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Michael Moore - Must Read

• Cairo in Wisconsin
  The call reportedly arrived from Cairo. Pizza for the protesters, the voice said. It was Saturday, February 20th, and by then Ian's Pizza on State Street in Madison, Wisconsin, was overwhelmed. One employee had been assigned the sole task of answering the phone and taking down orders. An ...
• VIDEO: Hear the Voices of Thompson
  Blair Hudson: 'This Will Have a Huge Ripple Effect' Anita Campbell: 'I Will Always Consider Thompson My Home' Craig Costello: 'High-Paying Jobs Leaving Town' Sheila Thompson: 'It Will Be Hard for Me to Start Over' Gloria Jacobs: 'It Can Happen Anywhere' Nuno Pereira: 'We All Have to Put Li ...
• "An Inco family"
  Amanda Hart Homemaker 27 years old What brought me to Thompson was Inco. That’s where my dad started working when I was five and I've been in an Inco family ever since then. It went from my dad working at Inco, to my husband working at Vale and now my brother is also working at Vale. We always ...
• "Going down with the ship"
  Terry Stoker Owner of Better Body Fitness 47 years old I was born in Thompson and I’ve been here all my life. Vale’s announcement, with the loss of that many jobs and the spinoff jobs that come with it, will have a huge impact on me. I would expect probably a thirty percent cut in my business. ...
• "The needs are here"
  Dr. Ginette Poulin Family physician in Thompson through the Burntwood Regional Health Authority Currently we have 14 family physicians in Thompson. We service a good chunk of the North, including most First Nations reserves. People with health issues are stabilized and come to us first, then i ...

Salon

• Stephen Colbert on anti-Obama obituaries
  On his show Wednesday night, Stephen Colbert introduced viewers to a story originally reported by�Salon's Justin Elliott about a bizarre trend: Obituaries containing pleas to send -- in lieu of flowers -- money to efforts to unseat Barack Obama:
• Wandering spiders lead Mazda to recall 65,000 cars
  Mazda has some creepy crawly culprits in its new safety recall -- spiders.
• Growing anti-Muslim hatred in the U.S.
  (updated below)
• Government reports find 92 percent of nursing ...
  Though most states require nursing homes to conduct criminal background checks for prospective hires, 92 percent employ at least one worker with a criminal conviction, according to a report released today by the inspector general for the Department of Health and Human Services.
• Years after vanishing in Iran, Robert Levinson ...
  Four years after retired FBI agent Robert Levinson vanished in Iran, the AP has learned the U.S. has proof he's alive. It's a remarkable development in a case that had seemingly gone cold.

SMB News

• Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits ...
  For SMB News Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits camps PURWOBINANGUN: Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano spewed more deadly heat clouds Wednesday as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono visited some of the 50,000 evacuees in shelters. Searing gas billowed from the crater of the 2,914-metr ...
• Kasaba throws spit on the camera
  \Kasaba throws spit on cameraMUMBAI: Ajmal Kasaba webcam spit on Tuesday during a hearing in the Bombay High Court for confirmation of the death penalty, which led the court strictly tell him to behave properly. Judjes a warning when they Kasaba altercation with the police and spit at the camera ...
• K’taka Speaker disqualifies 16 MLAs
  For SMB News KBANGALORE: Hours ahead of the trust vote for beleaguered Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa in the Assembly, Speaker K G Bopaiah disqualified sixteen rebel MLAs, including eleven from ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), legislative sources said on Monday. Bopaiah signed the ...
• Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8
  For SMB News Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8 KARACHI: Eight people including two children were killed and over 65 others suffered injuries when two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside Abdullah Shah Ghazi’s shrine in Clifton, official sources said here Thursday. Two heads, beli ...
• Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistake
  For SMB News Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistakes’ LONDON: Former president Gen. (Retd.) Pervez Musharraf Friday admitted that political mistakes were committed in the twilight years of his regime and sought apology from Pakistani nation for the same. “These mistakes caused damage ...

Toronto Star - Editorials

• Beyond the crisis: Fresh ideas on public housing
  When it comes to the future of social housing in Toronto, there’s more to talk about than scandal and privatization.
• James Travers (1948-2011): A powerful voice
  Jim's columns for the Star were written with style and insight, reflecting his personal integrity and convictions.
• Public Housing: Think again — and resign
  Toronto Community Housing’s “citizen” board members’ refusal to quit only hurts the cause they’re striving to defend — public housing.
• States vs. Unions: Wisconsin’s war on workers
  Americans recoil in disbelief at budget plan that attacks unions and civil servants.
• School fundraising: Don’t leave poorer student ...
  Let’s find ways to share the advantages school fundraising brings with the greatest number of students.

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 ...

EU Times

• The most typical face on the planet
  National Geographic Magazine released a video clip, below, showing the most “typical” human face on the planet as part of its series on the human race called “Population 7 billion.” The researchers conclude that a male, 28-year-old Han Chinese man is the most typical person on the planet. There ...
• Hesperia Teen May Have Run Away to Avoid Arran ...
  Police raided the Benders’ home Tuesday night. Jessie Bender flyers were still displayed in Hesperia Wednesday night, hours after San Bernardino County Sheriff’s confirmed they found the 13-year-old girl safe in an Apple Valley hotel, missing for eight days. Authorities believe she was trying to ...
• Chavez: U.S. distorting situation in Libya ‘to ...
  Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez claims U.S. criticism of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has a clear aim: military invasion. “Let’s not get carried away by the drums of war, because the United States, I am sure that they are exaggerating and distorting things to justify an invasion,” Chavez said ...
• Muslims are now calling for the removal of the ...
  If flying jets full of innocent civilians into the World Trade Center wasnât perfectly symbolic of Islamâs relationship to America, how about this – Muslims are calling for the demolition of the Statue of Liberty. From Shariah 4 America: The Statue of Liberty, designed by Frederic Bartholdi, ...
• U.S. State Department: Israel is not a toleran ...
  Report claims Israel discriminates against Muslims, Reform Jews, Christians, women and Bedouin. Israel dismally fails the requirements of a tolerant pluralistic society, according to a new report from the U.S. State Department. Despite boasting religious freedom and protection of all holy sites, ...

Stonecipher News

• Normal Structure and Function of the Musculosk ...
  Mr. Ghaz says: Muscular dystrophies refer to a group of more than 30 genetic diseases which are characterized by progressive weakness and degeneration of the skeletal muscles..Studies and estimation show that after sustaining a hip fracture (as a result of osteoporosis) 20% of patients die withi ...
• Reasons to Donate Blood
  Have you ever donated blood? If you have why did you do it? It may have been for a loved one or a friend. It could have been for the free coupons and gift certificates blood centers provide for donations. Maybe you’re required to donate blood being that you’re in the medical field. In actua ...
• Special Education High School Transition Services
  From my Factoidz page: 1414(d) and in Findings about “effective transition services to promote successful post-Students typically start transition services at the age 14 if educational services are still required as determined by the school district and the IEP team. However, Washington State’s ...
• Don't Quit Your Day Job
  This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Ashworth College. All opinions are 100% mine. With approximately 4,000,000 students today, more than 20 percent of all students enrolled in higher education are taking at least one course online. Self paced online courses ...
• Breast Cancer Gene May Raise Men’s Risk, Too
  Source: HealthDay News: "A faulty gene that greatly increases a woman’s risk of breast cancer also boosts a man’s risk for the disease, a new study finds. While most people think of breast cancer as a woman’s illness, in rare cases men can develop breast tumors as well. The new study found tha ...

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

• How to Buy Apple iPad 2 in India after March 1 ...
  Apple iPad 2 is coming soon in US on March 11 and other countries like UK, Australia etc. on March 25. But like the original iPad launch, India is not included in the list of countries where iPad 2 will be available through official channels after March 25, 2011. India is a big market for table ...
• 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 inte ...
• Barnsley by-election - the good, the bad and t ...
  BQ will no doubt have his own take from within the House later on. However, the are 3 big themes emerging from this very low profile Barnsley by-election: 1. UKIP came 2nd - and in many ways deservedly, the ECJ has gone nuts recently with a raft of costly, unnecessary and frankly pointless judg ...
• Barnsley by-election is a triumph for UKIP
  • Dan Jarvis (Lab) 14,724 • Jane Collins (UKIP) 2,953 • James Hockney (C) 1,999 • Enis Dalton (BNP) 1,463 • Tony Devoy (Ind) 1,266 • Dominic Carman (LD) 1,012 • Kevin Riddiough (Eng Dem) 544 • Howling Laud Hope (Loony) 198 • Michael Val Davies (Ind) 60 The nation’s media are all leading with th ...
• NHL tough guy Bob Probert had degenerative bra ...
  NHL enforcer Bob Probert , who died of heart failure last year, had degenerative brain disease, Boston University researchers reported in findings released Thursday. Probert, whose brain was donated to the university's Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy following his death in July ...

Groklaw

• Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss: 'Facebook's Mark ...
  Once the twins realised what Zuckerberg had done, they felt shocked - then disappointed. When a meeting with the president of Harvard in 2004 yielded nothing, litigation was their only option. I crack a joke about the American fondness for litigation and Tyler pulls me up. "I'll have you know th ...
• Saab squashes Apple for Android
  In the Saab, though, the so-called ''IQon'' smartphone system will control the in-car infotainment system - and much more. The exciting part is that Saab will open up the car's system to Android developers - including access to about 500 sensors throughout the vehicle for reading data such as v ...
• Google's Android Spurs More App Jobs Than iPhone
  Software engineers skilled in making applications for Google's Android mobile-operating system this week became more sought-after than developers for Apple's iPhone, according to online job board Dice.com. - Business Week
• More Fun with Anti-Open Source FUD
  One of the oddest aspects of open source is that unlike any comparable computing field that I am aware of, it has been stalked for years by a strange, insubstantial beast going by the name of FUD. Back in 2006, I wrote a short history of the topic, but in the five years since then we've seen ple ...
• Novell's 8K for March 3, 2011
  We are subject to a number of risks, including, among others, the risk that the Merger may be delayed or may not be consummated, the risk that the Merger Agreement may be terminated in circumstances that require Novell to pay Attachmate a termination fee of $60 million; risks related to the dive ...

WideShut

• Venus Project Linked To The United Nations?
  Keelan talks to Axis4Peace about the Venus Project's ties to the UN, and Peter Joseph's dismissal of the New World Order.
• What Is Money and What Caused The Collapse?
  Why the people aren't to blame for the collapse, why cuts are futile, and why we need a new system.
• Quiet Martial Law Coming To UK?
  Disgraced anti-terror head wants SAS on UK streets to help with trumped up terror threat, the olympics and protests.
• Climate Alarmists Look To Hollywood For Brainw ...
  UN's Ban Ki-moon and discredited climate heads hit the Oscars to try and recruit Hollywood Celebs as Global Warming mascots.
• February 22, 2011, WideShut Radio
  On this week's WideShut Radio Keelan discusses David Cameron's corrupt welfare reforms and aspartame.

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 ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

• Court's gang patch ruling worries Wanganui police
  Police are hoping gangs wearing their colours won't flood Wanganui's streets after a court overturned the city's ban on gang patches
• Future looks bleak for many Chch heritage buil ...
  The future looks bleak for many of Christchurch's prized heritage buildings.
• Seven more quake victims named by police
  Police have released the names of seven more people killed in the Christchurch earthquake.
• Prime Minister John Key sympathetic to plight ...
  John Key is defending the quake response as residents in the suburbs grow more frustrated.
• Kiwi kids in Washington D.C. raise $6000 for q ...
  New Zealand children at a school in Washington D.C. have raised $6,000 for the Christchurch earthquake appeal

Just World News

• Egyptian activist Hossam on inspiration from P ...
  Key Egyptian democracy activist Hossam (3arabawy) el-Hamalawy had an important piece in the Guardian Unlimited yesterday, underlining the degree to which the Palestinian intifada of 2000-- which, lest we forget, started out with many days of unarmed peaceful protest until the death toll rose so ...
• Pro-democracy activism arriving in Saudi Arabia
  So this 'popular movement' thing is finally making its mark in Saudi Arabia-- the only country in the world that is named for one (still-ruling) family. Today, worldwide oil prices spiked after the markets absorbed news in an Egyptian newspaper yesterday that the Saudi authorities yesterday arr ...
• Pete Seeger joins BDS campaign!
  Great news from Max Blumenthal about this. I like his post particularly, because of the sound-track on the video there! Seeger had been inveigled by something called the "Arava Institute" into taking part on an event that claimed to be only about the environment... But later, he found out abou ...
• Libya: What can and should outsiders do?
  I've been following the news of the carnage in Libya with huge sorrow, and there seems little hope it can be ended soon. Anti-Qadhafi forces seem to have taken control of large portions of the east of the country, while the country's dangerous and possibly deranged long-time leader has been rein ...
• Humor hour with "Tzipi" Livni
  That well-known democrat (irony alert), the head of Israel's Kadima Party "Tzipi" Livni, afforded me a good chuckle over my corn flakes this morning with this proposal for how democratization efforts should be run at the global level: Current events in the Middle East highlight the urgency of a ...

First Truths

• The "Reform" of Kings and Masters
  Some of my take on happenings in the Arab world, for C4SS: The reformist approach — substituting trifling adjustments to the gears of the political machine for any radical alteration — is the castle in the air delusion that mere periodic upkeep can keep said machine running smoothly. If we acqui ...
• Fannie and Freddie Reform: Too Little, Too Late
  In an article for the Ludwig von Mises Institute, I wrote: In a genuine free market, investors would have recognized the mortgages devoured by Fannie and Freddie for what they were, and their prices would have reflected those judgments. The assumption underpinning Fannie and Freddie's involvemen ...
• Managing the Unmanageable
  The Fed's huge profits would seem to contradict the constant bad news we hear about the economy, but only if the story behind the story is ignored. My comment for C4SS is here.
• Socialism: The Qaddafi Version
  Like "the free market," "socialism" means different things to different people. For C4SS, I wrote: On the other hand, the Qaddafi permutation of socialism has been, by all accounts, more practical than philosophical, a variable and temperamental medley of views informed more by his personal idio ...
• Robber Baron or Red?
  Over the past few months, I’ve been both excoriated by fellow left-libertarians for, inter alia, an approving reference to George Reisman and branded a “Red” for expounding the stateless, free market socialism of Benjamin Tucker and Francis Dashwood Tandy. That I’m neither an environment-hating ...

Media Co-Op

• McHale Misrepresents “Truth and Reconciliation”
  Indigenous and allies unite at Kanonhstaton on 5th anniversary of reclamation of six nations land..   February 28th, 2011  by: Tallula Marrigold       Today, February 28 2011, is the 5th year anniversary of the land reclamation at Kanonhst ...
• If I had a billion dollars...
  Cameron Fenton & Shelley Melanson If I had a billion dollars, would I give it to the richest oil companies in the world? Obviously not. Unless I was a member of the current Canadian government that is… Each year the federal government gi ...
• February 2011: News in brief
  Students take a stand, cops put out hands, fracking canned Cutting School The NDP government announced cuts to school boards across the province, stipulating that the deepest cuts must be to "administration costs and consultant fees." Scho ...
• Canada prepares to invade Libya: Whose interes ...
  Last week, former Prime Minister Paul Martin called on the UN to invoke the policy of "Responsibility to Protect" in order to intervene in Libya. "This is not the time for countries to think of their own national interests," Martin said o ...
• Darren Thurston: FBI informant in Vancouver?
  Movement Lawyer explains the importance of non-cooperation with law enforcement There has been some controversy in Vancouver, regarding the presence of animal rights advocate Darren Thurston in the activist community. The VMC caught up wit ...

David Seaton's News Links

• What the hell is Rupert Murdoch up to?
  "Der Antisemitismus ist der Sozialismus der dummen Kerle" "Antisemitism is the socialism of fools" August Bebel David Seaton's News LinksI am coming to the conclusion that something very strange is going on.� I come to that conclusion merely starting from the simple premise ...
• America: only one revolution to a customer
  David Seaton's News LinksWhy is it that when you study the graph above and then read the quotes below, the graph seems so real and the quotes seem some sort of political science fiction, verging from the absurd and childish to the puzzled or even hopeless?�What you are looking at in Tunisia, in ...
• The unbearable levity of Wikileaks and the rig ...
  David Seaton's News LinksI received the following comment on my last post:So previously, you did not think that globalization and instant communication tools were radiically changing the world?� It wasn't until wikileaks that you realized this was happening? Helloooo?�� To which I am tempted t ...
• Globalization and its discontents: a new paradigm
  I have an "impossibility theorem" for the global economy (...). It says that democracy, national sovereignty and global economic integration are mutually incompatible: we can combine any two of the three, but never have all three simultaneously and in full.� Dani Rodrik - Kennedy School Harv ...
• The Wikileaks cables: the portrait of an empire
  Not really the image that America would like to project at this moment David Seaton's News LinksThere are Wikileaks cables from almost every imaginable part of the world, but since I live in Spain, I'll fill you in on some of the dump's specific effects on Spanish pol ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

• New Map Reveals Hot Spots in Emerging Global F ...
  Contact: Patricia Brooks, 202-351-1757, patricia@matchmapmedia.com, Donald Carr, 202-939-9141, don@ewg.org Washington, DC – Volatile food markets and food insecurity contributed to the civic unrest that recently brought down... [[ This is a content summary only. Visi ...
• Seasoned Capitol Hill Reporter Joins EWG Publ ...
  Contact: Contact EWG Public Affairs 202-667-6982 Washington, D.C. – The Environmental Working Group is pleased to announce the arrival of Sara Sciammacco as the newest member of its public affairs team as a press secretary. She comes to... [[ This is a content summar ...
• EWG Fans More Than One Million Strong
  Contact: EWG public affairs 202.667.6982 Washington, D.C. – Since 2006, Environmental Working Group has been building an email list of engaged consumers who sign up to get regular alerts about our latest research and practical tips to... [[ This is a content summary onl ...
• EWG Comments to Dioxin Review Panel
  February 24th, 2011 February 23, 2010 Dr. Timothy Buckley, Chair Dioxin Review Panel of the Science Advisory Board Environmental Protection Agency 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W. Washington, DC 20460 Dear Dr. Buckley, These comments are... [[ This is a cont ...
• Cell phone radiation affects brain function
  Contact: EWG public affairs 202.667.6982 or alex@ewg.org Washington, D.C. – A study led by Dr. Nora D. Volkow, a pioneering brain imaging scientist who heads the National Institute on Drug Abuse, reports today that cell phone... [[ This is a content summary only. Vis ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

• What is the Most Dangerous Food Additive?
  A new study concludes that there could be negative consequences associated with artificial sugar substitutes -- including a much higher risk of strokes. The study is somewhat controversial; some critics have argued that since the participants voluntarily reported how much diet soda they consume ...
• 7 Foods for Better Sex
  Health.com lists some of the food ingredients that are not only historically considered to be aphrodisiacs, but have modern-day science backing up their claims: Avocados Avocados are rich in heart-healthy fats, and anything that keeps your heart beating strong helps keep blo ...
• WORSE than a Diabetes Diagnosis...
  More than 25 million people in the U.S. suffer from diabetes. Most have type 2 diabetes, which usually develops later in life. But type 2 diabetes can be reversed. CNN reports what some of us have known for a long time now -- by making changes such as adding exercise and improving their diets, ...
• Is Zinc Really Good for a Cold?
  A review of the medical research on zinc shows that when it is taken within one day of the first symptoms, it can cut down the time you have a cold by about 24 hours. It also greatly reduces the severity of symptoms. The authors of the review did not make any suggestions as to what type of zinc ...
• The Spice that Helps Prevent Cancer - Now Bein ...
  Scientists have created a new molecule from curcumin, the key chemical component of the spice turmeric. In laboratory experiments, the molecule was shown to affect the mechanisms that protect and regenerate brain cells after a stroke. The new curcumin compound, called CNB-001, actually repairs ...

JAMA

• This Week in JAMA [This Week in JAMA]
• Nitric Oxide for Inhalation in the Acute Treat ...
  Context Inhaled nitric oxide has shown evidence of efficacy in mouse models of sickle cell disease (SCD), case series of patients with acute chest syndrome, and 2 small placebo-controlled trials for treatment of vaso-occlusive pain crisis (VOC). Objective To determine whether inhaled nitric oxi ...
• Tanana Squaw (Woman) and Dog [The Cover]
• Shall We Pray? [A Piece of My Mind]
• Our Word for It [Poetry and Medicine]

Survival - tribal peoples

• 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

• Rink plan a waste of taxpayer money
  David Johnston's article "Rinks plan sparks mini war in Westmount" (Gazette, Feb. 17) highlighted many of the controversial aspects of this plan. Criticism has also dogged the process Westmount has followed to justify and develop the project, beginning with the obvious lack of demonstrable need.
• Ridding workplaces of hostility toward minorities
  No one should have to work in an environment where fellow employees malign people on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion or language. To be a highly visible minority in such a hostile workplace would be disheartening at best, soul-destroying at worst.
• City should come clean on harbourfront money
  What is behind city hall's dogged reluctance to come clean on how the Société du Havre de Montréal is spending the millions of dollars in public funds the city has pumped into it?
• Policing ethics at city hall
  Perhaps the powers that be at Montreal city hall were too swept up in the latest ethical storm rocking Mayor Gérald Tremblay's scandal-plagued administration to notice that the mandate of the city council's ethics adviser had expired and do something about it. As reported by The Gazette yesterda ...
• Quebec, McGill's MBA and too-low tuition fees
  The confrontation between McGill University and the government of Quebec over the $29,500 in tuition fees McGill is charging for its MBA program is not going to end well. Both sides are rejecting compromise. McGill says that in the real world $29,500 is a rock-bottom price for an MBA. The govern ...

Food World Order

• 3/3 binge & purge: poison, polls, paycheck
  satire: gerber recalls 60,000 jars of baby poison* poll: do you believe gmo foods should be labeled?* states try to loosen raw milk restrictions as fda tries to tighten them* uk restaurant's breast milk ice cream seized by council officials* whole foods ceo: don't call it 'whole payc ...
• usda admits involvement in south dakota mass b ...
  from allgov: The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has assumed responsibility for the deaths of more than 300 birds in Yankton, South Dakota. But the USDA insists it had nothing to do with other mass die-offs of birds recently in Arkansas, Louisiana, Alabama and Kentucky. The South Dakota ...
• 1/20 binge & purge: bailout pizza & gm eggplant
  domino's gets $12m bailout as experts warn of food riots* africa's growing consumer class lures multinationals* gm eggplant trials suspended in philippines* think composting stinks? here's a fresher idea* grassroots 'truth-in-labeling" campaign* video: the more americans go on foo ...
• usda cracks down on honey laundering
  from allgov: The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is continuing its pursuit of illegal, and sometimes dangerous, imports of foreign honey into the United States. After the government in 2002 imposed a tariff on honey imported from China, the world’s largest producer of the product, Chinese ...
• your healthy alternative food may be same crap ...
  from grist: Looking to lower your impact? Here's your cheat sheet. GoodGuide offers greenness and social responsibility ratings, via web or app, for tens of thousands of products, including food, clothing, toys, and cleaning supplies. Obviously, it's massively useful to be able to look up a br ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

• The Elephant In the Room Needs A Good Slap. ...
  Today another 19 people lie dead, murdered by an outrageous military massacre on neutral vessels of an humanitarian flotilla in international waters; yet more unarmed innocent victims of yet more Israeli aggression. These brave people had joined others from no less than 50 countries to try to br ...
• The Exopolitical Revolution continues at the U ...
  The european leg of the global exopolitics initiative comes to the Yorkshire city of Leeds on August 7th 2010.
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• Amazing Speech Against Terrorism
• The Dregs of the Cesspit Target Loving Mother
  A wonderful lady called Cheryl Stannard was charged with child abduction last night by the disgraceful and pathetic Portsmouth police in Hampshire, England.   It was the latest stage in a gross persecution of this woman by the British establishment. I can’t even talk about the other stages bec ...

The Economic Collapse

• QE3? Several Top Federal Reserve Officials See ...
  The end of QE2 is still several months away and yet quite a few top Federal Reserve officials are already hinting that more quantitative easing may be necessary.  Apparently the U.S. economy is not moving forward as rapidly as they would like.  So it looks like "QE3" could be on ...
• Become A Teacher? 10 Examples That Show Why Be ...
  Today budget cutters are on the rampage from coast to coast and often one of their first targets is public school teachers. What we have witnessed recently in Wisconsin is just one example of this. The truth is that you do not want to become a teacher if you want to have finan ...
• As The Obamas And The Ultra-Wealthy Live The H ...
  Barack Obama recently made the following statement to American families that are struggling to survive in this economy: "If you’re a family trying to cut back, you might skip going out to dinner, or you might put off a vacation." A few days after making that statement Obama sen ...
• 10 Reasons Why It Has Become So Soul-Crushingl ...
  Have you been unemployed lately?  If so, then you probably know how frustrating it is to try to find a job in the United States today. It now takes the average unemployed worker about 33 weeks to find a job.  There are millions of Americans that have not been able to find a full ...
• Ashley’s Tragic Story: A Heartbreaking E ...
  What you are about to read is perhaps the most heartbreaking story that I have ever come across. It is so tragic that I am not even quite sure how to introduce it. Some time ago, a reader named Ashley sent me an email that described the nightmare that she has been living [...]

CASSE

• A Liberating (but Damned Uncomfortable) Conversion
  Herman Daly entreats economists not to eschew the wonderful wisdom of Wendell Berry.
• Economic and Environmental Perspective on Pres ...
  Brent Blackwelder remembers Ronald Reagan's ruinous results for the environment and the economy.
• How to Fix a Household Crisis
  Why are the fields of economics and ecology in crisis, and how can we work toward a solution?
• Enough Childish Name Calling
  Sharon Ede sets the record straight on exactly who's acting like a misanthrope, and she pokes a little fun along the way!
• Obama Steps onto Slippery Slope
  Brian Czech offers a vision of Obamanomics that values people and planet over profit and production.

The Talking Clock

• Barnsley By-Election Bombshell: UKIP are the n ...
  A resounding victory for Labour in Barnsley Central was never beyond doubt - irrespective of the circumstances that led to the by-election... ..but nobody could have really foreseen the latest seismic event in British politics... UKIP come SECOND in a first-past-the-post by-election BEATING b ...
• AV debate: Spectator article accuses the Elect ...
  Ed Howker at The Spectator has a very interesting article that I'd like to point you in the direction of. In instances such as this, we have learned not to comment. However, The Spectator article begins: "I have been on the trail of the ‘Yes To Fairer Votes’ (YTFV) campaign, attempting ...
• Sneaking in martial law for the students and t ...
  Martial Law UK seems to be nearing yet again. The Daily Mail reports that: "SAS troops could be deployed on the streets alongside police as fears grow of a Mumbai-style terror attack on Britain, it emerged today." We know this game now though, don't we? What they mean is they've seen th ...
• Bill Cash MP tips defenders of the national co ...
  Now then, fellow national constitution defenders - and you freemen who I so admire... want to see a politician standing up in the House of Commons telling you that you are RIGHT!? That the constitution DOES come first and that statutes have to - lawfully - play second fiddle? This is a gem... ...
• (Jim) Corr Blimey! I agree with someone on pol ...
  Not often this happens, but - in a rare turn up for the books - here's someone with whom I agree entirely on matters of current affairs and politics. Step forward Jim Corr... Credit for this find goes to our good friend The Final Redoubt. And here is the film referred to by Jim Corr in t ...

Facing South

• Life and death on Big Oil's fence line
  The environmental destruction caused by Louisiana's oil industry did not begin with the BP disaster, and a visit to the town of Norco 25 miles west of New Orleans powerfully illustrates that reality. Built on land adjacent to the Mississippi River that once supported vast sugar planta ...
• VOICES: Evidence grows of possible health cons ...
  Ten months after the Deepwater Horizon sank into the Gulf of Mexico, the long-term impacts of the oil spill continue to surface in coastal communities, and the developing picture is not a pretty one. Since 2000, the Louisiana Bucket Brigade (LABB) has trained communities affected by indu ...
• Carolina Public Press launches new source for ...
  We all know the story: Newspapers and other "legacy media" have slashed their reporting budgets. More and more, blogs and social media are where people turn to find out what's happening. But who, then, does the in-depth, investigative reporting crucial to keeping the public informed and ...
• Gulf Coast restoration task force hearing show ...
  The president's Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Force met yesterday in New Orleans to gather public comments for the plan it's working on to restore the region's ecology in the wake of last year's BP catastrophe. A major theme of those comments was the deep distrust that many of the regio ...
• INSTITUTE INDEX: Oil and death after BP
  Ten months after BP's massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, scientists are still uncovering evidence of the disaster's long-term repercussions. Number of aborted or stillborn baby dolphins that have washed ashore so far this week along Mississippi's coast: 4 Number of dead baby dolphins t ...

CenterLine

• Today’s Terrorism News
  Germany Investigates Whether Shooting Deaths of 2 U.S. Airmen Are Linked to Terror Two U.S. airmen were shot and killed Wednesday outside Germanyâs Frankfurt Airport by a suspect, now in custody, described in reports as a 21-year-old Kosovo native of … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Holder: ‘I Don’t Know’ If Gitmo Will Be Closed By 2012 Testifying before a House budget subcommittee hearing Tuesday, Attorney General Eric Holder said that he doesnât know if Guantanamo will be closed by the end of President Obamaâs first … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Former British Airways Employee Convicted of Terror Plot Rajib Karim, a former British Airways IT employee, was found guilty Monday by a jury in the United Kingdom of plotting a terror attack and seeking out his position for terrorism purposes, … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Saudi Man Accused of U.S. Bomb Plot Appears in Court Khalid Aldawsari, a 20-year-old Saudi student who was arrested last week in Texas and accused of plotting to make a bomb, appeared in federal court in Lubbock, Texas, Friday. His … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Saudi Man Arrested in Texas on WMD Charge A Saudi man studying chemical engineering at a college in Texas was arrested Wednesday night and charged yesterday with attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction, according to reports. Khalid Ali-M … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

• Sedimentary clues to an ancient megadrought
  Deep cores of lake sediment have unearthed a link between North Atlantic ice melting and parched monsoon regions in Africa and Asia
• Today on New Scientist: 25 February 2011
  All today's stories on NewScientist.com, including: newborn mice mend their hearts, time-travelling chimps, and the first humanoid robot in space
• Why models couldn't predict North African revo ...
  The upheavals in the Arab world are perfect for testing what conflict models can tell us – but only intelligence agencies will find out the results
• Deep ice growth on Antarctica's ghost mountains
  Ice can grow from the bottom up over Antarctica's hidden Gamburtsev mountain range
• Today on New Scientist: 3 March 2011
  All today's stories on NewScientist.com, including: A cybercrime forum shut down, a genetic treatment for HIV, and a Star Trek-like tractor beam

Tech Drive In

• Exaile 0.3.2.1 Released, Install Exaile in Ubu ...
  Exaile is a very good music player alternative for Linux. Exaile is nimble and can handle large music collections without any problems. Exaile 0.3.2.1 was released a day ago. Exaile 0.3.2.1 is a bugfix release for version 0.3.2.
• Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal Alpha 3 Review, Scr ...
  It hasn't been long since we last reviewed Ubuntu Natty Alpha 2 and now, Ubuntu Natty Alpha 3 is already here. This is yet another milestone in this major build up towards the much anticipated release of Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal final on April 28, 2011. As is expected, latest Ubuntu 11.04 Natt ...
• Top 5 Media Center Applications for Linux
  We have discussed a lot about multimedia applications available for Linux, but never really about media center applications specifically. Unlike many other niches where Linux lags behind other proprietary OS's in terms of good applications available, Linux have a clear upper hand when you consid ...
• 5 Incredible Android Tablets Showcased at Mobi ...
  Mobile World Congress 2011 was quite literally overwhelmed by the sheer number of new Android OS based devices. Among the devices, the ones who completely stole the limelight were the Tablets. Almost all major hardware manufacturer has a Tablet in the pipeline and most of them are running open s ...
• Snow Sabre, Uni - Two Elegant Mac Icon Themes ...
  Here are two new Mac themes inspired icon themes for GNOME that demands your attention. Snow Sabre icon theme has a light and black variant and both of them looks very neat and simple while Uni icon theme for GNOME looks quiet good too. I think its time to give Faenza icon theme�some rest, at le ...

Case About Bird Flu

• Why I will leave Austria soon: Justice officia ...
   „Und now it’s over for the justice. We have to punish the judges finally, lock them up in jail because they are all against us.“ This quote about Nazi judges comes from the Austrian Minister for Home Affairs Friederich Stockinger and it dates from 1937 before Nazi leader Adolf Hitler even annex ...
• Vaccine Epidemic’s new book flies from t ...
  March 1, 2011, From Vaccine Epidemic February was an eventful month for those following the vaccine safety debate. Here’s last month’s scorecard: Vaccine Coercion: 3 The Supreme Court announces its landmark 6-2 decision to side with Pharma against vaccine-injured families in Bruesewitz v Wyeth [ ...
• Ireland faces impossible debt load, but so doe ...
  “A depressed and deeply indebted economy with just 1.8 million people at work cannot underwrite private banking liabilities of €200bn (135% of GDP),” says the Observer. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/feb/27/editrial-ireland-eu-election-debt But the people of Ireland are not the onl ...
• German defence minister Guttenberg resigns ove ...
  Germany’s defence minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg  resigned on Tuesday following public anger over the way he plagiarised his doctoral thesis. Guttenberg said at a press conference today his plans to radically reform the military are still on track. But his exit is a big blow to plans to sto ...
• How to make a fast buck: the Hypo Alpe Adria b ...
  Imagine this situation: you borrow ten cigarettes from your friend and promise to give back the ten cigarattes and one extra. Then you go and lend the ten cigarettes to someone else – and they commit to giving you back three extra cigarettes. Hey presto! You end up with two cigarettes. Though yo ...

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 ...

Veterans Today

• Britons for Boycotting Arab and Iranian Goods
  LONDON, 03 March -- A new boycott campaign against Egypt, the Arab world and Iran requiring the cooperation of every devotee of Middle East freedom has been successfully launched by a group of dedicated British citizens, it was revealed today by its founders.
• Israel’s Hidden Faces : A Long Day&#8217 ...
  This is not intended for those who follow these issues, but as a primer for a general public (especially Americans) who do not follow them, and in fact are not even aware that they are issues! Hoping that others may also find useful material in it.
• Council of College and Military Educators Hono ...
  ALBANY, N.Y. (March, 3, 2011)– The executive director of Excelsior College’s Center for Military Education is the recipient of a prestigious award from the Council of College and Military Educators (CCME), which recognizes leadership in providing higher education programs to personnel at U.S. mi ...
• US Century of False Positive World and Domesti ...
  US Century of False Positive World and Domestic Policy Confirms Paradox   March 2011……….Second decade 21st Century US policy remains singularly trapped in an anachronistic foreign policy, total domestic financial collapse, and civil mobilizations rising out of a dense fog paradox. Welcome to the ...
• Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News
  Veterans!  Hereâs your Top 10 News stories of the day compiled from the latest sources We encourage you to browse our list so that you can take what you want and keep what you needâ¦.. 1. Capitol in Crisis: Walker’s budget proposal includes funding for veterans. WEAU-TV 13 âProjection wise, th ...

electric politics

• The Anthrax Letters
  Without the anthrax letter attacks in September-October 2001 it's quite possible — indeed, likely — that the Patriot Act would not have become law. Coincidence, or conspiracy? I've always been skeptical of the "lone nut" theory because, it seems to me, once an individual had started sending ant ...
• A Dialectical Moment in Madison?
  The U.S. plutocracy won't feel safe until it's crushed all resistance. Case in point, the organized way the plutocrats set their sights on Wisconsin — the birthplace of public sector unions — hoping that Scott Walker, the newly elected Republican Governor, would show the rest of the country how ...
• The Truth About Taxes
  In the economics profession, a "Harberger's triangle" shows the "deadweight loss" to society from taxes, the net loss, that is, from the optimum "free-market" equilibrium. It's a great, great theory if you're a math whiz. And virtually all neoclassical and neoliberal economists believe it's tru ...
• Chili's Campaign in the Buckeye State
  Voters in Ohio's second congressional district have a real choice: the Democrat, Surya "Chili" Yalamanchili, wants to create jobs and is on the side of the workers, while his opponent, incumbent Republican Jean Schmidt, apparently has no policy views whatsoever except unconditional support for ...
• Plato's Secret
  The Gods on Mount Olympus don't rule the world. Science does. But Plato couldn't say that in ancient Greece without a good chance of being put to death. So Plato did a sensible thing: he hid his secret, using musical codes, inside his already magnificent philosophical construction, a philosophy ...

PR News

• PR and public affairs up just 3.7% at WPP in 2010
  NEW YORK: WPP Group said like-for-like revenue for its PR and public affairs businesses grew 3.7% to $1.38 billion in 2010, with the unit growing 5.6% in the fourth quarter.
• Kmart issues RFP for fashion account
  NEW YORK: Kmart issued an RFP in search of an agency to support its ongoing fashion and lifestyle initiatives.
• Applebee's tops media impact list
  CHARLOTTE, NC: Applebee's won out among twenty casual dining brands with the highest value of mentions across the media and social media in the fourth quarter last year, according to a recent analysis.
• CMG '10 revenues rebound at IPG
  NEW YORK: Revenues for Interpublic Group's (IPG) Constituency Management Group (CMG) rose 10.8% for the year, up to $1,013.9 million, from $915.1 million in 2009.
• Uprisings create comms challenge for corporations
  CAIRO: Protests in Egypt that have now spread to Libya have forced many companies to reduce or cease operations, creating challenges in terms of how to communicate to internal and external audiences.

The Story Behind the Story

• H1N1 and bird flu virus produce dangerous hybrids
  By Tan Ee Lyn HONG KONG | Mon Feb 28, 2011 4:18pm EST HONG KONG (Reuters) – The H1N1 swine flu virus is compatible with a bird flu virus that is endemic in poultry in Asia and they can produce hybrid viruses packed with greater killing power, Chinese researchers warned on Monday. The scientists ...
• NEW-GENERATION FLU VACCINES APPROVED!!
  Feds awards $215 million pacts for flu vaccines WASHINGTON Drug makers Novavax Inc. and VaxInnate Inc. have won contracts worth a combined $215 million to develop flu vaccines for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The news sent shares of Novavax up 68 cents, or nearly 26 percent, ...
• Oba-Mao — SING ALONG (Thanks Alex Studer!)
  OBA-MAO http://64.4.56.87/att/GetAttachment.aspx?file=4a24a77c-3e7b-4f9f-ba97-6ad12c5446e6.mp3&ct=YXVkaW8vbXBlZw_3d_3d&name=T2JhLU1hbyBWMS5tcDM_3d&inline=0&rfc=0&empty=False&imgsrc=&entryPt=download&hm__login=atrueott&hm__domain=msn.com&ip=10.25.152.8&d=d4354&mf=32&hm__ts=Tue%2c%2001%20Mar%20201 ...
• Lincoln’s Monetary Policy for America (T ...
  ~ MONETARY POLICY (1865) ~ Money is the creature of law, and the creation of the original issue of money should be maintained as the exclusive monopoly of national government. Money possesses no value to the state other than that given to it by circulation.  Capital has its proper place and is e ...
• Expose Written February 2009 Now Circulating G ...
  This was written back in 2009 — Beyond High Treason… US Gives China Eminent Domain Over US Property THIS IS AS REAL AND AS UGLY AS IT CAN GET! Connecting the dots… Dot #1 China begins its covert war on the FREE American republic in the 1950′s by taking over much of the PHARMACEUTICAL DRUG [...]

k2p blog

• Nasa Glory mission fails again after launch
  The US space agency's (Nasa) attempt to launch its latest Earth observation mission has ended in failure. This is the second straight failure for the Taurus XL rocket, which appears to be connected to the rocket failing to release its payload.
• LSE head quits over suspect ties to Gaddafi & son
  Not only did the UK government provide Gaddafi with absolution for all his sins for the sake of weapons deals and oil contracts, they also orchestrated the release of the Lockerbie bomber. And the LSE was part of the process of providing legitimacy to a bunch of thugs and murderers - of course ...
• Japanese Universities plan anti-cheating mobil ...
  Cell phone jammers have come under the spotlight in the wake of recent cheating incidents during entrance exams at four prominent universities, including Kyoto University.
• Mass evacuations of foreign workers from Libya ...
  As around 150,000 foreign workers - mainly from the oil industry - gather at the border with Tunisia thousands of them have already been evacuated. China and Turkey were the fastest in getting their evacuations under way followed by Egypt and India and Greece.
• Cheating UK MP’s now claim expenses to s ...
  UK MPs caught up in the expenses scandal claimed thousands of pounds for closing their offices after the general election – even though they had already announced their intention to stand down.

Left Foot Forward

• Four media myths about the justice green paper
  Sophie Willett, of The Howard League for Penal Reform, rebuts some of the right wing tabloids' myths about the Ministry of Justice green paper, 'Breaking the cycle: effective punishment, rehabilitation and sentencing of offenders'.
• No wonder Murdoch’s happy: the News Corp ...
  The stable door had been open for a good while before News Corporation tabled its bid for the 61 per cent of BSkyB it did not already own, writes Martin Moore, director of the Media Standards Trust.
• Why won’t the government investigate its carbo ...
  It is the received wisdom that the UK’s emissions are falling. But this is not the case; as academic studies and government briefings show, the UK’s emissions continue to rise, reports Guy Shrubsole.
• Lansley’s retreat on price competition for hea ...
  Campaigners against the coalition’s NHS reforms secured a victory this week, following a u-turn by Andrew Lansley on price competition for healthcare, reports Trevor Cheeseman.
• Barnsley by-election: Humiliation for Clegg, e ...
  Nick Clegg's Liberal Democrats were routed in the Barnsley Central by-election last night, beaten into sixth place by Labour, the Tories, UKIP, an independent and the BNP - just 15 miles from his Sheffield constituency.

Consumerist

• Top Posts Of The Week And Open Thread
  Why Banks Threatening To Limit Debit Card Swipes To $50 Is Horrible, And Hooey Mazda Recalls 65,000 Cars... Over Spider Webs The Home Theater System, The Day Off Work, And The Lying UPS Guy Watch This Malfunctioning Escalator Fling Its Passengers Former Installer: Why You Shouldn't Get Lowe ...
• Former Spam King Released From Prison, Vows To ...
  A man who launched 10 trillion spam messages before he was sent away to federal prison is out after serving four years, and he's allowed back online. He promises he's a changed man and will no longer shower your inbox with unwanted solicitations. In an interview with KING 5 Seattle, the former ...
• For Better Customer Service, Carry A Camera
  Consumer advocate Christopher Elliott says that sporting one small accessory can help you get better customer service: a camera! Why? He blogs:The last thing employees want to see when they're delivering a substandard product or service is a shutterbug. If they think you might take a snapshot, ...
• No One Has The Power To Refund My Barnes & Nob ...
  When you buy a video game from Barnes & Noble online, the order is actually fulfilled by GameStop. A nice little bit of corporate synergy and specialization, right? The problem is that when you make a mistake or something goes wrong with your order, you enter a strange state of e-commerce purg ...
• BlackBerry Messenger Coming To iPhones, Androids
  It's been a rough few years for BlackBerry diehards, who have seen their smartphone Eden gobbled away by iPhones and Android devices. BlackBerry users could always cling to one point of pride, though -- the phones' lauded and exclusive messaging system. But BGR reports BlackBerry Messenger is ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

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

UK Progressive

• Editorial: Ballots Being Counted Today in Wale ...
  Taking a cue from US Republicans who in 100-days since winning control of the US House said their focus is on “job, job, jobs” yet pressed ahead on a divisive social agenda of abortion and union busting, the Welsh Assembly Government has abandoned any pretence of trying to solve this nation’s ec ...
• FOX News, Stop Lying – There are no Palm Trees ...
  The usual bunch of idiots at FOX News may finally have gone a bridge too far, using file footage from a violent demonstration in palm tree-lined Sacramento, California and claiming the demonstrators in Wisconsin have resorted to violence. Truth is both the State and Capitol police have heaped pr ...
• We Are Wisconsin
  While covering the Revolution in Egypt I saw and heard the powerful rallying symbol, “We are all Egyptians.” In this powerful film by Finn Ryan and David Nevala… “We Are Wisconsin.” To understand the true deceit of the Republican Party and their plan to bust the rights of unions across the USA t ...
• Rev. Peter Gomes: Accidental Gay Advocate
  If during your tenure as a student at Harvard you did not encounter the Reverend Peter J. Gomes, you have not had the quintessential Harvard experience. For undergraduates, if they were paying attention, Gomes bookended their four-year experience at Harvard with his welcoming remarks during orie ...
• Focus on the Family: Bully Pulpit Christianity
  by Carl Matthes On March 4, 2011, The Rev. H.B. London Jr. will be the featured speaker for the “Mayor’s Breakfast” in the Southern California City of Arcadia, an upscale community of about 60,000 straddling the 210 Freeway, just east and slightly north of downtown Los Angeles. While the breakfa ...

NewsAlert

• GOP Aims to Tame Benefits Programs : Boehner P ...
  The Wall Street Journal reports:House Speaker John Boehner said Thursday that he's determined to offer a budget this spring that curbs Social Security and Medicare, despite the political risks, and that Republicans will try to persuade voters that sacrifices are needed.
• Wisconsin's Walker vows no compromise on unions
  Reuters
• AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka's Ugly Histor ...
  Flashback from NRTW:As president of the United Mine Workers (UMW) union, Trumka led multiple violent strikes. Trumka’s fiery rhetoric often appeared to condone militancy and violence, especially against workers who dared to continue to provide for their families by working during a strike. As a ...
• Flashback: When Richard Trumka Took the Fifth
  Flashback 1998 from Newsalert:Carey may be gone, but there is growing evidence that both the Democratic National Committee and other unions were involved in his misdeeds. Mary Jo White, the U.S. Attorney for the southern district of New York, has detailed how officials of AFSCME, the Service Emp ...
• Wisconsin lawmaker tackled as he tries to ente ...
  AP

JoNova

• Australian politics churning
  Things are hotting up in politics downunder. The immovable force meets the polls. Twenty years of PR catches up on the PM who didn’t do her homework. As Tim Blair says:  It’s a meltdown, Labor is seething. Bring Your PopCorn. “There is evidence the public’s general confidence is being shaken by ...
• Shut down Australia and save 0.01 degrees
  The key question — with all the billions spent on cutting Australia’s carbon production, the trade and income lost, the jobs cut, the pain of living near a wind farm, the foreign holidays avoided and paying more for petrol and electricity than we have too, how many degrees will our actions cool ...
• How well have the media and PR groups informed ...
  Given the multimillion dollar budgets and advertising campaigns about climate change, it would be safe to assume there was a high public awareness of the most basic facts about CO2 right?  But reader Gregg has taken the initiative and gone out and done a survey of 100 people and asked them a few ...
• Galvanising against Gillard
  Welcome to another day in the lost democracy. The place where an elected government thinks that cheating is the answer. What was Julia Gillard thinking? This turnaround is happening so fast. She announced the Carbon Tax only last Thursday, and already former members of her own party are discussi ...
• Does the lie matter? Only if you think Democra ...
  Thank you Julia Gillard. Nothing could have put the fire back into the carbon debate like promising not to tax us during an election, then barely scraping in by the thinnest of “wins”* (with hang-nail support of two men in some of the most conservative seats in the country) and then doing what y ...

ReNew America

• Sen. Mike Lee puts the Senate on record
  (SenateConservatives.com) - Dear Fellow Conservative: I'm writing to let you know about an important vote that took place in the Senate Wednesday night. Newly-elected Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) offered an amendment expressing support for a Constitutional Amendment that would force Congress to bal ...
• Abortion doctor could face death penalty
  (Washington Times) - Pennsylvania prosecutors will seek the death penalty for abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell in a state that has not executed an inmate in more than a decade...
• Teachers Unions 101: 'A' is for 'agitation'
  (Michelle Malkin) - If public school teachers spent more time teaching in classrooms and less time community-organizing in political war rooms, maybe taxpayers wouldn't feel as ripped off as they do. Before the Big Labor bosses start complaining about "teacher-bashing," let's be clear: An increa ...
• Uncivil unions
  (Ann Coulter) - As Obama rakes in historic campaign contributions from Wall Street money, liberals claim Republicans are beholden to "the rich." However that may be, it is far more true, and far less remarked upon, that the Democratic Party is the party of public sector unions...
• Beware the wrath of the EPA
  (Rep. Ted Poe) - "Houses were shut tight, and cloth wedged around doors and windows, but the dust came in so thinly that it could not be seen in the air, and it settled like pollen on the chairs and tables, on the dishes." I have ripped this line from the pages of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of ...

Truth Offering

• Levi's: All-American or Neo-Communist
  It seems that everywhere I go recently, I see these massive Levi's billboards along the side of the road. At first, I thought nothing of them. After all, they're just billboards, right? Plus Levi's is an all-American company, right? Visually, these ads are quite striking; mostly black and white, ...
• US Falls In Level of Overall Economic Freedom ...
  The Heritage Foundation just released its annual Economic Freedom List. The list "measures ten components of economic freedom, assigning a grade in each using a scale from 0 to 100, where 100 represents the maximum freedom. The ten component scores are then averaged to give an overall economic f ...
• Did J.P. Morgan Sink the Titanic!?
  1st Row: JP Morgan, Joseph Bruce Ismay, John Jacob Astor and Benjamin Guggenheim. 2nd Row: The Federal Reserve and the TitanicAs youngsters, we're all told the infamous story of the Titanic, the supposedly indestructible ship that sunk on its maiden voyage. We're all familiar with the story: the ...
• Our Diet Is Killing Our DNA!
  Few people are aware of this simple fact: what you eat directly impacts your DNA. This likely seems like a strange new concept to most, considering we're all brought up with such an incorrect understanding of human health and wellness. Five years back, I was no different -- well, I always cared ...
• Chemtrails: Scars in the Sky
  Geoengineering is a relatively new idea to the world. According to�Wikipedia,�"The modern concept of�geoengineering�(or�climate engineering) is usually taken to mean proposals to deliberately manipulate the�Earth's�climate�to counteract the effects of�global warming�from�greenhouse gas�emissions ...

2012 Blog

• Laacher See & Christchurch Volcanoes
  Might be nothing, but the Laacher See volcano in Germany erupted around the time of (perhaps) the last global cataclysm – roughly 12,900 years ago. While scientists say it wasn’t responsible for much back then, The Laacher eruption coincides with the onset of the abrupt Younger Dryas re-glaciat ...
• 35377 People Have Voted… Nothing Wins
  Since October 2006 I have been running a poll at Survive 2012, and with 35377 votes I think we have an accurate reflection of what visitors to my site think will happen in 2012: Nothing wins, with just over 56% of the vote. I was surprised that TEOTWAWKI came in second, and that aliens beat [... ...
• 10 LHC Consequences / NASA Budget / Planet (X) ...
  I was quite OK with the LHC when experts explained that cosmic rays cause the creation of harmless mini-black holes in our atmosphere all the time. Now I don’t know what to think! Otto Rössler is the professor who sued and failed in his attempt to halt the Large Hadron Collidor. Over at Lifeboa ...
• Deadly 6.3 Quake in ChristChurch NZ
  Looks like dozens of people have died during an earthquake that struck Christchurch during their lunch hour. Several large office buildings have collapsed, as well as the cathedral. Another deadly earthquake occurring within 3 days of the full moon. I have written recently of the new pattern eme ...
• Noah’s Ark Finally Discovered?
  If you follow my line of thinking, you might just agree with my hypothesis. It starts out by looking at the Bible as a historical record that has been exaggerated for religious purposes, and ends with an amazing find in Iran. Ask any Biblical skeptic and they will supply you with many apparent c ...

Facing South

• Life and death on Big Oil's fence line
  The environmental destruction caused by Louisiana's oil industry did not begin with the BP disaster, and a visit to the town of Norco 25 miles west of New Orleans powerfully illustrates that reality. Built on land adjacent to the Mississippi River that once supported vast sugar planta ...
• VOICES: Evidence grows of possible health cons ...
  Ten months after the Deepwater Horizon sank into the Gulf of Mexico, the long-term impacts of the oil spill continue to surface in coastal communities, and the developing picture is not a pretty one. Since 2000, the Louisiana Bucket Brigade (LABB) has trained communities affected by indu ...
• Carolina Public Press launches new source for ...
  We all know the story: Newspapers and other "legacy media" have slashed their reporting budgets. More and more, blogs and social media are where people turn to find out what's happening. But who, then, does the in-depth, investigative reporting crucial to keeping the public informed and ...
• Gulf Coast restoration task force hearing show ...
  The president's Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Force met yesterday in New Orleans to gather public comments for the plan it's working on to restore the region's ecology in the wake of last year's BP catastrophe. A major theme of those comments was the deep distrust that many of the regio ...
• INSTITUTE INDEX: Oil and death after BP
  Ten months after BP's massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, scientists are still uncovering evidence of the disaster's long-term repercussions. Number of aborted or stillborn baby dolphins that have washed ashore so far this week along Mississippi's coast: 4 Number of dead baby dolphins t ...

One News Page

• Paula Abdul, Mariah Carey on Cowell's 'X Facto ...
  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Singers Mariah Carey and George Michael, former Pussycat Doll Nicole Scherzinger and ex-'American Idol' judge Paula Abdul are all in the running to join Simon Cowell on his upcoming talent show 'The X Factor,' Cowell said on Thursday.
• Samantha to play Siddharth's love interest!
  Grapevine is abuzz with the news that Samantha, who has three big movies in her hands, has given the green signal to star in Siddharth's upcoming film. Though, the actress has given her verbal consent, she is yet to sign on
• Docs 'want to amputate Zsa Zsa Gabor's second leg'
  Washington, March 4 (ANI): Doctors have apparently said that Zsa Zsa Gabor needs to have her second leg amputated.  The 94-year-old was admitted to hospital after blood flow to her left leg suddenly stopped, reports RadarOnline.
• Hasan Ali gets IT tribunal notice in Black mon ...
   The Income Tax Tribunal today issued a showcause notice to Pune-based stud farm owner Hasan Ali Khan, who is alleged to have stashed away over eight billion dollars in Swiss banks.
• Manmohan Singh says India wants to resolve all ...
  Asserting that regardless of the problems between the Asian neighbours, the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, on Friday said India wants to resolve all outstanding issues, including the issue of Jammu and Kashmir with Pakistan through friendly dialogue and constructive and purposeful negotiati ...

Global Research TV

• The Last Word on Terrorism: Kissinger and the ...
• Russian Military Says Libyan Airstrikes Did No ...
• Fruits of Revolt Won't be Felt Until Power Out ...
• The Story of Citizens United v. FEC
• 9 Trillion Dollars Missing from Federal Reserve

Daily Tech

• A War of Words: Intel Calls ARM Cores Weak, Li ...
  Intel says that ARM cores may gain some ground in the laptop space but will not challenge it in servers
• Visual Cortex Processes Language, Changes Unde ...
  The visual cortex in the brain is capable of processing language in those who were born blind
• 2/01/2011 Daily Hardware Reviews
  DailyTech's roundup of hardware reviews from around the web for Tuesday
• Fixes for Problem Plagued F-35 Helmet in the Works
  Fixes are in the works, but short term solutions might involve heads-down displays in the cockpit
• Apple Posts iOS 4.3 Gold Master for Developers
  Finalized version of iOS 4.3 is now available to developers

Oriental Review

• Libya: Will It Follow Sudan’s Track?
  Vitaly Bilan (Russia) It would obviously be problematic to transfer power in Libya as it was done in Egypt. Therefore, the country can expect to take either the hard “Iraq” or soft “Sudan” option. In either case, however, there will be far-reaching consequences for the entire continent. Virtual ...
• The Theory of ‘Manageable Chaos’ P ...
  Sergey Shashkov (Russia) An act of self-immolation by a Tunisian street vendor in protest of the confiscation of his wares by municipal officials in December was covered in the media as the catalyst for mass riots in Tunisia, which later spread to Egypt, Yemen, Iran, Algeria, Bahrain, Jordan, Ku ...
• Reagan’s Secret Legacy
  Peter Chamberlin (USA) On this, the one-hundredth birthday of Ronald Reagan, the Reagan worshippers are coming out of the woodwork. It seems that the self-appointed leaders of the “Tempest in the Teapot” party (or whatever they call themselves), even Obama himself, are trying to ride Reagan’s fa ...
• The United States Must Take Russia’s Interests ...
  Andrei Pravov (Russia) A recent interview with the American political scientist Ariel Cohen produced a feeling more of déjà vu than anything else. We have seen these arguments before. In the early 1990s, Russian newspapers loved to publish the opinions of numerous Western politicians and politic ...
• Egypt Leaving an Epoch Behind
  Dmitry Sedov (Russia) The Anglo-Saxon globalization ran into a major roadblock: at the moment the Egyptian regime which the West has propped up for decades is on the verge of collapse. Even if Mubarak’s nominee Omar Suleiman manages to cling on, the global centers of power will have to face a di ...

BlogHer

• A Month of Breakfast: Omelets a la Ken Jennings
  What's for breakfast? We're talking morning meals every day on BlogHer.com from oatmeal to waffles (mmmm, waffles). Sign up for the weekly newsletter and see all the breakfast ideas in the series. **************************** Some of you know of my deep and abiding love for all things Jeopardy! ...
• American Idol Recap: The Top 24
  This week the *real* American Idol kicked off...the American Idol that's about singing. Although I did find this season's audition period less painful than usual...with more focus on the good than the bad...I still am most happy when we settle in and can talk song choice, "whole packages" and pi ...
• 12 Tips on Finding Your Unique Sense of Humor ...
  Own Your Beauty is a groundbreaking, year-long movement bringing women together to change the conversation about what beauty means. Our mission: to encourage and remind grown women that it is never too late to learn to love one's self and influence the lives of those around us - our mothers, f ...
• Did He Ever Feel Like a Monster?
  It was 3am, and she laid awake with her mind busied in thought. The house was silent except for the gentle hum of the furnace and the sweet sounds of breathing flowing through the monitor. She wanted to go in there and hold him tightly. She wanted to tell him that she was sorry. It was another o ...
• New Study on Working Mothers Misses the Truth ...
  A study by an American University professor released recently found a small correlation between childhood obesity and the employment status of mothers. One of the conclusions is that there is a link between an increase in BMI for children if their moms have a j.o.b. And here's the kicker, the s ...

Health Freedom Alliance

• Monsanto Shifts ALL Liability to Farmers
  Monsanto stacks the deck in its favor with its most recent stunt: making farmers sign an agreement to take all responsibility for the results of their GM crops…forever. Gee, what is it lately ...
• Poor diets may lower children’s IQ
  New research shows that there is more at stake than just health and normal weight when kids are raised on junk food. They are also facing the potential of lower IQs. The brain is developing ...
• Scientists Warn of Link Between Dangerous New ...
  The recent approval of three genetically modified crops is inviting the use of even more herbicides and pesticides. Particularly worrisome is Monsanto’s RoundUp Ready to be doused on the newly approved RoundUp Ready Alfalfa ...
• The Dirty Little Secret Hidden In Many ‘ ...
  Soy is everywhere, from plastics to cosmetics and saturates the food supply in everything from infant formula to prison food to “health” food. It’s inexpensive to grow, and the U.S., with the help of Monsanto, is pumping ...
• Human Mind Finds Carotenoid Glow More Attracti ...
  If eating veggies for a longer, healthier life wasn’t a big enough incentive, how about having good looks? Among maintaining a healthier weight and providing powerful antioxidants, a diet of colorful fruits and vegetables also ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

• Is Rep. Rahall doing all he can for coal miners?
  Folks who follow the work of my friend Rep. Nick J. Rahall, D.W.Va., got an interesting juxtaposition yesterday. On the one hand, we saw Rep. Rahall joining Sen. Joe Manchin in lending his name to another piece of legislation to block any action to deal with the climate crisis. According to the ...
• NY Times: Closer to the truth on Upper Big Branch
  Earlier this week, The New York Times published this editorial about the indictment of Massey Energy’s security guard from the Upper Big Branch Mine: We applaud the determination of United States Attorney R. Booth Goodwin II to press the inquiry as âtoo important to tolerate any attempt to hind ...
• Push on to speed up mining permits
  Here’s the latest from The Associated Press: FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) â Alleging that the Obama administration is engaged in a “backdoor means of shutting down coal mines,” Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell joined two other Washington lawmakers on Thursday in introducing legislation that woul ...
• UBB reality check: Remember what Sen. Byrd said
  In the wake of today’s House subcommittee hearing on coal-mine safety — and the complaints I’m hearing about the timing of a Gazette story detailing some of MSHA’s failings — it’s worth remembering what Sen. Robert C. Byrd had to say during a May 20, 2010, hearing about the Upper Big Branch Min ...
• The partisan politics of coal-mine safety
  Well, the House Committee on Education and the Workforce just completed its morning hearing called Examining Recent Regulatory and Enforcement Actions of the Mine Safety and Health Administration. It was really quite a spectacle of partisan politics, and it hardly was about examining recent reg ...

Daniel Miessler

• Shuttle Launch from Airplane
  Daniel Miessler 415 937 0063 | Mobile Sent via mobile device: Please forgive any brevity. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsKucinich Schools Congress on the WarSun Melts RockSwords vs. ShadowsJan-Ove Waldner ServesAnd Now I Give You TechnovikingA Thoroughly Gratef ...
• On American Jobs
  I maintain the problem in this country is lack of regulation, a government which pimps out its people to runaway corporate monstrosities. Corporations have all the control and they use and dispose of human beings as they see fit. We have been told the only way is a global economy, it’s really to ...
• Are All Drug Reps Hot? | The Last Psychiatrist
  There are some jobs where appearance is a bona fide occupational qualification (BFOQ– see, there’s even an acronym for it) and if you have to ask if your job is one of those, it doesn’t. Elite Modeling can hire based on looks, but Abercrombie & Fitch can’t.  I leaave you to tease out the details ...
• BSQLHacker
  BSQL Hacker For Feature Requests, Feedback and Bug Reports use: http://bsql.uservoice.com/ See SQLIBench project to compare BSQLHacker with other SQL Injection tools. BSQL Hacker is an automated SQL Injection Framework / Tool designed to exploit SQL injection vulnerabilities virtually in any dat ...
• MIT OpenCourseWare vs. KhanAcademy: Winner? You.
  via ocw.mit.edu I am thrilled to see everyone jumping so forcefully into the self-education space. With schools like MIT doing this, combined with homegrown efforts like KhanAcademy, the look and feel of education is going to be far different in 10 years. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com ...

Fitwatch

• Domestic extremists or domestic goddesses?
  This brilliant video was made by the Aldermaston Women's Peace Camp - the following text, is taken from their website During 2010 AWPC was under more overt surveillance than usual. From February, the women's camp was targeted with intrusive police photography. Camp made a formal complaint about ...
• Activist reports recent encounter with Mark Ke ...
  Fitwatch has been passed the following statement relating to an encounter by an activist with the ex-undercover cop, Mark Kennedy. Mark Kennedy encountered in London Last week ex-undercover police spy Mark Kennedy was encountered by chance by an activist who was an erstwhile friend. Kennedy was ...
• Legal Advice Drop-In for Student/Anti-Cuts Arr ...
  From LDMG: Legal Defence & Monitoring Group (LDMG) and Offmarket Infoshop in Hackney, London will now be offering a regular legal drop-in session for all those arrested on the Student Demonstrations or Anti-Cuts Actions. We will be able to offer: * Entirely free, confidential legal advice coming ...
• Manchester demo – police use s50 powers ...
  We have received this account from an eye-witness in Manchester. Police have abused ASBO legislation to obtain the personal details of anti-cuts demonstrators. Manchester police ended a day of orderly rallies and breakout groups of protesters by abusing legislation on anti-social behaviour in or ...
• Protesters sprayed as Hugh Orde advocates extr ...
  Three days after head of ACPO, Hugh Orde, promised the use of more extreme tactics on protesters, ten people have been cs/pepper sprayed at a London UKUncut protest outside Boots, with three needing hospital treatment. During the protest on Oxford Street, an activist tried to post a leaflet thro ...

Worldwide 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 ...

reference frame

• NASA's Glory climate satellite is doomed
  Alexander Ač just informed me that NASA's climatic satellite called Glory - which should have studied aerosols in the atmosphere - has been destroyed. NASA press release about the failureA press conference on the failure will start on NASA TV at 2 p.m. Central European Time. ...
• Bubble blowers will be verifying climate models
  The British Met Office has been criticized for its incorrect predictions of the weather (almost always warmer than the reality) and for its detachment from the empirical data. Some enlightened minds in the Met Office agreed that it was a great idea to observe the weather and the clima ...
• Plagiarist is Germany's most popular politician
  Around 1450, Johannes Gutenberg invented movable type - at least for the Europeans - and he began to print one copy of the Bible after another. This year, it turned out that Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, the German defense minister, has followed in the footsteps of his namesake. Well, it ...
• Judith Curry vs Gavin Schmidt
  Gavin Schmidt has been fighting against Judith Curry for some time (on discussion pages of Curry's blog - Part I and Part II - Real Climate, Watts' blog, and other places); see e.g. Climate Progress. The ecoterrorists have even established a special anti-Curry website which is totally incoh ...
• Is there a 66-year cycle in temperatures?
  Many people have noticed that the global mean temperature was increasing in the first third of the 20th century (33 years), slightly decreasing in the second third of the 20th century (33 years), and increasing in the last third of the 20th century (33 years or so). If this evol ...

No Frakking Consensus

• Are University of London PhDs Confidential?
  Sari Kovats helped write three editions of the climate bible. But the institution where she recently earned her doctorate won’t confirm the date that event took place.
• Scientists Speak Out
  Two physics professors - one in America and one in the UK - are condemning the behaviour of prominent climate scientists. They say it's a violation of scientific honesty and integrity.
• Not Your Grandfather’s Greenpeace
  Environmental activist organizations are all grown up now. We need to adjust our thinking accordingly.
• Environmentalism Runs Amok
  Nearly half a century after the first Earth Day, the chessboard has changed dramatically. The players with the power, the war chests, and the influence are different now.
• You Doubt Monger, You
  When environmentalists organize themselves, fund-raise, and try to spread their message this is considered legitimate democratic activity. Yet the minute climate skeptics do the same we're accused of being doubt-mongers who manufacture uncertainty in order to mislead the public.

Tarpley

• US-UK Imperialist Rampage Envelops Libya in Ci ...
  Webster G. Tarpley on The Alex Jones Show Infowars March 1, 2011 download file Coast to Coast AM tonight from 2am to 5am eastern
• Webster Tarpley will be interviewed Tuesday ni ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net March 1, 2011 Check you local radio station for the exact time. Listen and call in! Locate Radio Stations Near You Call Number: 800-618-8255 First Time Caller: 818-501-4721 � � �
• Wisconsin Gop Governor in Neofascist Union-Bus ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net February 20, 2011 Washington DC, Feb. 20, 2011 – After four decades of disillusionment, and demoralization, disorientation and rout of the labor movement, the mass strike is once again abroad in the land. In dozens of state capitals, reactionary Republican ...
• Mubarak Toppled by CIA Because He Opposed US P ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net February 18, 2011 Washington DC, Feb. 18, 2011 — There never was an “Egyptian revolution,” but rather a behind-the-scenes military putsch by a junta of CIA puppet generals who evidently could not succeed in their goal of ousting Hosni Mubarak without the hel ...
• Hillary Announces Expanded US Cyber-Coup Campa ...
  Webster G. Tarpley TARPLEY.net February 16, 2011

Modern Survivalism

• Debt Free Living, A Simple Concept?
  Sounds simple, right? Living debt free is a simple concept: Spend less than you earn, and accrue no debts. Pay as you go. Sounds simple, right? So, why are so many of us unable to do it? The financial experts tell us to “live within our means,” give us plans to get out of debt, [...]
• Survival and Dog Food, sojos
  Modern Survival and your pet dog You may be very surprised if you knew the real ingredients that are in much of the dog food that you buy today at the grocery store or pet store. Think about it… food companies do not waste a single byproduct when processing foods. For example, when it comes [...]
• U.S. to invade Libya?
  Libya has the largest oil reserves in Africa, and 3 percent of the total global oil. The US Sixth Fleet has positioned its ships in such a manner which is bringing speculation of an invasion of Libya. It has been widely reported on Wednesday that two US military ships entered the Suez Canal whil ...
• Arkansas Earthquakes cause Drilling Moratorium
  Arkansas Earthquake Preparedness News The shaking in northern Arkansas may subside over the next few weeks, time will tell. KARK 4 News in Arkansas reports that resulting from the recent magnitude 4.7 earthquake that rattled northern Arkansas, along with approximately 700 other smaller earthquak ...
• Raised Garden Bed, building materials
  First, remind me again why I should consider a garden? To save hundreds of dollars on groceries. To eat substantially healthier and tastier foods than mass produced – genetically modified – prematurely harvested – irradiated foods. To learn a self reliant skill. Peace of mind. Therapy. Second, w ...

Fast Company

• Go West, Foxconn
  The iPhone manufacturer plans to move its primary plant inland, in search of cheaper labor. It's workforce will soon hit 1.4 million. Foxconn, the world's largest maker of computer components, revealed plans to move some 200,000 jobs inland. Currently, its manufacturing hub is in Shenzhen, near ...
• 10 Ads Worth Sharing, Courtesy Of TED
  The folks behind the TED conference have a theory that ads don't have to be annoying; they can, if done well, be compelling enough to spur viewers to share them with friends. This week, TED announced the 10 winners of its Ads Worth Spreading challenge, which asked entrants to create ads that ...
• When Do-Gooders Go Viral
  SeeYourImpact.org rewards acts of micro-charity with photographs and stories of the impact donors make. Here's how the non-profit took the simple idea of storytelling to improve operations--and stand out in the crowd. Storytelling is at the heart of most non-profits--nothing sells a mission b ...
• Hey Jimmy Wales, What Do You Think of Content ...
  Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and CultofMac.com editor Leander Kahney discuss Google, content farms, and Demand Media (plus a personal account of how the tweaked algorithm almost ruined Kahney's business) in our latest edition of The Cold Call.Welcome to another edition of Cold Call, where we zi ...
• Welcome to the TED Revival: Blind People Drive ...
  Yesterday morning at TED resembled an old-time faith-healing session--except instead of the Bible, the force was technology.Yesterday morning at TED resembled an old-time faith-healing session--except instead of the Bible, the force was technology.First Dennis Hong presented the results of his r ...

Jadaliyya

• Notes from the Bahraini Field [Update 3]
  [The following constitutes a series of email reports from Jadaliyya affiliates in Manama. They will be updated regularly to reflect the latest developments in Bahrain.] Bahrain - Thursday March 3, 2011 A lot has been happening in a short space of time, and it is difficult to summar ...
• Paradoxes of Arab Refo-lutions
  Serious concerns are expressed currently in Tunisia and Egypt about the sabotage of the defeated elites. Many in the revolutionary and pro-democracy circles speak of a creeping counter-revolution. This is not surprising. If revolutions are about intense struggle for a profound change, th ...
• Iraq Too?
  Many cast doubts that the lung through which Tunisia breathed freedom could give birth to kindred lungs in Arab lands to the east or west. Even after Egypt shook the earth to dethrone its last Pharaoh, doubts were cast again as to the mobility of the phenomenon. Then came Libya, which is ...
• And the Late Night Comedians Shall Lead Us
  For those of you lucky readers who are able to access Al Jazeera or Al Arabiya on your televisions, you can stop reading now. This is for those of us, in the US, who either have to sleep with our laptops streaming the ârealâ news or who, for fear that our batteries may die, have to set o ...
• Yemen's Popular Uprising in Photos
  �Thanks, Tunisia!� Congratulations Egypt!� You are the trailblazers of freedom.� The day after Tunisia�s leader fled his country on January 14, a group of Yemeni students at Sanaa University and members of Women Journalists Without Chains, led by Tawakul Karman, marched toward the T ...

mediagazer

• Current TV Building New York Studio For Keith ...
  Andy Plesser / Beet.TV: Current TV Building New York Studio For Keith Olbermann Show  —  As it readies the debut of the Keith Olbermann show, Current TV is building a studio in Manhattan, says co-founder Joel Hyatt in this interview with Beet.TV  —  Hyatt says that the studio will have addition ...
• Why "Bloggers vs. Journalists" is Still With U ...
  Jay Rosen / Pressthink: Why “Bloggers vs. Journalists” is Still With Us  —  A pre-conference post.  Ideas in motion.  These are notes in preparation for my talk at South by Southwest in Austin next week.  You can help me make it better!  —  I am going to be doing a solo presentation at South b ...
• Murdoch's News Corp. May Have to Pay $17.4 Bil ...
  Bloomberg: Murdoch's News Corp. May Have to Pay $17.4 Billion for Its BSkyB Purchase  —  Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. (NWSA) may have to raise its bid for British Sky Broadcasting Plc to as much as 10.7 billion pounds ($17.4 billion) to win over the pay- television operator's shareholders.
• @ pC2011: Denton: The Internet Is A Mass Mediu ...
  David Kaplan / paidContent: @ pC2011: Denton: The Internet Is A Mass Medium, Not A Niche One  —  In a very amiable dialogue about the nature of “internet success,” Gawker founderNick Denton told Reuters' finance blogger Felix Salmon that revenues were expected to be flat this year.  Though Sal ...
• @ pC2011: Keith Olbermann: I'm Not Crazy For J ...
  David Kaplan / paidContent: @ pC2011: Keith Olbermann: I'm Not Crazy For Joining Current Media  —  So here's the deal Current TV has for its new chief news officer: Keith Olbermann, who in addition to crafting the behind the scenes content for the cable channel will be back in his old 8pm time ...

Chemtrail News

• Lamestream Media Distorts The Truth On Chem ...
  This page is dedicated to exposing the crimes and plans of the super rich global elite, what some refer to as The New World Order. This is not politics, ...www.rtr.org/link/.../89bcdb2f7053e24bf135b5e757fdc81c
• CHEM TRAIL UFOs page 1
  I live in kansas and my room mate has some good video of chemtrails from a drive he took that was 3 or 4 hours and you can see when they start and that they ...www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread667357/pg1
• The REAL Reason For Chemtrails!! Shocking!!
  Discussion about The REAL Reason For Chemtrails!! Shocking!! at the GodlikeProductions Conspiracy Forum. Our topics include Conspiracy Theory, ...www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1378600/pg1
• Talk Jock Silences Chemtrails | Paranominal
  chemtrails daily in s.e.wisconsin when i can see the blue skies. funny, years ago i had to wait a week to see a “persistant CONtrail”!? now it's daily! ...www.paranominal.com/.../talk-jock-silences-chemtrails/
• CBS 5 - kpho Phoenix Az pulls Chemtrail ...
  Discussion about CBS 5 - kpho Phoenix Az pulls Chemtrail investigation news story at the GodlikeProductions Conspiracy Forum. Our topics include Conspiracy ...www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1370939/pg1

World News - Top Stories

• 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...

no frakking consensus

• Are University of London PhDs Confidential?
  Sari Kovats helped write three editions of the climate bible. But the institution where she recently earned her doctorate won’t confirm the date that event took place.
• Scientists Speak Out
  Two physics professors - one in America and one in the UK - are condemning the behaviour of prominent climate scientists. They say it's a violation of scientific honesty and integrity.
• Not Your Grandfather’s Greenpeace
  Environmental activist organizations are all grown up now. We need to adjust our thinking accordingly.
• Environmentalism Runs Amok
  Nearly half a century after the first Earth Day, the chessboard has changed dramatically. The players with the power, the war chests, and the influence are different now.
• You Doubt Monger, You
  When environmentalists organize themselves, fund-raise, and try to spread their message this is considered legitimate democratic activity. Yet the minute climate skeptics do the same we're accused of being doubt-mongers who manufacture uncertainty in order to mislead the public.

Pointman's

• The steady-state environment delusion
  Cosmologists have calculated that our particular universe is 13.7 billion years old. It came into existence with the big bang, as did space and time. Itâs big. It consists of lots of matter, especially hydrogen, which has aggregated into different objects. The ones we see in the night sky are t ...
• Line of Descent Chapter 22
  Chapter 22 He lay full length on the ground, concealed within a clump of vegetation through which he studied the house and the hastily built positions in front of it. He held a rifle which poked out in front of him, stopping two feet short of the end of the cover. It had been in … Read more
• Don’t just sit on your butt blogging, do somet ...
  Iâm a blogger and commenter and enjoy reading and contributing to a variety of blogs but thereâs one attitude in the blogosphere that really bugs me big time; the whinge and dump mentality of a lot of bloggers and contributors. Whatâs whinge and dump? Itâs the idea that once youâve spotted and c ...
• Moderating, trolls, soup ladles and Ethics.
  If youâre running a blog, one of the chores that has to be done on an ongoing basis is moderating comments. I operate the common system where a contributorâs first comment is held for moderation. If I approve it, then they can comment freely thereafter. If I donât, then theyâre effectively shut ...
• Immoderate moderation at the DT
  My friend Locusts has just put up a piece at his place about the decline of debate at the Daily Telegraph to “just above the level of public toilet graffiti.” I left it shortly after Disqus was rushed into service and a bizarre censorship regime imposed, leaving the comment below. Sadly, occasio ...

Journalists' Toolkit

• New tutorial: Windows Live Movie Maker
  As an aid to a journalism training session I agreed to give, I created a short PowerPoint that is aimed at journalism students. Windows Live Movie Maker Tutorial Windows Live Movie Maker is quite different from its predecessor — Windows Movie Maker (not “live”). It is less versatile in several w ...
• Convert WMA files with Switch
  Switch Sound File Converter is a free program from NCH Software. You can download it here (Mac or Windows). I have been using this program and recommending it widely for about two years. It’s easy to use, and it’s especially useful for converting WMA format files to WAV so that we can edit them ...
• Use Kuler, Photoshop to make a quick palette
  What’s the quickest way to whip up a beautiful color palette for a new website? 1. Start with Kuler, a free online tool from Adobe. 2. Register and sign in so you can download a color swatch for your chosen palette(s). Not signed in? Then you can’t download. (Pay attention to WHERE you save the ...
• New resource: Page Design Basics
  This resource — Page Design Basics — provides a very simple overview of how to lay out a Web page. Students new to using CSS often make a mess of it because they do not grasp the utility of DIVs. By introducing these four regions of a Web page, an instructor can help students understand [...]
• iMovie 09 tutorials for journalism students
  For journalism students just starting to learn video, I created two compact, illustrated handouts in fall 2010: Basic iMovie 09 Tutorial — PDF, 9 pages, 1 MB More iMovie 09 Tips (Part 2) — PDF, 6 pages, 552 KB The reason I made two handouts instead of one: In the first video editing class, I [...]

Justice Roars - Louisiana

• Lawsuit Puts Hold on Closing of SUNO
  Last week, advocates took legal action in an attempt to stop Governor Jindal's actions to dissolve SUNO. LJI has posted the legal documents on our NOLA Public Records website. Below is an excerpt from a summary of the status of the legal claims, from BayouBuzz News: Seven Southern University Sys ...
• Tom Joyner Doesn't Understand New Orleans Soci ...
  2-Cent is a remarkable New Orleans-based arts and activist group who have built a national reputation for creating videos that are both informative and entertaining. They have received major national awards and rave reviews in the media. Their videos regularly get thousands of views, and the mos ...
• Louisiana Unions Organize “We Stand with Wisco ...
  From a press release by SEIU Local 21LA: “We Stand with Wisconsin,” a solidarity rally, will be held at 5:00pm on Wednesday outside of the Baton Rouge City Hall (the Governmental Building) located at 222 St. Louis Street. The event is being organized by Service Employees International Union (S ...
• Blind Human Rights Lawyer Beaten and Isolated ...
  By Bill Quigley Chen Guangcheng, a blind, 39 year old, self-taught, human rights lawyer in China who was recently released after years in prison has been put in home detention, isolated and beaten by authorities. Winner of numerous human rights awards, Mr. Chen was imprisoned for investigating ...
• Wheelchair-Bound Man Denied Basic Medical Care ...
  From our friends at ACLU of Louisiana: Seeking immediate help for a disabled man held since April in inhumane conditions at the Iberia Parish Correctional Center (“ICC”), the ACLU of Louisiana today submitted an emergency second request for relief on his behalf. Reginald Peters, who requires ...

Truth About Our World

• Announcement: Changing Site!
  For those of you who have followed my entries throughout this past year, I thank you.  I’ve opened up a new site and that’s where I’ll continue my work. Mostly, I post articles of interest that I find relevant in educating the world about what’s REALLY going on in the world.  Sometimes I write ...
• The Complete Idiot’s Guide to the New Wo ...
• Government Promises to Cut Social Security in ...
  Activist Post It’s official, national austerity measures are here!  As Wisconsin protesters fill the streets because of lost rights and benefits to workers, the nation is gearing up to face similar losses with social security being cut.  Comedian George Carlin warned us that this day would co ...
• The Security Budget vs. the Necessities of Ame ...
  How does military spending impact Americans? by Kevin Zeese President Obama and the Congress have taken 66% of discretionary spending in the federal budget off the table –the SecurityBudget – while proposing a freeze to the rest of the budget and deep cuts to some programs that provide necessiti ...
• No seeds, no independent research
  Companies that genetically engineer crops have a lock on what we know about their safety and benefits. By Doug Gurian-Sherman Soybeans, corn, cotton and canola — most of the acres planted in these crops in the United States are genetically altered. “Transgenic” seeds reduce the use of some insec ...

Gyrovague's Raves

• The Inmates Are Running the Asylum
  Libya’s tenure on the U.N. Human Rights Council is just the latest example of how the international system has been hijacked by the world’s most repressive regimes. BY DANIEL AYALON The recent unrest in parts of the Arab world has not only exposed the appalling lack of development in these count ...
• Missing Before Action
  Following a call for peaceful protests in China, Beijing is arresting and disappearing activists in perhaps the most exhaustive crackdown in recent memory. Here are their stories. BY RENEE XIA Shortly after Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak was forced to step down, an anonymous call began to circ ...
• Why Are Easy Decisions So Hard?
  By Jonah Lehrer One of the problems with writing a book on decision-making is that people assume Iâm not terrible at making decisions. As a result, they act surprised when it takes me 10 minutes to pick a sandwich or when I confess that I still get mild panic attacks when choosing floss at the … ...
• Miracle Berry To Prevent World Hunger?
  By Kim Zetter Homaro Cantu LONG BEACH, California â Is a little red berry from West Africa the solution to world famine and hunger? Chicago chef Homaro Cantu thinks it might be. Cantu, executive chef at Moto restaurant in the Windy City and his new venue iNG, told the TED audience on Tuesday tha ...
• Hagfish Feed Through Their Skin
  By Susan Milius, Science News When Pacific hagfish burrow into a carcass and eat their way out, they may be feeding directly through their gills and skin as well as their guts. Lab tests suggest that hagfish actively take up nutrients through their outer tissues, says fish physiologist Chris M. ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

• Human Embryology: a different kind of policy p ...
  The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) was a policy first –the first executive, non-departmental public body in the world. It has sole authority and responsibility for research and routine practice for IVF and stored gametes.  Created in 1991, HFEA had a clear role at a time whe ...
• A little less conversation…
  FROM SARAH  ‘SMEE’ MEE, POLICY ADVISER In the realm of global food security, little is spared intense debate. However, few would disagree that the global food system as it stands is failing. At the stakeholder launch of the Governmentâs Foresight report on Global Food and Farming Futures on Tue ...
• America’s “Sputnik moment”
  FROM MICHAEL ASHCROFT IN THE SCIENCE POLICY CENTRE… In 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik into orbit, shattering the established belief that the US led the world in space technology. This shock led to the space race and the many benefits â technology, innovation and education – associated w ...
• Fewer Eurocrats, more research, greater impact ...
  FROM LUKE CLARKE,  POLICY ADVISER, The UK is not always renowned for its embracing of all things European. But in science and research, the UK has found an area where it definitely does get ‘bang for its buck’ via Brussels. Recently released figures from the European Research Council show that U ...
• A-level students in England unprepared for ent ...
  FROM NICK VON BEHR, EDUCATION POLICY MANAGER The Royal Society has just published a report showing that the proportion of students completing full A-levels in science and maths in England is far lower than the equivalent proportion  taking Highers/Advanced Highers in Scotland. This is demonstrat ...

  Blacklisted News

• Wars, Rumors Of Wars, Skyrocketing Oil Prices ...
  Did anyone out there anticipate that 2011 would be such a wild year?� The year is barely over two months old and we have already seen multiple civil wars erupt, rumors of more wars all over the mainstream media (potentially even including the United States), riots and revolutions breaking out al ...
• U.S. in for 'twenty years of rising interest r ...
  Yields on debt securities are rising for a fourth month as prices fall, the longest stretch since June 2008, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch's Global Broad Market Index, which tracks the performance of more than 19,000 securities valued at about $39 trillion. While the highest-rated d ...
• National Geographic: Small Nuclear War Could R ...
  Even a regional nuclear war could spark "unprecedented" global cooling and reduce rainfall for years, according to U.S. government computer models.
• Analysis: Is Bill Gates’ funding of media slan ...
  Bill Gates is filthy stinking rich. But, did you know that he likes to use his vast fortune to influence media coverage and public opinion? The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is well recognized for their fight against global disease. According to The Seattle Times they have also been funding ...
• Mob Robbers And Rampant Looting: Is This The F ...
  Have you ever heard of mob robberies? What happens is that dozens of young people storm a store at the same time, take whatever they want, and then storm out as powerless store clerks watch helplessly. Most of the time these "mob robbers" end up getting caught, but unfortunately "group cri ...

The Intelligence Daily

• The Distant Sound of Hoofbeats
  By John Michael Greer There are moments when the things nobody wants to talk about brush the...
• Egypt/Serbia/Georgia: Learning from others’ mi ...
  There is a Russian proverb: only a fool learns from his own mistakes. As Georgia’s foreign...
• Oil, the Economy and Policy
  By Gail Tverberg Steve Kopits, Managing Director of Douglas-Westood consulting firm, made a...
• IMF Rates Up Dictatorships Just Before Revolutions
  By Michael Collins The International Monetary Fund (IMF) made an embarrassing error just two days...
• Our Man in Pakistan
  By Stephen Lendman Raymond A. Davis, CIA agent, is one of many working covertly with assets...

My AntiWar

• Gadhafi Using Foreign Children as Mercenaries ...
• Thursday: 11 Iraqis Killed, 31 Wounded
• Gadhafi’s Military Capabilities
• Evidence of Libya Torture Emerges
• Fighting Back in Libya’s Media War

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

• Stop the War statement on Middle East revolutions
  Summary: Egypt protestsThere must be no US or British intervention in Libya: the future of Libya, Egypt, Tunisia, Bahrain, Yemen must be determined by the people of those countries alone. source: Stop the War Coalitionread more
• IRAN PREDICTED TO BE WINNER FROM UPRISINGS
  Summary: "The Islamic Republic is very, very confident in the proposition that any government in the Arab world which becomes at all more representative of its people’s values, beliefs, concerns, preferences, interests; any government in the Arab world that becomes more representative of its ...
• Iran slams West military option on Libya
  Summary: Iran has warned the West against any military intervention in Libya, saying Western countries should not take advantage of the popular movement in Libya to turn the country into a military base. source: Press TVread more
• Iran’s Nuclear Crisis and the Way Out
  Summary: The issue of Iran’s nuclear program has been on the top of international issues, at least, for the past six years. It has been also a high priority for Europe and the U.S. Despite recent deadlock in diplomacy and pessimism about a possible peaceful settlement between Iran and 5+1, t ...
• 'Stability, A Cold Code Word With US'
  Summary: Noam ChomskyYou have to remember that stability is a cold code word. Stability doesn't mean stability; it means obedience to US domination. So let's go back to Kissinger again. He was the primary agent in, among other things, undermining the democratic regime in Chile. He later comm ...

The Daily Galaxy

• BOK Globules & Black Holes: Could They Be Prim ...
  If AI-powered machines evolved, we would be more likely to spot signals from them than from the "biological" life that invented them. according to"But having now looked for signals for 50 years, we are going through a process of realizing...
• Tiny Fragment of a 4.57 billion-year-old Meteo ...
  The dust grains that eventually coalesced into our solar system's planets bounced around like pinballs over vast distances nearly 4.6 billion years ago, a new meteorite study suggests. The dust grains came from a meteorite of the type known as...
• Black Holes Point Way to Leap Existing Barrier ...
  Black holes are some of the heaviest objects in the universe. Electrons are some of the lightest. Now physicists at Illinois have discovered how charged black holes can be used to model the behavior of interacting electrons in unconventional superconductors....
• Image of the Day: Mysterious Glowing Spiral Si ...
  None of the world's experts no what the strange spiral structure on the left is. Why the spiral glows is itself a mystery, with a leading hypothesis being illumination by light reflected from nearby stars. Some think it is related...
• Stephen Hawking on Time Travel
  "I do believe in time travel. Time travel to the future. Time flows like a river and it seems as if each of us is carried relentlessly along by time's current. But time is like a river in another way....

Natural News

• Personal Health Transformation Video Contest w ...
  (NaturalNews) The latest video contest on NaturalNews.TV -- the Personal Health Transformation Video Contest -- just wrapped up earlier this week. The contest invited participants to post their true video stories of how they've used natural healing therapies to overcome serious health challenges ...
• Oh snap! 72 percent of grocery shopping carts ...
  (NaturalNews) (Note: This true but humorous article contains mildly offensive language. Do not continue reading if you are easily offended.) A researcher from the University of Arizona has determined that 72 percent of shopping carts are contaminated with fecal matter. A full 50 percent also con ...
• Is modern medicine more science or religion?
  (NaturalNews) Modern medicine projects the image of scientific rigor but has all the hallmarks of a system of religious belief. The practical consequence of its insular perspective is the dead-end system of Western medical materialism that we have today. Repair of the physical body is erroneousl ...
• Hungry dog eats toes of diabetic man, performs ...
  (NaturalNews) What do you get when you combine a few too many beers, two large margaritas, a hungry dog and a diabetic man with infected toes? Jerry Douthett of Rockford, Michigan found out the hard way when he downed a large amount of alcohol and passed out. When he awoke, three of his toes wer ...
• 8000 IUs of vitamin D daily necessary to raise ...
  (NaturalNews) The reign of censorship and suppression against vitamin D is now coming to an end. Even though the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and many institutions leading the cancer industry (including the ACS) have intentionally tried to downplay the ability of vitamin D to prevent cancer, a ne ...

Threat Level

• Bradley Manning Charged With 22 New Counts, In ...
  Updated 8:00 p.m. EST. The Army has filed 22 new counts against suspected WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning, among them a capital offense for which the government said it would not seek the death penalty. The charges, filed Tuesday but not disclosed until Wednesday, are one count of aiding the e ...
• Android Market Apps Hit With Malware
  The inevitable has happened with the Android marketplace: Google pulled nearly two dozen apps Wednesday that were infected with malware capable of rooting devices and stealing data. The company is investigating dozens of others. Users have downloaded as many as 200,000 of the free apps following ...
• ‘Nude’ Airport Scanners: Are They Safe?
  Part 1: Are They Constitutional? Part 2: Are They Safe? Part 3: Do They Work? March 8 John Sedat, a biochemistry and biophysics professor, says he’s not going to get on an airplane again — at least not until the TSA rethinks its deployment of hundreds of body scanners that hit travelers ...
• Supreme Court Says AT&T Not Exempt From FOIA
  Corporations don’t reap the same privacy protections as do people, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously Tuesday. The court, with Justice Elena Kagan recused, said AT&T did not enjoy the “personal privacy” provision of the Freedom of Information Act as the telecom had claimed. The act exempts the ...
• Former Senator Chris Dodd Named MPAA Chief
  Christopher Dodd, the former five-term Democratic senator from Connecticut, was named Tuesday to head the Motion Picture Association of America. Dodd, who just retired after declining to run for a sixth Senate term, replaces Bob Pisano, the lobbying group’s interim chief. In April, Pisano filled ...

PERRspectives : Blog

• The Biggest Loser: Haley Barbour Edition
  At some point in the next several weeks, former RNC chairman and current Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour will decide whether he will seek the White House in 2012. To be sure, Barbour's path to the presidency is full of obstacles. And it's not just because America's foremost neo-Confederate ...
• Republicans Push National Race to the Bottom
  Just days after his sneering "so be it" at the prospect of massive job losses which could result from GOP budget policies, House Speaker John Boehner declared public employees have a "machine gun" pointed "at the heads of local officials." That makes Boehner just the latest Republican leader re ...
• McCain Adviser: GOP Spending Plan Could Kill 7 ...
  Last summer, Moody's economist and former adviser to Republican presidential candidate John McCain Mark Zandi authored a study which concluded that combined federal interventions beginning in the fall of 2008 prevented the Great Recession from becoming Depression 2.0. Now in a new report, Zandi ...
• A Modest Proposal to Rescue the States
  During the debate over the stimulus program in early 2009, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell proposed, "If the money were lent rather than just granted, states would, I think, spend it wisely and the states that didn't need it at all wouldn't take any." Now would be a good time to take him ...
• State Budget Cuts Imperil U.S. Economic Recovery
  As all eyes remained focused on the union-busting face-off in Wisconsin, the Commerce Department on Friday released a revised estimate of U.S. economic growth for the last quarter of 2010. And that downward GDP revision not only shatters prevailing myths about supposedly bloated government spen ...

Blackspot News Feed

• Madison Protests May Spark a New Era of Protes ...
  by Billy Wharton Guest Writer Dandelion Salad Examiner.com February 17, 2011 February 18, 2011 Protests are erupting across Wisconsin in response to Governor Scott Walker’s proposal to strip public employees of the right to collectively bargain in order to impose a severe austerity package. The ...
• Night Music: Talvihorros
• Democratic Senators Leave State to Stall Bill ...
  Madison, Wisconsin - In a continuing attempt to stall a vote on the anti-union bill proposed by Gov. Scott Walker, the 14 Democratic senators have left the state with state troopers dispatched by Republican Senate leaders on their heels. Without at least one additional senator in the chamber, th ...
• House Votes to Defund Planned Parenthood, Jack ...
  Editors Note: Update, the house voted to defund Planned Parenthood.  Since gaining the upper-hand in the House, Republicans have led what Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) called “the most comprehensive and radical assault on women’s health in our lifetime.” read more
• Security Forces in Bahrain Open Fire on Mourners
  Manama, Bahrain - Government forces opened fire on hundreds of mourners marching toward Pearl Square Friday, sending people running away in panic amid the boom of concussion grenades. But even as the people fled, at least one helicopter sprayed fire on them and a witness reported seeing mourners ...

Consortium News

• Kicking the Vietnam Syndrome
  Two decades ago, Bush-41 revealed a secret aim of the Gulf War ground attack: the Vietnam Syndrome, reports Robert Parry. February 28, 2011
• Ten Reasons Why Wall Street Skated
  Wall Street pulled off a massive financial heist and then made a getaway with nary a legal scratch, notes Danny Schechter. February 28, 2011
• Gates Agrees, Bush's Wars Were Nuts
  Defense Secretary Robert Gates's repudiation of Iraq- and Afghan-type wars demands more accountability, says Robert Parry. February 27, 2011
• America's Radical 'Conservatism'
  The modern American Right has turned "conservatism" into a radical movement of risky ideas, warns Lawrence Davidson. February 26, 2011
• America, a Land of No Prophets
  Biblical prophets chastised the powerful and spoke for the poor, but America lacks such a voice, laments Rev. Howard Bess. February 26, 2011

CounterPunch

• :
• Alexander Cockburn : Autumn of the Driveler
• Carl Ginsburg : Life in the Low to Mid-Teens
• Alexander Cockburn : Loose-Lip McChrystal Did ...
• Alexander Cockburn : He Should Have Kept His M ...

Institute for Middle East Understanding

• Blowback: Weapons of Mideast oppression, 'Made ...
  The recent wave of deaths and injuries from tear gas began in the West Bank. Jawaher Abu Rahmah died on Jan. 1 after she was overcome by tear gas the day before at a protest against I ...
• The "quiet transfer" in Hebron (B'Tselem)
• Facebook activists: 'Refugee revolution' set f ...
  Palestinian students and rights activists in Gaza have initiated a campaign for Palestinian refugees aiming to harness the winds of change in the Middle East and mobilize the diaspora ...
• NYC folk singer endorses boycott of Israel (M ...
  New York City folks singer Pete Seeger announced his support for the Palestinian movement for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions against Israel last week, the Israeli Committee Agains ...
• West Bank wind of change (Joseph Dana and Jes ...
  As protests multiply across the Arab world and grassroots resistance grows in the West Bank, the Palestinian Authority faces popular anger for its investment in a failed 'peace proces ...

Water - AlterNet

• US Landowners Fighting Back Against Pipeline T ...
  What are the dangers of pumping gritty, thick crude at high temperature and pressure through a pipeline with walls less than half an inch thick across vital sources of groundwater?
• Why Are California Regulators Turning a Blind ...
  In the Central Valley of California cows generate the same amount of fecal waste as a city of 21 million people, much of which goes untreated and pollutes waterways.
• U.S. Launches Mission to Privatize Water in India
  The U.S. Water Trade Mission to India to secure the entry of U.S.-based corporations into the lucrative Indian water market has Indian water activists seething.
• What Does the Right to Water Entail?
  The U.N. Independent Expert on human rights obligations related to access to safe drinking water and sanitation is visiting the US right now.
• 4 Ocean Wonders You've Never Heard Of That Des ...
  Sadly, many of these wonders are threatened by unbridled fishing pressure, deluges of castaway plastics and rising seas.

Public Citizen in Texas

• WSJ Poll shows Americans willing to cut $ from ...
  According to a Wall Street Journal/NBC News public opinion poll released yesterday morning, cutting subsidies for new reactors is the single most popular possible budget cut, with 57% finding such cuts either completely or mostly acceptable. No other program got more than 52% support for budget ...
• Civil Disobeyer Faces 10 Years in Prison
  In December of 2008 (interestingly the same month as the TVA Kingston Coal-Ash Disaster) a 27-year-old Tim DeChristopher repeatedly bid up 12,000 acres of land intended for oil and gas exploration to a nice, winning number of $1.79 million. The problem? He didn’t have $1.79 million. Tim is now ...
• Texas News Roundup for Feb 28, 2011
  The Texas Progressive Alliance would like to thank the Academy for this week’s blog roundup. Off the Kuff published an interview with Chris Barbic, founder and CEO of the YES Prep charter schools, which included a discussion of what the looming budget cuts will do to charter schools. Doing My Pa ...
• ACT Lobby Day is Tuesday, March 15th at the Ca ...
  On March 15th, Texans from all corners of the state will be in Austin, visiting our elected officials and letting them know that we want them to protect our land, our water, and our health. Sign up now! Join environmental and public health activists from around the state for our day of united le ...
• Why Gasland should win the Oscar for best Docu ...
  I hope you’re going to have a great Oscar night, and while we may all have our favorites for best picture (True Grit was my favorite, but I think The Social Network and The King’s Speech are also very deserving), this year we have one of the most important issues of our time as the [...]

Unexplained Mysteries

• World's first wizard school opens
  Oberon Zell-Ravenheart is headmaster of the world's only real-life school of witchcraft and wizardry. Giving Hogwarts a run for its money the Grey Sch...
• 1,000-year-old canoe unearthed
  Found on an island near St Petersburg a 40 foot dugout canoe helps tell the story of the Manasota people A ten year old discovery is shedding new ligh...
• Spider infestations incite Mazda recall
  Mazda says a high potential for spiders to build webs in critical parts of the car is behind the recall. Japanese car manufacturer Mazda has issued a ...
• UK government releases more UFO files
  35 previously classified documents have been released detailing UFO incidents dating back to the 1950s. In one of the documents is a report about a ma...
• Mayan codex may lead to lost treasure
  An expert in Mayan writing believes he has deciphered a code that will lead to eight tons of gold. Joachim Rittsteig, professor emeritus at Dresden Un...

Grassroots

• We Are the Solution: Celebrating African Famil ...
  ayesha_-_woman_farmer_griot_from_senegal_-_we_are_the_solution_4.jpg � According to Grassroots International ally Fahamu, �Agriculture�� remains the main source of income of a rural population generally estimated at 70% of the total popula ...
• "Pourquoi la campagne": Via Campesina Africa l ...
  fatimatou_hima_plateforme_paysanne_du_niger.jpg In 2008, I was privileged to attend the 5th international conference of Grassroots International partner the Via Campesina, in Matola, Mozambique. The Via, a global movement representing over ...
• Anti-violence campaign spreads through Central ...
  guate-women.jpg In Central America, a new campaign to stop violence against women is gaining momentum. Launched by the Via Campesina International (the Via), the campaign is aimed at changing not only the attitudes of men towards women, bu ...
• Final Declaration from the World Assembly of S ...
  wsf-dakar4.jpg From to Tunisia to Egypt to Senegal, African social movements are reclaiming their political space. As people demonstrated – and celebrated – in the streets of Cairo, thousands of participants gathered for the World Social F ...
• New Scramble for Africa
  mozambique200811-small.jpg It is the tradition at World Social Forums (WSF) to focus a considerable amount of time, energy, resources and attention on issues faced by people in the host region and country. The 2011 World Social Forum in ...

Climate

• Some See DeChristopher Trial as a Climate Chan ...
  Source:� Salt Lake Tribune A Utahn�s monkey-wrenching might not have done anything to stop climate change as he had hoped, but some credit Tim DeChristopher for recharging the movement to stop climate change.
• 4 Dems Join GOP Fight to Block EPA Climate Rule
  Source:� AP Four Democrats are joining a Republican effort to block the EPA from reducing heat-trapping pollution blamed for global warming. �
• Federal Officials Say They'll Examine Fracking ...
  Source:� New York Times Testifying before Congress on Thursday, Obama administration officials said they planned to scrutinize the waste disposal practices of natural gas producers.
• Calls Mount to Tap U.S. Oil Reserves
  Source:� New York Times As oil prices have risen, calls have been growing in Congress for the Obama administration to consider tapping into the nation�s strategic petroleum reserve, which is now at its full capacity.
• Clinton Says She’s ‘Supportive’ of Increased C ...
  Source:� Calgary Herald Hillary Clinton says she is "generally supportive" of increasing American oil imports from Canada, but sidestepped questions this week about whether she backs the Keystone XL pipeline.

GreenBiz

• BPA-Free Plastic May Release Chemicals with Es ...
  Even plastic-containing products claiming to be BPA-free can still leach chemicals with estrogenic activity (EA), according to a new study published in the Environmental Health Perspectives Journal. The leaching can get worse during regular types of use, such as microwaving or dishwashiing.
• $44M in Energy Efficiency Savings Whets AT&T's ...
  AT&T implemented a whopping 4,200 energy efficiency projects in 2010, setting the stage for an even more aggressive corporate approach to energy management and conservation in 2011.
• How Businesswomen are Helping China Push Its G ...
  As the National People's Congress in China embarks on its plenary session to consider approval of the country's 12th Five-Year Plan, two issues come to the fore: a proposed blueprint for a green economy and the opportunities for women in business to contribute to the transition. �
• Smarter Buildings Part 2: How to Close Gaps Be ...
  Why do some green buildings perform as designed or better, while others might barely make the grade, even if certified? It turns out that even the most sustainably designed, intelligent building is only as smart and green as the people who occupy and operate it.
• Dow Puts $100M Towards Employee Energy Efficie ...
  �Dow Chemical Company is asking its employees for the best ideas that can improve energy efficiency, setting aside $100 million for improvement projects.

Reuters Global

• U.S.-Pakistan relations better than they look
  For all the noise over the row over Raymond Davis, at a strategic level the positions of the United States and Pakistan are moving closer
• Tweet like an Egyptian — Hillary Clinton ...
  Young Egyptians, who famously used Internet services like Facebook and Twitter to launch their recent revolution, turned the focus on Hillary Clinton on Wednesday and peppered the top U.S. diplomat with skeptical questions about longtime U.S. support for former President Hosni Mubarak and what ...
• Could revolt spread in Africa?
  So far there hasn’t been much political fallout in the rest of Africa from the revolts in the northernmost states. Could the revolt in Libya change the dynamic?
• On U.S.-Taliban talks, look at 2014 and work back
  Any talks between the U.S. and the Taliban will be a long haul. Consider what might be possible in 2014 and work back."
• ElBaradei: From nuclear diplomat to Cairo politics
  Egyptians have hardly embraced him since his return to the country, and Washington is deeply suspicious of the Nobel Prize winner, but don't write off Mohamed ElBaradei yet.

Booman Tribune

• Stating it Plainly
  I have to compliment Catherine Rampell of the New York Times for reporting the facts straight without any he said/she said prevaricating. The economy produced more jobs last month than it has since the Census Bureau hired a bunch of temporary workers last spring, but...(emphasis mine)... Not ...
• It's Not That Complicated
  I like Chris Hayes and I respect his work, but he's wrong about why Washington DC doesn't care about jobs. He makes good points in looking at the relatively low unemployment rate in the Washington area and among those with at least a bachelor's degree. The recovery is proceeding nicely within ...
• Please Support Booman Tribune
  The blogosphere must be doing something right. It must be providing something important that is lacking in the news you get on your teevee and in the newspapers that are delivered to your door. If it wasn't, the Chamber of Commerce and Bank of America would not be hiring consulting firms to sm ...
• The Consequences of GOP Sucess
  Well, as a once mediocre orator and former (thank god!) Vice President of these United States of America once said: "[Go] F**k yourself". That remark was aimed at Senator Patrick Leahy, but today's GOP, more extreme and ambitious than even the Bush administration, seems to have implicitly adop ...
• Thinking About Huckabee and Colonies
  Media Matters reports on Mike Huckabee's appearance on the Bryan Fischer radio program. Here they discuss why Barack Obama has "anti-American" views. Fischer: Well Governor, what got lost in all the shuffle was the legitimate point that you were making which is that we may have a president ...

European Tribune

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Futurismic

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

Therapy News

• Depression as Trickster and Communicator
  By Cynthia W. Lubow, MS, MFT, Depression Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Cynthia and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Depression varies from person to person and episode to episode. It not only varies in its degree of intensity and disability, but also in which types and how man ...
• But I’m Right! Why Can’t My Partner See That?
  By Linda Nusbaum, MA., MFT.Relationships & Marriage Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Linda and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile I really empathize with couples that begin a session with one person telling me something like this, “Why doesn’t my partner realize I am right?” Immedi ...
• The Low Season
  By Karen Kochenburg, LCSW Self-Care Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Karen and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile I’ve got two clients right now. Granted, the most I can fit into my part-time private practice is six per week, but right now I’m averaging less than one per week. Very ...
• Adolescent Consequences, 100% Natural and Organic!
  By John Migueis, LCSW Child & Adolescent Issues Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact John and/or see his GoodTherapy.org Profile The subject of consequences comes up frequently in my work with teens and families. The fact that many parents of teens struggle with this area should come a ...
• The Problem of Alcohol and Adolescents
  A GoodTherapy.org News Summary In the United States, public awareness about addiction and addiction counseling has grown tremendously in the past decade or two. But it’s easy to take for granted a link between awareness and recovery. Most people are more aware of the physical disease that addict ...

Mountaintop Removal

• SLIDESHOW: Best And Brightest - TPM
  SLIDESHOW: Best And Brightest TPM As a counterpoint to yesterday's formal ceremony with the President in the East Room of the White House, consider this: Last month Berry was among a group of activists who occupied the governor's office in Kentucky to protest the mountaintop-removal ...
• Paul, McConnell, Inhofe Support Giving EPA Tim ...
  Paul, McConnell, Inhofe Support Giving EPA Time Limit on Mining Permits WFPL Paul, McConnell and Okalahoma Senator James Inhofe say that the agency's delays in approving permits is akin to shutting down mining operations, specifically mountaintop removal projects. The legislation would give the ...
• Wendell Berry Receives National Humanities Med ...
  Wendell Berry Receives National Humanities Medal Oxford American (blog) For a week in the beginning of February, he was one of fourteen protesters sleeping on the floor of the Kentucky governor's office in protest against mountaintop removal (a feat referenced in Hal Crowther's article about Ju ...
• McConnell, Paul propose restrictions on EPA ov ...
  McConnell, Paul propose restrictions on EPA over mine permits Louisville Courier-Journal 11:35 am WASHINGTON � The US Environmental Protection Agency's authority over permits for mountaintop removal mining operations would be restricted under legislation introduced Thursday by Senate Minority L ...
• Mardi Gras migrates to mountains - Virginia Te ...
  Mardi Gras migrates to mountains Virginia Tech Collegiate Times Breslau is just one of many people who are strongly opposed to mountain top removal, a method of coal extraction, which Keeper of the Mountain strives to eliminate. Larry Gibson, KOTM's founder, has worked for over 20 years educati ...

Memeorandum

• GOP Aims to Tame Benefits Programs (Wall Stree ...
  Wall Street Journal: GOP Aims to Tame Benefits Programs  —  Boehner Promises Entitlement Review  —  WASHINGTON—House Speaker John Boehner said Thursday that he's determined to offer a budget this spring that curbs Social Security and Medicare, despite the political risks, and that Republicans ...
• Agent: I was ordered to let U.S. guns into Mex ...
  Sharyl Attkisson / CBS News: Agent: I was ordered to let U.S. guns into Mexico  —  ATF agent says “Fast and Furious” program let guns “walk” into hands of Mexican drug cartels with aim of tracking and breaking a big case  —  WASHINGTON - Federal agent John Dodson says what he was asked to do wa ...
• Why Washington Doesn't Care About Jobs (Christ ...
  Christopher Hayes / The Nation: Why Washington Doesn't Care About Jobs  —  This article appeared in the March 21, 2011 edition of The Nation.  —  Recommended by  —  Remember when everyone agreed that what the American people wanted from Washington was, in John Boehner's words, a “relentless foc ...
• State says damage to marble at Capitol could h ...
  JSOnline: State says damage to marble at Capitol could hit $7.5 million  —  Madison - State officials said Thursday that damage to the marble inside and out the State Capitol would cost an estimated $7.5 million.  —  Cari Anne Renlund, chief legal counsel for the state Department of Administrat ...
• PFC Manning Forced to Strip Naked (Army Court- ...
  Army Court-Martial Defense Specialist / The Law Office …: PFC Manning Forced to Strip Naked  —  Last night, PFC Manning was inexplicably stripped of all clothing by the Quantico Brig. He remained in his cell, naked, for the next seven hours.  At 5:00 a.m., the Brig sounded the wake-up call for ...

Energy & Environment News

• Green: Federal Officials Say They'll Examine F ...
  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.
• Off the Charts: Two Directions for the Prices ...
  While the market for oil is global, the market for natural gas is continental, and that can make all the difference in demand and prices.
• Dot Earth: Play and Progress
  On having fun while cleaning up.
• Calls Mount to Tap U.S. Oil Reserves
  The administration has said that excess oil production capacity around the world remains well above the amount of oil whose flow has been disrupted by unrest in the Middle East.
• 22 Years Later, the Exxon Valdez Case Is Back ...
  A federal court case will explore a clause in the 1991 settlement that could cost an additional $100 million.

5+ quakes - 7 days

• M 5.7, Solomon Islands
  Friday, March 4, 2011 04:07:49 UTCFriday, March 4, 2011 03:07:49 PM at epicenterDepth: 12.70 km (7.89 mi)
• M 5.0, Tonga
  Monday, February 28, 2011 02:03:18 UTCMonday, February 28, 2011 03:03:18 PM at epicenterDepth: 33.90 km (21.06 mi)
• M 5.8, Bio-Bio, Chile
  Monday, February 28, 2011 01:29:25 UTCSunday, February 27, 2011 10:29:25 PM at epicenterDepth: 20.00 km (12.43 mi)
• M 5.4, Mindanao, Philippines
  Thursday, March 3, 2011 15:12:00 UTCThursday, March 3, 2011 11:12:00 PM at epicenterDepth: 38.70 km (24.05 mi)
• M 5.4, Kepulauan Talaud, Indonesia
  Thursday, March 3, 2011 12:52:10 UTCThursday, March 3, 2011 08:52:10 PM at epicenterDepth: 84.60 km (52.57 mi)

China Dialogue

• "China needs higher targets"
  Yesterday on chinadialogue, Pan Jiahua said China should adopt only moderate energy targets in its 12th Five-Year Plan. Yang Fuqiang, Hou Yanli and Li Jingjing disagree. Here, they urge the government to adopt more ambitious goals to help the country meet the challenges ahead. C ...
• Reining in China’s energy targets
  As China’s politicians prepare to launch the country’s 12th Five-Year Plan, Pan Jiahua tells Liu Jianqiang why energy-intensity targets should be kept in check.This week, China’s highest state body – the National People’s Congress – is meeting to discuss and determine the country’s economic targ ...
• America’s coal war
  As the US row over mountaintop mining rages on, Cathy Kunkel urges politicians in West Virginia to embrace a more sustainable future.In January 2011, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) provoked an outcry in West Virginia, America's second-largest coal-producing state, by denying a vall ...
• Beijing’s blue-sky diary
  China’s capital has just endured a week of particularly hazardous pollution. In one year, how many good-air-quality days does the city see? Chen Zifan spoke with two residents who captured the visual evidence.Over the last year, two young Beijingers have roamed the streets and lanes of the city, ...
• “We’re moving too slowly”
  Gro Harlem Brundtland – high priestess of sustainable development – tells Joydeep Gupta why progress towards a healthier, happier planet is still too slow, wrapping up our special series on well-being economics.Gro Harlem Brundtland is the high priestess of sustainable development. The former he ...

AlterNet Top Stories

• Government Medical Testing On Humans Revealed: ...
  Attitudes about medical research were different then. Infectious diseases killed many more people years ago, and doctors worked urgently to invent and test cures. Many prominent researchers felt it was legitimate to experiment on people who did not have full rights in society – people like priso ...
• Braaaains: How Pop Culture's Hunger For Zombie ...
  From rap songs to comic books, pop culture has traded in its vampire obsession for voracious zombie lore. Here's why we're becoming the United States of Zombieland.
• Support Government Worker's Battle, or We Will ...
  The entire house of labor and all progressives must understand that we have not had a moment as threatening as this in our lifetime.
• Why the Right-Wing's Insane Attacks on Women's ...
  This grisly ad, and the war on Planned Parenthood, is just another example of conservative overreach. And it may just backfire.
• Fighting Over Crumbs Left from Military Spending
  There’s been a joke going around the labor protests.   It goes something like this: A union member, a CEO and a Tea Party member are sitting at a table with 12 cookies. The CEO grabs 11, turns to the Tea Partier and says âThe Union’s out to take your cookie!â I’ve been thinking that the joke [. ...

Threat Level

• Bradley Manning Charged With 22 New Counts, In ...
  Updated 8:00 p.m. EST. The Army has filed 22 new counts against suspected WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning, among them a capital offense for which the government said it would not seek the death penalty. The charges, filed Tuesday but not disclosed until Wednesday, are one count of aiding the e ...
• Android Market Apps Hit With Malware
  The inevitable has happened with the Android marketplace: Google pulled nearly two dozen apps Wednesday that were infected with malware capable of rooting devices and stealing data. The company is investigating dozens of others. Users have downloaded as many as 200,000 of the free apps following ...
• ‘Nude’ Airport Scanners: Are They Safe?
  Part 1: Are They Constitutional? Part 2: Are They Safe? Part 3: Do They Work? March 8 John Sedat, a biochemistry and biophysics professor, says he’s not going to get on an airplane again — at least not until the TSA rethinks its deployment of hundreds of body scanners that hit travelers ...
• Supreme Court Says AT&T Not Exempt From FOIA
  Corporations don’t reap the same privacy protections as do people, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously Tuesday. The court, with Justice Elena Kagan recused, said AT&T did not enjoy the “personal privacy” provision of the Freedom of Information Act as the telecom had claimed. The act exempts the ...
• Former Senator Chris Dodd Named MPAA Chief
  Christopher Dodd, the former five-term Democratic senator from Connecticut, was named Tuesday to head the Motion Picture Association of America. Dodd, who just retired after declining to run for a sixth Senate term, replaces Bob Pisano, the lobbying group’s interim chief. In April, Pisano filled ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

• Husband drives 100 mph with wife on hood - police
  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A man high on methamphetamine drove with his wife on the hood of their minivan for more than 40 miles, hitting speeds of 100 mph, police said on Wednesday.
• Gold rises above $1,430/oz after U.S. payrolls
  LONDON (Reuters) - Gold rose above $1,430 an ounce on Friday as fresh violence flared in Libya, and after U.S. February payrolls data supported expectations the Federal Reserve will hold off tightening monetary policy.
• Gas-loving spider prompts Mazda recall in U.S
  TOKYO (Reuters) - A spider that likes the smell of gasoline so much it chooses to build its webs in car emission systems was behind the recall of thousands of Mazda cars in the United States this week.
• WRAPUP 3-Libya rebels seek air strikes against ...
  AJDABIYAH, Libya, March 4 (Reuters) - Libyan rebels calling for air strikes to set up a "no-fly" zone came under attack by a warplane for a third day on Friday as Muammar Gaddafi tried to loosen the opposition's expanding grip on a key coast road.
• Wisconsin's Walker vows no compromise on unions
  MADISON, Wis (Reuters) - Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker vowed on Thursday never to compromise on the core of his plan to curb the power of public sector unions and said investors should buy the state's bonds precisely because he was taking a tough stance.

IntelNews

• News you may have missed #480 (CIA edition)
  Cuban-American exile leader funded ex-CIA agent on trial. Ex-CIA station chief sentenced for sexual abuse. Analysis: What should the CIA be doing in Libya? Continue reading →
• Cold War KGB agent Judith Coplon dies in Manhattan
  Judith Coplon, an American Justice Department analyst who spied for the Soviet Union, and whose 1949 espionage trial became an international sensation, died last weekend in New York. Continue reading →
• News you may have missed #480 (Libya edition)
  Unconfirmed: Gadaffi fires spy chief. Libya's poison gas stockpiles reportedly unaffected by turmoil. Libya replaces ambassador to US who defected. Continue reading →
• US reducing spy presence in Pakistan, say papers
  Several Pakistani publications report that the United States has suspended some of its intelligence operations in Pakistan and is pulling some of its operatives out of the country. Continue reading →
• News you may have missed #479 (Iran edition)
  Iran arrests alleged CIA agent. Yemen charges family with spying for Iran. Leaked intelligence report claims Iran intensifies uranium hunt. Continue reading →

War is a Crime.org

• Reactionary Extremism in Wisconsin and Ohio
  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 ...
• 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 Feb ...
• New Cold Type Reader Is Out
  The ColdType Reader (Scroll page for issues - latest at top) Issue 54 EXCLUSIVE – LIFE AND DEATH ON THE MAVI MARMARA: Canadian aid worker Kevin Neish was one of 581 passengers on the Mavi Marmara, the lead vessel of the Gaza freedom flotilla that was attacked in international waters on Ma ...
• Great Example of What our Activism Can Do.
  By Coloradoan Staff From Coloradoan.com The Character Fort Collins Board of Directors announced today John Ashcroft will not be a featured speaker in the group's 2011 Courageous Leadership Series. In a press release, the group stated: "It has become clear that this opportunity to have John A ...
• On Driving Out A Regime
  by Debra Sweet The World Can't Wait! Stop the Crimes of Your Government! Last week, I posted a photo of masses of Egyptians in Tahrir Square, Cairo, in late January 2011 with the question, “Now do you know what we were talking about?” I sent the message to tens of thousands of supporters of Wor ...

Grist - News

• Fish consumption at all time high, says U.N. a ...
  by Agence France-Presse. ROME -- Fish consumption reached record levels in 2010 and world stocks need to be urgently rebuilt, experts at the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said in a report Monday. "The contribution of fish to global diets has reached a record of almost 17 kil ...
• Bordeaux vineyards go organic, slowly but surely
  by Agence France-Presse. BORDEAUX, France -- Two historical Bordeaux wine estates have gone green, breaking a long resistance to organic viticulture amongst the region's elite producers. "Still in 2011, there are people who do not trust in the fact that it is possible to grow organic in Bor ...
• U.N. Chief Ban Ki-moon shifts focus from clima ...
  by Agence France-Presse. LONDON -- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is shifting his focus away from involvement in international climate change talks and toward new areas in the fight against global warming. Ban is to redirect his efforts from trying to push forward the international clim ...
• New Senate bill aims to avoid next oil spill
  by Agence France-Presse. WASHINGTON -- Senators plan to introduce in the coming weeks new legislation aiming to prevent another disastrous oil spill like last year's massive gusher in the Gulf of Mexico, Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) said Wednesday. A similar bill that would revise offshore ...
• Big cities are not always the biggest polluters
  by Agence France-Presse. WASHINGTON -- Big cities like New York, London, and Shanghai send less pollution into the atmosphere per capita than places like Denver and Rotterdam, said a study released Tuesday. Researchers examined data from 100 cities in 33 nations for clues about which were ...

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Time - Top Stories

• The GOP Nomination Race: Will Newt Gingrich Pe ...
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Farming Pathogens

• Egypt’s Food Pyramids
  A million minds momentarily magnetizing themselves along the same axis can turn a country’s deepest despair into an ecstatic sprint for freedom. What a people find revolting–a dictator decorated in American apologia–can be turned by a people’s revolt ridiculous. No wonder so much effort (and mon ...
• The Scientific American
  Science is the business right now. If the science works, the business works, and vice versa. –Craig Venter Bird flu marinates a chicken in its own juices, a satay best avoided whatever the menu special. In such short an order better for the bistro than the barn, infected birds rapidly bleed from ...
• Fearful Symmetry
  A colleague, genuinely perplexed, even outraged, asked me what the fuck was going on with all those dead birds in Arkansas. And, tongue-in-cheek, what would Mulder and Scully say? Scully: Mulder, it’s me. I got your message. Really, Beebe, Arkansas for a flock of dead birds? Does Skinner approve ...
• The Great Recession Flu
  Swine flu is so 2009. Like La Roux and v-neck t-shirts. And yet the United Kingdom is presently suffering a swine flu attack worse than anything it faced in 2009. The number of flu patients in intensive care has risen by 60 per cent in the past week to 738, four times greater than at [...]
• Alien vs. Predator
  Dallas: [looks at a pen being dissolved by alien's body fluid] I haven’t seen anything like that except, uh, molecular acid. Brett: It must be using it for blood. Parker: It’s got a wonderful defense mechanism. You don’t dare kill it. –Alien (1979) NASA announced earlier this month one of its re ...

Suzie-Q

• If Corporations paid their fair share there w ...
  February 28, 2011 Pay Up, Corporate Tax Dodgers We’re chumps unless we force Congress to stop tax haven abuse. By Chuck Collins Instead of cutting state and federal budgets, the United States should crack down on the corporate tax dodgers thumbing their noses at us. Across the nation, states are ...
• In Ohio, Czar Kashitch Makes It Personal For N ...
  First, to all of the Ohioans who have finally become aware of what I was screaming about months and months ago, I say: Welcome. You have finally seen it for yourselves. I would also like to express my sincere sympathies that it took SB5 and Scammon Jones to finally wake you up. Scammon Jones, of ...
• Recall GOP Senators: Wisconsin Dems Throw Thei ...
  Breaking: Wisconsin Dems throw their weight behind drive to recall GOP Senators Washington Post- The Plum Line- Greg Sargent Posted at 2:34 PM ET, 03/ 2/2011 By Greg Sargent The Wisconsin Democratic Party has decided to throw its weight behind a nascent grassroots drive to recall a number of GOP ...
• Clinton: Libya no-fly zone under active consid ...
  Foreign Policy Posted By Josh Rogin Tuesday, March 1, 2011 – 12:41 P Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Tuesday that the administration is actively considering implementing a no-fly zone over Libya and gave a full-throated defense of robust State Department funding. Clinton testified on ...
• Koch Industries Makes Billions Corrupting Gove ...
  REPORT: How Koch Industries Makes Billions Corrupting Government And Polluting For Free (Part 2) Think Progress- By Lee Fang on Mar 1st, 2011 at 7:00 pm In an opinion piece published today responding to his critics, Koch Industries CEO Charles Koch promised to continue to finance anti-government ...

Solari

• Money & Markets Charts ~ 3.03.11
  View this week’s chart comparisons of gold against fiat currencies, oil and the Dow. Stay tuned for our next Money & Markets segment of The Solari Report tonight, Thursday, March 3, 2011. Click here to view all charts as a pdf file. See previous Money & Markets Charts blog posts here. Currency ...
• Swiss Franc: Beyond Dollar Parity
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• A Popular Song
  Last Thursday night, I attended a dinner party for Darlene Zschech and her Hillsong team and then attended their concert at the Jubilee Christian Center in San Jose on Friday night. I learned that Zschech’s most popular song, Shout to the Lord, is sung by an estimated 25-30 million people global ...
• Lessig: More Support for King George than Congress
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Insurgency Watch - Newswire

• Times Scare
  ISLAMABAD–The apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job ...
• Stepping up - University at Buffalo The Spectrum
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• Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of ...
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• Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United P ...
  Officials: Campus blasts perplexing United Press International ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique Pakistani institution ... and more��
• Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA ...
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AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

• Vision: 5 Ways You Can Fight 'Citizens United' ...
  Here's how we can fight the disastrous Supreme Court ruling.
• Glenn Greenwald on the Shocking New Charges Ag ...
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Sideways News

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• Brit mums strict about eco-chores
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• UK venue offers rainforest weddings
  Getting married in a luscious rainforest has never been easier or more eco-friendly, according to the Eden Project.
• Battery recycling 'too difficult'
  The European Recycling Platform (ERP) reports that while only a third of households at present recycle batteries, four out of five said they would do so if it was made easier.
• 10 green resolutions to save you money
  By taking green steps at home, you can save money and make life easier. Being smart about waste, consumption and resources won't only win you the thanks of forthcoming generations: you'll feel the financial benefit immediately. 1. Make money from old electronics As your electronic goods become o ...

Fabius Maximus

• An educational toy for your children (from the ...
  Summary:  A new feature on the FM website:  recommending geopolitical education tools for your children, preparing them for the new world of the 21st century.   We weclome suggestions for our next offering.  Order your Playmobil Security Check Point from Amazon!  Here are some reviews: Thank you ...
• Off to invade, again! Another nation’s ...
  Summary:  Another crisis, more calls to invade.  With maximum moral tone, minimum specificity about the costs, maximum use of euphemisms, and no mention of costs or risks.  No need to wait for an invitation, since good hawks know those brown people are too dumb to ask for our help. Here ...
• Inciting fear of inflation in our minds for po ...
  Summary:  Americans today are easily led by fear, as our leaders well know.  Commies and Islamo-whatevers under the bed.  Global warming.   Alar on apples (see Wikipedia).  Repetition makes it so, the secret to successful propaganda.  Today we look at at a favorite of conservatives seeking polit ...
• An explanation of the US and Pak governments&# ...
  Summary:  As standard fare the FM website provides analysis of current events.  Seeking hidden truths (often in vain) and using these incidents to illustrate larger dynamics at work in America.  The Raymond Davis affair is rich in lesson for us (this is the 4th post; links at the end).  ...
• America’s broken OODA loop in action: a ...
  Summary:  It’s fun to watch narratives form in the media, such as the one we examine today.  Often mindlessly wrong, but each probably fills some need in our collective psyche.  Unfortunately this embrace of nonsensical narratives is part of our growing inability to clearly see the world ...

Open Your Eyes News

• BP fund lawyer to refuse 100,000 Gulf spill di ...
  Guardian – Upwards of 100,000 claims arising from the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico may never be paid, the beleaguered administrator of the oil company’s compensation fund has acknowledged. A defensive Ken Feinberg, under fire from the Obama administration, Gulf leaders and local busines ...
• 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 ...

The Progressive Realist

• Is China a Superpower?
  Victor Chu, the chairman of First Eastern, reminded a small Atlantic Council dinner that Napoleon once said of China, “Let China sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world.” So the wide awake China is busily agitating friends and competitors, but is it a superpower? Without quoting indi ...
• A Road Map to Solve the Alan Gross Case in Cuba
  A Road Map to Solve Alan Gross case The trial in Cuba against USAID subcontractor Alan Gross, which will begin on March 4, presents an opportunity for the Cuban government to both demonstrate the legitimate basis for nationalist defense against U.S. interventionist policy and its good will towar ...
• Morning Cup of Get-Out-of-Afghanistan
  Washington finally appears to be coming to the conclusion that the American public did months ago: people are tired of the war in Afghanistan and don’t know why we’re sacrificing American lives and dollars there. But those on Capitol Hill and in the White House with the power to act on that ...
• Shifting Attitudes Toward War
  I don’t share Duncan Black’s political pessimism about this: “We’ll never get there, but I’ll know that actual serious people are in charge when we seriously question just whether the proper response to a bunch of guys flying planes into buildings was a large invasion and decade-long occupation ...
• From Bad to Worse in Cote D’Ivoire
  The tense political standoff in the Ivory Coast has taken a turn for the tragic amid escalating fighting in recent days. Yesterday, forces loyal to the incumbent president Laurent Gbagbo opened fire on a crowd of women protesters, killing at least six people.  That happened in the Adobo suburb ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

• Social Conservatives Are Still Going Strong
  For some reason, Politico's Alexander Burns completely buys the fiction that there is a truce on social issues within the Republican Party: For the first time in three decades, a wide-open Republican presidential primary is unfolding in the shadow of an economic recession. That means even in th ...
• Intimidating Muslims One Shariah Ban at a Time
  Beenish Ahmed Shariah bans in 15 states are unconstitutional and unnecessary -- and they misunderstand Shariah altogether. Last week, Tennessee state senator Bill Ketron introduced a law that would prosecute any practice of Shariah law -- defined as a "legal-political-military doctrine" that ...
• Who Drives Innovation?
  Monica Potts says Republicans like to argue that private companies are responsible for technological breakthroughs, but that's not true. NIH funding is just one of the components on Republicans' budget chopping block. Obama's budget proposal would increase NIH funding by $1 billion, but the Rep ...
• There is no debate: Federal budget cuts will h ...
  This week progressives opposed to the GOP austerity agenda cut proposal gained some great talking points, first from a leaked Goldman Sachs study that projected the plan would decrease the GDP by 2 percent and raise unemployment by 1 percent, and then from a Moody’s Analytics report from Mark Za ...
• Department of Tennessee Security
  Adam Serwer says Tennessee's new anti-sharia law actually gives it powers meant for the federal government. While bans on Shariah -- the religious principles that govern how adherents conduct their lives -- are popping up in at least 15 states across the country, proposed legislation in Tenn ...

Buzzflash

• WikiLeaks: The More Things Change, the More Th ...
  NIKOLAS KOZLOFF FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT This past fall, I had the opportunity to observe the first round of Brazil's presidential election.  In a logistical feat, the government managed to draw correspondents from all over the world for the occasion while taking care of all travel amenities.  ...
• Corporate Union Busters Draw First Blood in Ohio
  HARVEY WASSERMAN AND BOB FITRAKIS FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT The national corporate campaign to destroy America's public sector unions has drawn first blood in Ohio. But a counter-attack centered on one or more statewide initiatives or constitutional amendments has become highly likely. W ...
• Gov. Walker Proposes Massive Cuts To Wisconsin ...
  TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT This is understandable since this move may help To put him in the situation Where students won't learn much and be unable To know he screwed up their education. http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/03/walker-unveils-budget----says-cuts-will-be-more-painf ...
• UnHinnged: TV Faith-Healer Benny Hinn’s "Torri ...
  Last summer, the National Enquirer claimed that Hinn, who runs a huge faith-healing ministry, was involved in a "torrid affair" with Paula White, the head of another evangelical ministry. Now, Hinn is being sued by a Christian publisher that claims he violated the "moral turpitude" clause of the ...
• Why Can't Republicans Just Tell the Truth?
  Body How did we stray so far from the truth as a nation? What perverse political mindset has doomed our democratic endeavor to the dark recesses of a system drowning in phony rhetoric and nonsensical partisan squabbling? The famous "big lie" of a bygone era has been resuscitated f ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

• Standard Washington cowardice
  The newspaper allows a Treasury official to insult a TARP watchdog while avoiding all accountability
• Journalists angry over the commission of journ ...
  Media critics chide the CNN anchor for describing lies as "lies"
• Bradley Manning could face death: For what?
  New charges filed against the whistle-blowing private accuse him of "aiding the enemy"
• Growing anti-Muslim hatred in the U.S.
  A protest directed at American Muslim families highlights the toxic sentiments aimed at this minority
• Chris Dodd shows how Washington works
  After emphatically vowing not to lobby, the former five-term Senator becomes Hollywood's chief lobbyist

The BiPartisan Report

• Sex, lies and ‘edited’ videotape
• Nihilism 1 American People Nil
• Sheldon Whitehouse brings truth to the Senate ...
• Pesky facts spoil GOP’s mammogram arguments
• Those holier than thou Conservatives

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