

- 16 hours ago

By Cassandra Sweet Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES Chinese government policies that support renewable-energy product manufacturing have helped Suntech Power Holdings Co. Ltd. (STP, K3ND.SG) grow to become the world's largest solar-panel maker, largely because ...

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Global Ecology Executes LOI for Thermal Solar Energy Project in India

Live-PR.com (press release)

- Mar 04, 2011

- 7 minutes ago

Under the terms of the agreement, Global Ecology will form a US subsidiary, GEC Energy Corporation, to be jointly owned by Esoft and Global Ecology. Upon completion of definitive documents, GEC Energy Corporation will be assigned the rights to a $25 ...

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Green Discovery Engine 1.2 – Smart Green Content Aggregator for iOS

iPadmodo

- Mar 04, 2011

- 5 hours ago

Munich, Germany – DotTribes today is pleased to announce Green Discovery Engine 1.2.2, a green and ecology content aggregator based on collective intelligence. Green Discovery Engine brings ecology closer to the people with an easy to use application ...

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Mike Keppler, Marriott International, Added to Program of Business Ecology ...

DigitalJournal.com (press release)

- Mar 04, 2011

- 1 hour ago

For more information on the conference visit http://www.business-ecology.org/pr. The inaugural Optimization for Innovation conference will feature a mix of industry experts and practitioners from such leading organizations as Pfizer, the US Patent ...

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UA thinks ecology

Arizona Daily Wildcat

- Mar 04, 2011

- 9 hours ago

Students can now take a three-week field ecology course in summer pre-session and learn by doing. The course focuses on the ecology and natural history of the Arizona side of the Sonoran Desert, as well as the upper Gulf of Mexico and Puerto Peñasco, ...

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'Water for Elephants' Trailer #2 Focuses On Plot

Screen Rant

- Mar 04, 2011

- 46 minutes ago

The second 'Water for Elephants' US theatrical preview dives more into the film's plot and features less of the enchanting atmosphere from the previous trailers. There's an old line about how everyone wanted to run away to the circus at some point in ...

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'Rango' Review: Must Be Something in the Water

Moviefone (blog)

- Mar 04, 2011

- 1 hour ago

The residents of Dirt, who are experiencing a severe drought and use water as currency, love him, though the requisite brassy female, Beans (Isla Fisher), is skeptical. Soon Rango is the new sheriff. Like all the towns in the formulaic Westerns of ...

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Pa. water companies to conduct radiological tests on water supplies

Water Technology Online

- Mar 04, 2011

- 16 minutes ago

PHILADELPHIA — The Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority and Pennsylvania American Water announced plans to test public water supplies in response to a recent news report that wastewater from Marcellus Shale gas drilling may have been discharged into ...

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Radionuclides in Drinking Water

Enviro.BLR.com

- Mar 04, 2011

- 3 hours ago

Despite comments on the possibility of “false-positive violations” of EPA's radionuclides rule for drinking water, the Agency has decided not to amend the regulation at this time. However, it will evaluate the need to provide additional guidance and ...

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