8 March - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

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Alex in Wonderland

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

MY Daily Apple

• Use Of Interactive Digital Exercise Games By C ...
  Middle school-aged children who participated in interactive digital gaming activities that feature player movement (exergaming), such as dancing or boxing, increased their energy expenditure to a level of moderate or vigorous intensity, according to a report posted online today that will appear ...
• Studying The Mechanism Of Myosin Strain Sensit ...
  From grinding heavy metal to soothing ocean waves, the sounds we hear are all perceptible thanks to the vibrations felt by tiny molecular motors in the hair cells of the inner ear...
• Fearful of Avastin's fate, Genentech asks for ...
• Defining an Illness Is Fodder for Debate
  For an ailment with no known cause and subjective symptoms, definitions differ, and so do diagnoses.
• Chandrayaan-1 Spots Giant Underground Chamber ...
  siliconeyes writes "Scientists at the Indian Space Research Organization have discovered a giant underground chamber on the moon, which they feel could be used as a base by astronauts on future manned missions to moon. An analysis by an instrument on Chandrayaan-1 revealed a 1.7-km long and 120- ...

Common Dreams

• Afghanistan Lets Blackwater Stay Despite Shake ...
  Blackwater looks set to survive an Afghan government clampdown on mercenaries after Hamid Karzai was forced by his western partners to abandon a complete disbandment of private security companies. Under plans to be announced by the Afghan government this month many security contractors, whom Kar ...
• Arab World Protests Could Reignite Anti-Nuke ...
  UNITED NATIONS - The global civil society campaign for the abolition of nuclear weapons could be politically reignited by the phenomenal successes of the grassroots demonstrations in Egypt and Tunisia, shadowed closely by Libya, Bahrain, Yemen and Jordan. "Developments in the Middle East [and No ...
• Equality for Women Can Reduce World Hunger, Sa ...
  Giving women better access to land, technology and other agricultural resources could reduce the number of hungry people by up to 150 million, according to the UN food agency. The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said that about 925 million people across the globe were undernourished in 2 ...
• Gates: US May Extend Afghan Mission
  Robert Gates, the US defence secretary, has arrived in Afghanistan at a time of increased strain between Kabul and its Western supporters with important security transition milestones looming. His arrival on Monday marked the start of a two-day visit which had not been announced in advance. US m ...
• WikiLeaks Cables Recount How U.S. Pressured Allies
  They have received little attention in the United States, but a set of WikiLeaks disclosures of confidential documents has caused an uproar in Europe by showing that U.S. officials pressured Germany and Spain to derail criminal investigations of Americans. The more than 2,500 State Department ca ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

• James Moore
• Neill Blomkamp
• Sarah Polley
• Jay Baruchel
• David Suzuki

Examine Religion - Tweets

• ExamineReligion: Texas pastor Randy Frazee mak ...
  ExamineReligion: Texas pastor Randy Frazee makes a wish that will never be granted http://exm.nr/gwI2Zl
• ExamineReligion: Speaker at Ohio Tea Party Emp ...
  ExamineReligion: Speaker at Ohio Tea Party EmpowerU series offers political victory strategies http://exm.nr/gSG3nT
• ExamineReligion: Rabbi Adam Jacobs reasonable ...
  ExamineReligion: Rabbi Adam Jacobs reasonable argument for God’s existence http://exm.nr/fEcWS4
• ExamineReligion: Billy Graham says the Golden ...
  ExamineReligion: Billy Graham says the Golden Rule is not enough http://exm.nr/fjKPyj
• ExamineReligion: Angel Therapy tarot card read ...
  ExamineReligion: Angel Therapy tarot card reading for March 8th, 2011 http://exm.nr/enxGz9

Energy Collective

• Charlie Sheen and the Energy Reality Gap
  The political events in the Middle East and North Africa are raising global oil prices and causing economies to wobble.
• A triple-dividend from Pigovian gasoline taxation?
  Michael Giberson Evan Turgeon, a lawyer working for the Cato Institute, has an article on gasoline taxation in the Journal of Land, Resources & Environmental Law: �Triple-Dividends:�Toward Pigovian Gasoline Taxation.�
• Natural Gas Industry Advice - Drill as Fast as ...
• Are small modular reactors (SMR) viable?
• Does Geology Change at the State Line? Oil and ...
  I admit it. I have been a very good customer to the oil companies over the years. During the 35 years since obtaining that ticket to freedom called a "drivers license", I have averaged about 20,000 - 30,000 miles per year behind the wheel. (The low years were those in which I spent 6 months of t ...

Green House - USA Today

• Which U.S. cities, states LEED in green building?
  The nation's capital isn't just the epicenter of the U.S. government, it's also the leader among U.S. cities in green building, new data show.
• Study: Climate change affects those least resp ...
  Climate change will have the greatest impact on people least responsible for causing it, new research shows.
• Study: Plastic products, even BPA-free, have e ...
  Most plastic products, even those marketed as BPA-free, leach chemicals with potential estrogen side-effects, reveals a new study of more than 450 common products.
• Greenest homes are those near public transit
  Location, location, location -- it's a well-worn mantra in real estate. New research shows yet another reason why it's important: it decides how green a home really is. Housing near public transportation uses less energy than homes in the suburbs, even Energy Star-rated ones.
• Study: Americans have twice as much BPA as Can ...
  Americans have twice as much of the estrogen-like chemical BPA in their bodies as do Canadians, but the reasons for the disparity remain a mystery, a new study concludes.

Prior Art

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

Peoples Voice

• Wisconsin Democrats Plan Capitulation
  by Stephen Lendman Three weeks and counting since Wisconsin public workers began heroically protesting for rights too important to lose, including collective bargaining without which all others are threatened. Daily, many thousands braved cold and snow - marching, demonstrating, and sle ...
• Libya, Gas Prices, and the Big Payday at Your ...
  Another Triumph for The Money Party Michael Collins The average price for a gallon of gas rose 30% from $2.69 in July 2010 to $3.49 as of March 6. Most of that 30% has come in just the last few days. We're about to embark on another period of let the markets take care of it. The Money Par ...
• For International Women's Day, the true recipe ...
  Mary Shaw March 8 is International Women's Day (IWD), a day celebrated worldwide to mark the economic, political, and social achievements of women. And, while women's rights have advanced considerably in a world of still mostly patriarchal cultures, we nevertheless have a long way to go to achi ...
• The Social Snobbery of Free Trade
  Ian Fletcher Skepticism about free trade is often stigmatized with ad hominem attacks. These mostly come down to variations on the following: “Protectionists are dummies, losers, incompetents, hippies, rednecks, dinosaurs, closet socialists, or crypto-fascists.” Thomas Friedman’s version in ...
• 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 Ea ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

• Deregulation in Canada: A disaster in the making
  In Canada, regulations adopted by every level of government have historically helped to make this one of the safest, most desirable places to raise a family. But a slow, steady, and quiet erosion of regulations by our governments put Canadians' health, safety and well-being increasingly at risk. ...
• BNN launches three-part series on income inequ ...
  CTV's Business News Network (BNN) begins a three-part series today looking at the gap between the rich and the rest of us. Today's show, at 5 pm EST, features Robert Reich, former U.S. secretary of labour. Tomorrow's show, 5 pm EST, features the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives' own Senio ...
• Economist writer on the three top reasons why ...
  MIT Economist Daron Acemoglu writes in The Economist that there are three main reasons to care about worsening income inequality: Harmful effects on personal well-being, limited equality of opportunity, and more concentrated political power. On the third point, he writes: "Economic power tends t ...
• A challenge to BC’s leadership candidates: dar ...
  On our Policy Note blog, Seth Klein suggests a new approach for BC leadership hopefuls: "As a number of fundamental crises become more apparent (ecological and economic, not to mention the democratic deficit), the public is looking for bold ideas and bold leadership. Sadly, too many political ...
• CEO pay under review
  A week after we released our review of CEO pay in Canada, the Ontario Securities Commission says it's time to review how executives get paid. Read the story here.

World Wide Hippies

• Why Is Exposing a War Crime More Dangerous Tha ...
  Bradley Manning Humiliated and Abused | Alternet Bradley Manning leaked cables showing officials covering up U.S. tax dollars funding child rape in Afghanistan, illegal bombings in Yemen and more — and he’s the one in jail? NOTE: On March 20 CODEPINK and others will be traveling to the Quantico ...
• And You Thought George Orwell Wrote Fiction
  Obama creates indefinite detention system for prisoners at Guantanamo Bay | Washington Post President Obama signed an executive order Monday that will create a formal system of indefinite detention for those held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who continue to pose a signifi ...
• Sound Opinions
  They say radio is dead, or at least a vague and scattered market. Well, maybe so… at least as far as corporate radio is concerned. Clear Channel has pretty much ruined the airwaves as far as they reach… and I know NPR is dead if the GOP get their way. But I listen to a [...]
• Limbaugh/Hannity Parent Company Admits Hiring ...
  By Gustav Wynn | OpEdNews – An online leak has emerged, revealing a questionable practice used by the employer of the biggest names in radio. America’s #1 and #2 radio broadcast hosts today and for decades have been Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, whose ratings and profits have dominated once th ...
• ATF Running Guns Into Mexico Fast and Furious
  Agent: I was ordered to let U.S. guns into Mexico | CBS 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. Federal agent John Dodson says what he was asked to do was beyond belief. He was intentionally lettin ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

• Petraeus, Gates caught joking about Libya
  Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, shared what was meant to be a private joke about Libya when the two met on the tarmac in Kabul today. But the exchange was caught on an open microphone and didn't remain private for long.
• Haunting new 9/11 footage released
  Nearly 10 years after 9/11, powerful new footage from the terrorist attack on New York City emerged online today. The 17 minutes of grainy, handheld footage, filmed from an NYPD helicopter, offer a variety of perspectives of the Twin Towers. Perhaps the most haunting moment comes around the 4 ...
• What is a "no-fly zone" anyway?
  The ubiquitous image coming out of Libya today shows a rebel fighter, hands up, backing away from a plume of dust and smoke a few hundred yards away -- the aftermath of an air strike. The unrest that began a few weeks ago has escalated into a full-scale conflict between the Gadhafi-led Libyan ...
• Against Libya's rebels, Gadhafi controls the skies
  Repeated airstrikes by Libyan warplanes on Monday illustrated the edge Moammar Gadhafi holds in his fight against rebel forces marching toward the capital: He controls the air. After pleading from the uprising's leaders, Britain and France began drafting a U.N. resolution for a no-fly zone in Li ...
• Scott Brown begs for money from David Koch
  Well, this is embarrassing. At a fancy party for a cancer research institute at MIT last week, Think Progress caught Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown begging for money from billionaire industrialist David Koch. Koch and his brother Charles are the wealthy backers of much of the modern conser ...

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

• Final offer selection: Arbitrators pick one side
  Limiting Ontario arbitrators’ power to “split the difference” in labour-management contract disputes could benefit the province.
• A century of women’s rights: A struggle that c ...
  The battle for equality was real, dangerous and waged with passion 100 years ago.
• Paid duty: Curb the costs of cops-for-hire
  Of the $29 million in police paid-duty fees in 2009, $11.3 million was paid for by taxpayers.
• Battling piracy: Somalia’s red tide
  In a report to the UN, former French foreign minister Jack Lang found Somali pirate raids cost the world $7 billion a year.
• Marmur: Posturing versus real criticism
  Foreign authors who braved pressure to attend the Jerusalem International Book Fair know the difference.

Energy Collective

• Charlie Sheen and the Energy Reality Gap
  The political events in the Middle East and North Africa are raising global oil prices and causing economies to wobble.
• A triple-dividend from Pigovian gasoline taxation?
  Michael Giberson Evan Turgeon, a lawyer working for the Cato Institute, has an article on gasoline taxation in the Journal of Land, Resources & Environmental Law: �Triple-Dividends:�Toward Pigovian Gasoline Taxation.�
• Natural Gas Industry Advice - Drill as Fast as ...
• Are small modular reactors (SMR) viable?
• Does Geology Change at the State Line? Oil and ...
  I admit it. I have been a very good customer to the oil companies over the years. During the 35 years since obtaining that ticket to freedom called a "drivers license", I have averaged about 20,000 - 30,000 miles per year behind the wheel. (The low years were those in which I spent 6 months of t ...

EU Times

• 53 slain in 72 hours in Juárez
  In one of the deadliest three days that officials can remember, more than 50 people were killed in Juárez. Among the 53 victims between Thursday and Saturday were a Juárez police officer, a municipal patrolman and a state investigator. According to Chihuahua state officials it was the most viole ...
• Knives and petrol bombs return to Cairo streets
  Men in plain clothes armed with swords and petrol bombs attacked protesters in Cairo on Sunday night during a demonstration demanding reform of security services with a reputation for brutality, witnesses said. Dozens of men wielding knives and machetes and hurling bricks and petrol bombs confro ...
• At Least 92 Killed in South Sudan Clashes
  At least 92 people have been killed in clashes between South Sudanese troops and two rebel militias on Sunday and Monday. Fighting in Jonglei state left 14 rebels and seven soldiers dead on Monday, and the death toll from neighbouring Upper Nile state on Sunday has risen to 72, according to SPLA ...
• Gaddafi Warns France: If I Go Down, You Will B ...
  Libya is an important partner for the West in containing al Qaeda and illegal migrants trying to reach Europe, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi said on Monday, in an apparent warning to governments planning sanctions. “Libya plays a vital role in regional peace and world peace,” he said in an inter ...
• New German minister: ‘Islam has no place in Ge ...
  Germany’s new interior minister has waded straight into controversy by claiming that Islam is not a key part of the German way of life. Hans-Peter Friedrich, who took office last week in a cabinet reshuffle, stoked an increasingly serious row about immigration in his country when he told journal ...

Stonecipher News

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

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

• Suit accuses Alcee Hastings of sexual harassment
  Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group, filed a lawsuit on Monday on behalf of a woman who accused South Florida Congressman Alcee Hastings of “unwelcome sexual advances” and of retaliating against her for complaining. The suit filed by Judicial Watch says the woman, Winsome Packer, a po ...
• The Western Alliance To Overthrow Libya's Gadd ...
  US, Allies Edge Toward Military Options for Libya -- ABC News US, allies edge closer toward formulating military options to halt violence against Libya The U.S. and its NATO allies edged closer Monday to formulating a military response to the escalating violence in Libya as the alliance boosted ...
• A5-powered Apple TV to handle 1080p video?
  Apple’s new dual-core, 1GHz A5 chip will be making it’s debut in the iPad 2 in just a few days, and, as advertised in the keynote by Steve Jobs, the new chip will handle 1080p content with ease.  The new iPad outputs HD display via an HDMI adapter and cable.  So will another Apple device. The ...
• 'Angry Birds' to attack Facebook, your remaini ...
  advertisement &PG&AP&ONECLICK&PG&AP&ONECLICK By Winda Benedetti Just when you thought the "Angry Birds" campaign for world domination was finally starting to subside, it appears that no, NO ... it has only just begun. "Angry Birds" and Facebook are about to join forces
• Google Maps Delivers Real Time Traffic Navigation
  It's something anyone who drives will have experienced on a fairly regular basis, hold ups due to roadworks and poor traffic conditions. As our roads become even more congested than ever, having a reliable navigation service to hand is a real time saver, and with the latest Google Maps service, ...

Groklaw

• New Facebook Feature Empowers the Dangerous "C ...
  A realization of Zuckerberg's stifling and twisted vision has now emerged in a new Facebook-based Web site commenting system, that permits sites to hand off their commenting infrastructures essentially wholly to Facebook, and requires users who wish to leave comments to do so using their Faceboo ...
• Taiwan Patent Court a Concern for U.S. Tech Firms
  Two recent patent infringement court rulings in Taiwan have sent a chill through U.S. technology companies operating there. Intellectual property (IP) suits brought by these companies have helped fend off competitors in Taiwan's market for semiconductor and LCD manufacturing equipment. And in th ...
• Clarence Thomas' dangerous conceit
  In January, Common Cause released documents showing that Thomas had attended events funded by conservative billionaires David and Charles Koch. Thomas was even featured in Koch promotional material - along with Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and others - for events that sought financial and political ...
• The Game Developers Conference in pictures (ph ...
  Ian Lewis, the game evangelist on the Google Developer Relations team, showed up to say that Google cares about game developers and is excited about web-based game technologies such as WebGL, which will let gamers play hardware-accelerated 3D games on web sites without the need to download a plu ...
• Google Remote-Nukes Android Malware off Phones ...
  These steps included the removal of the offending applications from the Android Market-around 50-within minutes of Google learning about the issue. In addition to this, Google fired up its remote nuking capabilities, otherwise known as its "remote application removal feature," to delete the appl ...

WideShut

• Keelan Talks 7/7 Bombings On The Corbett Report
  James Corbett interviews Keelan Balderson on the London Bombings and the 7/7 Inquest.
• Venus Project Linked To The United Nations?
  Keelan talks to Axis4Peace about the Venus Project's ties to the UN, and Peter Joseph's dismissal of the New World Order.
• What Is Money and What Caused The Collapse?
  Why the people aren't to blame for the collapse, why cuts are futile, and why we need a new system.
• Quiet Martial Law Coming To UK?
  Disgraced anti-terror head wants SAS on UK streets to help with trumped up terror threat, the olympics and protests.
• Climate Alarmists Look To Hollywood For Brainw ...
  UN's Ban Ki-moon and discredited climate heads hit the Oscars to try and recruit Hollywood Celebs as Global Warming mascots.

Politics in the Zeros

• Why is America so obsessed with deranged celeb ...
  The media obsession with downward-spiraling celebrities is even more off-kilter than the unfortunates they breathlessly follow and mock. Charlie Sheen is wrong when he says only 5% of those in AA recover. AA doesn’t keep statistics and has no membership rosters. So, the truth is, no one knows wh ...
• Homegrown revolution. 6,000 lbs of food on 1/1 ...
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• Walls that capture and release heat
  National Gypsum’s Thermalcore walls contain a core of parrafin-wax capsules. When the temperature rises above 73, the parrafin melts, bringing in heat and lowering the temperature in the room. When it drops below 73, the parrafin turns to a solid and releases heat back into the room. Sweet!
• Matt Damon says Obama now a Wall Street lackey
  Matt Damon, who narrated “Inside Job” which is about about the banksters and the frauds perpetrated on the country and who originally was a huge Obama supporter, now says Obama has “rolled over to Wall Street completely.” He should read Charles Gasparino’s “Bought and Paid For. The Unholy Allian ...
• US so over that democracy thing in Middle East
  After weeks of internal debate on how to respond to uprisings in the Arab world, the Obama administration is settling on a Middle East strategy: help keep longtime allies who are willing to reform in power, even if that means the full democratic demands of their newly emboldened citizens might h ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

• Report on AMI Stadium due this week
  The government is expecting to receive a damage report about AMI Stadium by the end of the week.
• Police name 13 more quake victims
  Police have this afternoon named a further 13 victims killed in the Canterbury quake on February 22
• One person dead after car crashes into bank
  One person has died following a car crash in Northland tonight.
• Groceries, flights could skyrocket with fuel p ...
  With the price of diesel jumping as well as petrol, goods are set to cost more.
• Red tape slashed to help quake recovery
  The Government has taken steps to cut bureaucracy to help with the Christchurch earthquake recovery.

Just World News

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

frogblog

• Good on Maersk for greening shipping
  Props to Danish shipping giant Maersk, who has taken another step towards increasing the sustainability of their business by introducing low-sulphur fuel in New Zealand (and world-wide). This is a great step that will cut sulphur oxides and particulate matter from their ships. Maersk has also ta ...
• New G-G welcome, but selection process questio ...
  From my experience Jerry Mateparae is a decent fair-minded chap. It is hard to judge how he will go as the new Governor-General because I have heard him speak only in his recent role as Chief of Defence Force. He’s tended to steer away from anything particularly controversial. I’m not sure his o ...
• International (Working) Women’s Day
  Today is the day we salute the efforts of women everywhere for equity and justice for our gender and as workers. This year, our hearts and thoughts start and finish with women in Christchurch. I spent the weekend door-knocking on the streets of Aranui, Wainoni and New Brighton which are all low- ...
• The Welfare Working Group and the injection
  As reported on Morning Report yesterday, the Welfare Working Group report makes a startling – indeed deeply frightening – recommendation to link contraception to sole parent benefit reciept. The report says on page 15: We have heard a concern among some people that setting a work expectation for ...
• Supermarkets explain cheap booze at hearings
  Foodstuffs New Zealand, New Zealand’s largest supermarket chain, admitted to a select committee hearing this morning, that it puts a mark-up of between 1 and 10% on alcohol that it sells in its supermarkets. This is in sharp contrast to the 100%-500% mark-up that supermarkets put on fresh fruit ...

Patronus Analytical

• Greek aid worker kidnapped in Pakistan
• Aid worker killed in Iraq
• Update on kidnapped Greek aid worker
• NGO worker beaten to death in Dhaka
• Canadian aid worker murdered in Honduras

J Kozy

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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

• What is Mitt Romney's Problem?
  Jon Cohn sends us to Joe Klein's latest head scratching over Mitt Romney: Romney remains a mystery to me: He's smart, he was a good governor, he's essentially a responsible moderate-conservative...but he has made an utter fool of himself flip-flopping and fudging--and taking wildly stupid pos ...
• Our Computer Overlords
  Paul Krugman writes that us college-educated types are hardly immune from being put out of work by computers: Computers, it turns out, can quickly analyze millions of documents, cheaply performing a task that used to require armies of lawyers and paralegals. In this case, then, technologi ...
• The GOP's Orrin Hatch Problem
  This is old news, but I'd just like to draw attention again to the fact that Orrin Hatch is in danger of losing the Republican primary in Utah next year because he's not conservative enough. Orrin Hatch!� Comments | Post Comment����
• Your Kind Not Wanted Here
  Peter Wallsten reports in the Washington Post today on the latest wave of Republican efforts to pass state laws requiring picture IDs for voters. "Backers of the voting measures," says Wallsten, "say they would bring fairness and restore confidence in a voting system vulnerable to fraud." W ...
• Wasted Money
  I'm curious about something. About a decade ago the LA�Community College District floated a series of massive bond issues for building construction.�Gale Holland and Michael Finnegan of the LA�Times spent 18 months looking into how that money has been spent, and the last of their 6-part seri ...

Insanity Report

• Someone Tell Sean Penn To Sit The Fuck Down
  In a statement, Penn said: “I think [Charlie Sheen's] energies, intelligence and passion could be both of service and servicing to him, as it is to all who are touched by the struggle of the Haitian people. “Charlie is one of the very few public people who cannot be accused of using the media to ...
• IC 233: Fuck Chris Brown
  Topics for the show: Fuck Chris Brown When attention whoring is no longer an effective marketing tool Sean Penn wants Charlie Sheen to go to Haiti Why Black Folks love Charlie Sheen Lupe’s new album People don’t listen to lyrics anymore Woman rides for 35miles on hood of car as husband drives LA ...
• IC 232: This Ain’t Winning
  Topics for the show: BYU player gets suspended for having sex with his girlfriend The Westboro Baptist Church wins at the Supreme Court We as a society need to step up to handle these moral issues Bobbi Kristina denies she was using coke Charlie Sheen ain’t winning The McLobster The 2012 electio ...
• BYU Forward Reportedly Dismissed From Team For ...
  For the second day in a row I’m writing about a story I read that while I emotionally and morally disagree with it, in terms of whether it’s the right decision or not, I have to agree that it is. BYU announced on Tuesday that starting forward Brandon Davies was suspended for the rest of [...]
• You Might Not Like It…But It’s the Right Decision
  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the First Amendment protects fundamentalist church members who mount anti-gay protests outside military funerals, despite the pain they cause grieving families. The court voted 8-1 in favor of the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan. The dec ...

Simple Climate

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

e!Science News

• The sorry state of health of US medicine
  As the debate about healthcare in the United States rages, four insightful articles in the March 2011 issue of The American Journal of Medicine strive to add reasoned arguments and empirical research findings to the dialog. read more
• High levels of 'good' cholesterol may cut bowe ...
  High levels of "good" (high density lipoprotein) HDL cholesterol seem to cut the risk of bowel cancer, suggests research published online in Gut. read more
• New weight loss discovery by Harvard scientist ...
  An important discovery in mice may make a big difference in people's waistlines thanks to a team of Harvard scientists who found that reducing the function of a transmembrane protein, called Klotho, in obese mice with high blood sugar levels produced lean mice with reduced blood sugar levels. Th ...
• Study examines prevalence of eating disorders ...
  Eating disorders are prevalent in the general U.S. adolescent population and are associated with other psychiatric disorders, role impairment, and suicidality, according to a report posted online today that will appear in the July print issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Ar ...
• USC California superstorm would be costliest U ...
  A hurricane-like superstorm expected to hit California once every 200 years would cause devastation to the state's businesses unheard of even in the Great Recession, a USC economist warns. read more

unEarthed

• Friday Finds: Walmart Extinguishes Flame Retar ...
  LA biking bonanza, radioactive water supplies, Republican foam parties Walmart recently put the kibosh on allowing flame retardants in any of its products. Photo courtesy of samantha cele ...
• Oil and Gas Lobbyists Claim The Sky is Falling
  The latest cluck from clean air "Chicken Littles" The sky is falling again The National Petrochemical & Refiners Association put out a press statement today ...
• The New Majority: We Can't Go Backwards Fast E ...
  Reversing commonsense progress is the new favorite pastime of House leaders Rep. Fred Upton "Doh!" should be the motto of the new majority in the House, but ...
• Ambre Energy Gets Coal Export Permit Via Deception
  Coalition challenges the company's proposed Longview coal terminal With many older coal-fired power plants going offline in the United States and construction ...
• Pettiness Isn't Biodegradable
  House Republicans trash House office building cafeteria About three years ago I visited a friend who works for Henry Waxman, the Southern California congressma ...

Brave New Climate

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

Indigenist Opinion

• John John: The View From Occupied Canada #232
  Fish stocks could be at risk from genetically modified species There's a risk Canadian fish stocks could be harmed if the world's first genetically engineered salmon is approved for commercialization, federal scientists suggest. Internal records obtained by Postmedia News also indicate experts ...
• Palestinian man denied visa, despite Jewish wi ...
  Palestinian man denied visa, despite Jewish wife and son - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News: [FOTO: Pat Oliphant - http://www.satansgarden.org/tag/israel/]"Palestinian man who is married to a Jewish woman and whose son served in the Israel Defense Forces was recently informed that he is in ...
• The Revolution Will Not Be Properly Licensed | ...
  The Revolution Will Not Be Properly Licensed | TorrentFreak: "The copyright industry is demanding the right to kill switches of our very communications. If we talk about matters disruptive enough, disruptive according to authorities or to the copyright industry, the line goes silent. Just twenty ...
• “There Are No Civilians In Wartime.” Rachel Co ...
  “There Are No Civilians In Wartime.” Rachel Corrie’s Family Confronts The Israeli Military In Court: [maxblumenthal.com] "“There are no civilians during wartime,” Yossi declared under oath. Yossi made his remarkable statement under withering cross examination by Hussein Abu Hussein, the lawyer ...
• Station Identification « From Kanji to Cat Eye
  Station Identification « From Kanji to Cat Eye Today the timeline was replete with heated discussions about race, much of it stemming from the 20 year anniversary of the Rodney King beating. I myself was also called racist for an out-of-context (on my part, I’m responsible for leaving out contex ...

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

• Overcoming Divide and Conquer Strategies: 99.9 ...
  The global bankers, who caused our economic crisis, are attempting to deflect blame and divide the American public by escalating attacks on public-sector workers.
• Analysis of the Global Insurrection Against Ne ...
  By David DeGraw, If you think what’s happening in Egypt won’t happen within the United States, you’ve been watching too much TV. The statistics speak for themselves.
• Welcome to the New AmpedStatus.com
  We're back with a redesigned site and three new features! Introducing the AmpedStatus Social Network and two new Amped Coverage wires.
• Time to Fight Back! Join The Movement
  As a broad-based network representing people across the political spectrum, we are working together to reach common ground and fight for pivotal political reforms. As long as the economy and government are rigged in favor of the top economic 0.1%, we will all lose.
• Horrific Arizona Massacre Is A Sign of Tragedi ...
  Let This Tragedy Be A Wake Up Call. Given Socio-Political Conditions, Many More Violent Acts On the Way.

+972

• To see a woman: A man’s note for March 8th
  To see a woman – she’s only just become a woman, 20 years old with a quote by John Muir posted on her wall. Outside it’s snowing, snowing because it’s Sweden, and she’s there studying the language of her forefathers. To hear a woman say: “Kram”. To see a woman returning home and then traveling o ...
• How to send a writer to Egypt: my experiment i ...
  My first visit to Cairo, as described in this post, was a memorable experience. Not being there for the uprising that toppled Mubarak was a painful one. The revolution is ongoing, though, and it’s an amazing story that I would love to write about for +972 Magazine. But ours is a self-financed me ...
• Netanyahu in 1987: Shoot to kill stone throwers
  The settler’s blog “The Muqata” pulled out this old Maariv piece from the days of the first Intifada to condemn Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who apparently got too soft with the years, at least for the blog’s taste. It reads: Netanyahu: Shoot to Kill the Stone Throwers | According to Neta ...
• J-Street: A Palestinian’s perspective
  By Aziz Abu Sarah Very few Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza or even in the US knew about J Street âs second annual conference that took place in Washington, DC last week. Most Arabs don’t know a thing about J Street. For a long time, Palestinians have only been aware of one Jewish Zionist ...
• When refinement is an endangered feces in a Ha ...
  On Shabbat we took the kids to the zoo up north in Kiryat Motzkin. Our expectations were not that high. I mean honestly – this the âKrayotâ (the suburbs of Haifa) weâre talking about. What good could come out of the polluted, stenchy, filled-with-asthma-sufferers Krayot? Before I left I jotted d ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

• Have your say on a sustainable population str ...
  The Sustainable Population Strategy Issues Paper has been released, calling for all Australians to have their say about Australia's changing population.
• More than $5.7 million for water savings proj ...
  Residents of Maryborough in southern Queensland will benefit from more than $5.7 million in Australian Government funding to help improve the security of their water supplies.
• Gillard Government meet with Murray Darling B ...
  Water Minister Tony Burke has hosted the third in a series of roundtables with irrigation sector representatives from the Murray Darling Basin states.
• Art in the Antarctic
  A Melbourne installation artist and a Canberra musician have been announced as the Australian Antarctic Arts Fellows for 2010-2011 season.
• Launch of the Water Metering Tasmania project
  More than 8 billion litres of drinking water each year is expected to be saved through the Water Metering Tasmania project, which was launched today in Hobart.

Matt Weidner Blog

• From The Clerk of Court- “There is no ne ...
  Okay.  The Clerk of Court takes the time to reach out to all the readers in a major metropolitan area.  Just when I think I cannot get more blown away with what’s happening in our country and in our courts, something even more extraordinary happens. BUT THIS MAY BE ONE OF THE MOST EXTRAORDINAR ...
• IMPORTANT FREE MEETING- FIRST AMENDMENT PANEL ...
  Keeping our press free, open and well funded is going to be one of the most important issues of this terrifying new era.  Whatever the URGENT issue that has you most concerned about on any given day, making sure that our press has access to the information is absolutely essential. COME JOIN THIS ...
• Foreclosure Today- More Kids In Poverty Than I ...
  Watch this story.  Listen to the stories of these crying kids.  Look at the tears in their eyes.  Listen to their questions. Pay particular attention to the quote from the one young girl, “I feel like it’s my fault.” No, it’s not the fault of this crying, devastated, damaged 11 year old girl. ...
• Foreclosure Without Law- The New Foreclsoure O ...
  Banks, tired of those pesky rules and laws that require them to tell the truth…have a new option… FORECLOSURE WITH NO PESKY RULES, NO LAW, NO TRUTH. They call it Alternatives to Foreclosure, but if you read the bill it really just means the bank will come in and take your home….TOO BAD FOR YOU! ...
• New York Federal Reserve- Report on Shadow Ban ...
  The suggestion that our banking system is being manipulated and exploited by shadowy, hidden forces is not just the fodder of whacked out internet conspiratorial minded folks.  It’s a subject that has been researched and studied by our own federal reserve.  I will be the first to admit that I ...

abelard - news

• on president wilson, 1919 | politics usa news ...
  According to Keynes, a weak man, no doubt fine in his original setting as a man of the cloth, in over his head with 'real' politicians.
• the real price of subsidised filthy oil in the ...
  So you think that oil is expensive now? It's next to nothing compared to 80 years ago.
• what is 'quantitative easing'? | economics new ...
  Increasing the money supply, printing money, which leads to inflation. This is what was going on for the thirteen-odd years of New Labour government, and has now been stopped.
• the presidential candidate and the maths lesso ...
  There appears to be a strong correlation between socialist/liberal/left-wing politics and innumeracy. Here's an example.
• consumption and capital | economics news at ab ...
  Why sharing (spending) the wealth may not help society improve, at least in the short term. And why the more puritan saving of capital may help in the long term (if you can stand the pain).

The Parallel Parliament

• “If We Know Not The Nature of Things”
  Would you have thought of it? I surely wouldn’t have. I’ve lived an entire 60 years and never seen anything like it. I knew John Diefenbaker, Lester Pearson, met Pierre Trudeau twice, had coffee with Brian Mulroney, dialogued with Joe Clark, talked politics with John Chretien, Africa with Paul M ...
• Safe Flight
  Appearances aside, the vast majority of work done on Parliament Hill is undertaken by the staff of MPs, senators and ministers. The typical aide is young, bilingual, single, intelligent and dedicated to their work. Beneath these main characteristics certain distinctions emerge. Some are committe ...
• The Rock of Integrity
  Came to bed but couldn’t sleep, my thoughts filled with Jim Travers, the terrific journalist from the Toronto Star, whose sudden passing today infused Ottawa with a sense of tragedy. So many wonderful things are being said about him that my thoughts will pale in comparison. But my insights are t ...
• Beating ‘Em In The Alley
  Hockey legend Conn Smythe was by all accounts a fierce competitor, though fair. His most famous quote was characteristically blunt: “If you can’t beat them on the ice, you can’t beat them in the alley.” I wonder what he’d think about what’s going on in the House of Commons this month? The Harper ...
• Affording Democracy – All We have Left
  This is the last post in the “Affording Democracy” series, but it’s likely the most important. One of the most pivotal moments in our history was when we stopped saying “we as Canadians” and began saying “They the government.” It fails to serve the public interest and leaves citizens and their r ...

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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

Reader Supported News

• Libyan Rebels, Kadafi Regime Both Claim Victories
  Borzou Daragahi and Garrett Therolf report: "Government attacks on Zawiya and Misurata continue to kill scores of civilians, but witnesses report that the rebels are holding their ground using light guns, Molotov cocktails and knives." A Libyan rebel with a rocket-propelled grenade launcher i ...
• Libyan Rebels, Kadafi Regime Both Claim Victories
  Borzou Daragahi and Garrett Therolf report: "Government attacks on Zawiya and Misurata continue to kill scores of civilians, but witnesses report that the rebels are holding their ground using light guns, Molotov cocktails and knives." A Libyan rebel with a rocket-propelled grenade launcher i ...
• Libya in Turmoil - Live Updates
  Intro: "Follow the events across the region as they unfold." An anti-government protester in Libya holds a sign, 02/16/11. (photo: Unspecified/Twitter) Sorry, your browser cannot display frames!
• Libya in Turmoil - Live Updates
  Intro: "Follow the events across the region as they unfold." An anti-government protester in Libya holds a sign, 02/16/11. (photo: Unspecified/Twitter) Sorry, your browser cannot display frames!
• Frank Rich to Leave New York Times
  Frank Rich is leaving The New York Times to join New York Magazine, beginning in June. Rich will write monthly essays on politics and culture and will also be a commentator on nymag .com, engaging in weekly dialogues. Portrait, New York Times columnist Frank Rich, 06/15/09. (photo: Getty/NYT) ...

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

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

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

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

Stop NATO

• Stop NATO News March 7, 2011
  ==== stopnato-subscribe@yahoogroups.com ==== 1. NATO Shells Tribal Area, Helicopters Cross Into Pakistan 2. NATO’s Libyan Intervention Threatens Malta’s Neutrality 3. Kabul: Afghans Protest Against NATO’s Slaying Of Children 4. Spratly Dispute With China: U.S. Provides Philippines With Patrol Sh ...
• Stop NATO News March 6, 2011
  ==== stopnato-subscribe@yahoogroups.com ==== 1. Pentagon In Europe Forever, NATO’s Global “Mission Creep” 2. U.S. Air Force Launches Secretive Space Plane 3. U.S. To Sell Cash-Strapped Romania F-16s, F-35s To Follow 4. Ex-NATO Commander, National Security Advisor James Jones On Broader Middle Ea ...
• Africa: la NATO globale si prefigge di recluta ...
  Stop NATO 6 Marzo 2011 Africa: la NATO globale si prefigge di reclutare 50 nuovi partner militari Rick Rozoff Traduzione dall’inglese per www.resistenze.org a cura del Centro di Cultura e Documentazione Popolare Un recente articolo apparso sulla rivista keniota Africa Review cita fonti dell’Unio ...
• Stop NATO News March 5, 2011
  ==== stopnato@yahoogroups.com ==== 1. British Troops On 24-Hour Notice Stand-By For Libya Intervention 2. International Court of Justice Call After NATO Kills 100 Afghan Civilians 3. Horn Of Africa: U.S. Army Trains Djiboutian Counterparts 4. U.S. Tests Next-Generation Patriot Advanced Capabilit ...
• Stop NATO News March 4, 2011
  ==== stopnato-subscribe@yahoogroups.com ===== 1. Clinton Confirms U.S. Warplanes, Missiles To Be Deployed In Poland 2. U.S. Air Force Base To Be Permanently Stationed In Poland; NATO “Contingency Plan” For Northeastern Europe; U.S. Must Play Role In Eastern Europe, Confront Belarus 3. Mediterran ...

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Intel Hub

• Science is Modern Myth (Or, How “Arguable” Tru ...
  “Science does not have to be true to be accepted. It only has to be ‘arguable.’ In fact, it can be observed that the more arguable (the less plausible or logical) a scientific idea, the more funding it will require.” What is science? It is modern myth, wrapped in technological diversion… The Int ...
• The Intel Quotient – An Analysis of In-Q-Tel a ...
  By Avalon & Shepard Ambellas TheIntelRadio March 8, 2011 “In-Q-Tel is focused on new and emerging commercial technologies that have the potential to give the CIA and broader U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) mission-advantage today and in the future”, according to the brief description at their w ...
• Here We Go: $5.00 Gallon Gas Comes to Los Angeles
  george4title March 7th, 2011 Los Angeles Ca A West Covina Mobile Gas Station is charging $4.99 9/10 for premium gasoline. Not quite $5.00 but almost. It’s amazing how fast prices for gasoline have gone up in Southern California. Inflation? Oil speculation? Middle east tensions? Who really know… ...
• Why is Hillary Not Defending the Rights of Sau ...
  By Eric Blair Activist Post March 7th, 2011 Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had been exhaustively in front of cameras promoting the right for people to protest in Egypt, Bahrain, Iran, and Libya.  She’s been touting freedom to use social networking sites as a way for Arab people to organi ...
• WTC Attack September 11, 2001 from New York Po ...
  Cryptome1 March 7th, 2011 A related collection of 153 still photos from another NYPD helicopter: http://cryptome.org/0001/wtc-nist-gjs/wtc-nist-gjs.zip (64MB) Related Posts: Panel Demolishes Official 9/11 Story While Proposing State Initiatives for Justice 9/11 Family Members Demand Answers from ...

FRS

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

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

• Another dissenting vote on the Westboro Suprem ...
  Wilmer J Leon III at The Root says it's not about freedom of speech, but about privacy. Leon writes: Even if the content of the Westboro Church's speech were redeeming in any way, the timing and place of expression cannot be justified. Historically, the court has placed restrictions on the co ...
• Tired of trying to take your country back? DIY ...
  There's a documentary out: "How to Start Your Own Country." To get some�early tips, go here. Or go here. Or, gosh darn it, go here. I've said it before and I'll say it again: If I was in charge, things would be fair, by gum. Whatever your path,�if you do start your own country, I insist the na ...
• People all over the world...
  Play loud. And get that hairbrush-mic going. And yes, I've posted this song before. I can't help it.
• Will Rep. King devolve into our next Sen. McCa ...
  There is some fear that will happen when the New York Republican -- whose track record in regard to Islam isn't stellar -- starts his�"radicalization" hearings on Thursday. Back during the days of McCarthy, there were Communists where one wouldn't expect them, but were his hearings worth the up ...
• What can you eat for $3 a day?
  The kindergarteners at Canton’s Cherry Brook Primary School know: It’s hard to eat on $3 a day. But the students in Jessica Papp’s extended day kindergarten class go beyond just speculating about hunger. With some of their classmates, they’re donating to Hands On Hartford, a Hartford-based reli ...

Associated Content

• Bottoms Up! The Three Worst Celebrity Cross D ...
  After viewing Daniel Craig's commercial in support of International Women's Day, we took a look at three of the worst celebrity cross-dressers.Contributor: Randy Hildebrand Published: Mar 07, 2011
• Is it Time to Tap the Strategic Petroleum Rese ...
  With $4 and higher gas prices looming, American consumers are feeling the pinch. With White House staff hinting at tapping the nation's oil reserves, we should ask ourselves if it's worth it.Contributor: Nancy Moberly Published: Mar 07, 2011
• U.S. Gas Prices Continue to Rise: GasBuddy Can ...
  Tired of the high gas prices? GasBuddy promises to help you find the lowest gas prices in your area. In my experience, GasBuddy isn't always consistent.Contributor: Renata Yvonne Published: Mar 07, 2011
• Peanut Butter Recall Prompts Increased Concern ...
  A Unilever recall of Skippy reduced-fat peanut butter prompts consumers to brush up on their understanding of salmonella.Contributor: Kelly Herdrich Published: Mar 07, 2011
• United States Uses Egypt, Saudi Arabia to Aid ...
  While the Obama administration has kept to a hands-off policy where the Libyan Civil War is concerned, at least Egypt is participating covertly and Saudi Arabia is being asked to lend a hand on behalf of the United States.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Mar 07, 2011

Popsci - Science

• High-Powered NASA Grow-Light Reduces Chemother ...
  WARP 75 lamp eases pain A powerful NASA-developed grow lamp designed for the space shuttle can ease a debilitating side effect of cancer treatment, according to a new study. That’s directly from the lamp itself, not because it is used to grow medicinal plants. The treatment is under review by t ...
• Using Stem Cells, Scientists Re-Create Memory ...
  In a major breakthrough for Alzheimer’s research, scientists have turned human embryonic stem cells and skin cells into brain cells associated with memory and learning, whose death is key to the progression of the disease. The finding could help scientists test new ways to keep the cells from d ...
• NASA Scientist Claims to See Alien Life In Met ...
  The jury is still out, but skepticism permeates the scientific community Did a NASA scientist find fossilized alien microbes embedded in a 146-year-old meteorite? As this claim emerged over the weekend, the answer from the scientific community so far appears to be something between “Um, what?” ...
• Our Body the Ecosystem: Understanding the Inte ...
  Studying our natural internal bacteria could help doctors cure diseases that affect millions When Jake Harvey visits the clinical center at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, he is usually dirty, itchy and wheezing—not the happiest state of affairs for a 14-year-old boy. B ...
• This Week in the Future, February 28-March 4, 2011
  LOOK OUT! Four articles are portrayed in this week's harrowing This Week in the Future masterpiece, which means you've got four paths to winning a t-shirt with the illustration on it. Just tell us which one is your favorite (via Facebook, Twitter, or comment) and why, and if we like your explan ...

Veterans Today

• LAWRENCE DAVIDSON : New Truths For Those With ...
  To act successfully in the world we must be able to get perceive beyond the domestic blinkers and come to know the foreign reality that surrounds us.   By Lawrence Davidson Admiral Mike Mullen, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, recently came to Israel and Jordan to assure these two “par ...
• Libya Oil Grab Disguised As Humanitarian Assis ...
  While others clamor for a no-fly zone over Libya, the Libyan rebels’ themselves need to be heard Yesterday, a CBS News headline read “Libya rebels beg for no-fly as bombings persist”. What is remarkable is that the article gives virtually no information on who are the Libyans begging for the no- ...
• RICHARD FALK : Will We Ever Learn? Kicking the ...
  The record of military intervention during the last several decades is one of almost unbroken failure if either the human costs or political outcomes are taken into proper account. � By Richard Falk What is immediately striking about the bipartisan call in Washington for a no-fly zone and air st ...
• One for Boomer
  Receding hairline, failing vision, hair now turning grey, an aging boomer in final protest, Father Time his foe this day. . Donning his headband, tie-dyed jeans, and scorched draft card of protests past, he set out for one last battle, as in his youth that had quietly passed.
• Clinton Wants More Propaganda, I Want Less
  ecretary of State Hillary Clinton has declared that other nations are doing a better job of propagandizing the world and that the United States needs to do more. However, we already invest far more in foreign propaganda than in domestic public media, and virtually nothing in domestic media trus ...

War is Business

• How China Is Militarizing Tibet
  Sell bumper stickers
• Race Begins To Keep Libyan Rebels Armed
  "A lot of weapons are going to find their way there…from one means or another." John Kerry plays coy about Libya—or maybe he's just out of the loop.
• Kyrgyzstan Pressing Its Advantage Over Fragile ...
  Buy land in Central Asia
• ‘Systemic Failure’ In Russian Defe ...
  Sell modern Russia
• Ordinary Afghans Want A Say Over Future Of US ...
  Sell Afghan sovereignty

Hudson's Weather & Climate

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

Internat'l Political Economy

• BRICs Guy Jim O'Neill: China's Rise Benefits All
  Jim O'Neill of Morgan Stanley should be familiar to one and all as the fellow who coined the acronym "BRICs" for the major emerging economies Brazil, Russia, India, and China (though he sometimes expresses regret putting Russia in there). Although a less neat acronym would be required, he's also ...
• Let the PRC Fund (Broke) US Primary Schools
  We see in China things we used to see in ourselves...can do, initiative...that used to be us! - Thomas Friedman I've been watching the BBC's interesting series The Chinese are Coming documenting the effects of China's rise on the continents of Africa [episode 1], South America and North America ...
• Why "Who Owns the US?" is a Trick Question
  OK, so I may have been (partly) at fault on this one. A few years ago, I ran a feature on "Don't Offend the Chinese, the Real Owners of America." The basic premise of that article went like this: America is broke while China is rich. Although this fact is self-evident, most of the support China ...
• On Out-of-Wedlock Births Becoming Western Norm
  A ghetto bastard, born next to the projects Livin' in the slums with da bums; I sit and watch them Why do I have to be like this? Momma said I'm priceless So I am all worthless, starved, and it's just for being a nice kid A few weeks ago, Charles M. Blow came out with a widely commented op-ed ...
• US Air Force Tanker Wars: Boeing Upends EADS
  Here is another instance where waving the red, white, and blue seems to have paid off for an American firm. I have made a lengthy earlier post on US Air Force efforts to replace it ancient, 50-some-year-old fleet of KC-135 air refuelling tankers. To make a long story short, the world's two large ...

Economic Collapse Blog

• Will The Day Of Rage In Saudi Arabia On March ...
  The price of oil is shaping up to be the number one economic story of 2011, and right now the eyes of the investing world are closely watching the developing situation in Saudi Arabia.  All of the other recent Middle East revolutions have been organized on the Internet, and now ...
• Wars, Rumors Of Wars, Skyrocketing Oil Prices ...
  Did anyone out there anticipate that 2011 would be such a wild year?  The year is barely over two months old and we have already seen multiple civil wars erupt, rumors of more wars all over the mainstream media (potentially even including the United States), riots and revolution ...
• Global Economy? 23 Facts Which Prove That Glob ...
  From now on, whenever you hear the term "the global economy" you should immediately equate it with the destruction of the U.S. middle class.  Over the past several decades, the American economy has been slowly but surely merged into the emerging one world economic system.  Unfor ...
• Mob Robbers And Rampant Looting: Is This The F ...
  Have you ever heard of mob robberies?  What happens is that dozens of young people storm a store at the same time, take whatever they want, and then storm out as powerless store clerks watch helplessly.  Most of the time these "mob robbers" end up getting caught, but unfortunate ...
• Stagflation 2011: Why It Is Here And Why It Is ...
  Are you ready for an economy that has high inflation and high unemployment at the same time? Well, welcome to "Stagflation 2011".  Stagflation exists when inflation and unemployment are both at high levels at the same time.  Of course we all know about the high unemployment sit ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

• Eco-Anarchies Issue #1 Call For Papers
  We are presently seeking submissions for a new project that aims to explore the ineluctable connections between ecology and anarchy. Since G...
• Soliciting Submissions For Zine on Anti-Police ...
  Within the last eight months, Denver has seen an inspiring and growing movement against police terror. In a city with the worst brutality statis...
• TCN Radio: February 2011, Episode #2
  Here is the February episode of TCN Radio. The featured audio essays include a reading of an issue of Kerbloom pertaining to Letters of Insurgents,...
• Anarcho-Punk zine: PunkWay #5, winter 2011
  New anarcho-punk zine published in R...
• New Radical Distributor Based in Denver
  P&L Press, the new publishing and distribution arm of the thirty year old worker-owned union job shop P&L Printing, is now fully operati...

E U Times

• 53 slain in 72 hours in Juárez
  In one of the deadliest three days that officials can remember, more than 50 people were killed in Juárez. Among the 53 victims between Thursday and Saturday were a Juárez police officer, a municipal patrolman and a state investigator. According to Chihuahua state officials it was the most viole ...
• Knives and petrol bombs return to Cairo streets
  Men in plain clothes armed with swords and petrol bombs attacked protesters in Cairo on Sunday night during a demonstration demanding reform of security services with a reputation for brutality, witnesses said. Dozens of men wielding knives and machetes and hurling bricks and petrol bombs confro ...
• At Least 92 Killed in South Sudan Clashes
  At least 92 people have been killed in clashes between South Sudanese troops and two rebel militias on Sunday and Monday. Fighting in Jonglei state left 14 rebels and seven soldiers dead on Monday, and the death toll from neighbouring Upper Nile state on Sunday has risen to 72, according to SPLA ...
• Gaddafi Warns France: If I Go Down, You Will B ...
  Libya is an important partner for the West in containing al Qaeda and illegal migrants trying to reach Europe, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi said on Monday, in an apparent warning to governments planning sanctions. “Libya plays a vital role in regional peace and world peace,” he said in an inter ...
• New German minister: ‘Islam has no place in Ge ...
  Germany’s new interior minister has waded straight into controversy by claiming that Islam is not a key part of the German way of life. Hans-Peter Friedrich, who took office last week in a cabinet reshuffle, stoked an increasingly serious row about immigration in his country when he told journal ...

Voiceless Victim

• Top 10 Catholic Excuses For Doing Absolutely N ...
  Priests at the pulpit do it. Catholic apologists do it mindlessly, understanding little. Cardinals and Bishops exploit their influence to do it to as many people as possible. The Vatican does little else. With alarming regularity and very little variation, they all trot out the same set of tired ...
• Gentle Slap on the Wrist and Comfy Retirement ...
  Details were revealed this week about the Vatican “taking action” last year against a Dutch Catholic Bishop working in Kenya, who had raped a 14-year-old Masai boy some years earlier while still a priest. So here we have an example of just exactly what the new, recently improved Vatican response ...
• The Real Role of the Media in the Catholic Chi ...
  The paedophile protecting Pope and his seriously creepy Vatican spokespersons try to paint the role of the media in the reporting of the Catholic Church child rape tsunami as a conspiracy. They can’t quite make up their minds who exactly is behind their fallacious nonsense of a persecution. The ...
• Why Is Anyone Still A Catholic?
  On the day the Egyptian people succeeded in ousting an oppressive and controlling  regime noted for abuse of power and human rights abuses, it is worthwhile to evaluate the refusal of ordinary Catholics to consider the consequences of their own selfish, mindless and cowardly support for the paed ...
• The Pope Calling The Berlusconi Black
  I’ve heard some pretty obvious cases of the pot calling the kettle black, but the recent controversy over the Pope ticking off Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi for child sexual exploitation shows how complete is the lack of self-awareness demonstrated by the psychopaths who surround and ...

WL Central

• Cablegate Resources
  Tweet Contents 1. Introduction 2. Data Resources 3. Revelations 4. WL Central Coverage . 1. Introduction A momentous release by WikiLeaks of 251,287 US diplomatic cables started on November 28, 2010 in conjunction with The Guardian, Le Monde, El País, Der Spiegel and The New York Times. Since ...
• 2011-03-06 #Gaddafi requesting negotiations to ...
  Tweet WL Central will be updating news on Libya, with new items added at the top. You can contact me on twitter @GeorgieBC or by email at admin@wlcentral.org. Current time and date in Tripoli: http://wlcentral.org/node/1312/edit MONDAY, March 7 Asharq Al-Awsata is reporting that Muammar Gadd ...
• 2011-03-07 "Climate of Fear" heating up in Tur ...
  TweetOver the course of the past 2 days, a Turkish court has reportedly ordered a writer and 6 journalists to be remanded in custody for alleged membership in an anti-government terrorist organization (Ergenekon). Odatv.com reports that a total of 15 journalists who write for the Turkish anti-go ...
• 2011-03-07 100 Revelations to Mark 100 Days Si ...
  Tweet *Special thanks to C-Cyte for recording my tweets and posting them online in a post for people to view if they do not normally use Twitter. One hundred days ago, WikiLeaks began to release the US State Embassy cables. The release event, which continues, became known as Cablegate. A future ...
• 2011-03-07: WikiLeaks in today's media: Cableg ...
  TweetThe Telegraph: WikiLeaks cables warn of extremist beliefs "Leaked diplomatic cables obtained by the WikiLeaks website and passed to The Daily Telegraph disclose fears that eastern Libya is being overrun by extremists intent on overthrowing Colonel Gaddafi's regime. Former jihadi fighters wh ...

U N News

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

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

• Score One for Anwar
  Malaysian court throws out DNA evidence in sodomy case
• Does Malaysia's Governing Coalition Regain Mom ...
  Sunday's by-elections look good, but...
• China's Smoking Problem
  One state agency tries to get people to quit while another tries to get them to smoke
• Than Shwe and the Cash Register
  Burma's Junta Boss Grants Himself Power to Access 'Special Funds'
• Taiwan Resumes Executions
  That pleases the domestic audience but gets up the EU's nose

We Know the Lies

• Listen... Can You Hear the Distant Sound of t ...
  �The inhabitants of dying empires in the past used to listen nervously for the distant sound of hoofbeats that told them the barbarians were on the way... ~ John Michael Greerread more
• Depopulation of 3 BILLION People Through Food ...
  �While investigating the WHO and UN role in the biological weapons attack called the A-H1N1 (Swine Flu) pandemic of 2009, criminal intelligence (CI) agents from Canada and the US have stumbled upon a covert and sinister plan to kill off as many as 3 billion people by food malnutrition.read more
• Unconstitutional... Hillary Clinton's Position ...
  �Constitutional Law scholars have stated that the Emoluments Clause of the United States Constitution (the supreme law of the United States) Article I, Sec. 6 disqualifies Hillary Clinton from serving as Secretary of State.read more
• Reproductive Genocide... The Deadly Truth Abo ...
  �The World Health Organization has a Task Force on the Regulation of Male Fertility. In 1990 a paper was published in Lancet, a well-regarded British medical journal detailing the use of testosterone injections to render men sterile.read more
• JPMorgan May Need Another $4 Billion For... ...
  According to CNBC’s Kate Kelly, JPMorgan has just released its 10-K and it reveals some shocking information. ~ Lee Brodie - Video read more

Tatumba 2.0

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

Truth About Our World

• The Zionist Agenda (Full Speech) David Kelly B ...
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• Starve The Machine
  The non-sociological definition of a revolution and the one most people are familiar with is “the forcible overthrow and thorough replacement of an established government or political system by the people governed.” If you ask most freedom activists, they’ll tell you that a coming revolution of ...
• Extreme Super (Full) Moon to Cause Chaos?
  Today is March 6.  Here’s what I predict for the coming weeks: a major earthquake along the New Madrid Fault line,in the USA, and maybe a volcano in Hawaii, which will be blamed on the moon. Let’s hope I’m wrong.  Oh, and I don’t believe the moon will be the cause... Coming up later this month ...
• Iranian Jews to Israel: Our National Idenity i ...
  These people are the REAL Jews, and have my full respect. �
• Today’s Food System: All Drugged Up
  I’m always surprised when the mainstream media reports actual facts, although the Huffington Post is one of the few that does , a lot of the times. It remains to be seen if they will continue to do so now that AOL is it’s owner… Laurie David The next time you’re feeling sick, think twice before ...

Bloomberg

• Energy to Stoke Your Portfolio
  Rising oil prices have been powering share-price increases and profits. These nine stocks are likely to keep the gains coming
• HP: Exiting from Network Gear?
  The computer maker may soon sell its ProCurve unit to one or more private-equity firms as part of an ongoing refocusing effort
• HP's New and Steady Hand
  The computer maker's latest results underscore CEO Mark Hurd's emphasis on execution -- and an apparent return to basics
• Google Buys Android for Its Mobile Arsenal
  The search giant quietly acquires the startup, netting possibly a key player in its push into wireless, "the next frontier in search"
• Merck Tumbles on Texas Verdict
  Autodesk posts strong profits, Gap lowers outlook for the year, and more of Friday's stocks in the news

Enviroblog

• Hold the Applause
  By Jane Houlihan, EWG Senior Vice President for Research Two weeks ago (Feb. 17), fellow activists proclaimed the upbeat news that the European Union had banned xylene and five other toxic chemicals that pose risks to human health and the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my websi ...
• Dr. Oz Talks Toxics in Our Drinking Water
  In February, our friend Dr. Oz dedicated an entire show to the safety of the nation's drinking water. On the air, he revealed the results of the 'Dr. Oz National Tap Water Test' - a hands-on water testing experiment undertaken... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full ...
• EWG testifying on behalf of clean drinking wat ...
  By Leeann Brown, Press SecretaryEnvironmental Working Group's Senior Counsel Dusty Horwitt made his fourth appearance today (March 1, 2011) before the New York City Council's Committee on Environmental Protection to highlight the risks posed by the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visi ...
• If you ask a caveman a chemistry question...
  By Alex Formuzis, EWG Vice-President for Media Relations Good news. Maine governor Paul LePage claims he has read the scientific research on the health dangers posed by bisphenol-A, the plastic component and synthetic estrogen. His conclusion? "Quite... [[ This is a content summary only. Vi ...
• Fluoride in your water: How much is too much?
  By Sonya Lunder, EWG Senior Scientist Last month, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) proposed that public water systems cut back on the amount of fluoride they add to drinking water. Whether you live in a city... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for fu ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

• More fun with Q.R. codes
  A bunch of ideas as a follow-up to last week's feature. More
• A dead-end for LiLo, a 'little death' for Came ...
  Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
• Daniel Harding, international star conductor, ...
  What the celebrated 35-year-old British conductor who made his debut with the New York Philharmonic in two performances on Thursday and Saturday night, has found are extremely efficient orchestras, with very impersonal relationships with their conductors. I ...
• The Very Special 'Championship Season' gets li ...
  It's not good that the Norman Lear TV comedy "All in the Family," which began its eight-year run a year before Championship Season was first seen, keeps coming to mind. We're not expected to see ourselves in Archie Bunker or in Coach. But we're supposed to ...
• Winning, labor laws, liberalization and weird ...
  Here is what we learned this week. More

Views & News from Norway

• Government’s budget battle begins
  Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg gathered his cabinet ministers on Sunday at a traditional hotel in Jevnaker for the annual conference that kicks off budget negotiations among the various ministries. They all try to put on a happy face, but the budget conference is known as being a tough few days ...
• Karpe Diem wins top music award
  Hip-hop duo Karpe Diem won Norway’s top music award, called Ã…rets Spelleman, over the weekend. “A surprising choice, but well-deserved,” claimed a music commentator for newspaper Aftenposten. The hip hop duo comprised of Chirag Patel and Magdi Abdelmaguid released a CD last year called, Aldri s ...
• Oslo bucks ban on grading children
  Norway is one of the few countries in the world with what amounts to a ban on grades for school children. Education officials in Oslo are now once again openly challenging the national regulations against grading the young students’ work, and that’s raising a fuss. The state regulations prohibit ...
• Gold fever rises to Olympic pitch
  The flags had barely come down at Holmenkollen on Sunday before the calls started going out that Oslo should bid for a new Winter Olympics. It was perhaps predictable: Sports bureaucrats already had started carefully planting the seeds of an Olympic bid before the FIS Nordic World Ski Championsh ...
• Crowds posed no problems for police
  Even though an estimated 650,000 people packed the streets of downtown Oslo during the skiing world championships during the past two weeks, police reported no major disturbances and merchants were delighted. Only one drunken brawl among some campers near the ski tracks caused any real concern. ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

• Holistic Management Amongst Ted Talks’ “Ads Wo ...
  This common sense, holistic approach is indeed worth sharing. With this competition, we’re seeking to reverse the trend of online ads being aggressively forced on users. We want to nurture ads so good you choose to watch. On TED.com, ads run after our talks, not before. This means they can run ...
• Chinese Salt Water Fish Ponds
  Like the Hawaiian salt water fish ponds, there are some traditional Chinese salt water fish ponds that work very well. Many of these have been modernised into fishing and angling ponds to capitalise on the urban population, but when you look into the traditional systems there are some very inte ...
• Frank Fekonia
  by Frank Gapinski I was very sad to hear of the passing of a true legend and active member of Permaculture Noosa – Frank Fekonia. Husband to Elisabeth, Frank was a true maverick character who told me how he escaped from communist Slovenia in the early 1960s by stealing a canoe and paddling night ...
• Use of Biological Resources in Establishing a ...
  by Tom & Zaia Kendall, Queensland, Australia This article talks about how we use biological resources to direct and accelerate the growth of our food forest. Part of our Food Forest Tom has been planting out our food forest over the past few years. We use a chicken tractor to prepare ...
• Southern CA Permaculture Convergence: April 29 ...
  Hundreds of Environmentalists are gathering in Malibu. People from all over the southern California will gather to share skills and knowledge to regenerate the Earth. Southern Californians from San Luis Obispo to the Mexico border are waking up to the need to create an alternative to the collaps ...

Telecrap Urinal

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

Anna's News

• Celebrating International Women's Day on March 8
  There is little doubt that the modern woman has conquered all frontiers and established herself in the society that has been male-dominated for years. But, do the Indian women really enjoy "FREEDOM"? Submitted by Anna Smith to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• 8 Ways Cell Phones Can Harm Your Health
  The recent cell phone study from the National Institute of Health was just the latest to yield results indicating that gadgets can disrupt a bodily process. Scientists discovered that 50 minutes of use could affect brain activity in the area closest to...Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Welln ...
• Eating disorders hit more than half million teens
  More than half a million U.S. teens have had an eating disorder but few have sought treatment for the problem, government research shows.The study is billed as the largest and most comprehensive analysis of eating disorders. It involved nationally .......Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Welln ...
• Elephants are quick learners, offer helping hand
  Elephants quickly learn to lend each other a helping hand � ah, make that a helping trunk.In a series of tests, the giant mammals learned to cooperate to solve a problem, researchers report in Monday's edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of ...Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals �|� � ...
• 20 Essential Irish Authors
  Ireland's ancient background, volatile history and cultural milieu unsurprisingly render it a fertile tract where creativity and insight thrive. The tiny nation's literary canon overflows with some of the world's most haunting and provocative worksSubmitted by Anna Smith to Society & Culture �| ...

Medical Marijuana

• 2/25/11 - NEW: History of the Individual Healt ...
  healthcarereform.procon.org - NEW: History of the Individual Health Insurance Mandate, 1989-2010: Republican Origins of Democratic Health Care Provision - Republicans oppose the Mar. 2010 health care reforms for many reasons, especially the provision creating an individual health care mandate w ...
• 2/23/11 - Vaccines ProCon.org - US Supreme Cou ...
  vaccines.procon.org - UPDATED: Vaccines ProCon.org - On Feb. 22, 2011, the US Supreme Court ruled that vaccine injury claims must continue to be filed with the US Court of Federal Claims and cannot be filed directly against physicians or vaccine manufacturers in civil court.
• 2/23/11 - Barack Obama Declares Defense of Mar ...
  gaymarriage.procon.org - Barack Obama Declares Defense of Marriage Act Unconstitutional - President Obama directed the Department of Justice today to stop defending in court the law that prevents gay marriage.
• 2/14/11 - Health Care Reform Opinion Polls/Surveys
  healthcarereform.procon.org - NEW: Health Care Reform Opinion Polls/Surveys - A Jan. 15-19, 2011 poll by CBS and the New York Times found that 40% of Americans want to repeal the March 2010 health care law while 48% want to let it stand. A Dec. 14-15 FOX News poll found that 59% of respondents ...
• 2/14/11 - Help ProCon.org Win $5,000
  www.procon.org - Help ProCon.org Win $5,000: Write a short review of ProCon.org by Feb. 28 for a contest at GreatNonprofits.org. The most-reviewed nonprofit wins, so please take a few minutes and help us compete for the prize!

Progressives United - Russ Feingold

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

Information Underground

• Formal Introductions & Welcomes • Re: Hi
  Statistics: Posted by Ognir — Tue Mar 08, 2011 2:16 pm
• History and Philosophy of Zionism/Judaism/&quo ...
  . . Under the Sign of the Scorpion - The Book in PDF format, DOWNLOAD HERE: http://www.gnosticliberationfront.com/Under_the_Sign_of_the_Scorpion_by_Juri_Lina.pdf . .Statistics: Posted by /tab — Tue Mar 08, 2011 12:08 pm
• Technology, Energy, Genetically Modified or En ...
  I'm actually in the process of writing up a small report which ties Facebook to probable spying on individuals via compromised code. Here's the deal: I wanted to install emulator software on a Mac OSx version snow leopard. This software would permit me to use the linux software WINE which pro ...
• Health, Poisons, Diseases, Drugs • IMMUNE MILK ...
  http://www.raw-milk-facts.com/raw-medicine.html (Cut out the first 3/4 of the article, click on the link I have included to read the full article. Colostrum is milk produced by cows 24 hours after calving, it contains high levels of antibodies for a calf's immune system and is good for humans ...
• False Flag Terrorism, Black Ops & Pseudo G ...
  . . must see - - > 9/11 Experiments: The Great Thermate Debate iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5d5iIoCiI8g 9/11 Experiments: Eliminate the Impossible iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwqLu8ZXIX0 9/11 Experiments: Newton vs. NIST iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tej ...

TVNZ

• Gillard facing voter backlash over carbon tax
  Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has suffered a strong voter backlash over plans to put a price on carbon pollution, with support for her government hitting a record low and increasing pressure to beef up compensation for businesses
• Gaddafi looking for exit deal - Arab media
  Britain and France said they were seeking UN authority for a no-fly zone over Libya, as Muammar Gaddafi's warplanes counter-attacked against rebels and aid officials said a million people were in need.
• Gunmen kidnap 23 workers in Colombia
  Colombian gunmen have kidnapped 23 local oil contractors carrying out exploration work in a remote jungle area for Canada's Talisman Energy Inc.
• No-fly zone debated as Libya violence continues
  Britain and France said they were seeking UN authority for a no-fly zone over Libya, as Muammar Gaddafi's warplanes counter-attacked against rebels and aid officials said a million people were in need.
• Kate Middleton family snaps released
  A five-year old Catherine Middleton is captured smiling in the sunshine amongst a collection of photos recently released by her family.

environment 360

• Blooms of Arctic Plankton Occurring Far Earlie ...
  The steady disappearance of summer sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is causing annual blooms of phytoplankton to occur as much as 50 days earlier now than in the late 1990s, a major shift that could have profound consequences for the Arctic Ocean food chain. Click to enlarge Scripps Institution of ...
• Costa Rican Marine Reserve Will Protect 2.5 Mi ...
  The Costa Rican government has vastly expanded a marine protected area in the eastern tropical Pacific, creating a 3,900-square-mile ocean reserve that is home to more than 30 endemic species. The so-called “Seamounts Marine Management Area,” a UNESCO Photo gallery Conservation InternationalMar ...
• Agribusiness Boom Threatens Key African Wildli ...
  The Ethiopian region of Gambella is home to Africa’s second-largest mammal migration, with more than a million endangered antelope and other animals moving through its grasslands. But the government has now leased vast tracts to foreign agribusinesses who are planning huge farms on land designat ...
• 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, ...
• Deep-Sea Mining is Coming: Assessing the Poten ...
  Numerous companies are moving ahead rapidly with plans to mine copper, gold, and other minerals near hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor. But in an interview with Yale Environment 360, marine biologist Cindy Lee Van Dover warns that without environmental safeguards the unique ecosystems of dee ...

oldephartte/Diigo

• killing Mother
  Tags: Gaea environmental destruction
• The Disaffected Lib
  Tags: lib disaffected polirics Canada
• Robert Reich
  Tags: economics
• The Truthseeker: Behind the headlines – conspi ...
  Tags: truth news politics media truthseeker behind headlines ...
• OSINT
  Tags: osint government intelligence search Open Source

backofthebook

• Jason Kenney’s “very cynical&#8221 ...
  By Sandeep Chauhan Jason Kenney ought to love Charlie Sheen. Kenney and his office pulled a boner of a move with their fundraising letter targeting “very ethnic” communities, but it’s getting buffered a bit by Charlie’s shtick. I should probably be outraged, but I’m not. I should be shocke ...
• 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 ...

  Blacklisted News

• Massive animal cloning research project ended ...
  New Zealand-based research organization AgResearch has abandoned its 13-year animal cloning research program after it proved to be an abysmal failure. A company report states that "only 10 percent of the cloned animals survived through the research trials," and it also admits that the animals un ...
• The Meta Model of Thought Control and Programm ...
  Are your preferences, thoughts and beliefs solely your own or are we obedient and compliant automatons who have adopted certain sub routines due to our social constructs? Be honest, do you go along to get along and imitate others for the approval of your peers? Do you dress alike, speak the same ...
• Passing The Buck: European Central Bank Wants ...
  During the crisis, the European Central Bank began buying up bonds from debt-ridden countries like Greece. Now the bank wants to transfer responsibility for those securities to the EU's euro rescue fund. Meanwhile, the parliamentary group of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives have i ...
• Illinois Strips Gun Owners of Privacy
• MPs call for World Bank shake-up
  The World Bank is in "desperate" need of reform, which should include ending the arrangement under which its president always comes from the US, a parliamentary report has said. The House of Commons International Development Committee said it was time to end the 65-year-old "gentlemen's agree ...

The Intelligence Daily

• U.S. And NATO Escalate World’s Deadliest War O ...
  By Rick Rozoff The United States and its military allies in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization...
• IntelFilter — March 7, 2011
  Today’s Top Headlines Secret to a happy marriage? Delusion. TV’s Next Wave: Tuning In...
• The tyranny of the future
  By Kurt Cobb So often each of us evaluates the present based on our fantasy of the future. That...
• Manchurian Senators
  By David Swanson People are doing journalism and the Washington Post is pissed. How to respond?...
• IntelFilter — March 2, 2011
  Today in History: March 2, 2002: U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins. Economy...

My AntiWar

• Darnah, a City of Secular Islam in Libya
• Satellite Images Show 300 Burned Buildings in ...
• Libyan Civilians Flee Fighting
• Egypt’s New PM Sworn In, Vows to Rebuild ...
• Sudan: 92 Killed as Southern Troops Clash With ...

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

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

The Daily Galaxy

• New Discovery: Largest Molocules in Space Hint ...
  NASA Astronomers have discovered an abundance of buckyballs -the largest known molecules in space. They used the Spitzer Space Telescope to find the carbon spheres throughout our Milky Way galaxy -- in the space between stars and around three dying...
• Intriguing New Impact Crater Sighted on Mars
  The large impact-scarred Huygens basin, known for its unusual elongated craters, is about 450 km in diameter and lies in the heavily cratered southern highlands. One of these odd craters, shown above, sits just to the south of the much...
• Ghostly Beauty of a Nebula & White Dwarf
  The incredibly beautiful planetary nebula, NGC 6210, is a complex cloud of gas produced in the dying stages of a star slightly less massive than our Sun., about 6,500 light-years away, in the constellation of Hercules. In this image, NGC...
• Image of the Day: New Infrared Image of the Sp ...
  The spiral arm segments of the Sunflower galaxy, 37 million light years away, also known as Messier 63, show up in this gorgeous image taken in infrared light by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Infrared light is sensitive to the dust...
• The Daily Flash -Eco, Space, Tech (3/08)
  Captain Kirk Wakes Up Discovery Crew for the Last Time On the day of Discovery's final return to Earth, its crew and the crew of the International Space Station had an amazing wake up call from Captain James T. Kirk...

Natural News

• Teacher fired for bumper sticker highlighting ...
  (NaturalNews) When Tarah Ausburn, a former English teacher at Imagine Prep High School in Surprise, Ariz., refused to remove a bumper sticker from her car that asked the question, "Have you drugged your kids today?" officials fired her, according to reports from KPHO CBS 5 in Phoenix. The sticke ...
• EU successfully undermines Ireland as a GMO-fr ...
  (NaturalNews) Weston A Price Foundation, a nutrition education non-profit, highly recommends butter as a healthy food, particularly grass fed, raw butter, which is hard to come by in America. Because of the lack of availability of locally produced artisan butter, many of our members (and those t ...
• Sugar-sweetened drinks cause higher blood pressure
  (NaturalNews) New research just published in Hypertension: Journal of the American Heart Association concludes that soda and other drinks sweetened with sugar are associated with higher blood pressure. And the more sugar as well as sodium (also found in abundance in most sodas) people consumed, ...
• Japan halts vaccines from Pfizer, Sanofi after ...
  (NaturalNews) The deaths just keep mounting all across the world: Children are collapsing into comas and then dying, just minutes after receiving combination vaccines that have been deceptively marketed as "completely safe." Last year, Australia temporarily banned flu vaccines in children after ...
• Study: Living on a farm helps prevent asthma, ...
  (NaturalNews) Dirty, dusty farm life appears to be better for your health than sanitized city life, according to a recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Researchers from Munich University Children's Hospital in Germany found that asthma rates among farm children was less ...

Threat Level

• Supreme Court Deciding Whether Congress May Co ...
  The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether Congress may take works out of the public domain and grant them copyright status. A federal appeals panel, reversing a lower court, ruled in July against a group of orchestra conductors, educators, performers, publishers, film archivists and moti ...
• An Interactive Timeline of Bradley Manning’s A ...
  The additional charges leveled at Pfc. Bradley Manning last week provide new information on the timing of Manning’s alleged leaking, including the surprising detail that by the time Manning allegedly leaked a notorious video of a 2007 Army helicopter attack in Iraq, he’d already allegedly passed ...
• Condemned Inmate Wins Right to Seek DNA
  The Supreme Court on Monday said inmates have a right to sue under a federal civil rights law toward the goal of winning post-conviction DNA testing. The 6-3 decision concerns Texas condemned inmate Henry Skinner, who was convicted of the 1993 murder of his girlfriend and her two sons. Skinner c ...
• Judge Lets Sony Unmask Visitors to PS3-Jailbre ...
  A federal magistrate is granting Sony the right to acquire the internet IP addresses of anybody who has visited PlayStation 3 hacker George Hotz’s website from January of 2009 to the present. Thursday’s decision by Magistrate Joseph Spero to allow Sony to subpoena Hotz’s web provider (.pdf) rai ...
• Bradley Manning Charged With 22 New Counts, In ...
  Updated 8:00 p.m. EST. The Army has filed 22 new counts against suspected WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning, among them a capital offense for which the government said it would not seek the death penalty. The charges, filed Tuesday but not disclosed until Wednesday, are one count of aiding the e ...

PERRspectives : Blog

• Mitt Romney, Vulture Capitalist
  Ten years ago, George W. Bush was sworn in as America's first MBA President. Now, Mitt Romney wants to be the second. Two years after President Bush completed the worst economic record since Herbert Hoover, Romney the perpetual White House hopeful declared, "I spent my career in the private se ...
• Celebrating the Lincoln Inaugurals, Now More T ...
  2011 is becoming a kind of political Rorschach Test; which of its myriad anniversaries you celebrate most says a lot about who you are and what you believe. While JFK's swearing-in 50 years ago conjures up what might have been, Ronald Reagan's 100th birthday commemorates what never was. And th ...
• The Biggest Loser: Haley Barbour Edition
  At some point in the next several weeks, former RNC chairman and current Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour will decide whether he will seek the White House in 2012. To be sure, Barbour's path to the presidency is full of obstacles. And it's not just because America's foremost neo-Confederate ...
• Republicans Push National Race to the Bottom
  Just days after his sneering "so be it" at the prospect of massive job losses which could result from GOP budget policies, House Speaker John Boehner declared public employees have a "machine gun" pointed "at the heads of local officials." That makes Boehner just the latest Republican leader re ...
• McCain Adviser: GOP Spending Plan Could Kill 7 ...
  Last summer, Moody's economist and former adviser to Republican presidential candidate John McCain Mark Zandi authored a study which concluded that combined federal interventions beginning in the fall of 2008 prevented the Great Recession from becoming Depression 2.0. Now in a new report, Zandi ...

Blackspot News Feed

• Civil war in Libya, intervention by the West a ...
  by William Bowles Featured Writer Dandelion Salad williambowles.info March 6, 2011 “Defence secretary Liam Fox today confirmed that a British diplomatic team is in Libya talking to rebel forces.” — ‘SAS unit ‘held by Libyan rebels’‘, The Independent, 6 March 2011 According to the Wikipedia site ...
• 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 Environment ...
  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 ...

Consortium News

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

CounterPunch

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• Alexander Cockburn : Autumn of the Driveler
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Institute for Middle East Understanding

• Walls of Division - Riz Khan Interviews Roger ...
• An Arab Israeli Woman Fighting on All Fronts ...
  Hanin Zoabi, 41, is a Palestinian Israeli woman, a fighting woman. An elected member of the Israeli Knesset parliament, she is the first woman on an Arab party's list, Balad. In contr ...
• Settler, soldiers open fire on Palestinians ( ...
  Ten Palestinians and a Jewish settler were wounded on Monday during clashes in a village near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, a Palestinian official and witnesses said. Ghassan ...
• Palestinian diplomatic status in the UK upgrad ...
  William Hague said that Britain had upgraded the status of Palestinian diplomats in the UK, in a largely symbolic move aimed at encouraging progress in peace talks with Israel. The fo ...
• Bil'in 4.3.2011 (davidreeb)

Water - AlterNet

• Gaddafi Doubles Down, More Dangerous Than Ever
  It's stalemate time - and the lion is biding his time, never more dangerous when he maneuvers in the shade.
• Why Are California Regulators Turning a Blind ...
  In the Central Valley of California cows generate the same amount of fecal waste as a city of 21 million people, much of which goes untreated and pollutes waterways.
• Desalination: Panacea for Our Water Crisis or ...
  California is trying to solve its water crisis with a huge push for ocean desalination, but opponents claim its too expensive and dangerous for the environment.
• New Data Reveals Farmers Are Mining Groundwate ...
  In less than 7 years, groundwater in the Central Valley leaked away by an amount equal to 63 percent of the capacity of Lake Mead, our country's biggest reservoir.
• US Landowners Fighting Back Against Pipeline T ...
  What are the dangers of pumping gritty, thick crude at high temperature and pressure through a pipeline with walls less than half an inch thick across vital sources of groundwater?

Public Citizen in Texas

• Watch the “Story of Citizens United” video: He ...
  Corporations arenât people and elections shouldn’t be for sale.  If you agree, youâll love âThe Story of Citizens United v. FEC,â a new 8-minute animated short by Annie Leonard, of The Story of Stuff fame. Since the U.S. Supreme Courtâs 2010 Citizens United ruling, we have overwhelming evidence ...
• Bill with the potential to poison our school c ...
  A bill filed by Senator Florence Shapiro (R-Plano) – SB 468 - purports to promote “flexibility of the board of trustees of a school district in the management and operation of public schools in the district,” and makes several changes to the law, including class sizes and the repeal of Section ...
• In Keystone XL Pipeline Negotiations, Charges ...
  In a three part series, Elizabeth McGowan of Solve Climate News writes how some U.S. landowners along the Keystone XL route say they are being ‘pushed around’ and ‘intimidated’ by TransCanada, an accusation the energy giant denies.  To read Ms. McGowan’s story “Is Keystone XL Impervious to Laws ...
• Got Solar?
  For many who want to add more rooftop and other on-site solar generating devices on homes and even commercial properties, there have been concerns about the prospect of being regulated as utilities.  This concern has been seen as an overly burdensome barrier to the industry, however Senator John ...
• Texans for Lots of Radiation bring attention t ...
  Texans for Lots of Radiation (TLR too) brought attention to the record donations raised by Texans for Lawsuit Reform (TLR) PAC ($6.9 million in the 2010 election cycle) with help from its No. 1 donor: nuclear-waste kingpin Harold Simmons. To reduce the cost of negligently harming other people, t ...

Unexplained Mysteries

• Phineas Gage: The man with a hole in his head
  Gage lived for 12 years with a big hole in his head, defying logic and changing neuroscience forever. In 1848, Phineas Gage, a railway worker in Vermo...
• Evidence found of early American seafaring
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• Well preserved 700-year-old mummy found
  A well-preserved female mummy was discovered entirely by chance by Chinese road workers. The woman's body was found clothed in traditional costume fro...
• Egypt's antiquities chief Zahi Hawass resigns
  63-year-old Hawass has resigned from his post following the recent political turmoil in egypt. Well known for his appearances in numerous documentarie...
• Maryborough UFO mystery deepens
  Strange orange lights sighted over Maryborough have left authorities and weather experts baffled. One local news service was bombarded with calls by c...

Grassroots

• We Are the Solution: Celebrating African Famil ...
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• "Pourquoi la campagne": Via Campesina Africa l ...
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• Anti-violence campaign spreads through Central ...
  guate-women.jpg In Central America, a new campaign to stop violence against women is gaining momentum. Launched by the Via Campesina International (the Via), the campaign is aimed at changing not only the attitudes of men towards women, bu ...
• Final Declaration from the World Assembly of S ...
  wsf-dakar4.jpg From to Tunisia to Egypt to Senegal, African social movements are reclaiming their political space. As people demonstrated – and celebrated – in the streets of Cairo, thousands of participants gathered for the World Social F ...
• New Scramble for Africa
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Climate

• Pa.: No Red Flags Over Radioactivity in 7 Rivers
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• House Energy Subcommittee Could Move Bill to B ...
  Source:� The Hill House Republicans may move a bill to permanently block the EPA from regulating greenhouse gas emissions through a key subcommittee later this week.
• Colorado Approves First Post-Cold War Uranium Mill
  Source:� Reuters Colorado regulators on Monday gave final state approval for construction and operation of the first new uranium mill in the U.S. since the Cold War, but the project still faces a court challenge.
• Issa, EPA in Protocol Dispute
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• Ethanol Poses Dilemma for 2012 GOP Field Battl ...
  Source:� The Hill Corn is king in Iowa, but ethanol is a close second, and Republicans seeking to unseat Obama must balance conservative demands to slash subsidies with the popularity of price supports in Iowa.

GreenBiz

• BT to Require Carbon Management from Suppliers
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• Carbon Trust and Siemens Strike £550M Green Fi ...
  New energy saving finance package promises to emulate government's Green Deal scheme.
• Death of Old-Style Lightbulb Forces Easy-Bake ...
  The pending ban of traditional lightbulbs, which spurred the lighting industry to introduce more energy efficiency products, has led to the redesign of a classic toy -- the Easy-Bake Oven.
• BPA-Free Plastic May Release Chemicals with Es ...
  Even plastic-containing products claiming to be BPA-free can still leach chemicals with estrogenic activity (EA), according to a new study published in the Environmental Health Perspectives Journal. The leaching can get worse during regular types of use, such as microwaving or dishwashiing.
• $44M in Energy Efficiency Savings Whets AT&T's ...
  AT&T implemented a whopping 4,200 energy efficiency projects in 2010, setting the stage for an even more aggressive corporate approach to energy management and conservation in 2011.

Reuters Global

• In Pakistan, an assassination and the death of ...
  With the second high-profile assassination in a year, some Pakistanis are trying to resist the temptation to lapse into shocked silence
• U.S.-Pakistan relations better than they look
  For all the noise over the row over Raymond Davis, at a strategic level the positions of the United States and Pakistan are moving closer
• Tweet like an Egyptian — Hillary Clinton ...
  Young Egyptians, who famously used Internet services like Facebook and Twitter to launch their recent revolution, turned the focus on Hillary Clinton on Wednesday and peppered the top U.S. diplomat with skeptical questions about longtime U.S. support for former President Hosni Mubarak and what ...
• Could revolt spread in Africa?
  So far there hasn’t been much political fallout in the rest of Africa from the revolts in the northernmost states. Could the revolt in Libya change the dynamic?
• On U.S.-Taliban talks, look at 2014 and work back
  Any talks between the U.S. and the Taliban will be a long haul. Consider what might be possible in 2014 and work back."

Booman Tribune

• Ensign's Seat Is Now Open
  It's a shame that Sen. John Ensign (R-NV) was allowed to bow out gracefully and on his own terms. I really don't understand why he is allowed to remain in the Senate. In any case, we really have to pick up his seat if we have any hope of maintaining control of the upper body. Roll Call mention ...
• Something for the To-Do List
  I really should start writing about real-world activism: Many worry that youth who spend significant time on fan sites or in online communities tied to hobbies, sports or other interests will become socially isolated. The study found the opposite to be true. Youth engagement in interest-drive ...
• Do you have Twitter?
  If you do, we at BT give you the ability to easily tweet your diaries and the diaries of your colleagues (oh, and even work by those lame front page posters, too). Or you can share these posts on Facebook or other social media. Some of you are taking advantage of this, but if you are not, plea ...
• In 2012, the Goal is a Landslide
  Dan Balz of the Washington Post takes a look at the Obama administration's gearing up for its reelection campaign. One thing that Balz notes is that the administration still maintains its belief in the power of people-powered politics. Few campaigns have ever been as devoted to grass-roots o ...
• We Ain't Broke
  John Boehner keeps telling me that our country is broke. Who am I to disbelieve him? If we're broke, we're broke. House Speaker John Boehner routinely offers this diagnosis of the U.S.s fiscal condition: Were broke; Broke going on bankrupt, he said in a Feb. 28 speech in Nashville. Boeh ...

European Tribune

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Futurismic

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

Therapy News

• Exercise Found to Decrease Cravings in Those w ...
  A GoodTherapy.org News Summary New findings from a study performed at Vanderbilt University links exercise to decreased dependency on marijuana use. According to the research, 30 minutes on a treadmill for as little as five days actually decreased urges from 12 different test subjects. The parti ...
• Better Relationship through Erectile Dysfuncti ...
  By Yvonne Sinclair, MA, MFCC, Relationship Enhancement Therapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Yvonne and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Picture this: soft lights, comfy bed, glass of something tasty, freshly showered bodies, loving couple, and soft music. Yep, we are getting ...
• Children Opposing Parents: Talking Back or Pos ...
  By Beverly Amsel, Ph.D., Individuation Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Beverly and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile At every stage of development, children thrive when their parents listen to their ideas about what they want even if those ideas are very different from parents’ w ...
• Tired of Complaining? Make a Request
  By Jonathan Bartlett, MA, MFT, Relational Psychotherapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Jonathan and/or see his GoodTherapy.org Profile This article will make it all sound so easy. And, practically speaking, it is. The act of making requests is an extremely straightforward process ...
• Finding the Positive
  A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Positivity can make a huge difference in your day. Several mostly-positive days make for a positive week. Then come months, years, and a whole life. Of course, there are down times: dark moments and experiences that can cast months of shadows on the way we see ours ...

Mountaintop Removal

• Ky. candidate stands against mountaintop remov ...
  Ky. candidate stands against mountaintop removal Bloomberg (AP) � Independent Gatewood Galbraith differentiated himself Thursday from all other Kentucky gubernatorial candidates by taking a strong stand against mountaintop removal mining. Galbraith told The Associated Press that the practice ha ...
• Rand Paul to EPA: Don't protect Kentucky - Salon
  The Guardian Rand Paul to EPA: Don't protect Kentucky Salon If there was one form of disastrous pollution you would think everyone would readily agree the Environmental Protection Agency should regulate, it would be mountaintop removal coal mining. It's hard to think of a modern industrial ... ...
• Galbraith comes out against mountaintop remova ...
  Galbraith comes out against mountaintop removal Victoria Advocate (AP) - Independent Gatewood Galbraith differentiated himself Thursday from all other Kentucky gubernatorial candidates by taking a strong stand against mountaintop removal mining. Galbraith told The Associated Press that the prac ...
• Rand Paul to EPA: Don't protect Kentucky - Salon
  The Guardian Rand Paul to EPA: Don't protect Kentucky Salon If there was one form of disastrous pollution you would think everyone would readily agree that the Environmental Protection Agency should regulate, it would be mountaintop removal coal mining. It's hard to think of a modern ... Rand P ...
• Federal Water Tap: Spending Bills and Rule-Mak ...
  Federal Water Tap: Spending Bills and Rule-Making Circle of Blue WaterNews ... EPA from enforcing a program to clean up the Chesapeake Bay, to restrict the agency’s authority to regulate certain discharges under the Clean Water Act, and to prevent agency scientists from reviewing mountaintop ...

Memeorandum

• Obama ups pressure over no-fly zone (Guardian)
  Guardian: Obama ups pressure over no-fly zone  —  Libyan leader told the US and Nato are weighing up a raft of military options, including arming the rebel forces  —  Barack Obama has stepped up pressure on Colonel Gaddafi, saying the US and Nato allies were considering a military response to v ...
• EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Scott Brown Begs David Koch F ...
  Brad Johnson / ThinkProgress: EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Scott Brown Begs David Koch For Money  —  At the public dedication of MIT's David H. Koch Integrative Cancer Institute last Friday, Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) effusively thanked conservative billionaire David Koch for supporting his election in 2010 a ...
• Obama's debt expert yells at kids (Mj Lee/The ...
  Mj Lee / The Politico: Obama's debt expert yells at kids  —  Alan Simpson referred to Snoop Dogg (left) and Eminem (right) in his tirade.  —  AP Photo  —  Alan Simpson might need to freshen up on his pop culture.  —  The co-chairman of President Obama's deficit commission tried to scold the el ...
• White House memo notes shortage of applicants ...
  Peter Maer / CBS News: White House memo notes shortage of applicants for contest to have Obama to speak at high school graduation  —  The White House is ramping up an effort to promote a nationwide competition to decide which high school wins a commencement speech by President Obama.
• FIRED! Charlie Sheen Axed From 'Two And A Half ...
  Nellie Andreeva / Deadline.com: FIRED!  Charlie Sheen Axed From ‘Two And A Half Men’, He Fires Back & Vows To Sue  —  UPDATED: It's over for Charlie Sheen on the hit CBS comedy Two and a Half Men.  But his ongoing war with the series producer Warner Bros. TV is far from over, with lawyers for ...

Energy & Environment News

• Green: Wal-Mart Bans Flame Retardant
  The E.P.A. has announced a voluntary phase-out of the most common form of the chemical that should take effect in several years, but that move was apparently not bold enough for Wal-Mart.
• Inspector Faults Energy Department Over Loan P ...
  The inspector general said poor record-keeping made it hard to document decisions in a $71 billion guarantee program for ventures with clean technologies.
• Findings: When Energy Efficiency Sullies the E ...
  Some economists say it’s possible that improved energy efficiency can paradoxically lead to more greenhouse emissions.
• Deal Is Reached for Line Under Hudson Giving t ...
  New York City reportedly struck a deal that would end months of wrangling over a plan to send electricity to Manhattan from New Jersey.
• Green: Waxman Assails G.O.P. ‘Science D ...
  "The new Republican majority in the House has a lot of power to write our nation's laws, but they do not have the power to rewrite the laws of nature," the congressman says.

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China Dialogue

• China’s challenge to Europe
  The ambitious green goals in China’s new five-year plan are a test for EU leadership, writes Shin Wei Ng.China’s 12th Five-Year Plan (FYP) will be approved at the end of this week after the annual sessions of the National People’s Congress and Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference – ...
• Concrete measures in California
  A groundbreaking green building code in the western United States could help boost sustainable construction standards globally, writes John Anderson.If you visited a construction site in California over the past decade, the chances are good it incorporated some degree of sustainable building pra ...
• "China needs higher targets"
  Yesterday on chinadialogue, Pan Jiahua said China should adopt only moderate energy targets in its 12th Five-Year Plan. Yang Fuqiang, Hou Yanli and Li Jingjing disagree. Here, they urge the government to adopt more ambitious goals to help the country meet the challenges ahead. C ...
• Reining in China’s energy targets
  As China’s politicians prepare to launch the country’s 12th Five-Year Plan, Pan Jiahua tells Liu Jianqiang why energy-intensity targets should be kept in check.This week, China’s highest state body – the National People’s Congress – is meeting to discuss and determine the country’s economic targ ...
• America’s coal war
  As the US row over mountaintop mining rages on, Cathy Kunkel urges politicians in West Virginia to embrace a more sustainable future.In January 2011, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) provoked an outcry in West Virginia, America's second-largest coal-producing state, by denying a vall ...

AlterNet Top Stories

• Bradley Manning Humiliated and Abused: Why Is ...
  Bradley Manning leaked cables showing officials covering up U.S. tax dollars funding child rape in Afghanistan, illegal bombings in Yemen and more -- and he's the one in jail?
• Texas Legislators Fight Back With Pointed Amen ...
  Written by Amanda Marcotte for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice. In this era of fetuses being called to testify in court and anti-choicers trying to strip away funding for cancer screening and condoms, it does feel for pro-choicers like weâv ...
• On Women’s Day, GOP Attacks Women
  Not like Valentineâs Day, which is about love and chocolate, or Motherâs Day, which is about sentimentality and breakfast in bed, International Womenâs Day is about equality and autonomy. The first commemoration occurred on March 19, 1911, a time when most governments in the world, including the ...
• Has Walker's Giant Overreach Screwed Republica ...
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Threat Level

• Supreme Court Deciding Whether Congress May Co ...
  The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether Congress may take works out of the public domain and grant them copyright status. A federal appeals panel, reversing a lower court, ruled in July against a group of orchestra conductors, educators, performers, publishers, film archivists and moti ...
• An Interactive Timeline of Bradley Manning’s A ...
  The additional charges leveled at Pfc. Bradley Manning last week provide new information on the timing of Manning’s alleged leaking, including the surprising detail that by the time Manning allegedly leaked a notorious video of a 2007 Army helicopter attack in Iraq, he’d already allegedly passed ...
• Condemned Inmate Wins Right to Seek DNA
  The Supreme Court on Monday said inmates have a right to sue under a federal civil rights law toward the goal of winning post-conviction DNA testing. The 6-3 decision concerns Texas condemned inmate Henry Skinner, who was convicted of the 1993 murder of his girlfriend and her two sons. Skinner c ...
• Judge Lets Sony Unmask Visitors to PS3-Jailbre ...
  A federal magistrate is granting Sony the right to acquire the internet IP addresses of anybody who has visited PlayStation 3 hacker George Hotz’s website from January of 2009 to the present. Thursday’s decision by Magistrate Joseph Spero to allow Sony to subpoena Hotz’s web provider (.pdf) rai ...
• Bradley Manning Charged With 22 New Counts, In ...
  Updated 8:00 p.m. EST. The Army has filed 22 new counts against suspected WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning, among them a capital offense for which the government said it would not seek the death penalty. The charges, filed Tuesday but not disclosed until Wednesday, are one count of aiding the e ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

• Gaddafi forces strike rebels in west and east ...
  TRIPOLI/RAS LANUF, Libya (Reuters) - Libyan government troops, tanks and warplanes attacked rebels on the western and eastern fronts on Tuesday, pressing their campaign to crush an insurrection against Muammar Gaddafi.
• Researchers find U.S. "diabetes belt"
  NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Already dubbed America's "stroke belt," the southeastern U.S. just earned another dubious distinction as the nation's "diabetes belt," government researchers said Tuesday.
• WikiLeaks: EADS execs briefed U.S. on internal ...
  PARIS (Reuters) - A litany of back-stabbing at Europe's top aerospace group is exposed in leaked U.S. cables, which show American diplomats avidly collecting details on the cracks in U.S. planemaker Boeing's main rival.
• China cool to Libya no-fly zone proposal
  BEIJING (Reuters) - Any United Nations-authorized action against Libya must ensure it helps the country return to stability as soon as possible, China said on Tuesday in response to British and French proposals for a no-fly zone.
• Boeing starts 787 changes to meet certificatio ...
  CHICAGO (Reuters) - Boeing Co said on Monday it began incorporating required changes to its long-delayed 787 Dreamliner to move the program toward certification this year by aviation authorities.

IntelNews

• Libyan TV accuses detained Dutch helicopter cr ...
  Just days after the capture of a British paramilitary and intelligence team in Libya, the countryâs state television has accused three Dutch marines, captured by pro-government loyalists, of spying. Continue reading →
• Arrest of British spy team in Libya reveals co ...
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  Cuban-American exile leader funded ex-CIA agent on trial. Ex-CIA station chief sentenced for sexual abuse. Analysis: What should the CIA be doing in Libya? Continue reading →
• Cold War KGB agent Judith Coplon dies in Manhattan
  Judith Coplon, an American Justice Department analyst who spied for the Soviet Union, and whose 1949 espionage trial became an international sensation, died last weekend in New York. Continue reading →
• News you may have missed #480 (Libya edition)
  Unconfirmed: Gadaffi fires spy chief. Libya's poison gas stockpiles reportedly unaffected by turmoil. Libya replaces ambassador to US who defected. Continue reading →

War is a Crime.org

• Wisconsin Democrats Plan Capitulation
  Wisconsin Democrats Plan Capitulation - by Stephen Lendman Three weeks and counting since Wisconsin public workers began heroically protesting for rights too important to lose, including collective bargaining without which all others are threatened. Daily, many thousands braved cold and snow - ...
• Lbya is not a Civil War
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• Afghanistan War Weekly: March 7, 2011
  The war on the ground is on pause for a few more weeks, pending melting snows and the cover provided by new greenery. This relative lull in the fighting has produced good/useful articles assessing the lack of progress in the war, and/or looking with some anxiety to the beginning of the new figh ...
• Another Life Focuses This One
  Brilliant and humane playwright Karen Malpede has produced another play that grabs this country by the lapels, shakes it, caresses its cheek, and kicks its ass. The play is called "Another Life" and the life it leaves me thinking about is the life of our dreams. The play is not so much a nati ...
• A Bracelet Can Be Removed
  This report just aired on CBS Evening News: � Woman wears POW/MIA bracelet for nearly 40 years � March 7, 2011 - Kathy Strong was 12 years old when she put on a bracelet to keep vigil for a solider missing in Vietnam -- now it's time for her to take it off � read more

Grist - News

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

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  Twitter Account Suspensions Grew 20% in 2010, Barracuda Networks Says
• I Signed My Kid Up For T-Ball Against His Will
  One mother's story of making a game day decision
• Looking to Betty White to Get Moving Again
  Article is all about women, especially in their 40's who feel "stuck", what a few experts say and how to get going again.

Time - Top Stories

• Louisiana's Grand Isle: Mardi Gras Amid Oil-Sp ...
  As Fat Tuesday approaches, there is sublimated anxiety among the residents of the first populated piece of U.S. territory to see the BP oil spill make land
• Photos: History's Most Rebellious Women
  Photos: History's Most Rebellious Women
• The Baby and the Bathwater
  What's behind the Republican assault on Planned Parenthood?
• Will Libya's Conflict Echo the Spanish Civil War?
  Will Libya's Conflict Echo the Spanish Civil War?
• Obama's Torturous Turn on Gitmo Detainees
  Obama's Torturous Turn on Gitmo Detainees

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

• Gaddafi Launches Airstrikes On Libyan Rebels
  Libyan rebels lose ground to Kadhafi forces By Agence France-Presse via Raw Story Monday, March 7th, 2011 — 8:33 am RAS LANUF, Libya (AFP) â Libyan rebels ceded ground to Moamer Kadhafi’s advancing forces Monday as the United States came under increasing pressure to arm the opposition and the UN ...
• Scott Walker Wants To Freeze Self-Supporting S ...
  (h/t to First Draft for photo) Scott Walker Hates Anything That Helps The Little People. Here’s Another Example Crooks & Liars- By Susie Madrak March 07, 2011 07:00 AM From the Cap Times (via First Draft, a blog that’s done an amazing job cover the Madison movement). This insurance plan is somet ...
• Arizona Governor Signing Death Warrants?
  Arizona Budget Cuts Target Potentially Life-Saving Care For Transplant Patients Reuters- via HuffPost First Posted: 03/ 6/11 07:05 PM Updated: 03/ 6/11 07:05 PM PEORIA, Arizona (Reuters) – A pacemaker and defibrillator fitted to carpenter Douglas Gravagna’s failing heart makes even rising from ...
• Howard Fineman: 2012 Presidential Race On Chri ...
  Howard Fineman Talks 2012 Presidential Race On ‘The Chris Matthews Show’ (VIDEO) HuffPost TV Posted: March 6, 2011 11:21 AM The Huffington Post’s Senior Political Editor Howard Fineman appeared on “The Chris Matthews Show” on Sunday, along with the BBC’s Katty Kay, NBC News’ Norah O’Donnell and ...
• 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 ...

Solari

• America is NOT Broke
  Michael Moore Speaks in Madison, WI — March 5, 2011 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 country is awash in wealth and cas ...
• Precious Metals Market Report
  By Catherine Austin Fitts I am back in Tennessee and heading over to middle Tennessee to join Franklin Sanders for our Precious Metals Market Report this Thursday evening. The silver and gold markets continue to be strong  - with no sign of a correction. I want to dig into what is happening ri ...
• USA: The Costs of a Strong Dollar Policy
  [click on the image for a larger version] Related reading: List of Countries by Military Expenditures Wikipedia “Related Disinformation” kpcb.com
• SEC Charges Former Goldman Sachs Board Member ...
  “Board Member of Goldman Sachs and Procter & Gamble Charged in Insider Trading Scheme” Washington, D.C., March 1, 2011 â The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced insider trading charges against a Westport, Conn.-based business consultant who has served on the boards of directors a ...
• State Legislation:Precious Metals
  Legislators in at least ten states have introduced bills in the past few years to allow state commerce to be conducted with gold and silver. Georgia, Montana, Missouri, Colorado , Idaho , Indiana , New Hampshire , South Carolina, Utah and Washington Continue reading the article . . . Related re ...

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

• India Must Free Human Rights Defender Binayak ...
  If you don't know who Binayak Sen is, it's time to find out.
• Bradley Manning Humiliated and Abused: Why Is ...
  Bradley Manning leaked cables showing officials covering up U.S. tax dollars funding child rape in Afghanistan, illegal bombings in Yemen and more -- and he's the one in jail?
• Under Obama, You're Safer off Committing a War ...
  Bradley Manning leaked cables showing officials covering up U.S. tax dollars funding child rape in Afghanistan, illegal bombings in Yemen and more -- and he's the one in jail?
• The Military Wants Us to Say We're Sorry: What ...
  Two keynote speakers on how the discourse shifted at ECAASU once military money got involved.
• 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.

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

• “You just have not seen enough people bl ...
  Summary:  There is a belief among some combat veterans that anti-war advocates “just have not seen enough people bleed to death”. They know that rapid intervention by America’s most highly trained and experienced warriors could stifle Qadaafi’s plans to unleash terror and death on the pro-democ ...
• About invading Libya – let’s give ...
  Summary:  Large military forces give us a greater range of options — but they also narrow our options.  The existence of arms creates pressure to use them.  Our ability to intervene creates a feeling of responsibility.  Deaths following our failure to intervene become our fault (see Lang’s ...
• 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 ...

Open Your Eyes News

• Marine Le Pen poll rating shock for French pol ...
  BBC – An opinion poll suggesting far-right leader Marine Le Pen could win the first round of next year’s presidential election has caused a shock in France. Read article
• Rebels battle for control in Libya
  UKPA - Libyan helicopter gunships fired on a rebel force advancing west toward the capital along the Mediterranean coastline and forces loyal to leader Muammar Gaddafi fought intense ground battles with the rival fighters. The opposition force pushed out of the rebel-held eastern half of Libya l ...
• Afghanistan lets Blackwater stay despite shake ...
  Guardian - Blackwater looks set to survive an Afghan government clampdown on mercenaries after Hamid Karzai was forced by his western partners to abandon a complete disbandment of private security companies. Under plans to be announced by the Afghan government this month many security contractor ...
• Queensland cop knew Taser victim as ‘violent’
  AAP – A police officer who fatally tasered a north Queensland man decided to equip himself with the device after a phone call warning of a “sh***y” job”, an inquest has heard. The inquest into the death of Antonio Galeano heard a recording of a phone call from a police communications officer to ...
• Researchers find more plastic in the guts of A ...
  Vancouver Sun – When biologist Jennifer Provencher headed to the Arctic, she signed on to help assess how seabird diets are changing as temperatures climb in the North. She never expected to find plastics on the menu. But she and her colleagues at the Canadian Wildlife Service are pulling remark ...

The Progressive Realist

• Al Jazeera's Transition
  Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had some kind words to say about Qatar-based news network Al Jazeera, which has been at the forefront of covering the protests in the Middle East: "Viewership of Al Jazeera is going up in the United States because it's real news," Clinton said. "You may no ...
• The Afghanistan Quagmire: World’s Best Milita ...
  Itâs impossible for Republican Rep. Walter Jones of North Carolina to ignore the enormous costs of the war in Afghanistan. Thatâs because those costs are borne disproportionately by the constituents of his district, which is home to Cherry Point (the worldâs largest Marine Corp Air Station) ...
• Brief Questions Concerning Possible US Respons ...
  Is NATO headed for all the attendant risks (via) of a Libya no-fly zone, but with implementation after it would prove most effective? Also, at what point does a Civil War last long enough that it is okay for a third party to start directly arming its preferred side?
• Obama, Gates on Gitmo
  Today the White House released its executive order on indefinite detention and announcing that military commissions charges will be filed. Based on first read everything I wrote a few months ago about the EO is still true: The process enshrines a key element of Bush-era national security policy ...
• Why a No-Fly Zone for Libya Without Security C ...
  The UK government is apparently working on a contingency draft Security Council resolution authorizing a no-fly zone for Libya.  That kind of contingency planning is useful as far as it goes. For one, it helps find what the potential “red lines” are for countries like Russia that have so far ex ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

• Wealth and Success, Again
  Andrew Sullivan has done it again. In a post about rampant income inequality -- which, to be fair, he sees as a problem -- Sullivan equates "wealth" with "success." I'll let E.D. Kain explain what's wrong with this equivalence: But what really irks me about Andrew’s post is his use of the phras ...
• A New Image for Unions?
  Extended controversies can have some real benefits for citizens, including that they allow time to be exposed to various arguments and give some consideration to each. It doesn't always produce wise public opinion, but it can. In the case of the Wisconsin union issue, it's giving people an oppor ...
• Reality Knocks on Congress' Door
  With declining unemployment numbers, rising corporate profits and a growing GDP, many analysts say we’ve reached a turning point in the recovery. The Dow Jones is up 86% from its March 2009 low, private sector jobs are multiplying and export levels are approaching an all-time high. With statisti ...
• The President: Still a Politician
  On Meet the Press yesterday, White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley denied that the nation's top politician is thinking about his reelection campaign: White House chief of staff Bill Daley said on Sunday President Barack Obama isn�t concerned about the politics of 2012. �This is a guy that doesn ...
• The Little Picture: Guantanamo Bay Trials
  President Obama approved on Monday restarting trials for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay. Above, a courthouse where military commissions are held. (Flickr/PBS News Hour's photostream)

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