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Thomas Paine

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

Friday, April 1, 2011

1 April - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

15:04  MST  21:04 GMT

Indigenist Opinion

  • 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 ...

Republicans are a Disease

  • What Do You Mean?
    So let me get this straight. Is the middle class waking up? Are they finally starting to figure out that having corporations screw us for our own good isn’t actually good for us? Is having the middle class pay more taxes so corporations don’t have pay any income tax really what’s good for Americ ...
  • Shame Shame Shame
    Shame shame shame shame shame
  • David Koch – We Want Our Money Back
    We Want Our Money Back Dear Mr. Koch. We want our money back. What money? The money you stole from AMERICA. The money you, and your friends socked away with the help of a corrupt system, bought and paid for politicians, and banksters. When you paid to put that maggot in the governor’s mansi ...
  • Wake Up
    Wake up and do something. The billionaires, and the corporations they control have been destroying our nation for long enough.
  • Governor Walker – When Will You Have The ...
    You want to jerk around state employees, and unions, all to make up for the money you refuse to collect from corporations and billionaires. They don’t pay near their fair share, and you want working families to make up the difference.

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

+972

  • The Kaufmannaire: Issa Edward Bourseh, 28, Ramleh
    Issa Edward Bourseh, 28 years old from Ramleh, is a student at Tel Aviv University majoring in political science and specializing in political communications Why did you chose this topic of study? I was always interested in politics and it seemed like the best way to step into this world. Who ...
  • Palestinian protest organizer to remain under ...
    Nabi Saleh Popular Committee leader Bassem Tamimi’s arrest was extended by an Israeli military judge after the prosecution filed a grievous indictment. The hearing took place in front of a courtroom packed with Tamimi’s family, supporters, European diplomats and Israeli intellectuals. Bassem Tam ...
  • 1989: Israeli protest song is born of three mo ...
    In the midst of the first intifada, patriotism in Israel was on the rise. It was us (The Israeli military) against them (rioting Palestinians and the hostile international press). Few dared to challenge that axiom. The music scene certainly didn’t seem eager to do so. With a market as tiny as t ...
  • 16 Israeli activists unlawfully arrested in So ...
    By Dolev Rahat In reaction to the escalation of violence and what are known as “price tags” committed by settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank, Ta’ayush (Arab-Jewish partnership group) organized a protest action with the Sheikh Jarrah Solidarity movement in the South Hebron Hills on Sat ...
  • Boycott: No longer taboo in progressive pro-Is ...
    Though many American Jews oppose the BDS movement, more and more of them are willing to explore the idea of a targeted boycott against the occupation Dov Waxman & Mairav Zonszein | Originally published on Dissent Magazine TO BOYCOTT or not to boycott? That is the question that growing numbers of ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

Matt Weidner Blog

  • The United States- The World’s Biggest C ...
    I was a Boy Scout. A patriot. A proud and enthusiastic American.  I’m a guy with an American flag at his home and in his office.  I take my hat off when the national Anthem is sung and I sing it whenever I hear it.  My parents and grandparents counted the ballots at the precinct [...]
  • Florida’s Attorney General Sells Out Eve ...
    Florida’s Attorney General is supposed to represent the interests of consumers and citizens, but it’s apparent that you’ll need to look elsewhere if you want someone to stand up for the rule of law or protect the rights of consumers. I doubt that anyone in the Attorney General’s Office cares wha ...
  • PB Post- Chase Sues Ben Ezra
    Chase Home Finance has filed a federal lawsuit against its former legal counsel, Ben-Ezra & Katz, accusing the firm of refusing to hand over foreclosure case files that contain over $400 million worth of original notes and mortgages “without which Chase will be unable to proceed with any of the ...
  • THE LATEST LEGISLATIVE OUTRAGE- LEGALIZING JAC ...
    This legislative session promises to be the most corrosive and damaging to the rights of Floridians…..EVER. The legislators who are meeting in Tallahassee are compelled by the knowledge that citizens are out of touch and just don’t care. You all know that the jack booted thugs issue is something ...
  • A New Essay- Chink in The Armor and the Mortga ...
    But think this thing out.  What can they do if all of us choose NOT to play?  If we were all to stop paying our mortgages and take that money instead and prosecute quiet title actions,  what COULD they do?  You bring them to their knees in 30 days and you overwhelm the courts seeking [...]

abelard - news

The Parallel Parliament

  • What’s In A Face?
    It was a pretty special night. William Blake used to say that if a person’s face never gave any light then they could never become a star. If that’s true, Michael Ignatieff hit the big time here in London last night. We knew something special was happening an hour before his town hall when the [...]
  • Three-dimensional Contempt
    It’s been interesting to watch the Conservative war machine in full evasive mode as it seeks to convince Canadians that the fall of this government and the subsequent election had nothing to do at all with the Harper government’s contempt of Parliament charges. These are serious charges that mig ...
  • Campaign Insider – Calm Before the Storm
    One of the biggest tasks taking place before any election is locating a campaign office and getting it set up to create fluid movement among volunteers to get everything done, from phoning for donations to teams heading out to pound in signs. This time we have the same office we used in the 2008 ...
  • Just One More Mountain To Climb
    I have never really talked much to the Conservative MP from Manitoba, Shelley Glover. On those occasions when our paths have crossed she has been friendly. Her increasingly strident comments in the House since the gun registry vote have been noted by many and have been troubling. Even still, rea ...
  • Landlords To A Ghost
    One of my favourite authors in earlier years was Lloyd C. Douglas. In his best-selling novel Magnificent Obsession he noted, ”If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality and makes him a landlord to a ghost.” The observation came back to me ...

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

  • Questions teens ask about risk – I’m A Scienti ...
    I’ve just posted this over on the Risk Science Blog, but deviously thought I would also disrupt 2020 Science readers’ day with it as well! For the past couple of years, a highly addictive and innovative on-line teen science engagement event has been run in the UK. I’m A Scientist, Get Me Out Of ...
  • Should experts engage directly with people on ...
    A couple of days ago I posted a blog that noted the absence of direct information on the Fukushima nuclear crisis coming out of US Schools of Public Health. In it, I wrote As events at the Fukushima power plant unfolded, I assumed – rather naively as it turns out – that Schools of Public [...] ...
  • Technology innovation and human health risk – ...
    As anyone who has followed my work over the past few years will know, I have a deep interest in the potential benefits and risks associated with emerging technologies, and in particular whether we can swing the balance towards benefits by thinking more innovatively about risk and how we address ...
  • Crowdsourcing “sinful” images for a tech talk ...
    How would you illustrate the “Seven Deadly Sins of Techno-Complacency” (see below)? On March 8, I’m giving a combined Second Live/Real Life talk on emerging technologies, inspired by the Seven Deadly Sins.  This will be a rather tongue in cheek affair as you might imagine, but with some serious ...
  • Obama’s 2012 budget does not bode well for saf ...
    In one of the more bizarre yet less publicized proposed cuts in the 2012 Obama budget, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Education and Research Centers are on the chopping block.  Bizarre, because the move is directly counter to Obama’s push on innovation and education a ...

Reader Supported News

  • The Kill Team Photos and Videos
    Mark Boal reports: "How US soldiers in Afghanistan murdered innocent civilians and mutilated their corpses - and how their officers failed to stop them. Plus: An exclusive look at the war crime photos censored by the Pentagon." This image shows the body of Gul Mudin, the 15-year-old son of a ...
  • Pregnant Women Fleeing Japan Nuclear Crisis
    Eric Johnston reports: "Kansai area hospitals and the Osaka Prefectural Government say a growing number of pregnant women from the devastated Tohoku region, as well as some in Tokyo worried about the possible effects of radiation from the Fukushima nuclear crisis, are moving to the area to give ...
  • The Kill Team Photos and Videos
    Mark Boal reports: "How US soldiers in Afghanistan murdered innocent civilians and mutilated their corpses - and how their officers failed to stop them. Plus: An exclusive look at the war crime photos censored by the Pentagon." This image shows the body of Gul Mudin, the 15-year-old son of a ...
  • Pregnant Women Fleeing Japan Nuclear Crisis
    Eric Johnston reports: "Kansai area hospitals and the Osaka Prefectural Government say a growing number of pregnant women from the devastated Tohoku region, as well as some in Tokyo worried about the possible effects of radiation from the Fukushima nuclear crisis, are moving to the area to give ...
  • Email to Walker Suggested Faking Violence
    The report begins: "The email came to Gov. Scott Walker from the personal account of a deputy prosecutor and Republican activist in Indiana. After praise for Walker, the email - sent Feb. 19, during union demonstrations against Walker’s budget repair bill - then took a darker turn." Walker em ...

War Resisters League

  • The Broken Rifle in Kabul
    The above photograph, of Scott Schaeffer-Duffy from the Catholic Worker in Worcester, Massachusetts standing beside street art made by local Afghan youth, was taken in Kabul by WRL National Committee and Organizing Task Force member Jim Haber when he was on a recent delegation with Voices for Cr ...
  • WRL Organizers Hit the West Coast
    From February 25th to March 7th,WRL organizing coordinator Kimber Heinz and field organizer Ali Issa began a three-stop trip on the West Coast where they met with WRL locals and affiliates, as well as allied organizations working on GI resistance, civilian support for anti-war veteran organizing ...
  • Iraq/Wisconson Labor Solidarity: Two Statements
    In the wake of the threat posed to what remain of labor rights in Wisconsin, and the public’s powerful response, two Iraqi labor leaders, Hassan Jum’a and Faleh Abood, penned solidarity statements in late February on behalf the 26,000 member strong Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions, and the 15,000 ...
  • Stepping up the Resistance to U.S. Islamophobia
    As Peter King, the new chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, steps up the U.S. government attack against Muslims living in the U.S., saying that he will “rely on Muslims to make his case that American Muslim leaders have failed to cooperate with law enforcement officials in the effo ...
  • Mubarak Ousted! Two Down, Twenty To Go . . .
    “The people have brought down the regime!” was a cry heard around the world when on Friday, February 11th, 18 days of unrelenting non-violent protest finally forced the end of Hosni Mubarak’s 30 year, US backed rule over Egypt. Ecstatic jubilation filled Cairo’s Midan al-Tahrir (Liberation Squar ...

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 ...

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • Updates on Libyan war: April 1
    ==== Video And Text: Georgia Versus Libya: West’s Double Standards On War And War Crimes U.S., British Special Forces Directing Air Strikes From Inside Libya NATO Arms Embargo May Exclude Libyan Rebels, Who Are Already Being Armed African Officials, Experts: Western Intervention In Libya Aims At ...
  • Stop NATO News March 31, 2011
    ==== Updates on Libyan war: March 31 ==== 1. NATO Troops Kill Three Afghan Civilians, Wound Four More 2. Top Military Commander: NATO Commands 50-Nation Army For Afghan War, NATO Members Need To Spend More On Military 3. Afghan War Leaves 103 NATO Soldiers Dead In Three Months 4. Pentagon’s Stra ...
  • Updates on Libyan war: March 31
    ==== NATO Assumes Full Command Of Libyan War Operations Obama Authorizes Covert Operations In Libya, CIA Already There Poll: Americans Oppose Obama’s Libyan War, Ratings At All-Time Low Defense Minister: NATO’s Libyan Operation Costs Greece $9 Million A Month Venezuela On Libya: No Peace With Bo ...
  • Stop NATO News March 30, 2011
    ==== stopnato-subscribe@yahoogroups.com Updates on Libyan war ==== 1. Video And Text: Day That Shook The World, NATO Bombs Chinese Embassy 2. Serbia In NATO Represents Threat To Russia 3. General Petraeus Praises Georgia’s Military Role In Afghanistan 4. U.S. Navy To Expand Role In Black Sea: To ...
  • Jack London: War
    War Jack London (1911) He was a young man, not more than twenty-four or five, and he might have sat his horse with the careless grace of his youth had he not been so catlike and tense. His black eyes roved everywhere, catching the movements of twigs and branches where small birds hopped, questin ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • Indiana Prepares For Major Seismic Event
    Homeland Security Newswire March 31st, 2011 Two of Indiana’s earthquake preparedness drills, the Great Central U.S. Shake Out scheduled for 19 April, and a training program in May for emergency management and response agencies are receiving increased interest following the devastating quake in J ...
  • Kevin Annett – Canadian Genocide/Crimes ...
    NotForSale2NWO March 31st, 2011 Download the full show here PM Steven Harper Served Summons to Answer Charges of Crimes Against Humanity http://theintelhub.com/2011/03/26/pm-steven-harper-served-summons-to-answer-c… Mass Grave Sites Across Canada to be Surveyed by International Tribunal http://t ...
  • What America Has Become Folks! Can’t Eve ...
    SeekerTruth2012 March 31st, 2011 Does anyone else see something wrong here or an I Just nuts?
  • Groundwater At Nuclear Plant ‘Highly&#82 ...
    Kyodo News March 31st, 2011 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 iod ...
  • Is A False Flag Nuke Inevitable?
    Before Its News Zen Gardner March 31st, 2011 The “mini-nuke terror threat on America” war drums are pounding louder by the day. WW3 may in fact be a given with the way things are going. They’re sure itching for it. Last year it was Obama and other stooge politicians warning us, then Homeland Ins ...

FRS

  • Background: the Mass Resistance movement in Ke ...
    Indymedia (Greece) Keratea is a town of 16,000 residents in Lavreotiki municipality, situated in southeastern Attica, 40km from Athens, near Lavrion. The site has an ancient history that has left many remains, an amphitheatre, parts of the ancient fortification, etc. As many parts of Attica, it ...
  • Greek police clash with protesters opposing ne ...
    By The Associated Press ATHENS, Greece — Riot police fired repeated volleys of tear gas Tuesday to push back firebomb-wielding residents of a town near the Greek capital in the latest violence over plans for a garbage dump in the area. The extensive clashes in Keratea, some 40 kilometres (25 mil ...
  • ‘Noble’ War In Libya – Part 1
    by Media Lens March 23, 2011 One can hardly fail to be impressed by the corporate mediaâs faith in humanity. Or at least that part of humanity with its finger on the cruise missile button. Last week, the Independent’s Patrick Cockburn predicted that âWestern nations will soon be engaged in a w ...
  • ‘Noble’ War In Libya – Part 2
    by Media Lens (see part one at http://revolutionaryfrontlines.wordpress.com/2011/03/28/noble-war-in-libya-part-1/) March 28, 2011 As a Sunday Times leader made clear on March 20, sometimes you just have to draw a line: ‘[T]here can be no accommodation with a man like Gadaffi or any of his family ...
  • The Communards Debate Again
    [When filmmaker Peter Watkins directed a film on the Paris Commune, "La Commune", the actors were drawn from non-professionals, people who in many cases occupied the same positions in society today as they depicted in the film.  The liveliness of the production made the issues and revolutionary ...

Ken O'Keefe

  • Samouni Family Community Centre & Classroom
    We are looking at sending at least one bus from the UK to Gaza, loaded with materials to set up the Samouni Family Community Centre/Classroom. We would like to do this in the next couple of weeks so we need many things to happen very fast if we are to meet such a deadline.
  • Response to “An Open Letter to Ken O&#82 ...
    We in the West do not even take care of our own people, multi-billionaires and deep poverty side by side, house foreclosures in concert with trillions of dollars being handed to the banksters. These bastard banksters are the ultimate rape and pillage machine, and they are salivating over Libya.
  • Tahrir4Gaza – Liberation for Gaza
    As the Arab people continue to exercise unarmed yet mighty power, there is one place above all others that remains at the heart of the struggle, Palestine. Despite all the money, propaganda, weapons, false imprisonment, ethnic cleansing, torture and mass-murder wielded against them, they have e ...
  • The Egyptian Blockade of Gaza – February 26, 2 ...
    Is there any sane, right-minded person who supports the blatant and brutal collective punishment of the people of Gaza? So why would it carry on? There is only one reason, because we allow it. I say we carry on with what the people of Egypt started, they got rid of the dictator, let us, people ...
  • Global Revolution 2011
    I believe the time has come to unite, those of us who are sane, who can see that the masses are comprised of so many cultures and vastly different ways of life, yet we all demand essentially the same things. We demand to be treated with respect. We demand the right to a decent way of life. We ...

StillSmallVoice

  • Uterus-uterus-uterus
    This is the best thing out there on the recent discussion in the Florida House about the use of the word "uterus" in public debate.
  • Sorry he became a teacher
    Alan Haskvitz is a member of the National Teachers Hall of Fame. He writes: ...after reading the recent California Little Hoover Commission Report that recommends that public school retirements be reduced, even for those who are already retired,  and the actions of the Wisconsin Republican P ...
  • Her life in blue jeans
    Read Nancy J. Leppink's essay on blue jeans and how they're made, here. Leppink is the acting administrator of the U.S. Department of Labor's wage and hour division. About your Levis: Egregious violations in the blue jeans industry are not restricted to the manufacturers and their contractors ...
  • Women are joining forces
    Business and Professional Women's Foundation has started a new initiative to help women veterans transition back into civilian life. The campaign, Joining Forces for Women Veterans, includes scholarships to help women veterans get specialized job training.
  • Pillow fight in Willi!
    Come enjoy your fellows at International Pillow Fight Day in Willimantic from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at Jillson Square near the gazebo. (No, the pillow fight won't last three hours. That's just the window of time during which it could happen. Surely you don't think a pillow fight is that or ...

Associated Content

  • Cobra's Hissy Fit Comes to an End
    The Egyptian cobra missing from the Bronx Zoo has been found, but not before stirring up twitter-pated New Yorkers.Contributor: Chance Burnam Published: Apr 01, 2011
  • Buy Its Premise or Not, 'Source Code' Proves E ...
    Critic Robert Denerstein says he wasn't totally sold on "Source Code's mind-bending premise, but the movie still did its job: It kept him on edgeContributor: Robert Denerstein Published: Mar 31, 2011
  • GoDaddy's Bob Parsons Named 'Scummiest CEO of ...
    The GoDaddy founder's reputation is on the line after he posted videos of himself shooting an elephant in Zimbabwe.Contributor: Carol Bengle Gilbert Published: Apr 01, 2011
  • GoDaddy CEO Bob Parsons Slammed for Killing El ...
    Outrage over a video showing Bob Parsons' elephant hunt is at a fever pitch. Ultimately, what effect does public condemnation have on corporate CEOs?Contributor: Jeff Musall Published: Apr 01, 2011
  • Celebrate Cesar Chavez's Social Justice Work
    President Obama declared March 31 Cesar Chavez Day to celebrate the accomplishments of the civil rights activist who founded the United Farm Workers. This day encourages Americans to honor Chavez through community service.Contributor: Kate Coenen Published: Apr 01, 2011

Popsci - Science

  • Company Offers $3 Million for an Algorithm Tha ...
    It’s almost as if Heritage Provider Network set out to create the perfect PopSci story by mashing up all of our favorite things: clever algorithms, a multi-million dollar intellectual competition, and the future. The California-based health care provider has put up a purse of $3 million for the ...
  • Algae Could Be Key to Cleaning Up Nuclear Acci ...
    Algae can secrete biofuels and pump out biologic drugs, and now researchers think it could help clean up radioactive accidents like the one unfolding at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear facility. A Northwestern University researcher has identified a certain kind of common algae, known as Closterium mo ...
  • New Species of Freshwater Stingray Found, X-Rayed
    Biologists have just discovered two new species of freshwater stingray in the Amazon rainforest, informally christening them "pancake stingrays" for their distinct IHOPian appearance (see below). Naturally, one of their first orders of business was to x-ray one of the specimens, the unearthly r ...
  • Quantum Dots Can Tag Individual Molecules With ...
    A team of engineers at Ohio State University have packed a nanoparticle full of fluorescent blinking quantum dots. When the particle is attached to a single molecule, it functions as a gaudily glowing beacon. With their bright, continuous fluorescent glow that transitions between red, green an ...
  • Japanese Authorities Consider Harvesting Backu ...
    Japanese authorities are considering harvesting bone marrow from workers at the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant, hoping an infusion of their own healthy cells could save their lives if they’re exposed to dangerous radiation levels. The procedure, known as autologous stem cell transplant ...

Veterans Today

  • LAWRENCE DAVIDSON : Libya Rhetoric – An ...
    I would be willing to believe that the President has had an epiphany and really wants to lead the nation in the way of goodness, if it weren’t for his persistent catering to the distinctly less than good Israelis and their Zionist lobbies. No. President Obama’s statements are just too out of nat ...
  • VA Begins Process to Create Open Source Electr ...
    WASHINGTON – The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) today released a draft Request for Proposal (RFP) aimed at forming an Open Source community around its ground-breaking VistA (Veterans Integrated System Technology Architecture) electronic health record (EHR) system. When award is made under ...
  • STUART LITTLEWOOD : “Perpetual hell&#822 ...
    Law and principle are utterly meaningless to the great, civilized powers, who just fidget and whisper sweet nothings in Israel’s ear. by Stuart Littlewood / Veterans Today A delegation of parliamentarians has returned from a tour of the refugee camps in Lebanon and made its report http://www.prc ...
  • Complete probe of Agent Orange promised
    NIAGARA FALLS, Ont - Despite some confusion, the provincial Agent Orange probe will include both of its chemical ingredients and not just the one, a ministry of natural resources spokesman said Thursday.
  • Reversing roles, farmers sue Monsanto over GMO ...
    Genetically modified seed giant Monsanto is notorious for suing farmers [PDF] in defense of its patent claims. But now, a group of dozens of organic farmers and food activists have, with the help of the not-for-profit law center The Public Patent Foundation, sued Monsanto in a case that could fo ...

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • An exceptionally dry March
    High pressure has dominated our weather for much of this month, with exceptionally low rainfall totals across Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. At Coningsby in Lincolnshire only 4.8mm of rain fell, compared with the average which is 41mm. This makes it their driest March since records began at the R ...
  • Long range forecasts: The day of judgement nears.
    In the last two days the press have been full of stories about how we are in for a scorching August. Of course, we have been here before. The Met Office may for ever be associated with the phrase 'barbecue summer' following its disastrous forecast for Summer 2009, which amongst other things le ...
  • Biofuels: Some have a higher carbon footprint ...
    Over the last few years there has been a huge drive towards producing more biofuels to replace some of the fossils fuels we consume, which, we've been told, produce lower carbon emissions. Slowly though there is a realisation that in some instances, the carbon footprint of certain biofuels can ...
  • Nuclear power: Why the UK government may have ...
    The news and pictures from the nuclear power station in Japan that has been badly damaged from last week's earthquake and tsunami have alarmed us all. Nuclear power is seen almost universally around the world as being crucial in producing carbon free electricity, as countries start to decarbon ...
  • Is Solar activity to blame for Japan's massive ...
    The massive earthquake that affected Japan this morning is one of the strongest in recorded history at 8.9 on the Richter scale. With a number of powerful earthquakes recently it once again begs the question, is there a link between seismic activity and solar activity? Recently we have witne ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Deutschland Uber Alles, Even in Higher Education
    You've got to hand it to the Germans. I suppose they're a bit like a big brother who can do everything better than you--they're bound to create resentment. In a neat chronological and geographical inversion, Germany has been called the China of Europe as it beats the living daylight out of uncom ...
  • Of Repatriation and Concerted G7 Yen Intervention
    My goodness, things are happening so fast that my head is spinning. If the UN establishing a no-fly zone above Libyan airspace wasn't enough, we're now headed for a G7 currency no-speculation zone (of sorts) with regard to the Japanese yen. It certainly isn't everyday when the story on the Yahoo ...
  • Gotcha! US Faulted by WTO on Susidizing Boeing
    Today, the WTO finally released its panel report on the EU's complaint against the United States regarding American subsidies for Boeing (case # DS353). This, of course, is the countersuit launched by the EU in the wake of the US launching a case against Airbus on launch subsidies (DS316). I hav ...
  • USTR Ron Kirk on Moving Doha Forward
    I guess the points put forward here will not surprise many since the US trade representative is tasked with promoting trade liberalization first and foremost. For what they're worth, here is Ron Kirk on the US position regarding the aforementioned topic, all the while emphasizing the reasonablen ...
  • Lord Mandy On the Libya Witch Hunt in the UK
    As one not to shy away from unpopular causes, I have never attempted to hide my admiration for a man who revels in being called the "Prince of Darkness," Lord Mandelson. Being at the centre of government for so long as a New Labour stalwart and former EU trade commissioner, the controversial pol ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • Wow That Was Fast! Libyan Rebels Have Already ...
    The rebels in Libya are in the middle of a life or death civil war and Moammar Gadhafi is still in power and yet somehow the Libyan rebels have had enough time to establish a new Central Bank of Libya and form a new national oil company.  Perhaps when this conflict is over those ...
  • Will Financial Problems In Portugal Cause The ...
    Most Americans have no idea just how bad the financial problems over in Europe are right now.  The truth is that the entire European financial system is teetering on the brink of disaster.  Ireland and Greece have already received bailouts and Portugal, Spain, Italy, France and ...
  • How Is The Central Economic Planning That The ...
    Most Americans believe that we still live in a capitalist system and that free markets primarily determine the growth and development of our economy.  But is that really the case?  No, sadly it is not.  The truth is that the U.S. Federal Reserve does a tremendous amount of centr ...
  • Shaken: 10 Economic Disasters Which Threaten T ...
    2011 has already been the most memorable year in ages and we haven't even reached April yet.  Revolutions have swept the Middle East, an unprecedented earthquake and tsunami have hit Japan, civil war has erupted in Libya, the price of oil has been soaring and the entire globe is ...
  • Inflation Is Here – Just Open Up Your Ey ...
    Despite what Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says, rampant inflation is officially here.  The federal government is constantly monkeying with the numbers to keep the "official" rate of inflation below 2 percent, but it is becoming very difficult to deny that the cost of al ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U 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 ...

Voiceless Victim

  • Victim Concludes From Personal Experience: Cat ...
    Since first speaking out in 2008 about my six years of child sexual abuse at the hands of a Brother from the Passionist Order, I have found a strength I never knew I had, discovered a voice that demands to be heard after being bullied into silence for so long, and have achieved so much [...]
  • Now Everyone Knows What It Takes To Get Rapist ...
    There has been so much happening in the Philadelphia diocese lately for those interested in justice and child safety to absorb. And, for once, much of it is good news for victims of Catholic Church sponsored child sexual abuse. Well, as good as it is possible to get for anyone who has survived e ...
  • Defending the Indefensible is a Lot Like Football
    Battling for truth, justice and child protection against the evil empire of His Greediness can get you down sometimes. Time for a little light relief. I came across this intelligent and articulate blogger just recently. This post from the Voice from the Desert blog is screamingly funny. And trag ...
  • Who’s Looking After The Children?
    “Who’s looking after the children?” In Australia this week one man dared to ask this question of the highest court in the land. The High Court of Australia replied, “We’re only interested in looking after child rapists.” As a result, this courageous crusader is likely to die in jail, while some ...
  • Top 10 Catholic Excuses For Doing Absolutely N ...
    Priests at the pulpit do it. Catholic apologists do it mindlessly, understanding little. Cardinals and Bishops exploit their influence to do it to as many people as possible. The Vatican does little else. With alarming regularity and very little variation, they all trot out the same set of tired ...

WL Central

  • 2011-04-01 WikiLeaks Cable Vindicates Struggle ...
    TweetThose in India who have fought Dow Chemical are finding themselves vindicated as a cable released from WikiLeaks and covered by The Hindu on the political maneuvering capabilities of Dow Chemical Company surfaces. The cable illuminates a corporation hampered by its connection to Union Carbi ...
  • Armenian General Prosecutor's Office contradic ...
    TweetCables on sex trafficking in Armenia reveal frank contempt toward victims and contradictory statements from the law enforcement officials on collusion in sex trafficking. The Republic of Armenia General Prosecutor's Office released an explanation on 14th February 2011 on the corruption alle ...
  • 2011-03-31 Maher al-Assad and the family busin ...
    TweetReuters reports that Syria will set up an investigation into the protest deaths, as well as form a committee to "solve the problem of the 1962 census" during which 150,000 Syrian Kurds were denied nationality. It is doubtful that an investigation will be regarded as hopeful by protesters wh ...
  • 2011-03-21 US military blames photos of war cr ...
    TweetUPDATE: Soldier sentenced for murder: "I lost my moral compass." UPDATE 2: Rolling Stone, "The Kill Team" Updates on the turn “We apologize for the distress these photos cause” On Sunday, the German weekly Der Spiegel published three photos -- from a reported trove of 4,000 videos and ph ...
  • 2011-03-30 Assad's speech days late, no reform ...
    TweetContinuing his customary practice of promises unfulfilled, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad delivered a speech today that was expected days ago and delivered none of the hoped for concessions to protesters. The speech is here, English transcript is here. Reports online are that after the sp ...

U N News

  • Enhancing rule of law vital for peace and secu ...
    Haitians must embrace the rule of law to advance peace and prosperity, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stresses in a new report, adding that the country and its new leadership will require sustained international support to achieve this goal amid a set of daunting challenges.
  • UN independent expert praises tolerance in Par ...
    The United Nations independent expert on religious freedom today commended Paraguay for the openness and tolerance of both the Government and society, but pointed out there is "much room" for improvement in tackling the issue of inequality.
  • Grenada: UN rural development agency funds pov ...
    The United Nations rural development agency is to co-finance a $7.5-million project in Grenada designed to alleviate poverty in the Caribbean country, benefiting an estimated 12,000 members of poor communities on the main island and the isle of Carriacou.
  • UN chief to open meeting of university preside ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will on Monday visit the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, United States, to open the 5th meeting of the Global Colloquium of university presidents, his spokesperson announced today.
  • Haitian buildings to be reinforced against ear ...
    Haitian schools, hospitals and other buildings are to be strengthened under a United Nations-backed plan to reduce vulnerability to seismic threats in a country that was devastated 14 months ago by a massive earthquake that killed more than 200,000 people and made 1.3 million homeless.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

Tatumba 2.0

  • Charlie Sheen – A WINNER – Fires Truth Torpedo ...
    This why I love Charlie Sheen. This guy can lift the veil off of the corruption that the mainstream media keeps over the fluoridated media zombie’s eyes in a verbose and oh-so-eloquent way. Here Charlie vents to David Degraw about the financial tyranny consuming our wealth, resources and freedom ...
  • The Fluoride Deception: the truth about water ...
    The Fluoride Deception is the latest mini documentary from Mike Adams, executive director of the Consumer Wellness Center. Through the use of animation and motion graphics, he exposes the truth about where fluoride really comes from: The toxic byproducts of the phosphate mining industry! Do your ...
  • Alex Jones On The View
    Alex Jones On The View? Who would have thunk it? Alex Jones was on The View and blasted truth at 30 million viewers. Alex Jones goes prime-time speaking to the Yentas on The View. It is nice to see Alex getting a chance to blast some truth to the 30 million or more sheep that [...] Related ...
  • Site Upgrade Completed
    I am pleased to announce that I have upgraded to a faster server. The following explains what I went through / am still going through to make this happen: Please recycle. Don't throw away your peels Related posts:Site Upgrades Coming Hello This site may be offline on a temporary basis... Site Im ...
  • The Charlie Sheen Test
    I want you to take a test. This is called The Charlie Sheen Test. To take this test please grab a pen and a piece of paper. Now count to 10. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Now I want you to write down the first word that comes to mind [...] Related posts:Charlie Veitch vs. McDonald’s Trying to stop p ...

Truth About Our World

  • British doctors illegally prescribe ADHD drugs ...
    � by: Jonathan Benson The overall rise in the number of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) drugs being dispensed to children has been a major cause of concern among some medical groups, particularly as such drugs are now being prescribed to children under the age of six. In the UK, ...
  • No surveillance without oversight
    Still think you’re free???? You’ll be in increasing surveillance, like criminals, where every aspect of your life will be monitored down to every detail.  ”We the People” are criminals… Given the FBI‘s record of fallibility â and without genuine safeguards for citizens â this $1bn biometrics pr ...
  • Time To Do More Than Worry
    � by Mark Sircus As the news worsens from Japan we hear that the FDA has a problem declaring or warning people that artificial food colorings could be dangerous to your health. The Food and Drug Administration concluded long ago that there was no definitive link between the colorings and behavio ...
  • GLOBALIST TARGET: Central Bank of Libya is 100 ...
    By Eric V. Encina 21st Century Wire March 28, 2011 One seldom mentioned fact by western politicians and media pundits: the Central Bank of Libya is 100% State Owned. The world�s globalist financiers and market manipulators do not like it  and would continue to their on-going effort to dethrone M ...
  • John Stockwell (CIA): The Third World War

Bloomberg

  • No Lull in the Airlines' Headwinds
    The industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley
  • Akimbo: From Niches to Riches?
    The Internet video startup has amassed an impressive menu of online content. Subscribers are all it needs
  • Higher Gas Tax? Smart Move
    Raising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
  • Hitachi's Plasma TV Gets the Picture
    The new 55HDT51 delivers high image quality in a sleek package with a generous screen, although the remote's layout is confusing
  • Applications That Get a "Yes"
    Do Harvard and Wharton scrutinize differently? Clear Admit answers this and other queries about getting into the right MBA program

Enviroblog

  • Toxic trade mission: US pitched China on toxic ...
    By Alex Formuzis with Sonya Lunder In 2007, two members of Congress traveling on a tax-funded junket scolded a Chinese government official over tainted Chinese-made products, including lead-tainted children's toys, being exported to the United States.... [[ This is a content summary only. V ...
  • Chromium-6 in Gas Drilling Wastes?
    By Nils Bruzelius, EWG Executive Editor The boom in natural gas drilling across the United States has spawned well-warranted fears that the fluids and chemicals used to free the gas from surrounding rock could pose a risk to drinking water... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my webs ...
  • Labor camps? Fine. But BPA crosses the line.
    By Alex Formuzis, EWG Vice President for Media Relations China: Where anyone who speaks out against the government will likely languish for years in a prison cell; Where crackdowns on the press and Internet access happen again and again; Where... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my ...
  • Hold the Applause
    By Jane Houlihan, EWG Senior Vice President for Research Two weeks ago (Feb. 17), fellow activists proclaimed the upbeat news that the European Union had banned xylene and five other toxic chemicals that pose risks to human health and the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my websi ...
  • Dr. Oz Talks Toxics in Our Drinking Water
    In February, our friend Dr. Oz dedicated an entire show to the safety of the nation's drinking water. On the air, he revealed the results of the 'Dr. Oz National Tap Water Test' - a hands-on water testing experiment undertaken... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

  • Setsuko Hara: The diva who left Japan wanting ...
    When actress Setsuko Hara retired in 1963, she disappointed her fans and further deepened her allure as �The Eternal Virgin,� a nickname she was lovingly given when her acting career was at its peak. Hara is best remembered for her starring roles in Yasujir ...
  • And now, the good news: The 2011 Mets are a be ...
    With all of the legal, financial and psychological drama surrounding the New York Mets recently, it has been easy to forget that the Mets also play baseball, much in the way that you can forget that Charlie Sheen is an actor. More
  • 'In a Better World': What do children know abo ...
    In In a Better World, the latest film by Danish director Susanne Bier, two young boys sit on top of a towering silo, their legs dangling over the edge, a hair-raising image of the fragility of life and the recklessness of youth. The two boys are friends of ...
  • Muted celebration of the Yankees leaves room f ...
    Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
  • Andrew Cuomo, the press and the war on partisa ...
    There were lots of things for lots of people to be unhappy about in this budget, but it was an inarguably great political feat for Cuomo to have finished on time, roughly according to the specs he's been laying out all along, and with the tersely smiling ac ...

Views & News from Norway

  • Statoil in huge new oil find
    Norway’s part-state owned oil and gas enterprise Statoil has made a “significant” discovery of oil and gas in the Norwegian section of the Barents Sea – thought to be the most significant find on the Norwegian shelf during the last 10 years. The Barents Sea, which lies north-east of Norway and ...
  • Norway’s economy wins good reviews
    COMMENTARY: Norway’s economy is still on a roll, and keeps catching the attention of analysts and investors around the world. It emerged relatively unscathed from the recent finance crisis, is poised for continued growth and boasts an unemployment rate that’s less than half the size of the Europ ...
  • Unemployment falls again
    Unemployment in Norway has fallen for the fourth month in a row, with unemployment now standing at 2.9% – with 5,600 less unemployed people than at this time last year. 74,200 are now registered as unemployed in Norway, according to the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (Arbeids- og ve ...
  • ‘Sad day’ as maternity wards close
    The Norwegian government has finally decided to push forward with plans to downgrade local maternity ward services in Odda, Lærdal and Lofoten, and close down such services in Nordfjordeid – moves that have created local opposition. The reduction of services in Odda and Lærdal, both in west No ...
  • Care home scandal spreads again
    Allegations of breaches of employment law by private providers at care (nursing) homes across Norway continue to spread – with company Norlandia Care the latest to come under scrutiny, after a long series of revelations about employment agency Adecco over the past month. The Adecco case, which e ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Everything You Need to Know About Composting W ...
    by Rob Avis Following my recent blog post on the Do-It-Yourself Vermipod, I’ve been receiving a ton of questions from folks who built Vermipods and are looking for information on how to manage and maintain their new pets. So here’s a compilation called Everything You Need To Know About Composti ...
  • Our First Week at HEPA
    Just over a week ago I arrived in Vietnam with three of my daughters to work as a Volunteer for SPERI (The Social Policy Ecology Research Institute). SPERI have a number of properties where they have established Human Ecology Practice Areas (HEPA) which run Farmer Field Schools (FFS). Upon arr ...
  • Strawberry Fields Eco Lodge Update: Solar Powe ...
    Editor’s Note: As many of you will have noticed, Alex has been making some great practical updates on the work going on at the Strawberry Fields Eco-Lodge. The following article is another good example. I thought I’d mention that if you want to soak in some excellent experience at this site, Ste ...
  • Permaculture Design Course: Interactive Traini ...
    Steve Cran brings his infamous Green Warriors (Permaculture-Aid Workers’) Program to Ethiopia. This course is a full-on intensive, interactive action learning program which will integrate a standard PDC program with a more advanced Training of Trainers Course, inducting the participants on ...
  • Letters from Slovakia – a Homeless Camp Goes P ...
    Already doing what it can to operate along sustainable lines, a homeless camp in Slovakia is looking for a permaculture makeover and evolution. In little more than eight years, more than 800 homeless people have come and gone through this little site. For some it was temporary salvation, givin ...

Telecrap Urinal

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

Anna's News

  • Top 5 Questions on Radiation Exposure
    Japan's struggle to regain control over the nuclear power reactors damaged in the tsunami that followed a 9.0-magnitude earthquake on March 11 has people worldwide wondering and worrying about the impacts of radioactive fallout. Here's our top 5 questionsSubmitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �No ...
  • Child Sex Ratio declines in India
    The Census 2011 has raised concerns in India. While the population rose to 121 crore and the literacy rate touched 74.04%, the child sex ratio declined, signaling at the existence of female foeticide. Even as the female to male ratio in the population....Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �No ...
  • 60 Slick Office Tricks for April Fools Day
    Corporate culture possesses a dry, stiff and overly formal reputation � making it fertile ground for revelry once April Fool's Day rolls around. But even the most ardent prankster out there may feel uninspired when it comes to pulling a few fast ones.....Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �No ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...

Medical Marijuana

  • 3/24/11 - Should gay marriage be legal?
    gaymarriage.procon.org - NEW: Should gay marriage be legal? - Read pro and con arguments from Lambda Legal, American Bar Association, Andrew Sullivan, Dick Cheney, Maggie Gallagher, Michael Steele, George W. Bush, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and 19 other scholars, politicia ...
  • 3/9/11 - 34 States with Death Penalty / 41 Fed ...
    deathpenalty.procon.org - UPDATED: 34 States with Death Penalty / 41 Federal Capital Crimes - On Mar. 9, 2011, Illinois Governor Pat Quinn (D) signed legislation to repeal the state's death penalty statute. Illinois joins 15 other states and the District of Columbia that do not have capital crim ...
  • 2/25/11 - NEW: History of the Individual Healt ...
    healthcarereform.procon.org - NEW: History of the Individual Health Insurance Mandate, 1989-2010: Republican Origins of Democratic Health Care Provision - Republicans oppose the Mar. 2010 health care reforms for many reasons, especially the provision creating an individual health care mandate w ...
  • 2/23/11 - Vaccines ProCon.org - US Supreme Cou ...
    vaccines.procon.org - UPDATED: Vaccines ProCon.org - On Feb. 22, 2011, the US Supreme Court ruled that vaccine injury claims must continue to be filed with the US Court of Federal Claims and cannot be filed directly against physicians or vaccine manufacturers in civil court.
  • 2/23/11 - Barack Obama Declares Defense of Mar ...
    gaymarriage.procon.org - Barack Obama Declares Defense of Marriage Act Unconstitutional - President Obama directed the Department of Justice today to stop defending in court the law that prevents gay marriage.

Progressives United - Russ Feingold

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

Information Underground

  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    I think we need to define what the "New World Order" is. I think some people here are confused about this concept. The "New World Order" essentially is this: Jews leading a coalition of the earth's non-Whites in a quest to overthrow and destroy Western Civilization through the genocide of Wh ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Travis wrote: Also I want white people here to know I am not a racist and do not hate people based on the colour of their skin So you think that race is about skin color, huh? Oh, my, how ignorant you are. Statistics: Posted by Yo Mama — Fri Apr 01, 2011 8:59 pm
  • Crimes of Israel, IDF, Zionists, Mossad or &qu ...
    Paul here from the protest rock band poker face wanting to share with you folks on TIUs most excellent forum board a link to our last CDs insert on PEACE OR WAR The following 70meg pdf is a nice 4 color graphic poster size wall piece (15"x15") people are more then welcome to print out and hang ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    . . Hitler vs Rothschild - Hitler contro banksters internazionali - NWO mafia sionista iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1nIGCUQN4M . .Statistics: Posted by /tab — Fri Apr 01, 2011 7:12 pm
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Max Keiser, Alex Jones and their Lackies Scamming People AGAIN http://www.avaresearch.com/article_details-659.htmlStatistics: Posted by Rockclimber — Fri Apr 01, 2011 4:48 pm

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Health Toll of Noise Pollution Documented in N ...
    Exposure to noise pollution is shortening lives and causing significant health problems in Western Europe, and is second only to air pollution as a cause of environmental health problems, according to the world's first comprehensive report on the health effects of noise. An analysis of existing ...
  • FedEx, UPS Partner with U.S. in Push to Reduce ...
    Five major U.S. companies, including shipping giants FedEx and United Parcel Service, have committed to partner with the Obama administration in support of a national effort to reduce fossil fuel consumption. As charter members of the so-called National Clean Fleets Partnership, the companies — ...
  • Birds Delay Spring Migration As Tropical Rainf ...
    Declining rainfall in tropical regions can cause migratory birds to delay their departure from wintering grounds back to their northern breeding areas, according to a new study. In a five-year study of American redstarts, a species of warbler, scientists at Smithsonian InstituteA female America ...
  • New Battery Uses Seawater and Freshwater to Pr ...
    Stanford University researchers have designed a rechargeable battery that uses the contrast in salinity between freshwater and seawater to produce an electric current, an innovation they say could potentially be used wherever a river meets the ocean. The battery contains two electrodes — one pos ...
  • Fibers from Fruits Used to Make Stronger Plast ...
    Brazilian scientists say the nano-cellulose fibers found in fruits and plants can be used to produce a new generation of plastics for auto parts that are stronger, lighter, and more eco-friendly than current petroleum-based plastics. The tiny fibers in fruits such as pineapples and bananas, for ...

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backofthebook

  • CBC’s Compass: Voting for Dummies
    By Dave Brindle It's so damn hard following the daily romper room in the House of Commons, you know? It’s so, like, boring to form an opinion that isn’t about head-shots in hockey. And then, as if that isn’t too much to expect, you're prodded and goaded to a polling station ...
  • The Pacioretty effect
    By David Bitonti Hockey has been a huge part of my family for generations. When I was a kid, back in the ‘80s, every Saturday evening after my brother and I played our own minor league game, we'd all pile up in the living room to watch the Montreal Canadiens on ...
  • Cons on the G20: “An unmitigated success ...
    By Alison@Creekside The Public Safety Committee report on the G-20 tabled in the House on Friday calls for an independent inquiry into the decision-making by all levels of government that resulted in - the outrageous cost - the unprecedented arrests of over 1100 people, including journa ...
  • The Conservatives’ cupcake budget
    By Montreal Simon OMG. I was watching the Evan Solomon show today, and there was Julie Fantino making a complete idiot out of himself, by dismissing this poll of CARP members: 62% say it is NOT a budget which benefits older Canadians. 58% say they do NOT agree with the budget overall. ...
  • Stephen Harper’s Libyan offensive
    By Montreal Simon I just saw some video of Canadian jets refuelling at Prestwick Airport near Glasgow. I just saw tornado fighters from Lossiemouth, the RAF base next to the Scottish village where I was born, landing in the theatre of action. I'm glad the world is taking action to stop the ...

Daily Beast

  • The Yes List: An Addictive New Drama with Shad ...
    Each week, The Daily Beast sifts through the cultural landscape to choose three top picks. This week, the hunt is on for Rosie Larsen's killer, ex-porn star Sasha Grey gets into the book business, and everyone jumps aboard the crime noir bus. No Mad...
  • Oh Land and Eske Kath's Visual Art
    Denmark's breakout singer Oh Land took over a New York gallery for a series of intimate and sparkling visual art shows. The former ballerina spoke to Marlow Stern about her inspiration. With her slender physique and sharp, Claudia Schiffer cheekbones,...
  • Beer Tax Break Brews Bipartisanship
    Budget deficit be damned, lawmakers of both parties are supporting a $67 million tax break for microbreweries. The Center for Public Integrity [LINK: www.publicintegrity.org] reveals how the industry is winning new friends. Lawmakers who normally...
  • The Person Behind the Porn Wikileaks Website
    Porn Wikileaks is attempting to expose the identities-and STDs-of thousands of adult-film performers. Richard Abowitz talks to the vigilante who claims to be behind the renegade effort. Like many of the women who perform in porn for a couple of years,...
  • The East is Red: Diane Von Furstenberg's High- ...
    The designer dazzles Shanghai with her sumptuous Red Ball, which was both a fabulous party and a celebration of East and West that underlines the growing importance of China as a high-fashion market, writes Melinda Liu. Just when China's glitterati...

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Relocation of evacuees
    The March 11 massive earthquake and tsunami and the crisis at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant at one point made some 450,000 people, mostly from Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures, homeless. Now some 170,000 people are staying at temporary evacuation shelters. ...
  • This earthquake still felt all over Japan
    When my friends back home contacted me to see if I was OK after the March 11 disaster, I told everyone the same thing. "We're OK. We live 500 miles (800 km) from the disaster zone. We haven't been affected at all." We didn't even feel the earthquake, not even slightly. We have had no blackouts. ...
  • International school typifies Sendai's communi ...
    Local merchants crowded in with proud parents and teachers, eyes glued to the screen and banners waving. It could have been anywhere in Japan during Koshien season: a community gathered around the television in the school cafeteria, neighbors coming together to cheer the home team at the annual ...
  • Funding reconstruction
    The record ¥92.41 trillion budget for fiscal 2011 was enacted Tuesday. Although the opposition-controlled Upper House voted it down earlier in the day, it was enacted due to a constitutional provision that mandates that a Lower House vote on a national budget prevails over an Upper House vote. E ...
  • Students whip up multilingual site with disast ...
    On the day after the March 11 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, a group of students from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies gathered a group of volunteers to set up a multilingual website for foreign residents seeking information about the disaster. The site, which can be found at nip0.wordpress ...

Hudson New York

  • Ergenekon Prosecutor Suddenly Re-Assigned
    Top Ergenekon prosecutor Zekeriya Öz has been removed from the coup-plot investigation in what he called a "surprise" reassignment that observers characterized as both a promotion and a punishment for his aggressive moves in the case. "I did not expect
  • Will Palestinians Be Deported From Syria?
    The Syrian authorities seem to be convinced that Palestinians played an active role in instigating anti-government demonstrations in a number of cities in the past few weeks. Buthaina Shaaban, an advisor to Syrian dictator Bashar Assad, surprised many
  • African Mercenaries in Libya, Part II
    Dictators all over Africa have aligned themselves with Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi, supporting his crackdown on his civilian opposition. Many African governments have sent troops to help Gaddafi stay in power, and thousands of other African mercenaries
  • Listen to Julian Speaking About His Fellow Jews
    Movie producer and distributor Harvey Weinstein and film director Julian Schnabel, two Jews, got a cinema all for themselves, no charge, to show their new creation. And what a place it is: The United Nations, to show a movie named "Miral." Good people,
  • Norway's "Boycott" of Pro-Israel Speakers
    I recently completed a "speaking tour" of Norwegian Universities on the topic of "international law as applied to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict." The sponsors of the tour—a Norwegian pro-Israel group—offered to have me lecture without any charge to

    Blacklisted News

  • Target China: A deeper look at the globalist ...
    While lofty, poorly articulated ideals like "democracy" and "freedom" are used by the West as leverage to divide and weaken the nation, real affronts to human rights and freedom, such as China's "one-child policy" or the exploitation of labor are either ignored or wildly applauded by the West. ...
  • WALMART chief warns of 'serious' inflation in ...
    The world’s largest retailer is working with suppliers to minimize the effect of cost increases and believes its low-cost business model will position it better than its competitors.
  • Is Nobel Peace Prize Winner Obama More Brutal ...
    Many governments, U.S. congressmen and other individuals have demanded that Obama return his Nobel peace prize for bombing Libya without congressional approval.
  • A List Of 28 Things That Will Make You Realis ...
    Unfortunately, right now most Americans are completely asleep.  Just like during the declining years of the Roman Empire, most people that live in the U.S. are spoiled, decadent and completely addicted to entertainment.
  • The Fed Releases Thousands Of Secret Bailout ...
    The Fed just released another batch of documents detailing which banks used the emergency discount window at the height of the financial crisis.

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

  • Shunning Grassroots that Propelled ‘08 E ...
    Republicans and Democrats are already gearing up for the 2012 election, projected to be the most expensive in history. Obama is expected to formally kick off his re-election bid on April 14, and his campaign could raise as much as $1 billion. In a move criticized by progressives, Obama has appoi ...
  • Rep. Kucinich: Lack of Congressional Approval ...
    Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio joins us to discuss why he thinks President Obama may have committed an “impeachable offense” by committing U.S. military forces to enforce a no-fly zone over Libya without congressional approval. “This president has assumed power that no president, not ev ...
  • Ivory Coast Crisis Intensifies as Anti-Gbagbo ...
    Ivory Coast leader Laurent Gbagbo is battling to remain in power as rival Alassane Ouattara’s forces surround the main city of Abidjan. Much of the fighting is concentrated around Gbagbo’s heavily fortified presidential palace. Ouattara’s forces are estimated to control as much as 80 percent of ...
  • Democrats Vow to Seek Public Referendum as Ohi ...
    Ohio Republican Gov. John Kasich has signed a bill that strips collective bargaining rights for more than 360,000 state workers and bars them from striking. Democrats have announced plans to collect some 230,000 signatures in the next 90 days to block immediate implementation of the law and put ...
  • Headlines for April 1, 2011
    Reports: Dozens of Civilian Casualties in Gaddafi, Western Attacks, U.S.: Despite Losses, Gaddafi Forces Remain Intact, Report: CIA Operatives Were in Libya Before Presidential Order, More Officials Leave Gaddafi Regime, U.N.: “Dramatic” Humanitarian Situation in Libya, Ohio Enacts Anti-Union La ...

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • A Package to Resolve the Nuclear Impasse with Iran
    Summary: Mousavian Eight years of negotiations between Iran and the P5+ Germany on the nuclear issue have failed and will likely continue to do so, as long as the existing negotiating strategy and the hostilities between Iran and the US persist. After the revolution, despite Western support ...
  • Turkey, Iran must form alliance to preserve gl ...
    Summary: Speaking to the AA in Tehran where he arrived to attend the "Second International Nevruz Celebrations", Arinc said that Iran was highly pleased to see Turkey's participation in Nevruz celebrations at the level of a deputy prime minister. Stressing that he met Iranian President Mahmu ...
  • U.S. court backs Iran in dispute over assets
    Summary: PersepolisThe appeals court did not rule on the fate of the antiquities but it said the lower court wrongly denied Iran its sovereign immunity, which it says is presumed and did not need to be asserted in court by Iran. The ruling also voided the lower court's order that all Iranian ...
  • Iran has a right to peaceful nuclear energy: India
    Summary: Iran IndiaEmphasizing Iran's right to pursue a civilian nuclear programme, India has said that Tehran should reassure the international community that its nuclear project is only meant for peaceful purposes. "India has taken a consistent stand on the Iranian nuclear issue," Hardeep ...
  • In Midst Of Libya Conflict, Bolton Argues For ...
    Summary: BoltonThinkProgress spoke with Bolton, who is weighing a run for the Republican presidential nomination, at the Conservative Principles Conference in Iowa. Despite current military engagements in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya, Bolton urged the United States to also keep its focus on ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Could Jupiter Hold the Key to Solving the Myst ...
    Utane Sawangwit and Tom Shanks of Durham University believe that errors on the “gold standard” cosmic microwave background results from the WMAP satellite that includes dark matter, dark energy and the exponential expansion after the Big Bang known as inflation...
  • The Milky Way Has Two Billion Earthlike Planet ...
    "Aliens could have been pointing their antennas at Earth for 4.6 billion years, without picking up a signal. Maybe the inhabitants [of a Twin Earth] are at the level of the classical Romans ... or maybe trilobites. We need to...
  • Image of the Day -The Brightest Quasar in the ...
    At the center of this barred spiral galaxy lurks quasar QSO 1229+204 -- an object brighter than anything in the known universe. The distant quasar appears so bright that astronomers had to use the high resolving power of the Hubble...
  • 'The Urban Species': UN warns of "a deadly col ...
    "As a species we have lived in wild nature for hundreds of thousands of years, and now suddenly most of us live in cities—the ultimate escape from nature. If we do not learn to build, expand and design our cities...
  • Asteroid Belt Yields New Evidence for Beginnin ...
    The first geological evidence to support previous theories based on computer models and lab experiments, about how the earliest rocks were formed, has been developed by researchers from Imperial College London and other international institutions. The study concludes that the...

Natural News

  • A 100-year battle awaits Fukushima while suici ...
    (NaturalNews) The unfolding of the Fukushima catastrophe continues to worsen. Here are today's most important developments:• A nuclear expert is now warning that it will take 50 to 100 years before the spent nuclear rods at Fukushima will cool enough to be removed from the site. In the mean time ...
  • Organic groups, farmers file preemptive lawsui ...
    (NaturalNews) In order to avoid completely losing their businesses and livelihoods to the predatory business model of Monsanto, 60 family farmers, seed businesses and organic agricultural organizations have collectively filed a preemptive lawsuit against the multinational biotechnology giant. Fi ...
  • British doctors illegally prescribe ADHD drugs ...
    (NaturalNews) The overall rise in the number of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) drugs being dispensed to children has been a major cause of concern among some medical groups, particularly as such drugs are now being prescribed to children under the age of six. In the UK, National ...
  • Fukushima meltdown update: Cesium in the soil, ...
    (NaturalNews) Here are the latest developments on the Fukushima catastrophe, including quotes from a well-known physicist who is now raising the alarm over "three raging meltdowns" at the Fukushima complex.• As the Wall Street Journal reports (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703806 ...
  • UK grocers adopt humorously illegitimate certi ...
    (NaturalNews) The Round Table on Responsible Soy Association (RTRS), a group that claims to promote "responsible soy production," is now allowing UK grocers that stock products containing genetically-modified (GM) soy to label them as "sustainable," as long as they meet certain criteria. Accordi ...

Threat Level

  • Former Teen Stock Swindler Sentenced to Three ...
    A former teenage hacker who once served time for an online stock-trading scheme was sentenced in New York this week to three years in prison on new charges of cracking a New York-based currency exchange service and gifting himself more than $100,000. Van T. Dinh, now 27, was also ordered to pay ...
  • Top Computer Scientists Back WikiLeaks Associa ...
    The government should be required to obtain a search warrant to get the IP addresses of Twitter users linked to WikiLeaks, argues a court brief filed Thursday by a group of respected security experts who say the addresses carry a higher expectation of privacy than mere phone numbers. The amicus ...
  • How Mass BitTorrent Lawsuits Turn Low-Budget M ...
    On March 7, Camelot Distribution Group, an obscure film company in Los Angeles, unveiled its latest and potentially most profitable release: a federal lawsuit against BitTorrent users who allegedly downloaded the company’s 2010 B-movie revenge flick Nude Nuns With Big Guns between January and ...
  • NSA to Investigate Nasdaq Hack
    The National Security Agency has been called in to help investigate recent hack attacks against the company that runs the Nasdaq stock market, according to a news report. The agency’s precise role in the investigation hasn’t been disclosed, but its involvement suggests the October 2010 attacks m ...
  • Australian Prime Minister Hacked
    Computers belonging to the Australian prime minister and at least nine other federal ministers were recently hacked, according to a news report. Besides Prime Minister Julia Gillard, Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd and Defense Minister Stephen Smith were also targeted. Several thousand e-mails wer ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Desperate Evangelical Leaders Turn to Trump
    Given his emergence as the new face of the "Birther" movement, it comes as no surprise that Fox News has rewarded Donald Trump with a weekly slot on its morning show. (After all, with Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee, Rick Santorum and now "Monday Mornings with Trump" fixtures on the n ...
  • Taking Sides in the Palin-Maher Squirmish
    From taxes and the First Amendment to Reagan's Iran/Contra scandal, how much energy her home state of Alaska produces and so much more, Sarah Palin doesn't know what she doesn't know. Regardless, the language comedian Bill Maher recently used to describe her shocking ignorance and incessant dem ...
  • Cash Strapped States Face Self-Inflicted Budge ...
    Facing dire budget crises, governors nationwide are waging an economic race to the bottom. In Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Tennessee and Idaho, the new GOP leadership is pursuing draconian curbs on public employee unions supposedly to rein in compensation and pensions of government worke ...
  • Meet the Republican Undisqualified
    As was proven once again this weekend, for Republicans nothing succeeds like failure. Across the Sunday talk shows and op-ed pages, a legion of GOP luminaries spoke authoritatively on subjects they had frequently - and often catastrophically - bungled in the past. Apparently, no transgression ...
  • Cain Joins Romney in Barring Muslims from Cabinet
    At an event hosted by Rep. Steve King in Iowa yesterday, the clown car of would-be Republican White House hopefuls quickly put to rest quickly any notion of a "truce" on social issues. And while Newt Gingrich seemed to question whether Islam was a "true religion," former pizza mogul Herman Cain ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • What to Do About Japan - And What Not
    Anyone watching the devastation in Japan must certainly wonder what we as individuals should be doing to help. For some insight, we turn to Richard Walden, a most unusual leader of a most unusual humanitarian relief group, called Operation USA. His organization’s efforts are well known to WhoWha ...
  • The FANTASTIC FOUR Remake/Remodel
    So every few weeks I do a game on my message board where I set up the conditions for doing a visual revamp on an old character or title from books and comics and let artists go at it for one week. This week I said this: You are an artist/designer. You have to put [...]
  • Protectionism After the Crisis: The Case of La ...
    It is accepted wisdom that protectionism is a first gut reaction in times of crisis, but there are few studies on how different countries react to get themselves over the hump. What did we see this time when the global financial crisis hit in late 2008? After six years of expanding on an annual ...
  • Treason Has No Rhyme Nor Reason
    Julian Assange asks why shouldn't the Australian people consider charging Prime Minister Julia Gillard with treason? What's wrong with this picture? Nothing. Granted, one person's Benedict Arnold is another's Paul Revere. But, if betrayal and illegally passing on intelligence to the United State ...
  • Manning's Appeal of Refusal to Relax Condition ...
    Bradley Manning's appeal of the refusal to relax his conditions of confinement makes a strong case that he has been a model prisoner who is being unjustly abused. His inhumane treatment violates his due process rights and is cruel and unusual punishment. After providing detailed descriptions of ...

Consortium News

  • A Two-Decade Detour into Empire
    In spring 1991, a chance for prying open dark secrets of the U.S. empire was crushed by powerful interests, reports Robert Parry. March 31, 2011
  • The Looming Government Shutdown
    Ruling out taxes on the rich, Republicans demand deeper spending cuts to avert a government shutdown, says Danny Schechter. April 1, 2011
  • A Wave of Wackiness Sweeps America
    A Tea Party-driven surge of strange political ideas is crashing across America's legislative landscape, observes Don Monkerud. April 1, 2011
  • Into the Shifting Sands of Libya
    President Obama is already under pressure to expand the U.S. role in Libya by arming the anti-Gaddafi rebels, notes Ivan Eland. March 30, 2011
  • Warriors of the Mainstream Media
    The New York Times and Washington Post criticize President Obama for not acting more unilaterally on Libya, says Robert Parry. March 29, 2011

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Texas Nuke Waste Dump site to Premiere summer ...
    In a stunning press release this morning, 20th Century Fox announced that the tiny Texas town of Andrews, home to a new nuclear waste dump owned by Waste Control Specialists, will hold a gala event to premiere one of this summer’s blockbusters, X-men: First Class.  For those not familiar, X-men ...
  • Celebrate Earth Day all month with H-E-B and E ...
    Beginning this week and lasting through April, H-E-B customers in most areas of Texas can support the environmental work of EarthShare of Texas organizations by contributing $1, $3 or $5 at H-E-B check-out stands.  Public Citizen’s Texas office is a member of EarthShare and this also supports o ...
  • TLR protesters [Flickr]
    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:
  • Deadline to comment on STP 1 & 2 relicensing a ...
    The deadline for citizen comments to the NRC on re-licensing of the South Texas Nuclear Project units 1 and 2 is tomorrow, April 1st. The applicant for license renewal is STPNOC – the South Texas Nuclear Operating Company. The Matagorda County nuclear reactors are owned by NRG South Texas LP, CP ...
  • Bill of the Day – SB 655
    SB 655 by Hegar, or the Texas Railroad Commission Sunset Bill, suffered a setback in the Senate today. Senate Bill 655 would retire the Texas Railroad Commission and replace it with the Texas Oil and Gas Commission. It would also reorganize the agency and replace three elected commissioners with ...

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

  • Celebrating Palestinian Land Day
    olive_tree_in_field.jpg At the rate the Separation Wall is being built, soon Palestinian Land Day (March 30) will need only a few hours. The Wall and the Israeli mandated buffer zones jut into the Palestinian territories by as much as 300 ...
  • Update from farmers in Japan
    �Below is an update from Grassroots International�s partner, the Via Campesina, concerning the situation of farmers in Japan. To keep up to date with the� Noumiren blog, visit http://earlybirds.ddo.jp/earlybirds/saigai/?lang=en.read more
  • Keeping the Sacred Waters Flowing
    women_in_the_narmada_valley_face_drowning_in_rising_dam_waters.jpg � Rivers are sacred in many cultures and central to the World�s early civilizations, from Mesopotamia and Egypt to India and China. Perhaps this was on his mind when Jawaha ...
  • Farmer Tractorcade Supports Workers in Wisconsin
    Farmers demonstrated the strength of their solidarity with pro-union forces in Wisconsin through the creative force of a “tractorcade,” and the inspiring power of their words and actions. Grassroots International allies from the Family Farm Defenders and the National Family Farm Coalition played ...
  • Solidarity and Support for the People of Japan
    Grassroots International joins with those around the world in expressing our sadness and concern for the people of Japan in the wake of the earthquake and subsequent tsunami. Thousands have died, and many more are missing or being evacuated due to ongoing health and safety threats.� While Grass ...

Climate

GreenBiz

Reuters Global

  • A tribute to journalist and colleague Sabah al ...
    For those of us who work in the Baghdad bureau, it is always a shock to look back through the collected photos of one of our Iraqi colleagues. We think we are used to those old scenes. But seen one after another, the images compiled over eight years of carnage by a single journalist like Sabah a ...
  • What’s really behind Merkel’s nucl ...
    Angela Merkel may have boosted her chances of winning a third term with a much-criticised U-turn on nuclear power.
  • Standing on the warfront: when sport divides I ...
    In the run-up to Wednesday's cricket match between India and Pakistan, passions are running high on both sides of the border and in the diaspora which is following their teams' progress in the game's biggest tournament
  • India-Pakistan – cricket, spooks and peace
    When the prime ministers of India and Pakistan watch their teams play in the semi-finals of the Cricket World Cup this week, "cricket diplomacy" may be in there with a fighting chance.
  • On Taliban talks and driving out al Qaeda
    A report by The Century Foundation calling for a political settlement in Afghanistan suggests that Taliban leader Mullah Omar could break with al Qaeda by declaring the jihad over

Booman Tribune

  • Lies Thrive When Climate Activists are Silent
    When Al Gore was actively promoting awareness of the Inconvenient truth of climate change, by 2008 nearly two thirds of Americans when polled on the question said they worried "a great deal or a fair amount" about the effects of climate change. Yet, since that time, many Democrats and green a ...
  • Multi-Dimensional Chess
    This raises an obvious question: Senate Republicans are growing impatient with the stalemate over 2011 funding levels and want to save their political capital for a debate on the debt limit and entitlement reform. But they must contend with bloc of House conservatives who want an unqualifi ...
  • Weird News
    It's safe to go outside again. They found the Bronx Zoo cobra. Of course, it makes me feel a little inadequate to learn that I have a couple hundred thousand fewer Twitter followers than a snake. Now, I ask you, is it inappropriate to use the word 'uterus' around young pages and messenger ...
  • Wanker of the Day: Muammar el-Qaddafi
    Two very senior members of the Libyan government defected today, but Muammar remains defiant: Colonel Qaddafi, who has not been seen in public recently, was quoted on state television as saying that the leaders of the allied countries were affected by power madness, The Associated Press repor ...
  • My New Fave GOP Conspiracy Theory
    They called us conspiracy theorists when we said there was no WMD in Iraq and that Bush administration was the most corrupt in history or that we used White Phosphorus munitions against civilians in Fallujah (all regrettably proven true). But when it comes to conspiracy theorists no one, bu ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

  • Does a Little Chat Make You Feel Fat?
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Women often engage in conversations about their body weight. For most women, this type of discussion is common. Women can think that complimenting a friend while making disparaging remarks about their own physique is beneficial to the other and has no negative cons ...
  • Can Real Time News Really Increase Anxiety?
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline In our rapidly evolving technological society, many people fall victim to anxiety from over exposure to current traumatic events. Dr. Judith Orloff states that these people become addicted to the rush of the “fight or fight” response, and can quickly become obsess ...
  • ADHD May Be Colored By Food Dye Regulation
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline The FDA’s Food Advisory Committee will be discussing newly released research relating to a potential link between food dyes and hyperactivity in children. The research suggests that certain children who have been diagnosed with ADHD may actually possess intoleranc ...
  • Psychotropic Medications Can Increase Risk of ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline A team of researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, undertook a study to evaluate just how safe various psychotropic medications were in the treatment of clients in nursing homes, primarily those suffering from dementia. The study loo ...
  • Being Bullied Aids in Development of Anxiety I ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Bullying can have serious psychological ramifications, according to a new study involving mice. This new research suggests that bullying, along with other social stressors, can affect gene activity in the brain. The study warns that these changes may result in the ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • EPA on the Brink: Kentucky Leader Teri Blanton ...
    EPA on the Brink: Kentucky Leader Teri Blanton on Next Steps for Anti ... Huffington Post (blog) TB: Mountain top removal is but one of a number of issues that will be addressed as our country develops an energy plan for the future. Ending mountaintop removal is a hollow victory if it just resu ...
  • Grad-student archaeologist returns to coal cou ...
    Grad-student archaeologist returns to coal country to aid a vibrant movement UC Berkeley In Appalachia, where coal is king and traditional underground mining is giving way to a radical extractive technology known as “mountaintop removal.” A Berkeley archaeology and anthropology student proud of ...
  • 'Justified' Fan Columnist: Counting the Reason ...
    Ology 'Justified' Fan Columnist: Counting the Reasons to Leave Kentucky BuddyTV Art tells Raylan he's been assigned to guard Carol (Rebecca Creskoff), the spokesperson for mining company Black Pike, who's speaking at a town meeting about the mine's plans for mountaintop removal. This means basi ...
  • Editorial: General Assembly takes one step for ...
    Editorial: General Assembly takes one step forward, two steps back Jackson Sun Legislation to ban mountain top removal by coal mining companies died again this year. Defeat of the measure is seen as protection for coal mining companies in Tennessee. That the measure died in the Senate Environme ...
  • Mountaintop removal ban dies in Tenn. Senate - ...
    Mountaintop removal ban dies in Tenn. Senate BusinessWeek This year's effort to ban mountaintop removal coal mining in Tennessee has failed in a Senate committee. The Senate Environment and Conservation Committee voted 6-2 against the bill sponsored by Sen. Eric Stewart of Winchester after a ne ...

Memeorandum

  • GOP senators are itching to move on from spat ...
    Alexander Bolton / The Hill: GOP senators are itching to move on from spat over 2011 spending cuts  —  Senate Republicans are growing impatient with the stalemate over 2011 funding levels and want to save their political capital for a debate on the debt limit and entitlement reform.  —  But the ...
  • United Nations Workers Killed by Afghan Mob (R ...
    Rod Nordland / New York Times: United Nations Workers Killed by Afghan Mob  —  KABUL, Afghanistan — Thousands of demonstrators angered over the burning of a Koran in Florida mobbed offices of the United Nations in northern Afghanistan on Friday, overrunning the compound and killing at least se ...
  • Foreign Banks Tapped Fed's Lifeline Most as Be ...
    Bloomberg: Foreign Banks Tapped Fed's Lifeline Most as Bernanke Kept Borrowers Secret  —  U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke's two-year fight to shield crisis-squeezed banks from the stigma of revealing their public loans protected a lender to local governments in Belgium …
  • Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1% (Joseph E. St ...
    Joseph E. Stiglitz / Vanity Fair: Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%  —  Americans have been watching protests against oppressive regimes that concentrate massive wealth in the hands of an elite few.  Yet in our own democracy, 1 percent of the people take nearly a quarter of the nation's income— ...
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    Byron York / Washington Examiner: Uncovered: New $2 billion bailout in Obamacare  —  Uncovered: New $2 billion bailout in Obamacare  — TAGS: - center for consumer information and insurance oversight - early retiree reinsurance program - obamacare  —  Chief Political Correspondent Follow Him @By ...

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  • China’s tainted rice trail (1)
    One tenth of China’s rice yield may carry harmful levels of cadmium, say researchers. In the first section of a three-part article, Gong Jing reports on heavy metals in the food chain.Eighty-four year old Li Wenxiang pulled a small bag of rice out from under a paint-stained table. The grains wer ...
  • China’s tainted rice trail (2)
    A failure to clamp down on heavy-metal pollution has led to an escalating crisis in China’s rice sector, which is largely going ignored, writes Gong Jing.In January 2006, in the southern Chinese village of Xinma, some 2,000 kilometres away from Side, two people died and a further 150 were diagno ...
  • China’s tainted rice trail (3)
    Until the Chinese government takes soil pollution seriously, contaminated food will remain a real and pressing problem, concludes Gong Jing. Farmers cannot fix it alone.In his lectures on soil pollution, Chen Tongbin always starts with four slides – a sky full of thick smog, a filthy river, pile ...
  • Making a killing on food
    Traders and economists see a worrying trend. By exploiting the deregulation of global commodity markets, banks and others are making fortunes by speculating on food – and causing misery around the world. John Vidal reports.Just under three years ago, people in the village of Gumbi in western Mal ...
  • The battle for Nanjing’s trees
    The graceful plane trees that line Nanjing’s streets are a symbol of the city’s history. As a subway expansion threatens to uproot them, citizens are rising in protest, writes Meng Si.Nanjing’s historic plane trees, which line the streets of China’s “southern capital”, are being uprooted to make ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Libya Rape Charge: View With Caution
    As reprehensible as Qaddafiâs regime is, it is important to be on our guard against psyops–disinformation efforts designed to sway public opinion.  The Pentagon and CIA, as well as agencies of many other countries, have extensive operations focused on this objective. In this light, we might ...
  • March to Stop the Freeloaders
    The nation’s greedy corporations and insatiable wealthy are fattening themselves on workers. There’s no trickle down. It’s the opposite; the rich have been sucking the economic lifeblood from the middle class for decades. When reckless Wall Street banksters get taxpayer-funded bailouts, billiona ...
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    “Next Steps for the Anti-Mountaintop Removal Movement” will be a series of interviews with affected residents and activists in the central Appalachian coalfields region, including West Virginia leader Bo Webb, Kentuckian Teri Blanton, Kathy Selvage in Virginia, Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson in Tenne ...
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    Jonathan Rowe was, by inclination, an unobtrusive man. He moved through this world quietly, and he left quietly. He did not promote himself. He was not comfortable seeking recognition. He concentrated instead on substance. Jon died the other day, abruptly, with no warning of any kind, and left b ...
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    Written by Amanda Marcotte for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice. Leave it to the legislature of South Dakota, which tried to ban abortion outright but found the law rejected by a popular vote, to come around in a season of unprecedented atta ...

Threat Level

  • Former Teen Stock Swindler Sentenced to Three ...
    A former teenage hacker who once served time for an online stock-trading scheme was sentenced in New York this week to three years in prison on new charges of cracking a New York-based currency exchange service and gifting himself more than $100,000. Van T. Dinh, now 27, was also ordered to pay ...
  • Top Computer Scientists Back WikiLeaks Associa ...
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  • How Mass BitTorrent Lawsuits Turn Low-Budget M ...
    On March 7, Camelot Distribution Group, an obscure film company in Los Angeles, unveiled its latest and potentially most profitable release: a federal lawsuit against BitTorrent users who allegedly downloaded the company’s 2010 B-movie revenge flick Nude Nuns With Big Guns between January and ...
  • NSA to Investigate Nasdaq Hack
    The National Security Agency has been called in to help investigate recent hack attacks against the company that runs the Nasdaq stock market, according to a news report. The agency’s precise role in the investigation hasn’t been disclosed, but its involvement suggests the October 2010 attacks m ...
  • Australian Prime Minister Hacked
    Computers belonging to the Australian prime minister and at least nine other federal ministers were recently hacked, according to a news report. Besides Prime Minister Julia Gillard, Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd and Defense Minister Stephen Smith were also targeted. Several thousand e-mails wer ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • Special report: The West's unwanted war in Libya
    PARIS (Reuters) - It is a war that Barack Obama didn't want, David Cameron didn't need, Angela Merkel couldn't cope with and Silvio Berlusconi dreaded.
  • Employment jumps in March, jobless rate falls
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. employment recorded a second straight month of solid gains in March and the jobless rate fell to a two-year low of 8.8 percent, underscoring a decisive shift in the labor market that should help to underpin the economic recovery.
  • WRAPUP 4-Japan PM vows funding to tackle long ...
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  • GE unlikely to face liability in Japanese nucl ...
    NEW YORK, April 1 (Reuters Legal) - The Japanese nuclear crisis has created a public-relations headache for General Electric Co , but the company so far has escaped any legal fallout, and many experts expect it will continue to do so.
  • JA Solar sees pressure on margin easing in H2
    SHANGHAI (Reuters) - JA Solar Holdings Co Ltd expects pressures on its gross margins to ease in the second half of this year because it expects supply of polysilicon, the solar industry's key raw material, will rise sharply, its chief executive said on Friday.

IntelNews

  • CIA active on the ground in Libya ‘for several ...
    Few intelligence observers have been surprised by revelations in The New York Times that several cells of Central Intelligence Agency officers have been active on the ground in Libya for the best part of March. Continue reading →
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  • Israel to revoke citizenship for spying under ...
    A new law passed by the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, allows courts for the first time in Israelâs history to revoke the Israeli citizenship of those convicted of espionage, treason, or aiding "enemy organizations". Continue reading →
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  • Did Jordan help Israeli Mossad abduct Gaza eng ...
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War is a Crime.org

  • Exposed: The US-Saudi Libya deal
    By Pepe Escobar, Asia Times read more
  • In Praise of Older, More Experienced Teachers
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  • Bring War Dollars Home by Closing Down Bases
    By Christine Ahn and Sukjong Hong, FPIF On the eighth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, U.S. fighter planes took off to start yet another military action -- this time, in Libya. A recent Gallup poll found that only 47 percent of Americans approved of military action in Libya, the lowes ...
  • Prepare For Revolution: The Empire State Rebel ...
    By David DeGraw, AmpedStatus Report - Contrary to rumors being spread around, I do not know what our friends at Anonymous have planned for Operation Empire State Rebellion (OpESR). However, I wholeheartedly agree with the goals they presented in their "Communication #1" video. They are very si ...
  • Afghan Youth Write Letter: "Please Stop Killin ...
    From the Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers Reconciliation of Civil Hearts: The ordinary voice of peace from Afghanistan Salam, ‘aleikum! - - سلام علیکم!   We welcome you and the possibility of peace to this forgotten but gorgeous place.   We thank you for your hearts of peace in joining us t ...

Grist - News

  • In five years, you could charge your iPod with ...
    by Jess Zimmerman. Yeah, sure, if nanotechnology gets out of control it could lead to a scenario where the entire world turns into gray goo. But if it DOESN’T get out of control, it could lead to a scenario where you can charge your iPod by snapping your fingers -- or even just with your ...
  • Science bites climate skeptics in the ass on t ...
    by Jess Zimmerman. If you’re a climate hawk, or even a climate hobbyist, this graph should look familiar -- it’s the warming trend over the last 100-odd years. Except the guy who busted this out at the House climate science hearing yesterday was brought in by the Republicans to debunk ...
  • Joe Romm of Climate Progress speaks at Tea Par ...
    by Jess Zimmerman. Apparently this isn't even the first time climate blogger Joe Romm has gotten pulled into a Tea Party fantasy. Talk about drinking the Kool-Aid. (Although I don't see any Kool-Aid.) Romm speaks at about 1:29.
  • New line of kitchen appliances will be powered ...
    by Jess Zimmerman. It might be time to rethink the adage "don't sh*t where you eat." Silicon Valley-based startup Advanced Recycling Concepts (ARC) announced Thursday that it will soon be offering a new line of kitchen appliances powered by poo, following a recent trend of excrement-power ...
  • Climate change linked to rising infertility
    by Christopher Mims. Mmm, nothing like some hot scrambled huevos: A new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention details rising infertility rates in America -- and, for the first time, cites global warming as one potential culprit. The report, released earlier this ...

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Farming Pathogens

  • From Reactor to Plate
    âJapan’s PM vows to win battle against nuke plantâ reads one recent headline. It is unclear which possibility is worse, that Naoto Kan has failed to grasp the plant at Fukushima Dai-ichi has already defeated Japan, or that he knows full well and broadcasts a ânecessary lieâ protecting an industr ...
  • Evolutionary Investigations
    1.1 A particular kind of evolutionary biology—lost in its capitalist devotionals—uses the failures of its mortal enemies—say, creationist science—to defend itself against all other kinds of critiques. 1.1.1 “But you are giving aid and comfort to the enemy…” is a common refrain, devoid of substan ...
  • Red River
    It is the height of hubris to think we could [destroy the planet]…God is not capricious. He’s given us a creation that is dynamically stable. We are not going to run out of anything. –Minnesota State Representative Mike Beard (R-Shakopee) Sims Reeves: Plantin’ and readin’, plantin’ and readin’. ...
  • Egypt’s Food Pyramids
    A million minds momentarily magnetizing themselves along the same axis can turn a country’s deepest despair into an ecstatic sprint for freedom. What a people find revolting–a dictator decorated in American apologia–can be turned by a people’s revolt ridiculous. No wonder so much effort (and mon ...
  • The Scientific American
    Science is the business right now. If the science works, the business works, and vice versa. –Craig Venter Bird flu marinates a chicken in its own juices, a satay best avoided whatever the menu special. In such short an order better for the bistro than the barn, infected birds rapidly bleed from ...

Suzie-Q

  • April Fools
    A World View Interview with Benjamin Netanyahu Uploaded by israelnews on Mar 31, 2011 Channel 2 and YouTube bring you a special interview with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, in which citizens ask questions about the peace process, unrest in the Middle East, and more. Hogwash, how about the quest ...
  • Wisconsin Recall: First Petition To Be Filed A ...
    First Wisconsin recall petition to be filed against Republican state Senator Dan Kapanke by Chris Bowers for Daily Kos Fri Apr 01, 2011 at 09:50 AM EDT Please, support the recall effort by contributing $5 to the Democratic Party of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Democratic state Senate Committee. R ...
  • Republicans Lack the Seriousness to Govern
    The Republicans shouldn’t be taken seriously anymore. It seems obvious, but in order to be taken seriously, politicians have to be, you know, serious. Not just in terms of personality or behavior, but primarily in terms of policy and lawmaking. If a politician refuses to propose serious ideas an ...
  • Wisconsin Judge Rules Union Law Not In Effect
    Wisconsin Judge Declares Union Law Not In Effect TODD RICHMOND and SCOTT BAUER   03/31/11 11:33 AM ET   via: HuffPost MADISON, Wis. â A Wisconsin judge ruled Thursday the state’s divisive new collective bargaining law had not taken effect, and officials in Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s admini ...
  • Newt and Evangelicals: Not a Match Made in Heaven
    TIME Posted by Amy Sullivan Wednesday, March 30, 2011 What was Newt Gingrich doing at John Hagee’s Cornerstone Church on Sunday? Besides delivering another speech from his book of Demagogue Mad Libs, that is. The most obvious answer is that Gingrich is courting evangelical voters. But ever since ...

Solari

  • Why Republicans Are Acting so Crazy
    By Sam Smith Not every change in national policy and events is announced with a new conference or presidential speech. A case in point is the rapid rise of apparent mental instability in the Republican Party. You used to just disagree with Republicans; now you have to worry whether your childre ...
  • Wisconsin Judge Declares Union Law Not In Effect
    A Wisconsin judge on Thursday did what thousands of pro-union protesters and boycotting Democratic lawmakers couldn’t, forcing Republican Gov. Scott Walker to halt plans to implement a law that would strip most public workers of their collective bargaining rights and cut their pay. Dane County ...
  • Farmers, Seed Sellers Sue Monsanto
    By Kelsey Volkmann The Public Patent Foundation, on behalf of 60 family farmers, seed businesses and organic agricultural organizations, sued Monsanto Co. on Tuesday to challenge the Creve Coeur-based agricultural giant’s patents on genetically modified seeds. OSGATA-v-Monsanto-Complaint The p ...
  • Federal Reserve Rejects AIG Offer to Buy Mortg ...
    The Federal Reserve announced Wednesday that it was declining an offer from American International Group (NYSE: aig) to buy the mortgage-related assets it holds in its Maiden Lane II portfolio. Instead of selling the assets as a block to a single buyer, the Fed says it will sell the assets indi ...
  • Silver Coin Sales Continue Rising
    By Joe Weisenthal By now you know that the surge in silver prices has left gold in the dust. One reason: it’s just cheaper to buy silver coins. From Deutsche Bank: According to a recent article in the Financial Times, record sales have been recorded at the worldâs leading mints over the past se ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Can the UN give Obama the authority to send US ...
    Summary:  Many advocates for the war in Libya cite the UN Security Council resolution as giving Obama authority to start a war.  That’s easily shown to be totally false. The Constitution has died of a thousand cuts.  Small cuts.  Each accompanied by rationalizations and soothing words.   ...
  • Does al Qaeda still exist?
    Summary:  As we approach the 10th anniversary of 9-11, we should ask if al Qaeda still exists.  There is little public evidence that it does.  But dead or alive, it remains useful to our intelligence and military apparatus.  At the end are links to other posts about AQ. In the five years followi ...
  • In America, both Left and Right love the long war
    Summary:  Our new standard to determine which wars we fight:  middle aged guys declare if they would go fight — in the unlikely event anyone asked them.  Really bogus, showing the decayed state of American geopolitical thinking.  Perhaps petitions to fight wars should require that they e ...
  • The Constitution will still work for us, if we ...
    Summary:  We’re told that the Constitution has become obsolete, lacking the facilities necessary to cope with threats in the 21st century.  We must blindly trust in the President to wield our armed forces, making him a veritable Caesar.  It’s not so, as a glance at the Constitution will sho ...
  • Our prisons are a mirror showing the soul of A ...
    Summary:  Among the many forms of pressure the government puts on Bradley Manning while awaiting trial (he’s not confessed and we have not seen the evidence) are isolation and sleep deprivation.  The last is an frequent ingredient of systematic torture, needing no explanation.  The widespre ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Former Argentine Gen Eduardo Cabanillas jailed
    BBC – Former Argentine Gen Eduardo Cabanillas has been sentenced to life in prison for running a notorious detention centre during military rule in 1976-83. Three former intelligence officers were also convicted of murder, torture and illegal imprisonment. Around 200 left-wing activists were kid ...
  • US NIH obesity plan focuses on real-world research
    Reuters – U.S. health officials Thursday announced a new effort to curb America’s obesity epidemic by moving science from the lab into clinical trials to find practical ways for prevention and treatment. “This plan is a bold blueprint that will encourage the research community to examine the epi ...
  • Olmert says Gaza war inevitable
    PressTV – “If there’s one thing I regret — it’s that we didn’t finish the job back then — we cannot avoid the need to complete the job,” Olmert said on Wednesday, referring to the Gaza war while he was in office. Read article
  • Climate advisor Hans Schellnhuber declares hum ...
    Der Spiegel – Leading German climate scientist Hans Joachim Schellnhuber talks to SPIEGEL about the lessons of the Fukushima disaster, the future of nuclear energy in Germany and why our society needs to be transformed. “We consume as much oil in one year as was created in 5.3 million years,” he ...
  • Ivory Coast: Ouattara fighters ‘capture Yamous ...
    BBC - Forces loyal to one of Ivory Coast’s rival presidents, Alassane Ouattara, have captured the administrative capital Yamoussoukro, residents say. Fighting erupted when they later entered the key port of San Pedro on their advance from the north against incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo. Read ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Europe Had Better Wake Up
    I support the [UK] Government in what they are doing, through NATO, in Libya. There is absolutely no doubt that, had timely action not been taken, Benghazi and eastern Libya would have fallen, and the consequences for the civilian population in that area would have been grim indeed. Our forces i ...
  • Gates: There Is ‘Absolutely No Evidence’ That ...
    Part of the debate in Washington surrounding American involvement in Libya is whether the U.S. is actually helping terrorists take down Muammar Qaddafi’s regime. Earlier this week, U.S. NATO commander Adm. James Stavridis told the Senate Armed Services Committee that there are potentially “flick ...
  • Safe Conducts, Immunities and International Crimes
    The arrival in the UK of the Libyan Foreign Minister and former Head of Intelligence, Moussa Koussa, raises some interesting questions. Consider the facts: one the one hand, although Moussa Koussa has, apparently, been a force for moderation in recent years, in his heyday he was an unapologetic ...
  • Saudi Nukes in Gulf
    Overlooked in the welter of fast moving events throughout the Arab world was a Saudi Arabian call for transforming the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council into "an entity identical to the (27-nation) European Union" -- plus nuclear weapons. Saudi Arabia has grown impatient "Waiting for Godot." S ...
  • China Releases National Defense 2010 White Paper
    China has released a white paper titled: China's National Defense in 2010. A key quote: In the first decade of the 21st century, the international community forged ahead in a new phase of opening up and cooperation, and at the same time faced crises and changes. Sharing opportunities for dev ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Low Consumer Confidence Plus High Gas Prices D ...
    It's worth revisiting this Robert Reich op-ed from two days ago in light of today's jobs numbers. Reich points out that while job growth has grown slowly though not at the rate needed for recovery, consumer confidence is at it's lowest since the Great Depression, largely because of the rise in f ...
  • Today at the Prospect
    Ben Adler writes that Democrats could actually cut the deficit and redefine foreign policy by going after defense spending -- if only they were brave enough to try. Scott Lemieux tells us that John Thompson spent 14 years on death row because prosecutors withheld evidence, but the Supreme Court ...
  • Carbon Bills
    The Hill's E2 Wire is reporting that a Senate vote on EPA carbon regulations won't happen until next week. Although the White House handed out some tepid reassurance that it would not sell the EPA down the river, it doesn't sound like the administration will jump to the agency's defense. At the ...
  • Latinos Pressure Obama on Immigration
    Pressure around the issue of deportation of undocumented immigrants appears to be coming to a boil, the Associated Press reports. The anger comes from a statement by President Obama at a Univision town hall that he couldn't use executive orders as president. Obama had said that using executive o ...
  • Why Conservatives Love Hippies
    History's greatest monster. (Flickr/Nelson Piedra) Jonathan Chait noticed that the Weekly Standard loves hippies an awful lot; he put together a slideshow of Standard cover illustrations depicting hippies engaged in various acts of malfeasance. "Though the influence of hippies culture has been ...

Buzzflash

  • Reducing Fat in the Budget: Let's Start With C ...
    MICHAEL HITTLEMAN FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Republicans are creating a revolution in America's way of life.  From advocating child labor to deregulating industries to reining in those greedy public employees, Republicans are giving us taxpayers an enormous break.  It's about time because, Lord k ...
  • Phony Fiscal Overlay Hides Same Old Right-Wing ...
    Body Even excluding the ludicrous flip flops of folks like Newt Gingrich, Republicans are developing into the most disingenuous bunch of phonies ever to lay claim to legitimate mainstream status. The public tends to distrust politicians in general, but these days only the most naï ...
  • Supremacy of White Supremacy
    STEVEN JONAS FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT In a BuzzFlash Commentary dated Aug. 25, 2009 (http://blog.buzzflash.com/jonas/167) I pointed out that the South had six principal war aims in the Civil War: 1. The preservation of the institution of African and African-American (courtesy of the slave owne ...
  • Why Did the Federal Reserve Provide Billions o ...
    A BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT NEWS ALERT In a March 31st statement, Senator Bernie Sanders (Vermont-I) questioned why the Federal Reserve provided more than $26 billion in credit to an Arab intermediary for the Central Bank of Libya. The total includes at least $3.2 billion in loans that the Fed ...
  • What Are We Doing Subsidizing Corporations Thr ...
    PAUL BUCHHEIT FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT It's tempting to blame government for our middle-income 15-20% tax rates. But the true culprits have documented their own guilt. Comprehensive financial reports called '10-Ks' are issued annually to the SEC by U.S. corporations. Amidst tedious pages of in ...

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    Incognito – If the conscious mind – the part you consider you – is just the tip of the iceberg, what is the rest doing? In this sparkling and provocative new book, renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman navigates the depths of the subconscious brain to illuminate surprising mysteries.  (97818476 ...
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Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • ACLU Urges House To Support Bill Challenging P ...
    In a letter sent to the House of Representatives today, the American Civil Liberties Union asked representatives to cosponsor and vote for H.R. 1212, a bill that would reaffirm Congress’ constitutional authority to decide whether President Obama may use military force in Libya. The Restoring Ess ...
  • Sign Petition to Support Japanese People, Expa ...
    More than 168 citizens organizations in Japan submitted a petition to their government March 28 calling for an expanded evacuation zone near the Fukushima nuclear disaster site and other urgent measures to protect the public health and safety. read more
  • Campaign for America’s Future Encourages Ameri ...
    In 1968, Martin Luther King went to Memphis to support the Sanitation workers’ struggle to earn a living wage. On April 4, 1968, Dr. King was assassinated in the midst of a battle for dignity for those public employees. Decades later, in response to attacks by ultra-conservative governors, the s ...
  • Jobs Numbers: We Need To Create More Jobs
    Commenting on today’s unemployment report from the BLS, which reported today that the U.S. unemployment rate fell to 8.8 percent in March 2011. Campaign for America’s Future co-director Roger Hickey made the following statement:read more
  • Statement by Chad Stone, Chief Economist, on t ...
    Today’s employment report shows that the economy is creating jobs at a solid pace. But it also reminds us that without even stronger job growth, it will take years to erase the large jobs deficit that the 2007-2009 recession created (see chart) and to lower the unemployment rate to an acceptable ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Egypt’s Tahrir Square, Revisited: Labor’s Revo ...
    Michelle Chen It's time to return to Downtown Cairo. There are signs that the romance of the Arab Spring is already cooling off.read more
  • How Many Should Die to Send Qaddafi to the Hague?
    Robert Naiman Here is a question I would like pollsters to ask American voters about the Libya War: Is sending Qaddafi to the International Criminal Court a military objective worth having American troops "fight and possibly die" for? I ha ...
  • Florida Legislators’ Creepy Uterus Obsession
    Pierre Tristam Republicans at the Legislature are upset that one of their colleagues used the word uterus on the floor of the Florida House this week. Lawmakers were talking about deregulation. Scott Randolph, an Orlando Democrat, joked th ...
  • Lessons of Libya
    David Sirota Launched almost exactly a quarter-century after Ronald Reagan first bombed Tripoli, America’s new war in Libya was guaranteed to be yet another fist-pumpin’, high-fivin’ remake of a big-budget 1980s action movie—the kind of sc ...
  • Not a Word About Gentrification as Black Urban ...
    Glen Ford The corporate news media greeted new census data detailing the drastic and general decline of Black populations in center cities as if the phenomenon were, somehow, a vindication of the American dream – a cause for celebration. T ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • How Many Afghan Lives To A Western One?
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  • Petraeus "Understands the Frustration" With Sp ...
    By Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe When testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee, General David Petraeus told senators that he understood the frustration with the Afghanistan War, conceding that "we have spent an enormous amount of money." The general has a gift for unde ...
  • Petraeus, McCain Continue Afghanistan War Spin ...
    By Derrick Crowe General David Petraeus is set to testify before Congress today, and he's expected to again try to put a positive spin on a war effort that's utterly failing to meet the goals set by its backers. While intelligence assessments show that tactical moves on the ground in Afghanistan ...
  • Karzai Asks NATO To Stop Operations
    By Steve Hynd Is Afghanistan a sovereign nation or not? I guess we'll find out. During a meeting in Kunar to discuss recent civilian deaths including those of children, President Karzai said: "On behalf of you and the Afghan people, today I would like to respectfully, and not arrogantly, ask Nat ...
  • Afghanistan's COIN and Coin Disconnect
    By Steve Hynd As Derrick Crowe reminded us yesterday, the U.S. military's own COIN manual says: "I-113. The primary objective of any COIN operation is to foster development of effective governance by a legitimate government." But today, Colin Cookman reports that the Afghan government is about t ...

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Electronic Intifada

  • In Palestine, curse anything but the land
    On 30 March 1976, while thousands of Palestinian citizens of Israel were protesting against the expropriation of their lands, Israeli security forces shot and killed six of the ...
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  • Israel lays Gaza-like siege on West Bank village
    Since 24 March, Israeli forces have sealed the southern occupied West Bank village of Beit Ommar for an indefinite amount of time as soldiers continue to arrest young Palestini ...
  • Corruption investigations begin in post-Mubara ...
    CAIRO, Egypt (IPS) - Egyptian authorities have opened dozens of criminal investigations into hundreds of millions of dollars worth of public land contracts that were awarded il ...
  • The language of liberal war
    Phantasms from the 1990s are upon us: no-fly zones; the rhetoric of humanitarian war in Washington, Europe and the UN; guarantees that no US ground troops will be deployed; an ...

Afghanistan Sun

  • Australian Defence forces capture two Taliban ...
    The Coalition Forces Headquarter in Afghanistan has stated that The Australian Special Operations Task Group (SOTG) and the Afghan police have captured two Taliban leaders in Oruzgan province.
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    KABUL, Afghanistan -; An Afghan official says seven people have been killed at a U.N. office in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif when a Quran burning protest turned violent. Demonstrators ...
  • Local Soldiers Return After Year In Afghanistan
    Thirty members of the Army National Guard C. Company 2/104 landed safely at the Wood County Airport in Parkersburg on Thursday afternoon."The excitement really didn't hit me until I saw my ...
  • Afghan president says women's gains will ...
    The Associated Press DALLAS -- The advances that women have made in Afghan society since the fall of the Taliban will not be lost regardless of any reconciliation talks with the group, which ...
  • Life Is Improving For Afghan Civilians
    April 1, 2011 Ambassador Mark Sedwill, NATO's senior civilian representative to Afghanistan, talks to Renee Montange just before his two years on the job come to an end. He found that one of ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • ARB holds that SOX covers subsidiaries
    The U.S. Department of Labor's Administrative Review Board (ARB) (shown in a file photo) yesterday decided that the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) protects the employees of subsidiaries of publicly traded companies. The case is Carri Johnson v. Siemens Building Technologies, Inc., ARB Case No. ...
  • Iowa House votes to put animal rights whistleb ...
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  • Former Special Counsel Sentenced to One Month ...
    Scott Bloch, the former head of the Office of Special Counsel (OSC), was sentenced to one month in prison, twelve months probation and 200 hours of community service yesterday, after he pled guilty to criminal charges for his misconduct during is tenure at OSC.� During FY 2008, of the 530 new w ...
  • Kwick Stop in Shawnee, Oklahoma, settles retal ...
    The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has announced a settlement with Modern Oil Company, the operator of the Kwick Stop convenience store in Shawnee, Oklahoma. The lawsuit alleged that after OSHA investigated a workplace safety complaint a store in Shawnee, Oklahoma, management grilled the three ...
  • 4th Circuit upholds the FCA's seal, 2-1; Urge ...
    Today the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, issued a long-awaited decision upholding the seal provision of the False Claims Act (FCA), 31 U.S.C. § 3730(b)(2). The decision is a victory for whistleblowers who depend on the seal provisions to protect themselves from retal ...

Science Express

  • Fermi maps an active galaxy's 'smokestack plumes'
    If our eyes could see radio waves, the nearby galaxy Centaurus A (Cen A) would be one of the biggest and brightest objects in the sky, nearly 20 times the apparent size of a full moon. What we can't see when looking at the galaxy in visible light is that it lies nestled between a pair of giant r ...
  • Pollution from Asia circles globe at stratosph ...
    The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additional evidence of the ...
  • After growth spurt, supermassive black holes s ...
    Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
  • Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virus
    A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20 ...
  • New approach precisely tracks evolution's foot ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- Fossils may provide tantalizing clues to human history but they also lack some vital information, such as revealing which pieces of human DNA have been favored by evolution because they confer beneficial traits - resistance to infection or the ability to digest milk, for exampl ...

TechDirt

  • YouTube's Reply In Viacom Case Demolishes Each ...
    It surprised no one last year when Viacom appealed the complete smackdown it got from the district court in its lawsuit against YouTube. As I noted when the appeal was filed, Viacom's arguments made very little sense, and in YouTube's response (which apparently hasn't yet been filed, but will b ...
  • Obama Secretly Accepts Transparency Award...
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  • Does It Really Make Sense For Silicon Valley C ...
    The common wisdom around Silicon Valley for the last twenty years or so, has been that companies here need to be much more active in Washington DC, and really should be more active on the lobbying front. The classic example of a tech company that didn't pay much attention to lobbying was Micros ...
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    Many people don't quite realize that almost any kind of "agreement" can be seen as an enforceable contract in the eyes of the courts. While some people think a contract has to involve a full written document and signatures, that's often not true at all. Take, for example, a case involving affi ...
  • Bizarre UK Free Speech Ban Bars People From Te ...
    Having just mentioned a bizarre superinjunction against free speech in the UK, I should also mention an even more bizarre "hyperinjunction" that was apparently issued by the UK High Court years ago, and goes so far as to ban people talking to their own elected officials or lawyers about a claim ...

VacTruth

  • Mother Jailed for Taking Vaccine Damaged Daugh ...
    A mother from Detroit was jailed this week for trying to protect herself and her daughter from the police and the CPS. Maryanne Godboldo's problems began when her daughter aged 13 was given mandatory vaccinations.Vactruth.com
  • Is There A Paradox About Vaccines?
    There are many paradoxes in life but none so ludicrous [preposterous, ridiculous, absurd] as those that exist within the fields of health, healing, medicine, and, most of all, pharmaceuticals.Vactruth.com
  • News of Smallpox Outbreak in India Raises Fear
    Early this week news began to break of an outbreak of smallpox in Jharkhand India. Three people in Gumla were reported to have died of the infectious disease and another five people were reported to be ill. Vactruth.com
  • The Importance of Getting Factual Information ...
    Corporate interests come before human interests, regardless of the industry involved. Nothing is more important to Big Pharma corporate governance than all their moneymaking vaccines with neurotoxins and other poisons.Vactruth.com
  • Government Documents Show DDT Contaminated Milk
    Initially heralded as a scientific miracle, the pesticide DDT is shown by congressional reports to contaminate milk.Vactruth.com

BroadSnark

  • Clarity Through Microcosm
    I used to work for a hotel in Miami called the SeaView. It was owned by stockholders who had condos in the building. In a crunch, some of the condos were rented out. But generally only the parts of the building that were purely hotel rooms were for the public. The interesting part is who [...]
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Sorry for skipping my usual Thursday post last week. My social life seems to be getting in the way of writing and the next couple weeks are busy. Guess I’ll have to skip work or something. Thanks to @db0 for the heads up on this post about the men’s rights people. You have probably already [...]
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    I didn’t make it to the Manning protest at Quantico this weekend, but I did make it to the Iraq war anniversary thingamawhosit. The first (Code Pink) hour was pretty bad. I spent most of it texting snarky comments to the bfriend, who wisely stayed in bed. But it got better. Couple of the speeche ...
  • Don’t Be Like Che
    Che Guevara is everywhere.  He is on t-shirts, sneakers, bags, bedazzled boots, and even children’s books. The bedazzled boots don’t really bother me so much.  Not likely that the person wearing those has actually read any Che and they probably won’t be mistaken for someone who is about to go ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    This art project is amazing.  At first it seemed kind of weird that they would take these silly pictures of women who had been through so much trauma.  But then when you hear the explanation.  Very cool. Police in New Orleans used licensing as an excuse to close down an anarchist bookstore/arts ...

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Armies of Liberation

  • Injuries and fatalities in Yemen after anti-go ...
    In what may be the bloodiest day yet since anti-government protests broke out in Yemen two weeks ago, residents around Aden are reporting numerous fatalities as security forces opened fire on protesters in many districts throughout the day and evening Friday. Human Rights Watch issued a statemen ...
  • Game changer in Yemen as protests swell
    In Egypt and Tunisia, the stance of the military was pivotal in the success of popular uprisings; in Yemen, it may be the tribes that are the determining factor. Anti-government protests across Yemen show no signs of abating. In Taiz, Yemen’s largest governorate, many who arrived last Friday are ...
  • In Yemen, Many Protests, One Villain
    It was only sheer chance or serendipity perhaps that southern Yemen’s “Day of Rage” was scheduled for Friday, earning the #Feb11 hashtag on Twitter. The Southern Uprising Facebook page drew nearly two thousand members since its founding two weeks ago in a nation with 2 percent Internet penetrati ...
  • Novak: The Southern Leaders Don’t Practi ...
    My interview with the Aden News Agency Jane Novak⦠a name that has become coupled with Yemen, not Yemen that is known as it is known by those who doesn’t know it, but Yemen as it known by its people, with all its sorrows and economical, political and humanitarian setbacks, that are recognized b ...
  • Jane Novak Interview with Aden News Agency Arabic
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Dark Politricks

  • Establishment Exploits OKC Bombing Victims To ...
  • Knee-Jerk No Fly Ban Discredits Global Warming ...
    Fearmongering by Met Office voodoo scientists about planes dropping out of the sky contradicted by numerous successful test flights Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Monday, April 19, 2010 With European governments coming under increasing pressure from airline groups to re-open airspace fo ...
  • Air France, Lufthansa Press for Airspace Re-Op ...
    Gregory Viscusi and Brian Parkin Bloomberg April 19, 2010 Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Air France- KLM Group and industry groups pressed European governments to loosen the unprecedented closing of the region’s airspace from last week’s Icelandic volcanic eruption as losses from the grounding of aircra ...
  • NPR and CNN worry that Global Warming may have ...
    John Lott’s Website April 19, 2010 This is just too bizarre: Diana Rehm (NPR): We do wonder whether there’s human involvement in all of these eruptions, earthquakes, storms - Elise Labott (senior State Department producer for CNN): – and how much global warming has a role in it. You know we’ve ...
  • Poll: Americans’ distrust of federal governmen ...
    Steven Thomma McClatchy Newspapers April 19, 2010 Already wary of the federal government, Americans have grown even more critical, less trusting and even fearful of Uncle Sam since President Barack Obama took office, according to an exhaustive new study being released Monday. The in-depth poll f ...

food and water watch

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