6 March - RSS SnapShot! Pt 3

Farming Pathogens

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

Suzie-Q

• George Soros: Oil Wealth ‘Must Be Shared ...
  Oil wealth ‘must be shared’ with citizens says Soros BBC News 3 March 2011 Last updated at 19:02 ET Citizens of oil producing nations must see more benefit from their country’s national resources, billionaire investor George Soros has told the BBC. Revolts in Libya were partly the result of “rev ...
• Mubarak Being Investigated For Selling Cheap G ...
   Mubarak Faces Corruption Probe Of Years Of Selling Gas To Israel At Sub-Market Rates Business Insider- Gus Lubin March 4, 2011 – 9:19 AM Hosni Mubarak and his former oil minister are being investigated for exporting artificially cheap gas to Israel and six European countries, according ...
• Sarah Palin’s Narcissism Feeds Her Const ...
  We can’t know for sure whether or not she recognizes how unserious and unintelligent she is, but, in Sarah Palin, we can plainly see a reality show celebrity who seems to believe that national office doesn’t require the widely accepted prerequisite of “knowing things” — especially things that sq ...
• If Corporations paid their fair share there w ...
  February 28, 2011 Pay Up, Corporate Tax Dodgers We’re chumps unless we force Congress to stop tax haven abuse. By Chuck Collins Instead of cutting state and federal budgets, the United States should crack down on the corporate tax dodgers thumbing their noses at us. Across the nation, states are ...
• In Ohio, Czar Kashitch Makes It Personal For N ...
  First, to all of the Ohioans who have finally become aware of what I was screaming about months and months ago, I say: Welcome. You have finally seen it for yourselves. I would also like to express my sincere sympathies that it took SB5 and Scammon Jones to finally wake you up. Scammon Jones, of ...

Solari

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

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

• Times Scare
  ISLAMABAD–The apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job ...
• Stepping up - University at Buffalo The Spectrum
  Stepping up University at Buffalo The Spectrum The president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, recognized the direness of the situation and began to mobilize military forces to combat the Taliban. ... and more��
• Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of ...
  BBC News Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women Chicago Tribune Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own Taliban insurgency? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line of thinking must ... Vietnam syndrome has begun in AfghanistanSri Lank ...
• Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United P ...
  Officials: Campus blasts perplexing United Press International ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique Pakistani institution ... and more��
• Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA ...
  Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing GMA news.tv An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the border between ... and more��

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

• Three Months Ago Bradley Manning Was Largely F ...
  With Manning gaining wide attention, it's worth recalling that three months ago he was largely forgotten. Here's what happened.
• Public Employee Unions Don't Get One Penny fro ...
  Nobody has to belong to a union or support its political activities, but you'd never know that from reading the news.
• Three Months Ago Bradley Manning Was Largely F ...
  With Manning gaining wide attention now, it's worth recalling that three months ago he was largely forgotten. Here's what happened.
• Activist Tim DeChristopher Found Guilty, Faces ...
  Tim DeChristopher has been found guilty of bidding in a BLM auction on land he did not have the money to pay for.
• Vision: 5 Ways You Can Fight 'Citizens United' ...
  Here's how we can fight the disastrous Supreme Court ruling.

Sideways News

• Could you be a 10:10 community champion?
  The Guardian Newspaper and Franny Armstrong, through the Guardian 10:10 campaign, challenge organisations and individuals to cut their carbon footprint by 10%.
• Brit mums strict about eco-chores
  Families in the UK are increasingly likely to be nagged about doing eco-chores, a new study conducted on behalf of the Energy Saving Trust has revealed.
• UK venue offers rainforest weddings
  Getting married in a luscious rainforest has never been easier or more eco-friendly, according to the Eden Project.
• Battery recycling 'too difficult'
  The European Recycling Platform (ERP) reports that while only a third of households at present recycle batteries, four out of five said they would do so if it was made easier.
• 10 green resolutions to save you money
  By taking green steps at home, you can save money and make life easier. Being smart about waste, consumption and resources won't only win you the thanks of forthcoming generations: you'll feel the financial benefit immediately. 1. Make money from old electronics As your electronic goods become o ...

Fabius Maximus

• A snapshot of the recovery so far, looking at ...
  Summary:    The US economy continues its slow recovery, under the influence of heavy monetary and fiscal stimulus.  Optimists call the recovery “sustainable”, but that’s not knowable until after we end the stimulus programs.  Until then the parts of the economy that prosper do so as a re ...
• An educational toy for your children (from the ...
  Summary:  A new feature on the FM website:  recommending geopolitical education tools for your children, preparing them for the new world of the 21st century.   We weclome suggestions for our next offering.  Order your Playmobil Security Check Point from Amazon!  Here are some reviews: Thank you ...
• Off to invade, again! Another nation’s ...
  Summary:  Another crisis, more calls to invade.  With maximum moral tone, minimum specificity about the costs, maximum use of euphemisms, and no mention of costs or risks.  No need to wait for an invitation, since good hawks know those brown people are too dumb to ask for our help. Here ...
• Inciting fear of inflation in our minds for po ...
  Summary:  Americans today are easily led by fear, as our leaders well know.  Commies and Islamo-whatevers under the bed.  Global warming.   Alar on apples (see Wikipedia).  Repetition makes it so, the secret to successful propaganda.  Today we look at at a favorite of conservatives seeking polit ...
• An explanation of the US and Pak governments&# ...
  Summary:  As standard fare the FM website provides analysis of current events.  Seeking hidden truths (often in vain) and using these incidents to illustrate larger dynamics at work in America.  The Raymond Davis affair is rich in lesson for us (this is the 4th post; links at the end).  ...

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

• The Maltreatment of Bradley Manning
  Indefensible. I think it’s worth noting as well that this isn’t the case where there’s a clash between civil liberties and compelling political interests — the number of votes Obama would lose if Manning was treated in a humane, constitutional manner is “none.”   They just think that this immo ...
• Bradley Manning Detention Story Gets Worse
  Having decided to detain Bradley Manning without trial in conditions likely to drive a man insane, it seems that at some point the US military had him stripped and left naked in his cell for seven hours on Wednesday. The good news is that his captors have a strong sense of Manning’s privacy righ ...
• China Flexes Muscles in the South China Sea
  Good analysis by NIGHTWATCH of some events taking place in the South China Sea. Philippines-China: The Philippine military on 2 March sent two military aircraft to patrol the ocean and air space near Reed Bank, a long time Philippine-occupied territory in the South China Sea. The Philippines t ...
• Clinton on Al Jazeera
  It's nice to see Hillary Clinton acknowledging --in an appearance before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee -- the central role that Al Jazeera has played as an opinion-maker in the Middle East. She's absolutely right, of course, and she's doubly right in her condemnation of the poor state o ...
• Could This Be the Silliest Thing Written Yet A ...
  I think this essay by Fox News Contributor Christian Whiton wins a Dubious Achievement Award for “logical impairment in criticism” for commentary of Obama’s handling of the Libya crisis. The author spends the first two thirds of the piece bashing Obama for seeking to use United Nations fora like ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

• Life Feed from Madison, Wisconsin
  Watch live streaming video from theuptake at livestream.com The UpTake has a live feed from Madison, Wisconsin, where pro-labor rallies continue. Enjoy the show!
• This Is Why Dems Are Losing on the Budget
  Thursday, the Senate fell just short of passing a balanced budget amendment, a radical provision that shows just how far to the right the current discourse on fiscal matters has moved. The amendment picks up the oft-repeated right-wing comparison of the federal budget to the family purse: you ha ...
• The Revival of Labor?
  Mike Elk wonders whether the standoff in Wisconsin has energized the labor movement. Students sleep outside the state Capitol this week after Wisconsin Department of Administration officials shut the building's doors. (AP Photo/Andy Manis) After weeks of pitched battle that has clogged the sta ...
• Why We Should Care About White Anxiety
  So, it's a Friday afternoon, and Twitter is up in arms about a piece by CNN's John Blake titled, "Are whites racially oppressed?" Admittedly, the headline is sensationalist and inflammatory, but if you move away from its ridiculousness, you have a well-reported and insightful story on "whiteness ...
• Troubling over Tim DeChristopher
  Yesterday, a jury decided when Tim DeChristopher, an environmental activist,�bid almost $2 million that he didn't have on oil and gas leases being auctioned off by the government in 2008, he broke the law. His crimes were making a false statement to the government and disrupting the auction. Si ...

Buzzflash

• Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Says Walker is Lyin ...
  MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Scott Walker has claimed a mandate for eliminating collective bargaining. But he is not telling the truth. In fact, he's lying. How does BuzzFlash at Truthout know that? Because a "Milwaukee Journal Sentinel" Political Fact "truth-o-meter" rates Walk ...
• The Republicans Want to Let Corporations Harm ...
  LARRY BEINHART FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Everyone has heard of the woman who spilled coffee on herself and won $3 million from McDonald's. Perhaps you recall an editorial similar to this one, which ran in the San Diego Union Tribune: "A winning lottery ticket...absurd... a stunning illustration ...
• Bernie Sanders: Don’t Balance the Budget on th ...
  NEWS ALERT FROM SENATOR BERNIE SANDERS WASHINGTON, March 2 - Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said today that Congress must not balance the budget by cutting programs for working families after giving tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires. "At a time when the gap between the rich and everyone e ...
• Should Public Workers Make Concessions?
  SHAMUS COOKE FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT As workers all over the U.S. become inspired by the massive demonstrations in Wisconsin, a dangerous idea is being voiced by some working-class allies that could unravel it all. The threat lies in the following argument: to protect the bargaining rights of ...
• You Can't Kill the Collective Action of People ...
  ROBERT KOEHLER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT The crowds keep swelling, as though awareness, determination - humanity itself - were rising up from the earth. Einstein observed that we can never solve problems at the same level of thinking that created them. I hear the resonance of a new moral intell ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

• Bradley Manning's forced nudity to occur daily
  Does anyone doubt that the abuse is designed to destroy his mental health and will?
• Bradley Manning's forced nudity to occur daily
  Does anyone doubt that the abuse is designed to destroy his mental health and will?
• The serial deceit of Geoff Morrell
  In the case of the accused WikiLeaks source, Geoff Morrell has proven how dishonest his statements are
• Bradley Manning could face death: For what?
  New charges filed against the whistle-blowing private accuse him of "aiding the enemy"
• Growing anti-Muslim hatred in the U.S.
  A protest directed at American Muslim families highlights the toxic sentiments aimed at this minority

The BiPartisan Report

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

Sciencebase

• The Elements Song – Periodic Table of Videos
  The PToV team has spliced together a great version of the classic Tom Lehrer song, The Elements. I love this song and I’m sure Lehrer would agree this creative version is elementary. Featuring Prof Martyn Poliakoff and all the gang. Related Posts:Periodic table of videos at the moviesReal chem ...
• Five science selects
  Persistence of vision – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – If persistence of vision were the explanation for how the mind perceives moving pictures in cinema, cinema wouldn't work, because the persistence would constantly produce images of complementary colour to what is on the screen. The Vic ...
• Five science selects
  How to Find Trustworthy Science and Health Information – Today, we’re overwhelmed with sources of information, with hundreds of television stations and millions of Web sites, and it can be hard to figure out what to trust. Google recently tweaked its search algorithm to bring higher quality site ...
• Spectral science selection
  Aussie rock rolls The oldest fossils of bacteria ever found were discovered in a rock formation in Western Australia, the discovery led to great excitement that has not abated for more than two decades. Until now. Raman spectroscopy shows that what palaeontologists thought were pristine microbia ...
• Three touches of science
  Backstage Science – Find out what's going on backstage at some of the biggest science labs.  - Videos for the Science and Technology Facilities Council by Brady Haran. The Alchemist Newsletter: February 25, 2011 – Van Gogh was apparently no chemical genius, The Alchemist learns this week, but mo ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

• NBC-WSJ Poll: Majority of Americans Rank Nucle ...
  The Wall Street Journal yesterday published the results of a new public opinion poll the newspaper conducted with NBC News that found the most acceptable budget cut out of 14 programs, including Social Security, college loans, Head Start and national defense, is for subsidies for new nuclear rea ...
• Côte d'Ivoire Power and Water Cuts Deepen Huma ...
  Amnesty International has warned of a deepening humanitarian crisis in C�te d'Ivoire after electricity and water supplies were cut to large parts of the country earlier this week. Central, northern and western areas of the country are now suffering from poor sanitation and disrupted medical faci ...
• Results of BOEMRE’s BP Atlantis Investigation ...
  “Two years after whistleblower Ken Abbott first brought the safety problems with BP’s Atlantis Facility to light, The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) has finally released the findings of its investigation of Abbott’s claims. The results were not worth the w ...
• Is this Quantico or Abu Ghraib? Kucinich Renew ...
  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, the soldier accused of leaking confidential materials to Wikileaks. Kucinich is releasing the ...
• Student Walkouts and Arpaio Raids Reported Thr ...
  Several hundred students, perhaps thousands, are on route to the Arizona State Capitol in part of an apparent student walkout. �Reports of spontaneous walkouts from high schools throughout the city are spreading. � Carrying �homemade signs reading "Education, not Deportation," �"Educate, don't h ...

Common Dreams-Views

• Selling Out Injured Baby Rights
  Ralph Nader 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 suffering an ...
• Notes from the Renewed Labor Movement
  Kristine Mattis My grandfather, Pio, was born in 1909 in New York City, the son of poor Italian immigrants who had recently arrived in America seeking prosperity. He began working at a very young age to help support his family. At thirteen ...
• Pvt Manning: Is Army Aping Mafia?
  Ray McGovern Is the U.S. Army acting like the Mafia in seeking to imprison 23-year-old Private Bradley Manning for the rest of his life? Is the primary aim of the abuse being dished out to Manning that of deterring other U.S. soldiers who ...
• How Do You Define “Sustainable”?
  Ed Bruske “Defining sustainability is not the problem,” says farmer and Leopold Center fellow Fred Kirshenmann. “The debate is over how we do it. And we don’t have a lot of time left to figure out how to keep our food system going.”read more
• More U.S. Aid Won't End Mexico's Drug War
  Catalina Nieto With all the astoundingly grisly incidents involving Mexico's armed forces these days, one thing is clear: the drug war is failing. The Mexican military shouldn't get another penny of U.S. military aid. However, the White Ho ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

• Afghanistan War Not Worth the Burning of Child ...
  By Derrick Crowe Fresh from the reported killing of more than 60 civilians, U.S. forces in Kunar Province, Afghanistan, killed nine boys gathering firewood on a mountainside. General Petraeus says he's sorry. "We are deeply sorry for this tragedy and apologize to the members of the Afghan govern ...
• "A Taliban hornets nest that refuses to disappear"
  By Steve Hynd Unlike their American counterparts, Israeli war correspondents - well used to spin aimed at them - seem hard to fool with happy talk. Ilana Dayan of Haaretz has a report from Marjah in Afghanistan, where there's been talk of "big gains" and "militants pushed to the fringe" from imb ...
• Middle East Events Show Afghanistan Is A Sideshow
  By Steve Hynd As if it wasn't already obvious enough, it must have occured to even the folks in the White House by now that events over the past month or so in the Middle East have shown up the Afghanistan occupation for the sideshow it truly is. We've seen demonstrations and revolts across all ...
• Rethink the Cost of War With Us on March 12
  By Derrick Crowe The movement to end the Afghanistan War is gaining momentum, and on March 12, it will gain some more. In a little less than two weeks, supporters of Rethink Afghanistan (�Rethinkers�) will get together with their neighbors in hundreds of communities to talk about what can ...
• Fire Lt. General Caldwell
  By Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe The latest general to find himself excoriated in the pages of Rolling Stone, Lt. Gen. William Caldwell, should resign immediately for using psychological operations, commonly known as "psy-ops" against U.S. lawmakers visiting Afghanistan. If he will not resi ...

Water Wars

• GA Gov. Talks Water Wars with Farmers
  Gov. Nathan Deal has told Georgia's largest farm lobbying group that he's trying to strike an agreement with Alabama and Florida to end a water dispute.
• Preventing Water Wars
  Team studies effect of urban development and water redistribution on local wetlands.
• Want an apocalyptic tale of world without water?
  THE WATER WARS, by Cameron Stracher, 2010, Sourcebooks, $16.99, 256 pages. You would never even consider it. Going to school without a shower or a bath? No way. There's a time and place in school to be sweaty and it's called "practice" -- as in football, basketball, the gym. But ...
• Water Wars … um … Ignite
  You couldn’t say it’s the opening salvo in the Texas water wars. Those battles started when Texas was still a republic (“ H2Ow ,” Nov. 10, 2010). But think of it as a modern call to arms in perhaps the newest major grassroots fight in Texas.
• Preventing Water Wars
  Team studies effect of urban development and water redistribution on local wetlands.

WordPress | Economics

• Possible Pirate Prisons Planned
  At a cost of $29 million, plans for two pirate prisons in the Somali regions of Puntland and Somalil
• The Federal Reserve Inspector General does not ...
• What you need to know about privatizing infras ...
  By Ellen Dannin | EPRN | March 2, 2011 Remember the old joke about some sharpie who takes innocents
• Clean House Economics: Why Geithner and Bernan ...
  When Paul Volcker was at the helm at the Federal Reserve, the Fed could speak for itself. The giant
• LIBYA: Gaddafi's mercenaries, mysterious ...
  Since the beginning of the uprising in Libya, Feb. 17, many witnesses have reported the presence of

Electronic Intifada

• Palestinians at home, abroad protest division, ...
  Palestinian civil society groups are preparing for a day of mass sit-ins on 15 March, to protest the widening split between Palestinian political and resistance factions as Isr ...
• The struggle for al-Araqib is the struggle for ...
  Al-Araqib was the last village I visited before my arrest. Al-Araqib is not just a village, but the very heart of a nation and a people. On 5 May 2010, I was there under the te ...
• Is entertaining dictators worse than normaliz ...
  As international stars face widespread criticism for having earned huge fees entertaining Libya's Gaddafi family, Nada Elia and Laurie King ask why artists who entertain aparth ...
• Mubarak regime source of sectarian unrest
  CAIRO (IPS) - Ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak portrayed himself as a paradigm of stability in a country he once described as a "powder keg" of sectarian unrest. Yet far ...
• Casualties mount as battle for Libya continues
  BENGHAZI, Libya (IPS) - The walls outside the al-Jalah Hospital in downtown Bengazi are covered with posters of missing persons, mostly teenagers and young men who disappeared ...

Afghanistan Sun

• 11 militants killed in Afghanistan
  Eleven Taliban militants were killed by NATO-led forces in Afghanistan, an official ...
• Gunman killed US soldiers in Germany in reveng ...
  The 21-year-old man suspected of killing two American airmen at Frankfurt Airport in Germany this week, has told investigators that he was seeking revenge for the deployment of Americans in ...
• Local soldier's app helps fight in Afghan ...
  Capt. Jonathan Springer hunkers down after a long days work inside what has become his home amid the rugged mountains of Afghanistans Pech River Valley.Fresh from a staff meeting, the ...
• Afghan Air Force returns to flight
  KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan ? The traffic jam never ends at the world's busiest single-runway airport.Nearly every minute of every day, lineups of choppers, fighter jets, transport planes ...
• 11 militants killed in Afghanistan's Helm ...
  Eleven Taliban militants including a local commander were killed Saturday when warplanes of NATO-led forces pounded their hideout in Afghanistan' s Helmand province, a local official said ...

Futurismic

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

geopolitics | geoeconomics

• Geithner's Dirty Little Secret
• Swine Flu
• Putin and the Geopolitics of the New Cold War: ...
• The Fake Oil Crisis of 1973
• Fossiles Erdöl
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on Government Oversight

• Food, Glorious Food: Lax Oversight, Overpaymen ...
  By Neil Gordon According to a Department of Defense Inspector General (DoD IG) report released this week, hundreds of millions of dollars in overpayments and unsupported costs may have been incurred on a multi-billion-dollar food supply contract in Afghanistan. The...
• Morning Smoke: ATF Allowed AK-47s to "Walk" In ...
  Where there's smoke, there's fire. POGO's Morning Smoke is a collection of the previous day's investigations, scoops, and opinions related to the world of government oversight. Have a story you'd like to see included? Contact POGO's blog editor. ATF Let...
• "I'm Beginning to Get the Picture that Bad Per ...
  By Bryan Rahija Here's a quick highlight (or lowlight?) from the Commission on Wartime Contracting hearing on Monday. In the exchange, Commissioner Charles Tiefer and POGO's Scott Amey discuss the government's inability to hold its contractors accountable. Amey notes that...
• Why Can't We Be Friends? New Evidence of Cozin ...
  The IG's report details how Mr. Murkin was unusually active in the proposed land exchange. Murkin, for example, facilitated a meeting with McMurry (a “”) and the Office of Solicitor after the Solicitor determined that cultural artifacts found on two large archeological tracts could prevent the t ...
• Morning Smoke: Mullen: Continuing Resolution C ...
  Where there's smoke, there's fire. POGO's Morning Smoke is a collection of the previous day's investigations, scoops, and opinions related to the world of government oversight. Have a story you'd like to see included? Contact POGO's blog editor. CR Harm...

Digital Journal

• Supporters want Baby Joseph sent home
  Baby Joseph is dying. On this both the Canadian hospital and Baby Joseph's parents agree. The dispute arises as to where the infant will die. Will it be in the hospital or at home?
• New American Bible revision could spark contro ...
  Revisions to the New American Bible scheduled to be released March 9 (Ash Wednesday) is causing some controversy as it replaces words such as "booty" and "virgin" to reflect a more modern meaning.
• Interview with Ghanian-Canadian award winner
  Lois Addo is a young Ghanaian-Canadian. She is is one of the students that recently won scholarship awards from the Ghanaian Canadian Association of British Columbia (GCABC). In this interview she tells a bit about herself and her plans.
• Are foreign entities interfering, influencing ...
  Are foreign government and non-governmental organizations interfering in the Canadian democratic process? Throughout the years, certain foreign political groups have influenced political outcomes, but is it occurring now?
• Study: Scientists develop first reliable test ...
  Scientists at the University of Surrey have developed a unique urine test, which is twice as effective at diagnosing cancer that has developed in the prostate than the current prostate specific antigen (PSA) test.

End Homelessness | Change.org

• Mississippi Launches Plan To End Child Homeles ...
  Fulfilling the wishes and happiness of children is at the heart of the holiday season. So, now seems particularly timely for Mississippi to launch a new plan to end child homelessness (pdf) in the state.  What better way to set the season of giving in motion than by committing to finding safe a ...
• Thanksgiving 2.0: Food, Poverty and Telling th ...
  This Thanksgiving, most of us around the country shared a bountiful harvest feast with friends and family. We celebrated all that we are thankful for by gorging ourselves right into a food coma. It's the American way. Unfortunately, it's also the American way to be thankful for all that we have ...
• Homeless People Wanted: Must Be Open to Demean ...
  What are they thinking? People obviously don't see the homeless as human or they wouldn't attempt to hire them to do most of the insane, demeaning and illegal jobs out there. Here's a small sampling: Rob dead bodies. The Aokigahara forest at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan is the site of 50 to 10 ...
• LA Plans to Make Homelessness Go the Way of th ...
  Instead of pretending homelessness doesn't exist, creating new laws to make it illegal to sit or sleep in public, or sending homeless residents on a one-way trip out of town, Los Angeles County may attempt to actually do something about ending homelessness. And the county is setting the bar high ...
• Don't Let Violence Against the Homeless Go Unp ...
  Despite its economic troubles, Detroit is not known for being kind to the homeless. That's too bad, since there are nearly 10,000 homeless people living there. In October, police say that Steven James Diponio, 54, became so enraged at Charles Duncan, 42, who was homeless and sleeping behind a sc ...

Ceasefire.ca

• “Regional” nuclear war would have global effects
  New research indicates that a “regional”, limited nuclear war would have even more devastating global consequences than previously expected. In addition to creating a global “nuclear haze” effect that would lead to global famine, a nuclear war involving as few as 100 Hiroshima-size nuclear bombs ...
• Sign the petition! – No Stealth Fighters
  Install this petition on your website or blog
• For Facebook users – No Stealth Fighters profi ...
  We’re very excited about the launch of our Canada-wide campaign on March 3rd to say to Prime Minister Harper: âNo Stealth Fighters!â In the lead-up to the start of the campaign this week, please upload this photo as your Facebook profile picture to let everyone know how you feel about this multi ...
• Gates channels Vizzini
  U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has warned against getting involved in future land wars in Asia (Thom Shanker, “Gates Warns Against Any More Wars Like Iraq or Afghanistan,” New York Times, 25 February 2011): Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates bluntly told an audience of West Point cadets o ...
• Robert Green op-ed in Embassy Magazine
  Retired Royal Navy Commander Robert Green explains his views on nuclear deterrence in an article in the February 23rd, 2011 issue of Embassy Magazine (reprinted in full at Defence Watch): Nuclear deterrence has not prevented non-nuclear states from attacking allies of nuclear weapon states. Exam ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

• The Kevin Trudeau Show: 3-5-11
  Today, Kevin reveals the REAL reason why the government is sending over billions of dollars in aid to countries all around the world. Plus, pet expert, Dr. Geoffrey Broderick, stops by the show to explain how you can turn your pet’s health around and even double its lifespan! Self Help: Viral De ...
• The Kevin Trudeau Show: 3-3-11
  Today, Kevin exposes the evil that lurks within the government and explains how riding your bike without a license or registration may be considered illegal one day. Self Help: Reprogram Your Brain    Be Prepared!    See KT Live!    Health: FDA Pulls 500 Cold Medicines From the Market    FDA Kne ...
• Are Unemployment Rates Really Going Down?
  March 3rd, 2011 AOL Jobs By: Al Lee How accurate is the unemployment rate? As it goes up and down each month it causes a lot of people, particularly those looking for work, quite a bit of stress. Do you ever wonder if it can really be trusted? Or, whether it matters for you and [...]
• The Kevin Trudeau Show: 3-2-11
  Today, Kevin finally reveals how the secret society, The Brotherhood, approached him and what his vibrational frequency had to do with it. Plus, you are being programmed for failure; learn how to program yourself for success! Self Help: Viral Detox    Subliminal Messaging    KT’s Daily Lif ...
• The Kevin Trudeau Show: 3-1-11
  Today, Kevin reveals the truth behind mind manipulation within the music industry and two ways to counteract it.  Self Help: No More Fluoride    Free Audiobook Download    Cell Phone Protection    Natural Cures    Grass Fed Beef     Financial Independence      Health: High Doses of Vitamin D Pre ...

Pambazuka News

• Africa: Angola hosts 3rd African meeting on Cu ...
  The third African meeting on Solidarity with Cuba was held in Luanda, Angola, 11-12 September, to consolidate the friendship between the African and Cuban people and contribute to strengthening African solidarity towards the Caribbean island nation. ...
• Global: Afro-Colombian women fight prejudice b ...
  On an improvised stage “Bombón de chocolate” (Chocolate Candy) is being performed. The play, which narrates the story of an African-Colombian girl who feels rejected because of the colour of her skin, is one of the events at a special day on drug add...
• Global: May for the Cuban 5
  The month of May started with a great number of activities in support of the Cuban 5. On May 1st hundreds of thousands of Cubans marched on International Workers Day in Havana and other cities. They were joined by hundreds of internationalists in de...
• Haiti: Women demand role in reconstruction
  Women's civil society groups were noticeable by their absence from the landmark Haiti donor conference on 31 March, which secured pledges of US$5.3 billion over the next two years to support the country’s post-quake recovery. Their lack of a presenc...
• African diplomats reject anti-Cuba resolution ...
  The ambassador of the Republic of Congo to Cuba, Pascal Onguemby, rejected the lies included in an anti-Cuba resolution recently approved by the European Parliament. Addressing participants in the inauguration of the Eleventh International Conference...

War in Context

• Obama conspires with Mideast despots to slow t ...
  “Everybody realized that Bahrain was just too important to fail,” said an Obama administration official. And what would cause failure? For the monarchy to be overthrown and replaced with a democracy. From Washington’s perspective, the people in Bahrain, the other Gulf states and especially in S ...
• Listening Post – The shootout, the US agent an ...
• Bradley Manning’s forced nudity to occur daily
  Glenn Greenwald writes: To follow-up on yesterday’s observations about the prolonged forced nudity to which Bradley Manning has been subjected the last two days: brig officials now confirm to The New York Times that Manning will be forced to be nude every night from now on for the indefinite f ...
• US anti-Muslim rally raises fears
• This is war, not revolution
  The #Libyan people are no longer protesting, we’re simply trying to survive. This is war, not revolution. #Gaddafi changed the game. @Libyan4life CNN reports: At least 15 people have been killed and 200 more wounded in the Libyan city of Zawiya, an eyewitness told CNN. Wounded people started ...

Watts Up With That?

• Recycling research: meteorite alien life disc ...
  Post by Ryan Maue You may have seen the breathless coverage on Fox News of the alien life discovery from NASA’s Dr. Hoover — in some fancy meteorite.  The “exclusive” nature of the discovery was hailed as evidence that we … Continue reading →
• The reverse of UN’s disastrous “oi ...
  Global Food Prices Jump To Record Level Because of Higher Corn Prices – or the alternate title: Cornholing the future There’s lot of gloom and doom being pushed, trying to link food prices to climate change by the usual howlers. … Continue reading →
• Stormchasing in Oklahoma
  Well not exactly, there’s no storms here today, but there are a lot of vehicles like this one: I’m attending this conference, not as a storm chaser, but as a supplier of technology to aid in storm monitoring. WUWT readers … Continue reading →
• Another interesting sea ice interaction
  Observing Arctic ice-edge plankton blooms from space False-colour satellite image of ice-edge phytoplankton blooms Ongoing climate-driven changes to the Arctic sea-ice could have a significant impact on the blooming of tiny planktonic plants (phytoplankton) with important implications for the Ar ...
• The Empire Strikes Out
  Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I guess having electricity when you need it is sooooo last century … UK families will have to get used to “only using power when it was available”. That constant electricity at home was dangerous … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

• Chris Hedges: Huffington Post is a piece of cr ...
  with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad March 6, 2011 Jamie Kilstein and Allison Kilkenny Citizen Radio (2011/03/04) Episode #245 Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Chris Hedges, discusses the Wisconsin protests, Huffington Post, the death of journalism, and where liberals go to circle ...
• Michael Moore: America Is NOT Broke + transcript
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ mmflint on Mar 5, 2011 (Video by Riley Moore) “Contrary to what those in power would like you to believe so that you’ll give up your pension, cut your wages, and settle for the life your great-grandparents had, America is not broke. Not by a long shot. The co ...
• Barry McGuire: I Am a Dead Man + Eve Of Destru ...
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ NzoneTonight on Aug 12, 2009 TX 6 Aug 2009 Our guest is one of the most well-known international singer/songwriters from the infamous music culture of the sixties. Barry McGuire was known for his distinctive gravel voice and his performances with groups such ...
• World On The Edge – How to Prevent Envir ...
  by Guadamour Featured Writer Dandelion Salad March 5, 2011 Book Review: World On the Edge The influential and integrative thinker, Lester R. Brown’s recently published new book comes with an intriguing title, World On The Edge–How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse (Norton Books 2 ...
• 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 ...

Your New Reality

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  That damned Twitter : ''Researchers say that we need to be quiet and attentive if we want to tap into our deeper emotions. 'If we're constantly interrupted and distracted, we kind of short-circuit our empathy. If you dampen empathy and you encourage the immediate expression of whatever is in ...
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  Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales on the ammunition of information fueling the Global Revolution : I think you can't discount how incredible the impact is of people having access to knowledge, so they are aware of different ways of living, and they are aware of different possibilities for the futu ...
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  How To Fuck With Artificial Intelligence By Darryl Mason The New York Times has an example of 'self-learning' artificial intelligence where you can pit your Rock Paper Scissors skills against a novice computer, just starting out and learning as it goes based on your choices in a series of game ...

Wired - Science

• Satellites See Evidence of One-Two Asteroid Pu ...
  New images from two Mars-orbiting satellites capture times when the planet was pummeled by at least two meteorites at once. The slug-shaped crater above, photographed on Aug. 4, 2010 by ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft, was probably carved by a chain of projectiles coming in at a shallow angle. Th ...
• NASA’s Climate-Tracking Glory Satellite Fails ...
  By Mark Brown, Wired UK The rocket carrying NASA’s Glory satellite, an observation spacecraft designed to study the effect atmospheric particles have on the planet’s climate, has failed to reach orbit due to an engineering glitch with its nose cap. The Taurus XL rocket blasted off from the Van ...
• Cosmic Rays May Not Come From Supernovas
  The confirmed origin of ordinary cosmic rays may need to be unconfirmed. New data gathered by an instrument onboard a Russian spacecraft challenge the theory that most cosmic rays are fueled by supernovas, the explosions created by dying stars. “The mechanism for the acceleration of cosmic ...
• iPad Lets Scientists Drag, Pinch and Swipe Rea ...
                      runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience812702389001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences();   Using laser beams to control individual molecules is a precise, difficult operation rendered nearly impossible by the limitations of the computer mouse. Unless you ...
• Deepwater Horizon’s Impacts Found in Bacteria
  Nobody’s going to shed a tear for an oiled microbe, but the Deepwater Horizon’s impacts include bacteria, underscoring just how subtle and fundamental the blowout’s ecological consequences may be. The findings, based on comparisons of microbial flux before and after oil washed ashore, are not a ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

• Stephen R. Shalom: Why we need to divest from ...
  (1) The Israeli occupation and its policy of building settlements and displacing the local population are unequivocally illegal and unjustified. (2) The Israeli occupation has been a vicious one, in... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
• Stephen R. Shalom: Why we need to divest from ...
  (1) The Israeli occupation and its policy of building settlements and displacing the local population are unequivocally illegal and unjustified. (2) The Israeli occupation has been a vicious one, in... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
• Remi Kanazi: Poetic Injustice
  don't mention Zionism if you mention Zionism they'll call you anti-Semitic and people will believe them don't cite Palestinian sources no one will believe you I won't believe you trust Israeli... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinia ...
• Folk music legend Pete Seeger endorses boycott ...
  Folk music legend Pete Seeger has come out in support of the growing Palestinian movement for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel as a program for justice for Palestinians and a... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
• Lia Tarachansky: Seven Deadly Myths
  Seven Deadly Myths examines the concept of knowing and not knowing at the same time. Seeing and not comprehending what you see. It starts in the West Bank colony of Ariel where director Lia... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...

Ria Novosti - Military

• U.S. Air Force launches second prototype space ...
  The U.S. Air Force launched its second prototype unmanned space mini-shuttle under a classified X-37B program.
• Missile defense, Russia's WTO membership top U ...
  The White House has named the signing of a missile defense cooperation agreement with Russia and the issue of the country's accession to the World Trade Organization as two priorities in its relations with Moscow in 2011.
• Russian fighter jet designer Simonov dies at 81
  Mikhail Simonov, the former chief designer at the Sukhoi aircraft design bureau who was known as the father of the Su-27 family of fighter jets, died on Friday aged 81.
• Clinton confirms plans for missile base in Poland
  U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has confirmed Washington's plans to deploy missile defenses and Air Force units in Poland.
• Iran's nuclear program

NewsWise

• ATS President Blasts Effort to Allow Unlimited ...
  American Thoracic Society President Dean E. Schraufnagel, MD, expressed his opposition to legislation introduced today by Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) and Representative Fred Upton (R-MI) to prohibit the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from issuing rules on carbon pollution and other greenho ...
• Loyola University Chicago and Trinity Health S ...
  Loyola University Chicago (LUC) and Trinity Health (Novi, Mich.) have signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) that could lead to the consolidation of Trinity Health and the Loyola University Health System (LUHS), a wholly owned subsidiary of the University. The LOI provides a framework for the partnersh ...
• Environmental Impact of Animal Waste
  A team of ARS-USDA scientistsexamined a series of commercial, anaerobic, swine wastewater lagoons in North and South Carolina for genes involved in the nitrogen cycling process.
• Story Tips from the Department of Energy's Oak ...
  A project called the Scalable, Efficient, and Accurate Community Ice Sheet Model, or SEACISM, aims to use state-of-the-art simulation to predict the behavior of ice sheets under a changing climate. A process called gasification can turn carbonaceous fuels into syngas, a cleaner-burning fuel mix ...
• U-M Experts Available to Discuss Sudden Sports ...
  While the cause of death of the Fennville, Mich. high school basketball player is unknown, an inherited heart condition makes the top of the list for possible causes. U-M experts are available to talk to media about HCM and why kids, young adults and children die suddenly from it.

Natural Health News

• The Ferret and the Guitar
  A budding musician plays his instrument in a unique manner -- from the inside.
• Funny Way to Sleep for a Cat
  This kitten is just having a snooze -- albeit a little oddly.
• Fecal Matter Found on 72 Percent of Grocery Carts
  Shopping carts are actually even dirtier than a public bathroom, according to researchers. The scientists swabbed the handles of 85 carts in four states, and found that 72 percent of the carts tested positive for fecal matter. A full 50 percent of the carts also tested positive for E. coli. ...
• How to Protect Your Brain as You Age
  As the human life span increases, dementia is becoming more common -- but you can minimize your risk of being affected. Research shows that factors ranging from blood pressure and weight to degree of physical and mental activity can influence cognitive functioning.� There is growing evidenc ...
• Why is the FDA Remaining Silent About this Gro ...
  Antibiotics on factory farms almost certainly contribute to the surge in antibiotic-resistant infections among people, such as MRSA, which now kills more Americans than AIDS. The U.S. FDA, however, had until just last December neglected to estimate the percentage of total U.S. antibiotic consum ...

Antemedius

• The Extraordinary Events in the Middle East an ...
  The extraordinary events in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya are the initial high tides of an eventual tsunami that will impact the world that globalists have so fervently promoted for decades, in ways not necessarily to their liking. The first wave has struck and is now retreating from the shore, but w ...
• It's Not Just Union Busting, Its Failing To Ho ...
  The Randites and most Conservatives will go on the whole live long day about the sanctity of a contract. They will tell you how it is of critical importance that people be allowed to freely enter into any kind of agreement and be completely and totally bound by the contents therein. The reaso ...
• All-American Decline in a New World: Wars, Vam ...
  Originally published at TomDispatch.com This is a global moment unlike any in memory, perhaps in history.� Yes,�comparisons�can be�made�to the wave of people power that swept Eastern Europe as the Soviet Union collapsed in 1989-91.� For those with longer memories, perhaps�1968�might come to min ...
• Liberated Libyans Reject US Intervention
  Real News Network - March 1, 2011 TRNN EXCLUSIVE: Liberated Libya Rejects US Intervention On the streets of liberated Benghazi people say no to McCain, Lieberman and any US intervention ...transcript follows... Transcript: JIHAN HAFIZ, BENGHAZI, LIBYA: There is already talk of US military i ...
• Gov. Barbour Tries To Retool "Welfare Queens" Meme
  Mississippi Governor and probably presidential hopeful Haley Barbour is a real piece of work. With his Boss Hogg good looks and his penchant for idolizing Jim Crow groups like the Citizens Council (who enforced an economic apartheid on Southern Black citizens) but thus far that has not stoppe ...

Climategate

• Dean of science…suggesting rising seas t…
  Dean of science…suggesting rising seas this next century of up to 100 metres, or Al Gore six metres. When I see things like that I know these are false. You mentioned the IPCC report; that suggests, at worst on best scenarios, 59 centimetres. http://www.google.com
• ABC science presenter Robyn Williams seeks mor ...
  ABC science presenter Robyn Williams who in 2007 believed seas could rise 100 meters, seeks more truth from scientists after Climategate.
• How to avoid your own Climategate scandal
  What are the lessons of Climategate? More honesty and transparency in science? Not according to attorney Alan Nelson in the Guardian UK today.  To him, the lesson is how not to get caught next time. So how do universities and academics ensure that their correspondence does not become the “smoki ...
• What is the “likelihood” that the 2007 IPCC Re ...
  A very interesting analysis of the IPPC Assessment and has some important questions that invite others to help him answer. Please read his article and let him know what conclusions you draw.
• Schools call for a “balanced teaching of globa ...
  USA Today reports that US schools are finally calling for both sides of global warming to be taught, because it is after all, a theory -- not a fact:

Opinio Juris

• Can the Security Council Define the Limits of ...
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Milan notes in a comment to my previous post that he is “troubled that the Security Council seems not to be referring ’situations’ as much as certain crimes committed by certain actors.”  He is referring to paragraphs 4 and 6 of the SC Resolution: 4. ...
• Security Council Refers the Situation in Libya ...
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller The referral is part of a larger set of sanctions against Libya.  From the UN News Centre: The Security Council today voted unanimously to impose sanctions against the Libyan authorities, slapping the country with an arms embargo and freezing the assets ...
• At Least He Didn’t Use Conservapedia
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller So, you’re a state senator in the deep South.  You love freedom, which is why you’re a Republican.  You know that Shariah (aka Shari’ah) is the enemy of freedom.  You also know that, although Shariah currently plays no role in the law of your state, ...
• Judge Refuses to Attend Taylor Lawyer’s Discip ...
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Here’s something you don’t see every day: A disciplinary hearing for the chief defence lawyer for former Liberian President Charles Taylor was adjourned indefinitely Friday after just seven minutes because one judge refused to attend. The hearing by ...
• Libya: Did Citizen Evacuations Stand in the Wa ...
  by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro It now seems to be the conventional wisdom (hard to shake once in place) that the U.S. has been slow off the mark on Libya.  That may have consequences for U.S. standing in the region.  As long-time Middle East hand Aaron David Miller put it in a tweet this mor ...

Investigate - Breaking News

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

My Care2 Picks

• Monsanto begins the push to allow GMOs in Organics
  We knew this was the next step. First they got their foot in the door with GMO crops everywhere. Now they're starting the "debate" over whether we should just allow GMOs into Organic foods, because there's no uncontaminated food left...Submitted by Jeremy Bloom to Green Lifestyle �|� �Note-it! ...
• Fracking Comes to Europe, Sparking Rising Co ...
  As concerns grow in the U.S. about the environmental impact of hydraulic fracturing, or �fracking,� to extract natural gas from shale, companies have set their sights on Europe and its abundant reserves of this �unconventional� gasSubmitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Ad ...
• A Democratic Egypt? Look at what happened in Iraq
  In February 2003, a month before the U.S. invasion of Iraq, a 101-page document came my way from somewhere within the U.S. State Department. A complete rewrite of a conquered state's "policies, laws and regulations."Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Health Authorities Want Depression-Causing Dru ...
  As if flouride and hexavalent chromium in public water supplies aren�t bad enough, health authorities are now pushing for the addition of drug statins as well. Drug companies claim that statins will lower cholesterol and prevent heart attacks and strokes,Submitted by Ellyn S. to Health & Wellnes ...
• Government Document Library
  The Government Document Library provides direct links to PDF files of the 1000+ documents offered through the Download For Democracy campaign's P2P component which were cited in 2 Supreme Court amici curiae briefs in the MGM v Grokster caseSubmitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �N ...

Angry Indian News

• Abolition of Arabic as an Official Language in ...
  Abolition of Arabic as an Official Language in Israel - Peace and Collaborative Development Network: "Israel's parliament, the Knesset, is looking at a draft bill, which proposes the abolition of... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Libya unrest: UK spies and SAS troops poised t ...
  Libya unrest: UK spies and SAS troops poised to help Libyan rebels | Mail Online: "600 Black Watch soldiers on 24-hour standby to fly in50 people killed and 300 wounded in clashes at ZawiyahBritain... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• FIRST NATIONS OPPOSE SHIPMENT OF NUCLEAR WASTE ...
  The Turtle Island News Daily Newswire: "TORONTO, ON - During the Chiefs of Ontario annual Health Forum, on February 22, 2011, an emergency meeting was called by Grand Council Chief Patrick Madahbee... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Why do America's police need an armored tank? ...
  Why do America's police need an armored tank? - Black Unity: "By Justin HydeAmerica's most in-demand police vehicle is a 10-officer 16,000-pound armored tank that takes bullets like Superman and... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• BBC News - Che Guevara's Motorcycle Diaries co ...
  BBC News - Che Guevara's Motorcycle Diaries companion Granado dies: "Alberto Granado, the motorcycle companion of Ernesto Che Guevara, has died in Cuba at the age of 88.The pair's eight-month journey... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

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

True/Slant Headline Grabs

• The stupidity of crowds helps kill a planet - ...
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• How to save a fishery: owning, renting, and ex ...
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• ‘Gossip Girl’ unethical because of threesome? ...
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Citizens for Legitimate Government

• Gunman: Killing Americans was revenge for US m ...
  ShareThisGunman: Killing Americans was revenge for US mission in Afghanistan 05 Mar 2011 It's now being reported that the gun used by the suspect in the killing of two US-airmen at Frankfurt airport this week, jammed preventing an even greater loss of life. A German investigator said on Friday t ...
• Libya: 'SAS Unit And Diplomat Held Hostage'
  ShareThisLibya: 'SAS Unit And Diplomat Held Hostage' 06 Mar 2011 Up to eight members of an SAS unit and a British diplomat have been detained in Libya, it has been reported. According to the Sunday Times, the elite soldiers are believed to have been escorting the junior diplomat through a rebel- ...
• Equipment failure cited in Warren nuclear miss ...
  ShareThisEquipment failure cited in Warren nuclear missile incident 05 Mar 2011 Equipment failure -- not human error -- caused the nearly hourlong communications outage that affected 50 nuclear missiles last fall at F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyo., service officials said. A circuit card in a we ...
• 8 British troops captured in Libya
  ShareThis8 British troops captured in Libya 06 Mar 2011 Eight British soldiers have been captured in eastern Libya as they escorted a senior diplomat through territory under the control of revolutionary forces. According to a report published by The Sunday Times, the unexpected presence of a Bri ...
• Agent: I was ordered to let U.S. guns into Mexico
  ShareThisAgent: I was ordered to let U.S. guns into Mexico --ATF agent says 'Fast and Furious' program let guns 'walk' into hands of Mexican drug cartels with aim of tracking and breaking a big case 03 Mar 2011 Federal agent John Dodson says what he was asked to do was beyond belief. He was inte ...

Daily Loaf

• Tom Scott endorses Bob Buckhorn in Tampa mayor ...
  In accepting the endorsement, Buckhorn heaped praise on Scott, who he called a "true warrior on behalf of East Tampa," and a friend for 25 years. He also took a shot at Rose Ferlita when he said, "We cannot react to generalities, we need specifics about where this city needs to go. And the nex ...
• This weekend at the Bay Area Renaissance Festi ...
  This weekend’s activities at the Bay Area Renaissance Festival include the 4th Annual Royal Pet Fest and a beer and wine tasting. Pets will be the guests of honor at the Royal Pet Fest, which will include the Muttville Comix Show, pet costume contest and pet product vendors. See the Ren Fest ...
• Go Davis says he was fired by Bill Foster beca ...
  Longtime St. Petersburg official Goliath Davis told the media in St. Pete Friday afternoon that Mayor Bill Foster fired him earlier this week because David had failed to appear at the recent funerals of three St. Pete police officers who were killed in the line of action over the past month. B ...
• Mike Suarez responds to Curtis Stokes’ broadsi ...
  Suarez told CL today that "He (Stokes) want to use you as a tool to get this out in the press, because he's not going to have the resources to really compete in the runoff, and I think he sees that, and I think it's a desperate move on his part."
• Plant City’s Berry Best: The Florida Strawberr ...
  Thousands of people showed up for the first day of the Florida Strawberry Festival in Plant City yesterday. The 10-day festival, running from March 3-13, got off with a bang. The weather was beautiful and should remain the same through most of the weekend. Cool breezes and the smell of sweet tr ...

Vaccine Resistance Movement

• VRM: L-Histidine, Squaline, & Human Chorionic ...
  “Vaccination is a monstrosity, a misbegotten offspring of error and ignorance; it should have no place in either hygiene or medicine. Believe not in vaccination, it is a world wide delusion, an unscientific practice, a fatal superstition with consequences measured today by tears and sorrow ...
• VRM: Gardasil/Cervarix – A Legacy Of Shame
  The headlines alone tell the whole story. ‘Teenage girl left brain-damaged  after receiving cervical cancer jab‘, ‘Thousands of UK schoolgirls have suffered adverse reactions…several reported multiple reactions’, ‘20,575 adverse reactions, 352 reports of abnormal pap smears post vaccinati ...
• VRM: Dr. Wakefield’s Imminent Vindicatio ...
  Dr. Andrew Wakefield’s 1998 Study demonstrated “anti-myelin antibodies and digestive tract pathologies in children with autism after being given the Urabi strain triple live virus MMR vaccine. All 12 children in the Study had intestinal abnormalities (known as Inflammatory Bowel Disease), with c ...
• VRM: A Concise Compendium The Problem With Vac ...
  The advent of cloned DNA vaccines & Synthetic Genomics, backed by proponents of the Trans-humanist & Bioethics movements (this is a post-Darwinian view, in which the species has the power to direct its own evolution), has opened a Pandora’s Box spelling the inevitable death of natural immunity. ...
• VRM: Medical Industry Data Proves Influenza Va ...
  The Influenza virus itself is constantly mutating from year to year. While mainstream doctors are traditionally divided, several prominent Studies have come forward in recent years challenging the Status Quo on the efficacy of the sacrosanct Flu shot & awakened an increasingly distrustf ...

B.C. Preppers Network

• You Know You're Getting Old When...
  A few weeks back we received our new high-efficiency front loading LG washer and dryer set and I have to say, I'm pretty impressed by them. The set was only around $1000 (on sale) but I felt like I'd gone from a Chevette to a Cadillac when compared to our old set.� A cute little luxury fe ...
• Control Your Home Thermostat On the Internet!
  Today a fellow from our natural gas company came by to install a new thermostat as part of the Peaksaver program that we signed up for.�If you haven't heard of Peaksaver, basically what it does is allow the Ontario government electricity provider to turn off your central air conditioner ...
• Happy Day!: The Water Bill Arrived!
  After being shocked a few months ago with a water bill of over $240 I decided to do a few things to cut down on our water use We converted our main toilet to a dual-flush and installed a water saving device on the second (haven't switched it over to a dual yet). We also installed a new ...
• Strawberry Picking
  Our family went strawberry picking this morning, it's a fun thing to do once in a while and I think it's a good way to help our 3-year old daughter realize where food comes from. While my wife picked berries with our oldest I went for a walk around the farm with our youngest in the stroller ...
• Pioneer Solar: PV System For Free?
  I received a flyer from Pioneer Solar in the mail the other day which claims to help people get a solar system installed on their house, farm, or business for free. Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, like most things there's good and bad points about it and what might be a good deal f ...

Michael Yon

• 101st Airborne
  04 March 2011 Plans are afoot to embed with the 2-506 Infantry in Paktika Province.� If all goes well, the hard work will begin several weeks from now.� The Battalion Commander is Lieutenant Colonel Don Hill. Please see their latest newsletter: Please Click to view the entire newsletter. ...
• War Stories & Rumors
  Russian Tank near Tarin Kot 02 March 2011 There are always the stories.� Some true, some not, most are hybrids.� There was the story in Iraq of the farmer who found a crashed UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle).� The farmer thought it might try to fly away so he tied it to a tree.�� There was the ru ...
• Scorch & Puddle
  The Puddle 28 February 2011 Urozgan Province, Afghanistan This morning, we drove a dangerous unpaved road from Tarin Kot to Dehrawud, passing recent bomb craters and ancient wrecks of two Soviet tanks.� The muddy road often splashed brown soup across the windshield while grey skies threatened ...
• Dead Taliban in Chora
  (A raw, unedited note from war.) Men lining up to pay respects to killed Taliban 27 February 2011 The places have names like Sangin, Arghandab, Panjwai, Now Zad, Musa Qala, Korengal Valley, Pech Valley, Tarin Kot, or Chora.� Names that mean almost nothing to most people, but everything to oth ...
• Panjwai: Spanish Translation
  El peligrosísimo distrito de Panjwai, en la provincia de Kandahar 27 de febrero de 2011 Desde Tarin Kot, provincia de Uruzgán Panjwai viene siendo una de las zonas más peligrosas de Afganistán. En su suelo se ha derramado mucha sangre canadiense, estadounidense y afgana. Según el diario The ...

The Killing Train

• Wikileaks and the Future of Information
  Wikileaks and the future of information from Justin Podur on Vimeo. read more
• Settle in and wait for the coup in Egypt
  Most people are interested in something that no one knows or can know: what is going to happen in Egypt? It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future (that's from Keynes). There are lessons from past revolutions that might help us understand what is happening, but from where ...
• More such philanthrocapitalism we shall be utt ...
  Philanthrocapitalism, a book by Bishop and Edwards, argues that philanthropy will help the public accept a new age of plutocracy (the rule by wealth). The rich are giving their money away so effectively, they say, that the public won't mind increasing inequality. read more
• I am not a gadget
  Jaron Lanier, author of "You are not a gadget", is very well-informed about what he is writing about, which is some of the social consequences of the internet, and some of the implicit ideologies that are built into the internet as we are living with it today. Lanier was one of the early minds b ...
• Raj Patel's "Value of Nothing"
  For various reasons I found myself with several hours on public transit and with Raj Patel's fine book "The Value of Nothing" in hand. I really liked a few things about it. First, it's a very readable summary of a lot of economic theories (and ideologies) that guide policies today. For a more ma ...

treehugger

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

Democratic Voice of Burma

• US says Burma ‘fails’ in drugs fight
  Burma among three countries the US claims has 'failed demonstrably' in anti-narcotics efforts as Thailand steps up war on drugs
• Shan army seizes ‘heroin factories’
  Bases belonging to pro-junta Pa-O militia rumoured to be stocking material for heroin production raided as US releases damning drugs report
• Kachin army blocks Tatmadaw rations
  Burmese army responds by blocking a key supply road in the Bhamo district of Kachin as tension between the two forces continues to rise
• Judges consider Dunkley bail
  Judge due to give decision over bail for detained former editor of the Myanmar Times after the next court appearance on 8 March
• Brothers in corruption: Maldives and Burma
  Major scam that involved two dictators, Maldivian oil and Burmese crony companies may shed light on the island nation's mid-2000s heroin explosion

Telegraph - Climate Change

• Met Office climate survey: why our obsession w ...
  Arctic winters, red-hot summers and melting snow caps. Climate change is one of the most talked about issues today. But how much do we really know about the climate on our very own doorstep? And what can we really do about it?
• Met Office climate survey: how to get involved
  The Met Office is urging people to blow bubbles and spot vapour trails as part of a national survey of Britain's climate.
• Met Office urges public to blow bubbles and co ...
  The Met Office is urging people to blow bubbles and spot vapour trails as part of a national survey of Britain's climate.
• Unscientific hype about the flooding risks fro ...
  The warmists have sound financial grounds for hyping the dangers of flooding posed by climate change, writes Christopher Booker
• A shocking future in store for polluting pensi ...
  Pensioners and those approaching retirement are recklessly gorging their way through the planet's resources without so much as a nod to the recycling bin, writes Melissa Kite.

National Geographic | Environment

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

Jurist - Legal Research

• Washington approves bill recognizing out-of-st ...
  [JURIST] The Washington House of Representatives [official website] on Friday voted 58-39 to approve a bill [materials] recognizing out-of-state same-sex marriages as legal domestic partnerships. House Bill 1649 amends current law that recognizes out-of-state domestic partnerships and civil unio ...
• Benin court postpones presidential elections f ...
  [JURIST] The Constitutional Court of Benin [official website, in French] on Friday approved a second postponement of presidential elections following complaints that over one million people were not registered to vote. The court delayed the date [AFP report] of the presidential election from Mar ...
• House Speaker Boehner launches DOMA defense group
  [JURIST] House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) [official website] on Friday announced that he is launching a legal advisory group to defend [press release] the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) [text; JURIST news archive]. "The constitutionality of this law should be determined by the courts, not by th ...
• New indictment filed against accused Arizona s ...
  [JURIST] Federal prosecutors on Friday filed a 49-count indictment [text, PDF] against Jared Lee Loughner, the suspect in the recent Tucson, Arizona shooting. The new indictment carries more severe charges than the original indictment [text, PDF; JURIST report] filed in January, accounting for a ...
• France burqa ban to take effect April 11
  [JURIST] French Prime Minister Francois Fillon [official profile, in French; BBC profile] confirmed in the Official Journal [official website, in French] Thursday that the controversial law [materials, in French] banning the burqa [JURIST news archive] and other face coverings in public places t ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

• A Deep Truth About Political Journalism
  Walter Shapiro of Politics Daily, trying to suss out Newt's chances, offers this great insight: "The hardest thing to master in presidential politics is to know when to stifle the urge to make dismissive judgments about the chances of presidential contenders."
• The Coming Wave of Young Latino Voters
  credit: xgray/Flickr A wave of young Hispanic voters is about to hit the polls, leaders of the community said today. Of Latinos under age 18 living in the United States, 93 percent are citizens and a half-million of those will reach the legal voting age each year for the next 20 ye ...
• How Not to Win the Future
  Some recent articles have emphasized a new White House M.O. to go with the new senior staff: more discipline, more consistent messaging, less flying-by-the-seat-of-the pants. All that may be true. But these changes in style have not affected one particularly critical kind of substance: President ...
• Proud to Be Cynical
  Mike Huckabee, in 2011, on Natalie Portman having a child with a man she's engaged to, before they've actually married: "One of the most troubling things is that people see a Natalie Portman or some other Hollywood starlet that boasts of, hey look, we're having children, we're not married, but ...
• With Recall Push, Wisconsin Union Fight Enters ...
  MADISON -- Any thinking person who has held aloft a rally sign for an afternoon will inevitably ask at day's end, no matter how noble the cause, "Okay, so now what?" In Madison, where protests over Republican Gov. Scott Walker's proposed bill seeking to do away with public employee collectiv ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

• [COAT] Watch my antiWAR music video (Dylan/See ...
• [COAT] Peace Surge NOW! Save Ottawa Ban on War ...
• [COAT] Afghan MP tells Ottawa to Stop Arms Sho ...
• [COAT] Ottawa's Mayor & War Bazaars! Democracy ...
• [COAT] Exposing Canada's War Profiteers: new 5 ...

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

• US and Vietnam sign nuclear energy agreement | ...
• SKorea on alert after ship hit by mysterious b ...
• Obama administration may send U.S.-Russia arms ...
• Energy Secretary Steven Chu on the nation's en ...
• More tritium found at Vt. Yankee, NRC plans cl ...

Tikun Olam

• Links for 2010-05-04 [Digg]
  Dershowitz Incites Hate Against Michael Lerner It is absolutely no accident that Alan Dershowitz singled Rabbi Michael Lerner out for special opprobrium in his most recent Jerusalem Post and Huffington Post column...
• Links for 2010-03-21 [Digg]
  Happy Passover: Settlers, Immigrants, and Jewish Values "You shall not oppress the stranger because you know the soul of the stranger for you yourselves were immigrants in the land of Egypt (Exodus 23:9)"
• Pam Geller Named to Southern Poverty Law Cente ...
  The Southern Poverty Law Center comes a bit late to the game in understanding the power and danger of anti-Muslim hate.  But they’ve made great strides by naming Pam Geller’s Stop the Islamization of America as an official hate group, alongside such wonderful representatives of the species as t ...
• Bibi Set to Name Amidror National Security Advisor
  No sooner did the Bibi-Yvet show give us the public defenestration of Uzi Arad, whose appointment to be Israel’s next ambassador to Britain was confirmed and rejected all in leaked news stories within a single week, than Bibi has given us an even better show.  While Arad was the real thing, a g ...
• Lions, and Tigers, and Bi-National States–Oh My!
  Bibi Netanyahu is being shaken out of his lethargy by the imminent threat that the Quartet may announce its recognition of a Palestinian state within 1967 borders as early as next week.  To shock the other right-wingers in his coalition out of their stupor he’s raised the bi-national state boge ...

Ode Magazine

• A new food manifesto
  Itâs time to take back control of what and how we eat. Hereâs why. Food isn’t just something we need to shovel down our gullets each day to survive. It’s far more potent: the means, more than any other, by which we humans shape our planet and ourselves.Photo by Marko Matas ...
• The real reason you don't meditate and how to ...
  By: lexsisney This article is dedicated to those who want to have a daily meditative or reflective practice but don’t actually sit down and do it. “I know I should be meditating but I just can’t find the time” or “I wish I could take time to reflect bu ...
• Construction material of the future
  By: Rubanselva Developing housing aimed at the low income and socially excluded sectors, in reality, is rarely looked at as a priority for the largest of global constructors - the main reason being a lack of financial viability making projects worthwhi ...
• Remember the peace of silence
  By: PeaceCorso There is something about the simplicity of indigenous prayer that always brings me to a deeper silence. How about you? Is there a tradition or traditions that speak to your spirit so deeply that you just know you’ve been a part of the ...
• A business in a box
  Teenagers in a rural village in Madagascar show off ToughStuff products: a radio charger, an LED lamp and a solar panel.Photo: ToughStuff After spending decades working in some of the world’s poorest economies, Andrew Tanswell, a British management consultant and Medai ...

OpEd News

• Media, Mergers, Capitalism, and Popular Democr ...
  This is the second chapter of four in the AOL unit of this humble correspondent's assessment of the HuffPo-America Online merger. This section details the early development of the corporate forms that became America Online.
• Out-of-Control Human Rights Abuses in Iraq
  US occupying is killing Iraqis
• America's War on Libya
  US forces already in Libya, inciting violence to oust Gaddafi
• America Needs A N.A.P.
  It is time that all Americans protest the coming austerity cuts. It is not enough to just insist on collective bargaining. Rather, we must oppose the coming cuts in spending as well as undo the conditions that are causing the states deficits.
• Haitian Winter, Part 4: The Duvalier Legacy: T ...
  In Part 4 of my series, we visit the ghosts from the violent past of Haiti in the ruins of the torture center of the Duvalier dynasty, infamous Fort Dimanche.

Switchboard

• The Roads to the Rio+20 Earth Summit: Next St ...
  It is Saturday evening and I am on the railroad from Washington, DC to New York.  For the next few days, I will be in meetings and consultations at and around the United Nations working on the accelerating preparations for the next Earth Summit - now rescheduled for June 4-6, 2012 ...
• Death of a Dolphin Sparks Anger in the Gulf
  Capt Lori DeAngelis runs a boating business called Dolphin Queen Cruises, which ferries tourists in Orange Beach, AL, to see pods of dolphins at play in the Gulf. Capt Lori reveres dolphins. In fact, she used to be licensed to handle the federally protected mammals. “They are like ...
• New York Times Exposé on Fracking Offers Lesso ...
  The New York Times just published the third part of Ian Urbina's powerful investigative series on the dangers associated with the controversial natural gas drilling technique known as fracking. Taken together, the three articles paint a devastating picture of current gas drilling p ...
• China Puts Forth Energy Intensity, Carbon Inte ...
  China’s annual parliamentary session opened Saturday morning, with 3,000 National People’s Congress members and 2,000 members of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) gathered in the Great Hall of the People to hear Premier Wen Jiabao deliver the annual rep ...
• India Climate Change and Energy News - Februar ...
  Climate Change PM Council on Climate Change Okays Green India Mission “The Prime Minister's Council on Climate Change has approved the Green India Mission, which targets 5 million hectare improvement in forest and tree cover besides adding another 5 million hectare to existing fo ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• New, Hopefully Minor Korea Crisis
  A boat with 31 North Korea citizens drifted into South Korea waters and was picked up.  North Korea being the kind of place that people sometimes don’t like going back to, four are trying to stay: North Korea on March 5 made a fresh demand for the repatriation of all 31 citizens whose boat drif ...
• “As An Educator, It Is My Professional R ...
  To me, the high point of academic blogging is putting out a request for insight to readers on a specific problem and crowd-sourcing a wealth of useful feedback that helps me be better at what I do than I would have been had I gone with my gut. Sometimes these blegs are about research and [...] ...
• Now That’s Budget Cutting
  You may scoff, but the state of Wisconsin has saved more than $7 million. The strategy involved was “stop making things up.” Related posts:Glenn Reynolds suggests defaulting on the federal debt as a way to balance the budget On Wisconsin Cutting Deals with Horowitz Related posts:Glenn R ...
• A Good Hack Can’t Worry About This Stuff
  Yglesias, on ROTC being permitted back at Harvard now that the military complies with the unviersty’s nondiscrimination policies: Iâm eagerly awaiting âguess I was wrongâ posts from all the conservatives who wrote over the years that the universityâs insistence that student programming conformi ...
• One More Step on the Road to “Baby Claus ...
  I find it difficult to express how supportive I am of this project.  I can only hope that it reaches fruition before necessity demands that I start Elisha and Miriam on the actual text of On War. Frankly, however, I would have preferred Boar Clausewitz. Related posts:Daddy Blog Alert! If Tim ...

Desert Research Institute

• Storm Peak Laboratory Cloud Property Validatio ...
  Scientists are busy working at DRI’s Storm Peak Lab at Steamboat Springs, Colo. gathering in-cloud measurements and also verifying the data from radars and other instrumentation that is measuring clouds at four different elevations; one site in town and three within the Steamboat Springs ...
• Fighting an Infestation
  Kumud Acharya, Ph.D. has worked in Southern Nevada for the last four years studying the changing climate and its effect on the state’s water. Since coming to Las Vegas his focus has shifted to another problem, invasive species specially those living in Lake Mead.
• 2010 DRI Annual Report
  The 2010 annual report is now available for download. This issue includes an interview with Executive Vice President for Research Dr. Terry Surles, our involvement with a large NSF grant to study climate change, an overview of the work in our divisions and centers, select researcher profiles, an ...
• Tracking the Air Quality at Lake Tahoe
  In order to better understand the pollutant sources that are affecting Lake’s Tahoe’s water quality, Research Professor Hampden Kuhns, began studying Lake Tahoe in 2003 when he assembled the areas first emissions inventory. The inventory included local measurements using his TRAKER road ...
• Building Concepts for Clarity
  Todd Mihevc has a knack for finding the right tools for the job, but he’s no handyman for hire. For 25 years, Mihevc, an Assistant Research Hydrogeologist at DRI, has been instrumental in developing equipment that surveys, studies, and samples water systems in Nevada. His latest research concern ...

Earth Techling

• Geneva Auto Show: Rolls Royce 102EX Phantom EE
• Zero XU Electric Motorcycle Saddles Up
• Solar Rooftops Come To Reno Area Schools
• An Eco Shooting Range? Yup, Looks Like It
• Wanted: Women With Energy Management Ideas

National Law Journal | U.S.

• CORPORATE RESTRUCTURING & BANKRUPTCY: Big bank ...
  It's been a good time to be a bankruptcy lawyer. Though it's been almost three years since the economy began its meltdown, several massive bankruptcies are continuing to generate big fees for attorneys.
• Oil and Water
  Plaintiffs lawyers are splitting over the performance of Kenneth Feinberg and BP's fund for oil-spill victims.
• Security tight as Toyota shares its 'crown jewels'
  Toyota Motor Corp. plans to impose iris and palm-print scans on plaintiffs' attorneys who will review the source code for the electronic throttle-control system at issue in multidistrict litigation over sudden unintended acceleration.
• Crossing the boundaries
  White & Case lawyers in Washington, backed by pro-business and criminal defense advocacy groups, are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn an appeals court ruling that gave federal prosecutors access to foreign documents usually outside the reach of grand jury subpoenas.
• Yale launches professional ethics clinic
  Yale Law School has started what may be the first law clinic devoted specifically to professional ethics.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

• Cheaper by the billion
  Via Penn Futures – Friday, March 04, 2011 Range Resources is selling the 52,000-acres it owns in the Barnett Shale natural gas play in Texas for a cool $900 million. Is Range bailing out of one of the most productive shale plays in America? Are they going bankrupt? Um, no. According to one indus ...
• Documents: Politics, Recycling and Tracking of ...
  The New York times ran this article recently. Documents: Politics, Recycling and Tracking of Natural Gas Waste Over the past nine months, The Times reviewed more than 30,000 pages of documents obtained through open records requests of state and federal agencies and by visiting various regional o ...
• EPA Wants to Look at Full Lifecycle of Frackin ...
  by Nicholas Kusnetz ProPublica, Feb. 9, 2011, 2:32 p.m The EPA has proposed examining every aspect of hydraulic fracturing, from water withdrawals to waste disposal, according to a draft plan the agency released Tuesday. If the study goes forward as planned, it would be the most comprehensive in ...
• Gas driller pays Pennsylvania state Senator Jo ...
  I received this comment from another blogger on this same article: “To paraphrase Jim Cramer, well known for his investment & corporate financial opinions on television and internet, the United States has the best government money can buy.” Published: Sunday, February 13, 2011, 11:04 PM Updated ...
• FrackTracker
  Here’s an exceprt from the blog at Fracktracker, a useful site for info and maps and visuals. The Environmental Protection Agency has submitted a draft of its Hydraulic Fracturing Study Plan, which is to be reviewed by the Science Advisory Board (SAB), a group of independent scientists that w ...

News Blaze

• UN Voices Alarm At Intensified Fighting and Wo ...
  Fighting between Somalia's Transitional Federal Government and Al-Shabaab Islamic militants in the southern Belet Xaawo area has driven thousands of Somalis from their homes as well as some 5,500 residents of the Kenyan border town of Mandera, whil
• DIAC Votes to Approve Final Report of Recommen ...
  The Dairy Industry Advisory Committee was chartered to review farm milk price volatility and dairy farmer profitability. The committee was asked to make recommendations to the Secretary on how USDA can best address these issues to meet the dairy ind
• Joint UN-African Delegation Backs Delaying Ben ...
  The delegation included Said Djinnit, the UN Secretary-General's Special Representative for West Africa; Ramtane Lamamra, the AU Commissioner for Peace and Security; and James Victor Gbeho, the President of the ECOWAS Commission.
• Sarah Jane Brain Foundation Tours America Duri ...
  The tour was launched in late January in North Carolina during the NHL All-Star weekend, headed to Texas for Super Bowl week and has held additional events in Louisiana, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin
• U.S.Condemns Violence Perpetrated By Former Le ...
  Gbabgo's selfish effort to cling to power despite losing the election has elevated tensions and eroded the fundamental rights of Ivoirian civilians. Since December, Gbagbo has used security forces to attack the very people he claims to represent, a

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 ...

Red Ice Creations

• Paypal now cuts off Bradley Manning defense fund
  The online payment provider PayPal has frozen the account of Courage to Resist, which in collaboration with the Bradley Manning Support Network is currently raising funds in support of U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning. PayPal was one way people–especially international residents–were able to contr ...
• FAKEBOOK: US Gov. Creates Software for ’Fake P ...
  The contract calls for the development of “Persona Management Software” which would help the user create and manage a variety of distinct fake profiles online. The job listing was discussed in recently leaked emails from the private security firm HBGary after an attack by internet activist last ...
• Chinese workers in Israel sign no-sex contract
  Chinese workers at a company in Israel have been forced to agree not to have sex with or marry Israelis as a condition of getting a job. According to a contact they are required to sign, male workers may not have any contact with Israeli women - including prostitutes, a police spokesman, Rafi Ya ...
• Pakistan’s intelligence ready to split with CI ...
  Pakistan’s ISI spy agency is ready to split with the CIA because of frustration over what it calls heavy-handed pressure and its anger over what it believes is a covert U.S. operation involving hundreds of contract spies. ISI had no idea who Raymond Davis was or what he was doing. "How many more ...
• Randy Quaid wins fight to stay in Canada
  American actor Randy Quaid says he’s won his legal fight to stay in Canada, after the Canada Border Services Agency dropped inadmissibility proceedings against him. At a news conference with his wife and lawyer on Wednesday morning in Vancouver, Quaid said he and his wife Evi were relieved by th ...

Russia Today

• Burglar robbed while robbing shop
  There’s no honor among thieves, as the proverb says. A burglar who broke into a grocery shop in Siberia saw the tables turned against him when a passer-by stole his coat.
• Second “fifth generation” fighter tests the skies
  The second prototype of the jet meant to be the future of Russia's fighter jet programme has successfully completed its maiden flight. The Sukhoi-made plane took to the skies for about an hour.
• Guerilla warfare in Libya guaranteed in case o ...
  If the US chooses to occupy Libya, it risks being dragged into another guerrilla war akin to the one it already has in Iraq, former Russian ambassador to Libya Aleksey Podtserob told RT.
• Price debate stalls Mistral assault ship talks ...
  The talks between France and Russia over the purchase of Mistral-class amphibious assault ships have hit a dead-end due to a disagreement about the price terms, reports Russian business daily Kommersant.
• Far-reaching effects of Arab world unrest
  The unrest in Northern Africa and across the Middle East may have wide repercussions for the rest of the world, especially if NATO members such as the US and the UK resort to using force in Libya.

Dad2059′s Webzine of Science Fiction, Science Fact and Esoterica

• WikiLeaks, Allnewsweb and the TEA Party
  When one looks at the above title, the individual has to ask, WTF? What could these three things have in common? Well, according to ‘Mirage Men‘ author, Mark Pilkington, not really a whole hell of a lot, just rampant opportunism: When the first mention of UFOs in the tranche of diplomatic paper ...
• Even Gary Bekkum is skeptical
  Gary Bekkum’s  STARpod.org’s site is usually replete with government conspiracies, psychic spies, hamsters, Bigelow’s Skinwalker Ranch, Laura Eisenhower’s Mars Colony and other wondrous esoteric oddities that it’s hard to believe that Gary could be skeptical of anything. But he is. He is very s ...
• More Paracast: George Filer
  Yeah I know I’ve been lazy lately (or so it seems), but trust me on this one. You won’t be disappointed with this interview Gene Steinberg and co-host Chris O’Brien of the Paracast had with Eastern MUFON Director George Filer, who also has the website Filer’s Files (which caters to guess what? Y ...
• The Paracast: Clifford Clift of MUFON
  This week’s Paracast with Gene Steinberg and Chris O’Brien is a conversation with MUFON International’s Clifford Clift. Subjects range from the nuts and bolts aspects of UFOs to the possible paranormal links with ghosts, angels, demons and Sasquatch. This was a down to earth and civil interview, ...
• Bizarre Beachcoming: Review of the Codex Serap ...
  Dr. Beachcoming, that eccentric collector of all things of an exotic historical nature, reviews The Codex Seraphinianus,  a book written by Luigi Serafini that is purportedly about an alien world complete with language, customs, architecture, flora and fauna. Luigi Serafini, Codex Seraphinianus ...

Tippers News

• Domestic violence
  The statistics are startling: It's estimated that every 18 minutes a woman in the United States is beaten. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Yes, trafficking happens right here
  A common misconception about human trafficking and modern slavery is that it does not happen here. But it does. It's a documented fact. Take the case of two girls, ages 15 and 16, who ran away from a juvenile home in Fremont in 2007.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a ...
• Human smuggling
  THERE is no doubt that rampant poverty, unemployment and a bleak future stare young Pakistanis in the face. The situation invariably provides a breeding ground Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Public opinion stopped GM, says campaigner + T ...
  Interesting article in The Independent in which Lord Melchett, the former director of Greenpeace, speaks out. Also, have you signed this Avaaz petition yet? http://www.avaaz.org/en/eu_gmo/?cl=743766348&v=7138 (You'll have to copy + paste the link!)Submitted by Graeme that's Graeme to Enviro ...
• Two week-old kitten left for dead in locked cl ...
  Thanks to a passerby and local animal shelter, a two week-old kitten left for dead in a bolted-shut clothes recycling bin was rescued and has made a full recovery. The kitten was rescued about a month ago when a passing person heard the cry Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� ...

The Freeman

• Analysts Contemplate Mortgages after Freddie, ...
  “How might home buying change if the federal government shuts down the housing finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage loan, the steady favorite of American borrowers since the 1950s, could become a luxury product, housing experts on both sides of the political ...
• Public Pension-Fund Deficits Underestimated
  “The pension funds for state and local workers in the United States are understating the amount they will owe workers by $1.5 trillion or more, according to some economists who have studied the issue, meaning that the benefits are much costlier than many governments and taxpayers thought.” (Wash ...
• Free the Children, Cut the Budget
  Education is important – far too important to leave to politicians and bureaucrats.
• Prices for Food Set Record, UN Says
  “Global food prices reached new highs in February, a U.N. food agency said Thursday, warning that oil price spikes could provoke further increases. Skyrocketing food prices have been among the triggers for protests in Egypt, Tunisia and elsewhere and raised fears of a repeat of the food price cr ...
• Fed Chief Warns against Spending Cuts
  “Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Wednesday that a House Republican plan to cut $61 billion in federal spending this year would cut economic growth and cause job losses.” (USA Today) Heâs done so well with monetary policy, why shouldnât he give fiscal advice too? FEE Timely Classic “Do ...

Teaching Online Journalism

• Web literacy: Should be required
  A student calls me on the phone. “Professor McAdams, I wonder if you could help me. I’ve never taken a class with you, but …” “Yes, what can I do for you?” I reply. “I bought my own website, but I’m not sure how to get my Web pages there.” From past experience, I know what I need to ask now. ...
• Can journalism education rise to the challenge?
  Most journalism programs face the same challenges: How to find, employ and retain faculty who are comfortable teaching new skills and techniques. How to provide equipment and software to students (especially with shrinking budgets). How to keep up with a rapidly changing field. Perhaps mos ...
• HTML and CSS Resources for Teaching
  Every year around this time, I update the resources I use in teaching my advanced online design class. I know there are a million lists like these online. I try to keep mine short, simple and current. Also, I’m not teaching programmers or graphic design majors. My students are journalists. C ...
• Visual narratives: Empirical data
  From a research study by two scholars at Stanford: In this paper, we investigate the design of narrative visualizations and identify techniques for telling stories with data graphics. We take an empirical approach, analyzing visualizations from online journalism, blogs, instructional videos, an ...
• Teaching HTML and CSS to journalism students
  I’ve been looking at the open-source course materials for Web Design 1, from the WaSP InterACT curriculum project. I think these materials can easily be adapted for use in a journalism curriculum. The idea is to acquaint our students with the building blocks of the Web they use every day. For s ...

Facing South

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

Worldpress - Africa

• Will Freedom of Expression Hold in Southern Sudan?
  With southern Sudan likely to find itself an independent nation, in addition to problems with healthcare, electricity and illiteracy, it may also face challenges to the freedom of its media.
• Will Freedom of Expression Hold in Southern Sudan?
  With southern Sudan likely to find itself an independent nation, in addition to problems with healthcare, electricity and illiteracy, it may also face challenges to the freedom of its media.
• Preventing Maternal Deaths in West Africa
  Dr. Fredanna M'Cormack and her Bele Uman Project are working in Sierra Leone to save the lives of pregnant mothers and their babies.
• Interview with Kumi Naidoo
  The Greenpeace executive director talks about connections between the environment, poverty, peace, and how the interconnectedness of these issues can drive civil society.
• Re: Blood Diamonds: Still Bloody
  We are seeing a steadily growing tide of discontent with the Kimberley Process.

Telegraph UK - oil

• New Zealand earthquake: the vengeance of Mothe ...
  Whatever the cause of the increase in disasters, humanity has made their impact far worse, writes Geoffrey Lean.
• If the Saudis revolt, the world's in trouble
  The fate of the global recovery rests on events in Riyadh, says Jeremy Warner .
• Libya: BP suspends operations and evacuates staff
  BP, the oil giant, has said today that it is suspending operations in Libya and evacuating expatriate staff and their families amid the escalating violence.
• William Hague 'lobbied strongly' for oil compa ...
  Exclusive: Foreign Secretary "lobbied strongly" in dispute involving oil companies who refused to pay tax.
• BP: Big Oil is never far from trouble
  After a year that brought BP to its knees, its shareholders will receive a dividend. They should enjoy it while they can, says Alistair Osborne.

Ian Welsh

• The kids might be all right
  My generation is doing something right: First from Josh Marshall summarizing a recent Rasmussen poll on the age breakdown of support for the unions in Wisconsin: But when you look at this poll the pro-union / anti-union division turns heavily on age too. The younger votes have a far more progres ...
• Police moving to clear the WI capital (Or Are ...
  Update 2: Well, well, well. That is impressive, the police essentially refused the order.  My hat is off to them.  This is an extraordinarily encouraging sign, in that it indicates that the security apparatus has limits to what it will do.  If elites1want real crushing, they’re clearly going ...
• A bit more on the oil trap
  People will not ship or produce if the cost to produce+ship is higher than what they can recoup.  There is a bottom on prices despite what the idiotic supply and demand curves in textbooks show.  Contrary to what they tell you in economics 101 supply and demand is not a law, there are significan ...
• European leaders draft a “competitivenes ...
  No, I’m not kidding. It includes: a debt brake which will stop countries from deficit spending beyond a target; automatic monitoring which can force pension cuts; a requirement to monitor wages and productivity and to then lower wages if they rise “too quickly” Every one of these are anti-worker ...
• One way the price of oil hurts the economy
  Promoted from comments: I work for a small freight forwarder. How small? My boss, and myself – that’s it. Last year we shipped over 61,250 million tons of beef, pork, and chicken; mostly to Australia and Hong Kong, but several smaller markets too. You pick up the product, stuff the container, an ...

Media Consortium

• Top 6 Mistakes to Avoid in Mobile Usability | ...
  Mobile applications are important for providing users with an alternate means of accessing your web page, as well as keeping connected anywhere and at any time. The programs are an integral part of staying competitive within your market, so they should be created wisely.
• 1.4 million fans can’t be wrong: NPR’s Faceboo ...
  But Carvin also emphasized the importance of audience expectations. “They still see our site as mainly dedicated to consuming news,” he said. Facebook, on the other hand, is a web venue in which people are used to chatting with their family and friends. ..NPR’s Facebook page is a complement to, ...
• The Newsonomics of 2011 news metrics to watch ...
• Gallery: 15 iPad news apps
  Thinking about creating an iPad app for your newsroom? Want to see what other news media have come up with? Below are screengrabs of several news apps from newspapers, magazines radio, television, and online-only news websites.
• Five Months on Tumblr as Seen Through Pummelvi ...

Reality Asserts Itself

• Drug Wars in Juarez Fuels Boom in El Paso
  My colleague Malak Behrouznami recently returned from Juarez Mexico where she grew up as a child. She as a wonderful heritage - her father is Iranian and her Mother is Mexican. She went Juarez for family and journalistic reasons. One of her objectives was to find out why Juarez has become a terr ...
• PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI NEGOTIATIONS TO NOWHERE NO ...
  A few months ago when shooting a documentary in the Middle East, we met Zeina, a 13-year-old Palestinian living in a Beirut refugee camp. She was traumatized as she watched the Israeli Gaza war on television. It changed her life. She now thinks of revenge and cannot understand the Israeli childr ...
• FROM JOE McCARTHY TO GLEN BECK – TIME TO END F ...
  I listened to Glen Becks "Restoring Honor" speech today hoping to find something of substance to write about. I found a stringing together of such empty phrases it does not bear discussion.  The more important issue is why a man whose megalomania seems to have no bounds can become such a phenome ...
• PAKISTAN FLOODS AND A FAILED POLICY - UN Sec. ...
  Ban Ki Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, says of the flooding in Pakistan "The world has never seen such a disaster. It's much beyond anybody's imagination". At least 20 million people have lost their homes, more than 1600 have died, and disease and hunger will claim many, many mo ...
• China and the end of the end of history
  Many economists and political analysts think the current recovery, as it's being called, is a rather temporary phenomenon. Many expect the recession to kick back in, and perhaps within a few years get much more serious. What does that mean in terms of the future of the world economy and world po ...

Great Beyond ( Nature )

• Modest cuts for science in Senate compromise bill
  The Democrat-majority US Senate on Friday put forward a compromise budget that includes less severe cuts for science agencies than those passed by the Republican-majority House of Representatives on February 19. The bill, which can be considered a best-case scenario for US science, is expected ...
• Research misconduct confirmed at German clinic
  The journal Anesthesia & Analgesia has announced the retraction of 22 papers by German Joachim Boldt on results of medical studies for which he had not obtained the required ethical approval. The former chief anaesthesiologist of the Ludwighafen Hospital claimed to have developed a safe and e ...
• Egypt gets reformist prime minister, and minis ...
  Essam Sharaf, a pro-science reformist, is to be Egypt's new prime minister, it was announced yesterday. Mohammed Yahia, our man in Cairo at Nature Middle East was in Tahrir Square today to hear Sharaf speak and has blogged the story here. Sharif takes over from Ahmed Shafiq, the prime minis ...
• Glory probe crashes
  NASA's Glory spacecraft crashed today shortly after liftoff at 10:09:43 AM GMT from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Early reports say that the satellite's protective shell, known as the fairing, apparently did not separate from the Taurus XL rocket that was carrying it into orbit. The p ...
• Virologists Form Global Virus Response Network
  Leading medical virologists from around the world today signed up to join a new Global Virus Response Network – a first-of-its-kind international scientific alliance that aims to be a leading global authority on viral disease. Two days of organizational meetings at the Italian Embassy in Washing ...

new geography

• High Speed Rail: The Dream Scheme Scenario
  Ever since Jay Gould, Leland Stanford, and Cornelius Vanderbilt acquired their first legislatures, railroads have been best understood as political networks, rather than as transportation lines. The Obama administration is hyping high-speed rail (HSR) with a $53 billion proposal not because the ...
• From the Great Moderation to the Great Stagnation
  For much of the past decade, I was a proponent of the thesis that that the American economy had entered a “great moderation,” where expansions lasted longer and recessions were fewer, shorter and milder. Productivity had seemingly reached a permanently high plateau; inflation seemed tamed. T ...
• Is Nashville the Next Boomtown of the New South?
  I traveled to Nashville for the first time in 2007, spending most of my time in the downtown area. I posted my impressions here, noting the high growth and high ambition level as well as the fantastic freeways, but also the generally unimpressive development and built environment. I di ...
• The Evolving Urban Form: The Valley of Mexico
  The last 60 years of urban growth in the Mexico City area should dispel any belief that suburban dispersion is principally an American phenomenon or even limited to the high income world. Over the last 60 years, all of the population growth in what is now called the Valley of Mexico metropoli ...
• Can Common Sense, and maybe Mickey, Save Orlan ...
  The week’s debate about high-speed rail has once again polarized our populace, inflamed irrationality, and sent everyone back to their familiar corners.  Little constructive debate is possible when major newspapers are flailing the governor for rejecting money and the seemingly global revolu ...

GM Watch

• 96% want GM food labeled
• Romania's agriculture secretary in thrall to G ...
• Black ops against GM critics and others
• USDA regulators worked with Monsanto to deregu ...
• Agrotoxics spraying banned in Santa Fe, Argent ...

spiked

• Meet the new breed of anti-vaccine agitator
  Meaner, cruder, more strident and possessed of celebrity clout – the modern anti-vaccine lobby has learnt how to make a splash
• Keep Oliver’s army out of the classroom
  Schools don’t need ex-soldiers or St Jamie Oliver – they just need teachers confident in their own authority.
• The beautiful game needs its ugly winners
  Footie snobs bleating on about Barcelona’s stylishness should remember there are no points for artistic merit.
• Viva Verdi?
  As Italy approaches its 150th birthday, Verdi’s ability to stir nationalist sentiment has apparently become problematic.
• Wikileaks vs the world: you couldn’t mak ...
  Wikileaks: Inside Julian Assange’s War on Secrecy presents itself as a serious book penned by real Guardian journalists... but it is surely the greatest spoof ever written about the self-obsessed media.

Cryptogon

• SAUDIS MOBILIZE THOUSANDS OF TROOPS TO QUELL G ...
  It’s going to be an interesting Monday in the energy markets. Via: Independent: Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest oil producer and the regional domino whose fall the West fears most, yesterday announced that it would ban all protests and marches. The move â the stick to match the carrot of benef ...
• ATF Memo On Operation That Allowed Weapons To ...
  Via: CBS News: As CBS News investigates “gun walking” allegations — that ATF let thousands assault rifles and other weapons get into the hands of criminal suspects — ATF bosses have remained largely silent. We’ve had ongoing requests for information and on camera interviews with both ATF and the ...
• NASA SCIENTIST CLAIMS TO HAVE FOUND FOSSILIZED ...
  Via: Journal of Cosmology: Journal of Cosmology, 2011, Vol 13, JournalofCosmology.com March, 2011 Fossils of Cyanobacteria in CI1 Carbonaceous Meteorites Richard B. Hoover, Ph.D. NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center Synopsis Dr. Hoover has discovered evidence of microfossils similar to Cyanobacteri ...
• Ex-FBI Informant, Claimed to Have Met Mohamed ...
  Via: El Paso Times: The man who allegedly tried to run down an El Paso police officer on Thursday reportedly infiltrated terror cells for the FBI and had claimed on a national television interview that the 9/11 terror attacks could have been prevented. Elie Assaad, 38, was arrested near the Univ ...
• Homeland Security Looked Into Covert Body Scans
  Via: USA Today: The Homeland Security Department paid contractors millions of dollars to develop and study surveillance systems that could covertly track pedestrians and check under people’s clothing with airport-style body scanners as they enter train stations, bus depots or major events, newly ...

The Economic Collapse

• 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 ...

Desertification

• No title
  Read at : http://www.charitywater.org/whywater/ Right now, almost a billion people on the planet donât have access to clean, safe drinking water. Thatâs one in eight of us. Charity: water is a non-profit organization bringing clean, safe drinking water to people … Continue reading →
• Grameen Bank (The Economist)
  Read at : http://www.economist.com/node/17857429?story_id=17857429&CFID=158086081&CFTOKEN=85024161 Saint under siege A microfinance pioneer is under attack in his homeland IN MUCH of the world Muhammad Yunus is known as the genial pioneer of microcredit and the winner of the 2006 Nobel peace pri ...
• The battle for Grameen (The Economist)
  Read at : http://www.economist.com/node/18285952?story_id=18285952&CFID=158086081&CFTOKEN=85024161 The battle for Grameen Halo, goodbye Attacks on the sainted Muhammad Yunus escalate FIRST, trenchant criticism. Late last year Bangladeshâs prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, accused Muhammad Yunus, th ...
• Combating malnutritrion in the Sahara desert ( ...
  Who would deny that the best way to combat malnutrition is producing fresh food locally ?  One could think that growing vegetables and fruit trees is almost impossible in a desert-like environment, e.g. all the drylands on earth, or in … Continue reading →
• Hope to boost livelihoods by “exploiting ...
  Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?Reportid=92086 KENYA: Improving yields key to boosting rice farmers’ livelihoods AHERO, 3 March 2011 (IRIN) – After spending Ksh35,000 (US$437) on his 0.4 hectare rice plantation – preparing the land, paying for water, transplanting the rice and … Co ...

The Paper Trail

• After a Disabled Borrower’s Six-Year Ord ...
  After six years battling to persuade the Education Department that she was too disabled to work again, the government finally has forgiven the student debt of disabled former police officer Tina Brooks. She was featured in a Feb. 13 story about the government’s broken program for forgiving the f ...
• ATF Orders Immediate Review of Gun-Running Ope ...
  The head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosive on Thursday night ordered an outside evaluation of his agency's efforts to combat Mexican gun trafficking following a Center for Public Integrity report that ATF supervisors allowed more than 1,700 guns to flow to straw buyers wi ...
• Reports On Gun That Killed U.S. Agent Highligh ...
  Reports that a Texas store was the source of a gun used to kill a U.S. agent in Mexico are bringing new attention to an issue that was the subject a Center investigation last month.
• GAO Cites Billions of Dollars in Duplication, ...
  It is one of the inexplicable facets of government: duplication across agencies and departments at a cost of billions of dollars to taxpayers.
• Equipment Failure at Refinery Leads to Toxic H ...
  A hydrofluoric acid leak from an oil refinery in Ohio last week sent a worker to the hospital and required the use of a “water cannon” to disperse the poisonous gas, underscoring the potentially perilous nature of a chemical used at 50 refineries across the country.

backofthebook.ca

• Revisited: Billy Elliot’s big city jive
  The musical Billy Elliot opened in Toronto the other night, with its composer, Sir Elton, in attendance. The Globe loved it. The Post didn't. But great or whatever, it's liable to hang around Toronto for as long as it has London and New York, because this is the ultimate big-city ...
• Lay off the Sheen, if not for his good, then f ...
  by Rachel Krueger This is me trying not to write about Charlie Sheen and failing.  Not writing about Charlie Sheen is more difficult than deciding whether to laugh at or pity him, which is weirdly hard. Because on the one hand, the man is a barrel of allegedly sober monkeys.  He’s funnier ...
• Revisited: “How I Got Arrested and Abuse ...
  On Friday, the CBC's The Fifth Estate broadcast "You Should Have Stayed at Home," about police tactics at the 2010 G20 Summit. Among those appearing in the documentary is Toronto playwright and director Tommy Taylor, whose harrowing account of his arrest and detention appeared on his facebook pa ...
• Welcome to Canada, Randy Quaid
  By Frank Moher Dear Randy Quaid: I hear Canadian authorities have decided to let you stay in Canada, and, indeed, that Canadian citizenship is now in the works for you. This because your wife's dad was Canadian, so she was able to get her citizenship earlier this month, which means you can ...
• Oda and da machine
  By Montreal Simon Oh. My. Mafia. I hear the Con mob in the PMO, now known as the Oda Gang, are desperate. The new boss is now claiming she couldn't have whacked KAIROS, because she has an alibi. She was out of town. So even though she owes her new position to ...

libcom

• MASA and the masses against the ruling class
  poziv1.jpg Statemant of MASA's local group Zagreb regarding March the 2nd protests. In these last few days, a series of protests took place in Zagreb, Croatia’s capital city. W ...
• Venezuela: the Curious Tale of Rubén González, ...
  ruben.jpg Just days after being sentenced to seven and a half years' imprisonment for supporting a strike, Rubén González, General Secretary of the Ferrominería miners' union, has seenting his custod ...
• Humberside construction workers in Vivergo Fue ...
  1984641-vlarge.jpg Workers at joint BP project involved in early morning wilcat action against job losses In Saltend, Hull, 400 construction workers blockaded the entrance to a b ...
• Looking Toward Wisconsin: An Interview With A ...
  Wisconsin protests.jpg What follows is an interview with a comrade from Milwaukee, Wisconsin on the recent events in the state's Capitol, Madison, over a few hours away. For more information on what ...
• Looking Toward Wisconsin: An Interview With A ...
  Wisconsin protests.jpg What follows is an interview with a comrade from Milwaukee, Wisconsin on the recent events in the state's Capitol, Madison, over a few hours away. For more information on what ...

Free Range International

• It Takes A Clue
  Nothing will sour the morale of combat troops faster then the realization that the commander at the top receives frequent visits from the Good Idea Fairy.   Which is a good start point for explaining why  General Stanley A McChrystal took to the pages of Foreign Policy last week to explain the u ...
• Thugs, Mobs And Education
  The news this week has been dominated by the Lara Logan story.  Ms. Logan was the subject of  the most popular post in FRI history which can be found here.  Reactions to the news that Lara was subjected to “a brutal and sustained assault and beating” have cost at least one knucklehead his job ...
• Naw Zad
  I just did something which would have been suicidal 10 months ago.  My colleague Little Mac and I, in the company of a Marine tank officer and Naval surface warfare officer (he’s a fires guy by trade) just strolled around the town of Naw Zad with no body armor, no helmets, no riflemen escorting ...
• Ride For The Brand
  When I first started this blog I used to hammer away on a couple of themes which really bothered me.  The first was Provincial Reconstruction Teams which I maintain are, by design, unable to accomplish their assigned mission. The second theme had to do with the reason we remain in Afghanistan. O ...
• Shifting Sands
  With most of the world’s attention focused unfolding events in the Mideast now is a good time to shed some light on the current ground-truth in Afghanistan.  Sami the Finn is always a good place to start and he provides interesting perspective on the suicide bombing at Kabul’s at  the Finest s ...

The Story Behind the Story

• Closing Olympic Ceremony – Beijing China ...
  Ok, all you sleeping Sheeple!!   Still think there is not an evil, anti-Christian Illuminati-based conspiracy afoot?  Then check this video out immediately, (and share it widely). Disclose.tv – London 2012 7/7 Olympics Sacrifice Ritual Video Just in case you don’t remember, allow me to jog yo ...
• 5 Proposals to Combat ‘Global Warming’ That Sh ...
  5 Proposals to Combat ‘Global Warming’ That Should Make Us All Cringe Eric Blair March 1, 2011 Taxing the air we exhale, rationing human necessities, a global one-child policy, geoengineering (high-altitude chemical spraying), and now nuclear war have all been proposed to combat global warming. ...
• A Study in Hypocrisy and Dichotomy – BYU ...
  By:  A. True Ott, PhD Brigham Young University is today under the national spotlight, and this time no amount of “spin doctoring” by ex-BYU Cougar/Boston Celtic great (and LDS Bishop) Danny Ainge, and the PR department of the LDS Church “Brethren” in Salt Lake City will be able to obfuscate the ...
• H1N1 and bird flu virus produce dangerous hybrids
  By Tan Ee Lyn HONG KONG | Mon Feb 28, 2011 4:18pm EST HONG KONG (Reuters) – The H1N1 swine flu virus is compatible with a bird flu virus that is endemic in poultry in Asia and they can produce hybrid viruses packed with greater killing power, Chinese researchers warned on Monday. The scientists ...
• NEW-GENERATION FLU VACCINES APPROVED!!
  Feds awards $215 million pacts for flu vaccines WASHINGTON Drug makers Novavax Inc. and VaxInnate Inc. have won contracts worth a combined $215 million to develop flu vaccines for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The news sent shares of Novavax up 68 cents, or nearly 26 percent, ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

• Downsizing – downscaling? See these tiny ...
  Here’s a great company doing inspiring work www.tumbleweedhouses.com The company creator, Jay Shafer started off making a super small mobile home for himself measuring  just 89 square feet! Their video is a testament to less being more – they’re now selling ready made mobile cabins and the plan ...
• Air powered environmentally friendly car being ...
  Sounds a little strange right – an air powered car – why isn’t this big news I wonder… There’s a great company in France operated by a former Formula 1 engineer now producing cars running on compressed air. They’re not great to look at, super fast, or I’m guessing really comfortable, but they’re ...
• Deforestation – environmental & human ef ...
  There are many types of forest in the world from Temperate Forest to Tropical forest. The one thing all forests have in common is that the trees in them act as the lungs to our planet converting CO2 to Oxygen.  In addition, forests provide a canopy or shading of the earth which helps maintain te ...
• Could cancer be Fungus? If so, maybe here&#821 ...
  Recently I visited a dear friend who has been dealing with breast cancer for over ten years. After a long attempt to avoid surgery and medication, she was forced to have a double mastectomy. She has chosen to avoid the chemo treatments. This takes a lot of courage given that the standard thing t ...
• Doctors Warn about GM Food Risks
  It’s barely been a week since I wrote about the dangers of genetically modified (GM) foods and now the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) has released a strongly-worded warning about the health dangers associated with Frankenfoods. Calling for a moratorium on GM foods, the AAEM sa ...

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

• Elvis Costello, singer/songwriter (Nov 27, 2010)
  His music captures the times we live in and its been doing so for forty years. He's never been shy about issues, and Elvis Costello isn't today. He's here to talk music, politics and activism.
• Mark B. Salter, Aviation security expert (Nov ...
  The shoe bomber, the underwear bomber, the ink cartridge bomber: those incidents have changed the way we fly. But have the precautions actually worked or are they simply too much? Today we find out with aviation security expert Mark Salter.
• Tim Cook, War Historian (Nov 6, 2010)
  Another year, another Remembrance Day and another chance to remind ourselves Canada's military past. This week we look back at some of that past that is often forgotten.
• Malalai Joya, Afghan activist (October 30, 2010)
  She is a hard core activist in Afghanistan and has paid the price for it. Her life constantly threatened, banished from her seat in the Afghan parliament, Malalai Joya never stops. She wants foreign troops, including Canada's, out of her country and warlords out of government. This week she's ...
• Naheed Nenshi, Calgary Mayor (October 23, 2010)
  He's made the news in countries around the world - the main reason? He's Canada's first major city Muslim mayor. Does that matter? We'll ask Calgary's new mayor himself.

Scotts Contracting

• Prop C – Missouri Renewable Energy Stand ...
  On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Erin Noble wrote: Prop C – Missouri Renewable Energy Standard Update and Next Steps Thank you for signing the letter urging Governor Nixon calling on him to veto SCR1 which undercut … Continue reading →
• One Week Until the Introduction to FREE Green- ...
  On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 5:04 PM, CRS Events wrote: One Week Left Until the "Introduction to Green-e" Webinar Series Join us for three upcoming webinars that give an overview of the Green-e programs and how they work … Continue reading →
• Selecting sustainable cabinetry requires caref ...
  A product is only as sustainable as the sum of its parts. In the case of cabinetry, there are quite a few parts–from raw materials to resins to finishes–to add up. Here’s what to look for when selecting cabinetry for … Continue reading →
• Nuclear is not the Answer Dan Rathers
  For everyone who says nuclear waste is not harmful– Lets put some in your Back Yard. ­ [1]As for the Costs Graphs Show- Nuclear Energy is not needed for Clean Energy Production­-Renewable Energy Head-to-He­ad with Nuclear for Clean Energy Production­.[Last … Continue reading →
• Sen. Ben Nelson is 2010 Porker of the Year!
  On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 8:00 AM, Tom Schatz, President, Citizens Against Government Waste wrote: Dear Scotts Contracting, The results are in! Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) is the âwinnerâ of CAGWâs online poll for 2010 Porker of the … Continue reading →

The View From Abroad

• What’s Good for the Goose is Good for the Gander
  If Obama can nullify an act of Congress, why can't juries and states?
• Drastic Cuts in Spending are Needed Now
  To avoid food riots spreading to the U.S., Washington must fix its fiscal and monetary problems.
• Hypocrisy of U.S. Foreign Policy Produces Terr ...
  U.S. support of tyrants betrays our principles and contributes to terrorism.
• Putting Things in Perspective
  The shooting in Tucson should make all Americans rethink our tragic War on Terror policies.
• Last Words Worth Acting Upon
  Richard Holbrooke knew we should end the war in Afghanistan.

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

• Bradley Manning: Death by Elastic Underwear Wa ...
  After all, Pfc. Manning has already harmed himself with his irony.
• Neo-Con Hawks Take Flight over Libya
  On Wednesday, Obama said his staff was preparing a "full range of options" for action.
• All-American Decline in a New World
  Seeing Arabs demanding something we were convinced was the birthright and property of the West, of the United States in particular, has to send a shiver down anyone's spine.
• Waterboarding Next for Bradley Manning?
  He's seems to be suffering trickle-down effects from Abu Ghraib and Guanatamo.
• Interview with Raed Jarrar and Niki Akhavan
  In our special focus on Islamophobia, analysts Raed Jarrar and Niki Akhavan look at the roots of Islamophobia, how anti-Islamic sentiment has shaped U.S. foreign policy, and the relationship between faith and violence.

Law.com

• Latest Chevron Outtake: 'They're All Corrupt!'
  Donziger muses 'The judicial system is so utterly weak' in Corporate Counsel's latest release of outtakes from the documentary Crude.
• Minus Kagan, Supreme Court Lets 'Don't Ask' Po ...
  In an order Friday, the Supreme Court denied a motion aimed at allowing a worldwide ban on enforcement of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays in the military to take effect.
• MGA Loses Effort to Stall Trial in Fee Fight W ...
  A Los Angeles judge issued a tentative ruling Friday denying toymaker MGA Entertainment's efforts to stay a lawsuit that was filed by its former lawyers at O'Melveny & Myers.
• Proskauer and English Firm End Their Merger Di ...
  Proskauer Rose and SJ Berwin said Friday they had decided against merging, putting to an end months of speculation about a possible trans-Atlantic tie-up between the two law firms. The firms in a joint statement said "we recognized that the timetable necessary to reach the agreements that would ...
• IRS Throws In Towel on Closely Watched Interna ...

Iranian.com

• Ahmadinejad will travel to Saudi Arabia
  TEHRAN, March. 5 (MNA) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will travel to Saudi Arabia, Riyadh-based Al-Jazirah daily quoted Iran’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia as saying. Seyyed Mohammad-Javad Rasouli-Mahallati did not mention the exact date of Ahmadinejad’s visit. Al-Jazirah also reported ...
• Analysis: Is the U.S. using uprisings to blame ...
  Washington (CNN) -- The protests sweeping the Middle East appear to be entirely indigenous, borne of discontent with unemployment and the lack of personal freedoms, but that hasn't stopped top U.S. officials from suggesting Iran has a part and trying to send a message to Tehran. The U.S. seiz ...
• بریتانیا: کسی ایران مسلح به سلاح اتمی را تحمل ...
  معاون وزیر امور خارجه بریتانیا گفت که اگر ایران به برنامه ساخت سلاح اتمی ادامه دهد "فاجعه ای برای همه، به ویژه برای منطقه" خواهد بود و معاهده منع گسترش سلاح های اتمی معنای خود را از دست خواهد داد.
• HRW says Iranian repression self-defeating
  NEW YORK, March 4 (UPI) -- Iran's aggressive action against opposition protesters isn't doing anything to allay their frustrations, a director at Human Rights Watch said. Human Rights Watch said thousands of people took to the streets last week in Iran to protest the detention of Iranian oppo ...
• پشت پرده استعفای محسن هاشمی از مدیریت مترو
  محسن هاشمی از مدیریت متروی تهران استعفا داد. آقای هاشمی در متن استعفانامه خود که امروز ۱۳ اسفند ۱۳۸۹، منتشر شده است، به "فراهم نشدن نقدینگی" برای توسعه خطوط مترو، علی‌رغم حمایت مجلس، شورای شهر و شهرداری تهران اشاره کرده است.read more

Most Revolutionary Act

• The Way Forward: Join Something!
  While the massive protests in state capitals last week are a great start, Americans still have a long way to go to achieve an Egyptian-style revolution that will restore working democracy in the US. To begin with, American workers need to be better organized. There’s no question that Mubarak’s d ...
• Overcoming Pro-Corporate Messaging
  From www.adbusters.org My last blog was about the five memes or psychological messages that discourage Americans from joining with co-workers, neighbors and other community members to fight the business and corporate interests that negatively impact so many aspects of our lives. These paralyzing ...
• Thinking Like Egyptians
  It’s extremely heartening to see Americans’ fascination with the popular uprisings in the Middle East, as well as speculation across the blogosphere about the potential to replicate them in the US. Massive turnout in Madison and other state capitals is very promising, as American workers realiz ...
• US Unemployment: 9.0% or 18.5%?
  The US Department of Labor announced last fall that they were going to alter the scandalous way they report unemployment figures – to more accurately represent the true number of jobless in the US. Don’t hold your breath. Nevertheless the figures they released for January 2010 (13.9 million or ...
• Egypt and the Mainstream Media
  Egyptian Federation of Independent Trade Unions The mainstream media continues to tell us their fairy tale version of the Egyptian revolution: the Egyptian people won a Facebook revolution that lasted just eighteen days. As a result of massive street protests, the military junta ousted Mubarak, ...

Doug's Darkworld

• Charlie Sheen, dead hostages, protesters on a ...
  So I’m walking home from work Thursday afternoon, and there are helicopters circling downtown Berkeley. I’m like, what’s up? I turn on the TV news, and yes, protesters have chained themselves onto a ledge on a building on campus. And I suspect the typical response most people would have, is some ...
• “How is the world ruled and led to war? ...
  The Arab Awakening continues. German tanks roll across Poland. Life goes on in America as if nothing is happening, as if the events unfolding in the Middle East are no more inconvenience than a brief rise in gas prices and a few images of demonstrators on TV. I mean, most Americans couldn’t find ...
• Gaddafi vows to die a martyr, I for one hope h ...
  And by the way, we’re all so screwed by what’s going on now. I should be at work but I just need to keep watching the news and following developments in Libya and elsewhere. Well, mostly reading stuff on line, watching the broadcast news is pretty annoying but I do so for the images they [...]
• World Revolution?
  The revolutionary movements now sweeping a dozen countries may very well herald a new chapter in world history. I mean, we are seeing simultaneously a number of events that even singly would have been one of the biggest stories of the year in the preceding decades. This is pretty incredible when ...
• Ten World War Two Allied military blunders (Pa ...
  This is the second part of ten Allied military blunders of World War Two. The comments I made at the beginning of the first article still apply. The only thing I would add is that I have tried to select lesser known blunders, especially ones that made for an interesting story. With no further ad ...

FourWinds10

• Ecuador orders Chevron to apologize, pay $8.6 ...
• Gulf of Mexico Women Cry Out in Alarm!
  Kendra Andresen and Vickie Perrin were our guests this past Sunday night Jan 30th. It was a very revealing show. They reported about what is and isn't going on in the Gulf. The Gulf is Dead..
• ALERT: Louisiana Senator Concerned that Corex ...
  I emailed the Senator to confirm he wrote the letter and got this response: Yes it is my letter. I am deeply concerned about the health and welfare of our citizens. I have been collecting data and research since the disaster began. Since the commission did not adequately address this “second” ma ...
• Videos of the âtoxicâ black sludge coating ...
  VIEW THESE HERE http://www.floridaoilspilllaw.com/ video-toxic-black-sludge-coating-ocean-floor-video
• âFirstâ Dispersant Study Funded by Feds: T ...
  To combat last year’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill, nearly 800,000 gallons of chemical dispersant were injected directly into the oil and gas flow coming out of the wellhead nearly one mile deep in the Gulf of Mexico.  Now, as scientists begin to assess how well the strategy worked at breaking up ...

Crisis Maven

• Economic Musings VI: Modern Economies – ...
  There is a great debate in the history of economics whether there can be under-consumption in any real historic moment of the state of an economy and if so, whether it has detrimental effects and if so, what is to be done about it. And modern economists seem to have found a magic wand with [...]
• Blogs and Web Sites you may want to follow
  The following is a list of blogs and websites that CrisisMaven has followed and observed over the last few months and that readers may want to check out from time to time. Note: neither the sequence of how the blogs are listed here nor any comments by CrisisMaven are an endorsement nor criticism ...
• Economic Musings VII: Marketing doesn’t ...
  Have you ever wondered if marketing and advertising are the same, if not, what’s the difference and which is the more important of the two? And why should you care? The most successful economic model is without doubt the market economy. It is the consequence of the wealth effects of the division ...
• CrisisMaven’s Blog News 2010-03-07: Over 25,00 ...
  Yesterday around 16:37 GMT we passed the 25,000 threshold … - next report will probably be posted when we’re past the 50,000 mark. Thanks to all avid readers: on 2010-03-18 at around 19:25 GMT we went past our first 20,000 views on our blog in about eight weeks since we began publishing! After t ...
• Economic Musings VIII: Is there a limit to eco ...
  Something which puzzles many thinkers and frightens many young people concerned about waste or the pillaging of our natural resources is the question: can “an economy” (whatever that is – we’ll come to that in a minute) grow indefinitely? How can there be unlimited economic growth if we’ve never ...

Capital Flow Analysis

• Stock buybacks are bad for investors: Further ...
  In the working paper “The Buyback Monitor - July 2009: Corporate Stock Buyback Profits of 273 Firms from 2000 into 2009“, published on the Social Sciences Research Network, M.A. Gumport, CFA, provides further evidence that stock buybacks are not as good for investors as often touted. The follo ...
• Why Obama’s healthcare scheme portends stagfl ...
  The trillion-dollar Obama health care plan increases the odds that US economic recover will be delayed, and that unemployment and inflation will increase. The main thrust of the Obama plan is to increase taxes on individuals earning more than $250,000 a year, while forcing all but the tiniest ...
• How long would it take to work off the US trad ...
  The rest of the world holds $16.8 trillion in US financial assets, according to Federal Reserve release Z.1, as of Q1 2009. [...]
• Why Bernanke’s flawed “exit strategy” policy p ...
  In a lead op-ed editorial in the Wall Street Journal on July 21, 2009, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke revealed the Fed’s exit strategy with regards to the inflationary effects of the Obama “spending is stimulus” packages and other government measure to contain the current crisis. This ar ...
• Stocks surge on spurious earnings reports: Q2 2009
  No one knows for sure the real earnings of American corporations. In Q1 2009, according to the Federal Reserve flow of funds table F.102, after-tax profits of US non-financial, non-farm corporations, on an annual basis, were about $589.9 billion. However, about 50% of these after-tax earnings ...

R-Squared Energy Blog

• Electric Aviation is the Future of Transport
  Join the forum discussion on this post During an average week, I will see a few ideas that at first glance appear to be a little crazy. On second glance, some of them still seem crazy, but then some of the seemingly crazy ideas are not as crazy as I initially thought. This essay is [...]
• Setting the Record Straight on Cello Energy an ...
  Join the forum discussion on this post The Art of Spin Politicians are known for their ability to spin any situation to make sure it doesn’t present them in an unfavorable light. In that vein, I’m beginning to feel as if Vinod Khosla would make a fine politician. As much as I am tired of writi ...
• The Failure of U.S. Politicians to Open Electr ...
  Join the forum discussion on this post The following guest post was written by Mike Holly, who is the Chairman of Sorgo Fuels in Crosslake, Minnesota. Sorgo is a company involved in the production of energy from sweet sorghum, and Mike can be contacted at smikeholly “at” gmail.com. In his artic ...
• Oil Back at $100
  Join the forum discussion on this post I am between flights and have been traveling for a few days, but wanted to get off a quickie on current oil prices. In hindsight, perhaps I was not aggressive enough with my predictions for 2011. My predictions covered two themes: Next generation biofuel ...
• A Closer Look at The Commission Report on the ...
  Join the forum discussion on this post The following guest essay was written by David Whelpton. David is a private investor in the oil and gas industry. His blog is Knowledge and Investing. Below, David goes through the highlights of the report to the President on the Deepwater Horizon disaster ...

Discovery Educator Network

• MrNussbaum.com - A Thousand Sites in One; Educ ...
  Tags: math, language, science, social_studies, interactiveby: eva harvell
• CrunchEd Productions - Apple Distinguished Edu ...
  Comments:"CrunchEd Productions provides bite-sized video tutorials on popular educational applications, helping teachers maximize the use of technology in and out of the classroom." - Clif MimsTags: Tutorials, Video, Technology-Integration, Apps, iPad, iPhone, Podcastingby: Clif Mims
• Generations and their gadgets | Pew Research C ...
  Tags: infographic, generations, technology, research, gadgetsby: Dean Mantz
• Adora Svitak: Changes Schools Should Make to B ...
  Tags: schools, changes, education, students, edchatby: Dean Mantz
• Tech Learning TL Advisor Blog and Ed Tech Tick ...
  Tags: iPad, learning, apple, tech, education, apps, TL, Techlearningby: Dean Mantz

Rodale News

• How to Choose and Use a Portable Pedal Exerciser
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—To counteract the unhealthy effects of too much sitting, it’s important to incorporate frequent movement breaks into yo read more
• Illegal, Unsafe Allergy and Cold Meds Could Lu ...
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—As part of an ongoing initiative to remove unsafe and unapproved drugs from the market, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced on Wednesday that it was pulling 500 allergy, cough, and cold medications off pharmacists' shelves. According to the agency, some of t ...
• 6 Surprising Heart Attack Triggers—And How to ...
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Heart attacks often come without warning, and although it's well documented that they're caused by atherosclerosis (plaque buildup on arterial walls), there are certain triggers that can set off a heart attack in people who are at risk. This week, Belgian researchers pub ...
• Gov't Trashes Compost, Brings Back Styrofoam
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—It may not be as dramatic as Ronald Reagan's ripping the solar panels off of the White House, but House Republicans are once again gleefully flexing their antienvironmental muscles, this time bringing Styrofoam cups and plastic utensils back to the Capitol cafeteria to r ...
• The Nickel Pincher: Plastic-Free Fixes for Lau ...
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Rodale.com's Plastic-Free February is over, and if you took up the challenge, you probably don't need to be told that living plastic-free is harder than it sounds. One good way to start eliminating plastic is to rethink your food storage tactics. But it's likel ...

big think

• All About the "After Thought" Project
  In the past few years, various Bigfoot media have caught up with what scientists think about the mind. Friday, for example, David Brooks described what was wrong with Samuel Huntington's theory of the "clash of civilizations." Which is, as I wrote in 2005, that human beings don't have a single g ...
• Shuttle Discovery - The End of an Era & Start ...
  After months of delays and preparation, the oldest remaining shuttlein the fleet--Discovery, finally made its way from the Vehicle Assembly Building at the KSC to the launch pad. At 4:53 p.m. EST on February 24th, Discovery blasted off and raced out of Earth's orbit for not only its 39th mission ...
• Pu`u O`o crater vent collapse - and new erupti ...
  Things have been exciting in Hawai`i lately - and today is no exception. The crater vent inside at Pu`u O`o collapsed in spectacular fashion this evening, with the whole crust of on top of a large lava lake foundering over the course of a few hours. Eruptions reader Pgen Pgen created a timelapse ...
• Gas Is Still Cheap in the U.S.
  Anyone who drives a car knows that gas prices are going up. The average price of gas in the U.S. hit a seasonal record high in February. Crude oil prices reached a 29-month high of $104.42 in New York on Friday, largely as a result of unrest in Libya and elsewhere in the Middle East. And if the ...
• Civil War Failure of Southern Statesmanship No ...
  If you remember, I've decided to "celebrate" the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the Civil War by remembering failures of Southern and Confederate statesmanship.� My first post affirmed the argument of Alexander Stephens of Georgia that secession itself was just stupid, from a Southern poi ...

Information Liberation

• Nancy Pelosi's "Green the Capitol" Initiative ...
  The LA Times has an excellent report detailing the miserable failure of Nancy Pelosi's "Green the Capitol" initiative which involved using "cornstarch-based knives, forks and spoons" instead of plastic. Per all supposed "green initiatives," rather t...
• Blame Brown People In Caves For Economic Collapse
  Pentagon pays some contractor to say the '08 crash was the fault of Al-Qaeda and not the Federal Reserve, also it may be part of some plan to bring in Sharia law in America, mix in some Chinaphobia and you have a nice big bowl of propaganda. Stay ...
• Internet Lovers! Know Your Enemy: Cass Sunstein
  Truth is the foundation on which the power of the press stands and falls, and our only demand of the press, also the foreign press, is that they report the truth about Germany. -- Otto Dietrich, Reich Press Chief, 1934 Democracy is un...
• Why Cops Love the Drug War
  After more than 30 years of death, destruction, and failure, the two primary advocates of the war on drugs are public officials and drug lords. The reason is obvious: these two groups are the biggest beneficiaries of the drug war. The drug lords mak...
• Slave Revolt Against the Sauds?
  Saudi Arabia is like a Magic Kingdom made of spun sugar candy, though oil has been substituted for the sugar. It is all puff and show. It looks very formidable with its massive terrorist mercenaries and home-grown secret police and its huge pile of ...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

• Ozboy’s Bar And Grill Is Closed For Repairs
  It’s only temporary. A couple of weeks. But the recent shenanigans round here have forced me to do some thinking about how LibertyGibbert can run better in the future. I’ve spoken to a couple of you about this today, to … Continue reading →
• The Dragon’s Dissent Part III: Naked Nat ...
  The emergence of China as the world’s new superpower has raised many questions in the international community and across the blogosphere regarding the longer-range agenda of the Middle Kingdom. In a recent discussion on this forum, the question of Chinese … Continue reading →
• U.S. Elections: Will Liberty Win?
  Well today’s the day. As just about every other blog in the sphere is covering the elections today, I thought I’d throw the forum open, and we can discuss the results as they come in, in real time. If as … Continue reading →
• Libertarianism And Drug Liberalization
  G’day everyone, Just arrived back home safe and sound. Sorry there hasn’t been a new post in several days, but just at the moment my family needs me more than the Bar and Grill does. Dr. Dave has graciously stepped … Continue reading →
• Stealing Democracy?
  G’day everyone, Ozboy here. The United States mid-term elections are just one week away, and the mounting resentment many Americans feel about the way their country is being governed appears certain to be made clear at the polls. One of … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

• The Elements Song – Periodic Table of Videos
  The PToV team has spliced together a great version of the classic Tom Lehrer song, The Elements. I love this song and I’m sure Lehrer would agree this creative version is elementary. Featuring Prof Martyn Poliakoff and all the gang. Related Posts:Periodic table of videos at the moviesReal chem ...
• Five science selects
  Persistence of vision – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – If persistence of vision were the explanation for how the mind perceives moving pictures in cinema, cinema wouldn't work, because the persistence would constantly produce images of complementary colour to what is on the screen. The Vic ...
• Five science selects
  How to Find Trustworthy Science and Health Information – Today, we’re overwhelmed with sources of information, with hundreds of television stations and millions of Web sites, and it can be hard to figure out what to trust. Google recently tweaked its search algorithm to bring higher quality site ...
• Spectral science selection
  Aussie rock rolls The oldest fossils of bacteria ever found were discovered in a rock formation in Western Australia, the discovery led to great excitement that has not abated for more than two decades. Until now. Raman spectroscopy shows that what palaeontologists thought were pristine microbia ...
• Three touches of science
  Backstage Science – Find out what's going on backstage at some of the biggest science labs.  - Videos for the Science and Technology Facilities Council by Brady Haran. The Alchemist Newsletter: February 25, 2011 – Van Gogh was apparently no chemical genius, The Alchemist learns this week, but mo ...

RFF Library

• The BP Oil Disaster: Results from a Health and ...
  Louisiana Bucket Brigade http://labucketbrigade.org/article.php?id=709 [Abstract] In this report, we discuss the self-reported impacts on health, collected through 954 surveys conducted in seven coastal Louisiana oil spill-affected communities. The basis of this report is an analysis of the firs ...
• California Utilities Underperform on their Ren ...
  California Public Utility Commission http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/PUC/energy/Renewables/index.htm Established in 2002 under Senate Bill 1078 and accelerated in 2006 under Senate Bill 107, California’s Renewables Portfolio Standard (RPS) is one of the most ambitious renewable energy standards in the co ...
• EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Regulations and The ...
  US House of Representatives, Subcommittee on Energy and Power http://energycommerce.house.gov/hearings/hearingdetail.aspx?NewsID=8270 Read written testimonies or watch archived webcast. Witnesses Panel 1 Mike Carey, President, Ohio Coal Association Paul Cicio, President, Industrial Energy Consum ...
• Global Land Use Change, Economic Globalization ...
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences / by Eric F. Lambina and Patrick Meyfroidtb (doi: 10.1073/ pnas.1100480108; March 1, 2011 v108 n9 p3465-3472) http://www.pnas.org/content/108/9/3465.full Open access article [Abstract] A central challenge for sustainability is how to preserve fores ...
• Genetic Manipulation of Lignin Reduces Recalci ...
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences / by Chunxiang Fua, Jonathan R. Mielenzb, Xirong Xiaoa,Yaxin Gea, Choo Y. Hamiltonb, Miguel Rodriguez, Jr., Fang Chenc, Marcus Fostonc, Arthur Ragauskasc and Joseph Boutona, et al. (doi: 10.1073/ pnas.1100310108; March 1, 2011 v108 n9 p3803-3808)  ...

Scientific American - News

• Raze of Glory: NASA Earth-Observing Climate Sa ...
  In the last few years NASA has built and launched two world-class climate satellites, both of which promised invaluable new data on the natural and human influences on Earth's changing climate. Neither of them, however, will ever deliver the data that climate scientists so eagerly expected from ...
• Minimum to the Max: Shifting Solar Plasma Coul ...
  A few years back, the sun went into a lull, its activity tailing off like a rambunctious child settling down for a nap. The lull was no surprise; it is a normal part of the sun's roughly 11-year cycle of activity, over which the number of magnetized regions known as sunspots waxes and wanes. But ...
• U.S. Military Links Alternative Energy Researc ...
  NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.--Flexible solar cells now power communications equipment used by Marines fighting in Afghanistan's Helmand Province, enabling them to shed 700 pounds worth of batteries while on foot patrol. But an F-16 fighter jet flying over Miramar training base in Calif. burns 28 gallons ...
• How National Security Depends on Better Lithiu ...
  NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.--Lithium spontaneously combusts in air, yet the battery in your computer--and any of the stacks in the new breed of electric vehicles--is made from it. Lithium even burns in water, which is too bad because a lithium-water battery could be both cheap and powerful. Now batte ...
• Einstein@Home Taps Donated PC Graphics Process ...
  A massive distributed computing network known as the Einstein@Home project has made its second big celestial find in the past six months--a pulsar 15 kilometers in diameter located more than 30,000 light years from Earth. Not a bad track record for a network that runs on processing power donat ...

First Truths

• The Free Market's Regulatory Model
  For the Center for a Stateless Society, I argue that a truly free market doesn't require an EPA to protect the environment, that in fact Big Business welcomes the state's regulations: And companies that are, due to the lack of competitive pressures, unwieldy in their largeness are inherently acc ...
• The "Reform" of Kings and Masters
  Some of my take on happenings in the Arab world, for C4SS: The reformist approach — substituting trifling adjustments to the gears of the political machine for any radical alteration — is the castle in the air delusion that mere periodic upkeep can keep said machine running smoothly. If we acqui ...
• Fannie and Freddie Reform: Too Little, Too Late
  In an article for the Ludwig von Mises Institute, I wrote: In a genuine free market, investors would have recognized the mortgages devoured by Fannie and Freddie for what they were, and their prices would have reflected those judgments. The assumption underpinning Fannie and Freddie's involvemen ...
• Managing the Unmanageable
  The Fed's huge profits would seem to contradict the constant bad news we hear about the economy, but only if the story behind the story is ignored. My comment for C4SS is here.
• Socialism: The Qaddafi Version
  Like "the free market," "socialism" means different things to different people. For C4SS, I wrote: On the other hand, the Qaddafi permutation of socialism has been, by all accounts, more practical than philosophical, a variable and temperamental medley of views informed more by his personal idio ...

Media Co-Op

• "What are we going to celebrate?"
  This speech was delivered by George Erasmus at a conference in Ottawa in 1989 to what has been described as "a well-oiled group of Canadian business people gathered to di ...
• Stop the Mid-Peninsula Highway
  Mayday Magazine speaks with Citizens Opposed to Paving the Escarpment From Mayday Magazine maydaymagazine.ca   The Aerotropolis [a large business park near the Hamilton International Airport] has attracted widespread opposition in this cit ...
• Sinixt Slhu7kin-Perry Ridge Protection Camp Re ...
  On March 1 2011, the Slu7kin – Perry Ridge Protection Camp was re-established by Slocan Valley locals and supporters of the Sinixt Nation. The camp was first established by the Sinixt Nation and supporters on October 26, 2010. The Sinixt recently had their legal challenge for their rights to con ...
• "Truth and Reconciliation" Rally, Caledonia/Si ...
  “Truth and Reconciliation” Caledonia/Six Nations, February 27th, 2011 Gary McHale organizes a “Truth and Reconciliation” rally in Caledonia, demanding that the OPP, the g ...
• McHale Misrepresents “Truth and Reconciliation”
  Indigenous and allies unite at Kanonhstaton on 5th anniversary of reclamation of six nations land..   February 28th, 2011  by: Tallula Marrigold       Today, February 28 2011, is the 5th year anniversary of the land reclamation at Kanonhst ...

David Seaton's News Links

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

EWG - Environmental Working Group

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

• If You Eat Organic Food, Have You Just Been Be ...
  Organic consumers and producers in the U.S. are facing betrayal. A self-appointed group of "Organic Elites", including Whole Foods Market, Organic Valley, and Stonyfield Farm, are surrendering to Monsanto. Top executives from these companies publicly stated several weeks ago that they support t ...
• Why It’s Economically Unfeasible for Most Doct ...
  A recent poll showed that over a third of doctors are unhappy about some aspect of their profession. They often expressed serious concerns that the current state of health care is impeding their ability to provide quality care. Even physicians who said they were happy agreed that there were pro ...
• Monsanto's "Unlikely" New Business Partner -- ...
  Many have long suspected that U.S. policy on genetically modified (GM) organisms was being influenced by the multinational corporations that profit from genetic engineering and the export-oriented agribusiness. However, recently released Wikileaks cables document just how close that relationship ...
• What is the Most Dangerous Food Additive?
  A new study concludes that there could be negative consequences associated with artificial sugar substitutes -- including a much higher risk of strokes. The study is somewhat controversial; some critics have argued that since the participants voluntarily reported how much diet soda they consume ...
• 7 Foods for Better Sex
  Health.com lists some of the food ingredients that are not only historically considered to be aphrodisiacs, but have modern-day science backing up their claims: Avocados Avocados are rich in heart-healthy fats, and anything that keeps your heart beating strong helps keep blo ...

JAMA

• Functional Variants of the HMGA1 Gene and Type ...
  Context High-mobility group A1 (HMGA1) protein is a key regulator of insulin receptor (INSR) gene expression. We previously identified a functional HMGA1 gene variant in 2 insulin-resistant patients with decreased INSR expression and type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM). Objective To examine the assoc ...
• Antihypertensive Treatment and Secondary Preve ...
  Context Cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk increases beginning at systolic blood pressure levels of 115 mm Hg. Use of antihypertensive medications among patients with a history of CVD or diabetes and without hypertension has been debated. Objective To evaluate the effect of antihypertensive trea ...
• Tanana Squaw (Woman) and Dog [The Cover]
• Shall We Pray? [A Piece of My Mind]
• Our Word for It [Poetry and Medicine]

Survival - tribal peoples

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

Montreal Gazette

• The 'Quebec model' and energy resources
  The group that prepared the document calls itself Maitres chez nous 21e siecle, a borrowing from the slogan that Jean Lesage's equipe du tonnerre rode to victory in the 1962 provincial elections. Its leading signatories are, if not has-beens, best known for their former public incarnatio ...
• Rink plan a waste of taxpayer money
  David Johnston's article "Rinks plan sparks mini war in Westmount" (Gazette, Feb. 17) highlighted many of the controversial aspects of this plan. Criticism has also dogged the process Westmount has followed to justify and develop the project, beginning with the obvious lack of demonstrable need.
• Ridding workplaces of hostility toward minorities
  No one should have to work in an environment where fellow employees malign people on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion or language. To be a highly visible minority in such a hostile workplace would be disheartening at best, soul-destroying at worst.
• City should come clean on harbourfront money
  What is behind city hall's dogged reluctance to come clean on how the Société du Havre de Montréal is spending the millions of dollars in public funds the city has pumped into it?
• Policing ethics at city hall
  Perhaps the powers that be at Montreal city hall were too swept up in the latest ethical storm rocking Mayor Gérald Tremblay's scandal-plagued administration to notice that the mandate of the city council's ethics adviser had expired and do something about it. As reported by The Gazette yesterda ...

Food World Order

• bad food makes kids dumber, study says
  from grist: A new study says 3-year-olds who mostly eat processed foods have lower IQs five years later. (So Pop-Tarts and Sunny-D are why we're "falling behind" China in math and science?) The study, cited in The Guardian, examined the diets of 14,000 wee Britlets, based on what their parents r ...
• 3/3 binge & purge: poison, polls, paycheck
  satire: gerber recalls 60,000 jars of baby poison* poll: do you believe gmo foods should be labeled?* states try to loosen raw milk restrictions as fda tries to tighten them* uk restaurant's breast milk ice cream seized by council officials* whole foods ceo: don't call it 'whole payc ...
• usda admits involvement in south dakota mass b ...
  from allgov: The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has assumed responsibility for the deaths of more than 300 birds in Yankton, South Dakota. But the USDA insists it had nothing to do with other mass die-offs of birds recently in Arkansas, Louisiana, Alabama and Kentucky. The South Dakota ...
• 1/20 binge & purge: bailout pizza & gm eggplant
  domino's gets $12m bailout as experts warn of food riots* africa's growing consumer class lures multinationals* gm eggplant trials suspended in philippines* think composting stinks? here's a fresher idea* grassroots 'truth-in-labeling" campaign* video: the more americans go on foo ...
• usda cracks down on honey laundering
  from allgov: The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is continuing its pursuit of illegal, and sometimes dangerous, imports of foreign honey into the United States. After the government in 2002 imposed a tariff on honey imported from China, the world’s largest producer of the product, Chinese ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

• Why isn’t this being used on the Gulf Co ...
  The Texas Land Office and Texas Water Commission successfully used ‘oil eating’ microbes to clean up large oil spills in just weeks. Microbes hunt down and eat the toxic oil and leave only a biodegradable waste that is non-toxic to humans and marine life. Marshland and beaches were pristine agai ...
• Truthjuice Summer Gathering
• 2nd Annual Leeds Exopolitics Expo - 7/8 AUG 2010
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• Retiring State Representative to New Hampshire ...
  Henry W. McElroy, Jr, retiring State Representative to New Hampshire, declared this week that former U.S. President Eisenhower was briefed about the presence of extraterrestrial intelligent beings on Earth. McElroy also said that the document he viewed while at the State Legislature made referre ...
• News Release: Hollie Demands Justice
  Hollie and Anne Greig have recently been on holiday with friends, during which time their knowledgeable supporters advised Anne to serve Shropshire County Council with a ‘Notice of Claim of Right’ under Common Law. This was done on May 20th and has since caused Shropshire Social Services ’serio ...

The Economic Collapse

• 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 ...

CASSE

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

The Talking Clock

• Sunday Paper Review: 6th March 2011
  Very strange set of Sunday newspapers this week... we were struggling to find some news in and amongst a load of cock-waffle. Anyway... Those who scoff at people whom they describe as "conspiracy theorists" would be well advised to read an article in the Independent on Sunday, dealing with th ...
• Quote of the Week: The 'laughing at the LibDem ...
  "Please can someone explain to me the point of the Lib Dems: so loony left they make Labour look like Thatcherites; so eco-bonkers they make the Green party look like the Tea Party; yet bizarrely currently engaged in pervy, masochistic coition with a Conservative-dominated Coalition. Somethin ...
• Go on then Brussels, direct tax us... I dare ya!
  The TaxPayers' Alliance has just sent a newsletter out saying: "Here in the UK we are already over-taxed. We've been strong critics of the rises in VAT and fuel duty, which have both pushed up the cost of living. One area we have, and will continue to, highlight that adds an unnecessary burde ...
• Support alternative media - help Edge Media /' ...
  Was pleased to see that Controversial TV is broadcasting again on Sky Channel 200. This is a very important broadcaster offering alternative viewpoints from the mainstream media. It had been off air for a long time, due to a funding crisis. It is very welcome back, and this blog hope it st ...
• Constitution Shocker II: Lord Tebbit exposes t ...
  Days after Bill Cash MP caused a sensation when he confirmed, in the House of Commons, that habeas corpus comes first and foremost - above any act of statute - comes... ...Lord Tebbit, delivering the sequel. On his blog at the Daily Telegraph, Lord Tebbit reveals that: "It is years ago ...

Facing South

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

CenterLine

• Today’s Terrorism News
  Two New Jersey Men Plead Guilty to Terror Conspiracy Charges Two New Jersey men pleaded guilty Thursday to felony conspiracy charges related to their attempt to join the terror group al Shabab in Somalia last year. Mohamed Alessa, 21 and … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Germany Investigates Whether Shooting Deaths of 2 U.S. Airmen Are Linked to Terror Two U.S. airmen were shot and killed Wednesday outside Germanyâs Frankfurt Airport by a suspect, now in custody, described in reports as a 21-year-old Kosovo native of … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Holder: ‘I Don’t Know’ If Gitmo Will Be Closed By 2012 Testifying before a House budget subcommittee hearing Tuesday, Attorney General Eric Holder said that he doesnât know if Guantanamo will be closed by the end of President Obamaâs first … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Former British Airways Employee Convicted of Terror Plot Rajib Karim, a former British Airways IT employee, was found guilty Monday by a jury in the United Kingdom of plotting a terror attack and seeking out his position for terrorism purposes, … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Saudi Man Accused of U.S. Bomb Plot Appears in Court Khalid Aldawsari, a 20-year-old Saudi student who was arrested last week in Texas and accused of plotting to make a bomb, appeared in federal court in Lubbock, Texas, Friday. His … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

• Floating car shows off cold side of highway mi ...
  Usually spotted in the baking heat of summer, mirages can be glimpsed in winter too
• Sedimentary clues to an ancient megadrought
  Deep cores of lake sediment have unearthed a link between North Atlantic ice melting and parched monsoon regions in Africa and Asia
• Today on New Scientist: 25 February 2011
  All today's stories on NewScientist.com, including: newborn mice mend their hearts, time-travelling chimps, and the first humanoid robot in space
• Why models couldn't predict North African revo ...
  The upheavals in the Arab world are perfect for testing what conflict models can tell us – but only intelligence agencies will find out the results
• Deep ice growth on Antarctica's ghost mountains
  Ice can grow from the bottom up over Antarctica's hidden Gamburtsev mountain range

Tech Drive In

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

Case About Bird Flu

• Austrian show-trial of civil rights’ act ...
  - Bizarre trial of animal rights’ activists in Austria abruptly stopped - Judge Arleth makes unexpected announcement on Thursday that a ruling is to be issued by April - Year-long trial has drawn criticism from legal experts for evident similarities to Nazi-era, show trials - Animal activists ac ...
• Why I will leave Austria soon: Justice officia ...
   „Und now it’s over for the justice. We have to punish the judges finally, lock them up in jail because they are all against us.“ This quote about Nazi judges comes from the Austrian Minister for Home Affairs Friederich Stockinger and it dates from 1937 before Nazi leader Adolf Hitler even annex ...
• Vaccine Epidemic’s new book flies from t ...
  March 1, 2011, From Vaccine Epidemic February was an eventful month for those following the vaccine safety debate. Here’s last month’s scorecard: Vaccine Coercion: 3 The Supreme Court announces its landmark 6-2 decision to side with Pharma against vaccine-injured families in Bruesewitz v Wyeth [ ...
• Ireland faces impossible debt load, but so doe ...
  “A depressed and deeply indebted economy with just 1.8 million people at work cannot underwrite private banking liabilities of €200bn (135% of GDP),” says the Observer. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/feb/27/editrial-ireland-eu-election-debt But the people of Ireland are not the onl ...
• German defence minister Guttenberg resigns ove ...
  Germany’s defence minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg  resigned on Tuesday following public anger over the way he plagiarised his doctoral thesis. Guttenberg said at a press conference today his plans to radically reform the military are still on track. But his exit is a big blow to plans to sto ...

Invisible Opportunity

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

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 ...

electric politics

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

PR News

• Makovsky & Company hires Wolfrom
  NEW YORK: Makovsky & Company has hired Matthew Wolfrom, previously EVP of corporate and financial communications at Edelman, as EVP and MD of its technology and energy markets practices.
• Starbucks hires US Airways corporate comms lead
  SEATTLE: Starbucks is undergoing a number of changes in its global communications groups, including the appointment of US Airways comms lead Jim Olson to head corporate communications.
• Diversity of agency leadership remains up for ...
  Women still make up less than half of the executive committee roles at most large PR firms and only four women lead agencies with more than $100 million in global revenue.
• Nintendo hires Gordon in corporate affairs
  REDWOOD CITY, CA: Nintendo of America named Cynthia Gordon VP of corporate affairs, starting March 14.
• WCG picks Strout for social media role
  AUSTIN: WCG named Aaron Strout, former CMO at Powered, its social media group director, starting March 1.

The Story Behind the Story

• Closing Olympic Ceremony – Beijing China ...
  Ok, all you sleeping Sheeple!!   Still think there is not an evil, anti-Christian Illuminati-based conspiracy afoot?  Then check this video out immediately, (and share it widely). Disclose.tv – London 2012 7/7 Olympics Sacrifice Ritual Video Just in case you don’t remember, allow me to jog yo ...
• 5 Proposals to Combat ‘Global Warming’ That Sh ...
  5 Proposals to Combat ‘Global Warming’ That Should Make Us All Cringe Eric Blair March 1, 2011 Taxing the air we exhale, rationing human necessities, a global one-child policy, geoengineering (high-altitude chemical spraying), and now nuclear war have all been proposed to combat global warming. ...
• A Study in Hypocrisy and Dichotomy – BYU ...
  By:  A. True Ott, PhD Brigham Young University is today under the national spotlight, and this time no amount of “spin doctoring” by ex-BYU Cougar/Boston Celtic great (and LDS Bishop) Danny Ainge, and the PR department of the LDS Church “Brethren” in Salt Lake City will be able to obfuscate the ...
• H1N1 and bird flu virus produce dangerous hybrids
  By Tan Ee Lyn HONG KONG | Mon Feb 28, 2011 4:18pm EST HONG KONG (Reuters) – The H1N1 swine flu virus is compatible with a bird flu virus that is endemic in poultry in Asia and they can produce hybrid viruses packed with greater killing power, Chinese researchers warned on Monday. The scientists ...
• NEW-GENERATION FLU VACCINES APPROVED!!
  Feds awards $215 million pacts for flu vaccines WASHINGTON Drug makers Novavax Inc. and VaxInnate Inc. have won contracts worth a combined $215 million to develop flu vaccines for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The news sent shares of Novavax up 68 cents, or nearly 26 percent, ...

k2p blog

• Cheating epidemic at UK universities
  A cheating epidemic is sweeping UK universities with thousands of students caught plagiarising, trying to bribe lecturers and buying essays from the internet.
• Australia – A country “of droughts ...
  Dorothea Mackellar's poem "My Country" was published in 1908 and her description of the Australia "of droughts and flooding rains" remains just as accurate a century later and is quite indifferent to global warming.
• 75th anniversary of the first Spitfire flight
  To celebrate the 75th anniversary of the first Spitfire flight, a replica of the plane will be flying over Kent.
• Gaddafi’s singers
  Singers who were quite happy to accept lavish fees from the Gaddafi clan are now rushing to distance themselves from the dirty money. A number of charities will no doubt benefit and these donations will of course be tax deductible.
• Mubarak is still in Egypt
  Though there have been reports that Former President Hosni Mubarak is in Saudi Arabia and undergoing chemotherapy for colon cancer, it seems that he and his family are still in Egypt.

Left Foot Forward

• Women’s History Month Profiles: Mary Wol ...
  Wollstonecraft's writing seriously shows that the personal is political, for she took the fact her family viewed her education as less important than her brother’s and made it her political raison d’être.
• Look Left – Winning here?! Lib Dems humiliated ...
  Nick Clegg was humiliated by the good people of Barnsley today, pushed down into sixth place in the by-election, the Lib Dem candidate losing his deposit - and all just 15 miles from Sheffield.
• Beyond Libya, Howard Davies had never got to g ...
  Seph Brown looks at Howard Davies's serial failures of moral leadership over the Middle East - not just his close financial links the the vile Gaddafi regime.
• Why the government’s proposals on public ...
  Shadow public health minister Diane Abbott writes exclusively for Left Foot Forward on the government's proposals on public health.
• Referendum: Wales votes Yes, but now it’s time ...
  The people have spoken, the votes have been counted and now its official: the people of Wales have voted yes; the Welsh have given birth to the UK’s newest, real legislator, able to make laws without the need to get permission from Westminster, reports Ed Jacobs.

Consumerist

• I Took The Day Off, Sears Cancels Service Appo ...
  Reader Anthony L. isn't too happy with Sears, and has one less vacation day to boot. He wrote in with a story of woe, after Sears canceled their appointment to service his washing machine but failed to inform him they wouldn't be showing up. Anthony says he took the day off work to wait for th ...
• Couple Spends 7 Months Trying To Buy A Short S ...
  Nestor and his wife have been working for months to buy a house listed as being a short sale. They even bought new furniture and kitchen appliances for it in expectation, stowing the items in their garage. They had finally gotten approved and were making moving plans. Then at the last moment, W ...
• Continental Kills Free Snacks In Coach
  Continental and new spouse United Airlines have begun to decide which of their pre-marriage belongings to keep and which to discard. One thing that has already gone in the dumpster: free snacks in coach. As of March 1, domestic Continental flights stopped handing out free pretzels to economy p ...
• Amazon Sued Over Alleged Privacy Policy Violations
  Online shopping giant Amazon.com is the subject of a new class-action lawsuit alleging that the e-tailer uses an Internet Explorer work-around to trick the browser into thinking the site is "more privacy-protective than it actually is" and then collecting users' personal info without permission ...
• Spirit Airline Ad Riffs On Sheen Meltdown
  Spirit Airlines has another tasteless email promotion, this time riffing off the crazy phrases Charlie Sheen has been spewing in his latest media meltdown. Unlike their previous ones that made jokes about the BP oil spill, muff-diving and M.I.L.Fs ("many islands, low fares" - ahem), this one d ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

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

UK Progressive

• Downplaying The Negative Environmental Impacts ...
  Ethanol proponents have largely downplayed the negative environmental impacts of increased ethanol production, while emphasizing the positive impacts. But by ignoring the negatives, all of us, and future generations, are being put at risk. Ethanol, an alcohol-based fuel, is made by fermenting an ...
• Justice Thomas Needs to Recuse Himself, Rep. W ...
  This is a stunning exchange where Rep Weiner reads from specific Title regarding Supreme Court justices conduct and FOX News actress Megyn Kelly cites her unnamed sources saying Justice Clarence Thomas should not recuse himself from Supreme Court cases where he clearly is an advocate for his wif ...
• The Real News on Jobs
  Are we making progress on the jobs front? The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports 192,000 new jobs in Februrary (220,000 new jobs in the private sector and a drop in government employment), and a drop in the overall unemployment rate from 9 to 8.9 percent. We’re heading in the right direction but ...
• Clarence Thomas and the Politicization of the ...
  Justice Clarence Thomas, in a speech last weekend to the Federalist Society, accused his critics of “undermining” the legitimacy of the Supreme Court – politicizing it in ways that jeopardize the Court’s credibility in the eyes of the public. He warned: You are going to be, unfortunately, the re ...
• How Democrats Can Become Relevant Again (And R ...
  Republicans offered Democrats two more weeks before the doomsday shut-down. Democrats countered with four. Republicans held their ground. Democrats agreed to two. This is what passes for compromise in our nation’s capital. Democrats have become irrelevant. If they want to be relevant again they ...

NewsAlert

• NEA Admits Real Agenda Is About Power Not the ...
  Illinois Review
• Collective Bargaining & The Bottom Line: Q&A w ...
  Reason T.V.
• New Book Sheds Light on Lincoln’s Controversia ...
  Blaze
• Phil Collins: I quit music but no one will miss me
  The Telegraph
• Ohio GOP State Senator faces nasty threats fro ...
  The Daily Caller

JoNova

• Unthreaded
  I’ll be away for a week with the family resting on warm beaches, near wandering rivers and spectacular gorges. I’ll be thinking of you. (Actually, I won’t be completely gone, though I may be beyond mobile range, and in uncharted non-NBN territory, there will still be some guest posts thanks to t ...
• Australian politics churning
  Things are hotting up in politics downunder. The immovable force meets the polls. Twenty years of PR catches up on the PM who didn’t do her homework. As Tim Blair says:  It’s a meltdown, Labor is seething. Bring Your PopCorn. “There is evidence the public’s general confidence is being shaken by ...
• Shut down Australia and save 0.01 degrees
  The key question — with all the billions spent on cutting Australia’s carbon production, the trade and income lost, the jobs cut, the pain of living near a wind farm, the foreign holidays avoided and paying more for petrol and electricity than we have too, how many degrees will our actions cool ...
• How well have the media and PR groups informed ...
  Given the multimillion dollar budgets and advertising campaigns about climate change, it would be safe to assume there was a high public awareness of the most basic facts about CO2 right?  But reader Gregg has taken the initiative and gone out and done a survey of 100 people and asked them a few ...
• Galvanising against Gillard
  Welcome to another day in the lost democracy. The place where an elected government thinks that cheating is the answer. What was Julia Gillard thinking? This turnaround is happening so fast. She announced the Carbon Tax only last Thursday, and already former members of her own party are discussi ...

ReNew America

• We, the unhyphenated Americans: meet my people
  (Michelle Malkin) - My fellow Americans, who are "your people"? I ask because U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, who is black, used the phrase "my people" in congressional testimony this week. It was an unmistakably color-coded and exclusionary reference intended to deflect criticism of the Obam ...
• High cost of free speech
  (Robert Knight) - I'm with Samuel A. Alito Jr. - at least in spirit. The associate justice was alone in his dissent in Snyder v. Phelps,in which the U.S. Supreme Court in an 8-1 ruling on Wednesday voided a damage verdict against the Westboro Baptist Church for picketing a Maryland soldier's fun ...
• From Baghdad to Benghazi
  (Charles Krauthammer) - Voices around the world, from Europe to America to Libya, are calling for U.S. intervention to help bring down Moammar Gaddafi. Yet for bringing down Saddam Hussein, the U.S. has been denounced variously for aggression, deception, arrogance and imperialism...
• Losing freedom little by little
  (Joseph Farah) - When the Transportation Security Agency began its intrusive new airport screening procedures last fall, I was sure Americans would rise up to the privacy violations and put an end to the program in short order. I predicted it would happen by Thanksgiving. Later I revised my pred ...
• Close the EPA
  (Washington Times) - As Congress looks for ways to trim the budget, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) represents an opportunity for up to $9 billion in savings. This outfit has become little more than an advocacy group for trendy leftist causes operating on the public's dime...

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

• Meteoroid Tracking / New 2012 Drink / Missing ...
  NASA is installing a network of smart cameras across the USA to track fireballs and meteoroids. Soon there will be 15, and then they plan to expand nationwide. These cameras are automated and linked together so that they can triangulate paths and orbits. If NASA was expecting an influx of fireba ...
• Laacher See & Christchurch Volcanoes
  Might be nothing, but the Laacher See volcano in Germany erupted around the time of (perhaps) the last global cataclysm – roughly 12,900 years ago. While scientists say it wasn’t responsible for much back then, The Laacher eruption coincides with the onset of the abrupt Younger Dryas re-glaciat ...
• 35377 People Have Voted… Nothing Wins
  Since October 2006 I have been running a poll at Survive 2012, and with 35377 votes I think we have an accurate reflection of what visitors to my site think will happen in 2012: Nothing wins, with just over 56% of the vote. I was surprised that TEOTWAWKI came in second, and that aliens beat [... ...
• 10 LHC Consequences / NASA Budget / Planet (X) ...
  I was quite OK with the LHC when experts explained that cosmic rays cause the creation of harmless mini-black holes in our atmosphere all the time. Now I don’t know what to think! Otto Rössler is the professor who sued and failed in his attempt to halt the Large Hadron Collidor. Over at Lifeboa ...
• Deadly 6.3 Quake in ChristChurch NZ
  Looks like dozens of people have died during an earthquake that struck Christchurch during their lunch hour. Several large office buildings have collapsed, as well as the cathedral. Another deadly earthquake occurring within 3 days of the full moon. I have written recently of the new pattern eme ...

Facing South

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

One News Page

• Aruna Shanbaug's caretakers won't let her go
  As the Supreme Court is set to deliver its verdict on whether Aruna Shanbaug should be allowed to live or die, the nurses who have been involved in her care for over three decades speak out for the first time on camera.
• Shahbaz says he always voiced for traders’ rights
  Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said that he has always voiced for the rights of industrialists and traders and stood with them on all important issues including the gas load-shedding. He was talking to a 28-member delegation of Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry ...
• Jennifer Lopez loses her curves
• Liam Neeson not in 'Batman' sequel
• Saudi Arabia bans all protests ahead of a plan ...

Global Research TV

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

Daily Tech

• Report: Number of AT&T iPhone Defectors Below ...
  Carrier predicted to lose 150,000 subscribers in first quarter of 2011
• Microsoft Resumes WP7 Updates
  Patch should no longer brick Samsung Omnia 7s
• Fifty-Five Million Year Old Horse Teeth Reveal ...
  Dietary changes take as much as a million years to broadly select a particular population, say researchers
• 3/05/2011 Daily Hardware Reviews
  DailyTech's roundup of hardware reviews from around the web for Friday
• Seagate Unveils New Barracuda XT 3TB HDD
  HDD has software to allow any PC to see all 3TB of storage

Oriental Review

• The United States Will Take Libya’s Oil and Ga ...
  Sergei Balmasov (Russia) According to statements made in Washington, the idea of a military intervention in Libya is being discussed. A NATO strike group with American and British troops at its heart is already drawing close to the shores of that country. The US representative to the UN Susan Ri ...
• Libya: Will It Follow Sudan’s Track?
  Vitaly Bilan (Russia) It would obviously be problematic to transfer power in Libya as it was done in Egypt. Therefore, the country can expect to take either the hard “Iraq” or soft “Sudan” option. In either case, however, there will be far-reaching consequences for the entire continent. Virtual ...
• The Theory of ‘Manageable Chaos’ P ...
  Sergey Shashkov (Russia) An act of self-immolation by a Tunisian street vendor in protest of the confiscation of his wares by municipal officials in December was covered in the media as the catalyst for mass riots in Tunisia, which later spread to Egypt, Yemen, Iran, Algeria, Bahrain, Jordan, Ku ...
• Reagan’s Secret Legacy
  Peter Chamberlin (USA) On this, the one-hundredth birthday of Ronald Reagan, the Reagan worshippers are coming out of the woodwork. It seems that the self-appointed leaders of the “Tempest in the Teapot” party (or whatever they call themselves), even Obama himself, are trying to ride Reagan’s fa ...
• The United States Must Take Russia’s Interests ...
  Andrei Pravov (Russia) A recent interview with the American political scientist Ariel Cohen produced a feeling more of déjà vu than anything else. We have seen these arguments before. In the early 1990s, Russian newspapers loved to publish the opinions of numerous Western politicians and politic ...

BlogHer

• Month of Awesome Women: Sandy Close
  In writing about my hero Sandy Close, it's hard to know where to start.� The end point is easy: Sandy is a over 65+ writer, editor, creator, social change leader and visionary whose work at New America Media and Pacific News Service gives me a map for what fearless, consistent work in the� commu ...
• Painful Sex: Could You Have Vaginismus?
  If you’ve never heard of vaginismus at first skim it might appear as little more than a social media hashtag connoting witty female sayings. In reality, vaginismus is the inability or difficulty in allowing penetration of the vagina. The symptoms vary from discomfort, to burning or stinging with ...
• 16 Years Old: Calm Before The ... Calm?
  As I have stated many times, even though I am a mom, I do not consider myself a "Mommy Blogger." With two adult children (which still sounds weird to say aloud?) and a remaining 16- year old son at home, I have advanced from the daily merry-go-round of homework wrangling, science fair projects, ...
• BlogHer Network Member News, March 5: Shannon ...
  Shannon Rosa of Squidalicious, and her son, Leo, were featured in Apple's video announcing the iPad2. Look for them at 13:45. Shannon also has a guest post up on PBS Parents: Science Kids on the Loose and she was interviewed by Autism Women's Radio on iPads & Autism. Renee Martinez of Rais ...
• A Month of Breakfast: Help Me Pick a Cereal!
  What's for breakfast? We're talking morning meals every day on BlogHer.com from oatmeal to waffles (mmmm, waffles). Sign up for the weekly newsletter and see all the breakfast ideas in the series. **************************** I want to like cereal. I really do. It's more convenient than any o ...

Health Freedom Alliance

• The USDA Paves Way For GM Takeover (Part I)
  In the wake of the USDA’s deregulation of GM Alfalfa in January came the approval of two more bioengineered crops in February; Ethanol Corn and Sugar Beets. The news is a great disappointment to those who have ...
• Poor diets may lower children’s IQ
  New research shows that there is more at stake than just health and normal weight when kids are raised on junk food. They are also facing the potential of lower IQs. The brain is developing ...
• Scientists Warn of Link Between Dangerous New ...
  The recent approval of three genetically modified crops is inviting the use of even more herbicides and pesticides. Particularly worrisome is Monsanto’s RoundUp Ready to be doused on the newly approved RoundUp Ready Alfalfa ...
• FDA’s Crackdown On Raw-Milk Cheese Based On Fl ...
  The FDA certainly spent a lot of energy last year hounding providers of raw milk products. One would think the efforts to take down raw dairy operations were propelled by a serious threat to the ...
• Monsanto Shifts ALL Liability to Farmers
  Monsanto stacks the deck in its favor with its most recent stunt: making farmers sign an agreement to take all responsibility for the results of their GM crops…forever. Gee, what is it lately ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

• Friday roundup, March 4, 2011
  A coal truck drives out of downtown Welch, W.Va., Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2011. Coal brought a large population to the McDowell County in the 1940’s. Now the population is shrinking and the county suffers from unemployment and poverty. Now, here as in one-fourth of all U.S. counties, West Virginia’s ...
• EPA: Coal-ash rules won’t be done this year
  Sounds like the Republicans didn’t need to bother with their budget rider to block new coal-ash regulations. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is apparently in no big hurry to finalize its rules. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson testified to Congress yesterday and said the rules won’t be f ...
• Is Rep. Rahall doing all he can for coal miners?
  Folks who follow the work of my friend Rep. Nick J. Rahall, D.W.Va., got an interesting juxtaposition yesterday. On the one hand, we saw Rep. Rahall joining Sen. Joe Manchin in lending his name to another piece of legislation to block any action to deal with the climate crisis. According to the ...
• NY Times: Closer to the truth on Upper Big Branch
  Earlier this week, The New York Times published this editorial about the indictment of Massey Energy’s security guard from the Upper Big Branch Mine: We applaud the determination of United States Attorney R. Booth Goodwin II to press the inquiry as âtoo important to tolerate any attempt to hind ...
• Push on to speed up mining permits
  Here’s the latest from The Associated Press: FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) â Alleging that the Obama administration is engaged in a “backdoor means of shutting down coal mines,” Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell joined two other Washington lawmakers on Thursday in introducing legislation that woul ...

Daniel Miessler

• Test Post
  [ This is a post note, also. And stuff. And stuff. ] # install some code commandname -dbl output This is some output from that command. [ 2011-03-06 : This is an update. ] Related PostsDisk Performance: Slicehost vs. LinodeRestricting Access to Your Git DirectoryHow to Add Directory Colors to OS ...
• Another Approach to Weightlifting | Men’s Health
  via mensjournal.com This was an interesting read. Any comments on it from health enthusiasts? Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsI must not copy what I see on the Simpsons | BanksyOne of the Few Paintings That Speaks to MeThis is my Favorite PictureThis is a Proble ...
• Google Buys Security Analytics Software Develo ...
  Zynamics builds reverse engineering tools (BinDiff, BinNavi, VxClass, BinCrowd and PDF Dissector) for both offensive and defensive security that help find and prevent security vulnerabilities and issues within software applications. The startup’s tools are used to help understand security update ...
• The Ultimate Customized Text Message Sound
  When I switch to Android I’m going to record, using my Yeti, Susan making a text notification sound–like “jajing”, or, “dee-doo-doot”. It’s going to be uber-clean quality, and I’m going to edit the hell out of it so it’s perfect. Then when I get a text from her it’ll sound *almost* like a system ...
• I must not copy what I see on the Simpsons | B ...
  via todayandtomorrow.net A new Banksy in New Orleans. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsThis is a ProblemAnother TimeHalley’s CometAnatidaephobiaWhat your email address says about your computer skills | The OatmealReaganomicsSan Francisco Psychological Map by Wend ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

• 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 ...

reference frame

• Nordhaus, Shellenberger: long death of environ ...
  Two founders of the Breakthrough Institute, a fearmongering lobby group, namely Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus are giving lectures about the long death of environmentalism. I don't know which one is which but I hope it's OK I am not familiar with every green man in the wo ...
• Freeman Dyson ultimately redirects a pushy AGW ...
  I took this picture at Harvard... At the end, I decided to read the whole interview with Freeman Dyson because Sarah Kavassalis has tweeted that it was far more dramatic than she expected. ;-) I recommend you to do the same thing: Letters to a heretic: An email conversation with clim ...
• NASA's Richard Hoover: alien life fossils on m ...
  A few months ago, many of us got excited by claims about the arsenic-based life which began to look much less likely moments later. But that doesn't mean that we should become completely deaf towards similar big claims. A condom used by the creatures living inside meteorites, or ...
• NASA: small nuclear war reverts years of globa ...
  According to National Geographic, Small Nuclear War Could Reverse Global Warming for Years See also New Design World. NASA GISS' computer modelers (Luke Oman et al.) were trying to solve the "global warming crisis" and they found a solution: a regional nuclear war, for example bet ...
• The New York Times praise David Koch
  The New York Times have celebrated the philanthropy of David Koch (70): Cancer Research Before Activism, Billionaire Conservative Donor SaysThe MIT is opening the new David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research (see picture above); he has donated $100 million to it. ...

No Frakking Consensus

• The WWF Vice President & the New IPCC Report
  Why is a Vice President of an activist group taking part in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change workshops - and serving as a review editor for the upcoming edition of the climate bible?
• Are University of London PhDs Confidential?
  Sari Kovats helped write three editions of the climate bible. But the institution where she recently earned her doctorate won’t confirm the date that event took place.
• Scientists Speak Out
  Two physics professors - one in America and one in the UK - are condemning the behaviour of prominent climate scientists. They say it's a violation of scientific honesty and integrity.
• Not Your Grandfather’s Greenpeace
  Environmental activist organizations are all grown up now. We need to adjust our thinking accordingly.
• Environmentalism Runs Amok
  Nearly half a century after the first Earth Day, the chessboard has changed dramatically. The players with the power, the war chests, and the influence are different now.

Tarpley

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

Modern Survivalism

• The HoneyBee, Varroa, Vibration, and CCD
  Note that this is not a paid promotion for John Harding, but since we have posted several times in the past regarding the apparent HoneyBee die-off , Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), John had emailed directly regarding the subject. Being a career beekeeper, we thought it would be an interesting p ...
• Alien Life Confirmed by NASA Astrobiologist
  Credit: Journal of Cosmology Richard B. Hoover, Ph.D. and Astrobiology Group Leader at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, recipient of the SPIE society Gold Medal, has discovered fossilized extraterrestrial life and published the findings in the March Journal of Cosmology. The Astrobiologist has ...
• Off-Grid Charging System, AA,AAA,C,D,9v
  The ultimate insurance to keep your low voltage gadgets powered while keeping your communications systems ‘up’ and running in situations ranging from a power outage to being at a remote location, is a combination of the proper solar photovoltaic panel, smart battery charger, and the right batter ...
• Debt Free Living, A Simple Concept?
  Sounds simple, right? Living debt free is a simple concept: Spend less than you earn, and accrue no debts. Pay as you go. Sounds simple, right? So, why are so many of us unable to do it? The financial experts tell us to “live within our means,” give us plans to get out of debt, [...]
• Survival and Dog Food, sojos
  Modern Survival and your pet dog You may be very surprised if you knew the real ingredients that are in much of the dog food that you buy today at the grocery store or pet store. Think about it… food companies do not waste a single byproduct when processing foods. For example, when it comes [...]

Fast Company

• The Echo Nest Makes Pandora Look Like a Transi ...
  More cowbell! Everyone from Christopher Walken enthusiasts to major record labels to Columbia University is excited about The Echo Nest. The many uses, frivolous and non-, of Echo Nest's massive 30-million-song dataset.You music lovers out there probably think we're living in a Golden Age. iTune ...
• Gold!
  "Gold has lost its prestige," says Rico Franses, an art history professor at the American University of Beirut. That's an interesting opinion when gold is at record-breaking prices -- it jumped 28% in 2010 to $1,400 an ounce -- but Franses, keynote speaker at this Boston art symposium, insists t ...
• China Gears Up for Lunar Space Race With World ...
  The U.S.-Russian space race that led to the Apollo lunar landings is the stuff of legend. But now a new race is emerging, as China gears up with the world's biggest rocket-production factory. And we're not talking about fireworks.Early rockets were based on old Russian designs, but China's space ...
• Pepsi CEO Indra Nooyi's Lame Talk Underscores ...
  You've heard about the lovely and amazing, now let's hear about the duds of TED.“Only 5% of TED Talks have been given by CEOs,” Pepsi chief Indra Nooyi observed from the stage at TED, before going on to demonstrate why. Her bland recitation of the accomplishments of Pepsi Refresh, a decent, thou ...
• The New Digital Tribalism
  Avatars, they're just like us! Or should be for maximum effectiveness, according to recent studies. Right or wrong, race, gender, and attractiveness matter in virtual incarnations. Virtual assistants are widely regarded as silly things. Remember Clippy, from Microsoft Word? People basically dan ...

Jadaliyya

• الخطة الشعبية المجربة لإسقاط الأنظمة المتجبرة ...
  ��د ���� أب�غ در�س ا�ث�رت�� ا�مصر�ة �ا�ت��س�ة أ� ث�رة شعب�ة س�م�ة� �شار� ���ا عشرات ا�أ��� أ� مئات�ا� �� ما �م�� أ� ت�دم ��ا�� س�طة باطشة ��ذ� ا��ائمة �� أ�ثر ا�د�� ا�عرب�ة. �ا �عد� �ذا «ا�درس» أ� ���� تسج��ا� �ما حص� با��ع� �� ا�ب�د��. ��� �ذا ا�تسج�� �ما �� عارض� مبدئ�ا� مع��� �ضر�ر� � ...
• A Portrait of a Revolutionary: Hossam El-Hama ...
  Jadaliyya�is hereby presenting the first installment in a interactive (see below) series called "A Portrait of a Revolutionary," featuring interviews with an Egyptian journalist and activist who was at the forefront of the Egyptian protest movement. Hossam's vantage point is quite unique ...
• Saudi Government Forbids Media From Reporting ...
  The Saudi Ministry of Interior Issued the Following Statement Today: Based on recent attempts to circumvent rules, regulations, and procedures for illegal purposes, and confirming what was previously announced on January 27, 2009, the security spokesperson for the Ministry of Inte ...
• A Portrait of a Revolutionary: Hossam El-Hamalawy
  Jadaliyya�is hereby presenting the first installment in a interactive (see below) series called "A Portrait of a Revolutionary," featuring interviews with an Egyptian journalist and activist who was at the forefront of the Egyptian protest movement. Hossam's vantage point is quite unique ...
• A Portrait of a Revolutionary: Hossam El-Hamalawi
  Jadaliyya�is hereby presenting the first installment in a interactive (see below) series called "A Portrait of a Revolutionary," featuring interviews with an Egyptian journalist and activist who was at the forefront of the Egyptian protest movement. Hossam's vantage point is quite unique ...

mediagazer

• Media Unbundling: How Will TV Get "Everywhere" ...
  Andrei J. Jezierski / GigaOM: Media Unbundling: How Will TV Get “Everywhere”?  —  Recently, Om Malik wrote about old media being “unbundled,” just like telecom was.  In telecom, once broadband came along, phone calls became just another application, no longer requiring a specially built, just- ...
• Is The Internet Enabling Bad Content... Or Kil ...
  Mike Masnick / Techdirt: Is The Internet Enabling Bad Content... Or Killing Bad Content?  —  One of the common refrains we hear from the modern Luddite is that one of the awful things about today's internet culture is that it's flooded with too much “crap.”  One of our regular critics in the co ...
• Murdoch Losing on Dow Jones Makes BSkyB More C ...
  Bloomberg: Murdoch Losing on Dow Jones Makes BSkyB More Costly: Real M&A  —  News Corp.'s shareholders have lost $25 billion since Rupert Murdoch offered 14.6 times Dow Jones & Co.'s profit to buy the Wall Street Journal.  Now, the billionaire is poised to spend as much as 17 times earnings for ...
• KCET Offers Morning International Newscasts (C ...
  Cathy Williams / KCET: KCET Offers Morning International Newscasts  —  KCET OFFERS INTERNATIONAL NEWSCASTS EACH MORNING  —  BEGINNING ON MONDAY, MARCH 7  —  Los Angeles - March 4, 2011 - KCET expands its international news offerings with the addition of a daily one-hour block of morning newscas ...
• The Curious Case of Media Opposing Government ...
  David Eaves / Governing People: The Curious Case of Media Opposing Government Transparency … » Already a member?  Login now for faster comment moderation!  —  » Not a member?  Register first!

Chemtrail News

• Chemtrail Spraying Up Close & Defin ...
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh7qA2tqQ5c&feature=player_embedded is this real proof that we are being poisoned?projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?15484...
• Getting ready for Chemtrail Awareness d ...
  Feb 26th 2011 Was National Chemtrail Awareness Day so The Tucson Chemtrail Coailition was getting ready for it on Feb 25th 2011 where we got together a huge ...beforeitsnews.com/.../Getting_ready_for_Chemtrail_Awarenes...
• Chemtrail Cartoon Video
  Loverwholoves's video about chemtrails depopluation genocide illuminati global elite ascension 2012 documentary on Disclose.tv.www.disclose.tv/action/viewvideo/68550/Chemtrail_Cartoon/
• On the rocks of Cabal-cadence
  You know, as I sit tapping out my latest I have before my very eyes a personal account written by an aircraft mechanic concerning the alleged Chemtrail ...
• Why does Chemtrail Spraying stop around ...
  Discussion about Why does Chemtrail Spraying stop around evening? at the GodlikeProductions Conspiracy Forum. Our topics include Conspiracy Theory, ...www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1379791/pg1

World News - Top Stories

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

no frakking consensus

• The WWF Vice President & the New IPCC Report
  Why is a Vice President of an activist group taking part in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change workshops - and serving as a review editor for the upcoming edition of the climate bible?
• Are University of London PhDs Confidential?
  Sari Kovats helped write three editions of the climate bible. But the institution where she recently earned her doctorate won’t confirm the date that event took place.
• Scientists Speak Out
  Two physics professors - one in America and one in the UK - are condemning the behaviour of prominent climate scientists. They say it's a violation of scientific honesty and integrity.
• Not Your Grandfather’s Greenpeace
  Environmental activist organizations are all grown up now. We need to adjust our thinking accordingly.
• Environmentalism Runs Amok
  Nearly half a century after the first Earth Day, the chessboard has changed dramatically. The players with the power, the war chests, and the influence are different now.

Pointman's

• Some thoughts on fanatics and how to fight them.
  Iâve always liked Churchillâs definition of a fanatic. âA fanatic is one who canât change his mind and wonât change the subject.â Once you get past the witty aspect of the definition, thereâs a deep truth in it too. They simply canât change their mind. Iâve seen a lot of debates in the blogosphe ...
• The steady-state environment delusion
  Cosmologists have calculated that our particular universe is 13.7 billion years old. It came into existence with the big bang, as did space and time. Itâs big. It consists of lots of matter, especially hydrogen, which has aggregated into different objects. The ones we see in the night sky are t ...
• Line of Descent Chapter 22
  Chapter 22 He lay full length on the ground, concealed within a clump of vegetation through which he studied the house and the hastily built positions in front of it. He held a rifle which poked out in front of him, stopping two feet short of the end of the cover. It had been in … Read more
• Don’t just sit on your butt blogging, do somet ...
  Iâm a blogger and commenter and enjoy reading and contributing to a variety of blogs but thereâs one attitude in the blogosphere that really bugs me big time; the whinge and dump mentality of a lot of bloggers and contributors. Whatâs whinge and dump? Itâs the idea that once youâve spotted and c ...
• Moderating, trolls, soup ladles and Ethics.
  If youâre running a blog, one of the chores that has to be done on an ongoing basis is moderating comments. I operate the common system where a contributorâs first comment is held for moderation. If I approve it, then they can comment freely thereafter. If I donât, then theyâre effectively shut ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

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

Truth About Our World

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

Gyrovague's Raves

• Child Pornography @14?
  Sexting lawsuits By Nate Anderson If a middle-aged man meets a 14-year-old girl, coerces her to film a 10-second clip of herself masturbating, then intentionally releases that clip on the Internet, the man could clearly be charged under US federal law against the âsexual exploitation of children ...
• The Indian-Pakistani Divide
  Many comparisons of India and Pakistan attribute India’s democracy to Hinduism and Pakistan’s autocracy to Islam. Philip Oldenburg’s new book steers clear of this argument, focusing on historical, political, and external factors to explain how India came out ahead. By Christophe Jaffrelot Since ...
• The Inmates Are Running the Asylum
  Libya’s tenure on the U.N. Human Rights Council is just the latest example of how the international system has been hijacked by the world’s most repressive regimes. BY DANIEL AYALON The recent unrest in parts of the Arab world has not only exposed the appalling lack of development in these count ...
• Missing Before Action
  Following a call for peaceful protests in China, Beijing is arresting and disappearing activists in perhaps the most exhaustive crackdown in recent memory. Here are their stories. BY RENEE XIA Shortly after Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak was forced to step down, an anonymous call began to circ ...
• Why Are Easy Decisions So Hard?
  By Jonah Lehrer One of the problems with writing a book on decision-making is that people assume Iâm not terrible at making decisions. As a result, they act surprised when it takes me 10 minutes to pick a sandwich or when I confess that I still get mild panic attacks when choosing floss at the … ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

• One World Government- Does Anything Stand In T ...
  What last obstacles must they overcome in order to declare their new world order, one world government official or a success?
• The North American Union Conspiracy
  They Have Called For The Real Time Tracking Via Biometric And RFID Technology Of All Travelers In North America, The Full Integration Of Our Law Enforcement Teams, Harmonizing Our Laws And Standards And The Thinning And Eventual Removal Of The Internal, Physical Borders- The Consolidation Of Nor ...
• A North American Security Perimeter Threatens ...
  “I have great confidence that Prime Minister Harper is going to be very protective of certain core values of Canada, just as I would be very protective of the core values of the United States, and those won’t always match up perfectly.”- Obama
• Stop Fortress North America Campaign
  Canadians Urged To Take Action NOW On Canada-U.S. Border & Trade Scam!
• "EKOS THE ANNEXATION SURVEY"
  a core sampling of questions put to Canadians in 2006 on the annexation of Canada to the United States of America and Mexico

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