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IPS - Inter Press Services

• EGYPT: Burning Questions for Mubarak's Secret ...
  The much-feared secret police and intelligence service that protected the regime of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak by arresting, torturing, and even killing opponents has started a wave of burning documents and evidence that could incriminate them, as calls escalate for abolishi ...
• WOMEN'S DAY: Rallies Planned in Iran Despite C ...
  Women's rights campaigners are hoping for a strong turnout to public rallies set to be staged across the Islamic Republic of Iran next Tuesday, despite a government crackdown on opposition demonstrators in recent weeks.
• KENYA: Profiting From Better Sanitation
  She contributed towards building toilets for her community; in return Teresia Wasuka is getting a home to call her own.
• SOMALIA: Rising Human Cost of AU Mission
  On Feb. 19, the morning after Uganda's presidential elections, Michael Muhamuza called home and spoke to his cousin and his brother; a regular check-in with the family.
• SOMALIA: New Partners for Peace Needed
  The four-year old African Union Mission in Somalia is fighting a desperate defensive action in support of a transitional government that is "corrupt and inept", according to the International Crisis Group

Scoop - NZ

• Bahrain: Uprising Gains Critical Mass
  Some 200,000 people took the main highway leading to the financial district in the capital, Manama, shouting in unison for the regime to go. Their protest is now firmly established at Pearl Square, where tents have been erected and basic amenities installed to cope with the thousands who now cam ...
• 90% of Libya in Rebel Hands
  The LAT reports that the rebellion against Muammar Qaddafi’s 41-year dictatorship in Libya headed toward an end-game on Wednesday, as Misurata, the country’s third-largest city (pop. 600,000), fell to the opposition. Significantly, Misurata is in the west of the country, where support for Qaddaf ...
• Juan Cole: Popular Army to March on Tripoli.
  Time reports that 10,000 Libyan soldiers in the east who have joined the popular forces are preparing to march on the capital, Tripoli.
• Fisk: On Gaddafi
  So even the old, paranoid, crazed fox of Libya – the pallid, infantile, droop-cheeked dictator from Sirte, owner of his own female praetorian guard, author of the preposterous Green Book, who once announced he would ride to a Non-Aligned Movement summit in Belgrade on his white charger – is goin ...
• What causes the ground to liquefy after an ear ...
  liquefaction happens when a quake shakes up water sitting in loosely packed sediment about 10 to 20 metres below the ground, turning the usually solid soil into a liquid. But it doesn't happen after every earthquake. For liquefaction to occur the affected ground has to be made up of loosel ...

Independent - London

• Lincoln asked Britain to help set up colony fo ...
  Abraham Lincoln told freed slaves they should found a colony in Latin America, and even made contact secretly with the British about making land available in what was then British Honduras, now Belize, according to a new book.
• Britain offers covert help to Libyan rebels as ...
  Libya's bloody civil war continued yesterday without a breakthrough for either side, despite intense fighting which has seen possibly more than 100 killed in the past 24 hours. But, as a no-fly zone was considered in public, in the shadowy spheres of deniability, covert assistance for the anti- ...
• Playing music to wine really makes it sing
  If one Austrian's quirky idea catches on, wine tastings could soon sound like this: Is that some Mozart in my glass? A hint of Haydn, maybe?
• Saudi Arabia bans all marches as mass protest ...
  Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil producer and the regional domino whose fall the West fears most, yesterday announced that it would ban all protests and marches. The move – the stick to match the carrot of benefits worth $37bn (£23bn) recently offered citizens in an effort to stave off the ...
• Britain offers covert help to Libyan rebels as ...
  Libya's bloody civil war continued yesterday without a breakthrough for either side, despite intense fighting which has seen possibly more than 100 killed in the past 24 hours. But, as a no-fly zone was considered in public, in the shadowy spheres of deniability, covert assistance for the anti- ...

Rogue Government.com

• Alex Jones And Charlie Sheen Are Filthy Whore ...
  There is no question that Alex Jones and Charlie Sheen are minions of the priest class elite that are pushing ahead the world government agenda.  The recent interview Jones conducted with Sheen that featured Sheen making incredibly bizarre and deranged comments on his radio broadcast has se ...
• Gold And Silver Surge On Oil Rally And Libya
  Gold rose above $1,430 an ounce on Friday, while silver surged 3 percent to 31-year highs, as soaring oil prices fueled by widening clashes in Libya prompted investors to pile into safe havens.
• China may be spending more on its military th ...
  Li Zhaoxing, China’s parliamentary spokesman, announced on Friday that the government will beef up its defence budget by 12.7 per cent this year, up from 7.5 per cent in 2010.
• One CCTV camera for every 32 people in UK
  The UK is being watched by a network of 1.85m CCTV cameras, the vast majority of which are run by private companies, according to the only large-scale audit of surveillance cameras ever conducted.
• BP directors take bonuses for year of Gulf of ...
  Byron Grote, finance director, and Iain Conn, head of downstream, had their £800,000 and £724,000 salaries and benefits topped up with rewards of £380,000 and £310,500 respectively. The bonuses amounted to 30pc of the full potential payout.

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

• Hawaii Volcano Sudden Change: Pu'u O'o Collaps ...
  At 1:42 p.m. HST this afternoon, USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) monitoring network detected the onset of rapid deflation at Pu'u 'O'o and increased tremor along Kilauea Volcano's middle east rift zone. At 2:00 p.m., Kilauea's summit also began to deflate. Between 2:16 and 2:21 p.m., ...
• Bumblebees: Gone with the Wind? A Major Disapp ...
  Bumblebees, also known as Bombus terristris, are the pollinating cousins of wasps and hornets. They are the number one pollinator for wild growing plants as well as commercial agriculture; you may have seen them flitting around your Gran's tomato plants on summer evenings, busy at work. Howeve ...
• If You Eat Organic Food, Have You Just Been Be ...
  Organic consumers and producers in the U.S. are facing betrayal. A self-appointed group of "Organic Elites", including Whole Foods Market, Organic Valley, and Stonyfield Farm, are surrendering to Monsanto. Top executives from these companies publicly stated several weeks ago that the ...
• Low carbohydrate diet very quickly effective f ...
  Yesterday my blog focused on some recent research which showed cholesterol levels had little or no relationship with what is known as 'ischaemic stroke' - essentially 'heart attacks of the brain'. On the other hand, a strong relationship was found between this most common form of stroke and le ...
• Report: Israeli company recruiting Gadhafi mer ...
  An Israeli company is recruiting mercenaries to support Moammar Gadhafi's efforts to suppress an uprising against his regime, an Israeli news site said Tuesday. Citing Egyptian sources, the Hebrew-language news site Inyan Merkazi said the company was run by retired Israeli army commanders. The ...

The Galloping Beaver

• Maple Syrup Revolution Redux
  Join Dr.Dawg and I tonight at 8 pm EST/ 5 pm PST for a hour of discussing Canadian politics. We will have a live virtual audience in Second Life in addition to broadcasting live on Blog Talk Radio (where the program will also be archived for you later listening pleasure) Following Virtually S ...
• Perspectives . . .
  "A Caligula can rule a long time, while the best men hesitate to do what is necessary to stop him, and the worst ones take advantage." — Aral Vorkosigan, "Cordelia's Honor", by Lois McMaster BujoldIggy, what are you going to do about it? Does anybody in the Liberal party have the balls? Doesn't ...
• Demotivators . . .
  PUNDIT KITCHEN is a division of the I Can Has Cheezburger empire. Delightfully irreverent.
• Parliamentary greenhouse
  The mind initially boggles. I thought this was a joke when I first read it as it seems utterly bizarre. The federal government has approved plans to build a magnificent $42-million glass dome on Parliament Hill as a new home for the House of Commons � a temporary one. The Commons will be move ...
• Fighting back . . .
  THE CONSUMERIST has a delightful tale on one guy's effort to "stick it to the man". It seems that the Wells Fargo bank is not the easiest institution to deal with. Finally, Patrick Rodgers (below) had enough, so he "foreclosed" his local branch of Wells Fargo. That got the behemoth's attention . ...

Media Matters for America

• Beck Turns To The Fringe To Validate His "Craz ...
  Glenn Beck reached to the right-wing fringe for validation of his discredited conspiracy theory about the coming Islamo-Communist global takeover: Andrew Roberts, who advocated for mass internment of Iraqis and reportedly spoke at a dinner commemorating "the white supremacist government of Rhod ...
• Beck Walks All Over Detroit In Pursuit Of "His ...
  For the past week, Glenn Beck has been heavily criticized for bashing Detroit and for comparing the Michigan city to Hiroshima after it was bombed during World War II. This isn't the first time Beck has railed against the city; he has attacked Detroit for years in pursuit of what one local past ...
• Conservative Media Push Misconception That Eff ...
  Conservative media have promoted efforts to repeal provisions of the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act, claiming that the law banned incandescent light bulbs and that Americans will no longer have choice over their light bulb purchases. In fact, the bill simply restricts the sale of ine ...
• Fox Spins Health Care Ruling To Declare "Victo ...
  Fox News has declared that the latest ruling by a Florida judge on litigation over the constitutionality of the health care reform law handed a "victory to health care opponents." In fact, the ruling actually allowed the government to go forward with enforcement of the law, and at least one Rep ...
• Limbaugh Falsely Claims There Were "No Hearing ...
  Rush Limbaugh claimed that there were "no hearings" or "meaningful conversation" on health care reform and "not much" on financial regulatory reform. In fact, Congress held dozens of hearings on both topics.Limbaugh: Health Care Reform Passed Without "Hearings" Or "Meaningful Conversation," And ...

Global Research.ca

• Helen Caldicott: Conference on the Dangers of ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• VIDEO: Hillary Clinton Admits US is Losing Inf ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• NATO’s Inevitable War: The Flood of Lies rega ...
  The colossal campaign of lies, unleashed by the mass media, resulted in great confusion in world public opinion...
• German Imperialism and the Crisis in Libya
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• International Women's Day Conference, Montreal ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.

TPM Cafe

• Weiner: There Is No Such Thing As The Occupation
  Amazing. Anthony Weiner said on Thursday (in a debate moderated by the New York Times columnist, Roger Cohen), that the West Bank is not occupied. Here is "Think Progress" on the story. Weiner is a Likud man, through and through, although, to his credit, his bigotry does not extend t ...
• The Real News on Jobs
  Are we making progress on the jobs front? The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports 192,000 new jobs in Februrary (220,000 new jobs in the private sector and a drop in government employment), and a drop in the overall unemployment rate from 9 to 8.9 percent.We're heading in the right direction but ...
• Clarence Thomas and the Politicization of the ...
  Justice Clarence Thomas, in a speech last weekend to the Federalist Society, accused his critics of "undermining" the legitimacy of the Supreme Court - politicizing it in ways that jeopardize the Court's credibility in the eyes of the public. He warned: You are going to be, unfortunately, ...
• Why Is Israel Aid Exempt From Cuts?
  Once upon a time, Social Security was considered the "third rail" of American politics. The "third rail" is the train track that carries the high-voltage power; touching it means instant death. The "third rail" metaphor has for decades been applied to Social Security, a government program so ...
• How Democrats Can Become Relevant Again (And R ...
  Republicans offered Democrats two more weeks before the doomsday shut-down. Democrats countered with four. Republicans held their ground. Democrats agreed to two.This is what passes for compromise in our nation's capital. Democrats have become irrelevant. If they want to be relevant again the ...

TruthOut

• Up Against the Open Shop - the Hidden Story of ...
  Introduction On January 29, 1993, workers at the Versatronex plant in Sunnyvale, California, filed out of its doors for the last time. Seventeen years have passed since, but there are still electronics workers in Silicon Valley who remember the company's name. It was the first Valley plant stru ...
• AFL-CIO's Trumka: No American Should Face Choi ...
  Judy Woodruff talks to Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO, a voluntary federation of 57 U.S. and international labor unions. Many AFL-CIO members would be affected by pending state-level legislation that would cut collective-bargaining rights for public employees. �
• Unemployment Edges Lower as Job Growth Returns
  The number of workers unemployed less than 5 weeks is fewer than at any point in the 90s. read more
• Three Dead Bodies
  On January 11, 2011, Kuwaiti citizen Mohammad Ghazzai al-Mutairi was reportedly beaten and tortured to death by members of the Kuwaiti police force (part of Kuwait's Ministry of Interior). Of course, in the interest of "security," what actually transpired will never truly be known. read more
• Loyalist Forces Open Fire on Tripoli Protesters
  Tripoli, Libya - Forces loyal to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi opened fired with tear gas and what a witness described as live ammunition to scatter protesters who had gathered after Friday noon prayers outside a mosque in a restive neighborhood of Tripoli, chanting slogans and defying the authorities ...

Planetsave

• Robots Achieve Self-Awareness, May Also Develo ...
  Artificial intelligence has taken a big leap forward: two roboticists (Lipson and Zagal), working at the University of Chile, Santiago, have created what they claim is the first robot to possess “metacognition” — a form of self-awareness which involves the ability to observe ones’ own thought pr ...
• Charlie Sheen Cartoon, Climate Change, and the ...
  We’ve got a lot of crazy stuff going on these days. It makes you wonder if society isn’t just increasingly obsessed with craziness and subconsciously determined to do crazy, self-destructive things… what else would explain our obsession with Charlie Sheen, our ignorance of and inaction on catast ...
• Los Angeles Approves Massive Bike Path Plan
  The Los Angeles City Council has approved a plan to add 1,302 miles of bike path to the 378 currently laid, over the next 35 years. The plan will add about 200 miles per-year as well as direct money towards advertising and safety campaigns. I don’t know how California drivers can deal with that ...
• A special thanks to Tim DeChristopher
  Pollute our air and water, leave SuperFund sites uncleaned, leave brownfields scattered around the country, and greatly contribute to climate change and you’re a billionaire. Try to prevent any of this and it’s 10 years in prison… Thank you, Tim. More on Tim DeChristopher From Planetsave: Tim De ...
• Tim DeChristopher’s Speech Following Guilty Ve ...
  Here’s Tim DeChristopher’s speech outside the courthouse following the guilty verdict he just received that could put him in prison for up to 10 years (though, the prosecution says it won’t seek that penalty):. Tell me, does he not remind you of Martin Luther King, Jr.? What the world wanted to ...

Water Quality - WordPress

• Lake Group Sets Sights on Banned Fish
  PATRICK ALEXANDER The News Guard Chinese grass carp seen as vital in fight against weed The group ch
• Stressor Identification (SI) at Contaminated S ...
  US EPA, National Center for Environmental Assessment http://cfpub.epa.gov/ncea/caddis/recordisplay.c
• A LOOK BACK-Conclusions After 12 Years
  I recently prepared a presentation for 2 scientists involved with land preservation. This gave me an
• Pharmaceutical pollutants turning up in Yucata ...
  Sinkholes (or "cenotes") provide a potential route for contamination of the flooded underg
• Too much snow!
  This article was recently brought to my attention and I found it interesting and relevant to hydrolo

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• The New York Times backs the Egyptian army By ...
  By William Bowles Featured Writer Dandelion Salad williambowles.info 10 February, 2011 “The command
• America’s Strategic Repression of the "Arab Aw ...
  by Andrew Gavin Marshall Featured Writer Dandelion Salad February 10, 2011 North Africa and the Glob
• Cindy Sheehan: How the anti-war movement is as ...
  Updated: Mar. 4, 2011 added video with Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehan’s
• US Double Standards Over Diplomat Killing in P ...
  by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad 9 February, 2011 The US has threatened to cut o
• House Blocks Parts Of Patriot Act Extension by ...
  by Bruce Gagnon featured writer Dandelion Salad Organizing Notes February 9, 2011 The House GOP lead

Axis of Logic

• Joe Rogan - The American War Machine - United ...
  Editor's Note: Joe talks rather disparagingly about the "American people" in this video. Let us quickly say that many many people in the United States see things as clearly as Joe sees them. They may not make videos like Joe's but they are also clear-minded, strong, writing or protesting in...
• "Our Town" - United States
  Iris Dement with Emmy Lou Harris and for anyone who would like to hear more from Iris - "Let the Mystery Be" Listener Comment "100 years from now, when nearly every other performer will be long forgotten, 3 names will still be remembered: Patsy, Emmylou, and Iris. The al ...
• Obama orders Gaddafi to step down, reasons wit ...
  ...
• Wisconsin workers continue protests as Democra ...
  5 March 2011 Tens of thousands of workers and young people are expected to protest in Madison and other cities throughout Wisconsin today in opposition Governor Scott Walker’s attack on the wages and workplace rights of public employees and his proposal to cut $1.7 billion from public educat ...
• Private Bradley Manning held naked at military ...
  5 March 2011 Private First Class Bradley Manning, suspected by the United States Army of being WikiLeaks’ source for thousands of classified military reports and diplomatic cables, was stripped naked in his cell Wednesday and Thursday nights. This degrading treatment at the brig at th ...

They Gave Us a Republic

• The Nightowl Newswrap
  "Armed Palace" is right - that fucker Walker is a dictator different from Gaddafi only in degree. "Wisconsin state Representative Nick Milroy (D), the lawmaker who was tackled last night while trying to enter the Capitol building in Madison, said in a statement Friday that both he and the law en ...
• Lights, Camera, Irony
  Ironic, to say the least. From Missouri State Representative Denny Hoskins' (r-noun, verb, CPA) March 4, 2011 Capitol Report: ....This week, Speaker Steve Tilley appointed me to the Missouri Film Commission. �Missouri needs to continue to work hard to attract production companies to come to Mis ...
• Everything They Do And Say Just Provides More ...
  It would be a lot easier to deal with both the teabaggers and their groupies in the Village if more people acknowledged who and what they really are. Digby: I'm wondering when people are going to recognize that not only is the Tea Party socially conservative and uhm ... racially uncomfortable, t ...
• Photo of the Day
  This has to be the prettiest penmanship I have ever seen applied to graffiti. This picture was snapped in Cairo on Saturday as protesters launched the Egyptian equivalent of Bastille Day and overran the headquarters of the secret police. Translated to English, it says "It is no longer safe for t ...
• The Daily Show fills the void our major-daily ...
  There is no intellectual incongruity or cognitive dissonance at all. Teachers are overpaid and living the Life of Riley at fifty grand plus benefits, but investment bankers are practically living in poverty at a quarter-meg. What's not to understand? Bankers, after all, work twelve months a year ...

Care 2

• OP-ED: Has the Tea Party turned on John Boehner?
  A Tea Party leader says the House Speaker's inability to win bigger budget cuts makes him look like a "fool." Is this an isolated attack or a movement in revolt?Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• criminal tattoos, criminal tattoo, mafia tatto ...
  The concept of tattoos is generally associated with bandits, criminals and gangs. Tattoo pictures illustrate that the person belongs to a gang or is part of a crime group.Submitted by Boban Radonjic to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Elephant Partners and Mara update
  From Elephant voices During January and February we (Petter and Joyce) spent some very productive weeks in the Mara ecosystem getting the pilot phase of Elephant Partners up and running. Submitted by Jill Vickerman to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Victory! Utah's Homeless Pets Will No Longer B ...
  After over 3,600 emails from Change.org members, in addition to protests from PETA and local activists, homeless pets entrusted to the North Utah Valley Animal Shelter (NUVAS) will no longer be sold for biomedical experimentation. Submitted by Mary Patricia E. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �| ...
• Greenpeace:Help hit our goal of 25,000 and we' ...
  hundreds of millions of dollars set aside for research is stalled in government bureaucracy and BP backpedaling. Submitted by Robert S. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

• The United States Isn't a Company and It Isn't ...
• Pirates Threaten Washington
• Wackos of the World, Unite!
• Reading the Tea Leaves of History
• People v. U.S. Govt

Paul Krugman

• Falling Demand for Brains?
  Of Watson, lawyers, and the future.
• Crisis at Princeton
  When the going gets tough, the tough hold conferences.
• Oy, Canada?
  Looking bubblicious up north.
• Jobs in Perspective
  It only looks good because things have been so bad.
• The Madness of Jean-Claude Trichet
  The real policy, explained without the euphemisms.

No Quarter

• Children of the Corn – Islamist Style (& Open ...
  The NYT published a piece today about a disturbing video. This video shows little boys play-acting suicide bombing. Video below the fold. According to the Times: A Taliban spokesman said the insurgents did not make the video. And though he expressed regrets that such things had become reality ev ...
• Employment Bamboozlement
  * Bumped Up * Welcome to the magical world of Barack Obama and his media enablers. And yes, Fox News was doing its part to cheer-lead the glorious news that the ECONOMY HAS TURNED AROUND AND JOBS ARE GROWING LIKE DANDELIONS IN SPRING. Don’t get me wrong. I really wish it were true. But it [...]
• “Live Free or Die”: The Unintended Consequence ...
  Editor’s Note: John Huey, a security professional involved with aviation security issues for 28+ years, has published several articles for NoQuarter. Learn more about John Huey below. _________________________________________________ Iâve been quiet on these pages the past month or so and have b ...
• Iranian expert on the “revolution” getting “hi ...
  Iran expert Abbas Milani, Director of Iranian Studies at Stanford University and a research fellow and co-director of the Iran Democracy Project at the Hoover Institution, appeared last night (March 3, 2011) on PBS’s Charlie Rose Show. Charlie Rose asked Dr. Milani about the “revolution” that is ...
• Employment Bamboozlement
  Welcome to the magical world of Barack Obama and his media enablers. And yes, Fox News was doing its part to cheer-lead the glorious news that the ECONOMY HAS TURNED AROUND AND JOBS ARE GROWING LIKE DANDELIONS IN SPRING. Don’t get me wrong. I really wish it were true. But it is a load of [...]

Environmental Graffiti

• The Strange Phenomenon of Weddings Held in Fun ...
  Funeral homes don't have to be all about the dead. They can also be events centers and become immune to the economic hardships now facing businesses everywhere. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
• 13 Sublime Images of Animals Face-Offs
  Incredible images of animal interactions read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• 11,500 Year Old Ice Age Child Found in Prehist ...
  In an excavation trench at an Alaskan archaeological site, remains of 11,500 year-old Ice Age child were found. It's a truly breakthrough discovery. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• How the Cleaner Fish Shows it Pays to be Selfless
  Cleaner fish show that selfless behavior may not be as charitable as was previously thought. Find out why... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• The Eden Project Seen in Incredible Pictures
  The Eden project reaches celebrate its 10-year birthday this month. Read about what it's all about and how it grew into the spectacular site we know it as today. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...

Foreign Policy in Focus

• Bradley Manning: Death by Elastic Underwear Wa ...
  After all, Pfc. Manning has already harmed himself with his irony.
• Gaddafi's Ace In The Hole? Algeria (Part 2)
  Gaddafi's survival is due, in part, to Algeria's military and diplomatic backing.
• Neo-Con Hawks Take Flight over Libya
  On Wednesday, Obama said his staff was preparing a "full range of options" for action.
• What Does it Mean to be Gay in Uganda?
  Being gay in Uganda is tough. Being a gay activist in Uganda is much tougher.
• All-American Decline in a New World
  Seeing Arabs demanding something we were convinced was the birthright and property of the West, of the United States in particular, has to send a shiver down anyone's spine.

Global Elite

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

Al Jazeera

• Gunfire erupts in Libyan capital
  Heavy shooting reported in Tripoli, as protests against Muammar Gaddafi's more than 41-year-old rule continue.
• Gaddafi seeks UN probe into unrest
  Libyan leader says UN or AU should launch an investigation into unrest rocking his country.
• Egypt names new interior minister
  Appointment comes after protesters storm state security buildings claiming that secret documents are being destroyed.
• Thousands protest in Bahrain
  Demonstrators gather outside PM's office in capital, Manama, demanding premier step down and monarchy be overthrown.
• Yemeni soldiers killed in attack
  Suspected al-Qaeda fighters open fire on military vehicle, killing four in the province of Marib.

Green Inc. - NYT

• Energy Geeks Converge on M.I.T.
  Iindustry insiders, eager start-ups and freelance energy enthusiasts survey ideas for solving the planet's seemingly intractable energy problems at the sixth annual M.I.T. Energy Conference.
• The Eastern Cougar: Dead or Alive?
  There's a certain atavistic frisson provoked by an encounter with a species that humans have hunted, and have been hunted by, since the era of cave paintings.
• China Plans Efficiency Push
  As a net importer of oil, China tends to view its energy needs as a matter of national security.
• On Our Radar: The Most Typical Person in the World
  As the world's population approaches seven billion, National Geographic analyzes commonaltiies.
• News Corp. Is Carbon-Neutral, Murdoch Declares
  Even as Fox News commentators like Sarah Palin argue that mandated reductions in carbon dioxide emissions would be fatal to the economy, the channel's corporate parent has cut its emissions and reaped financial benefits.

Dot Earth News

• NASA Scientist Sees Signs of Life in Meteorites
  A NASA scientist publishes fresh analysis showing signs of extraterrestrial life -- fossil cyanobacteria -- in three meteorites.
• Behind China's Shift on Energy and Growth
  Many factors conspire in shaping China's economic and energy plans
• No Glory (Satellite) in Space
  Another NASA satellite launch fails, hampering efforts to clarify persistent climate questions.
• Play and Progress
  On having fun while cleaning up.
• A Hybrid Path to Feeding 9 Billion on a Still- ...
  An environmental scientist and an environmental campaigner make the "green" case for intensified agriculture.

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

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

Daily Censored

• Reading The Writing On The Pyramids
  By Obi Egbuna The entire planet is growing increasingly sick and tired of the Western World’s attempts to forcefully shove its pro-imperialist point of view concerning the recent political developments in Egypt down our throats. Since each and every outlet of the Imperialist media apparatus from ...
• Diane Ravitch Uncensored
  Since the economic crash of 2008, one driven by rampant, unregulated greed and speculation frighteningly illustrated by the Academy Award winning documentary Inside Job, Wall Street has deftly side-stepped vilification, the superrich walking away with fortunes – and reputations – in tact.   And ...
• Corporate funded fascists working hard to defe ...
  The fascists at Fox work non-stop, 24/7 to bring their message of corporate fascism to a bewildered American population.  They also work day and night to advise their supplicant coin-operated politicians how to divide and conquer the working class in the interest of corporatiziing the state. The ...
• On Child Abuse, Therapy, and “Blood to a ...
  On Child Abuse, Therapy, and âBlood to a Vampire.â The Business of Child Abuse By Joshua Allen   To misquote WC Fields; “Therapy to a Social Worker is like Blood to a Vampire.” Therapy is the number one tool that Social Workers use to assist Abused and Neglected children through the continuing c ...
• First there was Dumb and Dumber…
  Now we have greed and greedier.   I remember when movies were ridiculously inexpensive.  In high school, one could take his girlfriend out for movie and a pizza for around twenty dollars.  Baseball and football games were more expensive, but were not cost prohibitive.   Today, if you are a fan, ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

• "I Had to Accept That I Could Be Sexually ...
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Institute for Policy Studies

• Don't "No-Fly" Libya
  What would a no-fly zone in Libya mean? A bit of history may provide some perspective.
• Interview with Raed Jarrar and Niki Akhavan
  In our special focus on Islamophobia, analysts Raed Jarrar and Niki Akhavan look at the roots of Islamophobia, how anti-Islamic sentiment has shaped U.S. foreign policy, and the relationship between faith and violence.
• Mexico's Hot Money Challenge
  NAFTA undercuts Mexico's ability to control a sudden influx of volatile financial investment.
• The Twilight of Tyranny?
  Are we seeing the last of the world's dictators?
• The Lineup: Week of February 28-March 6, 2011
  Tracy Fernandez Rysavy underscores concerns about radiation from cell phones, Donald Kaul weighs in on Wisconsin's uprising, and Mary Anne Hitt puts the GOP attack on EPA funding in context.

Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

• Skippy Recalls Reduced Fat Creamy and Super Ch ...
  Unilever United States, Inc. today announced a limited recall of Skippy® Reduced Fat Creamy Peanut Butter Spread and Skippy® Reduced Fat Super Chunk Peanut Butter Spread, because it may be contaminated with Salmonella, an organism that can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young ch ...
• Cheese and Dairy Importers face criminal charges
  According to AP, a Miami couple and their company face federal charges of importing cheese and other dairy products into the U.S. that were contaminated with Salmonella and other bacteria. Federal prosecutors say 41-year-old Yuri Izurieta and 46-year-old Anneri Izurieta are charged with smuggli ...
• Hazelnuts shipped to Minnesota, Iowa, Michigan ...
  Being up early here in Istanbul (Morning Prayer call is 5:30 AM and the Minaret is 100 meters away), this press release from the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) and the Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) dropped into my inbox: MDH and MDA are working with counterparts in Wisconsin, ...
• "A room with a view" in Istanbul
  Aya Sofya, built by Emperor Justinian, is a former Orthodox patriarchal basilica, later a mosque, and now a museum in Istanbul, and right outside my window on the Europe side of the Bosphorus. From the date of its dedication in 360 A.D. until 1453, it served as the cathedral of Constantinople, ...
• Traceability after Spinach
  Sara Rubin of the Monterey County Weekly wrote a thought-provoking story on traceability in the produce industry – “From the Field to the Fork, Tracing the Traceability Issue.” The piece is worth a read – especially some of the quotes: The flipside of protection is increased exposure for the cu ...

AutoblogGreen

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

Rafe's Radar

• Manilla vs. PageOnce: Building better bills
  The paper bills you get in the mail? Holdovers from a bygone time. But they'll be with us for a while yet, judging by the current state of the art in online billing. ...
• Add social context to your e-mail in-box
  Free tools Xobni, Rapportive, and WhoSent.it make your incoming e-mail a lot more useful.
• Rob Glaser's SocialEyes: Facebook-connected vi ...
  Glaser's latest venture is a videoconferencing company with an interesting, new social dynamic.
• E-mail innovator pitches self-deleting e-mails
  OtherInBox CEO Joshua Baer proposes a standard that would let e-mail messages carry with them the date of their own deaths.
• NeuAer lets you tag the radio signature of your ex
  CueCat inventor's new real-world tagging technology uses all the sensors in your phone.

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

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

Digg Green

• APOD Pic of the Day: Cooling Neutron Star
  Supernova remnant Cassiopeia A (Cass A) is a comfortable 11,000 light-years away. Light from the Cass A supernova, the death explosion of a massive star, first reached Earth just 330 years ago. The expanding debris cloud spans about 15 light-years in this composite X-ray/optical image, whil ...
• BOK Globules & Black Holes: Prime Habita ...
  If AI-powered machines evolved, we would be more likely to spot signals from them than from them. "But having now looked for signals for 50 years, we are going through a process of realizing the way our technology is advancing is probably a good indicator of how other civilizations - if the ...
• It's Healthy To Stare At Women's Chests ( ...
  The guys at Fox News have dug up some report that claims it's healthy for guys to stare at women's chests. If that's true, how do you explain the excessive drooling that results?
• Can you predict your mate will cheat by t ...
  When choosing a partner, women believe the lower the man's voice, the more likely he's going to cheat. Conversely, men think a woman with a higher voice is more likely to be unfaithful, researchers have found. The study is the first to examine the link between voice pitch and perceived infi ...
• Aussie Brewery Creates First Beer to be D ...
  An Australian brewing company has created the world's first beer that can be consumed in space. 4-Pines Brewing Company teamed up with Saber Astronautics Australia, tirelessly testing different brews on zero-G flights last year. They have now finalized the winning formula, calling the beer ...

Invisible Opportunity

• Walking Like a Stroke Victim down Heart Attack ...
  By Les Visible If you’ve ever been in the Deep South or the Midwest, you’ve seen the kind of storm I’m talking about. You can get them anywhere in the US but they are more consistently dramatic in particular locales. There’s a build up to these storms. You can feel the pressure and humidity that ...
• Is a False Flag Nuclear Incident Being Sold as ...
  Given reports of CIA operative Raymond Davis’s provision of “nuclear fissile material” to Al Qaeda operatives and additional talk of “WMD’s” being smuggled into the United States, one should take a critical look at the timing of the following National Geographic article explaining how a nuclear ...
• Israel’s Hidden Faces : A Long Day’s Night for ...
  By Alan Sabrosky The Implications of WTC7 * First, the controlled demolition of WTC7 means if one building at the WTC was wired for a controlled demolition, then all three were. * Second, the impacting civilian airliners were intended to provide a gruesome and shocking distraction that would fac ...
• Carry-On Luggage cost Tax Payers $260 million ...
  Choosing to carry your luggage onto a plane instead of checking it with an airline might save you a few bucks at the ticket counter but it’s costing taxpayers about a quarter-billion dollars a year. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told Congress this week that luggage fees have promp ...
• Computer expert says US behind Stuxnet worm
  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-depth Stuxnet analysis at a prestigious TED co ...

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

• Missed Opportunity: Obama and Calderon Fail to ...
  Mexican President Felipe Calderon and President Obama ignored the elephant in the room in their meeting -- drug prohibition is the cause of prohibition.
• Drug Users of the World Unite!
  America's longest running war is not in Afghanistan or Iraq. It's the 40-year war on drugs - and the war on drugs is a war on us.
• The Good, the Bad and the Terrifying Proposals ...
  We should celebrate our success curbing cigarette smoking and continue to encourage people to cut back or give up cigarettes, but let's not get carried away.
• Why This Cop Asked the President About Legaliz ...
  The president’s YouTube comments are a tremendous first step for a more open national dialogue on drug reform.
• How Does the Drug Industry Get Away with Broad ...
  The U.S. is one of only two countries in the world that allows Big Pharma to advertise directly to consumers. How did we get here?

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

• Incredible Ice Castles Grown by a Minnesota Ma ...
  Read the rest of Incredible Ice Castles Grown by a Minnesota Man Using Geothermal Heating Systemhttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Art, art s ...
• Frankenstein’s Curious Biodegradable Designs A ...
  Natural, local, long-lasting, cheap and biodegradable - adobe just seems to be the perfect sustainable material for experimenting with new shapes! Inspired by her experience in India, designer Karin Auran Frankenstein spent years helping locals make furniture based on this ancient construction m ...
• David Portiz Unveils the Destruction of the Am ...
  Read the rest of David Portiz Unveils the Destruction of the Amazon Caused by Oil Pollutionhttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: ChevronTexaco, ...
• SkHook is a Sporty Coat Hanger Made From Old Skis
  If your old skis that have served you well for so many years are now just collecting dust, why not turn them into a cool and useful new item for your home? SkHook is a coat hanger made of old skis that celebrates the winter sport while organizing your outerwear. The simple structure consists of ...
• Traverwood Library Built From Beetle-Damaged T ...
  Read the rest of Traverwood Library Built From Beetle-Damaged Trees Harvested On-Sitehttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Ann Arbor Traverswood ...

Pogue's Posts

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

WIRED Magazine | Science

• Satellites See Evidence of One-Two Asteroid Pu ...
  New images from two Mars-orbiting satellites capture times when the planet was pummeled by at least two meteorites at once. The slug-shaped crater above, photographed on Aug. 4, 2010 by ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft, was probably carved by a chain of projectiles coming in at a shallow angle. Th ...
• NASA’s Climate-Tracking Glory Satellite Fails ...
  By Mark Brown, Wired UK The rocket carrying NASA’s Glory satellite, an observation spacecraft designed to study the effect atmospheric particles have on the planet’s climate, has failed to reach orbit due to an engineering glitch with its nose cap. The Taurus XL rocket blasted off from the Van ...
• Cosmic Rays May Not Come From Supernovas
  The confirmed origin of ordinary cosmic rays may need to be unconfirmed. New data gathered by an instrument onboard a Russian spacecraft challenge the theory that most cosmic rays are fueled by supernovas, the explosions created by dying stars. “The mechanism for the acceleration of cosmic ...
• 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 ...

PakAlert

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

Andy Worthington

• Pressure for Change Continues in Egypt: PM Res ...
  In the three weeks since I last wrote about Egypt, following the fall of the dictator Hosni Mubarak and the assumption of control by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, a key question I asked at the time has, at least partly, been answered. That question was: “whether enough people will sta ...
• Deranged Gaddafi Blames Ex-Guantánamo Prisoner ...
  Colonel Gaddafi has long demonstrated a fundamental disregard for the life of the Libyan people, Not content with murdering 1,200 prisoners in the Abu Salim prison massacre in June 1996, he then allowed men like Fouad Assad ben Omran, who recently spoke to Lindsey Hilsum of Channel 4 News, to ma ...
• Libyan Blogger Tells the Truth About Life and ...
  The news — mostly bad, occasionally uplifting — is so relentless on so many fronts at present that I missed this extraordinary article on the Guardian’s Comment is free on Tuesday by a Libyan blogger, writing under the pseudonym Muhammad min Libya, who not only urged foreign forces not to interv ...
• US Rendition and Torture: A New Front for Acco ...
  The mainstream media in the US may not care about the significance of the Spanish National Court’s recent decision to allow an investigation into torture at Guantánamo to proceed (the story was ignored by both the New York Times and the Washington Post, even though the Center for Constitutional ...
• Death Penalty for Bradley Manning, the Alleged ...
  Alleged WikiLeaks source Pfc. Bradley Manning, who has been in US custody since last May, after he reportedly told a former hacker that he had passed thousands of classified US military documents and diplomatic cables to WikiLeaks, had 22 new charges filed against him on Tuesday by the US Army, ...

Environment _ National Geographic

• Pictures: Deadly Mud Volcano to Erupt for 26 M ...
  NoneEnough mud to fill 56,000 swimming pools is expected to spew from the Indonesian volcano before it simmers down, a new study says.
• Fire Tornado Seen Spinning Over Hungary
  A tornado with blazing innards whirled above a burning plastic-processing plant outside Budapest, Hungary, on Tuesday.
• Bolivia Landslide Photos: Neighborhoods, Cemet ...
  NoneDuring this week's Bolivian landslide, whole neighborhoods and even a cemetery split, with land falling multiple stories downhill.
• Dolphin-Baby Die-Off in Gulf Puzzles Scientists
  An unusual number of dead young dolphins are washing up on the Gulf Coast. Puzzled scientists warn it's too soon to blame the BP oil spill.
• Rarest Rhino Filmed
  Critically endangered and rarely seen rhinos with their calves were filmed by WWF in Indonesia with motion-activated cameras. Video.

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

• Split Verdict in Conspiracy Trial of Three Pen ...
  Three former Pennsylvania police officers who were accused of conspiring to cover up the beating death of a Mexican immigrant two years ago were cleared on Thursday of the most serious charges against them. But the verdict did not absolve them of all wrongdoing. The officers were accused of alte ...
• Anti-Gay Christian Group Uses Deception to Rai ...
  The anti-gay Traditional Values Coalition (TVC) once again is turning to a highly valued traditional device to raise funds: fear and falsehoods. The Christian Seniors Association (CSA), a front group of the TVC, recently sent out a fundraising letter claiming that the Matthew Shepard and James B ...
• Arizona Jury Hands Nativist Murderer Shawna Fo ...
  Shawna Forde, the anti-immigrant vigilante leader who orchestrated the murder of a Latino man and his 9-year-old daughter, will receive the death penalty, a Pima County, Ariz., jury decided today. The decision is binding on the judge hearing the case. The case of Forde, a one-time member of the ...
• Militia Figure Shawna Forde Found Guilty of Ar ...
  Concluding a three-week trial that exposed the most unsavory side of Arizonaâs militant border vigilante movement, a jury on Monday found Shawna Forde guilty of two counts of first-degree murder for the May 2009 killings of Raul Flores, 29, and his 9-year-old daughter in the border town of Ariva ...
• After Vicious Anti-Muslim Rally, a Deafening S ...
  The silence from those who organized and promoted a California anti-Muslim protest that devolved into a revolting display of hatred has been deafening. A major Muslim organization released a video compilation earlier this week that depicted a Feb. 13 rally in Yorba Linda promoted by several Musl ...

change: org.

• Last Chance for Justice in Death of 17 Year-Ol ...
  In the next few days, thousands of supporters will make a final push to prevent a plea deal that would allow those responsible for the heat death of a 17-year-old farmworker to get off with community service. The nation was shocked when 17-year-old farmworker Maria Isabel Vasquez died from heat ...
• Ontario Politicians Shut Out Gay Press on Cath ...
  Ontario politicians are shutting out the gay media over the province's Catholic school boards banning gay-straight alliances (GSAs). Gay news outlet Xtra reports that they have received the silent treatment from top officials, despite the fact that public dollars fund Catholic schools in Ontario ...
• Michigan Activists: There's a Difference Betwe ...
  Conservation biologist Tom Funke is not parsing words when he says there are important differences between a "preserve" and a "park." As he recently gave two Calhoun County commissioners a tour through the Ott Biological Preserve in Michigan he said: "I represent the position that the Ott Biolog ...
• Florida Bill Would Make Documenting Animal Cru ...
  Undercover investigations have been critical in exposing the reality of factory farm cruelty, from the sadistic abuse of calves at Conklin Dairy in Ohio, to pigs going insane from extreme confinement in gestation crates at a Smithfield facility, to birds forced to spend their lives in battery ca ...
• BP Still Doing Business in Libya Despite UN Sa ...
  As unrest in Libya grew into full fledged violent clashes, Change.org member Alyssa Kwan saw a crucial chance to make a difference: calling on BP, one of the largest companies doing business with the Gaddafi regime, to suspend operations in Libya. She launched a concise and effective petition, w ...

Common Dreams -News

• Libya Stalemate, but Eruption of Savage Fighti ...
  Forces loyal to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi have encircled rebels in the town of Zawiyah after a day of pitched battles in the far west and east of Libya that intensified the pressure on the embattled dictator. read more
• Saudi Arabia Says Won't Tolerate Protests
  RIYADH - Saudi Arabia warned potential protesters on Saturday that a ban on marches would be enforced, signalling the small protests by the Shi'ite minority in the oil-producing east would no longer be tolerated. "The kingdom's regulations totally ban all sorts of demonstrations, marches, sit-in ...
• Michael Moore in Madison: 'This is our Last Ch ...
  Filmmaker Michael Moore will march with members of Madison Firefighters Local 311 to the Wisconsin Capitol today and join a mass rally at the King Street entrance around 2 p.m. read more
• Republicans Attack Obama's Environmental Prote ...
  It started on a sultry day in Houston when hundreds of protesters, mostly oil company employees, were bussed to a concert hall in their lunch hour to rally against a historic first step by Congress to reduce the pollution that causes climate change. ...
• Wisconsin Gov. Walker Threatens 1500 Layoffs i ...
  MADISON, Wis. — Thousands of Wisconsin state workers were bracing for layoff notices Friday as the Republican governor and absent Democratic lawmakers remained in a standoff over a budget balancing bill that would also strip public workers of their collective bargaining rights. ...

Lifehacker

• From the Tips Box: Free HDMI Cables, Android V ...
  Readers offer their best tips for getting free HDMI cables, and changing the volume in Android, and running recent commands in Windows. More��
• This Week's Most Popular Posts [Highlights]
  This week we made a little extra pocket cash online in our spare time, improved our work life with small adjustments, toured the upcoming version of OS X, turned our BitTorrent- and Usenet-downloading computers into the greatest TiVo known ...
• Preview Open Tabs in Firefox When Cycling Thro ...
  Ctrl+Tab is handy for cycling through your Firefox tabs, but reader More��
• Adblock Plus for Chrome Updates, Finally Almos ...
  Chrome: Adblock Plus—the ad-blocking browser extension that does exactly what the name implies—has just updated on Google Chrome with significant improvements, and is now basically on par with the quality of the Firefox version. More » ...
• Make a Minimalist IKEA-Hacked Laptop Desk on t ...
  If IKEA's laptop desk offerings are a bit too small for your taste and a regular desk is too big, this IKEA-hacked laptop desk is a great alternative. All you need is some legs and a shelf. More��

Water Privatization

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

Guardian

• Afghan security firms paid £29m
  Figures released under the Freedom of Information Act confirm growing reliance on privatisation underpins Britain's war effortA record £29m worth of contracts were awarded last year to British private security firms in Afghanistan, fuelling fears over the increasing privatisation of the UK's mil ...
• Architects do matter, Mr Gove
  The education secretary claims architects have 'creamed off' money that could have gone to teachers. It's time he opened his eyes to the far-reaching benefits of a beautifully designed schoolIf Michael Gove were a building, he would leak. He would crack and crumble on faulty foundations. He woul ...
• 'The slightest remark gets me crazy'
  As her captivating new album shows, the Swedish singer is a lover and a fighter. But why is she so sensitive?After the success of her first album, 2008's Youth Novels, Lykke Li went to Los Angeles to write the follow-up. She rented a small cabin in Echo Park and a big piano to put in it, along w ...
• India: smartest country in the world?
  From rocket science to DNA research, India is ridding itself of its poor country image. In this extract from her book Geek Nation, Angela Saini visits Lavasa, an emerging electronic 'dream city' where machines will ruleA1,000-mile stretch of high hills blanketed in forests near India's west coas ...
• Nancy Spero at the Serpentine
  Gallery: London gallery is hosting a retrospective of the American artist's work

McClatchey

• Genetically altered salmon spook Northwest law ...
  WASHINGTON — Fearing for the wild salmon industry in the Northwest, Democratic Sen. Patty Murray of Washington state wants to stop the Food and Drug Administration from making a quick decision on whether to approve genetically modified Atlantic salmon for human consumption.
• Genetically altered salmon spook Northwest law ...
  WASHINGTON — Fearing for the wild salmon industry in the Northwest, Democratic Sen. Patty Murray of Washington state wants to stop the Food and Drug Administration from making a quick decision on whether to approve genetically modified Atlantic salmon for human consumption.
• Changing his ways, Rogers helps lead GOP effor ...
  WASHINGTON — Rep. Hal Rogers is undergoing a makeover of sorts.
• Rebels advance on Gadhafi's hometown, repel as ...
  BENGHAZI, Libya — A ragtag rebel force in pickups and commandeered tanks advanced Saturday from eastern Libya on Moammar Gadhafi's heavily defended hometown of Sirte as their counterparts in the western city of Zawiya repulsed fresh assaults by the dictator's forces, witnesses and news re ...
• Egyptian protesters storm State Security HQ in ...
  CAIRO, Egypt — Trudging through dungeon-like cells and mounds of shredded documents, hundreds of Egyptians on Saturday surged into the Cairo headquarters of the dreaded State Security apparatus for an unprecedented look inside buildings where political prisoners endured horrific torture.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

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

The Wonk Room

• What The Frack: More Dangers Of Hydraulic Frac ...
• DeMint Rails Against ‘Massive Salaries&# ...
  Our guest blogger is Kristen Bartoloni, Researcher for Progress Central. In a Wall Street Journal column today, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) rails against “massive salaries” the executives at NPR and PBS are “raking” in, and how cutting their subsidies would save taxpayers hundreds of millions of doll ...
• GOP Outraged After Being Called Out On False & ...
  Yesterday, before the House passed a measure to repeal the 1099 reporting requirement provision from the Affordable Care Act, Republicans took umbrage at the suggestion that they had mischaractarized the law as a “government takeover” of health care and forced Democrats to strike the accusation ...
• Five Republican Senators Join Effort To Block ...
  The Obama administration has been trying to implement new regulations governing the for-profit college industry — which makes the vast majority of its revenue from the taxpayer while leaving scores of students crippled with debt and bleak job prospects — but has run into staunch opposition in th ...
• Orrin Hatch Doubles Down: Health Law ‘Wo ...
  Earlier this week, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) seemed to apologize for referring to the Affordable Care Act as a “one-size-fits-all federal government dumb-ass program” and “an awful piece of crap.” But last night, during an appearance on Fox News’ ‘On The Record,’ Hatch — who may face a Tea Party c ...

thwap's schoolyard

• thwap the Media Whore
  What is it with David Bowie? I'm 44. I met my partner about, oh, I don't know, ... six or seven years ago? She's a fair bit younger than I am. A good friend of mine is in his mid-fifties and his partner is a couple of years older than he is. So, anyway, in an early holiday present avalanche, I ...
• The Arabs Need Us
  That's supposed to be a deliberately provocative title. But I do mean it a little bit. The revolutions in the Middle East have shown (to all the nit-wits out there who deny the reality that the democratic impulse is common to all people) that the Arabs don't need us to teach them how to be democ ...
• Contempt for Parliament = Contempt for US
  This is the problem with becoming inured to the revolting nature of Canada's political culture. 30% of the electorate is so ignorant, or so stupid, or so greedy, or so debased, that they think voting for stephen harper's party is a sane political option. And then pretty much everybody who matte ...
• What About Mexico?
  Just a quick thought about Mexico: Mexico is a relatively poor country that has become (like Canada) an appendage of the ailing US economy. The downturn in the US economy has obviously had a negative impact on the maquiladoras and sweat-shops that were created to serve US transnationals. But don ...
• Century of the Self
  Good show ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

• Horton reports again on Obama Administration's ...
  In April 2009, the Department of Justice (DOJ) served a subpoena on New York Times reporter James Risen. DOJ wants to know his source for a story he published in his book, State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration. The book describes a horribly botched CIA effort to ...
• Solution Zone discussed The Whistleblower's Ha ...
  NWC Executive Director Stephen M. Kohn was Christiane Brown’s guest on The Solution Zone. They discussed Mr. Kohn's new book, The Whistleblower’s Handbook. You can listen to the archived show on Progressive Radio Network by clicking here. You can purchase your own copy of The Whistleblower's ...
• Solution Zone will discuss the Handbook today ...
  NWC Executive Director Stephen M. Kohn will be Christiane Brown’s guest on The Solution Zone today from 3:00 to 4:00 pm EST. They will be discussing The Whistleblower’s Handbook. We encourage you to listen and call in with your questions for Mr. Kohn. You can listen live on the Progressive Radi ...
• Standing Room Only at Whistleblower's Handbook ...
  Last night, leading whistleblower attorney and Executive Director of the National Whistleblowers Center, Stephen M. Kohn, held an author talk and book signing for his new book The Whistleblower’s Handbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Doing What's Right and Protecting Yourself, also released that day ...
• Washington Times and FSN discuss importance of ...
  Why is Bradley Birkenfeld serving a forty-month prison sentence for giving up his career in private banking and netting billions of dollars in lost tax revenue for American taxpayers? The answer was simple, according to Birkenfeld’s lawyer and the Executive Director at the National Whistleblowe ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

• ChurchHatesTucker's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of ...
  This week's favorites are from ChurchHatesTucker, who has been contributing to the community here for many, many years, providing all sorts of useful stories and insights. If you read Techdirt for any length of time, you start to expect certain stories: ICE is off the hook, the BSA is against ...
• Is The Internet Enabling Bad Content... Or Kil ...
  One of the common refrains we hear from the modern Luddite is that one of the awful things about today's internet culture is that it's flooded with too much "crap." One of our regular critics in the comments insists that key point and our failure to realize what this means for the world is why ...
• Amazing: A Long, Detailed Article On Hollywood ...
  On the Media points us to an worthwhile article at GQ by Mark Harris that explores why all the major Hollywood studios are so afraid to invest in new quality films these days. Instead, it's all about sequels and derivative works -- anything that comes prebuilt with a "brand" because the marketi ...
• Judge Says No Anonymity For Anyone Who Visited ...
  In what seems like a very dangerous ruling, antithetical to basic anonymity rights, a magistrate judge has ruled that Sony can unmask anyone who visited GeoHot's website where he had posted the jailbreak data or who viewed the YouTube video that demonstrated the jailbreak for the PS3 that allowe ...
• DailyDirt: Evolution Made Some Smart Stuff Oth ...
  We've pointed out some smart birds recently, but we shouldn't leave out the other smart critters out there. They might be smart enough to be offended, after all. So here are a few more examples of animals that might be able to look at themselves in the mirror and recognize they're still alone. ...

VacTruth

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

BroadSnark

• To All the Marriage Pushers
  If I have to read one more article on how a group of people must somehow be damaged because they aren’t in a 1950s nuclear family, I am going to spit nails. Kay S. Hymowitz has a piece in the Wall Street Journal where she complains that men in their twenties “hang out in…a hybrid state [...]
• Things You Might Have Missed
  A short post this week, as I just got back from a HIPS benefit production of the Vagina Monologues and I have had a bit too much to drink.  I think it was the booze-infused cunt cake that finally did me in. Please read this post on government medical experiments on people.  I knew about [...]
• On Catholicism and Reform
  I’ve been thinking a lot about how you determine whether or not something is worth saving/fixing/reforming – whatever. What got me thinking about this was a book I read called A World Without Women. David Noble, the guy who wrote the book, wanted to examine why science was so inhospitable to wom ...
• Things You Might Have Missed
  How much do I love the goth who foreclosed on Wells Fargo? (HT @womanistmusings). Did you know that there is a mountain vault full of potatoes? In Israel news – The U.S. has once again vetoed a UN resolution against Israel.  (And can I just add that I really want to smack Susan Rice in [...]
• On Jewish “Success”
  It’s hard to have a reasonable conversation about the apparent “success” of the Jewish community. For one thing, we Jews have an understandably defensive gut reaction to accusations of success.  And they are often accusations.  To quote the Illinois Holocaust Museum, Adolf Hitler and the Nazis a ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

• Dialogue with LaRouche: The Science Behind Gla ...
  Dialog with Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, March 4, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 9
• ‘World Food Crisis’ a Direct Product of the Br ...
  By Marcia Merry Baker Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, March 4, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 9
• There Is a Limit to a Tyrant’s Power!
  By Helga Zepp-LaRouche Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, March 4, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 9
• The Doom of Quadaffy-Duck
  By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, March 4, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 9
• Forecasts: Statisticians Who Failed Today
  By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, March 4, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 9

Armies of Liberation

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

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

food and water watch

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

treehugger

• 7 Eco-Friendly Fabrics You've Never Heard of
  + Check out Tencel C, a mashup of regenerated cellulose (Tencel) and a shellfish-derived biopolymer (chitosan) that purportedly heals skin and prevents wrinkles. + An all-natural paper-like textile from the South Pacific, tapa is produced from the inner bark of the mulberry tree. + Mo ...
• Gasland's Josh Fox on Three Big Lies of Natura ...
  For Gasland Director, Josh Fox, this has been a busy week. On Sunday, he was in Hollywood attending the Academy Awards, where Gasland was nominated for an Oscar as Best Documentary and on Tuesday he was back at work speaking at Hendrix University in Conway, Arkansas about the environmental d ...
• Behind-the-Scenes Green at the Oscars, Justin ...
  Photo by Michael Buckner/WireImage You may have been focusing on the big winners, the best- and worst-dressed lists, and the fairly awkward host banter, but behind the scenes of the Academy Awards last Sunday, the NRDC's Allen Hershkowitz and his team were more concerned with making the sho ...
• Bill McKibben: Tim DeChristopher "Should be Ge ...
  As you're likely aware, Tim DeChristopher was found guilty on two felony counts yesterday -- meaning the renowned environmental hero now faces up to 10 years in prison and $750,000 in fines. Bill McKibben, perhaps the nation's preeminent climate activist, and a friend of DeChristopher's, imm ...
• Weekday Vegetarian: Indian Spiced Lentils
  Photo: Kelly Rossiter My daughter and I paid a visit to the Art Gallery of Ontario the other day, where they have a magnificent exhibit called Maharaja. After wandering through the exhibit that runs the gamut from intricate paintings, to furniture, to more diamonds and rubies than you can s ...

Biosingularity

• Lasers ID Deadly Skin Cancer Better than Doctor
  High-resolution images from a laser-based tool developed at Duke University could help doctors better diagnose melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer. The improved diagnoses could potentially save thousands of lives and millions of dollars in unnecessary healthcare costs each year. The tool ...
• Sight Gets Repurposed in Brains of the Blind
  In the brains of people blind from birth, structures used in sight are still put to work — but for a very different purpose. Rather than processing visual information, they appear to handle language. Linguistic processing is a task utterly unrelated to sight, yet the visual cortex performs it we ...
• Danny Hillis: Understanding cancer through pro ...
• Bedside Cancer Detector
  A handheld device that detects proteins produced by tumor cells could give doctors a fast, accurate way to diagnose and monitor cancer. Tumor-marker testing usually requires pea-size tissue samples and can take days in a laboratory to yield results. The new detector, by contrast, requires a tiny ...
• In Surprise Finding, Bald Mice Get Furry Again
  Mouse researchers conducting stress hormone experiments have stumbled onto a surprising new discovery � a potential treatment for hair loss. Scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Veterans Administration were working with genetically altered mice that typically develop ...

CFACT

• Wind power: questionable benefits, concealed i ...
  EPA trumpets dubious shale gas risks - but ignores environmental impacts of wind turbines.
• CFACT's Morano explains on Fox News why Greens ...
  Environmentalists are getting exactly what they want.
• Battle brewing over proposed coal export port ...
  China̢۪s growing appetite for energy and America̢۪s abundance of coal are putting a small port on Washington̢۪s Pacific Coast in the middle of a clash between local officials and environmentalists.
• CBS News covers CFACT's human hamster wheel at ...
  CFACT's Collegians brought a giant human-sized hamster wheel to CPAC to highlight the follies of renewable energy policies.
• Use energy, get rich and save the planet

Ria Novosti Online News

• Passenger bus hits roadside bomb, killing 12 i ...
  A passenger bus hit a roadside bomb, killing 12 people, including five children, in the province of Paktika in eastern Afghanistan, the press office of the local governor reported on Sunday.
• Thousands of Gaddafi's supporters gather in Li ...
  Thousands of supporters of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi marched in the streets of Tripoli to celebrate the recapture of the western city of Zawiyah by forces loyal to the Libyan leader, Al-Jazeera satellite TV channel reported on Sunday.
• Miss Russia 2011 beauty pageant
  Natalia Kantemurova from Moscow was crowned Miss Russia 2011 on Saturday.
• India successfully test-fires ballistic missil ...
  India has successfully test-fired its domestically developed interceptor missile capable of destroying hostile missiles, the Indian news agency IANS reported on Sunday, referring to official sources.
• Gaddafi asks UN to probe Libyan unrest
  Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi said on Sunday he wanted the United Nations or the African Union to probe the escalating unrest in Libya, pledging to provide free access to investigators.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• Disabling of oxygen generator aboard ISS no th ...
  The disabling of the Russian oxygen generator Elektron on board the International Space Station is no threat to its crew, an International Space Station representative said on Saturday.
• Russia to spend $159.7 million on hi-tech medi ...
  Russia will allocate 4.5 billion rubles ($159.7 million) in 2011 to provide its citizens with hi-tech medical care.
• Russia to start operating new Glonass-K satell ...
  Russia will start operating its new Glonass-K navigation satellite, which is now undergoing in-orbit tests, by the end of the year.
• WWF demands probe into arrest of south Russia ...
  World Wildlife Fund (WWF) officials have issued a statement to the Russian Interior Ministry demanding an investigation into the arrest of four environmentalists during a "picnic protest" in a south Russian forest.
• NASA extends Discovery shuttle's last mission
  The Discovery shuttle will undock from the International Space Station (ISS) one day later than previously planned, the space agency said on its website.

Pruning Shears

• 'No on SB5' update: Saturday, March 5 2011
  Here’s the latest from the Ohio Democratic Party.There’s a Town Hall in Cleveland at 1:30 PM today. I’ll try to attend and Tweet. Details:East Cleveland Town Hall Meeting with Sen. Nina Turner, Rep. Armond Budish, Rep. Sandra Williams, Rep. Kenny Yuko and Rep. John BarnesFatima Family Center66 ...
• 'No On SB 5' activism opportunities
  The big one is tomorrow:Rally for Ohio’s Middle ClassTuesday, March 1 at 10:00 a.m.Ohio Statehouse - West Lawn1 Capitol SquareColumbus, OH 43215Buses will be arriving from around the state, and you can reserve your seat at http://ohiodems.org/action/flood_the_statehouseThe Ohio Education Associa ...
• Weekend wrapup
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many (via) Muslims. Oh, and for those ghouls who believe in doing a cost/benefit analysis on the amount of innocent life it is acceptable to snuff out ...
• Report from Columbus
  Yesterday I was in Columbus to join in the rally against SB 5, the Ohio GOP’s implementation of the assault on collective bargaining. Even before we got there it was clear Republicans were trying to discourage attendance: as the bus approached Columbus we were told the doors to the Senate build ...
• This Week In Tyranny
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postThe Raymond Davis case appears to be keeping (via) everything quiet on the drone front.A happy coda on Egypt from Mohammed Abdellah, of the former president’s National Democratic Party, on the largely peaceful resolution: “For all ...

Organic Consumers.org

• Support Government Worker's Battle, or We Wil ...
  The entire house of labor and all progressives must understand that we have not had a moment as threatening as this in our lifetime.Click here to read this article
• Time to End the Insane Practice of Lacing Chic ...
  As a jaded observer of the meat industry, even I'm flummoxed by this fact: It's standard practice on factory chicken farms to dose those unfortunate birds with arsenic. The idea is that it makes them grow faster -- fast growth being the supreme goal of factory animal farming -- and helps control ...
• Rural Women Protest Use of Toxic Agrochemicals
  Under the slogan "Women Against the Violence of Agribusiness and Agrotoxins; For Land Reform and Food Sovereignty", members of the international peasant movement Via Campesina, together with other organisations working for the rights of women and the rural population, demonstrated Tuesday and W ...
• Find Out Who Owns Your Favorite Brands
  Looking to lower your impact? Here's your cheat sheet. GoodGuide offers greenness and social responsibility ratings, via web or app, for tens of thousands of products, including food, clothing, toys, and cleaning supplies.Click here to read this article
• If You Missed the Millions Against Monsanto We ...
  Thanks to everyone that registered and attended the first Millions Against Monsanto Webinar: Why We Need Truth-in-Labeling for GMOs and Factory-Farmed Foods. The event was filled to capacity, with 1000 people registered. If you missed the webinar, you can download a pdf of the PowerPoint present ...

fotoFrontera

• Tributo al fotógrafo Stephen Baird (Nikon Sniper)
  El día de hoy, el Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas rinde un merecido homenaje al excelente fotógrafo Stephen Baird de Woodstock, IL, USA. Durante más de 2 años, he seguido su blog titulado Nikon Sniper y cada día me impresiona más la cantidad y calidad de sus fotografías. Por eso y por mucho más, hoy ...
• Mándeme su fotografía y la publicamos aquí (in ...
  ¿Le gustaría que el Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas publicara su fotografía?Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para ampliar el tamaño de esta fotografía El día de hoy viernes 4 de marzo, me parece la fecha ideal para empezar un nuevo proyecto de interés general. Se trata de rendir un merecido reconoci ...
• Las imágenes más bonitas de Internet VI (10 fotos)
  Nuestra serie 'Las imágenes más bonitas de Internet' está teniendo una increíble aceptación dentro de nuestra comunidad en Facebook a tal grado que ya está aquí la sexta parte de esta fascinante colección. Como siempre, esta recopilación reúne lo mejor de lo mejor para que usted pueda disfrutar ...
• Playas paradisiacas parte XVIII (12 Paisajes e ...
  Nuestra serie 'Playas paradisiacas' se encuentra presentando ya la parte número 18 de esta colección. El tiempo pasa muy rápido y es increíble ver cómo nuestros visitantes disfrutan cada una de nuestras imágenes al máximo. Usted también no espere más y descubra las nuevas fotografías de esta rec ...
• Wallpapers de autos muy bonitos (10 imágenes)
  Algunos les llaman autos, otros coches, otros vehículos y otros más les dicen carcachas. Sea como sea, a todos nos fascinan estas máquinas que aparte de transportarnos rápido a cualquier destino, nos hace vernos diferentes ante una sociedad cada vez más diferente. Si usted no tiene una de estas ...

Center for a Livable Future

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

Norwegianity

• On Wisconsin
  Something Charles Blow said caught my eye this morning. Yet Tea Party leaders are still sniping from the sidelines, holding politicians to overreaching promises made when the electorate was still stewing. Judson Phillips, founder of the Tea Party Nation, wrote a post on its Web site this week sa ...
• This most capitalasstastic of all capitalized ...
  Two links that capture the essence of Republican hypocrisy: Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson’s patriotic paean to the passing of WWI vet Frank Buckles Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner blocks efforts by WVA senators to honor Buckles by having his remains lay in state in the Capitol ro ...
• In which I waste my morning trying to salvage ...
  Not surprisingly, I got a “game, set, match” comment from K-Rod this morning (deleted as I had told him I would do with any comments he made for the next 24 hours, his having successfully made a complete nuisance of himself). Whatever. I’m assuming, perhaps wrongly, that he’s still in high schoo ...
• All harvest, no planting
  Samuel A. Culbert in the NYTimes: [O]ne of the primary ways employee effectiveness is judged is the performance review. And nothing could be less fair than that. In my years studying such reviews, I’ve learned that they are subjective evaluations that measure how “comfortable” a boss is with an ...
• GOPhads and fatwads
  Do check out Crooks and Liars on Howie the Whore’s latest foray into instant revisionism and massive hypocrisy. The Daily Beast is the mainstream media’s toehold into online media, a HuffPo for even bigger whores. More: Another ultimatum from Gov. Blowhard [his poll support is cratering] [they, ...

Public News Service

• Former Forest Service Chief Questions Federal ...
  Former Forest Service Chief Questions Federal Budget Moves Phoenix, AZ – Cuts to U.S. Forest Service programs outlined in the U.S. House Republican proposed budget should give Arizonans pause, according to former Forest Service Chief Dale Bosworth. He says there would be implications for forest ...
• Arizona’s Toothless Law Hurts Kids&#8217 ...
  Arizona’s Toothless Law Hurts Kids’ Dental Health Phoenix, AZ – An Arizona law provides for preventive dental care for toddlers in their pediatrician’s office, but lawmakers have provided no funding. Arizona is one of only 11 states that won’t pay for what advocates call a simple, inexpensive se ...
• Grand Canyon Mining Ban in the Works
  Grand Canyon Mining Ban in the Works Phoenix, AZ – U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is seeking public comment on a proposal that could impose a 20-year uranium mining ban on one-million acres around the Grand Canyon. The comment period runs through early April, and includes a series of public ...
• Free Tax Filing Assistance for Many Arizonans
  Free Tax Filing Assistance for Many Arizonans Phoenix, AZ – Tax season has begun – and filing tax returns can be can be a confusing and expensive proposition. But there is free help for Arizonans through the AARP Foundation. There are several sites now set up around the state staffed with volunt ...
• Health Advantages of Breastfeeding for Arizona ...
  Health Advantages of Breastfeeding for Arizona Moms and Babies Phoenix, AZ – Arizona mothers who want to shield their children from many childhood diseases should attempt to breastfeed their babies... and women looking for information and support on breastfeeding have a new friend in their corn ...

Center for Food Safety

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

• Parallax Effects: Representations of Native Am ...
  Parallax Effects: Representations of Native Americans Then and Now : University of Rochester News: "Documentaries, photographs, and literature have helped shape the public's perceptions of Native Americans throughout history. Whether romantic or primitive, the two most common stereotypes of the ...
• Libya, Getting it Right: A Revolutionary Pan-A ...
  Libya, Getting it Right: A Revolutionary Pan-African Perspective | Dissident Voice: "Thousands of Indians, Egyptians, Chinese, Filipinos, Turks, Germans, English, Italians, Malaysians, Koreans and a host of other nationalities are lining up at the borders and the airport to leave Libya. It begs ...
• Hullabaloo: How to force a false confession
  Hullabaloo: "I suppose we are supposed be grateful that they are only using this particular technique on an American soldier for seven hours a day instead of the weeks or days they routinely used on Al Qaeda members. Perhaps they learned through their long experience at Gitmo and Bagram that com ...
• Libya’s “African Mercenary” Problem | The Tomathon
  Libya’s “African Mercenary” Problem | The Tomathon: "CNN has just prominently shown a Libyan woman, tear stained, crying out on the newly liberated streets of Egypt.� She calls for justice for her people, for the killing to end, begs Obama to intervene, and then repeats “Gaddafi is killing us wi ...
• Tom is Moving in on Libya
  Even as I write here President Obama and his European allies are moving fast to invade Libya under the guise of a humanitarian mission. A "no-fly-zone" will most likely be declared soon and policed by Nato in the days ahead.� This tactic will allow Tom to essentially occupy Libya in a r ...

Pensieve

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

Green Times

• Traffic pollution around the city
  Our cities are growing bigger and bigger. With this development megacities are facing huge environmental issues. Many urban areas have significant problems with smog, a type of air pollution derived from the traffic on the streets or from industrial buildings. Trying to reduce your CO2 e ...
• Environmental News 04/03/2011
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• Catamaran in the harbour
  Boat trips can be really nice and relaxing... in particular when sailing! Engine ran water vehicles need a lot of fuel and are far from eco friendly. Sailing boats on the other hand, especially the light and fast sailing catamarans, make use of wind energy (glossary/categories/energy/wind-energ ...
• Plastic state of mind parody
      This music clip, made by passionate volunteers on a super tiny budget, parodies a serious issue of our today’s consumer society. It was created on behalf of Green Sanga (http://greensangha.org/plastics-campaign/), a non profit organisation who is dedicated to saving our earth by awakening ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

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

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

• Transition Towns. Preparing for peak oil, clim ...
  The future with less oil could be better than the present, but only if we engage in designing this Transition with creativity and imagination. –Rob Hopkins, founder of the Transition Towns movement What exactly is a Transition Town? A Transition Initiative (which could be a town, village, univer ...
• Compressed air energy storage better than batt ...
  Our electrical grid needs to be able to store energy for future use. With few exceptions, it can’t do that now. The primary way it is done is pumped hydro. At night when rates are low or when there is excess power, water is pumped uphill to a storage area. When energy is needed, the [...]
• Too late to jail bank CEOs; only revolution wi ...
  Paul Farrell, writing for Marketplace (which is owned by the Wall Street Journal) Everyone knows Wall Street’s run by a bunch of dictators who are doing more damage to democracy and capitalism than North Africa’s dictators. But jail the CEOs of Goldman, Citi, B. of A. or my old firm Morgan Stanl ...
• World’s first apartment heated by solar thermal
  This Swiss chalet style apartment building produces twice as much heat than it needs via the solar thermal panels on the roof. Heat from the sun is stored in hot water which is used by resdients and which heats the building through under floor piping. And it does all this in Switzerland in the w ...
• Cost of food hits new high, politics is as usual
  According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, the cost of food increased in February for the eighth consecutive month and reached an all time high. You heard a bit of this in the news coverage of the grassroots protests in Tunisia and Egypt. While not even the major cause of ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

• Jack Blood Interviews “God” / Form ...
  Jack Blood asks the tough questions to former British MI5 agent David Shayler. Mr. Shayler suspiciously fronts the “No-Plane Theory” about 9/11 and claims to be the son of God. MUST LISTEN! *****MI5 agent turned whistleblower turned ???? 2nd half of the interview gets pretty weird ~ MY INTERVIEW ...
• JACK BLOOD AND DJ BALL VS GLENN BECK
  Jack Reads a funny and ironic letter to Glenn Beck (with added commentary) From We Are Change member DJ Ball. WAKE UP to the steam-valve – controlled media, and Dogma! Seek the Truth!
• THE JUDGE GRILLS RUMSFELD! “Did Saddam G ...
  Finally – A few relevant Questions for mass murderer “Rummy” the KING of Obfuscation! Quote from Rummy: “Sometimes the Truth needs to be Protected by a Bodyguard of LIES”
• Austrian Economics Is Scientific (Keynesianism ...
  Ludwig von Mises   Submitted by Tom Mullen on Thu, 03/03/2011 – 08:59 The Daily Paul On February 9th, Rep. Ron Paul of Texas chaired his first meeting of the House Monetary Policy Subcommittee that he now leads due to the Republican victories in last Novemberâs congressional elections. Congressm ...
• Who Can Stop Rupert Murderoch? You and I!!!!
  Dear friends, The world’s largest and most dangerous media baron wants to buy nearly half of the British mass media, boosting his power to undermine global efforts on everything from peace to the environment. We only have 48 hours to press the UK government to stand up and stop Rupert Murdoch: I ...

The Air Vent

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

Focal Point

• Slavery Proponents Not Stupid, Excellent at Ra ...
  "Secession wasn’t evidence that the South didn’t have a reasoned intellectual life. In fact, it was the strongest evidence that it did," according to the teaser on a blog post by historian Michael O'Brien on the New York Times' website. Historical evidence abounds that Southerners were not ...
• Of Course Birth Control Prevents Abortions: De ...
  Kirsten Powers has a piece in the Daily Beast arguing that birth control doesn't prevent abortions. Her case is largely based on a blatant factual error. She writes: In the U.S., the story isn’t much different. A January 2011 fact sheet by the pro-abortion rights Guttmacher Institute listed ...
• Scott Walker Snuck Ringers Into Budget Speech
  Wisconsin governor Scott Walker defied a court order to ban citizens from the capitol building during his budget address. Citizens were left out in the cold while Walker's allies were smuggled in, possibly through hidden civil defense tunnels, Abe Sauer reports in the Awl: Walker entered to ...
• Obama Admin Declines to Defend Entire "Defense ...
  Good news: Attorney General Eric Holder announced last week that the Justice Department will no longer defend Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act, the part that defines marriage as the union of one man and one woman. Holder said that the executive would continue to enforce the law until it ...
• GA Rep. Seeks to Criminalize Unauthorized Vagi ...
  A Georgia Representative has introduced a bill to investigate all unsupervised miscarriages as crime scenes. Don't believe me? Here's the relevant language from HB 1, downloadable from legislature's website: When a spontaneous fetal death required to be reported by this Code section occurs ...

Inside Facebook

• Highlights This Week From the Inside Network J ...
  The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities in the Facebook Platform and social gaming ecosystem. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at Digital Chocolate, Jagex Games, MTV Networks, and MXP4. VP Pr ...
• Thanks to Our Sponsors
  Inside Facebook extends a big thank you to our sponsors for supporting the continued growth of Inside Facebook. Check them out below! Votigo offers a full-service contest platform for Facebook. RightScale provides cloud computing management for social application and game developers. Kontagent i ...
• Facebook Roundup: Stock, Microsoft, Google, Bl ...
  Facebook Co-Founder Set to Sell Shares – One of the co-founders of Facebook is looking to unload up to 10 million shares of Facebook common stock, which would be worth about $300 million dollars. No one knows which co-founder it is, but if itâs not CEO Mark Zuckerberg, it could be Chris Hughes, ...
• The Facebook Credits GetBalance API Helps Deve ...
  Facebook has released the getBalance API call as an incentive to game developers who use Facebook Credits as their exclusive premium in-game currency. The call lets developers determine the Facebook Credits balance of any of their users. This allows them to identify high rollers with a large bal ...
• Videos, Photos, Foreign Language and More on T ...
  International Facebook applications made a big appearance on our list of emerging apps this week. All told there were apps in Russian, Turkish, Chinese, Indonesian and German. The list of top 20 emerging apps was compiled based on AppData, our data tracking service covering traffic growth for ap ...

Truthout - Tweets

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• truthout: If It Sounds Too Good ... What You N ...
  truthout: If It Sounds Too Good ... What You Need to Know, but Don't, About Privatizing Infrastructure http://bit.ly/hsElpZ #p2 #p2b #p21
• truthout: Qaddafi Forces Hit Besieged City but ...
  truthout: Qaddafi Forces Hit Besieged City but Lose Libyan Oil Port http://bit.ly/ieRrAD #p2 #p2b #p21

ReDress News

• Israel on the wrong side of history
  Uri Avnery argues that Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's policy of maintaining Israel as a garrison state, enlarging the settlements, preventing the foundation of a real Palestinian state and promoting eternal conflict is leading to a cul-de-sac and international isolation from which i ...
• UK cherry-picks which war criminals to prosecu ...
  Stuart Littlewood highlights the incredible, blatant hypocrisy of the British government, foremost Prime Minister David Cameron and Foreign Secretary William Hague, who are applying one standard to the criminal Libyan regime of Mu'ammar Gaddafi while going out of their way to protect and justify ...
• UK cherry-picks which war criminals to prosecu ...
  Stuart Littlewood highlights the incredible, blatant hypocrisy of the British government, foremost Prime Minister David Cameron and Foreign Secretary William Hague, who are applying one standard to the criminal Libyan regime of Mu'ammar Gaddafi while going out of their way to protect and justify ...
• Warning: boycott Israel success brings "Boycot ...
  Stuart Littlewood reports on a cheap disinformation ploy employed lately by Israeli "cyber warriors" unhinged by the success of the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against the Jewish apartheid state.
• More blood for oil? Libya and the UK
  Amid the talk in Washington and London of military intervention in Libya, Tim Coles considers how the Anglo-American portrayal of Mu'ammar Gaddafi changed from bogeyman to friend when it became apparent that he would grant oil contracts to various Western companies.

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

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

Afro Spear

• FREE WESLEY SNIPES!!!
  They gave Ron Isley three years. They gave Wesley Snipes three years. What did they give the CEO/CFO’s of Merrill Lynch, AIG, Goldmund Sachs?! I’ll tell you what they gave them: a handjob. They gave them record bonuses, the highest being almost half a billion dollars. They, meaning the people ch ...
• When Keeping It Real Goes Wrong, Part 13
  Earlier today, I was reading the post on “Tim Wise” from last year. Some recent new comments had shown up and I was curious; I re-read the entire post. It was very interesting and made me reflect on me, on my feelings related to the post’s contents and comments. Tim Wise doesn’t move me. In [...]
• Bishop Noel Jones in South Africa…The Pr ...
  The great Bishop Noel Jones, discussing the intersection of business and church, the practical and the spiritual, the dialectical and the liturgical. Bishop Noel Jones is considered a profound Christian theologian and intellectual. He has a way with the Word of God that leaves no room for doubt ...
• “Revolution and the Muslim World” ...
  Artlice from STRATFOR The Muslim world, from North Africa to Iran, has experienced a wave of instability in the last few weeks. No regimes have been overthrown yet, although as of this writing, Libya was teetering on the brink. There have been moments in history where revolution spread in a regi ...
• Congrats Museveni on “Tsunami-like win&# ...
  Dear Mr President of Uganda Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni, Though I am not your voter, I come from the same background like that of your humble voters. I come from the country where voters and all hoi polloi are but sheepish beasts of burden for hoity toitty like in your country. And they l ...

Expose the BNP

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

Sen4Earth

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

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

• Drupal Now Accessible Via Mobile Phone
  MIT's Center for Future Civic Media has done a variety of breakthrough civic systems with phones. Examples range from Leo Burd's What's Up platform to the Call4Action class and its cool student projects. We at C4 love these projects, but working with phones has always been a bear. A lot o ...
• Open Media Project's User-Driven, New Media Ne ...
  Last week, the Open Media Foundation and the Internet Archive announced a significant development in the Open Media Project, the open-source effort designed to enable more community participation and control over community media organizations. The Internet Archive Drupal Module, which was the fi ...
• Telling Better Stories by Designing Custom Map ...
  Plotting information -- say survey data in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas or election results in Afghanistan -- on any kind of map adds critical geo-context to the data. These maps quickly become move powerful when you start adding more custom overlays, showing data like where di ...
• Ushahidi Takes First Steps in Evaluating Kenya ...
  This post was written by Melissa Tully and Jennifer Chan. It is the first in a series of blog posts documenting a 9-month Ushahidi evaluation project in partnership with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and supported by the Knight Foundation. A version of the post below was originally publish ...
• MIT's Civic Media Session Explores Data in Cities
  With a redoubled focus on the community in the civic media community, the Center for Future Civic Media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) launched a new series last week. These relaxed, informal conversations about civic media featured ground-level practitioners, activists, hack ...

Cutting Edge News

• The Edge of Terrorism - NY Congressman King Fe ...
  Outspoken US Representative Peter T. King (R-NY) denounced efforts to prevent Walid Phares, an American expert of Lebanese Christian descent and an expert on Islamism, from providing testimony to the U.S. Congress on Islamic terrorism. The Council of American Islamic Relations (CAIR), a controve ...
• After the Holocaust - Murdered Sephardic Jewis ...
  Annually, it is repeated in the contemporary media how �Bulgaria became the only Nazi-allied country in World War II to protect its entire Jewish population� or that �Bulgaria saved all of its Jews from the death camps.� While ultimately, members of the Bulgarian government, the Bulgarian public ...
• Oil on Edge - Regulatory Flaws, Repeated Viola ...
  One evening last April at the Tesoro Corp.’s refinery in Anacortes, Washington, Matt Gumbel and six co-workers cautiously returned to service a stack of giant, radiator-like tubes filled with volatile hydrocarbons. The tubes, known as heat exchangers, tended to leak, especially during start-up, ...
• Inside Islam - Understanding Shariah Finance a ...
  The Middle East, with its exotic tropical sirocco winds, is also now the haven and leader of a new form of finance that is enticing the world with the alluring scent of its petrodollars. Substantial profits are to be made, and gold plated Bentleys, mansions on the Palm Jumerah Island, and golf c ...
• Internet on the Edge - Would Shakespeare Have ...
  When William Shakespeare was growing up in rural Stratford-upon-Avon, carpenters at that East London site were erecting the walls of what some consider the first theater built in Europe since antiquity. Other playhouses soon rose around the city. Those who paid could enter and see the play; thos ...

High Country News

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

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

• How the Obama Administration is Going to Bring ...
  By Barry Rubin In a moment, I'll present you with what might be the most frightening paragraph in the modern history of U.S. Middle East policy. But first, here's one that's among the most deplorable. It's from a Washington Post article: "The Obama administration is preparing fo ...
• Kathleen Sebelius Admits The Obamacare Books W ...
  They screamed, they begged, cajoled but everyone called them liars.� Ever since the outline of the Obamacare began to be circulated people pointed out that the $500 billion dollars of Medicare savings were being double counted in the cost estimates. Yesterday the House Energy and Commerc ...
• New York Times' Backing Muslim Brotherhood; Hi ...
  By Barry Rubin I have pointed out several times how the New York Times has been whitewashing the Muslim Brotherhood, including the publication of a terrible set of lies by Tariq Ramadan. Now, without having to my knowledge published a single piece pointing to the Muslim Brotherhood's ra ...
• Have Israeli Scientists Developed an Alzheimer ...
  Anyone who has seen a loved one's mind waste away from Alzheimers will tell you that it is a horrible, horrible disease. I remember my Wife's losing her mom (may she rest in peace) from the disease.� At the end she didn't even recognize her children.� During her last months my mother-in-law, who ...
• Is Chris Matthews Trying to Have an Affair?
  Chris Matthews is looking to have an affair, but his love may be "unrequited." The Obama Administration is looking to start a news Jobs program, and the liberal media is inventing new excuses for the rise in Gas prices. These and other stories are included in today's Newsbusted, the twice w ...

The Real Agenda

• La Revolución que los Globalistas Añoraban
  Como los medios tradicionales publican mentiras, la gente es co-optada y los globalistas afirman su poder Por Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda Marzo 4, 2011 Permítanme ir directo al punto. Glenn Beck no es un patriota ni nada de eso. Beck es una máquina de relaciones públicas para vender publicid ...
• USAToday Advertises Chemtrailing as a tool to ...
  Suddenly spraying people with aluminum, barium and other deadly chemicals is a great way to end an inexistant emergency One more main stream loud speaker concedes to the “conspiracy theories” about people being sprayed on like cockroaches USAToday March 4, 2011 Scientists call it “geoengineering ...
• Globalist George Soros warns of Iranian Bloody ...
  BBC March 4, 2011 Revolts in Libya were partly the result of “revulsion against a corruption” fed by the misuse of oil money, he added. More “transparency and accountability” was needed from other producers such as Russia and Saudi Arabia he said. Mr Soros also predicted the Iranian regime would ...
• German Computer Expert: U.S., Israel Behind St ...
  AFP March 3, 2011 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-depth Stuxnet analysis at a ...
• A Revolução que os Globalistas Desejavam
  Como a mídia tradicional publica mentiras, as pessoas são cooptadas e os globalistas afirmam seu poder Por Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda Março 4, 2011 Deixe-me ir direto ao ponto. Glenn Beck não é um patriota ou nada parecido. Beck é uma máquina de relações públicas usada para vender publicida ...

Wind Watch

• Committee suspends PSC wind siting rule
  A legislative committee voted Tuesday to suspend a wind siting rule adopted last year by the state Public Service Commission. The 5-to-2 vote along party lines by the Legislature’s joint committee that reviews administrative rules means there are now no standards in effect across the state gover ...
• Sound the main issue at Public Service Board h ...
  The Public Service Board began its third week of hearings on the Kingdom Community Wind project in Lowell with a bang. Or at least with the argument by a noise expert that wind turbines sound similar enough to banging noises like explosions, guns firing, and sonic booms that the Public Service B ...
• Wind farms causing problems in Bureau County
  Wind energy keeps growing in popularity as a renewable energy source. But for a group of people in the Bureau County town of Ohio,Ill., itâs growing into a major problem. “It sounds like an airport at my house and I live in the country,” Al Harris, an Ohio resident for eight years, said. “You ca ...
• Wind farms and deadly skies: Turbines on Texas ...
  SARITA â The 260-foot-tall wind turbines of the Kenedy Ranch stand like a steel forest along the edge of the Laguna Madre and pump out hundreds of megawatts of emission-free electricity. The spinning blades, alongside some of the most important habitat in Texas and one of North America’s largest ...
• Wind turbines threat to idyllic Lake District
  A beauty spot in one of England�s most ­scenic regions faces being ruined for ever after a Government official ignored the concerns of thousands of people and gave the go-ahead to a wind farm. Despite more than 2,000 letters of protest from residents and opposition from councils and politicians, ...

Not My Tribe

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

Debunking the Debunkers

• Curley's Mistranslation - Part Deux!
  One year ago (to the day, in fact), I responded to Pat Curley's mistranslation of the Sibel/Sarshar testimony. Pat's problem with Sibel Edmonds is that she supposedly misrepresented the contents of a 2004 Chicago Tribune article. As I wrote last year: Pat's February 2009 analysis of the article ...
• 9/11 Activism Tools
  Sign up to receive action alerts from the BuildingWhat? and NYC CAN campaigns in your email box. http://buildingwhat.org/buildingwhat-newsletter/ Ask Christine Quinn to Investigate Building 7 http://buildingwhat.org/ask-christine-quinn-to-investigate-building-7/ Activate. Here you can keep u ...
• O Hai, Bentham Open Chemical Physics Journal!
  It's back... http://www.bentham.org/open/tocpj/openaccess2.htm
• Bentham Open Chemical Physics Journal, Gone?
  Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog recently pointed out that the Bentham Open Chemical Physics Journal has been taken down and thus the "Active Thermitic Material..." paper, in which an international group of scientists report to have found remnants of the incendiary/explosive nano-thermi ...
• VIRAL EMAIL LETTER: The Laws of Physics and th ...
  Dear People at [Insert Media Name here], I've included a link to a You Tube video that I think everyone at your [Newspaper/TV Station/Radio Station] should watch. The video explains why our troops should not be in Afghanistan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwqLu8ZXIX0 Our troops must be wi ...

Fooducate

• Do “Healthy” Product Names Deliver on their Pr ...
  The wonders of food marketing never cease to amaze, and infuriate. Fooducate community member Cassie posted the front and back of a bag of  Snyder’s eatsmart Naturals Garden Veggie Sticks – Potato, Tomato, & Spinach. What a name for a product: eatsmart – yessir, we all want to do that Naturals ...
• Parents Beware: Those Teddy Bear Cookies Are F ...
  CVS, the mega-pharmacy chain, has introduced a new line of store brand products called “Just the Basics”. Just the Basics offers shoppers a large selection of practical items from a variety of categories throughout the store, including household, beauty, baby and personal care. The products star ...
• Kraft Foods Wants to Grow, But is THIS the Rig ...
  Kraft, one of the largest food companies in the world, is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange. It is worth over $55 Billion. Every year we get to glimpse into the company’s financials, and to hear about plans for continued growth and success. In 2010, Kraft’s revenues were close to $5 ...
• Infographic: Where Does a Food Dollar Go?
  The USDA Economic Research Service recently published a report that helps shed the light on the cost of food. Take a look at the interesting statistic above. For every dollar we spend on food, less than 16 cents go to farmers. The rest is spent on marketing. This shouldn’t surprise you. Authors ...
• So What if March is National Nutrition Month
  March 1 marks the beginning of National Nutrition Month – an annual campaign that is sponsored by the American Dietetic Association (ADA). The goals are simple – raise awareness of informed food choices, good eating habits, and exercise. Another stated goal is to “promote the ADA and its members ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

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

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• Reagan: Killer, Coward, Con-man
  The Observer London by Greg Palast You're not going to like this. You shouldn't speak ill of the dead. But in this case, someone's got to. On the 100th Anniversary of Ronald Reagan's birth, as we suffer a week of Reagan-kitcheria and pukey peons, let us remember: Reagan was a con-man. Rea ...
• Shake your head and throw something at your TV
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• Peak Oil and a Changing Climate
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• Palast ArrestedBusted by BP in Azerbaijan
  by Greg Palast BP's Azeri police arresting Palast for filming BP oil rig - Baku, Azerbaijan, December 2010"Here in Azerbaijan we believe in human rights. PLEASE GIVE US YOUR FILM." Oh, no, no, not good. The enforcers here come in three colors:  the military police still wearing their old Rus ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

• What can I reuse or recycle to make seedling/p ...
  It might still be February but our 2011 growing season is already off and running here. In addition to the eight fruit trees John planted a couple of weeks ago, I planted out eight fruit bushes at the weekend and I started my first batch of cauliflower, greenhouse tomatoes and lettuce the weeken ...
• How can I reuse or recycle small scraps of yarn?
  We’ve had an email from Lauren: I’m a knitter but I can’t throw away the ends of yarn, not matter how small! I’ve got a carrier bag full of ball ends, some a couple of yards long, most less than a foot. Any ideas? The longer pieces could be used for the inner rings of [...]
• How can I reuse or recycle a lot of white yarn?
  We’ve had another email from friend of Recycle This Petra: From my sister in law I inherited a lot of yarn, mostly small balls of the same. I know you covered the item about the short ends of yarn and what to do with it. My question is a bit related. A lot of the [...]
• How can I reuse or recycle hairdressers scissors?
  We’ve had an email from Tasha: We are a hairdressing scissors company trying to find a charity we can send old hairdressing scissors too? If you know of any could you please let me know. I don’t know of any – does anyone else? What about charities that collect scrap metal in general? From what [...]
• How can I reuse or recycle (quilts and) pillows?
  We’ve already covered old duvets before really but we’ve had an email from Gill: I have 6-8 used but still serviceable quilts and pillows and no-one seems to want them. The local homeless shelter says they donât take donations and Iâve contacted several charities who I thought might use them (ra ...

Age of Autism

• TACA Events Feature The Age of Autism!
  Foothill Autism Alliance Features Age of Autism Authors Wed, Mar 9th, 2011, @7:00pm-9:30pm The Age of Autism - Mercury, Medicine, and a Man-Made Epidemic Address: Pasadena Child Development Associates 620 North Lake Avenue, 2nd Floor Pasadena, CA 91101 (Just north...
• Wakefield Accusation - American VAERS Suggests ...
  There Goes That Argument! by F. Edward Yazbak, MD, FAAP For years Andrew Wakefield has been vilified and persecuted for publishing an article in Lancet on February 28, 1998. Since then, he has been accused of inventing a gastro-intestinal illness...
• Free "I Support Dr. Wakefield Sticker" Available
  AofA reader Maureen Fischer has made up these free and nifty bumper stickers. If you'd like one, please email her your address at mfischer@san.rr.com.
• Deadly Choices - Paul's Porkies
  Thank you to Hilary Butler for allowing us to run her post from "Hilary's Desk" at the blog Beyond Conformity. A few days ago, I set my husband a task. To read Paul Offit’s book called, “Deadly Choices How the...
• NJ Call To Action to Pass Conscientious Exempt ...
  We Must Pass the Conscientious Exemption bill and Stop the New Public Health Council Reinstatement Bill NOW! Visit NJ Coalition for Vaccination Choice HERE for more details on how to contact your legislators and how you can help. We Need...

Global BDS Movement

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

Farm Wars

• Victory Gardens Produce Abundance
  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.
• Cloned animals – Consumers shall have no choice
  EU Commissioner for Trade: Products from offspring of cloned animals already on the market.
• Dangerous New Organism Found and Linked to GMOs!
  Agrobacterium could multiply and transfer transgenic DNA to other bacteria, as well as to the next crop to be planted. The discovery by the Bristol University researchers barely scratches the surface of the hidden hazards of GMOs from horizontal gene transfer. It is high time for a global ban to ...
• USDA’s National Organics Program In the Crossh ...
  The USDA’s National Organics Program (NOP) is designed so that GMOs can enter USDA Certified Organics.
• Truth Squad Radio: The Truth about Gardasil!
  Laurie Dean-Smith will join us with other members of her group dedicated to stopping the forced use of Gardasil on our young girls and boys.

Open Your Eyes News

• Zimbabwe accused of selling arms to Ivory Coast
  ABC - UN experts are investigating suspected sanctions-busting arms deliveries from Zimbabwe to Ivory Coast strongman Laurent Gbagbo, according to a UN report. UN investigators are looking into “the arrival of light weapons cargoes from Zimbabwe” in December, said the report, which has been ha ...
• Italy PM Silvio Berlusconi plans to attend his ...
  BBC - Lawyer Niccolo Ghedini said the Milan court had been asked to schedule hearings on Mondays alone. Silvio Berlusconi is facing four trials over the coming months, including one linked to allegations that he paid an underage prostitute for sex. Read article
• Agent: I was ordered to let U.S. guns into Mexico
  CBS – Federal agent John Dodson says what he was asked to do was beyond belief. He was intentionally letting guns go to Mexico? “Yes ma’am,” Dodson told CBS News. “The agency was.” An Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms senior agent assigned to the Phoenix office in 2010, Dodson’s job is to stop gun t ...
• Shooters walk free, whistleblower jailed
  Panorama – Due to the enormous request Panorama has produced an English version of [their] film about the alleged WikiLeaks Whistleblower Bradley Manning. View Film
• Heavy machinegun fire rocks Libyan capital Tripoli
  Reuters – Heavy automatic weapons fire erupted in the Libyan capital Tripoli on Sunday, the first such outbreak in Muammar Gaddafi’s main stronghold in a two-week-old insurrection against his 41-year-old rule. It was unclear who was doing the shooting, which started at 5:45 a.m. (0345 GMT), just ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

• Gas drilling near Yellowstone: danger of anoth ...
  Last year's Deepwater Horizon disaster focused international attention on offshore well blowouts. But they happen more often onshore, with dangerous effect: release of flammable and toxic gases, spills of oil and drilling fluid, and plumes of groundwater pollution. In 2006,...
• National Forests: a battle over mapping roads ...
  Jane Steadman has spent years litigating obscure but hotly contested maps showing where people can drive in national forests. “We’re portrayed as people who want to shut down all roads in the national forests, but we’re not,” said Steadman, an...
• Brown administration pushing ahead with Sacram ...
  The future of a multibillion-dollar project to reroute water shipments from Northern California and salvage the battered ecosytem of the Sacramento-San Joaquin delta started looking shaky late last year. Irked that the project may not give them all the water...
• Eco-activist who blocked BLM auction in Utah i ...
  A federal jury in Salt Lake City on Thursday convicted environmental activist Tim DeChristopher of two felony counts for using bogus bids to block the auction of 22,000 of federal land near national parks in southern Utah. The jury deliberated...
• Lake Tahoe Restoration Act would improve water ...
  The ongoing effort to maintain Lake Tahoe got a bipartisan push Wednesday, as Sen. Barbara Boxer joined Nevada's two senators in introducing the proposed Lake Tahoe Restoration Act, which would authorize $415 million over 10 years to improve the lake's...

water.org

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

Before It's News

• The Revolution Coming to Us -vid
• Two Brief Refreshing American Tales
• One twin in plastic bag dead, brother treated ...
• Two Brief Refreshing American Tales
• One twin in plastic bag dead, brother treated ...

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

• Mike Huckabee's Racist Rants Against Obama
  Today, Chris Matthews of MSNBC gave the best and most concise analysis I have yet heard of right-wing "Christian," Mike Huckabee's racist rants against President Obama this past week. It's also perhaps the best commentary I have ever heard...Submitted by Carrie Burton to US Politics & Gov't �|� ...
• Over 90 percent of nursing homes hire criminals
  More than 90 percent of nursing homes hired employees with criminal convictions according to a new government report obtained by CBS News.Submitted by Carrie Burton to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Right-wing Vitriol, Threats, & Political Menta ...
  If we are to Thrive Together in the wake of the Arizona shootings, it is absolutely essential to combine the focus on mental illness with the focus on creating healthy norms of political discourse and behavior. Submitted by Carrie Burton to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Israeli bulldozers demolish Khirbet Tana for 6 ...
  UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator Maxwell Gaylard said that "under international law, Israel, as the occupying power in the oPt [occupied Palestinian territories], is prohibited from destroying property belonging to individuals or communities...Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� � ...
• BIOGRAPHY OF PROPHET MUHAMMAD (P.B.U.H.)
  This is for all those interested readers who really want to know the TRUTH about this Beloved Prophet of GOD Almighty.This is a Biography and not a Topic for discussion; as mark of respect for this Prophet who was selected first in book "THE 100 GREATSubmitted by Mary P. to Society & Culture �| ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

• Amtech Systems Posts Record Breaking Solar Orders
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• Argonne Measures Cost of Solar PV Using Monte ...
  At the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois, a team of scientists has developed a novel way to evaluate the cost of solar photovoltaic (PV) power. read more
• Los Angeles Continues to Build Renewable Energ ...
  On the heels of announcing that it had met a 2010 target to source 20 percent of its power demand from renewable sources, the city of Los Angeles, California has announced plans to build an 11.6 MW� a solar power plant. read more
• E•BOOM CAPITAL: ReneSolar Scares Investors wit ...
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• 1336 Technologies Recieves $28.4 Million Inves ...
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News Blaze

• UN Voices Alarm At Intensified Fighting and Wo ...
  Fighting between Somalia's Transitional Federal Government and Al-Shabaab Islamic militants in the southern Belet Xaawo area has driven thousands of Somalis from their homes as well as some 5,500 residents of the Kenyan border town of Mandera, whil
• DIAC Votes to Approve Final Report of Recommen ...
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• Joint UN-African Delegation Backs Delaying Ben ...
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• Sarah Jane Brain Foundation Tours America Duri ...
  The tour was launched in late January in North Carolina during the NHL All-Star weekend, headed to Texas for Super Bowl week and has held additional events in Louisiana, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin
• U.S.Condemns Violence Perpetrated By Former Le ...
  Gbabgo's selfish effort to cling to power despite losing the election has elevated tensions and eroded the fundamental rights of Ivoirian civilians. Since December, Gbagbo has used security forces to attack the very people he claims to represent, a

Worldnews

• Emma Watson turns fashion designer
  'Harry Potter' star Emma Watson is busting into the high-fashion world, by collaborating with fashion house Alberta Ferreti to create an eco-friendly collection. Watson, 20, is working on the 'Pure Threads'...
• 101st Airborne Wings of Destiny pilot liv ...
  individual: 11 numChar :2050 -->TOTAL ELEMENTS IN ARRAY: 16 TOTAL CHARACTERS IN ARRAY: 2759 TOTAL CHARACTERS IN PAGES: 2050 LAST PAGE CONTAINS: 709 -->--> A lot of children know what they want to be when they grow up. For most, that dream will change many times over the years. It is a rare ...
• Feeding the hungry
  individual: 13 numChar :2105 -->individual: 24 numChar :2319 -->TOTAL ELEMENTS IN ARRAY: 26 TOTAL CHARACTERS IN ARRAY: 4607 TOTAL CHARACTERS IN PAGES: 4424 LAST PAGE CONTAINS: 183 -->Kenny York, pastor of Manna Cafe Ministries, is on a mission to stamp out hunger in Clarksville. York and hi ...
• Family gets most of its food in the backy ...
  individual: 7 numChar :2086 -->individual: 18 numChar :2168 -->TOTAL ELEMENTS IN ARRAY: 23 TOTAL CHARACTERS IN ARRAY: 5066 TOTAL CHARACTERS IN PAGES: 4254 LAST PAGE CONTAINS: 812 -->PROSPER, Texas As the weather warms and the brown landscape turns green, Stephanie Weyenberg's thoughts turn ...
• DHS mobile X-ray vans covertly scan your ...
  Newly-released documents obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) reveal that the US Depart of Homeland Security has been working on plans...

Alex in Wonderland

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

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renewable recycling conservation

Editorial: What counts as 'renewable' What day is it?

Record-Searchlight

This week, the Redding City Council OK'd a resolution revising its standards forrenewable power to comply with the latest rules of the California Air Resource Board. The good news, for city electric customers, is that Redding Electric Utility meets ...

On-Farm Renewable Energy Production Shows Strong Growth

Reuters

Conducted by the US Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service, this was the first-ever nationwide survey that looked at renewable energy practices on America's farms and ranches. According to the survey results, solar panels...

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Repeal of SCR1 would help producers of homegrown clean energy

News-Leader.com

Missouri and other states across the country are realizing economic benefits by investing in local, renewable energy sources. Today, Missouri looks to Gov. Jay Nixon's leadership to protect this clean electricity future. We urge the governor to veto ...

Now, cheap, efficient method to convert algae into renewable fuel

Sify

University of Arkansas researchers have developed a method for converting common algae into butanol-a renewable fuel that can be used in existing combustible engines. "We can make cars go. Our conversion process is efficient and inexpensive. ...

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Global Ecology Executes LOI for Thermal Solar Energy Project in India

PR-USA.net (press release)

Global Ecology Corporation ( OTCQB : GLEC) announced today that it has executed a Letter of Intent with Esoft Informatics, Pvt. Ltd., of Noida, India for the development of a thermal solar energy project in India. Under the terms of the agreement, ...

Western Ghats was her calling

Times of India

BANGALORE: What does it take to renounce an urban lifestyle, head to the Western Ghats and try hard to save the fragile ecology of the region? "A lot of madness," laughs Sunita Rao. A student of ecology, Sunita worked in several wildlife reserves and ...

Global Ecology Executes LOI for Thermal Solar Energy Project in India

Marketwire (press release)

MONTCLAIR, NJ--(Marketwire - March 4, 2011) - Global Ecology Corporation ( OTCQB : GLEC) announced today that it has executed a Letter of Intent with Esoft Informatics, Pvt. Ltd., of Noida, India for the development of a thermal solar energy project in ...

More lye leaks from derailed train at Puget Sound

Seattle Times

The Washington Ecology Department said the sodium hydroxide was released on an access road on the upland side of the track as an overturned rail car was rolled over. Most of the contents had been pumped off after Saturday's derailment, ...

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Inquirer Editorial: Threatening our water | Philadelphia Inquirer | 2011-03-06

Philadelphia Inquirer

Federal and state regulators need to assess a new public-health threat from natural-gas drilling - radiation in Pennsylvania's water. Wastewater samples from 116 of 179 Marcellus Shale gas wells have been found to contain high levels of radiation. ...

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The resumption of deep-water drilling

Houston Chronicle

By MICHAEL R. BROMWICH Last week, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) approved the first new deep-water drilling permit since the Deepwater Horizon explosion and resulting oil spill. This permit represents a ...

Tri-county officials: Potential candidates under review for new Detroit water ...

Detroit Free Press

BY CHRISTINA HALL ANDD JOHN WISELY Detroit Mayor Dave Bing will appoint all water board commissioners. Counties are to submit candidates by March 14. Detroit suburbs are just weeks away from having handpicked people sitting at the table of the new ...

Batch solar water heater can reduce family's utility bills

Detroit Free Press

This do-it-yourself solar water heating kit uses a batch design to preheat incoming coldwater. / James Dulley via dulley.com BY JAMES DULLEY Dear Jim: We have two teenage daughters who take long showers. Our water heating costs are probably very high. ...

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