- Middle East Events Show Afghanistan Is A Sideshow
By Steve Hynd As if it wasn't already obvious enough, it must have occured to even the folks in the White House by now that events over the past month or so in the Middle East have shown up the Afghanistan occupation for the sideshow it truly is. We've seen demonstrations and revolts across all ...
- Rethink the Cost of War With Us on March 12
By Derrick Crowe The movement to end the Afghanistan War is gaining momentum, and on March 12, it will gain some more. In a little less than two weeks, supporters of Rethink Afghanistan (�Rethinkers�) will get together with their neighbors in hundreds of communities to talk about what can ...
- Fire Lt. General Caldwell
By Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe The latest general to find himself excoriated in the pages of Rolling Stone, Lt. Gen. William Caldwell, should resign immediately for using psychological operations, commonly known as "psy-ops" against U.S. lawmakers visiting Afghanistan. If he will not resi ...
- Damn those foreign fighters
By Dave Anderson: Most people don't like heavily armed foreigners who have at best a minimal clue of the local cultural norms and power arrangements. This localized resentment creates accidental guerrillas and a quagmire where the foreigners won't leave until everyone who dislikes the foreigners ...
- Not so much a "Runaway General" as S.O.P.
A report that Lt. General William B. Caldwell unleashed his PSYOP team on visiting U.S. politicians in Afghanistan, from Rolling Stone reporter Michael Hastings, is being considered a bit of a bombshell. Here's the meat of the piece: Under duress, Holmes and his team provided Caldwell with backg ...
- Want an apocalyptic tale of world without water?
THE WATER WARS, by Cameron Stracher, 2010, Sourcebooks, $16.99, 256 pages. You would never even consider it. Going to school without a shower or a bath? No way. There's a time and place in school to be sweaty and it's called "practice" -- as in football, basketball, the gym. But ...
- Water Wars … um … Ignite
You couldn’t say it’s the opening salvo in the Texas water wars. Those battles started when Texas was still a republic (“ H2Ow ,” Nov. 10, 2010). But think of it as a modern call to arms in perhaps the newest major grassroots fight in Texas.
- Preventing Water Wars
Team studies effect of urban development and water redistribution on local wetlands.
- Water Wars
Recommended Water Wars: when Drought, Flood and Greed Combine: It doesn't matter which side of the fence you sit on for this one, friends, but if you tend to wander around on the Right Side of the yard, don't let the names Cinema Libre Studio or Earth Now! Films dissuade you from checking out th ...
- Water Wars … um … Ignite
You couldn’t say it’s the opening salvo in the Texas water wars. Those battles started when Texas was still a republic (“H2Ow,” Nov. 10, 2010). But think of it as a modern call to arms in perhaps the newest major grassroots fight in Texas.
- 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 ...
- Mississippi Launches Plan To End Child Homeles ...
Fulfilling the wishes and happiness of children is at the heart of the holiday season. So, now seems particularly timely for Mississippi to launch a new plan to end child homelessness (pdf) in the state. What better way to set the season of giving in motion than by committing to finding safe a ...
- Thanksgiving 2.0: Food, Poverty and Telling th ...
This Thanksgiving, most of us around the country shared a bountiful harvest feast with friends and family. We celebrated all that we are thankful for by gorging ourselves right into a food coma. It's the American way. Unfortunately, it's also the American way to be thankful for all that we have ...
- Homeless People Wanted: Must Be Open to Demean ...
What are they thinking? People obviously don't see the homeless as human or they wouldn't attempt to hire them to do most of the insane, demeaning and illegal jobs out there. Here's a small sampling: Rob dead bodies. The Aokigahara forest at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan is the site of 50 to 10 ...
- LA Plans to Make Homelessness Go the Way of th ...
Instead of pretending homelessness doesn't exist, creating new laws to make it illegal to sit or sleep in public, or sending homeless residents on a one-way trip out of town, Los Angeles County may attempt to actually do something about ending homelessness. And the county is setting the bar high ...
- Don't Let Violence Against the Homeless Go Unp ...
Despite its economic troubles, Detroit is not known for being kind to the homeless. That's too bad, since there are nearly 10,000 homeless people living there. In October, police say that Steven James Diponio, 54, became so enraged at Charles Duncan, 42, who was homeless and sleeping behind a sc ...
- “Regional” nuclear war would have global effects
New research indicates that a “regional”, limited nuclear war would have even more devastating global consequences than previously expected. In addition to creating a global “nuclear haze” effect that would lead to global famine, a nuclear war involving as few as 100 Hiroshima-size nuclear bombs ...
- Sign the petition! – No Stealth Fighters
Install this petition on your website or blog
- For Facebook users – No Stealth Fighters profi ...
We’re very excited about the launch of our Canada-wide campaign on March 3rd to say to Prime Minister Harper: âNo Stealth Fighters!â In the lead-up to the start of the campaign this week, please upload this photo as your Facebook profile picture to let everyone know how you feel about this multi ...
- Gates channels Vizzini
U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has warned against getting involved in future land wars in Asia (Thom Shanker, “Gates Warns Against Any More Wars Like Iraq or Afghanistan,” New York Times, 25 February 2011): Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates bluntly told an audience of West Point cadets o ...
- Robert Green op-ed in Embassy Magazine
Retired Royal Navy Commander Robert Green explains his views on nuclear deterrence in an article in the February 23rd, 2011 issue of Embassy Magazine (reprinted in full at Defence Watch): Nuclear deterrence has not prevented non-nuclear states from attacking allies of nuclear weapon states. Exam ...
- The Kevin Trudeau Show: 3-3-11
Today, Kevin exposes the evil that lurks within the government and explains how riding your bike without a license or registration may be considered illegal one day. Self Help: Reprogram Your Brain Be Prepared! See KT Live! Health: FDA Pulls 500 Cold Medicines From the Market FDA Kne ...
- Are Unemployment Rates Really Going Down?
March 3rd, 2011 AOL Jobs By: Al Lee How accurate is the unemployment rate? As it goes up and down each month it causes a lot of people, particularly those looking for work, quite a bit of stress. Do you ever wonder if it can really be trusted? Or, whether it matters for you and [...]
- The Kevin Trudeau Show: 3-2-11
Today, Kevin finally reveals how the secret society, The Brotherhood, approached him and what his vibrational frequency had to do with it. Plus, you are being programmed for failure; learn how to program yourself for success! Self Help: Viral Detox   Subliminal Messaging   KT’s Daily Lif ...
- The Kevin Trudeau Show: 3-1-11
Today, Kevin reveals the truth behind mind manipulation within the music industry and two ways to counteract it. Self Help: No More Fluoride Free Audiobook Download Cell Phone Protection Natural Cures Grass Fed Beef Financial Independence Health: High Doses of Vitamin D Pre ...
- High Doses of Vitamin D May Prevent Cancer
March 1st, 2011 AOL Health By: Deborah Huso Researchers now say higher levels of vitamin D may be necessary to reduce one’s risk of cancer. Scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Creighton University School of Medicine in Omaha just published a new study in ...
- Africa: Angola hosts 3rd African meeting on Cu ...
The third African meeting on Solidarity with Cuba was held in Luanda, Angola, 11-12 September, to consolidate the friendship between the African and Cuban people and contribute to strengthening African solidarity towards the Caribbean island nation. ...
- Global: Afro-Colombian women fight prejudice b ...
On an improvised stage “Bombón de chocolate” (Chocolate Candy) is being performed. The play, which narrates the story of an African-Colombian girl who feels rejected because of the colour of her skin, is one of the events at a special day on drug add...
- Global: May for the Cuban 5
The month of May started with a great number of activities in support of the Cuban 5. On May 1st hundreds of thousands of Cubans marched on International Workers Day in Havana and other cities. They were joined by hundreds of internationalists in de...
- Haiti: Women demand role in reconstruction
Women's civil society groups were noticeable by their absence from the landmark Haiti donor conference on 31 March, which secured pledges of US$5.3 billion over the next two years to support the country’s post-quake recovery. Their lack of a presenc...
- African diplomats reject anti-Cuba resolution ...
The ambassador of the Republic of Congo to Cuba, Pascal Onguemby, rejected the lies included in an anti-Cuba resolution recently approved by the European Parliament. Addressing participants in the inauguration of the Eleventh International Conference...
- The fight for Libya
The BBC reports: In Benghazi, the opposition National Libyan Council said there was no room for talks, following reports that Col Gaddafi had ordered an intelligence chief to negotiate with the rebels. The council is led by former Libyan Interior Minister Mustafa Abdel-Jalil, who defected last ...
- Intifada update
Anti-Saleh protests sweep Yemen A growing wave of protests across Yemen is mounting pressure on President Ali Abdullah Saleh to end his 32-year rule Several thousand demonstrators turned out yet again in the capital Sanaa on Wednesday for what are now almost daily rallies against him and denie ...
- Would intervention in Libya poison the Arab re ...
Peter Singer writes: The situation in Libya [has become] a test of how seriously the international community takes the idea of a responsibility to protect people from their rulers. The idea is an old one, but its modern form is rooted in the tragic failure to intervene in the Rwandan genocide i ...
- The Gaddafi power network
Issandr El Amrani has mapped the social and power networks around Muammar Gaddafi using existing reporting, Wikileaks cables from Tripoli, and a few academic sources. Click on the image below to see the detailed graphic (PDF).
- J Street: How the pro-Israel pro-peace lobby p ...
Chase Madar writes: J Street, America’s premier liberal pro-Israel lobbying group, has just wrapped up its third annual conference in Washington. There have been sessions and panels on “building peace from the ground up,” on “expanding the tent” and even some passionate condemnations of the Occ ...
- Weather Channel and Weather.com: the survey sa ...
By Joseph DâAleo, CCM, AMS Fellow, First Director of Meteorology at The Weather Channel Carl Parker, On Camera Meteorologist at the once watchable Weather Channel blogged a response dated March 3 to skeptic criticism of a recent post in which … Continue reading →
- Negative water vapor feedback in plant evapotr ...
Rising CO2 is causing plants to release less water to the atmosphere, researchers say BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — As carbon dioxide levels have risen during the last 150 years, the density of pores that allow plants to breathe has dwindled by … Continue reading →
- “Scientists” Pull a Snow Job on Reporters in T ...
Update: James Taylorâs post on Forbes supports our position. A number of alarmists have been organized to team up on the comment section to defend the undefensible. Please add your voice of support to shout them down in the comments … Continue reading →
- Hollywood’s eco hypocrisy
Robert Redford is an eco-hypocrite, film claims Source:Â UK Independent Hollywood A-listers love to trumpet their green credentials. Guy Adams reports on a film-maker whoâs out to expose them. For years, theyâve preached green living while traveling the world in … Continue reading →
- One more thing to worry about: cloud light pol ...
Clouds amplify ecological light pollution The brightness of the nightly sky glow over major cities has been shown to depend strongly on cloud cover. In natural environments, clouds make the night sky darker by blocking the light of the stars … Continue reading →
- IMF Rates Up Dictatorships Just Before Revolut ...
http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ By Michael Collins The Money Party March 3, 2011 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 art ...
- Chris Hedges: America’s Corporate Coup D ...
with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad March 3, 2011 The Majority Report March 2, 2011 The Majority Reportâs Sam Seder talks to TruthDig columnist Chris Hedges. Chris Hedges: America’s Corporate Coup D’état Chris Hedges spent two decades as a foreign reporter covering wars in Latin ...
- Cyprus: U.S. To Dominate All Europe, Mediterra ...
by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism March 3, 2011 On February 24 a majority in the Cyprus parliament voted for the country to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s Partnership for Peace program, a transitional mechanism emplo ...
- Liberation: Beware the Ides of March (Part I) ...
by Felicity Arbuthnot Featured Writer Dandelion Salad 3 March, 2011 “To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.” (Publius Cornelius Tacitus – 55-117) 2nd March, marked the twentieth anniversary the mass murder thou ...
- I smell a rat By William Bowles + Liberated Li ...
by William Bowles Featured Writer Dandelion Salad williambowles.info Crossposted on Strategic Culture Foundation March 3, 2011 “[T]o be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal.” —Henry Kissinger From the very beginning of the Libyan uprising/coup, call it what you will, ...
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Christian & Jewish American adults hurl abuse & hate at American Muslim children. "Eat sand, go home." The manufactured, heavily promoted Hate War vilifying all Muslims as The Enemy is active & ongoing in the United States, in the UK, across Europe, in Australia. Even little kids are deemed ...
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The editor-in-chief of Rupert Murdoch's app-only digital 'newspaper' The Daily tries to rally his journalists to go after The Really Big Stories now "Egypt is over" : Find me an amazing human story at a trial the rest of the media is missing. Find me a school district where the battle over refo ...
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"No Money People Angry" A little kid explains the Egypt January 25 Uprising better and more clearly than the US State Department and most mainstream media :
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The most exhilarating, heart-stopping, endlessly thrilling chase scene I've seen in any big budget Hollywood in recent years is easily topped by this near zero budget, one continuous take, most basic of videos. A high quality digital helmet-mounted camera, and a fast as hell downhill bike run th ...
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They're called NAVs, Nano Air Vehicles, and despite the appearance of such sound & vision surveillance vehicles still being lab-based only, they've already been tested in the fields of war, and in the homeland. The newer models won't be quite so noisy, or so obvious : Presumably adding lethal ...
- iPad Lets Scientists Drag, Pinch and Swipe Rea ...
runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience812702389001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); Using laser beams to control individual molecules is a precise, difficult operation rendered nearly impossible by the limitations of the computer mouse. Unless you ...
- Deepwater Horizon’s Impacts Found in Bacteria
Nobody’s going to shed a tear for an oiled microbe, but the Deepwater Horizon’s impacts include bacteria, underscoring just how subtle and fundamental the blowout’s ecological consequences may be. The findings, based on comparisons of microbial flux before and after oil washed ashore, are not a ...
- Engineered Viruses Boost Memory Recall in Mice
By John Timmer, Ars Technica Memories fade with time, often to the annoyance of those who can’t recall important details. But scientists have now found a way to boost the recall of memories even after they’ve started to fade. Unfortunately, the method involves injecting an engineered virus ...
- 4 New Species of Zombifying Ant Fungus Found
All images: David Hughes, Pennsylvania State University See Also: Funky Worms Cause Ants to Mimic Fruit Clones of Crazy Ant Queens Fuel Global Invasion Mosquito-Attacking Fungus Engineered to Block Malaria Citation: “Hidden diversity behind the Zombie-Ant fungus Ophiocordyceps unilateralis: Fo ...
- An Unknown Ocean: The Other Rhythms of Life
Circadian rhythms are well known to biologists, with hundreds of studies analyzing fundamental links between sunlight, cellular clocks, hormones and metabolism function. But for the first few billion years of Earthly life, it wasn’t just solar cycles that mattered. Lunar and tidal cycles were j ...
- It's Not Just Union Busting, Its Failing To Ho ...
The Randites and most Conservatives will go on the whole live long day about the sanctity of a contract. They will tell you how it is of critical importance that people be allowed to freely enter into any kind of agreement and be completely and totally bound by the contents therein. The reaso ...
- All-American Decline in a New World: Wars, Vam ...
Originally published at TomDispatch.com This is a global moment unlike any in memory, perhaps in history.� Yes,�comparisons�can be�made�to the wave of people power that swept Eastern Europe as the Soviet Union collapsed in 1989-91.� For those with longer memories, perhaps�1968�might come to min ...
- Liberated Libyans Reject US Intervention
Real News Network - March 1, 2011 TRNN EXCLUSIVE: Liberated Libya Rejects US Intervention On the streets of liberated Benghazi people say no to McCain, Lieberman and any US intervention ...transcript follows... Transcript: JIHAN HAFIZ, BENGHAZI, LIBYA: There is already talk of US military i ...
- Gov. Barbour Tries To Retool "Welfare Queens" Meme
Mississippi Governor and probably presidential hopeful Haley Barbour is a real piece of work. With his Boss Hogg good looks and his penchant for idolizing Jim Crow groups like the Citizens Council (who enforced an economic apartheid on Southern Black citizens) but thus far that has not stoppe ...
- "Your Forefathers Would All Have Been Gassed"
There's a video available online that has created quite a scandal this week. It shows a fashion designer in Paris telling someone he loves Hitler and that their mothers and forefathers would have all been gassed to death. I think the staying power of Hitlerian madness is more easily understood ...
- Joseph Weiler, No Longer in the Dock!
by Kevin Jon Heller The Tribunal de Grand Instance de Paris has issued its judgment in the unconscionable criminal-libel suit brought by Karine Calvo-Goller against NYU's Joseph Weiler. Weiler, I am happy to report, prevailed on both of the key issues: lack of jurisdiction and whether the la ...
- Did Bradley Manning “Aid the Enemy”? Did The ...
by Kevin Jon Heller As Roger noted earlier, Bradley Manning has been formally charged with "aiding the enemy," a potentially capital offence. (The military has said that it will not seek the death penalty.) The strength of the charge, however, is difficult to determine. Here is the text of ...
- New Charges Against Bradley Manning
by Roger Alford by Roger Alford According to NBC News, “Pentagon and military officials say some of the classified information released by WikiLeaks contained the names of informants and others who had cooperated with U.S. military forces in Afghanistan, endangering their lives. According to ...
- What Are the Best Legal Arguments For and Agai ...
by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Question to OJ readers. Suppose that you were the chief legal advisor to the US DOS, or to the UK foreign minister, or to NATO, or some country or coalition in which there is active discussion about armed intervention on humanitarian grounds in Libya, ...
- Pennumbra Debate on Targeted Killing Concludes
by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Just a quick update to point out that Pennumbra, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review’s online companion, has published the fourth and final installment of my debate with John Dehn on the targeted killing of Al-Aulaqi. You can find the entire deb ...
- Obama gives strongest indication yet U.S. forc ...
ShareThis'Libya no-fly zone an option': Obama gives strongest indication yet U.S. forces may be deployed in Middle East 04 Mar 2011 President Barack Obama said today the U.S. was considering enforcing a no-fly zone over Libya. In his strongest remarks yet about the Libya crisis, the President in ...
- Obama signals willingness to intervene militar ...
ShareThisObama signals willingness to intervene militarily in Libya [for oil] 04 Mar 2011 President Obama said Thursday that he had ordered plans giving the U.S. military "full capacity to act, potentially rapidly," in Libya if the situation there deteriorates. "I don't want us hamstrung," Obama ...
- Julian Assange lodges extradition appeal
ShareThisJulian Assange lodges extradition appeal --WikiLeaks founder's lawyers file appeal against his extradition to Sweden to face charges of rape and sexual assault 03 Mar 2011 Lawyers representing the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, have lodged papers to appeal against his extradition fr ...
- WikiLeaks soldier 'forced to strip naked'
ShareThisWikiLeaks soldier 'forced to strip naked' 04 Mar 2011 Supporters of an American army analyst accused of leaking hundreds of thousands of classified US cables say new charges levelled against him may be designed to force a confession or to get him to implicate others. US military prosecu ...
- Accused WikiLeaks source Manning stripped, lef ...
ShareThisAccused WikiLeaks source Manning stripped, left naked in military cell, lawyer says 04 Mar 2011 The lawyer representing the US Army Private accused of sharing classified documents with WikiLeaks claims his client was stripped of his clothes and left naked in a cell for seven hours. Davi ...
- VRM: L-Histidine, Squaline, & Human Chorionic ...
“Vaccination is a monstrosity, a misbegotten offspring of error and ignorance; it should have no place in either hygiene or medicine. Believe not in vaccination, it is a world wide delusion, an unscientific practice, a fatal superstition with consequences measured today by tears and sorrow ...
- VRM: Gardasil/Cervarix – A Legacy Of Shame
The headlines alone tell the whole story. ‘Teenage girl left brain-damaged after receiving cervical cancer jab‘, ‘Thousands of UK schoolgirls have suffered adverse reactions…several reported multiple reactions’, ‘20,575 adverse reactions, 352 reports of abnormal pap smears post vaccinati ...
- VRM: Dr. Wakefield’s Imminent Vindicatio ...
Dr. Andrew Wakefield’s 1998 Study demonstrated “anti-myelin antibodies and digestive tract pathologies in children with autism after being given the Urabi strain triple live virus MMR vaccine. All 12 children in the Study had intestinal abnormalities (known as Inflammatory Bowel Disease), with c ...
- VRM: A Concise Compendium The Problem With Vac ...
The advent of cloned DNA vaccines & Synthetic Genomics, backed by proponents of the Trans-humanist & Bioethics movements (this is a post-Darwinian view, in which the species has the power to direct its own evolution), has opened a Pandora’s Box spelling the inevitable death of natural immunity. ...
- VRM: Medical Industry Data Proves Influenza Va ...
The Influenza virus itself is constantly mutating from year to year. While mainstream doctors are traditionally divided, several prominent Studies have come forward in recent years challenging the Status Quo on the efficacy of the sacrosanct Flu shot & awakened an increasingly distrustf ...
- You Know You're Getting Old When...
A few weeks back we received our new high-efficiency front loading LG washer and dryer set and I have to say, I'm pretty impressed by them. The set was only around $1000 (on sale) but I felt like I'd gone from a Chevette to a Cadillac when compared to our old set.� A cute little luxury fe ...
- Control Your Home Thermostat On the Internet!
Today a fellow from our natural gas company came by to install a new thermostat as part of the Peaksaver program that we signed up for.�If you haven't heard of Peaksaver, basically what it does is allow the Ontario government electricity provider to turn off your central air conditioner ...
- Happy Day!: The Water Bill Arrived!
After being shocked a few months ago with a water bill of over $240 I decided to do a few things to cut down on our water use We converted our main toilet to a dual-flush and installed a water saving device on the second (haven't switched it over to a dual yet). We also installed a new ...
- Strawberry Picking
Our family went strawberry picking this morning, it's a fun thing to do once in a while and I think it's a good way to help our 3-year old daughter realize where food comes from. While my wife picked berries with our oldest I went for a walk around the farm with our youngest in the stroller ...
- Pioneer Solar: PV System For Free?
I received a flyer from Pioneer Solar in the mail the other day which claims to help people get a solar system installed on their house, farm, or business for free. Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, like most things there's good and bad points about it and what might be a good deal f ...
- 101st Airborne
04 March 2011 Plans are afoot to embed with the 2-506 Infantry in Paktika Province.� If all goes well, the hard work will begin several weeks from now.� The Battalion Commander is Lieutenant Colonel Don Hill. Please see their latest newsletter: Please Click to view the entire newsletter. ...
- War Stories & Rumors
Russian Tank near Tarin Kot 02 March 2011 There are always the stories.� Some true, some not, most are hybrids.� There was the story in Iraq of the farmer who found a crashed UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle).� The farmer thought it might try to fly away so he tied it to a tree.�� There was the ru ...
- Scorch & Puddle
The Puddle 28 February 2011 Urozgan Province, Afghanistan This morning, we drove a dangerous unpaved road from Tarin Kot to Dehrawud, passing recent bomb craters and ancient wrecks of two Soviet tanks.� The muddy road often splashed brown soup across the windshield while grey skies threatened ...
- Dead Taliban in Chora
(A raw, unedited note from war.) Men lining up to pay respects to killed Taliban 27 February 2011 The places have names like Sangin, Arghandab, Panjwai, Now Zad, Musa Qala, Korengal Valley, Pech Valley, Tarin Kot, or Chora.� Names that mean almost nothing to most people, but everything to oth ...
- Panjwai: Spanish Translation
El peligrosísimo distrito de Panjwai, en la provincia de Kandahar 27 de febrero de 2011 Desde Tarin Kot, provincia de Uruzgán Panjwai viene siendo una de las zonas más peligrosas de Afganistán. En su suelo se ha derramado mucha sangre canadiense, estadounidense y afgana. Según el diario The ...
- Wikileaks and the Future of Information
Wikileaks and the future of information from Justin Podur on Vimeo. read more
- Settle in and wait for the coup in Egypt
Most people are interested in something that no one knows or can know: what is going to happen in Egypt? It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future (that's from Keynes). There are lessons from past revolutions that might help us understand what is happening, but from where ...
- More such philanthrocapitalism we shall be utt ...
Philanthrocapitalism, a book by Bishop and Edwards, argues that philanthropy will help the public accept a new age of plutocracy (the rule by wealth). The rich are giving their money away so effectively, they say, that the public won't mind increasing inequality. read more
- I am not a gadget
Jaron Lanier, author of "You are not a gadget", is very well-informed about what he is writing about, which is some of the social consequences of the internet, and some of the implicit ideologies that are built into the internet as we are living with it today. Lanier was one of the early minds b ...
- Raj Patel's "Value of Nothing"
For various reasons I found myself with several hours on public transit and with Raj Patel's fine book "The Value of Nothing" in hand. I really liked a few things about it. First, it's a very readable summary of a lot of economic theories (and ideologies) that guide policies today. For a more ma ...
- Federal judge stays earlier injunction against ...
[JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of Florida [official website] on Thursday granted [order, PDF] the Obama administration's petition to stay his previous order [JURIST report] declaring the health care reform law [HR 3590; JURIST news archive] unconstitutional ...
- Turkish authorities arrest more journalists ov ...
[JURIST] Turkish authorities on Thursday jailed an estimated 10 individuals, including several journalists, allegedly involved with aiding the Ergenekon coup plot [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive], amid continued foreign concerns for the treatment of journalists within the country. The arr ...
- Muslim student sues FBI over GPS tracking device
[JURIST] Muslim student Yasir Afifi and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) [advocacy website] filed a lawsuit [complaint, PDF; press release] against the FBI [official website] on Wednesday after Afifi discovered a global positioning system (GPS) device on the undercarriage of his ...
- ICC to launch probe of Gaddafi crimes against ...
[JURIST] International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo [official profile] announced Thursday that he will investigate allegations of crimes against humanity [BBC video] by Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] and his inner circle. According to ...
- UN rights chief condemns Pakistan blasphemy law
[JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay [official profile] on Wednesday condemned [press release] the assassination of Pakistani Minister for Minority Affairs Shahbaz Bhatti and expressed her opposition to Pakistan's controversial blasphemy law [text; JURIST news archive]. Bha ...
- Proud Of Being Ignorant
I missed Mike Huckabee rather silly speculation which Andrew takes on here: "One thing that I do know is his having grown up in Kenya, his view of the Brits, for example, very different than the average American ... his perspective as growing up in Kenya with a Kenyan father and grandfather, the ...
- Newt Gingrich in Front of Stock Photos Tumblr
When Newt Gringrich decided to use a cheesy stock photo of a rapturous multi-cultural crowd on his new sorta-presidential exploratory website, and when that touched off a mini-typhoon of Twitter scorn, you had to imagine that someone, somewhere would quickly put together a "Newt Gingrich in Fron ...
- Wisconsin Republicans Vote to Seize Absent Dems
Wisconsin Senate Republicans passed a resolution today ordering police to take their 14 Democratic colleagues who fled the state two weeks ago in a standoff against Gov. Scott Walker's controversial budget repair bill into custody, the Wisconsin State Journal reports. =""> MORE FROM NATI ...
- Obama Elaborates His Doctrine on Middle East U ...
You're the president of a world superpower. Unrest has erupted across an unstable region where you've enjoyed alliances and enmities, with diplomacy strained by the dread of Iranian nukes, stated ambitions of destroying Israel, and potentially psychopathic autocrats who are sometimes bent on des ...
- Newt Gingrich Launches Presidential Explorator ...
It's official: Newt Gingrich is...thinking about running for president. Gingrich launched his presidential exploratory website this afternoon at NewtExplore2012.com. The exploratory phase is the first official step in running for president. Before announcing an actual bid, candidates will decl ...
- Lions, and Tigers, and Bi-National States–Oh My!
Bibi Netanyahu is being shaken out of his lethargy by the imminent threat that the Quartet may announce its recognition of a Palestinian state within 1967 borders as early as next week. Â To shock the other right-wingers in his coalition out of their stupor he’s raised the bi-national state boge ...
- Hasbaristas, Clickbombers and Other Fraudsters
I like to be as transparent as I can in writing and running this site, which sometimes involves revealing things other bloggers in my position might not. Â So this post is in that vein. Â In some ways, this blog relies on the “kindness of strangers.” Â I don’t personally know some of the people ...
- Mossad Kidnaps Gazan Engineer in Ukraine, Now ...
A Ukrainian news source reported in late February that the Mossad kidnapped the chief engineer of Gaza’s only power plant in Ukraine: The wife of a Palestinian engineer has accused the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad of abducting her husband. Derar Abu Sisi went missing five days ago while vi ...
- Senior Israeli Diplomat Quits in Disgust, Can ...
An Israeli diplomat with over 30 years of foreign service experience has quit his job in disgust, saying he can no longer defend or interpret to a foreign audience the policies of his government under the leadership of Bibi Netanyahu or Avigdor Lieberman. Ilan Baruch, a decorated IDF veteran, ...
- Top Israeli Academics Censure Bar Ilan for Fir ...
70 senior Israeli academic signed a letter to the Council for Higher Education denouncing Bar Ilan University for using political considerations in its hiring and firing decisions. Dr. Ariella Azoulay, an international authority on photography and visual culture, was denied tenure after teachin ...
- Remember the peace of silence
By: PeaceCorso There is something about the simplicity of indigenous prayer that always brings me to a deeper silence. How about you? Is there a tradition or traditions that speak to your spirit so deeply that you just know you’ve been a part of the ...
- A business in a box
Teenagers in a rural village in Madagascar show off ToughStuff products: a radio charger, an LED lamp and a solar panel.Photo: ToughStuff After spending decades working in some of the world’s poorest economies, Andrew Tanswell, a British management consultant and Medai ...
- From dirt to shirt
When he answers his phone, Eric Henry, president and co-owner of TS Designs in Burlington, North Carolina, is outside fretting about grasshoppers chomping their way through the employee vegetable garden. “We’ve tried screen mesh and now we’re thinking of getting guineas b ...
- The tango according to Pippi Longstocking
While members of Gotan Project, the prime movers of contemporary tango innovation, are resorting to slogans like “Tango 3.0” to extol the virtues of their recorded output, a modest yet far more playful revolution is taking place in Finland, second home to the tango for ma ...
- Make your own money
Local currencies can help create sustainable growth and healthy communities. In Detroit, cheer dollars are helping restore local economic confidence.Photo: AP Photo/The Detroit News, David Coates Communities have long needed a more sensible means to create money. To dat ...
- Mixed Messages: Arabs Challenge Israeli Hasbara
The fractured nature of the latest round of Israeli official propaganda could partly be blamed on the element of surprise. Israel, which bought into its own dehumanization of its Arab enemies for so long, couldn't fathom such scenarios as popular non-violent revolutions underway in the Middle East.
- Mark Andersen, Reporting from Madison
I think what I said in my diary last night...as a veteran, I am appalled at the power grab that I see going on here in Wisconsin. Locking people out of the Capitol, overreaching laws that have nothing to do with the budget and the pettiness of the Republicans in the legislature...taking away the ...
- GMOnslaught
The threat to the health of the human species and the ecosystem that makes our existence possible increases every day. All in the name of profit.
- Climate Gambit: How Rightwing Hypocrisy Endang ...
When championing Iraq War, Republicans disregarded issue of evidence of WMDs because national security was at stake. But they opposed climate legislation because there was insufficient evidence of global warming. How does the GOP reconcile support for war without evidence, with rejecting climate ...
- The Shia Seek Justice - Bahrain Faces its Faceless
Instead of inciting division and hatred, and juggling Middle East lives to favor their own interests, isn't it preferable that western agencies and governments encourage a Shi'i/Sunni rapport? Start with Bahrain .
- Latest Congressional Attacks on Clean Air Will ...
On Thursday Representative Fred Upton and Senator Inhofe introduced legislation to block the Environmental Protection Agency’s from limiting emissions of carbon dioxide. This is the latest attack in the war against standards that protect Americans from dangerous air pollution. The ...
- China's Twelfth Five Year Plan: Top Chinese Of ...
In a number of high-profile statements over the last week, Chinese officials have signaled that environmental protection and climate change will be at the top of the list when China’s top legislative body, the National People’s Congress, and its top advisory body, the Chinese Peopl ...
- Seven Smart Ways to Save Gas Now
The turbulence in the Middle East shows no signs of letting up, which means that we can expect the volatility in gas prices to continue as well. Oil is already at $100 a barrel. Gas prices could once again hit $4 a gallon this summer. Ouch. There are some smart ways to address the ...
- A developer's video tour of a smart, green nei ...
�� A couple of years ago, I wrote�about one of my favorite neighborhood developments: Seattle's High Point.� A mixed-income HOPE VI project that replaced distressed public housing, High Point is affordable, lovely, and very green, especially in its advanced water management featur ...
- Abandoned wells: it's not just new drilling th ...
There is a lot of new oil and gas drilling going on, and a lot of attention being paid to threats these operations pose to our air, water and landscapes. And rightfully so! However, there are also a lot of environmental risks associated with the wells that are no longer producing a ...
- Clarence Thomas thinks the law doesn’t a ...
And of course he’s right. Tellingly, Thomas was the only justice in the Citizens United case who was willing to declare even the law’s financial disclosure requirements unconstitutional. Thomas’s psychology in this matter (as well as others) is of some interest. It’s an unappetizing combination ...
- Liar and Bigot of the Day
Sam Arora is apparently the latest politician who studied how the historical reputation of Orval Faubus evolved and decided he’d like to be remembered similarly. Related posts:Paladino, Proud Bigot Andrew Breitbart, Liar Craven Liar of the Week Related posts:Paladino, Proud Bigot Andrew Bre ...
- More Mittens
In comments, DivGuy argues that I’m being too hard on poor Willard. Responding to my point about how Clinton’s foolish Iraq War vote probably cost her the nomination: However, if weâre accepting the Clinton comparison, I think thatâs a good argument against saying Mittâs âdrawing dead.â It wou ...
- Ongoing Notes on the Conservative Murder of Parody
Idiotic faux-populist anti-environmental posturing benefits former Koch exec. A real winger double-header!  Of course, despoiling the environment is now a moral necessity, so… Related posts:Further Notes From the Conservative Murder of Parody Conservative Self-Parody Watch Conservertarian S ...
- Drawing Dead
All you need to know about Mittens ‘12:Â “If Romney does not apologize for Romneycare, he’s dead. Of course if he does apologize, he is deader.” Related posts:Land of the Dead A Powerful Metaphor Mitt Romney and the Road to Squaresville Related posts:Land of the Dead A Powerful Metaphor Mi ...
- Fighting an Infestation
Kumud Acharya, Ph.D. has worked in Southern Nevada for the last four years studying the changing climate and its effect on the state’s water. Since coming to Las Vegas his focus has shifted to another problem, invasive species specially those living in Lake Mead.
- 2010 DRI Annual Report
The 2010 annual report is now available for download. This issue includes an interview with Executive Vice President for Research Dr. Terry Surles, our involvement with a large NSF grant to study climate change, an overview of the work in our divisions and centers, select researcher profiles, an ...
- Tracking the Air Quality at Lake Tahoe
In order to better understand the pollutant sources that are affecting Lake’s Tahoe’s water quality, Research Professor Hampden Kuhns, began studying Lake Tahoe in 2003 when he assembled the areas first emissions inventory. The inventory included local measurements using his TRAKER road ...
- Building Concepts for Clarity
Todd Mihevc has a knack for finding the right tools for the job, but he’s no handyman for hire. For 25 years, Mihevc, an Assistant Research Hydrogeologist at DRI, has been instrumental in developing equipment that surveys, studies, and samples water systems in Nevada. His latest research concern ...
- Top Cited Article in the Journal of Human Evol ...
Dr. Glenn Berger is lead author in top-cited article in Journal of Human Evolution. The article "Luminescence chronology of cave sediments at the Atapuerca paleoanthropological site, Spain" was the top-cited article published in the Journal of Human Evolution for the period of 2008 to 2010.
- Documents: Politics, Recycling and Tracking of ...
The New York times ran this article recently. Documents: Politics, Recycling and Tracking of Natural Gas Waste Over the past nine months, The Times reviewed more than 30,000 pages of documents obtained through open records requests of state and federal agencies and by visiting various regional o ...
- EPA Wants to Look at Full Lifecycle of Frackin ...
by Nicholas Kusnetz ProPublica, Feb. 9, 2011, 2:32 p.m The EPA has proposed examining every aspect of hydraulic fracturing, from water withdrawals to waste disposal, according to a draft plan the agency released Tuesday. If the study goes forward as planned, it would be the most comprehensive in ...
- Gas driller pays Pennsylvania state Senator Jo ...
I received this comment from another blogger on this same article: “To paraphrase Jim Cramer, well known for his investment & corporate financial opinions on television and internet, the United States has the best government money can buy.” Published: Sunday, February 13, 2011, 11:04 PM Updated ...
- FrackTracker
Here’s an exceprt from the blog at Fracktracker, a useful site for info and maps and visuals. The Environmental Protection Agency has submitted a draft of its Hydraulic Fracturing Study Plan, which is to be reviewed by the Science Advisory Board (SAB), a group of independent scientists that w ...
- A Comprehensive Website for News Headlines
The below site, while not covering everything, does offers a lot of info in one place. Newspaper Headlines: http://www.marcellus-shale.us/Gas-Drilling_NEWS.htm
- Control of Invasive Shrub with Asian Beetles Y ...
Researchers say an Asian beetle may help control the spread of tamarisk, an invasive Eurasian shrub responsible for water loss across the southwestern United States. After allowing the tamarisk leaf beetle to devour leaves for one year in a 4,500-acre area dominated by the shrub in the Great Bas ...
- Interview: Assessing the Impact Of Mining the ...
Numerous companies are moving ahead swiftly with plans to mine some of the billions of tons of minerals — including copper, gold, and silver — found near hydrothermal vents on the seafloor. Two firms — Canada’s Nautilus Minerals and Australia’s Bluewater Metals — have stepped up exploration of u ...
- Deep-Sea Mining is Coming: Assessing the Poten ...
Numerous companies are moving ahead rapidly with plans to mine copper, gold, and other minerals near hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor. But in an interview with Yale Environment 360, marine biologist Cindy Lee Van Dover warns that without environmental safeguards the unique ecosystems of dee ...
- U.S. Groups Seek Protection of African Lion to ...
A coalition of wildlife groups is filing a petition with the U.S. Department of Interior to list the African lion under the Endangered Species Act, a designation that would make it illegal to import stuffed lions or lion skins and body parts into the U.S. — including those killed by Getty Image ...
- Growth of Geothermal Power Helping Colleges to ...
Some U.S. colleges and universities are cutting their energy costs by 30 to 70 percent after installing geothermal energy systems, and widespread adoption of the technology could help the nation’s 4,100 colleges and universities save an estimated $2 billion to $7 billion annually. A report by th ...
- Paypal now cuts off Bradley Manning defense fund
The online payment provider PayPal has frozen the account of Courage to Resist, which in collaboration with the Bradley Manning Support Network is currently raising funds in support of U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning. PayPal was one way people–especially international residents–were able to contr ...
- FAKEBOOK: US Gov. Creates Software for ’Fake P ...
The contract calls for the development of “Persona Management Software” which would help the user create and manage a variety of distinct fake profiles online. The job listing was discussed in recently leaked emails from the private security firm HBGary after an attack by internet activist last ...
- Chinese workers in Israel sign no-sex contract
Chinese workers at a company in Israel have been forced to agree not to have sex with or marry Israelis as a condition of getting a job. According to a contact they are required to sign, male workers may not have any contact with Israeli women - including prostitutes, a police spokesman, Rafi Ya ...
- Pakistan’s intelligence ready to split with CI ...
Pakistan’s ISI spy agency is ready to split with the CIA because of frustration over what it calls heavy-handed pressure and its anger over what it believes is a covert U.S. operation involving hundreds of contract spies. ISI had no idea who Raymond Davis was or what he was doing. "How many more ...
- Randy Quaid wins fight to stay in Canada
American actor Randy Quaid says he’s won his legal fight to stay in Canada, after the Canada Border Services Agency dropped inadmissibility proceedings against him. At a news conference with his wife and lawyer on Wednesday morning in Vancouver, Quaid said he and his wife Evi were relieved by th ...
- WikiLeaks, Allnewsweb and the TEA Party
When one looks at the above title, the individual has to ask, WTF? What could these three things have in common? Well, according to ‘Mirage Men‘ author, Mark Pilkington, not really a whole hell of a lot, just rampant opportunism: When the first mention of UFOs in the tranche of diplomatic paper ...
- Even Gary Bekkum is skeptical
Gary Bekkum’s STARpod.org’s site is usually replete with government conspiracies, psychic spies, hamsters, Bigelow’s Skinwalker Ranch, Laura Eisenhower’s Mars Colony and other wondrous esoteric oddities that it’s hard to believe that Gary could be skeptical of anything. But he is. He is very s ...
- More Paracast: George Filer
Yeah I know I’ve been lazy lately (or so it seems), but trust me on this one. You won’t be disappointed with this interview Gene Steinberg and co-host Chris O’Brien of the Paracast had with Eastern MUFON Director George Filer, who also has the website Filer’s Files (which caters to guess what? Y ...
- The Paracast: Clifford Clift of MUFON
This week’s Paracast with Gene Steinberg and Chris O’Brien is a conversation with MUFON International’s Clifford Clift. Subjects range from the nuts and bolts aspects of UFOs to the possible paranormal links with ghosts, angels, demons and Sasquatch. This was a down to earth and civil interview, ...
- Bizarre Beachcoming: Review of the Codex Serap ...
Dr. Beachcoming, that eccentric collector of all things of an exotic historical nature, reviews The Codex Seraphinianus, a book written by Luigi Serafini that is purportedly about an alien world complete with language, customs, architecture, flora and fauna. Luigi Serafini, Codex Seraphinianus ...
- Analysts Contemplate Mortgages after Freddie, ...
“How might home buying change if the federal government shuts down the housing finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage loan, the steady favorite of American borrowers since the 1950s, could become a luxury product, housing experts on both sides of the political ...
- Public Pension-Fund Deficits Underestimated
“The pension funds for state and local workers in the United States are understating the amount they will owe workers by $1.5 trillion or more, according to some economists who have studied the issue, meaning that the benefits are much costlier than many governments and taxpayers thought.” (Wash ...
- Free the Children, Cut the Budget
Education is important – far too important to leave to politicians and bureaucrats.
- Prices for Food Set Record, UN Says
“Global food prices reached new highs in February, a U.N. food agency said Thursday, warning that oil price spikes could provoke further increases. Skyrocketing food prices have been among the triggers for protests in Egypt, Tunisia and elsewhere and raised fears of a repeat of the food price cr ...
- Fed Chief Warns against Spending Cuts
“Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Wednesday that a House Republican plan to cut $61 billion in federal spending this year would cut economic growth and cause job losses.” (USA Today) Heâs done so well with monetary policy, why shouldnât he give fiscal advice too? FEE Timely Classic “Do ...
- Web literacy: Should be required
A student calls me on the phone. “Professor McAdams, I wonder if you could help me. I’ve never taken a class with you, but …” “Yes, what can I do for you?” I reply. “I bought my own website, but I’m not sure how to get my Web pages there.” From past experience, I know what I need to ask now. ...
- Can journalism education rise to the challenge?
Most journalism programs face the same challenges: How to find, employ and retain faculty who are comfortable teaching new skills and techniques. How to provide equipment and software to students (especially with shrinking budgets). How to keep up with a rapidly changing field. Perhaps mos ...
- HTML and CSS Resources for Teaching
Every year around this time, I update the resources I use in teaching my advanced online design class. I know there are a million lists like these online. I try to keep mine short, simple and current. Also, I’m not teaching programmers or graphic design majors. My students are journalists. C ...
- Visual narratives: Empirical data
From a research study by two scholars at Stanford: In this paper, we investigate the design of narrative visualizations and identify techniques for telling stories with data graphics. We take an empirical approach, analyzing visualizations from online journalism, blogs, instructional videos, an ...
- Teaching HTML and CSS to journalism students
I’ve been looking at the open-source course materials for Web Design 1, from the WaSP InterACT curriculum project. I think these materials can easily be adapted for use in a journalism curriculum. The idea is to acquaint our students with the building blocks of the Web they use every day. For s ...
- 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 ...
- The kids might be all right
My generation is doing something right: First from Josh Marshall summarizing a recent Rasmussen poll on the age breakdown of support for the unions in Wisconsin: But when you look at this poll the pro-union / anti-union division turns heavily on age too. The younger votes have a far more progres ...
- Police moving to clear the WI capital (Or Are ...
Update 2: Well, well, well. That is impressive, the police essentially refused the order. My hat is off to them. This is an extraordinarily encouraging sign, in that it indicates that the security apparatus has limits to what it will do. If elites1want real crushing, they’re clearly going ...
- A bit more on the oil trap
People will not ship or produce if the cost to produce+ship is higher than what they can recoup. There is a bottom on prices despite what the idiotic supply and demand curves in textbooks show. Contrary to what they tell you in economics 101 supply and demand is not a law, there are significan ...
- European leaders draft a “competitivenes ...
No, I’m not kidding. It includes: a debt brake which will stop countries from deficit spending beyond a target; automatic monitoring which can force pension cuts; a requirement to monitor wages and productivity and to then lower wages if they rise “too quickly” Every one of these are anti-worker ...
- One way the price of oil hurts the economy
Promoted from comments: I work for a small freight forwarder. How small? My boss, and myself – that’s it. Last year we shipped over 61,250 million tons of beef, pork, and chicken; mostly to Australia and Hong Kong, but several smaller markets too. You pick up the product, stuff the container, an ...
- Drug Wars in Juarez Fuels Boom in El Paso
My colleague Malak Behrouznami recently returned from Juarez Mexico where she grew up as a child. She as a wonderful heritage - her father is Iranian and her Mother is Mexican. She went Juarez for family and journalistic reasons. One of her objectives was to find out why Juarez has become a terr ...
- PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI NEGOTIATIONS TO NOWHERE NO ...
A few months ago when shooting a documentary in the Middle East, we met Zeina, a 13-year-old Palestinian living in a Beirut refugee camp. She was traumatized as she watched the Israeli Gaza war on television. It changed her life. She now thinks of revenge and cannot understand the Israeli childr ...
- FROM JOE McCARTHY TO GLEN BECK – TIME TO END F ...
I listened to Glen Becks "Restoring Honor" speech today hoping to find something of substance to write about. I found a stringing together of such empty phrases it does not bear discussion. The more important issue is why a man whose megalomania seems to have no bounds can become such a phenome ...
- PAKISTAN FLOODS AND A FAILED POLICY - UN Sec. ...
Ban Ki Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, says of the flooding in Pakistan "The world has never seen such a disaster. It's much beyond anybody's imagination". At least 20 million people have lost their homes, more than 1600 have died, and disease and hunger will claim many, many mo ...
- China and the end of the end of history
Many economists and political analysts think the current recovery, as it's being called, is a rather temporary phenomenon. Many expect the recession to kick back in, and perhaps within a few years get much more serious. What does that mean in terms of the future of the world economy and world po ...
- Glory probe crashes
NASA's Glory spacecraft crashed today shortly after liftoff at 10:09:43 AM GMT from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Early reports say that the satellite's protective shell, known as the fairing, apparently did not separate from the Taurus XL rocket that was carrying it into orbit. The p ...
- Virologists Form Global Virus Response Network
Leading medical virologists from around the world today signed up to join a new Global Virus Response Network – a first-of-its-kind international scientific alliance that aims to be a leading global authority on viral disease. Two days of organizational meetings at the Italian Embassy in Washing ...
- Science societies offer services to assess che ...
Eight scientific societies have voiced their concern over people’s exposure to chemicals, especially ones that mimic hormones, in the environment and their often-untested effects on public health in a letter in Science published today. There is “growing recognition that currently accepted tes ...
- Heeerrrreee Higgsy Higgsy
Hot on the heels of recent limits on the theory of supersymmetry, the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) collaboration at CERN has published the first limits on the mass of the Higgs boson. The Higgs is the boson to spot at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)—the world's biggest particle accelerator and ...
- Malaysian university establishes ambitious bio ...
Malaysia has grand plans for its biofuels sector, with its massive palm oil industry currently producing 1,065 megawatts of electricity and 270 megawatts of biogas. The country is now reportedly aiming to become the hub of Asia’s research into green energy generation using biomass. Universiti ...
- From the Great Moderation to the Great Stagnation
For much of the past decade, I was a proponent of the thesis that that the American economy had entered a “great moderation,” where expansions lasted longer and recessions were fewer, shorter and milder. Productivity had seemingly reached a permanently high plateau; inflation seemed tamed. T ...
- Is Nashville the Next Boomtown of the New South?
I traveled to Nashville for the first time in 2007, spending most of my time in the downtown area. I posted my impressions here, noting the high growth and high ambition level as well as the fantastic freeways, but also the generally unimpressive development and built environment. I di ...
- The Evolving Urban Form: The Valley of Mexico
The last 60 years of urban growth in the Mexico City area should dispel any belief that suburban dispersion is principally an American phenomenon or even limited to the high income world. Over the last 60 years, all of the population growth in what is now called the Valley of Mexico metropoli ...
- Can Common Sense, and maybe Mickey, Save Orlan ...
The week’s debate about high-speed rail has once again polarized our populace, inflamed irrationality, and sent everyone back to their familiar corners. Little constructive debate is possible when major newspapers are flailing the governor for rejecting money and the seemingly global revolu ...
- Sputnik Moments, Spending Cuts, and (Remember ...
The stand-off in Washington over spending reductions has pushed aside serious discussion about a far more pressing issue: job creation. Granted, the country is long overdue for action on spending cuts. There is much that our government does that we can live without. Bureaucracies’ programma ...
- Orange County: Pack of Snarling Imbeciles Rele ...
To live in this process is absolutely not to be able to notice it—please try to believe me—unless one has a much greater degree of political awareness, acuity, than most of us had ever had occasion to develop. Each step was so small, so inconsequential, so well explained or, on occasion, ‘regret ...
- Computer Expert Says U.S. and Israel Behind St ...
For your news-not-news file folder. Via: AFP: A German computer security expert said Thursday he believes the United States and Israel’s Mossad unleashed the malicious Stuxnet worm on Iran’s nuclear program. “My opinion is that the Mossad is involved,” Ralph Langner said while discussing his in- ...
- Is Apple Going to Turn Mac OS Into a Tamperpro ...
Via: Engadget: Apple’s not saying that it beats other tablets on the market. It’s saying “we do one thing, and these guys do something else altogether.” They’re not competition — they’re not even playing the same game! That’s not to say Apple has given up on PCs, and in fact, the company’s lapto ...
- ATF Let Hundreds of U.S. Weapons Fall into Han ...
Keep in mind, there just happens to be a whistleblower in this particular case. Via: Center for Public Integrity: Hoping to score a major prosecution of Mexican drug lords, federal prosecutors and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives permitted hundreds of guns to be purchased ...
- Chinese Military Trains Messenger Pigeons
Via: Telegraph: China is training 10,000 messenger pigeons to deliver vital military communications in the event of the country’s communication systems breaking down. According to the Chinese state media, the pigeons are being trained by a special unit of the People’s Liberation Army in the cent ...
- Hope to boost livelihoods by “exploiting ...
Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?Reportid=92086 KENYA: Improving yields key to boosting rice farmers’ livelihoods AHERO, 3 March 2011 (IRIN) – After spending Ksh35,000 (US$437) on his 0.4 hectare rice plantation – preparing the land, paying for water, transplanting the rice and … Co ...
- Azalea flower festival (Willem Van Cotthem)
Anywhere on this planet, the beauty of plants and animals in a garden is food for the soul. Therefore, from time to time, I post pictures of plants and animals in my own garden. I like to share these with … Continue reading →
- All relevant scientists and decisionmakers nee ...
Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.ajol.info/index.php/ajrfs/article/view/48950 Some thoughts on policy and desertification: what key contributions can scientists make to policy processes in the southern African context? J Zeidler Abstract Two types of desertification profession ...
- Stopping desertification (DW-World)
Radio TALK : http://mediacenter.dw-world.de/english/audio/#!/77794/Stopping_desertification Stopping desertification http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,6442027,00.html Living Planet | 18.02.2011 | 05:30 As sand threatens to smother farmland around the world, experts look for ways to halt erosion.
- Converting large swaths of land to bioenergy c ...
Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110228151744.htm Scientists Identify New Implications for Perennial Bioenergy Crops ScienceDaily (Mar. 1, 2011) â A team of researchers from Arizona State University, Stanford University and Carnegie Institution for Science has found that co ...
- Revisited: Billy Elliot’s big city jive
The musical Billy Elliot opened in Toronto the other night, with its composer, Sir Elton, in attendance. The Globe loved it. The Post didn't. But great or whatever, it's liable to hang around Toronto for as long as it has London and New York, because this is the ultimate big-city ...
- Lay off the Sheen, if not for his good, then f ...
by Rachel Krueger This is me trying not to write about Charlie Sheen and failing. Not writing about Charlie Sheen is more difficult than deciding whether to laugh at or pity him, which is weirdly hard. Because on the one hand, the man is a barrel of allegedly sober monkeys. He’s funnier ...
- Revisited: “How I Got Arrested and Abuse ...
On Friday, the CBC's The Fifth Estate broadcast "You Should Have Stayed at Home," about police tactics at the 2010 G20 Summit. Among those appearing in the documentary is Toronto playwright and director Tommy Taylor, whose harrowing account of his arrest and detention appeared on his facebook pa ...
- Welcome to Canada, Randy Quaid
By Frank Moher Dear Randy Quaid: I hear Canadian authorities have decided to let you stay in Canada, and, indeed, that Canadian citizenship is now in the works for you. This because your wife's dad was Canadian, so she was able to get her citizenship earlier this month, which means you can ...
- Oda and da machine
By Montreal Simon Oh. My. Mafia. I hear the Con mob in the PMO, now known as the Oda Gang, are desperate. The new boss is now claiming she couldn't have whacked KAIROS, because she has an alibi. She was out of town. So even though she owes her new position to ...
- It Takes A Clue
Nothing will sour the morale of combat troops faster then the realization that the commander at the top receives frequent visits from the Good Idea Fairy. Which is a good start point for explaining why General Stanley A McChrystal took to the pages of Foreign Policy last week to explain the u ...
- Thugs, Mobs And Education
The news this week has been dominated by the Lara Logan story. Ms. Logan was the subject of the most popular post in FRI history which can be found here. Reactions to the news that Lara was subjected to “a brutal and sustained assault and beating” have cost at least one knucklehead his job ...
- Naw Zad
I just did something which would have been suicidal 10 months ago. My colleague Little Mac and I, in the company of a Marine tank officer and Naval surface warfare officer (he’s a fires guy by trade) just strolled around the town of Naw Zad with no body armor, no helmets, no riflemen escorting ...
- Ride For The Brand
When I first started this blog I used to hammer away on a couple of themes which really bothered me. The first was Provincial Reconstruction Teams which I maintain are, by design, unable to accomplish their assigned mission. The second theme had to do with the reason we remain in Afghanistan. O ...
- Shifting Sands
With most of the world’s attention focused unfolding events in the Mideast now is a good time to shed some light on the current ground-truth in Afghanistan.  Sami the Finn is always a good place to start and he provides interesting perspective on the suicide bombing at Kabul’s at  the Finest s ...
- 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 [...]
- Downsizing – downscaling? See these tiny ...
Here’s a great company doing inspiring work www.tumbleweedhouses.com The company creator, Jay Shafer started off making a super small mobile home for himself measuring just 89 square feet! Their video is a testament to less being more – they’re now selling ready made mobile cabins and the plan ...
- Air powered environmentally friendly car being ...
Sounds a little strange right – an air powered car – why isn’t this big news I wonder… There’s a great company in France operated by a former Formula 1 engineer now producing cars running on compressed air. They’re not great to look at, super fast, or I’m guessing really comfortable, but they’re ...
- Deforestation – environmental & human ef ...
There are many types of forest in the world from Temperate Forest to Tropical forest. The one thing all forests have in common is that the trees in them act as the lungs to our planet converting CO2 to Oxygen. In addition, forests provide a canopy or shading of the earth which helps maintain te ...
- Could cancer be Fungus? If so, maybe here̵ ...
Recently I visited a dear friend who has been dealing with breast cancer for over ten years. After a long attempt to avoid surgery and medication, she was forced to have a double mastectomy. She has chosen to avoid the chemo treatments. This takes a lot of courage given that the standard thing t ...
- Doctors Warn about GM Food Risks
It’s barely been a week since I wrote about the dangers of genetically modified (GM) foods and now the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) has released a strongly-worded warning about the health dangers associated with Frankenfoods. Calling for a moratorium on GM foods, the AAEM sa ...
- One Week Until the Introduction to FREE Green- ...
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 5:04 PM, CRS Events wrote: One Week Left Until the "Introduction to Green-e" Webinar Series Join us for three upcoming webinars that give an overview of the Green-e programs and how they work … Continue reading →
- Selecting sustainable cabinetry requires caref ...
A product is only as sustainable as the sum of its parts. In the case of cabinetry, there are quite a few parts–from raw materials to resins to finishes–to add up. Here’s what to look for when selecting cabinetry for … Continue reading →
- Nuclear is not the Answer Dan Rathers
For everyone who says nuclear waste is not harmful– Lets put some in your Back Yard. Â [1]As for the Costs Graphs Show- Nuclear Energy is not needed for Clean Energy ProductionÂ-Renewable Energy Head-to-HeÂad with Nuclear for Clean Energy ProductionÂ.[Last … Continue reading →
- Sen. Ben Nelson is 2010 Porker of the Year!
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 8:00 AM, Tom Schatz, President, Citizens Against Government Waste wrote: Dear Scotts Contracting, The results are in! Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) is the âwinnerâ of CAGWâs online poll for 2010 Porker of the … Continue reading →
- new reports from the Zero Energy Commercial Bu ...
high levels of energy efficiency are the first, largest and most important step on the way to net-zero Scotts Contracting can assist you in making your Building a Net-Zero – Energy Efficient Property. Click Here to email for additional Information … Continue reading →
- Overcoming Pro-Corporate Messaging
From www.adbusters.org My last blog was about the five memes or psychological messages that discourage Americans from joining with co-workers, neighbors and other community members to fight the business and corporate interests that negatively impact so many aspects of our lives. These paralyzing ...
- Thinking Like Egyptians
It’s extremely heartening to see Americans’ fascination with the popular uprisings in the Middle East, as well as speculation across the blogosphere about the potential to replicate them in the US. Massive turnout in Madison and other state capitals is very promising, as American workers realiz ...
- US Unemployment: 9.0% or 18.5%?
The US Department of Labor announced last fall that they were going to alter the scandalous way they report unemployment figures – to more accurately represent the true number of jobless in the US. Don’t hold your breath. Nevertheless the figures they released for January 2010 (13.9 million or ...
- Egypt and the Mainstream Media
Egyptian Federation of Independent Trade Unions The mainstream media continues to tell us their fairy tale version of the Egyptian revolution: the Egyptian people won a Facebook revolution that lasted just eighteen days. As a result of massive street protests, the military junta ousted Mubarak, ...
- Update on Peer Teaching/Tutoring
I have been asked to update a blog I originally posted in November with additional resources (on peer teaching/tutoring protocols and manuals. The are found at the end of the article. New Zealand’s (conservative) National government has spent the last year trying to implement “National Standard ...
- “How is the world ruled and led to war? ...
The Arab Awakening continues. German tanks roll across Poland. Life goes on in America as if nothing is happening, as if the events unfolding in the Middle East are no more inconvenience than a brief rise in gas prices and a few images of demonstrators on TV. I mean, most Americans couldn’t find ...
- Gaddafi vows to die a martyr, I for one hope h ...
And by the way, we’re all so screwed by what’s going on now. I should be at work but I just need to keep watching the news and following developments in Libya and elsewhere. Well, mostly reading stuff on line, watching the broadcast news is pretty annoying but I do so for the images they [...]
- World Revolution?
The revolutionary movements now sweeping a dozen countries may very well herald a new chapter in world history. I mean, we are seeing simultaneously a number of events that even singly would have been one of the biggest stories of the year in the preceding decades. This is pretty incredible when ...
- Ten World War Two Allied military blunders (Pa ...
This is the second part of ten Allied military blunders of World War Two. The comments I made at the beginning of the first article still apply. The only thing I would add is that I have tried to select lesser known blunders, especially ones that made for an interesting story. With no further ad ...
- The Voynich Manuscript, Shady Kilograms, Shyst ...
So much for the good Berkeley weather. We’ve had torrential rain. Hail. Lightning. Wind. More rain. The cats wanted to go out this morning and when I held the door open, the wind blew them right back inside. They wisely decided they had some sleep to catch up on and didn’t want to go outside [...]
- Economic Musings VI: Modern Economies – ...
There is a great debate in the history of economics whether there can be under-consumption in any real historic moment of the state of an economy and if so, whether it has detrimental effects and if so, what is to be done about it. And modern economists seem to have found a magic wand with [...]
- Blogs and Web Sites you may want to follow
The following is a list of blogs and websites that CrisisMaven has followed and observed over the last few months and that readers may want to check out from time to time. Note: neither the sequence of how the blogs are listed here nor any comments by CrisisMaven are an endorsement nor criticism ...
- Economic Musings VII: Marketing doesn’t ...
Have you ever wondered if marketing and advertising are the same, if not, what’s the difference and which is the more important of the two? And why should you care? The most successful economic model is without doubt the market economy. It is the consequence of the wealth effects of the division ...
- CrisisMaven’s Blog News 2010-03-07: Over 25,00 ...
Yesterday around 16:37 GMT we passed the 25,000 threshold … - next report will probably be posted when we’re past the 50,000 mark. Thanks to all avid readers: on 2010-03-18 at around 19:25 GMT we went past our first 20,000 views on our blog in about eight weeks since we began publishing! After t ...
- Economic Musings VIII: Is there a limit to eco ...
Something which puzzles many thinkers and frightens many young people concerned about waste or the pillaging of our natural resources is the question: can “an economy” (whatever that is – we’ll come to that in a minute) grow indefinitely? How can there be unlimited economic growth if we’ve never ...
- Stock buybacks are bad for investors: Further ...
In the working paper “The Buyback Monitor - July 2009: Corporate Stock Buyback Profits of 273 Firms from 2000 into 2009“, published on the Social Sciences Research Network, M.A. Gumport, CFA, provides further evidence that stock buybacks are not as good for investors as often touted. The follo ...
- Why Obama’s healthcare scheme portends stagfl ...
The trillion-dollar Obama health care plan increases the odds that US economic recover will be delayed, and that unemployment and inflation will increase. The main thrust of the Obama plan is to increase taxes on individuals earning more than $250,000 a year, while forcing all but the tiniest ...
- How long would it take to work off the US trad ...
The rest of the world holds $16.8 trillion in US financial assets, according to Federal Reserve release Z.1, as of Q1 2009. [...]
- Why Bernanke’s flawed “exit strategy” policy p ...
In a lead op-ed editorial in the Wall Street Journal on July 21, 2009, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke revealed the Fed’s exit strategy with regards to the inflationary effects of the Obama “spending is stimulus” packages and other government measure to contain the current crisis. This ar ...
- Stocks surge on spurious earnings reports: Q2 2009
No one knows for sure the real earnings of American corporations. In Q1 2009, according to the Federal Reserve flow of funds table F.102, after-tax profits of US non-financial, non-farm corporations, on an annual basis, were about $589.9 billion. However, about 50% of these after-tax earnings ...
- Setting the Record Straight on Cello Energy an ...
Join the forum discussion on this post The Art of Spin Politicians are known for their ability to spin any situation to make sure it doesn’t present them in an unfavorable light. In that vein, I’m beginning to feel as if Vinod Khosla would make a fine politician. As much as I am tired of writi ...
- The Failure of U.S. Politicians to Open Electr ...
Join the forum discussion on this post The following guest post was written by Mike Holly, who is the Chairman of Sorgo Fuels in Crosslake, Minnesota. Sorgo is a company involved in the production of energy from sweet sorghum, and Mike can be contacted at smikeholly “at” gmail.com. In his artic ...
- Oil Back at $100
Join the forum discussion on this post I am between flights and have been traveling for a few days, but wanted to get off a quickie on current oil prices. In hindsight, perhaps I was not aggressive enough with my predictions for 2011. My predictions covered two themes: Next generation biofuel ...
- A Closer Look at The Commission Report on the ...
Join the forum discussion on this post The following guest essay was written by David Whelpton. David is a private investor in the oil and gas industry. His blog is Knowledge and Investing. Below, David goes through the highlights of the report to the President on the Deepwater Horizon disaster ...
- Due Diligence: How to Evaluate a Renewable Ene ...
Join the forum discussion on this post Doing Due Diligence To people who follow the energy industry closely, it’s a common occurrence to come across announcements from companies proclaiming to have developed the key to the ‘next big thing’ — for solving the worldâs energy crisis. Maybe they sa ...
- Generations and their gadgets | Pew Research C ...
Tags: infographic, generations, technology, research, gadgetsby: Dean Mantz
- Adora Svitak: Changes Schools Should Make to B ...
Tags: schools, changes, education, students, edchatby: Dean Mantz
- Tech Learning TL Advisor Blog and Ed Tech Tick ...
Tags: iPad, learning, apple, tech, education, apps, TL, Techlearningby: Dean Mantz
- High Def Teacher: Top Websites for Teachers
Tags: resources, math, science, technology, teacher, english, Art, websites, lessonplans, educationby: Dean Mantz
- TakingITGlobal - Inspire. Inform. Involve.
Tags: collaboration, action, social justice, social, global, activism, education, issues, takingitglobal, youth, web2.0by: Toni Olivieri-Barton
- How to Choose and Use a Portable Pedal Exerciser
RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—To counteract the unhealthy effects of too much sitting, it’s important to incorporate frequent movement breaks into yo read more
- Illegal, Unsafe Allergy and Cold Meds Could Lu ...
RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—As part of an ongoing initiative to remove unsafe and unapproved drugs from the market, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced on Wednesday that it was pulling 500 allergy, cough, and cold medications off pharmacists' shelves. According to the agency, some of t ...
- 6 Surprising Heart Attack Triggers—And How to ...
RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Heart attacks often come without warning, and although it's well documented that they're caused by atherosclerosis (plaque buildup on arterial walls), there are certain triggers that can set off a heart attack in people who are at risk. This week, Belgian researchers pub ...
- Gov't Trashes Compost, Brings Back Styrofoam
RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—It may not be as dramatic as Ronald Reagan's ripping the solar panels off of the White House, but House Republicans are once again gleefully flexing their antienvironmental muscles, this time bringing Styrofoam cups and plastic utensils back to the Capitol cafeteria to r ...
- The Nickel Pincher: Plastic-Free Fixes for Lau ...
RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Rodale.com's Plastic-Free February is over, and if you took up the challenge, you probably don't need to be told that living plastic-free is harder than it sounds. One good way to start eliminating plastic is to rethink your food storage tactics. But it's likel ...
- Is Your Big Idea Worth Spreading?
It's no longer enough just to have a Big Idea. Now you need to have a Big Idea about how to spread that Big Idea. At this week's TED Conference in California -- the globally-anticipated event with the tagline "Ideas Worth Spreading" -- TED organizers announced the winners of the inaugural Ad ...
- Ban ki moon, the UN and Libya - and getting it ...
The other evening I was asked onto a radio programme in order to criticise the international community for being slow, or downright useless, in responding to the Libyan uprising. What about Nato? What about the European Union? What about the United States – and what about the United Nations? All ...
- Americans Don't Want to Get Rid of Unions
America may not love unions—certainly not the way some countries do—but it doesn’t hate them either. Yesterday, I wrote that unions play an essential role in a healthy economy by helping to resolve problems between labor and management and giving ordinary workers a stake in the success of thei ...
- Scott Walker Locks Wisconsin Citizens Out Of S ...
There is one thing about living with a lawyer that never fails to amuse me. When I described to her yesterday how, despite a temporary restraining order prohibiting Wisconsin’s Department of Administration from closing the state Capitol building to the public, the department has continued to ...
- Mystery Volcano Photo #34
I am somewhat dragging this week - I think it is the exhaustion that leads into spring break - so today's we'll have a Mystery Volcano Photo. Our last installment, MVP #33, was Cold Boiling Lake�(top left)�near Lassen Peak in California. The standings have been updated to reflect the winner of t ...
- Are we running out of resources?
Prof. Steve Horwitz addresses the common belief that the world is running out of natural resources. Instead, there are economic reasons why we will never run out of many resources. In a free market system, prices signal scarcity. So as a resource b...
- The Smaller Fish Tries to Eat the Bigger Fish
Ever heard of AFMA shipping? It seems to be a company on the go, one anxious to complete with Fed-Ex and UPS. That*s all to the good. But apparently the company has run into some trouble. Customers are sticking with the competition, and the AFMA figu...
- The War Party's Atrocity Porn
"This is a massacre," the frantic Libyan woman, speaking by telephone while cowering in her apartment in Tripoli, told CNN's Anderson Cooper. "I hope you know that people around the world are watching and praying and wanting to do something," Ande...
- War *ber Alles
The United States government cannot get enough of war. With Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi*s regime falling to a rebelling population, CNN reports that a Pentagon spokesman said that the U.S. is looking at all options from the military side. ...
- Libyan Soldiers -- They're Just Doing Their Jobs!
I see that Libyan soldiers are fighting against their own people. But why should we condemn them? They are just following orders. They must obey their superiors. They didn*t ask for this mission. Killing Libyans was not in their job description. They...
- Ozboy’s Bar And Grill Is Closed For Repairs
It’s only temporary. A couple of weeks. But the recent shenanigans round here have forced me to do some thinking about how LibertyGibbert can run better in the future. I’ve spoken to a couple of you about this today, to … Continue reading →
- The Dragon’s Dissent Part III: Naked Nat ...
The emergence of China as the world’s new superpower has raised many questions in the international community and across the blogosphere regarding the longer-range agenda of the Middle Kingdom. In a recent discussion on this forum, the question of Chinese … Continue reading →
- U.S. Elections: Will Liberty Win?
Well today’s the day. As just about every other blog in the sphere is covering the elections today, I thought I’d throw the forum open, and we can discuss the results as they come in, in real time. If as … Continue reading →
- Libertarianism And Drug Liberalization
G’day everyone, Just arrived back home safe and sound. Sorry there hasn’t been a new post in several days, but just at the moment my family needs me more than the Bar and Grill does. Dr. Dave has graciously stepped … Continue reading →
- Stealing Democracy?
G’day everyone, Ozboy here. The United States mid-term elections are just one week away, and the mounting resentment many Americans feel about the way their country is being governed appears certain to be made clear at the polls. One of … Continue reading →
- Five science selects
Persistence of vision – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – If persistence of vision were the explanation for how the mind perceives moving pictures in cinema, cinema wouldn't work, because the persistence would constantly produce images of complementary colour to what is on the screen. The Vic ...
- Five science selects
How to Find Trustworthy Science and Health Information – Today, we’re overwhelmed with sources of information, with hundreds of television stations and millions of Web sites, and it can be hard to figure out what to trust. Google recently tweaked its search algorithm to bring higher quality site ...
- Spectral science selection
Aussie rock rolls The oldest fossils of bacteria ever found were discovered in a rock formation in Western Australia, the discovery led to great excitement that has not abated for more than two decades. Until now. Raman spectroscopy shows that what palaeontologists thought were pristine microbia ...
- Three touches of science
Backstage Science – Find out what's going on backstage at some of the biggest science labs. - Videos for the Science and Technology Facilities Council by Brady Haran. The Alchemist Newsletter: February 25, 2011 – Van Gogh was apparently no chemical genius, The Alchemist learns this week, but mo ...
- Six slick science picks
Science video widget – Shortform offered me a sneak preview of their video widget, which allows users to embed a video channel into their blog. Contraceptive pill not to blame for feminized fish – Despite claims that excreted contraceptive hormones are causing endocrine disruption in aquatic ani ...
- Global Land Use Change, Economic Globalization ...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences / by Eric F. Lambina and Patrick Meyfroidtb (doi: 10.1073/ pnas.1100480108; March 1, 2011 v108 n9 p3465-3472) http://www.pnas.org/content/108/9/3465.full Open access article [Abstract] A central challenge for sustainability is how to preserve fores ...
- Genetic Manipulation of Lignin Reduces Recalci ...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences / by Chunxiang Fua, Jonathan R. Mielenzb, Xirong Xiaoa,Yaxin Gea, Choo Y. Hamiltonb, Miguel Rodriguez, Jr., Fang Chenc, Marcus Fostonc, Arthur Ragauskasc and Joseph Boutona, et al. (doi: 10.1073/ pnas.1100310108; March 1, 2011 v108 n9 p3803-3808) ...
- Tar Sands Pipelines Safety Risks
The Sierra Club, Natural Resources Defense Council, Pipeline Safety Trust, and National Wildlife Federation http://www.sierraclub.org/dirtyfuels/downloads/2011-02-safety.pdf The report by the Sierra Club, Natural Resources Defense Council, Pipeline Safety Trust, and National Wildlife Federation, ...
- R&D Dashboard (U.S. Federal Investments in Sci ...
The National Coordination Office (NCO) for Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) http://rd-dashboard.nitrd.gov/ …the R&D Dashboard beta web site provides an initial look at U.S. Federal Investments in Science and Research from two agencies; the National Institute ...
- Economic Report of the President 2011
Executive Office of the President, Council of Economic Advisers http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/cea/economic-report-of-the-President The Economic Report of the President is an annual report written by the Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers. An important vehicle for presenting ...
- Minimum to the Max: Shifting Solar Plasma Coul ...
A few years back, the sun went into a lull, its activity tailing off like a rambunctious child settling down for a nap. The lull was no surprise; it is a normal part of the sun's roughly 11-year cycle of activity, over which the number of magnetized regions known as sunspots waxes and wanes. But ...
- U.S. Military Links Alternative Energy Researc ...
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.--Flexible solar cells now power communications equipment used by Marines fighting in Afghanistan's Helmand Province, enabling them to shed 700 pounds worth of batteries while on foot patrol. But an F-16 fighter jet flying over Miramar training base in Calif. burns 28 gallons ...
- How National Security Depends on Better Lithiu ...
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.--Lithium spontaneously combusts in air, yet the battery in your computer--and any of the stacks in the new breed of electric vehicles--is made from it. Lithium even burns in water, which is too bad because a lithium-water battery could be both cheap and powerful. Now batte ...
- Einstein@Home Taps Donated PC Graphics Process ...
A massive distributed computing network known as the Einstein@Home project has made its second big celestial find in the past six months--a pulsar 15 kilometers in diameter located more than 30,000 light years from Earth. Not a bad track record for a network that runs on processing power donat ...
- Pumping Oil with Sunshine [Slide Show]
How do you make mirror-concentrated sunlight cheaper than burning natural gas? Put it in a greenhouse, argues new solar start-up GlassPoint, which unveiled its first such solar hot water greenhouse on February 24--in a dusty, old oil field in California's Central Valley. Why? Because cheap ste ...
- Student Volunteer Army defeats student stereotype
Today I got to spend time with the students and organisers behind the Volunteer Student Army in Christchurch as they wound down major operations. Organised by Canterbury students, the student army recruited hundreds of volunteers, including a Green Party contingent to shovel liquifacted soil, le ...
- Paying to rebuild – cuts vs levy
John Key’s Government is now openly talking about cuts to Working for Families to pay for the cost of earthquake rebuilding. As Russel pointed out yesterday, we think a small, temporary earthquake levy would be a much better and fairer way of funding the rebuilding. Depending on how you set it, ...
- A snapshot of dislocation..now multiply
This is the story of John and Katherine, Greens in Christchurch. For those of us not living in the aftermath, here is a snapshot of the upheaval affecting thousands and thousands of residents. Their homes are destroyed, their futures are uncertain. Beyond the tragedy of the killed, the missi ...
- Helping Women’s Refuge in Christchurch
Many of you may remember that after the September quake in Christchurch, there was a reported upsurge in domestic violence in the city. It seems that the same trend is emerging after this even more devastating quake. Sadly, not everyone responds heroically to a disaster, and vulnerable families ...
- Grade D Liquefaction
In my last blog, about 100 years ago, I graded liquefaction into three qualities. Grade A, I ventured, was the best – pure black sand, easy to shovel. B was heavy and wet, but (relatively, apparently, perhaps) clean. C was the worst, sludge mixed with sewerage. I can now report a fourth grade of ...
- Liberty's Easy Slide into Tyranny
Huge conspiracies aren't what destroys people's freedom, the accumulation of errors, failed policies, and little and big unfairnesses do. It happens because The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men/ Gang aft agley,/ An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain. The FED, CIA, Executive Privilege, The ...
- What should be done with illegal immigrants?
That this question is even being asked reveals something about ourselves. How would you answer it if you were an illegal immigrant? Perhaps you've never heard of the Golden Rule. The rule may not be the best guide to moral behavior but asking yourself how you'd answer the question if you wer ...
- A Revolting World
Many in many lands are demonstrating against their governments. Some claim that people everywhere are revolting and that a worldwide revolution is imminent. Even both the orthodox and heterodox presses are all atwitter. But it is far easier to bring about a successful revolution than it is t ...
- Demented Democracy
An addiction to opinion, each person being entitled to his own, and the unwarranted notion that those who fight for their beliefs are "principled" is the reason that democracies teeter between antagonistic belief systems and are unable to resolve any social problems. Each party strives to re ...
- Pity the Poor Economists
The first thing a judicious reader notices is how much disagreement exists among economists on almost every, perhaps every, matter. Then it becomes clear that much of this disagreement is acrimonious. Some of these people appear to hate each other. Now ask yourselves, how likely would it hav ...
- Building Better Kids
We are obsessed with education in America. We are obsessed, in particular, with the notion that our schools are failing and have to be fixed. We need to test kids. We need to identify and fire bad teachers. We need merit pay. We need charter schools. We are all waiting for Superman. Philanth ...
- Why No One Cares About Unemployment
Chris Hayes explains why Washington elites don't seem to see high unemployment as an urgent problem: There are two numbers that go a long way toward explaining it. The first is 4.2. That’s the percentage of Americans with a four-year college degree who are unemployed....So while the overall e ...
- Where's the Conservative Healthcare Plan?
The Wall Street Journal is unhappy with President Obama's support for allowing states to opt out of his healthcare reform law in 2014 rather than 2017. Why? Because to do so, states would have to come up with a plan that offered similar coverage and benefits to PPACA: So perhaps states could ...
- A Day Without a Mexican
Texas state Rep. Debbie "Terror Babies" Riddle has introduced a new bill that would make it a serious crime to hire an illegal immigrant. But her bill allows one exception: Under the House Bill 2012 introduced by a tea party favorite state Rep. Debbie Riddle — who's been saying for some time ...
- Defending the Indefensible
Good for Joe Klein for pointing out the lunacy of the Republican effort to defund the financial regulation reform bill passed last year: The Dodd-Frank law was an imperfect remedy....But it did boost the power of the SEC and CFTC to regulate derivatives trading, and it set up a new agency ...
- IC 232: This Ain’t Winning
Topics for the show: BYU player gets suspended for having sex with his girlfriend The Westboro Baptist Church wins at the Supreme Court We as a society need to step up to handle these moral issues Bobbi Kristina denies she was using coke Charlie Sheen ain’t winning The McLobster The 2012 electio ...
- BYU Forward Reportedly Dismissed From Team For ...
For the second day in a row I’m writing about a story I read that while I emotionally and morally disagree with it, in terms of whether it’s the right decision or not, I have to agree that it is. BYU announced on Tuesday that starting forward Brandon Davies was suspended for the rest of [...]
- You Might Not Like It…But It’s the Right Decision
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the First Amendment protects fundamentalist church members who mount anti-gay protests outside military funerals, despite the pain they cause grieving families. The court voted 8-1 in favor of the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan. The dec ...
- FacePalm of the Week: Defunding Planned Paren ...
Twitter is great for many things. Keeping in touch with friends, networking, promotion, etc. One thing it seems especially good at though, is making me aware of other people’s complete and utter “Fullofshitness”. I mean it’s one thing to misspell a word here or there, but with people like Tyr ...
- IC 231: Cocaine is a Helluva Drug
Topics for the show: All natural ice cream……..with breast milk? Ciara vs Rihanna Twitter beef between celebrities…how stupid can they get? Spell check…….use it Charlie Sheen is 100% sober….yeah right Charlie Sheen and Alex Jones prove crazy always needs a companion Former Rep. Chris Lee has more ...
- NASA's Glory Satellite scheduled for launch Ma ...
NASA's Glory spacecraft is scheduled for launch on Friday, March 4. Technical issues with ground support equipment for the Taurus XL launch vehicle led to the scrub of the original Feb. 23 launch attempt. Those issues have been resolved. read more
- Enzyme enhances, erases long-term memories in rats
Even long after it is formed, a memory in rats can be enhanced or erased by increasing or decreasing the activity of a brain enzyme, say researchers supported, in part, by the National Institutes of Health. read more
- New system can warn of tsunamis within minutes
Seismologists have developed a new system that could be used to warn future populations of an impending tsunami only minutes after the initial earthquake. The system, known as RTerg, could help reduce the death toll by giving local residents valuable time to move to safer ground. The study by re ...
- The scars of impacts on Mars
ESA's Mars Express has returned new images of an elongated impact crater in the southern hemisphere of Mars. Located just south of the Huygens basin, it could have been carved out by a train of projectiles striking the planet at a shallow angle. read more
- Zooming in on the weapons of Salmonella
Some of the most dreaded diseases in the world such as plague, typhoid and cholera are caused by bacteria that have one thing in common: they possess an infection apparatus which is a nearly unbeatable weapon. When attacking a cell of the body, they develop numerous hollow-needle-shaped structur ...
- A toy model for forecasting global temperature ...
A little over two years ago, I wrote the following post on BNC: How hot should it have really been over the last 5 years? In it, I did some simple statistical tinkering to examine the (correlative) relationship between global temperatures and a few key factors, namely greenhouse gases, solar irr ...
- Advanced nuclear power systems to mitigate cli ...
This is a modified version of the full conference paper. This is the most up-to-date executive summary available, written for a general — albeit technically conversant – audience, of the Integral Fast Reactor: 91st American Meteorology Society Annual Meeting, Jan 23-27, 2011, Seattle, WA  Sec ...
- Open Thread 9 – technosolar catastrophe?
This is the first Open Thread of 2011. The Open Thread is a general discussion forum, where you can talk about whatever you like — there is nothing ‘off topic’ here — within reason. So get up on your soap box! The standard commenting rules of courtesy apply, and at the very least your chat shoul ...
- Safeguarding the nuclear fuel cycle
Guest Post by Dr. William Hannum. A member of the Science Council for Global Initiatives, Bill worked for more than 40 years in nuclear power development, stretching from design and analysis of the Shippingport reactor to the Integral Fast Reactor. He earned his BA in physics at Princeton and hi ...
- Gas aplenty, but UAE opts for nuclear – ...
Dr Ziggy Switkowski (former CEO of Telstra, Optus and Kodak, recently retired Chairman of ANSTO, and now Chancellor of RMIT University) recently had an excellent article published in the Australian Financial Review. Unfortunately, there is no online version available, so for those who missed the ...
- Guest Editorial: Garvey's Ghost: Black Talk: W ...
Garvey's Ghost: Black Talk: Who is "The Enemy"? Long ago when Bush II was in office I made a note that it was very dangerous to give the executive the power to decide who is and is not "an enemy" and that such a power was ripe for abuse. Anyone who reads the above quote ought to see why Assange ...
- ei: Facing up to Jewish nationalism and racist ...
ei: Facing up to Jewish nationalism and racist violence: "When we released the now famous and censored video Feeling the Hate in Jerusalem, we were widely attacked and dismissed for daring to publicize footage of college-age Jewish kids behaving like racist fanatics while intoxicated. We argued ...
- field negro: The FOX NEWS Panthers, and more o ...
field negro: The FOX NEWS Panthers, and more on Beyonce and Mike. So Mike, what about your statement about his father and grandfather, and the whole Mau Mau thing? "Anti British"? OK, so even if you meant to say he grew up in Indonesia and not Kenya, how do you square that with all the other cra ...
- David Rothscum: The World Cheers as the CIA Pl ...
The World Cheers as the CIA Plunges Libya Into Chaos How was Libya doing under the rule of Gadaffi? How bad did the people have it? Were they oppressed as we now commonly accept as fact? Let us look at the facts for a moment. Before the chaos erupted, Libya had a lower incarceration rate than t ...
- John John: The View From Occupied Canada #234
Imperialist hands off Libya! The United States and the European powers are moving towards direct military intervention in Libya. They are seeking to exploit a legitimate popular uprising against the 41-year rule of Muammar Gaddafi, preempt any possibility of a more radical regime emerging, and i ...
- Wake Up
Wake up and do something. The billionaires, and the corporations they control have been destroying our nation for long enough.
- Governor Walker – When Will You Have The ...
You want to jerk around state employees, and unions, all to make up for the money you refuse to collect from corporations and billionaires. They don’t pay near their fair share, and you want working families to make up the difference.
- Arrest Clarence Thomas
Many others have been prosecuted for lying on their financial disclosure forms. Why is it that Clarence Thomas can commit a crime any 3 year old could prosecute successfully, and not be charged? Are we a nation of laws? If not, I should go steal some money….
- Koch Brothers #1 In Global Warming – Sto ...
To do anything about human caused climate change, it takes legislation. To move legislation you need support. To restrict support of legislation needed to keep global warming from destroying the lives of BILLIONS the Koch Brothers are #1 in spending money and energy to stop legislation dealing w ...
- Other Than Starting the Destruction of the Mid ...
What did Ronald Reagan really accomplish? I mean besides beginning the process of turning America into the largest debtor nation on the planet. Taking down the solar panels from the roof of the White House set the tone for more oil addicion. The list goes on all the way to hell. Ronald Reagan wa ...
- Day of Action and Conference Vision Statements
Appalachia Rising: Day of Action September 25 – 27, 2010, Washington DC Appalachia Rising is a mass mobilization in Washington DC on September 27, 2010 calling for the abolition of mountaintop removal and surface mining. It is a culmination of the national movement against surface mining and a f ...
- Press Conference to be Held on June 15
Thousands to March in DC Calling for the Abolition of Mountaintop Removal Press Conference June 15 in Charleston, WV Announces Mass Mobilization Appalachia Rising WHEN: June 15, 10:00 AM WHERE: WV State Capitol Back Steps Near Fountain, Charleston, WV CONTACTS: West Virginia Bo Webb – 304-237-26 ...
- Press Inquiries
All media inquiries should be sent to Bo Webb webb.bo@gmail.com Set up interviews via email. Previous Press Releases and Media Public Launch Press Conference Report Back, with video Press Conference Held on June 15 Announces Appalachia Rising Video June 15 Appalachia Public Launch Press Conferen ...
- New Flier for Appalachia Rising
- Appalachia Rising Uniting Celebrities, Appalac ...
Appalachia Rising Uniting Celebrities, Appalachians, and Scientists for the Abolition of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Ashley Judd, Woody Harrelson, Gloria Reuben, Kyra Sedgewick, Kevin Bacon, Ed Begley Jr., Kathy Mattea, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, James Hansen, and Darryl Hannah rallying behind co ...
- West Bank wind of change
This piece was originally published in Le Monde Diplomatique and co-written with Jesse Rosenfeld 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 process’ The PLO leade ...
- Confessions of a born again Yael
A few months ago an Israeli rabbi gave his blessing to female agents of Israel’s foreign secret service, the Mossad, who are required to have sex with the enemy in so-called “trapping” missions against terrorists. Rabbi Ari Shvat’s ruling appeared in a study, “Illicit sex for the sake of nationa ...
- Driving through the hate on Israeli radio
Yoram Sheftel should be taken off the Israeli airwaves. Immediately. But it’s not going to happen any time soon. Not in the current atmosphere in Israel. Every once in a while I get Thursdays off. It’s usually a day to relax a bit and do some errands. I’ll often find myself in the car quite a [...]
- Egyptian journalist: The revolution was not ab ...
With very few exceptions, the protesters who toppled Hosni Mubarak did not even mention Israel during their 18-day revolution. Even now, with post-revolutionary populism slightly on the rise, there is no-one, from anywhere on the political spectrum, who wants to abrogate the peace agreement. At ...
- Facing up to Jewish nationalism and racist vio ...
This piece originally appeared on Electronic Intifada and was co-authored with Max Blumenthal When we released the now famous and censored video Feeling the Hate in Jerusalem, we were widely attacked and dismissed for daring to publicize footage of college-age Jewish kids behaving like racist fa ...
- Florida Courts: Bankrupt! Wall Street Fat Cats ...
Please read the article and click on the interview with The Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court. Florida’s courts are underfunded to the point where constitutional rights are being violated. What I find most disturbing about that is the fact that the corporations and criminals that chok ...
- Amerika- Destroyed in 10 Steps- From Al Jezeera
Hats off to Matt Taibbi for staying on the Wall Street crime beat, asking in his most recent report in Rolling Stone: “Why Isn’t Wall Street in Jail?” “Financial crooks,” he argues, “brought down the world’s economy â but the feds are doing more to protect them than to prosecute them.” True enou ...
- National Bankruptcy Institute – Podcast ...
Listen to this broadcast on the emerging issues in fraudclosuregate and bankruptcy practice….all in preparation for an upcoming presentation at the National Bankruptcy Institute National Bankruptcy Institute Ipod Broadcast National Bankruptcy Institute Seminar Flyer Tweet this! Share and Enjoy: ...
- Congress Says: Banks May Be Guilty For Service ...
This whole country should be seething with anger at the banks and criminal syndicates that have corrupted our country. Nothing makes me more angry than how they’ve treated the men and women who serve in our armed forces. It just disgusts me…. Lawmakers argued Feb. 9 that some of the suicides ...
- MERS And The Continuing Failure of Title- BULL ...
WELL, WELL, WELL. For years we’ve heard the Johns v. Gillian mantra, “the mortgage follows the note” and the MERS mantra that “assignments of mortgage don’t matter” Well now we’ve got a little bulletin that shows that after all the mortgage does matter. The assignments do matter. Go ahead and ...
- The Rock of Integrity
Came to bed but couldn’t sleep, my thoughts filled with Jim Travers, the terrific journalist from the Toronto Star, whose sudden passing today infused Ottawa with a sense of tragedy. So many wonderful things are being said about him that my thoughts will pale in comparison. But my insights are t ...
- Beating ‘Em In The Alley
Hockey legend Conn Smythe was by all accounts a fierce competitor, though fair. His most famous quote was characteristically blunt: “If you can’t beat them on the ice, you can’t beat them in the alley.” I wonder what he’d think about what’s going on in the House of Commons this month? The Harper ...
- Affording Democracy – All We have Left
This is the last post in the “Affording Democracy” series, but it’s likely the most important. One of the most pivotal moments in our history was when we stopped saying “we as Canadians” and began saying “They the government.” It fails to serve the public interest and leaves citizens and their r ...
- Affording Democracy – Canadian Idle
When public services are only driven through a partisan lens, the effects on a country like Canada can be devastating, in part because they occur below the surface and away from the public eye. Here’s an example of what I’m talking about. Look at this chart. We’ve heard repeatedly in the last tw ...
- Affording Democracy – Pushing the Noun
At the end of the classic movie Inherit the Wind, lawyer Spencer Tracy casts a skeptical look at the journalist played by Gene Kelly and remarks, “You never pushed a noun against a verb except to blow up something.” Even back then (1960) the media was seen as more interested in sensationalism th ...
- No Pharma Liability? No Vaccine Mandates.
by Barbara Loe Fisher On February 22, 2011 the U.S. Supreme Court shielded drug companies from all liability for harm caused by vaccines mandated by government when companies could have made a safer vaccine. 1 From now on, drug companies selling vaccines in America will not be held accounta ...
- WA State Vaccine Law Threatens Exemptions & Vi ...
by Barbara Loe Fisher If you are a resident of Washington state, you should know that there is a bill quietly sailing through your state legislature that violates your privacy and threatens your right to make informed, voluntary decisions about vaccination. House Bill 1015 1 and Senate Bill ...
- New Vaccine Science Can Help Bridge the Divide
by Barbara Loe Fisher Fear of the unknown is what terrifies us the most, fear of being unable to have control over what the future holds. At the root of that fear is knowing that the choices we make today could have a profound impact on what happens tomorrow. 1 Fear is a strong emotion ...
- Counting Blessings, Remembering the Children
by Barbara Loe Fisher Every Christmas and New Year, when I give thanks for the people who have blessed my life, I remember the mothers and fathers of severely vaccine injured children, who have taught me the most about love and courage. I know that my son, Chris, who developed brain inflamma ...
- Thousands Of Americans Register for NVIC's New ...
by Barbara Loe Fisher Thousands of Americans living in all 50 states took action and registered for the new NVIC Advocacy Portal at www.NVICadvocacy.org during Vaccine Awareness Week (Nov. 1-6, 2010) co-sponsored by the National Vaccine Informati ...
- The Seven Deadly Sins of Techno-Complacency – ...
I don’t believe it – once again I’ve let myself be talked into doing an event in Second Life. But this time it’s even worse – I’ll be hosting a combined second life and real-life event, and in effect acting as the medium between physical and virtual realities. The only compensation is that the ...
- The art of regulating nanotechnologies
The recently published International Handbook on Regulating Nanotechnologies has a rather unconventional cover image. But it’s one that I must confess I am rather pleased with. The image is a photo of a piece of Murano glass that I picked up several years ago while visiting Venice. At the time I ...
- Crowdsourcing “sinful” images for a tech talk ...
How would you illustrate the “Seven Deadly Sins of Techno-Complacency” (see below)? On March 8, I’m giving a combined Second Live/Real Life talk on emerging technologies, inspired by the Seven Deadly Sins. This will be a rather tongue in cheek affair as you might imagine, but with some serious ...
- International Handbook on Regulating Nanotechn ...
Here’s an offer I’m sure you won’t be able to resist: The opportunity to read the first and last chapters of the just-published International Handbook on Regulating Nanotechnologies – for free! Due to the farsightedness of my co-editors, the publishers have agreed to let authors post their chapt ...
- The New Toxicology of Sophisticated Materials: ...
Cross-posted from The Risk Science Blog Several months ago, I was asked by a colleague if I fancied co-authoring a review on nanotoxicology for a copy of Toxicological Sciences celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Society of Toxicology (coming out later this year). Fool that I am, I agreed. ...
- US, French, English, Special Forces Enter Liby ...
Intro: "The United States, Britain and France have sent several hundred 'defense advisors' to train and support the anti-Gadhafi forces in oil-rich Eastern Libya where 'rebels armed groups' have apparently taken over." A Nigerian evacuee walks through a dust storm at a refugee camp built by U ...
- Oil and Gas Industry Squelch Science, Control EPA
Excerpt: "Interviews with EPA scientists, and confidential documents obtained by The New York Times, show long and deep divisions within the agency over whether and how to increase regulation of oil and gas drillers, and over the enforcement of existing laws that some agency officials say are cl ...
- US, French, English, Special Forces Enter Liby ...
Intro: "The United States, Britain and France have sent several hundred 'defense advisors' to train and support the anti-Gadhafi forces in oil-rich Eastern Libya where 'rebels armed groups' have apparently taken over." A Nigerian evacuee walks through a dust storm at a refugee camp built by U ...
- Oil and Gas Industry Squelch Science, Control EPA
Excerpt: "Interviews with EPA scientists, and confidential documents obtained by The New York Times, show long and deep divisions within the agency over whether and how to increase regulation of oil and gas drillers, and over the enforcement of existing laws that some agency officials say are cl ...
- Bradley Manning Faces Death Penalty
Jim Miklaszewski and Courtney Kube report: "Following an intensive seven-month investigation, the Army on Wednesday filed 22 additional charges against Pfc. Bradley Manning, accused of illegally downloading tens of thousands of classified U.S. military and State Department documents that were th ...
- Stepping up the Resistance to U.S. Islamophobia
As Peter King, the new chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, steps up the U.S. government attack against Muslims living in the U.S., saying that he will “rely on Muslims to make his case that American Muslim leaders have failed to cooperate with law enforcement officials in the effo ...
- Mubarak Ousted! Two Down, Twenty To Go . . .
“The people have brought down the regime!” was a cry heard around the world when on Friday, February 11th, 18 days of unrelenting non-violent protest finally forced the end of Hosni Mubarak’s 30 year, US backed rule over Egypt. Ecstatic jubilation filled Cairo’s Midan al-Tahrir (Liberation Squar ...
- The Egyptian Revolution and Police Tools ̵ ...
As of this writing, the Egyptian revolution has entered its 16th day and is gaining ground and momentum: spreading to new regions, evolving into strikes and civil disobedience and clarifying its demands. What started as an impressive series of demonstrations on January 25th’s ‘Day of Wrath’ has ...
- Anti-war Activists to Grand Jury: “We will not ...
Tuesday, January 25th was the day that 23 anti-war and Palestine solidarity activists were made to appear before a Federal Grand Jury in Chicago. It was also the day that all of them refused to testify. In solidarity with those targeted by government repression, several rallies were held in citi ...
- The other “Afghanistan Report”
Whose stories are we telling about the war in Afghanistan? On the day following the White House report on the war in Afghanistan that names the war as a qualified success and calls for the U.S. to “stay the course,” we must lift up the alternative stories and reports of this near-decade of occup ...
- Pesticide use reporting bill discussed in the ...
The Maryland Department of Agriculture has surveyed MD farmers about their pesticide use just four times since 1988—most recently in 2004 when an estimated 10.7 million pounds was applied (full report). A bill heard yesterday in the Maryland General Assembly Environmental Matters Committee (Hous ...
- Health experts worldwide agree, people who eat ...
As physicians we recognize that lean meats may be a healthy part of almost anyone’s diet. However, based on the preponderance of evidence compiled by scientists and health experts across the globe, there is little doubt that a diet high in red and processed meats is linked to serious health risk ...
- Notes from New Zealand: China’s Investment in ...
CLF Director Robert S. Lawrence, MD, is on sabbatical in Auckland, New Zealand, where he is studying the country’s agriculture system. As we waited in the Sydney airport for our connecting flight to Auckland, I picked up a copy of The Australian, one of the major newspapers in Australia, and n ...
- A Blow to Industrial Dairy Farming in the U.K.
Just over a week ago, I received a phone call from Katharine Mansell, the Media Relations Manager for the U.K. World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA). What she told me was without doubt excellent news for both sustainable agriculture and public health in Western Europe. The proposal ...
- Increasing global food security: The next gold ...
What do Archer Daniels Midland, Cargill, Coca-Cola, DuPont, Monsanto, Kraft Foods, and Wal-Mart have in common? Some of the most financially successful companies in the world? Absolutely. Exploiters of workers and the environment? Some say so. The newest solution to global food insecurity and ...
- Cyprus: U.S. To Dominate All Europe, Mediterra ...
Stop NATO March 3, 2011 Cyprus: U.S. To Dominate All Europe, Mediterranean Through NATO Rick Rozoff On February 24 a majority in the Cyprus parliament voted for the country to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s Partnership for Peace program, a transitional mechanism employed to bring ...
- Stop NATO News March 3, 2011
==== stopnato-subscribe@yahoogroups.com ==== 1. U.S.-NATO European Missile Shield System Reaches New Milestone 2. Libya: Washington’s Third Front? 3. U.S. Says Mediterranean Warship Deployment Part Of Missile Shield 4. Russia Pleads Not To Be Targeted By Interceptor Missiles: NATO Control Button ...
- Stop NATO News March 2, 2011
==== stopnato-subscribe@yahoogroups.com ==== 1. Pan-European Security System: NATO Recruits Ukraine For Interceptor Missile System, Rapid Deployment Force, Cyber Warfare Operations, Horn Of Africa Deployment 2. Georgian Afghan War Deployments, Deaths “Down Payment On Admission Into NATO”: U.S. A ...
- U.S. And NATO Escalate World’s Deadliest ...
Stop NATO March 1, 2011 U.S. And NATO Escalate World’s Deadliest War On Both Sides Of Afghan-Pakistani Border Rick Rozoff The United States and its military allies in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization have entered the third month of war in Afghanistan this year, which President Barack Obama ...
- Audio/Text: NATO Becoming Global Security Force
Stop NATO March 1, 2011 Voice of Russia February 28, 2011 Is NATO to become a global security organization? Radio interview: ==== http://english.ruvr.ru/radio_broadcast/25298789/46779672/index.html See also: Africa is the next NATO goal: ==== http://english.ruvr.ru/2011/03/01/46720879.html [Roug ...
- Motorists llegally Detained at Florida Tolls & ...
WTSP.com By Mike Deeson March 3rd, 2011 Tampa, Florida –Meet Joel Chandler, who just paid his $1.00 toll on the Polk Parkway with a $100 bill, he is not allowed to leave unless he provides personal info to the toll taker. The toll taker tells Chandler this is what happens when they get large bil ...
- The Oil and Gas Industry’s 800-Pound Gorilla: ...
The Stuart Smith Blog March 3rd, 2011 An odd sort of perfect storm – involving a high-profile New York Times energy series, a quirky documentary that just missed the Oscar and federal BP-spill recovery plans – may finally address the 800-pound gorilla of our nation’s energy policy: RADIATION. Th ...
- Charlie McGrath: Wall Street Prospers, Main St ...
March 3rd, 2011 Wealth inequality has created two separate Americas – one that basks in wealth and luxury as the other struggles to survive. Founder of Wideawakenews.com, Charlie McGrath believes what’s happened in the last two years is the greatest crime in history; Wall Street is happier and h ...
- Weakness of U.S. Natural Health Laws Revealed ...
By Brandon Turbeville Activist Post March 3rd, 2011 In the previous article I discussed Codex Alimentarius and, more specifically, the DSHEA (Dietary Supplement Health Education Act) in relation to it. I pointed out that the DSHEA law, while a step in the right direction, has major holes in the ...
- Victory Gardens Produce Abundance
The Intel Hub by Cassandra Anderson - Contributing Writer March 3rd, 2011 Food is a market that will always exist. Many people are turning away from industrial farmed food, seeking healthier choices and getting back to the basics. Victory gardens in America produced up to 40% of all vegetables ...
- US: “The Lesson Of The Rodney King Beati ...
March 3, 2011 By William K. Wolfrum It was 20 years ago today in Los Angeles that four police officers, all of them white, struck African-American Rodney King more than 50 times with their wood batons and shocked him with an electric stun gun following a brief high-speed car chase. Ordinarily, t ...
- Glenn Greenwald: Bradley Manning Hit With New ...
Mar 3, 2011 DemocracyNow.org - The U.S. Army has filed an 22 additional charges against Army Private Bradley Manning, who is alleged to have illegally downloaded hundreds of thousands of classified U.S. military and State Department documents that were then publicly released by WikiLeaks. One of ...
- Nasser 56
Historic background on the Pan-Arab movement and the struggle for independence in Egypt Nasser 56, posted with vodpod
- Venezuela union leader Ruben Gonzalez jailed f ...
BBC News, 28 February 2011 // A prominent trade union leader in Venezuela has been jailed for seven years over a strike in 2009 at the state iron ore mining company. Ruben Gonzalez was convicted of crimes including unlawful assembly, incitement, and violating a government security zone. Mr Gonza ...
- Pete Seeger officially joins anti-Israel boycott
Wed, March 02, 2011 Seeger, 92, one of the fathers of American folk music, is a veteran political and peace activist. By Nir Hasson American folk music legend Pete Seeger on Monday officially joined the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign – an international movement to pressure and sancti ...
- Tahrir4Gaza – Liberation for Gaza
As the Arab people continue to exercise unarmed yet mighty power, there is one place above all others that remains at the heart of the struggle, Palestine. Despite all the money, propaganda, weapons, false imprisonment, ethnic cleansing, torture and mass-murder wielded against them, they have e ...
- The Egyptian Blockade of Gaza – February 26, 2 ...
Is there any sane, right-minded person who supports the blatant and brutal collective punishment of the people of Gaza? So why would it carry on? There is only one reason, because we allow it. I say we carry on with what the people of Egypt started, they got rid of the dictator, let us, people ...
- Global Revolution 2011
I believe the time has come to unite, those of us who are sane, who can see that the masses are comprised of so many cultures and vastly different ways of life, yet we all demand essentially the same things. We demand to be treated with respect. We demand the right to a decent way of life. We ...
- Revolutions & Manipulations
While millions of Egyptians are in the streets, in one of the most dramatic spontaneous uprisings in recent years, in an attempt to overthrow 30 years of Mubarak rule, a regime propped up by Israel and the United States, an undercurrent of opportunist plots threaten to turn this hopeful situatio ...
- Rise People Rise – The Global Revolution ...
Let us realize once and for all, that we the people are one, that we are human, that our most precious gift is that of our humanity. Let us never sacrifice it again. Together we are unstoppable. We are the sleeping giant, we are the waking lion, we are fierce and we are fearless.
- 'Optical Tweezers' App Lets Users Manipulate t ...
Just in time to take advantage of the latest round of iPad hysteria, optics researchers at the Universities of Glasgow and Bristol are launching a novel new iPad app. But this new application doesn’t let you manipulate your bank account, your current scrabble match, or your media collection. It ...
- A Memristor-Based Processor Solves Mazes, Usin ...
Those mazes you used to complete with crayons when you were a kid? They’re not just child’s play. They’re actually analogous to a lot of mathematical models and problems that require time and, in most cases, a good deal of trial and error (read: dead ends) to solve. But using memristors--resist ...
- A Long Exposure Captures Bioluminescence Below ...
This image would be cool enough if it were some kind of artistic fabrication, but the fact that it’s a real photograph is nothing short of amazing. Capturing more than one brand of nocturnal illumination, photographer Phil Hart snapped this image (and a gallery of other pics) at Gippsland Lakes ...
- New Magnet-Powered Monitor Installed In Nuke W ...
Today in cleverly designed solutions to old problems: University of Bristol engineers have devised a “hundred-year battery” that could report the state of buried nuclear waste repositories wirelessly to the surface 100 years after it--and the sensors connected to it--is buried, sealed, and ceme ...
- Artificial 'Honey Pot' Cells Lure Deadly Virus ...
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Weill Cornell Medical College have found a new means to hunt viruses the old fashioned way: by luring them in for the kill. Using artificial, protocellular “honey pots,” the researchers have devised a way to trap deadly h ...
- 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’ ...
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 ...
- Bad Timing: PM Cameron in Mideast Selling Arms
The British press is having a field day with the coalition government's apparent delay in retrieving its citizens from Libya. Delay aside, let's say there are a lot of incidents suggesting the government was caught unawares. Foreign Secretary William Hague made a gaffe a few days ago in suggesti ...
- Shipbreaking, A Dirty But Necessary Industry
A Bangladeshi colleague pointed out to me that a report he prepared for the World Bank has now come out in print form. There are probably few tasks in this world that are as "3D" (dirty, difficult, and dangerous) as shipbreaking. It involves dismantling disused vessels for scrap--usually in Bang ...
- Siberian Shuffle 2011: Russia Finally Joins WTO?
Holy moley, I have written about Russia joining the WTO for practically the entire time this blog has been in existence [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]. To be sure, the Russians themselves have been the source of delay more often that not. It had ill-advised run-ins with neighbouring states Georg ...
- LSE Alum Saif Qadhafi, Libyan Michael Corleone?
Just when I thought I was out...they pull me back in - Al Pacino as "Michael Corleone" in The Godfather III. When I was a wee lad, my uncle who was a big fan of The Godfather series forced me to watch these movies with him when I would much rather have watched The Smurfs. Being older--wiser I a ...
- IPE Zone Fully Endorses US Gov't Shutdown
It was quite an easy decision. After all, I am the sole author of the IPE Zone ;-) But seriously, I gather that one of the most popular video game series in the United States is called Unreal Tournament. In fact, I get the same feeling of unreality with budgetary discussions in the country that ...
- 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, ...
- The Real Role of the Media in the Catholic Chi ...
The paedophile protecting Pope and his seriously creepy Vatican spokespersons try to paint the role of the media in the reporting of the Catholic Church child rape tsunami as a conspiracy. They can’t quite make up their minds who exactly is behind their fallacious nonsense of a persecution. The ...
- Why Is Anyone Still A Catholic?
On the day the Egyptian people succeeded in ousting an oppressive and controlling regime noted for abuse of power and human rights abuses, it is worthwhile to evaluate the refusal of ordinary Catholics to consider the consequences of their own selfish, mindless and cowardly support for the paed ...
- The Pope Calling The Berlusconi Black
I’ve heard some pretty obvious cases of the pot calling the kettle black, but the recent controversy over the Pope ticking off Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi for child sexual exploitation shows how complete is the lack of self-awareness demonstrated by the psychopaths who surround and ...
- Let The Pope Try and Claim This Letter Was Mis ...
Since the recent emergence of a secret letter from the Papal Nuncio to Ireland written to the Irish Catholic Bishops Conference, which squashes any attempt by Irish Bishops to report child sexual abuse to the local police, the Vatican has predictably whined about the letter being “misunderstoo ...
- How Much More Evidence Do You Need Before You ...
Documentary evidence was revealed in Ireland this week proving that Catholic officials do not report sex crimes against children to the police, and that this is official Church policy originating from Rome. Such disclosures should have been answered with judicial inquiries, charges being laid, a ...
- 2011-03-04 #Saudi Arabia King Abdullah has ord ...
TweetWL Central will be updating news on Saudi Arabia, with new items added at the top. You can contact me on twitter@carwinb or by email at carwinb@hushmail.com. * (Thumbnail Source: REUTERS: Anti-riot police stand-off with protesters in the Gulf coast town of #Awwamiya, #Saudi. ) Current Data ...
- Rampant, nationwide corruption in Vietnam; how ...
TweetSystematic Corruption ruptures Vietnam with inequality Since the mid-1980s, the time when Vietnam launched the ‘Doi Moi (industrialization)’ project to boost the national economy, Vietnam has recorded remarkable GDP increase rate, 7 to 8% a year. However, the economic inequality gap and go ...
- The Internet, the spirit, the resistance – How ...
TweetDespite the fact that the communist government firmly controls the Internet and blocks any web sites that might be any ‘threat to national security’, the Internet silently mends the fire of dissent voices simultaneously around Vietnam. Courage cannot be ‘centralized’ – Farmers protest agai ...
- 2011-03-03 Meeting on 2nd March in Parliament ...
TweetOn 2nd March 2011 at 9.15am a meeting was held, organised by Andrew Laming (Liberal Party MP Bowman Qld) at Parliament House Canberra to allow federal parliamentarians who wished to attend, some insights into the matters of Julian Assange facing extradition from the UK to Sweden, and facing ...
- 2011-02-23 Next big protest in #Iraq on #Mar4 ...
TweetWL Central will be updating news on Iraq, with new items added at the top. You can contact me on twitter @GeorgieBC or by email at admin@wlcentral.org. Current time and date in Baghdad: TUESDAY, March 1 The next protest in Iraq has been set for Friday, March 4. Prime Minister Nuri Al Mal ...
- Mystery Missile Launch, Big Pharma Begins Micr ...
Once activated by stomach acid, the embedded microchip begins sensing its environment and broadcasting data to a receiver worn by the patient. This receiver is also a transmitter that can send the data over the internet to a doctor.
- 7/7: Seeds of Deconstruction
The British Government's story of what happened, how, and why is contained in three reports comprising just over 200 pages. There is virtually no forensic physical evidence in the public domain. The first two reports were published simultaneously in 2006, ten months after 7/7. One was a home off ...
- The Absurdity Of Starting A Small Business In ...
In the 1950s only about 1 in 20 Americans needed the government blessing to do their job. Today, that number is more than 1 in 3. And government puts all kinds of requirements on would be entrepreneurs making it harder for these entrepreneurs to start and grow small businesses.
- CIA Whistleblower: “Heart Attack Gun”
Senator: Does this pistol fire the dart? CIA Dir: Yes, it does, Mr. Chairman, and a special one was developed which potentially would be able to enter the target without perception.
- Naked Truth Behind Body Scanners
He's abusing his relationship with the public by pretending to be a public servant and talking about how these back-scatter scanners are going to make us safer? He stands to benefit because he's getting payed by the manufacturing companies to go all over the networks saying that these scanners a ...
- Victory in the Southern Ocean Day for the Whales
From Captain Paul Watson It’s official – The Japanese whaling fleet has called it quits in the Southern Ocean. At least for this season. If they return next season the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society will be ready to resume our efforts to obstruct and disable Japanese whaling operations. “Th ...
- Conservation News Brief
Captain Paul Watson to arrive in Australia for final preparations for Operation Musashi Friday Harbor, WA – Just days after reaffirming that they will head to the Southern Oceans alone to defend the whales in the Antarctic Whale Sanctuary, even after Greenpeace and the Australian government h ...
- Whaling Opponents Collide at Sea
On board the Steve Irwin in the Ross Sea –February 6th, 2009, 0800 Hours (Sydney Time)Â February 5th, 2009 1300 Hours (PST), 75 Degrees 44 Minutes South and 165 Degrees 39 Minutes West The Sea Shepherd ship Steve Irwin collided with the Yushin Maru No.2 this morning in the Ross Sea as the harpo ...
- Dave Foreman’s Recent Speech At Nebraska Wesle ...
Here’s a great speech Dave did in Nebraska recently. Fetzer Lecture Rewilding North America THURSDAY, MARCH 26 Click Here To Listen In!
- New Website All About Mexican Gray Wolves!
There are only 52 Mexican gray wolves in the wilds of Arizona and New Mexico. The Rewilding Institute has joined with local, regional, and national conservation, scientific, and sportsmen’s organizations, and concerned citizens in launching a new website, mexicanwolves.org, to help save this hig ...
- 2 BILLION Mobile or Cell Phone Users May Suff ...
The studies and survey conducted by Australian Health Research Institute indicates that due to billions of times more in volume electromagnetic radiation emitted by billions of mobile phones, internet, intranet and wireless communication data transmission will make almost 1/3 of the world pop ...
- Homeschooling... 54 Unique Benefits
Parents, is homeschooling the right choice for you and your children? Maybe you think you don’t have the time to homeschool because you work. Perhaps you don’t have confidence in your ability to teach your kids because you never took “teaching” courses ...
- Shocking Information About Condom Lubricants!
Kaposi's sarcoma and pneumocystis pneumonia, two of the "banner" AIDS diseases, appeared in some gay men in the major U.S. metropolitan areas in the late '70's. This cause is a chemical toxin, is still with us today, and contributes to the plight of many: it is b ...
- Agenda 21... Do You Recognize the 'Signs' of ...
�AGENDA 21 proposes an array of actions which are intended to be implemented by every person on Earth. It calls for specific changes in the activities of all people. It envisions the global scheme for�everything... healthcare, education, nutrition, agriculture, labor, production, and consumpt ...
- The 'Business' of Selling Human Body Parts
Is the human body sacred? Or is it a commodity ready to be chopped up and exposed to the forces of supply and demand? The answer is a matter of perspective. Our own body is a temple. But when we need a spare part, suddenly we’re surprisingly open to a transaction... read more
- Dr. Oz Talks Toxics in Our Drinking Water
In February, our friend Dr. Oz dedicated an entire show to the safety of the nation's drinking water. On the air, he revealed the results of the 'Dr. Oz National Tap Water Test' - a hands-on water testing experiment undertaken... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full ...
- EWG testifying on behalf of clean drinking wat ...
By Leeann Brown, Press SecretaryEnvironmental Working Group's Senior Counsel Dusty Horwitt made his fourth appearance today (March 1, 2011) before the New York City Council's Committee on Environmental Protection to highlight the risks posed by the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visi ...
- If you ask a caveman a chemistry question...
By Alex Formuzis, EWG Vice-President for Media Relations Good news. Maine governor Paul LePage claims he has read the scientific research on the health dangers posed by bisphenol-A, the plastic component and synthetic estrogen. His conclusion? "Quite... [[ This is a content summary only. Vi ...
- Fluoride in your water: How much is too much?
By Sonya Lunder, EWG Senior Scientist Last month, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) proposed that public water systems cut back on the amount of fluoride they add to drinking water. Whether you live in a city... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for fu ...
- Borax: Not the green alternative it's cracked ...
By Rebecca Sutton, PhD, EWG Senior Scientist I'm just going to start with the bad news, OK? Borax is not a green cleaning ingredient, as many have been led to believe. Yes, the 20-mule team laundry booster box has a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, othe ...
- Riches to rags: A guide to New York Mets decre ...
It's a bad sign for any business when getting sued for a billion dollars is the narrative—and then things get worse. But that's exactly what happened to the New York Mets this week, with the news that Major League Baseball had provided the team with a $25 m ...
- A Capital anticipation list: A goth night, The ...
Each week, Capital's editors will offer a list of the events, activities, releases and personal obsessions that we are looking forward to during the next week. Here is a list of our anticipations. More
- The liberal senator from New York, Kirsten Gil ...
Kirsten Gillibrand got a surprise in late February when the Obama administration announced, in a procedural about-face, that it would no longer defend the Defense of Marriage Act against legal challenges. More
- Petty crimes and misdemeanors: Theodora Richar ...
Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
- Where news of the weird is king: AOL is seriou ...
Buck Wolf is a 46-year-old reporter who’s specialized in weird news for the last 13 years and believes stories of the abnormal, the oddball and the freakish should be reported with the same vigor as more traditional news, an approach that has won his desk a ...
- Police lose patience with Americans
Norwegian police have lost patience with US officials at both the embassy in Oslo and in Washington DC. The Norwegians believe the Americans are hindering a police investigation of the US Embassy’s suspected illegal surveillance of Norwegian citizens. The police investigation of the highly cont ...
- Oil Minister out after tough year
Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg once again chose to release some jarring news in the midst of national euphoria over skiing world championships, this time a shake-up in his cabinet. His beleaguered oil minister Terje Riis-Johansen had to announce two difficult decisions earlier this week. On Fri ...
- Tragedy on the tundra of Finnmark
UPDATED: Nine young Norwegians who had set off on a snow-scooter tour from a holiday area around Skaidi in Finnmark got lost in the severe storm that hammered northern Norway on Thursday. Search and rescue crews found one of them dead during the night and two were still missing Friday morning. T ...
- Ski jumpers try to keep smiling
Their coach had ordered them to smile before taking off from the huge new Holmenkollen Ski Jump in Oslo, but it ended up not helping very much. After doing well in the first round, Norway’s ski jumpers failed to win any medals, which instead were claimed by Austria and Switzerland. Austria emerg ...
- Severe storm hits the west and north
The worst storm of the season has been rolling over western and northern Norway since Wednesday, closing roads and bridges, forcing vessels into port and leaving thousands without power from Trøndelag in the south to Finnmark in the north. The storm started Wednesday afternoon and raged througho ...
- Love Thy Neighbour
Click for full view Courtesy: Marc Roberts Digg this! Share this on Reddit Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUpon Share this on del.icio.us Share this on Facebook Post this to MySpace Add this to Google Bookmarks ...
- ACTED Looking for Permaculture Manager for Pak ...
� ACTED 2010 Contract: Fixed Term Duration: 10 months Starting Date: ASAP Location: Sindh, Pakistan Background on ACTED ACTED is an independent international, private, non-partisan and non-profit organization that operates according to principles of strict neutrality, political and religi ...
- The Ancient Taberna in a Future World
by �yvind Holmstad Ladakh, India All photographs � Craig Mackintosh A taberna (plural tabernae) was a single room shop covered by a barrel vault within great indoor markets of ancient Rome. Each taberna had a window above it to let light into a wooden attic for storage and had a wide doorway ...
- Design Exercises in Permaculture Design Certif ...
Melbourne PDC Design Photo � Craig Mackintosh It is standard format, in the PDC curriculum, that students are given an exercise to design a landscape with a design brief so they can make the move into design while being mentored by their Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) teacher. This is ...
- Natural Building Fun!
by Theron Beaudreau, Austin, Texas Building slipform walls out of woodchip mulch and paper pulp. We put together this video to show how fun natural building can be… especially if you enjoy getting a little dirty! Every Sunday I’ve been getting together with some friends to work on variou ...
- Web super-highway: The car that reads out emai ...
The world's first 'Internet car' which reads emails, Facebook and Twitter updates to the driver was unveiled yesterday.Motorists behind the wheel of the Rinspeed BamBoo can also surf the net using a series of voice commands. Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Co ...
- 10 Most Cliched Things People Give Up for Lent
As Lent approaches, many Christians and non-Christians alike prepare for the celebration of Easter by giving up something they enjoy as a sacrifice for Lent.It takes some serious willpower to keep from giving in to your temptations, but, as history shows,Submitted by Anna Smith to Society & Cult ...
- Gene therapy raises hope for a future AIDS cure
In a bold new approach ultimately aimed at trying to cure AIDS, scientists used genetic engineering in six patients to develop blood cells that are resistant to HIV, the virus that causes the disease.It's far too early to know if this scientific first....Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Welln ...
- Air travelers may have been exposed to measles
Public health officials are warning travelers and workers present at four U.S. airports on two recent days that they may have been exposed to measles from a traveler arriving from London. Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- 100 Vegan Recipes That Even Your Kids Will Eat
It's hard enough to get picky kids to eat foods that are good for them and will help them grow up strong, even without limiting the choices to only vegan options. While it might be a challenge, there are plenty of vegan recipes out there that can help ...Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Welln ...
- 2/25/11 - NEW: History of the Individual Healt ...
healthcarereform.procon.org - NEW: History of the Individual Health Insurance Mandate, 1989-2010: Republican Origins of Democratic Health Care Provision - Republicans oppose the Mar. 2010 health care reforms for many reasons, especially the provision creating an individual health care mandate w ...
- 2/23/11 - Vaccines ProCon.org - US Supreme Cou ...
vaccines.procon.org - UPDATED: Vaccines ProCon.org - On Feb. 22, 2011, the US Supreme Court ruled that vaccine injury claims must continue to be filed with the US Court of Federal Claims and cannot be filed directly against physicians or vaccine manufacturers in civil court.
- 2/23/11 - Barack Obama Declares Defense of Mar ...
gaymarriage.procon.org - Barack Obama Declares Defense of Marriage Act Unconstitutional - President Obama directed the Department of Justice today to stop defending in court the law that prevents gay marriage.
- 2/14/11 - Health Care Reform Opinion Polls/Surveys
healthcarereform.procon.org - NEW: Health Care Reform Opinion Polls/Surveys - A Jan. 15-19, 2011 poll by CBS and the New York Times found that 40% of Americans want to repeal the March 2010 health care law while 48% want to let it stand. A Dec. 14-15 FOX News poll found that 59% of respondents ...
- 2/14/11 - Help ProCon.org Win $5,000
www.procon.org - Help ProCon.org Win $5,000: Write a short review of ProCon.org by Feb. 28 for a contest at GreatNonprofits.org. The most-reviewed nonprofit wins, so please take a few minutes and help us compete for the prize!
- Health, Poisons, Diseases, Drugs • Re: Possibl ...
ahaze wrote: Damn. You mean that old domed vaporizer was actually good for something!? Just scrape off the film into gelcaps for a treatment!? I know several folks who needed this production method yesterday. Thank you /tab. If this is a cure and wich diseases it can help with, well, I am ...
- Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
a couple of ideas, and besides the topic has wandered, into 'what about dave?' What About Bob??? Substitute "Dave from Massachusetts" for Bob and Mark Glenn for Dr Leo Marvin....and hilarity ensues!!! iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptmP1lziJw4 or it could be a darker stor ...
- Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
a couple of ideas, and besides the topic has wandered, into 'what about dave?' WAS gabrielle in on it? no one becomes a senator through the usual channels and doesn't already have dirt a mile long and something or many somethings from the past which can be used by the J-Tribe inc, to silence t ...
- Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
I'm noticing an interesting trend in a lot of the footage showing the "popular revolts" in the middle east: CGI people? Specifically the footage from Iran and Libya. These are some of the points that make me think it is fake: 1) the above video shows that the Russian Military thinks some of th ...
- Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
So far only John Galliano has paid with his job, the "transgressive" designer dropped by fashion house Dior after delivering a drunken rant in a Paris bar to two women he took to be Jews: "I love Hitler," he began. "People like you ought to be dead, your mothers, your forefathers would all be ...
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Image via Wikipedia Glenn Greenwald The U.S. Army yesterday announced that it has filed 22 additional charges against Bradley Manning, the Private accused of being the source for hundreds of thousands of documents (as well as this still-striking video) publis ...
Image via WikipediaThe IG's report details how Mr. Murkin was unusually active in the proposed land exchange. Murkin, for example, facilitated a meeting with McMurry (a “”) and the Office of Solicitor after the Solicitor determined that cultural artifacts found on two large archeological tracts could prevent the t ...
March 3, 2011, Deutsche Welle (Translated by RAWA): Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) has demanded the judicial bodies of Afghanistan to investigate the case of a 17-year old girl who was raped by a local influential. The girl claimed that she was raped by the head of the Provincial Council of Kunar.
March 3, 2011, RFE/RL: Hundreds of Afghan protesters poured into the streets of the northeastern provincial capital Assad-Abad on March 2 over the death of nine civilians killed in a NATO air strike, RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan reports. NATO officially apologized on March 2 for what it called an “accident.” It said in a statement that "[the NATO-led] International Security Assistance Force apologizes...
March 2, 2011, PAN: The chief of police in eastern Kunar province on Wednesday confirmed that nine children had been killed in a NATO-led airstrike the previous day. The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said it would investigate the claims. Residents of Manogi district on Tuesday said the airstrike killed as many as 10 children as they collected firewood in Nangalam valley.
March 2, 2011, AFP: Armed conflict is keeping 28 million children around the world out of schools, where they are often targets of sexual abuse and violence, according to a report released Tuesday by UNESCO. The report titled “The Hidden Crisis: Armed Conflict and Education” said that 42 percent of children not enrolled in schools around the world live in poor countries wracked by conflict.
March 1, 2011, PAN: Taliban insurgents killed four people for allegedly spying on behalf of the US in North Waziristan, a tribal region of Pakistan close to the Afghan border, an official said on Tuesday. The dead bodies were found on a roadside on Tuesday morning in Datakhel area on the outskirts of Miranshah town, an official in the town, Mohammad Imran, told Pajhwok Afghan News.
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