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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Sunday, March 6, 2011

6 March - RSS SnapShot! Pt 2

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MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • 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. ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • Tackling 'Unsustainable Economic Growth' in China
    China puts forth energy intensity, carbon intensity and total energy consumption targets in its twelfth five-year plan in an effort to tackle "unsustainable economic growth."
  • Tough choices for Australia
    By the time I left Australia on Wednesday evening the debate over a carbon price in the economy had reached what I can only describe as fever pitch. It dominated the daily headlines in almost every mainstream newspaper and in Federal parliament it dominated the debate, even resulting in numerous ...
  • Break Down Bureaucracy to Get Breakthrough Tec ...
    Washington policy wonks scoffed when the Obama Administration announced last year that the Department of Energy and Pentagon were going to collaborate in developing new clean energy technologies. They thought such a shot-gun marriage was impractical and� impossible to even get off the ground. In ...
  • Rethinking Energy Efficiency Portfolio Standards
    EEPS schemes that focus on efficiency must first define what efficiency really means in the context of electricity. It does not mean simply using less. Efficiency means generating electrons more cleanly and transmitting them more evenly throughout the course of the day, in order to reduce the ...
  • Portlandia to help wean Los Angeles from coal
    Portlandia may not be the sunniest of places, but it’s exporting solar energy in the form of photovoltaic panels used to build carbon-free power plants.

Green House - USA Today

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

Prior Art

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

Peoples Voice

  • Warning: BDS success answered by ‘Boycot ...
    Stuart Littlewood Congratulations, BDS campaigners. Your global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions effort is hurting Israel so much that panic-stricken propaganda bosses are casting about in desperation for something to hit back with… for example, the libelous press release which portrays yours ...
  • LOCKERBIE DIARY: GADHAFFI, FALL GUY FOR CIA DR ...
    By Susan Lindauer, Former U.S. Asset covering Iraq and Libya For years I was told the terrorist who placed the bomb on board Pan Am 103, known as the Lockerbie bombing, lives about 8 miles from my house, in Fairfax County, Virginia. His life-time of privilege and protection, gratis of high fl ...
  • “I Get It Now”- A beginners to gui ...
    By Silver Shield The Silver Bullet and the Silver Shield has started to cause some waves out there. This massive article covers all of the reasons why you should sell every asset you have right now and buy silver. It has been named “Article of the Week” at Silver Bear Cafe. It started a minor s ...
  • AN INVITATION
    by Mary Pitt This is an invitation for all of you Washington D.C. officials who are serving as representatives of "the people" in the revered halls of our National Capital. It appears from the Congressional schedule that you intend to have ample time to spend "at home" in your respective state ...
  • Arab People Win Freedom
    Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. “When a people return to Allah, surely, Allah’s help come rushing to them.” Across the Arab world, tragic scenes unravel inspiring human struggle for freedom – police shooting on peaceful protesters at random, massive deaths, degradation of human life, disruption of s ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

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

World Wide Hippies

  • Newt Gingrich In Front Of Stock Photos
    You know, in case he decides to run for president or something. More… Newt Gingrich’s Awkward Prom Photos | Mother Jones Former Speaker Newt Gingrich launched his presidential exploratory effort yesterday, joining a GOP field that also includes pizza mogul Herman Cain and former one-term Louisia ...
  • Ronald McDonald and Other Clowns
    By David Glenn Cox | OpEdNews – Libya’s Muammar Qaddafi announced the other day that the problems in Libya were being caused by, are you sitting down? Al Qaeda. It sounds absurd, doesn’t it? But why does it sound absurd? Qaddafi is trying to use the grounds of a foreign insurgency to justify his ...
  • Subculture emerged as a reaction to the mainst ...
    Reaching Nirvana | The Guardian Some say the merge of subculture and mainstream began in 1991, when Nirvana released their second album, Nevermind, on a major label. In the early 1990s the standup comedian Bill Hicks used to begin one of his skits by suggesting that everyone in the audience who ...
  • Hippie.TV
  • Saudi Arabia bans Demonstrations
    Saudi Arabia bans all demos after Shi’ite protests | Reuters Saudi Arabia said on Saturday it would ban all protests and marches after minority Shi’ites staged small protests in the oil-producing eastern province. Security forces would use all measures to prevent any attempt to disrupt public o ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

  • Marines defend making WikiLeaks suspect sleep nude
    The Army private suspected of giving classified U.S. documents to the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks was stripped of all clothing for two nights to keep him from hurting himself in his military jail cell, a Marine Corps spokesman said Friday.
  • Maher mocks Gingrich for hypocritical moralizing
    Newt Gingrich seems primed to run on a�value-based campaign platform as he explores his White House bid in earnest this week. And Bill Maher couldn't help but point out the seeming hypocrisy in that decision. The "Real Time" host dedicated a portion of his "New Rule" segment last night to Gin ...
  • Frontlines hard to find in Libya's struggle
    Just 60 miles (100 kilometers) from Moammar Gadhafi's hometown, something didn't feel right.
  • John Edwards' judgment day
    It's hard to imagine the stock of John Edwards falling any further.
  • What the Huck?
    Mike Huckabee has in the past week made two sets of comments that he has had to explain or correct -- and in both cases, the explanations proved just as problematic as the original statements.

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • Tackling 'Unsustainable Economic Growth' in China
    China puts forth energy intensity, carbon intensity and total energy consumption targets in its twelfth five-year plan in an effort to tackle "unsustainable economic growth."
  • Tough choices for Australia
    By the time I left Australia on Wednesday evening the debate over a carbon price in the economy had reached what I can only describe as fever pitch. It dominated the daily headlines in almost every mainstream newspaper and in Federal parliament it dominated the debate, even resulting in numerous ...
  • Break Down Bureaucracy to Get Breakthrough Tec ...
    Washington policy wonks scoffed when the Obama Administration announced last year that the Department of Energy and Pentagon were going to collaborate in developing new clean energy technologies. They thought such a shot-gun marriage was impractical and� impossible to even get off the ground. In ...
  • Rethinking Energy Efficiency Portfolio Standards
    EEPS schemes that focus on efficiency must first define what efficiency really means in the context of electricity. It does not mean simply using less. Efficiency means generating electrons more cleanly and transmitting them more evenly throughout the course of the day, in order to reduce the ...
  • Portlandia to help wean Los Angeles from coal
    Portlandia may not be the sunniest of places, but it’s exporting solar energy in the form of photovoltaic panels used to build carbon-free power plants.

EU Times

  • Saudi Arabia imposes ban on all protests
    All protests and marches are to be banned in Saudi Arabia, the interior ministry has announced on state TV. Its statement said security forces would use all measures to prevent any attempt to disrupt public order. The announcement follows a series of protests by the kingdom’s Shia minority in th ...
  • China opposes foreign intervention in Middle E ...
    China opposes the intervention by foreign forces in the unrest in the Middle East and relevant missions should be led by the United Nations, a Chinese spokesman said Saturday. A similar unrest in China is “preposterous and unrealistic”, said Zhao Qizheng, spokesman for China’s top advisory body ...
  • Gunman Shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ Kills 2 US Airm ...
    Obama Says U.S. Will Spare No Efforts in Investigating Killings. A gunman shouting “Allahu Akbar” opened fire on a bus carrying U.S. airmen in Frankfurt, Germany, killing two and wounding two others before his gun jammed and he was subdued, officials said. An ethnic Albanian from Kosovo was take ...
  • CNN: Are whites racially oppressed?
    They marched on Washington to reclaim civil rights. They complained of voter intimidation at the polls. They called for ethnic studies programs to promote racial pride. They are, some say, the new face of racial oppression in this nation — and their faces are white. “We went from being a privile ...
  • Success on both sides sow fear of Libya civil war
    Moammar Gadhafi loyalists broke through rebel lines at an opposition-held city that is closest to the Libyan capital on Saturday, while anti-government forces celebrated the capture of a key oil port from the regime on the eastern coast. The contrasting fortunes of the two warring sides suggest ...

Stonecipher News

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

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Charlie Sheen may make Ustream History Tonight ...
    You’ve no doubt heard Charlie Sheen is to appear on uStream in a matter of minutes (. No ones quite sure what he’s planning on announcing but we’ve been informed the Ustream team are standing by for what might be their biggest livestream event yet. Previously the record had been set by Presiden ...
  • David Arquette Involved In Head-On Collision
    David Arquette was rolling his Caddy through B Hills today and was involved in a head-on collision. The actor is fine, but was removed from the scene, bleeding, in an ambulance. "I got into a car accident but I'm fine," he wrote on his own Twitter page. "Luckily I have dragon's blood running th ...
  • Silvio Ready To Switch With Muammar
    Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi is facing a growing rebellion in his land by those who have had enough. In Italy, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is facing four trials ranging from tax fraud to bribery to sex with underage girls, so it would not be madness on his part to switch places with the ...
  • Jared Lee Loughner Charged With Murder Of Giff ...
    Jared Lee Loughner, the man accused in the January shooting spree in Tucson, was indicted on additional federal murder charges by a grand jury yesterday for allegedly murdering "participants at a federally provided activity," the Justice Department announced Friday. The news out of the 49-count ...
  • Android Anti-Fragmentation Kit Released by Google
    Google has finally released the Android anti-fragmentation kit to assist Android developers in dealing even better with fragmented related issues in their apps. The new anti-fragmentation kit comes as a static library, which allows access to Honeycomb fragments API . The new anti-fragmentation ...

Groklaw

  • Judge Lets Sony Unmask Visitors to PS3-Jailbre ...
    "I think the these subpoenas, the information they seek, is inappropriate," said Corynne McSherry, a staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation. In a letter to Magistrate Spero, she termed the subpoenas "overly broad." (.pdf) [PJ: What I think a lot of folks are missing in their cov ...
  • Top student charged with fixing grades for cash
    Coyner boosted the grades of a dozen students but saved the biggest improvements for himself, police said. He was selected as his school's salutatorian at the 2010 graduation, an honor he never legitimately earned, according to the Nye County Sheriff's Office....In the Pahrump Valley Times profi ...
  • Some game developers unhappy with Apple, Nintendo
    With more than 350,000 apps available on Apple's digital store, game creators are finding it tough to attract attention despite tens of millions of potential customers who own Apple gadgets, he said. "They have over-encouraged supply," Hawkins said on a panel at the conference. Using statistics ...
  • Saab squashes Apple for Android
    In the Saab, though, the so-called ''IQon'' smartphone system will control the in-car infotainment system - and much more. The exciting part is that Saab will open up the car's system to Android developers - including access to about 500 sensors throughout the vehicle for reading data such as v ...
  • Google's Android Spurs More App Jobs Than iPhone
    Software engineers skilled in making applications for Google's Android mobile-operating system this week became more sought-after than developers for Apple's iPhone, according to online job board Dice.com. - Business Week

WideShut

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 ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

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

frogblog

  • Heroes (Heroines) I Have (Recently) Known
    A hero(ine) is defined as a person of distinguished courage or ability, admired for one’s brave deeds and noble qualities.  I know, now, who they are and why. Let me count the ways. We have become, in Christchurch, a tale of two cities. Out west, we are relatively unaffected and seek to help.  I ...
  • Lows and Highs in Christchurch
    Last week I spent some time in Christchurch, with family and friends, and going door-to-door distributing food and advice with the Green team in the hard-hit suburb of Aranui. Everyone is suffering trauma of one sort or another. My friend, who was in the Cathedral Café when the rocks came down. ...
  • Submit on NZTA’s application to change t ...
    Even though our freshwater ecosystems are in crisis and two-thirds of all New Zealand native freshwater fish are threatened or at risk, the Government is trying to use the Environmental Protection Agency to remove protection from endangered New Zealand fish habitat so that we can build a motorw ...
  • General debate, March 5, 2011
  • Student Volunteer Army defeats student stereotype
    Today I got to spend time with the students and organisers behind the Volunteer Student Army in Christchurch as they wound down major operations. Organised by Canterbury students, the student army recruited hundreds of volunteers, including a Green Party contingent to shovel liquifacted soil, le ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • Liberty's Easy Slide into Tyranny
    Huge conspiracies aren't what destroys people's freedom, the accumulation of errors, failed policies, and little and big unfairnesses do. It happens because The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men/ Gang aft agley,/ An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain. The FED, CIA, Executive Privilege, The ...
  • What should be done with illegal immigrants?
    That this question is even being asked reveals something about ourselves. How would you answer it if you were an illegal immigrant? Perhaps you've never heard of the Golden Rule. The rule may not be the best guide to moral behavior but asking yourself how you'd answer the question if you wer ...
  • A Revolting World
    Many in many lands are demonstrating against their governments. Some claim that people everywhere are revolting and that a worldwide revolution is imminent. Even both the orthodox and heterodox presses are all atwitter. But it is far easier to bring about a successful revolution than it is t ...
  • Demented Democracy
    An addiction to opinion, each person being entitled to his own, and the unwarranted notion that those who fight for their beliefs are "principled" is the reason that democracies teeter between antagonistic belief systems and are unable to resolve any social problems. Each party strives to re ...
  • Pity the Poor Economists
    The first thing a judicious reader notices is how much disagreement exists among economists on almost every, perhaps every, matter. Then it becomes clear that much of this disagreement is acrimonious. Some of these people appear to hate each other. Now ask yourselves, how likely would it hav ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Bradley Manning
    No blogging for me this weekend, but I'd just like to second Jane Hamsher, Mark Kleiman, Glenn Greenwald, and everyone else who's appalled at the way we're treating Bradley Manning. If he's guilty of a crime, then try him and sentence him. Until then, as Mark says, "This is a total disgrace. I ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging - 4 March 2011
    Today's catblogging is dedicated to that traditional favorites, cats inside of things. On the left, Inkblot is peering out of the box my new desk chair came in. It's a drafting stool, which allows me to sit higher and hopefully ease the strain on my arm and shoulders caused by typing and mousi ...
  • Chart of the Day: Who's Afraid of the Tea Party?
    In the Boston Review, Stephen Ansolabehere and James Snyder write that the tea party movement has been overrated: It is tempting to believe that the Tea Party endorsement moved voters. Indeed, the candidates endorsed by these groups did well: 64 percent of Republican candidates endorsed by th ...
  • The Glenn Beck Vortex
    I almost agreed to do a piece about Glenn Beck for the next issue of the magazine, but in the end I begged off. I just couldn't do it. The tipping point came a week after I'd said I'd do it, when I was in a bookstore and decided that if I was going to do a Beck piece, then I guess I'd better r ...
  • 11-Dimensional Chess
    I disagree completely with Ezra Klein's blanket statment that "No one can carry out complicated plans." People can! If you're willing to put in a lot of hard work and clear thinking, you absolutely can make complicated plans and carry them out successfully fairly often. However, I agree comple ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 232: This Ain’t Winning
    Topics for the show: BYU player gets suspended for having sex with his girlfriend The Westboro Baptist Church wins at the Supreme Court We as a society need to step up to handle these moral issues Bobbi Kristina denies she was using coke Charlie Sheen ain’t winning The McLobster The 2012 electio ...
  • BYU Forward Reportedly Dismissed From Team For ...
    For the second day in a row I’m writing about a story I read that while I emotionally and morally disagree with it, in terms of whether it’s the right decision or not, I have to agree that it is. BYU announced on Tuesday that starting forward Brandon Davies was suspended for the rest of [...]
  • You Might Not Like It…But It’s the Right Decision
    WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the First Amendment protects fundamentalist church members who mount anti-gay protests outside military funerals, despite the pain they cause grieving families. The court voted 8-1 in favor of the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan. The dec ...
  • FacePalm of the Week: Defunding Planned Paren ...
    Twitter is great for many things.  Keeping in touch with friends, networking, promotion, etc.  One thing it seems especially good at though, is making me aware of other people’s complete and utter “Fullofshitness”.  I mean it’s one thing to misspell a word here or there, but with people like Tyr ...
  • IC 231: Cocaine is a Helluva Drug
    Topics for the show: All natural ice cream……..with breast milk? Ciara vs Rihanna Twitter beef between celebrities…how stupid can they get? Spell check…….use it Charlie Sheen is 100% sober….yeah right Charlie Sheen and Alex Jones prove crazy always needs a companion Former Rep. Chris Lee has more ...

Simple Climate

  • Ice age rethink puts warming into context
    Researchers challenge a fundamental principle of climate science – the effect of Earth's relationship to the sun – but underline that we are still reversing what should be a long slow cool-off for the planet.
  • Soot and methane cuts promise threefold benefits
    Called on by groups including the G8 to examine the science behind limiting emissions of short-lived substances causing climate change, the United Nations Environment Partnership finds just 16 control measures can boost climate, farming and health.
  • Evidence of humans’ role in deluges starts to flow
    Scientists find the first evidence that humans are causing extreme rainfall, while the identification that greenhouse gas emissions increased the odds of 2000’s record rainfall in the UK are set to open the flood gates for telling whether humans have influenced extreme weather events.
  • Atlantic cold tongue tells of humans’ cl ...
    Aerosol emissions are more responsible than global warming for weakened trade winds, but pollution controls look set to show how government rules can reverse changes we have caused.
  • Climate researchers warn of food and forest ti ...
    With food prices reaching record highs, worsening droughts in east Africa will add to agricultural problems, while a parched Amazon could speed rather than fight global warming.

e!Science News

  • Weight-loss surgery successful in treating ove ...
    "Bariatric surgery" refers to several different surgical procedures designed to assist weight loss by limiting the amount of food someone eats or the amount they absorb during digestion. It has been used for several years to treat obesity in adults. A new study published in the journal Clinical ...
  • Tried and true recipes
    Nuclear reactor technology research dwindled away when nuclear power fell out of favor several decades ago. Renewed interest in fission-based energy means knowledge gained in past research is relevant again. read more
  • Stroke patients benefit from family involvemen ...
    Your family's involvement in your exercise therapy could significantly improve your function and recovery after stroke, according to a study in the March print issue of Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association. read more
  • Simulating gasification
    A process called gasification can turn carbonaceous fuels—coal, petroleum, or biomass—into syngas, a cleaner-burning fuel mix of carbon monoxide and hydrogen. read more
  • New microscope produces dazzling 3-D movies of ...
    A new microscope invented by scientists at Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Farm Research Campus will let researchers use an exquisitely thin sheet of light -- similar to that used in supermarket bar-code scanners -- to peer inside single living cells, revealing the three-dimensional sh ...

unEarthed

Brave New Climate

  • Correlates of global temperatures – part 2
    For context, make sure you read this first: A toy model for forecasting global temperatures â 2011 redux, part 1 Here is a list and brief description of the data sources I will be analysing: 1. Annual global temperature (WTI): This is the ‘dependent variable‘ in the model. The time span is 1979 ...
  • A toy model for forecasting global temperature ...
    A little over two years ago, I wrote the following post on BNC: How hot should it have really been over the last 5 years? In it, I did some simple statistical tinkering to examine the (correlative) relationship between global temperatures and a few key factors, namely greenhouse gases, solar irr ...
  • Advanced nuclear power systems to mitigate cli ...
    This is a modified version of the full conference paper. This is the most up-to-date executive summary available, written for a general — albeit technically conversant – audience, of the Integral Fast Reactor: 91st American Meteorology Society Annual Meeting, Jan 23-27, 2011, Seattle, WA  Sec ...
  • Open Thread 9 – technosolar catastrophe?
    This is the first Open Thread of 2011. The Open Thread is a general discussion forum, where you can talk about whatever you like — there is nothing ‘off topic’ here — within reason. So get up on your soap box! The standard commenting rules of courtesy apply, and at the very least your chat shoul ...
  • Safeguarding the nuclear fuel cycle
    Guest Post by Dr. William Hannum. A member of the Science Council for Global Initiatives, Bill worked for more than 40 years in nuclear power development, stretching from design and analysis of the Shippingport reactor to the Integral Fast Reactor. He earned his BA in physics at Princeton and hi ...

Indigenist Opinion

  • 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 ...

Republicans are a Disease

  • David Koch – We Want Our Money Back
    We Want Our Money Back Dear Mr. Koch. We want our money back. What money? The money you stole from AMERICA. The money you, and your friends socked away with the help of a corrupt system, bought and paid for politicians, and banksters. When you paid to put that maggot in the governor’s mansi ...
  • Wake Up
    Wake up and do something. The billionaires, and the corporations they control have been destroying our nation for long enough.
  • Governor Walker – When Will You Have The ...
    You want to jerk around state employees, and unions, all to make up for the money you refuse to collect from corporations and billionaires. They don’t pay near their fair share, and you want working families to make up the difference.
  • Arrest Clarence Thomas
    Many others have been prosecuted for lying on their financial disclosure forms. Why is it that Clarence Thomas can commit a crime any 3 year old could prosecute successfully, and not be charged? Are we a nation of laws? If not, I should go steal some money….
  • Koch Brothers #1 In Global Warming – Sto ...
    To do anything about human caused climate change, it takes legislation. To move legislation you need support. To restrict support of legislation needed to keep global warming from destroying the lives of BILLIONS the Koch Brothers are #1 in spending money and energy to stop legislation dealing w ...

Appalachia Rising

  • Day of Action and Conference Vision Statements
    Appalachia Rising: Day of Action September 25 – 27, 2010, Washington DC Appalachia Rising is a mass mobilization in Washington DC on September 27, 2010 calling for the abolition of mountaintop removal and surface mining. It is a culmination of the national movement against surface mining and a f ...
  • Press Conference to be Held on June 15
    Thousands to March in DC Calling for the Abolition of Mountaintop Removal Press Conference June 15 in Charleston, WV Announces Mass Mobilization Appalachia Rising WHEN: June 15, 10:00 AM WHERE: WV State Capitol Back Steps Near Fountain, Charleston, WV CONTACTS: West Virginia Bo Webb – 304-237-26 ...
  • Press Inquiries
    All media inquiries should be sent to Bo Webb webb.bo@gmail.com Set up interviews via email. Previous Press Releases and Media Public Launch Press Conference Report Back, with video Press Conference Held on June 15 Announces Appalachia Rising Video June 15 Appalachia Public Launch Press Conferen ...
  • New Flier for Appalachia Rising
  • Appalachia Rising Uniting Celebrities, Appalac ...
    Appalachia Rising Uniting Celebrities, Appalachians, and Scientists for the Abolition of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Ashley Judd, Woody Harrelson, Gloria Reuben, Kyra Sedgewick, Kevin Bacon, Ed Begley Jr., Kathy Mattea, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, James Hansen, and Darryl Hannah rallying behind co ...

Amped Status

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  • Choice of JStreet ‘mascot’ raises ...
    One of the things that struck me about the J Street conference was that, despite the grandeur of the event (understandable due to its effort to rival the show put on by the veteran America Israel Public Affairs Committee every year), it was actually understated and done with taste.  There were n ...
  • Will all of Israel’s center-left parties ...
    Front-runners for leading Kadima, Labor and Meretz in the next elections are all women. Could Israel’s next government be led by a Livni-Yachimovich-Gal-On trio? Israel is far from being the model for the advancement of women, and discrimination is evident in any field of society. All major med ...
  • Future sound of London: The UK as model for ou ...
    The first page I ever “liked” on Facebook now proved itself worthwhile. It is the page of British folk singer Billy Bragg, the “Bard of Barking” (an area in East London). Besides being one of the best baladeers ever born, Bragg is a socialist thinker and an activist. It is from him that I learne ...
  • West Bank wind of change
    This piece was originally published in Le Monde Diplomatique and co-written with Jesse Rosenfeld As protests multiply across the Arab world and grassroots resistance grows in the West Bank, the Palestinian Authority faces popular anger for its investment in a failed ‘peace process’ The PLO leade ...
  • Confessions of a born again Yael
    A few months ago an Israeli rabbi gave his blessing to female agents of Israel’s foreign secret service, the Mossad, who are required to have sex with the enemy in so-called “trapping” missions against terrorists. Rabbi Ari Shvat’s ruling appeared in a study, “Illicit sex for the sake of nationa ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

  • Get involved in Clean Up Australia Day
    Federal Environment Minister, Tony Burke, today encouraged Australians across the country to join in the 21st annual Clean Up Australia Day.
  • Statement on Tasmanian pulp mill
    On 5 January, 2009 the then Minister for the Environment Peter Garrett set March 3, 2011 as the final date for a decision on the three remaining modules of the environmental impact management plan submitted by Gunns for the proposed pulp mill at Bell Bay, Tasmania. Today I am extending that dea ...
  • Orange City Pipeline project gets go-ahead
    The Australian Government and NSW Government today signed off on a plan to deliver the Orange Pipeline project connecting the Macquarie River to Orange.
  • Victorian Government must provide information ...
    The Commonwealth Government has demanded the Victorian Government provide all relevant information about its reintroduction of cattle grazing to the Alpine National Park within two weeks.
  • Support for Murray-Darling Basin communities
    Tony Burke, Minister for Water, today announced that the Gillard Government will invest in Murray Darling Basin communities with support to implement water savings initiatives.

Matt Weidner Blog

  • Risidng Food Prices, Rising Gas Prices, Bring ...
    While the US may rely upon the middle east to feed our nasty oil addiction, we still retain our agricultural production.  Unfortunately, our domestic agriculture production is tied to oil.  Libya imports up to 90 percent of its food and is heavily dependent upon foreign workers both for its oil ...
  • Corporations as Criminals- JPMorganChase Screw ...
    READ THIS STORY, PLEASE PASS THIS STORY ALONG.  WHAT KIND OF COUNTRY DO WE LIVE IN ANYMORE? An Anaheim couple with an eight year-old daughter has lost their home… that would be one way of phrasing it.  Another way to describe what happened would be to say that JPMorgan Chase, an outfit that I no ...
  • Naked Capitalism- Breaking Down PSAs to Defeat ...
    Yves Smith does an excellent job of breaking down an important loss that the foreclosure defense community took in a recent Alabama case.  So why are we taking time to broadcast and talk about a loss?  Well, sometimes you learn more from losses than you do with cases that are won…..and as Yves ...
  • Cops Tackling Legislators- Democracy at Risk, ...
    Last night, one Democratic lawmaker, Rep. Nick Milroy, was physically tackled by Capitol police when he tried to enter the building to retrieve some clothes after meeting with constituents outside. In response to the enormous protests from union supporters, state officials have been allowing onl ...
  • Florida Courts: Bankrupt! Wall Street Fat Cats ...
    Please read the article and click on the interview with The Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court.  Florida’s courts are underfunded to the point where constitutional rights are being violated. What I find most disturbing about that is the fact that the corporations and criminals that chok ...

abelard - news

The Parallel Parliament

  • The Rock of Integrity
    Came to bed but couldn’t sleep, my thoughts filled with Jim Travers, the terrific journalist from the Toronto Star, whose sudden passing today infused Ottawa with a sense of tragedy. So many wonderful things are being said about him that my thoughts will pale in comparison. But my insights are t ...
  • Beating ‘Em In The Alley
    Hockey legend Conn Smythe was by all accounts a fierce competitor, though fair. His most famous quote was characteristically blunt: “If you can’t beat them on the ice, you can’t beat them in the alley.” I wonder what he’d think about what’s going on in the House of Commons this month? The Harper ...
  • Affording Democracy – All We have Left
    This is the last post in the “Affording Democracy” series, but it’s likely the most important. One of the most pivotal moments in our history was when we stopped saying “we as Canadians” and began saying “They the government.” It fails to serve the public interest and leaves citizens and their r ...
  • Affording Democracy – Canadian Idle
    When public services are only driven through a partisan lens, the effects on a country like Canada can be devastating, in part because they occur below the surface and away from the public eye. Here’s an example of what I’m talking about. Look at this chart. We’ve heard repeatedly in the last tw ...
  • Affording Democracy – Pushing the Noun
    At the end of the classic movie Inherit the Wind, lawyer Spencer Tracy casts a skeptical look at the journalist played by Gene Kelly and remarks, “You never pushed a noun against a verb except to blow up something.” Even back then (1960) the media was seen as more interested in sensationalism th ...

Vaccine Awakening

  • No Pharma Liability? No Vaccine Mandates.
    by Barbara Loe Fisher On February 22, 2011 the U.S. Supreme Court shielded drug companies from all liability for harm caused by vaccines mandated by government when companies could have made a safer vaccine. 1 From now on, drug companies selling vaccines in America will not be held accounta ...
  • WA State Vaccine Law Threatens Exemptions & Vi ...
    by Barbara Loe Fisher If you are a resident of Washington state, you should know that there is a bill quietly sailing through your state legislature that violates your privacy and threatens your right to make informed, voluntary decisions about vaccination. House Bill 1015 1 and Senate Bill ...
  • New Vaccine Science Can Help Bridge the Divide
    by Barbara Loe Fisher Fear of the unknown is what terrifies us the most, fear of being unable to have control over what the future holds. At the root of that fear is knowing that the choices we make today could have a profound impact on what happens tomorrow. 1 Fear is a strong emotion ...
  • Counting Blessings, Remembering the Children
    by Barbara Loe Fisher Every Christmas and New Year, when I give thanks for the people who have blessed my life, I remember the mothers and fathers of severely vaccine injured children, who have taught me the most about love and courage. I know that my son, Chris, who developed brain inflamma ...
  • Thousands Of Americans Register for NVIC's New ...
    by Barbara Loe Fisher Thousands of Americans living in all 50 states took action and registered for the new NVIC Advocacy Portal at www.NVICadvocacy.org during Vaccine Awareness Week (Nov. 1-6, 2010) co-sponsored by the National Vaccine Informati ...

2020 Science

  • Obama’s 2012 budget does not bode well for saf ...
    In one of the more bizarre yet less publicized proposed cuts in the 2012 Obama budget, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Education and Research Centers are on the chopping block.  Bizarre, because the move is directly counter to Obama’s push on innovation and education a ...
  • Davos 2011 – Committed to changing the state o ...
    Cross-posted from the Risk Science Blog. As it did last year, the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos has left me with a daunting task – how do I summarize the highlights of the meeting in a single, short post? The answer of course is that I canât – Davos is so complex, diverse [...] ...
  • Davos 2011 – Partnering with teens to build a ...
    This is not a science and technology post – which is a bit odd for a science and technology blog.  But I wanted to introduce five people who together shake up the whole idea of the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos as being an elitist and increasingly irrelevant gathering of middle aged bal ...
  • Davos 2011: Global Risks permeate conversation ...
    Cross-posted from the Risk Science Blog. Take a metaphorical slice through this year’s annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, and Global Risk would be writ large through every part of it.  Hot on the heels of the sixth Global Risk report, this year’s meeting saw the launch of the Risk Re ...
  • Davos 2011 – physics superstar meets music sup ...
    I don’t usually write about personal interactions here, but this is one I couldn’t resist – physics superstar Lawrence Krauss talking cosmology with music superstar Peter Gabriel. I was with Lawrence at a World Economic Forum dinner when he bumped into Peter – as one does!  He immediately launc ...

Reader Supported News

  • Frank Rich to Leave New York Times
    Frank Rich is leaving The New York Times to join New York Magazine, beginning in June. Rich will write monthly essays on politics and culture and will also be a commentator on nymag .com, engaging in weekly dialogues. Portrait, New York Times columnist Frank Rich, 06/15/09. (photo: Getty/NYT) ...
  • Leaked EPA Documents Expose Effort to Hide Dan ...
    Excerpt: "Studies by scientists at the US Environmental Protection Agency on fracking have been repeatedly narrowed in scope by superiors, and important findings have been removed under pressure from the industry. The news comes as the EPA is conducting a broad study of the risks of natural gas ...
  • Republicans Attack Obama's Environmental Prote ...
    Intro: "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. The event marked the start of a backla ...
  • GOP Senator Yanked Off Committee 30 Minutes Be ...
    Intro: "On Wednesday, just moments before a key committee in the Ohio State Senate was to vote on a GOP bill that would effectively dismantle public employees' right to collectively bargain, the Senate's Republican leader replaced a GOP committee member who opposed the bill with someone who supp ...
  • Clarence Thomas Faces Call for Disbarment
    Roger Shuler writes, "US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas should be disbarred for his failure to truthfully complete financial-disclosure forms over a 20-year period, according to a complaint filed by the watchdog group Protect Our Elections (POE)." Justice Clarence Thomas, speaking at M ...

War Resisters League

  • Stepping up the Resistance to U.S. Islamophobia
    As Peter King, the new chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, steps up the U.S. government attack against Muslims living in the U.S., saying that he will “rely on Muslims to make his case that American Muslim leaders have failed to cooperate with law enforcement officials in the effo ...
  • Mubarak Ousted! Two Down, Twenty To Go . . .
    “The people have brought down the regime!” was a cry heard around the world when on Friday, February 11th, 18 days of unrelenting non-violent protest finally forced the end of Hosni Mubarak’s 30 year, US backed rule over Egypt. Ecstatic jubilation filled Cairo’s Midan al-Tahrir (Liberation Squar ...
  • The Egyptian Revolution and Police Tools &#821 ...
    As of this writing, the Egyptian revolution has entered its 16th day and is gaining ground and momentum: spreading to new regions, evolving into strikes and civil disobedience and clarifying its demands. What started as an impressive series of demonstrations on January 25th’s ‘Day of Wrath’ has ...
  • Anti-war Activists to Grand Jury: “We will not ...
    Tuesday, January 25th was the day that 23 anti-war and Palestine solidarity activists were made to appear before a Federal Grand Jury in Chicago. It was also the day that all of them refused to testify. In solidarity with those targeted by government repression, several rallies were held in citi ...
  • The other “Afghanistan Report”
    Whose stories are we telling about the war in Afghanistan? On the day following the White House report on the war in Afghanistan that names the war as a qualified success and calls for the U.S. to “stay the course,” we must lift up the alternative stories and reports of this near-decade of occup ...

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 ...

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

  • The FP Salon: Peter Bergen's The Longest War
    An FP round-table discussion on counterterrorism expert Peter Bergen's latest book. A decade after 9/11, is the war on terrorism a war we can win?
  • Crazy Like a Fox
    In a fit of anger, Hamid Karzai axes his director of intelligence, Amrullah Saleh. But is there method to his madness?
  • Addicted to Contractors
    The United States is hooked on privatized warfare in Afghanistan. And it's more costly than you think.
  • How to Whip the Afghan Army Into Shape
    Much of President Barack Obama's strategy rests on the creation of a new, more competent Afghan military. Here's what he'll need to know to get the job done.
  • Obama's Indecent Interval
    Despite the U.S. president's pleas to the contrary, the war in Afghanistan looks more like Vietnam than ever.

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

  • Action Alert: End Fossil Fuel Tax Breaks
    Climate Action Network Canada 22 Mar 2011 (All day) Fossil Fuel Subsidies�Counter Climate Action Network Canada has created a Fossil Fuel Subsidies Counter that shows the amount ...
  • Fossil Fuel Subsidies Campaign
    Organization:� Climate Action Network Canada Initiative:� Fossil Fuels Subsidies Counter Climate Action Netw ...
  • Good fish don't do drugs: pharmaceuticals and ...
    21 Mar 2011 - 18:30 - 21:30 Edmonton North Saskatchewan Riverkeeper North Saskatchewan Watershed Alliance 21 Mar 2011 - 18:30 - 21:30 Co ...
  • Job Opportunity: Sustainability Intern - Outre ...
    Position Sustainability Intern - Outreach and Engagement Organization Office of Sustainability, University of Alberta Organization Application Deadline 18 Mar 2011 (All day) Location ...
  • Federal government to cut environmental spending
    By Mike De Souza, Postmedia News March 1, 2011 5:02 PM   The Harper government is projecting some major cuts to several of its environmental initiatives, including climate change and clean air, over the next year, according to newly released federal estimates. OTTAWA — The Harper governme ...

Stop NATO

  • Stop NATO News March 5, 2011
    ==== stopnato@yahoogroups.com ==== 1. British Troops On 24-Hour Notice Stand-By For Libya Intervention 2. International Court of Justice Call After NATO Kills 100 Afghan Civilians 3. Horn Of Africa: U.S. Army Trains Djiboutian Counterparts 4. U.S. Tests Next-Generation Patriot Advanced Capabilit ...
  • Stop NATO News March 4, 2011
    ==== stopnato-subscribe@yahoogroups.com ===== 1. Clinton Confirms U.S. Warplanes, Missiles To Be Deployed In Poland 2. U.S. Air Force Base To Be Permanently Stationed In Poland; NATO “Contingency Plan” For Northeastern Europe; U.S. Must Play Role In Eastern Europe, Confront Belarus 3. Mediterran ...
  • Cyprus: U.S. To Dominate All Europe, Mediterra ...
    Stop NATO March 3, 2011 Cyprus: U.S. To Dominate All Europe, Mediterranean Through NATO Rick Rozoff On February 24 a majority in the Cyprus parliament voted for the country to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s Partnership for Peace program, a transitional mechanism employed to bring ...
  • Stop NATO News March 3, 2011
    ==== stopnato-subscribe@yahoogroups.com ==== 1. U.S.-NATO European Missile Shield System Reaches New Milestone 2. Libya: Washington’s Third Front? 3. U.S. Says Mediterranean Warship Deployment Part Of Missile Shield 4. Russia Pleads Not To Be Targeted By Interceptor Missiles: NATO Control Button ...
  • Stop NATO News March 2, 2011
    ==== stopnato-subscribe@yahoogroups.com ==== 1. Pan-European Security System: NATO Recruits Ukraine For Interceptor Missile System, Rapid Deployment Force, Cyber Warfare Operations, Horn Of Africa Deployment 2. Georgian Afghan War Deployments, Deaths “Down Payment On Admission Into NATO”: U.S. A ...

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Intel Hub

  • Mystery of Two Suns on Chinese Sky Leaves Scie ...
    The International Business Times March 5th, 2011 Scientists are reportedly struggling to find an explanation to the appearance of two suns in the sky viewed in China a couple of days back. The two suns, described by the site Life’s Little Mysteries as “one fuzzy and orange, the other a crisp yel ...
  • Stop the Torture of American Soldier Bradley M ...
    By Andrew W. Griffin Red Dirt Report, editor March 5, 2011 OKLAHOMA CITY — For a number of months now, we here at Red Dirt Report have been following the saga of Pfc. Bradley Manning, the Crescent, Okla. native who is being held in the Marine Corps Brig in Quantico, Virginia under conditions tha ...
  • Ben Bernanke Gets Schooled About Andrew Jackso ...
    March 4th, 2011 At the semi-annual Monetary Policy Report hearing in Congress yesterday, Chairman of The Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke smiles like a kid that has just been caught with his hand in the cookie jar when Senator Mark Kirk gives him a history lesson on currencies and federal debt, eith ...
  • Of Course They Will (Fire On US Citizens)
    By Mac Slavo SHTFPlan.com March 4th, 2011 In previous opinions we’ve discussed the possibility of US law enforcement and military assets being deployed to Main Street at the onset of any major crisis. Discussions by our comment contributors included all manner of thought on such a scenario, with ...
  • The Super Simple Case For $175 An Ounce
    SGTbull07 March 5th, 2011 a SGTbull07 micro-doc Every $20 Billion in new money will move the price of silver $144 higher. JP Morgan is in deep. Very, very deep. “Unanswered Questions” & “Impact Allegretto” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons “Attribution 3.0″ http://c ...

FRS

  • Oakland, California: Adding to the US’ r ...
    Oakland must rehire cop who shot suspect in back Henry K. Lee, San Francisco Chronicle Saturday, March 5, 2011 An Oakland police officer who was fired after fatally shooting an unarmed drunken-driving suspect in the back has won his job back through arbitration, his attorney said Friday. Officer ...
  • Saudi Arabia drafts in up to 10,000 troops ahe ...
    Saudi Arabia is drafting in up to 10,000 security forces to the north eastern Muslim Shia provinces ahead of mass protests planned next week. 12:37AM GMT 05 Mar 2011 Desperate to avoid mass uprisings against the House of Saud, security forces have deployed in huge numbers across the region. King ...
  • Saudi Arabia bans protest rallies
    Interior ministry vows to use all steps “to prevent attempts to disrupt public order” following recent Shia protests. 5 Mar 2011 King Abdullah unveiled $37bn in benefits for citizens after returning from abroad last week Saudi Arabia has banned all protests and marches following recent anti-gove ...
  • Wisconsin: “Return of the Class Struggle ...
    [The liberal "left" in America, having long defined itself in reformist and middle-class terms and by the defense of the New Deal and Keynesian economics, has in recent times despaired at the loss of social economics by liberal Democratic politicians and their social policy dismantlers.  Now, th ...
  • Gaddafi threatens west, says will invite India ...
    [This was a remarkable speech, very revealing of desperate appeals and strategies, as the arrogance of a long-term power flails about in a world of relations now deeply shaken by crisis and rebellion. -- Frontlines ed.] Brega, March 02, 2011 Leader Muammar Gaddafi on Wednesday threatened that Li ...

Ken O'Keefe

  • Tahrir4Gaza – Liberation for Gaza
    As the Arab people continue to exercise unarmed yet mighty power, there is one place above all others that remains at the heart of the struggle, Palestine. Despite all the money, propaganda, weapons, false imprisonment, ethnic cleansing, torture and mass-murder wielded against them, they have e ...
  • The Egyptian Blockade of Gaza – February 26, 2 ...
    Is there any sane, right-minded person who supports the blatant and brutal collective punishment of the people of Gaza? So why would it carry on? There is only one reason, because we allow it. I say we carry on with what the people of Egypt started, they got rid of the dictator, let us, people ...
  • Global Revolution 2011
    I believe the time has come to unite, those of us who are sane, who can see that the masses are comprised of so many cultures and vastly different ways of life, yet we all demand essentially the same things. We demand to be treated with respect. We demand the right to a decent way of life. We ...
  • Revolutions & Manipulations
    While millions of Egyptians are in the streets, in one of the most dramatic spontaneous uprisings in recent years, in an attempt to overthrow 30 years of Mubarak rule, a regime propped up by Israel and the United States, an undercurrent of opportunist plots threaten to turn this hopeful situatio ...
  • Rise People Rise – The Global Revolution ...
    Let us realize once and for all, that we the people are one, that we are human, that our most precious gift is that of our humanity. Let us never sacrifice it again. Together we are unstoppable. We are the sleeping giant, we are the waking lion, we are fierce and we are fearless.

StillSmallVoice

  • Take the SNAP challenge
    Come to Charter Oak Cultural Center at 6:30 p.m. Monday for the kick-off of the SNAP Into Action Against Hunger challenge. Join your fellow travelers in pledging to live on $3 a day -- roughly the equivalent of what the average SNAP recipient receives in supplements -- for a week, or a month. ( ...
  • National Day of Unplugging! It's here!
    Last week, I posted something from Sharon about National Day of Unplugging from sundown today�to sundown tomorrow. That's cell phones, computers, televisions, radios, iPods, iPads, your garage door opener, everything. I added that "garage door opener" on my own. But imagine if you stepped away ...
  • We need to guard our nation's borders, except ...
    They can come on through. A bill introduced by Texas Rep. Debbie Riddle (Remember her? The terrorist-babies woman?) would levy fines on people who hire undocumented workers -- unless those undocumented workers are cleaning the house�or mowing the lawn or basically performing other services for ...
  • Christians! Where would we be without hell?
    Pastor Rob Bell asks that question in an upcoming book, and based strictly on the advance material, the godly chattering class doesn't much like it. In fact, the buzz has the publisher moving the release date up. It does make you wonder, though: If you take away the threat of eternal punishment ...
  • Wisconsin Democratic state rep. gets tackled
    Go here for raw video of state Rep. Nick Milroy being tackled by -- is it capitol police? A judge has ordered the capitol closed during the evenings;�reports said Milroy was attempting to get back into the capitol Thursday night to retrieve some of his clothing. The capitol has been the focus ...

Associated Content

  • Barack Obama Brews 'White House Honey Ale'
    President Barack Obama has a new hobby, which is apparently to brew his own beer. The first product is "White House Honey Ale", with the honey flavoring coming from First Lady Michelle Obama's bee hive in the White House garden.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Mar 05, 2011
  • Mitt Romney Tries to Do the Regular Guy Routine
    Mitt Romney is everyone's image of what an establishment Republican Presidential candidate should be. He is handsome, button down, and rich. He has run for the office before and does not have a lot of alarming opinions.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Mar 05, 2011
  • Bill Maher: Charlie Sheen is 'Sarah Palin on C ...
    If there was anyone more deserving of the sneering put downs that Bill Maher is so capable of, it would be Charlie Sheen. However, the host of "Real Time" or as it is commonly called "The One Hour Hate" managed to work in a dig at Sarah Palin.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Mar 05, 2011
  • Mike Huckabee Attacks Natalie Portman; Really ...
    Mike Huckabee drummed up some publicity for his presidential run Thursday by attacking Oscar-winning actress Natalie Portman. His celebrity target of choice might seem like an odd one, put perhaps he was really taking a low blow at someone else.Contributor: Aida Ekberg Published: Mar 04, 2011
  • NFL Lockout Averted for Seven More Days, CBA E ...
    The CBA had originally been set to expire on midnight of Thursday, March 3, but both sides came to an agreement that more time was necessary to get a deal done.Contributor: Ryan Christopher DeVault Published: Mar 04, 2011

Popsci - Science

  • This Week in the Future, February 28-March 4, 2011
    LOOK OUT! Four articles are portrayed in this week's harrowing This Week in the Future masterpiece, which means you've got four paths to winning a t-shirt with the illustration on it. Just tell us which one is your favorite (via Facebook, Twitter, or comment) and why, and if we like your explan ...
  • Video: New Microscope Produces 3-D Movies of L ...
    Cell biologists get observational omniscience It’s been a big week for the world of the small. In a new microscope breakthrough, researchers have figured out how to use a minuscule sheet of light to produce movies of living cells, revealing mitosis in action and illuminating cells' three-dimens ...
  • Tissue Engineer Prints Replacement Kidney Onst ...
    Anthony Atala wows the crowd One of PopSci’s favorite regenerative medicine specialists, Anthony Atala, printed a real kidney on stage at the 2011 TED conference Thursday, in a technique that could be used to create new organs from a patient’s own tissue rather than relying on donated organs. “ ...
  • 'Optical Tweezers' App Lets Users Manipulate t ...
    Just in time to take advantage of the latest round of iPad hysteria, optics researchers at the Universities of Glasgow and Bristol are launching a novel new iPad app. But this new application doesn’t let you manipulate your bank account, your current scrabble match, or your media collection. It ...
  • A Memristor-Based Processor Solves Mazes, Usin ...
    Those mazes you used to complete with crayons when you were a kid? They’re not just child’s play. They’re actually analogous to a lot of mathematical models and problems that require time and, in most cases, a good deal of trial and error (read: dead ends) to solve. But using memristors--resist ...

Veterans Today

  • U.S. Human Rights Policy is Self-serving and D ...
    Interview by Kourosh Ziabari George Katsiaficas is a renowned university professor, sociologist, author and activist. He is a visiting American Professor of Humanities and Sociology at Chonnam National University, Gwangju, South Korea where he teaches and does research on the 1980s and 1990s Eas ...
  • Britain cherry-picks which war criminals to pr ...
    What sort of buffoon is Cameron? � By Stuart Littlewood / STAFF WRITER � After maintaining a deafening silence about Israel�s atrocities against civilians, Britain suddenly wants a �day of reckoning� for war criminals � as long as they are Libyan. � While protestors� attempts to oust Gaddafi and ...
  • GILAD ATZMON: American Bloody Pragmatism
    by Gilad Atzmon After  killing hundreds of thousands of Muslims in the name of democracy, the  White House has now decided that ‘stability in the region’ is by far,  much  more important. On Saturday, The Wall Street journal  reported that the Obama administration is devising a new Middle East  ...
  • JB Campbell: The Seat Belt Mentality
    Apparently, most Americans have it. Most Americans ought to wear their seat belts because A), they’re willing to be told what to do by their employees and B), they don’t know how to drive. Of course, if I’m a passenger and the driver makes me nervous, I’ll buckle up to protect myself. But that’s ...
  • Hearings on Islamic Radicalization: God Bless ...
    An open letter to Pete King, Chairman, Homeland Security Committee Beginning March 10, I understand that you will hold hearings to examine “the disconnect between outstanding Muslims who contribute so much to the future of our country and those leaders who — for whatever reason — acquiesce in te ...

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • What now for Global temperatures?
    Latest satellite data from the University of Alabama (UAH) shows virtually no change in global temperatures from January's levels. The -0.02C anomaly relative to the 1981-2010 average equates to approximately +0.24C above the more standard 1961-1990 average used by the Met Office and World Meteo ...
  • Winter 2010/2011: Cold and dry - as forecast!
    After a record breaking December, a mild February has meant that winter 2010/2011 across the UK as a whole has ended up only 15th coldest since UK figures started in 1910. Provisional UK data for winter 2010/2011 shows a mean of 2.39C, compared to the 1971-2000 average of 3.7C. How does that ...
  • Can the government be trusted on solar subsidies?
    The government have announced that they are to look at subsidies payable to large scale solar power farms that have started to spring up across the country. The so called 'feed in tariffs' are the cash subsidies given to anyone who generates electricity by putting solar panels on their roof, a ...
  • Lowest January Arctic ice on satellite record
    One of the questions that I'm often asked is how can global temperatures have reached near-record levels, when here in the UK we have had record breaking cold? It's an issue that many people have great difficulty in accepting. Of course the answer is that the UK represents a tiny fraction of t ...
  • A wild start to February - back to square one ...
    Severe gales and heavy rain have battered Yorkshire in the last few days. The highest wind speed was recorded at Fylingdales on the North York Moors with 70mph on Friday. Pennine areas have had a month's worth of rain since Thursday. 79.2mm of rain was measured at Bingley in West Yorkshire sinc ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Reform Interruptus: IMF Kudos for Pre-Crisis Libya
    This post is a follow-up to one I have just made on the reformist direction Libya was headed prior to the present crisis. In no small part due to Saif al-Islam Qadhafi's prodding, there were indications that the state was indeed normalizing itself as a market-based economy. From the last (meani ...
  • Hedgie John Paulson, 21st Century Robber Baron?
    What could be less likely to produce useful generalizations than a debate over vaguely defined moral issues based on unexamined ideological assumptions and presuppositions? - John Chandler, author of The Visible Hand Outrageous fortunes tend to elicit suspicions of how they were amassed. In Ame ...
  • Egypt Not Alone in Having Demographics of Doom
    Back in elementary school, I remember learning how to interpret charts. For today's feature, I'll extend this fond reminisce and explain with a few handy images why Egypt is not alone in having demographic woes in the Middle East and North Africa. Woes that, in certain circumstances as Tunisia a ...
  • What If Greenpeace Ran China?
    Though I am very often at loggerheads with positions that Greenpeace takes, a significant part of the following makes sense to me at least. As we all know, China's rise to becoming the world's second largest economy has been accompanied by becoming the world's most polluting economy in terms of ...
  • Of Bimbettes & Elite Euro Football Club Finances
    Let's have a weekend feature (for the first time in quite a few weeks). Sport, gossip, music and, er, supermarket items...ain't no other man in IPE brings it to you [baby]. Towards the turn of the millennium, there was an explosion of teen blonde bimbettes manufactured by the United States enter ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • People Of Earth: Prepare For Economic Disaster
    It is not just the United States that is headed for an economic collapse.  The truth is that the entire world is heading for a massive economic meltdown and the people of earth need to be warned about the coming economic disaster that is going to sweep the globe.  The current wo ...
  • Shocking Video Of Howard Dean Declaring That I ...
    In the shocking video you are about to watch, Howard Dean declares that it is the job of the government to redistribute our wealth.  Not only that, he says it in such a way that indicates that he believes that such a notion should be obvious to anyone with half a brain.  Well, w ...
  • The Riots In Egypt And The Price Of Oil
    As if the world economy did not have enough problems already, now the riots in Egypt threaten to send the price of oil soaring into the stratosphere.  On Friday, the price of U.S. crude soared 4 percent.  A 4 percent rise in a single day is pretty staggering.  The price of Brent ...
  • Warning Signs
    Do you see all of the warning signs that are flashing all around you?  These days it seems like there is more bad economic news in a single week than there used to be in an entire month.  2011 is already shaping up to be a very dark year for the world economy.  The price [...]
  • Shut Down The Federal Reserve, Break Up The Bi ...
    How do we fix the economy?  That is a question that tens of millions of Americans are asking right now.  Republicans are harshly criticizing the empty economic proposals being put forward by Barack Obama and the Democrats, but the Republicans don't seem to have any real solution ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

  • Saudi Arabia imposes ban on all protests
    All protests and marches are to be banned in Saudi Arabia, the interior ministry has announced on state TV. Its statement said security forces would use all measures to prevent any attempt to disrupt public order. The announcement follows a series of protests by the kingdom’s Shia minority in th ...
  • China opposes foreign intervention in Middle E ...
    China opposes the intervention by foreign forces in the unrest in the Middle East and relevant missions should be led by the United Nations, a Chinese spokesman said Saturday. A similar unrest in China is “preposterous and unrealistic”, said Zhao Qizheng, spokesman for China’s top advisory body ...
  • Gunman Shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ Kills 2 US Airm ...
    Obama Says U.S. Will Spare No Efforts in Investigating Killings. A gunman shouting “Allahu Akbar” opened fire on a bus carrying U.S. airmen in Frankfurt, Germany, killing two and wounding two others before his gun jammed and he was subdued, officials said. An ethnic Albanian from Kosovo was take ...
  • CNN: Are whites racially oppressed?
    They marched on Washington to reclaim civil rights. They complained of voter intimidation at the polls. They called for ethnic studies programs to promote racial pride. They are, some say, the new face of racial oppression in this nation — and their faces are white. “We went from being a privile ...
  • Success on both sides sow fear of Libya civil war
    Moammar Gadhafi loyalists broke through rebel lines at an opposition-held city that is closest to the Libyan capital on Saturday, while anti-government forces celebrated the capture of a key oil port from the regime on the eastern coast. The contrasting fortunes of the two warring sides suggest ...

Voiceless Victim

  • Gentle Slap on the Wrist and Comfy Retirement ...
    Details were revealed this week about the Vatican “taking action” last year against a Dutch Catholic Bishop working in Kenya, who had raped a 14-year-old Masai boy some years earlier while still a priest. So here we have an example of just exactly what the new, recently improved Vatican response ...
  • The Real Role of the Media in the Catholic Chi ...
    The paedophile protecting Pope and his seriously creepy Vatican spokespersons try to paint the role of the media in the reporting of the Catholic Church child rape tsunami as a conspiracy. They can’t quite make up their minds who exactly is behind their fallacious nonsense of a persecution. The ...
  • Why Is Anyone Still A Catholic?
    On the day the Egyptian people succeeded in ousting an oppressive and controlling  regime noted for abuse of power and human rights abuses, it is worthwhile to evaluate the refusal of ordinary Catholics to consider the consequences of their own selfish, mindless and cowardly support for the paed ...
  • The Pope Calling The Berlusconi Black
    I’ve heard some pretty obvious cases of the pot calling the kettle black, but the recent controversy over the Pope ticking off Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi for child sexual exploitation shows how complete is the lack of self-awareness demonstrated by the psychopaths who surround and ...
  • Let The Pope Try and Claim This Letter Was Mis ...
    Since the recent emergence of a secret letter from the Papal Nuncio to Ireland written to the Irish Catholic Bishops Conference, which squashes any attempt by Irish Bishops to report child sexual abuse to the local police, the Vatican has predictably whined about the letter being  “misunderstoo ...

WL Central

  • 2011-03-05 Mugabe issues a 'major clampdown'
    Tweet Robert Mugabe and his Zanu PF party have stepped up the customary rampage over human rights in Zimbabwe. Amnesty has issued an alert stating that with over 60 currently held in detention and many allegedly tortured, activists are facing a major clampdown. Previously on WL Central we repor ...
  • 2011-03-05 Amnesty alert for Qatari blogger, a ...
    TweetAmnesty has requested urgent action be taken in the case of Qatari blogger Sultan al-Khalaifi, who was arrested on March 2 and is being held incommunicado. Amnesty is concerned that he is at risk of torture or other ill-treatment. Amnesty is requesting people to write Urging the authorities ...
  • 2011-03-05 BASTILLEDAY in #Egypt, Egyptians St ...
    TweetThis story was written by @carwinb and @exiledsurfer Egyptian ex-pats are calling the day BASTILLEDAY in Egypt. Revelations are pouring out onto the twitter hashtag #AmnDawla and the Facebook profile: Amn Dawla Leaks Debka reports that Friday night, thousands of protesters stormed the he ...
  • 2011-03-05 Cables: The Vulnerability of Black ...
    TweetA cable from December 2007 features Gaddafi Development Foundation Executive Director Dr. Yusuf Sawani discussing trans-national terrorism threats and security with US diplomats. The director talks about the fact that a million sub-Saharan African guest workers are resident in Libya and say ...
  • 2011-03-05 Bahrain Clashes Last Night in Hamad ...
    TweetWL Central will be updating news on Bahrain, with new items added at the top. All times are ET in USA. You can contact me on twitter @carwinb or by email at carwinb@hushmail.com. Current time and date in Manama, Bahrain: Send Arabic #firstaid images by MMS/SMS/email or print as fliers u ...

U N News

  • US discriminates on right to safe water and sa ...
    The United States must do more to eliminate discrimination in access to safe drinking water and sanitation, an independent United Nations expert reported today, citing wide disparities that adversely affect people of colour and Native Americans.
  • Argentina's Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo ...
    The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, a non-governmental organization that has been working for over 30 years to locate the families of children kidnapped and "disappeared" during the military dictatorship in Argentina, is this year's recipient of the United Nations cultural agency's peace prize.
  • Haiti: UN human rights expert urges presidenti ...
    The United Nations independent expert on human rights in Haiti, Michel Forst, today urged candidates in the country's upcoming presidential run-off election to spearhead the fight against impunity and champion greater respect of human rights.
  • UN chief heads to Los Angeles to discuss globa ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will be in Los Angeles next week as part of the United Nations initiative that aims to raise the profile of critical global issues in partnership with the international film and television industries.
  • Steps taken to prevent repeat of fraud in Hait ...
    Measures are being taken at the 1,500 voting centres for Haiti's presidential run-off election next month to prevent a repetition of fraud that marred the first round last November, a senior United Nations official said today.

Conspiracy Reality TV

  • Mystery Missile Launch, Big Pharma Begins Micr ...
    Once activated by stomach acid, the embedded microchip begins sensing its environment and broadcasting data to a receiver worn by the patient. This receiver is also a transmitter that can send the data over the internet to a doctor.
  • 7/7: Seeds of Deconstruction
    The British Government's story of what happened, how, and why is contained in three reports comprising just over 200 pages. There is virtually no forensic physical evidence in the public domain. The first two reports were published simultaneously in 2006, ten months after 7/7. One was a home off ...
  • The Absurdity Of Starting A Small Business In ...
    In the 1950s only about 1 in 20 Americans needed the government blessing to do their job. Today, that number is more than 1 in 3. And government puts all kinds of requirements on would be entrepreneurs making it harder for these entrepreneurs to start and grow small businesses.
  • CIA Whistleblower: “Heart Attack Gun”
    Senator: Does this pistol fire the dart? CIA Dir: Yes, it does, Mr. Chairman, and a special one was developed which potentially would be able to enter the target without perception.
  • Naked Truth Behind Body Scanners
    He's abusing his relationship with the public by pretending to be a public servant and talking about how these back-scatter scanners are going to make us safer? He stands to benefit because he's getting payed by the manufacturing companies to go all over the networks saying that these scanners a ...

Rewilding Institute

  • Victory in the Southern Ocean Day for the Whales
    From Captain Paul Watson It’s official – The Japanese whaling fleet has called it quits in the Southern Ocean. At least for this season. If they return next season the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society will be ready to resume our efforts to obstruct and disable Japanese whaling operations. “Th ...
  • Conservation News Brief
    Captain Paul Watson to arrive in Australia for final preparations for Operation Musashi Friday Harbor, WA – Just days after reaffirming that they will head to the Southern Oceans alone to defend the whales in the Antarctic Whale Sanctuary, even after Greenpeace and the Australian government h ...
  • Whaling Opponents Collide at Sea
    On board the Steve Irwin in the Ross Sea –February 6th, 2009, 0800 Hours (Sydney Time)  February 5th, 2009 1300 Hours (PST), 75 Degrees 44 Minutes South and 165 Degrees 39 Minutes West The Sea Shepherd ship Steve Irwin collided with the Yushin Maru No.2 this morning in the Ross Sea as the harpo ...
  • Dave Foreman’s Recent Speech At Nebraska Wesle ...
    Here’s a great speech Dave did in Nebraska recently. Fetzer Lecture Rewilding North America THURSDAY, MARCH 26 Click Here To Listen In!
  • New Website All About Mexican Gray Wolves!
    There are only 52 Mexican gray wolves in the wilds of Arizona and New Mexico. The Rewilding Institute has joined with local, regional, and national conservation, scientific, and sportsmen’s organizations, and concerned citizens in launching a new website, mexicanwolves.org, to help save this hig ...

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Depopulation of 3 Billion People Through Food ...
    �While investigating the WHO and UN role in the biological weapons attack called the A-H1N1 (Swine Flu) pandemic of 2009, criminal intelligence (CI) agents from Canada and the US have stumbled upon a covert and sinister plan to kill off as many as 3 billion people by food malnutrition.read more
  • JPMorgan May Need Another $4 Billion For... ...
    According to CNBC’s Kate Kelly, JPMorgan has just released its 10-K and it reveals some shocking information. ~ Lee Brodie - Video read more
  • How Convenient... FEMA Just 'Happened' to be i ...
    �Looks like it's the same old characters. An awful lot of of "coincidences" involving some of these so-called "natural" disasters. (See HAARP activity at time of earthquake) - Videoread more
  • Unconstitutional... Hillary Clinton's Position ...
    �Constitutional Law scholars have stated that the Emoluments Clause of the United States Constitution (the supreme law of the United States) Article I, Sec. 6 disqualifies Hillary Clinton from serving as Secretary of State.read more
  • Reproductive Genocide... The Deadly Truth Abo ...
    �The World Health Organization has a Task Force on the Regulation of Male Fertility. In 1990 a paper was published in Lancet, a well-regarded British medical journal detailing the use of testosterone injections to render men sterile.read more

Tatumba 2.0

  • The Fluoride Deception: the truth about water ...
    The Fluoride Deception is the latest mini documentary from Mike Adams, executive director of the Consumer Wellness Center. Through the use of animation and motion graphics, he exposes the truth about where fluoride really comes from: The toxic byproducts of the phosphate mining industry! Do your ...
  • Alex Jones On The View
    Alex Jones On The View? Who would have thunk it? Alex Jones was on The View and blasted truth at 30 million viewers. Alex Jones goes prime-time speaking to the Yentas on The View. It is nice to see Alex getting a chance to blast some truth to the 30 million or more sheep that [...] Related ...
  • Site Upgrade Completed
    I am pleased to announce that I have upgraded to a faster server. The following explains what I went through / am still going through to make this happen: Please recycle. Don't throw away your peels Related posts:Site Upgrades Coming Hello This site may be offline on a temporary basis... Site Im ...
  • The Charlie Sheen Test
    I want you to take a test. This is called The Charlie Sheen Test. To take this test please grab a pen and a piece of paper. Now count to 10. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Now I want you to write down the first word that comes to mind [...] Related posts:Charlie Veitch vs. McDonald’s Trying to stop p ...
  • I have had it with GoDaddy
    I have had it with GoDaddy and their over-stuffed shared servers. For the past couple of days the load time of pages on here have been brutally slow. A few months ago I talked about going to a dedicated server. While my traffic does not justify paying for that cost, I am going to switch [...] ...

Truth About Our World

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

Bloomberg

  • Energy to Stoke Your Portfolio
    Rising oil prices have been powering share-price increases and profits. These nine stocks are likely to keep the gains coming
  • HP: Exiting from Network Gear?
    The computer maker may soon sell its ProCurve unit to one or more private-equity firms as part of an ongoing refocusing effort
  • Big Traits for Big Blue
    IBM recruiter Michael Riegel says it seeks MBAs who do great work and possess "that intangible mix of humility, respect, and wisdom"
  • Africa's 200 Million Empty Plates
    When the U.N. ponders the continent's ills and their tragic consequences, a sorry list of contributing factors needs to be on the table
  • Michael Graves: Beyond Kettles
    Michael Graves: Beyond Kettles. The well-known designer discusses his many creations and notes, "I stayed true to what I thought was good design no matter who it was for".

Enviroblog

  • Dr. Oz Talks Toxics in Our Drinking Water
    In February, our friend Dr. Oz dedicated an entire show to the safety of the nation's drinking water. On the air, he revealed the results of the 'Dr. Oz National Tap Water Test' - a hands-on water testing experiment undertaken... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full ...
  • EWG testifying on behalf of clean drinking wat ...
    By Leeann Brown, Press SecretaryEnvironmental Working Group's Senior Counsel Dusty Horwitt made his fourth appearance today (March 1, 2011) before the New York City Council's Committee on Environmental Protection to highlight the risks posed by the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visi ...
  • If you ask a caveman a chemistry question...
    By Alex Formuzis, EWG Vice-President for Media Relations Good news. Maine governor Paul LePage claims he has read the scientific research on the health dangers posed by bisphenol-A, the plastic component and synthetic estrogen. His conclusion? "Quite... [[ This is a content summary only. Vi ...
  • Fluoride in your water: How much is too much?
    By Sonya Lunder, EWG Senior Scientist Last month, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) proposed that public water systems cut back on the amount of fluoride they add to drinking water. Whether you live in a city... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for fu ...
  • Borax: Not the green alternative it's cracked ...
    By Rebecca Sutton, PhD, EWG Senior Scientist I'm just going to start with the bad news, OK? Borax is not a green cleaning ingredient, as many have been led to believe. Yes, the 20-mule team laundry booster box has a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, othe ...

Quick Hits

  • More Teachers Being Replaced By Technology
    The neoliberal wetdream coming to fruition. From Fast Company: Districts all over are experimenting with teacher-less computer labs and green-lighting entire classrooms of adult-supervised children exploring the Internet--an Android powered tablet designed specifically for students. Teachers' u ...
  • Food costs at record levels, likely to go higher
    MANILA/MILAN (Reuters) - World food prices hit a record in January and recent catastrophic weather around the globe could put yet more pressure on the cost of food, an issue that has already helped spark protests across the Middle East. Up for the seventh month in a row, the closely watched Food ...
  • Shell makes $2,208,480 (£1.6m) an hour, [Clue ...
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/busi...   The Guardian in Britain says calmly:Shell stoked up the heated debate about the high cost of fuel on the forecourt today after reporting it made profits of nearly £1.6m an hour over the last three months.A leading member of the road lobby said motorists would ...
  • Gallup Helps Explain Egyptian/Tunisia Uprisings
    Wellbeing in Egypt and Tunisia decreased significantly over the past few years, even as GDP increased. In Egypt, where demonstrations have prompted President Hosni Mubarak to give up power after elections this fall, the percentage of people "thriving" fell by 18 percentage points since 2005. In ...
  • Wallace Shawn: Are You Smarter Than Thomas Jef ...
    The Grand Nagus speaks! At Tom Dispatch.com.

Capital - NYC

  • Winning, labor laws, liberalization and weird ...
    Here is what we learned this week. More
  • Kirsten Gillibrand on the 'war on women'
    Here's Kirsten Gillibrand on the "war on women," from an interview I did with her earlier this week. It's the budget-eviscerating House Republicans who are waging the war she's talking about here, but this answer actually came in forceful response to a ques ...
  • Recreate the anticipation for 'The Queen Is De ...
    After it, there was little Smiths that I really loved, at least when it came out. � It's not that I was a died-in-the-wool fan already when the album came out, but I'd heard the song "Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want" on the Pretty In Pink soun ...
  • 'Rendez-Vous': A French film series in New Yor ...
    Of the Film Society at Lincoln Center’s annual culture-specific surveys, “Rendezvous with French Cinema” is typically the most popular, for good reason. “Rendezvous” has the most consistently diverse programming, running the gamut of both contemporary and c ...
  • Selling porn stars and 'public concubinage,' M ...
    Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More

Views & News from Norway

  • Biathlon’s Bø wins medal, too
    Norwegian athletes at home in Oslo for the Nordic World Ski Championships weren’t the only ones winning medals during the past week. Budding biathlon star Tarjei Bø also led his team to victory at the International Biathlon Union (IBU) World Championships in Russia. Bø overtook Germanyâs Mich ...
  • More than 100,000 hailed skiing stars
    Oslo police estimated that around 120,000 persons gathered in downtown Oslo Saturday night to watch their winter sports heroes get their medals, after at least 100,000 had lined the ski tracks and filled the arenas at Holmenkollen during the day. The athletes and even the organizers of the FIS N ...
  • Northug’s stunt offends many Swedes
    Petter Northug’s antics as he raced for the finish line at Friday’s men’s relay in the world championships have set off a storm of protest in Sweden, where some called him a “pig” and others claimed he lacked all respect for his competitors. The man he actually beat, though, shrugged it all off ...
  • The fog lifted and Norway won again
    Skiing champ Petter Northug was at his best on Friday and showed better, if teasing, behaviour. He put on a perfect skiing performance in front of his king, queen, prime minister, former world champions and tens of thousands of screaming fans to secure his relay team’s victory at the FIS Nordic ...
  • Combined team wins another bronze
    Norway’s men’s combined team, which includes ski jumping and skiing, ended up with another bronze medal after Friday’s relay and jumping off the large hill at Holmenkollen, and the athletes were disappointed. Austria wound up winning the gold medal, and Germany the silver. Magnus Moan of the Nor ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Southern CA Permaculture Convergence: April 29 ...
    Hundreds of Environmentalists are gathering in Malibu. People from all over the southern California will gather to share skills and knowledge to regenerate the Earth. Southern Californians from San Luis Obispo to the Mexico border are waking up to the need to create an alternative to the collaps ...
  • National Permaculture Day – Sunday May 1st, 2011
    Dear Permies Australia’s National Permaculture Day (NPD) this year will be Sunday May 1st . (Although some events will start on Sat of that weekend.) It is definitely off to a great start as we, Permaculture Sydney North, (PSN) were successful in receiving a grant for $19,715 for the day, from ...
  • Options for Alternative Buildings
    Here we are looking at options for building alternative structures, especially small buildings for the suburbs which can accommodate people in a sustainable way in urban gardens. Small buildings made of natural materials like rammed earth, cob and straw bale with bamboo, timber, tile, slate ...
  • National Permaculture Day – Sunday May 1st, 2001
    Dear Permies Australia’s National Permaculture Day (NPD) this year will be Sunday May 1st . (Although some events will start on Sat of that weekend.) It is definitely off to a great start as we, Permaculture Sydney North, (PSN) were successful in receiving a grant for $19,715 for the day, from ...
  • Love Thy Neighbour
    Click for full view Courtesy: Marc Roberts Digg this! Share this on Reddit Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUpon Share this on del.icio.us Share this on Facebook Post this to MySpace Add this to Google Bookmarks ...

Telecrap Urinal

  • US Soldier Waterboards His 4-Year Old Daughter
    Can you believe this? A US soldier, upset that his 4-year old daughter could not recite the alphabet, waterboarded her. He knew that she was afraid of water and that is why he chose this form of punishment. Related posts:Cops Bust Up Frail 84-Year Old Woman With Alzheimers Local Blogger Catche ...
  • Fish Hat Pope – Wake Up Soon
    Studio version of Fish Hat Pope' song 'Wake Up Soon' (altered lyrics to sunny afternoon by The Kinks!) Fish Hat Pope performed this live at the British Constitution Group meeting in London on Oct 31st 2009. Related posts:A little sniff for the dog mate? – Everything is OK Whistle Blowers W ...
  • US Government: Why we let the Underwear Bomber ...
    The US Government now admits that they allowed the Underwear Bomber to board the Christmas Flight from Amsterdam to Detroit. Related posts:BREAKING NEWS: US Government Admits It Helped Underwear Bomber Board Plane Extensive Interview with Kurt Haskell – Witness to Underwear Bomber Flight 253: ...
  • United Breaks Guitars – Don’t mess ...
    Well the United Airlines baggage handlers broke the guitar in to two pieces. Then Mr. Carroll complained to United and it fell on deaf ears. Because of that he vowed to write three songs about their callous disregard and uncaring attitude. Related posts:United We Fall – Canada is a figment of ...
  • Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth by Ric ...
    9/11 was an inside job. Nano thermite and thermate were used to pulverize these buildings, and in the process murdered thousands of innocent people. Related posts:Nigerian Man is a Al-CIA-Duh Terrorist – USA Caught in False-Flag Terror Plot National Security Alert from the CIT Climategate Scan ...

Anna's News

  • Web super-highway: The car that reads out emai ...
    The world's first 'Internet car' which reads emails, Facebook and Twitter updates to the driver was unveiled yesterday.Motorists behind the wheel of the Rinspeed BamBoo can also surf the net using a series of voice commands. Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Co ...
  • 10 Most Cliched Things People Give Up for Lent
    As Lent approaches, many Christians and non-Christians alike prepare for the celebration of Easter by giving up something they enjoy as a sacrifice for Lent.It takes some serious willpower to keep from giving in to your temptations, but, as history shows,Submitted by Anna Smith to Society & Cult ...
  • Authorities: Man persuaded moms to abuse kids
    A Michigan man built an online profile posing as a good-looking single dad and caring psychologist and persuaded mothers across the country to sexually assault their children as a form of therapy, then send him the images of the attacks, authorities said Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �No ...
  • Gene therapy raises hope for a future AIDS cure
    In a bold new approach ultimately aimed at trying to cure AIDS, scientists used genetic engineering in six patients to develop blood cells that are resistant to HIV, the virus that causes the disease.It's far too early to know if this scientific first....Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Welln ...
  • Air travelers may have been exposed to measles
    Public health officials are warning travelers and workers present at four U.S. airports on two recent days that they may have been exposed to measles from a traveler arriving from London. Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Medical Marijuana

  • 2/25/11 - NEW: History of the Individual Healt ...
    healthcarereform.procon.org - NEW: History of the Individual Health Insurance Mandate, 1989-2010: Republican Origins of Democratic Health Care Provision - Republicans oppose the Mar. 2010 health care reforms for many reasons, especially the provision creating an individual health care mandate w ...
  • 2/23/11 - Vaccines ProCon.org - US Supreme Cou ...
    vaccines.procon.org - UPDATED: Vaccines ProCon.org - On Feb. 22, 2011, the US Supreme Court ruled that vaccine injury claims must continue to be filed with the US Court of Federal Claims and cannot be filed directly against physicians or vaccine manufacturers in civil court.
  • 2/23/11 - Barack Obama Declares Defense of Mar ...
    gaymarriage.procon.org - Barack Obama Declares Defense of Marriage Act Unconstitutional - President Obama directed the Department of Justice today to stop defending in court the law that prevents gay marriage.
  • 2/14/11 - Health Care Reform Opinion Polls/Surveys
    healthcarereform.procon.org - NEW: Health Care Reform Opinion Polls/Surveys - A Jan. 15-19, 2011 poll by CBS and the New York Times found that 40% of Americans want to repeal the March 2010 health care law while 48% want to let it stand. A Dec. 14-15 FOX News poll found that 59% of respondents ...
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Progressives United - Russ Feingold

  • My new group: Progressives United
    Today, I am proud to announce that progressives -- demanding change and demanding action -- have come together to help me launch a new group:�Progressives United � read more

Information Underground

  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    I suspect Jason Bermas was Sephardic too. Bermas is Spanish but I couldn't find the Sephardic connection...I also suspect this may not be his real name. Or Bermas could have been moderated. There's got to be some type of Crypto operation going on at Jone$bergs place. A Sephardic Jewish prese ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    SPECTEC wrote: "He speaks German and French and is conversant in Spanish" http://theinternationalforecaster.com/Bob_Chapman I found another list of Sephardic Jewish surnames and Chapman is listed. http://boards.ancestry.com/topics.relig ... 75/mb.ashx Sounds like he's a Marrano/Crypto too. ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    "He speaks German and French and is conversant in Spanish" http://theinternationalforecaster.com/Bob_Chapman I found another list of Sephardic Jewish surnames and Chapman is listed. http://boards.ancestry.com/topics.relig ... 75/mb.ashx Sounds like he's a Marrano/Crypto too. This would expl ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    The Alex Jones Show with Bob Chapman 9 11 2009 Pt 1 iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1m_KL0dcJA Go to 6.10 Chapman says his kids grew up with Charlie Sheen and "used to go to Church with his father all of the time" Or does he mean he went to the Synagogue with Sheen? Or maybe he mean ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    The Independent - UK Saudis Mobilise Thousands of Troops to Quell Growing Revolt By Robert Fisk, Middle East Correspondent Saturday, 5 March 2011 Saudi Arabia was yesterday drafting up to 10,000 security personnel into its north-eastern Shia Muslim provinces, clogging the highways into Dammam ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • As CO2 Levels Have Risen, Plants Are Releasing ...
    A study of plant samples from the past 150 years shows that as atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide have steadily increased, the density and size of pores that allow plants to breathe has decreased, also reducing the plants’ transpiration of water. The undersides of leaves contain pores, ...
  • Chinese Power Companies Target African Solar M ...
    Chinese companies are making a concerted effort to dominate the emerging solar energy market in Africa, a continent where nearly two-thirds of the population still lives off the grid. At an energy conference in South Africa this week, more than three-fourths of the exhibits were from Chinese ven ...
  • New 'Zombie'-creating Fungus Found in Brazilia ...
    Researchers say they have identified four new species of parasitic fungi that infect ants in the Brazilian rainforest and take over their bodies. The fungi then manipulate the brains of the ants and cause them to climb to a spot BBCVIDEO: Fungi-infected ‘zombie’ ants in the jungle canopy i ...
  • U.S. Groups Seek Protection of African Lion to ...
    A coalition of wildlife groups is filing a petition with the U.S. Department of Interior to list the African lion under the Endangered Species Act, a designation that would make it illegal to import stuffed lions or lion skins and body parts into the U.S. — including those killed by Getty Image ...
  • Growth of Geothermal Power Helping Colleges to ...
    Some U.S. colleges and universities are cutting their energy costs by 30 to 70 percent after installing geothermal energy systems, and widespread adoption of the technology could help the nation’s 4,100 colleges and universities save an estimated $2 billion to $7 billion annually. A report by th ...

    Blacklisted News

    • Passing The Buck: European Central Bank Wants ...
      During the crisis, the European Central Bank began buying up bonds from debt-ridden countries like Greece. Now the bank wants to transfer responsibility for those securities to the EU's euro rescue fund. Meanwhile, the parliamentary group of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives have i ...
    • Illinois Strips Gun Owners of Privacy
    • MPs call for World Bank shake-up
      The World Bank is in "desperate" need of reform, which should include ending the arrangement under which its president always comes from the US, a parliamentary report has said. The House of Commons International Development Committee said it was time to end the 65-year-old "gentlemen's agree ...
    • 'No-targeting' pact key to missile defense dea ...
      A formal agreement guaranteeing that NATO and Russian missile defense systems are not directed against each other is the key to cooperation, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday. "It is not intentions but capabilities that count," he said in an interview with Ekho Moskvy r ...
    • EU to grant $20.7 million to support ASEAN sin ...
      The European Union (EU) is to provide a $20.7 million grant to ASEAN to support its members to form a single market by 2015 The newly established cooperation called ASEAN-EU Economic Integration Support Program (AEISP) was announced here during a seminar themed "ASEAN and the EU : Twenty Year ...

    The Intelligence Daily

    My AntiWar

    CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

    • Iran eyes treaty banning nuclear arms
      Summary: Dr SalehiIranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi says Tehran advocates adopting a convention prohibiting the production and development of nuclear weapons. source: Press TVread more
    • In the Arab crisis, Iran is winning
      Summary: United States, Israel, and Russia will suffer most from the destabilization of the situation in the Middle East, while Iran, Turkey and Syria will have everything to gain. source: indrus.inread more
    • Washington's dangerous (and deluded) support f ...
      Summary: For many people in Iran, though, especially those who remember the early years after the 1979 revolution, the MEK has come to represent an evil much more toxic than the American view of the Taliban and Al Qaeda. source: Foreign Policyread more
    • Intervention in Libya would poison the Arab re ...
      Summary: The reality is that the western powers which have backed authoritarian kleptocrats across the Middle East for decades now face a loss of power in the most strategically sensitive region of the world as a result of the Arab uprisings and the prospect of representative governments. Th ...
    • Western Intervention in Libya Would Damage Ara ...
      Summary: If Western countries truly wish to help the Arab people, they ought to focus not on what they "should" do but on what they are already doing: bankrolling despots in Yemen and Bahrain and allowing Israeli expansion. Until then, it is childish to imagine that anyone but the Arabs have ...

    The Daily Galaxy

    • 'The Daily Galaxy' March Contest -Win a Free $ ...
      Use it towards a purchase of an iPhone, iPad, Apple TV or Hundreds of Other Apple Products and Accessories. Users of Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Reddit, and StumbleUpon are invited to discover, review and share Daily Galaxy posts you love on...
    • White Dwarf Ripped Apart by a Supermassive Bla ...
      "We think these unusual signatures can be explained by a white dwarf that strayed too close to a black hole and was torn apart by the extreme tidal forces." Joel Bregman of the University of Michigan. Results from NASA's Chandra...
    • Get Your Daily Dose of Awe @The Daily Galaxy ...
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    • Giant Underground Chamber Found on Moon By Ind ...
      The Indian Space Research Organization has discovered a "giant underground chamber" near the Moon's equator, in the Oceanus Procellarum area discovered by the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft—more than one mile long (1.7 kilometers) and 393 feet wide (120 meters)-big enough to contain...
    • Rocky Mountain High: Mystery of the Origins o ...
      The formation of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado has puzzled scientists for decades. Some 600 miles inland and far removed from the nearest tectonic plate, the only comparable inland mountain range is the Himalaya, which were formed by the collision...

    Natural News

    • TSA, DHS plan massive rollout of mobile survei ...
      (NaturalNews) Newly-released documents obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) reveal that the US Depart of Homeland Security has been working on plans to roll out a new wave of mobile surveillance technologies at train stations, stadiums and streets. These new technologies ...
    • Does topical fluoride really protect tooth ena ...
      (NaturalNews) A popular mantra in American dentistry claims that topical fluoride treatments help to protect teeth from cavities by forming a protective shield on the enamel of teeth. However, a new study published in the American Chemical Society (ACS) journal Langmuir has found that the "prote ...
    • Prescription stomach acid drugs lead to magnes ...
      (NaturalNews) Popular prescription proton pump inhibitor (PPI) drugs like AstraZeneca Plc's Nexium and Takeda Pharmaceutical Co Ltd's Prevacid will now contain new labels warning patients that long-term use may cause magnesium deficiency. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says that the m ...
    • Dirt! The Movie explores the vital importance ...
      (NaturalNews) Life on earth depends on the health and vitality of a seemingly simple and often overlooked natural element -- dirt. Ignorance, greed, and plain lack of appreciation has led to the widespread decimation of this precious resource throughout at least the last century. A documentary D ...
    • FDA to pull 500 unapproved drugs from market a ...
      (NaturalNews) For years, prescription cold and cough medicines like Cardec, Rondec, Organidin, Pediahist, and hundreds of other drugs have been available to patients, even though none of them have ever received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The FDA recently decided to ...

    Threat Level

    • Judge Lets Sony Unmask Visitors to PS3-Jailbre ...
      A federal magistrate is granting Sony the right to acquire the internet IP addresses of anybody who has visited PlayStation 3 hacker George Hotz’s website from January of 2009 to the present. Thursday’s decision by Magistrate Joseph Spero to allow Sony to subpoena Hotz’s web provider (.pdf) rai ...
    • Bradley Manning Charged With 22 New Counts, In ...
      Updated 8:00 p.m. EST. The Army has filed 22 new counts against suspected WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning, among them a capital offense for which the government said it would not seek the death penalty. The charges, filed Tuesday but not disclosed until Wednesday, are one count of aiding the e ...
    • Android Market Apps Hit With Malware
      The inevitable has happened with the Android marketplace: Google pulled nearly two dozen apps Wednesday that were infected with malware capable of rooting devices and stealing data. The company is investigating dozens of others. Users have downloaded as many as 200,000 of the free apps following ...
    • ‘Nude’ Airport Scanners: Are They Safe?
      Part 1: Are They Constitutional? Part 2: Are They Safe? Part 3: Do They Work? March 8 John Sedat, a biochemistry and biophysics professor, says he’s not going to get on an airplane again — at least not until the TSA rethinks its deployment of hundreds of body scanners that hit travelers ...
    • Supreme Court Says AT&T Not Exempt From FOIA
      Corporations don’t reap the same privacy protections as do people, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously Tuesday. The court, with Justice Elena Kagan recused, said AT&T did not enjoy the “personal privacy” provision of the Freedom of Information Act as the telecom had claimed. The act exempts the ...

    PERRspectives : Blog

    • Celebrating the Lincoln Inaugurals, Now More T ...
      2011 is becoming a kind of political Rorschach Test; which of its myriad anniversaries you celebrate most says a lot about who you are and what you believe. While JFK's swearing-in 50 years ago conjures up what might have been, Ronald Reagan's 100th birthday commemorates what never was. And th ...
    • The Biggest Loser: Haley Barbour Edition
      At some point in the next several weeks, former RNC chairman and current Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour will decide whether he will seek the White House in 2012. To be sure, Barbour's path to the presidency is full of obstacles. And it's not just because America's foremost neo-Confederate ...
    • Republicans Push National Race to the Bottom
      Just days after his sneering "so be it" at the prospect of massive job losses which could result from GOP budget policies, House Speaker John Boehner declared public employees have a "machine gun" pointed "at the heads of local officials." That makes Boehner just the latest Republican leader re ...
    • McCain Adviser: GOP Spending Plan Could Kill 7 ...
      Last summer, Moody's economist and former adviser to Republican presidential candidate John McCain Mark Zandi authored a study which concluded that combined federal interventions beginning in the fall of 2008 prevented the Great Recession from becoming Depression 2.0. Now in a new report, Zandi ...
    • A Modest Proposal to Rescue the States
      During the debate over the stimulus program in early 2009, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell proposed, "If the money were lent rather than just granted, states would, I think, spend it wisely and the states that didn't need it at all wouldn't take any." Now would be a good time to take him ...

    Blackspot News Feed

    • Western Journalists Fail to Report the Facts a ...
      By Timothy V. Gatto Featured Writer Dandelion Salad liberalpro.blogspot.com March 5, 2011 I wrote an article that ran on a few different websites entitled “Another Corporate-Inspired War?”. I received some information about Libya and some facts about Col. Gadhafi from a few of my readers. I have ...
    • Shop, Satiate, Salute & Shut Up!! by Phili ...
      by Philip A. Farruggio Featured Writer Dandelion Salad March 4, 2011 In George Lucas’s American Graffiti, the film opens with a Friday night in some Southern California town, circa 1962. Like with any Friday night anywhere at that time, we see teens and twenty somethings driving up and down the ...
    • Is this Quantico or Abu Ghraib? by Dennis Kucinich
      http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich Washington, Mar 4, 2011 Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) is today releasing letters from the Secretaries of the Defense and the Army that respond to repeated requests to visit with Private First Class (Pfc.) Bradley Manning ...
    • Capturing the Millennial Demographic? by Josep ...
      by Joseph Natoli Guest Writer Dandelion Salad March 4, 2011 “The Oscars tripped in their transition to a hipper, younger, media-mad future, attracting 12 percent fewer viewers than last year in the important 18-to-49 age bracket.” – Michael Cieply and Brooks Barnes, “Younger Audience Still Elud ...
    • Selling Out Injured Baby Rights by Ralph Nader
      http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Ralph Nader The Nader Page March 4, 2011 New York State’s Governor Andrew Cuomo will be judged harshly by history if he doesn’t reverse his position supporting limiting the legal rights of brain damaged babies. Imagine a life-time $250,000 cap on pain and ...

    Consortium News

    • Criminalizing the Truth-Tellers
      Washington's aggressive reaction to the WikiLeaks leaks seeks to scar the truth-tellers and frighten others, says Lawrence Davidson. March 5, 2011
    • Power v. Truth, a Sad Mismatch
      Despite contrary video evidence, Secretary of State Clinton's aides say Ray McGovern was a heckler, reports Jonathan Schwarz. March 5, 2011
    • Wackos of the World Unite!
      Craziness is roaming the world from Libya to Wisconsin, with a lengthy stopover in Washington DC, observes Michael Winship. March 5, 2011
    • The 'Christian Nation' Flashpoint
      The Christian Right calls America "a Christian nation" despite growing numbers of non-Christians, notes Rev. Howard Bess. March 5, 2011
    • Army's Mafia Abuse of Pvt. Manning
      Pvt. Bradley Manning, the alleged WikiLeaks leaker, faces cruel, Mafia-like treatment from the U.S. military, charges Ray McGovern. March 4, 2011

    CounterPunch

    Institute for Middle East Understanding

    Water - AlterNet

    Public Citizen in Texas

    • Barton, Cornyn among co-sponsors of measure to ...
      Congressman Joe Barton’s (R-Ennis, TX) office says he might introduce Texas-specific legislation to limit the reach of the Environmental Protection Agency, but for now he’s signing on as a co-sponsor to a measure filed yesterday aimed at stopping the federal regulation of greenhouse gases. Barto ...
    • Department of Energy launches initiative to br ...
      The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced $27 million in projects to advance solar development and manufacturing through its SunShot Initiative whose goal is to achieve cost competitive solar energy by 2020. The hope is that the SunShot initiative can reduce the total costs of photovoltaic sol ...
    • Energy self sufficiency vs. HOA control
      Several bills filed this session, which included some heard at Wednesday’s hearing of the Senate Intergovernmental Relations Committee would preclude homeownersâ associations from restricting installation of solar energy devices.  These are: Sen. Royce West (D-Dallas) – SB 238 Sen. Jeff Wentwor ...
    • Republican’s reluctantly agree to hear testimo ...
      Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-Ky.), chairman of the panel’s Energy and Power subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, agreed to schedule a hearing next Tuesday on two new studies that link climate change to severe weather at the request of Democrats. Full committee ranking Democrat Henry ...
    • Formula One: Economic Fantasy and Fiscal Myth
      The following post is a guest contribution by Citizen Richard of Audits in the Public Interest. In late spring of 2010, Austin residents woke to the grand news their city had been selected as the host city for Formula One racing in the United States.  Amidst the hype, and not immediately noticed ...

    Unexplained Mysteries

    • "Alien invasion" hoax taken seriously in 1967
      Newly released UFO files recount a hoax that sparked fears of a real life alien invasion in the 1960s. On September 4th 1967 four police forces, bomb ...
    • Amelia Earhart's plane wreck found ?
      Claims have surfaced of aviator Amelia Earhart's plane wreckage being found in Papua New Guinea. The wreck was reportedly found off the coast of Bouga...
    • World's largest mud volcano to last 26 years
      The eruption began in 2005 and is believed to have been started by gas drilling in the area. Located in Indonesia the Lusi volcano initially killed 13...
    • World's first wizard school opens
      Oberon Zell-Ravenheart is headmaster of the world's only real-life school of witchcraft and wizardry. Giving Hogwarts a run for its money the Grey Sch...
    • 1,000-year-old canoe unearthed
      Found on an island near St Petersburg a 40 foot dugout canoe helps tell the story of the Manasota people A ten year old discovery is shedding new ligh...

    Grassroots

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

    Climate

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

    GreenBiz

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

    Reuters Global

    Booman Tribune

    • Unhappy Thought
      Professor Campos makes a funny: Clarence Thomas knows that, as a practical matter, he, like the rest of the power elite that rules America, is largely above the law. Yet he also knows that he will be subjected to harsh criticism for flaunting his legal immunity. These two facts allow him to e ...
    • Third World Flop-House
      So, is immigration turning America into a Third World flop-house as radio host James Edwards says? Are there really any common interests white people have in this country? "There is nothing wrong for Jewish organizations to promote the self-interest of Jews or black organizations to promote ...
    • The Senatorial High Holy Court of Jim DeMint
      It doesn't surprise me that Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) has formed an eight member senatorial Supreme Court to rule on the constitutionality of all pending business in the upper body, but I wonder what Dana Milbank and his man-friends must have thought upon learning that Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) is a ...
    • Sharia Law Bans linked to White Supremacy
      Today one of the more popular conspiracies that the Right has ginned up out of whole cloth is of a worldwide Islamofascist movement that endangers our lives and our "freedoms." They claim that Muslims are infiltrating America at all levels of government in order overthrow the Constitution and C ...
    • BYU is Stupid
      In some sense, if you chose to play sports at Brigham Young University, you knew what you're getting into, but in another sense this is the dumbest thing I've read in my life. A university in the US state of Utah has suspended a star basketball player for having pre-marital sex with his girl ...

    European Tribune

    Futurismic

    • Personal Information: episode 24
      Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness! Share and Enjoy:Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness!
    • Arguments against life extension
      Via Michael Anissimov, here’s a spectacularly empty diatribe against “deathhackers” by TechCrunch‘s Paul Carr. Carr objects to the idea of radical life extension as advocated by transhumanists, which is fair enough, but as written here most of his objections seem to boil down to personal distate ...
    • Daddy, where does innovation come from?
      Plenty of folk have been linking to this excerpt from Matt Ridley’s new book The Rational Optimist, and with good reason – it’s a provocative piece that plays to advocates (and opponents) of free trade, open exchange, copyright reform and much more. The basic thesis? The one persistent factor th ...
    • Replacement arms: mechanical or biological?
      Prosthetic limbs are still in their infancy, but there’s a lot of progress being made: Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory is working with Darpa (who else?), and has a research grant for trying out their mind-controlled modular prosthetic arm on five test subjects over the next couple of ye ...
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