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I've received my April Fool's Day prank. Posting from Opera's Links page to here will not work in different Firefox browsers nor Google Chrome. Nor did I have any luck trying to use the Oldephartte blog at LiveJournal as a workaround. I assume formatting filters destroyed bulk copying of hotlinks.

So things are at a standstill for the moment.


11 am update
 Recopying Blogger's Dashboard feed worked normally - for a wonder - but trying for My Yahoo! links failed also


7:45 MST  13:45 GMT

 

To Do

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Low-Carbon World Needs $500 Billion a Year to Slow Warming, WEF Says
Bloomberg
By Christopher Martin - Fri Apr 01 13:00:00 GMT 2011 Preventing the worst effects of global warming without harming economic growth requires doubling annual investments in renewable and low-carbon energy to $500 billion a year by 2020, according to the ...
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Renewable energy law to kickstart projects
San Francisco Business Times
The nation's most stringent renewable energy mandate for California utilities means major opportunity for renewable energy developers, but meeting the mandate will be harder this time around. At press time Gov. Jerry Brown was poised to sign a law ...
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Senate bill set to grow renewable energy industry
Bizjournals.com
State lawmakers may decide to take Florida's renewable energy industry to the next level — but it would be at utility customers' expense. Senate Bill 7082 would let investor-owned utility companies, such as Progress Energy Florida Inc., charge their ...
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Story, photos: Renewable energy topic of Oshkosh farm show
Green Bay Press Gazette
Information on renewable energy is available at the Wisconsin Public Service Farm Show, which ran Tuesday through Thursday at the Experimental Aircraft Association grounds in Oshkosh. A manure digester is a sealed concrete or steel container, ...
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Human Habitat

ecology water energy
Squaxin tribe wins legal battle with Ecology
The Olympian
A Thurston County Superior Court judge has ruled in favor of the Squaxin Island Tribe in its years-long battle with the state Department of Ecology over well-drilling in the Johns Creek Basin northeast of Shelton. In 2008 and 2009, the tribe petitioned ...
US Ecology Declares Quarterly Dividend of $0.18 per Share
Marketwire (press release)
US Ecology, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides radioactive, hazardous, PCB and non-hazardous industrial waste management and recycling services to commercial and government entities, such as refineries and chemical production facilities, ...
Hopeful signs that water rights dispute might be resolved
The Olympian
Is it really true that the cities of Olympia, Lacey and Yelm are on the verge of securing rights for additional water resources from the state Department of Ecology? Water – its availability and its influence on future growth – has been a huge issue in ...
Ecology Crews Respond To Diesel Spill Near Acme
KGMI
The Department of Ecology says 60 to 100 gallons of diesel escaped into a ditch. “Getting on it right away and being able to keep working it really proved effective in this particular case,” Ecology spokesperson Larry Altose said. ...
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Water Power

water floods pollution
Feds warn against 'water walking ball' rides
AHN | All Headline News
They're becoming popular at amusement parks, carnivals and fairs around the country, but the federal government is urging people not to participate in so-called “water walking,” where people inside an inflatable clear plastic ball walk on water. ...
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Monet's 'Water Lilies' at KC museum
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Three panels of impressionist master Claude Monet's "Water Lilies" go on display at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City next week. It's the first time the triptych will be together in 30 years. The exhibit includes three 14-foot panels ...
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House vote to ease pesticide use near waters
BusinessWeek
The House has passed a bill that could make it easier to use pesticides near water. The measure would bar the Environmental Protection Agency from requiring farmers or companies to comply with the Clean Water Act when using pesticides on or near water ...
Judge OKs $26.5M Water Contamination Settlement
ABC News
AP A federal judge has approved a $26.5 million settlement for a central Michigan community whose water supply was contaminated by a chemical company in the 1950s and 1960s. US District Court Judge Thomas L. Ludington in Bay City signed an order ...
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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Syria Braces for Mass Demonstrations
    Syrian opposition movements are readying for a day of rallies, dubbed "Friday of Martyrs", across the country even as authorities announced a raft of measures aimed at meeting some of the protesters' demands.
  • COTE D'IVOIRE: U.S., U.N. Press Gbagbo to Yield
    As forces loyal to Ivorian President-elect Alassane Ouattara closed in on Abidjan Thursday, the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon called for the incumbent president, Laurent Gbabgo, to immediately step down.
  • "Bold Decisions" Needed in AIDS Struggle
    A new report by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon released Thursday found progress in combating HIV/AIDS worldwide to be promising, yet inadequate to meet the needs of the 33.3 million people estimated to be living with HIV in 2009.
  • BAHRAIN: Slashing Levies to Help Businesses Co ...
    Bahrain is considering slashing or putting on hold levies on businesses to help them cope with the deteriorating economy, with losses topping an estimated 500 million dollars since the beginning of unrest here in February.
  • A Creative Boost for South-South Cooperation
    In a rare and timely collaboration, the U.N. Development Programme (UNDP) teamed up with the U.N. Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) to produce a report on the urgent need for developing nations to pour effort and resources into their so-called creative economies.

Scoop - NZ

  • Fisk: Ottoman adventures hold lessons
    Amid the fury of the Arab awakening – not to mention our own deepening crisis over Libya – old Constantinople is a tonic, a reminder amid minarets and water, palaces and museums and bookshops and an ancient parliament and a thousand fish restaurants that this really was the only united capital t ...
  • Taliban Prepare Spring Offensive
    as the weather has warmed, they say, fighters have been stealthily reestablishing themselves, slipping into the district in ragged, inconspicuous bands of three or four, uncovering buried weapons caches, availing themselves of eyes and ears in every hamlet. Western officials have touted the s ...
  • The Rebels from Benghazi
    The international community is using air strikes and missiles to defend freedom, human rights and democratic ideals in Libya. But are those also the values the rebels themselves are fighting for?
  • Dreamliner Becomes a Nightmare for Boeing
    Boeing wanted to revolutionize the airplane business with its Dreamliner, which was to be built using a modular approach. But the US company went too far in its outsourcing, and the aircraft has been plagued by production problems. Delivery is now way behind schedule and the delays could cost th ...
  • New York Times - A Secretive Banking Elite Rul ...
    On the third Wednesday of every month, the nine members of an elite Wall Street society gather in Midtown Manhattan. The men share a common goal: to protect the interests of big banks in the vast market for derivatives, one of the most profitable — and controversial — fields in finance. They ...

Independent - London

Rogue Government.com

  • Nasa ditches James Cameron's 3-D cameras from ...
    Two high-resolution 3-D cameras that Hollywood director James Cameron was helping to build for NASA's next Mars rover have been abandoned by the space agency.
  • Messenger captures 'historic' photographs of ...
    After more than six and a half years and a 4.9-billion-mile journey, the spacecraft - which stands for MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging - finally entered the planet's orbit on March 17.
  • Obama in 2002: Toppling Brutal Dictator a ‘Du ...
    President Barack Obama, as an Illinois state senator in 2002, said that using military force to topple a murderous dictator amounted to a “dumb war” and should be opposed.
  • The BioPirates of Science: Genetic Engineerin ...
    The U.S. government, which is supposed to be financed by we the people, is actively promoting this biological warfare by stealthily allowing the rampant infection of approximately 85% of our processed food with unregulated transgenes that Monsanto executives admit will have unknown effects ...
  • Chemtrails Exposed on Local News WSPA Greenvi ...
    Mainstream media report digging into the Chemtrails phenomenon along with other news and information links pertaining to this subject, weather modification and much more.

Innovation Canada

  • Targeting tumours
    Targeting a cancerous tumour with localized, high-concentration chemotherapy drugs can be an effective way of destroying a tumour, but surrounding healthy tissue often gets damaged in the process. Now, thanks to a world-first in remote-controlled delivery of anti-cancer drugs developed at École ...
  • Search for the stellar smoking gun
    When big stars go boom, they are like really, really big guns — they leave behind a telltale smoke signal and a path of destruction. Understanding the forensic evidence from just a puff of smoke might sound near impossible, but for Samar Safi-Harb, it’s just another day at the office. Originally ...
  • Women and science
    Five Canadian women. Five accomplished scientists. Five perspectives.
  • A recipe for failure
    By definition, perfectionists set very high standards for themselves. As a result, they are also setting themselves up to fail. And when they do, research is now showing that many perfectionists resort to binge eating to alleviate feelings of loneliness, sadness and inadequacy. “Perfectionists o ...
  • The challenging spine, the adventurous mind

Signs of the times

  • Ivory Coast: Bloodbath fear as Gbagbo forces p ...
    Fears were mounting of major atrocities in Ivory Coast last night as forces loyal to the Laurent Gbagbo prepared for a last stand in Abidjan. After days of increasingly virulent anti-colonialist rhetoric from the state-controlled broadcasters, France deployed its troops to rescue French natio ...
  • Tea Party Hypocrisy? Some Lawmakers With Tea P ...
    The Tea Party swept into the 112th Congress with promises of cutting government spending. But according to a report out today, at least five lawmakers with Tea Party connections have been longtime recipients of federal agricultural subsidies. "There's nothing too surprising about hypocrisy i ...
  • US: EPA boosts radiation monitoring after low ...
    There is no health risk from consuming milk with extremely low levels of radiation, like those found in Washington state and California, experts said Thursday, echoing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. "When we have a disaster like we've had with a nuclear power plant in Japan, we're p ...
  • Libya's Gadhafi Defiant After 2 Allies Resign
    Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has issued a defiant statement after two high-profile departures from his regime, and is calling on leaders of countries attacking his forces to resign. The Libyan news agency said Thursday Gadhafi accused Western leaders of being "affected by power madness" and w ...
  • Highly Contagious AIDS-Like Disease Spreading ...
    In a small hotel across from the Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention, a reporter from New Express Daily, dressed in an isolation suit, interviewed a dozen "unusual" patients from different areas of China. Their symptoms are painful and debilitating, and AIDS-like, but repeated test ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Chicken Wings
    Buckdog! 5 questions a day! Stephen Harper's Election Campaign Airplane should be called 'CHICKEN WINGS'.
  • Paranoid and afraid...
    I'm not sure how much of this indicates an allergy to democracy. I suspect it goes much deeper. I think we're watching a control freak lose control. Elections, democracy, difference all that create uncertainty which probably alarms Harper on a very deep level. He's trying to manage his election ...
  • Keep calm and carry on
    When my smart phone chimed at 3 a.m. a week ago Friday in Ontario, bringing news of a massive eathquake in Japan, I woke Hiromi. She muttered something about calling her parents in Miyagi in the morning, and went back to sleep. We’d spoken to her dad via video Skype only a few hours ago. It coul ...
  • Stifling minds: a pettiness of academies
    My university is a bit of a Frankenstein. It can be loosely split into two groups, one being comprised of traditional disciplinary departments and faculties (e.g. philosophy, sociology, English, etc) and the other an often unwieldy cluster of "interdisciplinary" faculties containing objectively ...
  • The PM, the conman, the blonde hooker and the ...
    While I've been a bit distracted this week with personal matters ,�I have been paying some attention to the non-Japan related news. Really, there seems to be no depth to which Stephen Harper will not sink. With the revelation that one of his former close advisors did time for fraud and is curren ...

Media Matters for America

  • Breitbart Is Wrong: Texas Planned Parenthood C ...
    Andrew Breitbart's Big Journalism questioned the accuracy of�Media Matters�research showing that a Planned Parenthood clinic in Waco, Texas, provides mammograms. In fact, the clinic is partnered with outside organizations to provide mammograms.Big Journalism:�Media Matters' Statement That Waco, ...
  • Broken Record: Right-Wing Media Spread Falseho ...
    Right-wing media have predictably blamed a recent rise in gas prices on President Obama's energy policies and have called for more offshore drilling, claiming he has allowed America to remain "increasingly dependent" on oil imports from "unstable parts of the world." However, experts agree that ...
  • Experts Reject Fox News' Claim That Drilling C ...
    On Fox News, Eric Bolling advanced several energy myths that have been debunked by experts, including the claim that the U.S. could end its dependence on foreign oil by expanding domestic drilling.Bolling Claims U.S. Can Reach Energy Independence Through Domestic Drilling From the March 29 edi ...
  • Right-Wing Media Ready To Impeach Obama, Again
    This month, right-wing media figures are arguing that President Obama should be impeached for actions he has taken with respect to Libya. Undermining the possibility that they really care about the constitutional issues involved, this argument is just the latest in the right-wing media's nevere ...
  • Limbaugh, Hannity Repeat Wash. Times ...
    A Washington Times article contained a purported statement by Obama adviser Samantha Power that President Obama inspired the uprising in Libya -- a claim later exposed as "badly misquoted." Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity were among the hosts who repeated the misquoted remark.Wash. Times: Power ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Obama Moved at Warp Speed on Libya
    Recently at a dinner hosted by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, former National Security Adviser to two US Presidents Brent Scowcroft stated in response to a question about what Barack Obama should do given the tumult in the Middle East, "President Obama should slow things down, move slowly, caut ...
  • Next, Mr. President, A Peace Plan
    According to people who should know, President Obama has been discretely meeting Middle East hands and political consultants over the past couple of months to explore the possibility of presenting a peace plan for Israel and Palestine, much like the one teed-up by the Olmert-Abbas talks. David R ...
  • Slamming Samantha Power With Something She Did ...
    Via Politico's Ben Smith, this just in from the Don't-Let-Facts-Ruin-a-Good-Story Department. So I'm sitting here watching Sean Hannity (slow night, what can I say), and he has a story about White House aide Samantha Power that just doesn't smell right. Actually the problem is that the story sme ...
  • Libya Speech -- Echoes of the '90s and '00s, G ...
    For a sizable segment of the foreign policy community, the genocides and humanitarian crises of the 1990s were a formative experience. In other words, as we debate the response to Libya, many of us can't helping thinking back to the bloodletting in the Balkans and Africa. Here's the main point o ...
  • That Social Animal, David Brooks
    "Aren't you going to say something about David Brooks' new book, The Social Animal?" a reader-friend e-mailed me yesterday. It was the most recent of several such inquiries, but until I heard Brooks on a book-tour talk show this morning, I wasn't inclined to add to what's been said: Thomas Nagel ...

TruthOut

  • Congress Must Debate the Libya War
    The US is now at war in a third Muslim country, according to the "official tally" (that is, counting Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, but not Pakistan or Yemen, for example.) But Congress has never authorized or debated the US military intervention in Libya. (A sharply disputed claim holds that the ...
  • News in Brief: Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wrigh ...
    Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wright Among 30 Arrested for Protesting Against Abuse of Bradley Manningread more
  • In This Nuclear World, What Is the Meaning of ...
    In a nuclear crisis, life becomes a nightmare for those people trying to make sense of the uncertainties. Imaginably, the questions are endless. Radiation is invisible, how do you know when you are in danger? How long will this danger persist? How can you reduce the hazard to yourself and famil ...
  • Richard D. Wolff: "Personal Debts" (Video)
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  • Charmed Into Battle: How a Volunteering Vacati ...
    About to turn thirty, Conor Grennan planned a year-long trip around the world. He started his trip with a three-month stint volunteering in the Little Princes Orphanage in war-torn Nepal. What was supposed to be just a three-month experience changed Conor's life, and the lives of countless other ...

Planetsave

  • Climate Change and Health, Epic New Book Out.. ...
    Director of Harvard Medical School Center for Health and the Global Environment Paul Epstein, MD and award-winning science journalist Dan Ferber have a new book out on the health impacts of climate change: Changing Planet, Changing Health: How the Climate Crisis Threatens Our Health and What We ...
  • Endangered Species Act Under Attack in Congres ...
    You can't be surprised, given that our Congress people seem completely mad (and not just because of NCAA basketball), but, yes, they really are attacking the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and a number of iconic animals. Luckily, Earthjustice, a leading non-profit public interest law firm dedicat ...
  • Facebook’s new logo–which one’s a no-go?
    Back in February 2010, Greenpeace called on Facebook to unfriend coal and embrace renewables to power their massive data centers, giving them a deadline of April 22 (Earth Day) of this year. Since then, over 600,000 Greenpeace supporters have called on Facebook to take action and according to Gr ...
  • Snow Frosts the Great Lakes
    The Great Lakes are one of the planet's most beautiful locations, almost moreso when seen from space. This image was taken by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard the Terra on March 28.
  • Satellite Image of Iceland
    Iceland is aptly named in this image, taken by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard the Terra satellite on March 9.

Water Quality - WordPress

  • Paying for Carbon Emissions Reduction
    Rand Corp. / by Flavia Tsang and Peter Burge http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers/OP312.html T
  • Testing time(s)
    By Sally Bolton Our water test kits finally arrived from Singapore last week, 14 weeks after they we
  • My Super Awesome New Showerhead
    I got a new Culligan WSH-C125 Filtered Showerhead, Chrome Finish via Amazon. According to the packag
  • Blue Legacy
    Alexandra Cousteau has a cool job life. She is a National Geographic Emerging Explorer and the Found
  • State of the Baltimore Harbor
    I attended the Healthy Harbors State of the Harbor Conference sponsored by the Waterfront Partnershi

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • A Scandal - United States
     Sanders' Top 10 Worst Corporate Income Tax Avoiders: YouTube...
  • Science and Technology Used to Satisfy Social ...
    Over the last 12 years, advances in technological infrastructure and access to it have produced considerable increases in the satisfaction of the social needs of the Venezuelan people, according to a presentation made by Venezuela’s Minister of Science, Technology and Intermediate Industries, Ri ...
  • From the Gulf War to the War on North Africa: ...
    In 2005 in the basement of the United States Capitol at a meeting convened by Congressman John Conyers on the subject of the "Downing Street Memo," Ray McGovern uttered the following truth: he testified that "the United States went to war in Iraq for oil, Israel, and military bases cra ...
  • Pro-Ouattara forces seize Ivory Coast capital ...
    Fighters supporting Ivory Coast's internationally recognized leader seized control of the nation's administrative capital on Wednesday, marking a symbolic victory after months of political chaos sparked when the country's former president refused to step down after an election. The fall of ...
  • Jimmy Carter criticises US Cuba policy - World ...
    Former US president Jimmy Carter - on a visit to Cuba - has criticised US policy towards the island. Mr Carter said the decades-long US trade embargo and travel ban damaged the Cuban people and hindered rather than helped reform. He also urged the Cuban government to move towards democ ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    Gaddafi's forces winning, but rats still deserting the ship. "There are unconfirmed reports that more people have left the inner circle of Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader, following the high level desertion of Moussa Koussa, Libya''s foreign minister, who arrived in the UK on Wednesday. It is ...
  • Ignore the Facade of Moronic Over-Reaching: Th ...
    Yes, Democrats in Congress and the administration suck giant hairy warthog balls at negotiating, but that's not the real problem here. The real problem is that Democrats in Congress and the administration are perfectly fine with eliminating every last dime spent on helping the non-rich. I mean, ...
  • Who Needs Racists When We've Got a Real Good B ...
    Clarence Thomas breaks the mold on Oreo, Step-n-Fetchit, Uncle-Tom, Good Niggers. Wonkette nails the fucker: Fringe-right corporate lackey Clarence Thomas has famously kept his mouth shut during most of his 20 years on the Supreme Court, because how could anyone improve upon Antonin Scalia's ins ...
  • This Week's Rick Scott Is A Total Douchebag Moment
    So you don't need any more proof of this guys utter contempt for the human race? �Sue me. �Some things just need to be exposed and in my book this is one of them. �By the way, is anyone keeping a running tally of this guy's assholery? �Seems it might come in handy next election. � From Think Pro ...
  • If Obama's Going to Emulate Reagan, He Should ...
    Jim White at Firedoglake: As recently as last January, Barack Obama reiterated his love of the Reagan zombie, when Time described a dinner Obama shared with a group of presidential historians: "And yet Obama was clearly impressed by the way Reagan had transformed Americans' attitude about govern ...

Care 2

  • Spanish scientists search for fuel of the future
    In a forest of tubes eight metres high in eastern Spain scientists hope they have found the fuel of tomorrow: bio-oil produced with algae mixed with carbon dioxide from a factory.Almost 400 of the green tubes, filled with millions of microscopic algae....Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & Tech ...
  • Recycled Island to Be Built from Ocean Garbage ...
    What's made of plastic, the size of Hawaii, and powered by wind and solar energy? If Dutch architect Ramon Knoester succeeds with his vision, it will be Recycled Island, a sustainable, floating society constructed from a collection of all the Pacific's...Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & Tech ...
  • Malaysia Places in Malaysia You Cant Miss O ...
    Malaysia is one of the most famous countries you would find in Asia because of its uniqueness and different highlighted places. It is situated in the east part of Asia and has the most exotic locations and places that you could see and find....Submitted by Boogy Man to Green Lifestyle �|� �Note ...
  • The GOP's Pathetic Attack on Elizabeth Warren
    With their letters and hearings, Republicans are trying to craft a narrative that makes Warren and the CFPB out to be the bad guy, an example of evil big government prying into the lives of ordinary Americans and eating up taxpayer money for no good reasoSubmitted by Cal Mendelsohn to US Politic ...
  • TAKE ACTION: Urgent votes needed to save anim ...
    Please vote, all month this cause has been in the top spot, which means they would get $100,000, they have slipped to second and now will receive nothing! Please vote so they receive the funding to help the animals of Langley. Thank you.Submitted by Alison NO MESSAGES to Animals �|� �Note-it! ...

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • An Unexpected Ripple From Egypt
    I freely admit, I did not see this one coming. My friend and fellow NQ writer, Linda Anselmi, shared the following article with me, most appropos for bringing to an end Women’s History Month. And that would be this Bloomberg article, Saudi Women Inspired by Fall of Mubarak Step Up Equality Deman ...
  • Dick Cheney Feeling Pretty Good (& Open Thread)
    Bronwyn’s Note: I’m squeezing in tonight’s open thread before Reverend Amy’s top-notch post on Egyptian women, scheduled for 8:30 p.m. ET. As usual, I browsed the ‘net for something special. But I couldn’t resist stealing this hilarious scene from Steve Clemon’s otherwise serious and estimable b ...
  • Russ Feingold and MoveOn Finally Notice Crony ...
    Better late than never? I think not, baby puppy. It is April, 2011 and ex-Wisconsin Senator and favorite principled liberal Russ Feingold finally noticed a conflict of interest with having GE’s CEO Jeffrey Immelt as head of the President’s advisory council on job creation. Ya think? According to ...
  • Saif to the Rescue
    [See video below the fold.] Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s remark at London, “. . . to achieve their aspirations through political change . . .” is the blandest way of describing what begins now as years of manipulation and misdirection by the Euro colonial powers to secure the energy fiel ...
  • Guess Who’s Been Wanting To Overthrow Gadhafi ...
    * Bumped Up * Did you guess the Muslim Brotherhood? If so, you would have been right. Yes, CNN had this report, Energized Muslim Brotherhood in Libya Eyes A Prize. Oh, great. Well that’s just jake. And this is no joke. It is far, far from funny. It has been a plan long in the [...]

Environmental Graffiti

  • The Perfect Bloody Mary Explained by Science
    The perfect Bloody Mary explained by science. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 7 Incredible Drowned Churches
    Surreal images of churches appearing to float in the middle of lakes, drowned and half submerged as a result of man's desire to build reservoirs and dams. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • 5 Fantastic Facts about Flamingos
    A large colorful bird with vibrant pink colored feathers has many other interesting facts about it. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Haunting Atmospheric Photographs by Kris 'Clou ...
    Kris 'Cloud Chaser' Dutson shares his amazing atmospheric images and what goes into making them read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Could the Acai Berry Diet Fad Help Save the Am ...
    Acai berry diet supplements and energy drinks have become a popular craze. How does this use of the acai palm tree affect the environment of the Amazon rainforest? read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the articl ...

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • LinkDump March 27 2011 - We looked into the fi ...
    The Silver Conspiracy xtranormal lolbears are back for Part V! Listening now to Lifeboat Hour with Michael Ruppert presently on ProgressiveRadioNetwork.com. Mostly about Japan so far. Lyric flagged from Ruppert's band New White Trash - "We looked into the fire and the fire looked b ...
  • Git & Processing: For new HTML5 Javascript-pow ...
    Need to throw a batch of links out there. I had a pretty good idea about how to apply some stuff using this kind of tech. The whole thing has just evolved since last November, from local applications into the web. Processing is a language for a lot of cool things including visualizations, but no ...
  • Wisconsin gets the FreedomWorks - Yoshimi beat ...
    We drove around Madison listening to the Flaming Lips -- that day, the evil robots won... Working for the city - she knows it's demanding to defeat those evil machines... ~~ Yoshimi was definitely a public employee in that song ~~ it all makes sense now ~~ Sometimes a press release sums up the a ...
  • March 22 mega-link dump: ChernobyLinks & Middl ...
    A ton of the latest & greatest links to throw at ya, roughly themed out! First some Lols and things to check out: CIA's 'Facebook' Program Dramatically Cut Agency's Costs | Onion News Network Bloomberg's Winkler Discusses Fed Bank Loan Data Ruling - Video - Bloomberg Granbury woman run over, kil ...
  • Feds take down Liberty Dollar with Extreme Pre ...
    [photo source] Mother Jones reports von NotHaus has founded the Free Marijuana Church of Honolulu – eat that, coppers! Full trial Blog @ LibertyDollarTrial. Ron Paul Coin Minter, Pot Priest, Faces 15 Years in Prison | Mother Jones A few crib notes on the late great Liberty Dollar, which worked ...

Daily Censored

  • Libyan Liberation – Is there Another Way?
    � By Kathleen Barry With its call for regime change even before the Libyans began to rebel, American hypocrisy has been looming large over the U.S. war with Libya.  UN resolution 1973 was its pretext, humanitarian intervention its justification.  No doubt, humanitarian intervention is urgently n ...
  • An Open letter to the White House,
    I have received repeated letters asking me to contribute to beat the Republicans/Tea Party/Koch Brothers/Corporate America, all of whom are richer than God and certainly richer than I and everyone I know collectively.  And, I know a few, very comfortable people.  While I am not a fan of pissing ...
  • How Far Are We From A Revolution?
    Bahrain, Egypt, and Libya, all have one thing in common.  A huge percentage of their population has been oppressed by a minuscule elite.  Beyond high unemployment opportunities and low wages, I readily admit to knowing little of their plight.  However, if it includes policies that produce prodig ...
  • Ecological Nightmare in America?
    � Yesterday, March 29, 2001, according to a report released from the Institute for Energy and Environmental Studies, �The French radiation protection authority, Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire (IRSN), estimates the radioactive releases of iodine-131 in Japan had reached about ...
  • What About The Civil War In This Country
    It is time to call spades spades.  Libya is and was fighting a civil war.  The administration claims that  we are there for a humanitarian reason.  Horsesh&t.  We are there because Libya has OIL.  We are there because NATO asked us to be there.  Who is NATO if it isn’t us?  France and Great Brit ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

Institute for Policy Studies

  • Is Libya A Litmus Test For The Arab World?
    The debate over Libya does not break down along ideological lines. Linda Wertheimer talks to two liberals who disagree over whether the U.S. should be intervening in Libya. Phyllis Bennis, the director of the New Internationalism Program at the Institute for Policy Studies, opposes the allied mi ...
  • Arming Libya's Rebels: Overdue Idea or 'Disast ...
    Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Wednesday that the U.S. has not yet decided whether to send weapons to Libya's struggling opposition movement. Jim Lehrer discusses the arms issue with the Institute for Policy Studies' Emira Woods and Mansour El-Kikhia of the University of Texas at San An ...
  • End this Cynical Anti-Immigrant Program, Save ...
    The cynically named Secure Communities program threatens to make every cop in the country part of an immigration dragnet.
  • A Government Expense We Would Shut Down: U.S. ...
    Obama's trade representative is trying hard to push approval of deals that the Bush administration negotiated.
  • What Makes Us Secure?
    It's not about deadbolts and surveillance cameras - it's about having people you can turn to for help.

Equality Trust

  • Traduction des preuves en Français
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  • Response to criticism of The Spirit Level
      Find our full response to criticism of The Spirit Level here.  
  • The Wrong Cure - alternatives to the cuts
    The False Economy website is an excellent and still-developing resource exploring the alternatives to cuts. False Economy includes: a discussion of why the cuts are not progressive details of campaign actions a comprehensive further reading list ... and this short film [youtube:ynUCYo ...
  • Why we need a Fairness Test of the cuts
    A group of charities, including the Equality Trust, Child Poverty Action Group, Barnardo's and the TUC are asking the coalition government to commit to a Fairness Test on any tax rises or spending cuts they introduce. Full details...
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PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • Senate Judiciary Committee Unanimously Passes ...
    Today as reported by Food Safety News tomorrow (April Fools Day), the Senate Judiciary Committee voted out S. 216, The Food Safety Accountability Act. It is a Bill “to increase criminal penalties for certain knowing and intentional violations relating to food that is misbranded or adulterated.” ...
  • First Del Monte Salmonella Cantaloupe Lawsuit ...
    According to the CDC, 13 persons infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Panama have been reported from Oregon (5 cases), Washington (4 cases), California (2 cases), Colorado (1 case) and Maryland (1 case. According tot he FDA, Del Monte Fresh Produce N.A., Inc. recalled 4,992 cartons o ...
  • What is it with Salmonella? Now Sausages at a ...
    Salmonlla at DeFusco's Bakery in Rhode Island and Salmonella in Del Monte Cantaloupe in the West and now this. According to press reports, illnesses from Salmonella have beenlinked to consumption of sausage at a benefit pancake breakfast held in early March in Thurmont, according to the Frederi ...
  • Salmonella Attorney Bill Marler Explains Canta ...
    The CDC reports that 13 persons infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Panama have been reported from Oregon (5 cases), Washington (4 cases), California (2 cases), Maryland (1 case) and Colorado (1 case).� The illnesses have been linked to Del Monte Cantaloupes.� Del Monte has recalled ...
  • If She is Lois Lane, does that make me -
    Well, perhaps not. USA Todays, Kim O’Donnel, gave a “shout-out” to Food Safety New’s own Lois Lane, Helena Bottemiller in her article “Your source for safety information:” For many new college grads, that first job typically is an entry-level gig with little fanfare or responsibility. For Seat ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Obama: Entire federal fleet purchases to be al ...
    Filed under: Government/Legal President Obama has outlined a new target for the White House energy policy, one that focuses on variety. According to news reports, the plan will include ways to generate more low-carbon electricity, reduce reliance on foreign oil, expand domestic oil productio ...
  • Tesla sues BBC for libel over rigged Top Ge ...
    Filed under: Government/Legal, UK, Tesla, Electric Let's put this out there: Tesla Motors is a feisty little company. When General Motor tried to trademark "range anxiety," the electric automaker said, "You can have it." Tesla has also had a long-standing beef with the BBC TV show Top Gear, l ...
  • Spy Shots: All-wheel-drive Mini Cooper hybrid ...
    Filed under: Spy Photos, Hybrid, Mini AWD Mini Cooper Hybrid Spy Shots - Click above for high-res image gallery Once you've put an all-electric drivetrain into a Mini Cooper, is it that hard to hybridize one? Well, yes, especially since BMW's limited testing program was intended to give the ...
  • Volvo considering insanely high $2,100/month l ...
    Filed under: Car Buying, Hatchback, Volvo, Electric Volvo C30 Electric - Click above for high-res image gallery A trial fleet of around 400 Volvo C30 Electrics is coming, and anyone who wants one had better have an awful big piggy bank. Speaking at a media launch near Indianapolis, IN today ...
  • Smart ForSpeed concept revealed before Geneva ...
    Filed under: Concept Cars, Convertible, Geneva Motor Show, Smart, Electric Smart Forspeed - Click above for high-res image gallery Not every future Smart model is in trouble of vanishing - some will never see the light of production. To wit, Daimler's minicar maker is bringing an all-electr ...

Rafe's Radar



Camera Obscura


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  • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
  • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
  • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
  • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...

Democracy Now!


  • Georgia and the U.S. Supreme Court: Tinkering ...
    On March 28, the Supreme Court refused to hear the death penalty case of Troy Anthony Davis. It was his last appeal. Davis has been on Georgia’s death row for close to 20 years after being convicted of shooting to death off-duty police officer Mark MacPhail in Savannah. Since his conviction, se ...
  • Aristide’s Return to Haiti: A Long Night ...
    Late at night on March 17, former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide boarded a small plane with his family in Johannesburg. The following morning, he arrived in Haiti. It was just over seven years after he was kidnapped from his home in a U.S.-backed coup d’etat. Haiti has been ravaged by ...
  • Uncut Interview with Former Haitian President ...
    Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and his family were flown on March 18, 2011 by the South African government back to their home in Haiti after seven years in exile in South Africa. Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman was the only reporter to join them on the journey. Here is the compl ...
  • 21-Year-Old Libyan American Medical Student Mu ...
    Muhannad Bensadik was a 21-year-old Libyan American medical student in Benghazi who was born in North Carolina and whose family lives in Virginia. He participated in the Libyan uprising last month and then decided to join the armed struggle against Col. Muammar Gaddafi’s forces. Muhannad ...
  • Libyan Citizen Journalist Mohammed Nabbous Kil ...
    Democracy Now! regrets to report that Mohammed Nabbous, a Libyan citizen journalist in Benghazi who founded Libya AlHurra TV to broadcast live online on Gaddafi violence, was shot and killed Saturday morning. Click to hear Democracy Now! correspondent Anjali Kamat’s Feb. 26 interview ...

Digg Green



Invisible Opportunity


  • The Stoner Arms Dealers: How Two American Kids ...
    Packouz and Diveroli had picked the perfect moment to get into the arms business. To fight simultaneous wars in both Afghanistan and Iraq, the Bush administration had decided to outsource virtually every facet of America’s military operations, from building and staffing Army bases to hiring merc ...
  • Tom Sullivan – Explosives Loader
  • Video – Delaware DOT removes basketball hoop
  • Garden As If Your Life Depended On It, Because ...
    By Ellen LaConte There are at least five reasons why more of us should take up the spade, make some compost, and start gardening with a vengeance. March 29, 2011 Spring has sprung — at least south of the northern tier of states where snow still has a ban on it — and the grass [...]
  • Hey Mom, is that Me in The Petri Dish?
    Good day my friends. Some of you are not happy with me that I revealed certain ongoing assaults on my name, behavior and imagined past. If I hadn’t brought it up, some of you would have, in fact, some of you did and that was why I brought it up (grin). If I hadn’t brought [...]

Global Insights


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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • Seoul’s New Solar-Powered GT Tower Boasts a Mi ...
    Read the rest of Seoul’s New Solar-Powered GT Tower Boasts a Mind-Bending Wavy Facadehttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: adaptive floor plate, ...
  • Incredible Living Wall Concept Made Up of Thou ...
    Read the rest of Incredible Living Wall Concept Made Up of Thousands of Composting Binshttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "green wall", Ecolo ...
  • 15 Mind Blowing Skyscrapers – From Vertical Fa ...
    Read the rest of 15 Mind Blowing Skyscrapers – From Vertical Farms to Shipping Container Towers and Buried Citieshttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post ...
  • GoDaddy CEO Hunts Endangered Elephants for Sport
    Bob Parsons, the CEO of domain registry company GoDaddy, apparently enjoys hunting endangered species for fun.
  • Mitch Epstein’s Haunting Photos of “American P ...
    Read the rest of Mitch Epstein’s Haunting Photos of “American Power” Win the Prix Pictethttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: American Power, Gr ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Not Even Breathing Is Safe in Iraq
    ANAHEIM — As if enemy fire, IEDs and suicide bombers werenât enough, U.S. soldiers in Iraq also must contend with air thatâs laden with heavy metals and lung-ravaging particles, researchers reported March 30 at the spring meeting of the American Chemical Society. Exposure to particles of th ...
  • Spacecraft Sees Earth Eclipse the Fiery Sun
    This spectacular image of the half-blocked sun was captured March 29 when the orbiting Solar Dynamics Observatory slipped behind the Earth. SDO shoots dazzling photos and videos of the sun from a point 22,000 miles above Earth’s surface. Twice a year, the spacecraft enters an eclipse season whe ...
  • The Strange Past and Promising Future of the L ...
    By Annalee Newitz, io9 If you thought that scene in Sucker Punch where the doctor gave lobotomies with an ice pick was artistic exaggeration – well, it wasn’t. That’s exactly how Walter Freeman, a popularizer of lobotomies in the 1940s, performed thousands of operations. In the mid-twentieth ...
  • Galactic Collision Wins Telescope Contest
    This new image from the Gemini South telescope in Chile captures a pair of galaxies locked in a graceful waltz that will eventually bring the two crashing together. The telescope was aimed at these galaxies at the suggestion of a group of Australian students at the Sydney Girls High School Astr ...
  • New Mercury Images Show Shadowed Craters and N ...
    Images: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington See Also: First Image of Mercury From Orbit Spacecraft Swings Into First Orbit Around Mercury NASA’s Messenger Spacecraft Zeroes In on Mercury Mercury Flyby Maps New Territory This Just in: Mercu ...

PakAlert

  • HOW WILL ISRAEL RESPOND TO POPULAR ARAB UPRISINGS?
    The reality is that dramatic political change now sweeping the Arab world would eventually facilitate the execution of Israel’s war agenda against the Arabs, as well as against Pakistan and Iran.
  • Video: New, Stunning Japan Tsunami Footage
    New, Stunning Japan Tsunami Footage Video
  • Video: Joe Biden believes President Obama shou ...
    In this interview with MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, Joe Biden clearly states his position that a President should be impeached for launching an attack on a nation that hasn’t attacked the United States. Of course, the tough-talking Biden was only a Senator when this interview took place and he was ...
  • Scientist: Japan nuke “accidents” are tectonic ...
    Independent scientist Leuren Moret, whose 2004 landmark article in the Japan Times unmasked lies and distortions by government and company officials that led to the construction of nuclear power plants in seismically dangerous areas, has declared in an exclusive 65-minute video interview with Al ...
  • The Surprising PNAC Connection to Libya
    Looks like the PNAC, or Project for A New American Century, agenda of 1997 is rolling along as planned. Just as has been outlined by other think tanks, Illuminati writers and social programmers But a blind world reels on the defensive when they could have known what was coming all along. Not ...

Andy Worthington

  • Mocking the Law, Judges Rule that Evidence Is ...
    If I was an American lawyer who had fought for many years to secure habeas corpus rights for the prisoners held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba — in other words, the right to ask an impartial judge to rule on my captors’ reasons for slinging me in a legal black hole and leaving me to rot [...]
  • Amina Masood Janjua, Champion of Pakistan&#821 ...
    Yesterday, while cross-posting a perceptive and shocking Guardian article by Declan Walsh about the state-sanctioned disappearances and murders of would-be separatists and critics of Pakistani policy in the vast tribal area of Balochistan, bordering Afghanistan and Iran, it occurred to me that, ...
  • Torture and Murder in Balochistan: Declan Wals ...
    Coming up tomorrow are new articles about Guantánamo and habeas corpus, and US intelligence and the Middle East, but to fill the vacuum today, here at Andy Worthington, I’m straying into the Afghan-Pakistani borderlands and cross-posting a distressing but extremely informative article from the ...
  • “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánam ...
    “‘Outside the Law’ is a powerful film that has helped ensure that Guantánamo and the men unlawfully held there have not been forgotten.” Kate Allen, Director, Amnesty International UK “[T]his is a strong movie examining the imprisonment and subsequent torture of those falsely accused of anti-Ame ...
  • The Dark Desires of Bruce Jessen, the Architec ...
    In another exclusive report for Truthout, my friends and colleagues Jason Leopold and Jeff Kaye continue to shine an unerring light on the Bush administration’s torture program (see previous examples here and here), this time focusing on the role played by Bruce Jessen, the Air Force psychologis ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • Don't Turn Your Back on the Bankers for Even a ...
    The ink on the legislation is still drying and, already, the mortgage mill industry is trying to gut the little things that might help to hold them accountable for their bit part in the complete economic collapse of this nation: Dodd-Frank requires that lenders retain five percent of every loan ...
  • Sarah Palin: Mayor of New Milford?
    Is this a parody or real life? You decide. Citizens of New Milford: I want you to know that I'm on the job 24/7. Twenty four hours a week, seven months a year. But even with this strict time commitment, I can't be expected to keep up with everything going on in this vast metropolis. That's why ...
  • Much like the "conservative" GOP...
    The conservative Blue Dogs acted as Bush's domestic poodles, helping to move a dangerous right wing agenda. They were owned by the right wing and corporations and there is no big surprise why more than half of the Blue Dog caucus (28 of 54 members) were slaughtered in the 2010 elections. So f ...
  • Stop Drinking and Start Doing, Dem Dumb Dumbs
    Sober up, Dems. You started sucking suds when you captured the Congress in 2006. Since 2008 you've been binge drinking with Congress and the Prez. You even nibbled on some hot wings and pub nuts. Burp! And now the bartender just cut your drunk, lazy, liberal, progressive, leftie ass off. Y ...
  • The People Have Spoken. And Their Message Is ...
    So. What the heck happened last night? The GOP picked up 60 seats in the House, effectively reversing their losses there from 2006 and 2008, and returning control of that body to them. The GOP picked up some 6 seats in the Senate, but the Democratic Party retains control there. The GOP picked u ...

SPL Center

  • New SPLC Report Examines Extremist Views of St ...
    Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center released a new report, “Attacking the Constitution: State Legislators for Legal Immigration and the Anti-Immigrant Movement.” It documents the radical beliefs of 12 leading members of a coalition called State Legislators for Legal Immigration (SLLI). The gr ...
  • ‘Sovereign Citizen’ Couple Resigns from Alabam ...
    A veteran homicide detective in Sarasota, Fla. – lured by the burgeoning appeal of “sovereign citizen” ideology – was fired last week after  he had “seceded” from the jurisdiction of the federal government, an act he claims was intended to be a political protest more than any sort of act of extr ...
  • After ‘Liberty Dollars’ Creator Convicted, Fed ...
    The U.S. government wants ownership of $7 million worth of coins manufactured and sold by Bernard von NotHaus, a 67-year-old antigovernment icon who became a âhigh priestâ in his own marijuana-smoking church. A federal jury in Statesville, N.C., decided on March 18 that the âLiberty Dollarsâ and ...
  • Why Are Peter King’s Hearings So Loathsome? Le ...
    Some people seem to have great difficulty in understanding why U.S. Rep. Peter King’s hearings on radicalization of American Muslims, set to open this Thursday, are seen as so loathsome by so many. Let me try to explain. Imagine, for starters, if another congressman — say, Keith Ellison of Minne ...
  • Aryan Nations Attorney’s Murder-for-Hire Trial ...
    COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho — The trial of former Aryan Nations attorney Edgar Steele was postponed and moved from North Idaho to Boise on Monday by a federal judge who earlier was steadfast in refusing additional delays. Steele, 65, faces four federal charges in an alleged failed plot to hire a hit ma ...

change: org.

  • US Congress AWOL on "Kill Team" Investigation
    As a young soldier, I remember wearing the patch of the 2nd Infantry Division on my shoulder with a sense of pride and honor; even today it takes considerable space on a plaque in my home that displays the military awards and insignia that I have earned and worn over the years. I can still roll ...
  • AC Transit Makes Oakland Students Pay for Budg ...
    Despite pleas from over 5,000 Change.org members, students, and the Oakland Unified School District's School Board, AC Transit has not yet agreed to create a student rate bus pass for Oakland's K-12 students. But while last week's AC Transit board meeting was a letdown, we're not giving up the f ...
  • Chicken-Bashing Video Prompts Petition to End ...
    In 2009, a video surfaced of high school student Robert Gordon slamming a live chicken against the ground, while his buddy Patrick Dougan cheered him on with "Rip him apart" and "This is animal cruelty." Where would these teens get the idea to kill a chicken? The inspiration, as well as the poor ...
  • California Domestic Workers Rally for the Righ ...
    Yesterday was International Domestic Workers Day, and you don't have to look very far to find hardworking domestic workers facing exploitation and in need of your support. In America, labor law excludes domestic workers from basic protections, like the right to sick days, overtime pay, or notice ...
  • In North Carolina, Campaign To Save Preschool ...
    On April 5th, Michelle O'Reilly will make her final plea for the children of Charlotte-Mecklenberg schools. She'll ask the County Commission to reconsider its massive proposed cuts to Bright Beginnings, a preschool program that helps struggling children get ready for kindergarten. At the meeting ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Robert Gates: No US 'Boots on Ground' in Libya
    Robert Gates, the US secretary of defence, emphatically ruled out deploying American ground troops inside Libya as details emerged of CIA intelligence teams being sent to the country. read more
  • Groundwater at Nuclear Plant 'Highly' Radiatio ...
    More signs of serious radiation contamination in and near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant were detected Thursday, with the latest data finding groundwater containing radioactive iodine 10,000 times the legal threshold and the concentration of radioactive iodine-131 in nearby seawater r ...
  • 100 Years After Triangle Fire, Immigrant Worke ...
    Last week marked the centennial of the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, in which 146 mostly immigrant workers died. The tragedy prompted widespread labor reforms in the United States, but its commemoration underscores the plight of immigrant workers similarly exploited today. ...
  • Ohio Legislature Passes Bill Limiting Collecti ...
    Ohio lawmakers have had their chance to vote on a bill limiting collective bargaining rights for 350,000 public workers across the state. Next will be the public's turn. Even before the contentious Senate Bill 5 — in some ways tougher than Wisconsin's — had cleared the Legislature late Wednesday ...
  • Pennsylvania Limits Authority of Oil and Gas I ...
    Oil and gas inspectors policing Marcellus Shale development in Pennsylvania will no longer be able to issue violations to the drilling companies they regulate without first getting the approval of top officials. read more

Lifehacker

  • Set Up an Automated, Bulletproof File Back Up ...
    More and more, the fragments of your life exist as particles on a disk mounted inside your computer—disks susceptible to temperature changes, power surges, fire, theft, static, and just plain wear and tear. Hard drives fail. It's a fact of ...
  • DIY Custom-Molded In-Ear Headphones [DIY]
    In-ear headphones are great, and you can even make your own noise-isolating pair for under a dollar. However, for a few more bucks and a bit more work, you can DIY a pair of in-ear monitors custom fit to your ears. More�� ...
  • Windows 8 Previews Going Out, Wallpaper Availa ...
    A preview build of Windows 8 has gone out to select Microsoft partners, with bits of the "Twin UI" and other updates. Those builds are under seemingly heavy lock and key, but at least one thing has fallen onto the net: the default wallpape ...
  • Why IRAs May Be Worth More Than Your 401(k) [I ...
    The Wise Bread blog provides a timely chin-scratcher about choosing Roth IRAs over 401(k)s. Fees, flexibility, and taxes stand out as good reasons, but consider, too, that you can make year-end IRA contributions through April 15. [Wise Bread] More��
  • Parkopedia Maps and Prices Parking Nearly Anyw ...
    Parkopedia is aptly named—its database contains locations, and often pricing and other details, on 15 million parking spaces in 20 countries. So if you need to make a list of three go-to parking spots for a trip, it's a great place to star ...

Water Privatization

  • Union of Water Employees Against Privatization ...
    By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com While the public is continually bombarded with reminders to save water, Malacañang is pushing for the privatization of the water industry which, critics say, will lead to higher water rates. Rodrigo Aranjuez, Water System Employees Response (WATER) national ...
  • DeStefano gets an earful at 1st community budg ...
    NEW HAVEN — At his first community budget meeting, Mayor John DeStefano Jr. was barraged Thursday night with questions about proposals to privatize school custodial services and impose a storm water fee.
  • SWANA Response To NSWMA Privatization Release
    No one is surprised when, in tough economic times, a trade organization takes the lead in promoting the financial interests of its members
  • More prison privatization in Fla. Senate budget
    State prisons in an 18-county area of South Florida would be turned over to private companies, under the state Senate's proposed budget bill -- if the companies want them.
  • Lodi agrees to look into privatizing new water ...
    LODI - Privatization of Lodi's future water treatment facility will be researched and considered before the plant is opened in 2012, although that scenario appears to be unlikely.

Guardian

  • Gbagbo palace surrounded by rebels
    Forces loyal to elected leader Alassane Ouattara hold 80% of country as incumbent president braces for fight to bitter endRebel forces in Ivory Coast have laid siege to the presidential residence in Abidjan as the incumbent leader, Laurent Gbagbo, makes a desperate last stand to cling to power.T ...
  • Radiation in Japanese groundwater
    Leakage below Fukushima Daiichi power plant exceeds safety limits but experts say drinking supplies should be safeRadiation exceeding Japanese government safety limits has seeped into groundwater under the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, according to the operator, but experts say it is un ...
  • Officer 'shocked' at Tomlinson push
    Policewoman said Ian Tomlinson, who died during G20 protests, appeared to fall on his face after being shoved by officerA police officer was "shocked by the forcefulness of the push" on Ian Tomlinson shortly before the newspaper seller died during the City of London G20 protests in April 2009, a ...
  • Sound demo aims to ease HS2 fears
    Hammond says High Speed Two could provide 160 extra services a day as roadshow attempts to win over opponentsCommuters in towns and cities on the High Speed Two rail route will benefit from 160 extra services a day into the capital if a new London-to-Birmingham line is built, the government has ...
  • Earthquake shakes Blackpool
    Tremor of 2.2 magnitude topples traffic lights, cracks railway bridge and prompts fears of burglaryA small earthquake has shaken Blackpool and the Fylde coast � toppling traffic lights, cracking a railway bridge and making some residents think they were being burgled as they woke in the early ho ...

McClatchey

  • Kansas nuclear plant among three in U.S. needi ...
    The Wolf Creek nuclear power plant is among three in the United States that need more intensive oversight, the chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission told Congress on Thursday.
  • Panel says gay sailor should stay in Navy
    A gay sailor at Lemoore Naval Air Station said a Navy panel apparently agreed with his lawyer's argument that "don't ask, don't tell" is dead.
  • Texas college students debate guns on campus bill
    HURST — Peter Salas is a self-described gun-rights supporter whose family has a hunting tradition, but he opposes concealed handguns on college campuses.
  • EPA opposes plan for S.C. gold mine
    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency opposes plans for a huge gold mine north of Camden, saying in a recent letter that the project could threaten drinking water, wildlife and creeks that drain off the site.
  • U.S. wants others to arm, train Libyan rebels
    WASHINGTON — Hemmed in by two other wars, an overstretched military and serious budgetary woes, the United States is reducing its role in the multinational military operation in Libya and is looking to other nations to arm and train rebels fighting to oust dictator Moammar Gadhafi, top U.S. defe ...

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • Reflections on a fortnight in Fukushima
    Earth Watch posts have been in smaller supply than usual in recent days. For a week, your humble correspondent was virtually living inside the Fukushima nuclear power station, attempting to make sense of what we knew and what we didn't know as the situation unfolded. Now - almost two weeks after ...
  • Bees: a sting in the tale
    � The United Nations Environment Programme (Unep) buzzes into the ongoing discussion of bee decline this week, with a report examining the global nature of the issue and some of the reasons behind it. Their top-line conclusions are that it's becoming a widespread, if not quite global, phenomen ...
  • Green tuna goes FAD-free
    Environmental group Greenpeace is claiming something of a victory with the news that the UK's biggest supplier of canned tuna, Princes, is going to source its fish from more sustainable supplies than previously. Greenpeace has been spearheading a campaign to get companies to adopt sustainable t ...
  • China and EU share climate vision
    China and the European Union are setting out plans for changing energy use and curbing carbon emissions within a space of a few days. As one of them is the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases while the other would be third in the global list if its emissions were tallied as a single enti ...
  • Refining the sixth great extinction
    Are we living through the sixth mass extinction of life in Earth history? That we are is something you'll often hear asserted in conservation circles - and you'll easily find dozens of news articles taking the notion at face value. It's even acquired a posh name - the Holocene extinction.   In ...

The Wonk Room

thwap's schoolyard

  • More Politicians Who Have Sunk Beyond Redemption
    Yesterday I wrote about how if Barack Obama hadn't already lowered himself beyond redemption he did when he forced P. J. Crowley to resign for his criticism of the torture of whistle-blower Bradley Manning. The Harvard constitutional lawyer, Barack Obama, has been "assured" by government lawyers ...
  • Oh Jesus Christ
    Liberal Bloggers who are creaming themselves over Ryan Dolby (the former NDP candidate for Elgin-Middlesex-London)'s decision to withdraw and prevent a split-vote from giving the riding to the harpercons, ... could you please take the five seconds of thought necessary to not make this another ep ...
  • While We're Asking harper About his Coalition ...
    This comes via "Impolitical" - "Harper then and now on costing of legislation" Mr. Stephen Harper (Calgary West, Ref.): Mr. speaker, it is a pleasure today to debate Bill C-214, the program cost declaration act tabled by the hon. member for Durham. Let me take a few minutes to outline the pur ...
  • HAH! Read the Pathetic harpercons Weeping and ...
    With a hat-tip to "Mr. Sinister," I give you this Chronicle-Herald editorial - "Stop Harper-ventilating": We’re talking about the "reckless, unprincipled coalition" that Mr. Harper has invented as his political opponent and chief whipping boy in the 2011 campaign and the underlying attitude th ...
  • On the Firing of P. J. Crowley
    As most of you know, Barack Obama has fired State Department spokesperson P. J. Crowley for his statements on the torture of Bradley Manning. Calling Manning's torture ""ridiculous, counterproductive and stupid," raised the ire of the detestable public relations creature that is Barack Obama. L ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Ontario woman gets scary wake-up as man kick o ...
    A Burlington woman had a scary wake up Thursday when an unknown man started banging on her back door at 2 a.m. The woman was able to escape before the suspect entered her home.
  • Alleged fraudster facing 20 charges in Toronto
    A Brampton woman is said to have purchased gold using the money she withdrew from two financial institutions using fraudulent identification.
  • Michael Ignatieff woos BC immigrants
    Canada's next election scheduled for May 2, 2011 is not going to be a joy ride for Prime Minister Stephen Harper, the incumbent leader of the country, if one takes into consideration the fighting spirit demonstrated by the main opposition leaders.
  • EPA reports radiation found in American milk
    As radiation continued to emanate from Japan's troubled Fukushima nuclear plant, the US Environmental Protection Agency announced the detection of radiation in American milk supplies.
  • Thumbnail guide to the Canadian federal electi ...
    As the Canadian federal election heats up, here is a quick thumbnail guide to the parties, leaders,and issues surrounding this historic election of 2011.

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

  • Withdrawal issues: NATO countries on the futur ...
    According to “Withdrawal issues: What NATO countries say about the future of tactical nuclear weapons in Europe,” a recently released report by peace advocacy group IKV Pax Christi, there is sufficient political will within NATO to end the deployment of U.S. tactical nuclear weapons (TNW) in Eur ...
  • Let’s Make the Stealth Fighters an Election Issue
    Yes, I can donate $25 to stop the stealth fighters Dear peace supporter, It’s been a pitched media battle with Harper’s Conservatives and his corporate defence lobby since I last wrote you. And as you will read below, it’s about billions of dollars in military sales, deceit, corporate and govern ...
  • Canadian general to lead Libya mission
    Canadian Lieutenant-General Charles Bouchard has been tapped to lead the no-fly and arms-embargo elements of the Libya intervention now that NATO has agreed to run those operations (Daniel Leblanc, “Canadian general to take command of NATO mission in Libya,” Globe and Mail, 25 March 2011). Howev ...
  • Now not a good time to purchase F-35s: poll
    According to the latest CTV/Globe/Nanos Poll, when asked about the Harper government’s plan to purchase F-35 jet fighters, 68% of Canadians believe that now is not the right time to purchase the aircraft. Canadians identified healthcare as their number one unprompted issue of concern.  29% of r ...
  • Military budget growth set to continue
    The new federal budget, presented on Tuesday by Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, confirms last year’s pledge of somewhat delayed, but continued, growth in Canada’s military spending. The chart above, drawn from last year’s budget documents, depicts the continued upward path of Canadian military sp ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Dr. Tom Morter – Morter HealthSystem
    Click the picture or link below to hear Kevin’s interview with Dr. Tom Morter and click here to learn more about  Trace Minerals and why they are absolutely imperative to your health. Dr. Tom Morter on The Kevin Trudeau Show 3/31/11
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 3-31-11
    Today, Dr. Tom Morter joins Kevin as co-host of the day! Find out how Trace Minerals are absolutely imperative to your health and why you should never leave home without it! Plus, discover how YOU can learn the secrets behind winning big at the racetrack and casino! Self Help: Learn The Secrets ...
  • Diet Soda Linked to Heart Risk
    March 31st, 2011 ABC News By: Katie Moisse New research that links diet soda consumption with an increased risk of heart attack and stroke has doctors urging caution about the controversial and preliminary results. According to a study of more than 2,500 people presented today as a poster at the ...
  • Acid Reflux Medications Can Cause Severe Defic ...
    March 31st, 2011 Natural News By: Melissa Makris Acid reflux, and the heartburn that results, occurs when acid from the stomach backs up into the esophagus. About one-third of Americans experience heartburn on a regular basis. Treatment with both over-the-counter (OTC) and prescription medicatio ...
  • U.S. Dietary Guidelines: Toss Calorie Counter
    March 31st, 2011 SFGate.com By: Stacy Finz After more than a half century of counting calories, experts are advising dieters to ditch the numbers game and take a more holistic approach to losing weight. Tom Vilsack, the U.S. secretary of agriculture, signaled a major change in mind-set last mont ...

Pambazuka News

  • Haiti: Government says Aristide can come home
    Haiti's government has said it was ready to issue a new passport to former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, which would allow him to return after almost seven years in exile in South Africa. 'The government will give assurances that as soon as it re...
  • Cuba: Cuban organisation fights for release of ...
    Enrique Roman, first vice-president of the Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), has underlined that the movement in solidarity with Cuba prioritises in 2011 the struggle for the release of the five Cuban antiterrorist heroes incarc...
  • Haiti: Returned ex-dictator Duvalier charged
    Haiti on Tuesday briefly detained former dictator Jean-Claude 'Baby Doc' Duvalier, back from exile in France, and charged him with corruption, theft and abuses of power allegedly committed during his 15-year rule. While a noisy crowd of his supporter...
  • Break the Silence Congo week
    The purpose of the Break the Silence Congo Week is to raise consciousness about the devastating situation in the Congo and mobilize support on behalf of the people of the Congo. Break the Silence Congo Week will take place from Sunday 17 October to S...
  • Morocco: Expats returning home in greater numbers
    Faced with the woes of the global economic crisis, an increasing number of Moroccan expatriates are coming back home. Meanwhile, the government is intensifying effort to aid the community abroad as well as help them maintain ties with their home coun...

War in Context

  • The fight for Libya
    Colonel Gaddafi’s regime has sent one of its most trusted envoys to London for confidential talks with British officials, The Guardian can reveal. Mohammed Ismail, a senior aide to Gaddafi’s son Saif al-Islam, visited London in recent days, British government sources familiar with the meeting h ...
  • Holy moly — here comes another 9/11. Fears of ...
    Reuters reports that the CIA is now on the ground in Libya and the Obama administration is considering arming Gaddafi’s opponents. This is some of the reaction from Firedoglake’s David Dayen: I can just go back to the American track record of arming insurgencies and it’s not very good. Robert ...
  • CIA agents in Libya aid airstrikes and meet rebels
    The New York Times reports: The Central Intelligence Agency has inserted clandestine operatives into Libya to gather intelligence for military airstrikes and to contact and vet the beleaguered rebels battling Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s forces, according to American officials. While President Ob ...
  • Civilian toll from Western airstrikes in Libya
    Here’s a report from the New York Times that needs to be read by anyone who opposes intervention in Libya, primarily on the grounds that there are always innocent victims in war. Have no doubt, that ever since the Western air attacks on Libya began, the Gaddafi regime has been on the lookout for ...
  • Assad sticks to the Mubarak survival plan
    Israelis are quietly confident that Bashar al-Assad can survive the unrest in Syria but fear what might follow if he falls. Assad himself seems confident he can use the same tactics as Mubarak, but with the opposite outcome. The Guardian reports from Damascus: The Syrian president, Bashar al-A ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Washing the lions
    I had planned quite an entertaining and elaborate April Fools post this year, on par with the one I did last year. Given what happened yesterday in Congress, I think we’ve seen enough tomfoolery. But more importantly, is the fact … Continue reading →
  • Icebergs, phytoplankton, and CO2 – negat ...
    Via Lewis Page at the Register: Some cheerful news on the climate change front today, as US government boffins report that ice breaking off the Antarctic shelves and melting in the sea causes carbon dioxide to be removed from the … Continue reading →
  • New Hampshire House Votes to Quit Cap-and-Trade
    The New Hampshire House of Representatives, the third largest legislative body in the world, voted yesterday to end the state’s participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative cap-and-trade program. The House voted 251-108 after less than 5 minutes of debate … Continue reading →
  • Expect the BEST, plan for the worst
    Well, I had hoped for the best from BEST, the new Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project looking at the global temperature record. I was disheartened, however, by the Congressional testimony of Dr. Richard Muller of BEST. Photo Source He said … Continue reading →
  • The planes! The planes!
    From Dr. Roger Pielke Senior: (with apologies to Tattoo) There is a news article on March 29 2011 from Rueters titled Aircraft condensation trails criss-crossing the sky may be warming the planet on a normal day more than the carbon dioxide … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • Honduran Students Defend Occupied National Uni ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ TheRealNews on Mar 31, 2011 Raw Footage/Material Crudo ***Español Más Abajo*** Wednesday was a national day of action in Honduras as teachers, students, and members of the National People’s Resistance Front took part in a third week of actions against the ...
  • Why the Japanese Government Can Afford to Rebu ...
    by Ellen Brown Featured Writer Dandelion Salad webofdebt.com March 31, 2011 The Japanese government can afford its enormous debt because it owns the bank that is its principal creditor. But competitors are attempting to force the bank’s privatization. If they succeed, they could propel the count ...
  • Wall Street Financial Dogma: Alan Greenspan&#8 ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Prof. Michael Hudson Global Research, March 31, 2011 Mr. Greenspan takes it all back. His Old Time Religion was right after all. It all seems so long ago! On October 23, 2008, Alan Greenspan choked up a mea culpa for his deregulatory policy as Federal Rese ...
  • Tax-Deductible Invasions by Walter Brasch
    by Walter Brasch Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.walterbrasch.com March 31, 2011 Millions of Americans gave George W. Bush unquestioned support when he diverted personnel and resources from the war against al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden to invade Iraq. Several million fewer opposed the invasio ...
  • On Libya and the Unfolding Crises, Noam Chomsk ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Noam Chomsky interviewed by Stephen Shalom and Michael Albert www.chomsky.info ZNet, March 30, 2011 1. What are US motives in international relations most broadly? That is, what are the over arching motives and themes one can pretty much always find informing ...

Your New Reality

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    Why Are TV Reporters Suddenly Speaking Absolute Gibberish On Air? And no, I don't mean the quality of their journalism. An interesting two part CNN investigation into RF (radio frequency) weapons : Part Two :
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    Top Cancer Institute Says Cannabis Can Reduce Tumours, Then Changes Its Mind The United States' National Cancer Institute finally comes clean on cannabis : 'The potential benefits of medicinal Cannabis for people living with cancer include antiemetic effects, appetite stimulation, pain relief, ...
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    Police Agent Provocateur Busted On Camera During UKUnCut Protests On March 26, more than 500,000 people peacefully marched through the streets of London against the mega-rich who avoid paying their fair share of tax, and whose tax avoidance is now leading to the closure of hundreds of libraries ...
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    Play Nice Little Human, Play Nice IBM has plans to create a line of children's toys that will teach them how to get on better with other children, and, presumably, how to be nice to robots, too : “…to help a child who plays rough with other children the interaction data can include multiple in ...
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    Do I Go To Work Today? Or Do I Send In My Robot Clone? They're called Geminoids, which means 'robot twins'. You basically robot clone yourself, and your physical avatar will repeat your facial & body gestures and movements, even when you and your 'clone' are in different locations : CNET : G ...

Wired - Science

  • Not Even Breathing Is Safe in Iraq
    ANAHEIM — As if enemy fire, IEDs and suicide bombers werenât enough, U.S. soldiers in Iraq also must contend with air thatâs laden with heavy metals and lung-ravaging particles, researchers reported March 30 at the spring meeting of the American Chemical Society. Exposure to particles of th ...
  • Spacecraft Sees Earth Eclipse the Fiery Sun
    This spectacular image of the half-blocked sun was captured March 29 when the orbiting Solar Dynamics Observatory slipped behind the Earth. SDO shoots dazzling photos and videos of the sun from a point 22,000 miles above Earth’s surface. Twice a year, the spacecraft enters an eclipse season whe ...
  • The Strange Past and Promising Future of the L ...
    By Annalee Newitz, io9 If you thought that scene in Sucker Punch where the doctor gave lobotomies with an ice pick was artistic exaggeration – well, it wasn’t. That’s exactly how Walter Freeman, a popularizer of lobotomies in the 1940s, performed thousands of operations. In the mid-twentieth ...
  • Galactic Collision Wins Telescope Contest
    This new image from the Gemini South telescope in Chile captures a pair of galaxies locked in a graceful waltz that will eventually bring the two crashing together. The telescope was aimed at these galaxies at the suggestion of a group of Australian students at the Sydney Girls High School Astr ...
  • New Mercury Images Show Shadowed Craters and N ...
    Images: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington See Also: First Image of Mercury From Orbit Spacecraft Swings Into First Orbit Around Mercury NASA’s Messenger Spacecraft Zeroes In on Mercury Mercury Flyby Maps New Territory This Just in: Mercu ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Poll: Young Israelis moving much farther to th ...
    Study shows increase in number of Jewish youths that put defining Israel as a Jewish state as a number one goal, while fewer youths recognize the importance of Israel's identity as a democratic... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Palestinian cleared of rape charges: The polic ...
    Four Palestinians released after being accused of rape, sexual abuse by 11-year-old boy from Bnei Brak; one of the men tells Army Radio that police beat them and didn't tell them allegations against... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • Lia Tarachansky: Israel’s new military ally
    It used to be that when you counted off Israel's top allies, the obvious names came to mind. Germany, the UK, and of course, the US. These days, Canada seems determined to soar to the top of that... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
  • Lia Tarachansky: Israel’s New Military Buddy
    It used to be that when you counted off Israel’s top allies, the obvious names came to mind. Germany, the UK, and of course, the US. These days, Canada seems determined to soar to the top of that... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
  • Israeli Arabs decry state ‘regression’ as thou ...
    Higher Arab Monitoring Committee chair Mohammad Zeidan: "Israel is regressing into dangerous directions in its treatment of its Arab citizens." The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

Natural Health News

  • Begging Kitty May Be the Cutest Cat on the Int ...
    Even if you watch cat videos all day, you may never come across a more adorable kitty.
  • How Western Diets Are Making the World Sick
    Physician Kevin Patterson noticed something during his work as an internist-intensivist at the Canadian Combat Surgical Hospital in Kandahar, Afghanistan. The Afghan soldiers, police and civilians he treated had very different bodies from those of the Canadians he treated in his home country. T ...
  • New Science of Living Longer and How to Achieve It
    The new book The Immortality Edge: Realize the Secrets of Your Telomeres for a Longer, Healthier Life is a unique longevity regimen based on Nobel prizewinning research. The book was written by Dr. Michael Fossel, Greta Blackburn, and Dr. Dave Woynarowski. The Immortality Edge explains how telo ...
  • New Study Confirms Vaccine Increases Narcoleps ...
    Results from a Swedish study found a roughly 400 percent increased risk of narcolepsy in children and adolescents vaccinated with Pandemrix. The results are similar to those found in a Finnish study. There is still some uncertainty regarding the exact increased risk, because the study did n ...
  • Shockingly, Most of Mercury in Florida, and Pr ...
    When analysts assessed Chipola River fish for an assortment of heavy metals and other poisons they made a curious find. The Florida fish showed low levels of lead, arsenic and cadmium, but high levels of potentially deadly methylmercury.� The Chipola was miles away from any industrial operations ...

fotoFrontera

  • Vistas dinámicas en Blogger (5 formas diferent ...
    Todo sobre las nuevas vistas dinámicas para lectores de feeds. Blogger ofrece actualmente 5 vistas dinámicas para blogs públicos. Estas vistas están accesibles sólo si el autor del blog lo permite. Personalmente, me ha parecido una excelente puesta en escena de estas vistas dinámicas por parte d ...
  • Rosas de colores para el 10 de mayo IX (12 fotos)
    Explore nuestro archivo [1]|[2]|[3][4][5][6][7][8][9] ATENCIÓN: No olvide usted hacer clic sobre las imágenes que más le gusten para ampliar su tamaño y guardarlas en su computadora, laptop, netbook o iPad si así lo desea.
  • Imágenes de Amor y Corazones con movimiento II ...
    ATENCIÓN: No olvide usted hacer clic sobre las imágenes que más le gusten para ampliar su tamaño y guardarlas en su computadora, laptop, netbook o iPad si así lo desea ...
  • Colección de plantas, flores y verduras (12 im ...
    ATENCIÓN: No olvide usted hacer clic sobre las imágenes que más le gusten para ampliar su tamaño y guardarlas en su computadora, laptop, netbook o iPad si así lo desea.
  • Paisajes hermosos a orillas del mar I (12 fotos)
    ATENCIÓN: No olvide usted hacer clic sobre las imágenes que más le gusten para ampliar su tamaño y guardarlas en su computadora, laptop, netbook o iPad si así lo desea.

Center for a Livable Future

  • Art, Love and Agriculture: An Interview with F ...
    The 2005 documentary The Real Dirt on Farmer John chronicles the life of John Peterson, a man who has been described as a “flamboyant, cross-dressing, hippie-loving third-generation farmer [who] saves his farm… by being different.”  A vibrant artist and storyteller, John unabashedly documents t ...
  • Making Health the Default
    A recent article featured in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation News Digest on Childhood Obesity highlights a simple strategy that can be implemented in restaurants and other venues to improve the food environment. The innovative new strategy is to change the offerings on children’s menus to hi ...
  • How much meat do we eat, anyway?
    Reading the new federal dietary guidelines made me want to look into this question.  The guidelines, just released, say that Americans presently eat an average of 3.7 ounces daily of meat and poultry.  But, the figures I typically see are double that, or more.  So, why, in the brand-new guidelin ...
  • What’s Cookin’ in Your Soil Kitchen?
    What’s Cooking in your ‘Soil Kitchen’? There is probably lots cooking but you might not like all that’s on the menu. So if you are an urban agriculturalist in the mid-Atlantic (NYC-Philadelphia-Baltimore-DC) area scratching your head about all this talk of soil contamination, grab a soil sample ...
  • The Locavore debate, revisited
    How can local food systems support a resilient and sustainable future food economy in the United States? That was the question of the day at a recent conference entitled, “Reviving the American Economy-One Heirloom Tomato at a Time.”  But for some, the question isn’t so much how, but even can ...

Norwegianity

  • Late links
    New stuff from Matt Taibbi! including whores, whores and more whores. More: Recordkeeping? Not when it’s your money! Economy about to re-swoon? Supreme Borks split on gender lines over WalMart? Artists question winner-take-all rules Scheer on Obama and Immelt - News: Privatization WTF?: prison i ...
  • As mean as necessary
    It’s wrong to call Justice Clarence Thomas an Uncle Tom. For starters, only African Americans have a right to make such an accusation, but more importantly, Clarence Thomas is more properly known as an Uncle Clarence. An Uncle Clarence is someone who gets a lot of help getting from nowhere to so ...
  • Making a list
    Incredible. Even the establishment media, which makes its money by not noticing these kinds of things, is beginning to take notice of the Republicans’ insane our-way-IS-the-highway-and-everyone-else-is-roadkill approach to governance. From today’s NYTimes: House Republicans have already won so m ...
  • Right
    News: $100 million a day to interdict Ghaddafi’s cosmetics shipments (no links to Obama’s speech as I really don’t give a shit: three wars and you’re out!) [Peter King no doubt approves] [how the Republicans have flip-flopped and back again on Ghaddfi] [more] [guns v butter] Pictures of how the ...
  • Insanely good news video
    This was so good I stole it from WINston (click for an update on Gov. Walker) (more on the recall): A remarkably rewarding and gratifyingly upbeat yet cynical look at the news, and it came at the perfect time for me because I just got done watching Inside Job and was feeling even more disillusio ...

Public News Service

  • Center Vows Suit Over AHCCCS Cuts
    Center Vows Suit Over AHCCCS Cuts Phoenix, AZ – Arizona lawmakers and the Governor are moving to cut up to a quarter million low-income adults from AHCCCS (Access) health care, the state’s Medicaid program. But a Phoenix public interest law firm is poised to file a lawsuit as soon as a budget co ...
  • Court Considers Class Action Suit Against AZ's ...
    Court Considers Class Action Suit Against AZ's Biggest Employer Phoenix, AZ - The U-S Supreme Court is considering a massive class action lawsuit against Arizona's largest employer, Walmart. Plaintiffs in the suit claim gender discrimination in the workplace. Oral arguments were heard yesterday ...
  • AZ Report Lists “Near Misses” at U ...
    AZ Report Lists “Near Misses” at U.S. Nuke Plants Phoenix, AZ - A new report from Arizona PIRG (Public Interest Research Group) paints nuclear power plants as inherently dangerous, and documents several “close calls” which dramatically increased the risk of a serious accident. The report says th ...
  • Research: Medical Bills Leading Cause of Bankr ...
    Research: Medical Bills Leading Cause of Bankruptcy Phoenix, AZ – As lawmakers in Arizona and other states grapple with state budget deficits, one public health and medical researcher cautions against cuts to medical coverage as a budget-balancing tool. Comments from David Himmelstein (HIM-ul-s ...
  • AZ Kids and Toddlers Keep "Backseat View"
    AZ Kids and Toddlers Keep "Backseat View" Phoenix, AZ – New guidelines will change the way Arizona children ride in a car. The American Academy of Pediatrics is suggesting toddlers stay in rear-facing car seats until at least the age of two and all children remain in the backseat until age 13. ...

Center for Food Safety

  • Join the Rally for the Right to Know! Send you ...
     Join our virtual rally and send your letter to Congress urging mandatory labeling of GE foods TODAY! Saturday, March 26th, from D.C. to Colorado Springs–and more than 20 cities in between–thousands of people will  join together for a Rally for the Right to Know, demanding labeling of GMO food ...
  • Join the Rally for the Right to Know!
    The United States may soon be the only country in the world that does not require labeling of genetically engineered food. In Spring 2000, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that labeling of GE foods would remain voluntary, even though there was no indication that any company would ...
  • Farmers and Consumer Groups File Lawsuit Chall ...
    “Roundup Ready” Alfalfa Will Increase Pesticide Use and Cause Grave Harm to Environment and Organic Industry USDA Failures Guarantee Transgenic Contamination, Creation of More Superweeds Today, attorneys for the Center for Food Safety (CFS) and Earthjustice filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Depar ...
  • Bi-Partisan Legislation Introduced To Ban Dang ...
    Sixty-Four Organizations, Fishing Associations and Retailers Endorse Legislation; Lawmakers Cite Serious Economic, Environmental and Human Health Threats The Center for Food Safety along with 63 other groups, businesses and retailers applaud Senators Mark Begich (D-Alaska) and Lisa Murkowski (R- ...
  • Nature Happens – Humans Can’t Cont ...
    By Lisa J. Bunin, Liana Hoodes, Michael Sligh Last week, USDA announced its decision to allow the planting of Monsanto’s Roundup Ready (RR) GM alfalfa without any ongoing monitoring or regulation whatsoever.  Despite widespread consumer, farmer, and food industry opposition and contrary scientif ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • ei: Israel criminalizes commemoration of the Nakba
    ei: Israel criminalizes commemoration of the Nakba: "A bill was passed by the Israeli Knesset (parliament) last week which calls on the government to deny funding to any organization, institution or municipality that commemorates the founding of the Israeli state as a day of mourning. The bill h ...
  • Leonard Weinglass dies at 78 | Free Speech Rad ...
    Leonard Weinglass dies at 78 | Free Speech Radio News: "“People’s defense” lawyer Leonard Weinglass has died. Born in 1933, he spent decades championing civil rights and representing prominent activists including Mumia Abu Jamal, Angela Davis, Jane Fonda and Daniel Ellsberg.� Weinglass contin ...
  • The Right to Forget
    Ahmed Timol died when my mother was still young. She knew him- they all did, she said- he had gotten himself involved in politics and things had changed for him. 'But weren't you horrified? Didn't it scare you? Weren't you sad?' I was in school, and I had just read the article of him ...
  • Ghaddafi a hero for African rights and liberat ...
    Ghaddafi a hero for African rights and liberation - English pravda.ru: "In 2005 in the basement of the United States Capitol at a meeting convened by Congressman John Conyers on the subject of the 'Downing Street Memo,' Ray McGovern uttered the following truth: he testified that 'the United Stat ...
  • TheAngryindian Interviews: Pascal Uccelli
    Editor's Note: While there is a lot to be desired in terms of mainstream social media, there are gems to be found for those interested in social justice and human rights. One such activist is France's Pascal Uccelli, artist and editor of the l'ecriture sans calmants blog. I asked him a few que ...

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

Green Times

  • Environmental News 01/04/2011
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • Nuclear Testing 1945-1998
    This video of all the nuclear explosions between 1945 and 1998 is oddly mesmerising... It starts slowly - with the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 to end World War 2. You would think that this would actually be the end - with so much destructi ...
  • Plastic bag or reusable bag?
    At the store, when the cashier asks "would you like a plastic bag (videos/the-plight-of-the-plastic-bag.html)?", what do you say? Do you say yes to new plastic bags?! If so, maybe it's time that you get yourself a reusable shopping bag or too and start helping to protect the environment! Ther ...
  • Environmental News 30/03/2011
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • Environmental News 29/03/2011
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Salem’s Music Center Team Visits Tel Aviv And ...
    Dear Friends, The last months saw the development of connections between the Music Center that opened about a year ago in the village of Salem, near Nablus, and several people from the well-stablished Alef High-School of Arts in Tel Aviv. Ram and Rutie, who are leading this initiative from th ...
  • How to lift the closure of Gaza in three easy ...
    From Gisha’s Gaza Gateway, what it would actually take to end just the closure of Gaza, although not the entire Occupation. Israelâs Deputy Foreign Minister said last week that the continued smuggling of weapons into the Gaza Strip threatens further implementation of the âeasingâ of the closur ...
  • Abdallah Abu Rahmah is free, may all Palestini ...
    Great news on the heels of the horrible killings in Itamar settlement and Netanyahu’s exploitation of them. It’s good to have a hopeful example even if its freedom for a man who should have never been imprisoned. Indeed, the protests Abdallah Abu Rahmah helped organize are still going on after h ...
  • Please report any unattended human rights
    I read Neve Gordon’s piece a few months back about human rights websites being banned at Ben Gurion airport, and thought what a perfect microcosm of the front Israel is trying to put up to the world. While they wouldn’t think of banning such websites to their own population, I hope, internation ...
  • Israeli solidarity activist interrogated by po ...
    Sara Benninga, whose speech I reposted here on the blog, was interrogated by the police after speaking at the JStreet conference I attended. She provided one of the voices for a new direction for Jewish and Israeli activists working alongside Palestinians for justice. For this she rewarded with ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Is Nobel Peace Prize winner Obama more brutal ...
    Washington’s Blog details how and why.
  • Small-scale solar power presents challenges fo ...
    California’s antiquated electrical grid (as well as the grid in other states) was never designed to handle large amounts of decentralized power. But that’s precisely what it’s getting now from tens of thousands of small-scale solar installations on homes and businesses. The power flows both ways ...
  • Polizeros Radio podcast tonight
    US Uncut. Violence at protests. Bloggers arrested The podcast is hosted on BlogTalkRadio. Call in to listen live at 626-414-3492 tonight at 8:30 PT (9:30 MT, 10:30 CT, 11:30 ET.) You can also download it or listen to the archive on BlogTalkRadio after it’s done. With Josh Mull from Rethink Afgha ...
  • Walmart CEO: prepare for “serious” inflation
    “We’re seeing cost increases starting to come through at a pretty rapid rate,” he said. DJ noted here recently that the price of animal feed had increased 20% so far this year.
  • Wildlife bridge for Ontario highway
    The bridge not only gives wildlife an easy way to cross the highway, it helps prevent drivers from hitting them. It has gradual approaches and concrete barrier walls to shield animals from noise and light.

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • China ‘Jasmine Revolution’ Crackdo ...
    More than 20 people have been detained and others are missing in what has been called the most severe crackdown on Chinese dissidents and activists in over a decade. As the Guardian is reporting, at least 23 people have been detained, mostly in relation to charges of incitement to subversion or ...
  • Kevin Annett – Canadian Genocide/Crimes ...
    Ottawa, Canada: The day before Steven Harper’s Conservative government was toppled by a non-confidence vote in Canada’s Parliament, the besieged politician was delivered a Public Summons to answer charges of conspiring in Crimes against Humanity before an International Tribunal this September in ...
  • Ron Paul Talks About The Fed On Bloomberg!
  • Stephen Harper Canadian People Don’t Car ...
    Contempt for Parliament ☑ $1 Billion for G20 Toronto 3 day summit ☑ $30 Billion untendered contract for new fighter jets ☑ : $9 Billion+ for New Jails when crime rates are going down ☑ Canadian loss of Sovereignty in secret border deal with US ☑ Prorogued Parliament (twice shut down parliament i ...
  • “It’s Time We Stand Up To Police O ...

The Air Vent

  • Climate Blogger Censored by New York Times
    I’ve been thrown out of better.   It seems that my commentary was unwelcome at the New York Times.   Last night – at around 3 am – I left a comment in reply to Paul Krugman’s post on the bad people wanting to prosecute scientists.   Ironically, the post was centered on an issue of disclosu ...
  • Peanuts
    Recently there have been some posts on the internet which have had my attention.  First, is a series of posts by Steve McIntyre at Climate Audit that have led to another vastly expanded version of hide the decline.   It turns out that Briffa’s data wasn’t only truncated in recent years but al ...
  • WTF
    Do you  realize that America just bombed a country by authority of the president, killing people without a single US address as to the reason, intent, or expected involvement from the president? Sure there was  a UN resolution – minimally discussed, but why are America and UK throwing billions ...
  • In Case You Missed It
    Statpad – Roman M Two and a half PC’s.  
  • Update on Winds paper
    Copied from comments on the other thread Anastassia Makarieva Some of the readers may still be interested the fate of our draft paper “Where do winds come from?” and our condensation theory as originally highlighted on The Air Vent here. A second referee was appointed –- many thanks to all of th ...

Focal Point

  • Republicans: Putting the "Us" in "Uterus"
    Remember, ladies, there is no "I" in "uterus." The Republican speaker in the Florida state house has opened in new front in the GOP's war to control women's bodies. He has banned the mere discussion of generative lady parts on the House floor. A Democratic representative in Florida was rebuk ...
  • A Consulting Business in Indonesia...
    I heard he has an ex-wife in some place called Mayors Income, Tennessee And he used to have a consulting business in Indonesia But what's he building in there? He has no friends but he gets a lot of mail I bet he spent a little time in jail And what's that tune he's always whistl ...
  • Florida Governor Wants to Drug Test All State ...
    Florida's Republican governor has a creative way to demoralize and demonize public sector workers: mandatory drug testing for all state employees who answer to the governor and all prospective hires for executive branch agencies. Scott recently transferred a controlling interest in his multi . ...
  • Missing Bronx Zoo Cobra Is Tweeting
    @BronxZoosCobra has 12,165 twitter followers as of this writing.� We live in the digital age, communicating instantaneously across continents, but we're still just a bunch of primates chattering about where the hell that snake is. Hooray for traditional values! [Photo credit: teachingsagit ...
  • Yes, Prof. Cronon, Let's Talk About ALEC
    Getting over half a million hits on your very first post is every blogger's dream. That's what happened to Prof. William Cronon, a distinguished professor of American history at the University of Wisconsin, but his unexpected success as a blogger turned his life upside down. Cronon made a spla ...

Inside Facebook

  • LikeAudience Helps Marketers Determine Profile ...
    LikeAudience is a new marketing research tool created by the Cambridge University Psychometrics Centre that provides psycho-demographic profiles of Facebook Page audiences. Users can see stats about the age, gender, location, friend count, personality, and the other Pages Liked by the fans of a ...
  • Facebook Passes 250 Million Mobile Users, Over ...
    Just after passing 250 million monthly active mobile users, Facebook overhauled its mobile web presence today. The company now has a single mobile website that is simultaneously accessible to feature and smartphones. This is some early experimentation with technology that may one day be rolled o ...
  • How Flirting Friend Quiz Badoo Gained 22 Milli ...
    The Facebook app for freemium flirting and dating website Badoo has had a meteoric rise this month, going from 2.8 million to 4.8 million daily active users. To attain the growth, Badoo streamlined its interface to focus users on the most viral aspect of the app, released several new language lo ...
  • Facebook Careers Postings: Policy, Africa, Eur ...
    Facebook added a wide variety of policy-related jobs to its Careers Page this week. The jobs are all over Europe and in India this week, and a job posted in Nigeria seems to point to a company decision to begin focusing on Africa. Other jobs posted were in administration, analysis, sales and oth ...
  • Facebook Hires and Departures: Advertising, Re ...
    In the biggest hire this week, Facebook has brought on Mark D’Arcy of Time Warner to work as director of global creative solutions. D’Arcy was the president of Time Warner’s global media group and is set to join Facebook to work on developing partnerships with advertisers to market on the platfo ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Will NATO protect unarmed humanitarian activis ...
    Stuart Littlewood asks whether Britain and its NATO allies will live by the principles they have applied to the Gaddafi regime in Libya and deploy warships to protect the flotilla scheduled to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza in the face of Israeli threats to use snipers and attack dogs against ...
  • Uncomfortable truths in Palestine: indictment ...
    In the first of a four-part series entitled "Palestine and the United States: A Battle Lost, A War to Win", Alan Sabrosky views the edifice of Zionist influence and control in the US, as a precursor to defining the parameters of a strategy focusing on cracking this edifice and thereby saving bot ...
  • The left's double standards on Libya
    Jeffrey Blankfort highlights the hypocrisy of some leftists in Europe and the USA who, in the struggles they wage from their armchairs or behind their computers against the bogeyman of US imperialism, are happy to treat Libyan civilians as expendables and to support murderous Libyan dictator Mua ...
  • Israel adopts laws targeting Arab citizens and ...
    Uri Avnery views three laws recently adopted by the Israeli parliament: "two obnoxious racist laws... clearly directed against Israel’s Arab citizens", and a third law that will punish "any person or association publicly calling for a boycott of Israel" or the illegal Jewish settlements.
  • Israel, right or wrong
    Paul J. Balles explains why Zionist scaremongering and distorting of history, as manifested in the writing of Israel apologists such as the Washington Post's Richard Cohen, only increases fear by Jews and disdain by others.

Amazon Rainforest

  • Earth’s Living Treasure- Celebrating Forests f ...
    United Nations declared 2o11 as the International Year of Forests (Forests 2o11), and why Forests are the theme of the International Day for Biological Diversity on 22 May 2o11. In this special year, the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) are ...
  • Belo Monte hydroelectric dam construction work ...
    The company leading the dam project, Norte Energia, announced that infrastructure work on roads that will provide access to the region started on Monday morning. The £7bn Belo Monte dam on the Amazon’s Xingu river is scheduled to start producing energy on 31 December 2014 and would be the seco ...
  • Brazil judge blocks Amazon Belo Monte dam:
    Federal Brasilian judge Ronaldo Desterro has blocked plans to build a huge hydro-electric dam in the Amazon rainforest because of environmental concerns. Judge Desterro said environmental requirements to build the Belo Monte dam had not been met. He also barred the national development bank, BND ...
  • 1.ooo military forces end illegal gold mining ...
    The Peruvian military has cleared-out illegal gold mining along the country’s south-eastern Amazon region in a move aiming to protect the environment. The government sent about 1,000 security forces to the region of Madre de Dios to destroy the illegal operations, the state-funded BBC reported. ...
  • BREAKING: Chevron Guilty of Amazon Rainforest ...
    Amazon Watch and Rainforest Action Network just announced a major victory for the Amazon rainforest. An Ecuadorean judge today found Chevron guilty of one of the largest environmental crimes in history and ordered the company to pay a whopping $8 billion to clean up its damage in the Amazon. Che ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Being Proud of What We Are Not
    A Few Notes on Boiling Frogs Post in Wrapping Up Our Countdown I think it is appropriate to revisit the purpose and some of the main characteristics of Boiling Frogs Post as we are getting ready to wrap up and finalize our countdown month. Usually, as we have done, organizations and various foru ...
  • Boiling Frogs Post Countdown-Week 4 & Still Co ...
    Updates On Our Annual Fundraising & A Few Notes on my relocation Journey Let me start with a big personal âthank youâ to all of you who have generously donated to keep this site alive – before my other brief updates, and before I run out of my pre-purchased internet minutes. As you know I [...]
  • Jamiol Presents
  • Boiling Frogs Post Countdown-Week 2
    We Need Your Support to ‘Help Wake up the American public before the water gets too hot to climb out of the pot’ I want to thank those of you who have contributed to Boiling Frogs Post during our first week campaign. Thank You! Next, I want to briefly respond to a common inquiry I’ve received fr ...
  • Sibel Edmonds’ Boiling Frogs Post: Year Two
    We Need Your Support to Continue & Expand: Countdown Week 1 In October 2009 I launched Boiling Frogs Post  with one purpose in mind: To establish a venue for investigative articles, editorials, analyses, discussions, and interviews on issues largely censored by the media. We are entering our sec ...

Afro Spear

  • Les Twins — Hip Hop Dance Straight Outta ...
    At the beginning of the year, I was on Facebook when I noticed a post of young twin hip hop dancers. I was blown away by their talent as I watched the brothers Larry and Laurent start actually dancing. Fantastic doesn’t even begin to describe them! There are many dancers out there and most of [...]
  • Quote(s) of the Day
    via Lonnie Plaxico:   John Henrik Clarke “Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that… they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.” Krishnamurti/Freedom from the Known, p.11: DISORDER :”The primary cause of disorder in ourselves i ...
  • Blackout of humanitarian crisis in Cote d&#821 ...
    In the wake of the enormous media coverage of the uprisings and so-defined “revolutions” in North Africa and the Middle East, I am hard pressed to find any media coverage of the escalating atrocities and impending civil war in Cote d’Ivoire. The “blackout” of this media coverage I am referring t ...
  • “What Can the Tea Party Do to Attract Mi ...
    Op-ed submission by Project 21 As a tea party organizer and black man, I am often asked how a movement with the critical mission of saving and restoring our republic can attract minorities currently weak in numbers in tea party ranks. The mainstream media and civil rights lobbyists have perpetua ...
  • “How Much Do We Need Greenhouse Gas Regu ...
    Article submission from Nicholas Scott, a health, safety, and political advocate with a passion for environmental responsibility. He believes there should be a greater focus on the present risks of environmental toxins to urban communities with close proximity to dense areas of industry. With th ...

Expose the BNP

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

Sen4Earth

  • Turtle Island: Our Earth Mother
    Japan in Crisis By Sheryl Goodwin, SEN Contributor and Honorary Advisor Kway. Hello. First off let me state what an Honor it is to be asked by my brother Gregory and sister Suzanne to join the team. What a privilege to be among such fine people listed on the biography page of Sustainability Educ ...
  • Memorial Tribute to Hugh MacDougall
    Memorial Tribute to Hugh MacDougall “We are sending the power of love, peace and compassion, which can change the world.” â Hugh MacDougall, Australia, SEN Honorary Advisor Hugh was more to Suzanne and I than SEN’s Honorary Spiritual Advisor. He was the beloved friend we called brother, and he w ...
  • No to Monsanto and GMO: Action Central
    "SEN is greatly concerned that Monsanto and GMO give rise to a threat that if unchecked could eventually prove as catastrophic to mankind and the sustainability of all life on earth as global warming. We must scream bloody murder, and do so with facts." -- Gregory Hilbert, Co-Founder Sustainabil ...
  • Bill Gates On Climate Change & Energy: We Must ...
    Whether you know a little or a lot about Climate Change (aka Global Warming), SEN urges you to watch this one-hour video, because you will learn a great deal either way. Gates lays out a sweeping set of ideas for reducing CO2 emmissions to zero. Gates is no fool when it comes to matters of [...]
  • Week 2 – Worldwide Campaign to Save the ...
    The Grand Canyon is one of the world's most pristine and majestic treasures. Mother Nature needs our help to save it. We all need to act to protect the Grand Canyon. Pledge to do your part. Help us by adding your signature to the petitions and ask everyone you know and who cares for earth to do ...

If Americans Knew

  • Denying Nazi-Zionist collusion: The Sacramento ...
    In an inversion of journalistic ethics, the Sacramento Bee reported on opposition to an event before and after it took place, but didn't cover the event itself. It featured an entire report on accusations against a flier, but didn't include a response from the flier's authors.
  • Media omissions on Itamar: Murdering babies is ...
    US media widely and repeatedly reported on the horrific March 11th murder of three small Israeli children and their parents. While no one yet knows who committed this grotesque act, reports presume that the murderers were Palestinian, and for this reason the incident is receiving major attention ...
  • Critical Connections: Egypt, the US, and the I ...
    Minimally explored in all the coverage of the momentous Egyptian uprising taking place over the last 10 days [Jan-Feb 2011] are the Israeli connections.
  • Gabrielle Giffords, Tom Hurndall and Palestini ...
    Alison Weir, CounterPunch - There is something particularly horrifying when someone is shot in the head. Perhaps it's the gruesome image, the destruction of the brain, the clear intent to kill. The recent shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is made even more nightmarish by the l ...
  • As Israel kills and maims, Outrage is directed ...
    Whenever Israel commits yet another atrocity, its defenders are quick to redirect public attention away from the grisly crime scene. Currently, there are headlines about allegedly anti-Semitic comments made by senior White House correspondent Helen Thomas. Pundits across the land evince outrage ...

David J. Gregory

  • PRIVATIZATION Eisenhower Warned Us About
    When President Eisenhower gave his farewell address in 1960 he warned the citizenry and future Presidents about the military-industrial complex and their influence. This group has been controlling everything since the end of his term, he saw and knew what they did, and his warnings were not heed ...
  • Dennis Kucinich talks with David Gregory
    Dennis was interviewed by David Gregory and again raises the question as to why do we have no money for the people and always plenty to fight wars and kill people?
  • Republican Cuts Devastate interests to THE PEOPLE
    Congress needs to hear from all of us right away, because the only chance we have to stop this budget is if Senate Democrats stand united against it. And the first vote could come today.1 Can you call Sen. Nelson and tell him to stand strong against Republicans‘ massive, devastating cuts? Senato ...
  • Rally to Save the American Dream
    In Wisconsin and around our country, the American Dream is under fierce attack. Instead of creating jobs, Republicans are giving tax breaks to corporations and the very rich—and then cutting funding for education, police, emergency response, and vital human services. On Saturday, February 26, a ...
  • RICK SCOTT MADE MILLIONS OFF HEALTH NOW CUTS I ...
    Whether it's a political stunt or the act of an extremist ideologue, Scott is hurting real Floridians in concrete ways, including millions of people with private health insurance or Medicare benefits. He's taking away a law that ends the worst insurance company abuses and frees families, senior ...

Unsuitable Blog

  • Switch Your Lights ON for Earth Hour!
    Once upon a time there was just greenwash: corporations and governments went to great lengths to convince a concerned public that they were doing everything they could to help the natural environment return to its former glory. All the time they were filling their bank accounts and pumping up th ...
  • International Atomic Energy Agency Spinning Li ...
    In the light of the Japanese earthquake and subsequent tsumani, government and internation agencies are working like crazy to ensure no news remains good news regarding the Fukushima nuclear power plant. Yet from the BBC we hear the following: There are now problems at the number three reactor – ...
  • ExxonMobil Biofuel Advert Officially Pronounce ...
    ASA Adjudication on ExxonMobil UK Ltd ExxonMobil UK Ltd ExxonMobil House Ermyn Way Leatherhead Surrey KT22 8UX Date: 9 March 2011 Media: Television Sector: Utilities Number of complaints: 1 Agency: Euro RSCG London Ltd Complaint Ref: 141542 Ad A TV ad for ExxonMobil UK Ltd (ExxonMobil) featured ...
  • UK Census 2011: Why I Will Be Breaking The Law ...
    On Sunday March 27, 2011 I will be breaking the law. If you live in England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland then I would also like you to break the law. We can do it together, and I know for a fact that an awful lot of people will be doing the same. The UK [...]
  • Interview With Bill McKibben, Winner of Puffin ...
    Climate reality writer and activist Gregory Vickrey. (L) ( Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Founder of 350.org, writer and environmentalist Bill McKibben. (R) (Photo: Nancie Battaglia / 350.org) Bill McKibben, Schumann distinguished scholar at Middlebury College, is the author of a dozen boo ...

Subalternate Reality

  • Keith Ellison’s Tears And Epistemic Closure
    Rep. Peter King’s hearings looking into the “radicalization” of the American Muslim community, and the suggestion that the community doesn’t cooperate with law enforcement, was largely a waste of time and tax dollars. The affair didn’t produce a single insight into the actual and urgent issue of ...
  • Praying On Qasr al-Nil
    One of the more memorable scenes of the Egyptian revolution will surely be that of ordinary Egyptian’s praying on Cairo’s Qasr al-Nil Bridge as members of Egyptian state police direct their water cannons at them. Truly a remarkable sight. via Al Jazeera Filed under: Middle East Tagged: Al-Jazeer ...
  • “I Support Democratization, But…&# ...
    The Atlanticâs Jeffrey Goldberg â one of the key proponents of the disastrous invasion of Iraq â has some serious misgivings about the fledgling pro-democracy movement thatâs taken over the streets of Egypt. âI support democratization, but,â he cautions, âthe democratization we saw in Gaza (cour ...
  • All That Happens In The Middle East Can’ ...
    Uncertainly rules the day in Tunisia. Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the countryâs strong-armed and authoritarian ruler since 1987, is in Saudi Arabia while the interim government struggles to restore some semblance of order.  âConfusion, fear and horror in Tunisia as old regime’s militia carries on ...
  • Newt Comes Out As A Muslim-Baiter
    Early this week, disgraced former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich warned that “a commitment to religious freedom and God-given rights is being replaced by a secular oppression…”  Just hours after those words appeared on Human Events, Gingrich issued a statement forcefully opposing the constr ...

Idea Lab | Technology

  • DocumentCloud Enables Public Searches, Embedda ...
    We quietly opened DocumentCloud's catalog to public searches in January, and we've been working since to do more with the great documents that reporters have added to our catalog. When Vancouver Sun investigative reporter Chad Skelton asked if there was a way to automate display of the growi ...
  • How Project Argo Members Communicate Across Ti ...
    Project Argo is an ambitious undertaking. It involves networking NPR with 12 member stations spanning three time zones with a different mix of bloggers and editors at each station. The stations cover a variety of regionally focused, nationally resonant topics that range from climate change to lo ...
  • Lessons From Phase 1 of the Ushahidi Evaluatio ...
    This post was written by Melissa Tuly and Jennifer Chan. This is the second in a series of blog posts documenting a 9-month Ushahidi evaluation project in partnership with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative supported by the Knight Foundation. The Ushahidi-Kenya evaluation is off to a strong ...
  • Using Technology to Aid Disaster Relief for Ja ...
    The March 11 earthquake in Japan triggered a flurry of concern in the Media Lab community at MIT. The natural desire to help was amplified by the fact that the disaster had hit many of our friends close to home in a very literal sense. Most messages suggested donations to support relief organiza ...
  • How Grahamstown Now Combines Mobile Content, D ...
    Giving African newsrooms, particularly community media and non-profit organizations, the ability to leapfrog into the mobile era is at the core project of Iindaba Ziyafika's work in South Africa. As Anne-Ryan Heatwole reported last year on this site, our Knight-funded NIKA Content Management Sys ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Babanis Kurdish
  • The Battle for Libya - France leads Europe’s L ...
    Distinct interests sparked the European involvement in Libya. The United Kingdom and France have issued vociferous calls for intervention in Libya for the past month, ultimately managing to convince the rest of Europe—with some notable exceptions—to join in military action, the Arab League to of ...
  • Campus Hate - Confronting Intellectual Hooliga ...
    I want to shoot everyone in this room,” a McGill University student recently announced using his online Twitter feed, claiming he had surreptitiously “infiltrated” what was in fact an open film screening of Indoctrinate U, hosted by Conservative McGill and Libertarian McGill. “I should have brou ...
  • Border Wars - Border Agents Unwittingly Freed ...
    On Jan. 14, 2010, federal border patrol agents stopped two men driving a car through the border-crossing town of Columbus, New Mexico. Inside the vehicle was a cache of assault weapons, including AK-47s, Ruger .45-caliber handguns and pistols called “cop killers” because their ammunition can pen ...
  • The 2012 Vote - The Dilemma That the Tea Party ...
    If Capitol Hill is really one big high school, the �It� girl of the moment is Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.). A recent Gallup poll of Republicans found Bachmann had the second-highest positive intensity rating of any of the potential 2012 candidates in the GOP field. Mike Huckabee, the former g ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Mainstream Media Finally Admits It Was Wrong ...
    By Barry Rubin Now that�the New York Times tells us that the Muslim Brotherhood�is really �strong,�organized, widely supported by the army, and capable of taking over Egypt--all the things I wrote at the time and the mass media denied--the Washington Post confirms every point I made duri ...
  • Ed Schultz In Dream World, “Let’s Arm The Lib ...
    Just who are these people in Libya trying to overthrow Qadaffi? Our government doesn't know but Ed Schultz does. Maybe he has a secret line into the rebel camp because he knows exactly who they are: the Libyan rebels are Freedom Fighters. Last night on his show he decided that these unknown rebe ...
  • McConnell BLASTS Schumer and Dems:The Tea Part ...
    Earlier this week,� NY Senator Chuck Schumer got caught with his pants down. He was� heard urging fellow progressives to use the word extreme for the spending cuts and the tea party's "control" over House Republican speaker John A. Boehner, without realizing the reporters were already on the l ...
  • Justice Department Clears Justice Department i ...
    We can all feel better now. For those of you who thought that their might have been some racism involved in the Department of Justice's dropping of the New Black Panther the matter has been solved.� According to an extensive investigation conducted by the Department of Justice---the Department o ...
  • Discovered A Network of Facebook Third Palest ...
    The word spread very quickly on Tuesday. The Facebook page calling people throughout the Arab world to march to Israel on May 15� and begin a Third violent Intifada was removed (despite earlier claims made by the social network's spokesman claiming the group's administrators had a right to prot ...

The Real Agenda

  • Keylogging Software Discovered in Samsung Laptops
    CNET March 30, 2011 A security researcher says he discovered keylogging software installed on two brand-new Samsung laptops that could be used to monitor all activities on the computer remotely. Mohamed Hassan, founder of NetSec Consulting, discovered StarLogger software on Samsung laptops with ...
  • Obama authorizes secret support for Libya rebels
    Obama has signed a secret order authorizing covert U.S. government support for rebel forces seeking to oust Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. Reuters Obama signed the order, known as a presidential “finding”, within the last two or three weeks, according to four U.S. government sources familiar wit ...
  • Monsanto experimenta ilegalmente com Milho Tra ...
    NaturalNews.com Adaptação Luis R. Miranda Relatos recentes da Índia dizem que a multinacional de biotecnologia Monsanto novamente viola suas leis ao, clandestinamente, experimentar com milho geneticamente modificado (GM), sem obter permissão. Nitish Kumar, primeiro-ministro do estado indiano de ...
  • Monsanto experimenta ilegalmente con maíz tran ...
    NaturalNews.com Adaptación Luis R. Miranda Informes recientes de la India dicen que el gigante multinacional de biotecnología Monsanto una vez más viola la ley en ese país al plantar, de forma clandestina, maíz genéticamente modificado (GM) sin haber recibido permiso para hacerlo. Nitish Kumar, ...
  • Significant Filament Eruption & Coronal Mass E ...
    Solar Watch A magnetic filament on the sun’s northern Hemisphere erupted on March 29th, hurling part of itself into space. The major portion of debris is expected to miss Earth, however some Auroral effects could be seen in 2-3 days as the spread of the Coronal mass ejection was 180 degrees. Fil ...

Wind Watch

  • Woodstock wind project opponents appeal to Sup ...
    Opponents of the Spruce Mountain wind project in Woodstock last week filed an appeal with the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, leaving an offer from the developer to donate money to the town’s elementary school in limbo. Attorney Rufus Brown, representing Friends of Spruce Mountain and other aggrie ...
  • Huge eastern Oregon wind farm raises big quest ...
    The gravel haulers start rolling down Oregon 74 before dawn, their air brakes bellowing under the heavy loads they ferry into the neighboring hills. Just over the rimrock of Willow Creek Valley, hard-hatted contractors scramble to pour the base pads and lay electrical cable for 338 wind turbines ...
  • Lawmakers renew push to speed turbine construction
    BOSTON � Gov. Deval Patrick and allied lawmakers are renewing a push to reduce the legal hurdles that have stalled some wind-power projects in Massachusetts. Their efforts were thwarted last session by lawmakers from wind-rich areas in the Western part of the state, who say the bill would erode ...
  • Commonwealth Court upholds revocation of Butle ...
    Butler Township had the right to revoke a zoning permit issued to the developer of a wind turbine project along Ashland Mountain, a three-judge Commonwealth Court panel has ruled. In an 18-page opinion and order filed Tuesday in Pottsville, the panel upheld county Judge Charles M. Miller’s rulin ...
  • Hancock County towns grapple with wind turbine ...
    PENOBSCOT, Maine � While plans for a major wind farm project in northern Hancock County work their way through the review and permitting process, towns in the western part of the county are developing ordinances that would locally regulate the construction of both wind turbines and communication ...

Not My Tribe

  • GE, Corporate Govt Contractor Profiteer, prese ...
    …with a tax bill. for a 3.2 BILLION dollar refund. This after record profits from  offshored jobs and the tax breaks from doing that hiring a bunch of new people where even those HERE won’t get full pay and benefits demanding that Unions give up pay and benefits and last, but certainly not least ...
  • Buddy Gilmore, Babykilling Warmonger for Mayor?
    The Cowardly Babykilling Puke is running on the strength of being a War Profiteer, at one stroke being part of cause of the economic Meltdown of America, crippling our economy for generations to come, and soiling his hands and America’s with the blood of Human Beings in the For Profit Wars Of Co ...
  • 1/2 million in London in Pre-wedding drama
    Demonstrating against cuts which force austerity on the poorest… but not on the richest. They’ve already (the protesters) once gotten their hands on Charles’ car with him and lovely bride Camel-face errr his lovely camel Camilla, errr never mind over cutting education. Sound familiar? What that ...
  • Scott Walker, Koch-Licker Supreme, strikes again
    In a measure not just skirting state constitution, but directly contravening it, the Anti-Workers Rights law was published Friday. Not even bothering anymore to hide their vicious agenda to deprive workers of freedom. The only “right” workers will have is to work. At whatever wage the Big Pig Pa ...
  • So Apparently Mrs Palin really isn’t a h ...
    Meaning that she LIED about being Momma Grizzly as easily as she lied about being a “fiscal conservative”. The root word in “conservative” is “conserve” and the reason her being a liar is so relevant is that she’ll be HERE next month promoting other lying-ass Republican “conservatives” who conse ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • CFR/Kissinger: Our puppet is doing a good job ...
    HAHAHAHAA! You can't make this shit up... Obama Failing as Commander in Chief Author: Robert D. Blackwill, Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy The Obama administration deserves credit for its foreign policy achievements. There has been no successful terrorist attack on U. ...
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  • EPA & Whitehouse: The Air is Safe!
    Well we all know what that means!
  • Richard Gage’s Asterisk
    Richard Gage’s Asterisk by Michael Wolsey http://visibility911.com March 29, 2011 Anyone who knows Richard Gage, AIA very well or has worked with him, knows that Richard insists that when you cite his name anywhere, whether in voice or print, that you include his title AIA, which stands for Ame ...
  • Richard Gage and Chris Mohr Debate WTC Collapse
    Uploaded by AllWeNeedIsAHero on Mar 12, 2011 I added a song at the beginning but that was it, this is the full unedited debate between Richard Gage & Chris Mohr The audio can be downloaded here. Related Info: Edited version of Gage and Mohr's debate with added comments and videos to addres ...

Fooducate

  • Never Eat Fast Food French Fries Again
    This is a guest post by Lisa Cain, PhD, a.k.a Snack-Girl Yes, you can do it! You can give up your beloved french fries and celebrate their exit from your life. Seriously. Before you start arguing with me about how you simply will never leave them – have you met “homemade sweet potato fries”? Get ...
  • Dieters Rejoice!? Less Food in Every Package
    Interesting writeup in the New York Times this week about the shrinking package sizes of processed foods. Turns out that the recession, along with rising costs of commodities, have brought about a sneaky habit by many manufacturers. Instead of raising the price of products, brands are selling le ...
  • Check Out Abe’s Market – Online Specialty Food ...
    If you’re a foodie, you probably procure at least some of your groceries from non-supermarket sources. Whether the farmers market, a local deli, or even an artisan neighbor, you discover that food lovingly made by the person you are paying is not just delicious, it has a story. That’s the idea b ...
  • FDA to Re-examine Risks of Artificial Food Dyes
    The FDA is convening an advisory panel later this week for a two day “colorthon” to discuss mounting evidence that artificial food dyes are causing hyperactivity in kids. This is huge folks. What you need to know: The FDA long ago granted GRAS (generally regarded as safe) status to several artif ...
  • Pitettes – Lil’ Pitas with ZERO Sodium [inside ...
    Fooducate community member Amorette sent us this glowing review of a pita bread she recently discovered. I’m an avid reader of your blog and greatly enjoy the product reviews of new items. I came across this item that I greatly enjoy and seems nutritionally sound. It’s called Pitettes pita bread ...

Traffikd

  • Four Pre-Writing Exercises for Inspired Bloggers
    Rebecca Chelsey's recent post on ways to spark our creativity got me thinking about the next step: how to take that creativity and turn it into meaningful sentences on the page. In other words, what we do with that spark of inspiration will determine the success or setbacks we face when we blog. ...
  • 8 Simple Sources of Creative Inspiration
    As a creative person, I've noticed that creativity and creative ideas tend to present themselves whenever they see fit, and rarely otherwise. This is an especially unfortunate habit for my creativity to have because I am in the field of design. Over the years I've researched and stumbled upon ei ...
  • Culture Vulture: Social Strategies for Differe ...
    Social media campaigns are becoming more integrated into the overall online marketing mix. And as with anything on the Web, you need to think global to succeed in the long term. To succeed with social media marketing for different cultures, you need to familiarise yourself with what’s happening ...
  • Internet Marketing and Social Media Degree Pro ...
    Guest post by Brian Jenkins Over a billion and a half people use the Internet, and this has created a plethora of opportunities for talented Internet marketers. Specialized knowledge in Internet marketing and social media is vital for many businesses. Yes, there are successful, self-taught Inte ...
  • How to Find Great Communities, Forums, and Blo ...
    To market your company effectively, you need to find out where your target audience is. In this post I’ll show you how you can do this. I like using examples, so in this case, I’ll assume you sell Star Wars merchandise.

Survival International

  • South American Indians to receive royalties fr ...
    The Quechua people of Peru first cultivated potatoes up to 3,000 years ago. © H Mason/ Survival The UN’s Intellectual Property Tribunal today ruled that South American Indians should receive 1% of the profits from potato sales worldwide, ‘in recognition of the fact that potatoes as we know ...
  • British parliamentarians discuss CKGR issue
    Xoroxloo Duxee died of dehydration after the Bushmen's water borehole was disabled. © Survival The future of the Bushmen of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve has been raised in the British House of Lords this month. Longstanding supporters of the Bushmen, Lord Avebury and Lord Pearson of Ra ...
  • Indians take on Amazon loggers
    Ceramic pots found in the Isconahua reserve are evidence of the presence of these isolated Indians. © Pepe Villacorta / ProNaturaleza Peruvian Indians have been forced to set up a guard post to protect an uncontacted Indians’ reserve, after the authorities ignored their repeated pleas for ...
  • Amazon tribe’s unique fishing ritual could be ...
    An intricate wooden dam is at the heart of the Enawene Nawe's Yãkwa ritual. © Fiona Watson/Survival The Enawene Nawe tribe of Brazil have begun their unique annual fishing ritual, amid fears that the 80 dams planned for the Juruena river basin are destroying their fish. The tribeâs extra ...
  • Panama latest to sign up to tribal peoples' law
    The more countries that ratify ILO 169, the more protection it offers for tribal peoples everywhere, including this Bushman woman in Botswana. © Katherine B. Topolniski/kbt photography Panama has pledged to ratify the international law for tribal peoples, ILO Convention 169, becoming the la ...

Greg Palast

  • BP In Deep Water: The Making Of the Channel 4 ...
    FEATURES For two decades, investigator Greg Palast has been on BP's trail. In BP: In Deep Water, Palast takes Dispatches viewers along on his world-wide investigation of the oil giant. (Broadcast tonight, 8pm. UK only.) One year after BP's Deepwater Horizon rig blew apart and spewed 170 ...
  • Dispatches UK TVGreg Palast Drills Deep into BP
    One year after the Deepwater Horizon, Palast travels from the Gulf Coast to the Arctic Ocean to the Caspian Sea to drill deep into the heart of BP. Filth, polar bears and oil-crat police states. Catch it Monday night at 8pm GMT on Channel 4's DISPATCHES. Sorry: Only in Britain. Greg Palast ...
  • No BS Info on Japan NuclearObama invites Tokyo ...
    for Truthout/Buzzflash by Greg Palast What South Texas project could look like.(Image by NINA - Nuclear Innovation North America) I need to speak to you, not as a reporter, but in my former capacity as lead investigator in several government nuclear plant fraud and racketeering investigatio ...
  • Chevron Runs from Judgmentin Ecuador
    by Greg Palast Chevron petroleum Corporation is attempting to slither out of an $8 billion judgment rendered yesterday by a trial court in Ecuador for cancer deaths, illnesses and destruction caused by its Texaco unit. I've been there, in Ecuador. I met the victims.  They didn't lose their sh ...
  • Reagan: Killer, Coward, Con-man
    The Observer London by Greg Palast You're not going to like this. You shouldn't speak ill of the dead. But in this case, someone's got to. On the 100th Anniversary of Ronald Reagan's birth, as we suffer a week of Reagan-kitcheria and pukey peons, let us remember: Reagan was a con-man. Rea ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle pruned Catalpa wood?
    We’ve had another email from friend of Recycle This, Petra: I need your help again. I hope I can explain the topic well, because I’m not used to discuss garden items in English. We have a Catalpa tree in our garden, which produces every year a lot of new branches. The year after, in March, [...]
  • What can I reuse or recycle to make dishcloths ...
    We’re having a cleaning-themed week here on Recycle This – yesterday, we talked about reusing or recycling bleach bottles but today I’d like to think about making and have a question for you guys: what have you reused or recycled to make reusable dishcloths or pot scrubbers? A lot of people knit ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle bleach bottles?
    Inspired by clearing out of bathroom cupboards this morning, I thought we’d have a cleaning themed week here on Recycle This. We’ve covered various cleaning related things in the past – pump action spray bottles, washing powder packaging, “freshener” shakers and reducing the amount of cleaning p ...
  • What can I reuse or recycle to make a large wi ...
    Long-time Recycle This friend Alice has emailed to ask about making a large wine rack: I make loads of home brew wine and beer, and I could really do with a very big wine rack. Any ideas on how I could make one out of recycled stuff? It’d need to hold at least 36 wine [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle baby sleeper suits/ ...
    We’ve already talked about baby clothes in general but CD, who writes the Canadian Doomer blog, has sent over such an excellent reuse idea for worn out baby sleepers/romper suits that I thought it was worth featuring these in particular: I just posted this on my blog, and one of my readers thoug ...

Age of Autism

  • Brian Deer allowed to Bluff his way out of Tro ...
    By John Stone “This is the child’s main health record and should be kept safe.” (UK Department of Health Statement about the Red Book) Journalist Brian Deer, who has conducted a seven year campaign against Andrew Wakefield displayed his ignorance...
  • CBS News: Vaccines and Autism a New Scientific ...
    Please add your comments at the full article on CBS HERE. The study link appears to be over-taxed at the moment. by CBS News investigative correspondent Sharyl Attkisson. For all those who've declared the autism-vaccine debate over - a new...
  • Parental Rights At Risk: Maryanne Godboldo
    Read the full article explaining the saga of the Godboldo family at MLive.com HERE. There but for the grace of God go any number of us seeking to do right by our own children. This is less to do with...
  • Autism and Glutamate Dysfunction - Avoid The C ...
    By Teresa Conrick Having a child with autism changes your life forever. Mine changed sixteen years ago as I saw my daughter regress and begin to have medical issues that went unanswered and tragically, it is happening more frequently to...
  • Autism, Anger and an Ah Ha Moment
    By Donna Laken I've been angry about autism for a very long time now. I know it's not healthy, and I have several large stacks of books and CDs on forgiveness which I've accumulated over the years in an effort...

Global BDS Movement

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  • BDS campaigners force Ahava shop to move
      The central London flagship store of Ahava, an Israeli cosmetics company whose products come from stolen Palestinian natural resources in the occupied West Bank, and are produced in the illegal settlement of Mitzpe Shalem, has been forced to move … Continue reading →
  • Rawabi remains settler-colonial sub-contractor
    Uri Davis writes on the ongoing links between the Rawabi project and the Jewish National Fund.
  • Stop the Wall release new report on Brazil’s m ...
    Notwithstanding its recent recognition of the Palestinian State and its long tradition of supporting Palestinian rights and upholding international law, the Brazilian government has signed contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars with Israel’s arms industry.
  • Trade Unions
    The global trade union movement has consistently demonstrated its courage and commitment to human rights by adopting concrete, ground-breaking labour-led sanctions against oppressive regimes in a show of effective solidarity with oppressed peoples around the world. Adopting BDS measures has … Co ...

Farm Wars

  • Truth Squad Radio: BioPirates, Toxic Chemicals ...
    Deborah of Environmental Voices will join us as we discuss Biopiracy and the chemical poisoning of our planet.
  • The BioPirates of Science: Genetic Engineering ...
    Only in America can a beleaguered company with a checker past such as Monsanto's, which includes a nasty little habit of poisoning entire towns with toxic waste, battle it's way to the top of the dung heap to deliver a fatal blow to the people and planet with a deadly and insidious type of chemi ...
  • EPA to Help Mainstream Media Obscure The Truth ...
    As Americans focus on March Madness and Dancing With the Stars instead of the radioactive plume spreading all across the country, the US EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) is attempting to make the mainstream media cover up of the Fukushima cloud a bit easier.
  • The Codex Alimentarius Irradiated Food Cover-up
    This proposal is merely another cover mechanism for the pretense of protecting the consumer with strong regulation, while allowing industry to do just what it wants, i.e. produce high levels of irradiated food to cover up unsanitary manufacturing practices.
  • Codex Alimentarius and Food Irradiation in the ...
    Essentially, the food becomes mutated by this exposure, a condition which does not occur in nature, and is the cause for many forms of cancer and genetic modification. Yet, Codex pushes irradiation as if it were a great tool of disinfection with no adverse side effects at all.

Open Your Eyes News

  • Israel admits kidnapping Palestinian
    PressTV – “He is being held in detention in Israel. It is a legal arrest,” Netanyahu was quoted as saying by Reuters on Wednesday. Viktoria Kushnir, a spokeswoman for the Ukrainian Interior Ministry, said Abu Sisi was kidnapped on February 19 after boarding a train in the eastern city of Kharki ...
  • Junkies in jackboots: Nazi soldiers given high ...
    Mail Online - Hitler’s propaganda stressed the importance of keeping fit and abstaining from drink and tobacco to keep the Aryan race strong and pure. But in reality his soldiers were taking addictive and damaging chemicals to make them fight longer and more fiercely. A study of medicines used ...
  • Prices spike in Tripoli
    Reuters – Food shortages lead to higher prices for a variety of goods in Tripoli, while many shops remain closed in Benghazi. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
  • Low Levels Of Radiation Found In U.S. Milk
    Associated Press – Very low levels of radiation turned up in a sample of milk from Washington state, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday, but federal officials assured consumers not to worry. The FDA said such findings were to be expected in th ...
  • Missing author to leave China within days
    ABC – A missing Australian author, thought to be held by Chinese secret police, has spoken to the ABC. Dr Yang Hengjun sounded a little flustered on the phone and said he could only speak for a moment. He said he could not do an interview but would speak again after he leaves China over [...]

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Rare earths bill attempts to boost U.S. share ...
    Congress may soon ask the U.S. to ramp up its efforts to snag a larger share of the critical global rare earths supply chain. Reps. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) and Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) introduced a bill Wednesday that would direct...
  • 9th Circuit Court upholds controversial EPA de ...
    The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco on Wednesday upheld the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s approval of caps on motor vehicle emissions that a coalition of environmental groups had argued failed to address hazardous air pollution faced by the 1.5 million people who live next ...
  • Respiratory disease in humans linked to deaths ...
    A virus that causes respiratory disease in humans has been linked to the deaths of wild mountain gorillas, according to a study conducted by researchers in Africa and two U.S. universities.
  • It's over
    Gov. Jerry Brown officially relegated California's recent drought to the record books Wednesday, issuing a proclamation rescinding a 2008 drought declaration by his predecessor. "NOW, THEREFORE, I, EDMUND G. BROWN JR., Governor of the State of California, in accordance with...
  • Want to reduce BPA exposure? Cut canned foods ...
    Exposure to the chemical Bisphenol A, or BPA, through canned foods and other food packaging can be significantly reduced with simple dietary changes, according to a report released Wednesday by the nonprofit Breast Cancer Fund and the Silent Spring Institute,...

water.org

  • Facebook campaign: Levi’s® and Water.org ...
    Featured Facebook Campaigns: Leviâs and Water.org, Sprite and Discover Ireland (Inside Facebook) – Among notable campaigns on Facebook in the past week, a Leviâs and Water.org partnership offered a branded app that taught users about saving water. By playing the Leviâs WaterTank game, users can ...
  • Levi’s®, Water.org stage water march (De ...
    Levi’s and Water.org Stage ‘Water March’ in New York City for World Water Day (Denim Hunt) – Levi’s, who recently launched the Levi’s Waterless<="" 100="" 3="" a="" carriers’="" city="" collection,="" conisisted="" jeans="" joined="" journey="" made="" march.="" mile="" new="" of="" p="" stage="" this="" through="" to="" water.org="" water="" who="" with="" york="" ‘water="">
  • Microloans potential to bring water to million ...
    Just Add Water: Simplicity of Microloans Has the Potential to Bring Clean Water to Millions in Need (Women Deliver) – During this World Water Day, I would like to celebrate the innovative and integrated approach that Water.org is using to expand access to safe drinking water, basic sanitation, a ...
  • Gramalaya’s World Water Day gift (The Hindu)
    Gramalaya’s World Water Day gift: technology park (The Hindu) TIRUCHI, India – A water technology park, established by Gramalaya, a voluntary organisation at its Institute of Water and Sanitation at Kolakudipatti near here, was declared open on Tuesday on the occasion of World Water Day. [Gramal ...
  • 7 ways to celebrate World Water Day online (Ma ...
    7 Ways To Celebrate #WorldWaterDay 2011 Online (Mashable) – World Water Day hopes to raise awareness, as well as raise some funds for issues ranging from clean drinking water, to digging new wells, to basic sanitation and hygiene. If youâre looking to get involved and show your support for water ...

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • Teach Your Children - The Pain and Power of War
    A wonderful old song with a striking and painful video. Crosby, Nash, Stills and Young with a very different slant. The song takes on a new meaning. Please watch.Submitted by Kit B. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Rap News 7: Where Next For # Revolution?
    Political satire from Rap TV - It's 2011 and amid a flurry of political leaks and revelations, revolutions have rolled across North Africa and The Middle East. Join your host Robert Foster for long overdue analysis of these events, asking the question thaSubmitted by Jelica R. to Offbeat �|� �N ...
  • TAKE ACTION -Tell Your Representative to Oppos ...
    Help SCA protest this blatant violation of the separation of church and state. Write to your representative in the U.S. House right now. Tell your representative to vote against programs that send your tax dollars to private religious schools.Submitted by David Buchan to US Politics & Gov't �|� ...
  • Right-Wing Knuckle Draggers vs. The Obama Comp ...
    Sometimes I allow myself to get drawn into political debates when I know I should probably just shut up. Well, a couple of great OS articles appeared recently by old new lefty and Rick Lucke that I commented on and rated, and damn it if those comments...Submitted by Carrie Burton to US Politics ...
  • Great Dane was not abused by owners
    A Sarasota County Sheriff's Office investigation concluded that the owners of a Great Dane found wandering by neighbors earlier this month was not abused by its owners. On March 6, neighbors Shawnna DeNicola and Diane Deane found a Great Dane...Submitted by Carrie Burton to Animals �|� �Note ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

Worldnews

  • How trees can stem flooding
    IT’S a misty morning in early spring. The River Nidd meanders gently through scrubby farmland near Kirk Hammerton, its shining loops of water reflecting the overcast sky. Standing in a deep cutting where the river turns sharply back on itself, the banks high above our heads, it is hard to b ...
  • Blistering or burnt-out... which Ronaldo ...
    GAME IN SPAIN When Harry Redknapp is handed the Real Madrid teamsheet on Tuesday night, only some of his questions about Spurs' quarter-final Champions League opponents will be answered. He'll find out if Cristiano Ronaldo is in the starting line-up – and he almost definitely will be – but ...
  • BIRMINGHAM v Bolton: Nikola Zigic and Lee ...
    leading scorer Nikola Zigic and midfielder Lee Bowyer are poised to return for the home Barclays Premier League clash with . Eight-goal Zigic made his comeback from a groin injury by playing for Serbia in midweek. Bowyer has resumed full training after recovering from a hamstring problem. D ...
  • Jayawardene: Cricket has helped Sri Lanka ...
    Mahela Jayawardene looking to enjoy final (CNN) -- Mahela Jayawardene has told CNN that cricket has helped the World Cup-chasing Sri Lanka team recover from their darkest hour. As the co-hosts prepare to square off against rivals India in the Cricket World Cup final on Saturday, the batsman ...
  • Biotech letter gets notice online, but is ...
    Quick ReadWebsites spread retired researcher's warning about GM crops, but scientists question claims (AP) -- A letter by a retired Purdue University professor who says he has linked genetically modified corn and soybeans to crop diseases and health problems in livestock is being met with s ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • Robert Gates: No US 'Boots on Ground' in Libya
    Robert Gates, the US secretary of defence, emphatically ruled out deploying American ground troops inside Libya as details emerged of CIA intelligence teams being sent to the country. read more
  • Groundwater at Nuclear Plant 'Highly' Radiatio ...
    More signs of serious radiation contamination in and near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant were detected Thursday, with the latest data finding groundwater containing radioactive iodine 10,000 times the legal threshold and the concentration of radioactive iodine-131 in nearby seawater r ...
  • 100 Years After Triangle Fire, Immigrant Worke ...
    Last week marked the centennial of the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, in which 146 mostly immigrant workers died. The tragedy prompted widespread labor reforms in the United States, but its commemoration underscores the plight of immigrant workers similarly exploited today. ...
  • Ohio Legislature Passes Bill Limiting Collecti ...
    Ohio lawmakers have had their chance to vote on a bill limiting collective bargaining rights for 350,000 public workers across the state. Next will be the public's turn. Even before the contentious Senate Bill 5 — in some ways tougher than Wisconsin's — had cleared the Legislature late Wednesday ...
  • Pennsylvania Limits Authority of Oil and Gas I ...
    Oil and gas inspectors policing Marcellus Shale development in Pennsylvania will no longer be able to issue violations to the drilling companies they regulate without first getting the approval of top officials. read more

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Energy Collective

  • Oregon’s Diesel To Contain 5 Percent Biodiesel
    Oregon is about to become the second state to require that most of the diesel sold there contain at least 5 percent biodiesel (B5). The National Biodiesel Board applauded the state on its progressive upgrade. “Policymakers in Oregon should be congratulated for displaying national leadership on c ...
  • A Wave of the Future: Linking National and Int ...
    The latest rage in Washington policy discussions these days (that�s relevant to climate change) is renewed interest in renewable electricity standards, this time in the form of so-called �clean energy standards.�� I�ve written about this policy approach recently at this blog (Renewable Energy St ...
  • Unhappy About Management Of Spent Fuel?
    Blue Ribbon Commission says that applies to just about everyone
  • Food Prices + The Biofuel Debate
    People worldwide are being affected by a rise in the price of food. The causes are complex and interacting: last summer's drought in Russia, the price of oil, speculative trading in commodities, economic instability, political unrest on the Middle East, you name it.
  • Business to Congress: Let The EPA Do Its Job
    A vocal group in Congress is attacking the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to reduce carbon dioxide emissions through the Clean Air Act. These lawmakers say leaving the EPA in charge of large polluters is bad for business.If they were truly interested in helping to turn our economy a ...

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

  • Cloudy Copyright Forecast for New Amazon Music ...
    By Andrew Goldberg Amazon's push to beat Google and Apple to the punch in unveiling its new "music locker" service this week could cause the company to face a combination of new copyright challenges. The e-commerce giant's new cloud-based music...
  • Recent Patent Litigation Weekly Columns
    Much of the patent news that was published on this blog has been moved to the IP Insider section of the Corporate Counsel website. Here's a list of the last several Patent Litigation Weekly columns— Oct. 25, 2010: Big Patent-Licensing...
  • Paul Allen v. The Internet
    Former Microsoft executive and billionaire Paul Allen sued several major Internet companies and three large retailers for patent infringement today, asserting that four patents originating at Interval Research, Allen's dot-com era think tank, cover basic web browsing and e-commerce technologies....
  • Citing Possible Bias, ACLU Asks Rader to Recus ...
    With the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit set to consider a landmark case over the validity of human gene patents, attorneys for the plaintiffs in the suit are asking the court's chief judge to recuse himself from the matter—before the panel that will hear it has even been s ...
  • Law360 Calls Lawyer-Owned Shell Company a "Pub ...
    seems to have a pretty flexible definition of that term. Last month, it included . Who is so concerned about such fairness? That would be , the Texas law firm that owns Americans for Fair Patent Use, which is a limited liability company set up to prosecute a false marking lawsuit filed ...

Peoples Voice

  • THE MEANINGLESS CONCEPT OF ETHICAL WAR
    The Case against Intervention John Chuckman French air force planes struck the first blows: using “intelligent” munitions, the planes struck tanks and artillery which threatened the people of Benghazi. Now, who wouldn’t be heartened to learn that mechanized forces being used against ...
  • How and Why The Elite Destroyed 3 Tons of Silv ...
    By Silver Shield I wrote a month ago in an article called Silver Bullet and the Silver Shield, that silver is a vital commodity to our way of life. I stated that silver is a precious metal that is being trashed as an industrial metal. As a result, it is within years of becoming the first metal ...
  • Japan's Earthquake: Natural or Engineered?
    by Stephen Lendman An earlier article considered whether Haiti's January 2010 quake was engineered. Despite no corroborating proof, technologies exist to do it. More information below.Read more �Original post blogged on b2evolution.
  • Political Prisoners in America: A Shocking Exa ...
    by Stephen Lendman A personal note. Writing about America's political prisoners is essential to defend freedom, justice, and other democratic values, especially wrongfully persecuted Muslims for political advantage. I communicate directly with five notable victims, all of whom I greatly respect ...
  • The Euro-US War on Libya: Official Lies and M ...
    James Petras and Robin E. Abaya Introduction Many critics of the ongoing Euro-US wars in the Middle East and, now, North Africa, have based their arguments on clichés and generalizations devoid of fact. The most common line heard in regard to the current US-Euro war on Libya is that it’s “all ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Federal budget analysis
    Why analyze a budget that was a live option for all of 45 minutes? Budgets reveal government priorities — and this budget could have ramifications for Canadians for many years to come. Click here to read our analysis of the 45-minute budget, explaining why it wasn't worth supporting. Click ...
  • This or that: Which would you choose?
    Budgets are about choices, they reflect a government's values and priorities. With a $250 billion federal budget, the Harper Government could choose to invest in programs like universal child care or pharmacare... or spend that money on corporate tax cuts, prisons, and fighter jets. We've c ...
  • Federal budget tosses crumbs to Canadians, bre ...
    The CCPA’s leading economists find this year’s federal budget obscures the true cost of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s plan to balance the books while favouring Harper’s pet projects over Canadians’ priorities. “For every dollar the Harper budget allocates to Canadians’ priorities—such as help ...
  • International Day for the Elimination of Racia ...
    Despite an increasingly diverse population, a new report co-produced by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and the Wellesley Institute on Canada�s racialized income gap shows a colour code is still at work in Canada�s labour market. �We found that during the heyday of Canada�s pre-rece ...
  • Ben Parfitt on the dangers of fracking in toda ...
    The Vancouver Sun today published Ben Parfitt's op ed on the dangers of "fracking" in Northern BC. (Fracking is hydraulic fracturing: a method of extracting gas by injecting fluid and sand into cracks in rock formations to force them further open.) A group of citizens in the Peace Region — Pea ...

World Wide Hippies

  • “Safe” Radiation is a Lethal TMI Lie
    By by Harvey Wasserman | OpEdNews – There is no safe dose of radiation. We do not x-ray pregnant women. Any detectable fallout can kill. With erratic radiation spikes, major air and water emissions and at least three reactors and waste pools in serious danger at Fukushima, we must prepare for th ...
  • Don’t Get Sent To Drug Court In Georgia
    Very Tough Love | This American Life This week: A drug court program that we believe is run differently from every other drug court in the country, doing some things that are contrary to the very philosophy of drug court. The result? People with offenses that would get minimal or no sentences el ...
  • Pittsburgh in the 60′s
    Random thoughts My head is so crammed with the recent events and personal stuff that everything is just knotted up like last December’s Christmas lights. So I figured why not try to untangle them publicly and see if the bulbs still light up, shall we? We shall. 1. I think I have seen some of [...]
  • Fox is Losing It’s Audience
    IT’S NOT JUST GLENN BECK: FOX News Has Lost 21% Of Its Audience This Year | Business Insider Fox News has the top 12 most-watched shows so far this year. Which is perhaps not totally surprising since this marks the network’s ninth straight year as the number one channel in cable. That is not to ...
  • For every dollar spent on family planning, fou ...
    Editorial: Far-right uses economy to promote agenda | The Gavel Online In the most recent attack against a woman’s right to choose, House Republicans along with 11 Democrats voted to strip Planned Parenthood of its federal funding on the false claim that federal funding goes toward providing abo ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • The Cost of One F-15E Lost in Libya Is 563 Wis ...
    According to the New York Times, the U.S. fighter jet that just crashed in Libya was an F-15E Strike Eagle. The Air Force says each F-15E cost $31.1 million in 1998 dollars (not including fuel, pilot training or anything else). Adjusted for inflation, that's $42.23 million today. Wisconsin tea ...
  • Rick Snyder's "Shared Sacrifice": Michigan's W ...
    Michigan's tax system is already regressive -- meaning that poorer people pay a higher tax rate than the wealthy. But Governor Rick Snyder has decided that it's just not regressive enough. So in the name of "shared sacrifice," he wants to hike the tax rate on poor and working Michiganders, while ...
  • VIDEO: Bus leaves Kalamazoo to protest Gov. Sn ...
    People talk about why they are going to Lansing to take part in protests against Gov. Rick Snyder's proposals, including bills that would give emergency financial managers the power to terminate labor contracts, proposed cuts to education funding and tax policy changes.
  • The Forbes 400 vs. Everybody Else
    According to the most recent information, the Forbes 400 now have a greater net worth than the bottom 50% of U.S. households combined. In 2009, the total net worth of the Forbes 400 was $1.27 trillion. The best information now available shows that in 2009 the bottom 60% (yes, now it's 60%, n ...
  • Cairo in Wisconsin
    The call reportedly arrived from Cairo. Pizza for the protesters, the voice said. It was Saturday, February 20th, and by then Ian's Pizza on State Street in Madison, Wisconsin, was overwhelmed. One employee had been assigned the sole task of answering the phone and taking down orders. An ...

Salon

  • Maybe McCain's Libya amnesia is contagious
    We previously identified a bout of amnesia experienced by John McCain, who has consistently said that the U.S. must take out Moammar Gadhafi because he has "American blood on his hands" even though McCain himself was cozying up to Gadhafi just 18 months ago on a visit to Tripoli.
  • Thanks, Donald: Herman Cain is a birther now
    Herman Cain, former pizza magnate and current gag candidate for president, doesn't seem to understand that the reason Donald Trump's sudden ardent birtherism attracted so much attention was mostly because it involved television star and longtime celebrity Donald Trump, and not "the guy who us ...
  • The three biggest threats to the GOP brand
    Republicans have been running the House for nearly three months now, and so far there really haven't been any major public relations disasters. To the Americans who even know who he is, Speaker John Boehner exists as a relatively generic character -- not that popular, not that unpopular, just ...
  • Would the U.S. really bomb the Libyan rebels?
    Ever since the U.N. Security Council adopted a resolution to protect all civilians in Libya, one of the biggest questions has centered on what would happen if rebels threaten civilians in areas held by Moammar Gadhafi's forces.
  • Ben Quayle knocks the hell out of fancy gala d ...
    Ben Quayle was elected to Congress to represent Arizona's third district despite the fact that he never voted in local elections, posed with children that weren't his in a mailer, released a series of remarkably creepy ads, has led a life of few accomplishments, is known solely for being the ...

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

  • A sound transit policy derailed
    Mayor Rob Ford’s new transit plan abandons thousands of commuters and requires $4 billion the city doesn’t have. But never mind. It won’t impede cars.
  • Some legal bills are well worth paying
    Here’s one worthwhile exception to the rule that the public shouldn’t be stuck with legal costs when a city councillor launches a lawsuit.
  • Ivory Coast: A tragedy in Africa
    With the world’s attention focused on the Arab Awakening and disaster in Japan, a tragedy is unfolding in a once prosperous African country.
  • Set clear, consistent rules for TV debates
    Televised leaders’ election debates have become too important to leave with a narrow consortium of TV executives.
  • Obama strikes the right note
    U.S. President Barack Obama is on firm ground acting on a strong UN mandate, in a good cause, and forging a multilateral coalition that is willing to share the burden of action in Libya.

Energy Collective

  • Oregon’s Diesel To Contain 5 Percent Biodiesel
    Oregon is about to become the second state to require that most of the diesel sold there contain at least 5 percent biodiesel (B5). The National Biodiesel Board applauded the state on its progressive upgrade. “Policymakers in Oregon should be congratulated for displaying national leadership on c ...
  • A Wave of the Future: Linking National and Int ...
    The latest rage in Washington policy discussions these days (that�s relevant to climate change) is renewed interest in renewable electricity standards, this time in the form of so-called �clean energy standards.�� I�ve written about this policy approach recently at this blog (Renewable Energy St ...
  • Unhappy About Management Of Spent Fuel?
    Blue Ribbon Commission says that applies to just about everyone
  • Food Prices + The Biofuel Debate
    People worldwide are being affected by a rise in the price of food. The causes are complex and interacting: last summer's drought in Russia, the price of oil, speculative trading in commodities, economic instability, political unrest on the Middle East, you name it.
  • Business to Congress: Let The EPA Do Its Job
    A vocal group in Congress is attacking the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to reduce carbon dioxide emissions through the Clean Air Act. These lawmakers say leaving the EPA in charge of large polluters is bad for business.If they were truly interested in helping to turn our economy a ...

EU Times

  • NASA picture shows 1,235 planets that could ho ...
    If aliens exist, these are what their planets look like, according to NASA. Astronomers at the U.S. space department have spent the last two years scouring the Milky Way for Earth-like planets in their quest for foreign life forms. And this is what they have come up with. The black spots represe ...
  • 70 metal books found in Jordan cave could chan ...
    For scholars of faith and history, it is a treasure trove too precious for price. This ancient collection of 70 tiny books, their lead pages bound with wire, could unlock some of the secrets of the earliest days of Christianity. Academics are divided as to their authenticity but say that if veri ...
  • EU to ban cars from cities by 2050
    The European Commission on Monday unveiled a “single European transport area” aimed at enforcing “a profound shift in transport patterns for passengers” by 2050. The plan also envisages an end to cheap holiday flights from Britain to southern Europe with a target that over 50 per cent of all jou ...
  • Entertainment Giant Judge Judy Joins Growing L ...
    A most curious phenomenon of ‘gibberish’ speaking reporters sweeping North America has gained its biggest victim to date after reports that the entertainment giant known as Judge Judy had production halted on her highly syndicated show and was brought to hospital yesterday after she began speaki ...
  • 9 dead after infection outbreak in Alabama hos ...
    Patients were treated with contaminated intravenous feeding bags. Nine Alabama hospital patients who were treated with contaminated intravenous feeding bags have died and the maker has pulled the product off the market, state health officials said Tuesday. Ten more people treated with the bags t ...

Stonecipher News

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

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • 46% of Israeli teens support limiting Palestin ...
    46% of Israeli teens: Revoke Arabs' rights Ynet 31 Mar -- Friedrich Ebert Foundation's Youth Study reveals Israel's teens think greatest threat to state is Jewish-Arab conflict, believe less in democratic values. As for who they trust most - IDF gets 93% ... About 60% of Jewish youths prefer "s ...
  • Another April Fools' Day, another round of awe ...
    Hold onto your chairs, folks, because it's April 1 and everything you see on the Internet today will be a damn lie. In some cases — as it is with ThinkGeek every year — that lie is admittedly awesome. Take the above Angry Birds pork rinds for instance (complete with awesome vid over on ThinkGee ...
  • Howto: Make Firefox 4 Look Like Firefox 3
    Along with the speedy Jagermonkey JavaScript engine, Firefox 4 also ships with a complete new look and feel to make the best out of your screen’s real estate. Although, I personally find the new user interface sleek and appealing, your taste towards the new design might not necessarily be the s ...
  • American Orchestrated Air Strikes In Libya Kil ...
    You and I both know that anytime you have a war, innocent civilians get killed. But Barack Obama told us this is not a war. This is just a kinetic military action. The whole reason we are in Libya is to stop innocent civilians from being killed. It is the raison d’être of Susan Rice, Samantha P ...
  • Text Your Friends From Facebook With HeyWire's ...
    Another company in the very crowded but very popular messaging space, HeyWire is launching a Facebook app today that will allow users to send both texts and tweets from within Facebook. Like other text-messaging services, HeyWire gives you a real phone number to use in order to send and receive ...

Groklaw

  • Google open source guru: 'Why we ban the AGPL'
    Google open source guru Chris DiBona says that the web giant continues to ban the lightning-rod AGPL open source license within the company because doing so "saves engineering time" and because most AGPL projects are of no use to the company. The Affero GPL is designed to close the so-called "a ...
  • When Gadgets Betray Us (excerpt)
    In late 2006 and early 2007, a mini epidemic of mobile-GPS-related mishap stories was making headlines worldwide: A forty-three-year-old man in Bremen, Germany, turned left when instructed and drove his Audi right onto a tramway; another twenty year-old woman in England followed her dashboard GP ...
  • Microsoft vs Google: Birth of a new world
    For those of us who have been following Microsoft since the early 1980s, this is a moment to cherish worthy of Monty Python. It's like the Romans complaining that the Visigoths weren't following best practice in health and safety as they poured over the city walls in AD 410. But behind the brea ...
  • Acer chief Lanci quits over difference in focus
    Acer was quick to reassure that Lanci's departure would not affect its current operations. "The personal computer remains the core of our business. We have built up a strong foundation and will continue to expand within, especially in the commercial PC segment," Wang said. ... According to comme ...
  • Pandora CEO: The Complexity Of International C ...
    "The statutory damages clause (of copyright law) creates a moral hazard... It's too attractive to sue. It's a better business model than saying, I'll partner with you and build a business. ..."Our definition of "copies" might need to change for the digital age. "There is a really fundamental pro ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Is Nobel Peace Prize winner Obama more brutal ...
    Washington’s Blog details how and why.
  • Small-scale solar power presents challenges fo ...
    California’s antiquated electrical grid (as well as the grid in other states) was never designed to handle large amounts of decentralized power. But that’s precisely what it’s getting now from tens of thousands of small-scale solar installations on homes and businesses. The power flows both ways ...
  • Polizeros Radio podcast tonight
    US Uncut. Violence at protests. Bloggers arrested The podcast is hosted on BlogTalkRadio. Call in to listen live at 626-414-3492 tonight at 8:30 PT (9:30 MT, 10:30 CT, 11:30 ET.) You can also download it or listen to the archive on BlogTalkRadio after it’s done. With Josh Mull from Rethink Afgha ...
  • Walmart CEO: prepare for “serious” inflation
    “We’re seeing cost increases starting to come through at a pretty rapid rate,” he said. DJ noted here recently that the price of animal feed had increased 20% so far this year.
  • Wildlife bridge for Ontario highway
    The bridge not only gives wildlife an easy way to cross the highway, it helps prevent drivers from hitting them. It has gradual approaches and concrete barrier walls to shield animals from noise and light.

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • More on Turkey/Syria
    On Monday, I blogged that I thought Turkey's role in helping urge/midwife a successful push for reform in Syria could be key. I gave a few reasons for this-- chiefly, the good relations between the two countries and the length (800 miles) of their common border. Yesterday, Turkey's intel chief ...
  • What can be done in Syria (and could have been ...
    Syria is, like Libya, a one-man-ruled country with a long history of having been on Washington's hit-list that in the past two weeks has witnessed mounting popular protests and government attempts to crack down. I have made periodic reporting trips to Syria for 35 years now and have a broad ran ...
  • War and humanitarianism: From Kosovo to Libya?
    The three western governments that have, with a little help from two Arab governments, been undertaking very lethal military action against Libya in the past eight days have worked to "justify" those acts of war largely in the name of either ending an existing humanitarian crisis or preventing ...
  • Israeli vice-premier, accused of war crimes, w ...
    On March 9, I received the following invitation: The Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn Middle East Forum of the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson Center present (sic) A Conversation with Moshe Yaalon Vice Premier, Minister of Strategic Affairs and Likud Knesset Member Moderated by Aaron ...
  • This is what good statecraft looks like
    Norwegian foreign minister Jonas Gahr Store has a terrific piece titled "Why We Must Talk" in a recent issue of the NY Review of Books. In it, he makes a strong argument why "we"-- in this case, I think, western advocates of democracy-- need to start talking seriously to, among other, the Musli ...

frogblog

  • Back to the future with ACC experience rating
    There are quite a number of nasty legislative and regulatory provisions coming into force today.  Among them are Nick Smithâs Experience Rating Regulations for ACC. Experience rating will result in an individual employer’s ACC levies being adjusted up or down on the basis of their work injury r ...
  • More ‘heroic’ ways to pay for the ...
    Earlier this week Sir Paul Callaghan, 2010 New Zealander of the year and Victoria University professor of physical sciences, launched his âHEKEâ campaign – asking overseas graduates to be heroic and pay back their loans to help with the cost of rebuilding Christchurch. Sir Paul Callaghan is obvi ...
  • Productivity gains or party politics?
    This week the Productivity Commission has been given its first task.  The Commission came into being late one Saturday night last December, with the house under urgency, and the Greens the only party in opposition to it. In the first reading speech I said of the proposed Commission : “It could ...
  • Join the campaign for fairness at work
    Now that the frivolity of the morning is over, I want to take the opportunity to remind Frogblog readers that today the Government’s new industrial relations laws (PDF) come into effect.  These include extending the fire at will provisions for the first 90 days of employment in a new job to all ...
  • Green’s welcome Commerce Commission investigat ...
    The Green Party welcomes the Commerce Commission’s decision to investigate the environmental claims made by the National Government this term, Green Party Co-Leader Dr Russel Norman said today. “We value keeping politics honest. When it comes to the environmental claims made by the National Gove ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • The Supreme Court, the Constitution and the Fi ...
    The Supreme Court's First Amendment opinions result not from interpreting the First Amendment but from deliberately and insidiously changing its diction in ways that make the Amendment unrecognizable. The Court's arguments in these opinions are pure cant and do nothing but turn the Justice ...
  • Liberty's Easy Slide into Tyranny
    Huge conspiracies aren't what destroys people's freedom, the accumulation of errors, failed policies, and little and big unfairnesses do. It happens because The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men/ Gang aft agley,/ An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain. The FED, CIA, Executive Privilege, The ...
  • What should be done with illegal immigrants?
    That this question is even being asked reveals something about ourselves. How would you answer it if you were an illegal immigrant? Perhaps you've never heard of the Golden Rule. The rule may not be the best guide to moral behavior but asking yourself how you'd answer the question if you wer ...
  • A Revolting World
    Many in many lands are demonstrating against their governments. Some claim that people everywhere are revolting and that a worldwide revolution is imminent. Even both the orthodox and heterodox presses are all atwitter. But it is far easier to bring about a successful revolution than it is t ...
  • Demented Democracy
    An addiction to opinion, each person being entitled to his own, and the unwarranted notion that those who fight for their beliefs are "principled" is the reason that democracies teeter between antagonistic belief systems and are unable to resolve any social problems. Each party strives to re ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Obama, Libya, and Me
    One of the reasons to vote for someone for president — perhaps the key reason, in fact — is good judgment. Hillary Clinton may have taken a lot of flack for her "3 am phone call" ad during the Democratic primaries in 2008, but she was basically right: ideologically, there wasn't that much di ...
  • Quote of the Day: Balancing the Budget
    From Bruce Bartlett, on the latest product of the GOP hive mind: In short, this is quite possibly the stupidest constitutional amendment I think I have ever seen. It looks like it was drafted by a couple of interns on the back of a napkin. Come on, Bruce. Don't hold back. Tell us what ...
  • A Tale of Three Charts
    Actually, this is a tale of three versions of the same chart. The first one comes from John Taylor and shows fixed investment plotted against unemployment from 1990 to the present: This is a very striking correlation, and Taylor jumps to an immediate conclusion, namely that "the most effe ...
  • Obama and Global Warming, Part 2
    Is the Obama administration willing to sell out the EPA in order to get a budget deal, as the AP reported yesterday? Greg Sargent gets a statement from the White House that says it's not: As the administration has made clear, the funding bill should not be used to further unrelated policy ...
  • Wall Street and the Public
    Matt Yglesias points us to today's Financial Times' report on Jamie Dimon's latest predictions of doom for big finance: Jamie Dimon, chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, launched a broadside against financial regulation on Wednesday, warning that new capital rules could be “the nail in our ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 238: Student Athletes
    Topics: Honors Student pistol whips mom over used car Should Student Athletes get paid? Glenn Beck and Donald Trump spread Islamophobia Trump claims President Obama’s birth certificate could say he’s a Musliim Share with your friends:
  • No One Does Fear Like Glenn Beck…No One…
    The hilarity from this video is almost too much. Which country in the Middle East has the same morals as us? Well Glenny, if you include the shadiness of the U.S. government then of course the answer is Israel. Of course we know that’s not what Beck meant. Remember, he’s not talking bad about Is ...
  • FacePalm of the Week: 3rd Time’s The Charm
    Want a perfect example that politics and government, while maybe not broken, is severely hampered by bullshit?  Well I got the perfect one for you.  In Florida they are on their 3rd attempt to ban bestiality.  Yes…THIRD attempt. The saga began in January of 2008, when the raping and killing o ...
  • IC 237: Sucker Punched
    Topics: VCU fucks up everyone brackets Zack Snyder sucker punches movie watchers everywhere Why can’t people just make movies fun? The irony of social conservatives talking about morals Donald Trump is a birther Why does it take 3 attempts to ban bestiality? Chris Brown hasn’t learned a thing Sh ...
  • FacePalm of the Week: Et tu, Arianna?
    Arianna Huffington runs one of the most popular liberal blogs out there.  I’ve always had my doubts about her though.  I always question when someone starts off on one extreme of the ideological spectrum then all the sudden switches over to the other side.  I mean its one thing to be a moderate ...

Simple Climate

  • Pinning detailed climate impacts on people cou ...
    Trying to establish a water-tight case proving human-caused effects on plants and animals distracts from preserving biodiversity, say Camille Parmesan and Mike Singer from University of Texas, Austin, and colleagues.
  • 2010′s European heatwave unmatched in ce ...
    Scorcher unlikely to be repeated for decades even as heatwave probability rises 5-10 times, Erich Fischer from ETH Zurich and colleagues find in a study set to help prepare for future climate change.
  • Climate change could hit least responsible hardest
    By studying how population density is related to climate, Jason Samson of McGill University shows that those most responsible for emitting greenhouse gases are insulated from the consequences of their actions.
  • Ice age rethink puts warming into context
    Researchers challenge a fundamental principle of climate science – the effect of Earth's relationship to the sun – but underline that we are still reversing what should be a long slow cool-off for the planet.
  • Soot and methane cuts promise threefold benefits
    Called on by groups including the G8 to examine the science behind limiting emissions of short-lived substances causing climate change, the United Nations Environment Partnership finds just 16 control measures can boost climate, farming and health.

e!Science News

  • New lung cancer staging system (TNM 7) better ...
    The new TNM 7 lung cancer staging system seems to be a better predictor of local or regional recurrence of lung cancer following surgery, according to a study published in the April issue of the Journal of Thoracic Oncology. read more
  • NOAA scientists find killer whales in Antarcti ...
    NOAA's Fisheries Service scientists studying the cooperative hunting behavior of killer whales in Antarctic waters observed the animals favoring one type of seal over all other available food sources, according to a study published in the journal Marine Mammal Science. read more
  • Regular breakfast helps reduce lead poisoning ...
    It is known that fasting increases lead absorption in adults and consequently regular meals and snacks are recommended for children to prevent lead poisoning. New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Environmental Health demonstrates that having a regular breakfast is assoc ...
  • Brain research reveals possible causes of sudd ...
    New research published today in The Journal of Physiology sheds light on areas of the brain thought to be the root cause of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) – the poorly understood condition also known as 'cot death'. read more
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    The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis has moved off the front page of most newspapers, but a lot continues to happen, and the situation remains unresolved. Below I offer some personal perspectives on some of the things that have been widely reported over the last few days, and then I conclude wit ...
  • Fukushima Philosophical Discussion Open Thread
    It was suggested in a comment — and I agree — that the previous open threads on the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident were becoming difficult to read, because they are such a mixture of technical details and philosophical discourse. That is, it’s generally a bad idea to cater to two different a ...
  • Fukushima Technical Discussion Open Thread
    It was suggested in a comment — and I agree — that the previous open threads on the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident were becoming difficult to read, because they are such a mixture of technical details and philosophical discourse. That is, it’s generally a bad idea to cater to two different a ...
  • Josef Oehmen and Fukushima – Would I hav ...
    On the 13th of March, I posted an article called “Fukushima Nuclear Accident – A simple and accurate explanation“. This was early on in the Fukushima crisis when people were desperately hungry for understandable information, and yet there were scarce few good explanations available. The post had ...
  • Fukushima Open Thread 2
    The last Open Thread dedicated to the Fukushima Daiichi crisis is getting overloaded, so here is a new one. Same rules apply: The Open Threads on BraveNewClimate.com are a general discussion forum, where you can talk about whatever you like — there is nothing really ‘off topic’ here — within rea ...
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