8 March - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

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Buzzflash

• New York Times Posts Puff Piece on Koch Brothers
  KEVIN SINCLAIR FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT The New York Times has a front page story today on the charitable activities of the notorious Koch Bros. The Times article states brother David has given hundreds of millions of dollars to cancer research over the years, including $100 million to new a c ...
• Fighting Over Crumbs Left from Military Spending
  LAURA FLANDERS FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT There's been a joke going around the labor protests.   It goes something like this: A union member, a CEO and a Tea Party member are sitting at a table with 12 cookies. The CEO grabs 11, turns to the Tea Partier and says "The Union's out to take your cook ...
• Tea Partiers Need to Read About Our Constituti ...
  STEPHEN PIZZO FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Tea Party "patriots" - they're a lot like Christian Born-Agains who've decided that Jesus, and everything He is alleged to have said, represent the Way - the only way. Tea Partiers are our 1776-Born Agains and, like their holier than thou counterparts, the ...
• Afghan Children Paying for U.S. Occupation - W ...
  KATHY KELLY FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Recent polls suggest that while a majority of U.S. people disapprove of the war in Afghanistan, many on grounds of its horrible economic cost, only 3% took the war into account when voting in the 2010 midterm elections.  The issue of the economy weighed hea ...
• Go to Wisconsin, President Obama
  PAUL LOEB FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Dear President Obama, I'm glad you've opposed the attacks on Wisconsin's public workers, but you need to do more. You need to go there and speak out, or at least speak out again and more strongly, because Americans need to understand what's at stake, and those ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

• Chris Dodd shows how Washington works
  After emphatically vowing not to lobby, the former five-term Senator becomes Hollywood's chief lobbyist
• Shifting editorial standards
  The NYT accuses Julian Assange of anti-Semitic comments even though it has no idea if it's true
• The nationalism bias of journalists
  Jack Goldsmith believes U.S. journalists are guided by allegiance to American interests, and that this is good
• U.S. continues Bush policy of opposing ICC pro ...
  A strange clause in the U.N. resolution condemning Libya is there because the U.S. demanded it
• The military/media attacks on the Hastings article
  WSJ, MSNBC reporters attack an expose. Plus, this just in from the NYT: "we tried our best not to be misleading"

The BiPartisan Report

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

Sciencebase

• How to spot a fake smile
  Apparently, most people are surprisingly bad at spotting fake smiles, according to the BBC at least (other observers suggest otherwise). One theory as to why this might be is that it is perhaps easier for people to get along if they don’t always know what others are really feeling. But, I’d ar ...
• The Elements Song – Periodic Table of Videos
  The PToV team has spliced together a great version of the classic Tom Lehrer song, The Elements. I love this song and I’m sure Lehrer would agree this creative version is elementary. Featuring Prof Martyn Poliakoff and all the gang. Related Posts:Periodic table of videos at the moviesReal chem ...
• Five science selects
  Persistence of vision – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – If persistence of vision were the explanation for how the mind perceives moving pictures in cinema, cinema wouldn't work, because the persistence would constantly produce images of complementary colour to what is on the screen. The Vic ...
• Five science selects
  How to Find Trustworthy Science and Health Information – Today, we’re overwhelmed with sources of information, with hundreds of television stations and millions of Web sites, and it can be hard to figure out what to trust. Google recently tweaked its search algorithm to bring higher quality site ...
• Spectral science selection
  Aussie rock rolls The oldest fossils of bacteria ever found were discovered in a rock formation in Western Australia, the discovery led to great excitement that has not abated for more than two decades. Until now. Raman spectroscopy shows that what palaeontologists thought were pristine microbia ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

• Reaction to Executive Order Announced by Pres ...
  The Constitution Project (TCP) issued a statement in reaction to the release of an executive order that would establish a regular review process for Guantanamo detainees who will not be released or tried, and an order to Secretary Gates to refer new charges to the military commissions system.rea ...
• Medical Marijuana Patient to Los Angeles Voter ...
  A vote taking place in Los Angeles Tuesday threatens to increase the cost of an already expensive treatment for many medical marijuana patients in the city. Measure M, which is one of 10 ballot measures facing the voters of Los Angeles Tuesday, would increase taxes on medical marijuana by 5 perc ...
• Federal Judge Reinstates Roadless Rule Protect ...
  A diverse coalition of Alaska Native, tourism industry, and environmental organizations celebrated a decision by a federal district judge in Anchorage on Friday, March 4, which reinstates roadless rule protections for the Tongass National Forest, America’s great temperate rainforest. Read the ...
• Behind U.S.-Backed Bahrain Regime’s “Dialogue”
  Protests in Bahrain today took to the U.S. embassy with signs including “Stop Supporting Dictators.” For updates on the Bahrain uprising, see the #Feb14 hashtag on Twitter; for breakdown: accuracy.org/uprisingsread more
• In a Victory for Government Transparency, U.S. ...
  The U.S. Supreme Court today delivered a victory for government transparency in Milner v. Department of the Navy, when the court refused to allow an exemption to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to become an "all-purpose back-up provision to withhold sensitive records." Public Citizen had f ...

Common Dreams-Views

• Sidelining Egyptian Women after the Uprising
  Widney Brown A century ago, more than a million people marched in streets across Europe on the first International Women's Day. They called for an end to discrimination and for women to have the same rights as men to work, vote, and shape ...
• Don't Forget Bradley Manning
  Duncan Campbell Tomorrow morning, Private First Class Bradley Manning will be required to stand naked for the daily roll call in the US marine base in Quantico, Virginia, where he is being held on multiple charges, including "aiding the e ...
• The Republican Attack on Women’s Health Goes G ...
  Michelle Chen What does a congressperson from Ohio have in common with a 16 year-old sex worker in Cambodia? They’re both symbols of the perverse political stalemate in Washington, D.C., that threatens to set back the struggle for women’s ...
• The Imperative Of Women's Human Rights
  Lucinda Marshall This year marks the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day.  It is a time to celebrate the lives of women and to renew our commitment to women’s human rights throughout the world.An early International Women's Day ...
• Beware the Invisible Hand of Privatization
  Willie Pelote, Sr. In California, the state government currently spends more than $34 billion a year paying private contractors to do jobs that civil servants can perform for half the cost. Another $900 million of taxpayer funds is wasted ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

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

Water Wars

• Water wars hearing: What's at stake
  ATLANTA - A tri-state dispute threatening the water supply of roughly 3 million people in metro Atlanta is headed to an appeals court Wednesday, although some involved in the case expect that negotiations not a court order will bring a resolution.
• Water wars
  National Weather Service extended the flood warning for Sandusky River in Tiffin until this afternoon. The river was at 8.37 feet at 9:45 p.m. Monday, and the highest forecast was 8.4 feet at 1 a.m. today.
• Appeals court to consider water wars standoff
  A tri-state dispute threatening Metro Atlanta's water supply is heading to an appeals court.
• Central Valley Water Crisis Making a Comeback?
  The water wars are not over. Hearings scheduled in a Fresno courtroom could decide whether Westside farmers will get the water they are counting on, or if tens of thousands of acres will again remain dry.
• Deal: Solving Water Wars an Important Farm Issue
  Gov. Nathan Deal has told Georgia's largest farm lobbying group that not everyone will be happy with the steps necessary to resolve a tri-state water dispute.

WordPress | Economics

• Alex Jones: Humanity's Last Stand !
• Plutocracy in America: A term for our times
  Recently I wrote about Bertram Gross’s Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America (1982), a
• Good Ordinances Make Good Neighbors
  By Neil Williamson, President Albemarle County is currently considering revisions to its farm winery
• Resource Management Act streamlining by Nation ...
  ### beehive.govt.nz 8 March, 2011 Nick Smith | Environment RMA changes support Christchurch recovery
• Another Disappointing Democratic Consideration
  It seems that these days it is hard to tell where the true Democrats in our Central Government are.

Electronic Intifada

• Anti-government protests erupt across Iraq
  BAGHDAD, Iraq (IPS/AJ) - Hundreds of people have converged on Baghdad's Tahrir, or Liberation, Square on 4 March for an anti-government demonstration despite a vehicle ban that ...
• Pro-democracy protests spread to Oman
  SOHAR, Oman (IPS/AJ) - Fresh protests have taken place in the Gulf sultanate of Oman, following a wave of pro-democracy demonstrations across the Arab world. The unrest in Soha ...
• Palestinians at home, abroad protest division, ...
  Palestinian civil society groups are preparing for a day of mass sit-ins on 15 March, to protest the widening split between Palestinian political and resistance factions as Isr ...
• The struggle for al-Araqib is the struggle for ...
  Al-Araqib was the last village I visited before my arrest. Al-Araqib is not just a village, but the very heart of a nation and a people. On 5 May 2010, I was there under the te ...
• Is entertaining dictators worse than normaliz ...
  As international stars face widespread criticism for having earned huge fees entertaining Libya's Gaddafi family, Nada Elia and Laurie King ask why artists who entertain aparth ...

Afghanistan Sun

• Blackwater set to remain in Afghanistan despit ...
  Blackwater is set to remain in Afghanistan after President Hamid Karzai has been forced by the Western partners to give up his plans of shunting private security companies out of his ...
• British defence ministry spent 50 mn pounds to ...
  Even as 11,000 British troops face the axe as part of efforts to reduce the defence budget, a media report said the country's defence chiefs spent over a whopping 50 million pounds to host VIPs ...
• Karzai accepts Gates' apology over deaths ...
  Afghan President Hamid Karzai has accepted an apology of US Defence Secretary Robert Gates for the deaths of nine children in a NATO air strike, a day after he had rejected the regrets of the top US ...
• Private Contractors Reach Record Number in Afg ...
  (MENAFN - Saudi Press Agency) The number of private security personnel working for the U.S. military in Afghanistan rose to about 18,900 at the end of last year, a U.S. congressional report said on ...
• Taliban linked to Pakistan car bomb
  The Taliban said it has detonated a car bomb in Pakistan's third largest city, killing 20 and wounding more than 100 people in an attack it said targeted the offices of the country's main ...

Futurismic

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

geopolitics | geoeconomics

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

• Is BLM Paying Millions of Dollars to Settle Ha ...
  By Mandy Smithberger In response to our recent letter regarding industry-Bureau of Land Management coziness in Casper, Wyoming, POGO has received some additional allegations about other questionable management practices—including favoritism, discrimination, and harassment—that resulted in BLM us ...
• NIH Rules Miss Subtleties of Corporate Influen ...
  By Paul D. Thacker POGO noted last week that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is considering new rules to address the issue of corporate ghostwriting in medical literature. Although NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins told POGO that his agency...
• Morning Smoke: Supreme Court FOIA Ruling Deliv ...
  Where there's smoke, there's fire. POGO's Morning Smoke is a collection of the previous day's investigations, scoops, and opinions related to the world of government oversight. Have a story you'd like to see included? Contact POGO's blog editor. Major transparency...
• New Podcast: How Bad Performance Can Be Good f ...
  By Bryan Rahija A new POGO podcast is now available. Last week, POGO staffers sat down to offer their thoughts on a recent Commission on Wartime Contracting hearing, at which POGO's Scott Amey testified. Download the latest podcast Subscribe to...
• New Entries in POGO's Federal Contractor Misco ...
  By Bryan Rahija POGO has updated its Federal Contractor Misconduct Database with the following cases: Case: F-16 Radar Contract TINA Violation Contractor: Northrop Grumman Date: 07/01/2000 (Date of Settlement - approx.) Synopsis: Northrop Grumman’s Electronic Sensors Systems Division agreed to...

Digital Journal

• Spoken Word poet Dwayne Morgan Black History O ...
  As Black History month celebrations wrapped up at the beginning of March in Markham Ontario Canada spoken word poet Dwayne Morgan was brought in as the keynote speaker for the celebration.
• Police divers continue search for young Kayla ...
  The Ontario Provincial Police continue to search for Kayla Maybee who fell through the ice of Gentleman Creek near London, Ontario this weekend. The mission is now in recovery mode.
• Man still missing from January abduction
  Over a month ago on January 20 two men from Mississauga were abducted. six days later one of the men, Johnny Fei was released in the Don Mills area. Tony Han still is missing.
• Spiders cause Mazda recall
  Yellow-sac spiders, who like to build webs in the emission systems of Mazda6 cars, have led to a recall of about 65,000 vehicles.
• Hugh Masekela will be performing in Vancouver ...
  One of South Africa's great musicians, Hugh Masekela is coming to Vancouver. When he gets here on Friday March 11, he will first give a lecture on the musician's role as a cultural ambassador and how music can raise social and political awareness.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

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

Kevin Trudeau Show

• The Kevin Trudeau Show: 3-7-11
  Today, Kevin explains how the media, internet, television, movies, magazines and newspapers are ALL misleading you. Plus, find out why, in life, it’s not about the mistakes you’ve made, but the lessons you’ve learned. Self Help: You Become What You Think About Most Of The Time Success Is A Decis ...
• Recall Roundup: Potato Chips, Men’s Supp ...
  March 7th, 2011 WalletPop.com By: Linda Doell Keeping track of the latest product and food recalls can be a challenge, so Consumer Ally has collected them in one place for you to check each week. Here is this week’s roundup of recalls: Martin’s Famous Pastry Shoppe recalled certain Nibble with G ...
• A Misleading Website Tries To Pass As Real New ...
  March 7th, 2011 News1Reports.com Have You Ever Thought About Working From Home… Online? Jessica Holcomb never thought that she would, until curiosity got the best of her and she filled out a simple online form and put out just a little money to try a program she came across. Before she knew it, ...
• Texas Group Offers Scholarships to White Men Only
  March 7th, 2011 AOL News By: Lauren Frayer A new nonprofit group in Texas is offering college scholarships to a demographic it says has fewer scholarship options than other groups: white men. The group, called the Former Majority Association for Equality, was started by Colby Bohannon, a student ...
• Mega-Doses of Vitamin D Help Prevent Breast Ca ...
  March 7th, 2011 Natural News By: Ethan A. Huff Current government recommendations of 400 or 600 international units (IU) of vitamin D a day are insufficient to prevent serious diseases like breast cancer, a new study published in the journal Anticancer Research has found. Researchers from the Un ...

Pambazuka News

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

War in Context

• How the West can tip the balance towards a fre ...
  Aziz Meshiea, a Libyan reader of War in Context writes on his blog: Qaddafi’s support inside the country is so wafer-thin and dependent on his ability to show continued strength in suppressing any resistance, is a pretty well understood fact inside the country. As a Libyan myself, I see anti-i ...
• The fight for Libya
  Reuters reports Gaddafi may be looking for a way out: Al Jazeera said Gaddafi had proposed to Libyan rebels to hold a meeting of parliament to pave the way for him to step down with certain guarantees. It said Gaddafi made the proposal to the interim council, which speaks for mostly eastern ar ...
• Obama is the change Bush could believe in
  Thanks to Antony Loewenstein for the headline. Politico reports: The Obama administration, which famously pledged to be the most transparent in American history, is pursuing an unexpectedly aggressive legal offensive against federal workers who leak secret information to expose wrongdoing, hig ...
• Tom Engelhardt: (N)ever again
  Old secretaries of defense never die, they just write bestselling memoirs By Tom Engelhardt Talking about secretaries of defense… Oh, we weren’t? Well, let’s.  After all, they’re in the news.  Take former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld who, on leaving government service — and I hope y ...
• Intifada update
  Storming Egypt State Security The video speaks for itself. We stormed into the notorious political police main HQ in Cairo after the authorities didn’t dismantle the apparatus. We did it ourselves. The end of the video shows an former Islamist detainee who discovered an electric torture tool e ...

Watts Up With That?

• Models All The Way Down
  Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach A learned man was arguing with a rube named Nasruddin. The learned man asked “What holds up the Earth?” Nasruddin said “It sits on the back of a giant turtle.” The learned man knew he … Continue reading →
• East Antarctic Ice Sheet getting thicker from ...
  From AAAS online: Widespread Persistent Thickening of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet by Freezing from the Base Abstract An International Polar Year aerogeophysical investigation of the high interior of East Antarctica reveals widespread freeze-on that drives significant mass redistribution at … Co ...
• Upcoming: Spectator Global Warming Debate
  The Spectator Debate, Royal Geographical Society, London, 29 March 2011 sponsored by: Details: Signup to attend here Spectator Debate: The Global Warming Hysteria Is Over. Time For A Return To Sanity Tuesday, 01 March 2011 16:54 Spectator The number of … Continue reading →
• More on ARKstorm
  I covered this earlier in a post here.  Atmospheric Rivers can cause this sort of pattern, read more about them here. If the goal of press releases like this one from USC and the ones from USGS is to scare … Continue reading →
• Helmut Schmidt calls for IPCC inquiry
  by Bob Carter (originally published on Quadrant Online) Former German Chancellor demands IPCC inquiry Helmut Schmidt, the respected former Chancellor of Germany, has told an audience at the Max-Plank-Gesellschaft that a full inquiry needs to be held into the credibility … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

• Jeff Cohen: New Netroots Organization Founded ...
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ http://therealnews.com Jeff Cohen: Most current net based organizing groups too connected to the Democratic Party which ties their hands [...] COHEN: Yeah. I mean, the idea is to flip the switch on Wisconsin, flip the script. You know, if we don’t go on the o ...
• Gareth Porter: Military-Industrial Complex fro ...
  Dandelion Salad TheRealNews on Mar 7, 2011 Gareth Porter on how the Military-Industrial Complex evolved into the Permanent War State Military-Industrial Complex from Eisenhower to Obama see President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Farewell Address In Which He Warns Americans About The Military Industria ...
• Kucinich: America losing its way under realpolitik
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ RTAmerica on Mar 7, 2011 There seems to be a large disconnect between US President Barack Obama and the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, especially on foreign policy positions. From Clinton’s realpolitik views to Obama’s humanitarian and democratic goals, ...
• Bewitched, bothered and bewildered By William ...
  by William Bowles Featured Writer Dandelion Salad williambowles.info March 7, 2011 “Despite the situation in Libya remaining unresolved, one thing is now certain: the president of the United States is now in control of the money, and this gives him a powerful tool … ‘Most countries consider the ...
• How Wisconsin Can Turn Austerity into Prosperi ...
  by Ellen Brown Featured Writer Dandelion Salad webofdebt.com March 7, 2011 Public sector man sitting in a bar: “They’re trying to take away our pensions.” Private sector man: “What’s a pension?” – Cartoon in the Houston Chronicle As states struggle to meet their budgets, public pensions are on t ...

Your New Reality

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  A majestic, beautiful glimpse of a future IMAX movie of a journey to Saturn, animated entirely from photographs taken by the Cassini spacecraft. 5.6k Saturn Cassini Photographic Animation from stephen v2 on Vimeo.As io9 reminds us, "the entire thing was shot on location by a satellite zooming a ...
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  The Digital Imprints Of New Borns It is no longer up to a child to decide if they want to have a digital life, or begin to leave online footprints as they become teenagers, that decision has already been made for them, for many from before they're even born : Internet security company AVG surve ...
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  Kurt Cobain was born 44 years ago. I'm shocked to find I've never written about Nirvana or Cobain on this blog. How quickly we forget.
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  Egyptian revolutionaries have stormed Torture HQ, the notorious office & prison cell complex of Egypt's only recently feared state security. They are seen carefully collecting paperwork and files for possible use as evidence in trials against officials in the former Mubarak regime. Later in the ...
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  "Our Main Enemy Is Ignorance" You won't see rapper M-1 getting a big Yo! Shoutout! from MTV any time soon, like it matters anymore anyway :

Wired - Science

• Data as Art: 10 Striking Science Maps
  The computer age triggered a seemingly endless stream of high-quality scientific data, but such incoming mountains of information come with a cost. The more data you amass, the tougher it is to comprehend what you’re dealing with. In a push for better perspective, a group of information scienti ...
• Video: Elephants Lend a Helping Trunk, Pass Co ...
  Asian elephants have passed a test of cooperation with flying colors, one that cognitive psychologists say demonstrates an ape-level awareness and sense of teamwork. Their collaboration isn't just the product of rote learning, but the result of careful thought.
• Alien Microbe Claim Starts Fight Over Meteorite
  NASA astrobiologist Richard Hoover thinks he’s found fossilized alien bacteria inside a meteorite. If he’s right, it’s world-shaking news. But that’s a very, very big if. “There are legitimate reasons to initially be skeptical of these findings,” wrote University of Oklahoma geophysicist Michae ...
• Sleep Quality May Be Tied to Covert Brain Wave
  Making waves isn’t conducive to staying asleep, at least when the waves are a type of brain signal associated with being awake. A type of brain activity known as an alpha wave emanates from the back of the head when a person is awake but relaxing with eyes closed. Scientists used to think that ...
• Satellites See Evidence of One-Two Asteroid Pu ...
  New images from two Mars-orbiting satellites capture times when the planet was pummeled by at least two meteorites at once. The slug-shaped crater above, photographed on Aug. 4, 2010 by ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft, was probably carved by a chain of projectiles coming in at a shallow angle. Th ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

• Leftist Israelis face masked policemen at East ...
  Israeli security service agents have obscured their identities in the past when confronting Palestinians, but this is a new phenomenon for Israeli citizens. IOA Editor: No mask could possibly... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
• Amira Hass: The Israeli occupation echoes from ...
  The author is reminded that the Palestinians are under occupation when almost all Egyptians refuse to meet with her because she writes for an Israeli newspaper. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the ...
• Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics: ‘Constr ...
  According to data by Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics, settlers began building over 114 houses during the 10-month settlement freeze, and began construction of over 427 houses since October 2010. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
• Roger Waters voices support for Israel boycott
  Roger Waters, founding member, vocalist and bassist of the iconic rock band 'Pink Floyd' has voiced his support for a cultural boycott of Israel. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for ...
• Rashid Khalidi: The Arab Spring
  Suddenly, to be an Arab has become a good thing. People all over the Arab world feel a sense of pride in shaking off decades of cowed passivity under dictatorships that ruled with no deference to... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...

Ria Novosti - Military

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

NewsWise

• Text Messaging Helps Smokers Break the Habit
  A pair of related studies on smoking cessation by researchers at the University of Oregon and other institutions have isolated the brain regions most active in controlling urges to smoke and demonstrated the effectiveness of text-messaging to measure and intervene in those urges.
• Big Games, Close Scores Lead To More Auto Fata ...
  Closely contested major sporting events are followed by a significant increase in traffic fatalities for fans of the winning team, according to new research from North Carolina State University. It turns out there may be more on the line than many sports fans bargained for.
• Google This: University of Oregon Center Gets ...
  The University of Oregon's Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC), which has helped to build Internet infrastructure and provide technical training in more than 100 countries around the world for nearly 20 years, will expand its activities thanks to a $1.25 million gift from Google Inc.'s Charit ...
• Workplace Revenge: When It's OK to Get Back at ...
  Have you ever been upset with your boss? Perhaps he or she overlooked an accomplishment or didn't give you a raise that you thought you deserved. According to a study by labor relations expert David I. Levine, retaliating against one's boss is more acceptable to employees if the retaliation is ...
• Teens Prefer Liquor to Beer, Hardly Touch Wine
  Nearly half of American teen drinkers would rather have a shot of liquor than a bottle of beer, a new study finds.

Natural Health News

• Never Go Skiing Without Your Jetpack
  Troy Hartman tests his new personal jetpack -- on skis.� 50 percent throttle yielded a speed of 47 miles per hour.
• Watch How Soda Affects Your Body
  Yunji DeNies goes to the lab to see what soda does in your body.
• Latest Update on Growing New Organs
  Anthony Atala's lab grows human organs -- from muscles to blood vessels to bladders, and even more.
• More Psychiatrists Shifting from Talk Therapy ...
  Many of the 48,000 psychiatrists in the U.S. no longer provide talk therapy, mostly as a result of changes in how much insurance will pay. �Instead, psychiatrists instead prescribe medication, often after only a brief consultation with the patient. It used to be that psychiatrists would treat a ...
• New Study Shows Dramatic Decreases in Men's Sp ...
  Around the world, men�s sperm counts have taken a dramatic dive.� New studies have offered evidence that maternal exposure to common chemicals may be behind the lowered sperm counts. On decade-long study found that sperm concentration had dwindled from 67 million per milliliter to just 48 m ...

Antemedius

• Republican Right Has Long History of Conflict ...
  The current conflict involving Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and Republican attempts to prevent collective union bargaining is a resumption of a practice that has been long associated with the Republican right. The Democratic president associated with nurturing America’s labor movement was Fr ...
• KBR's Foreign Contractors at Guantanamo Spared ...
  Originally published at Truthout.org Note: Investigative reporter Jason Leopold in the investigation and writing of this report. The Defense Department has claimed it took the unprecedented step of forcing all "war on terror" detainees sent to Guantanamo in 2002 to take a high dosage of a cont ...
• Haven't Heard About Revolution In China? There ...
  If you are wondering why you’ve not really heard much about the call for a “Jasmine Revolution” style protests in the Peoples Republic of China, well there is a reason for that. The Chinese authorities are not waiting around for the protests to grow and become something like Tiananmen Square o ...
• Pique the Geek 20110306: Fricking, Fracking, ...
  Hydraulic fracturing, also called hydrofracture or just fracking, is a commonly used method to increase the yield of fluid raw materials, usually petroleum or natural gas, from formations that are not "easy" extraction targets. Easy targets are ones that the fluids dispersed in sands or very po ...
• Manchurian Senators
  People are doing journalism and the Washington Post is pissed. How to respond? Apparently the answer arrived at by Post editors is to just give up on any Americans who have been informing themselves and target those Americans who believe anything that super important people say. How else to e ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

• Call for Papers: Affective States of Internati ...
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller On behalf of the organizers and the APCML, of which I am a part, I want to call readers’ attention to the following conference: AFFECTIVE STATES OF INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE 20 â 22 July 2011 Melbourne Law School Presented by Asia Pacific Centre f ...
• Live Blogging the Harvard National Security Sy ...
  by Duncan Hollis by Duncan Hollis I’m at Harvard Law School today for a symposium, Cybersecurity: Law, Privacy, and Warfare in a Digital World.  I’ll be talking about my e-SOS paper, how international law deals with cyberthreats, and ways it could do a better job.  Anyone who’s interested ...
• Joseph Weiler, No Longer in the Dock!
  by Kevin Jon Heller The Tribunal de Grand Instance de Paris has issued its judgment in the unconscionable criminal-libel suit brought by Karine Calvo-Goller against NYU's Joseph Weiler.  Weiler, I am happy to report, prevailed on both of the key issues: lack of jurisdiction and whether the la ...
• Did Bradley Manning “Aid the Enemy”? Did The ...
  by Kevin Jon Heller As Roger noted earlier, Bradley Manning has been formally charged with "aiding the enemy," a potentially capital offence.  (The military has said that it will not seek the death penalty.)  The strength of the charge, however, is difficult to determine. Here is the text of ...
• New Charges Against Bradley Manning
  by Roger Alford by Roger Alford According to NBC News, “Pentagon and military officials say some of the classified information released by WikiLeaks contained the names of informants and others who had cooperated with U.S. military forces in Afghanistan, endangering their lives. According to ...

Investigate - Breaking News

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

My Care2 Picks

• Dan Rather:A New, Green Generation of Nuclear ...
  For many Americans, the words "nuclear power" still conjure up images of Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, fears of meltdowns or radioactive leaks. Those reactor failures helped drive the U.S. nuclear industry into dormancy in the late 1970s. Submitted by Brian M. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �| ...
• The Perfidy of Government: Evidence v. Denial
  This essay is about three recent books that explain how we lost our economy, the Constitution and our civil liberties, and how peace lost out to war. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Christchurch uni students being sent to Australia
  University of Canterbury will send up to 500 of its students to study because of the Christchurch earthquake as soon as this weekend and join existing academic programmes, mainly at first-year level.More details at website http://www.canterbury.ac.nzSubmitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture ...
• When The Dust Settles
  Animated short on the impact of depleted uranium weapons and the international campaign against them, produced by the International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons and IKV Pax Christi.Submitted by Just Carole to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Regulation Lax as Gas Wells Tainted Water Hit ...
  Hydrofracking is releasing toxic waste water in our rivers that supply drinking water to hundreds of thousands people. Because treatment plants are not equipped to remove all toxic substances this endangers the public's health. This is country wide.Submitted by Hope S. to Environment �|� �Not ...

Angry Indian News

• Samoan general election, 2011
  Samoan general election, 2011 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaA general election was held in Samoa on 4 March 2011,[1] in which the people elected the 49 seats of the Fono for its 15th term. Unlike... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• BALKAN UPDATE: Serbian Mercenaries Fighting on ...
  BALKAN UPDATE: Serbian Mercenaries Fighting on Behalf of Gaddafi: A Serbian newspaper claims it has received information from the military that indicates Serbian mercenaries are fighting to protect... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• U.S. diplomat said to have likened Japanese id ...
  U.S. diplomat said to have likened Japanese idea of harmony to extortion › Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion: "TOKYO —A U.S. official in charge of Japanese affairs at the State Department is... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Shane Bauer: I was investigating US Corruption
  Shane Bauer: I was investigating US Corruption: "'I was in Iraqi Kurdistan as a tourist.'I have been to Baghdad once in the past, as a journalist, when I was investigating US support for the Iraqi... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي ...
  The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب: The new Egyptian foreign minister on the siege on Gaza:"وشدد على ان الموقف الذي "تتبناه مصر تجاه الحصار المفروض على قطاع غزة يتعارض مع قواعد... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

• Scientists Under Attack For Speaking Out About ...
  Statements made by scientists themselves prove that 95% of the research in the area of genetic engineering is paid by the industry. Only 5% of the research is independent. The big danger for freedom of science and our democracy is evident. Can the public -- we all -- still trust our scientists?
• Welcome to Monsanto Zone…
  You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind; a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That's the signpost up ahead — your next stop, Monsanto Zone...
• Victory Gardens Produce Abundance
  Food is a market that will always exist. Many people are turning away from industrial farmed food, seeking healthier choices and getting back to the basics.
• Cloned animals – Consumers shall have no choice
  EU Commissioner for Trade: Products from offspring of cloned animals already on the market.
• Dangerous New Organism Found and Linked to GMOs!
  Agrobacterium could multiply and transfer transgenic DNA to other bacteria, as well as to the next crop to be planted. The discovery by the Bristol University researchers barely scratches the surface of the hidden hazards of GMOs from horizontal gene transfer. It is high time for a global ban to ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

• The stupidity of crowds helps kill a planet - ...
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Citizens for Legitimate Government

• Death penalty still on table for WikiLeaks suspect
  ShareThisDeath penalty still on table for WikiLeaks suspect 03 Mar 2011 The death penalty is still possible for the Army private suspected of giving classified material to the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks despite prosecutors' promise not to recommend it, military law experts said Thursday. Milit ...
• Update from Matt and Maggi Support Committee
  ShareThisUpdate from Matt and Maggi Support Committee 07 Mar 2011 The Matt and Maggi Support Committee is excited to announce that the perjury charges against two of our favorite Olympia activists have been dropped. Matt Duran and Margaret Belknap were arrested at a protest against police violen ...
• Anger at Manning's 'naked punishment'
  ShareThisAnger at Manning's 'naked punishment' 07 Mar 2011 The young American soldier who has been charged with leaking confidential cables to the WikiLeaks website is being forced to sleep naked in his cell and stand outside each morning to be handed back his clothes because he made a single sa ...
• US group fights ban on Israel 'war crime' bus ads
  ShareThisUS group fights ban on Israel 'war crime' bus ads 08 Mar 2011 A US lobby group is taking legal action to challenge a local authority's refusal to let it put posters on Seattle buses criticizing Israel's "war crimes" in Gaza. The Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign (SMAC) vowed to pursue ...
• Afghanistan lets Blackwater stay despite shake ...
  ShareThisAfghanistan lets Blackwater stay despite shakeup of security contractors� --Hamid Karzai forced to back down over expulsion of mercenary companies, with many likely to remain in country 07 Mar 2011 Blackwater looks set to survive an Afghan government clampdown on mercenaries after Hamid ...

Daily Loaf

• A day of protests in Florida as Legislature be ...
  Happy Fat Tuesday to you all.  Also happy International Women’s Day.  And yes, for better or for worse, the two months that the virtually completely Republican Florida Legislature meets in session begins today, with Governor Rick Scott giving his first State of the State address tonight at 6 ...
• Bet you can’t eat just one: Tagalong cookie cr ...
  As you take that first delectable bite of tender, warm from the oven pastry surrounding smooth and lush chocolate-peanut buttery goodness, you’ll wonder how you ever lived without them.
• New Granada says it cannot waive cover charges ...
  Consider supporting a grassroots local promoter's music show while paying tribute to a friend. Franz Nicolay and Dave Dondero perform at 9 p.m. 1313 E. Eighth Ave., Ybor City, 813-248-4969. $8, 21 and older admitted, newworldbrewery.net.
• Rose Ferlita talks policy and other things on ...
  Several of the callers were passionate supporters, and sounded like they went way back with Ferlita, who established herself in the city for decades as a pharmacist in Seminole Heights.
• Oy, y’all: A clash of cultures at Cracker Country
  Beeswax candles attract bees. Jewish schools attract kids who are allergic to bees. You do the math.

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

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

The Killing Train

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

treehugger

• Who Knew Sea Slugs Were This Gorgeous!
  The name is a little unfortunate -- sea slugs. If they're anything like their land-bound counterparts, there isn't much about them that's really gorgeous. But that couldn't be farther from the truth. Reality is, sea slugs are incredibly colorful, intricately shaped, and amazingly beautiful. ...
• Can We Make Electronics Without Factories? The ...
  Photo by jurvetson via Flickr Creative Commons Dominic Muren has a great way of looking at greener gadget design -- make it simple, make it repairable, make it upgradable. The longer gadgets last, the less overall environmental impact they have. He gave a great TED Talk on the idea, and we ...
• Animals Taunted and Confined at Bahawlpur Zoo ...
  Image credit: Rahkash PETA and I may disagree about the ethics of eating meat, and there are plenty of people who object to PETA's overly sexualized campaign tactics. Nevertheless, I have always felt they are one of the more effective campaign organizations out there when it comes to gettin ...
• 9 Greenest Laptops on the Market (Slideshow)
  A durable, reliable laptop is the kind of gadget you can end up feeling attached to at the hip -- and why not choose one with energy efficiency, recycling programs, and LED screens help you save money in the long run? The 9 laptops on this list deliver all the tech perks you need with a ...
• For Saving Energy, Like Real Estate, The Three ...
  Union Square, New York, Image Credit Lloyd Alter After lecturing on "deep green design", (I am adjunct Professor at Ryerson School of Interior Design) Passivhaus and the fancy gizmo technologies of green building, one of my students said "but not everyone can afford this! How are normal wor ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

• Heroin use up as supply goes unchecked
  Increasing numbers of young males in Kachin state are developing heroin addictions as authorities turn a blind eye to dealers
• Burmese angry at ‘KNLA enclave’
  Thai official claims that closure of Myawaddy-Mae Sot border crossing stems from Burmese perception that its neighbour hosts Karen troops
• Civilians to dominate scrutiny body
  Military absent from new committee tasked with scrutinising decisions made by parliament, although USDP dominance remains
• Arrests, torture follow Muslim insurgency talks
  Muslim clerics crossed over from Bangladesh to spearhead talks with Arakanese civilians about forming an anti-government militia
• Domestic media silent on Libya’s future
  Censor board blocking reports of crackdowns on protestors and discussions over whether Libyan leader Gaddafi will step down

Telegraph - Climate Change

• How my family and I hatched a plan to keep lob ...
  A charity is working to reverse the effects of overfishing on one of Cornwall's premium 'common resources', writes Roger Highfield.
• Met Office climate survey: why our obsession w ...
  Arctic winters, red-hot summers and melting snow caps. Climate change is one of the most talked about issues today. But how much do we really know about the climate on our very own doorstep? And what can we really do about it?
• Met Office climate survey: how to get involved
  The Met Office is urging people to blow bubbles and spot vapour trails as part of a national survey of Britain's climate.
• Met Office urges public to blow bubbles and co ...
  The Met Office is urging people to blow bubbles and spot vapour trails as part of a national survey of Britain's climate.
• Unscientific hype about the flooding risks fro ...
  The warmists have sound financial grounds for hyping the dangers of flooding posed by climate change, writes Christopher Booker

National Geographic | Environment

• Kilauea Volcano Pictures: Hawaii Eruption Spur ...
  NoneA new vent in Hawaii's Kilauea volcano ripped open Saturday, shooting lava up to 80 feet high, scientists say.
• Pictures: Deadly Mud Volcano to Erupt for 26 M ...
  NoneEnough mud to fill 56,000 swimming pools is expected to spew from the Indonesian volcano before it simmers down, a new study says.
• Fire Tornado Seen Spinning Over Hungary
  A tornado with blazing innards whirled above a burning plastic-processing plant outside Budapest, Hungary, on Tuesday.
• Bolivia Landslide Photos: Neighborhoods, Cemet ...
  NoneDuring this week's Bolivian landslide, whole neighborhoods and even a cemetery split, with land falling multiple stories downhill.
• Dolphin-Baby Die-Off in Gulf Puzzles Scientists
  An unusual number of dead young dolphins are washing up on the Gulf Coast. Puzzled scientists warn it's too soon to blame the BP oil spill.

Jurist - Legal Research

• Obama orders resumption of Guantanamo military ...
  [JURIST] US President Barack Obama [official website] on Monday issued an executive order [text; fact sheet] allowing military commissions for Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archives] detainees to resume. New charges in the military commission system have been suspended since shortly after Obama to ...
• India high court rules 'passive euthanasia' pe ...
  [JURIST] The Supreme Court of India [official website] on Monday rejected a petition for mercy killing, but ruled [judgment, PDF] that passive euthanasia was permissible under certain circumstances. The case centered around Aruna Shanbaug, a former nurse who was raped and strangled at work 37 ye ...
• Zimbabwe court detains activists on treason ch ...
  [JURIST] A Zimbabwe magistrate court on Monday ordered six of the 45 activists arrested in Harare last month detained on charges of treason, releasing the remaining 39. The six activists not released today will remain detained and face trial [CNN report] on the treason charges against them. If f ...
• Supreme Court eases time limit on habeas petitions
  [JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] on Monday ruled [opinion, PDF] unanimously in Wall v. Kholi [Cornell LII backgrounder; JURIST report] that a defendant's plea for leniency tolls the statute of limitations for filing a federal petition for habeas corpus under ...
• Georgia Supreme Court upholds voter ID law
  [JURIST] The Georgia Supreme Court [official website] on Monday upheld [decision, PDF] a state law that requires voters to present one of six government-issued photo identifications in order to vote. The Democratic Party of Georgia [party website] brought the suit against Governor Sonny Perdue, ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

• The Republican Presidential Hopefuls Hit Iowa
  WAUKEE, IOWA -- "Are you ready to begin the process of choosing Barack Obama's successor here in Iowa?" Ralph Reed asked the crowd gathered here at the Faith & Freedom Coalition's presidential forum on Monday night. The event, which drew about 2,000 mostly elderly voters, was the first semi- ...
• Sonia Sotomayor on Dating, Deciding, and Being ...
  CHICAGO -- Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor was so chagrined at what she deemed the gratuitous minutiae and sexist questioning during her confirmation process that she told a friend, "I think they already know the color of my underwear," she revealed Monday. In a candid, self-confident ...
• Trump Already in Campaign Legal Trouble?
  Donald Trump's plane showed up in Iowa this morning, creating a stir among political reporters there to cover a multi-candidate forum in Waukee tonight. Trump wasn't on it, but the trip by two aides could have more 2012 fallout than anticipated. After Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen, to ...
• M and James Bond Ask: Are Women Equal?
  The British organization Equals commissioned a two-minute short film for International Women's Day that features current Jame Bond Daniel Craig in a brief moment of drag as he is questioned by an off-camera "M," voiced by Dame Judi Dench. The film was directed "Nowhere Boy" director/conceptua ...
• The Rise and Fall of John Ensign
  John Ensign, the Nevada senator who admitted an affair with a female staffer in 2009, will retire from the Senate at the end of his current term, capping off a career nosedive that saw him fall from party star to seat ceder. Roll Call's David Drucker reports Ensign won't run again in 2012: Sen ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

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

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

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

Tikun Olam

• Links for 2010-04-03 [Digg]
  Anat Kam-Uri Blau Top Secret Israeli Leak Case The foreign media continue to open up the gagged Anat Kam-Uri Blau case with new stories in The Guardian, The Times, and The National.
• Links for 2010-03-30 [Digg]
  Overseas Media Begins Reporting Kam Case An Israeli journalist disappears into the maw of the intelligence services. A gag order prevents newspapers reporting the story. Only overseas media can do so, but they hesitate since so little is known. That's why blogs exist and that's the role t ...
• Dirar Abu Seesi Kidnapped by Mossad, Now in Is ...
  I have just confirmed through the Israeli NGO, HaMoked, that the story of the kidnapping and smuggling of Dirar Abu Seesi is under Israeli military censor gag order.  I’ve just spoken to his attorney, Michal Rochabi-Dansiger, a government appointed public defender, and she is not allowed to bre ...
• Abu Seesi Kidnapped by Mossad and Now in Israe ...
  B’Tselem and HaMoked have helped me track down Dirar Abu Seesi, after his kidnapping by the Mossad in Ukraine on February 18th. I reported earlier this month that he was in an Israeli prison. Now my NGO friends have tracked him down to Shikma Prison, near Ashkelon, where he is being held. Initia ...
• Links for 2010-03-18 [Digg]
  Shin Bet Secretly Detains Reporter Leaking Top-Secret Docume I was the first blogger or journalist to break this story outside Israel. Anat Kam, a young Israeli reporter was secretly arrested and imprisoned for allegedly leaking top secret IDF documents about targeted assassinations.

Ode Magazine

• The muse in the moment
  We all know meditation helps you relax. But can it also ease the symptoms of depression and anxiety disorders and improve quality of life for people with chronic diseases? Recent research suggests it can. For those of us who haven’t practiced it, meditation can seem like a ...
• Practicing peace and love
  By: PeaceCorso "Peace and love are ever in us, being and working; but we be not always in peace and love." These are the insightful words of Dame Julian of Norwich. Wikipedia says: Julian of Norwich (c. November 8, 1342 - c. 1416) is thought of as on ...
• A new food manifesto
  Itâs time to take back control of what and how we eat. Hereâs why. Food isn’t just something we need to shovel down our gullets each day to survive. It’s far more potent: the means, more than any other, by which we humans shape our planet and ourselves.Photo by Marko Matas ...
• The real reason you don't meditate and how to ...
  By: lexsisney This article is dedicated to those who want to have a daily meditative or reflective practice but don’t actually sit down and do it. “I know I should be meditating but I just can’t find the time” or “I wish I could take time to reflect bu ...
• Construction material of the future
  By: Rubanselva Developing housing aimed at the low income and socially excluded sectors, in reality, is rarely looked at as a priority for the largest of global constructors - the main reason being a lack of financial viability making projects worthwhi ...

OpEd News

• Egyptian Revolution is Not Over Yet, it Just Begun
  The mighty tower of power occupied by Hosni Mubarak may have crumbled, however, the question remains, would a new edifice based on the people's will be erected on the ruins of the old order or just a fa--ade wall will be raised to cover the former. Would the U.S., a de facto power player in the ...
• Reflections on International Women's Day, 2011
  Journeys in activism.
• Mother Machree
  Among the very most favorite songs of Irish singers (especially tenors) is the 1910 song, Mother Machree. It, like many other popular songs, was written for a theatrical production; in this case, one with the title: Barry of Baltimore. This is a type of song that allowed a wide range of emotion ...
• Wisconsin Democrats Plan Capitulation
  Union bosses and Democrats plan to sell out rank and file workers.
• Raising Awareness: Why We Shouldn't Take It Fo ...
  A dangerous thing can occur when you start learning about what's really going on in the world. The problems start to seem so complex, and you're just one person, doubts begin to creep in. You sincerely want to help change the world, but from all this knowledge you start to believe that the world ...

Switchboard

• EPA invites communities to apply for awards fo ...
    By adopting smart growth principles, communities can design places that increase mobility and improve quality of life for elders.  In particular, neighborhoods that integrate homes with shops, services, and parks and recreational facilities allow all residents—but especially ol ...
• The Heritage Foundation's critique of EPA: Wha ...
  Last week the Heritage Foundation released a critique of a report by EPA assessing the benefits and costs of the 1990 Clean Air Act amendments (click here for my summary). They should have done a little homework first, perhaps an intro class to research methods. Had they, they migh ...
• Latin America Energy, Climate and Environment ...
  Mexico Mexico’s Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources of granted approval for several key components of the proposed Cabo Cortés resort complex, owned by the Spanish firm Hansa Urbana, in Southern Baja California near the Cabo Pulmo National Marine Park. Environmental and ...
• Update: CA Legislature on Verge of Raiding Cri ...
  Two weeks ago, I called attention to a proposal before the Legislative Conference Committee to take $162 million in funds collected from gas users and customers in California for low income and cost-effective energy efficiency upgrades and divert them to the General Fund.  The prop ...
• The Green Budget Protects Federal Investment i ...
  I’ve written several posts in the last few weeks detailing some of the many negative impacts to the U.S. renewable energy industry from this year's cuts to the Department of Energy budget passed by House Republicans.  The environmental community has been a leader in pushing back ag ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• Yet More Douthat
  From Sinhababu. …yet more from Echidne. Related posts:Apart From That, Mr. Douthat… Maybe Douthat Was Hired… Douthat is a thick young man Related posts:Apart From That, Mr. Douthat… Maybe Douthat Was Hired… Douthat is a thick young man
• Least Surprising Apologist for Arbitrary Execu ...
  Fred Hiatt. Related posts:Hack Apologist for Arbitrary Executive Power of the Day Arbitrary Executive Power Hack Watch Hack Advocate of Arbitrary Executive Power of the Century Related posts:Hack Apologist for Arbitrary Executive Power of the Day Arbitrary Executive Power Hack Watch Hack Ad ...
• The unintended consequences of partying with tea
  SEK is at the Norco DMV in the “appointment only” line after having stood at an unmanned counter with the word “appointment” over it for much longer than he’d like to admit.  He blames the mislabeling, but that’s beside the point, which is that a woman who looked an awful lot like this, only ol ...
• Today’s Supeme Court Scoreboard
  Due process 6, Texas-fried Catch-22s 3. The case is yet another reminder that Althouse and Stuart Taylor were right that Alito is no Scalia — he’s much, much worse. …more here and here. Related posts:A Rare Roberts Court Victory for the Fourth Amendment The Chamber of Commerce Court S ...
• And There’s No Reason That Monogomous Co ...
  Shorter Ross Douthat: “I’m optimistic enough to believe that if we deny enough poor women access to crucial medical services, marginally more people will have sex in the manner that I consider appropriate.” …more reactions: Dana Goldstein notes some factual and analytical problems, others ...

Desert Research Institute

• DRI is a Nevada Asset
  Nevada’s legislature was visionary in 1959 when it created DRI as the environmental research campus of the state’s university system. DRI has flourished as an entrepreneurial campus of 500 scientists, engineers and technicians who leveraged the state’s $8.2 million allocation last year into ...
• Storm Peak Laboratory Cloud Property Validatio ...
  Scientists are busy working at DRI’s Storm Peak Lab at Steamboat Springs, Colo. gathering in-cloud measurements and also verifying the data from radars and other instrumentation that is measuring clouds at four different elevations; one site in town and three within the Steamboat Springs ...
• Fighting an Infestation
  Kumud Acharya, Ph.D. has worked in Southern Nevada for the last four years studying the changing climate and its effect on the state’s water. Since coming to Las Vegas his focus has shifted to another problem, invasive species specially those living in Lake Mead.
• 2010 DRI Annual Report
  The 2010 annual report is now available for download. This issue includes an interview with Executive Vice President for Research Dr. Terry Surles, our involvement with a large NSF grant to study climate change, an overview of the work in our divisions and centers, select researcher profiles, an ...
• Tracking the Air Quality at Lake Tahoe
  In order to better understand the pollutant sources that are affecting Lake’s Tahoe’s water quality, Research Professor Hampden Kuhns, began studying Lake Tahoe in 2003 when he assembled the areas first emissions inventory. The inventory included local measurements using his TRAKER road ...

Earth Techling

• LEED Goes To San Jose, Calif. Airport
• Huge Geothermal Plant Scoped In New Zealand
• Geneva Auto Show: Saab Phoenix Hybrid
• Lowe’s Debuts Low Energy Home Lighting
• Geneva Auto Show: Toyota Prius+ MPV Hybrid

National Law Journal | U.S.

• Man-machine interface: privacy implications
  New technologies pose new risks, not least of which are concerns for privacy.
• Advice for success: Go abroad, young lawyers
  Three lawyers shared their thoughts on globalization with more than 100 up-and-coming attorneys chosen for the Leadership Counsel on Legal Diversity's new Fellows Program.
• Alabama company sues U.S. Postal Service over ...
  An Alabama mail services company has filed a patent dispute concerning undeliverable mail against the U.S. Postal Service in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.
• Pro Bono Insititute honors 2nd Circuit Judge K ...
• CORPORATE RESTRUCTURING & BANKRUPTCY: Big bank ...
  It's been a good time to be a bankruptcy lawyer. Though it's been almost three years since the economy began its meltdown, several massive bankruptcies are continuing to generate big fees for attorneys.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

• Rajan Zed Urges All Religions to Back 'Interna ...
  Zed argued that progress has been made in the area of women's rights. But it still need to be done as many women still faced apartheid conditions. It is a sin to watch women suffer discrimination day after day.
• Antioch Council Poised to OK Cop Deal Challeng ...
  City workers here - who have already agreed to significant pay cuts and other concessions -said the deal set to be approved by the Antioch City Council Tuesday is not in the best interests of taxpayers, and may hurt labor negotiations with other uni
• Space Shuttle Discovery Makes Final Return to ...
  Wednesday landing opportunities at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida are at 11:57 a.m. and 1:34 p.m. EST. NASA managers will evaluate weather conditions at Kennedy before permitting Discovery to land. If Discovery is unable to land Wednesday,
• U.S. Celebrates 100th Anniversary of Internati ...
  Every woman's contribution is different, but we are all committed to protecting and promoting the rights of women and girls for future generations. And as we work toward this goal, the diversity of interests and experiences in this room is a great
• Somalis Still in U.S. Detention - The World Fo ...
  The media assumed that these two members of the gang of Somali hostage takers had come from the yacht to the naval vessel USS Sterett.

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 ...

Red Ice Creations

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

Russia Today

• US not to blame for events in the Arab world – ...
  It is highly unlikely that events in the Arab world are orchestrated from the USA, believes Matthew Rojansky, expert in US and Russian national security and nuclear weapons policies from the Carnegie Endowment for...
• Chechnya hosts friendly football game with Brazil
  The capital of Russia's Republic of Chechnya, Grozny, is hosting a friendly match of football veterans - Brazilian superstars and a team formed by the republic's head. The game is due to start in few hours.
• Israel to build monument honoring soviet savio ...
  An international commission has selected a monument project for construction which will be built in the Israeli city of Netanya to commemorate soldiers of the USSR who fought Nazi Germany and saved prisoners of the...
• Tripoli under fire in media information war
  Inflamed violence continues to tear through Libya, more than three weeks after protests erupted. However, some believe that mainstream media outlets are way too one-sided in portraying the events in the country.
• Endangered tiger saves face thanks to Russian kids
  While the world's biggest cat species faces its toughest fight for survival, efforts to save Russia's dwindling tiger population are showing their first shoots of success.

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

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

Tippers News

• DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
  DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Three men helped starve kids, court tol
  Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
  The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• BRUTAL TRUTH Of IRAQ WAR
  'War' on any country is a 'Terrorist Act.' How can it be anything else?? People sit in their cosy homes; happy and Falsely believing that the soldiers are in a Patriotic War; Well see for yourself and ask Whats Patriotic about Suffering of Human Beings?Submitted by Mary P. to US Politics & Gov' ...
• The real terrorist was me - US Soldier -
  The Truth from a American Soldier who fought in an Unjust WAR in Iraq; thankfully his conscience willed him to admit that it was just a war for the rich elite few to get richer and had nothing to do with Patriosm or Security of Americans.He is a True HeroSubmitted by Mary P. to US Politics & Gov ...

The Freeman

• From the FEE Archives: Leonard Read’s Un ...
  In 1955, two years before his writing famous “I, Pencil,” Leonard E. Read wrote an essay on golf and curling that illustrates the importance of keeping exchange at the forefront of economic thought. FEE’s founder was an avid golfer and curler. His point in the essay, however, is not solely about ...
• Democracy and Civil Society
  In the past several weeks, one after another, decades-old dictatorships have been challenged across the Middle East â in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and elsewhere.  Some have likened these events to the democratic revolutions that swept across Europe in the late eighteenth century — France, Switzerl ...
• Obama Eyes Petroleum Reserve as Prices Keep Rising
  “White House chief of staff Bill Daley on Sunday said the Obama administration is considering tapping the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to help ease the soaring price of gasoline at the pump.” (Politico) The free market would better protect against threats to supply. FEE Timely Classic “Planning f ...
• Senate Minority Leader Scolds Obama on Entitle ...
  “The top Senate Republican said today that President Obama isn’t serious about dealing with the massive spending required for entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare.” (USA Today) The unfunded liability is staggering. FEE Timely Classic “The Ethics of Entitlement” by Hans F. Se ...
• Analysts Contemplate Mortgages after Freddie, ...
  “How might home buying change if the federal government shuts down the housing finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage loan, the steady favorite of American borrowers since the 1950s, could become a luxury product, housing experts on both sides of the political ...

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

• EPA puts off long-promised coal ash protections
  Communities imperiled by poorly managed coal ash won't be getting help from the federal government any time soon. The Obama administration announced last week that it would not issue long-awaited federal regulations this year after all. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Li ...
• Life and death on Big Oil's fence line
  The environmental destruction caused by Louisiana's oil industry did not begin with the BP disaster, and a visit to the town of Norco 25 miles west of New Orleans powerfully illustrates that reality. Built on land adjacent to the Mississippi River that once supported vast sugar planta ...
• VOICES: Evidence grows of possible health cons ...
  Ten months after the Deepwater Horizon sank into the Gulf of Mexico, the long-term impacts of the oil spill continue to surface in coastal communities, and the developing picture is not a pretty one. Since 2000, the Louisiana Bucket Brigade (LABB) has trained communities affected by indu ...
• Carolina Public Press launches new source for ...
  We all know the story: Newspapers and other "legacy media" have slashed their reporting budgets. More and more, blogs and social media are where people turn to find out what's happening. But who, then, does the in-depth, investigative reporting crucial to keeping the public informed and ...
• Gulf Coast restoration task force hearing show ...
  The president's Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Force met yesterday in New Orleans to gather public comments for the plan it's working on to restore the region's ecology in the wake of last year's BP catastrophe. A major theme of those comments was the deep distrust that many of the regio ...

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

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

Ian Welsh

• Off to London
  for a week, in a couple weeks. This will be the first time I’ve visited England, since, oh, about 1978.  What I remember about that trip: Southampton row houses, a nice open air book market, and Trafalgar square. So, for those of you who have been to London more recently, or lived (or live) the ...
• The kids might be all right
  My generation is doing something right: First from Josh Marshall summarizing a recent Rasmussen poll on the age breakdown of support for the unions in Wisconsin: But when you look at this poll the pro-union / anti-union division turns heavily on age too. The younger votes have a far more progres ...
• Police moving to clear the WI capital (Or Are ...
  Update 2: Well, well, well. That is impressive, the police essentially refused the order.  My hat is off to them.  This is an extraordinarily encouraging sign, in that it indicates that the security apparatus has limits to what it will do.  If elites1want real crushing, they’re clearly going ...
• A bit more on the oil trap
  People will not ship or produce if the cost to produce+ship is higher than what they can recoup.  There is a bottom on prices despite what the idiotic supply and demand curves in textbooks show.  Contrary to what they tell you in economics 101 supply and demand is not a law, there are significan ...
• European leaders draft a “competitivenes ...
  No, I’m not kidding. It includes: a debt brake which will stop countries from deficit spending beyond a target; automatic monitoring which can force pension cuts; a requirement to monitor wages and productivity and to then lower wages if they rise “too quickly” Every one of these are anti-worker ...

Media Consortium

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

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

• Cooperating elephants win food prize
  Asian Elephants can cooperate to achieve a common goal, according to new research published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. Elephants have been observed to work together in the wild and are widely assumed to be of high intelligence - they are known to care for eac ...
• Danish neuroscientist convicted of embezzling ...
  Something’s rotten in the state of Danish research. A high-profile neuroscientist, Milena Penkowa, has received a 3-month suspended sentence for embezzling 28,000 Danish kroner (about US$5200), while treasurer of the Danish Society for Neuroscience. In January, Nature reported that some of ...
• Virologists form Global Virus Response Network
  Leading medical virologists from around the world today signed up to join a new Global Virus Response Network – a first-of-its-kind international scientific alliance that aims to be a leading global authority on viral disease. Two days of organizational meetings at the Italian Embassy in Washing ...
• Malaspina expedition: Not an obsession
  Freelance journalist Lucas Laursen is joining the Malaspina expedition, a Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)-sponsored oceanographic survey circling the globe in the wake of Alessandro Malaspina’s 1789-1794 exploratory voyage. He will report from aboard the B.I.O. Hespérides for the mo ...
• Wait, did someone just discover evidence of al ...
  Posted on behalf of Phil Ball. Extraterrestrials found at last! So far this headline seems conspicuous by its absence, despite the open-access publication in the Journal of Cosmology of a paper by Richard B. Hoover of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center claiming to see fossils of ancient extr ...

new geography

• The Protean Future Of American Cities
  The ongoing Census reveals the continuing evolution of America�s cities from small urban cores to dispersed, multi-polar regions that includes the city�s surrounding areas and suburbs. This is not exactly what most urban pundits, and journalists covering cities, would like to see, but the realit ...
• What India Hands to the World
  Yoga. Mantras. Bollywood. Henna tattoos. Once unique to India, each of these has now become common-place in households across the globe. As a first generation East Indian American, I've had an opportunity to contrast the world my parents experienced with the one I inhabit. When my parents f ...
• High Speed Rail: The Dream Scheme Scenario
  Ever since Jay Gould, Leland Stanford, and Cornelius Vanderbilt acquired their first legislatures, railroads have been best understood as political networks, rather than as transportation lines. The Obama administration is hyping high-speed rail (HSR) with a $53 billion proposal not because the ...
• From the Great Moderation to the Great Stagnation
  For much of the past decade, I was a proponent of the thesis that that the American economy had entered a “great moderation,” where expansions lasted longer and recessions were fewer, shorter and milder. Productivity had seemingly reached a permanently high plateau; inflation seemed tamed. T ...
• Is Nashville the Next Boomtown of the New South?
  I traveled to Nashville for the first time in 2007, spending most of my time in the downtown area. I posted my impressions here, noting the high growth and high ambition level as well as the fantastic freeways, but also the generally unimpressive development and built environment. I di ...

GM Watch

• Clone food could be sold without warning labels
• Start lobbying your MEP on GM
• From GM crop developer to GM crop regulator: D ...
• Clone food could be sold without warning labels
• Start lobbying your MEP on GM

spiked

• Who still believes the West can bomb Libya to ...
  Not the Libyan rebels, and not really the rattled Western leaders either. Liberal interventionists remain the last cheerleaders for imperialism.
• Libya and the birth of modern warfare
  A key military centenary should�explode the myth that Libya is a mess simply because Gaddafi is mad.
• Turning drinkers into social lepers
  A Coalition of the Concerned is determined that those who enjoy a drink should join smokers as modern outcasts.
• Meet the new breed of anti-vaccine agitator
  Meaner, cruder, more strident and possessed of celebrity clout – the modern anti-vaccine lobby has learnt how to make a splash
• Keep Oliver’s army out of the classroom
  Schools don’t need ex-soldiers or St Jamie Oliver – they just need teachers confident in their own authority.

Cryptogon

• NATO Starts 24/7 Surveillance of Libyan Airspace
  Via: CNN: NATO has launched around-the-clock surveillance flights of Libya as it considers various options for dealing with escalating violence in the war-torn country, America’s ambassador to the organization told reporters Monday. Representatives of key Western powers also highlighted the poss ...
• U.S. Farmers Fear the Return of the Dust Bowl
  Via: Telegraph: For years the Ogallala Aquifer, the world’s largest underground body of fresh water, has irrigated thousands of square miles of American farmland. Now it is running dry.
• Arkansas: Emergency Order Halts Natural Gas Dr ...
  Via: Arkansas Online: Chesapeake Operating Inc. and Clarita Operating LLC both said before a hearing Friday in Little Rock by the state Oil and Gas Commission that they will comply with an emergency request to stop injections of used natural-gas drilling fluid in the two wells in Faulkner County ...
• ‘As many as 160 prisoners were injected ...
  Via: The Columbus Dispatch: Perhaps the most famous was the cancer-vaccine test. As many as 160 prisoners were injected with live cancer cells. The study, co-sponsored by Ohio State and the Sloan-Kettering Research Institute, ran from 1956 until 1961. Eventually, researchers said they lost track ...
• Alcohol Wipes Used by Hospitals Causing Potent ...
  ??? Via: MSNBC: Within weeks, hospital officials were stunned to confirm that Peytonâs infection â along with what Nyquist would describe only as “a couple”of others â was caused by contaminated alcohol wipes produced by the hospitalâs sole supplier: the Triad Group of Hartland, Wis. âThis is so ...

The Economic Collapse

• 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 ...

Desertification

• Agriculture, health and nutrition are tightly ...
  Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?Reportid=91907 FOOD: Is it easy to grow what is good for you? “You can always find the money – if you have the political commitment and drive then anything is possible.” The debates at the three-day International … Continue reading →
• Moringa, the magic tree (IRIN News)
  Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?Reportid=91879 GLOBAL: âMagic tree seedsâ to purify dirty water BANGKOK, 10 February 2011 (IRIN) – One solution to the water woes of many of the worldâs poor may lie in the pea-sized seeds of the widely grown … Continue reading →
• A quicky on desertification by QWIKI
  Check : http://www.qwiki.com/q/#!/Desertification
• Small seed enterprises are the best way (FAO)
  Read at : http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/51581/icode/ Rebuild small seed enterprises Farmers’ seed ventures key to food security in developing countries Small seed enterprises are the best way of ensuring the availability and quality of non-hybrid seeds for food and feed crops in … Contin ...
• ACTED : drought response programme
  Read at : http://www.acted.org/fr/node/2722 Building the Pokot communitiesâ resilience to drought through strengthening livelihoods and improving access to water North Pokot district, an agro-pastoral area on the border of Kenya and Uganda, has seen a rainfall failure strike for the … Continue r ...

The Paper Trail

• USDA Audit Says E. Coli Testing in Ground Beef ...
  The U.S. Department of Agriculture, in charge of keeping the potentially lethal E. coli bacteria out of your food, has concluded its own testing process for ground beef is flawed and may be missing bacteria during tests.
• Mexico Demands Information on Controversial AT ...
  Mexico's foreign ministry is demanding information from the U.S. government on a controversial Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives operation that let more than 1,700 weapons pass through straw buyers for suspected Mexican gun runners in hopes of making a bigger criminal case.
• After a Disabled Borrower’s Six-Year Ord ...
  After six years battling to persuade the Education Department that she was too disabled to work again, the government finally has forgiven the student debt of disabled former police officer Tina Brooks. She was featured in a Feb. 13 story about the government’s broken program for forgiving the f ...
• ATF Orders Immediate Review of Gun-Running Ope ...
  The head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosive on Thursday night ordered an outside evaluation of his agency's efforts to combat Mexican gun trafficking following a Center for Public Integrity report that ATF supervisors allowed more than 1,700 guns to flow to straw buyers wi ...
• Reports On Gun That Killed U.S. Agent Highligh ...
  Reports that a Texas store was the source of a gun used to kill a U.S. agent in Mexico are bringing new attention to an issue that was the subject a Center investigation last month.

backofthebook.ca

• 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 ...

libcom

• Death of a Worker: Work Kills at Modelama Text ...
  In a report on the death at work of a textile factory worker and subsequent strike in Gurgaon, India. The following report about the sad death of a garment worker at Modelama factory in Gurgaon was sent by a friend of Gurgaon workers ...
• 1 little, 2 little, 10000 little Indians
  5prosvjed2.jpg Article about 5th protest in Zagreb What the protesters promised, it came true – today`s protest was the largest so far. According to some estimates, around 1000 ...
• Italy: Revolts and riots in migrant detention ...
  images.jpeg 1 March: after a revolt that has gone on for days, the detention centre in Gradisca is in a state of collapse: one single cell left for the 100 detainees, people eating and sleeping in th ...
• Zagreb: The masses have taken to the streets
  3prosvjed1.jpg A report on the Croatian anti-government demonstrations from an anarcho syndicalist participant. The masses have taken to the streets of Zagreb, Rijeka, Split an ...
• MASA and the masses against the ruling class
  poziv1.jpg Statemant of MASA's local group Zagreb regarding March the 2nd protests. In these last few days, a series of protests took place in Zagreb, Croatia’s capital city. W ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

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

du la bab - Now is the Time

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

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

• Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian singer-songwriter
  Peter Mansbridge sits down with Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon to discuss his hits, and those songs that were never sung.
• Ed Clark, TD Bank President and CEO (Dec 11, 2010)
  It's now one of the biggest, most powerful banks anywhere -- and it's Canadian. Leading it, a former Ottawa bureaucrat, who walks into the boardrooms of Bay Street and Wall Street with a confidence reserved for the world's most influential business leaders. Ed Clark is our guest this week - and ...
• Pervez Musharraf, former President of Pakistan ...
  He's been a general and a president, leading Pakistan while wearing those both hats in the tense days following 9-11. Now Pervez Musharraf is out of office and exiled from his country. But that hasn't stopped him from wading into the debate about Pakistan, Afghanistan and how countries like C ...
• Wayne Gretzky
  He is the Great One by name, by deed and by reputation. And when Canadians were asked who should be the final torchbearer in Vancouver, he was their first choice. And this week, he's ours. Hockey legend, Wayne Gretzky.
• Mark Tremblay, Healthy Living and Obesity Expe ...
  How fit are we? Not very, if you buy into the steady stream of new studies that have been making the news. They paint a very bleak picture of the present, but an even worse future if current trends continue. This week, our guest tells us why.

Scotts Contracting

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

The View From Abroad

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

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

• Hiroshima and Nagasaki Sabotaged Prospects for ...
  What ostensibly won the war for the United States sowed seeds for future discord.
• Should the Arms Control Community Back Off Mis ...
  Targeting missile defense for elimination can come back to haunt disarmament advocates.
• What the Army Thinks the Taliban Would Do With ...
  Why is the U.S. Army reluctant to discuss genitourinary injuries?
• Bradley Manning: Death by Elastic Underwear Wa ...
  After all, Pfc. Manning has already harmed himself with his irony.
• Neo-Con Hawks Take Flight over Libya
  On Wednesday, Obama said his staff was preparing a "full range of options" for action.

Law.com

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

Iranian.com

• هاشمی نامزد نشد؛ ریاست خبرگان به آیت الله مهدو ...
  آيت الله مهدوی کنی، دبير جامعه روحانيت مبارز، که از سوی هواداران دولت و رهبر جمهوری اسلامی ايران برای رياست مجلس خبرگان نامزد شده بود روز سه شنبه توانست با کسب ۶۳ رای، رياست خبرگان را برای دو سال آينده از آن خود کند. آيت اله هاشمی رفسنجانی برای تصدی اين سمت نامزد انتخابات نشد.read more
• بازداشت رهبران مخالفان در ایران
• آتش زدن یک "روحانی" در ورامین
  تابناک : یکشنبه گذشته چند فرد ناشناس با مراجعه به منزل حجت الاسلام والمسلمین 'شیخ مهدی اسناوندی' از روحانیون سرشناس منطقه ورامین در استان تهران از وی تقاضا می کنند برای اقامه نماز میت بر جنازه یک شخص بی بضاعت با انان همراه شود. read more
• How to Lose a Country Gracefully
  Our hearts understandably thrill to the courage of those who stand up to power — from Tiananmen Square to Tahrir Square and all the streets that now teem with the young and freedom-hungry. But there is another heroism, scarce and undervalued, that accrues to those who know how to stand down. re ...
• ویروس استاکس‌نت صنعت ایران را تحت تاثیر قرار د ...
  رئیس سازمان پدافندغيرعامل ایران گفته است که ويروس استاكس‌نت مشكلاتى براى كشور ايجاد كرده است. به گزارش خبرگزارى دانشجويان ايران (ايسنا)، غلامرضا جلالى روز يكشنبه در يک نشست خبرى گفت که اين ويروس صنعت كشور را تحت تاثير قرار داده و ممكن است عوارض صنعتی زيادی ايجاد كند.read more

Most Revolutionary Act

• Our CIA “Freedom Fighters” in Pa ...
  The CIA’s use of mercenaries to fight covert wars is an essential component of US foreign policy as old as the CIA itself. It effectively evades the Constitutional requirement that only allows Congress to declare war, as well as effectively concealing the vast majority of these “interventions” f ...
• The Way Forward: Join Something!
  While the massive protests in state capitals last week are a great start, Americans still have a long way to go to achieve an Egyptian-style revolution that will restore working democracy in the US. To begin with, American workers need to be better organized. There’s no question that Mubarak’s d ...
• Overcoming Pro-Corporate Messaging
  From www.adbusters.org My last blog was about the five memes or psychological messages that discourage Americans from joining with co-workers, neighbors and other community members to fight the business and corporate interests that negatively impact so many aspects of our lives. These paralyzing ...
• Thinking Like Egyptians
  It’s extremely heartening to see Americans’ fascination with the popular uprisings in the Middle East, as well as speculation across the blogosphere about the potential to replicate them in the US. Massive turnout in Madison and other state capitals is very promising, as American workers realiz ...
• US Unemployment: 9.0% or 18.5%?
  The US Department of Labor announced last fall that they were going to alter the scandalous way they report unemployment figures – to more accurately represent the true number of jobless in the US. Don’t hold your breath. Nevertheless the figures they released for January 2010 (13.9 million or ...

Doug's Darkworld

• The Power of Prayer
  “When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.” Various random thoughts on God, atheism, and related topics. What can I say, I gave up my agnostic ways a few weeks back, and [...]
• Charlie Sheen, dead hostages, protesters on a ...
  So I’m walking home from work Thursday afternoon, and there are helicopters circling downtown Berkeley. I’m like, what’s up? I turn on the TV news, and yes, protesters have chained themselves onto a ledge on a building on campus. And I suspect the typical response most people would have, is some ...
• “How is the world ruled and led to war? ...
  The Arab Awakening continues. German tanks roll across Poland. Life goes on in America as if nothing is happening, as if the events unfolding in the Middle East are no more inconvenience than a brief rise in gas prices and a few images of demonstrators on TV. I mean, most Americans couldn’t find ...
• Gaddafi vows to die a martyr, I for one hope h ...
  And by the way, we’re all so screwed by what’s going on now. I should be at work but I just need to keep watching the news and following developments in Libya and elsewhere. Well, mostly reading stuff on line, watching the broadcast news is pretty annoying but I do so for the images they [...]
• World Revolution?
  The revolutionary movements now sweeping a dozen countries may very well herald a new chapter in world history. I mean, we are seeing simultaneously a number of events that even singly would have been one of the biggest stories of the year in the preceding decades. This is pretty incredible when ...

FourWinds10

• New photo of 'English Nessie' hailed as best yet
• NEW MADRID EARTHQUAKE AND MORE
• The Tragic State of the Gulf of Mexico: Sampli ...
  In October 2010, Truthout tested several water and soil samples from the Gulf of Mexico for chemicals in BP's crude oil and toxic dispersants. One sample of dead marine life was also tested. Truthout also obtained and had analyzed a sample of pure Corexit 9500, one of the toxic dispersants used ...
• Illnesses linked to BP Oil Disaster: Widesprea ...
• Pennsylvania Allows Gas Fracking Waste to be D ...
  It was revealed today by the AP that the state of Pennsylvania is allowing "wastewater so salty, and so polluted with metals like barium and strontium" to be flushed into local waterways. This wastewater is a result of natural gas extraction method called "fracking" which has been a sore spot wi ...

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

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

Discovery Educator Network

• American Education in 2030 | Hoover Institution
  Comments:Various videos expressing opinions about where education will be in 2030. - Aly TappTags: future, predicting, reformby: Aly Tapp
• Digital Storytelling with the iPad
  Tags: iPad, storytelling, digitalstorytelling, digital, iPads, resources, educationby: Dean Mantz
• EMPIRE17.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Ob ...
  Comments:Very nice timeline map created using flash to illustrate the history of the Europe, Middle East and Asia over a 5,000 year period. - Dean MantzTags: history, maps, geography, middleeast, Education, war, politicsby: Dean Mantz
• Paper Slide Videos - Guidelines
  Tags: videos, paper, slide, wiki, MaryFrazier, web2.0, technologyby: Dean Mantz
• GetYourGrooveOn - home
  Comments:Wiki created by Mary Frazier in collaboration with Aimee Stoffel and Tanya Szanto from the KS DEN LC.  Create music videos teaching your curriculum.  - Dean MantzTags: getyourgrooveon, DEN, musicvideo, education, wiki, MaryFrazierby: Dean Mantz

Rodale News

• Mind-Body-Mood Advisor: Is Sugar Sapping Your ...
  RODALE NEWS, LENOX, MA—Do you ever forget people’s names? Enter a room and forget why you went there? Forget a word mid-sentence? As we get older, these types of “senior moments” happen more often. Many of the people I evaluate worry that these slips mean they are getting Alzheimer’s disease. I ...
• Get More, Better Sleep: Put These 5 Sleep-Stea ...
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PAâMonday kicks off National Sleep Awareness Week, but a new Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study exposes nightmarish sleep statistics nationwide. More than 35 percent of adults surveyed for the CDC study admitted to getting less than seven hours of sleep a ...
• 5 Key Strategies for a Plastic-Free Life
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—We've reduced, reused, and fretted over Ziploc bags for an entire month, and now it's time to turn all those lessons learned during Plastic-Free February into words we can live by. After soliciting suggestions from some of the bloggers who followed along in our challenge ...
• How to Choose and Use a Portable Pedal Exerciser
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—To counteract the unhealthy effects of too much sitting, it’s important to incorporate frequent movement breaks into yo read more
• Illegal, Unsafe Allergy and Cold Meds Could Lu ...
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—As part of an ongoing initiative to remove unsafe and unapproved drugs from the market, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced on Wednesday that it was pulling 500 allergy, cough, and cold medications off pharmacists' shelves. According to the agency, some of t ...

big think

• Hillary Clinton Pins The Tail On The News Media
  Hillary Clinton, of all people, made my day last week when she said the news in the United States consists of “…a million commercials and, you know, arguments between talking heads…” To add insult to injury, she held up Al Jazeera, the Arab news station, as a model of responsible information ... ...
• How Women Are Changing the Web
  If the Web had a gender, it would be female. There, I've said it. Despite all the traditional indicators typically cited - such as the declining number of women signing up for computer science majors at our nation's universities or the relatively small number of female tech CEOs - the future ...
• How Do Carcinogens Cause Cancer?
  What do processed meats, diet sodas, tobacco, tanning beds, and plastics all have in common? They are all known or suspected to be carcinogens, substances which promote the genetic mutations that lead to cancer.�During Big Think's recent panel discussion on cancer�research and�treatment, five .. ...
• Sex Advice Columnist Dan Savage As Ethicist
  Benjamin Dueholm has a cover story in the Washington Monthly assessing sex advice columnist Dan Savage as an ethicist: Savage yields to no one in his sexual libertarianism, but he has not been content to relegate the ideas of right and wrong to cultural conservatives. Wading deep into the f ...
• A Robot Becomes A Fellow At a Think-Tank
  The Hybrid Reality Institute today announced that Data, a robot actor and celebrity, has joined the Institute as a Fellow. Data is the first non-human entity to join a think tank with the full rank of Fellow. Best known for his stand-up comedy exploits on behalf of Marilyn Monrobot at the TED ...

Information Liberation

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

Be Responsible - Be Free!

• The Gates Re-open…
  …and youâve all been issued with a golden ticket. The few weeksâ closure I announced last November have turned into a few months. Sorry about that. But the break, apart from allowing me to clear a very large backlog of … Continue reading →
• Ozboy’s Bar And Grill Is Closed For Repairs
  It’s only temporary. A couple of weeks. But the recent shenanigans round here have forced me to do some thinking about how LibertyGibbert can run better in the future. I’ve spoken to a couple of you about this today, to … Continue reading →
• The Dragon’s Dissent Part III: Naked Nat ...
  The emergence of China as the world’s new superpower has raised many questions in the international community and across the blogosphere regarding the longer-range agenda of the Middle Kingdom. In a recent discussion on this forum, the question of Chinese … Continue reading →
• U.S. Elections: Will Liberty Win?
  Well today’s the day. As just about every other blog in the sphere is covering the elections today, I thought I’d throw the forum open, and we can discuss the results as they come in, in real time. If as … Continue reading →
• Libertarianism And Drug Liberalization
  G’day everyone, Just arrived back home safe and sound. Sorry there hasn’t been a new post in several days, but just at the moment my family needs me more than the Bar and Grill does. Dr. Dave has graciously stepped … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

• How to spot a fake smile
  Apparently, most people are surprisingly bad at spotting fake smiles, according to the BBC at least (other observers suggest otherwise). One theory as to why this might be is that it is perhaps easier for people to get along if they don’t always know what others are really feeling. But, I’d ar ...
• The Elements Song – Periodic Table of Videos
  The PToV team has spliced together a great version of the classic Tom Lehrer song, The Elements. I love this song and I’m sure Lehrer would agree this creative version is elementary. Featuring Prof Martyn Poliakoff and all the gang. Related Posts:Periodic table of videos at the moviesReal chem ...
• Five science selects
  Persistence of vision – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – If persistence of vision were the explanation for how the mind perceives moving pictures in cinema, cinema wouldn't work, because the persistence would constantly produce images of complementary colour to what is on the screen. The Vic ...
• Five science selects
  How to Find Trustworthy Science and Health Information – Today, we’re overwhelmed with sources of information, with hundreds of television stations and millions of Web sites, and it can be hard to figure out what to trust. Google recently tweaked its search algorithm to bring higher quality site ...
• Spectral science selection
  Aussie rock rolls The oldest fossils of bacteria ever found were discovered in a rock formation in Western Australia, the discovery led to great excitement that has not abated for more than two decades. Until now. Raman spectroscopy shows that what palaeontologists thought were pristine microbia ...

RFF Library

• Are European Bioenergy Targets Achievable? An ...
  Anna Sues Caula / Cartesius Institute, Energy Research Institute of the Netherlands http://alexandria.tue.nl/extra2/695295.pdf [From summary] The motivation of this thesis is to determine the best technology to convert biomass into an optimal energy carrier to ultimately determine: (1) how feasi ...
• The BP Oil Disaster: Results from a Health and ...
  Louisiana Bucket Brigade http://labucketbrigade.org/article.php?id=709 [Abstract] In this report, we discuss the self-reported impacts on health, collected through 954 surveys conducted in seven coastal Louisiana oil spill-affected communities. The basis of this report is an analysis of the firs ...
• California Utilities Underperform on their Ren ...
  California Public Utility Commission http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/PUC/energy/Renewables/index.htm Established in 2002 under Senate Bill 1078 and accelerated in 2006 under Senate Bill 107, California’s Renewables Portfolio Standard (RPS) is one of the most ambitious renewable energy standards in the co ...
• EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Regulations and The ...
  US House of Representatives, Subcommittee on Energy and Power http://energycommerce.house.gov/hearings/hearingdetail.aspx?NewsID=8270 Read written testimonies or watch archived webcast. Witnesses Panel 1 Mike Carey, President, Ohio Coal Association Paul Cicio, President, Industrial Energy Consum ...
• Global Land Use Change, Economic Globalization ...
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences / by Eric F. Lambina and Patrick Meyfroidtb (doi: 10.1073/ pnas.1100480108; March 1, 2011 v108 n9 p3465-3472) http://www.pnas.org/content/108/9/3465.full Open access article [Abstract] A central challenge for sustainability is how to preserve fores ...

Scientific American - News

• Earthbound: Potential Suitors Await News on Sp ...
  After 26 years, 230 million kilometers, and a combined year in orbit, space shuttle Discovery is headed home one last time. The oldest, most utilized shuttle in NASA's fleet is inbound from its final visit to the International Space Station and is scheduled to touch down at Kennedy Space Cente ...
• Raze of Glory: NASA Earth-Observing Climate Sa ...
  In the last few years NASA has built and launched two world-class climate satellites, both of which promised invaluable new data on the natural and human influences on Earth's changing climate. Neither of them, however, will ever deliver the data that climate scientists so eagerly expected from ...
• Minimum to the Max: Shifting Solar Plasma Coul ...
  A few years back, the sun went into a lull, its activity tailing off like a rambunctious child settling down for a nap. The lull was no surprise; it is a normal part of the sun's roughly 11-year cycle of activity, over which the number of magnetized regions known as sunspots waxes and wanes. But ...
• U.S. Military Links Alternative Energy Researc ...
  NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.--Flexible solar cells now power communications equipment used by Marines fighting in Afghanistan's Helmand Province, enabling them to shed 700 pounds worth of batteries while on foot patrol. But an F-16 fighter jet flying over Miramar training base in Calif. burns 28 gallons ...
• How National Security Depends on Better Lithiu ...
  NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.--Lithium spontaneously combusts in air, yet the battery in your computer--and any of the stacks in the new breed of electric vehicles--is made from it. Lithium even burns in water, which is too bad because a lithium-water battery could be both cheap and powerful. Now batte ...

First Truths

• The Revolving-Door Polity of Corporatism
  In a C4SS commentary regarding the appointment of Jeffrey Immelt to the Economic Recovery Advisory Board, I write: And regardless of the sound bites they direct at the public, politicians and CEOs understand full well that the myth is just that, a handy piece of rhetoric intended to obfuscate wh ...
• The Pretense of "Austerity"
  For C4SS, I write: The truth of state capitalism, though, is that it harnesses and exploits the labor and aptitude of the many to fatten a parasitic few. Working people lay the foundational infrastructure of state-capitalism, allowing its top-heavy imbalances to carry on in the face of counterva ...
• The People's Republic of Crony Capitalism
  My latest for the Center for a Stateless Society: States the world over are acting as guarantors of entrenched commercial power, promoting their economic interventions with the language of fairness and efficiency. The new rules that the China Banking Regulatory Commission is expected to promulga ...
• No Work for the Weary, Part II
  My latest commentary for the Center for a Stateless Society: But if the state exerts its monopoly on the use of force to create special advantages for certain "competitors," and all of the supposed "choices" we have in the economic system are predicated on those advantages, then there is only th ...
• The Egyptian Crisis and Libertarian Class-Conf ...
  For the Ludwig von Mises Institute, I commented on the class implications of the past few weeks in Egypt: More than any other economic approach, the Austrian School raises and provides answers to the critical inquiries of class theory, drawing the ultimate distinction between the types of intera ...

Media Co-Op

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

David Seaton's News Links

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

EWG - Environmental Working Group

• EPA to require tap water tests for unregulated ...
  Contact: EWG public affairs 202.667.6982 The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed a nationwide plan to require water utilities to test drinking water for 28 contaminants currently unregulated by federal law, including six... [[ This is a content summary only. Vis ...
• New Map Reveals Hot Spots in Emerging Global F ...
  Contact: Patricia Brooks, 202-351-1757, patricia@matchmapmedia.com, Donald Carr, 202-939-9141, don@ewg.org Washington, DC – Volatile food markets and food insecurity contributed to the civic unrest that recently brought down... [[ This is a content summary only. Visi ...
• Seasoned Capitol Hill Reporter Joins EWG Publ ...
  Contact: Contact EWG Public Affairs 202-667-6982 Washington, D.C. – The Environmental Working Group is pleased to announce the arrival of Sara Sciammacco as the newest member of its public affairs team as a press secretary. She comes to... [[ This is a content summar ...
• EWG Fans More Than One Million Strong
  Contact: EWG public affairs 202.667.6982 Washington, D.C. – Since 2006, Environmental Working Group has been building an email list of engaged consumers who sign up to get regular alerts about our latest research and practical tips to... [[ This is a content summary onl ...
• EWG Comments to Dioxin Review Panel
  February 24th, 2011 February 23, 2010 Dr. Timothy Buckley, Chair Dioxin Review Panel of the Science Advisory Board Environmental Protection Agency 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W. Washington, DC 20460 Dear Dr. Buckley, These comments are... [[ This is a cont ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

• Men With High Levels of This Have a 4 Times LO ...
  Everyday chemicals may be lowering your sperm count, scrambling DNA sperm data, or causing sperm mobility problems.� You might already know that narrow bike seats and antidepressants can cause problems.� MSN lists seven more you might not have heard about: 1. Cash register receipts About 40 ...
• Could You Grow Food Like this Family?
  The Dervaes family has created a modern suburban homestead that has yielded an entirely new, revolutionary alternative lifestyle.
• Please Don't Visit This Type of Doctor Unless ...
  By Dr. Mercola Every year, 230 million prescriptions for antidepressants are filled, making them one of the most prescribed drugs in the United States. The psychiatric industry itself is a $330 billion industry—not bad for an enterprise that offers little in the way of cures. Despite all of ...
• If You Eat Organic Food, Have You Just Been Be ...
  Organic consumers and producers in the U.S. are facing betrayal. A self-appointed group of "Organic Elites", including Whole Foods Market, Organic Valley, and Stonyfield Farm, are surrendering to Monsanto. Top executives from these companies publicly stated several weeks ago that they support t ...
• Why It’s Economically Unfeasible for Most Doct ...
  A recent poll showed that over a third of doctors are unhappy about some aspect of their profession. They often expressed serious concerns that the current state of health care is impeding their ability to provide quality care. Even physicians who said they were happy agreed that there were pro ...

JAMA

• A 70-Year-Old Man Trying to Decide if He Shoul ...
• Preserving the Lifesaving Power of Antimicrobi ...
• Preserving Rights for Individuals Facing Guard ...
• HMGA1, A Novel Locus for Type 2 Diabetes Melli ...
• Antihypertensive Therapy for Prehypertension: ...

Survival - tribal peoples

• Success: Peru acts to save uncontacted tribes
  Global coverage of the newly-released photos has pushed the Peruvian government into action © Gleison Miranda/FUNAI/Survival Peruâs authorities have announced that they will work together with Brazil to stop loggers entering isolated Indiansâ territory along the two countriesâ joint border ...
• Peru admits timber certificates faked in secre ...
  A Murunahua man. The Murunahua's reserve is occupied by illegal loggers © Chris Fagan/Upper Amazon Conservancy Peruâs government has secretly admitted that 70-90% of its mahogany exports were illegally felled, according to a US embassy cable revealed by Wikileaks. Furthermore, Peruâs gove ...
• Amazon Indians protest in London as judge bloc ...
  The Indians are calling for three controversial dam projects in the Amazon to be halted. © M. Cowan/Survival âThese projects will force my people from their land and end our way of life.â Ruth Buendia Mestoquiari, Ashaninka leader. Three Amazon Indians protested in London today against ...
• Indian leader’s killers convicted of kidnappin ...
  Guarani Indian leader Marcos Veron © Joaó Ripper/Survival Three men on trial for the murder of Brazilian Indian leader Marcos Veron have been acquitted of homicide, but convicted of kidnapping, torture and criminal conspiracy in relation to his death. They were also acquitted of charges of ...
• Industry bloggers call for mine to make tribal ...
  Vedanta's aluminium refinery in Lanjigarh, Odisha, India © Survival In the footsteps of former Survival supporters, such as Peter Cook and Spike Milligen, Michael Palin recently gave a fundraising talk for the organization. He described his visit to the Dongria Kondh tribe in India where a ...

Montreal Gazette

• Integrity commissioner's severance fails smell ...
  Ouimet is the former public sector integrity commissioner, the first ever appointed and, as scathingly laid out in a report by the federal auditor-general, she was the worst fit possible in the office. The shocking disgrace on top of that is the more than half-million dollars she was paid by the ...
• Editorial: Stop skating around the issue of he ...
  No one knows when - or if - Sidney Crosby, the National Hockey League's best player, will return to the game after suffering one and possibly two concussions within days. The Boston Bruins' Marc Savard's career might well be over. Last week news came out that former NHL player Bob Probert had ch ...
• Stop skating around the issue of head injury
  No one knows when - or if - Sidney Crosby, the National Hockey League's best player, will return to the game after suffering one and possibly two concussions within days. The Boston Bruins' Marc Savard's career might well be over. Last week news came out that former NHL player Bob Probert had ch ...
• The 'Quebec model' and energy resources
  The group that prepared the document calls itself Maitres chez nous 21e siecle, a borrowing from the slogan that Jean Lesage's equipe du tonnerre rode to victory in the 1962 provincial elections. Its leading signatories are, if not has-beens, best known for their former public incarnatio ...
• Rink plan a waste of taxpayer money
  David Johnston's article "Rinks plan sparks mini war in Westmount" (Gazette, Feb. 17) highlighted many of the controversial aspects of this plan. Criticism has also dogged the process Westmount has followed to justify and develop the project, beginning with the obvious lack of demonstrable need.

Food World Order

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

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

• Robert Green, Hollie and Ann Greig at The &#82 ...
  Robert Green, Hollie and Anne Greig have confirmed they will be appearing at the Child Snatching By The State conference being held on April 10th in Stafford, UK. In recent years, there has been a steady increase in media reports concerning Mothers and Fathers, Grandparents and Families reporti ...
• COTO Report British Edition: An Interview with ...
  COTO Report British Edition goes to the Isle of Wight to bring you an almost three hour long interview with Mr. David Icke by Megan ‘Verb’ Kargher.  In this interview we discuss his new book entitled Human Race Get Off Your Knees, the Lion Sleeps No More, the nature of reality and politics. link ...
• A Warm Embrace - The Great Bell Chant
  A Warm Embrace - The Great Bell Chant from R Smittenaar on Vimeo. Watch in Full Screen, believe me it’s worth it!
• Robert Green Speaking at Truthjuice Llangollen ...
• No title
  We Need Your Help Urgently Please so That Robert Green Can Stand for Parliament on the Hollie Greig Establishment Abuse Case Do you live in the constituency of Aberdeen South? The wards are: Queens Cross, Gilcomston, Langstane, Hazelhead, Peterculter, Murtle, Cults, Mannofield, Ashley, Holburn, ...

The Economic Collapse

• 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 ...

CASSE

• Growth of GDP and Discontent in Egypt and Tunisia
  Egypt and Tunisia have a lesson: GDP is a measure of the commotion of money in an economy, not a measure of delivered well-being.
• A Liberating (but Damned Uncomfortable) Conversion
  Herman Daly entreats economists not to eschew the wonderful wisdom of Wendell Berry.
• Economic and Environmental Perspective on Pres ...
  Brent Blackwelder remembers Ronald Reagan's ruinous results for the environment and the economy.
• How to Fix a Household Crisis
  Why are the fields of economics and ecology in crisis, and how can we work toward a solution?
• Enough Childish Name Calling
  Sharon Ede sets the record straight on exactly who's acting like a misanthrope, and she pokes a little fun along the way!

The Talking Clock

• Middle East democracy spreading Cameron denyin ...
  This is hilarious. Listen to our great cast iron Prime Minister (stop sniggering at the back) talking on Al Jazeera about democracy and the will of the people, repression and so on... ...and then hear him say that the people can naff off, he won't give you a referendum on the European Empire ...
• 100 years after the Suffragettes: The British ...
  We have, throughout our history on this island, a long tradition of fighting injustice. A long and colourful patchwork story of quirky characters who have, against the odds, stood up for what they believed in and effected great change. One wonders how history will record the events in the Wir ...
• Quote of the Day: 7th March 2011
  "We [Ireland] have been financially vaporised because the out-going Finance Minister was obedient to Jean Claude Trichet, the head of the European Central Bank. Mr Trichet told the Minister to guarantee all the bank debt and the Minister obeyed. This debt was in great billions owed to German ban ...
• Vote Jane Collins, UKIP, Barnsley Central on M ...
  See also: Michael Heaver - UKIP to come 3rd in Barnsley?
• Sunday Paper Review: 27th February 2011
  This week's paper review has a particularly international dimension, unsurprisingly. Which means our joke about Nick Clegg the Trainee Bellboy will have to wait until later. Naturally, the situation in Libya dominates many of the Sunday newspapers. The Independent on Sunday picks up on a r ...

Facing South

• EPA puts off long-promised coal ash protections
  Communities imperiled by poorly managed coal ash won't be getting help from the federal government any time soon. The Obama administration announced last week that it would not issue long-awaited federal regulations this year after all. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Li ...
• Life and death on Big Oil's fence line
  The environmental destruction caused by Louisiana's oil industry did not begin with the BP disaster, and a visit to the town of Norco 25 miles west of New Orleans powerfully illustrates that reality. Built on land adjacent to the Mississippi River that once supported vast sugar planta ...
• VOICES: Evidence grows of possible health cons ...
  Ten months after the Deepwater Horizon sank into the Gulf of Mexico, the long-term impacts of the oil spill continue to surface in coastal communities, and the developing picture is not a pretty one. Since 2000, the Louisiana Bucket Brigade (LABB) has trained communities affected by indu ...
• Carolina Public Press launches new source for ...
  We all know the story: Newspapers and other "legacy media" have slashed their reporting budgets. More and more, blogs and social media are where people turn to find out what's happening. But who, then, does the in-depth, investigative reporting crucial to keeping the public informed and ...
• Gulf Coast restoration task force hearing show ...
  The president's Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Force met yesterday in New Orleans to gather public comments for the plan it's working on to restore the region's ecology in the wake of last year's BP catastrophe. A major theme of those comments was the deep distrust that many of the regio ...

CenterLine

• Today’s Terrorism News
  Obama Resumes Military Trials at Guantanamo Two years after ordering a halt to new military charges against detainees at Guantanamo, President Obama issued an executive order Monday allowing the resumption of military trials at the prison and put forward a … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Congressional Hearings on Muslim Radicalization to Begin Thursday With a series of House hearings on the radicalization of American Muslims beginning Thursday, the White House moved this weekend to reassure Muslims that it âwill not stigmatize or demonize entire communities … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Two New Jersey Men Plead Guilty to Terror Conspiracy Charges Two New Jersey men pleaded guilty Thursday to felony conspiracy charges related to their attempt to join the terror group al Shabab in Somalia last year. Mohamed Alessa, 21 and … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Germany Investigates Whether Shooting Deaths of 2 U.S. Airmen Are Linked to Terror Two U.S. airmen were shot and killed Wednesday outside Germanyâs Frankfurt Airport by a suspect, now in custody, described in reports as a 21-year-old Kosovo native of … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Holder: ‘I Don’t Know’ If Gitmo Will Be Closed By 2012 Testifying before a House budget subcommittee hearing Tuesday, Attorney General Eric Holder said that he doesnât know if Guantanamo will be closed by the end of President Obamaâs first … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

• Bird boom in wake of mad cow outbreak
  North American birds boom in years following mad cow outbreaks in Europe
• Today on New Scientist: 7 March 2011
  All today's stories on NewScientist.com, including: GPS chaos, Nathan Myhrvold, handheld cameras to see through objects, and a sparky Frankenstein
• Secret space plane has solar stowaway
  The X-37B space plane is super secret, but patents reveal what its novel solar array design may be
• Hospital trial for tech that spots early Alzhe ...
  A computer program for speedy and accurate diagnosis of early Alzheimer's is being trialled in UK hospitals
• The curious incident of the koala in the night ...
  Koalas bellow at midnight - thanks to a bunch of modern technology we now know why

Tech Drive In

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

Case About Bird Flu

• Is Austria worse than Sudan? My experience wit ...
  When I filed charges against Baxter in April 2009 for contaminating 72 kilos of seasonal flu vaccine with the deadly bird flu virus, I had no idea Austrian justice officials were going to turn out to be the extended arm of a criminal network and that I was going to be in danger of losing [...]
• Data shows flu vaccines double risk of getting ...
  Vaccines may have increased swine flu risk By Annie Guest From: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/03/04/3155750.htm Updated Fri Mar 4, 2011 7:37pm AEDT There is renewed controversy surrounding influenza vaccines, with some studies showing people immunised against the seasonal flu might hav ...
• German defence minister Guttenberg to face cri ...
  Prosecutors to investigate plagiarism charges against ex-minister Mar 3, 2011, 15:28 GMT Berlin – German prosecutors are to conduct a formal investigation into plagiarism allegations against former defence minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, they announced Thursday. Earlier in the day, Guttenbe ...
• New Irish government betrays every election pr ...
  Voter betrayal: FG/Labour to ditch pledges on economy They will brazenly follow Fianna Fail’s four-year austerity plan as Labour protects public sector By JODY CORCORAN Sunday March 06 2011 The Fine Gael/Labour coalition Government is to implement in detail the outgoing Government’s four-year au ...
• Irish poet sees transition to new politics as ...
  Gene Kerrigan: Forget the election, change really is afoot The evisceration of Fianna Fail is just the first step in a delicate but important process, writes Gene Kerrigan Sunday March 06 2011 In the weeks after a General Election, things usually unfold as though written in a script. And the pol ...

Invisible Opportunity

• Larry Silverstein Gives Shithouse Rats a Bad Name
  By Les Visible Larry Silverstein is not only a cold blooded, calculating, premeditating, mass murdering, still in the business, vampire from Hell, but he also was a profiteer from this activity and to show you the kind of power this shit house rat has (appearance of power), he got everyone to pa ...
• A terrorist training base that specializes in ...
  By Deb Simon For some three decades, local residents near a top secret terrorist training base have reported on hearing explosions, seeing sudden flashes of light and night time flares, and noticing small planes and “black helicopters” arriving at and departing from a small airfield on the base. ...
• Yes, You Can Survive The Coming Economic Night ...
  By Saladin If you work hard and get prepared, you can survive the economic nightmare that is coming. All over the United States and around the world there are millions of people that are learning how to become more self-sufficient. For example, there is one family that is actually producing 6000 ...
• Leading News Resource of Pakistan – Cour ...
  LAHORE: A lower court on Thursday rejected the application of US national Raymond Davis seeking diplomatic immunity from murder trial against him. The court held that the accused did not enjoy immunity, as the certificate required to substantiate his diplomatic status had not been submitted by t ...
• UN Postpones Praising Gadhafi’s Human Rights R ...
  It seems that in this world, the greatest violators of people’s rights get the highest awards.  Something is amiss… Basic reason scored something of a victory today as the UN Human Rights Council announced that it was postponing the vote to affirm a report praising Libyan dictator Moammar Gadha ...

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 ...

electric politics

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

PR News

• Gibraltar Associates acquires TheWadeGroup
  WASHINGTON: Gibraltar Associates said that it acquired TheWadeGroup, a Washington-based communications shop.
• Waggener Edstrom creates app for SXSW
  PORTLAND, OR: Waggener Edstrom developed a free mobile-phone app for attendees of South by Southwest.
• Defense association taps Bianchi PR
  TROY, MI: The National Defense Industrial Association's Michigan chapter tapped Bianchi PR for media relations and event promotion.
• BioMarck hires Largemouth
  DURHAM, NC: BioMarck Pharmaceuticals hired Largemouth Communications to provide PR support around the company's work developing a treatment for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
• Eddie Bauer selects Backbone Media
  SEATTLE: Apparel retail company Eddie Bauer hired Backbone Media to develop and execute its media relations and outdoor industry PR strategy.

The Story Behind the Story

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

k2p blog

• 2010 was coldest year in Sweden in 23 years an ...
  2010 was the coldest year in Sweden in 23 years.
• Will Tibet see a “Facebook” demons ...
  The Chinese government is monitoring the internet mobile phones and social media to pre-empt any demonstrations in the style of the North African jasmine revolutions and have banned foreign travel to Tibet in anticipation of 14th of March demonstrations.
• Indian Supreme Court: Active euthanasia is ill ...
  In the Shanbaug case, the Indian Supreme Court has ruled that active euthanasia is illegal but that a court supervised passive euthanasia can be permissible.
• The Prince and the paedophile and Berlusconi a ...
  While Prince Andrew's close relationships with a paedophile and the favours he received are receiving scrutiny, bunga bunga Berlusconi and the vast pimping network surrounding him are being exposed in court by Italian prosecutors.
• Kilauea Volcano eruptions may be entering new ...
  Heightened activity at Kilauea Volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii during Sunday sent lava spewing 65 feet in the air.

Left Foot Forward

• ESA cuts will exacerbate poverty and remove he ...
  Neil Coyle of Disability Alliance writes how the proposed cuts to diasability allowances (ESA) will exacerbate poverty and remove support for the disabled.
• Milburn rejects offer to be candidate for chai ...
  Embattled health secretary Andrew Lansley suffered a further blow today with the news former Labour health secretary Alan Milburn has rejected his personal request to become a candidate for the chair of the NHS Commissioning Board.
• Poll shows widespread sexism; Mail says: &#822 ...
  The Daily Mail has used a report showing sexism is widespread in UK society to argue sexism is dead; the article is headed "sexism is dead, say most British women".
• Is the focus on aid – how much, and who ...
  Tony Dykes of Action for Southern Africa asks if the focus on aid - how much, and who to - is the right one, and asks for the decision to cut the UK aid budget to Lesotho be reviewed.
• Osborne’s ‘fair fuel stabiliser&#8 ...
  It’s a telling sign of our dependence on foreign oil that all eyes turn to the price of a barrel of crude as events in the Middle East, which ought to give us cause for hope, are causing despair in the UK with petrol hitting the £1.40 a litre level.

Consumerist

• Skype Starts Running Ads, Says You Won't Notice
  Looking to dial up another income stream, Skype plans to start running ads on its home tab, and promises they'll be unobtrusive solicitations from the likes of Groupon, Visa and Universal Pictures. The announcement came on Skype's blog, in a post that promptly allays fears of conversation-inte ...
• Nine "Laws" That Advertisers Try Not To Break
  Something fishy about that late-night ad for the new device that chops, slaps, snuggles and absorbs all stains -- all for just $19.95 plus shipping and handling? Turns out the ad may not be illegal, but could still run afoul of the standards of the National Advertising Division of the Council o ...
• Study: Secondhand Smoke Increases Risk Of Stil ...
  Those who smoke around pregnant women could be poisoning the fetuses, judging from the results of a a study that found exposure to secondhand smoke greatly increases the risk of stillbirths and ups the odds the baby will be born with defects. A CNN blog cites a study that ran in the medical jo ...
• Morning Deals
  ClothingShoeSteal: [Shoes] Save $15 Off $75 Or More with coupon code 15OFF75.DJ Premium: [Clothing & Accessories] Extra 15% Off Sale & Clearance Items use coupon code DJP15SALE.Catherines: [Apparel] $15 Off $25 Purchase w/ Coupon 777014358Sierra Trading Post: [Apparel] 20% off Entire Order w/ C ...
• Personal Finance Roundup
  The 9 Secrets of Highly Successful Craigslist Sellers [Wise Bread] "Follow these guidelines, and you can get much better results the next time you post something on Craigslist." 10 Things Health Insurers Won't Say [Smart Money] "#1: Your deductible is only the beginning." Adding It Up: Amazon ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

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

UK Progressive

• The Power Fossil Fuel Industries Have Over Pub ...
  The fossil fuel industry uses their power to control public health and safety agencies even as documented health issues continue to surface. The gas industry has began a powerful assault against anyone who speaks out on the dangers of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) and the threat to public heal ...
• FOX Talking Heads ‘Wig Out’ Over Michael Moore ...
  Documentary film maker and left wing activist Michael Moore gave an inspiring speech to demonstrators camped outside and inside the Wisconsin State Capitol. The text of his address follows. For FOX News Talking heads, it was a source of giggles and guffaws. Then, most middle class financial suff ...
• Natural Gas Drilling Debate Heats Up
  by ProPublica.org It’s been a busy couple of weeks in the fracking and natural gas drilling debate, with the documentary film Gasland nominated for an Academy Award and a front-page story in Sunday’s New York Times on the dangers posed by the technology. The Times story underscored the findings ...
• Downplaying The Negative Environmental Impacts ...
  Ethanol proponents have largely downplayed the negative environmental impacts of increased ethanol production, while emphasizing the positive impacts. But by ignoring the negatives, all of us, and future generations, are being put at risk. Ethanol, an alcohol-based fuel, is made by fermenting an ...
• Justice Thomas Needs to Recuse Himself, Rep. W ...
  This is a stunning exchange where Rep Weiner reads from specific Title regarding Supreme Court justices conduct and FOX News actress Megyn Kelly cites her unnamed sources saying Justice Clarence Thomas should not recuse himself from Supreme Court cases where he clearly is an advocate for his wif ...

NewsAlert

• 'Gang of 6' senators launch public campaign to ...
  The Washington Post reports:While Washington bickers noisily over cutting a small slice of the federal budget, Sens. Mark Warner, a Virginia Democrat, and Saxby Chambliss, a Georgia Republican, launched a campaign Monday to convince the public that merely cutting spending will do little to tame ...
• Only 11% of companies in New York area plan to ...
  The New York Daily News
• Planned Parenthood Supporters Call for Raising ...
  Illinois Review
• Obamacare vital signs starting to fade
  The Washington Times
• 5 Reasons Unions Are Bad For America
  Townhall

JoNova

• The Big Scare Campaign looks set to claim anot ...
  It made my day. The front page of The Australian: Record Labor low on Carbon Fury. Julia Gillards message is finally getting though and the voters are sitting up and paying attention. Where previously, they said “I like the idea of being good global citizens”, the question has changed:  now no ...
• The Silent Giant Coal Monster
  Greg Combet (our Minister for keeping-the-weather-the-same) can keep a straight face when he tells coal miners that their jobs are protected with him. You might think that’s insane, (especially if you are Green) but he has a point. Even if carbon mattered, our coal exports do not. (Not that Comb ...
• Unthreaded
  I’ll be away for a week with the family resting on warm beaches, near wandering rivers and spectacular gorges. I’ll be thinking of you. (Actually, I won’t be completely gone, though I may be beyond mobile range, and in uncharted non-NBN territory, there will still be some guest posts thanks to t ...
• Australian politics churning
  Things are hotting up in politics downunder. The immovable force meets the polls. Twenty years of PR catches up on the PM who didn’t do her homework. As Tim Blair says:  It’s a meltdown, Labor is seething. Bring Your PopCorn. “There is evidence the public’s general confidence is being shaken by ...
• Shut down Australia and save 0.01 degrees
  The key question — with all the billions spent on cutting Australia’s carbon production, the trade and income lost, the jobs cut, the pain of living near a wind farm, the foreign holidays avoided and paying more for petrol and electricity than we have too, how many degrees will our actions cool ...

ReNew America

• Bachmann: Obamacare a 'crime against democracy'
  (Newsmax) - Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., says Obamacare is a "crime against democracy" and the president's offer to states to implement their own healthcare reforms to replace it is nothing more than a "pretext." Bachmann's comments came on the heels of her exclusive Newsmax interview, in whi ...
• Gas price increases are intentional
  (Erick Erickson) - Gas prices continue to go up. When George W. Bush was President of the United States, Democrats constantly demanded he open the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to help lower prices. Some even wanted a temporary suspension of the gas tax. With Obama? Crickets...
• What does it take? Another victory for the ene ...
  (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - Let's cut to the quick: Two more broadcast commentators dared to speak out on the infiltration of our society by the Radical Islam/far left coalition whose fondest hope is to bring us down, tear our Constitution to shreds, and rule from the White House...
• House moves to defend law the president won't
  (Kathryn Jean Lopez) - As he previously indicated, Speaker of the House John Boehner has officially announced that the House of Representatives will defend the Defense of Marriage Act...
• New governors may outshine White House hopefuls
  (Charles Babington) - What's wrong with this picture? While half a dozen current and former Republican governors weigh bids to challenge President Barack Obama, the party's lightning and thunder are coming from a different handful of governors, who threaten to overshadow those potential candidat ...

Truth Offering

• Truth Offering Podcast with Matt Gordon - Feb. ...
  Good friend of TruthOffering.com and �ber (yeah, I said "�ber!) talented musician, Chris Phenom, is back to chat with Matt Gordon. �This week's topics range from WikiLeaks, peak oil, and Agenda 21, to genetically modified foods, geoengineering (chemtrails), Libertarianism, and the question of th ...
• Original Music Created for TruthOffering.com b ...
  Talented singer and musician Chris Phenom has created two tracks for TruthOffering.com, and we want to share them with you. Chris's tracks feature some amazing lyrics that relate directly to what we're trying to get at here at TruthOffering.com: the Truth! Listen to what he has to say, and check ...
• Levi's: All-American or Neo-Communist
  It seems that everywhere I go recently, I see these massive Levi's billboards along the side of the road. At first, I thought nothing of them. After all, they're just billboards, right? Plus Levi's is an all-American company, right? Visually, these ads are quite striking; mostly black and white, ...
• US Falls In Level of Overall Economic Freedom ...
  The Heritage Foundation just released its annual Economic Freedom List. The list "measures ten components of economic freedom, assigning a grade in each using a scale from 0 to 100, where 100 represents the maximum freedom. The ten component scores are then averaged to give an overall economic f ...
• Did J.P. Morgan Sink the Titanic!?
  1st Row: JP Morgan, Joseph Bruce Ismay, John Jacob Astor and Benjamin Guggenheim. 2nd Row: The Federal Reserve and the TitanicAs youngsters, we're all told the infamous story of the Titanic, the supposedly indestructible ship that sunk on its maiden voyage. We're all familiar with the story: the ...

2012 Blog

• Zahi Hawass Quits?
  On his blog, Dr Zahi Hawass explains why he has resigned from his position of Minister of State for Antiquities Affairs. While there are suggestions and rumours that he was asked to leave, Hawass says it is because he no longer trusts some of his colleagues in light of recent thefts/lootings: Th ...
• Meteoroid Tracking / New 2012 Drink / Missing ...
  NASA is installing a network of smart cameras across the USA to track fireballs and meteoroids. Soon there will be 15, and then they plan to expand nationwide. These cameras are automated and linked together so that they can triangulate paths and orbits. If NASA was expecting an influx of fireba ...
• Laacher See & Christchurch Volcanoes
  Might be nothing, but the Laacher See volcano in Germany erupted around the time of (perhaps) the last global cataclysm – roughly 12,900 years ago. While scientists say it wasn’t responsible for much back then, The Laacher eruption coincides with the onset of the abrupt Younger Dryas re-glaciat ...
• 35377 People Have Voted… Nothing Wins
  Since October 2006 I have been running a poll at Survive 2012, and with 35377 votes I think we have an accurate reflection of what visitors to my site think will happen in 2012: Nothing wins, with just over 56% of the vote. I was surprised that TEOTWAWKI came in second, and that aliens beat [... ...
• 10 LHC Consequences / NASA Budget / Planet (X) ...
  I was quite OK with the LHC when experts explained that cosmic rays cause the creation of harmless mini-black holes in our atmosphere all the time. Now I don’t know what to think! Otto Rössler is the professor who sued and failed in his attempt to halt the Large Hadron Collidor. Over at Lifeboa ...

Facing South

• EPA puts off long-promised coal ash protections
  Communities imperiled by poorly managed coal ash won't be getting help from the federal government any time soon. The Obama administration announced last week that it would not issue long-awaited federal regulations this year after all. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Li ...
• Life and death on Big Oil's fence line
  The environmental destruction caused by Louisiana's oil industry did not begin with the BP disaster, and a visit to the town of Norco 25 miles west of New Orleans powerfully illustrates that reality. Built on land adjacent to the Mississippi River that once supported vast sugar planta ...
• VOICES: Evidence grows of possible health cons ...
  Ten months after the Deepwater Horizon sank into the Gulf of Mexico, the long-term impacts of the oil spill continue to surface in coastal communities, and the developing picture is not a pretty one. Since 2000, the Louisiana Bucket Brigade (LABB) has trained communities affected by indu ...
• Carolina Public Press launches new source for ...
  We all know the story: Newspapers and other "legacy media" have slashed their reporting budgets. More and more, blogs and social media are where people turn to find out what's happening. But who, then, does the in-depth, investigative reporting crucial to keeping the public informed and ...
• Gulf Coast restoration task force hearing show ...
  The president's Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Force met yesterday in New Orleans to gather public comments for the plan it's working on to restore the region's ecology in the wake of last year's BP catastrophe. A major theme of those comments was the deep distrust that many of the regio ...

One News Page

• Toenails may hold clue to lung cancer risk
• TMZ's Mardi Gras Madness Contest
  Filed under: Hulk Hogan, Photo Galleries, Contest The festive photos poured into the TMZ newsroom for our second annual Mardi Gras Madness Contest ... so click through it as fast as you can, 'cause Fat Tuesday is right around the corner! Be sure to check back on Monday to vote for which ...
• Train services in Kashmir resume after blast
  Srinagar, Mar 8(ANI): Train services to Srinagar, have resumed on Tuesday morning after militants blew up a portion of a railway track near the city.  Train services were suspended after insurgents blew up a portion of a railway track near Nowgam railway station on Monday.
• Robert Pattinson finds theatre daunting
• Libyans should solve their problems themselves ...

Global Research TV

• Nuremberg War Crimes Prosecutor on US Foreign ...
• Hague Prosecutor Linked to MI6
• Tensions Over US Motives Towards Libya
• Law And Disorder in Johannesburg
• The Last Word on Terrorism: Kissinger and the ...

Daily Tech

• Human Astrocytes Used to Repair Spinal Cord In ...
  Researchers are working to apply the cells to human models
• Lenovo Introduces ThinkPad X220 Notebook, Tablet
  Lenovo brings Intel's second generation Core processors to its X2xx series
• Report: Microsoft Paid Nokia $1B USD to Stay A ...
  "I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse."
• UPDATE: EADS Will Not Protest Boeing's USAF Ta ...
  Sources say EADS will not appeal win
• Report: Microsoft Won't Release Dedicated Tabl ...
  Microsoft looks to arrive VERY late to the tablet game

Oriental Review

• Geopolitical Dimension of the Rebellion in Yemen
  Vladislav Gulevich (Ukraine) A tide of extremism is sweeping across Yemen. Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the group seeking to overthrow the pro-Western regimes in Yemen and the nearby Saudi Arabia, is regarded as the number one terrorist force in the region. The group’s activity increasingl ...
• The United States Will Take Libya’s Oil and Ga ...
  Sergei Balmasov (Russia) According to statements made in Washington, the idea of a military intervention in Libya is being discussed. A NATO strike group with American and British troops at its heart is already drawing close to the shores of that country. The US representative to the UN Susan Ri ...
• Libya: Will It Follow Sudan’s Track?
  Vitaly Bilan (Russia) It would obviously be problematic to transfer power in Libya as it was done in Egypt. Therefore, the country can expect to take either the hard “Iraq” or soft “Sudan” option. In either case, however, there will be far-reaching consequences for the entire continent. Virtual ...
• The Theory of ‘Manageable Chaos’ P ...
  Sergey Shashkov (Russia) An act of self-immolation by a Tunisian street vendor in protest of the confiscation of his wares by municipal officials in December was covered in the media as the catalyst for mass riots in Tunisia, which later spread to Egypt, Yemen, Iran, Algeria, Bahrain, Jordan, Ku ...
• Reagan’s Secret Legacy
  Peter Chamberlin (USA) On this, the one-hundredth birthday of Ronald Reagan, the Reagan worshippers are coming out of the woodwork. It seems that the self-appointed leaders of the “Tempest in the Teapot” party (or whatever they call themselves), even Obama himself, are trying to ride Reagan’s fa ...

BlogHer

• A Month of Awesome Women: Yvette Mulongo
  Every day in March 2011, we'll be talking about one awesome woman and why she's so powerful. Some will be well known; some may be new to you, so check out all the awesome women in the series now. **************************** Don't let Yvette Mulongo's big brown eyes or soft-spoken voice fool you ...
• Month of Breakfast: Happy Paczki Day!
  What's for breakfast? We're talking morning meals every day on BlogHer.com from oatmeal to waffles (mmmm, waffles). Sign up for the weekly newsletter and see all the breakfast ideas in the series. **************************** When we moved to Chicagoland, almost three years ago, we had very ...
• A Month of Awesome Women: Janet Guthrie
  Every day in March 2011, we'll be talking about one awesome woman and why she's so interesting. Some you may know; some may be new to you, so check out all the awesome women in the series now. **************************** I remember Janet Guthrie. It was 1977. I had a first-grade teacher's aide ...
• BlogHer Food '11: Share Your Favorite Atlanta ...
  Calling all Southern BlogHers! BlogHer Food '11 is rapidly approaching and we here on the BlogHer Events Team are very excited to take the conference out of the Bay Area for the first time and head to Atlanta! In fact I was so excited about heading south that I burst into an impromptu perform ...
• A Month of Breakfast: Spam Sammies Like Grandm ...
  What's for breakfast? We're talking morning meals every day on BlogHer.com from oatmeal to waffles (mmmm, waffles). Sign up for the weekly newsletter and see all the breakfast ideas in the series. **************************** Every weekend when I was a kid, my maternal grandmother would make ...

Health Freedom Alliance

• March of Dimes & Recent Research Focus On Endi ...
  When western medicine began evolving with safer surgeries and readily available “advanced” pharmaceuticals to treat disease, doctors grabbed hold and the practices of traditional medicines and midwifery became obsolete during formal medical training. These ...
• The Spread of Mental Disease and Violence Amon ...
  Pregnancy is a big responsibility; it calls for wise choices to protect the health of both the mother and the fetus. Unfortunately, with the advancement of “modern medicine,” many people have been miseducated about ...
• Delayed Mental Development in Children & Insec ...
  Lately there’s been a surge of disconcerting news regarding external factors that delay childhood development. New 3D games can sicken children and alter eyesight development, a standard American diet can lower IQs, and now ...
• Confirmed: H1N1 Vaccine Linked to Narcolepsy
  In Finland, there are unsettling feelings regarding the push for H1N1 flu vaccines for young people. It was widely suspected that the sudden spike in Narcolepsy diagnoses in children resulted from the vaccine. A top ...
• Health Warning for Children Over New 3D Games
  Remember when you didn’t have to go see the movie in 3D for $13.50 or more, when a regular TV was good enough? The recent 3D craze has propelled items like Nintendo’s 3DS onto the ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

• Tomblin to unveil new mine rescue vehicle
  Senate President Earl Ray Tomblin, acting as governor, has scheduled a big photo op at the Capitol for later this morning. On his newly redesigned Web site, Tomblin’s staff calls the event “the official worldwide launching and unveiling of a one-of-a-kind mobile technology tool.” The media advi ...
• Duke Energy CEO talks “clean power”
  Time magazine had an interesting piece last week in which they interviewed Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers about the future of energy and the environment. Among other things in the story: … That effort finally failed in 2010, when the climate bill died in the Senate, and with global-warming-denying ...
• Friday roundup, March 4, 2011
  A coal truck drives out of downtown Welch, W.Va., Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2011. Coal brought a large population to the McDowell County in the 1940’s. Now the population is shrinking and the county suffers from unemployment and poverty. Now, here as in one-fourth of all U.S. counties, West Virginia’s ...
• EPA: Coal-ash rules won’t be done this year
  Sounds like the Republicans didn’t need to bother with their budget rider to block new coal-ash regulations. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is apparently in no big hurry to finalize its rules. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson testified to Congress yesterday and said the rules won’t be f ...
• Is Rep. Rahall doing all he can for coal miners?
  Folks who follow the work of my friend Rep. Nick J. Rahall, D.W.Va., got an interesting juxtaposition yesterday. On the one hand, we saw Rep. Rahall joining Sen. Joe Manchin in lending his name to another piece of legislation to block any action to deal with the climate crisis. According to the ...

Daniel Miessler

• The Pros And Cons Of Facebook Comments | TechC ...
  Pros Real names and identities greatly reduces the number of trolls and anonymous cowards in comments. Social virality boosts traffic by creating a feedback loop between Facebook and participating sites. �Friends pull in their friends, creating a social entry point to your site. Automatic sign-i ...
• Texas BBQ
  Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsOverlooking SFMy Best iPhone 4 Photo So FarCouldn’t Care LessFlower at COIT TowerThree Flowers at COIT TowerA Grey Wolf in the Apple StoreDefcon WiFi Rifle of Doom
• Commenting Systems: Facebook Comments vs. DISQUS
  Until recently I had settled on DISQUS as my chosen commenting system. It’s stable, it has a nice presentation, and it provides good features. But now I’m forced to reconsider because Facebook just entered the game. I’d hate to be DISQUS right now. I’ve tentatively enabled Facebook commenting he ...
• APT Being Co-opted by Marketing Types
  The co-opting of APT by the marketing folks have led to the point that people are classifying any malware, rootkit or bot as “APT”.  Zeus is not APT, Aurora is not APT.  APT is a level of threat, a description of the sophistication, patience and talent behind an attack.  The attacks are targeted ...
• Sleepytime Sleep Optimizer
  A security guy that a friend of mine knows wrote this. It optimizes your sleep based on human sleep cycles and how much time remains between now and when you need to wake up. [ Sleepyti.me ] Related PostsSleep and ExerciseFuturePundit: One Night Of Sleep Not Enough To Make Up DeficitSleeping for ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

• 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 ...

reference frame

• Vít Klemeš (1932-2010)
  Guest post by Demetris Koutsoyiannis It is a year since Vít Klemeš is no longer with us. He took “residence on cloud no. 17” as he used to say. Vít Klemeš (left), laurelled by local admirers in the Greek island of Cephalonia in June 2005, with the humble writer of this guest ...
• MOND isn't beating dark matter
  The BBC application on my iPod Touch led me to the following article: Dark matter theory challenged by gassy galaxies resultThis stuff is based on a preprint by McCaugh. This paper chooses some "gassy galaxies" which are consistent with MOND - Modified Newtonian Dynamics - while requiring ...
• Four reasons why I like string theory (guest blog)
  Guest blog by Phil Gibbs It is exactly one year since I started this blog, so to celebrate I will give my four top reasons for liking string theory. This is partly a response to a recent survey on Cosmic Variance which included a question about what likelihood people gave to strin ...
• ICTP talks by Polchinski, Vafa, Green, Schwarz ...
  I just discovered the YouTube channel of ICTP, i.e. Abdus Salam's International Center for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy. During the last month or so, they have posted a number of recent lectures (November 2010) by the winners of the Dirac Medal that they have distributed every ...
• What if the LHC doesn't see SUSY?
  A question from Nigel Seel at Physics Stack Exchange comes in four parts. What are the main problems which supersymmetry purports to solve? What would constitute lack of evidence for SUSY at the proposed LHC energy scales (e.g. certain predicted superpartners are not in fact observed)? ...

No Frakking Consensus

• Green Math: Let’s Spend a Billion to Sav ...
  The person in charge of green energy projects for a group of Los Angeles community colleges wanted to cut down trees and obliterate playing fields so that $1 billion could be spent on alternative energy installations. Power currently costs these colleges less than $8 million a year.
• The WWF Vice President & the New IPCC Report
  Why is a Vice President of an activist group taking part in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change workshops - and serving as a review editor for the upcoming edition of the climate bible?
• Are University of London PhDs Confidential?
  Sari Kovats helped write three editions of the climate bible. But the institution where she recently earned her doctorate won’t confirm the date that event took place.
• Scientists Speak Out
  Two physics professors - one in America and one in the UK - are condemning the behaviour of prominent climate scientists. They say it's a violation of scientific honesty and integrity.
• Not Your Grandfather’s Greenpeace
  Environmental activist organizations are all grown up now. We need to adjust our thinking accordingly.

Tarpley

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

Modern Survivalism

• FEMA says, Get a Survival Kit
  A public service announcement from FEMA is suggesting that we all get a survival kit, in case our ‘world is turned upside down’. Very interesting… and good advice. I wonder if they know something coming up that we don’t know… (grin) Get a Kit Make a Plan Stay Informed The following is a pretty g ...
• Record US 223 Billion Dollar Monthly Deficit
  this image is a fraction of an actual 223 Billion Dollars Two Hundred Twenty Three Billion Dollars. $223,000,000,000.00, a deficit analogy Just 28 days of the United States government deficit spending during February, 2011, that is – just the part of February spending that they put on the govern ...
• Nuclear Weapons World Map
  Total Inventory of World Nuclear Weapons Stockpile The image above is a proportional visualization of the total number of nuclear weapons stockpiled by each country of the world. While it may appear that the U.S. and Russia stockpile the vast majority of nukes (which they do), any single one nuc ...
• The HoneyBee, Varroa, Vibration, and CCD
  Note that this is not a paid promotion for John Harding, but since we have posted several times in the past regarding the apparent HoneyBee die-off , Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), John had emailed directly regarding the subject. Being a career beekeeper, we thought it would be an interesting p ...
• Alien Life Confirmed by NASA Astrobiologist
  Credit: Journal of Cosmology Richard B. Hoover, Ph.D. and Astrobiology Group Leader at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, recipient of the SPIE society Gold Medal, has discovered fossilized extraterrestrial life and published the findings in the March Journal of Cosmology. The Astrobiologist has ...

Fast Company

• iFive: Microsoft Pays Nokia $1B, Facebook Movi ...
  It's International Women's Day--and in fact it's the hundredth such event. Google's�celebrating with a new Doodle, and a link to the "Join me on the bridge" campaign, a congregation of women at over 300 bridge locations across the world. On with the news:1. How much does it cost a big tech firm ...
• Researchers Produce Gasoline-Like Fuel Directl ...
  A big breakthrough in the race for better biofuels was announced this week from the U.S. Department of Energy, where the department's BioEnergy Science Center figured out how to produce isobutanol, a gasoline-like fuel, directly from cellulose (i.e. corn stalks and switchgrass).A team led by ...
• Google Shifts Toward Content Creation With Pur ...
  Web TV destination and production company Next New Networks has built its brand by scouting for talent on YouTube--but it looks like Google and YouTube may have been the one scouting NNN. Today YouTube, which Fast Company profiled in our February issue, announced that it had acquired NNN i ...
• Steamy E-Reads: Avon Launches Digital Romance ...
  It's time to break out the manuscripts for Avon Impulse, a new digital romance imprint from Avon Books. The imprint launches next week with "A Lady's Wish," an e-novella from popular author Katherine Ashe--but amateurs also have a chance to get in on the action.The Avon Impulse website provides ...
• Cockpit Tech Gets a Lift From the iPad
  The iPad isn't just just a luxury device for gadget fetishists. The proof may soon be found in airline cockpits, where major airlines are testing out the iPad as a replacement for paper maps and clunky aviation computers.Last month, the FAA gave Warren Buffett's Executive Jet Management, a pri ...

Jadaliyya

• "Coalition for a Republic" Announced in Bahrai ...
  On Monday, March 7, 2011, Hassan Mushaimi, Secretary General of al-Haq Movement, one of the leading opposition groups in Bahrain, announced the formation of the "Coalition for a Republic" in Bahrain, comprised of al-Haq Movement for Liberty and Democracy, al-Wifaq National Islamic Moveme ...
• Personal Revolutions: One Woman's View from th ...
  Since February 14th 2011, Bahrain has been experiencing a massive popular uprising in which large numbers of women from different socio-economic, political and religious backgrounds have taken to the streets to demand greater rights, freedom and democracy. They were met with a brutal cra ...
• The Center or Bust: Will the various forces in ...
  The events in Bahrain are most tantalizing.�� Should the opposition gain some ground and succeed in breaking the 240-year old stranglehold of the al-Khalifa family on the island, it would make Bahrain a beacon of social and political progress in the Gulf.� Should they fail and see their ...
• الخروج من الميدان [Exiting the Square]
  �م ��� �سمع ب��مة «ث�رة» س�� �� ا��تب �ا�أ��ام. ا�ث�رة ا��ر�س�ة� ا�ث�رة ا�ب�ش��ة� ا�ث�رة ا�إس�ام�ة� ا�ث�رة ا�ث�ا��ة� ا�ث�رة ا���ب�ة� ث�رة ا�ط�بة... �� ث�رة �ا�ت تز�د م�ابة ا���مة� �تجع��ا ����� ب�ض� جسامة أحداث�ا �عظمة أ��ار�ا� ثم ما آ�ت إ��� مصائر�ا �� مشح��ة� �م�تبسة. �ش��ت ا���مة ح�اة ...
• The Peter King "Radicalization of Muslims" Hea ...
  Republicans clearly think that they have found a political winner in Muslim-bashing. Peter King, Republican representative from New York�s Third Congressional District (in Long Island), is the new chair of the House Homeland Security Committee. He was way ahead of the Muslim-bashing curv ...

mediagazer

• WSJ Europe deputy editor departs (Roy Greensla ...
  Roy Greenslade / Guardian: WSJ Europe deputy editor departs  —  Iain Martin has quietly departed from the deputy editorship of the Wall Street Journal Europe.  It follows the arrival of a new editor at the WSJE, Tracy Corrigan.  —  A spokeswoman confirmed that Martin had left, but did not comme ...
• Warner Bros. to Rent Movies Digitally on Faceb ...
  Gregg Kilday / Hollywood Reporter: Warner Bros. to Rent Movies Digitally on Facebook, Starting With ‘Dark Knight’ … Warner Bros. is turning to Facebook, where it hopes to find an electronic audience interested in digitally renting The Dark Knight.  —  Warners said Monday that it is the first H ...
• Universal First Studio to Make All Movie Clips ...
  Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter: Universal First Studio to Make All Movie Clips Available Online … Hoping to earn money from every snippet of a film, Universal has licensed rights to a vast portion of its library to AnyClip, a company that chops up films digitally and makes every moment searcha ...
• Why Facebook Is Not the Cure For Bad Comments ...
  Mathew Ingram / GigaOM: Why Facebook Is Not the Cure For Bad Comments  —  There's been a lot of discussion recently about Facebook-powered comments, which have been implemented at a number of major blogs and other publishers (including here at GigaOM) over the past couple of weeks.
• Former AP Reporter Nears Profit After Starting ...
  Deena Higgs Nenad / EditorandPublisher.com: Former AP Reporter Nears Profit After Starting a Paper From Scratch  —  Former Associated Press reporter Dan Robrish learned many valuable lessons when he started a newspaper from scratch in a small south central Pennsylvania borough one year ago.  Th ...

Chemtrail News

• ChemtrailContrail Noob page 1
  I really have no idea about the Chemtrail conspiracy so dont flame me neither do i know much about contrails however. Today i witnessed a plane with a trail ...www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread671103/pg1
• SF Chemtrails, Japan Vaccine Infant Dea ...
  Canvassing the bigger picture of what I see going on, and latest developments. h5n1 h1n1 ft detrick bioweapon | chemtrail morgellons | nwo depopulation | ceremony of the phoenix | extraterrestrial. The LABVIRUS Show Episode #6 - Apr 27, ...LABVIRUS.COM - http://labvirus.wordpress.com/
• Chemtrails For Dummies
  Why “Chemtrails For Dummies.com” you might ask? Good question; even for a dummy I might add! Well, it appears that most folks are just too dumbed down these ...www.chemtrailsfordummies.com/
• Purpose of Chemtrails - Chemtrail
  Great video that describes Chemtrails and why... http://www.forbiddenknowledgetv .com/videos/chemtrails/purpose-of-chemtrails.html.chemtruth.ning.com/forum/topics/purpose-of-chemtrails
• Chemtrails
  I have been observing the chemtrail spray program since the end of 1999, when spraying first began in Washington state (spraying began earlier in ...

World News - Top Stories

• Islanders warned of nesting gulls on roof ...
  Continue reading the main story Related Stories Army wages war on hungry seagulls Jersey islanders have been advised to contact a qualified pest controller to remove seagulls nesting on their...
• Train services in Kashmir resume after bl ...
  Srinagar, Mar 8(ANI): Train services to Srinagar, have resumed on Tuesday morning after militants blew up a portion of a railway track...
• SCA: New Report: Hygiene Crucial for Wome ...
  STOCKHOLM--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- A majority of women in both emerging and more mature markets view wellbeing as the most important dimension of personal hygiene, even more so than staying healthy. This finding is a main conclusion of the 2011 Hygiene Matters Report – an annual hygiene study com ...
• Joe Biden in Finland, en route to Moscow, ...
  HELSINKI (AP) -- Finland, Russia and Moldova - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden arrived Monday in Helsinki on the first leg of an unusual European tour aimed at building warmer ties between Washington and Moscow. Biden also wants to signal support for "ongoing democratic and economic changes" ...
• Relief for Windies as England's Pietersen ...
  CHENNAI, India (CMC) — West Indies will not have to deal with the threat of Kevin Pietersen when they face England later this month, after it was confirmed yesterday that the marquee batsman would miss the remainder of the World Cup because of a hernia. It was announced on Saturday that the ...

no frakking consensus

• Green Math: Let’s Spend a Billion to Sav ...
  The person in charge of green energy projects for a group of Los Angeles community colleges wanted to cut down trees and obliterate playing fields so that $1 billion could be spent on alternative energy installations. Power currently costs these colleges less than $8 million a year.
• The WWF Vice President & the New IPCC Report
  Why is a Vice President of an activist group taking part in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change workshops - and serving as a review editor for the upcoming edition of the climate bible?
• Are University of London PhDs Confidential?
  Sari Kovats helped write three editions of the climate bible. But the institution where she recently earned her doctorate won’t confirm the date that event took place.
• Scientists Speak Out
  Two physics professors - one in America and one in the UK - are condemning the behaviour of prominent climate scientists. They say it's a violation of scientific honesty and integrity.
• Not Your Grandfather’s Greenpeace
  Environmental activist organizations are all grown up now. We need to adjust our thinking accordingly.

Pointman's

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

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

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

Truth About Our World

• 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 ...

Gyrovague's Raves

• Covert Operations
  The billionaire brothers who are waging a war against Obama. by Jane Mayer David H. Koch in 1996. He and his brother Charles are lifelong libertarians and have quietly given more than a hundred million dollars to right-wing causes. On May 17th, a black-tie audience at the Metropolitan Opera Hous ...
• Made in America
  small businesses buck the offshoring trend By Brendan I. Koerner, wired.com In early 2010, somewhere high above the northern hemisphere, Mark Krywko decided heâd had enough. The CEO of Sleek Audio, a purveyor of high-end earphones, Krywko was flying home to Florida after yet another frustrating ...
• Child Pornography @14?
  Sexting lawsuits By Nate Anderson If a middle-aged man meets a 14-year-old girl, coerces her to film a 10-second clip of herself masturbating, then intentionally releases that clip on the Internet, the man could clearly be charged under US federal law against the âsexual exploitation of children ...
• Faking illness online
  Why would someone fake a serious illness online? Jenny Kleeman on the strange world of Münchausen by internet Jenny Kleeman Keyboard abuse: ‘It made me feel so good, spending time with people who cared for me, even if they didnât know I was a fake.’ Photograph: Liz McBurney Anyone following her ...
• Premarital Sex in America:
  How Young Americans Meet, Mate, and Think about Marrying by Mark Regnerus The period of young adulthood, from ages 18 to 23, is popularly considered the most sexualized in life. But is it true? What do we really know about the sexual lives of young people today? Premarital Sex in America combine ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

• An Agrarian Renaissance?
  FROM DINO MCMAHON IN THE SCIENCE POLICY CENTRE On Tuesday 15 February, I went along to the launch of the all-party parliamentary group on Agroecology.  Agroecology is the science of sustainable agriculture.  It studies the interaction between plants, animals, humans and the environment.  an incr ...
• Human Embryology: a different kind of policy p ...
  The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) was a policy first –the first executive, non-departmental public body in the world. It has sole authority and responsibility for research and routine practice for IVF and stored gametes.  Created in 1991, HFEA had a clear role at a time whe ...
• A little less conversation…
  FROM SARAH  ‘SMEE’ MEE, POLICY ADVISER In the realm of global food security, little is spared intense debate. However, few would disagree that the global food system as it stands is failing. At the stakeholder launch of the Governmentâs Foresight report on Global Food and Farming Futures on Tue ...
• America’s “Sputnik moment”
  FROM MICHAEL ASHCROFT IN THE SCIENCE POLICY CENTRE… In 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik into orbit, shattering the established belief that the US led the world in space technology. This shock led to the space race and the many benefits â technology, innovation and education – associated w ...
• Fewer Eurocrats, more research, greater impact ...
  FROM LUKE CLARKE,  POLICY ADVISER, The UK is not always renowned for its embracing of all things European. But in science and research, the UK has found an area where it definitely does get ‘bang for its buck’ via Brussels. Recently released figures from the European Research Council show that U ...

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

• Now, hairbrush that reads your mind
  WASHINGTON - Who says hairbrush can only be used to comb locks? Scientists have made a hairbrush like device that would be able to monitor mental activity. One of the main techniques for measuring and monitoring mental activity, called functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), can often b ...
• Man U?s bemused Fergie tells shifty Roo to res ...
  LONDON - Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has told key striker Wayne Rooney that he must respect the club and its traditions if he wants to stay on. Commenting on reports that suggest that the star player wants to leave Manchester United for another club - either Manchester City or ...
• Google Street Viewers spot ?God? floating over ...
  SYDNEY - Google Street View has spotted a god-like figure floating midair above a lake in Quarten, Switzerland. Although the image, discovered by the Gawker blog, is apparently the result of some sort of light distortion or lens flare, blogger Max Read has questioned whether it might have more ...
• Dogs reduce stress in autistic children: Study
  WASHINGTON - Dogs-apart from being man’s best friend-have a special role to play in the lives of children with special needs. A new study by the Universite de Montreal has suggested that specifically trained service dogs can help reduce the anxiety and enhance the socialization skills of child ...
• How sex hormones influence right heart function
  WASHINGTON - A new study has revealed human sex hormones influence the structure and function of the right ventricle (RV) of the heart. The researchers found that in women receiving hormone therapy, higher estrogen levels were associated with higher RV ejection fraction and lower RV end-systol ...

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